Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan returned to Fortress 13 and learned that the Azure Wave Demon Calamity involved several Earth Immortals and possibly hidden old monsters. The Azure Dragon Council decided to make the calamity the theme of the next War of the Four Sages.

• Ren Han told Kong Yang, Che Yufei, Ye Yukong, and Ya Lie that they could exchange their war merits for the Thunder Pool early.
• Li Qingshan said he would practice in seclusion, then went to find Mo Yuan to discuss the Demon Calamity.
• Li Qingshan encountered So Hanchuan, who warned that the Azure Wave Demon Calamity was too dangerous for him to investigate.
• So Hanchuan said the Council had reviewed Mo Yuan's information and instructed him to remain in the starry sky and continue cultivating.
• So Hanchuan announced that the Council had made the Azure Wave Demon Calamity the theme of the next War of the Four Sages.

Li Qingshan lured the expanding God Realm through the Return Sea, hoping its pollution would give sunlight a new ability. As Beiao and Xue Yan pursued the Formless Celestial Devil, Xie Sen was swept away by a storm of chaotic rule currents just as Li Qingshan turned to face them.

• Li Qingshan fled the God Realm’s spreading roots while anticipating that its pollution would let sunlight devour virtuality and reality.
• Beiao declared that the God Realm would eventually transform the entire Return Sea, while Xue Yan rebuked Xie Sen for fearing the Formless Celestial Devil.
• Xie Sen recalled surviving the devil before and wondered whether his luck had saved him, but Beiao dismissed his fears and insisted the God Realm would expose the devil’s true form.
• The God Realm absorbed its hundredth island and completed its conquest of the surrounding sea region.
• A storm of chaotic rule currents opened a breach beneath the canopy and swept Xie Sen away before the roots sealed it.
• Li Qingshan’s golden rainbow abruptly turned around at the end of deep space.

On Moya Island, Lu Bing coordinated a mechanical legion to map the Return Sea, despite losses from rule turbulence. When the map revealed an island, Li Qingshan set out with a communicator, showing that he could cross the sea despite its hazards.

• Li Qingshan met with the island chiefs as Moya Island was transformed into a mechanical base, and he joked with Sheng Tian about the golden throne.
• Lu Bing explained that her mental power let her control the mechanical legion and project a growing chart of the Return Sea.
• Rule turbulence destroyed hundreds of unmanned mechas, but Li Qingshan urged Lu Bing and the island chiefs to continue mapping.
• The sea chart revealed a red dot marking an island, and Lu Bing gave Li Qingshan a communicator that used mech relays to update the map.
• Li Qingshan departed Moya Island and raced across the Return Sea, detouring around turbulent areas as the chiefs watched his progress.

After the Celestial Devils destroyed Bone Mask Island, Beiao learned Blood Rot Island had also fallen and ordered Xue Lin to warn the Hundred Clans Alliance. To explain how the attacks happened so quickly, Xue Lin persuaded the alliance that two Formless Celestial Devils were responsible, leaving Xie Sen stunned by the claim.

• The Bone Tree absorbed Bone Mask Island, and Xue Yan realized Blood Rot Island had likely been attacked while Beiao identified the human monster as the culprit.
• Beiao ordered Xue Yan to tell Xue Lin to announce Blood Rot Island's destruction to the Hundred Clans Alliance.
• Xue Lin informed the gathered elders that the Celestial Devils had attacked Blood Rot Island, prompting Bone Armor to question how they could strike two distant islands so quickly.
• Xue Lin seized on Xie Sen's confused mutter to claim that two Formless Celestial Devils were attacking the islands.
• Xue Lin convinced Bone Armor and the other elders to believe the Twin Devils claim, while Xie Sen struggled to respond.

Lu Bing explained that Li Qingshan had ordered the alliance to focus on locating the foreign race alliance while the God Realm continued to grow, and she deployed the mechanical legion to search the fog. In the Return Sea, Bone Armor chose to pursue the Void Devouring Celestial Devil, while Beiao concluded that the enemy’s frantic scouting showed they were flustered by the God Realm’s strength.

• Lu Bing told the island representatives that Li Qingshan had ordered the treasure resources sent to Grand String Island and the alliance to search for the foreign race alliance rather than strike the God Realm.
• Lu Bing sent the mechanical legion into the fog, replenishing its losses with mechs from Grand String Island as she expanded her data network.
• Xue Lin blamed the Void Devouring Celestial Devil for the scouting mechs and urged Bone Armor to investigate the Formless Celestial Devil, but Xie Sen argued that they should keep pursuing the Void Devouring Celestial Devil.
• Bone Armor accepted Xie Sen’s argument and decided the alliance would continue pursuing the Void Devouring Celestial Devil.
• Beiao told Xue Yan that the enemy’s frantic search efforts meant they were flustered because the growing God Realm left them facing certain death.

Xie Sen convinced the Hundred Clans Alliance that a dire premonition meant they should pursue the Void Devouring Celestial Devil, leaving Xue Lin unable to challenge the decision. As the alliance fell behind in its pursuit, Beiao and Xue Yan encountered an unmanned mech and wondered whether the network had sent it to spy on their God Realm plan.

• Xie Sen warned that the Twin Devils would become unstoppable if they joined forces and claimed a vision showed the alliance collapsing if it targeted the Formless Celestial Devil first.
• Bone Armor accepted Xie Sen's prediction and ordered the alliance to pursue the Void Devouring Celestial Devil, while Xue Lin could only watch.
• The alliance chased the Void Devouring Celestial Devil through the deep sea but repeatedly arrived too late, as islands continued to fall.
• Xue Yan complained to Beiao that the alliance had slowed their island-devouring plan, and Beiao assured him that even scorched islands would serve the God Realm's purpose.
• Beiao detected an ice-blue unmanned mech observing them, but the chaotic currents destroyed it before his dark-green data stream could reach it.
• Beiao suspected the network had sent the mech as an observer, then reassured himself that the World Gate's iron law prevented the network from entering the Return Sea.

At Cursefang Island, the Hundred Clans Alliance debated the Twin Devils’ attacks and moved toward a strike on Celestial Devil Island. Xie Sen warned that he had foreseen disaster, and Bone Armor halted the attack as the elders believed him.

• The elders found Cursefang Island had vanished and Xue Lin claimed the destruction was the work of the other Twin Devil, as Xie Sen had supposedly prophesied.
• A Blackscale Clan member and then a Doomed Eye Clan elder produced shattered tablets, revealing that both clans had been attacked.
• Xue Lin urged Bone Armor and the clan elders to launch a surprise attack on Celestial Devil Island, and they agreed enthusiastically.
• Xie Sen refused to join the attack, saying he had foreseen that the journey would end badly.
• Xue Lin challenged Xie Sen’s claim, but Xie Sen reminded him that he had previously urged him to trust his own judgment.
• Bone Armor lowered his hand and the elders’ battle fervor faded as they accepted Xie Sen’s warning.

A blazing torrent arrived as Xie Sen’s prophecies came true, and the Alliance’s ninety Island Guardian Treasures failed to hold it back. As the Alliance fell into chaos beneath the light, Xue Lin finally believed Xie Sen was the Seer and watched the torrent consume him.

• The torrent illuminated the Return Sea, and Bone Armor rallied the elders to raise their ninety Island Guardian Treasures as shields.
• Xue Lin realized the prophecies had come true, while the elders drew confidence from the supposed Ultimate Prophecy he had brought back.
• Bone Armor declared that the Alliance would win against Formless Celestial Devil, and the elders joined in his confident chant.
• Cracks spread across the Island Guardian Treasures, the shields collapsed, and the torrent swept through the fleeing Alliance.
• Xue Lin accepted that Xie Sen was the Seer and stared into the torrent until its light burned him.

Li Qingshan cleansed an alien stronghold, seized its treasure vault, and learned that ninety alien races had united with their Island Guardian Treasures. He ordered defenses prepared while setting out to strike first and “cast the net.”

• Li Qingshan used sunlight to erase the mutated aliens and complained that their deaths yielded little EXP.
• Li Qingshan split open the mountain vault, collected its treasures, and left a mech to guard the cleared area.
• Lu Bing showed Li Qingshan footage of the alien alliance capturing the mechs near Blood Rot Island, and Li Qingshan identified ninety Island Guardian Treasures among the aliens.
• Kong Mingze warned Li Qingshan not to act rashly, but Li Qingshan ordered the ten island clans and mechanical legion to prepare for an attack.
• Li Qingshan gathered pollution-bearing treasures and headed toward the new red dots to cast his net.

Li Qingshan used the treasures on Moya Island to raise his Day Abyss Dust Sand Sutra proficiency and learned that the strange horn was a Clan Weapon. As a data waterfall carried him and Lu Bing away from the island, Beiao avoided listing the Formless Celestial Devil, but a claw inscribed a new title on the Cosmic Demon Sealing Record.

• Li Qingshan used the ninety Island Guardian Treasures and the Bone Tree to raise his Day Abyss Dust Sand Sutra proficiency to 290,000 manifestations.
• Li Qingshan asked Lu Bing about the long horn, and she identified it as a Clan Weapon similar to one Xiang Hao had displayed from the pioneering star clusters.
• Li Qingshan said he intended to reach the pioneering star clusters and asked Lu Bing to test whether his sunlight interfered with signals or data; she detected nothing.
• A data waterfall tore open the hall roof and lifted Li Qingshan and Lu Bing away as the people of Moya Island saluted their departing Alliance Leader.
• Beiao decided not to list the Formless Celestial Devil, but a sharp claw reached the Cosmic Demon Sealing Record and inscribed the title Supreme Celestial Devil.

The elders discovered that Blood Rot Island had been destroyed by the Formless Celestial Devil, while two shattered jade plaques confirmed that the Twin Devils were active. In secret, Beiao explained that his plans were meant to evade the network’s eyes and ears, then dismissed Xue Yan’s suspicion that a martial artist could be its agent in the God Realm.

• Xie Sen and the elders found Blood Rot Island reduced to lava and ruins, and Xie Sen identified the destruction as the work of the Formless Celestial Devil.
• Xue Lin claimed that the Grand Elder and ten clans had been wiped out, and he urged Bone Armor to unite against the Twin Devils.
• Two ninth-rank elders produced shattered jade plaques, confirming that the Twin Devils had struck again.
• Xue Yan reported to Beiao that Xue Lin had erased suspicion and made his death seem certain, while Beiao reminded him that their secrecy was meant to evade the network.
• Xue Yan wondered whether the Celestial Devil prodigy was an agent of the network, but Beiao insisted that a martial artist could do nothing in the God Realm.

After emerging from seclusion, Li Qingshan told Sheng Tian that he had used up the million grains of Myriad Manifestations Star Sand and asked about Sheng Yang, learning that Sheng Tian was his maternal half-brother. Lu Bing returned from reconnaissance with evidence that three suspected alien islands had vanished, leaving Li Qingshan to suspect someone had stolen his spoils of war.

• Sheng Tian waited outside the hall as Li Qingshan emerged from seclusion after only a few days.
• Li Qingshan said he had used all the Myriad Manifestations Star Sand, and Sheng Tian was shocked by how quickly he had consumed a million grains.
• Li Qingshan asked Sheng Tian about Sheng Yang, and Sheng Tian revealed they were biological brothers from the same mother but different fathers.
• Sheng Tian showed Li Qingshan the Xing Tian Fire Shroud, a protective treasure bestowed by Mother.
• Li Qingshan asked whether Lu Bing had returned, and Lu Bing arrived with a Mecha Legion and reported that three suspected alien islands had vanished.
• Li Qingshan concluded that a thief had stolen his spoils of war.

Li Qingshan completed the crackdown on Coiling Dragon’s cross-domain companies and received stellar coordinates that might reveal its source of goods. As Zhuang Chenxing moved to take control of Investigation Second Division and install Tu Shen as its deputy director, Li Qingshan waited—and Zhuang abruptly vanished from the virtual meeting.

• Li Qingshan’s divisions reported that they had seized all 3,582 listed companies and groups, and he instructed them to distribute bonuses and send the remaining spoils to Black Scale Auction House.
• Li Qingshan gave Shi Yan the seized assets to exchange for cosmic materials, then received eight stellar coordinates from Ye Lei that Shi Yan plotted in barren regions of Jiao District Sector Two.
• Kong Yang announced that Zhuang Chenxing had arrested Investigation Second Division and executed Ye Lei after she resisted, while Li Qingshan received a meeting notice about the division.
• Before joining the virtual meeting, Li Qingshan sent a sword streak through a passageway toward the coordinates where he and his companions had found the palace three years earlier.
• Zhuang Chenxing proposed Tu Shen as Investigation Second Division’s new deputy director and challenged Li Qingshan to object, but Li asked everyone to wait and Zhuang suddenly disappeared from the conference room.

Li Qingshan learned that the thief was a Fallen One believer building a virtual God Realm, and Lu Bing believed the Network had left her in the Return Sea to stop the plot. He set out to draw in the Ninety Races Alliance while preparing to cultivate on Moya Island, leaving the God Realm as a target he intended to destroy himself.

• Lu Bing told Li Qingshan that the thief was a Fallen One believer using the islands to build a God Realm, and proposed advancing to ninth rank to fight it.
• Li Qingshan revealed that the Network had appointed him and realized it had likely chosen him because he had destroyed virtual God Realms before.
• After seeing the marked islands on the sea chart, Li Qingshan ordered Lu Bing to stop tracking the thief and search for the Ninety Races Alliance so he could draw in the net.
• Li Qingshan vanished toward Moya Island, where Lu Bing and the First Seats inventoried the vast hoard of resources he had gathered.
• Inside the grand hall, Li Qingshan released hundreds of blood-red objects and began cultivating amid the Myriad Manifestations Star Sand.

Fei Xingye and Ya Lie escaped Blood Rot Clan attacks by exploiting the power of a star and Ye Yukong’s time-wielding ability. As Kong Yang chose to rescue the trapped Li Qingshan, a sun suddenly blazed into existence on the planet below.

• Fei Xingye rode a solar wind through the Blood Rot Clan’s mucus seal and escaped the star system.
• Ye Yukong aged a Blood Rot Clan elder to death, allowing Ya Lie to break free and kill him before Che Yufei carried the survivors away.
• Kong Yang urged his companions to set aside their prejudice and decided to save Li Qingshan, who had been trapped by the Blood Rot Clan.
• Kong Yang crossed the void toward the planet, where a sun suddenly rose and flooded the universe with light.

Beiao unleashed the true God Realm, which began consuming the Return Sea, but the Formless Celestial Devil fled before it could be caught. Beiao took Xie Sen to pursue it, while the Alliance watched the God Realm close in on Li Qingshan and devour islands along his route.

• The Bone Tree cracked apart and transformed into the God Realm, a giant data tree bearing forty-six crystal-diamond islands that spread its network across the Return Sea.
• The God Realm turned the Formless Celestial Devil’s sunlight torrent into virtual data, but the torrent reversed course and fled.
• Xue Yan tried to act against Xie Sen again, but Beiao stopped him and said he would take Xie Sen to hunt down the Formless Celestial Devil.
• On Moya Island, Kong Mingze, Liang Feiyan, Xiang Hong, Lu Bing, Sheng Tian, and Zheng Zicheng watched the God Realm devour the sea as it pursued Li Qingshan.
• Lu Bing reported that the God Realm was likely consuming every island along Li Qingshan’s route, and the voice of the Alliance Leader relaxed before falling silent.

Li Qingshan used Star Origin Liquid to sustain ten Body Tempering sessions, then studied Celestial Net Steps and Thunderclap Saber in the Martial Dao Space. He was left awed by Instructor Lu Qing’s demonstration of the A-rank Nine Heavens Wind-Thunder Saber.

• Li Qingshan completed ten Body Tempering sessions with one bottle of Star Origin Liquid and resolved to keep using it to advance.
• Li Qingshan studied Celestial Net Steps and learned that its highest realm involved treading the wind, while the A-rank Celestial Net Mystic Steps required the Essence of Square Inch.
• Li Qingshan entered the Martial Dao Space and reached the beginner level of Celestial Net Steps, requiring 500 proficiency points to advance.
• Li Qingshan watched Lu Qing explain Thunderclap Saber and demonstrate its Thunderclap Descent and Thundercloud Pressing the City techniques.
• Lu Qing demonstrated the A-rank Nine Heavens Wind-Thunder Saber, creating a massive tornado filled with lightning that left Li Qingshan stunned.

Li Qingshan defeated Ma Chenfeng, forced the Sky Wolf Gang’s Lu Tao to investigate its ties to fiends within a month, and then continued investigating the gang’s Cursed Lands with Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei. The next morning, the Human Ranking announced Li Qingshan’s feat of defeating a Grandmaster across realms.

• Li Qingshan agreed to accompany Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei as they investigated the Cursed Lands left by the Three Rivers Gang.
• Lu Tao tried to end the matter on behalf of the Sky Wolf Gang, but Li Qingshan demanded that he find evidence of fiends within a month or face a visit from the Seven Stars Sect.
• Li Qingshan provoked Lu Tao about silencing the witnesses; Lu Tao left without attacking, and Li Qingshan concluded that he knew nothing of Ma Chenfeng’s dealings with the evil god.
• Li Qingshan refused to rest and set off with Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei to continue their investigation.
• A lame beggar mourned the dead at the riverbank, while the next morning the Human Ranking listed Li Qingshan second and reported that he had defeated Ma Chenfeng across realms.

Li Qingshan defeated Fu Wu and climbed the rankings before being matched against Lu Su, his former opponent. He defeated her with Thunderclap Descent, ending the battle at rank 4627.

• Li Qingshan killed Fu Wu with a quick saber strike and noted that Fu Wu should have raised his Body Tempering realm instead of focusing on martial techniques.
• Li Qingshan defeated opponents on his way up the rankings, using saber techniques when he began facing Tempered Body Tenth Layer fighters.
• Li Qingshan and Lu Su recognized each other and wondered whether the other was an aperture prodigy.
• Lu Su attacked with her perfected spear techniques, while Li Qingshan countered with his perfected Wind Shadow Saber.
• Li Qingshan scattered his saber shadows into Thunderclap Descent, knocked Lu Su's spear away, and defeated her.

The teachers watched Li Qingshan defeat Ma Jie and concluded that he had reached the fifth level of Starry Sky Beckons and Limit Realm Completion. After Li Qingshan logged off instead of challenging Mou Yu, they noticed Zhou Yunze rapidly climbing the rankings and learned that he was from Crimson Yellow Star.

• Lu Qing told the teachers that Li Qingshan's strength resembled the legendary figure from a thousand years ago and meant he had reached the fifth level of Starry Sky Beckons.
• Li Qingshan defeated Ma Jie with the genuine Thunderclap Descent, and Lu Qing recognized that his Thunderclap Saber had reached major mastery.
• Mou Yu logged on, but Li Qingshan logged off rather than challenge her, and Mou Yu soon disappeared as well.
• Lu Qing and the teachers watched Zhou Yunze rapidly climb the rankings to Old Continent Rank 100.
• Lu Qing said she had heard of Zhou Yunze as a genius from Crimson Yellow Star, not Old Continent or Ziying Star.