Recaps

Ye Han opened a sealed spirit-liquid bottle, and the Purple Cauldron absorbed its white radiance as the golden sapling began to stir. While studying the route to the Number One Central Star Palace Temple, Ye Han found Star Continent Number Four marked vacant, then noticed an unexpected change in his qi and blood as he began meditating.

• Ye Han sensed the Purple Cauldron react to a sealed bottle and sent it into his Divine Sense Sea.
• The Purple Cauldron broke the bottle’s sealing formation and absorbed its dazzling white liquid, causing the golden sapling to tremble.
• Ye Han sensed the Purple Cauldron’s dissatisfaction and realized it still wanted the Starry Sky Stone, which he refused to give up.
• Ye Han examined a scroll about reaching the Number One Central Star Palace Temple and found Star Continent Number Four marked vacant.
• Ye Han began meditating on the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Meditation Cushion and discovered that his qi and blood had changed greatly.

Ye Han used pills and spell power to refine and repair three spirit treasures. Meanwhile, Wu Xuantian and the surviving Northern Lu Immortal Sect Old Ancestors escaped the Lesser Star Palace Temple and began recovering, as an enormous black Long Spear started shaking at another temple.

• Ye Han drew on pills taken from the Divine Ape Three Fiends' storage to fuel the Purple Cauldron as he refined three treasures.
• Wu Xuantian and three Old Ancestors emerged from spatial ripples near the Lesser Star Palace Temple, while Qingguang Old Ancestor's death left them without an important ally.
• Wu Xuantian and the Old Ancestors chose to heal and recover before trying to leave for the Number One Central Star Palace Temple.
• The Northern Lu Immortal Sect group set up defenses and began cultivating, relying on the treasures and Star Palace Token and Starry Sky Stone they had acquired.
• A gigantic black Long Spear piercing another Lesser Star Palace Temple began to tremble and emit black-red flames.

Ye Han recovered from his injuries in the Azure Profound Divine Palace, strengthened his abilities, and refined treasures taken from the Divine Ape Three Fiends. Saint As called to him from the Rebirth Gourd, leaving Ye Han asking what was wrong.

• Ye Tianyu survived the black spear's eruption, stored it away, and cultivated to recover after nearly being killed.
• Ye Han watched the medicine spirits and fire-devouring insects in the Purple Cauldron Space, noting that some insects had reached the nascent soul realm.
• After more than three years of recovery, Ye Han healed, gained insight into life laws, absorbed ancient dragon aura, and mastered the fourth mystery of the Nine Ancient Dragon Mysteries.
• Ye Han refined the Divine Ape Three Fiends' Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, Heaven-Shaking Staff, and Ancient God Jade Stele, though his damaged treasures were not all fully repaired.
• Saint As called out to Ye Han from the Rebirth Gourd, and Ye Han asked what was wrong.

Saint As asked Ye Han to refine pills and revealed that the Immortal-Thief Outsider had reached the Spirit Transformation Stage and found a route to the Central Star Palace Temple. After refining the pills, Ye Han traveled to meet him and was astonished by his appearance.

• Saint As rejected Ye Han's offer to help rebuild his body and asked him to refine pills using the ingredients he provided.
• Saint As told Ye Han that the Immortal-Thief Outsider had found a way to the Central Star Palace Temple and urged him to seek the Outsider's help.
• Ye Han agreed to meet the Immortal-Thief Outsider after finishing the pills, and Saint As said the Outsider was at a crucial point in his cultivation.
• Several months later, Ye Han traveled through a spirit-rich mountain forest and reached a valley where the Immortal-Thief Outsider appeared.
• Ye Han exclaimed in astonishment when he saw the Immortal-Thief Outsider.

Ye Han reunited with the Immortal-Thief Outsider, and the two shared what they had learned about reaching the Central Star Palace Temple. They reached the Starry Sky Dock, where they planned to use Starry Sky Flying Saucers to travel to Number One Continent, but suspected the route was guarded by ambushes and restrictions.

• Ye Han met the Immortal-Thief Outsider, whose appearance and Spirit Transformation Stage cultivation had changed greatly.
• Ye Han brought out the Rebirth Gourd, and Saint As instructed the Immortal-Thief Outsider to work with Ye Han while he continued healing and cultivating.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider told Ye Han that he had obtained a Token and a map from a Foreign-Race Cultivator, and Ye Han revealed that he had also found a route to the Central Star Palace Temple.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider traveled thousands of li, gathered Heavenly Treasures, and nearly fought a Primordial Ancient Beast before reaching a cliff overlooking the Starry Sky Dock.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider explained that Ye Han could use his Starry Sky disciple status and Star Palace Token to activate a Starry Sky Flying Saucer, but warned of possible ambushes and restrictions.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race used a fake Heavenly Treasure and tribulation to draw away the Cultivators guarding the Starry Sky Dock. As the pursuers rushed toward the spectacle, Ye Han sent his companion ahead to make their move.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race discussed a plan to approach the Starry Sky Dock despite the dangers and its likely formation.
• A blood-red figure heard a distant explosion, saw the Five-Colored Spirit Light, and sent two bloody figures and a Formation Token toward the Starry Sky Dock before pursuing the apparent treasure.
• Lurking Foreign-Race Cultivators initially suspected the spectacle was a diversion, but a real-looking Heavenly Tribulation drew them toward the Five-Colored Spirit Light.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race hid beneath a boulder and sensed several powerful Cultivators leaving for the tribulation.
• Ye Han told the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race it was time to act and sent him ahead.

The Immortal-Thief Outsider tried to reach the Starry Sky Dock but was caught in hidden traps, and Ye Han rescued him and fought off the demonic beasts guarding the way. They reached the dock’s perimeter, where an ancient divine restriction blocked their path, and Ye Han insisted he could break through.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider used his short blade and concealment skills to bypass several hidden restrictions on the way to the Starry Sky Dock.
• Blood-red dragon-serpent demonic beasts attacked the Immortal-Thief Outsider, who escaped their first assault but was trapped in a vast blood-red net.
• Ye Han cut through the net with golden sword rays, freed the Immortal-Thief Outsider, and attacked the blood-red dragon-serpents with a purple-gold lightning dragon.
• Ye Han drove back the demonic beasts and carved a path to the Starry Sky Dock with the Great Geng Sword Art.
• A mysterious light barrier covered the Starry Sky Dock, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider warned that an ancient divine restriction blocked their way.
• Ye Han confidently told the Immortal-Thief Outsider that they could get through.

Ye Han’s clone protected the nine-ring heavenly fate grass through its tribulation and escaped into the purple cauldron space, drawing the pursuing cultivators away from the Starry Sky Dock. Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider reached the dock, but the chapter ended with the Outsider questioning whether the grass could return on its own.

• Ye Han’s clone used the white jade stone stele to shield the one-eyed medicine spirit and the nine-ring heavenly fate grass from its tribulation lightning.
• After the grass survived and its medicinal potency surged, Ye Han’s clone carried it and the one-eyed medicine spirit into the purple cauldron space.
• A blood-red figure tried to seize them, but the spatial gate vanished, and he realized the cultivators had been lured away from the Starry Sky Dock.
• The blood-red figure reached the Starry Sky Dock too late, while Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider stood on a Starry Sky Flying Saucer inside it.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider asked why they were waiting and whether the nine-ring heavenly fate grass could return on its own.

Ye Han escaped Number Eight Continent aboard the Starry Sky Flying Saucer with the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator, using the nine-ring heavenly fate grass as bait to draw away the cultivators waiting at the Starry Sky Dock. As they traveled toward the Number One Central Star Palace Temple, Ye Han refused to trade the grass and left his companion reacting to a sudden sight behind him.

• Ye Han fitted the Starry Sky Stone into the Starry Sky Flying Saucer and flew away from the Starry Sky Dock, leaving the blood-red figure furious and the arriving cultivators stunned.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator praised Ye Han's escape plan, and Ye Han explained that the gathered Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators had made direct confrontation too dangerous.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator asked for the nine-ring heavenly fate grass, but Ye Han refused to trade it and explained that he had used it to lure away their pursuers.
• Ye Han joked that he might discuss trading the grass with his master, frustrating the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator suddenly looked behind Ye Han and exclaimed, "What's that?"

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief outsider encountered a terrifying Ancient Dragon in the starry sky, and their fight threatened the Starry Sky Flying Saucer. They left off battling the creature as the saucer’s defenses began to fail.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief outsider saw an enormous Ancient Dragon wreathed in black flames charging toward their Starry Sky Flying Saucer.
• The Immortal-Thief outsider recognized the creature’s aura as resembling that of a Starry Sky Behemoth he had encountered before.
• Ye Han summoned the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to block the Ancient Dragon’s black flames, but its defensive formation began to crack.
• The Immortal-Thief outsider used the Reversal Divine Mirror to turn the black flames back toward the dragon, then offered to trade it for the Nine-Ring Heavenly Fate Grass; Ye Han refused.
• The Ancient Dragon launched another assault, and Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief outsider attacked with the cauldron and mirror as the saucer’s formations shook and threatened to shatter.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator repeatedly suppressed and transported away a pursuing dragon's divine soul as they traveled through Starry Sky Space. After crossing a perilous region of spatial rifts, they reached the Number One Continent, where the sight at its edge left them aghast.

• Ye Han used the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to freeze the dragon's divine soul, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator used the Reversal Divine Mirror to transport it away.
• The dragon repeatedly found and attacked them, so Ye Han and the cultivator suppressed and transported it more than a dozen times before it retreated.
• Ye Han gained a trace of insight into ancient dragon law from the dragon's attacks, though he could not absorb its ancient dragon aura.
• The Starry Sky Flying Saucer endured a storm of spatial rifts and ripples as it crossed a chaotic region for fourteen to sixteen hours.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator saw the Number One Continent and, after flying for several more hours, reached its edge, where they were left aghast by what they saw.

Ye Han and the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race reached Number One Star Palace Continent and set out for the Central Star Palace Temple. Ye Han confirmed that Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan were alive, but they still faced the temple’s dangers and the uncertain Nine Dragons Locking the Sky restriction.

• Ye Han and the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race left their Starry Sky Flying Saucer at the damaged Star Palace Dock and chose to follow their maps to the Central Star Palace Temple.
• Ye Han used his Azure Profound Sect Legacy Disciple Token and sensed a faint response that confirmed Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan were alive.
• Ye Han concluded that Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan were likely inside the Central Star Palace Temple and hoped they could help unlock Nine Dragons Locking the Sky.
• The member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race took the lead, and Ye Han joked that he could save him if danger appeared ahead.

Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan sensed Ye Han’s aura through his Token and decided to stay and cultivate rather than risk traveling onward. Meanwhile, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race reached the first ancient formation guarding the Central Star Palace Temple and prepared to enter it.

• Elder Liu sensed Ye Han’s aura through the Azure Profound Sect Token, and Zhang Qingshan recognized it as a sign of good fortune.
• Zhang Qingshan predicted that Ye Han’s arrival would help them escape, but Elder Liu chose to stay and cultivate while they waited.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race crossed a desolate landscape marked by ancient battles as Ye Han worried about Elder Liu, Zhang Qingshan, the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, and Teacher Lan Qing.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race stopped at the mist-shrouded cliff and warned Ye Han that the first ancient formation would be difficult to pass.
• Ye Han insisted there was no way around the formation, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race agreed to lead the way inside.

After spending more than thirty-two years traversing the Central Star Palace Temple’s defensive formations, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race defeated a powerful frost wraith. They continued into the dangerous middle layer, where ancient formations, wraiths, and foreign cultivators in Water Spirit Coffins awaited them.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race combined their abilities and treasures to defeat a frost wraith that had resisted their attacks.
• Ye Han collected the frost wraith’s remnants in the Ghost Skull Mirror, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race stored the few wraith killing intent beads they had gained.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race complained about their meager reward and suggested fleeing if they met another wraith, but Ye Han pointed out that they could not escape once inside.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race moved together into the gray mist ahead, where ancient restriction runes surged.
• After more than thirty years in the formations, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race faced ever-greater dangers, including ancient battle wraiths and foreign cultivators preserved in Water Spirit Coffins.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider raced through a vast canyon toward the Central Star Palace Temple when a half-puppet from the Pointed-Horn Demon Race ambushed them. After asking to cooperate, the demon revealed he meant to take their bodies.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider traveled together, hoping to avoid desperate old cultivators who sought to steal bodies and lifespans.
• As they raced through a canyon marked by ancient blade intent, Ye Han sensed danger and raised a protective barrier around them.
• A hidden saber burst from the mountain wall, and Ye Han punched it aside just enough for its blade-light to pass over them.
• A four-armed mechanical puppet emerged from the collapsing wall, revealing a horned, half-puppet cultivator of the Pointed-Horn Demon Race.
• The demon asked Ye Han to cooperate on their way to the Central Star Palace Temple, then roared that he wanted their bodies.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator joined forces to destroy the Pointed-Horn Demon Race cultivator's puppet body. A golden dragon-shaped figure stole his escaping divine soul and nascent soul, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator pursued it.

• Ye Han battled the Pointed-Horn Demon Race cultivator and noticed strange gray light emerging from his puppet body.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator restrained the Pointed-Horn Demon Race cultivator with a rope while Ye Han severed his abdomen and blocked his counterattack.
• Ye Han overwhelmed the bound cultivator, cut apart his puppet body, and drove his blood-red divine soul and nascent soul to flee.
• Ye Han sent the Ghost Skull Mirror after the fleeing soul, but a golden dragon-shaped figure swallowed it and sped back toward the Cliff.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator transformed into gray light and pursued the figure to claim the soul Ye Han had promised him.

Ye Han followed the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow through dangerous restrictions toward the Central Star Palace Temple. They reunited in a mist-shrouded ravine, where the fellow warned that a giant black dragon blocked their way and was powerful enough to kill them.

• Ye Han looted the shattered puppet body and hidden mountain chamber of the Pointed-Horn Demon Race warrior, then followed the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow's trail.
• Ye Han tracked the fellow for three or four days through dangerous restrictions and reached a vast, mist-filled region thick with ancient dragon aura.
• Ye Han contacted the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow, who told him to retreat a hundred li and wait.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow arrived at Ye Han's cave and said they were near the end of the formation restrictions and close to the Central Star Palace Temple.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow warned Ye Han that a giant black dragon blocked the way and that confronting it would mean certain death.

Ye Han recognized the enormous Black Dragon as the one he had seen undergoing Heavenly Tribulation years ago and crossed its back to reach the Central Star Palace Temple. As he traversed the sleeping dragon, it began to stir and its blazing eyes appeared through the mist.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider warned Ye Han that an enormous, injured Black Dragon blocked the gap in the restrictions leading to the Central Star Palace Temple.
• Ye Han realized the Black Dragon was the one he had seen during its Heavenly Tribulation and told the Immortal-Thief Outsider to hide inside a Space Ring.
• Ye Han crossed onto the Black Dragon's back, where its breathing created the violent winds and its body stretched across the land.
• The Black Dragon's body began to tremble, and its enormous, sunlike pupils appeared through the mist as it awakened.

Ye Han was blasted away by the Black Dragon and landed at the Central Star Palace Temple, where he wondered why the dragon had sent him there. The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member then urgently asked to be let out of the Space Ring.

• The Black Dragon detected the Nine Dragons' aura inside Ye Han and roared, blasting him away without intending to kill him.
• Ye Han flew through the restrictions and emerged before a vast complex of ancient buildings surrounding an immense tower, which he recognized as the Central Star Palace Temple.
• Ye Han used the Cold Art and Ice-Cold Divine Armor to withstand a collision with a towering stone stele, then crashed into the ground.
• Ye Han concluded that the Black Dragon had deliberately sent him past the Temple's dangerous restrictions and wondered what the dragon had noticed.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member called from the Space Ring and demanded that Ye Han release him before he went to meet Old Old Thief.

Ye Han released the Immortal-Thief Outsider near the Central Star Palace Temple, then used his Legacy Disciple Token to sense Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan. A strange aura targeted Ye Han as the Black Dragon raged behind them, and they continued toward the palace.

• Ye Han released the Immortal-Thief Outsider from his Space Ring, and the two recognized the Central Star Palace Temple in the distance.
• Ye Han activated his Legacy Disciple Token and sensed that Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan were moving within the Central Star Palace Temple.
• A powerful, icy aura surged from the token and affected Ye Han, though the Immortal-Thief Outsider sensed nothing unusual.
• The Black Dragon stirred violently in the Mist Land, shaking the Number One Star Continent and unleashing storms and star power.
• Ye Han refused to explain how he had crossed the Black Dragon's territory so quickly and told the Immortal-Thief Outsider they had to keep moving forward.

Wu Xuantian fled toward the Central Star Palace Temple while Ye Tianyu followed the Demonic Spear’s guidance through a corridor. Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan were attacked by Ancient Souls, and Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider reached the temple entrance, where the Starry Sky Stone began to glow.

• Wu Xuantian spotted the Central Star Palace Temple and raced toward it to escape the battle and the Northern Lu Immortal Sect elders.
• Ye Tianyu followed the black spear rune’s signal down the right-hand corridor.
• Zhang Qingshan and Elder Liu encountered more than a hundred Ancient Soul reliefs, and Elder Liu summoned flame-wreathed figures to fight them.
• Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan argued over whether Zhang Qingshan’s omen had led them to an auspicious direction.
• Ye Han took out the Starry Sky Stone before the Central Star Palace Temple, causing starlit runes to ripple from it.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race were pulled into the Central Star Palace Temple, where they discovered its walls had become Starry Sky Stone. A mysterious chess puzzle appeared overhead and drew the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s mind inside, leaving Ye Han to find a way to save him.

• The Central Star Palace Temple’s gates opened and pulled Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race inside before closing behind them.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race landed in an enormous palace and discovered its walls were made of Starry Sky Stone.
• Ye Han reasoned that the temple had absorbed stellar power over time and that the Star-Seizing Tower might have enabled this.
• A chessboard of starlight appeared above the hall, and Ye Han recognized it as a dangerous Ancient Times Endgame.
• Ye Han resisted the puzzle’s pull with the Divine Communion Formula, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race was drawn into it.

Ye Han studied the sealed hall’s deadly chess puzzle while cultivating and replenishing his energy, since the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s mind was trapped inside the board. After days of failed attempts, the board made a move that revealed a possible path forward, and Ye Han suspected the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race had found a way to influence it.

• Ye Han confirmed that the hall had no exit and that the chessboard could trap only one cultivator’s mind at a time, leaving the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race inside it.
• Ye Han avoided trying to wake the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race again after his first attempt caused a backlash, and instead studied the puzzle while cultivating on the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Meditation Cushion.
• Ye Han released his clone and Spirit-Transformation Nascent Soul to cultivate, while Saint As declined to leave the Rebirth Gourd.
• After several days and thousands of failed simulations, Ye Han remained unable to solve the intricate chess puzzle.
• The chessboard shifted a red piece and added another, breaking the deadlock, and Ye Han noticed a stir in the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s aura that suggested he might be controlling the moves.

Ye Han watched the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member solve a deadly board game after eight years and three months, earning a marked Starry Sky Stone. The stone activated a staircase in the Great Hall, and Ye Han and the man climbed it while wondering what each had gained.

• Ye Han studied the game as the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member and the white pieces made increasingly slow moves over many years.
• After eight years and three months, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member placed a red piece that caused countless white pieces to crumble and broke the game.
• A Starry Sky Stone marked with red and white piece runes appeared, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member caught it as his Divine Sense grew stronger.
• The stone released starlight runes that shifted the floor tiles and formed a staircase reaching up through the Great Hall.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member climbed the staircase and remarked on each other's gains from the trial.

After nearly ten years trapped solving a chess puzzle, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider left through a starlit exit and entered a strange garden inside the Central Star Palace Temple. Ye Han could no longer sense his sectmates through his token, leaving him to wonder whether Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan were in danger as a strange aura stirred among the flowers.

• Ye Han told the Immortal-Thief Outsider they had spent almost ten years at the chess puzzle, while he had advanced the Cold Art to its second layer and refined his treasures.
• Ye Han said the nine ink dragons had shown no reaction, and the two climbed the staircase toward an exit filled with hazy starlight.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider passed through the exit and found themselves in a vast garden beneath three suns, where the sunlight carried a mysterious power of law.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider urged Ye Han to contact his sectmates, but Ye Han's Azure Profound Sect Legacy Disciple token failed to detect Elder Liu.
• Ye Han wondered whether Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan had run into trouble, then a strange vibrating aura emerged from flowers and grass in the distance.