Recaps

Liangqiu Xuanyi told Jiang Changkong about the Immortal Palace’s attempt to claim her and proposed cooperating against it. They agreed to work together, beginning with the Sin Domain passage, while keeping their plans partly secret from Nan Tianpang.

• Liangqiu Xuanyi explained that her family had weakened after her grandfather disappeared in the starry sky, leaving her vulnerable to the Immortal Palace’s demands.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi revealed the Immortal Palace’s influence and said it had offered peace and support for her family in exchange for making her its lifelong servant.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi asked Jiang Changkong to draw the Immortal Palace’s attention and promised secret support, including help establishing himself in the Void Realm.
• Jiang Changkong agreed to cooperate if the Immortal Palace was truly involved and requested tangible support, while Liangqiu Xuanyi offered information about a small Star Crystal mine if he completed their next step.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi and Jiang Changkong discussed using the Sin Domain passage to rescue people, then agreed to conceal details of their cooperation from Nan Tianpang and the other major forces.

Liangqiu Xuanyi and her master arranged to use the major factions to confront the Immortal Palace in the Sin Domain, while Jiang Changkong questioned Xuanyi’s motives and strengthened his martial arts. He returned to Ten Thousand Mile City with greater power, still preparing for the Sin Domain and the next day’s match.

• Liangqiu Xuanyi asked her master whether they would give Jiang Changkong a Star Crystal vein, and her master explained that the major factions would join the effort against the Immortal Palace in the Sin Domain.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi agreed to avoid high-rank martial artists in the Sin Domain while her master prepared to leave for the Void Realm.
• Jiang Changkong questioned how Liangqiu Xuanyi knew about the spatial passage and the Immortal Palace, then collected the Star Stones Yao Meng had set aside for him.
• Jiang Changkong went to an uninhabited place and upgraded his martial arts, causing six Force Patterns to appear across his body.
• Jiang Changkong considered the high-rank realms and returned to Ten Thousand Mile City, where he learned that construction of the city was progressing well.

Jiang Changkong continued dominating the selection battles and defeated Sha Jingmo’s powerful team with one move. After his performance drew An Shanhe’s attention, An Shanhe invited him to talk.

• Jiang Changkong defeated his opponents while Yao Meng and Nan Tianpang worried about his upcoming clashes with their families’ prodigies.
• Jiang Changkong studied the Sin Domain map as the slow matches and repechage battles delayed the selection.
• The Federation shortened the rest period and provided treatment and Star Power recovery so the participants could resume fighting sooner.
• Jiang Changkong faced Sha Jingmo and his eight teammates, then used Universe, Shift to scatter their sandstorm and defeat all nine with one move.
• An Shanhe invited Jiang Changkong to talk after the battle, and Jiang Changkong agreed.

Jiang Changkong considered rival factions’ invitations to join them in the Void Realm but deferred choosing until he reached the high ranks. After the competition ended, he prepared to enter the Sin Domain, where he and the other contestants would compete for tokens and a mysterious first-place reward.

• An Shanhe and Nan Yanyang invited Jiang Changkong to ally with their factions in the Void Realm, but Jiang Changkong postponed his decision.
• Jiang Changkong returned to the competition and, six days later, earned a Sin Token as one of the ten selected contestants.
• An Shanhe explained the one-month Sin Domain contest and its rewards, then ordered the contestants to gather the next morning.
• Yao Meng gave Jiang Changkong information about the Federation and major-power geniuses, including Heng Qingyue and Heng Xueyue.
• Jiang Changkong and the three families’ eight contestants departed for the Sin Domain the following morning.

Jiang Changkong traveled with the Federation expedition to Sin Domain and arrived at Sin City after refusing to form an alliance. The seven elderly residents attacked him on sight, and he repelled them with a burst of golden light.

• An Shanhe introduced the starship, briefed the martial artists on Sin Domain, and told them to check their Sin Tokens and prepare maps.
• Jiang Changkong refused Heng Xueyue's alliance offer and rejected other groups' terms, choosing to explore alone.
• The starship reached Sin Domain, where An Shanhe received permission from Lin Qin to enter through the golden barrier.
• An Xinghe asked Jiang Changkong to look after the Nan Family, and Jiang Changkong agreed to help if he encountered them in danger.
• Jiang Changkong flew to Sin City and found seven ragged elderly residents, who immediately attacked him.
• Jiang Changkong released golden light that dispersed the attackers' Star Power and sent all seven peak Star Spirits flying.

Jiang Changkong found seven wounded prisoners in Sin City and learned that the Sin Domain overlords had left to set traps. After discovering that one prisoner was Xu Hengzhi, he promised to protect him and set out to confront the overlord who had maimed him.

• Jiang Changkong took the seven prisoners' Sin Tokens and asked them about Xu Hengzhi and Wang Ruiqing.
• The prisoners told Jiang Changkong that Wang Ruiqing had gone with the overlords, while Xu Hengzhi was alive but suffering; Xu Hengzhi then revealed his identity and watched a video of his son Xu Xinghe.
• Xu Hengzhi offered Jiang Changkong his Star Stones, and he and the others explained that Qingfeng Overlord had cut off Xu Hengzhi's arm over a Star Stone.
• Jiang Changkong declared Xu Hengzhi under his protection and carried the seven toward Qingfeng Overlord's territory.
• The seven warned Jiang Changkong that the overlords possessed high-quality sixth-rank weapons, and he wondered whether the Immortal Palace had supplied them.

Jiang Changkong led seven Sin Domain survivors to the Qingfeng Overlord’s hideout and overwhelmed him with a sweeping attack. After freezing Qingfeng in place, he gave Xu Hengzhi a sword to settle the score and warned the martial artists who had followed them.

• Jiang Changkong flew toward a forest hideout with seven guides while martial artists followed from below, and Heng Xueyue chose to avoid him.
• Xu Hengzhi and Xu Xingheng explained that the Sin Domain had ten Overlords left and that implanted instruments could lead killers to their Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong unleashed a storm of sunset blades across the forest, drawing the Qingfeng Overlord into the open.
• The Qingfeng Overlord attacked with Skywind Shadowless, but Jiang Changkong stopped him in midair and handed Xu Hengzhi a sixth-rank longsword.
• Xu Hengzhi cut off Qingfeng’s arm as Jiang Changkong warned the pursuing martial artists against waiting to profit from their fight.

Jiang Changkong robbed thirteen martial artists and killed the Qingfeng Overlord, then investigated whether the Immortal Palace was still hiding in the Sin Domain. He left wondering if he could uncover its underground passage by punching through the island.

• Jiang Changkong forced thirteen martial artists to hand over their Star Stones and Sin Tokens, then sent them away to spread word that he had robbed them.
• Xu Hengzhi killed the mortally wounded Qingfeng Overlord, and Jiang Changkong found a huge cache of unprocessed Star Stones in his Hidden Star Ring.
• Jiang Changkong learned that the Sin Tokens had been issued the previous night and suspected the Immortal Palace people were still in the Sin Domain.
• Xu Hengzhi said there were no known openings underground and explained that Yun Bugui had supposedly been killed by a Star Demon despite his great strength.
• Jiang Changkong considered punching through the island to find the hidden passage, while the six old men brought him 105 Sin Tokens and the collected devices.

Jiang Changkong learned how Sin Domain’s people used a device to locate hidden Star Stones and sent seven survivors to search while he headed alone toward the Star Demon territory. There, he spotted two young women with Lunar Star Power and wondered if one was Heng Moxuan, a Heng Family Overlord.

• Xu Hengzhi explained that the device revealed scenes of people hiding Star Stones and described how Sin Domain’s past massacres had ended under Federation rules.
• Jiang Changkong and the seven survivors found the locations of their Star Stones, including hiding places in trees, rocks, sand, and Star Demon territory.
• Jiang Changkong decided to investigate the Star Demon territory alone, then gave the seven Blazing Sun and Taiji protections and a phone so they could search for Star Stones.
• After recovering his Star Power, Jiang Changkong flew toward the area where peak Star Spirits gathered, hoping to learn the location of the passage from an Overlord or Wang Ruiqing.
• Jiang Changkong saw two young women in moon-white robes with Lunar Star Power and wondered whether they were Heng Family prodigies, including Heng Moxuan.

Jiang Changkong questioned Heng Moxuan and Heng Qingyue, then searched the Sin Domain for its spatial passage and Wang Ruiqing. He left to join Xu Hengzhi after learning that the group had found a stone stele inscribed with star script.

• Heng Moxuan attacked Jiang Changkong over her brother’s death, but Heng Qingyue defended him and explained that the Immortal Palace had caused it.
• Jiang Changkong restrained Heng Moxuan and Heng Qingyue, then learned that the Immortal Palace controlled access to the spatial passage and had taken Wang Ruiqing somewhere in the Sin Domain.
• Jiang Changkong asked the Heng women to share any news and flew off to search for the other overlords, who Heng Moxuan said were well hidden.
• Jiang Changkong encountered Star Demons, destroyed a star array, and found signs that a group had abandoned a settlement before its second array was finished.
• Jiang Changkong borrowed a martial artist’s phone and called Xu Hengzhi, who told him to return because they had found a stone stele inscribed with star script.

Jiang Changkong translated an ancient inscription on a black stone stele and discovered that it concealed an inheritance. When he cut the stele open with the Lunar Sword, a golden pearl revealed visions and a voice describing the Golden Crow and Jade Toad.

• Xu Hengzhi and the other six old men found a black stele covered in star script and gave it to Jiang Changkong.
• Jiang Changkong translated the inscription, which said that the inheritance of immortals and gods was hidden inside the stele.
• Jiang Changkong tested the stele with his blade and fist, then cut it open with the Lunar Sword.
• A golden pearl rolled out, and Jiang Changkong sent Star Power into it, receiving memories and messages.
• An ancient voice described the Golden Crow born upon the sun and the Jade Toad beneath the moon, as images of phoenixes, a parasol tree, a moon laurel, and a woodcutter filled Jiang Changkong's mind.

Jiang Changkong recovered a pearl containing the memories of a powerful martial artist and discovered that it resonated with something hidden on Sin Domain’s isolated island. After failing to find the source beneath the beach, he tracked the bead’s renewed reaction and began drilling into the ground.

• Jiang Changkong learned from the pearl’s memories that a celestial force had consumed the Sun, Moon, and three palaces, and that the martial artist sealed his memories in the pearl inside a stone stele.
• Xu Hengzhi explained that seawater had washed the stele ashore, and Jiang Changkong searched beneath the beach, but the pearl’s resonance faded.
• Jiang Changkong gave the seven people spatial equipment, then found no Sin Domain criminals while searching the island.
• Heng Xueyue told Jiang Changkong that criminals might be hiding underground and warned him that other factions could target him; he rejected her suggestion to join forces and rob them.
• Jiang Changkong noticed the tricolored bead reacting again on the island and drilled into the earth to pursue the moving source.

Jiang Changkong searched the Sin Domain for a fast-moving underground presence while his allies collected Star Stones, then confronted Jin Chen and his group after they attacked the seven old men behind a high-tier barrier. He asked Nan Wuyang to lend him a weapon in exchange for ten Sin Tokens.

• Jiang Changkong spent three days drilling through the Sin Domain in pursuit of a mysterious underground presence but found neither it nor the spatial passage.
• Heng Xueyue, Heng Qingyue, Nan Wuyang, and Yao Chan discussed their failed search and learned that Jiang Changkong had been digging for three days.
• Jin Chen and more than a hundred warriors used a high-tier barrier to attack Xu Hengzhi and the other six old men and demanded their Star Stones and Sin Tokens.
• Heng Xueyue and the others arrived, but Jin Chen's group insisted on fighting and claimed Jiang Changkong carried a treasure.
• Jiang Changkong arrived and, facing Jin Chen's group and their barrier, asked Nan Wuyang to lend him his weapon for ten Sin Tokens.

Jiang Changkong repeatedly struck the high-grade barrier with his Blazing Sun techniques while Jin Chen and the others tried to stop him from breaking through. Half a day passed, the barrier was cracked across a third of its surface, and Jiang Changkong showed no sign of tiring.

• Jiang Changkong borrowed Nan Wuyang’s longsword and warned Jin Chen and the others to leave, then declared that he would kill Jin Chen.
• Jiang Changkong’s Radiant Sun and Blazing Sun strikes made the high-grade barrier ripple and opened tiny cracks in it.
• Jin Chen and the others attacked Jiang Changkong, but his Heaven and Earth, Shift technique reflected their Star Power back at them.
• Jiang Changkong repeatedly used Sunset to widen the barrier’s cracks while Jin Chen urged his group to endure until Jiang ran out of Star Power.
• After half a day of continuous attacks, Jiang Changkong remained strong and cracks covered a third of the barrier, while Jin Chen struggled to stay calm.

Jiang Changkong broke the high-grade barrier after attacking it for a day, then killed Jin Chen and the others who had trapped him. After learning that someone from the Sin Domain had supplied the barrier, he told Nan Wuyang he would return the next day to break through the Sin Domain.

• Jiang Changkong kept striking the barrier for a day as the trapped martial artists pleaded with him to stop, while Jin Chen urged them to fight back.
• Jiang Changkong shattered the barrier and killed Jin Chen, then questioned the remaining geniuses about how the barrier had been brought in.
• A surviving martial artist revealed that someone from the Sin Domain had given Jin Chen the barrier to help him kill Jiang Changkong and the other geniuses.
• Jiang Changkong killed the remaining attackers, collected their equipment and Star Stones, and gave Nan Wuyang ten Sin Tokens for the borrowed longsword.
• Nan Wuyang asked Jiang Changkong to stay with the group for safety, and Jiang Changkong said he would return the next day to break through the Sin Domain.

Jiang Changkong perfected the Spirit Controlling Formula and Blazing Sun Art, then planned to tear through the Sin Domain and search for a way out. As Old Liang explained how he had killed his commander in the Void Realm, he revealed that a Lunar Star Power-filled broken sword had driven him and others mad.

• Jiang Changkong perfected the Spirit Controlling Formula and Blazing Sun Art, strengthening his peak Star Spirit cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong collected Star Stones from Xu Hengzhi and the others, learning that half of the stones they had found were missing.
• Jiang Changkong announced that he would tear through the Sin Domain the next day, startling Xu Hengzhi and the seven men.
• Jiang Changkong asked the men how they had entered the Sin Domain, and Old Liang admitted he had killed his commander.
• Old Liang said a broken sword filled with Lunar Star Power had made him lose his mind and led him to kill seventeen people, including an early Star Embryo commander.

Jiang Changkong learned the route to the vanished site where Old Liang had found the Lunar Broken Sword, then traveled to the Sin Domain to meet the gathered prodigies. He rejected their offer to give him first place, agreed to divide captured criminals by who found them first, and arranged to exchange unprocessed Star Stones for processed ones.

• Old Liang told Jiang Changkong that a Star Body warrior had killed himself after finding the broken sword, uttering the words “Woodcutter, Jade Toad,” and then gave him the route to the vanished site.
• Jiang Changkong decided to learn more star script before visiting the site and went with Xu Hengzhi and the others to Sin City the next morning.
• Nan Wuyang presented two proposals for sharing the benefits of the Sin Domain expedition, but Jiang Changkong rejected the offer to claim first place without competing.
• Jiang Changkong accepted the rule that whoever found a criminal first would claim them and required the prodigies to exchange unprocessed Star Stones for processed ones.
• Jiang Changkong told the prodigies not to harm his seven companions and handed them his spatial ring to conduct the exchanges.
• Nan Wuyang asked Jiang Changkong what they would do about the Star Demon region.

Jiang Changkong planned a careful push through the Sin Domain, then used the exchanged Star Stones to advance his martial arts into the high tier. His breakthrough shook the island and produced six terrifying golden, dragonlike forms, while the people underground and on the surface struggled to understand what had happened.

• Jiang Changkong told Nan Wuyang, Heng Qingyue, Yao Chan, and the other prodigies to block the seawater and push three thousand meters into the Sin Domain for three days.
• Jiang Changkong exchanged 389 remaining people for Star Stones, then went to the Star Demon region to advance his martial arts.
• Jiang Changkong's breakthrough unleashed immense Star Power, blood energy, and strange roars that shook the entire Sin Domain.
• Six golden, dragonlike forms appeared in the sky, prompting the martial artists to fear that high-tier creatures had emerged.
• The man in black questioned the nine people underground about high-tier lifeforms and treasures, then decided to keep watch.
• An Shanhe and Lin Qin were both missing from outside the isolated island.

Jiang Changkong transformed into a Star Embryo martial artist and rapidly advanced to the late Star Embryo Stage by upgrading all seven martial arts. He then headed toward the beach, planning to give the geniuses three days to find what he wanted before flattening the Sin Domain himself.

• Jiang Changkong underwent a Star Embryo transformation, replacing his blood and bones as his six Force Patterns became powerful dragons.
• Jiang Changkong examined his enhanced martial arts, including the Three-Zhang Golden Body, Taiji Yin-Yang Art, Tyrant Saber, and Spirit Controlling Formula.
• Jiang Changkong upgraded all seven martial arts and advanced first to the middle Star Embryo Stage, then to the late Star Embryo Stage.
• Jiang Changkong noticed that a day had passed and decided to honor his promise to give the others three days to find what he sought.
• Jiang Changkong flew toward the beach to reassure the geniuses, intending to flatten the Sin Domain if they failed to find it.

Jiang Changkong calmed the frightened martial artists with a fabricated explanation for the Golden Dragons, then learned from Yao Chan that their group might face an ambush while searching for the spatial passage. He spent two days using the Spirit Controlling Formula to collect Star Stones across the island and deep underground, until a blood-red presence caused him severe pain.

• Jiang Changkong told the frightened martial artists that an enormous star array had created the disturbance, and Yao Chan privately doubted his explanation.
• Yao Chan asked Jiang Changkong to protect Yao Meng and help delay any attackers while the group sought the spatial passage and a chance to contact their family experts.
• Jiang Changkong used the Spirit Controlling Formula to search underground and draw Star Stones to himself without alerting the other martial artists.
• Jiang Changkong searched the island and dug up Star Stones as deep as five hundred meters, filling several Hidden Star Rings without finding the hidden group.
• Jiang Changkong sensed a blood-red flash underground, suffered intense pain, and withdrew his Star Power.

Jiang Changkong discovered a dangerous, moving Blood Qi Palace beneath the Sin Domain and began clearing the earth to find it. He brought the prodigies along to share in the search, while the Sin Domain’s hidden martial artists learned that he was flattening their domain.

• Jiang Changkong identified the palace he had glimpsed as the Blood Qi Palace and realized it had injured him despite his late Star Embryo cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong told Yao Chan and the other prodigies about the moving palace and ordered the workers to withdraw.
• Jiang Changkong unleashed his Blazing Sun Star Power, erased thousands of meters of earth, and stunned the witnesses with his strength.
• Jiang Changkong persuaded the prodigies to help search for the palace and promised that each person could claim a share through their own ability.
• Jiang Changkong continued evaporating the ground until the group reached the Sin Domain’s protective shield.
• Wang Ruiqing reported to the hidden martial artists that a powerful expert was flattening the Sin Domain.

Jiang Changkong devastated the Sin Domain and struck a deal with the other prodigies, promising to let them hunt criminals for four days in exchange for weapon materials and Mechas. The chapter ended with Heng Xueyue suspecting he had set them up because powerful enemies might be waiting in the Sin Domain.

• Wang Ruiqing and Heng Moxuan discussed Jiang Changkong’s rampage while the man in black prepared potions for Heng Moxuan and the other martial artists to reach the high tier.
• Jiang Changkong returned to the prodigies and offered them four days to hunt criminals before he resumed acting, in exchange for an IOU.
• Heng Qingyue and Nan Wuyang agreed to provide seventh-rank low-grade materials for Jiang Changkong and Jiang Changyue’s weapons.
• Luo Wen and the other prodigies agreed to provide three seventh-rank low-grade Mechas, and they recorded Jiang Changkong’s promise not to intervene unless they begged him.
• Heng Xueyue questioned why Jiang Changkong had been so accommodating and suspected he knew high-tier martial artists were in the Sin Domain.

Jiang Changkong faced five newly arrived high-ranking opponents, including Heng Moxuan and members of the Nan Family, after their breakthrough drew the prodigies’ relatives to the isolated island. As they attacked, Heng Moxuan secretly warned him that Wang Ruiqing was alive and watching, then asked whether he remembered Yun Bugui.

• Heng Xueyue warned the prodigies that high-ranking martial artists might be lurking in the Sin Domain, while Jiang Changkong continued leveling the isolated island.
• Four Star Embryos appeared as the island shook, and their arrival revealed that Heng Moxuan, Nan Family’s Fourth Uncle, Professor Yu, and a golden-robed man had broken through.
• The golden-robed man confronted Jiang Changkong over Jin Chen’s death, while Heng Moxuan and the others sent the younger martial artists away.
• Jiang Changkong flicked the golden-robed man’s sword aside and sent him flying, prompting the four remaining opponents to attack together.
• Heng Moxuan secretly told Jiang Changkong that Wang Ruiqing was alive and monitoring the area, urged him to escape, and asked if he remembered Yun Bugui.

Jiang Changkong defeated Heng Moxuan and the other martial artists, then learned that the Immortal Palace was searching underground and planned to use Wang Ruiqing. The Immortal Palace reviewed footage of Jiang Changkong’s cloud martial art and wondered whether a powerful faction stood behind him.

• Jiang Changkong trapped Heng Moxuan and learned the spatial passage’s location, that Wang Ruiqing was inside it, and that Immortal Palace agents were searching underground.
• Heng Moxuan said she was infiltrating the Immortal Palace to return to the Heng Family, and Jiang Changkong defeated her with Piercing Clouds, Breaking the Moon.
• Jiang Changkong killed the golden-robed martial artist, defeated the remaining attackers, and told the survivors he would take the Mecha when he left.
• Heng Moxuan and the others handed over their spatial equipment, but Jiang Changkong found no Star Stones and let them go.
• The black-clad man watched Wang Ruiqing’s recordings of the battle and concluded that Jiang Changkong had advanced Yun Bugui’s Nine Heavens Nine Clouds Art to at least the Star Embryo level.

Jiang Changkong subdued the Immortal Palace man in black and unleashed a devastating strike that destroyed much of Sin Domain while killing a peak-stage Star Embryo. He then began forcing the surviving captive to reveal what the Immortal Palace was seeking.

• Wang Ruiqing warned the man in black that Jiang Changkong was preparing to level Sin Domain, and the man in black left to confront him.
• Jiang Changkong used the Spirit Controlling Formula to make the late-stage Star Embryo kneel and crawl, then demanded to know what the Immortal Palace was looking for.
• Jiang Changkong sensed a peak-stage Star Embryo moving underground and used Sunset to kill him, destroying much of Sin Domain and cracking its barrier.
• Jiang Changkong reflected that his attack had reached early-stage Star Body combat strength, though he still could not match a true Star Body martial artist.
• Jiang Changkong began seizing the captive's soul, and the terrified man in black agreed to talk.