Chapter Summaries

Xu Changqing traveled from the Heavenly Origin Starfield to meet the Nine Extremes Heavenly King and bound the Northern Dipper Star Region token to his Divine Sense. With his preparations at home complete, he was ready to enter the Northern Dipper Star Region, where the Great Dao Venerable had been waiting for him.

• Xu Changqing rode the White Tiger through the starry void, passing unusual stellar creatures and starships whose cultivators recognized the Nine Extremes Heavenly King's mount.
• The White Tiger brought Xu Changqing to the Nine Extremes Heavenly King's throne in a distant starfield.
• The Nine Extremes Heavenly King gave Xu Changqing the Northern Dipper Star Region token and explained that binding it would prove his identity and open star gates between the regions.
• Xu Changqing infused the token with his Divine Sense, binding it and gaining a Big Dipper Star Sigil on his hand beside the White Tiger Mark.
• The Nine Extremes Heavenly King rose, his Astral Bone Throne disintegrated, and he told Xu Changqing that the Great Dao Venerable had been waiting for him before setting off with him.

The Nine Extremes Heavenly King guided Xu Changqing toward the Northern Dipper Star Region and explained its hierarchy, Nine Departments, and the Great Dao Venerable’s nature. They reached the Time Boundary Pass, which opened for the White Tiger Mark, revealing the Celestial Pivot Star at the region’s core.

• The Nine Extremes Heavenly King told Xu Changqing that the Great Dao Venerable existed across past, present, and future, beyond ordinary notions of time.
• The Nine Extremes Heavenly King explained the Northern Dipper’s cultivation ranks and described the duties of its Nine Departments.
• When Xu Changqing asked about the Creation Dao, the Nine Extremes Heavenly King refused to disclose information and said the Great Dao Venerable would explain it.
• The Nine Extremes Heavenly King and Xu Changqing approached the Northern Dipper Star Region and saw its seven primary stars and the systems connecting them.
• The Time Boundary Pass recognized Xu Changqing’s White Tiger Mark and opened a passage toward the star region’s core, where the Celestial Pivot Star turned in silence.

Xu Changqing met the Great Dao Venerable, who accepted him as a personal disciple and answered his questions about the Heavenly Origin Realm and immortals. The chapter ended with Xu Changqing asking what the Creation Dao was.

• The Nine Extremes Heavenly King escorted Xu Changqing through the Shining Star's defenses and left him to approach the palace of Time Law alone.
• Xu Changqing entered the palace and encountered the Great Dao Venerable, whose gaze briefly halted the stars, laws, and karma throughout the Four Mortal Domains.
• The Great Dao Venerable praised Xu Changqing's cultivation and talents, welcomed him to the Northern Dipper Star Region, and named him his personal disciple.
• Xu Changqing asked about the Heavenly Origin Realm, and the Great Dao Venerable explained that it had collapsed after a war ten thousand years earlier and was left unrepaired and outside the Immortal Mansion system.
• The Great Dao Venerable confirmed that immortals still existed, but the Immortal Dao had diminished and high-realm cultivators increasingly turned to the Divine Dao.
• Xu Changqing asked the Great Dao Venerable what the Creation Dao was.

The Great Dao Venerable told Xu Changqing how the Lord of Creation Dao was defeated and the Creation Dao inheritance destroyed, then gave him its scripture and five immortal artifacts. He named Xu Changqing his direct disciple, Qinghua, Creation Lord Who Governs the Years, and the announcement shook the Northern Dipper Star Region.

• The Great Dao Venerable recounted how his conflict with the Lord of Creation Dao led to the destruction of Creation Dao's inheritance and its disciples.
• The Great Dao Venerable told Xu Changqing to continue Creation instead of cultivating the Northern Dipper Return-to-Origin Scripture.
• The Great Dao Venerable presented Xu Changqing with five Creation Dao immortal artifacts and said they would open the Creation Heavenly Scripture.
• Xu Changqing accepted the five immortal artifacts, recognizing that refusing to cooperate on the Great Dao Venerable's territory would be dangerous.
• The Great Dao Venerable announced across the Northern Dipper Star Region that Xu Changqing was his direct disciple, Qinghua, Creation Lord Who Governs the Years.
• Cultivators and officials across the principal stars reacted with surprise to Xu Changqing's appointment and the unprecedented title Creation Lord.

Xu Changqing was assigned to the Spirit Plant Bureau on Jade Balance Star and received permission to bring his family to the Northern Dipper Star Region. On the journey there, he unlocked the Creation Heavenly Scripture and discovered how it differed from the Creation Genesis Record he had cultivated.

• The Great Dao Venerable assigned Xu Changqing to the Spirit Plant Bureau on Jade Balance Star and told him he could bring his family.
• The Nine Extremes Heavenly King questioned why Xu Changqing was called the Lord of Creation, and the Great Dao Venerable explained that Creation Dao needed a Dao Lord to regulate Faith Power.
• Xu Changqing summoned the Abyss-Cleansing Mountain Chariot, the Fire Phoenix, and Kong Ling, then set off for Jade Balance Star.
• Xu Changqing marked the five Creation artifacts with his Divine Sense, which revealed the Immortal Grade cultivation technique called the Creation Heavenly Scripture.
• Xu Changqing compared the scripture with the Creation Genesis Record and found that their first three realms were similar, while their fourth realms diverged.

Xu Changqing completed the fourth level of the Creation Heavenly Scripture, discovering that it let him create living objects from nothing but suspecting the Great Dao Venerable had withheld further teachings. He arrived at Jade Balance Star in a blazing mountain chariot as the Spirit Plant Bureau’s elders and deacons speculated about his background and status.

• Xu Changqing spent 5,400 years of lifespan mastering the first four levels of the Creation Heavenly Scripture and created a living spirit rice seed from nothing.
• Xu Changqing suspected that the scripture’s inheritance was incomplete or that the Great Dao Venerable had withheld its remaining levels.
• Jade Balance Star’s divisions managed its spirit fields, pill production, weather, and faith quotas under the Spiritual Light Barrier.
• Spirit Plant Bureau elders and deacons discussed Xu Changqing’s unprecedented title, his origins in the abandoned Heavenly Origin Starfield, and why the Great Dao Venerable had made him a personal disciple.
• Fire Phoenix guided Xu Changqing’s flaming mountain chariot through the Spiritual Light Barrier, and he looked down at the gathered cultivators.

Xu Changqing arrived at the Spirit Plant Bureau and was formally received by Bureau Chief Lu Yan and the staff. He chose to take on work, learned how tasks were assigned through the Within-Reach Mirror, and was left with Zhang Zaizhi to learn the bureau’s affairs.

• Lu Yan and the Spirit Plant Bureau staff greeted Xu Changqing as his Fire Phoenix and Kong Ling arrived with him.
• Lu Yan introduced the bureau’s elders and stewards to Xu Changqing in the main hall.
• Xu Changqing asked what duties he should perform and said he wanted to work rather than simply relax.
• Lu Yan explained how the Within-Reach Mirror displayed tasks and their rewards, then gave Xu Changqing a mirror.
• Lu Yan asked Zhang Zaizhi to guide Xu Changqing through the bureau’s affairs and left with the others.

Xu Changqing learned from Zhang Zaizhi how the Northern Dipper Star Region’s centralized system made spirit-plant cultivation vastly more reliable than in the Heavenly Origin Realm. He also discovered that the Great Dao Venerable had ended insect plagues through an agreement with the Myriad-Insect Mother Empress and traded with powerful rulers beyond the Four Mortal Domains.

• Zhang Zaizhi explained that Jade Balance Star’s controlled climate, standardized fields, and coordinated bureaus produced consistently high-grade harvests, unlike the Heavenly Origin Realm’s reliance on individual skill.
• Xu Changqing asked about insect infestations, and Zhang Zaizhi recounted how the Great Dao Venerable visited the Vacuum Homeland and spoke with the Myriad-Insect Mother Empress to end them in the Northern Dipper Star Region.
• Zhang Zaizhi revealed that the Northern Dipper Star Region paid the Vacuum Homeland a portion of its annual star essence in exchange for the absence of insect infestations.
• Zhang Zaizhi explained that the region traded surplus resources with the other Mortal Domains, the Endless Starfield, and the Sea of Chaos, whose rulers were the True Lord of Myriad Realms and the Void-Biting Lord.
• Xu Changqing realized that his master’s power rested not only on cultivation but also on his far-reaching relationships with formidable beings.

Xu Changqing secured Spirit Fields and accepted a Prayer Talisman task that Lu Yan arranged to test whether he truly intended to work. He produced perfect Spirit Rice seeds with his Creation Heavenly Scripture and completed the task almost instantly, astonishing Lu Yan and the elders.

• Xu Changqing asked Zhang Zaizhi to allocate him Spirit Fields, and Zhang assigned him Grade-Five, Grade-Four, and Grade-Three plots based on his status as a direct disciple.
• Lu Yan ordered a Formal Disciple to send Xu Changqing a Prayer Talisman addressed to Qinghua, Creation Lord Who Governs the Years, to test his willingness to work.
• Xu Changqing accepted the request for Spirit Rice seeds despite Zhang Zaizhi warning that the direct appeal broke procedure.
• Xu Changqing created a heap of perfect Spirit Rice seeds from nothing and sent them through the Within-Reach Mirror to complete the task.
• Lu Yan, Elder Zhou, and Elder Wu were astonished when the seeds arrived in less than twenty breaths.

Xu Changqing learned how faith points worked and browsed the Northern Dipper Immortal Sect's trading house, where the prices made clear how little he had earned so far. He set aside thoughts of selling rare spirit plants and chose a quiet spirit field beside the mortal settlement area of Jade Balance Star.

• Zhang Zaizhi explained that faith points served as currency and described the Northern Dipper Immortal Sect's trading house.
• Xu Changqing saw the trading house's costly goods and realized his three faith points from the Prayer Talisman mission were far from enough for major purchases.
• Xu Changqing considered selling mature rare spirit plants from his Portable Space but decided to learn the rules before acting.
• Zhang Zaizhi presented three available spirit field locations, and Xu Changqing chose the one on the outskirts of C District beside the mortal settlement area.

Xu Changqing witnessed mortals worship a cultivator who had just formed a Nascent Soul and learned from Zhang Zaizhi that mortal faith was purer and more valuable than cultivator faith. Zhang Zaizhi brought him to Green Bamboo Slope, a plot between the immortal sect and Clearwater Town, and Xu Changqing chose it as his home.

• Xu Changqing and Zhang Zaizhi witnessed the Zhang Family's third son survive Tribulation Lightning, form a Nascent Soul, and leave with a Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion cultivator while the townspeople revered them as immortals.
• Xu Changqing asked Zhang Zaizhi why mortals treated cultivators as immortals, and Zhang Zaizhi explained that mortals' uncalculated faith was especially valuable to the Great Dao Venerable.
• Zhang Zaizhi brought Xu Changqing to Green Bamboo Slope, between B District's spirit fields and Clearwater Town, and described its Tranquil-Mind Bamboo and Spirit Vein.
• Xu Changqing accepted Green Bamboo Slope as his plot of land.

Xu Changqing built a secluded bamboo home on Green Bamboo Slope and reflected on the people he had known and lost. As he gazed at the Northern Dipper Star Region, his Creation Force changed in quality, hinting at a breakthrough he could not yet grasp.

• Zhang Zaizhi invited Xu Changqing to attend the Northern Dipper Immortal Sect's grand feast on Shaking Light Star in seven days, and Xu Changqing agreed to go with him.
• Xu Changqing used the Creation Heavenly Scripture's Object Creation to build a bamboo house and courtyard from Tranquil-Mind Bamboo.
• Xu Changqing placed maze, defensive, and alert restrictions around the bamboo grove and added Spirit Runes to keep its leaves evergreen.
• Xu Changqing sat beneath the stars and remembered Zhang San, Li Sancai, Zhang Su, Hu Bugui, Zhao Ziyue, Zhu Fuxian, Bei Qingtang, and others from his past.
• Xu Changqing sensed his Creation Force circulating on its own and becoming more solid, though he could not understand what the change meant.

Xu Changqing examined his Grade-Five Spirit Field and discovered it was filled with living Resting Soil, a treasure rare in the Heavenly Origin Realm. He searched the marketplace for plants worthy of the field, but its rare offerings were far beyond his means, leaving him with only three Faith Points.

• Xu Changqing went to inspect his newly prepared Spirit Fields and found the Grade-Five field covered in warm, pulsating dark-golden Resting Soil.
• Xu Changqing recognized the field's Resting Soil as a legendary treasure and understood the significance of the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion's powerful guardian.
• Xu Changqing decided not to plant seeds from the Heavenly Origin Realm because the Grade-Five field deserved rarer plants from the Northern Dipper Star Region.
• Xu Changqing used the Within-Reach Mirror to browse rare spirit plants in the marketplace and found their prices reached hundreds of millions of Faith Points.
• Xu Changqing realized he had only three Faith Points and could not afford even the rarest plants.

Xu Changqing received his newcomer resources from Bai Luming and learned about the Attendant Central Office and an upcoming Immortal Mansion feast. He then prepared to request Nine-Turn Starry Grass seeds through the Spirit Plant Bureau’s official channels.

• Xu Changqing saw that the rare spirit plants at the trading house cost far more faith points than he could afford.
• Bai Luming delivered Xu Changqing’s newcomer resources, including faith points, spirit seeds, pills, incense, and direct-disciple robes.
• Bai Luming explained the Attendant Central Office’s duties, Xu Changqing’s monthly stipend, and the feast scheduled on Shaking Light Star in six days.
• Xu Changqing put on his new robes and began writing a Prayer Talisman to request Nine-Turn Starry Grass seeds from the Spirit Plant Bureau.

Xu Changqing chose to cultivate the difficult Grade-Seven Nine-Turn Starry Grass, believing his Creation Force and cultivation methods could meet its demands. When the Spirit Plant Bureau questioned his request, he confirmed to Director Lu that he truly intended to plant it.

• Xu Changqing reviewed the Nine-Turn Starry Grass’s demanding cultivation requirements and its value as a stellar treasure.
• Xu Changqing decided the plant suited his budget, goals, and abilities, and requested seeds for one mu of Grade-Five Spirit Field.
• Steward Zhou and four other veteran stewards debated whether to approve Xu Changqing’s request, then referred it to Director Lu.
• Director Lu contacted Xu Changqing through the Within-Reach Mirror and asked whether he had requested the Nine-Turn Starry Grass by mistake.
• Xu Changqing firmly confirmed that he intended to plant it.

Xu Changqing rejected Lu Yan’s safer spirit-plant recommendations and obtained seven superior Nine-Turn Starry Grass seeds. He planned to use Creation Force, his spirit-farming expertise, and four Three-Eyed Clan plants to build a system for accelerating and sustaining their growth.

• Lu Yan warned Xu Changqing about the Nine-Turn Starry Grass’s demanding cultivation and recommended easier Grade-Six plants, but Xu Changqing insisted on growing it.
• Lu Yan sent Xu Changqing seven seeds, deducting 90,000 Faith Points and leaving him with 10,000.
• Xu Changqing inspected the seeds and found that all seven were superior grade, confirming Lu Yan had provided them without cutting corners.
• Xu Changqing considered using Creation Force and his accumulated ripening methods to shorten the grass’s ninety-nine-year growth cycle.
• Xu Changqing brought out four star-type spirit plants from the Three-Eyed Clan and planned to combine their abilities into a system for producing, gathering, refining, and containing starlight.

Xu Changqing planted rare spirit crops in the Resting Soil fields on Jade Balance Star and arranged for the Wind and Thunder Directorate to irrigate them with Heavenly Dew. He discovered tiny golden crystals in the water and asked Han Qing what they were.

• Xu Changqing planted Nine-Turn Starry Grass and Three-Eyed Clan spirit plants in the Grade-Five Spirit Field, rare Heavenly Origin Realm plants in the Grade-Four fields, and ordinary crops in the Grade-Three fields.
• Xu Changqing submitted a request for Heavenly Dew irrigation, and Han Qing arrived to inspect the fields and set an irrigation schedule.
• Han Qing summoned spirit clouds, and the Wind and Thunder Directorate's Heavenly Dew fell over the fields.
• Xu Changqing detected tiny golden crystals in the Heavenly Dew and asked Han Qing what they were.

After confirming the Spirit Fields had been irrigated safely, Xu Changqing used the system to derive the missing levels of the Creation Heavenly Scripture, discovering that the complete method contained nine levels and led to Transcendence. He advanced to the fifth level, Origin Tracing, but could not cultivate beyond it yet.

• Han Qing completed the irrigation schedule for Xu Changqing's Spirit Fields and left after explaining how to request adjustments.
• Xu Changqing inspected the fields beneath the stars, found everything normal, and returned to the bamboo house to meditate.
• Xu Changqing commanded the system to derive the Scripture's missing levels, and the system warned that an external force had erased them.
• Xu Changqing spent 8,900 years of lifespan as the system reverse-analyzed the Scripture and revealed its complete nine-level structure, from Budding to Transcendence.
• Xu Changqing asked the system to raise the Scripture to its maximum level, then advanced from Object Creation to Origin Tracing, the highest level his current cultivation allowed.

Xu Changqing used Origin Tracing to uncover that Temporal Dust contained fragments of severed timelines, which stabilized the Northern Dipper Star Region. He then tried to influence a grain of Temporal Dust with Creation Force, and an unexpected change occurred.

• Xu Changqing activated Origin Tracing and broke a drop of Heavenly Dew into its component particles.
• He isolated a grain of Temporal Dust and discovered it held a sealed fragment of a severed timeline.
• Xu Changqing realized Temporal Dust had spread throughout the Northern Dipper Star Region and stabilized its weather, temperatures, and Spirit Vein.
• Xu Changqing sent Creation Force into the grain to influence its timeline fragment, triggering an unexpected change.

Xu Changqing discovered that Creation Force could repair Temporal Dust into miniature Temporal Loops, and absorbing one slightly improved his understanding of time. He secretly tested a repaired loop on Spirit Rice and watched it grow faster, leaving him with a promising new method of forced ripening.

• Xu Changqing used Creation Force to reconnect a broken timeline in Temporal Dust, turning it into an independent miniature Timeflow Ring.
• Xu Changqing absorbed the repaired Temporal Dust through the Six-Colored Lotus and gained a tiny increase in his understanding of the Time Law.
• Xu Changqing decided to collect Heavenly Dew in his Portable Space and repair and absorb Temporal Dust there to avoid detection by the Great Dao Venerable.
• Xu Changqing repaired a speck of Temporal Dust in the Grade-Three Spirit Field and placed its Temporal Loop beside a stalk of Spirit Rice.
• Xu Changqing watched the Spirit Rice grow at a visibly accelerated yet natural pace.