Chapter Summaries

On Planet Sad111, Xun Yue’s Demon Wolf Race squad received intelligence from a horned youth and headed toward Yellow Stone Star to target the Martial God Envoy. Xu Qing revealed that the intelligence was bait, but Qi Lin failed to control the traitorous informant, leaving the plan dependent on whether the squad took the bait.

• On Planet Sad111, Xun Yue silenced his impatient squad and ordered them to wait for intelligence about the Martial God Envoy.
• A horned youth delivered intelligence to Xun Yue, received payment, and had his Mechanical Race bionic body destroyed after handing over the data.
• Xun Yue ordered his squad to unlock the intelligence and leave in their spacecraft.
• On Yellow Stone Star, the horned youth reported to Xu Qing that the Demon Wolf Race squad was on its way, and Qi Lin’s attempt to control him caused his head to explode.
• Xu Qing told Qi Lin that the intelligence was bait and said he expected the Demon Wolf Race to gamble by coming after him.

Xu Qing used a staged banquet to lure the Demon Wolf Race assassination squad into an ambush, though the attack destroyed much of Thousand Star City. The squad was wiped out, but Xu Qing warned that future enemies would account for his clones, leaving the danger to the Milky Way unresolved.

• Three days after One-Horn’s death, Thousand Star City held its annual Harvest Festival and trading banquet.
• Six disguised Demon Wolf Race members attacked Xu Qing at the City Lord’s Mansion, and Xun Yue used a time-reversal treasure to return him to the high platform.
• Xun Yue’s Soul Extinguishing Kill incapacitated the nobles and slowed the Close Guard, but Xu Qing revealed that he had been waiting for the ambush.
• When powerful experts appeared to stop the attackers, Xun Yue crushed a Crimson God Stone, destroying the City Lord’s Mansion and half of Thousand Star City.
• Xu Qing and Buckwheat watched from above as the flames consumed the site, and Xu Qing explained that the apparent victim had been a clone and that future assassins would prepare for his abilities.
• Buckwheat asked whether the Milky Way crisis had ended and whether they could avoid returning to the Solar System.

After Xu Qing became a father, his son Xu Feng was diagnosed with an incurable soul defect, so Xu Qing spent years seeking a cure while raising him. He entered the Martial God Hall’s internal competition to protect his core-member status and pursue a way to help his son, declaring that he would take first place.

• Xu Qing and Zhou Tong welcomed twins, Xu Feng and Xu Dan, and devoted themselves to their family.
• Physician He Lanfeng diagnosed Xu Feng with a rare soul disease that prevented him from cultivating and could limit his life to eighty years.
• Xu Qing searched across the universe for physicians and consulted powerful experts, but none could cure Xu Feng’s congenital soul defect.
• Xu Qing continued traveling with Xu Feng and delayed his breakthrough, while the Martial God Hall’s internal competition approached and his standing among its geniuses weakened.
• Xu Qing told Qi Lin he would compete and take first place, hoping to meet the Martial God City Lord and seek help for Xu Feng’s soul.

Xu Qing’s arrival at Martial God Hall’s internal competition drew attention as contestants prepared for a brutal virtual selection. The first round began across simulated Insect Race planets, and Ding Shan, Yan Luan, and Thomas fought while pursuing their own ambitions.

• Ding Shan, Yan Luan, and a blond young man discussed the competition and Xu Qing’s reputation before Xu Qing entered the plaza and Thomas embraced him as his boss.
• Ding Shan resolved to challenge Xu Qing despite a Saint Master’s prediction that he could not defeat him.
• Hong Bai and other powerful observers discussed Thomas’s talent and Xu Qing’s decline before Martial God Hall began the competition.
• The contestants entered the Virtual Network universe, where they had to kill Insect Race creatures or survive 100 days on each planet to advance and earn slaughter points.
• Ding Shan slaughtered insects while cultivating, Yan Luan fought to earn a core member position for his people, and Thomas demonstrated his power while thinking of Xu Qing.

Xu Qing dominated the Insect Race trial, clearing each planet in thirty days and keeping first place as the insects grew stronger. His performance silenced critics of his Dual Cultivation, while Ding Shan steadily climbed the rankings.

• Eternal Life Rank experts watched the battle rankings and were shocked to see Xu Qing in first place, with his score rising rapidly.
• The experts watched two Xu Qings slaughter the Insect Race and discussed his cultivation in both the Genetic Martial Path and the Cultivation Civilization system.
• Xu Qing cleared the first planet in thirty days, then defeated the stronger insects on the second planet in the same amount of time.
• Xu Qing reached the third planet first, while eliminated participants returned to reality and watched the rankings change.
• Ding Shan climbed from near the bottom into the top five thousand as the trial continued.

The preliminary selection ended with Xu Qing reaching the ninth planet before giving up rather than revealing his trump cards. As the competitors prepared for the arena stage, Ding Shan learned more about the Martial God Hall’s structure and the Laws needed to reach its highest ranks.

• Xu Qing lasted twenty days on the ninth planet, where every Insect Race creature possessed a domain, then gave up rather than expose his hidden abilities.
• The last competitor was eliminated, locking the rankings and ending the first stage; the participants received a month to rest before the arena battles.
• Ding Shan spoke with his teacher, who explained that the Martial God Hall was informally divided into Martial and Civil Departments and that the selection targeted the Martial Department.
• Ding Shan’s teacher warned him that Xu Qing’s progress at Universe Rank suggested exceptional comprehension of the Laws and urged him to use Xu Qing as his goal.
• Ding Shan’s teacher explained that Eternal Life Rank required mastering one ordinary Law, Saint Venerable Rank required a special Law of time or space, and Emperor Rank required mastering both.

The internal competition’s challenge rounds repeatedly gave Xu Qing byes, while Thomas, Qiao Si, and Raven declared that they would challenge anyone who tried to take first place from him. The Immortals changed the rules to a round robin so everyone would have to fight Xu Qing, and the first challenger was You Ying.

• Ding Shan reaffirmed that he would not aim too high, and the second stage of the internal competition began with platform battles among the final 3,100 contestants.
• Xu Qing received no challenges in the opening round, but Thomas asked to spar with him after his own match and said he would accept Xu Qing in first place.
• Qiao Si and Raven also asked to challenge Xu Qing after the top ten were decided, and Qiao Si offered to introduce him to a doctor who could treat his child’s soul injuries.
• Qiao Si warned the other contestants that he and Raven would challenge anyone who challenged Xu Qing, and Xu Qing received further byes as the competition rounds continued.
• The Immortals suspended the competition and revised the rules, requiring the remaining twenty-five contestants to fight a round robin for points.
• Rank twenty-five You Ying of the Shadow Kill Race became the first contestant scheduled to challenge Xu Qing.

Xu Qing advanced through the Martial God Hall competition as opponents surrendered or were defeated by his refined flying sword. After the top ten were decided, the contest moved on to the top three, where Thomas chose Ding Shan, leaving Ding Shan believing first place was beyond his reach.

• You Ying befriended Xu Qing and conceded their match to conserve his stamina.
• Zhen Tianfeng attacked Xu Qing, but Xu Qing’s flying sword threatened to kill him, so Zhen Tianfeng retreated and surrendered.
• The spectators learned that Xu Qing had upgraded his standard flying sword with an Ascension Crystal and infused it with his understanding of three Laws.
• Xu Qing defeated three more challengers, after which the remaining contestants surrendered and he finished the gauntlet with only four matches.
• After the top ten were decided, Thomas chose to challenge Ding Shan, who realized the battle would leave him unable to fight Xu Qing for first place.

Xu Qing began dual breakthroughs in the cultivation system and Genetic Martial Path during the Martial God Hall internal competition, enduring heavenly thunder, cosmic flames, and crushing heavenly might. After reaching Domain Rank: Infant Transformation, he was declared the competition’s first-place winner and left with Saint Venerable Hong Bai.

• Ding Shan defeated Thomas, then challenged Xu Qing, who began raising his cultivation instead of accepting the fight.
• Xu Qing triggered a Heavenly Tribulation, and Hong Bai evacuated the plaza; Ding Shan fled after Xu Qing invited him to undergo the tribulation together.
• Xu Qing swallowed and refined Heavenly Thunder, forming a silver lightning mark before the thunderclouds dispersed.
• Cosmic laws descended for Xu Qing’s Genetic Martial Path breakthrough, and he absorbed the auroras and flames into his Crimson Star.
• Xu Qing resisted the crushing heavenly pressure without kneeling, then completed his breakthrough to Domain Rank: Infant Transformation.
• Hong Bai declared Xu Qing the internal competition’s first-place winner, and he took Xu Qing away with him.

Xu Qing secured the Martial God City Lord’s promise to mark his son’s soul in exchange for spending a hundred years at the Demon Frontier, with his departure delayed until his child reached adulthood. Five years later, Xu Qing and Zhou Tong’s eighteen-year-old son Xu Feng was preparing for his exams, and his friend Wang Yang teased him about confessing to Liu Yiyi.

• Xu Qing asked the Martial God City Lord to mark his child’s soul so the boy could be revived after death, and the City Lord agreed on the condition that Xu Qing spend a hundred years at the Demon Frontier.
• Xu Qing accepted the condition and received a token instructing him to report in a hundred years, after he had spent time with his child.
• Xu Qing returned to Blue Star, where he and Zhou Tong settled into an ordinary life and raised their children while their friends visited.
• Five years later, Xu Feng and Xu Dan turned eighteen, and Xu Feng encouraged younger students as they discussed their upcoming exams.
• Wang Yang teased Xu Feng about confessing to Liu Yiyi, and Xu Feng denied that he planned to do so.

Xu Feng grew closer to Liu Yiyi and stood up to Chen Bai when he tried to corner them. Afterward, Xu Qing and Wang Mu discussed living near Xu Feng and telling him that he could never cultivate the Genetic Martial Path.

• Wang Yang teased Xu Feng about Liu Yiyi, then arranged a graduation gathering as the two walked together.
• Liu Yiyi asked Xu Feng about taking the Martial Artist Assessment, and he said becoming a martial artist was his only path if he could not enter a military academy.
• Chen Bai and his companions blocked Xu Feng and Liu Yiyi at the school gates, but Wang Yang threatened them until they left.
• Liu Yiyi thanked Xu Feng, asked Wang Yang to invite her to the graduation gathering, and walked away.
• Xu Qing told Wang Mu he planned to stay with Xu Feng for life, while Wang Mu decided to sell his villa and buy a place next door.
• Xu Qing said he would tell Xu Feng that night that he could not cultivate the Genetic Martial Path, and Wang Mu worried about how Xu Feng would take the news.

Xu Feng gave up his dream of becoming a martial artist after learning how worried his parents were, then graduated as a civilization researcher and explored ancient ruins across Blue Star with Xu Qing. During their travels, Xu Feng watched a vast display of lightning and wondered whether his father had summoned it.

• Xu Feng told Xu Qing and Zhou Tong he had passed the Quasi Martial Artist Assessment and wanted to attend Great Xia First Military Academy, but agreed not to pursue martial arts when he realized they feared for him.
• Xu Feng secretly cried after returning to his room, then graduated from Great Xia Qingbei University three years later and joined the Solar System Alliance Civilization Research Office as a Civilization Researcher.
• Xu Qing devoted himself to accompanying Xu Feng across Blue Star to study ancient civilization ruins, and the two spent five years exploring the wilderness together.
• Xu Feng delighted in watching lightning from a mountaintop, where a vast storm spread across the sky without striking them.
• Xu Feng looked at Xu Qing and suspected his father had summoned the lightning, wondering how powerful he really was.

After Xu Feng proposed building a Rebel Army to overthrow the Solar System Alliance, Xu Qing supported him and revealed that his own family had ties to the earlier rebellion. Over the following years, Xu Feng’s movement spread across Blue Star and won the Extreme Dao Martial Hall; as it approached the North Zone, Xu Qing confirmed his support to Sun Palace leaders and said he had secured a hundred years for the rebellion at the cost of serving at the Demon Frontier.

• Xu Feng asked Xu Qing whether he was the Solar System legend and said he wanted to build a Rebel Army despite being unable to cultivate; Xu Qing told him to consult his mother and grandfather, former Rebel Army leaders.
• The Rebel Army reappeared on Blue Star in 2512, seized three Base Cities, and spread its Insurrection Program without leaving troops behind.
• Over the next three years, the Rebel Army gained support from Base Cities, and the Extreme Dao Martial Hall declared its rebellion as the movement liberated the Great Xia Zone.
• Wang Mu, Zhou Teng, and other Sun Palace leaders visited Xu Qing, who told them he would support Xu Feng’s effort to reshape Solar System civilization; they agreed not to suppress the rebellion.
• Ning Zhan Kong visited Xu Qing, who revealed that the Martial God City Lord had granted him a hundred years in exchange for serving at the Demon Frontier.

Xu Feng led the Blue Alliance’s liberation and unification of the Solar System, then built its influence across the Galaxy Empire before resigning and returning home to his family. After reuniting with Xu Qing and Zhou Tong, he spent his remaining years traveling with them and Helena.

• Xu Qing and Ning Zhan Kong discussed the dangers of the Demon Frontier and Ning Zhan Kong’s distant prospect of reaching Domain Rank.
• Xu Feng’s rebel army captured Lanster Base City, while he ordered Lian Sheng to discreetly investigate the man dating Xu Dan and refused to deploy Councilor Rank fighters against his father’s rules.
• Blue Star, Mars, and the Moon were liberated, and the Blue Alliance unified the Solar System, abolished slavery, and expanded humanity’s reach into the Galaxy Empire.
• Xu Feng resigned as leader of the Solar System Empire Alliance, returned to Mountain Sea City with Helena, and reunited with Xu Qing, Zhou Tong, and Xu Dan’s family.
• Xu Qing praised Xu Feng for changing humanity’s way of life, and father and son talked through the night about Xu Feng’s achievements.
• Xu Feng spent his later years traveling with his parents and Helena, and thirty years passed until he was seventy-six.

As Xu Feng neared death, Helena stayed by his side, while the powerful Skares arrived to kill the Solar System Empire Alliance leader. Xu Qing rescued Xu Feng and Helena, then confronted Skares in space and learned he came from the Virgo Empire.

• Xu Feng wrote down memories of his life and explained to Helena that his father had forbidden him to cultivate because he could not cultivate.
• Skares entered the Solar System, alarming martial artists across Blue Star, and Xu Qing left the No. 29 Ancient Civilization Ruins after learning Skares was targeting Xu Feng.
• Skares entered Xu Feng's hospital room, crushed Helena and twenty rescuers with his Mental Power, and prepared to kill Xu Feng.
• Xu Qing appeared, froze Skares with a finger, and took Xu Feng and Helena home.
• Skares broke free and recognized Xu Qing as a World Rank powerhouse, then revealed he was from the Virgo Empire before Xu Qing pressed a hand to his forehead.

Xu Qing killed Skares and used the years spent with Xu Feng to strengthen his cultivation while searching for a path to immortality. Xu Feng died, but the Martial God City Lord preserved his soul, leaving Xu Qing to seek a Soul-type Rare Item that could allow his son to be revived.

• Xu Qing killed Skares with a single strike, and the resulting energy stirred magnetic storms across Blue Star, the Moon, and Mars.
• Xu Qing spent 630 accumulated Attribute Points on his cultivation, reaching strength comparable to the peak of World Rank and acquiring the Seven Illusions Divine Light Technique.
• Xu Feng told Xu Qing and Zhou Tong that he had no regrets, asked Xu Qing to apologize to Xu Dan, and said he wanted to be their child again in his next life before dying.
• The Martial God City Lord took Xu Feng's soul and promised to help revive him once Xu Qing found a Soul-type Rare Item.
• Helena promised Xu Qing and Zhou Tong that she would honor them and wait for Xu Feng, while Xu Dan took comfort in the hope that her brother had only left temporarily.

Xu Qing arrived at Bai Wu Star to begin his hundred-year trial on the Demon Border Battlefield. After learning about the deadly 3rd Battlefield and receiving warnings from Purple Star Saint Venerable, he joined a spacecraft carrying thousands of World Rank experts.

• Xu Qing and Buckwheat entered the battlefield waiting area, where Xu Qing used his golden token to gain access to the World Rank personnel passage.
• A staff member explained the battlefield's strength assessment and codename procedures, then connected Xu Qing to Purple Star Saint Venerable.
• Purple Star Saint Venerable warned Xu Qing that the 3rd Battlefield had a mortality rate above 95%, urged him to protect his identity, and recommended that he form a team.
• Xu Qing boarded a transport spacecraft and blended in with ten thousand World Rank experts, whom Buckwheat identified as belonging to four strength grades.

Xu Qing learned the Realm Rank combat classifications and arrived at Base 099 on the Demon Border Battlefield, where he assessed the battlefield and its dangers. An enemy attack struck the base during his first night, and after it ended, Xu Qing considered how much stronger he would need to become to reliably defeat Eternal Life Rank warriors.

• Buckwheat classified Xu Qing as a Grandmaster Realm Rank, the highest rating among Realm Ranks, while Xu Qing judged his actual combat power to be even greater.
• After ten days, Xu Qing and over ten thousand Realm Rank warriors arrived at Wild Star, Base 099, and a Saint King Rank commander briefed them on battlefield survival and orders.
• Xu Qing spent a day studying teams and gathering advice from veterans rather than rushing onto the battlefield.
• An enemy attack alarmed the base, and Xu Qing followed the other martial artists into an underground shelter for the night.
• After the attack ended, Xu Qing assessed his chances against Eternal Life Rank warriors and considered how further breakthroughs and his Law comprehension could improve his strength.

Xu Qing’s potential breakthrough to the World Rank was explained before the story shifted to a human reconnaissance team trapped by demons on Bright Moon Star. As the two sides battled and the humans fell behind, a demon broke away to attack their Domain Rank fighters.

• The chapter described how reaching the World Rank would grant Xu Qing an Inner World, World Power, greater lifespan, and vastly increased strength.
• On Bright Moon Star, Se Lei and a fifty-person human reconnaissance force learned that no nearby human team could rescue them from the pursuing demons.
• Ka He led more than a hundred demons to surround the humans, and a fanged young demon led sixteen powerful fighters into the attack.
• Zhen Tianhe ordered the human Domain Rank fighters to retreat and the World Rank fighters to fight, but the demons’ superior strength quickly put the humans at a disadvantage.
• While Zhen Tianhe and Ka He faced off, a World Rank demon broke from the battle and charged toward the Domain Rank humans sheltering on a continental fragment.

Xu Qing arrived on the battlefield, rescued Se Lei and the other human fighters, and defeated Ka He, who begged to become his servant. Xu Qing placed a soul restriction on Ka He, then reunited with Se Lei.

• A Domain Rank demon warrior attacked the continent fragment, but Xu Qing froze the blade and killed him with a spear strike.
• Xu Qing attacked Ka He, then used Time Stop and a spear technique to severely wound him and scatter the demon forces.
• The humans counterattacked around Xu Qing and defeated the demon force, while a human Domain Rank warrior brought the injured Ka He to him.
• Ka He begged for his life and offered to serve Xu Qing, who marked his soul with a blood-red ice crystal restriction.
• Se Lei rushed into Xu Qing's arms, and the two embraced before she laughed at their unexpected reunion.