Chapter Summaries

Xu Changqing and his companions attacked an Azure Thunder Ancient Clan outpost after learning about the clan’s past raids on their merchant caravans. The city’s defenses fell, but a hidden counterattack disrupted Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan’s formation, and the surviving defenders threatened to die with their attackers.

• Xu Changqing learned about the Ancient Clans, Immortal Sects, and powerful independents that shaped the Endless Starfield.
• Luo Qinghan’s group traveled to a remote planet, where Baili Hong met them at Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan’s rendezvous point.
• Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan’s spatial formation broke the defenses around the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan outpost.
• A black pillar of light shattered Feng Buhui’s law threads and cracked Lu Wangchuan’s Space Mark, revealing the clan’s backup plan.
• Luo Qinghan froze a Body Integration Realm cultivator, while Mo Li spread her shadow through the city.
• The Azure Thunder Ancient Clan’s remaining survivors recognized Luo Qinghan and threatened to die with the attackers.

The Azure Thunder Ancient Clan unleashed its Thunder Dao trump card against the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion, but Luo Qinghan confronted the heavenly lightning while Mo Li sheltered Xu Changqing and the others on the dark side of laws. Baili Hong then joined the battle and slaughtered the remaining clan cultivators.

• The Azure Thunder Ancient Clan activated its mysterious Thunder Dao power, summoning a massive purple-black lightning pillar that shattered Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan's spatial formation.
• Luo Qinghan summoned the Cold Moon and used Eternal Frost of the Cold Moon to push the lightning pillar back into the sky.
• Mo Li brought Xu Changqing, Jin Buhuan, Feng Buhui, and Lu Wangchuan into the dark side of laws, where the heavenly thunder could not harm them.
• Baili Hong drew his White Tiger Baleful Gold broadsword and cut down the remaining Azure Thunder Ancient Clan cultivators, devouring the power released by his victims.

Luo Qinghan and the others defeated the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan and seized the Thunder Dao Ancient God’s finger bone. Xu Changqing remained suspicious of how easily they obtained it.

• The surviving Azure Thunder Ancient Clan cultivators surrendered after Luo Qinghan and Baili Hong broke their defenses and shattered their Dao Hearts.
• Luo Qinghan questioned the five survivors about the Thunder Dao Ancient God’s finger bone, while Jin Buhuan explained how it had founded the clan’s power.
• One survivor transformed into red light carrying the finger bone and tried to escape, but Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan trapped it with layers of spatial restrictions.
• Luo Qinghan froze the red light and finger bone, then sealed the bone in a jade box.
• Xu Changqing watched Luo Qinghan claim the finger bone and wondered why obtaining it had been so easy.

Xu Changqing and the others discovered that the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan had secretly raised a Calamity Beast using the true Thunder Dao Ancient God Finger Bone. As Luo Qinghan and Baili Hong fought the growing Thunder Dragon, Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan realized someone had escaped through an underground teleportation array.

• Xu Changqing sensed Thunder Dao Laws gathering beneath the planet and activated Return to Origin as the ground split open.
• A massive Thunder Dragon emerged with the complete Thunder Dao Ancient God Finger Bone embedded in its chest, and Luo Qinghan ordered the group into battle and safety.
• Xu Changqing determined that the finger bone fueled the dragon by absorbing Thunder Dao Laws, while Jin Buhuan identified it as a Calamity Beast cultivated by the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan.
• Luo Qinghan blocked the dragon's lightning with her Cold Moon, while Baili Hong attacked its flank but failed to penetrate deeply.
• Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan detected an underground teleportation and concluded that someone had escaped during the dragon's awakening.

Luo Qinghan and Baili Hong defeated and froze the Thunder Dragon, while Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan traced the escaped teleportation to the void near the planet. The group went to investigate and found Huo Yuan, the Eastern Extremity Spirit Continent's stationed governor, waiting with nearly twenty figures.

• Baili Hong widened the wound in the Thunder Dragon with his saber, giving Luo Qinghan the opening to bind it with nine crystalline chains.
• Luo Qinghan ordered Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan to trace the teleportation, and they found that the escapee had stopped in the void near the planet.
• Xu Changqing suspected a trap, and Jin Buhuan warned that Huo Yuan might intervene to protect the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan because of its ties to the Eastern Extremity Spirit Continent.
• Luo Qinghan froze the Thunder Dragon and slammed it into the ground, extinguishing the lightning in its eyes; she refused to remove the finger bone because it might trigger the beast's self-destruction.
• Feng Buhui marked the teleportation destination, and Luo Qinghan led the group into the surrounding void, where they found Huo Yuan and nearly twenty figures waiting among the debris.

Luo Qinghan confronted Huo Yuan over the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion’s destruction of an Azure Thunder Ancient Clan stronghold, arguing that the clan had crossed the border first and the Garrison Office had ignored her reports. Huo Yuan hesitated after the clan survivor appealed to the group’s shared interests, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Huo Yuan arrived with Garrison Office cultivators, Azure Thunder Ancient Clan members, and merchant association Attendants, and accused Luo Qinghan of violating cross-border rules.
• Baili Hong challenged Huo Yuan for failing to enforce those rules when the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan robbed caravans and approached the Four Mortal Domains.
• Luo Qinghan said the Garrison Office had dismissed or ignored her evidence and declared that the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion would wipe out the clan branch.
• Luo Qinghan warned that anyone who intervened would provoke the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion and its Great Dao Venerable, unsettling Huo Yuan and the Attendants.
• An Azure Thunder Ancient Clan survivor appealed to Huo Yuan and the merchants by citing the clan’s taxes, trade, and the danger its destruction posed to the Eastern Extremity Spirit Continent’s order.
• Huo Yuan stayed silent and did not hand over the survivor, leaving his position clear but the confrontation undecided.

Luo Qinghan forced Huo Yuan to yield the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan remnants, but one survivor revealed the clan’s true allegiance and invoked the Red-Clad Lord. A blood-red canopy descended over the gathered cultivators as Huo Yuan’s defenses began to corrode.

• Xu Changqing suspected the returning Azure Thunder Ancient Clan survivor had come back for a purpose beyond defeating Huo Yuan.
• Luo Qinghan rejected Huo Yuan’s offer to investigate the clan and demanded that he either step aside or openly break with the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion.
• The Attendants of Eastern Extremity Spirit Continent urged Huo Yuan not to risk a conflict, and he stepped aside to hand over the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan remnants.
• The survivor’s face glowed red, and he declared that everyone present and the clan’s foundation would be offered to the Red-Clad Lord.
• Three planets split open and released scarlet energy that formed a canopy across the void, corroding Huo Yuan’s Heavy Water barriers.
• The survivor transformed and revealed that the Red-Clad Lord, not the Thunder God Finger Bone or Azure Thunder True Scripture, had always been the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan’s true backer.

The Azure Thunder Ancient Clan survivor used the Blood-Red Canopy to empower the Calamity Beast Thunder Dragon with the Red-Clad Lord’s evil power, forcing Huo Yuan and Luo Qinghan to cooperate against it. As the canopy drained everyone’s life force, Lu Wangchuan found a weakened section of space that might provide an escape.

• The Blood-Red Canopy’s runes activated the finger bone inside the Thunder Dragon, fusing Thunder Dao Law with the Red-Clad Lord’s power and freeing the dragon from Luo Qinghan’s ice chains.
• Huo Yuan and Luo Qinghan opened complementary Vacuum Dharma Realms to defend against the Thunder Dragon’s violet-red torrent, and Huo Yuan asked the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion to join forces with the Garrison Office.
• Baili Hong used White Tiger Killing Intent to devour the red light clinging to his wounded arm while Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan investigated the canopy.
• Feng Buhui discovered that the living canopy was draining the cultivators’ life force, and Xu Changqing found that Return to Origin reduced but did not stop the loss.
• Lu Wangchuan identified a weakened area in the northwest where he and Feng Buhui could try to tear open and stabilize an exit.

Lu Wangchuan and the cultivators joined forces to attack the Thunder Dragon while Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan opened an escape route through the Blood-Red Canopy. The exit widened, and Luo Qinghan and Huo Yuan launched a final pincer attack that further cracked the Thunder Dao Ancient God's finger bone.

• Huo Yuan unleashed his Divine Kingdom, while the Eastern Extremity Spirit Continent cultivators used their hidden powers and formations to hinder the Thunder Dragon and protect the others.
• The Thunder Dragon targeted Luo Qinghan with a compressed sphere of mixed laws, but she froze it and shattered it.
• Huo Yuan struck the Thunder Dragon's chest with Primal Heavy Water, exposing the finger bone, and Baili Hong slashed it, leaving a crack.
• Feng Buhui and Lu Wangchuan found and widened a spatial fissure in the canopy until it became an exit.
• Luo Qinghan froze the Thunder Dragon's head while Huo Yuan pierced its cracked finger bone with a Primal Heavy Water spear, widening the crack.

Luo Qinghan and her allies destroyed the Thunder Dragon, escaped the Blood-Red Canopy, and eliminated the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan survivor possessed by the Red-Clad Lord. The survivors recognized the threat of the Outsider Evil and began considering a wider investigation, while Xu Changqing suspected the same red power had escaped the Sea of Chaos.

• Luo Qinghan sealed the damaged finger bone and stored it in her Divine Kingdom as the spatial rift began closing.
• Feng Buhui led the group through the rift before the Blood-Red Canopy could seal it.
• The transformed Azure Thunder Ancient Clan survivor declared that the Red-Clad Lord would find them, but Luo Qinghan, Huo Yuan, and Baili Hong destroyed him and the canopy collapsed.
• Huo Yuan acknowledged Luo Qinghan's victory and warned that an Outsider Evil had infiltrated the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan for tens of thousands of years.
• Luo Qinghan proposed investigating bloodlines for signs of corruption, and Jin Buhuan recorded the events and promised to report them to the Myriad Manifestations Chamber of Commerce.
• Xu Changqing recognized the red power as the same force from the Sea of Chaos and wondered whether his Master had let it escape.

After destroying the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan and reporting the Red-Clad Lord’s emergence, Luo Qinghan and her companions continued toward the three suspected sites connected to the Evernight Ruins. Aboard the ship, they examined the Thunder Dao Ancient God Finger Bone and recognized its value as a lasting strategic resource for the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion.

• Jin Buhuan said he would report the Azure Thunder Ancient Clan’s destruction and investigate the Ten Ancient Clans’ ceremony records for signs of another clan worshipping the Red-Clad Lord.
• Luo Qinghan insisted that the group visit all three marked locations before the Evernight Ruins opened, and the others returned with her to their ship on Brightstar.
• After Jin Buhuan arranged a quick resupply, the ship departed Brightstar and headed toward the first suspected location between the Eastern Extremity Spirit Continent and the Northern Li Snow Continent.
• Luo Qinghan placed the sealed Thunder Dao Ancient God Finger Bone on the cabin table and explained how it could help cultivators study Ancient God-level Thunder Dao Laws.
• Jin Buhuan explained that the finger bone could benefit cultivators repeatedly, and Xu Changqing recognized its potential value to Jade Balance Star’s Wind and Thunder Directorate and Spirit Plant Bureau.

Xu Changqing searched the first Star Vein Fold for the Evernight Ruins entrance by sensing Wood Dao Law with his Five-Colored Primordial Radiance. He found a valuable Wood Dao Origin Stone but no trace of the Inverted Five Elements, leaving the first location ruled out.

• Lu Wangchuan identified the first search location between a brown dwarf and a gaseous giant, and Luo Qinghan instructed Xu Changqing to test it for signs of the Evernight Ruins.
• Xu Changqing used his Five-Colored Primordial Radiance to detect Wood Dao Law fluctuations throughout the Star Vein Fold.
• Xu Changqing found a hollow Star Core containing pure liquid Wood Qi and a fist-sized Wood Dao Origin Stone.
• Xu Changqing confirmed that the Wood Dao Law in the location followed the normal Five Elements cycle, so it was not the Evernight Ruins entrance.

Xu Changqing ruled out the first location as the entrance to the Evernight Ruins, so Luo Qinghan’s group headed for a dangerous region in the Lightless Starfield. As they approached the second location, Lu Wangchuan described its three extreme stars and revealed that the middle one was alive.

• Xu Changqing searched the first location with the Five-Colored Primordial Radiance, found only a Wood Dao Origin Stone, and determined that the normal Five-Element cycle ruled out the Evernight Ruins entrance.
• Luo Qinghan ordered Lu Wangchuan to mark the first location as false and set their course for the second point in the Lightless Starfield.
• Jin Buhuan warned that the second location contained rare mineral veins, lethal stellar environments, and unstable spatial fissures; Feng Buhui planned to use the fissures for a spatial sensing formation.
• After about twelve days of travel, the flying ship entered the lightless edge of the Lightless Starfield and neared the second location.
• Lu Wangchuan identified the three stars ahead as the liquid-metal Hell Star, the frozen Frozen Prison Star, and a middle star that was alive.

Xu Changqing agreed to investigate the Living Star, which might hide the Evernight Ruins, and Luo Qinghan accompanied him. On the way, Luo Qinghan revealed she had led the mission to gain rare resources from their master for her cultivation bottleneck, and Xu Changqing promised to help her.

• Lu Wangchuan explained that the Living Star was alive, resisted Divine Sense probes, and showed a powerful Wood Dao reaction that suggested the Evernight Ruins might lie inside it.
• Xu Changqing decided to investigate the Living Star despite the danger, and Luo Qinghan volunteered to accompany him.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan left the ship and flew through the Lightless Starfield toward the Living Star.
• Luo Qinghan told Xu Changqing that she had joined the mission to satisfy their master and obtain rare resources needed to advance her Cold Moon path.
• Xu Changqing promised Luo Qinghan that he would spare no effort to help her.

Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan landed on the Living Star, where he discovered its savage, disorderly Wood Dao Law might help him derive a reverse-growth path. After probing beneath the surface, Xu Changqing found that a barrier of Wood Dao Laws blocked his Divine Sense about two hundred li down, leaving him wondering what the star concealed.

• Xu Changqing recognized the Living Star's Wood Dao Law as an extreme, uncontrolled proliferation and privately considered using it to strengthen his cultivation.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan approached the Living Star while he decided not to release Chi Ye with so many observers nearby.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan landed on the Living Star's skin-like surface, where their body heat was rapidly absorbed.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan moved away from a massive wave that bulged and cracked the Living Star's surface.
• Xu Changqing probed beneath the surface with Azure Primordial Radiance and found a barrier of dense Wood Dao Laws roughly two hundred li below.

Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan were swallowed by a fissure on the Living Star and discovered an immense underground space filled with strange living roots and plants. Luo Qinghan concluded that someone had deliberately cultivated the Living Star as a vessel.

• An unexpectedly powerful fluctuation split the ground beneath Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan, and the fissure swallowed them before closing.
• Aboard the flying ship, Lu Wangchuan realized they had been swallowed, while Jin Buhuan recalled that everyone sent into the region had died; Baili Hong and Mo Li believed Luo Qinghan might still be safe.
• Xu Changqing regained his senses in a vast underground space where living roots produced seeds and plants that grew, withered, and were reabsorbed.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan found a massive tree-like plant bearing fungi and purple fruits filled with dense Life Force.
• Luo Qinghan told Xu Changqing that someone had deliberately cultivated the Living Star as a vessel.

Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan discovered that the Living Star was a planet-sized vessel cultivated by an unknown power in the dangerous Endless Starfield. After confirming the Inverted Five Elements were not there, they decided to find an exit while remaining wary of the vessel’s owner.

• Xu Changqing realized the Living Star and its neighboring planets had been deliberately fashioned to cultivate the planet as a living vessel.
• Luo Qinghan explained that the Endless Starfield was beyond True Lord of Myriad Realms’ close attention, allowing evil entities and hidden cultivators to operate unchecked.
• Xu Changqing suspected an unknown person or faction above the Mahayana realm had chosen the Lightless Starfield and its extreme planets as a secluded cultivation ground.
• Luo Qinghan expanded her Vacuum Dharma Realm around Xu Changqing and warned that they might struggle to leave if the vessel’s owner was present.
• Xu Changqing confirmed the Inverted Five Elements were not in the Living Star, so he and Luo Qinghan agreed to search for an exit.

Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan searched for an exit through the Living Star’s vast underground space, passing extraordinary spiritual plants they dared not harvest. Xu Changqing detected a rhythmic fluctuation resembling the one he had sensed on the star’s surface, leaving them with a possible clue to the way out.

• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan explored the underground space while he used Azure Primordial Radiance to search for danger and an exit.
• Xu Changqing discovered Wood Marrow Crystal Dew and Thousand-Year Lifebinding Vine fruits but refrained from taking them because doing so might attract their owner or another threat.
• Xu Changqing recognized a Wood Dao Three-Lives Fruit bearing three fruits, but chose not to risk taking them while Luo Qinghan was with him.
• Xu Changqing reasoned that the increasingly rare plants pointed toward the underground space’s center, where the owner might be, and Luo Qinghan agreed.
• Xu Changqing detected a steady fluctuation that sorted nearby Wood Dao Laws and resembled the periodic fluctuation he had sensed on the Living Star’s surface.

Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan discovered that a World Tree formed the core of the underground space, where flower buds nurtured living people and branches bore Human-Head Fruits. They traced the fluctuations to a ring-shaped fold where the tree pierced the dome and reached it, finding its trembling cilia matched the incoming signals.

• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan followed the fluctuations until they reached an enormous World Tree at the end of the underground space.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan found flower buds around the roots that contained life auras, and Xu Changqing suspected they were growing people.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan concluded they needed to escape, then traced the fluctuations to the place where the World Tree's trunk pierced the dome.
• Luo Qinghan carried Xu Changqing upward on a platform of extreme cold, and they saw thousands of human-faced fruits hanging from the tree's branches.
• Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan reached the trunk's ring-shaped fold and found its cilia trembling at the same frequency as the incoming fluctuations.

Xu Changqing and Luo Qinghan escaped the Living Star by exploiting a brief weakness in its proliferating laws, then rejoined the spacecraft. As they traveled toward the third suspected entrance to the Evernight Ruins, Xu Changqing explained that the Living Star had been built to cultivate people as nourishment for a World Tree.

• Xu Changqing used reverse Five-Colored Primordial Radiance during a fluctuation to force open a passage through the Living Star's law barrier, and he and Luo Qinghan escaped.
• Luo Qinghan urged Xu Changqing to move, and Lu Wangchuan brought the spacecraft to collect them before they fled the Living Star.
• Luo Qinghan ordered Lu Wangchuan to head for the third suspected entrance to the Evernight Ruins, near the border of the Lightless Starfield and Northern Li Snow Continent.
• After more than two days of travel, Xu Changqing told the group that the Living Star contained a World Tree with people sealed in flower buds, where they were used as nourishment.
• Lu Wangchuan and Jin Buhuan realized that missing miners and Rogue Cultivators had been planted inside the Living Star, while Luo Qinghan concluded that its power differed from that of the Red-Clad Lord.