Recaps

Jiang Changkong traded his credit for Zhao Qianjun’s case to secure Level Two permissions and become president of the Jiangcheng Martial Arts Association. The chapter ended with him examining his new credentials and preparing to explore the association’s official website.

• Jiang Changkong learned about the Starlight Distortion Zone and asked Yang Chengan about its dangers, golden blood, and Martial Arts Association slots.
• Jiang Changkong spent his resources upgrading the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, then arranged for Tang Ruoxi to forge a weapon from the school’s Starlight Meteoric Iron.
• Jiang Changkong learned that Lu Wuhai had died in prison and that he had earned more merit from the evidence against Zhao Qianjun.
• Yu Beilin told Jiang Changkong that a ten-thousand commander would secure Level Two permissions if Jiang Changkong gave him the credit for the Zhao Qianjun case.
• Jiang Changkong agreed to the exchange, and Yu Beilin returned at dawn with Jiang Changkong’s appointment as president of the Jiangcheng Martial Arts Association and a golden token.
• Jiang Changkong read the association privileges in his booklet and decided to log into its official website.

Jiang Changkong explored his new Martial Arts Association’s missions, rules, and exchange options, then began recruiting members. At a meal with Jiangcheng’s leaders, he learned that five places in the Starlight Distortion Zone were reserved for the River Sea Martial Arts Association and would have to be fought for.

• Jiang Changkong learned that upgrading his Martial Arts Association required ten thousand points and that presidents controlled mission assignments and received a bonus.
• Jiang Changkong invited Ji Ziling, the other senior sister, Pang Yun, Yang Chengan, and Tang Ruoxi to join, and selected several nearby Star Demon missions.
• Jiang Haichuan welcomed Jiang Changkong to a meal at Xingyi Hotel and treated him as a younger brother after he established the association.
• Cheng Huai asked Jiang Changkong about the Starlight Distortion Zone, and Jiang Changkong said he would attend the martial arts exchange conference.
• Jiang Haichuan explained that five places in the zone were reserved for the River Sea Martial Arts Association, and Shen Jiangxing urged Jiang Changkong to fight for them.

Jiang Changkong received the weapon Tang Ruoxi forged and revealed his plan to found a city of his own. After deciding to leave Jiangcheng early for the Watercloud Mountain mission, he set out on foot, leaving his friends to look after Li Qiuchuan.

• Tang Ruoxi gave Jiang Changkong a top-tier fourth-grade blade engraved with his name and said she would soon leave for a research institute in Stability Province.
• Jiang Changkong told Ji Ziling he intended to build a city and recruit Jiangcheng acquaintances to help manage it.
• Ji Ziling warned Jiang Changkong that Wang Peng might have people waiting to attack him, and he said he would be careful.
• Jiang Changkong asked Yang Chengan to look after Li Qiuchuan, then left the school carrying supplies for his journey to Watercloud Mountain.
• Jiang Changkong put his supplies into his Hidden Star Ring and jade pendant and followed a safe route toward Watercloud Mountain.

Jiang Changkong traveled toward Watercloud Mountain, cultivating the Taiji Mystic Art and collecting Essence, Qi, and Spirit along the way. He intervened when the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team threatened students, killed the attackers, and exposed their accomplice, Chu Ming, before killing him as well.

• Jiang Changkong hunted Star Demons as he traveled, gaining more Essence, Qi, and Spirit by traveling at night.
• After gathering enough Essence, Qi, and Spirit, Jiang Changkong advanced the Taiji Mystic Art and continued toward Watercloud Mountain.
• Jiang Changkong heard the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team threatening five students and went to investigate.
• Jiang Changkong accused the Jiangshui City student of conspiring with the bandits, then killed the three attackers with a single saber strike.
• The student identified himself as Chu Ming, and Jiang Changkong killed him after revealing his own name.

Jiang Changkong reached Watercloud Mountain for a mission and confronted three Jiangshui City students who looked down on people from Jiangcheng. After effortlessly slaughtering the Star Demons around them, he defeated all three with one slash and demanded that Zhang Kaiyun answer what Jiangcheng people were worth.

• Jiang Changkong sent the four students he had rescued away, extracted the Essence, Qi, and Spirit from the corpses of the four men he had killed, and continued toward Watercloud Mountain.
• After recovering his Star Power by the Jiangshui River, Jiang Changkong climbed Watercloud Mountain and followed the sounds of fighting to three early Star Gate students battling Star Demons.
• Zhang Kaiyun offered Jiang Changkong only a hundred mission points and threatened him and his fellow townsmen when Jiang Changkong refused to join their group.
• Jiang Changkong entered the Star Demon horde, where the demons killed themselves as they approached him, then challenged Zhang Kaiyun over his insults toward Jiangcheng people.
• Jiang Changkong formed a Taiji Diagram around the group and used One Slash, Setting Sun to bring all three students to their knees.
• Jiang Changkong stood before the wounded students and again asked Zhang Kaiyun what Jiangcheng people were worth.

Jiang Changkong forced Ji Zifeng to carry a message challenging Jiangshui City over the Starlight Distortion Zone, then hunted Star Demons on Watercloud Mountain and along the Jiangshui River. As the river drew increasingly powerful Star Demons, Jiang Changkong worried that a Star Treasury-level enemy might appear.

• Jiang Changkong questioned Ji Zifeng, learned that Ji Ziling was his younger sister, and told him to relay a challenge to Chu Yunhe for a Starlight Distortion Zone spot.
• Jiang Changkong recalled the flames he had left on Ji Zifeng, revealing that Zhang Kaiyun and the others would be unable to pass along their threat.
• Jiang Changkong used the Taiji Diagram, his blade, and controlled flames to kill Star Demons across Watercloud Mountain and collect their Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Jiang Changkong lured Star Demons from the Jiangshui River with a Star Gate Star Demon's blood and killed them as their numbers and strength increased.
• Jiang Changkong faced a river full of powerful Star Demons, including Star Gate-level ones, and feared that a Star Treasury-level Star Demon might emerge.

Ji Zifeng reported his mission to Chu Yunhe, while Jiang Changkong completed his Watercloud Mountain mission and learned how the Chu Family exploited visiting students in Jiangshui City. After hearing about the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team’s extortion, Jiang Changkong asked a local youth where its nest was.

• Ji Zifeng told Chu Yunhe that Zhang Kaiyun and the others had abandoned him, then informed Jiang Changkong that he had passed along the report.
• Jiang Changkong upgraded the Spirit Controlling Formula, submitted his Watercloud Mountain mission footage, and received 1,220 points.
• Jiang Changkong learned from Martial Arts Association customer service that Jianghai Province’s five Starlight Distortion Zone slots could be distributed by the associations themselves.
• After waking at dusk, Jiang Changkong overheard three students describe how Chu Tianyun’s allies bullied visitors into hunting Star Stones and paying tribute.
• Jiang Changkong asked the students about the Chu Family’s influence and then asked a local youth where the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team’s nest was.

Jiang Changkong accepted a private mission to eliminate the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team, which belonged to the Chu Family, and destroyed its hidden lair. After collecting a large haul of Star Stones, he sensed someone approaching.

• Jiang Wenshan told Jiang Changkong where the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team hid and suggested he contact customer service to claim points for eliminating them.
• Jiang Changkong accepted a private mission worth 1,000 points and hurried to the team's lair, where he found and disabled several traps.
• Jiang Changkong detected people underground, blasted open the hidden entrance, and confronted the team's members.
• Jiang Changkong redirected the team's attacks with the Taiji Diagram, killed the Star Gate captain and the remaining martial artists, and destroyed the lair.
• Jiang Changkong found a storage ring and more Star Stones underground, then sensed someone approaching.

After killing the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team, Jiang Changkong encountered two powerful strangers who claimed they had come to unwind. He upgraded four martial arts and slaughtered Star Demons by the Jiangshui River, where the fat young master confronted him and challenged him to withstand one move.

• Jiang Changkong admitted killing the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team, and the white-clad woman and fat young master left after saying they had no connection to the team.
• Jiang Changkong used his mission points and extracted Essence, Qi, and Spirit to upgrade four martial arts to Minor Mastery, reaching the Mid Star Gate Stage.
• Jiang Changkong tested the Spirit Controlling Formula with the Mystic Sun Step, then went to the Jiangshui River and slaughtered Star Demons for more Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• The fat young master followed the scent of blood to Jiang Changkong and, despite the woman in white urging him to leave, declared he would teach him a lesson.
• The fat young master appeared behind Jiang Changkong and challenged him to prepare for one move; Jiang Changkong suspected he was at the peak of Star Gate and considered capturing him alive.

Jiang Changkong fought Nan Tianwang and Yao Meng after mistaking them for Azure Cloud remnants, overpowering them with his saber techniques. Once they explained they were travelers, he still demanded compensation for delaying his Star Demon hunt.

• Jiang Changkong redirected Nan Tianwang’s palm strike with the Taiji Diagram and drove him back.
• Nan Tianwang revealed his peak Star Gate cultivation and attacked with True Sun, but Jiang Changkong injured him with Rising Sun.
• Jiang Changkong gave Nan Tianwang time to prepare, then defeated his Three Suns Unite as One with Sunset, leaving Nan Tianwang wounded and Yao Meng’s hand injured.
• Yao Meng said they were not Azure Cloud remnants, and Nan Tianwang introduced himself and his sister as travelers from an ordinary province.
• Jiang Changkong refused to give them his name and demanded twenty low-grade third-rank Star Stones for delaying his hunt.

Jiang Changkong accepted compensation from Nan Tianwang and Yao Meng, then continued killing Star Demons as the two watched. After learning that the Martial Arts Association was sending Vice President Qin Wen after him, Jiang Changkong was offered five hundred top-tier third-grade Star Stones to help Nan Tianwang with a dangerous underwater gathering.

• Nan Tianwang gave Jiang Changkong Star Stones as compensation, and Jiang Changkong explained that he valued Star Stones but would not sell his martial arts.
• Jiang Changkong revealed the names of his techniques and introduced himself as Jiang Changkong from Jiangcheng, while Nan Tianwang and Yao Meng stayed to watch him fight.
• Ji Zifeng warned Jiang Changkong that the Martial Arts Association had sent Vice President Qin Wen to find him over the Azure Cloud Demon Hunting Team.
• Nan Tianwang offered Jiang Changkong five hundred top-tier third-grade Star Stones to help retrieve an herb and a strange item underwater, where they expected powerful Star Demons and competitors.

Jiang Changkong killed Jiangshui Martial Arts Association Vice President Qin Wen, then followed Nan Tianwang and Yao Meng to an underground river leading toward the Starlight Distortion Zone. The three entered the water and encountered a swarm of Star Demons.

• Nan Tianwang and Yao Meng discussed recruiting Jiang Changkong and obtaining something hidden underground while he listened from a distance.
• Qin Wen arrived to kill Jiang Changkong over the slot for the Starlight Distortion Zone, but Jiang Changkong killed him with one slash and burned his corpse.
• After recovering, Jiang Changkong contacted Yao Meng and waited until she and Nan Tianwang came to take him to the underground site.
• Nan Tianwang, Yao Meng, and Jiang Changkong reached a deep pit beside a branch of the Jiangshui River and descended by rope into the underground water.
• The three swam through the underground river, where Yao Meng killed a Star Demon and Jiang Changkong extracted Essence, Qi, and Spirit from scattered remains.
• The group spotted several dozen crocodile-like Star Demons swimming ahead.

Jiang Changkong and his companions fought their way through Star Demons in an underground river and found Chu Tianyun trying to steal a frost flower. When Nan Tianwang offered a thousand fourth-tier initial Star Stones to turn the tide, Jiang Changkong upgraded Startling Swan Three Blades and unleashed his saber.

• Jiang Changkong used the Taiji Diagram to make Star Demons kill one another, then extracted their Essence, Qi, and Spirit after Nan Tianwang and Yao Meng went ahead.
• The trio reached a cold cave, where Chu Tianyun and five young men fought a peak Star Gate Star Demon while trying to claim a blue frost flower.
• Nan Tianwang recognized Chu Tianyun and confronted him, while Yao Meng and Jiang Changkong fought the young men and the Star Demon.
• Chu Tianyun picked the flower as Nan Tianwang struggled to reach him, and the chill in the cave suppressed the fighters’ strength.
• Nan Tianwang offered Jiang Changkong a thousand fourth-tier initial Star Stones to kill their opponents, and Jiang Changkong accepted before upgrading Startling Swan Three Blades and launching his saber.

Jiang Changkong used his upgraded saber technique to defeat the Star Demon and severely injure Chu Tianxing’s group, while Chu Tianxing escaped. Nan Tianwang recovered a precious Moon Stone, paid Jiang the promised Star Stones, and the three left the cave with Jiang eager to upgrade his martial arts.

• Jiang Changkong’s Sunset Saber slash broke two youths’ barriers and badly wounded them along with the Star Demon.
• Jiang killed the Star Demon and defeated two attackers with his Taiji Diagram and Vajra Fire Step, then drove off three more with another powerful slash.
• Chu Tianxing fled after Yao Meng caught the Moon Blue Flower he threw to distract her, and Nan Tianwang recovered the Moon Stone hidden beneath it.
• Nan Tianwang paid Jiang fifteen hundred Star Stones, and Jiang collected more stones and valuables before burning the corpses.
• Jiang, Nan Tianwang, and Yao Meng left the cave, found their rope cut, and prepared to climb out.

Jiang Changkong advanced to the late Star Gate realm and continued slaughtering Star Demons by the Jiangshui River. Yao Meng repeatedly invited him to join her martial arts association and travel to a major province, but he refused, and the chapter ended with both of them leaving after Senior Sister Comrade called him.

• Jiang Changkong spent his Essence, Qi, and Spirit to raise all five martial arts to mastery and advanced to the late Star Gate realm.
• Jiang Changkong killed Star Demons through the night, earning more than three thousand Essence, Qi, and Spirit before moving to another area the next morning.
• Yao Meng offered Jiang Changkong a place in her martial arts association and described the intense competition and young geniuses in the major provinces, but he repeatedly declined.
• Yao Meng helped Jiang Changkong kill Star Demons and later brought food, wine, and tea while they talked about major provinces and martial arts.
• After Senior Sister Comrade called him, Jiang Changkong prepared to leave, and Yao Meng said she would seek him out again after reaching the Star Treasury realm.

Jiang Changkong arrived in Jiangshui City for the martial arts school exchange, where Jiangcheng’s students faced the prospect of losing their last resource slot. After Principal Yu Beilin warned him to keep his role in Chu Tianxing’s death secret, Ji Ziling dragged him off to confront her brother over a supposed slight.

• Jiang Changkong entered Jiangshui City and met Ying Yanxue, who brought him to the school’s lodging for the exchange.
• Yu Beilin explained that Jiangshui City’s students wanted to change the event and might deny the four visiting schools even one Starlight Distortion Zone slot.
• Yu Beilin said Jiang Changkong could keep Jiangcheng in the top three and fight for second, while first place alone could claim a resource from a losing school.
• Yu Beilin privately warned Jiang Changkong not to reveal that he had killed Chu Tianxing, whose brother Chu Tianyun was a peak Star Gate Level student.
• Ji Ziling and the others waited for Jiang Changkong, and Ji Ziling dragged him toward the elevator to confront her brother for allegedly bullying him.

Jiang Changkong learned that a peak Star Gate transfer student had changed the exchange meet’s prospects, then arrived at the martial bouts to face the provincial capital school’s formidable students. Chu Tianyun challenged him by name as the matches began.

• Ji Ziling confronted Ji Zifeng over bullying Jiang Changkong, and Jiang Changkong explained that he had beaten Ji Zifeng after a complicated incident.
• Ji Zifeng revealed that a peak Star Gate transfer student from Stability Province had joined the exchange meet and that Chu Yunhe required Jiang Changkong to take first place before challenging him.
• Jiang Changkong and the others returned to school, rested overnight, and set out for the martial bouts with Principal Yu Beilin and Principal Pei Qing.
• At the training ground, Chu Tianyun and two other powerful students from the provincial capital school showed off their Star Gate strength while the visiting schools endured their contempt.
• The vice principal began the elimination bouts, and Chu Tianyun called out Jiang Changkong and challenged him.

Jiang Changkong confronted Chu Tianyun at the martial arts exchange meet, and Chu Tianyun conceded without fighting. Jiang Changkong then challenged Jin Feng and overpowered his peak Star Gate sword strike, leaving the duel's outcome unresolved.

• Chu Tianyun pressured Jiang Changkong to fight, but Jiang Changkong stepped forward and Chu Tianyun recognized him and lost his nerve.
• Chu Tianyun conceded before the fight began, stunning the students and angering Jiangshui City's vice principal.
• Jiang Changkong demanded all three slots and accepted Jin Feng's challenge despite already having secured one.
• Jin Feng unleashed Golden Radiance Illuminates the World, a sword strike praised as the limit of the Star Gate realm.
• Jiang Changkong answered with One Slash, Setting Sun, and his saber qi shattered Jin Feng's golden sword light.

Jiang Changkong invoked his authority as Martial Arts Association president after Jin Feng and Chu Tianyun threatened his life, then negotiated a one-blade test in exchange for sparing them. He struck with a stronger version of One Blade, Setting Sun, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Jin Feng lost an arm to his own sword qi, and Mu Jinhong admitted Jiangshui City School had been in the wrong.
• Jin Feng threatened Jiang Changkong, but Jiang Changkong declared that Jin Feng and Chu Tianyun's lives had to stay behind.
• Jiang Changkong revealed the Martial Arts Association president's token and cited his authority to execute anyone who endangered his life.
• Mu Jinhong agreed to provide three types of resources and thirty percent of Jiangshui City School's income if Jin Feng and Chu Tianyun could withstand one blade.
• Jiang Changkong gave them three breaths, then unleashed One Blade, Setting Sun with the Taiji Diagram, leaving Mu Jinhong impressed by its strength.

Jiang Changkong won first place, and the principals negotiated resource allocations while discussing the dangers awaiting him at the Starlight Distortion Zone. The chapter ended with Jiang Changkong learning he would leave in five or six days and considering whether Chu Yunhe would act before then.

• Mu Jinhong thanked Jiang Changkong for sparing Chu Tianyun and Jin Feng, then ordered the injured men taken for treatment.
• Yu Beilin negotiated for thirty percent of the income from the three schools that had failed to place.
• Yu Beilin warned Jiang Changkong about outsiders and the Chu Family, then revealed Jiang Haichuan's younger brother was Jiang Haishan, Jiangshui's Junior Commander.
• Jiang Changkong wondered whether he could exchange the Star Stones he had collected after crippling Chu Tianyun.
• Ji Ziling, Ying Yanxue, and Yang Chengan visited Jiang Changkong, and Ying Yanxue asked him to treat them to a meal.
• Yang Chengan told Jiang Changkong that the military would take him to the Starlight Distortion Zone in five or six days, while Jiang Changkong worried Chu Yunhe might act before then.

Chu Yunhe arranged a life-and-death battle between himself and Jiang Changkong, recruiting a mid-stage Star Treasury fighter through Jin Feng and staking the quotas. Jiang Changkong accepted the match for five hundred low-grade Star Stones, while his companions suspected Jin Feng was behind Chu Yunhe’s confidence.

• Chu Yunhe visited the injured Chu Tianyun and Jin Feng, who demanded revenge on Jiang Changkong, and explained that the Chu Family could not act openly under Federation scrutiny.
• Chu Yunhe and Jin Feng arranged for Jin Feng’s contact, a mid-stage Star Treasury cultivator, to claim a Martial Arts Association quota and fight in Chu Yunhe’s place.
• Chu Yunhe challenged Jiang Changkong to a life-and-death battle and demanded that he stake his three quotas alongside the five quotas Chu Yunhe claimed.
• Jiang Changkong rejected Chu Yunhe’s claim to the five quotas, demanded five hundred fifth-rank high-grade Star Stones, and then agreed to fight for five hundred low-grade Star Stones at the martial arts school two mornings later.
• Ji Ziling and Ying Yanxue warned that Chu Yunhe must have support, and Jiang Changkong suspected Jin Feng might have hired someone from Stability Province.

Jiang Changkong spent time at the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce with Ji Ziling, Ying Yanxue, and Yang Chengan before Nan Tianwang approached him to negotiate for Starlight Distortion Zone slots. Nan Tianwang revealed that a Sun Stone might be inside and offered his elder brother’s favor, but Jiang Changkong questioned whether that was worth more than Star Stones.

• Jiang Changkong learned from Jiang Haichuan that Jin Feng was unpopular and had few powerful connections.
• Jiang Changkong, Ji Ziling, Ying Yanxue, and Yang Chengan visited the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce, where the two senior sisters went to play games.
• Yang Chengan took Jiang Changkong to the Jade Light Tea House, but Nan Tianwang interrupted them and invited them to a private room.
• Nan Tianwang asked Jiang Changkong to sell him Starlight Distortion Zone slots, and Jiang Changkong refused.
• Nan Tianwang revealed that the zone’s extreme heat might signal the presence of a Sun Stone and offered his elder brother’s favor for more than three slots.
• Jiang Changkong said that human favors were worth less to him than Star Stones.

Jiang Changkong sold Nan Tianwang three Starlight Distortion Zone slots for one thousand fifth-grade lower-rank Star Stones, unaware that the slots were worth far more. After Yang Chengan explained the market prices, Jiang Changkong realized he had made a poor bargain, while Nan Tianwang celebrated the deal.

• Jiang Changkong negotiated with Nan Tianwang and agreed to sell him three slots for one thousand fifth-grade lower-rank Star Stones.
• Nan Tianwang paid immediately and hurried away before Jiang Changkong could reconsider the deal.
• Yang Chengan told Jiang Changkong that the slots were highly sought after and that he could have charged at least five hundred more Star Stones.
• Jiang Changkong accepted that he had sold the slots cheaply and packed up the tea with Yang Chengan.
• Nan Tianwang laughed with a middle-aged man after learning that someone in Stability Province had offered one thousand fifth-grade upper-rank Star Stones for a single slot.

After raising his martial arts and Star Power, Jiang Changkong faced a life-and-death decisive battle against the Jiangshui City Martial Arts Association. When Chu Yunhe sent mid-stage Star Treasury expert Lin Jie to fight him, Jiang Changkong unleashed his power and declared he could slay a Star Treasury.

• Jiang Changkong used his Star Stones to upgrade all five martial arts, then put his remaining Essence, Qi, and Spirit into the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.
• Jiang Changkong declined Pang Yun's challenge, spent the day with his senior sisters, and noticed many young experts had gathered in Jiangshui City.
• Jiang Changkong signed the life-and-death contract for the battle over the slots, despite Yu Beilin's warning that he could still back out.
• Chu Yunhe presented Lin Jie, a mid-stage Star Treasury expert, as the Jiangshui City Martial Arts Association's fighter, leaving Jiang Changkong's side unable to find a replacement in time.
• Jiang Changkong faced Lin Jie, released his full Star Power, and declared that he could slay a Star Treasury.

Jiang Changkong fought Lin Jie for the Sun Stone slot, using his perception and a feigned loss of strength to lure Lin Jie into a fatal strike. The two impaled each other, leaving Lin Jie with his heart pierced and Jiang Changkong wounded in the shoulder.

• Jiang Changkong and Lin Jie began their duel as Mu Jinhong ordered everyone to retreat.
• Jiang Changkong gained a slight advantage in their direct clashes, and Uncle Liu said it would be difficult to interfere with the result.
• Lin Jie switched to evasive attacks, but Jiang Changkong used the Taiji Diagram and his keen senses to counter him and wound him.
• Jiang Changkong pretended his secret technique was fading, spat blood, and let Lin Jie believe he had weakened.
• Lin Jie launched Boundless Sea, and Jiang Changkong let the sword pierce his right shoulder while driving his saber through Lin Jie's heart.