Chapter Summaries

Icicles Old Fiend and the Star Clan Cultivators attacked a Star Beast, only for four Mahayana Stage Star Beasts and their forces to appear and drive them into battle. Meanwhile, Ye Han and his companions followed Saint As deeper into the Star Beast mountains, where the Immortal Star Stone Formation Disk guided them through a natural maze toward the True Immortal Secret Realm.

• Icicles Old Fiend charged at a newly emerged Star Beast while the Star Clan Cultivators surrounded it in formation.
• Ugly Star Granny noticed Icicles Old Fiend had grown more impatient and reckless since returning from seclusion.
• Four Mahayana Stage Star Beasts arrived with hordes of beasts, forcing Icicles Old Fiend and Ugly Star Granny to order a retreat as battle erupted.
• Ye Han and his four companions raced through the canyons and learned that the terrain suppressed their spell power, cultivation, and divine sense.
• Saint As led Ye Han's group deeper into the mountains with the Immortal Star Stone Formation Disk pointing the way, and the group sensed they had gotten lucky.

After more than a decade crossing the Star Beast Mountains, Saint As discovered that the Star Clan had found the secret passage into the Star Palace’s True Immortal Secret Realm and suspected the Great Star Divine Emperor was waiting ahead. Saint As put Ye Han in charge of navigating the passage’s most dangerous section with the Immortal Star Stone Formation Compass, and the group agreed to protect him.

• Ye Han’s group crossed the Star Beast Mountains with Saint As guiding them, enduring shifting terrain and spatial storms while the Star Beasts fought the Star Clan cultivators.
• After reaching the deepest part of the mountains, Saint As used the Immortal Star Stone Formation Compass and discovered that the Star Clan had already found the secret passage.
• Saint As and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member suspected that the late Mahayana Stage cultivator waiting ahead was the Great Star Divine Emperor.
• Saint As said Ye Han’s physical strength and Stars Art could help the group bypass the most dangerous part of the passage.
• Ye Han accepted the task, and Saint As gave him the compass and instructed everyone to protect him as he operated it with the Stars Art.

The Great Star Divine Emperor sensed Ye Han’s return and tried to stop him in the Secret Passage. Ye Han and his companions broke through the Divine Emperor’s shield and raced onward, leaving him unable to catch up as he faced attacks from Saint As and the others.

• The Great Star Divine Emperor sensed a dangerous variable, divined that Ye Han had returned, and warned the other cultivators in the Secret Passage.
• A torrent of True Immortal spiritual energy and star power gathered ahead, and the Great Star Divine Emperor rushed toward it.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor raised a shield across the passage, but Ye Han and his companions blasted through it with a powerful attack.
• Ye Han and the others sped farther into the passage, smashing stone pillars and stalagmites as they went.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor pursued them, but Saint As and three others attacked him, and he realized he could not catch up.

Ye Han and his companions bypassed the Great Star Divine Emperor’s defenses by boring through the ground and reached the True Immortal Secret Realm’s entrance. Ye Han opened the gate, but Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei attacked as the Great Star Divine Emperor caught up.

• Ye Han and his companions charged through the ground in a spinning vortex, avoiding the traps Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei had prepared.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor pursued them through the collapsing tunnel, but talisman blasts and summoned creatures slowed him down.
• Ye Han and the others reached the True Immortal Secret Realm’s entrance, where Saint As ordered Ye Han to open the gate.
• Ye Han placed two Immortal Star Stones into the Metal Giants and used his Vajra Body to force the gate open.
• Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei attacked Ye Han and the others as the Great Star Divine Emperor broke through the wall into the chamber.

The Great Star Divine Emperor, Mountainwalker Daoist, and Bu Jinglei attacked Saint As and Ye Han’s group as they opened the True Immortal Secret Realm. Saint As slowed the assault with a space-and-time ability, and the restriction opened, but Ye Han was shackled as he tried to follow the others inside.

• The Great Star Divine Emperor ordered Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei to stop Saint As and his allies from entering the True Immortal Secret Realm.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor, Mountainwalker Daoist, and Bu Jinglei unleashed their treasures against Ye Han and his group.
• Saint As drew in the realm’s immortal qi and used a strange creature to slow the three cultivators’ attacks with space-and-time laws.
• Two metal giants inside the restriction blocked the attacks, and the True Immortal Secret Realm’s barrier opened.
• Ye Han told Saint As and the others to enter, but golden shackles bound his feet as he tried to follow.

Ye Han was dragged toward the True Immortal Secret Realm, but a giant hand from inside seized him and pulled him through the entrance. The gates then shut, leaving the Great Star Divine Emperor, Mountainwalker Daoist, and Bu Jinglei outside, though the Great Star Divine Emperor claimed he knew another way in.

• The Great Star Divine Emperor sealed Ye Han with his manacles and tried to drag him away from the True Immortal Secret Realm.
• A giant hand reached through the entrance, broke the Great Star Divine Emperor’s control of the manacles, and pulled Ye Han inside.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor rushed toward the entrance, but the metal giants attacked and forced him to stop; their strikes wounded Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei.
• The gates of the True Immortal Secret Realm slammed shut, trapping the Great Star Divine Emperor, Mountainwalker Daoist, and Bu Jinglei outside.
• Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei lamented that Saint As and his companions had entered, and the Great Star Divine Emperor said he had figured out another way in.

Ye Han and Saint As’s group entered the True Immortal Secret Realm after breaking through the Mahayana cultivators’ blockade, but Ye Han remained trapped in the Great Star Divine Emperor’s Black-Gold Shackles. As an immense demon beast stirred within the realm’s vortices, Saint As warned that they were in trouble.

• Saint As pulled Ye Han into the True Immortal Secret Realm just before the Great Star Divine Emperor’s treasure could endanger him.
• Saint As credited Ye Han’s sacrifice and physical strength with opening the realm’s entrance, and Ye Han promised to repay his trust.
• Ye Han realized the Great Star Divine Emperor’s Black-Gold Shackles still confined him, and the group worried about how to release them.
• A vast disturbance of immortal qi and spirit light spread across the realm, where Ye Han spotted an immense demon beast moving within the vortices.
• Saint As recognized the danger and shouted that they were in trouble.

Saint As concealed the group inside the True Immortal Secret Realm and promised to teach them the True Spirit Immortal Art, while ominous forces stirred nearby. Outside the realm, the Star Clan cultivators regrouped in defeat until the Great Star Divine Emperor arrived with Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei.

• Saint As used the Shrouding Heaven Black Mist to hide the group from a dangerous watcher and urged them to recover in the True Immortal Secret Realm.
• Saint As promised to teach the True Spirit Immortal Art so the group could wield immortal qi and improve their chances of reaching the Mahayana Stage.
• Restless immortal qi surged through the realm as Saint As led the group through a mountain ravine toward a mist-filled mountain range.
• Ugly Star Granny and Icicles Old Fiend lamented that the united star beasts had driven the Star Clan cultivators from the Star Beast Mountains, leaving them with only one Immortal Star Stone.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor arrived at the ruined tower with Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei, and Icicles Old Fiend revealed his hostility toward the latter two.

Great Star Divine Emperor gathered the Star Clan’s powerful cultivators after revealing that the entrance to the True Immortal Secret Realm could be opened. He organized them to hunt for another Immortal Star Stone and prepare a formation to force the doors open.

• Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei met Icicles Old Fiend, and the three traded remarks about their injuries before agreeing to set aside their grudges.
• Ugly Star Granny urged the cultivators to unite against the star beasts and ancient beasts, and Great Star Divine Emperor confirmed that a grave matter threatened the Star Clan and Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm.
• Great Star Divine Emperor revealed that someone had opened the entrance to the True Immortal Secret Realm and that he had learned how to activate it.
• Icicles Old Fiend said the group had one Immortal Star Stone and that the beasts had gathered in the Star Beast Mountains.
• Great Star Divine Emperor ordered the Mahayana Stage cultivators to hunt for another Immortal Star Stone while the other cultivators practiced a formation to push open the realm’s metal doors.

Ye Han and his clones used the True Spirit Immortal Art to break the black-gold shackles restraining him inside the True Immortal Secret Realm. After the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron helped him absorb immortal qi and recover faster, Ye Han sensed that it might be reacting to a treasure.

• For seventeen years, Ye Han's clones and puppets cultivated the True Spirit Immortal Art and attacked his shackles with immortal qi.
• Ye Han learned that the Great Star Divine Emperor could enter the secret realm and pursue him, so he continued working to undo the restraints.
• The black-gold shackles finally broke, restoring Ye Han's ability to use his spell power and freeing the portions of the Purple Cauldron he had already unsealed.
• Ye Han swallowed pills and cultivated, while the Purple Cauldron drew in immortal qi and greatly accelerated his recovery.
• Ye Han suspected the Purple Cauldron's vigorous response meant a treasure nearby had caught its interest.

The Great Star Divine Emperor and four other Star Clan Mahayana cultivators killed a star beast but found no Immortal Star Stone. After learning their outsiders had freed Ye Han from the Black-Gold Shackles, they decided to enlist their Body Integration cultivators and use the beast's corpse to locate the hidden creatures.

• The Great Star Divine Emperor and four Star Clan Mahayana cultivators battered a star beast until he killed it with a massive blade strike.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor told Ugly Star Granny that outsiders had broken the Black-Gold Shackles restraining Ye Han and erased his aura from the treasure.
• Ugly Star Granny explained that the star beasts carrying Immortal Star Stones had hidden themselves, while Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei found no stone in the slain beast.
• Icicles Old Fiend suspected that the outsiders had obtained his lineage's Immortal Star Stone and worried about the Star Clan's disadvantage.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor ordered the Body Integration cultivators to join the search and proposed sacrificing the beast's corpse to find the hidden creatures.

Ye Han refined the Black-Gold Shackles while cultivating with immortal qi in the True Immortal Secret Realm. The Nethergod Devil Lord began a Mahayana Stage tribulation, and an immortal spirit appeared as the others watched from a distance.

• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron and immortal qi to cultivate and refine the Black-Gold Shackles, advancing his True Spirit Immortal Art to the second layer.
• Ye Han sensed a powerful heavenly tribulation and recognized that the Nethergod Devil Lord was breaking through to the Mahayana Stage.
• Saint As and the Nethergod Devil Lord told the others to leave the tribulation's range, and Ye Han put away the Qing Xuan Divine Palace and its formation restrictions.
• Ye Han, Saint As, the Heavenly Profound Star King, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member watched the tribulation from a mountain peak a thousand li away.
• An immortal spirit appeared after the tribulation's great disturbance drew it to the group.

Ye Han and the others killed a powerful Mahayana immortal spirit that had been drawn by the Nethergod Devil Lord’s tribulation, while the Devil Lord’s heavenly trial reached its most dangerous stage. The group retreated as a colossal lightning claw descended on the Nethergod Devil Lord.

• Ye Han’s Immortal-Slaying Saber struck the immortal spirit’s neck hundreds of times before severing it, and the paired black gourd treasures captured its fleeing soul.
• The immortal spirit’s corpse crashed to the ground, and a strange blood-rain phenomenon spread across the sky, warning nearby beings of a Mahayana Stage death.
• Ye Han and the others withdrew while other Mahayana immortal spirits and demon beasts held back from approaching.
• The heavenly tribulation formed a lightning claw hundreds of li across and crushed down toward the Nethergod Devil Lord.

The Nethergod Devil Lord overcame his heavenly tribulation and reached the Mahayana Stage, though he emerged badly weakened. As he and the others tried to leave the valley, a hidden Immortal-Thief Outsider Race being attacked him, but a gray-rune vortex rescued him.

• The Nethergod Devil Lord absorbed immortal qi and used a treasure from the heavenly gate to survive the final tribulation lightning and advance to the Mahayana Stage.
• Ye Han and the others recognized that the Nethergod Devil Lord's success depended on several advantages, and the Heavenly Profound Star King reconsidered his understanding of his own treasure.
• Saint As urged the group to leave because powerful beings still watched from the shadows, and the Nethergod Devil Lord agreed.
• A silver ghost claw ambushed the injured Nethergod Devil Lord as he left the pit, breaking through his nine heavens holy demon protection and worsening his injuries.
• Gray runes enveloped the Nethergod Devil Lord and made him vanish before the ghost claw could drag him into a spatial rift.
• The Nethergod Devil Lord reappeared in a gray-rune vortex beside the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race being, which had apparently rescued him with an innate divine ability.

Ghost Claw Sky Tree attacked Ye Han and his companions, but they escaped using teleportation arrays. Afterward, Ghost Claw Sky Tree spoke with Green Fruit Immortal Spirit and Green Spider about the outsiders and the place they had come to find.

• Ghost Claw Sky Tree emerged from a spatial rift and nearly seized the Nethergod Devil Lord with its silver claws.
• Saint As called for a retreat, and Ye Han, the Heavenly Profound Star King, and the others used teleportation arrays to escape.
• Ghost Claw Sky Tree struck empty space and raged over losing the chance to devour the cultivators.
• Green Fruit Immortal Spirit and Green Spider warned Ghost Claw Sky Tree not to underestimate the outsiders, who had killed Golden Bird Immortal Spirit.
• Green Fruit Immortal Spirit suggested the outsiders might know how to enter a place the powerful beings had long been unable to reach, and Ghost Claw Sky Tree agreed to wait and see.

After Nethergod Devil Lord survived his tribulation and reached the Mahayana stage, Saint As urged the group to cooperate in the True Immortal Secret Realm and seek its opportunities. Meanwhile, the Star Clan finally obtained an Immortal Star Stone after more than two hundred years of hunting and set out for the Secret Realm entrance.

• Nethergod Devil Lord thanked the others for helping him survive his tribulation, and the group congratulated him on reaching the Mahayana stage.
• Saint As warned that the True Immortal Secret Realm was vast and dangerous, urged everyone to work together, and promised opportunities to reach the Mahayana stage or become True Immortals.
• Ye Han questioned Saint As about his physical body, but Saint As redirected the group toward exploring the realm and told Ye Han to put away the Teleportation Array.
• Saint As said outsiders would be hunted once their presence was discovered, and the group began moving to another place to cultivate while Nethergod Devil Lord recovered.
• Mountainwalker Daoist found an Immortal Star Stone on the corpse of a slain Mahayana Demon Beast, and Great Star Divine Emperor appeared to claim it.
• After more than two hundred years of battles in the Star Beast Mountains, Mountainwalker Daoist handed the stone to Great Star Divine Emperor, and the Star Clan set out for the Secret Realm entrance.

Han Yuwan and Azure Phoenix Fairy worried about their years of wandering the Boundless Star Sea, while their Star Sea Flying Boat was drawn toward an unknown Star Sea City. Meanwhile, Ye Han continued cultivating inside the True Immortal Secret Realm by absorbing immortal qi through the immortal vine.

• In the Star Beast Mountains, the Star Beasts vowed to follow the Star Clan into the True Immortal Secret Realm and escape their confinement.
• Aboard the Star Sea Flying Boat, Han Yuwan and Azure Phoenix Fairy discussed their anxiety about finding a safe Star Realm and seeing Ye Han again.
• Azure Phoenix Fairy told Han Yuwan that Jade Orchid was close to breaking through to the Void Refinement Stage, but worried she could not undergo tribulation aboard the boat.
• The flying boat shook as a Star Sea Nebula and a vast Star Sea City appeared ahead, and White Snow and the others wondered which race controlled it.
• The boat flew toward the city beyond the passengers’ control while Ye Han cultivated inside the Tree Cocoon, absorbing the True Immortal Secret Realm’s immortal qi through the immortal vine.

Ye Han used the Star-Planting Art to cultivate alongside the Immortal Vine, his clones, puppets, and the medicine spirits, greatly accelerating their growth. After more than two hundred years, he reached the ninth level of the Body Integration Realm before Saint As ordered everyone to leave.

• Ye Han merged his cultivation with the Immortal Vine, letting it and his clones, puppets, and spirit-transformed medicine spirits absorb immortal qi together.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit, Moon-Chasing Rabbit, Bìtiān Divine Lord, White Dragon Fish, Three Swords Child, and others cultivated in the Purple Cauldron Space while Bìtiān Divine Lord guided them.
• Ye Han cultivated for more than two hundred years, advancing to the ninth level of the Body Integration Realm.
• Saint As ordered everyone to pack up and leave, and Ye Han joined the Nethergod Devil Lord, Heavenly Profound Star King, Saint As, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race expressed surprise at Ye Han's rapid progress, and Ye Han said he had taken a few immortal pills.

Saint As led Ye Han and the other cultivators toward a fortuitous site that might help them reach the Mahayana stage. Meanwhile, the Star Clan nearly opened the True Immortal Secret Realm’s Metal Gate before star beasts and ancient beasts attacked them.

• Saint As told the cultivators about a site that could offer a chance to reach the Mahayana stage, and the Nethergod Devil Lord agreed to help.
• The Heavenly Profound Star King, the Immortal-Thief Outsider, and Ye Han agreed to follow Saint As, who led them away without releasing their auras.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor and the Star Clan used a formation, burning their power and lifespans to force open the Metal Gate.
• As the Metal Gate neared opening, five Mahayana-stage ancient beasts and star beasts attacked the Star Clan, followed by a host of other beasts.

Ye Han, Saint As, and their companions defeated a Mahayana Stage Stone Immortal Spirit at the outskirts of the Immortal Palace Side Hall Mountain Range. As they prepared to cross the Heavenly Bridge, a surge of immortal light rose from the distant mountains.

• The Nethergod Devil Lord struck the Stone Immortal Spirit with the Hand of the Holy Demon, and Ye Han restrained it with his Black-Gold Shackles.
• Saint As pierced the Stone Immortal Spirit's head, then used a silver light curtain to capture its fleeing Immortal Spirit Divine Soul.
• The group collected the Stone Immortal Spirit's soul and corpse, and Saint As warned that greater dangers might lie deeper in the mountain range.
• Saint As began preparing the group to cross the Heavenly Bridge, but an immense humming vibration and surge of immortal light came from the distant mountains.