Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan arrived at the Red Rainbow Main Star and reunited with Cao Shaoyu, discovering an unfamiliar energy mixed into the young man's fat that might be tied to his bloodline. After spending three days eating and exploring the main star with Cao Shaoyu, Li Qingshan departed for one of its moons.

• Li Qingshan entered the Red Rainbow Main Star's orbit and contacted Cao Shaoyu, who sent him coordinates for an island restaurant.
• Li Qingshan met Cao Shaoyu on the island and sensed an unfamiliar energy within him that resembled Star Origin Force.
• Cao Shaoyu took Li Qingshan to Hanhai Pavilion, where they dined beneath the sea, and revealed that he had dropped out of school a year earlier.
• Li Qingshan and Cao Shaoyu spent three days visiting restaurants and exploring the main star by spacecraft.
• Li Qingshan refused Cao Shaoyu's pleas to stay and flew toward one of the moons.

Li Qingshan confronted Lu Ying and nearly a hundred powerful figures who challenged his execution of corrupt Eighth Orders, then accused them of possible collusion with Panlong. The Azure Dragon Council instead promoted him to Deputy Minister of the Demon Subjugation Division, and he took the assembled challengers in for questioning.

• Lu Ying and nearly a hundred figures accused Li Qingshan of exceeding his authority by executing Eighth Order humans without reporting to the Azure Dragon Council, while livestream viewers defended him.
• Li Qingshan suspected the visitors of colluding with Panlong and ordered them to come to the Demon Subjugation Division for investigation.
• Yue Zhen appeared in space as the visitors anticipated punishment, but Ming Shuang also arrived to face him.
• Yue Zhen announced that the Azure Dragon Council had promoted Li Qingshan to Deputy Minister of the Demon Subjugation Division for his merit in subjugating evil.
• Lu Ying apologized, but Li Qingshan insisted that everyone would discuss the matter at the Demon Subjugation Division, and the livestream cameras exploded.

Li Qishang and Bao Hetong confronted You Xuan over suspected ties to the Evil Gods, while Bao revealed evidence linking him to a Celestial Fox clansman and the Coiling Dragon Auction House. Li sensed that something about the case was wrong, and Sang Yu’s team noticed You Xuan was acting unlike himself.

• You Xuan protested Li Qishang’s accusation and invoked his talent and status, but Li suppressed his Inner Scene with a touch.
• Bao Hetong produced a male Celestial Fox clansman from You Xuan’s residence and said he had found videos linking them, then accused You Xuan of colluding with the Bewitching Demon God.
• Ni Mocuan intervened on You Xuan’s behalf, and You Xuan said Manager Fan of the Coiling Dragon Auction House had given him the Celestial Fox clansman.
• Li Qishang realized Bao Hetong was targeting the Coiling Dragon Auction House and noted that neither You Xuan nor the Celestial Fox clansman carried the strange aura he had sensed before.
• Sang Yu told Li that You Xuan’s current behavior differed sharply from how he had acted during their journey.

Yin Zhengyu and Yang Xiaoyu received a divine manifestation that pointed them toward a chance in the Crimson Rainbow Star Region, near Li Qingshan. Meanwhile, Li Qingshan joined the gathered Human Ranking prodigies on Dick Star, where Huang Lingwei asked about the Liaoyang Sword.

• Yang Xiaoyu challenged Yin Zhengyu about Li Qingshan, while Yin Zhengyu privately recalled that Li Qingshan had reached the Inner Scene and could destroy a Meteor-Class Battleship with one strike.
• Yin Zhengyu and Yang Xiaoyu considered asking their grand patriarch for a manifestation, and a burst of light turned Yin Zhengyu's tortoise shell to powder.
• The powder formed the message "Seek your own chance" and a map leading from the Clear Radiance Domain toward the Crimson Rainbow Star Region via the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Yang Xiaoyu worried that Li Qingshan might take the chance, but Yin Zhengyu assured her he would not and urged her to record the map for the long journey.
• On Dick Star, Li Qingshan entered the dining hall where nearly a hundred Human Ranking prodigies welcomed him, and Huang Lingwei asked whether the Liaoyang Sword was alright.

Ling Siyuan planned to use Li Qingshan’s need to visit Crimson Rainbow Continent to force Wan Keshan to answer for old grievances. In the Star Realm, the Celestial Fox Clan maneuvered to influence Shan Bin and prepare a sacrifice for their Lord, just as purple lightning approached the Cat-Ear camp from the human ruins.

• Ling Siyuan told Fu Yu that Li Qingshan’s coming breakthrough would draw him to Crimson Rainbow Continent, giving Wan Keshan a chance to return and confess at a grave.
• A fox-tailed woman persuaded Shan Bin to give her the Purple Ganoderma Herb as a gift for the arriving Celestial Fox Saintess.
• The yellow-gauzed woman told the Azure-Clad Middle-Aged Man that the Celestial Fox Clan had chosen Shan Bin as its bond with the Cat-Ear royal court and that her Lord could defy the Star Realm’s rules.
• A distant thunderclap alerted the yellow-gauzed woman and the Azure-Clad Middle-Aged Man that humans had broken in.
• Purple lightning tore through the void toward the Cat-Ear camp.

Li Qingshan demonstrated how the Day Abyss Dust Sand Sutra transformed pollution and showed that his Ten Thousand Phenomena power could break through the Star Realm’s second heavenly curtain. Yang Zhixuan realized that Li Qingshan’s path might eventually let him reach Above the Nine Heavens, while Li Qingshan was due to set out for the Land of Return in three days.

• Yang Zhixuan concluded that Li Qingshan’s Day Abyss Dust Sand Sutra relied on a path no one else could replicate, then agreed to study the Epoch Paragons for inspiration.
• Yang Zhixuan proposed that the evil god’s power could serve as a companion star and asked Li Qingshan to demonstrate his strength.
• Li Qingshan pierced the Star Realm’s second heavenly curtain, and the council members sensed that his sunlight carried transformed pollution with god-level traits.
• Shi Feng dismissed Li Qingshan and told him to return in three days, when the stone stele would open the route to the Land of Return.
• Yang Zhixuan reasoned that Li Qingshan might touch what lay Above the Nine Heavens once his Day Abyss Dust Sand Sutra reached a million phenomena.

Li Qingshan returned to DongSheng Star and found his subordinates defending him on the Demon Subjugation Division forum. After deleting hostile posts with his authority until it was suspended, he reflected on his modest gains from the five Nine-tailed Celestial Foxes and hoped a bigger target would take the bait.

• Li Qingshan returned to Third Division headquarters with Kong Yang, Bao Hetong, and Fang Tao, then sent Bao Hetong and Fang Tao to organize reports from their month-and-a-half trip.
• Li Qingshan found Investigation Third Division members flooding the forum with posts defending him and liked their posts.
• Li Qingshan deleted hostile forum posts until his authority was suspended for seven days, stirring up more attention around his reputation.
• Li Qingshan received 500,000 Martial Dao Space experience from killing five Nine-tailed Celestial Foxes and worried it was not enough to draw Star Shards at his current rate.
• Li Qingshan watched the forum and hoped a big fish would take the bait.

Li Qingshan learned that Han Shan had left the Lingtian Sect and resolved to reclaim the White Tiger Pearl, though Liu Licheng warned that their rival factions made a direct confrontation difficult. Li Qingshan then asked about the Bloodstained God Statue and offered to help investigate its evil manifestations.

• Liu Licheng told Li Qingshan that Han Shan had re-entered the pugilistic world, and Li Qingshan eagerly asked where he was.
• Li Qingshan declared that he would retrieve the White Tiger Pearl from Han Shan himself, while Liu Licheng warned him about Han Shan and the Lingtian Sect's powerful companions.
• Liu Licheng explained that the Seven Stars Sect and the Lingtian Sect's mutual strength made it hard to lure Han Shan into an ambush.
• Li Qingshan asked about the Bloodstained God Statue, and Liu Licheng said the sect had found no matching evil god in its records.
• Li Qingshan said he would stay and help investigate evil apparitions, but Liu Licheng urged him to focus on cultivation.

Li Qingshan reached the Eighteen Layers of God Phase, making him the Divine Form Project Group’s only hope of completing the final step. The group learned that Qing Feng had already perfected his Eighteen Layers and was preparing to attempt it, while Jin Yuanli believed Li Qingshan’s practicalist method gave him a better chance of success.

• Jin Yuanli confirmed that Li Qingshan had more than 130 million Quantum Star Nuclei and had reached the Eighteen Layers of God Phase.
• Xiao Li proposed secretly funding Li Qingshan, but Jin Yuanli warned that Hua Yu would watch them and might urge Li Qingshan to stop before the final step.
• He Xianghong called Jin Yuanli and announced that Qing Feng of the Nanshan Star System had perfected his Eighteen Layers and was preparing for the final step.
• He Xianghong explained that the research groups had agreed the person who completed the final step would gain the right to name the cultivation method.
• Jin Yuanli questioned whether Qing Feng understood the risks, then said Li Qingshan was different because his practicalist method could offer an extra sliver of hope.

After finding a new way to approach his starry visions, Li Qingshan began practicing the Mountain-Crushing Saber while continuing to watch the stars. Ten years later, Zhuo Qiu returned with news that Yu Ling had slaughtered the younger experts and accompanying elders of the seven great sects at the Seven Suns Sword Tournament.

• Li Qingshan realized he could follow his own path instead of forcing himself to understand the stars, and his first saber strike reached the first stage of Mortal Rank.
• Li Qingshan began practicing the Mountain-Crushing Saber for two hours each day while keeping up his usual life and stargazing.
• Over the next ten years, Zhuo Qiu advanced to the eighth stage of Mortal Rank and became capable of leading escort teams.
• Zhuo Qiu told Li Qingshan that Yu Ling had joined the Xinyang Sect ten years earlier and had recently slaughtered the younger-generation experts of the seven great sects and their accompanying elders at the Seven Suns Sword Tournament.

After winning first place in Old Continent, Li Qingshan used his reward points to plan his cultivation and prepare for New Continent. He left Luoying High School Number One aboard a spaceship, determined to explore the Interstellar Era.

• Li Qingshan received 100,000 points, browsed the marketplace, and found that the medicines he needed would let him pursue the fourth revolution of breaking limits.
• Zhao Hongzhou, Yu Lei, Hong Qian, Wan Keshan, and other students celebrated Li Qingshan's victory, and he treated them to a meal at Luoying Grand Hotel.
• Li Qingshan trained in the Martial Dao Space, then left his rental apartment after returning the keys and deposit.
• On his way to school, Li Qingshan stopped at a mall to buy tea for Wan Keshan.
• A spaceship arrived at Luoying High School Number One, and Li Qingshan said goodbye to his friends and Wan Keshan before departing for New Continent.
• Yu Lei gave Wan Keshan the tea Li Qingshan had left for him, and Wan Keshan watched the spaceship disappear.

Li Qingshan used a livestream to reveal his extraordinary comprehension and disprove claims that he relied on Time Sand, while Ming Shuang defended him and warned anyone who tried to seize his power. Gu Feng handed Li Qingshan the seal and publicly named him the new Director of the Reconnaissance Office.

• Ming Shuang arrived to witness Gu Feng's retirement, while Zhuang Chenxing tried to present his objections as concern for Li Qingshan.
• Ming Shuang cited Li Qingshan's Child of the Stars talent to explain his rapid cultivation, and Gu Feng revealed that Li Qingshan had returned all one thousand grains of Time Sand.
• Li Qingshan displayed thirty-nine rare-shard absorption techniques in his records and claimed he had cultivated them to a fourth level beyond the known limits.
• Li Qingshan absorbed a Blazing Sun Shard at a thousand times the first-level speed, demonstrating his unprecedented comprehension before the livestream audience.
• Ming Shuang warned that she would show no mercy to anyone who challenged Li Qingshan, and Gu Feng gave him the director's seal and announced him as the new Director of the Reconnaissance Office.

After Cold Moon defeated Cangtian, the star realm laws shattered, leaving the Immortal Realm exposed to demons. Li Qingshan began the Myriad Realms Immigration Plan, sending the inhabitants to the Immortal Realm while preparing to awaken Old Taoist Tianji and save the worlds.

• Xuanjian and the Earth Immortals saw the Demon Stars flare and shatter the laws that had separated immortals, mortals, and demons.
• In World No. 9527, Xingyun reported that the Heaven Piercing Grand Formation had activated and the myriad realms’ inhabitants were ascending to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan asked Xingyun about resettlement, and Xingyun explained that twenty million Golden Core cultivators were ready to protect the immigrants.
• Xingyun set off with the Tianji Disc to awaken Old Taoist Tianji, agreeing to deliver Li Qingshan’s request for help.
• After watching the immigrants depart, Li Qingshan turned toward the undefended myriad realms and prepared to save them.

Li Qingshan demonstrated the creation principles behind a thousand Starry Sky Martial Arts before the students of Dick Academy, then urged them to seek the Dao and pass on the torch. After reuniting with friends, he departed as a military warship arrived, beginning a new journey.

• Li Qingshan used his Star Avatar to demonstrate how Dao became principle, displaying the creation processes of a thousand Starry Sky Martial Arts.
• Li Qingshan told the students that the arts were inheritances from Federation predecessors and urged them to seek the Dao and pass on the torch before vanishing from the stadium.
• Beyond the atmosphere, Li Qingshan thanked Wu Nian for keeping watch over Dick Sub-star, and Wu Nian boarded a spacecraft headed for Xin District.
• Li Qingshan reunited with Zhao Hongzhou and other old friends at Dick Academy and celebrated with them in the cafeteria.
• Li Qingshan announced that a military warship had arrived and departed before his friends could meet Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu, who were returning with a gifted young martial artist.

Li Qingshan completed his preparations to break through to the Outer Scene and entered the Chaotic Star Sea, where he discovered its headquarters had been abandoned. After failing to reach Cao Ya, he contacted Fu Yang to ask whether the Cao Family had been attacked.

• During a month-long voyage, Li Qingshan brought his Inner Scene cultivation close to completion and prepared to use the Martial Dao Space to advance further.
• Li Qingshan broke through to the Outer Scene, began ten-thousandfold starlight infusion, and noticed the Star River Cosmos Sutra's Outer Scene progress bar showed 108 stages.
• Pirate fleets attacked Li Qingshan's starship, but he destroyed their warships and continued into the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Li Qingshan found the Chaotic Star Sea's Planetary-class Battleship and ten leaders missing, then failed to reach Cao Ya by Communicator.
• Li Qingshan contacted Fu Yang and asked whether something had happened to the Cao Family.

Li Qingshan investigated the Azure Wave Realm’s mysterious ancient history, while Yue Zhen recognized the lucky little monk as Tai Shang’s target and chose to protect him for now. Meanwhile, a stellar-realm storm swept Tai Shang away, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Li Qingshan concluded that the Azure Wave Myriad Realms were refined small worlds and suspected the vague ancient era had been etched into people’s cognition, then set out to search the traces left in history.
• Yue Zhen caught the little monk following him and realized the monk’s extraordinary luck made him the person Tai Shang had sought.
• Unable to bring himself to crush the jade pendant and seize the monk’s luck, Yue Zhen gave him the Dharma name Suixin and ordered him to travel together with him until old age.
• Yue Zhen planned to wait until Suixin’s final moments before crushing the jade pendant, believing that a delay of about ninety years would be brief to Tai Shang.
• A storm from the Stellar Realm erupted in deep space, and witnesses feared Tai Shang had been swept into its vast expanse.

Xie Sen warned the Evil Horn Tribe Elders that the human heavenly demons had already destroyed an alliance, but the elders prepared to lead a new Hundred Clans Alliance anyway. Meanwhile, Li Qingshan discovered that his sunlight could smooth the Return Sea’s turbulent currents, though its power was still insufficient to cross them.

• Xie Sen told the Evil Horn Tribe Elders that the order to hunt human prodigies came from Xie Sha and Your Eminence, Youming, and that the surrounding hundred clans had received it too.
• The elders decided to form a Hundred Clans Alliance and seize its leadership to secure the greatest contribution against the monstrous anomaly.
• Xie Sen urged the elders to wait, recalling that a previous alliance had failed to stop heavenly demons from annihilating worlds and strongholds.
• Li Qingshan reached the sky above Primal Island and observed the Return Sea’s dangerous turbulent currents.
• Li Qingshan found that his sunlight smoothed a turbulent current before touching it and realized he needed more sunlight, or more devoured pollution, to cross the Return Sea.

Li Qingshan perfected Endless Vitality and discovered that the panel could use starlight to restore his body after the Blood Ignition Sacred Art burned it away. He concluded that this let him surpass Feng Boyong in combat power in reality, though Feng Boyong’s comprehension remained unmatched.

• Li Qingshan tested ninth-level Endless Vitality by cutting his palm and watched it heal almost instantly.
• He perfected Endless Vitality, then used the Blood Ignition Sacred Art and died when his body could not regenerate without Star Origin Force.
• Li Qingshan realized the panel could draw starlight from outside his body and restore him after his final strike.
• He unleashed the Blood Ignition Sacred Art again, and nine beams of starlight rebuilt his body at the cost of one thousand days of available time.
• Li Qingshan reflected on Feng Boyong’s comprehension and concluded that his own combat power now surpassed Feng Boyong’s in reality.

Li Qingshan met Xiang Wuji and learned that Star Realm rifts had appeared only four times so far, then discovered his name had reached ninety-eighth on the Meteor Ranking. Back at his villa, he began studying the nine levels of Wind Thunder Limitless and entered Martial Dao Space to cultivate it.

• Li Qingshan joined Xiang Wuji and five teammates in the cafeteria, where Xiang Wuji said the Star Realm had been quiet and its rifts had not yet become more frequent.
• Li Qingshan warned Xiang Wuji to stay alert, then left without revealing his strength; Xiang Wuji checked a ranking screenshot and saw Li Qingshan listed ninety-eighth on the Meteor Ranking.
• Li Qingshan calculated the cost of Golden Source Fluid and considered earning points by finding Shan Bin and fighting the Cat-Ear Clan after the Star Realm merged.
• Li Qingshan opened the Wind Thunder Limitless lesson and watched its instructor demonstrate the first and ninth levels.
• Li Qingshan studied the technique's materials, closed his eyes, and entered Martial Dao Space.

Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu completed the Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens, while Li Qingshan calculated how much time his Martial Dao Space could provide for his future Outer Scene cultivation. Yang Xiaoyu chose to remain with Li Qingshan’s group and explore a star realm, just as Wang Duanxing called and Fu Yang tried to reach Li Qingshan.

• Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu completed the Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens aboard the black starship, and Li Qingshan observed their breakthroughs.
• Li Qingshan calculated that his available time could provide only about sixty-eight years of accelerated Outer Scene cultivation and concluded he still needed to earn more experience.
• Li Qingshan encouraged Yang Xiaoyu to keep pursuing martial arts, and she asked to remain with the group to visit a martial world in the Crimson Rainbow Star Region.
• Li Qingshan received a call from Wang Duanxing of Black Flame Star Academy.
• On the Midday Sun Giant Star, Fu Yang tried to call Li Qingshan and found the line busy.