Chapter Summaries

Lin Wudao sacrificed himself to reverse the Star Palace’s power and reforge the seal around the Demon-Sealing Abyss. After the others believed he had vanished, his consciousness began awakening within the Star Palace as a hidden observer watched.

• Su Yao and the Holy Maiden held back the Demon-Sealing Abyss’s master while Lin Wudao poured his blood and power into repairing the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram.
• Tianxuzi, the Jade Void Palace cultivators, and the Heavenly Mysteries Sect joined Lin Wudao, while the Ancient Witch Clan used a blood-red compass to divert the formation’s power and bind the monster.
• Lin Wudao discovered that the monster was absorbing the Star Palace’s sealing patterns and would drag the world into the Demon-Sealing Abyss if it finished transforming.
• Remembering the immortal corpse’s sacrifice, Lin Wudao cut Su Yao’s whip and rushed toward the monster, reversing the formation’s power into himself.
• Lin Wudao merged with the Star Palace’s source power and reforged the seal around the abyss as the monster crumbled and its tentacles dragged cultivators into the depths.
• Su Yao and the others believed Lin Wudao had vanished, but his faint consciousness awakened within the Star Palace as scarlet eyes watched from the shadows.

Lin Wudao returned to the Star Palace as a soul and confronted the Devil Master of High Antiquity, who sought to use him to break the seal. Lin Wudao survived his sacrificial attack by absorbing the Devil Master’s power, gained the Falling Star Physique, and was seen by Su Yao as she rushed toward the palace.

• The system repaired Lin Wudao’s incomplete soul after he fused with the Star Palace’s source, and stellar power helped his soul reform in Immortal Burial Valley.
• Lin Wudao absorbed the immortal corpse’s chain runes and entered the Star Palace, where its star chart led him toward the stellar core zone.
• Su Yao mourned Lin Wudao at Jade Void Palace, while the Holy Maiden reported strange fluctuations and Tianxuzi saw Lin Wudao’s soul forming in the Xuantian Mirror.
• The Devil Master of High Antiquity attacked Lin Wudao inside the palace and revealed that Lin Wudao was the key to breaking his seal.
• Lin Wudao activated Falling Star Sacrifice, but the Chaos Heaven-Devouring Instruction absorbed the Devil Master’s source power, completing Lin Wudao’s soul transformation and granting him the Falling Star Physique.
• A transmission reported a familiar figure within the Star Palace’s light, and Su Yao hurried north with the Chaos Sword.

After awakening the Falling Star Physique, Lin Wudao fought the Devil Master from High Antiquity, who had survived his earlier defeat and returned from the Star Palace. Lin Wudao destroyed the Devil Master’s body but saw his remaining primordial spirit escape, then prepared to return to the Star Palace before joining Su Yao and the Holy Maiden at the Jade Void Palace.

• Lin Wudao met Su Yao and the Holy Maiden after leaving the Star Palace, but sensed the Devil Master from High Antiquity returning through a fissure in the sky.
• The Devil Master attacked Lin Wudao, and Su Yao and the Holy Maiden joined the fight as he summoned devil soldiers and generals from a vortex.
• Lin Wudao used a falling star sphere to destroy the vortex’s forces, then recognized that the Devil Master’s attack still carried the Star Palace’s power.
• Lin Wudao used the Star Palace’s power to pierce the Devil Master’s heart and destroy his body, but a streak of dark red light escaped with part of his primordial spirit.
• Su Yao and the Holy Maiden supported the exhausted Lin Wudao, who warned that they needed to find the escaped spirit and said he had one more thing to do before returning to the Jade Void Palace.

Lin Wudao and the Holy Maiden investigated the theft of an ancient restriction canon and discovered the Ancient Witch Clan was helping the Devil Master target the Star Palace. They destroyed the clan’s attempt to pinpoint the palace’s location, but Lin Wudao saw one attacker carrying a star-marked Jade Slip matching the palace’s runes.

• Lin Wudao told Xuanjizi that the Devil Master’s remnant soul had escaped the Star Palace and left behind a fragment tainted with Devil Qi.
• The Heavenly Mysteries Sect reported that its Secret Canon of High Antiquity Restrictions had been stolen, so Xuanjizi sent Lin Wudao and the Holy Maiden to investigate while Su Yao stayed behind to reinforce the formation.
• At the Heavenly Mysteries Sect, Lin Wudao and the Holy Maiden found an Ancient Witch Clan Blood-Devouring Totem at the scripture pavilion.
• Ancient Witch Clan cultivators raised a blood-colored compass to pinpoint the Star Palace, and their attack overwhelmed the Heavenly Mysteries Sect’s sword formation.
• The Holy Maiden weakened the black mist, allowing Lin Wudao to destroy the compass with the fused Power of the Falling Star and power of chaos.
• As the attackers fled, Lin Wudao saw one of them holding a star-marked Jade Slip whose runes matched those inside the Star Palace.

Lin Wudao discovered that the jade slips circulating among the major sects contained a false method for opening the Star Palace’s second level, one that would release the Devil Master of High Antiquity. He and Su Yao pursued the Ancient Witch Clan’s clues to an ancient battlefield, where the clan leader began a ritual as Lin Wudao’s power faltered.

• Lin Wudao and Tianxuzi agreed to search for the half jade slip taken by an Ancient Witch Clan cultivator, while the Holy Maiden calmed the group’s spiritual power.
• Su Yao summoned Lin Wudao to the council hall, where Xuanjizi showed him a jade slip that contained a Star Palace map and a method requiring the guardian treasures of nine sacred lands and the essence blood of ten thousand cultivators.
• Lin Wudao identified the method as a trap and concluded that the true opening method was hidden in the chain from the immortal corpse and that the Ancient Witch Clan held the other half of the clues.
• The Jade Void Palace sent Lin Wudao and Su Yao after the Ancient Witch Clan, the Holy Maiden to warn the major sects, and True Person Baixuan to guard the sect.
• Lin Wudao and Su Yao defeated twelve witch-poisoned tomb-guarding puppets at an ancient battlefield, then confronted the Ancient Witch Clan leader holding a half jade slip.
• The Ancient Witch Clan leader announced that the Star Palace’s second level was about to open as blood-colored runes covered the battlefield, disrupting Lin Wudao’s falling-star power and stirring the Devil Master’s remnant soul.

Lin Wudao and Su Yao fought their way out of the Ancient Witch Clan leader’s formation and obtained a Star Palace key fragment. They then headed for Immortal Burial Valley, where the Devil Master’s rebirth plot and a wider crisis among the cultivation sects were unfolding.

• The Ancient Witch Clan leader activated the Nine Nether Dark Baleful Intent Formation, suppressing Lin Wudao and Su Yao and allowing it to control Su Yao’s whip.
• Lin Wudao used the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram, then learned from the immortal corpse’s memories about the Star Palace’s Falling Star Backlash.
• Lin Wudao fused falling-star power with the Chaos Heaven-Devouring Instruction and redirected the formation’s power, destroying the witch effigy and defeating the leader.
• Lin Wudao caught the Jade Slip fragment and learned that the remaining fragments lay deep within Immortal Burial Valley.
• A dark-gold pillar appeared over Immortal Burial Valley, and the Ancient Witch Clan leader revealed that his clan had prepared an ultimate formation there to revive the Devil Master.
• Lin Wudao and Su Yao flew toward Immortal Burial Valley as a message warned that the Heavenly Mysteries Sect and other sects were accelerating their collection of sect-guarding treasures.

Lin Wudao and Su Yao reached the Ancient Witch Clan’s altar, where nine shamans were corrupting the great sects’ treasures to force open the Star Palace’s second level. Lin Wudao activated Falling Star Resonance and broke through the altar’s barrier, striking toward the blood-colored sphere.

• Lin Wudao and Su Yao traveled through the Devil Qi surrounding Immortal Burial Valley, where the Jade Slip fragment resonated with a distant pillar of light.
• Deathly arms attacked them; Lin Wudao swallowed their Devil Qi but suffered backlash from the Devil Master's remnant soul, and Su Yao used a jade talisman to help them advance.
• They found nine Ancient Witch Clan shamans using the sect-guarding treasures of several sects in a ritual to open the Star Palace’s second level.
• The shamans attacked Lin Wudao and Su Yao with black chains, while Lin Wudao’s Falling Star Annihilation was reflected by the altar’s barrier.
• As the treasures fused into a blood-colored sphere, Lin Wudao activated Falling Star Resonance and combined the Chaos Sword with the Jade Slip fragment.
• Lin Wudao’s Sword of the Falling Star broke through the altar’s barrier and struck toward the blood-colored sphere.

Lin Wudao and Su Yao broke the Ancient Witch Clan’s formation, but its collapse unleashed vengeful spirits and the Devil Master’s power. With help from the Jade Void Palace’s holy maiden and several treasures, Lin Wudao struck at the abyss to stop the Devil Master and left the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Lin Wudao used the Sword of the Falling Star to shatter the blood-colored sphere, while Su Yao pulled the sect-guarding treasures from the altar.
• The altar’s destruction released a swarm of vengeful spirits, and the Ancient Witch Clan’s great shamans attacked Lin Wudao as the Devil Master’s remnant soul stirred within him.
• The holy maiden arrived from the Jade Void Palace with the Great Void Star Jade, helping Lin Wudao unleash Falling Star Samsara against the spirits and the shamans’ attacks.
• The lead great shaman tried to complete the ritual, but the Lord of the Devil-Sealing Abyss seized him and the Jade Slip fragment and dragged them into the abyss.
• Su Yao gave Lin Wudao the chain fragment, which temporarily sealed the abyss and trapped the Devil Master.
• Lin Wudao fused the Great Void Star Jade, the Jade Slip fragment, and the chain fragment into the Sword of the Falling Star, then unleashed Falling Star Final Chapter toward the abyss.

Lin Wudao used the Sword of the Falling Star and the power of star chaos to weaken and nearly seal the Lord of the Devil-Sealing Abyss. A dark red light empowered the Devil Master and broke the seal, leaving Lin Wudao wounded but determined to keep fighting for the Star Palace.

• Lin Wudao fought the Lord of the Devil-Sealing Abyss while Su Yao and the Holy Maiden battled the remnants of the Ancient Witch Clan.
• Lin Wudao discovered that the Sword of the Falling Star could expose the Star Palace's restraints on the Devil Master and combined its power with the Chaos Heaven-Devouring Instruction.
• Lin Wudao formed the power of star chaos, used the sword to drain the Devil Master's strength, and trapped him in a Falling Star Formation Diagram.
• Su Yao and the Holy Maiden joined Lin Wudao, weakening the Devil Master with golden flames and sound-wave blades.
• A streak of dark red light from the abyss entered the Devil Master's body, letting him break free and blast Lin Wudao away.
• Lin Wudao rose with the Sword of the Falling Star and refused to surrender the Star Palace.

Lin Wudao and Su Yao entered the earth veins to sever the Devil Master's connection to the Nether Demon Crystal, then destroyed the crystal and defeated him. Lin Wudao gained control of the Star Palace's second level and set out to uncover the truth about his origins.

• Lin Wudao discovered that the Devil Master was drawing power from the Nether Demon Crystal through an Ancient Witch Clan formation.
• The Holy Maiden disrupted the formation while Lin Wudao and Su Yao entered the earth veins and found the crystal bound by nine blood-red chains.
• Lin Wudao used the immortal corpse's chain fragments to reverse the crystal's incantations and shattered it with the Sword of the Falling Star.
• Lin Wudao summoned the stars to destroy the Devil Master's body, and Su Yao restrained his escaping remnant soul so Lin Wudao could devour it.
• Lin Wudao broke through the Chaos Heaven-Devouring Instruction to the perfection realm and gained control of the Star Palace's second level.
• Lin Wudao told Su Yao they would go to the Star Palace to uncover its secrets and the truth about his origins.

Lin Wudao, Su Yao, and the Holy Maiden entered the Star Palace and fought their way through its defenses, uncovering evidence of the Ancient Witch Clan’s role in the ancient turmoil. A changed Devil Master of High Antiquity appeared and challenged them to a final trial to prove Lin Wudao worthy of the palace’s power.

• Lin Wudao, Su Yao, and the Holy Maiden traveled to the Star Palace, whose gates opened in response to Lin Wudao’s Jade Slip.
• The three entered the palace and fought off a barrage of starlight using Lin Wudao’s devouring vortex, Su Yao’s gilt whip, and the Holy Maiden’s jade flute.
• Lin Wudao traced the palace runes with the power of the falling star and redirected the starlight restrictions deeper into the palace.
• A curtain of light showed the Ancient Witch Clan manipulating events and seeking to control the Star Palace by resurrecting the Devil Master.
• The Devil Master of High Antiquity emerged, asked whether Lin Wudao was worthy of inheriting the palace’s power, and attacked the three with chains of starlight.

Lin Wudao, Su Yao, and the Holy Maiden overcame the Devil Master's Illusory and Real Bewildering Formation and passed the trial. They opened the gate to the Star Palace's second level, where an even more powerful force awaited them.

• Lin Wudao and his companions attacked the stellar chains, but the chains resisted their powers while the Devil Master warned that greed would turn the Star Palace's power against them.
• Lin Wudao suffered visions of ruling the cultivation world and losing Su Yao and the Holy Maiden, until the Holy Maiden's Clear Heart Incantation revealed the Devil Master's formation.
• Lin Wudao faced and shattered his illusion of power, declaring that he sought to protect those he cared about.
• Lin Wudao used a chain fragment from the Nether Demon Crystal to form half of a Star Seal Diagram, then joined Su Yao and the Holy Maiden in breaking the stellar chains.
• The Devil Master declared that they had passed the trial and revealed a bronze gate to the Star Palace's second level, warning that the Ancient Witch Clan still sought greater power.
• Lin Wudao pressed the Jade Slip against the bronze gate, which opened and released a powerful force.