Chapter Summaries

After Yi Huainan’s death, the Federation used the data chip he carried to expose Southern Martial Star Realm’s assassination records and intelligence network, while Li Jingliu faced the consequences of his failed plan. Li Chengyuan warned that the assassination had exposed Southern Martial Star Realm’s collusion with the Feathered Humans, then traced a route from Federation territory toward Southern Martial Star Realm.

• Jiang Muzhou gave Xu Wuyi a report detailing the chip’s assassination records, combat analysis, and Federation intelligence network map.
• Yang Shuyan told Xu Wuyi that Yi Huainan had killed more than ten Divine Intent Grandmasters, including three missing Federation seniors, and that the Federation had begun dismantling Southern Martial Star Realm’s intelligence network.
• Lu Shaoyuan told Xu Wuyi that several civilizations had canceled assassination plans after Yi Huainan’s death, including a Verdant Wood Star Realm assassin who fled home.
• Li Jingliu reviewed Yi Huainan’s death and the loss of the data chip, then decided to seek an audience with Li Chengyuan as his advisors urged him to stabilize relations with the Federation and withdraw remaining agents.
• Li Jingliu admitted to Li Chengyuan that he had underestimated Xu Wuyi and explained why he thought Yi Huainan’s perception-obscuring rule could defeat him.
• Li Chengyuan warned Li Jingliu that the failed assassination had exposed Southern Martial Star Realm’s collusion with the Feathered Humans and would worsen its diplomatic position, then traced a route across the star map toward Southern Martial Star Realm.

Li Chengyuan persuaded Li Jingliu to prepare for war while prioritizing peace with the Federation, and Li Jingliu ordered a halt to hostile operations and began diplomatic outreach. The Federation weighed its leverage over the Southern Martial Star Realm and prepared to negotiate without treating the assassination attempt as settled.

• Li Chengyuan warned Li Jingliu that the Federation could retaliate through pressure, diplomacy, and covert action, and urged him to seek peace while preparing for war.
• Li Jingliu ordered Southern Martial personnel to stop hostile operations against the Federation, sent a conciliatory state letter, adjusted troop deployments, and recalled Shadow Temple personnel.
• Li Jingliu defended the orders to his advisors, saying the Southern Martial Star Realm needed time more than face, and burned Yi Huainan's battle report.
• Yang Shuyan reported that Yi Huainan's decrypted data chip exposed assassination records, intelligence networks, and contacts between Southern Martial and the Feathered Humans, while Shen Jin and Qin Wu advised keeping the information secret as leverage.
• Shen Jin reported that the Northern Front was stable, and Lu Shaoyuan concluded that the Federation could negotiate with Southern Martial while maintaining firm conditions and treating the assassination attempt as an unresolved declaration of war.

Xu Wuyi spent months refining his cultivation and designed a new method, “Refine,” to increase how efficiently his body absorbed medicinal materials. After completing his first internal experiment, the chapter left its results unknown.

• Shen Jin and Qin Wu watched Federation transports deliver supplies to the newly occupied Northern Front stronghold while discussing Frostwing’s intact forces and Xu Wuyi’s return to the homeland.
• Lin Jianyi learned that the Insectoids had redirected their expansion southwest and ordered reconnaissance units to investigate the unexplored region cautiously.
• Zou Mu and Liaison Officer Zhou watched the Six-Armed Star Realm arrive at a Central Front trading platform to negotiate over newly occupied mineral veins.
• Xu Wuyi studied the limits of his cultivation efficiency and developed the idea of combining the Hundred Refinements Furnace with Star Beast digestion methods.
• Xu Wuyi spent months testing himself in Beast Pool simulations, optimized “Break,” and saw “New Chapter of Blood and Qi” approved for Federation-wide use.
• Xu Wuyi studied Star Beast digestive systems and human digestion, constructed a plan for “Refine,” and conducted his first experiment within his own body.

Xu Wuyi spent a year and a half refining Qin and Refine into a stable cultivation system, then resumed daily life while the Federation expanded across the Astral Battlefield. The chapter leaves him taking a brief respite as the Federation monitors strange ruins on the Southern Front and maintains its growing influence.

• Xu Wuyi tested Refine on many resources, added energy-buffering layers, and optimized the technique until it processed powerful ingredients with minimal fluctuations.
• Xu Wuyi spent four months cultivating in seclusion, raising his energy crystal density and bone-cell order force output, but concluded that learning about Celestial Beings was necessary to advance further.
• Xu Wuyi organized Qin and Refine into a self-reinforcing cultivation system and used Break with nine space nodes to blast a much larger hole through the Beast Pool sky than before.
• Xu Wuyi left his villa for a walk along Linjiang's river, read messages from Lu Shaoyuan, Shen Jin, and Yang Shuyan, and told Yang Shuyan to keep monitoring the Insectoid Race.
• The Federation expanded on the Northern and Central Fronts while Frostwing stayed within the Feathered Human homeworld's defenses and Furywind's remaining forces disappeared.
• Federation reconnaissance troops found unfamiliar, energy-rich ruins on the Southern Front, and Lin Jianyi urged the Military Department to avoid them, so it designated the area a restricted zone.

After the Demon Blade Star Realm denied supporting the Southern Martial Star Realm’s assassination attempt, Xu Wuyi traveled to its homeworld to confront its strongest saber grandmaster, Duan Nian. He broke through both planetary barriers and arrived at the Demon Blade Dojo, where its guards faced him without daring to attack.

• The Federation prepared Xu Wuyi to punish the Demon Blade Star Realm for secretly supporting the assassination attempt against him.
• Xu Wuyi ended his year-and-a-half seclusion, received high-grade medicinal ingredients and minerals, and refined them to raise his strength.
• After the Demon Blade Star Realm rejected the Federation’s accusations, Xu Wuyi set out to challenge Duan Nian.
• Xu Wuyi traveled aboard a transport ship and then a Stealth Recon Ship to the Demon Blade Homeworld, refining the remaining resources along the way.
• Xu Wuyi tore through the homeworld’s two energy barriers and located Duan Nian at the Demon Blade Dojo.
• The guards drew their sabers when Xu Wuyi landed outside the dojo, but none dared strike first.

Xu Wuyi entered the Demon Blade Dojo and defeated Duan Nian with one punch, leaving the saber grandmaster gravely wounded and slowly dying from Order Force. Xu Wuyi returned to the Star Origin Federation, while hoping that someone capable of saving Duan Nian would appear and give him a worthy opponent.

• Xu Wuyi entered the Demon Blade Dojo, where Duan Nian revealed that he had long waited for a chance to fight him.
• Duan Nian unleashed Myriad Blades Return to the Sect, but Xu Wuyi countered with one punch that shattered the dojo’s sabers and crushed Duan Nian’s chest.
• Duan Nian’s saber struck Xu Wuyi between the brows but failed to pierce his skin, while Order Force spread through Duan Nian and left him with less than a month to live.
• Xu Wuyi left the Demon Blade Homeworld as its guards lowered their weapons, then told the officer surnamed Wang that Duan Nian was not yet dead but would not survive a month.
• Aboard the Stealth Recon Ship bound for the Federation, Xu Wuyi recovered his energy and considered that someone strong enough to save Duan Nian could provide him with a challenging fight.

Xu Wuyi’s attack left Duan Nian dying from an order force that resisted every attempt at treatment. Kong Chan failed to save him and lost his right arm, leaving Li Jingliu without a way to help the Demon Blade Star Realm.

• Xu Wuyi returned to Federation territory as surveillance footage of his punch crippling Duan Nian spread across the Astral Battlefield.
• The Demon Blade Star Realm’s emperor ordered physicians and Divine Intent Grandmasters to save Duan Nian, but their treatments failed and the order force destroyed their equipment and injured one grandmaster.
• Civilizations fearing Xu Wuyi’s order force moved to improve relations with the Federation, while Li Jingliu decided to summon Kong Chan to treat Duan Nian.
• Kong Chan used Void Vortex to draw out the order force, but it counterattacked and spread into his arm, forcing him to sever it.
• Kong Chan told the physicians that Duan Nian could not be saved, and Li Jingliu received the news in silence.

After Kong Chan lost an arm and Duan Nian died from Xu Wuyi’s power of Order, civilizations across the Astral Battlefield moved closer to the Federation. The True Dragon Star Realm shared information about the Celestial Being realm with Xu Wuyi, who learned that its breakthrough began with a painful energy-draining void.

• Li Jingliu asked the Star Origin Federation about negotiations, while intelligence agencies reassessed the danger of opposing Xu Wuyi after Kong Chan lost his right arm.
• Xu Wuyi explained how the power of Order had struck back through Kong Chan’s energy pathway, then continued refining Energy Crystals as his cultivation density rose.
• Duan Nian died in the Demon Blade Dojo, prompting the Azure Star Realm and True Dragon Star Realm to acknowledge Xu Wuyi’s strength and several civilizations to offer the Federation support.
• Lu Shaoyuan told Xu Wuyi that the True Dragon Star Realm would share materials on the Celestial Being realm, and Xu Wuyi resolved to become stronger.
• Xu Wuyi studied the materials and learned that becoming a Celestial Being required a leap into a self-circulating Dao Body, preceded by a critical point in which a void absorbed the cultivator’s energy.

After exhausting the Federation’s high-grade resources, Xu Wuyi decided to raid the Feathered Humans’ heartland and Nanwu’s home territory for more. He reached a Feathered Human mining region and flew openly toward its first guarded mining site.

• Xu Wuyi refined the Federation’s remaining high-grade resources over two months, raising his physical strength and exhausting the available supplies.
• After Lu Shaoyuan proposed the Feathered Humans’ heartland and Nanwu’s home territory as new resource sources, Xu Wuyi chose to visit both, starting with the Feathered Humans.
• Xu Wuyi departed Linjiang aboard a high-speed transport ship and transferred to a Stealth Recon Ship bound for the Feathered Humans’ heartland.
• Xu Wuyi selected a mineral-rich star region near the Feathered Human Homeworld despite the risk that Frostwing’s forces could respond.
• Xu Wuyi entered the asteroid belt and flew openly toward its nearest Feathered Human mining site, whose early-warning system detected him.

Xu Wuyi raided Feathered Human mining sites and gathered a vast haul of rare resources before attacking the heavily fortified Feathered Human Homeworld. He destroyed its defenses and confronted Frostwing and Nightwing at the ruins of the imperial palace.

• Xu Wuyi destroyed the transport ships and collected mined energy crystals at three Feathered Human mining sites, while their garrisons remained too afraid to resist.
• Xu Wuyi swept through six star regions over five days, gathering resources until his storage bag was full, then learned the Federation fleet would arrive in seven days.
• Xu Wuyi chose to attack the Feathered Human Homeworld despite its rebuilt defenses and the officer surnamed Wang's warning about a possible ambush.
• Xu Wuyi slipped past Nightwing's detection traps, punched through the three energy barriers, and destroyed the homeworld's defensive batteries.
• Xu Wuyi shattered the rule-based dome over the imperial palace ruins with Break and found Frostwing and Nightwing waiting in the crater.

Xu Wuyi defeated the Feathered Human Civilization’s leaders on their homeworld and forced Frostwing to agree to a ceasefire and the transfer of resources to the Federation. The Federation took control of the territory, and the Feathered Human Civilization was formally made a subsidiary civilization.

• Frostwing and Nightwing confronted Xu Wuyi with the Feathered Human Civilization’s remaining elite guards, but Xu Wuyi wounded Frostwing and struck Nightwing down within two breaths.
• Xu Wuyi spared Frostwing and demanded that Feathered forces stop fighting the Federation and hand over their high-grade resource sites and cultivation bases; Frostwing agreed.
• Xu Wuyi told Frostwing to contact Furywind and end his resistance, then returned to the Federation fleet with Officer Wang.
• Seven days later, Shen Jin, Qin Wu, and Jiang Muzhou arrived with the Federation fleet to take over and garrison the Feathered Human interior.
• Shen Jin told Xu Wuyi that the Supreme Council had disbanded the Feathered Human military and incorporated its territory and resources into the Federation, making it a subsidiary civilization.

Xu Wuyi chose to travel to the Southern Martial Star Realm to obtain high-grade resources after the crystals from the Feathered Human heartland stopped improving his body effectively. After reaching Nanwu's outer space, he selected its largest high-energy mineral mining zone as his first target, despite its defenses and proximity to the homeworld.

• Shen Jin told Xu Wuyi that the Federation's and Feathered Human heartland's resources were no longer sufficient, and recommended the Southern Martial Star Realm.
• Xu Wuyi arranged to visit Nanwu in half a month and asked Chairman Lu to have military intelligence map its high-grade resources.
• Xu Wuyi studied the Southern Martial Star Realm's intelligence, finished refining his remaining crystals, and departed with Captain Liu's transport ship and two stealth recon ships as escorts.
• After five days, Xu Wuyi transferred to the recon ship commanded by the officer surnamed Wang and reviewed the resource map and Nanwu's defenses.
• Xu Wuyi selected the high-energy mineral mining zone near the homeworld, and the officer surnamed Wang warned him that its defenses and reinforcements could pose a threat.
• Xu Wuyi said half a day was enough and continued toward the mining zone aboard the stealth recon ship.

Xu Wuyi breached Southern Martial Star Realm’s mining zone and seized an artificial energy core whose unfamiliar spiral technology surpassed his understanding. After studying its structure aboard the hidden reconnaissance ship, he waited for Southern Martial’s court to respond to his demand for resources.

• Xu Wuyi flew past Southern Martial Star Realm’s detection sensors and identified an intensely unstable energy source inside the mining zone.
• Xu Wuyi punched through three energy barriers, destroyed the defensive turrets, and extracted a deep-purple artificial energy core from an asteroid.
• Xu Wuyi told the Southern Martial soldiers to inform Southern Martial Emperor Li Chengyuan that he wanted resources, not war, and then returned to the reconnaissance ship.
• Xu Wuyi studied the core and discovered that its spiral runes recombined energy into different forms, revealing the principle behind Southern Martial’s artificial energy core technology.
• Xu Wuyi considered incorporating the spiral structure into Refine and Break, then waited for an envoy to bring Li Chengyuan’s answer.

Li Chengyuan rejected Li Jingliu’s plan to attack Xu Wuyi and sent Zhou Bingzheng to learn his intentions. Xu Wuyi demanded the Southern Martial Star Realm’s Artificial Energy Cores and their technical files, gave it half a month to comply, and prepared to keep raiding its resources.

• Li Jingliu urged Li Chengyuan to gather the Southern Martial Star Realm’s forces and kill Xu Wuyi, but Li Chengyuan judged the cost too great and ordered Zhou Bingzheng to negotiate.
• Zhou Bingzheng traveled by an unarmed transport ship to meet Xu Wuyi, realizing that Xu Wuyi likely sought the Artificial Energy Core technology.
• Xu Wuyi demanded all the region’s Artificial Energy Cores and their technical documentation, and gave the Southern Martial Star Realm half a month to surrender them before he went to its homeworld.
• Zhou Bingzheng warned that seizing the technology would make the Southern Martial Star Realm the Federation’s eternal enemy, but Xu Wuyi cited its past actions against the Federation and refused to relent.
• Xu Wuyi said he would spend the next half month visiting local mining zones and cultivation bases, while Zhou Bingzheng returned to report his ultimatum.

Xu Wuyi demanded the Southern Martial Star Realm surrender its artificial energy cores and technical materials, warning he would take them himself in half a month. Li Chengyuan prepared for the Three Elders’ possible defeat by giving Li Jingliu an order for unconditional surrender, while the Three Elders went to confront Xu Wuyi.

• Xu Wuyi told Officer Wang that they would raid nearby resource sites while he studied the artificial energy core, and he still planned to address the homeworld in half a month.
• Zhou Bingzheng reported Xu Wuyi’s demands and threat to Li Jingliu, who asked whether the Southern Martial Star Realm could defeat him at any cost.
• Zhou Bingzheng warned that fighting Xu Wuyi could cost the Three Elders, many Divine Intent wielders, the homeworld’s defenses, and vital resources.
• Li Jingliu and Zhou Bingzheng told Li Chengyuan about Xu Wuyi’s demands, and Li Chengyuan agreed that Xu Wuyi was taking revenge for Yi Huainan’s blade.
• Li Chengyuan revealed that Jiang Potian, Iron Mountain, and Shadowless had already gone to find Xu Wuyi, then prepared for their defeat by writing an unconditional surrender order for Li Jingliu to send to Lu Shaoyuan.

Li Chengyuan continued to wait for an uncertain outcome while carrying the burden of preserving his country. On the Astral Battlefield, Xu Wuyi fought the South Martial Three Elders and defeated each of them with a single punch.

• Li Chengyuan reflected on his father's last words, decided he would do whatever was necessary to preserve the country, and returned to reviewing memorials.
• Xu Wuyi studied the deep-purple sphere before the South Martial Three Elders—Jiang Potian, Iron Mountain, and Shadowless—arrived and challenged him to a three-on-one fight.
• Jiang Potian attacked with a hand-blade strike, and Xu Wuyi answered with a punch that tore through the attack and injured Jiang.
• Xu Wuyi struck Jiang a second time, shattering his blade attack and sending him tumbling away with severe chest injuries.
• Iron Mountain charged Xu Wuyi, who caught his fist and shattered his hand with a counterpunch.
• Shadowless cut at Xu Wuyi's Order laws, but Xu Wuyi struck him in the chest and sent him crashing into an asteroid; all three Elders were defeated after one punch each.

After the Three Elders were defeated by Xu Wuyi, Jiang Potian told Li Jingliu that Southern Martial could not stop him. Li Chengyuan chose surrender and ordered the court to accept Xu Wuyi’s demands, leaving the realm’s fate dependent on his response.

• Xu Wuyi watched Jiang Potian, Iron Mountain, and Shadowless retreat after Jiang declared the Three Elders had lost and would no longer interfere in Southern Martial affairs.
• The injured Three Elders returned to the Southern Martial Homeworld, where physicians treated them and reported that Iron Mountain’s arm could not be restored with current technology.
• Jiang Potian told Li Jingliu that Xu Wuyi’s understanding of rules surpassed theirs and that he would not fight again because his martial heart had shattered.
• Li Jingliu returned to the imperial palace and told Li Chengyuan that the Three Elders could not stop Xu Wuyi.
• Li Chengyuan decided to surrender, ordering the court to send its memorial to Lu Shaoyuan and accept all of Xu Wuyi’s conditions.
• Li Chengyuan told Li Jingliu that surrender was necessary to preserve a chance for the future, but admitted he did not know whether Xu Wuyi would spare Southern Martial.

The Southern Martial Star Realm surrendered to Xu Wuyi and handed over its artificial energy cores and complete technical records. Xu Wuyi began analyzing the cores and improving through their energy, while Li Chengyuan offered to send him legends and conjectures about becoming a Celestial Being.

• Li Chengyuan sent a surrender memorial to the Star Origin Federation and dispatched Zhao Zhiyuan to deliver his acceptance of Xu Wuyi’s conditions.
• Xu Wuyi told Zhao Zhiyuan he would visit the Southern Martial Homeworld in ten days to select the artificial energy cores and collect their technical documentation, and directed Li Chengyuan to discuss the Federation’s treatment of Southern Martial with Chairman Lu.
• Xu Wuyi spent ten days refining Energy Crystals, studying the cores’ rune structures, and recording data, increasing his Energy Crystal density to 21.5 percent and identifying seven rune layers as the cores’ stability limit.
• Xu Wuyi arrived at the Southern Martial Homeworld, where Li Chengyuan and Li Jingliu welcomed him and presented 372 artificial energy cores and the complete technical archives.
• Xu Wuyi claimed the cores and records, agreed to receive Southern Martial’s materials on Celestial Beings, and left the realm’s future dealings with the Federation to Chairman Lu.

Xu Wuyi returned to the Federation with hundreds of Southern Martial artificial energy cores and concluded their technology was limited by a fixed underlying framework. After testing Level Seven cores and his own strength, he began using the Beast Pool to measure his power, leaving the Golden-Scaled Beast alive after healing it.

• Xu Wuyi studied all 372 artificial energy cores aboard the transport ship and concluded their shared spiral-based design imposed a ceiling on the technology.
• Xu Wuyi returned to Xingjing, where Lu Shaoyuan, Shen Jin, Liu Yunshan, and Yang Shuyan welcomed him and learned he had brought back the cores and technical materials.
• After returning to Linjiang, Xu Wuyi handed most of the cores and copied materials to the Federation, then refined Level Seven cores until his Energy Crystal density rose to 22.5 percent and his tolerance reduced their effect.
• Xu Wuyi found that the crystal wall could no longer accurately measure his punching strength, so he entered the Beast Pool to test himself against a maximum-strength Beast King-level Golden-Scaled Beast.
• Xu Wuyi defeated the Golden-Scaled Beast with his punches, then used Order power to heal it, confusing the restored beast.

Xu Wuyi studied Artificial Energy Core Technology and concluded that its framework could only advance to the Tier Two peak, which he eventually reached after refining hundreds of cores. With his cultivation stalled at the limit, he asked Lu Shaoyuan to obtain information about the Celestial Being Realm from the Azure Star Realm and the True Dragon Star Realm.

• Xu Wuyi reviewed the Beast Pool data and found that Refine had increased his punching force by about sixty percent.
• Xu Wuyi studied the energy-core manuscripts, traced the technology’s development from Li Xuance’s breakthrough, and concluded its seven-layer helix was a limit imposed by its framework.
• Xu Wuyi used Order Laws to simulate energy-core production, identified the framework’s limits, and decided to focus on reaching the Tier Two peak.
• Xu Wuyi spent a year cultivating and refining 372 energy cores, then received the Beast Pool’s assessment that he had reached the Tier Two limit.
• Xu Wuyi called Lu Shaoyuan and requested Celestial Being Realm information from the True Dragon Star Realm and the Azure Star Realm.
• Xu Wuyi chose to approach the Azure Star Realm first, and Lu Shaoyuan agreed to send a diplomatic note within three days.