Recaps

Mu Yunyao’s cultivation-method fragment passed the Saint Envoy Hall’s review, and Qin Yingyue invited her to attend a future gathering. Mu Yunyao chose Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid for Chen Lie, who left the Sumeru Illusion Realm without revealing his identity.

• Mu Yunyao told Chen Lie that her younger brother had reached an elevenfold Strength Value, and they discussed the Primordial Essence Realm while waiting for the review.
• The Saint Envoy Hall selected twenty-seven completed fragments, including Mu Yunyao’s, and summoned their creators to the palace.
• Qin Yingyue praised Mu Yunyao’s fragment and invited her to a future gathering; Mu Yunyao revealed that Chen Lie had guided her, but Chen Lie declined to identify his star domain.
• Mu Yunyao chose a portion of Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid and two hundred thousand Star-Origin Galactic Coins as her reward, then agreed to forward the liquid to Chen Lie.
• Chen Lie told Mu Yunyao to keep the Galactic Coins and left the Sumeru Illusion Realm; Mu Yunyao wondered why a powerful genius needed the liquid but decided not to pry.

Qin Yingluo discovered that one of the Divine Sense Masters in the Canglan Star Domain had reconstructed much of the Mengzhang Divine Refining Chapter, so she asked Qin Yingyue to invite him for help with her cultivation problem. Meanwhile, Chen Lie returned to Blue Star, learned Xia Ziying had arranged his villa, and found out he had risen to eighth on the Blue Star Blood-Qi Ranking.

• Qin Yingyue showed Qin Yingluo jade slips from the Divine Sense Masters' gathering, and Qin Yingluo's mental power scanner could not measure her Consciousness Sea World or properly identify her Seven Star Gods.
• Qin Yingluo's Heart Moon Fox matched and slightly surpassed Qin Yingyue's eighth-ranked Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, after which Qin Yingluo explained the Mengzhang Divine Refining Chapter and its Seven Star Gods.
• Qin Yingluo found that one jade slip's completed fragment was seventy percent similar to the original Star Constellation Cultivation Method and asked Qin Yingyue to invite its author and the other contributing Divine Sense Masters.
• Chen Lie returned from the Sumeru Illusion Realm with blood-tempering spirit liquid secured for his twelfth tempering and considered whether helping the Star Seeker's child could earn him the supplies needed for later temperings.
• Wang Junyi told Chen Lie that Xia Ziying had resolved the property-purchase restriction and furnished his villa in Lanjing.
• Ruan Liuyun told Chen Lie that he had reached eighth place on the Blue Star Blood-Qi Ranking, becoming one of the Blue Star Ten Elites and displacing Hao Yulong from the top ten.

Chen Lie learned that he had risen to eighth on the Blood Qi Ranking and was summoned with other top students to prepare for the permanent council star contest against Wood Source Planet. After Principal Lei Jinglong failed to secure an apology from Huo Jinghong, Chen Lie left to study the opposing contenders and encountered Ji Lingxuan, who asked whether he had bought a house in Lanjing.

• Ruan Liuyun explained that Chen Lie had been ranked eighth, introduced Kang Quanlin as the former eighth-ranked student, and urged Chen Lie to study advanced martial arts.
• At the Martial Arts Arena, Kang Quanlin introduced himself to Chen Lie, and Lei Jinglong announced that Ning Fan would command ranked martial artists while Yang Jingnian would command the blood-qi stage students.
• Lei Jinglong introduced Yang Jingnian and told the assembled students they would receive information on Wood Source Planet's blood-qi contenders.
• Huo Jinghong accused Chen Lie of using connections to cut his support funding, and Chen Lie admitted it before agreeing to Lei Jinglong's proposed reconciliation.
• Huo Jinghong refused to apologize and left; Lei Jinglong then urged Chen Lie to mend his rift with Yan Zheng, and Chen Lie agreed.
• Chen Lie collected a booklet on Wood Source Planet's contenders, returned to the training hall, and met Ji Lingxuan, who asked whether he had bought a house in Lanjing.

Chen Lie trained with Blue Star’s Blood-Qi competitors for the coming team battles, while weighing whether to use a costly secret art if necessary. He welcomed his parents to the villa he had bought in Lanjing, where their new neighbors planned to introduce their daughter, Cai Ying, to him.

• Chen Lie told Ji Lingxuan about the red flower petals from her mother and encouraged her to consider entering the Permanent Councilor Star Competition.
• Zheng Dongyang named Yang Jingnian captain and Jiang Yuan vice-captain of the Blood-Qi team, and Chen Lie’s group lost all four of their first team battles.
• Chen Lie decided he would reserve his blood-qi secret art for a crucial situation because using it without an Extraordinary Bloodline would hinder his cultivation for months.
• Feng Yuelan and Chen Gequn visited Villa No. 9 and met their neighbors Xu Yong and Jin Xiuying, who learned that Chen Lie had bought the villa.
• Chen Lie arrived and showed his parents the furnished villa, while Xu Yong and Jin Xiuying planned to bring their daughter Cai Ying over to meet him.

Chen Lie settled his parents into their new Lanjing villa and met neighbor Jin Xiuying and her daughter, Xu Caiying. Xu Caiying doubted Chen Lie’s abilities despite his Super Genius Class status, and Jin Xiuying arranged for her to seek his advice about a training bottleneck as lunch ended.

• Chen Lie chose the Shenzhou Group’s dual-household-registration arrangement, signed the paperwork, and granted his parents access to the villa’s systems.
• Chen Lie told Chen Gequn and Feng Yuelan that Yaoyao had gone to the Outer Stars and was being escorted safely.
• Jin Xiuying and Xu Caiying visited with ingredients, and Xu Caiying privately dismissed Chen Lie’s martial arts credentials.
• Chen Lie assessed Xu Caiying’s cultivation accurately, then said Jiang Yuan was pretty good, prompting Xu Caiying to rebuke him for disparaging her idol.
• Chen Lie learned that a parcel from the Outer Stars had arrived with a request for him to enter the Sumeru Illusion Realm, and he suspected it contained blood-tempering spirit liquid.
• At lunch, Jin Xiuying asked Xu Caiying to seek Chen Lie’s advice about her martial arts bottleneck.

Chen Lie completed his thirteenth blood tempering, broke through to the Blood-Qi Rainbow Realm, and tested his newfound strength in the Sumeru Illusion Realm. He defeated Prince Moro in a virtual duel, while Mu Yunyao’s urgent messages remained unanswered.

• Chen Lie collected an Extraordinary-Grade Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid package at Blue Star University and used it to complete his twelfth and thirteenth blood temperings.
• Chen Lie’s extraordinary blood tempering unleashed powerful golden blood-qi, drawing a crowd as instructors Zheng Dongyang and Lei Jinglong watched.
• Chen Lie emerged from the cultivation room and confirmed that he had reached the mortal aperture stage of the Blood-Qi Rainbow Realm.
• Chen Lie entered the Sumeru Illusion Realm, saw Mu Yunyao’s messages, and began a Virtual Duel Arena match while waiting for her.
• Chen Lie defeated Prince Moro of the Phantom Dust Star Domain after Moro unleashed his Dark Demon Power.
• Prince Moro told his mother that a human from the Canglan Star Domain had beaten him, and she insisted the opponent must have been a hidden genius from the Ten Great Star Provinces.

Chen Lie met Sheng Yingluo and learned that her Mental Power cultivation had stalled after being irreversibly damaged by a Starry Sky Behemoth when she was a child. Sheng Yingluo hoped Chen Lie could help her and began explaining her condition after he agreed to discuss it for two portions of Extraordinary-Grade Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid.

• Chen Lie refused to travel to the Canglan Star Domain and agreed to meet Sheng Yingluo and Qin Yingyue in the Sumeru Illusion Realm.
• Chen Lie revealed his recorded martial arts and Mental Power information, astonishing Qin Yingyue and leading Sheng Yingluo to recognize his presumed connection to the Taia Star Province Martial Arts Academy.
• Sheng Yingluo apologized for Qin Yingyue's rudeness and asked Chen Lie to help with her Mental Power cultivation difficulties.
• Chen Lie requested two portions of Extraordinary-Grade Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid regardless of whether he could help, and Sheng Yingluo accepted.
• Sheng Yingluo explained that a Starsea Longwhale's sonic attack damaged her Mental Power when she was six, leaving her asleep for nearly half a year before an elder revived her.

Chen Lie agreed to help Sheng Yingluo break through her seventh-order mental-power bottleneck in exchange for rare cultivation resources. After securing a promise of those supplies, he returned to Blue Star University and continued training, where Ruan Liuyun learned he had reached the great extreme realm of blood-qi.

• Sheng Yingluo explained that she lacked the third section of the Mengzhang Divine Refining Chapter and asked Chen Lie to help her reach the eighth order using his knowledge of the related Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter.
• Chen Lie agreed to help in exchange for two bottles of Extraordinary-Grade Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid, a Starry Sky Behemoth bone, and the finest five-element Innate Spiritual Objects.
• Sheng Yingluo and Qin Yingyue left the Sumeru Illusion Realm, and Sheng Yingluo asked Qin Yingyue to seek the five-element objects from the royal resource repository.
• Chen Lie left the Sumeru Illusion Realm and considered how the promised resources could advance his cultivation, especially a Starry Sky Behemoth bone.
• Chen Lie joined team combat training at Blue Star University, then visited the Martial Arts Arena, where Ruan Liuyun congratulated him on reaching blood-qi transforming into rainbow.

Chen Lie brought Feng Shuangshuang to his new villa and helped her address a martial arts bottleneck by training with her. After he guided her toward a breakthrough, they saw their neighbor Jin Xiuying outside the villa.

• Chen Lie went to Key Class 20 and found Feng Shuangshuang sparring, then brought her to Villa No. 9 for a meal with his parents.
• Feng Yuelan asked Chen Lie to help Feng Shuangshuang with her martial arts bottleneck, and Feng Shuangshuang joked that he should call her Cousin Sister.
• Chen Lie diagnosed Feng Shuangshuang's weak Skin Refining cultivation and sparred with her until it improved enough for her to attempt a breakthrough.
• Xu Caiying watched the sparring from next door, dismissed Chen Lie as a good-for-nothing, and argued with Jin Xiuying about his ability to guide Feng Shuangshuang.
• Chen Lie taught Feng Shuangshuang a technique for breaking through, and she said she felt ready to try; afterward, she left for the Sumeru Illusion Realm with classmates.
• Chen Lie and Feng Yuelan walked Feng Shuangshuang out and encountered Jin Xiuying outside the villa.

Chen Lie learned that Blue Star planned to publicly rally support for its candidates in the Permanent Councilor Star Competition, while Ji Lingxuan explained why her mother forbade her from leaving Blue Star. At the Super Genius Class training hall, Lei Jinglong introduced Ning Fan as Blue Star’s strongest True Qi Stage competitor.

• Jin Xiuying met Feng Yuelan’s family, then introduced Gu Yuanyun, who praised Chen Lie’s abilities and recommended him to guide Xu Caiying.
• Xu Caiying declined Chen Lie’s offer to help her train, and Jin Xiuying later took Chen Gequn to Star Boat Plaza and Chen Lie back to Blue Star University.
• Chen Lie read messages announcing the competition date, a public event at Blue Star Television Station, and intelligence on Wood Source Planet’s fighters.
• Ji Lingxuan told Chen Lie she would not enter the competition because her mother warned that Starry Sky Behemoths might pursue her beyond Blue Star.
• At the Super Genius Class training hall, Lei Jinglong introduced Ning Fan as the Blood-Qi Ranking’s former number one and Blue Star’s strongest True Qi Stage competitor.

Lei Jinglong briefed the competitors on the Permanent Council Star Contest, while Ning Fan and Yang Jingnian led their teams to Blue Star Television Station for a live forum introducing Blue Star’s top martial arts talents. The forum’s seating revealed that East River Province’s invited guests had been ranked alongside the strongest provinces because of Chen Lie, as Zhu Yining hoped to see the senior who had once helped her.

• Lei Jinglong warned Ning Fan and Yang Jingnian about Wood Source Planet’s strongest competitors and explained that team battles would decide much of the contest.
• Lei Jinglong assessed Chen Lie’s chances against Sang Ji and told him to consolidate his realm and study the latest intelligence.
• Yu Wenqin told Ning Fan that Meng Qingwan was a formidable Sword Dao student, and she discussed Chen Lie’s unusual strength despite his modest True Qi Affinity.
• Yang Jingnian summoned the Blood-Qi competitors to Blue Star Television Station, where Li Yixian opened a worldwide broadcast introducing Blue Star’s leading martial arts talents.
• Guests from other provinces challenged East River Province’s front-row seating, but a station staff member said the seats reflected the strength of the talents being revealed.
• Zhu Yining recalled how Chen Lie had helped her and hoped he still remembered her as she watched the stage.

Blue Star Television Station began a public conference introducing the martial artists who would compete against Wood Source Planet for a seat in the Interstellar Alliance. The chapter ended as Chen Lie of East River Province stepped onto the stage after the crowd celebrated his appearance.

• Li Zhuxian explained that Blue Star's contest against Wood Source Planet would determine which planet joined the Interstellar Alliance as a Permanent Councilor Star.
• Ning Fan led the under-twenty true qi martial artists onto the stage, and Li Zhuxian introduced him as the top-ranked Blue Star talent.
• Ren Hongguang recounted Chen Lie's late surge in martial arts and told Zhu Yining that she might follow a similar path to becoming a champion.
• Yang Jingnian and then Jiang Yuan appeared among the blood-qi competitors, drawing attention from the audience and Lanjing fans.
• Li Zhuxian introduced Chen Lie as East River Province's Wuqu Star incarnate, and Chen Lie stepped onto the stage amid loud applause from his provincial supporters.

Chen Lie was introduced as the seventh of the Blue Star Ten Elites, astonishing the audience and prompting Xu Caiying to regret turning down his offer to teach her. During a contest for an offworld exchange-study prize, Chen Lie defeated successive challengers and held off Jiang Yuan and Yang Jingnian long enough to win the Blood-Qi game, while the True Qi contest remained underway.

• Li Zhuxian introduced Chen Lie, and Xu Caiying realized he was her neighbor and regretted refusing his martial arts guidance.
• Li Zhuxian introduced the Blue Star contestants and announced that winners of a stage contest could award ten people places in a two-month martial arts exchange program on Glimmer Star.
• Hao Yulong seized the Blood-Qi ball, but Zuo Yuan'er took it from him and then fought off Kang Quanlin and Zhou Yu.
• Chen Lie defeated Zuo Yuan'er and took the ball, then fought Jiang Yuan and resisted Yang Jingnian's attacks, including a mental power attack.
• Chen Lie held the ball for twenty seconds and won the Blood-Qi contest, earning the right to choose ten people for the exchange program.
• Ning Fan overpowered the True Qi contestants and took the other ball from Chu Luo.

After winning the colored-ball game, Chen Lie met admirers and provincial instructors, gave East River Province five of his Outer Star study spots on the condition that Zhu Yining receive one, and was promoted into the Provincial Youth Genius Group. At a meeting with Administrator Ning Guofeng, the young talents were urged to unite for Blue Star’s Permanent Councilor Star contest, and Ning Guofeng tried to mediate Chen Lie’s conflict with Huo Jinghong and Yan Zheng.

• Ning Fan won the colored-ball game, and the Blue Star Martial Artist Association announced that he and Chen Lie could each choose ten people for an Outer Star exchange.
• Chen Lie met East River Province’s instructors and trainees, encouraged them, and added Shi Xinyan on Green Bubble before recognizing Zhu Yining.
• Chen Lie offered five of his study spots to East River Province on the condition that Zhu Yining receive one and join the Provincial Youth Genius Group, and Gu Tian accepted.
• Administrator Ning Guofeng urged the young talents to set aside their disputes and cooperate in the contest against Wood Source Planet for Permanent Councilor Star status.
• Ning Guofeng tried to mediate Chen Lie’s conflict with Huo Jinghong and Yan Zheng, while Chen Lie responded without arrogance.

Chen Lie earned the Administrator’s confidence, distributed off-world study opportunities, and continued preparing for the contest while Xu Caiying regretted refusing his martial guidance. Ning Fan tried to befriend Chen Lie and share opponent information, but Chen Lie declined; Ning Fan then learned the authorities hoped Chen Lie would support him at Starry Sky University.

• The Administrator privately questioned Chen Lie about his alleged Star Seeker mentor, then advised him to coordinate with teammates during the contest.
• Chen Lie gave five off-world study places to the Dongchuan Martial Artist Association and asked Feng Yuelan to choose recipients for his remaining five, including Wang Hui.
• Xu Caiying learned Chen Lie was one of Blue Star’s top geniuses and regretted refusing his martial guidance, but Feng Yuelan said she would soon return to East River Province.
• After two days of team combat training, Chen Lie declined Ning Fan’s offer of information about the Wood Source Planet opponents and asked him to make it public.
• Ning Fan gave the information to Zheng Dongyang, then told Jing Qingtian that his first attempt to befriend Chen Lie had gone poorly and said he did not depend on Chen Lie’s support.

Ning Fan learned that Chen Lie had a Heaven-Grade Consciousness Spirit and might assist him, while Chen Lie advanced his Mental Power, received valuable supplies from the Outer Stars, and completed his Fourteenth Blood Tempering. He stored the Five Elements Divine Meridians safely and awaited advanced Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid to prepare for the Permanent Council Star Contest.

• Jing Qingtian told Ning Fan that Chen Lie had cultivated the Heaven-Grade Consciousness Spirit Bi'an and asked Ning Fan to persuade him to provide assistance.
• Chen Lie absorbed five hundred kilograms of Spirit Nourishing Flower and advanced his Mental Power to the Second-Order Mid-Stage.
• Zhang Liwu informed Chen Lie that eight packages had arrived from the Outer Stars, including gifts and cultivation resources from Ruan Liusu and the Star Seeker's daughter.
• Chen Lie found five top-grade Five Elements Divine Meridians in the packages and stored them in Blue Star University's Treasure Vault.
• Chen Lie drank intermediate Extraordinary-Grade Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid and completed his Fourteenth Blood Tempering, then anticipated receiving advanced Spirit Liquid before the Permanent Council Star Contest.

Chen Lie and Blue Star’s delegation departed for Canglong Star to compete against Wood Source Planet in the Permanent Council Star Contest. During the journey, Chen Lie discovered that he could cultivate the Mengzhang Divine Refining Chapter alongside the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter, and the delegation arrived at Canglong Prefecture.

• Lei Jinglong announced the contestants and substitutes for the contest and said the delegation would leave for Canglong Star the next afternoon.
• Chen Lie boarded the Star Boat, where Ruan Yingjie encouraged him and revealed to Zheng Dongyang that Chen Lie was dating his daughter.
• As the Star Boat traveled toward Canglong Star, Chen Lie studied the Mengzhang Divine Refining Chapter and formed the Eastern Heavenly Seven Mansions in his Consciousness Sea World.
• Chen Lie suspected the red petals he had eaten at Ji Lingxuan’s home had enabled him to cultivate a second mental power method, memorized the incomplete chapter, and destroyed its jade slips.
• The Star Boat landed at the Interstellar Management Bureau in Canglong Prefecture, and Lei Jinglong warned the delegation to behave carefully on the unfamiliar planet.

Chen Lie and the Blue Star competitors arrived on Canglong Star ahead of the permanent council star contest and settled into the Divine Martial Hall. He left for the Martial Arts Market District with Zhao Jingyuan and Tang Yan'er, where Tang Yan'er bought fire-attribute yuan stones.

• Lei Jinglong learned that the contest would take place on November 20 and that the competitors could report in on November 19.
• Lu Ziyi met Wang Shou and led the Blue Star group to the Divine Martial Hall, warning them that Wood Source Planet's competitors were staying there too.
• Lei Jinglong and Wang Shou warned the competitors to travel in groups and take precautions while on Canglong Star.
• Zhao Jingyuan and Tang Yan'er greeted Chen Lie, and Zhao Jingyuan invited him to visit the Martial Arts Market District.
• Chen Lie, Han Keke, Zhao Jingyuan, and Tang Yan'er explored a general market street and found a shop selling yuan stones.
• Tang Yan'er examined the fire-attribute yuan stones and ordered five jin for 25,000 Canglan Coins.

Chen Lie bought a large supply of Spirit Nourishing Flowers after bargaining over the value of Galactic Coins, then encountered Xue Zhiran of Wood Source Planet at a stall selling artifacts from the Ancient Star Ruins. Xue Zhiran challenged him, but after he declined and left, she realized he was near the Heaven Aperture Stage and suspected Blue Star had at least two such competitors.

• Tang Yan'er bought five pounds of Fire Origin Stone and explained the cost and scarcity of martial arts resources on Canglong Star.
• Chen Lie bought 1,000 pounds of Spirit Nourishing Flowers, and Zhao Jingyuan negotiated a better deal by explaining that Galactic Coins traded above the official exchange rate.
• Chen Lie and his companions examined a stall selling artifacts from the Ancient Star Ruins, where Lian Changqing and Zu Keying recognized him and introduced him to Xue Zhiran.
• Xue Zhiran pressed her blood qi against Chen Lie and challenged him to spar with one hand, but he declined and left with Tang Yan'er, Zhao Jingyuan, and Han Keke.
• After Chen Lie departed, Xue Zhiran revealed that his blood qi nearly matched hers and concluded that he was near the Heaven Aperture Stage, suggesting Blue Star had at least two competitors at that level.

Chen Lie completed the Eastern Heavenly Seven Mansions with the Spirit Nourishing Flowers, strengthening his Mental Power and prompting him to offer to hold off Wood Source Planet’s Xue Zhiran in the team battle. After a meal with Starry Sky University students, Ning Fan showed him around the Divine Martial Hall and its training facilities.

• Xue Zhiran warned Wood Source Planet’s contestants not to underestimate Chen Lie and revised their battle plan.
• Chen Lie cultivated through the night, using all eleven hundred jin of Spirit Nourishing Flowers to complete the Eastern Heavenly Seven Mansions and boost his Mental Power.
• Chen Lie told Lei Jinglong and Wang Shou that he could hold off Xue Zhiran for about ten minutes, and Lei Jinglong made a new team-battle plan around that.
• Ning Fan invited Chen Lie to a first-class meal in the Divine Sense Master Dining Hall, where Chen Lie met Lü Xianchuan, Yu Wenqin, and Zhao Siqi.
• Ning Fan offered to help Chen Lie explore Starry Sky University and led him through the Divine Martial Hall’s first-floor venues.

Chen Lie accompanied Ning Fan around the Divine Martial Hall, where they encountered Meng Qingwan of Wood Source Planet and learned about the contest’s new tactics. He later joined the other contestants at the Divine Martial Gathering, where a projection announced that Lu Shengya had reached eleven times the Strength Value.

• Ning Fan explained that Chen Lie had ten times the Strength Value, then invited him to watch local martial artists spar; Chen Lie declined to test himself or compete.
• Meng Qingwan confronted Ning Fan and threatened to cripple Chen Lie, but Chen Lie and the others left without fighting.
• Chen Lie returned to the dormitory, cultivated that night, and the next morning learned he was assigned to hold back Xue Zhiran for ten minutes; he agreed he could do it.
• Gu Yuanyun gave the contestants tickets to the Divine Martial Gathering, and Chen Lie agreed to attend with Han Keke.
• Gu Yuanyun led the group to the sixth floor, where Chen Lie saw sparring platforms and Mental Power Crystal Pillars before a projection announced Lu Shengya had broken through to eleven times the Strength Value.

Blue Star’s young martial artists visited the Divine Martial Hall, where local students mocked them and Chen Lie was confronted over his connection to Chu Ling’er. After learning Yang Guangyu was causing trouble for Chen Lie, Chu Ling’er hurried to the sixth floor with Tian Qiuqiu, and Lu Shengya followed.

• Gu Yuanyun, Tang Yan’er, and Zhao Jingyuan left the Blue Star juniors with Zhang Yuwei and went to watch a Heavenly Human Grandmaster’s lesson.
• Zhang Yuwei introduced the Blue Star group to Liu Zhen, who brought them to meet students from the Tianyi Campus martial arts class; Xu Zishan and others insulted them as ignorant barbarians.
• Li Yunyun recognized Chen Lie as the man who had stayed overnight in Chu Ling’er’s dorm room, and Yang Guangyu angrily defended Chu Ling’er’s reputation.
• Yang Guangyu asked Lu Jiang to remove the Blue Star group from the Divine Martial Hall, and Lu Jiang ordered a steward to check their entry records.
• At Lu Shengya’s celebration, Tian Qiuqiu told Chu Ling’er that Yang Guangyu was troubling Chen Lie, so Chu Ling’er rushed to the sixth floor and Lu Shengya followed.

Chen Lie faced Yang Guangyu’s threats and struck him after Yang Guangyu tried to have Blue Star’s group expelled and detained. Chu Ling’er and Lu Shengya intervened to protect Chen Lie, and Yang Guangyu left vowing revenge.

• Lu Jiang ordered guards to expel Blue Star’s thirty-seven cultivators, while Yang Guangyu threatened Chen Lie and claimed he could have them detained as illegal immigrants.
• Zhang Yuqing chose not to intervene, and Xia Zhizhi blamed Chen Lie for endangering Blue Star’s contest; Han Keke defended him.
• Chen Lie slapped Yang Guangyu and sent him flying, prompting Yang Guangyu to order Lu Jiang’s guards to seize Chen Lie’s group.
• Chu Ling’er arrived, declared Chen Lie her family friend, and stopped him from using his mental power to control Yang Guangyu.
• Chu Ling’er blocked the guards and enlisted Lu Shengya, who withdrew them and reprimanded Lu Jiang; Chu Ling’er also warned Yang Guangyu that her family could counter his connections.
• Yang Guangyu backed down but refused to reconcile, then left threatening Chen Lie; afterward, Lu Shengya asked Chu Ling’er about her closeness to Chen Lie.

Chu Ling'er arranged to retrieve items from the Canglan Saint Envoy Hall for Chen Lie, while Blue Star's contestants registered and inspected the battlefield for their competition against Wood Source Planet. Ge Hong ordered Langya Star students to attend the match and study both teams as preparation for a wider contest among the Four-Sided Star Domain's permanent councilor stars.

• Lu Shengya questioned Chu Ling'er about Chen Lie, and Chu Ling'er asked her to help Blue Star in the competition before taking Chen Lie to a private room.
• Chen Lie asked Chu Ling'er to find Mu Yunyao at Starry Sky University's Mental Power Department and bring him any remaining items from the Canglan Saint Envoy Hall.
• On November 19, Lei Jinglong led Blue Star's contestants through registration and identity verification at the Canglong Star Interstellar Administration.
• Wang Shou and the contestants inspected the team battle venue, where Ge Hong spoke with Wang Shou and then told Zhang Yuqing to gather Starry Sky University students to watch the match.
• Ge Hong explained that Langya Star needed to study Blue Star and Wood Source Planet because the Saint Envoy Hall might select a permanent councilor star to command a coming contest among the four regions.
• As Wang Shou and Lei Jinglong prepared to leave, Wood Source Planet's contestants arrived to register and verify their identities.

Blue Star and Wood Source Planet prepared to compete for the Eastern Star Region’s Permanent Councilor Star seat as envoys from the Ten-Star Alliance observed. The matchups were set, and the contest was about to begin, with Chen Lie still hoping the blood-tempering spirit liquid would arrive in time.

• Zu Yizun urged Wang Shou and Lei Jinglong to withdraw, but Wang Shou rejected the demand and both sides agreed to let their strength decide the contest.
• Zu Yizun asked his teacher to assess Blue Star’s contestants; the old Grandmaster judged the sides evenly matched in most divisions but warned that Chen Lie’s blood qi seemed exceptionally powerful.
• Lei Jinglong told Blue Star’s contestants to rest and plan, while Chen Lie worried about using his secret technique and assessed the teams’ chances against Wood Source Planet’s Heaven Aperture Stage fighter.
• On November 20, Blue Star and Wood Source Planet arrived at the arena, where Wu Danchen introduced envoys from the Ten-Star Alliance before sending the contestants to the venue.
• The leaders of both planets negotiated individual matchups, and the Canglong Star Interstellar Administration finalized the pairings for the Grandmaster and True Qi divisions.