Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun passed the Confucian scholar’s test by defending his resolve to follow his Original Heart, then defeated the Black Bear’s trial and received Spirit Emperor Marrow Cleansing Liquid. After using the entire bottle at once, his bones began to transform as Yao Wujiang arrived and challenged him.

• Nie Yun’s words steadied the people in the hall, and the Confucian scholar conceded the test and let the group pass.
• Nie Yun fought the Black Bear, injured it with his Martial God Fist, and earned its permission to proceed.
• Yao Wujiang attacked with sword qi, and the Black Bear gave Nie Yun a bottle of Spirit Emperor Marrow Cleansing Liquid as his reward.
• Ming Hong recognized the liquid as a supreme Spirit Realm treasure and explained its bone-refining power to Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun poured the entire bottle onto himself, and his bones began to transform despite the Black Bear’s warning.

Nie Yun tempered all his bones with Spirit Emperor Marrow Cleansing Liquid and defeated Yao Wujiang in a sword duel, proving he had reached the Life Sword realm. Yao Wujiang sent Nie Yun and his companions directly to Tianquan Palace, where Nie Yun could seek the chance to control the Big Dipper Star Palace.

• Nie Yun used Spirit Emperor Marrow Cleansing Liquid to turn every bone golden and discovered that his bones had taken the shape of a longsword.
• Nie Yun fought Yao Wujiang with the Sky Flower Falling Rain Sword and Four Seasons Swordplay, then countered the Nine Heavens Seven Immortal Sword with his Heavenly Eye and Sword Dao Martial Qi.
• After eighty-one strikes, Nie Yun forced Yao Wujiang to concede, and Yao Wujiang praised his Life Sword realm.
• Yao Wujiang gave Nie Yun the Spirit Chasing Sword and opened a doorway to Tianquan Palace, allowing him to skip the final three trials.
• Nie Yun led his companions through the doorway, while Yao Wujiang watched them go and wept as he addressed the absent Star Sovereign.

Nie Yun exposed Ming Hong’s betrayal, revealed that the Seven Swords Ming Xin stole were fakes, and killed him before following her to Tianquan Palace. After the fake swords failed to complete her ritual, Ming Xin fought Nie Yun and invoked the Divine Pattern Phoenix King had left in her soul.

• Ming Hong admitted that Phoenix King had given him two souls, and that Ming Xin had taken the Seven Swords.
• Nie Yun revealed that his Seven Swords were fakes, then killed Ming Hong with a combined attack.
• Nie Yun tracked the fakes to Tianquan Palace, where Ming Xin’s ritual failed and the seven stars blasted her away.
• Ming Xin attacked Nie Yun, but he severed her fingers with the Spirit Chasing Sword and burned away her Netherworld Hundred Soldiers Fist.
• Ming Xin cut off her burning arm, regrew her hand, and invoked Phoenix King’s Divine Pattern, declaring she would kill Nie Yun and send the Star Palace to the Spirit Realm.

Ming Xin used the Phoenix King’s method to merge the Divine Pattern with the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s bloodline, forcing Nie Yun and his allies into a desperate fight. As Ming Xin seized the Star Palace’s spirituality and absorbed its recovery aura, Nie Yun realized the aura was Innate Spiritual Qi—and that his Purple Splendor Cave Mansion contained a hall full of it.

• Ming Xin drew the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor toward the Divine Pattern, and Little Dragon and Nie Yun tried to stop the merger.
• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor exploded into Golden Blood, while Nie Yun’s Spirit Chasing Sword shattered and Little Dragon was badly injured.
• Nie Yun summoned the Seven Swords to refine the Star Palace, but Ming Xin’s Divine Pattern clashed with the descending spirituality and her Spirit Binding Talisman trapped the group.
• Ming Xin subdued the injured Star Palace spirituality and absorbed the aura pouring from the palace to restore her strength.
• Wu Tao identified the aura as Innate Spiritual Qi, and Nie Yun recognized it as the same qi stored in abundance in his Purple Splendor Cave Mansion.

Nie Yun discovered that the gas Tantai Lingyue had left him was Innate Spiritual Qi and used it to break through to the peak of the Spirit God Realm. After defeating Ming Xin, he learned the Spirit of the Star Palace could be refined by giving it a body, but the method required extracting a continent’s Heart of the Continent.

• Nie Yun realized the supposed poisonous gas from Daoist Diesheng's thatched cottage was Innate Spiritual Qi that Tantai Lingyue had urged him to collect.
• Nie Yun absorbed the Innate Spiritual Qi, broke through to the Spirit God Realm, and shattered the Spirit Binding Talisman.
• Nie Yun killed Ming Xin after she failed to stop his breakthrough.
• Nie Yun questioned the Spirit of the Star Palace and learned it could be refined by merging with a pure soul or by giving it a specially refined body.
• Nie Yun learned that the body-refining method required extracting the Heart of the Continent from an entire continent.

Nie Yun learned that the Star Palace Spirit needed a Heart of the Continent to forge a body, and Old Drunkard identified the nearly prepared Heart of the Qi Sea as a way to avoid sacrificing the Floating Sky Continent. Nie Yun returned with his companions to the Qi Sea Continent to obtain it, but they were stunned by the changed appearance of Luoshui City.

• Nie Yun rejected using the Heart of Floating Sky and learned from Old Drunkard that the suppressed Heart of the Qi Sea could be refined quickly enough to forge a body for the Star Palace Spirit.
• The Star Palace Spirit explained Ming Xin’s plan to extinguish its spirituality and replace it with her own, then gave Nie Yun a strand of consciousness to guide him back after the body was forged.
• Nie Yun returned to the Huayun Sect, distributed Innate Spiritual Qi to his companions, and Little Dragon ate the entire remaining supply before recovering completely.
• Nie Yun invited his companions to return to the Qi Sea Continent, then opened a passage and led them there with Old Drunkard’s help.
• Nie Yun and the others traveled to Luoshui City and were shocked by what they found upon arrival.

Nie Yun returned to Luoshui City and learned that Luo Xiaofeng had unified Qi Sea Continent and established the Nie Clan Empire with Luoshui as its capital. At the imperial palace, Ancient City's City Lord attacked Luo Xiaofeng, leaving the empire's Supreme experts facing a powerful enemy.

• Nie Yun arrived in the greatly expanded Luoshui City, where the people recognized and worshipped him because of his enormous statue and past deeds.
• Lu Zhang told Nie Yun that Luo Xiaofeng had unified the seven kingdoms, founded the Nie Clan Empire, and made Luoshui City its capital.
• Nie Yun and his companions left for the imperial palace after learning that Luo Xiaofeng was meeting with Supreme experts.
• Luo Xiaofeng told the gathered Supremes that Ancient City had been demanding justice for Nie Yun's destruction of Lingxi Heavenly Palace.
• Ancient City's five Villa Masters and City Lord appeared, and the City Lord seized Luo Xiaofeng from afar and forced him to his knees.

Nie Yun returned to the Qi Sea Continent and stopped the Ancient City's City Lord and five Villa Masters from killing Luo Xiaofeng and the Supremes. After restoring Ancient City's Lingxi Spring and rewarding its leaders, he sensed the Spirit Realm for the first time.

• The Ancient City's City Lord knocked down Luo Xiaofeng and the Supremes, then prepared to kill them for their faith in Emperor Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun arrived and shattered the City Lord's attack with one finger, knocking down him and the five Villa Masters.
• Nie Yun healed the Supremes with Wood Life Qi, helping several of them advance their souls to the Spirit level.
• Nie Yun forgave Ancient City's leaders, returned the Lingxi Spring Water, rebuilt Lingxi Heavenly Palace, and helped the City Lord and five Villa Masters advance in cultivation.
• The City Lord swore that Ancient City would remain friendly with the Nie Yun Empire, and Nie Yun sensed the Spirit Realm above all laws.

Nie Yun sensed the Spirit Realm, broke through to a four-thousand-gradient soul, and learned to draw Innate Spiritual Qi from it. After arranging a route for Luo Xiaofeng and the others to reach Floating Sky Continent, he took the Heart of the Qi Sea, destroyed the Eight Extremes Heavenly Palace Array, and forged a body for the Spirit of the Star Palace; he ended up in Tianquan Palace.

• Nie Yun’s forgiveness of Ancient City’s people deepened his understanding of Carefree Wandering and let him sense the Spirit Realm; the jade pendant transformed, Ming Jiang fell silent, and Nie Yun’s soul reached four thousand gradients.
• Nie Yun discovered that his Origin Energy Dantian could draw Innate Spiritual Qi from the Spirit Realm, then promised Luo Xiaofeng and the other Supremes a Teleportation Array to Floating Sky Continent.
• Nie Yun spent more than ten days with his family and companions before departing with Old Drunkard for the site of Purple Splendor Cave Mansion.
• Nie Yun used Old Drunkard’s method to condense the Heart of the Qi Sea and destroyed the Eight Extremes Heavenly Palace Array, allowing Creation Qi to flow across Qi Sea Continent.
• Nie Yun entered the Space-Time Turbulence, forged a body for the Spirit of the Star Palace, and returned to the great hall of Tianquan Palace in Big Dipper Star Palace.

Nie Yun gave the Spirit of the Star Palace a body and learned that the Big Dipper Star Palace was a sealed Creation Immortal Artifact whose full power depended on receiving the Big Dipper Star Lord’s inheritance. The Spirit of the Star Palace brought him to the Inheritance Hall, where he prepared to face the former master’s legacy.

• Nie Yun presented the body he had refined, and the Spirit of the Star Palace merged with it and took on a female form.
• The Spirit of the Star Palace made Nie Yun master of the Big Dipper Star Palace, but explained that he could enter only Tianquan Hall until he earned the former master's inheritance.
• The Spirit of the Star Palace explained the Spirit Realm's Immortal Artifact grades and cultivation ranks, and identified the Big Dipper Star Lord as a Ninth-grade Gold Pattern Spirit Tamer.
• Nie Yun questioned why the Netherworld Phoenix King had sought the Star Palace, and the Spirit of the Star Palace said it was no ordinary Creation Immortal Artifact.
• The Spirit of the Star Palace led Nie Yun to the Inheritance Hall so he could attempt to receive the Big Dipper Star Lord's inheritance.

Nie Yun passed the Star Palace’s Spirit Tamer test, and the Big Dipper Star Lord’s inheritance revealed why Spirit Tamers were vital to the Spirit Realm. The Star Lord declared that Nie Yun would become the strongest Spirit Tamer in history.

• Nie Yun pressed his palm to the testing stone, which detected Spirit Tamer talent and changed from scarlet to silver to gold before exploding.
• The stone door opened, and Nie Yun entered a dark space where the Big Dipper Star Lord’s enormous phantom appeared.
• Nie Yun paid his respects as the Big Dipper Star Lord explained that the Spirit Realm faced deadly Asura attacks every hundred years.
• The Big Dipper Star Lord said Spirit Tamers could restrain Asura Killing Qi and praised Nie Yun as destined to become the strongest Spirit Tamer in history.

The Big Dipper Star Lord explained Spirit Tamer ranks and why Nie Yun’s many rare Special Talents could make him the strongest Spirit Tamer in history. Before his Soul Imprint faded, he passed on sealed cultivation and sword techniques, warned Nie Yun to hide his talents, and gave him the Big Dipper Sword.

• The Big Dipper Star Lord explained that Spirit Tamers fused Special Talents to gain ranks, with Gold, Silver, and Blood Patterns reflecting the talents’ rankings.
• The Big Dipper Star Lord revealed that Nie Yun possessed more than a dozen Special Talents ranked in the top fifty and could surpass him as a Spirit Tamer.
• The Big Dipper Star Lord listed four principles that aided talent fusion: a strong soul, deep understanding, special environments or treasures, and fighting Asuras.
• The Big Dipper Star Lord passed Nie Yun the sealed Big Dipper Profound Nether Art and Seven Star Sword, warning that others would covet them.
• The Big Dipper Star Lord warned Nie Yun to conceal his many Special Talents and gave him the sealed Big Dipper Sword before his Soul Imprint faded.

Nie Yun prepared the Floating Sky Continent for his departure, then followed the Spirit of the Star Palace to the Heaven-Ascending Ladder with Old Drunkard and Little Dragon. The ladder appeared in the valley where he had once found his cultivation arts, and the group stood before its rope in a strange star-filled space.

• The Spirit of the Star Palace gave Nie Yun the Big Dipper Sword, which he partially refined and concealed inside his body.
• Nie Yun refused to let Luo Qingcheng and the others follow him to the Spirit Realm, gave Nie Xiaotian the Heart of Floating Sky and the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, and left resources and talismans behind.
• Nie Yun made Nie Xiaotian the sect master and, after Old Drunkard advised against it, decided not to exterminate the Demon Race.
• Nie Yun departed with Old Drunkard and Little Dragon after arranging affairs on the Floating Sky Continent.
• The Spirit of the Star Palace revealed the Heaven-Ascending Ladder in the valley where Nie Yun had obtained the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art.
• The Spirit of the Star Palace used Innate Spiritual Qi to reveal the ladder’s rope in a star-filled space, then returned to the Big Dipper Star Palace.

Nie Yun, Old Drunkard, and Little Dragon struggled through the Spirit Realm’s immense membrane, relying on Nie Yun’s Origin Energy Dantian to replenish their strength as they carved a passage forward. Just as the dantian stopped absorbing spiritual qi and Nie Yun prepared to retreat, it advanced to its fourth form.

• Nie Yun led Old Drunkard and Little Dragon through the Heaven-Ascending Ladder and reached the Spirit Realm’s membrane after months of travel through the Space-Time Turbulence.
• The three became trapped in the membrane, and Old Drunkard’s attack and Nie Yun’s Seven Star Sword strike failed to break through it.
• Nie Yun discovered that his Origin Energy Dantian could slowly draw in spiritual qi, so the group continued forward while he carved a passage with the Seven Star Sword and Big Dipper Sword.
• As they traveled deeper, the dantian’s recovery slowed, their stored treasures ran out, and after three months they could barely replenish their strength.
• After advancing for more than ten additional days, Nie Yun’s Origin Energy Dantian stopped absorbing spiritual qi, but it suddenly advanced to its fourth form.

Nie Yun discovered that the Origin Energy Dantian’s fourth form could absorb mana from an opponent’s Qi Sea and use excess power to help him break through. He decided to make the Spirit Realm his natal star, and after enduring its immense pressure and reaffirming his vows, he rose with a transformed aura.

• Nie Yun found that the Origin Energy Dantian had reached its fourth form, letting it absorb opponents’ mana and draw in enough power to aid his advancement.
• Nie Yun decided to charge into the Immortal Power Realm and considered which great star to comprehend as his natal star.
• After Old Drunkard warned that there were no stars inside the barrier, Nie Yun realized he might comprehend the Spirit Realm itself.
• Nie Yun sent Old Drunkard and Little Dragon into the Big Dipper Star Palace, then began merging his spirit and state of mind with the Spirit Realm.
• The Spirit Realm’s vast power overwhelmed Nie Yun, but he persisted and vowed to create a civilization where the myriad races lived in peace and equality.
• After remaining motionless for an unknown length of time, Nie Yun opened his eyes, rose, and made the barrier boil with his transformed aura.

Nie Yun used the Spirit Realm as his natal star and broke through to the Immortal Power Realm, shocking powerful figures across the Spirit Realm and Netherworld. After learning more about Spirit Tamer ranks and mastering new abilities, he escaped the barrier and arrived in the Spirit Realm.

• The White-Bearded Man warned his granddaughter to forget Nie Yun, but his divination revealed that someone had successfully made the Spirit Realm their natal star.
• The woman in Phoenix King's Palace realized that someone had comprehended the Spirit Realm as a star and reacted with horror.
• Nie Yun transformed his Main Dantian into its fourth form and converted his magical power into immortal power, reaching the Immortal Power Realm.
• The Spirit of the Star Palace explained that Nie Yun was a pseudo-Heaven Pattern first-grade Spirit Tamer and gave him a jade tablet of Spirit Tamer teachings.
• After studying for three days and strengthening his Seven Star Sword, Nie Yun flew through the barrier for another half year and emerged in the Spirit Realm.

Nie Yun brought Old Drunkard and Little Dragon into the Spirit Realm, where Old Drunkard was struck by Asura Killing Qi hidden in the spiritual energy. After Nie Yun saved him, the group explored the wilderness and hunted a powerful rabbit for a barbecue.

• Nie Yun discovered that the Spirit Realm's space was so sturdy that he could barely jump or fly and could scan only a short distance.
• Nie Yun released Old Drunkard and Little Dragon from the Star Palace, and they marveled at the Spirit Realm's dense spiritual energy.
• Old Drunkard absorbed Asura Killing Qi and began convulsing, so Nie Yun removed it and performed a baptism to protect him.
• The Spirit of the Star Palace explained that Asura Killing Qi infected unbaptized people and that Spirit Tamers were needed to resist it.
• Little Dragon said he was hungry, and Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye Talent to spot a wild rabbit in the forest.
• Nie Yun killed the Immortal Power Realm rabbit after it dodged his first attack, then began preparing it for a barbecue.

The Spirit of the Star Palace explained how Asura Killing Qi affected cultivation and why Spirit Tamers and Pure Spirit Pills were so highly valued in the Spirit Realm. After traveling through Luanjin Mountain, Nie Yun, Old Drunkard, and Little Dragon joined a hunting party that agreed to guide them.

• The Spirit of the Star Palace explained the grades of Pure Spirit Pills and revealed that even ordinary Asuras possessed fourth-grade True Spirit Level bloodlines.
• Nie Yun, Old Drunkard, and Little Dragon ate the roasted rabbit, rested in the Big Dipper Star Palace, and continued through the forest at dawn.
• After three days of avoiding savage beasts with his Heavenly Eye, Nie Yun spotted a hunting party and approached to ask for directions.
• Nie Yun killed a demon beast that charged at the hunters, then asked the group to guide them out of the forest.
• The captain agreed to let Nie Yun, Old Drunkard, and Little Dragon follow, despite Wei Jiao calling them dead weight.

Nie Yun and Xia Xing traveled with Wei Tao’s guard unit through Luanjin Mountain, where they encountered the Sky Stone Ape. The beast demanded Wei Jiao and the unit’s supplies, then revealed it knew they were seeking Jue Jing Flowers to treat the Wei Family ancestor’s injuries, forcing Wei Jun to order the group into formation.

• Wei Tao invited Nie Yun to join the Wei Family guard unit, and Nie Yun learned about Iron Dragon City and the Spirit Realm’s cultivation standards.
• Wei Jun warned the group to avoid disturbing the Sky Stone Ape, a powerful demonic beast in Luanjin Mountain.
• The Sky Stone Ape appeared as the group crossed its territory, and Wei Jun offered it ten Grade One Blood Pattern Pure Spirit Pills for safe passage.
• The Sky Stone Ape demanded Wei Jiao as well as the group’s wealth, rejecting Wei Jun’s offer of more pills.
• The Sky Stone Ape revealed that the Wei Family was searching for Jue Jing Flowers to treat its ancestor, and Wei Jun ordered the group to form a battle formation.

The Sky Stone Ape overwhelmed Wei Jun and his team, crushing their weapons and grabbing Wei Jiao, while Nie Yun learned its method of exerting force. When the ape attacked him, Nie Yun killed it with one punch, leaving the team stunned.

• The Sky Stone Ape struck Wei Jun with one punch, injuring him and denting his Innate Spirit Weapon hammer.
• Nie Yun grasped the ape's method of exerting force as Wei Tao and the others attacked it without harming it.
• The ape seized and swallowed the team's weapons, then grabbed Wei Jiao and tore her clothes as Wei Jun, Wei Tao, and others failed to stop it.
• Nie Yun confronted the ape, and it mocked his early Immortal Power Realm strength before attacking him.
• Nie Yun met the ape's fist head-on and smashed its arm and head into powder, killing it.