Chapter Summaries

After escaping Meng Jingxian, Chen Feng returned to the Painting Scroll World and used a Dao Rhyme Crystal to restore his Dao Fruit, choosing to save the remaining power for the painting scroll. He learned that the Taiyi Dao Sect had come seeking him after its investigation near the Heavenly Profound Holy Land went badly, and went to meet its representatives.

• Meng Jingxian went to the Three Saints Sect's deacon hall to find out who had recently left the sect and pursue the stolen Dao Crystals.
• Chen Feng visited Lin Wei at the moon base, gave her a Supreme Profound Crystal to study, and heard her assessment that the Crimson Cloud Empire was at least a level-two civilization.
• Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect, checked on Yinyin, and gave Zhengjiao a drop of his starlight Essence Blood after Zhengjiao asked for it.
• Zhengjiao decided to leave the sect and temper himself with Xiao Tong after Xiao Tong's master completed her Self Tribulation.
• Chen Feng absorbed enough Dao Rhyme from the Crystal of Dao Rhyme to restore his Dao Fruit, then chose to keep the rest for the painting scroll's modification ability.
• Liu Qian told Chen Feng that the Taiyi Dao Sect had been waiting to meet him after nearly all its experts sent to investigate near the Heavenly Profound Holy Land failed to return, and Chen Feng agreed to see them.

Chen Feng joined the Taiyi Dao Sect’s alliance to investigate the barrier that might conceal a new universe, in exchange for access to its Black Eye to visit the Northern Darkness Domain. Three months later, he traveled with Xingfeng Sect juniors toward the alliance gathering, planning a stop to see the Five Divine Platforms.

• Xiao Ruoyun and Su Mu visited Chen Feng, explained that the barrier might hide an entirely new universe, and invited Xingfeng Sect to join the alliance.
• Chen Feng agreed to join the alliance after Xiao Ruoyun promised him access to the Black Eye for a solo trip to the Northern Darkness Domain lasting up to half a year.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to select mostly younger cultivators to accompany him to the alliance gathering in the Tianhong Star Domain.
• Xiao Ruoyun told Su Mu that Chen Feng felt dangerously powerful before they left to invite other factions.
• In the Three Saints Sect, Meng Jingxian stopped searching for the Blood-Handed Butcher and agreed to go Beyond the Realm with his master.
• Three months later, Chen Feng traveled with a hundred Antimatter Warships and Xingfeng Sect juniors, planning to stop in the Five Platforms Star Domain to visit the Five Divine Platforms.

Chen Feng led the Xingfeng Sect fleet into the Five Platforms Star Domain and let the younger disciples explore while he went to see the Five Divine Platforms. He brought Chang Yan and other cultivators to witness the cosmic wonder, then showed them how vast the known universe was, leaving them shaken by how little they understood of it.

• Chen Feng agreed that Wang Fengnuo, Tang Xiaoxiao, and the other young disciples could explore separately, provided they gathered at the Starry Sky Vortex in five days.
• The fleet passed through the Five Platforms Star Domain’s protective array after Wang Fengnuo introduced the group to Shangguan Hong of the Five Platforms Divine Cult.
• Chen Feng told Wang Fengnuo he would visit the Five Divine Platforms, while the fleet split into smaller groups to explore or remain aboard to cultivate.
• Chen Feng summoned Chang Yan and the other cultivators who stayed behind and brought them to see the Five Divine Platforms.
• When Ge Hong and the others praised Chen Feng’s strength, Chen Feng showed them a star map of the known universe, leaving them stunned by its scale.

Chen Feng entered the Five Divine Platforms, discovering they were an unusual illusion projected from an unknown space rather than a place with anything inside. After he emerged, cultivators surrounded him and demanded to know what he had found.

• Chen Feng led Chang Yan and the others through the distorted spacetime around the Five Divine Platforms, while other cultivators who tried to follow were torn apart.
• Chen Feng left Chang Yan and the others behind and approached the platforms alone, eventually passing through their soft light and entering them.
• Wang Fengnuo, Tang Xiaoxiao, Zhengjiao, and Xiao Tong arrived as the surrounding cultivators watched Chang Yan's group with greedy intent.
• Chen Feng emerged after a quarter of an hour and told Wang Fengnuo that there was nothing inside the Five Divine Platforms.
• Shen Shuyan and another Dao Integration cultivator confronted Chen Feng, demanding to know what he had seen, and Chen Feng said the platforms were an illusion projected from elsewhere.

Chen Feng defended Wang Fengnuo from Ma Ying and suppressed the cultivators who came to challenge him. Tantai You recognized Chen Feng, punished those responsible, and asked whether his response satisfied him.

• Ma Ying attacked Wang Fengnuo, so Chen Feng destroyed her physical body and prepared to leave with his group.
• Cheng Cang arrived with Five Platforms Divine Cult cultivators, but Chen Feng's Star Power forced more than three thousand people to their knees.
• Tantai You arrived and recognized Chen Feng as the Xingfeng Sect's leader, then asked what had happened.
• After learning the cause, Tantai You shattered Cheng Cang's physical body and ordered him sent to Blackwater Pool for six thousand years.
• Tantai You erased Ma Ying's Primordial Spirit, ordered the other offenders arrested, and asked Chen Feng whether he was satisfied.

Chen Feng visited the Five Platforms Divine Cult, where he learned that the Five Divine Platforms were only a projection and heard about the cult’s ancestor. The cult tested his karmic luck with its Karmic Luck Stone, but the stone showed no response to his blood, leaving everyone wondering what was wrong with him.

• Tantai You settled the conflict with the local cultivators and invited Chen Feng to the Five Platforms Divine Cult.
• At Purple Jade Star, Chen Feng admired the star’s immense Star Energy and joined Tantai You at the cult’s headquarters.
• Tantai You asked Chen Feng about the Five Divine Platforms, and Chen Feng explained his experience and theory that the platforms were a projection of a real object.
• Tantai You revealed that the cult’s ancestor had warned them that the Five Divine Platforms did not belong to their star domain.
• Tantai You brought Chen Feng to the Karmic Luck Stone and explained how it measured karmic luck; Chen Feng agreed to let it test him.
• The Karmic Luck Stone showed no response to Chen Feng’s blood but emitted purple light when a Five Platforms Divine Cult cultivator tried it, puzzling Chen Feng and the others.

Chen Feng and Tantai You traveled to the Tianhong Star Domain for the alliance gathering, discussing the danger of the Taiyi Dao Sect and what might lie beyond the barrier. There, Chen Feng encountered the Jade Spirit Palace, whose disciple Luo Yinxue was an old acquaintance he had not seen for a hundred years.

• The Karmic Luck Stone failed to reveal Chen Feng's karmic luck, and Tantai You agreed to join him at the alliance gathering.
• Tantai You's fleet joined the Xingfeng Sect's journey, and the Divine Cult's cultivators later transferred to Chen Feng's faster Antimatter Warships.
• Chen Feng and Tantai You discussed the risks of the alliance and Tantai You suggested that the barrier might conceal a separate world rather than a new universe.
• The fleet arrived at Cloud-Hidden Star, where Chen Feng saw the Jade Spirit Palace's ships and learned about the reclusive sect.
• Leng Shuangyan told Luo Yinxue she could return to her home planet after attempting to break through to Void Refinement, and Luo Yinxue thought of Chen Feng.

Chen Feng joined the alliance meeting on Cloud-Hidden Star, where the gathered forces planned to seize the world behind a barrier the Heavenly Profound Holy Land was trying to open. After learning that the Holy Land would soon break through, Chen Feng advised waiting until its forces were weakened before attacking.

• Honghuzi welcomed Chen Feng and Tantai You to Cloud-Hidden Star, while Wang Fengnuo led several Xingfeng Sect disciples off to gather information.
• Leng Shuangyan arrived with Jade Spirit Palace cultivators, and the assembly learned that she was the palace's deputy master.
• Honghuzi introduced Chen Feng as Chen of the Northern Territory, and the gathered cultivators greeted him as a powerful ally.
• Honghuzi explained that the Heavenly Profound Holy Land planned to open the barrier soon and claimed the world beyond it held vast resources.
• As the alliance debated how to attack, Chen Feng proposed waiting until the Heavenly Profound Holy Land had broken through the barrier and exhausted its forces.

Luo Yinxue discovered that the merchants at the alliance gathering were from the Xingfeng Sect and learned that Chen Feng had brought the sect to the gathering. She was left shocked by how far the sect had risen and eager to see Chen Feng again.

• Wang Fengnuo and Tang Xiaoxiao sold Xingfeng Sect goods at the Cloud-Hidden Sect's square, drawing a crowd of curious cultivators.
• Luo Yinxue recognized a satellite phone at their stall and asked to speak with the two women privately.
• Luo Yinxue introduced herself as a member of the Luo Clan, and Wang Fengnuo and Tang Xiaoxiao confirmed they were from the Xingfeng Sect.
• Wang Fengnuo told Luo Yinxue that Chen Feng had brought the Xingfeng Sect to the alliance gathering after receiving an invitation from the Taiyi Dao Sect.
• Luo Yinxue was stunned to learn that the Xingfeng Sect had been invited, then asked about Chen Feng and heard that he was attending the meeting.

Luo Yinxue reunited with Wang Fengnuo and Tang Xiaoxiao, but a confrontation with Ding He escalated into a battle between the Jade Spirit Palace and the Xingfeng Sect’s allies. As the alliance meeting’s Dao Integration cultivators discussed their strategy against the Heavenly Profound Holy Land, news of the melee was sent to them.

• Luo Yinxue learned Chen Feng was at the gathering and listened as Wang Fengnuo recounted the Xingfeng Sect’s growth, while Tang Xiaoxiao teased her about Chen Feng’s many women.
• Ding He insulted Luo Yinxue and tried to strike Tang Xiaoxiao, but Wang Fengnuo shot through Ding He’s palm and arm with an Antimatter Pistol.
• Jiang Yufeng confronted Wang Fengnuo and Tang Xiaoxiao, and Zhengjiao arrived with Xiao Tong before attacking Jiang Yufeng.
• Ding He ordered the Jade Spirit Palace cultivators to seize Wang Fengnuo and the others, but Luo Yinxue defended them and Shangguan Hong arrived with the Five Platforms Divine Cult to help.
• Shangguan Hong attacked Ding He, who blocked him with a talisman and called for reinforcements, while the Five Platforms Divine Cult and Jade Spirit Palace broke into a chaotic melee.
• Cultivators sent word of the fight to the council hall, where Dao Integration leaders were discussing a plan to divide the Heavenly Profound Holy Land by attacking its vassals’ star regions.

Chen Feng and the alliance leaders paused their plans to deal with a fight between the Jade Spirit Palace and the Xingfeng Sect, which Leng Shuangyan ended by killing Ding He and apologizing to Chen Feng. The meeting resumed after the dispute was settled, while Luo Yinxue struggled to process seeing Chen Feng again.

• Honghuzi asked Chen Feng to help defeat Holy Lord Bright Moon and then assist him against Hun Leizi, but Chen Feng only said he would act when the time came.
• A Taiyi Dao Sect elder reported that the Jade Spirit Palace and Xingfeng Sect were fighting in the square, so Chen Feng and the other leaders went to intervene.
• Chen Feng saw Luo Yinxue among the fighters, while Leng Shuangyan destroyed Ding He's body and then killed her Primordial Spirit for bullying the weak.
• Leng Shuangyan apologized and offered compensation, and Chen Feng agreed to let the matter end without compensation before Honghuzi led the leaders back to their meeting.
• Wang Fengnuo asked Luo Yinxue to plead for her and Tang Xiaoxiao, and Luo Yinxue agreed while privately reeling from seeing Chen Feng again.

Chen Feng finalized the Xingfeng Sect’s assignments for the coming attack and reunited with Luo Yinxue, who told him how she had spent the past hundred years. Half a month later, Hun Leizi and Holy Lord Bright Moon began preparing to break the barrier in the Heavenly Profound Star Domain.

• Chen Feng let Wang Fengnuo and Tang Xiaoxiao stay after Luo Yinxue pleaded for them, then assigned them and Zhengjiao to attack star regions while Xiao Tong was told not to fight unless their lives were in danger.
• Luo Yinxue told Chen Feng she had left Canglan Star a hundred years earlier to cultivate at the Jade Spirit Palace, and Chen Feng gave her an Antimatter Warship and a Quantum Communication Bracelet.
• Luo Yinxue nearly confessed her feelings to Chen Feng, then returned to the Jade Spirit Palace, where Leng Shuangyan approved her plan to visit Canglan Star and offered to accompany her.
• Lan Bing reported that Chen Feng had once been a Nascent Soul cultivator, and Leng Shuangyan ordered the others not to investigate him further.
• Half a month later, Hun Leizi and Holy Lord Bright Moon gathered Dao Integration cultivators at the completed formation by the barrier and began their preparations to break it, while Hun Leizi trusted Grotto-Heaven Heavenly Venerable’s promise to help him reach the Dao Breaking Realm.

Hun Leizi used a formation powered by Yuan Spirit to break the barrier, while Chen Feng watched and discovered that the world behind it was the Mystic Yellow Realm. After finding the passage from Earth had vanished and the Mystic Yellow Realm had been absorbed into the Painting Scroll World, Chen Feng saw a group of people in the revealed chaos.

• Hun Leizi activated a formation that drew Yuan Spirit and sent beams against the barrier, while Chen Feng secretly watched and wondered why the Heavenly Profound Holy Land could harness Yuan Spirit.
• Honghuzi arrived with dozens of Dao Integration cultivators and threatened to destroy the Heavenly Profound Holy Land, but the barrier suddenly began collapsing before they could attack.
• Chen Feng saw the Mystic Yellow Realm appear on the scroll and teleported to Earth, where he found the passage had become an empty space and was disappearing.
• Chen Feng ordered the soldiers at Mount Fuji to withdraw, then returned to the barrier and realized the Mystic Yellow Realm had been incorporated into the Painting Scroll World rather than merged with Earth.
• A section of the barrier collapsed, revealing chaos from the Mystic Yellow Realm's realm wall and a group of people standing within it.

The Mystic Yellow Realm’s cultivators gathered to break through the final spacetime barrier, but a surge of spacetime laws drained thousands of years from their lifespans and triggered Self Tribulations. The barrier repaired itself, leaving the Heavenly Venerables to seek another way through while Chen Feng watched from outside, unaffected by the power.

• Honghuzi and the other cultivators saw six Heavenly Venerables among the powerful group inside the barrier, while Chen Feng recognized Blood Sha, Jueyuan, Xie Qingci, Li Shijian, and others and began preparing for their arrival.
• Meng Jingxian’s master explained the hierarchy of cultivation planets, star regions, and star seas, then warned him to retreat after recognizing the remaining barrier as a spacetime membrane.
• Heavenly Venerable Dongyuan and the other cultivators attacked the membrane, but a hole unleashed spacetime laws that triggered thirteen Self Tribulations and caused three cultivators to die of old age.
• Li Shijian called for everyone to stop attacking, and the membrane repaired itself as Heavenly Venerable Jueyuan accused Dongyuan of withholding information and Xie Qingci calmed the dispute.
• The Heavenly Venerables discussed how to solve the barrier problem while Li Shijian eagerly considered studying its time effects; outside, Chen Feng connected the damage to the different flow of time and found himself unaffected.

Chen Feng persuaded the Taiyi Dao Sect and its allies to stay together and wait as beings from beyond the spacetime barrier began crossing into the outside universe at the cost of their lifespans. When Li Shijian and Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable emerged, Honghuzi led the group to seek Blood Sha’s protection, while Li Shijian went with Hun Leizi to the Heavenly Profound Holy Land.

• Chen Feng advised Honghuzi and the other cultivators to stay together rather than retreat, and they agreed to wait outside the barrier.
• Meng Jingxian learned from his master that the Mystic Yellow Realm had a different flow of time, while Li Shijian revealed that time passed ten times faster outside.
• Li Shijian crossed the spacetime membrane, lost hundreds of thousands of years of lifespan, and was greeted as a senior by Hun Leizi.
• Chen Feng prompted Honghuzi to seek support from another faction, and Honghuzi led the Taiyi Dao Sect group to pledge themselves as vassals to Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable.
• Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable took Honghuzi and the others away, while Li Shijian declined Hun Leizi’s request to eliminate them and went with him to the Heavenly Profound Holy Land.

After the Mystic Yellow Realm’s barrier opened, its major forces prepared to send cultivators Beyond the Realm, while Chen Feng watched Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable seize control of the Taiyi Dao Sect and begin harvesting local cultivators. Blood Sha made the Xingfeng Sect one of five subordinate forces and promised its leaders a path beyond Dao Integration.

• Heavenly Venerable Dongyuan promised to explain how to send items from Beyond the Realm, while Xie Qingci stayed behind and the three major forces prepared their people to cross the barrier.
• News of the opened passage spread across the Mystic Yellow Realm, and Wang Lanyue persuaded Wang Yanran to apply to go Beyond the Realm and asked her to send Wang Ping to meet her.
• Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable learned that the surrounding star domains had no Heavenly Venerable-level experts and declared the Taiyi Dao Sect his subordinate force.
• Blood Sha killed a Dao Integration cultivator who questioned him, selected five forces—including the Xingfeng Sect—as his subordinates, and captured the other cultivators as blood food.
• Blood Sha promised his chosen subordinates a method to break through beyond Dao Integration, and they pledged to serve him.

Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable ordered the surrounding factions to monitor the Heavenly Profound Holy Land and seize nearby star domains in exchange for a chance to learn how to break through Dao Integration. Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect to prepare for the upheaval, then learned that a telescope near the moon had detected an unusual signal about four hundred light-years away.

• Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable explained the Mystic Yellow Realm’s power and offered to teach the Dao-breaking method to those who served him, then ordered them to watch the Heavenly Profound Holy Land and seize surrounding star domains.
• Chen Feng advised Blood Sha Heavenly Venerable to take the star domains of captured cultivators first, and Blood Sha approved the plan.
• Honghuzi assigned the Taiyi Dao Sect to monitor the Heavenly Profound Holy Land while the others prepared to take over nearby star domains; he also gave Chen Feng a command token for access to the Northern Darkness Domain.
• Chen Feng returned to the Xingfeng Sect, told Liu Qian to ramp up Antimatter Warship production and recall Wang Fengnuo and the others, then went back to the lunar base.
• Lin Wei told Chen Feng that a ray telescope near the moon had detected a strange electromagnetic wave signal roughly four hundred light-years away.

Chen Feng discovered that a Star Dao Fruit helped him refine stars faster and spent the next six months collecting Star Cores as superhumans became more common on Earth. Xiao Ning led the Xingfeng Group to Cherry Blossom Country to arrest the Divine Union Society, where she exposed the government’s support for the group and began questioning its officials.

• Lin Wei told Chen Feng that an advanced civilization had deliberately transmitted an electromagnetic signal, but her team could not trace its source.
• Chen Feng entered a star thirty light-years from the Solar System and refined it in three days, discovering that his Star Dao Fruit increased his speed; his Star Cores reached fifty-three.
• Over the next six months, Xiao Ning became responsible for the Xingfeng Group’s operations on Earth and led a team to Cherry Blossom Country to pursue the Divine Union Society.
• Xiao Ning’s Aerospace Carrier entered Cherry Blossom Country’s airspace and stopped above the prime minister’s residence, where Kimura Kota and other officials met her.
• Xiao Ning used her powers to make Oda reveal that Cherry Blossom Country was sheltering 136 Divine Union Society members at Hengtian Base, and her martial artists subdued the guards who approached.
• Xiao Ning invoked her authority as president of the Superhuman Federation and ordered Oda to identify every mastermind behind the Divine Union Society.

Xiao Ning’s operation exposed and destroyed Cherry Blossom Country’s Divine Union Society, prompting international condemnation and sanctions. Okamoto Kojiro’s Cabinet then approved a secret plan to send signals into deep space, and a year later three powerful alien beings arrived in the Gliese Star System.

• A Cherry Blossom Country official revealed that the government had secretly created the Divine Union Society, and Xiao Ning had Kimura Kota and other implicated officials taken away.
• Kojiro proposed secretly transmitting electromagnetic signals into deep space, and he later became prime minister and secured Cabinet approval for the plan.
• Xiao Ning’s team attacked the Divine Union Society at Yokota Air Base and left its accommodation buildings in ruins.
• The operation’s evidence spread worldwide, leading to condemnation of Cherry Blossom Country and sanctions from other governments.
• A year passed without major incidents on Earth, and three enormous battleships entered the Gliese Star System.
• Three octopus-like beings, each at the Void Refinement level, emerged from the ships, and the smallest suggested draining the star’s power.

Chen Feng destroyed a star while refining Star Cores, then subdued three Niero Clan brothers and discovered that the Crimson Cloud Empire had sent them to investigate the Solar System. After returning to the Lunar base, he learned from Lin Wei that Cherry Blossom Country had sent a directional signal into deep space, possibly revealing the Solar System’s coordinates.

• Chen Feng emerged from a star he had refined and restrained the Niero Clan brothers when their warships’ gamma cannons failed to harm him.
• Chen Feng killed Abihan and tortured Abite and Abinu until they revealed their identities and the empire’s investigation orders.
• Chen Feng found the Solar System among the coordinates aboard a Crimson Cloud Ship and questioned Abite about the Crimson Cloud Empire.
• Chen Feng returned to the Lunar base and told Lin Wei that the empire had discovered the Solar System’s coordinates.
• Lin Wei suspected Cherry Blossom Country’s deep-space electromagnetic transmission had led the empire to the Solar System.