Chapter Summaries

The Star-Seizing Ancestor found that the Star Sea Secret Realm had emptied of its Falling Star Giant Beasts, then sealed itself off and changed in response to the Star-Seizing Sect master's offhand remarks. The Ancestor could no longer inspect or control it, and he left the master to explain the strange events.

• The Star-Seizing Ancestor discovered that the Star Sea Secret Realm's destruction aura had changed into dark power and that its Falling Star Giant Beasts had vanished.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor told the Star-Seizing Sect master that something seemed to have transported the beasts away, though he could not determine where.
• The Star-Seizing Sect master remarked that the empty secret realm was safe, and the realm immediately seethed and sealed itself.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor found that the master's offhand guess had apparently caused a powerful new presence to appear, then blamed him for the secret realm's changes.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor told the Star-Seizing Sect master to explain the missing beasts, and the master claimed they had always been gone.

The Star-Seizing Ancestor stopped trying to destroy the Starry Sky Secret Realm after a powerful figure, apparently his grandfather, intervened. He warned the sect master about hidden forces and ordered the sect to seek the Falling Star Giant Beasts while forbidding disciples from practicing other cultivation arts.

• The Star-Seizing Ancestor tried to crush the Starry Sky Secret Realm, but a giant palm stopped him and a figure in the void persuaded him to stand down.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor told the sect master that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's strength came from Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang, and that the sect had repeatedly recovered from decline through powerful individuals.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor said the Star-Seizing Art could reveal the laws' trajectories and warned that some people who expected to grow powerful had already been marked.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor decided the Star-Seizing Sect's Holy Son and Holy Daughter should search for the Falling Star Giant Beasts for experience.
• The sect master ordered that no one in the Star-Seizing Sect could practice other cultivation arts, on pain of having their cultivation crippled and being expelled.

Ye Ningshuang killed the merfolk child Ying Huaixu needed for a quest, so Ying Huaixu revived him and persuaded him to lead the group to his clan. On the way, Ying Huaixu discovered that bosses were disappearing from the map, while strange monster portraits appeared briefly in their place.

• Ye Ningshuang killed a group of black-clad attackers and a frightened child with demonic energy while waiting for Ying Huaixu.
• Ying Huaixu found Ye Ningshuang and learned she had killed the merfolk child he was seeking for a quest.
• Ye Ningshuang revived the child with black mist, and Ying Huaixu convinced him to invite the group to visit the Merfolk Clan.
• Ying Huaixu noticed that boss icons and subjugation stages had vanished from the map, then found a boss missing without any sign of a fight.
• Ying Huaixu saw monster portraits flash across the map as boss icons disappeared and demanded that Heavenly Dao give him back his exit button.

Ying Huaixu took the merfolk child to the Merfolk Clan, looted treasures across the seabed, and prepared for the next fight. He agreed to let Chen Zhiyuan and the others try to defeat their coming enemy without his help.

• Ying Huaixu gave up chasing the disappearing raid bosses and took the merfolk child toward the Merfolk Clan on his Flying Boat.
• Ying Huaixu led the group across the seabed, gathering hidden treasures and salvaging a shipwreck full of Magic Treasures, spirit stones, and materials.
• Ying Huaixu dismantled an enormous spirit stone ore chunk into 20 million spirit stones and distributed most of the other loot to Huang Tianqi and the others.
• Ying Huaixu entered an underwater cave and began crafting talismans and refining pills to prepare for battle.
• Chen Zhiyuan asked to fight the coming enemy without Ying Huaixu intervening, and Ying Huaixu agreed.

Ying Huaixu prepared for the hidden raid bosses by refining powerful formation materials for Chen Zhiyuan, who demonstrated how easily he could restrain Qiu Shiyi and nearly harm Huang Tianqi. As the group headed for the Merfolk Clan, the Mile-High Heaven Clan worried over Ye Ningshuang’s rapid growth and wondered why the demonic beasts they had released had not appeared.

• Ying Huaixu refined Chen Zhiyuan’s formation materials into supreme-quality magic treasures to help him prepare for powerful enemies.
• Chen Zhiyuan used successive formations to defeat Qiu Shiyi in a spar and briefly trapped Huang Tianqi by eliminating space.
• Huang Tianqi began contemplating his weakness, while Chen Zhiyuan credited his victory to luck and Ying Huaixu continued preparing supplies.
• Ying Huaixu used up the group’s spirit herbs and talisman-refining materials, then led them toward the Merfolk Clan.
• The Mile-High Heaven Clan discovered that Ye Ningshuang had reached Spirit Sea Great Perfection and feared that the world’s natives would grow too powerful to control.
• The Mile-High Heaven Clan wondered why the demonic beasts, including the Falling Star Giant Beast sent into the Hongmeng World, had not appeared.

The Falling Star Giant Beasts hid from the Mile-High Heaven Clan and planned to assess Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang before attacking them. After learning human cultivation and customs, their leader set the beasts to work near Merfolk Island so they could watch the coming conflict from a safe distance.

• The Falling Star Giant Beasts concealed themselves as mountains while the Mile-High Heaven Clan searched for them and brought An Ruoyun into the search.
• The Falling Star leader warned his followers that Ying Huaixu had killed all Four Azure Fox Sisters, so they needed to learn more before confronting him and Ye Ningshuang.
• The beasts learned human cultivation methods, transformed into muscular humans, and studied human culture in small villages.
• The leader used Soul-Searching Technique on a Mile-High Heaven agent and a merfolk, learning about the factions within the Merfolk Clan and the expected clash with Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang.
• The Falling Star Giant Beasts took work at a dock near Merfolk Island to observe the conflict from a position where Ying Huaixu would not detect them.
• When a beast began drooling over the humans’ sacred fragrance, the leader slapped him and forbade him from pursuing humans.

The Falling Star Leader studied human techniques and learned that Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples were far stronger than expected. To avoid confronting them directly, he arranged for his followers to stir up rival factions against Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang while he hid and watched for a chance to gauge Ying Huaixu's strength.

• The Falling Star Leader warned his underling not to draw human attention before they secured the racial flame, then grew stronger by adapting human cultivation methods and refining his true form into a magic treasure.
• The Falling Star Leader studied alchemy, talismans, and human affairs, then secretly followed a Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple and heard that Ying Huaixu had nearly wiped out the powerful demonic beasts in Baoyue Province.
• After the disciples headed for Pinglan Province, the Falling Star Leader sent Seventh and Fifth to report on developments there and gave them talismans and pills while ordering them to keep their true forms secret.
• The Falling Star Leader ordered his followers to offer the Shura Hall a Highest Bounty Order for Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang, and sent Third and Fourth to contact Yuhua Sheng and Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain under the guise of the Thousand Mechanisms Sect.
• Third and Fourth were told to spread an exaggerated rumor that Ying Huaixu was seeking a crucial treasure among the Merfolk Clan, while the Falling Star Leader lay low to use the ensuing conflict to test Ying Huaixu's strength.

Ying Huaixu suspected the cautious raid Boss was monitoring him from far away, so he led the group through the merfolk prince’s palace to gather treasure while avoiding a confrontation. The group continued strengthening their abilities, and Qiu Shiyi wondered how powerful Ye Ningshuang had become.

• Ying Huaixu had Ye Ningshuang move to test the map and concluded that the raid Boss was watching them from a great distance.
• Ying Huaixu and the others ransacked the merfolk prince’s palace, taking treasure and dismantling equipment for enhancement stones.
• Ying Huaixu told Ye Ningshuang that the Boss was too cautious to be lured out by putting her in danger.
• Chen Zhiyuan decided to keep following Ying Huaixu, while Qiu Shiyi and Huang Tianqi continued developing their abilities.
• Huang Tianqi comprehended a way to counter Spatial Elimination and gained a new spatial skill with the same name.
• Qiu Shiyi wondered how powerful Ye Ningshuang had become after her experience in the Illusory Dream Trial.

Ying Huaixu asked Xu Yaoyang to investigate the hidden raid Bosses, then gathered his companions to explain his plan for the Merfolk Clan. The merfolk prince learned that Ying Huaixu intended to help him seize power and use the clan as the stage for a larger scheme.

• Ying Huaixu contacted Xu Yaoyang, who found no trace of the Falling Star Giant Beast but suggested asking the Star-Seizing Holy Son and Holy Maiden to track it.
• Xu Yaoyang agreed to contact the Star-Seizing Holy Son and Holy Maiden while Ying Huaixu turned his attention to the Merfolk Clan.
• Ying Huaixu told his companions that the West Sea king was preparing to attack the East Sea and proposed helping the merfolk prince seize power.
• Chen Zhiyuan suggested killing the merfolk princess, but Ying Huaixu explained that the clan’s treasury and kingship rituals made force impractical.
• Ying Huaixu revealed that he planned to use the Merfolk Clan as the stage for a grand show, leaving the merfolk prince bewildered by how much the human knew about his people.

Ying Huaixu left the merfolk war to Ye Ningshuang and the others after arranging their plan, while the priestess grandmother explained why the merfolk prince needed to rely on them. The prince reluctantly agreed to enter the Deep Sea Fog in three days, and his grandmother urged him to gamble the East Sea’s fate on their help.

• Ying Huaixu discovered that the Hongmeng Mission continued while he was away and told Chen Zhiyuan and the others to summon him for the decisive battle.
• Chen Zhiyuan, Huang Tianqi, Qiu Shiyi, and Ye Ningshuang took the merfolk prince to his priestess grandmother, who gave them the Merfolk Clan’s defense map and information about the West Sea Merfolk King.
• Ye Ningshuang told the merfolk prince that they would take him into the Deep Sea Fog in three days, and he agreed after protesting that he was only a child.
• The priestess grandmother told the merfolk prince that the East Sea faced destruction without their help and urged him to accept being used in exchange for a chance to unite the merfolk under his rule.

The merfolk prince accepted Granny Priestess’s advice to serve the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, believing it would secure his clan’s future. After raising his cultivation, Ying Huaixu investigated the Falling Star Giant Beasts, but both sides mistook the other’s retreat for a sign of overwhelming strength, and he fled after seeing the encounter’s terrifying difficulty rating.

• Granny Priestess persuaded the merfolk prince that yielding his dignity to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect could protect the Merfolk Clan for generations, and he embraced the role of their bootlicking ally.
• Ying Huaixu disguised himself, received Spirit Stones from Xiao He, and raised his cultivation to Spirit Sea, seventh level.
• Ying Huaixu approached the Falling Star Giant Beasts, who sensed the fruit he carried and tried to flee; when he stopped to buy materials, their leader mistook his actions for a deceptive feint.
• The smaller Falling Star Giant Beasts sensed Ying Huaixu’s strength, and their leader led them away to grow stronger.
• Ying Huaixu saw a raid difficulty rating of five enormous flaming skulls and several Falling Star Giant Beasts, then ran while complaining to his Heavenly Dao friend and checking his fifty-six Revival Pills.

Ying Huaixu assessed his chances against the Falling Star Giant Beasts, checked Ye Ningshuang and his allies' strength, and worked out a plan for the raid. His allies believed the enemy would be forced to come to them, while Ying Huaixu remained wary and checked his Revival Pills.

• Ying Huaixu concluded that raising his cultivation realm by completing the Merfolk Clan's main quest was the only way to improve his chances against the raid Boss.
• Ying Huaixu visited Ye Ningshuang, who said she could fight the large Falling Star Giant Beast herself.
• Ying Huaixu told Huang Tianqi, Qiu Shiyi, and Chen Zhiyuan about the Boss, and they said they could handle the smaller beasts and wait for the enemy to make its move.
• Qiu Shiyi and Chen Zhiyuan reasoned that the beasts were targeting Ying Huaixu or Ye Ningshuang and would likely support the West Sea King in the merfolk civil war.
• Ying Huaixu agreed to trust his allies, then grew wary of feeling at ease and checked his Revival Pills.

The Falling Star Giant Beast was forced by the Mile-High Heaven Clan to hunt Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang, so he went to the West Sea King's territory to prepare for the merfolk civil war. There, he and An Ruoyun supplied the West Sea King with different ores, leaving the king to wonder what powerful enemy they were preparing to face.

• The Falling Star Giant Beast's underlings refused to attack Ying Huaixu or Ye Ningshuang, while the Mile-High Heaven Clan threatened to destroy his race unless he succeeded.
• The Falling Star Giant Beast strengthened himself and his underlings, then decided to join the merfolk civil war as a way to reach Ying Huaixu and the others.
• An Ruoyun gave the West Sea King Blood Crystals and ordered him to have his clansmen absorb them before carrying out their role.
• The Falling Star Giant Beast arrived at the undersea palace, took the West Sea King's seat, and gave him several Storage Bags of unfamiliar ores to absorb.
• The West Sea King sensed the ores might evolve his clansmen's bloodline and feared the powerful enemy behind the opportunity.

Ying Huaixu saw the West Sea merfolk transformed into Falling Star Little Beasts and rushed to strengthen the East Sea merfolk by turning them into dragonfolk and feeding them Blood Crystals. As both sides prepared for a bloody battle, the West Sea King sent away the clan’s children and decided to gamble on his new backing.

• Ying Huaixu learned that the West Sea merfolk had mutated into Falling Star Little Beasts and raised the West Sea instance’s difficulty.
• Ying Huaixu used Black Dragon blood, its soul, and medicinal herbs to transform the East Sea merfolk into dragonfolk, then intensified their mutations and gave them Blood Crystals to refine.
• The Falling Star Giant Beast ordered its underlings to accelerate the West Sea merfolk’s refinement and contributed its own resources.
• The West Sea King sent away some of the clan’s children and regretted how the conflict had reached the brink of a bloody battle.
• The West Sea King concluded that his actions might have been retribution, but decided his clan still had a chance to survive with its new backing.

Ying Huaixu and the Falling Star Giant Beast prepared for a deadly showdown while powerful figures across the Hongmeng World targeted the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. After the Heavenly Dao intervened during Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang’s talk of destroying the world, preparations settled, and the confrontation with the Falling Star Giant Beast was about to begin.

• Ying Huaixu and the Falling Star Giant Beast strengthened their forces, equipped them with Supreme-Quality Magic Treasures, and spent their remaining resources crafting Talismans and refining pills.
• Zhuang Mu ordered the Divine Firmament Sword Sect to abandon its compensation scheme and kill cultivators above the Spirit Sea Realm who emerged from other sects, then sent He Xixiang to guard the Starry Sky.
• He Xixiang’s appearance forced the other mighty beings to reveal themselves, while they resolved to ensure Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang died in the coming affair.
• Ying Huaixu learned that other sects had bought up supplies and medicinal herbs, and he asked Ye Ningshuang whether they should destroy the world instead of saving it.
• Purple lightning struck several merchant associations, and the Mile-High Heaven Clan’s mighty beings suppressed the disturbance; Ying Huaixu saw an image of a hand placing a piece on a game board after his Game System malfunctioned.
• Ying Huaixu assured Ye Ningshuang he had only been joking, but after their preparations settled, the moment of his showdown with the Falling Star Giant Beast arrived.

Ying Huaixu’s Dragon People fought the Falling Star Beast Horde to a draw, but a healing formation and a berserk battle tactic shaped the day’s clash. The Falling Star Leader decided to challenge Ying Huaixu directly the next day, while Ying Huaixu’s group assigned opponents for the coming decisive battle.

• The Dragon People and the Falling Star Beast Horde clashed, alarming the Mile-High Heaven Clan, which ordered the Falling Star Leader to kill Ying Huaixu in exchange for restoring his race’s freedom.
• Chen Zhiyuan’s Rejuvenation Formation healed the Dragon People, so the Falling Star Leader made his beasts berserk to counter them.
• After a day of fighting with casualties on both sides and no victor, the Falling Star Leader decided to fight Ying Huaixu personally the next day.
• Ying Huaixu estimated that the Falling Star side had eight ground leaders, while his group had only five fighters.
• Ye Ningshuang assigned the opponents: Ying Huaixu would face the leader, Ye Ningshuang and Huang Tianqi would each take two, Chen Zhiyuan would take two, and Qiu Shiyi would take one.

Ying Huaixu and the Falling Star Leader began their duel while their companions fought below, but both leaders spent much of the battle trading talismans and Talisman Treasures. After their treasures ran out, they boosted themselves with pills and began exchanging attacks directly.

• The Falling Star Leader planned to hold Ying Huaixu off while his followers attacked Ying Huaixu's companions, and judged Qiu Shiyi the easiest target.
• Ying Huaixu, Ye Ningshuang, and the others met the Falling Star Giant Beasts on the battlefield, and Ying Huaixu and the Falling Star Leader clashed before flying into the sky.
• Ye Ningshuang and the others fought the remaining Falling Star Giant Beasts while Ying Huaixu and the Falling Star Leader hurled talismans and defensive talismans at each other.
• Ying Huaixu and the Falling Star Leader used multiple Talisman Treasures, including summoned beasts that fought until the treasures shattered.
• Ying Huaixu drew Frost Annihilation and activated his Sword Scabbard and a Giant Strength Pill as the Falling Star Leader took pills and entered a berserk state.
• The Falling Star Leader launched Meteorite Spears at Ying Huaixu, who countered with Frost Sword Qi, and both attacks shattered on impact.

Ying Huaixu and the other cultivators fought the Falling Star Giant Beasts across Baoyue Province, with several battles turning against the beasts. The beasts used Blood Sacrifices to empower their fighters, breaking Huang Tianqi’s Spatial Power and Chen Zhiyuan’s formations as Ye Ningshuang threatened to kill one of them.

• Ying Huaixu and the leader of the Falling Star Giant Beasts traded devastating Divine Abilities, ravaging Baoyue Province and alarming observers across the Primordial Chaos Immortal Realm.
• Huang Tianqi fought two Falling Star Giant Beasts and increasingly used Spatial Power to banish and injure them, while Chen Zhiyuan trapped two others in formations but could not kill them.
• Chen Zhiyuan set up a Support Formation for Qiu Shiyi, helping him resume his struggle against a Falling Star Giant Beast.
• The giant beasts answered their leader’s roar by offering Blood Sacrifices, empowering one fighter in each pair to Half-Step Dao Seal and restoring them to full strength.
• The empowered beasts shattered Huang Tianqi’s Spatial Power and Chen Zhiyuan’s formations, while Ye Ningshuang wounded a giant beast and seized its wings with black-mist hands.
• The other giant beasts rushed to rescue Ye Ningshuang’s opponent before its death could change the battle.

Ye Ningshuang fought the Falling Star Giant Beasts while Huang Tianqi and Chen Zhiyuan endured their sacrificial blasts. As Ye Ningshuang faced the fused clan beast, Ying Huaixu confronted the Falling Star Leader, who revealed a spare body; Ying Huaixu then prepared to fight with his fists.

• A Falling Star Giant Beast sacrificed himself to strengthen another, but Ye Ningshuang repelled the beast’s attacks with her black mist and sword energy.
• Blood energy from the Western Sea empowered the remaining beasts, and two of them exploded, leaving Qiu Shiyi unconscious and Huang Tianqi and Chen Zhiyuan unable to fight.
• Ye Ningshuang emerged unscathed and faced a giant beast formed from the Falling Star Clan, trading powerful blows with it.
• Ying Huaixu and the Falling Star Leader exhausted their spiritual power as they fought with falling stars and the moon.
• The Falling Star Leader revealed a spare body and claimed Ying Huaixu was depleted, but Ying Huaixu put away his sword and announced he was also a Fist Cultivator.

Ying Huaixu defeated the Falling Star Giant Beast leader in a one-on-one fight, revealing the strength he had developed after being ambushed by the Azure Fox Lady’s group. After killing the giant beast and thwarting his attempt to self-destruct, Ying Huaixu turned toward Ye Ningshuang.

• The Falling Star Giant Beast leader attacked Ying Huaixu, but Ying Huaixu shattered his beam and battered him with punches and Frost Annihilation.
• The giant beast armored himself and fought back, but Ying Huaixu overwhelmed him in close combat and forced him to retreat.
• Xiaoxue appeared and activated Frost Wolf King's Blessing, boosting Ying Huaixu’s attributes as he prepared a decisive attack.
• Ying Huaixu shattered the giant beast’s shield and punched a hole through his chest.
• When the giant beast tried to make another move, Xiaoxue froze him and Ying Huaixu punched him to pieces, preventing him from self-destructing.
• Ying Huaixu returned Xiaoxue to the pet slot and looked toward Ye Ningshuang.