Chapter Summaries

Liu Xing struggled with the thought that the old man might soon die, then hunted a Long-Tailed Pig and practiced the Nine Great Wilderness Forms. The old man praised his progress but lamented that Liu Xing had no spiritual root.

• Liu Xing left the cave and dragged a great stone across the Frozen Earth Plains to vent his grief over the old man's failing health.
• Liu Xing returned with a Long-Tailed Pig and told the old man he had practiced five movements from the Jade Slip.
• The old man said Liu Xing could eventually become safe from the fierce beasts on Connors Star, but warned him that a swarm of Spotted Mice was still too dangerous.
• After the old man fell asleep, Liu Xing practiced the Nine Great Wilderness Forms and recalled how the old man had trained him since he was a baby.
• Liu Xing remembered mastering the first form at age three and realizing that the old man was growing weaker as he grew stronger.

Liu Xing grew stronger on Connors Star, hunting for himself and memorizing the knowledge the old man passed on through jade slips as the old man’s health declined. After mastering the fifth of the Nine Great Wilderness Forms, Liu Xing found the old man waiting for him, looking unexpectedly better.

• Liu Xing learned that mastering the Nine Great Wilderness Forms was essential to keeping himself and the old man alive, and trained relentlessly as the old man grew too feeble to hunt.
• The old man made Liu Xing memorize jade slips and destroy each one after he learned its contents, while Liu Xing sensed that the old man’s time was running out.
• Liu Xing practiced the fifth of the Nine Great Wilderness Forms until he could perform all nine movements without pausing.
• The old man came to Liu Xing, sat down across from him, and said he had come to check whether Liu Xing was training.

The old man began telling Liu Xing how humanity originated on Earth and how nuclear war drove survivors and cultivators into space. He left Liu Xing with the history of the Galactic Federation and the Cultivation World’s powerful role in human society.

• The old man noticed Liu Xing’s concern for his health and offered to tell him stories about humanity’s origins.
• The old man explained that humanity began on Earth, where a nuclear war in the twenty-second century devastated civilization and left few survivors.
• The old man described how radiation damaged Earth’s spiritual energy, prompting cultivators to settle other planets and help survivors migrate to habitable worlds.
• Cultivators helped humanity rebuild civilization, develop spaceflight, and eventually form the Galactic Federation.
• The old man said cultivators became guardians of human society, while major sects and aristocratic clans gained influence exceeding that of the Federation’s parliament.

The chapter explained how cultivation flourished across the Galactic Federation and how Connors Star became a forgotten garbage planet. It revealed that the old man had fled there after his cultivation was destroyed, leaving him stranded and steadily weakening.

• Human society integrated with the Cultivation World, and sects began selecting disciples from large populations across the galaxy.
• The growing number of cultivators drove demand for resources, prompting the Galactic Federation to develop industries and explore thousands of planets.
• Humanity classified Connors Star as a worthless garbage planet because of its harsh conditions and sparse spiritual energy.
• The old man, once a Nascent Soul Realm expert, escaped to Connors Star after his Nascent Soul was severed and his Qi Sea Core shattered.
• The old man's remaining spiritual energy gradually ran out, causing him to weaken from a capable hunter into a decrepit figure.

The chapter explained how the old man found Liu Xing as a newborn on Connors Star and raised him, then trained him in the Nine Great Wilderness Forms because he lacked a spiritual root. Liu Xing’s relentless practice made him superhuman and helped the pair survive Connors Star’s harsh wilderness.

• The old man found newborn Liu Xing in an Escape Pod and took him home, naming him after his fall from the sky.
• After realizing Liu Xing had no spiritual root and that his own destroyed cultivation left him little time, the old man chose the Nine Great Wilderness Forms to strengthen him.
• Liu Xing mastered the forms at an extraordinary pace, developing strength, speed, reflexes, and toughness far beyond ordinary people.
• The old man made Liu Xing memorize his many secret training methods, hoping he might someday leave Connors Star and pass them on.
• Liu Xing’s training helped him and the old man endure Connors Star, where ferocious primitive creatures preyed on the weak.

Liu Xing listened to the old man’s final advice and inherited his Jade Slips before the old man died in the cave. After mourning him, Liu Xing ran across Connors Star and faced the loneliness of living there alone.

• The old man recounted his past and warned Liu Xing about the dangers of the outside world, while urging him to memorize and destroy the Jade Slips.
• The old man spent his last day speaking with Liu Xing, then exhausted his remaining life force and died that night.
• Liu Xing built a stone grave for the old man and sat beside it in silence for a day and night.
• At sunrise, Liu Xing said farewell to the old man and ran hundreds of kilometers through the wilderness, breaking trees and rocks along the way.
• Liu Xing collapsed beneath the sky and realized that he would now live alone on Connors Star.

Liu Xing confronted a migrating colony of Spotted Mice on the Frozen Earth Plains and prepared to hunt them for food. The Spotted Mouse King led the colony in a charge toward him.

• A hungry group of about a hundred Spotted Mice traveled south across the Frozen Earth Plains in search of a place to recover and breed.
• Liu Xing killed a Spotted Mouse with a stone thrown from nearly a hundred meters away, stopping the colony.
• The Spotted Mouse King sensed Liu Xing’s danger but ordered the mice to attack him.
• Liu Xing faced the charging colony, confident in his mastery of the Nine Great Wilderness Forms and eager to roast the Spotted Mouse King.

Liu Xing defeated the Spotted Mouse swarm and captured its king after a chase across the plains. He brought the Spotted Mouse King back to his cave and began roasting it.

• Liu Xing killed more than thirty Spotted Mice with thrown pebbles and wounded the Spotted Mouse King, causing the swarm to flee.
• Liu Xing caught up with the Spotted Mouse King, bypassed two mice sent to delay him, and captured it.
• Liu Xing threatened the remaining Spotted Mice, and they scattered, abandoning their king.
• Liu Xing carried the Spotted Mouse King more than two hundred kilometers back to his cave and prepared it for roasting.
• Liu Xing roasted the Spotted Mouse King over a campfire as the cave filled with the smell of cooking meat.

Liu Xing mourned the old man while reflecting on his years of training and his hope of reaching the outside world. Though he could not cultivate without a spiritual root, he had pushed his physical strength beyond human limits through the Nine Great Wilderness Forms and relentless conditioning.

• Liu Xing offered the Spotted Mouse King's roasted hind leg to the old man's grave and thanked him for leaving the Nine Great Wilderness Forms.
• Liu Xing told the old man he had memorized the Jade Slips, mastered the Nine Great Wilderness Forms, and hoped to leave Connors Star to learn about cultivators.
• Liu Xing ate the roasted Spotted Mouse, put out the embers, and fell asleep in the cave.
• Liu Xing's training was revealed to have exceeded his body's limits repeatedly, made possible by his will, exceptional physique, and the Nine Great Wilderness Forms.

Liu Xing reflected on the limits of his body-training and resolved to surpass them despite lacking a Spiritual Root. A fiery metal object then descended toward the hills where he lived, waking him and drawing him outside to investigate.

• Liu Xing experimented with the cultivation formulas in the Jade Slip and pieced together how Spiritual Roots, meridians, and internal training worked.
• Liu Xing recognized that his Nine Great Wilderness Forms could not match the power of spiritual energy, but he vowed to become the first to surpass internal training through external training.
• A huge metal object streaked through the western sky and plunged toward Liu Xing's hills.
• Liu Xing woke at the sound, rushed out of his cave, and watched the western sky.

Liu Xing witnessed a spaceship crash and disintegrate during a midair battle between a Black-Clad Woman and two masked cultivators. As the fight continued on the ground nearby, Liu Xing hid behind a boulder.

• Liu Xing recognized the falling object as a damaged cruiser-class spaceship and leaped away to avoid its impact.
• A burst of green radiance shattered the spaceship, and Liu Xing dodged its flying fragments.
• Liu Xing saw a Black-Clad Woman fighting two masked men in midair and realized all three were cultivators.
• The Black-Clad Woman drove her opponents toward the ground, but her attacks failed to penetrate their protective spiritual energy.
• Liu Xing ducked behind a boulder while the three cultivators continued fighting nearby.

Liu Xing watched the injured Black-Clad Woman battle two surviving members of the Five Uglies of Meng Mountain, who had betrayed her to steal a treasure. As she faltered, her innate charm kept Liu Xing from fleeing, leaving him standing near the fight despite the danger.

• Liu Xing stayed hidden to watch the Black-Clad Woman fight two masked men, even though he knew either side might target him.
• Third Brother taunted the injured woman while Eldest Brother let him continue, hoping their insults would further unsettle her.
• The Black-Clad Woman revealed that the Five Uglies of Meng Mountain had served the Heavenly Demon Sect and had turned against her to seize her treasure.
• Liu Xing realized the victors would likely kill witnesses and began edging away from the battle.
• The Black-Clad Woman's injuries flared, and Liu Xing's curiosity and sympathy stopped him from fleeing, though he resisted the urge to help her.

The Black-Clad Woman detonated her inner core to strike the Five Friends of Meng Mountain, killing the third brother and badly wounding the eldest brother while collapsing herself. The eldest brother spotted Liu Xing hiding nearby and threatened him, so Liu Xing pretended to be a naive barbarian as he came out.

• The Black-Clad Woman unleashed a golden blast that engulfed the eldest and third brothers.
• The blast killed the third brother, grievously wounded the eldest brother, and left the Black-Clad Woman collapsed and unresponsive.
• The eldest brother cursed the Black-Clad Woman and began moving toward her before his injuries forced him to sit down.
• The eldest brother sent a black strike into the ground beside Liu Xing and ordered him to come out.
• Liu Xing emerged from behind a rock, pretending to mistake the cultivators' battle for pretty fireworks.

Liu Xing tricked the wounded boss into lowering his guard and killed him, then caught the Black-Clad Woman as she fell. The Black-Clad Woman’s condition remained unclear.

• The boss dismissed Liu Xing as an ordinary human and ordered him to bring over the Black-Clad Woman’s body, planning to kill him afterward.
• Liu Xing sensed the boss’s murderous intent and noticed his intense greed for the Black-Clad Woman.
• Liu Xing pretended to obey, then threw the Black-Clad Woman toward the boss to distract him.
• Liu Xing leapt onto the boss and crushed his head before he could react.
• Liu Xing caught the Black-Clad Woman as her body fell.

After killing the leader of the Five Uglies of Meng Mountain, Liu Xing carried the barely breathing Black-Clad Woman into the cave and tried to help her. As he loosened her clothes to make breathing easier, he was overcome by her beauty.

• Liu Xing confirmed that the leader was dead and reflected that a mortal could defeat a cultivator through surprise and luck.
• Liu Xing found that the Black-Clad Woman still had a faint breath and carried her into the cave.
• Liu Xing laid the Black-Clad Woman on the stone bed and checked that she was breathing.
• Liu Xing loosened the Black-Clad Woman's tight outfit, then became flustered by her exposed figure.

Liu Xing opened the mysterious Small Copper Box and released a strange yellow phantom. After the box’s golden spiritual energy entered his body harmlessly, the phantom shot into him and caused a thunderous disturbance in his divine sense.

• Liu Xing examined the Black-Clad Woman and found a string of prayer beads and a Small Copper Box hanging from a chain between her breasts.
• Liu Xing removed the Small Copper Box, failed to pry it open, then pressed its Eight Trigrams design and broke the confinement formation.
• The box sprang open and released a powerful burst of golden spiritual energy that sank into Liu Xing’s body without harming him.
• A rabbit-like yellow phantom emerged from the box, fixed its eyes on Liu Xing, and shot into his body.
• Liu Xing felt a thunderous boom within his divine sense as the yellow phantom entered him.

After the yellow phantom entered Liu Xing, it gave him an unusual form of inner sight and awakened a vast silver divine sense that spread across the Frozen Earth Plains and into Zenith Volcano. The silver threads suddenly converged on something inside the volcano, and Liu Xing’s divine sense charged toward it.

• The yellow phantom moved through Liu Xing’s body, settled in his lower abdomen, and fell asleep after reassuring him.
• Liu Xing gained inner sight and realized that internal cultivation might offer a path to greater strength despite his lack of an innate spiritual root.
• Liu Xing entered a meditative state, and a silver vortex formed in his lower abdomen, sending out threads of divine sense.
• Liu Xing’s silver net of divine sense spread across the Frozen Earth Plains and reached into Zenith Volcano.
• A silver thread touched something in Zenith Volcano, and Liu Xing’s gathered divine sense rushed there as a bolt of silver lightning.

Liu Xing followed the yellow phantom’s signal to a hidden cave in Sky-Peak Volcano, where he discovered a powerful dragon-shaped soul spirit guarding something within. The soul spirit attacked him, and Liu Xing was left dodging its repeated lunges.

• Liu Xing’s Divine Sense revealed a fiery-red cave, and the awakened yellow phantom urged him to go there.
• Liu Xing covered the sleeping Black-Clad Woman with her clothes and raced toward Sky-Peak Volcano.
• Using the route mapped by his Divine Sense, Liu Xing reached the volcano and broke open a concealed fissure in its mountainside.
• Liu Xing squeezed into the mysterious cave and encountered a dragon-shaped soul spirit that attacked him.
• Liu Xing repeatedly dodged the soul spirit as it pursued him through the cave.

Liu Xing’s yellow phantom swallowed the dragon-shaped soul spirit in the red Mysterious Cave, then he found and picked up a Red Round Stone. The stone was revealed to be rare fire vein spirit jade formed by Sky-Peak Volcano over billions of years, and Liu Xing left the cave holding a treasure of extraordinary value.

• The yellow phantom emerged from Liu Xing and swallowed the attacking dragon-shaped soul spirit before returning to his body and falling asleep.
• Liu Xing searched the cave and found a smooth, fiery-red Red Round Stone at its center.
• Liu Xing picked up the stone, felt warmth flow through his body, and watched the cave’s red radiance fade.
• The narration explained that the stone was fire vein spirit jade formed from fire spiritual energy gathered by Sky-Peak Volcano over billions of years.

Liu Xing found a Fire Vein Spirit Jade in Sky-Peak Volcano and carried it back to his cave, unaware of its full value. The Black-Clad Woman, awake and badly injured, ambushed him there and demanded he hand something over.

• Liu Xing discovered the Fire Vein Spirit Jade, tucked it inside his jacket, and fled Sky-Peak Volcano as the ground began to shake.
• Liu Xing returned to his cave feeling more vigorous and thinking about the Yellow Phantom.
• The Black-Clad Woman attacked Liu Xing at the cave entrance, but he dodged her strike and retreated outside.
• The Black-Clad Woman demanded that Liu Xing hand something over, then attacked again and failed to catch him.
• The Black-Clad Woman's injuries overwhelmed her after she spent her remaining spiritual energy on the ambush.