Chapter Summaries

Xie Nan obtained four Heaven Immortal Realm ghostly souls from the Ghost God and ordered an attack on Mu Fusheng. Expecting an assassination, Mu Fusheng prepared a trap in his Holy Talisman Sect courtyard, where an Earth Immortal attacker was caught as the sect’s experts arrived.

• Xie Nan summoned the Ghost God, who sent four Heaven Immortal Realm ghostly souls to help him after recognizing his Netherworld Fire Venerable inheritance.
• Xie Nan ordered the Evil Lord to send people to the Firmament Domain to kill Mu Fusheng, while keeping the four ghostly souls in reserve to deter the Holy Talisman Sect.
• Mu Fusheng planted detection, defense, and bewildering talismans around his courtyard and continued studying with the Holy Talisman Sect’s supreme elders.
• A blue-faced Evil Race cultivator sealed Mu Fusheng’s courtyard and attacked him, but Mu Fusheng detonated Thunderstorm Talismans and escaped using a Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman.
• Mu Fusheng activated his bewildering formation, and the attacker lost two breaths before recovering; Holy Talisman Sect experts then arrived and left the Earth Immortal with no chance to escape.

Mu Fusheng’s plan to make the Holy Talisman Sect clash with the Evil Domain succeeded when an Earth Immortal from the Evil Race infiltrated the sect and was captured. The supreme elders agreed to retaliate, but Mu Fusheng persuaded them to wait two days so the incident could spread first.

• Mu Fusheng delayed the Earth Immortal of the Evil Race with an illusion array, then detonated Thunderstorm Talismans to alert the Holy Talisman Sect’s experts.
• A Heaven Immortal suppressed the Earth Immortal’s attempt to self-destruct and took him away for questioning.
• Mu Fusheng told the supreme elders that the Evil Race had tried to kill him inside the sect, and the Heaven Immortal confirmed the account through Soul Search.
• Mu Fusheng reflected that he had provoked the Evil Domain into striking first so the Holy Talisman Sect would have reason to act against it.
• The supreme elders agreed to send Attendant Gong to the Evil Domain, but accepted Mu Fusheng’s request to wait two days before retaliating.

Mu Fusheng found Xiao Hei and Mu Ziqing and helped gather support for an assault on the Evil Domain while Ye Qiubai secured Heavenly Sword Peak’s backing. The group set out for the Evil Domain, leaving Shi Sheng’s whereabouts unresolved.

• Mu Fusheng used the Holy Talisman Sect’s connections to find Xiao Hei and Mu Ziqing in the Heaven-Overturning Domain, where he learned Ye Qiubai was visiting Heavenly Sword Peak.
• Ye Qiubai met Huo Zhengheng, who revealed that Heavenly Sword Peak had sought him because he shared its founding ancestor Wu Jingxiu’s Primordial Sword Physique.
• Huo Zhengheng offered Ye Qiubai the position of Heavenly Sword Peak’s Holy Son and promised him Wu Jingxiu’s sword when he reached the Earth Immortal Realm; Ye Qiubai accepted the title but declined to take over the peak.
• Huo Zhengheng ordered Heavenly Sword Peak’s Emperor Realm and stronger members to follow him to the Heaven-Overturning Domain while Chu Guidao stayed behind to guard the sect.
• Ye Qiubai returned to the Heaven-Overturning Domain, where Mu Fusheng reported that the Holy Talisman Sect, Divine Talisman Sect, and Talisman Tower had agreed to advance on the Evil Domain.
• The group set out for the Evil Domain and decided to search for Shi Sheng after dealing with it.

The Holy Talisman Sect and several other powerful factions arrived in the Evil Domain to support Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng, only to face four Heaven Immortal Realm Ghost Guards. As the experts clashed, Xie Nan trapped Ye Qiubai and his companions in the Evil Soul Heaven-Slaying Array.

• Xie Heitian asked Xie Nan whether he had a contingency plan, and Xie Nan assured him that four Heaven Immortal Realm Ghost Guards and a trap would secure victory.
• The Holy Talisman Sect arrived alongside the Divine Talisman Sect, Talisman Tower, Heavenly Sword Peak, and Falling Goose Sect, shocking Xie Heitian and Xie Nan.
• Attendant Gong crushed much of the Evil Race army with his power, but a Heaven Immortal Realm Ghost Guard blocked his attack on Xie Nan.
• Four Ghost Guards appeared, and Attendant Gong, another Holy Talisman Sect attendant, the Heavenly Sword Peak master, and Xie Yan engaged them in battle.
• Xie Nan activated the Evil Soul Heaven-Slaying Array and surrounded Ye Qiubai and his companions with tens of thousands of evil soul phantoms.

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Mu Ziqing fought Xie Nan as he unleashed the Evil Soul Heaven-Slaying Array, but the Turbid Immortal Realm expert’s attacks continued to threaten them. As Xie Nan revealed his Ghost Race bloodline and the Nether Ghost Venerable’s inheritance, Mu Fusheng announced that his preparation was complete and told his senior brothers to fall back.

• Xie Nan activated the Evil Soul Heaven-Slaying Array against Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Mu Ziqing, and Mu Fusheng.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed his strongest sword strike, but the evil souls devoured it and continued toward the group.
• Xiao Hei charged into the evil souls with his demon god armor, while Ye Qiubai attacked again and Mu Ziqing froze the phantoms with her Ice Bloodline.
• Xie Nan released his Ghost Race bloodline and the Nether Ghost Venerable’s inheritance, summoning ghosts wreathed in pale blue flames.
• Mu Fusheng said his preparation was ready and ordered his senior brothers to fall back.

Mu Fusheng trapped Xie Nan with an immortal Purple Firmament World-Destroying Lightning Array Talisman, suppressing him as Ye Qiubai, Mu Ziqing, and Xiao Hei joined the attack. As Xie Nan faced their combined assault, he unleashed his Ghost God Blood and began summoning the Netherworld.

• Mu Fusheng surrounded Xie Nan with nine Purple Firmament World-Destroying Lightning Array Talismans, revealing that he could inscribe an immortal talisman.
• Xie Nan unleashed the Netherworld Fire technique Ghosts Howl at the Heavens, injuring Ye Qiubai, Mu Ziqing, Xiao Hei, and Mu Fusheng with its soul-piercing howl.
• Mu Fusheng activated the talismans and trapped Xie Nan in a lightning cage, where his Purple Firmament Divine Lightning clashed with Xie Nan's spectral flames.
• Mu Ziqing sent an iceberg at Xie Nan while Ye Qiubai attacked with a giant sword and Xiao Hei struck from behind.
• Xie Nan roared Ghost God Blood, Summon the Netherworld, drawing in the black mist, ghosts, and Evil Power as his soul and bloodline rose from his body and an enormous phantom appeared.

Xie Nan sacrificed his blood essence and soul power to summon the Netherworld Fire Venerable's divine will, which overwhelmed Ye Qiubai and the others' attacks. Mu Fusheng summoned Lu Changsheng's projection, and Lu Changsheng shattered the divine attack, leaving Xie Nan defeated and the Evil Domain doomed.

• Xie Nan used his Ghost Race Bloodline and soul as a catalyst to summon the Netherworld Fire Venerable's divine will, despite the severe cost to his cultivation and soul.
• Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Mu Ziqing, and Mu Fusheng attacked Xie Nan together, but the divine will's pale blue fire tornado destroyed all four attacks.
• Mu Fusheng activated a jade pendant and summoned a projection of Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng struck the fire tornado with a palm, scattering it before it could reach Ye Qiubai and the others.
• Xie Nan realized he could no longer resist, and the Evil Domain faced destruction.

Mu Fusheng summoned Lu Changsheng’s projection to help rescue their captured relatives, and Lu Changsheng defeated Xie Nan and a Ghost Race apparition. After finding the prisoners and clearing the way for Ye Qiubai, Lu Changsheng vanished, leaving the group to continue on their own.

• Mu Fusheng revealed that his final trump card was a projection of Lu Changsheng, who pretended to have been summoned by a jade pendant and offered to help once.
• Lu Changsheng searched Xie Nan’s soul, destroyed the pale blue ghostly flame inside him, and learned where Mu Zhengting and the others were imprisoned.
• A ghostly face from the Ghost Race appeared to avenge the Netherworld Fire Venerable’s remnant will, but Lu Changsheng pierced it with his Sword Dao Law.
• Lu Changsheng destroyed the palace’s formation restrictions and told Ye Qiubai to go beneath the palace, while Xie Nan’s soul perished.
• Lu Changsheng shattered Mu Fusheng’s jade pendant and vanished, telling the group to rely on themselves and work hard at cultivation.

Ye Qiubai and the others defeated the Evil Domain, rescued Mu Zhengting and Mu Libei, and returned to the Boundless Realm. Hong Ying welcomed them back and said she wanted to travel with them, then reported that a thief was stealing young ladies’ undergarments.

• Attendant Gong killed the Evil Domain’s peak Earth Immortal lord, and Ye Qiubai freed Mu Zhengting, Mu Libei, and the other prisoners.
• Mu Fusheng concealed the jade pendant’s origins from Attendant Gong, and the Holy Talisman Sect’s attendants and other factions departed.
• Three days later, Ye Qiubai sensed someone watching him as the group crossed the Latitude Barrier, where a mysterious eye recognized his Primordial Sword Physique.
• The group returned to the Boundless Realm, and Mu Zhengting found that Hong Ying had managed the dynasty well in his absence.
• Hong Ying said she wanted to travel with Mu Fusheng and revealed that a thief had been stealing young ladies’ undergarments from prominent families.

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Mu Fusheng investigated the thief stealing noble families’ intimate garments and set a trap in Boundless Imperial City. As night fell, a small figure slipped out to steal again, while a man followed him in fear of being blamed.

• Hong Ying asked Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Mu Fusheng to investigate the thief after the Boundless Dynasty’s searches failed.
• The three searched the locations listed in Hong Ying’s jade pendant but found no clues.
• Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng deduced that the conceited thief would keep stealing and planned to detect him with sensing talismans and expanded soul perception.
• Mu Fusheng spread his soul power across more than half of Boundless Imperial City, startling the city’s experts.
• A small figure laughed at the soul search and darted out of a courtyard, while a worried man followed him.
• The city’s distinguished families filled their residences with guards as they waited for the thief to strike.

Xiao Shitou was revealed as the black-robed thief who had been stealing underwear throughout Boundless Imperial City. After Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei caught him at the Ping Lineage, they brought him to the imperial palace, where Ye Qiubai questioned his strange interest.

• The Ping Lineage's eldest young lady and her brother waited for the thief, but Xiao Shitou appeared and sealed off their courtyard with spatial power.
• The eldest young lady failed to break through Xiao Shitou's defenses, but Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei arrived and surrounded him.
• Xiao Hei attacked Xiao Shitou, then stopped when he heard the black-robed thief's childlike voice and recognized him as their little junior brother.
• Ye Qiubai took Xiao Shitou to the imperial palace, where he and Hong Ying, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei confronted him about the thefts.
• Ye Qiubai asked Xiao Shitou why he had developed this interest and suggested that Hong Ying could have given him some instead.

Ye Qiubai and the others brought Xiao Shitou back to the Cottage after he stole young ladies’ undergarments, and Lu Changsheng punished him and tracked down the absent Liu Ziru. Lu Changsheng sensed that Shi Sheng was inside a starry secret realm in the eastern Mid-Latitude Realm, with his soul unstable, and sent the others to find him.

• Xiao Shitou hid behind Hong Ying after Ye Qiubai scolded him, and the group took him back to the Cottage.
• Lu Changsheng learned that Xiao Shitou had stolen the undergarments of nearly half the young ladies in Boundless Imperial City and ordered him to face the wall and reflect.
• Lu Changsheng used his divine sense to find Liu Ziru, brought him back, and flicked him in the heart for failing to keep Xiao Shitou out of trouble.
• Ye Qiubai told Lu Changsheng that Shi Sheng had not met up with them in the Mid-Latitude Realm.
• Lu Changsheng sensed Shi Sheng inside a starry secret realm in the eastern Mid-Latitude Realm and told the others to find him because his soul was unstable.

Ye Qiubai learned that the starry-sky mystic realm he sought belonged to the Starry Sky Divine Hall and negotiated for entry by offering access to Heavenly Sword Peak’s own mystic realm. Huo Zhengheng secured the exchange, leaving Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei set to enter when the Starry Sky Mystic Realm opened.

• Ye Qiubai asked Huo Zhengheng and Chu Guidao about a starry-sky mystic realm, and they identified one in the Starry Sky Heavenly Domain that would open in a month.
• Huo Zhengheng explained that entry spots were controlled by the Starry Sky Divine Hall, so Ye Qiubai proposed trading access to Heavenly Sword Peak’s mystic realm for three spots.
• Ye Qiubai started to leave when Huo Zhengheng balked at the proposal, prompting Huo Zhengheng to agree to negotiate the exchange.
• Huo Zhengheng took Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei to the Starry Sky Divine Hall and offered the exchange to its elder.
• The elder accepted the bargain, agreeing that the three juniors could enter the Starry Sky Mystic Realm in return for three of his disciples entering Heavenly Sword Peak’s mystic realm.

As the Starry Sky Mystic Realm’s opening approached, Zong Yan led Starry Sky Divine Hall disciples to confront Ye Qiubai and his companions over their invitation to enter. Zong Yan challenged them to a wager, and Xiao Hei stepped forward to fight him.

• Huo Zhengheng returned to Heavenly Sword Peak after arranging the exchange with Huang Er, while Ye Qiubai and his companions stayed in the Starry Sky Divine Hall’s second inner ring.
• Starry Sky Divine Hall disciples voiced doubts about the outsiders entering the mystic realm, and Zong Yan decided to make them withdraw.
• Ye Qiubai reviewed his past battles, Xiao Hei trained with heavy equipment, and Mu Fusheng read the Book of Talisman Seals as Zong Yan and dozens of disciples arrived at their courtyard.
• Zong Yan demanded that Ye Qiubai and his companions leave, but Ye Qiubai refused and Xiao Hei volunteered to spar.
• Zong Yan agreed that if he lost, he would withdraw from the trip to the Starry Sky Mystic Realm, then charged at Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei defeated Zong Yan with two punches, breaking through his star-intent attack and destroying his Quasi-Immortal Artifact. Ye Qiubai then demanded that Zong Yan honor their wager and reveal who had stirred up the Star Divine Hall’s disciples against them.

• Zong Yan attacked Xiao Hei with a tornado infused with star intent, but Xiao Hei punched through it and charged at him.
• Zong Yan empowered his Quasi-Immortal Artifact feather fan with violet starlight and tried to cut Xiao Hei down.
• Xiao Hei struck the feather fan with a second punch, shattering it and gravely wounding Zong Yan.
• Ye Qiubai approached the fallen Zong Yan and asked who had put him up to the confrontation and which disciple had led the others.

Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng exposed Zong Yan’s reluctance to reveal who had directed him, then tracked him after he left. Zong Yan went to meet Ni Gu, but someone suddenly confronted Ni Gu as he fished.

• Ye Qiubai questioned Zong Yan about who had instigated him, but Zong Yan refused to answer and accepted his loss in the wager.
• Ye Qiubai secretly attached Mu Fusheng’s Ten-Thousand-Li Tracking Talisman to Zong Yan, and Mu Fusheng said it would reveal who was giving the orders.
• Hall Master Huang Er chose not to intervene, saying Ye Qiubai and the others could teach the Star Divine Hall’s disciples humility.
• Zong Yan went to the lakeside courtyard of Ni Gu, the grand elder’s personal disciple who ranked third among the disciples.
• As Ni Gu waited for a fish to bite, an unknown voice asked whether he was the one pulling the strings, and the float on his line rose and stopped moving.

Ye Qiubai confronted Ni Gu after disturbing his fishing, and the two fought when Ni Gu explained that outsiders were unwelcome in the Starry Sky Mystic Realm. The Law Enforcement Hall elder stopped Ni Gu before their clash could continue, then challenged Ye Qiubai over his conduct in the hall.

• Ni Gu grabbed Zong Yan and accused him of bringing Ye Qiubai, but Zong Yan denied it.
• Ni Gu told Ye Qiubai that he opposed outsiders entering the Starry Sky Mystic Realm, then attacked him with a Star Intent–reinforced spear.
• Ye Qiubai used Mu Fusheng's Nine Nether Thunderstorm Talisman to engulf Ni Gu in black lightning.
• Ni Gu unleashed a blood-powered forbidden art and broke through the lightning, but a Law Enforcement Hall elder suppressed him and ordered him to stop.
• The elder rebuked Ye Qiubai for behaving insolently as an outsider in the Star Divine Hall.

Ye Qiubai resisted the Law Enforcement Hall elder’s Star Intent and broke through to Transcendent Sword Intent. He left after making the elder honor his promise not to pursue the matter.

• Ye Qiubai challenged the Law Enforcement Hall elder to learn the facts, and the elder pressed him down with Star Intent.
• Ye Qiubai refused to give up and formed his Sword Domain, but the elder’s Star Intent overwhelmed him.
• Ye Qiubai’s Sword Intent broke through to Transcendence, and he took a step beyond the range of the elder’s suppression.
• The elder shattered Ye Qiubai’s tangible Sword Intent longsword, but acknowledged his promise not to pursue the matter.
• Ye Qiubai thanked the elder for helping him break through and left, while Ni Gu could no longer attack him.

Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei entered the Starry Sky Mystic Realm after Huang Er opened it, hoping to find Shi Qinglan’s castle. Ni Gu planned to challenge Ye Qiubai inside, while Huang Er sensed that the journey might not go smoothly.

• Ni Gu told the Law Enforcement Hall elder he would deal with Ye Qiubai in the mystic realm, where talismans and pills could not be used, and planned to improve his Star Intent with his master, the Grand Elder.
• Ye Qiubai told Mu Fusheng and Xiao Hei what had happened, and the three cultivated while preparing for the mystic realm; Ye Qiubai stabilized his Transcendent Sword Intent, Mu Fusheng studied the Nine-Nine Primordial Chaos Divine Lightning Art, and Xiao Hei trained with weights.
• At the Star Divine Hall, Ni Gu taunted Ye Qiubai about losing access to talismans, and Ye Qiubai calmly told him to wait and see.
• Huang Er opened the Starry Sky Mystic Realm with his staff and explained that the disciples should climb toward the depths to comprehend the stars before the realm closed in thirty days.
• Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei entered the mystic realm to search for the castle where Shi Qinglan was believed to be, while Ni Gu and the other disciples entered as well.
• After the disciples entered, the Grand Elder dismissed the danger of letting the three outsiders in, but Huang Er sensed that the journey might not go smoothly.

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Mu Fusheng entered the Starry Sky Mystic Realm to find Shi Sheng, but discovered that their soul power was being drained as they climbed toward its depths. Ni Gu, Zong Yan, and Xiang Yi were secretly using a Soul-Devouring Star Box to gather soul power and Star Intent, while Mu Fusheng found a way to track the flow toward it.

• Ye Qiubai and his companions entered the starry sky and hurried upward, hoping to locate Shi Sheng despite the sealing force that blocked their senses and talismans.
• As the three advanced, they realized the realm was slowly draining their soul power, and Ye Qiubai suspected this might explain Shi Sheng's weakened soul presence.
• Ye Qiubai recalled Ni Gu's efforts to keep them out of the realm and rushed after Ni Gu and Zong Yan.
• Ni Gu and Zong Yan met Xiang Yi beside a Soul-Devouring Star Box that had been collecting soul power so it could absorb the realm's Star Intent for their cultivation.
• Mu Fusheng sensed the direction their soul power was flowing and proposed following it to find the box.