Chapter Summaries

Tian Xingzi destroyed his natal treasure to kill Sang Dongxing and badly injure Lie Changfeng, then prepared Falling Star Valley to face the arriving enemy forces. Lin Xinghe chose to stay and fight beside him, while Cangyu Sect’s Yu Rong and Xue Qianzong arrived to find their allies missing.

• Tian Xingzi’s attack trapped Lie Changfeng, but the badly damaged magic core escaped after Sang Dongxing was killed.
• Tian Xingzi told Lin Xinghe to escort Xingming and the disciples, but Lin Xinghe insisted on staying to help use the grand formation against the enemy Golden Core cultivators.
• Tian Xingzi agreed to fight alongside Lin Xinghe and ordered him to flee immediately if he received a voice transmission.
• Yu Rong arrived at Falling Star Valley with Cangyu Sect’s elite and found the damaged mountain gate and no sign of Lie Changfeng or Sang Dongxing.
• Xue Qianzong arrived with his forces and asked Yu Rong where Lie Changfeng and Sang Dongxing were, while Lin Xinghe withdrew his prepared attack from within Falling Star Valley.

Lin Xinghe failed to kill Yu Rong before Xue Qianzong arrived, and the two learned that Sang Dongxing and Lie Changfeng were missing. Lie Changfeng later contacted Ning Ying, described the battle at Falling Star Valley, and urged her to join Xue Qianzong to decide whether to attack while Tian Xingzi was badly injured.

• Lin Xinghe abandoned his attempt to kill Yu Rong when Xue Qianzong's pressure approached, and the two found that Sang Dongxing and Lie Changfeng were absent from Falling Star Valley.
• Xue Qianzong sent a transmission talisman to Lie Changfeng and waited with Yu Rong until a message arrived, which he handed to her after reading it.
• Ning Ying traveled toward Falling Star Valley with Night Fox Clan and Rift Wind Clan cultivators, and Lie Changfeng's phantom intercepted her on the way.
• Lie Changfeng told Ning Ying that Tian Xingzi had trapped him and Sang Dongxing, that Sang Dongxing had died detonating his demon core, and that Tian Xingzi had used Shattered Star Fire to destroy his body.
• Lie Changfeng urged Ning Ying to warn Xue Qianzong and consider attacking Falling Star Valley while Tian Xingzi was weakened, then departed to find a body to possess.
• Ning Ying left with her group to meet Xue Qianzong, while Lie Changfeng's phantom headed away after giving instructions to two Rift Wind Clan cultivators.

Liefeng Changfeng escaped after Tian Xingzi destroyed his body, but his demon core was gravely damaged and he manipulated Ning Ying into seeking revenge on Falling Star Valley. Ning Ying told Xue Qianzong and Yu Rong that Tian Xingzi was badly wounded, and Yu Rong insisted the Cangyu Sect would attack regardless.

• Liefeng Changfeng fled from Tian Xingzi, burned most of his demon core’s source power to deceive Ning Ying, and continued toward the Liefeng Clan with his cultivation reduced to the late Golden Core Realm.
• Ning Ying suspected Liefeng Changfeng had used her to draw the factions into attacking Falling Star Valley, but decided to go there and capture Lin Xinghe.
• Ning Ying arrived where Xue Qianzong and Yu Rong were waiting and told them that Liefeng Changfeng’s body had been destroyed and Tian Xingzi was severely injured.
• Xue Qianzong questioned whether Tian Xingzi truly lacked the strength to fight, while Ning Ying left the decision to him and privately considered the Cangyu Sect’s decline.
• Yu Rong declared that the Cangyu Sect would attack Falling Star Valley even if everyone died.

Cangyu Sect and Riftwind Valley moved against Falling Star Valley, while Lin Xinghe assigned Li Yan a dangerous role in the sect’s defensive battle. Falling Star Valley’s formation then placed the Feng Lineage and Pavilion Mountain Sect in a flight-restricted forest to defend against the approaching enemy.

• Yu Rong told the Cangyu Sect disciples that Falling Star Valley had ambushed and killed their Sect Master, and led them toward the mountain gate.
• Ning Ying asked Xue Qianzong whether they should press the attack, and he agreed to go forward cautiously with their forces.
• Lin Xinghe told Li Yan to join the defenders, but Li Yan requested to act alone; Lin Xinghe allowed it and warned him not to harm sect members or betray the sect.
• Li Yan resolved to make the invading sects pay for disrupting his plans, then left his courtyard to act.
• The Feng Lineage’s ancestor and Pavilion Mountain Sect’s Sect Master Wang entered the formation with their forces and discovered that it restricted flight and weakened their combat abilities.
• Sect Master Wang urged the Feng Lineage’s ancestor to choose an ambush position carefully and preserve an escape route until the enemy’s Golden Core cultivators had been drawn away.

Li Yan entered the restricted battlefield alone and hid near a path leading toward Falling Star Valley's inner valley. Meanwhile, Xue Qianzong, Ning Ying, and Yu Rong led their forces through the breached mountain gate, where the Sect Protection Array slowed their advance with illusions and traps.

• Sect Master Wang and the other faction leaders planned to retreat through passages into the inner valley, unaware that returnees would be caged and interrogated.
• Li Yan emerged from the Light Gate, felt the array suppress his movement and Divine Sense, and chose to wait in hiding near a narrow mountain path.
• Xue Qianzong, Ning Ying, and Yu Rong broke through the mountain gate's restriction and entered Falling Star Valley with their forces.
• The array forced the invading cultivators toward the ground and restricted their Divine Sense, so Xue Qianzong warned everyone to advance carefully.
• Yu Rong, Xue Qianzong, and Ning Ying led the group onward, where illusions, mechanisms, and traps repeatedly obstructed them.

Xue Qianzong, Ning Ying, and Yu Rong advanced into Falling Star Valley, where Lin Xinghe’s ambush killed three Foundation Establishment cultivators and split the Golden Core cultivators apart. As the invading forces divided into search teams, the Feng family’s old ancestor and his allies waited in the reeds for an approaching group led by Gao Sha.

• Lin Xinghe emerged from concealment and killed three Foundation Establishment cultivators, including a descendant of Ning Ying.
• Ning Ying pursued Lin Xinghe, and Xue Qianzong joined her after deciding Tianxingzi was likely badly injured, while Yu Rong led the remaining forces onward.
• Yu Rong ordered the Cangyu Sect cultivators to form small teams and offered rewards for finding the inner valley entrance; the other clans also split into groups.
• The Feng family’s old ancestor and Sect Master Wang prepared an ambush in the reed fields, relying on Falling Star Valley’s formation to hinder enemy Divine Sense.
• Gao Sha led more than fifty Riftwind Clan cultivators along a stone path through the reeds, cautiously watching for an ambush as he hoped to find an opportunity to reach the Golden Core Realm.

Gao Sha’s Splitting Wind Clan squad searched the reed marsh for the inner valley entrance after defeating a group of cultivators, but a sudden ambush struck as their Divine Sense weakened. Gao Sha narrowly evaded an attack from below while a strange reed pursued his hand.

• The Splitting Wind Clan cultivators mocked their defeated enemies, while Gao Sha warned them that the real Falling Star Valley cultivators could be dangerous.
• The squad hurried through the reed marsh, continuing to search with Divine Sense despite fatigue and the presence of an Azure Fish Sect group behind them.
• Gao Sha sensed danger as reeds bent against the wind, shouted a warning, and struck at one just as attacks erupted around the squad.
• Gao Sha dodged a green-furred arm bursting from the ground, but the reed caught his right hand and pursued him into the air.
• Gao Sha used black flame to hold the reed back long enough to free his hand and drift away from the grasping arm.

The Feng family and Tingshan Sect ambushed the Gale Rift Clan inside the grand formation, using concealed attacks and underworld ghosts to turn the battle against them. Gao Sha was poisoned by the green-haired zombie and ultimately killed by the Feng family's ancestor, leaving the Gale Rift Clan’s forces overwhelmed.

• The Feng family's ancestor and Sect Master Wang ambushed Gao Sha with concealed reed weapons and a silver attack, while a green-haired zombie emerged from underground.
• The first strike killed seven Gale Rift Clan disciples and wounded Gao Sha and another Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
• The Feng family's Third Ancestor and Tingshan Sect cultivators changed their plan and joined forces against a middle Foundation Establishment Realm member of the Gale Rift Clan.
• Feng family disciples released underworld ghosts, shifting the battle’s numbers and helping their side overwhelm the Gale Rift Clan.
• The Feng family's ancestor, Sect Master Wang, and the zombie pressed Gao Sha, and the ancestor’s ghost claw infected him with corpse poison.
• Gao Sha reverted to his black condor form and used a secret art, but the Feng family's ancestor struck him down while he stood in the shadows.

Sect Master Wang and the Feng Lineage Patriarch’s forces won an ambush but suffered heavy losses, while battles across Falling Star Valley grew increasingly bloody. Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying concluded that the badly injured Tian Xingzi was controlling the sect-protecting formation as they continued fighting Lin Xinghe.

• Sect Master Wang killed Gao Sha, and her forces quickly cleared the battlefield after losing eight disciples and six ghosts.
• Huang Bingfeng ambushed an approaching Snow Moon Wolf Tribe squad, but Nine-Foot Sect was annihilated in the ensuing battle, with only four attackers surviving.
• Fighting spread across Falling Star Valley, leaving more than four hundred dead in less than an hour.
• Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying kept pursuing Lin Xinghe, whose repeated escapes depended on the sect-protecting formation driving them back.
• Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying concluded that Tian Xingzi was seriously injured and using his Divine Sense to control the formation.

Yu Rong’s rampage shattered Falling Star Valley’s plan, while the Feng family patriarch and Sect Master Wang escaped a disastrous battle with their surviving followers. Pursued toward the inner valley’s teleportation passage, they were still in danger as Ying Seventeen and Cui Ting followed close behind.

• Yu Rong slaughtered Falling Star Valley cultivators, broke through the formation’s illusions, and helped the four sects’ forces regroup.
• The green-haired zombie poisoned the Snowmoon Wolf Clan cultivator who had restrained the Feng family patriarch, allowing the patriarch to escape and kill him with his ghost-claw magic treasure.
• The Feng family patriarch and Sect Master Wang fled with a small group of survivors toward the teleportation passage, carrying the gravely wounded third patriarch of the Feng family.
• Sect Master Wang worried over Tingshan Sect’s losses, and the Feng family patriarch reassured her that Falling Star Valley had agreed to provide healing pills.
• Ying Seventeen told Cui Ting to keep pursuing without rushing to kill the fleeing cultivators, while Cui Ting vowed to torture the Feng family patriarch.

As Ying Thirteen and Cui Ting pursued Sect Master Wang and the Feng family’s patriarch, Li Yan secretly guided the fugitives through a mountain pass and repaired his hidden trap. Ying Thirteen’s group entered the passage despite his doubts, where ten enormous silver swords suddenly appeared before them.

• Ying Thirteen and Cui Ting discussed how to divide their forces while chasing the injured Sect Master Wang and the Feng family’s patriarch.
• The Feng family’s patriarch proposed using the rocky mountain path to slow the pursuers, and both groups raced toward it.
• Li Yan secretly warned Sect Master Wang and the Feng family’s patriarch to keep moving, then collapsed rocks behind them to conceal his plans.
• Ying Thirteen suspected the partially blocked road was a trap, but Cui Ting urged the group onward and he followed them into the mountain.
• Ten enormous silver swords appeared before Ying Thirteen and the other four pursuers as they advanced through the shattered rocks.

Silver greatswords ambushed the pursuers, killing three cultivators before Li Yan and his companions finished off Cui Ting and Ying Thirteen. Sect Master Wang and the Feng Family Ancestor witnessed the rapid slaughter and stopped in disbelief.

• Ten silver greatswords attacked Ying Thirteen and his companions, freezing the Night Fox Clan cultivators and drawing Cui Ting and the Snow Moon Wolf Clan cultivators into blocking them.
• The greatswords broke apart and reassembled, killing three pursuers; Ying Thirteen trapped the pieces in his net pouch and realized they were demonic mosquitoes.
• Cui Ting and Ying Thirteen fled, but Li Yan ambushed Cui Ting from behind and killed him while a purple-water demonic beast pierced Ying Thirteen and took his heart.
• Sect Master Wang and the Feng Family Ancestor witnessed the attack and the deaths, then stopped in shock at how quickly the pursuers had been defeated.

Ancestor Feng and Sect Master Wang realized that Zhang Ming, whom Li Yan had left behind on the mountain, might be a powerful hidden cultivator tied to Fang Guangjun’s death. Li Yan then set the Snow Mosquito Clan against the four sects’ forces, leaving a deadly ambush ready for stronger enemies.

• Ancestor Feng recognized Zhang Ming as a Falling Star Valley disciple he had met at the sixth layer of Qi Condensation, and Sect Master Wang concluded he might be a concealed Golden Core Realm cultivator.
• The Feng family’s two ancestors suspected Zhang Ming was connected to Fang Guangjun’s death and feared he might have been sent to monitor their family.
• Li Yan rejected poison and direct combat, choosing instead to use the Snow Mosquito Clan’s swarm tactics against the four sects.
• Li Yan calculated how many Snow Mosquitoes would be needed to overwhelm False Core and late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, then arranged an ambush in the mountain.
• The Snow Mosquitoes killed around thirty Qi Condensation cultivators from the Snow Moon Wolf Clan and Night Fox Clan, draining their bodies before Li Yan reprimanded the Snow Mosquito King for allowing its clansmen to die.

Zhu Luomu and his companions fled from Yu Rong, a Golden Core Realm cultivator slaughtering Falling Star Valley disciples, while he tried to protect his injured companions and reach the teleportation passage. When Yu Rong struck Junior Sister Shen, the burly Senior Brother Zhang detonated several treasures to stop her, forcing her to retreat.

• Li Yan warned the Snow Mosquito King that prolonged fighting would decimate its clan, and the king acknowledged that thousands had already died.
• Zhu Luomu escaped with six disciples, his burly junior brother, and the unconscious Junior Sister Shen after their ambush group encountered Yu Rong pursuing and killing Falling Star Valley cultivators.
• Zhu Luomu ordered his group to flee rather than confront Yu Rong, and Senior Brother Zhang reluctantly followed despite his anger at abandoning their fellow disciples.
• Yu Rong caught up with them and struck Junior Sister Shen, while the force of her attack killed four Qi Condensation Realm disciples.
• Senior Brother Zhang hurled three magic treasures and a high-grade magical artifact at Yu Rong and detonated them, forcing her to retreat at full speed.

Zhu Luomu and the others fled after Zhang’s desperate attack badly wounded Yu Rong, but she recovered and pursued them toward their teleportation passage. With Zhang and his junior sister propelled ahead, Zhu Luomu stayed behind to hold off Yu Rong and give the remaining disciples a chance to escape.

• Zhang shielded his unconscious junior sister from the blast as Zhu Luomu gathered the survivors and urged them to flee.
• Yu Rong rose from the crater, swallowed pills, and quickly caught up as Zhu Luomu ran toward the passage.
• Zhang offered to detonate another treasure, but Zhu Luomu refused and ordered him to take the junior sister and escape.
• Zhu Luomu falsely claimed he had an offensive jade talisman and used his remaining strength to throw Zhang and the junior sister forward.
• Zhu Luomu released the other disciples and ordered them to follow Zhang while he stayed behind to hold off Yu Rong.

Zhu Luomu tried to sacrifice himself to stop Yu Rong, but Li Yan intervened and struck the injured Golden Core Realm cultivator. The chapter left Li Yan pressing his attack while Tian Xingzi and Lin Xinghe continued their ambush elsewhere.

• Zhu Luomu stayed behind with the others, raised his Heaven-Shaking Seal, and prepared to face Yu Rong after calling for his master’s blessing.
• Lin Xinghe heard Zhu Luomu’s cry and asked Tian Xingzi to help him, learning that Zhang Ming was holding Yu Rong off and that Zhu Luomu had been thrown clear.
• Yu Rong suppressed Zhu Luomu’s attempt to detonate the Heaven-Shaking Seal, so Zhu Luomu began to self-destruct his body instead.
• Li Yan struck Yu Rong, sent her flying, and rescued Zhu Luomu by suppressing the spiritual energy in his body and returning his Heaven-Shaking Seal.
• Li Yan recognized that Yu Rong was already injured and moved in to continue attacking her.

Li Yan ambushed Yu Rong while she was weakened, killed the Golden Core cultivator, and took her Storage Pouch. After revealing himself as Zhang Ming, he urged Zhu Luomu and the others to retreat while he went to face the reinforcements.

• Li Yan struck Yu Rong as she struggled to suppress her magical treasure, shattering her arms and chest with a punch.
• Li Yan pursued the injured Yu Rong and killed her with a final blow that pierced her chest, then took her Storage Pouch.
• Zhu Luomu and the others recognized their rescuer as Zhang Ming and were stunned that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had killed a Golden Core cultivator.
• More than a hundred cultivators arrived below the mountain, where silver greatswords appeared and covered the area in ice and snow.
• Li Yan told Zhu Luomu to lead the others into the inner valley to recover, then raced toward the foot of the mountain.

Li Yan used the Snow Mosquitoes and his own strength to destroy an enemy force of more than a hundred cultivators in a matter of breaths, leaving Zhu Luomu stunned by his hidden power. Zhu Luomu realized the swarm was made of mosquito Magic Beasts, and Li Yan pretended to be displeased that his secrets had been discovered.

• Zhu Luomu left the wounded members of his group and flew to the battlefield, expecting to help Zhang Ming against the much larger enemy force.
• Zhu Luomu arrived to find Zhang Ming killing Foundation Establishment cultivators while silver swords and an unseen mosquito Magic Beast attacked the enemies.
• Li Yan recalled the Snow Mosquitoes, revealing a vast swarm of them to Zhu Luomu after the enemy force had been wiped out.
• Li Yan reflected that he had planned the attack carefully, concealed his true strength, and used the battle to demonstrate his value without exposing his Disjointed Poison Body.
• Li Yan confronted Zhu Luomu as though displeased, and Zhu Luomu nervously insisted that he had come to help and had not meant to pry into Li Yan's secrets.

Zhang Ming drove Zhu Luomu away after the ambush, while Tianxingzi and Lin Xinghe lured Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying into Fallen Star Valley’s killing formation. The chapter left Xue Qianzong realizing that Lin Xinghe had concealed his strength to separate the two Golden Core cultivators.

• Zhang Ming warned Zhu Luomu not to claim credit for the Golden Core cultivator’s death and urged him to warn the others.
• Zhu Luomu accepted Zhang Ming’s wishes and left to alert Feng Qiyuan and the other cultivators.
• Tianxingzi and Lin Xinghe lured Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying into the largest killing formation in a cave.
• Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying detected Lin Xinghe and attacked, triggering the formation’s sea of flames.
• Lin Xinghe struck Ning Ying with unexpected force and sent her flying.
• Xue Qianzong realized that Lin Xinghe had concealed his strength to separate them.

Lin Xinghe and Ning Ying fought inside Tianxingzi’s fire formation while the wounded Tianxingzi struggled to sustain it and Xue Qianzong battled the flame giant. As Li Yan approached the concealed fight, Lin Xinghe used a self-destructive secret art to overpower Ning Ying and launched an azure pill at her.

• Xue Qianzong’s attempt to seize Ning Ying was interrupted by a flame giant, while Lin Xinghe engaged her and the two sides fought inside the formation.
• Tianxingzi maintained the formation from an underground chamber despite his grave wounds, and Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying waited in vain for Yu Rong to join them.
• Li Yan sensed restrained spiritual power underground and hurried toward it to investigate the battle.
• Lin Xinghe struck seven major acupoints with the Spirit Aperture Star-Shattering Art, sacrificing his future cultivation to raise his strength to the late Golden Core stage.
• After striking the Baihui acupoint, Lin Xinghe produced an azure pill behind Ning Ying’s head.