Chapter Summaries

Across the Azure Wave Myriad Realms, the Azure Sky Society spread its proclamation and invited reports of suspected Evil Immortals. Yan Chuan, an immortal disguised as a woodcutter, was exposed over a joke he failed to understand and faced execution by You Qixuan.

• Hao Peiyun recorded a Gu family woman's report about her brother-in-law while defending the Azure Sky Society's effort to find Evil Immortals.
• Yan Wang and Yan Chuan saw the No Ascension stele and discussed the proclamation as they returned to their home.
• Yan Chuan revealed that he had replaced the woodcutter Yan Chuan and planned to investigate Li Qingshan and contact Tribulation Transcendence Realm elders.
• You Qixuan burst into the brothers' house and overpowered Yan Chuan with a Long Spear.
• A lewd middle-aged man identified Yan Chuan as suspicious because he had failed to understand the joke about a little widow, then explained its punchline.

Li Qingshan’s successful Apotheosis as a Star created a Blue Supergiant Star and broke the limit of the God Phase, stunning powerful figures across the starry sea. As others studied the collapse and weighed its consequences, Sheng Yang resolved to demand Li Qingshan’s methods, while He Xianghong replayed the event at the Nanshan wreckage.

• The livestream ended with the image of Li Qingshan’s newly formed Blue Supergiant Star, revealing that he had broken through the God Phase limit.
• The Supreme Elder told Yue Zhen that he would understand the Supreme Elder’s choice when the War of the Four Sages arrived.
• Cao Wuyan concluded that Li Qingshan would sleep for a thousand years and planned to use that time to seize the little Taotie and strengthen himself.
• Sheng Yang watched the collapse repeatedly, then demanded Li Qingshan’s hidden methods from the Unnamed Cultivation Method research project.
• Project groups across the Primeval Supercluster replayed the collapse and awaited news from Jin Yuanli about Li Qingshan’s promised paper.
• He Xianghong played the collapse recording at Nanshan, telling the stellar wreckage that Li Qingshan had completed the path it had failed to finish.

Zhuang Chenxing ordered a sweeping crackdown on Coiling Dragon Auction House and publicly exposed its crimes, while the people at Coiling Dragon realized their allies had abandoned them. As enormous hands descended on the auction house’s headquarters, Li Wenbo sent out information in hopes that Li Qingshan would act on it.

• Tu Shen received Zhuang Chenxing’s order to seize more than a hundred companies and groups tied to Coiling Dragon, but Zhuang told him to follow orders without asking questions.
• Kong Yang, Xia Cunzhen, Shao Fenghua, Lei Chen, and He Jian learned that several offices had received orders to move against Coiling Dragon, then watched Zhuang publicly accept blame and announce the crackdown.
• Yuan Zong told Li Wenbo that Zhuang had secretly turned Coiling Dragon’s clients against it, and that Biluo Chen’s death and the source location’s exposure had triggered the attack.
• Li Wenbo argued that Li Qingshan would not let Coiling Dragon’s hidden network escape, then recorded and emailed information about it.
• Enormous hands descended from the sky onto Coiling Dragon Auction House’s metal planets.

As Li Qingshan repeatedly tested and refined his method for achieving the Seventh Order Divine Form, visitors and gifts gathered in orbit for his July 1st event. The four major auction houses arrived, and Shi Yan hinted that Heilin had prepared a gift.

• Li Qingshan repeatedly revised his notes while attempting the Seventh Order Divine Form, eventually recording 1,096 attempts.
• The 108 section chiefs of the Third Division gathered to greet Li Qingshan, who assigned them to receive visitors and appointed Kong Yang as his secretary.
• Companies and Demon Subjugation Division personnel arrived in orbit, but only section chiefs could receive them, as outsiders were barred from the Reconnaissance Star.
• On July 1st, Li Wenbo, Lei Yao, Huo Wei, and Shi Yan met as representatives of the four major auction houses gathered near the Reconnaissance Star.
• Lei Yao announced Qiongqi’s congratulatory gift, Huo Wei said Baize had brought its sincerity despite Director Ying’s absence, and Shi Yan said Heilin’s gift would be revealed in time.

Li Qingshan used Zhuang Chenxing’s contribution points to buy cultivation resources, then met Shi Yan, who revealed Black Scale’s history and gave him a map of Coiling Dragon’s smuggling routes. The chapter ended with Li Qingshan suspecting Coiling Dragon obtained high-rank evil gods and aliens from a stellar realm connected to the alien starry sky.

• Zhuang Chenxing became furious as Li Qingshan spent ten million of his contribution points on cultivation resources.
• Li Qingshan met Shi Yan, who revealed that his father, Black Scale’s eighth-rank protector, had died of old age in the alien starry sky a thousand years earlier.
• Shi Yan gave Li Qingshan a star map detailing Coiling Dragon’s shipping routes across the Horn Sector.
• Shi Yan explained that Coiling Dragon’s steady supply of sixth- and seventh-rank goods could not come from the World Gates and fortress rifts within the Horn Sector.
• Li Qingshan suspected Coiling Dragon’s true source was a high-rank stellar realm connected to the alien starry sky.

Li Qingshan investigated the captured evil god aliens, ordered his subordinates to seek a Seventh Order alien for interrogation, and began cultivating with newly arrived resources. Meanwhile, Zhuang Chenxing watched the star map and waited for Li Qingshan to fall into his trap.

• Bao Hetong reported that a mysterious messenger had thrown the note through the Hyperspace Channel, but Li Qingshan dismissed the matter as irrelevant to his cultivation.
• Kong Yang told Li Qingshan that the captured aliens’ memories had been erased by evil god power, so Li ordered the three deputy directors to find transport routes for Seventh Order aliens.
• Li Qingshan concluded that Zhuang Chenxing was a comparatively weak Eighth Order fighter and estimated he would need twenty million Quantum Star Nuclei to kill him.
• Shi Yan escorted eight hundred-thousand-meter cargo starships carrying cultivation resources to headquarters, and Li Qingshan began closed-door cultivation again.
• Tu Shen rebuilt Reconnaissance Division Two on Silver Hook Star, while Li Wenbo cautioned him to keep a low profile as Zhuang Chenxing waited for Li Qingshan to emerge.

After a trap in the alien starfield killed five of humanity’s top ten war merit prodigies, the fortress commanders gathered to assess the danger and plan a rescue. They discovered that Li Qingshan had returned from a fissure after killing two Seventh-Order Blood Rot Clan members.

• Ge Lei learned that Wan Mu’s true spirit had shattered, but a Level Three alert sounded before he could activate it himself.
• The commanders saw Wan Mu, Chang Fengyan, Wei Yijun, and Ze Yuan marked dead on the War Merit Board, then learned Mao Yunxuan had also died.
• Suo Hanchuan concluded that the aliens had targeted humanity’s top prodigies and ordered the fortresses to count who remained trapped in the fissures.
• Wen Yu reported that Ya Lie and Ye Yukong had entered the same fissure as Che Yufei, while Ren Han explained that Li Qingshan had switched fissures to join Kong Yang’s team.
• The commanders checked the updated War Merit Board and saw that Li Qingshan had killed two Seventh-Order Blood Rot Clan members.

Yu Ling recognized the white-haired neighbor as Li Qingshan after recalling the same mulberry and catalpa trees across his thousand reincarnations. Li Qingshan admitted that the reincarnations had been for comprehending the Dao, leaving Yu Ling collapsed before him and struggling to understand.

• The old man prompted Yu Ling to look at the trees, and Yu Ling spent hours recalling their branches from past lives.
• Yu Ling remembered asking about mulberry and catalpa trees in his first life, then recognized Li Qingshan as the laborer he had seen as a boy.
• Yu Ling realized Li Qingshan had lived beside him through the reincarnations and questioned how his true spirit had endured.
• Yu Ling accused Li Qingshan of deceiving him and lunged at him, but his frail body gave way and he fell.
• Li Qingshan admitted he had deceived Yu Ling, explaining that the thousand lifetimes of reincarnation had been for comprehending the Dao.

Li Qingshan learned that the Network had appointed him First Seat because he had reached ninth-rank combat power, though the position also required other conditions. After hearing that the Land of Return held strange opportunities and Evil God salvage, he wondered whether the alien races’ targets carried Evil God contamination.

• Shi Feng warned Li Qingshan that prodigies who had sought the First Seat might resent his appointment, and Li Qingshan joked about winning them over with heart-to-heart talks.
• Shi Feng explained that Xiang Hao had dominated others 120,000 years earlier but had not become First Seat because he lacked an additional requirement.
• Li Qingshan and his colleagues described the Azure Wave Demon Calamity, and Shi Feng confirmed that the Network had appointed him because his combat power had reached ninth rank.
• Shi Feng explained that First Seat candidates needed ninth-rank combat power and that past First Seats had crossed the gap through fortuitous opportunities in the Land of Return.
• After Shi Feng described the Land of Return’s opportunities and the contest to fight Evil God alien races, Li Qingshan asked whether their salvage targets carried Evil God contamination.

Li Qingshan escaped Bloodglory’s star-system-wide contamination and fled through a Hyperspace Channel. At the frontier fortress, commanders debated sending others back into the rift, and Fei Xingye, Zhong Jun, Meng Shan, and Kong Yang volunteered to re-enter.

• Bloodglory transformed a planet and the surrounding star system into flesh and blood, but Li Qingshan resisted the Divine Light and escaped aboard a spacecraft.
• Ye Hao berated Suo Hanchuan and the commanders, demanding they send Fei Xingye, Zhong Jun, and Meng Shan back to draw fire for Li Qingshan.
• Suo Hanchuan insisted that the military could not force anyone to take the risk, while Xi Na and Ren Han noted that Li Qingshan might still be alive.
• Fei Xingye, Zhong Jun, and Meng Shan each requested to enter the rift again.
• Kong Yang also requested to enter the rift again, leaving Ren Han and the commanders stunned.

Li Qingshan investigated a suspected Evil God Sect while refusing to meet Qu Jie without a suitable gift, and the Void God Sect prepared to lure him in with a Star Shard. Qu Jie returned with the gift but again failed to meet Li Qingshan, who dismissed the sect as unworthy.

• Bao Hetong suggested arresting Qu Jie or having Li Qingshan meet him, but Li Qingshan refused and ordered a thorough investigation of the sect.
• Li Qingshan reflected that his cultivated reputation had drawn in powerful targets, while a portly middle-aged man discovered his cargo had vanished.
• Ni Mocuan noticed two young women who had achieved their Inner Scenes through Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens, and heard them discuss reporting the “Mining Operation” on Nineflower Star.
• Qu Jie reported to the Void God Sect’s Cult Master that Li Qingshan wanted “sincerity,” so the Cult Master gave him a Star Shard and ordered him to negotiate the expansion of the God Realm.
• Seven days later, Qu Jie returned without meeting Li Qingshan and played a recording in which Li Qingshan called the sect unworthy of seeing him.

Li Qingshan confronted the Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome and learned that Fake Tianji was bound to it as a half artifact spirit. After burning the tome until Fake Tianji submitted, Li Qingshan demanded that he teach him to read its inscriptions.

• Li Qingshan admitted that he could not comprehend the Heavenly Tome inscriptions and asked Old Taoist Tianji if he had questions.
• Old Taoist Tianji warned Li Qingshan that the Heavenly Tome could corrupt those who studied it, but Li Qingshan argued that martial artists could resist corruption through will.
• Li Qingshan used blue-white flames to suppress the Epoch Paragons and Old Taoist Tianji, then sent them beyond the heavens.
• Fake Tianji slipped into the Heavenly Tome and claimed that he could not be killed while the tome remained intact.
• Li Qingshan burned the Heavenly Tome until Fake Tianji begged for mercy, then ordered him to teach him to recognize the inscriptions.

Li Qingshan spent years writing and revising while the wider galaxy heard nothing from him, then quietly watched over Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei’s family and returned a gift to the Cao Family. As Li Qingshan prepared to leave, he told young Zhao Yang to look for him among the stars, and Xiang Feifeng finally saw the news opportunity he had awaited.

• Li Qingshan spent a year writing in his apartment while Sheng Yang worried that he had disappeared after the birthday banquet.
• Li Qingshan attended Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei’s wedding, then caught journalist Xiang Feifeng spying and allowed him to stay on as a museum security guard.
• After ten years, Li Qingshan named Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei’s newborn son Zhao Yang and visited the sleeping child in the Chiwei Star Territory, where he told Cao Ya that he had returned a gift to little Shao Yu.
• Li Qingshan began teaching Zhao Yang to write and continued the lessons for several years while Xiang Feifeng guarded the museum.
• When Li Qingshan said he was leaving, he told five-year-old Zhao Yang that he could be a sun, and Xiang Feifeng realized the long-awaited opportunity had arrived.

Xingyun expanded Tianji Group’s alliance across hundreds of worlds while searching for Yama Li’s other executive directors. The story then shifted to two other worlds, where Fu Shan confronted an immortal sect and Zhuo Ziheng discovered that his disciple Tu Xie’s shadow had followed him out of the blood sea.

• Xingyun learned that more than five hundred alliance pacts had been signed, but Daoist Tianyun had found no news of the other executive directors.
• Xingyun decided to resume the expansion and seek out another executive director as Tianji Group swept into more worlds.
• In World 4021, Fu Shan appeared before Washing Heart Pavilion and challenged the claim that martial arts were inferior to immortals.
• In World 1989, Zhuo Ziheng escaped the blood sea and regained his spiritual energy, but Tu Xie appeared in his shadow and asked whether he planned to abandon his disciple.

Li Qingshan tested whether Time Sand could stack with the Martial Dao Space’s acceleration, then fielded offers from rival auction houses while probing them about smuggling evil god alien races. The chapter ended with a sensational news report about his cultivation and a mysterious middle-aged couple recognizing his name.

• Li Qingshan found that the Martial Dao Space’s acceleration canceled the effect of Time Sand, confirming that the two could not be stacked.
• Ying Shilan offered Li Qingshan star shards at market price and warned him that Coiling Dragon was buying them at a premium, but he instead asked about smuggling evil god alien races, prompting her to end the call.
• Shi Yan offered star shards at half price, admitted Coiling Dragon had monopolized the smuggling business, and agreed to speak with Li Qingshan after his retreat; he later told his secretary he was betting on Li Qingshan’s rise.
• Ying Shilan expected Li Qingshan to call back, but her secretary found a Starry Sky Outlook headline claiming Li Qingshan’s comprehension came from consuming Gu Feng’s fifty thousand years of accumulation and using a thousand pieces of Time Sand.
• People across a commercial planet read the headline, while a middle-aged man and woman reacted to Li Qingshan’s name, and the man smiled in recognition.

Kong Yang and Che Yufei discovered that the military department had targeted their war merit, while Wan Mu continued to rise in the rankings. When Li Qingshan appeared on the leaderboard with 1.08 million war merit, Kong Yang and his group confronted him at the fissure, where Li asked the Alliance Leader to think twice.

• Che Yufei told Kong Yang that Zhong Jun had stopped her war merit from increasing, and they realized Fei Xingye had done the same to Kong Yang.
• Kong Yang and Che Yufei contacted Wan Mu, whose war merit was still rising, then agreed to appeal to Minister Ye.
• Kong Yang sent Minister Ye a message after his call was rejected, while Kong Yin and the Niu Brothers noticed Li Qingshan had entered the leaderboard at 10,000th place with 1.08 million war merit.
• Kong Yin showed Kong Yang the ranking, and he led their group to Li Qingshan's fissure.
• Li Qingshan calmly asked Kong Yang to think twice as the group arrived.

Li Qingshan faced the Chaotic Star Sea’s Meteor-Class Battleship, insisting he could deal with it while Lin Liyan and the Starship crew watched in disbelief. After the battleship emerged from the Hyperspace Channel, its commander recognized Li Qingshan as a valuable capture, but Li Qingshan exploded before they could act.

• Zhao Ran told Zhao Mo and Xu Chang that Li Qingshan would destroy the approaching battleship, while the adults watched him rise toward it in alarm.
• He Zhengchang and Lu Jie questioned Li Qingshan’s plan, but he said the Meteor-Class Battleship was the emergency he had been waiting for.
• Lin Liyan suspended his team’s planned suicide attack after learning Li Qingshan was aboard the Starship and claimed he could handle the battleship.
• The Meteor-Class Battleship emerged from the Hyperspace Channel, and its Thirteenth Master recognized Li Qingshan and planned to capture him for his secrets.
• Li Qingshan asked what the Chaotic Star Sea was waiting for, then exploded.

After completing his ten-year garrison mission on Dick Star, Li Qingshan prepared to leave for Ziying Star and reunited with the aging Dean Wei. He left aboard a Starship after agreeing not to interfere with Dick Star’s troubles, though he suspected Wei Huaian had plans of his own.

• Li Qingshan awakened from a decade of seclusion with his Inner Scene at 375 and over three hundred Starry Sky Martial Arts perfected.
• Gao Nianren thanked Li Qingshan for guarding Dick Star, and they went to meet Wei Huaian, who had prepared a spaceship for his departure.
• Li Qingshan offered to stay because Wei Huaian had less than two months to live, but Wei Huaian refused and said Gao Nianren could manage.
• Li Qingshan suggested Dick Star might be attacked by star pirates, but Wei Huaian warned that targeting the five major companies would entangle Li Qingshan in a dangerous political conflict.
• Li Qingshan boarded a Starship and departed Dick Star, wondering what Wei Huaian intended to do as he faced death.

After four years of seclusion, Li Qingshan used the Reconnaissance Office to launch simultaneous investigations of more than ten thousand interstellar companies and conglomerates connected to Panlong. He confronted Deputy Director Ye and demanded the clue he had given her four years to produce.

• Li Qingshan exhausted the resources Director Zhuang had sponsored, accepted a newly forged longsword from Kong Yang, and learned that the Reconnaissance Office had finished preparing its operation.
• Li Qingshan ordered the Reconnaissance Office to close the net, and teams led by the deputy directors deployed across the stars to investigate company headquarters.
• Shao Fenghua announced the operation at Shuisen Group's headquarters, while the Demon Subjugation Division's forum filled with recordings and speculation about Li Qingshan's return and Panlong's ties to the companies.
• Ye Lei panicked over Li Qingshan's sudden move until he appeared behind her and demanded the clue after reminding her that he had given her four years.

Li Qingshan reviewed the war merit exchange and learned how far he was from obtaining a Ninth Grade Thunder Pool and the cultivation technique he wanted. When the Alliance Leader’s promised good news arrived, he went to meet it.

• Li Qingshan calculated that killing the Rabbit-Ear Clan had earned him about 100,000 Martial Dao Space experience and 10,000 war merit.
• Li Qingshan discovered that a Ninth Grade Thunder Pool cost 50,000,000 war merit and required a ninety-nine-zhang Dharma Form.
• Li Qingshan learned that the Nine Refinements True Tribulation Solidification Sutra cost 1,000,000 war merit, the threshold for appearing on the War Merit Board.
• Li Qingshan decided he could claim the required war merit from the Shouyang Alliance before exposing himself on the board.
• A message arrived on Li Qingshan’s wrist, and he went to open the door to receive the good news he had been waiting for.