Recaps

Jiang Changkong conquered rival territories, entered the Lunar Palace, and gained its treasures before recruiting a team for wilderness reclamation. As he advanced into the Stellar Realm and investigated the Immortal Palace’s agents, he prepared to lead his team into the development competition.

• Jiang Changkong used his soul illusions to defeat the Lin Family and other forces that had taken his Star Crystals, then claimed their territories and arranged for allies to help manage them.
• Jiang Changkong entered the sealed Lunar Palace with Lin Nanfeng, passed its trials with the Jade Toad guardian’s permission, and took the Lunar Broken Sword and other rewards while defeating his pursuers.
• Jiang Changkong helped Old Liang’s family leave the Lin Family, recruited people for Territory No. 53, and announced he would form his own wilderness pioneer squad.
• Jiang Changkong broke through to the early Stellar Realm, hunted Star Demons in the wilderness, and expanded his territory with the resources he gained.
• Jiang Changkong investigated Autumn Water Begonia, who was Ye Qiushui, and recruited her to gather more members for his team as rival organizations promoted their own pioneering squads.
• Jiang Changkong advanced to the mid-stage Stellar Realm and learned that Star Demons were preparing killing arrays deeper in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi identified Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun as Immortal Palace members and gave Jiang Changkong a maze map linked to a near-divine soul martial artist’s treasure.
• Jiang Changkong met Ye Qiushui and the other team members, confirmed their preparations, and told them to follow him to the competition grounds the next day.

Jiang Changkong won the wasteland competition while improving his control of Star Power and resisting attempts by rival associations to recruit or defeat him. After claiming fourteen wastelands, he cultivated new Dao imprints in seclusion and prepared to act with Liangqiu Xuanyi.

• Jiang Changkong defeated Sha Hongtao and Shui Wujiang, then studied Sha Hongtao’s advice on Star Power and learned about a mysterious swordsman who might not be from Earth.
• Jiang Changkong defeated the wind team and Jiang Jiuqiao’s balanced four-attribute array, then won the Overseas Island competition and claimed two territories.
• Jiang Changkong traveled to the exploration battle, killed a golden-robed challenger who attacked him, and raised all eight of his martial arts to Minor Mastery.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi gave Jiang Changkong Immortal Palace research, warned him that the specially approved association would target him, and directed him to lure his opponents to where Ye Nan had disappeared.
• Jiang Changkong had Force Pattern, Solar, and Lunar arrays inscribed on his body, then defeated Tie Yuanlong and advanced through the final-battle competition.
• Jiang Changkong shattered Tianhen’s All-Heavens Star Array and defeated Xing Mang’s incomplete Near-God Killing Array, Gu Yanyu, and Qiu Yun.
• Jiang Changkong defeated Feng Qixing’s Sword Star-Slaying Array and finished first, earning fourteen wasteland plots.
• Jiang Changkong entered seclusion, formed Lunar and Force Pattern Great Dao imprints, then met Liangqiu Xuanyi after four months and asked for two days to collect the processed Star Crystals.

Jiang Changkong seized the Soul and Tyrant Saber inheritances, grew powerful enough to defeat Star Dao opponents, and began raiding Immortal Palace strongholds with his companions. The stretch ended with Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon defeating a young Solar Great Dao martial artist while Jiang Changyue and the others fought outside the maze.

• Jiang Changkong destroyed the ambush in the valley, took Feng Qixing’s Six-Layer Palace, and found a Soul-Anchoring Tree branch inside it.
• Jiang Changkong entered the Star Saint’s tomb, fought the guardian puppet and Immortal Palace martial artists, and claimed the Star Saint’s inheritance pearl.
• Jiang Changkong found a Near-God Man beneath Star Demon territory, received the Soul and Tyrant Saber inheritances, and condensed his soul Star Body.
• Jiang Changkong used the Soul Search Art to learn about the Starry Sky Remnants and Liangqiu Xuanyi’s history, then raided an Immortal Palace stronghold and killed its inhabitants.
• Jiang Changkong cultivated to Stellar Peak, destroyed another stronghold, and joined forces with the Nether Dragon, which had advanced to the Star Dao Realm.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon defeated a Star Dao martial artist at another stronghold, and Jiang Changkong trapped her in the Six-Layer Palace before her Great Dao imprint destroyed her soul.
• Jiang Changyue infiltrated a new stronghold, then Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon broke through its defenses while their companions fought the defenders outside.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon gravely wounded a young Solar Great Dao martial artist in the six-layer maze, and Jiang Changkong searched his dying soul until it exploded.

Jiang Changkong grew stronger through the Sea Clan ruins, crushed the Star Market’s hostile lineages, and dismantled the Immortal Palace’s remaining strongholds. After claiming Near-God techniques and learning of the Eighth Sea King’s map, he prepared to join the next expedition into the starry sky.

• Jiang Changkong followed Lin Suyun and Shui Qin into the Sea Clan ruins, where their rival groups fought through poisoned coral forests and searched the Royal Palace while he and Nether Dragon found Merfolk King City beneath it.
• Jiang Changkong advanced his martial arts and Great Daos, captured Lin Suyun after she tried to possess the Merfolk King, and asked the king to help him become a near-divine in exchange for freeing him from the dagger.
• Jiang Changkong killed the Star Dao martial artists who ambushed him outside the ruins, then returned to Star Market and exposed Lin Suyun’s crimes to Liangqiu Xuanyi, who burned her to death.
• Jiang Changkong defeated the Star Demons and the Gold, Water, and Thunder Lineages’ fighters, arranged for the lineages to provide a million Star Crystals, and freed Ye Nan from the Water Lineage’s prison.
• Jiang Changkong opened the Wind Line’s stone box with the Three Lights, raised his cultivation to the late Star Dao Realm, and destroyed the Immortal Palace Research Palace headquarters and its remaining strongholds.
• Jiang Changkong claimed Near-God cultivation techniques from the Battle Palace, helped the Nether Dragon and Ye Nan destroy Sheng Jin, and began studying how to form a Dao Body before the expeditionary army returned.
• Jiang Changkong and Nether Dragon assembled the Eighth Sea King’s bone fragments into a map of Earth and the Eastern Sea, which pointed to the Flood Dragon Palace and the Sea Clan ancestral land.
• Jiang Changkong kept the map secret and met Huo Qinglan and Liu Mu at the Federation, where he learned that the next expedition would depart in five days and the Starry Sky Gate could not be moved even by near-gods.