Chapter Summaries

Suixin awakened after receiving Supreme’s heavenly luck, but the Moon Ascent Stairway weakened and Cang Yan’s golden light overwhelmed the realms. Li Qingshan urged the Epoch Paragons to follow their original plan and revealed that a cold moon was rising behind Suixin.

• Yue Zhen realized Supreme had given Suixin his heavenly luck, while Suixin said he would take what he wanted despite the price.
• The Moon Ascent Stairway shrank as Suixin awakened, and Cang Yan’s golden light overwhelmed the remaining moonlight.
• Li Qingshan ordered the Epoch Paragons to swallow the myriad realms and counterattack the heavens, explaining that Suixin’s awakening meant unexpected variables had arisen.
• Cang Yan appeared in the Heavenly Dao Space and claimed that he had allowed the group’s arrival as part of his plan for the Heavenly Book’s descent.
• Li Qingshan thanked Cang Yan for letting them in and pointed toward a cold moon rising in deep space, challenging him to display his strength.

Li Qingshan arrived on Primal Island and received the allegiance of the ninth-rank clan elders, humiliating the five island lords who had expected their support. As the furious lords unleashed their powers, Li Qingshan stopped the elders from intervening and approached them to propose a heart-to-heart talk.

• Kong Mingze and the ninth-rank clan elders welcomed Li Qingshan and pledged their support, leaving the five island lords humiliated.
• The five island lords confronted Kong Mingze, accusing him of deceiving them, while he defended his support for the chief appointed by the network.
• The furious island lords unleashed their manifestations, and Kong Mingze asked Li Qingshan for permission to help subdue them.
• Li Qingshan stopped Kong Mingze and the elders from intervening, then walked through the lords' manifestations toward them.
• Li Qingshan suggested that he and the five island lords talk through their misunderstandings and plan their future together.

Li Qingshan asked Cao Ding'an to explain Dharma Aspect cultivation and learned that its first two stages required rare environments and specialized methods. He revealed that he had already decided to join the Demon Subjugation Division.

• Li Qingshan contacted Cao Ding'an and joined him for a meal aboard the battleship.
• Li Qingshan asked Cao Ding'an to clarify the path ahead after entering the Dharma Form Realm.
• Cao Ding'an explained that Dharma Aspect cultivation had three steps and that the Heaven's Pride Tournament helped prodigies begin the first step, materialization.
• Cao Ding'an described the second step, Transformation of Emptiness, which required scarce Star Realm energy and access to major powers.
• Li Qingshan told Cao Ding'an that he planned to join the Demon Subjugation Division.

Li Qingshan attacked Beiao after Beiao’s data giant stole the kill, while Beiao mistook him for a reincarnated ancient being marked by the Authority of Reincarnation. Beiao claimed he was immortal as long as the God Realm endured, and Li Qingshan asked whether he had heard of Celestial Devil Disintegration.

• Li Qingshan grew furious over Beiao stealing the kill and attacked him with a giant starry hand.
• Beiao guessed that Li Qingshan had reincarnated using the Authority of Reincarnation and absorbed data to grow stronger.
• Li Qingshan hammered Beiao with repeated starry fists until his data body dissolved, but Beiao reassembled himself from the God Realm’s network.
• Beiao boasted that he could revive as long as the God Realm survived, and Li Qingshan asked if he had heard of Celestial Devil Disintegration.

Xuan Ling received a blank page from the Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome and descended toward the outer void, while Li Qingshan detected ten earth immortals entering the lower realms and sent forces to intercept them. Li Qingshan went to investigate the two remaining worlds himself.

• Cang Yan sent Xuan Ling a page of the Heavenly Evolution Jade Tome, prompting Xuan Ling to suspect that Cang Yan had gone mad.
• Xuan Ling found the page blank, then dismissed warnings from Xuan Sword and Xuan Feng and flew toward the outer void.
• In World No. 9527, alarms alerted Xing Yun and Li Qingshan that ten earth immortals were descending to the lower realms.
• Li Qingshan ordered eight executive directors to lead teams into eight worlds to track the earth immortals.
• Li Qingshan headed to Worlds No. 6031 and 7561 while Xing Yun stayed at headquarters to monitor the realms.

Li Qingshan prepared to draw the Alien Alliance into a final battle while the alliance pursued the Fallen One believers and Xie Sen’s prophecies began coming true. As Bone Armor led his forces toward Celestial Devil Island, a torrent of light erupted across the Return Sea, fulfilling Xie Sen’s vision of the alliance’s collapse.

• Li Qingshan saw that the Fallen One believers had devoured forty-five islands and decided it was time to cast the net.
• Xie Sen claimed he had seen the Void Devouring Celestial Devil descend, and Bone Armor sent Xue Lin to accompany him.
• Xue Lin let Xie Sen return to Evil Horn Island, where the Void Devouring Celestial Devil appeared as Xie Sen had predicted.
• Xue Lin returned alone and persuaded Bone Armor that the alliance should attack Celestial Devil Island, claiming an anomaly had created an opportunity.
• As Bone Armor’s forces prepared for battle, a blazing torrent of light erupted in the Return Sea and matched Xie Sen’s prophecy of the alliance’s destruction.

A young Great Qi soldier questioned why his dynasty sent armies to the Celestial Court Battlefield, and his Squad Leader explained that humanity’s inherited guilt required soldiers to atone and delay another Tribulation Cycle. The Squad Leader led the troops into a new battle, while two figures above the clouds collected the battlefield’s blood qi in jade bottles.

• At the edge of the Celestial Court Battlefield, a young soldier asked his Squad Leader why Great Qi had to send troops to fight an unknown enemy.
• The Squad Leader said heaven had granted humanity its prosperity, humanity was born guilty, and soldiers fought to diminish its sins and delay the next Tribulation Cycle.
• The young soldier asked whether the ancient explanation could be false, but the Squad Leader said its truth no longer mattered and called it heaven’s will.
• After the rain washed the battlefield clean, the Squad Leader led the soldiers onto the plain as troops from across the realm began a new war.
• Two figures above the clouds gathered streams of blood qi from the battlefield into open jade bottles.

After returning from Silverglow Hotel, Li Qingshan celebrated his gains, discovered his mastered cultivation method consumed far more Nutrient Solution, and entered the Martial Dao Space to fight the recorded monsters. He defeated the three beasts and faced You Qingya’s projection, resolving to kill it without hesitation.

• Li Qingshan checked his increased available time, tested the Thunder Pattern Saber, and appreciated Cao Ya’s thoughtful gift.
• Li Qingshan completed a session of mastered Starry Sky Beckons, found that his faster cultivation had quadrupled his Nutrient Solution use, and worried about its cost.
• Li Qingshan entered the Martial Dao Space with the Thunder Pattern Saber and faced projections of You Qingya and three ferocious beasts.
• Li Qingshan traded a shattered arm for a beast, then used the saber to kill the other two beasts.
• Li Qingshan observed You Qingya’s expressionless projection and then attacked her with full force.

Xie Sen’s sealed memories awakened as he recognized the Formless Celestial Devil, while Li Qingshan moved to attack an eighth-order altar. Above the Nine Heavens, Zhihui’s ambush of Xie Sha was interrupted when Youming rushed away after hearing his ancestral land was under attack, leaving Zhihui baffled by the claim that he had planted a covert trap.

• Xie Sen recognized the Formless Celestial Devil, broke the seal in his soul, and vanished in a stream of dark green data.
• Li Qingshan failed to catch Xie Sen and turned his attention to the eighth-order altar.
• Ye Tai and eight others surrounded and attacked Xie Sha, while Xie Sha accused them of ambushing a tenth-order entity in Youming’s territory.
• Zhihui blocked Youming from reaching Xie Sha, and Youming warned that other tenth-order entities could turn the battle against the nine attackers.
• A roar announced that the Evil Horn ancestral land was under attack, prompting Youming to leave as he accused Zhihui of planting a covert trap.
• Zhihui denied knowing about any covert trap and stared in confusion.

Ye Tai and the other Grand Generals destroyed Xiesha, then mistook Li Qingshan’s role in the destruction of the Evil Horn Ancestral Land for Venerable Zhihui’s secret plan. Zhihui revealed that Li Qingshan had reached the ancestral land, and he and Ye Tai set off to find him and demand an explanation.

• Ye Tai and the eight other Grand Generals annihilated Xiesha after the Evil Horn Ancestral Land’s destruction had thrown it into disarray.
• Liu Xing praised Zhihui for supposedly orchestrating both the ambush and the destruction, while Ye Tai questioned whether Zhihui had really planned it.
• Ye Tai called Li Qingshan and confirmed that he appeared to be at the Ironclad Bulwark, then dismissed his suspicions as a coincidence.
• Zhihui returned and told Ye Tai that Li Qingshan had gone all the way to the Evil Horn Ancestral Land.
• Zhihui grabbed Ye Tai and took him back to find Li Qingshan and question him.

Xie Chen and the Ninth Order elders faced the sunlight pouring through the rift as a human monster entered the Evil Horn Ancestral Land. After the light annihilated the elders and Xie Chen tore open the Fifth Heaven, he saw three hundred thousand stellar systems above.

• Xie Sen recognized the light as sunlight and froze in terror as it erupted from the Star Realm Rift, annihilating the Eighteenth Clans' Eighth Order divine sons.
• The Gray Scale Clan elder urged the Ninth Order elders to capture the intruder, and hundreds charged toward the rift before the sunlight dissolved their powers and bodies.
• The remaining clansmen fled, but the sunlight engulfed them, while Xie Chen stood unharmed and identified the intruder as a Star Zenith Fifth Heaven monster.
• Xie Chen tore through four layers of canopy and opened a gap in the Fifth Heaven, declaring that he would see the intruder's true face.
• Xie Chen looked up and saw three hundred thousand stellar systems formed by blue suns and orbiting planets.

Beiao learned that the Formless Celestial Devil had destroyed the Evil Horn Ancestral Land and agreed that he must be entered into the Cosmic Demon Sealing Record. He refused to write the entry himself, sent Xie Sen away as a dangerous “gift” to someone who meddled with fate, and set out to find another pen-holder.

• Beiao freed Xie Sen from his memory seal and searched his memories, learning that the Formless Celestial Devil had defeated the thousand ninth-order elders of the Evil Horn Ancestral Land.
• Xie Sen urged Beiao to write the Formless Celestial Devil into the Cosmic Demon Sealing Record, and Beiao agreed that the devil had to be entered but said he could not do it himself.
• Beiao realized Xie Sen’s misfortune made him dangerous to keep nearby, and ruled out sending him to Youming’s territory.
• Beiao sent Xie Sen through space toward someone who meddled with fate, amused by the prospect of their fortunes contending.
• Beiao left to deal with the Formless Celestial Devil and find a suitable pen-holder.

Ye Tai learned that the top ten generals could not arrive for centuries or millennia, so Zhihui considered another option and turned to the eleventh name on the Human Pantheon List. Meanwhile, Netherworld sent three thousand Eighth Order Blood Rot Clan members through a rift as bait, and their Soul Tablets all shattered as the rift began to close.

• Ye Tai asked whether any of the top ten generals could support the battlefield, and Zhihui revealed that their missions would delay them by at least a thousand years.
• Zhihui suggested that someone outside the top ten might hold the line, then examined the list and stopped at Hao Heaven General Xiang Hao, whose situation was unknown.
• Netherworld ordered Blood Huai to send Eighth Order Blood Rot Clan members through the rift to lure out the Formless Celestial Devil.
• Hundreds of Blood Rot Clan members entered the rift over the next day, but Netherworld saw no sign of the Formless Celestial Devil and ordered Blood Huai to continue.
• After three days, the rift began closing as three thousand Soul Tablets remained intact, until they all cracked and shattered at once.

Li Qingshan discovered that the Blood Rot Clan’s eighth-order rift was a trap meant to lure him to their ancestral land, but he suspected Netherworld was involved too. On the other side of the rift, a hidden enemy remained confident that he would take the bait.

• Lang Lingfeng prepared his final attack against Lan Daihe, but a mysterious young man slapped him into an asteroid and stopped the duel.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Xin-61 Star System, praised Tang Yetian for capturing an eighth-order Blood Rot Clan member, and examined the newly opened rift.
• Li Qingshan viewed the captive’s memories and learned the Blood Rot Ancestor had ordered the altar built while pursuing the Supreme One and had not returned to the ancestral land.
• Li Qingshan concluded the rift was bait pointing toward the Blood Rot Ancestral Land and suspected Netherworld was part of the trap.
• Across the rift, a blood-eyed figure declared that the Formless Celestial Devil would not escape the trap.

Zhihui and Ye Tai discussed the Nether forces’ retreat, the new Rift, and Taishang’s apparent effort to reconstruct his star river and ascend to the heavens. Zhihui refused to launch a full-scale war until powerful reinforcements arrived, revealing a list led by Shun Wuyu, Lu Tie, and Yun Shang.

• Ye Tai reported that an Eighth Order Rift had appeared inside the Formless Bulwark, while Li Qingshan had recognized the Rift as a trap and was following Zhihui’s instructions.
• Zhihui explained that the Nether’s crude trap fit the Evil God Proxy and said they should use the Nether forces’ retreat to rescue Taishang.
• Ye Tai said the nine Grand Generals had waited twenty-two years for Taishang and had not seen any Tenth Order aliens pursuing him.
• Zhihui revealed that Taishang had repeatedly approached the frontline but chose to stay and reconstruct the star river in pursuit of ascending to the heavens.
• Ye Tai proposed a full-scale attack on the Nether heartland, but Zhihui warned that over a hundred Tenth Order aliens could overwhelm them or strike the bulwark’s rear.
• Zhihui said he was waiting for reinforcements and showed Ye Tai a list led by Shun Wuyu, Lu Tie, and Yun Shang.

Youming expected the Formless Celestial Devil to enter the rift, while Li Qingshan recognized the trap and prepared to use a captured Blood Rot tribesman as bait. Another Blood Rot tribesman emerged from the rift and was immediately captured, leaving Li Qingshan's ambush in motion.

• Youming dismissed Blood Huai's concerns and insisted the Formless Celestial Devil would take the bait because of his arrogance.
• Li Qingshan told Tang Yetian that Youming was likely on the other side of the rift but could not cross the World Gate's iron laws.
• Ye Tai arrived, learned Li Qingshan already knew the rift was a trap, and hurried away to report to the Venerable.
• Li Qingshan ordered Tang Yetian to imprison the captured Blood Rot tribesman instead of executing him, intending to use him as bait.
• A second Blood Rot tribesman rushed through the rift, froze under Li Qingshan's power, and was sent to Tang Yetian as another captive.

Li Qingshan confronted Kong Lanxin over her attempt to use him against the Erosion Dream Group and learned of its suspected illegal Mining Operation. He brought Zhao Mo’s family to Dick Academy, discovered Zhao Ran was a True Dragon Chosen, and left her future there to her parents before Dean Wei Huaian offered to teach her.

• Kong Lanxin told Li Qingshan she suspected the Erosion Dream Group of Mining Operation, in which customers’ brains were used to serve as NPCs after their bodies could no longer live.
• Li Qingshan urged Kong Lanxin to gather evidence and report the group, then warned her not to involve him again as his flower bud vanished.
• At Dick Academy, Li Qingshan greeted Zhao Mo, his wife, and Zhao Ran, and told them Zhao Ran was a True Dragon Chosen.
• Li Qingshan said he would not teach Zhao Ran and left the decision of whether she stayed at the academy to her parents.
• Dean Wei Huaian arrived and volunteered to teach Zhao Ran.

Li Qingshan’s feat of reversing the cut to slay a grandmaster made him the pugilistic world’s newest sensation, while the rankings and a mysterious warning about a great calamity stirred concern among the major sects. Han Shan decided to leave seclusion and hunt Li Qingshan, hoping to use the fight to complete his final breakthrough.

• News that Li Qingshan had slain a grandmaster spread across the continent, prompting debate about his ranking and his ties to the Seven Stars Sect.
• Long Yeyun dismissed concern over Li Qingshan’s exposure and discussed the failed search for the Heavenly Secret Pavilion with a youth in white.
• Long Yeyun and Ren Fanyu each received a message reading, “The Great Calamity approaches!” and Ren Fanyu dismissed it as a display of mystery.
• Lin Haokun told Ren Fanyu that Ling Siyuan, Fu Yu, and Nan Jianyang had gone to bring Li Qingshan back to the Lingtian Sect.
• Han Shan arrived, revealed the White Tiger Pearl, and announced he would face Li Qingshan despite Lin Haokun’s warning about the Crimson Rainbow Federation.
• Ren Fanyu let Han Shan go, believing that killing Li Qingshan could help him complete the final step of Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens.

Youming dismissed the possibility that the Formless Celestial Devil was connected to Xie Sen, while Beiao watched with curiosity as Xie Sen’s trail of destruction continued. Zhihui revealed his plan to ambush Youming and explained that the battle would unfold across three layers, with Taishang’s misfortune potentially anchoring the bottom battlefield.

• Youming recognized the title Formless Celestial Devil from Xie Sen’s memories but concluded the resemblance was a coincidence.
• Beiao warned Youming that Zhihui might be plotting, but Youming insisted his forces could defeat Taishang and capture the Formless Celestial Devil.
• Beiao departed, privately wondering how Xie Sen’s destructive luck would interact with the gods’ proxies.
• Zhihui told Ye Tai that he planned to ambush Youming and explained that the conflict would span bottom, middle, and top battlefields.
• Zhihui said Taishang’s terrible misfortune might draw Youming’s Tenth Order forces and hold the bottom battlefield in place.

Zhihui warned Li Qingshan to strengthen his foundation before facing the many tenth-order aliens, but hinted that he would help him obtain a clan weapon. After Li Qingshan’s battle record made the Human Pantheon List, Zhihui revealed that recruiting him to No. 269 had been part of a deliberate plan.

• Zhihui explained that alien tenth-order beings emerged after the first agent fell to humanity, correcting his earlier account of how the path Above the Nine Heavens began.
• Zhihui ordered Li Qingshan to consolidate his foundation in the rear until he reached the ninth order, and Li asked whether No. 269 had captured any clan weapons containing evil god pollution.
• Zhihui assured Li that he would soon see a clan weapon, then left with Ye Tai before Li could ask what “soon” meant.
• The Human Pantheon List named Li Qingshan a Formless Grand General for destroying the Evil Horn Ancestral Land, prompting Exalted beings to debate Zhihui’s decision to recruit him.
• Ye Tai realized that Zhihui had brought Li to No. 269 because of the clan weapons in the nether lair, and Zhihui asked why he had wanted the Crown Prince in his army.