"Beyond the Three Realms lies a higher, farther-reaching starry sky. In the boundless Star-River Dominion, countless races survive and many powerful forces exist! And the Frostbane Dynasty is only a mid-to-lower tier among them."
Earlier, I mentioned to Senior Brother that within the Star-River Dominion, there are Three Thousand Great Worlds and a Billion Small Worlds. The world we’re in now is one of the Three Thousand Great Worlds. It contains countless planes—god, immortal, mortal, nether, demon, beast, and more—all combined to form an independent space. That’s what makes it a Great World.
As for special independent spaces like the Sea God's Domain, which aren’t part of the Three Realms but are nearby, those are called Small Worlds. And the Chaos World Domain you now possess, Senior Brother, is actually evolving toward becoming a true Small World."
As Lord Thunder spoke, he was also organizing his thoughts, trying to explain things in a way Evan Chu could quickly and clearly understand—because when he first learned all this, it had taken him a long time to process.
"The Frostbane Dynasty exists within the Star-River Dominion and is a mid-tier power among the Three Thousand Dynasties. Compared to the Three Thousand Great Worlds, each of those dynasties has a trial space like our Three Realms."
That's right—the true ruler of the Three Realms has never been a single person, but rather a force called the Frostbane Dynasty.
Every generation of Frostbane Divine Palace has a Lord Frostbane, and behind each Lord Frostbane stands a Destiny Guardian. The Destiny Guardian’s fate is already set—they will eventually transcend the Three Realms and either continue to follow the Lord Frostbane they protected, or join the Frostbane Dynasty and serve it.
How it ends all depends on the outcome for the Lord Frostbane they guard. But looking at things now, I’d say my luck is pretty good—having a Senior Brother like you.
Because in all the generations of Frostbane Divine Palace, only three people have ever truly awakened the power of the three divine artifacts, transcended the Three Realms, and become the new master of the Frostbane Dynasty. You are the third."
At last, Evan Chu understood what it truly meant to be the Third Person!
So it turns out, what existed first wasn’t the Frostbane Divine Palace, but the Frostbane Dynasty in the Star-River Dominion. The dynasty was founded, created a Great World like the Three Realms, life was born in that world, and the dynasty planted its seeds—building a trial ground for its future heirs!
This is the greatest game board within the Three Realms. And once you truly break free from the board, it means you’ve passed the trial…
According to what Lord Thunder said, from the moment the world was created, from the moment Frostbane Divine Palace appeared in the God Realm, until now, only three Frostbane God-Venerables have ever escaped this game board. And now, Evan Chu is the third!
But before Evan Chu, there were already thirteen thousand and eighty-eight Destiny Guardians who failed their escort missions, meaning the same number of Frostbane God-Venerables fell. When the escort mission fails, the Destiny Guardian leaves the Three Realms and joins the Frostbane Dynasty, fighting and bleeding for the dynasty, expanding its territory.
“So what about the other two?”
The two people Evan Chu was asking about were naturally the two previous generations of Frostbane God-Venerables who broke free before him.
“The First Person went into seclusion and vanished a thousand years after the Second Person entered the Frostbane Dynasty. The Second Person has led the dynasty for a long age. I believe that after Senior Brother enters the dynasty and a thousand years pass, the Second Person will also disappear, and you’ll take over.”
“And then I’ll wait for the next Fourth Person to appear in Frostbane Divine Palace and fully awaken the three divine artifacts?”
“Exactly. That’s the cycle of reincarnation.”
After Lord Thunder finished speaking, Evan Chu closed his eyes. Only now did he finally understand everything.
Half a month had passed since Galen Sharpe fell. During those two weeks, Lord Thunder and Evan Chu had talked a lot, introducing the Star-River Dominion and the Frostbane Dynasty.
Evan Chu understood—this was a world even more brutal, even vaster, with fiercer competition. It was the place where the highest-level beings in the cosmos existed. There were no spatial barriers there, only endless universe—the Star-River Dominion.
No one truly rules the Star-River Dominion, but the tens of thousands of factions have never stopped fighting for supremacy. If you don’t fight, it means death!
In the Star-River Dominion, ten thousand races live side by side. Since there’s no other power, they can only cultivate Stellar Power together. The struggle for Stellar Power, the battles for stars, are unimaginably fierce.
Without power, you’ll be humiliated and slaughtered!
Evan Chu started to feel secretly excited. If he could live in a place like that, how thrilling would it be!
Since no one has ever unified or ruled the Star-River Dominion, why not give it a try myself? The idea suddenly popped into Evan Chu’s mind.
Next, Evan Chu and Lord Thunder stopped walking. They’d deliberately slowed down while talking, and now, as they stopped, Evan Chu had heard everything Lord Thunder had to say. At this moment, the two of them stood deep within the geocore of Heavenblade Sect—the very prison where the Ninefold Divine Sovereign was suppressed by the Dark Origin Spirit.
On the surface above Heavenblade Sect, countless disciples and Galen Sharpe lived their lives, but none of them knew that their ancestor had already perished days ago, and that the future Three Realms would never be the world they once knew…
"Let’s go in and take a look. Every dynasty trial Great World has its trialists, and those trialists are always favored by the Heavenly Dao laws. From early on, they’re granted cultivation arts for Stellar Power.
And Ninefold Stellar Transformation is one of those methods—or maybe the most important one… Forget it! You’d better talk to him face to face. I’ll just wait here, Senior Brother, you go in yourself.”
Lord Thunder stopped mid-sentence, as if there was something he couldn’t say to Evan Chu. Maybe it was something even he couldn’t explain clearly.
In short, Evan Chu was once again full of doubts about Ninefold Stellar Transformation and the Ninefold Golden-Body Codex. Could it be that the Ninefold Stellar Transformation he thought he’d perfected wasn’t actually complete?
Does Ninefold Stellar Transformation have another, even stronger form? It must! Violet Thunder said that trialists are favored by the Heavenly Dao laws and receive cultivation arts for Stellar Power ahead of time.
So if there’s an ‘ahead of time,’ then there must be a ‘later’ too! Especially after a technique like Star-Snatching Hand appeared, Evan Chu had even more questions. Now that he’d found the Ninefold Divine Sovereign, he wanted to ask about this mysterious origin—and the one said to be the creator of Ninefold Stellar Transformation.
With a single step, all the barriers Galen Sharpe had set up shattered, the formations on Heavenblade Sect’s surface failed, the ground began to tremble, and Azurecloud Peak teetered on the edge of collapse.
Inside the prison at the geocore, the Ninefold Divine Sovereign slowly opened his eyes. His gaze was empty, without a trace of light, but when he saw Evan Chu enter, he cracked a faint smile.
“You’ve come? Finally. Good. You haven’t disappointed me.”
Disappointed? Did he actually expect something from me? Evan Chu was bewildered—he’d never met the Ninefold Divine Sovereign before!