Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fan learned that his master, Huai Zhen, was the Lord of the Federal Deep Scar Division, then heard Huai Zhen offer him three cultivation techniques. When Jiang Fan demonstrated his Innate Breathing and Meditation Technique, Huai Zhen was stunned by its power.

• Jiang Fan was shocked to discover that Huai Zhen controlled the Federal Deep Scar Division, while Huai Zhen assured him he would not pressure him to join it.
• Huai Zhen explained that he had reviewed Jiang Fan’s records and selected three foundational techniques to address the shortcomings of his cultivation background.
• Jiang Fan hesitated over the techniques and explained that he had cultivated the Innate Breathing and Meditation Technique since becoming a Martial Artist.
• Huai Zhen asked Jiang Fan to demonstrate his technique, and Jiang Fan drew the Heaven and Earth Energy above Divine Mountain into the courtyard and absorbed it.
• Huai Zhen stared in stunned disbelief as Jiang Fan became enveloped in the gathered energy.

Huai Zhen examined Jiang Fan’s Innate Qi Absorption and Guidance Technique and realized how powerful it was, then began teaching him abilities, starting with Space Folding. Jiang Fan grasped how folding space could extend his teleportation range, potentially allowing travel between planets.

• Huai Zhen examined Jiang Fan’s cultivation and discovered that his technique rapidly absorbed, purified, and refined Heaven and Earth Energy, strengthening his body and meridians.
• Jiang Fan explained that he had obtained the technique in an ancient ruin on Blue Star, and Huai Zhen warned him and Ace not to reveal it to outsiders.
• Huai Zhen declined to adopt Jiang Fan’s technique because it differed from his own cultivation system and his lifespan was nearly exhausted.
• Jiang Fan described the abilities he had mastered, and Huai Zhen chose to teach him the Space Folding Technique.
• Huai Zhen demonstrated how Space Folding could bring distant locations closer together, and Jiang Fan realized it could greatly extend his teleportation range, perhaps even between planets.

Huai Zhen taught Jiang Fan several new abilities and told him to remain on the mountain until he reached Level 14. Ace led Jiang Fan to the Water Curtain Cave Heaven for cultivation resources and explained why Huai Zhen wanted him protected.

• Huai Zhen demonstrated Space Folding, then taught Jiang Fan how to use it and explained the principles of Time Reversal.
• Huai Zhen taught Jiang Fan additional abilities, including Energy Siphon and Mental Barrier, and told him to practice until he mastered them.
• Huai Zhen ordered Jiang Fan to cultivate on the mountain until he reached Level 14, then gave him the key to the Water Curtain Cave Heaven.
• Ace escorted Jiang Fan to the Water Curtain Cave Heaven and explained that the other disciples generally needed to reach Level 14 before leaving the mountain.
• Ace told Jiang Fan that his freedom outside the mountain made him more vulnerable, and Jiang Fan accepted Huai Zhen's decision as protection.

Jiang Fan spent a year cultivating in the Water Curtain Cave Heaven and reached Level 14, impressing Huai Zhen. As he prepared to leave the mountain, Huai Zhen described several organizations where his senior disciples worked, and Jiang Fan became interested in the Star Domain Frontier Guard.

• Ace showed Jiang Fan the Water Curtain Cave Heaven, taught him a secret technique for transmitting messages, and left him to cultivate on Kunlun Divine Mountain.
• Jiang Fan spent a year training with abundant resources, raising his blood and qi from 78 million to 138 million and honing Space Folding and Time Reversal.
• Jiang Fan told Huai Zhen that he had reached Level 14, and Huai Zhen praised his progress while warning him not to reveal his cultivation technique.
• Huai Zhen offered Jiang Fan four jade talismans representing organizations where his senior disciples served and mentioned Ace's Scar Division.
• Jiang Fan asked about the Star Domain Frontier Guard and became excited when Huai Zhen explained that it defended against Star Beasts and outside civilizations.

Jiang Fan learned about the Star Beasts and chose to join the Star Domain Frontier Guard, where his Senior Sister Chi Ling served. On his way back to Blue Star for a visit, he entered the Martial Arts Space and began the tenth trial.

• Huai Zhen explained that the Star Beasts had once overrun the Qiyuan Star Domain and that the Federal Army had driven them back behind a Beast-Repelling Barrier.
• Jiang Fan chose to go to the Star Domain Frontier, and Huai Zhen gave him a Red Talisman and warned him to stay cautious despite his Level 14 strength.
• Jiang Fan asked to visit Blue Star before reporting for duty, and Huai Zhen agreed to notify the Frontier Guard.
• Jiang Fan traveled toward Blue Star aboard a spacecraft and reflected on his past and the events that had brought him into the stars.
• Jiang Fan entered the Martial Arts Space and accepted its challenge to the tenth trial.

Jiang Fan swept through Martial Arts Space Levels 10 to 14, then challenged Level 15 and unexpectedly arrived on Blue Star at Kunlun Mountain. After flying to Kyoto, he found the city desolate and heard a beast roar.

• Jiang Fan defeated Gong Yanling's mechanical traps on Level 10 and gained the Mechanical Spirit Compendium, then cleared Levels 11 through 14 and received several abilities.
• Jiang Fan chose to challenge Level 15 despite feeling pressure on Level 14.
• Jiang Fan appeared atop Kunlun Mountain on Blue Star and decided to fly to Kyoto before investigating how he had arrived there.
• Jiang Fan reached Kyoto after three years away, found the city desolate, and turned toward a beast's roar.

Jiang Fan returned to Blue Star after three years away and discovered that strange beasts had overrun the planet. Xiao Longyuan explained that a Blood-haired Expert had defeated the Supremes and turned Blue Star into a hunting ground, while Jiang Fan’s family remained safe in another underground base.

• Jiang Fan found Kyoto City devastated by a giant strange beast and discovered that Aunt Su Qingwan’s villa and the Ninth Martial Arts University were abandoned.
• Jiang Fan sensed that strange beasts occupied nearly all of Blue Star and contacted Xiao Longyuan, who led him to a hidden underground base.
• Xiao Longyuan told Jiang Fan that a Blood-haired Expert had slaughtered the West’s strongest faction, destroyed Huaxia’s Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, and released the strange beasts.
• Xiao Longyuan explained that more than a thousand Supremes and Martial Arts Alliance experts had failed to defeat the Blood-haired Expert, forcing the survivors to hide underground.
• Xiao Longyuan told Jiang Fan that Su Qingwan’s family, the Jiang Family, and Dean Hong Tiangan were safe in another base, while civilians left on the surface were hunted by strange beasts.
• Jiang Fan learned that the Blood-haired Expert treated Blue Star as his pasture and angrily declared that he would pay for it.

Jiang Fan eliminated every alien beast on Blue Star, then confronted Zhou Shanwang, an extraterrestrial hunter far stronger than himself. As Zhou Shanwang threatened Blue Star, Jiang Fan chose to self-detonate, but he suddenly returned to the arena in the Martial Arts Space.

• Jiang Fan ignored Xiao Longyuan, Fei Ming, Zhan Tian, and the others’ warnings and went to confront the alien beast.
• Jiang Fan killed the enormous beast with a gigantic palm, then used Heaven and Earth Energy to kill every alien beast on Blue Star.
• Jiang Fan found the Blood-Haired Man outside Kyoto City and learned that he was Zhou Shanwang, an extraterrestrial who had come to herd and hunt.
• Zhou Shanwang overpowered Jiang Fan, and Jiang Fan realized he could not defeat the Level 15 Great Expert.
• Jiang Fan trapped Zhou Shanwang with force fields and self-detonated to protect Blue Star.
• Jiang Fan returned to the arena in the Martial Arts Space and wondered what had happened.

After completing the Level 15 challenge, Jiang Fan learned the origin of the Martial Arts Space and received the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique from its conscious creator. The old man reclaimed the space and urged Jiang Fan to cultivate the technique’s second realm so he could escape the Spirit Capturing Realm.

• Jiang Fan realized the final challenge had been a test, and the old man on the Green Ox revealed he was a conscious remnant in the Martial Arts Legacy Space.
• The old man explained that Advanced Civilizations oppressed Low-level Civilizations by draining spiritual energy and unleashing calamities, and that he had created the Martial Arts Space to preserve hope for the Human Race.
• The old man told Jiang Fan that arriving in a world rich in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had enabled his progress, and praised him for being willing to self-destruct to protect others.
• The old man passed the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique to Jiang Fan and described its first three realms, explaining that the second realm was necessary to escape the Spirit Capturing Realm.
• The old man said he would reclaim and redeploy the Martial Arts Space, then Jiang Fan's consciousness returned to the flying craft.

Jiang Fan left the Martial Arts Space behind and spent three months cultivating, mastering the first realm of the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique and greatly expanding his perception. He returned to Blue Star, confirmed that his family was safe, and reunited with Su Qingwan, who told him Xiao Ning had been out of contact for days.

• Jiang Fan learned that the old man would preserve his Space Folding Technique for future inheritors, then lost his chance to ask the old man more questions.
• During the journey, Jiang Fan raised his qi and blood to 156 million and comprehended the first realm of the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique, extending his perception to ten light-ranges.
• Jiang Fan stored his spacecraft in the Bead Space and teleported directly to Blue Star.
• Jiang Fan surveyed Blue Star, found it peaceful, and concluded that the Martial Arts Space trial’s frightening events had been shaped by his own fears.
• Jiang Fan appeared at Su Qingwan’s villa, where Su Qingwan embraced him in tears and said Xiao Ning had been out of contact for many days.

Jiang Fan returned home after three years away and reunited with Su Qingwan and Hong Tiangan. He learned that Ma Ning had stopped contacting her family, and after failing to find her at the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, he asked Hong Tiangan for news, only to discover that Hong Tiangan knew nothing either.

• Su Qingwan asked Jiang Fan where he had been, and he explained that he had spent the past three years traveling in the Qiyuan Star Domain.
• Su Qingwan told Jiang Fan that Ma Ning had joined the army and had not contacted the family for three months.
• Jiang Fan searched the military camps along the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall but could not find Ma Ning.
• Jiang Fan visited Hong Tiangan, who was overjoyed to see him alive and heard his account of the Qiyuan Star Domain.
• Jiang Fan asked Hong Tiangan about Ma Ning's disappearance, but Hong Tiangan was surprised and knew nothing about it.

Hong Tiangan told Jiang Fan that rumors of his death had stirred political opposition and that Ma Ning’s family had been targeted, prompting Jiang Fan to leave and investigate. At the Iron Wall Fortress, Major General Wang Zhenqing and his officers plotted to send Ma Ning’s unit into a deadly valley, until Jiang Fan’s voice interrupted them.

• Hong Tiangan explained that a Level 10 overseas Supreme and domestic factions had challenged Xiao Longyuan’s authority after rumors spread that Jiang Fan had fallen.
• Hong Tiangan said Ma Ning’s family had also faced hostility and suspected she had been ostracized in the military.
• Jiang Fan unleashed a terrifying aura in anger, apologized to Hong Tiangan, and vowed to resolve the problem before vanishing from the courtyard.
• Wang Zhenqing and his officers gloated over sending Ma Ning’s unit to Black Wind Valley, expecting most of them to die.
• Jiang Fan’s voice interrupted Wang Zhenqing, whose smug expression turned to panic.

Jiang Fan learned that Ma Ning had been sent to the dangerous Black Wind Valley and killed the Iron Wall commander and officers who had plotted against her. He cleared the surrounding area of mutant beasts and vanished toward Black Wind Valley to find her.

• Jiang Fan entered the command center and demanded to know where Ma Ning was.
• Wang Zhenqing revealed that Ma Ning was fifty kilometers southeast, in Black Wind Valley near an Abyss Rift.
• Jiang Fan recognized Wang Zhenqing as the person who had deliberately sent Ma Ning there and killed him.
• The officers blamed Wang Zhenqing, but Jiang Fan detected their lies and executed them all.
• Jiang Fan killed every mutant beast within a hundred-kilometer radius, then vanished toward Black Wind Valley.

Jiang Fan found the hidden Black Wind Valley and descended toward its Abyss Rift after realizing Ma Ning and her troops were trapped below. Ma Ning rallied her surviving soldiers despite their dwindling food and strength, while Jiang Fan began searching for them.

• Jiang Fan broke through Black Wind Valley’s protective shield and descended through the gravity field, identifying the rift beneath Five Finger Mountain.
• Jiang Fan realized Ma Ning and her troops could not withstand the mutated beasts and extended his consciousness toward the bottom of the valley.
• Ma Ning and the surviving soldiers retreated into a narrow cave after mutated beasts overwhelmed them, leaving several soldiers wounded.
• Yu Linmu told Ma Ning that their rations were running out, their strength was depleted, and attempts to contact the outside had failed.
• Ma Ning blamed herself for leading the troops into danger, then drew strength from her hope of seeing Xiao Fan Ge again and promised to find a way out for everyone.

Ma Ning’s unit discovered that Black Wind Valley’s gravity had suddenly returned to normal, giving them a chance to escape after three months trapped. Yu Linmu set out alone to seek reinforcements, and Ma Ning went to protect him when several Exotic Beasts surrounded him.

• A series of unexpected Gravity Field fluctuations swept through the cave, injuring one soldier and alarming Ma Ning.
• The fluctuations stopped, and the gravity around the unit returned to Blue Star’s normal level.
• Ma Ning ordered Yu Linmu to record the gravity changes for seven days, but Yu Linmu argued they should escape before the chance vanished.
• Yu Linmu volunteered to break out alone and seek military reinforcements, and Ma Ning ordered him to go.
• Several Exotic Beasts confronted Yu Linmu outside the cave, so Ma Ning went out to clear them away while ordering the others to stay behind.

Ma Ning and Yu Linmu faced a Level 6 Mutated Giant Ape and prepared to sacrifice themselves so their team could escape. A young man appeared just in time to stop them from self-detonating, leaving the Giant Ape confronting a new arrival.

• Ma Ning joined Yu Linmu in fighting Exotic Beasts, and they killed three before preparing to leave and send a message.
• A Level 6 Mutated Giant Ape appeared, blocking Ma Ning and Yu Linmu as they tried to retreat to the cave.
• Ma Ning attacked the Giant Ape and was thrown back, then began gathering energy to hold it off while Yu Linmu prepared to join her.
• Yu Linmu urged the others in the cave to escape while he and Ma Ning distracted the Giant Ape, and both began preparing to self-detonate.
• The Giant Ape laughed at their plan, but a young man appeared, restored the energy in their bodies, and asked whether the beast’s laughter had been funny.

Jiang Fan arrived at Black Wind Valley and saved Ma Ning and Yu Linmu from the giant ape, revealing himself to Ma Ning as her long-lost brother. After he annihilated the powerful beast with a casual wave, Ma Ning told Yu Linmu there was no need to seek reinforcements now that her brother was there.

• Jiang Fan arrived at the Abyss Rift and restored Ma Ning and Yu Linmu to normal after they had absorbed too much Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Ma Ning recognized Jiang Fan, and he scolded her for attempting to self-destruct before she happily embraced him.
• The enraged giant ape attacked Jiang Fan and Ma Ning, but Jiang Fan destroyed it with a casual wave.
• Yu Linmu realized Jiang Fan was the legendary Blue Star powerhouse and greeted him after Ma Ning introduced them.
• Yu Linmu prepared to leave for the Outside world to request reinforcements, but Ma Ning said Jiang Fan's arrival made that unnecessary.

Jiang Fan rescued Ma Ning, Yu Linmu, and twenty others from Black Wind Valley after removing its Gravity Field and exterminating its exotic beasts. At the Iron Wall Command Center, he revealed he had killed Major General Wang Zhenqing and his subordinates, appointed Yu Linmu as commander, and said the area around the defense line was clear of beasts for a year.

• Jiang Fan confirmed that he had eliminated Black Wind Valley’s Gravity Field and gathered everyone to leave.
• When exotic beasts roared from the fissure, Jiang Fan killed the beasts throughout the valley and used Space-Time Shift to take the group to the Iron Wall Command Center.
• Ma Ning and the others found Major General Wang Zhenqing and his direct subordinates dead, and Jiang Fan admitted that he had killed them for their crimes.
• Jiang Fan appointed Yu Linmu supreme commander of the Iron Wall Defense Line and promised him resources to reach Level Six.
• Jiang Fan told Yu Linmu that he had cleared exotic beasts from fifty kilometers outside the defense line, leaving him time to grow into the post.

Jiang Fan reunited with Ma Ning, his family, and friends in Kyoto after returning to Blue Star, then told them about the Qiyuan Star Domain. After the celebrations, he asked Xiao Longyuan what had happened to Blue Star during his three years away.

• Jiang Fan revealed that he had wiped out Exotic Beasts across fifty kilometers and left the soldiers to guard the Iron Wall Defense Line.
• Jiang Fan and Ma Ning appeared at Su Qingwan's home, where Su Qingwan reunited tearfully with Ma Ning.
• Jiang Qinian and Hu Qiuling welcomed Jiang Fan home, and he apologized before greeting the gathered Jiang Family members, Martial Arts Alliance members, teachers, and friends.
• Everyone celebrated Jiang Fan and Ma Ning's return, and Jiang Fan described the Qiyuan Star Domain to the gathering.
• Jiang Fan met with Xiao Longyuan and other Martial Arts Alliance members and asked what had happened to Blue Star during his absence.

Jiang Fan learned that Austin had exploited rumors of his death to gather overseas factions and stir up domestic opposition against the Martial Arts Alliance. After giving Xiao Longyuan one more chance, Jiang Fan ordered Austin and the factions aligned with him to come to Kyoto within three days, threatening death to anyone who refused.

• Jiang Fan demanded that Xiao Longyuan explain the threats to the Martial Arts Alliance and the attack on Jiang Fan's family, then warned that Xiao Longyuan would be replaced if it happened again.
• Xiao Longyuan explained that rumors of Jiang Fan's death had spread a year earlier, after which Austin claimed to have reached the Level 10 Invincible Realm and united factions around Eagle Country.
• Xiao Longyuan said overseas Supremes and domestic martial arts clans and military factions had secretly aligned with Austin, weakening the authority of the Martial Arts Alliance and the military.
• Jiang Fan asked for the names of the factions connected to Austin, and Xiao Longyuan confirmed that the Alliance had tracked them.
• Jiang Fan ordered Xiao Longyuan to summon Austin and his affiliated factions to Kyoto within three days, along with domestic collaborators for an Alliance reorganization meeting, and declared that those who disobeyed would die.