Chapter Summaries

Wu Tao killed Zhou Hu and the Zhou Family cultivators who fled, then learned about the Monster Hunting Sea Area from Chu Xing while traveling to Central Island. He arrived at Central Island and began searching for transportation and information about the wider Star Sea.

• Wu Tao used his perfected A Point of Formless Sword to shatter Zhou Hu’s Golden Core, destroy his Divine Soul, and kill the Zhou Family cultivators who tried to escape.
• Wu Tao learned that Branching Bitter Tea Island’s remaining Golden Core Master, Zhou Tong, was at Layer 4, so he postponed confronting the island and asked Chu Xing to travel with him to Central Island.
• Wu Tao introduced himself to Chu Xing as Han Fan from the Big Dipper Sea Region, and Chu Xing explained the Monster Hunting Sea Area’s islands, rules, powers, and routes between sea regions.
• The Chu Family’s Spell Ship reached Central Island, where Wu Tao declined Chu Xing’s offer of lodging and headed toward the urban district to investigate the Star Sea.
• Wu Tao joined a line to board a Flying Boat bound for Central Island and paid ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Wu Tao settled in Central Island, learned about the Star Sea, sold his demonic beast materials, and bought a Tier 3 artifact-refining manual. After discovering the Star Sea’s three Immortal Palaces and nine Spirit Transformation Divine Monarchs, he decided to travel to the Big Dipper Sea Region and pursue entry into the Seven Stars Immortal Sect.

• Wu Tao arrived at Central Island’s central Cultivation City, found a secure Immortal Inn, and spent several days learning about the island.
• Wu Tao broke the restriction on Zhou Hu’s Storage Bag and found two Tier 3 Low-Level Demon Cores, two sea demonic beast corpses, pills, Spirit Stones, and two True Artifacts.
• Wu Tao sold his Demon Cores and demonic beast corpses, bought Golden Core pills, and purchased the Origin Water Sword Refining Secret Manual from the Three Truths Cultivation Technique Pavilion.
• Wu Tao comprehended the Origin Water Sword’s True Restriction while investigating the Star Sea, and recorded the restriction in his Personal Status after two months.
• Wu Tao learned that the Star Sea had three Immortal Palaces ruled by nine Spirit Transformation Divine Monarchs, and that the Seven Stars Immortal Sect served the Star Immortal Palace.
• Wu Tao decided to take a Spell Ship departing in one month for the Big Dipper Sea Region.

Wu Tao prepared to leave Central Island for the North Island Sea Area and refused an invitation to join its Artifact Refining Hall. Meanwhile, Zhou Tong learned that Wu Tao had killed Zhou Hu and arranged for the Three True Ones of Dark Night to target him.

• Wu Tao bought a ticket to the North Island Sea Area, stocked up on Golden Core pills, and rejected Deng Ming's offer to join Central Island's Artifact Refining Hall, accepting two gifts instead.
• Zhou Yang reported that a witness had identified Han Fan as the cultivator who killed Zhou Hu.
• Zhou Tong learned that Han Fan had killed Zhou Hu with a Divine Soul attack and decided not to pursue him on Central Island, where a Nascent Soul True Lord guarded the area.
• Zhou Tong and Zhou Yang decided to hire the Three True Ones of Dark Night, who were also on Central Island, to kill Han Fan.

Wu Tao continued cultivating at the Immortal Inn while Zhou Tong hired the Three True Ones of Dark Night to kill him, offering them a Star Stone. When the three ambushed Wu Tao aboard a flying boat leaving Central Island, he killed them instantly with A Point of Formless Sword.

• Wu Tao put away the Spirit Fire and Spirit Water and began cultivating the Ethereal Void True Fire Technique and the Golden Core stage of the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture.
• Zhou Tong visited Qi Xin and Wu Guan, then persuaded the Three True Ones of Dark Night to kill Han Fan by giving them a Star Stone and his lodging details.
• The Three True Ones learned Han Fan would leave Central Island by Spell Ship in a month and planned to attack him aboard the flying boat after it left the Nascent Soul True Lords' range.
• A month later, Qi Xin, Wu Guan, and Bu Qusi boarded the flying boat with Wu Tao and attacked him after it departed Central Cultivation City.
• Wu Tao used A Point of Formless Sword to shatter the three attackers' Golden Cores and destroy their Seas of Divine Sense, killing them on the flying boat.

Wu Tao killed the Three True Ones of Dark Night and boarded a Central Island spell ship bound for the Big Dipper Sea Region, while Zhou Tong abandoned his revenge plan to protect the Zhou Family. After a month of travel, the spell ship reached the territory of a Tier 4 sea demon, which awakened and rose before them.

• Wu Tao killed the Three True Ones of Dark Night aboard the spell ship and stored their corpses as the vessel continued to Central Island.
• Wu Tao met Lin Zhixin at the dock, then boarded the outbound spell ship and took a Tier 2 cabin alongside him.
• The Zhou family cultivator reported the Three True Ones' deaths to Zhou Tong, who decided to return to Qitu Island and give up avenging Zhou Hu.
• Wu Tao burned the assassins' corpses, searched their storage bags, found a Star Stone, and cultivated during the voyage.
• After a month, the spell ship entered the territory of a Tier 4 sea demon, which awakened and unleashed giant waves ahead of the vessel.

Wu Tao and the cultivators aboard the spell ship encountered a Mysterious Celestial Abalone, which they drove away by attacking it and ramming it with the ship. After half a month, the ship reached the Big Dipper Sea Region, where four Tier 4 Spatial Storms engulfed it and shattered its defenses.

• Wu Tao joined the spell ship’s cultivators in attacking the Mysterious Celestial Abalone, then protected himself when it drenched the ship before retreating into the sea.
• Lin Zhixin explained the abalone’s behavior and invited Wu Tao to explore a Golden Core water mansion, but Wu Tao refused because he planned to settle in the Big Dipper Sea Region and pursue artifact refinement.
• Half a month later, the spell ship entered the Big Dipper Sea Region, and the Golden Core cultivator surnamed Luo ordered its defenses activated after sensing danger.
• Four Tier 4 Spatial Storms struck from every direction, collapsed the spell ship’s defensive arrays, and left the Golden Core cultivator surnamed Luo despairing.

After a spatial storm destroyed his spell ship, Wu Tao survived through a mysterious Protection Talisman and was swept to an unknown realm. There he defeated Ailuo Jiao, who revealed that the place was the Devil Domain Trial Battlefield.

• A Tier 4 Spatial Storm tore apart the spell ship and killed its passengers, but the Protection Talisman protected Wu Tao as the turbulence carried him away.
• Qi Xinxuan fled Ailuo Jiao to the shore, where he defeated and killed her before a sea storm appeared.
• The storm deposited Wu Tao on the shore, and Ailuo Jiao decided to kill him after recognizing him as a Golden Core cultivator.
• Wu Tao tested Ailuo Jiao in battle, then shattered his Devil Core with his Golden Core Natal True Art and subdued him.
• Wu Tao questioned Ailuo Jiao about their location, and Ailuo Jiao identified it as the Devil Domain Trial Battlefield.

Wu Tao learned about the Devil Domain Trial Battlefield, killed Ailuo Jiao, and was marked by the Ailuo Devil Blood Curse. He explored the battlefield seeking human sect disciples, while Ailuo Fu tracked him and prepared to avenge Ailuo Jiao after helping two clansmen condense Devil Cores.

• Ailuo Jiao explained that the Devil Domain Trial Battlefield hosted a deadly contest between human sect disciples and Devil Race geniuses, and Wu Tao questioned him about its factions and opportunities.
• Wu Tao refused Ailuo Jiao’s offer to join the Ailuo Clan and attacked him, but Ailuo Jiao self-destructed and planted a Devil Blood Curse on Wu Tao before dying.
• Wu Tao failed to remove the curse, then searched Qi Xinxuan’s corpse, found his Seven Stars Immortal Sect token and Star Stone, and preserved his body to return to the sect.
• Wu Tao flew into the battlefield on his Streamer Boat, intending to find human cultivators and kill any Devil Race members he encountered.
• Ailuo Fu learned that Ailuo Jiao had died and could sense Wu Tao through the curse, but chose to help Ailuo Xuan and Ailuo Ya condense their Devil Cores before pursuing him.
• Wu Tao killed two Ailuo Devil Race members before they could curse him, then noticed that the curse on his forehead had grown denser.

Wu Tao traveled through the Devil Domain Trial Battlefield, rescued two Sea Gazing Immortal Sect cultivators, and learned that Devil Cores could open secret realms and that Seven Stars Immortal Sect disciples were at Dragon Cliff Land. After defeating a group of Devil Race members and collecting several Devil Cores, he found three Seven Stars Immortal Sect cultivators and called out to them.

• Wu Tao killed a human-faced crow that had watched him beneath the Blood Moon, while a sinister figure discovered that one of its eyeball-crows had been destroyed.
• Wu Tao intervened when two Fire Devil Race members were overwhelming Chen Bo and Shen Yi, then helped Chen Bo kill both enemies.
• Wu Tao introduced himself as Han Fan, learned that Seven Stars Immortal Sect cultivators had been exploring Dragon Cliff Land, and accepted a Rescue Talisman from Chen Bo.
• Seven Devil Race members ambushed Wu Tao, but he killed six of them and collected four Devil Cores while the remaining Winged Devil escaped.
• Wu Tao sensed three cultivators using the Star Body Tempering Technique, recognized them as Seven Stars Immortal Sect disciples, and called for them to wait.

Wu Tao joined Wu Zong, Xian Cheng, and Ke Qi after persuading them that he was an uninitiated disciple of the Seven Stars Immortal Sect, then accompanied them to a standoff over a treasure land. When the Immortal Sect cultivators and devils agreed to settle the dispute in five duels, Wu Tao killed Ailuo Gu instantly and claimed the first victory for the Immortal Sects.

• Wu Tao proved he cultivated the Seven Stars Immortal Sect’s Star Body Tempering Technique and told Wu Zong, Xian Cheng, and Ke Qi that his late master had sent him to join the sect.
• Wu Tao showed them Qi Xingxuan’s corpse, and the three body cultivators accepted his account and invited him to travel with them.
• Wu Tao and the three cultivators reached a treasure land where the Immortal Sect disciples faced dozens of devils, and Wan Guidao agreed with Bai You to decide the dispute through five life-or-death duels.
• Ailuo Gu challenged Wu Tao, and Wu Tao accepted before killing him with a single attack and winning the first round for the Immortal Sects.

Wu Tao joined Wan Guidao and the human cultivators in killing the Devil Race and opening the Treasure Land. Inside, Wu Tao passed the first test for the Golden Core Nine Refinements and received its first refinement, leaving the others to wonder whether he had obtained the technique.

• Wu Tao killed Ailuo Gu with one sword, and Wan Guidao invited him to wait while the remaining duels continued.
• As Gu Xilian gained the advantage over her Winged Devil Race opponent, Wan Guidao told Wu Tao about the Golden Core Ultimate Technique and proposed killing the Devil Race to collect their Devil Cores.
• Wan Guidao and the human cultivators launched a surprise attack, killing all seventeen Devil Race members and taking their Devil Cores.
• The cultivators broke the Formation Light Screen and entered the Cave Abode, where a Magic Array separated them and tested them individually.
• Wu Tao gave the Illusory Face six Devil Cores, passed its first test, and received the first refinement of Golden Core Nine Refinements.
• The cultivators returned to the Cave Abode Main Hall as the Illusion God Sky Wheel flew away, and Wan Guidao suspected Wu Tao had obtained the technique.

Wu Tao left the Illusion God Sky Wheel with the first refinement of Wang Jing’s Golden Core Nine Refinements, then separated from Wan Guidao to hunt Devil Race members for more Devil Cores. Wang Jing discovered Wu Tao had obtained his technique and secretly intensified the Devil Blood Curse on his forehead, making Wu Tao’s location visible to every Devil Race member in the battlefield.

• Gu Xilian and Wan Guidao identified the vanished treasure as Wang Jing’s Illusion God Sky Wheel, and the sects split up after the Treasure Land closed.
• Wan Guidao learned Wu Tao belonged to the Seven Stars Immortal Sect’s body cultivation lineage, offered to help him return, and gave him an SOS Talisman when Wu Tao chose to travel alone.
• Wang Jing saw Wu Tao’s recorded image in the Illusion God Sky Wheel and realized he was an unregistered cultivator who had passed the trial.
• Wang Jing encountered Xiumo while heading to arrange another Treasure Land, then continued onward after Xiumo challenged his presence in the trial battlefield.
• Wang Jing found Wu Tao flying alone and activated the Devil Blood Curse, causing a red beam to connect Wu Tao’s forehead to the Blood Moon and reveal his location to the Devil Race.

Wu Tao triggered the Ailuo Devil Blood Curse, drawing the attention of devil races across the trial battlefield, while Wang Jing watched over him. Wu Tao chose to wait for the Ailuo Devil Race and began comprehending the Golden Core Nine Refinements, but a flock of strangely familiar crows interrupted him.

• Wang Jing triggered the Devil Blood Curse on Wu Tao, and devil race members across the battlefield sensed the Blood Moon’s guidance.
• Fire Devils and Winged Devils set out toward Wu Tao, while White Bone Devils abandoned their fight with Zhao Sanyang’s Nine Suns Immortal Sect group to follow the guidance.
• Xiumo recognized that a human prodigy had triggered the curse, but Gu Xinyang blocked him from approaching Wu Tao, and Xiumo turned away after sensing Wang Jing nearby.
• Ailuo Fu delayed pursuing Wu Tao because Ailuo Xuan and Ailuo Ya were still condensing their Devil Cores.
• Wang Jing planted the Illusion God Sky Wheel in a mountain, while Wu Tao landed and began comprehending the Golden Core Nine Refinements.
• Wu Tao killed the crows circling overhead with A Point of Formless Sword and wondered why they felt familiar.

Wu Tao waited beneath the Blood Moon for Devil Race pursuers, then revealed his strength and killed the five gathered factions to collect their Devil Cores. After the Illusion God Sky Wheel appeared, he began restoring his Magic Power, but Wang Jing pulled him inside before he could recover.

• Wu Tao watched a Thousand-Eye Devil Race cultivator and members of the Winged Devil Race gather without attacking, then waited for more pursuers to arrive.
• Members of the White Bone, Fire, and Ailuo Devil Races arrived, bringing the gathered force to twelve Devil Core cultivators from five factions.
• Wu Tao feigned weakness until the Winged Devil Race members and Qianyan Yesha were within reach, then used A Point of Formless Sword to kill them and the other Devil Core cultivators.
• Wu Tao killed the remaining Devil Race members, collected twelve Devil Cores and their Storage Bags, and burned their corpses.
• The Illusion God Sky Wheel revealed its Treasure Land, and Wu Tao sat outside to restore his Magic Power before entering.
• Wang Jing grew impatient and used the Illusion God Sky Wheel's light to pull Wu Tao inside.

Wang Jing summoned Wu Tao into the Illusion God Sky Wheel, recognized the protection talisman that had saved him, and questioned him about his origins and abilities. He offered to teach Wu Tao the rest of the Golden Core Nine Refinements in exchange for a future task, then ordered him to fake his death and hide his dual cultivation under an artifact refiner identity; the chapter ended as Wang Jing prepared to transmit the technique.

• Wang Jing appeared before Wu Tao in the Illusion God Sky Wheel and asked how he had entered the Devil Domain Trial Battlefield.
• Wu Tao explained that a protection talisman from a senior in the Lost Sea Area had saved him from spatial turbulence, and Wang Jing recognized its connection to that senior.
• Wang Jing learned that Wu Tao was a talented dual cultivator and Tier 2 Advanced Artifact Refiner, then offered to impart the remaining eight refinements of the Golden Core Nine Refinements in exchange for a future favor.
• Wang Jing told Wu Tao that he needed a cultivator who could reach Spirit Transformation through dual cultivation to oppose hidden forces, and instructed him to fake his death and enter the Star Immortal Palace or Seven Stars Immortal Sect as an artifact refiner.
• Wu Tao agreed to hear the plan, and Wang Jing summoned a prayer mat to transmit the Golden Core Nine Refinements to him.

Wang Jing transmitted the complete Golden Core Nine Refinements to Wu Tao and gave him a Nirvana God Talisman to fake his death and escape the Ailuo Devil Blood Curse. Wu Tao activated the talisman after fighting a Heavenly Devil Race member, and Wang Jing recovered his corpse before He Chang and Mo Lin could inspect it.

• Wang Jing taught Wu Tao the complete Golden Core Nine Refinements through Divine Sense and gave him the Nirvana God Talisman to prepare for a fake death.
• Wu Tao spent three days refining the talisman, then left the Illusion God Sky Wheel and followed Wang Jing's instruction to fly east.
• Wu Tao fought a Heavenly Devil Race member and activated the Nirvana God Talisman after the opponent's punch destroyed his defenses; the Heavenly Devil Race member lost one Devil Heart, and Wu Tao's Ailuo Devil Blood Curse mark disappeared.
• Six Winged Devil Race members arrived and prepared to burn Wu Tao's corpse, but He Chang and Mo Lin killed three of them, causing the others and the injured Heavenly Devil Race member to flee.
• He Chang and Mo Lin approached Wu Tao's corpse, but Wang Jing appeared, claimed it, and vanished with it.

Wang Jing secretly left the Devil Domain Trial Battlefield and arranged for Wu Tao to awaken on his private island in the Star Sea Cultivation World. He provided Wu Tao with techniques and supplies to conceal his body-cultivator identity, leaving Wu Tao to begin preparing to condense his true body and advance his artifact-refining skills.

• He Chang and Mo Lin identified the fleeing Heavenly Devil Ancient Elephant and pursued him while Wang Jing returned to the human race guard station.
• Wang Jing used a Substitute God Talisman to leave a powerful duplicate behind, then escaped the battlefield and carried Wu Tao's corpse to a small island.
• Wu Tao revived two days later, explored the island, and began cultivating while waiting for Wang Jing to return.
• Wang Jing gave Wu Tao the Cosmic Star Body Refining Art, materials for condensing his true body, and a Transformation and Breath-Concealing Secret Technique, ordering him to conceal his identity and remain on the island.
• Wu Tao examined the supplies, found ten thousand catties of starlight stones, and began studying how to condense the Zhou Tian Star True Body.

Wu Tao settled into a quiet life on a small island while comprehending cultivation techniques and tending his fields. After six months, he condensed a Star True Body by refining 10,000 catties of Star Stones, greatly increasing his strength, Divine Sense, and lifespan.

• Wu Tao read the Transformation and Breath-Concealing Secret Technique and learned that it could conceal his body-cultivation aura and transform his appearance, but allowed only one fixed disguise.
• Wu Tao recorded the Golden Core Nine Refinements in his Personal Status and began tempering his Golden Core with Spirit Fire and Spirit Water while maintaining his island routine.
• After six months of studying the Cosmic Star Body Refining Art, Wu Tao prepared 10,000 catties of Star Stones and began condensing his Star True Body beneath the moon and stars.
• Wu Tao pushed through mounting exhaustion as he refined the Star Stones, and the Coffin Nail helped restore his Divine Sense when it neared collapse.
• Wu Tao reached the 10,000-cattie limit and completed his Star True Body, increasing his Divine Sense to 1,300 miles and his lifespan to 859 years.

Wu Tao celebrated condensing his True Body, then discovered that a Tier 4 formation trapped him on Small Island until he perfected the Transformation and Breath-Concealing Secret Technique. In the Ethereal Void Sect, Gu Xi and Yu Shan sought Chen Yao’s help after Gu Xi angered Elder Zhou, but Fan Zhifeng promised to settle the matter; Wu Tao ended the chapter resigned to continuing his cultivation.

• Wu Tao celebrated his True Body breakthrough with a meal and thought of A-Yao beneath the waning moon.
• Gu Xi told Yu Shan he had won Elder Zhou’s Blue Heart Sword, and Yu Shan worried that Elder Zhou would retaliate.
• Gu Xi and Yu Shan bought Chen Yao a bronze mirror, then Fan Zhifeng met them at her Cave Abode and said he would handle Elder Zhou’s matter.
• Chen Yao accepted the gifts and cultivation resources, then told Fan Zhifeng she would wait for Han to return, even for a thousand years.
• Eight months later, Wu Tao finished analyzing the Origin Water Sword’s refining manual but found that a Tier 4 formation blocked him from leaving Small Island.
• Wang Jing told Wu Tao he could pass through the formation only after completing the third level of the Transformation and Breath-Concealing Secret Technique, so Wu Tao returned to cultivating.

Wu Tao perfected the Transformation and Breath-Concealing Secret Technique, left the hidden island under the alias Li Mo, and reached Flying Star Island. There he successfully refined an Origin Water Sword, becoming a Tier 3 Artifact Refiner and preparing to seek entry into the Star Immortal Palace.

• Wu Tao condensed the Transformation and Breath-Concealing Rune, chose the alias Li Mo, and spent two years cultivating the technique to Third Layer Perfection.
• Wu Tao transformed into Li Mo and passed through the Tier 4 Magic Array undetected, leaving the island where he had lived in seclusion.
• Wu Tao reached Flying Star Island, bought the Tier 3 Spiritual Materials needed for an Origin Water Sword, and prepared to refine it at an inn.
• Wu Tao set up a memorial tablet for his master Chen Shan, then successfully refined the Origin Water Sword and became a Tier 3 Artifact Refiner.
• Wu Tao honored Chen Shan and thought of Wen Xingrui before deciding to explore how he could enter the Star Immortal Palace.