Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Restriction Spirit, Ye Han claimed the Abyss-Slaying Art and discovered a formation that could take him and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race back to the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit hall. They returned to find the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable absent and the formation map changed.

• Ye Han took the Abyss-Slaying Art and kept secret that demon-breaking divine thunder had helped him destroy the Restriction Spirit.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race found a formation with four recesses and used four Starry Sky Stones bearing Ginseng Fruit runes to activate it.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race recovered their cultivation and returned to the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit hall, intending to kill the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race found the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable missing and noticed that the formation map had changed.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider used the changing formation map to follow the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable to a crescent-moon region of the Central Star Palace Temple. They arrived beneath a real moon and heard powerful rumbles from the ground, leaving them facing an unknown disturbance.

• Ye Han compared the current formation map with his Jade Slip and deduced that the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had chosen the unchanged crescent-marked region.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider agreed to pursue and kill the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, then opened the Starry Sky Gate with three Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider cautiously entered a land filled with enormous broken stone steles and felt its dense spiritual energy and lingering aura.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider pointed out the bright crescent moon, and Ye Han noted that the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable had arrived before them.
• A series of booming rumbles and tremors rose from the ground, and Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider turned toward the disturbance.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member raced toward the Moon God Tower after its inheritance awakened, while Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable began absorbing the legacy inside. When Ye Han entered the tower’s moonlight, the inheritance also flowed into him.

• A pillar of white light struck the crescent moon, filling the landscape with intense moonlight essence and revealing ancient-script steles and signs of recent combat.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member headed toward the emerging light, hoping to reach the opportunity before Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable stood inside the Moon God Tower and celebrated unlocking the Moon God Inheritance, believing it would let him advance to Void Refinement.
• As Ye Han approached the tower, he sensed its inheritance responding to his light-attribute spirit root and hurried toward it to stop Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable from gaining power.
• When Ye Han entered the tower’s moonlight, the light shifted toward him and began transmitting the ancient Moon God’s moonlight-law inheritance.

Ye Han absorbed the Moon God Inheritance, weakening the power Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable received and strengthening Ye Han’s light attribute and Radiant Light Art. When the inheritance ended, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable spotted Ye Han and fixed him with murderous intent.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member tried to approach the moonlight but was burned and forced to retreat, while Ye Han absorbed the inheritance unharmed.
• Ye Han’s light-attribute spirit root shifted and improved as the Moon God Inheritance flowed into him.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable sensed his inheritance weakening but stayed in the formation, growing furious as he received less and less.
• Ye Han recognized Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s aura and realized he was taking the inheritance from him.
• The moonlight pillar contracted and the inheritance ended, and Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable stared down at Ye Han with killing intent.

Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable discovered that Ye Han had received most of the Moon God inheritance and attacked him in a rage. Ye Han met his assault head-on, and their clash shook the land around them.

• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable saw Ye Han glowing with moonlight and realized that he had taken most of the inheritance.
• Ye Han taunted Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, who blamed him for ruining his plans and leaped from the tower to attack.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable summoned a giant golden bird wreathed in star runes and sent it pecking at Ye Han.
• Ye Han drew the Bone-Refining Bone Sword and unleashed the Great Geng Divine Insight Swordsmanship against the bird.
• Ye Han's sword-ray collided with the bird's beak, unleashing a storm of force that cracked the ground and shook the surrounding land.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator joined forces against Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, who attacked with a Golden Giant Bird and a Great Guandao war general. The battle escalated when Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable empowered both treasures with mysterious talismans.

• The Golden Giant Bird battered Ye Han with wing-shaped sword-rays, and Ye Han countered with two Bone-Refining Bone Swords and complementary swordsmanship.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable summoned a towering war general with a Great Guandao and sent a deadly blade strike at Ye Han.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator intervened, striking the blade aura and attacking Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable with spear-rays, a Skull-Head Staff, and baleful spirits.
• Ye Han fused Golden Vast Swordsmanship and Great Geng Divine Insight Swordsmanship to defend against the Golden Giant Bird and the war general.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable sent two rune-covered talismans into the Golden Giant Bird and the Great Guandao war general, empowering them with surging spell power.

Ye Han battled the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, breaking through the Great Guandao War General with a fused sword technique while the Purple Cauldron replenished his spell power. The Divine Venerable transformed the golden giant bird into a Phoenix that trapped Ye Han in flames, leaving the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member wondering whether to flee.

• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable empowered the Great Guandao War General and golden giant bird with talismans, and both attacked Ye Han.
• Ye Han fused his Bone-Refining Bone Swords and severed the Great Guandao War General's attack, damaging its weapon and forcing the Divine Venerable to spit blood.
• Ye Han evaded the golden bird's sword-rays while the Purple Cauldron rapidly restored his spell power, and the Divine Venerable grew greedy for his presumed recovery treasure.
• The Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable used his Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff to transform the golden giant bird into a Phoenix Divine Bird.
• The Phoenix's mental assault distracted Ye Han before its flames engulfed him, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member remained occupied by four black dragons and considered retreating.

Ye Han unleashed the Abyss-Slaying Art and appeared to kill Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, but the Venerable struck him with the Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff’s secret technique. The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator’s Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun swapped Ye Han with a puppet, saving him and leaving the furious Venerable determined to kill them both.

• Ye Han used the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd to smash through Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s twelve defenses and pierce his body.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable reappeared behind Ye Han and struck him with the Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff’s Extinguishing Touch.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to replace Ye Han with a puppet, which the bloodlight runes turned to stone and shattered.
• Ye Han reappeared beside the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator, realizing the swap had saved him from the Venerable’s secret technique.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, enraged that his costly attack had failed, vowed to kill Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider evaded the Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff’s soul-sealing attack and fought back against Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable. After empowering himself with the staff, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable launched a counterattack, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider’s spell made him vanish.

• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable used the Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff to seal Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider’s souls while sending the divine Phoenix’s flames at them.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider became baleful ghost bodies to evade the staff’s power, and Ye Han used the Ice God Bottle to counter the Phoenix’s flames.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable empowered himself with the Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff, transforming his appearance and greatly raising his power for a limited time.
• Ye Han used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to make his aura match Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s, then struck at the divine Phoenix with the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable attacked Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider with two blood-colored maws, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider cast Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun and made him vanish.

Ye Han used a swap and Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s own Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff to gain the upper hand, then pursued him after he survived the attack with a life-saving treasure. As Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable fled, a dazzling white beam struck him down, leaving Ye Han startled.

• Ye Han swapped the divine Phoenix with Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, then struck Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable with the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff empowered Ye Han instead because Ye Han had mimicked his aura while wearing the mask.
• Ye Han’s empowered halberd shattered Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s body and destroyed the Moon Goddess Inheritance Tower, but Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable escaped using a blood-lotus treasure.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable used golden wings to flee while Ye Han chased him with repeated Thunder Escape Techniques, replenishing his spell power with the Purple Cauldron.
• A dazzling beam of white light struck Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable out of the sky, and Ye Han stopped in alarm.

Ye Han captured Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s fleeing soul in the Ghost Skull Mirror after a mysterious pillar of light from the crescent moon erased his body. The moon then vanished, and Ye Han feared Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable might still cause trouble.

• A pillar of white light from the crescent moon destroyed Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s body, while Ye Han captured his divine soul and nascent soul in the Ghost Skull Mirror.
• Ye Han gathered Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s fallen treasures and rushed to help the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fight four ancient dragons.
• Ye Han’s nine ink dragons overwhelmed the four dragons after Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable could no longer control them.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race noticed the crescent moon had disappeared from the darkened sky.
• Ye Han checked that Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s soul remained sealed in the mirror and warned that he might still be about to cause trouble.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider searched the ruined Moon Goddess Inheritance Tower for a way out and prepared to divide Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s spoils. Meanwhile, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable awakened as the Moon God in a dwindling physical body and went searching for something to restore himself.

• Ye Han’s nine ink dragons devoured Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s four black-and-red dragons, and Ye Han absorbed their Power of Ancient Dragon.
• Ye Han told the Immortal-Thief Outsider that the Moon God was a cultivator of the Ancient Human Race, then agreed to share the spoils after they searched the collapsed tower.
• Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable awakened in a Starry Sky World with the Moon God’s appearance and powers, discovered that his body had little lifespan left, and sped away to find something to recover.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider uncovered a damaged formation beneath the tower and began searching for fragments to repair it.
• Five two-hour periods later, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider gathered Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s treasures in a sealed cave, and Ye Han reflected on the immense value of the spoils.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race knight divided the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s treasures and discovered his incomplete map of the Central Star Palace Temple. After Ye Han added information from his own jade slips, the map was about two-thirds complete, and the two planned to rest and recover before continuing.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race knight finished dividing the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s treasures according to their needs.
• The two studied an ancient map of the Central Star Palace Temple that they had found among the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s belongings.
• Ye Han used two jade slips to fill in sections of the map, making it about two-thirds complete.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race knight voiced his weariness with the dangers of cultivation, while Ye Han reaffirmed his determination to continue.
• Ye Han proposed that they rest and recover, noting that the formation would be difficult to repair and the disappearance of the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s corpse troubled him.

Wu Xuantian cultivated within a formation of eighteen statues while Ye Tianyu raced across a city wall toward a mysterious gate tower. Ye Han cultivated the Radiant Light Art and refined the Moon God Inheritance as his clone worked to purify a Creation Immortal Stone, but the damaged Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda would need a century of his absorbed energy to repair.

• Eighteen statues channeled spell power and laws into Wu Xuantian as he cultivated on a blood-red lotus cushion.
• Ye Tianyu saw a massive Black Giant Dragon rise beside the city wall and disappear, then rushed toward a gate tower that seemed to hold a special treasure.
• Ye Han cultivated using the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Meditation Cushion and Heavenly Star White Lotus while studying the Radiant Light Art and refining the Moon God Inheritance.
• Ye Han's clone used truefire to purify the Creation Immortal Stone so it could strengthen the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, after the stone damaged the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda.
• Ye Han continued feeding spirit medicine to the Purple Cauldron because conditions inside the Purple Cauldron Space had become dire.

Ye Han struggled to replenish the Purple Cauldron Space and repair the astral formation destroyed in his battle with the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable. After more than forty years of secluded cultivation and repairs, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider activated the completed formation, opening spatial rifts.

• Ye Han discovered that the Purple Cauldron Space’s spiritual energy had been severely depleted by his battle with the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit tree, the medicine spirits, and the mysterious insect egg.
• Ye Han fed pills to the Purple Cauldron and used formations to replenish the space with spiritual energy, expecting its recovery to take five or six years.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider found that their battle had destroyed the Inheritance Tower’s astral formation, leaving Ye Han to spend more than forty years studying and repairing it.
• During their long seclusion, Ye Han advanced to the second layer of Spirit Transformation Stage, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider advanced to the first layer.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider activated the completed astral formation, which released surging spirit-light runes and opened spatial rifts.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider activated the Starry Sky Formation by replacing its small stones with marked Starry Sky Stones, then teleported to an unknown hall. They sensed someone approaching, and a woman spoke in the present-day language of the Earth Realm.

• After eighty-three failed attempts to repair the Starry Sky Formation, Ye Han realized they might lack enough stellar power to activate it.
• Ye Han replaced the formation’s small Starry Sky Stones with more than a dozen marked stones, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider agreed with his reasoning.
• Ye Han activated the formation, opening a gateway of starlight, but discovered he could neither choose their destination nor stop the teleportation.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider packed their belongings and stepped through the gateway, with Ye Han retrieving the Starry Sky Stones as they left.
• They arrived in a vast, empty hall and heard an approaching woman demand to know who was there in the present-day language of the Earth Realm.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider ambushed two Spirit Transformation ancestors from the Northern Lu Immortal Sect, but the old cultivators counterattacked and recognized Ye Han. The battle continued as the Immortal-Thief Outsider brought out the Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff.

• Ye Han recognized the two cloaked cultivators as Northern Lu Immortal Sect members and pretended that he and the Immortal-Thief Outsider came from the Earth Realm.
• Ye Han signaled the Immortal-Thief Outsider to kill and attacked the female ancestor with the Gods' Demon Eye, while the ancestors launched their own spells and treasures.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to switch the ancestors' positions, leaving the male ancestor in the path of Ye Han's attack.
• Ye Han's Gods-and-Devils Hand crushed the male ancestor's Battle Axe and war general, then destroyed his blood-colored life-saving figure as he escaped and identified Ye Han.
• The female ancestor attacked Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider with countless sword-rays, while they evaded using the Baleful Spirit Path Art.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider summoned a blood-lit staff, and Ye Han recognized it as the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable's Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff.

Ye Han killed the female Old Ancestor with the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd and used the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s swapping ability to trap the male Old Ancestor in his attack. As the halberd came down, the male Old Ancestor revealed that he knew about the Immortal Race Trap in the Central Star Palace Temple.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race used the Blood-Heaven Immortal Staff to immobilize the female Old Ancestor, allowing Ye Han to appear behind her and sever her neck.
• The female Old Ancestor escaped in golden light and healed herself, but Ye Han caught up and killed her with the Abyss-Slaying Art: God-Slaying Slash.
• Ye Han sent his clone to collect the female Old Ancestor’s treasures and rushed toward the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race instead of pursuing the fleeing male Old Ancestor.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to swap places with the male Old Ancestor, bringing him into Ye Han’s path.
• As Ye Han’s Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd descended on him, the male Old Ancestor shouted that he knew about the Immortal Race Trap in the Central Star Palace Temple.

Ye Han killed the Male Old Ancestor and captured his soul, then discussed the possible immortal-race trap and other threats with the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race. The pair remained in an unmapped area of the Central Star Palace Temple, where Ye Han discovered another haul of treasures.

• Ye Han destroyed the Male Old Ancestor's body and used the Ghost Skull Mirror to capture his divine soul and nascent soul.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race asked Ye Han about the two Old Ancestors and the Male Old Ancestor's warning that the immortal race had set a trap.
• Ye Han explained that the Old Ancestors belonged to the Northern Lu Immortal Sect and warned that Wu Xuantian might also have entered the Central Star Palace Temple.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race noted that their location was missing from the maps they had found, and Ye Han said they were still inside the temple.
• Ye Han's clone returned with the Female Old Ancestor's belongings, and Ye Han found that they had another haul.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider found themselves trapped in a vast maze after defeating two Northern Lu Immortal Sect cultivators. After their puppets failed to find a way through, Ye Han chose to leave and used four Starry Sky Stones to select another region of the Central Star Palace Temple.

• Ye Han examined a rune-covered Starry Sky Stone and realized he and the Immortal-Thief Outsider were in a maze, while the Outsider claimed two Storage Bags containing treasures he needed.
• Ye Han found the complete ninth-turn method for the Nine-Turn Vajra Art among the Northern Lu Immortal Sect's treasures and decided to scout the maze with puppets rather than explore himself.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider tried to cross the city wall but were repelled by a powerful restriction.
• After their puppets disappeared during more than twenty days of scouting, Ye Han decided the maze was too dangerous and unlikely to hold treasures worth seeking.
• Ye Han activated the formation with four Starry Sky Stones and chose the region marked with a flower-like symbol.