Chapter Summaries

Ying Zheng completed and received approval for version 1.0 of the Heavenly Court Blue Book, then released the Heavenly Laws across the Blue Star Lineage. Three thousand years had passed in the Mortal Realm, where Lin Hao mourned his departed wife and friend before learning of the laws; Ying Zheng then went to the Thirty-Third Heaven.

• Ying Zheng submitted the Heavenly Court Blue Book to Father God, revised it through several rounds of review, and finalized version 1.0.
• Ying Zheng sent the Heavenly Laws into the Heavenly Dao, and cultivators at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm or above learned they would be governed by them.
• Three thousand years passed in the Mortal Realm as technology advanced with expanded Spatial Rings and short-distance Space Jumps.
• Lin Hao visited his deceased wife's grave and his friend Cheng Yuan's grave, recalling their past and reflecting on reincarnation and lost friendships.
• Lin Hao perceived the Heavenly Laws and flew away to cultivate while awaiting the Heavenly Realm's opening.
• Ying Zheng arrived at the Thirty-Third Heaven after communicating through his divine sense.

Ying Zheng secured Virtue Heavenly Venerable’s support by bringing Grand Supreme Elder into the Heavenly Court, where the new avatar received Doushuai Palace and a Cosmic Wonder Fragment. After Grand Supreme Elder chose the Alchemy and Artifact Refining Great Daos, Ying Zheng began seeking a capable aide and sent an avatar down to the Mortal Realm.

• Ying Zheng visited Virtue Heavenly Venerable, who created the independent Golden Immortal avatar Grand Supreme Elder and agreed to cooperate with the Heavenly Court.
• Ying Zheng introduced Grand Supreme Elder to the other Quasi-Sages of Taoism and Buddhism, then gave him Doushuai Palace and a Cosmic Wonder Fragment without assigning him an office.
• Ying Zheng considered the rival factions among the Quasi-Sages and began searching for a diplomatic, capable aide to manage relations and recruit talent.
• Grand Supreme Elder refined the Cosmic Wonder Fragment into a Yin-Yang Bagua Furnace and chose the Alchemy Great Dao and Artifact Refining Great Dao.
• Ying Zheng spotted a cultivator in the Mortal Realm, sent out an avatar in that form, and descended through the Heavenly Gate.

Ying Zheng visited Drunken Immortal Tower and watched Li Bai, the Green Lotus Lay Buddhist, teach cultivators. Li Bai sensed Ying Zheng’s presence and received a promise to meet again, then followed a sudden insight after his three-day event ended.

• Ying Zheng arrived at Drunken Immortal Tower and learned that Li Bai was a celebrated Chosen One whose lectures helped cultivators overcome bottlenecks.
• Ying Zheng joined the gathering unnoticed, and the man who had spoken with him broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm before forgetting their encounter.
• Li Bai noticed Ying Zheng’s position but found him gone when he tried to approach, then heard Ying Zheng’s voice promise, “See you in a little while.”
• Li Bai continued teaching for three days, and after the event ended, he followed a sudden sense of insight toward a certain place.

Ying Zheng appointed Li Bai as Taibai Jinxing and put him in charge of recruiting people and preparing the Heavenly Court for its opening. As preparations continued, an old man arrived to meet Ying Zheng, another created the Crescent Moon, Three Stars Cave, and cracks appeared somewhere in the Milky Way.

• Ying Zheng revealed himself to Li Bai, appointed him Taibai Jinxing, and brought him to the Heavenly Court, where his formal investiture raised his cultivation to the early Mystic Immortal Realm.
• Taibai Jinxing studied the Heavenly Court's offices and recruited craftsmen, skilled workers, spirit beings, and other talented people to settle in the Heavenly Realm.
• Ying Zheng summoned Chiyou, appointed him Fengdu Emperor, formalized the Underworld's Yin Deity positions, and designated the Heavenly Court's eighteenth heaven as their residence.
• With ten days left before the Heavenly Realm opened, Ying Zheng prepared to invite the five Human Sages to the Heavenly Court, but an old man arrived at the Hall of Miraculous Mist to meet him.
• Another old man created the hidden Crescent Moon, Three Stars Cave on the Western Ox-Herding Continent, while hairline cracks opened somewhere in the Milky Way.

The Insect Race spread Dream Insects through Machine Race hosts and seized control of several Star Lords, quietly expanding across nearby planets. When Ancestor Yang Mei detected spatial fissures, God Race squads arrived to investigate as an Insect Race army poured through and began consuming planets for resources.

• Dream Insects infiltrated a Machine Race spacecraft and infested a Wasteland Planet’s inhabitants, then spread to nearby planets and multiplied.
• The Dream Insects awakened and used infrasonic waves to transform the wills of several tier-three planetary lords, who joined the Insect Race’s expansion.
• Ancestor Yang Mei detected fissures across the Milky Way and dispatched Reconnaissance Ship squads to investigate them.
• Five years later, the God Race squads emerged near a fissure wearing Skin-Isolation Armor as both sides attacked and the fissure widened.
• Warrior Bugs and a Brain Bug crossed the fissure, and the Insect Race invaded hundreds of planets, enslaved their inhabitants, and devoured resources and living beings.

An Insect Queen used a Time Worm to freeze five God Race reconnaissance fleets and expanded her forces across nearly two thousand planets. Ancestor Yang Mei discovered the Insect Race’s attack and asked the Wise Race to identify which Lineage should be sent to fight.

• Five God Race reconnaissance fleets approached a spatial rift and were frozen in spacetime by a Time Worm working for the Insect Queen.
• The Insect Queen sent insect armies through the Cosmic Rift to occupy nearby planets and plunder energy.
• Ancestor Yang Mei sensed the Time Demon God's Law and suspected the Insect Race had captured and used Shi Chen’s power.
• Ancestor Yang Mei ordered the Wise Race to analyze the attack using the Eye of the Universe, and they confirmed the Insect Race had occupied nearly two thousand planets.
• Because the Great Dao Contract barred powerful cultivators from entering the war, Ancestor Yang Mei asked which Lineage should be dispatched to fight.

Ying Zheng appointed several powerful figures to the Heavenly Court and prepared for the Heavenly Realm to open. When it opened, the Underworld activated Heavenly Realm Samsara, and tribulation transcendence cultivators began facing heavenly tribulations to ascend.

• Wisdom reviewed the Blue Star Lineage's report, and Ancestor Yang Mei approved sending it into battle.
• Ying Zheng appointed the old man as the Eastern Pole Azure Emperor and gave him a Cosmic Wonder Fragment.
• Ying Zheng persuaded the five Human Sages to take symbolic Heavenly Court positions as the Five Directions and Five Elders, giving them five Cosmic Wonder Fragments.
• The Heavenly Realm opened, and the Underworld activated Heavenly Realm Samsara for those with great merit.
• Tribulation transcendence cultivators felt the Heavenly Dao's scrutiny and learned they could ascend through tribulation or accept special recruitment from the Heavenly Court.
• Dozens of tribulation transcendence cultivators rose from across the Mortal Realm and began facing their heavenly tribulations.

Ying Lingxiang ascended to the Heavenly Court and reunited with her father, Ying Zheng, while Taibai Jinxing recruited and installed seven cultivators in divine offices. As the Heavenly Court began recruiting soldiers and Blue Star continued to grow, Zhang Yang was interrupted by an alarm from the Cosmic Virtual Platform.

• Ying Lingxiang survived her tribulation, entered the Heavenly Court, and joyfully reunited with Ying Zheng in the Hall of Miraculous Mist.
• Taibai Jinxing brought seven cultivators to the Reception Treasure Hall, where position tokens selected their divine offices.
• Ying Zheng formally invested Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Qingyun, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Bai Qi, Wu Zetian, and Zhu Di with their positions in the Heavenly Court.
• Zhao Yun began recruiting Heavenly Soldiers from the Mortal Realm, while records showed that some cultivators and spirit beasts ascended and others became Loose Immortals.
• As Blue Star grew stronger, Zhang Yang heard an alarm from the Cosmic Virtual Platform and instantly appeared there.

Zhang Yang accepted the Cosmic Elders Council’s mission to destroy the Insect Race invasion and repair the spatial rift, in exchange for vast supplies and permanent control of Star System No. 0786. He summoned Blue Star’s nine Quasi-Sages and explained the threat, leaving them resolved to defend their universe.

• Zhang Yang accepted the mission after learning that the Insect Race had occupied planets through a rift and that refusal would bring consequences.
• The Cosmic Elders Council provided Zhang Yang with 100 Cosmic Wonder Fragments, two Advanced Star Migration Orders, and the promise of Star System No. 0786 if he succeeded.
• Zhang Yang gathered the mission supplies and summoned Ying Zheng and the eight other Quasi-Sages to the Thirty-Sixth Heaven.
• Ying Zheng ordered Taibai Jinxing to summon the Three Pure Ones Celestials and the Five Sages of the West to the Hall of Miraculous Mist.
• Zhang Yang briefed the nine Quasi-Sages on the invasion, the Four Great Universes, and their mission, and they recognized the danger facing Blue Star.

Zhang Yang prepared the Blue Star Lineage for war against the Insect Race, briefing its leaders and organizing its forces before migrating to the assigned battlefield. The Insect Queen launched an attack as the two sides began their standoff.

• Zhang Yang warned the nine Quasi-Sages to keep advancing and gave each five Cosmic Wonder Fragments before ordering them to prepare for battle in thirty universe days.
• Zhang Yang briefed 3,846 subordinate Star Lords on the Insect Race and the threats beyond their universe, then explained the rewards their lineage would gain.
• Blue Star's Heavenly Dao called the Starfolk home, while the Cosmic Elders Council and the lineage's forces gathered supplies and assembled armies and formations.
• Zhang Yang declined allied lineages, used the Advanced Star Migration Order to move Blue Star to the assigned region, and ordered the planets to deploy defenses.
• The Insect Queen spotted the arriving lineage and sent warships carrying controlled alien armies toward it, opening the battle.

Zhang Yang and the Blue Star Lineage completed extensive preparations for the Insect Race invasion, coordinating defenses across their planets and receiving intelligence from the Cosmic Elders Council. As the enemy approached, Zhang Yang ordered the Lineage to prepare for battle, and Guan Yu activated combat readiness on Man Huang Star.

• Blue Star researchers installed a five-layer composite shield powered partly by antimatter while the Lineage organized its defenses and isolated personnel who would fight outside headquarters.
• Zhang Yang presided over the Thirty-Sixth Heaven command center as the Cosmic Elders Council warned that the incoming vanguard consisted of controlled Starfolk carrying Dream Insects.
• Zhang Yang shared footage of the Insect Race army approaching and ordered frontline forces to redeploy.
• On Man Huang Star, Guan Yu learned that the Insect Race was advancing into his territory and declared level-one combat readiness.

Guan Yu’s forces used decoy life-forms carrying paired X and Y cells to reveal the Insect Race’s position while preventing it from stealing useful intelligence. After the cells died and pinpointed the Brain Bug, Blue Star’s forces launched a precise barrage at the center of the Insect Race army.

• Guan Yu waited for reconnaissance craft to be captured before ordering a rolling barrage at the enemy’s confirmed coordinates.
• The Insect Race’s War Scorpion Force trapped nearly a hundred human warships with living occupants and devoured their crews and vessels.
• The Brain Bug absorbed an enormous insect carrying the victims’ memories, but received only prerecorded greetings for the Insect Queen.
• Guan Yu’s forces used paired X and Y cells to track the Brain Bug, with each Y cell detecting the death and location of its companion X cell.
• Guan Yu’s forces detected the Brain Bug’s precise coordinates and fired energy beams into the center of the Insect Race army.

Blue Star’s antimatter weapons devastated the Insect Race vanguard while Zhang Yang learned from Ancestor Yang Mei’s Secret Letter what it would take for a civilization to reach level five and why the Demon Gods were watching the Human Race. As the battle continued, the Insect Queen sent her cannon-fodder army forward in a vast counterattack.

• Blue Star’s forces unleashed High-Particle Beams and guided antimatter missiles against the Insect Race vanguard.
• Ancestor Yang Mei’s Secret Letter explained that a level five civilization needed a hundred fourth-level civilizations, the universe’s recognition, and support from five of the nine on-duty members of the Cosmic Elders Council.
• The Secret Letter revealed that the Demon Gods fostered civilizations to strengthen the universe and that the Human Race’s ability to cultivate many Great Daos made it an unusual shared project.
• Zhang Yang watched the battle from the Thirty-Sixth Heaven and decided that Blue Star needed to establish the Technological Realm.
• The Insect Queen treated her losses as expendable and sent her vanguard forward as countless battleships launched toward the Human Race.

The Insect Race launched a massive, suicidal assault on the Blue Star Lineage, attacking its defenses through spatial tunnels and overwhelming the planetary shields. After learning how the shields worked from captured soldiers’ memories, the Insect Queen changed the Insect Race’s tactics.

• The Insect Race sent controlled Pollution Legion forces to self-destruct against the Blue Star Lineage’s defenses as its armies advanced through spatial tunnels.
• The Insect Race attacked the Blue Star Lineage from multiple directions, while Brain Bugs captured mechanical soldiers and transmitted their military knowledge to the Insect Queen.
• Heavy Armored Bugs battered planetary shields as other Insect Race strains bit and blasted them, draining the shields’ energy.
• Commanders authorized Mecha troops and the Dragon Knight Corps to deploy from Kaierke Planet and Vincent Planet as their shield energy dropped.
• Blue Star soldiers fought outside the shields, then withdrew through them while the barriers blocked the Insect Race and recovered energy.
• The Insect Queen learned how the shields worked from absorbed memories and ordered the Insect Race to change its tactics.

The Insect Queen sacrificed much of her army to raise her power to quasi-sage perfection and prepared a decapitation strike against the Blue Star Lineage. Zhang Yang learned of the threat and readied the nine Quasi-Sages, while the disguised queen joined the insect army’s renewed assault.

• The Insect Race attacked the Blue Star Lineage’s planets, and both sides poured troops into a grinding battle around Skyline Star.
• The Insect Queen discovered the enemy’s command formations and decided to sacrifice her troops to strengthen herself for a decapitation strike.
• The Insect Queen absorbed the sacrificed insects and rose to quasi-sage perfection, then asked the Space-Time Bug to assist her.
• Zhang Yang received a warning from the Cosmic Elders Council that the Insect Queen was preparing a decapitation strike and informed the nine Quasi-Sages.
• The nine Quasi-Sages prepared their Innate Spirit Treasures, while the Insect Queen disguised herself as a Warrior Bug and joined the army’s all-out assault.

The Insect Queen infiltrated the battlefield and repeatedly spent her own energy to test the Blue Star Lineage’s strength, unknowingly weakening herself as Zhang Yang and the Nine Quasi-Sages prepared an ambush. Convinced Blue Star had sent no further reinforcements, she flew toward its main star to attack.

• The Insect Queen disguised herself as a Warrior Bug and secretly surveyed the Blue Star Lineage’s defenses, while Zhang Yang learned of her movements through the Eye of the Universe.
• Zhang Yang sent the Nine Quasi-Sages to hide among the battlefield as little skeletons, and they waited for the Insect Queen to weaken herself.
• The Insect Queen repeatedly evolved Insect Race warriors into stronger realms to gauge Blue Star’s response, spending enough energy to fall from quasi-sage perfection to the mid quasi-sage stage.
• Zhang Yang sent Nuwa, Yellow Emperor, and Fuxi to fight the Insect Race’s golden immortals, instructing them not to call for further reinforcements.
• After watching the three deities suffer under the Insect Race’s encirclement without additional Blue Star forces appearing, the Insect Queen decided the enemy’s strength had been exposed and charged toward Blue Star, shouting that everyone would die.

The Insect Queen attacked Blue Star but was trapped and overwhelmed by nine quasi-sages wielding their treasures. Buddhism asked to take her as a Faith-Protecting Immortal Beast and subdued her, while the Primordial Heavenly Venerable warned that something about her saint soul still needed attention.

• The Insect Queen launched a full-power attack on Blue Star, but a Taiji Diagram absorbed it and drew her into a special space after she used the Space-Time Bug to slow her opponents.
• The Innate Five Directional Flags trapped the Insect Queen, and the Taiji Diagram overcame her space-time stasis as heavenly soldiers and the Ten Yin Marshals joined the battle outside.
• The Four Precious Swords and several other treasures battered the Insect Queen while nine quasi-sages discussed their attacks; Ying Zheng left for the Heavenly Court.
• Buddha Ancestor Tathagata asked the Three Pure Ones to let Buddhism subdue the Insect Queen, and the Virtue Heavenly Venerable agreed in exchange for the Buddhas calling them senior brothers.
• The Buddha Ancestors beat the Insect Queen unconscious, captured her in the Purple-Gold Alms Bowl, and placed her in the Heaven-and-Earth Bag; the Primordial Heavenly Venerable pointed out her saint soul.

As the Blue Star forces defeated the Insect Race, the Insect Queen’s sacred soul fragment left her a chance of resurrection. While three Demon Gods on duty monitored the battle, an unknown Sacred being intervened, destroyed the Insect Queen, and took Maitreya Buddha’s Heaven-and-Earth Bag.

• Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable noticed that the Insect Queen had left a sliver of her sacred soul in the Insect Race’s universe to survive.
• The Three Pure Ones watched Blue Star’s reinforcements throw the Insect Race into disarray until the battle drew to a close.
• Ancestor Yang Mei, Shun, and Chu discussed the Human Race’s performance while observing the battle through the Eye of the Universe.
• Chu detected a claw emerging from a spacetime rift and reaching for Maitreya Buddha’s Heaven-and-Earth Bag to rescue the Insect Queen.
• Chu’s shadows restrained and crushed the arm, but the hand destroyed the Insect Queen inside the bag before withdrawing.
• Maitreya Buddha mourned the loss of both the Insect Queen and his Heaven-and-Earth Bag, while her surviving sacred soul fragment left open a chance of resurrection.

After the Insect Race invasion, Zhang Yang learned from Shadow Nine that contaminated planets and their inhabitants had to be dealt with carefully, then organized resource extraction and prepared Blue Star to defend its new territory. Zhang Yang and the others later found that the Cosmic Rift had been repaired, and a hundred years passed as the Blue Star Lineage developed.

• Shadow Nine introduced himself to Zhang Yang and explained that he had been sent by Ancestor Chu to protect Blue Star until it produced a Sage race.
• Shadow Nine told Zhang Yang that planets and Starfolk contaminated by the Insect Race had to be destroyed or released only after their Star Imprints were removed.
• Zhang Yang assigned the contaminated planets to Blue Star Lineage Star Lords to extract their resources over the next hundred years.
• Zhang Yang, Shadow Nine, and the nine Quasi-Sages repeatedly hurled energy through the Cosmic Rift, prompting the Insect Empress to repair it with Cosmic Wonder Fragments.
• Zhang Yang and the others returned to find the rift repaired, and a hundred years passed.

After a century of development and preparation, Zhang Yang brought the Blue Star Lineage through the Very Good Belt to its new home at Territory No. 0786. The lineage completed the handover, and Zhang Yang began planning a star wall while considering what materials to use.

• Zhang Yang developed the Hextech Realm, equipped its technological experts, and sold gene potions, treasures, and technology to grow the Blue Star Lineage’s wealth.
• Zhang Yang worked with Quark and Shadow Nine for a century to plan Territory No. 0786’s species templates, rules, Heavenly Net System, and planet allocations.
• Zhang Yang entered the lineage’s coordinates and credentials, and the Blue Star Lineage crossed into the Very Good Belt before flying toward its territory.
• Ying Zheng killed twenty approaching Mystic Immortal angels with a single swing of the Saint-Scorning Sword, and Zhang Yang accepted friend requests from nearby Star Lords.
• Zhang Yang presented the required credentials to the God Race patrol, completed the handover of Territory No. 0786, and was advised to build a star wall.
• Zhang Yang decided that Blue Star needed a star wall for its defense, then spotted a place in the Mortal Realm that gave him an idea about what to build it from.