Chapter Summaries

White Snow struggled to control the Star Phoenix Flame and feared the power awakening in her bloodline would hurt her friends. After learning to refine star source and patiently practicing, she mastered a gentler flame, while the danger within her seemed to settle as she prepared for the next demon tide.

• Old Ironhead explained that White Snow's fire was the Star Phoenix Flame, which refined rather than destroyed, and helped her practice with a star source stone.
• White Snow's bloodline power caused her flames to erupt, and she admitted she feared becoming a monster and harming Tie Xiaoqi and the others.
• Old Ironhead gave White Snow a Star Demon core, and she purified its heavenly demon aura into star source that eased the rampaging power within her.
• After days of practice, White Snow steadied the flame and used it to ignite an iron bar without melting it.
• White Snow understood that the flame followed her intent, noticed the wild power in her bloodline had grown quiet, and resolved to be ready for the next demon tide.

White Snow brought representatives from seven stockades together and persuaded them to form the Star Phoenix Alliance, with Tie Rushan as leader and herself as deputy and combat commander. The alliance began with 168 people, little food or equipment, and a shared resolve to stand against the Stars Pavilion.

• White Snow called twelve representatives from seven stockades to Iron Bone Stockade and proposed that they join forces.
• White Snow argued that the stockades should share warnings and resources and gradually build strength against the Stars Pavilion.
• The leader of Broken Blade Cliff, the young man from Dry Well Bay, the bearded man from Black Stone Stockade, and the old man from Sandstorm Pass agreed to join.
• White Snow named Old Ironhead as alliance leader, and the stockades signed a pact establishing the Star Phoenix Alliance with Tie Rushan as leader and White Snow as deputy and combat commander.
• Tie Xiaoqi counted 168 members across the seven stockades, and White Snow vowed to celebrate their future victory over the Stars Pavilion with ten bowls of braised pork.

White Snow uncovered that the Stars Pavilion was abducting rogue cultivators for a blood sacrifice tied to the Star-Locking Formation and the Demon Emperor’s descent. With three days before the formation activated, she prepared the Star Phoenix Alliance to act while Ningyu headed to join her.

• Old Sun reported that black-robed Stars Pavilion cultivators had arrived at Falling Star Harbor, sealed off its warehouse district, and were connected to a recurring sacrifice of three thousand rogue cultivators.
• Tie Xiaoqi deciphered a coded cloth fragment that mentioned a heaven-chosen sacrifice, a blood sacrifice, the Star-Locking Formation, and the Demon Emperor’s descent.
• Ningyu identified the Star-Locking Formation as an altered Sacrificial Formation that required three thousand cultivators’ essence blood every sixty years.
• A wounded scout reported that the Stars Pavilion was seizing rogue cultivators across the wasteland and had surrounded Black Stone Stockade; Ningyu warned that the formation would activate within three days.
• White Snow restrained herself from rushing into battle and vowed to expose the conspiracy, while Old Ironhead hinted that he had been waiting twenty years for this day and Ningyu set out to join them.

White Snow and her allies discovered that the Star-Locking Formation was a sacrificial cage feeding the Star-Devouring Demon Emperor, and that White Snow’s Star Phoenix bloodline was the key to opening the Star Gate. White Snow vowed to stop the sacrifices and attack the Star-Locking Hall, but Ningyu said she first had to find the Purple Cauldron, which was drawing closer.

• Ningyu calculated that at least five hundred thousand cultivators had been sacrificed to sustain the Star-Locking Formation.
• White Snow used Star Pupil to reveal hidden heavenly demon writing that showed Murong Xuan had been corrupted and the formation was meant to open a passage for the Star-Devouring Demon Emperor.
• Ningyu explained that the formation’s three sites formed a Sacrificial Formation, and that White Snow’s Star Phoenix bloodline was the final key to opening the Star Gate.
• Old Ironhead revealed that his two disciples had been chosen as offerings twenty years earlier and vowed to fight the Demon Emperor.
• White Snow decided to stop the offerings within three days and strike at the Star-Locking Hall, while Ningyu told her to find the Purple Cauldron first.
• White Snow’s allies pledged to join her, and Ningyu said the Purple Cauldron was drawing closer as White Snow’s Storage Ring grew hot.

White Snow and the Star Phoenix Alliance defended Iron Bone Stockade against a Stars Pavilion attack, but Mo Huaigu captured Qing Feng and demanded White Snow come to the Star-Locking Hall in three days. As White Snow resolved to rescue her, the Purple Cauldron Fragment flared and revealed a hazy figure approaching.

• Mo Huaigu led twelve flying boats and hundreds of puppet-like cultivators in an assault on Iron Bone Stockade, and White Snow rallied the rogue cultivators to fight back.
• Ningyu warned White Snow that the attackers were living corpses and that their heads were their weak points, helping the defenders turn the battle.
• Qing Feng arrived and fought beside White Snow, but Mo Huaigu wounded White Snow, captured Qing Feng, and demanded White Snow's Star Phoenix Bloodline at the Star-Locking Hall in three days.
• After the battle left twelve rogue cultivators dead and many more wounded, Red Dragon Girl wanted to attack immediately, while Ningyu urged caution and told White Snow to master the second Nine Star Phoenix Transformation.
• White Snow vowed to rescue Qing Feng and turned to the Purple Cauldron Fragment for strength, which suddenly blazed with purple light as a hazy figure approached.

White Snow received a message from Ye Han through the Purple Cauldron Fragment, learned the first layer of the Purple Cauldron Heart Method, and was told he would arrive in three days. She prepared to unite the seven stockades and developed a new ability as she resolved to rescue Qing Feng and confront the Star-Locking Hall.

• Ye Han appeared through the Purple Cauldron Fragment and reassured White Snow that she was family, not a pet.
• Ye Han taught White Snow the first layer of the Purple Cauldron Heart Method, which stabilized her Star Phoenix Flame and complemented the Nine Star Phoenix Transformations.
• Ye Han promised to come in three days before his message faded, and White Snow told Red Dragon Girl to gather everyone from all seven stockades.
• White Snow practiced the two methods together and awakened the nascent Star Phoenix Cauldron Mark.
• White Snow looked toward the Star-Locking Hall and vowed to reach Qing Feng.

White Snow organized the Star Phoenix Alliance to attack Star-Locking Hall before Ye Han arrived, assigning teams to infiltrate its underground tunnel, rescue prisoners, and destroy the Sacrificial Array. The alliance prepared for battle, united behind White Snow as she declared that rogue cultivators would no longer be treated as ants.

• White Snow announced a plan to strike Star-Locking Hall, and Ningyu revealed that an abandoned sewage tunnel led to its lightly defended underground core.
• White Snow assigned Tie Xiaoqi to connect the stockades’ traps into a Star Phoenix Flame Array and named her hall master of the Mechanism Hall.
• Rogue cultivators from all seven stockades gathered, and White Snow assigned Old Ironhead to lead a frontal feint while Broken Blade Cliff guarded the infiltration team.
• White Snow told the alliance she was afraid but would not back down, then ordered Tie Xiaoqi’s Mechanism Hall to remain behind as the last line of defense.
• White Snow rallied the two hundred members of the Star Phoenix Alliance to prepare for war, and Ningyu watched her with pride.

On the eve of the march on Starfall City, Old Ironhead told White Snow how the Stars Pavilion took his disciples Tie Daniu and Tie Xiaozhu for the Heaven-Chosen Sacrifice, where three thousand people were killed. At dawn, White Snow led two hundred rogue cultivators as the Star Phoenix Alliance toward the Star-Locking Hall, determined to rescue her master's wife.

• Old Ironhead shared his story of losing Tie Daniu and Tie Xiaozhu to the Heaven-Chosen Sacrifice and the arm he lost trying to find them.
• White Snow promised to teach Old Ironhead proper ancient formations after the battle and proposed planting a tree outside Iron Bone Stockade.
• White Snow revealed her phoenix form before two hundred rogue cultivators and declared the formation of the Star Phoenix Alliance.
• White Snow blessed the gathered cultivators with Star Phoenix Flame and led their march toward Starfall City and the Star-Locking Hall.
• White Snow flew ahead of the column, resolved to reach her master's wife.

White Snow and her elite squad infiltrated the Star-Locking Hall through an underground channel, uncovering evidence of mass sacrifice and Old Ironhead's long-lost son among the dead. They reached an altar where Qing Feng was still alive, bound to a pillar.

• White Snow led Old Ironhead, Tie Xiaoqi, the bearded man, and the other elites through a blood-stained underground channel while Tie Xiaoqi disarmed its traps.
• Old Ironhead recognized a carving left by Tie Daniu, realizing the channel was the route used to bring captives in twenty years earlier.
• The squad discovered ancient living sacrifice seals made from the souls of hundreds of thousands of cultivators.
• White Snow and the others entered a cavern filled with bones, where Old Ironhead recognized Tie Daniu's corpse and chose to keep moving.
• White Snow saw Qing Feng bound but still alive on a pillar inside an underground altar and whispered that she had come to save her.

White Snow discovered the altar was protected by a deadly formation and crossed it to reach the bound Qing Feng, triggering an alarm. Surrounded by Star-Locking Hall cultivators, she faced Mo Huaigu, who revealed that someone else was in charge as the Pavilion Master’s presence stirred above them.

• Tie Xiaoqi used a bronze mirror to reveal that the altar floor held a lethal formation, and White Snow used her Star Pupil to find a narrow path through it.
• White Snow crossed the trapped floor alone, then forced her way through the formation’s final barrier with her Star Phoenix Flame and landed beside Qing Feng.
• Dozens of black-robed cultivators surrounded White Snow and Qing Feng, while more than a hundred others pinned down Old Ironhead and Tie Xiaoqi outside the doors.
• Mo Huaigu told White Snow that he was not the master of the situation and called out to the Pavilion Master.
• The divine soul lights above the altar stopped revolving, and space began to twist.

The Star-Devouring Demon Emperor possessed Murong Xuan, overwhelmed White Snow and the others, and began using Qing Feng to open the Star Gate. As White Snow refused to yield, her Star Phoenix inheritance erupted and her eyes turned platinum.

• The Star-Devouring Demon Emperor emerged through Murong Xuan and crushed the gathered cultivators with his pressure.
• The Demon Emperor wounded Mo Huaigu and revealed that the Pavilion Master Mo Huaigu had served was never Murong Xuan.
• The Demon Emperor targeted White Snow for her Star Phoenix Bloodline and began draining Qing Feng to open the Star Gate.
• The Demon Emperor told White Snow that the Star-Locking Formation would seal every passage between worlds and keep Ye Han from reaching her.
• White Snow resisted the Demon Emperor and, under extreme pressure, fused the Purple Cauldron Heart Method with the Nine Star Phoenix Transformations.
• White Snow heard a phoenix cry within her soul, and her golden eyes turned platinum.

White Snow and the rogue cultivators fought to stop the Star-Devouring Demon Emperor from draining Qing Feng, but Old Ironhead and Mo Huaigu died after helping expose a path to the altar’s center. White Snow reached the Demon Emperor beneath Qing Feng’s pillar, exhausted and wounded, and waited desperately for her mistress to wake.

• White Snow and the rogue cultivators formed a defensive circle while the Star-Devouring Demon Emperor’s chanting strengthened the runes binding Qing Feng.
• Tie Xiaoqi’s explosives opened a gap in the attackers, and Old Ironhead detonated the altar’s hidden channels, disrupting the Demon Emperor’s chant.
• The Demon Emperor struck Old Ironhead, who died after urging Tie Xiaoqi to use mechanism craft to protect people and telling White Snow she was a Star Phoenix.
• White Snow lost control of her Star Phoenix Flame and burned the black-robed cultivators, while the dying Mo Huaigu revealed a fissure leading to the altar’s center.
• White Snow charged through the fissure and confronted the Demon Emperor beneath Qing Feng’s pillar, but exhaustion left her kneeling as the Demon Emperor raised his hand to strike.

White Snow awakened her Star Phoenix True Form and drove the Star-Devouring Demon Emperor back. The Purple Cauldron Fragment then pierced the altar and Star-Locking Formation with a pillar of light, as White Snow sensed her master’s arrival.

• As the Demon Emperor’s black fog entered her heart, White Snow remembered her family, Old Ironhead’s words, and her promise that rogue cultivators were not ants.
• White Snow’s bloodline awakened, merging the inheritance with the Purple Cauldron Heart Method and transforming her into a vast, golden-feathered Star Phoenix.
• White Snow’s starlight burned away the sacrificial runes and turned the attacking star demons to ash.
• White Snow confronted the Star-Devouring Demon Emperor and exposed Murong Xuan’s face beneath the black fog.
• The Purple Cauldron Fragment blasted a hole through the altar, Starfall City, and the Star-Locking Formation, sending a pillar of light across the Star Continent.
• White Snow sensed her master in the light as the curse of the Star-Locking Formation receded.

Ye Han arrived through the Purple Cauldron’s gateway and reunited with White Snow in the collapsing Star-Locking Hall. After learning that Qing Feng was alive and honoring Tie Rushan’s sacrifice, he joined White Snow in attacking the Demon Emperor with their fused purple-gold power.

• Ye Han emerged from the Purple Cauldron’s gateway, and White Snow rushed to him in her star phoenix form.
• Ye Han asked about Qing Feng, learned she was alive, and heard that Tie Rushan had died destroying the Hidden Channel to protect the others.
• Ye Han honored Tie Rushan and ordered the elite rogue cultivators to escort Tie Xiaoqi away before the Star-Locking Hall collapsed.
• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to fuse its power with White Snow’s star phoenix flames, creating purple-gold fire.
• Ye Han and White Snow attacked the Demon Emperor together with a torrent of fused power.

White Snow and Ye Han joined forces with Tie Xiaoqi to wound the Demon Emperor in the Star-Locking Hall. As their attack sent him crashing into the Star Gate, he began draining Qing Feng’s life force to destroy them all.

• White Snow and Ye Han attacked the Demon Emperor with the Purple Cauldron while Tie Xiaoqi defended them from black-robed cultivators and struck the Demon Emperor with bombs and arrows.
• White Snow and Ye Han combined their powers to injure the Demon Emperor and expose Murong Xuan’s rotted body and the sacrificial core in his chest.
• The Demon Emperor activated the sacrificial runes and overwhelmed the hall with black fog, but White Snow and Ye Han fused their powers into the Star Phoenix Incineration attack.
• The fire dragon blasted the Demon Emperor through the Star Gate’s frame, breaking three spinal bones and destabilizing the vortex.
• The Demon Emperor drew on the remaining sacrificial runes and began draining Qing Feng’s life force into the Star Gate.

White Snow, Ye Han, and Tie Xiaoqi destroyed the sacrificial formation and defeated the Demon Emperor, saving Qing Feng. As the Star-Locking Hall collapsed, White Snow sheltered Tie Xiaoqi and Qing Feng and prepared to lead them out.

• White Snow attacked the chains binding Qing Feng while Ye Han trapped the Demon Emperor with the Purple Cauldron.
• Tie Xiaoqi identified the seventh stone pillar as the formation's weak point and used Old Ironhead's modified Dragon-Cutting Thread to break it.
• White Snow burned away the remaining runes and freed Qing Feng, then delivered her to Tie Xiaoqi.
• Ye Han and White Snow combined the Purple Cauldron and the Star Phoenix Cauldron Mark to destroy the Demon Emperor.
• Ye Han called for a retreat as the Star-Locking Hall collapsed, and White Snow shielded Tie Xiaoqi and Qing Feng while vowing to take Old Ironhead's granddaughter home.

After the Star-Locking Hall collapsed, White Snow reunited with Qing Feng, Ye Han, and her allies on the Ten Thousand Stars Wasteland. As the survivors recovered from the battle, White Snow appointed Tie Xiaoqi to lead the Mechanism Hall.

• White Snow carried Qing Feng out of the collapsing hall, and Qing Feng briefly woke to tell her she had grown prettier before Jade Orchid said she needed half a month of rest.
• White Snow thanked Ye Han for coming, and he affectionately called her a silly bird.
• Red Dragon Girl, Ningyu, and Han Yuwan welcomed White Snow back, and Han Yuwan gave her Vitality-Returning Pills.
• White Snow found Tie Xiaoqi grieving over Old Ironhead's damaged Iron Hand and read his engraving about protecting people.
• White Snow fitted the Iron Hand onto Tie Xiaoqi and named her the Star Phoenix Alliance's Mechanism Hall master.

Ten days after Star-Locking Hall fell, White Snow and Ye Han helped establish Star Phoenix City as a home for rogue cultivators. With the city recovering, they set out with the five master's wives through a gateway to the Upper Realm, leaving Star Phoenix City behind for a new journey.

• White Snow became Star Phoenix City's Guardian after a young cultivator mistook her for Lady Star Phoenix, and Ye Han teased her about the title.
• Ye Han told White Snow that unfinished business awaited in the Upper Realm and asked her to come with him.
• Qing Feng, Red Dragon Girl, Ningyu, Han Yuwan, and Fairy Jade Orchid joined White Snow and Ye Han on the gate tower as Star Phoenix City and the wasteland recovered.
• White Snow chose to leave with Ye Han and the five master's wives, joking that their next stop needed plenty of good food.
• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to open a gateway to the Star Sea, and the group walked through as Star Phoenix City's bells rang behind them.