Chapter Summaries

Xu Feng, Li Hengkong, and Andy explored the Church, discovered evidence of a Mechanical Race battle, and found a mural that mapped the Secret Realm. After Piris’s group failed to meet them or return to camp, Xu Feng reassured the increasingly anxious survivors and promised to search again if they remained missing.

• Xu Feng, Li Hengkong, and Andy found a Mechanical Race being among the Guard Team corpses, and Xu Feng stored its body and weapon in his inner world.
• The three searched the Church and studied a mural that located their camp and showed the Holy Mountain beyond the western rift valley.
• Xu Feng, Li Hengkong, and Andy waited two hours for Piris’s group, then left a message and returned to camp without them.
• Xu Feng and his companions reached camp the next morning and found that Piris’s group had still not returned.
• Xu Feng calmed the worried survivors and said he would search for Piris’s group if they remained missing the next day.

Xu Feng and Li Hengkong followed the trail of Piris’s expedition into the ruins, where they found Mo Da dead and evidence that something had left with the others. They discovered a hostile faction and fled after a psychic attack, but a Red-Armored Domain God intercepted Xu Feng with a devastating sword strike.

• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong found Mo Da dead with his brain destroyed by a psychic attack, while five sets of footprints suggested something had left the ruins with Piris and the others.
• Xu Feng released Little White, which spotted three strangers in Red Armor ahead: a Domain God and two Radiant God Peak warriors.
• A hidden psychic murmur nearly incapacitated Li Hengkong, but Xu Feng broke its hold, pulled Li Hengkong into his inner world, and fled.
• The Red-Armored Youth sent Kane and Phyllis after Xu Feng, then summoned a storm of crimson divine swords that Xu Feng barely blocked with his World Projection and Star-Cleaving Blade.
• The Red-Armored Youth approached Xu Feng while Kane and Phyllis closed in from either side.

Xu Feng survived an ambush by three outsiders when Little Yellow briefly controlled the Mechanical Race corpse and used it to kill the Psychic Master and the Domain God. Back at camp, Xu Feng examined the enemies’ bodies and discovered valuable weapons, equipment, a Scarlet Flame token, and a complete Psychic Secret Art.

• Xu Feng struggled against a radiant god ninth-rank Psychic Master and mace-wielding warrior while retreating toward the beast lairs, until Little Yellow told him it had briefly gained control of the Mechanical Race corpse.
• Xu Feng released the Mechanical Race corpse, which deflected the Psychic Master's Flying Blades, killed him with a beam, then shot down the Red-Armored Youth, a Domain God.
• Xu Feng pursued and killed the fleeing warrior, collected the three corpses, and brought Li Hengkong back to camp, where they claimed they had been chased by Red-Beaked Birds.
• Xu Feng returned to his cave, entered his inner world, and examined the Psychic Master's corpse with Little Yellow and Little White.
• Xu Feng found high-grade equipment, hundreds of powerful silver Flying Blades, a token marked “Scarlet Flame,” and a complete Psychic Secret Art in the Psychic Master's storage ring.

Xu Feng looted the corpses of a Mind Master, a Radiant God warrior, and a Domain God, acquiring the Silver Moon psychic art, valuable weapons, armor, and materials. After emerging from his internal world at dawn, he urged Li Hengkong not to risk returning to investigate yet.

• Xu Feng absorbed the Silver Moon art’s instructions and learned that its mastery let users control up to 1,288 specially designed Silver Moon Flying Blades.
• Xu Feng stripped the Radiant God warrior’s damaged armor and took his law-enhanced mace, then removed the Domain God’s damaged armor and searched his three Storage Rings.
• Xu Feng found origin crystal ore, Domain God Weapon fragments, and other valuables in the rings, and tested the Domain God’s Bone Sword before setting it aside.
• Xu Feng resolved to turn the loot into strength, recognizing that he had survived only through luck and Little Yellow’s help.
• After dawn, Xu Feng emerged from his internal world and told Li Hengkong to wait a couple of days before returning to investigate.

Xu Feng and Li Hengkong found Piris and three Radiant Gods dead in the ruins and brought their bodies back to camp for burial. Meanwhile, the Five Elements Palace and Star Soul Hall learned of the Azure Lord Secret Realm and dispatched World Gods toward Crimson Storm Star, while Xu Feng and Li Hengkong prepared to investigate the Holy Mountain.

• Xu Feng promised Li Hengkong that Little White would search for Piris, while the Five Elements Palace learned Liu Huo had been killed and ordered the Fire Palace and Wood Palace to send World Gods to Crimson Storm Star.
• The Star Soul Hall confirmed that Crimson Storm Star held the Azure Lord’s internal world and ordered two World Gods to race the Five Elements Palace to the secret realm.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong followed footprints into an underground chamber and found Piris and three Radiant Gods dead; Xu Feng suspected the Red Armor Domain God’s group had killed them.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong collected the bodies, recovered Mo Da’s remains, and returned to camp, where Andy and the others prepared to bury the five dead.
• Li Hengkong asked whether they could survive, and he and Xu Feng agreed to leave for the Holy Mountain the next day and investigate the growing threat.

The Cosmic Hunter Guild and Interstellar Adventurers' Guild sent forces toward the Azure Lord Secret Realm on Crimson Storm Star. Meanwhile, Xu Feng and Li Hengkong continued toward the Holy Mountain, as the Star Soul Hall's powerful envoys arrived at the Far Gazer.

• President Lingmiao decided to disguise herself as a World God and lead the Cosmic Hunter Guild's Third Hunter Group to the secret realm.
• The Interstellar Adventurers' Guild ordered Red Yin to lead the Third Adventurer Legion toward Crimson Storm Star.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong set off with their remaining teammates toward the Holy Mountain, advancing cautiously with Little White scouting ahead.
• The Far Gazer detected a spatial rift, and an Amethyst Shuttle carrying Domain God Guqiu arrived.
• Fire Sickle and the crew recognized and saluted Star Envoys Copper Furnace and Copper Soldier, two renowned World Gods of the Star Soul Hall.

Copper Furnace and Copper Soldier reached Crimson Storm Star to secure the Azure Lord Legacy, but discovered the secret realm rejected World Gods and could only be entered by Domain Gods. Guqiu entered first, while the brothers returned to the Far Gazer with Mindstorm Crystals.

• Fire Sickle briefed Copper Furnace and Copper Soldier on the failed rescue efforts and Xu Feng's disappearance, and Copper Furnace ordered Guqiu to accompany them while the others stayed out of combat.
• Copper Furnace and Copper Soldier flew to Crimson Storm Star and Copper Soldier dispersed its massive storm with a single strike, killing many Stormfolk and exposing the secret realm entrance.
• Copper Furnace and Copper Soldier tried to enter the rift but were repelled, confirming that World Gods could not enter the secret realm.
• Guqiu successfully reached into the rift, and Copper Furnace ordered him to find the surviving expedition members and search for the Azure Lord Legacy.
• Guqiu entered the secret realm intending to force information from the survivors, while Copper Furnace dismissed their lives as unimportant and told Copper Soldier to collect Mindstorm Crystals.
• Copper Soldier gathered the Mindstorm Crystals, and the brothers returned to the Far Gazer.

Xu Feng’s group escaped a beast attack, discovered and mined a valuable stellar gilt ore vein, and swore a Star Oath to keep the find secret. When Guqiu arrived as reinforcements, he insulted the dead captains and survivors, leaving the team’s relief turned to anger.

• Little White warned Xu Feng’s group of a powerful presence, while Guqiu entered the Secret Realm and was badly injured fighting five coordinated beasts before hiding underground.
• Xu Feng’s group fled a corrosive mountain rhinoceros into an abandoned mine, where Little White uncovered a passage to a stellar gilt ore vein.
• Xu Feng organized the team to mine nearly three tons of raw ore and had everyone agree to a Star Oath against revealing their find.
• Andy received word that Guqiu was approaching, and the team confirmed his identity after he arrived in battered armor.
• After learning that Piris and the other captain had died and that Xu Feng had saved the survivors, Guqiu called them useless trash, angering the group.

Xu Feng defeated Guqiu with a hidden attack and a Mechanical Race weapon, then covered up the Domain God’s death and led the exploration team away. Outside Crimson Storm Star, several factions arrived to enter the Secret Realm, but Ming Huo discovered that World Gods could not pass through its entrance.

• Guqiu demanded the team’s clues and discoveries, struck Andy, and threatened to take her away until Xu Feng intervened and provoked him.
• Xu Feng ambushed Guqiu with buried Silver Moon Flying Blades, then drew him into Illusory Rift Valley and killed him with the Mechanical Race body’s Laser.
• Xu Feng staged Guqiu’s corpse to look like it had been killed and trampled by Mountain Rhinoceroses, then returned to Li Hengkong and led the team away.
• The Five Elements Palace, Cosmic Hunter Guild, and Interstellar Adventurers’ Guild arrived outside Crimson Storm Star, and Copper Furnace announced that factions could attempt to enter the Secret Realm.
• Ming Huo tried to enter the Secret Realm and was repelled by its force, then accused Copper Furnace of letting him make a fool of himself.

Xu Feng and his companions reached the Holy Mountain and discovered an underground palace containing the history of Cang Jue, the Azure Lord. At the palace’s deepest point, Xu Feng encountered a mysterious young man who questioned Cang Jue’s life.

• Ming Huo and Copper Furnace fought outside the Secret Realm while powerful figures from the factions entered, then both fighters withdrew without a victor.
• Xu Feng, Li Hengkong, Andy, and their companions reached the Holy Mountain and found traces of ancient ruins and formations along its slopes.
• Little White discovered an underground palace, and Xu Feng entered with it after sensing dangerous heat and powerful formations inside.
• A strange mouth-like creature at the end of the passage lured Little White, so Xu Feng sent it into his inner world and examined the palace’s murals.
• Xu Feng learned from the murals that Cang Jue had risen from a primitive planet to become the Azure Lord before two powerful figures hunted him down.
• A mysterious young man appeared behind Xu Feng and asked whether Cang Jue’s life had started brilliantly but ended in anticlimax.

Xu Feng explored the Holy Mountain’s underground palace, found it stripped of its treasures, and emerged into a hidden retreat where the young man from the palace revealed himself as Cang Jue, the Azure Lord. Cang Jue offered Xu Feng a trial for his legacy, then explained that he was an intelligent lifeform integrated with his consciousness, leaving Xu Feng questioning how he differed from the original Azure Lord.

• Xu Feng met a powerful young man in the underground palace, answered his questions, and watched him disappear into the shadows.
• Xu Feng searched the palace’s empty chambers for an exit or clues, then emerged into a tranquil valley on the other side of the Holy Mountain.
• Xu Feng found the young man waiting in a pavilion, where he explained that the objects on the table were linked to the Azure Lord and identified Cang Jue as the realm’s master.
• Xu Feng told Cang Jue that he had come to rescue Li Hengkong and did not want the legacy, but Cang Jue insisted that he take a trial to become his successor.
• Cang Jue transformed the world around the pavilion to prove his power, then revealed that he was an intelligent lifeform integrated with his consciousness after his death.
• Xu Feng asked Cang Jue whether there was any difference between him and the real Azure Lord.

Xu Feng entered Cang Jue’s inheritance trial and faced a younger Azure Lord, who repeatedly defeated him and exposed the weaknesses in his combat skills. Xu Feng used each defeat to train his Psychic Master abilities and Silver Moon technique, gradually lasting longer, while learning about cultivation paths and the vast differences in strength between people of the same rank.

• Cang Jue revealed that his real body was dead and offered Xu Feng a trial for the chance to inherit his legacy.
• Cang Jue sent Xu Feng through the waterfall into an illusion, where he faced a younger Azure Lord at the radiant god ninth rank.
• The Azure Lord repeatedly defeated Xu Feng, explaining that his combat techniques were weak and that he could use less than thirty percent of his strength.
• Xu Feng chose to train with his Flying Blades and Silver Moon technique through repeated fights, steadily increasing his control and surviving longer.
• The Azure Lord noticed Xu Feng’s secret technique improving with each defeat, and Xu Feng continued fighting while asking about combat strength and cultivation paths.
• The Azure Lord explained that he had chosen the difficult-secret-technique path, and Xu Feng faced him again, lasting thirty-seven moves before being defeated.

After enduring more than a million deaths in the Illusion Realm, Xu Feng perfected the Silver Moon Secret Art, defeated the young Azure Lord, and received the Azure Lord Legacy. When he escaped the secret realm, powerful factions confronted the survivors, and Xu Feng was left behind as they argued over him.

• Xu Feng repeatedly fought and died to the young Azure Lord, eventually perfecting the Silver Moon Secret Art and defeating him with a crescent blade formed from 1,288 Flying Blades.
• Cang Jue gave Xu Feng a bracelet containing the Azure Lord Legacy and directed him to the secret realm's exit.
• Xu Feng found Li Hengkong, Andy, and the others, led them through the mouth gate, and escaped to the surface of Crimson Storm Star.
• Ming Huo and Red Yin confronted the survivors, but Copper Furnace defended the Star Guard Hall team while Ling Miao stopped Ming Huo from seizing Xu Feng.
• After Andy explained Xu Feng's connection to the rescue mission, Copper Furnace took the Star Guard Hall members away while Xu Feng stayed behind.
• Ling Miao asked Xu Feng whether he was an Interstellar Hunter after sensing a hunter badge's aura on him.

Lingmiao sheltered Xu Feng, questioned him about the Azure Lord Secret Realm, and gave him a Hunter Guild credential before he returned to the Star Guard Hall. Copper Furnace investigated Guqiu’s disappearance and prepared to question Xu Feng, while Lingmiao secretly revealed that she had helped him because of his past connection to her avatar.

• Lingmiao stopped Ming Huo from obstructing Xu Feng and took him aboard the Hunter Guild ship, where he described his journey through the Secret Realm and its underground palace.
• Lingmiao gave Xu Feng a C-Rank Action Credential and offered him shelter, while Cang Jue warned him to conceal Little White’s abilities and wondered whether Lingmiao favored him.
• Andy and Li Hengkong recounted the team’s experiences to Copper Furnace, who learned that Guqiu had pursued Xu Feng and gone missing.
• Copper Furnace sent a message requesting Xu Feng’s return and asked the Star Soul Hall to dispatch reinforcements to explore the Secret Realm’s ruins and Holy Mountain.
• Lingmiao offered Xu Feng a token for protection; after he left, she thought that his rapid advancement and past bond with her avatar had prompted her to help him.
• Xu Feng returned to the Far Gazer with Star Guard Hall guards, confident after witnessing a Saint Lord’s power.

Xu Feng cleared himself with Copper Furnace and received a reward before leaving Crimson Storm Star with the injured team. At Graywood Star, he and Li Hengkong discovered that the Five Elements Palace had tracked them, then ambushed their pursuers and killed both Domain God leaders.

• Xu Feng told Copper Furnace and Copper Soldier how Guqiu had pursued him into the Illusory Rift Valley, and Copper Furnace cleared him of blame and awarded him two million Star Soul Crystal Coins.
• After the Star Guard Hall reinforcements arrived, Xu Feng and the wounded explorers left Crimson Storm Star; three years later, they reached Graywood Star, where Cang Jue warned Xu Feng that three Five Elements Palace squads were watching them.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong decided to leave the supply station together and draw the pursuers away, with Li Hengkong revealing his Treasure Armor and Xu Feng agreeing to handle two Domain Gods.
• Twelve pursuers surrounded Xu Feng and Li Hengkong in the desert, but Xu Feng summoned the Mechanical Race corpse, which killed the Mid-Rank and Low-Rank Domain Gods with two shots.
• Xu Feng unleashed his Flying Blades against the remaining Radiant Gods as Li Hengkong charged into the fight in his blood-red armor.

Xu Feng and Li Hengkong eliminated the remaining Five Elements Palace teams, then returned to Earth after an eleven-and-a-half-year journey. Xu Feng reunited with Lu Fei and Xu Qingshan, while Cang Jue planned to guide his cultivation and Xu Feng hoped to secure longer lives for his parents.

• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong slaughtered the Radiant Gods, divided the spoils, and planned to eliminate the remaining Domain God team to keep their secret safe.
• Cang Jue criticized Xu Feng's Silver Moon Secret Art and gave him a Flame Dragon Blast Egg, but Xu Feng delayed using it and instead lured the last team into another ambush.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong killed the final team, and Cang Jue explained the Mechanical Race body’s history and discussed Xu Feng’s plans to return to Earth and obtain lifespan-extending medicine for his parents.
• After resting at the supply station, Xu Feng and Li Hengkong began their return journey, and Cang Jue taught Xu Feng the Three Paths of Life as a prerequisite to his Nine Paths of Life and Death secret art.
• Two years later, the ship emerged from the Dark Universe and returned to the Solar System, ending a journey that had lasted eleven years and six months.
• Xu Feng reunited with Lu Fei and Xu Qingshan at the landing site and embraced his son, apologizing for coming home late.

After returning home, Xu Feng reunited with his family and friends and helped launch a federation-wide talent program for the Thirty-Three Realms. Once the Star Road Plan was approved, he inventoried the spoils from his journey and learned how wealthy he had become, before Cang Jue prepared a new weapon for him.

• Xu Feng spent time with his family, visited friends and allies with Xu Qingshan, and hosted a three-day reunion gathering where Li Hengkong and Li Yuanying joined them.
• Xu Qingshan proposed gathering cultivation methods and training resources to develop young talent, and Xu Feng recommended character assessments and transparent oversight for the selection process.
• Xu Qingshan drafted a proposal that Li Hengkong sent to the council, and representatives from across the Thirty-Three Realms approved the Thirty-Three Realms Star Road Plan after a seven-day conference.
• Xu Feng returned to Luo City, sorted the spoils from his battles, and learned from Cang Jue that his cash, equipment, and spaceship made him extraordinarily wealthy by Radiant God standards.
• Cang Jue told Xu Feng that his current weapon was falling behind his cultivation level and placed a new weapon in his hand.

Xu Feng advanced in the Three Paths of Life and began learning more of the Azure Lord’s legacy while the Star Soul Hall claimed a disappointing legacy object from the Azure Lord Secret Realm. The Five Elements Palace continued investigating Xu Feng, and Ye Bai told him and Li Hengkong that a spy had been caught seeking their group’s files, leaving Xu Feng under renewed scrutiny.

• Xu Feng received the Ten Thousand Greens domain-grade saber and focused his training on the Three Paths of Life.
• Ming Huo ordered an investigation of Xu Feng after three Five Elements Palace squads disappeared, while the Star Soul Hall later won the Azure Lord legacy object, which proved to contain only an ordinary World God legacy and a short sword.
• Ye Bai told Xu Feng that the Star Soul Hall’s victory had brought it an ordinary legacy, and Cang Jue warned Xu Feng that the Five Elements Palace and Star Soul Hall might suspect him.
• Xu Feng cultivated the Three Paths of Life until he condensed the power of life, then began learning the Life-Seizing Blade Art and Sky-Cutting Flow.
• Ye Bai invited Xu Feng and Li Hengkong to the Star Guard Hall and revealed that a captured Five Elements Palace spy had been searching their survivor files, especially Xu Feng’s.

Xu Feng and Li Hengkong rejected the Star Guard Hall’s recommendation to gather under centralized protection and chose to leave Earth, drawing attention away from their families while heading toward Andromeda to find Xiao Dan. After departing the Solar System, Xu Feng revealed the Azure Lord’s powerful trident-shaped spaceship and began piloting it toward White Elm Star.

• Ye Bai warned Xu Feng and Li Hengkong that the Five Elements Palace might threaten them and recommended they move to a protected gathering point, but they declined and discussed drawing their pursuers away by appearing on a nearby civilized planet.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong told their friends and family about their plan to leave, and Xu Feng entrusted his family’s safety to them and gave Xu Qingshan the Blood Butcher Token for emergencies.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong prepared supplies, and Cang Jue told Xu Feng that his spaceship could take them to White Elm Star in about two years before they continued toward Andromeda.
• Xu Feng sparred with Xu Qingshan, advised him to rely on family and friends, and said goodbye to Lu Fei and Qing Shan before leaving Earth with Li Hengkong aboard the Flying Star Three.
• At the edge of the Solar System, Xu Feng brought out a black trident-shaped spaceship and revealed that it was a powerful vessel linked to Cang Jue; they boarded and set course for White Elm Star.
• Xu Feng learned that the ship’s Realm-3 Small Laser Cannon could kill cultivators at the third stage of World God or below, while Li Hengkong inferred that the Five Elements Palace had pursued Xu Feng over something extraordinary.

After two years and five months of travel, Xu Feng and Li Hengkong reached White Elm Star, where they planned to attract attention through the White Dragon Arena. They settled into the planet’s immense city and entered the Interstellar First Bank, leaving their next step unresolved.

• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong trained aboard the ship, advancing their techniques, while Li Hengkong accepted Cang Jue as his teacher and Little Yellow learned most of the ship’s systems.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong reached White Elm Star, altered the Flying Star Three’s flight records, and told the Star Guard Hall they had escaped spatial turbulence.
• Xu Feng proposed using duels at the White Dragon Arena to spread word of their arrival, and Li Hengkong agreed.
• The pair landed at White Elm Star, handed the Flying Star Three to the local Star Guard Hall, and traveled into the planet’s main urban district.
• Xu Feng and Li Hengkong found an inn, explored the city, and reached the Interstellar First Bank, where they entered through its light curtain.