Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his team fought through the Obsidian Tribe to stop the Origin Crystal Core ritual and defeat its guardian. They purified the core, saved Crystal Core Star, and prepared to leave for the Void Beast Nest.

• Xiao Yan and his team defeated twelve Obsidian Scouts at Shattered Crystal Beach and collected fragments that could be crafted into bombs.
• Xiao Yan led the group through a crystal cave and past a hidden trap, revealing the Obsidian Tribe's main force and the Origin Crystal Core ritual.
• Xiao Yan disrupted the ritual while his companions fought the Obsidian warriors and leaders, weakening them and summoning the Crystal Core Guardian.
• Xiao Yan and his companions severed the guardian's energy chains and destroyed its chest crystal, defeating it.
• Xiao Yan purified the unstable Origin Crystal Core with the Elemental Core and Ye Xinlan's Dew of Life, preventing the planet's explosion.
• The team unlocked Crystal Manipulation and Energy Crystallization, received an Origin Crystal Core fragment, and got a one-hour teleportation countdown to the Void Beast Nest.

Xiao Yan and his team established a symbiosis contract with the Void Mother Core, learning that the Void Beasts were seeking energy to survive. The contract revealed a withering virus planted by otherworldly colonizers, and the team began fighting to save the mother core and its guardian beasts.

• Xiao Yan and his team crossed the energy-corroding mist, calmed the young Void Beasts, and fought through the Bone-Spike Corridor against Energy-Devouring Worms and their broodmother.
• Xiao Yan used the Illusory Form Beast core to learn that the Void Beasts were not naturally bloodthirsty and that their nest was withering after losing its energy source.
• Xiao Yan and his teammates each contributed spiritual power to the Void Mother Core and established a symbiosis contract, restoring some of its energy and earning the guardian beasts' allegiance.
• The contract exposed a withering virus left by otherworldly colonizers, and the virus emerged from the mother core to attack the team and guardian beasts.
• Xiao Yan tried to suppress the virus, while Zi Yan burned its tentacles and Wu Hao and Lu Mu acted to cut away infected parts and analyze it.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Void Mother Core, fought the Energy-Devouring Core and a colonizer’s remnant soul, and eliminated the Withering Virus. With the mother core healed and the team marked as its guardians, they received the Heart of the Void and prepared to travel to the Starfall Pavilion Ruins.

• Zi Yan, Wu Hao, Xiao Yan, and Lu Mu crossed the energy-eroded corridor, rescued the void beast young, and followed them through a safer route to the core chamber.
• Xiao Yan’s Elemental Core and the young beasts exposed and weakened the Energy-Devouring Core’s imprison rune, while Lin Xiuya and Wu Hao struck its crack.
• A colonizer’s remnant soul emerged and controlled the energy erosion, but Xiao Yan used the young beasts’ purifying energy and Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Flame to destroy it.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Wu Hao shattered the Energy-Devouring Core, and Xiao Yan used the Origin Crystal Core Fragment to purify the mother core and eliminate the virus.
• The team received the Mother Core Guardian Mark and unlocked Void Energy Purification, while Lu Mu uncovered footage revealing that a guardian beast leader had sacrificed itself to seal the virus.
• The guardian beast leader gave Xiao Yan the Heart of the Void, and the group prepared to teleport to the Starfall Pavilion Ruins.

Xiao Yan and his team overcame the Starfall Pavilion Ruins’ traps, defeated its guardian, and recovered the Heart of Starfall. After stopping a colonizer’s remnant soul and escaping the collapsing ruins, they set their sights on the Cloud Sea Heavenly Palace.

• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Wu Hao, and Lu Mu defeated copying mirror images in the contracting corridor by changing their moves and purifying the images before they could merge.
• The group solved the scripture pavilion’s illusory character formation, and Xiao Yan became the target of a hidden inheritance trial that led Zi Yan to discover a secret door.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Wu Hao, and Lu Mu defeated the pill-guarding puppets, found that the Heart of Starfall lay beneath the Pill Flame Pool, and fused three Heavenly Flames to open it.
• Xiao Yan and his companions exploited the Lava Guardian’s weak points and used the fused flame to defeat it, allowing Xiao Yan to claim the Heart of Starfall and undo the Space Seal.
• A colonizer’s remnant soul ambushed Xiao Yan and cracked the Heart of Starfall, but the crystal’s power exposed and destroyed the soul before the team escaped the self-destructing ruins through Wu Hao’s spatial rift.
• The system awarded the team the Power of Starfall and the title Starfall Pavilion Inheritor, and Xiao Yan proposed that they travel to the Cloud Sea Heavenly Palace.

Xiao Yan and his companions passed the Cloud Sea Heavenly Palace’s trials and fought the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon, whose reverse scale controlled spacetime. After stabilizing the dragon instead of destroying him, Xiao Yan received the Spacetime Reverse Scale Fragment and Star Fire Seed, and the group set off for the Heaven Burning Ancient Domain.

• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Wu Hao, Lin Xiuya, and Lu Mu overcame the Cloud Ascending Steps’ illusions, gravity field, and Cloud Beasts.
• The group defeated their reversed Spacetime Mirror Images in the palace corridor and obtained a Spacetime Calibrator.
• Xiao Yan and his companions broke through the Ten Thousand Waters Return Flow Formation, awakening the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Yan struck the dragon’s reverse scale, disrupting his predictions, but its destruction triggered turbulent spacetime currents.
• Xiao Yan and the group stabilized the dragon’s disintegrating body, and the dragon acknowledged Xiao Yan as the inheritor.
• Xiao Yan received the Spacetime Reverse Scale Fragment, unlocked Spacetime Affinity, and obtained the Star Fire Seed before the group departed for the Heaven Burning Ancient Domain.

Xiao Yan and his companions crossed the Heaven Burning Ancient Domain, subdued its hazards, and awakened the Heavenly Flame Origin. After learning that the World-Destroying Fire had awakened in the Realm of Nothingness, they entered the rift to confront it.

• Xiao Yan and the group defeated the Lava Beast tide in Scarlet Fire Canyon and used blue crystal cores to enchant Xiao Yan's dagger.
• Xiao Yan used Dew of Life to neutralize the Heaven Burning Baleful Qi and help Zi Yan, Wu Hao, and Lu Mu break the Bone Fire Formation.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan defeated the Heavenly Flames Guards in the Flame Seed Temple, and Xiao Yan obtained the Purifying Flame Seed.
• Xiao Yan subdued the first five Origin Heavenly Flames in Wan Huo Cavern, but the Three Thousand Burning Flame challenged him to prove he could control them.
• Xiao Yan swore an oath to live and die with the Heavenly Flame Origin, after which all seven flames entered his body and the Origin awakened.
• The Heaven Burning Guardian warned Xiao Yan that the World-Destroying Fire had awakened in the Realm of Nothingness, and Xiao Yan led Zi Yan, Wu Hao, Lu Mu, and Lin Xiuya through the rift.

Xiao Yan and his companions stabilized the Realm of Nothingness’s time distortions, defeated the defenses guarding the World-Destroying Fire, and discovered that it had been created by corrupting the Flame of Creation. They learned that the Time Hourglass converted painful memories into fuel, and Zi Yan asked whether the red core could be restored.

• Xiao Yan and his companions reached the time anchor and held back a spreading time loop while Wu Hao went to retrieve the Fixed Moment from the Time Hourglass.
• Wu Hao resisted the Snake of Time King's future illusions with his resolve to protect his companions and returned with the Fixed Moment, which Lu Mu used to stabilize the anchor.
• Xiao Yan and his companions defeated the colonizer remnants' Time Puppets and destroyed the Spatial Rift Array, then entered the Consciousness Prison.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Wu Hao, Lu Mu, and Lin Xiuya broke free of their memory cocoons and used their anchor memories to defeat the World-Destroying Fire's incarnation.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the red core was the corrupted Flame of Creation, while Lu Mu learned that the Time Hourglass converted painful memories into fuel for the World-Destroying Fire.
• Zi Yan asked whether they could restore the core to the Flame of Creation.

Xiao Yan and his companions stopped the colonizers' plan to detonate the Core of Chaos, purifying it at the cost of nearly losing Xiao Yan's life. After the planes began to recover, they became Plane Guardians and set out through a new portal to explore the Forgotten Plane.

• The group learned that the colonizers planned to use the Flame of Creation to detonate the Core of Chaos, then fought their fleet and escaped the time black hole toward the central region.
• In the Sea of Deathly Silence, the companions resisted the resentment and false memories guarding their path, and Wu Hao destroyed the rune core sustaining the illusion.
• Lin Xiuya's guardian blood opened the Tower of Time, where the group passed trials and their different energies resonated to unlock the top floor.
• The Time Eroder revealed that he was Xiao Yan's altered self from three hundred years earlier and threatened to detonate the Core of Chaos; Xiao Yan fused his blood and the Flame of Creation with it, purifying the core and nearly sacrificing his life.
• The Core of Chaos restored Xiao Yan and helped revive the Sea of Deathly Silence; the companions returned to Wutan City, installed the core in the Guardian Stele, and unlocked cross-plane travel.
• After Lu Mu detected three more planes under colonizer control, Xiao Yan and his companions entered a portal to the Forgotten Plane.

Xiao Yan purified the infected Heart of the Star Core with the Flame of Creation, restoring its energy and bringing the Forgotten Plane back to life. The chapter ended as brilliant blue light spread from the temple across the plane.

• Xiao Yan pressed his palm to the Heart of the Star Core and began purifying the Energy-Devouring Virus at the cost of his life force.
• The Star Core Guardian stopped Zi Yan from helping and explained that purification was the guardian's trial.
• Lu Mu advised Xiao Yan to adjust the Origin Flame's frequency to resonate with the Star Core, reducing the strain and speeding up purification.
• Xiao Yan purified the final dark-red patch, and the Heart of the Star Core released blue light across the Forgotten Plane.

Xiao Yan and his companions destroyed the Soul-Devouring Mother Nest and sealed the Void Rift at Fallen Star Canyon. Xiao Yan gained full activation authorization for the Star-Track Battle Armor and the Void Traversal skill, while the group reunited safely as the villagers began rebuilding.

• Xiao Yan and his companions cleared the Soul-Devouring Insect tide and defeated an Elite Soul-Devouring Beast, recovering a Void Crystal Core.
• Xiao Yan, Wu Hao, Lin Xiuya, Zi Yan, and Lu Mu trapped the larvae and destroyed the Soul-Devouring Mother Beast, earning Star-Track Battle Armor fragments and a Void Purification Core.
• Lu Mu explained that the Void Rift would keep expanding unless someone carried the Purification Core to its energy source, and Xiao Yan assembled temporary Star-Track Battle Armor and entered the rift.
• Xiao Yan placed the Purification Core against the black crystal, then escaped the resentment’s grasp after Wu Hao destroyed the external energy nodes.
• The Void Rift vanished, and Xiao Yan received full activation authorization for the Star-Track Battle Armor and the Void Traversal skill as his companions checked on him.