Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan learned that his new rank as a Grand General put him under Zhi Hui’s command, and he persuaded Zhi Hui to give him an army and the safe zones of No. 269. Zhi Hui warned that You Ming’s hundred Tenth Order alien races would target Li Qingshan on the front lines, but Li Qingshan seized on the prospect of being pursued.

• The Human Pantheon List named Li Qingshan a Grand General, astonishing Ye Tai and prompting Li Qingshan to recognize Zhi Hui’s intervention.
• Li Qingshan praised Zhi Hui’s supposed strategy and asked for his support as a newly appointed Grand General.
• Zhi Hui assigned all Star Forger Envoys and Light Chasing Legions under the nine Grand Generals to Li Qingshan, along with every safe zone of No. 269.
• Li Qingshan claimed his combat power barely exceeded the seventh stage of Star Extreme, and Zhi Hui explained that You Ming commanded a hundred Tenth Order alien races.
• Zhi Hui warned that Li Qingshan would face relentless pursuit on the front lines, and Li Qingshan eagerly asked whether the alien races would swarm after him.

After Li Qingshan’s final reading gave the epoch paragons an immense opportunity to transform, they thanked him and watched him gather the remaining world origin. He began shaping the origin into spheres to fulfill his promised reward, while the paragons’ competition for the four available spots remained unresolved.

• Suixin admitted he had understood Li Qingshan’s final reading only literally and had gained none of its profound insights.
• The epoch paragons compared their transformations, and Tu Xie challenged the others to spar while they were still beyond the heavens.
• Li Qingshan stopped Tu Xie with a hand on his shoulder, prompting the paragons to thank him for teaching the dao.
• Li Qingshan gathered the thousand remaining wisps of world origin and shaped them into spheres for the paragons as the reward he had promised.

Li Qishang quit his part-time job at Starlight Bar and reported his encounter with the suspected killers to the Patrol Bureau. After learning about the four realms of “Starry Sky Beckons,” he bought nutrient solution and used it to support further training, raising his Body Tempering progress to 10/100.

• Li Qishang sent a resignation letter and reported his encounter with Yellow Hair and the others to the Patrol Bureau.
• Yu Lei explained that “Starry Sky Beckons” had four realms—movement, power application, breathing, and muscle—and recognized Li Qishang as having mastered the third realm.
• Li Qishang bought ten bottles of primary nutrient solution and drank one after returning home.
• Li Qishang practiced “Starry Sky Beckons” for an hour, found that the nutrient solution eased his hunger and helped him recover, then trained again after dinner.
• Li Qishang’s Body Tempering progress increased from 9/100 to 10/100.

Li Qingshan escaped the hall as a Flesh Demon God formed, then watched Yu Man’s Cold Moon Shuttle destroy it. Yu Man recognized Li Qingshan’s talent and wondered if he was the genius her uncle had been searching for.

• The blood mist gathered in the arena and formed a flesh monster that suppressed the people in the hall, but Li Qingshan resisted its influence and retreated.
• The Cold Moon Shuttle cut down the monster’s tentacles and burned the creature to ashes with a laser.
• Yu Man arrived in her silver mecha and destroyed the remains of the suited man and beast, while Li Qingshan realized she was Yu Lei’s older sister.
• Yu Man reviewed simulated combat footage and discovered Li Qingshan had mastered Mystic Steps and Wind Shadow Saber in only two months.
• Yu Man considered that Li Qingshan might be the super genius her uncle had been searching for.

Ye Yukong explained that external-training methods came from the Crimson Rainbow Continent, a vast world with its own jianghu and martial arts traditions. Li Qingshan became interested in Endless Vitality’s unverified tenth layer and left determined to cultivate it once he could refine Star Origin Force.

• Ye Yukong told Li Qingshan that external-training cultivation methods came from the Crimson Rainbow Continent, where inhabitants lived in a world with its own jianghu.
• Ye Yukong explained that Endless Vitality could regenerate flesh and blood, but its supposed ability to make consciousness and body undying had never been verified beyond the ninth layer.
• Li Qingshan decided he could use his Martial Dao Space to pursue the method’s rumored tenth layer, while Ye Yukong warned him not to be arrogant and explained why the methods remained useful to some martial artists.
• Ye Yukong ended the lesson after mentioning that Wan had cultivated Titanium Extreme Golden Body, and Li Qingshan asked whether Zhou Yunze knew about Starry Sky Martial Arts.
• Ye Yukong said Zhou Yunze had chosen his own path, and Li Qingshan left, opened the mall, and resolved to cultivate Endless Vitality after his sixth transformation.

Li Qingshan cultivated to the fifth stage, forged the saber Thunderclap, and used it to wipe out Evil God Cultists across Horn Sector. As Xia Cunzhen pursued intelligence on Void God Sect remnants, he saw Thunderclap sweeping through space and recognized Li Qingshan's involvement.

• Li Qingshan realized his cultivation reflected the number of Quantum Star Nuclei in his body and resumed accelerated training.
• After a year of peace in Horn Sector, Kong Yang delivered coordinates of monitored Evil God Cultists and reported a palace prepared for Zhuang Chenxing.
• Li Qingshan named his newly forged saber Thunderclap and ordered his departments to wait for his signal before closing their net on the targets.
• Thunderclap appeared across Horn Sector and killed numerous Evil God Cultists, granting Li Qingshan experience and time in the Martial Dao Space.
• After Xia Cunzhen confronted Li Qingshan over the Reconnaissance Office's cleanup operations, Xia set out to pursue Void God Sect remnants and saw Thunderclap sweeping through the Hyperspace Channel.

Li Qingshan learned that Coiling Dragon Auction House had been destroyed and received Li Wenbo’s evidence linking thirty-eight powerful figures to its crimes. He refused to report the matter to the Azure Dragon Council, declaring that the Demon Subjugation Division would handle it itself.

• Tu Shen told Li Qingshan that Zhuang Chenxing had led multiple departments in destroying Coiling Dragon Auction House.
• Li Qingshan watched Li Wenbo’s message, which revealed that Coiling Dragon had built a vast network called the Web across Horn Sector.
• Li Qingshan opened Li Wenbo’s files and found records implicating thirty-eight Eighth Order Myriad Manifestations as Coiling Dragon clients.
• Tu Shen warned that confronting the powerful clients could put Li Qingshan in danger and trigger a crisis across Horn Sector.
• Li Qingshan said he would not report the evidence to the Azure Dragon Council and insisted the Demon Subjugation Division would settle the case.

Li Qingshan visited Yuelai Inn to read the newly manifested Heaven, Earth, and Human rankings and learned about the legendary Sword God Feng Boyong. When the Three Rivers Gang tried to kill him for standing in their way, he effortlessly burned its attackers to ash.

• Li Qingshan followed the crowd to Yuelai Inn and heard that the three rankings had appeared across the cities.
• He asked about the Sword God, and a cyan-robed man explained that Feng Boyong had cleaved the sky and forced Lingtian Sect to relocate a millennium earlier.
• The Three Rivers Gang arrived, and Li Qingshan stayed to read the rankings despite warnings about the gang's grandmaster.
• The gang surrounded Li Qingshan and attacked him, but he remained standing as lightning turned the attackers into charred corpses and ashes.

As Li Qingshan entered the Heavenly Dao Cycle to contend with the Spirit Controlling Evil Lord and seek his Dao through reincarnation, time within the cycle accelerated. In Seven Stars City, Li began constructing an enormous Inner World through Heaven-Human Unification, while Long Yeyun learned what he had chosen and decided to wait for the result.

• Old Taoist Tianji observed the Heavenly Dao Cycle accelerating and worried that Li Qingshan and the Spirit Controlling Evil Lord would be worn down by repeated reincarnations.
• In Seven Stars City, martial artists celebrated the crisis ending, then watched Li Qingshan manifest an Inner World that continued expanding through Heaven-Human Unification.
• The Human Ranking geniuses and sect leaders marveled at the size of Li Qingshan's Inner World, while Long Yeyun and the other Outer World Celestials worried that he was confronting the Spirit Controlling Evil Lord.
• Old Taoist Tianji's sight and cultivation returned, and he told Long Yeyun that Li Qingshan had entered reincarnation to contend with the Spirit Controlling Evil Lord and comprehend his own Dao.
• Long Yeyun accepted that time in the cycle had accelerated and chose to wait confidently for Li Qingshan's return.

After Li Qingshan finished reading the Heavenly Tome, the Epoch Paragons realized his immense willpower had let them glimpse a path toward transforming their True Forms. Despite warnings about the tome’s danger, Li Qingshan began reading it again, intent on gaining more from its pages.

• Feng Boyong and the other Epoch Paragons concluded that Li Qingshan had resisted the Heavenly Tome’s pollution through extraordinary willpower.
• You Qixuan and the other Epoch Paragons yearned to hear the tome again, hoping to deepen their Martial Dao and refine their True Forms.
• Feng Boyong warned everyone not to grow greedy, reminding them that the Heavenly Tome belonged to the Mind Fiend Progenitor and could be dangerous.
• Li Qingshan began reading the Heavenly Tome a second time, and the surrounding Epoch Paragons were drawn into enlightenment again.
• Li Qingshan endured the tome’s growing pollution and focused on its pages, while a cultivation technique entry began to appear on his illusory panel.

Yue Zhen explained that the officials were waiting to see which district Li Qingshan would appear in, then vowed to teach him self-awareness. At the Absolute Flame Sect, Tu Shen confronted Sect Master Zhuo Qun over Ma Anren as three Fang District ministers arrived and questioned whether there was evidence of collusion with evil gods.

• Yue Zhen told his assistant that the officials across eight districts were waiting to learn where Li Qingshan would appear.
• Yue Zhen declared that he would teach Li Qingshan the principle of self-awareness.
• Tu Shen sent Ya Lie to destroy the Absolute Flame Sect's gate tower, but Zhuo Qun appeared and blocked the attack.
• Tu Shen accused Ma Anren of numerous crimes, while Zhuo Qun dismissed the charges as insufficient grounds to take him away.
• Qi Zhongqiu, Minister An, and Minister Yu arrived, confirmed the listed crimes, and asked Tu Shen whether his division had evidence that Ma Anren colluded with evil gods.

Li Qingshan began his attempt to surpass the seventh-rank limits by transforming his body into a star, while the Four Saints Star System and distant research groups watched the live broadcast. After forming a stellar core, he successfully ignited it and became a brilliant blue-white sun.

• Li Qingshan gave Chi Wen a counter and a chip containing a paper and a personal message before moving away from the cameras.
• Li Qingshan registered his attempt to become a celestial body through the network and dispersed his body into golden particles.
• The particles formed a massive gaseous planet, which collapsed over nearly ten minutes into a proto-stellar core as researchers and spectators watched.
• Wan Keshan reassured Zhao Yang that Li Qingshan's star would light up while she worried that there were no stars in the sky.
• Li Qingshan ignited the stellar core and became a newborn blue-white sun, achieving Apotheosis as a Star.

Li Qingshan and the others entered the heavily guarded Data Center beneath Erosion Dream Tower, where Shi Tianhe claimed there was no Mining Operation. Shi Tianhe revealed that his true spirit survived through the God Realm and trapped Li Qingshan in a virtual city, but Li Qingshan appeared within it as a vast, starlit presence.

• In Nova, citizens discussed the alleged Mining Operation and planned to demand better terms from the Erosion Dream Group.
• Shi Tianhe led Kong Lanxin, Li Qingshan, and the three family chairmen through twenty sealed doors to a vast hall filled with servers and ash urns.
• Kong Lanxin found no evidence of the Mining Operation, and Shi Tianhe demanded an explanation from Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan struck Shi Tianhe's body with a flower bud, but Shi Tianhe's voice soon spoke from the servers and declared his true spirit protected in the God Realm.
• The servers exploded, and green data streams enveloped Li Qingshan, carrying him into a virtual city where Shi Tianhe announced he would sacrifice Li Qingshan's true spirit.
• A starlit face appeared above the virtual city's clouds, and Li Qingshan said, “Now, I'm in.”

Li Qingshan killed Liang Mingyu and another Evil God Cultist, then uncovered evidence that Zhu Ping had used clones for sacrifices. Zhu Ping confronted him aboard a bus, but Li Qingshan revealed that he had acted as bait to lure Zhu Ping into a trap, just as his teacher arrived.

• Li Qingshan killed Liang Mingyu and attacked Number 5, a monster who regenerated from his wounds, before a black mech struck it and Li Qingshan finished it off.
• Zhu Ping arrived, praised Li Qingshan, and let him leave the scene, while Li Qingshan messaged someone and headed back to school.
• Inside the Martial Dao Space, Li Qingshan recognized the recorded monster as a younger Zhu Ping and inferred that Zhu Ping had been raising clones for sacrifices.
• Zhu Ping stopped Li Qingshan's bus, put the passengers to sleep, and questioned him about his suspicions and apparent support.
• Li Qingshan told Zhu Ping that his investigation had been too easy and suggested he had been used as bait; his teacher then roared and descended in a blaze of golden light.

Ling Siyuan and Fu Yu’s attempt to lure Li Qingshan to the Crimson Rainbow Continent ended when he revealed he already knew about the White Tiger Pearl. After Lu Yan explained the dangers beyond the World Gate, Li Qingshan spent months preparing, raising Endless Vitality to its ninth layer.

• Ling Siyuan decided to abandon Lingtian Corporation and travel with Fu Yu to the Chaotic Star Sea to buy Flame Sun Elixir and lure Li Qingshan back to the Crimson Rainbow Continent.
• Li Qingshan learned from Lu Yan that a Lingtian Sect disciple who entered the White Tiger Forbidden Land had likely returned with the White Tiger Pearl, while Lingtian Corporation collapsed under pressure.
• Ling Siyuan bought Flame Sun Elixir at the Chaotic Star Sea auction and returned with Fu Yu, but Lu Yan blocked their path at the World Gate.
• Li Qingshan arrived and revealed that he already knew about the White Tiger Pearl and planned to collect it from Lingtian Sect himself.
• Lu Yan warned Li Qingshan that the Crimson Rainbow Continent had many Outer World Realm experts, and Li Qingshan resolved to prepare before entering.
• Li Qingshan cultivated for three months and raised Endless Vitality from the seventh layer to the ninth layer.

As the Lingtian Sect arrived at Seven Stars City with overwhelming force, Long Yeyun revealed hundreds of Outer World Celestials and appointed Li Qingshan to command the defense. Li Qingshan assured Old Taoist Tianji that a back-up plan would keep him and his disciple safe, leaving the city’s true preparations unrevealed.

• Lingtian Sect’s arrival sent the Jianghu veterans into panic, while Jiang Lei urged Li Heta to stay and watch Li Qingshan.
• Human Ranking prodigies greeted Li Qingshan, who welcomed them and promised them a feast.
• Long Yeyun summoned hundreds of Seven Stars Sect Outer World Celestials, prompting the gathered sect leaders to pledge their support despite realizing they were outnumbered.
• Long Yeyun said the guests would not need to fight, then Yan Kang informed Li Qingshan that he would command the operation.
• Old Taoist Tianji urged Li Qingshan to escape, but Li Qingshan assured him that the back-up plan would keep him and his disciple safe.

Li Qingshan learned that Lingtian Corporation had fabricated the Flame Sun Elixir auction to lure him toward the Chaotic Star Sea, and asked Lu Yan about ninth-turn treasures on Crimson Rainbow Continent. As he prepared to cultivate before going there, the Star Academy announced an investigation and escort operation targeting Lingtian Corporation.

• Ding Xuan warned Li Qingshan that the Flame Sun Elixir auction in the Chaotic Star Sea had suspicious details and advised him to wait for the Star Academy's verification.
• Cao Ya told Li Qingshan that the auction news was fake and linked its spread to Fu Yu's travels and Lingtian Corporation.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Yan about the scheme, and Lu Yan promised to make Lingtian Corporation pay while explaining that Crimson Rainbow Continent's Primal Dragon and White Tiger Forbidden Lands might contain ninth-turn treasures.
• Li Qingshan asked Lu Yan to investigate whether Lingtian Sect possessed ninth-turn heavenly treasures for Han Shan, then resumed cultivation to prepare for Crimson Rainbow Continent.
• The Star Academy posted thousands of missions, suspending Lingtian Corporation's commercial activities and directing students to investigate its branches and escort the company.

Li Qingshan logged into the combat space for the first time in twenty days, drawing students and teachers from across the Crimson Rainbow Star Region to watch. He faced Diamond-ranked Kong Siqi and activated the fifth level of the Blood Ignition Sacred Art as the match began.

• Zhuang Yitong, Tian Wenyu, Xiao Ming, and students across the Crimson Rainbow Star Region received alerts that Li Qingshan was online and hurried to watch.
• Lu Yan notified Ye Yukong, who learned that Li Qingshan had reached Diamond rank twenty days earlier; Lu Qing rushed to see the match for herself.
• Spectators gathered and debated whether Li Qingshan could reach the Meteor Ranking, while Lu Yan and Ye Yukong watched from the stands.
• Li Qingshan matched against Kong Siqi, a Diamond-ranked tenth-year student from Linguang Academy, who questioned his use of the Blood Ignition Sacred Art.
• Li Qingshan said he practiced the art because it was the strongest, then unleashed its power in a blazing burst of rainbow light.

Li Qingshan escaped Hu Xiaoxiao’s Paradise Space, killed her, and wiped out the Cat-Ear Clan forces attacking him in the Star Realm. He then sent an Antimatter Bomb through the World Gate, destroying the emerald planet as the world beyond began to shatter.

• Hu Xiaoxiao trapped Li Qingshan in Paradise Space, but he recognized the deception and returned with her to the Star Realm.
• Li Qingshan killed Hu Xiaoxiao after she fled, and the Faceless Demon God statue dissolved along with her corpse.
• The Cat-Ear Clan members charged Li Qingshan, who killed them with lightning and sent a Signal Flare to summon his allies.
• Xiang Wuji arrived with an Antimatter Bomb, and Li Qingshan threw it through the World Gate.
• The Antimatter Bomb exploded on the emerald planet, killing Shan Shuang and Hu Fang amid the destruction as the planet began to shatter.

Li Qingshan trained Wind Thunder Limitless to perfection while the Star Realm rifts multiplied and the academy evacuated its students. After requesting a mission from Dean Ye, he accepted a new order to clear the exotic beasts around the camp.

• Li Qingshan advanced Wind Thunder Limitless through repeated training and reached Limit Break Fifth Revolution 35/100 by April 1, receiving the final 500,000-point settlement from the underground cave and a report from Mou Yu about six new rifts.
• By May 1, Li Qingshan had raised Wind Thunder Limitless to Level Seven as Ye Yukong and Lu Qing tracked the growing number of rifts and planned an evacuation.
• As the rifts continued to appear, the academy evacuated nearly a million students from the Star Realm while Li Qingshan remained in seclusion.
• On June 1, Li Qingshan had perfected Wind Thunder Limitless, contacted Dean Ye, and requested a mission.
• The students received a mission to explore the Star Realm and collect resources, then saw Li Qingshan accept a 2-million-point mission to clear exotic beasts within two hundred thousand kilometers of the camp.