Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang adjusted to his new life in Mo Wu’s residence before the Seventh Prince, Mo Hei, stormed in and accused Mo Wu of spying on him. After Mo Wu challenged him to a duel over Scar’s brutal injuries, Xue Yumo arrived to fight in Mo Hei’s place.

• Ye Liang asked Mo Wu to dismiss the maidservants who helped him bathe, but agreed to keep attendants for protection when going out.
• A guard reported that the Seventh Prince had forced his way into Mo Wu’s residence and injured her people.
• Mo Hei accused Mo Wu of sending Scar to monitor him and threatened to kill Scar; Mo Wu found that Scar’s spine and ribs had been broken.
• Mo Wu challenged Mo Hei to settle their dispute with a duel, but he refused to fight her directly.
• Xue Yumo arrived and said he would fight Mo Wu on Mo Hei’s behalf, revealing that he was the Seventh Prince’s adviser.

Mo Wu forced Ye Liang to fight Xue Yumo, and Ye Liang defeated the famed young warrior using a clone and an earth technique. Xue Yumo later ordered assassins to kill men matching Ye Liang’s height, while Ye Liang prepared to reconnect Scar’s shattered spine.

• Mo Wu diverted Xue Yumo’s challenge to her advisor Ye Liang, who was pushed into the duel despite his protests.
• Ye Liang tricked Xue Yumo with a Shadow Clone, dragged him into the floor, and declared him defeated before the gathered court.
• Xue Yumo left in humiliation, and Mo Wu’s servants celebrated Ye Liang’s victory.
• That evening, Xue Yumo ordered his assassins to kill every adult man around 1.8 meters tall because they could not identify Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang visited the injured Scar and prepared to reconnect his shattered spine with a scalpel.

Ye Liang caught Xue Yumo and defeated the assassins who attacked Mo Wu’s residence. The next morning, Mo Wu found much of her house destroyed and its sleeping servants dead, while Ye Liang brought the captured Xue Yumo to the main hall.

• Xue Yumo led assassins into the servants’ courtyard, where Ye Liang sensed him approaching and knocked him unconscious at the door.
• Ye Liang bound Xue Yumo with rope and chains, then went outside to confront the other assassins.
• Ye Liang discovered that the assassins had killed guards and servants, and he fought them as they surrounded him.
• The assassins formed a fire-element Magic Array, but Ye Liang used Eighteen Moon Dance to kill them and destroy parts of the courtyard.
• Mo Wu woke to find much of her residence ruined, and Ye Liang brought Xue Yumo into the main hall.

Ye Liang confronted Xue Yumo over the assassination attempt and resisted the Xue Family’s efforts to take him away. After Mo Wu explained War Planet’s laws and the Xue Family’s influence, Moghu arrived, leaving Ye Liang’s planned confrontation ready to begin.

• Mo Wu arrived at her ruined residence, where Ye Liang accused Xue Yumo of ordering an assassination that killed guards and destroyed the house.
• Mo Wu hesitated to punish Xue Yumo because of his father’s power, and she explained that murder was legal on War Planet under certain conditions.
• Xue Family enforcers entered the Prince’s Mansion to retrieve Xue Yumo, but Ye Liang wounded him and refused to release him.
• Ye Liang hinted to Mo Wu that he wanted to gain benefits from the situation as the Xue Family enforcers prepared to fight.
• Moghu arrived after Ye Liang had secretly summoned him, and the Xue Family enforcers withdrew their auras.

Ye Liang arranged for Moghu to confront Xue Yumo, forcing Xue Yumo’s men to promise compensation before Moghu took him away. After Mo Wu postponed Ye Liang’s request for a teleportation array, Mo Hei began plotting against Ye Liang and sought help from a powerful Black Skeleton.

• Moghu confronted and slapped Xue Yumo, then stopped short of executing him after Xue Yumo’s men begged for mercy and promised to pay for the damage.
• Ye Liang told Mo Wu he had notified Moghu the previous night and asked for a teleportation array, but Mo Wu postponed the matter until after the Cosmic Grand Competition.
• News spread that Ye Liang had defeated and captured Xue Yumo, making Mo Hei wary of Mo Wu’s new advisor.
• Mo Hei ordered a bounty on Ye Liang, offering two houses in the capital’s third ring to whoever killed him.
• Mo Hei visited a Black Skeleton, explained that Ye Liang threatened his bid for the throne, and received a sphere of energy from his master.

Mo Hai and other princes tried to recruit Ye Liang for the Cosmic Grand Competition with lavish gifts, but Ye Liang refused to betray Mo Wu. Mo Wu mistook his refusal for loyalty to her and brought him into the royal-advisor trials scheduled for the next day.

• The Xue Family sent compensation to Mo Wu Residence, and Ye Liang was disappointed that it included no defensive equipment.
• Mo Hai visited Ye Liang with golden Silken Treasure Armor and invited him to join the Mo Family princes for the Cosmic Grand Competition.
• More than a dozen princes offered Ye Liang rare treasures and promised rewards if he left Mo Wu, but he refused and sent them away.
• After the princes departed, Ye Liang admitted that he had wanted their treasures, while Mo Wu returned and believed he had stayed out of loyalty to her.
• Mo Wu told Ye Liang that he would join her in the next day's trials to prove he deserved to be a royal advisor.

Ye Liang struggled with War Planet’s written exam and cheated to complete it before learning that Kaguya, the Princess Consort from Unicorn Star, would supervise the practical test. The chapter ended with Kaguya waiting in her suite and wondering whether Ye Liang would ever come for her.

• Ye Liang found War Planet’s space-warfare questions incomprehensible and used bathroom breaks and his Tenseigan and Rinnegan to cheat.
• Moghu warned Ye Liang that Xue Rulong, one of the practical examiners, held grudges and might make trouble for him.
• Ye Liang learned that the third examiner was a Princess Consort from Unicorn Star and told Moghu that people from Unicorn Star had taken his wife.
• Moghu urged Ye Liang not to bring his feud with Unicorn Star to War Planet, and Ye Liang agreed to keep the conflict away from Mo Wu’s bid to become heir apparent.
• Kaguya spent the night in her suite, missing Ye Liang and wondering why he had not come to find her.

Ye Liang watched the aide competition on War Planet, saw Xiao Yan defeat a prominent Xue Family candidate, and then made a fortune betting on Princess Kaguya as she defeated a succession of stronger opponents. The chapter left Ye Liang wagering ten Spirit Stones on Kaguya again while the gambling peddler worried that her winning streak might continue.

• Moghu warned the aide candidates that the competition was strict and assigned them to matches.
• Xiao Yan instantly defeated a powerful Xue Family candidate and declared that he would make the Great Thousand World tremble.
• Princess Kaguya entered the arena, and Moghu offered the contestants a special reward for defeating her.
• Kaguya used Shinra Tensei to drive back higher-level opponents, prompting Moghu to send prominent fighters against her.
• Ye Liang bet heavily on Kaguya, won a fortune as she won match after match, and placed ten Spirit Stones on her again after she had won ten consecutive matches.

Ye Liang bet all his Spirit Stones on Kaguya, but Mo Wu fought her in disguise and War Planet ultimately won. When the betting-table attendants tried to seize Ye Liang’s money after he accepted half his wager back, he fought them off and left them threatening to ruin his examination.

• Ye Liang wagered all his remaining Spirit Stones on Kaguya as she faced Mo Wu, who had disguised herself in women’s clothing.
• Kaguya struck Mo Wu with Shinra Tensei and then hit her shoulder with a Shuriken, prompting Mo Wu to get serious.
• Ye Liang grew impatient waiting for the result and agreed to withdraw his bet in exchange for half his money back.
• An attendant announced that War Planet had won, and the betting-table attendants demanded that Ye Liang return his money.
• Ye Liang refused, saying he would give up only half as agreed, and knocked down the attendants who tried to attack him.
• One attendant threatened Ye Liang with his uncle Xue Rulong, but Ye Liang warned off the crowd and left with his money.

After the Cosmic Grand Competition qualifiers, Ye Liang traveled with War Planet’s contestants toward the venue, where a colossal hand attacked the Enlightenment and cut the ship apart. The System warned him that a peak-level lifeform had appeared, and Ye Liang tried to escape by teleporting away.

• Kaguya saw Ye Liang heal Mo Wu with the Mystical Palm Technique, then fled after Mo Wu kissed his cheek and called him hers.
• Ye Liang qualified for the Cosmic Grand Competition, while Xue Yumo took first place and Ye Liang settled for the runner-up ranking.
• More than half a year later, Mo Wu dressed Ye Liang in formal robes before he boarded the Enlightenment with War Planet’s contestants.
• Ye Liang learned that War Planet’s ship carried tens of thousands of powerful experts and that the System could not scan Ninth Stage fighters who had comprehended Law Power.
• A colossal arm descended from the sky and sliced the Enlightenment apart, killing many contestants regardless of their level.
• The System warned Ye Liang to flee from the peak-level lifeform, and he called for his Golden Turtle to teleport him away.

Ye Liang used the Time-Space Turtle’s Time Reversal to return to the hour before a giant finger attacked War Planet, then tried to warn others and prepare the Enlightenment. His Forced Annihilation cannons wounded the finger long enough for the War King to arrive and drive it away.

• Ye Liang activated the Time-Space Turtle’s Time Reversal and returned to Mo Wu’s residence, learning that the attack would come in an hour.
• Ye Liang demanded that Mo Wu help him leave War Planet, but she knocked him unconscious and brought him aboard the Enlightenment.
• Ye Liang used Spirit Stones to activate Time Reversal again, struck Mo Wu unconscious, and tried to reach the War King before Moghu intercepted him.
• Aboard the Enlightenment, Ye Liang ordered the System to prepare Forced Annihilation and aimed alloy cannons at the approaching finger.
• The Enlightenment’s cannons wounded the finger, and the War King arrived, struck it with a beam of electric light, and pursued it into the clouds.

The War King stopped a red-eyed Peak Realm expert from attacking the Enlightenment and humiliated him before he fled. Afterward, Ye Liang complained to Mo Wu about the Spirit Stones he had wasted and learned about Peak Realm experts and Planet Souls.

• The War King restored the torn ozone layer and slapped the red-eyed old man's phantom until he fled without retaliating.
• Moghu watched the clash as his level 89 bottleneck began to loosen, while Old Ornn admitted he had misjudged the gap between the experts.
• Mo Wu hurried to check on Ye Liang, who blamed her for ruining his hand and wasting his Spirit Stones.
• Mo Wu explained that assassins often targeted prodigies traveling to the Cosmic Grand Competition and assumed the attacker had reached the Ninth Stage.
• Mo Wu described how accumulated faith could help a person or a planet reach the Peak Realm, then refused to answer Ye Liang's question about Divinity Cores.

Ye Liang visited the Enlightenment Bar with Scar, where Scar started a fight while trying to help Bai Hengshan. Ye Liang realized Bai Hengshan had been maneuvering toward Mo Hai, the Third Prince of War Planet, and left Scar to learn that she had gone off with him.

• Ye Liang followed Scar to the renovated Enlightenment Bar and recognized Bai Hengshan working as its bartender.
• Xue Haisheng and his thugs harassed Bai Hengshan, and Xue Haisheng used his connection to Xue Rulong to intimidate the bar patrons.
• Scar struck Xue Haisheng with a glass and ran, drawing the thugs away from the counter.
• Ye Liang saw Bai Hengshan head toward Mo Hai, who ordered his guards to stop Xue Haisheng.
• Ye Liang rescued the badly beaten Scar and told him Bai Hengshan had gone off with a rich heir.

Scar was distracted by his feelings for Bai Hengshan, then rescued her from Xue Haisheng’s thugs and believed her claim that the Third Prince had wronged her. The chapter ended with Scar, pale and carrying a knife, knocking on the Third Prince’s door.

• Mo Wu and Moghu noticed Scar’s lovesick distraction, and Ye Liang explained that Scar had fallen for someone.
• Scar wandered outside, where he ran into Xue Haisheng and was beaten by his thugs.
• Xue Haisheng prepared to kill Scar, but Bai Hengshan appeared, drove off the gang, and rescued him.
• Bai Hengshan told Scar that the Third Prince had taken her to his room and assaulted her, and Scar promised not to despise her.
• Scar left a guest room pale-faced and went to the Third Prince’s residence carrying a knife.

Ye Liang investigated the Third Prince’s murder and discovered that Scar had been affected by genjutsu, though Scar admitted that he had killed the prince. The chapter ended with Ye Liang and Mo Wu uncertain how they could save Scar.

• Mo Wu told Ye Liang that the Third Prince had been hacked to death and that Scar had confessed to the murder.
• Ye Liang examined the body and learned that a special cultivation technique had drained the prince’s soul.
• Xue Rulong ordered the body taken to the morgue, while Moghu declined to investigate the case.
• Ye Liang and Mo Wu visited Scar in prison and found him dazed under a genjutsu that Ye Liang could not fully break.
• Scar told Ye Liang that he had killed the Third Prince while unable to control his actions, leaving Ye Liang and Mo Wu troubled by his confession.

Ye Liang and Mo Wu discovered that Bai Hengshan had manipulated Scar into killing Mo Hai, but Xue Rulong trapped them in prison and planned to frame Scar and Mogu. Bai Hengshan later appeared at the cell and passed straight through its bars.

• Scar told Ye Liang and Mo Wu that he had killed Mo Hai while unable to control his own body, then revealed that Bai Hengshan had approached him after he left a bar.
• Ye Liang and Mo Wu realized Bai Hengshan was their lead, but Xue Rulong locked them and Scar in prison and took away the guards.
• Xue Rulong learned that Bai Hengshan had disappeared and accepted Xue Haisheng's plan to blame Scar's crime on Mogu instead of searching for the real killer.
• Mo Wu worried that Scar would be executed when the ship docked, while Ye Liang remained calm and Scar slept in the cell.
• Bai Hengshan evaded the guards and surveillance cameras, came to the prison at dusk, and passed straight through the cell as Ye Liang greeted her.

Ye Liang exposed Baiguo, the missing High Priest of the Insect People, hiding aboard the Enlightenment and explained why she needed to reach the Cosmic Grand Competition. After realizing Mo Hai had been killed by someone else wielding Underworld Realm energy, Baiguo agreed to help Ye Liang and the others escape the prison.

• Baiguo revealed her identity to Ye Liang and Mo Wu, then threatened them while using her ability to move through the void undetected.
• Ye Liang deduced that Baiguo intended to attend the Cosmic Grand Competition and warned that killing them would leave her unable to pass the competition’s security inspection.
• Ye Liang explained that Mo Hai had died from Underworld Realm energy and that the killer had taken his soul, framing Baiguo for the murder.
• Baiguo put away her blade and helped Ye Liang and the group teleport out of the prison.

Ye Liang provoked Xue Haisheng’s guards into demanding an investigation and persuaded Xue Haisheng to hand over a search warrant. With the guards mobilized, Ye Liang began inspecting the noble district for the killer and the source of the Underworld Power.

• Ye Liang disguised himself as a guard and infiltrated Xue Haisheng’s unit while Mo Wu went to speak with Moghu.
• Ye Liang inflamed the veterans’ anger at Xue Haisheng’s refusal to investigate, prompting them to challenge him to a duel.
• Ye Liang proposed letting the guards search for the real killer, and Xue Haisheng agreed to give him a search warrant.
• Ye Liang led the mobilized guards into the noble district and entered a room to conduct an inspection.

Mo Wu and Moghu challenged Xue Rulong over his handling of the Third Prince’s murder, but he refused to change course. Meanwhile, Ye Liang searched Mo Hei’s room and unknowingly came close to discovering the black qi hidden beneath his bed, which recognized Ye Liang’s underworld and Dugu auras.

• Moghu confronted Xue Rulong for imprisoning Mo Wu and blaming Scar before the investigation was complete, but Xue Rulong dismissed his objections.
• Mo Wu asked Moghu how they could avenge the Third Prince while Xue Rulong remained in power, and Moghu said they would have to take things one step at a time.
• Ye Liang searched Mo Hei’s plain room, but found nothing before Mo Hei returned and ordered the investigators to leave.
• A black qi emerged from beneath Mo Hei’s iron bed and told him that Ye Liang possessed the Underworld Cultivation Technique and a strong aura of Dugu.
• Mo Hei agreed with the black qi, then left his room and headed toward the attendants’ living quarters.

Ye Liang and the War Planet delegation landed on Cosmic Star and set out with two Sword Immortal guides to verify their identities at the Pillar of Authenticity. Their journey began amid dangerous beasts and a massive Seasonal Storm that threatened to block their way.

• Ye Liang and the crew disembarked on Cosmic Star, where Mo Wu explained that contestants had to pass an identity check at the Pillar of Authenticity.
• Two Sword Immortals arrived to escort the War Planet delegation, and Mo Hu accepted their explanation for the sparse welcome.
• Ye Liang used an Earth Dragon Bullet to carry the group toward the pillar, while Mo Wu explained that powerful beasts kept Baiguo from fleeing.
• The Sword Immortals warned the delegation to brace for a Seasonal Storm, and the storm's accelerating airflow swept toward them.