Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng and his companions encountered a bandit gang led by a Demon Luan Hall member and learned the gang was hunting the Goddess of War. Qin Heng slaughtered nearly all the bandits, leaving the leader and the Blue Steel Metal Man alive as the eagle prepared to attack with Silent God Lightning.

• The bandits demanded a toll, and their leader revealed that he was an outer member of Demon Luan Hall with Crimson Lightning Roc bloodline.
• Qin Heng questioned the eagle about Demon Luan Hall hunting the Goddess of War, then drew his Star Slaughter Spear and attacked when the bandits refused to answer.
• The bandits rushed Qin Heng to seize his spear, but he avoided their attacks by shifting into another dimension and killed twelve with Ninefold Surging Waves.
• Qin Heng used Gale to destroy the remaining bandits, leaving only the Demon Luan Hall Eagle and the Blue Steel Metal Man alive.
• The eagle unleashed Silent God Lightning, and Qin Heng vanished just as the purple lightning was about to strike.

Qin Heng defeated two Demon Luan Hall robbers and learned that a Hall Commander had ordered the hunt for the Goddess of War after one of his disciples died in Garrison Province. The Commander’s identity remained unknown, and Qin Heng and his companions divided the robbers’ gold before continuing on.

• Qin Heng and Xuan Nie subdued Demon Luan Hall Eagle and Blue Steel Metal Man after Qin Heng pierced the eagle’s wings and battered the metal man.
• Qin Heng crushed Blue Steel Metal Man’s head and threatened Demon Luan Hall Eagle with torture until the eagle revealed that a Demon Luan Hall Commander had ordered the hunt ten quarters earlier.
• Demon Luan Hall Eagle said the Commander had recently come to Garrison Province after one of his beloved disciples fell there, but he did not know the Commander’s name or strength.
• Demon Luan Hall Eagle confirmed that the Goddess of War had not been captured and that Demon Luan Hall had limited forces in River Source Floating Earth.
• Qin Heng killed both robbers, took the eagle’s Void Crystal, and divided the gold among his companions, while Yan Feng declined his share.

Qin Heng searched the bandits’ hideout and found a Talisman Plate that revealed a bounty on the Goddess of War and evidence of her growing power. Worried about her, he resolved to become stronger and continued toward the Ice Sea to find Starry Sky Blood Plasma.

• Yan Feng identified three seeds Qin Heng took from Demon Luan Hall Eagle as Demon Poison Grass, which could be used with Extreme Tempest Vine to make a cultivation-enhancing pill.
• Huang Miao found the bandits’ mountain stronghold, and Qin Heng searched the giant bird’s nest while ignoring the hostile residents.
• Qin Heng discovered a metal Talisman Plate and read a Demon Luan Hall conscription order and a wanted notice offering five million Void Ash Coins for the Goddess of War.
• The Talisman Plate showed a memory of the Goddess of War fighting among piles of corpses, and Qin Heng learned she had reached Star Lord Fourth Order.
• After Xuan Nie urged him not to worry, Qin Heng set off for the Ice Sea to find Starry Sky Blood Plasma and grow stronger.

Qin Heng and his companions reached the Ice Sea and encountered White Jiao Dragon, a Star Lord who claimed the lake’s center for the Jiao Spirit Race. Xuan Nie challenged him but began to lose, so Qin Heng rushed to help.

• Qin Heng’s group reached the Ice Sea and headed toward Lake Center Ice Island to search for treasures.
• Qin Heng sensed a Star Lord, and White Jiao Dragon ordered the group to leave the area reserved by the Jiao Spirit Race.
• Xuan Nie mocked White Jiao Dragon and fought him alone while Qin Heng and Yan Feng watched.
• White Jiao Dragon battered Xuan Nie until he was close to defeat, and Qin Heng drew the Star Slaughter Spear and charged in.

Qin Heng, Xuan Nie, and Yan Feng joined forces to defeat White Jiao Dragon and his subordinates. After the battle, Qin Heng reflected on the spatial secret art he had created and considered giving it a name.

• Qin Heng and Yan Feng joined Xuan Nie against White Jiao Dragon, whose power surged as he unleashed a demonic technique.
• Qin Heng used World Extinction while Yan Feng’s purple-gold flames burned White Jiao Dragon, and Xuan Nie kept him from escaping.
• White Jiao Dragon transformed into a thousand-meter jiao and attacked the three, but Qin Heng used Space Fission to pierce his head and Enter the Void to evade being swallowed.
• Yan Feng bound and defeated the young Jiao Spirit Race fighters who joined the battle, while Xuan Nie returned to restrain White Jiao Dragon.
• Qin Heng repeatedly pierced White Jiao Dragon with Space Fission until the jiao dragon Star Lord died.
• Xuan Nie praised Qin Heng’s strength and asked about his new move, and Qin Heng said he had not named it yet.

After killing the White Jiao Dragon, Qin Heng and his companions looted its body and discovered a valuable Energy Jade Crystal that could serve as one of the materials for a Black Hole Core. The group then prepared to investigate the intense energy and repulsive force beneath the Ice Sea, where a treasure appeared close to maturing.

• Qin Heng named his self-created spatial spear technique Sky Rending, and Xuan Nie and Yan Feng praised its power.
• Qin Heng opened the White Jiao Dragon's belly and found an azure Energy Jade Crystal, which Yan Feng confirmed could be used to make a Black Hole Core.
• Qin Heng collected the dragon's herbs, ores, medicines, and millions of Azure Sea Gold Coins and Void Ash Coins, then stored the treasures to bring back to Earth.
• Xuan Nie swallowed the White Jiao Dragon's body, while Chi Kui and Huang Miao reported intense energy and a powerful repulsive force at the bottom of the lake.
• Yan Feng concluded that the lakebed treasure was nearly mature and led the group down to investigate.

Qin Heng and his companions waited for a powerful treasure beneath Ice Island to mature, preparing to fight off anyone who tried to take it. When it finally matured, Yan Feng entered the Ice Well to retrieve it, while Qin Heng discovered the nearby cultivators were collecting Purple Crystal Shells instead of challenging him.

• Yan Feng explained that the treasure’s force field suggested it could become spiritually aware, and Xuan Nie began cultivating while Qin Heng and Yan Feng guarded the Ice Well.
• Qin Heng learned that several Perfect Transcendent Mortals were approaching the area, but he stayed put because none of them were Star Lords.
• As the treasure matured, Qin Heng raised the Star Slaughter Spear and told Yan Feng to retrieve it while he handled any enemies.
• Yan Feng leaped into the Ice Well as Qin Heng prepared for battle, but the distant cultivators dove into the lake instead.
• Huang Miao reported that the cultivators were collecting Purple Crystal Shells formed by the treasure’s energy, and Qin Heng put away his spear, disappointed that no one had come to fight.

Qin Heng guarded Yan Feng as he refined the Extreme Cold Ice Lotus in the Ice Well, then discovered Starry Sky Blood Plasma beneath the Cold Abyss Water. They left part of the blood plasma and water behind, allowing the weakened lotus to recover.

• Qin Heng found Yan Feng beside the Extreme Cold Ice Lotus, and Yan Feng began refining the Transcendent Rank 4 treasure while Qin Heng kept watch.
• Qin Heng cultivated as the lotus resisted Yan Feng, and Chi Kui later reported that the other treasure seekers had left.
• After more than fifty days, Yan Feng stopped short of draining the lotus completely and chose to spare its remaining Spiritual Wisdom.
• Yan Feng drew away the Cold Abyss Water, revealing blood-red mud that he identified as a possible precursor to Starry Sky Blood Plasma.
• Qin Heng collected most of the blood mud, then returned one-third after Yan Feng objected, and Yan Feng restored some Cold Abyss Water to the pond.
• Qin Heng and Yan Feng left the Ice Well, and the Extreme Cold Ice Lotus began recovering in the replenished pond.

Qin Heng and Yan Feng waited for the Starry Sky Blood Plasma to transform, then traveled with Xuan Nie to Ice Sea Town. The town’s residents opened a trade fair to welcome them, and the fair began as merchants hurried to set up their stalls.

• Qin Heng spread the blood plasma beneath the sun, and he and Yan Feng cultivated while it absorbed the stars’ power.
• Qin Heng received Shi Duan Tian’s confirmation that the Suppression Prison Hall was secure.
• After fifteen days, the blood plasma transformed into a large quantity of glittering Starry Sky Blood Plasma.
• Qin Heng, Yan Feng, and Xuan Nie flew toward Ice Sea Town, where Bing Peng and Ge Liuqi greeted them and invited them to the trade fair.
• Bing Peng announced the treasure owners’ arrival, and Ice Sea Town’s merchants rushed to Trade Street to open their stalls.

Qin Heng visited Ice Sea Town’s trade fair and learned how its isolated residents relied on rare treasures and occasional supply trips to survive. He bought goods from struggling stallholders and discovered a Cold Bean Tree that could improve ordinary people’s strength and potential.

• Bing Peng explained that bandits and dangerous terrain isolated Ice Sea Town, whose residents relied on trade fairs and risky trips to other towns for supplies.
• Qin Heng bought a poor woman’s carved ornaments for a handful of gold coins, then spent coins at humble stalls along the street.
• The townspeople watched Qin Heng’s generous purchases with hope, while Bing Peng and Ge Liuqi praised his kindness.
• Qin Heng asked an ape-like demi-human stallholder about a potted tree whose fruit could strengthen beings at Grandmaster level and below.
• Qin Heng recognized the Cold Bean Tree’s value and asked how much the stallholder wanted for it.

Qin Heng bought medicinal herbs throughout Ice Sea Town and focused on acquiring Ba Yu’s Cold Bean Trees, whose fruit could greatly strengthen people and might transform Earth’s population. After learning how Ba Yu had invented the Cold Bean Tree, Qin Heng recognized that his success had come through persistence and chance.

• Ba Yu offered Qin Heng his Cold Bean Tree, then agreed to show him the many more growing at his home.
• Qin Heng gave Ba Yu a huge deposit of gold coins and continued buying goods from stalls throughout the street, including Purple Crystal Shells.
• Qin Heng reasoned that Cold Bean Fruit could strengthen Earth’s people across generations and make them far less physically weak.
• Bing Peng invited Qin Heng to a welcoming feast, but Qin Heng asked to visit Ba Yu first to secure the Cold Bean Trees.
• Ba Yu led Qin Heng and the others toward his home, and Bing Peng introduced him as Ice Sea Town’s most skilled physician.
• Ge Liuqi explained that Ba Yu had invented the Thaw Grass and Cold Bean Tree through experiments that almost always failed, prompting Qin Heng to respect his persistence.

Qin Heng bought Cold Bean Trees and other medicinal herbs from Ba Yu, an honest healer in Ice Sea Town, and received Ba Yu’s ancestral Talisman Plate. Before leaving, Yan Feng gave Ba Yu a Star Lord Level cultivation art, leaving Ba Yu stunned as Qin Heng and the others departed.

• Qin Heng inspected Ba Yu’s medicinal garden and found that its Cold Bean Trees could improve potential and might be valuable to Earth.
• Ba Yu offered the trees at a low price, and Qin Heng bought 300 for 100,000 gold coins, asking Ba Yu to add useful local herbs.
• Ba Yu showed Qin Heng many medicines, and Qin Heng took more than thirty kinds totaling over eight hundred portions.
• Ba Yu gave Qin Heng his grandfather’s Talisman Plate, which retained a divine soul imprint from a powerful being.
• Yan Feng transmitted a Star Lord Level cultivation art to Ba Yu, then Qin Heng and the others left with Bing Peng.

At a banquet in Ice Sea Town, Qin Heng and the others learned that a war over the next Lord of Eastern Ancient Holy Land was looming and had drawn away the region’s defenders. They left the town’s future uncertain as Xuan Nie and Yan Feng debated how far the disorder could spread.

• Bing Peng and Ice Sea Town’s leaders hosted Qin Heng’s group at a banquet, and Qin Heng explained that they belonged to Purple Snow Star and had come with his senior apprentice, a powerful Star Lord.
• Bing Peng asked Qin Heng to clear the bandits from the Rogue Mountains, but Qin Heng said the mountains were too vast and his senior apprentice would not take on the task.
• Bing Peng told Qin Heng that the Chief General had last contacted the town in year 148, warning that Eastern Embrace Lord’s territorial protection was ending and a brutal Holy Land War was approaching.
• Xuan Nie explained that Vanguard Star Lords served the Lords of the Holy Lands and suggested the absent Chief General’s replacement might be a Vanguard, while the former Chief General had likely been transferred for the war.
• Xuan Nie assured Bing Peng that the war would not reach Ice Sea Town, but Yan Feng warned that the wider chaos could embolden smaller races and cause widespread deaths.
• Ge Liuqi recalled that past struggles for the Holy Land’s leadership could last for an entire epoch, and Qin Heng fell silent as he considered the scale of such wars.

Qin Heng learned that the Goddess of War’s true body had fled into the Life Restricted Zone after passing through Ice Sea Town, while her clone remained somewhere in Garrison Province. He left with his companions to seek the clone rather than risk entering the restricted zone.

• Bing Peng warned Qin Heng about the dangerous bandits Lei Ji and the Demoness, describing the Demoness’s visit to Ice Sea Town twenty-five years earlier.
• Qin Heng learned that the injured Demoness had absorbed energy supplies and traveled southwest toward the Barren Zone and the Life Restricted Zone, pursued by powerful experts that included an avian lifeform.
• Qin Heng pieced together that the Goddess of War’s true body had entered the Life Restricted Zone and that a stronger true body and a weaker clone were both present in the region.
• Huang Miao told Qin Heng that the Demoness had previously appeared after he spread news in Zhen Prefecture City, leading Qin Heng to suspect she had informants or had been there herself.
• Qin Heng thanked Bing Peng, left the reception hall with Xuan Nie, Yan Feng, Chi Kui, and Huang Miao, and flew away aboard the Arrow Boat.

Qin Heng traveled to Zhen Prefecture City, hoping to meet the Goddess of War and seek her guidance about the Earth Lineage’s future. He arrived in the vast, diverse city and learned that a devastating battle ten seasons earlier had likely killed many of its local Star Lords.

• Xuan Nie teased Qin Heng about his interest in the Goddess of War, and Qin Heng explained that he viewed her as a master and wanted her advice for the Earth Lineage.
• Qin Heng and his companions searched towns and markets along the way for an Earth Magnet Core but found none.
• The group crossed Heaven Origin Mountain and reached Zhen Prefecture City after traveling through the region’s varied climates and earth veins.
• Qin Heng saw that Zhen Prefecture City sprawled for more than three thousand kilometers and housed billions of commoners and branches of major factions.
• Chi Kui told Qin Heng that the Goddess of War had apparently killed many Star Lords in a battle ten seasons earlier, leaving few local Star Lords in Zhen Prefecture.

Qin Heng sought a way to attract the Goddess of War’s attention in Garrison Province without exposing their message to other races. He headed for the Winged Race Arena as a recognizable meeting place, where Xuan Nie placed a large bet on a fight.

• After divine-sense backlash jolted Qin Heng, Chi Kui and Huang Miao warned him not to probe people in Zhen Prefecture City, and Huang Miao explained how he had spread news there before.
• Qin Heng decided to post a message in simplified Chinese to reach the Goddess of War, but after learning about the Central Plaza announcement board, he chose the distinctive Winged Race Arena as a meeting place.
• Yan Feng warned that meeting the Goddess of War publicly could make Qin Heng a target, but Qin Heng said he would meet her alone and flee if necessary.
• At the arena, Qin Heng watched a Perfect Transcendent Mortal tiger fight a tree demon, and Yan Feng judged that the tree demon would win.
• Xuan Nie bet three million gold coins on the tree demon, Tata Silk, to win against the tiger, Ba Xiao.

Qin Heng visited the Winged Race Arena, received free lodging, and then discovered that Garrison Province’s capital was dangerously lawless. He headed toward Central Plaza to find the Goddess of War, aware that others were already watching him.

• Xuan Nie bet three million gold coins on Tree Demon Tata Silk, who killed Tiger Race Ba Xiao and won the fight; Xuan Nie and his companions collected their winnings.
• The Feathered Race Dealer gave Qin Heng a black feather that entitled him to three days of free lodging, meals, and drinks at the affiliated hotel, and Qin Heng registered there.
• Qin Heng left for Central Plaza and sensed a nearby death; he found Tata Silk’s broken remains in an alley and realized someone had killed the tree demon for its winnings.
• Qin Heng flew to Central Plaza, where residents watched him with prying eyes as he approached the State Palace’s notice board.

Qin Heng paid to increase the rotation of his notice on the State Palace board, hoping the Goddess of War would see it, then returned to the Winged Race Arena to wait. A blue mantis cultivator challenged him to a life-and-death match, and Qin Heng questioned whether the mantis was worth the wager.

• Qin Heng paid 100,000 gold coins to post a message asking the Goddess of War to meet him at the Winged Race Arena.
• After seeing his message appear only once among twenty-one ads, Qin Heng paid another 900,000 gold coins to add nine more rotations.
• Qin Heng returned to the arena, told Xuan Nie to search the markets for an Earth Magnet Core, and waited for the Goddess of War.
• A blue mantis cultivator approached Qin Heng and proposed a life-and-death match, with each fighter's property as the stake.
• Qin Heng stood up and challenged the mantis's worth and wealth as a reason to stake his life.

Qin Heng accepted Absolute Edge’s life-and-death challenge at the Winged Race Arena, where his Purple Snow Star connection stunned the arbiter and his opponent. After both signed the duel contract and handed over their stored wealth, they prepared to fight.

• Mantis Absolute Edge displayed his wealth and challenged Qin Heng to a life-and-death duel for his fortune.
• Qin Heng accepted, and the two went to the Winged Race Arena to register their fight.
• Absolute Edge identified himself as a member of Singing Wind Hall, while Qin Heng named Purple Snow Star as his faction and proved it with a powerful Star Lord token.
• The Feather Race Arbiter warned that the arena had to hold both fighters’ Void Crystals, and Absolute Edge and Qin Heng signed the duel contract.
• Absolute Edge handed over his storage crystal and showed Qin Heng his enemy-subduing rope, while Qin Heng produced his Star Slaughter Spear and gave the arbiter his sealed storage space.

Qin Heng fought Mantis Absolute Edge in a life-and-death duel, first overpowering him with the Star Slaughter Spear and Battle Domain. Absolute Edge then unleashed a secret technique that raised him to Star Lord strength, and Qin Heng met his powerful blade with Sky Rending.

• Qin Heng and Absolute Edge entered the Duel Platform while spectators gathered and wagered on the outcome.
• After the referee raised the barrier, Qin Heng and Absolute Edge began their duel and exchanged more than a hundred physical attacks.
• Qin Heng unfolded his Battle Domain, evaded Absolute Edge’s World Shattering Blade with Enter the Void, and wounded him with the Star Slaughter Spear.
• Qin Heng stopped attacking and invited Absolute Edge to reveal stronger techniques.
• Absolute Edge used a secret technique to reach Star Lord strength and struck with Scorching Sun: Sky Blade, sealing Qin Heng’s ability to Enter the Void.
• Qin Heng answered the attack with his ultimate technique, Sky Rending.