Chapter Summaries

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator killed the Man-Eating Flower King and collected its Starry Sky Stones and Life Crystal Stones. Ye Han chose to leave for the next location, and his companion warned that nothing could happen to Saint As.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator lured the Man-Eating Flower King into gray chains and Ye Han destroyed it with the Abyss-Slaying Art.
• Ye Han captured the Man-Eating Flower King's divine soul in a golden net as two Starry Sky Stones and green Life Crystal Stones appeared.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator divided the Life Crystal Stones with Ye Han, who explained that they no longer increased his lifespan.
• Ye Han refused to keep searching the flower-marked region and said they needed to gather Starry Sky Stones and reach the Star-Seizing Tower.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator asked whether Saint As had really become that way, then insisted that nothing could be allowed to happen to Saint As.

Ye Han began helping Saint As reconstruct his body with a Nine-Spirit Body-Shaping Pill and other resources, hoping to learn a method that might one day help with his own lifespan problem. He and Old Thief then prepared to use a Stars Teleportation Array Formation, with Old Thief choosing their destination.

• Ye Han questioned Old Thief about how Saint As came to be imprisoned, and Old Thief said Saint As had planned to enter the Tower of Hell but was schemed against and truly trapped.
• Ye Han agreed to try helping Saint As, whose soul, Primordial Spirit, nascent soul, and physical body were in disarray, while also seeking knowledge useful for his own lifespan problem.
• Old Thief chose to cultivate the Baleful Spirit Path Art while Ye Han settled down to refine pills.
• After more than a month, Ye Han placed a Nine-Spirit Body-Shaping Pill and a Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit into the Rebirth Gourd, and Saint As's embryo began to pulse more strongly.
• Ye Han decided to supply Saint As with a Nine-Spirit Body-Shaping Pill and pills aura each month, but not with scarce Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruits.
• Ye Han and Old Thief activated a Stars Teleportation Array Formation, and Old Thief chose to travel to the place with the statue.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race found two areas already stripped of their treasures, including a tower pierced by a recent, immensely powerful spear strike. They teleported to another area rich in spiritual energy, where the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race hoped their luck had finally improved.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race found only eighteen empty statues in the first hall and chose the city wall area for their next destination.
• They found a tiered tower gouged by a giant monster and pierced by a spear strike whose lingering law power surpassed Ye Han's Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned Ye Han that they had repeatedly found evidence of other cultivators and expected to encounter more enemies.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race joked about the Water Spirit Coffin and then chose another destination from the teleportation map.
• Ye Han activated the map formation, and they arrived in a place rich with Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race man drained a lake of starlight spirit liquid, found two Starry Sky Stones and fragments of a powerful Treasure Bottle, and then traveled to a region marked with a crystal stone symbol. There, Ye Han recognized a figure directing a Monster Insect as it fought a Crystal Stone Giant.

• Ye Han collected the lake’s starlight spirit liquid while the injured Immortal-Thief Outsider Race man recovered from their battle with a Mutated Star Continent Demon Beast.
• After three months, Ye Han found two Starry Sky Stones and broken Treasure Bottle fragments in the drained lake, along with a map Teleportation Array buried in its silt.
• Ye Han decided to search more regions for Starry Sky Stones and resources before heading to the Star-Seizing Tower, then used the map formation to travel to a region filled with enormous rocks.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race man heard explosions and went to investigate, suspecting that the region was already occupied.
• Ye Han spotted a figure directing a giant Monster Insect as it battled a Crystal Stone Giant and recognized the figure as a bastard.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member watched a cunning insect cultivator battle a Crystal Stone Giant with Soul-Absorbing Poison Mosquitoes. Ye Han recognized the cultivator and planned to use Old Thief to draw out his real body before striking.

• Ye Han told the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member that the blood-red figure was the insect cultivator who had once ambushed them with Mutated Soul-Absorbing Poison Mosquitoes.
• The insect cultivator unleashed golden-marked Soul-Absorbing Poison Mosquitoes, whose black blood essence formed a corrosive attack that weakened the Crystal Stone Giant.
• As the Crystal Stone Giant retaliated and the battle shook the surrounding land, Ye Han studied the insect cultivator's methods and resolved to obtain his insect-rearing techniques.
• Ye Han told Old Thief to attack first and pretend to be outmatched so they could draw out the insect cultivator's real body.
• With the Crystal Stone Giant retreating before the growing swarm, Old Thief announced that he was going in.

The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator battled the blood-red insect cultivator with swarms of insects and Baleful Spirits, then used his Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun divine ability to strike him. The insect cultivator escaped, while Ye Han crushed the crystal giant instead of attacking him.

• The blood-red insect cultivator defended against Ye Han's golden-blue-red sword-rays with swarms of enhanced Soul-Absorbing Poison Mosquitoes.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator ambushed the blood-red insect cultivator and summoned eighteen skeletal Baleful Spirits to surround him.
• The blood-red insect cultivator countered the Baleful Spirits with four kinds of venomous insects arranged in a four-attribute formation, leaving the two cultivators locked in battle.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to swap positions with the blood-red insect cultivator and send his attacks toward him.
• The blood-red insect cultivator escaped in Bloodlight Runes, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator wondered why Ye Han had not attacked him.
• Ye Han transformed into a thousand-zhang dark-gold figure and crushed the crystal giant with the Demon God's Hand.

Ye Han battled the crystal giant while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fought the blood-red Insect Cultivator, suspecting that the latter’s true original body remained hidden. After Ye Han shattered the crystal giant, the strange insect and Soul-Absorbing Poison Mosquitoes attacked him, giving him the chance he had been waiting for.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race summoned Divine Fiend to defend against the blood-red Insect Cultivator’s insect-cloud assault.
• Ye Han realized the blood-red Insect Cultivator’s true original body was still hiding and that its target was the crystal giant.
• Ye Han used his fist arts and Demon God's Hand to smash the crystal giant, scattering its five-colored crystals.
• The strange insect attacked Ye Han with blade aura as the Soul-Absorbing Poison Mosquitoes swarmed toward his back.
• Ye Han welcomed the attack, revealing that he had been waiting for the hidden enemy to show himself.

Ye Han pursued the Bloodlight Insect Cultivator after he stole the Crystal Stone Giant’s five-colored crystal, but the enemy escaped his spatial seal and revealed a second, identical body. The two insect cultivators blocked Ye Han’s attacks and prepared to detonate their Spirit Transformation Stage insects.

• The Bloodlight Insect Cultivator pierced the Crystal Stone Giant and seized its five-colored crystal while Ye Han fought off insects.
• Ye Han used the Radiant Light Art to seal escape methods, but the Bloodlight Insect Cultivator escaped with a Bronze Lamp treasure.
• Ye Han struck the fleeing cultivator with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder, which followed him through his teleportation and exposed his insect-covered body.
• The Bloodlight Insect Cultivator produced an identical figure, and Ye Han realized the two figures were brothers rather than a cultivator and a clone.
• The brothers used clouds of insects to block Ye Han’s thunder and sword-rays as destructive power gathered above them.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider defeated two foreign Insect Cultivators after the Immortal-Thief Outsider redirected a Spirit Transformation Stage insect’s self-destruction into a spatial passage. As Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider divided the spoils, the Immortal-Thief Outsider noticed that the Crystal Stone Giant’s corpse had disappeared.

• Ye Han prepared the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd as a Spirit Transformation Stage strange insect began to self-destruct.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to swap places with the insect, then severed the swap and left its explosion inside a spatial passage.
• Ye Han tracked down the two foreign Insect Cultivators and crushed them with the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd, sealing and killing them inside its abyss.
• Ye Han retrieved the cultivators’ treasures and told the Immortal-Thief Outsider they would split the spoils, with Ye Han keeping items related to the Insect-Driving Art.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider looked for the Five Elements Crystal Stone and realized that the Crystal Stone Giant’s corpse had disappeared.

Ye Han secretly took the Five Elements Crystal Stone Giant’s remains and used them to enrich the Purple Cauldron Space, while he and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race man divided the remaining treasures. He began stabilizing his Life-Bound Treasure with the giant’s core and discovered new insect-breeding methods, including information that made him question whether to keep cultivating his mysterious insect eggs.

• Ye Han concealed the Five Elements Crystal Stone Giant’s remains in the Purple Cauldron Space, where his clone and puppets arranged the five elemental stones into islands and began setting up formations.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race man suspected Ye Han had taken the missing treasure, but Ye Han pressed him to continue their partnership and divide the remaining spoils.
• Ye Han embedded the giant’s inner core into the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel and used its five-element aura to counter the Creation Immortal Stone’s devouring force.
• Ye Han studied the outsider Insect Cultivators’ treasures and manuals, finding the Strange Insects Splitting divine ability and a Strange Insects Compendium that described his mysterious insect eggs.

Ye Han studied the insect-control methods he had taken from foreign-race cultivators, identified his mysterious egg as a feifei insect, and decided to keep it despite the risks of raising one. After refining the Five Elements crystal stone into his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, he killed a powerful tree demon and found that only three regions on his map remained unexplored.

• Ye Han used foreign-race insect cultivators’ methods and reference books to improve his insect-raising plans and learned that his mysterious egg belonged to one of the Three Great Fiend Insects.
• Ye Han considered the danger and expense of raising the feifei insect, then decided to keep the egg in his purple cauldron space for now.
• Ye Han recalled Teacher Lan Qing’s advice to gather resources for the Ancient Human Race and accepted that he had taken the Five Elements crystal stone from the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator.
• More than four months later, Ye Han used his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel to kill a mutated tree demon with a single strike and collected four Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han let the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator collect the tree demon’s corpse and soul, then counted forty-eight Starry Sky Stones and saw that three regions remained unexplored.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider chose to enter the Star-Seizing Tower area rather than risk the central dragon and demon-beast regions, hoping to reunite with Azure Profound Sect members. They arrived at the colossal tower and discovered many Water Spirit Coffins before a sinister voice greeted them.

• Ye Han studied the completed map and decided to visit the Star-Seizing Tower first, arguing that the remaining central areas were too dangerous and that the Nine Dragons should not grow stronger.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider agreed with Ye Han, and the two spent more than six years preparing pills, restoring spell power, and strengthening their abilities.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider emerged from a Starry Sky Gate into the Star-Seizing Tower area, where a vast tower rose before them.
• They noticed restriction formations and numerous Water Spirit Coffins across the plaza, some damaged and empty, and realized many cultivators had died there.
• A chilling chuckle sounded, and a strange voice called Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider fools who did not know their limits.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider encountered a boastful Red Sect Clan cultivator sheltered in a powerful formation around his Water Spirit Coffin. After the cultivator refused to explain how to enter the Star-Seizing Tower, Ye Han ordered the Immortal-Thief Outsider to drag him out.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider traced a mocking voice to a Water Spirit Coffin protected by an intact formation.
• The Red Sect Clan cultivator taunted them and claimed they could not even get through the Star-Seizing Tower's doors, but refused to share what he knew.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider threatened to drag the cultivator out, and the man revealed himself lounging atop his lavish coffin.
• Ye Han recognized the strength of the cultivator's formation, then told the Immortal-Thief Outsider to drag him out.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider agreed and vowed to drink the cultivator's spirit tea.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider outmaneuvered Bai Daozi, forcing the Red Sect Clan cultivator to surrender. After learning his name, Ye Han asked about the Star-Seizing Tower, and Bai Daozi urged them not to go there.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to swap places with Bai Daozi, pulling him out of his Water Spirit Coffin and into Ye Han’s formations.
• Ye Han intimidated the trapped Bai Daozi with his aura, and Bai Daozi pleaded for them not to attack.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider drank Bai Daozi’s lifespan-extending spirit tea while Bai Daozi lamented the waste and accepted that he could not resist.
• Ye Han introduced himself and asked Bai Daozi about his time there; Bai Daozi identified himself as the Northern Dragon King, Bai Daozi.
• Bai Daozi warned Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider to give up if they planned to go to the Star-Seizing Tower.

Ye Han learned from Bai Daozi that entering the Star-Seizing Tower required twelve Starry Sky Stones and Star Palace Disciple status, while the route there offered no way back. After Ye Han paid him with a Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit, Bai Daozi revealed that he knew Elder Liu.

• Bai Daozi told Ye Han that entering the Star-Seizing Tower required twelve Starry Sky Stones and Star Palace Disciple status, and said he had never seen anyone return from it.
• Ye Han offered to join forces with Bai Daozi, but Bai Daozi refused because his lifespan was nearly exhausted and asked for a valuable benefit in exchange for information.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race challenged Bai Daozi's talk of Cultivator rules, and Ye Han gave him a Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Fruit.
• Bai Daozi accepted the fruit and warned Ye Han that the Star-Seizing Tower was dangerous and that the teleportation formation could bring them there but could not take them away.
• Bai Daozi asked Ye Han whether he had enough Starry Sky Stones because Elder Liu had told him about them, surprising Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race.

Ye Han and the immortal-thief outsider agreed to let Bai Daozi join them in entering the Star-Seizing Tower after he offered his Starry Sky Stones and knowledge of the tower. Bai Daozi then proposed they first do something wicked.

• Ye Han learned that Elder Liu and his companions had entered the Star-Seizing Tower centuries earlier and had not returned.
• Bai Daozi offered to join Ye Han and the immortal-thief outsider, then released the outsider from the Water Spirit Coffin.
• The immortal-thief outsider told Bai Daozi to prove his sincerity, and Bai Daozi offered twenty-six Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han accepted Bai Daozi as a companion, and the immortal-thief outsider agreed but warned him not to hold them back.
• When the others suggested going to the Star-Seizing Tower, Bai Daozi insisted they first do something wicked.

Ye Han and Bai Daozi killed a Foreign-Race Cultivator inside his Water Spirit Coffin using a coordinated ambush, then prepared to continue hunting the surviving cultivators in the Star-Seizing Tower. Bai Daozi moved to release the Immortal-Thief Outsider so they could divide the captured treasures.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to swap places with a Foreign-Race Cultivator in a Water Spirit Coffin.
• Bai Daozi’s formation trapped the Foreign-Race Cultivator as Ye Han’s swords and purple-gold divine thunder destroyed his body, and the Ghost Skull Mirror captured his soul.
• Bai Daozi withdrew the formation while Ye Han collected the Twelve Qing Xuan Divine Swords and the Ghost Skull Mirror.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider demanded release, and Bai Daozi joked that he and Ye Han would split the cultivator’s treasures.
• Ye Han told Bai Daozi to release the Immortal-Thief Outsider so they could divide the loot, and Bai Daozi went to the restriction formation.
• The three had agreed to hunt the remaining Foreign-Race Cultivators in the Star-Seizing Tower by using the Immortal-Thief Outsider’s swap ability, Bai Daozi’s formations, and Ye Han’s attacks.

Ye Han, Bai Daozi, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator cleared the Water Spirit Coffins in the plaza and amassed a huge haul. After the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator’s divine ability broke through, they prepared to enter the Star-Seizing Tower, but Ye Han was surprised when the twelve Starry Sky Stones began to vanish as he activated its formation.

• Bai Daozi trapped the cultivators emerging from the Water Spirit Coffins while Ye Han killed them, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator used Steal Heaven and Replace the Sun to swap them out.
• Ye Han agreed to let the group rest when the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator said his innate divine ability was close to breaking through, and the three divided the dead cultivators’ treasures, including eight Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han and his companions fought off cultivators who discovered their scheme, then cleared the surviving and dead occupants of the plaza’s Water Spirit Coffins and gathered a vast haul.
• After three months of rest, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator’s divine ability broke through, and the three went to the Star-Seizing Tower’s entrance.
• Ye Han sent Bai Daozi into a Space Ring, inserted twelve Starry Sky Stones into the formation, and exclaimed when the stones began to disappear.

Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator opened the Star-Seizing Tower and entered despite the danger, while Wu Xuantian arrived at the plaza moments later. Wu Xuantian sensed Ye Han’s lingering aura and realized Ye Han had reached the tower before him.

• Ye Han watched the Starry Sky Stones melt into the formation, which opened the Star-Seizing Tower’s enormous gate after both cultivators passed its Star Palace Disciple check.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator entered the tower’s starry vortex first, and Ye Han followed him inside as the gate closed behind them.
• Wu Xuantian emerged from a teleportation formation and declared his intention to ascend to the upper realm and become an Immortal Race Holy Son.
• Wu Xuantian noticed traces of spell combat and recognized Ye Han’s aura, realizing Ye Han had arrived at the Star-Seizing Tower before him.

Wu Xuantian found that Ye Han had taken the treasures from the Star-Seizing Tower’s plaza, so he prepared to recover before pursuing him. Inside the tower, Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race learned that its shifting Unfixed Immortal Ladder led to trials and an inheritance star, and Ye Han paused before climbing to contact Elder Liu.

• Wu Xuantian discovered that Ye Han had already entered the Star-Seizing Tower and taken the Water Spirit Coffins’ treasures, then swallowed pills, set up defensive formations, and meditated to recover.
• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race entered the Star-Seizing Tower and heard an ancient voice welcome them as Star-Seizing Warriors undertaking a challenge.
• The tower’s plaza shifted into a network of stairways spiraling upward, and Ye Han released Bai Daozi from his Space Ring.
• Bai Daozi explained that the Unfixed Immortal Ladder changed with each decision, leading to different trials and an inheritance star left by the Ancient Human Race.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race proposed climbing the ladder, but Ye Han stopped them to see whether he could contact Elder Liu.