Chapter Summaries

Jiang Changkong wiped out Star Demons to expand his territory, then arranged wages and recruitment for its workers. After questioning Lin Nanfeng about the Immortal Palace, he learned Liangqiu Xuanyi had contacted the Galaxy Martial Arts Association.

• Jiang Changkong killed a late-stage Stellar Star Demon and expanded his territory until the Soul-Anchoring Tree had grown to one and a half meters tall.
• Jiang Changkong stopped the expansion and told Xu Hengzhi to recruit workers and pay them two additional seventh-rank Star Crystals after the next vein was developed.
• Jiang Changkong returned to the territory and questioned Lin Nanfeng about the Immortal Palace's activity and its agents trying to approach the laboratory.
• Lin Nanfeng reported that Professor Yun often disclosed research progress and that Liangqiu Xuanyi had recently contacted the Galaxy Martial Arts Association.
• Jiang Changkong said he would watch Liangqiu Xuanyi's situation and promised Lin Nanfeng a fortuitous opportunity later.

Jiang Changkong recruited land reclamation partners and appointed Ye Qiushui, also known as Autumn Water Begonia, to organize the team after learning about the fallen Ye Family. He then reviewed rival teams and realized that some specially approved Martial Arts Associations could field Stellar realm martial artists.

• Jiang Changkong created a group for over a hundred prospective recruits, set requirements, and selected sixty people based on how many they could bring.
• Autumn Water Begonia offered to bring up to five thousand people if Jiang Changkong secured enough wasteland and agreed to work for free for five years if she failed to deliver them.
• Jiang Changkong appointed Autumn Water Begonia to recruit the remaining team members and asked his allies to investigate her.
• Jiang Changkong learned that Autumn Water Begonia was Ye Qiushui, whose fallen Ye Family had a large population and ties to other declining factions.
• Jiang Changkong reviewed competing land reclamation teams and found that specially approved Martial Arts Associations could assemble teams of Stellar realm martial artists.

Jiang Changkong learned about the immense resources of the Federation’s martial arts factions and prepared for the coming pioneering team contest. After gathering Star Crystals to improve his martial arts, he encountered Qiu Yun, who tested whether he was Jiang Changkong and pressed him to cooperate.

• Jiang Changkong researched the specially approved martial arts associations and learned that their starry-sky expeditions gave them vast resources and the means to nurture top-tier martial artists.
• Huo Qinglan warned Jiang Changkong that his reputation as an unprecedented genius had stirred resentment, and told him Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun had joined the Galaxy pioneering team.
• Jiang Changkong counted the Star Crystals taken from slain Star Demons and decided to raise five martial arts to minor accomplishment before hunting deeper in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Qiu Yun entered the dark space and asked Jiang Changkong to cooperate, then tested whether he was Jiang Changkong; Jiang Changkong stayed silent, and Qiu Yun left without an answer.
• Jiang Changkong decided to improve the Spirit Controlling Formula and prepare a gift for Qiu Yun and the others.

Jiang Changkong advanced to the mid-stage Stellar Realm and learned that Star Demon kings had prepared a tenth-grade killing array for him, so he avoided their territory and returned to his own. Two days before the wilderness development team competition, Liangqiu Xuanyi visited him and revealed that Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun belonged to the Immortal Palace, leaving Jiang Changkong questioning her loyalties and ties to the Galaxy Martial Arts Association.

• Jiang Changkong reached the mid-stage Stellar Realm after mastering five martial arts, then discovered Star Demons were building a tenth-grade killing array to stop him.
• Jiang Changkong learned that several late-stage and peak Stellar Realm kings were waiting deeper inside with more killing arrays, so he killed the Star Embryo Star Demons and returned to his territory.
• Jiang Changkong asked Professor Yun about sharing research with the Immortal Palace and then resumed studying the Lunar Star Array while his reputation spread.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi visited Jiang Changkong two days before the wilderness development team competition and gave him a note identifying Gu Yanyu and Qiu Yun as Immortal Palace members.
• Jiang Changkong asked Liangqiu Xuanyi whether she was betraying her teammates and what connection she had to the Galaxy Martial Arts Association.

Liangqiu Xuanyi told Jiang Changkong that the Immortal Palace sought the path to immortality through the Three Great Star Bodies and ancient near-divine legacies, then gave him a maze map tied to a soul martial artist’s treasure. Jiang Changkong deciphered the map and prepared to lead Ye Qiushui and the others to the wilderness development competition on Overseas Island.

• Liangqiu Xuanyi explained the Immortal Palace’s origins and its pursuit of clues from the three palaces and ancient near-divine beings.
• Liangqiu Xuanyi gave Jiang Changkong a maze map connected to a near-divine soul martial artist’s treasure, and he used his Soul-Anchoring Tree to reveal its routes.
• Jiang Changkong burned the map and decided to leave questions about Liangqiu Xuanyi’s motives to Huo Qinglan.
• Jiang Changkong met with Ye Qiushui and the other forty-eight team members, confirmed their preparations, and told them to follow him to the competition grounds the next day.
• Ye Qiushui questioned the team’s chances and offered Jiang Changkong a top-tier ninth-rank water-attributed longsword, which he refused because it did not suit his cultivation.

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.