Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing observed a Cang Race assault on the Starry Sky Frontline and suspected Xuan was using the Heavenly Will to help selected Cang Race Heavenly Generals reach the Truth Insight limit. In the Past Domain, Gu met Zi Qin as she emerged from a strange state, leaving him unsure whether Xuan’s method had succeeded or gone wrong.

• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu overheard two suspicious cultivators at the Yuling Interstellar Hotel and planned to investigate them during their mission.
• Xu Xing saw the Cang Race attack the Starry Sky Frontline with Dao Soldier Strange Beasts and Bio-Weapons, then realized none of the Cang Race Heavenly Generals had reached the Truth Insight limit.
• Xu Xing deduced that Xuan had sent the Cang Race’s strongest candidates into the Past Domain and was using the Heavenly Will to help them cross the Immortal Pass.
• Gu reflected on the Cang Race’s weakened state and the danger to its younger generation, then traveled to meet the Cang Race Heavenly Generals gathered in purple qi.
• Zi Qin opened her eyes amid a strange fluctuation that seemed to contain all laws and Daos, and Gu feared that the Heaven Pass Construction had gone awry.

Zi Qin lost her True Self while constructing the Heaven Pass, and Gu’s attempt to restore her past turned her into a dangerous Dao Slave. As Xuan ordered Gu to send the Dao Slave to the Central Continent, a red moon appeared and a crimson-sword wielder arrived.

• Zi Qin’s Heaven Pass construction failed, and she began to lose herself to the boundless Great Dao.
• Gu used Primordial Chrono Manipulation to restore Zi Qin’s past, but her expanding Heaven Pass consumed those memories and transformed her into a Dao Slave.
• Xuan moved Zi Qin beneath the Ancient Great Profound Heaven and ordered the Cang Race to bow while her crystal form continued expanding.
• Xuan explained that Gu’s interference had made the Dao Slave approach Dao Attainment strength and told him to send it to the Central Continent.
• A red moon appeared, its moonlight tore through Xuan’s purple-qi net, and a figure carrying a crimson longsword arrived.

Xu Xing battled Gu in the Ancient Great Profound Heaven, where the Dao Slave transformed Cang Race members into crystals. After Xuan intervened and the realm was destroyed, Xu Xing captured the Dao Slave and returned to the present world to prepare for the Cang Race Heavenly Generals’ future advance.

• The Dao Slave’s crimson moonlight caused young Cang Race members who saw it, and others affected by the resulting crystals, to mutate into crystals until Gu restored them and erased their memories.
• Xu Xing attacked Gu with a sword strike that shook the past, but Gu used the Past Domain to reproduce the strike and began shifting the Ancient Great Profound Heaven away.
• As Xu Xing pursued the escaping realm, Xuan struck him with a vast palm, and the calamity left only the Dao Slave and the crystallized Cang Race members in a spacetime void.
• Xu Xing bound the Dao Slave with red sword threads, erased the crystals, and left without pursuing Gu, who could not be killed within the past.
• Xu Xing returned to the Yuling Interstellar Hotel with the Dao Slave concealed and contained, then considered giving it to his fellow Artifact Sovereign to study as he prepared for the Cang Race Heavenly Generals’ future advance.

Xu Xing considered the threat posed by Heavenly Will and contacted the other Daoists while staying at Ning Ruo’s accommodations. At a martial arts arena, Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu discussed martial cultivation’s decline before a Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect cultivator confronted them.

• Xu Xing took a Soul-Cleansing Pill and reflected on the Cang Race, Xuan, Gu, and the dangers of letting Heavenly Will return.
• Xu Xing took out his phone to inform the other Daoists about Heavenly Will.
• At No. 47 Martial Arts Arena, Chi Jiuyu told Zhang Yunlu that martial cultivation had declined after a calamity killed most high-ranked martial cultivators.
• Chi Jiuyu recounted defeating a Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect martial cultivator after he withstood five of her sword strikes.
• A burly Nascent Soul Realm woman from the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect confronted Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu, and Chi Jiuyu demanded to know what she had said.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu traveled to Yuyao Planet to meet its Guardian Envoy and carry out their mission. You Hao welcomed them and prepared to show them the cultivator records, while privately worrying that Chi Jiuyu might have encountered his rebellious son.

• Chi Jiuyu confronted a body cultivator woman in the stands, but let her leave after she apologized for not recognizing her.
• Xu Xing watched a martial cultivator defeat a spell cultivator and reflected on whether martial cultivation could rise again.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu used a Yuling Heaven Gate to travel to Yuyao Fourth Planet for their mission.
• Guardian Envoy You Hao welcomed the two Sword Sect envoys, then grew uneasy when Chi Jiuyu mentioned staying at the Yuling Interstellar Hotel.
• You Hao invited Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu inside and offered to bring them records of the cultivators.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu went to retrieve Yuyao Planet’s cultivator records, where Chi Jiuyu’s boast that she was the Sword Sect’s fated successor alarmed You Hao. Meanwhile, Xu Xing waited nearby and reflected on the planet’s development and the need to investigate its Guardian Envoy.

• You Hao recognized Chi Jiuyu as the Immortal Sect Grand Competition’s first-place winner and praised her as the Sword Sect’s future Sect Master.
• Chi Jiuyu revealed that Sect Master Du Ruoheng guarded against her instead of supporting her succession, leaving You Hao horrified that his flattery had backfired.
• Xu Xing sat in a Yuyao Planet teahouse and watched the moon rise as he considered how Star Refiners had shaped the planet’s environment.
• Xu Xing reviewed the Sword Sect’s aid and oversight of developing planets, then wondered whether Chi Jiuyu would uncover anything at the Guardian Envoy’s residence.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu reviewed Yuyao Planet’s cultivator records and set out to inspect the planet in person, suspecting its Guardian Envoy might be hiding something. Their investigation brought them to Yuyao First Middle School, where they recognized someone outside the security office.

• You Hao presented Chi Jiuyu with cultivator records in a jade slip, crystal card, and paper files, and she, Zhang Yunlu, and Chi Jiuyu’s Life-Bound Sword cross-checked them.
• After completing the review, Chi Jiuyu paid You Hao exactly six hundred and fifty-seven Spirit Coins for the tea and pastries, then left with Zhang Yunlu to conduct an on-site inspection.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu found no problems in the records but remained suspicious of You Hao and agreed to report any confirmed wrongdoing to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• At Yuyao First Middle School, Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu descended near the security office, where Zhang Yunlu addressed a young-looking man as "Martial uncle?"

Xu Xing brought Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu to inspect a school after warning its guard about pills, then promised the two a reward if they handled the matter well. He comforted Zhang Yunlu over her parents, and Chi Jiuyu ended the chapter by asking whether he had liked her Master or Senior Spirit Ancestor first.

• Chi Jiuyu introduced herself as a Sword Sect Inspector, and Xu Xing told the guard, Old Liu, to stop his son from taking certain pills.
• Old Liu contacted the principal while Xu Xing, Chi Jiuyu, and Zhang Yunlu entered the school.
• Chi Jiuyu pressed Xu Xing to explain the pills and negotiate a reward; Xu Xing promised each girl one request if they handled the matter beautifully.
• Xu Xing asked Zhang Yunlu how she felt about her parents, and he reassured her that her muted grief did not make her cold-hearted.
• Chi Jiuyu asked Xu Xing whether he had liked Master or Senior Spirit Ancestor first.

Chi Jiuyu tested students at Yuyao First Middle School and exposed a scheme using Life-Forfeiting Pills, which were secretly called Giant Rat Pills. She arrested the principal and left Xu Xing to help the students whose foundations the pills had damaged.

• Zhang Yunlu measured the students' spiritual power, finding that most were around the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
• Chi Jiuyu used the Void-Piercing Golden Pupils to select students and had them cultivate while Xu Xing infused the area with moonlight and spiritual energy.
• Several students coughed up blackish-red blood as the moonlight dissolved the pills' effects, revealing that the pills had damaged their vitality.
• Chi Jiuyu identified the pills as Life-Forfeiting Pills, explained their harms, and dubbed them Giant Rat Pills.
• Chi Jiuyu sealed the principal's cultivation and bound him after he denied the evidence recorded by her sword's Xuan Light Stone.
• Xu Xing gave pills to a student to distribute among the affected students.

Chi Jiuyu exposed the principal and You Hao for distributing Giant Rat Pills and withholding the medicinal potency from cultivation pills at Yuyao First Middle School. As Feng Tianrui announced an approaching Bio-Weapon, the investigation gave way to an impending planetary defense.

• Zhang Yunlu told three students that their foundations were unlikely to recover after taking Life-Forfeiting Pills, while Chi Jiuyu discovered that thirty percent of Yuyao First Middle School's students had taken them.
• Chi Jiuyu restrained the principal, searched his office, and confronted You Hao and his deputy when they arrived.
• The principal and You Hao blamed Demonic Cultivators, but Chi Jiuyu challenged their story and compared the school’s pills with an older box whose pills had only a tenth of their medicinal potency remaining.
• Feng Tianrui announced that a Bio-Weapon was approaching and ordered Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and above to leave the planets and meet the enemy.

Chi Jiuyu, Xu Xing, You Hao, and Feng Tianrui responded as Bio-Weapons attacked the Yuyao Star System, activating its defenses and confronting the enemy. Chi Jiuyu unleashed her Slaying Dharma Form and charged into battle, already imagining a stronger form she might create in the future.

• Chi Jiuyu freed the principal, warned Zhang Yunlu about possible Bio-Weapons breaking through, and rushed out as You Hao and the principal followed.
• Zhang Yunlu agreed to cooperate with You Hao's deputy while students took shelter underground in an orderly evacuation.
• Xu Xing watched the approaching Bio-Weapons as planets across the Yuyao Star System activated a grand formation, and Feng Tianrui's Dharma Manifestation attacked the two Void Return Realm creatures.
• Chi Jiuyu arrived beyond the protective formation, saw Feng Tianrui fighting, and opened her Slaying Dharma Form.
• Chi Jiuyu cut into a charging Bio-Weapon and resolved to create a more impressive Dharma Form in the future.

As bio-weapons attacked the Yuyao Star System, Chi Jiuyu held back the advancing horde while You Hao tried to flee and was intercepted. On Yuyao Fourth Planet, Zhang Yunlu went to confront bio-weapons that had breached the defenses, while Xu Xing learned more about Gu Wangjun’s stalled cultivation and worsening health.

• Chi Jiuyu blocked the bio-weapons with her sword, giving the Spirit Transformation cultivators time to join the battle.
• You Hao dispersed into pure Yang qi and tried to escape, but a Spirit Transformation-level tiger bio-weapon roared him back into physical form and attacked.
• Zhang Yunlu learned that bio-weapons had breached Yuyao Fourth Planet’s formation and flew southwest to meet them.
• In an underground shelter, Xu Xing spoke with Gu Wangjun, who explained that his cultivation had stalled at the fourth level of Qi Refining and his health had been worsening.

Xu Xing revealed that the ring-bound remnant soul and a deliberately distributed Giant Rat Pill had left Gu Wangjun’s body and spirit severely depleted. Gu Wangjun chose to keep the ring and restore the remnant soul, but Xu Xing vanished before he could ask more.

• Xu Xing used a Truth Spell to make Gu Wangjun reveal that his life force was draining away and that he had refused his sister’s cultivation resources.
• Xu Xing identified the ring as the cause of Gu Wangjun’s stagnant cultivation and explained that a Void Return Realm remnant soul inside it had been drawing on him.
• Xu Xing revealed that the planetary Guardian Envoy’s subordinates had distributed Life-Forfeiting Pills, also called Giant Rat Pills, to deplete cultivators and keep them weak.
• Xu Xing offered to repair Gu Wangjun’s depleted foundation either while restoring the remnant soul or while taking the ring and giving him a cultivation method.
• Gu Wangjun chose to keep the ring and restore the remnant soul, and Xu Xing warned him not to commit evil before disappearing from the shelter.

Zhang Yunlu and the Yuyao Star System’s cultivators fought off a massive Bio-Weapon assault until True Monarch Yuling arrived and erased the attackers. After returning home, Gu Wangjun tried to cultivate, and the black ring beside him began to awaken.

• Zhang Yunlu cut down Golden Core-level Bio-Weapons while she and the other cultivators defended against the falling attackers.
• Feng Tianrui ordered a retreat into the protective formation while Chi Jiuyu and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators held the Bio-Weapons back; You Hao fled when he found an opening.
• True Monarch Yuling froze the battlefield and destroyed every Bio-Weapon, then the star system resumed moving.
• After the battle, investigators found no deaths in the affected areas, and True Monarch Yuling sent an incarnation to investigate.
• Gu Wangjun returned home, checked that his younger sister was safe, and later tried cultivating after removing the black ring around his neck.
• As Gu Wangjun breathed and cultivated, golden patterns appeared on the ring and something inside it began to awaken.

Gu Wangjun’s cultivation resumed after he followed the senior’s advice, and he met Leng Rou, the remnant soul inside his ring. After she recognized the senior as the Sword Ancestor, she berated Gu Wangjun for choosing to restore her instead of receiving the senior’s cultivation method.

• Gu Wangjun used the Basic Qi Refining Method and found that his stalled cultivation had begun advancing again.
• Leng Rou appeared from the ring and introduced herself as a peak Void Return cultivator whose attempt at Dao Integration had failed.
• Gu Wangjun told Leng Rou that a senior in an underground shelter had helped him and offered him a choice between restoring her remnant soul and receiving a cultivation method.
• Leng Rou asked Gu Wangjun to draw the senior, recognized him as the Sword Ancestor, and scolded Gu Wangjun for passing up the chance to receive his teachings.

Gu Wangjun learned that the senior whose transmission he had refused was the Sword Ancestor Founder Ancestor, but Leng Rou gave him cultivation manuals and guidance anyway. After Xu Xing dealt with the captured Guardian Envoy You Hao, a supernatural snowfall helped the planet’s young cultivators, and Leng Rou teased Gu Wangjun for admiring her.

• Leng Rou told Gu Wangjun that the senior he had met was the Sword Ancestor Founder Ancestor, but Gu Wangjun accepted his choice and set aside the offered transmission.
• Leng Rou passed Gu Wangjun her talisman notes and the Yin-Refining Life-Eroding Sword Canon, then advised him to build his foundation and aim for a Heaven-Forged Dao Foundation.
• Xu Xing met Chi Jiuyu, True Monarch Yuling, and Zhang Yunlu at the school, thanked Yuling for capturing You Hao, and gave Chi Jiuyu a token to submit the mission and compensate the planet’s victims.
• News reports revealed that You Hao had distributed Life-Forfeiting Pills to young cultivators, while the Sword Ancestor Founder Ancestor’s snowfall was said to help those harmed by the pills.
• Gu Wangjun watched the snow with Leng Rou and admired the Sword Ancestor Founder Ancestor’s power; Leng Rou teased him for imagining romantic scenes with her.

Xu Xing rode a starship with Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu, explaining that Dao Integration was needed to investigate the origins of humanity in the Starry Sky. After leaving the two disciples to return to the Sword Sect, he departed for the Joyous Union Sect, leaving Chi Jiuyu alarmed.

• Xu Xing explained that Starry Sky residents included migrants from the Central Continent and humans born on planets, and said Zhang Yunlu would need to reach Dao Integration to investigate further.
• The group boarded a starship, and Chi Jiuyu discovered that Xu Xing's hotel souvenir contained an extravagant spirit-crystal plume resembling the Yuling Star River.
• After several hours, Xu Xing declined the hotpot and told Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu to return to the Sword Sect and hand over their mission.
• Xu Xing left the starship and said he was going to the Joyous Union Sect to meet an old friend.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu realized Xu Xing had gone to the Joyous Union Sect, and Chi Jiuyu messaged her master about the news.

Chi Jiuyu learned that her Martial Uncle was going to the Joyous Union Sect, but her master dismissed her concerns as he headed there on proper business. At the sect, Xu Xing met Shen Qingjun and recognized Zhong Jiajia, a Dao Integration cultivator whose livestream supported lower-ranked disciples.

• Chi Jiuyu warned her master that her Martial Uncle was going to the Joyous Union Sect, but her master said she already knew and that he had proper business there.
• Xu Xing arrived at the Joyous Union Sect, where Shen Qingjun greeted him and escorted him to meet the sect's Master Ancestor.
• Xu Xing asked Shen Qingjun about her master's disciples and whether she had taken any apprentices; she said she had not.
• Xu Xing stopped to watch Zhong Jiajia playing the zither during her livestream and recognized her from a stream he had seen in Mystic Sword City.
• Shen Qingjun explained that Zhong Jiajia treated livestreaming as a hobby and gave the desire and emotion qi she earned to lower-cultivation disciples.

Xu Xing visited the Joyous Union Sect, gave Shen Qingjun a jade gift for Zhong Jiajia, and met Charm Ancestor in her Cave Heaven. Their conversation with Ji Yinxue revealed that she planned to continue Xu Xing’s supposed work by carrying out a sweeping purge after the war.

• Xu Xing gave Shen Qingjun a Dawnlight-Inscribed Red Jade for Zhong Jiajia and asked about how the Joyous Union Sect refined passion energy.
• Shen Qingjun explained the sect’s cultivation facilities and how its master had purged the sect after some cultivators tried to exploit the Spirit Net.
• Shen Qingjun led Xu Xing to the entrance of the inner sect, where he vanished to meet Charm Ancestor.
• Charm Ancestor welcomed Xu Xing, served him wine, and opened a water mirror to speak with her disciple Ji Yinxue.
• Ji Yinxue told Xu Xing she understood his intentions and vowed to slaughter the world’s schemers, villains, and deviants after the war, leaving Xu Xing startled by her interpretation of his unfinished work.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu returned to the Sword Sect, where Bie Xuening questioned them about their Starry Sky trip and their Dharma Images. Bie Xuening then learned from the Big Boss Group that Xu Xing had reached the Joyous Union Sect and that the Charm Ancestor proposed dual cultivation as the solution, prompting her phone to crack.

• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu arrived at the Sword Sect’s Starship Traction Array and took their starship to the Maintenance Area to check its wear.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu were suddenly brought to Bie Xuening, who asked Chi Jiuyu about shortcomings in her Dharma Image and asked Zhang Yunlu whether she had relaxed during the trip.
• Bie Xuening checked the Big Boss Group and saw the Charm Ancestor say that Xu Xing had arrived at the Joyous Union Sect and was beside her.
• The Charm Ancestor said she had not yet examined the problem but thought dual cultivation would be the solution, and Bie Xuening’s phone cracked.