Recaps

Jiang Changkong arrived at the Overseas Island wilderness development competition and faced Sha Hongtao in the opening one-on-one match. He shattered Sha Hongtao’s yellow sand array and sent him flying, but Sha Hongtao reformed and the fight continued.

• Lord Lei arrived and agreed to begin the competition after Jiang Changkong arrived with forty-nine teammates.
• The competitors drew stone slabs for the opening matches, and Jiang Changkong drew number two and was paired with Sha Hongtao.
• Sha Hongtao introduced himself and trapped Jiang Changkong inside a yellow sand array powered by a golden hourglass.
• Jiang Changkong unleashed One Slash—Sunset, scattering the yellow sand and knocking the golden hourglass away.
• Sha Hongtao’s body split apart but reformed from yellow sand.

Jiang Changkong defeated Sha Hongtao, who advised him to deepen his understanding of Star Power, and Ye Qiushui gave him Ye Nan’s cultivation notes. Lord Lei then warned Jiang that the Ye Family and other powers hoped to use him to uncover Ye Nan’s fate and draw out the Immortal Palace, which was already preparing to target him.

• Jiang Changkong shattered Sha Hongtao’s yellow-sand space with his Force Pattern Star Body and won their battle.
• Sha Hongtao praised Jiang Changkong’s strength but advised him to study the subtle applications of Star Power.
• Ye Qiushui gave Jiang Changkong Ye Nan’s cultivation notes and said the Ye Family hoped he would protect them.
• Lord Lei told Jiang Changkong that Ye Nan’s fate was tied to the Immortal Palace and that the Ye Family intended to use Jiang to find him.
• Lord Lei warned that the Immortal Palace and other powers were watching Jiang’s Star Bodies, but Jiang said he was ready to face them.

Jiang Changkong watched the first round of battles before drawing Shui Wujiang’s team as his opponent in the next team match. Shui Wujiang unleashed a powerful water array against Jiang Changkong’s group, but Jiang Changkong remained confident and challenged him to attack.

• Jiang Changkong returned to his team after Lord Lei warned him to contact Qinglan if anything unexpected happened.
• The first round ended with twenty-one martial artists remaining, and the number-zero martial artist selected a defeated challenger, who eventually won.
• Shui Wujiang mocked Jiang Changkong’s luck, and Ye Qiushui identified him as a late-stage Stellar Realm martial artist with perfected water-attributed Star Power and a tenth-order killing array.
• Lord Lei announced a team battle to select twelve competitors, and Jiang Changkong drew number three against Shui Wujiang’s number nine.
• Shui Wujiang assembled forty-nine water-attributed martial artists into an array and sent an ocean sweeping over Jiang Changkong’s team, while Jiang Changkong shielded them with the Holy Sun and told Shui Wujiang to make his move.

Jiang Changkong defeated Shui Wujiang’s fifty-person team by breaking their combined star array, then repeatedly slapped Shui Wujiang until Lord Lei declared Jiang Changkong the winner. Jiang Changkong returned the stone tablet and left with his teammates, while Lord Lei ordered the humiliated Shui Wujiang to return it to the Federation.

• Shui Wujiang trapped Jiang Changkong inside a combined star array powered by fifty people, but Jiang Changkong examined its structure and destroyed it with a single burst of force.
• Jiang Changkong broke free, shattered the blue giant, and sent Shui Wujiang and the other forty-nine fighters flying.
• Shui Wujiang tried to attack again, but Jiang Changkong slapped him back into the sea each time and warned that he could kill him before he rebuilt the array.
• Lord Lei declared Jiang Changkong the winner, and Jiang Changkong returned the stone tablet and led his teammates away.
• Lord Lei called for Shui Wujiang to emerge and return the stone tablet to the Federation.

After defeating Shui Wujiang, Jiang Changkong visited Sha Hongtao’s territory, where Sha shared insights about cultivating and applying Star Power. Sha also told him of a mysterious, powerful late Star Realm swordsman whom his brother believed might not be from Earth, then warned Jiang that he might face Jiang Jiuqiao tomorrow.

• Shui Wujiang emerged from the sea after losing, and Sha Hongtao praised Jiang Changkong for defeating him.
• Sha Hongtao invited Jiang Changkong to his territory, where Jiang’s teammates explored while the two talked.
• Sha Hongtao explained how Star Realm martial artists cultivate stars within themselves and how observing nature can deepen their command of Star Power.
• Sha Hongtao advised that Jiang Changkong’s strength and foundation were formidable, but his rapid cultivation had left him with less experience developing techniques.
• Sha Hongtao described a mysterious late Star Realm swordsman who defeated a peak Star Realm opponent with one strike, and said his brother suspected the person was not from Earth.
• Sha Hongtao told Jiang Changkong to be ready to face Jiang Jiuqiao the following day.

Jiang Changkong studied how different Star Powers and star arrays worked together, then used Sha Hongtao’s secret art and the Nan Family’s solar cultivation insights to comprehend the sun. He turned into a ray of sunlight and began his study while the wilderness-expansion war remained underway.

• Sha Hongtao explained how Star Powers could reinforce one another and gave Jiang Changkong a secret chamber and an art for merging with heaven and earth.
• Jiang Changkong studied Ye Nan’s water cultivation notes and concluded that martial techniques shaped the natural routes of Star Power.
• Jiang Changkong requested solar cultivation insights from the Nan Family and studied their applications and star arrays.
• Jiang Changkong used the secret art to merge with sunlight, causing Ye Qiushui and the others to wonder where he had gone.
• Sha Hongtao reassured Ye Qiushui that he would wake Jiang Changkong if needed, while Jiang Changkong drifted through the territory as a ray of sunlight.
• Jiang Changkong encountered a grain of yellow sand and recognized it as Sha Hongtao’s second brother, a peak Stellar Realm expert.

Jiang Changkong deepened his Solar Star Power comprehension, then entered the reclamation competition and fought a wind-attributed team. As his attacks cracked the opponent’s space, their leader tried to ambush Jiang Changkong’s teammates.

• Jiang Changkong spent several days practicing Solar Star Power while Ye Qiushui and the others rested in Sha Hongtao’s territory.
• Lord Lei summoned Jiang Changkong, urged him to secure first place, revealed the richest reclamation plots, and gave him a lightning-attributed near-divine cultivation technique.
• Jiang Changkong led his team to the competition grounds, where Shui Wujiang threatened to take revenge on him.
• Jiang Changkong drew the wind-attributed team and used Holy Sun, Golden Crow, and Sunset techniques to crack their azure space.
• The opposing team leader emerged from the azure space and rushed toward Jiang Changkong’s Star Spirit peak teammates.

Jiang Changkong advanced through the wasteland battles while studying other warriors’ Star Power, and Ye Qiushui gave him a Lunar Sword fragment she said came from Ye Nan. By the eighth day, Jiang Changkong faced Jiang Jiuqiao’s powerful team and prepared to test their teamwork.

• Jiang Changkong defeated a late-stage Stellar warrior, returned the stone slab to Lord Lei, and promised his teammates he would carry them to victory.
• Jiang Changkong observed Jiang Jiuqiao’s team using complementary wind, sand, water, and fire Star Power to defeat their opponents.
• Ye Qiushui gave Jiang Changkong a Lunar Sword fragment left by her grandfather Ye Nan, and Jiang Changkong accepted it while avoiding her questions about investigating Ye Nan.
• The battles resumed the next morning, and Jiang Changkong defeated another team before vanishing into the sunlight to study its power.
• On the eighth day, Jiang Changkong faced Jiang Jiuqiao’s team, and both sides agreed to fight without holding back.

Jiang Changkong entered the fifty-star array and endured its combined powers to understand how it balanced and amplified different kinds of Star Power. He broke the array with his new Taiji Unity technique, won the battle, and left with insight that could strengthen the technique further.

• Jiang Changkong stepped into the four-attribute star array alone and tested its power with his Taiji Diagram and Spirit Controlling Formula.
• Jiang Changkong realized the array used containment and balance rather than true fusion, then pressured the fifty fighters to reveal its structure.
• Hai Hongzhen urged the fighters to continue helping Jiang Changkong gain insight, and the fifty stars unleashed their full power.
• Jiang Changkong understood how the massive star array maintained balance and thanked the fighters before using Taiji Unity.
• Jiang Changkong's Taiji Unity absorbed and combined the array's powers, shattered the formation, and left all fifty fighters unharmed as they conceded defeat.

Jiang Changkong defeated Shui Wujiang in the final battle on Overseas Island and secured leadership of its competitors. At a celebratory banquet, Sha Hongtao warned him that someone named Xing Mang was smearing his reputation.

• Jiang Jiuqiao admitted regretting that he had rejected Jiang Changkong’s offer and promised to join him in the final battle if trouble arose.
• Shui Wujiang challenged Jiang Changkong with a damaged top-grade weapon, but Jiang Changkong destroyed his giant manifestation and slapped him into the seabed.
• Lord Lei declared Jiang Changkong the winner, and Jiang Changkong selected two territories as the competition on Overseas Island ended.
• Jiang Changkong invited the other lords to a banquet, where they toasted their cooperation and celebrated their expanded territories.
• Sha Hongtao asked whether Jiang Changkong had a grudge against the Galaxy Martial Arts Association and said Xing Mang was maliciously smearing his reputation.

Jiang Changkong considered how to refine and fully develop his Star Power, but the late-stage Stellar martial artists could not answer his questions. After two days studying sunlight without success, he set out with eight martial artists for the next exploration battle, while Shui Wujiang had gone ahead alone.

• Xing Mang and members of his Exploration Team criticized Jiang Changkong online for relying on vast reserves of Star Power rather than mastering it, and Jiang Changkong agreed that he still had room to improve.
• Jiang Changkong asked Sha Hongtao and the others about compressing Star Power and whether he could transform all his power into a single, extraordinarily potent point, but they said the method would overwhelm the body.
• Jiang Changkong theorized that one drop of Star Power could become one star by dispersing into a particle of sunlight, potentially letting him challenge top-tier martial artists, but he had no proof or guidance.
• After the banquet, Jiang Changkong spent two days merging with heaven and earth to study sunlight, but gained no results.
• Jiang Changkong learned that Shui Wujiang had left alone, then departed with eight late-stage Stellar martial artists for the exploration battle.

Jiang Changkong was challenged by a golden-robed youth who wanted to test the peerless genius rumored about online. Jiang Changkong overwhelmed him and repeatedly shattered his regenerating body while Ye Qiushui broadcast the fight online.

• Jiang Changkong and the others traveled through the Void Realm as Feng Tianmao and Ye Qiushui discussed the Star Demons and the search for immortality and godhood.
• A golden-robed youth attacked Jiang Changkong, claiming he had come to test the genius he had heard about online.
• Jiang Changkong blocked the youth’s sword attacks, then used his Three-Zhang Golden Body to shatter the youth with a single punch.
• The youth repeatedly regenerated and exploded as Jiang Changkong took his golden longsword.
• Ye Qiushui announced online that the supposed peerless genius was a fake being brutally crushed, and Jiang Changkong realized the fight was being recorded.

Jiang Changkong killed the Galaxy Martial Arts Association fighter who tried to expose him, then continued to the land reclamation battle’s venue. After warning him about stronger rivals, his friends left, and he raised all eight martial arts to Minor Mastery, reaching the mid Stellar Realm.

• Jiang Changkong killed the golden-robed young man, absorbed his soul, and took his spatial equipment after seeing the hostile live broadcast.
• Huo Qinglan told Jiang Changkong that the Federation had warned the Galaxy Martial Arts Association, and he counted the resources he had taken from his opponent.
• Jiang Changkong and his companions reached the Overseas Island region, where Federation personnel gave them rooms to rest before the battle.
• Heng Xi, Nan Zhaokong, and Yao Qing visited Jiang Changkong, congratulated him, and warned him that the Galaxy and Heavenly Star Martial Arts Associations had recruited stronger geniuses.
• Jiang Changkong returned to his room and raised his remaining martial arts to Minor Mastery, bringing all eight martial arts to that level and reaching the mid Stellar Realm.

Jiang Changkong considered how to carve star arrays across his body and strengthen himself, then received research materials and a dangerous proposal from Liangqiu Xuanyi. She told him that the specially approved Martial Arts Association would target him after the pioneering operation and revealed that someone mysterious was hidden in Galaxy's squad.

• Jiang Changkong reasoned that treating his body as a star and covering it with star arrays might let him withstand immense power, but decided to proceed cautiously and keep studying the Holy Sun.
• On the night before the battle, a surveillance device led Jiang Changkong to Liangqiu Xuanyi, who gave him Immortal Palace research on lunar and solar cultivation and the path of white clouds.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi warned that the specially approved Martial Arts Association would move against Jiang Changkong after the pioneering operation and asked him to choose a decisive-battle location.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi offered to take Jiang Changkong to the Immortal Palace, directing him to lure his opponents to the place where Ye Nan had last disappeared.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi gave Jiang Changkong a bead for contact and warned him that a person with mysterious origins was hidden in Galaxy's squad before she hurried away.

Jiang Changkong discovered balanced star arrays that could strengthen his body and asked two experts to inscribe the Force Pattern and Solar arrays on him. The arrays merged without clashing, and he began to wonder whether the Immortal Palaces also possessed a Solar Star Array.

• Jiang Changkong studied the Immortal Palaces' research and found three star arrays that could balance the Force Pattern, lunar, and solar powers.
• Jiang Changkong summoned late Stellar realm experts from the Nan Family and the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce to inscribe arrays on his body.
• The two experts branded the Force Pattern and Solar Star Arrays into Jiang Changkong while he endured intense pain.
• Jiang Changkong guided the Force Pattern Array into place and noticed that his force patterns grew thicker and more powerful.
• Jiang Changkong recognized matching arrays among his diagrams and wondered whether the Immortal Palaces had a Solar Star Array.
• After two hours, the experts finished the inscriptions, and Jiang Changkong thanked them as they warned him not to ask them to do it again.

Jiang Changkong inscribed the Lunar Battle Body star array, gaining the ability to merge with Lunar and Solar Star Power, then went to the wilderness reclamation competition. He crushed Tie Yuanlong in their first match and left him defeated again as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Changkong inscribed the Lunar Battle Body star array and discovered that his star arrays let him merge with Lunar and Solar Star Power and conceal themselves when inactive.
• Jiang Changkong and the other teams traveled to the final-battle arena, where the rules were changed to reserve six wastelands for specially approved teams.
• Jiang Changkong drew Great Province’s Tie Yuanlong as his opponent and faced the metal-attributed team in Arena Three.
• Tie Yuanlong’s team formed the Golden Light Star-Shattering Array, but Jiang Changkong shattered its giant golden sword with one punch and killed Tie Yuanlong.
• Jiang Changkong repeatedly struck Tie Yuanlong with Sunset, Piercing Clouds, Breaking Sun, and the Taiji Diagram; when Tie Yuanlong reformed and shouted, Jiang Changkong knocked him down again.

Jiang Changkong continued winning the competition with ease until he faced Tianhen and the Heavenly Star Squad on the seventh day. Tianhen invited him to join the Heavenly Star Martial Arts Association, then challenged him with the All-Heavens Star Array, which Jiang Changkong prepared to break by another method.

• Jiang Changkong defeated Tie Yuanlong so thoroughly that Lord Lei said killing was forbidden but beating someone into an idiot was not.
• Jiang Changkong exchanged taunts with Qiu Yun and Xing Mang, then continued merging with heaven and earth as the competition went on.
• Jiang Changkong led his team to more effortless victories, while online discussion grew and Huo Qinglan reported that the Federation was nurturing him as a candidate for a top-tier martial artist.
• On the seventh day, Tianhen invited Jiang Changkong to join the Heavenly Star Martial Arts Association and offered to concede, but Jiang Changkong refused.
• Tianhen formed the All-Heavens Star Array around Jiang Changkong, who decided to break it by another method.

Jiang Changkong broke the Heavenly Star Martial Arts Association’s Near-God Killing Array without injuring its fifty Star Realm martial artists, then rejected an offer to become its vice president. After Huo Qinglan investigated the offer, she sent him a photograph of Hua Tianrui, leaving him wondering what connection she had to the association.

• Jiang Changkong used his Star Bodies, Star Power, and Sunset Blade to shatter Tianhen’s array while protecting everyone inside it.
• Tianhen admitted defeat and offered Jiang Changkong the Heavenly Star Martial Arts Association’s vice presidency, but Jiang refused because he was accustomed to being president.
• Jiang Changkong asked Huo Qinglan to investigate why the association wanted him, then rested and recovered for his coming battle with the Stellar Radiance Martial Arts Association.
• Huo Qinglan sent Jiang Changkong a photograph of Hua Tianrui and asked about his relationship with her.
• Jiang Changkong asked Huo Qinglan what Hua Tianrui had to do with the Heavenly Star Martial Arts Association.

Jiang Changkong learned more about Hua Tianrui and questioned why the Heavenly Star Martial Arts Association valued her Near-God treasure so highly. When he faced Xing Mang’s team, they trapped his squad in an incomplete Near-God Killing Array that drained Star Power, and Jiang Changkong began to counter it.

• Huo Qinglan asked about Hua Tianrui, and Jiang Changkong explained that she was an ancient Near-God monster who had fallen from the starry sky.
• Jiang Changkong resumed comprehending heaven and earth as the frontier development war intensified, while his team’s victories made him a Federation candidate for top-tier martial artist.
• Jiang Changkong met Xing Mang’s team in the arena, where Xing Mang planned to weaken him before Gu Yanyu and the others acted.
• Xing Mang’s team activated a formation that absorbed the squad’s Star Power, and Jiang Changkong recognized it as an incomplete Near-God Killing Array.
• The array devoured Jiang Changkong’s Golden Crow attack, but Jiang Changkong summoned a black-and-white Taiji Diagram as blood energy and soul ripples erupted from him.

Jiang Changkong turned Xing Mang’s Near-God Killing Array against its users and protected his teammates through the devastating blast, securing victory despite being badly injured. After the survivors reformed, Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun appeared and claimed that Jiang Changkong had lost.

• Jiang Changkong used his three great star bodies to absorb and redirect the star net’s power, planting deadly yin-yang flowers throughout the array and its fighters.
• Xing Mang ordered the fifty stars to suppress Jiang Changkong, but Jiang Changkong made the flowers draw in more starlight and detonate, destroying the array and blasting the star warriors apart.
• Jiang Changkong shielded Ye Qiushui and the others as the explosion cracked his body, while Lord Lei and two others opened the arena barrier to vent the dangerous aftershock.
• Jiang Changkong told his teammates he would carry them to victory, and the young swordsman praised his strength and asked to fight him later.
• Xing Mang and the others reformed, and Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun appeared from cracked Soul Nourishing Pearls and declared that Jiang Changkong had lost.

Jiang Changkong defeated Gu Yanyu, Qiu Yun, and Stellar Radiance's group, then recovered while the other battles continued. He remained undefeated and learned which wastelands held the richest resources, while Stellar Radiance was left crippled and the sword-bearing young man became the opposing team's strongest fighter.

• Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun trapped the arena in a Soul Maze, but Jiang Changkong broke through it with brute force and defeated them and Stellar Radiance.
• Jiang Changkong left the arena with his team, and Lord Lei and the other observers praised his prospects of reaching the top tier.
• Lord Lei gave Jiang Changkong ninth-rank healing medicine, and Jiang Changkong recovered while reflecting on the danger posed by stronger killing arrays.
• Stellar Radiance emerged crippled, and Gu Yanyu blamed Jiang Changkong for the soul damage suffered by their martial artists, but Jiang Changkong said their group had brought it upon themselves.
• The red sphere of light told Jiang Changkong which five wastelands held the richest resources, and he memorized them as the undefeated leader.

After the battles ended, Feng Qixing drew Jiang Changkong into the mountains and questioned him about his multiple Star Bodies, trading a damaged near-god cultivation manual for an explanation involving Taiji. Feng Qixing returned to the battlefield, wary of challenging Jiang Changkong and aware that powerful factions were watching him.

• After his opponents conceded, Jiang Changkong followed Feng Qixing into the mountains despite Lord Lei's warning to be careful.
• Feng Qixing said he had come to learn how Jiang Changkong cultivated several Star Bodies and explained the ancient war over a battle body formed from three Star Bodies.
• Jiang Changkong refused to reveal his method until Feng Qixing offered a damaged near-god cultivation art called the Cloud Heaven Secret Canon.
• Jiang Changkong accepted the manual and said Taiji had balanced his Star Bodies, allowing them to form together.
• Feng Qixing returned to the wasteland-opening battlefield, deciding not to provoke Jiang Changkong as factions and the Federation watched him.

Jiang Changkong won the land reclamation battle after defeating Feng Qixing, who unleashed a sword strike charged for days. He claimed fourteen wasteland plots and learned that their future income would be exempt from Federation taxes once developed.

• Jiang Changkong studied the Cloud Heaven Secret Canon and planned to enter seclusion after the land reclamation ended.
• Tianhen Squad conceded the leader's battle, and Feng Qixing chose to fight Jiang Changkong alone.
• Feng Qixing spent half an hour accumulating power before his Sword Star-Slaying Array struck, but Jiang Changkong's Taiji Unity counterattack defeated him, leaving only a cut on Jiang Changkong's skin.
• Lord Lei declared Jiang Changkong first, Heavenly Star Squad second, and Heng Family Squad third, giving Jiang Changkong fourteen wasteland plots in total.
• Huo Qinglan congratulated Jiang Changkong with news that income from his developed wasteland would be tax-free and that he could buy Federation goods at discounted prices.

Jiang Changkong returned to his territory, arranged its affairs, and cultivated until he glimpsed the fundamental imprint of the Lunar Great Dao. He left the vision with a deeper Lunar Star Power and chose to digest his insight before continuing to inscribe Star Arrays.

• Jiang Changkong returned to his territory, instructed Ye Qiushui and the others to secure the Star Crystals, and had Xu Hengzhi inspect their fourteen new wastelands.
• Jiang Changkong welcomed new factions seeking refuge, gave the Immortal Palace materials from Liangqiu Xuanyi to Professor Yun, and began secluded cultivation.
• Jiang Changkong inscribed White Cloud, Force Pattern, and Lunar Star Arrays, gaining new abilities and strengthening his affinity with Lunar Star Power.
• After inscribing every Lunar Star Body battle array he had obtained, Jiang Changkong entered a vision of the Lunar Immortal Palace and saw a profound Star Script’s fundamental path.
• Jiang Changkong emerged atop a frozen mountain, recognized that he had glimpsed the Lunar Great Dao’s fundamental imprint, and decided to digest his insight before inscribing more arrays.

Jiang Changkong condensed Lunar and Force Pattern Great Dao imprints, strengthening his constitution and power before emerging from four months of seclusion. He collected Star Crystals from his wastelands and prepared to act on Liangqiu Xuanyi’s plan after two more days.

• Jiang Changkong absorbed moonlight and condensed a faint Lunar Great Dao imprint, transforming his constitution and gaining an aura of the Great Dao.
• Jiang Changkong entered the Force Pattern Immortal Palace, condensed a Force Pattern imprint with help from the near-god corpse’s Star Script imprint, and strengthened his Force Patterns and Golden Body.
• Jiang Changkong decided he needed to visit the near-god treasure trove to improve his soul, while postponing his Solar Star Array cultivation until Liangqiu Xuanyi could take him to the Immortal Palace.
• After four months of seclusion, Jiang Changkong met Liangqiu Xuanyi, who asked when he would make his move; Jiang Changkong requested two days to collect the processed Star Crystals.
• Jiang Changkong collected Star Crystals from Xu Hengzhi, approved the distribution of wastelands and salaries, and gave Xu Hengzhi additional seventh-rank Star Crystals for salaries or personal use.