Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan confronted Cang Yan with the power of ten thousand suns and challenged his belief in the ancient immortal path, shaking his Dao heart. Cang Yan regained his confidence with the Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome and sealed Azure Wave Realm, but Li Qingshan began tearing open its golden barrier.

• Li Qingshan revealed ten thousand suns of power but clarified that he remained at Eighth Order Myriad Manifestations.
• Li Qingshan argued that humanity's martial path advanced through research, generations of cultivators, and continual progress, causing Cang Yan to doubt his convictions.
• Forty-nine pages of the Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome emerged to steady Cang Yan, who dismissed Li Qingshan's argument and enveloped Azure Wave Realm in golden light.
• Cang Yan disappeared behind the golden barrier, and Li Qingshan demanded the heavenly scripture back.
• Li Qingshan thrust his hand into the void and spread cracks through the golden shell, tearing open one corner of Azure Wave Realm's sky.

The Four Saints councilors feared the epoch paragons were trapped or dead, but the ranking showed their starlight gathering around Li Qingshan’s name. In the Azure Wave Realm, Li Qingshan intervened in the battles and began slaughtering ninth-tier Earth Immortals and other foes with beams of light.

• The Four Saints councilors debated why no epoch paragons had returned and warned that fallen paragons would trigger revenge against their enemies.
• Shi Feng argued that none of the 101 paragons had fallen, but the top ten names lit up and their starlight was drawn toward Li Qingshan’s name.
• Tu Xie’s blood sea overwhelmed the wounded Xuan Jian and threatened to turn him into a Blood Hell Evil General.
• Li Qingshan’s beam of light killed Xuan Jian’s attackers and reduced the ninth-tier Earth Immortal to ashes, then he apologized to Tu Xie for acting rashly.
• Li Qingshan fired three more beams that killed Tu Xie’s other Earth Immortal captives, while blazing attacks swept across the battlefield and reaped enemies throughout the void.

Li Qingshan used the Martial Dao Space’s acceleration to recite the Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome through forty-nine layers, then realized its final step required confronting the artifact’s true owner. He seized the Tome and forced it to produce human words that spread the martial way to the Epoch Paragons, leaving the heavens shaking with new revelations.

• Li Qingshan confirmed that reciting the Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome in the Martial Dao Space earned one experience point each time, even without the artifact present.
• He used the Space’s millionfold time acceleration to advance the Tome to Layer Forty-Nine, but its experience stalled at zero of one and he sensed no effect.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Heavenly Dao Space, where his presence drove back the murmurs and black threads and caused the Heavenly Tome to close.
• He realized the panel had helped him master the Celestial Artifact, but its final step was blocked because the Mind Fiend Progenitor owned it.
• Li Qingshan opened the Tome and recited the human word “Zhou,” cracking its inscription, then continued reading in clear words that shook the heavens.
• The Epoch Paragons heard Li Qingshan’s words and manifested new martial revelations as Qingshan spread the martial way.

Chi Wen watched Li Qingshan’s warning about the dangers of igniting a star and realized Li Qingshan had already taken that step himself. He learned the video had to remain secret until Li Qingshan awakened, and Li Qingshan showed him a recording about another person at the limit of the Eighteen Layers of Divine Appearance.

• Chi Wen was stunned by the Azure Sun Sutra and recognized Li Qingshan’s achievement as far beyond his own talent.
• Li Qingshan warned Chi Wen to treat the third step, igniting a star, with extreme caution because it exposed the true spirit to a powerful impact.
• At the Divine Form Project Group, Jin Yuanli and Hua Yu debated the third step and worried that Li Qingshan might have died when the star ignited.
• Chi Wen realized Li Qingshan had ignited a star despite his young age, then heard Li Qingshan say their circumstances were different.
• Li Qingshan instructed Chi Wen to keep the video secret until he awakened and showed him a recording about Immortal Cliff Chi Wen’s preparations.

Li Qingshan began gathering cosmic materials in orbit while Chi Wen set out to find Zhou Yunze, who was searching for his own dao through Starry Sky Beckons. At Xing Academy, Kong Xun continued seeking inspiration from students, and the chapter ended with Zhou Yunze telling Chi Wen he wanted to find himself.

• Chi Wen urged Li Qingshan to wait for his news before attempting his breakthrough, then left as Ming Shuang lamented that he would miss the War of the Four Sages.
• Li Qingshan reflected that even 29 years felt long to him, then began drawing cosmic materials from a shattered star belt.
• At Xing Academy, Kong Xun studied eight students practicing the fifth stage of Starry Sky Beckons, and Ye Hao urged him not to give up on finding a breakthrough.
• Ye Yukong praised Ye Hao's concern for sentient beings while concealing his own thoughts.
• Chi Wen visited Zhou Yunze's martial arts hall and revealed his identity, and Zhou Yunze explained that he was trying to find himself through the distorted forms his students practiced.

Li Qingshan learned that reaching the Divine Form required surviving the dangerous, instantaneous process of “Collapse Into Body,” and that he needed to prepare by studying others’ papers. After leaving Gu Feng, he returned home and exchanged for Gu Feng’s highly rated paper.

• Gu Feng explained that “Collapse Into Body” compressed the God Phase’s transformation into a single dangerous instant and warned Li Qingshan that failure meant death.
• Gu Feng showed Li Qingshan papers that could help him prepare, including one rated 9.9, and urged him to study it.
• Li Qingshan closed the light screen, claiming he would read the recommended paper at home, and Gu Feng warned him not to rush into the breakthrough.
• Li Qingshan returned to his villa, opened the paper list, and exchanged 10,000 contribution points for Gu Feng’s paper.
• Li Qingshan opened the paper and saw Gu Feng listed as its author.

Li Qingshan accepted Gu Feng’s proposal to succeed him as Director of the Reconnaissance Office, and they joined a meeting where the ministers discussed Gu Feng’s resignation. When Zhuang Chenxing appeared ready to complicate Li Qingshan’s appointment, Li cut him off and began recounting his achievements.

• Li Qingshan eagerly agreed to take over Gu Feng’s position and asked whether Su Yuan had ties to the Coiling Dragon Auction House.
• Gu Feng said Su Yuan had no such connection, and Li Qingshan suspected the surviving members of the Lingtian Sect had prompted Su Yuan’s actions.
• Gu Feng revealed that Zhuang Chenxing had met Li Qingshan and summoned him to a meeting about handing over the reins.
• At the meeting, Gu Feng formally requested to resign after fifty thousand years as Director of the Reconnaissance Office and nominated Li Qingshan as his successor.
• Zhuang Chenxing praised Li Qingshan before beginning to object, but Li interrupted him and launched into a long account of his past achievements.

Li Qingshan urged Gu Feng to hand over the Director position so he could purge the Reconnaissance Office and hunt Evil God Cultists, but Gu Feng explained that the Demon Subjugation Division would choose the successor. Gu Feng revealed his declining strength and told Li Qingshan to focus on cultivation as he departed.

• Li Qingshan told Gu Feng he wanted to take over the Director position to address the Reconnaissance Office's problems and protect the people of Horn Sector.
• Gu Feng praised Li Qingshan's dedication but explained that the Demon Subjugation Division, not Gu Feng alone, would decide who became Director.
• Gu Feng said the division would likely choose among Shao Fenghua, He Jian, and Ye Lei, whom Li Qingshan suspected of wrongdoing.
• Li Qingshan asked whether Gu Feng had deliberately allowed the Fourth Office to run unchecked, and Gu Feng explained that his weakening health had limited his ability to command the office.
• Li Qingshan urged Gu Feng to break through, but Gu Feng told him not to repeat his mistakes and to focus on martial cultivation.
• Gu Feng tore open the void and departed, dismissing his actions as greed for power and position.

Li Qingshan discovered that Reality Acceleration let him cultivate ten times faster, then learned that a video of him accepting gifts had spread across Horn Sector. Rather than deny the authentic footage, he planned to use the scandal to draw out corrupt officials, while his enemies prepared to frame him for colluding with Evil God Cultists.

• Li Qingshan activated Reality Acceleration and found that one year of cultivation in the Martial Dao Space took a little over a month in reality, at a cost of one hundred thousand years of available time.
• While Li Qingshan cultivated for twenty days, identical posts accusing him of hypocrisy appeared across forums throughout Horn Sector.
• Kong Yin warned Kong Yang not to follow Li Qingshan after seeing a video of him accepting gifts, and Fang Tao and Bao Hetong showed Li Qingshan the same footage.
• Li Qingshan confirmed the video was real and said he would let Hui Banxing and the Chuan Hui Group remain untouched so they could serve as his public reputation while he exposed people with secrets to hide.
• Two figures in Fang District planned to use a hidden operative to lure Evil God Cultists into Jiao District Sector Three and frame Li Qingshan for colluding with them.

Li Qingshan and the Epoch Paragons prepared to shatter the Myriad Realms after Cold Moon’s gaze drove Cang Yan away. The Tianji formations then broke the heavens and sent the people of Azure Wave Myriad Realms ascending to the Immortal Realm.

• Cold Moon looked down from the depths of space, shattering the golden light around Suixin and forcing Cang Yan to flee with Li Qingshan’s Heavenly Book.
• Li Qingshan told the Epoch Paragons to follow the original plan, and they departed to prepare for the shattering of the Myriad Realms.
• As dawn broke, Gu Yueqi ate the old black ox, and his family promised to stay together through the immigration.
• The Tianji One formations activated across the Myriad Realms and used the Tianji Disc to shatter the heavens and the outer star-realm rules.
• The Tianji Two plaques lit up, carrying the people of the Myriad Realms through the broken barrier and toward the Immortal Realm.

Li Qingshan continued cultivating while misleading Xia Cunzhen about his plans to target Coiling Dragon Auction House, and prepared to use its business channels to obtain more resources. Far away, the Starry Sky Martial Arts Hall’s Divine Form Project Group saw Li Qingshan’s innate-perfection God Phase as a possible key to completing its project.

• Ye Lei interviewed Tu Shen and assigned her to Division 51, while wondering why Li Qingshan had not acted against Coiling Dragon Auction House.
• Xia Cunzhen confronted Li Qingshan about not attacking Coiling Dragon, then proposed a joint strike on its business channels.
• Li Qingshan persuaded Xia Cunzhen to wait, claiming he was secretly building a case against Coiling Dragon and would notify him when it was time to act.
• Li Qingshan reviewed his list of Coiling Dragon’s business contacts and resumed consuming resources to cultivate God Phase.
• The Divine Form Project Group discussed Feng Boyong’s impending breakthrough and concluded that Li Qingshan’s 108-zhang Dharma Form might enable their project’s final step.

The Void God Sect fled through the Hyperspace Channel after a peak human Rank Seven pursued them, then decided to seek help from Li Qingshan in Sector Three. Half a year later, Li Qingshan was still short of Star Shards for Transformation of Emptiness when Bao Hetong reported that an Evil God Cultist had requested a meeting with him.

• The Void God Sect's starships were destroyed one by one by a Long Spear, but the spear suddenly withdrew before it struck the Sect Master's ship.
• The Void God Sect's elders urged the Sect Master to seek out Li Qingshan in Sector Three, believing he might accept benefits in exchange for helping them perfect their God Realm.
• After six months, Li Qingshan used up his fourth and final Star Shard and lamented that he had gained little experience while keeping Sector Three calm.
• Bao Hetong told Li Qingshan that a human Evil God Cultist had approached Old Ni to request a meeting and that an Evil God sect might be behind him.
• Li Qingshan seized on Bao Hetong's mention of an Evil God sect and asked him to confirm it.

Li Qingshan realized that martial arts in the Land of Reincarnation worked as skills governed by the world's rules, then encountered Yu Ling at Linjiang County's docks. Yu Ling set out to find Li Qingshan, while Li Qingshan seemed to recognize that Yu Ling was searching for someone.

• Li Qingshan corrected Zhuo Qiu's saber technique, helping him reach Mortal Rank Level One and leaving Li Qingshan wondering how saber aura could exist without qi or blood energy.
• Li Qingshan concluded that martial arts were skills belonging to each Land of Reincarnation and returned to contemplating the nature of the world.
• Half a year later, Yu Ling arrived at Linjiang County's docks aboard a tower ship, and Li Qingshan calmly studied him.
• Zhuo Qiu pulled Li Qingshan out of Yu Ling's sight and warned him that Yu Ling was powerful enough to suppress Black Mountain County.
• Li Qingshan suggested Yu Ling might be hurrying to find someone, while Yu Ling vowed to find Li Qingshan and continue his martial training.

Li Qingshan pressured Coiling Dragon Auction House vice president Li Wenbo for illicit goods, then told his new staff to accept gifts and investigate the donors for Evil God Cultist ties. He entered his office and found an old man waiting for him.

• Li Qingshan tried to bargain with Li Wenbo for seventh-rank Divine Sons, but Li Wenbo refused and offered Star Shards instead.
• Li Qingshan rejected Li Wenbo’s offer, and Li Wenbo fled through a Hyperspace Channel after Li Qingshan hinted he could follow.
• At Third Division headquarters, Li Qingshan told his colleagues he would accept gifts while ordering them to investigate anyone who offered them for links to Evil God Cultists.
• Li Qingshan ordered that all leads be sent to him for review before reaching the Operations Office, then entered his office and met an old man who praised his public spirit.

After Sheng Yang’s true spirit shattered during Apotheosis as a Star, Yang Zhixuan feared Li Qingshan had fallen too, but Chi Wen insisted the path could still be opened. As news of Sheng Yang’s fate spread, Jin Yuanli chose to let the Primal Seat speculate about Li Qingshan until an answer came in eight hundred years.

• Jin Yuanli showed Yang Zhixuan Sheng Yang’s shattered true spirit imprint, and Yang Zhixuan mourned the prodigy’s fall.
• Yang Zhixuan accused the project leaders of concealing Li Qingshan’s death, but Chi Wen and Jin Yuanli explained that Li’s life and death remained unknown.
• Yang Zhixuan described his research into star-based True Forms and the stakes of Apotheosis as a Star, while Chi Wen vowed to continue the path using Li’s Azure Sun Sutra.
• Jin Yuanli questioned Chi Wen’s confidence, and Chi Wen entered the Virtual Pod while privately trusting that Li Qingshan was alive.
• Calls and messages arrived from across the Primal Seat asking about Sheng Yang, and Jin Yuanli ordered the researchers to answer truthfully.
• Jin Yuanli accepted that others would speculate about Li Qingshan until the truth became clear in eight hundred years.

Li Qingshan agreed to escort Zhao Ran into the World Gate competition in the Chaotic Star Sea, where Dharma Aspect experts from the Star Academy were barred from accompanying their talents. As star regions dispatched their chosen fighters and guardians, the Violet Radiance Star Academy plotted to use star pirates to seize Zhao Ran’s Flame Sun Elixir.

• Lu Yan told Li Qingshan that each star region could send three talents below the fourth order into the World Gate, but Star Academy Dharma Aspect experts could not accompany them into Chaotic Star Sea territory.
• Li Qingshan offered to take Zhao Ran himself, and Lu Yan arranged for Chu Hong to collect her while the academy selected two more talents from the Seven Stars Sect.
• Lu Yan warned Li Qingshan that the hundred regions’ pressure and competition would extend beyond the World Gate, as they would all seek the Ninth Transformation heavenly treasures.
• On a starship, You Xinghan asked Shi Daochuan to support the Violet Radiance Star Region’s delegation, and Shi demanded that the Star Academy honor its promise to help the Erosion Dream Group recover.
• You Xinghan told Shi Daochuan that the academy wanted Zhao Ran’s Flame Sun Elixir brought back, and Shi realized that the plan was to use star pirates to steal it.

Li Qingshan investigated Tianji Group after hearing a young cultivator criticize its assembly-line approach to cultivation and learned that Tianji Taoist was an old acquaintance. As he waited for the current chairman to return for the Ascension Ceremony, Hao Peiyun joined the Revive Immortals Society, believing Li Qingshan was an ally.

• A tall young man challenged Director Yao and the tourists over Tianji Group's mass-produced cultivation and asked why no one in World No. 9527 had ascended in nearly three hundred years.
• Li Qingshan asked whether Tianji Taoist had truly died, then recognized him as an old acquaintance after learning he had lived eight hundred years earlier and supposedly died of old age.
• Li Qingshan searched Tianji Group's headquarters but found no trace of Tianji Taoist, so he decided to wait for Daoist Tianyun to return from World 8999 for the Ascension Ceremony.
• Li Qingshan entered the chairman's office and absorbed a crystalline grain of sand while waiting to see how the ceremony's ascension would work.
• Zhang Tinnan welcomed Hao Peiyun into the Revive Immortals Society, and Hao praised Young Master Li as an exalted expert who might eventually join their cause.

Kong Lanxin disrupted Shi Tianhe’s attempt to unite the five companies against Li Qingshan, then hinted that she intended to use him as a blade. Shi Tianhe learned that Li Qingshan had destroyed Yuan Shisan’s Meteor-Class Battleship, leaving him stunned as he watched reconstructed footage of the attack.

• Kong Lanxin accused Shi Tianhe’s family of running a prohibited “mining operation,” stirring suspicion among the other company heads.
• Shi Tianhe asked the five companies to discuss how to handle Li Qingshan, but Kong Lanxin and the other heads left rather than provoke him.
• Kong Lanxin told her secretary that her intuition pointed to trouble with Shi Tianhe and decided not to investigate the Erosion Dream Group directly, since she already had a ready-made blade.
• A middle-aged investigator told Shi Tianhe that Li Qingshan was suspected of destroying Yuan Shisan’s Meteor-Class Battleship aboard St. Lin 7.
• Shi Tianhe watched AI-reconstructed footage showing a green lotus, a multicolored sword light, and the battleship shattering.

Li Qingshan returned to Dick Star and resumed cultivating while the leaders of the Chaotic Star Sea discussed their stalled conflict with the Cao Family. Their meeting was interrupted by the arrival of a Level Seven God-Phase Realm figure, leaving the ten leaders facing an overwhelming threat.

• Dick Star's students gathered near Li Qingshan's sealed-off dormitory district, hoping to see him after his return, while Li Qingshan cultivated inside.
• First Master Yuan called another meeting of the ten Chaotic Star Sea leaders, but none of them had a plan for dealing with the Cao Family.
• Fifth Master Yuan reported that Li Qingshan had returned to Dick Star, and the leaders judged that he would not interfere with their plan.
• The battleship's alarms detected a dimensional fissure and identified an intruder as a Level Seven God-Phase Realm expert.
• A figure emerged from the Hyperspace Channel, and the ten Yuan leaders recognized that they had no way to escape or resist.

Gu Feng departed to undergo eternal sleep and transformed into a gas giant, while Li Qingshan learned that a seventh-rank Martial Dao Celestial Body must not grow beyond that limit. Gu Feng Star began passing perihelion, leaving Li Qingshan to watch it overlap with the blazing sun.

• Su Yuan came to see Gu Feng off, while Ye Lei and all of Second Division stayed away, claiming they had leads on Evil God Cultists.
• Li Qingshan asked Gu Feng whether he wanted to improve and promised he would understand when he woke in a thousand years, leaving Gu Feng unsettled.
• Gu Feng exploded into golden particles that formed a stellar core and then a gas giant orbiting the central star.
• Xia Cunzhen explained that a gas giant marked the limit of seventh-rank cultivation because further growth could cause a catastrophic collapse.
• Li Qingshan thanked Xia Cunzhen as Gu Feng Star passed perihelion and appeared to overlap with the blazing sun.