Chapter Summaries

Peng Tianwen told Lin Chenxing how Luo Feng overcame the criminals and passed the ruins’ final trial, where pressure from Peng Tianwen’s flying knives helped him improve his control of Spiritual Force. Luo Feng left with a Spirit of Vegetation and the Basic Spirit Forging Method, suspecting the trial had been manipulated but keeping his doubts to himself.

• Peng Tianwen recounted how the criminals lured Luo Feng into a sealed room with five Lord-level Monsters, and Luo Feng killed the Monsters and the entire gang.
• Luo Feng found a more accurate map on the criminals and used it to reach the ruins’ final trial.
• Luo Feng blocked arrows for ten minutes, then faced Peng Tianwen’s flying knives during the second stage.
• Luo Feng increased the number of flying knives he could control perfectly from six to seven and passed the trial.
• Luo Feng collected the Spirit of Vegetation and the Basic Spirit Forging Method, then left the ruins while suspecting someone had interfered.

Lin Chenxing explained to Luo Feng that his work cultivating spiritual bamboo was meant to strengthen Blue Star’s future generations, and assigned Luo Feng to improve the Basic Spirit Forging Method without advancing to Councilor level. He then took Luo Feng to meet Xi Qing and revealed a new Bamboo Fruit and the domain technique he wanted Luo Feng to experience.

• Lin Chenxing explained that he invested in Luo Feng because talented people could become pioneers who raised Blue Star’s limits.
• Lin Chenxing tasked Luo Feng with studying and improving the Basic Spirit Forging Method, then returning the revised manual to Xingyan Base City without breaking through to Councilor level.
• Luo Feng said the Bamboo Fruit had concentrated his mental power and helped him control seven flying knives.
• Lin Chenxing introduced Luo Feng to his wife, Xi Qing, while she practiced swordplay in the Bamboo Forest.
• Lin Chenxing described a new Bamboo Fruit that could nurture and protect the soul, and told Luo Feng to take a Bamboo Seed home.
• Lin Chenxing said he would let Luo Feng experience his domain, which only he and Hong could use on Blue Star.

After Luo Feng returned from Ruins No. 9, he killed Li Yao and faced the Councilors’ envy over his Soaring Sky Shuttle, which Hong suppressed. The chapter ended with Hong revealing footage of a newly emerged Beast Emperor near Mist Island.

• Luo Feng passed the trial in Ruins No. 9 early and learned from the Bald Crystal Being about the strength of Hong, Thunder God, and Lin Chenxing.
• Lin Chenxing’s men rescued Luo Hongguo from a car accident, but Li Yao still spread rumors against Luo Feng’s family.
• The Five Great Speakers sentenced Li Yao and his wife to death, and Luo Feng killed Li Yao with the Mountain Drilling Cone when Li Yao broke through to the planetary level during his execution.
• Hong warned the Councilors against coveting Luo Feng’s Soaring Sky Shuttle and said he had given it to Luo Feng in exchange for Spirit of Vegetation.
• Hong announced that another Beast Emperor had appeared, and footage showed tentacles snatching monsters in a fog-covered inland lake near Mist Island.

Lin Chenxing brought Huaxia’s Councilors to Mist Island as Hong prepared to hunt the Tentacle Beast Emperor, and Luo Feng arrived after breaking through to the Planetary Level. After meeting the Huaxia group and learning about the Beast Emperor, Luo Feng declined Jia Yi’s invitation to help, while Lin Chenxing warned the others not to compete with him.

• Lin Chenxing brought Huaxia’s group to Mist Island while keeping Xingyan Base City’s War Gods away from the coming battle.
• Luo Feng arrived with Hong and met Jia Yi, Lin Chenxing, and the other Huaxia Councilors aboard their passenger plane.
• Jia Yi showed Luo Feng a scan of the underground Tentacle Beast Emperor and explained its size, regenerative ability, and Hong’s recent attack.
• Jia Yi invited Luo Feng to help Huaxia, but Luo Feng declined and left because Hong was present and he had other business.
• Lin Chenxing told Jia Yi that Luo Feng was already stronger than the Councilors and warned them against competing with him.

Hong killed the Tentacle Beast, allowing the world’s powers to begin exploring Mist Island Lake. When a monster transformed into an Earth Dragon King near a white crystal, the Councilors identified the crystal as a Moya Crystal, and Lin Chenxing offered Bamboo Fruits in exchange while preparing to pursue the crystals for his own plan.

• Hong hauled the dead Tentacle Beast out of Mist Island Lake, and Lin Chenxing instructed Huaxia’s Councilors on how to search for treasures and divide the spoils.
• Jia Yi received word that a monster had suddenly become King-level and sent Lin Chenxing the suspected treasure’s coordinates.
• The Councilors found an Earth Dragon King underground, and Hong killed it after Lin Chenxing bound it with vines.
• Luo Feng described the white crystal he had seen, and the Councilors recognized it as a Moya Crystal from Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 5.
• Lin Chenxing offered to trade Bamboo Fruits for Moya Crystals, then told Xingyan Base City’s Councilors to prioritize finding crystals while avoiding conflict.

After the Moya Crystal hunt, Lin Chenxing exchanged Bamboo Fruits for crystals and prepared to use them to raise his Spirit Bamboo Clone to Planetary Level Seven. Before entering seclusion, he asked Xi Qing to manage the Base City and prepare Lin Jun and Lin Yi for their next stages of cultivation.

• Lin Chenxing’s group left Mist Island with ten Moya Crystals, enough to begin the next phase of the Bamboo Forest cultivation plan.
• Lin Chenxing explained that his Spirit Bamboo Clone needed to reach Planetary Level Seven before Sub-Bamboo could produce Planetary Level weapons and energy-rich Bamboo Fruits.
• At Bamboo Mountain, Lin Chenxing traded his stockpiled Bamboo Fruits to visiting factions and collected twenty-one more Moya Crystals.
• Lin Chenxing told Xi Qing he would enter seclusion until the journey to Mars, and Xi Qing encouraged him to advance for Blue Star’s sake.
• After Lin Chenxing departed for the Mother Bamboo, Xi Qing resolved to protect the Base City and catch up to him in strength.
• Xi Qing told Lin Jun to cultivate after Lin Chenxing’s breakthrough and instructed Lin Yi to train with Lin Jun’s former squad until he reached War God Level.

Lin Chenxing completed a cultivable Humanoid Sub-plant and prepared his new bamboo varieties before leaving Blue Star to transform Mars. After saying goodbye to the leaders and researchers, he boarded the spacecraft with his team as their three-year expedition began.

• Lin Chenxing discovered that his Humanoid Sub-plant could absorb cosmic energy and cultivate, but his attempts to create another cultivable one failed.
• Lin Chenxing reviewed the bamboo varieties he had developed over five months, including the Green Jade Bamboo Fruit, Saint Bamboo Fruit, Void Bamboo Fruit, and stronger Ink Bamboo.
• Hong and Thunder God advised Lin Chenxing about the Mars mission, and Lin Chenxing joked with Thunder God about their strength.
• Lin Chenxing asked Mohanderson and East to handle Blue Star affairs and promised to bring their researchers back safely.
• Lin Chenxing, Peng Tianwen, and the researchers boarded the spacecraft, which launched for Mars.

Lin Chenxing and the crew reached Mars, where a planet-wide sandstorm delayed their landing. After the storm revealed nine pyramids and the ruins of an ancient city, Lin Chenxing led Martial Artists out to explore the complex and assess it for future settlement.

• The ship entered Mars's gravitational field, but Lin Chenxing postponed landing because a massive sandstorm made conditions unsafe.
• The crew detected regular patterns beneath the storm and identified them as an ancient pyramid-like structure.
• After ten days, the sandstorm began to clear, revealing nine connected pyramids above the ruins of a city.
• Lin Chenxing led Martial Artists onto the Martian surface in protective suits and set out to explore the Pyramid TC City complex.

Lin Chenxing’s team explored the ruined city beneath the pyramids, identified its building material as A8-grade Dark Iron, and debated how to use the city in the Mars Transformation Plan. Lin Chenxing decided to pursue both cultivation approaches, growing plants inside the city and in the open Martian environment.

• Lin Chenxing’s team found the city empty and heavily corroded, with no surviving records, bones, or functioning defenses.
• A researcher identified fragments from the city as A8-grade Dark Iron, and the team chose to smelt some for later use.
• Lin Chenxing convened a meeting to discuss whether to build cultivation facilities inside the city or start growing plants in the open Martian environment.
• Peng Tianwen suggested carrying out both plans, and Lin Chenxing agreed and told the team to divide into groups.

Lin Chenxing waited on Mars for the Golden Horned Beast to arrive, but it appeared later than he expected at a war base in New York Port. The beast destroyed and swallowed the base, then was joined by the Octopus Beast Emperor and the Thunder Dragon Emperor as ocean monsters gathered around it.

• Lin Chenxing assigned Peng Tianwen to collect polar ice and Ren Tingchen to gather samples of different Martian soils.
• Lin Chenxing learned that Blue Star had 157 Planetary Level experts, Thunder God had reached Planetary Level Nine, and Hong had reached Planetary Level Eight.
• When the Golden Horned Beast failed to appear by January 14, Lin Chenxing worried that his actions had changed the future.
• On January 25, soldiers at a New York Port war base spotted the Golden Horned Beast, whose armor resisted their laser cannons.
• The Golden Horned Beast warped space, swallowed the war base, and roared as the Octopus Beast Emperor, the Thunder Dragon Emperor, and countless sea monsters gathered around it.

Lin Chenxing joined a global crisis meeting where Clarence identified the mysterious Swallowing Beast as a Starry Sky Behemoth, and Luo Feng explained its abilities and Star Level strength. With humanity facing a powerful enemy and nuclear weapons unlikely to work, Lin Chenxing and the other factions shared resources to prepare for the fight.

• Mohanderson summoned Lin Chenxing to the War God Palace, where leaders from around the world gathered to discuss the crisis.
• Clarence said the Swallowing Beast was likely a devouring-type Starry Sky Behemoth capable of reaching Universe Level, and Hong confirmed that its threat was real.
• The leaders discussed how to kill the beast, nuclear weapons, and a fallback plan based on the Three Realms Plan and Lin Chenxing.
• Luo Feng revealed that the beast's twisted devouring space disrupted remote detonation and broke down metal, and that the beast was at Star Level but had limited capacity to devour.
• Lin Chenxing offered Bamboo Mountain's Bamboo Fruits, Bamboo Rice, and bamboo shoots for people to exchange, and countries and factions began sharing resources.

Lin Chenxing's plant experiments on Mars produced increasingly adapted generations, while he promised to return to Blue Star as the Golden Horned Beast faced a massive nuclear assault. The hydrogen bomb badly wounded the beast, but it survived, and the chapter ended with it recovering underwater as king-level monsters led new Beast Tides onto the mainland.

• Lin Chenxing's A-series and B-series plants developed through five generations, with the B-series producing varied subspecies and the plants inside the city adapting better to Mars.
• Lin Chenxing told the War God Palace Council that he would return to Blue Star in about two and a half months and urged them to hold out.
• On January 26, twelve fighter jets carried eighteen atomic bombs and one hydrogen bomb toward the Golden Horned Beast, with Hong carrying the largest bomb.
• The Golden Horned Beast survived the hydrogen bomb with a huge wound in its belly, then unleashed attacks that struck every Base City and Satellite City.
• The wounded Golden Horned Beast retreated into the ocean to recover as king-level monsters led Beast Tides onto the mainland through major river estuaries.

Luo Feng revealed that he had found a nearly intact B6-level laser cannon in Ruins No. 12, giving humanity a chance to kill the Swallowing Beast. Lin Chenxing urged everyone to prepare for the possibility that the cannon would fail, and Luo Feng joined Hong and Thunder God in the planned attack.

• Luo Feng told the assembled leaders that he had found a nearly intact B6-level laser cannon aboard the black spaceship in Ruins No. 12, and Breckenridge explained its power.
• Lin Chenxing warned that the Golden Horned Beast might be stronger than the laser cannon could kill, so Hong and Thunder God agreed to serve as backup fighters.
• Luo Feng volunteered to fight alongside Hong and Thunder God, and Hong agreed to send a fighter jet to bring him to headquarters.
• Mohanderson took charge of a third line of defense with East and the other Planetary Level Three and Four fighters, while Hong ordered the group to move out.
• Lin Chenxing arranged to send Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng Void Bamboo Fruits and Bitter Bamboo Fruits to strengthen their mental power and Soul Will.

Hong, Thunder God, Luo Feng, and the others used a B6-grade Laser Cannon to attack the Golden Horned Beast, but it survived and rapidly regenerated underwater. Enraged and recovering its strength by consuming metal, the beast left the sea and headed toward the mainland.

• Hong received word that the Golden Horned Beast had emerged from the sea near Svens Island, and the team prepared the Laser Cannon.
• The Laser Cannon fired from 1,082 kilometers away and erased the upper half of the Golden Horned Beast's head.
• The Golden Horned Beast survived, dove into the sea, and sent its blazing horn after the fighter carrying the cannon; Luo Feng's flying knives delayed it, but the horn destroyed the fighter and the cannon.
• The Golden Horned Beast regenerated its head underwater while sea monsters brought it metal ores to consume.
• Luo Feng harassed the beast with flying knives, and more than twenty King-level monsters attacked the fighter carrying Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng.
• The Golden Horned Beast began heading toward the mainland to search for more metal.

Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng fought the Golden Horned Beast, using Hong and Thunder God’s desperate attacks to wound it from within. Luo Feng destroyed its soul at the cost of his collapsing Consciousness Sea, and the beast died as the three bodies fell toward the sea.

• Hong and Thunder God burned their souls and charged the Golden Horned Beast while Luo Feng attacked with 21 throwing knives.
• Hong filled the air with metal wreckage and hydrogen bombs, then pierced the beast’s abdomen with a black wave of energy.
• Luo Feng held off the beast’s claw while Thunder God followed Hong into its body, where they attacked from within.
• The Golden Horned Beast weakened, bled, and fell silent, but Luo Feng sensed that it was not fully dead.
• Luo Feng entered the beast’s wound and searched for its soul, but his Consciousness Sea began to collapse as he unleashed four visible Miniature Planets and a fifth illusory one.
• The Golden Horned Beast died after its soul was tormented, and three bodies plunged toward the sea while Luo Feng was not among them.

Lin Chenxing returned to Blue Star and confronted Atkin, Yan Hai, and their allies, who had seized power while the strongest fighters were unavailable. He overwhelmed the assembled councilors with his domain and spear, leaving them defeated and covered with plant seeds.

• Eighteen Planetary-level fighters surrounded Lin Chenxing’s ship, and Lin Chenxing stepped out to face them.
• Atkin offered Lin Chenxing a place among their forces while Yan Hai explained his plan to take control; Lin Chenxing refused.
• Lin Chenxing learned that Atkin, Yan Hai, and Sago Nehru had used Moya Crystals and Bamboo Fruits to grow stronger and seize resources during the monsters’ attacks.
• Atkin attacked Lin Chenxing over the sea, but Lin Chenxing’s bamboo spear and domain defeated Atkin, Yan Hai, and Sago Nehru in close combat.
• Lin Chenxing expanded his domain to pin down the remaining councilors, struck them all with his spear, and scattered plant seeds over the defeated group.

Lin Chenxing captured Atkin, Yan Hai, Sago Nehru, and their allies, then oversaw their trial while taking charge of Blue Star’s affairs. Hong and Thunder God awakened in January 2061, over a year early, as Lin Chenxing prepared for the Nolan Mountain Family’s arrival.

• Lin Chenxing captured the attackers who intercepted his spacecraft and asked Jia Yi to gather the Councilors at Bamboo Mountain for a trial.
• Atkin, Yan Hai, and Sago Nehru were sentenced to death, while the other involved Councilors received ten-year prison sentences.
• Lin Chenxing explained that domains were tied to the heart and an individual’s abilities, and advised Councilors to wait until Star Level before pursuing one.
• Lin Chenxing returned to Bamboo Mountain and focused on keeping Blue Star’s Councilors in check while preparing for the Nolan Mountain Family’s arrival.
• Hong and Thunder God awakened in January 2061 after reaching higher Planetary Levels and receiving Bamboo Fruits from Lin Chenxing.
• Hong reflected on the Atkin incident, and Thunder God condemned Sago Nehru for plotting to take over the Thunder Dojo.

Luo Feng returned to Blue Star and revealed that he had inherited the Yunmo Star Lineage, offering to let the other Speakers join. The six strongest figures agreed, while they also resolved to strengthen Blue Star and guard against threats from the universe.

• Hong summoned Lin Chenxing and the other Speakers to discuss Blue Star’s future and hear Luo Feng’s request.
• The Speakers warned that powerful forces could enslave Blue Star’s people if they discovered the planet, and agreed that Blue Star needed to grow stronger.
• Lin Chenxing questioned whether the vanished inhabitants of the Martian city might return, while Mohanderson described evidence of spatial expansion around the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Hong called for continued terraforming of Mars, faster spaceships, and a thorough exploration of the Solar System.
• Luo Feng revealed that he had inherited secret cultivation methods but could not share them with outsiders, so he invited the Speakers to join his lineage.
• Hong, Thunder God, Lin Chenxing, Mohanderson, and East all agreed to join the Yunmo Star Lineage, whose name Luo Feng asked them to keep secret.

Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng returned to Mars aboard the repaired Black Dragon Mountain X81 Spaceship and saw how much its climate and vegetation had improved. Lin Chenxing planned to use his Spirit Bamboo Clone to build bamboo barriers that would help transform Mars region by region.

• After four months of training, Lin Chenxing, Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, Mohanderson, and East had advanced in strength, while Luo Feng had begun developing a Domain of his own.
• Luo Feng learned that Lin Chenxing had a clone and a Dark Iron deposit on Mars, and Lin Chenxing agreed to let him use the metal to grow his Golden Horned Beast clone.
• Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng traveled to Mars aboard the Black Dragon Mountain X81 Spaceship after its repairs went smoothly with the councilors' support.
• On Mars, Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng saw warmer temperatures, rising atmospheric pressure, spreading vegetation, and new research bases beyond the cities.
• Staff members told Lin Chenxing and Luo Feng that conditions inside Mars Miracle City had improved, though people still needed spacesuits and oxygen tanks.
• Lin Chenxing explained that he would use his Spirit Bamboo Clone to establish bamboo forests and barriers that could contain dust storms and accelerate Mars's transformation.

Luo Feng and his companions searched the underground steel city on Mars for Dark Iron and Dark Iron Essence, then used its records to locate the miners’ old faction strongholds. They recovered a vast stockpile of valuable metals, giving Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast substantial resources for growth.

• Luo Feng, Lin Chenxing, and Babata emptied the warehouse courtyard of Dark Iron and broke into the building, where they found about 1,200 tons of Dark Iron Essence.
• Lin Chenxing suggested that rival factions had hidden more valuables, and Babata hacked into the city’s monitoring system and found the miners’ historical records and stronghold locations.
• Babata explained that the stranded miners had fought over scarce resources, eventually built three small spaceships, and left the remaining people in hibernation as their city declined.
• Luo Feng and his companions searched twelve faction strongholds, finding valuables at four of them and collecting about 33,600 tons of Dark Iron Essence and 2.34 tons of Dark Iron Mother.