Chapter Summaries

After Zhen Yuanzi drove Liu Qian Cui away, he explained the enemy’s powers to Xu Changqing and advised him to stop suppressing his cultivation and prepare for Tribulation Transcendence. Zhen Yuanzi presented three possible locations, but Xu Changqing remained undecided.

• Zhen Yuanzi’s attack forced Liu Qian Cui to retreat after costing him seven thousand years of lifespan.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Xu Changqing that Liu Qian Cui was known as Great Dao Cliff and Causality Angler, and could trace people through causality.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Xu Changqing that his cultivation had reached a critical point and that it was time to undergo Tribulation Transcendence.
• Zhen Yuanzi recommended the Star Vein Source, the Primordial Thunder Pool, and Azure Emperor's Back Garden as possible locations for the tribulation.
• Xu Changqing rejected the dangerous Primordial Thunder Pool and asked whether any other locations were suitable.

Zhen Yuanzi recommended the Star Core Abyss as the best place for Xu Changqing’s Tribulation Transcendence and gave him a one-use Time Dao Seal. Xu Changqing chose the abyss, returned home to see his family, then inspected the Nine-Turn Starry Grass at the Spirit Plant Bureau.

• Zhen Yuanzi explained the Star Core Abyss’s advantages and uncertain factors, and Xu Changqing decided to undergo Tribulation Transcendence there.
• Zhen Yuanzi gave Xu Changqing a Time Dao Seal that could reverse lethal damage by three breaths once.
• Xu Changqing returned home, spent time with Ruo Qunshuang and the children, and distributed heavenly treasures among his family.
• Xu Changqing left home without telling his family about the tribulation and returned to the Spirit Plant Bureau.
• Xu Changqing found that the Nine-Turn Starry Grass had grown its fifth-turn leaf and could withstand at least twice as much starlight as normal.

Xu Changqing surveyed the flourishing Spirit Field, then rested and reflected on the fifteen hundred years that had passed. After waking in peak condition, he set out with Kong Ling for the Starfall Secret Realm, intending to use the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace to forge his Origin Dao foundation during tribulation transcendence.

• Xu Changqing saw that the four spirit plants had formed a stable cycle of producing, purifying, containing, and distributing starlight, nourishing the Celestial River Moon Marrow Flower seedling.
• Xu Changqing realized that fifteen hundred years had passed and remembered the people and places left behind before falling into a deep sleep.
• Xu Changqing woke refreshed and heard Zhang Zaizhi report that his newly cultivated Seven-Star Light-Leeching Grass had matured.
• Xu Changqing departed with Kong Ling for the Starfall Secret Realm, choosing it because the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace could let him use tribulation lightning to forge his Origin Dao foundation.

Xu Changqing entered the Starfall Secret Realm to prepare for a breakthrough that would make the Origin Dao his foremost foundation. He reached the Star Core Abyss, where Star Core fragments preserved the full cycle of stellar creation, stability, and demise.

• Xu Changqing chose the Star Core Abyss as the place to temper his Origin Dao with its balanced laws of creation, Order, and Terminus.
• Xu Changqing traveled from the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion toward the Starfall Secret Realm without alerting anyone.
• Xu Changqing entered the Starlight Mist and sensed the distant attention of Zhen Yuanzi, the Nine Extremes Heavenly King, and others.
• Xu Changqing absorbed Stellar Origin from the mist, which flowed into his sea of qi and merged with the Origin Dao.
• Xu Changqing emerged at a floating landmass of Star Core fragments and saw fragments displaying the different stages of stellar birth, stability, and demise.

Xu Changqing explored the Star Core Abyss and discovered a primitive law structure evolving beneath its fragments before preparing to undergo his Void Refinement Tribulation. When he released his full cultivation, the Starfall Secret Realm shook and a strange Void Rift opened in place of ordinary tribulation lightning.

• Xu Changqing examined the Star Core fragments and chose the central region beneath the Starlight Pillar as the site for his tribulation.
• Xu Changqing sensed an incomplete law structure evolving deep beneath the fragments, which shifted away from his Divine Sense.
• Xu Changqing walked toward the Starlight Pillar and sensed the fragments resonating as their laws interacted.
• Xu Changqing prepared his cultivation and Heaven-and-Earth Furnace, then released his suppressed aura to trigger the tribulation.
• The Starfall Secret Realm trembled, and a Void Rift opened in the sky with energy that gave birth to laws and opposed them.

Xu Changqing used the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace and Origin Flame to devour the Void Refinement Tribulation, turning its destructive energy into Void Origin and strengthening his foundation. As the second wave of Annihilation Thunderballs began to temper him, his World Bubble took shape and an independent space started forming in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Xu Changqing let the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace swallow the first Void Rift and refine its void energy into Void Origin.
• Xu Changqing devoured the remaining Void Rifts, causing a World Bubble to form and leaving a new law imprint on the furnace.
• The second tribulation opened a vast rift and sent nine Annihilation Thunderballs toward Xu Changqing.
• Xu Changqing sent his three-colored vortex into the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace and used the furnace to swallow the first Annihilation Thunderball.
• Xu Changqing diverted the furnace's residual impact through Return to Origin, while Origin Flame tempered his foundation and the World Bubble became tangible.

Xu Changqing survived the third level of heavenly tribulation by trapping and refining four Void Tribulation Beasts inside the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace. His World Bubble solidified, advancing him to Early Void Refinement.

• The Heaven-and-Earth Furnace swallowed nine thunderballs and gained intricate law imprints that strengthened its affinity with void energy.
• A Void Tribulation Beast emerged from the rift and tried to attack the World Bubble in Xu Changqing’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Changqing used Azure Dragon Transformation and Breath of Withering to injure the beast, then trapped it and three more Calamity Beasts inside the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace.
• Xu Changqing refined all four Calamity Beasts into Void Origin, adding another complex law imprint to the furnace.
• Xu Changqing found that his World Bubble had solidified under the Chaos Deity, and he reached Early Void Refinement.

Xu Changqing completed his breakthrough to Early Void Refinement, transforming his Chaos Deity into the master of a Divine Kingdom within his Sea of Consciousness. He decided to integrate his Portable Space into the new world to give it a living ecosystem, and entered the space to begin.

• Xu Changqing’s Origin Dao absorbed Void Origin, while his Chaos Deity transformed into the Chaos Divine Lord and formed a Divine Kingdom with a complete set of laws and a Seven-Colored Lotus Platform.
• Xu Changqing sensed the embryonic law-lifeform in the Star Core fragments had grown, but chose not to disturb it or claim the Starfall Secret Realm’s secret.
• Xu Changqing observed that his nascent Divine Kingdom needed an ecosystem and decided to use spirit plants to help it grow.
• Xu Changqing entered his Portable Space, where his Five-Colored Soil, seasonal cycle, and Mutated Spirit Plants were flourishing, intending to integrate it into the Divine Kingdom.

Xu Changqing fused his Portable Space into his Divine Kingdom, bringing its soil, seasons, and spirit plants into the new realm. The fusion gave his Early Void Refinement Divine Kingdom the scale and abilities normally reached only in later stages.

• Xu Changqing harvested the Portable Space's spirit plants, raising his remaining lifespan to 10,000,069 years.
• Xu Changqing used the Origin Dao to merge the Portable Space into his Divine Kingdom, where the Three-Spirit Sacred Tree established public laws of water, wood, and fire and the Mother Rice doubled plant yields.
• The Undying Parasol Tree took root, and the Fire Phoenix crossed the world wall and settled on its highest branch.
• The Spatial Earth-Origin Fruit Tree rooted itself in the Divine Kingdom's world wall as the Five-Colored Soil spread and the four seasons formed a complete cycle.
• Xu Changqing withdrew his consciousness and realized his Divine Kingdom could manifest outwardly despite his being only at Early Void Refinement.

Xu Changqing returned to the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion after reaching Void Refinement and learned from the Great Dao Venerable that the changes in his cultivation came from scattered Divine Dao Fragments. His master also told him to retrieve the Creation Dao’s final opportunity in the Evernight Ruins when they opened in more than seven hundred years.

• After merging the Portable Space into his Divine Kingdom, Xu Changqing left the Secret Realm and received the Great Dao Venerable’s summons to the Celestial Pivot Star.
• Xu Changqing traveled to the Celestial Pivot Star and met with the Great Dao Venerable and the Nine Extremes Heavenly King.
• The Great Dao Venerable told Xu Changqing that the Evernight Ruins would open in more than seven hundred years and that he needed to retrieve the Creation Dao’s final opportunity there.
• Xu Changqing asked why his cultivation stages granted divine abilities, a Dharma Idol, a deity, and a Divine Kingdom unlike the systems described in ancient texts.
• The Great Dao Venerable explained that a past war shattered the Divine Dao into fragments, which fused with the worlds and caused cultivators’ powers to reproduce the duties of gods.

After learning that his extraordinary opportunities came from Divine Dao Fragments, Xu Changqing returned to the Spirit Plant Bureau and was abruptly appointed Jade Balance Star Lord. He accepted the post while leaving the three divisions’ daily operations unchanged, then received his new Star Lord regalia, tools, and a three-use Time Dao Pearl from Zhen Yuanzi.

• Great Dao Venerable told Xu Changqing that the gifts behind his talents came from Divine Dao Fragments, and later revealed to Nine Extremes Heavenly King that he had seen Xu Changqing in the past.
• Xu Changqing inspected the spirit plants at the Spirit Plant Bureau and considered moving them, roots and soil, into his Divine Kingdom.
• Great Dao Venerable decreed that Xu Changqing would become Jade Balance Star Lord, astonishing Xu Changqing and the people across Jade Balance Star.
• Lu Yan, Fang Wei, and Zhao Jiu led their divisions to pay respects, and Xu Changqing told them to keep daily operations unchanged and bring him major matters.
• Xu Changqing received a Star Lord's robe, the Jade Balance Star Seal, two cultivation techniques, and a token that could manifest the Jade Balance Star Palace.
• Sun Bu'er delivered Zhen Yuanzi's congratulatory gift, a Time Dao Pearl that could reverse time three times and be replenished through time.

Xu Changqing received rare congratulatory gifts after becoming Lord of Jade Balance Star, then spent tens of thousands of years of lifespan to master two powerful techniques. He left the chapter with Jade Balance Star Art and the Heavenly Cycle Star-Dipper Formation Diagram both at max level.

• Xu Changqing received gifts from his senior brothers and sisters, including a Primordial Divine Tree seed and Biluò Immortal Wood pith from Xun Xian.
• Xu Changqing flew home to Shaking Light Star after the Great Dao Venerable's decree made it unnecessary to hide his new status.
• Xu Changqing studied the Jade Balance Star Art and spent 15,000 years of lifespan to raise it to max level.
• The max-level Jade Balance Star Art let Xu Changqing draw on Jade Balance Star's power, command a stellar domain, and survive as long as his Divine Kingdom remained intact.
• Xu Changqing spent another 42,100 years of lifespan to master the Heavenly Cycle Star-Dipper Formation Diagram, bringing its reach to the entire Four Mortal Domains.

Xu Changqing advanced his Creation Heavenly Scripture to Origin Tracing and spent decades strengthening his cultivation and Divine Kingdom. Gu Chenzhou arrived to claim the matured Celestial River Moon Marrow Flower, hoping its Moon Marrow Heavenly Dew would help him break through to Body Integration.

• Xu Changqing realized Origin Tracing could restore things to Creation Origin and potentially dismantle an opponent’s laws.
• Over eighty years, Xu Changqing reached Early Void Refinement, perfected his systems, and cultivated rare spirit plants to maturity inside his Divine Kingdom.
• Gu Chenzhou visited Xu Changqing, visibly aged and weakened by time, to collect the promised Celestial River Moon Marrow Flower.
• Xu Changqing revealed the mature flower and its Moon Marrow Heavenly Dew, which Gu Chenzhou viewed as his final chance to reach Body Integration.

After Gu Chenzhou gave Xu Changqing a fortune and valuable Shaking Light Star privileges, Xu decided to refine Realm-Breaking Pills himself. He produced seven Supreme-Grade pills and returned to the Jade Balance Star Palace, where his unusually vast Divine Kingdom made advancing in Void Refinement especially demanding.

• Gu Chenzhou gave Xu Changqing Spirit Stones, secret maps, a permanent access token, and an External Affairs Bureau transfer-order talisman before leaving.
• Xu Changqing considered the Realm-Breaking Pills needed by Ruo Qunshuang, Linglong, Xiao He, and Xiao Sui, and chose to refine them himself.
• Ye Xuan used the Crimson Bright Nine-Yang Furnace to refine two Upper-Grade Realm-Breaking Pills from the Celestial River Moon Marrow Flower.
• Xu Changqing used the Origin Flame to refine three Supreme-Grade Realm-Breaking Pills, then refined a second batch of four.
• Xu Changqing sealed the seven Supreme-Grade pills and returned to the Jade Balance Star Palace, where he considered how much his Divine Kingdom needed to expand for him to reach the middle stage of Void Refinement.

Over seven hundred years, Xu Changqing’s family and the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion changed as loved ones advanced, aged, or died. As he reached one thousand years old, Baili Hong told him that Luo Qinghan had returned, leaving him wondering why she had come back.

• Xu Changqing’s cultivation advanced to Mid Void Refinement, and his Divine Kingdom expanded over the seven hundred years.
• Ruo Qunshuang remained at Nascent Soul Perfection, while Xu He and Xu Sui reached the same realm and Qingyao reached Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Xu Mu and Xu Xiao reached Spirit Transformation, Linglong also reached Spirit Transformation, and Xu Ping'an advanced to Void Refinement Completion, surpassing Xu Changqing.
• Zhang Zaizhi, Gu Chenzhou, and Pei Mo died, while Li Sancai and Chu Qiu remained alive in the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• The Three-Eyed Clan invited Xu Xiao to train at its ancestral land, and a Supreme Elder accepted Xu Mu as a personal disciple.
• Baili Hong brought Xu Changqing wine and told him that Luo Qinghan had returned to the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion.

Baili Hong explained why the Evernight Ruins were dangerous and why Master avoided acting directly against the Ancient Clan troubling the Four Mortal Domains. Xu Changqing learned that his karma-free Origin Dao let him take actions even powerful beings could not, and that Demon Gods would flock to the Evernight Ruins seeking the Ancestral Spirit Source.

• Baili Hong told Xu Changqing that an Ancient Clan in the Endless Starfield had been causing trouble and seemed to target the Four Mortal Domains.
• Baili Hong explained that Master avoided acting because his power made every action incur immense karma, while Xu Changqing’s Origin Dao was untouched by karma.
• Baili Hong said the Evernight Ruins had no time, direction, spiritual energy, or functioning laws, and that most people who entered never returned safely.
• Baili Hong explained that the Evernight Ruins preserved things lost from the present world and held the Ancestral Spirit Source needed for Demon Gods to reach Primogenitor.
• Baili Hong warned Xu Changqing that peak Demon Gods seeking the Ancestral Spirit Source would be among his greatest enemies inside the ruins.

Xu Changqing planned to send his Spirit Plant Puppet to the Azure Emperor's Garden while he went to the Evernight Ruins, then joined his fellow disciples on Heavenly Pearl Star to prepare for the expedition. Luo Qinghan introduced the group's sponsors and allies, but the gathering ended on a startling note when a hidden figure emerged from the shadows.

• Xu Changqing decided to attend the Evernight Ruins himself and send his Spirit Plant Puppet to the Azure Emperor's Garden.
• Xu Changqing arrived at Heavenly Pearl Star, where Baili Hong, Feng Buhui, and Xun Xian had gathered for Second Senior Sister's meeting.
• Xu Changqing thanked Xun Xian for gifts that had helped his spirit plants take root and thanked Luo Qinghan for the Lunar Yin Moon Essence.
• Luo Qinghan introduced Jin Buhuan of the Myriad Manifestations Chamber of Commerce and Lu Wangchuan, a Rogue Cultivator renowned for his Space Law attainments.
• Luo Qinghan stepped aside, revealing a hidden figure whose presence had gone unnoticed and whose arrival caused the punishment lightning in the hall to flicker.

Luo Qinghan gathered her junior brothers to discuss rising attacks by the Ancient Clans and preparations for the Evernight Ruins, which would open in fewer than fifty years. After the meeting, Xu Changqing wondered why Jin Buhuan looked exactly like Hu Bugui, while Mo Li assessed the guests and called Xu Changqing utterly ordinary.

• Luo Qinghan introduced her best friend Mo Li, and Xu Changqing asked Jin Buhuan whether he knew Hu Bugui; Jin Buhuan said he did not.
• Luo Qinghan warned that someone was directing the Ancient Clans to target the Four Mortal Domains and the Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion, then assigned herself, Baili Hong, and Feng Buhui to respond.
• Luo Qinghan explained that Lu Wangchuan had identified three possible Evernight Ruins entrances and that everyone present would enter, with Mo Li setting coordinates and Jin Buhuan providing supplies.
• Baili Hong offered Xu Changqing White Tiger Baleful Gold, and Feng Buhui offered star sand to temper his Star Palace before entering the ruins.
• Xu Changqing left the meeting troubled by Jin Buhuan's resemblance to Hu Bugui and realized he had never investigated Hu Bugui's background.
• Luo Qinghan asked Jin Buhuan, Lu Wangchuan, and Mo Li to assess her junior brothers, and Mo Li described Baili Hong as murderous, Feng Buhui as concealed, Xun Xian as straightforward, and Xu Changqing as utterly ordinary.

Xu Changqing upgraded Xu Zixiao, Xu Qiansui, and Xu Jiuyou by mutating their cores and rebuilding their Spirit Rune systems. The three puppets gained new abilities and grew strong enough to rival different levels of Spirit Transformation.

• Xu Changqing brought the three Spirit Plant Puppets to the bamboo hut and decided to improve them using both mutations and Spirit Runes.
• Xu Changqing turned Xu Zixiao's Purple Firmament Spirit Crystal into a Violet Firmament Star Core and raised its Spirit Runes to forty-nine, giving it the strength of a Mid First-Layer Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Xu Changqing split Xu Qiansui's Thousand-Ear Spirit Crystal into nine life-essence sources and rebuilt its Spirit Runes, giving it the strength of a Late Second-Layer Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Xu Changqing used the Order Law to mutate Xu Jiuyou's Nine-Headed Banyan core and focused its forty-nine Spirit Runes on penetration and breaking barriers, raising its strength to the Perfection of Third-Level Spirit Transformation.
• Xu Changqing completed the upgrades, giving Xu Zixiao the ability to improve itself, Xu Qiansui the ability to purify, and Xu Jiuyou the ability to pierce through all things.

With the Evernight Ruins opening in less than a year, Xu Changqing sent his three Spirit Plant Puppets to search for the Azure Emperor's Garden and traveled with Luo Qinghan toward the ruins. Along the way, Luo Qinghan introduced the major continents and factions of the Endless Starfield.

• Xu Changqing inspected Xu Zixiao, Xu Qiansui, and Xu Jiuyou, instructed them to find the Azure Emperor's Garden, and sent them off.
• Xu Changqing boarded Luo Qinghan's vessel at Shaking Light Star, where Mo Li and Jin Buhuan were also present, and they departed for the Endless Starfield.
• Luo Qinghan introduced the Southern Bright Flame Continent and its rival Yan and Lie Clans, then described the Western Extremity Sword Continent and the Myriad Swords Sect.
• Luo Qinghan explained the death-path traditions and powerful clans of the Profound Water Nether Continent, then described the three rival but united sects of the Northern Li Snow Continent.
• The vessel reached the wealthy Eastern Extremity Spirit Continent, where Luo Qinghan warned Xu Changqing about its scheming factions and introduced the Jin Clan and Myriad Manifestations Chamber of Commerce.