Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen killed Qian Tong, absorbed his memories, and became a peak Saint-Level Alchemist, then prepared to ask Jin Nuo for help finding his son. He discovered Qian Tong's supporters had already come to demand justice from him.

• Qian Tong knelt and begged Lin Zhen to spare him, but Lin Zhen intensified the Black Hole and killed him while secretly searching his memories.
• Jin Nuo protected Lin Zhen's claim to Qian Tong's spoils, including the divine crystal, and Lin Zhen returned to his residence to recover.
• Lin Zhen absorbed Qian Tong's alchemy knowledge and learned about his three Saint-Grade Pills and the other Saint-Level Alchemists.
• After seven days absorbing memories and three more days practicing pill refinement, Lin Zhen reached the peak of Saint-Level alchemy.
• Lin Zhen ended his seclusion to ask Jin Nuo about finding his son, but saw that Qian Tong's supporters had come to demand justice.

Lin Zhen faced Tian Hen and other customers seeking pills and debts left behind by Qian Tong, then revealed that he was a Saint-Level Alchemist. He proved his claim by refining a superior Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, and Tian Hen accepted that Lin Zhen owed them nothing before they left.

• Jin Nuo confronted Tian Hen, the fourth Holy Land Caretaker, and other customers who demanded pills they had ordered from Qian Tong.
• Lin Zhen said Qian Tong’s belongings had been destroyed by his Black Hole and denied responsibility for Qian Tong’s debts.
• Lin Zhen revealed that he could refine Saint-Grade Pills and offered to prove it if the others stopped tying him to Qian Tong’s affairs.
• Lin Zhen refined a Nine Revolutions Golden Pill in front of the gathered Martial Artists, claiming it could revive someone who had been dead for up to seven days.
• Tian Hen recognized the pill and accepted Lin Zhen’s proof, and Lin Zhen told the group to leave.

After revealing himself as a Saint-Level Alchemist, Lin Zhen gained recognition across the Origin Realm and prepared to leave the Holy Land for the Endless Star Sea to find his sons. He departed after securing two recorded techniques and arranging protection for his family, setting out at dawn.

• Tian Hen asked to be Lin Zhen’s friend and offered to trade for pills, while Jin Nuo told Lin Zhen that Tian Hen was a powerful Holy Land Caretaker.
• The Alchemist Headquarters named Lin Zhen honorary vice president and planned a statue in his honor after news spread that he was a Saint-Level Alchemist.
• Lin Zhen told Jin Nuo he was leaving for the Endless Star Sea, and Jin Nuo recorded the Shadowless Steps and Luo Tian Escape Technique for him.
• Lin Zhen asked Jin Nuo to protect his family if they entered the Holy Land, and Jin Nuo promised they would be safe.
• Lin Zhen visited Ning Qingxuan and the Fire Qilin Clan, said goodbye to his loved ones, and departed for the Endless Star Sea at dawn.

Lin Zhen disguised himself as an ordinary adventurer and went to the Adventurers' Guild in search of a group traveling toward the Endless Battlefield. He learned that a poaching party was heading along the battlefield’s edge and decided to try joining it.

• Lin Zhen used disguise medicine and changed his clothes and appearance to conceal his identity.
• Lin Zhen entered the Adventurers' Guild in Qin Capital and asked the bartender about groups traveling to the Endless Battlefield.
• The bartender explained that groups had avoided the route because the Imperial Race was searching the buffer zone for a missing important figure.
• The bartender offered to introduce Lin Zhen to a group recruiting Eternal Life Stage bodyguards for a journey past the Endless Battlefield’s edge.
• Lin Zhen learned the group was a poaching party and decided to apply because its route could take him where he needed to go.

Lin Zhen used a false identity to infiltrate a poacher squad preparing to travel through the Endless Star Sea, where he discovered they were trafficking captured spirit beasts. After seeing a wounded Little Fox among the captives, he sensed its pride and sorrow, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Lin Zhen obtained the identity of Lin Xun through Zhu Ziheng and traveled to the poacher squad's base.
• Lin Xun passed the squad's test by killing a Ghoul and agreed to join their expedition for twenty million.
• A woman in black warned Lin Xun that the squad might encounter dangerous races in the Endless Star Sea because someone important from Qingqiu Mountain had gone missing.
• A'Long showed Lin Xun the captured beasts, including a Five-Colored Parrot, a Suanni cub, Azure Serpents, Divine Turtles, and two girls from the Jade Rabbit Clan.
• Lin Zhen spotted an injured Little Fox in a cage and sensed its pride and sorrow as A'Long dismissed its value.

Lin Zhen traveled with Bai Bing’s poaching group toward Grassland Country, cultivating while their flying vehicle crossed into the Endless Star Sea. After buying the Little Fox to save her from being cooked, he heard an alarm sound through the vehicle.

• A'Long explained the poaching group’s operation and hurriedly departed after learning the authorities had been alerted, taking off in a flying vehicle with Lin Zhen and the mercenaries.
• Lin Zhen cultivated during the month-long journey, while Luo Huan mocked him for being weaker than the other hired guards.
• Luo Huan offered to pay for the Little Fox so the mercenaries could eat her, and A'Long brought her cage out.
• Lin Zhen paid two million to buy the Little Fox and keep her alive, angering Luo Huan, who threatened him.
• A piercing alarm blared through the flying vehicle just after Luo Huan threatened Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen freed Little Fox and slaughtered the Ghost Clan and the trading party that attacked them. He reached the edge of the Endless Battlefield with Little Fox, leaving their destination ahead.

• The Ghost Clan demanded the travelers surrender their possessions and open their Inner Worlds, then attacked when they refused.
• Lin Zhen freed Little Fox from her cage and released the other caged beasts before leaving the flying vehicle.
• Lin Zhen killed A'Long with Mental Power after A'Long cursed him for freeing the beasts.
• Lin Zhen killed the Ghost Clan and the surviving members of the party with his weapons and Heart Sword after Bai Bing recognized him.
• Lin Zhen questioned Little Fox about her sex, then kept her with him when she clung to his hand.
• Lin Zhen looked toward the shattered terrain of the Endless Battlefield.

Lin Zhen entered the Endless Battlefield, where he met Zhang Xuan and a group of seasoned Ground Race Martial Artists who explained how to get established in the Endless Star Sea. The chapter ended with Little Fox reacting jealously to the portrait of Emperor Huangtian’s beloved wife by biting Lin Zhen’s chest.

• Lin Zhen teleported into the Endless Battlefield with Little Fox and encountered Zhang Xuan’s group on a floating continent.
• Zhang Xuan apologized for attacking Lin Zhen, and the group welcomed him after he introduced himself as Lin Xun from the Great Qin Empire.
• Lin Zhen joined the Martial Artists for food and drinks, then told them he had come to find someone, train, and seek treasures.
• Brother Li explained that Lin Zhen needed to activate his Dimensional Universe clearance and introduced the Endless Star Sea’s cities and currency.
• Lin Zhen saw the portrait of Emperor Huangtian’s wife on a banknote, and Little Fox bit his chest.

Lin Zhen learned how the Endless Battlefield worked and traveled to Tian Fang City to register his identity and exchange some money. He planned to make a name for himself so his missing son would find him, and kept Little Fox with him.

• Zhang Xuan explained that warriors gained status through points earned by killing the Endless Race, and described the battlefield’s ranks, factions, and dangers.
• Lin Zhen parted from Zhang Xuan’s group, kept Little Fox despite its bite, and set off for Tian Fang City.
• Lin Zhen arrived in Tian Fang City and registered his real name, learning that his local identity listed him as an unranked Saint-Level Alchemist.
• Lin Zhen exchanged twenty billion in ground currency for one million Endless Coin and decided to build a reputation so his son could find him.

After Little Fox bit a woman who was secretly reporting on him, Lin Zhen was extorted and then blocked from earning money or leaving Tian Fang City unless he joined White Tiger Hall. After three days with no way to trade, Lin Zhen named Little Fox Xiao Gua and noticed a Duel Arena in the distance.

• Little Fox bit a woman at the currency exchange, and Lin Zhen paid her one million credits before learning his offense had barred him from further currency exchanges.
• Baldy Da Bing and a garrison captain confronted Lin Zhen, tried to force him into a hundred-year White Tiger Hall contract, and imposed restrictions that prevented him from working, trading, opening a shop, or leaving Tian Fang City.
• Lin Zhen refused to join White Tiger Hall, while Chris confirmed that the city defense system prevented him from teleporting out.
• After three days of failed attempts to find work or trade, Lin Zhen realized Little Fox had likely bitten the woman for leaking his information to White Tiger Hall.
• Little Fox rejected Lin Zhen's proposed names until he interpreted her paw marks as Xiao Gua, then Lin Zhen spotted a Duel Arena in the distance.

Lin Zhen joined the Arena as a professional gladiator, hoping to win a hundred matches and earn a one-star rating. The White Tiger Hall secretly altered his contract to pit him against stronger opponents and arranged to keep him too exhausted to cultivate.

• Lin Zhen went to the Arena after learning that victories could earn points and raise his star rating.
• San Hu and Three Flowers recognized Lin Zhen on surveillance and ordered their staff to trap him because he was a Saint-Level Alchemist who could refine Nine Revolutions Golden Pills.
• Lin Zhen signed a contract to fight until he earned a hundred points, believing his opponents would be limited to Mid Divine Sense Transformation.
• San Hu secretly changed the contract’s opponent limit to Divine Realm Transformation and ordered sleeping agents placed in Lin Zhen’s room to stop him cultivating.
• The Arena staff locked Lin Zhen in his quarters, and he suddenly became drowsy as he prepared to cultivate.

Lin Zhen resisted a drug that made him sleep, but dreamed of Qingqiu Mountain and fought a Nine-tailed Celestial Fox whose divine pressure drained his Star Power. The dream erased the residue from his pills and let him advance to Eternal Life Level Eight; the next morning, he was called to his first Arena match.

• Lin Zhen suspected White Tiger Hall had drugged him to stop his cultivation, but the effect eventually made him fall asleep.
• San Hu confirmed the drug had worked and ordered Lin Zhen's first match arranged against a Three Flowers Stage opponent, with instructions not to kill him.
• In his dream, Lin Zhen met a White-Clothed Woman on Qingqiu Mountain and resisted the pressure of a Nine-tailed Celestial Fox until he woke with his Star Power depleted.
• Lin Zhen discovered the Star Power drain had also cleared the medicinal residue in his dantian, so he took pills and advanced from Eternal Life Level Seven to Level Eight.
• The next morning, Lin Zhen affectionately grabbed Xiao Gua before a guard arrived to summon him for his first match.

Lin Zhen won his first two Arena matches with single strikes, frustrating the White Tiger Hall’s efforts to recruit him. After using the Qingqiu Mountain dream to dissolve the medicine in his body, he advanced to level nine of the Eternal Life Stage, while Xiao Gua grew into a Little Fox after eating stronger pills.

• Lin Zhen killed Gibson with a single Mental Impact and earned his first Arena point, prompting San Hu to plan for opponents equipped with Mental Power defenses.
• Lin Zhen returned to the Qingqiu Mountain dream, endured the nine-tailed fox’s challenge, and dissolved more than half the medicinal power within him.
• Xiao Gua ate General Level pills and grew larger as Lin Zhen refined two bottles of Flower Nourishing Pills.
• Lin Zhen killed his second opponent with a single strike of Sword Qi, earning another point and provoking San Hu to demand a stronger fighter.
• Lin Zhen gave Xiao Gua God of War Level medicine, then woke from the dream and advanced to level nine of the Eternal Life Stage with 140 million star power, while his clone reached 200 million.
• Xiao Gua grew into a Little Fox, and Lin Zhen promised to keep supplying her with pills after briefly seeing what looked like three tails.

Lin Zhen defeated Wu Yan by mastering light-speed movement and tearing through space, then returned to his room instead of fleeing Tian Fang City. White Tiger Hall searched for him in panic until a technician reported where he had gone.

• Jin Pangzi bet all his property on Lin Zhen, hoping Lin Zhen would defeat Wu Yan and save him from ruin.
• Wu Yan used a spatial escape technique to ambush Lin Zhen, and Lin Zhen took two wounds while trying to counterattack.
• Lin Zhen heeded the White-Clothed Woman's advice and realized he could attain light-speed movement instantly.
• Lin Zhen tore through space, seized Wu Yan, and killed him before the Space Crack closed.
• Lin Zhen used his new ability to return to his room, while White Tiger Hall searched for him and San Hu waited anxiously for news.
• A technician told San Hu that Lin Zhen had gone back to his room to sleep.

Lin Zhen accumulated strength for a breakthrough while Xiao Gua rapidly advanced through several realms. After reaching thirty arena points, Lin Zhen discovered that Xiao Gua had transformed into the beautiful woman from his dreams.

• San Hu concluded that Lin Zhen had used a short-range Teleportation Array to return to his room and planned to keep him bound by their contract.
• Lin Zhen and Xiao Gua entered their dream, where Lin Zhen fought the fox deity and absorbed medicinal power to build his Star Power.
• White Tiger Hall arranged for Lin Zhen's opponents to surrender, allowing his points to rise while he continued preparing to break through.
• Lin Zhen lit the Rahu Star, and Xiao Gua advanced from the Star Stage through the Eternal Life Realm into the Three Flowers Realm.
• On the thirtieth day, Lin Zhen reached thirty points and prepared for the Divine Sense Transformation matches, then watched Xiao Gua transform into the woman from his dreams.

Lin Zhen learned that Xiao Gua was Bai SuSu, the Emperor Princess of Qingqiu Mountain, and agreed to cooperate with her while she restored her cultivation. Meanwhile, Zhang Xuan’s group was discovered by an Endless Race search party on the Endless Battlefield.

• Bai SuSu revealed her identity as the Emperor Princess of Qingqiu Mountain and argued with Lin Zhen over their debts and loyalties.
• Bai SuSu asked Lin Zhen to protect her and supply pills while she helped him neutralize medicinal power, and Lin Zhen agreed to cooperate until she reached Divine Realm Transformation.
• Bai SuSu attacked Lin Zhen after he called her Bai Gua, but he let her pin him down without fighting back.
• Zhang Xuan and his companions debated returning to Tian Fang City as the Endless Race search intensified around them.
• A dog-headed Endless Race Martial Artist found traces of the target where Zhang Xuan’s group had stopped.

Demon Clan trackers learned that Lin Xun had carried the Emperor Princess toward Tian Fang City, while Old Man Can Jing announced that the Eye of the Storm would open in three months. San Hu resolved to enter the gladiator selection and eliminate Lin Zhen before he could advance.

• A Demon Clan Spirit Hound tracked the Emperor Princess's scent to the floating landmasses, and the Demon Clan killed Zhang Xuan and the other Human Race Martial Artists after learning Lin Xun had passed through on his way to Tian Fang City.
• Old Man Can Jing appeared in Tian Fang City's City Lord's Mansion and announced the coming opening of the Eye of the Storm, also known as the God Stone Battlefield.
• Old Man Can Jing allowed Tian Fang City's four-star Martial Artists to register and ordered the ten thousand surviving gladiators from a Virtual Battlefield contest to enter the Eye of the Storm.
• San Hu learned about the selection and decided to register as a gladiator so he could try to eliminate Lin Zhen and keep him under control.

San Hu joined the gladiator battles to target Lin Zhen in the Virtual Battlefield, while Tian Fang City’s factions prepared to compete for the God’s Inheritance Crystal at the Eye of the Storm. As Lin Zhen and Bai SuSu prepared for her breakthrough, fireworks signaled that someone had come looking for her, and Lin Zhen urged her to break through before leaving.

• San Hu gave up his chance to enter the Eye of the Storm directly and registered as a gladiator so he could eliminate Lin Zhen in the Virtual Battlefield.
• The Three Heroes Society and the Raptor Riders rallied their members to seize a God's Inheritance Crystal at the Eye of the Storm.
• Lin Zhen and Bai SuSu shared a meal and discussed her life at Qingqiu Mountain, her sister Bai Xue, and how she had been captured by Pet Traffickers.
• Bai SuSu told Lin Zhen she would keep his secret after returning to the Endless Star Sea and said she would treat their time together as a dream.
• A firework signaled that someone had come for Bai SuSu, and Lin Zhen asked her to complete her breakthrough before going to meet them.

Lin Zhen left Bai SuSu in space and traveled to observe an exploding White Dwarf as he prepared to break through to the Three Flowers Stage. While his Star Power surged, he tried to understand the star’s destruction and create a martial skill of his own, then decided to enter the explosion directly.

• Lin Zhen persuaded Bai SuSu to wait while he prepared to break through, then carried her far beyond Tian Fang City and released her in space.
• Lin Zhen spotted a stellar explosion on the Heavenly Star Plate and used the Luo Tian Escape Technique to travel to the White Dwarf.
• Lin Zhen swallowed a prepared pill and began breaking through to the Three Flowers Stage as his Star Power surged.
• Lin Zhen watched the White Dwarf approach destruction and sought to understand its explosive power so he could create his own martial skill.
• Lin Zhen decided to enter the stellar explosion and study it from within, relying on his Black Hole and Undying Spirit Body.

Lin Zhen forced his way into the core of an exploding star to observe it, using his abilities and Star River Domain to survive the extreme heat and shockwaves. As his defenses began to fail, he broke through from Eternal Life Stage to Three Flowers Stage, and his newly awakened power stabilized the neutron planets around him.

• Lin Zhen armored himself in ice and charged toward the exploding star, using Teleport, Landis's Spear, Snow Lotus Bloom, Black Hole Devour, and Lightning Wings to break through its outer dangers.
• Lin Zhen endured repeated impacts from stellar fragments and shockwaves while advancing toward the Star Core, and Chris calculated the precise distance he needed to travel through a Space Crack.
• Lin Zhen entered the Star Core's blazing interior, used his Fire Qilin avatar's Innate Devour to survive the first burst, and activated Star River Domain to shield himself with neutron planets.
• As the energy currents depleted Lin Zhen's star power and shattered several planets, the barrier between his Eternal Life Stage and Three Flowers Stage broke.
• Lin Zhen's Essence Flower bloomed, his star power surged, and the neutron planets stabilized as his breakthrough continued.