Chapter Summaries

The emperor replaced his treasure-finding Entry with the more powerful “Inauspicious Later Years,” which let him locate treasures and create Spiritual Meridians. He then went to Windrise Village and took the heavenly-born Adou into imperial care, intending to raise him himself.

• The emperor equipped “Inauspicious Later Years,” tested its ability to identify and locate treasures, and created an artificial Spiritual Meridian that accelerated his cultivation.
• Prime Minister Wang Baobao reported that a newborn with heavenly signs had been found among the Human Race, and the emperor ordered him to be brought to the child.
• Wang Baobao led the emperor’s royal procession to Windrise Village, where the Zhong family was trying to find someone to adopt their eighth child, Adou.
• Wang Baobao frightened the villagers by claiming the court would make meat buns from Adou, but the emperor promised to raise him safely in the imperial palace.
• Mr. Xun watched from nearby after the emperor had asked him to keep the Kindling Society from interfering while he took Adou into his care.

Chen Yi arranged for Adou, a child of destiny, to grow up naturally and planned to take him to Vermilion Purple Star, where the Human Race’s Kindling Society could support him. Mr. Xun named the child Zhong Yanqing, and Chen Yi waited until he was old enough to travel before departing.

• Chen Yi brought Adou to Windrise Village, where Mr. Xun recognized him as a child of destiny and discussed the dangers facing such children.
• Chen Yi explained his plan to connect Blaze Star and Spirit Micro Star, keep the Human Race hidden behind Alien Race powers, and eventually take Adou to Vermilion Purple Star.
• Mr. Xun contacted the Kindling Society on Vermilion Purple Star and approved Chen Yi as an official member and second-in-command of Blaze Star’s society.
• Mr. Xun named Adou Zhong Yanqing, wishing for peace and the revival of the Human Race.
• Chen Yi remained on Blaze Star for several years, alternating between cultivating and comprehending Divine Abilities while Zhong Yanqing grew old enough to travel.

The emperor told Adou that they were both Human Race and revealed the Kindling Society’s plan to take control of Blaze Star. He left a clone to rule in his place and prepared to take Adou into the wider sea of stars.

• The chief eunuch reported that Adou had broken Cong Lala’s leg, and the emperor ordered compensation for Marquis Huai Ming before summoning Adou.
• Adou explained that he had beaten Cong Lala because Cong Lala had insulted a teacher, after Marquis Huai Ming proposed tripling the Human Race’s grain tax.
• The emperor told Adou that he would take him away from Blaze Star and leave a clone to rule in his place.
• The emperor revealed his Human Race identity and explained the Kindling Society’s plan to make the Human Race the true rulers of Blaze Star.
• Adou celebrated the plan, and the emperor said Adou’s destiny belonged on a far greater stage.

Chen left a clone to govern Blaze Star and traveled with Adou toward Vermilion Purple Star, reassuring him that the Human Race would grow strong. After drawing a horn-breaking trait during the journey, they reached Vermilion Purple Star and headed to the Kindling Society’s agreed meeting place near Dongming Mountain.

• Chen told Mr. Xun to avoid force against the Alien Races on Blaze Star and left a clone behind while claiming to enter seclusion.
• As the Voyager departed, Adou said he wanted the Human Race to become strong enough that the Alien Races would no longer bully them.
• At age eighty-four, Chen drew the Horn-Breaking Madman trait and replaced Hulk with it.
• During the voyage, Chen taught Adou simple Cultivation Methods, while Adou bonded with the Immortal Artifacts aboard the Star Boat.
• At age eighty-five, Chen and Adou arrived at Vermilion Purple Star and landed on Dongming Mountain to meet the Kindling Society near an Ancient Ferry.

Chen waited at the ferry crossing with Adou for Ji Wuqing, intending to bring the child to the Kindling Society’s base while staying by his side. After Chen and Ji Wuqing argued over who would care for Adou, the boy insulted her as a long-haired female ghost, prompting an outburst.

• Chen killed a group of blue-skinned robbers, took their temporary residence permit Compasses, and burned their bodies to hide the evidence.
• Ji Wuqing arrived and recognized Chen after he spoke their code phrase, then asked whether Adou was the Child of Destiny from Blaze Star.
• Ji Wuqing offered to take Adou to the base, but Chen insisted he would stay with the child.
• Ji Wuqing demanded that Chen hand Adou over, and Adou said he trusted only Uncle Chen and called her a long-haired female ghost.
• Chen blamed Myriad Souls Banner for teaching Adou to speak that way, and Myriad Souls Banner protested its innocence.

Chen Dong and Adou joined Ji Wuqing’s group on the journey to the Vermilion Purple Star Kindling Society base. After months of travel, they reached a hidden underground city and settlement where the society’s members lived.

• Ji Wuqing introduced Chen Dong and Adou to He Xiangdong and the Kindling Society escort, and He Xiangdong agreed to bring Chen Dong to the base.
• He Xiangdong recognized Chen Dong’s reputation for helping unify Blaze Star and welcomed him as a comrade.
• Chen Dong and Adou traveled with the group by boat, carriage, and on foot for several months.
• He Xiangdong led the group through a concealed cave to a vast underground settlement with a city, farms, grasslands, and villages.

Chen Dong and Adou toured a Kindling Society base, where He Xiangdong explained its self-sufficient community and mission to protect and train Human Race geniuses. He then began recounting the history of the Great Uprising, also called the Great Counteroffensive by the Alien Races, tracing it back to the Heavenly Emperor Era.

• He Xiangdong welcomed Chen Dong and Adou into the underground base, where Chen Dong observed its formations, cultivation creations, and Divine Patterns.
• He Xiangdong explained the origins of Heavenly, Earth, and Human Patterns and how the Alien Races had restricted and renamed them.
• He Xiangdong described how the Kindling Society protected and trained Human Race geniuses, supported its self-sufficient bases, and raided small Alien Race factions for resources.
• Chen Dong learned that some geniuses left the base, with some returning, some disappearing, some dying, and a few becoming traitors.
• He Xiangdong identified the Great Uprising as the Alien Races' Great Counteroffensive and began explaining its history from the Heavenly Emperor Era.

The chapter recounted how the Alien Races plotted and launched the Great Uprising while the Radiant Heavenly Emperor and the Immortal Court fought Contamination. The uprising destroyed the Immortal Court and let the Alien Races seize control of the universe, while the Radiant Heavenly Emperor died suppressing Contamination.

• The Alien Races blamed their inability to produce Heavenly Emperors on the Human Race's Heavenly Emperors suppressing their destiny, and they secretly conspired to overthrow the Human Race.
• As Contamination intensified, the Radiant Heavenly Emperor led the Immortal Court across the universe to suppress it, while Alien Race factions allied with Human Race factions and attacked the Human Race's backbone forces.
• The Alien Races launched the Great Uprising across the universe as Human Race powers failed to coordinate, and many Human Race factions surrendered or switched sides.
• The Alien Races ambushed the Immortal Court in heavily Contaminated regions, killing many of the Human Race's strongest members.
• The Radiant Heavenly Emperor suppressed all Contamination with his life and slew hundreds of Alien Race Immortal Emperors, but could not prevent the Alien Races from destroying the Immortal Court and taking control of the universe.

You learned how the Alien Race had used Void Realms to contain Contamination and resolved to help the Human Race rise again. After settling at Vermilion Purple Star Base, you mistook Ji Wuqing’s visit with Divine Arts manuals for a chance to propose, and she fled in anger with the manuals.

• He Xiangdong explained that the Alien Race had diverted Contamination into Void Realms and that the Great Uprising had ended the Human Race’s dominance.
• You decided that disguises would not solve the Human Race’s oppression and vowed that its rise would unite the myriad races.
• In year sixty-one, you settled at Vermilion Purple Star Base, while Adou entered Genius Academy and both of you obtained residence permits through the Ji Family.
• Ji Wuqing brought you Divine Art manuals, and you told her you wanted to discuss a wedding date.
• Ji Wuqing accused you of scheming to get close to her, took back the manuals, and flew away as you pleaded for her to leave them behind.

Chen Dong abandoned his failed attempt to win Ji Wuqing over and revealed that he came from the Void Realm, then arranged to help the Star Apes search for their prince. He left with Ji Wuqing for the Ji Family, where his foresight and prepared plans astonished Ji Baiming.

• Chen Dong cultivated in peace while Adou grew into the king of the teenagers at the Kindling Society base, and he kept the Vast Sun Ring in safekeeping.
• Chen Dong asked Ji Wuqing to take him to the Ji Family, and He Xiangdong tried to arrange their marriage before Chen Dong clarified that he did not want to force her.
• Chen Dong told Ji Wuqing and the base leaders that he came from the Void Realm and knew where the Star Apes' princes were, then gave Adou the Female Heavenly Emperor's Cloudglow Feather Robe for protection.
• Ji Wuqing brought Chen Dong to the Ji Family's Star Ape bidding conference, where he explained the princes' situation and secured the role of Projector.
• Chen Dong gave Ji Baiming a book containing the Ji Family's plans for exploring the Void Realm, leaving Ji Baiming and Ji Wuqing stunned by how closely it matched their catalog.

After returning to the Human World, you reunited with Chen Liu and learned that ten people had ascended to the Real Realm over the past sixty-four years. Chen Liu explained how Martial Saints had crossed the Ascension Path and named those who had made the journey.

• You returned to the Human World through the Void-Piercing Divine Altar, and Chen Liu rushed to greet you before you withdrew him into your body.
• You asked Chen Liu to report on the fifteen people who had attempted the Ascension Path; he said ten had entered the Real Realm and five had given up.
• Chen Liu explained that the Sword Master's lingering sword intent had let Martial Saints endure the Ascension Path's pressure, though each crossing consumed some of it.
• Chen Liu listed the ten ascendants, including Li Lingyue, Li Liushui, Chen Jing, Zhenpin, Shen Yue, Dongfang Shuo, Wu Yue, Li Chengqian, Wang Yanbing, and Wan Jianyi.
• You recalled Wan Jianyi as the Cauldron Summit Tournament champion and later Sect Master of the Wuji Sword Sect.

You visited Third Sister Chen Yun’s grave and left Chen Liu in the Human World to protect it and guide ascenders. While searching for the Black Hand on the way to the Divine Weapon Pavilion, you encountered Hua Wuyan and then spotted Xiaoyao God preaching at Xiaoyao Holy Land.

• You learned that Chen Yun had died at ninety despite Chen Liu’s efforts to ease her illness, and you comforted him as he mourned at her grave.
• You told Chen Liu to remain in the Human World, where his presence deterred the Black Hand and helped direct ascenders along the path you had prepared.
• You visited Dachun, who recognized you as the original Brother Yi, and then left White Cloud City for the Divine Weapon Pavilion while scanning for the Black Hand.
• Hua Wuyan mistook you for Chen Liu, and she declined your suggestion to travel to the Real Realm because she calmly accepted death.
• You saw Xiaoyao God preaching at Xiaoyao Holy Land and decided to remind him about the Ascension Path.

Chen Yi visited Xiaoyao God to tell him that the Ascension Path had opened, but discovered that he could not hear Xiaoyao God’s inner thoughts and grew suspicious of his past. When Xiaoyao God refused to show him the Time Chamber, Chen Yi attacked Xiaoyao Holy Land and demanded the treasure, leaving the Holy Land calling for Hua Wuyan.

• Chen Yi told Xiaoyao God that the Ascension Path lay at the end of the North Sea and offered him a chance to enter the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi found that he could not hear Xiaoyao God’s inner thoughts and suspected that Xiaoyao God might be dead or hiding a secret.
• After Xiaoyao God’s preaching assembly ended, Chen Yi asked to see the Time Chamber, but Xiaoyao God refused.
• Chen Yi accused Xiaoyao God of having no Time Chamber and attacked him, then threatened to level Xiaoyao Holy Land unless he handed it over.
• Xiaoyao God rallied the Holy Land’s top fighters against Chen Yi, while the panicked crowd called for Hua Wuyan.

You confronted Xiaoyao God over suspected cooperation with the Dragon Person Race and demanded proof of the Time Chamber. He revealed that the Ascension Path was his Time Chamber and confessed he was a Desolate Ancient Remnant informant, then offered no resistance to your judgment.

• You accused Xiaoyao God of helping the Dragon Person Race open rifts and demanded that he show you the Time Chamber.
• Xiaoyao God asked you to take him to the Ascension Path, and you transported him to its entrance in the North Sea.
• Xiaoyao God revealed that the Ascension Path was the Time Chamber and that he was one of the Desolate Ancient Remnant People’s informants in the Human World.
• Xiaoyao God explained how the Ascension Path let him extend his existence in objective time and carry intelligence between the Human World and the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm.
• Xiaoyao God admitted he had been an accomplice in the Remnant People’s actions against the Human World and told you to kill him if you wished.

You spared Xiaoyao God and ordered Chen Liu to watch him while you pursued the Black Hand’s identity. After returning to the Real Realm, you arranged for Black Wind to travel with Sun Xiaosheng’s group to the Dragon Horse Star System and learned that Thunder Beasts were exceptionally rare but born with Immortal Lord-level combat power.

• You questioned Xiaoyao God about the Heaven and Earth Sword, judged that he was telling the truth, and left him alive so you could investigate him further.
• You returned to White Cloud County, ordered Chen Liu to monitor Xiaoyao God, and went to the Divine Weapon Pavilion to retrieve the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey.
• Sun Xiaosheng gave you a black stone as thanks, and you asked him to take Black Wind to the Dragon Horse Star System.
• The Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey insisted that Sun Xiaosheng help you, and Black Wind agreed to leave for his homeland after you urged him to protect himself.
• You showed Sun Xiaoyao a lightning-shaped horn, and he identified it as belonging to a Thunder Beast and explained that fewer than a hundred lived in the Thunder Star System, each born with Immortal Lord-level combat power.

Chen Yi gained the Upright Human trait and focused on cultivation at Guxiao Mountain with the Ji Family. Ten years later, he and Ji Wuqing went to the Kindling Society base to test whether Adou or either of two other Destined Ones owned the Vast Sun Ring.

• Chen Yi replaced Leader Aura with Upright Human, which strengthened his traits when he appeared in his original form and weakened nearby Alien Races.
• The Ji Family rewarded Chen Yi for helping them, and Ji Baiming's attempt to arrange a marriage between him and Ji Wuqing was dropped.
• Chen Yi cultivated at Guxiao Mountain, using Ominous Old Age to add a Spiritual Meridian and Upright Human to boost his cultivation traits.
• Ten years later, Ji Wuqing summoned Chen Yi to the Kindling Society base for a test of three Destined Ones, including Adou, who might own the Vast Sun Ring.
• Chen Yi brought the genuine Vast Sun Ring for the test, while keeping his copied version and the copied Black Monkey King Seal Stone untested.

Chen brought Adou to the Destined One test, where the Kindling Society examined who could master the Vast Sun Ring. After Bao Hongyi and Li Wanqing failed to claim it, Adou was the last candidate to try.

• Adou reunited with Chen and asked him to take him back to the Feathering Star System to see his parents.
• Chen met the other Destined Ones, Bao Hongyi and Li Wanqing, before the test began outside the underground city.
• Chen handed the authentic Vast Sun Ring to He Xiangdong, and the Kindling Society prepared protective barriers around the testing ground.
• Bao Hongyi failed to control the ring and concluded it was not meant for him.
• Li Wanqing briefly wore the ring, but removed it and said it was not hers, leaving Adou as the final candidate.

Adou bonded with the Vast Sun Ring and spent years learning to use it while Chen Yi cultivated in seclusion. After a decade of training, Chen Yi used Jiahao Behavior to break through to the Early Heaven-Reaching Stage.

• The Vast Sun Ring recognized Adou as its master, and the Kindling Society celebrated his potential.
• He Xiangdong arranged for Adou to remain at the base and learn to wield the Vast Sun Ring, delaying his trip to Spirit Micro Star.
• After five years, Adou contacted Chen Yi through Ji Wuqing, but Chen Yi was still in seclusion and asked Strategist He to arrange Adou's journey home.
• Adou chose to wait and cultivate until Chen Yi could accompany him, while Chen Yi continued his seclusion for another ten years.
• At age one hundred and sixteen, Chen Yi spent 200,000 Jiahao Points to break through from the late Desperate Realm to the Early Heaven-Reaching Stage.

After reaching the Heaven-Reaching Realm, Chen Yi learned that filling his Origin Core would take far longer and decided to strengthen his combat abilities. Ji Wuqing arrived to report that the Kindling Society base was under attack, and Chen Yi set out to find Adou as the survivors fled the planet-wide assault.

• Chen Yi considered comprehending more Heavenly Constellation Divine Abilities because the Heaven-Reaching Realm required vastly more Divine Power to cultivate.
• Ji Wuqing crashed into Guxiao Mountain and told Chen Yi that the Kindling Society was under attack and its members were being hunted across Vermilion Purple Star.
• Chen Yi transformed into a red-scaled divine Dragon and carried Ji Wuqing toward Adou, using Aura of Ten Thousand Races to track Holy Dragon People.
• Adou fled with He Xiangdong and other Kindling Society members as the Holy Dragon Society's forces sealed off the planet and destroyed the underground base.
• He Xiangdong stopped Adou from turning back and explained that the enemy wanted to capture Destined Ones alive, then led the survivors toward a possible safe refuge.

Jin Hai tracked He Xiangdong and Adou as the Kindling Society’s members sacrificed themselves to help them escape. Just as Jin Hai cornered the remaining defenders, a fire dragon arrived with a human woman standing on its head, and Adou recognized the newcomer as Uncle Chen.

• Jin Hai used Luo Kai’s exposed identity to locate He Xiangdong’s group, and Luo Kai and dozens of Kindling Society members stayed behind so He Xiangdong could flee with Adou.
• Jin Hai caught up with He Xiangdong and Adou, unraveling King Zhou’s protective Laws while the three Immortal Kings fought in space.
• He Xiangdong sent Brother Lin away with Adou, then stayed with two comrades to confront Jin Hai using Blood Tide Divine Art.
• A pillar of fire destroyed Jin Hai’s golden chariot, and a thousand-meter fire dragon appeared with a human woman on its head.
• Adou recognized the arrival as Uncle Chen and urged Lin Strongman to stop.