Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan returned to Godfall Continent after defeating the Seven Gods and began preparing for a long seclusion while arranging to track the people on his list. Zhuang Chenxing seized on his absence to prepare another press conference and continue building public support.

• Li Qingshan asked Zhuang Chenxing to meet in person, but Zhuang Chenxing made excuses and offered to send support instead.
• Li Qingshan told Zhuang Chenxing that the Seven Gods were gone, then said he would enter seclusion and leave the cleanup to him.
• Li Qingshan sent the client files to Tu Shen and Kong Yang and ordered them to find exact coordinates for everyone on the list.
• Li Qingshan returned to Godfall Continent, saw its human survivors, and settled on Divine Realm Mountain to cultivate with his accumulated experience and cosmic matter.
• Zhuang Chenxing welcomed Li Qingshan's seclusion and ordered a press conference to announce the latest developments and the rescue operation.

Li Qingshan reviewed information about Primal Island’s five island lords and reunited with Gu Feng, while Liang Feiyan tried to secure support as the chief’s arrival approached. The chapter left Kong Mingze’s repeated promises of support under scrutiny.

• Li Qingshan read that the Land of Return consisted of a dangerous sea and sheltering islands, and learned about Primal Island’s five competing island lords.
• Li Qingshan praised the island lords’ abilities and met Kong Yang, then went to visit his former superior, Gu Feng.
• Li Qingshan found Gu Feng upset over poor reviews of his research paper and revealed his own highly rated paper on forging a God Phase.
• Liang Feiyan gathered with alien elders on Primal Island and asked how they would respond to the imminent arrival of the chief.
• Kong Mingze promised to support Liang Feiyan, and she pointed out that he had already made the same promise five times.

Li Qingshan and his companions set out for the Harmony Convergence Feast, where he planned to face Han Shan, but a Heaven's Secret Pavilion diviner warned that the journey was dangerous. After Li Qingshan rejected the diviner's prediction, diviners across the continent discovered that the secrets of heaven had been thrown into chaos.

• Li Qingshan and his companions left town for the Demon Flame Gate to attend the Harmony Convergence Feast and battle Han Shan.
• A blind diviner revealed he belonged to Heaven's Secret Pavilion and warned Li Qingshan that danger awaited in the Far West.
• The diviner gave the five travelers Profound Spirit Jade, which briefly aided their comprehension, but Li Qingshan gained only one proficiency point.
• The diviner calculated again and warned that Li Qingshan would die, but Li Qingshan dismissed the prediction and departed with his companions.
• Blind diviners across the continent began calculating, and an old Daoist in Seven Stars City declared that the secrets of heaven had been thrown into chaos for a thousand years.

Gu Feng revealed that he had spent fifty thousand years opposing Zhuang Chenxing and had sacrificed his own chance to advance so Li Qingshan could succeed him. He offered Li Qingshan the time needed to grow stronger, while Zhuang Chenxing emerged from the destruction of a planet and realized Gu Feng had outmaneuvered him.

• Gu Feng explained that Zhuang Chenxing had opposed Li Qingshan's recruitment and that Li had become Zhuang's new political obstacle.
• Gu Feng clarified that he did not know of Li Qingshan's supposed insight and explained how long it would take Li to gather the Star Shards needed for Transformation of Emptiness.
• Ming Shuang, Chi Yiyu, Su Yuan, and Xia Cunzhen tried to contact Gu Feng, but he rejected their calls and shut off his Communicator.
• Zhuang Chenxing destroyed a life-bearing planet in rage after realizing Gu Feng had given up his final chance to break through in order to help Li Qingshan take over.
• Gu Feng told Li Qingshan that time was a resource and offered to give him the time he lacked, leaving Li confused about how he could do so.

Li Qingshan and the other Heaven’s Prides learned how the Merit Board and Merit Recorders worked, then descended into the fortress’s planet-sized rift zone. Ren Han said the current board would close in thirteen years and expected Li Qingshan to compete on the next one, but Li revealed that he had requested Fortress 13 himself and walked toward Kong Yang.

• Ren Han showed Li Qingshan and the others the Merit Board, where Kong Yang ranked third, and explained that its gray names belonged to comrades who had died in alien territory.
• Ren Han issued Merit Recorders and explained that aliens yielded merit according to rank, including one million points for killing a seventh-order alien, while warning the group not to risk their lives pursuing one.
• Li Qingshan asked whether seventh-order aliens could open Hyperspace Channels, and Ren Han said alien abilities varied and could only be learned through combat.
• Ren Han led the Heaven’s Prides down to the planet at the fortress’s heart, where they saw enormous rifts and Kong Yang among the figures below.
• Ren Han said the current War Merit Board would close in thirteen years and suggested Li Qingshan help Fortress 13 reclaim its standing on the next board.
• Li Qingshan told Ren Han he had requested assignment to Fortress 13 himself, then walked toward Kong Yang.

Li Qingshan agreed to travel to the Black Flame Star Region to fight alien invaders, while his students prepared to break through. After returning to Dick Star, he made Gao Nianren vice dean and revealed that Black Flame was only the first stop on a journey across the Hundred Domains.

• Wang Duanxing apologized to Li Qingshan for the conflict in the Chaotic Star Sea and asked him to send Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu to defend Black Flame.
• Li Qingshan refused to send his students but volunteered to go himself and set off aboard his Starship.
• Li Qingshan told Zhao Ran, Yang Xiaoyu, Chu Hong, Qin Feng, and Tu Wei that he would fight to protect the human territories, recalling the resolve he had shown at Town Abyss Fortress.
• Li Qingshan returned to Dick Star and learned that Gao Nianren had advanced to Outer Scene.
• Li Qingshan named Gao Nianren vice dean and said he would travel to Black Flame and then continue across the Hundred Domains.

The Epoch Paragon Ranking became the focus of a golden age of challenges, until Fu Shan defeated Yue Zhen and claimed the top spot. A century later, Zhou Yunze visited a blue supergiant with his students and Mou Yu, then died without fulfilling his promise to Li Qingshan.

• You Qixuan lost to Yue Zhen, appeared at the bottom of the ranking, and challenged Cao Wuyan to a battle three years later.
• You Qixuan later defeated Cao Wuyan, and returning extrastellar paragons began challenging one another for places on the ranking.
• Fu Shan returned and defeated Yue Zhen, ending his three-hundred-year reign at the top.
• Zhou Yunze arrived at a blue supergiant with his students and reunited with Mou Yu, who had recently become Star Academy's president.
• Zhou Yunze said he regretted being unable to fulfill his promise to Li Qingshan, then died as the blue solar wind burned his body to ash.

All 101 Epoch Paragons returned safely, and the sea of stars discovered that the Epoch Paragon Ranking had changed to name them all as Children of the Four Saints, with Li Qingshan named Primal First Seat. Shi Feng explained that the Primal First Seat was a coveted position in the Land of Return, leaving Li Qingshan to wonder whether the Network had already arranged for him to be parachuted into it.

• The 101 Epoch Paragons emerged from the nebula vortex alive, and the broadcast showed the altered ranking with Li Qingshan as Primal First Seat and the others as Children of the Four Saints.
• Viewers across the sea of stars reacted with shock to the unprecedented ranking and its colorful electronic screen, while Gu Feng and the officials watched the broadcast.
• Ming Shuang lamented that she had missed the chance to become a Child of the Four Saints, and You Qixuan voiced his disbelief that he had received the title.
• Li Qingshan questioned the electronic screen, then praised it after Shi Feng claimed the Network had installed it.
• Shi Feng explained that the Primal First Seat was a position in the Land of Return that paragons from hundreds of thousands of star systems had contested for 120,000 years.
• Li Qingshan wondered whether the Network had already designated him to be parachuted into the position.

Li Qingshan returned to Dick New Star as Star Academy’s acting dean and took charge of investigating Wei Huaian’s death. Kong Lanxin exposed the Shi Family’s underground Mining Operation, and Li Qingshan ordered Shi Tianhe to lead them to the site.

• Li Qingshan arrived as acting dean, startling Shi Tianhe and prompting Kong Lanxin and the other family chairmen to pledge their cooperation.
• Shi Tianhe pointed out that their meeting was being broadcast live, then accused Wei Huaian of falsely implicating him in collusion with an evil god.
• Kong Lanxin displayed a map of a vast underground base beneath Central City and accused the Shi Family of secretly sending NPCs there to become brain mines.
• Shi Tianhe claimed the base was a Data Center and described it as a resting place for the dead, but Kong Lanxin rejected his explanation.
• Li Qingshan ordered Shi Tianhe to lead them to the base, and the six flew toward Dick New Star.

Wu Nian contacted Chi Baixiu, who welcomed him and Cao Ya to Xin District while explaining that Suixin had disappeared years ago. Meanwhile, Suixin arrived at a village in the Azure Wave Realm and confronted Mo Yuan of the Profound Heaven Sword Sect.

• Cao Ya told Wu Nian that their damaged warship would delay their departure, and Wu Nian decided to contact Suixin.
• Chi Baixiu answered Wu Nian’s call, said Suixin had vanished three years earlier, and invited Wu Nian to cultivate in Xin District.
• Cao Ya offered the Cao Family’s ship as a ride to Xin District, and Chi Baixiu welcomed them.
• Chi Baixiu learned that Ya Lie had gone to the Horn Sector front lines to claim the top spot on its War Merit Board and joked that he wanted to erase his loss to Feng Boyong.
• Suixin stood motionless outside a village in the Azure Wave Realm all day, then greeted Mo Yuan when the young man appeared at night.

After the Star Martial Hall reported that Sheng Yang had died while igniting a star, the fate of Li Qingshan remained unknown, stirring reactions among the Four Saints’ paragons. You Qixuan seized the news as an opportunity to announce his return, and sensational headlines spread across the Four Saints Star System.

• Ying Yu and Fu Shan learned that Sheng Yang’s true spirit had perished, while the Star Martial Hall gave no information about Li Qingshan’s fate.
• Fu Shan hoped to cross blades with Li Qingshan in eight hundred years and left Ying Yu’s office carrying her Long Spear.
• Qiu Zhan rebuked his brothers for treating Li Qingshan’s possible death as certain and said Li Qingshan came from their Azure Dragon.
• You Qixuan revealed that he had waited near the Four Saints Star System for two hundred years, then ordered his Starship to return and sent announcements to major media outlets.
• News outlets across the Four Saints and Ten Fiends spread headlines about You Qixuan’s return, his challenge to Yue Zhen, Sheng Yang’s death, and Li Qingshan’s uncertain fate.

Li Qingshan fled the Evil Horn Tribe’s territory in an overclocked spaceship while pursuing enough experience to raise Martial Dao Space’s level. As Blood Hui hunted him and Blood Yin trapped Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, Che Yufei, and Mo Yuan, Li Qingshan arrived at the battlefield just as Blood Yin threatened them.

• Li Qingshan raced through the Evil Horn Tribe’s territory as his spaceship’s disintegration progress rose and Martial Dao Space neared its next level.
• Li Qingshan received a message confirming that Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, and Che Yufei were safe, then sent a repeating message of his own to help locate them.
• Blood Hui learned that Li Qingshan and the Three Devils were in the Canine Tooth Clan’s territory, then split up with Blood Yin to pursue them separately.
• Blood Hui caught up with Li Qingshan, who ordered Xi Na One to overclock the failing spaceship and continued fleeing through the hyperspace channels.
• Blood Yin trapped Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, Che Yufei, and Mo Yuan with fifteen seventh-rank elders, then confiscated their communicators and read Li Qingshan’s message.
• A Tier 6 fissure opened and Kong Yang emerged; moments later, Li Qingshan appeared above the battlefield and confronted Blood Yin.

As the Great Calamity engulfed the Crimson Rainbow Continent, the Evil Venerable revealed that he was the world itself and taunted Li Qingshan over his planned Heaven-Human Unification. Li Qingshan answered that he would help the Evil Venerable achieve Dao Unification.

• At the Seven Stars Sect banquet, Li Qingshan welcomed the gathered prodigies and sect leaders, but said the time for his Heaven-Human Unification had not yet come.
• As blood-red light neared Seven Stars City, the guests stopped eating and watched the sky while Long Yeyun urged them to wait for the outcome.
• The blood haze swallowed the Crimson Rainbow Continent, and billions of figures spoke together, warning Li Qingshan that they would meet again.
• The Evil Venerable appeared as a gigantic Grinning Mask and revealed that the entire world was his true body, then challenged Li Qingshan to undergo Heaven-Human Unification.
• Li Qingshan told the Grinning Mask that he would help it achieve Dao Unification.

Li Qingshan revealed that he had absorbed the Mind Fiend Progenitor’s contamination and explained that his new Day Abyss Dust Sand Sutra used evil gods as nutrients to advance beyond Myriad Manifestations. He left the council stunned while privately relying on his system panel as another way to withstand contamination.

• Shi Feng and the council members realized the shattered jade fragments had carried contamination, and Li Qingshan explained that he had absorbed it.
• Yang Zhixuan arrived after hearing the news and asked whether absorbing contamination was necessary to surpass the Myriad Manifestations limit.
• Li Qingshan demonstrated the Day Abyss Dust Sand Sutra, explaining that it used Myriad Manifestations Star Sand and evil gods as nutrients to build a star river.
• Shi Feng warned that contaminated artifacts from the Land of Return were dangerous, but Li Qingshan eagerly welcomed the prospect of finding them.
• Li Qingshan viewed his system panel and revealed that it could help him resist contamination when his will was no longer enough.

Beiao examined Xie Sen’s memories but rejected his claim that the Formless Celestial Devil had destroyed the God Realm, blaming the Network instead. After Beiao altered Xie Sen’s account to protect him from Youming, Youming appeared and attacked him, but left when a furious roar interrupted; Xie Sen survived again, though he did not know why he had said “again.”

• Beiao read Xie Sen’s memories and learned that the God Realm had pursued the Formless Celestial Devil before Xie Sen was swept into a storm of turbulent rules.
• Xie Sen argued that the Formless Celestial Devil had destroyed the God Realm and asked Beiao to give him a title, but Beiao blamed the Network and refused.
• Beiao warned that Youming might punish Xie Sen for being the sole survivor of the failed hunt, then used dark green light to make him claim he had known nothing about the events.
• Youming appeared and set blood-red flames along his gaze toward Xie Sen, but a furious roar interrupted before the flames could reach him.
• After Youming vanished, Xie Sen collapsed in relief and wondered why he had said he had survived again.

Li Qingshan reunited with Old Daoist Xingyun and learned that the Tianji Sect’s Tianji Decree and a formation linked to the Star Realm laws might break his deadlock. The chapter ended with Xingyun proposing to free World No. 9527 from the Heavenly Dao, while Li Qingshan rejected fleeing and insisted they face the threat.

• Li Qingshan recognized Xingyun, discovered that the old Daoist had reached Spirit Transformation without being marked by the Heavenly Dao, and asked how he had evaded its surveillance.
• Xingyun revealed that Old Taoist Tianji, not Dao Ancestor Cang Yan, had created the Azure Wave Myriad Realms, then led Li Qingshan and Tianyun to the Tianji Sect’s hidden cavern.
• Li Qingshan examined the spirit-energy patterns connected to the Star Realm laws and saw the cracked Tianji Decree bearing the words “No Ascension.”
• Xingyun explained that Old Taoist Tianji had left a message saying he and Dao Ancestor Cang Yan refined the realms to separate immortals from mortals and protect their inhabitants from becoming resources for immortality.
• Xingyun revealed that his Great Sky Detachment Formation could push World No. 9527 out of the Azure Wave Myriad Realms and free it from the Heavenly Dao’s control.
• Li Qingshan rejected Xingyun’s plan to escape, telling him that they needed to face their troubles bravely.

Li Qingshan destroyed the final Cursed Land, then traveled to Wu Yang City to seek news about evil entities. At the Seven Stars Sect outpost, Liu Licheng warned him that several powerful figures were coming for him, including Han Shan, who had ended his century-long seclusion.

• Li Qingshan destroyed the village and its Bloodstained God Statue, completing the purge of the Three Rivers Gang's ten Cursed Lands.
• Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei told Li Qingshan that rumors of evil entities had become more frequent, though the sects' grandmasters had resolved the reported cases.
• Li Qingshan parted ways with Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei and set out for Wu Yang City to cultivate and seek intelligence about evil entities.
• Liu Licheng met Li Qingshan at the city gates and brought him to the Seven Stars Sect outpost.
• Liu Licheng told Li Qingshan that Ling Siyuan, Fu Yu, and Nan Jianyang had descended the mountain to come for him, and that Han Shan had ended his century-long seclusion.

Li Qingshan cultivated the Nine Refinements True Tribulation Solidification Sutra in secluded meditation while claiming rifts for support, then went to a laboratory after Kong Yang urged him to focus on cultivation. The chapter ended with Ren Han discovering that Li Qingshan had completed the technique’s first-layer refinement in only three days.

• Li Qingshan gained one year of cultivation experience and resolved to continue training until he mastered the first layer.
• Chi Jifeng watched Li Qingshan meditate outside the rifts while Kong Yang dismissed his cultivation as a waste of time.
• After Chi Jifeng pointed out Shouyang Alliance members at a rift, Li Qingshan entered it to provide support, and Kong Yang’s team did not dare follow.
• Kong Yang argued that Li Qingshan could not catch up on the War Merit Board and should cultivate in a laboratory, and Li Qingshan agreed before disappearing.
• Kong Yin confirmed that Li Qingshan had gone to the Solar Wind Laboratory, where Ren Han learned he had completed the first-layer refinement in three days.

Ya Lie fought Xuantian Mo Yuan after Mo Yuan mistook him and his companions for demons and foreign races. Ye Yukong cleared up the misunderstanding by mentioning Tianji and identifying Ya Lie as a descendant of humanity’s pioneers, and Mo Yuan explained that his master had sent him toward the Azure Dragon Star System.

• Ya Lie transformed and attacked Mo Yuan after taking his accusation of being a beast as an insult, while Ye Yukong and Che Yufei worried that the War Fortress was tracking them.
• Mo Yuan and Ya Lie clashed in orbit as Ye Yukong called out the name Tianji of Canglan.
• Mo Yuan paused the fight when Ye Yukong said he had heard of Tianji from his student, Li Qingshan.
• Ye Yukong introduced Che Yufei as humanity’s ally and Ya Lie as a descendant of humanity’s pioneers, prompting Mo Yuan to apologize for his mistake.
• Mo Yuan said his master had helped him leave Canglan for the Azure Dragon Star System, and he realized he had misunderstood his master’s destination.

Li Qingshan met Cao Ya outside the Dick Star System, accepted the Cao Family’s faster starship for his journey to the Black Flame Star Region, and heard warnings about the Yuan masters. Meanwhile, Coiling Dragon Auction House supervisor Yu Feng decided to ease resource-contract terms in hopes of earning Li Qingshan’s favor.

• Li Qingshan’s hyperspace jump was interrupted when Cao Ya’s silver-white starship emerged nearby, and Cao Ya thanked him in person for saving the Cao Family from calamity.
• Cao Ya gave Li Qingshan an Enlightenment VII starship for his journey to the Black Flame Star Region and warned him about First Master Yuan, Second Master Yuan, and Third Master Yuan.
• Li Qingshan departed in the faster ship, wondered whether the Cao Family’s troubles remained serious, then set the concern aside and cultivated during the journey.
• Yu Feng rebuked a subordinate over Bao Hetong’s investigation into auctioned alien maids, including Evil God Cultists, and ordered him to send gifts to other Reconnaissance Office departments.
• After reading Li Qingshan’s files, Yu Feng ordered the auction house to loosen its resource-contract terms and help willing star regions clear alien races, hoping Li Qingshan would owe it a favor.