Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fan cultivated for a month, raising his blood-energy value to seven million, before Cost Group's approaching team forced him and Zhan En to prepare for a confrontation. The team's spacecraft struck their plasma shield, leaving the encounter unresolved.

• Jiang Fan and Zhan En agreed that stopping Cost Group from taking over Barbaric Planet would likely require a fight, though they could retreat if outmatched.
• Jiang Fan spent a month cultivating with Crystal Cores and increased his blood-energy value to seven million.
• Zhan En detected Cost Group's spacecraft approaching and called Jiang Fan to discuss their response.
• Jiang Fan told Zhan En to activate the plasma shield and block the spacecraft's flight path while staying ready to retreat.
• Cost Group's spacecraft arrived and slammed into the plasma shield, violently shaking Zhan En's spacecraft.

Zhan En blocked the Cost Group from taking over the God Kingdom's thirty-eight Barbaric Planets, and the two sides destroyed each other's aircraft in battle. After the survivors faced off in space, Jiang Fan defied the Cost Group leader and vanished as he declared that they would die.

• The Cost Group employees discovered that Zhan En had set up a plasma shield to stop their aircraft and learned he was the one defending the route.
• Zhan En rejected the Cost Group's claim to the God Kingdom's private holdings and vowed not to let them pass.
• The Cost Group leader ordered an attack, and Zhan En's aircraft returned fire until both aircraft were destroyed.
• Zhan En and Jiang Fan faced the Cost Group survivors, and the leader threatened them for opposing the Cost Group.
• Jiang Fan warned the Cost Group group that they would die, then vanished into the starry sky.

Jiang Fan killed the Cost Group team that attacked him and Zhan En, then set out for the former God Kingdom to prepare for the groups’ expected response. After more than a month of travel and cultivation, they arrived near the God Kingdom and planned to investigate the occupation before finding aircraft.

• Jiang Fan killed the Cost Group leader and the four employees who attacked him and Zhan En.
• Jiang Fan explained that Cost Group would take months to learn of the team’s deaths and proposed securing backup aircraft in the God Kingdom.
• Jiang Fan and Zhan En traveled toward Qiyuan Star Domain while monitoring Cost Group and Greck Group.
• During the journey, Jiang Fan raised his vitality to eight million, and Zhan En sensed that he had grown stronger.
• Near the former God Kingdom, Jiang Fan planned to investigate the groups’ encroachment and the status of news from the Barbaric Planet, then obtain aircraft from Jinuo Industrial Star.

Jiang Fan and Zhan En investigated the Greck Group and Cost Group’s takeover of the God Kingdom, then planned a raid on Jinuo Star to steal aircraft. They escaped with the warehouse’s small aircraft as security responded.

• Jiang Fan and Zhan En confirmed that the Greck Group had taken the God Kingdom’s Resource Stars while the Cost Group controlled its industrial and trade systems, and concluded that Jinuo Star belonged to the Cost Group.
• Jiang Fan and Zhan En found the aircraft production area on Jinuo Star and followed a parts shipment to the finished-goods warehouse.
• Jiang Fan and Zhan En determined that the warehouse held at least ten small aircraft and planned to seize them before the guards could react.
• Zhan En drew the guards away while Jiang Fan used the Bead Space to empty the warehouse of aircraft.
• Jinuo Star’s security officer arrived after the alarm sounded, but Jiang Fan vanished and reappeared aboard an aircraft with Zhan En, who ordered the pilot to retreat.

Serena investigated the theft of flying vessels from the Cost Group’s Jinuo Star industrial base and identified Jiang Fan as the likely culprit. She ordered the Sky Net to track him and discovered that her team had failed to report on the thirty-eight Barbaric Planets, whose contacts now would not answer.

• Serena learned that flying vessels had been stolen from Jinuo Star and was told the thieves had used Space Power.
• The head of security discovered that the Sky Net had detected an unidentified vessel whose timing matched the theft, but the system had whitelisted God Kingdom vessels.
• Serena learned that the vessel, serial number CS-M0004, was registered to Jiang Fan and recognized him as the youth from the Barbaric Planet.
• Serena ordered the Cost Group to track the vessel, told the Greck Group about the theft, and instructed security to shoot it down if Jiang Fan was aboard.
• Serena questioned a subordinate about the team sent to take over the thirty-eight Barbaric Planets and learned that the subordinate had neglected the matter.
• Serena and her subordinate tried contacting the team, but no one answered, leaving them alarmed.

Serena ordered Dannu to pursue Jiang Fan and Zhan En after learning they had seized a factory and fled toward the edge of the Qiyuan Star Domain. When Zhan En learned that Serena had sent her Level 11 bodyguard after them, Jiang Fan offered to remove his poisonous fungus and let him go, but Zhan En refused and turned to planning for Dannu's pursuit.

• Serena suspected Jiang Fan and Zhan En had defeated the Cost Group's squad and ordered Dannu to hunt them down.
• Sky Net tracked the fugitives' spacecraft toward the edge of the Qiyuan Star Domain, and Serena equipped Dannu's medium-sized spacecraft with an interstellar positioning system.
• Zhan En told Jiang Fan that the Cost Group had identified them and sent Dannu, a powerful Level 11 expert, after them.
• Jiang Fan said he would not run because of Blue Star and offered to remove Zhan En's poisonous fungus so he could leave.
• Zhan En refused to leave and insisted they focus on facing Dannu's pursuit.

Jiang Fan explained to Zhan En that they would draw Dannu and Cost Group’s forces toward the edge of Barbaric Planet to buy time to grow stronger. After more than a month of pursuit, Dannu learned that their aircraft had stopped and was nearly within reach.

• Jiang Fan told Zhan En they would fight Dannu at the edge of Barbaric Planet, where Cost Group’s forces would take longer to arrive and could be defeated in waves.
• Zhan En doubted Jiang Fan could grow strong enough to challenge Cost Group and worried they could not defeat Dannu, but Jiang Fan promised to protect him.
• Jiang Fan and Zhan En continued ahead in their fast aircraft while Dannu pursued them for more than a month.
• Dannu learned that Jiang Fan and Zhan En’s aircraft had stopped in Qiyuan Star Domain and celebrated as his aircraft closed in.

Dannu’s aircraft attacked Jiang Fan and Zhan En after confirming they were aboard, but Jiang Fan escaped with Zhan En and destroyed the aircraft with his giant sword. Dannu survived the wreckage, leaving Jiang Fan ready to fight him.

• Dannu prepared his aircraft’s weapons and shield as it closed in on Jiang Fan’s aircraft.
• Dannu questioned Jiang Fan, confirmed that Zhan En was with him, and fired all eight laser cannons.
• Jiang Fan carried Zhan En through space to escape the attack, then cleaved Dannu’s aircraft apart with his giant sword.
• Dannu emerged alive from the wreckage and shouted at Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan put away his sword and punched toward Dannu, intending to use him for practice.

Jiang Fan defeated Dannu, a Level 11 fighter from Cost Group, and killed him after he refused to reveal the group’s plans. When Serena called Dannu’s communicator, Jiang Fan answered.

• Jiang Fan relentlessly beat Dannu while Zhan En watched in shock and wondered how Jiang Fan had become so powerful.
• Jiang Fan suspended the battered Dannu and demanded to know Cost Group’s mission and plans, but Dannu refused to betray Serena.
• Jiang Fan killed Dannu with a finger strike and took his communicator.
• Jiang Fan saw that Dannu’s attempted call had failed, then answered an incoming call from Serena.

Serena learned that Jiang Fan had killed Dannu, and Jiang Fan mocked her before inviting her to come after him. Stunned by Jiang Fan’s strength, Serena weighed whether to kill or recruit him and summoned Zha Wen.

• Serena scolded her assistant for failing to connect Dannu’s calls, then called back and reached Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan told Serena that Dannu’s soul had returned to his homeland and challenged her to come kill him.
• Serena smashed her communicator and raged over Jiang Fan’s taunts and Dannu’s death.
• Serena considered how Jiang Fan had reached Level 11 and hesitated between recruiting him and killing him.
• Serena dismissed her assistant, then ordered him to summon Zha Wen, who arrived shortly afterward.

Serena consulted Zhawen about how to deal with Jiang Fan after he killed Dannu, torn between punishing him and recruiting his talent. Zhawen concluded that Jiang Fan was fighting to protect Blue Star and suggested using it as leverage to control him.

• Serena told Zhawen that Jiang Fan and Zhan En had killed Dannu after he was sent to resolve their conflict with the Coste Group.
• Serena explained that she wanted Jiang Fan to serve the Coste Group but worried that their existing feud made recruitment difficult.
• After questioning Serena about Jiang Fan's motives, Zhawen argued that profit alone could not explain his conflict with the Coste Group.
• Zhawen reasoned that Jiang Fan was protecting Blue Star, whose tribute policy could change under Coste Group rule.
• Zhawen advised Serena to send a team to Blue Star while bypassing Jiang Fan and Zhan En, giving the Coste Group leverage over him.

Jiang Fan tried to restrain the conflict with Cost Group while cultivating and waiting for Serena’s response, but Cost Group made no move for three months. Just as Jiang Fan considered returning to negotiate, the communicator seized from Dannu rang.

• Serena ordered Elder Zhawen to plan a new route to Blue Star and assemble a martial expeditionary team to defeat Jiang Fan and his companion in one strike.
• Zhan En urged Jiang Fan to pursue negotiations, but Jiang Fan said Cost Group had to initiate them and promised to stop fighting if they did.
• Jiang Fan reflected on the danger to Blue Star and cultivated with Crystal Cores, aiming to grow strong enough to crush Cost Group.
• After a month without news from Cost Group, Jiang Fan and Zhan En waited another month, but Serena still made no move.
• After a third month passed without Cost Group appearing, Zhan En suggested returning to negotiate, and the communicator seized from Dannu suddenly rang.

Serena revealed that the Cost Group had sent a Level 11 fleet to Blue Star and used its coordinates to pressure Jiang Fan into joining. Jiang Fan agreed to arrive at the Cost Group in a month and a half, then abruptly left to kill someone.

• Jiang Fan accepted Serena's call after three months of waiting for the Cost Group fleet.
• Serena revealed that the Cost Group had found Blue Star's coordinates and sent a Level 11 fleet there by a difficult route.
• Serena invited Jiang Fan to join the Cost Group, offering him a senior role and promising Blue Star would not be disturbed.
• Jiang Fan demanded that the Cost Group erase Blue Star's coordinates, but Serena said she would consider it if he performed well.
• Jiang Fan agreed to arrive at the Cost Group in a month and a half, then told Zhan En to pilot back to the Qiyuan Star Domain.
• Jiang Fan vanished and sped away in a new craft, saying he was going to kill people.

Jiang Fan rejected Serena’s attempt to force him into the Cost Group by threatening Blue Star and raced back to defend the planet. Meanwhile, Cost Group martial experts stationed near Blue Star believed Serena had made Jiang Fan submit and began discussing the planet as their future retreat.

• Zhan En warned Jiang Fan that Serena might be directing a trap, but Jiang Fan said he would make sure the team sent to Blue Star stayed there and disconnected.
• Jiang Fan transformed his spacecraft into gas and headed for Blue Star, planning to deal with the threat before returning to settle the score with Serena.
• Elder Zhawen and more than a dozen Cost Group martial experts watched Blue Star from orbit and discussed its beauty and resources.
• Elder Zhawen told the experts that headquarters had reported Jiang Fan agreed to join the Cost Group, and they celebrated Serena’s supposed success.
• Elder Zhawen said the group would withdraw after Jiang Fan joined, but its garrison on Blue Star would remain permanently, prompting the experts to consider applying for posts there.

Elder Zhawen’s group detected an unresponsive aircraft approaching and initially assumed it was a Cost Group support craft. After realizing it might be one of the aircraft stolen by Jiang Fan and Zhan En, they prepared for a confrontation, but a streak of light suddenly flashed past the Sky Screen.

• Elder Zhawen ordered the aircraft’s shields and combat modules activated after the approaching craft ignored their communications request.
• The intelligent pilot identified the craft as a newly manufactured, unregistered aircraft built by Cost Group.
• Elder Zhawen relaxed when his companions explained that Cost Group had begun producing aircraft at its new Jinuo Star base.
• Elder Zhawen recalled that Jiang Fan and Zhan En had stolen an aircraft on Jinuo Star and asked whether it could be one of the missing craft.
• The group realized Jiang Fan and Zhan En might be aboard the approaching aircraft, and a streak of light flashed past the Sky Screen before Elder Zhawen could finish issuing his alert.

Jiang Fan ambushed Elder Zhawen and Cost Group’s fighters in space, revealing that his agreement to join Cost Group had been a ruse. After killing the other Level 11 experts, he tracked down and executed the last fleeing fighter, leaving Cost Group’s attack force annihilated.

• Jiang Fan cut Cost Group’s aircraft in two and attacked Elder Zhawen, who recognized him and realized his surrender had been a ruse.
• Jiang Fan shattered Elder Zhawen’s arm in a clash, prompting the elder to order his fighters to attack together.
• Jiang Fan unleashed a force field that scattered the attackers, then killed the fighters who remained after his initial assault.
• Jiang Fan pursued and killed two fleeing Level 11 experts, then used his perception to find the last fighter hiding behind a massive rock.
• The last fighter offered Jiang Fan ten million Star Coins for mercy, but Jiang Fan took his Star Card and killed him.

Jiang Fan killed Elder Zhawen and his team, then returned to Zhan En and removed the toxic fungus space from his body. He urged Zhan En to leave while he prepared to confront Cost Group over its threat to Blue Star.

• Jiang Fan collected Star Cards from the dead and questioned Elder Zhawen about his plan to control him through Blue Star.
• Jiang Fan blamed Zhawen for the conflict and killed him as he spiraled into doubt about his failed scheme.
• Jiang Fan wiped out Zhawen’s twelve-person team, erased the remains, and returned to Zhan En a week later.
• Jiang Fan removed the toxic fungus space from Zhan En and told him he was free to leave.
• Jiang Fan said he intended to eliminate the threat from Cost Group, and Zhan En warned him about the group’s power and wealth.

Jiang Fan sent Zhan En away with a stolen spacecraft and Star Cards, while Zhan En gave Jiang Fan his remaining Crystal Cores to support his cultivation. Jiang Fan resumed his journey to Cost Group’s headquarters, calculating that he could reach roughly sixteen million vitality and blood before arriving.

• Jiang Fan gave Zhan En Dannu’s communicator, a stolen spacecraft, and five anonymous Star Cards, asking him to protect Blue Star if anything happened.
• Zhan En accepted the Star Cards and promised to help Blue Star, then gave Jiang Fan a storage box containing about ten million Crystal Cores.
• Jiang Fan and Zhan En parted ways, and Jiang Fan restored the spacecraft to full speed to avoid arousing Serena’s suspicions.
• Jiang Fan used the Crystal Cores to calculate that his vitality and blood could reach around sixteen million during the journey to Cost Group’s headquarters.
• Jiang Fan concluded that his strength and divine abilities should let him handle Cost Group’s Level 11 fighters.

Jiang Fan arrived at Canglan Star to confront the Cost Group, whose headquarters had moved into the God Kingdom’s former base. Serena welcomed him and revealed that she had witnessed his earlier encounter with Sailuo on Lakala Trading Planet.

• Jiang Fan spent two months cultivating aboard his aircraft while Zhan En reported that the Cost Group had sent no one else to the Barbaric Planet.
• Jiang Fan set his aircraft’s course for the God Kingdom’s former base on Canglan Star, now the Cost Group headquarters.
• Serena learned that Jiang Fan was approaching and instructed her assistant to bring him to her office, dismissing concerns that Elder Zhawen’s team had met with misfortune.
• Jiang Fan arrived at the Lotus Flower Architecture and followed a staff member to Serena’s office.
• Serena greeted Jiang Fan and said she had seen him confront Sailuo on Lakala Trading Planet, prompting Jiang Fan to ask if she had been there.

Jiang Fan and Serena tested each other before negotiating over his joining the Cost Group and the data on Blue Star. Serena revealed an ambush, and Jiang Fan prepared to fight the six Martial Artists she summoned.

• Jiang Fan accused Serena of manipulating past events and questioned whether she had ever intended to kill him.
• Serena invited Jiang Fan to join the Cost Group, offering him a high position and protection within the group.
• Jiang Fan demanded that the Cost Group erase all data and coordinates related to Blue Star, and Serena agreed in principle.
• Jiang Fan refused to trust Serena and declared that he had come to kill his enemies and destroy the Blue Star data.
• Serena summoned six powerful Martial Artists to attack Jiang Fan, who challenged them to prove his strength.