Chapter Summaries

Xu Wuyi faced Charles in the final battle of the thirteenth summons, enduring Charles's crushing sword strikes before breaking his sword with a punch. The two abandoned weapons and fought fist against fist, where Xu Wuyi's recovery began to give him an advantage as Charles's hand injuries accumulated.

• After Xu Wuyi defeated Ye Yixin, Lin Jianyi warned him that Charles's crushing sword force could overwhelm his regeneration.
• Charles attacked Xu Wuyi with a relentless series of sword strikes, while Xu Wuyi blocked them with his forearms and remained standing.
• Charles concentrated his sword force into a final strike, and Xu Wuyi shattered the blade with a tenfold-stacking punch.
• Charles discarded his broken sword, assumed a Martial Artist's stance, and began fighting Xu Wuyi with his fists.
• Xu Wuyi and Charles exchanged more than a hundred punches, but Xu Wuyi's Order rules healed his fractures faster than Charles could recover.

Xu Wuyi defeated Charles in the thirteenth round and received the Beast Pool and Level Two Astral Battlefield management authority. Through Mr. Hu, he learned the Astral Battlefield was built by the Human Star Alliance and began uncovering the larger history and power system behind it.

• Charles abandoned his sword and fought Xu Wuyi with his fists, but their final collision shattered the arena barrier and broke three of Charles's fingers.
• Charles conceded, and the rules named Xu Wuyi the victor and recipient of the highest individual reward.
• Xu Wuyi received the Beast Pool, which could simulate combat, examine Star Beasts, and help develop human body-tempering techniques, along with a golden chip that gave him management access.
• Anna connected Xu Wuyi to Mr. Hu, who explained that the Astral Battlefield was a Human Star Alliance training facility powered by the remains of Councilor Di.
• Mr. Hu told Xu Wuyi that the Star Alliance had been founded 420,000 years earlier and that its Tier One, Tier Two, and Tier Three ranks corresponded to Martial Master, Grandmaster, and Celestial Being levels.

Xu Wuyi learned that Yin Wuji was the only Astral Battlefield recruit to reach Tier Three and that he had used the Beast Pool to discover Physical Body Attainment of the Dao. After returning to the outpost, Xu Wuyi entered the Beast Pool and began studying the Golden-Scaled Beast to develop a body-tempering path of his own.

• Mr. Hu told Xu Wuyi that Yin Wuji alone had advanced to Tier Three in more than sixty thousand years by using the Beast Pool to forge his body and open an Inner Heaven and Earth.
• Mr. Hu explained that the Beast Pool had been awarded to Xu Wuyi because his Order Laws and physical strength suited body tempering, and warned that the Star Alliance might close the Astral Battlefield if no new Tier Three warriors emerged.
• Xu Wuyi learned how the outposts were distributed and that increasingly frequent recruitments reflected the Star Beast Race's intensifying attacks and the Star Alliance's need for more Tier Three warriors.
• Xu Wuyi returned to the outpost, changed into fresh clothes, and asked Anna how to enter the Beast Pool Space.
• Xu Wuyi entered the Beast Pool, selected Star Beast research, and chose the Golden-Scaled Beast for its exceptional physical strength and lack of rule-based abilities.
• Xu Wuyi used his Order Laws to analyze the Golden-Scaled Beast's scales, bones, blood circulation, and recovery, beginning to convert its anatomy into a body-tempering path suited to humans.

Xu Wuyi returned to the Federation after the summoning, where his victories brought the Federation record rewards and new diplomatic attention. He revealed that his Beast Pool could provide Star Beast research to the Federation, leaving Lu Shaoyuan and Shen Jin to consider its value.

• Xu Wuyi analyzed the Golden-Scaled Beast in the Beast Pool and deduced an early body-tempering path, then returned to the Federation after the summoning ended.
• Zheng Yuanzheng told Xu Wuyi that he had defeated Ye Yixin and Charles, earned the highest individual reward, and become known as the Second Astral Battlefield’s top young fighter.
• Lu Shaoyuan and the Federation’s leaders welcomed Xu Wuyi and discussed the record-setting summoning results, including a cultivation base reward and growing interest from other civilizations.
• Xu Wuyi asked Lu Shaoyuan and Shen Jin to stay after the meeting and showed them the Beast Pool, explaining its combat, research, and cultivation-simulation functions.
• Xu Wuyi explained that only he could activate the Beast Pool but that he could share its research data, allowing the Federation to build a database of Star Beast weaknesses and combat methods.

Xu Wuyi studied Beast Pool templates to develop a human Body Tempering Method, discovering that Star Beasts relied on efficient blood-and-qi circulation. As he continued refining his approach, the Feathered Humans retreated from the Northern Front, and their leaders gathered to discuss the withdrawal.

• Xu Wuyi explained the Golden-Scaled Beast's weaknesses and the Beast Pool's extensive Star Beast data to Shen Jin and Lu Shaoyuan, who emphasized that it could save lives and give the Federation a path toward a Body Tempering Method.
• Xu Wuyi returned to Linjiang and analyzed Beast King Tier templates, identifying Star Beast enhancements and their efficient blood-and-qi circulation as the basis for a human-adapted method.
• Xu Wuyi developed a model that added energy pathways between human meridians, but found he could sustain only ten channels with his current Order Force.
• Lu Shaoyuan told Xu Wuyi that the Feathered Humans had withdrawn from their Northern Front outposts after learning of Xu Wuyi's victories over Ye Yixin and Charles.
• Xu Wuyi resumed cultivating, while the Feather Emperor asked Frostwing, Furywind, and Nightwing how far the Northern Front withdrawal had progressed.

Nightwing persuaded the Feather Emperor and the temple lords to withdraw from the Northern Front, build alliances, and focus on killing Xu Wuyi before he grew stronger. Meanwhile, Xu Wuyi discovered a way to strengthen his bones without reducing the energy supplied to his muscles and organs, and resolved to develop human body tempering by learning from Star Beasts.

• Frostwing and Furywind argued over the Feathered Humans' withdrawal until Nightwing explained Xu Wuyi's growing strength and framed the retreat as a way to buy time to kill him.
• Nightwing reported that the Sirius remnants could offer intelligence, the Bearfolk Clan might join in exchange for mineral rights, and the Insectoid Race was also retreating.
• The Feather Emperor ordered Furywind to hold the Northern Front, allowed Frostwing to defend the homeworld, and authorized Nightwing to pursue alliances and track Xu Wuyi.
• Alone, the Feather Emperor ordered Shadow Temple agents to report Xu Wuyi's whereabouts, cultivation progress, and associates.
• Xu Wuyi found that slowing blood-and-vitality flow through his bones stimulated bone growth, then used Energy Crystals in his blood to offset the circulation's reduced efficiency.
• Xu Wuyi stabilized the Energy Crystal proportion at eight percent and concluded that adapting Star Beast strengths, rather than fusing their bloodlines, was the right path to body tempering.

Over four months, Xu Wuyi transformed his bones with Order Force and used the Beast Pool to develop a safe body-tempering technique for ordinary Federation grandmasters. He named it New Chapter of Blood and Qi, then left the Beast Pool with his strength increased and a combat technique still to create.

• Xu Wuyi analyzed more than a hundred Star Beast templates and refined his blood-and-qi circulation, raising the Energy Crystal density in his blood to twelve percent.
• Xu Wuyi merged Order Force into his bone cells so they generated it naturally, then demonstrated his increased strength with a punch that dented the crystal wall.
• Xu Wuyi began using the Beast Pool's technique simulation to create a body-tempering method for Federation grandmasters.
• Xu Wuyi added energy buffers, periodic rest, and automatic intensity reduction after simulations showed that ordinary grandmasters' hearts could not withstand the initial technique.
• Xu Wuyi named the completed technique New Chapter of Blood and Qi, saved its data to his Smart Brain chip, and left the Beast Pool planning to create a combat technique.

After four months of seclusion, Xu Wuyi created Break, a combat technique that made every punch automatically unleash Tenfold Stacking. With the Feathered Humans preparing an alliance against the Federation, he proposed invading their homeworld to assassinate the Feather Emperor, and began presenting the plan to the Federation’s Divine Intent Grandmasters.

• Xu Wuyi carved Tenfold Stacking’s force-delivery paths into his bones and meridians, creating Break and testing its power by punching through a crystal wall and blasting a hole in the clouds.
• Xu Wuyi learned from Lu Shaoyuan that Frostwing and Furywind were moving forces toward Federation territory and that the Feathered Humans were seeking allies, including the Bearfolk Clan.
• Xu Wuyi proposed striking the Feathered Human Homeworld to kill the Feather Emperor before the Feathered Humans could assemble their allies, and told Lu Shaoyuan he was certain he could win.
• Lu Shaoyuan summoned the Federation’s Divine Intent Grandmasters to the Supreme Council, where Xu Wuyi announced his assassination plan and defended it against their concerns.
• Xu Wuyi described the homeworld’s three defensive layers and said he would attack from the far side, where the gun emplacements had blind spots and the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array was weaker.

Xu Wuyi and Jiang Muzhou set out to infiltrate the Feathered Humans’ main planet and assassinate the Feathered Emperor while the Federation staged a northern feint. As they approached the planet, the Feathered Emperor learned that the Bearfolk and Tortoisefolk would not join the fight, but Nightwing revealed that the Southern Martial Star Realm had contacted them.

• Xu Wuyi won the Divine Intent Grandmasters’ approval for a plan to assassinate the Feathered Emperor, with Jiang Muzhou joining him and the Federation arranging diversions and support.
• Xu Wuyi tested the New Chapter of Blood and Qi on different Grandmaster models, completed a cultivation manual, and sent it securely to Lu Shaoyuan.
• At the final briefing, Yang Shuyan reported that the Feathered Emperor remained on the main planet, while Frostwing and Furywind held the northern defensive zone.
• Xu Wuyi and Jiang Muzhou traveled through an Astral Realm passage, stopped at a blind spot near the main planet, and flew toward its defenses.
• The Feathered Emperor and his Temple Masters discussed the failed efforts to secure support from the Bearfolk and Tortoisefolk.
• Nightwing revealed that the human imperial civilization of the Southern Martial Star Realm had contacted the Feathered Humans.

The Feathered Humans agreed to help Yi Huainan of the Southern Martial Star Realm assassinate Xu Wuyi, while preparing to draw out the operation by pulling back their Northern Front defenses. Unaware of the plot, Xu Wuyi and Jiang Muzhou infiltrated the Feathered Human Homeworld, and Jiang began dismantling the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array as Xu prepared to face its inner rule suppression.

• Nightwing told the Feather Emperor and the temple masters that Yi Huainan had arrived to assassinate Xu Wuyi, and the Feather Emperor ordered full intelligence support while refusing to rescue Yi Huainan if the attempt failed.
• The Feather Emperor ordered Furywind to continue pulling back Northern Front forces and Frostwing to reinforce the homeworld’s defenses, buying Yi Huainan time to prepare.
• Xu Wuyi and Jiang Muzhou waited for confirmation that Shen Jin and Qin Wu had pinned down Frostwing and Furywind on the Northern Front.
• After Lu Shaoyuan confirmed the feint was underway and Nightwing was away from the homeworld, Xu Wuyi and Jiang Muzhou slipped through the defensive barriers and automated batteries.
• Jiang Muzhou entered the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array and used spatial rifts to attack its energy-distortion layer, warning Xu Wuyi that he would have to withstand the inner layer’s rule suppression.

Xu Wuyi breached the Feather Emperor’s palace, destroyed it with a bomb, and killed the Feather Emperor’s two Divine Intent-level guards. He confronted the Feather Emperor at the bottom of the crater, where the emperor unleashed his formidable rule and attacked.

• Jiang Muzhou shattered the Blood Sacrifice Grand Array’s outer defenses, allowing Xu Wuyi to pass through its law suppression and reach the palace square.
• Xu Wuyi killed the guards who attacked him, then used a Military Department bomb to level the palace and expose the Feather Emperor’s hidden location.
• Xu Wuyi killed two Divine Intent-level Feathered Human kings who tried to stop him at the crater’s bottom.
• The Feather Emperor emerged from the fissure, acknowledged that he had expected Xu Wuyi, and declared that Xu Wuyi would not leave.
• The Feather Emperor unleashed his rule, compressed the space around Xu Wuyi, and attacked him with a punch.

Xu Wuyi killed the Feather Emperor with three punches and escaped the ruined homeworld with Jiang Muzhou, while a mysterious energy fluctuation fled into the void. Aboard a stealth ship, Yi Huainan reviewed the fight and reported to Li Jingliu that Xu Wuyi was far stronger than expected, leaving the assassination unattempted.

• Xu Wuyi defeated the Feather Emperor in a head-on clash, severed his arm with Break, and killed him with a third punch.
• Xu Wuyi sensed an unfamiliar energy fluctuation fleeing beyond the homeworld, then left with Jiang Muzhou before Frostwing and Furywind could return.
• The surviving Feathered Human soldiers watched Xu Wuyi and Jiang Muzhou depart as the palace lay destroyed and the Feather Emperor's corpse remained in the ruins.
• Aboard a stealth ship, Yi Huainan reviewed footage of Xu Wuyi's three punches and reconsidered his assassination plan.
• Yi Huainan told Li Jingliu he had not struck because Xu Wuyi's strength exceeded his estimates, then sent him footage of the fight.

Yi Huainan agreed to keep watching Xu Wuyi and wait for a chance to assassinate him before his next Star Realm Summoning. Xu Wuyi reached the northern front, chose to pursue Furywind’s retreating forces, and watched the Federation fleet begin its attack as the Storm Temple’s retreat became a rout.

• Yi Huainan told Li Jingliu that he could not defeat Xu Wuyi head-on, then remained hidden outside the Feathered Human Homeworld to wait for an opening.
• Lu Shaoyuan informed Xu Wuyi that Frostwing and Furywind were retreating after the Feather Emperor’s death, and Xu Wuyi traveled with Jiang Muzhou to the northern front.
• Xu Wuyi met Shen Jin and Qin Wu, assessed the enemy’s retreat routes, and chose to strike Furywind’s disorganized Storm Temple forces first.
• The Federation fleet departed under Qin Wu and Shen Jin, destroyed a Feathered Human reconnaissance unit, and approached Furywind’s unfinished withdrawal.
• Furywind ordered his troops to abandon equipment and retreat at full speed, while the Federation fleet attacked and encircled the fleeing Storm Temple forces.

Xu Wuyi’s victory crippled the Feathered Humans’ northern forces and let the Federation seize their abandoned territories. After returning to Xingjing, he learned that the Federation would prioritize its new resources for his cultivation, while the Feathered Humans’ remaining forces still threatened the newly won front.

• Xu Wuyi watched the Federation fleet rout Furywind’s forces as Frostwing withdrew without intervening.
• Furywind ordered his surviving units to scatter, but Qin Wu and Shen Jin’s forces destroyed or captured many of them during a two-day pursuit.
• Shen Jin halted the chase and directed the Federation fleet to occupy the northern defense zones while Frostwing’s troops retreated safely toward the homeworld.
• The Federation spent a week claiming five outposts, more than twenty mineral veins, and three crop-growing planets, then summoned Xu Wuyi back to Xingjing.
• Lu Shaoyuan and Liu Yunshan briefed Xu Wuyi on the work required to secure the new territory, and Yang Shuyan announced that Shen Jin, Qin Wu, and Jiang Muzhou would help defend it.
• Lu Shaoyuan told Xu Wuyi that the Supreme Council would allocate the newly acquired resources to his cultivation first, while Xu Wuyi noted that Frostwing’s forces and the Feathered Humans’ defenses remained intact.

After killing the Feather Emperor, Xu Wuyi studied the emperor’s spatial force amplification and integrated a reduced version into his technique, “Break,” increasing his combat power. At a Supreme Council meeting, Federation leaders discussed how his victory had prompted major civilizations to seek closer ties, while a classified document introduced another development.

• Jiang Muzhou told Xu Wuyi that he had sensed a strange, unstable energy fluctuation near the Feathered Human Homeworld, matching one Xu Wuyi had noticed during the battle.
• Xu Wuyi analyzed the Feather Emperor’s spatial lever inside the Beast Pool and added nine spatial nodes to “Break,” giving the technique roughly one-and-a-half-fold amplification.
• Xu Wuyi tested his improved punch in the Beast Pool Space, tearing a huge hole in its canopy, then continued cultivating as his body adapted to the new force path.
• Lu Shaoyuan told the Supreme Council that Ye Yixin had requested another match and Charles had proposed closer martial-cultivation cooperation with the Federation.
• Liu Yunshan described how Ba Shan, Fielding, and Tatakule’s civilizations had also approached the Federation after Xu Wuyi killed the Feather Emperor.
• Lu Shaoyuan produced a one-page classified document made of a dark-gray substance marked with flowing energy patterns.

After the Federation learned that the Southern Martial Star Realm was preparing to assassinate Xu Wuyi, the Supreme Council assigned him to command on the Northern Front. There, he began receiving visiting civilizations seeking ties with the Federation, starting with Ba Shan of the Iron Wall Star Realm.

• Lu Shaoyuan said the Dawn Empire had proposed a comprehensive strategic partnership with the Federation, while the Southern Martial Star Realm was rallying nearby civilizations to delay the Federation’s expansion.
• Lu Shaoyuan revealed that the Southern Martial Star Realm had monitored Xu Wuyi at the Feathered Human Homeworld and that its assassin Yi Huainan was likely preparing to kill him; Xu Wuyi said his Order perception might detect Yi Huainan’s concealment.
• The Supreme Council assigned Xu Wuyi to command on the Northern Front, and he spent three days in Xingjing meeting Meng Qingqiu and other retired Divine Intent experts before departing with Jiang Muzhou.
• Xu Wuyi arrived at the Northern Front, where Shen Jin told him visitors from more than a dozen civilizations had come to seek relations with the Federation; Xu Wuyi agreed to meet them.
• Xu Wuyi began receiving the visitors, and Ba Shan of the Iron Wall Star Realm entered first with a heavy gift, congratulating him and recalling Xu Wuyi’s earlier offer to make him a teammate.

Xu Wuyi received gifts from visiting civilizations on the Northern Front and used the receptions and public appearances to lure Yi Huainan into striking. After half a month without a trace of the assassin, Xu Wuyi ordered the Federation to widen its search, and on the eighteenth day Jiang Muzhou brought news.

• Ba Shan, Fielding, and representatives of other civilizations presented Xu Wuyi with valuable gifts, while he displayed the Federation's Body Tempering Methods manual to visitors.
• Xu Wuyi told Shen Jin that he planned to use his public appearances as bait for Yi Huainan, relying on his Order perception and Jiang Muzhou's spatial perception to detect the assassin.
• Xu Wuyi continued his regular public schedule for half a month, but Yi Huainan did not appear, and the Federation's searches found no trace of his stealth ship.
• Jiang Muzhou reported that the search had covered five thousand kilometers around the spaceport without success, so Xu Wuyi ordered the Federation to expand its rotating scans to ten thousand kilometers.
• On the eighteenth day of the search, Jiang Muzhou brought Xu Wuyi news.

Xu Wuyi and Shen Jin set a passive surveillance net around a hidden Southern Martial Star Realm stealth ship, hoping to catch Yi Huainan when he returned to it. After Yi Huainan probed the area and detected no apparent response, he decided the Federation had not found him and prepared to leave his hiding place.

• Jiang Muzhou found a stealth ship matching Yi Huainan's vessel hidden deep in a Star Realm Rift and reported its location to Xu Wuyi.
• Xu Wuyi ordered Shen Jin to place passive surveillance around the rift and use the ship as bait while avoiding any signals that could alert Yi Huainan.
• Shen Jin deployed sixteen reconnaissance teams, and Xu Wuyi kept up his usual routine while monitoring the surrounding void with Order perception.
• After five days, Jiang Muzhou detected a brief trace of sensory-concealment Rules near the rift entrance, indicating that Yi Huainan had probed the area.
• Xu Wuyi concluded that Yi Huainan would need to return to the ship for intelligence, chose to intercept him there, and told Shen Jin that he should be returning soon.
• Yi Huainan left his five-day hiding place after finding no signs of Federation surveillance and concluded that the area was safe.

Yi Huainan discovered that the Federation had located his stealth ship, destroyed it, and escaped into deep space. There, he realized Xu Wuyi had found him and was closing in at tremendous speed.

• Yi Huainan reviewed intelligence reports about Xu Wuyi and spotted a surveillance net surrounding the fissure where his stealth ship was hidden.
• Yi Huainan destroyed the ship and fled into deep space, evading the Federation’s reconnaissance forces.
• Jiang Muzhou and Shen Jin searched the area but lost track of Yi Huainan after he escaped the encirclement.
• Yi Huainan sensed that someone was watching him and recognized the feeling from when Xu Wuyi had detected his hidden presence before.
• Yi Huainan concluded that Xu Wuyi was approaching through the Order Laws and fled in the opposite direction.

Xu Wuyi killed Yi Huainan after trapping him in an Order Prison and recovered a data chip from his body. The Federation’s victory brought a flood of diplomatic praise and visitors, while Jiang Muzhou and intelligence technicians finished decrypting the chip.

• Yi Huainan used shadow clones and concealment to flee, but Xu Wuyi trapped him inside an Order Prison and saw through his disguise.
• Xu Wuyi defeated Yi Huainan with three punches, killing him, then recovered a data chip and told Shen Jin the fight was over.
• The Federation announced that it had eliminated a Southern Martial Star Realm stealth ship, and other civilizations sent congratulatory letters and visitors to the Northern Front.
• Xu Wuyi continued meeting visitors while Jiang Muzhou and intelligence technicians worked to decrypt Yi Huainan’s chip.
• Several days later, the chip’s decryption was complete.