Chapter Summaries

Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng prepared to strengthen the Blue Star Lineage and protect Blue Star’s secrets as Thunder God departed. Forty years later, a Blue Star disciple attracted the attention of a powerful Immortal, bringing the first threat of exposure.

• Thunder God left Blue Star, leaving Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng to manage the Milky Way.
• Lin Chenxing and the other brothers planned to build alliances with Immortal families, raise Blue Star Lineage children on Blue Star, and keep its unusual qualities secret.
• Lin Chenxing planned to spread Spirit Bamboo products throughout neighboring Universe Countries as both a resource and a means of deterring pressure on the Blue Star People.
• Over the next forty years, Lin Chenxing completed his Lightning Clone and began cultivating his Wind Clone.
• A disciple sent to the Black Dragon Mountain Sacred Land caught the attention of Marquis Mirror Water, an Immortal from the Ganwu Secret Region who planned to take him as a disciple.

Ganasi accepted Marquis Mirror Water as his master after impressing him with his water-based illusion technique, Dreamy Bubble. At Russell’s farewell gathering, Ganasi demonstrated the technique to Marquis Mirror Water’s old companions, and Marquis Yunlu recognized its potential when combined with his master’s illusion arts.

• Ganasi, a Blue Star disciple at the Black Dragon Mountain Sacred Land, caught Marquis Mirror Water’s attention with his fighting style and illusion techniques.
• Marquis Mirror Water asked the Black Dragon God Lord about Ganasi and then invited him to become his disciple; Ganasi accepted.
• Ganasi accompanied Marquis Mirror Water to the farewell gathering for Russell, where Marquis Mirror Water and Marquis Yunlu traded familiar jabs over their disciples.
• At Russell’s request, Ganasi demonstrated Dreamy Bubble to the gathered immortals and World Lords.
• Marquis Yunlu grew serious after seeing the technique’s potential alongside Marquis Mirror Water’s Mirror Flowers and Water Moon.

Marquis Yunlu realized his disciples could not withstand Ganasi’s illusions and agreed to recruit disciples with strong souls and wills from surrounding star regions. Yunlu Pavilion began preparing a broad recruitment drive, and Marquis Yunlu offered to take one of the best recruits as his personal disciple.

• Marquis Yunlu tested Yunlu Pavilion’s elite disciples with a mirror illusion, but none broke free quickly enough to meet his standard.
• A Yunlu Pavilion official advised Marquis Yunlu to recruit disciples from other star regions because the current disciples could not strengthen their wills in time.
• Marquis Yunlu hesitated for three days before agreeing to recruit new disciples and provide the resources needed to train them.
• Marquis Yunlu announced that he would choose one of the best performers as his personal disciple.
• Yunlu Pavilion began a recruitment drive across more than a dozen surrounding medium-sized Universe Countries.

Lin Chenxing tried to limit how many Blue Star Lineage members pursued Yunlu Pavilion’s recruitment by secretly making three practice trials harder and offering early admission to the lineage’s Dojos. Thirteen applicants still chose to go, and Lin Chenxing restored the trials to normal before registration closed.

• Yunlu Pavilion announced that applicants had to pass illusion, force, and combat trials to qualify, with top performers potentially becoming Marquis Yunlu’s personal disciples.
• After more than a hundred Blue Star Lineage members signed up, Lin Chenxing publicized the recruitment and set up three practice trials within the lineage.
• Lin Chenxing secretly made Peng Tianwen’s illusion trial stronger and lowered the displayed Force Amplitude readings, while He Meng served as the combat examiner.
• Fewer than thirty applicants remained after repeated failures, and only eight passed all three trials.
• Lin Chenxing offered immediate admission to the 108 Dojos for those who passed all three trials, and let other applicants choose among the last 72 Dojos.
• Thirteen applicants remained intent on attending Yunlu Pavilion’s recruitment, so Lin Chenxing restored the trials to normal before registration closed.

The Blue Star Lineage’s candidates passed the first two stages of Yunlu Pavilion’s disciple recruitment ceremony, though one was eliminated in the second round. Meanwhile, Lin Chenxing discovered that a stone from Wind Prison had transformed his developing Wind Clone and made it difficult to control, leaving him uncertain what it would become.

• All thirteen members of the Blue Star Lineage passed the illusion trial, which reduced the million candidates to fewer than a hundred thousand.
• More candidates withdrew before the second examination, and one Blue Star Lineage contestant was eliminated while the other twelve passed.
• The third round began with twenty thousand candidates as the recruitment ceremony continued toward its final selection.
• Lin Chenxing discovered that the Wind Prison stone had been absorbed by his Wind Clone, forming a stone layer over its body.
• Lin Chenxing found that he could still provide nutrients to the clone but could barely control its growth, so he recalled his other clones to discuss what to do.

Lin Chenxing’s Wind Clone completed its transformation, emerging from its stone shell with a pure Wind Origin crystal in its forehead and a new ability. The discovery suggested a way to strengthen his clones, while the chapter also revealed why Marquis Yunlu had chosen an additional Blue Star disciple.

• The twelve remaining Blue Star Lineage candidates were selected for Yunlu Pavilion, and Marquis Yunlu took two personal disciples, including Ganasi’s longtime rival.
• Marquis Yunlu chose the Blue Star disciple after learning the twelve shared a race with Marquis Mirror Water’s disciple and noticing their strong resistance to illusions.
• Four years after the recruitment ceremony, Lin Chenxing’s Wind Clone reached the final stage of its gestation, with a crystal containing a pure Wind Origin exposed in its forehead.
• Lin Chenxing used wind to tear open the stone shell, and his Wind Clone emerged and gathered the shell fragments for later study.
• Lin Chenxing discovered that the crystal gave the Wind Clone the ability Wind Erosion and could enhance its wind techniques, prompting him to reconsider how he cultivated his clones.

After thirty years of trying to modify his clone, Lin Chenxing received a list of crimes committed by Luo Feng’s relatives and descendants. Luo Feng rejected the Virtual Universe Company’s judgment of his father and chose to punish the others, even if it cost him his mission rating and rewards.

• Lin Chenxing’s experiments with materials for modifying his clone repeatedly failed, and another thirty years passed.
• Luo Feng gave Lin Chenxing a list of alleged crimes by his relatives and descendants, including biological weapons research by Lin Li.
• Lin Chenxing agreed to have those on the list who were not Luo Family members arrested and judged, as a warning to their descendants and the Blue Star People.
• Luo Feng insisted that his father was innocent because he had not known about the assassinations and had only founded a virtual-game guild.
• Luo Feng refused to change his judgment for the Virtual Universe Company’s approval and accepted that his mission rating and rewards might suffer.

Lin Li rejected his conviction for releasing biological weapons onto life-bearing planets, but Luo Feng increased his prison sentence to one thousand years. As officials moved to confiscate his spatial equipment, Lin Li injected himself with an untested gene serum and collapsed, leaving Lin Chenxing examining his rapidly mutating body.

• Lin Li insisted that he had done nothing wrong, but Gao Zheng and Lin Chenxing condemned his experiments for the suffering they had caused.
• Luo Feng changed Lin Li’s sentence from one hundred years to one thousand years after he refused to plead guilty.
• The chapter recounted how Lin Li’s research shifted from plants to animal-like traits and how he released engineered monsters to study their evolution.
• Lin Li’s plan had been to develop plant-like reproductive genes that could let Blue Star People create clones.
• Just before his spatial equipment was confiscated, Lin Li injected himself with an untested gene serum and collapsed as his skin turned blue-green and bulged.
• Lin Chenxing caught Lin Li and examined him, but could not wake him.

Lin Li’s transformation into a plant prompted Lin Chenxing to impose closer oversight on the Lin Family and Blue Star researchers. Five years later, seven Blue Star warriors became Giant Axe Warriors in one year, drawing attention to the lineage’s strength and wealth and stirring pressure against its businesses.

• Lin Chenxing sentenced the people who had led Lin Li astray to ten thousand years in prison, while Lin Li transformed into a plant and was planted at the edge of the prison.
• Lin Chenxing introduced regular reports and monitoring for Lin Family members, research institutes, and researchers across the Blue Star Lineage.
• Five years later, seven Blue Star warriors became Giant Axe Warriors, prompting Lin Chenxing to contact Luo Feng and try to slow the competition.
• The Great Axe Coliseum investigated Blue Star and uncovered its record of elite warriors and lucrative businesses, including Spirit Bamboo Fruit, Spirit Bamboo Weapons, and Tea Restaurants.
• Business partners and Treasure Pavilions began demanding better terms from the Three Realms Company, or threatened to withdraw their support.

Lin Chenxing dealt with the Hesi Clan’s attempts to gain access to Blue Star’s business, training, and marriage ties as other families began courting the Blue Star Lineage. A year later, the Blue Star Council confronted a sharp rise in disappearances, which appeared to target Blue Star People for their supposedly strong wills.

• Tai Gu Hesi praised the Blue Star Lineage and asked Lin Chenxing to let the Hesi Clan take over abandoned business and send its youngsters to train with Blue Star.
• Tai Gu proposed encouraging young people from the two clans to marry, and Lin Chenxing agreed as long as relationships were voluntary.
• Lin Chenxing expected trouble from other families, and major families soon made friendly overtures to Blue Star’s external network in hopes of gaining influence and profits.
• Luo Feng received visits from Immortals seeking cooperation, while news of the Blue Star People’s naturally strong wills spread across multiple Universe Countries.
• A year later, the Blue Star Council reviewed reports that more than a hundred thousand Blue Star People had disappeared, likely taken to produce descendants with their strong wills.

Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng crushed a kidnapping operation targeting Blue Star People, but they feared a greater crisis was still ahead. Luo Feng then passed the eleventh island of the Illusion Sea, prompting the Virtual Universe Company to summon him for an assessment by several Universe Venerables.

• Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng tightened security for the Blue Star Lineage after kidnappings continued, and Lin Chenxing sent his Wind Clone to help a patrol squad under attack.
• Lin Chenxing's Wind Clone killed the seventh-stage Domain Lord with Wind Erosion and trapped the surviving kidnappers with a prepared fleet.
• Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng interrogated the captured team, then led forces to eradicate the eight Domain Lord-level factions behind it, curbing the kidnappings across Ganwu Universe Country.
• Lin Chenxing told Luo Feng the time had come, and Luo Feng chose to go first to gain more recognition from the Virtual Universe Company.
• Luo Feng passed the eleventh island at Nine Star Bay and achieved willpower on par with an Immortal Army Lord.
• The Virtual Universe Company asked King Zhen Yan to persuade Luo Feng to return to the Initial Universe for an assessment by several Universe Venerables, and factions in Ganwu Universe Country scaled back their covert maneuvers.

After Hong reached the 21st island of the Illusion Sea, Great Axe Founder invited him to become a nominal disciple and inspected Blue Star, uncovering its unusual influence on souls. Lin Chenxing urged Luo Feng to report the truth to the Virtual Universe Company, hoping its claim over Blue Star might help the Blue Star Lineage reclaim it later.

• Families that had captured Blue Star People failed to improve their bloodlines through forced marriages and began surveying the Solar System.
• Hong reached the 21st island of the Illusion Sea, and Great Axe Founder invited him to become a secret nominal disciple.
• Lin Chenxing warned the others that powerful factions might seize Blue Star if its value exceeded that of its inhabitants.
• Hong returned and said he had recommended several companions to Lord of Virtual Gold and that Lin Chenxing wanted to visit Chaos City.
• Hong revealed that Great Axe Founder had inspected Blue Star and found that an alien being had altered it, causing lives born there to undergo a special evolution of the soul.
• Lin Chenxing told Luo Feng to report Blue Star's situation to the Virtual Universe Company, whose control of the planet might help them reclaim it later.

Undying Venerable confronted Luo Feng and the others over Blue Star, then examined Lin Chenxing’s Law of Wood comprehension and left after praising it. Meanwhile, King Yan Zhu and a group of Immortal Gods arrived at the edge of the Solar System, believing they had reached it before their rivals.

• Luo Feng learned from King Zhen Yan that Undying Venerable was seeking him, and Undying Venerable soon contacted him and trapped everyone watching in a nightmare illusion.
• Luo Feng negotiated with Undying Venerable, reducing his demand to buy the Milky Way Galaxy to a small island less than ten square kilometers in area.
• Undying Venerable questioned Hong about the brothers he had not reported, then asked Lin Chenxing to display his Law of Wood comprehension.
• Lin Chenxing showed a bamboo formation that combined several laws, and Undying Venerable praised it before ending the call without offering guidance.
• King Yan Zhu and more than a dozen powerful beings arrived at the edge of the Solar System through a Divine Kingdom, and King Yan Zhu claimed her father's forces were the first to arrive.

King Yan Zhu and Marquis Fenxin Buna tried to force Luo Feng to surrender the Solar System, but Luo Feng refused. As King Yan Zhu escalated the threat, Tree God Hugelder restrained the asteroid-belt creatures and Marquis Ewei arrived to aid the Blue Star Lineage, while King Yan Zhu began taking hostages.

• King Yan Zhu arrived at the Solar System with Marquis Fenxin Buna and claimed Buna wanted to buy the Milky Way Galaxy; Marquis Aurora Luo notified Luo Feng.
• Buna pressured Luo Feng to sell the Milky Way Galaxy, but Luo Feng said he would sell the other planets and never the Solar System.
• King Yan Zhu admitted he had ordered the purchase attempt, bound Luo Feng and Dylan, and ordered Buna to release the asteroid-belt monsters and plant life.
• Tree God Hugelder emerged from Mars and bound the released creatures with roots and vines, revealing himself as an Immortal-level plant life.
• Marquis Ewei arrived after Lin Chenxing asked him to support the Blue Star Lineage, while King Yan Zhu used World Force to pull people on Mars into his World Ring as hostages.

King Yan Zhu threatened Blue Star to force Luo Feng’s surrender, but Hugelder, Bloodthirsty King, and Undying Venerable intervened to stop him. Undying Venerable took Lin Chenxing away, while Venerable Shihuo sentenced his son to prison.

• Hugelder used vines to shield Mars from King Yan Zhu, who threatened to attack Blue Star with a Heavy Treasure.
• Bloodthirsty King teleported to Luo Feng’s side, and King Yan Zhu prepared to strike Mars despite the odds against his group.
• Undying Venerable arrived and immobilized the Immortals, erased King Yan Zhu’s attack, and summoned Lin Chenxing.
• Undying Venerable told Lin Chenxing to accompany him, while Venerable Shihuo agreed to handle his son without favoritism.
• Lin Chenxing left the Solar System with Undying Venerable, and Venerable Shihuo sentenced King Yan Zhu to 1,000 eras in the Ninth Star Domain Prison.

The Undying Venerable brought Lin Chenxing to his God Kingdom and studied how Lin Chenxing’s law interacted with a plant. After their experiment failed, Lin Chenxing explained his cultivation path, which he had named Origin One, and the Undying Venerable showed interest.

• The Undying Venerable took Lin Chenxing to his God Kingdom and asked him to manifest his law again.
• The Undying Venerable evolved a weed through repeated growth and decay until it resembled Lin Chenxing’s bamboo manifestation.
• Lin Chenxing infused the plant with his law while the Undying Venerable tried to guide and fuse them, but conflicting properties caused the plant to burn and collapse.
• The Undying Venerable examined the failed plant and asked Lin Chenxing to explain his cultivation path.
• Lin Chenxing described how laws could transform into one another and named his path Origin One, prompting the Undying Venerable to repeat the name.

Lin Chenxing survived a deer’s attempt to break his bamboo stalk and began spreading into a grove as the planet’s animals evolved under concentrated cosmic energy. A century later, food shortages had driven the deer into different forms and diets, while only those that stood upright showed signs of further change.

• A deer bit and twisted Lin Chenxing’s bamboo stalk, but it failed to break the resilient plant and left after damaging it.
• Lin Chenxing healed, expanded his roots, and sent up new bamboo shoots after learning from the attack.
• The shoots grew into young stalks, and the expanding bamboo grove reduced the trees available for the deer to eat.
• As food grew scarce, some deer developed longer necks, began eating grass or bamboo leaves, or left the area.
• With a Time Venerable’s help, a hundred years passed on the planet in three outside years, and the deer continued evolving in different directions.
• Some deer discovered bamboo shoots and grew fat, while the deer that tried standing upright began showing signs of change.

As Lin Chenxing resumed cultivating and began his third transformation, the deer living in the Bamboo Forest developed tools, became Deer-Men, and expanded beyond the forest. A deer who found a powerful bamboo branch defeated the settlement’s inherited warriors and became the leader of the first Deer-Man Tribe.

• Lin Chenxing sensed cosmic energy again and resumed cultivating, causing the Bamboo Forest to change.
• The deer organized their work, used fallen bamboo branches as tools, and gradually evolved into Deer-Men.
• The first Exploration Team fled from the powerful animals beyond the forest, but its leader found blood on the last deer’s tool and realized they could fight back.
• The herd cleared a path outside, encountered enormous beasts, retreated, and established a second settlement in territory taken from carnivores.
• As Lin Chenxing underwent his third transformation, a deer brought a newly fallen bamboo branch to the original settlement and defeated the descendants of its old warriors.
• The deer chose the victorious warrior as leader, renamed themselves Deer-Men, and named their settlement the first Deer-Man Tribe.

Lin Chenxing regained control of the Bamboo Forest, watched the Deer-Man Tribe grow into the Sacred Bamboo Forest, and successfully fused a Pseudo-Law of Earth into a bamboo shoot. The Undying Venerable ended the experiment and restored Lin Chenxing to his body, leaving the Deer-Men grieving as a gigantic bamboo shoot emerged where the Sacred Bamboo had stood.

• After the Deer-Man Tribe formed, its members worshipped Lin Chenxing, grew stronger by eating his bamboo shoots, and joined with a neighboring deer settlement to expand their territory.
• Over three years, the Deer-Men cleared the surrounding area, established the Sacred Bamboo Forest, and developed into a more advanced society.
• After reaching the Planetary Level again, Lin Chenxing used Directed Evolution to merge a Pseudo-Law of Earth into a bamboo shoot.
• The Undying Venerable appeared, explained the purpose of Lin Chenxing's experiment, and asked what should happen to the planet's life.
• Lin Chenxing asked the Undying Venerable to leave the Deer-Men undisturbed, and the Undying Venerable restored him to his living body.
• The bamboo Lin Chenxing had inhabited withered, frightening the Deer-Men, while a huge bamboo shoot sprouted in its place.

Undying Venerable discussed with Great Axe Founder a new path to becoming a Universe Master based on combining Wood and Space Laws, and Great Axe approved the idea. He then rewarded Lin Chenxing with treasures for his clones and promised to help him advance, while Lin Chenxing learned that Undying Venerable would share his clone technique.

• Undying Venerable told Great Axe Founder he planned to form Wood of Space and use it to fuse Wood and Space Laws.
• Great Axe Founder approved the path, warned that Lin Chenxing could attract Alien Race attention, and advised Undying Venerable to help him progress without formally taking him as a disciple.
• Undying Venerable offered to apply for Lin Chenxing to study in the Initial Universe and invited him to choose treasures from his treasury.
• Lin Chenxing chose treasures containing several different laws for his clones, explaining that they would strengthen them.
• Undying Venerable promised to give Lin Chenxing his clone technique so he could refine his own method.