Chapter Summaries

Ye Han rode a giant dragon toward the Great Star Divine Emperor to contest the Stars Light Pillar, wielding the Absolute Frost Divine Sword and overpowering the emperor's attacks. The emperor's silver bird was crippled by the spreading frost, but he launched a massive sword strike at Ye Han, who believed his opponent had taken the bait.

• The Great Star Divine Emperor recognized Ye Han's Absolute Frost Divine Sword and sent out a rune-covered silver bird to fly higher and draw power from the Stars Light Pillar.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor attacked Ye Han with a barrage of star-powered beams from the silver bird as Ye Han rode his dragon upward.
• Ye Han used the Immortal-Extinguishing Sword Art to freeze the beams into vast fields of icicles and disrupt the silver bird's flight.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor unleashed his life-bound treasure sword in a huge starlight-charged strike, and Ye Han thought the emperor had taken the bait.

Ye Han tricked the Great Star Divine Emperor by freezing and gathering the star power, then absorbed it into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Armor to unleash its full strength. The Great Star Divine Emperor lost control of the Immortal Palace’s restrictions, and as the frost storm and metal dragon closed in, he drew a bloodlight talisman.

• Ye Han blocked the Great Star Divine Emperor’s sword-ray with the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Armor while standing atop a mountain of icicles.
• Ye Han shattered the icicles and absorbed their stored star power, transforming the armor into a giant purple-gold metal dragon.
• The Great Star Divine Emperor realized Ye Han had used the Absolute Frost Divine Sword to freeze and gather star power, then sent his silver giant bird skyward.
• The Icicles Mountain Peak rose from the ground, and the Great Star Divine Emperor discovered he had lost control of the Immortal Palace’s restriction formation.
• The frost storm froze the silver giant bird as the metal dragon charged at the Great Star Divine Emperor, who pulled out a bloodlight talisman.

Ye Han trapped the Great Star Divine Emperor in the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and devoured his divine soul. After an Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member appeared and saw the cauldron, he suddenly called for Ye Han to save him as blood essence erupted from his body.

• The Great Star Divine Emperor used a blood-red spatial talisman to escape Ye Han's initial attacks, but Ye Han's spatial vortex and Absolute Frost Divine Sword forced him into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, Heavenly Dao Gourd, and Dark Earth Gourd battered the Great Star Divine Emperor until his body collapsed and his divine soul tried to flee.
• Ye Han refused the Star Clan Ancestor's offer to guide him to immortal fortuity and let the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron devour the divine soul completely.
• An Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member appeared, saw the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron in Ye Han's hand, and cried for help as blood essence erupted from his body.

Ye Han placed the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race inside the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, understanding that he had recognized the treasure and was entrusting his life to him. The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race gave Ye Han the method to leave the Immortal Palace, but as Ye Han took the Jade Slip and Tokens, the starry sky vortex above the palace began to shake.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race feigned a divine soul crisis, and Ye Han drew him into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron's space for Soul Suppression.
• Ye Han realized the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race had helped him defeat the Great Star Divine Emperor by using Shifting Forms and Exchanging Shadows to bring the fleeing enemy back.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race claimed he needed a thousand years to recover and handed Ye Han a Jade Slip and two Tokens containing the method to leave the Immortal Palace.
• Ye Han accepted the items and offered to help the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race, who urged him to find a way out quickly.
• The starry sky vortex above the Immortal Palace began trembling with astonishing force.

After killing the Great Star Divine Emperor, Ye Han discovered that a terrifying force was stirring in the Immortal Palace and feared the true immortal had awakened. He fled toward the Teleportation Array, where the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron sensed a powerful treasure, and realized it might be above him.

• Ye Han realized the ice mountain had only appeared to fly because his Earth God Flawless Art had thrust it upward, while the Great Star Divine Emperor had fled and been killed by Ye Han.
• The Immortal Palace’s immortal qi and stellar power began to tremble violently, and the Moon-Chasing Rabbit warned Ye Han to escape.
• Ye Han used the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s jade slip to find the route to the Teleportation Array and rushed through a passage while absorbing power with the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron sensed an extraordinarily powerful treasure ahead, in the direction Ye Han needed to travel.
• Ye Han reached a vast formation but could not find the treasure, then looked up after realizing it might be above him.

Ye Han discovered a second Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and a flesh-and-blood Binglian inside a chained Water Spirit Coffin above the Great Hall. As the palace began to shake and Binglian showed signs of waking, Ye Han tried to seize the coffin, but its chains shattered on their own.

• Ye Han revealed the cavern ceiling and found Binglian and another petrified Heaven-Devouring Cauldron inside a Water Spirit Coffin.
• Ye Han resisted letting his Heaven-Devouring Cauldron absorb the other one, fearing the backlash would exceed what he could survive.
• The Immortal Palace shook as energy drained away, and the eerie woman in another sealed Water Spirit Coffin began struggling against her chains.
• Ye Han's Heaven-Devouring Cauldron suppressed the eerie woman's coffin while Binglian's heart began beating.
• Ye Han formed two golden palms to seize Binglian's Water Spirit Coffin, but its chains shattered and fell onto them.

Saint As injured the Great Scholar Immortal with black lightning before being crushed, though a strange aura escaped as the Immortal Palace and True Immortal Secret Realm began to collapse. Ye Han appeared inside an astral formation and used Thunder Escape Technique to flee, racing to reach the exit before the realm fell apart.

• The Great Scholar Immortal blocked Saint As's sword strike and sent him crashing into the Diamond City Wall.
• Saint As revealed that his sword had wounded the Great Scholar Immortal with strange black lightning and unleashed destructive energy.
• The Great Scholar Immortal crushed Saint As, but a strange aura escaped and Saint As's laughter continued to echo.
• The Immortal Palace shook, and the True Immortal Secret Realm began to collapse.
• Ye Han appeared inside an astral formation, recognized the danger, and used Thunder Escape Technique to escape toward the exit.

Ye Han escaped the collapsing True Immortal Secret Realm through a dangerous teleportation array and emerged into the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm. Injured but alive, he wondered what Saint As and the Nethergod Devil Lord had done in the Immortal Palace and whether the slumbering True Immortal had perished.

• The Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm halted amid violent spatial storms and ripples.
• Ye Han burst from a spatial rift into the sea, where his impact created a massive tsunami.
• Ye Han surfaced, celebrated surviving, and reflected that he had reached the Mahayana Stage despite his injuries and weakened cultivation.
• Ye Han recalled using the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race's formation tokens to leave the Immortal Palace and reach a hidden region containing the True Immortal Secret Realm's exit.
• As the secret realm collapsed, Ye Han risked activating its unstable exit formation and escaped to the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm.

Ye Han escaped the collapsing True Immortal Secret Realm through a turbulent spatial passage, losing one cultivation level before landing in the sea of the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm. He saw Saint As and the Nethergod Devil Lord’s life soul auras shatter and feared they had fallen, though he could not be certain.

• Ye Han used his Mahayana Stage cultivation and mastery of space laws to break through the collapsing teleportation passage, at the cost of one cultivation level.
• Ye Han emerged into the sea and checked the Life Soul Token, finding that the Heavenly Profound Star King's aura had vanished while Saint As and the Nethergod Devil Lord’s remained.
• Saint As and the Nethergod Devil Lord’s life soul auras cracked and shattered, leading Ye Han to suspect they had died.
• Ye Han reflected that he had survived by heeding the Moon-Chasing Rabbit and the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race, and recognized his enormous gains from defeating the Great Star Divine Emperor.
• Ye Han identified the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm by its stellar and True Immortal aura, then sensed someone approaching.

Ye Han avoided the Star Clan Cultivators and sought a safe place to deal with Binglian and the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron. Elsewhere, a Gray-Light Figure continued forcing an enormous figure through a spatial storm while vowing to claim the Heavenly Mandate.

• Star Clan Cultivators searched for Ye Han and worried that the halted Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm would attract outsiders after the True Immortal Secret Realm collapsed.
• Ye Han concealed his aura, avoided the Star Clan Cultivators, and reasoned that the Secret Realm’s collapse had stopped the Star Realm and would invite conflict between races.
• Ye Han flew to a cliff inhabited by powerful Ancient Demon Beasts and attacked them to secure a place to rest.
• A Gray-Light Figure struck an enormous figure with radiant fists, gradually changing its course through a spatial storm.
• The Gray-Light Figure cursed the Great Scholar Immortal, declared that even this would not send him into reincarnation, and vowed to seize the Heavenly Mandate as he pushed the enormous figure onward.

Ye Han spent more than half a year sealing Binglian and the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron inside her Water Spirit Coffin, then stored the coffin in the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda. He remained wary of powerful threats and suspected Saint As and the Nethergod Devil Lord might still be alive.

• Ye Han used the Soul Suppression Divine Art and his formations to seal Binglian inside the Water Spirit Coffin.
• Ye Han reflected that Binglian was a half-step true immortal and that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron in her coffin might overpower his own or trigger a deadly backlash.
• Ye Han stored the sealed Water Spirit Coffin in the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda rather than risk placing it inside his own Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.
• Ye Han noted that his cultivation had fallen from the late Mahayana stage to the middle Mahayana stage after his recent battles and exertion.
• Ye Han sensed danger from Saint As and suspected that Saint As and the Nethergod Devil Lord had survived despite their Life Soul Token auras vanishing.

Ye Han cultivated with the Moonlight Hand and sorted through the Great Star Divine Emperor’s treasures, adding those he could not refine to the Myriad Treasures Formation. He realized that the lifespan he had burned in battle would bring a ten-thousand-year lifespan heavenly tribulation within the next thousand years, and that Wretched Old Heaven would make every tribulation especially dangerous.

• Ye Han cultivated inside the Moonlight Hand, an Immortal Treasure he had found among the Great Star Divine Emperor’s belongings.
• Ye Han left the difficult-to-refine treasures unused or added them to the Myriad Treasures Formation, strengthening the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s space.
• Ye Han recalled that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron had unleashed its Dragon Transformation attack during the battle with the Great Star Divine Emperor, consuming a third of his lifespan.
• Ye Han calculated that the lifespan he had spent would bring a ten-thousand-year lifespan heavenly tribulation within the next thousand years.
• Ye Han feared the coming tribulation because his path-severing tribulation had drawn Wretched Old Heaven’s jealousy and ensured that future tribulations would be difficult.

Ye Han considered combining five Supreme Immortal Treasures into a formation and studied the Great Star Divine Emperor’s records of the Demon Immortal Land, an opportunity to attain immortality in the Devil Star Realm. He decided to travel there, but first needed to address his lifespan heavenly tribulation and find a way to leave the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm.

• Ye Han prepared to combine four refined Supreme Immortal Treasures with the Heavenly Venerate Divine Hammer, though refining and wielding all five would require tremendous time and spell power.
• Ye Han read a Tree Bark Book describing the Demon Immortal Land’s location, dangers, and preparations, along with two less detailed records of other dangerous regions offering chances to become immortal.
• Ye Han decided to visit the Devil Star Realm both to seek the Demon Immortal Land and to fulfill his promise to help the Nethergod Devil Lord’s mother.
• Ye Han resolved to make the trip despite the risks, but recognized that he first had to handle his lifespan heavenly tribulation and leave the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm.

Ye Han survived his lifespan heavenly tribulation, broke through in the Everlasting Immortal Flower Art, and used the tribulation’s destruction to escape the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm. He left with his cultivation and life force restored, while the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield had been damaged.

• Ye Han used the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield and the Myriad Treasures Formation to withstand the nine-headed tribulation lightning bird’s final strike.
• The tribulation ended, and mysterious lifespan and life-law auras descended into Ye Han as the clouds and lightning bird vanished.
• Ye Han’s Everlasting Immortal Flower Art broke through to the seventh layer, healing his injuries and restoring much of his cultivation, spell power, and lifespan.
• Ye Han gathered the scattered treasures into his Heaven-Devouring Cauldron space and flew through the damaged realm restriction, escaping the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm.

Ye Han escaped the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm by using his tribulation to break its restriction and blasting through its interface barrier. He flew through the Star Sea toward a star realm he sensed nearby, then noticed a large number of Star Sea Flying Boats and wondered what they were doing.

• Ye Han chose the weakest point in the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm's restriction and used his tribulation to blast a huge hole through it.
• Ye Han punched through the realm's interface barrier and entered the Star Sea.
• Ye Han left the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm behind and avoided confronting the Star Clan cultivators who had come to investigate.
• Ye Han used the power of the star law and his Stars Demonic Armor to sense a star realm and flew toward it.
• After several dozen days of travel, Ye Han sensed many Star Sea Flying Boats and wondered what they were planning.

Ye Han discovered that the Night Fiend Race was leading a powerful fleet to attack the newly appeared Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm. After the Night Baleful Emperor sensed Ye Han spying on him, Ye Han fled toward what he believed was the Night Fiend Race’s home realm.

• The Night Baleful Emperor ordered his fleet to prepare to seize the Heavenly Mechanism Star Realm and prevent any Star Clan Cultivators from escaping.
• The Night Baleful Emperor sensed someone watching him, but his search revealed no one.
• Ye Han recalled that the Night Fiend Race had fought the Star Clan in the past and suspected the True Immortal Secret Realm had motivated the war.
• Ye Han left without confronting the Night Baleful Emperor, reasoning that the vanished True Immortal Secret Realm made the coming war irrelevant to him.
• Ye Han flew in the opposite direction from the fleet, toward the Night Fiend Star Realm.

Ye Han traveled through the Star Sea to find the hidden Night Fiend Star Realm, whose location was concealed by a formation of star rings and killing intent. He began deciphering the formation and collected a Baleful Spirit Pearl, leaving him closer to locating the realm.

• Ye Han headed for the Night Fiend Star Realm to establish his position in the Star Sea and find a route to another realm.
• After flying for more than eight years, Ye Han reached a region of star rings filled with terrifying stars killing intent.
• Ye Han entered the concealed region and found that its restrictive power blocked his Star Law and Stars Demonic Armor from locating the Night Fiend Star Realm.
• Using his Baleful Spirit Path Art, Ye Han sensed the killing intent's flow and spent more than ten million li studying the formation.
• Ye Han continued studying the Star Realm Grand Formation and emerged from a star ring holding a Baleful Spirit Pearl.

Ye Han used the Tyrant God Golden Spear and God-Splitting Spearmanship to kill a middle Mahayana stage star beast and obtain its valuable remains and Baleful Spirit Divine Crystal. Six years later, he broke through the Night Fiend Race’s restrictions and entered a gray realm of killing intent, where Night Fiend Race cultivators arrived.

• Ye Han hunted a terrifying star beast and killed it with one thrust of the Tyrant God Golden Spear.
• Ye Han explained that God-Splitting Spearmanship let him wield the spear with greater power while using less spell power.
• Ye Han found a Baleful Spirit Divine Crystal among the star beast’s remains and suspected the beasts had an arrangement with the Night Fiend Race.
• Six years later, Ye Han broke through the Night Fiend Race’s restrictions and entered a gray realm filled with killing intent.
• Night Fiend Race cultivators arrived above the turbulent region, and Ye Han watched them approach.

After spending more than a century disguised in the Night Fiend Star Realm, Ye Han waited for the Night Fiend Race to install a Star Sea Compass Map in their unfinished Flying Boat so he could learn the routes to nearby star realms. The map was finally installed, and Ye Han prepared to act.

• Ye Han watched the Night Fiend Race build a Star Sea Flying Boat while Fellow Daoist Jin urged him to join an expedition to the Heavenly Baleful Ancient City.
• Ye Han refused Fellow Daoist Jin's invitation and warned him that he would soon enter seclusion.
• Ye Han reflected on his century spent exploring the Night Fiend Star Realm under a disguise that only a few cultivators there could see through.
• Ye Han observed the Flying Boat's construction to learn the Star Sea Compass Map's locations and routes to nearby star realms.
• The Night Fiend Race finished installing the Star Sea Compass Map, and Ye Han decided it was time to act.

Ye Han stole the Star Sea Compass Map from the Night Fiend Race’s unfinished flying boat and left the Night Fiend Star Realm, setting out for the Black Luo Star Realm. As he traveled, he thought of Han Yuwan and the others and took comfort that their Life Soul Tokens showed they were still alive.

• The Night Fiend Race’s Artifact Refiners and Formation Masters discovered that someone had stolen the Star Sea Compass Map they had just installed.
• Ye Han recorded the map, learned the locations of nearby star realms, and planned to travel through the Black Luo Star Realm before heading toward the distant Devil Star Realm.
• Ye Han transformed back into his Ancient Human Race appearance and used a token to pass through the Night Fiend Star Realm’s boundary formation.
• Ye Han set his course for the Black Luo Star Realm, studied Dao Insights, and cultivated as he flew through the Star Sea.
• Ye Han worried about Han Yuwan and the others, but found comfort in their Life Soul Tokens showing that they were still alive.