Chapter Summaries

Liu Ziqing arrived in Qiu Long City and, following the Purple Gold Gourd’s advice to seek real combat, decided to become a Cosmic Mercenary. After hearing about a dangerous Outer Domain Battlefield cleanup mission, he agreed to go when the Purple Gold Gourd promised he could escape danger and refine battlefield spoils to speed his cultivation.

• Liu Ziqing entered Qiu Long City and listened as the Purple Gold Gourd urged him to strengthen himself through real combat as a Cosmic Mercenary.
• Liu Ziqing visited the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance and heard mercenaries react with alarm to a mission to clear corpses from the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• The Purple Gold Gourd persuaded Liu Ziqing that the battlefield’s remains could provide materials and power for cultivation, and that its teleportation array could help him escape danger.
• Liu Ziqing decided to accept the risk and registered at the counter, where a Tigerfolk clerk explained that volunteers for the cleanup would become Official Mercenaries without an assessment.

After a year of travel, Liu Ziqing and the Black Dragon Mountain mercenaries reached the Outer Domain Battlefield. They witnessed a solemn ceremony honoring a fallen human warrior, with the identity of the person in the Black Coffin left unrevealed.

• Naya led Liu Ziqing and the other mercenaries through a Kailan-class War Supply Base, which leaped into the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Liu Ziqing emerged from the base to find a shattered continent covered in gravestones, where generations of human battlefield dead had been buried.
• A voice summoned the mercenaries to an altar, and Naya led the Black Dragon Mountain group there to join the assembled warriors.
• The Nine Shepherd King arrived carrying a blood-red banner, while the Hibiscus King and the Red Rose King brought a Black Coffin to the altar.
• The three kings and the gathered warriors bowed and called out, “Comrade, may you have a safe journey!”

Liu Ziqing entered the world inside the Black Coffin to help recover fallen human warriors and discovered a way to secretly collect valuable equipment and the warriors’ law power. He volunteered to handle the corpses, leaving him positioned to gather the law power while the other mercenaries pitied him.

• The mercenary teams entered the Black Coffin’s inner world, where leaders assigned them to collect and prepare fallen warriors’ remains.
• The Purple Gold Gourd explained that many of the dead were World Lord warriors from divine kingdoms and secretly gathered valuable weapon and armor fragments for Liu Ziqing.
• Liu Ziqing learned that the Purple Gold Gourd could extract law power only from corpses he personally touched, so he asked the Snake Woman to assign him to prepare the remains.
• The Snake Woman brought Liu Ziqing to the collection site, where the ape-man chief commander praised his willingness to handle the corpses and the mercenaries looked at him with sympathy.
• Liu Ziqing began preparing the fallen warriors’ remains, pleased that the work would let him secretly collect their law power.

After collecting the corpses of tens of thousands of World Lords, Liu Ziqing gained their Law power, which the Purple Gold Gourd fused into his body. He received two protective treasures and prepared to enter the dangerous Outer Domain Battlefield.

• Liu Ziqing earned the mercenaries’ praise by diligently collecting and burying corpses while secretly gathering the Law power of tens of thousands of World Lords.
• The Purple Gold Gourd explained that Liu Ziqing had obtained every kind of Law power, though he would still need time to comprehend them.
• Liu Ziqing returned to the mercenary camp, where the Purple Gold Gourd fused the Laws into his body through an excruciating ordeal.
• Liu Ziqing sensed the Laws within him and understood that he still lacked the Inner World needed to wield a World Lord’s full strength.
• The Purple Gold Gourd gave Liu Ziqing a Silver Scale Shield and an Annihilation Golden Thunder for protection in the Outer Domain Battlefield.

Liu Ziqing joined the Mercenary Commander on a private mission to search for a fallen warrior and received a valuable weapon from him. The chapter left Liu Ziqing unsure whether the commander truly wanted to cultivate him or had another motive.

• The mercenaries learned that energy storms threatened the Outer Domain Battlefield as the commander assigned teams to different zones.
• The Black Gorilla asked Naya to let Liu Ziqing assist with his private search mission, and Liu agreed despite suspecting a hidden motive.
• After the other mercenaries left the transport ship, the Black Gorilla took Liu Ziqing aboard a small spacecraft.
• The Black Gorilla gave Liu Ziqing a World Lord-level Mantis Blade, and the Purple Gold Gourd found no problem with it.
• Liu Ziqing refined the Mantis Blade but remained uncertain about the Black Gorilla's intentions.

Black Gorilla brought Liu Ziqing to a shattered continent to locate a clansman of Black Seal King, and they followed a signal into a dangerous cave. After Black Gorilla killed a Crocodile Demon, they continued toward the target, leaving Liu Ziqing wondering why he had been brought along.

• Black Gorilla led Liu Ziqing into a law-infused sandstorm, where Liu Ziqing was injured before Black Gorilla shielded him.
• Black Gorilla followed a working locator signal toward Black Seal King's missing clansman and explained that they could earn a reward from the Immortal king.
• Black Gorilla and Liu Ziqing found battle marks and a dead Sky-Splitting Beast deep inside a cave, and Liu Ziqing suspected its soul had been destroyed.
• A Crocodile Demon attacked Black Gorilla, who killed it with an Earth-Splitting Slash.
• Black Gorilla continued following the signal, while Liu Ziqing wondered why Black Gorilla had brought him along.

Black Gorilla and Liu Ziqing found the missing red-haired ape-man behind fortified alloy trench plates, but Black Gorilla killed him to seize his soul inheritance. He framed Liu Ziqing for the murder, leaving Liu incredulous at how obvious the scheme was.

• Black Gorilla identified himself to the injured red-haired ape-man, who let him and Liu Ziqing through the alloy defenses.
• The red-haired ape-man ordered them to dismantle the fortifications and leave the cave.
• Black Gorilla suddenly killed the red-haired ape-man with a Mantis Blade and claimed Liu Ziqing had wielded the paired blade.
• Black Gorilla explained that he had killed the ape-man to inherit the Black Imprint lineage through the forehead's soul imprint.
• Liu Ziqing questioned why Black Gorilla had framed him with such an implausible story.

Black Star revealed that he had spent tens of thousands of years pretending to be honest so he could claim the Black Imprint inheritance and frame Liu Ziqing for murder. Liu Ziqing tricked him into dropping his guard with fake Annihilation Golden Thunder, then escaped the real blast by teleporting away.

• Black Star claimed the Black Imprint inheritance and branded its ghost-face insignia on his forehead.
• Black Star accused Liu Ziqing of killing His Highness and charged at him with an axe.
• Liu Ziqing threw a fake Annihilation Golden Thunder, and Black Star defended himself against it.
• Liu Ziqing used a second fake to make Black Star dismiss his warnings, then threw a genuine Annihilation Golden Thunder.
• Liu Ziqing teleported out of the cave as the blast of Metal Element Law power crushed Black Star to dust.

Liu Ziqing looted the remains and Inner Worlds of the Crocodile Demon and Sky-Splitting Beast, then returned to the Mercenary Base aboard Black Star’s spaceship. He convinced Captain Naya that the Commander had sacrificed himself to save him, unaware that the base had suffered devastating losses.

• Liu Ziqing returned to the cave and collected the damaged shield, axe, and alloy plates left by the blast.
• He looted the Crocodile Demon and Sky-Splitting Beast, and the Purple Gold Gourd found Azure Spirit Fruits and refined the beasts’ flesh into cultivation pills.
• The Purple Gold Gourd took control of Black Star’s spaceship, and Liu Ziqing planned a story to explain the Commander’s death.
• Liu Ziqing flew back to the Mercenary Base and found that fewer than two thousand Black Dragon Mountain Mercenaries remained.
• Liu Ziqing told Captain Naya that the Commander had sacrificed himself after they encountered the Sky-Splitting Beast and Crocodile Demon, and she accepted his account.

After returning from the Outer Domain Battlefield, Liu Ziqing was accused of murdering Black Star and taken to the Qianwu Empire Mercenary Alliance headquarters under an order from Black Seal King. The officials began their questioning by demanding that Liu Ziqing prove he had not killed Black Star.

• Snake Woman told Liu Ziqing that insect soldiers had attacked the mercenaries, and she ordered the survivors to leave the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• During the year-long trip back, Liu Ziqing advanced to Stellar ninth order and resolved to prepare for the Cosmic level.
• At the ship’s arrival, the Mercenary Alliance Enforcement Team arrested Liu Ziqing on suspicion of killing Black Star under Black Seal King’s order.
• Snake Woman defended Liu Ziqing but stepped aside when she saw Black Seal King’s writ, and Liu Ziqing went with the officers rather than resist.
• At the Mercenary Alliance headquarters, a scar-faced black ape-man demanded that Liu Ziqing provide evidence proving he had not killed Black Star.

Liu Ziqing learned that the Black Seal King had arranged Black Star’s death and planned to execute him as a scapegoat. He escaped the Mercenary Alliance’s Qianwu Empire headquarters by detonating ten Annihilation Golden Thunder, and the universe issued a wanted order for him.

• Scarface and two other ape-men rejected Liu Ziqing’s account and declared him suspicious, then sentenced him to death to appease the Black Seal King.
• Scarface revealed that Black Star was the Black Seal King’s descendant, and Liu Ziqing inferred that the king had arranged Black Star’s mission and intended to sacrifice another clansman for him.
• When enforcement officers moved to arrest him, Liu Ziqing obtained ten Annihilation Golden Thunder from the Purple Gold Gourd and teleported away as he threw them.
• The Annihilation Golden Thunder destroyed the room and collapsed a building at the Mercenary Alliance’s Qianwu Empire headquarters, killing those inside.
• The Snake Woman suspected Liu Ziqing had caused the blast, and mercenaries throughout the universe received a wanted order for him.

Liu Ziqing arrived on Heitan Star in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, where the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance could identify him by his bloodline and soul signature. The Purple Gold Gourd transformed him into a Manka Star person, leaving him with a new body and greater ease wielding the power of laws, and asked him to choose a new name.

• The Purple Gold Gourd revealed that Liu Ziqing had arrived on Heitan Star in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, despite the warrant against him.
• Liu Ziqing worried that the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance could still identify him through his soul signature and bloodline, so the Purple Gold Gourd offered to change both.
• The Purple Gold Gourd explained the Manka Star people's powerful bloodline and began merging it into Liu Ziqing's body.
• Liu Ziqing endured the painful transformation as his original body melted and a new Manka Star body formed.
• Liu Ziqing tested his new body's strength and found that he could wield some of his stored law power more easily.
• The Purple Gold Gourd asked Liu Ziqing to choose a new name.

Liu Ziqing received the Daoist title True Master Qinghe and changed his appearance before entering Mushroom City, where he found himself wanted across the universe. A Manka Star man named Tie Qiu took him to a metal planet and asked where he came from, leaving Liu Ziqing unsure how to answer.

• Purple Gold Gourd granted Liu Ziqing the Daoist title True Master Qinghe and refined him new clothes from the Sky-Splitting Beast's scales.
• Liu Ziqing changed his clothes and hairstyle, then flew to Mushroom City on Heitan Planet.
• Liu Ziqing saw a universal wanted notice offering valuable rewards for his capture or death.
• Tie Qiu recognized Liu Ziqing as a Manka Star person, carried him through space to his home, and invited him to eat roasted snake.
• Tie Qiu asked Liu Ziqing where he came from, and Liu Ziqing worried that admitting he was an impostor might get him killed.

Liu Ziqing used the name Qing He to enter the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, where Tie Qiu mistook his purified bloodline for that of the Di Qiu Qing Tian Clan and offered him support. Back in Qiu Long City, Liu Ziqing tried to register a new identity, but the scan classified both his bloodline and soul characteristics.

• Liu Ziqing introduced himself to Tie Qiu as Qing He from the Canglan Galaxy, and Tie Qiu detected what he believed was Di Qiu bloodline from the Qing Tian Clan.
• Tie Qiu bowed to Liu Ziqing, gave him a communication talisman, and offered help while Liu Ziqing trained in the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
• Liu Ziqing ate the entire roasted giant snake, then teleported back to Qiu Long Star and entered Qiu Long City despite the wanted posters bearing his old identity.
• Liu Ziqing asked the Purple Gold Gourd about the Di Qiu bloodline, and it said it had only purified Manka Star people bloodline without knowing its true classification.
• Liu Ziqing went to the household registration office to apply for new ID documents, where the scan marked his bloodline and soul characteristics as classified.

After returning to Earth, Liu Ziqing reunited with Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God and learned that Earth had been discovered by alien adventurers. The Luo Lan Mountain family was targeting the Golden Horned Beast and the spaceship in Bermuda, leaving Earth facing the threat of becoming a source of slaves.

• Liu Ziqing registered as Qinghe on Qiu Long Star, then used a teleportation array to return to Earth.
• Liu Ziqing restored his original appearance, received Luo Feng's message saying he had survived, and contacted Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God.
• Liu Ziqing met Luo Feng at his castle near West Lake and learned that Luo Feng had inherited the Master of Meteor Star and traveled to Qiu Long Star.
• Hong noticed Liu Ziqing had reached the Stellar level, and the group welcomed the boost to their chances.
• Hong and Luo Feng told Liu Ziqing that alien adventurers had found a wormhole to Earth and attacked Luo Feng's castle.
• Thunder God explained that the Luo Lan Mountain family wanted the Golden Horned Beast and the spaceship in Bermuda, and that Earthlings could be enslaved if they lost the crisis.

Liu Ziqing revealed to Luo Feng, Thunder God, and Hong that he had become a wanted fugitive after killing powerful figures in the universe, and explained that an Undying senior had helped him hide his identity. He said he could deal with the Luo Lan Mountain family himself and planned to speak directly with its patriarch.

• Liu Ziqing dismissed the threat of the Luo Lan Mountain family after learning its patriarch had Cosmic level ninth-rank strength and its forces included thousands of powerful warriors.
• Liu Ziqing showed Luo Feng, Thunder God, and Hong the Purple Ying and Green Cable swords and explained his connection to the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.
• Liu Ziqing said he had contacted an Undying senior and admitted that he was the person wanted by the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance.
• Liu Ziqing revealed his new appearance and told the others to call him Qinghe in the universe so they would not expose his identity.
• Liu Ziqing asked the others to make a captured Luo Lan Mountain family member activate the communication device so he could speak with Luo Lan Mountain.

Liu Ziqing used his hidden status to force the Luo Lan Mountain family to give up its claim on Earth. The clan’s ancestor backed down after his identity check revealed that he was protected by a top-level Human Alliance secret.

• Liu Ziqing had Buluo Luo Lan Mountain activate the spaceship’s communicator to contact the family ancestor.
• Luo Lan Mountain appeared on the screen and objected when Liu Ziqing declared that Earth belonged to him.
• Liu Ziqing gave Luo Lan Mountain his name, Qinghe, and an identification number to check.
• Luo Lan Mountain’s terminal warned that the identity was a high-level Human Alliance secret and that he would be questioned for trying to access it.
• Luo Lan Mountain begged for mercy, agreed to stop targeting Earth, and ended the call.
• Luo Feng, Thunder God, and Hong were left stunned by how quickly Liu Ziqing settled the dispute.

Liu Ziqing learned that his rare Di Qiu bloodline had frightened Luo Lan Mountain, then parted ways with Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God as they prepared to venture into the universe. He entered the Virtual Universe’s Illusion Sea, saw through an illusion of his parents, and passed the first island.

• The Purple Gold Gourd explained that Liu Ziqing’s Di Qiu bloodline was an exceptionally rare, protected bloodline, which had caused Luo Lan Mountain to panic when checking his identity.
• Liu Ziqing told Luo Feng, Thunder God, and Hong that Earth was safe and they should venture into the universe, but he could not travel with them because of his troubles.
• After leaving the castle, Liu Ziqing teleported from Earth to Qiu Long Star and saw a public notice praising Wu Ji of the Longke Clan for passing the fourth island of the Illusion Sea.
• Liu Ziqing decided to use the Illusion Sea to temper his Sword Heart, connected to the Virtual Universe under another identity, and traveled to the Illusion Realm Sea.
• On the first island, Liu Ziqing saw an illusion of his parents and his old home, recognized that it was false, and shattered it with his sword to pass the island.

Liu Ziqing passed the Sixth and Seventh Islands of the Illusion Sea by recognizing and overcoming his inner doubts and adapting his heart to crushing spiritual pressure. The Illusion Sea administrator discovered his bloodline and alerted Qingmu, then revealed that Liu Ziqing had gone on to pass the Tenth Island at the Stellar level.

• Liu Ziqing cut through the illusions and spiritual pressure of the Sixth Island, confronting his suspicion that the Purple Gold Gourd might abandon or betray him.
• Liu Ziqing recognized his ingratitude toward Mount Shu's inheritance and Senior Purple Gold Gourd, then shattered the illusion with a sword strike and passed the Sixth Island.
• Liu Ziqing used the way of Yin-Yang, Hardness-Softness to endure the Seventh Island's spiritual pressure and crossed it calmly.
• The golden-robed Illusion Sea administrator examined Liu Ziqing's information, recognized his Di Qiu bloodline, and contacted Qingmu about him.
• Qingmu ordered the administrator to protect Liu Ziqing, and he reported that Liu Ziqing had passed the Tenth Island at the Stellar level.

Liu Ziqing overcame the Illusion Sea by awakening a sword intent that severed fear and all restraints, then mistook the Black Dragon old oddity’s imprint for a final enemy and destroyed it. After clearing all twenty-one islands, he encountered several figures, including a black-robed man who claimed to be his father and was immediately beaten by a woman beside him.

• On the eleventh island, Liu Ziqing faced crushing pressure and an illusion of the Black Seal King attacking him, but he mastered his fear and condensed his own sword intent.
• Liu Ziqing used his sword intent to cut through the Illusion Sea’s illusions and pressure, rapidly crossing all twenty-one islands.
• Mistaking the Black Dragon old oddity for the final obstacle, Liu Ziqing attacked and obliterated his weak imprint with his sword formations.
• Four figures appeared and laughed at the Black Dragon old oddity, who asked Liu Ziqing to keep the incident secret.
• A black-robed man told Liu Ziqing he was his father, but a woman beside him began beating the man before Liu Ziqing could respond.