Chapter Summaries

Chu Sheng was dragged into Lu Qingping’s collapsing small world after she tried to take him down with her. He summoned Wei Wuji to explain the danger, and Wei Wuji said Chu Sheng might still be able to take Lu Qingping in before the world collapsed.

• Chu Sheng seized Lu Qingping by the throat despite her intact shield, and she used her small world to pull them both inside.
• The imperial family tried to seize Zheng Yuan as a hostage, but she realized Chu Sheng had kept her safe by leaving her behind.
• Lu Qingping revealed that she intended to collapse her small world and perish with Chu Sheng.
• Chu Sheng summoned Wei Wuji inside the collapsing world and asked why he had not warned him that a Universe Realm expert could drag someone into a small world.
• Wei Wuji explained that Lu Qingping was risking her life and said Chu Sheng might still be able to take her in before the collapse.

Chu Sheng rescued Lu Qingping from her collapsing little world and brought her into his own, where he destroyed Su Ningxue’s soul and defeated Lu Qingping. After Lu Qingping died regretting her actions, Chu Sheng gained Justice Points for saving the Five Provinces and came within 500 million points of unlocking the LV8 Justice Gift Pack.

• Lu Qingping burned her Divine Soul to hasten the collapse of her little world, but Chu Sheng used Divine Firmament Court to pull her into his own world.
• Lu Qingping threatened that the collapsing world would still kill Chu Sheng if he ever left, but he revealed Su Ningxue’s soul and erased it before explaining his answer.
• Chu Sheng struck Lu Qingping through the Myriad Spirit Profound Light Bracelet’s barrier, killing her and making her soul beg that she regretted it.
• The system awarded Chu Sheng 150 million Justice Points for stopping Lu Qingping and saving hundreds of millions of people in the Five Provinces, bringing his total to 490 million.

Chu Sheng asked Xie Wuji how to stabilize Lu Qingping’s collapsing little world, and learned that she would need to return the stolen space and forge it anew by refining living beings. Chu Sheng proposed using Great Capital’s inhabitants instead of the Five Provinces, then set off believing they might willingly accept the sacrifice.

• Chu Sheng learned that Lu Qingping had surpassed the Cave Profound Realm but would fall back into it when her shattered little world collapsed.
• Xie Wuji explained that Lu Qingping could rebuild her world by returning the space she had stolen from a spatial artifact and drawing on its power again.
• Lu Qingping warned that rebuilding the world would require refining living beings, but Chu Sheng proposed refining Great Capital’s people instead of the Five Provinces’ inhabitants.
• Lu Qingping explained that Great Capital’s concentrated spiritual energy and cultivation resources could provide enough power, and admitted she had spared it before to protect her Imperial Family Members and avoid destabilizing the dynasty.
• Chu Sheng criticized her for sparing the capital at the Five Provinces’ expense and left, suggesting Great Capital’s people might willingly be refined.

Chu Sheng returned to the Great Capital and discovered that Zheng Yuan, the spirit vessel, and the Great Gan Imperial Family had disappeared. When the people defended Lu Qingping’s plan to sacrifice the Five Provinces, they insisted they would volunteer in his place, and Chu Sheng appeared ready to grant their request.

• Chu Sheng returned from Lu Qingping's pocket world and found Zheng Yuan, the spirit vessel, and the Great Gan Imperial Family missing.
• Chu Sheng asked the people in the Great Capital where the spirit vessel had gone, but they stayed silent.
• Elder Lord Ku Xuan asked whether Lu Qingping was dead and argued that Chu Sheng had doomed the Five Provinces by stopping his plan.
• The people criticized Chu Sheng and claimed the Five Provinces should have been sacrificed for the starfield's greater good.
• Chu Sheng asked whether they would willingly sacrifice themselves and their families, and Elder Lord Ku Xuan and the crowd insisted they would.
• Chu Sheng smiled and said the crowd left him no choice.

Chu Sheng summoned Lu Qingping’s soul and forced the people of the Great Capital to face the sacrifice they had claimed to accept, while True Lord Song Yun repaired the Great Qian Imperial Seal. Just as Lu Qingping began to refine the capital, Qingfeng Temple’s protest sounded through the Domain-Spanning Talisman.

• Chu Sheng revealed Lu Qingping’s soul, and Lu Qingping began suppressing the panicked crowd with a refining formation.
• True Lord Ku Xuan and the others offered to reveal Zheng Yuan’s whereabouts to save themselves, but Chu Sheng continued the refining preparations.
• Chu Sheng summoned True Lord Song Yun to repair the Great Qian Imperial Seal using Wei Wuji’s instructions and Profound Void Liquid.
• After half a day, True Lord Song Yun completed the repair, and Chu Sheng told Lu Qingping to begin refining the Great Capital.
• As Lu Qingping touched the Imperial Seal, Qingfeng Temple declared through the Domain-Spanning Talisman that it opposed her plan.

Elder Lord Ku Xuan hoped the martial artists would stop Lu Qingping, but Chu Sheng’s allies silenced their objections and Lu Qingping began refining Great Capital to advance to the Universe Realm. When Great Gan clansmen arrived and realized their ancestor was draining the city, Chu Sheng knocked them into the formation to fuel her advancement.

• Elder Lord Ku Xuan heard Faxiang oppose Lu Qingping’s plan, but Song Yun, Duan Bufan, and Chen Mo threatened him on behalf of their factions, prompting Qingfeng Temple to retract its objection.
• Chu Sheng told Lu Qingping to proceed, and she activated the refinement formation that began draining the life force of Great Capital’s residents.
• Zheng Yuan arrived in the Blazing Sun after fleeing Great Gan pursuers and told Chu Sheng she had recognized the people below as evil; Chu Sheng let Lu Qingping continue.
• Great Gan clansmen sensed their ancestor advancing and rushed toward Great Capital, then discovered Lu Qingping was refining their relatives and clansmen.
• Chu Sheng welcomed the arriving clansmen and pressed them down into the city’s formation to add strength to Lu Qingping’s advancement.

Lu Qingping advanced to the Universe Realm, and Chu Sheng tested his strength against her in a sparring match. He concluded that neither he nor an ordinary Universe Realm cultivator could easily defeat the other, then realized two things he had overlooked.

• Lu Qingping told Chu Sheng that she had reached the Universe Realm through a shortcut and had not triggered a heavenly phenomenon.
• Chu Sheng challenged Lu Qingping to exchange blows, and she summoned her hundred-li small-world domain.
• Chu Sheng broke through Lu Qingping's domain pressure and barrier with a punch, sending her crashing into a rock formation.
• Lu Qingping healed her injuries with her domain's power and explained that it neutralized rules below the level of laws, including Chu Sheng's Power of Decay.
• Chu Sheng and Lu Qingping traded punches, and he judged that they could fight to a standstill before realizing two things.

Chu Sheng tested whether Lu Qingping’s domain could be broken, smashing it to the brink of collapse with one strike from Myriad Soldier Devouring Abyss. He then tried to pull her into Divine Firmament Court, but it failed, leaving him unsure why and noticing that her clothing had been damaged.

• Chu Sheng learned that Lu Qingping’s domain could reform as long as her minor world remained, and decided to test whether he could destroy it before it recovered.
• Chu Sheng escaped through the domain barrier and struck it with Myriad Soldier Devouring Abyss, spreading cracks across it and nearly shattering it with one blow.
• Chen Mo and True Lord Song Yun praised Chu Sheng, while Wei Wuji scolded Song Yun for echoing his flattery before accepting Song Yun’s explanation.
• Chu Sheng returned to Lu Qingping’s domain and concluded that a second strike would break it, then tried to activate Divine Firmament Court to pull her inside.
• Divine Firmament Court failed to activate, and Chu Sheng asked Lu Qingping whether she had sensed anything strange; he noticed her chest clothing was damaged.

After devastating the Great Capital, Chu Sheng gave Zheng Yuan the Myriad Spirit Profound Light Bracelet and arranged to send her back to Qingmang Star, then ordered Song Yun to plan a Martial Arts Hall on Xuan Sha Star. The group reached the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion and found Star Gazing Cliff and its mountain path crowded with people.

• Chu Sheng asked Chen Mo about the karmic consequences of using living beings as sacrifices, while Zheng Yuan accepted responsibility for proposing it.
• Chu Sheng took Lu Qingping's Myriad Spirit Profound Light Bracelet and offered it to Zheng Yuan for protection, but she initially refused and tried to leave.
• Chu Sheng tested Zheng Yuan's ability to feel killing intent toward him, then gave her the bracelet and said he would send someone from the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion to return her to Qingmang Star.
• Chu Sheng told Song Yun to plan the establishment of a Martial Arts Hall on Xuan Sha Star and to clear out the Star Beasts after dealing with the Martial Arts Hall.
• Song Yun proposed starting at the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion, and the group traveled there after discussing their plans.
• Chu Sheng and the others arrived at Star Gazing Cliff and found it and the mountain path crowded with people.

Lu Heng blamed the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion for the disaster, but True Lord Song Yun arrived and revealed that Lu Qingping had begun refining the five prefectures’ living beings before Chu Sheng stopped her. The citizens praised Chu Sheng for intervening, then accused him of arriving too late to save those who had already died.

• Lu Heng dismissed the refining formation as a false claim and blamed the heavenly phenomenon on a Star Beast invasion, turning the crowd against the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion.
• True Lord Song Yun arrived, and Lu Heng accused her of abandoning the defenses and causing the invasion.
• When citizens joined Lu Heng in blaming her, True Lord Song Yun killed the loudest accusers with a wave of spiritual power.
• Chen Mo emerged from the spirit vessel and said the Star Alliance would reward True Lord Song Yun for saving Xuan Sha Star’s citizens.
• Lu Qingping admitted she had begun refining the living beings of the five prefectures, and Chu Sheng said he had stopped her.
• The citizens thanked Chu Sheng for intervening, but a grieving voice blamed him for arriving too late to prevent deaths.

Chu Sheng killed the commoners who demanded compensation and moved to punish the Great Gan Dynasty delegation, while Lu Heng's corpse released a terrifying crimson technique. True Lord Song Yun ordered the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion to surrender its assets and disband, then departed with Chu Sheng and the others.

• Chu Sheng acknowledged arriving late, then killed the commoners demanding compensation by sending them to join their dead relatives.
• True Lord Song Yun confronted the Great Gan Dynasty delegation, but Chu Sheng stopped him and said he would handle the delegation himself.
• A dazzling red light emerged from Lu Heng's shattered corpse and spread into a canopy of crimson threads.
• True Lord Song Yun ordered the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion to surrender its treasures and disband, warning that resistance would bring death.
• The pavilion's members handed over their assets, and Chu Sheng departed with True Lord Song Yun aboard the Blazing Sun.

Chu Sheng returned to Wangshu Star and learned that the Chen family could help him apply to become an Inspector of the Star Alliance Security General Administration, giving him a way to investigate Jining Star. He also asked Chen Mo about advancing to the Universe Realm and discovered that the strongest method required True Spirit Bloodline.

• Chu Sheng returned to Wangshu Star, where Chen Mo warned that Jining Star was tied to powerful forces and secrets.
• Chen Mo offered to help Chu Sheng obtain a Star Alliance identity and investigate Jining Star through the Alliance.
• Chu Sheng said he wanted to handle cases, and Chen Mo proposed that he apply to become an Inspector of the Star Alliance Security General Administration.
• Chu Sheng asked about ways to advance to the Universe Realm, and Chen Mo described several methods and their rare requirements.
• Chen Mo said the True Spirit World Derivation Method offered the greatest combat power and potential but required True Spirit Bloodline.

Chu Sheng learned about the True Spirit World Derivation Method and agreed to have his candidacy for Star Alliance Security Inspector submitted through the Chu Family. After Chen Mo warned that Chu Sheng’s age and cultivation could attract danger, Chu Sheng chose to reveal himself to the Chu Family as the Star Alliance’s number one Heavenly Prodigy.

• Chen Mo explained that the True Spirit World Derivation Method used a rare True Spirit Bloodline to create a larger small world with an innate divine ability, and promised to report any bloodline news.
• Chen Mo warned Chu Sheng that the Qing Ming Chu Family was a powerful Star Alliance faction overseen by an Immortal Venerable, then offered to submit Chu Sheng’s information for an Inspector position through the family.
• Chu Sheng said he was eighteen, nearly nineteen, and Chen Mo and Zheng Yuan were stunned that he had reached the Cave Profound Realm peak at such a young age.
• Chen Mo urged Chu Sheng to avoid the Inspector post and conceal his age because powerful factions might covet his talent, but Chu Sheng told him to report everything to the Chu Family.
• Chu Sheng declared himself the Star Alliance’s number one Heavenly Prodigy, and Chen Mo agreed to send word to the family immediately.

At the Chen Family’s young generation competition, Chen Yuan received a request from Chen Mo to use the family’s connection to the Chu Family to arrange an identity and Star Alliance Security General Administration inspector position for someone. The family condemned Chen Mo until Chen Yuan reacted with shock, leaving everyone wondering who the person was.

• Chen Yuan and his brothers praised the Chen Family’s young geniuses and discussed holding a family banquet after the competition.
• Chen Mo’s daughter offered to invite her father to the banquet, but Chen Yuan dismissed the idea, and she reflected on how the family had grown distant from him.
• Chen Yuan received a message from Chen Mo asking the family to seek the Chu Family’s help in arranging someone’s identity and an inspector position.
• Chen Yuan’s brothers angrily objected to spending a Chu Family favor on an outsider and questioned Chen Mo’s judgment.
• Chen Mo’s daughter defended her father’s request, and Chen Yuan slammed the table and began to reveal the person’s identity before abruptly stopping.

Chen Yuan gathered the Chen Family elders to discuss Chen Mo’s report that an eighteen-year-old named Chu Sheng had reached the peak of the Cave Profound Realm. He sent Chen He to inform the Chu Family while making her bear the risk, and she agreed only after securing a promise that he would plead for Chen Mo’s life if the report proved false.

• Chen Yuan halted the tournament and summoned the Chen Family elders and Chen He to the council hall.
• Chen Yuan displayed Chen Mo’s message about Chu Sheng, prompting the elders to doubt the claim and fear a trap.
• Chen He defended her father’s judgment, while Chen Yuan proposed that she approach the Chu Family independently so the Lineage could deny responsibility if the report was false.
• Chen He agreed to deliver the news on the condition that Chen Yuan plead for Chen Mo’s life if the claim proved false.
• After Chen He left, Chen Yuan admitted that his oath was empty, and the elders laughed about making her bear the blame if Chen Mo’s report was false.

Chen He brought news to the Qing Ming Chu Family of an eighteen-year-old at the Cave Profound Realm peak, and the elders summoned her to their hall. They claimed the Chen Family would be protected, but ordered the people at the teleportation plaza killed, leaving Chen He to realize her family might be in danger because of her report.

• Chen He reached the Qing Ming Sacred Land and told a Chu Family disciple that her father had found an eighteen-year-old at the Cave Profound Realm peak.
• A gray-robed elder read Chen He's jade slip and hurried into the palaces, then returned and carried her away while ordering the Chu Family disciples to kill everyone at the plaza.
• The Chu Family elders questioned Chen He about who had seen the jade slip, and she said her father and several Chen Family elders had also read it.
• The elders told Chen He to stay with them as family and assured her that her father would be fine.
• After leaving the hall, Chen He feared that the Chu Family intended to wipe out her family despite their discovery.

Chen Mo introduced Chu Sheng to the Star Alliance branch officials as a peak Cave Profound Realm expert sent to stop Lu Qingping, and Chu Sheng took the foremost deputy seat. The meeting then turned to a Star Beast crisis, as an inspector arrived and accused Chen Mo of mishandling the warning before challenging Chu Sheng’s right to sit there.

• Chen Mo revealed that Chu Sheng was a peak Cave Profound Realm expert sent by his family to stop Lu Qingping from refining the Five Provinces’ inhabitants to reach the Universe Realm.
• The branch officials welcomed Chu Sheng and gave him the foremost deputy seat after Chen Mo warned them not to investigate his identity.
• A branch official reported that Thunderclap Pavilion and Frost Moon Sect had been wiped out, the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion had vanished, and Star Beasts were attacking nearby sect teams.
• Chen Mo learned that signs of unrest in the Meteorite Forbidden Zone had appeared half a month earlier and asked whether headquarters had been notified.
• A Star Alliance inspector entered with three companions, blamed Chen Mo for delaying action on the warning, and demanded to know what right Chu Sheng had to sit in the foremost deputy seat.

Chen Mo explained that Chu Sheng had slain a would-be Universe Realm cultivator, but Inspector Xie Yan tried to exclude him from the Meteorite Forbidden Zone discussion and mocked the prospect of him joining the General Administration. Chu Sheng struck Xie Yan through the branch building’s wall, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Chen Mo told Xie Yan that Chu Sheng had killed someone who was trying to break through to the Universe Realm.
• Xie Yan learned that Chu Sheng was at the Cave Profound Realm peak and ordered him to leave the discussion because he was not a Star Alliance member.
• Chen Mo said Chu Sheng could receive a General Administration appointment through Chief Director Chu Yunqi, but Xie Yan claimed she was resigning that day.
• Xie Yan mocked the idea that Chu Yunqi would risk helping Chu Sheng and declared that Chu Sheng would never enter the General Administration.
• Chu Sheng punched Xie Yan through the branch building’s alloy wall and dismissed his talk as pointless.

Chu Sheng was appointed Temporary Level-3 Inspector with full authority over the Meteorite Forbidden Zone crisis, forcing Xie Yan and his companions to submit to him. He rejected Xie Yan’s offer to handle the crisis for him and insisted on taking the lead himself.

• The three people with Xie Yan learned Chu Sheng was from the Chu Family, then received a message revealing that Chu Yunqi would remain Director General.
• Xie Yan saw the announcement that Chu Yunqi had appointed Chu Sheng Temporary Level-3 Inspector and was authorized to direct the Meteorite Forbidden Zone response.
• Xie Yan and the other three bowed to Chu Sheng and apologized after realizing they had to obey his commands.
• Chu Sheng returned to his seat and asked Xie Yan to explain the Meteorite Forbidden Zone.
• Xie Yan downplayed the danger and offered to handle the crisis while giving Chu Sheng the credit, but Chu Sheng demanded to lead the response himself.

Chu Sheng learned why the Meteorite Forbidden Zone was dangerous and suspected Xie Yan’s group was hiding something. He killed Ren Quan and seized control of her soul, leaving her ready to reveal what she knew.

• Xie Yan explained that the Meteorite Forbidden Zone housed millions of powerful Meteorite Demon Worms and that disturbances among nearby Star Beasts suggested its seal might be failing.
• Chu Sheng took Ren Quan aside, while Xie Yan and the other two plotted to let Chu Sheng die inside the forbidden zone.
• Ren Quan assumed Chu Sheng wanted to recruit her, but he demonstrated his power by destroying Duan Bufan’s soul.
• Chu Sheng seized Ren Quan, shattered her heart, and extracted her soul.
• Ren Quan’s soul knelt before Chu Sheng and offered to tell him everything she knew.