Chapter Summaries

Jiang Changkong completed his Dao Body while cultivating aboard the expeditionary warships, greatly increasing his strength. After emerging from seclusion, he met the warship’s crew and learned that Tianhen wanted to speak with him.

• Liu Mu told Jiang Changkong that the Federation could defeat the Star Demons and Starry Sky Remnants but would suffer devastating losses, then warned him to prioritize survival if the expedition encountered a starry sky storm.
• Jiang Changkong boarded one of twenty warships with Nether Dragon and Ye Nan, and the expedition launched into the starry sky.
• Jiang Changkong cultivated his own Dao patterns into his body, completing his Dao Body and gaining enough power to defeat enemies above his level.
• Jiang Changkong gave Nether Dragon his research and insights before Nether Dragon entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Jiang Changkong visited the dining hall, where a martial artist told him that Tianhen wanted to speak with him.

Jiang Changkong rejected Tianhen’s request to help find Hua Tianrui, then witnessed an unknown force devastate the star region and damage the Federation warships. As the ships landed on a lifeless star for repairs, Jiang Changkong prepared to investigate while the Nether Dragon stayed to guard the warship.

• Jiang Changkong spoke with Tianhen, who explained that Hua Tianrui had saved the Heavenly Star Martial Arts Association centuries earlier and asked for help locating her.
• Jiang Changkong said he had only inherited a fragment of Hua Tianrui’s legacy and could not help find her.
• Jiang Changkong visited the observation cabin with Jing Hai and saw ruined stars as the warship crossed the starry sky.
• An unknown force struck the region, damaged the warships, and shattered a distant star; the fleet headed to a nearby lifeless star for repairs.
• Wang Ruiwen asked Jiang Changkong to help if danger arose, and Jiang Changkong agreed to inspect the area after landing.
• Jiang Changkong told the Nether Dragon to remain aboard and guard the warship while he went to investigate.

Jiang Changkong investigated a dead planet whose Great Dao was drawing in power, but his Dao Body resisted the drain. When unseen attackers struck the martial artists and followed them into their warships, the fleet fled, leaving the threat unresolved.

• Wang Ruiwen told Jiang Changkong that the planet’s Great Dao had contracted into its star core and warned that it would rapidly consume their Star Power.
• Jiang Changkong descended to investigate and found that his Dao Body stopped the planet from draining his power, while the other martial artists lost Star Power at a terrifying rate.
• After a martial artist spotted a black shadow, unseen attackers struck the group, and Jiang Changkong carried several martial artists back to the warships.
• Wang Ruiwen ordered the fleet to leave after learning that the Great Dao had appeared during the attacks, and two warships were suddenly damaged with their occupants left unconscious.
• Claw-like marks appeared on a warship window as the unseen thing pounded against the vessel and tried to tear its way inside.

Jiang Changkong fought creatures that had emerged from a dead planet and discovered they were parasitizing its Great Dao. After opening a path for the warships to escape, he stayed behind to destroy the creatures and preserve their Dao bones.

• Jiang Changkong left the warship and used the Great Sun to destroy creatures swarming around the two stranded vessels.
• Jiang Changkong rescued the surviving martial artists aboard one warship and erased the creatures inside the other with the Soul Great Dao.
• The planet's Great Dao revived, and more creatures rose from the ground and attacked Jiang Changkong and the warships.
• Jiang Changkong searched a creature's soul and learned that the pests parasitized the Great Dao, drawing on its power and returning as long as the star core endured.
• Jiang Changkong continued attacking the creatures while preserving their Dao bones, and Wang Ruiwen told him the warships had a path to escape.
• Jiang Changkong told Wang Ruiwen to leave first while he stayed to flatten the remaining creatures.

Jiang Changkong defeated over a hundred peak Star Dao Realm creatures and three beings nearing the Star Saint Realm, destroying the planet’s remaining threats. He let the eighteen warships return and gave the martial artists permission to copy the creatures’ Dao patterns for Earth.

• Jiang Changkong illuminated the planet and fought more than a hundred peak Star Dao Realm creatures while the warships escaped and watched his battle.
• Jiang Changkong enlarged his body, killed the creatures with his Power Dao, and absorbed their vital essence to strengthen his Immortal Golden Body Star Power.
• Three creatures nearing the Star Saint Realm appeared, so Jiang Changkong used his Taiji Dao alongside his other Daos to defeat and suppress them.
• Jiang Changkong halted the planet’s collapse, and the Soul-Anchoring Tree devoured the remaining souls before he called the warships back down.
• Jiang Changkong gave Nether Dragon the corpses and jade bones, explained that the creatures had parasitized the Dao, and allowed the martial artists to copy their Dao patterns.

Jiang Changkong reached the pinnacle of the Star Path as the fleet neared its base by the Starry Sky Gate. A Starry Sky storm cut off contact with the base, and Jing Hai warned that someone was inside it.

• The Federation told Jiang Changkong that opening the Starry Sky Gate had badly injured near-gods and killed numerous Star Path experts, and thanked him for handing over the key.
• Jiang Changkong declined the Federation’s offer of a Starry Sky base and asked that expeditionary martial artists from his territory be allowed to join the Federation in the future.
• Nether Dragon emerged from seclusion after digesting corpses and inscribing its Dao body, while Jiang Changkong used its treasures to perfect seven martial arts and reach the pinnacle of the Star Path.
• Jiang Changkong reunited with Nether Dragon aboard the fleet as it approached its base near the Starry Sky Gate.
• Jing Hai announced that a Starry Sky storm was approaching, reported that contact with the base had failed, and said people were inside the storm.
• Jing Hai asked Jiang Changkong to suppress the storm or escape on his own.

Jiang Changkong confronted an Azure-scaled Star Saint who had crossed through the gateway and easily overwhelmed him with his Great Daos. After searching the man’s soul, Jiang Changkong discovered something that stirred his killing intent and hurried toward the base.

• Jiang Changkong stopped the starry-sky storm and faced the Azure-scaled man, who offered him a chance to submit after surviving one attack.
• Jiang Changkong endured the man’s sword strike, healed his wound, and expanded into a thousand-zhang golden body.
• The Azure-scaled man tried to control Jiang Changkong with puppet poison, but Jiang Changkong crushed him between his hands and battered him into submission.
• Jiang Changkong searched the Star Saint’s soul, took his spatial equipment, and sent his soul to the Soul-Anchoring Tree.
• Jiang Changkong ordered the corpse delivered to the Nether Dragon and hurried toward the base after discovering something in the man’s memories.

Jiang Changkong learned about the starry sky’s powers and the Azure Scale Clan’s plans to invade Earth, then arrived at the planet where Earth’s forces were fighting the clan. He rescued an Earth Star Saint and turned the battle around, leaving the two remaining alien Star Saints wounded.

• Jiang Changkong learned that the Azure Scale Clan planned to rally other lords and major lords to attack Earth, and discovered that the clan possessed golden matter.
• Five days later, Jiang Changkong reached the besieged planet and found three Earth Star Saints fighting four alien Star Saints, with one Earthling being poisoned.
• Jiang Changkong dispelled the puppet poison afflicting the early Star Saint and killed an alien early Star Saint with a single palm strike.
• Jiang Changkong moved to the mid Star Saint battle and unleashed the Sunset Blade, driving back two alien Star Saints.
• An Earth mid Star Saint followed up by piercing both alien Star Saints as their blood scattered through the starry sky.

Jiang Changkong helped Xue Dingpeng’s forces repel an attack and learned the East Sea Blackstone Clan planned to destroy their base within seven days. After requesting Near-God Ying Liuli’s help, they learned she would return at once and wanted to meet Jiang Changkong.

• Jiang Changkong overpowered the alien Star Saints, while Xue Dingpeng identified the enemy as the East Sea Blackstone Clan and vowed to make them submit.
• Jiang Changkong told Xue Dingpeng and the others that a starry sky storm threatened the approaching expeditionary army, and two Star Saints went to meet it.
• Xue Dingpeng introduced Jiang Changkong to the base’s warriors and warned them that the enemy intended to destroy the base within seven days.
• Xue Dingpeng contacted Near-God Ying Liuli, who ordered the forces to prepare for battle and said she would return to meet Jiang Changkong.
• Jiang Changkong wondered why Ying Liuli wanted to see him and resigned himself to waiting for her arrival.

Jiang Changkong met Ying Liuli and Nan Yuyang, who explained the battle among cultivators of the Three Great Battle Bodies and questioned how Jiang Changkong escaped the starry sky gate. After showing that his Taiji power could balance four kinds of power, Jiang Changkong refused Nan Yuyang’s offer to help rule the world and chose to focus on cultivation.

• Ying Liuli and Nan Yuyang told Jiang Changkong that the Federation had secretly raised Nan Yuyang, a peak Star Saint with the Three Great Battle Bodies, as its candidate to unlock the path to immortals and gods.
• Ying Liuli explained that cultivators of the Three Great Battle Bodies from different regions would fight until only one strongest battle body remained, and asked how Jiang Changkong had escaped the gate.
• Jiang Changkong used Taiji power to balance Nan Yuyang’s Taiyin power alongside Solar and Force Pattern power, surprising Ying Liuli and Nan Yuyang.
• Ying Liuli said the Earth’s Near-Gods would protect Jiang Changkong from the two crippled Near-Gods who had placed their bets on him, while Nan Yuyang promised to help him.
• Nan Yuyang invited Jiang Changkong to become Grand Marshal and rule the world with him, but Jiang Changkong declined and said he only wanted to cultivate.

Jiang Changkong refused Nan Yuyang’s invitation to join the struggle for supremacy and planned to leave once the expedition ended. Earth’s forces launched an expedition under Ying Liuli to conquer a star domain, while Jiang Changkong prepared to fight alongside the arriving Nether Dragon.

• Jiang Changkong reviewed the resources he had gained from the two Star Saints and resolved to pursue becoming a near-god on his own.
• Xue Dingpeng announced that Earth would support Nan Yuyang, who possessed all three great battle bodies, and that Ying Liuli would lead an expedition to establish a kingdom.
• Xue Dingpeng ordered the army to prepare for battle, with participants receiving thirty percent of the expedition’s profits.
• Jiang Changkong joined Warship Thirteen as the fleet set out behind Nan Yuyang’s Star Saint-grade Warship Eight, while Ying Liuli concealed herself nearby to protect him.
• Jiang Changkong spoke with the Nether Dragon, who caught up with eighteen warships, and warned him that they would face Star Saints.

Jiang Changkong accompanied the East Sea Earth Immortal Kingdom’s fleet as Nan Yuyang defeated four peak Star Saints and the near-god Ying Liuli captured their forces. The fleet continued toward enemy territory, while Jiang Changkong declined Xue Dingpeng’s invitation to stay because he still needed to help Nether Dragon find his homeland.

• Jiang Changkong’s fleet reached the Star Gate and encountered five warships from the Blackstone Clan and Azure Scale Clan.
• Xue Dingpeng ordered the fleet to engage, and Warship No. 8 destroyed one enemy warship before the four enemy peak Star Saints approached.
• Nan Yuyang challenged the four peak Star Saints inside Ying Liuli’s azure world and defeated all four.
• Ying Liuli imprisoned the remaining enemy martial artists, and Xue Dingpeng’s people captured them as Nan Yuyang sent the spoils to the national treasury.
• The East Sea Earth Immortal Kingdom’s fleet continued toward the enemy stars, and Jiang Changkong declined Xue Dingpeng’s offer to stay because he needed to take Nether Dragon to find his homeland.

Jiang Changkong left the Immortal Kingdom’s expedition with the Nether Dragon to seek the Eighth Sea King’s homeland, while Nan Yuyang and Ying Liuli prepared to expand their power. Two near-gods ambushed Jiang Changkong, but he destroyed their soul bodies with his seven Great Daos.

• The Blackstone Clan surrendered after seeing Nan Yuyang defeat four peak Star Saints, and Jiang Changkong learned more about the starry sky and the Eastern Wasteland.
• The expedition subdued several more factions and established its base on a planet called Second Earth, where Jiang Changkong told Nan Yuyang he was leaving with the Nether Dragon.
• Nan Yuyang gave Jiang Changkong a spatial ring of resources and promised to resolve his grudge with the Immortal Palace, while Ying Liuli revealed she could reach him through a one-use spatial passage.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon departed Second Earth, and Ying Liuli and Nan Yuyang discussed building starry sky passages and protecting Jiang Changkong.
• Two near-gods confronted Jiang Changkong, but he annihilated their forming soul bodies with his seven Great Daos.

Jiang Changkong learned that the near-gods could not explain his unusual cultivation, but they gave him locations of resource caches and protection from near-god attacks. He and the Nether Dragon entered a ruin on a dead star, where a palm-shaped mountain suddenly struck at him.

• Jiang Changkong's seven Great Daos instinctively erased soul wisps from the two near-gods, who then questioned him about his power and Nan Yuyang.
• Jiang Changkong asked the near-gods to invest resources in him, and they gave him locations of resource caches while promising that near-gods would not attack him.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon set out for the Flood Dragon King's homeland, stopping at a dead-star ruin along the way.
• After half a month, Jiang Changkong reached the dead star, entered an Abyss, and flew into an earth-yellow vortex that led to a hidden ruin.
• A five-colored, palm-shaped mountain crashed down toward Jiang Changkong.

Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon entered the Five Elements Demon-Refining Ground, where a powerful Five Elements Mountain pursued and suppressed them. They discovered that Yu Qiannian of the Golden Feather Clan was trapped inside a glowing mountain, and Jiang Changkong agreed to try to free him after learning what Spiritual Essence was.

• Jiang Changkong withstood the pursuing Five Elements Mountain by activating his Thousand-Zhang Golden Body and three Dao Bodies, then carried it as he explored the mountain-filled wasteland with the Nether Dragon.
• The Nether Dragon found inscriptions on a broken peak identifying the place as the Five Elements Demon-Refining Ground, where intruders were transformed into Spiritual Essence.
• Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon heard Yu Qiannian calling for help from a glowing mountain, and Yu Qiannian said the Scorpion Clan had lured him there and stolen his treasure.
• Jiang Changkong pressed Yu Qiannian to explain Spiritual Essence, and Yu Qiannian described it as a crystal refined from a cultivator’s divine soul and Great Dao.
• Jiang Changkong agreed to free Yu Qiannian, who said there was no simple method and suggested trying to smash the mountain or seeking help elsewhere.

Jiang Changkong freed Yu Qiannian from the Five Elements Mountain and learned that the other mountains held no spiritual essence. Yu Qiannian revealed a trove of golden substance beneath the mountain, and they began breaking it open to collect it.

• Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian attacked the Five Elements Mountain from outside and within until it cracked apart and released Yu Qiannian, a Golden Feather Clan Star Saint.
• Yu Qiannian arrogantly offered to protect Earth, but Jiang Changkong beat him until he answered that the Scorpion Clan had taken the spiritual essence from the other mountains.
• Jiang Changkong claimed Earth had several Near Gods, then revealed three Star Script imprints; Yu Qiannian was shocked and agreed to rely on Earth.
• Yu Qiannian showed Jiang Changkong a piece of golden substance worth 100,000 Essence, Qi, and Spirit, explaining that a larger patch lay beneath the mountain and could be absorbed only by Near Gods.
• After Jiang Changkong gave Yu Qiannian a recovery potion, they and the Nether Dragon attacked the underground mountain until it crumbled and exposed more golden substance.

Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian explored the Five Elements Demon Refining Array, divided its Spiritual Essence and golden material, and left the ruin to cultivate. After tallying his immense gains, Jiang Changkong began perfecting three martial arts, while Yu Qiannian continued recovering.

• Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian entered a passage beneath the broken mountain and found the core of the Five Elements Demon Refining Array, filled with Spiritual Essence and golden material.
• Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian agreed to divide the Spiritual Essence by grade and split the golden material, then searched the connected passageways for three days.
• Jiang Changkong, Yu Qiannian, and the Nether Dragon left the ruin and cultivated on a nearby dead star; the Nether Dragon later emerged after three months at the peak of Star Path.
• Jiang Changkong counted more than 600 million Essence, Qi, and Spirit among his gains, then began perfecting the Immortal Golden Body, Heaven Controlling Scripture, and Tai Chi True Scripture.

After completing his Dao body, Jiang Changkong traveled with Yu Qiannian toward the Golden Feather Clan, learning about the ancient starry sky along the way. The Scorpion Clan ambushed them, and Jiang Changkong fought its avatars while Yu Qiannian confronted the clan’s leader.

• Jiang Changkong revealed his peak Star Dao cultivation and told Yu Qiannian that he possessed the Great Daos of soul, Tai Chi, and strength, while the Nether Dragon explained that Nan Yuyang was the Immortal Kingdom’s Battle Body cultivator.
• Yu Qiannian said he would return to the Golden Feather Clan, gather his clansmen, and destroy the Scorpion Clan, then carried Jiang Changkong and the Nether Dragon away from the Dead Domain.
• As they flew, Yu Qiannian described how the ancient starry sky and its star barriers differed from the present one.
• The Scorpion Clan’s enormous leader ambushed them with a killing array and poisonous avatars, warning Yu Qiannian that the poison could kill even a mid-stage Star Saint.
• Jiang Changkong entered the sea of scorpion avatars with the Nether Dragon, activating three Great Dao bodies and his golden body, while Yu Qiannian charged the scorpion leader.
• Yu Qiannian and the Scorpion Clan expert clashed, and the scorpion realized Yu Qiannian had recovered his strength.

Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian fought a giant Sky Scorpion until the incomplete Soul Killing Array manifested Hua Tianrui, whose overwhelming power destroyed it. After escaping, Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian debated whether Hua Tianrui’s appearance had been a form of divine descent, leaving Jiang Changkong determined to ask two Near-Gods for answers.

• Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian battled the Sky Scorpions, and Jiang Changkong used his yin-yang flowers to destroy many of them.
• The giant Sky Scorpion trapped Jiang Changkong in black light, but Yu Qiannian broke him free and shielded him from the aftershocks.
• Jiang Changkong discovered that the incomplete Soul Killing Array had formed a thousand-zhang figure of Hua Tianrui, who opened her eyes and killed the giant Sky Scorpion with her Dao might.
• Hua Tianrui’s figure dispersed, and Yu Qiannian collected the Sky Scorpion’s corpse before fleeing with Jiang Changkong for half a month.
• Yu Qiannian suggested the event resembled divine descent, and Jiang Changkong decided to consult the two Near-Gods whose marks he carried.

Jiang Changkong learned that Hua Tianrui had used a treasure to sense and aid him, then completed the Solar Scripture during seclusion. After exploring the planet, he overheard Eastern and Western Sea officials plotting to capture him and use him to find Hua Tianrui.

• The two Near-Gods explained that Hua Tianrui had sensed Jiang Changkong through a treasure tied to her inheritance, while Yu Qiannian warned that they had withheld some details about immortal and divine treasures.
• Jiang Changkong and Yu Qiannian divided the Scorpion Clan’s resources, and Yu Qiannian and the Nether Dragon entered seclusion to recover and advance.
• Jiang Changkong used his gains to complete the Solar Scripture, then emerged from seclusion two months later with greater strength.
• Ying Liuli and other Near-Gods investigated the battle site and linked Hua Tianrui’s lingering aura to Jiang Changkong.
• Jiang Changkong explored the planet and overheard Eastern Sea and Western Sea representatives agree to capture him so they could find Hua Tianrui.