Chapter Summaries

Kalu delivered six upper-level mid-grade paper talismans to the Chris Family, including powerful new fire release talismans, and negotiated a lucrative payment with the Second Elder. Meanwhile, Ye Feng and his companions explored Taker Star’s bustling main street, where Naruto nearly got in trouble for touching a holographic advertisement.

• Kalu presented the Second Elder with six upper-level mid-grade paper talismans, including two newly developed fire release talismans.
• Kalu explained that the fire release talismans could rival an all-out strike from a middle-stage deity transformation cultivator, and the Second Elder eagerly asked whether more were available.
• The Second Elder offered to pay 1.4 billion for the fire release talismans, and Kalu accepted while promising to bring him other good items in the future.
• Ye Feng walked along Taker Star’s busiest street with Minato Namikaze and the others, confident that the Chris Family’s backing would deter trouble.
• Naruto touched a 3D projection advertisement, and its virtual image warned him that he could be arrested, prompting him to behave properly.

Ye Feng and his companions faced harassment from young nobles while shopping, and Tsunade punished the purple-haired youth who tried to touch her. When the Chris Family's Security Team arrived, Ye Feng pressured the youth into claiming they had only been fooling around, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Feng explained Taker Star's rules to Naruto, then stepped in when young nobles crowded around Miroku and Tsunade.
• The purple-haired youth reached for Tsunade, so she seized his wrist and slapped him after Ye Feng told her to teach him a lesson.
• Ye Feng kicked the youth after he threatened them, then named the Tamel Family's Manor as the place to find him.
• The Chris Family's Security Team arrived, and Ye Feng pretended he and the purple-haired youth were friends testing a defensive power.
• The purple-haired youth backed up Ye Feng's story, telling the captain that they had been fooling around and the incident was a misunderstanding.

Ye Feng warned the purple-haired young man and drew the Security Team captain’s attention, then revealed enough power to make the Chris Family reconsider how to deal with him. The Deputy Clan Leader and Six Elders discussed whether Ye Feng’s arrival meant that someone they had been waiting for had returned.

• Ye Feng warned the purple-haired young man not to provoke him again and threatened to make the Saim Family disappear like the Raen Family.
• A Security Team member identified the young man as belonging to the Tamel Family, and the captain ordered Ye Feng followed and reported for apprehension.
• Ye Feng’s gaze made the captain sense mortal danger, so the captain canceled all operations targeting him and reported to the Chris Family.
• The Deputy Clan Leader ordered the Security Team to avoid provoking Ye Feng and, if needed, help him, then convened a meeting with the Six Elders.
• The Second Elder wondered whether Ye Feng and his companions had returned, while the Deputy Clan Leader said they had no confirmation and Kalu had revealed nothing.

The Chris Family sought information about Ye Feng’s arrival and mission, while Kalu tried to protect Ye Feng by giving the Second Elder an ambiguous account. The Second Elder presented Kalu with a rare Nascent Soul-grade Primordial Essence.

• The Chris Family’s elders decided to approach Kalu for information after learning that a powerful cultivator had appeared with him.
• Ye Feng told Kalu that his exposure could strengthen Kalu’s standing, and Maine reported that the Chris Family’s Second Elder had arrived.
• Kalu met the Second Elder and claimed that Ye Feng’s group had come from the Central Star Domain on a mission possibly related to the events thirteen years earlier.
• The Second Elder offered the Chris Family’s help and gave Kalu a brocade box containing Nascent Soul-grade Primordial Essence.

Ye Feng decided to travel to the Central Star Domain to find a high-grade planet for his advancement, and Kalu agreed to accompany him. After Tsunade entered the Golden Core Realm, Ye Feng and Kalu set out, but a masked man intercepted them in the void.

• The Second Elder gave Kalu Primordial Essence, which Kalu accepted and showed to Ye Feng.
• Ye Feng told Kalu he planned to visit the Central Star Domain and asked him to seek help from the mysterious person who had once stopped Kalu from entering it.
• Kalu agreed to accompany Ye Feng, while Ye Feng left his companions in Kalu's care and arranged for an Ōtsutsuki to cleanse Tsunade's soul.
• Tsunade drew down a heavenly tribulation and entered the Golden Core Realm.
• Ye Feng and Kalu boarded a spaceship for the Central Star Domain, with Ye Feng placing Miroku and the others in the Divine Realm for safety.
• After half a day, golden light transported Ye Feng and Kalu into the void before a masked man whose immense strength Ye Feng could not sense.

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.