Recaps

Jiang Changkong defeated Lin Jie and secured the five Starlight Distortion Zone slots, then recovered from his injuries and learned why Lin Jie had fought for Chu Yunhe. As the group prepared to celebrate, Jiang Changkong considered whether his strength would be enough to claim valuable rewards in the Zone.

• Jiang Changkong defeated Lin Jie, claimed his ring, and forced Chu Yunhe to pay the wager of five hundred fifth-tier lower-grade Star Stones.
• Uncle Liu told Nan Tianwang that Jiang Changkong had won by predicting Lin Jie's sword and avoiding vital points, and warned him not to provoke Jiang Changkong again.
• Jiang Changkong used the rewards to improve his martial arts, then stabilized his injuries while Ji Ziling and the others waited outside his room.
• Yu Beilin said Mu Jinhong planned to give Jiang Changkong a fifth-tier upper-grade saber, and boasted that Jiang Changkong's victory would bring him a major Federation reward.
• Jiang Haichuan explained that people from a major province had arranged Lin Jie's fight for Chu Yunhe, and Jiang Changkong reassured him that he was not to blame.
• Yu Beilin proposed a celebratory feast and chose Mu Jinhong to pay for it.

Jiang Changkong sold four Starlight Distortion Zone slots to visitors from outside Jianghai for fifth-tier mid-grade Star Stones. After warning him that the Lin Family might retaliate over Lin Jie’s death, Luo Yunchen left, and Jiang Changkong prepared to seek Sun Stones in the zone.

• Jiang Haibo delivered Jiang Changkong’s slots and asked to buy one, while five young men also sought entry to the Starlight Distortion Zone.
• Jiang Changkong confirmed that the two senior sisters, Yang Chengan, and Pang Yun would not enter, then revealed that he had already sold three slots to Nan Tianwang.
• Jiang Changkong auctioned his remaining four slots, receiving between 1,120 and 1,150 fifth-tier mid-grade Star Stones for each and settling payment on the spot.
• Jiang Changkong took four jade pendants and four stones from the box as the buyers divided the remaining items, and Jiang Haibo left disgruntled.
• Luo Yunchen warned Jiang Changkong that the Lin Family might pursue him over Lin Jie’s death, introduced himself as Nan Tianwang’s friend, and departed.
• Jiang Changkong counted his Star Stones and looked ahead to obtaining Sun Stones in the Starlight Distortion Zone.

Jiang Changkong upgraded his five martial arts and advanced to late Star Treasury, storing his power within five Star Gates. After celebrating with his companions and receiving a saber from Mu Jinhong, he joined Nan Tianwang and the other slot holders on the trip to the Starlight Distortion Zone.

• Jiang Changkong spent nine million Essence, Qi, and Spirit to upgrade his five martial arts, form his Star Treasury, and reach late Star Treasury.
• Jiang Changkong lamented the cost of further cultivation and resolved not to sell Sun Stone cheaply as he planned to profit from Nan Tianwang.
• Jiang Changkong celebrated with his companions, and Mu Jinhong gave him a fifth-grade high-grade saber before saying someone would take him to the Starlight Distortion Zone the next morning.
• Jiang Haibo led Jiang Changkong, Nan Tianwang, Luo Yunchen, and the other slot holders toward the zone in a military vehicle.
• Nan Tianwang offered to protect Jiang Changkong inside the zone, while Jiang Changkong declined his invitation to go to a major province afterward.

Jiang Changkong searched the Starlight Distortion Zone and found a powerful lunar sword tip hidden beneath a boulder. After taking it, he overheard others discussing the price they paid for entry and realized he had been cheated again.

• Jiang Changkong entered the Starlight Distortion Zone with Nan Tianwang, Luo Yunchen, and two middle-aged men, then split off to explore alone.
• Jiang Changkong followed his guiding stone into a smaller space, killed an early Star Gate Level Star Demon, and searched through the rocks.
• A sword aura erupted when Jiang Changkong destroyed a boulder, revealing a sword tip with a cold lunar aura.
• Jiang Changkong suppressed the sword tip with his Blazing Sun power, grabbed it, and stored it inside his clothes.
• Jiang Changkong overheard someone boast about buying a slot for far less than the price Jiang Changkong had paid, and realized he had been cheated again.

Jiang Changkong killed three men who tried to seize the sword qi, then perfected his Vajra Indestructible Divine Art while wandering through the distorted spaces. He found a drop of golden blood radiating blazing sun power and wondered whether it, like the Lunar Sword fragments, came from an ancient battle.

• Jiang Changkong killed the two young men and their middle-aged companion with Startling Swan Three Blades, then took their spatial artifacts and gained over two hundred thousand Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Jiang Changkong used his gains to raise the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art to perfection and continued searching through the spaces, finding no further treasures.
• Jiang Changkong tested the sword tip and found that it could pierce his perfected defenses, then put it away and entered another space.
• Jiang Changkong arrived in a scorching space where six people from Stability Province were gathered around a drop of golden blood that emitted intense heat.
• A second drop of golden blood merged with the first, and one middle-aged man took a young man and pursued its source while the others stayed behind.
• Jiang Changkong recognized the blood's blazing sun power and wondered whether it and the Lunar Sword fragments had been scattered in an ancient battle.

Jiang Changkong defeated Li Changtian and Ji Chengming to claim two drops of Blazing Sun Blood, then learned about the Sun Stone rumored to lie in the Starlight Distortion Zone. When a peak Star Treasury Star Demon arrived, he stepped forward to face it.

• Li Changtian and Ji Chengming challenged Jiang Changkong for the golden blood, but he shattered their sword strikes and claimed both drops.
• Jiang Changkong learned that he had sold entry spots far below their price in Stability Province, and Li Changtian explained that the golden blood was called Blazing Sun Blood.
• Li Changtian said explorers had found a Sun Stone in the zone, though no one knew where it had gone, and speculated that part of a terrifying creature’s corpse might remain there.
• A blazing sun crossed into the space, dropped two charred corpses, and revealed a Star Demon whose strength was at the peak of Star Treasury.
• Jiang Changkong stood between the Star Demon and the others, unleashed overwhelming Star Power, and told them to leave the fight to him.

Jiang Changkong defeated a powerful Star Demon that could rapidly heal, then obtained a Star Stone containing a martial art with potential to cultivate a Sun Divine Body. Li Changtian and Ji Chengming warned him to keep the treasure secret, then asked him to take them along to the Sun Stone’s location.

• Jiang Changkong’s Sunset Blade wounded the Star Demon, but its Sun Divine Body traits let it heal from the damage.
• After Li Changtian and Ji Chengming explained its fire resistance, Jiang Changkong used the Taiji Mystic Art to destroy the Star Demon.
• Jiang Changkong picked up a Star Stone containing the Mystic Sun Art, but said he would not learn it because he already had the Blazing Sun Art.
• Li Changtian warned Jiang Changkong that the Star Stone was a priceless treasure that could attract powerful enemies, and explained that they could not afford to buy it.
• Li Changtian and Ji Chengming asked Jiang Changkong to take them along to the Sun Stone’s location, believing he was the Nan Family’s trump card.

Jiang Changkong led Li Changtian, Ji Chengming, and two late Star Treasury cultivators into a vast sea of golden flames, where his Blazing Sun Star Power let him withstand the heat and heal. After separating from the others, he discovered that the Lunar Sword tip resonated with a silver-white frozen region and flew ahead, so he pursued it.

• Jiang Changkong claimed he had just broken through to Star Treasury peak and led the group into a golden sea of flames.
• The group encountered a mid-Star Treasury Star Demon that healed with the flames, and Jiang Changkong destroyed it with a Taiji Diagram.
• As the flames turned cool, Jiang Changkong suspected Lunar power and separated from the others to test the sword tip.
• The sword tip triggered a burst of freezing cold before Jiang Changkong sealed it away and continued alone.
• Jiang Changkong reached a silver-white ice region, defeated an early Star Gate Star Demon, and watched the sword tip fly ahead.
• Jiang Changkong pursued the sword tip inside a Taiji Diagram as his Blazing Sun Star Power transformed into Taiji Qi.

Jiang Changkong entered a frozen chamber behind a golden barrier and discovered corpses, a broken stone stele, and a vast reserve of Essence, Qi, and Spirit. By studying the stele’s diagrams, he learned the Cold Moon Art and gained lunar yin Star Power, preparing to test whether it could help him withstand the chamber’s lethal chill.

• Jiang Changkong used blazing sun Star Power to open the golden barrier, but the lunar yin chill inside froze his feet and forced him to retreat.
• Jiang Changkong discovered seven frozen human and Star Demon corpses surrounding a broken stone stele, then saw that each corpse contained 100,000 Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Jiang Changkong rushed inside under the protection of his Taiji Diagram, extracted Essence, Qi, and Spirit from a Star Demon corpse, and upgraded the Taiji Mystic Art, which made the stele’s diagrams clearer.
• Jiang Changkong repeatedly entered the chamber to study the diagrams until he memorized them all and identified the resulting martial art as the mid-tier, mid-grade Cold Moon Art.
• Jiang Changkong spent 90,000 Essence, Qi, and Spirit to raise the Cold Moon Art to Major Mastery, opened a silver-white Star Gate, and formed a gold-and-silver Taiji Diagram with his lunar yin and solar yang Star Power.

Jiang Changkong upgraded his Cold Moon Art, then tried to take the Lunar Stele and was blasted into a flame region, where he learned that Nan Tianwang was fighting over a Blazing Sun Stele and Sun Stone. The chapter left Jiang Changkong arriving at the battle and deciding that the treasures belonged to him.

• Jiang Changkong mastered the Cold Moon Art enough to withstand the icy region and extracted six hundred thousand Essence, Qi, and Spirit from a frozen corpse.
• Jiang Changkong tried to take the Lunar Stele, but it unleashed a blast that shattered the barrier and sent him through space into a flame region.
• Jiang Changkong reunited with Li Changtian and his attendant, then learned that Luo Yunchen and his guardian had also fallen into the region.
• Li Changtian told Jiang Changkong that a Sun Stone and a broken Blazing Sun Stele had appeared, and that Nan Tianwang was fighting others over them.
• Jiang Changkong reached the battle as Nan Tianwang and the other martial artists fought over the treasures.

Jiang Changkong entered the battle over the Blazing Sun Star Stele and Sun Stones, killing two opponents and forcing the others to submit. After Nan Tianwang claimed the treasures in the name of brotherhood, Jiang Changkong took control of them and left Nan Tianwang afraid to resist.

• Jiang Changkong arrived as Nan Tianwang and the others fought over the Star Stele, while the crowd mocked his strength.
• Jiang Changkong killed a young cultivator with the Taiji Diagram and beheaded the young man's late-stage Star Treasury guardian.
• Nan Tianwang claimed the Star Stele and Sun Stones, but Jiang Changkong objected and declared the treasures his; Li Changtian and the others switched their support to Jiang Changkong.
• Nan Tianwang handed Jiang Changkong the Sun Stone, and Jiang Changkong struck down a challenger and his guardian with Sunset, severely injuring nearby opponents.
• Nan Tianwang agreed that everyone should rely on their own ability and backed down as Jiang Changkong stood in control of the treasures.

Jiang Changkong cleared the Star Demons, then made Nan Tianwang and the others pay Star Stones and surrender supplies in exchange for copying the Star Stele. After everyone copied the Mystic Sun Art and the Lunar Star Stele, Jiang Changkong left with Li Changtian and Ji Chengming, admitting he could not take either stele.

• Jiang Changkong defeated the Star Demons and stopped Nan Tianwang and the others from leaving, then demanded Star Stones in exchange for access to the Star Stele.
• Nan Tianwang and the others handed over their Star Stones, weapons, and potions, and copied the Star Stele’s Mystic Sun Art onto their clothes.
• Jiang Changkong collected the spatial equipment of the four people he had killed and led the group to the Lunar Star Stele, where they copied it too.
• Jiang Changkong left with Li Changtian and Ji Chengming, explaining that he had offered access to the steles because he could not move them.

After returning from the distorted land, Jiang Changkong and the others reported a star stele to Jiang Haibo and discussed why high-tier Star Stones were being stockpiled. Back at the hotel, Jiang Changkong counted his loot and used his accumulated Essence, Qi, and Spirit to strengthen his martial arts, leaving himself poised to improve his Vajra Indestructible Divine Art further.

• Jiang Changkong and the four others emerged from the distorted land, where the stones had settled around a gold-and-silver vortex, and told Jiang Haibo that people were fighting over a star stele inside.
• Jiang Haibo praised the group for their supposed effort to preserve the stele and arranged for them to return to Jiangshui City.
• At the hotel, Jiang Changkong asked Li Changtian and Ji Chengming about high-tier Star Stones and learned that Star Crystals aided cultivation and that the Federation and major factions stockpiled stones to support efforts to explore space.
• Jiang Changkong counted the Star Stones he had looted and raised his Essence, Qi, and Spirit total to over two million.
• Jiang Changkong upgraded five martial arts to their peaks, then spent his remaining Essence, Qi, and Spirit on the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.

Jiang Changkong went to the Starlight Distortion Zone after learning that relatives of those who entered it were attacking the entrance and threatening his friends. He arrived as his enemies prepared to confront him.

• Jiang Changkong considered where to sell his loot, then went to sleep.
• Jiang Haibo called Jiang Changkong about an order to guard the Star Stele entrance, then secretly warned him that four early-stage Star Spirits were present and told him not to come.
• Jiang Changkong left the city despite Li Changtian's warning and rushed toward the Starlight Distortion Zone.
• A middle-aged man defeated Jiang Haishan and, with a middle-aged woman, shattered the golden barrier; the woman entered the zone to collect the Star Stele.
• Jiang Changkong arrived and challenged the group, whose members declared they wanted him dead.

Jiang Changkong confronted the martial artists gathered outside the Star Monument and crushed their resistance with a devastating blade attack. He forced the survivors to surrender their belongings and line up to be searched.

• Nan Tianwang distanced himself from the crowd, while Jiang Changkong asked Jiang Haibo whether the intruders counted as trespassers to be killed.
• A Star Treasury martial artist charged Jiang Changkong, and Jiang Changkong killed him with one sweep of his blade.
• Jiang Changkong used One Blade, Sunset to batter the gathered martial artists, then shattered his blade to overwhelm two Star Spirit experts.
• The wounded Star Spirits surrendered their claim to the Star Monument, but Jiang Changkong demanded their Star Stones, weapons, and potions as well.
• Jiang Changkong searched the martial artists one by one and told them to line up, while Jiang Haibo and Jiang Haishan watched in shock.

Jiang Changkong stripped the visiting major-province geniuses of their resources, complained about how poor they were, and waited outside the Star Stele entrance. When a middle-aged woman emerged with the Star Stele, he blocked her from leaving.

• Jiang Changkong searched the captured group and found that they had brought few Star Stones and no sixth-rank ones.
• Nan Tianwang explained that the factions kept sixth-rank Star Stones as strategic reserves and sent less-valued descendants to Jianghai.
• Jiang Changkong refused Nan Tianwang and Luo Yunchen's recruitment offers, then proposed selling Nan Tianwang the Sun Stones along with weapons and potions.
• A middle-aged woman emerged from the entrance carrying the Star Stele, and Jiang Changkong stopped her from leaving.

Jiang Changkong defeated a woman from the major provinces and recovered the Star Stele, then negotiated with Nan Tianwang and Uncle De over Star Stones, weapons, and other goods. After returning to school to sleep, he woke to a caller addressing him as “Jiang Xingshi.”

• Jiang Changkong defeated the middle-aged woman with the Blade of the Blazing Sun and forced her to hand over the Star Stele.
• Jiang Changkong gave the Star Stele to Jiang Haibo, then waited with the others for dawn and the Federation’s arrival.
• Jiang Changkong negotiated with Nan Tianwang and Uncle De over Sun Stones, weapons, potions, blood, and a special Star Stone, and agreed to exchange for a sixth-rank weapon.
• Jiang Changkong left after dawn, returned to school, and went to sleep without disturbing the two senior girls and the principal.
• Jiang Changkong woke to a phone call from someone who introduced himself as Jiang Xingshi, leaving Jiang Changkong confused and annoyed.

Jiang Changkong received the rewards for his achievement in the Starlight Distortion Zone, upgraded his Martial Arts Association, and shared points and equipment with its members. He met Ji Zifeng at the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce and invited him to join, but Ji Zifeng hesitated.

• Yao Meng urged Jiang Changkong to join her Martial Arts Association, and he refused before discovering the news had mistakenly called him Jiang Xingshi.
• Jiang Changkong checked the Martial Arts Association website and found his association had become a large association, received 100,000 points, and gained a three-year waiver of its contribution requirement.
• Jiang Changkong gave 50,000 points to his members and distributed spatial pendants containing potions and weapons to the seniors, Yang Chengan, Pang Yun, and the principal.
• Tang Ruoxi told Jiang Changkong she would investigate rumors of a possible medium-sized mineral vein, while he planned to avoid major provinces for now.
• Ji Ziling, Ying Yanxue, and Jiang Changkong went to the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce, where Ji Zifeng met them with two friends.
• Ji Ziling invited Ji Zifeng to join Jiang Changkong's large Martial Arts Association, and Ji Zifeng fell silent instead of answering.

Jiang Changkong learned how the Chu Family was persecuting people from Jiangcheng and planned to use their next move as grounds to strike back. After arranging support from Jiang Haishan, he settled the value of his items with the Jade Light Chamber of Commerce and prepared to leave for Stability Province once the Chu Family matter was handled.

• Ji Ziling confronted Ji Zifeng about his fear of leaving the association, and Jiang Changkong learned that the Chu Family was making life difficult for people from Jiangcheng.
• Ji Zifeng warned Jiang Changkong that Jin Feng was dead and that the Lin Family might send someone to Jiangshui City; Jiang Changkong planned to lure the Chu Family into acting so Jiang Haishan could intervene.
• Chu Yunhe called Ji Zifeng and ordered him to lure Jiang Changkong out of the city, threatening Ji Ziling if he failed; Jiang Changkong told Ji Zifeng to set a time.
• Uncle De told Jiang Changkong that his items were worth eight thousand low-grade and one thousand mid-grade fifth-tier Star Stones, with a top-tier sixth-tier weapon, and said the goods would be ready in two days.
• Jiang Changkong invited Jiang Haishan to dinner and explained his plan against the Chu Family; Jiang Haishan agreed to help after Jiang Changkong said they needed no reason to destroy them.

Jiang Changkong completed the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, Taiji Mystic Art, and Spirit Controlling Formula, then decided to confront the Chu Family over the mine vein. He slaughtered his way into their residence and learned that Chu Yunhe and the others had only just finished entertaining the Jin and Lin families and were discussing how to kill him.

• Jiang Changkong completed three martial arts and considered having Tang Ruoxi forge a sixth-rank sword.
• Jiang Changkong learned from Ji Zifeng that Chu Yunhe and the others were at the Chu Family residence with people from the Jin Family and Lin Family.
• Jiang Changkong entered the Chu Family residence at night and killed the Star Sea guards at the gate and the men who confronted him inside.
• Jiang Changkong used the Spirit Controlling Formula to turn a group of attacking martial artists' weapons against them, leaving only a frightened young master alive.
• Jiang Changkong forced the young master to lead him to Chu Yunhe and learned that the Chu Family was discussing how to kill him.

Jiang Changkong broke into the Chu Family and killed Chu Yunhe and many of his relatives after discovering their plot against him. When the Chu Family patriarch confronted him, Jiang Changkong defeated him with a Blazing Sun, leaving the family’s destruction underway.

• Jiang Changkong overheard Chu Yunhe and four allies planning to lure him out and kill him, then entered the room and restrained them with Star Power.
• Jiang Changkong killed Chu Yunhe after demanding to know which province the Chu Family’s eldest son was in, then unleashed flames that killed or injured many Chu Family members.
• Jiang Haishan and Ji Zifeng waited outside with local martial artists as the Chu Family patriarch challenged Jiang Changkong with a powerful sword strike.
• Jiang Changkong countered the patriarch’s attack with a Blazing Sun, which erased the sword radiance and reduced the patriarch to ash.

Jiang Changkong destroyed the Chu Family, received his reward, and left for Stability Province to take an Abyss mission connected to Tang Ruoxi's research institute. On the way, he overheard a team discussing a Star Guiding Stone guarded by powerful Star Demons and considered taking it for himself.

• Jiang Changkong killed the four Star Treasury cultivators who survived the Chu Family’s destruction, then left Jiang Haishan to search the ruins for evidence and divide the family’s assets.
• Jiang Haishan gave Jiang Changkong one hundred mid-grade fifth-rank Star Stones and reported the evidence against the Chu Family as a major merit.
• Jiang Haishan, Ji Ziling, Yu Beilin, and others held a farewell banquet for Jiang Changkong before he departed for Stability Province.
• Jiang Changkong accepted an Abyss mission near Ping'an City to help Tang Ruoxi’s research institute establish an outpost and traveled toward the province.
• Jiang Changkong overheard a team explaining that a Star Guiding Stone could help the research institute detect mineral veins and was guarded by two peak Star Treasury Star Demons.

Jiang Changkong went after the Star Guiding Stone and fought the Stability Province Martial Arts Association president who tried to claim it. He defeated the president and left with the stone.

• Jiang Changkong asked Tang Ruoxi about the Star Guiding Stone, learned where it was, and headed for the mountain despite her warning about the Martial Arts Association.
• Jiang Changkong overheard the association president say the stone would earn favor from a research institute and someone from a major province.
• Jiang Changkong entered the cave, subdued two peak Star Treasury Star Demons, and found the Star Guiding Stone among a pile of rocks.
• The president confronted Jiang Changkong outside the cave and attacked him with his Mountain Moving Sword, but Jiang Changkong's palm strike sent him sliding back.
• When the president blocked his way again, Jiang Changkong drew his blade and knocked him unconscious, then searched him and found fifty fifth-rank mid-grade Star Stones.

Jiang Changkong reached Peace City with the Star Guiding Stone and learned about a Federation recruitment program based on adapting to extreme gravity. After demonstrating astonishing strength with the training rings, he met Tang Ruoxi and Xu Qian at the research institute, where a professor was waiting for him.

• Jiang Changkong left the hill with the Star Guiding Stone and traveled toward Peace City, avoiding other people heading after it.
• Jiang Changkong met An Yuanshan, who explained the Federation's weighted training and the Abyss's Gravity Zone.
• Jiang Changkong tested the rings up to five times gravity, briefly stirred his Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, then returned the rings while they were still active and ran off.
• An Yuanshan and the other martial artists marveled at Jiang Changkong's strength and wondered whether the Federation could recruit him.
• Jiang Changkong entered Peace City, met Tang Ruoxi and Xu Qian at the research institute, and headed inside to meet the professor.

Jiang Changkong gave Professor Yun the Star Guiding Stone and arranged for her to forge a weapon once he gathered the materials, then prepared to explore the Abyss with Xu Qian. As they left the research institute, Xu Qian revealed that its detection equipment had identified his cultivation and that Professor Yun doubted his claims about fighting Star Spirits.

• Jiang Changkong met Professor Yun, offered her the Star Guiding Stone as a gift for Tang Ruoxi, and secured her promise to forge his weapon after he gathered the materials.
• Tang Ruoxi explained the Abyss's gravity zones and mentioned that An Dingbang would also be involved in establishing an outpost; Jiang Changkong decided to visit the Abyss the next day.
• Jiang Changkong researched the Abyss's dangers and the strongest martial artists in Peace City and Stability Province before going to sleep.
• Xu Qian arrived the next morning to guide Jiang Changkong to the Abyss, and he chose to walk rather than take the bus.
• Xu Qian told Jiang Changkong that the institute had detected his peak Star Treasury cultivation and that Professor Yun doubted his claims about fighting Star Spirits.