Chapter Summaries

Chu Sheng killed Song Xuan and Li Mao at the checkpoint, then revealed he was a temporary Level-3 Inspector of the Star Alliance Security General Administration. As Great Thousand Mountain’s ancestor arrived to avenge his great-grandson, Chu Sheng remained at the center of the escalating confrontation.

• Chu Sheng killed Song Xuan despite Elder Li and Du Ren confronting him, then sent Elder Li flying with a single punch.
• Li Mao accused Chu Sheng of killing the Heavenly Phoenix Trial prodigies, and Chu Sheng said he had been handling a case impartially.
• Chu Sheng identified himself as a temporary Level-3 Inspector, but Li Mao demanded credentials, so Chu Sheng seized him by the throat.
• Du Ren warned Chu Sheng that Chief Chu Yunqi had arrived at the Liushuang Star Branch, but Chu Sheng crushed Li Mao’s throat anyway.
• Great Thousand Mountain’s ancestor arrived and demanded to know who had killed his great-grandson.

After Chu Sheng killed Song Xuan, Song Tieshan arrived seeking revenge, only to discover that Chu Sheng was the Qing Ming Chu Family’s Kirin Child. Chu Yunqi spared Great Thousand Mountain from wider retaliation but ordered Song Tieshan to take his own life.

• Song Tieshan learned Song Xuan had been killed at the checkpoint and rushed there, intent on vengeance.
• A woman identified Chu Sheng as her nephew, and Chu Sheng confirmed he had killed Song Xuan.
• Song Tieshan attacked Chu Sheng and threatened to destroy his clan, but Chu Yunqi arrived and stopped his blow.
• Chu Yunqi revealed Chu Sheng was the Chu Family’s Kirin Child, prompting Song Tieshan to kowtow and plead for mercy.
• Chu Yunqi said she would deal with Song Tieshan leniently if he took his own life, while sparing Great Thousand Mountain from further punishment.

Chu Sheng rejected Chu Yunqi’s offer to let Song Tieshan kill himself and instead killed him personally, then returned with a Universe Realm soul under his control. Afterward, Chu Yunqi invited Chen Mo to the Chu Family, but Chu Sheng said Chen Mo would stay with him, and the group left the checkpoint to discuss the Heavenly Phoenix Trial.

• Chu Yunqi asked Chu Sheng how she should punish Song Tieshan, and Chu Sheng said he wanted to beat him to death with his own hands.
• Chu Sheng took Song Tieshan away from the checkpoint and killed him, gaining more than a hundred million Justice Points and subduing his soul.
• Chu Yunqi told Chen Mo that his daughter Xiao He had survived the disaster on Luochen Star and was staying with the Chu Family.
• Chu Sheng told Chu Yunqi not to make things difficult for Chen Mo and said Chen Mo would follow him instead.
• Chu Yunqi led Chu Sheng, Chen Mo, and Zheng Yuan back to the branch to discuss the Heavenly Phoenix Trial, while the onlookers concluded that Great Thousand Mountain was doomed.

Chu Yunqi offered Chu Sheng protection by giving him a place in the Chu Family and explained the dangerous truth behind the True Spirit World Derivation Method. After warning him about the trouble he caused at the Heavenly Phoenix Trial, she asked him to choose a path into the Universe Realm, and his final question stunned her.

• Chu Yunqi told Chu Sheng the Chu Family would protect him and arranged for him to be recognized as her nephew.
• Chu Yunqi explained that forging a world with a True Spirit's bloodline could lead to immortality only if the cultivator later slew that True Spirit and seized its Great Dao Origin.
• Chu Yunqi revealed that the Heavenly Phoenix Trial had been intended to help a True Spirit descend, and warned Chu Sheng that his actions had offended the Heavenly Phoenix Clan and other factions.
• Chu Yunqi said the Chu Family would settle the fallout and could provide materials for several paths into the Universe Realm, including an unidentified True Spirit bloodline with dangerous consequences.
• Chu Sheng asked whether an Immortal Venerable's bloodline could forge a world, and Chu Yunqi reacted with shock and called him insane.

Chu Yunqi urged Chu Sheng to consider how to forge his world and told him to enter the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament, warning him to concede if he faced Xiao Shentong. Chu Sheng agreed to participate but refused the Chu Family’s offered techniques, leaving Chu Yunqi astonished by his confidence.

• Chu Yunqi gave Chu Sheng a Spirit Communication Jade Token and told him his inspector position at the General Security Bureau had been arranged.
• Chu Yunqi asked Chu Sheng to remain in Tianyang Divine Capital and compete in the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament, advising him to concede if he encountered Xiao Shentong.
• Chu Yunqi explained that Xiao Shentong had crippled seven Chu Family members and possessed dangerous divine abilities, including Myriad Tribulations Undying and Within Reach, Yet Worlds Apart.
• Chu Sheng questioned why he should fear Xiao Shentong and agreed to enter the tournament, rejecting Chu Yunqi’s warning to surrender.
• Chu Yunqi offered Chu Sheng jade talismans containing Chu Family techniques and secret arts, but he refused and left, prompting her to wonder what he had cultivated.

Chu Sheng opened the LV8 Justice Gift Pack and gained treasures that could locate True Spirits and seize other martial artists’ small worlds. He requested the Chu Family’s True Spirit Bloodline and continued toward Tianyang Star, where he planned to prepare for the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament.

• Chu Sheng’s group left Liushuang Star aboard the Blazing Sun, and Chu Sheng opened the LV8 Justice Gift Pack amid a dazzling burst of golden light.
• The gift pack gave Chu Sheng the True Spirit Mirror, which could locate a True Spirit using an item connected to it, and the Guixu World Refining Cauldron, which could refine and claim another person’s small world.
• Chu Sheng realized he could use the True Spirit Mirror to trace the True Spirit behind the Chu Family’s inherited bloodline, so he asked Chu Yunqi to send him that bloodline.
• Chu Yunqi warned that the bloodline’s origins were unknown and that refining it could put Chu Sheng’s path to the Immortal Realm at risk, but Chu Sheng insisted on receiving it.
• Chu Yunqi told Chu Sheng to wait on Tianyang Star and avoid refining the bloodline before the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament, while Chu Sheng anticipated another challenge against a stronger opponent.

At Tianyang Star’s security checkpoint, Lu Chen witnessed the privilege of a golden-eyed youth and remembered how powerful nobles had destroyed his sect. After being humiliated by a security officer, he presented his jade token and was admitted to the capital.

• Travelers at Tianyang Star’s checkpoint discussed the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament and rumors that the Qing Ming Chu Family’s Kirin Child had destroyed the Heavenly Phoenix Clan’s trial.
• Lu Chen, who had fled after a powerful noble’s faction nearly wiped out his sect, resented the way the well-connected escaped punishment.
• Lu Chen saw a golden-eyed youth use the special passage while an old man fawned over him and a subdued woman followed behind.
• Lu Chen suppressed his anger and resolved to overturn the world ruled by brute power.
• A security officer berated Lu Chen for holding up the queue, then scanned his jade token and let him enter under the name Lu Chen.

Chu Sheng’s identity and nineteen-year-old Cave Profound Realm peak cultivation shocked security officers and the elders of Zixia Sacred Land. The elders connected him to the Chu Family’s legendary Kirin Child and recalled an unresolved marriage contract from eighty years earlier.

• Security officers verified Chu Sheng’s Spirit Communication Jade Token and were stunned by his age and cultivation.
• A report about Chu Sheng reached Zixia Sacred Land as its elders discussed the upcoming Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament.
• The elders learned that the Chu Family had revealed Chu Sheng was the infant whose birth caused a phenomenon across the Star Alliance.
• The white-haired elder and the others recalled an unresolved marriage contract proposed by the Chu Family eighty years earlier.

Tantai Yuehua learned that the Chu Family would likely honor her marriage contract now that Chu Sheng had reached the Cave Profound Realm peak at nineteen. She rejected a plan to have Xiao Shentong cripple Chu Sheng and left to meet the Sect Master, while True Person Lingyue worried over her future.

• True Person Lingyue told Tantai Yuehua that Chu Sheng had reached the Cave Profound Realm peak at nineteen and that the Chu Family would likely soon seek to fulfill the marriage contract.
• Tantai Yuehua insisted she would honor the contract because she had proposed it and would not break her word.
• True Person Lingyue asked whether Tantai Yuehua loved Xiao Shentong, and Tantai Yuehua said she felt only guilt toward him.
• True Person Lingyue revealed that Chu Sheng and Xiao Shentong would both participate in the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament and suggested Xiao Shentong might cripple Chu Sheng to end the marriage prospect.
• Tantai Yuehua rejected the plan because it could bring the Xiao Family to ruin and said she would make Xiao Shentong abandon his intentions.
• Tantai Yuehua left for Xianxin Hall to meet the Sect Master, while True Person Lingyue warned Chu Sheng not to fail her disciple.

Chu Sheng entered the Tianyang Divine Capital and was recognized by its guards, who led him to Chu Wanhai, a man claiming to be his father. Chu Sheng suspected the Chu Family had concealed the truth from Chu Wanhai, then accepted two forbidden tournament talismans before leaving.

• Chu Sheng and the Yang Piao reached the Tianyang Divine Capital, where entry cost ten Spirit Crystals per person per day.
• A guard recognized Chu Sheng and escorted him past the queue and into a hall without charging him.
• Chu Wanhai introduced himself as Chu Sheng's father, and Chu Sheng realized the man seemed unaware of his true identity.
• Chu Wanhai gave Chu Sheng two talismans meant to defeat or kill an opponent, but Chen Mo explained that talismans were forbidden in the tournament.
• Chu Sheng took the talismans and their box, then told Chu Wanhai to scram.

Chu Sheng discovered that Chu Wanhai had delivered two Immortal Venerable Talismans, then went to the Star Alliance Security General Administration to begin onboarding. The director-general, who blamed Chu Sheng for ruining his plan, ordered Luo Lan to handle his assessment so Chu Sheng would fail.

• Chu Sheng learned from Chen Mo that the two talismans required a Spirit Seal Talisman Box and were likely treasures bestowed by the Chu Family's Immortal Venerable ancestor.
• Chu Sheng dismissed the possibility that Chu Wanhai had stolen the talismans and decided to keep them.
• Chu Sheng arrived at the Star Alliance Security General Administration, where Lin Wei offered to guide him through onboarding.
• The intelligence director-general learned that Chu Sheng had entered the General Administration and ordered the adjutant to have Luo Lan conduct his assessment.
• The director-general admitted that he wanted Chu Sheng to fail because Chu Sheng had ruined his plan, though he had feared the cost of crippling him.

Chu Sheng registered at the Security General Administration, where his age and Cave Profound Realm peak cultivation stunned the staff. When Luo Lan tried to force him into a wager and spar, Chu Sheng attacked and killed him, leaving the confrontation at headquarters unresolved.

• Lin Wei explained the General Administration’s duties to Chu Sheng and took him to register his aura.
• The Zhao Yuan Crystal recorded Chu Sheng as nineteen, shocking Lin Wei and the registration staff with his Cave Profound Realm peak cultivation.
• Luo Lan challenged Chu Sheng to a wagered spar, demanding that he leave if he lost, while Lin Wei warned that Luo Lan had held his cultivation realm for fifty years.
• Chu Sheng attacked Luo Lan at the registration office, cutting his body in half with the Myriad Soldier Devouring Abyss.
• Luo Lan tried to concede, but Chu Sheng struck again and killed him.

After Chu Sheng killed Luo Lan during a supposedly agreed spar, Director General Will ordered his arrest, but Chu Sheng defeated the adjutant sent to detain him. Will then called off the confrontation, and Chu Sheng completed his onboarding while postponing his choice of assignment until after the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament.

• Director General Will learned that Chu Sheng had killed his nephew Luo Lan and ordered Chu Sheng's onboarding suspended and his detention.
• At the Information Registration Office, Lin Wei warned Chu Sheng that Will would retaliate, and Chu Sheng contacted Chu Yunqi for help.
• Will's adjutant arrived with guards to arrest Chu Sheng and tried to provoke him by threatening Chen Mo and Zheng Yuan.
• Chu Sheng struck the adjutant, severely injuring him, and the adjutant called for Will to intervene.
• Will told Chu Sheng to keep the matter separate from the Chu Family and ordered the guards to carry away the adjutant.
• Lin Wei helped Chu Sheng finish onboarding into a frontline law enforcement department, while he delayed choosing a branch until after the tournament.

Chu Sheng returned to the Chu Family residence and learned that a group of Thirteen Star Domain prodigies had been invited to represent the family in the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament. He dismissed their objections to his participation and left them resentful, while the green-robed prodigy stormed out of the residence.

• Chu Sheng arrived at the Chu Family residence, where Lao Zhong introduced the ten top contestants from the Thirteen Star Domain Genius Competition.
• Chu Sheng said he would participate in the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament, prompting the prodigies to worry that he would take one of their recommendation slots.
• Liu Qingyao and a green-robed man challenged Chu Sheng, but he explained that he did not need a recommendation slot and refused to reveal his cultivation.
• Chu Sheng rebuked the green-robed man and told him to leave if he could not accept the way he was treated.
• The green-robed man departed, and the remaining prodigies agreed to seek an explanation from the Chu Family and prove themselves at the tournament.

Grieving families plotted to use Xiao Shentong to kill Chu Sheng at the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament by exploiting his feelings for Tantai Yuehua. They ordered the rumor spread, setting the tournament up as the day they hoped to avenge their dead.

• An old woman and the gathered families lamented their losses to Chu Sheng and feared taking revenge against the powerful Chu Family directly.
• The Purple Heaven Sect Master revealed that Chu Sheng would compete in the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament, where the rules allowed opponents to fight to the death.
• The Purple Heaven Sect Master named Xiao Shentong as someone capable of defeating Chu Sheng and explained Xiao Shentong’s history with Tantai Yuehua and the Chu Family.
• The Purple Heaven Sect Master proposed spreading rumors that Chu Sheng and Tantai Yuehua were engaged and that Chu Sheng planned to marry her after winning the tournament.
• The old woman ordered the families to spread the rumors so Xiao Shentong would kill Chu Sheng and they could avoid the Chu Family’s retaliation.

Tantai Yuehua rejected Xiao Shentong and declared Chu Sheng to be the husband she had chosen, while Xiao Shentong vowed to attack Chu Sheng despite the consequences. At the Chu residence, the young prodigies apologized to Chu Sheng and sought his guidance, before Chu Yunqi’s return brought news of his chance to advance to the Universe Realm.

• Tantai Yuehua told Xiao Shentong that she had chosen Chu Sheng as her husband and ended their ties, but Xiao Shentong resolved to risk his life to help her by going after Chu Sheng.
• News of nineteen-year-old Chu Sheng’s Cave Profound Realm peak cultivation spread across the Star Alliance and stirred the martial world ahead of the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament.
• Liu Qingyao and several other Heavenly Prodigies apologized to Chu Sheng and asked him for cultivation guidance; he advised them to do good deeds.
• Chu Sheng asked about the Thirteen Star Domain Genius Competition’s rewards, then ordered the group to cripple Wu Yifeng if they encountered him at the tournament.
• Lao Zhong told Chu Sheng that Chu Yunqi had returned with an urgent matter, and Chu Sheng headed to the front hall, anticipating the True Spirit Bloodline needed for his advancement.

Chu Yunqi told Chu Sheng that his father had taken two Immortal Venerable Talismans from the Chu Family, but the family agreed to let Chu Sheng keep them after learning he could reliably track True Spirits. Chu Yunqi asked him to help locate several True Spirits, and when she offered to find him a wife as payment, Chu Sheng said he was even less interested.

• Chu Yunqi brought Chu Sheng the True Spirit Bloodline and explained that his father had secretly taken two important Chu Family treasures to protect him.
• Chu Sheng refused to return the two Immortal Venerable Talismans, saying he needed them to face True Spirits and would repay the family after attaining the Immortal Realm.
• Chu Yunqi inferred that Chu Sheng could track True Spirits, and he confirmed that his method was reliable without revealing its source.
• Chu Yunqi consulted her family, which let Chu Sheng keep the talismans and asked him to help locate several True Spirits.
• Chu Yunqi offered Spirit Materials, techniques, or other rewards, then suggested finding Chu Sheng a wife; Chu Sheng replied that he was even less interested.

Chu Sheng rejected Chu Yunqi’s proposed marriage to Tantai Yuehua and obtained the True Spirit Bloodline, then decided to advance to the Universe Realm. He asked Chu Yunqi to gather a million Spirit Crystals and find him a place for seclusion, leaving his breakthrough plans underway.

• Chu Yunqi described Tantai Yuehua’s beauty, Taiyin Divine Body, and old marriage agreement with the Chu Family, but Chu Sheng dismissed the proposal because of her age.
• Chu Yunqi gave Chu Sheng the True Spirit Bloodline and warned that refining it and advancing to the Universe Realm required enormous spiritual power and could cause a devastating commotion.
• Chu Sheng asked for a million Spirit Crystals and suggested dismantling the courtyard, but Chu Yunqi explained its crystals were depleted and promised to gather enough from the family’s businesses within three days.
• Chu Sheng praised Chu Yunqi and asked her to find a place for his seclusion because he wanted to break through to the Universe Realm.

As the Chu Family gathered a million Spirit Crystals rumored to be betrothal gifts for Tantai Yuehua, Tantai Yuehua discussed Chu Sheng and the proposed marriage with her master and companions. Though she insisted she felt no affection for him, she agreed to visit the Chu Family the next day and see him for herself.

• The Chu Family stewards gathered a million Spirit Crystals and speculated that Chu Sheng planned to give them to the Zixia Sacred Land as betrothal gifts for Tantai Yuehua.
• True Person Lingyue asked Tantai Yuehua and her companions about the Chu Family's actions, and Lingshuang and the elders criticized Chu Sheng's ambitions and the size of the offering.
• Tantai Yuehua said Chu Sheng's promise to win the tournament showed courage and defended his actions in the Heavenly Phoenix Trial, while True Person Lingyue worried she might misjudge him.
• After the meeting, Lingshuang asked whether Tantai Yuehua liked Chu Sheng and proposed sneaking over to see him.
• Tantai Yuehua agreed to visit Chu Sheng the next day, but told Lingshuang they could go openly rather than conceal themselves.

Tantai Yuehua and Lingshuang visited the Chu Family annex to speak with Chu Sheng about the Star Sea Martial Arts Tournament, but learned he had gone into seclusion with Yun Qi. As they questioned Liu Qingyao about him and his female companion, a vast golden and violet glow spread across the sky, accompanied by overwhelming pressure.

• Tantai Yuehua and Lingshuang arrived at the Chu Family annex, where an old servant told them Chu Sheng had left with Yun Qi to find a secluded place before the tournament.
• A silver-robed young man recognized Tantai Yuehua, and Liu Qingyao invited her and Lingshuang to exchange cultivation insights with the women in the group.
• Liu Qingyao praised Chu Sheng as kind-hearted and handsome, easing Tantai Yuehua's concerns about his appearance.
• Liu Qingyao mentioned Chu Sheng's plain-looking female companion, and Tantai Yuehua asked where she was staying.
• Liu Qingyao began to answer, but the sky over Tianyang Divine Capital turned gold and violet as an immense pressure swept over everyone.