Chapter Summaries

The Longbo Kingdom prospered under the Hundred Lands Mountain Range’s support, and Yao Xi invested heavily in educating its few children. On a bustling harbor island, Bixiao visited Longbo Square with Qiongxiao, who showed her the trading hub and its strange wares.

• The Longbo Giants gained wealth, resources, and cultivation opportunities through their alliance with the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, while their population remained small.
• Yao Xi arranged elite teachers and extensive instruction for Longbo children, with plans to take them to hear the Dao Ancestor preach.
• Bixiao and Qiongxiao strolled through the Longbo Kingdom’s only island open to outsiders, which served as a busy transit hub.
• Qiongxiao revealed that she and Eldest Sister had helped build Longbo Square while Bixiao was in secluded cultivation.
• Qiongxiao led Bixiao through the crowded market and explained items including thin cloud gauze, a Puppet doll, a fake night pearl, and a foul-tasting Divine Movement Pill.

Bixiao and Qiongxiao toured a port where traffickers sold intelligent beings, until Zhao Gongming arrived and pursued the offenders with his black tiger, Xuantan, and a Dragon-Binding Rope. Qiongxiao explained that Zhao belonged to the Three-Eyed Clan and described their Heavenly Eyes, then revealed that one of them had once wounded Eldest Sister.

• Bixiao questioned why no one intervened against the traffickers, and Qiongxiao explained that the Three-Eyed Clan dealt with them when they noticed.
• Zhao Gongming appeared in the market, and the frightened vendors fled after he called out their counterfeiting.
• Zhao Gongming sent Xuantan after the traffickers and used a Dragon-Binding Rope to capture them.
• Bixiao realized Zhao Gongming had tamed an Ominous Deity, and Qiongxiao confirmed that he was from the Three-Eyed Clan.
• Qiongxiao explained the Three-Eyed Clan's Heavenly Eyes and said one of their members had once wounded Eldest Sister, though she suspected Eldest Sister had been at fault.

At Penglai Island, Divine Lord Meng Zhang questioned Li Boyang about the fallen Great Unity Star and the contest for the vacant Imperial Star position. Meng Zhang left after warning Li Boyang not to turn the East Sea into a battlefield.

• Divine Lord Meng Zhang asked Li Boyang how he and Yunxiao had met, then explained that he had traced the Great Unity Star’s fall to Li Boyang and Great Unity’s conflict.
• Li Boyang acknowledged that he had joined the future Purple Tenuity Emperor in striking down the Great Unity Star, whose fragments became Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.
• Meng Zhang asked whether Yunxiao and the Three Immortal Islands were incarnations of the Great Unity Star, but Li Boyang said they were separate.
• Meng Zhang linked tremors among the Big Dipper stars to a contest for the vacant Imperial Star position and worried that the Zhoutian Star God System could descend into chaos.
• Li Boyang said the supporting star of the Purple Tenuity Star had already begun to rise, and Meng Zhang inferred that he had come to suppress the Three Immortal Islands as well as pursue Luo Qiao.
• Meng Zhang departed Penglai Island after warning Li Boyang not to make the East Sea a battlefield.

Star Lord Tanlang Zhenwu investigated the strange disturbance among the northern stars and suspected it was connected to a Mountain Folk heavenly palace launched with the Dao Ancestor’s involvement. At Longbo Square, Bixiao learned that the Mystic Garden Gate connected distant spaces and that Qiongxiao had been invited to observe its construction.

• Zhenwu, seeking to advance his Dao of Slaughter, became Star Lord Tanlang while pursuing his ambitions beyond simply proving the Dao.
• Zhenwu saw the Purple Tenuity Star shifting position and wondered who had changed the expected succession after Great Unity’s fall.
• Zhenwu suspected the disturbance was tied to the Dao Ancestor and the Mountain Folk’s latest heavenly palace, then decided to investigate the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Zhenwu used Shrinking the Earth to an Inch to travel a thousand li toward the mountain range.
• Bixiao examined the Mystic Garden Gate at Longbo Square and learned from Qiongxiao that it connected distant spaces and had been modeled after the Dao Ancestor’s Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Qiongxiao told Bixiao that their Teacher had invited her and Eldest Sister to observe the gate’s construction and urged them to remember its designs for future use.

Qiongxiao led Bixiao through the clearance process to enter the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and showed her the Living Map and the Three-Eyed Clan’s advanced technology. Qiongxiao explained that the Three-Eyed Clan freely shared knowledge because they inherited the Dao Ancestor’s ideals, while the Longbo Giants largely kept their wisdom to themselves.

• Bixiao regretted missing recent events while she was in seclusion, and Qiongxiao revealed that Yunxiao was designing a Law Treasure to make travel easier.
• Qiongxiao took Bixiao to apply for passage through the Mystic Garden Gate, where they received Navigation Maps after verifying their identities.
• Bixiao examined the Living Map’s danger zones, temples, public spaces, and transport instructions, while Qiongxiao described more advanced maps that could function as cosmos pouches.
• Bixiao wondered why the Three-Eyed Clan shared valuable knowledge and technology, and Qiongxiao said they inherited the Dao Ancestor’s ideals and confidently spread wisdom.
• Qiongxiao contrasted the Three-Eyed Clan’s generosity with the Longbo Giants, saying that only their teacher was willing to educate them and that even the kingdom’s outstanding witch focused only on her own people.

Qiongxiao and Bixiao entered the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and witnessed its harmonious blend of nature, industry, and advanced constructions. After a Mountain-Moving Strongman scanned the outsiders for illegal entrants, the sisters boarded ferries to continue toward the range’s heart, where more checkpoints awaited.

• Bixiao and Qiongxiao admired the mountain range’s forests, orchards, factories, and estates, then spotted a colossal Bronze Beast moving mountains.
• Qiongxiao explained that the Mountain-Moving Strongman was an artificial Heavenly Deity built with complex mechanisms and formations, and warned Bixiao against challenging it.
• The Mountain-Moving Strongman scanned the outsiders with beams of Dipper light, checked their Navigation Maps, and resumed its work after finding no illegal entrants.
• Luxurious ferries arrived to carry the outsiders across the Thread of Sky, while Bixiao noticed that the Strongman’s display had deterred many ill-intentioned visitors.
• Qiongxiao and Bixiao continued deeper into the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, encountering checkpoints and marveling at the Mountain Folk’s formidable foundations.

Lord Yanyao sensed two remarkable goddesses among the outsiders arriving at River Pillow Peak, while Gouchen argued that Li Jingshu should not risk the Mountain Folk’s lives and deduced that the Star Gods were involved. Gouchen summoned his unusually capable Huodou, leaving Lord Yanyao impressed by what the hunting hound had become.

• Lord Yanyao noticed two star-connected goddesses among the outsiders, but said someone had obscured heaven’s secrets and that neither goddess seemed to be a Dao Proving One from another time or space.
• Gouchen told Lord Yanyao that Li Jingshu should not gamble with the Mountain Folk’s lives, and said the Dao Ancestor would have found a safer solution.
• Gouchen inferred that the Star Gods were at the heart of the matter after studying the Gouchen Heavenly Palace’s public archives, and Lord Yanyao awkwardly changed the subject to the Huodou.
• Gouchen whistled, summoning his Huodou from the horizon with over a hundred sleepy bugs fluttering beside it.
• Lord Yanyao marveled that the Huodou had survived on his dangerous territory, and Gouchen said it was more than a hunting hound.

Bixiao and the others discussed the extraordinary Huodou and the Mountain Folk as they arrived at Flying Sky Stockade’s Heavenly Palace Launch Platform. In the control center, Wu Zhen anticipated that Wu Xian had come because of the Gouchen Heavenly Palace and explained how she handled his intrusion.

• Bixiao and the other passengers wondered whether the fire-walking Huodou was descended from a god, while an elderly man explained the Mountain Folk’s symbiotic contracts and their preferred name.
• The group reached the immense, mechanically operated Heavenly Palace Launch Platform atop Flying Sky Stockade, where Bronze Beasts hauled materials for semiautomated factories.
• Wu Zhen complained that Wu Xian had come to Flying Sky Stockade again, and her assistant suggested revoking his access privileges.
• Wu Zhen said Wu Xian was a Divine Witch whose fear of trouble, especially trouble involving Great Xia, kept him within the rules.
• Wu Zhen suspected Wu Xian had come for the Gouchen Heavenly Palace, whose growing commotion had delayed his visit longer than she expected.

Gouchen revealed that he and Fenglong had created a single-use Heaven and Earth Ring, using the complete Heaven and Earth Talisman Incantation inscribed on Fenglong. Despite Lord Yanyao warning that their experiment violated a taboo and could be deadly, Gouchen and his companions stepped through the unstable portal into an unfamiliar starry sky.

• Gouchen explained that he wanted to transform Huodou Laicai with dragon hound blood so it could grow stronger and remain by his side.
• Gouchen pressed Lord Yanyao to identify the Star God targeting Gouchen Heavenly Palace, but Lord Yanyao warned him that a greater being was behind the attack.
• Gouchen manifested a ring of light and explained that he had been trying to reproduce the Mystic Garden Gate.
• Lord Yanyao recognized the ring as a Heaven and Earth Ring and discovered that Fenglong bore the complete Heaven and Earth Talisman Incantation across his body.
• Lord Yanyao condemned Gouchen and Fenglong for refining a treasure from a living being, but Gouchen and Fenglong entered the unstable ring before he could stop them.
• Huodou and the Sleepy Bugs followed Gouchen into the unfamiliar starry sky.

Gouchen and Fenglong crossed into the starry sky, where Gouchen warned that absorbing stellar power could make them beholden to a Star God. Fenglong agreed to their bargain and headed toward the Gouchen Heavenly Palace, beginning the approach to a coming battle.

• Gouchen endured the starry sky’s cold and suffocation by switching to internal breathing, while Fenglong protected him and Huodou with a lightning domain.
• Gouchen explained that the stars’ power was dangerous to absorb because each strand belonged to a Star God, and Fenglong abandoned his plan to take it in.
• Fenglong reminded Gouchen of their agreement to split the Gouchen star power equally if they reached the Gouchen Heavenly Palace.
• Fenglong set off toward the Gouchen Heavenly Palace after Gouchen scolded him for ordering Laicai ahead, and lightning and starlight heralded the approaching battle.

Wu Zhen identified Fenglong as Gouchen’s shikigami and ordered the observatory’s armament module activated to help him. As Fenglong fought an emissary of the Shanggui Star, Gouchen warned that more Malign Baleful Intent Star emissaries were answering its summons.

• Wu Zhen’s assistant identified Fenglong as Gouchen’s shikigami, a thunder specialist and Hundred Lands University alumnus.
• Wu Zhen decided to help Gouchen and ordered the assistant to activate the observatory’s armament module.
• The emissary of the Shanggui Star appeared before Fenglong, and Gouchen lent him pure lightning Yuan Qi to strengthen his attack.
• The emissary’s Taiyin starlight pierced and destroyed Fenglong’s lightning dragons.
• Gouchen explained that the Shanggui Star summoned other Star Gods, and stellar power began gathering behind the Gouchen Heavenly Palace.

Gouchen and Fenglong fought the apostles summoned by the Death Omen Star, but the Death Omen Herald unleashed the Sound of Celestial Bodies and turned Fenglong’s wind and lightning against him. Fenglong’s body became living thunderstorms that engulfed Gouchen, leaving him under attack.

• The Death Omen Herald’s apostles overwhelmed Fenglong’s summoned lightning dragons, and Gouchen summoned humanoid beetles to protect himself.
• The apostles opened a passage through spacetime and sent more monsters toward Gouchen, but Laicai transformed and attacked them.
• The Death Omen Herald gathered stellar power and unleashed the Sound of Celestial Bodies, making Fenglong’s wind and lightning rebel against him.
• Eyes appeared throughout Fenglong’s body and tore it apart, turning him into living thunderstorms that rushed toward Gouchen.
• The living thunderstorms engulfed Gouchen before he could defend himself.

Inside Gouchen Heavenly Palace, Yinglong and Lu Huaijin’s forces fought off star-born apostles as a Dao-Proving Star God prepared to descend and banish the palace. Yinglong struck Shanggui Star’s reflection with a self-refined inner elixir, revealing a new offensive path, but Lu Huaijin warned that the attack would not be enough to stop the true immortal.

• Yinglong and the Mountain Folk held the battlefront inside Gouchen Heavenly Palace, healing casualties while star-born apostles’ bodies accumulated among the ruins.
• A distorted point in space severed Gouchen Heavenly Palace from the celestial star system, and Lu Huaijin realized a Dao-Proving Star God was preparing to descend.
• Yinglong and Lu Huaijin agreed they needed to prevent the Star God’s true body from arriving, though Lu Huaijin said they were no match for a Taiyi True Immortal.
• Yinglong launched his self-refined dragon pearl at Shanggui Star’s reflection, causing it to shudder and making weaker apostles collapse.
• Lu Huaijin recognized the dragon pearl as an inner elixir combining pill-refining and artifact-refining methods, and Yinglong confirmed he had refined it as a pure offensive weapon.
• Lu Huaijin warned that the inner elixir’s destruction would waste Yinglong’s effort, while noting that its attack was less effective than he believed.

Lu Huaijin used the Tushita Edict to summon golden divine light that trapped Shanggui Star’s projection in a struggle, while Li Boyang watched from Yunmeng Marsh and considered limiting her access to his Tushita incarnation. The chapter left the golden light and starlight still contending at Gouchen Heavenly Palace.

• Shanggui Star’s projection ensnared Yinglong’s dragon pearl with star power, weakening him and shrinking the battle zone.
• Lu Huaijin cast the Tushita Edict · Golden Light Divine Incantation, and golden light from Tushita Heaven disintegrated the apostles.
• Shanggui Star’s projection fought the golden light, which began forcibly dragging it into Gouchen Heavenly Palace.
• Li Boyang sensed Lu Huaijin’s technique from Yunmeng Marsh and realized she had borrowed the power of his Tushita incarnation.
• Li Boyang decided to restrict the Golden Light Incantation, though Xiluo warned that its remaining power could still be dangerous.

Lu Huaijin’s edict stripped Shanggui Star Lord of his Star Lord position, causing Shanggui Star to die and hurtle toward the Gouchen Heavenly Palace. As the survivors evacuated and Lu Huaijin moved to cover their retreat, Gouchen saw the Tushita Palace appear briefly and recalled the legend, “The Sage patrolled the heavens, and the Three Realms bowed.”

• Shanggui Star transformed into an enormous eye as Shanggui Star Lord lost his position and the star began falling faster toward the Gouchen Heavenly Palace.
• Lu Huaijin revealed that her edict had banished Shanggui Star Lord from the Star Gods’ system, and Yinglong ordered everyone to evacuate.
• Yinglong directed Fengyu, Qinglong, and Lü Chuan to activate the formation and strip the Heavenly Palace down to the Central Repository.
• Lu Huaijin flew toward the falling Shanggui Star to cover the retreat while Gouchen, fighting outside, was caught off guard by its appearance and gravity.
• Fenglong was reborn within Gouchen, and Gouchen spotted the Tushita Palace before it vanished and recalled the ancient legend of the Sage.

Wu Xian explained how Tushita Heaven responds when the Three Realms’ balance is disrupted, prompting the Sage to patrol the heavens. As Shanggui Star attacked Gouchen Heavenly Palace, he used a Bagua Compass and discovered that the strange hexagram was connected to the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams.

• Wu Xian recognized the upheaval in the sky as a Sage’s patrol of the heavens and told Qiongxiao and Bixiao they did not need to follow him into Flying Sky Stockade.
• Wu Xian explained that Tushita Heaven and the Dao Ancestor’s incarnation intervene when the Three Realms’ balance mechanism breaks.
• Wu Xian consulted his Bagua Compass and found the current patrol unlike the two he had witnessed before.
• Qiongxiao sensed that the hexagram was abnormal, and Wu Xian praised her divination talent.
• Wu Xian identified the hexagram as the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams developed by Fu Kui and contrasted its mortal perspective with the Dao Ancestor’s Earlier Heaven Eight Trigrams.

Wu Xian explained how the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams let mortals divine by focusing on their own survival, and Qiongxiao recognized its connection to Luo Qiao’s teachings. As Shanggui Star fell toward the earth, Lu Huaijin caught it with her shadows, but the Shanggui Star Lord urged her to stop fighting because the star’s fall had already been made inevitable.

• Wu Xian explained the difference between the Earlier Heaven Eight Trigrams and the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams, and Qiongxiao understood the latter’s focus on seizing a chance to survive.
• Bixiao interrupted Wu Xian and Qiongxiao to ask what was different about the current sage’s heavenly inspection.
• Wu Xian said the inspection had brought no changes to the world, even as Shanggui Star and fragments of heavenly palaces plunged toward the earth.
• Lu Huaijin used her shadows to catch Shanggui Star and summoned Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspects to defeat the Death Omen Heralds attacking her net.
• The Shanggui Star Lord told Lu Huaijin that Shanggui Star’s fall was inevitable and asked her to stop fighting after the Gouchen Heavenly Palace had been destroyed.

Lu Huaijin rejected Shanggui Star Lord’s offer of friendship and prepared to stop the star from falling, while Gouchen helped rescue the fleeing cultivators and noticed his power growing. The chapter left Shanggui Star trembling under Lu Huaijin’s shadowy power as the evacuation continued amid attacks from the Death Omen Heralds.

• Shanggui Star Lord offered to spare Lu Huaijin’s clansmen if she let Shanggui Star fall, and Lu Huaijin deduced that the Star Lord hoped to preserve its Star God status and become a Mountain God as well.
• Lu Huaijin refused the offer because Shanggui Star Lord had destroyed the Gouchen Heavenly Palace and because the falling star would cause a devastating catastrophe.
• Shanggui Star Lord made Shanggui Star blaze and shake, while the shadows behind Lu Huaijin began to take the shape of a colossal god holding up the heavens.
• Gouchen rescued Heaven-Escaping Boats in low orbit as Yinglong protected the other fleeing cultivators and Fenglong fought off Death Omen Heralds.
• Gouchen sensed that the Gouchen Star Power was gathering toward him, and Fenglong confirmed that the power had strengthened him.

After Gouchen’s Yuan Qi transformed into Gouchen Star Power, he realized he had been granted a ready-made path to becoming a Star God. Wu Zhen then hacked into his Bio-Armor and asked him to guide a weapon toward the falling Shanggui Star, leaving Gouchen to weigh a dangerous mission.

• Gouchen’s Yuan Qi completed its transformation into Gouchen Star Power, and he sensed a connection to the stars and a possible path to becoming the Gouchen Star Lord.
• Gouchen suspected the Dao Ancestor had granted him the Taiyi Dao, a shortcut to proving his Dao as a Celestial Star God.
• Wu Zhen of Flying Sky Stockade contacted Gouchen by hacking into his Bio-Armor with electromagnetic waves.
• Wu Zhen told Gouchen that Shanggui Star was steering toward the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and that Lu Huaijin could not hold it off for long.
• Wu Zhen asked Gouchen to act as a living coordinate for an intercepting weapon, explaining that the Imperial Astronomical Instrument needed real-time guidance because Shanggui Star could dodge predicted attacks.
• Gouchen asked why Wu Zhen did not recruit Yinglong, and learned that Yinglong had no Bio-Armor and had been avoiding her attempts to involve him.

Wu Zhen activated the Heavenly Palace Launch Platform’s hidden weapons module and used its formation to fire a crimson beam at Shanggui Star. The beam pierced the star, forcing Shanggui Star Lord to cry out as Shanggui Star broke apart and its fragments began falling toward the earth.

• Yinglong returned to the battlefield and joined Lu Huaijin in confronting Shanggui Star Lord, briefly pushing back Shanggui Star.
• Wu Zhen began charging the Heavenly Palace Launch Platform’s weapons module despite his assistant’s concern about the consequences.
• The platform converted earth-vein Sha Qi into electrical current, disturbing the surrounding gods and gathering immense energy in its astronomical telescope mirror.
• The Heavenly Palace Launch Platform fired a crimson beam that pierced Shanggui Star before Shanggui Star Lord could defend against it.
• Shanggui Star broke apart into falling meteorites, leaving Yinglong and Lu Huaijin shaken by how close they had been to destruction.