Chapter Summaries

Qing Cang’s trap drew assassins to Su Chen and the others, but Xia Jie stopped them with the Breath of Wind. Hu Qi then revealed his intent to kill Su Chen, prompting the Ancient King to manifest above the group.

• Qing Cang ordered Hu Qi to locate Wan Chen and the others while secretly arranging for their location information to be intercepted and used to lure out anyone plotting against Su Chen.
• A group of assassins infiltrated the asteroid base, but Xia Jie unleashed the Breath of Wind and froze them before they could attack.
• Hu Qi arrived, contained the storm, and claimed Qing Cang had sent him to find the group, but Xia Jie’s questions exposed the lie.
• Hu Qi decided to kill Su Chen, and Wan Chen warned him that the Red Sun Venerable’s disciple was under the Ancient King’s protection.
• As Hu Qi moved to attack, cyan data rose from Su Chen and formed a colossal Ancient King in space.

Lin Langtian questioned Qing Cang about the Church’s silence and the growing criticism of Su Chen, but the Bronze Ancient King’s appearance ended the Royal Court’s attempt to seize the Star Seed. When Hu Qi was exposed for trying to kill Su Chen, the Ancient King executed him on the spot.

• Lin Langtian doubted Qing Cang’s account of sending Yue'er, Wan Chen, and the others away and raised concerns about Su Chen’s talent and future prospects.
• The Bronze Ancient King appeared over Taiyue Hub, and the Prison-Suppressing King called off the Royal Court’s effort to claim Su Chen.
• Wu Feng and Qing Cang arrived at the meteorite and found Hu Qi standing before Su Chen, while Qing Cang accused Hu Qi of attempting to murder the Church’s Star Seed.
• Wan Chen, Ming Lin, and Lin Yue testified that Hu Qi had intended to attack Su Chen, and Wu Feng declared that murdering a Star Seed warranted immediate execution.
• The Bronze Ancient King killed Hu Qi with a pillar of green light, leaving only ash.

Su Chen and the Bronze Church escaped further danger after the Bronze Ancient King executed Hu Qi and deterred the Royal Court, while Su Chen learned that Qin Yun was behind the attack. Aboard the fleet returning to the church, Su Chen decided to demonstrate his strength as a Star Seed, as Qin Yun and the Church’s internal politics remained threats.

• The Prison-Suppressing King and Ni Chuan arrived, paid their respects to the Ancient King, and left without challenging the Bronze Church.
• Wan Chen told Su Chen that Hu Qi was Venerable Qin Yun’s eldest disciple and that Qin Yun’s family had targeted the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable for Qin Tianlin.
• Lin Langtian took the group back to the Taiyue Hub and then aboard the Bronze Church’s fleet, where Su Chen noticed Wu Feng watching him.
• Qin Yun learned that Hu Qi had been executed and wondered why the Bronze Ancient King had shown Su Chen such favor.
• Lin Yue told Lin Langtian that Su Chen had beaten her even when she fought without suppressing her tier, leaving her father stunned.
• Su Chen considered the threats posed by Qin Yun and Qin Tianlin, then decided to show how powerful he had become as a Star Seed.

Su Chen trained aboard the flagship while Qing Cang and Wu Feng discussed whether Venerable Qin Yun had arranged Hu Qi’s attack, and Lin Yue offered Su Chen marriage into her family. After reaching the Bronze Church fleet’s destination, Su Chen activated Force User’s guidance and struggled to control the violently accelerated Cloud-Dragon Body-Tempering Method.

• Su Chen advanced his Radiant-Flame Body-Tempering Method to Master level, acquired Radiant-Flame Physique, and began practicing a new fire-element method.
• Qing Cang and Wu Feng suspected Venerable Qin Yun had secretly ordered Hu Qi’s attack, and Qing Cang advised investigating before confronting Venerable Chu Lingyuan.
• Lin Langtian told Qing Cang that Venerable Qin Yun would represent the sect at the Royal Court to retrieve the Flame in the Nether Mist.
• Lin Yue told Su Chen that her father wanted him to marry into their family and marry her, but Su Chen refused.
• After half a month of training in energy turbulence, Su Chen activated Force User’s guidance, which accelerated his Cloud-Dragon Body-Tempering Method and caused him intense pain.
• Su Chen forced the rampaging currents to follow the method’s circulation paths, but he feared they would soon spiral out of control.

Su Chen broke the Cloud-Dragon Body-Tempering Method’s limit, acquired Force User, and arrived at the Bronze Church headquarters. As he examined the Ancient King Stele, his panel revealed a Special Profession called First Selector with only one requirement, which he had already fulfilled.

• Su Chen broke the Cloud-Dragon Body-Tempering Method’s limit and gained the Cloud Shadow ability.
• Su Chen acquired Force User, increasing his skill proficiency acquisition speed and raising his talent to crimson.
• Su Chen arrived at the Bronze Church with Wan Chen and the others, where he saw the church’s core and learned that the Ancient King lived in the Ancient King Hall near the flame.
• Wan Chen led Su Chen to the Bronze Tower to register his identity as a Star Seed while church members watched him closely.
• Qin Tianlin triggered a disturbance at the Ancient King Stele, and Wan Chen explained its significance to Su Chen.
• Su Chen examined the Ancient King Stele, and his panel revealed the Special Profession First Selector, whose sole requirement he had already met.

Su Chen accepted the Profession information from the Ancient King Stele, then unexpectedly met its selection criteria and gained its recognition in a spectacular display. Qin Tianlin and Qin Yun were stunned by Su Chen’s success, while Qing Cang and the Bronze Ancient King saw the phenomenon from the Ancient King Hall.

• Su Chen learned the First Selector Profession information from the bronze stele and chose to take the Profession.
• Qin Tianlin tried to impress the gathered church members by making the Ancient King Stele resonate and by drawing attention to Su Chen’s arrival.
• The Ancient King Stele erupted in golden light, which passed Qin Tianlin and enveloped Su Chen, lifting him in a pillar of light.
• Qin Yun learned that Su Chen had arrived and that Qin Tianlin was visiting the stele, then watched Su Chen’s recognition from his window and reacted with disbelief.
• Qing Cang asked the Bronze Ancient King to borrow the Xuantian Instrument to improve Su Chen’s talent, but learned the Royal Court had already reserved it.
• The Bronze Ancient King and Qing Cang saw Su Chen’s recognition on a virtual screen, and Qing Cang hurried out to witness the pillar of light.

Su Chen received the Ancient King Stele’s recognition, prompting the Bronze Ancient King to send Qing Cang to the Xuantian Church and drawing the Bronze Church’s attention to Su Chen. After registering as a Star Seed and learning about the church’s network and rankings, Su Chen left the Bronze Tower as the sun went dark and Wan Chen explained that Dark Sun Time was unique to their church.

• The Bronze Ancient King struggled to explain why the Ancient King Stele had recognized Su Chen and sent Qing Cang to visit the Xuantian Ancient King.
• The Ancient King Stele enveloped Su Chen in a golden pillar, while Qin Tianlin and the gathered church members watched in shock; Su Chen gained the Gaze ability.
• Zhou Yunyang and other church members enthusiastically greeted Su Chen, and Wan Chen escorted him to the Bronze Tower to register his identity.
• Su Chen completed his physical, biometric, and mental records with Copper Spirit, received a communications bracelet, and examined the Holy Hall Ranking.
• Su Chen left the Bronze Tower with Wan Chen and learned that the daily twelve-hour Dark Sun Time was unique to the Bronze Church.

Su Chen learned about the Bronze Church’s failing Flame and its recurring Dark Sun Time, then underwent a painful procedure that removed the Nether Mist in his body. After cleansing, he and Wan Chen and Ming Lin headed to Su Chen’s floating-island residence.

• Su Chen noticed the Flame extinguish during Dark Sun Time, and Wan Chen explained that it began after the Flame went out for six months more than a century earlier.
• Wan Chen told Su Chen that two of the Bronze Church’s four Morning Star Rank experts had vanished and fallen, while the Bronze Ancient King remained by the Flame.
• Wan Chen led Su Chen to the Nether Mist cleansing department, where staff recognized Su Chen and arranged a private treatment pod for him.
• Qin Huaisheng purified Su Chen’s body despite the severe pain, removing his Nether Mist and leaving him feeling lighter and somewhat stronger.
• Su Chen offered Ming Lin permission to undergo cleansing, then boarded a flying vehicle with Wan Chen and Ming Lin for his floating island.

Lan Hai reprimanded Lan Hao for failing to support Su Chen after Hu Qi’s death, then told him to focus on advancing his Professions. Su Chen settled into his Floating Island in the Bronze Church, discovered the Holy Hall Ranking’s Creation Universe reward could greatly aid his Profession requirements, and began considering how to obtain more essences and Strange God's Power.

• Lan Hao told Lan Hai that Su Chen had defeated Lin Yue and Wan Chen, prompting Lan Hai to conclude that Su Chen had a tremendous secret and that the Ancient King Stele’s recognition had secured his standing as a Star Seed.
• Lan Hai discovered that Lan Hao had failed to testify in Su Chen’s favor after Hu Qi died, scolded him, and then advised him to avoid Su Chen and concentrate on taking on Life Nourisher.
• Su Chen inspected his Floating Island, granted Ming Lin Agent permissions, and explored the training facilities and services provided to him as a Star Seed.
• Su Chen learned that the Holy Hall Ranking’s top hundred could earn access to the Creation Universe, which could create environments to help fulfill certain Profession requirements.
• Su Chen checked the church exchange for Strange God's Power and found none, then considered buying it through other channels and noted the high cost of Nether Stones.

Su Chen visited the Bronze Church’s Spirit Hall to find fifth-rank thunder- and fire-related Professions, and learned that his Star Seed status entitled him to choose a Holy Profession. Hall Master Wen came to take him to discuss that choice, leaving Su Chen on the verge of seeing the Church’s secret Holy Profession options.

• Su Chen checked the Dark Flower bounty site and found that his own bounty was falling while Qing Cang’s had exceeded ten billion Star Coins.
• Su Chen traveled to the Spirit Hall, where Zhong Chengyu and Zhou Yunyang greeted him and Zhong led him to a private room.
• Su Chen requested high-grade physical and mental Professions related to thunder and fire, and Zhong showed him Thunderforce Flame Warrior and Divine Thunder Caller.
• Su Chen asked about his right as a Star Seed to choose a Holy Profession, and Zhou Yunyang named the Church’s three publicly known options: Dawn Heaven's Execution, Abyssal Spirit Admonition, and Eternal Body.
• Wen Jing, master of the Spirit Hall, arrived and took Su Chen with him to discuss the Holy Profession.

Su Chen chose the Eternal Body Holy Profession and learned he would first need to complete the Endurer Profession. After Wei Zhenghong visited him, the two discussed the church’s rivalries and the Nether Domain, then Wei Zhenghong joined Su Chen on his way to the Challenge Center.

• Su Chen selected the Eternal Body Holy Profession, received the Endurer requirements, and signed a contract forbidding him from revealing Holy Profession secrets.
• Su Chen returned from the Bronze Tower and met Wei Zhenghong, who had come to visit him at the Floating Island port.
• Wei Zhenghong described how Qin Yun had nearly driven him to his death and warned Su Chen that Qin Yun would continue plotting against him.
• Wei Zhenghong said the Star Seeds should be allies rather than rivals, and offered to help Su Chen.
• Su Chen asked Wei Zhenghong about forging a Holy Profession, and Wei Zhenghong explained that it required igniting a spark with spirit fire from the Nether Domain.
• When Su Chen said he planned to visit the Challenge Center, Wei Zhenghong offered to go with him.

Su Chen went with Wei Zhenghong to the Challenge Center to establish his initial Saint Ranking, while Wei Zhenghong offered advice and intimidated those they encountered. Su Chen began the assessment, and an energy-built humanoid opponent formed before him.

• Su Chen accepted Wei Zhenghong’s offer to accompany him to the Challenge Center, and Wei Zhenghong promised to give him a challenge room with the highest specifications.
• On the flight, Wei Zhenghong advised Su Chen to make others fear and respect him while obeying the Church’s rules, then discussed the fourth-tier Saint Ranking.
• At the Challenge Center, Deacon Deng nervously arranged a room for Su Chen, and Zhou Yunyang turned around and left as soon as he noticed Wei Zhenghong.
• Wei Zhenghong introduced Su Chen as his granduncle-master to a young man leaving a neighboring room; after the young man fled, he wondered whether Su Chen might rank below him and invited others to watch.
• Su Chen agreed to establish his initial ranking, learned the assessment rules, and watched an energy vortex form a humanoid figure.

Su Chen used the ranking trial to unleash his strongest abilities and fought the Training Projection until the system evaluated his performance. He ranked 299th overall, taking first place among fifth-tier professionals despite being fourth tier, and left the room after changing clothes.

• Su Chen paused the trial to clarify that lingering ability effects would be recorded, then resumed combat against the Training Projection.
• Su Chen activated Life Burner, Trampler, and several Saint's Hand enhancements, delivering a powerful black-lightning attack before the fight became a battle of attrition.
• Outside the room, Wei Zhenghong and Meng Shiyu argued over Su Chen's likely ranking while Wang Ye tracked the rankings and watched his own position fall.
• Wang Ye discovered that Su Chen had ranked 299th overall, first among fifth-tier professionals, shocking the gathered crowd and Wei Zhenghong.
• Su Chen stopped fighting when he began to fall behind the accelerating Training Projection and received the system's confirmed ranking of 299.
• Su Chen concluded that he had reached the strongest position among fifth-tier professionals, changed into fresh clothes, and left the room.

Su Chen’s new fifth-rank standing drew attention at the Challenge Center, and Wei Zhenghong helped him arrange mental anchoring for a future trip to the Nether Domain. After Lan Hao acquired a new profession, he challenged Su Chen’s projection and was overwhelmed by its mental attack.

• Wei Zhenghong called out Meng Shiyu, who greeted Su Chen and then hurried away; Wei Zhenghong explained that Meng Shiyu was Qin Tianlin’s lackey and had likely come hoping Su Chen would rank poorly.
• On the way to the harbor, Su Chen asked about entering the Nether Domain, and Wei Zhenghong contacted Deacon Feng to arrange mental anchoring.
• Su Chen granted Deacon Feng permission to access his mental sample, then received a third standard aircraft from the harbor manager.
• Lan Hao successfully acquired the Life Nourisher profession and learned that Su Chen had risen to first place in the fifth rank at position 299 on the Saint Ranking.
• Lan Hao challenged Su Chen’s Training Projection, but its mental attack shattered his defense and left him kneeling in awe and shame.

Lan Hao recovered from the psychological scar Su Chen’s Profession ability left behind, while Qin Yun and Qin Tianlin learned that Su Chen had ranked first among fifth-tier holders. Back on his Floating Island, Su Chen collected his rewards, sought a black-market route for Strange God’s Power, and tuned his Professions as he prepared to advance.

• The silver-haired butler erased the psychological shadow Su Chen had left in Lan Hao’s mind and warned him that it might have made him Su Chen’s servant.
• Qin Yun told Qin Tianlin to restrain himself while he attended the Vast Sea Emperor’s birthday celebration, then both men were shocked to hear Su Chen ranked 299th overall and first among the fifth tier.
• Ding Fan delivered Su Chen’s rewards, converted them into Star Coins, and privately explained that the black market offered better prices for Strange God’s Power.
• Su Chen asked Ding Fan to help Ming Lin reach the black market and arranged for architects to build a challenge room on his Floating Island.
• Su Chen used Strange God’s Power to adjust the Thunderforce Flame Warrior and Divine Thunder Caller requirements, then discovered the items and ritual needed to transform them.
• Su Chen checked his balance, messaged Wei Zhenghong for help with the remaining costs, and began training toward the fifth tier.

Wang Ye and other challengers suffered mental shadows after testing themselves against Su Chen, while Wei Zhenghong told Shen Yi'an about Su Chen’s recognition by the Ancient King Stele and his top ranking. Su Chen maxed out his Profession progress and advanced to Thunder Radiance Flame Lord, gaining transformed abilities and a powerful thunder-and-fire core.

• Wang Ye rushed from the Challenge Center with a mental shadow, and Deacon Deng treated him before a line of other challengers sought help.
• Wei Zhenghong visited Shen Yi'an and revealed that Su Chen had earned the Ancient King Stele’s recognition and ranked first among fifth-tier professionals.
• Wei Zhenghong told Shen Yi'an that Su Chen’s talent might rise with help from the Xuantian Instrument and warned him that Han Xingliu would return to the church.
• Su Chen restricted access to his Floating Island, completed his Profession progress, and used a Punishing Thunder Potion to meet the requirements for advancement.
• Su Chen advanced from Calamity Envoy to Thunder Radiance Flame Lord and gained Thunderflare Core, which strengthened his thunder- and fire-based abilities.

Su Chen reached the fifth rank and explored the Bronze Church’s Nether Domain through his Nether Tower, learning about its mining operations and spirit fire. Before Dark Sun Time, he entered the domain directly and found himself near an unguarded Nether Stone vein, ready to mine with his Formless True Edge.

• Su Chen condensed the Thunder Radiance Flame Lord’s core ability, reaching the fifth rank and gaining a powerful lightning-and-fire enhancement.
• Su Chen entered his Nether Tower and met Deacon Feng, who explained the Bronze Flame’s limits, the Nether Stone mines, and the dangers of finding spirit fire.
• Su Chen learned that Fan Zhao’s spirit fire had been found, though nearby Nether Domain creatures still had to be dealt with.
• Su Chen asked whether entering the Nether Domain without the tower would place him at a random location beneath the Flame, then decided to test it himself.
• Su Chen entered the Nether Domain directly just before Dark Sun Time and saw the Bronze Flame receding beneath the protection of a ninth-rank professional’s golden dragon phantom.
• Su Chen summoned the Formless True Edge near the mine and found it cost almost no mental power, prompting him to suspect his mastery of the weapon made it easy to use.

Su Chen explored a new Nether Stone vein in the Nether Domain and discovered that his Faceless Ghost Priest form let him intimidate low-tier creatures into mining for him. He collected two mother stones and several child stones, then tried to carry them outside as Dark Sun Time approached.

• Su Chen equipped the Formless True Edge as a pickaxe and traveled toward the new mineral vein, killing a low-tier Nether Domain Creature along the way.
• Su Chen became a Faceless Ghost Priest, entered the mine without provoking most Nether Domain Creatures, and discovered that mining Nether Stone consumed much of his mental power.
• Su Chen ordered four low-tier Nether Domain Creatures to mine the separate branches, and their work quickly produced stones more efficiently than his own.
• Su Chen collected two mother stones and a pile of child stones, then dismissed the creatures before the flames returned.
• Su Chen used mental power to envelop the Nether Stones and attempted to take them out of the Nether Domain.

Su Chen brought Nether Stones out of the Nether Domain and arranged for Ming Lin to sell them and buy Cunning Fox’s mid-tier divine power. He then obtained a portion of Crimson’s low-tier divine power and began considering whether he could use Black Pagoda’s god egg to trick Strange Gods into granting divine blood.

• Su Chen struggled to carry Nether Stones out of the mine, gave the stones he could not take to the black ape, and returned with the rest to the Floating Island.
• Su Chen asked Ming Lin to sell the Nether Stones and purchase Cunning Fox’s mid-tier divine power, and Ming Lin agreed to use his own black-market contacts.
• Su Chen erased symbols inside the Nether Tower to conceal the divine blood’s energy signature, then tested whether he could bring Black Pagoda’s god egg into the Nether Domain but failed.
• Su Chen entered the Nether Domain, performed a ritual to Crimson, and received one portion of low-tier divine power, causing Divine Thunder Caller to become Scarlet Thunder Might Lord.
• Su Chen recalled that Black Pagoda’s god egg had targeted the Great Venerable’s spirituality and wondered whether he could use it to trick Strange Gods into granting him divine blood.

Su Chen mined Nether Stones in the Nether Domain, tried to negotiate with Centipede Dragon, and began cultivating a helpful black ape while planning to obtain divine power. Meanwhile, Qin Tianlin and Fan Zhao discussed Su Chen and the delayed preparations for Fan Zhao’s Holy Profession, leaving Fan Zhao intent on confronting Qin Yuezheng.

• Su Chen planned to contact Black Pagoda through prayer when the Flame reignited, then returned to the Nether Stone vein and asked Centipede Dragon about other deposits.
• Centipede Dragon rejected Su Chen’s offer to cooperate because he could not provide the untainted spirit bodies it wanted, so Su Chen organized Nether Domain Creatures to mine instead.
• Su Chen discovered the black ape kept working after the others fled, named it Little Black, and decided to return the following day.
• Su Chen planned to become a Scarlet Thunder Might Lord, acquire Cunning Fox divine power synthesis essence, and investigate the Spirit Fire before resuming meditation.
• Meng Shiyu reported that Su Chen rarely left his Floating Island and that Ming Lin had been asking black market merchants about strange god's power.
• Fan Zhao arrived, asked Meng Shiyu to invite Su Chen, and told Qin Tianlin that he intended to confront Qin Yuezheng over delays in clearing Nether Domain Creatures near a Spirit Fire.