Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan’s Dao-establishment tribulation reached its eighty-ninth star as Ye Yukong appeared and revealed an unusual seventy-two-zhang avatar formed by merging two thirty-six-zhang avatars. Ye Yukong attacked Li Qingshan’s true spirit with the Dao of Wither and Flourish, and their confrontation ended with the projection fading.

• The seventy-second star rose, shocking observers because no records mentioned anyone nearby who had achieved a seventy-two-zhang avatar.
• Li Qingshan greeted the white-haired figure as Dean, and Fu Yang identified him as Ye Yukong, the young dean of Ziying Academy and a former student of his.
• Ye Yukong revealed an old-man avatar and a youthful avatar, each thirty-six Zhang, then merged them into a seventy-two-zhang avatar.
• Li Qingshan manifested his own seventy-two-zhang starry avatar and faced Ye Yukong.
• Ye Yukong’s Dao of Wither and Flourish passed through Li Qingshan’s avatar and struck directly at his true spirit; Li Qingshan remained calm as the projection dissipated.

Li Qingshan learned that the Void God Sect had resurfaced and hoped its leader, Tu Qianliu, would meet him, while he also agreed to search for Xing Yang. The chapter ended with Xing Yang training under Su Yuan and condemning Li Qingshan based on a distorted impression of him.

• Li Qingshan discussed the Void God Sect with Bao Hetong and asked how Su Yuan compared with Gu, then said he wanted to face Tu Qianliu and his God Realm.
• Ni Mocuan introduced Li Qingshan to Qiao Jingxing, Zhao Ran, and Yang Xiaoyu, who explained that Xing Yang had left three years earlier to pursue the martial path.
• Li Qingshan asked the Reconnaissance Department to look for Xing Yang and circulated his photograph to every department.
• Su Yuan called Xing Yang a black sheep, and Xing Yang praised Su Yuan while declaring that he had escaped disaster by missing his chance to become Li Qingshan's disciple.

Li Qingshan declined Ye Yukong’s invitation to join the Demon Subjugation Division, then recruited Ya Lie and rewarded Shi Yan’s Black Scale Auction House with Pan Long’s former territory. He ordered the detained figures and organizations to provide fifty million units of cosmic materials if they wanted their freedom.

• Ye Yukong turned down Li Qingshan’s invitation and said he planned to join the Ministry of Education with Mo Yuan.
• Ya Lie asked to join the Demon Subjugation Division, and Li Qingshan accepted him.
• Li Qingshan granted the Black Scale Auction House Pan Long’s former territory in Jiao District Sector Two and promised the division’s support.
• Kong Yang reported that the News Department, lineages, and conglomerates wanted to cooperate with the investigation, and Li Qingshan told his staff to handle the matter and distribute rewards.
• Li Qingshan said he still needed 130 million units of cosmic materials to complete his cultivation method’s eighteenth layer.
• Li Qingshan demanded fifty million units of cosmic materials from the detained figures and organizations in exchange for their freedom.

Li Qingshan learned about the Dharma Aspect cultivation steps and the Heaven's Pride Tournament, which the military used to train prodigies through battles against alien races. He left Cao Ding'an eager to join the fight, insisting that humanity’s incursions into alien territory were only an extension of its defensive line.

• Li Qingshan told Cao Ding'an that he planned to join the Demon Subjugation Division's Reconnaissance Office, which stunned him with its implications.
• Cao Ding'an explained that Dharma Aspect cultivation involved three steps, that a Dharma Aspect had to reach nine zhang to form a complete God Phase, and that the final transformation also changed the true spirit.
• Li Qingshan asked about the Heaven's Pride Tournament, and Cao Ding'an said the military would bring him in without registration because of his Tribulation of Establishing the Dao.
• Cao Ding'an explained that the tournament involved repeated battles against alien races through World Gates and Star Realm Rifts.
• Li Qingshan recalled his past encounters with aliens and declared that humanity was extending its defensive line, not invading.

Xue Xing led the alien elders through a violent storm toward an island of Heavenly Demons, confident that ten races’ Island Guardian Treasures would secure victory. On Moya Island, Sheng Tian’s captured Blood Rot Clan bait revealed an infiltration and contamination attack, leaving the island under threat as more maggots emerged from the void.

• Xue Xing dismissed his elders’ fears and rallied them to wipe out an island of Heavenly Demons with the Island Guardian Treasures of ten races.
• Sheng Tian treated the captured Blood Rot Clan man as leverage to claim leadership of the Ten Islands Alliance and postponed interrogating him.
• The captive revealed that he was bait controlled by soul parasitism and accused the Heavenly Demons of fighting over power.
• Sheng Tian identified the parasite as a Blood Rot Clan elder, destroyed it, and burned the bloody sludge that contaminated the planetary chains.
• Sheng Tian ordered reinforcements and warned the chiefs and elders of the ten islands to withdraw, but Blood Rot Clan maggots appeared in the void and declared it too late.

Suixin entered a desolate world and found humans oppressed by the Swinefolk, who served the Seven Gods. After defeating the Swinefolk and destroying their airship, he learned the place was the Seven Gods Continent and saw the mountain where the gods dwelled.

• Suixin watched an airship scatter energy bars, drawing emaciated humans out of underground caves to collect them.
• Chen Qi warned Suixin to hide from the Swinefolk, but the pig-headed men surrounded them and called the humans wretches.
• Suixin declared himself human, turned the Swinefolk into ash, and sent the airship crashing to the ground.
• The gathered humans bowed to Suixin as a heavenly god, and he told them they were humans rather than wretches.
• Chen Qi identified the place as the Seven Gods Continent and showed Suixin Divine Realm Mountain, where the Seven Gods lived.

Li Qingshan spoke with Bao Hetong about his new post in the Third Division and Director Gu Feng’s weakening influence, then learned Ye Lei had gone to the Coiling Dragon Auction House. Li Wenbo decided the auction house should befriend Li Qingshan by sending him a Star Shard, while secretly viewing the gift as a way to control him.

• Li Qingshan ended his call with Ye Lei and greeted Bao Hetong, who recognized him as the new Director Li.
• Bao Hetong warned Li Qingshan that Ye Lei had been alerted to his identity and explained that Director Gu Feng had withdrawn from the four divisions’ affairs.
• Li Qingshan told Bao Hetong he would take up his post soon, while Kong Yang and Ren Han discussed the Demon Subjugation Division’s internal troubles and the Coiling Dragon Auction House.
• Ye Lei questioned Li Wenbo about Li Qingshan’s strength and the threat he posed to the auction house.
• Li Wenbo dismissed Ye Lei’s concerns and ordered his secretary to prepare a Star Shard as a gift for Li Qingshan, hoping to win his friendship and influence him.

Yu Feng received a secret request from a Black Gold VIP to prepare against the Cao Family in the Crimson Rainbow Star Region, while learning that a sixth-tier Nightmare Clan member had targeted Li Qingshan. He reluctantly ordered his subordinates to investigate the Cao Family, realizing he had no choice but to comply.

• Yu Feng destroyed the head of a subordinate he blamed for failing to investigate the auction item and wondered why no report had arrived about Radiant Star Fortress.
• A Black Gold VIP contacted Yu Feng and asked him to prepare to act against the Cao Family, the largest cross-region company in the Crimson Rainbow Star Region.
• The VIP clarified that Li Qingshan was not the target and told Yu Feng to lay the groundwork before the right moment to strike.
• The VIP revealed that a sixth-tier Nightmare Clan member had entered Radiant Star Fortress to capture Li Qingshan for sacrifice.
• Yu Feng ordered his subordinates to gather information on the Cao Family and accepted that he was committed to the VIP's plan.

At Seahorn Academy, Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu learned that Zhuang Chenxing was publicly presenting the rescue of Godfall Continent as a Demon Subjugation Division operation, prompting anger over what they saw as his attempt to take credit from Li Qingshan. Bao Hetong told them Li Qingshan had entered seclusion on Godfall Continent and urged them to wait until he emerged.

• Students enthusiastically guided native humans from Godfall Continent around Seahorn Academy as the rescue operation began.
• Yang Xiaoyu and Zhao Ran reported that Li Qingshan had slain the Seven Gods, but Bao Hetong showed them news headlines describing Zhuang Chenxing's role in the operation.
• Zhuang Chenxing announced in a livestream that Li Qingshan had defeated the Seven Gods and that he would personally lead a publicized rescue effort.
• Online commenters praised Zhuang Chenxing, while Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu posted objections that were quickly drowned out by defenders.
• Bao Hetong received a message, shut off the screen, and told Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu that Li Qingshan was in seclusion on Godfall Continent.

After five years in seclusion, Li Qingshan reunited with Ye Yukong, Wan Keshan, and Dai Lan as they prepared to leave the academy. Ye Yukong explained that breaking through to the dharma manifestation realm required establishing one’s Dao in the starry universe, and that finding a suitable place or object was the sought-after “opportunity.”

• Zhao Ran returned to the academy, waited a day outside Li Qingshan’s villa, then departed for Town Abyss Fortress to seek the Nine Revolutions opportunity.
• Li Qingshan remained in seclusion while Gao Nianren oversaw the academy and the Second Continent’s reconstruction, and martial culture gradually revived.
• A thirteen-year-old boy became the first person to climb the first lunar stage, prompting Gao Nianren to erase his family’s debts, bring them to the main star, and admit the boy to the academy.
• In 8921, Ye Yukong, Wan Keshan, and Dai Lan visited Li Qingshan as citizens returned to the main star, and Ye Yukong revealed that he planned to travel in search of opportunities.
• Ye Yukong explained to Li Qingshan, Wan Keshan, and Dai Lan that reaching the dharma manifestation realm required establishing one’s principles in the starry universe by finding a suitable place or object.

At Coiling Dragon Auction House, Li Wenbo killed Xu He and warned Ye Lei that Li Qingshan was too dangerous to oppose, while explaining that powerful connections protected the auction house’s illicit business. Aboard Xi Na III, Li Qingshan began absorbing a Star Shard and prepared to accelerate the process with his time-flow ability.

• Li Wenbo killed Xu He after the deaths of five Nine-tailed Celestial Foxes exposed the auction house to Li Qingshan.
• Ye Lei urged Li Wenbo to consider opposing Li Qingshan, but he warned her that Director Gu and the auction house’s powerful allies made the succession struggle more complicated.
• Li Wenbo showed Ye Lei photographs of the five Nine-tailed Celestial Foxes and explained that powerful figures tolerated the auction house’s business.
• Li Wenbo predicted that Li Qingshan would stagnate for a hundred years while gathering the forty Star Shards needed for Transformation of Emptiness, then answered Hui Banxing’s Communicator and vowed to make Li Qingshan understand that their goods were not easy to take.
• Aboard Xi Na III, Li Qingshan admired the Star Shard from Coiling Dragon Auction House and prepared to use a time-flow rate of one to ten to speed up its absorption.

Su Yuan learned that Tu Shen was investigating the Coiling Dragon Auction House’s links to the otherworldly realm that enslaved his homeland, while Zhuang Chenxing prepared traps for Li Qingshan. Li Qingshan dismissed the coordinates as a distraction, but Bao Hetong warned him that they were a trap.

• The shadow told Su Yuan that Tu Shen had arrived in the starry sky as a child through a Star Realm Rift and joined Qiongxiao to trace Coiling Dragon’s alien supply route back to his homeland.
• Su Yuan questioned whether Qiongxiao planned to use Li Qingshan, but the shadow said he would lead an assault himself if the World Gate was eighth rank and implied they might pay a heavy price otherwise.
• Xing Yang asked Su Yuan whether they were bad people, and Su Yuan told him that good and bad depended on one’s position and on standing against evil gods.
• Zhuang Chenxing welcomed Li Wenbo and revealed eight trap coordinates in Jiao District Sector Two, declaring that he would wait for Li Qingshan to come to him.
• Li Qingshan ordered Shi Yan to set the coordinates aside and focus on cultivation resources, then received Bao Hetong’s warning that the coordinates were a trap.

A public video showed Feng Boyong escaping Yue Zhen after killing Ding Yanfeng, while factions debated the attack and its implications. Tu Shen decided to act on his own and began writing Li Qingshan a note, but someone snatched it from him.

• Footage of Feng Boyong's fight with Yue Zhen spread across the Azure Dragon Star System, provoking arguments over who had broken the rules.
• At Panlong Headquarters, Yuan Zong told Li Wenbo that the rules would protect them and ordered him to stop looking for Zhuang Chenxing and suspend supply drops.
• In Horn Sector, Xiao Tianyou spoke with a shadow about Yue Zhen's attack and warned that Li Qingshan must not be drawn into the conflict.
• Tu Shen learned that Feng Boyong was gravely injured and chose to pursue his goal himself, despite having waited three thousand years.
• Tu Shen began writing Li Qingshan a note with the coordinates, but an unseen person seized the slip and thanked him.

Gu Yueqi received a Tianji Two talisman while secretly sharing a meat pie with the old ox he suspected might be an immortal or demon. At Tianji Group headquarters, Xingyun revealed that the new network of Tianji One formations could also monitor the myriad worlds, and a red alert from World No. 7291 prompted him to send a message there.

• Gu Yueqi passed villagers gossiping about the Evil Immortal and joked that riding the old ox would make his life worthwhile if it were an immortal.
• Gu Yueqi’s sister-in-law gave him a Tianji Two talisman issued by the Tianji Group, then left without discovering the meat pie hidden in the hay.
• Gu Yueqi ate the pie with the old ox and wondered whether it was an immortal or demon that might protect him.
• Xingyun showed Li Qingshan the Tianji One formations lighting up across the worlds and explained that they could connect them without people traveling between worlds.
• Xingyun revealed that Tianji Two contained an auxiliary surveillance program, then sent a message to World No. 7291 after its marker flashed red.

Li Qingshan welcomed Ya Lie to Reconnaissance Star and urged Tu Shen to focus on her duties while investigating Lingtian Sect. At the Ministry of Education, Ye Yukong and Mo Yuan explored their options, while Tu Shen received a document from Xiao Tianyou that made his earlier denial of betrayal look suspicious.

• Li Qingshan welcomed Ya Lie and assigned Tu Shen to handle his arrangements at the Reconnaissance Office.
• Tu Shen reported that Horn Sector was peaceful, and Li Qingshan left to return to seclusion after reminding her not to neglect her duties.
• Xiao Tianyou invited Ye Yukong and Mo Yuan to choose divisions at the Ministry of Education, and Mo Yuan headed to Library Star to study its materials.
• Ye Yukong met Kong Xun practicing Starry Sky Beckons, and Ye Hao invited Ye Yukong to join Xing Academy.
• A black shadow confronted Xiao Tianyou over Tu Shen investigating their identities, and Xiao Tianyou denied that he would betray his allies.
• Tu Shen contacted Xiao Tianyou, but a document appeared on her screen, prompting him to end the call and insist it had nothing to do with him.

On his hundredth birthday, Li Qingshan welcomed Epoch Paragons who had gathered in secret, turning their attempted pressure into lavish gifts. The Azure Dragon Councilor arrived uninvited, and his hostility toward Li Qingshan left the confrontation poised to begin.

• Li Qingshan ignored Shengyang’s warning not to attempt Apotheosis as a Star yet, then welcomed Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu after they had comprehended the Dao.
• Li Qingshan told his attendants that the concealed guests had arrived, and Taotie Cao Wuyan appeared with precious Time Sand, which Li accepted and recorded as a gift.
• Li Qingshan exposed Cao Wanjin’s hidden presence and welcomed him, then received lavish gifts from the other Epoch Paragons as Cao Wanjin warned him not to interfere in the Pureblood Conflict.
• Iron Fist Yue Zhen confronted Li Qingshan and called the fist Li had severed his gift, but Cao Wanjin said they would not fight.
• The Azure Dragon Councilor emerged uninvited, and his arrival confirmed that he intended to confront Li Qingshan, with whom the Supreme One bore a deep grudge.

Li Qingshan gave Xingyun a Celestial Artifact fragment to aid the Heaven Piercing Grand Formation, while similar jade shards appeared in several other worlds. In World No. 9527, Zhang Tinnan revealed the truth about the Evil Immortals to his former allies and founded the Azure Sky Society.

• Li Qingshan handed Xingyun a jade shard, and Xingyun recognized it as a Celestial Artifact fragment that could accelerate his work on the Heaven Piercing Grand Formation.
• Tu Xie, Feng Boyong, Yue Zhen, and a little monk encountered jade talismans or shards in their respective worlds.
• Zhang Tinnan summoned Hao Peiyun, Zhu Jun, Guo Qinqin, and Wei Fang to Tianji Group headquarters, where they suspected he had betrayed them.
• Zhang Tinnan showed them footage revealing that ascension trapped people as nourishment for the Evil Immortals, shattering their belief in the Revive Immortals Society.
• Zhang Tinnan invited them to join the Azure Sky Society, and they accepted, declaring that the Heavens would fall and the Azure Sky would rise.

Li Qingshan’s Starry Avatar continued to expand as he established his Dao, while observers worried that his growing tribulation might reach Feng Boyong. When Ye Yukong sensed the latest ripples, he reacted with shock at the timing.

• Fu Yang explained to Wang Duanxing that Li Qingshan’s Starry Avatar could overwhelm other Dharma Avatars, and Zhang Hai’s projection was instantly defeated by the thirty-six-star manifestation.
• Fu Yang warned Wang Duanxing that Li Qingshan’s tribulation could eventually reach Feng Boyong and hinted that another danger also concerned him.
• Li Qingshan reached forty-five, fifty-four, and then sixty-three stars, found no nearby senior projections, and waited for Feng Boyong to appear.
• More than six thousand light-years away, Zhou Yunze tried to find his Dao through Niu Tianyou, who trained by pushing a giant alloy tire.
• Ye Yukong praised Zhou Yunze’s changed outlook, then sensed Li Qingshan’s latest ripples and exclaimed, “What... unfortunate timing!”

Li Qingshan learned that Zhao Ran was the Human Ranking’s top prodigy, but Crimson Rainbow Continent had no Nine Revolutions treasures left to help her advance. He sent her to Planetary Fortress to seek opportunities and train, while Yang Xiaoyu set out on her own journey, determined not to meet Li Qingshan.

• Li Qingshan heard his old friends praise Zhao Ran, the Liaoyang Sword, as the Human Ranking’s number one, and later told her to call him Dean.
• Zhao Ran planned to visit her family and explore the Primal Dragon Forbidden Land, but Li Qingshan explained that its Nine Revolutions treasures and the White Tiger Pearl were no longer available.
• Zhao Ran told Li Qingshan she had achieved a nine-zhang midday sun phenomenon at Choice Ground, and he sent her away to await further instructions.
• Li Qingshan asked Bao Hetong about Nine Revolutions treasures and learned they cost at least one billion Azure Dragon Coins at auction, so he sent Zhao Ran to Planetary Fortress to seek opportunities and temper herself.
• Yin Zhengyu sent Yang Xiaoyu aboard a starship to seek her own opportunities and warned her not to look for Li Qingshan, but she insisted she feared he would steal her opportunity.

Yang Zhixuan gave Li Qingshan Myriad Manifestations Star Sand and predicted that ten thousand manifestations could let him challenge ninth-rank power. Li Qingshan reunited with Zhao Yang, helped him advance to a nine-zhang Dharma Avatar, and then began cultivating beside two gravestones, facing the million-year cost of reaching the ninth rank.

• Yang Zhixuan gave Li Qingshan a hundred thousand grains of Myriad Manifestations Star Sand and explained that ten thousand manifestations might let him pry into the star realm’s rules and challenge ninth-rank power.
• Li Qingshan thanked Yang Zhixuan, who left with Jin Yuanli and Chi Wen, then traveled to Ziying Star.
• Li Qingshan reunited with Zhao Yang in Luoying City and praised him before returning the Thunderclap Saber to him.
• Zhao Yang’s Dharma Avatar grew to nine zhang, restoring his appearance to middle age as he advanced to establish the Dao.
• Li Qingshan sat beside Old Zhao and Old Yu’s gravestones and saw that reaching the ninth rank required one million years of cultivation.