Chapter Summaries

Ye Han fought the Emperor of Star City, whose swordsmanship and demonic transformation overwhelmed his defenses. He summoned the Immortal-Breaking Divine Armor and his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, then began using the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art.

• The Purple Cauldron absorbed the Emperor of Star City's purple jade pendant, prompting him to attack Ye Han with a barrage of sword-rays.
• Ye Han blocked the Emperor's sword-rays with Bone-Refining Bone Swords, which cracked under the force of their clashes.
• Ye Han and the Emperor replenished their power as their battle escalated into a war of attrition amid clashes between eighteen dragons.
• The Emperor transformed through Death God Descends and sent a blood-red storm of spiked tentacles against Ye Han.
• Ye Han summoned the Immortal-Breaking Divine Armor and Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, then activated the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art.

Ye Han used the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel and the Purple Cauldron’s power to crush the Emperor of Star City, whose body and blood soul vanished. As the undead fell and Ye Han’s allies realized he had won, the Emperor of Star City reappeared on his Imperial Throne, apparently unharmed.

• Ye Han transformed into the Heavenly Demon King and struck the Emperor of Star City with the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, whose power the Purple Cauldron enhanced.
• Ye Han’s staff suppressed the emperor’s spell power, knocked away his sword, and crushed his body deep underground with demon-breaking divine thunder.
• The Ghost Skull Mirror seized the Emperor of Star City’s blood soul, but the soul burst into motes of light and escaped.
• The skeleton warriors and undead officers collapsed after the emperor’s apparent defeat, while Bai Daozi and the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race were relieved.
• Ye Han searched the ruins for the emperor, but the Imperial Throne rose from the rubble with the Emperor of Star City sitting on it perfectly unharmed.

After Ye Han defeated the Emperor of Star City, the emperor’s phantom dissolved into a golden Starry Sky Stone and urged Ye Han to find his people’s inheritance. Ye Han realized something about the emperor just as Bai Daozi called him underground after finding something.

• The Emperor of Star City appeared as a soul phantom, thanked Ye Han for freeing him, and dissolved into a golden Starry Sky Stone bearing a crown rune.
• Bai Daozi said the golden stone was likely the key to finding the inheritance, while Ye Han revealed that the battle had badly injured him and depleted his resources.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member gave Ye Han the Emperor of Star City's Longsword, and Bai Daozi offered him the Imperial Throne.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member and Bai Daozi hurried underground to retrieve the emperor’s scabbard and armor for Ye Han.
• Ye Han suddenly understood what had been going on with the Emperor of Star City, then followed the others underground when Bai Daozi called out that he had found something.

Ye Han recovered in the Qing Xuan Divine Palace after defeating the Emperor of Star City, examining the Emperor’s treasures and the changes to his Purple Cauldron. Bai Daozi later reported that his study of the underground formation had revealed trouble.

• Bai Daozi found a Formation Pillar beneath the Emperor of Star City’s position and suspected its evil qi laws were tied to the Emperor’s transformation.
• Ye Han examined the Sword Emperor Divine Sword and had his clone refine the Emperor’s Golden Armor, intending to give the treasures to the Immortal-Thief Outsider and Bai Daozi.
• Ye Han sealed the Emperor’s nine evil qi dragons beneath the Four Seas Spirit Pool and noted that absorbing the Purple Jade Pendant had strengthened the Purple Cauldron and expanded its powers.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider searched Star City for overlooked treasures and collected spirit liquid while Bai Daozi investigated the underground formation.
• Bai Daozi told Ye Han that studying the formation had revealed trouble, and Ye Han let him into the Qing Xuan Divine Palace to explain.

Ye Han learned that an evil spirit formation beneath Star City may have caused its destruction, but he and his companions found no teleportation array. After Bai Daozi revealed a rift beneath the formation that led toward evil qi, they prepared to investigate it.

• Bai Daozi explained that the buried evil spirit formation had disrupted cultivators’ minds and might have led to Star City’s destruction.
• Ye Han asked Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race whether they had found a way out of Star City, but neither had found a teleportation array.
• Bai Daozi suggested that their route might have been underground and damaged during their battle with the Emperor of Star City.
• Bai Daozi revealed a rift beneath the formation that led elsewhere, though evil qi came from the passage.
• Ye Han offered the Emperor of Star City’s Sword Emperor Divine Sword to the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and the Golden Armor to Bai Daozi; the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race declined the sword and asked for scavenged evil spirit aura instead.
• Ye Han insisted that Bai Daozi take the armor, then led the group to investigate the underground formation.

The Moon God led Wu Xuantian through a secret passage beneath the Star-Seizing Tower, saying he planned to retrieve a sword. Meanwhile, Ye Han investigated the evil spirit formation beneath Star City and learned that a deeper passage might be feeding it evil qi.

• The Moon God told Wu Xuantian he knew the secret passage from long ago and brought him because he had Immortal Race blood.
• The Moon God said they were taking a shortcut and that he intended to retrieve a sword.
• Ye Han examined the vast evil spirit formation beneath Star City as Bai Daozi explained how its hidden evil component ensnared cultivators when the formation was inactive.
• Bai Daozi showed Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator a sealed passage where evil qi tentacles battered the barrier.
• Bai Daozi said another secret passage lay deeper inside and might be the source of the evil qi affecting Star City.

Ye Han, Bai Daozi, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider decided to investigate a suspicious passage in the Star-Seizing Tower, which Ye Han believed could hold clues to the ancient human race’s downfall. After Bai Daozi removed the formation sealing it, Ye Han entered the cave and absorbed its evil qi, leaving his companions stunned.

• Bai Daozi argued that the passage might lead to another region, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider warned it could be a trap.
• Ye Han reasoned that other races might have infiltrated the Star-Seizing Tower and chose to enter the passage despite the danger.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider and Bai Daozi agreed to follow Ye Han, and Bai Daozi removed the Restriction Formation.
• Tentacled evil demons surged from the opening, but Ye Han destroyed them with demon-breaking divine thunder and charged into the cave.
• Ye Han’s lightning forced the evil qi aside, but the qi then poured into his body, shocking Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider.

Ye Han led Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race deeper into a cave of evil qi, where the Purple Cauldron absorbed the qi and grew brighter. Meanwhile, the Moon God and Wu Xuantian reached Star City’s Inner City, found the Emperor and hall missing, and raced into the hole left behind.

• Ye Han used demon-breaking divine thunder to clear evil-qi demons while the Purple Cauldron absorbed the cave’s evil qi and Little Sapling developed gray runes.
• Ye Han told Bai Daozi to leave measures to watch for activity, then followed the Purple Cauldron’s guidance down the right-hand passage as the evil qi and demons grew stronger.
• Wu Xuantian and the Moon God emerged into Star City, and the Moon God ordered Wu Xuantian to help find the Sword Emperor in the Imperial City.
• The Moon God found signs of a recent battle, a vanished Imperial City hall, and no Emperor, then cursed that Ye Han had beaten them there.
• The Moon God feared that someone had discovered something and flew into the enormous hole, with Wu Xuantian following and questioning him.

The Moon God and Wu Xuantian reached the Evil Qi Cavern and entered it in pursuit of Ye Han, whom the Moon God suspected had obtained the ancient human inheritance and the Star City treasures. In the cavern, Bai Daozi warned Ye Han that his preparations had been destroyed, and Ye Han realized the Moon God had arrived.

• The Moon God blamed Wu Xuantian for delaying them in the Foreign Race Homeland, then recognized the formations at the cave’s bottom as a deadly formation.
• At the opened Evil Qi Cavern, the Moon God identified Ye Han as the one using demon-breaking divine thunder and said he had to catch up with him.
• The Moon God donned a White Jade Robe that diverted the evil qi, and Wu Xuantian followed him into the cavern in golden armor.
• The Moon God suspected Ye Han held the ancient human secret and the Sword Emperor Divine Sword and Starry Sky Stone, while privately intending to use Wu Xuantian to bear the brunt of a trap.
• As Ye Han, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race, and Bai Daozi fought evil qi demonic beasts, Bai Daozi reported that the things he had set up were destroyed.
• Ye Han realized the Moon God had arrived, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race asked whether he had known the Moon God was coming.

Ye Han and his companions fled deeper into the evil qi cave as the Moon God pursued them, while Bai Daozi laid formations to slow their pursuers. The cave still had no visible end, and Ye Han warned that Star City might have no way out.

• Ye Han blasted the Demonic Beasts blocking the passage and told Bai Daozi to use the evil qi formation to delay the Moon God.
• Bai Daozi set up an Evil Qi Demon-Gathering Formation with twelve Formation Pillars and blood spirits.
• Ye Han gave Bai Daozi two Storage Bags of formation materials so he could lay more barriers behind them.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member suggested adding illusion formations, and Bai Daozi began combining Formation Beads with his Formation Pillars.
• Ye Han said he did not know how much farther the cave continued and pointed out that they might be unable to leave Star City because its Teleportation Array had no outgoing route.
• Bai Daozi caught up and warned Ye Han that their pursuers had already destroyed his second formation.

The Moon God and Wu Xuantian were ambushed by third-level evil demons, while Ye Han, Bai Daozi, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fought their way deeper into the Evil Qi Cavern as the Moon God closed in. They reached a vast chamber containing an immense, icy presence, and had to decide whether to enter.

• The Moon God and Wu Xuantian encountered third-level evil demons, whose shattered bodies erupted in flames and engulfed them.
• Ye Han destroyed third-level evil demons with demon-breaking divine thunder and worried that the increasingly powerful enemies were draining his reserves.
• Bai Daozi reported that the Moon God was breaking through the formations forty percent faster than expected, and Ye Han suspected the Moon God had an accomplice.
• Ye Han unleashed the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race sent baleful spirits, and Bai Daozi continued laying formations as they hurried onward.
• The three reached an enormous cavern chamber and sensed a terrifying presence within, prompting the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race to ask whether they should enter.

Ye Han, Bai Daozi, and their companion entered a cavern and fought the Evil God's Eye, whose powerful attacks threatened to trap them. Ye Han destroyed the eye with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, but a woman emerged from it, and the Water Spirit Coffin in his Purple Cauldron suddenly trembled.

• Ye Han led Bai Daozi and their companion into the cavern, where a storm of evil qi and skull-shaped attacks surged toward them.
• Ye Han blocked the first attack with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder and then smashed the skulls with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.
• The Evil God's Eye attacked again, summoning a Bone Dragon that Ye Han's cudgel shattered.
• An Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member ambushed the Evil God's Eye, and Ye Han followed by piercing its pupil with the enlarged cudgel.
• The Evil God's Eye shattered, a woman flew out, and the Water Spirit Coffin inside Ye Han's Purple Cauldron trembled.

Ye Han suppressed the mysterious woman in the Water Spirit Coffin after she reacted to a Jade Plaque from the Evil God's Eye, then escaped the cavern with Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member. Elsewhere, Wu Xuantian and the Moon God fought increasingly powerful evil demons and realized someone had found the object they sought.

• The Jade Plaque formed from the white-light woman flew to Ye Han, causing the Water Spirit Coffin to shake violently inside the Purple Cauldron.
• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to suppress the mysterious woman, who shouted, "Damn it, just you wait!!"
• Ye Han caught the Jade Plaque and recognized its sun and moon reliefs from the Ascension Immortal Palace, the Central Star Palace Temple, and the Star-Seizing Tower.
• As the Evil God's Eye's remains dissolved into evil qi, Bai Daozi spotted a teleportation formation, and Ye Han activated it with thirty-six Starry Sky Stones.
• Ye Han, Bai Daozi, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member entered the Starry Sky Gate to escape the cavern.
• Wu Xuantian and the Moon God battled stronger evil demons, concluded that someone had found the object, and decided to fight through and catch them.

Wu Xuantian and the Moon God failed to find Ye Han and his companions after they escaped through the Starry Sky Gate, so they headed for the Teleportation Array to intercept them. Hidden beneath a rocky mountain, the Immortal-Thief Outsider’s concealment treasure helped the group evade pursuit, but his tribulation suddenly arrived.

• Wu Xuantian and the Moon God emerged from the Starry Sky Gate and found their opponents gone, then realized the group had concealed their tracks.
• The Moon God concluded that a formation expert, a cultivator skilled in concealment, and Ye Han had escaped together.
• Wu Xuantian asked whether the Moon God had reached the top of the Star-Seizing Tower, but the Moon God denied it and led him toward the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Han, the Immortal-Thief Outsider, and Bai Daozi hid beneath a rocky mountain while the Immortal-Thief Outsider used his life-bound treasure to conceal them.
• After the Immortal-Thief Outsider recovered his treasure, he announced that his tribulation was coming.

After the Immortal-Thief Outsider survived a heavenly tribulation, Ye Han and his companions decided to recover and avoid the Moon God, who might be waiting at the exit. Elsewhere, Teacher Lan Qing awoke inside a protective Golden Light Barrier drifting through the starry void and wondered where Ye Han had gone.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider used his baleful spirits and essence blood to destroy the heavenly tribulation lightning, then swallowed pills to recover.
• Ye Han and Bai Daozi congratulated the Immortal-Thief Outsider and agreed that the Moon God might be waiting for them at the exit.
• Ye Han, Bai Daozi, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider decided to heal their injuries and move away from the place where the tribulation had occurred.
• A meteor struck the Golden Light Barrier drifting through the starry void, waking Teacher Lan Qing inside it.
• Teacher Lan Qing recalled being injured in the Astral Formation's region and realized his bracelet had protected him, then wondered whether Ye Han had survived.

Ye Han hid underground from the Moon God while restoring his strength, refining his treasures, and preparing for a possible fight. Thirty years later, he had reached mid-Spirit Transformation, but his lifespan had barely increased, and Saint As called to him for help as it neared taking shape.

• Ye Han refined Haotian golden water into the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel and returned the strengthened treasure to his dantian.
• Ye Han decided to refine the Sword Emperor Divine Sword and keep it as another weapon against powerful enemies such as the Moon God.
• Ye Han spent thirty years cultivating the seventh mystery of the Nine Ancient Dragon Mysteries and broke through to mid-Spirit Transformation, gaining only a hundred years of lifespan.
• Saint As spoke from the Rebirth Gourd and told Ye Han it was about to take shape but needed his help.

Ye Han restored Saint As’s physical body and resumed studying the Sword Emperor Divine Sword while they remained trapped in the Star-Seizing Tower. Saint As learned that Ye Han might also be racing against a lifespan problem, giving him a reason to reach the Upper Realm.

• Ye Han finished refining Saint As’s new body, and Saint As thanked him before Ye Han sent him to the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s cave abode.
• Ye Han studied the Sword Emperor Divine Sword’s powerful Sword Dao Laws and used its phantom to spar while remaining seated.
• Saint As asked whether Ye Han could reach a certain place, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race said escaping the Star-Seizing Tower and confronting the Moon God came first.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race told Saint As that Ye Han might have a lifespan problem, and Saint As reacted with keen interest.

Saint As agreed to let the Immortal-Thief Outsider tell Ye Han about a powerful item he was willing to use to help them return to the Upper Realm. Meanwhile, the Moon God waited as Ye Han struggled to devise a safe way past him, until the Immortal-Thief Outsider contacted Ye Han to discuss something.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider told Saint As that Ye Han seemed unable to challenge the Moon God, and Saint As agreed to use his reserved item to help them return to the Upper Realm.
• The Moon God learned from Wu Xuantian that Ye Han and the others remained hidden, and he said they were waiting until they could defeat him.
• Ye Han reviewed his treasures and possible plans for confronting the Moon God, but rejected them as too risky.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider contacted Ye Han and said he had something to discuss.

Ye Han met with the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race, who analyzed why the Moon God had to guard the teleportation array and revealed a mysterious wooden bottle. The chapter ended with the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race declaring that the bottle was an immortal treasure.

• Ye Han noticed that the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race had advanced to mid-Spirit Transformation and offered to call Bai Daozi, but the visitor asked to speak with him alone first.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race argued that the Moon God lacked enough Starry Sky Stones and needed to seize theirs, making it difficult to fight past him or bypass him at the teleportation array.
• Ye Han urged the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race to explain the proposal he had come to share.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race took a strange wooden bottle from his Treasure Chest, and Ye Han found that neither his divine sense nor his eye technique could inspect it.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race told Ye Han that the wooden bottle was an immortal treasure.

Old Thief gave Ye Han Saint As’s one-use clone of the Twelve Divine Monkey Immortal Bottle and proposed using it to enter a teleportation passage and escape their predicament in the Star-Seizing Tower. The chapter ended with Old Thief relaying Saint As’s request that Ye Han help him recover his true physical body if they returned to the Upper Realm.

• Old Thief explained that his wooden bottle was a clone of the Twelve Divine Monkey Immortal Bottle, holding one-tenth of the original’s power and able to traverse space once.
• Ye Han wondered whether his Purple Cauldron Replicas were actually clones of the Purple Cauldron, then questioned whether the bottle could bypass the Star-Seizing Tower’s restrictions.
• Old Thief proposed using the bottle to stow away on a teleportation through the real Teleportation Array, and Ye Han agreed the plan might work.
• Old Thief gave the bottle to Ye Han and revealed that it belonged to Saint As, who had asked him to pass it along.
• Old Thief told Ye Han that Saint As hoped he would help recover his true physical body if they returned to the Upper Realm.