Chapter Summaries

Chen Lie welcomed classmates and guests to Blue Star’s banquet, where a dispute over Chen Ye’s martial arts led to Chang Guirong and her son being escorted out. The gathering then watched an Interstellar Allied Forces battleship arrive, carrying a blue-dressed young woman and a powerful military escort.

• Huang Yuxi predicted Chen Lie could reach the top twenty of the Hidden Dragon Rankings, while off-world guests discussed his rapid rise and Blue Star’s new influence.
• Zhu Yining, Ren Hongguang, and Ji Lingxuan arrived at the banquet, and Chen Lie sensed an unfamiliar power within Ji Lingxuan before she caught his probing divine sense.
• Feng Yuelan greeted Chen Lie’s classmates and assistant instructor Huang Yuxi, while Chang Guirong asked Huang Yuxi to assess Chen Ye’s martial arts.
• Huang Yuxi advised Chen Ye to disperse his cultivation and rebuild his foundation, but Chang Guirong argued with the Huang sisters and insulted Starry Sky University.
• Chen Lie asked Wang Shou, Lei Jinglong, and Mu Tai to handle the dispute, and guards escorted Chang Guirong and Chen Ye out.
• A battleship marked as the Interstellar Allied Forces 6th Legion landed above the banquet, and soldiers, two Ninth-Order Grandmasters, and a young woman in a blue dress disembarked.

At Chen Lie’s martial artist banquet, Chu Ling’er presented him with a star route chart and military formation method, and guests learned about his rapid rise through a holographic biography. The celebration was interrupted when a Star-Heaven Divine Warship emerged above the venue, leaving everyone wondering who had brought it to Blue Star.

• Chu Ling’er arrived from Canglong Star and gave Chen Lie jade slips containing a star route chart and an Interstellar Allied Forces military formation method for Blue Star.
• Chu Ling’er introduced herself as the granddaughter of Cold Continent’s governor and the daughter of the Sixth Interstellar Allied Forces’ commander.
• A holographic presentation recounted Chen Lie’s rapid martial arts progress and achievements, shocking the Outer Star guests.
• Ji Yuyan approached Chen Lie, discussed his consciousness spirit, and asked to exchange contact information.
• Chen Lie greeted his relatives, friends, and former classmates at the banquet.
• A Star-Heaven Divine Warship appeared in the sky above the Chuandu Grand Banquet, and Huang Yucheng asked who had brought it.

Shen Jiuxi arrived at Chen Lie’s banquet aboard Canglong Star’s warship and accused him of misconduct before revealing that she wanted to learn Blue Star’s spirit herb cultivation skills. The chapter ended with Wang Shou facing her request.

• Canglong Two descended over the banquet, and Shen Jiuxi arrived with her uncle Shen Lian, a Canglong Army deputy commander, who introduced her as a priority talent of the Shen Family.
• Shen Jiuxi entered the banquet and sat apart while Chen Lie chose not to engage with her; he later spoke with Zhu Jingxi and Ji Lingxuan, who offered to ask her mother about receiving him on a future visit.
• Chen Lie saw the guests off as the banquet ended, while Huang Yuxi and Huang Yucheng stayed to return with him later.
• Shen Jiuxi confronted Wang Shou, accused Chen Lie of offending and extorting her, then asked to learn Blue Star’s spirit herb cultivation skills.

Chen Lie accompanied Wang Shou and Shen Jiuxi to Lanjing, then attended a conference on forming the Four-Sided Star Domain’s 19th Interstellar Allied Forces Legion. After the conference failed to settle the financing plan, Chen Lie learned that Shen Jiuxi had accused Blue Star’s cultivators of withholding knowledge and hurried to see her.

• Shen Jiuxi asked to study Blue Star’s Spirit Plant cultivation, and Wang Shou agreed to take her to the advanced facilities in Lanjing.
• Chen Lie told his parents he was returning to Starry Sky University, then traveled with Huang Yuxi and Huang Yucheng to Lanjing.
• Huang Yucheng explained that Starry Sky University’s June Midterm Assessment would test students under Martial Arts Assistant Instructors.
• Chen Lie attended the conference on the 19th Interstellar Allied Forces Legion, where representatives discussed troop contributions and financing but failed to agree on funding.
• Wang Shou called Chen Lie to report that Shen Jiuxi had become angry after Blue Star cultivators explained their methods, so Chen Lie went to meet her.

Chen Lie confronted Shen Jiuxi over her demands for Blue Star’s spirit medicine techniques, then agreed to guide Ji Yuyan and help the Southern Star Region’s blood-qi martial artists in exchange for military funding. He asked for all the visiting martial artists to be gathered at Blue Star University.

• Chen Lie arrived at Blue Star University and challenged Shen Jiuxi after she accused its staff of withholding spirit medicine techniques.
• Chen Lie offered to teach Shen Jiuxi some of his spirit plant care methods if she revealed the identity of the senior at Heaven Second Campus, but she refused and left Blue Star.
• Lei Jinglong told Chen Lie that Qi Tai wanted him to look after his granddaughter Ji Yuyan in exchange for Langya Star’s help securing 3.6 million Star-Origin Galactic Coins in military funding, and Chen Lie agreed.
• Chen Lie met Ruan Liuyun, then greeted Qi Tai and agreed to guide Ji Yuyan, a student in Starry Sky University’s Mental Power Department.
• Qi Tai said the Southern Star Region’s planets would provide military funding if Chen Lie gave a public lecture on the Blood-Qi Martial Way and instructed at least one martial artist from each planet, and Chen Lie asked for them all to gather.

Chen Lie lectured the Southern Star Region’s Blood-Qi geniuses and guided representatives from ten stars. After Yan Cheng attacked him over his sister Yan Yueke, Huang Yuxi protected Chen Lie and demanded that Blue Star’s leaders take responsibility.

• At Chen Lie’s request, Qi Tai gathered the Southern Star Region’s Blood-Qi martial artists, and Chen Lie taught them cultivation insights before giving individual guidance to ten stars’ representatives.
• Huang Yucheng and Huang Yuxi listened to Chen Lie’s lecture, and Huang Yuxi praised the depth of his understanding.
• Yan Cheng confronted Chen Lie over Yan Yueke and attacked him with Thousand-Thread Gang Qi.
• Huang Yuxi blocked Yan Cheng’s attack, identified herself as Chen Lie’s Martial Arts Assistant Instructor, and challenged Yan Cheng to fight her instead.
• After Wang Shou and Lei Jinglong arrived, Huang Yuxi demanded that Blue Star punish Yan Cheng and call someone with authority to decide the matter.

Chen Lie returned to Starry Sky University after Blue Star punished Yan Cheng for attacking him, then learned that his grudge against Yan Cheng could threaten his future martial progress. Back at the university, Chen Lie tended the Elder True Essence’s Spirit Field, drove Shen Jiuxi away, and ended the chapter as she asked what it would take for him to let her assist him.

• Wang Shou and Lei Jinglong negotiated Yan Cheng’s punishment with Chen Lie, who accepted his removal as an Administrator candidate, a public reprimand, and three months’ detention.
• Chen Lie left Blue Star with Huang Yuxi, Huang Yucheng, and Ji Yuyan, and Huang Yuxi warned him to resolve his hatred of Yan Cheng before facing the Mind-Spirit Tribulation.
• Chen Lie returned to Canglong Starry Sky University, accepted Ji Yuyan’s contact request, and learned that he had overstayed his leave from the Elder True Essence’s Spirit Field.
• Chen Lie resumed tending the Spirit Field, and the Elder True Essence criticized Shen Jiuxi for neglecting it during Chen Lie’s absence.
• Chen Lie refused Shen Jiuxi’s help and told her not to return, so she left the courtyard and waited for him outside.
• Shen Jiuxi asked Chen Lie what it would take to let her assist him, and he sarcastically demanded her family’s Star-Heaven Divine Warship.

Long Bang learned how the Hidden Martial Way rankings and their privileges worked, then used No. 0 Huang Yuxi to accelerate his cultivation and set his sights on first place. After exhausting his Chen Lie, he arranged a large trade with An Ning so he could continue advancing.

• Shen Jiuxi offered Chen Lie one million Star-Origin Galactic Coins to persuade Chen Lie to help him, but Chen Lie rejected the offer as too small.
• Long Bang met Huang Yucheng and Shen Jiuxi, who explained the Hidden Martial Way rankings, the advantages of ranking highly, and how an early breakthrough could allow a fighter to climb the rankings.
• Long Bang revealed that he had reached the late eighth-order Qi Accumulation Realm and decided to compete for first place in the Hidden Martial Way.
• Long Bang used No. 0 Huang Yuxi to cultivate Metal True Intent, then left to contact An Ning about trading for ordinary, five-element, and lightning-aspect Chen Lie.
• An Ning agreed to gather Chen Lie and meet Long Bang at their usual spot in the Otherworldly Demon Hunting Ground two days later.

Dragon Rankings traded Divine Source for Yuan Stones with Xuanxu, then learned more about the seven divine treasuries and the path to becoming a Lesser Heavenly Human Grandmaster. The chapter left Dragon Rankings having conceded a sparring match to Yan Feiwan after testing his strength.

• Dragon Rankings met Xuanxu at the Otherworldly Demon Hunting Ground outpost and agreed to exchange seventy thousand jin of Divine Source for Yuan Stones.
• Xuanxu asked how Dragon Rankings had obtained such pure Divine Source, and Dragon Rankings said it came from a genius in the Shen Family of Canglong Star.
• Martial Daoda explained the seven divine treasuries, the true qi ultimate realms, and the eight great tribulations to Yan Fei and Chen Liedao.
• Martial Daoda arranged a sparring match between Dragon Rankings and Yan Feiwan, who assessed that he had potential to reach the Hidden Dragon Rankings.
• Yan Feiwan struck Dragon Rankings with her fire divine treasury power, and Dragon Rankings conceded after retreating and putting away his saber.

Ji Dian refined his existing palm-strides while discussing a major purchase of difficult-grade pear tin with Zhen Kunyuan, who said the deal required approval from the country’s leadership. The chapter ended with Ji Dian returning to the refinement grounds.

• Ji Dian visited the encountered pear-day subordinate’s solitary field and spoke with the elder brother about records and his cultivation.
• Ji Dian continued refining his existing palm-strides and advanced several of them toward completion.
• Ji Dian met Zhen Kunyuan and discussed a friend-order offering more than one hundred ancestral units of difficult-grade pear tin.
• Zhen Kunyuan said he would report the proposal to the important interior’s Long Rivers before giving an answer.
• Ji Dian left the meeting, visited an ordinary field, and then went to the candle-existing secret-spoon’s refinement grounds.

Ji Yu attended Canglong Star’s Mental Power lecture and learned how cultivation progressed toward Manifestation of Sainthood. She asked Bai Qiwei about the Divine Sense Master Spring, hoping to gain access to its resources as her mentor.

• Wu Daoyan explained why Mental Power students wanted Bai Qiwei as a mentor and described the benefits of the Divine Sense Master Spring.
• Ji Yu used her Star Card to enter the Star Camphor Stele lecture hall, while Wu Daoyan brought Chen Liedao inside with an Identity Badge.
• Canglong Star lectured on Consciousness Spirit Ascension and Mental Power cultivation, explaining that Manifestation of Sainthood let a Divine Sense Grandmaster make Mental Power tangible.
• Ji Yu learned that the Divine Sense Master Spring could strengthen the soul and speed up Mental Power cultivation.
• Ji Yu approached Bai Qiwei and asked what the Divine Sense Master Spring was like.

Bai Qiwei explained the stages of Mental Power cultivation and set a test for students hoping to choose her as an instructor. After guiding Chen Lieyan, Martial Dao went to Class One of the Mental Power Department to attempt the test, which ended with him entering a mental maze.

• Bai Qiwei explained that Mental Power cultivators were weak in the early stages but could become formidable at the eighth order, and Gu Tianji questioned her about the higher realms.
• Luo Yunshang refused to take students and offered to accept anyone who solved her test, a mental maze contained in a Crystal Stone.
• Martial Dao guided Chen Lieyan in her Mental Power cultivation before they went to Class One of the Mental Power Department.
• Assistant instructor Ji Yu handed out Crystal Stones and explained that students had ten minutes to escape the maze and defeat a fragment of Luo Yunshang's soul.
• Martial Dao scanned his Crystal Stone and began sending his Mental Power into it.

Chen Lie recognized that Hua Yunduan’s test let her strengthen the soul power inside each crystal from a distance, so he prepared a Mental Power barrier before breaking the maze. He defeated her split soul and passed the test, leaving Hua Yunduan to face the prospect of taking him as a student.

• Hua Yunduan set a crystal test for Star Camphor Stele students, though she privately had no intention of taking students and could reinforce the split soul inside each crystal from afar.
• Gu Tianji and other students broke their maze arrays but failed when Hua Yunduan strengthened their opponents, causing several crystals to shatter.
• Chen Lie realized he had to block Hua Yunduan’s remote soul power and deliberately delayed breaking the maze while setting up a Mental Power barrier.
• Chen Lie broke the maze, defeated the isolated split soul, and restored his crystal to transparency.
• Chen Lie reported that he had completed the test, while Hua Yunduan recognized that he had anticipated her intervention.

An Chuo passed Canglong Star’s Mental Power test and persuaded her to accept him as a student, though he asked for access to the Sacred Spring of God rather than instruction. After arranging a meeting with the Jin Kingdom’s eldest princess about a Yuan Stone deal, he waited at the Otherworldly Demon Hunting Ground and greeted her when she arrived.

• An Chuo completed Canglong Star’s Crystal Stone test, astonishing the Star Camphor Stele students and drawing Gu Tianji’s attention.
• Canglong Star questioned how An Chuo had detected and defeated the hidden soul power, and he explained that a senior had taught him methods for transmitting Mental Power.
• An Chuo asked to study under Canglong Star to gain her recommendation for the Sacred Spring of God, and she agreed to support his access to it and the Zero Divine Intent Cave.
• An Chuo received a call from Chen Lie about meeting the Jin Kingdom’s eldest princess, An Ning, to discuss their Yuan Stone deal.
• The next morning, An Chuo waited at the Otherworldly Demon Hunting Ground and greeted An Ning and her companion when they arrived.

An Chuo negotiated a large Divine Source trade between An Ning and the Jin Kingdom, using promises of documentation and his own standing to address the kingdom’s doubts about the absent Shen Family. After the deal was finalized, he returned to cultivation and continued tending Elder True Essence’s Spirit Fields, while his rapid progress toward Heaven-Man Unity drew the elder’s attention.

• An Chuo assured the Jin Kingdom’s eldest princess that he could represent the Shen Family and that An Ning would issue a document confirming the trade.
• An Chuo and the Jin Kingdom negotiated quantities of ordinary, special, seven-element, yin-and-yang, and lightning-type Chen Lie in exchange for Divine Source, with An Chuo also requesting an official blank document and lightning-type Chen Lie for himself.
• The Jin Kingdom accepted the terms, and An Chuo left the Otherworldly Demon Hunting Ground after reaching an agreement with its eldest princess.
• An Chuo cultivated Seven Gods True Qi with seven-element Chen Lie until he ran out, then switched to ordinary Chen Lie and continued training.
• An Chuo tended Elder True Essence’s Spirit Fields, declined a reward, and left after Elder True Essence noticed his Heaven-Man Unity state.

Chen Lie learned that Elder True Essence was Shi Tan, a powerful figure from the Swordfall Star Domain, then obtained a Canglong Star document to arrange a Yuan Stone transaction with the Jin Kingdom. After returning to Starry Sky University, he attended Class 17’s practical combat lesson, where Huang Yuxi confirmed he had become Bai Qiwei’s student and suggested he might be ready to challenge the Hidden Dragon Rankings.

• Shen Jiuxi told Chen Lie that the senior in the courtyard was Shi Tan, a former top artifact smith from the Canglan Star Domain and palace master of the Sword God Academy.
• Chen Lie mastered the Yi Wood and Jia Wood Origin Purity Forces, then began cultivating the Ding Fire Origin Purity Force.
• Shen Jiuxi gave Chen Lie a blank official Canglong Star document, which he filled out to authorize the Shen Family to buy forty million jin of Yuan Stones from the Jin Kingdom.
• An Chuo verified the document’s authenticity but warned An Ning that the Shen Family’s influence meant the Jin Kingdom should prepare for possible treachery; she insisted the transaction occur within the Jin Kingdom.
• Huang Yuxi invited Chen Lie to Class 17’s practical combat lesson so he could assess his strength against students who had ranked on the Hidden Dragon Rankings.
• At the lesson, Chen Lie reunited with classmates and Huang Yuxi learned he had passed Bai Qiwei’s test and become her student.

Chen Lie joined the 17th Martial Arts Class’s practical combat session and showed that he could compete with students near the Hidden Dragon Rankings. After easily defeating Xia Xintong, he fought Yan Xingru, who had recently fallen off the rankings, and overwhelmed her sword attack with a massive saber strike.

• Huang Yuxi told Chen Lie that several classmates had once appeared on the Hidden Dragon Rankings and said she would help him learn how to challenge for a place.
• Huang Zongcheng divided the class for practical sparring, and Huang Yuxi identified Chen Lie as strong enough to challenge the Hidden Dragon Rankings.
• Xia Xintong challenged Chen Lie, explained why she believed her unranked status meant she still had greater potential, and asked him to fight her.
• Chen Lie defeated Xia Xintong with his Five Gods True Qi, breaking her protective True Qi and knocking her off the Duel Platform.
• Yan Xingru challenged Chen Lie and asked him to fight at full strength; he met her Purple Radiance Sword Technique with his Blood River Saber.
• Chen Lie’s Blood Dragon One-Slash overwhelmed Yan Xingru’s sword qi and forced her to retreat.