Chapter Summaries

Li Changqing returned from the River of Time, destroyed the Evil Spirit, and revived Bai Tianci. After sealing Subspace away from reality, he prepared to deal with the Psionic Users who had betrayed the Martial Arts Association.

• Li Changqing arrived as the Evil Spirit extracted Lin Haozhi's soul, then sent Lin Haozhi and the others to safety and repeatedly killed the Evil Spirit as it revived from Subspace.
• Li Changqing brought his Inner Scenery World into reality and declared that Subspace could not approach, cutting off the Evil Spirit's ability to revive.
• The Evil Spirit tried to exploit Bai Tianci's soul to attack Li Changqing, but Li Changqing saved Bai Tianci and destroyed the Evil Spirit with his Yang God.
• Li Changqing used the Way of Creation to revive Bai Tianci, who awoke and returned to the human world.
• Li Changqing learned that the remaining Martial Arts Association Psionic Users would return in four days and resolved to reject appeasers and planet-traitors.

After Blue Star’s Psionic Users returned, Li Changqing took command of the coming war and assigned seven Martial Arts Association appeasers to serve as conversion test subjects. He awakened the first of the Nine Cauldrons, which changed Blue Star’s cultivation environment and expanded the Human King’s Authority, while the Taiwei Civilization prepared to attack Blue Star and claim the Milky Way.

• Li Changqing was promoted to Space Force marshal and told the returning Psionic Users that the seven surviving appeasers would atone by becoming test subjects for conversion to the Old Technique.
• Li Changqing ordered Blue Star’s people to rest through the Spring Festival before beginning war mobilization, and he accepted the role of supreme commander.
• At the Long River, Li Changqing connected the Nine Cauldrons to Blue Star’s Dragon Veins and poured vast quantities of qi into them until the cauldron suppressed the Long River Dragon Vein.
• The Nine Cauldrons’ awakening caused independent qi to appear across Blue Star, began the planet’s transformation, and expanded Li Changqing’s Human King’s Authority toward the stars.
• The Taiwei Civilization’s leaders dismissed Blue Star as insignificant and ordered Explorer-class Ships carrying Spatial Folding Weapons to destroy it.

Li Changqing discovered that suppressing the Huai River Dragon Vein gave his Inner Scenery World the Mountain Sea Trait, and he named its first dragon to break through its limits Ao Chen. As Li Changqing prepared to appear at Blue Star’s Spring Festival Gala, an alien signal interrupted the holiday.

• Kang Tianchen, Zhang Bairen, and the researchers failed to analyze Qi, so they began a research project to learn how to use it.
• Li Changqing suppressed the Huai River Dragon Vein in his Inner Scenery World with the Nine Cauldrons, granting the world the Mountain Sea Trait and removing its creatures’ limits.
• A golden dragon broke through the heavens and reached the strength of a Psionic User, so Li Changqing restored him, named him Ao Chen, and invited him to conquer the sea of stars.
• Li Changqing arrived backstage at Blue Star’s Spring Festival Gala with Ao Chen, his personal guard, and spoke with Lin Haozhi.
• An uninvited presence reached Blue Star, and a projected screen appeared over the planet’s outer space to wish its people a happy New Year.

On New Year's Eve, an alien civilization sent an untouchable greeting across Blue Star, plunging the planet into panic. Li Changqing destroyed its remote source with a sword strike and rallied humanity to prepare for war, but the aliens answered by calling Blue Star's people insects.

• An alien light screen appeared over Blue Star, and Li Changqing and Lin Haozhi discovered that neither their powers nor their technology could affect it.
• Jia Three revealed that Hua Weidong had discussed a deal with the aliens three years earlier, while the Psionic Users confirmed that they had not contacted the fleet.
• As the light screen drove Blue Star toward riots and collapse, Li Changqing arrived atop Ao Chen and transformed the golden dragon into a divine sword.
• Li Changqing sent a sword strike across more than two million light-years, destroyed the equipment projecting the light screen, and rallied Blue Star's people to fight.
• Li Changqing ordered the transfer and training of Martial Artists, but the Andromeda Galaxy sent a signal declaring, "You are insects."

At the edge of the Milky Way, Li Changqing prepared Blue Star’s forces for the coming alien invasion while seeking a path to Earthly Immortality. He used his final Heaven and Earth Imprint to experience a black hole and entered the Supreme Realm to comprehend it.

• Li Changqing and Lin Haozhi discussed the loneliness of the universe and the approaching war as Blue Star’s spacecraft reached a Lonely Fortress.
• Li Changqing ordered High-Rank Martial Artists to learn to use the Star Road and sent Mid-Rank Martial Artists to cultivate, while Lin Haozhi led the training.
• Li Changqing asked the Jade Carving how far he was from becoming an Earthly Immortal, and it urged him to pursue Unification with the Dao rather than switch to Psionic Energy.
• After the Jade Carving explained the three stages of Unification with the Dao, Li Changqing recognized the Way of Creation as his path and identified primordial spiritual radiance within his Inner Scenery World.
• Li Changqing used his final Heaven and Earth Imprint to experience a supernova and the collapse of a massive star into a black hole.
• Li Changqing cast aside his thoughts and merged with the spacetime of the black hole to comprehend it in the Supreme Realm.

Li Changqing comprehended the Four Spirits’ powers through a star’s transformation into a supernova and black hole, completing the Way of Creation and gaining mastery over space. Outside the Andromeda Galaxy, an alien expeditionary fleet prepared an attack on humanity’s Lonely Fortresses at the Milky Way’s edge.

• Li Changqing stopped trying to comprehend the black hole as a fixed result and rewound events to the supernova, where he took control of the Heaven and Earth Imprint.
• Li Changqing used the Four Spirits’ powers to guide the star through a different path to a supernova and understood that the Four Spirits existed in the real universe as cosmic rules.
• Li Changqing realized the black hole was destruction constantly seeking balance rather than Creation’s final outcome, then completed the Way of Creation and began mastering space.
• Li Changqing reached 100% Way of Creation, advanced his Half-Immortal Physique to 85%, and decided to gather energy from the universe’s abundant stars.
• Unit 02456 prepared white dwarf matter kinetic weapons aimed at twenty of humanity’s Lonely Fortresses and anticipated using additional space-destruction weapons.

Li Changqing swallowed nine suns to raise his Half-Immortal Physique to 95%, then brought Qin Qi to his created world to test a dangerous monster-hunting trial and explore whether its creatures could reach Legendary power. The chapter ended with an Andromeda fleet changing its mission from destroying Blue Star to capturing its High-Rank Martial Artists alive.

• Li Changqing used the Way of Creation to shrink and swallow nine suns, increasing his Half-Immortal Physique to 95% before reaching the limit his body could withstand.
• Li Changqing returned to the fortress and told Lin Haozhi that he could arrange opponents for hundreds of High-Rank Martial Artists, including Ao Chen as Lin Haozhi’s possible training partner.
• Li Changqing took Qin Qi into his created world, where Martial Artists fought dangerous supernatural beasts under Ao Chen’s supervision in a trial he called Monster Hunter.
• Li Changqing considered using the Mountain Sea Trait to push his Inner Scenery World toward Legendary status, while his Half-Immortal Physique advanced to 96%.
• An Andromeda fleet intercepted Hua Weidong’s message and changed its orders to gather intelligence on Blue Star’s Psionic Users and capture High-Rank Martial Artists alive.

Liang Taixu ordered Taiwei Civilization’s advance force to begin its assault on Blue Star while Li Changqing completed his Half-Immortal Physique breakthrough and created a true Inner Scenery World. The alien fleet attacked the Milky Way fortress as Lin Haozhi sensed its arrival.

• Liang Taixu discussed the expedition to Blue Star with Elder Bo and ordered the advance force to capture its people and relics.
• Li Changqing triggered a supernova and let its destruction annihilate his body, completing his Half-Immortal Physique at 100%.
• Li Changqing’s breakthrough gave him a Profound Dao True Immortal Physique and transformed his Inner Scenery World into a true world independent of the Heaven's Will Stele.
• Lin Haozhi sensed ten unfamiliar energy signatures appear near the fortress, then saw two hundred near-light-speed strikes attack.

Lin Haozhi and the other Psionic Users destroyed the alien fleet’s kinetic strikes and trapped its ten warships with the Star Roads, but they could not breach the ships’ spatial defenses. As Liang Taixu ordered the capture to begin, a spatial bubble seized a High-Rank Martial Artist above the fortress.

• Lin Haozhi and the other Psionic Users intercepted and destroyed the white dwarf matter projectiles aimed at the fortresses.
• Lin Haozhi and the Psionic Users used a matrix to disrupt the Star Roads and stop the ten alien warships from jumping away.
• The Psionic Users tried to enter the warships but found that each ship was enclosed by a spatial sphere with a shifting flaw they could not quickly analyze.
• Liang Taixu watched from the Andromeda Galaxy and ordered the warships to begin capturing the defenders.
• A spatial bubble enveloped a High-Rank Martial Artist above the fortress and dragged him toward a warship, while Lin Haozhi’s attempt to break it failed.

Liang Taixu’s fleet captured Blue Star’s High-Rank Martial Artists, but Li Changqing used Qin Qi to destroy the warships and free them. Liang Taixu activated a Spatial Folding Weapon to annihilate the survivors, only for a hand to emerge from the folded space and halt it.

• Lin Haozhi realized the enemy fleet was targeting Blue Star’s High-Rank Martial Artists for their psionic technology and ordered them to flee.
• Liang Taixu captured High-Rank Martial Artists and ordered his fleet to kill those it could not take alive.
• Li Changqing learned of the attack through Qin Qi, possessed him with divine power, and guided him in destroying warships and rescuing captives.
• Qin Qi developed Dimension Slash and destroyed the remaining warships, freeing the captured High-Rank Martial Artists.
• Liang Taixu activated the Spatial Folding Weapon, and the folding space swallowed Qin Qi and the other survivors.
• A slender arm reached out from the folded space and stopped it from folding further.

Li Changqing used the Way of Creation to free the High-Rank Martial Artists from Liang Taixu’s overloaded Spatial Folding, then destroyed the resulting spatial rift. Liang Taixu watched the final footage in silence as Li Changqing called him a bug.

• Liang Taixu ordered the Spatial Folding overloaded to stop the arm blocking it, increasing the power to 400% as the arm’s movement slowed.
• Lin Haozhi pointed out that Li Changqing had only extended one arm, and Li Changqing arrived with Qin Qi, unfolding the folded space across several Light-years.
• Liang Taixu triggered the Singularity Generator’s self-destruction, but Li Changqing restored the folded spacetime and the compressed High-Rank Martial Artists.
• The Singularity Generator created a spatial rift, which Li Changqing pinched between two fingers and crushed along with the generator.
• Liang Taixu watched the final footage replay and recalled that the Blue Star people had been called bugs by the mothership.

After Liang Taixu’s advance fleet was destroyed, he warned the expedition’s captains that Blue Star was a dangerous enemy, but they dismissed him and barred his fleet from action. As Ye Hehua prepared another assault, Li Changqing stayed to defend Blue Star and began preparing the Psionic Users for training in his world, then woke the Jade Carving.

• Liang Taixu reviewed Hua Weidong’s intelligence about Old Technique and concluded that the expedition must stop underestimating Blue Star’s Space Marines.
• At the council meeting, Ye Hehua and the other captains mocked Liang Taixu’s warning, rejected his proposal to attack together, and prohibited his fleet from participating in military operations.
• Liang Taixu ordered his fleet to depart anyway, but the expeditionary command blocked his orders, leaving him furious and unable to intervene.
• Ye Hehua ordered the Fourth and Seventh Fleets to prepare an attack on Blue Star within thirty-six Taiwei Hours and authorized the expeditionary fleet’s weapons.
• Li Changqing reassured the Psionic Users on the fortress, announced that he would remain there, and said he would take them to train in his world.
• Li Changqing returned to his world, reflected on his progress toward immortality, and knocked on the Jade Carving to wake it.

Li Changqing awakened the Jade Carving and revealed that he had already comprehended and perfected his Great Dao, then investigated the meaning of spiritual light and The One That Escapes. He concluded that Unification with the Dao required becoming The One That Escapes and found the Dao Beacon for his spiritual light in the River of Time.

• Li Changqing expanded his Inner Scenery World and planned to send Lin Haozhi and the other Psionic Users there to pressure its transcendent beings into breaking through.
• Li Changqing awakened the Jade Carving, which mocked him for failing to find his own Dao and offered to teach him about Psionic Energy.
• Li Changqing demonstrated his perfected Great Dao, revealing that he had understood it when he first stepped onto the immortal path and completed it after the trial in the Land of the Four Spirits.
• The Jade Carving explained that spiritual light was The One That Escapes and advised Li Changqing to perfect his physical body, but it fainted when he mentioned the Profound Dao True Immortal Physique.
• Li Changqing studied the spiritual lights sent through reincarnation and the River of Time, then inferred that a spiritual light belonged to no one until its owner became The One That Escapes.
• Li Changqing confirmed that immortals could not reincarnate and concluded that a perfected Yang God served as a Dao Beacon for spiritual light, locating his own beacon in the River of Time.

Li Changqing severed his ties to every past and future self, making himself the True Spirit and gaining the Grand Unity trait of Causality Reversal. As he realized he had reached a state unique across all times and spaces, information surfaced that Yu the Great had last accomplished the same feat.

• Li Changqing entered the River of Time and discovered that the perfected Yang God left a True Spirit imprint that could guide an immortal back to life.
• He merged with his True Spirit, made the future uniquely his own, and saw powerful figures from his past lives reflected in the River of Time.
• Li Changqing severed his connections to every past life, then cut away his own past and used refining falsehood into truth to erase his final past self.
• The River of Time vanished around Li Changqing, and the Grand Unity trait Causality Reversal appeared as he demonstrated that the present could shape its own past.
• Jade Carving witnessed Li Changqing's unprecedented power and learned that he had become unique across all times and spaces; information then revealed that Yu the Great had last achieved this.

Li Changqing rejected the Jade Carving’s belief that Heavenly Immortal was the end of cultivation and realized his altered past had granted him qualifications associated with the Human King. He used causality and time travel to trace a link from a recreated enemy battleship to the Andromeda fleet, leaving him ready to confront its leaders and vanguard.

• The Jade Carving insisted that Heavenly Immortal was the endpoint of immortality, while Li Changqing argued that Grand Unity True Immortals existed beyond it.
• Li Changqing reasoned that his severed past and gathered future had granted him Grand Unity characteristics and qualifications leading toward the Human King realm.
• Li Changqing traveled upstream through the River of Time to the moment when Qin Qi destroyed the alien fleet, then created a replacement battleship and used it to establish a new causal link without changing history.
• Li Changqing followed the link through the battleship’s communicator and learned about Liang Taixu, Ye Hehua, and the twelve Vanguard-class Battleships in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Li Changqing used causality to uncover the Taiwei Civilization’s infighting and bought time to advance toward Unification with the Dao. At the Milky Way’s center, he realized his complete Inner Scenery World meant he could replace the universe’s Dao rather than unite with it, and projected his world into the universe.

• Li Changqing learned through causality that Liang Taixu’s failed attack and Ye Hehua’s coming assault stemmed from rivalry within the Taiwei Civilization.
• Li Changqing left an incarnation to monitor causality and traveled along the Star Road toward the Milky Way’s center.
• Li Changqing examined the black hole and orbiting stars, recognizing their balance of destruction and creation as the Way of Creation.
• Li Changqing demonstrated how energy, mass, gravity, and electromagnetism arose from the circulation of qi, but questioned whether he had to unite with the universe’s Dao.
• Li Changqing realized that his complete Inner Scenery World could serve as a Grotto-Heaven and that he could replace the universe’s Dao with his own.
• Li Changqing declared himself a Creator rather than a Qi Practitioner, and projected his Inner Scenery World into the universe.

Li Changqing struggled to unite his Inner Scenery World with the real universe’s Way of Creation while a supermassive black hole pulled the world’s projection toward its event horizon. After finding that living beings could bridge the two worlds, he reached 1% Unification with the Dao, descended with his world into reality, and began rewriting its laws.

• Li Changqing’s world projection fell toward the central black hole as his attempts to oppose its gravity failed to advance his Unification with the Dao.
• Li Changqing changed course and let the black hole draw in his projection, using the pressure to make his Inner Scenery World resonate with the universe’s creation.
• Li Changqing evolved his world from a singularity, but its round-heaven, square-earth structure failed to fit the universe’s starry framework.
• The extraordinary living beings in Li Changqing’s Inner Scenery World formed a bridge between the two worlds, allowing him to reach 1% Unification with the Dao.
• Li Changqing brought his true Inner Scenery World into the real universe, repelled the black hole’s pull on his divine power, and altered nuclear fusion within his domain.

Li Changqing discovered that his Inner Scenery World could descend upon reality and grant him an Earth Immortal’s creator-like domain, even though he still could not directly alter the universe’s rules. As he prepared to complete Unification with the Dao and end the threat to Blue Star, Ye Hehua readied the Taiwei Civilization’s fleet to attack.

• Li Changqing tested how his World Domain altered spacetime and found that its effects vanished when he withdrew it, then traveled to a brown planet.
• Li Changqing awakened the Jade Carving and used his Inner Scenery World to grow a tea table and create a spring on the barren planet.
• The Jade Carving recognized that Li Changqing’s inner landscape could descend into reality, a defining trait of an Earthly Immortal, and Li Changqing realized the significance of his power.
• Li Changqing concluded that completing Unification with the Dao would let him defeat the Taiwei Civilization and protect Blue Star from future threats.
• Ye Hehua ordered twelve Vanguard-class Battleships to prepare for departure and planned to attack the Milky Way’s edge and Blue Star while producing more warships.

Li Changqing used the Heaven's Will Stele to overcome the universe's energy shortage and began cultivating in his Inner Scenery World. He reshaped it into the Three Realms to push its inhabitants toward legendary power, raising his Unification with the Dao progress to 6%.

• The Jade Carving argued that Li Changqing needed Subspace's Psionic Energy to gather enough power and protect Blue Star from the alien fleet, but Li Changqing revealed that the Heaven's Will Stele contained a vast shattered world rich in origin qi.
• Li Changqing returned to his Inner Scenery World and realized that its inhabitants could drive the world beyond the extraordinary by breaking their own limits.
• Li Changqing used his Creation authority to divide the Inner Scenery World into the mortal realm, Heavenly Realm, and underworld, concentrating power in the Heavenly Realm and setting its strongest inhabitants against one another.
• The Inner Scenery World gained a Legendary Three Realms prototype and 12% World Shackles, while Li Changqing's Unification with the Dao progress rose from 1% to 6%.

Li Changqing severed the Psionic Users’ karmic ties to Subspace, won Heaven’s Favor, and advanced his Unification with the Dao while creating a way to revive fallen allies. As Ye Hehua prepared a massive battleship assault on Blue Star, Li Changqing equipped his forces with revival beacons and welcomed the coming swarm.

• Li Changqing unfolded his World Domain, severed Jia Yi’s connection to Subspace with his newly created Taiyi Sword Art, and transformed Jia Yi into a Qi Practitioner with a Half-Immortal Physique.
• Li Changqing severed the connections between more than a dozen Psionic Users and Subspace, and the real universe rewarded him with Heaven’s Favor, raising his Unification with the Dao progress to 22%.
• Li Changqing condensed divine power into a flag that could revive cultivators who left qi inside it, tested it by reviving Bai Tianci, and gave ten flags to Lin Haozhi and the others.
• Li Changqing prepared for the enemy’s impending swarm attack, while Ye Hehua commanded planet-sized battleships and planned three assault routes toward Blue Star.