Chapter Summaries

Jiang Wang and the other cultivators took their assigned Star Positions in Seven Star Valley as they prepared to enter the Seven Star Tower Secret Realm. After Tian Huanzhang summoned the Big Dipper’s stars, a torrent of starlight poured down over the valley.

• The 108 Star Positions appeared, and Lei Zhangan claimed the Heavenly Chief Star Position.
• Fang Chong, Li Fengyao, Jiang Wuxie, and other cultivators took prominent Heavenly Dipper positions in turn.
• Tian Chang called Jiang Wang to the Earth Punishment Star Position, prompting others to dismiss him as an unworthy entrant.
• The cultivators filled the available positions, leaving eight vacant places for those who had withdrawn or failed to arrive.
• Tian Huanzhang pointed out the Big Dipper, summoned its seven stars, and caused starlight to pour into the valley.

The Seven Star Tower opened, and Lei Zhangan unleashed the Lei Clan’s secret art to drive other cultivators from their positions before entering the secret realm early. Jiang Wang watched Li Fengyao and Jiang Wuxie counter the attack, then intervened to save Lian Shao from the Thunder Snakes.

• Tian Huanzhang withdrew the Tian Clan’s final arrangements, and the Seven Star Tower formed from starlight above the valley.
• Lei Zhangan attacked all one hundred cultivators with Dragon and Snake Rise from the Land, knocking more than twenty from their star positions.
• Jiang Wuxie destroyed the Thunder Dragon attacking him with Red Phoenix, while Li Fengyao froze Lei Zhangan’s Thunder Dragons with the Frost Kill Bow and aimed an arrow at him.
• Lei Zhangan linked himself to the guiding starlight and entered the Seven Star Tower Secret Realm ahead of everyone else.
• Jiang Wang left the Tian Clan’s formation, took a vacant star position beside Lian Shao, and cut down the Thunder Snakes overwhelming him.

Jiang Wang helped Lian Shao keep his place in the Seven Star Tower Secret Realm while the Tian Clan’s hidden actions disrupted the Tower. At Fubi Tower, Tian Anping drew the Tower’s Star Power toward himself, discovered a way into a mysterious place, and left the Seven Star Tower stable again.

• Jiang Wang told Lian Shao to thank Lian Que for his help and considered switching to another star position to avoid the Tian Family’s alliance.
• Tian Huanzhang watched the competition unfold, unaware of the Tian Clan’s true aim, as the Seven Star Tower drew down starlight for its participants.
• A force diverted the Tower’s Star Power to Fubi Tower in Ji City, leaving the Seven Star Tower trembling and threatening to trap everyone inside.
• Tian Anping watched the beam stop above Fubi Tower, realized something about the sky, and threatened to kill Tian Huanzhang if he came to bother him.
• Tian Anping closed his eyes and entered a mysterious place he had once been unable to reach, causing the beam to vanish and the Seven Star Tower to return to normal.

Tian Anping broke into the Great Void Illusion Realm by exploiting the Seven Star Tower’s power, while Jiang Wang explored a forest world inside a Seven Star Tower Secret Realm. The chapter ended as Jiang Wang heard a strange shriek in the distance.

• Tian Anping used the Seven Star Tower’s surging Star Power to enter the Great Void Illusion Realm and studied its Star River before disappearing.
• Two mysterious voices debated whether to intervene, and the lofty voice warned that breaking the realm’s rules could bring their downfall.
• The Seven Star Tower stabilized, vanished from Seven Star Valley, and left Tian Huanzhang exhausted as he waited for its return.
• Jiang Wang walked alone through the vast forest world of the Seven Star Tower Secret Realm, guided by caution rather than relying on past records.
• Jiang Wang heard a strange shriek from far away that filled him with dread.

Jiang Wang explored the strange forest sea in the Yuheng Star world, searching for a life-extending treasure while trying to understand the place. After heading north through the barren woods, he was attacked by what had seemed to be a dead branch.

• Jiang Wang extinguished Treasure Light Art after it found no treasures and decided he could not keep wandering aimlessly.
• Jiang Wang climbed to the treetops, surveyed the seemingly endless forest, and saw a lone orb of light in the sky.
• Jiang Wang asked Jiang Yan about the orb, and Jiang Yan identified it as Yuheng Star.
• Jiang Wang determined north from the trees, returned to the ground, and traveled in that direction through the silent forest.
• A dead branch sprang up beneath Jiang Wang's foot, and Longing flashed out to meet the attack.

Jiang Wang was surrounded by a swarm of venomous Withered Branch Snakes and used his Sword Circle to hold them back. After enduring their assault at the edge of his limits, he drove the snakes away, leaving the Sword Circle fixed at one foot.

• Jiang Wang killed a Withered Branch Snake and discovered that its poison instantly destroyed his Poison-Swallowing Flower.
• Withered Branch Snakes emerged from all directions and attacked Jiang Wang in overwhelming numbers.
• Jiang Wang formed a Sword Circle with Longing, creating a protected space that kept the snakes from reaching him.
• Jiang Wang struggled to maintain the Sword Circle as the snakes battered it, while preparing to escape with Flame Meteor if it failed.
• The remaining Withered Branch Snakes retreated after the Sword Circle held at one foot, leaving their corpses in the clearing.

Jiang Wang survived a renewed Withered Branch Snake attack with his Eight-Sound Flame Sparrow, escaped north, and encountered two men pursuing each other in the Forest Sea. The chapter ended with Qing Qishu realizing that Qing Jiuye’s arrow had struck his knee instead of his shield.

• The Withered Branch Snakes launched another coordinated assault, and Jiang Wang cleared the swarm around him with Eight-Sound Flame Sparrow.
• Jiang Wang fled north using Flame Meteor, treated his injured hand, and continued cautiously through the Forest Sea.
• Jiang Wang hid behind a giant tree when two men raced past, and he noticed that one arrow had pierced the tree’s tough trunk.
• Qing Jiuye stopped Qing Qishu with arrows, while Qing Qishu boasted that his Dragon God-blessed Green Wood Shield could not be pierced.
• Jiang Wang pointed out that Qing Jiuye had not shot the shield, and Qing Qishu saw that an arrow had struck his knee.

Jiang Wang encountered Qing Qishu and Qing Jiuye, members of a clan engaged in a deadly Mutual Hunt, after escaping the Hidden Snakes. He blocked Qing Jiuye’s arrow and learned the hunt required one of them to die, just as an unseen voice challenged that rule.

• Jiang Wang found Qing Qishu and Qing Jiuye fighting, and Qing Jiuye demanded that the outsider leave the clan’s Mutual Hunt.
• Jiang Wang explained that he had come from the Hidden Snake Land, and Qing Jiuye shot at him after suspecting he was lying.
• Jiang Wang defended himself with a Sword Circle, stopping Qing Jiuye’s wooden arrow and persuading him that the account of the Hidden Snakes was true.
• Qing Jiuye resumed aiming at Qing Qishu, and Jiang Wang asked what the Mutual Hunt was for.
• Qing Jiuye said the duel ended when one man cut off the other’s head, but an unfamiliar voice asked why they could not simply spare each other.

Jiang Wang watched Qing Jiuye repeatedly shoot Qing Qishu, whose strange vitality let him survive even a pierced heart, and tried to stop the apparent torture. Qing Qishu recognized Jiang Wang as a possible Dragon God Envoy brought to the Forest Sea Source Realm, but Qing Jiuye insisted the Mutual Hunt must continue, leaving both men unsettled by Qing Qishu's mention of Yan Xiao.

• Qing Jiuye shot Qing Qishu through the heart, but Qing Qishu remained alive and complained of the pain.
• Jiang Wang urged Qing Jiuye to give Qing Qishu a quick death, while Qing Qishu pleaded for help.
• Qing Qishu explained that outsiders had disappeared from the Forest Sea Source Realm for ten years and suggested they might be the only humans left there.
• Qing Qishu asked whether Jiang Wang came from beyond the realm and had been brought there by a power, and Jiang Wang confirmed both points.
• Qing Qishu declared Jiang Wang the Dragon God Envoy chosen by the Dragon God, but Qing Jiuye said the Mutual Hunt's rules still applied.
• Qing Qishu argued that the Dragon God's awakening meant the Mutual Hunt should end, then blurted out Yan Xiao's name and fell silent when both men reacted as if it were taboo.

Jiang Wang learned that the Holy Clan worshipped the Dragon God and believed he might be its long-lost envoy, while a danger linked to the taboo Yan Xiao threatened the Forest Sea Source Realm. Qing Jiuye invited him to the God-Shaded Land and offered to share his divine protection, but the group had to leave before nightfall because staying outside would mean death.

• Jiang Wang inferred that the Dragon God had once sent envoys to the Forest Sea Source Realm and that the Holy Clan’s fear of Yan Xiao might explain why it stopped exploring.
• Jiang Wang gave Qing Jiuye and Qing Qishu the false name Zhang Linchuan and asked what Yan Xiao was, but they refused to discuss the taboo.
• Qing Jiuye invited Jiang Wang to the God-Shaded Land to confirm whether he was the Dragon God Envoy, while Qing Qishu admitted he doubted the claim.
• Qing Jiuye explained that he would share his divine protection with Jiang Wang, risking his own power and life if Jiang Wang died.
• Qing Jiuye urged Jiang Wang to travel with them before dark and warned that they would die if they spent the night outside.

Jiang Wang followed Qing Jiuye and Qing Qishu through the Forest Sea Source Realm, questioning them about the Holy Clan and the Dragon God Envoys. They brought him into the God-Shaded Land through the Dragon God Wood, where he saw a bright settlement beneath the Lianzhen star.

• Jiang Wang questioned Qing Jiuye and Qing Qishu about Hidden Snakes, Dragon God Envoys, and their connection to the Dragon God.
• Jiang Wang concealed his uncertainty about being a Dragon God Envoy by asking questions and memorized the route through the Forest Sea.
• Qing Jiuye and Qing Qishu led Jiang Wang to the enormous Dragon God Wood as night approached and danger stirred in the forest.
• Qing Qishu and Qing Jiuye entered the Dragon God Wood, and Jiang Wang followed them into the God-Shaded Land.
• Jiang Wang saw a bright plain dotted with inhabited Dragon God Wood fruits and spotted the Lianzhen star overhead.

Jiang Wang met the High Priestess in the peaceful God-Shaded Land, where she believed he might be the Dragon God Envoy destined to save the Holy Clan. He denied accepting that responsibility, and she planned to open the altar the next day to determine whether he was the envoy.

• Jiang Wang arrived at the Fruit House with Qing Qishu and Qing Jiuye and learned that the High Priestess might send him away if he was not the Dragon God Envoy.
• The High Priestess threw Qing Qishu out of the room and then summoned him inside, where she ordered him to kneel and scolded him for disgracing the Holy Clan.
• The High Priestess welcomed Jiang Wang, asked how he had reached the Forest Sea Source Realm, and called him the envoy chosen by the Dragon God.
• Jiang Wang explained that he was pursuing something and could not promise to save the Holy Clan.
• The High Priestess said she would open the altar the next day to determine whether Jiang Wang was the Dragon God Envoy.

Jiang Wang stayed in the God-Shaded Land as the Holy Clan's High Priestess arranged for the Saintess of Green, Qinghua, to escort him. Their departure was interrupted when Bazhi returned from the Mutual Hunt claiming to have brought back two Dragon God Envoys, and Jiang Wang saw the hunt's brutal cost firsthand.

• The High Priestess assigned Qinghua to take Jiang Wang to rest, prompting Qing Qishu and Qing Jiuye to compete for the task and warn him away from her.
• A little girl named Xiaoguo announced that Bazhi had returned and said he had brought back two Dragon God Envoys.
• The High Priestess asked Qinghua and Jiang Wang to wait, while Qing Qishu rushed out to greet Bazhi.
• Bazhi entered the Fruit House boasting of his success in the Mutual Hunt, carrying a Holy Clan member's severed head and dragging something behind him.
• Jiang Wang realized that the Mutual Hunt forced the clan's warriors to kill one another.

Qing Bazhi returned to the Fruit House with a head and claimed he had found Dragon God Envoys, while Qing Qishu demanded answers about the Mutual Hunt. Bazhi brought two bound men before the High Priestess, and Jiang Wang recognized them as Qi cultivators.

• Qing Bazhi ignored Qing Qishu's questions and went to greet Qinghua before entering the Fruit House.
• Jiang Wang tried to shield Xiaoguo from the head, but the High Priestess said the Mutual Hunt's heads were a source of honor for the Holy Clan.
• Qing Jiuye explained that he and Qing Qishu had suspended their Mutual Hunt after encountering a possible Dragon God Envoy.
• Qing Bazhi pulled two vine-bound men into the room and explained that he had captured them after seeing them fight a Forest Bear and hearing them mention this world and drawing down starlight.
• Jiang Wang recognized the two captives as Qi cultivators, while Wu Quji silently recalled that he and his companion had fled because Bazhi had startled them.

Jiang Wang, Wu Quji, and Su Qi were brought before the Holy Clan’s High Priestess, who planned to verify which of them was the Dragon God Envoy at the altar the next day. The three were escorted away to rest under guard, while Qing Qishu still owed Qing Bazhi an explanation about Mutual Hunt.

• Qing Bazhi removed the pinecone gags from Wu Quji and Su Qi, and the High Priestess announced that the altar would be opened the next day to verify the three Dragon God Envoys.
• Wu Quji introduced himself as a disciple of the Golden Needle Sect from Qi State, while Su Qi said he was also from Qi State; Jiang Wang vaguely confirmed he came from there too.
• Wu Quji pressed the High Priestess for answers, but she dodged his questions and told Qing Qishu, Qing Jiuye, and Qing Bazhi to escort the candidates to rest.
• Qing Qishu insisted on staying to explain himself to Qing Bazhi, while Bazhi warned that they would both be held responsible if none of the candidates proved genuine.
• The three escorts split up with their assigned candidates, and Su Qi nervously asked Qing Jiuye whether they were really safe before admitting he had feared being eaten.

Jiang Wang learned about the Holy Clan’s Soul Nurturing punishment and the danger of sleeping outside a Dragon God Wood, while growing more familiar with Qing Qishu. The chapter left him at an isolated Dragon God Wood with an unusually shaped Fruit House for the night.

• Jiang Wang considered the threat posed by Wu Quji and Su Qi and resolved to preserve his good standing with the Holy Clan.
• Jiang Wang questioned Qing Qishu about the warrior who died in the Mutual Hunt and learned that Holy Clan Warriors inherited the names of the dead.
• Qing Qishu explained that Soul Nurturing buried a living person with a Dragon God Wood seed, which absorbed the person’s soul overnight and grew into a mature tree.
• Qing Qishu warned Jiang Wang that the night invaded anyone who slept outside a Fruit House, and that no one who did so survived until morning.
• Qing Qishu told Jiang Wang that the High Priestess was his great-aunt and said he believed in the Dragon God because the God-Shaded Land existed.
• Qing Qishu brought Jiang Wang to an isolated Dragon God Wood whose semicircular Fruit House differed from the others.

Jiang Wang stayed in a naturally grown Dragon God Wood Fruit House with Qing Qishu and spent the night giving him advice on winning Qinghua’s affection. The next day, they reached the Holy Clan altar, where the Priest awaited them.

• Jiang Wang invited Qing Qishu into the Fruit House and explained that he was only a passerby in the Forest Sea Source Realm, not someone who could fall in love with Qinghua.
• Qing Qishu asked Jiang Wang to teach him how to make Qinghua love him, and Jiang Wang agreed to give him advice inside the Fruit House.
• Qing Qishu explained that the naturally grown Dragon God Wood welcomed outsiders, unlike the square-fruited trees created through Soul Nurturing.
• Jiang Wang spent much of the night giving Qing Qishu eighteen key points about winning a sweetheart, while Qing Qishu listened eagerly.
• The next day, Jiang Wang and Qing Qishu went to the altar, where they saw six trees joined by intertwined branches and the Priest waiting for them.

Jiang Wang and the others gathered at the Tree Altar as the High Priestess performed an ancient rite linked to Yuheng Star. The rite revealed a radiant throne in the sky, where Yuheng Star appeared to take its seat, leaving Jiang Wang with a sense that he had glimpsed a vast secret.

• Jiang Wang chose to cultivate through the night despite the safety and rest offered by the Fruit House.
• Jiang Wang, Qing Qishu, Su Qi, and Wu Quji arrived at the Tree Altar, where Qing Bazhi complained that he had spent the night guarding the runaway Wu Quji.
• Su Qi asked Wu Quji why he had run away, and Wu Quji said he had wanted to repay the High Priestess for misleading him.
• The High Priestess began chanting, and the Holy Clan members bowed and prayed before the Tree Altar.
• Light from the altar formed a throne in the sky as Yuheng Star began moving, though the God-Shaded Land's daylight did not change.
• The throne rose into the Celestial Vault, and Yuheng Star appeared to settle onto it.

Jiang Wang, Su Qi, and Wu Quji were declared Dragon God Envoys and learned they could leave the Forest Sea Source Realm by resolving the God-Shaded Land’s plight. As the priestess began explaining the land’s history, a terrifying voice reached the Tree Altar and frightened everyone present.

• The Dragon God Enthronement appeared in the Celestial Vault, leaving Jiang Wang wondering about the Dragon God, Yuheng, and the mysteries of the Middle Antiquity Era.
• The priestess asked Jiang Wang, Su Qi, and Wu Quji to stand on the altar for verification, then declared all three Dragon God Envoys after Qinghua received fragments of a divine decree.
• The priestess relayed the Dragon God’s guidance: the Envoys could leave the God-Shaded Land and continue their travels or go home after resolving its plight.
• Jiang Wang asked what had happened to the God-Shaded Land, and the priestess began to tell its history.
• A cold, terrified voice reached the Tree Altar, turning the Holy Clan Warriors pale and leaving Qinghua visibly frightened.

The High Priestess explained how the Holy Clan’s Mutual Hunt began as a way to satisfy the immortal, ever-strengthening Tailless Swallow, and Su Qi connected the creature to the legend of Yan Xiao. The chapter ended with Su Qi reciting the warning that Yan Xiao’s cry foretold a hundred heads to be eaten.

• The High Priestess told Jiang Wang that the Holy Clan sacrificed the head of a warrior killed in Mutual Hunt to meet the God-Shaded Land’s plight.
• The High Priestess recounted how the Tailless Swallow repeatedly returned stronger after each death and eventually demanded one human head each year.
• Wu Quji questioned why the Holy Clan sacrificed young, strong warriors, and the High Priestess defended the tradition of preserving the old and the children.
• Jiang Wang asked whether the Tailless Swallow was Yan Xiao, and Su Qi said an old book had described the creature.
• Su Qi recited the legend that Yan Xiao was born from a severed owl’s head and warned that its cry meant it would eat a hundred heads.