Chapter Summaries

Qin Shaofeng proposed taking willing disciples on dangerous outings to gain experience, while revealing that he had already plundered the Seven Luminaries Sect and Xuan Yin Sect. He surveyed the alliance’s thriving cultivation and training, then reached Kai Yang Peak, where Xiao Ruyi recognized him.

• Qin Shaofeng said he would arrange a dangerous outing for volunteers and told Sha Longxing to oversee cultivation and increase everyone’s resources tenfold.
• Qin Shaofeng revealed that he and Chen Xing had devastated the Seven Luminaries Sect and taken accessible resources from it and the Xuan Yin Sect, and said they could plunder again in ten days or half a month.
• Disciples protested that they could not consume more resources, so Qin Shaofeng let them decide how much they needed and left the main peak.
• Qin Shaofeng toured the alliance and found its abundant resources had spurred cooperation and competition between the two sects, while Kai Yang Peak held seven Ninth-tier Saint Star Position experts.
• A Seven Stars Sect expert challenged Qin Shaofeng for entering Kai Yang Peak, and Xiao Ruyi recognized him as Vice Sect Master.

Qin Shaofeng assessed the Seven Stars Sect’s discipline after its members formed ranks too slowly. He announced that their daily cultivation resources would be tripled, leaving them to absorb the increase that same day or face punishment under Sha Longxing’s methods.

• A man who stopped Qin Shaofeng learned he was the Chasing Stars Sect’s Vice Sect Master and apologized, and Qin Shaofeng accepted the apology.
• Qin Shaofeng ordered both sects to form ranks, and the Chasing Stars Sect assembled faster than the Seven Stars Sect.
• Qin Shaofeng asked the Seven Stars Sect how much time its members spent absorbing resources, and a man reported that they used about seven parts of each day.
• Qin Shaofeng said the Seven Stars Sect had left a bad impression and declared that its members’ daily resources would be tripled.
• Qin Shaofeng required the Seven Stars Sect to absorb the increased resources that day or face punishment according to Vice Sect Master Sha Longxing’s methods.

Qin Shaofeng ordered the Seven Stars Sect experts to consume three times their usual cultivation resources for three days, then threatened to take those who failed to break through on a deadly expedition. When one expert questioned whether Chen Xing had approved the plan, Qin Shaofeng's followers demanded his death, but Qin Shaofeng silenced them.

• The experts panicked when Qin Shaofeng announced their resource allocation would be tripled, and he clarified that the punishment would last three days.
• Qin Shaofeng warned that anyone who failed to make an effective breakthrough within three days would join him on a death-courting expedition, except those already at the ninth tier but not yet at the peak.
• A First Grade Saint Star Position expert asked whether Sect Master Chen Xing had approved Qin Shaofeng's plan, hoping to avoid being sent to his death.
• Ximen Kuang and other followers condemned the expert and proposed killing him for questioning Qin Shaofeng.
• Qin Shaofeng rebuked his followers, and the powerful experts lowered their heads in response.

Qin Shaofeng punished the Chasing Stars Sect experts for their mistakes and declared that the alliance had no place for someone who rejected his discipline. As the experts carried out his final order against the defiant First Grade Saint Star Position man, Nie Danqing warned the Seven Stars Sect not to mistake Qin Shaofeng’s youth for innocence.

• Qin Shaofeng ordered the Chasing Stars Sect experts to receive five times the resources for three days and sweep the Kai Yang lineage each day.
• Ximen Kuang and the others accepted the punishment and pledged to follow Qin Shaofeng, even if it meant courting death.
• Qin Shaofeng said the alliance should expel anyone unwilling to accept his discipline and demand repayment for the resources they had wasted.
• Ximen Kuang and the others began beating the defiant man, while Gu Cheng and other elders explained that the Sect Master's order left those who stayed with only death in battle or death.
• Nie Danqing told the gathered Seven Stars Sect members that the man was an unknown ant and warned them that Qin Shaofeng could rank first on the Villain Ranking if the Four Symbols Sect wanted him.

After Qin Shaofeng proposed sending people to explore a dangerous ruin, Old Ghost Chen Xing persuaded the Seven Stars Sect elders to proceed, warning that an approaching battle with the Four Symbols Sect and Divine Weapon Pavilion could wipe out most of the alliance. The elders accepted the plan, while Chen Xing and other leaders left the work to them.

• Qin Shaofeng went underground to rest after informing Old Ghost Chen Xing of his plans, leaving Chen Xing to manage the alliance’s affairs.
• Old Man Tian Ling questioned whether the alliance should send many people to explore the ruin, whose outskirts could kill Heavenly Venerate Realm experts.
• Chen Xing insisted they proceed and warned that the coming battle could leave fewer than a third of their forces alive, possibly fewer than one-tenth.
• Chen Xing told the elders to arrange the expedition, then went to Madam Lingyu’s room to rest.
• Zhao Ziyu and Ke Wuming left, and Zuo Tianxing told Old Man Tian Ling to follow Chen Xing’s instructions.

Zuo Tianxing’s plan to combine compulsory and voluntary recruitment sent the alliance scrambling to join Qin Shaofeng’s expedition to court death. When Qin Shaofeng arrived at the Training Ground, he found a thousand people—including nearly all the alliance’s top combatants—and learned that Chen Ai had selected the most eager volunteers.

• Zuo Tianxing told Old Man Tian Ling to recruit those with stalled or unstable cultivation and let others volunteer, giving the expedition treasures to resist the Forbidden Martial Power.
• Chen Ai and Chou Renzhi announced the recruitment, and Chasing Stars Sect members rushed to sign up, believing Qin Shaofeng’s dangerous venture meant a valuable opportunity.
• By the second day, nearly everyone from both sects had registered, so the elders selected a thousand people for the expedition.
• Qin Shaofeng arrived at the Training Ground on the fourth morning and saw that Sha Longxing had brought every member of the Kai Yang lineage, while all the Seven Stars Sect Saint Star Position experts were also present.
• Qin Shaofeng questioned whether the alliance planned to court death or overwhelm their destination, and Chen Ai admitted he had selected the most enthusiastic volunteers.

Qin Shaofeng ordered experts from the Chasing Stars Sect and Seven Stars Sect who could still absorb resources to join a dangerous operation, while the Ninth-tier experts obeyed him without hesitation. He selected Yang Ping to stay by his side, promising to help him reach the Ninth-tier Saint Star Position.

• Qin Shaofeng summoned Ximen Kuang, Xiao Ruyi, Lei Rukang, and the other Ninth-tier experts, stunning the Seven Stars Sect experts with his authority.
• Ximen Kuang and the others explained that they had come to die alongside Qin Shaofeng, then urged eligible cultivators to step forward.
• More than six hundred and forty people gathered, and Qin Shaofeng warned that only one or two might return if the operation went badly.
• Ning Wenlu, Ximen Jie, Ximen Zhen, and the others shouted that they would make sure to survive, while the crowd pledged to face danger.
• Qin Shaofeng called Yang Ping to his side, saying he would help him reach the Ninth-tier Saint Star Position during the operation.

Qin Shaofeng organized the expedition into teams and ordered them to enter the ruins forest, collect Star Beast inner cores, and deliberately court death while meeting strict casualty and breakthrough targets. The teams set out under their appointed leaders, leaving the expedition’s outcome uncertain.

• Yang Ping insisted on joining the dangerous expedition, and Qin Shaofeng agreed to give him special treatment while warning that he could not guarantee his safety.
• Qin Shaofeng ordered Ximen Zhen and the Guardian Guard to protect Vice Sect Master Sha Longxing, then had Old Ghost Chen Xing activate the teleportation array.
• The expedition members passed through the array and arrived in the forest where the ruins were located; Old Ghost Chen Xing told Qin Shaofeng to look deep inside the ruins to learn about the array’s origins.
• Qin Shaofeng had Kun Yuan, Fan Ning, and Zuo Yu divide the Seven Stars Sect members, then arranged the Chasing Stars Sect disciples into three teams led by Sha Longxing and his appointees.
• Qin Shaofeng ordered all six teams to enter the forest and bring back specified numbers of Venerable Rank and Imperial Star Beast inner cores, while ensuring team deaths and injuries exceeded one quarter and breakthroughs exceeded two thirds.

Qin Shaofeng led the Chasing Stars Sect and Seven Stars Sect experts toward the territory of Venerable Rank Star Beasts, ordering his allies to take extreme risks and capture the beasts alive. After Ran Zun scouted the route, the group split into teams, leaving Old Zheng and several Seven Stars Sect members to follow an experienced Chasing Stars Sect elder.

• Qin Shaofeng ordered the allied disciples to accept heavy casualties and breakthroughs, then told his own group to seek out powerful Star Beasts.
• Ran Zun secretly scouted ahead and reported the location of Venerable Rank Star Beasts, guiding Qin Shaofeng's group through the forest.
• Near the beasts' territory, Qin Shaofeng ordered the experts to form nine-person groups and cripple any Venerable Rank Star Beasts they found.
• Ximen Jie divided the group and sent Liu Shan, Liu Shui, and others away, while an old Chasing Stars Sect expert selected five Seven Stars Sect members, including Old Zheng, to follow him.
• Old Zheng reassured his companions that the assignment was sensible, and the five caught up with the elder only to be shocked by what they saw.

Ning Wenlu used Ghost Three Slashes to defeat a peak Venerable Rank tiger-shaped Star Beast and ordered the team onward as he pursued a breakthrough. Ning Luo revealed that Ning Wenlu was his father and the ancestor of the Ning Family, whose contributions had earned them access to the martial skill.

• Ning Wenlu drove Liu Shan and Liu Shui aside, then rushed the tiger-shaped Star Beast and used the first slash of Ghost Three Slashes.
• The tiger-shaped Star Beast attacked Ning Wenlu, but his illusory figures confused it and he knocked it unconscious with his saber.
• Ning Wenlu ordered Ning Luo to arrange the beast’s delivery and told Liu Shan, Liu Shui, and the others to head for the next location while he sought to break through to Ninth-tier.
• Ning Luo accompanied a Seven Stars Sect expert who stayed behind to deliver the beast, and explained that Ning Wenlu was his father and the Ning Family’s ancestor.
• Ning Luo said the Ning Family’s contributions had earned them access to the first slash of Ghost Three Slashes.

Qin Shaofeng oversaw the teams bringing in live Star Beasts, while Ning Luo explained that sect members earned resources through contributions rather than favoritism. The delivery rates later fell as breakthroughs changed the teams’ priorities, and Qin Shaofeng told Chen Xing that several members had advanced.

• Ning Luo told a confused Seven Stars Sect member that Qin Shaofeng’s resource system rewarded contributions and warned him not to pry into the elders’ secrets.
• The man delivered a tiger-shaped Star Beast, and Qin Shaofeng cut out its inner core and collected medicinal materials from its body.
• The combined team brought in more than a hundred Star Beasts, Ximen Jie’s team brought in more than seventy, and Chen Xing’s team brought in only thirty-six.
• Chen Xing worried that the other teams had encountered stronger Star Beasts, but Qin Shaofeng said their slower pace was a good sign.
• Qin Shaofeng explained that Ximen Jie was fighting desperately after others reached the ninth tier, while Ning Wenlu and Ninth-tier Mountain and Water had broken through.

Qin Shaofeng directed newly advanced Ninth-tier Saint Star Position experts to report and assigned Yang Ping a protected battle trial. He then took Ran Zun deeper into the Forbidden Martial Forest to train him safely while collecting Star Beast Origin Cores, and they encountered a huge herd of Star Beasts.

• Ning Luo delivered a Star Beast, and Qin Shaofeng told him to summon anyone who had advanced to the ninth tier.
• Ning Wenlu, the Liu Shan Liu Shui brothers, and Ximen Jie returned as Ninth-tier Saint Star Position experts, and Qin Shaofeng allowed Yang Ping to join the battle.
• Qin Shaofeng left Yang Ping with Ximen Jie, Ning Wenlu, and two others, instructing them to help him and gain control of their cultivation.
• Qin Shaofeng took Ran Zun deeper into the forest and ordered him not to attack, but to collect Star Beast Origin Cores and useful materials.
• Qin Shaofeng and Ran Zun found several hundred Star Beasts, including sixty or seventy Venerable Rank beasts, and Ran Zun agreed to carry out his task.

After Qin Shaofeng’s orders drove the alliance’s teams into desperate battles, they suffered heavy casualties but many fighters broke through their cultivation bottlenecks. The chapter ends at night as Qin Shaofeng and his companion return to the camp, where their arrival deepens the others’ surprise.

• Sha Longxing’s team lost a third of its members in two days, but everyone broke through a bottleneck and Sha Longxing reached the early Eighth-tier Saint Star Position.
• Lu Tianxing’s team and the team led by Jin Qiming and Liu Yichen each lost around twenty people, while about a third of their members broke through; the Seven Stars Sect suffered fewer losses but fewer breakthroughs.
• Ning Luo became a Ninth-tier Saint Star Position powerhouse, and five Seven Stars Sect members reached the pinnacle, including one from Ning Wenlu’s less powerful group.
• Yang Ping fought star beasts at close quarters and advanced from the peak of the early Eighth-tier Saint Star Position to the threshold of the Ninth tier in two days.
• At night, Qin Shaofeng and his companion returned to the camp, surprising the group gathered around the bonfire.

After two days of fighting Star Beasts, Qin Shaofeng’s martial body reached the ninth tier of Illusory True Spirit, but the disappointing Real Value gains left him brooding. He set out deeper into the ruins with a small group, but a day of searching revealed no Saint-grade Star Beasts.

• Ran Zun’s newfound concealment left Ning Wenlu and Ximen Jie unable to sense him, and Qin Shaofeng brought him back to camp after the battle.
• Qin Shaofeng advanced to the ninth tier of Illusory True Spirit but grew frustrated when Imperial Star Beasts yielded only about one hundred thousand Real Value each.
• Ran Zun told Old Ghost Chen Xing he did not know why Qin Shaofeng was in such a bad mood, then went to rest.
• The next morning, Qin Shaofeng chose Ximen Jie, Liu Shan, and Liu Shui to accompany him deeper into the ruins, while Old Ghost Chen Xing added Li Liang and Dong Yunqing.
• Qin Shaofeng led the group onward with Ran Zun concealed in his shadow and the Myriad Stars Chessboard searching, but they found no Saint-grade Star Beasts all day.

Qin Shaofeng and the others reached an Otherworld Gate in the Forbidden Martial Forest and crossed into a separate, ruined world filled with Spatial Rifts and strange silver lightning. The chapter left them surveying the desolate landscape after a massive lightning strike illuminated it.

• Qin Shaofeng questioned Old Ghost Chen Xing about the endless forest, and Chen Xing described an ancient Cloud Sea Sect scholar who had studied Seven Stars Sect's library for three years.
• Old Ghost Chen Xing led the group to an Otherworld Gate and warned that a strange Spatial Formation around it could teleport intruders or tear them apart with Spatial Rifts.
• Li Liang arranged items from a Storage Bag to activate a formation that revealed the Spatial Rifts, and Chen Xing guided the group along a safe path.
• Qin Shaofeng crossed the Otherworld Gate, and the others arrived in a dark world beneath flickering silver light.
• A brilliant flash unleashed countless lightning branches, revealing a landscape of shattered stones and apparent desolation.

Qin Shaofeng and Old Ghost Chen Xing searched the lightning-ravaged ruins world and discovered the lone peak of Cloud Immortal Hall. When lightning struck the mountain, Qin Shaofeng challenged Old Ghost Chen Xing’s hope that its treasures could save the alliance.

• Qin Shaofeng counted the lightning strikes and found they came every ten breaths, while Old Ghost Chen Xing wondered whether Saint-tier star beasts could live there.
• Qin Shaofeng and Old Ghost Chen Xing organized the group to search in pairs, but five hours of searching revealed no living creatures or battlefield debris.
• Qin Shaofeng and Old Ghost Chen Xing spotted a towering mountain inscribed with the words Cloud Immortal Hall, and Old Ghost Chen Xing hoped it held treasures that could save the alliance.
• Lightning struck Cloud Immortal Hall, devastating Old Ghost Chen Xing and prompting Qin Shaofeng to argue that the mountain was dangerous and the alliance could survive without its treasures.

Qin Shaofeng led the group to investigate the mountain where Cloud Immortal Hall stood, and they began climbing after finding that its lightning did not seem harmful. After seven days of ascent through dense forest, Ximen Jie spotted a cliff face and led them toward it.

• Qin Shaofeng woke Old Ghost Chen Xing from a dangerous state and proposed investigating the mountain.
• The group reached the mountain after two days and discovered that lightning illuminated it without harming them or the mountain.
• Qin Shaofeng led everyone up the mountain, and Old Ghost Chen Xing insisted on joining them.
• The group climbed through dense forest for seven days as lightning struck every ten breaths.
• Ximen Jie returned from scouting and said he had spotted a cliff face, so Qin Shaofeng and Old Ghost Chen Xing ordered him to lead the way.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions reached a rock wall at Cloud Immortal Hall, where an ancient phantom recognized Qin as a disciple of a mysterious faction and asked him to retrieve items from the mountaintop. After climbing for three more days, they discovered that the recurring lightning struck the roof of a great hall at the summit.

• Qin Shaofeng struck the rock wall with his palm and Ghost Three Slashes, but neither left a mark.
• An ancient phantom emerged from the wall, called Qin Shaofeng a disciple of a faction, and asked whether his Master-Teachers were well.
• The old man said his life had ended three hundred years earlier and asked Qin to retrieve items from the summit, offering him payment in return.
• Old Ghost Chen Xing reasoned that the old man had mistaken one of Qin's techniques for something else and that the summit might bring both gains and danger.
• Qin Shaofeng and the others continued up the mountain and reached the summit three days later, where they saw lightning striking the roof of a great hall.

Qin Shaofeng entered the lightning-struck hall and met the voice of Yun Chengtian, whose corpse was trapped on an altar created by True Monarch Seven Colors. Yun Chengtian entrusted him with a jade slip about the fight against ghost corpses and ordered him to recover the other eight Seven-colored Tokens before they fell into ghost corpse hands.

• Qin Shaofeng approached the hall and was frozen when its doors opened, then learned the lightning and Seven-colored Token were part of True Monarch Seven Colors' handiwork.
• Qin Shaofeng followed the unseen path into the hall and carefully crossed the altar to stand beside the corpse.
• Yun Chengtian told Qin Shaofeng to take a jade slip from his robe and deliver it to the Hall Master of Cloud Immortal Hall or his branch leader.
• Yun Chengtian revealed that True Monarch Seven Colors had died forging nine Seven-colored Tokens and ordered Qin Shaofeng to retrieve the remaining eight before the ghost corpses could claim them.

After Yun Chengtian branded the Seven-colored Token onto Qin Shaofeng and sent the group out of Cloud Immortal Hall, Qin Shaofeng led them toward the Otherworld Gate before the two ghost corpses awakened. Their escape was interrupted by a powerful Ghost Corpse Slave, which shattered Old Ghost Chen Xing’s saber and left him asking Qin Shaofeng for its weakness.

• Yun Chengtian branded the Seven-colored Token onto Qin Shaofeng, warned the group to leave within three hours, and used his remaining strength to hurl them out of the hall.
• Qin Shaofeng and the others regained control near the ground as two imprisoned beings called out from Cloud Immortal Mountain.
• Qin Shaofeng ordered Liu Shan and Liu Shui to carry him as everyone fled toward the Otherworld Gate.
• A stone-like figure emerged from the ground, and Old Ghost Chen Xing attacked it with his Ghost Three Slashes.
• Qin Shaofeng identified the figure as a Ghost Corpse Slave after it shattered Chen Xing’s saber, and Chen Xing asked him where its weakness was.