Chapter Summaries

Jiang Changkong and Jiang Jiuqiao studied Hua Tianrui’s soul techniques before entering seclusion, where Jiang Changkong practiced creating illusions with soul power. When the Soul-Anchoring Tree drew him back into the dark labyrinth, two travelers exposed his presence and proposed using their map to find the route to the fourth level and its Near-God treasure.

• Jiang Changkong gave Jiang Jiuqiao the Soul Nourishing Pearl, and they entered separate chambers to cultivate in seclusion.
• Jiang Changkong used the Spirit Controlling Formula to practice illusions and other soul techniques for two days.
• The Soul-Anchoring Tree brought Jiang Changkong back to the dark world, where he followed the young man and young woman through the labyrinth.
• The pair reconstructed their map of the third-level labyrinth, and the Soul-Anchoring Tree reacted to their soul threads, revealing Jiang Changkong’s presence.
• The young man and young woman explained that they had lured Jiang Changkong out so he could guide them, while their map could help him find the way forward.

Jiang Changkong completed the Spirit Controlling Formula and discovered that the Lin Family had raided his mining territory. After killing the attacker and destroying the mine as a warning, he flew toward the Lin Family, drawing a crowd of martial artists behind him.

• Jiang Changkong met Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun in the dark space, learned they were Federation members, and later found out they were both at the limit of the mid-stage Stellar Realm.
• Professor Yun gave Jiang Changkong a ninth-tier lower-grade weapon and advised him to make the three families fear attacking his territory.
• Jiang Changkong used a thousand emerald-green beads to complete the Spirit Controlling Formula, awakening a vast soul illusion that could confuse weaker opponents.
• A middle-aged man from the Lin Family stole Star Crystals from Jiang Changkong's mining territory, so Jiang Changkong killed him, consumed his soul, and destroyed the mining vein.
• Jiang Changkong told Jiang Haisheng and Xu Hengzhi that the Star Crystals remained intact, then headed for the Lin Family as martial artists followed to watch.

Jiang Changkong confronted the Lin Family over stolen Star Crystals and a destroyed mine, then used an illusion to make Lin Xinghai and his clan turn against one another. The chapter ended with Lin Xinghai mistaking the real Jiang Changkong for an illusion and destroying the Lin Family’s territory with his own attack.

• Jiang Changkong arrived at the Lin Family territory and demanded compensation from Lin Xinghai for the seized Star Crystals and destroyed mine.
• Jiang Changkong revealed the mangled remains of Lin Xinghai’s third brother, provoking Lin Xinghai and the assembled Lin Family members.
• Jiang Changkong entered the Lin Family’s star array and spread a hundred-li sea of flowers that made Lin Xinghai mistake his own clansmen for enemies.
• Lin Xinghai and the Lin Family members fought each other until the star array collapsed and the clan’s fighters were killed.
• Lin Xinghai mistook the real Jiang Changkong for an illusion and sent his azure star crashing into the Lin Family’s buildings.

Jiang Changkong destroyed the Lin Family through soul illusions, then confronted a coalition of second-rate forces demanding repayment for stolen Star Crystals. The coalition fell into his dream technique, and Jiang Changkong collected their souls as the surviving onlookers realized how dangerous he was.

• Lin Xinghai destroyed the Lin Family while believing its members were Jiang Changkong, then charged the real Jiang Changkong and was killed by the Spirit Controlling Formula.
• Jiang Changkong claimed the Lin Family’s territory, warned the onlookers not to interfere, and flew toward the Ma Family.
• Eight second-rate forces and two early Stellar martial artists gathered to stop Jiang Changkong, then offered to return the Star Crystals they had taken.
• Jiang Changkong demanded enormous repayments from the assembled forces and entered their star array when they rejected his terms.
• Jiang Changkong’s flowers cast the fighters into a dream, where the eight Star Body martial artists attacked the two Stellar martial artists and one Stellar martial artist killed himself.
• Jiang Changkong extracted the dead martial artists’ souls while the onlookers discussed his soul-martial-arts strength.

Jiang Changkong confronted the Overseas Island factions that had stolen from him, demanding compensation before fighting their Star warriors. Three late-stage Star warriors from the Nan Family, Heng Family, and Jade Light Chamber of Commerce delivered weapons he had commissioned and stood by as he entered the enemy formation.

• Jiang Changkong defeated a group of warriors with his floral illusion and Spirit Controlling Formula, then learned the remaining factions had gathered on Overseas Island.
• Jiang Changkong demanded compensation from four Star warriors, but they refused and challenged him inside their star formation.
• The Feng Tingyu Family and Hai Tianhe Family withdrew from the dispute, declaring it an internal Overseas Island affair.
• Three late-stage Star warriors arrived from the Nan Family, Heng Family, and Jade Light Chamber of Commerce and delivered the weapons Jiang Changkong had commissioned.
• Jiang Changkong accepted the three weapons, learned Jiang Changyue had not come, and entered the formation.

Jiang Changkong was trapped in a damaged top-grade tenth-rank star array but used his soul longsword and a flower-filled soul killing array to destroy it. He left the array broken, with one weakened enemy remaining and the others defeated.

• Four Star warriors trapped Jiang Changkong in a damaged top-grade Star Path killing array and demanded seventy percent of his Star Crystals.
• Jiang Changkong shattered his mid-grade ninth-rank soul longsword to empower a soul killing array that filled the starry sky with flowers.
• The array manifested Hua Tianrui, Queen of the Flower Sea, and bloomed across the heavens until the enemy star array shattered.
• More than a dozen figures fell into the sea, while one weakened warrior remained and asked why the killing array had failed to kill Jiang Changkong.
• Jiang Changkong explained that the array was damaged and that sacrificing his weapon had let him overcome it.

Jiang Changkong defeated the three families on Overseas Island, claimed their territories, and arranged for allies to help develop them. He paid his allies with rare low-grade tenth-rank treasures, leaving them eager to know how many more he had.

• Jiang Changkong broke the formation and seized his opponent’s soul, then faced an attack from Jin Tianchen and three late-stage Stellar warriors.
• Huo Qinglan intervened to protect Jiang Changkong, and Jin Tianchen withdrew after she threatened him.
• Jiang Changkong claimed the defeated families’ territories and invited Huo Qinglan, Hai Tianhe, and Feng Tingyu to his territory for tea.
• Professor Yun explained that the territory lacked enough people to manage the fifteen new businesses, so Jiang Changkong arranged for the Jiang Family to help take over.
• Jiang Changkong asked his guests to help develop his territories and offered nine low-grade tenth-rank emerald treasures as wages, giving two to each of three families and one to each of the others.

Jiang Changkong arranged manpower to mine the Star Crystal deposits while entering seclusion to practice high-tier Force Pattern star arrays. After ten days, he received the processed Star Crystals, potions, and information, along with giving Xu Hengzhi insights into reaching the high tier.

• Huo Qinglan agreed to seek a ninth-rank mid-grade soul weapon and investigate a location Jiang Changkong described, while Jiang Changkong asked her to keep her people away from it.
• Professor Yun proposed recruiting controlled early Star Body-level or weaker members of the Immortal Palace to address the shortage of workers, and Jiang Changkong assigned the recruitment to Lin Nanfeng.
• Jiang Changkong entered seclusion and repeatedly practiced ninth-rank top-grade Force Pattern star arrays, struggling to sustain them with his current strength.
• The five factions sent people to mine the Star Crystal veins as Jiang Changkong focused on extracting resources from the fifteen territories.
• Ten days later, Professor Yun had Xu Hengzhi deliver the processed Star Crystals, four bottles of potions from Huo Qinglan, and the requested information to Jiang Changkong.
• Jiang Changkong gave Xu Hengzhi insights into reaching the high tier and began examining the sorted Star Crystals.

After completing two martial arts, Jiang Changkong learned that the Immortal Palace had planted spies in his territory and announced that he was heading for the place they were searching for. He left with Lin Nanfeng, while forces across the Void Realm watched his movements.

• Jiang Changkong spent his accumulated resources completing the Three-Zhang Golden Body and Battle Body Star Array Diagram, then returned to his territory.
• Lin Nanfeng told Jiang Changkong that eighty-three Immortal Palace members were among the recruits and that he had been ordered to report Jiang Changkong’s movements and investigate his cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong told Lin Nanfeng to prepare to leave with him and notify the Immortal Palace that its target was his destination.
• Jiang Changkong took Lin Nanfeng and departed for the hidden place Huo Qinglan had investigated, leaving the territory in Professor Yun and the others’ care.
• Nearby forces, the Immortal Palace, and Sheng Jin monitored Jiang Changkong as rumors spread that he had left his territory.

Jiang Changkong entered a sealed ruin in Great Province with Lin Nanfeng, despite warnings that Stellar experts had been gravely wounded there. As Huo Qinglan and other Stellar experts followed, the ruin’s soul power began to affect Lin Nanfeng, and a veiled woman appeared before Jiang Changkong.

• Jiang Changkong reached the golden mountain that sealed the ruin and learned from a Federation martial artist that Star Path martial artists had returned grievously wounded.
• Jiang Changkong forced Lin Nanfeng through the spatial rift, and Lin Nanfeng begged to be released as they entered the unknown place.
• Huo Qinglan and several other Stellar experts arrived and entered the golden mountain after the Federation martial artist warned them to be careful.
• Jiang Changkong stepped into the gray-stone chamber, where invisible soul power made Lin Nanfeng attack him before the Spirit Controlling Formula freed him.
• A strange sound altered the scene, and a veiled woman in a white dress walked toward Jiang Changkong and Lin Nanfeng.

Jiang Changkong overcame the Lunar Immortal Hall’s Guardian by revealing his three battle bodies and entered the Lunar Palace. He left Lin Nanfeng unconscious and continued exploring, intending to eliminate the pursuers and find the Lunar Broken Sword or the Lunar Battle Body Star Array Diagram.

• Jiang Changkong resisted the woman in white’s demand to fell the Moon Laurel tree and learned she was a former Guardian of the Lunar Immortal Hall.
• The woman in white dismissed Jiang Changkong’s attacks, but let him pass after he revealed his Lunar, solar, and Force Pattern battle bodies, allowing him to take one item.
• Jiang Changkong returned to the earlier space, broke open a passage, and rushed through it with Lin Nanfeng as the others awoke and pursued them.
• Jiang Changkong climbed through the Lunar Palace’s floors, knocked Lin Nanfeng unconscious, and used the Three-Colored Stone Pearl to pass the star array.
• Jiang Changkong planned to trap and kill the pursuers while searching for the Lunar Broken Sword or the Lunar Battle Body Star Array Diagram.

Jiang Changkong reached the Lunar Immortal Palace’s sixth floor, where he obtained Lunar Battle Body array knowledge and had Lin Nanfeng take the Lunar Broken Sword for him. The palace guardian warned that she had only a month left, while Jiang Changkong remained intent on claiming the palace’s treasures.

• Jin Tianchen endured the third-floor pressure but was thrown back by the fourth floor’s Star Path killing array, while Jiang Changkong had already advanced beyond it.
• Jiang Changkong reached the fifth floor and found stone boxes containing near-divine cultivation arts, then continued to the sixth floor.
• The woman in white explained that she was the Jade Toad guardian and offered Jiang Changkong a choice among the cultivation arts, an Immortal Scripture Fragment, and the Lunar Broken Sword.
• Jiang Changkong used the Three-Colored Stone Pearl to absorb moonlight and gained Star Script and array knowledge for the Lunar Battle Body.
• Jiang Changkong woke Lin Nanfeng, made him take the Lunar Broken Sword, and knocked him unconscious again to avoid violating the palace’s rules.
• The woman in white said she would last at most one more month and that the Soul-Anchoring Tree could not save her.

Jiang Changkong obtained fourth-layer authority from the Jade Toad and used the Lunar Killing Array to kill the Immortal Palace and Sheng Jin martial artists who had pursued him. Afterward, he revealed that the Lunar Palace held a moon laurel tree, leaving the Heng Family martial artist eager to claim it.

• Jiang Changkong persuaded the Jade Toad to grant him temporary fourth-layer authority so he could deal with his enemies while protecting Huo Qinglan and her companions.
• Jiang Changkong descended to the fourth layer carrying Lin Nanfeng and met the Immortal Palace group, Jin Tianchen, Huo Qinglan, and three martial artists from the three families.
• Jiang Changkong activated the Lunar Killing Array, which separated the eight enemies and brought Huo Qinglan and the other three to his side.
• Jiang Changkong's array shattered Jin Tianchen's attack and killed the Immortal Palace and Sheng Jin martial artists, after which Jiang Changkong collected their belongings.
• Jiang Changkong told Huo Qinglan that the palace contained a moon laurel tree, and the Heng Family martial artist reacted eagerly to the news.

Jiang Changkong led his companions out of the palace with near-divine techniques and a Moon Laurel tree, then used his spoils to perfect four martial arts. He gave the Lunar Broken Sword to Lin Nanfeng to pass to Changyue, and the chapter ended when a message asking for help arrived.

• Jiang Changkong led the group through the palace, where they collected near-divine techniques and the Heng Family Star Warrior took the Moon Laurel tree.
• Jiang Changkong and the others left Golden Mountain, agreed to keep the palace’s secrets, and parted ways with the three families and Huo Qinglan.
• Jiang Changkong counted his Star Crystal gains and perfected the Taiji Yin-Yang Art, Tyrant Saber, Sacred Sun Art, and Bright Moon Art.
• Jiang Changkong told Lin Nanfeng that the Lunar Broken Sword was meant for Changyue, not him, and they prepared to return.
• Jiang Changkong received a phone message asking for help.

Jiang Changkong went to rescue Old Liang’s family from the Lin Family, but the Lin Family demanded that he pass a trial before taking anyone. Independent martial artist Qiu Yun challenged Jiang Changkong with a soul technique that plunged the surroundings into darkness.

• Jiang Changkong took Lin Nanfeng to meet Old Liang, who explained that the Lin Family had reneged on its agreement to let his family leave.
• Jiang Changkong contacted Huo Qinglan for mediation and told Old Liang to gather the 361 members of the Liang Family.
• Tens of thousands of Lin Family martial artists arrived, and their leaders accused Jiang Changkong of interfering in their affairs.
• A mid-stage Stellar Realm man offered Jiang Changkong a trial, saying he could take anyone he wished if he passed.
• Qiu Yun used his soul cultivation to turn the surroundings into a dark void and challenged Jiang Changkong to walk out of it.

Jiang Changkong broke Qiu Yun’s nighttime illusion, recruited martial artists for Territory No. 53, and returned to prepare for the wilderness reclamation. After learning from Huo Qinglan that he needed to establish his strength and status in the Void Realm, he searched for team members and wondered what title would attract them.

• Jiang Changkong used a ninth-rank soul potion to break Qiu Yun’s illusion and offered higher pay to recruit Liang Yilong and other martial artists for Territory No. 53.
• Qiu Yun and the other visitors departed, while Jiang Changkong asked Huo Qinglan to arrange transport for the recruits.
• Huo Qinglan urged Jiang Changkong to prepare seriously for the wilderness reclamation and demonstrate enough strength to secure his standing in the Void Realm.
• Jiang Changkong returned to Territory No. 53, where the mineral veins were being excavated ahead of the reclamation team’s departure.
• Jiang Changkong searched the Martial Arts Association website, found competing team recruitment posts, and wondered what title would help him gather enough members.

Jiang Changkong rejected the major families’ offers and decided to form his own pioneer squad, insisting that peak Star Spirits and weaker forces could help him claim wasteland territory. He posted his recruitment terms on the martial arts association forum, where other martial artists mocked his confidence and a late-stage Star Venerable named Xing Mang challenged him.

• The three families offered Jiang Changkong a place in their pioneer squads, but he declined and told Jiang Jiuqiao he would form his own.
• Jiang Jiuqiao explained that a pioneer squad could help Jiang Changkong meet people and find manpower to develop his territory after the Federation’s initial development.
• Jiang Changkong proposed recruiting peak Star Spirits and offering them ten percent of the profits, but Jiang Jiuqiao refused to join him.
• Jiang Changkong posted his recruitment requirements, welcoming large families and factions with Star Embryos or peak Star Spirits while rejecting Star Venerables and Star Bodies unless they were present in especially large numbers.
• Martial artists mocked Jiang Changkong’s claimed imminent breakthrough and his declaration that he was invincible, while late-stage Star Venerable Xing Mang announced he would participate and wanted to test him.

Jiang Changkong secluded himself to study the Lunar Star Array while his territory expanded and internet rumors about his talent brought in waves of recruits. Liang Yilong publicized Jiang Changkong’s achievements and powerful allies, leaving Territory No. 53 poised to grow further.

• Jiang Changkong entered seclusion to comprehend the Lunar Star Array as Huo Qinglan brought Old Liang and other martial artists to help manage his territory.
• Online posts spread rumors about Jiang Changkong’s rise, with some calling him an unprecedented prodigy and others claiming an old monster had possessed him.
• The publicity drew many people to Jiang Changkong’s territory, accelerating mineral extraction and prompting peak Star Spirit martial artists to join the pioneering team.
• Xing Mang and the Heavenly Star Special-Approval Martial Arts Association touted their own prodigies, and Liang Yilong countered by publicizing Jiang Changkong’s age, strength, and victory over a mid-stage Star Realm martial artist.
• Liang Yilong announced that the Heng Family, Nan Family, and Jade Light Chamber of Commerce were Jiang Changkong’s allies and urged people to join Territory No. 53.

Jiang Changkong studied the incomplete Lunar Star Array, then emerged from seclusion to learn that his territory had grown too crowded and lacked funds and new mineral veins. He gathered enough resources to advance all eight martial arts into the Stellar Realm and began cultivating in the Ancient Battlefield.

• Jiang Changkong asked Heng Xi for incomplete Lunar Star Arrays and used them to develop a Lunar Star Array that formed the blurry figure of a woman in white.
• After emerging from half a month of seclusion, Jiang Changkong learned from Xu Hengzhi that recruitment had brought too many people, known mineral veins were exhausted, and the territory could not afford its wages.
• Jiang Changkong told Xu Hengzhi to prepare for an expedition deeper into the wasteland, then checked his gains and found he was short of the resources needed for a breakthrough.
• Jiang Changkong extracted emerald-green beads to reach the required amount of Essence, Qi, and Spirit, then entered the Ancient Battlefield to cultivate undisturbed.
• Jiang Changkong perfected the White Cloud Ninefold Scripture and advanced all eight martial arts into the Stellar Realm, condensing seven great stars around his soul body.

After reaching the early Stellar realm, Jiang Changkong invaded the Star Demons’ territory and challenged their strongest defenders. He defeated the late Stellar realm Star Demon with his soul killing array, leaving the Soul-Anchoring Tree to devour the captured souls.

• Jiang Changkong completed his breakthrough to the early Stellar realm, manifesting seven stars before their power returned to his body.
• He entered the wilderness alone and used the Sacred Sun to burn through Star Demons across several hundred miles.
• Jiang Changkong killed four Stellar-level Star Demons, then demanded that they summon their late Stellar realm ally.
• He trapped the Star Demons in his soul killing array, putting even their late Stellar realm leader to sleep.
• The Soul-Anchoring Tree devoured the Star Demons’ souls, including the late Stellar realm Star Demon.