Chapter Summaries

After Ji Yuan impressed Dugu Yan in battle, she offered him access to the Martial God Blood Pool in exchange for joining a mission, and he accepted. At the blood pool, he learned why Dugu Yan had been cast out of the Heavenly Strategy Residence just as a Nirvana Realm elder summoned those seeking to advance.

• Dugu Yan verified that Ji Yuan's military merit records were accurate and offered him a place in the Martial God Blood Pool in exchange for ten years of service, then changed the terms to one mission after Ji Yuan refused.
• Ji Yuan agreed to accompany Dugu Yan on an undisclosed mission after she promised the pool would help him reach the Golden Body Mystic Bone Peak.
• Dugu Yan brought Ji Yuan to the blood pool with a group of body cultivators, where Instructor Huo told them to wait for the pool to recover.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the blood pool was refined from demon essence blood and could help Ji Yuan advance toward the Five Viscera Furnace Realm, though it would not suffice for reaching Nirvana.
• A burly body cultivator told Ji Yuan that Dugu Yan had been expelled from the Heavenly Strategy Residence after publicly challenging its elders over their pursuit of the Martial God Tower.
• A gray-robed Nirvana Realm elder opened the chamber and called forward those seeking to advance to the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm Peak.

Ji Yuan entered the Martial God Blood Pool and pushed deeper than the other cultivators, attracting the attention of a Nirvana Realm woman from Army-Breaking Hall. He stopped where the cave’s blood energy reached his limit and broke through to the peak of the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm.

• Ji Yuan entered the blood pool and continued past the other body cultivators because Ninefold Profound Yang let him withstand the dense vitality.
• Ji Yuan reached the cave entrance, where the gray-robed elder allowed him to go inside after seeing how far he had advanced.
• A Nirvana Realm woman invited Ji Yuan to join Army-Breaking Hall, but he declined after explaining his circumstances.
• Ji Yuan continued deeper into the cave until the pressure in his meridians forced him to stop and cultivate.
• Ji Yuan used the Ninefold Profound Yang technique to absorb the cave’s blood energy and broke through to the peak of the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm.

Ji Yuan learned that Dugu Yan’s expedition was headed to Star Abyss to find Starlight Mica, and he joined her party after reaching Facing-Abyss City. As the group entered Star Abyss and headed toward Fallen Star Valley, True Person Qingyuan sensed that something was wrong.

• Ji Yuan read Dugu Yan’s Jade Slip and discovered that her mission was to retrieve Starlight Mica from Fallen Star Valley in Star Abyss, where he also hoped to search for Stardust and Time Sand.
• Dugu Yan took Ji Yuan to Facing-Abyss City, where they met True Person Qingyuan, Xu Youxia, and Huang Lou Lou; True Person Qingyuan objected to Ji Yuan joining the dangerous expedition, but Dugu Yan stood by him.
• Ji Yuan learned that Xu Youxia was the disciple of Partridge Whistle, a rumored Void Realm powerhouse, and the group flew from Facing-Abyss City toward Star Abyss.
• The group entered Star Abyss, where the Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that a Mahayana Realm sword cultivator had split the original island with one strike during the fall of the Heavenly Court.
• Dugu Yan checked their position and led the party toward Fallen Star Valley, but True Person Qingyuan examined his Star Orbit and warned that something was wrong with Star Abyss.

Ji Yuan and Dugu Yan’s group pressed deeper into Star Abyss despite its unusually active spiritual energy, then were trapped by a vast storm of Floating-Dust Sand. After escaping the storm into a cavern and defeating a Stone Ape, Ji Yuan sensed a hidden fluctuation at the center of the sand surrounding them.

• True Person Qingyuan warned that Star Abyss’s spiritual energy was abnormally active, but Dugu Yan decided the group would continue toward Fallen Star Valley.
• The group flew through Star Abyss until a massive Floating-Dust Sand storm swallowed them and carried them for three days.
• Ji Yuan detected a gap in the sand cloud and escaped through it ahead of the others, then dodged a Stone Ape’s attack as the group emerged into its cavern.
• True Person Qingyuan trapped the Stone Ape with Formation Banners while Dugu Yan and Xu Youxia killed it and took its Abyss Core.
• The group found Floating-Dust Sand filling the surrounding Void and learned other cultivators were trapped there too; Ji Yuan sensed a hidden fluctuation at the center of the sand and moved behind the others.

Ji Yuan and the other cultivators were trapped in the Star Abyss when two Star Beasts began slaughtering them, forcing the survivors to flee and hide. Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou concealed themselves in a cave, hoping to survive until Human Race experts arrived.

• Huang Lou Lou asked Ji Yuan about his origins, and he said he was an overseas rogue cultivator who served Lady Dugu and had learned from a master who had left years earlier.
• A Star Beast emerged from the starlight, killed and devoured two cultivators, and declared that the Star Beast Clan had returned to avenge its extermination.
• Dugu Yan, Xu Youxia, and True Person Qingyuan urged the cultivators to flee, and Dugu Yan used the Sky-Hanging Lotus to carry Ji Yuan and the others into the Floating-Dust Sand.
• A second, female Star Beast cut through the Sky-Hanging Lotus and attacked the group; True Person Qingyuan, Dugu Yan, Huang Lou Lou, and Xu Youxia escaped by using their own techniques.
• Ji Yuan fled toward the exit but turned aside after an explosion blocked the route, then found a hidden cave and encountered Huang Lou Lou.
• Huang Lou Lou concealed herself and Ji Yuan with her Seven-Colored Cloud Brocade, saying they needed to survive until Human Race experts arrived from Facing-Abyss City.

While hiding in the Star Abyss with Huang Lou Lou, Ji Yuan learned how the Star Beast Clan’s betrayal and later revenge led to its apparent extermination. After a teleportation vortex carried them to an Inverted Mountain, they fought off three cultivators for a Purple Spirit Stone and discovered Fallen Star Valley nearby, where a familiar voice addressed them.

• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that the Star Beast Clan secretly allied with demons and devils against humanity, was betrayed by the devils, and later massacred by an alliance of races, though a few Star Beasts survived.
• Huang Lou Lou offered to bring Ji Yuan into the Heavenly Strategy Residence, but a pursuing Star Beast forced them to flee after a blast exposed their hiding place.
• The Star Beast’s attack sent Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou through a sudden teleportation vortex to an Inverted Mountain, where they found a Low-Grade Purple Spirit Stone guarded by three cultivators.
• Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou defeated the three cultivators, took the Purple Spirit Stone, and warned them to leave before more Star Beasts arrived.
• Huang Lou Lou recognized their location as near Fallen Star Valley, and a familiar voice asked how they had ended up there.

Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou joined Dugu Yan and True Person Qingyuan in Fallen Star Valley, where they learned the real goal was to hunt a lightning-attribute Flood Dragon Abyss Beast for Dugu Yan’s ill younger sister. After accepting Dugu Yan’s protective treasures, Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou entered the beast’s lair as bait and discovered a Star Beast riding the Flood Dragon.

• Dugu Yan led Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou to True Person Qingyuan’s hiding place in Fallen Star Valley, and the group set out to find the creature she sought.
• The group fought off a Fourth Tier Abyss Beast, then reached a lightning-sealed cavern entrance where True Person Qingyuan explained that Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou had to lure out the Flood Dragon.
• Dugu Yan revealed that she needed the Flood Dragon’s Abyss Core to save her younger sister, Dugu Qing, and gave Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou Sky-Hanging Lotus treasures to protect them.
• Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou entered the lair, where Huang Lou Lou explained that the Dugu Household had cut off treatment for Dugu Qing after Dugu Yan fell out with them.
• A lightning wave surged through the passage, and Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou used their lotus leaves to shield themselves as the Flood Dragon approached.
• Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou saw a Star Beast sitting on the back of the Fifth-Tier Mutated Lightning Flood Dragon.

Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou fled the Star Beast, while Dugu Yan stayed to fight the Lightning Flood Dragon and True Person Qingyuan tried to delay their pursuer. Ji Yuan escaped to a secluded valley, where True Person Qingyuan died after entrusting him with a final message and his belongings, including the Fifth-Tier Fire-Attribute Demon Core Ji Yuan needed to upgrade the Pigsty.

• Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou escaped the Lightning Flood Dragon's lair, but the Star Beast pursued them into the cavern as Dugu Yan attacked the Flood Dragon and True Person Qingyuan raised a formation to hold the Star Beast back.
• The Star Beast found and destroyed True Person Qingyuan's formation core, then pursued him as Ji Yuan and Huang Lou Lou split up to flee by separate passages.
• True Person Qingyuan used a damaged Formation Banner to escape the Star Beast's attack, but arrived gravely wounded at the secluded valley where Ji Yuan had fled using the Star-Treading Wheel.
• True Person Qingyuan gave Ji Yuan a Jade Talisman and asked him to deliver a message to True Person Miaodao before dying and dissolving into starlight.
• Ji Yuan searched True Person Qingyuan's Storage Bag and found the Fifth-Tier Fire-Attribute Demon Core he needed to upgrade the Pigsty.

Ji Yuan used the newly acquired Fire-Attribute Demon Core to upgrade the Seventh-Level Pigsty, gaining the True Martial Divine Venerable transformation and discovering that the next upgrade could grant even greater powers. At the Martial God Tower, three powerful cultivators mistook him for a legendary figure, and he used their confusion to urge them to defend humanity from the Star Beasts.

• Ji Yuan entered the Seventh-Level Pigsty with all the required materials and upgraded it to Level Six, transforming the Scarlet Yang Blood Pigs into Golden-Flame Blood Dragon Pigs.
• Ji Yuan activated the True Martial Divine Venerable form, which raised his strength to the Spirit Transformation Late Stage but rapidly consumed his blood and vitality.
• Ji Yuan inspected the Level Seven upgrade requirements, learned of new divine abilities and the True Martial Emperor form, and left the Pigsty after deciding those materials were beyond his reach for now.
• Ji Yuan found the Martial God Tower and overheard Mad Blade, Zhao Changkong, and Lei Pojun discussing how to retrieve it near the Demon God Continent.
• The three cultivators mistook Ji Yuan for the Martial Deity or the tower’s artifact spirit, and Ji Yuan told them that Star Beasts were slaughtering humans throughout the Star Abyss and condemned their focus on the tower.

Ji Yuan witnessed the Stellar Loose Immortal and his companion being hunted by a Twin-Horned Star Beast, then intervened when the beast cornered the elder. Ji Yuan’s demonic transformation gave way to a golden divine form, and he struck the Star Beast with overwhelming force.

• Mad Blade, Zhao Changkong, and Lei Pojun learned that the Star Beasts had survived and left to deal with their attack on the Human Race.
• Ji Yuan warned the Martial God Tower’s artifact spirit that the three experts planned to return for the tower, then resumed cultivation inside Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Two days later, Ji Yuan saw a Twin-Horned Star Beast pursuing the injured Stellar Loose Immortal and his companion; the black-robed man sacrificed himself in an explosion that failed to kill the beast.
• The Twin-Horned Star Beast defeated the Stellar Loose Immortal, who prepared to detonate his Dantian before Ji Yuan appeared and drew the beast’s attack.
• Ji Yuan transformed from demonic armor into a golden divine form, broke free of the Star Beast’s grip, and punched it through the air with enough force to smash it through two mountains.

Ji Yuan killed the Twin-Horned Star Beast and escaped with the injured Stellar Loose Immortal, but using his secret transformation left him badly weakened. As they recovered, Ji Yuan obtained Stardust and learned that Time Sand might be found in the dangerous River of Time; their discussion was interrupted by a crash outside the cave.

• Ji Yuan used Stone's-Throw Spear to track the Twin-Horned Star Beast through the Void, then crushed its escape route with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and killed it with a spear thrust.
• Ji Yuan rescued the injured Stellar Loose Immortal, and they fled the Star Abyss to a secluded cave where Ji Yuan collapsed from the backlash of his secret art.
• The Stellar Loose Immortal told Ji Yuan that the Army-Breaking Hall had received news of the Star Beasts' return and that reinforcements might come.
• Ji Yuan revealed that he had sought the Stellar Loose Immortal to trade for Stardust, and the elder gave him two grains instead.
• The Stellar Loose Immortal said Time Sand might be found in the River of Time on the Kunwu Continent and gave Ji Yuan a Jade Slip containing routes there.
• A tremendous crash outside the cave shook its walls as Ji Yuan and the Stellar Loose Immortal looked up.

Ji Yuan and Stellar Loose Immortal witnessed Lei Pojun lead the Human Race counterattack in the Star Abyss, where he slew a Three-Horned Star Beast and confronted a Devil Race intruder. They escaped the Star Abyss amid a clash involving Lei Pojun, the Devil Race, and Ao Ba, and Ji Yuan turned back to see an unforgettable sight.

• Lei Pojun arrived and split the heavens with a spear strike, decapitating a Three-Horned Star Beast as Human Race reinforcements charged into the Star Abyss.
• Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that Lei Pojun had likely reached or crossed the threshold of the Dao Body Realm.
• The Three-Horned Star Beast regenerated its head, and a claw from a Void rift tried to seize it before Lei Pojun struck the claw and identified the enemy as part of the Devil Race.
• Ao Ba confronted the Devil Race voice and rejected its invitation to return to the Demon God Continent, while Lei Pojun prepared to fight beside him.
• Stellar Loose Immortal guided Ji Yuan out of the Star Abyss, and Ji Yuan turned back after escaping to behold a sight he would never forget.

Ao Ba forced the Devil Race to retreat, cleared the Star Abyss of Star Beasts, and sent the surviving cultivators out safely before sinking beneath the sea with the Star Abyss on his back. After recovering in Facing-Abyss City, Ji Yuan learned more about the attacks and planned to retrieve True Person Qingyuan’s legacy before traveling to the Kunwu Continent; meanwhile, powerful cultivators gathered at Blackwater Pool as a portal opened over Cangluo Continent.

• Ao Ba ordered the Devil Race to leave, and Lei Pojun killed the remaining Star Beasts in the Star Abyss before Ao Ba sank beneath the sea with it.
• Ao Ba cast the surviving Human Race cultivators out of the Star Abyss unharmed, and Ji Yuan accepted Stellar Loose Immortal’s offer to recover at his cave abode in Facing-Abyss City.
• After two months, Ji Yuan and Stellar Loose Immortal discussed their plans to travel to the Kunwu Continent, and Stellar Loose Immortal told Ji Yuan to seek out Loose Immortal Lin Zhong there.
• Ji Yuan gathered news in a Facing-Abyss City teahouse, learned that the Star Beasts had attacked other continents and that their lair lay on the Eternal Fall Continent, then decided to retrieve what True Person Qingyuan had left behind.
• Powerful cultivators gathered around Blackwater Pool as a portal opened above it; the Spirit-Communing High Person challenged Tian Wenjing, and Lu Zhou wondered whether anyone from the Immortal Prison would appear.

Ji Yuan delivered True Person Qingyuan’s keepsakes and final message to Immortal Aunt Cloud Mountain, who revealed their shared past and found the letters he had written to her. He then booked passage aboard the Sun-Chaser toward Spirit Dragon Island, where an old acquaintance unexpectedly contacted him.

• Ji Yuan used Qingyuan’s token and code phrase to collect a handkerchief from Bai Trading House.
• Ji Yuan brought the handkerchief to Immortal Aunt Cloud Mountain and told her Qingyuan had died in the Star Abyss.
• Immortal Aunt Cloud Mountain recalled her childhood with Qingyuan and learned he had never blamed her or stopped waiting for her.
• Ji Yuan returned Qingyuan’s letters and other keepsakes, and Xu Qingyuan read the letters addressed to her.
• Ji Yuan chose the Huang Family’s Sun-Chaser for its faster voyage from Willow Leaf Island to Spirit Dragon Island.
• After Ji Yuan boarded the Sun-Chaser, a familiar voice asked what he was doing there.

Ji Yuan reunited with Xu Youxia aboard the Sun-Chaser and learned that the Partridge Armor could lead him to Xu Youxia’s master, Partridge Whistle. As the Flying Boat neared Spirit Dragon Island, a sword-wielding attacker split it apart, and the Sea Dragon Clan revealed it wanted Xu Youxia dead because Partridge Whistle had stolen its greatest treasure.

• Xu Youxia reunited with Ji Yuan and told him he had been separated from their companions after the Star Abyss, while Ji Yuan revealed that True Person Qingyuan had died protecting Dugu Yan.
• Ji Yuan showed Xu Youxia the Partridge Armor, and Xu Youxia explained that his master had left suits of armor across the Human Realm to find disciples and promised Ji Yuan would be welcomed as one.
• As the Sun-Chaser approached the Spirit Dragon Trench, a man in a bamboo hat identified Xu Youxia as Partridge Whistle’s disciple and declared he would kill him.
• A sword-wielding man split the Sun-Chaser in two and killed its Huang Family owner with a second strike, while Flood Dragons rose from the trench beneath the wreckage.
• The bamboo-hatted attacker revealed himself as a Sea Dragon Clan member, trapped Ji Yuan and Xu Youxia beneath an enormous cage, and accused Partridge Whistle of stealing the clan’s greatest treasure.
• The Sea Dragon attacker summoned dozens of Flood Dragons to attack Xu Youxia, who tore the cloth from his saber.

Xu Youxia was overwhelmed by a Cross Sword Lineage swordsman until he summoned his master, Partridge Whistle, who froze the battlefield and killed the swordsman. Partridge Whistle then recognized Ji Yuan through the Partridge Armor and declared him his disciple.

• Xu Youxia fought the gray Flood Dragon and the swordsman, then used his Ninefold Wind-Thunder Transformation to kill the Flood Dragon before the swordsman severely wounded him.
• Ji Yuan prepared to escape as the battle turned against the cultivators, but Xu Youxia crushed a stone that summoned Partridge Whistle.
• Partridge Whistle froze everyone at Spirit Dragon Trench, rebuked Xu Youxia, and forced the Spirit Transformation Peak Stage swordsman to kneel.
• Partridge Whistle killed the swordsman with one blow and shut the rift through which Sword-Crossing Mountain had challenged him.
• Xu Youxia told Partridge Whistle that he had found their junior martial brother, and Partridge Whistle retrieved the Partridge Armor from Ji Yuan and declared him his disciple.

Ji Yuan accepted Partridge Whistle as his master, revealed that he practiced the Ninefold Profound Yang Technique and had entered the Martial God Tower, and received Partridge Whistle’s Ninefold Wind-Thunder Transformation. Partridge Whistle sent Ji Yuan to the Kunwu Continent to wait for his eldest senior sister, then departed after flattening the Spirit Dragon Trench with a single step.

• Ji Yuan became Partridge Whistle’s disciple after Xu Youxia urged him to accept the offer.
• Partridge Whistle questioned Ji Yuan about his body-cultivation foundation, and Ji Yuan demonstrated the Ninefold Profound Yang Technique and its Sun Overhead manifestation.
• Ji Yuan told Partridge Whistle that he had obtained the technique in the Martial God Tower and described how he had warned Mad Blade, Lei Pojun, and Zhao Changkong about the Star Beasts.
• Partridge Whistle gave Ji Yuan the Ninefold Wind-Thunder Transformation and a wind-and-lightning stone meant to save his life.
• Partridge Whistle told Ji Yuan to travel with Xu Youxia to the Kunwu Continent and wait at his eldest senior sister’s home while he returned to the Martial God Continent.
• Partridge Whistle departed, and Ji Yuan saw that his master’s step had flattened the Spirit Dragon Trench and killed more than a hundred Flood Dragons.

After Partridge Whistle destroyed Spirit Dragon Trench, Ji Yuan and Xu Youxia claimed two Fifth-Order Flood Dragon corpses and fled toward Spirit Dragon Island. Xu Youxia introduced Ji Yuan to their fellow disciples during their journey to Kunwu Continent, and the chapter ended with the pair arriving in Jade Parasol City and heading to a place Xu Youxia recommended.

• Xu Youxia gave the other surviving cultivators the remaining flood dragon corpses and took Ji Yuan away with two Fifth-Order Flood Dragons.
• Xu Youxia gave Ji Yuan a Wind-Thunder Stone that could summon a powerful phantom of Partridge Whistle, then told him about their senior siblings: Shen Xisheng, Jiang Nishang, Qin Kun, and Bai Zhan.
• Xu Youxia revealed that he was Ji Yuan's Fifth Senior Brother and led him toward Spirit Dragon Island, warning him that Shen Xisheng could even make Partridge Whistle behave.
• Xu Youxia and Ji Yuan passed a fleet investigating Spirit Dragon Trench by claiming they had escaped a Flood Dragon attack, then traveled for a year to Jade Parasol City on Kunwu Continent.
• Xu Youxia invited Ji Yuan to visit a place known for snake women, and Ji Yuan eagerly followed him into the city.

Ji Yuan explored Jade Parasol City and visited Myriad Demon Grotto with Xu Youxia, where he learned about Chen Xin and wondered whether the elusive Miss Tushan was his old companion Dong Qian. As Ji Yuan followed Xu Youxia deeper into the grotto, a woman behind him called him “Junior Brother Ji,” leaving her identity unknown.

• Ji Yuan settled into a courtyard in Jade Parasol City, sold several Dharma Treasures, and kept valuable parts of the Fifth Tier Flood Dragons for future use.
• Xu Youxia took Ji Yuan to Myriad Demon Grotto, where they watched the performances and met the Six-Tailed Fox Demon Lord.
• Xu Youxia told Ji Yuan that Chen Xin, the young master of the Chen Household, used his playboy reputation to conceal a careful talent for building connections.
• Chen Xin invited Miss Tushan to the Jade Parasol Alchemical Essence Convention, and she accepted after refusing his romantic advances.
• Ji Yuan suspected Miss Tushan might be Dong Qian, but saw that she was not the old acquaintance he remembered.
• Xu Youxia led Ji Yuan toward the grotto’s Cave Abodes, where an unidentified woman called out to him as “Junior Brother Ji.”

Ji Yuan reunited with Dong Qian after more than two hundred years, and the two spent several days together in her Cave Abode. Their reunion was complicated by Tushan Xue’s warning that Dong Qian must put the Sky Fox Tribe’s interests first, while Xu Youxia suggested that Dong Qian’s life as a Human-Fox Hybrid might be difficult.

• Ji Yuan recognized Dong Qian at the Myriad Demon Grotto, ended his outing with Xu Youxia, and followed her to her Cave Abode.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian reunited intimately, then shared accounts of their lives while both concealed painful details.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian agreed they would remain on the Kunwu Continent for a long time, and Xu Youxia summoned Ji Yuan out after five days.
• Tushan Xue warned Dong Qian to prioritize the Sky Fox Tribe’s ten-thousand-year plan and threatened to send her back to the Demon God Continent.
• At Phoenix Cry Tower, Ji Yuan told Xu Youxia that Dong Qian was a Human-Fox Hybrid, and Xu Youxia warned that her life might be difficult.