Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing repaired the Human Race experts’ weapons with his artifact-refining skills, earning their respect and compensation. He agreed to travel with them to a threatened stronghold as war approached.

• Dark Extinction gave Xu Qing his badly damaged Gray Long Hook to repair.
• Xu Qing used White Flame to restore the hook and enhance it with space-breaking and reinforcement properties.
• The Human Race experts brought Xu Qing their weapons, and he spent three days repairing them.
• Cold Dao King and the others mistook Xu Qing for an ancient Saint King Artifact Refiner and thanked him as their senior.
• Xu Qing agreed to travel with the group and charge for future repairs in exchange for materials.
• Cold Dao King led Xu Qing and the experts toward a Human Race stronghold targeted by the Demon Race.

Xu Qing arrived at White Dragon Fortress and discovered that its soldiers and defenses had been left in a terrible state because they bore guilt in the Empire's eyes. Moved by their plight, he accepted their supplies and offered to repair their weapons, giving the soldiers hope.

• Cold Dao King brought Xu Qing and the others to White Dragon Fortress, where White Moon King welcomed Xu Qing as a Saint King Rank Artifact Refiner.
• Xu Qing saw that the fortress's defenses, equipment, and soldiers were worn down and poorly supplied.
• Cold Dao King told Xu Qing that the fortress's people bore guilt and that many in the Empire expected them to die there.
• Xu Qing promised to help the soldiers and accepted rare materials and secret medicines from Cold Dao King.
• Xu Qing asked Cold Dao King to bring him the weapons needing repair, starting with the highest-grade ones, while Luo Li was ordered to guard his room.

Xu Qing learned why Luo Li and Cold Dao King had been imprisoned, then revealed his identity to Dark Extinction and agreed to join him in pursuing Demon Race intelligence with King Lie Feng. Before leaving, Xu Qing gathered the fortress’s Saint King weapons to repair them, leaving the others waiting outside with the Azure Sea Cover as security.

• Xu Qing repaired Luo Li’s spear as she explained that she had killed a planet lord who sacrificed civilians and recounted how Cold Dao King killed an imperial consort to protect his disciple from a forced marriage.
• Xu Qing offered to guide Dark Extinction in exchange for waiving his repair fee, then revealed his identity and learned that Dark Extinction had been sent to retrieve intelligence about Demon Race geniuses infiltrating humanity.
• Xu Qing told Dark Extinction that King Lie Feng was his intended contact and decided they would meet him before leaving a day later to pursue the mission.
• Xu Qing asked Cold Dao King to gather the Saint King weapons, then gave him the Azure Sea Cover as security while he took the weapons into the resting room to repair them.
• The Saint King experts remained outside the closed room, watching Cold Dao King hold the Azure Sea Cover as they waited for Xu Qing to emerge.

Xu Qing repaired eight Saint King Rank weapons and gained the Fate Stealing Technique from a fruit of the Primordial Dao Fruit Tree. After leaving the fortress with Dark Extinction to find King Lie Feng, they discovered Shen Huan fighting alongside him against a group of enemies.

• Xu Qing repaired the eight weapons in the Immortal Spirit Space while Xiao Lei and Ka He cultivated nearby.
• The Primordial Dao Fruit Tree’s second harvest revealed eight fruits containing Immortal Arts, and Xu Qing consumed the gray Fruit of Extremity.
• Xu Qing mastered the Fate Stealing Technique, which let him seize the fortune of enemies he killed, and decided to consume the other fruits cautiously over time.
• Xu Qing emerged after less than five hours and returned the repaired weapons, stunning the Saint Kings before leaving with Dark Extinction to find King Lie Feng.
• Xu Qing and Dark Extinction reached the meeting place and found Shen Huan helping King Lie Feng fight off a group of enemies.

Xu Qing and Dark Extinction helped King Lie Feng defeat human attackers and a Demon Race force, then brought him to White Dragon Fortress. Xu Qing repaired the fortress’s weapons as its soldiers faced repeated bloody assaults, leaving him with a clearer sense of the war’s brutality.

• Xu Qing and Dark Extinction joined King Lie Feng in killing the human Saint Kings who had ambushed him, then helped him defeat a group of Demon Kings.
• The three gathered the fallen enemies’ spoils, and King Lie Feng agreed to accompany Xu Qing to White Dragon Fortress and cooperate in hunting Demon Race geniuses.
• At White Dragon Fortress, King Lie Feng learned of the Blood Soul Army’s poor equipment and supplies, while Xu Qing repaired weapons for its Saint Monarchs and World Rank fighters.
• A Demon Race force of fifty thousand soldiers, led by several Saint Kings and sixteen Saint Monarchs, attacked White Dragon Fortress; King Lie Feng helped the Blood Soul Army drive them off, though the army suffered heavy losses.
• Two more battles struck the fortress over the next five days, and Xu Qing witnessed the Blood Soul Army’s relentless fighting and mounting casualties.

Xu Qing faced Mad Bear, a Demon King Invincible, as the Demon Race attacked White Dragon Fortress, and used his clones and time-based abilities to match the powerful enemy. After surviving a pair of Demon Kings’ self-destruction, Xu Qing reappeared beside them and launched a counterattack.

• The Demon Race attacked White Dragon Fortress with sixteen experts, including Mad Bear, while Xu Qing and the Blood Soul Army prepared to defend the fortress.
• Mad Bear unleashed a blood-mist domain, but Xu Qing countered it with an azure-water domain before intercepting Mad Bear’s charge.
• Xu Qing and Mad Bear fought evenly, and Xu Qing used Time Stop and Remaining Years to evade Mad Bear’s spatial attack and strike back.
• Mad Bear burned his divine power, but Xu Qing summoned his Thunder Clone, Fire Clone, and Blood Soul Clone, forcing Mad Bear to call for help.
• Two Demon Kings attacked Xu Qing and self-destructed, damaging him before his golden light restored his body.
• Xu Qing appeared beside the weakened Demon Kings and struck them with Star Extinguishing Finger before using Time Stop and Blend Light, Become Dust.

Xu Qing killed Mad Bear after restoring his strength and surviving a Demon Venerable’s intervention, then learned that the Demon Race geniuses had entered Human Race territory to provoke Ziwei Country Lord. He and King Lie Feng stayed in Ten Thousand Stars City to investigate the Demon Race’s plan.

• Xu Qing devoured the vitality of two Demon Kings to restore himself, killed Mad Bear with a spear strike and a Death God Source Crystal, and received protection from Duan Tianhe when a Demon Venerable attacked.
• Xu Qing returned to White Dragon Fortress after the Human Race defeated the Demon Race, learned that Luo Li had died, and departed with King Lie Feng while Dark Extinction stayed behind.
• Xu Qing and King Lie Feng traveled to Ten Thousand Stars City and learned from a captured middle-aged man that the Demon Race geniuses had entered Human Race territory.
• Buckwheat deciphered a crystal shard and revealed that the Demon Race planned to kill every prince of the Crape Myrtle Empire to provoke Ziwei Country Lord and break the agreement between the two races.
• Xu Qing and King Lie Feng decided to remain in Ten Thousand Stars City while Xu Qing sought more information about the Demon Race’s plan.

Xu Qing learned that the Demon Race planned to assassinate the Crape Myrtle Empire’s princes to provoke a war, and he proposed using modified clones to bait the attackers. The Ziwei Country Lord approved the plan and transferred Changbai Technology to Xu Qing, who left to prepare for the coming operation.

• Xu Qing and King Lie Feng learned that Demon Race geniuses had entered Human Race territory, and Buckwheat decrypted a chip revealing their plan to kill the princes and provoke the Ziwei Country Lord.
• Xu Qing contacted Henry and Ark, confirmed Changbai Technology was controlled by the Second Prince’s wife, and learned it produced memory-modified clones.
• Xu Qing told Zi Chen about the assassination plot and proposed taking over Changbai Technology to replace the princes with clones and ambush the Demon Race geniuses.
• Zi Chen presented the plan to the Ziwei Country Lord, who approved it and ordered Changbai Technology handed to Xu Qing.
• Xu Qing left to prepare the operation as Zi Chen realized a major storm was about to sweep across the Crape Myrtle Empire.

Xu Qing took control of Changbai Technology, freed its modified clones, and prepared with King Lie Feng and Bo Lan to ambush Demon Race geniuses targeting the seven princes. The team waited through the night without an attack, leaving Xu Qing unsure whether the Demon Race had reached the Ziwei Imperial Star.

• Xu Qing showed King Lie Feng Divine Sword - XII and recruited him for the hunt against the Demon Race geniuses.
• Xu Qing and the Third Prince’s agents secretly seized control of Changbai Technology and discovered hundreds of memory-modified clones.
• Xu Qing declared the clones his subjects and sent them to live in his divine kingdom while Henry planned the remaining clone operation.
• Xu Qing and Bo Lan arranged an ambush with six powerful experts to protect the seven princes and kill the attacking Demon Race geniuses.
• After the royal hunting celebration, Xu Qing and King Lie Feng hid near the Third Prince’s residence, but the Demon Race did not attack that night.

Xu Qing tracked down Tao Er and fought him in a sealed mountain forest while You Zi infiltrated Lang Yue Marquis Estate to gather intelligence. The chapter left Xu Qing and Tao Er clashing in battle as You Zi activated a cat-shaped chip on the estate’s computer.

• After Tao Er assassinated the Seventh Prince and Long Yun killed the Second Prince, the Imperial Family tightened security, searched for the assassins, and eventually reopened the ports.
• Zi Chen told Xu Qing that Tao Er, Tao Yuan, and Tao San of the Taotie Clan were involved, and identified Long Yun as the second assassin; Xu Qing said You Zi was investigating their intelligence network.
• Xu Qing disguised himself as a photographer, provoked Tao Er in the Fourth District, and teleported them both to a secluded mountain forest.
• Xu Qing froze Tao Er with Time Stop and attacked, but Tao Er broke free and counterattacked as an azure barrier enclosed their battlefield.
• You Zi entered Lang Yue Marquis Estate, persuaded Zhang Bo to let her see her father, and used a silver cat-shaped chip to activate the computer in the inner rooms.

You Zi infiltrated the Lang Yue Marquis Estate, exposed its Demon Race intelligence operation, and helped the Empire arrest the marquis and his family. As the Third Prince sought Xu Qing’s help to overcome the marquis’s mental barrier, Xu Qing planned to use captured Tao Er to lure out his younger brother.

• You Zi tampered with the Lang Yue Marquis’s Smart Brain to provoke a response, then infiltrated the estate and gathered intelligence from a meeting of its core members.
• You Zi killed a Lang Yue Group executive, assumed his identity, and entered the meeting, where the Lang Yue Marquis ordered his family to suspend their activities after discovering the intrusion.
• You Zi sent her findings to the Royal Intelligence Department, and the Third Prince ordered the Lang Yue Marquis Family arrested.
• Intelligence officers discovered a mental barrier that could kill the Lang Yue Marquis if they tried to interrogate him, so Henry suggested asking Xu Qing for help.
• Xu Qing told Tao Er he would use the capture and humiliation of the Taotie brothers to draw Tao Er’s younger brother out.

Xu Qing forced Tao Er to become his subordinate, then used Soul Search on Lang Yue Marquis to uncover the Demon Race’s intelligence network and authorize the arrests. The Third Prince’s team captured seven targets, while Zi Chen prepared to continue the operation under the protection of his father’s talisman.

• Xu Qing offered Tao Er a five-thousand-year subordinate pact, and Tao Er accepted to protect the Taotie Clan from destruction.
• Henry reported that Lang Yue Marquis was protected by a mental barrier, so Xu Qing returned to the command center and halted Zi Chen’s arrests until the interrogation was complete.
• Xu Qing broke the barrier with Soul Search and learned that Lang Yue Hua had traded Lang Yue Family secrets to the Demon Race, exposing an intelligence network involving imperial officials and family members.
• Xu Qing gave the intelligence to Henry and authorized Zi Chen to move; he also reassured You Zi that she was now a citizen of the Crape Myrtle Empire.
• Zi Chen led the arrest operation and captured all seven targets, then ordered the complaining supervisor placed under house arrest and prepared to continue the hunt for Target No. 2.

Zi Chen and Xu Qing used the Demon Race's compromised intelligence channel to lure out and mark its assassins, but their ambush turned into a larger battle when the Demon Race's leaders attacked. Xu Qing faced Long Yun while King Lie Feng and Tao Er fought the Taotie brothers, and Long Yun began to reveal his true strength.

• Zi Chen and Xu Qing planned two assassination baits so Xu Qing could mark multiple Demon Race experts while King Lie Feng stalled them.
• King Lie Feng engaged a Taotie Clan assassin, and Xu Qing marked him and another attacker before the two returned to Zi Chen.
• Tao Yuan attacked Zi Chen, but Xu Qing and King Lie Feng intervened as Tao Yuan, Tao San, and Long Yun revealed themselves and joined the fight.
• Xu Qing sent Zi Chen into his Inner World and faced Long Yun, while Tao Er joined King Lie Feng against his former brothers.
• Xu Qing and Long Yun exchanged powerful blows that damaged the street, and Long Yun's dragon scales lit up as his presence surged.

Xu Qing fought Long Yun through successive transformations and used the Death Seal Art and Long Yun’s reverse-scale weakness to defeat him. After the Heavenly Demon Venerable nearly killed Xu Qing, the Ziwei Country Lord intervened, and Xu Qing returned to the Imperial Star with Long Yun’s treasures and ten Luck Points.

• Xu Qing unleashed the Great Sun and Bury techniques, then used the Death Seal Art to weaken Long Yun during their brutal exchange.
• Long Yun transformed into a humanoid dragon and fought Xu Qing in the starry cosmos, but Xu Qing used his panel to discover Long Yun’s reverse scale and shattered it with Time Stop.
• Long Yun tried to escape through a Black Hole opened by a red crystal, while the Ziwei Country Lord restrained the Heavenly Demon Venerable’s attack.
• Xu Qing pierced Long Yun with Remaining Years and killed him, but the Heavenly Demon Venerable’s black light tore Xu Qing apart before the Ziwei Country Lord drove it away.
• Xu Qing collected Long Yun’s Dragon Scale Battle Armor, Dragon Scale War Sword, and Storage Ring, then received a message granting him ten Luck Points and returned to the Imperial Star.

After the Demon Race’s assassination plot failed, Xu Qing discovered that his panel could grant Luck Points for killing geniuses, while First Prince Zi Yun secretly recruited Tao San to help eliminate Xu Qing and his allies. Tao San activated the Ten Thousand Eyes Array’s Motherboard at the Imperial Capital temple, teleporting King Lie Feng and the others away, and the Ziwei Country Lord began tracing the spatial disturbance.

• Xu Qing and the others celebrated their victory, discovered Ten Thousand Eyes Array child discs among the spoils, and learned that the Demon Race’s teleportation network had bypassed the Imperial Star’s Space Imprisonment array.
• Zi Yun met Tao San in secret, revealed his Saint King Peak strength and possession of the Motherboard, then ordered Tao San to send Xu Qing, King Lie Feng, and others to Demon Race Territory in exchange for a chance at revenge.
• Xu Qing learned that killing geniuses granted Luck Points, which could improve his luck or enhance and deduce his techniques, but he chose not to spend them yet.
• After the Motherboard was found in an abandoned temple, Xu Qing, King Lie Feng, and their group went there to dismantle it, where Tao San ambushed them.
• Tao San activated the Motherboard and teleported the temple’s occupants away; Xu Qing saved a Saint King and a Saint Lord in his Immortal Spirit Space before the temple vanished.
• The Ziwei Country Lord arrived, heard Xu Qing’s account, and seized a strand of spatial fluctuation to investigate the teleportation.

After King Lie Feng and others were teleported into Demon Race territory, Xu Qing investigated the spies who had arranged the attack and followed a trail to Butler Liu. The chapter ended with Butler Liu agreeing to reveal what he knew about the Demon Race.

• Xu Qing ordered Buckwheat to alert the Martial God Hall, while Ziwei Country Lord headed toward the Demon Race border and Third Prince began investigating the intelligence leak.
• Xu Qing and Zi Chen concluded that spies remained among the Imperial Capital's upper ranks, then learned the informant had been killed.
• With help from Jun Tong's tracking ability, Xu Qing traced Tao San's trail to a jewelry shop linked to a former royal guard and secretly followed the guard to an estate.
• Xu Qing entered the estate unseen and caught Butler Liu trying to kill the guard after promising him a reward.
• Xu Qing restrained Butler Liu and the guard with his immortal consciousness and demanded information about the Demon Race, prompting Butler Liu to agree to talk.

Xu Qing traced the Demon Race plot to the First Prince’s circle, then searched Hundred Spirits Jewelry for a hidden base. He found an empty secret chamber lined with Immortal Dao runes and ordered Buckwheat to copy them.

• Butler Liu confessed that the Third Prince had recruited him to report information to the Royal Intelligence Agency, and Xu Qing used Soul Search to confirm his account before capturing him and Li Hong.
• Xu Qing split off his Thunder Clone to meet Zi Chen while he went to the Third Prince and identified Ha Fei as the First Prince’s subordinate.
• The Third Prince questioned Butler Liu and Li Hong, then agreed to stabilize his forces while Xu Qing searched for further evidence against the First Prince.
• Xu Qing sent Jun Tong away to keep him out of the imperial struggle and then went to Hundred Spirits Jewelry.
• Xu Qing compelled the shop clerk to lead him to a hidden chamber, where he found walls covered in Immortal Dao runes and asked Buckwheat to copy them.
• Buckwheat pointed out that some of the chamber’s runes were not immortal talismans.

Xu Qing uncovered evidence of a powerful hidden Mental Power Master, then confronted First Prince Zi Yun over his crimes and attacked him at Town Mountain Palace. As the palace battle continued, Zi Chen backed Xu Qing’s arrest, while Duan Tianhe persuaded the Ziwei Country Lord not to interfere and led him toward the Demon Race.

• Xu Qing removed twenty-eight powerful Mental Power runes from the secret chamber, freed the girl there, and had Buckwheat contact his Senior Brother before leaving the shop.
• The First Prince learned that his secret chamber had been discovered and ordered preparations to flee, but Xu Qing confronted him at Town Mountain Palace and demanded his surrender.
• After Buckwheat confirmed that Martial God Hall forces were ready, Xu Qing attacked Zi Yun, whose Saint King Limit power and hidden weapon destroyed the palace as reinforcements gathered outside.
• Zi Chen declared that Xu Qing was acting on his orders to arrest his elder brother, and ordered the imperial family and Martial God Hall forces not to interfere.
• Duan Tianhe stopped the Ziwei Country Lord from returning to the capital, warned him against protecting the First Prince, and persuaded him to go with him to fight the Demon Race.
• An aged, strange figure appeared after Duan Tianhe and the Ziwei Country Lord departed and remarked that the Country Lord had been clever.

Xu Qing killed Zi Yun after advancing his spear technique to a peak ultimate art, then returned to his family for a joyful reunion. During a moment of reflection, he experienced an epiphany about time and found himself back at the Chaotic Star Pile, watching his younger self.

• Xu Qing used the Space Shattering Universe Spear to kill Zi Yun, who self-destructed after realizing he could not survive.
• Cold Star Saint Venerable praised Xu Qing, and Xu Qing and Zi Chen shared a drink before agreeing to meet again on the battlefield.
• Three months later, Xu Qing reunited with his family on Han River Star and met his grandsons, Xu Hua and Xu Xia.
• Xu Qing experienced an epiphany about time, so Xu Feng and Buckwheat secured the area while the family watched from a distance.
• Xu Qing found himself at the Chaotic Star Pile in Great Xia, where he followed the figure of his younger self.

Xu Qing watched an illusion replay the major moments of his younger self’s life, from beginning martial arts training to rising as a powerful fighter and joining the council. The vision ended with Xu Qing being welcomed as the 239th councilor-level powerhouse.

• Xu Qing watched young Xu Qing begin the Genetic Martial Path under Liu Zhankun’s instruction and persist with training until he learned the Three Elements Gene Cultivation Method.
• Young Xu Qing killed robbers who had abducted a woman, then grew stronger through further confrontations and fought his way through the amusement park and other dangerous encounters.
• Young Xu Qing destroyed the Hunting Tiger Gang, later attacked the Zheng Family villa, and killed Zheng Li at the Celestial God Company complex.
• Xu Qing watched young Xu Qing become Ning Zhan Kong’s student and battle a Surpassing Ninth Rank Mantis Race in an underground tunnel.
• Xu Qing watched himself enter a palace and receive applause as the 239th councilor-level powerhouse.