Recaps

After killing an Immortal Palace Star Dao martial artist, Jiang Changkong learned more about Star Dao and the Immortal Palace’s forces. With further attacks on the Immortal Palace too dangerous, he planned to target the Star Demons for resources and advance toward Star Dao.

• Jiang Changkong gave the defeated young man’s corpse to the Nether Dragon and learned that the Nether Dragon had borne only five percent of the Great Dao.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon discussed their strength, and Jiang Changkong resolved to teach the dragon more about cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong left the Immortal Palace stronghold with Liangqiu Xuanyi, Feng Qixing, Feng Xiaoyue, and the Nether Dragon, then counted their Star Crystal gains.
• Jiang Changkong decided to stop attacking the Immortal Palace for now after Liangqiu Xuanyi warned that stronger opponents could arrive.
• Feng Qixing explained the Star Market and the Star Demons who ruled it, but Jiang Changkong chose to seek resources by killing Star Demons instead.

Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon hunted Star Demons while traveling toward an Immortal Palace ruin, and Jiang Changkong completed two martial arts during a brief retreat. When Liangqiu Xuanyi revealed that her master could expose their location to the Immortal Palace, Jiang Changkong parted ways with her and the Feng siblings and continued toward the ruin with Nether Dragon.

• Jiang Changkong led Feng Qixing, Feng Xiaoyue, Liangqiu Xuanyi, and Nether Dragon southeast, killing Star Demons and gathering Star Crystals and Star Stones along the way.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi told Jiang Changkong that her master wanted him to destroy more Immortal Palace strongholds in exchange for Force Patterns and Lunar and Solar Star Power research materials, but Jiang Changkong refused.
• After ten days of hunting, Jiang Changkong secluded himself and completed Sacred Sun Art and Tyrant Saber, strengthening his power before the journey to the ruin.
• Feng Xiaoyue and Feng Qixing urged the group to abandon the ruin after Liangqiu Xuanyi warned that her master could reveal their location to the Immortal Palace.
• Jiang Changkong released Liangqiu Xuanyi and the Feng siblings, then returned to Nether Dragon and set off with it toward the ruin.

Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon secretly watched Lin Suyun prepare a grand array to open the ruins while rival Star Dao martial artists confronted the Immortal Palace. After the Heavenly Water Grand Array opened a portal, both groups entered, followed unseen by Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon.

• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon hid near the mountain as Lin Suyun inscribed a star array and four Immortal Palace martial artists waited nearby.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi told Lin Suyun that Jiang Changkong had gone to the Star Market, while Jiang Changkong secretly heard their conversation through his soul power.
• Shui Qin and three Star Dao martial artists arrived, but agreed with the Immortal Palace group to postpone their conflict until after exploring the ruins.
• Lin Suyun and Shui Qin completed the Heavenly Water Grand Array, opening an azure vortex.
• Lin Suyun and the Immortal Palace martial artists entered the vortex, followed by Shui Qin and her companions, then Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon.

Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon followed Shui Qin and three other Star Dao warriors through an ocean filled with powerful aquatic beasts. After the warriors discovered that the whales used Sea Clan techniques and might lead them to an inheritance, they pursued two fleeing whales as those creatures summoned reinforcements.

• Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon found that the seawater was saturated with water Dao Rhythm and encountered a powerful Star Dao whale.
• They watched Shui Qin and three Starry Sky Remnants battle three whales, whose attacks revealed they knew Sea Clan martial techniques.
• Shui Qin suspected the ocean held a Sea Clan ruin, and the warriors killed one whale before the other two fled deeper into the sea.
• Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon secretly followed the warriors, growing concerned as the water Dao Rhythm intensified.
• The two fleeing whales called for companions, and Jiang Changkong pulled Nether Dragon back while hoping the warriors could withstand what came next.

Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon followed Shui Qin’s group and Lin Suyun’s party to the Sea Clan Royal Palace, where Shui Qin guided them through its dangerous coral forest. The group was trapped when they tried to leave, and Jiang Changkong’s golden strike killed a green attacker, whose poisonous stench filled the water.

• Shui Qin used the Sea Clan Heavenly Sound to drive away the whales surrounding her group, and Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon followed them onward.
• Shui Qin found Lin Suyun and five companions, who revealed an azure pearl that raised the Sea Clan Royal Palace from the seabed.
• Shui Qin and Lin Suyun agreed to cooperate and entered the palace barrier together with their companions.
• Shui Qin traced a safe route through the coral forest with blue light, warning the others not to step off it.
• Lin Suyun tried to leave after the group gave no explanation about a passing shadow, but the floor shook and a green creature attacked.
• A golden flash split the creature in two, and its foul stench revealed that it was poisonous.

Lin Suyun and the other Immortal Palace martial artists were trapped by corpse-poisonous creatures and discovered the azure pearl could protect only one person. Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon entered the coral forest, where Nether Dragon fed on the dead creatures, and Shui Qin’s confidence faltered when a gray snake bit her ankle.

• A severed Frogman released corpse poison, and Lin Suyun used the azure pearl to absorb it.
• Frogmen attacked with poisonous water arrows, but the pearl protected only one person, forcing Lin Suyun and the others into the coral forest.
• Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon followed them into the forest, where Nether Dragon devoured Frogmen and sea snakes for nourishment.
• Lin Suyun’s group used the pearl to protect one Star Dao martial artist while the others endured the growing poison.
• Shui Qin taunted Lin Suyun and claimed the dead creatures would not attack her, but a gray snake suddenly bit her ankle.

Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon lured Lin Suyun’s group to Shui Qin’s group, hoping the two sides would weaken each other. After a fierce battle poisoned them all, the groups stopped and began discussing cooperation, with Lin Suyun demanding to know why Shui Qin had a token.

• The Nether Dragon’s attempt to poison Shui Qin failed, so Jiang Changkong told it to lead Lin Suyun’s group toward Shui Qin’s group instead.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon tied sea snakes together as a rope and dragged it to guide Lin Suyun’s group through the coral thickets.
• Lin Suyun’s group confronted Shui Qin’s group, and the two sides exchanged powerful attacks that released corpse poison and injured everyone.
• Both groups stopped fighting and used their pearls to purge the corpse poison after it began corroding their Dao patterns.
• Lin Suyun agreed that cooperation might be possible but questioned Shui Qin’s token, and Shui Qin replied that there had been two tokens from the start.

Lin Suyun and Shui Qin joined forces to enter the sea clan royal palace, while Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon followed them. They found the halls empty and reached the Sea Dragon Hall, where another empty chamber left the groups suspicious of one another.

• Lin Suyun agreed to split the treasure equally with Shui Qin, who taught her the sea clan secret art.
• The two groups opened the royal palace with their pearls and found an empty hall with three passageways.
• Lin Suyun and Shui Qin chose the middle passage, while Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon followed behind and read murals describing the Thirteen Eastern Sea Domains.
• The groups worked together to break through traps and arrived at the Sea Dragon Hall.
• Shui Qin opened the inner hall, but it was empty, and she and Lin Suyun accused each other of taking the missing treasures.

Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon watched the martial artists fight over the apparently empty Sea Dragon palace, where Shui Qin revealed a powerful Sea Dragon corpse. Beneath the palace, they discovered Merfolk King City, a deathly underground city tied to the Nether Dragon’s Yellow Springs lineage.

• The nine martial artists searched the Sea Dragon Halls but found nothing, and Lin Suyun exposed that Shui Qin’s pearl could open the inner door too.
• The Immortal Palace group and Shui Qin’s allies fought, and Jiang Changkong suspected Shui Qin had emptied the palace beforehand.
• The battle split the palace open, releasing a Sea Dragon corpse that Shui Qin commanded against the Immortal Palace martial artists.
• The Nether Dragon took Jiang Changkong into a fissure beneath the palace, where they found Merfolk King City and the Nether Dragon sensed Yellow Springs lineage formations and Nether Soil.

Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon found Star Crystals beneath Merfolk King City, then discovered a living Merfolk King being nurtured by a formation. They withdrew from the palace and continued searching underground for Star Crystals.

• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon gathered numerous Star Crystals beneath Merfolk King City, including tenth-tier crystals of different attributes.
• The pair surfaced and found the city filled with corpses; the star formation blasted the Nether Dragon back and cleaved Jiang Changkong in two when they tried to approach them.
• The Nether Dragon carried the wounded Jiang Changkong toward the city's center, where they found the Merfolk King lying alive above a formation that drew in corpse qi and death qi.
• When sea snakes approached, the Nether Dragon retreated with Jiang Changkong and explained that the Merfolk King was using a Yellow Springs formation to nurture life through death.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon left the palace area and resumed searching underground for more Star Crystals.

Jiang Changkong used Nether Dragon’s treasure and his upgrade points to enter the Star Dao Realm, advancing all seven martial arts and Great Daos. After uncovering new insights into the Great Dao, he sensed a figure condensing within his Star Gate.

• Jiang Changkong processed Star Crystals until he had 372.4 million upgrade points, then asked Nether Dragon to keep its distance while he cultivated in seclusion.
• Jiang Changkong advanced his seven martial arts and Great Daos into the Star Dao Realm, strengthening his senses and the Battle Body Star Array Diagram.
• Jiang Changkong glimpsed pure Great Dao imprints within sunlight and realized that a drop of Star Power could carry a complete Great Dao, but his attempt to do so failed.
• Jiang Changkong learned that his martial arts had transformed into new scriptures and techniques, including the Immortal Golden Body, Heaven Controlling Scripture, and Death Sky Saber.
• Jiang Changkong sensed the entire sea race relic without being detected, and a figure began condensing within his Star Gate.

Jiang Changkong learned that the Wind Line needed him to open a dangerous place with a key, then strengthened six of his martial arts while in seclusion. After emerging, he discovered that Shui Qin and Lin Suyun had betrayed their allies during the battle between the Immortal Palace and the Starry Sky Remnants—and were actually one person.

• Jiang Changkong's seven Great Daos suppressed a near-god's soul projection, which then told him to help the Wind Line open a stone box and hand over its key.
• The near-god warned Jiang Changkong that opening the place would be dangerous and revealed that the Shark King was recovering and would not trouble him.
• Jiang Changkong kept the near-god's contact imprints and spent his Essence, Qi, and Spirit to advance six martial arts to the middle Star Dao stage.
• After seven days of seclusion, Jiang Changkong sensed that Shui Qin and Lin Suyun had poisoned their exhausted allies during the battle.
• Shui Qin and Lin Suyun merged into one person, captured five victims, and revealed their strength at the limit of the early Star Dao stage.

Lin Suyun tried to possess the recovering Merfolk King with a damaged dagger that could harm a near-god. Jiang Changkong entered the Merfolk King’s body to intervene, and the chapter ended as the injured Merfolk King faced Jiang Changkong’s descending soul.

• Lin Suyun brought five Star Dao corpses to the Merfolk King’s Palace and used their deathly qi and the sea clan token to prepare to possess the Merfolk King.
• Lin Suyun entered the Merfolk King’s body, and Jiang Changkong followed with the Nether Dragon after using two near-god auras to pass the palace’s defenses.
• Lin Suyun entered the Merfolk King’s Star Gate and stabbed his sleeping soul with a damaged gray dagger that suppressed his Great Dao.
• The Merfolk King awakened and fought back, tearing away part of Lin Suyun’s soul while the dagger wounded him further.
• The Merfolk King looked up as Jiang Changkong’s powerful soul descended into the star.

Jiang Changkong captured Lin Suyun and uncovered her schemes, then helped the Merfolk King remove the soul dagger. After the Merfolk King offered to grant any wish, Jiang Changkong asked to become a near-divine.

• Lin Suyun asked Jiang Changkong to help kill the Merfolk King, but he refused and pursued Lin Suyun for the information in her mind.
• Lin Suyun escaped into her body and attacked Jiang Changkong, but his defenses repelled her and he bound her with his Great Dao of Water.
• Jiang Changkong searched Lin Suyun's soul, learned about her double dealings and past crimes, then sealed her and told the Nether Dragon to guard her for Liangqiu Xuanyi.
• Jiang Changkong returned to the Merfolk King and used the Soul-Anchoring Tree to pull the dagger from her soul.
• The Merfolk King offered to grant Jiang Changkong any wish, and he asked to become a near-divine.

Jiang Changkong received the Yellow Springs inheritance from the Merfolk King and easily killed the Star Dao Realm martial artists waiting outside the ruins. He headed for the Star Market to deal with Liangqiu Xuanyi and the enemies who had tried to possess him, while the Nether Dragon revealed its ambition to build a kingdom of death.

• The Merfolk King passed Jiang Changkong the Yellow Springs cultivation arts, including the Nether Dragon's Yellow Springs Evil Ghost and Yellow Springs Corpse Path methods.
• Jiang Changkong left Merfolk King City with Lin Suyun and the Nether Dragon, then emerged from the Sea Clan ruins into an ambush by eight Star Dao Realm martial artists.
• Jiang Changkong defeated the attackers with the Great Dao of Strength, killed them, and learned through soul-searching that they had planned to possess him.
• Jiang Changkong decided to target the Metal, Water, and Lightning lineages and the Immortal Palace, and set out for the Star Market to find Liangqiu Xuanyi.
• The Nether Dragon urged Jiang Changkong to flatten the Void Realm and said it wanted to build a kingdom of death.

Jiang Changkong destroyed Star Market, killed its Star Path Star Demons, and recruited Liangqiu Xuanyi after revealing that Lin Suyun had killed her grandfather. He ordered the other lines to come face him and began preparing for seclusion as the Nether Dragon cultivated underground.

• Jiang Changkong shattered Star Market’s formation and mountains, then killed its mid-stage and early-stage Star Path Star Demons.
• The Nether Dragon gathered the Star Demons’ remains and souls as the survivors fled.
• Jiang Changkong revealed to Liangqiu Xuanyi that her master, Lin Suyun, had killed her grandfather, and offered her the chance to take revenge in exchange for working for him.
• Jiang Changkong agreed to Feng Qixing’s Wind Line request, told him to notify the other lines, and warned the Gold, Water, and Thunder Lines to come face him.
• The Nether Dragon went underground to cultivate while Jiang Changkong inventoried his Star Crystals and processed his Star Stones and unprocessed Star Crystals.

Jiang Changkong prepared to open the Starry Sky Remnants’ stone box in exchange for resources, but a dispute over the price led him to fight a late-stage Star Dao Star Demon. He reversed most of his opponent’s power and shattered its claw, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Liangqiu Xuanyi burned Lin Suyun to death, and Jiang Changkong fed her extracted soul to the Soul-Anchoring Tree.
• Jiang Changkong decided to travel to the starry sky for golden matter, then counted nearly nine million Essence, Qi, and Spirit from his Star Crystals.
• Feng Xing and other Starry Sky Remnants arrived with a stone box that required Force Pattern, Lunar, and Solar powers to open, and Jiang Changkong said an ancient near-god had told him how.
• Jiang Changkong named four ancient near-gods he knew, then demanded Star Crystals or Star Stones to open the box.
• A late-stage Star Dao Star Demon challenged Jiang Changkong after he dismissed the offer of one hundred thousand ninth-rank middle-grade Star Crystals.
• Jiang Changkong used Taiji Unity to reverse seventy percent of the Star Demon’s power, blowing apart its claw and making it howl in pain.

Jiang Changkong fought the Water, Thunder, and Metal Lineages after they attacked him, overwhelming their Star Path cultivators with Taiji Unity and his Soul Killing Array. He killed a late-stage Thunder Line cultivator and trapped the fleeing survivors beneath clouds that suppressed their Dao power.

• Jiang Changkong expanded his Soul Killing Array to attack the Star Demon, while Feng Xing tried to stop the Water and Thunder Lineages from interfering.
• Jiang Changkong attacked both lineages and the Star Demon after they formed a killing array against him, and the two sides clashed with devastating force.
• Jiang Changkong healed from the injuries and killed several Star Path cultivators, redirecting attacks and crushing their defenses with Taiji Unity.
• Jiang Changkong used Soul Killing Sound to daze the Thunder Line cultivator, then tore him apart and annihilated his life force.
• The surviving Star Path cultivators tried to flee, but Jiang Changkong filled the area with Soul Dao clouds that suppressed their Dao power.

Jiang Changkong defeated the Star Dao martial artists, forced the three lineages to pay for their survival, and took control of the metal, water, and lightning lineages. While preparing to leave Earth for the starry sky, he freed Ye Nan, who revealed how the water lineage had stolen the Sea Clan Ruins map from him.

• Jiang Changkong defeated all thirteen Star Dao martial artists, collected their spoils, and fed their souls to the Soul-Anchoring Tree.
• Feng Xing agreed that the three lineages would provide one million ninth-rank Star Crystals, and Jiang Changkong said the metal, water, and lightning lineages would be wiped out.
• Jiang Changkong altered the surviving members’ memories and made them loyal to Liangqiu Xuanyi, who planned to use them to infiltrate the Immortal Palace and protect his territory.
• Jiang Changkong found Ye Nan imprisoned beneath the water lineage’s territory and freed him after learning that Ye Qiushui had asked him to find Ye Nan.
• Ye Nan explained that the water lineage had tricked him into surrendering his map of the Sea Clan Ruins, then used it to find and plunder the ruins.

Jiang Changkong helped the Wind, Fire, and Earth Lines open their stone box, then advanced to the late Star Dao Realm. He sent Ye Nan and Liangqiu Xuanyi home while he and Nether Dragon prepared to destroy the Immortal Palace Research Palace headquarters and its remaining strongholds.

• Jiang Changkong rescued Ye Nan from the underground river and brought him back to Star Market, where the martial artists of the three lines later arrived with a million Star Crystals and the sealed stone box.
• Feng Xing explained that the box held a key to a Great Dao gateway, and Jiang Changkong and Jiang Changyue opened it with the Three Lights so the three lines could take the key and contact the starry sky.
• After Nether Dragon emerged from seclusion at the middle Star Dao Realm, Jiang Changkong entered seclusion and raised his cultivation to the late Star Dao Realm, covering half of each of his seven stars with Dao patterns.
• Jiang Changkong told Ye Nan and Liangqiu Xuanyi to return home while he and Nether Dragon went to wipe out the Immortal Palace Research Palace headquarters and its remaining strongholds.

Jiang Changkong swept through the Research Palace and Immortal Palace strongholds, then returned to his territory after strengthening his cultivation. When Huo Qinglan reported that the Battle Palace had reappeared, he hurried toward the ruins.

• Jiang Changkong destroyed the Research Palace headquarters, gathered its resources, and spent a month clearing Immortal Palace strongholds and Star Demons from the depths of the void.
• The Nether Dragon advanced to the limit of mid-stage Star Dao, and Jiang Changkong perfected the Immortal Golden Body and Tai Chi True Scripture, each reaching seventy percent of the Great Dao.
• Jiang Changkong returned to his territory, reunited with the three senior sisters, handed information to Professor Yun, and learned that the expeditionary army was returning.
• Jiang Changkong told Ye Nan to handle Sheng Jin with the Nether Dragon, then received Huo Qinglan's message that the Battle Palace had reappeared.
• Jiang Changkong left for the ruins and told Ye Nan to find the Nether Dragon there.

Jiang Changkong reached the six-level Battle Palace and reunited with Huo Qinglan and a group of humans and Star Demons. After killing the Star Demons and a Galaxy Martial Arts Association member, he took three Star Dao martial artists to search for Near-God cultivation techniques, leaving the rest behind.

• Jiang Changkong followed Huo Qinglan's message to the underwater ruin and entered the Battle Palace, where its first three levels had been emptied.
• Jiang Changkong arrived on the fourth level and reunited with Huo Qinglan as Star Demons threatened him.
• Jiang Changkong killed the Star Dao Star Demon and then the other Star Demons, collecting their spatial equipment.
• Jiang Changkong killed a young man from the Galaxy Martial Arts Association and revealed power at the limit of the late Star Dao Realm.
• Jiang Changkong sent six people down to the third level and led Huo Qinglan and three Star Dao martial artists upward to claim Near-God cultivation techniques, requiring the three to give him one share each.

Jiang Changkong traded his chance to receive an Immortal Scripture Fragment for Near-God cultivation techniques, then studied the Great Dao until he devised a way to make his body carry it. The Stellar Expeditionary Army returned before he could develop the idea further, and Jiang Changkong prepared to join the next expedition into the starry sky.

• Jiang Changkong met the body-tempering Near-God, learned that the Gate of the Starry Sky would open a passage to other regions, and exchanged his Immortal Scripture opportunity for a Near-God cultivation technique.
• Jiang Changkong took the six people to the third floor of the Battle Palace, where they each chose a technique; he erased the memories of two who had committed many evil deeds.
• Jiang Changkong gave his three senior sisters techniques suited to their attributes, recorded his collection of twelve complete Near-God techniques, and entered seclusion to study the Great Dao.
• The Nether Dragon, Ye Nan, and three other families joined forces with the Federation to destroy Sheng Jin, then divided its industries with Jiang Changkong among them.
• After half a month of study, Jiang Changkong realized he could inscribe Dao patterns into his body and cultivate a Dao Body, but the Stellar Expeditionary Army returned before he could continue.
• Jiang Changkong left his secret chamber and prepared to join the next expedition into the starry sky.

The expeditionary army returned to the Federation with heavy losses, and Jiang Changkong prepared to leave on a new starry-sky expedition. Before departing, he investigated the spatial rift in Abyss City and found a Sea King’s map pointing to the Sea Clan ancestral land and its immortal and divine treasures.

• Huo Qinglan and Federation officials welcomed Uncle Liu and the returning expeditionary army, learning that only 370 of its 1,500 members had survived a starry-sky storm.
• Jiang Changkong received orders to join the next expedition, scheduled to depart in five days, and reviewed the dangers of the starry sky with Nether Dragon and Ye Nan.
• Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon returned to Earth to investigate the spatial rift in Abyss City, where endless Star Demons emerged.
• Jiang Changkong found a bone fragment bearing a message about the East Sea, the Sea Clan ancestral land, and a coming calamity, then searched the rift with Nether Dragon for more pieces.
• The fragments formed a map left by the Eighth Sea King, a near-god flood dragon whose territory spanned more than a dozen stars and contained the Sea Clan ancestral land.

Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon assembled an ancient star map that pointed toward the Flood Dragon King's palace and the Dragon Clan's whereabouts, then went to the Federation to learn about the starry sky. Liu Mu explained the Starry Sky Gate's threat and said the Federation expected changes in two months.

• Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon pieced together the bones into a map showing Earth and the Eastern Sea, and discovered that the Flood Dragon Palace might reveal the Dragon Clan's whereabouts.
• Jiang Changkong decided to keep the discovery secret, travel into the starry sky, and attempt to comprehend the Dao Body using Nether Dragon's treasure.
• Jiang Changkong, Nether Dragon, and Ye Nan met Huo Qinglan and Liu Mu at the Federation to ask about the starry sky.
• Liu Mu explained that Star Demons occupied many planets, while the Sun and Moon remained uninhabited, and that near-god Star Demons still posed a threat.
• Liu Mu told Jiang Changkong that the Starry Sky Gate could not be shaken even by near-gods and that the Federation expected to learn of changes to it in two months.