Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Changkong took Xu Qian through the underground strongholds and toward a suspected ore vein, where they found An Yuanshan losing a fight against a powerful Star Demon. Jiang Changkong intervened and drove the Star Demon back, prompting An Yuanshan to recognize him as a genius.

• Jiang Changkong brought Xu Qian down into the abyss, where she explained Peace City's underground strongholds and the Star Demons dwelling beyond them.
• Jiang Changkong and Xu Qian crossed the wild area, defeating several third-grade Star Demons and reaching an unoccupied stone house.
• Xu Qian directed Jiang Changkong toward the suspected ore-vein area after he asked whether Star Spirit-level Star Demons were present.
• Jiang Changkong and Xu Qian found An Yuanshan struggling against a Star Spirit-level Star Demon, and Xu Qian prepared to help him.
• Jiang Changkong entered the fight and blasted the Star Demon back with Blazing Sun Star Power, while An Yuanshan recognized him as a genius.

Jiang Changkong killed an early Star Spirit Star Demon and accompanied Xu Qian and An Yuanshan to inspect the mining vein and nearby dangerous areas. After learning that powerful forces were watching the vein, he entered a frigid pool whose chill reacted favorably with his Lunar Star Power.

• Jiang Changkong killed the injured Star Demon with a Blazing Sun Blade and collected its Star Stones.
• An Yuanshan urged Jiang Changkong to join the army, recognized him as the Jiang Xingshi from the news, and warned him that powerful Star Spirits were watching the mining vein.
• Jiang Changkong agreed to keep the Star Demon's corpse as weapon material after Xu Qian stopped him from burning it, and An Yuanshan mentioned a dangerous Gravity Zone with top-tier sixth-rank materials.
• Jiang Changkong, Xu Qian, and An Yuanshan visited the rocky mining vein area, where Jiang Changkong found no Star Demons.
• Jiang Changkong touched the jade-green pool and sensed that its Lunar chill affected his Blazing Sun Star Power.
• Despite Xu Qian and An Yuanshan's warnings, Jiang Changkong knocked them back, jumped into the pool, and found its water comfortable while circulating his Lunar Star Power.

Jiang Changkong discovered Lunar Yin stones in the Terror Deep Pool and continued with Xu Qian and An Yuanshan into the Gravity Zone. When a research team reported trouble in the Swamp Zone, the three set out to help before President An Dingbang arrived.

• Jiang Changkong found silver-white stones and ice pillars in the cold pool, then decided to tell a friend who cultivated Lunar Yin Star Power about the potential materials.
• Jiang Changkong, Xu Qian, and An Yuanshan entered the Gravity Zone, where An Yuanshan explained its training uses and the Heng Family's interest in Lunar Yin power.
• Xu Qian received an urgent call from a research team trapped in the Swamp Zone and contacted Professor Yun for help.
• Professor Yun told Xu Qian to put on her battle armor and delay the danger while he sent President An Dingbang.
• An Yuanshan proposed that he and Jiang Changkong go ahead with Xu Qian, and the three hurried toward the Swamp Zone.

Jiang Changkong rushed with Xu Qian to rescue a research team trapped on a floating metal plate in the swamp. He hardened the mire, killed the surrounding Star Demons, and left the team safe to descend, though the ground would not stay dry for long.

• Jiang Changkong carried Xu Qian to the trapped research team after learning its metal plate was under attack by Star Demons.
• He sensed more Star Demons approaching, including two early Star Spirit ones, and stopped Xu Qian from jumping toward the plate.
• Jiang Changkong used Blazing Sun Star Power to harden the mire beneath them and carried Xu Qian across it.
• He killed the Star Demons that emerged and surrounded them, including four early Star Spirit demons, with his long blade.
• Jiang Changkong collected the Star Stones and told Xu Qian to have her colleagues descend before the hardened ground softened again.

Jiang Changkong rescued Yun Qing’s research team, helped them return to their base, and learned that An Dingbang had been seeking allies from major provinces. An Dingbang confronted Jiang Changkong over the Star Guiding Stone, and Jiang Changkong challenged him about their previous fight.

• Jiang Changkong led Yun Qing and the others out of the swamp, extracting Essence, Qi, and Spirit from the Star Demons’ corpses along the way.
• Yun Qing reported Jiang Changkong’s strength to Professor Yun, who said the mission would go to whoever could complete it, while An Yuanshan revealed himself and joined the group back to the base.
• Jiang Changkong asked Yun Qing to process his Star Stone and learned from Xu Qian that An Dingbang had rejected local associations to attract powerful allies from major provinces.
• An Dingbang arrived at the base and called Jiang Changkong out for taking his Star Guiding Stone.
• Jiang Changkong asked whether An Dingbang had not been beaten enough last time, and An Dingbang claimed he had only lost because he was unprepared.

Jiang Changkong defeated An Dingbang in a dispute over a mission, took his Star Stones, and spared him after learning that Li Changtian was tied to the Heng Family. He learned that An Dingbang had sold two Starlight Distortion Zone spots and that the Star Stones had gone to Li Changtian, then planned to meet a friend in person to discuss the cold pool.

• Jiang Changkong offered to take seventy percent of the mission, but An Dingbang refused and challenged him.
• Jiang Changkong shattered An Dingbang’s mountain technique, pinned him with his blade, and took two hundred mid-grade fifth-rank Star Stones.
• Xu Qian and Yun Qing urged Jiang Changkong not to kill An Dingbang, and Jiang Changkong spared him after hearing that Li Changtian and the Heng Family might retaliate.
• Xu Qian told Jiang Changkong that An Dingbang had sold both of his Starlight Distortion Zone spots for Star Stones, which were offered to Li Changtian.
• Jiang Changkong said he would leave to meet a friend and discuss the cold pool because the friend only liked face-to-face talks.

Jiang Changkong descended into the Lunar Cold Pool and found a vast lake of Lunar Star Power guarded by powerful Star Demons and deadly sword energy. He escaped with two mysterious leaves and a stone stool for forging a weapon, then stopped to heal before returning to the research base.

• Jiang Changkong found swarms of silver insects in the depths of the cold pool and fought through them with his Taiji Diagram.
• Jiang Changkong entered a silvery Lunar lake, where several Star Demons attacked him and he used Heaven and Earth Shift to counter their claws.
• Jiang Changkong reached the lakebed but was struck by a waning-moon sword attack, so he brought out the Lunar Sword Tip to absorb the sword energy.
• The Lunar Sword Tip revealed mysterious patterns, two silvery-white leaves, and a stone stool; Jiang Changkong collected the leaves and stone.
• Jiang Changkong was wounded by another sword attack while escaping the lake, then left the pool and went to heal and look up information about the leaves.

Jiang Changkong met Xu Qian and An Dingbang in the swamp and showed them the lunar weapon material he had recovered from the cold pool. After learning about Jiang's mysterious friend's techniques, An Dingbang offered him Star Stones and treated him like a newfound ally.

• Jiang Changkong recovered from his injuries, contacted Xu Qian, and headed to the research team in the swamp.
• An Dingbang tried to sink Jiang Changkong into the mud, but Jiang hardened the ground, confronted him, and took his spatial equipment before returning it.
• Jiang Changkong showed Xu Qian the stone bench filled with Lunar Star Power, and she confirmed there was enough material to forge a saber and a sword.
• Jiang Changkong asked Xu Qian about Tang Ruoxi, then told An Dingbang that his mysterious friend used Moon Flowing Light and moon-themed saber and sword techniques.
• An Dingbang gave Jiang Changkong two fifth-rank mid-grade Star Stones and said Moon Flowing Light was the Heng Family's exclusive ultimate art, calling Jiang his brother.

Jiang Changkong learned that the two leaves were rare cassia leaves prized by the Lunar Heng Family and brought them, a Lunar Stone bench, and a sword tip to Professor Yun to forge weapons. The sword tip proved powerful enough to cut through Lunar Stone, leaving Professor Yun shocked and asking where Jiang Changkong had obtained it.

• An Dingbang gave Jiang Changkong high-grade Star Stones and concluded that his friend was a genius from the Lunar Heng Family.
• Jiang Changkong asked Tang Ruoxi to identify two leaves, and she said they were likely cassia leaves that could earn him a major favor from the Lunar Heng Family.
• Jiang Changkong left for Peace City with Xu Qian to have Professor Yun forge a saber and sword using the Lunar Stone and cassia leaves.
• Jiang Changkong told Professor Yun that his friend was Killing Without Wounds, whom Tang Ruoxi recognized as a masked, mysterious fighter.
• Jiang Changkong showed the group that the sword tip could effortlessly sever Tang Ruoxi's glove and cut through Lunar Stone.
• Professor Yun recognized the sword tip as an extraordinary high-grade weapon and asked Jiang Changkong where he had gotten it.

Jiang Changkong arranged for Professor Yun to forge a saber and sword from Lunar Stone, then learned the Lin and Jin Families had asked about him. Meanwhile, An Dingbang told Li Changtian that Jiang Changkong had encountered a powerful Lunar Star Power cultivator, prompting Li to realize the report concerned Jiang Changkong himself.

• Jiang Changkong used the sword tip to crush Lunar Stone, and Professor Yun began forging a saber and sword according to his chosen designs.
• Professor Yun told Jiang Changkong that the Lin and Jin Families had asked about his information and strength.
• Tang Ruoxi shared information about the two families, and Jiang Changkong mentioned that Chu Yunlong might be in Stability Province.
• Jiang Changkong stayed at the research institute while the weapons were being forged, and An Dingbang returned from the Abyss to Peace City.
• An Dingbang told Li Changtian about the Lunar Star Power cultivator who took Lunar Star Stone and knew Moon Flowing Light.
• Li Changtian learned that An Dingbang's source was Jiang Changkong and wondered how Jiang had become involved with the Heng Family.