Chapter Summaries

Martial Artists began comprehending the three Heaven Steles on the Suspended Island while Lin Zhen upgraded his Dimensional Universe access to find new information for Little Phoenix. The discovery of the Phoenix Three Tribulations affected Little Phoenix, and Lin Zhen's spaceship approached the island.

• Ye Hua and other Martial Artists chose Heaven Steles and began using Cold Stones to make the characters clearer, while an Insect Race expert was killed by golden lightning for complaining.
• Lin Zhen tried to entertain Little Phoenix with information aboard their spaceship, but she lost interest in the stories and legends he found.
• Lin Zhen opened a three-star supreme account at Universe First Bank, raising Chris's research permissions and his own access to information.
• Lin Zhen found information describing the phoenix's Wound, Love, and Death Tribulations, and Little Phoenix stared at it in shock.
• Little Phoenix later seemed to regain her spirits, spent the night in Lin Zhen's arms, and woke him as the spaceship came within one hundred Star Miles of the Suspended Island.

Lin Zhen parted from Little Phoenix in the starry sky and reached Suspended Island, where he chose to challenge the Boundary Tablet despite Ye Hua’s lead. He began the trial from the first row of pillars, setting himself against the crowd’s expectations.

• Little Phoenix left Lin Zhen after giving him a ruby-like teardrop, and Lin Zhen sent the spacecraft onward to Suspended Island.
• Several contestants advanced through the Heaven Stele trials, while a Landis Martial Artist and two Fire Kirin Empire contestants, including Lan Yu'er, were eliminated.
• Lan Yu'er and Duanmu argued over whether Feng Qingluan or Ye Hua could win the championship before Lin Zhen arrived at Suspended Island.
• Lin Zhen assessed the three Heaven Steles and chose the Boundary Tablet as the one he had the best chance to comprehend within a year.
• After Ye Hua advanced to the fourth row and onlookers declared him the likely winner, Lin Zhen stepped onto the Boundary Tablet’s first row of pillars.

Lin Zhen advanced rapidly through the Boundary Character Heaven Tablet, surprising the cultivators who expected Ye Hua to dominate. Meanwhile, the Spider Commander began setting a trap outside Suspended Island but was confronted by a mysterious woman demanding a protection fee.

• Lin Zhen ignored threats over Tian Ci’s bounty and used a Cold Stone to study the Boundary Character Heaven Tablet’s Space Law.
• Lin Zhen reached the second row in under an hour, then advanced to the third row on the fifth day and the fourth row by the twenty-fifth day.
• Ye Hua reached the sixth row after Lin Zhen’s progress challenged his lead, while the other cultivators praised Ye Hua’s talent.
• The Spider Commander told the Mantis Commander to prepare the Spiderweb Grand Formation outside Suspended Island, then left the island to set it up.
• A mysterious woman approached the Spider Commander and demanded to know whether she had paid the protection fee.

Feng Qingluan returned to Suspended Island after recovering and growing stronger, killing Spider Commander before entering the Heaven Stele area. She then chose the Mental Power Heaven Tablet, while Lin Zhen watched her arrive.

• Feng Qingluan confronted Spider Commander and defeated her spider warriors with a single broadsword, killing hundreds in seconds.
• Spider Commander trapped Feng Qingluan in a space-locking web and tried to flee, but Feng Qingluan burned through the web and reduced her to ashes.
• The Insect Race's six remaining commanders learned Spider Commander was dead and suspected Feng Qingluan, but decided to focus on comprehending the Heaven Stele and mentioned having an informant on the Fire Kirin side.
• Feng Qingluan entered Suspended Island, reunited with Lan Yu'er, and acknowledged Ye Hua before approaching the Heaven Stele.
• Feng Qingluan declared that the Mental Power Heaven Tablet suited her and ascended it, while Lin Zhen watched her and fixated on the cinnabar mole between her brows.

Lin Zhen and Ye Hua raced to comprehend the Boundary Character Heaven Tablet, while Feng Qingluan advanced rapidly at the Mental Power Heaven Tablet. Lin Zhen and Ye Hua both learned the first part of the final technique, leaving their contest for the tenth row almost even.

• Zhang Ze warned Lin Zhen that Feng Qingluan was connected to Ye Hua, but Lin Zhen said he had no romantic intentions toward her.
• Feng Qingluan reached the second row of the Mental Power Heaven Tablet, while Lin Zhen continued his own comprehension.
• Over the following months, Lin Zhen caught up with Ye Hua on the Boundary Character Heaven Tablet, and the two eventually reached the ninth row together.
• Feng Qingluan and Lanka reached the ninth row of the Mental Power Heaven Tablet, while Jinnaluo and the Mantis Commander remained on the eighth row of the Time Heaven Tablet.
• Lin Zhen used repeated simulations against Space Law experts to learn the rudiments of Space Slash and complete half of his final comprehension.
• Ye Hua completed the same half of the comprehension three minutes later, leaving him and Lin Zhen nearly even as they pursued the sole position on the tenth row.

Lin Zhen and Ye Hua remained locked in a contest to master Planet Teleportation, while Lin Zhen broke through from Star Level Seven to Star Level Nine. When Feng Qingluan advanced her Mental Power to Emerald Radiance Grade, Ye Hua asked her to lend him strength so he could overcome his bottleneck, leaving the contest's outcome uncertain.

• Nan Lie scolded Ye Hua for losing focus, and Ye Hua calmed himself to resume comprehending the Heaven Stele.
• Feng Qingluan reached the tenth row of the Mental Power Heaven Tablet, while Lanka, Jinnaluo, and the Mantis Commander gave up their attempts.
• Lin Zhen broke through to Star Level Eight and then Star Level Nine as he continued competing with Ye Hua on the ninth row of the Space Heaven Stele.
• After three more days, Feng Qingluan advanced her Mental Power beyond Azure Sky-color to Emerald Radiance Grade.
• Ye Hua revealed his Golden Dragon bloodline and asked Feng Qingluan to lend him strength, claiming it would help him break through and defeat Lin Zhen.
• Feng Qingluan waved a surge of Star Power toward Ye Hua and Lin Zhen, and the spectators assumed Ye Hua would win.

Lin Zhen beat Ye Hua to the tenth level of Suspended Island by one second, then used his newly increased Star Power to buy and plant a Phoenix Tree sapling. With little time left before the island closed, he continued training for the battles ahead.

• Feng Qingluan's Star Power helped Ye Hua simulate Planet Teleportation, but Lin Zhen reached the tenth level one second before him, leaving Ye Hua furious and humiliated.
• Ye Hua left Suspended Island, while Feng Qingluan and Lin Zhen remained to cultivate; Lin Zhen told her that her power had helped him break through first.
• Chris confirmed that Lin Zhen's Star Power had reached one thousand, allowing him to use World Teleportation, and Lin Zhen entered Moon Reverence Realm King's Inner World to buy a Phoenix Tree sapling.
• Lin Zhen returned to Dark Star Space and planted the Phoenix Tree beside the Star Fruit Tree, hoping it would grow so he could reunite with his Little Phoenix.
• Lin Zhen practiced Space Slash and Planet Teleportation for over a month, absorbing Star Crystals as his cultivation advanced toward Star Level Nine Peak.

The Mantis Commander recruited Jinnaluo and Lanka to help kill Feng Qingluan and Lin Zhen, while Lin Zhen mastered Space Severance and left Suspended Island. As Fire Qilin gained ground against the Insect Race, Ye Hua called the empire’s fighters to a decisive assault on the Scorpio Commander’s mother nest, with Feng Qingluan and Lin Zhen joining the battle.

• The Mantis Commander offered Jinnaluo and Lanka five billion cosmic crystals each to kill Feng Qingluan and Lin Zhen, assuring them that allies within Fire Qilin would not interfere.
• Lin Zhen defeated a Star System Level Five opponent in the Simulation Field with Space Severance, then left Suspended Island after reaching Star Level Nine Peak and completing his study of the Boundary Character Heaven Tablet.
• Ye Hua, Feng Qingluan, Nan Lie, and Lin Zhen struck Insect Race forces and mother nests, killing two commanders and destroying three of the seven nests.
• Ye Hua announced a major counterattack against the Scorpio Commander’s mother nest, and Feng Qingluan and Lin Zhen agreed to arrive for the decisive battle in ten days.

Ye Hua led nearly twenty thousand Fire Qilin Martial Artists in an attack on the Scorpio Mother Nest, where they initially overwhelmed the Insect Race. As the fighters scattered and pushed toward the planet, Lin Zhen realized the enemy had lured them into an ambush, and all five remaining commanders appeared with hundreds of Star System Stage experts.

• Ye Hua rallied the Fire Qilin Martial Artists to destroy the Scorpio Mother Nest while the other empires distracted the Insect Race elsewhere.
• Ye Hua, Nan Lie, and Feng Qingluan led the charge through waves of apparently weak Insect Race warriors.
• The Fire Qilin fighters scattered while competing for kills and descended onto the planet around the Scorpio Mother Nest.
• Lin Zhen grew suspicious when the Insect Race offered little resistance and spotted Bumblebee Warriors gathering overhead.
• The Mantis Commander, Beetle Commander, Centipede Commander, Scorpio Commander, and Bumblebee Commander emerged with hundreds of Star System Stage experts, revealing the ambush.

The Fire Qilin martial artists discovered that the Insect Race had lured them into a trap with its full main force, leaving them surrounded on Scorpio Main Star. As the commanders fought and Feng Qingluan revealed her connection to Lin Zhen, the battle began with little hope of escape.

• The Insect Race's Five Commanders appeared with their hidden main force, and Ye Hua proposed that the strongest fighters each engage a commander.
• Ye Hua challenged the Mantis Commander, while Nan Lie and Tian Ci also began fighting their chosen commanders.
• Feng Qingluan ordered the Qingluan Society to retreat without her and told them to return to the Bright Passage.
• Feng Qingluan revealed that she was Lin Zhen's Little Phoenix and that Phoenix Weeping Blood was her tear.
• Feng Qingluan and Lin Zhen prepared to fight together as she cut down an Insect Race warrior attempting to ambush them.

Lin Zhen and Feng Qingluan fought through the Insect Race ambush as the Fire Qilin forces suffered devastating losses. After Feng Qingluan killed the Bumblebee Commander, she reached Lin Zhen, who was surrounded by four commanders, and urged him to break out with her.

• Lin Zhen and Feng Qingluan engaged the Scorpio and Bumblebee Commanders while the Insect Race overwhelmed the Fire Qilin army.
• The Qingluan Society women followed Feng Qingluan's orders and escaped toward the Bright Passage as the Fire Qilin casualty count plunged.
• The Mantis Commander killed Nan Lie, and the remaining Fire Qilin forces began to collapse.
• Feng Qingluan killed the Bumblebee Commander with her saber and Emerald Radiance Grade Mental Power.
• The Mantis, Beetle, Locust, and Scorpio Commanders encircled Lin Zhen and Feng Qingluan, and she grabbed Lin Zhen's hand and called for them to break out.

Lin Zhen and Feng Qingluan fought their way through the Insect Race army, and Lin Zhen carried the wounded Feng Qingluan toward a Phoenix Tree he had planted for her. After his clone cleared a path at great cost, they broke through the encirclement and fled into the starry sky, still pursued.

• Feng Qingluan pulled Lin Zhen away from the battlefield, where nearly all the Fire Kirin Martial Artists had been killed or had escaped.
• Feng Qingluan fought through the Insect Race while Lin Zhen covered their rear, but the Locust Commander wounded her and left her unable to wield her saber with her right hand.
• Lin Zhen carried Feng Qingluan and pierced the Locust Commander with his spear, while Feng Qingluan finished him with a slash.
• As Feng Qingluan weakened and feared she would die, Lin Zhen promised to take her to a Phoenix Tree at the Garbage Disposal Site so she could recover.
• Lin Zhen sent his clone into the insect sea, where Innate Devour killed tens of thousands and opened a path before the clone was gravely wounded.
• Lin Zhen carried Feng Qingluan through the opening and fled into the starry sky as the Insect Race pursued them.

Lin Zhen carried the gravely wounded Feng Qingluan to the Phoenix Tree while fleeing the Insect Race, and the blood they shared awakened a Phoenix bloodline that greatly increased his speed. Beneath the tree, Feng Qingluan asked Lin Zhen to remember her and keep the tree; as their pursuers arrived, she declared that her final tribulation had come.

• The Insect Race commanders pursued Lin Zhen after witnessing his Fire Qilin talent, and the Mantis Commander arranged an interception at the Garbage Disposal Plant.
• Feng Qingluan's blood awakened hidden Phoenix bloodline power in Lin Zhen, boosting his speed as he carried her through space.
• Lin Zhen reached the Phoenix Tree with Feng Qingluan, but she said their pursuers would catch them soon and he could not escape alone.
• Feng Qingluan recalled her past with Lin Zhen, explained why she had fought the Red Fox Gang, and asked him to kiss her.
• Feng Qingluan asked Lin Zhen to keep the Phoenix Tree forever, then declared that her final tribulation had arrived as the pursuers appeared overhead.

Lin Zhen stood alone against the Landis and Rakshasa Martial Artists to protect the dying Feng Qingluan, using the Starry Sky Crown to endure wave after wave of attacks. As the battle raged, Jinnaluo and Lanka decided to target the crown themselves.

• Lanka and Jinnaluo arrived with over three hundred Martial Artists and revealed that the Insect Race had hired them to kill Lin Zhen and Feng Qingluan.
• Lin Zhen drew a circle around himself and asked Lanka and Jinnaluo to leave Feng Qingluan unharmed until they defeated him; they agreed.
• Feng Qingluan embraced Lin Zhen, then returned beneath the Phoenix Tree as he entered the circle wearing the Starry Sky Crown.
• Lin Zhen killed the first group of Star System Stage attackers despite severe wounds, while the crown's holy light rapidly healed him.
• Lin Zhen fought off successive waves of Martial Artists, turning the circle into a killing ground as hundreds fell.
• Jinnaluo and Lanka concluded that they had to disable the Starry Sky Crown and charged toward Lin Zhen together.

Lin Zhen unleashed Space Slash to destroy the Rakshasa and Landis forces, but Jinnaluo's final attack left him gravely wounded as the Insect Race arrived. Feng Qingluan sacrificed herself by unleashing her Fire Phoenix flames to annihilate the Insect Race, leaving Lin Zhen alone beneath the Phoenix Tree.

• Lin Zhen's Starry Sky Crown was shattered by Lanka, and Jinnaluo and the surviving Martial Artists demanded that Lin Zhen and Feng Qingluan kill themselves.
• Lin Zhen used Space Slash to kill Lanka and nearly all the Rakshasa and Landis Martial Artists, but Jinnaluo pierced Lin Zhen's chest with his sword before being overwhelmed.
• The Mantis Commander, Beetle Commander, Scorpio Commander, and Insect Race warriors arrived as Lin Zhen lay severely wounded beside Feng Qingluan.
• Feng Qingluan told Lin Zhen to remember her, transformed into her Phoenix True Body, and unleashed her Heaven Burning Flame against the Insect Race.
• Feng Qingluan's flames annihilated the Insect Race warriors and killed the Beetle and Scorpio Commanders, while the injured Mantis Commander escaped.
• Feng Qingluan vanished after giving Lin Zhen a final farewell, leaving him alone beneath the Phoenix Tree.

After the battle in the Chaotic Star River, Lin Zhen mourned Feng Qingluan and refused to believe she was dead, while Ye Hua and Tian Ci plotted to keep him from returning to Fire Qilin. Chris revealed that reaching Supreme Five-Star user privileges might uncover the secret of Phoenix Nirvana, giving Lin Zhen hope of reviving Feng Qingluan.

• Lin Zhen took first place in the Kill Ranking, while Feng Qingluan was believed to have died after killing five Insect Race commanders with her Sky Burning Flame.
• Tian Ci accused Ye Hua of betraying Feng Qingluan by revealing her location to the Insect Race, then proposed they share the bounty and work together against Lin Zhen.
• Ye Hua agreed to reveal Lin Zhen's location to the surviving Mantis Commander and stay with Tian Ci at Bright Passage to block Lin Zhen from claiming his reward.
• Lin Zhen received a message from Su Mingyue, who reassured him that she and An Ning supported his belief that Feng Qingluan might still be alive.
• Chris told Lin Zhen that Supreme Five-Star user privileges could let him access information about the secret of Phoenix Nirvana.

Lin Zhen left Phoenix Perch Star to earn the forty billion Cosmic Crystals needed to learn about Phoenix Nirvana, but Ye Hua and Tian Ci blocked his route home and helped the Insect Race pursue him. Unable to escape the Chaotic Star River with his main body, Lin Zhen planned to hide it while sending his clone through the Bright Passage.

• Lin Zhen vowed to find a way to bring Feng Qingluan back through Phoenix Nirvana or by reversing time, then left Phoenix Perch Star after recovering from his injuries.
• An Insect Race warship repeatedly tracked Lin Zhen as he traveled toward the Bright Passage, leading him to suspect Ye Hua and Tian Ci were revealing his location.
• Lin Zhen found Ye Hua and Tian Ci guarding the Bright Passage and turned back when the Insect Race warship caught up with him.
• Ye Hua told Tian Ci to keep informing the Mantis Commander of Lin Zhen's movements while he focused on cultivation.
• After nearly two months of pursuit, Lin Zhen learned the Insect Race tracked him through Chris and decided to hide his main body so his clone could escape through the Bright Passage.

Lin Zhen fed Dark Star the 100,000 Insect Race members his clone had swallowed, raising his Star Power enough to teleport across Suspended Island’s meteorite belt. He escaped the Insect Race pursuit and entered Suspended Island, while the Mantis Commander surrounded it with the remaining Insect Race forces to wait him out.

• Lin Zhen buried the 100,000 Insect Race members in Dark Star, which advanced to the middle Mesozoic Era and helped raise his Star Power to 1,280 points.
• Lin Zhen sent his clone to hide on an asteroid, then drew the Insect Race ships after his main body as he headed for Suspended Island.
• The Mantis Commander spotted Lin Zhen near Suspended Island and ordered an Energy Cannon fired, but Lin Zhen vanished with Planet Teleportation.
• Tian Ci told the Mantis Commander that Lin Zhen had appeared on Suspended Island, leaving the commander unable to cross the meteorite belt after him.
• The Mantis Commander moved the remaining four great mother nests near Suspended Island and surrounded it with Insect Race members, determined to wait for Lin Zhen to emerge.

Ye Hua and Tian Ci returned to the Empire, where Lin Zhen’s first-place reward remained unclaimed because he was still alive. On Kirin Saint Star, Lin Zhen secretly opened Tianhuo Star Transfer Shop and kept practicing his craft while mourning Feng Qingluan.

• Ye Hua and Tian Ci left the Chaotic Star River, convinced that Lin Zhen would remain trapped on Suspended Island and die at the Insect Race’s hands.
• Ye Hua and Tian Ci received a hero’s welcome from the Emperor and the people, but Realm King Hunshi’s objection kept Lin Zhen’s first-place reward vacant.
• Ye Hua returned to cultivation with the Mechanical Realm King, while Tian Ci enjoyed himself and secretly investigated Lin Zhen’s hometown and family.
• Lin Zhen opened Tianhuo Star Transfer Shop on Kirin Saint Star under an ordinary appearance, forging Star Artifacts and Saint Artifacts for customers.
• Lin Zhen turned away the women brought to the shop and recited a poem that led his assistant to suspect he still loved a lost lover.

Lin Zhen cultivated the Illusion Character Heaven Tablet on Suspended Island and advanced his Mental Power to Emerald Radiance Grade. He mastered the Mental Object Control Method with his Seven Stars Knife, while his clone continued working to earn Cosmic Crystals.

• Lin Zhen returned to Suspended Island, resisted its fierce gale, and made his way to the Heaven Steles to cultivate in safety from the Insect Race.
• Lin Zhen chose the Illusion Character Heaven Tablet and studied its teachings, reaching the tenth row after ten months of cultivation.
• Lin Zhen's Mental Power broke through to Emerald Radiance Grade and quickly rose to twenty percent, greatly improving his senses and rate of comprehension.
• Lin Zhen mastered the Mental Object Control Method and used his Seven Stars Knife in the Simulation Field to kill a Star System Stage level six opponent without attacking personally.