Chapter Summaries

Li Changqing discussed the dangers facing Blue Star with Elder Zeng and concluded that Psionic Users stayed because the universe beyond the Solar System was even more dangerous. Seven days before his visit to the Alien Ruins, Hua Weidong secured a promise from the entity in the underground machine that Li Changqing would be brought to it if he survived.

• Hua Weidong told the entity in the electronic panel that Li Changqing had become a Qi Practitioner, but it refused to believe Blue Star could produce one.
• Bai Tianci warned Li Changqing that the Martial Arts Association might target him, while Li Changqing said he was visiting Elder Zeng to discuss Psionic Users.
• Li Changqing told Elder Zeng he would visit the Alien Ruins in seven days and asked why Psionic Users did not leave the Solar System.
• Li Changqing argued that aliens had altered the laws around the Solar System because they feared drawing the attention of terrifying beings beyond the Milky Way Galaxy's third spiral arm.
• Elder Zeng confirmed that Li Changqing's deduction about a greater cosmic battlefield was correct, and Li Changqing resolved to lead Blue Star toward the Great Human Expedition.
• Hua Weidong told the entity that his people would kill Li Changqing in seven days, and the entity ordered him to bring Li Changqing in if he survived.

Li Changqing arrived at the lunar finals and faced Li Ming, whom Hua Weidong had empowered to burn through his life. Li Changqing crushed Li Ming’s attack with divine power, but Hua Weidong then invoked Divine Descent to strengthen Li Ming and kill Li Changqing, leaving the two trapped in a battle as Lin Haozhi tried to intervene.

• Ye Haotian warned Bai Tianci that the team would forfeit if Li Changqing failed to arrive at the Moon within an hour.
• Li Ming told Hua Weidong he planned to kill Li Changqing and use the loss to weaken the Old Technique faction, while Hua Weidong confronted Lin Haozhi in Subspace over humanity’s response to the alien fleet.
• Li Changqing arrived before Li Ming, and Hua Weidong and Lin Haozhi separated their battlefield from Blue Star to contain the damage.
• Li Ming burned his life and attacked at half the speed of light, but Li Changqing countered with divine power and crushed his psionic shell with one punch.
• Hua Weidong canceled Li Ming’s revival safeguard and invoked Divine Descent to empower him, while Lin Haozhi accused Hua Weidong of betraying humanity and Li Changqing confronted the newly empowered Li Ming.

Li Changqing battled Hua Weidong’s Divine Descent through Li Ming and, after surviving the ten-breath assault, used a Yang God-powered strike to drive Hua Weidong from Subspace. He returned with Lin Haozhi and prepared to announce the Old Technique faction’s victory while claiming Hua Weidong’s relic.

• Hua Weidong used Li Ming’s body to trap Li Changqing and attacked him with destruction and a psionic storm, while Li Changqing fought back with his Divine Abilities and sword techniques.
• As Lin Haozhi broke through the isolated space, Li Changqing connected with Blue Star’s heaven and earth, but Hua Weidong exhausted his divine power and prepared to send Li Changqing into Subspace.
• At the tenth breath, Li Changqing used the River of Time and his Yang God power to evade Subspace’s devouring strike, then struck Hua Weidong with Supernova Shine and pierced his ascended body.
• Li Changqing returned to Lin Haozhi, and the two found no trace of Hua Weidong after the storm subsided.
• Li Changqing crushed Hua Weidong’s pass, said he would claim the relic, and asked Lin Haozhi to announce the Old Technique faction’s victory to Blue Star.

Bai Tianci tried to delay the final so Old Technique could prevail, but Ye Haotian’s team initially forfeited under Hua Weidong’s orders. Li Changqing arrived, revealed he had narrowly defeated Hua Weidong, and Ye Haotian switched to Old Technique, leaving Li Changqing to declare the start of a new era.

• Bai Tianci entered the spacecraft’s preparation area to stall the match, but Sun Sheng and the others stopped him as Ye Haotian’s team forfeited.
• Hua Weidong ordered Ye Haotian to leave the moon, but Ye Haotian announced that his team refused to forfeit.
• Li Changqing arrived and struck Hua Weidong through their connection to Ye Haotian, forcing Hua Weidong to release control and flee.
• Ye Haotian told the audience that Li Changqing had narrowly defeated Martial Arts Association President Hua Weidong, then declared his intention to switch to Old Technique.
• Research institutes and martial arts schools across Blue Star halted Psionic Energy projects and redirected their resources to Old Technique.
• Li Changqing converted Ye Haotian to Old Technique and announced that Blue Star martial arts had entered the era of Old Technique.

Li Changqing concluded seven days of Dao lectures in Qingzhou, helping Qin Qi achieve Dao resonance and inspiring martial artists across Blue Star. He then joined Lin Haozhi at the Alien Ruins, where a mysterious message challenged him to descend underground.

• Li Changqing lectured for seven days on the Old Technique and the Dao of heaven and earth, while martial artists gathered to listen and learn.
• Qin Qi achieved Dao resonance, began forming his Inner World, and led the other martial artists in thanking Li Changqing.
• Zhang Bairen and Kang Tianchen prepared to establish the Old Technique Research Institute, and Kang Tianchen received ten bamboo slips containing the Enter All Dharmas... Annihilation Wisdom Supernatural Ability.
• Lin Haozhi told Li Changqing that the Space Force had taken control of the Alien Ruins and discovered that the spacecraft wreckage extended deeper underground than before.
• The spacecraft's alloy walls lit up and displayed the words: "Qi Practitioner, do you dare come underground?"

Li Changqing descended into the alien spacecraft ruins and confronted its artifact spirit, who revealed that Lü Dongbin had died beyond the stars and urged him to abandon the Old Technique. Li Changqing rejected its warnings, took the artifact spirit with him to learn its secrets, and left with Lin Haozhi after hearing that Psionic Users had returned to the edge of the Milky Way.

• The spacecraft’s artificial intelligence lured Li Changqing underground, where he challenged its claim that the Old Technique would bring Blue Star’s destruction.
• Li Changqing learned that the Martial Arts Association had suppressed the Old Technique to appease alien forces, while the Space Force had opposed that policy.
• The artificial intelligence revealed that it had been Lü Dongbin’s student and said Lü Dongbin had died beyond the stars after leading an expedition from Kunlun.
• Li Changqing rejected the artifact spirit’s warnings about the enemies in space and the supposed impossibility of the Great Human Expedition.
• Li Changqing cut open the control console, took the artifact spirit’s Jade Carving, and stored it in his sleeve.
• Li Changqing returned to Lin Haozhi, who said Psionic Users had just returned from the edge of the Milky Way and told him to come along.

Li Changqing learned that an alien fleet had reached the Andromeda Galaxy after extinguishing more than a hundred thousand stars, and he resolved to reach the Earthly Immortal realm before it attacked. Back in his Inner Scenery World, he drew out the Jade Carving’s knowledge of immortal cultivation and revealed that he had already formed an Inner Scenery.

• Lin Haozhi showed Li Changqing a Cosmic Wormhole and explained how such passages let the Space Force cross tens of thousands of light-years in days.
• Feng Qiang, Jiang Hua, and Yuan Xiaozhi showed Li Changqing real-time Subspace information revealing that 108,001 adjacent stars in Andromeda had vanished in less than three years.
• Li Changqing concluded that an alien fleet was replenishing itself in Andromeda, accepted humanity’s hopes, and returned to cultivate for the coming invasion.
• Li Changqing questioned the Jade Carving about immortal cultivation, provoking it into boasting about its former Earth Immortal achievements and describing grotto-heavens.
• Li Changqing revealed his Inner Scenery World, and the Jade Carving identified its flaws before Li Changqing used Universe in a Sleeve to capture it again.

Li Changqing created a sun, moon, and star-based Demon Core cultivation system that accelerated his Inner Scenery World's ascension and strengthened his Half-Immortal Physique. As Bai Tianci visited his senior disciple brother's grave, an evil spirit from Subspace attacked and seized his soul, prompting Elder Zeng to realize the spirits had been released.

• Li Changqing established the Nine Revolutions and Three Heavens Demon Core system and drove his Inner Scenery World’s ascension to 35%.
• The ascension strengthened Li Changqing’s Ethereal Body and Half-Immortal Physique, restored his Yang God, and let him begin reforging his world with the Heaven's Will Stele.
• Bai Tianci visited his senior disciple brother’s grave and vowed to follow Old Technique and fight the aliens alongside Li Changqing.
• Bai Tianci saw an apparition of his senior disciple brother, who urged him to look ahead and fight beside Li Changqing.
• An evil spirit emerged from Subspace, killed Bai Tianci, and ripped his soul from his body.
• Elder Zeng found Bai Tianci’s jade image shattered and realized the evil spirits of Subspace had been released.

Li Changqing learned that the Martial Arts Association had used a Subspace Evil Spirit to kill Bai Tianci and planned to eliminate him to secure an appeasement deal with the aliens. After Zhang Bairen’s jade slips transformed into a mysterious Time Coordinate, Li Changqing prepared to leave beyond the stars to stop the Association from gathering the ten Psionic Users needed to unleash the Evil Spirit.

• Li Changqing returned from cultivating to learn that Bai Tianci had died, and he used the River of Time to witness fragmented scenes of the death.
• Elder Zeng told Li Changqing that the Martial Arts Association targeted him for assassination and had killed Bai Tianci while using his aura to direct a Subspace Evil Spirit.
• Elder Zeng revealed that ten Psionic Users could release the Evil Spirit from a looping spacetime trap, and Li Changqing decided he could not abandon Blue Star or the people supporting Old Technique.
• Jiang Hua delivered ten blank jade slips from Zhang Bairen, and one transformed after interacting with the Classic of Mountains and Seas remnant into a jade slip marked with an unknown Time Coordinate.
• Li Changqing told Lin Haozhi to spread word that they would set off beyond the stars, explaining that he planned to prevent the Martial Arts Association from assembling the ten Psionic Users.

Hua Weidong and the Martial Arts Association lured Li Changqing into a trap and unleashed an evil spirit to kill him. Li Changqing stopped time, swept six Psionic Users away in the River of Time, and arrived in the primordial wilderness of the Era of Mountains and Seas.

• Hua Weidong used Li Changqing’s qi to provoke the evil spirit and learned that Li Changqing had set out for outer space with Lin Haozhi’s group.
• Hua Weidong and two Psionic Users confronted Li Changqing near the Star Road, while the rest of the Martial Arts Association formed a Psionic Matrix and opened a rift to the Circulating Space-Time.
• Li Changqing sent Lin Haozhi and the other three Psionic Users away as the evil spirit emerged and attacked him.
• Li Changqing used the jade slip to stop time and draw himself and six Psionic Users into the River of Time, breaking the matrix and sealing the evil spirit away.
• The evil spirit revealed that it had developed self-awareness, while Li Changqing was carried into the ancient Era of Mountains and Seas.

Li Changqing entered the Shanhai World and learned from the Jade Carving that it might be an immortal-created mythical world rather than the true past. After fighting Feiyi, he used the world’s divine power to transform himself into a god and tear off its wings.

• Li Changqing arrived in the Shanhai World, and the Jade Carving argued that it was an immortal-created world rather than the historical Shanhai era.
• Li Changqing followed the jade slip’s guidance and found Hua Weidong, Wang Tao, and Sheng Xin battling Feiyi, who then turned its attention to him.
• Li Changqing fought Feiyi but could not match its speed or divine power, and Feiyi severed his arm before he regenerated it.
• Li Changqing gathered the power of his Yang God and used the Shanhai World’s origin to unleash Nirvana and transform into a true god.
• Li Changqing stopped Feiyi’s attack and tore off its wings, declaring that the Shanhai World was his blessed land.

Li Changqing defeated Feiyi, learned how to wield divine power, and used Feiyi’s body to reshape his Inner Scenery World, prompting the Jade Carving to concede that he had outmatched it. Meanwhile, Hua Weidong found Li Changqing’s severed arm on Mount Taihua and set out to witness what he believed was Li Changqing’s death.

• Li Changqing overwhelmed Feiyi, learned to use divine power to unleash a world-spanning attack, and killed the fleeing creature.
• Li Changqing brought Feiyi’s corpse into his Inner Scenery World and used its divine power to accelerate the world’s ascension.
• Li Changqing reshaped Feiyi’s body into an Azure Dragon pillar, balanced the world’s eastern and western forces, and challenged the Jade Carving to share what Lü Dongbin had taught it.
• Hua Weidong found Li Changqing’s severed arm on Mount Taihua and followed its lingering aura, expecting to see Li Changqing dead.

Li Changqing completed his understanding of the Four Spirits and the Great Dao through Lü Dongbin’s projection, then advanced his Supreme Realm and Half-Immortal Physique by turning his Divine Abilities into his own grasp of the Dao. When Hua Weidong and two allies confronted him, Li Changqing effortlessly dispersed their attack without using divine power.

• Li Changqing realized that the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise governed the cycle of matter and spirit, and he understood how the cycle could fuel his world's ascension.
• Li Changqing learned from Lü Dongbin that the Great Dao could give rise to all laws, and that swordsmanship could both break and create them.
• Li Changqing cleared his mind of his Divine Abilities and merged their principles into his Way of Yin and Yang, raising his Supreme Realm to 51%.
• Li Changqing destroyed a mountain wall with one finger, then absorbed a surge of power that raised his Half-Immortal Physique to 43%.
• Hua Weidong arrived with Wang Tao and another Psionic User, mistook Li Changqing for weakened prey, and trapped him before firing a full-power Psionic Energy attack.
• Li Changqing dispersed Hua Weidong's attack with one finger and dissolved the gravitational prison without using divine power.

Li Changqing annihilated Hua Weidong, Wang Tao, and Sheng Xin, then expanded his Inner Scenery World to the size of Blue Star. The Jade Carving led him toward a dangerous foe, while the evil spirit began secretly eroding its prison in the Solar System.

• Li Changqing erased Hua Weidong’s Psionic attack, killed him with the Pure Yang Sword, and then killed Wang Tao and Sheng Xin as they fled.
• Li Changqing failed to use Future Sight to locate the three remaining Psionic Users and resolved to grow stronger before facing the alien fleet and the evil spirit.
• Li Changqing expanded his Inner Scenery World to a diameter of 12,742 kilometers and prepared to let its extraordinary creatures develop.
• The Jade Carving directed Li Changqing toward a powerful enemy, hoping the encounter would make him abandon the immortal path and cultivate Psionic Energy instead.
• In the Solar System, the evil spirit’s energy resonated with the Circulating Space-Time, and a shadow began eroding the prison through a flaw.

Li Changqing survived Xihe’s devastating solar display, claimed a remnant of True Sun Fire, and used it to strengthen his Half-Immortal Physique before reaching the Land of the Four Spirits. On the moon, an evil spirit killed Shang Jingwei and escaped after Circulating Space-Time failed, leaving the surviving Psionic Users marked and in danger.

• Li Changqing hid from Xihe’s two suns as her True Sun Fire destroyed the mountain range and killed its mountain god.
• Li Changqing found the river god’s remains, swallowed its leftover True Sun Fire, and began reforging his body, raising his Half-Immortal Physique to 47%.
• Lin Haozhi ordered the Martial Arts Association’s Psionic Users to prepare for war and hand over their resources, but an evil spirit pierced Shang Jingwei and dragged away his soul.
• A Psionic User told Lin Haozhi that Circulating Space-Time had failed and the evil spirit could escape within three days, while the remaining Martial Arts Association members feared they would be its next victims.
• Li Changqing reached the Land of the Four Spirits, where the Jade Carving explained that the realm was a trial created by an immortal and left him to face it alone.

Li Changqing entered the Land of the Four Spirits and repeatedly lost to the Azure Dragon’s incarnation, who matched his strength but exposed a flaw in his understanding of yin and yang. After realizing vitality and destruction had to coexist within a balanced world, Li Changqing corrected his Inner Scenery and challenged the Azure Dragon again, ending in a draw.

• Li Changqing stepped into the Land of the Four Spirits and began the trial against the Azure Dragon’s incarnation.
• The Azure Dragon repeatedly defeated Li Changqing by replicating his techniques with greater skill, then pointed out that he needed to think more.
• Li Changqing studied the Azure Dragon’s strike and realized that excessive vitality could drain a world, revealing a flaw in how he separated vitality from destruction.
• Li Changqing sent the Jade Carving into his sleeve and made the Azure Dragon and White Tiger govern his Inner Scenery together, balancing its Eastern and Western constellations.
• Li Changqing used his refined One Sword Transforms into Myriad Laws against the Azure Dragon, and their powers met evenly without either fighter retreating.

Li Changqing learned the true Way of Destruction from the White Tiger and combined it with the Azure Dragon’s Way of Life to complete his Way of Creation. After gaining the choice to leave with a request or attempt the final trial, he chose to face the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise.

• The Azure Dragon’s acknowledgment completed its test, and the White Tiger appeared to teach Li Changqing the Way of Destruction.
• Li Changqing repeatedly attacked the White Tiger, realized he had mistaken destruction as a means for producing something else, and understood it as absolute nothingness.
• Li Changqing balanced life and destruction, completed his Way of Creation, advanced his Supreme Realm to 67%, and raised his Half-Immortal Physique to 61%.
• The White Tiger explained that Li Changqing could leave with one request or risk the final trial for the reward atop the heavenly stairway.
• Li Changqing chose to continue for the guidance of the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise, and all Four Spirits of Heaven gathered to begin the final trial.

Li Changqing passed the Four Spirits Array by using the Four Spirits’ divine power to perfect his Inner Scenery World and unleash its power. At the end of the heavenly staircase, he saw the Nine Cauldrons, which resonated with his Human King's Authority and the Yellow River Dragon Vein.

• The Four Spirits told Li Changqing that he had to escape their flawless array to pass the final trial, and his sword strike failed to disturb it.
• Li Changqing inferred that the test required him to construct a complete Inner Scenery World, then used the array’s resonance to gather traces of the Four Spirits’ divine power.
• Li Changqing manifested the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird in his Inner Scenery World, establishing reincarnation and completing its four pillars.
• Li Changqing used the Grotto-Heaven point allocation to perfect his world, then swung a sword empowered by its brilliance and broke the Four Spirits Array.
• The Four Spirits approved Li Changqing, the barrier to the heavenly staircase vanished, and he saw a bronze cauldron that stirred the Yellow River Dragon Vein and his Human King's Authority.

Li Changqing passed the Land of the Four Spirits trial, demonstrated Earthly Immortal-level power, and claimed the Nine Cauldrons before returning to the present. On the moon, the evil spirit escaped Circulating Space-Time and set its sights on Li Changqing, planning to question Lin Haozhi’s group to find him.

• Li Changqing revealed that he had passed the trial, then used his sword Dao to remake the miniature world and show the Jade Carving his Earthly Immortal-level power.
• Li Changqing retrieved the Nine Cauldrons, dismissed the Jade Carving’s doubts about their authenticity, and returned to the River of Time.
• The evil spirit killed another Psionic User, while two surviving Martial Arts Association members asked Lin Haozhi to let them join the Space Force.
• Circulating Space-Time shattered, and Lin Haozhi led the six Psionic Users into Subspace to search for the escaped evil spirit.
• The evil spirit revealed that it had escaped three days earlier, identified Li Changqing as its target, and planned to eat one of Lin Haozhi’s group to learn where he was.

Lin Haozhi and the others found the evil spirit hiding in Subspace, where it revealed that Psionic Energy could not harm it and demanded they find Li Changqing. After the evil spirit threatened to kill millions and seized Lin Haozhi’s soul, Li Changqing appeared, restored Lin Haozhi, and confronted it.

• Feng Qiang reasoned that the self-aware evil spirit was hiding nearby, and a Martial Arts Association Psionic User warned that it could overcome its hunting instincts.
• The evil spirit ambushed the group, killed one Psionic User, survived the others’ combined attack, and stepped out of Subspace unharmed.
• The last Martial Arts Association survivor betrayed Lin Haozhi and offered to help the evil spirit find Li Changqing by targeting people he cared about.
• The evil spirit seized Lin Haozhi’s soul and threatened to kill five million people each day until Li Changqing appeared, while Feng Qiang fled with Kang Tianchen and Chen Danqing.
• Bai Tianci’s lingering obsession disrupted the evil spirit, and Li Changqing arrived, restored Lin Haozhi’s soul, killed the traitor, and struck the evil spirit.
• Li Changqing stood before the wounded evil spirit and demanded to know whom it had said it would kill.