Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing survived inside the white fruit by reversing its power into nourishment, evolving his panel and breaking through to Saint Venerable before emerging as a Saint Sovereign. He and Buckwheat found themselves stranded in the Ruined Alien Universe, where Xu Qing discovered his new techniques and 10,000 Attribute Points and began upgrading his spear art.

• Xu Qing's panel automatically integrated his skills and inheritances while the white fruit rebuilt his body and fed him its power.
• Xu Qing broke through the Saint King realm, and the white fruit vanished, shocking Purgatory and delighting Clear Rain King.
• Purgatory erupted into a battle with the Martial God City Lord as Kuruo Elder left to pursue Xu Qing's location.
• Xu Qing emerged from the destroyed secret realm and reunited with Buckwheat, who said they had been trapped for a hundred years.
• Xu Qing and Buckwheat discovered the Teleportation Array was gone, leaving them stranded in the Ruined Alien Universe.
• Xu Qing checked his panel, found himself at Saint Sovereign Level 1 with 10,000 Attribute Points, and upgraded the Waning Sun Burial Sky Spear.

After reaching Perfection in several Origins and shattering the Eternal Immortal Stele, Xu Qing absorbed its Source Power and returned to the Ancient Xia Universe with Kuruo Elder. He reunited with Zhou Tong at the medical center, where the Alchemy King had come to confront her.

• Xu Qing perfected his Waning Sun Burial Sky Spear and Immortal Dragon Light Devouring Art, then learned from Gu Yu how the Eternal Immortal Stele tested cultivators seeking the Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Xu Qing shattered the stele's phantom, absorbed its Source Power, and brought his Thunder Origin to Perfection while advancing his Fire Origin.
• Xu Qing upgraded his remaining techniques with his Attribute Points and worried about his wife and child after a century away.
• Kuruo Elder returned Xu Qing to the Ancient Xia Universe, and Xu Qing sent a message to his friends and relatives before heading home.
• The Alchemy King confronted Zhou Tong at the medical center, but bowed to Xu Qing as a Saint Venerable when he appeared.
• Zhou Tong rushed into Xu Qing's arms and wept as he apologized for being gone.

Xu Qing returned from the Alien Universe as the human race’s youngest Saint Venerable, reunited with Zhou Tong and their children, and then set out to investigate the Crape Myrtle Empire after Zi Chen’s strange behavior raised his suspicions. He reached the desolate Ziwei Imperial Star and found the Third Prince shut away under the protection of an invincible Saint King.

• Xu Qing appeared at the medical ward, where Alchemy King and the gathered experts learned he had become a Saint Venerable, then he reunited with Zhou Tong and Xu Dan on Wanlian Star.
• Xu Qing borrowed Zhou Tong and the medical officer, and the family traveled to see Xu Feng as he fought the Demon Race on Cangniu Star.
• Xu Qing killed the attacking Demon Race fighters to save Xu Feng, and the family reunited before Xu Qing sent Zhou Tong, Xu Dan, and Xu Feng back to rest.
• Xu Qing contacted Zi Chen, who acted coldly but invited him to the Imperial Star, prompting Xu Qing to suspect the Crape Myrtle Empire was in trouble.
• Xu Qing traveled to Ziwei Imperial Star by spaceship and found its Imperial Capital desolate before discovering that Zi Chen had secluded himself in Mystic Phantom Manor under a Saint King’s protection.

Xu Qing returned to Imperial Star, rescued Zi Chen from the Phoenix Clan's Saint Child, and learned that the Demon Race had deeply infiltrated the Crape Myrtle Empire while besieging it. After enslaving the traitor Hasith, Xu Qing sent his allies to purge the Demon Race from Imperial Star and vowed to turn the tide of the war.

• Xu Qing arrived at Mystic Phantom Manor, healed Zi Chen, and agreed to let him punish the Phoenix Clan's Saint Child for years of torture.
• The Phoenix Clan's Saint Child destroyed her own cultivation under Xu Qing's threat, and Xu Qing left Zi Chen with a broken sword to deal with her.
• At the military supply base, Hasith stabbed Dragon Prince Qing and used the Gluttony Eye to drain his power, but Xu Qing appeared and stopped him.
• Xu Qing searched Hasith's soul and learned that Demon Race agents had infiltrated the empire's leadership and stolen military supplies.
• Dragon Prince Qing explained the empire's worsening war, including the Phoenix and Dragon Clans' attacks and the ambush that forced the Ziwei Country Lord from battle.
• Xu Qing made Hasith his servant, summoned Moro, Feng Jiutian, and the others, and ordered them to kill or capture the Demon Race members on Imperial Star.

Xu Qing left the Imperial Star after purging its Demon Race spies and traveled alone to the River Star Region, where he began breaking the demons’ grip from the ground up. He rescued the residents of Ten Thousand Mountains City by killing the Bull Demons and feeding their meat to the people, then declared he would deal with the Tiger Clan if it retaliated.

• Moro and Dragon Prince Qing purged Demon Race spies across the Imperial Star while Zi Chen publicly announced the purge and sent the empire’s remaining resources to the front lines.
• Xu Qing arrived at Azure Wave Star and told Buckwheat he would break the deadlock by helping people resist the demons from below.
• Xu Qing met Lan Zhen, learned that the nearest Demon Race stronghold was in Ten Thousand Mountains City, and went there alone.
• Xu Qing protected a little girl and killed the Bull Demons terrorizing the city, including their Saint Monarch leader.
• Xu Qing cooked the Bull Demons’ meat and shared it with the city’s residents, who began eating and celebrating.
• When Lan Zhen worried that the Tiger Clan might retaliate against the people, Xu Qing said he would go kill them all if they did.

Xu Qing defeated the traitorous leaders and Demon Race forces on Azure Wave Star, then inspired the human army to reclaim the planet. After strengthening his Five Elements Evolving Light Art, he left for Wind Star, where the River Star Region’s experts had gathered.

• Xu Qing killed Vast Sea King after mistaking him for someone else, then persuaded Meteor Saint Ruler to cooperate in driving out the demons.
• Lan Zhen warned Xu Qing that Meteor Saint Ruler was allied with the demons, and Xu Qing confronted the commanders at the military camp.
• Meteor Saint Ruler revealed his betrayal and brought out three Demon Race fighters, but Xu Qing destroyed the camp’s forces, killed the Tiger King, and let survivors witness his strength.
• Xu Qing used the Tiger King’s rewards to perfect the Five Elements Evolving Light Art and discovered that Luck Value might unlock his two locked techniques.
• Xu Qing returned to Azure Wave City, declared the demons above Saint Lord Rank defeated, and gave Lan Zhen a Laws Crystal before departing for Wind Star.

Xu Qing arrived on Wind Star as an imperial envoy and was assigned to stay at Red Flame Saint Venerable’s Residence, where he defeated Red Thunder in a brief test of strength. After settling in, Xu Qing was confronted by Mo Ya, who questioned whether he had used underhanded methods to kill the Demon Race on Azure Wave Star.

• Xu Qing arrived on Wind Star and learned that the local Saint Kings had not come to welcome him.
• White Crane Saint King brought Xu Qing to Red Flame Saint Venerable’s Residence, where Red Thunder dismissed him and Red Thunder’s mother welcomed him warmly.
• Xu Qing and Red Thunder fought in the courtyard, and Xu Qing quickly defeated him with his mastery of the Laws of Power and Thunder Origin.
• Xu Qing settled into the pavilion and gradually grew more comfortable with Red Thunder and his mother.
• White Crane Saint King brought Mo Ya to meet Xu Qing, and Mo Ya challenged Xu Qing’s account of wiping out the Demon Race on Azure Wave Star.

Xu Qing joined Mo Ya's team to investigate the disappearance of military envoys in 13th Sub-Star City, where humans revered the Cold Sparrow Clan and resisted the military's inquiry. After finding no trace of the missing envoys, Xu Qing concluded the city was central to the mystery and urged the team to summon the clan's patriarch for questioning, warning that the Empire would not tolerate a challenge.

• Xu Qing accepted Mo Ya's mission and accompanied his team to 13th Sub-Star City to investigate missing military envoys and suspected demons.
• Mo Ya's team entered a city where residents trusted the Cold Sparrow Clan, and the City Lord denied that any military envoys had ever arrived.
• Xu Qing and the team found that the city worshiped the Cold Sparrow Clan and offered eighteen-year-old girls in its rituals.
• The team discovered that the missing envoys' positioning chips had gone silent and that local intelligence sources knew nothing about them.
• Xu Qing established that the envoys had vanished after arriving in the city and urged Mo Ya to summon the Cold Sparrow Clan's patriarch for questioning.

Xu Qing investigated the missing Military Department experts in 13th Sub-Star City and learned that the Cold Sparrow Clan forced families to offer young women to its Sparrow God. After the madman hinted that the clan had killed the experts, Xu Qing left determined to make sure none of its members escaped.

• Mo Ya and the others decided to investigate the missing people and the city's human-Demon relations after the Cold Sparrow Clan's patriarch could not be found.
• Bai Ya proposed contacting the missing people's families, while Xu Qing left the hotel to explore the city alone.
• Xu Qing rescued Old Lady Zhao from young men trying to take her daughter and learned that the Cold Sparrow Clan demanded annual offerings of virgins.
• Old Lady Zhao told Xu Qing that the missing Military Department experts had entered the clan's grounds and never emerged, and described a sealed mine and past curse incidents.
• A madman who had lost his wife and child shouted, "Kill them all," after Old Lady Zhao questioned him about what he had seen.
• Xu Qing left Old Lady Zhao's home, vowing that no one in the Cold Sparrow Clan would escape, while the madman began laughing and sobbing.

Xu Qing pursued and killed Huang Mu, a Phoenix Clan Demon King, then returned to the Cold Sparrow Clan’s attack on Mo Ya and the others. He arrived just in time to save Bai Ya and confronted the Colorful Feathered Youth, crushing him into the ground.

• Xu Qing and Bai Ya spotted a blue figure fleeing the city and split up, with Xu Qing pursuing while Bai Ya went to support Mo Ya and the others.
• Huang Mu attacked Xu Qing outside the city, but he overwhelmed her and killed her after she refused his demand to spare her child by helping him destroy the Cold Sparrow Clan.
• At the Cold Sparrow Clan’s territory, Bai Ya and the injured Mo Ya and Lin Yu faced the Colorful Feathered Youth and his forces.
• A Cold Sparrow Clan youth tried to stab Bai Ya from behind, but Xu Qing appeared and killed him.
• Xu Qing told the Colorful Feathered Youth that Huang Mu was dead, then slammed the youth’s head into the ground with one blow.

Xu Qing defeated the Cold Sparrow Clan Chief, killed him, and turned the city’s worship toward a new Dragon God statue. After leaving Secondary Star City with Mo Ya’s surviving team, Xu Qing considered the Phoenix Clan’s likely response, while Mo Ya credited him for the mission’s success at military headquarters.

• Xu Qing overwhelmed the Cold Sparrow Clan Chief, killed him, and cooked his body in a cauldron as the residents of Secondary Star City began calling Xu Qing the Dragon God.
• The residents gathered to eat the chicken, and the Sparrow God statue collapsed as a new statue of Xu Qing was erected in the temple.
• Xu Qing and Mo Ya’s team left Secondary Star City after military forces arrived to take charge, and Xu Qing worried that the Phoenix Clan might seek revenge for its Saintess’s death.
• At military headquarters, Mo Ya reported that the squad had avenged their fallen comrades and killed a Phoenix Clan Saintess, then told the officers that Xu Qing had saved them.

After learning that Mad Blade Star might rebel to protect Dao Wu Hen, Xu Qing ordered an investigation and decided to travel there with Bai Ya. He left to uncover the crisis from inside Mad Blade Star.

• Xu Qing accepted Lin Yu’s courtyard and agreed to attend Mo Ya’s celebration banquet at the Ink Orchid Fan Restaurant.
• At the banquet, Xu Qing learned about the White Family’s history with Bai Ya and heard that the army department had summoned its officers over Mad Blade Star.
• Bai Ya explained that Mad Blade Star resisted imperial control and that its final disciple, Dao Wu Hen, was suspected of being a Demon Race spy.
• Xu Qing gave Bai Ya authority to investigate the rebellion, Dao Wu Hen, and possible interference within the army department.
• Bai Ya reported that the Mad Blade Saint Venerable planned to protect Dao Wu Hen, whose strength might have reached the Saint Venerable realm, while unknown figures fueled the crisis.
• Xu Qing decided to go to Mad Blade Star with Bai Ya, then teased her before leaving the restaurant.

Xu Qing reunited with Dark Extinction, who warned him that powerful forces might be stirring up trouble on Mad Blade Star. Red Thunder arrived to apologize and challenge Xu Qing, but Xu Qing defeated him effortlessly and left the courtyard stunned when he said he had cultivated for only a few hundred years.

• Xu Qing welcomed Dark Extinction, learned he had reached the Saint King Realm and started a family, and discussed the possible conspirators behind the crisis on Mad Blade Star.
• Dark Extinction warned Xu Qing that Mad Blade Saint Venerable belonged to the Ten Stars Secret Sect and that getting involved could be dangerous, but Xu Qing remained focused on whether Dao Wu Hen was a Demon Race spy.
• Red Thunder arrived to thank Xu Qing and apologize for misjudging him, then brought gifts from his mother and challenged him to fight.
• Xu Qing extinguished Red Thunder's thunderlight with a word, deflected his punch, and sent him crashing into the courtyard wall.
• Red Thunder stayed to eat the food he had brought and asked Xu Qing how long he had cultivated; Xu Qing answered that it had been a few hundred years, leaving everyone silent.

Xu Qing joined the Empire’s forces surrounding Mad Blade Star, where Luo Jia refused Cold Wind King’s unauthorized attack and organized his team to hold their assigned position. As a battle loomed, Mad Blade Saint Venerable offered Qiu Ju a chance to spare Dao Wu Hen in exchange for his own life.

• Red Thunder admitted Xu Qing was superior and asked to study the Thunder Laws under him, then stayed at Lin Yu’s home while his hands healed.
• Xu Qing chose to go to Mad Blade Star, and Deputy General Luo Jia led him and a team of Saint Kings to Defense Zone 498.
• Luo Jia confronted Cold Wind King for invading without orders and losing most of his team, while Cold Wind King insisted the attack could secure the Ancient Blade Venerable’s inheritance.
• Xu Qing declined to intervene, and Luo Jia refused to join Cold Wind King’s attack, instead preparing his own team to hold the defense zone.
• Xu Qing sensed Mad Blade Saint Venerable, Dao Wu Hen, Qiu Ju, and their assembled forces preparing for a decisive battle on Mad Blade Star.
• Mad Blade Saint Venerable asked Qiu Ju to let Dao Wu Hen escape and offered his own life to the Empire, warning that Qiu Ju might otherwise be trapped there.

Mad Blade Star’s disciples attacked the Windstorm Army Department’s garrison while Bai Lang betrayed the Empire to protect his home, but Xu Qing swiftly subdued him and Blade King Fei Jue. As Xu Qing prepared to arrest the remaining disciples, Crocodile Blood King appeared, and Xu Qing chose to face the Demon Race expert himself.

• Mad Blade Saint Venerable refused to surrender Mad Blade Star’s disciples, and he and Prison Tool Saint Venerable began fighting inside the hall.
• Xu Qing suspected Bai Lang’s blade aura, while Blade King Fei Jue led hundreds of Mad Blade Star disciples in an assault on the garrison.
• Bai Lang turned against Luo Jia to protect his fellow disciples, but Xu Qing struck down Bai Lang and captured Blade King Fei Jue.
• Xu Qing stopped the disciples from fleeing and ordered Luo Jia to take them back for interrogation.
• Crocodile Blood King appeared with the half-dead Cold Wind King, and Xu Qing declared that he would kill the Demon Race expert himself.

Xu Qing killed Crocodile Blood King and learned why Mad Blade Star's disciples were reluctant to leave their home. At Mad Blade Star, Dao Wu Hen challenged the accusations against him, but Xu Qing produced the White Feather Demon Lord as a witness to his crimes.

• Xu Qing severed Crocodile Blood King's arms and killed him before he could self-destruct, earning attribute points and origin fragments.
• Xu Qing and Luo Jia flew to Mad Blade Star, where Luo Jia explained how the Blade Venerable Secret Realm strengthened its disciples and bound them to the sect.
• Xu Qing sensed that Dao Wu Hen was a Phoenix Clan Saint Venerable, while Dao Wu Hen sensed the Phoenix Clan blood aura on Xu Qing and walked out of the hall.
• Dao Wu Hen demanded concrete evidence that he was a demon, and Xu Qing said he had brought some.
• Xu Qing summoned the White Feather Demon Lord, who testified that Dao Wu Hen had spared him after a deal and killed the human experts traveling with him.

Xu Qing exposed Dao Wu Hen as a Demon Race infiltrator, then fought him through the hall and into space. After Dao Wu Hen escaped badly wounded, Xu Qing caught up and attacked him again, ending with divine light engulfing him.

• Xu Qing revealed that the Demon Race witnesses were illusions, and Dao Wu Hen exposed himself by attacking.
• Xu Qing and Dao Wu Hen fought across the hall, trading Saint Venerable techniques as the battle destroyed the surrounding structures.
• Xu Qing pursued Dao Wu Hen into space, where he found him grievously wounded and draining away under strange black-and-white energy.
• Dao Wu Hen tried to escape and plotted revenge, but Xu Qing appeared before him and attacked with his spear.
• Xu Qing reminded Dao Wu Hen of their blood feud, then countless beams of divine light descended and engulfed him.

Xu Qing killed Dao Wu Hen, unlocked and mastered the Life and Death Profound Method, and demonstrated its power before meeting Prison Tool Saint Venerable. He concealed his identity as the Mystic Phantom King and was appointed deputy general of the Windstorm Army, leaving to collect the promised cultivation rewards.

• Xu Qing combined his techniques into a final strike that killed Dao Wu Hen and earned rewards from the panel.
• Xu Qing spent his Luck Value and Attribute Points to unlock and advance the Life and Death Profound Method, comprehending the Life and Death Origins.
• Xu Qing used his new understanding to restore a barren star and destroy a planet, drawing the attention of Prison Tool Saint Venerable.
• Xu Qing revealed himself to Prison Tool Saint Venerable as Shen Huan, the Mystic Phantom King, and agreed to keep his identity secret while joining the Windstorm Army.
• Prison Tool Saint Venerable appointed Xu Qing deputy general, and the army celebrated his victory and arrival on Wind Star.
• Xu Qing received his battle robe and was escorted toward his residence to discuss his rewards, including peak-level ultimate arts.

Xu Qing entered seclusion on Wind Star to learn the Cold Flame Nine Revolutions ultimate art, then discovered that Dark Extinction had vanished after meeting Martial God Hall. After learning that Soul Jade was holding Dark Extinction on Mad Wave Star, Xu Qing ordered the military to surround the planet.

• Xu Qing accepted the Cold Flame Nine Revolutions ultimate art despite the deputy generals' warning that it was difficult to cultivate, then comprehended it after ten days of secluded study.
• Xu Qing discovered that Dark Extinction had left Wind Star and could not be reached, so he asked Bai Ya and Mo Ya to invite the Martial God Hall branch manager for questioning.
• The branch manager confirmed that Dark Extinction had visited and departed normally, but could not say where he had gone.
• Xu Qing secretly followed Lan Xue's immortal consciousness and overheard him tell a woman that Soul Jade had Dark Extinction and planned to torment him.
• Bai Ya identified the woman as Soul Jade Saint King, who was stationed on Mad Wave Star, and Xu Qing ordered the military to surround the planet.

Xu Qing led the Windstorm Army to the Martial God Hall branch on Mad Wave Star, rescued Dark Extinction, and confronted Soul Jade Saint King over the people she had taken. After killing Lan Xue and rejecting Soul Jade’s attempt to settle the matter, Xu Qing struck her repeatedly as the army watched.

• The Windstorm Army assembled on Cyan Frost’s orders and departed for the Martial God Hall branch on Mad Wave Star.
• Xu Qing found Dark Extinction imprisoned underground and freed him, then used his hair to locate and rescue Dark Extinction’s wife and child.
• Dark Extinction told Xu Qing that Soul Jade Saint King had captured his family and tortured him after he exposed her brother’s crimes and left her.
• Xu Qing led Dark Extinction out of the underground cells and joined the Windstorm Army as it surrounded the Martial God Hall branch.
• Xu Qing gave Soul Jade Saint King ten minutes to surrender his people, then crushed Lan Xue’s skull after she offered him the chance to kill him.
• Xu Qing demanded that Soul Jade hand over his people and slapped her repeatedly when she challenged his authority.