Chapter Summaries

After surviving an assassination attempt by the Crystalhorn Clan’s Shadow Killers, Chu Ming traced them to the Dark Eye base and won approval to lead a strike against it. He assembled and trained the Pupil Slayers, then reached the base at the Blackwater Star Vortex and began the operation.

• Chu Ming fought off and killed four Shadow Killers, then discovered a crystal linking their attack to a Crystalhorn Clan Dark Eye base.
• Chu Ming presented a plan to destroy the base, and General Longxiang approved a special operation despite objections from Dark Owl Star Lord.
• Chu Ming assembled the Pupil Slayers with Huo Si, Lina, Rock Turtle, Night Cat, Zhao Yan, Barong, and Lei Shuo, then trained them for the mission.
• The squad set out aboard a stealth assault vessel and evaded Crystalhorn patrols on the way to the Blackwater Star Vortex.
• Chu Ming’s team located the disguised Dark Eye base, and Huo Si and Night Cat began moving to disable its detection and communications systems as Rock Turtle set gravity anchors.

Chu Ming led his squad in destroying the Dark Pupil Base, then tempered his Crimson Gold Void Heart in the War God Illusory Realm and gained the Ancient War God's recognition. He arrived at Origin Hall to enter the Sea of Myriad Paths, where Startrack Venerable and General Dragon Soar awaited him.

• Chu Ming coordinated the assault on the Dark Pupil Base, while his squad breached its defenses and fought Jing Sha as the base's self-destruction array activated.
• Chu Ming and his squad escaped aboard Barong's ship moments before the Dark Pupil Base exploded, then received military honors and learned that his Sea of Myriad Paths qualification had been activated.
• Chu Ming followed Startrack Venerable's advice to visit War God Cliff and entered the War God Illusory Realm to temper his Void Heart against waves of war god phantoms.
• Chu Ming's dormant Ancient War God Bloodline awakened under the main soul's crushing attack, allowing him to withstand it and absorb its pure battle imprint.
• Chu Ming left War God Cliff with his Void Heart transformed, then traveled to Origin Hall, where Startrack Venerable and General Dragon Soar awaited him.

Chu Ming accepted a dangerous mission in Darkstar Whisper in exchange for the chance to use the Starcore Furnace, then fought his way to the Worldheart Stone. He began stabilizing it while resisting the minor world's storms, maddening whispers, and the Void Demon Eye's corruption.

• General Dragon Soar and Startrack Venerable offered Chu Ming two days in the Starcore Furnace's Ember Pool if he stabilized Darkstar Whisper's Worldheart Stone for twelve hours and investigated the Void Demon Eye's infiltration.
• Chu Ming accepted the mission, studied the intelligence, and spent nearly all his resources on medicine, protective treasures, formations, and supplies for Lei Shuo.
• Azure Lotus Sovereign gave Chu Ming an Azure Lotus Seal, and the Radiant Star Lord, Startrack Venerable, and General Dragon Soar opened a temporary passage into Darkstar Whisper.
• Chu Ming entered the collapsing minor world, resisted its mental assaults, and fought past aberrations, grudge shadows, and a skeletal army on his way to God-Burial Valley.
• Chu Ming reached the Worldheart Stone, set up defensive arrays, and began feeding it chaos power to slow its corruption while keeping watch on the Void Demon Eye's tentacles.

Chu Ming defended the Worldheart Stone for twelve hours until the sealing team arrived, then entered the Ember Pool to temper his Void Heart. As he neared completion, Void Devil Race attackers stormed the Blazing Sun Star Core Tower, and the battle outside continued while Chu Ming focused on forming his new Void Heart.

• Chu Ming and Lei Shuo held off the Demon Eye’s Demonic Beasts while Chu Ming maintained the Worldheart Stone, and Chu Ming disrupted a tentacle’s energy node to slow the assault.
• After twelve hours, the follow-up sealing team arrived, took over the defense, and Chu Ming returned to the asteroid belt, where Azure Lotus Sovereign healed him and General Dragon Soar confirmed his Starcore Furnace qualification.
• Chu Ming spent three days preparing for starcore tempering, then entered the Ember Pool at the Blazing Sun Star Core Tower with Startrack Venerable, General Dragon Soar, and Flame Radiance Star Lord present.
• Chu Ming endured the starcore power and unified his myriad thoughts around his original heart, transforming his Crimson Gold Void Heart toward a Formless Throne Void Heart.
• Three Void Devil Race figures attacked the tower, and Flame Radiance Star Lord, Startrack Venerable, and General Dragon Soar fought to protect the Ember Pool while Chu Ming absorbed the invaders’ destructive intent and continued his tempering.

After forming the Goldless Void Heart, Chu Ming accepted Leng Wuya’s invitation to take the Starry Sky Supervision Envoy assessment and was sent to restore order in the war-torn Kane Starfield. He arrived with his companions, confronted local officials over corruption and disorder, and began investigating diverted relief supplies as he sensed a deeper threat beneath the chaos.

• The Devil Race’s shadow attack was repelled, and Chu Ming formed the Goldless Void Heart in the Ember Pool.
• Leng Wuya explained the Supervision Envoy’s authority and risks, gave Chu Ming a deputy Supervision Token, and assigned him a one-year assessment mission in the Kane Starfield.
• Chu Ming invited Huo Si, Zhao Yan, Rock Turtle, and Night Cat to join him, then traveled with them to the Kane Starfield.
• At Ironrock Star, Chu Ming met Governor Baduo and ordered officials to provide relief-supply records, warned surrendered Star-Splitting Legion officers against betrayal, and directed a redeployment to protect key routes and resource planets.
• Chu Ming and his team began an overhaul of the starfield, uncovering shocking evidence of supply diversion through Night Cat’s records checks and the team’s inspections.

Chu Ming restored order in the Kane Starfield, foiled an attack on a civilian relief center, and uncovered evidence that deputy director Camilla had supplied the Star-Splitting Legion remnants and a mysterious outside organization. He arrested Camilla, but she warned that powerful figures stood behind her.

• Chu Ming purged corrupt officials, reorganized the military, and introduced relief and reconstruction policies as order returned to the Kane Starfield.
• Night Cat uncovered a plot to attack Relief Supply Distribution Point Number Seven, and Chu Ming led Zhao Yan and Rock Turtle to defend it as Huo Si and Night Cat helped destroy the attackers.
• Chu Ming interrogated a captured attacker and discovered evidence of a mysterious organization marked by a twisted Star Ring around a cold eye, then ordered an investigation into its supply network.
• Huo Si, Night Cat, and Rock Turtle traced suspicious resource movements to deputy director Camilla, while officials and assessor Ling Jun pressured Chu Ming to halt his inquiry.
• Chu Ming's team caught Camilla's confidant exchanging crates of concealed strategic supplies at abandoned Pier Number Three and decrypted records proving Camilla had supplied the Star-Splitting Legion remnants and the mysterious organization.
• Chu Ming arrested Camilla as she tried to destroy evidence, but she warned that powerful people stood behind her before Zhao Yan sealed her cultivation and took her away.

Chu Ming left Kane Starfield under an emergency order and took command of the failing defense in Mist Nebula, where he discovered the rifts had been artificially opened using power linked to the vanished Old Man Kongxuan. After driving back a terrifying creature emerging from the largest rift, Chu Ming returned to the defensive line with the crisis only temporarily contained.

• Chu Ming found the encrypted codename "Shepherd" in Camilla's crystal chips, then received orders to suspend the Kane investigation and go to Mist Nebula.
• Ling Jun reported Chu Ming's departure and hinted that the cleanup in Kane would continue while Chu faced the monsters.
• Chu Ming arrived in Mist Nebula, assumed command from Rod, and led his squad in stabilizing the collapsing defensive line.
• Chu Ming ordered a counterattack toward the largest rift and detected traces of Old Man Kongxuan's spatial secret art, concluding that the rift had been created artificially.
• A powerful creature thrust a claw through the rift, but Chu Ming struck its unstable edge and forced it back before retreating with his injured team.
• Chu Ming returned to the defensive perimeter and told Rod to reform the line, warning that the rift was only temporarily stable.

Chu Ming uncovered evidence that the man-made Void Corridor rift came from the failed Genesis Plan and that Old Man Kongxuan was silenced by forces tied to Shepherd. After surviving an attack and transmitting a report, Chu Ming was brought before seven Life-and-Death Dao Masters, where he defended his actions and faced accusations of breaking the law and abusing his authority.

• Chu Ming led Huo Si, Zhao Yan, Rock Turtle, and Lei Shuo into the forbidden Void Corridor and found the ruins of the Genesis Plan’s Seventh Frontier Observation Station.
• Chu Ming used Old Man Kongxuan’s residual energy to unlock a log revealing that the Genesis experiment had caused the rift and that Kongxuan had been silenced over a cover-up linked to Shepherd.
• Armed pursuers attacked the ruins, so Chu Ming sent an encrypted report, escaped with his team through a damaged teleportation array, and was rescued by Leng Wuya.
• Leng Wuya brought Chu Ming and his wounded companions before seven Life-and-Death Dao Masters, who questioned him about his actions in the Kane Starfield, Mist Nebula, and Void Corridor.
• Chu Ming admitted violating the prohibition but defended his decision to expose the truth, and he rejected Ling Jun’s accusation that he had purged dissenters in the Kane Starfield.

Chu Ming received his official Starry Sky Supervision Envoy token and was assigned Candle Nether Dao Lord as his Dao Protector. After surviving the Annihilation Starsea and beginning a trial in the Ancient Life Realm, Chu Ming explained his understanding of how annihilation and creation formed a cycle, leaving his Throneless Void Heart more balanced.

• The Star Kingdom ruler dismissed Ling Jun's accusations against Kane Starfield and granted Chu Ming the official token of a Starry Sky Supervision Envoy.
• Leng Wuya assigned Candle Nether Dao Lord to protect and guide Chu Ming, warning that his methods would expose Chu Ming to deadly trials.
• Candle Nether Dao Lord led Chu Ming into the Annihilation Starsea, where Chu Ming endured annihilation storms and a Nirvana Star Beast while collecting an Annihilation Black Lotus.
• After Chu Ming survived the Annihilation Starsea, Candle Nether Dao Lord took him to the Ancient Life Realm and asked him to explain the relationship between life, death, creation, and annihilation.
• Chu Ming described annihilation as a clearing and settling that enabled new life, and Candle Nether Dao Lord accepted his answer as Chu Ming's Throneless Void Heart harmonized life energy with annihilating essence.

Chu Ming completed Candle Nether Dao Lord’s training in the spacetime fault and began his first independent Supervision Envoy mission in the Black Mist Star Domain. His investigation uncovered a trail linking Genesis Plan remnants to Elder Mo Heng, and after surviving an assassination attempt, Chu Ming submitted a top-secret report to Leng Wuya and the Supervision Hall’s highest review council.

• Chu Ming endured the spacetime fault’s dangers under Candle Nether Dao Lord’s guidance, and Candle Nether Dao Lord ended his probation and assigned him an independent mission.
• Chu Ming inspected the Black Mist Star Domain, enforced Star Kingdom law against the Ashen Family and other local powers, and stabilized much of the region.
• Chu Ming found anomalous black grit at a dark crystal mine and traced its transport through Stardust Mining to Deep Space Heritage Management and Elder Mo Heng.
• Chu Ming continued investigating despite missing records, a vanished informant, and pressure from the Elders' Council Secretariat.
• An attacker struck Chu Ming’s ship with a Dao Heart realm beam, but Candle Nether Dao Lord intervened and the assailant fled.
• Chu Ming compiled evidence linking Mo Heng to the Genesis Plan cover-up, Old Man Kongxuan’s murder, and the Shepherd, then sent his report to Leng Wuya and the Supervision Hall’s highest review council.

After helping the Star Kingdom remove Elder Mo Heng, Chu Ming pursued the Blood Butcher in the Shifting Sands Starfield and uncovered a talisman tied to the Spatial Glass Relic. He entered the dangerous spatial ruin and began crossing it with ease, while rival Supervision Envoys and other factions watched.

• Chu Ming presented evidence against Elder Mo Heng, and the supreme council stripped Mo Heng of his elder status and purged his faction.
• Leng Wuya gave Chu Ming an Origin Secrets dossier that led to a mission in the Shifting Sands Starfield, where Chu Ming rejected Ling Jun’s offer to share the credit.
• Chu Ming tracked Blood Butcher to a hidden fortress, defeated him, and found a black talisman bearing a symbol linked to the Shepherd.
• The talisman revealed the entrance to the Spatial Glass Relic, drawing Chu Ming and powerful factions to the spatial ruin.
• Chu Ming crossed the relic’s dangerous spatial hazards using his Return-to-Void Force Field while Ling Jun and the other arrivals observed.

Chu Ming discovered that the Spatial Glass Relic held the Origin Star Core, a creation force paired with his Return-to-Ruin Pearl, and began considering how to balance the two. He then led a mission to suppress the Purple Moon Alliance rebellion, exposing Zhou Qiming’s betrayal and arriving at Moonlight Palace as Ge Lu attacked the royal family.

• Chu Ming rescued Xuanyuan Zhi from a mirror formation, accepted her clan’s token, and found that the relic’s core gate resonated with his Return-to-Ruin Pearl.
• The Candle Nether Dao Lord identified the opposing force as the Origin Star Core and warned Chu Ming that pursuing it before mastering his Dao could destroy him; Leng Wuya advised him to seek balance between creation and annihilation.
• Chu Ming assembled Xuan Zhong, Bai Shuo, and Ink Feather aboard the Lone Falcon, ordered a covert operation against the rebels, and exposed Zhou Qiming’s betrayal.
• Bai Shuo located the royal family beneath Moonlight Palace while Chu Ming and Ink Feather infiltrated Ge Lu’s battleship, discovered Ge Lu had gone to the palace, and rushed after him.
• Chu Ming disrupted Ge Lu’s attack on the royal fortress and used his Return-to-Void Force Field to annihilate Barong and his personal guards.

Chu Ming infiltrated the Crystalhorn Clan’s Sanctuary, stole proof of its Void Enslavement Plan, and barely escaped a Dao Lord’s pursuit after Lei Shuo sacrificed himself to buy him time. Recovering in Candle Nether Dao Lord’s vitality pool, Chu Ming began preparing to condense his true heart, rejected an illusion urging him to abandon his chosen path, and faced the start of his breakthrough.

• Chu Ming killed Ge Lu, ended the rebellion on Bright Moon Star, and discovered Crystalhorn Homeworld coordinates in Ge Lu’s memories.
• Chu Ming redirected the Lone Falcon to the Crystalhorn homeworld, infiltrated its Sanctuary, and copied evidence of the Crystalhorn Clan’s pact with the Shepherd and its Void Enslavement Plan.
• A Crystalhorn Dao Lord detected Chu Ming in the secret vault, and Lei Shuo intercepted its attack while Chu Ming fled through the mother planet.
• Ink Feather and Bai Shuo guided Chu Ming through the planet’s defenses, while Xuan Zhong used the Lone Falcon to open an escape route.
• Chu Ming created the Void Return-to-Ruin Domain to disrupt the Dao Lord’s lock, escaped through a spatial jump, and lost consciousness after the Dao Lord struck him.
• Chu Ming recovered in Candle Nether Dao Lord’s vitality pool and began preparing to condense his true heart, then rejected an illusion of his past and affirmed that his path was his own.

Chu Ming achieved the Sovereign True Heart Realm and led his team through a dangerous scouting mission, destroying a relay hub tied to the Void Enslavement Plan and obtaining a fragment with creation energy. Following a lead to Star-Burial Sea, the Lone Falcon was wrecked by a life-and-death storm, leaving Chu Ming and his injured teammates stranded amid the ruins.

• Chu Ming resisted a barrage of heart demons and condensed his formless heart into the Chaos True Heart, achieving the second realm of Sovereign.
• Leng Wuya assigned Chu Ming as a vanguard scout commander in the Broken Blade Operation, and Chu Ming identified a trap in the Crystalhorn Clan’s defenses and altered the Lone Falcon’s route.
• Chu Ming’s team escaped a Crystalhorn Clan ambush, exposed Ling Jun’s compromised intelligence, and rescued themselves from the encirclement.
• Chu Ming and Ink Feather infiltrated a secondary relay hub, fought a late True Heart realm attacker, destroyed the hub’s prism, and recovered a creation-energy fragment.
• After Candle Nether Dao Lord pointed him toward Star-Burial Sea, Chu Ming ordered the Lone Falcon there, but a life-and-death storm tore the ship apart and injured the team.
• Chu Ming woke amid the wreckage and helped Ink Feather free the badly injured Xuan Zhong.

Chu Ming survived Moros's ambush, claimed the Balance Stone, and returned to the Crystalhorn battlefield, where he reached the consummate True Heart realm and exposed Ling Jun's betrayal. He seized the Myriad Phenomena Star Map from the Crystalhorn sanctuary and escaped as the enemy defenses collapsed.

• Chu Ming's team crossed the ruins and joined forces with Lancelot and Xuanyuan Zhi to fight Moros, whose altar trapped the three groups.
• Chu Ming briefly balanced creation and annihilation through his Chaos True Heart, weakening Moros's attack and allowing the others to drive him away; the Balance Stone then drifted into Chu Ming's hand.
• After reaching the Crystalhorn battlefield, Chu Ming led a spearhead assault that broke through the Ironwall fortress's combined shield, then followed false intelligence into a trap.
• In the ambush, Chu Ming's Chaotic True Heart became complete, raising him to the consummate True Heart realm; he destroyed the formation, killed the Crystalhorn Clan general, and exposed Ling Jun's collusion.
• Chu Ming and his companions fought into the Crystalhorn sanctuary, where he opened the vault and took the Myriad Phenomena Star Map, then retreated as the homeworld's defenses collapsed.

Chu Ming and the Lone Falcon rescued Forest Sea Star from Shepherd’s forces, and the World Tree helped him begin to reconcile destruction and creation into a path that embraced all laws. At the Myriad Phenomena Heaven’s gate, his Dao resonated with the gate and awakened the Myriad Paths Stele Forest.

• Chu Ming led the Lone Falcon through the contaminated Void Corridor, where he sensed a conflict between the Return-to-Ruin Pearl’s annihilation and the creation fragment’s vitality.
• The Lone Falcon found Shepherd’s forces contaminating Forest Sea Star and its World Tree, so Chu Ming attacked the mothership with a sphere combining annihilation and creation.
• The World Tree caught Chu Ming as he fell and stabilized his injuries; the survivors gave him an amulet that helped clarify his Dao as one of embracing chaos and evolving all things.
• Chu Ming led his team to the Myriad Phenomena Heaven’s gate, where Lancelot, Xuanyuan Zhi, and a Demon Race youth displayed their Daos before the guardian spirit.
• When the guardian spirit questioned the foundation of his vague Dao, Chu Ming explained how annihilation and creation formed the path of chaos embracing all and evolving the myriad realms.
• The gate’s Dao-rhythms resonated with Chu Ming, hundreds of paths illuminated around him, and the Myriad Paths Stele Forest stirred.

Chu Ming entered the Myriad Dao Remnant Domain, survived a dangerous encounter with an Extreme Emotion Sword Dao fragment, and joined Xuanyuan Zhi and Xuanyuan Lan. At Dao-Mark Valley, he clarified his path and began condensing the embryonic Chaos Dao Seed, moving closer to the Dao Heart Realm.

• Chu Ming passed through the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Gate and was sent alone to the Myriad Dao Remnant Domain, where he recognized the danger of its shattered Dao laws.
• Chu Ming contacted an Extreme Emotion Sword Dao fragment, nearly succumbed to its grief and fury, and used the blessing from the Candle Nether Dao Lord to steady his mind and escape.
• Chu Ming rescued Xuanyuan Zhi and Xuanyuan Lan from a Devouring Demonic Dao fragment, then agreed to travel with them through the remnant domain.
• Chu Ming and his companions endured a violent Dao-law storm and reached Dao-Mark Valley, where they listened to the ancient sermon at the azure stele.
• Chu Ming realized that his Chaos True Heart should command and selectively absorb the myriad Daos, and an embryonic Chaos Dao Seed began to form within him.

Chu Ming survived the Myriad Phenomena Source Pool and formed a Chaos Dao Heart, then learned that the World Purification Operation against the Shepherd was beginning. Before joining the final assault, he headed for the Ancient Burial Star Ruins to seek materials to upgrade the damaged Nirvana Blade Soul, where Lancelot and the Arcane Clan also pursued their own prize.

• Moros and the Shepherd cultists attacked the prodigies at the Myriad Phenomena Source Pool, and Chu Ming drew Moros's attention before being blasted into its chaotic currents.
• Chu Ming's Chaos Dao Seed shattered under the Source Pool's myriad laws, then reformed into a Chaos Dao Heart as he absorbed and mastered the surrounding energies.
• Chu Ming emerged from the Source Pool, destroyed Moros and nearby cultists, and received a World Seed from the inheritance.
• Leng Wuya's urgent message summoned Chu Ming to the World Purification Operation, but Chu Ming decided to upgrade the damaged Nirvana Blade Soul first.
• Chu Ming's crew identified the Ancient Burial Star Ruins as a likely source of Void Star Marrow and Return-to-Void Iron, while Lancelot revealed that the Arcane Clan was also seeking the Void Star Marrow.
• Chu Ming followed the Arcane Clan starship toward the Ancient Burial Star Ruins, guiding the Lone Falcon through dangerous spatial anomalies.

Chu Ming found an incomplete Myriad Puppet Source Text and a damaged ancient puppet in the ruins, then obtained a Stellar Core, Void Star Marrow, and another text fragment while eliminating a Shepherd outpost. After learning that a Mirage Nebula could provide the Spirit Pivot Seed needed to give a puppet intelligence, he set the Lone Falcon’s course for its estimated coordinates.

• Chu Ming infiltrated the ancient ruins, collected Return-to-Void Iron residue, and discovered the Myriad Puppet Source Text and an advanced puppet wreckage.
• Chu Ming learned that a Stellar Core was needed to refine the Undying Puppet Body and traveled to the Collapsing Stellar Core region.
• Chu Ming confronted the Yuwen Family fleet over a dying star and detected a concealed Shepherd outpost monitoring the area.
• Chu Ming and Ink Feather infiltrated the outpost, defeated its priest, and triggered an explosion that helped produce the Stellar Core.
• Chu Ming seized the Stellar Core, found Void Star Marrow and another Myriad Puppet Source Text fragment, then escaped the region aboard the Lone Falcon.
• Chu Ming learned that a Mirage Nebula could provide a Spirit Pivot Seed and ordered the Lone Falcon to its estimated coordinates.

Chu Ming secured the Mirage Dragon King's Spirit Pivot Seed by freeing it from the Shepherd's corruption, then followed a memory fragment to infiltrate the Shepherd's secret base in the Abyss Corridor. He and his teammates reached the core experimental zone and disabled the crystal gate's defenses, leaving them poised to enter.

• Chu Ming guided the Lone Falcon into the Mirage Nebula, located a Nebula Mirage Dragon, and fought the Demon Race youth while helping Ink Feather resist an inner-demon illusion.
• A Shepherd priest tried to corrupt and claim the wounded Mirage Dragon, but Chu Ming severed the priest's chains and offered to purify it in exchange for its Spirit Pivot Seed.
• The Mirage Dragon King accepted Chu Ming's offer, gave him its Spirit Pivot Seed, and dissolved into the nebula as the Demon Race youth and Shepherd priest retreated.
• Chu Ming recovered a memory fragment revealing the Shepherd's secret experimental base and its perfect-level Dao Heart, then led Xuan Zhong, Bai Shuo, and Ink Feather into the Abyss Corridor.
• Chu Ming's team evaded spatial traps and patrol puppets, infiltrated the base, and reached the crystal gate leading to its core experimental zone.
• Chu Ming disabled the gate's dark-purple restrictions without triggering the alarm.