Recaps

Teacher Lan Qing helped Ye Han regain hope despite his lifespan crisis, then led him toward the chains to test a discovery. He proposed that the Ancient Human Ancestors were naturally able to cultivate and asked Ye Han why he believed that, hinting at a connection to the trial.

• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that his dispirited expression reminded him of his own despair when trapped in the Tower of Hell.
• Teacher Lan Qing urged Ye Han to hold on to hope, reminding him of how he had struggled to survive as a mortal in Green Ox Village.
• Ye Han recalled his treasures and the Purple Cauldron, regained his resolve, and followed Teacher Lan Qing toward the chains.
• Teacher Lan Qing asked Ye Han about the origins of cultivators and the Ancient Human Race.
• Teacher Lan Qing said he believed the Ancient Human Ancestors could cultivate naturally and asked Ye Han why he thought so.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing discussed whether ancient cultivators had learned to cultivate by first comprehending the starry sky, and whether returning to that early state of understanding could help them pass the trial. After meeting Saint As and learning his true race, the three agreed to try entering a special emptiness state to sense the stars.

• Teacher Lan Qing proposed that ancient cultivators had grown powerful by studying the starry sky and suggested that comprehending it might be the key to becoming a Star Palace Disciple.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing spent several months walking and discussing cultivation, alchemy, formations, and the power of the stars.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing encountered Saint As on another Sky-Piercing Pillar, where he shared his discoveries and agreed with Lan Qing’s account of ancient races.
• Ye Han learned that Saint As belonged to the Heaven-Dominating Race rather than the Night Spirit Clan and that he was trapped in the star formation after escaping the Tower of Hell.
• Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and Saint As decided to enter a special emptiness state and sense the starry sky for a way forward.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, Saint As, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, and Wuxie Scholar comprehended the true power of the stars and overcame the flight prohibition in the starry-sky formation. They reached a revolving star that seemed to mark the end of the trial, though the next challenge remained unknown.

• Ye Han used the Azure Profound Divine Palace to draw himself, Teacher Lan Qing, and Saint As into nine years of contemplation beneath the stars.
• Teacher Lan Qing comprehended star law, discovered he could walk through the void on stellar power, and contacted Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable and Wuxie Scholar.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable and Wuxie Scholar told Teacher Lan Qing they had found the key to the formation but still needed to comprehend the stars.
• Saint As, Ye Han, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, and Wuxie Scholar each mastered stellar power over the following years and regained the ability to ascend through the formation.
• The five cultivators walked upward through the void for over a month and found a revolving star radiating spatial ripples three million feet above them.

Ye Han and the others entered a vast realm filled with mature heavenly treasures and spirit medicines, then spotted a five-colored palace atop a jade mountain that seemed to be their destination. Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable proposed dividing the treasures equally, but Ye Han warned that things might not be so simple.

• Ye Han and the four others emerged into a lush realm where spiritual energy and mature treasures surpassed those on Number Eight Continent.
• Ye Han realized that comprehending star law had increased his lifespan and hoped that mastering life laws could extend it further.
• The group discovered that their ability to wield star power had weakened, then Wuxie Scholar pointed out a palace atop a jade mountain.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable identified rare lifespan-extending treasures and proposed dividing them into five equal portions while keeping their trial as their priority.
• Ye Han cautioned that dividing the treasures might not be so simple.

Ye Han warned his companions that the spirit medicines in the Lesser Star Palace Temple had become powerful, elusive medicine spirits. After the spirits hid throughout the realm, the group decided to head to the palace and focus on passing the trial to become Star Palace Disciples.

• Ye Han tested a spirit medicine with a frost attack, and a one-eyed White Jade Doll emerged to block and destroy it.
• The White Jade Doll roared, causing spirit medicines throughout the realm to turn into white light and vanish underground.
• Teacher Lan Qing explained that the medicine spirits were powerful but timid, and asked how Ye Han had recognized them.
• Ye Han claimed he had learned about medicine spirits from a book, though he knew the immortal vine in his Purple Cauldron Space had developed one.
• Ye Han urged everyone to go to the palace, and the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable agreed that passing the trial was their main goal.

Ye Han and the others reached a jade mountain palace resembling the Lesser Star Palace Temple and used the Five-Star Formation to break its powerful restriction. As the formation drew in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, a hazy white figure suddenly appeared nearby.

• Ye Han and the others avoided the dangerous medicinal spirits and climbed the slippery jade mountain to its summit.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable used the Star Palace Token, but its runes failed to penetrate the palace's restriction.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable and the others activated the Five-Star Formation and poured their spell power into it.
• The palace's restriction weakened as the formation drew Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy from within a hundred li.
• Ye Han urged everyone to hurry, and a hazy white figure appeared nearby.

Ye Han and the other cultivators fought off furious medicine spirits while using their attacks to break through the Palace's Restrictive Barrier. Ye Han charged through the opening first and faced a streak of Golden Light Sword Rays aimed at his throat.

• The Five-Star Formation enraged the medicine spirits by devouring the spiritual energy they needed, and the spirits unleashed a powerful rain of white petals.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable ordered everyone to break the formation as their puppets, spirits, beasts, spells, and treasures struggled against the petals.
• The group drew the medicine spirits' attacks toward the Palace's Restrictive Barrier, weakening it until their combined assault opened a hole.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable hesitated, remembering the sword light inside, while Ye Han charged through first.
• A streak of Golden Light Sword Rays shot toward Ye Han's throat, and everyone watched in shock as something unexpected unfolded.

Ye Han entered the palace after the Starry Sky Stone absorbed a golden sword-ray that should have killed him, then concealed the truth from Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable and the others. The group recovered inside the barrier, while Ye Han sensed the sword intent on the Starry Sky Stone might hold greater significance.

• Ye Han rushed through the palace barrier, and the golden light sword-ray vanished after the Starry Sky Stone absorbed it.
• The medicine spirits battered the others as they followed Ye Han inside, then fled when the palace barrier repelled their white petals.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable and the others questioned Ye Han, who claimed he had used a secret method to fool the sword-ray.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable told the group to take pills and recover before using their tokens to enter.
• Ye Han secretly examined the Starry Sky Stone and sensed that its new sword-ray mark and sharp sword intent might be connected to the Ascension Immortal Palace.

The Star Palace sent Ye Han and the others into a spatial vortex, where their Star Palace Tokens protected them from deadly spatial power. Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable turned on the group, but Ye Han saved Saint As and then faced another plea for help as Wuxie Scholar was in danger.

• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable opened the Lesser Star Palace Temple, and a mysterious figure declared the group Star Palace Disciples before sending them to find Starry Sky Stones.
• The spatial vortex began tearing the group apart, but Ye Han and Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable were protected by their Star Palace Tokens.
• Saint As's body was destroyed, and his nascent soul pleaded with Ye Han to save him.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable tried to seize Saint As, but Ye Han blocked his attack and drew Saint As's soul into a Rebirth Gourd.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable turned toward Wuxie Scholar with a bloodlit bronze bell, and Wuxie Scholar called on Ye Han to save him.

Ye Han was transported to a starry space by the Star Palace Token and realized Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had used the teleportation to ambush cultivators without tokens. As Ye Han searched for the Starry Sky Stone, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable attacked Teacher Lan Qing, who fought to survive.

• Ye Han was swept into a starry space protected by his Star Palace Token, while Teacher Lan Qing and Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable were nowhere in sight.
• Ye Han realized Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had planned to exploit the spatial power to eliminate cultivators without Star Palace Tokens, and that Wuxie Scholar had been caught in the attack.
• Ye Han recalled that he had rescued Saint As's Spirit-Transformation Nascent Soul and soul, which called to him from inside the Rebirth Gourd.
• Ye Han concluded that the Ascension Immortal Palace had been a Lesser Star Palace Temple and raced along the chains to find the Starry Sky Stone before Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable could get it.
• Teacher Lan Qing used the Green Lightning Dragon to fend off Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable's gray Sword-Rays as he vowed revenge.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable cast a black-and-red starlight net at Teacher Lan Qing.

Ye Han followed Teacher Lan Qing’s Life Soul Token through the Starry Sky Formation, hoping to join forces against Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable. He exposed the apparent Teacher Lan Qing as Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable in disguise and began to realize how the deception had worked.

• Ye Han sensed Teacher Lan Qing’s Life Soul Token and raced along a chain to meet him.
• The figure impersonating Teacher Lan Qing claimed that Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had attacked them and that Wuxie Scholar’s body had been destroyed.
• The impostor asked how Ye Han had obtained a Star Palace Token, and Ye Han recognized the question as suspicious and attacked with Golden Light Sword Rays.
• The figure blocked Ye Han’s attack with a black barrier, then revealed himself as Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable wearing the Red Mask.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable accused Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing of conspiring, while Ye Han realized there was more to the Life Soul Token deception.

Ye Han fought the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, who revealed that he had obtained the Starry Sky Stone and used the Red Masks to siphon soul auras. The battle continued as both unleashed powerful treasures and techniques, with neither gaining the upper hand before the chains began to tremble.

• Ye Han realized the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had used the Red Masks and cloaks to siphon soul auras from him and his companions.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable attacked Ye Han with a blood-red saber, sealing rings, and a ghostly figure that restrained his body and divine soul.
• Ye Han broke free with his dark-gold gang qi and fists, then counterattacked with purple-gold lightning and the Azure Profound Sword Formation, but the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable escaped using his mask.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable resumed his assault with blade light, sealing rings, and Ghost Claws while Ye Han fought back with the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art and Azure Profound Divine Swords.
• Ye Han summoned the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell to send demon phantoms against the sealing rings, and the chains began to tremble during the fight.

Ye Han and the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable accidentally activated the Starry Sky Formation, which sealed them in a giant tree of chains. After the Divine Venerable escaped with a Starry Sky Stone, Ye Han was flung in another direction and spotted Teacher Lan Qing.

• Ye Han and the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s battle activated the chain formation, which sealed both cultivators and began pulling them toward a giant tree of chains.
• Ye Han saw chain spheres hanging from the tree that contained Star Palace Disciples trapped during the Lesser Star Palace Temple trial.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable used a Starry Sky Stone to escape and abandoned Ye Han to the chains.
• Ye Han persuaded the Purple Cauldron to release its Starry Sky Stone, whose golden sword rays shielded him from the formation.
• The giant chain tree struck Ye Han and hurled him away from the Divine Venerable, where he spotted Teacher Lan Qing and wondered whether the figure was real.

Ye Han was swept through the starry void and separated from Teacher Lan Qing before a spatial vortex returned him to the entrance of the Lesser Star Palace Temple. Realizing he had been expelled alone, Ye Han saw an opportunity to claim the hall’s spirit-bearing heavenly treasures.

• Ye Han spotted Teacher Lan Qing protected by Golden Light Runes, but his voice could not reach him, and a star storm swept them apart.
• Ye Han drifted helplessly through the starry void for more than half a month until he reached a spatial vortex and used the Star Palace Token to protect himself.
• The vortex returned Ye Han to the entrance of the Lesser Star Palace Temple, where he found the surrounding heavenly treasures restored.
• Ye Han searched for Teacher Lan Qing and Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable but found no trace of them.
• Ye Han concluded that the temple had expelled him alone because he carried another Starry Sky Stone, and he considered ways to subdue the heavenly treasures' medicine spirits.

Ye Han planned to capture the medicine spirits near the Lesser Star Palace Temple by using its Restrictive Barrier and infiltrating their ranks. After confirming that his Star Palace Token let him pass through the barrier, he set a trap with an immortal vine and vanished, leaving a medicine spirit exposed to the one-eyed medicine spirit.

• Ye Han recalled how Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had plotted against him and resolved to settle their score at the Number One Central Star Palace Temple.
• Ye Han planned to exploit the temple's defensive restriction and tested whether his Star Palace Token let him pass through it using his clone.
• Ye Han confirmed that his clone could freely cross the Restrictive Barrier while holding the Star Palace Token.
• Ye Han released an immortal vine from his purple cauldron space outside the barrier, then vanished to draw the medicine spirits out.
• A plump medicine spirit emerged beneath the vine and absorbed spiritual energy until the one-eyed medicine spirit appeared and approached it with a savage expression.

Ye Han used the immortal vine medicine spirit to befriend the Heavenly Treasure medicine spirits and gather them with their medicinal bodies, then sprang a trap to capture them. His formation and Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda suppressed their first counterattack, but he expected a more dangerous threat to follow.

• Ye Han sent the immortal vine medicine spirit among the medicine spirits, where it befriended the one-eyed spirit and gradually joined their group.
• After watching for over a month, Ye Han waited until more than two hundred medicine spirits had gathered with their Heavenly Treasure bodies around the immortal vine.
• Ye Han activated a sealing formation that hardened the ground, suppressed the medicine spirits’ runes, and sent the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda’s chains to bind them.
• The medicine spirits unleashed a powerful flower of law-bound petals, but the chains caused their attack to collapse.
• Ye Han smiled as the trap appeared to succeed, while recognizing that a greater danger had yet to emerge.

Ye Han used the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda to immobilize a vast swarm of medicine spirits and capture more than two hundred spirit medicines and heavenly treasures before escaping into the Lesser Star Palace Temple’s Restrictive Barrier. Safe inside, he considered using the immortal vine to lure more treasures, but found himself stymied as he turned to deal with his latest captures.

• Ye Han released the Purple Cauldron’s aura through the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda, freezing the medicine spirits within tens of thousands of feet.
• Ye Han used the opening to pull more than two hundred medicine spirits and heavenly treasures into the pagoda, then fled into the Lesser Star Palace Temple’s Restrictive Barrier.
• The medicine spirits recovered and formed an immense flower, but hesitated to approach the temple’s restriction.
• Ye Han assessed the pagoda’s immense spell-power cost and considered using the immortal vine to lure more medicine spirits and treasures.
• The medicine spirits outside did not attack the temple, and Ye Han prepared to handle his captured spirits before pursuing his next plan.

Ye Han replenished his Purple Cauldron Space and cultivated in a blessed land while the captured medicine spirits recovered, but the Immortal Vine Medicine Spirit remained hidden and refused to cooperate. He planned to refine lifespan-increasing pills to address his crisis before going to the Number One Central Star Palace Temple.

• Ye Han drew abundant spiritual energy into his Purple Cauldron Space to nourish the captured medicine spirits and heavenly treasures, which had been weakened by their capture.
• The Immortal Vine Medicine Spirit stayed hidden in the immortal vine, leaving Ye Han unable to collect more spirit medicines.
• Ye Han delayed his journey to the Number One Central Star Palace Temple so he could cultivate, refine treasures, and make pills to extend his lifespan.
• The captured medicine spirits and heavenly treasures began recovering as Ye Han supplied spiritual energy and the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit watered them.
• Ye Han brought out the Azure Profound Divine Palace and set up two formations to gather spiritual energy, one for the palace and one for the Purple Cauldron Space.

After spending twenty years cultivating and refining lifespan pills inside the Lesser Star Palace Temple, Ye Han decided to leave and search for a way out. He placed his hopes on the Starry Sky Stone bearing a golden sword-ray.

• Ye Han refined and swallowed a Ten-Thousand-Year Lifespan Pill, gaining only two hundred years of lifespan as the Purple Cauldron absorbed and refined its medicinal power.
• Ye Han reflected on his slow cultivation progress and his limited advances in the Nine Ancient Dragon Mysteries.
• Ye Han concluded that Teacher Lan Qing and the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable might have already left for the Number One Central Star Palace Temple.
• Ye Han decided to leave the Lesser Star Palace Temple and search for a way out.
• Ye Han took out the Starry Sky Stone with a golden sword-ray and considered it his best hope of escaping.

Ye Han escaped the Lesser Star Palace Temple on Number Eight Star Continent and set out to find a route to the Central Star Palace Temple. At the foot of the mountain, he encountered three figures charging toward him.

• Ye Han used the Starry Sky Stone's sword-ray to break through a mountain wall and found a passage leading to a Teleportation Array.
• Ye Han activated the array with his Star Palace Token and emerged outside the Lesser Star Palace Temple on Number Eight Star Continent.
• Ye Han left the temple's Restrictive Barrier, using his Thunderclap Divine Armor and Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder to push past the baleful spirit ghosts.
• Ye Han found no sign of the Divine Ape Three Fiends and raced down the mountain to search for a way to Number One Continent.
• At the foot of the mountain, Ye Han froze as three figures charged toward him.

Ye Han encountered the Divine Ape Three Fiends on his way down the mountain and fought off their combined attacks with his body-refining arts and Azure Profound Divine Swords. As the three escalated the battle with their Divine Ape Staff Art, Ye Han recognized traces of the Great Ape chapter of the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art in their moves.

• The Divine Ape Three Fiends spotted Ye Han and attacked him, forming a joint barrier and summoning three enormous divine ape silhouettes.
• Ye Han transformed into a half-human, half-dragon form and blocked the three apes’ crushing punches with Golden Light Fist Barrier Qi.
• The Three Fiends strengthened their attack with blood-red black dragons, but Ye Han used twelve Azure Profound Divine Swords and Great Geng Divine Insight Swordsmanship to overwhelm them.
• The Three Fiends assumed Ye Han had gained immense power from the Lesser Star Palace Temple and attacked with their Divine Ape Staff Art.
• Ye Han recognized traces of the Great Ape chapter of the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art in the Three Fiends’ staff techniques and prepared to answer their challenge.

Ye Han overwhelmed the already injured Divine Ape Three Fiends with his staff art and several powerful treasures, while the Purple Cauldron replenished his spell power. The Three Fiends broke through his attacks and fled through an opening.

• Ye Han used the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art to smash aside the Divine Ape Three Fiends' attacks and send them reeling.
• Ye Han unleashed the Azure Profound Sword Formation, the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell, and the Ghost Skull Mirror against the Three Fiends.
• The Divine Ape Three Fiends used their spirit-transformation demon nascent souls and spell banners to block Ye Han's attacks.
• Ye Han renewed his assault, relying on the Purple Cauldron to replenish his spell power.
• The Divine Ape Three Fiends realized they could not win and blasted open a gap to escape.

Ye Han used the Five-Star Formation and his other treasures to capture the wounded Divine Ape Three Fiends, but the battle depleted much of his power and resources. As he hurried to inspect their captured belongings, he suddenly sensed danger.

• Ye Han activated the Five-Star Formation, restraining the Divine Ape Three Fiends and disrupting their spell power.
• Ye Han's Ghost Skull Mirror, Azure Profound Sword-Rays, Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art, and Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel overwhelmed the fiends.
• Ye Han imprisoned the three fiends' bodies in the Ghost Skull Mirror and their demon nascent souls in the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and Purple Cauldron Space.
• Ye Han assessed the cost of the battle and retrieved the Divine Ape Three Fiends' Storage Bags and Space Rings.
• Ye Han sensed danger without warning as he prepared to inspect the spoils.

Ye Han endured a devastating major lifespan heavenly tribulation after fighting the Divine Ape Three Fiends and survived by exhausting pills, treasures, and his own strength. The storm dispersed, leaving him injured but with a longer lifespan and improved insight into life and lightning laws, while he worried about future tribulations and whether the Three Fiends’ treasures had triggered this one.

• A hundred-thousand-zhang bolt of blood-red tribulation lightning shattered the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda’s defenses and drove it down onto Ye Han.
• Ye Han held up the falling pagoda, resisted the destructive law power entering his body, and drew on the Purple Cauldron’s power to restore his strength.
• The heavenly tribulation clouds suddenly dispersed, and Ye Han realized he had survived the major lifespan tribulation.
• Ye Han assessed the damage to his body and treasures, noting that he had spent more than half his stored pills and gained about a thousand years of lifespan.
• Ye Han took pills to recover and wondered whether the Divine Ape Three Fiends’ treasures had caused the tribulation or whether its arrival was a coincidence.

After surviving the major lifespan heavenly tribulation and defeating the Divine Ape Three Fiends, Ye Han hid to recover and examined their spoils. He found a route to the Number One Central Star Palace Temple and an ancient dragon crystal, then discovered a final item that excited the Purple Cauldron.

• A blood-red figure and several other foreign-race cultivators rushed toward the site of Ye Han's tribulation, but Ye Han had already vanished under the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda's concealment.
• Ye Han fled through the mountains and hid in a secluded cave, where he brought out the Azure Profound Divine Palace and began healing his injuries.
• Ye Han examined the Divine Ape Three Fiends' abundant treasures and found a scroll mapping a route to the Number One Central Star Palace Temple.
• Ye Han found three pieces of an ancient dragon crystal, which could supply power for his Nine Ancient Dragon Mysteries.
• Ye Han turned his attention to a final item that excited the Purple Cauldron.