Chapter Summaries

After learning that Li Qingshan had taken the Flame Sun Elixir and defeated a hundred Sixth-Order Dharma Aspects, the Hundred Regions Star Academies recognized him as their new legend. Fu Yang turned away attempts to recruit Li Qingshan, then directed Wang Duanxing to ask Li himself about borrowing Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu for Black Flame's Planetary Fortress.

• You Xinghan told Chu Lefeng that Crimson Rainbow had obtained both portions of Flame Sun Elixir, and Shi Daochuan showed footage of Li Qingshan overwhelming the star pirates.
• Chu Lefeng and Shi Daochuan realized Li Qingshan had suppressed a hundred Sixth-Order Dharma Aspects as a fourth-order Inner Scene cultivator, while Chu praised him as the Hundred Regions' new legend.
• The Hundred Regions Star Academies reacted to Li Qingshan's feat and took notice that Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu could pursue Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens.
• Fu Yang rejected requests to recruit Li Qingshan as a vice dean and refused to arrange for Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu to help at Black Flame's Planetary Fortress.
• Wang Duanxing agreed to contact Li Qingshan directly after Fu Yang said he could not make arrangements for his students.

Cao Wuyan received Li Qingshan’s invitation to his hundredth birthday and decided to seek the support of the Myriad Gold Ancestor rather than back down. Yue Zhen accepted the invitation, while Taishang predicted the banquet would remain peaceful—until Li Qingshan contacted him directly.

• Cao Wuyan panicked at Li Qingshan’s invitation, then resolved to attend the birthday celebration and called Yue Zhen for support.
• Yue Zhen declined to ally with Cao Wuyan and ordered a congratulatory gift for Li Qingshan.
• Taishang arrived and told Yue Zhen that a Taotie Ancestor would protect Cao Wuyan, so Li Qingshan would not attack at the banquet.
• Li Qingshan contacted Taishang with an unexpectedly warm greeting, leaving both Taishang and Yue Zhen stunned.

Li Qingshan boarded a dangerously modified military battleship bound for the frontier and reunited with several prodigies who had fought beside him. After revealing that his Divine Form had reached one hundred and eight zhang, he told Commander Xi Na that his combat strength was still short of the seventh rank.

• Li Qingshan boarded the military battleship and hurried to its central control room as it shook and its warning systems blared.
• A group of prodigies introduced themselves to Li Qingshan, and he warmly called You Xuan, Kuang Li, and Sang Yu his friends.
• Commander Xi Na introduced herself as the guide for the voyage and explained that she had removed safety systems to make the battleship faster.
• Li Qingshan revealed that his Divine Form measured one hundred and eight zhang, shocking the prodigies and Xi Na.
• Xi Na asked whether Li Qingshan's combat strength was near the seventh rank, and he said he was still a little short.

As the Epoch Paragon Ranking approached, Li Qingshan prepared to leave for Apotheosis as a Star, entrusting Zhao Yang with his saber’s scabbard and parting from the family he had lived with for years. Meanwhile, Chi Wen resolved to attempt Apotheosis as a Star himself, but Li Qingshan summoned him to a set of coordinates.

• Editors-in-chief gathered to await the Epoch Paragon Ranking, then received Xiang Feifeng’s offer to broadcast Li Qingshan’s Apotheosis as a Star for ten grains of Time Sand.
• Li Qingshan let Xiang Feifeng keep the earnings and gave Zhao Yang the Thunderclap Saber’s scabbard as a memento.
• Li Qingshan said goodbye to Zhao Yang and his parents before leaving through layers of space, and Xiang Feifeng followed him.
• At a martial arts hall, Chi Wen told Zhou Yunze he intended to attempt Apotheosis as a Star after fifty thousand years of preparation.
• Chi Wen received Li Qingshan’s message summoning him to specified coordinates, saying Li would scout the path for him.

Li Qingshan learned the source location from Tu Shen and immediately went to reclaim Divine Realm Mountain, killing a false god on the way. On the Seven Gods Continent, Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu waited with the humans they had rescued as a blade light appeared above Divine Realm Mountain.

• Li Qingshan questioned Tu Shen about Su Yuan's support, accepted her coordinates to the source location, and assured her he would help reclaim what belonged to him.
• Tu Shen told Li Qingshan that a native god guarded the source location and that Zhuang Chenxing had last been stationed in deep space, but Li Qingshan said the ambush coordinates were empty and departed through a spatial rift.
• Li Qingshan arrived at a hidden starship, killed the gaunt old man with his Thunderclap Saber, and recognized the debris as evidence of an eighth-order body.
• Li Qingshan revealed seven-colored clouds hidden in the darkness and charged toward them, declaring that Divine Realm Mountain would return to its rightful owner.
• On the Seven Gods Continent, Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu comforted the humans they had rescued as a point of light appeared above Divine Realm Mountain; Zhao Ran identified it as a blade.

Li Qingshan joined Kong Yang’s Shouyang Alliance squad and volunteered to scout a Rank Six rift, while Ren Han and the others recognized that Li Qingshan was using the Alliance. He entered the foreign realm alone, leaving the squad to wait for his report.

• Kong Yang welcomed Li Qingshan into his squad alongside Kong Yin, Niu He, Niu Chuan, and Niu Hai after Li Qingshan insisted he was eager to take risks.
• Ren Han explained that the fortress had not received Li Qingshan’s information because of the great distance, and Kuang Li and the others agreed to keep his plans secret.
• Inside the Rank Six rift, Li Qingshan spotted another rift leading into the aliens’ heartland and offered to scout ahead.
• Kong Yin explained the foreign-realm scouting rules, including the fifteen-minute return deadline, and Kong Yang promised that the Alliance would not abandon Li Qingshan lightly.
• Li Qingshan flew into the foreign-realm rift alone as Kong Yang watched and praised his apparent bravery.

Li Qingshan sent the Thunderclap Saber to seize Coiling Dragon’s smuggled Ten-Tailed Celestial Fox, but learned that the seventh-order alien was only another commodity with no information about Tu Shen’s hometown. Elsewhere, Old Taoist Tianji arrived to meet Master Suixin, only to find that Suixin had fallen into a Star Realm Rift again.

• Shao Fenghua, Lei Chen, and He Jian reported the Huashi Group coordinates to Li Qingshan, who sent the Thunderclap Saber and ordered them to act in one hour.
• Yuan Zong failed to transfer the Ten-Tailed Celestial Fox before the Reconnaissance Office seized her, and Li Wenbo reported that goods in Sector Three had also been taken and their seventh-order guards killed.
• Tu Shen handed the Ten-Tailed Celestial Fox to a black shadow for investigation, but the shadow found only that she was a commodity whose true spirit had been corrupted by an evil god.
• Li Qingshan received a notification that he had killed a monster and wondered what secret lay behind the goods Coiling Dragon smuggled.
• Old Taoist Tianji went to meet Master Suixin, but Suixin fell into a Star Realm Rift, and the novice monk said his master would likely return within three days.

Li Qingshan secured promotions for Tu Shen and Bao Hetong before asking Ming Shuang about the Epoch Paragon Ranking. He left after learning that the ranking would be revealed at the end of the epoch and asking whether Yue Zhen had fought Ming Shuang at full strength.

• Ming Shuang approved Li Qingshan's applications to promote Tu Shen to oversee the Investigation Office and Bao Hetong to deputy director.
• Li Qingshan asked whether Ming Shuang was an Epoch Paragon, and she explained that the ranking changed every epoch and recorded those who reached the eighth rank.
• Ming Shuang said the ranking would be revealed in barely a thousand years and urged Li Qingshan to advance to the eighth rank to compete in the War of the Four Sages.
• Li Qingshan declined Ming Shuang's offer to help him find Time Sand, saying he was still some distance from the final step of the Unnamed Cultivation Method.
• Li Qingshan asked whether Yue Zhen had used his full strength against Ming Shuang, then took his leave.

Li Qingshan rushed to clear the rifts before Coiling Dragon Auction House could complete contracts with nearby star regions. He killed the Blood Rot Clan’s fifth-rank warriors and Xue Ming, then left disappointed by the reward.

• Wang Duanxing told Li Qingshan that several nearby star regions had agreed to Coiling Dragon Auction House’s terms, so Li Qingshan asked him to contact the others and set out at once.
• Xue Ming and Xie Sen discussed luring a human prodigy from the Crimson Rainbow Star Region through a nearly completed fifth-rank altar.
• Xue Ming and Xie Sen discovered that the Blood Rot Clan warriors’ Soul Tablets had shattered, showing that the warriors had been wiped out.
• Xue Ming entered the rift to confront the attackers, while Xie Sen ordered the altar’s construction to continue.
• Li Qingshan stood over Xue Ming’s ashes, received 200,000 Martial Dao Space experience, and left disappointed.

After Li Qingshan cleared the remaining rifts at Golden Cloud Fortress, the Extraterritorial Prodigies squad acknowledged his overwhelming strength and left for another fortress. At the Coiling Dragon Auction House headquarters, Yu Feng refused to change the squad’s plans and discussed a gift delivered to the Demon Subjugation Division.

• Inside a rift, Kuang Li and Sang Yu reflected on Li Qingshan’s strength, and Sang Yu recalled the saying that prodigies were prodigies but Li Qingshan was Li Qingshan.
• The Extraterritorial Prodigies squad returned to Golden Cloud Fortress and learned from Yan Lixin that Li Qingshan had already cleared the fourth- and fifth-tier rifts.
• Kuang Li, Sang Yu, Cheng Hao, Wang Zhong, and Zhang Yuanxiang introduced themselves to Li Qingshan, then departed for another fortress after he said he would stay three more days.
• Aboard the Starship, Sang Yu wondered why Li Qingshan was guarding fortresses instead of cultivating, while Kuang Li speculated that the Hundred Regions might be branches from the same tree.
• At the Coiling Dragon Auction House headquarters, Yu Feng dismissed a suggestion to make way for Li Qingshan and insisted they follow the original plan.
• Yu Feng learned that Bao Hetong was still secretly investigating and said the delivered gift would compel someone in the Demon Subjugation Division to help the Auction House.

Li Qingshan learned why the senior experts gathered at headquarters and how dangerous it would be to challenge Zhuang Chenxing or investigate Coiling Dragon Auction House recklessly. After Gu Feng assigned him a deputy director handover and reminded him to write a paper, Li Qingshan returned to the Martial Dao Space to practice and found the internal forum eagerly anticipating his work.

• Gu Feng warned Li Qingshan not to shatter stars in human territory and explained that his long-lived seniors gathered at headquarters because time had erased their old homes and connections.
• Gu Feng named Lei Chen as the candidate to replace Li Qingshan as Deputy Director of the Third Division and cautioned that Zhuang Chenxing's influence made targeting Ye Lei difficult.
• Li Qingshan asked about Zhuang Chenxing's strength, and Gu Feng explained the Eighth Order's ability to teleport across thousands of light-years and warned Li Qingshan not to investigate Coiling Dragon Auction House alone or enter desolate starfields.
• Gu Feng reminded Li Qingshan to prepare a paper before his report in three months, and Li Qingshan returned to the Martial Dao Space to repeat his gravity-and-space collapse technique, succeeding for the second time in less than a day.
• Li Qingshan opened the internal forum and found a popular post full of replies anticipating his paper, leaving him puzzled about what everyone expected.

Li Qingshan earned merit by secretly destroying alien worlds while posing as Fei Xingye, but repeated interceptions left Kong Yang’s team falling behind. As Kong Yang hesitated over asking Ye Hao for help, a call from Che Yufei brought a startling image of a winged woman whose face mirrored his own.

• Li Qingshan gained nearly a hundred thousand merit points and almost a million experience points by destroying a planet guarded by eight sixth-rank evil god aliens.
• Li Qingshan repeatedly explored new rifts with Kong Yang’s team, while Fei Xingye intercepted them at high-risk rifts and their merit gains remained low.
• After more than half a year, Kong Yin urged Kong Yang to ask Ye Hao for help, while Li Qingshan left to explore another new rift.
• Kong Yang opened his contacts to call Ye Hao, but Che Yufei called him first and showed him a winged woman who looked exactly like him.

You Qixuan agreed to join Tianji Group as an Executive Director after Xingyun offered him the post, while Li Qingshan used a hundred pieces of Myriad Manifestations Star Sand to refine a phenomenon in one day. At Tianji Group headquarters, Zhang Tinnan worried about the consequences of its expansion, but a supervisor interrupted to announce his promotion to factory director in World No. 9386.

• You Qixuan released the million golden core cultivators and agreed to become an Executive Director for Li Qingshan's sake.
• Li Qingshan used one hundred pieces of Myriad Manifestations Star Sand to manifest one phenomenon in a day.
• Hao Peiyun and other Revive Immortals Society members told Zhang Tinnan that their efforts to organize a union had failed and the society was declining.
• Zhang Tinnan said he worried that Tianji Group's expansion and the disappearance of ascending True Persons could draw the immortal realm's attention.
• A supervisor announced that Zhang Tinnan would be recommended as the new factory director in World No. 9386.

Li Qingshan continued his tour of planetary fortresses, collecting experience as alien attacks dwindled, while Fu Yang urged him not to neglect his cultivation. Meanwhile, the prodigy squad suspected You Xuan was pursuing Li Qingshan out of rivalry, and their ship arrived at Radiant Star Fortress.

• Li Qingshan left Golden Cloud Fortress after earning over a million experience points and told Fu Yang he would return to Dick Star when the aliens quieted down.
• Fu Yang praised Li Qingshan for bringing honor to Seven Stars Academy and reminded him to prioritize his Inner Scene cultivation.
• Li Qingshan visited more fortresses, earning progressively smaller amounts of experience as the alien attacks weakened, while the Extraterritorial Prodigies squad stopped interfering with his harvests.
• Kuang Li told Sang Yu and the other squad members that You Xuan was continuing the mission to challenge Li Qingshan, though the others doubted he would dare.
• The squad's ship arrived at Radiant Star Fortress, which Kuang Li believed was in the Violet Radiance Star Region where Li Qingshan was stationed.

Li Qingshan learned that Xingyun could complete the Heaven Piercing Grand Formation in ten days and ordered preparations to relocate the myriad worlds. As Zhang Tinnan drafted a proclamation to calm the people, the Azure Sky Society announced the coming breakthrough and urged everyone to carry a Tianji Two talisman token.

• Xingyun used the Heavenly Tome to find a lead and promised to perfect the Heaven Piercing Grand Formation in ten days.
• Tianyun told Li Qingshan that Tianji Two talisman tokens had reached the myriad worlds, and Li Qingshan ordered him to have Zhang Tinnan begin public outreach.
• Xuanjian told the Azure Wave Realm immortals that their realm had become the Immortal Realm Heaven intended to create, though he admitted he did not know Heaven's plan.
• Zhang Tinnan received news of the ten-day relocation and decided to write another proclamation for the people.
• Gu Yueqi argued with his sister-in-law over selling their family's green ox before the Azure Sky Society's proclamation appeared across World No. 6666.
• The proclamation announced that the firmament would break in ten days and instructed everyone to keep a Tianji Two talisman token on their person.

Li Qingshan and the others discovered that a Nightmare Clan member had possessed You Xuan and was hiding in the planetary fortress as Ji Yuntao. The Nightmare Clan member sacrificed himself to trap Li Qingshan in the Devil Ancestor’s Demonic Thought Execution Ground, where Li Qingshan prepared to face his deepest fear.

• Bao Hetong and Ni Mocuan killed the Celestial Fox Clan youth and identified him as a Nightmare Clan member who had possessed You Xuan.
• Li Qingshan learned that the Nightmare Clan member was sixth rank and that the Nightmare Clan had been created by the Mind Fiend Progenitor to capture human prodigies.
• Li Qingshan spotted the offline Communicator and suspected the Nightmare Clan member was hiding in the planetary fortress.
• The possessed Ji Yuntao emerged from the fortress and announced that he had crossed many starfields to capture Li Qingshan.
• The Nightmare Clan member sacrificed himself to summon the Demonic Thought Execution Ground and draw Li Qingshan inside.
• Li Qingshan found himself on the execution platform and said he was curious to discover his deepest fear.

During Li Qingshan’s Tribulation of Establishing the Dao, he instantly defeated President Fu Yang and then Chen Xiuqi, despite matching their Avatar heights. The presidents watching began to suspect that the decisive advantage came from Li Qingshan’s Dao.

• Li Qingshan formed an eighteen-zhang Starry Avatar and instantly overwhelmed Fu Yang’s blazing-sun Avatar.
• Cao Ding'an and Cao Ya wondered what kind of Dao let Li Qingshan defeat opponents at the same Avatar height.
• Lu Yan rushed to Fu Yang’s office to ask whether anything had gone wrong with Li Qingshan, and Fu Yang sent him away without admitting his defeat.
• Wang Duanxing called Fu Yang to tease him, but both men watched as Chen Xiuqi appeared in Li Qingshan’s trial.
• Li Qingshan instantly defeated Chen Xiuqi’s twenty-seven-zhang Avatar, and Fu Yang concluded that Li Qingshan’s Dao explained the gap.

Li Qingshan declared that he would pursue both resources and the extermination of evil god alien races, despite the dangers of crossing the Return Sea. He ended the meeting by ordering contact with the neighboring islands and resolved to find a way to overcome the sea’s obstacles.

• Kong Mingze praised Li Qingshan’s focus on fighting evil god alien races, and Li Qingshan said resource gathering and extermination could go together.
• Liang Feiyan explained that the alien races’ island locations were unknown and that the turbulent Return Sea made exploration and attacks extremely difficult.
• Xiang Hong suggested focusing on the nine neighboring islands, but Li Qingshan called for friendly consultation instead of dealing with them.
• Li Qingshan learned that salvage yielded only two to three thousand pieces of Myriad Manifestations Star Sand per ten thousand years and ordered contact with the other islands.
• After the meeting, Li Qingshan decided that the evil god alien races still had to be killed and set out to solve the problem of crossing the Return Sea.

Li Qingshan set out to suppress alien forces across a hundred star regions, harvesting experience at each Planetary Fortress while the Coiling Dragon Auction House sent Extraterritorial Prodigies to help. He reached Golden Cloud Fortress expecting a large haul, only to learn the Prodigies had arrived first and entered the rifts, prompting him to disappear at once.

• Wang Duanxing told Li Qingshan that alien forces were being driven to attack by the evil gods and that many nearby fortresses faced increased pressure, while the Coiling Dragon Auction House had begun sending Extraterritorial Prodigies.
• Li Qingshan chose a route through a hundred regions and departed Black Flame Star Region, hoping to reach each fortress before the Prodigies and gain experience.
• Li Qingshan spent the following year suppressing fortresses for three days at a time, collecting increasing amounts of experience as the alien forces concentrated.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Golden Cloud Fortress and learned from Yan Lixin that the Extraterritorial Prodigies had arrived a day earlier and were already inside the rifts.
• Li Qingshan vanished immediately after hearing that the Prodigies had entered the rifts.

Li Qingshan repeatedly failed to use Collapse Into Body with his 108-zhang Avatar, then succeeded once in Martial Dao Space and began studying the result. When Gu Feng summoned him, he warned Li Qingshan that his breakthrough could draw a dangerous response if it caused too much commotion.

• Li Qingshan kept attempting Collapse Into Body in Martial Dao Space, finding that the 108-zhang Avatar made the possible combinations vastly harder to navigate than a 9-zhang Avatar.
• Demon Subjugation Division members joked on the forum about Li Qingshan's positive review of Gu Feng's paper, while Gu Feng grew irritated reading their comments.
• After three months, Li Qingshan successfully collapsed his Avatar into his body in Martial Dao Space and began analyzing the experience for another attempt.
• Li Qingshan went to Gu Feng's office, where Gu Feng learned he had gained another comprehension in only three months.
• Gu Feng told Li Qingshan to be careful during his breakthrough because its commotion might provoke someone to strike him.