Chapter Summaries

After more than seven years cultivating with Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruits, Ye Han reached the first layer of Spirit Transformation Stage and refined powerful weapons while he and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race remained trapped. Elder Liu finally contacted Ye Han, warned him to collect enough Starry Sky Stones before attempting a dangerous rescue, and Ye Han asked about the Nine Dragons on the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall.

• Ye Han broke through to the first layer of Spirit Transformation Stage after absorbing twenty-eight Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruits, though the fruits no longer increased his lifespan after the eighteenth.
• Ye Han grew a Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit tree in his Purple Cauldron space, refined the Immortal-Breaking Divine Armor, and completed Blood-Drip Recognition with the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd.
• Ye Han received a transmission from Elder Liu through his Azure Profound Sect Legacy Disciple Token after years without contact.
• Elder Liu told Ye Han that he and Zhang Qingshan were trapped beneath the Star-Seizing Tower and warned him not to come without enough Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han told Elder Liu that he was in the area with Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruits, then asked whether Elder Liu knew about the Nine Dragons on the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall.

Ye Han lost contact with Elder Liu after receiving a warning to gather more Starry Sky Stones, while Elder Liu worried that Ye Han had already fallen into danger involving the Nine Dragons. Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider set out to search for more stones and approached a place where they might encounter a powerful guardian again.

• Ye Han failed to restore the connection through the Azure Profound Sect Legacy Disciple Token after Elder Liu told him to gather more Starry Sky Stones.
• Elder Liu also failed to contact Ye Han and told Zhang Qingshan that Ye Han had already found the Nine Dragons of the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall.
• Zhang Qingshan's Fortune and Disaster Prediction ability failed, and Elder Liu settled into a Water Spirit Coffin while beginning to explain the Nine Dragons.
• Ye Han told the Immortal-Thief Outsider about Elder Liu's advice, and they set out together to search for more Starry Sky Stones.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider worried that returning near the familiar buildings could bring them face-to-face with the guardian again.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member returned to the buildings where they had found the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit, hoping to find more Starry Sky Stones and other treasures. They found the ancient settlement stripped bare and decayed, and Ye Han suspected the mysterious insect egg was consuming the area’s spiritual energy.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member agreed to search the buildings where the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit had grown for Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han sent Metal Puppets to scout the buildings, and when nothing attacked them, he and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member entered.
• They found the courtyard’s Restrictive Barrier gone and realized the Bronze Guardian had been the core of its Restriction Formation.
• They explored the buildings, which appeared to have belonged to an ancient cultivator clan, but found only dust and tiny holes in the floors.
• Ye Han wondered whether the mysterious insect egg had visited the settlement and realized it might be draining spiritual energy from his Purple Cauldron Space and the Central Star Palace Temple.

Ye Han traded five Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruits to the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race for a Purple Sandalwood Insect Furnace, which drew his mysterious insect eggs inside. As they explored the ruins, they found a Starry Sky Stone and uncovered a floor diagram that Ye Han thought might be a map.

• Ye Han bargained with the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and traded five Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruits for the Purple Sandalwood Insect Furnace.
• Ye Han placed the furnace in the Purple Cauldron Space, where its aura stirred the strange insects and drew the mysterious insect eggs inside.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race searched the ruined buildings but found their treasures destroyed.
• Ye Han found a Starry Sky Stone bearing a rune resembling the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit tree and stored it in his Storage Bag.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race swept dust from the central hall floor, revealing a diagram inlaid with Starry Sky Stones, and Ye Han said it looked like a map.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member discovered that the floor formation could transport them to locations marked on a partial map of the Central Star Palace Temple. After activating it with three Starry Sky Stones and concealing it from Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, Ye Han began testing how to choose their destination.

• Ye Han identified the floor pattern as a map fused with a formation that required three Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member compared their stones and discussed targeting Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable to obtain his Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han copied the formation-map onto a Jade Slip and suggested it could transport them to places shown on the map.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member gave Ye Han his Starry Sky Stone, and Ye Han placed all three stones into the formation.
• When the formation lit up but did not transport them, Ye Han erected a Great Heaven-Covering Formation to hide it and detect Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable.
• Ye Han sent his divine sense into a Starry Sky Stone and directed the formation's power toward the map's outermost region.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider used the power of the stars to enter a place marked “Sea of Books,” which Ye Han believed was the Central Star Palace Temple’s Scripture Pavilion. After his scouting puppets were destroyed, they encountered a towering stone book walking toward them.

• Ye Han took the Immortal-Thief Outsider’s Starry Sky Stone along with the others and entered the starry sky gate with him.
• The two arrived in a vast passage filled with spiritual energy and abundant power of the stars, beneath an archway marked “Sea of Books.”
• Ye Han explained that he had chosen the location to seek ancient cultivation methods and sent Metal Puppets ahead to scout.
• After the puppets were destroyed several hundred zhang down the passage, Ye Han drew his Bone-Refining Bone Sword and warned the Immortal-Thief Outsider.
• Heavy footsteps shook the ground, and Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider saw a walking stone book approaching.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider fought the powerful Secret Method Spirits in a star-lit passage. Ye Han destroyed one and caught the page it dropped as the remaining spirits attacked.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider identified the charging stone beings as Secret Method Spirits and attacked with sword intent.
• The first Secret Method Spirit swallowed the attack and reflected its sword-rays toward the Immortal-Thief Outsider, forcing him to evade and sending the counterattack at Ye Han.
• Ye Han blocked the reflected sword-rays, then used his Cold Art to freeze and destroy a fire dragon launched by another spirit.
• Ye Han dodged a blade-light and cut a Secret Method Spirit in two with his Bone-Refining Bone Sword.
• The wounded spirit pounded itself into fragments, and Ye Han caught the page it left behind.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider battled through a sea of books, discovering that the secret-method spirit sprites were living manuals that dropped pages when struck. After fighting through thousands of them, they reached an enormous door, where Ye Han proposed a different plan.

• Ye Han examined a page written in the Ancient Human Race's script, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider discovered that defeating a spirit sprite revealed a page from its manual.
• Ye Han fought spirit sprites with varied abilities, including a metal-law attacker and an archer, and learned that they shattered when struck.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider exploited the sprites' weakness and fought through thousands of them over more than two hours.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider claimed a page containing a killing-intent secret method, and the two reached an enormous door.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider urged Ye Han to open the door and fight onward, but Ye Han smiled and said he had a better idea.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider trapped secret method spirits at a narrow gate, killed them with complex frost arrows, and collected their dropped pages. Meanwhile, the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable returned to the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit courtyard, found the tree gone, and discovered nothing after searching.

• Ye Han used formations and Metal Puppets to funnel secret method spirits through a narrow gate and shoot them with arrows mixed with frost sword-rays.
• The secret method spirits failed to absorb the complex attacks, burst apart, and dropped pages that the Immortal-Thief Outsider collected and sorted by cultivation aura.
• Ye Han considered the pages’ incomplete techniques, noted that his spirit roots would let him cultivate many of them, and found no light-attribute techniques among them.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable returned to the courtyard after failing to find a way out and saw that the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit tree was gone.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable searched the courtyard but found nothing and wondered what had happened.

Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable uncovered and broke through Ye Han’s hidden formations, then opened a Starry Sky Gate. In the Sea of Books, Ye Han sensed the intrusion and pursued a light-attribute Secret Method Spirit after it escaped the puppet’s arrows.

• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable deduced that Ye Han had taken the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit tree and searched the courtyard for what else he had hidden.
• Using his Umbrella Treasure, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable revealed Ye Han’s concealed formations and spent several hours breaking through them.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable entered the hall, placed three Starry Sky Stones into its floor formation, and opened a Starry Sky Gate.
• In the Sea of Books, Ye Han sensed damage to his formation and warned the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member that Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had found it.
• A light-attribute Secret Method Spirit dodged the puppet’s arrows by teleporting hundreds of feet away, and Ye Han chased after it.

Ye Han pursued a rare Light Secret Method Spirit, whose rune ability turned his attack against him and let it summon more spirits from the walls. He unleashed the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda to disrupt the spirits’ assault, but the Light Secret Method Spirit kept fleeing.

• Ye Han chased the Light Secret Method Spirit and watched it transform his Golden Light Giant Hand into a weapon against him.
• Ye Han escaped the redirected hand while the Immortal-Thief Outsider used his Treasure Chest to hold back the Secret Method Spirits pouring from the door.
• Ye Han changed his spirit root to light attribute and raised an icy wall to block the fleeing spirit.
• The Light Secret Method Spirit opened its book and split the surrounding walls, releasing more Secret Method Spirits to attack Ye Han.
• Ye Han summoned the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda and slammed it into the ground, rebounding the spirits’ spells and making many spirits batter themselves, but the Light Secret Method Spirit continued to flee.

Ye Han defeated the Light Secret Method Spirit and collected its page, then joined the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member to recover and sort the scattered pages. They assembled twelve complete secret-method volumes, and Ye Han asked what condition his companion had for copying them.

• Ye Han used the Cold Art and the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda to overwhelm the Light Secret Method Spirit, which burst into a page that he claimed.
• The Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda destroyed the remaining Secret Method Spirits, and Ye Han gathered their scattered pages.
• The member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race reported that the room he had guarded was empty and suggested they rest before exploring farther into the Sea of Books.
• Ye Han and the member returned to the empty hall, sealed it with a restriction formation, and sorted several thousand pages.
• After several hours, they assembled twelve complete volumes, and the member offered to copy them while Ye Han kept the originals.
• Ye Han asked the member what condition he wanted in exchange.

Ye Han agreed to comprehend the Baleful Spirit Path Art for the Immortal-Thief Outsider and negotiated for an Insect-Driving Art in return. Meanwhile, Ye Tianyu followed his spear’s guidance through the dangerous Central Star Palace Temple, while Wu Xuantian became trapped between two pursuing giants.

• Ye Han refused to translate all the manuals into Demon Race writing but agreed to help the Immortal-Thief Outsider comprehend the Baleful Spirit Path Art.
• Ye Han demanded payment for teaching Ancient Human Race writing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider offered him an Insect-Driving Art for raising strange insects.
• Ye Tianyu hid from a giant drummer whose sound waves shook the realm, then followed the direction indicated by his pitch-black spear.
• Wu Xuantian ran across a bridge while a giant wielding two battle axes pursued him from behind.
• A second giant carrying two clubs charged toward Wu Xuantian from the far end of the bridge, trapping him between the two attackers.

Wu Xuantian escaped while two enormous figures fought, and Ye Han finished deciphering the Baleful Spirit Path Art and studied ancient manuals in the Qing Xuan Divine Palace. He discovered that a hidden formation on a light-attribute page was linked to the Ancient Times Stone Stele, which began absorbing runes from the page.

• Wu Xuantian turned into mist and fled while the Battle Axe and Giant Club continued fighting.
• Ye Han finished copying the Baleful Spirit Path Art into a Jade Slip and stored it with the manual.
• Ye Han reviewed the twelve complete manuals he had found, including Heavenly Ultimate Truefire and several five-element techniques and divine abilities.
• Ye Han examined a light-attribute page and discovered a concealed runic formation beneath it.
• Ye Han summoned the Ancient Times Stone Stele, and White-Light Runes from the page surged into it.

Ye Han discovered that the Ancient Times Stone Stele and a white-light page combined to reveal the first half of the light attribute technique Radiant Light Art, along with a hidden Starry Sky Stone. After twenty-seven years and eight months of cultivation, he and the Immortal-Thief Outsider prepared to venture deeper into the Sea of Books to seek more pages.

• Ye Han watched the white-light runes rearrange the stele's characters into the first half of the Radiant Light Art and draw out a Starry Sky Stone marked with an open book.
• Ye Han stored the Starry Sky Stone and began studying the Radiant Light Art.
• Ye Han ate a Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit, then urged the beings in his Purple Cauldron Space to cultivate and enrich its spiritual energy.
• After twenty-seven years and eight months, the Immortal-Thief Outsider mastered the Baleful Spirit Path Art and strengthened his cultivation.
• Ye Han called the Immortal-Thief Outsider out of seclusion, and they set off to search deeper in the Sea of Books for more cultivation pages.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator reached the Sea of Books gate and used Ye Han’s book-page Starry Sky Stone to open it. Ye Han entered the apparently empty hall, then sensed a dangerous gaze from above.

• Ye Han recognized that the broken stele beside the gate matched the Ancient Times Stone Stele he had obtained.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator approached a small, tailed skeleton, which crumbled into ash and left behind three Starry Sky Stones marked with a fruit tree.
• A Starry Sky Stone bearing the fruit tree symbol failed to open the gate, so Ye Han revealed his book-page Starry Sky Stone and prepared a Puppet Formation.
• Ye Han fitted the book-page Starry Sky Stone into the gate, and the gate opened to reveal a circular hall with stone bookshelves and no Secret Method Spirits.
• Ye Han entered the hall and sensed a dangerous gaze above him.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider fought the Six-Faced Stone Stele, whose combined sword and lightning attacks threatened them both. Ye Han was driven back, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider’s surprise attack was swallowed by the stele.

• The Six-Faced Stone Stele attacked Ye Han with golden sword rays, and he evaded the first strike using the Baleful Spirit Path Art.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider summoned a baleful spirit figure, but the stele destroyed it with black lightning.
• Ye Han blocked the stele’s combined sword-and-lightning barrage, then used the Thunder Escape Technique to reach it.
• Ye Han struck the stele’s barrier with both Bone-Refining Bone Swords, but the stele blocked his blows and forced him backward.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider appeared behind the stele and fired sword rays at it, but one of its mouths swallowed the attack.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator fought the sentient Restriction Spirit that had emerged in the Sea of Books. Ye Han destroyed its six human-faced snake dragons with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, though the Restriction Spirit remained in the hall.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator identified the six-faced being as a Restriction Spirit formed from the Sea of Books' restrictions.
• The Restriction Spirit chanted six different laws and unleashed five-element and lightning-powered human-faced snake dragons against Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator summoned his skull-covered staff and sent its baleful spirits to fight the dragons, but they were overwhelmed by the Restriction Spirit's elemental and lightning laws.
• Ye Han activated his body-refining arts, enlarged himself and his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, then attacked the dragons with the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art.
• Ye Han's cudgel barrage smashed the human-faced snake dragons to pieces.

Ye Han fought the Restriction Spirit in the Sea of Books' Great Hall as it wielded a phantom of the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd and healed by absorbing the hall's power. After rescuing the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member, Ye Han confidently claimed the Restriction Spirit would soon be stopped, just as it prepared another attack.

• The Restriction Spirit formed a phantom Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd and struck Ye Han, hurling him across the Great Hall despite his defense with the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.
• The Restriction Spirit shattered the baleful spirits attacking it and trapped the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member in place with its attack.
• Ye Han knocked the halberd phantom aside, rescued the outsider, and smashed the Restriction Spirit into a wall, cracking its stone steles.
• The Restriction Spirit absorbed the Great Hall's power of law and power of the stars, rapidly healing its fractured body.
• The outsider questioned how they could defeat the Restriction Spirit, while Ye Han insisted it would not run wild much longer.
• The enraged Restriction Spirit chanted incantations, sending waves of spell power and force sweeping through the Great Hall.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider destroyed the Restriction Spirit and discovered a black Creation Immortal Stone among its remains. The stone entered Ye Han’s Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda, and he suppressed it inside the Purple Cauldron Space before confronting the Immortal-Thief Outsider.

• The Restriction Spirit’s Six-Faced Stone Stele cracked apart as explosions of purple-gold lightning erupted inside it.
• Ye Han attacked the Restriction Spirit with the Gods’ Demon Eye and the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, destroying it and revealing a black crystal that resembled a Creation Immortal Stone.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider tried to grab the crystal, but Ye Han pulled him away as it flew toward Ye Han instead.
• Ye Han used the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda to catch the crystal, then sent the pagoda into the Purple Cauldron Space to suppress its power in the Four Seas Spirit Pool.
• Ye Han berated the Immortal-Thief Outsider for nearly touching the stone and picked up the secret manual left by the Restriction Spirit.