Chapter Summaries

Jiang Changkong unleashed the Lunar Cold Qi to defeat a drug-empowered middle-aged Star Spirit, but the power froze him as well. After recovering, he explored Lunar Lake, took the man’s spatial equipment, and left to recuperate while considering his next move against the three families.

• The middle-aged man drank a potion and unleashed overwhelming Star Power, but Jiang Changkong drew out the Moon Laurel Leaves’ Lunar Cold Qi.
• Jiang Changkong and the middle-aged man were frozen, and the spreading sword qi killed the man and froze people hiding nearby.
• Jiang Changkong survived as his Lunar Star Power absorbed the ice around him, then entered Lunar Lake to absorb more power without disturbing the Star Demons.
• Jiang Changkong took the middle-aged man’s spatial ring and jade pendant, which contained potions and thousands of fifth-rank Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong left to recover from his injuries and considered whether to target the three families after healing.

Jiang Changkong recovered from his injuries and learned that the factions believed Jiang Changyue might have died in the Lunar Cold Pool. He went to the mineral vein, where he rescued wounded fighters and took their Star Stones as treatment fees.

• Major factions investigated the Lunar Cold Pool and discovered its frozen energy could threaten anyone below high-level strength, while Li Changtian and Heng Yongxing discussed Jiang Changyue's fate and the Heng Family prodigy who had come to the area.
• Jiang Changkong finished healing more than half his internal injuries and messaged Tang Ruoxi, who warned him to stay away from the mineral vein because people were fighting there.
• Jiang Changkong headed toward the mineral vein and casually rescued several Star Gate-level martial artists from Star Demons, then continued on after they warned him that people were searching for him.
• At the mineral vein, Jiang Changkong carried severely injured fighters out of the chaos and used the Taiji Mystic Art to stabilize them, taking their Star Stones as treatment fees.
• The rescued fighters debated whether Jiang Changkong had helped them only for their Star Stones, and Jiang Changkong left after saving more people.

Jiang Changkong continued rescuing people across the Abyss in exchange for Star Stones, hoping to gather enough Essence, Qi, and Spirit to break through. At the Lunar Cold Pool, Heng Xueyue challenged him to a wager, and Xu Xinghe warned that people were exploiting his willingness to save them even when they carried no Star Stones.

• Jiang Changkong spent another day saving people throughout the Abyss and collecting Star Stones, bringing him closer to perfecting the Blazing Sun Art.
• At the Lunar Cold Pool, Heng Xueyue introduced herself as a member of the Lunar Heng Family and challenged Jiang Changkong to withstand one palm strike in exchange for six thousand fifth-grade superior Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong refused Heng Xueyue's challenge for now and left, while she entered the cold pool and said she would wait for him to accept.
• Jiang Changkong rescued Xu Xinghe and his companions from Star Demons, freezing even two mid-stage Star Spirit Star Demons with a lunar blade.
• Xu Xinghe paid Jiang Changkong four hundred fifth-grade superior Star Stones, then privately warned him that people had stopped bringing Star Stones because they knew he might rescue them anyway.

Jiang Changkong learned that Heng Xueyue had disappeared after being pursued from the Lunar Cold Pool, then followed Xu Xinghe’s trail of Star Stones to the road to the Swamp Zone. After collecting them, he discovered Xu Xinghe wanted his help with the Sin Domain and agreed to hear more.

• Xu Xinghe warned Jiang Changkong that a peak Star Spirit expert from the Yun Family was searching for him, and Jiang Changkong stopped saving people for the night.
• Tang Ruoxi and Heng Yongxing told Jiang Changkong that Heng Xueyue had vanished after emerging injured from the Lunar Cold Pool, with witnesses blaming a man who resembled Jiang Changyue.
• Jiang Changkong called Xu Xinghe, learned Heng Xueyue had fled toward the Swamp Zone, and questioned Xu Xinghe’s offer of Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong collected two hundred fifth-grade high-quality Star Stones that Xu Xinghe had buried along the route to the Swamp Zone.
• Jiang Changkong asked Xu Xinghe what he wanted, and Xu Xinghe answered that he wanted help with the Sin Domain; Jiang Changkong agreed to hear his information.

Jiang Changkong reached the Star Spirit realm, discovered he could fly using the Spirit Controlling Formula, and searched the Swamp Zone for Heng Xueyue without finding her. After scouting the Heng Family’s Lunar Cold Pool, he entered it seeking treasures but was attacked by a Lunar Star Demon as he tried to leave.

• Jiang Changkong’s six martial arts strengthened as his consciousness fused with Star Power, and the Spirit Controlling Formula let him control his body and fly.
• Jiang Changkong flew through the Swamp Zone on the Lunar Sword, found traces of Heng Xueyue’s Lunar Star Power, but saw no sign of her.
• Jiang Changkong planned to use a disguised alter ego and settle his debt with the three families, then flew toward the Lunar Cold Pool.
• Jiang Changkong watched Heng Family members search the Lunar Cold Pool, then entered it after they left to look for treasures.
• Jiang Changkong reached Lunar Lake, saw it swarming with silvery-white Star Demons, and turned to leave before a Lunar sword beam shot toward him.

Jiang Changkong used an ice-sculpture puppet to impersonate Jiang Changyue and attacked the Yun, Lin, and Jin Families with both figures. Their peak Star Spirit elder took a drug to strengthen himself, but Jiang Changkong’s three weapons broke through his defense and inflicted Lunar power; the battle was still underway.

• Jiang Changkong escaped an ambush at the Lunar Cold Pool and got the three families’ base locations from Xu Xinghe.
• Jiang Changkong turned an ice sculpture into a black-robed puppet, recovered his Star Power, and recorded audio for it to imitate Jiang Changyue.
• Jiang Changkong and the puppet arrived at the three families’ base and ordered unrelated martial artists to leave before declaring their intent to wipe out the families.
• The families’ peak Star Spirit elder attacked, and Jiang Changkong and the puppet countered with Blazing Sun and Lunar techniques, destroying buildings as the families’ martial artists fled.
• The elder took medicine to strengthen himself, but Jiang Changkong attacked with two sabers and a sword, forcing the elder to defend as Lunar power entered his body.

Jiang Changkong and Jiang Changyue killed a Star Spirit peak enemy, alarming the forces gathered for the mine struggle. After counting his spoils, Jiang Changkong rested while An Dingbang asked Tang Ruoxi to seek mercy from him, and she refused.

• Jiang Changkong and Jiang Changyue overwhelmed the old man, and Jiang Changkong killed him with their combined Lunar and Solar power.
• Jiang Changkong collected the fallen enemies’ spatial equipment, returned the ice sculpture, and left with the black-robed figure.
• Jiang Changkong counted the Star Stones he had gathered, then rested and resolved to claim the mine.
• Xu Xinghe witnessed the death and decided that Jiang Changkong was the person to entrust with the matter of Sin Domain.
• An Dingbang asked Tang Ruoxi to request that Jiang Changkong show mercy in the coming mine struggle, but Tang Ruoxi refused to help him.

Jiang Changkong asserted his claim to the mining vein, returned Professor Yun’s battle armor, and asked her about Sin Domain and the plot against Jiang Changyue. He then went to Heng Yongxing’s base to meet the other leaders and spotted Ji Chengming.

• Jiang Changkong arrived at the blood-soaked mining vein, drove back the martial artists fighting over it, and declared that he would make Stability Province coil up.
• Xu Yuan of the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce told Jiang Changkong that Yao Meng had arrived and was visiting Heng Yongxing and Li Changtian.
• Jiang Changkong returned Professor Yun’s battle armor and gave her Star Stones to process; she warned that his forces were limited and said she would share her suspicions about Heng Xueyue later.
• Jiang Changkong asked Professor Yun about Sin Domain, and she said she would explain it if he secured the mining vein; she also gave him a surveillance device.
• Jiang Changkong left for Heng Yongxing’s base, where leaders from several provinces were discussing Heng Xueyue and the mining vein, and he spotted Ji Chengming.

Jiang Changkong met Yao Meng and learned more about the looming dispute over the mineral vein before asking Xu Xinghe about the Sin Domain. Xu Xinghe revealed that his father was imprisoned there and that the Federation used its inmates as targets for powerful young geniuses to hunt for Star Stones.

• Jiang Changkong confronted Heng Yongxing and greeted Nan Tianpang and Ji Chengming, then walked with Yao Meng and Liu Min to the Lunar Cold Pool.
• Yao Meng said she believed Jiang Changkong had not attacked Xueyue, identified herself as a member of the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce, and urged him to reconsider the vice chairman position before others arrived in three days.
• After parting from Yao Meng, Jiang Changkong contacted Xu Xinghe and took him into the Swamp Zone to discuss the Sin Domain in private.
• Xu Xinghe explained that his father, Xu Hengzhi, had been imprisoned in the Sin Domain after killing eight people in revenge for his younger brother's death.
• Xu Xinghe told Jiang Changkong that the Federation trapped criminals on an island in the Sin Domain, forcing them to hoard Star Stones and fight visiting geniuses for a chance at supplies or freedom.

Jiang Changkong learned that Chu Yunlong was behind the plot against him and agreed to try to save Xu Hengzhi in exchange for Star Stones. After improving his cultivation, he heard Professor Yun’s theory that Heng Xueyue might be hiding in the Lunar Cold Pool and prepared to investigate further.

• Xu Xinghe told Jiang Changkong that Chu Yunlong had recruited Yun Tianshan and incited the three families against him, then offered Star Stones in exchange for help protecting Xu Hengzhi.
• Jiang Changkong accepted Xu Xinghe’s Star Stones and promised to do his utmost to keep Xu Hengzhi alive if he entered Sin Domain, while warning Xu Xinghe not to reveal their connection.
• Jiang Changkong used the Star Stones to raise Indestructible Vajra and the Taiji Mystic Art to minor mastery, advanced to the middle stage of Star Spirit, and returned to the research institute.
• Professor Yun showed Jiang Changkong surveillance footage and suggested Heng Xueyue might be hiding in the Lunar Cold Pool, where her Lunar traits and Moonstone could help her survive.
• Professor Yun advised Jiang Changkong to have Jiang Changyue enter the Lunar Cold Pool again, and Jiang Changkong asked her and Tang Ruoxi to investigate Xu Hengzhi’s situation further.

Jiang Changkong confronted Heng Xueyue over her suspicions and challenged her three-palm wager. He survived her final attack, won the Star Stones, and left their conflict unresolved.

• Jiang Changkong found Heng Xueyue at the Lunar Cold Pool and took her to the Swamp Zone to question her about the attack she blamed on him.
• Heng Xueyue said she suspected Jiang Changkong and wagered that if she defeated him in three palms, he would handle her matter; otherwise, she would give him the Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong and Heng Xueyue exchanged their first two palm strikes, with neither able to defeat the other.
• Heng Xueyue unleashed Lunar Formation Opens, Sacred Moon Radiance, and Jiang Changkong countered with Startling Swan Moon Haze while secretly using the Taiji Mystic Art.
• Heng Xueyue recognized that Jiang Changkong could resist Lunar Star Power, accepted that the three palms were over, and handed him the Star Stones.

Jiang Changkong accepted Heng Xueyue’s offer to cooperate against the people targeting them, then used the Star Stones to advance to mid-stage Star Spirit. At the research institute, he learned that Xu Hengzhi and Yun Bugui may have been covertly manipulated into entering the Sin Domain.

• Heng Xueyue gave Jiang Changkong six thousand fifth-tier high-grade Star Stones and warned that the people targeting her might also target him, so they agreed to compete for the mineral vein together.
• Heng Xueyue agreed to provide another six thousand Star Stones and asked Jiang Changkong to accompany her into the Lunar Cold Pool afterward; he left to cultivate instead.
• Jiang Changkong used the Star Stones to raise four martial arts to minor mastery, reaching mid-stage Star Spirit and growing stronger, though he judged himself not yet able to overwhelm groups of exceptional opponents.
• Jiang Changkong went to the research institute, where Professor Yun gave him processed Star Stones and he confirmed that Heng Xueyue would emerge the next day.
• Tang Ruoxi gave Jiang Changkong information showing that Xu Hengzhi had been provoked into committing a crime, and Professor Yun said Yun Bugui may also have been set up and sent into the Sin Domain.

Jiang Changkong confronted Heng Xueyue after she demanded that he hand over Jiang Changyue, and the two fought outside the institute. Jiang Changkong suppressed her with a single palm strike, leaving Heng Xueyue injured and the onlookers stunned.

• Tang Ruoxi warned Jiang Changkong that Heng Xueyue had arrived and demanded Jiang Changyue, but he went out to face her.
• Heng Xueyue accused Jiang Changyue of ambushing her and challenged Jiang Changkong, who refused to hand him over and insulted her.
• Professor Yun ordered Jiang Changkong and Heng Xueyue to fight away from the institute, and they flew to a grassland.
• Heng Xueyue unleashed Sacred Moon Radiance while Jiang Changkong answered with a Blazing Sun palm strike.
• Jiang Changkong's palm overwhelmed Heng Xueyue's moonlight, drove her feet into the ground, and left blood at the corner of her mouth.

Jiang Changkong defeated Heng Xueyue and Heng De in a staged confrontation, then agreed to attend Yao Meng’s banquet about the mineral vein contest. Back at the research institute, Professor Yun questioned him about his strength, and An Dingbang arrived claiming their bond was as strong as iron.

• Jiang Changkong used Blazing Sun Star Power to wound Heng De, then faced Heng Xueyue as she launched a powerful attack.
• Yao Meng, Nan Tianpang, Li Changtian, and Ji Chengming intervened, but their combined effort failed to stop the two fighters without being injured.
• Yao Meng mediated the dispute, and Jiang Changkong agreed to let the matter go and attend her six o’clock banquet about the mineral vein contest.
• Jiang Changkong returned to the research institute, where Professor Yun noted his improved strength and asked whether he had cultivated traits of a celestial body.
• Jiang Changkong asked Professor Yun about cooperating over the mineral vein, then An Dingbang arrived and insisted that their bond was strong.

Jiang Changkong accepted Star Stones from An Dingbang in exchange for promising to go easy on his Martial Arts Association during the mineral-vein contest. He then studied Ancient Star Script with Professor Yun, who explained that access to the Federation’s deeper records required sufficient strength.

• An Dingbang asked Jiang Changkong not to target his Martial Arts Association and paid him 3,500 fifth-stage high-grade Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong warned An Dingbang that he was overlooking the advantages of aligning with him, but An Dingbang left unwilling to abandon the Heng and Li Families.
• Professor Yun explained that An Yuanshan had gone to the Star Crystal mineral vein, where even Jiang Changkong would be only a foot soldier without high-stage strength.
• Professor Yun taught Jiang Changkong and Tang Ruoxi Ancient Star Script and explained that its meanings had been pieced together from illustrations, accumulated research, and small-seal-script annotations.
• Professor Yun refused to give Jiang Changkong a copy of the script or reveal the Federation's records, saying he could access them once he had enough strength.
• Jiang Changkong sincerely called Professor Yun his Teacher before leaving with Tang Ruoxi.

Jiang Changkong arrived at a meeting about the mineral vein, where the other powers united and imposed conditions that favored their alliances. He rejected their demands, declared the vein would belong to him, and left after threatening to clear a road between Peace City and River Sea.

• Yao Meng and the other leaders gathered Stability Province’s strongest forces to discuss the mineral vein, and five members of the Martial Arts Association arrived as well.
• Jiang Changkong descended in a blazing display and joined the meeting precisely on time.
• Heng Xueyue argued that anyone seeking the vein needed mining forces, sales channels, and support from Stability Province, while the other factions announced their alliances.
• Jiang Changkong accused the factions of joining forces to exclude him and threatened them against using private tricks.
• Jiang Changkong declared that the mineral vein would belong to him and said he could clear a road from Peace City to River Sea, then flew away.

Jiang Changkong learned that the alliances had joined forces against him and clashed with Heng Xueyue over a staged defeat. At the mineral-vein contest, he faced three alliances and asked whether the fight could be lethal.

• Professor Yun warned Jiang Changkong that twenty-four peak Star Spirits could unite against him, leaving him little choice but to break their alliance or overpower them.
• Heng Xueyue asked Jiang Changkong to lose their next fight so she could restore her reputation and provoke their hidden enemy, but he refused.
• An Dingbang told Jiang Changkong that Heng Xueyue and the alliances planned to eliminate him first in the mineral-vein contest.
• Xu Xingheng announced that Jiang Changkong could bring up to two reinforcements within two days before fighting each alliance for the mineral vein.
• Jiang Changkong asked whether they could kill, and Xu Xinghe replied that life and death were hard to predict.

Jiang Changkong defeated Heng Xueyue and five peak Star Spirits, then forced them to surrender their spatial equipment and Star Stones. He threatened the Gold Alliance next, but Xu Xingheng proposed joining forces with Heng Xueyue to kill him, leaving Jiang Changkong reconsidering his impulsive move.

• Jiang Changkong unleashed his full strength and defeated Heng Xueyue and the five peak Star Spirits who attacked with her.
• Heng Xueyue and Yao Meng conceded, and Jiang Changkong forced them and the others to hand over their spatial equipment and Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong also took Nan Tianpang's Star Stones and gathered more than ten thousand Star Stones from the group.
• Jiang Changkong threatened the Gold Alliance, offering to take half their Star Stones or fight them, and reminded them that he could fly away.
• Xu Xingheng urged Heng Xueyue to join the Gold Alliance against Jiang Changkong, and Jiang Changkong realized his threat might have been impulsive.

Jiang Changkong defeated the remaining Gold Alliance members, then strengthened two martial arts with the Star Stones he had collected. As Heng Xuanqing arrived to challenge him the next day, Heng Xueyue secretly warned Jiang Changkong that her Third Uncle might be stronger than him.

• Jiang Changkong killed five Gold Alliance members after taking their Star Stones, while Yao Meng and Nan Tianpang warned that the families might send more people.
• Jiang Changkong counted 16,891 Star Stones in the swamp and maxed out the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art and the Taiji Mystic Art.
• Heng Xuanqing and Heng Xinming arrived at the Heng Family's base, where Heng De recounted the battle and Heng Xuanqing vowed to confront Jiang Changkong.
• Heng Xueyue secretly messaged Jiang Changkong, warning that Heng Xuanqing was powerful and offering to help him escape if necessary.
• Jiang Changkong teased Heng Xueyue about calling Jiang Changyue to help, and she fell silent.

Jiang Changkong defeated Heng Xuanqing in a duel and took his Star Stones as compensation. Back at the research institute, Professor Yun said Heng Xuanqing was sick but refused to explain his illness.

• Jiang Changkong waited for Heng Xuanqing, who arrived to challenge him over his treatment of the Heng Family.
• Jiang Changkong and Heng Xuanqing fought while the Stability Alliance and Gold Alliance watched, and Jiang Changkong overwhelmed him with his saber.
• Jiang Changkong pinned Heng Xuanqing down, took the Star Stones from his ring, and warned the Heng Family not to approach.
• Heng Xuanqing went mad with anger over losing his Star Stones, and Yao Meng urged Jiang Changkong to leave.
• Jiang Changkong returned to the research institute, where Professor Yun said Heng Xuanqing was sick but kept the details private.