Chapter Summaries

Lei Yao's team searched Shuiyue New City for the Ghost examiner while the other teams completed their fights. When the Ghost finally appeared, he killed Lei Yao and announced that the Blood God Cult was behind the attack, leaving the Star Domain Battle in crisis.

• Zhuge Yu's team defeated the A-Class examiner first, while Wu Ziyan's and Shangguan Lei's teams found and narrowly defeated the Demon and the Monster, each losing a teammate to serious injuries.
• Qin Tian watched the fights but abandoned his plan to attack after the teams prepared traps for him.
• Lei Yao followed Huang Yuhui's suggestion to split the team into four search groups, but they spent nearly a day unable to find the Ghost.
• The Ghost appeared behind Lei Yao, who sent up a lightning signal for his teammates before the Ghost Howl left him unable to move.
• The Ghost crushed Lei Yao's heart and Qingmu Jade, then announced to the livestream that the Blood God Cult sent its greetings.

A Blood Demon Cult infiltrator killed Lei Yao during the Genius Battle, then used Crystal Exile to trap sixteen geniuses and himself beyond the Void. The livestream ended as Dongfang Yue identified the attacker as Sakley, while Qin Tian watched from hiding and faced the crisis ahead.

• The viewers learned that the Blood Demon Cult had grown into a notorious organization after turning its campaign against Bloodline privilege into widespread slaughter and experimentation.
• Dongfang Ke confronted Dongfang Leng after discovering that Leng had recommended the infiltrator, and the elders called for the competition to be stopped and the attacker killed.
• After killing Lei Yao, the examiner known as "Ghost" crushed a Crystal Sphere and unleashed a purple barrier that crystallized and displaced half the city into the Void.
• Dongfang Yue and the Dongfang Family experts arrived too late, identified the technique as Crystal Exile, and named the attacker Sakley as the livestream cut off.
• "Ghost" drained Lei Yao's blood into a Demon Jar and vowed that the trapped geniuses would not escape, while Qin Tian watched from a distant shadow.

Qin Tian absorbed Lei Yao’s Destruction Heavenly Thunder and fused it with his Purple Heaven Thunder Body, gaining Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder and advancing to Fourth Order Five Stars. As he flew to help the geniuses fight “Ghost,” Zyra began drilling into the Purple Crystal Wall to consume its energy.

• Huang Yuhui and his teammates fled toward the meeting point after seeing the Purple Crystal Wall, while examiner Xiuran planned to wipe them out.
• Qin Tian found Lei Yao’s corpse, closed his eyes, and absorbed his Gold Bloodline, gaining Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder.
• Qin Tian’s Psionic Energy surged, and he broke through to Fourth Order Five Stars.
• Qin Tian assessed his new power and decided to fight “Ghost” and the Blood Demon Cult to protect the trapped geniuses.
• Qin Tian drew Hidden Kill and prepared to fly, but Zyra grew into a giant vine and began drilling into the Purple Crystal Wall to absorb its energy.
• Qin Tian instructed Zyra briefly, then flew toward the battle where the geniuses were fighting “Ghost.”

After the city was cast into the Void, Zhuge Yu gathered the contestants and raised the Marquis Wu Eight Trigrams Array to defend them from Ghost. The array held against Ghost’s assault and summoned Ghost King, but Zhuge Yu was wounded and faced an opponent revealed to be a Sixth Order Ninth Star Bloodline Warrior.

• Zhuge Yu warned Wu Ziyan, Shangguan Lei, and the others that Ghost had likely caused the disaster and ordered them to form an Eight Trigrams Array.
• Shangguan Lei linked the contestants through his Heart Web as Zhuge Yu assigned them positions and raised the Marquis Wu Eight Trigrams Array.
• Ghost arrived and unleashed Ten Thousand Ghosts Devour Heaven, sending endless Evil Ghosts against the array.
• Zhuge Yu directed the group to strengthen the barrier, and their combined powers burned back the attacking Evil Ghosts.
• Ghost summoned the Nine Nether Ghost King, whose Black Flame clashed with the array’s golden sword of light.
• The battle injured Zhuge Yu, and he recognized Ghost as a Sixth Order Ninth Star Bloodline Warrior.

Qin Tian saved the Eight Trigrams Array’s exhausted defenders with Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder and his Life Domain, then distracted the “Ghost” while they fought on. As the battle remained desperate, Zyra awakened after absorbing the Wood Element Crystal and purple crystal tung tree’s energy.

• The “Ghost” used Myriad Ghosts Cry Out and summoned two Ghost Kings, but Zhuge Yu’s team destroyed both while she used the Zhen Character Secret to restore their strength.
• The “Ghost” attacked the Array with a Bone Blade as Zhuge Yu was injured, but Qin Tian arrived as Black Crow and wiped out the lesser ghosts with Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder.
• Qin Tian spread his Life Domain across the ruined city, replenishing the defenders’ energy and helping them hold the Eight Trigrams Array.
• Qin Tian dodged the “Ghost’s” attack and taunted him, then shot at him from a distance to interrupt his Netherworld Annihilation Spear.
• Qin Tian sensed that Zyra had evolved after absorbing the Wood Element Crystal and the purple crystal tung tree’s energy.

Qin Tian revealed that Zyra had reached the Sixth Order and used her lightning-charged vines to turn the battle against Ghost. After Ghost was wounded and forced out of hiding, Zhuge Yu ordered everyone to press their advantage and finish him.

• Zyra reached the Sixth Order after absorbing energy from the Purple Crystal Wall, and Qin Tian realized she could face Ghost directly.
• Yue Shenghuo and the Eight Trigrams Array took the force of Ghost's Ghost King Seal, leaving the defenders badly strained.
• Zyra's vines burst from the ground, entangled Ghost, and carried Qin Tian's Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder into their attacks.
• Qin Tian's lightning struck Ghost and charred his right arm, forcing him to reveal himself.
• Zhuge Yu urged the group through the Heart Web to press their advantage and finish Ghost.

Qin Tian and the others defeated the Ghost when Zyra’s lightning vines trapped him, Fu Ning wounded him with a powered-up sword strike, and Qin Tian finished him with a thunder-charged bullet. The survivors thanked Examiner Black Crow, while Qin Tian collected the Ghost’s artifacts.

• Zyra’s lightning vines trapped the Ghost and absorbed his ghostly energy as he struggled to break free.
• The Ghost burned his blood essence to escape the vine cage and charged at Qin Tian, but Fu Ning struck him with the Eight Trigrams Array’s power.
• Qin Tian shot the wounded Ghost between the brows with a Purple Lightning bullet, killing him and absorbing his remaining Soul Fragments.
• Zhuge Yu confirmed the Ghost was dead, and the surviving geniuses thanked Examiner Black Crow for helping them survive.
• Qin Tian picked up the Black Square Seal and Blood Demon Jar from the Ghost’s corpse.

After defeating Liao Wan'an, Qin Tian gained the Netherworld Ghost Contract and learned of the Blood Demon Cult’s atrocities and their plan to sabotage the Genius Battle. As the Purple Crystal Wall began to fail, he opened a Black Gate that let everyone escape the city just before spatial turbulence consumed it.

• Qin Tian absorbed Liao Wan'an’s Netherworld Ghost Contract talent, Soul Suppressing Seal, Ghost King Secret Manual, and memories, and gained 150,000 Evolution Points.
• Qin Tian learned that Liao Wan'an had been a Blood Demon Cult agent sent to kill contestants and collect their blood, though he did not know the cult’s headquarters.
• Zhuge Yu explained that Sakley’s Crystal Exile had trapped the city in the Void turbulence and that the exit led to a predetermined Spatial Coordinate.
• Qin Tian realized Zyra’s energy absorption was causing the Purple Crystal Wall to crack, so he recalled her vines and repeatedly tested his Black Gate.
• Qin Tian opened the Black Gate onto the starry sky, and the geniuses rushed through before he followed them.
• The Purple Crystal Wall shattered, and spatial turbulence engulfed the city.

After escaping spatial turbulence, Qin Tian used his Starry Sky Armor and Zyra to keep the stranded geniuses alive in space. Wu Ziyan contacted her family for rescue, while the Dongfang Family learned the group had survived and ordered the Genius Battle to continue.

• Qin Tian emerged from the Black Gate in Starry Sky Armor, and Zyra shielded the geniuses from radiation while providing oxygen.
• Zhuge Yu identified their location in the Centaurus Star Sector, and Wu Ziyan arranged for her family to send a rescue ship.
• Wu Ziyan reunited with her family by video call and credited Zhuge Yu and Black Crow with helping them survive.
• The Dongfang Family learned that everyone except Lei Yao had escaped without casualties and ordered the rescued contestants returned to Qingmu Star for the Arena Battle.
• The elders learned that Black Crow had played a key role in saving the group.

After the survivors were rescued and brought aboard the Zelda, Qin Tian removed his Black Crow mask and revealed his identity. The young talents exchanged contact information over dinner, leaving Qin Tian with a new network of connections in the Qingmu Star Domain.

• Yu Juntiao welcomed the rescued young talents aboard the Zelda and led them to the Reception Hall to rest.
• The survivors urged Black Crow to remove his mask, and Qin Tian revealed his face.
• Zhuge Yu recognized Qin Tian from a meeting more than half a year earlier and explained how the Young Master had once tried to recruit him.
• Qin Tian teased Zhuge Yu about his squinting, making the others laugh.
• Qin Tian and the young talents shared a celebratory dinner, exchanged contact details, and promised to meet again.

Wu Shouwen reunited with Wu Ziyan and thanked Qin Tian for protecting her, then told the talents the Dongfang Family wanted them to return to Qingmu Star for the final Arena Battle with greater rewards. The group agreed to compete, and Wu Shouwen revealed that the Dongfang Family had prepared a special gift for Qin Tian.

• Wu Ziyan reunited with Wu Shouwen, Wu Jianming, and her mother aboard the Zelda.
• Wu Shouwen thanked Zhuge Yu and Qin Tian for protecting the group, then tested Qin Tian's strength with a fierce handshake.
• Wu Jianming eased the tension and invited everyone to the lounge, where Wu Shouwen relayed the Dongfang Family's request to resume the Genius Battle on Qingmu Star.
• Wu Ziyan and the other talents, including Fu Ning, agreed to compete in the final Arena Battle for increased rewards.
• Qin Tian joked that he would compete with his symbiotic Spirit Plant, and Wu Shouwen told him the Dongfang Family had prepared a special gift for him.

After helping the Genius Battle contestants survive, Qin Tian returned to Qingmu Star and was welcomed by the Dongfang Family. At the ancestral estate, he received a Marrow Cleansing Spirit Fruit and agreed to trade a cutting of Zyra for three Silver Rank techniques; Dongfang Ke then presented him with two gifts, whose contents remained unrevealed.

• The sixteen geniuses arrived at Qingmu Star to cheering fans, and the Arena Battle drawing and first eliminations were scheduled for the next morning.
• Dongfang Mingyu told Qin Tian that the Dongfang Family had recognized his contributions and arranged for him to meet former Chieftain Dongfang Ke.
• Dongfang Mingyu led Qin Tian through the ancestral estate, where the Immortal Terrace Spirit Tree gave each of them a Marrow Cleansing Spirit Fruit.
• Qin Tian ate his fruit and felt it permanently improve his spiritual energy, acupoints, and ability to absorb spiritual energy.
• Dongfang Ke recognized Qin Tian's Soul Devouring Demonic Vine and offered three Silver Rank techniques or martial skills for a cutting; Qin Tian accepted.
• Dongfang Ke gave Qin Tian two gifts in gratitude, and Qin Tian opened the first box.

Qin Tian received two precious gifts from Dongfang Ke: a Heart of Wood Marrow for Zyra and Ninth-Order Void Dragon essence blood that could strengthen his bloodline talents and Kha'Zix. The gifts rewarded Qin Tian for saving the Dongfang Family's sixteen geniuses and marked the family’s investment in his future.

• Qin Tian opened the first box and learned from Dongfang Ke that its Heart of Wood Marrow could help Zyra survive the Spirit Plant Tribulation and raise her racial limit.
• Qin Tian opened the second box and learned it held essence blood from a Ninth-Order Void Dragon killed by the Dongfang Family three centuries earlier.
• Qin Tian realized the Dongfang Family knew about his Night Demon Bloodline and planned to divide the essence blood between himself and Kha'Zix.
• Qin Tian thanked Dongfang Ke, who explained that the gifts compensated him for saving sixteen geniuses and represented an early investment in his future.

Qin Tian consumed Void Dragon's Essence Blood, evolved Black Sky Gate into the Void Master talent, and gave Kha'Zix a drop that trapped it in a cocoon of forced evolution. The Genius Battle concluded with Fu Ning defeating Yue Shenghuo for the championship, and Qin Tian prepared to leave Qingmu Star and return home.

• Qin Tian drank half a bottle of Void Dragon's Essence Blood, which strengthened his body, raised his Psionic Energy to Fourth Order Six Stars, and awakened his perception of space.
• Qin Tian spent 2 million Evolution Points to evolve Black Sky Gate into the Orange Void Master talent and tested its ability to travel through the Void.
• Qin Tian fed Kha'Zix one drop of Void Dragon's Essence Blood, and Kha'Zix transformed inside a silver cocoon that Qin Tian stored in the Beast-Taming Space.
• The Genius Battle began with island matches, and Fu Ning, Yue Shenghuo, Zhuge Yu, Wu Ziyan, and Shangguan Lei advanced from the first round.
• Fu Ning defeated Yue Shenghuo with a Heavenly Sword slash to win the Genius Battle, then withdrew from public view after the award ceremony.
• After the official arrangements ended a week later, Qin Tian prepared to leave Qingmu Star and return home.

Qin Tian said goodbye to his friends on Qingmu Star and departed in a luxurious spaceship cabin. During the journey, he reviewed the talents, equipment, techniques, companions, and personal advances he had gained, while noting that his Evolution Points were nearly depleted and he still had talents to evolve.

• Qin Tian said goodbye to Dongfang Mingyu, Fu Ning, Yue Shenghuo, and Zhuge Yu before boarding his spaceship.
• Qin Tian settled into the Dongfang Family's Supreme VIP Room and changed its starry-sky display to a more comfortable interior setting.
• Qin Tian reviewed his evolved talents, Spirit Artifacts, pills, treasures, and three Silver Rank Dark-type techniques acquired on Qingmu Star.
• Qin Tian assessed Zyra's breakthrough to Sixth Order, Kha'Zix's potential advancement after absorbing Void Dragon Blood, and his own rise to Fourth Order Six Stars.
• Qin Tian noted that evolving Void Master had left him with just over three hundred thousand Evolution Points and hoped his next destination would provide opportunities to hunt.

Qin Tian returned to Silver-Gray Star and learned how Lingfeng Company and its allied groups had prospered and grown stronger. He gave Feng Mochuan and Li Qi Silver Rank manuals, pills, and Spirit Artifact weapons, leaving them eager to advance and serve him.

• Qin Tian arrived on Silver-Gray Star, where Feng Mochuan, Li Qi, and Yang Fan met him and took him to dinner aboard Lingfeng Company's new aircraft.
• Feng Mochuan and Yang Fan reported that Lingfeng Company's profits had doubled, its next Elf Star shipment was much larger, and the company had grown to more than a thousand employees.
• Feng Mochuan described the Hurricane Mercenary Group's growth to more than two hundred members, while Li Qi explained that the Shadow Division had fifty-two Night Demon Apostles and had crushed covert attacks on the company.
• After dinner, Qin Tian told Feng Mochuan and Li Qi that he had served as Black Crow in the Genius Battle and gave them three Silver Rank manuals suited to their Night Demon Bloodline.
• Qin Tian gave Feng Mochuan and Li Qi cultivation pills and Spirit Artifact weapons, and both men resolved to train harder and repay his support.

Feng Mochuan broke through to the Sixth Order, qualifying the Hurricane Mercenary Group for promotion to B-Class. Xu Ze chose to become Feng Mochuan’s Night Demon Apostle, broke through to the Fifth Order, and inspired the other squad leaders to make the same choice.

• Feng Mochuan used the Boundless Shadow Prison Scripture and a Myriad Elemenst Yuan Boosting Pill to break through to the Sixth Order and awaken his Night Demon Bloodline.
• Qin Tian and the Hurricane Mercenary Group celebrated Feng Mochuan’s breakthrough, which made the group eligible for B-Class promotion once it completed certification.
• Xu Ze told Feng Mochuan he had decided to become his Night Demon Apostle, trusting that their brotherhood would remain unchanged.
• Feng Mochuan transformed Xu Ze into a Night Demon Apostle, and Xu Ze’s Psionic Energy advanced from the Fourth Order to the Fifth Order.
• After seeing Xu Ze’s transformation, the squad leaders asked Feng Mochuan to make them Night Demon Apostles, and Feng Mochuan agreed to proceed one at a time.

Qin Tian rewarded Li Qi with the Windwalk Boots, then returned to Eagle Military Academy and traded a Silver Rank martial art for access to the Star Origin Tower. After a restful half month, he reached Fourth Order Seven Stars, but a call from Officer Yan signaled that he would soon be on the move again.

• Qin Tian gave Li Qi the Windwalk Boots and urged him to strengthen the Shadow Division, and Li Qi vowed to serve him with all his strength.
• Qin Tian returned to Eagle Military Academy and traded Eighteen Storm Hammer for three months of access to the Star Origin Tower's tenth floor.
• Qin Tian settled into a routine of studying at the Library and training in the Star Origin Tower, where rest helped him reach Fourth Order Seven Stars.
• Qin Tian received a call from Officer Yan and realized he was about to set off again.

Qin Tian traveled to Magnetic Vortex Star after Yan Qing recruited him to help Bureau 7 with a difficult mission. He arrived and met the skeptical team, whose first impressions shifted after he demonstrated his strength and revealed his rank.

• Yan Qing ordered Qin Tian to travel to Magnetic Vortex Star, where Zhao Rui, Chen Wei, and Jiang Yihan had struggled to make progress on their mission.
• Qin Tian transferred through Golden Wood Star, explored its crowded marketplace, and continued through the Chaotic Magnetic Belt to Magnetic Vortex Star.
• Zhao Rui greeted Qin Tian and tested his strength with a handshake, but Qin Tian overwhelmed him and revealed that he was a Colonel.
• Zhao Rui accidentally let Jiang Yihan hear him call her the Tigress, and she punched him after he brought Qin Tian to the team's shop.
• Qin Tian reported for duty to Yan Qing and met Chen Wei and Jiang Yihan.

Yan Qing briefed Qin Tian on the mission to infiltrate the Hundred Hunter Star Pirate Group and rescue a captured scientist. Qin Tian chose Poison Widow as his first point of approach, despite the team's warnings about her danger.

• Yan Qing explained that the Hundred Hunter Star Pirate Group had destroyed a military ship and captured a scientist whose research project was vital.
• Yan Qing described how he tracked the pirates' procurement team to Magnetic Vortex Star but failed to infiltrate them before they left.
• Qin Tian reviewed the procurement team's files and said he needed to scout before deciding how to proceed.
• Qin Tian selected Poison Widow, a dangerous psionic user who had poisoned her wealthy husbands and escaped capture, as his first target.
• Chen Wei warned Qin Tian that Poison Widow was exceptionally dangerous, but Qin Tian insisted on trying.