Chapter Summaries

Li Changqing entered a Time Fragment of the Era of Mountains and Seas, discovered that Wu Zhiqi ruled the Huai River, and was nearly killed by the demon’s overwhelming power. After realizing that Wu Zhiqi’s blows accelerated his body’s transformation, Li Changqing deliberately provoked him again and was shattered once more.

• Li Changqing understood that he could use the Time Fragment to trace the past and challenge the Four Fiends and Four Rivers, then entered the Era of Mountains and Seas.
• Li Changqing began opening Kan Palace by absorbing the powerful qi surrounding him and accidentally stirred the Huai River.
• Wu Zhiqi attacked Li Changqing, shattered his sword strike and body, and Li Changqing survived by restoring himself with the power of Creation.
• Li Changqing discovered that his body had transformed further during its destruction and restoration, so he decided Wu Zhiqi’s attacks could temper him.
• Li Changqing provoked Wu Zhiqi into attacking again, withstood the demon’s first strike, taunted him, and was shattered by the next blow.

Li Changqing completed his bodily transformation by repeatedly fighting Wu Zhiqi in the Time Fragment, becoming a Qi Practitioner with a Half-Immortal Physique and the beginnings of an Inner Landscape. Meanwhile, Li Ming and Ye Haotian planned to send Qin Qi to exploit what they believed was Li Changqing’s physical weakness.

• Li Changqing opened the eight acupoints of the Nine Palaces of the Dao and brought his Central Palace to its limit through repeated battles with Wu Zhiqi.
• Li Changqing challenged Wu Zhiqi to a full physical fight, using the river lord’s blows to push his body toward transformation.
• Li Changqing completed his transformation, gained a Half-Immortal Physique, and split Wu Zhiqi’s descending Huai River with a punch.
• Li Ming gave Ye Haotian Qin Qi’s profile and proposed sending the High-Rank one-star Martial Artist to challenge Li Changqing.
• Ye Haotian agreed that Qin Qi’s rare Divine Ability could exploit Li Changqing’s supposed physical weakness and potentially kill him.

Li Changqing completed his transformation into a Qi Practitioner and discovered that alien technology had rewritten the Solar System’s particle-speed rules, revealing the fleet’s power was comparable to immortals. He traced a message from Blue Star’s Heaven’s Will back one day, where Qin Qi had announced an open challenge to him and the Old Technique.

• Li Changqing returned from the Time Fragment, confirmed his Inner Landscape cultivation, and resolved to share his advancement methods with Blue Star’s Martial Artists.
• Li Changqing walked unharmed across the sun and used its energy to create antimatter, gaining insight into the Way of Yin and Yang and advancing his Supreme Realm.
• Li Changqing accelerated particles toward 0.99 times the speed of light and discovered that the aliens had closed the Solar System’s rules into a loop that stopped particles at that speed.
• Li Changqing realized the alien fleet possessed power comparable to immortals and vowed to surpass them before reaching the fleet commander.
• Li Changqing followed a message from Blue Star’s Heaven’s Will into the past and found that Qin Qi had announced a public challenge to him and the Old Technique.

Qin Qi challenged Li Changqing after Li Ming coerced him into promoting Psionic Energy over Old Technique. Li Changqing survived Qin Qi’s Divine Ability unharmed, then offered to teach him Old Technique before the watching crowd.

• A reporter pressured Qin Qi into declaring that Psionic Energy surpassed Old Technique, while Li Ming privately threatened him with the loss of a place in the national top hundred and reminded him of his sick master’s wish.
• Li Ming arranged for Qin Qi to fight Li Changqing at the resort, bringing Wu Huan, Xiao Min, and Ye Haotian to contain the battle’s energy.
• At the match, Li Ming urged Qin Qi to attack, and Qin Qi used his Space Cutting Divine Ability to strike Li Changqing’s chest.
• Li Changqing’s completed physical transformation let him withstand the attack without injury, stunning Li Ming, Ye Haotian, and the spectators.
• Li Changqing recognized Qin Qi as a Martial Artist of the Old Technique faction, offered to teach him to cultivate it, and pressed a hand atop his head as he asked whether Qin Qi was ready to have an audience with the Supreme.

On the arena, Li Changqing guided Qin Qi to recover his Dao Rhythm and break free from the bottleneck that had trapped him for years. When Subspace unleashed a Psionic Energy storm to reclaim Qin Qi, Li Changqing used Blue Star’s power to destroy the storm and sever Qin Qi’s connection to Subspace, leaving Qin Qi’s Psionic Energy transformed into qi as Li Ming and Ye Haotian watched in shock.

• Li Ming dismissed Li Changqing’s promise to help Qin Qi switch cultivation paths, then projected the arena proceedings for the audience while expecting the demonstration to benefit the psionic faction.
• Li Changqing asked Qin Qi who he was and guided him to recall his master’s teachings, helping him comprehend Heaven-Man Resonance and break through to Unity of Heaven and Man.
• Qin Qi realized that Psionic Energy had caused his master’s illness, while Subspace sensed its hold on Qin Qi weakening and unleashed a Psionic Energy storm over the arena.
• Li Changqing drew the Pure Yang Sword and used Blue Star’s power to cleave apart the storm, sever Subspace’s connection to Qin Qi, and declare his contempt for Subspace.
• Qin Qi’s remaining Psionic Energy became qi after Li Changqing’s strike, leaving Li Ming stunned as Li Changqing turned his gaze toward Wu Huan.

Qin Qi successfully converted from Psionic Energy to the Old Technique, then defeated High-Rank Two-Star Wu Huan and proved the Old Technique’s power to the arena. Li Changqing announced that he would release the methods for Mid-Rank cultivation and reaching High Rank, while Li Ming concluded that Li Changqing must die and received a response from an unseen elder.

• Li Changqing confirmed that Qin Qi had converted to the Old Technique and become a High-Rank One-Star Martial Artist.
• Li Changqing challenged Wu Huan to fight Qin Qi, and Wu Huan accepted after Li Changqing provoked him.
• Qin Qi used his transformed Divine Ability to sever Wu Huan’s limbs and defeat him almost instantly.
• Li Changqing mocked the Psionic Energy faction, and Li Ming led Ye Haotian and Xiao Min away with the unconscious Wu Huan.
• Li Changqing promised to upload the Mid-Rank Old Technique and its method for breaking through to High Rank at six that evening.
• Li Ming told Ye Haotian that Li Changqing must die, and an elderly voice asked what he planned to do.

Li Changqing revealed the Immortal Path to Bai Tianci, Sun Sheng, Cao Feng, and Yang Zhiming, then expanded and transformed his Inner Scenery until he could control Blue Star’s forces. Meanwhile, the Martial Arts Association approved a two-pronged assassination plan, ordering Li Ming to kill Li Changqing in Qingzhou.

• Li Changqing demonstrated how he could create life from atoms and a pebble, explained the Immortal Path, and offered the group a chance to study the Old Technique.
• Cao Feng and Yang Zhiming pledged to cultivate immortality, while Bai Tianci agreed to switch from Psionic Energy cultivation after the State Competition finals.
• Li Changqing prepared to release the middle-rank Old Technique materials at six and decided to reserve Immortal Path cultivation for promising candidates.
• Li Changqing expanded his Inner Scenery World, developed the Divine Ability Supreme, and gained control over Blue Star’s rotation, earth, and waterways.
• In Qingzhou, the president approved both assassination plans and ordered Li Ming to kill Li Changqing within ten seconds while he and Elder Zhang held off a Space Force Psionic User.

After advancing his Inner Scenery World, Li Changqing realized he could make it a mythical world instead of copying Blue Star. He created a metal-bodied White Tiger using World Power, triggering the world’s first ascension and leaving him with a far more potent source of power.

• Li Changqing entered his newly completed Inner Scenery World and realized that, as its creator, he could reshape it into a mythical world.
• Li Changqing traveled to the Era of Mountains and Seas and fought Wu Zhiqi, landing a blow by briefly severing the ape’s connection to the Huai River.
• Wu Zhiqi gave Li Changqing three strange fish and explained that living beings of the era carried a deity’s divine power; Li Changqing realized that World Power was the divine power of his own world.
• Li Changqing used World Power and the Blade Fish’s metal body to transform a White Tiger into an extraordinary creature.
• The White Tiger’s creation triggered the world’s first ascension, and Li Changqing received more potent World Power.

Li Changqing created a White Tiger, discovered that divine power could raise his Inner Scenery World toward an extraordinary state, and defeated Wu Zhiqi’s avatar after turning the Huai River in his world extraordinary. The breakthrough earned him Divine Power points, raised World Ascension to 11%, and began advancing his Half-Immortal Physique.

• Li Changqing created an extraordinary White Tiger with World Power and resolved to prioritize ascending his Inner Scenery World.
• Wu Zhiqi explained that the Four Spirits embodied deeper principles, then challenged Li Changqing to fight for more answers.
• Li Changqing analyzed the Shanhai World, recognized Houtu’s divine power in the earth, and realized the Human King's Path sought to restore Blue Star’s mythical essence through divine power.
• Li Changqing used two Huai River fish and Wu Zhiqi’s river divinity to transform a river in his Inner Scenery World, raising World Ascension to 5%.
• Li Changqing defeated Wu Zhiqi’s avatar with ascended World Power and learned that the real Wu Zhiqi awaited him at the foot of Turtle Mountain in Huaiyin.
• Li Changqing received five Divine Power points, used them to spread divinity through his world’s ecosystem, raised World Ascension to 11%, and advanced his Half-Immortal Physique to 7%.

Li Changqing strengthened his physique and created a destruction-powered White Tiger as the first pillar of his Inner Scenery World. After he released a stronger Old Technique manual, twenty-three High-Rank Martial Artists sought to leave the Martial Arts Association, prompting its president to prepare a Psionic User substitute for the State Competition.

• Li Changqing added to his Half-Immortal Physique and decided to prioritize strengthening its connection with the Inner Scenery World before pursuing further cultivation.
• Li Changqing infused the White Tiger with Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder, transforming it into a colossal beast and establishing it as the first World Pillar.
• Li Ming and Ye Haotian discussed Ye Haotian's chances against Li Changqing, then learned that twenty-three High-Rank Martial Artists wanted to quit the Martial Arts Association after Li Changqing shared his genius Old Technique manual.
• The Martial Arts Association's president suppressed Li Ming's outburst and ordered Plan B, revealing that he had prepared a Psionic User substitute for the State Competition.
• An unseen wisp of Psionic Energy entered Ye Haotian's consciousness and compelled him to seek out Li Changqing, while secretly deepening his connection to Subspace.

Li Changqing demonstrated the Old Technique to thirty-five High-Rank Martial Artists and helped them convert from Psionic Energy to Qi, earning heaven and earth’s favor and a clue to the path beyond the Yang God. Meanwhile, Ye Haotian and Li Ming plotted to kill him before the State Competition finals.

• Li Changqing explained that converting to the Old Technique required Unity of Heaven and Man and that Qi Practitioners had to cultivate through earlier stages again.
• Li Changqing severed Sun Sheng, Cao Feng, and Yang Zhiming’s connection to Subspace, and heaven and earth strengthened them after their conversion to Qi.
• Li Changqing demonstrated Spirit Wandering the Void, his Half-Immortal Physique on the sun, and his control over a solar flare, convincing the thirty-five High-Rank Martial Artists to convert.
• Li Changqing converted all thirty-five Martial Artists and used the Heaven’s Will Sword Slash to cut off their Psionic Energy as Subspace’s fury was blocked from entering the real universe.
• Li Changqing received heaven and earth’s favor, which revealed that Unification with the Dao required his fleshly body and Yang God to merge with the Great Dao.
• Ye Haotian told Li Ming that Li Changqing had to be eliminated, and said he would test Li Changqing’s strength before setting a date ahead of the State Competition finals.

Thirty-five High-Rank Martial Artists switched to Old Technique and publicly praised it, prompting the Martial Arts Association’s chairman to possess Ye Haotian and challenge Li Changqing. Li Changqing met Ye Haotian’s first attack with his Inner Scenery World, and the chairman began pouring in more Psionic Energy for the second move.

• Thirty-five High-Rank Martial Artists tested their new Qi, learned from Li Changqing that heaven-and-earth energy would replenish it, and praised Old Technique during a livestream.
• Ye Haotian arrived at the Starry Sky Arena to criticize Old Technique, while Li Ming clashed with reporters aboard the spaceship and struggled to defend Psionic Ascension.
• The Martial Arts Association’s chairman took control of Ye Haotian and challenged Li Changqing to prove that the Qi Practitioner path could defeat opponents across ranks.
• Li Changqing accepted the challenge, and the possessed Ye Haotian tore open Subspace and attacked with his first move.
• Li Changqing blocked Ye Haotian’s punch with power from his Inner Scenery World, survived the immense collision, and declared that Ye Haotian’s ten-move promise would fail.
• The chairman, alarmed by Li Changqing’s strength, poured more Psionic Energy into Ye Haotian’s body and announced the second move.

Li Changqing fought the Psionic User controlling Ye Haotian to a draw, while the Martial Arts Association’s president and Li Ming secretly began planning an assassination. Afterward, Li Changqing realized he still needed greater strength to confront Psionic Users and their projections.

• The Psionic User pushed Ye Haotian’s body past its limits, but Li Changqing met his attacks with overwhelming physical power and drove him back through a series of exchanges.
• The Psionic User sacrificed most of Ye Haotian’s body for a final clash with Li Changqing, and their collision between Subspace and the Inner Scenery World ended with both fighters disappearing briefly.
• Li Changqing and Ye Haotian reappeared on the spaceship, where Ye Haotian declared their fight a draw; Li Ming then fled with him when reporters pressed for answers.
• The president told Li Ming that their reconnaissance had succeeded and ordered him to surrender his Mental Power before the State Competition finals so the president could empower him to kill Li Changqing.
• Li Changqing told reporters he was already studying his national competition opponents, then tested his Inner Scenery World and resolved to keep cultivating until he could fight Psionic Users and their projections.

Li Changqing awakened the White Tiger in his Inner Scenery World, advanced World Ascension by balancing destruction with creation, and created an Ethereal Body that stored divine power for him. Meanwhile, Ye Haotian told Bai Tianci that someone else had controlled his body and asked him to convey a warning about the Martial Arts Association to the Grandmaster.

• Li Changqing awakened the White Tiger and let it unleash destruction across the Inner Scenery World, raising World Ascension as the world’s creatures fought and evolved.
• Li Changqing used Creation to restore the devastated world, comprehended the cycle of destruction and rebirth, and completed a cycle that raised World Ascension to 24%.
• Li Changqing created an Ethereal Body that could oversee his world and store extraordinary world power, then used his divine power to stop Jupiter’s storms for an instant.
• Ye Haotian told Bai Tianci that he had not been the one who acted aboard the spaceship and showed that only his head remained intact after his body had been controlled.
• Ye Haotian asked Bai Tianci to convey his desire to switch paths to the Grandmaster and warned him to be careful of the Martial Arts Association.

Li Changqing severed Bai Tianci’s connection to Subspace and received a vision of a supernova and black hole as a reward. Meanwhile, Ye Haotian secretly warned Li Changqing about the Martial Arts Association, while Li Ming prepared to attack him with a Psionic User’s power.

• Li Changqing and Bai Tianci deduced that a powerful figure had controlled Ye Haotian during their battle and that Ye Haotian’s warning about the Martial Arts Association pointed to its Psionic User.
• Bai Tianci proposed that Li Changqing switch Ye Haotian to the Old Technique during the finals, then volunteered to test whether an Innate Supernatural Talent could change paths.
• Li Changqing severed every connection between Bai Tianci and Subspace, hid him from its counterattack, and drove back its Psionic Energy with the Pure Yang Sword Art, Flying God Sword.
• After freeing Bai Tianci, Li Changqing received Heaven’s Favor and experienced a star’s supernova, the birth of a black hole, and the universe’s deeper mysteries.
• Li Ming instructed Ye Haotian to reach the finals, then revealed that he had burned his life force to receive a Psionic User’s power and intended to kill Li Changqing.
• Ye Haotian messaged Li Changqing that Li Ming and the others had arranged a plan before the finals.

Li Changqing witnessed a supernova, deepened his mastery of the Supreme Realm, and gained the Divine Ability Supernova Shine, then learned the Martial Arts Association planned to target him during the Qingzhou Martial Arts Tournament finals. After seeing possible futures, he rejected a cautious response and resolved to decide the outcome himself.

• Li Changqing experienced a supernova’s collapse and explosion, breaking through the Supreme Realm twice and comprehending Supernova Shine by sacrificing some of his Yang God’s power.
• Li Changqing returned from the historical imprint as Bai Tianci succeeded in cultivating anew and lost his Subspace connection, and Li Changqing welcomed him back.
• Bai Tianci received a message warning that the Martial Arts Association planned to move against Li Changqing on the day of the Qingzhou Martial Arts Tournament finals.
• Li Changqing used the River of Time to view possible futures, seeing Ye Haotian win by default, Bai Tianci and others mourning him, and a battle above Blue Star in shattered Subspace.
• Li Changqing sent Bai Tianci away and dismissed the future visions, choosing to face the Martial Arts Association’s schemes on his own terms.

Li Changqing studied Psionic Energy and created the Divine Ability Annihilation, then brought his research onto the Qingzhou Martial Arts Tournament stage. He began transforming contestant Huang Hao’s residual Psionic Energy into qi before the crowd, enraging Li Ming.

• Li Changqing studied the Great Dao of yin and yang, drew Psionic Energy out of Subspace, and tested how it interacted with qi.
• After five days of experiments, Li Changqing concluded that qi could not simply destroy Psionic Energy and created the Divine Ability Annihilation to destroy matter.
• Li Changqing strengthened his Half-Immortal Physique and anticipated Li Ming’s plans for the tournament.
• Li Changqing arrived at the Qingzhou Martial Arts Tournament, where the spectators cheered as Li Ming watched from a private box.
• Li Changqing asked Huang Hao about his psionic projects, then offered to convert the Psionic Energy in his body into qi and set him on the Old Technique path.
• Li Ming smashed a wine bottle and shouted that Li Changqing deserved to die.

At the Qingzhou Martial Arts Tournament, Li Changqing confronted Li Ming’s attempt to stop Psionic Energy candidates from converting to Old Technique and revealed that the speed of light was restricted across the Solar System. After converting Huang Hao, Li Changqing invited other candidates to follow, turning the tournament into a conversion assembly.

• Li Ming resolved to stop Li Changqing from spreading the Qi Practitioner path, fearing that more geniuses would convert to Old Technique.
• Li Ming interrupted Li Changqing as he prepared to convert Huang Hao, but Huang Hao and his team declared that they trusted Li Changqing and wanted Old Technique.
• Li Ming revealed that Psionic Users had suppressed Old Technique to focus humanity on breaking the aliens’ blockade, and Li Changqing asked whether Psionic Users could solve the problem.
• Li Changqing used a Divine Ability to demonstrate that the speed of light was restricted, explaining that Qi Practitioners could sense the mystery behind the blockade.
• Li Changqing converted Huang Hao’s Psionic Energy into qi and invited everyone who had joined the second-stage Psionic Energy plan to come forward and convert.

Bai Tianci revealed during a nationally broadcast interview that he had abandoned his innate Psionic path for Old Technique cultivation, while Hua Weidong arranged for Li Ming to lure Li Changqing into the Alien Ruins. There, Hua Weidong told a hidden intelligence about Li Changqing, provoking it to insist that Qi Practitioners could no longer exist after Lü Dongbin’s death.

• At the State Competition venue, Qingzhou’s young martial artists eagerly anticipated meeting Li Changqing and receiving Qi Practitioner manuals.
• Bai Tianci told viewers that he had switched from Psionic Energy to Old Technique cultivation, demonstrated qi, and urged others to free themselves from Subspace.
• Hua Weidong told Li Ming that defeating Li Changqing was their only path to victory, then gave him photos and the highest-level ruins access card to deliver to Li Changqing before the State Competition finals.
• Hua Weidong entered the Alien Ruins and told a concealed presence that a Qi Practitioner might arrive in seven days.
• The hidden presence rejected the claim until Hua Weidong listed Li Changqing’s Yang God, Half-Immortal Physique, and Supreme Realm, prompting it to roar that Lü Dongbin was dead and no Qi Practitioner could remain in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Li Changqing guided Sun Sheng, Cao Feng, and Yang Zhiming to master Heaven-Man Resonance, then gained a prototype of the supernatural ability Refining the False into the True by studying Yang Zhiming’s Time Stop. After Li Ming invited him to the Alien Ruins and threatened him, Li Changqing secretly struck at Li Ming through a future time node; he decided to visit the ruins despite a Space Force senior warning him of the danger.

• Li Changqing taught Sun Sheng, Cao Feng, and Yang Zhiming about Heaven-Man Resonance, and Sun Sheng first reached it by drawing on heaven and earth to strengthen his Divine Ability, Heavenly Law and Earthly Form.
• Yang Zhiming used Time Stop, allowing Li Changqing to understand its connection to the River of Time and gain the Supernatural Ability Prototype Refining the False into the True; Cao Feng then used his Dharma Idol to comprehend Heaven-Man Resonance as well.
• Li Ming delivered photographs of the Alien Ruins and a pass for a seven-day-later visit, mocked Li Changqing, and challenged him to come; Li Changqing accused Senior Xiang Tianming of directing Jiang Zhengyan and vowed to kill Li Ming after the State Competition.
• Li Changqing used his new ability to send a World Sword strike toward Li Ming’s future fate, and Hua Weidong later discovered the sword light and realized it had come from the past.
• Li Changqing told a Space Force senior that he intended to visit the Alien Ruins, and the senior warned him that Li Ming was more dangerous than Ye Haotian and urged him not to trust what he saw there.