Chapter Summaries

Lu Huaijin warned Yinglong about Gouchen’s attack, but Gouchen’s crimson strike destroyed Shanggui Star. On Penglai Island, Li Boyang was drawn into a flesh-covered dead star, where a Tai Sui Star Lord declared its intent to restore the Sovereign to power.

• Lu Huaijin used the Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect to recover and prepare to counterattack Shanggui Star Lord.
• Lu Huaijin intercepted encrypted communications between Gouchen and Wu Zhen, spotted Gouchen approaching as starlight, and warned Yinglong.
• Gouchen struck Shanggui Star, destroying it and leaving Lu Huaijin and Yinglong stunned.
• On Penglai Island, Little White Dragon sensed the Star Gods’ sorrow while Li Boyang observed the stars’ reaction.
• A space-time distortion pulled Li Boyang onto a flesh-and-blood dead star divided into sixty domains.
• A Tai Sui Star Lord appeared before Li Boyang and declared that it would restore the Sovereign to his rightful position.

Li Boyang confronted the Tai Sui Star Lord, who sought the remains of the Great Unity Star and tried to drag him out of the era. Li Boyang held the Tai Sui Star in place and shattered it with the Eight Directions Swords, scattering its fragments across space and time.

• The Tai Sui Star Lord demanded that Li Boyang hand over the remains of the Great Unity Star and threatened to kill him.
• Li Boyang challenged the Tai Sui Star Lord's confidence and explained that his sixty eyes could predict only a limited number of possibilities.
• The Tai Sui Star Lord attacked Li Boyang with bloody hands and claws, then tried to carry him out of the era in a spacetime leap.
• Li Boyang summoned the Eight Directions Swords, which pinned the Tai Sui Star to the current era and stopped its spacetime leap.
• The Eight Directions Swords cleaved the Tai Sui Star into fragments and sent them scattering through the starry sky, toward earth, and into other times and spaces.
• The Star Gods trembled at the destruction, while people on earth saw meteors and Tai Sui fragments fall and noticed the sudden dimming of the starlight.

Yunxiao confronted Di Jun’s incarnation and learned that the Three Immortal Islands were the core of the Great Unity Star, whose revival was tied to her birth. Di Jun revealed he had entrusted Yunxiao to Dong Jun, but he did not explain their relationship or what Yunxiao’s nature meant for the world.

• Yunxiao recognized that the little white dragon was Dong Jun and that the Azure Dragon was Divine Lord Meng Zhang.
• Di Jun’s incarnation appeared before Yunxiao, and she asked whether she should call him Father or Di Jun.
• Di Jun denied that Yunxiao was his daughter, but Yunxiao argued that he had deliberately helped bring about her birth.
• Di Jun revealed that the Three Immortal Islands were the core of the abdicated Great Unity Star, which he had hidden from schemers.
• Yunxiao deduced that Di Jun had left because he trusted Dong Jun to protect her, and she guessed that Dong Jun might be an incarnation of Great Unity.
• Di Jun denied that guess and said he trusted Dong Jun because no one would dare invade the islands while Dong Jun was there.

Di Jun explained to Yunxiao that the future Purple Tenuity Star Lord was trying to reverse time and seize the Great Unity Star’s legacy, challenging Di Jun and aiming to become the second Heavenly Emperor. Yunxiao learned that the disturbance among the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper was caused by the Mountain Folk, not Di Jun, and wondered whether the Dao Ancestor was involved.

• Yunxiao deduced that Dong Jun was the Dao Ancestor, and Di Jun told her he had entrusted her to Dong Jun because he had no choice while he went to battle.
• Di Jun explained that the Great Unity Star had fallen and its remains had become the three islands, while the future Purple Tenuity Star Lord sought to achieve Dao Proving in this era.
• Di Jun revealed that the Purple Tenuity Star Lord had contacted Star Gods and attempted to forcibly attain the Great Unity Dao Fruit, hoping to rewrite his origins and replace Di Jun as the second Heavenly Emperor.
• Yunxiao inferred that Di Jun had reappeared because the coming battlefield no longer concerned him, then asked whether he had caused the Big Dipper’s abnormality.
• Di Jun denied causing the Big Dipper’s disturbance and said the Mountain Folk were responsible, prompting Yunxiao to ask whether the Dao Ancestor was uninvolved.

Li Boyang confronted the Purple Tenuity Emperor over his effort to restore the Great Unity Star, while Nü E used a new time-altering function of the Mystic Garden Barrier to redirect falling meteors. The chapter ended with Nü E demanding that Li Jingshu explain several secret projects and changes involving the Heavenly Palace and Gouchen.

• Li Boyang confronted the Purple Tenuity Emperor after destroying the Tai Sui Star, and refused to let him make the Great Unity Star the future Emperor Star.
• The Purple Tenuity Emperor traced Li Boyang's interference to the Dao Ancestor, the Queen Mother of the West, and the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Nü E activated the Mystic Garden Barrier's time-control function, making meteors fall at different speeds and times around the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Jingshu explained that the barrier imitated the Heavenly Realm's torrent of time to create a one-day-in-heaven, one-year-on-earth time difference.
• Nü E questioned Li Jingshu about the Heavenly Palace Launch Platform becoming a Star-Shattering Cannon and about Gouchen, the Star God Network, and the Great Luo Dao and Taiyi Dao.

Li Jingshu explained how the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace Project became tied to a future that someone was forcing toward Gouchen Heavenly Palace. Nü E realized the one behind it was likely the ambitious Purple Tenuity Emperor.

• Nü E confronted Li Jingshu about the Star-Shattering Cannon, and Li Jingshu denied knowing what Wu Zhen had done.
• Nü E threatened to tell Li Boyang, prompting Li Jingshu to admit she feared being imprisoned in Flying Peak’s rear mountains.
• Li Jingshu recounted how she built the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace Project with Nü E’s support and completed the Gouchen Heavenly Palace.
• Li Xi warned Li Jingshu that an unknown power was narrowing the possible futures and making Gouchen Heavenly Palace inevitable.
• Li Jingshu concluded that no Gouchen Star Lord could be responsible, and Nü E identified the Purple Tenuity Emperor as the likely culprit.

Li Jingshu revealed that she planned to make Gouchen the future imperial star and place the celestial stars under the Mountain Folk’s control, provoking Nü E’s fury. Nü E recognized the scale of her ambition and warned that it threatened Wangshu and Primordial Sovereign Doumu’s authority.

• Li Jingshu explained that the Purple Tenuity Emperor intended to use the Gouchen Heavenly Palace to achieve Dao Proving, but she planned to make Gouchen itself the future imperial star.
• The Purple Tenuity Emperor lost influence over the Gouchen Heavenly Palace, and his attempt to preserve his plans led him to seize the Great Unity Star’s remains.
• Nü E angrily accused Li Jingshu of endangering the Mountain Folk and dragging Gouchen into a conflict with the Purple Tenuity Emperor.
• Li Jingshu insisted that the Mountain Folk had to control the Gouchen Heavenly Palace and said Gouchen would become the true Gouchen Star Lord and eventually the imperial star.
• Nü E realized Li Jingshu intended for the Mountain Folk to claim all celestial stars and warned that this challenged Primordial Sovereign Doumu’s authority and targeted Wangshu.

Nü E realized Li Jingshu’s plan to make the Mountain Folk monopolize the Star God Dao could not succeed, then discovered she had given Gouchen her Bio-Armor, which carried one of Li Boyang’s transformed eyes. Meanwhile, Gouchen faced Shanggui Star Lord’s collapsing star core and used Fenglong as a living shield while preparing to escape.

• Nü E concluded that Li Boyang had not stopped Li Jingshu because her plan to monopolize the Star God Dao was doomed to fail.
• Nü E learned that Li Jingshu had given Gouchen her specially conditioned Bio-Armor, which contained one of Li Boyang’s eyes.
• Shanggui Star Lord hurled fragments of its shattered star at Yinglong and Lu Huaijin, then sent its remaining core toward Gouchen.
• Gouchen sent Huodou clear and forced Fenglong to become lightning dragons that repeatedly struck the star core, slowing it down.
• Gouchen formed an escape formation beneath his feet as the star core slowed.

Shanggui Star Lord cursed Gouchen as the stellar core neared him, and Gouchen expelled Fenglong to spare him before facing death. Li Xuandu arrived from another spacetime, restored Gouchen’s body, and guided his power to destroy the stellar core.

• Shanggui Star Lord cursed Gouchen with a stellar curse, causing his formation to dissipate and his body and soul to fail.
• Gouchen forcibly expelled Fenglong from his body and asked him to care for Laicai and tell his parents he had died a hero.
• Lu Huaijin and Yinglong tried to stop the stellar core from killing Gouchen, but neither could reach him in time.
• Li Xuandu arrived in the Nine Dragons Agarwood Chariot and halted time around the stellar core and Gouchen.
• Li Xuandu restored Gouchen with his Star Power, then Gouchen’s palm-eye released an attack that shattered the stellar core into atoms.

Li Boyang showed the Purple Tenuity Emperor the Thirty-Three Heavens and revealed the Great Unity Star’s role in the struggle over the imperial star. The Purple Tenuity Emperor realized he had become a pawn in a conflict between Great Unity and the Dao Ancestor, and regretted trying to prove his Dao through Great Unity Star.

• A new vermilion star, born after Gouchen shattered Shanggui Star’s core, appeared and took Gouchen’s stellar position.
• The Purple Tenuity Emperor asked Li Boyang whether he planned to make Gouchen the imperial star or claim that position himself.
• Li Boyang cut through the barrier between the Heavenly Realm and the mortal world, showing the Purple Tenuity Emperor the Thirty-Three Heavens and Great Unity’s blazing sun.
• The Purple Tenuity Emperor realized Great Unity sought to reclaim influence over the mortal world through Great Unity Star, while the Dao Ancestor opposed that outcome.
• The Purple Tenuity Emperor understood that he had become the Dao Ancestor’s enemy and lamented that he had tried to prove his Dao through Great Unity Star.

Li Boyang confronted Great Unity over the rules surrounding the Great Unity Star and demanded support for proving a sun-related Dao. As his Dao Proving transformed the Three Realms, fragments of the fallen star rose from the East Sea, and the Fusang Great Emperor appeared.

• The Purple Tenuity Emperor realized Li Boyang was more than an ordinary ally of the Dao Ancestor or Queen Mother of the West as Li Boyang confronted Great Unity.
• Li Boyang accused Great Unity of breaking their tacit rules by guiding the future Purple Tenuity Emperor and demanded that Great Unity help him prove a sun-related Dao.
• Great Unity agreed to Li Boyang's terms, and Li Boyang entered the Heavenly Realm as the sun's power surged.
• Yunxiao witnessed the night turn to day and azure longevity Qi spread through the Three Realms as Di Jun shielded her from the trembling island.
• Fragments of the Great Unity Star rose from the East Sea, and two saplings grew into towering Fusang Trees.
• A Golden Crow appeared on the Fusang Tree as the Dao Ancestor's new incarnation, the Fusang Great Emperor.

Li Boyang and Xiluo watched Dong Jun turn the Qi of Azure Yang into a path to longevity, but Dong Jun revealed that he aimed for more than completing a longevity Dao fruit. He transformed the Donghua Realm and tempered Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, declaring himself Sovereign Lord Donghua as a fifth Great Luo Golden Immortal seemed about to be born.

• Li Boyang revealed the ten continents and Three Immortal Islands within the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land, and Xiluo questioned why he had helped create the Qi of Azure Yang.
• Xiluo recognized that Dong Jun’s Qi of Azure Yang could grant true longevity and break the limits of living beings’ races.
• Li Boyang showed Xiluo the Thirty-Three Heavens and the gathering celestial beings and Dao Proving Ones watching Dong Jun.
• Great Unity asked Dong Jun why he continued after completing the longevity Dao fruit, and Dong Jun said he sought far more than longevity.
• Dong Jun shattered the Donghua Realm, formed an Eight Trigrams formation, and used the sun to temper Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi into Pure Yang Qi.
• Dong Jun transformed into a towering divine being and declared himself Sovereign Lord Donghua as onlookers wondered whether a fifth Great Luo Golden Immortal was being born.

Dong Jun proclaimed himself Sovereign Lord Donghua and used the power of Great Unity to raise Pure Yang Qi and attempt to prove the Dao of Great Luo, shaking the balance of the Three Realms. As the Fusang Great Emperor also transformed into a new sun, Great Unity withdrew his light and waited to see how far the two incarnations of the Dao Ancestor would go.

• Dong Jun transformed the Donghua Realm and raised Pure Yang Qi, causing the Three Realms and the Long River of Time to change as he attempted to prove the Dao of Great Luo.
• The Dao Proving Ones judged Sovereign Lord Donghua's breakthrough imperfect and speculated that the Fusang Great Emperor might inherit the path if Dong Jun failed.
• Yunxiao wondered whether Dong Jun would fail, while Di Jun watched the Fusang Great Emperor's Qi of Azure Yang transform into Pure Yang Qi.
• The Fusang Great Emperor flew into the starry sky and became a new sun, driving Great Unity's light from the mortal world.
• Great Unity withdrew his light from the mortal world and Heavenly Realm, allowing Sovereign Lord Donghua's radiance to shine across the Heavenly Realm.

Sovereign Lord Donghua joined the Great Emperor of Fengdu and the Fusang Great Emperor to establish the Dao of Pure Yang, which began transforming the concept of immortals into reality. The Netherworld ascended and gained the ability to nurture souls independently, while Dao Proving Ones realized Donghua was attempting to create a path to immortality encompassing all things.

• The Great Emperor of Fengdu became a dark sun, joining Sovereign Lord Donghua and the Fusang Great Emperor to help the Dao of Pure Yang take shape.
• Wu Yao, Diting, and the Netherworld's ghosts witnessed the dark sun rise, while Ye Ming recognized the event as an unprecedented Dao Proving.
• The Netherworld Lord sensed that the Netherworld would no longer depend on the living world for souls and helped it ascend in dimension.
• Dao Proving Ones from across time recognized that the Dao of Pure Yang was becoming the foundation of the Dao of Immortals.
• The Dao Proving Ones realized Sovereign Lord Donghua was using the Dao of Pure Yang and the Qi of Azure Yang to define immortals as beings that could cultivate, live forever, and roam freely.

Sovereign Lord Donghua began proving the Dao of Immortals, leaving Zhuang Zhou to suspect that Li Boyang had a plan to overcome its flaws. Li Boyang asked Xiluo to join him as the Dao’s yin counterpart, and she complained but appeared ready to help.

• Zhuang Zhou watched Sovereign Lord Donghua prove the Dao of Immortals and wondered how he could succeed when the path was too broad and difficult.
• Zhuang Zhou suspected Li Boyang intended to use the complementarity of yin and yang to make up for the Dao of Pure Yang’s shortcomings.
• Xiluo accused Li Boyang of deliberately laying the groundwork for the Dao of Immortals and exploiting Great Unity’s mistake to secure his help.
• Li Boyang explained that he wanted to make the Dao of Immortals an open path shared with others and said he and Xiluo could govern its yang and yin immortals together.
• Xiluo protested that Li Boyang was taking advantage of her, while Li Boyang calmly concluded that she was about to accept the responsibility.

The Queen Mother of the West joined Sovereign Lord Donghua in proving complementary Pure Yin and Pure Yang Dao Paths, creating the new Dao of Immortals and disrupting the Three Realms. As Supreme Lord Lao worked to restore balance, the Heaven-Eroding Lord realized the new Dao might aid his own path to Dao Proving, though he doubted he could reach that stage.

• The Queen Mother of the West appeared beside Dong Jun and manifested a Dao of Pure Yin that complemented Sovereign Lord Donghua's Dao of Pure Yang.
• The two Dao Paths formed a new cycle, causing the Eight Trigrams Furnace to explode and leaving the Three Realms unstable for what could be tens of thousands of years.
• Supreme Lord Lao used the Taiji Diagram to bind the Yin-Yang fish and released new Yuan Qi that helped smooth the upheaval across the Three Realms.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord sensed the new Qi of Yin and Yang and realized the Dao of Immortals could help him prove a Dao in a world he created.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord wondered whether he could truly reach that point.

The newly born Dao of Immortals lowered cultivation barriers, increased Primordial Qi, and made longevity attainable for cultivators. Zhenwu agreed to take the weakened Fenglong to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, then put him in a Heaven and Earth Pouch and carried Huodou along.

• Cultivators noticed that the Dao of Immortals had lowered the cultivation threshold and increased the concentration and spirituality of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.
• Li Boyang recognized that Yin and Yang Qi and Azure Yang Qi had opened a path to longer life for cultivators, and considered writing a longevity breathing guide if nobody specialized in the practice.
• Zhenwu questioned whether the badly weakened Fenglong was truly the Thunder God of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Fenglong offered to have Gouchen, his other half and a newly born Celestial Orthodox God, accept Zhenwu as a subordinate star if Zhenwu took him back to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Zhenwu accepted the deal, put Fenglong into a Heaven and Earth Pouch, and carried Huodou with him.

Xiluo inspected a malformed Ginseng Fruit grown in the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm and restrained it when it attacked her. As she asked the Nüman to monitor the other experimental longevity medicines, she wondered whether the difficult-to-cultivate Ginseng Fruit was worth developing.

• The Nüman gathered around a strange Ginseng Fruit growing from a tree rooted in the Immortality Tree.
• Xiluo arrived and found the fruit malformed, foul-smelling, and apparently dangerous rather than life-extending.
• Xiluo awakened the Ginseng Fruit, restrained it with her ribbons when it tried to attack, and pulled it away from the curious Nüman.
• Xiluo asked the Nüman to help monitor the many automatically bred longevity medicines across the expanding realm.
• Xiluo considered the Ginseng Fruit’s disadvantages and questioned whether it was worth continuing to cultivate.

Li Boyang visited Hundred Lands University's new floating mountains and met Deception Rabbit, who had become a teacher there. The chapter ended with Deception Rabbit revealing that he taught a course on shapeshifting.

• Li Boyang admired the floating mountains above Mountain God Reservoir and imagined them as an immortal sect, though students' flying contraptions spoiled the scenery for him.
• Deception Rabbit arrived in humanoid form and asked why Li Boyang had not announced his visit.
• Li Boyang praised Deception Rabbit's rapport with his students and compared his teaching favorably to Big Girl's.
• Li Boyang asked what Deception Rabbit taught, and Deception Rabbit named his course Applications and True Understanding of the Thousand Transformations Divine Ability.

Li Boyang advised the Deception Rabbit to teach the Technique of Transformation through changing objects and substances before asking students to alter their own bodies. His demonstration unexpectedly awakened a fire snake that the Deception Rabbit realized was a completely new race.

• Li Boyang explained that university courses at Hundred Lands University were flexible, with only Basic Cultivation and Ideological Education compulsory.
• The Deception Rabbit described the difficulty of teaching other races and spirit creatures to take human form in his Transformation Class.
• Li Boyang said students feared distorting their own bodies and suggested beginning with transformations of objects and substances.
• Li Boyang reshaped a candle flame into a winged fire snake to demonstrate a basic alteration of form.
• The Deception Rabbit grabbed the apparently living fire snake and realized Li Boyang had created an entirely new race.