Recaps

Ye Feng agreed to temporarily join the Makarov Family after Mask Man offered to take him to the Central Star Domain. Mask Man transported Ye Feng through the Dark Universe, where he explained how its dense spatial nodes enabled rapid travel.

• Mask Man recognized Ye Feng's exceptional cultivation for his age, while Kalu revealed that he was nearly six hundred years old and Mask Man was over twelve hundred.
• Mask Man invited Ye Feng to join the Makarov Family and offered him the freedom to leave if he found it unsuitable.
• Ye Feng accepted temporary membership and agreed to travel with Mask Man to the Central Star Domain.
• Mask Man refused to take Kalu, sent him back to Taker Star, and left with Ye Feng in a purple whirlwind.
• Mask Man explained the Dark Universe's nature and travel properties as Ye Feng sensed its countless spatial nodes.

Ye Feng learned about the Dark Universe while traveling with the masked man, who brought him near the Central Star Domain. At the terminal, the man revealed that he was the Makarov Family’s Second Young Master and explained why Kalu could not safely go there to see Ariel.

• Mask Man explained that only powerful beings and specially powered ships could endure the Dark Universe, and Ye Feng saw a Hartell Family ship briefly appear there.
• Mask Man and Ye Feng returned to normal space near the Central Star Domain, where Alliance rules required them to continue by ordinary spaceship.
• At the terminal, Mask Man removed his mask and was greeted as the Second Young Master; Ye Feng realized he was likely Kalu’s brother-in-law.
• Mask Man told Ye Feng that Kalu would die before reaching Ariel if he went to the Central Star Domain.
• Mask Man recounted how Ariel refused an arranged marriage to Ophel Hartell, whose family was among the region’s three most powerful, and fled the Makarov Family after her father insisted the marriage proceed.

Ye Feng learned why Saikor Makarov had concealed Kalu and Rhode’s survival and vowed to keep Kalu away from the Central Star Domain until he could protect the Makarov Family. After arriving at Makarov Star, Ye Feng struggled with its intense gravity as Saikor secretly tested his stamina on the long walk home.

• Saikor told Ye Feng that the Makarov Family had spared Kalu and Rhode, then falsely told the Hartell Family they were dead, worsening tensions between the families.
• Ye Feng resolved to mediate between the families or compensate the Hartell Family when he became powerful enough, and Saikor revealed his name as Saikor Makarov.
• Five days later, Ye Feng saw the enormous planets of the Central Star Domain and learned that powerful forces had brought them together and that families ruled planets named after them.
• The spaceship reached Makarov Star, where Ye Feng found the gravity four times stronger than on Taker Star.
• Saikor sent away his private car and walked ahead, making Ye Feng traverse several thousand kilometers so he could adapt to the gravity and prove his stamina.

Saikeer led Ye Feng on an exhausting detour to help him adapt to Makarov Star’s gravity before bringing him to the Makarov Family Manor. There, Ye Feng encountered the family’s restrictive defensive formation and Saikeer’s younger brother, who begged Saikeer to save him from an unspecified ordeal.

• Ye Feng complained about the long walk as Saikeer led him across Makarov Star, while Saikeer privately admired how quickly he adapted to the heavy gravity.
• Ye Feng discovered a spaceship landing platform and accused Saikeer of making him walk unnecessarily, but Saikeer claimed the detour would help him gain the family’s respect.
• After walking for several more hours, Ye Feng reached the Makarov Family Manor and realized Saikeer had deliberately brought him on the long route.
• As Ye Feng entered the estate, the family’s defensive formation restricted his strength and Divine Sense, and Saikeer showed him the token that exempted its bearer.
• A well-armed group emerged from the Manor with Saikeer’s younger brother, who rushed to Saikeer and begged him to protect him from an unspecified task.
• Saikeer refused to take his brother’s place, while Ye Feng silently moved behind Saikeer and decided to keep his distance from the younger man.

Ye Feng returned to the Makarov Family with Saikeer, where a lavishly dressed youth tried to recruit him for a mission. Ye Feng instead asked to cultivate, then insisted on facing his breakthrough tribulation lightning directly despite Saikeer’s warning.

• The lavishly dressed youth asked Saikeer to let Ye Feng join his mission, but Saikeer postponed the decision until after Ye Feng’s breakthrough.
• The lavishly dressed youth ordered his guards to suspend their mission and return to the Manor, then left to speak with his father.
• Ye Feng asked Saikeer for a suitable place to break through, but rejected the heavily fortified tribulation site because it would block the lightning.
• Saikeer explained that tribulation lightning was usually lethal and that cultivators preferred to block it out, but Ye Feng asked for a place outside the Manor where he could face it directly.
• Ye Feng refused Saikeer’s warning and asked him to prepare recovery treasures instead.

Ye Feng began his tribulation outside Makarov Manor with Saikeer’s help, but the gathering clouds revealed a terrifying trial that summoned a purple lightning dragon. The Makarov Family’s leaders arrived and realized that Ye Feng was only at nascent soul realm complete, leaving them fearing for his survival.

• Saikeer prepared a lightning-weakening formation, a recovery formation, and pills for Ye Feng’s tribulation.
• Ye Feng entered the formation, and dark clouds gathered over Makarov Planet as the tribulation lightning built for two hours.
• A purple lightning dragon emerged from the clouds, and Saikeer urged Ye Feng to stop his breakthrough.
• Saikeer’s father, the Matriarch, the First Elder, and the Grand Elder arrived and learned that Ye Feng was at nascent soul realm complete.
• Saikeer’s father angrily blamed Saikeer for allowing Ye Feng to face a tribulation that seemed impossible to survive.

Ye Feng endured increasingly powerful tribulation lightning inside Saikeer’s Lightning-Earth Magic Formation and used it to strengthen his body. As the elders wondered whether his cultivation method could be seized, Saikeer objected, and the Supreme Elder told them to wait and see whether Ye Feng survived.

• The first bolt of purple lightning struck Ye Feng after the formation weakened it, and Saikeer’s father noticed that Ye Feng’s body remained unharmed and grew stronger.
• The purple lightning dragon sent a stronger second bolt, which the formation weakened less; Ye Feng let it tear through and repair his body, rapidly increasing his physical strength.
• The matriarch asked whether tribulation lightning could be used this way, and the Supreme Elder suggested Ye Feng’s cultivation method might let him absorb lightning.
• The First Elder proposed obtaining Ye Feng’s cultivation method, and Saikeer objected that taking it would make them bandits.
• The First Elder angrily rebuked Saikeer, but the Supreme Elder stopped the argument and told everyone to wait and see whether Ye Feng survived.

Ye Feng endured increasingly powerful tribulation lightning, relying on metal rods, Saikeer's magic formation, and a Wood Spirit Talisman to survive the seventh bolt. The Makarov Family hoped he would survive so they could recruit him and avert their decline, while the eighth bolt loomed.

• Ye Feng took the third bolt head-on, suffering severe burns as his aura grew stronger.
• Ye Feng used metal rods to conduct away much of the fourth bolt's lightning, then relied on them again against the fifth.
• Ye Feng's earth-law shields failed against the sixth bolt, so he used Saikeer's magic formation to repair his body.
• The seventh bolt shattered the magic formation and battered Ye Feng, who survived by combining its healing force, law force, and a Wood Spirit Talisman.
• Saikeer's father decided to offer Ye Feng the Makarov Family's resources if he survived, and the Grand Elder predicted that the next bolt would be at Deity Transformation realm complete.

Ye Feng survived the eighth bolt of tribulation lightning, but the Purple Lightning Dragon delayed its next strike while gathering power. The elders feared the ninth bolt might reach the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, leaving Ye Feng’s survival in doubt.

• Ye Feng layered on armor, talismans, and a formation disk before the eighth bolt struck and destroyed his defenses.
• The lightning burned away Ye Feng’s flesh and damaged his nascent soul, but his Wood Spirit Talismans repaired its golden sphere and he survived.
• Ye Feng’s body recovered through the magic formation’s law force while the Grand Elder and others considered taking him as a disciple.
• The Purple Lightning Dragon withheld the ninth bolt long after Ye Feng recovered, and the First Elder warned that it might be charging a Tribulation Transcendence Realm strike.
• Saikeer and the Grand Elder doubted that a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator could face such powerful tribulation lightning, while the First Elder asked what would happen if it did.

As Ye Feng faced the deadly ninth bolt of tribulation lightning, the Makarov Family hurried to conceal him from visiting powers. With no way to withstand the strike, Ye Feng drew on the power of nearby planets, alarming the Grand Elder with the danger of stellar power.

• Ye Feng realized the ninth bolt was beyond his strength, while Saikeer's father and the First Elder returned to Makarov Manor to receive visitors drawn by the tribulation.
• The Grand Elder intercepted Elder Aierfu, whose supposed wrong turn had been an attempt to investigate the tribulation site, and redirected her to the manor.
• Saikeer's father welcomed the gathered visitors and let them believe the person undergoing tribulation was a Makarov Family junior.
• As the Purple Lightning Dragon prepared to strike, Ye Feng pointed the Kusanagi Sword at the sky and drew white beams of energy from more than a dozen nearby planets.
• The Grand Elder recognized the energy as dangerous stellar power and realized Ye Feng was attempting to wield it.

Ye Feng’s ability to draw stellar power alarmed the Grand Elder and threatened to expose a dangerous secret. As Ferid tried to keep the gathered families away from Ye Feng’s tribulation, Aierfu and the Hartell Family’s Second Elder began rallying others to pressure the Makarov Family.

• The Grand Elder ordered Saikeer to mobilize the Crimson Blood Legion and kill anyone who tried to enter Ye Feng’s tribulation site.
• The super families noticed stellar power gathering around Ye Feng, and Aierfu demanded an explanation from Patriarch Ferid.
• Ferid claimed Ye Feng was using a family treasure to resist tribulation lightning and refused to let the representatives approach.
• After more representatives arrived, Aierfu told the Hartell Family’s Second Elder that the Makarov Family was hiding something important.
• The Second Elder urged Aierfu to encourage the other families to confront the Makarov Family, while the First Elder warned Ferid that the Hartell Family was building support.

Ye Feng faced a black tribulation bolt far beyond his strength, but awoke alive after hearing Miroku and the others calling to him. As he began recovering, Aierfu and the Second Elder led the Superfamily representatives past Ferid to investigate the stolen stellar power.

• The ninth tribulation bolt descended as black lightning, which the Grand Elder recognized as power from the middle stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Ye Feng's sword strike, Fire Spirit Talismans, and protective treasures all failed to stop the lightning, which struck and overwhelmed him.
• Miroku and the other women called to Ye Feng, and he followed a light back to consciousness among them.
• Monica treated Ye Feng with her healing magic, easing his pain as he realized he was still alive.
• At Makarov's Manor, Aierfu and the Second Elder led the Superfamily representatives past Ferid to investigate why stellar power was being drawn away.

Aierfu and the other family representatives reached Ye Feng’s tribulation site, but the Makarov Family’s First Grand Elder allowed them to investigate after the ninth lightning strike ended. The Second Elder used a transparent orb to reveal Ye Feng’s final movements and apparent disintegration, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Aierfu drove back the Crimson Blood Legion squad, but its commander formed an attack formation to block the family representatives.
• The First Grand Elder and Saikeer arrived, ordered the legion to withdraw, and permitted the representatives to investigate the Makarov Family’s territory.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and Aierfu and the others found the site where Ye Feng had undergone tribulation in ruins.
• Aierfu suspected Ye Feng had died, while the Second Elder suggested the Makarov Family might have taken him away.
• The Second Elder used a transparent orb to show a phantom of Ye Feng’s actions before it stiffened, broke apart, and vanished.

Ye Feng survived the tribulation when Monica pulled his nascent soul into the Divine Realm, where the realm destroyed the final lightning strike and restored his body. After learning what happened, Ye Feng regained his spirits and trapped Miroku and the other women inside a room to punish them, while Monica worried outside.

• The Second Elder, Aierfu, and the visiting family representatives assumed Ye Feng had died and left or prepared to leave the Makarov Family Manor.
• The First Grand Elder and Saikeer returned without Ye Feng, and Ferid, the Matriarch, and the First Elder accepted that he was gone.
• Monica repaired Ye Feng's body after explaining to him that she had pulled his nascent soul into the Divine Realm just before the final lightning strike hit.
• Monica told Ye Feng that the Divine Realm had destroyed the lightning strike after it followed him inside.
• Ye Feng lamented losing his prepared treasures, then trapped Miroku and the other women inside a room as he threatened to punish them.
• Shion left with the Seven Tailed Beasts, while Monica worried outside the room and Ye Feng refused Miroku's plea to let the women go.

Ye Feng returned to Makarov Manor after recovering from his tribulation and reaching the Deity Transformation Realm. Saikeer and the Makarov leaders welcomed him, and the chapter left them preparing to learn how he had survived.

• Ye Feng left the Divine Realm and flew back to Makarov Manor, where a gate guard recognized him and went to fetch Saikeer.
• Saikeer rushed to the entrance, found Ye Feng alive, and excitedly picked him up before setting him down and apologizing.
• The chief Grand Elder, Ferid, the Matriarch, and the First Elder arrived and were stunned to see Ye Feng, whom the Grand Elder had believed the tribulation lightning killed.
• Ferid told the others to ask Ye Feng what happened, and they followed him and Saikeer toward the conference room.
• Saikeer told Ye Feng that dozens of Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts had come to Makarov Planet, and Ye Feng felt fortunate he had chosen the Makarov Family.

Ferid and the Grand Elder tried to secure Ye Feng’s loyalty to the Makarov Family by offering him marriage to Ferid’s daughter and a place as the Grand Elder’s disciple. Ye Feng agreed to meet the daughter but declined discipleship, explaining that his unusual cultivation required rare resources he had to seek himself.

• Ferid welcomed Ye Feng and proposed that he get to know Ferid’s daughter as a potential partner.
• The Grand Elder offered to take Ye Feng as his direct disciple and provide cultivation resources, while Ferid suggested Ye Feng could both marry his daughter and become the Grand Elder’s disciple.
• Ye Feng said he already had five wives, so Ferid offered to let his daughter become a concubine.
• Ye Feng proposed meeting Ferid’s daughter first and deciding based on whether they got along, and Ferid accepted.
• Ye Feng declined the Grand Elder’s offer, explaining that he already followed a school with unconventional methods and needed to search for planetary sources and Deity Transformation Realm Ōtsutsuki Law Crystals.

Ye Feng asked the Makarov Family for planetary sources and revealed that he needed far more than the Grand Elder expected. The Grand Elder realized Ye Feng might possess an innate small world, sealed the conference room, and stopped him from escaping.

• The Grand Elder gave Ye Feng ten planetary sources and offered to provide more.
• Ye Feng clarified that he needed five hundred planetary sources, shocking the Grand Elder, Ferid, and the others.
• The Grand Elder suspected Ye Feng had an innate small world and activated a barrier around the conference room.
• The Grand Elder asked Ye Feng whether he had a small world bound to him from birth.
• Ye Feng tried to break through the space and flee, but the Grand Elder locked it in place.

Ye Feng questioned the Grand Elder about his Companion Small World and learned how such worlds evolved into planets ruled by Universe Peak cultivators. Ferid explained that the Alliance’s families prevented other Small Worlds from fully developing to avoid disputes over territory and the loss of aging Planetary Rulers.

• The Grand Elder persuaded Ye Feng to stop trying to escape and said his Small World would be useless if taken from him.
• The Grand Elder explained that the Central Star Domain’s planets had evolved from Companion Small Worlds, whose owners reached Universe Peak before anyone could seize them.
• Ye Feng asked about breaking through the universe, and the Grand Elder said a cultivator had once opened a passage and vanished beyond it.
• Ferid told Ye Feng that the families barred other Small Worlds from fully developing because new Planetary Rulers would force the Alliance to redistribute territory and resources.
• Ferid explained that the last Faction War had cost the Alliance five Planetary Rulers, who had reached their lifespan limits after fighting.

Ye Feng agreed to become the Makarov Family's ally in exchange for resources and support, then used their Planetary Sources to strengthen his Divine Realm. After Saikeer invited him out, Ye Feng wondered whether Saikeer's sincere affection meant he was interested in him.

• The Grand Elder offered to take Ye Feng as his disciple and support his cultivation in exchange for his help against the Makarov Family's enemies, and Ye Feng agreed.
• Ferid told Ye Feng that the Makarov Family's Planetary Ruler had died and explained how the family's remaining trump cards deterred its enemies.
• Ferid gave Ye Feng twenty Planetary Sources, bringing his total to thirty, and Ye Feng absorbed them over five days.
• Ye Feng found that his Divine Realm had grown and its Law Force had become denser, though he remained in the early stage of the Deity Transformation Realm.
• Saikeer invited Ye Feng out, and Monica sensed that Saikeer was sincere, prompting Ye Feng to wonder whether Saikeer was interested in him.

Ye Feng accompanied Saikeer and Frey to a martial tournament where cultivators from different star regions would compete for prizes provided by the Hartell Family. There, Ye Feng met the Makarov Family’s representatives and suspected that Carlos Chris was Taker Star’s Planetary Ruler.

• Saikeer introduced Ye Feng to Frey, whose strange behavior made Ye Feng suspect the two shared a secret relationship.
• Saikeer explained that the great families held a martial tournament every hundred years to introduce new cultivators, encourage competition, and vie for prestige, and that the Hartell Family was providing this tournament’s prizes.
• Ye Feng joined Saikeer and Frey at the tournament manor, where four Makarov Family participants greeted Saikeer.
• Carlos Chris introduced himself as a complete Deity Transformation Realm cultivator from Taker Star, leading Ye Feng to suspect he was its Planetary Ruler.
• Feliya Diara introduced herself as a complete Deity Transformation Realm cultivator from Kapuli Planet and flirted with Saikeer, while Ye Feng thought she resembled the White Snake Sage.

Ye Feng clashed with Frey before joining Saikeer’s group on the trip to Planet Hartell for a tournament. When the Hartell Family blocked their spaceship from landing, Ye Feng suggested a plan that led Saikeer to destroy one of the ships occupying the grounds, leaving the Hartell representative unable to explain what happened.

• Frey accused Ye Feng of staring at Filiya, and Ye Feng retorted that Frey had no right to interfere.
• Saikeer explained that the tournament had separate divisions for deity transformation realm and nascent soul realm cultivators.
• After Saikeer’s group reached Planet Hartell, the Hartell Family claimed there was no room for their spaceship to land.
• Ye Feng whispered a suggestion to Saikeer, who went outside and destroyed an unmarked spaceship with a blast of purple light.
• Saikeer said the Makarov Family would pay for the damage, leaving the Hartell representative unable to admit that the destroyed ship belonged to his own family.

Ye Feng, Saikeer, and Frey reached Planet Hartell, where Saikeer used Ye Feng’s plan to make the Hartell Family lose a spaceship and then avoided their accommodations. At the tournament venue, they encountered Ophel Hartell, whose underhanded plans Saikeer claimed to have anticipated, though he refused to tell Ye Feng what he had prepared.

• Saikeer ordered his captain to land on a Hartell Family spaceship, and Ye Feng explained to Frey that the move had been his idea.
• Ophel Hartell dismissed the spaceship incident and told his subordinate to treat it as though it had never happened.
• Saikeer took the group to a Makarov Family property instead of the Hartell Family’s prepared accommodations.
• At the competition venue, Ophel greeted Saikeer, but Saikeer ignored his offered hand and Frey led the group inside.
• Ye Feng overheard Ophel’s subordinate proposing action against the Makarov group and Ophel saying they should experience the brutality of battle.
• Ye Feng warned Saikeer about the conversation, but Saikeer said he had prepared for Ophel’s tricks and kept the details secret.

Ye Feng explored the futuristic Arena with Saikeer and learned the Makarov Family lacked enough competitors because they had missed Hartell’s new entry rules. Eager to win the Holy Spirit Fruit, Ye Feng agreed to enter the Deity Transformation Realm competition using Saikeer’s Soul Devouring Stone, and they went to register.

• Ye Feng admired the Arena before Saikeer took the competitors to register and Ye Feng and Frey headed to Makarov’s spectator area.
• Saikeer returned after learning that each competition required at least four entrants, while Frey discovered Hartell had previously sent notice of the new rules.
• Saikeer told Ye Feng that the Deity Transformation Realm competition’s first prize included a planetary source and a Holy Spirit Fruit that could improve soul power.
• Ye Feng offered to compete, and Frey suggested that he use Saikeer’s Soul Devouring Stone to counter other competitors’ divine senses.
• Saikeer warned Ye Feng about the stone’s danger, then gave it to him, and they hurried off to register for the competition.

Ye Feng watched the Nascent Soul Realm melee begin and saw a coordinated team of nearly fifty overpower its opponents. The remaining cultivators finally resolved to unite against them, leaving the team facing the threat of a combined attack.

• Bulan Hartell welcomed the contestants and announced that the Nascent Soul Realm competition would determine sixteen finalists through a melee.
• Ye Feng and Carlos watched as a team of nearly fifty cultivators swept through their opponents, and Carlos said he would kill until enemies were terrified if he faced such a situation.
• Nearly a hundred cultivators attacked the team, but the better-coordinated group eliminated most of them while losing only a few members.
• The remaining cultivators hesitated to cooperate, allowing the team of forty to attack and eliminate more opponents.
• One cultivator urged everyone to work together to prevent a single family from taking all sixteen places, and the remaining fighters united against the team.

A forty-person team used a formation and coordinated attacks to fight off a much larger group, but was eventually eliminated by powerful combined spells. After the arena’s final sixteen were decided, Ye Feng, Carlos, and Filiya entered the Deity Transformation Realm contest, where an imposing fifty-person team drew everyone’s attention.

• A forty-person team formed a battle array, turned the fight around, and sent five attackers charging into the enemy ranks before they were eliminated.
• The remaining opponents finished charging their techniques and overwhelmed the thirty-five defenders with coordinated spells and attacks, eliminating the team.
• The surviving contestants continued fighting cautiously until the arena settled on its final sixteen, and Ye Feng waited for their battle to end.
• The host announced the Deity Transformation Realm contest, and Carlos led Ye Feng and Filiya into the arena while their companion prepared to withdraw as instructed by Saikeer.
• A powerful-looking team of fifty contestants released their auras without restraint, puzzling Ye Feng and the other competitors.