Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming explored Qingqiu City before the grand gathering and discovered a rare Spirit Source for sale. He asked the shopkeeper its price, intending to buy it.

• Chen Ming entered Qingqiu City, where guards offered to guide him to the inner city, but he chose to look around.
• Chen Ming wandered through the city and learned that the inner city housed visitors from various worlds ahead of the gathering.
• At the Looking-to-the-Sky Pavilion, Chen Ming recognized a Bronze Bell as a low-tier Spirit Source.
• Chen Ming asked the shopkeeper how much the Bronze Bell cost, intending to buy it.

Chen Ming bought two low-tier spirit sources in Qingqiu City's outer city: a Bronze Bell and a Jade Boat. After absorbing them into the Night Wanderer Land, he discovered the Jade Boat formed a small river and began feeding it water-element resources to help it evolve.

• Chen Ming agreed to barter with the shopkeeper and paid one piece of epic-grade equipment for the Bronze Bell.
• A group of long-haired Class Changers offered three pieces of epic-grade equipment for the Bronze Bell, but Chen Ming ignored them and left.
• Chen Ming searched Qingqiu City's outer-city markets and bought a second spirit source, a Jade Boat.
• Chen Ming absorbed the Bronze Bell and Jade Boat into the Night Wanderer Land, where the Jade Boat created a small river.
• Chen Ming fed the Jade Boat a large supply of water-element resources, causing its river to grow.

Chen Ming encountered a foxkin woman resisting Ning Feng, a genius from a top-tier world, and noticed that she possessed an unusual complete spiritual body. The chapter left Chen Ming wondering about the source of her power and suppressing his urge to capture her for study.

• Chen Ming brought Qing Muyu and Qin Zhixue through Qingqiu City on his way to a gathering arranged by the Mecha Race's [2B].
• Near Bright Moon River, Chen Ming came across Ning Feng and his companions pressuring a foxkin woman to enter a wine tower.
• The foxkin woman refused Ning Feng and tried to leave, so Ning Feng spread his purple-gold domain across the street.
• The foxkin woman withstood Ning Feng's Divine Cleric pressure, and Chen Ming noticed her complete spiritual body carried the air of dusk.
• Chen Ming wondered whether the foxkin woman had experienced something like he had, then set aside his urge to capture and study her.

Ning Feng tried to seize the fox-person woman, but Chen Ming intervened and stopped both his attack and her attempted spiritual self-destruction. The city’s Enforcement Squad arrived and subdued Ning Feng, leaving Chen Ming and the woman unharmed.

• Ning Feng used his class pressure to immobilize the fox-person woman and reached to grab her.
• Chen Ming seized Ning Feng’s hand and restrained the woman’s spiritual self-destruction with the Soul Banner’s power.
• Ning Feng struggled against Chen Ming, who broke his hand with an attack enhanced by the Bi Fang Divine Fire.
• Ning Feng tried to attack Chen Ming, but the Enforcement Squad appeared and its golden cauldron nullified the assault.
• A Saint Grade Class Changer leading the Enforcement Squad suppressed Ning Feng, while Chen Ming and the fox-person woman remained unaffected.

Chen Ming intervened when Ning Feng threatened a Fox-person woman, and Shi Po helped secure an official ruling in Chen Ming’s favor. Ning Feng mistook Chen Ming for a powerful figure with an immense background, while the Fox-person woman fled before Chen Ming could ask about her spirit body.

• Shi Po and the Heaven Burner squad arrived with a Golden Tripod enforcer, who continued suppressing the people involved as Shi Po asked Chen Ming what had happened.
• Ning Feng accused Chen Ming of starting the fight, but Shi Po accepted Chen Ming’s account and called Ning Feng scum.
• After Shi Po reported the incident, the enforcer deducted ten thousand merit points from Ning Feng and awarded Chen Ming one thousand.
• Ning Feng recognized Chen Ming’s name from rumors about the twenty million and the title Halberd Demon, then assumed Chen Ming had an overwhelming background.
• The Fox-person woman thanked Chen Ming and hurried away, and Shi Po teased him about taking a fancy to her.

Chen Ming learned that the Fox-person Race’s last survivor in Qingqiu City was a young woman whose mental-power talent and need for spiritual resources made her seem suited to become a Banner Holder. In Bright Moon River’s inner city, Chen Ming met other Class Changers and heard how his growing fame had also drawn attention to Blue Star Realm.

• Shi Po told Chen Ming that the Fox-person Race had once been famous for its mental-power talents and had declined after its homeland collapsed and its people were displaced.
• Chen Ming learned that the Fox-person Race had once ruled Qingqiu City but that the Fox Woman he had met was now the race’s sole survivor there.
• Chen Ming realized that the Fox Woman’s Spirit Body and need to strengthen her mental power fit his requirements for a Banner Holder, and he considered approaching her.
• Chen Ming and Shi Po’s team walked through Bright Moon River’s inner city, where Class Changers traded resources and other visitors recognized Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming learned that Gu Feng had attracted attention in Red Sun City after the Giant Spirit Race escorted him there, and that rumors about Chen Ming and Blue Star Realm were spreading across several cities.

Chen Ming browsed a trading market where he learned about rare resources and origin fruits, then challenged a Treant woman’s assumptions about his wealth. He revealed that he had over a million Merit Points, leaving the treant and Shi Po stunned.

• Chen Ming explored the inner-city stalls, bought several spatial resources, and learned from Shi Po that the best goods would be traded at the coming event and auction.
• Chen Ming stopped at a Treant woman’s stall and asked whether the fruit growing on her head was for sale.
• Shi Po explained that Treant origin fruits were nurtured by their owners and could be valuable, while the Treant woman demanded one million Merit Points to make Chen Ming leave.
• Chen Ming offered to buy the fruit for one thousand Merit Points, and the Treant woman bet that he could not afford her price.
• Chen Ming displayed a balance of 1,006,600 Merit Points, astonishing the Treant woman and Shi Po.

Chen Ming and Shi Po accepted an invitation to a banquet at the Qingqiu City Lord's Mansion, where Divine Realm teams gathered to meet and socialize. Chen Ming joined the Divine Realms' circle, and the chapter ended as a group including the Fox-person woman arrived.

• Chen Ming bought the female treant's Origin Fruit for one thousand and gained Constitution and Recovery attributes by absorbing it.
• Representatives from the Qingqiu City Lord's Mansion invited Chen Ming and Shi Po to a banquet, and Chen Ming agreed to attend.
• Chen Ming and Shi Po arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, where dozens of Divine Cleric teams had gathered.
• 2B led Chen Ming to the Divine Realm teams' seating area, where members of the Giant Spirit Race greeted him while the Three-Eye teams reacted more cautiously.
• Chen Ming heard the guests discuss his first-place finish in the World Beast War, then saw the Fox-person woman enter with a group.

At a banquet in Qingqiu City, Chen Ming learned that the Fox Woman was the last member of the Moonlight Essence Clan and that several factions coveted her for different reasons. The gathering assigned the coming Great Mist war zones, with Chen Ming put in charge of one area.

• The Fox Woman arrived at the residence with Qingqiu City Lord and her followers, drawing attention from guests who discussed her looks and the Fox-person Race.
• 2B told Chen Ming that the Fox Woman was the last clanswoman of the Moonlight Essence Clan and might need someone powerful to take her away from Desolate Star.
• Chen Ming sensed that Ning Feng wanted the Fox Woman, another man planned to sell her to the Astral Black Market, and the Three-Eye Race sought the clan’s ancestral artifact.
• Qingqiu City Lord welcomed the guests and withdrew, while the Fox Woman recognized Chen Ming and remembered that she had not thanked him after their earlier meeting.
• The guests divided Qingqiu City’s war zones among the Mecha Race and Giant Spirit Race, the Three-Eye Race, Chen Ming, and the absent Canglan Race.
• The Mecha Race and Giant Spirit Race supported Chen Ming’s assignment to command an entire area, and no one openly opposed it.

The Qingqiu City Lord arranged attendants for the gathered teams, then revealed she had promised Yue Xi to God Child Mo Xuan in exchange for taking her away from Tianque Star. Yue Xi rejected the arrangement and insisted she would leave Desolate Star on her own terms.

• The Qingqiu City Lord welcomed the gathered heroes and arranged attendants from her mansion for their residences.
• Chen Ming sensed that Yue Xi wanted to thank him and ask whether he could help with the withering of her spiritual origin.
• The Qingqiu City Lord sent Yue Xi to serve God Child Mo Xuan, revealing she had already negotiated for him to take Yue Xi from Tianque Star.
• Yue Xi protested that she would not become someone’s concubine and refused to leave Desolate Star under the Qingqiu City Lord’s arrangement.

At the banquet, Yue Xi exposed the Qingqiu City Lord’s history of deceit and rejected being treated as a political offering. Mo Xuan claimed the Three-Eye Race only wanted to return Yue Xi to a Fox-person branch realm, but as he approached, he used a mental ability to paralyze her.

• The Qingqiu City Lord tried to persuade Yue Xi to follow the Three-Eye Race, while Chen Ming realized the Three-Eye Race had secretly orchestrated the banquet and attendant arrangements.
• Yue Xi accused the Qingqiu City Lord of exploiting the Fox-person Race and invoking her parents’ promise to control her.
• A Giant Spirit Race captain honored the Moonlight Essence Clan’s past sacrifice and indirectly criticized the Qingqiu City Lord.
• Mo Xuan said he wanted to take Yue Xi to a Fox-person branch realm under the Three-Eye Race and preserve the Moonlight Essence bloodline.
• As Yue Xi prepared to refuse politely, Mo Xuan’s mental ability immobilized her and silenced her.

Chen Ming interrupted Mo Xuan’s mental control over Yue Xi and claimed that she had chosen to follow him. The Three-Eye Race mocked Chen Ming’s origins, while Yue Xi moved closer behind him, leaving Mo Xuan furious over the setback to his race’s plans.

• Mo Xuan secretly used mental control to make Yue Xi agree to his offer, but Chen Ming interrupted the ability with Spirit Exhaustion and answered for her.
• Chen Ming claimed Yue Xi had chosen to follow him, and Yue Xi realized he was trying to get her out of Mo Xuan’s reach.
• The people in the manor gossiped about Chen Ming and Yue Xi as the conflict between him and Mo Xuan intensified.
• Chen Ming reassured Yue Xi by voice transmission that he could solve her problem and take her away from the Desolate Star.
• Mo Xuan and the Three-Eye Race members mocked Chen Ming’s origins and warned Yue Xi against following him.
• Yue Xi ignored Mo Xuan and moved closer behind Chen Ming, while Mo Xuan grew furious over the Three-Eye Race’s plans for Unique Eternity.

Chen Ming learned that the Three-Eye Race wanted Yue Xi because she was linked to a clue about unique eternity, and he refused Mo Xuan's demands to hand her over. Mo Xuan withdrew while secretly planning to test and eliminate Chen Ming, who began considering when and how to strike first without leaving evidence.

• Chen Ming learned from Mo Xuan's thoughts that the Three-Eye Race had targeted Yue Xi because she was connected to a clue about unique eternity.
• Chen Ming dismissed Mo Xuan and his team, while Mo Xuan warned that some karmic entanglements were beyond him.
• [2B] insulted Mo Xuan and the Three-Eye Race, provoking another Three-Eye team before Mo Xuan stopped the quarrel and left.
• Mo Xuan decided to find a chance to test Chen Ming's weaknesses and deal with him.
• Chen Ming considered when to attack Mo Xuan and how to leave no traces.

Chen Ming agreed to help Yue Xi address her failing mental state and recover the Moonlight Essence Clan's Ancestral Artifact. As night fell, he prepared to take her to the clan's territory, where he planned to test the Soul Banner's effects.

• Yue Xi thanked Chen Ming for saving her and asked whether he could truly solve her mental problem; he said his method had manageable flaws, and she agreed to try it.
• Chen Ming sensed that Yue Xi might have only a month to live and said he would come find her that night to put his method into practice.
• Yue Xi mistook Chen Ming's words for an invitation to perform her clan's intimate spiritual cultivation and privately considered him as a potential partner.
• Yue Xi asked Chen Ming to help retrieve the Moonlight Essence Clan's Ancestral Artifact, a special Spirit Source, and offered it to him as repayment; he agreed.
• Chen Ming planned to take Yue Xi to the clan's territory that night, when Mo Xuan and the Qingqiu City Lord would also be there, and possibly make Yue Xi a Banner Holder to test the Soul Banner.
• As evening arrived and the Great Mist descended beyond Qingqiu City, Chen Ming watched from his riverside courtyard while his Night Wanderer Land covered the city.

Chen Ming questioned the secrets surrounding the Great Mist and watched Mo Xuan’s group leave Qingqiu City. The group entered the Moonlight Essence Clan’s Old God Zone, where they found a mysterious deep pool containing the clan’s Ancestral Artifact, but the Qingqiu City Lord warned that its depths were difficult to reach.

• Chen Ming wondered whether the Great Mist held more than Miasma Beasts and questioned why the Human Race had only recently moved to save Desolate Star.
• Chen Ming used a Night Wanderer Body to watch Mo Xuan and the Qingqiu City Lord prepare to leave Qingqiu City.
• Mo Xuan’s party and the Qingqiu City Lord left the city under a Withered Spirit Lamp that concealed them from Miasma Beasts.
• The Qingqiu City Lord led the party through the mountains behind Qingqiu City into the Moonlight Essence Clan Territory, a hidden Old God Zone.
• The party found an ancient forest and a steaming deep pool whose white light resembled a full moon.
• The Qingqiu City Lord said the Moonlight Essence Clan’s Ancestral Artifact lay in the pool, but she had been unable to reach its depths.

Mo Xuan reached the Moonlight Essence Clan Territory to claim its Ancestral Artifact, but Chen Ming arrived with Yue Xi before he could retrieve it. The two sides unleashed their strongest abilities, and their battle began as the deep pool’s moonlight stirred.

• Mo Xuan inspected the clan territory and saw the Ancestral Artifact enclosing a bright moon beneath the deep pool.
• Mo Xuan resolved to secure the artifact for the Three-Eye Race, whose oracle connected it and Yue Xi to a clue about unique eternity.
• Chen Ming emerged from a Mist Gate with Yue Xi and confronted Mo Xuan and the other four Three-Eye Race members.
• Chen Ming declared the territory a fitting place to kill them without a trace and attacked with lightning, Poseidon's Trident, and Golden Scale Armor.
• Mo Xuan and the other Three-Eye Race members activated their Third Eyes and strongest forms, and the two sides' confrontation shook the realm as light stirred within the deep pool.

Chen Ming opened the battle against Mo Xuan and the Three-Eye Race with a powerful lightning attack, but they blocked it using their Illusory Bodies. The Three-Eye team launched a coordinated counterattack, and Chen Ming examined the complex spatial storm surrounding him.

• The Qingqiu City Lord retreated while Yue Xi asked Chen Ming whether she could help him.
• Chen Ming struck the five Three-Eye Race fighters with a Minor Scourge, but they activated their Illusory Bodies to defend themselves.
• Chen Ming recognized that the Three-Eye Race's defense was an activated form of Absolute Defense, unlike his passive ability.
• Mo Xuan ordered his team to press the attack and use their Illusory Bodies again to kill Chen Ming quickly.
• The five Three-Eye fighters surrounded Chen Ming as he used another Minor Scourge, then unleashed a spatial storm infused with Eternal Agility and Eternal Mental Power.

Chen Ming entered the Three-Eye Race's Eternal Storm to study its technique and survived its assault with his shield counter. The counterattack erased four of Mo Xuan's teammates, leaving Mo Xuan injured and facing Chen Ming alone.

• Chen Ming recognized the Eternal Storm as a crude pseudo-divine technique and entered it to study how the Three-Eye Race combined eternal mental power, agility, and spatial rending.
• The storm tore at Chen Ming from every direction, but his shield absorbed the damage and unleashed a torrent of rapid counterattacks.
• The Qingqiu City Lord, Yue Xi, Mo Xuan, and the Three-Eye Race members believed Chen Ming had been killed by the storm.
• When their Illusory Bodies ended, the four Three-Eye Race members were struck by Chen Ming's final shield counters and vanished instantly.
• Mo Xuan realized his teammates were dead, suffered counterattack damage as his Illusory Body ended, and saw Chen Ming standing unharmed.

Chen Ming endured Mo Xuan’s Eternal Storm, copied its technique, and forged a miniature version using his spatial ability and Eternal Attributes. He used it to exhaust Mo Xuan’s Illusory Body and annihilate the rest of Mo Xuan’s team, leaving Mo Xuan defeated and terrified.

• Mo Xuan watched in disbelief as Chen Ming survived the Three-Eye Race’s Eternal Storm without injury.
• Chen Ming studied the storm’s operating patterns and fused Eternal Agility with spatial fragments to create a miniature Eternal Storm.
• Chen Ming sent the copied technique at Mo Xuan, forcing him to use his Illusory Body for the third and final time.
• The Eternal Storm destroyed the four team members’ Spirit Bodies through reflected damage, while Mo Xuan’s Illusory Body dimmed and began to dissipate.
• Chen Ming regretted losing the four Spirit Bodies, which he had considered valuable mental nourishment.

Chen Ming used the Soul Banner to capture Mo Xuan and the Qingqiu City Lord, then taught Yue Xi to wield it through an origin clone. Yue Xi successfully took control of the artifact but transformed into a sinister, demonic-looking version of herself.

• Chen Ming used the Soul Banner to restrain Mo Xuan's Spirit Body after it forced him to manifest one.
• Chen Ming sent a streak of soul-light after the fleeing Qingqiu City Lord and pulled out her Spirit Body.
• Chen Ming explained that Yue Xi would collect enemies' Spirit Bodies and handed her the Soul Banner to practice with an origin clone.
• Yue Xi formed an origin clone and learned to wield the Soul Banner, which surrounded her with black aura and changed her appearance.
• Yue Xi struggled to accept her sinister new look, and Chen Ming asked how wielding the Soul Banner felt.