Chapter Summaries

Liu Xing and Lu Xuanqing encountered a fleet belonging to the powerful Bai Family, which had found their hiding place. Lu Xuanqing identified the fleet’s leader as Bai Hengqiu, a formidable Golden Core cultivator and notorious Chief Superintendent.

• Lu Xuanqing noticed more than a dozen spaceships approaching and recognized the glacier emblem of the Bai Family.
• The largest ship illuminated Liu Xing and Lu Xuanqing with a search beam, leaving them unable to escape.
• Lu Xuanqing identified herself and Liu Xing as Heavenly Demon Sect disciples and asked the Bai Family to show consideration.
• Bai Hengqiu answered from the flagship and confirmed his identity.
• Lu Xuanqing recognized Bai Hengqiu as a dangerous opponent, famed for his cultivation and ruthless treatment of space pirates.

Bai Hengqiu tried to bring Lu Xuanqing to the Bai Family, but she refused and invoked her granduncles to protect herself. Lu Yangong appeared alongside Bai Hengqiu and immediately asked Lu Xuanqing where the Spirit-Devouring Beast was.

• Lu Xuanqing warned Liu Xing that Bai Hengqiu was far stronger than them and told him not to reveal anything about the Spirit-Devouring Beast.
• Bai Hengqiu invited Lu Xuanqing to the Bai Family, claiming he wanted her to recuperate there.
• Lu Xuanqing declined, saying she had to wait for orders from her granduncles, Lu Yangong and Sun Yanbo.
• Bai Hengqiu claimed Lu Yangong was visiting the Bai Family and urged Lu Xuanqing to come aboard his spaceship.
• Lu Yangong emerged from Bai Hengqiu's spaceship, and Lu Xuanqing reacted with shock at seeing him there.
• Lu Yangong asked Lu Xuanqing where the thing was and whether she still had it.

Lu Xuanqing questioned Lu Yangong’s unusual search for the Spirit-Devouring Beast as he claimed the Heavenly Demon Sect had allied with the Bai Family against the Lin Household. Lu Xuanqing remained suspicious, and the chapter ended with the Spirit-Devouring Beast sensing Lu Yangong’s concealed killing intent.

• Lu Xuanqing gave Lu Yangong an evasive answer about the Spirit-Devouring Beast and asked to explain the matter after returning to the sect.
• Lu Yangong told Lu Xuanqing that the Lin Household’s plan to restore the Purple Thorn Dynasty had thrown the galaxy into turmoil and driven the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Bai Family to form an alliance.
• Lu Yangong said the Heavenly Demon Sect planned to relocate its headquarters to the Ice Phoenix System, but Lu Xuanqing doubted his explanation and asked to return to the Purple Ginseng Star System.
• Lu Yangong concealed his killing intent when Lu Xuanqing tried to leave, and the Spirit-Devouring Beast alerted Liu Xing to it.

Liu Xing recognized Lu Yangong’s murderous intent and pretended to seek his discipleship, while Lu Xuanqing acted as though she had betrayed Liu Xing to make him seem harmless. Lu Xuanqing then agreed to accompany Lu Yangong and Bai Hengqiu to the Ice Phoenix System, leaving Liu Xing behind.

• The Spirit-Devouring Beast warned Liu Xing of danger, and he realized Lu Yangong might intend to kill Lu Xuanqing.
• Liu Xing feigned excitement about becoming Lu Yangong’s disciple and signaled Lu Xuanqing to be wary.
• Lu Xuanqing knocked Liu Xing away and berated him, making it appear that she had used and abandoned him.
• Liu Xing pretended to be heartbroken and walked away while Lu Yangong and Bai Hengqiu focused on Lu Xuanqing.
• Lu Xuanqing agreed to reveal information about the object and travel with Lu Yangong and Bai Hengqiu to the Ice Phoenix System.

Lu Yangong prepared to take Lu Xuanqing and the Spirit-Devouring Beast away from Connors Star, but Sun Yanbo arrived and confronted him in outer space. Through the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s Divine Sense, Liu Xing watched the encounter from afar as the two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators faced off.

• Lu Yangong sensed Sun Yanbo approaching Connors Star and realized his adversary could intercept the fleet before it escaped.
• Lu Yangong sent Bai Hengqiu and Lu Xuanqing toward the spaceship, then flew into outer space to confront Sun Yanbo.
• Bai Hengqiu and Lu Xuanqing sensed the two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators facing each other and feared a battle.
• Lu Xuanqing recognized the approaching cultivator as her grand martial uncle Sun Yanbo, the Heavenly Demon Overlord Sword.
• Liu Xing used the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s hidden Divine Sense to follow Lu Yangong and see the confrontation beyond the planet.

Sun Yanbo confronted Lu Yangong in space over his alliance with the Lin Household and Bai Family. Sun Yanbo rejected Lu Yangong’s justification and declared that he would escort him back to the Heavenly Demon Sect to face judgment.

• The Spirit-Devouring Beast let Liu Xing secretly observe and hear Lu Yangong and Sun Yanbo in space.
• Sun Yanbo drew his greatsword and challenged Lu Yangong over betraying the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Lu Yangong defended his alliance with the Lin Household and Bai Family as a way to strengthen the sect and secure its future.
• Sun Yanbo argued that the Lin-Bai alliance threatened the sect’s independence and that Lu Yangong had no authority to commit the sect.
• Lu Yangong accused Sun Yanbo of siding with sect master Lu Yanzhen, and Sun Yanbo declared that their brotherhood was over and he would take Lu Yangong back to face judgment.

Liu Xing learned why Lu Yangong had betrayed the Heavenly Demon Sect as Sun Yanbo confronted him in space. As the two Nascent Soul Realm experts began a devastating battle, Liu Xing found a new goal in their strength.

• Liu Xing understood that Lu Yangong had misrepresented the conflict and had joined the Lin Household and Bai Family against the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Lu Yangong told Sun Yanbo he blamed the sect for sacrificing his cultivation and said he had betrayed it because he refused to live beneath Lu Yanzhen.
• Sun Yanbo offered to spare Lu Yangong if he abandoned the Lin Household and Bai Family, but Lu Yangong refused and attacked him.
• Sun Yanbo met Lu Yangong's charge, and their collisions shattered space while the Spirit-Devouring Beast's divine sense fled beyond the shock waves.
• Liu Xing watched the battle and resolved to grow stronger, taking the power of Nascent Soul Realm experts as a new measure of strength.

Lu Xuanqing and Bai Hengqiu watched the battle between Lu Yangong and Sun Yanbo from Connors Star, unable to perceive its details. Lu Yangong eventually revealed that he had poisoned Sun Yanbo with the heavenly decline of the five signs, leaving their confrontation poised for its next turn.

• Lu Xuanqing and Bai Hengqiu sensed Lu Yangong and Sun Yanbo begin fighting in earnest as their battle stirred the skies above Connors Star.
• Sun Yanbo pressed Lu Yangong with the Overlord Sword, while Lu Yangong deliberately traded blows to buy time and secretly released a colorless mist.
• Sun Yanbo absorbed the mist during the clashes and gradually lost his strength until he retreated, exhausted.
• Lu Yangong told Sun Yanbo that the mist was the heavenly decline of the five signs and that he had refined a single dose to use against Lu Yanzhen.
• Sun Yanbo calmed after learning what had afflicted him, while Lu Yangong remained smug.

Sun Yanbo used a hidden escape technique to flee Lu Yangong after being poisoned by the heavenly decline of the five signs. He secretly returned to Connors Star, where Liu Xing tracked his hiding place with the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s divine sense.

• Sun Yanbo resisted Lu Yangong’s taunts and prepared to fight despite his depleted spiritual energy.
• Sun Yanbo poured a thread of energy into the Overlord Sword and escaped at extraordinary speed.
• Lu Yangong abandoned pursuit, ordered Bai Hengqiu to take the fleet back to the Ice Phoenix System, and left with Lu Xuanqing.
• Liu Xing watched Lu Xuanqing depart and lost his ability to see her when the fleet passed beyond the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s range.
• Sun Yanbo secretly landed on Connors Star, and Liu Xing learned where he was hiding through the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s divine sense.

Liu Xing approached the badly weakened Sun Yanbo, hoping to enlist his help, but Sun Yanbo mistook the mortal’s arrival for a chance to survive. With his body failing from the heavenly decline of the five signs, Sun Yanbo released his nascent soul to possess Liu Xing.

• Liu Xing raced toward Sun Yanbo, deciding that the cultivator was his best hope of saving Lu Xuanqing or escaping Connors Star.
• Sun Yanbo sensed Liu Xing approaching and prepared the Overlord Sword, wary that the stranger had found his hidden valley.
• Liu Xing entered the valley, and Sun Yanbo discovered through his Divine Sense that he was a mortal without an innate spiritual root.
• Sun Yanbo opened his Niwan Palace and sent out his nascent soul to possess Liu Xing’s body.