Chapter Summaries

Lei Pojun, Xiao Wuming, and more than twenty Prodigies joined Chen Fan’s charge against the Demon Locust mothership, only to find their attacks barely scratched its hull. When three late Golden Body Realm auras emerged and threatened to overwhelm them, Chen Fan stepped forward and stopped their pressure with his Domain.

• Lei Pojun and a dozen or so Prodigies followed Chen Fan, with Luo Shenyue and Xiao Wuming joining them soon after.
• When Xiao Wuming asked for a battle plan, Chen Fan said they should just fight, and Lei Pojun enthusiastically accepted.
• The group charged the Demon Locust mothership and unleashed more than twenty powerful attacks, but only left a small scorch mark on its hull.
• Three late Golden Body Realm auras awakened inside the mothership, frightening the Prodigies and making Lei Pojun’s grip tremble.
• Chen Fan stepped in front of the group and spread his Domain, which erased the three auras’ pressure.

Chen Fan confronted three late-stage Golden Body Realm Demon Locusts and destroyed them with ease, absorbing their origins to break through to the mid-stage Golden Body Realm. He then urged Lei Pojun and the other Federation Prodigies to resume attacking the mothership.

• Three late-stage Golden Body Realm Demon Locusts emerged from the mothership, and Chen Fan told the stunned Federation Prodigies to keep attacking while he dealt with them.
• Chen Fan appeared before the three Demon Locusts as viewers across the universe watched and doubted he could survive.
• Lei Pojun rallied the others, and the Federation Prodigies resumed their assault on the mothership.
• The Demon Locusts unleashed a vast dark golden domain, but Chen Fan erased it with an invisible force.
• Chen Fan crushed the three Demon Locusts and absorbed their origins, breaking through to the mid-stage Golden Body Realm.
• Chen Fan saw that Lei Pojun and the others had stopped attacking and told them to keep working on the mothership.

Chen Fan destroyed the Demon Locust mothership with one punch, ending the battlefield trial. The Heaven-Slaying Martial God awarded full marks to Chen Fan and those who attacked, gave the rest zero, and explained that survival on the Starry Sky Frontline required fighting rather than waiting behind defenses.

• Chen Fan ignored the stunned prodigies and pierced the Demon Locust mothership with a single punch.
• Chen Fan returned to War Fortress No. 73 with Shen Xuan, Tuo Bashan, and Su Qingyue as the candidates watched in shame and awe.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God declared the trial over, awarded full marks to Chen Fan and everyone who attacked, and gave zero points to the others.
• Zhao Lin challenged the ruling, arguing that the candidates had rationally preserved their strength by holding the fortress.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God explained that the Demon Locusts would have overwhelmed the fortress and praised Chen Fan for ending the war.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God told the candidates that defense on the Starry Sky Frontline served the next attack and urged them to fight until their enemies feared humanity.

Chen Fan was crowned the Federation College Entrance Examination’s top scorer, then learned from Gu Ci about the four supreme martial academies and chose Star River Martial Academy. As four immense auras descended over the Training Camp, everyone was overwhelmed by their pressure.

• The Heavenly Dao Stele announced Chen Fan as the exam’s top scorer, and the Federation celebrated his achievement.
• Chen Fan, Shen Xuan, Tuo Bashan, and Su Qingyue returned to the Blue Star Training Camp, where Gu Ci sent the other three away to reflect on what they had witnessed.
• Gu Ci told Chen Fan that he had surpassed his teacher and needed to seek a wider world beyond the Training Camp.
• Gu Ci described the four supreme martial academies and mentioned that Xiao Beixuan had entered Star River Martial Academy.
• Chen Fan chose Star River Martial Academy, and four vast auras descended over the Training Camp, paralyzing the students and instructors with their pressure.

Four supreme Martial Dao academies competed to recruit Chen Fan, who chose Star River Martial Academy because it promised he would never be bored. Zhao Xuankong then told him the academy had granted him Golden Star Student privileges and began explaining what they included.

• Gu Ci stood against the pressure and addressed the four academy admissions officers as they appeared above the square.
• Ye Gucheng, Luo Li, and Zhang Wuchen each offered Chen Fan exceptional opportunities to join their academies.
• Zhao Xuankong promised Chen Fan that Star River Martial Academy would never bore him, and Chen Fan accepted his offer.
• The other three admissions officers withdrew, and Zhao Xuankong asked Gu Ci to arrange a quiet room to discuss enrollment.
• Zhao Xuankong told Chen Fan that Star River had granted him Golden Star Student privileges, including preferential access to most core resources and scripture repositories.

Zhao Xuankong told Chen Fan that Star River Martial Academy had only ten student slots and would send an escort in half a month. Chen Fan chose to stay away from his family until he could protect them, then secluded himself and reached peak perfection in the Golden Body Realm after his annual talent settlement.

• Zhao Xuankong explained that Chen Fan would have to fight for one of the academy’s ten Star River slots and said an escort would arrive in half a month.
• Chen Fan told Gu Ci he would not visit his family until he was strong enough to keep them safe, and vowed to bring them home from the Starry Sky Frontline.
• Chen Fan returned to his dormitory and spent more than ten days consolidating his Golden Body Realm breakthrough.
• On the twelfth anniversary of his arrival in this world, Chen Fan received 20,480 Martial Dao Talent from his annual settlement.
• The new origin energy drove Chen Fan’s cultivation to peak perfection in the Golden Body Realm, and his Martial Dao Talent rose to 40,950.

Chen Fan reached the peak of the Golden Body Realm and pressed Gu Ci for knowledge of the realms beyond it. Gu Ci explained the path to the Martial God Realm and the dangerous process of condensing Undying Golden Blood, while Chen Fan listened with immediate interest in taking the next step.

• Chen Fan completed his Golden Body cultivation and sensed an unseen ceiling above him, so he went to ask Gu Ci about the realms beyond the fifth grade.
• Gu Ci began warning Chen Fan not to reach too far, but Chen Fan's aura shattered Gu Ci's protective Sword Intent and revealed that he had reached Golden Body perfection.
• Gu Ci explained the sixth-grade Undying Realm, the seventh-grade Immortal Realm, the eighth-grade Divine Ability Realm, the ninth-grade Law Realm, and the legendary Martial God Realm.
• Chen Fan asked how to condense the first drop of Undying Golden Blood, and Gu Ci explained that the process required a powerful method and risked destroying the cultivator's body and origin.

Chen Fan spent half a month at the Training Camp stabilizing his immense power before Li Feng arrived to escort him to the Star River Martial Academy. He departed Blue Star after saying goodbye to Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan, who each chose a different academy and resolved to follow their own paths.

• Gu Ci warned Chen Fan that the methods he knew could damage Chen Fan's extraordinary Dao Foundation, so Chen Fan decided to wait for the Star River Martial Academy's guidance.
• Chen Fan spent the next half month resting at the Training Camp while his power settled into an unassuming state.
• Li Feng arrived at the Training Camp and introduced himself as the Star River Martial Academy's Reception Envoy, sent to escort Chen Fan to enroll.
• Shen Xuan chose the Heavenly Sword Martial Academy, Su Qingyue chose the Canghai Martial Academy, and Tuo Bashan chose the Nine Provinces Martial Academy, each explaining their decision to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan said goodbye to the three friends and boarded Li Feng's starship, which carried him away from Blue Star.
• Shen Xuan told Gu Ci that the three wanted to discover how far they could go by following their own paths instead of chasing Chen Fan.

On the journey to the Star River Martial Academy, Li Feng explained its ten schools and their power structures to Chen Fan. Chen Fan learned that the Life School’s brilliant head instructor struggled to teach, and became interested in choosing that school.

• Chen Fan asked Li Feng where the Star River Martial Academy was, and Li Feng explained that its ten schools occupied the Tianshu Star System Belt.
• Li Feng described the academy’s instructors and Star River-class students, then said new students would choose a school after the opening ceremony on the Holy Land Planet.
• Chen Fan asked which schools were strongest, and Li Feng named the Life School for its head instructor and the Ancient Martial Arts and New Martial Arts Schools for their overall strength.
• Li Feng recommended the Ancient Martial Arts School, but Chen Fan asked why the Life School’s exceptionally powerful instructor had a comparatively weak student.
• Li Feng admitted that the Life School head instructor was poor at teaching because most students could not understand his lessons, which made Chen Fan eager to learn more about the school.
• The starship shuddered as it emerged from the transition tunnel into a magnificent starry sky.

Chen Fan arrived at the Star River Martial Academy and joined the other new students, but a sudden invasion by the God-Eating Insect Race interrupted their gathering. He effortlessly killed a Peak Golden Body Realm leader with one finger, revealed his Perfected Golden Body cultivation, and demanded that the academy's instructors deal with the remaining aliens.

• Li Feng brought Chen Fan to the Star River Martial Academy's central planet, where thousands of new students gathered and Chen Fan exchanged a nod with Xiao Wuming.
• A piercing alarm sounded as dozens of spatial rifts opened and the God-Eating Insect Race poured into the academy's holy land.
• A Peak Golden Body Realm insect leader charged at Chen Fan while the students were overwhelmed by its pressure.
• Chen Fan killed the insect leader with a faint golden light from his finger, and Xiao Wuming and the new students watched in shock.
• Chen Fan's aura revealed that he had reached the Perfected Golden Body Realm, and he complained that the academy's instructors had not come to handle the invaders.

A vice dean destroyed the God-Eating Insect Race and began faction selection, where the academy’s instructors competed to recruit Chen Fan with extravagant offers. Chen Fan focused on the Life School, whose old instructor invited him without making promises, drawing ridicule from the other factions.

• A ninth-grade Law Realm vice dean erased the God-Eating Insect Race and rebuked the frightened freshmen for disgracing the Human Race.
• The vice dean began faction selection, and ten pillars representing the academy’s factions descended into the square.
• Chen Fan ignored the Ancient and New Martial Arts School pillars and looked toward the Life School’s green pillar.
• The faction instructors offered Chen Fan powerful arts, treasures, and exclusive resources, while he remained bored and Xiao Wuming showed restrained surprise.
• Old Freak Lin invited Chen Fan to join the Life School without offering enticements, and other instructors mocked the school and warned that it would waste Chen Fan’s combat potential.

Chen Fan chose Lin Xuanqing and the Life School over the other factions, prompting the mentors to block his departure. Lin Xuanqing proposed a one-year trial for Chen Fan to reach the Undying Realm, and the deputy academy head approved it.

• Lin Xuanqing praised Chen Fan as different from his previous students, and Chen Fan walked toward the Life School’s green pillar.
• Chen Fan rejected the other factions’ offers, calling their Dao too dull, and Lin Xuanqing declared him his only personal disciple in three hundred years.
• Gu Tianxiong, Zhou Yan, and the other mentors joined their powers to trap the green pillar and stop Lin Xuanqing from taking Chen Fan.
• Lin Xuanqing offered a one-year agreement: Chen Fan could join another faction if he failed to reach the Undying Realm, and Lin Xuanqing would never take another disciple.
• The deputy academy head agreed to the trial, and the other mentors withdrew their powers.

Chen Fan arrived in the Life School’s desolate domain, where Lin Xuanqing demonstrated how the Life Law could restore a dead world. As they approached the city of veteran students, Chen Fan asked how he would receive cultivation resources and learn to refine Undying Golden Blood.

• Lin Xuanqing teleported Chen Fan away as onlookers criticized his choice to pursue the Life School’s difficult path.
• Chen Fan found himself in a lifeless wasteland and asked Lin Xuanqing whether they had arrived at the wrong place.
• Lin Xuanqing explained that true life could be understood only by seeing through death, then used the Life Law to turn the barren land into a lush world.
• Lin Xuanqing told Chen Fan that the Life School had only a few tens of thousands of members and that most students struggled for decades or longer to reach the Undying Realm.
• Lin Xuanqing showed Chen Fan a vast city filled with the school’s veteran students and said they were his senior brothers and sisters.
• Chen Fan asked Lin Xuanqing how his cultivation resources would be allocated and how he could obtain the method to refine Undying Golden Blood.

Lin Xuanqing gave Chen Fan the Life School’s Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture and promised him a year of free personal instruction, while introducing Wen Yuan as his senior brother. Chen Fan began to feel that studying the Life School’s path offered something beyond fighting and growing stronger.

• Lin Xuanqing told Chen Fan that his academy allowance was one hundred thousand credits a month, but his classes normally cost one million credits a day.
• Lin Xuanqing declared Chen Fan his first personal disciple in three hundred years and offered him the Life School’s core method and a year of personal instruction for free.
• Lin Xuanqing gave Chen Fan the seed containing the Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture and told him to study it for a week before formal instruction began.
• Wen Yuan arrived with tea, and Lin Xuanqing introduced him as Chen Fan’s only senior brother and the Life School’s sole Star River Level student, at the peak of the seventh-grade Immortal Realm.
• Lin Xuanqing sent Chen Fan to Wen Yuan for routine school matters, then returned to his research as Chen Fan followed Wen Yuan along a path through the newly vibrant grounds.

Chen Fan immersed himself in the emerald seed and grasped the connection between life and death, awakening an Undying Divine Fire within him. After exactly seven days, he went to meet Lin Xuanqing and Wen Yuan, who had been waiting for him.

• Wen Yuan told Chen Fan that Lin Xuanqing had devoted a week to preparing for him and that the Life School's hopes and one-year agreement rested on his shoulders; Chen Fan asked whether Wen Yuan feared he would lose.
• Wen Yuan showed Chen Fan his secluded courtyard and gave him a jade talisman to open its restriction.
• Chen Fan studied the emerald seed and endured the deathly realm within it, where he observed the first truth of the Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture: seeing through death.
• Chen Fan realized that life and death were two sides of one whole, and a golden Undying Divine Fire ignited within him, refining his Golden Body.
• After seven days, Chen Fan left his courtyard and headed to the stone house, where Lin Xuanqing and Wen Yuan awaited him.

After discovering that Chen Fan lit the Undying Divine Fire in just seven days, Lin Xuanqing warned him that he still had to condense Undying Golden Blood within a year. He brought Chen Fan to the Starry Sky Dao Arena and began explaining the Life School’s Dao of withering and flourishing, focusing on the path ahead to godhood.

• Chen Fan returned after seven days of cultivation with the Undying Divine Fire burning within his life origin, astonishing Lin Xuanqing and Wen Yuan.
• Lin Xuanqing warned Chen Fan that lighting the Divine Fire was only the first step and asked whether he could condense his first drop of Undying Golden Blood within a year; Chen Fan calmly agreed.
• Lin Xuanqing transported Chen Fan and Wen Yuan to the Starry Sky Dao Arena, where dozens of ancient figures watched Chen Fan take a seat beside him.
• Lin Xuanqing demonstrated how a blade of grass could revive the stars through its vitality, then wither and cause them to shatter.
• Lin Xuanqing explained that the Life School sought to understand and command the laws of withering and flourishing, life and death, and promised to detail the Path to Godhood for Chen Fan.

Chen Fan learned how to condense Undying Golden Blood and entered a profound state of observing his Divine Fire. His fire produced a rare Divine Fire Resonance, prompting Lin Xuanqing to keep the dojo open indefinitely to witness Chen Fan's limits.

• Lin Xuanqing explained the three steps for condensing Undying Golden Blood: observing the fire, adding fuel, and refining gold.
• Chen Fan saw how the Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture's self-refinement could complement his Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture's use of external things.
• Chen Fan focused on observing his Divine Fire, and its flame grew as it resonated with his will.
• Chen Fan's Divine Fire released ripples through the dojo, and Lin Xuanqing and the students recognized the phenomenon as Divine Fire Resonance.
• Lin Xuanqing ordered the students to quietly comprehend the resonance and declared that the dojo would remain open so he could see Chen Fan's limits.

Chen Fan completed Fire Contemplation after a month in the Starry Sky Dao Arena, then learned that the dangerous Adding Fuel stage could be advanced with the pure Origin Power of Void-Devouring Locusts. He found an academy mission to exterminate a brood nest on Planet Huangzhe and showed immediate interest in taking it.

• The students left the Starry Sky Dao Arena one by one as Chen Fan's profound Dao resonance overwhelmed their Divine Souls, while Lin Xuanqing and Wen Yuan remained to watch over him.
• After a month, the golden ocean of Life Law contracted into Chen Fan, who opened his eyes and announced that he had completed Fire Contemplation.
• Lin Xuanqing dispersed the arena, and Wen Yuan warned Chen Fan that the orthodox Adding Fuel process had only a one-in-ten chance of survival.
• Wen Yuan explained that pure Origin Power from an adult Void-Devouring Locust could fuel Chen Fan's Divine Fire more safely and efficiently.
• Wen Yuan showed Chen Fan the academy's high-risk mission to exterminate a Void-Devouring Locust brood nest on Planet Huangzhe within seven days, and Chen Fan checked its details on his student badge.

Chen Fan accepted the Void-Devouring Locust extermination mission and traveled to the public starport, where the other Prodigies mocked him for joining the Life School. After Lei Ao laid down the mission rules, the group departed and arrived in orbit around Huangzhe Star.

• Chen Fan accepted the extermination mission after Wen Yuan warned him that the Locust cores were valuable and the mission would spark competition.
• Chen Fan flew to the public starport and arrived among the tense groups of Prodigies from the Ancient Martial Arts School and the New Martial Arts School.
• Gao Peng and a New Martial Arts School student mocked Chen Fan for choosing the Life School, while Chen Fan ignored them and rested alone.
• Lei Ao silenced the group, announced that spoils would be shared according to contributions, and ordered everyone to board the starship.
• The starship traveled through space and stopped in orbit around Huangzhe Star, where the Locusts' aura unsettled the Prodigies.

Chen Fan joined the extermination operation on Wild Hibernation Star, where he concealed his strength while the other Prodigies underestimated him. After effortlessly killing a Devouring Locust leader, he plunged into the swarm and began harvesting Locusts and their Life Cores, leaving Gao Peng and the others to mistake his power for a secret treasure.

• Lei Ao assigned the Prodigies to squads and dismissed Chen Fan to follow at the back.
• Chen Fan surveyed the battlefield with his perception and identified a Devouring Locust leader charging toward him.
• Chen Fan killed the leader with a flick of his finger, collected its Life Core, and stored it for the mission.
• Chen Fan rushed into the densest part of the swarm and silently destroyed Devouring Locusts while collecting their Life Cores.
• Gao Peng accused Chen Fan of using a single-use secret treasure and urged the Prodigies to compete for kills.