Recaps

Lin Qing entered the universe with Yuan Shuo and Chen Xi after Heavenly Dao recognized him and opened the World Barrier. Unable to locate Blue Star or reach it with his current strength, Lin Qing decided to leave the field of shattered rocks and seek a powerful faction or a way to travel across star domains.

• Lin Qing insisted that his home was in Heavenly Dao's world, and Heavenly Dao examined him before recognizing him and opening a gap in the World Barrier.
• Lin Qing reassured Chen Xi and Yuan Shuo that he would not harm them, then explained that he had transmigrated from the world before theirs.
• Lin Qing, Yuan Shuo, and Chen Xi crossed the World Barrier and entered the universe aboard Xiaodun.
• Lin Qing called out to a senior for help finding Blue Star, but received no answer and admitted he did not know where to go.
• Lin Qing realized that finding Blue Star would not be enough without greater strength or a way to travel, and proposed leaving the field of shattered rocks first.

After a month lost among vast fields of rubble, Lin Qing detected a spaceship and led Chen Xi and Xiaodun toward it to ask for directions. The Deep Space Blade Team detected them too, and its captain ordered the ship closer while the twelve-person crew prepared to meet them.

• Lin Qing spotted a spaceship behind a giant piece of rubble and boarded Chen Xi's Flying Vessel with Chen Xi and Xiaodun.
• Lin Qing's group approached the spaceship, unaware that its technology had detected them earlier.
• A woman reported the approaching Divine Sense to the blonde captain and suggested the strangers were probably not Immortal Realm cultivators.
• The blonde captain ordered the spaceship closer and warned the crew that someone was coming to cause trouble.
• The twelve members of the Deep Space Bladebearer Squad assembled in their silver-white combat suits.

Lin Qing's group encountered the powerful Deep-Space Bladebearer Squad, whose members mistook them for newcomers from a small world and considered recruiting them to their academy. The chapter ended with Lin Qing asking the squad for directions.

• Lin Qing warned Chen Xi that a powerful group was approaching, and Chen Xi slowed their Flying Vessel.
• The two groups came into view, and the Deep-Space Bladebearer Squad identified the three newcomers' cultivation levels.
• The squad's captain and members discussed the newcomers' origins and whether to bring them to the academy.
• The gloomy long-haired man asked Lin Qing's group why they had approached, and Lin Qing replied that they had just arrived and wanted directions.

Lin Qing's group encountered Deep-Space Blade, whose members debated the source of his powerful divine sense before one man insulted Chen Xi. The two groups stopped in space to fight, with Chen Xi facing the gloomy man and Lin Qing positioning himself to prevent the rest of the squad from intervening.

• Deep-Space Blade members speculated that Lin Qing's powerful divine sense came from a special method or that he was an Immortal Reincarnation.
• The gloomy man sent Chen Xi a lewd Voice Transmission, and the tall woman rebuked him while the blond captain refused to apologize.
• Lin Qing's group increased their approach speed, and the blond captain ordered the divine-sense jammer reactivated before assigning the gloomy man to handle them.
• The gloomy man summoned his green dagger and went out to meet Chen Xi after both ships stopped with space between them.
• Chen Xi confronted the gloomy man while Lin Qing positioned himself outside the Deep-Space Blade spaceship to block the others if they intervened.

Lin Qing confronted Deep-Space Blade while Chen Xi fought its gloomy assassin, and the squad learned that Lin Qing was far stronger than they had assumed. Chen Xi and the assassin summoned their Dharma Images, and the chapter left her poised to face his concealed attack.

• A Mid-Twelfth Tier member of Deep-Space Blade approached Lin Qing, who seized him and smashed him through the spacecraft's viewport, breaking his bones.
• Lin Qing entered the control room and faced the squad, while the blond captain ordered the others to watch the battle.
• Chen Xi and the gloomy man exchanged probing attacks before summoning their enormous Dharma Images.
• The gloomy man concealed himself and approached Chen Xi from the front, but she remained calm as he drew near.

Chen Xi killed the gloomy assassin despite the Deep-Space Blade captain’s objections, while Lin Qing restrained the captain. Lin Qing then mocked the captain for acting superior when he was not an immortal.

• The gloomy man ambushed Chen Xi with a dagger, but her Cold Will and Ice Will slowed his strike and exposed his invisibility.
• Chen Xi froze the gloomy man, pierced him with an ice sword, and destroyed his Dharma Image despite the blond captain’s demand that she stop.
• Chen Xi crushed the gloomy man’s fleeing Primordial Spirit as he begged the captain for help.
• The blond captain rushed to intervene, but Lin Qing pinned him in place; the captain’s squad members moved to help before he stopped them.
• The blond captain challenged Lin Qing, who asked whether he was an immortal and then flung him back toward the control room.

Lin Qing challenged the Deep-Space Bladebearer Squad after the blond captain called him out to fight away from the spacecraft. After Lin Qing effortlessly redirected the captain’s spear thrust, the captain ordered the squad to join forces, and they surrounded Lin Qing with their Dharma Images.

• Lin Qing agreed to fight the blond captain outside the spacecraft and suggested the squad attack him together.
• The blond captain attacked with a lightning-charged spear, but Lin Qing caught its shaft and flung him dozens of kilometers away.
• The blond captain sent a Voice Transmission ordering the squad to attack together and began condensing his Dharma Image.
• Ten squad members surrounded Lin Qing with their Dharma Images while Chen Xi and Yuan Shuo watched from the Flying Vessel.
• The squad waited for Lin Qing to summon his Dharma Aspect so they could prepare for his strength.

Lin Qing formed his Dharma Aspect and defeated the Deep-Space Bladebearer Squad, killing its blond captain after refusing his belated plea for mercy. He learned the squad belonged to an academy that might retaliate, then took Chen Xi and the surviving members aboard their spaceship.

• Lin Qing summoned a two-thousand-kilometer Dharma Aspect, terrifying the squad and prompting several members to surrender.
• Lin Qing declared that the blond captain would die, and the captain charged with only the burly Peak Twelfth Tier squad member following him.
• The blond captain stopped before Lin Qing and asked if he could still beg for mercy, but Lin Qing ran him through with a spear.
• The dying captain warned that the academy would not let Lin Qing escape, revealing that the squad belonged to a larger power.
• Lin Qing dismissed his Dharma Aspect, called Chen Xi and her companion over, and led them into the squad's spaceship as the survivors followed.

Lin Qing took control of the Deep-Space Blade Squad and questioned its members about Azure Cosmos Academy, learning that its powerful Immortal experts could pursue them. He then discovered the academy could trace the final experiences of dead Peak Twelfth Tier students and might already be watching them.

• Lin Qing saw that the squad had little loyalty to its dead captain and ordered its members to explain the academy.
• When the squad hesitated, Lin Qing killed the burly Peak Twelfth Tier man with Destruction Will, prompting everyone to rush to answer.
• The tall woman explained that Azure Cosmos Academy was the region’s largest Truth-Seeking Academy, with a Third Layer Heavenly Immortal dean and three First Layer Heavenly Immortal experts.
• The tall woman warned that the academy would likely pursue Lin Qing’s group, possibly skipping student missions and sending instructors directly.
• Lin Qing questioned a Peak Eleventh Tier woman, who revealed that the academy could trace the experiences of dead Peak Twelfth Tier students and might have an instructor watching.

Lin Qing, Chen Xi, and Yuan Shuo agreed to join Azure Cosmos Academy and take Wen Li as their teacher to avoid further conflict and the academy’s assessment. After Wen Li left, Yue Shu warned Lin Qing about powerful academy connections and began explaining the universe’s regions as he sought a star map to find the Milky Way Galaxy.

• Lin Qing and his companions learned that joining Azure Cosmos Academy was their way out of the standoff, and Wen Li appeared through the control room console.
• Lin Qing, Chen Xi, and Yuan Shuo agreed to join the academy, and Wen Li offered to take them directly as disciples without an assessment.
• The three greeted Wen Li as their teacher, and she told Yue Shu to escort them back.
• Lin Qing stayed behind with Yue Shu, who warned him that the people he had killed had friends at the academy and that the captain’s older brother was one of its top three.
• Lin Qing asked Yue Shu how the universe was divided and whether the academy had a star map, hoping to locate the Milky Way Galaxy.

Lin Qing learned how technology and mystical cultivation coexisted in the universe and discovered that Yue Shu’s system differed greatly from his own. The spaceship reached Azure Cosmos Academy’s enormous Teleportation Array, where an approaching figure noticed the damaged porthole and called for his captain.

• Lin Qing questioned Yue Shu and the Eleventh Tier woman about the universe and learned that mystical means surpassed technology in many fields, while technology remained useful for communication and cultivation assistance.
• Yue Shu demonstrated her system, and Lin Qing confirmed that it could not grant sudden increases in cultivation proficiency like his own system could.
• The spaceship left the rubble region and traveled through deep space before reaching the academy’s Teleportation Array, where Lin Qing saw the huge flow of spaceships and learned the academy maintained around one billion exploration teams.
• An approaching figure saw the spaceship’s shattered porthole, inspected the control room, spotted Lin Qing, and contacted his captain to report that something had happened.

Lin Qing killed the Deep-Space Blade captain and his companions, then confronted an inspection team whose leader challenged him and invoked the Green Parasol Society. After Yue Shu warned him that the society’s president, Feng Wu, might be an Immortal Reincarnation, Lin Qing arrived at Azure Cosmos Academy.

• An inspection team boarded Lin Qing’s spacecraft and asked Yue Shu where the Deep-Space Blade captain and the others were; she said they were dead, and Lin Qing said he had killed them.
• When the inspection leader dismissed Lin Qing as a Void-Returning Realm cultivator, Lin Qing slapped him across the control room and kicked him after he threatened the Green Parasol Society.
• The inspection leader decided not to retaliate and led his team away, and Lin Qing ordered the spacecraft onward to the Teleportation Array.
• Yue Shu told Lin Qing that the Green Parasol Society had nearly a hundred Peak Twelfth Tier members and was led by Feng Wu, the academy’s strongest student, who might be an Immortal Reincarnation.
• Lin Qing passed through the Teleportation Array and saw Azure Cosmos Academy, a vast complex of linked continents suspended in space.

Lin Qing entered Azure Cosmos Academy and confronted members of the Green Parasol Society who had come looking for him. After he struck one member and learned that president Feng Wu was absent, he warned the Society not to provoke him and continued toward the Deep-Space Blade base.

• Lin Qing and the others passed through the academy’s gate and headed toward the Deep-Space Blade base.
• More than a dozen Green Parasol Society members stopped the spacecraft and demanded that Lin Qing come out.
• Lin Qing asked for Feng Wu, then slapped a Society member after she insulted him and brushed aside the group’s attacks.
• A petite Society member admitted that Feng Wu was not in the academy, and Lin Qing warned the others not to provoke him again.
• At a Teleportation Array, Yue Shu told Lin Qing the spacecraft had belonged to the captain, and Lin Qing asked her to sell it and keep part of the money as severance pay for the squad.

Lin Qing took over Deep-Space Blade's mountain base and settled into his new life at the academy. After searching the cosmic star map for nearly half a month, he found the familiar name Hangu Pass on the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.

• Lin Qing arrived at Deep-Space Blade's base, where Yue Shu told the waiting students that the former captain and the others had fallen and that Lin Qing was their new master.
• Yue Shu arranged the base and academy supplies for Lin Qing and his companions, while most of the squad members chose to leave.
• Lin Qing decided not to visit Instructor Wen Li after Yue Shu explained that instructors had little personal involvement with their many disciples.
• Lin Qing bound his communication wristband and studied the academy's free cosmic star map, searching the Corona Borealis Realm for nearly half a month without finding anything.
• Lin Qing examined the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall and found the familiar label Hangu Pass.

Lin Qing searched for information about Hangu Pass before Yuan Shuo warned him that his recklessness could endanger him in a world with Immortal Realm cultivators. After Lin Qing accepted the advice and discussed their plans with Yuan Shuo and Chen Xi, members of the Green Parasol Society arrived, and Lin Qing learned that their president wanted to see him.

• Lin Qing searched online for clues about Hangu Pass and considered seeking access to artificial intelligence, which was tightly controlled after the Mechanical Race's war with humanity.
• Yuan Shuo and Chen Xi visited Lin Qing, and Yuan Shuo warned him that he had become too reckless in a world where Immortal Realm cultivators could threaten his life.
• Lin Qing thanked Yuan Shuo for the reminder, and he, Yuan Shuo, and Chen Xi shared a meal and discussed their plans to cultivate at the academy.
• Lin Qing noticed members of the Green Parasol Society arriving and learned from Yuan Shuo that Feng Wu had returned and that challenging him could reveal Lin Qing's Eleventh Tier strength.
• Lin Qing joined Yue Shu in the main hall, where a Green Parasol Society member said their president wanted to see him.

Lin Qing met Feng Wu, the leader of the Green Parasol Society, and learned why he had gathered so many Peak Twelfth Tier cultivators. Feng Wu invited Lin Qing to join them in a dangerous secret realm where they would compete for an opportunity to become immortals.

• Lin Qing traveled to meet Feng Wu without bringing Yuan Shuo or Chen Xi, while crowds followed the Green Parasol Society's group to watch.
• Feng Wu greeted Lin Qing at a packed restaurant and apologized for his members' earlier attempt to cause trouble.
• Feng Wu asked whether Lin Qing was an Immortal Reincarnation, and Lin Qing denied it, saying he had gained opportunities and a deeper comprehension of will in a small world.
• Feng Wu invited Lin Qing to join the Green Parasol Society, explaining that a secret realm in the neighboring Detached Pearl Nebula would soon open with an opportunity to become an immortal.
• Lin Qing pointed out that he had not reached Peak Twelfth Tier, and Feng Wu said his strength was sufficient to face the secret realm's competition.

Lin Qing agreed to join Feng Wu’s expedition to the Secret Realm and prepared to leave the academy, arranging for others to believe he had perished there. He and Yue Shu departed a month later and gathered with the other cultivators, where Immortal Realm instructors led the group to set out.

• Lin Qing told Feng Wu he would consider the Secret Realm expedition, then discussed it with Yuan Shuo and the others, who urged him to go.
• Lin Qing agreed to leave with Feng Wu’s group and asked whether Chen Xi could join, but Chen Xi said she and Yuan Shuo had a Secret Art to become immortals together.
• Lin Qing and his companions decided the academy should believe he had perished in the Secret Realm so his departure would not cause trouble.
• A month later, Lin Qing and Yue Shu entered the Teleportation Array and departed for the expedition as Yuan Shuo and the others saw them off.
• Lin Qing met Feng Wu and the other cultivators at the academy gates, observed the Immortal Realm instructors with Primordial Insight, and greeted the participants.
• After more cultivators arrived, an Immortal Realm instructor ordered the group to set out.

Lin Qing traveled with Feng Wu and the academy’s students toward a secret realm that opened only once every tens of thousands of years. He learned that ancient prodigies could use time-compressing Immortal Artifacts to compete at their peak age, and his hopes of using time-stretching cultivation to find Blue Star remained uncertain.

• Lin Qing boarded the academy’s Immortal Artifact-grade Flying Vessel with Feng Wu and traveled through Teleportation Arrays toward the Detached Pearl Nebula.
• After waiting several days to use the array, Yue Shu remarked on the crowds, and Feng Wu explained that the secret realm drew cultivators from nearby nebulae and ancient prodigies from higher star domains.
• Feng Wu told Lin Qing that prodigies could use time-compressing artifacts or formations to enter the secret realm at their optimal age.
• Lin Qing worried about facing powerful ancient prodigies while only at Eleventh Tier and asked whether time could be stretched for faster cultivation.
• Feng Wu said time-stretching methods existed but were extremely rare because they required increasing the universe’s fixed speed of light.

Lin Qing and the Azure Cosmos Academy group traveled toward the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm while Feng Wu explained that altered time could not help Lin Qing cultivate faster. Their journey ended in terror when a colossal creature appeared ahead of the crowded route and devoured flying vessels.

• Lin Qing learned that regions with altered time had imbalanced Great Daos that made cultivation impossible, so he continued traveling and gathering information about the senior at Hangu Pass.
• Lin Qing and the academy group crossed a chaotic region by Flying Vessel and saw countless factions, including the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, converging on the secret realm.
• The instructors warned the students and swiftly steered their Flying Vessel away from the route as other vessels veered aside or crashed.
• Lin Qing and the students saw an enormous maw swallow countless Flying Vessels, and Feng Wu identified the creature as a Starry Sky Behemoth.

After escaping the Starry Sky Behemoth, Lin Qing learned from Feng Wu how the creatures arose and why they were feared. The fleet reached the outskirts of the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm, where the students were told to wait until its gray celestial body turned white before entering.

• After the danger had passed, Feng Wu explained that Starry Sky Behemoths could arise naturally or evolve from artificially scattered Seeds of Life, which were cyanobacteria.
• Feng Wu said the Behemoth they had encountered was likely in the Heavenly Immortal realm, and a mentor confirmed that an Immortal King had engaged it.
• The Flying Vessel detoured around the Behemoth, joined a fleet of other escaping vessels, and continued toward the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm.
• After several days, the fleet reached a ruined stone city near a gray celestial body, which the mentor identified as the secret realm.
• The mentor told the students to rest and regroup in the city, and to enter the secret realm only after the celestial body turned white.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu arrived in the city near the secret realm, where Lin Qing explored the stalls and bought a saber using Anhuang Coins. He then arranged to obtain a clean identity and a new wristband from a black-market dealer, preparing for his planned death in the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm.

• Lin Qing entered the city with the other cultivators, and Yue Shu chose to stay with him while they waited for the secret realm to open.
• Lin Qing stopped at a weapon stall, misunderstood the price quote, then clarified the currency and bought an Embroidered Spring Saber for three thousand Anhuang Coins.
• Lin Qing continued exploring the stalls and spotted a shrewd vendor whose ordinary wares suggested he dealt in black-market goods.
• Lin Qing asked the vendor for a clean identity and brand-new wristband, giving his age as around one thousand years and his cultivation as Eleventh Tier.
• Lin Qing paid one hundred billion Spirit Stones and received a different Storage Ring from the vendor.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu waited for the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm to open after a tense encounter with Feng Wu and the Myriad Stars Immortal Court. They entered the realm together, while the spatial passage separated them from the other cultivators.

• Lin Qing bought two Twelfth Tier cultivation techniques and gathered various formulas and blueprints before deciding he had no money left to keep shopping.
• Feng Wu introduced Lin Qing and Yue Shu to three cultivators from the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, but their haughty leader insulted Lin Qing for concealing his cultivation.
• Lin Qing left with Yue Shu, and they agreed that their cooperation with Feng Wu could be reconsidered later.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu waited as the celestial body turned white, then entered the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm through it.
• Inside the spatial passage, Lin Qing saw Feng Wu enter with over a hundred academy members and the three Immortal Court cultivators, but he and Yue Shu continued alone as the others drifted away.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu emerged from the wormhole into a vast primeval forest, where they avoided a grass attack and surveyed the enormous secret realm. Elsewhere, Feng Wu arrived with a group of cultivators, then revealed a sinister change as he drained two students of their life force and spiritual power.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu landed in the forest, spread their Divine Sense, and found no cultivators within its immense range.
• Lin Qing pulled Yue Shu out of danger when the blade of grass beneath them curled up, and the two flew above the forest to survey the valley.
• Feng Wu and about a hundred others emerged into a similar jungle, where several cultivators were attacked by the grass.
• Feng Wu rescued two students, then held them as a sucking force drained their Qi and Blood, spiritual energy, and Divine Sense.

Feng Wu revealed his plan to absorb cultivators in the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm and slaughtered those who tried to stop him. Elsewhere, Lin Qing and Yue Shu fled creatures that could evade Divine Sense and encountered the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court cultivators.

• Feng Wu absorbed the essence, qi, and spirit of two unconscious cultivators as dozens of others attacked him.
• Feng Wu repelled their spells, used the two men to deflect weapons, and drained the attackers who could not escape his suction.
• Feng Wu’s past as a Grand Luo and his Divine Ability’s power to absorb cultivators’ talent and Root Bone were revealed.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu fled through the forest after creatures that could block Divine Sense began pursuing them.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu encountered the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court cultivators speeding through the forest.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu were surrounded by insect swarms in the forest, where fungal powder weakened Yue Shu and made the fight increasingly dangerous. Lin Qing unleashed his Destruction Will to destroy the insects and a vast swath of forest, drawing the attention of powerful beings nearby.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu stopped in the air and prepared to fight the insect swarms closing in from every direction.
• Lin Qing attacked the Fungus-Wing Insects with wind-and-fire saber strikes, but a tougher locust swarm joined the battle.
• Fungus-Wing Insects scattered fungal powder over the pair, and Lin Qing realized it had weakened Yue Shu's reactions.
• Lin Qing released his Destruction Will, turning the insects and the surrounding forest into dust across hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
• Enormous eyes surfaced from a river, and black rocks trembled atop a mountain range as powerful existences noticed the destruction.