Chapter Summaries

Lu Jun activated the Five Elements Star-Fighting Array to draw on the entire starry sky and cultivate five Divine Pills at once. Its power spread across Jiquan Star, transforming the land and alarming its rulers and races as the Blood Moon and Blue Moon responded in opposing ways.

• Lu Jun explained that five Divine Pills could form a balanced starry system within his Bitter Sea, and he began forming the Five Elements Star-Fighting Array.
• Lu Jun drew down five-colored Star Power and guided its beams into his body, causing stars across the sky to blaze over Jiquan Star.
• Sheng Tian, Ao Tian, the Phoenix Clan, and the Dwarf King witnessed the vast celestial change and recognized Lu Jun as its source.
• Five elements of starlight accelerated growth in the Divine Wood Forest and stirred elemental forces across Jiquan Star, affecting forests, seas, deserts, volcanoes, and glaciers.
• The Blood Moon's power drove orcs and trolls into violent frenzies, while the Blue Moon's light calmed people and loosened a cultivator's bottleneck.
• Sheng Tian concluded that Lu Jun's ability to affect both moons made him someone the dynasty could not afford to antagonize.

Lu Jun completed five enormous Divine Pills in his Bitter Sea, astonishing Feng Xi, the Five Elf Ancestors, and the Heaven Ascension Realm cultivators who had doubted him. The Orc and Troll elders then argued that he could not open apertures and cultivate Origin Infants for all five, leaving the next stage of his path in doubt.

• After months atop the World Tree, Lu Jun completed five Divine Pills that circulated through the cycle of the five elements.
• Lu Jun invited Feng Xi, the Five Elf Ancestors, and the nine Heaven Ascension Realm powerhouses to see his Bitter Sea and its immense five Divine Pills.
• Feng Xi and the others were stunned by the scale and combined power of Lu Jun's pills, while Zhan Chui and Ju Li admitted that he had surpassed their expectations.
• An Orc Race elder warned that Lu Jun would need to open apertures in all five Divine Pills and cultivate five Origin Infants.
• Zhan Chui, Ju Li, and other elders argued that Lu Jun lacked the soul and divine consciousness to complete the next stages, and predicted that four pills would become useless.

Lu Jun admitted that advancing with five Divine Pills would be difficult, then revealed that he planned to skip Aperture Opening and Spirit Transformation and continue along the Ancient Path. The chapter ended with Tree God asking whether Lu Jun had intended to bypass those realms from the beginning.

• Zhan Chui and Ju Li mocked Lu Jun’s prospects, while Feng Xi and the others worried that five Divine Pills made Aperture Opening and Spirit Transformation impossible.
• Lu Jun acknowledged the difficulty but said he would try his own way, and Feng Xi reminded Zhan Chui, Ju Li, and the seven elders to honor their wager.
• Zhan Chui, Ju Li, and the seven elders knelt, admitted defeat, and agreed to obey Divine Wood Forest’s commands.
• Lu Jun asked Tree God for treasures to cultivate the Four Extremities, Dragon Transformation, Golden Body, and Divine Treasury realms, then confirmed he planned to advance into them directly.
• Feng Xi and the others realized Lu Jun intended to skip Aperture Opening and Spirit Transformation and follow the Ancient Path, while Lu Jun said he had never chosen a stable path.
• Tree God asked Lu Jun whether he had planned from the beginning to bypass Aperture Opening and Spirit Transformation.

The Tree God revealed that Lu Jun’s five Divine Pills would nurture five elemental spirits, and Lu Jun asked his captives to obtain five-element treasures in exchange for their freedom. As Zhan Chui and Ju Li went to retrieve ransom, Lu Jun stayed in Divine Wood Forest to consolidate his cultivation and await more treasures.

• The Tree God explained that Lu Jun’s five Divine Pills could become five elemental spirits, and Lu Jun described how they would eventually reside in his five viscera.
• Lu Jun demanded five-element spiritual objects from the captured Orc and Troll leaders, then offered to exchange their freedom for treasures from their treasuries.
• Zhan Chui and Ju Li agreed to return to their territories, swore to bring back valuable five-element treasures within a month, and left the Grotto-Heaven.
• The Tree God offered Divine Wood Forest’s wood- and fire-attribute treasures, while Feng Xi arranged for Phoenix Clan treasures and said Dragon, Human, and Dwarf envoys were on their way.
• Lu Jun chose to wait and consolidate his Bitter Sea and five Divine Pills as Gou Sen, Jian Wuhen, Yan Wushuang, and Lei Potian advanced in cultivation.

Zhen Lanyue struggled to manage the many delegations arriving at Divine Wood Forest while Lu Jun and the Tree God remained in seclusion. She welcomed the human envoys and revealed that Lu Jun would exchange his cultivation insights for rare five-element treasures, leaving them eager to negotiate.

• Zhen Lanyue learned that the Dragon Race, led by Crown Prince Ao Lie with ten giant dragons, was arriving early, while envoys from several other races crowded Divine Wood Forest.
• Zhen Lanyue ordered Qing Ye to summon elders, prepare more refreshments, and strengthen patrols before going to meet the human delegation.
• Zhang Qian, Sima Qianxi, and Huo Wubing discussed their three-day wait outside the forest, and Huo Wubing sensed that Lu Jun's power exceeded the reports and even made his sword afraid.
• Zhen Lanyue welcomed the human envoys and led them into Divine Wood Forest, where Huo Wubing felt the pressure of powerful auras growing stronger.
• Zhen Lanyue said Lu Jun needed high-grade five-element spiritual objects containing the power of rules, especially treasures suited to several advanced realms.
• Zhen Lanyue offered Lu Jun's cultivation process and insights in exchange for such treasures, and the human envoys reacted with keen interest.

Zhang Qian presented Zhen Lanyue with rare treasures for Lu Jun and conveyed the Human Race emperor’s wish to meet him. The Dragon Race envoy, led by Ao Lie, arrived at the Divine Wood Forest, where Ao Lie offered a Dragon Crystal to help Lu Jun cultivate.

• Zhang Qian gave Zhen Lanyue a Dragon Blood Pill, the Heavenly Saint Sword, and Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron, and asked her to pass them to Lu Jun.
• Zhang Qian said the Human Race emperor hoped to meet Lu Jun, and Zhen Lanyue said they could discuss it after Lu Jun left seclusion.
• Ao Lie led the Dragon Race envoys to the Divine Wood Forest and had them take human form before meeting Zhen Lanyue.
• Ao Lie asked about Lu Jun and the Tree God, while Ao Yue dismissed their cultivation methods as crooked paths.
• Zhen Lanyue requested five-element spiritual objects for Lu Jun, and Ao Lie explained the Dragon Transformation Realm’s connection to the Dragon Race.
• Ao Lie presented a Dragon Crystal and explained that it could help temper the spine of someone cultivating the Dragon Transformation Realm.

Delegations from the Dragon Race, Dwarf Race, Phoenix Clan, and other races brought gifts to the Divine Wood Forest while seeking Lu Jun’s favor and cultivation insights. As the envoys competed at a banquet, Lu Jun prepared jade slips containing his cultivation knowledge, prompting Zhen Ershisan Zi to ask whether he truly intended to trade it all away.

• Ao Lie gave Zhen Lanyue a Dragon Crystal and offered the Dragon Race’s Heavenly Dragon Transformation Technique in exchange for Lu Jun’s cultivation insights.
• Gold Tooth arrived with Dwarf Race ores, Cold Iron, and Combat Mecha blueprints, hoping to trade them for Lu Jun’s insights.
• Feng Yu told Feng Ling that Lu Jun could become unmatched on Jiquan Star after completing his recultivation.
• Zhen Lanyue received envoys and their gifts, while the Orc and Troll elders remained under the Tree God’s restraints in the Divine Wood Forest.
• At a banquet, Gold Tooth, Ao Lie, Zhang Qian, and Feng Yu each offered their race’s treasures to win Lu Jun’s favor.
• Lu Jun rapidly inscribed his cultivation insights onto jade slips, and Zhen Ershisan Zi asked whether he intended to trade them all away.

Lu Jun began trading jade slips of his cultivation insights for treasures needed to advance his cultivation, explaining that others could not simply copy his unique path. The Human Race, Dragon Race, and Dwarf Race began bringing offerings to the World Tree reception hall, and Gold Tooth arrived with a large trove of ores to bargain for insights.

• Lu Jun explained to Feng Xi and the Tree God that he would freely share his insights because his cultivation path depended on rare innate gifts and years of tempering.
• Feng Xi gave Lu Jun the Phoenix Clan’s Immortal Divine Stone, and he let her choose three jade slips in exchange.
• Zhang Qian, Sima Qianxi, and Huo Wubing traded five-element materials and Dragon Bone for basic insights and a complete cultivation-method jade slip.
• Ao Lie traded an ancient Dragon reverse scale, Dragon Tendon, and Dragon Saliva Wine for three core insight jade slips.
• Gold Tooth arrived with more than twenty kinds of metal ores and asked Lu Jun what they could buy.

Lu Jun traded cultivation jade slips for treasures from the races gathering in the Divine Wood Forest, while the Orc and Troll Kings returned to ransom themselves and chose to stay. He then began cultivating the Four Poles, Dragon Transformation, and Golden Body realms simultaneously, leaving Feng Xi and the others stunned as the three streams of energy started tempering his body.

• Gold Tooth exchanged for a core comprehension jade slip, while envoys from several races traded for other slips and Zhang Qian copied one for the Heavenly Saint Dynasty and Sima Qianxi.
• Orc King Zhan Chui and Troll King Ju Li returned with treasures, paid their ransoms to Lu Jun, and asked to trade for cultivation insights.
• Zhan Chui and Ju Li received the Tree God's permission to remain in the Divine Wood Forest, where they hoped to learn from Lu Jun and the jade slips.
• Lu Jun told Feng Xi, the Tree God, and the Five Great Elf Ancestors that he would cultivate the Four Poles, Dragon Transformation, and Golden Body realms together.
• Lu Jun divided his Bitter Sea energy into three currents and began tempering his limbs, spine, and torso at the same time.

Lu Jun used treasures from Jiquan Star’s races to cultivate the Four Extremities, Dragon Transformation, and Golden Body simultaneously, forging his body with starlight, dragon might, and Nirvana flames. On the sixth night, his breakthrough summoned vast pillars of starlight across half the planet, leaving the watching races awed by the power of his star dragon.

• Lu Jun decided to cultivate the Four Extremities, Dragon Transformation, and Golden Body at the same time using the treasures offered by Jiquan Star’s races.
• Lu Jun activated the treasures and reshaped his limbs with Star Power, his spine with Dragon Might, and his body with Nirvana flames and other racial treasures.
• The Tree God's phantom, Feng Xi, and the Five Great Elf Ancestors watched as Lu Jun’s body formed a cycle linking starlight, dragon might, and the Golden Body.
• On the sixth night, stars across the sky blazed and sent pillars of starlight down onto Jiquan Star, creating a phenomenon that illuminated half the planet.
• Sheng Tian and the leaders of the Human, Dragon, and Phoenix races witnessed the phenomenon and recognized that Lu Jun was forging a star dragon beyond ordinary Dragon Transformation.

Lu Jun drew on the stars to transform his body and manifest his Law of Heaven and Earth, Star Dragon Descent. The phenomenon shook Jiquan Star and left the watching races awestruck as the Star Dragon rose behind him.

• Feng Ling, Gold Tooth, Zhan Chui, Ju Li, and the seven Heaven Ascension Realm elders witnessed Lu Jun's vast silver starlight phenomenon and feared his power.
• Lu Jun opened the Four Extremities, connected them to heaven and earth, and sent pillars of starlight through the Grotto-Heaven and across Jiquan Star.
• Starlight and Dragon Might illuminated Lu Jun's thirty-three vertebrae, forming a multicolored chain of stars along his spine.
• Lu Jun transformed his limbs into silver dragon claws, grew dragon wings, horns, scales, and other star-dragon features, and named his Law of Heaven and Earth Star Dragon Descent.
• Lu Jun's roar shattered the Grotto-Heaven barrier, and the Star Dragon phantom surged up behind him beneath the real sky.

Lu Jun completed the Four Poles, Dragon Transformation, and Golden Body realms at their ultimate state, becoming a Star Dragon and absorbing the powers of Blue Moon and Blood Moon into his eyes. After returning to human form, he explained his transformation and demonstrated his strength to the gathered races.

• Lu Jun transformed into a Star Dragon and circled the sky nine times as starlight spread across Jiquan Star.
• Lu Jun absorbed Blue Moon's power into his left eye and Blood Moon's power into his right, calming the Orc warriors and frightening the Troll warriors with their opposing abilities.
• Lu Jun returned to human form, and the gathered races and elders knelt before him in awe of his life-level power.
• Lu Jun confirmed to Feng Xi and the others that he had perfected the Four Poles, Dragon Transformation, and Golden Body realms, then described how each had changed his body.
• Lu Jun thanked the races for the treasures they had provided and struck the Grotto-Heaven's barrier with a casual burst of Star Power, drawing praise from the Tree God.

Feng Xi arranged for the Heaven Ascension Realm experts to test Lu Jun's newly completed cultivation of all three realms. Zhan Chui, Ju Li, the Five Great Elf Ancestors, and seven elders all failed to injure or move him, leaving his extraordinary physical defense on display.

• Feng Xi challenged Zhan Chui and Ju Li to test whether they could hurt Lu Jun, and the Tree God expanded the Grotto-Heaven's barrier to make room.
• Zhan Chui struck Lu Jun first with seventy percent of his strength and then with a full-power punch, but Lu Jun did not move, and Zhan Chui yielded.
• Ju Li slashed Lu Jun with his ancestral Magic Iron saber, but the blade chipped against Lu Jun's unharmed body, and Ju Li submitted.
• Yan Huang's flames, An Ming's dagger, Rock Ancestor's attempt to lift Lu Jun, Shuang Yuan's cold energy, and Feng Wuji's wind blades all failed to affect him.
• The seven elders unleashed their rules together in a multicolored torrent, but Lu Jun remained untouched and asked whether they wanted to continue.

Lu Jun demonstrated that his perfected Golden Body could withstand attacks from nine Heaven Ascension Realm experts, crack the Grotto-Heaven barrier, move beyond Divine Sense’s perception, repel Nirvana Fire, and heal instantly. He then declared that he would reopen the apertures of his five Divine Pills and cultivate Aperture Opening, Spirit Transformation, and the Divine Treasury Realm together, leaving everyone stunned by his plan to use the five Divine Pills as Divine Treasuries.

• Lu Jun casually punched the Grotto-Heaven barrier with pure physical strength, cracking it, then demonstrated speed beyond Divine Sense and a soul strong enough to repel Feng Xi’s Nirvana Fire.
• Lu Jun showed that wounds healed instantly and said his perfected physical body could recover unless it was destroyed all at once.
• Lu Jun announced that he would try opening apertures in his five Divine Pills again, prompting Feng Xi, the Five Elf Ancestors, and the nine Heaven Ascension Realm experts to warn him of the danger.
• Lu Jun explained that he wanted to complete every cultivation realm rather than skip Aperture Opening and Spirit Transformation, and the Tree God stopped trying to dissuade him.
• Lu Jun said his five Divine Pills already possessed the endless vitality associated with the Divine Treasury Realm, and the Tree God realized that Lu Jun intended to use them as Divine Treasuries.

Lu Jun explained his plan to refine his five Divine Pills as life-bound Spiritual Treasures and lodge them in the five viscera, creating a new cultivation path with five powerful incarnations. The chapter ended with Feng Xi questioning why the pills had to be nurtured in the five viscera rather than the Dantian.

• Yan Huang, An Ming, Rock Ancestor, Shuang Yuan, and Feng Wuji reacted with shock as they considered Lu Jun’s idea of merging Divine Pills with the five Divine Treasuries.
• Lu Jun clarified that he would refine each Divine Pill as a life-bound Spiritual Treasure, bind it with a wisp of his soul, and lodge it in a corresponding Divine Treasury.
• The Tree God questioned whether Lu Jun’s soul could withstand splitting into five wisps and warned that failure could ruin his foundation; Lu Jun accepted the risks and described the potential benefits.
• Lu Jun explained that his five bonded Divine Pills could become independent incarnations, prompting the gathered ancestors and elders to fear how powerful he would become.
• Feng Xi recognized similarities between Lu Jun’s method and a Phoenix Clan secret art, then asked why the Divine Pills had to reside in the five viscera instead of the Dantian.

Lu Jun explained his plan to turn his five Divine Pills into bonded Spiritual Treasures and nourish them in the five viscera, combining Aperture Opening, Spirit Transformation, and Divine Treasury cultivation. After allies across Jiquan Star learned of his plan, they pledged rare treasures to support him, and Sheng Tian ordered the Heavenly Saint Dynasty’s five nation-suppressing treasures sent to the Divine Wood Forest.

• Lu Jun described how the five-element Divine Pills could become bonded Spiritual Treasures nourished by the divine treasuries of his five viscera, and the Tree God agreed to support his unprecedented cultivation path.
• Feng Xi, Yan Huang, An Ming, Rock Ancestor, Shuang Yuan, Feng Wuji, Zhan Chui, Ju Li, and the Heaven Ascension Realm elders offered treasures from their clans to help Lu Jun.
• News of Lu Jun’s plan spread through the Divine Wood Forest, and Zhang Qian ordered it sent to the imperial capital while delegations from the Dragon, Dwarf, and Phoenix Clans prepared to contribute more treasures.
• Sheng Tian learned that Lu Jun planned to cultivate Aperture Opening, Spirit Transformation, and Divine Treasury simultaneously, and Prime Minister Li Xuanji urged the dynasty to increase its support.
• Sheng Tian ordered the imperial treasury to send Primordial Mysterious Gold, Chaos Soil, the Spring of Life, True Sun Fire, and Lunar Profound Ice to the Divine Wood Forest.

As Lu Jun prepared to cultivate Aperture Opening, Spirit Transformation, and Divine Treasury simultaneously, races across Jiquan Star sent their most precious treasures to the Divine Wood Forest in hopes of sharing his insights. Surrounded by the offerings, Lu Jun began reversing the usual cultivation order by opening the divine treasuries before placing the divine pills within them.

• Dragon Emperor Ao Tian ordered the Ancestral Dragon Scale, Ancestral Dragon Bone, Ancestral Dragon Blood, and Ancestral Dragon Pearl sent to Lu Jun as an investment in the dragon race’s future.
• Dwarf King Copper Hammer sent Creation Gold, the Creation Hammer, and the Rune Stone of the God of Forging to the Divine Wood Forest.
• Merman King Lin Yuan, Winged King Feng Yi, Spirit Cat King Mao Tong, and Sand King Sha Bao each ordered their race’s treasured spiritual objects sent to support Lu Jun.
• Treasures from races across Jiquan Star filled the grotto-heaven atop the World Tree, and Lu Jun began preparing to cultivate with the five-element offerings.
• Lu Jun explained that he would open the five divine treasuries first and have the divine pills take residence in them afterward, reversing the traditional cultivation order.

Lu Jun opened all five Divine Treasuries before placing any Divine Pills inside, overturning Jiquan Star’s cultivation order. To prevent the Divine Treasuries from assimilating the energy-based pills, he revealed his plan to refine each Divine Pill into an inner planet and make his divine soul its will.

• Lu Jun used five-element spiritual treasures to open the divine treasuries of his liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, creating a five-colored cycle without any Divine Pills residing in them.
• Tree God, Feng Xi, Yan Huang, and the others recognized that Lu Jun had reversed the traditional cultivation order by opening the Divine Treasuries first.
• Lu Jun explained that a Divine Pill placed in a flesh-and-blood Divine Treasury would be assimilated because it was a pure energy body without a divine soul.
• Lu Jun proposed injecting a wisp of his divine soul into each Divine Pill so the soul could suppress assimilation, then nourishing the pills with five-element spiritual objects.
• Lu Jun declared that he would refine his five Divine Pills into inner planets, with his divine soul serving as each planet’s will.

Lu Jun transformed his five Divine Pills into living planets by planting Five Elements spiritual objects on them and merging a portion of his divine soul into each as a Gaia. The five Star Souls awakened in symbiosis with him, while the onlookers recognized them as independent, half-self avatars.

• Lu Jun planted metal-attributed spiritual objects on the Gold Divine Pill, shaping it into a miniature planet with mountains, rivers, and land.
• Lu Jun planted the Five Elements spiritual objects on the Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Divine Pills, forming five rotating inner planets.
• Lu Jun explained that the planets needed souls of their own, then merged a wisp of his divine soul into the Gold Star and named its awakened will Gaia.
• Lu Jun merged additional soul wisps into the Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Stars, awakening five distinct planetary wills.
• The Tree God concluded that Lu Jun had created five independent Star Souls that lived in symbiosis with him as half-self avatars.

Lu Jun opened his Lung Divine Treasury by placing Gold Star inside it, transforming the acupoint into a small universe. Its golden Star Power spread through the Divine Wood Forest and strengthened the metal-attribute Divine Treasuries and bodies of cultivators from several races.

• Lu Jun moved Gold Star into his Lung Divine Treasury, which expanded into a vast space containing a starry sky and a growing metal-attribute nebula.
• Lu Jun added metal treasures to the new celestial space, where Gold Star’s gravity drew them together into orbiting bodies.
• Zhen Lanyue and other Wood Elves felt the golden Star Power perfect their Lung Divine Treasuries and improve their cultivation.
• Ao Lie and Ao Yue absorbed the power into their Lung Dragon Treasuries, strengthening their bodies and loosening Ao Yue’s bottleneck.
• Feng Yu, Zhang Qian, Sima Qianxi, and Huo Wubing benefited as the Star Power perfected their metal-attribute Divine Treasuries and, for Huo Wubing, heightened his sword intent.