Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Changkong interrogated an Immortal Palace member and learned the group had used Sin Domain residents as expendable scouts to investigate a moving palace from the starry sky. After defeating them, he uncovered the survivors underground, accepted their offerings, and ordered them brought outside while revealing he could control Heng Moxuan.

• Jiang Changkong forced the middle-aged man to explain that the Immortal Palace's Investigation Palace had recruited Sin Domain residents as cannon fodder to scout the Blood Qi Palace.
• The middle-aged man claimed he knew little about the Immortal Palace beyond his squad, so Jiang Changkong used the Spirit Controlling Formula to seize and destroy his soul.
• Jiang Changkong collected the Immortal Palace members' spatial equipment and opened a passage into the underground space where the Sin Domain residents were hiding.
• The five overlords and the other criminals welcomed Jiang Changkong, handed over their Star Stones and Sin Tokens, and thanked him for eliminating the Immortal Palace.
• Jiang Changkong ordered Heng Moxuan and the others to take the criminals outside and bring Xu Hengzhi and the others, then revealed that he had controlled Heng Moxuan.

Jiang Changkong evacuated the rescued people from Sin Domain and uncovered the Blood Qi Palace buried beneath the earth. Its eruption battered him and cracked Sin Domain’s barrier, leaving An Shanhe and Lin Qin rushing to reinforce it.

• Jiang Changkong opened the sealed spatial passage, and Yao Chan and the Heng family members contacted their relatives to stabilize it and escort the rescued people out.
• Heng Moxuan left, while the full-moon sphere promised to protect the evacuees and arrange their new identities; Jiang Changkong forced Professor Yu into the passage when he refused to leave.
• After everyone withdrew, Jiang Changkong carefully uncovered the buried palace, whose blood qi blasted away the remaining earth and struck him with tremendous force.
• An Shanhe returned from drinking and found Sin Domain seemingly gone, then Lin Qin spotted the barrier and questioned him.
• Blood-red light slammed into the barrier and cracked it, so An Shanhe ordered Lin Qin to reinforce the shield before they entered to investigate.

Jiang Changkong used the Three-Colored Stone Pearl and his Force Patterns to lead the others out of the Sin Domain as the Blood Qi Palace formed a destructive star array. Left behind, he approached the palace and recognized its formation as the Sky-Filling Star Array.

• Blood qi erupted from the Blood Qi Palace, shattered the black warship, and knocked An Shanhe and Lin Qin from the sky before Jiang Changkong caught them.
• Jiang Changkong explained that the palace had destroyed the Sin Domain and warned the others not to use Star Power as a star array descended.
• Jiang Changkong carried An Shanhe, Lin Qin, Heng Qingyue, and the others through an opening in the array with his golden dragons and the Three-Colored Stone Pearl.
• The group escaped the barrier, and Heng Qingyue and the other martial artists revealed that Jiang Changkong had leveled the Sin Domain and killed several Star Embryo martial artists.
• The first star array shattered the outer barrier, and the Blood Qi Palace formed another array behind a stronger barrier.
• Jiang Changkong recognized the formation as the Sky-Filling Star Array and walked toward the incomplete Blood Qi Palace.

Jiang Changkong explored the blood-filled palace, where he found preserved corpses and deciphered an inscription about the Battle Palace and an Immortal Scripture Fragment. The chapter left him with a clue that whoever obtained the Divine Pearls of the three palaces and drew upon the Three Lights could claim the fragment.

• Jiang Changkong entered the Blood Qi Palace and discovered that its walls were covered with Force Patterns and star script that he could not record.
• He explored a room on the second floor and found a warm but lifeless man whose body was sustained by blood qi and was too hard for him to damage.
• Jiang Changkong followed the Force Pattern roars to another room and recognized the seated corpse as the powerful martial artist from his vision.
• He translated star script describing how the Battle Palace gathered the corpses of those who left their names there.
• Jiang Changkong read that the Divine Pearls of the three palaces and the Three Lights could grant someone an Immortal Scripture Fragment.

Jiang Changkong activated the Three-Colored Stone Pearl and received a fragment of a Battle Body Star Array Diagram after it nearly drained him dry. He learned that the Battle Palace allowed each person one item, then met the arriving martial artists and warned them of the rule.

• Jiang Changkong poured blood qi into the Three-Colored Stone Pearl, which absorbed his strength until he collapsed, then restored him and inscribed Star Array diagrams in his mind.
• Jiang Changkong checked his changed cultivation data and identified the new Battle Body Star Array Diagram fragment as a high-grade low-rank array art.
• Jiang Changkong heard people arriving below, searched the other rooms, and headed toward the third floor before an old corpse warned him that each person could take only one item.
• Jiang Changkong descended and told the twenty-three martial artists that the place was the Battle Palace and that a corpse had warned them against taking more than one item.
• Yao Qing introduced Heng Xi and Nan Zhaokong, while another martial artist invited Jiang Changkong to join them, claiming the palace only restricted those below the peak of the Star Body realm.

Jiang Changkong led the Federation martial artists through the Blood Qi Palace’s rooms, warning them that each contained a corpse and trying to keep them safe. After Huo Qinglan bowed respectfully to a Near-God corpse, jade-green light entered her brow and she collapsed to the ground.

• Yao Qing explained that Near-Gods had left their names and martial arts in the Battle Palace, and Lin Feng led the group upstairs to search for them.
• Jiang Changkong told the group that the blood-red gateways contained corpses, but Jin Hansheng accused him of hiding treasures and threatened him.
• Jiang Changkong said he had taken only a star formation and warned the others to pay their respects to the corpses before entering.
• Jiang Changkong, Yao Qing, Heng Xi, Nan Zhaokong, and Huo Qinglan bowed to the corpses, then the group began inspecting the rooms.
• A jade-green glow shot from a middle-aged woman’s corpse into Huo Qinglan’s brow, and she struck her head against the ground.

Jiang Changkong watched Huo Qinglan and several others receive inheritances after following his advice to worship, then reluctantly agreed to lead the group to the third floor. The group entered and was struck by a powerful bloody aura that injured most of them.

• Huo Qinglan, Nan Zhaokong, and several other martial artists received inheritances after worshipping, and they thanked Jiang Changkong for advising them.
• Jin Hansheng and other martial artists tried worshipping again, but Huo Qinglan found no star glyphs near the corpse Jiang Changkong said had spoken to him.
• Lin Feng demanded that everyone go to the third floor, and Jiang Changkong's group agreed to go without taking anything else.
• Jiang Changkong and the others bowed to the corpses and then followed the group up the stairs.
• The group entered the third floor, where a powerful bloody aura made Lin Feng and Huo Qinglan shudder and caused the others to cough up blood.

Jiang Changkong and his group entered the Battle Palace’s third floor, where Lin Feng and the others ignored his warning and seized multiple Near-Divine martial arts. An awakened corpse killed cultivators with invisible attacks, and the group realized it might be a former body-tempering Near-Divine cultivator.

• Lin Feng used a golden barrier to protect the group as they entered the blood-qi-filled third floor and revealed hundreds of stone boxes containing Near-Divine martial arts.
• Jiang Changkong warned everyone to take only one item, but Lin Feng, Jin Hansheng, and the others greedily grabbed multiple boxes while Jiang Changkong and his companions tried to leave.
• An aged corpse appeared at the entrance and killed two peak Star Body cultivators with invisible attacks, while Huo Qinglan’s star shield was shattered by its gaze.
• Jiang Changkong scolded Lin Feng and the others for ignoring his warning, then used the Spirit Controlling Formula to detect an incoming attack and warned Huo Qinglan to protect her throat.
• Huo Qinglan avoided the corpse’s attack, but Lin Feng’s sword broke when he struck it, and Jiang Changkong concluded that the corpse might have been a body-tempering Near-Divine cultivator.

Jiang Changkong altered the corpse’s star array, changing its attack into an imprisonment that kept the group alive but trapped them on the third level. As he recovered, Jin Hansheng proposed taking control of the life-saving method, and several martial artists agreed.

• Lin Feng and Huo Qinglan failed to break the old man’s near-god defenses, while Yao Qing suggested that the corpse might be vulnerable from within.
• Jiang Changkong used the Spirit Controlling Formula to probe the corpse’s star array, injuring his soul, and Heng Xi gave him herbs to restore it.
• Jiang Changkong altered the star array’s pathways, stopping its invisible attack, but the old man then imprisoned everyone in a field of blood energy.
• Jiang Changkong explained that he had changed the array into an imprisonment array, and the group realized that escaping might bring the other corpses back into play.
• After the group recovered, Jin Hansheng proposed that they take control of Jiang Changkong’s martial arts and star-array knowledge, and several martial artists supported him.

Jiang Changkong fought the martial artists who turned on him, using his Force Patterns and a silver-white sword to repeatedly behead Jin Hansheng. As his enemies moved to suppress him, he activated the battle body star array diagram, and the corpse on the palace’s second level roared again.

• Huo Qinglan and three allies tried to protect Jiang Changkong, but Lin Feng and the others attacked them under the suppressive force.
• Jiang Changkong revealed he had been awake, transformed into his Three-Zhang Golden Body, and charged the traitors while Huo Qinglan’s group held off some of them.
• Jiang Changkong took a saber from Huo Qinglan and battled the surrounding martial artists, who wounded him but avoided killing him because they needed his star array and martial arts.
• Jiang Changkong bound Jin Hansheng with his Force Patterns and repeatedly cut off his regenerating heads with a silver-white longsword.
• Jiang Changkong activated the battle body star array diagram as the martial artists tried to suppress him, drawing in the surrounding blood energy.
• A Force Pattern’s roar sounded from the palace’s second level, and the supposedly dead corpse roared again.