Chapter Summaries

The Star Palace Elders killed the Blood Jade Spider, forcing the Void Sky Cauldron back into its hole, but Heaven Mending Pills burst from it and drew the cultivators into a fresh scramble. Lin Yun took the pills and challenged the Nascent Soul cultivators, while Nangong Wan remained concealed to seize the cauldron.

• Man Huzi and Wan Tianming attacked a hidden Star Palace Elder, while Elder Qingyi realized another Star Palace Elder was targeting the Blood Jade Spider and warned Han Li.
• The second Star Palace Elder killed the Blood Jade Spider with a sword strike, but Han Li escaped using Senior Brother Lin's Sword Qi.
• The Star Palace Elders vanished with Avatar Talismans, and Extreme Yin's fire pythons released the Void Sky Cauldron, which fell back into its hole.
• A sphere of Heaven Mending Pills shot from the cauldron, drawing the cultivators away from the Two-Headed Fire Wolf.
• Lin Yun told Nangong Wan to take the Void Sky Cauldron, concealed her with invisible Sword Qi, then seized the Heaven Mending Pills and challenged the Nascent Soul cultivators.

Lin Yun returned to the Cold Li Platform, took the Heaven Mending Pill and Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi, and challenged the orthodox and demonic Nascent Soul cultivators to fight for them. After exposing Profound Bone’s identity and provoking him and Extreme Yin, Lin Yun launched into battle against the gathered cultivators.

• Lin Yun neutralized Wan Tianming, Tianwuzi, and the old farmer’s attacks, then offered the Heaven Mending Pill as a prize to anyone who could defeat him.
• The two-headed fire wolf transformed into a silver wolf and then the Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi, which Lin Yun caught and added to the prize.
• Lin Yun revealed Profound Bone’s identity and challenged him, prompting Extreme Yin and Profound Bone to exchange hostile words about their master-disciple past.
• Lin Yun unleashed sword qi at both sides, and the gathered cultivators summoned their defenses and Magic Treasures.
• Man Huzi and Wan Tianming attacked Lin Yun, who countered with the Innate One Qi Great Grasping and a hundred streaks of sword light aimed at Wan Tianming.

Lin Yun overwhelmed the cultivators at Cold Li Terrace, destroyed Extreme Yin’s demon corpses, and drew the others away with the Heaven Mending Pill. Profound Bone returned to confront Han Li, who refused to help him retrieve the Void Sky Cauldron, and their battle began.

• Lin Yun destroyed Extreme Yin’s Tiandu Corpse Fire and Tiandu Demon Corpses, then sent the injured Extreme Yin toward Profound Bone, who pursued him.
• Lin Yun challenged Man Huzi, Wan Tianming, and the other cultivators, then threw the Heaven Mending Pill beyond Cold Li Terrace to draw them away.
• Han Li watched Lin Yun leave and faced Wu Chou’s accusation, but Profound Bone returned and burned Wu Chou to ashes.
• Profound Bone demanded Han Li release another Blood Jade Spider, explaining that the Heaven Mending Pill could improve spiritual roots and aid Nascent Soul formation.
• Han Li recognized the Heaven Mending Pill as one Lin Yun had given him, refused Profound Bone’s offer, and fought him when he tried to seize the Blood Jade Spider.
• Nangong Wan watched Han Li’s methods and judged that Lin Yun had good reason to value him.

Nangong Wan killed Profound Bone and helped Han Li retrieve the Void Sky Cauldron, while Han Li found a strange rib bone that stirred the soul-crying beast. A hundred li away, Lin Yun captured three spirit beasts with his Sleeve-Heaven-and-Earth and faced a renewed assault from the Righteous and Demonic Path cultivators.

• Nangong Wan appeared on the Cold Li Terrace and burned Profound Bone to ashes with the Vermilion Phoenix Sword.
• Nangong Wan began fishing the Void Sky Cauldron out of the altar's hole, and Han Li sent his Blood Jade Spider to help.
• Han Li found a jade-like rib bone among Profound Bone's ashes, causing the soul-crying beast in his Storage Bag to cry out.
• Lin Yun used Sleeve-Heaven-and-Earth to draw in the Cold Flood Dragon, Li Tortoise, and Three-Eyed Leopard, alarming the gathered cultivators.
• Wan Tianming, Tianwuzi, Man Huzi, and their allies attacked Lin Yun, who countered their magic treasures and abilities with his own techniques.
• Wan Tianming unleashed a purple bead while Man Huzi transformed into a small golden man and charged Lin Yun with a shield and short spear.

Lin Yun defeated the attacks of Man Huzi and Wan Tianming, then returned to the Cold Li Terrace to help Nangong Wan and Han Li claim the Void Sky Cauldron and its deep blue ice flame. The group collected the flame and freed the cauldron before the other cultivators could return.

• Lin Yun used the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light and Taiyi Divine Thunder to neutralize Wan Tianming's and Man Huzi's attacks, then drove Man Huzi back injured.
• Lin Yun explained that Heaven Mending Pills refined the primordial spiritual roots of cultivators below the Nascent Soul realm, refused to surrender them, and left.
• Wan Tianming, Man Huzi, Elder Qingyi, and Tianwuzi wondered who Lin Yun was before hurrying back toward the Cold Li Terrace.
• Lin Yun returned to the Cold Li Terrace and told Han Li to help collect the deep blue ice flame with Evil-Warding Divine Thunder.
• Lin Yun and Han Li used their Magic Treasures to collect the deep blue ice flame while Nangong Wan, aided by Lin Yun and the Blood Jade Spider, pulled the Void Sky Cauldron from the altar.

Lin Yun, Nangong Wan, and Han Li escaped the Cold Li Terrace and followed Han Li’s map to a hidden teleportation array. They arrived at a spring where Han Li recognized Yuan Yao and Lin Yun discovered ten thousand year spirit milk, leaving the group poised to explore the chamber’s treasures.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan left the Cold Li Terrace with Han Li, while the returning cultivators found the Void Sky Cauldron missing and suspected Han Li and his companions had taken it.
• Wan Tianming ordered the others to search the Inner Hall and planned to issue a warrant for Han Li if they failed to find him, while deciding to leave Lin Yun and Nangong Wan alone for now.
• Lin Yun reassured Nangong Wan and Han Li that he was recovering from his battle as they followed the route on Han Li’s map to a hidden teleportation array.
• Lin Yun activated the one-use array, transporting the three to a chamber with a large Spirit Eye Spring and a woman preparing to bathe.
• Han Li recognized the woman as Yuan Yao, while Lin Yun found ten thousand year spirit milk dripping from a jade dragon’s head into a bottle.

Lin Yun found ten thousand year spirit milk and explained its uses to Han Li and Nangong Wan. After discovering Yuan Yao needed help saving a soul, he gave her a healing pill and half of the soul-nurturing wood, while keeping the other half.

• Lin Yun identified the dragon's droplets as ten thousand year spirit milk and discussed its uses with Nangong Wan.
• Han Li learned that the milk could be refined into Azure Jade Dew, which could cultivate spirit eyes, and offered to help gather ingredients.
• Yuan Yao asked Lin Yun for a pill to heal injuries and nurture the soul, offering to serve him in exchange.
• Lin Yun broke the restriction on a stone door, retrieved soul-nurturing wood, and inferred that Yuan Yao was trying to save a soul near dispersal.
• Lin Yun gave Yuan Yao half of the soul-nurturing wood and created a pill to stabilize and heal the soul she wanted to save.

After leaving the Void Sky Hall, Lin Yun gave Han Li the soul-nurturing wood and a pill formula, then departed with Nangong Wan to begin seclusion. Lin Yun prepared to break through and form his golden core, while Nangong Wan studied the Void Sky Cauldron.

• Lin Yun gave Yuan Yao a pill, shared the Azure Jade Dew with Nangong Wan and Han Li, and sealed the remaining ten thousand year spirit milk.
• Lin Yun declined Han Li's request to take the spirit eye spring, and the group left the stone chamber by teleportation.
• Yuan Yao thanked Lin Yun and Nangong Wan, then flew away to save the person in danger.
• Lin Yun warned Han Li about the cultivators pursuing the Void Sky Cauldron and gave him the soul-nurturing wood and a copy of the Nine-Curve Spirit Ginseng Pill formula.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan disguised themselves as Wang Lin and Li Muwan, traveled to a deserted island, and settled into separate cave dwellings.
• Lin Yun began preparing to unite his primordial essence, vital energy, and primordial spirit to form his golden core, while Nangong Wan examined the Void Sky Cauldron.

Han Li learned that the Inverse Star Alliance was preparing to attack Tianxing City and was caught in a battle on South Bright Island. After escaping, he discovered that Ling Yuling had secretly followed him, and their conversation turned to her friend Lin Yun.

• Han Li learned that the Star Palace and the newly formed Inverse Star Alliance had issued rival orders to the factions of the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Han Li reached South Bright Island, where the Inverse Star Alliance surrounded the island and fought the Star Palace cultivators.
• Ling Yuling disguised herself and used the Wind-Thunder Wings’ Wind-Escape Technique to follow Han Li off the island.
• Han Li noticed an unnaturally steady breeze beside him and called out Ling Yuling.
• Ling Yuling introduced herself as a Star Palace Outer Disciplinary Officer and said she knew a Han Li through her friend’s junior brother.
• Han Li asked Ling Yuling whether her friend was surnamed Lin.

Han Li met Ling Yuling, helped her defeat two Inverse Star Alliance cultivators, and followed her toward Tianxing City. Meanwhile, Lin Yun completed his golden-core breakthrough and demonstrated his newly formed yang spirit avatar to Nangong Wan.

• Ling Yuling confirmed that she was a friend of Lin Yun, then concealed herself when Han Li sensed approaching cultivators.
• Two Inverse Star Alliance cultivators questioned Han Li, and Han Li and Ling Yuling killed them in a pincer attack.
• Ling Yuling offered to take Han Li into locked-down Tianxing City, and she explained that her concealment came from a magic treasure Lin Yun had lent her.
• On a deserted island, Lin Yun completed his golden-core breakthrough amid heavenly signs and declared that his fate rested with him, not Heaven.
• Nangong Wan noticed that Lin Yun appeared to be only at the early nascent soul stage, and he explained that she was seeing his yang spirit avatar.
• Lin Yun dispersed with an apricot branch, returned to his body inside the cave dwelling, and demonstrated the yang spirit's ability to take form and become qi.

Lin Yun explained the limits of his newly condensed Yang Spirit to Nangong Wan and accepted the Void Sky Cauldron from her. He then revealed the silver wolf artifact spirit’s identity as Silver Moon and agreed to let her follow him.

• Lin Yun told Nangong Wan that his Yang Spirit realm surpassed Spirit Transformation, but his avatar’s strength remained limited by his cultivation and the Mortal Realm’s scarce spiritual energy.
• Nangong Wan gave Lin Yun the sealed Void Sky Cauldron, and he said they would study it after returning.
• Lin Yun removed the restriction on the Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi, releasing its silver wolf artifact spirit.
• Silver Moon explained that she retained memories from her life in the Silver Moon Wolf Tribe and had chosen Lin Yun because he could wield heaven-and-earth spiritual energy.
• Lin Yun agreed to let Silver Moon follow him and promised to find her a body so she could move about freely.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan returned to the waters near Tianxing City and learned that the Inverse Star Alliance was preparing to fight the Star Palace. Inside the city, the Twin Saints discussed their failing cultivation, their limited lifespans, and how to protect Ling Yuling.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan returned to the sea near Tianxing City and found cultivators gathered there under the Sky Star Order and Inverse Star Order.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator told Nangong Wan that the Inverse Star Alliance, led by Six Paths Supreme Sage and Wan Sangu, was preparing to oppose the Star Palace.
• Lin Yun sent a message toward Tianxing City to contact Ling Yuling and seek help entering the locked-down city.
• Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing discussed the alliance's threat and revealed that their incomplete Primordial Magnetic Divine Light had left them unable to reach the Spirit Transformation Stage, with only a little over two hundred years to live.
• Wen Qing and Ling Xiaofeng decided to prepare Ling Yuling for the future and offer her magic treasures for protection.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan returned to Tianxing City during the escalating conflict between the Star Palace and the Inverse Star Alliance, with Ling Yuling vouching for their entry. At their cave mansion, Lin Yun discovered Han Li had left for the Outer Sea to avoid the dangers surrounding the Void Sky Hall affair and the war.

• Ling Yuling left the Blue Stone Hall after receiving Lin Yun's voice transmission, while Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing sensed nothing unusual.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan reached Tianxing City's guarded gate, where a Star Palace cultivator required a resident to vouch for them.
• Ling Yuling arrived and escorted Lin Yun and Nangong Wan into the city, then angrily flew ahead after Lin Yun joked that he had only lent her the Wind-Thunder Wings.
• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan returned to the Forty-First Cave Mansion and found many requests to buy Spell Pellets among the accumulated Sound Transmission Talismans.
• Lin Yun discovered Han Li's message saying he had left Tianxing City for the Outer Sea to cultivate in seclusion and would return with the soul-nurturing wood after the current dangers passed.

Ling Yuling visited Lin Yun and Nangong Wan with news that the Inverse Star Alliance had issued arrest warrants for Han and Venerable Xuan Gu over the theft of the Void Sky Cauldron, and had invited Wang Lin to become a third leader. After Lin Yun showed Ling Yuling the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light cultivation art, she discovered it was the technique her parents practiced and hurried away with the jade slip.

• Ling Yuling told Lin Yun and Nangong Wan that the Inverse Star Alliance suspected Han and Venerable Xuan Gu of stealing the Void Sky Cauldron using a concealed second Blood Jade Spider.
• Ling Yuling reported that Six Paths Supreme Sage and Wan Sangu had invited Wang Lin to join the Inverse Star Alliance as its third leader, and asked Nangong Wan about Li Muwan.
• Nangong Wan said she and Lin Yun had entered the Void Sky Hall disguised as Core Formation cultivators, while Lin Yun described his gain as a cultivation art and handed Ling Yuling its jade slip.
• Ling Yuling recognized the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light as the cultivation art practiced by her parents and asked to copy it.
• Lin Yun let Ling Yuling keep the jade slip, and she hurriedly left to attend to something.

Ling Yuling discovered that the Twin Saints’ Primordial Magnetic Divine Light cultivation method had been tampered with, raising fears that the Star Palace’s leaders were in danger as the Inverse Star Alliance advanced. Lin Yun later welcomed Xin Ruoyin after she emerged from seclusion, while the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng escaped into the Herb Garden.

• Ling Yuling gave Ling Xiaofeng a jade slip from the Void Sky Hall, and he and Wen Qing realized that someone had erased the cultivation requirements for the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.
• Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing suspected that Six Paths or Wan Sangu had engineered the flawed cultivation method and helped the Inverse Star Alliance grow powerful.
• Lin Yun explained to Nangong Wan that the Twin Saints’ heavenly spiritual roots made full mastery of the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light impossible, leaving the Star Palace in a precarious position.
• The Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng evaded the Herb Garden’s restrictions and settled beside the Spirit Eye Spring, prompting Lin Yun to consider strengthening the restrictions.
• Xin Ruoyin emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the sixth Origin Pill turn, and Lin Yun and Nangong Wan welcomed her.

Lin Yun and Xin Ruoyin solved the final problem of stabilizing an ultra-long-distance teleportation passage and completed instructions for an Ancient Teleportation Formation. They planned to return to the Heavenly South to build matching formations there and in the Chaotic Star Sea.

• Lin Yun summoned Silver Moon, whose memories of watching a teleportation array being set up helped him and Xin Ruoyin find ways to stabilize a long-distance spatial passage.
• A spirit bird delivered Wan Tianming's letter, in which he sought Man Huzi's Spell Pellets and offered Lin Yun an elder's position in the Myriad Law Sect and Wan Sangu's guidance.
• Lin Yun declined Wan Tianming's invitation for the time being, citing Tianxing City's lockdown.
• Several months later, Xin Ruoyin completed the instructions for setting up an ultra-long-distance teleportation array but noted that some materials were rare.
• Lin Yun proposed dismantling the Ancient Teleportation Formation in the Heavenly South and building paired formations, with Xin Ruoyin handling the Chaotic Star Sea and him handling the Heavenly South.

Lin Yun discovered that the Ancient Teleportation Formation in the Heavenly South could not transport him because the array there had been damaged, delaying his return with Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin. As Tianxing City prepared to lift its lockdown, Ling Yuling explained that the Inverse Star Alliance had never intended to attack the city directly.

• Lin Yun sent his Yang Spirit to repair the Ancient Teleportation Formation near Kuixing Island, but its test activation failed because the formation at the Heavenly South end was damaged.
• Lin Yun told Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin that they would need to gather materials for a one-way Teleportation Array before they could return.
• Ling Yuling returned Lin Yun's jade slip containing the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light Cultivation Method and asked him to keep it secret.
• Ling Yuling told Lin Yun and the others that the Inverse Star Alliance's threat to attack Tianxing City had been a ploy to draw out the Star Palace's forces and seize its islands.
• Ling Yuling said the Star Palace planned to lift the city's lockdown and send reinforcements to the islands under attack.

Lin Yun refused to join the Star Palace but agreed to teach it the level five Spell Pellet technique in exchange for Geng Essence and other materials. After Ling Yuling reported the deal, Ling Xiaofeng gave her a fragment of the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain to take to Lin Yun as thanks.

• Ling Yuling explained that the Star Palace needed Lin Yun's Spell Pellets for the coming war and that some elders wanted to seize his technique.
• Lin Yun declined to join the Star Palace but offered to teach it the level five Spell Pellet technique, keeping the higher-level methods secret.
• Ling Yuling agreed to provide Geng Essence and the other requested materials, substituting Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for unavailable high-grade ones.
• Nangong Wan asked whether Lin Yun feared the Star Palace discovering how many Demon Cores he had kept, and Lin Yun said his strength left him unafraid.
• Ling Xiaofeng approved the bargain and gave Ling Yuling a fragment of the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain to deliver to Lin Yun as thanks.
• Ling Yuling put the fragment away and went to the Star Palace treasury to collect Lin Yun's requested materials.

Lin Yun received a Geng Essence and a fragment of the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain from Ling Yuling in exchange for his grade-five Spell Pellet method. The fragment gave him a path to perfect the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light, but he realized he still needed the mountain itself to cultivate the Divine Light Needle.

• Lin Yun inspected the Geng Essence Ling Yuling had brought and gave her the grade-five Spell Pellet refinement method, which she discovered used only thirty percent of a Demon Core’s spiritual power.
• Ling Yuling delivered a restricted white jade chest as an additional gift from the Star Palace’s Twin Sages, and warned Lin Yun that it held a dangerous fragment of the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain.
• Lin Yun resealed the chest, moved to the Thirty-Eighth Cave Mansion to avoid disturbing Xiao Mei’s cultivation, and opened it there.
• Lin Yun examined the fragment and realized its Wu Earth essence could complete the five innate essences needed to perfect his Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light.
• Lin Yun concluded that cultivating the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light Needle would require the main body of the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain, not just the fragment.

Lin Yun spent six years cultivating the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light as the Star Palace and the Inverse Star Alliance fought over islands and Level Five Demon Cores. In the Outer Sea, Han Li learned that the war and the Abyss Sea becoming a forbidden zone had drawn many hunters there, and he approached three cultivators to ask about the change.

• Lin Yun sealed away the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain Fragment and asked Nangong Wan to help him cultivate while Xin Ruoyin went into seclusion to refine an Ice Soul Divine Needle.
• Over the next eight years, Lin Yun cultivated the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light while the Star Palace and the Inverse Star Alliance fought, causing heavy demand for Level Five Demon Cores.
• The Inverse Star Alliance stole an incomplete Spell Pellet refinement method, and its weaker pellets forced it to rely on larger quantities as both sides hunted Demon Beasts.
• Han Li found that other cultivators had repeatedly disrupted his Demon Beast hunts in the Outer Sea and disguised himself before approaching three Core Formation cultivators.
• The cultivators told Han Li that the Abyss Sea had become forbidden and the war had drawn hunters to the Outer Sea, while dangerous high-level Demon Beasts threatened Strange Abyss Island.