Chapter Summaries

Tens of thousands of Starships began carrying Ziying Star’s ten billion evacuees home as people celebrated Li Qingshan’s role in saving them. While Ye Yukong predicted that Li Qingshan could claim first place on the Journey Stele, Li Qingshan returned to his dormitory to cultivate.

• The Starships’ passengers celebrated the return voyage and praised Li Qingshan after reading the announcement about his deeds.
• Lu Jing and Martial Arts Class students from Old Continent recognized Li Qingshan and shared their connections to him with excited crowds.
• Ye Yukong confirmed that Li Qingshan would depart for the Martial Dao Seven Stars in mid-August and said he could take first place on the Journey Stele.
• Lu Qing asked Li Qingshan to recount his battle, but he left her to deliver the report and returned to cultivate.
• Li Qingshan watched the Starships descend toward Ziying Star, then sat down in his cultivation room.

Li Qingshan and the new students attacked a star pirate camp, while he searched for hidden Evil God Cultists. After finding none among the pirates he killed in the air, he began searching the barracks and stopped a classmate from sparing an armed pirate disguised as a victim.

• Li Qingshan sent Sun Mengzhu, Su Zixian, and Bao Lang to fight Smiling Tiger, while the new students attacked the pirates on the ground.
• Li Qingshan killed ten Rainbow Transformation Realm pirates, but none awarded points for Evil God Cultists.
• As the students massacred the ground forces, Li Qingshan searched buildings and barracks for Evil God Cultists instead of continuing to collect points.
• Lu Yan explained to Ye Yukong and the teachers that Li Qingshan was hunting Evil God Cultists, and Ye Yukong said Li Qingshan had encountered them before.
• Li Qingshan killed a pirate woman who had fooled a hesitant student, revealing the laser gun she had hidden under her skirt.

Li Qingshan learned that a new battlefield would open and rushed to enter its rifts, while Ren Han warned him about the danger of Seventh Order beings. Across the foreign realm, the Celestial Demons launched attacks, and Blood Yin revealed that the Blood Rot Clan had used the alien clans as bait to lure out human prodigies.

• Ren Han learned that Li Qingshan had completed the eighth refinement and explained that he still needed fifty million war merits for the Ninth Grade Thunder Pool.
• Ren Han told Li Qingshan that the military had confirmed a new foreign realm, and Li Qingshan hurried away after promising to flee if he could not win.
• Li Qingshan found the War Merit Hall empty, received the new battlefield notice, and entered a rift after Kong Yang offered him first choice.
• Kong Yang reassured Kong Yin and the Niu Brothers that Li Qingshan could not take every opportunity, while human prodigies surged through rifts across the Horn Sector.
• Xie Sen watched Sixth Order foundations shatter as alien clan chiefs learned their planets had been attacked.
• Blood Yin told the clan chiefs that their clansmen were bait in the Blood Rot Clan's plan to kill human prodigies and promised that the starry sky would soon return to peace.

You Qixuan and other Executive Directors gathered souls and World-Breaking Talismans for Li Qingshan, who studied an eighth-rank talisman and used the captured immortals as bait to attract stronger targets. Meanwhile, Xuan Ling sent Ten Direction Immortal Court members to the lower realms, urging them to hide and strike the Heavenly Devils before he ran out of food.

• You Qixuan handed Hao Peiyun a captured soul sphere and a World-Breaking Talisman after she promised Li Qingshan would reward him with Myriad Manifestations Profound Yellow.
• Across the Azure Wave Myriad Realms, Executive Directors captured lower-realm immortals and sent their souls and World-Breaking Talismans to World No. 9527.
• Li Qingshan examined an eighth-rank World-Breaking Talisman, gave its wordless jade page to Xingyun, and added the captured soul to the cavern ceiling.
• Li Qingshan told Tianyun he was gathering the captured immortals like bait, waiting for stronger fish to arrive before casting his net.
• Xuan Ling told the Profound Sword Heavenly Palace disciples that more than three hundred Ten Direction Immortal Court members had descended safely, then sent them to conceal themselves and attack the Heavenly Devils.

After Zhao Ran, Tu Wei, and Yang Xiaoyu emerged from the World Gate with the Flame Sun Elixir, Li Qingshan protected Yang Xiaoyu from teachers demanding she return her share. As the Starship departed the Chaotic Star Sea, Li Qingshan warned You Xinghan to beware of star pirates and vowed to return.

• After a day of silence, Tu Wei and Zhao Ran emerged from the World Gate, followed by Yang Xiaoyu and the other prodigies pursuing her for the Flame Sun Elixir.
• Li Qingshan stopped the prodigies' attacks and confirmed that Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu had each obtained a Flame Sun Elixir.
• Fang Qinghua and Teacher Liu accused Yang Xiaoyu of taking an opportunity meant for the hundred regions and demanded she return her share, but Li Qingshan declared her his student.
• You Xinghan and the other teachers sided with Li Qingshan to claim the Flame Sun Elixir for themselves, forcing Teacher Liu to back down.
• Li Qingshan helped Tu Wei aboard the Starship, promised Fifth Master Yuan he would return, and warned You Xinghan to be careful traveling through the star-pirate base.

Li Qingshan used his sunshine-like power to make the five Island Lords accept him as Chief and summoned a meeting at Primal Residence. He revealed that Tu Xie and eight other companions had second-transformed True Forms, then announced the meeting would address alien Evil Gods.

• Li Qingshan's sunshine quelled the battle and made the five Island Lords acknowledge him as Chief.
• Li Qingshan took up residence in Primal Residence and called the island's leaders to a meeting.
• Tu Xie challenged the five Island Lords, but Li Qingshan stopped the confrontation and said Tu Xie was not yet their match.
• Li Qingshan revealed that Tu Xie, Feng Boyong, and the other seven companions had all undergone a second transformation of their True Forms.
• Li Qingshan opened the meeting by declaring that they would discuss alien Evil Gods.

Chu Qing warned Lu Bing that Li Qingshan had invited the First Seats of all ten islands to Primal Island, prompting Lu Bing to accept and prepare her mechanical legion. As the island leaders considered the gathering, Sheng Tian learned that his people had captured a living member of the Blood Rot Clan.

• Chu Qing told Lu Bing that Li Qingshan had secured Primal Island's First Seat and sent an invitation to discuss an alliance of the ten islands.
• Lu Bing accepted Li Qingshan's invitation and activated her unmanned mech legion for the journey to Primal Island.
• Peng Xinghan, Shi Kang, and Zheng Zicheng each reacted to Li Qingshan's invitation, with Peng Xinghan deciding to attend.
• Sheng Tian rejected the invitation as a trap that would put him at a disadvantage, then learned a Blood Rot Clan member had been captured alive.
• Sheng Tian stared at the messenger in surprise and asked whether they had truly caught a living Blood Rot Clan member.

Li Qingshan reunited with Chu Hong, Zhao Ran, Qin Feng, and Tu Wei before they traveled toward the World Gate in the Chaotic Star Sea. When the chosen ones from a hundred domains gathered there to set the rules for their contest, Li Qingshan arrived and offered to speak.

• Li Qingshan welcomed Chu Hong and his former classmates Qin Feng and Tu Wei aboard his ship, and they discussed the dangers awaiting the chosen ones at the World Gate.
• Li Qingshan told Zhao Ran that she would likely have no time to consume the Flame Sun Elixir after finding it, and suggested the Chaotic Star Sea’s star pirates could keep other domains from taking it away.
• Yang Xiaoyu reached the World Gate as a captive star pirate, but learned the chosen ones from a hundred domains had claimed the area and recognized Li Qingshan among the arrivals.
• Fifth Master Yuan declared that the Chaotic Star Sea would stay out of the Chosen Contention and invited the teams to decide the rules themselves.
• Li Qingshan descended before the gathered teams and offered to bring up a proposal, while Yang Xiaoyu saw him and lost hope of claiming the World Gate.

Li Qingshan heard Lu Tao’s account of Pang Yan’s inexplicable rise from a frail child to a powerful cultivator, which suggested that evil gods were involved. After releasing Lu Tao, Li Qingshan prepared to travel toward the Far West to investigate evil specters, while the Sky Wolf Gang sent him a gift he refused.

• Li Qingshan invited the kneeling Lu Tao into the Seven Stars Sect manor, where Lu Tao apologized and asked him to spare the Sky Wolf Gang.
• Lu Tao explained that Pang Yan had once been a frail child with poor aptitude, disappeared alongside a young genius, and later reappeared as a Qi Blood Transformation cultivator traveling with Shen Lingyun.
• Lu Tao said Pang Yan’s sudden changes in aptitude coincided with the deaths of geniuses and warned that the Harmony Convergence Feast might involve a conspiracy by evil gods.
• Li Qingshan let Lu Tao leave, saying their dispute was about upholding justice and killing him would harm the sect’s reputation.
• Li Qingshan ordered preparations to gather reports of evil specters along his route and set out toward the Far West.
• A Sky Wolf Gang messenger presented Li Qingshan with a wooden box, which Li Qingshan refused; the gray-robed man opened it and found a bald head inside.

Li Qingshan called Suixin after twelve years and discovered that the monk was in Xin District with Chi Baixiu of the Chiwen Clan. After smoothing things over by calling her his sister-in-law, Li Qingshan asked Suixin for his master's and martial uncles' contact information, then ended the costly call.

• Li Qingshan tried to call Suixin and paid steep fees to connect across star regions and districts.
• Suixin answered from Xin District and begged Li Qingshan for help while sitting beside Chi Baixiu, a towering woman with silver scales.
• Li Qingshan mistook Chi Baixiu's scales for those of the Silver Python Clan, and Suixin explained that the Chiwen Clan was an Azure Dragon bloodline lineage.
• Li Qingshan called Chi Baixiu his sister-in-law, calming her anger and prompting her to leave the two men to talk.
• Li Qingshan asked Suixin to send the contact information for his master and martial uncles, then disconnected as soon as Suixin sent it.

After eliminating Shi Tianhe and exposing Erosion Dream Group’s corruption, Li Qingshan took control as Dick Federation council speaker and planned how to stabilize Dick Star. He left the chapter preparing to summon old allies and address the population’s restlessness.

• Li Qingshan questioned the other company chairmen about underground bases, then considered how to prevent unrest after Erosion Dream Group’s entertainment industry was disrupted.
• Facing a protesting crowd, Li Qingshan said Dick Star needed a thorough washing, scheduled the unfinished meeting for three months later, and proposed that the academy leave the two vacant council seats unfilled.
• Li Qingshan returned to Dick Academy, told Gao Nianren he was acting dean and council speaker, and promised the academy would return to normal in twenty years.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Yan that Shi Tianhe was dead and asked him to report the case to the Demon Subjugation Division, inform Zhao Ran of Wei Huaian’s death, and invite Tian Qingchuan, Qiao Jingxing, and other Inner Scene prodigies to gather.
• Li Qingshan searched his contacts for Suixin, the Little Monk, as he prepared to calm Dick Star.

The Yuan leaders carried a sleeping horned boy toward the Chaotic Star Sea, planning to escape the Azure Dragon Star System after fulfilling their promise to First Master Xiao. When they arrived, Li Qingshan was already waiting for them, and First Master Yuan prepared to confront him.

• First Master Yuan refused to pursue the crippled Cao Family battleship and said the Yuan leaders had done enough by sending Li Qingshan a warning video.
• The Yuan leaders watched over a sleeping, chubby boy with ram horns sealed inside a glass cabinet, whom they called their target.
• Ten days later, the Yuan battleship reached the Chaotic Star Sea, and First Master Yuan ordered the group to contact their allies and prepare to leave the Azure Dragon Star System.
• After the hyperspace jump, First Master Yuan spotted a figure on the screen where the Planetary-class Battleship had once been stationed.
• The figure was Li Qingshan, who welcomed the Yuan leaders; they were shocked he had arrived before them, then First Master Yuan dismissed their doubts and prepared to use the Planetary-class Battleship against him.
• Li Qingshan said their return had been earlier than he expected, but that it did not matter.

After breaking through to Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens, Li Qingshan confronted Shi Zhenghong, the Demon Flame Gate elder and Pang Yan’s master, over Pang Yan’s death. He left the manor safely and promised Tian Qingchuan and Qiao Jingxing that he would help them get revenge.

• Li Qingshan emerged from the chamber after his breakthrough and sensed the Demon Flame Gate arriving.
• Shi Zhenghong appeared in black-and-red flames and demanded to know what had happened to Pang Yan.
• Li Qingshan accused Pang Yan of betraying the Evil God and demanded that the Demon Flame Gate answer for the deaths at the Harmony Convergence Feast.
• Shi Zhenghong challenged Li Qingshan but ultimately let the Human Ranking prodigies leave, then hinted that he could seek revenge for his disciple.
• Li Qingshan departed after reminding Shi Zhenghong of his former disciple Shen Lingyun, leaving Shi Zhenghong shaken.
• Outside the oasis, Li Qingshan reassured the gathered prodigies and promised Tian Qingchuan and Qiao Jingxing that he would help them get revenge.

Li Qingshan detonated his true spirit inside the God Realm, devastating Beiao and the realm’s foundations, then reappeared unharmed and attacked again. Beiao realized the Formless Celestial Devil’s fortune had let him survive, but the ruined God Realm was destroyed before he could send a warning.

• Li Qingshan threatened to use Celestial Devil Disintegration, and Beiao offered to let him leave while sparing Celestial Devil Island.
• Li Qingshan refused and detonated his true spirit, tearing apart the God Realm and leaving Beiao to struggle to reform his body.
• Beiao blamed Li Qingshan for the damage and decided to use Celestial Devil Island to restore the God Realm’s foundations.
• Li Qingshan appeared unharmed and announced that he would detonate his true spirit again, while Beiao realized his fortune had enabled him to survive.
• Beiao tried to send news to the gods through Xie Sen, but another blast shattered the heavens and annihilated the God Realm before he could act.

Li Qingshan completed Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens and broke through to Aperture Opening, gaining vastly expanded apertures and transformed Star Origin Force. He assessed his new strength and resolved to strive harder, with Heaven-Human Unification still ahead.

• At the Demon Flame Gate, Shi Zhenghong and two elders discussed the starlight descending over the Harmony Convergence Feast and hoped Pang Yan would achieve Heaven-Human Unification and help their sect surpass the Two Sects.
• At the oasis, Tian Qingchuan and the other Human Ranking prodigies realized that the nine streams of ancient Star Origin Force were pouring into Li Qingshan's room as he broke through.
• Li Qingshan absorbed the starlight, expanded his nine apertures, and advanced from Limit-Breaking Nine Revolutions to Aperture Opening 9000/ on his panel.
• Li Qingshan tested his inky lightning plasma and concluded that he could kill Nan Jianyang without using the Blood Ignition Sacred Art.
• Li Qingshan noted that completing the Celestial Phenomenon Seven Arts would let him achieve Heaven-Human Unification, then looked at his Martial Dao Space and vowed to strive harder.

Li Qingshan arranged for Star Source Mining to help rebuild Dick Star and welcomed the Human Ranking prodigies and Zhao Ran to the Star Academy. After Zhao Ran mourned Dean Wei, Li Qingshan appointed himself her dean, while Yang Xiaoyu and Yin Zhengyu continued searching for a ninth-turn heavenly treasure so she could catch up to him.

• Li Qingshan asked Cao Ya to establish Star Source Mining on Dick Star, and Cao Ya promised to begin arrangements while asking him to keep Cao Shaoyu's long sleep confidential.
• Over the following months, Dick Star's citizens returned to work in the Star Realm, and Gao Nianren began rebuilding the Second Continent with the four major companies.
• Li Qingshan welcomed Qiao Jingxing, Tian Qingchuan, and nearly a hundred Human Ranking prodigies arriving at Dick Primary Star.
• Li Qingshan brought Zhao Ran to Wei Huaian's grave, shared Wei Huaian's final message, and told her to call him Dean.
• On Qinghui Star, Yang Xiaoyu urged Yin Zhengyu to stop searching for a ninth-turn heavenly treasure, but Yin Zhengyu insisted she needed to catch up to Li Qingshan.

Yu Ling awakened a month late in a new life and set out to find Li Qingshan, but Li Qingshan had already awakened and settled beside the General's Manor. After eighty-nine years, Yu Ling died without confronting him, while Li Qingshan prepared to meet him again in another life.

• Yu Ling awakened at eleven years and one month, realized Li Qingshan might still be unawakened, and resolved to find him before he could hide again.
• Yu Ling demanded to practice martial arts, but the General sent him back to the grand camp; Li Qingshan completed a courtyard purchase and planted two saplings nearby.
• Li Qingshan confirmed he had awakened at eleven and began training with Mountain Shattering Fist while Yu Ling cultivated and rose to power.
• Eighty-nine years later, Yu Ling saw the mature trees and died, still wondering why Li Qingshan had not confronted him.
• Li Qingshan watched Yu Ling die beneath the catalpa tree, then closed his eyes and said they would meet again in the next life.

Li Qingshan secretly destroyed Black Mountain with a single saber strike, then continued training while Wang Hong brought him news of the bandits’ deaths. Far away, Yu Ling ordered a list of young martial artists across all ranks and fixed his attention on Li Qingshan.

• Middle-aged men at Black Mountain rejected the bandit chief’s scheme to attack Linjiang County, and Zhao killed the chief when he urged them to act.
• Li Qingshan struck Black Mountain from above with Mountain-Crushing Saber, killing the men there and razing the mountain.
• Wang Hong told Li Qingshan that Black Mountain had been wiped out, while Li Qingshan calmly concealed his role and continued practicing Wind Thunder Kick.
• Yu Ling dismissed reports about reclusive Heaven Rank experts and ordered his subordinate to gather names of young talents across the Earth Rank and Mortal Rank.
• Yu Ling studied the list and vowed to find Li Qingshan soon.

Li Qingshan destroyed the virtual city Shi Tianhe called the God Realm and killed him, then escaped the underground base with the others. He left with a massive increase in Martial Dao Space experience and available time.

• Shi Tianhe explained that the God Realm preserved true spirits, while Li Qingshan identified the Abyss of Depravity beyond the virtual city.
• Li Qingshan thanked Shi Tianhe for revealing the city and summoned falling stars that shattered the virtual city and killed Shi Tianhe.
• In the underground base, Kong Lanxin and the chairmen of the Zhang, Zheng, and Li families waited as Li Qingshan emerged from the data streams.
• Li Qingshan confirmed Shi Tianhe was dead and used a green lotus bud to silently destroy the base's doors and protective shields.
• Li Qingshan led the others toward the elevator as his Martial Dao Space credited him with 1,100,000 experience and 1,100,000 additional years of available time.

Li Qingshan swallowed the White Tiger Pearl and used its baleful soul to complete the Limit-Breaking Nine Revolutions, opening his nine apertures and sensing the stars. His breakthrough drew the attention of powerful figures across the Crimson Rainbow Star Region, while Lin Haokun wondered whether his senior brother had succeeded.

• Li Qingshan swallowed the White Tiger Pearl and crushed the Wind Fiend White Tiger's remnant soul, using it to transform his body.
• Li Qingshan advanced from Limit-Breaking Eight Revolutions to Limit-Breaking Nine Revolutions and shattered his thousand false acupoints.
• Li Qingshan's nine apertures opened together and sensed the stars without relying on the panel.
• Figures in the seven Star Academies sensed the nine rays of starlight and recognized the return of the legend of Nine Revolutions to Ascend the Heavens.
• Old Taoist Tianji realized that the collapse of the Great Calamity's revival node might mean another great power had intervened, then looked west.
• Long Yeyun and Lin Haokun also sensed the dense Star Origin Force, and Lin Haokun wondered if his senior brother had succeeded.