Chapter Summaries

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.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider pursued a wood spirit, but it lured them into a deadly trap beneath the rear garden. They fought off its poisonous, rune-covered roots as the garden turned into a realm of evil qi and attacking roots.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider sensed a presence and spotted a wood spirit fleeing into the ground.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider chased the wood spirit underground and was blasted back by pitch-black roots that dragged him toward their coils.
• Ye Han attacked the roots with his Bone-Refining Bone Sword and cut one, but its poisonous dark-green liquid proved dangerous.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider escaped the roots and warned Ye Han that the earth below was filled with evil qi and terrifying roots.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider used armor and defensive treasures against the poison, but their protections began to fail as roots erupted throughout the garden.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race battled a powerful poison aura evil spirit that had been hiding as a wood spirit. After Ye Han froze the spirit and drove it underground, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s formation pulled it back into the air above them.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race split into three figures and attacked the revealed poison aura evil spirit with red, blue, and gold sword-rays, but its green flames burned them away.
• The poison aura evil spirit unleashed killing intent and attacking roots, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race used Formation Pillars to shield Ye Han and himself.
• Ye Han summoned a hundred-thousand-foot icy monarch and unleashed the Cold Art, freezing the spirit’s roots, poison-flames, and body.
• The poison aura evil spirit shattered the ice and burrowed underground, prompting Ye Han to tell the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race to act.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race activated the Formation Pillars and forced the buried spirit back into the air above them.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider worked together to defeat and freeze the poison evil spirit, then divided its spoils. As they crossed the vast frozen landscape, Ye Han pointed out that the mountain peak remained out of reach despite their long journey.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider used Spatial Position Swap to bring the poison evil spirit within reach of Ye Han's Icicle Trident.
• Ye Han pierced and froze the poison evil spirit, along with the evil spirits escaping from its body.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider asked for the evil spirits as compensation, and Ye Han bargained for the poison evil spirit's true wood spirit.
• After dividing the spoils, Ye Han's Thousand Li Frost froze the surrounding flowers and herbs as the pair continued onward.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider praised Ye Han's ice-attribute spirit root, and Ye Han noted that the distant mountain peak did not seem to get any closer.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider used a Restriction-Breaking Pearl to escape an ancient illusion and reach a mountain radiating extraordinary spiritual energy and light. As the Immortal-Thief Outsider became unnaturally eager to climb, Ye Han warned him and realized the mountain’s influence might be dangerous.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider agreed to investigate the strange landscape and headed toward a distant mountain that seemed impossible to approach.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider released a Restriction-Breaking Pearl, which shattered the ancient illusion and revealed a passage toward the mountain.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider followed the passage, sensing increasingly powerful spiritual energy, star power, and a refreshing aura.
• At the mountain’s foot, the Immortal-Thief Outsider urged them to hurry up toward its radiant summit, but Ye Han cautioned him and used the Divine Communion Formula to snap him out of his sudden impatience.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race climbed a rune-covered staircase, where the runes pulled Ye Han’s consciousness into a strange white space. A golden character entered Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron and transformed the Little Sapling, which began shrinking instead of maturing.

• Ye Han recognized the white-light runes’ aura as belonging to the golden Little Sapling on his Purple Cauldron and hoped the mountain might help it mature.
• Ye Han stepped onto the rune-covered staircase, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race followed before vanishing in a burst of spirit light.
• Ye Han’s consciousness and soul entered a boundless white space containing a golden character, which he could not grasp with his divine sense.
• The golden character flew into Ye Han’s divine sense sea and plunged into the Purple Cauldron.
• The Little Sapling radiated golden light as runes and light-silk patterns appeared around it, but it began shrinking, leaving Ye Han baffled.