Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu breached the Star-Devouring Clan’s last city with a powerful sword strike, but the city trapped him in a special space. With Ye Ningshuang also missing, Xu Yaoyang and the others were left to face the clan’s bosses, and He Xiuyuan was overwhelmed by eight attackers.

• Ying Huaixu froze the white law flames harming Xu Yaoyang and He Xiuyuan, then helped He Xiuyuan attack the Star-Devouring Clan’s last city.
• Ying Huaixu parried the city’s cannon fire back at its walls and cut through the city with a sword strike that froze its interior and advanced him to the ninth layer of the Dao Seal Realm.
• Ying Huaixu vanished into a special space, and Tai Wangshu said she believed he could escape, though she did not know when.
• He Xiuyuan contacted Ye Ningshuang’s group and learned that Ye Ningshuang had also disappeared while Huang Tianqi searched for a way to free them.
• Xu Yaoyang realized the remaining fighters faced a large force of bosses, and eight bosses attacked He Xiuyuan at once, costing him a life and sending him crashing into the ground.
• Xu Yaoyang faced ten enemies on his own as He Xiuyuan fought the eight bosses.

The Taiyin Old Ancestor drove the Yin-Yang Reversal Formation at the cost of repeated deaths, giving Xu Yaoyang and He Xiuyuan a surge of power against the Star-Devouring Clan. Xu Yaoyang realized the clan was sharing damage and sacrificing its members to empower the others, while Tai Wangshu began suppressing six bosses as her Revival Pills ran low.

• Tai Wangshu sent the Taiyin Old Ancestor to operate the Yin-Yang Reversal Formation, and the rabbit burned blood and soul power to keep it turning.
• The formation boosted Xu Yaoyang and He Xiuyuan, but the Star-Devouring Clan’s bosses avoided their attacks and bombarded them with falling stars.
• The Taiyin Old Ancestor repeatedly revived and restarted the formation as its power shifted the battle’s balance.
• Xu Yaoyang realized that the Star-Devouring Clan distributed damage among its members and grew stronger as clansmen died, and he noticed one of the twenty-four bosses was missing.
• Tai Wangshu suppressed the six bosses around her with starlight and rotating taiji diagrams, while her Revival Pills rapidly dwindled.

Huang Tianqi and the others joined the battle against the Star-Devouring Clan, turning the fight around as they killed its clanspeople and grew stronger. The Star-Devouring Ancestors transformed into second forms and began draining their Revival Pills, until the void split open and purple miasma spread.

• Huang Tianqi and the reinforcements arrived, and Chen Zhiyuan helped Tai Wangshu stabilize her power with the Yin-Yang Balance Formation.
• Huang Tianqi divided the opponents by partitioning space, while Tai Wangshu presided over the Yin-Yang Reversal Grand Formation.
• Huang Tianqi, He Xiuyuan, Xu Yaoyang, and Qin Erniu fought the Star-Devouring Ancestors as their clanspeople's deaths strengthened the Hongmeng fighters.
• Xu Yaoyang comprehended the true essence of the Great Sun and began scorching the Star-Devouring Ancestors and their clanspeople.
• The Star-Devouring Ancestors entered their second forms, linked themselves to their mountain ranges, and began exhausting the fighters' Revival Pills.
• The void split open, and purple miasma began spreading.

Ye Ningshuang emerged from the shattered spatial barrier, killed three Star-Swallowing Beasts, and forced the remaining beasts to transform into nine star-armored figures that replicated the fighters’ abilities. The new battle began with Huang Tianqi, He Xiuyuan, Chen Erniu, and Qin Erniu under pressure, while Qiu Shiyi and Chen Zhiyuan gained the upper hand and Xu Yaoyang spotted an opportunity in his opponent’s copied Great Sun ability.

• Ye Ningshuang broke through He Xiuyuan’s spatial barrier and killed three Star-Swallowing Beasts, absorbing their power and reaching the ninth layer of the Dao Seal Realm.
• The remaining Star-Swallowing Beasts exploded into streaks of light that shot toward the mountains, which vanished before nine star-armored figures appeared with Magic Treasures.
• Ye Ningshuang assigned herself three opponents while the others took one each, and Tai Wangshu operated the Yin-Yang Reversal Grand Formation.
• The nine figures replicated their opponents’ abilities with greater power, suppressing Huang Tianqi, He Xiuyuan, Chen Erniu, and Qin Erniu.
• Qiu Shiyi overwhelmed his opponent with Weak Water, while Chen Zhiyuan used a formation that caused his opponent’s flesh to explode.
• Xu Yaoyang saw that his opponent had copied his Great Sun ability and exclaimed at the amount of Pure Yang Power.

Xu Yaoyang and the others fought the Star-Devouring Ancestors, but the battle turned when the starlight empowered their enemies and a metallic warrior emerged with their combined strength. A star-clad man and a luminous dog then descended as the group faced another unknown threat.

• Xu Yaoyang absorbed the Pure Yang Power of his opponent’s sun, while Ye Ningshuang suppressed three enemies with her purple mist.
• Qiu Shiyi, Chen Zhiyuan, and Xu Yaoyang took over fights from He Xiuyuan, Qin Erniu, and Huang Tianqi, who handed over their Revival Pills.
• The Star-Devouring Ancestors gained strength when the clouds cleared, but Tai Wangshu blocked the starlight with a Taiji Diagram.
• A Starry Sky Spear shattered Tai Wangshu’s defenses until Huang Tianqi, He Xiuyuan, Qin Erniu, Qiu Shiyi, and Ye Ningshuang helped stop and sever it.
• Ye Ningshuang ordered the others to retreat after their Revival Pills vanished, and they saw a metallic man with a spatial cube who carried the combined strength of the Star-Devouring Ancestors.
• A star-clad man and a luminous dog descended from the Starry Sky as the group’s bodies began accumulating a dangerous force.

Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu confronted the Star-Devouring Leader and the Silver-White Person after the Star-Devouring Clan sacrificed its people and world to gain power. The battle began with Ye Ningshuang fighting the Silver-White Person, Xiaoxue facing the big dog, and Ying Huaixu attacking the Star-Devouring Leader.

• The Star-Devouring Leader revealed that his clan and world had paid a great price to reach Spirit Aspect strength, while Ye Ningshuang prepared to fight them.
• Huang Tianqi and the others fled with Tai Wangshu and her companions as Ye Ningshuang faced the Star-Devouring Leader, the Silver-White Person, and the big dog.
• Ying Huaixu emerged from the Starry Sky Casket after breaking through to the ninth layer of the Dao Seal Realm, and he and Ye Ningshuang agreed to fight side by side.
• Ye Ningshuang struck first against the Silver-White Person, while Xiaoxue clashed with the big dog and Ying Huaixu faced the Star-Devouring Leader.
• Ying Huaixu dodged the Starry Sky Spears and unleashed an enormous lotus-shaped sword attack toward the Star-Devouring Leader.

Ying Huaixu and the Star-Devouring Leader fought at full strength, their attacks devastating the Star Sea World as Tai Wangshu and the others struggled to survive nearby. The Star-Devouring Leader fell from the sky under Ying Huaixu’s enormous sword, while Huang Tianqi’s group fled carrying the Taiyin Saintess.

• Ying Huaixu overwhelmed the Star-Devouring Leader with repeated frost sword techniques, but the leader used his treasures and combat experience to defend and counterattack.
• The Star-Devouring Leader trapped Ying Huaixu in Stellar Illusion and sent stars crashing toward him, while Ying Huaixu answered with thick freezing mist and a giant ice lotus.
• Their clash shattered the Star Sea World, killing the remaining creatures as Tai Wangshu used the Yin-Yang Disc to balance the disasters around her.
• Tai Wangshu questioned Ying Huaixu’s strength, and Huang Tianqi argued that such power was what a Dao Seal cultivator ought to possess.
• Xiaoxue bit the Star-Devouring Leader’s big dog and then unleashed a pillar of cold that froze everything across ten thousand li, forcing Tai Wangshu and the others to flee with the Taiyin Saintess.
• The Star-Devouring Leader plunged from the sky as Ying Huaixu descended after him with a gigantic frost sword, and Huang Tianqi’s group continued running.

Tai Wangshu used Chen Zhiyuan’s teleportation formation to send Huang Tianqi and the others to the Star-Seizing Sacred Land, then kept Chen Zhiyuan with her. Meanwhile, Ying Huaixu unleashed his full strength against the Star-Devouring Leader, leaving the battle raging as the world began to fracture.

• Tai Wangshu learned that the others’ Teleportation Tokens could not be used, but her own still worked, and Chen Zhiyuan revealed his prepared teleportation anchor.
• Tai Wangshu activated the formation, sent Huang Tianqi and the others away, and kept Chen Zhiyuan with her to help with what came next.
• After Tai Wangshu’s voice transmission, Ying Huaixu told the Star-Devouring Leader that his fellow disciples had escaped and unleashed an Ice Dragon Beast Tide.
• The Star-Devouring Leader used his artifacts to defend himself as Ying Huaixu’s attacks drained his strength and wounded him.
• Ying Huaixu struck the Star-Devouring Leader with nine streaks of Sword Qi, but an exploding star brought the leader back to his senses.

Ying Huaixu fought the Star-Devouring Leader, whose star-based lives and Star-Killing Starlight failed to overcome Ying Huaixu’s Revival Pills. The Star-Devouring Leader exhausted many stars and resources, and the battle continued with both sides running low on power.

• Ying Huaixu discovered that each of the Star-Devouring Leader’s lives triggered five stacks of Star-Killing Starlight, which caused certain death at ten stacks.
• Ying Huaixu repeatedly attacked while using Revival Pills to survive the Star-Killing Starlight, rapidly extinguishing the Star-Devouring Leader’s stars.
• The Star-Devouring Leader used ten stars to tear open the heavens and attack Ying Huaixu with his Spirit Aspect and Star-Devouring Mirror, but Ying Huaixu survived through successive periods of invincibility.
• Tai Wangshu’s yin-yang diagram repaired the heavens and stopped the Star-Devouring Leader from opening them again, so he burned his life to reach Half-Step Spirit Aspect and unleashed Sea of Star Sand.
• Ying Huaixu and the Star-Devouring Leader clashed with their Divine Abilities until both ran low on Spiritual Power, while Ye Ningshuang used her linked enemies to extinguish half of the Star-Killing Starlight.
• The Star-Devouring Leader realized he had to continue the fight physically, believing his Spirit Aspect body still gave him a chance.

The Star-Devouring Leader entered his third phase and fought Ying Huaixu, while Ye Ningshuang revealed her own close-combat strength against the Silver-White Star-Devourer. Both battles left the Star-Devourers battered, but the Silver-White Star-Devourer began adapting through repeated deaths.

• The Star-Devouring Leader skipped his second phase, summoned the Star-Devouring Dharma Body, and challenged Ying Huaixu with his Spirit Aspect body and star-powered healing.
• Ying Huaixu shattered Frost Annihilation into ribbons, fought the Star-Devouring Leader hand to hand, and sent him flying with his punches.
• Ying Huaixu unleashed Thousand Peaks Fist, and the Star-Devouring Leader countered with Meteor as their attacks pushed the Star Sea World toward its limits.
• The Silver-White Star-Devourer charged Ye Ningshuang, expecting her exhausted resources and presumed weak body to leave her vulnerable.
• Ye Ningshuang covered herself in purple inscriptions and pummeled the Silver-White Star-Devourer, who repeatedly fell unconscious and recovered as his copied passive ability helped him adapt to Spirit Aspect combat.

Ying Huaixu fought the Star-Devouring Leader after the latter mastered his Spirit Aspect body, while Frostmourne and Ying Huaixu’s healing turned the battle in his favor. Meanwhile, Ye Ningshuang and the Silver-White Star-Devourer depleted the stars, and the Silver-White Star-Devourer realized his clan could not win.

• The Star-Devouring Leader adapted to his Spirit Aspect body and challenged Ying Huaixu to a renewed fight.
• Ying Huaixu used Frostmourne to weaken the Star-Devouring Leader’s attacks and healed as he struck back.
• The Star-Devouring Leader extinguished two stars to unleash Star-Killing Starlight, but Ying Huaixu froze him with Frost Annihilation.
• Ye Ningshuang used nutrients from the Red Spider Lilies to heal while the Silver-White Star-Devourer consumed stars and lost his defense.
• The Silver-White Star-Devourer concluded that victory was impossible and blamed the Mile-High Heaven Clan for sending them to clear the Secret Realm alone.

Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu defeated the Star-Devouring Clan, whose leaders surrendered and gave them the clan’s treasures. The Star-Devourers said they hoped the gifts would help Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang face other clans, leaving their reason for entering the Secret Realm unexplained.

• The Silver-White Star-Devourer recognized that the battle was lost and stopped fighting, pulling the Red Spider Lilies from his body and severing his link to the stars.
• The Star-Devouring Leader called a truce, and the wounded big dog came to rest beside the Silver-White Star-Devourer.
• Ying Huaixu recalled Xiaoxue to the Pet Space, and Ye Ningshuang lowered her guard when Ying Huaixu relaxed.
• The Star-Devouring Leader gave Ying Huaixu the clan’s treasures and Treasury, while the Silver-White Star-Devourer and big dog gave Ye Ningshuang a star pendant and Ying Huaixu a miniature palace of savings.
• The Star-Devouring Leader said the clan had entered the Secret Realm expecting either to destroy their opponents or be destroyed, and the Silver-White Star-Devourer explained that they wanted other clans to suffer defeat as well.

The Star-Devouring Leader and the Silver-White Star-Devourer shared what they knew about the forces controlling their clan and gave Ying Huaixu notes from the Beast God Hall. They planned to die after helping him, while still sending some information about him to their masters.

• Tai Wangshu and Chen Zhiyuan kept their distance and stayed ready while Ying Huaixu spoke with the Star-Devouring Clan.
• The Star-Devouring Leader warned Ying Huaixu that the Beast God Hall and other secret realms could threaten them even if their controllers paused their actions.
• The Star-Devouring Leader gave Ying Huaixu notes from the Beast God Hall and asked him to open them only after the Star-Devourers were dead and he had left.
• The Star-Devouring Leader and the Silver-White Star-Devourer described how their controllers enslaved races and crushed resistance, explaining that they hoped Ying Huaixu could eventually defeat them.
• The Silver-White Star-Devourer said they would still send information about Ying Huaixu to their controllers, but would conceal one or two things.

Ying Huaixu learned the Star-Devouring Leader and Silver-White Star-Devourer planned to mislead the Mile-High Heaven Clan and heard their warnings about the forces coveting Hongmeng World. The two Star-Devourers died after a final walk through their conjured homeland, and the collapsing Secret Realm carried Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang away.

• The Star-Devouring Leader prepared misleading intelligence about Ying Huaixu while concealing Tai Wangshu and his fellow disciples’ potential.
• The Silver-White Star-Devourer and Star-Devouring Ancestor spent their remaining power recreating their homeland, then walked through it with Ying Huaixu, Ye Ningshuang, and the dog.
• The Star-Devouring Leader warned Ying Huaixu that powerful beings sought to take Hongmeng World intact and cautioned him against entering Heart-Questioning Valley.
• The Star-Devouring Leader also told Ying Huaixu that the Great Sun Sacred Ground’s Secret Realm was important and feared by powerful beings.
• The Star-Devouring Leader and Silver-White Star-Devourer sang with the dog before fading away, and the Secret Realm collapsed.
• A Taiji Diagram enveloped Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang and transported them away.

After clearing the Star-Seizing Secret Realm, Ying Huaixu received enormous rewards and an urgent World Upgrade mission, while the system’s repeated music drove him to distraction. He left the realm grateful to his allies, reassured Ye Ningshuang, and ended up trying to silence the system’s background music.

• Ying Huaixu received vast rewards for completing the Secret Realm mission, including 9,999 improved Revive Coins, and the system issued an urgent World Upgrade mission.
• Ying Huaixu credited Huang Tianqi and the others for holding off the Star-Devouring Ancestors, and he praised Ye Ningshuang and Tai Wangshu for their support.
• Ying Huaixu invited Tai Wangshu to visit his sect, but Ye Ningshuang’s resentment made Tai Wangshu hurriedly refuse and leave.
• Ying Huaixu praised Ye Ningshuang and said he would leave his back to her, making her joyful and convinced that he trusted her most.
• Ying Huaixu searched for a way to turn off the system’s loud, repeating background music, which stopped after he cursed it inwardly.

After the Star Sea Secret Realm exploded, the five ruling clans met to discuss Ying Huaixu’s impossible survival and rapid advancement. They decided to use sect infighting to hinder his growth, while recognizing that Ye Ningshuang also remained a target.

• The Outsiders and ruling clans were shocked when Ying Huaixu and all his fellow disciples emerged from the Star Sea Secret Realm alive at ninth-layer perfection of the Dao Seal realm.
• The leaders of the Ancient God Clan, Beast God Hall, Ancient Buddha Clan, Mile-High Heaven Clan, and Eldritch God Clan met to discuss Ying Huaixu.
• The Eldritch God Clan’s leader traced earlier failed plans at Falling Radiance City and the Cold Pool Secret Realm to Ying Huaixu, whose interventions had repeatedly accelerated his cultivation and changed the era.
• The leaders confirmed that the Heavenly Dao remained asleep and speculated that its power rewarded Ying Huaixu for killing Outsiders.
• The Eldritch God Clan’s leader urged the Beast God and Gu Sha to provoke wars among sects in Hongmeng World, using karmic retribution to impede their opponents.
• The leaders agreed that Ye Ningshuang, another surviving target and one of the Primordial Chaos Twin Stars, could not be overlooked.

The Extraterrestrial Demons agreed to provoke a war between their forces in the Hongmeng World and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, hoping to kill Ying Huaixu and stop the world’s people from awakening. Each faction prepared to strengthen its own agents while pursuing hidden goals, and the Beast Gods planned to use recovering Heavenly Dao Power to descend into the Hongmeng World.

• The Beast God and Gucha of the Ancient Buddha Kingdom proposed arming their lackeys to wage a devastating war against the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, and the Lord of the Weird Gods offered a Flesh Bud.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods revealed that he welcomed the possibility of Ying Huaixu surviving, and the other Weird Gods realized he had a hidden scheme.
• The Mile-High Heaven Powerhouses decided to cultivate An Ruoyun alongside the Thousand Mechanisms Sect Leader so they could use her as leverage over him.
• The Lord of the Beast Gods gave the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land a Savage Beast Blood Pool and explained that recovering Heavenly Dao Power could let the Beast Gods descend if someone provided cover.

The Beast God realized the Lord of the Weird Gods planned to exploit infighting and karmic burden to win the Heavenly Dao’s approval, then waited for events to unfold. Meanwhile, Ying Huaixu cleared a Secret Realm and collected rewards from the Star-Seizing Sect, leaving the sect master grateful after secretly returning the spirit stones he had looted.

• The Beast God deduced that the Lord of the Weird Gods intended to use corrupted outsiders to create karmic burden, then eliminate them to gain the Heavenly Dao’s favor.
• The Beast God provided wild beast blood to his clan members and went to sleep while waiting for the plan to unfold.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master praised Ying Huaixu for clearing the Secret Realm, then discovered he was a man and lamented that he could not marry him to his son.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master brought Ying Huaixu to receive rewards, but Ying Huaixu searched his residence and looted hidden stashes and a treasure chest.
• The sect master’s wife gave Ying Huaixu permission to keep what he found and took him to the Treasury, while the sect master mourned his lost savings.
• Ying Huaixu secretly returned the looted spirit stones to the sect master, who became grateful to him.

Ying Huaixu chose the Frost Cage from the Star-Seizing Sect Master's Treasury and discussed a coming calamity that might target the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and the wider Hongmeng World. Suspecting the crisis could connect to a strange new phase after the Sect Defense Battle, he decided to complete his World Level quest before making plans.

• Ying Huaixu kept a God-Tier Equipment Affix Forging Stone and heard the Star-Seizing Sect Master clarify that his wife would not have acted as Ying Huaixu had suggested.
• Ying Huaixu chose the Frost Cage, a crowd-control treasure he could strengthen with his frost-focused abilities.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master told Ying Huaixu that he and his wife would personally visit the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, though the Star-Seizing Sect could not send broader support.
• Ying Huaixu learned that the Star-Seizing Ancestor had foreseen a calamity that might reach beyond the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and affect the Hongmeng World.
• Ying Huaixu connected the predicted crisis to the strange Dream Province storyline after the Divine Firmament Defense Battle and chose to complete his World Level quest first.

Ying Huaixu focused on completing quests before making further plans and learned that the Star-Seizing Ancestor’s promised passive reward was delayed by ten years. He discovered the Star-Seizing Sect had Dao Stones and began negotiating with its sect master to secure them for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, leaving the two sects haggling over a deal.

• Ying Huaixu decided to prioritize quests and gather intelligence before planning the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s defense.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master told Ying Huaixu that the Star-Seizing Ancestor was in confinement for ten years, alongside the corpse of the Ancestor’s woman.
• Ying Huaixu asked how the Star-Seizing Sect would develop after losing the Star Sea Secret Realm, and the sect master said its disciples would refine Primordial Chaos Heaven’s starlight.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master revealed that the Star-Seizing Sect’s stellar mineral veins produced Dao Stones, which the sect used in cultivating the Star Refining Art.
• Ying Huaixu asked to buy Dao Stones, and the Star-Seizing Sect Master proposed that the sect pay for places to train at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ying Huaixu and the Star-Seizing Sect Master began haggling heatedly over the trade.