Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren refined two Seals of Dharma Verification, strengthened his Undying Star Body by devouring planets, and obtained the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Dao Art. After reaching a level-seven planet, he began absorbing it as the guards fled.

• Chu Kuangren tested a Seal of Dharma Verification by destroying a small planet with a fraction of his strength, then recalled both seals and planned to create more Immortal Arts.
• Chu Kuangren decided to prepare for his planned attack on Purple Star by strengthening himself, and he spent three months devouring dozens of level-four and level-five planets.
• Chu Kuangren drew and extracted the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Dao Art, learning that it could seize other Heavenly Daos through Star Lords and merge them into Firmament Star's Heavenly Dao.
• Chu Kuangren traveled to a level-seven uninhabited planet guarded by cultivators and activated his Undying Star Body to absorb it.
• The planet shook and collapsed inward as the cultivators panicked and evacuated.

Chu Kuangren finished devouring a collapsing planet, confirming the rumors of the Star Devourer as Duanmu Hong and the Black Blood Tower assassins fought nearby. The explosion blasted both groups away, and they were left facing Chu Kuangren, whose identity and strength remained unknown.

• Cultivators fleeing the collapsing planet identified the Star Devourer as the being supposedly devouring stars.
• Duanmu Hong led her wounded companions toward the Star Devourer's domain to escape the pursuing Black Blood Tower assassins.
• The assassins followed, and the suction around the collapsing planet dragged both groups' warships toward it.
• Duanmu Hong and the gold-masked assassin abandoned their warships, then their groups fought as the ships crashed into the sphere.
• Chu Kuangren sensed the disturbance, absorbed the remaining stellar energy, and emerged from the exploding sphere.
• Duanmu Hong, the assassins, and their companions saw Chu Kuangren, but the gold-masked assassin could not discern his power.

Chu Kuangren rescued Duanmu Hong and the other Heavenly Emperor Sword Sect members by destroying the Black Blood Tower assassins who had cornered them. He initially refused to help them further, but Duanmu Hong revealed that her captured senior brother Jian Sanjue had an Immortal Tendon, catching Chu Kuangren’s interest.

• The gold-masked assassin invoked the Black Blood Tower’s name and apologized for disturbing Chu Kuangren, who turned to leave.
• Chu Kuangren learned that Duanmu Hong and her companions belonged to the Heavenly Emperor Sword Sect and chose to protect them because the sect had helped him before.
• Chu Kuangren effortlessly killed the attacking assassins, withstood and broke the gold-masked assassin’s black sword, then pulled the assassin back with a purple chain and killed him.
• Duanmu Hong and the others followed Chu Kuangren and thanked him, but he said he had no intention of rescuing anyone else for them.
• Duanmu Hong asked Chu Kuangren to save her captured senior brother Jian Sanjue and offered a reward from the Heavenly Emperor Sword Sect.
• When Duanmu Hong revealed that Jian Sanjue had an Immortal Tendon, Chu Kuangren became interested.

Chu Kuangren and Duanmu Hong went to the Black Blood Tower to rescue Jian Sanjue, who had been captured after finding an Immortal Tendon. The Tower's young master had refined the tendon and grown confident in his new strength, but Chu Kuangren confronted the branch alone and began cutting through its assassins.

• Duanmu Hong told Chu Kuangren that the Black Blood Tower had captured Jian Sanjue to claim an Immortal Tendon, and Chu Kuangren agreed to help her rescue him.
• The Black Blood Tower's young master refined the Immortal Tendon, felt his power surge, and planned to relocate after learning Duanmu Hong and the others had escaped.
• Chu Kuangren and Duanmu Hong arrived at the Black Blood Tower, where Chu Kuangren's pressure shook the planet and destroyed the branch's buildings.
• Chu Kuangren demanded that the assassins hand over Jian Sanjue, then killed a charging Gold Face assassin by crushing his head.
• The assassins attacked Chu Kuangren together.

Chu Kuangren destroyed Black Blood Tower with his Phoenix Fire and revealed himself as the Poet Sword Immortal. He defeated the tower’s young master, took the Immortal Tendon, and burned him to ashes.

• Chu Kuangren unleashed a fire lotus that burned nearly all of Black Blood Tower’s tens of thousands of assassins.
• A gold-masked assassin recognized Chu Kuangren as the Poet Sword Immortal, and Duanmu Hong realized her rescuer was her idol.
• The young master of Black Blood Tower challenged Chu Kuangren after refining the Immortal Tendon in his right arm.
• Chu Kuangren overpowered the young master, severed his right arm, and took the Immortal Tendon.
• Chu Kuangren burned the young master to ashes with Phoenix Fire.

Chu Kuangren destroyed a Black Blood Tower outpost, rescued Jian Sanjue, and discovered that Purple Star had ordered assassinations against him and the cultivators who protected him. He set out for Sirius to eradicate Black Blood Tower.

• Chu Kuangren trapped and killed the remaining assassins at the outpost, then sent Duanmu Hong to rescue Jian Sanjue while he searched the base.
• Chu Kuangren looted the branch and found assassination records listing himself and several cultivators who had protected him at Shenyue Ancient City.
• Chu Kuangren traced the orders to Purple Star, warned Shenyue Dao Lord and the other targets, and told them he would deal with Black Blood Tower.
• Chu Kuangren and Duanmu Hong rescued the badly injured Jian Sanjue, and Chu Kuangren healed him before leaving with the Immortal tendon.
• Chu Kuangren determined the location of Black Blood Tower's headquarters and headed for Sirius to destroy it.

Chu Kuangren arrived on Sirius as the Li Family struggled against the Black Blood Tower, whose assassins pursued Li Xueying for her family's archery Immortal Art. After Li Xueying used a forbidden technique to kill one gold-masked assassin, a white-robed stranger appeared as the other attacked her.

• Chu Kuangren surveyed Sirius and learned that the Black Blood Tower and the Li Family were fighting for control of the planet.
• The Black Blood Tower assassins chased Li Xueying through a city, and she fought back with her longbow before two gold-masked assassins blocked her escape.
• The gold-masked assassins demanded the Li Family's Four Symbols Sun-Shooting Arrow Technique, but Li Xueying refused and fired her White Tiger Arrow at them.
• Li Xueying used the Blood Essence Condensing Arrow, sacrificing her life essence to blast one gold-masked assassin into blood mist.
• The remaining gold-masked assassin attacked the exhausted Li Xueying, but a white-robed figure appeared before his blow could reach her.

Chu Kuangren saved Li Xueying and proposed that he help the Li Family destroy Black Blood Tower in exchange for its Immortal Art, forbidden technique, and future support for Firmament Star. After Li Xueying accepted, Chu Kuangren revealed the assassins surrounding them and declared the countdown to Black Blood Tower’s destruction had begun.

• Chu Kuangren appeared as Li Xueying was about to die, killed the Black Blood Tower assassins with his Psychic Power, and healed her injuries.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his identity to Li Xueying and led her to a restaurant to discuss a deal.
• Chu Kuangren offered to destroy Black Blood Tower in exchange for the Li Family’s Immortal Art and forbidden technique, along with its future assistance to Firmament Star.
• Chu Kuangren told Li Xueying he could install her as head of the Li Family, and she agreed to his terms.
• Chu Kuangren blasted concealed Black Blood Tower assassins out of hiding and announced that the countdown to the tower’s destruction had begun.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Black Blood Tower’s Poison-Extinction Dao Lord and helped Li Xueying reclaim the Li Family estate. After they killed the assassins occupying it, Li Xueying returned to her family’s home and brought down the Black Blood Tower plaque.

• A Black Blood Tower waiter revealed that he had poisoned Chu Kuangren’s wine, but Chu Kuangren proved immune and turned the Poison-Extinction Dao Lord’s poison against him.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Poison-Extinction Dao Lord with Phoenix Fire and eliminated the fleeing Gold Face assassins, while Li Xueying learned that Chu Kuangren was a Great Dao Lord.
• Chu Kuangren took Spiritual Marrow from the Poison-Extinction Dao Lord’s Heaven and Earth Ring and gave it to the tavern owner before heading with Li Xueying to the Li Family estate.
• Li Xueying gave Chu Kuangren the Li Family’s Four Symbols Sun-Shooting Arrow and its forbidden technique as they traveled.
• Chu Kuangren used Psychic Power to hold the Black Blood Tower assassins at the Li Family estate in place while Li Xueying shot them with arrows.
• Li Xueying returned to the Li Family estate and knocked down the Black Blood Tower plaque.

Chu Kuangren forged a powerful bow while Li Xueying gathered the scattered Li Family disciples and placed their hopes in him against the Black Blood Tower. The Tower’s Purple Face assassins shattered the estate’s barrier, but a formidable purplish-red bow appeared just as they were about to attack.

• Chu Kuangren used Phoenix Fire, Immortal Tendon, and Artifact Refining materials to forge a bow for the Four Symbols Sun-Shooting Arrow Technique.
• Li Xueying told the gathered Li Family disciples that Chu Kuangren was their hope and explained that she had given him the family’s Immortal Art.
• Heartless Sword, Disordered Heart Dao Lord, and Black Fox Dao Lord arrived with other Black Blood Tower assassins and surrounded the Li Family estate.
• Li Xueying activated Chu Kuangren’s runic barrier, and the Li Family disciples fought the attackers while the three Purple Face assassins battered the barrier.
• The three assassins broke the barrier and prepared to kill the Li Family, but a purplish-red longbow radiating powerful Dao Weapon energy appeared in the distance.

At the Li Family estate, Chu Kuangren revealed a bow strung with an Immortal Tendon and used it to unleash the Li Family’s Four Symbols Sun-Shooting Arrow. After destroying most of the Black Blood Tower assassins, he began targeting the three Purple Face assassins with the remaining divine beasts.

• Cultivators gathered at the Li Family estate after sensing powerful Dao Weapon fluctuations and discovered a longbow strung with an Immortal Tendon.
• Black Fox Dao Lord tried to claim the bow, but Emperor Qi drove him back, and Chu Kuangren emerged and approached it.
• Black Blood Tower assassins attacked Chu Kuangren, who seized the bow and shattered their attacks with his Emperor Qi.
• Chu Kuangren fired the Vermilion Bird Arrow, burning more than half the assassins to ashes and astonishing the Li Family with his mastery of their Immortal Art.
• Chu Kuangren used the Space Transport Technique to evade the three Purple Face assassins, then fired Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise arrows at them.

Chu Kuangren used the Purple Immortal Bow to kill the Black Blood Tower’s Four Purple Face Assassins and learned that the Tower Lord was attacking the Li Family forefather’s slumbering grounds. He headed for Heavenly Snow Mountain, where Li Xuefei was defending the sleeping forefather behind a failing barrier.

• Chu Kuangren killed Disordered Heart Dao Lord and Black Fox Dao Lord with two arrows, then shot down the fleeing Heartless Sword with a third.
• Chu Kuangren named the treasured longbow the Purple Immortal Bow and learned that the Li Family had fewer than twenty Dao Lords able to fight.
• A message revealed that the Black Blood Tower Lord was attacking the Li Family forefather’s slumbering grounds, and Chu Kuangren set out to confront him.
• At Heavenly Snow Mountain, Li Xuefei defended the forefather’s ice coffin while Black Blood Tower assassins battered the barrier surrounding them.

The Li Family Patriarch awakened and fought the Black Blood Tower Lord to protect Li Xuefei, but the Tower Lord overwhelmed him and surrounded them with assassins. The patriarch prepared to use the Li Family Forbidden Technique at the cost of his life while Li Xuefei had no clear escape.

• The Black Blood Tower Lord revealed that he planned to use Li Xuefei and the Li Family Patriarch as bait for the remaining Li Family experts and Chu Kuangren.
• Li Xuefei’s bowstring snapped after she exhausted herself defending the barrier, and the Li Family Patriarch awakened from his ice coffin.
• The Li Family Patriarch took up the Divine Ice Bow and killed several assassins with his first arrow, but the Black Blood Tower Lord destroyed his White Tiger attack with the Slaughter Dao.
• The Black Blood Tower Lord shattered the barrier and deflected the patriarch’s repeated arrows, prompting the patriarch to tell Li Xuefei to flee while he prepared to use the Li Family Forbidden Technique.
• The Black Blood Tower Lord’s assassins surrounded Li Xuefei and the Li Family Patriarch, leaving them no way out.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Heavenly Snow Mountain and rescued Li Xuefei, overpowering the assassins with the Li Family’s Four Symbols Sun-Shooting technique. After discovering the Black Blood Tower Master was a Star Lord’s clone containing Heavenly Dao Power, Chu Kuangren countered his attacks with both bow and sword, and the Tower Master prepared to unleash his Immortal Art, Slaughter Scene.

• The Li Family patriarch used the Vermilion Bird and Azure Dragon arrows to defend Li Xuefei, but the Black Blood Tower Master defeated him with Blood Slaughter Slash.
• Chu Kuangren arrived with the Li Family members, and his Vermilion Bird and White Tiger arrows devastated the assassins and shattered Heavenly Snow Mountain.
• Li Xueying reunited with Li Xuefei, while the Li Family patriarch wondered at Chu Kuangren’s archery and sword.
• Chu Kuangren used Xiao Ai to identify the Black Blood Tower Master as a clone containing Heavenly Dao Power and recognize him as a Star Lord.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed all four divine beasts, but the Black Blood Tower Master cut them apart and rushed into close combat; Kunwu then blasted him into the mountain range.
• The Black Blood Tower Master donned armor and summoned an Asura Purgatory, announcing that he would show Chu Kuangren the power of Slaughter Scene.

Chu Kuangren fought the Black Blood Tower Master’s Slaughter Scene and forced him to reveal that he was Sirius’s Star Lord. Chu Kuangren then began devouring the Heavenly Dao Power within him, causing the Heavenly Dao of Sirius to tremble in fear.

• Chu Kuangren burned and froze the Black Blood Tower Master’s ghosts, then used his sword and Nine Dragons Divine Transformation Talisman to attack through the Slaughter Scene.
• The Black Blood Tower Master summoned his Ghost King Manifestation, which clashed with Chu Kuangren’s Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and devastated the area around Heavenly Snow Mountain.
• Chu Kuangren activated his Heavenly Dao Power, prompting the Black Blood Tower Master to draw on Sirius’s power and reveal that he was the planet’s Star Lord.
• Chu Kuangren let the Black Blood Tower Master’s Blood Slaughter Slash strike him, seized his hand, and began devouring the Heavenly Dao Power within him.
• The Heavenly Dao of Sirius trembled and panicked, causing upheaval across the planet as powerful cultivators sensed that a great change was coming.

Chu Kuangren used the Black Blood Tower Master to absorb Sirius's Heavenly Dao Power, provoking the Heavenly Punishment Eye to attack him. He destroyed the eye with the Venerable Emperor Sword Art, leaving Sirius's Heavenly Dao defeated.

• Chu Kuangren broke the Black Blood Tower Master's limbs and used him as a medium to absorb Sirius's Heavenly Dao Power.
• The Heavenly Punishment Eye appeared above Sirius, and the Li Family forefather identified it as the Heavenly Dao's most devastating punishment.
• Chu Kuangren endured the eye's blood thunder attacks, using his defenses and techniques to withstand its strikes.
• The Heavenly Punishment Eye formed a sword of blood thunder, and Chu Kuangren countered its power before declaring it was his turn to attack.
• Chu Kuangren used the Venerable Emperor Sword Art to shatter the Heavenly Punishment Eye, and the witnesses realized the Heavenly Dao had lost.

After devouring Sirius’s Heavenly Dao, Chu Kuangren subdued its remaining opposition and helped the Li Family take control of the planet. Once Sirius was largely unified under the Li Family, he set out for the Chaotic Star Sea to pursue the Black Blood Tower Lord.

• Chu Kuangren killed a Sirius powerhouse who challenged him, then slew the Black Blood Tower Lord’s clone and forced a surviving assassin to lead him to the Black Blood Tower headquarters.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the headquarters’ defenses and death warriors, learned the Black Blood Tower Lord had escaped to the Chaotic Star Sea, and plundered the Tower’s wealth.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Li Family, promised to treat the Li Family Ancestor’s injuries, and told Li Xueying and Li Xuefei he wanted Sirius under a single authority.
• The Li Family expanded across Sirius with Chu Kuangren’s support, bringing nearly every Emperor-grade Daoist Tradition under its control.
• After matters on Sirius were settled, Chu Kuangren left alone for the Chaotic Star Sea.

While traveling toward the Chaotic Star Sea, Chu Kuangren comprehended origin power and discovered that none of the powers he found matched his own Dao. He overcame the resulting inner demon by resolving to make himself his own origin, and his Dao Heart entered the legendary ultimate domain.

• Chu Kuangren reviewed his gains from Sirius and cultivated Immortal Arts while traveling toward the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Using his Guanghan Immortal Body, Chu Kuangren entered the Origin Realm and comprehended cold dao origin power alongside moonlight origin power.
• Chu Kuangren realized neither origin power belonged to his own Dao, and his fear that his cultivation path had reached its end became an inner demon.
• After ten days of struggle, Chu Kuangren resolved to create his own origin power and make himself his origin, overcoming the inner demon.
• Chu Kuangren's Dao Heart transformed and entered the ultimate domain, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators across the universe.
• Chu Kuangren continued using his powerful physiques to comprehend other origin powers.

Chu Kuangren comprehended Divine Phoenix Flame origin power and entered the Chaotic Star Sea, where he defeated Wild Sand Bandits and captured their third-in-command. The Wild Sand Bandits King set out to confront him, believing he could capture Chu Kuangren and ransom him.

• Chu Kuangren comprehended Divine Phoenix Flame origin power, bringing his total to four kinds of origin power.
• Wild Sand Bandits attacked Chu Kuangren, but he destroyed their warships, captured several bandits, and questioned them about the Chaotic Star Sea and the Black Blood Tower Lord.
• The Wild Sand Bandits' third-in-command attacked Chu Kuangren, who knocked him unconscious with one punch and ordered the other bandits to summon their boss.
• The bandits told the Wild Sand Bandits King what had happened, and his second-in-command guessed Chu Kuangren was an Immortal Seed they could ransom.
• The Wild Sand Bandits King agreed to go confront Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren confronted the Wild Sand Bandits and demanded their cooperation in uniting the Chaotic Star Sea to destroy Purple Star. When the Wild Sand Bandit King challenged him to prove his strength, Chu Kuangren overwhelmed him and the second chief, leaving them badly injured.

• The third chief woke and recognized Chu Kuangren as the Poet Sword Immortal as the Wild Sand Bandit King and second chief arrived with hundreds of warships.
• Chu Kuangren proposed uniting the Chaotic Star Sea’s bandits to destroy Purple Star, but the Wild Sand Bandit King refused and demanded that Chu Kuangren release the third chief.
• Chu Kuangren gave the Wild Sand Bandits a choice between cooperating and being wiped out, so the Wild Sand Bandit King challenged him to a fight.
• The second chief struck Chu Kuangren with his axe, but Chu Kuangren caught the blade and then froze the Wild Sand Bandit King’s fiery attack.
• The Wild Sand Bandit King and second chief launched a coordinated attack, but Chu Kuangren shattered their attacks and sent both men flying while they coughed up blood.