Chapter Summaries

As the heavens’ golden erosion spread, Li Qingshan and Xingyun prepared to evacuate World No. 9527, while Li trusted that Suixin might still turn the crisis around. Yue Zhen shattered Taishang’s jade pendant, giving Suixin its luck, and Taishang emerged in the Blood Rot Clan’s ancestral grounds and announced his name before attacking.

• Li Qingshan learned from Xingyun that the Heaven Piercing Grand Formation could not be used, so Xingyun proposed moving everyone to World No. 9527 and leaving the heavens.
• Qiu Zhan noticed Yue Zhen take out a jade pendant, and Li Qingshan suspected the little monk accompanying him was Suixin, the Heavenly Dao incarnation Suixin had severed.
• Yue Zhen smashed the jade pendant to fulfill Taishang’s instructions, and the little monk vanished before reappearing as Suixin.
• Suixin thanked Yue Zhen for gifting him luck, while Yue Zhen realized the pendant’s power had been used to seize luck.
• Taishang was swept by a Star Realm storm into the Blood Rot Clan’s ancestral grounds, where he faced over a hundred ninth-rank members and the clan’s tenth-rank force.
• Taishang declared that luck alone could not define his martial path, donned a white robe, drew his sword, and charged the Blood Rot Clan while announcing his name.

Li Qingshan’s plan to deal with Cao Wuyan failed when the Supreme One was trapped in a newly formed otherworldly realm, and Li rushed away after receiving a message. He attended Hong Qian’s funeral, then returned to his old home to rest before checking the counter the next morning.

• Yue Zhen fought Cao Wuyan while Li Qingshan arrived and nearly killed him, but Cao Wanjin intervened and explained that the Supreme One had been trapped in an otherworldly realm.
• Cao Wanjin took Cao Wuyan away, and Li Qingshan asked what Taotie would do if only one choice remained; Cao Wanjin replied that Li would not get another chance.
• Li Qingshan received a message, asked Yue Zhen to apologize to the Supreme One, and hurried toward the edge of Horn Sector.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Hong Qian’s funeral on Ziying Star and spoke with Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei about his old friend’s life and final wishes.
• Li Qingshan returned to his former home, set aside his concerns, and slept; the next morning he woke and checked a counter showing 263,519,338, 1892→1894, and 1→2.

Li Qingshan completed Heaven-Human Unification, shattering Yu Ling’s blood-colored control over the Heavenly Dao Space. He opened a path to the cosmic void and turned Yu Ling’s attempt to devour the Heavenly Dao against him.

• Li Qingshan began Heaven-Human Unification, and seven celestial phenomena appeared around him.
• The Grinning Mask cracked apart as the celestial phenomena spread across the Crimson Rainbow Continent and drove away the blood-colored light.
• Li Qingshan entered the Heavenly Dao Space with Old Taoist Tianji and learned that Xiang Hao’s fallback plan depended on connecting the inner and outer worlds.
• Yu Ling began devouring the Heavenly Dao Cycle, but Li Qingshan stopped Old Taoist Tianji from charging to his death.
• Li Qingshan scattered the seven celestial phenomena and used the Martial Dao Seven Stars to pierce the Star Realm’s rules, exposing the Heavenly Dao Space to the cosmic void.
• The cosmic aura overwhelmed Yu Ling’s blood-colored vortex, and Li Qingshan challenged him to devour the Cosmic Heavenly Dao.

Li Qingshan welcomed the chiefs of the nine islands to Primal Island, then eagerly agreed to visit Moya Island after Sheng Tian sent an invitation. Meanwhile, Xie Sen recognized the Blood Rot Clan’s plan to attack the human islands as dangerously familiar.

• Xiang Hong worried the arriving chiefs intended to fight, but Li Qingshan insisted he would welcome them courteously.
• Lu Bing arrived with a vast tide of mechas, and Li Qingshan identified the other chiefs concealed in the void before greeting them.
• Peng Xinghan asked Li Qingshan for a concrete plan, while Zheng Zicheng guessed Sheng Tian would not come.
• A messenger from Moya Island invited the chiefs to discuss a captured Blood Rot Clan prisoner, and Li Qingshan eagerly told him to lead the way.
• On Blood Rot Island, Xue Yan said the Blood Rot Clan had assembled ten clans to find Celestial Devil Island, while Xie Sen recognized the plan and feared its familiar words.

The Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome ensnared the Epoch Paragons with false enlightenment, but Li Qingshan resisted and exposed Old Taoist Tianji as a Nightmare Clan impostor. He freed the real Tianji from the Tianji Disc, then demanded to learn how to read the Tome.

• The Heavenly Tome opened, and the Epoch Paragons became absorbed in its inscriptions as Old Taoist Tianji revealed his plan to turn them into members of the Nightmare Clan.
• Li Qingshan ignored the Tome and confronted Old Taoist Tianji, identifying him as a Nightmare Clan impostor who had stolen the real Tianji's memories.
• Li Qingshan inferred that the impostor had used the Heavenly Tome to suppress the real Old Taoist Tianji inside the Tianji Disc.
• Li Qingshan burned the Tianji Disc with blue-white flames, freeing the real Old Taoist Tianji and exposing the impostor's failure.
• Li Qingshan demanded that the real and false Tianji teach him how to read the Heavenly Tome.

Dai Lan decided not to recruit Li Qingshan into Polar Star Martial Hall, believing the Star Academy would act, and arranged for Yue Mingxuan to deliver a message about a way to heal Li Qingshan’s teacher. Martial Arts Halls sent disciples toward the Hundred Star Newcomer Tournament as Ziying Academy students searched for Li Qingshan, who remained in seclusion for four days.

• Dai Lan told Wu Min that Li Qingshan would not join a Martial Arts Hall and that the Star Academy had begun making its move.
• Dai Lan summoned Yue Mingxuan and arranged for him to return to Blue Silver Star as an outside reinforcement for the Hundred Star Newcomer Tournament.
• Dai Lan instructed Yue Mingxuan to tell Li Qingshan that she had found a way to treat his teacher’s injuries.
• More than twenty spacecraft departed from the Martial Dao Seven Stars carrying Martial Arts Hall disciples.
• Ziying Academy students searched public areas for Li Qingshan but could not find him, while he remained secluded in his villa for four days before opening his eyes.

Li Qingshan accompanied Gu Feng to Reconnaissance Star to take over the Reconnaissance Office and learned that advancing his Dharma Manifestation would require studying expensive cultivation materials. Meanwhile, Yuan Zong decided the Coiling Dragon Auction House would stop helping Zhuang Chenxing and send Li Qingshan a gift.

• Ye Lei learned that Li Qingshan had returned to headquarters with Gu Feng and sought help from Zhuang Chenxing, while Li Wenbo dismissed her as a fool.
• Yuan Zong confronted Li Wenbo, declared the Coiling Dragon Auction House would leave Zhuang Chenxing to fight for control of the Reconnaissance Office, and ordered him to deliver Li Qingshan a generous gift.
• Gu Feng brought Li Qingshan to Reconnaissance Star and explained that the office handled reports from across Horn Sector.
• Gu Feng transferred one million contribution points to Li Qingshan, who accepted them to fund his next stage of Dharma Manifestation cultivation.
• Li Qingshan opened the Demon Subjugation Division's cultivation catalogue and discovered it was filled with research papers rather than cultivation methods.

As Li Qingshan’s apotheosis as a star captivated the Four Saints Star System, the Epoch Paragon Ranking emerged and revealed 28 paragons. The chapter ended with news that Li Qingshan had named the Unnamed Cultivation Method the Azure Sun Sutra.

• Xiang Feifeng arrived as the Epoch Paragon Ranking began to emerge and offered the editors-in-chief free news about the Unnamed Cultivation Method on Minister Li’s orders.
• Across the Four Saints Star System, people celebrated Li Qingshan’s apotheosis as a star until the screens switched to the ranking’s appearance.
• The Epoch Paragon Ranking revealed 28 paragons, prompting viewers to discuss its rules and the return of paragons who had broken through in other star systems.
• Viewers predicted that Li Qingshan would suppress the other paragons when he awakened, and a bulletin announced that he had named the Unnamed Cultivation Method the Azure Sun Sutra.

Li Qingshan returned from the foreign realm and claimed first place on the War Merit Board, but the reward for killing a seventh-rank Godchild appeared as unknown because no one had ever done it before. At a conference to determine Thunder Pool allocations, Kong Yang rose to say Li Qingshan did not need to consider his place, as the commanders’ former rejection of him had given way to regret.

• Li Qingshan’s war merit rose to the top of the rankings, astonishing the geniuses across the border fortresses.
• Chi Jifeng learned that Li Qingshan had already been taken away and saw that the War Merit Board listed his total as 73.03 million plus an unknown amount.
• Suo Hanchuan explained that Li Qingshan’s kill of a seventh-rank Godchild had no established war merit value, making him the first tournament genius to achieve such a kill.
• The commanders gathered to discuss Thunder Pool allocations, where Li Qingshan’s first-place ranking left Kong Yang outside the top three and without the right to exchange for an eighth-grade Thunder Pool.
• Kong Yang told Li Qingshan not to worry about him and faced the commanders who had once rejected him.

Long Yeyun sent Liu Licheng to Star Academy to request the opening of the Gengchen Secret Decree while investigating why Lingtian Sect had sent Ding Cheng after Li Qingshan. As Li Qingshan returned to West Desert Town, Ding Cheng ambushed him, but Li repeatedly blew himself up and recovered to escape; the chapter ended with Heaven's Secret Pavilion updating its rankings.

• Long Yeyun concluded that Lingtian Sect's decision to send Ding Cheng after Li Qingshan signaled a deeper motive, and he ordered Liu Licheng to seek the seven presidents and request the Gengchen Secret Decree.
• Several days later, martial artists gathered in West Desert Town, waiting for news of the Harmony Convergence Feast and the Battle of the Twin Mountains, as the Human Ranking prodigies returned.
• Li Qingshan sensed an ambush and left the group, but Xiao Baohe and Shao Yue attacked him with giant swords; Li repeatedly blew himself up and recovered, escaping Ding Cheng's pursuit.
• Tong Ming and Yu Jing, who had been lying in wait to ambush Xiao Baohe and Shao Yue, decided to report Ding Cheng's appearance to Seven Stars Sect.
• A blind old Taoist appeared and vanished unnoticed in West Desert Town, and a martial artist then announced that Heaven's Secret Pavilion had updated the three rankings.

Zhou Yunze continued teaching while Chi Wen returned to the Starry Sky Martial Arts Hall’s God Phase—Project Team to help prepare for Apotheosis as a Star. At the Demon Subjugation Division, Kong Yang relayed Li Qingshan’s orders for the thousand years of his absence, including that Gu Feng would become deputy minister once he awakened.

• Zhou Yunze dismissed his students’ hopes of becoming great powerhouses and resumed teaching them, then heard Chi Wen say he was leaving to improve the project team’s preparations for Apotheosis as a Star.
• Tu Shen, Xia Cunzhen, and Su Yuan met with Kong Yang, who told them Li Qingshan had ordered the three offices to continue their duties and left the deputy minister position vacant until Gu Feng awakened.
• Chi Wen arrived at the Starry Sky Martial Arts Hall’s God Phase—Project Team and found its leaders and researchers gathered to advance their work.
• Jin Yuanli told Chi Wen that the team was building a Planetary Collapse model, developing training methods, and consulting the Star Martial Hall’s cultivation project team about strengthening the true spirit.
• Chi Wen interrupted Jin Yuanli’s explanation of the dangers of igniting a star and solemnly said he understood them.

Zhao Yang entered Ziying Academy determined to follow the path Li Qingshan had walked, and over the years he climbed onto both academy steles before leaving for another academy’s entrance examinations. Meanwhile, Chi Wen repeatedly failed to master Planetary Collapse using the Azure Sun Sutra, and Zhao Yang’s later journey ended in defeat in an intercollegiate league before he departed Ziying Academy.

• Zhao Yang arrived at Ziying Academy as the Final Battle’s third-place winner, while Gu Ling and Wu Shan failed to enter the top hundred of the Initiation Stele.
• Chi Wen failed another Planetary Collapse test, saw his progress decrease, and wondered how Li Qingshan had mastered the technique.
• Six months later, Zhao Yang made the Initiation Stele’s hundredth place after completing the Third Turn of Limit Break and choosing to break through; he told Wan Keshan he wanted to see Li Qingshan’s path.
• As a sophomore, Zhao Yang entered the Star Realm, bowed to Jing Shen’s statue, and set out into the realm.
• In 9016, Zhao Yang suffered a crushing defeat in his first intercollegiate fighting league after encountering a self-destructing truck.
• In 9021, Zhao Yang left Ziying Academy aboard a Small Spaceship as his name appeared at the bottom of both the Initiation and Journey Stele rankings.

Li Qingshan learned that the Cao Family had suffered a devastating attack, then revealed to Fu Yang that he had reached the Outer Scene and could establish his Dao in ten days. As he prepared to cultivate in the Chaotic Star Sea, a threatening message invited him there in ten days and hinted that Cao Shaoyu was in danger.

• Fu Yang told Li Qingshan that the Chaotic Star Sea and two interstellar corporations had attacked the Cao Family, leaving it with devastating losses.
• Li Qingshan revealed that he had reached the Outer Scene 140 minutes earlier and was already in the Chaotic Star Sea to pursue his opportunity as the Child of the Stars.
• Li Qingshan calculated that he could complete his Outer Scene progress in ten days, and Fu Yang enthusiastically agreed to await his breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan went outside his ship to begin cultivating, while worrying that Cao Shaoyu might have been the Chaotic Star Sea's real target.
• Little Fatty sent Li Qingshan a video in which an unidentified speaker challenged him to visit the Chaotic Star Sea in ten days and threatened that he would regret missing the chance.

Li Qingshan continued claiming high-risk rifts for the Shouyang Alliance, then encountered two seventh-rank Blood Rot Clan elders while serving as reinforcements. He realized that the seventh-rank traits Dean Ye had described applied only to humans, and unleashed his burning Star Avatar against the elders.

• Li Qingshan reached 3.9 million war merits after gaining 230,000 merits and nearly 2 million experience, and noticed Ye Yukong ranked on the board.
• Li Qingshan joined Kong Yang's group as reinforcements and entered one of two newly opened rifts while Kong Yang's team took the other.
• A seventh-rank Blood Rot Clan elder trapped Wan Mu and began preparing a Blood Erosion Array to shatter the planet and the Star Shattering Gate.
• Two Blood Rot Clan elders discovered Li Qingshan's Star Giant avatar and started preparing a Blood Erosion Array to prevent news and reinforcements from getting through.
• Li Qingshan broke through the elders' void seal, questioned why they needed an array to shatter a planet, and concluded that Dean Ye's seventh-rank traits applied only to humans.
• Li Qingshan called the Blood Rot Clan pathetic and set his Star Avatar ablaze, sending blazing radiance across the battlefield.

Li Qingshan learned that a World Gate on the moon had become an examination site, and Cao Ya planned to arrange for him to go there. The chapter left Li Qingshan waiting and cultivating while Cao Ya prepared a rare gift for him.

• Li Qingshan wondered about the laser battle on the moon, but the Communicator brought no news.
• Mou Yu told Li Qingshan that Han Hui, Xie Chengze, and Wei Rong had joined martial halls and withdrawn from the Entrance Qualification Battle.
• Cao Ya called Li Qingshan, who guessed that a first-tier World Gate was on the moon and urged Cao Ya to send someone to collect him.
• Cao Ya explained that the World Gate was under control and had been designated as an examination site, with Dean Ye to make arrangements the next day.
• After the call ended, Li Qingshan set aside his Thunderclap Saber and returned to cultivating while Cao Ya scolded his son for touching a rare fiery red lotus gift intended for Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan slowly comprehended the seven resonance methods in Choice Ground, producing a seemingly insignificant one-inch phenomenon for each. After he completed the final method, all seven phenomena reappeared and converged above him, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Li Qingshan noticed that his Dawn phenomenon was only one inch tall, then moved on to study the Noon Sun Sympathetic Method.
• Li Qingshan spent a day beneath the Noon Sun stele and gained the Celestial Phenomenon Seven Arts—Noon Sun, also producing a one-inch phenomenon.
• As other students left Choice Ground and chose their Star Academies, Li Qingshan continued studying the methods and collected one-inch phenomena for Sunset Glow, Winter Snow, Night Rain, and the other celestial arts.
• On the seventh day, Li Qingshan comprehended the final Frost Flower method, and the frost flowers appeared above him for an instant.
• The seven giant steles trembled, and all seven celestial phenomena reappeared and fused above Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan encouraged Zhou Yunze to seek his own Dao, then supported Zhao Ran in leaving Dick Star to cultivate on the Crimson Rainbow Continent despite Wei Huaian’s reluctance. Ten years after arriving on Dick Star, Li Qingshan’s guardianship term ended.

• Li Qingshan told Zhou Yunze to trust his feelings and keep searching for his Dao before Zhou Yunze departed.
• Li Qingshan challenged Wei Huaian’s plan to keep Zhao Ran cultivating in a specially prepared room, and Zhao Ran chose to travel to the Crimson Rainbow Continent.
• Li Qingshan reminded Wei Huaian that Zhao Ran needed to face danger and that Dick Academy’s problems could not be solved by relying on her alone.
• Zhao Ran boarded a starship alone for the Martial Dao Seven Stars, while her family and Wei Huaian worried about her.
• Li Qingshan checked Kong Lanxin’s contact information, then entered Martial Dao Space.
• Ten years after Li Qingshan arrived on Dick Star, his guardianship term ended.

Li Qingshan manifested an enormous inner world that blossomed into an azure lotus, then sent a seven-colored sword light through space to destroy the Chaotic Star Sea’s Meteor-Class Battleship. The St. Lin 7’s passengers believed he had died until Zhao Ran spotted him standing unharmed in the void.

• Li Qingshan’s illusory inner world spread across the void before gathering into azure petals around him.
• The sinister middle-aged man dismissed the lotus as a self-detonation display and ordered his subordinates to prepare to seize the St. Lin 7.
• The azure lotus bloomed, and passengers aboard the St. Lin 7 watched its dazzling seven-colored sword light vanish.
• The sword light appeared inside the Meteor-Class Battleship, bypassed its shield, and destroyed the ship, killing the sinister middle-aged man.
• Zhao Mo urged Zhao Ran to train and avenge Li Qingshan, but she pointed out that he was alive, standing unharmed above the St. Lin 7.

Han Shan and Li Qingshan accepted invitations to Pang Yan’s Harmony Convergence Feast, suspecting it would lead to a decisive battle in the Far West. As news spread, the feast became known as the site of a showdown between Li Qingshan and Han Shan.

• Han Shan accepted the Demon Flame Gate’s invitation and threatened to kill its messenger and Pang Yan if Li Qingshan did not attend.
• Nan Jianyang warned Han Shan that Pang Yan’s claimed Heaven-Human Unification might be a trap, but Han Shan announced he would challenge Li Qingshan at the feast.
• Li Qingshan accepted Su Yixiu’s invitation and ordered a Seven Stars Sect disciple to rally inner sect members against the Sky Wolf Gang.
• Li Qingshan ordered word spread that he would attend the Far West feast alone.
• The Harmony Convergence Feast invitations and Han Shan’s challenge spread across the martial world, turning the gathering into a widely anticipated showdown.

Li Qingshan discovered that his Great Sun in the Sky True Form required one hundred grains of Myriad Manifestations Star Sand to produce a manifestation, then explored Tianji Academy and found the edge of a world. Across the Azure Wave Myriad Realms, several Epoch Paragons entered different worlds as Li Qingshan realized the worlds were contained within Myriad Manifestations Star Sand.

• Li Qingshan realized that one hundred thousand grains of Myriad Manifestations Star Sand would produce only one thousand manifestations for his True Form.
• Li Qingshan withdrew from the Martial Dao Space and entered Tianji Library at Tianji Academy.
• In World No. 1573, a white-robed figure climbed the Qingxuan Sword Sect's Immortal Ascension Gate.
• In World No. 1989, Tu Xie pleased the Blood Lotus Sect elder, who promised to accept him as his disciple.
• In World No. 5555, Yue Zhen helped a little monk feed a starving girl and noticed his jade pendant glowing.
• Li Qingshan reached the edge of World No. 9527, found Myriad Manifestations Star Sand beyond its boundary, and declared the worlds his.