Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng continued cultivating while Chi Kui risked entering the Realm Prison to warn him that the Force Race had arrived. Learning that the invaders might include Star Lord Third Order experts, Qin Heng faced the threat to Earth without yet finding a way to resist them.

• Chi Kui and Huang Miao argued over whether to flee or honor their promise to guide Qin Heng, and Chi Kui chose to enter the Realm Prison while Huang Miao left.
• Qin Heng sensed Chi Kui emerge from the Void Passage and teleported to meet him.
• Chi Kui warned Qin Heng that the Force Race had arrived and might invade the Realm Prison.
• Chi Kui described the Force Race's power and estimated that its warship could carry Star Lords as strong as Third Order.
• Qin Heng rejected Chi Kui's suggestion to hide because Earth was his home, then told Chi Kui to leave as he considered the approaching threat.

Qin Heng learned that a Superior Soldier Class Force Race battleship might arrive, but Yan Feng promised to handle it while Qin Heng cultivated to break through. As Yan Feng refined the Prison Slaughtering Spear, Chi Kui learned about the powerful forces in the region and realized Yan Feng had even dealt with the Eternal Grade Purple Nether Lord.

• Qin Heng and Chi Kui warned Yan Feng that a Superior Soldier Class Force Race battleship might be approaching before the Prison Slaughtering Spear was finished.
• Yan Feng told Qin Heng to keep cultivating and promised he could handle the threat, then revealed his name was Yan Feng and that he was an Innate Lifeform.
• Qin Heng teleported away to make his breakthrough while Chi Kui stayed to guard Yan Feng and asked about his strength.
• Chi Kui described River Source Floating Earth and the Returning Heaven Alliance, which had more than twenty thousand Star Lords.
• Yan Feng recalled that the Returning Heaven Alliance Leader, Purple Nether Lord, owed him something, leaving Chi Kui astonished.

Qin Heng pushed his soul cultivation toward the Mortal Shedding Realm as a Force Race fleet arrived at the Realm Prison to retrieve a supposed stolen treasure. Huang Miao warned Wu Luo Yi about the Demoness and the Force Race’s history, and Shi Yao arrived to stop Wu Luo Yi from killing him.

• Qin Heng focused on the Primordial Soul Forging Method, hoping to reach the Mortal Shedding Realm before the invaders attacked.
• Wu Luo Yi landed outside the Realm Prison and learned from Huang Miao that the Guardian Army’s captain had been killed by the Demoness and the replacement fleet had avoided taking its post.
• Wu Luo Yi demonstrated his power on Huang Miao, but Huang Miao warned that the Demoness was stronger and explained that the Force Race had taken the Pangu Clan’s body-tempering method.
• Wu Luo Yi attacked Huang Miao for speaking about the Force Race’s origins and began crushing him.
• Shi Yao arrived on behalf of the Returning Heaven Alliance, heard Huang Miao’s account, and blocked Wu Luo Yi’s next attack.

Shi Yao and Wu Luo Yi argued over control of the Suppression Prison Hall before agreeing to enter together. As their ships approached, the Demoness appeared, destroyed both vessels, and stood guard at the entrance as the battle began.

• Shi Yao told Wu Luo Yi that the Returning Heaven Alliance wanted the Pangu Remnants’ treasure and claimed it also sought a runaway courier.
• Shi Yao questioned Huang Miao about the Demoness and learned she was a powerful, icy-looking Celestial Human Race member.
• Wu Luo Yi returned from the Soul Dimension and said his Clan Leader wanted each side to rely on its own strength, so Shi Yao agreed to enter the Realm Prison together.
• The Demoness warned the factions that trespassers died and shattered both ships with Skyfall and Earth Rift.
• Huang Miao recognized the Demoness, rejoiced that Chi Kui might be saved, and fled as the battle began.

The Goddess of War defeated the Force Race and Returning Heaven Alliance forces, then sent Huang Miao with a message and a case for Qin Heng. Huang Miao crossed the Void Passage as Force Race soldiers headed toward Earth, where Chi Kui and the Ice Flame Saint Child noticed the newcomers.

• Qin Heng resumed cultivating while Chi Kui worried about the battle at the Suppression Prison Hall.
• The Goddess of War killed Wu Luo Yi and two Star One experts, while Shi Yao escaped with injuries.
• The Goddess of War gave Huang Miao a case and told him to find a human Transcendent, deliver her message about Qin Heng taking a Star Lord Ninth Order master, and warn him that Earth’s future would be his responsibility.
• Huang Miao carried the case through the Void Passage as several Force Race soldiers flew toward Earth.
• Chi Kui reported the soldiers to the Ice Flame Saint Child, who let them go, then spotted Huang Miao and recognized the case as a crate for Disintegration Guns.

Huang Miao told Ice Flame Saint Child that Lady Demoness had destroyed two invading warships and left Disintegration Guns for Qin Heng. As seven foreign-domain experts invaded Earth, Qin Heng learned that the battle had begun and stayed away after hearing that Xuan Nie was fighting their strongest enemy.

• Huang Miao reported that Lady Demoness had destroyed the Force Race and Returning Heaven Alliance warships, killed three Star Lords, and left Disintegration Guns for Qin Heng.
• Ice Flame Saint Child sent Chi Kui to warn Chen Yao that seven foreign-domain experts were heading for Earth and told him to alert Martial God Zhang and Xuan Nie.
• Chen Yao contacted Earth, warned that all seven enemies were Transcendent Realm experts, and returned to the mining area to cultivate.
• Two days later, Qin Heng learned from Huang Miao that Earth might already be under attack and contacted the ground base.
• The ground side told Qin Heng that Xuan Nie was battling a Perfect Transcendent Mortal armed with a Disintegration Gun while the other invaders were being besieged; three had already died.
• Qin Heng decided not to return while Xuan Nie could hold out and continued listening for updates.

Qin Heng learned that Xuan Nie was enjoying his battle with the Force Race’s strongest attacker, then discussed the Returning Heaven Alliance’s traitor and the danger of alien powers. He chose not to betray Earth’s Goddess of War for the Alliance’s favor and completed tempering his divine soul after three days of cultivation.

• Qin Heng watched footage of Xuan Nie battling the Force Race expert and realized Xuan Nie was prolonging the fight for enjoyment.
• Qin Heng learned that a Returning Heaven Alliance traitor had destroyed mining ships near Earth and discussed the possibility of capturing her with Ice Flame Saint Child.
• Qin Heng rejected Ice Flame Saint Child’s suggestion to hand over the traitor for the Alliance’s goodwill, saying the Goddess of War had been right to defend Earth.
• Qin Heng returned to cultivation and, after three days, completed tempering his divine soul.

Qin Heng began the difficult transformation into Perfect Transcendent Mortal, reshaping his body and divine soul with methods taught by the Ice Flame Saint Child. After seven days, the Ice Flame Saint Child finished reforging two weapons and prepared to complete them once Qin Heng broke through.

• Qin Heng began transforming his cells and divine soul simultaneously, aiming for Perfect Transcendent Mortal.
• Qin Heng estimated the transformation would take about thirteen days and isolated himself from the outside world to focus.
• On the seventh day, the Ice Flame Saint Child finished reforging the Prison Slaughtering Spear and shaped the leftover metal into a dagger.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child said both weapons were Transcendent Rank 4 and planned to fuse Qin Heng's Mortal Shedding Treasure Blood into them after his breakthrough.

Qin Heng continued his dangerous Celestial Body Path transformation while the Ice Flame Saint Child hid inside him. Lord Lan Xuan Ke arrived from Purple Snow Star to accept Qin Heng as his disciple and enhanced the two weapons Qin Heng was forging.

• The Ice Flame Saint Child explained that he did not need divine weapons and waited with Chi Kui and Huang Miao as Qin Heng's breakthrough continued.
• After three days, the Void Passage stirred, so the Ice Flame Saint Child returned to Qin Heng's body and warned Chi Kui and Huang Miao not to reveal him.
• Lord Lan Xuan Ke and his Stone Race disciple emerged from the passage and recognized Qin Heng as a rare Celestial Body Path talent destined for Purple Snow Star.
• Lan Xuan Ke gave Chi Kui and Huang Miao secret arts for serving Qin Heng.
• Lan Xuan Ke infused the spear and dagger with metal powders, raising each weapon's quality by two ranks.

After reaching the Mortal Shedding Realm, Qin Heng strengthened his weapons and faced Lan Xuan Ke’s invitation to become his disciple. He declined to take a master for now but joined Purple Snow Star, then agreed to show Lan Xuan Ke Earth.

• Qin Heng completed his breakthrough, greatly expanded his divine awareness and Battle Domain, and tempered his spear and dagger with spatial runes.
• Lan Xuan Ke asked Qin Heng to become his disciple, but Qin Heng hesitated because he already regarded the Goddess of War as his master.
• Lan Xuan Ke agreed to postpone the matter until Qin Heng became a Star Lord and asked him to join Purple Snow Star instead.
• Qin Heng accepted a Purple Snow Star Talisman Plate and a sphere containing common secret arts, while Shi Duan Tian added him as a contact and offered help.
• Lan Xuan Ke asked to visit Earth, and Qin Heng agreed to take him there.

Lan Xuan Ke explained how the Goddess of War had recruited him to take Qin Heng as his disciple and protect Earth for three Void Ember Years. The group reached Earth, where Shi Duan Tian spotted Xuan Nie and immediately wanted to fight him.

• Lan Xuan Ke told Qin Heng that the Goddess of War had once refused to become his disciple, then later asked him to take Qin Heng as one instead.
• Lan Xuan Ke revealed that the Goddess of War had required him to protect Earth from invasion for three Void Ember Years, and he remained determined to honor the promise despite the Force Race and Returning Heaven Alliance.
• Qin Heng realized the Goddess of War had arranged his departure to safeguard Earth and suspected her true body was unable to act freely, so he resolved to grow stronger and help her.
• Lan Xuan Ke and his group arrived outside Earth, and Lan Xuan Ke marveled at the planet's diverse species.
• Shi Duan Tian sensed Xuan Nie and excitedly announced that he wanted to fight the true dragon.

Shi Duan Tian arrived on Earth and battered Xuan Nie, then Qin Heng introduced him and the other Purple Snow Star visitors to the dragon. Lan Xuan Ke toured Earth with Qin Heng and reflected on its strengths and the dangers beyond the planet, while Qin Heng looked ahead to the challenges of the wider universe.

• Shi Duan Tian startled Xuan Nie and repeatedly knocked him around, taunting him about his true dragon body.
• Lan Xuan Ke intervened, and Qin Heng introduced him and Shi Duan Tian as friendly visitors from Purple Snow Star.
• Xuan Nie confronted Shi Duan Tian about the beating, learned it came from Shi Duan Tian's frustration with his Ninth Senior Apprentice, and attacked him again.
• Lan Xuan Ke asked Qin Heng to show him around Earth, and Chi Kui and Huang Miao joined their tour.
• Above Antarctica, Lan Xuan Ke praised Earth's diversity and potential, while Qin Heng considered the dangers awaiting them beyond the planet and welcomed the challenges ahead.

Qin Heng and Lan Xuan Ke discussed their relationship and agreed that Qin Heng could repay Purple Snow Star by serving it without becoming Lan Xuan Ke’s disciple. After learning that he could visit the Eastern Ancient Holy Land and return to Earth before attempting to become a Star Lord, Qin Heng grew eager to go there, though Earth’s safety remained a concern.

• Lan Xuan Ke explained that a master-disciple bond was both an inheritance and a kind of family, and he reassured Qin Heng that he did not need to rush into accepting him as a master.
• Qin Heng admitted that he had initially wanted to use Lan Xuan Ke and Purple Snow Star’s influence, and Lan Xuan Ke said that helping juniors did not require repayment.
• Lan Xuan Ke offered to teach Qin Heng ultimate arts and secret techniques if he became a core member of Purple Snow Star, and Qin Heng promised to serve the organization when he could.
• Lan Xuan Ke gave Qin Heng a Starry Sky Map showing the Mo Hui River’s star systems and Purple Snow Star’s strongholds.
• Lan Xuan Ke explained that damage to the law dimension prevented breakthroughs to the Star Lord Realm in the Eastern Ancient Holy Land, but Qin Heng could return to Earth to break through there.
• Qin Heng became eager to visit the Eastern Ancient Holy Land, while recognizing that someone needed to protect Earth during his absence.

Qin Heng learned about the scale of the Mo Hui River and Purple Snow Star’s place among its six major powers. Lan Xuan Ke reassured him that the Force Race would not threaten Earth, though Qin Heng knew Earth held the first volume of the Universe Origin Secret Canon.

• Qin Heng asked Lan Xuan Ke about the Eastern Ancient Holy Land and learned that Garrison Province was vast, with Star Lords exceptionally rare.
• Lan Xuan Ke explained that Purple Snow Star was an elite sect founded by Wind Whisper and described its five Venerable Lords and member ranks.
• Qin Heng was surprised to learn Purple Snow Star had only 3,076 Star Lord members, and Lan Xuan Ke explained how the six major powers differed in structure.
• Qin Heng worried that the Force Race might target Earth because humans descended from the Pangu Remnants, but Lan Xuan Ke said its old conflict would not bring the race’s core forces against them.
• Qin Heng felt reassured by Lan Xuan Ke’s promise to deter the Force Race, but he knew Earth possessed the first volume of the Universe Origin Secret Canon.

Lan Xuan Ke tested Qin Heng’s combat ability inside his Silent Domain, where Qin Heng demonstrated his strength and the techniques he had learned. Qin Heng began adapting the ninth form, Cataclysm, to his own Space Battle Qi.

• Lan Xuan Ke warned Qin Heng that hostile forces might still threaten Earth and gave him a talisman plate to contact Purple Snow Star for help.
• Lan Xuan Ke created his Silent Domain and invited Qin Heng to attack without holding back.
• Qin Heng tested his Bronze Spear against Lan Xuan Ke, whose body withstood the strike unharmed.
• Qin Heng demonstrated the World Extinction Ninefold Calamity, and Lan Xuan Ke praised his skill but judged its mixed laws unsuitable as Qin Heng’s own Law Path.
• Qin Heng began forming his modified version of Cataclysm using a ring of Law Runes and his Space Battle Qi.

Qin Heng demonstrated his Space Turbulence technique to Lan Xuan Ke, who praised his potential and ranked him among the top hundred geniuses he had encountered. After Lan Xuan Ke and Shi Duan Tian departed, Qin Heng remained in Antarctica with new law teachings and a Stone Heart Armor gift.

• Qin Heng unleashed Space Turbulence, impressing Lan Xuan Ke with an attack powerful enough to threaten a Star Lord Second Order.
• Lan Xuan Ke ranked Qin Heng among the top hundred geniuses he had seen and discussed the upcoming Void Ash God Kingdom genius tournament with Shi Duan Tian and Xuan Nie.
• Shi Duan Tian beat Xuan Nie again, while Qin Heng declined to intervene in their quarrel.
• Lan Xuan Ke urged Qin Heng to study the law mysteries in his golden sphere, and Shi Duan Tian gave Qin Heng and Xuan Nie Stone Heart Armor pieces.
• Lan Xuan Ke left with Shi Duan Tian, leaving Qin Heng alone in Antarctica to continue cultivating.

After returning to Base City, Qin Heng distributed Disintegration Guns to help protect Earth and studied the secret arts in Lan Xuan Ke’s Inheritance Treasure Orb. He then set out with Xuan Nie to investigate the powerful Returning Heaven Alliance traitor believed to be on Venus.

• Qin Heng told the Martial Gods that the threat from beyond the domain had eased and handed most of the Disintegration Guns to Zhang Daoping for Earth's defense.
• Qin Heng studied the techniques in the Inheritance Treasure Orb and chose the Great Severing Art, Compassionate Heaven Palm, and Thousand Layer Shield as his main cultivation goals.
• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie discussed visiting the Star Lord realm traitor on Venus, whom they had inferred was hiding there.
• Qin Heng decided to investigate the traitor before leaving Earth and teleported away with Xuan Nie.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie traveled through space to Venus, where they searched for the Returning Heaven Alliance traitor. They detected a familiar energy source on the planet but had not yet found the traitor.

• Qin Heng told Fang Lingxue to inform Martial God Zhang that he was leaving on a long trip and that the Void Passage still needed watching.
• Qin Heng used his Battle Domain to teleport through space with Xuan Nie, and Xuan Nie praised his exceptional affinity with Space Law.
• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie spent a day and night traveling to Venus, stopping to recover their strength along the way.
• They descended through Venus's crushing atmosphere and sulfuric acid rain, then flew close to the ground to search for life and Cosmic Energy.
• Qin Heng detected an intense energy fluctuation from the same kind of red ore he had encountered aboard an ore-stealing spaceship.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie discovered extensive Flame Heart Stone deposits, then found a huge mined-out vein and suspected the Planet Lord was nearby. Qin Heng began harvesting the stones to help the Ice Flame Saint Child condense a body, but a powerful tremor interrupted him.

• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie found many scattered Flame Heart Stone veins, and Qin Heng said the stones could strengthen Earth’s fire-element warriors.
• They discovered a vast vein that had been excavated long ago, along with three wrecked spacecraft, and Qin Heng warned that the Planet Lord might be nearby.
• Xuan Nie gave Qin Heng a Void Crystal necklace, and Qin Heng descended into the mine to harvest Flame Heart Stones while waiting for the Planet Lord.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child told Qin Heng that his flame source was nearly sufficient to condense a body, though his frost source remained weak.
• Qin Heng shattered the vein and stored more than a hundred cubic meters of Flame Heart Stones before a distant tremor shook the ground.

Qin Heng and Xuan Nie confronted the Flame Woman, a Star Lord Second Order expert living on the planet, and fought her in an attempt to test her strength. The Flame Woman unleashed a powerful flame array that injured Qin Heng, just as the Ice Flame Saint Child offered to help.

• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie sensed the Flame Woman approaching and learned she was a Star Lord Second Order expert.
• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie questioned the Flame Woman about her origins and warned her that the Returning Heaven Alliance planned to enter the Realm Prison to capture her.
• The Flame Woman attacked with fire pythons and a vast flame array while Qin Heng used spatial power and Xuan Nie struck with Star Crushing Cone.
• Xuan Nie drew the Flame Woman's attention as Qin Heng teleported close and pierced one of her shadow bodies with his spear.
• The Flame Woman unleashed a storm of flames that sent Qin Heng and Xuan Nie flying and left Qin Heng coughing blood.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child told Qin Heng that he would help him.