Chapter Summaries

Ye Lingyun developed greater control over the Ice Seal Throne, though its heavy star power consumption made it a trump card. He won the first round of Icewave Academy’s qualifiers and looked ahead to the Star Great Plane’s Academy Tournament.

• Ye Lingyun summoned the Ice Seal Throne and found it consumed enough star power to last less than a minute, so he resolved to reserve it as a trump card.
• Ye Lingyun practiced the Ice Seal Throne over the next few days and learned to stabilize its power and reduce its star power consumption.
• Ye Lingyun entered Icewave Academy’s qualifying round and faced a fellow student with an Ice Sword Origin Spirit at the star king stage.
• Ye Lingyun used Ice Seal for Ten Thousand Miles to break his opponent’s defenses and win the match.
• Ye Lingyun received cheers and recognition as Icewave Academy’s rising star after the first round ended.

Ye Lingyun watched Xue Yao win her second-round selection match, then defeated veteran Star Emperor Stage student Han Tianxing in the third round. The victories strengthened their hopes for the Star Great Plane's Academy Tournament, and Ye Lingyun left regarded as Icewave Academy's rising star.

• Ye Lingyun watched Xue Yao defeat her fire-attribute opponent in the second round of the academy's selection.
• Ye Lingyun praised Xue Yao, and they discussed their hopes for the Academy Tournament as they left the arena.
• Ye Lingyun faced Han Tianxing, whose Black Ice Spear origin spirit challenged him with powerful attacks.
• Ye Lingyun used Ice Seal for Ten Thousand Miles and the Ice Seal Throne to overcome Han Tianxing and encase him in ice.
• Han Tianxing conceded, and Ye Lingyun's victory made him known throughout Icewave Academy as a rising star.

Ye Lingyun fought Bing Qing'er in the final round of Icewave Academy’s selection for the Star Great Plane's Academy Tournament. After Ye Lingyun broke through her frozen domain and sent her to the edge of the platform, Bing Qing'er unleashed Absolute Zero, leaving their battle in a stalemate.

• Bing Qing'er opened the battle with Profound Ice Slash, and Ye Lingyun countered with Ice Seal for Ten Thousand Miles.
• Bing Qing'er trapped Ye Lingyun in Ice Seal the Firmament, but he summoned the Ice Seal Throne and answered with Ice Seal All Under Heaven.
• Ye Lingyun used Ice Seal Dance to find a flaw in Bing Qing'er's defenses and struck her with a fox tail, sending her crashing into the platform's edge.
• Bing Qing'er rose, praised Ye Lingyun, and transformed her Ice Crystal Phoenix before unleashing Absolute Zero.
• Ye Lingyun used Heart of Ice Seal to resist Absolute Zero, and the two fighters reached a stalemate.

Ye Lingyun evolved his Ice Seal Throne and defeated Bing Qing'er, securing the championship. He and six other Icewave Academy elites received Star Crystals to prepare for the Star Great Plane Academy Tournament, which would begin in three days.

• Ye Lingyun triggered a hidden quest and evolved his Ice Seal Throne into Ice Empress Descends.
• Ye Lingyun used Ice Empress's Wrath to freeze Bing Qing'er's Ice Crystal Phoenix and defeat her.
• Bing Qing'er accepted her loss and praised Ye Lingyun's strength.
• Headmistress Bing Xin gave Ye Lingyun and the six other tournament representatives Star Crystals and told them the tournament would begin in three days.
• Ye Lingyun absorbed energy from his Star Crystal and prepared himself for the coming tournament.

Ye Lingyun absorbed the Star Ice Tear and advanced to the peak of the Star Emperor Stage, then joined Icewave Academy's team aboard a Star Cruiser bound for the Star Great Plane Academy Tournament. The cruiser neared Tianshu Star Island as Ye Lingyun prepared to compete.

• Ye Lingyun absorbed the Star Ice Tear, advancing from the early Star Emperor Stage to the peak and strengthening his Ice Seal Throne.
• Bing Qing'er congratulated Ye Lingyun on his breakthrough, and they vowed to bring honor to Icewave Academy.
• Dean Bing Xin led Ye Lingyun, Bing Qing'er, Xue Yao, and the other contestants onto the Ice Merchant Guild's Star Cruiser bound for Tianshu Star Island.
• Ye Lingyun told Bing Qing'er that he aimed to win the championship while continuing to surpass himself.
• Xue Yao pointed out Tianshu Star, and Ye Lingyun and the other contestants prepared for the tournament during the journey.
• Dean Bing Xin announced the team's impending arrival as the Star Cruiser approached Tianshu Star Island.

Ye Lingyun and the Icewave Academy team arrived at Tianshu Star Island for the Star Great Plane Academy Tournament, where he met rival Huo Yunfei and studied the tournament’s top-ranked contestants. As Starlight Academy announced the tournament’s start, Ye Lingyun and Bing Qing'er set out for the grounds.

• Ye Lingyun arrived at Tianshu Star Island with the Icewave Academy team and exchanged a challenging greeting with Huo Yunfei of Heavenly Fire Academy.
• Ye Lingyun cultivated on the island, where the dense star power strengthened his resolve for the tournament.
• Ye Lingyun read the Star Record and found himself ranked seventh, while Huo Yunfei ranked third and Luo Tianxing of Starlight Academy ranked first.
• Bing Qing'er and Ye Lingyun discussed their formidable rivals and vowed to face the tournament challenges.
• An elder of Starlight Academy announced the tournament’s beginning, and Ye Lingyun and Bing Qing'er followed the guides toward the grounds.

Ye Lingyun entered the tournament’s small world to collect spirit plants and encountered Huo Yunfei while harvesting a rare Star Spirit Herb. After a fierce battle, Ye Lingyun won the herb, and the two opponents parted on respectful terms.

• The tournament elder announced that contestants had to collect spirit plants in a small world, avoid Spirit Beasts, and refrain from using lethal force.
• Bing Qing'er led the Icewave Academy team through its entrance and set a rendezvous plan before Ye Lingyun explored the forest alone.
• Ye Lingyun collected spirit plants, avoided an Ice Spirit Rabbit, and discovered a Star Spirit Herb just as Huo Yunfei attacked him.
• Ye Lingyun and Huo Yunfei fought with their Ice Seal and Fire Phoenix powers until both collapsed and their domains dissipated.
• Ye Lingyun harvested the Star Spirit Herb, and Huo Yunfei acknowledged his victory before they shook hands and agreed to fight again.

Ye Lingyun challenged Luo Tianxing for the Star Spirit Vine and fought him to exhaustion. Ye Lingyun rose first and claimed the vine, while Luo Tianxing conceded his victory.

• Ye Lingyun heard about the Star Spirit Vine and traveled to the ancient forest, where contestants had gathered to compete for it.
• Luo Tianxing proposed a contest to decide who would claim the vine, then challenged the assembled contestants as Starlight Academy’s strongest competitor.
• Ye Lingyun stepped forward, introduced himself as a peak star emperor, and summoned his Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and Ice Seal Throne to face Luo Tianxing and his Star Dragon.
• Luo Tianxing and Ye Lingyun battled with their star and ice-sealing domains, trading powerful attacks until both exhausted themselves and fell.
• Ye Lingyun got back up first, picked the Star Spirit Vine, and heard Luo Tianxing admit that Ye Lingyun had won.

Ye Lingyun fought rival academies to protect the Star Spirit Vine, then discovered it was a dangerous trap that drained and attacked everyone. After cutting its main stem, he led the Icewave Academy contestants through a transformed ancient forest, where an enormous shadow appeared at the exit.

• Ye Lingyun and the Icewave Academy contestants fought off challengers seeking the Star Spirit Vine, and Bing Qing'er led the others away while Ye Lingyun faced Huo Yunfei.
• Ye Lingyun and Huo Yunfei battled to exhaustion, and Ye Lingyun picked up the Star Spirit Vine after their domains dispersed.
• The Star Spirit Vine ensnared the group and drained their power, but Ye Lingyun froze its tendrils and severed its main stem.
• Ye Lingyun led the group through the ancient forest as its trees came alive and attacked them.
• As the group neared the exit, an enormous shadow appeared above them, and Ye Lingyun realized they faced the tournament's greatest challenge.

Ye Lingyun and his teammates fought a regenerating shadow creature in the ancient forest and discovered that its power came from an enormous ancient tree. Ye Lingyun destroyed the tree, making the shadow vanish, and led the group home.

• Ye Lingyun used the Ice Seal domain to slow the shadow creature and severed one of its tentacles, but it quickly regenerated.
• Ye Lingyun told the group to search for the creature's connection to the forest while he kept fighting it.
• Bing Qing'er found an enormous ancient tree at the forest's center and identified it as the creature's true body.
• Ye Lingyun froze the ancient tree with the Ice Seal domain and cut through its trunk, causing the shadow creature to vanish.
• Ye Lingyun and his teammates celebrated their survival, and Ye Lingyun urged them to go home.

Icewave Academy faced Heavenly Fire Academy in the Star Great Plane Academy Tournament tiebreaker, where Ye Lingyun fought Huo Yunfei and then defeated the remaining opponents. Icewave Academy won the semifinal, leaving Ye Lingyun looking ahead to the rest of the tournament.

• Four academy teams tied for first place, so Starlight Academy arranged a tiebreaker, and Icewave Academy drew Heavenly Fire Academy in the semifinal.
• Ye Lingyun and Huo Yunfei exchanged powerful attacks as their ice and flame domains clashed.
• Ye Lingyun and Huo Yunfei exhausted themselves and fell, then rose, shook hands, and praised each other.
• Heavenly Fire Academy's other members attacked Ye Lingyun, who trapped them in his ice seal domain and struck down the team.
• The referee declared Icewave Academy the winner, and Ye Lingyun said the victory was only the beginning.

Starlight Academy defeated Darknight Academy in the second semifinal after Luo Tianxing’s Star Dragon and star domain overcame the opposing team’s darkness power. Ye Lingyun prepared to face Luo Tianxing in the final.

• Darknight Academy and Starlight Academy began their semifinal battle, with both teams launching coordinated attacks.
• Luo Tianxing summoned his Star Dragon and trapped Darknight Academy inside a star domain.
• Darknight Academy’s captain summoned a Darkness Demon Beast, and its darkness power struck the star domain but failed to break through.
• Luo Tianxing strengthened the star domain as the battle continued and he was wounded by the onslaught.
• Luo Tianxing unleashed Starfall, pinning Darknight Academy’s members beneath meteors and securing Starlight Academy’s victory.
• Ye Lingyun resolved to face Luo Tianxing in the final.

Ye Lingyun fought Luo Tianxing in the Central Arena finals, where Icewave Academy struggled against Starlight Academy. After triggering a hidden mission and breaking through, Ye Lingyun defeated Luo Tianxing and won the match for Icewave Academy, then looked ahead to what came next.

• Icewave Academy and Starlight Academy began their finals, and Luo Tianxing's Star Dragon overwhelmed Icewave Academy's team.
• Ye Lingyun countered Luo Tianxing with his Ice Seal Throne and Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, but remained suppressed in the star domain.
• A hidden mission activated when Ye Lingyun was nearing his limit, and closing his eyes caused his power to surge and his cultivation to break through.
• Ye Lingyun unleashed Ice Empress Descends and enveloped Luo Tianxing's Star Dragon in the Ice Seal Domain.
• Ye Lingyun shattered Luo Tianxing's defenses and defeated him, winning the finals for Icewave Academy.
• Ye Lingyun helped Luo Tianxing up, accepted the victory, and declared that this was only the beginning.

After winning the championship, Ye Lingyun accepted Starlight Academy’s offer to train for a year on Tianshu Star Island. There, he paid Qing Song for information about the cultivation grounds, then discovered the beginner’s handbook already contained everything Qing Song had told him.

• Ye Lingyun won the championship, and an elder from Starlight Academy offered him a year of advanced training on Tianshu Star Island.
• Ye Lingyun accepted the offer, received a pass from the elder, and set out alone for the island’s cultivation area the next morning.
• Qing Song offered to guide Ye Lingyun and share exclusive information, so Ye Lingyun paid him ten pieces of ice star marrow.
• Qing Song showed Ye Lingyun around and gave him a map to a secret cultivation chamber with unusually dense star power.
• Ye Lingyun collected a beginner’s handbook and discovered it already included the information and chamber location Qing Song had sold him.

Ye Lingyun spent three months cultivating on Tianshu Star Island and reached the peak of the Star Emperor realm. He then studied combat techniques in the Combat Skills Pavilion with help from his Origin Spirit, the Great Magician, and left ready to integrate what he had learned.

• Ye Lingyun cultivated in the island’s chamber for three months, advancing to the peak of the Star Emperor realm.
• Ye Lingyun entered the Combat Skills Pavilion and chose the manual for "Starry Heaven-Splitting Slash."
• The Great Magician helped Ye Lingyun comprehend the technique, and he unleashed a powerful ice-blue sword strike.
• Ye Lingyun learned "Starstorm," "Galaxy Reversal," and "Star Shield" during three months of study.
• Ye Lingyun left the pavilion, intending to combine the techniques and make them his own.

Ye Lingyun defeated a black-robed young man in a battle on Tianshu Star Island, then continued fighting cultivators and strengthening his abilities. After reaching the island’s pinnacle, he prepared to face greater challenges.

• Ye Lingyun used Ice Seal for Ten Thousand Miles to trap the black-robed young man and counter his Darkness Demon Beast.
• Ye Lingyun transformed with Great Magician, cleaved the young man’s Dark Impact, and defeated him within the Ice Seal Domain.
• Ye Lingyun helped the fallen young man up, and the two acknowledged each other’s strength.
• Ye Lingyun fought other powerful cultivators on Tianshu Star Island, while his Origin Spirit Great Magician advised him and he learned Starstorm, Galaxy Reversal, and Star Shield.
• Ye Lingyun reached the pinnacle of Tianshu Star Island and resolved to face greater challenges.

Ye Lingyun lost to Long Yu in the Cultivation Area, then awakened the Gentleman's Sword after a system quest and returned to challenge him. He defeated Long Yu with The Sword of Man Is Invincible, and the two parted on friendly terms.

• Ye Lingyun fought Long Yu but was overwhelmed by Sky Soaring Long Yu Break and lost.
• The system triggered the hidden quest “Power of Smiling,” and Ye Lingyun awakened the Gentleman's Sword by smiling through his defeat.
• Ye Lingyun trained with his new Origin Spirit and learned The Sword of Man Is Invincible.
• Ye Lingyun returned to the plaza and countered Long Yu’s attacks with the Gentleman's Sword.
• Ye Lingyun defeated Long Yu, then helped him up and acknowledged his strength.

Ye Lingyun left Tianshu Star Island after a year of cultivation and headed back toward Icewave Academy. On his journey, he learned that demonic beasts were attacking human cities across the Northern Domain and resolved to investigate the force behind their sudden frenzy.

• Ye Lingyun packed his manuals and cultivation resources, said farewell to Tianshu Star Island, and set off for Icewave Academy.
• Aboard an Interstellar Merchant Ship, Ye Lingyun heard an old man report that Northern Domain demonic beasts were launching large-scale attacks on human cities.
• The old man told Ye Lingyun that powerful cultivators sent to investigate rarely returned and that the beasts seemed to be guarding a secret.
• Ye Lingyun studied an old map of the continent and suspected that a powerful force hidden in the Northern Domain was driving the beasts berserk.
• Ye Lingyun decided to gather information and prepare to investigate the Northern Domain.

Ye Lingyun returned to Icewave Academy and volunteered to fight the magical beasts invading the Northern Domain. He reached a besieged city, destroyed the attacking horde with the Gentleman's Sword and Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, and left to continue his journey.

• Ye Lingyun returned to Icewave Academy and learned from Dean Bing Xin that magical beasts were attacking human cities in the Northern Domain.
• Ye Lingyun volunteered to join the fight, and Dean Bing Xin gave him an Access Token to pass through the defensive lines.
• Ye Lingyun traveled to the Northern Domain and found a human city surrounded by magical beasts, its defenses close to collapse.
• Ye Lingyun attacked the horde with the Gentleman's Sword and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox's Heart of Ice Seal.
• Ye Lingyun defeated the magical beasts, received the residents' thanks, and left the city.

Ye Lingyun fought his way deeper into the Northern Domain and discovered a figure controlling the magical beasts through a crystal sphere. He destroyed the sphere and defeated the mastermind, easing the crisis in the Northern Domain.

• Ye Lingyun defeated a powerful ice-armored magical beast with the Gentleman's Sword and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
• Ye Lingyun sensed that the magical beasts were being controlled and tracked a strange fluctuation to a sealed canyon.
• Ye Lingyun broke through the canyon's icy entrance and found a crystal sphere containing a tiny, hostile figure.
• The figure revealed that he controlled the magical beasts because he believed humans should be slaves, and Ye Lingyun challenged him.
• Ye Lingyun used the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox to expose a flaw in the sphere's power, then shattered it with the Gentleman's Sword.
• The figure dissipated, and Ye Lingyun sensed that the magical beasts' attacks had stopped.