Recaps

After being swallowed by a Starry Sky Behemoth, Lin Qing found himself in its dark, corrosive interior, where spiritual power and divine sense were suppressed. He tried to find a route back toward the creature’s mouth, but a powerful suction swept him away again.

• Lin Qing put away his Flying Vessel and endured the fall through the Starry Sky Behemoth, landing on a damp surface inside it.
• Lin Qing used Primordial Insight to survey the pitch-black interior and spotted other people from An Ke'er's Flying Vessel, but chose to avoid them.
• Lin Qing shook corrosive slime from his palm, then moved carefully across the slippery ground while searching for the direction back to the behemoth’s mouth.
• Before Lin Qing had gone five kilometers, powerful suction from one end of the passage pulled him into the air again.

Lin Qing and a Myriad Stars Immortal Court cultivator found themselves in a valley of folds inside the Starry Sky Behemoth, where they encountered strange worms. The cultivator wounded one worm, but the others nearby began to stir.

• Lin Qing landed near a Myriad Stars Immortal Court cultivator, and the two cautiously agreed to travel together.
• The cultivator used his blood and vitality to light their surroundings, then led Lin Qing toward higher ground while calling for An Ke'er and the other disciples.
• Lin Qing spotted translucent, slug-like worms approaching, and the cultivator drew his longsword as they closed in.
• The cultivator dodged a worm’s attack and cut a deep wound into its body.
• Lin Qing noticed that the distant worms began to shudder and stir after the first worm was struck.

Lin Qing and a man fled uphill along a narrow ridge as swarms of bugs pursued them. After the man spotted his senior brother approaching, he abandoned his plan to kill Lin Qing for the stone tablet, but as they moved to meet the newcomer, he prepared to attack when the ridges blocked their view.

• The man led Lin Qing up to a narrow ridge to limit the directions from which the bugs could attack.
• The pair raced along the ridge while the man knocked bugs aside, growing increasingly irritated that Lin Qing was not helping.
• The man stopped and prepared to attack Lin Qing, but he spotted his senior brother approaching from behind Lin Qing.
• The man dropped his immediate plan to seize Lin Qing's stone tablet and headed toward his senior brother, while Lin Qing dodged bugs during the difficult return journey.
• When the two red glows reached a low stretch where other ridges blocked their view of each other, the man turned toward Lin Qing and contracted his red glow, preparing to strike.

Lin Qing survived an ambush by a Heavenly Immortal by sending him into an insect’s mouth, then fled with another senior brother and reunited with the other disciples. The group learned that Ji Chen and Yue Qiao had died and began searching for An Ke’er, whose strength might give them a chance to escape.

• The man extinguished his bloody glow and lunged at Lin Qing, but Lin Qing dodged and struck him into an insect’s mouth, where he was bitten in two.
• Lin Qing called out to the approaching senior brother and tried to pull the man’s legs from the insect before the senior brother arrived and dragged him away.
• The senior brother led Lin Qing along the ridgeline as bloody glows appeared across the area and the disciples moved toward one another.
• A little over ten minutes later, the disciples reunited, and Lin Qing’s senior brother reported that Ji Chen had died.
• Another disciple reported that Yue Qiao had died, and the group asked whether anyone had seen An Ke’er.

Lin Qing and the Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples fled the ridge when a Starry Sky Behemoth sucked in a breath, but a panicked female cultivator pulled Lin Qing loose and both were swept away. After they landed in a larger folded space, she blamed him and attacked, leaving Lin Qing fighting her as bugs began stirring nearby.

• The disciples formed a group and advanced down the ridge, with Lin Qing protected in the middle as they killed the bugs.
• A senior brother ordered everyone into a valley when the bugs stopped attacking, and they clung to the ground as the Starry Sky Behemoth's suction pulled at them.
• A panicked female cultivator grabbed Lin Qing, pulling them both into the air; a senior sister failed to save them when Lin Qing's clothing tore.
• After the suction ended, Lin Qing and the woman landed in a larger folded space, where she accused him and drew her sword.
• Lin Qing activated Unwavering Until Death, slapped the woman, and fought her as bugs in the distance began to stir.

Lin Qing killed a female Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciple and absorbed her corpse to reduce the time needed for his breakthrough. The other disciples caught him with her remains and chased him deeper into the Starry Sky Behemoth.

• Lin Qing baited the female disciple into a close-range attack, tore out her throat, and killed her.
• The Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples argued over searching for Lin Qing and the woman, then agreed to look for half an hour before retreating.
• Lin Qing absorbed the female disciple's corpse, reducing his estimated breakthrough time from two hundred years to one hundred and seventy.
• The disciples discovered Lin Qing holding the woman's dried corpse, and he fled when they shouted at him.
• Lin Qing ran deeper into the Starry Sky Behemoth, plunging into areas crowded with worms to escape the pursuing experts.

Lin Qing deliberately led the Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples through the dangerous folds to prevent them from reuniting with the powerful An Ke'er. After crossing into the next region, he found it dangerous but survivable, while the pursuit continued behind him.

• Lin Qing fled through the swarm without attracting the insects, while the Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples pursued him noisily.
• The disciples suspected Lin Qing was hiding his strength, but decided to keep chasing until they left the region and then wait for An Ke'er.
• The pursuers revealed that An Ke'er was stronger than Immortal King Xu Yong and had been sent to hunt the Starry Sky Behemoth.
• Lin Qing and the disciples endured another breath from the Starry Sky Behemoth, then resumed their pursuit after taunting each other.
• Lin Qing crossed the final fold into a more dangerous region and felt relieved that it was not immediately fatal.

Lin Qing entered the Starry Sky Behemoth’s Vesicle Zone and learned that gaps between vesicles could shelter cultivators from its breathing. He headed for a shipwreck to seek safety and valuables, but blades rose from its darkness, revealing a hidden threat.

• Lin Qing crossed into the Vesicle Zone while the Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples stopped at its boundary, recognizing that the ground had changed.
• The Starry Sky Behemoth breathed in, scattering the disciples and sweeping Lin Qing through the air among the vesicles; he used them to stay in the zone.
• Lin Qing spotted sheltered gaps between clustered vesicles and saw shipwrecks and cultivator remains there.
• One Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciple was sucked into the Digestion Pool, and the others heard the disciple's brief scream.
• Lin Qing ran toward a shipwreck in a sheltered gap, hoping to find refuge and valuables, but metal blades rose from a dark corner inside it.

Lin Qing discovered that metallic beetles infested the crevices and could devour a cultivator’s bones, making the shelters from the Starry Sky Behemoth’s breathing dangerous as well. After locating the five surviving Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples, he tried to lure beetles toward them, but a silver object suddenly appeared in front of him.

• Lin Qing saw metallic beetles swarm and kill a Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciple by gnawing away his bones.
• Lin Qing found beetles emerging from the spaceship wreck and retreated when they rushed toward him.
• Lin Qing searched the Vesicle Zone for a safe crevice, but found beetles in every one he examined.
• Lin Qing observed that one of the eight pursuing disciples had been swept into the Digestion Pool, two had died to beetles, and the remaining five had regrouped.
• Lin Qing began disturbing beetles to lure them toward the five disciples, but a silver object appeared before him.

Lin Qing encountered a silver water sphere that could communicate and led it while fleeing from Xie Chen and the Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples through swarms of beetles. As beetles rushed for the crevices ahead of the Starry Sky Behemoth’s next breath, the sphere suddenly turned into a needle and stabbed toward Lin Qing’s chest.

• Lin Qing greeted the silver water sphere, which replied that he smelled delicious but it did not eat meat.
• When the ground began turning red, Lin Qing fled with the sphere as Xie Chen and the Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples pursued him.
• Lin Qing ran into a vast crevice, relying on the sphere to keep the beetles away, and the pursuers retreated before deciding to enter his crevice to escape the coming breath.
• The beetles abruptly crawled toward nearby crevices, and the senior brother led his team toward Lin Qing’s location.
• As Lin Qing prepared to run deeper into the crevice, the sphere said it could not stand it anymore, transformed into a needle, and stabbed toward his chest.

Lin Qing rejected the little thing’s shared-life contract, then accepted its offer to become his master and used it as a flying sword against the pursuing Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples. He disrupted their attempt to surround him, but the five remained close behind.

• The little thing stabbed Lin Qing, then offered a contract that would make them share life and death; Lin Qing refused it.
• The little thing offered to acknowledge Lin Qing as its master, and Lin Qing accepted, allowing them to communicate through their minds.
• The little thing devoured several beetles, then stopped at Lin Qing’s request and transformed into a longsword under his control.
• The five Myriad Stars Immortal Court disciples charged Lin Qing, and he used the flying sword to stagger one disciple and force another to dodge.
• Lin Qing moved through gaps in their disrupted formation, preventing the five from surrounding him effectively.

Lin Qing drove five disciples of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court into the Digestion Pool, but nearly fell in himself before An Ke'er caught him. After rescuing him and other disciples, An Ke'er asked why someone had called Lin Qing for help.

• Lin Qing forced the five disciples to fall with him from the Vesicle Zone toward the Digestion Pool as the Starry Sky Behemoth breathed in.
• Lin Qing slowed his fall with the silver water sphere, but the five disciples sank into the pool while he continued descending.
• An Ke'er caught Lin Qing by the wrist as the suction stopped and held several other disciples of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court.
• An Ke'er returned everyone to the Vesicle Zone and asked Lin Qing why someone had called to him for help.

Lin Qing escaped the Starry Sky Behemoth with An Ke'er and the surviving disciples, while An Ke'er broke one of its teeth to free them. After the group retreated, An Ke'er revealed her immense Dharma Image and began fighting the beast.

• Lin Qing told An Ke'er he could not save the disciples he had encountered, and she led the survivors onward.
• An Ke'er shattered one of the Starry Sky Behemoth's teeth, allowing the group to fly out of its mouth.
• An Ke'er sent Lin Qing and the other disciples away aboard her Flying Vessel while she stayed to confront the beast.
• An Ke'er summoned a Dharma Image over nine hundred million kilometers tall, astonishing Lin Qing.
• An Ke'er declared the Starry Sky Behemoth a threat to the Myriad Stars Immortal Court and attacked it with her Life-Bound Treasure longsword.

An Ke'er fought off a Starry Sky Behemoth that seemed to be targeting Lin Qing, then continued to the Sin Abyss with him. There, she asked him about Xingdu and ordered him to lead her to Hua Yao and Tu Mi, leaving Lin Qing worried that his identity would be exposed.

• An Ke'er battled the Starry Sky Behemoth for two days with the Moon Law and Illusion Law, but it escaped after looking toward Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing suspected the Starry Sky Behemoth had targeted him and asked to remain with An Ke'er, who agreed.
• An Ke'er continued toward the Sin Abyss instead of returning to the Myriad Stars Immortal Court.
• At the Sin Abyss, An Ke'er asked Xie Chen what he knew about Xingdu and the two women close to him.
• Lin Qing worried Hua Yao and Tu Mi would reveal his cultivation and departure from the Sin Abyss, but admitted he knew a little.
• An Ke'er stopped the Flying Vessel and told her disciples to wait while she ordered Lin Qing to take her to Hua Yao and Tu Mi.

An Ke'er brought Lin Qing toward the Sin Abyss, recovered the Token he had discarded, and learned about the flowing silver weapon on his wrist. After they reached Hua Yao and Tu Mi, An Ke'er failed to find out where Xingdu was and decided to make Lin Qing take his place.

• An Ke'er retrieved the white Token from the danger zone where Lin Qing had discarded it, and Lin Qing persuaded her that Xingdu might already have a master.
• An Ke'er identified the silver sphere on Lin Qing's wrist as flowing silver, a weapon that could grow by consuming metallic minerals.
• An Ke'er and Lin Qing disguised themselves and traveled to Hua Yao's villa, where they found Hua Yao and Tu Mi.
• An Ke'er asked the two women where Xingdu was, and they reacted with alarm, asking whether something had happened to him.
• An Ke'er started to raise her hand, but Lin Qing interrupted her before she could search the women's souls.
• An Ke'er gave up questioning Hua Yao and Tu Mi, then declared that Xie Chen would be Xingdu from then on.

Lin Qing revealed to Hua Yao and Tu Mi that he was Xingdu, then waited while An Ke'er had Immortal King Zui Ji prepare a treasure to conceal his identity. After more than ten days, An Ke'er returned with the necklace and told Lin Qing to live as Xingdu from then on.

• An Ke'er left Lin Qing with Hua Yao and Tu Mi to learn Xingdu's habits while she made arrangements.
• Lin Qing revealed his Xingdu appearance and life fluctuations, then identified himself as Lin Qing to convince Hua Yao and Tu Mi.
• Lin Qing explained how An Ke'er had found him after he discarded her Token, and the women learned that he had survived an encounter with a Starry Sky Behemoth.
• An Ke'er visited Immortal King Zui Ji and asked him to make a magical treasure that could hide the differences between Lin Qing and Xingdu.
• After more than ten days, An Ke'er returned with a necklace for Lin Qing and told him to remember that he was Xingdu.

Lin Qing returned to the Myriad Stars Immortal Court disguised as Xingdu, while An Ke'er protected his identity and tried to explain his apparent rise in cultivation. The chapter ended with An Ke'er finding a possible explanation in the sect's database: dual cultivation.

• An Ke'er made Lin Qing impersonate Xingdu and brought him back to her Flying Vessel, where he greeted her disciples as her new disciple.
• An Ke'er told a junior sister to inform the sect that Xingdu was under her protection and ordered her not to reveal the suspicion that Xingdu was Lin Qing.
• The Myriad Stars Immortal Court canceled its investigation into Yuan Shuo, Yue Shu, and the others, and Lin Qing arrived at the Court with An Ke'er a few days later.
• An Ke'er questioned Lin Qing about his combat strength and assumed his cultivation had risen through an equal contract with Flowing Silver.
• An Ke'er searched the sect database for a way to explain Xingdu's rapid cultivation increase and settled on dual cultivation.

Lin Qing refused An Ke'er's proposal to arrange a cultivation partner and asked for a detailed star map instead. After studying it, he found no familiar places and wondered whether the Milky Way Galaxy lay in the Hercules Realm, while news of his arrival stirred jealousy among the Myriad Stars Immortal Court's younger generation.

• An Ke'er proposed that Lin Qing pose as someone’s cultivation partner to explain his rapid cultivation, but Lin Qing insisted they claim he had a mysterious partner without involving a real woman.
• An Ke'er agreed, then grew cool toward Lin Qing when he asked for a favor, though she softened after he requested a detailed star map.
• An Ke'er gave Lin Qing a jade slip containing a star map and sent a maid to take him to his new residence, the Star Palace.
• Lin Qing asked Bai Ling to show him the cultivation chamber and spent five days examining the star map, but he found no familiar place-names.
• Lin Qing considered whether the Milky Way Galaxy was in the Hercules Realm, while news of An Ke'er taking him as a disciple spread and stirred jealousy among young cultivators.

While Lin Qing completed his cultivation arts, he learned that absorbing others' essence, energy, and spirit required time to digest, complicating his plans to advance rapidly through the Immortal Realm. After An Ke'er sent him to answer the challenges against him, she gave him a White Jade Gourd to preserve his opponents' essence, energy, and spirit.

• Lin Qing perfected his remaining Twelfth-Tier Cultivation Arts and discovered that his body needed one day to digest each year of cultivation time gained through absorption.
• Lin Qing decided to focus on absorbing enough essence, energy, and spirit to resume his progress toward the True Immortal Realm.
• Bai Ling told Lin Qing that An Ke'er wanted to see him after he left seclusion.
• An Ke'er showed Lin Qing the online insults and challenges, and Lin Qing revealed that his Wind Will had reached perfection.
• Lin Qing agreed to fight the challengers to the death, and An Ke'er gave him a White Jade Gourd to preserve what he collected.

Lin Qing, using his new official identity Xingdu, announced a deadly challenge for twelfth-tier disciples on White Peace Star, and An Ke'er approved the terms. The next day, with the sect assembled to watch, he called for his first opponent.

• Bai Ling gave Lin Qing a genuine Myriad Stars Immortal Court identity named Xingdu, along with a Disciple Token and other supplies.
• Lin Qing posted that he had reached the mid-twelfth tier and would fight challengers to the death on White Peace Star the next day.
• An Ke'er pinned her approval beneath Lin Qing's announcement, and Bai Ling arranged the arena.
• Disciples gathered around White Peace Star, while a Heavenly Immortal core disciple opened a betting pool and some who knew Lin Qing's strength wagered on Xingdu.
• An Ke'er and several elders presided over the battles at sea, and Lin Qing invited the assembled disciples to challenge him.

Lin Qing, fighting under the name Xingdu, defeated a succession of Myriad Stars Immortal Court challengers and collected their corpses in a White Jade Gourd. After he invited late-twelfth-tier opponents to fight, An Ke'er tried to call him back, but an effeminate male voice encouraged the match.

• Wang Yiyang challenged Lin Qing, who warned him about the danger before accepting the fight.
• Lin Qing killed Wang Yiyang with a single sword slash and stored his corpse in the White Jade Gourd.
• Lin Qing defeated several more challengers, revealing his perfected wind will against an opponent skilled in two kinds of willpower.
• With no more mid-twelfth-tier challengers stepping forward, Lin Qing opened the field to late-twelfth-tier opponents.
• An Ke'er told Lin Qing to return, but an effeminate male voice said he should be allowed to fight a late-twelfth-tier opponent.

At Mo Xun’s urging, An Ke’er let Xingdu continue fighting, and Mo Xun offered to take anyone who defeated him as a disciple. After beating several challengers, Lin Qing invited the strongest late-eleventh-tier experts to attack him together.

• Mo Xun challenged An Ke’er’s decision to stop Xingdu, and she angrily agreed to let him fight.
• Mo Xun announced that he would take Xingdu’s victor as his personal disciple, drawing cultivators from across the Myriad Stars Immortal Court to White Peace Star.
• Lin Qing defeated several early challengers while waiting for more powerful opponents to arrive.
• Luo Zhao, Qi Fei, and other formidable cultivators arrived and argued over who would fight Lin Qing first.
• Lin Qing told the challengers to attack him together, and they angrily demanded to know whether he understood what he was saying.

Lin Qing fought Luo Zhao and five other late-twelfth-tier cultivators, revealing perfected Wind and Thunder Wills and defeating them one after another. An Ke'er stopped him from killing the last survivor, while Mo Xun left vowing to remember him.

• Lin Qing struck Luo Zhao and forced the other fighters back with a wave of sword energy, while refusing to summon his Dharma Image.
• Luo Zhao and the others summoned their Dharma Images and attacked Lin Qing, who evaded them with perfected Wind Will.
• Lin Qing changed Flowing Silver into a spear and revealed that he had also perfected Thunder Will, turning the fight in his favor.
• Lin Qing killed Luo Zhao and the other fighters until only Qi Fei remained, then stopped when An Ke'er asked him to spare Qi Fei.
• An Ke'er ended the battles and taunted Mo Xun, who left angrily after saying he would remember Lin Qing.

After absorbing the corpses he had collected, Lin Qing remained just short of reaching the Immortal Realm and went with Qi Fei to sell his spoils. At the merchant association, he found Bai Ling being mocked with a rumor about her and Xingdu, and Lin Qing became genuinely angry.

• An Ke'er explained that she had spared Qi Fei because Lin Qing had joined the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, and Lin Qing took Qi Fei with him rather than send her away.
• Lin Qing returned to his palace, left Qi Fei in Bai Ling's care, and absorbed the corpses in his cultivation room, but still fell ten years short of the essence, energy, and spirit he needed to ascend.
• Lin Qing asked Qi Fei to take him to a nearby market to sell items from the storage rings he had collected.
• Qi Fei told Lin Qing that Mo Xun had taken a disciple at the mid-twelfth tier, which Lin Qing thought would keep Mo Xun occupied and make him safer for the time being.
• At the merchant association, Lin Qing found Bai Ling being mocked over a rumor that she had practiced dual cultivation with Xingdu to help him improve, and he felt genuinely angry.

Lin Qing intervened when a merchant association crowd mistreated Bai Ling, then learned she was preparing to serve at the Great Wall. Bai Ling had fewer than a hundred years before she left, leaving Lin Qing stunned by the difference in their sense of time.

• Lin Qing arrived with Qi Fei and demanded to know who had slandered Bai Ling and him.
• The merchant association members blamed one another and pushed a scrawny man forward, whom Lin Qing slapped.
• The scrawny man knelt and apologized, and Bai Ling struck him twice before Lin Qing warned the crowd not to repeat their remarks.
• Bai Ling told Lin Qing she was preparing supplies to serve at the Great Wall and had fewer than a hundred years until departure.
• Lin Qing was speechless at the short wait, since he considered a hundred years ample time to reach Golden Immortal.