Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang announced a human civilization rankings feature that would reward victories with fortune power, prompting Star Lords and factions across the Blue Star Lineage to prepare for competition. Ying Zheng received Zhang Yang’s approval for a proposal to station Heavenly Court and Underworld personnel in human worlds.

• Star Lords learned that first-level human civilizations would compete in balanced battles, with seasonal rankings and rewards including fortune power.
• The Star Lords realized fortune could strengthen planets, factions, and individuals, and affect promotion priority throughout the Blue Star Lineage.
• Zhang Yang continued refining the battle rules, combat limits, and randomly generated battlefields while Star Lords and factions considered how to support their civilizations.
• Ying Zheng met with two Underworld gods and proposed stationing Heavenly Court and Underworld personnel in human worlds to oversee them.
• Father God approved the proposal, allowing Ying Zheng and the others to implement it.

The Eastern Peak Emperor organized the creation of Underworld branches and Heavenly Court deities across the Human Race planets. Zhang Yang built fifteen new Earth Realms and Underworlds, and the chapter ended as the Quasi-Sages began making their moves.

• The Eastern Peak Emperor and Underworld officials agreed to staff fifteen new branches with Yama Kings’ avatars, promoted Yin Deities, and recruited local replacements.
• Ying Zheng approved the plan and kept Ying Si in charge of building Underworlds rather than promoting him to King of Hell.
• Zhang Yang created fifteen Earth Realms and Underworlds, and acting Yin Deities arrived to begin operating the branches.
• The Heavenly Court sent Land Gods, Mountain Gods, and City God Deities to the Human Race planets to recruit local candidates.
• The Heavenly Court and Underworld expanded their presence across the planets as the Quasi-Sages began making their moves.

Buddhist and Daoist factions maneuvered to gain fortune and establish their own paths toward Sagehood. Primordial Heavenly Venerable founded the Chan Sect, while Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable opened the Sect of the Heavens to a vast number of disciples, though those who treated membership lightly faced backlash.

• Buddhism divided into Great Vehicle and Lesser Vehicle factions, which developed ten schools led by Quasi-Sages and their disciples.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable manifested above Blue Star and announced the founding of the Chan Sect, inviting those with destined opportunity to the Jade Void Palace.
• Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable founded the Sect of the Heavens and declared that anyone with a heart set on the Dao could join.
• Millions of beings across races and cultivation levels joined, receiving outer or inner disciple status according to their cultivation and talent.
• Some new members left the Sect of the Heavens, but those who tried to rejoin suffered backlash for insulting a Sage.

Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable organized the growing Sect of the Heavens and taught its disciples in the Thirty-Fourth Heaven, while Primordial Heavenly Venerable began training selected Chan Sect disciples. Other factions prepared to recruit followers and invest in Star Lords, and the Rankings finally opened.

• Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable divided the Sect of the Heavens into five ranks and summoned over a hundred thousand inner disciples to the Thirty-Fourth Heaven for a discourse on the Dao.
• Some disciples advanced through the discourse, and outer disciples who gained insight were promoted to inner disciples; several promising disciples became Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable's apprentices.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable accepted promising cultivators from the Daoist Sect and the Heavenly Court into the Chan Sect and began training them in the Thirty-Fifth Heaven.
• Buddhist sects and Confucian Grand Confucians sent representatives to human planets to spread their teachings, while factions offered Star Lords support in exchange for fortune points.
• The Star Lords and factions waited to invest until opponents could be matched fairly, and the Rankings finally opened.

Zhang Yang activated the Rankings feature to spur the Blue Star Lineage’s first-level civilizations through live-broadcast wars. Ye Fan entered the first match with Planet No. 01, chose cultivation as his army’s power system, and prepared to face Planet No. 376 on a randomly generated battlefield.

• Zhang Yang activated the Rankings feature and announced its rules, including year-long matches and victory by occupying the Crystal Nexus.
• Ye Fan arranged for Jin Ling of the Sect of the Heavens to support his side, then gathered fifty thousand troops for the battle.
• Ye Fan matched Planet No. 01 against Planet No. 376 and led his troops through a Star Gate into the New World.
• The battlefield rules barred both Star Lords from leaving their shields or directly interfering, and Ye Fan chose cultivation, boosting his Starfolk’s abilities by ten percent.
• The system set a fifty-thousand troop limit for Ye Fan and a sixty-thousand limit for Planet No. 376, then began the war.

Ye Fan's army advanced toward the Crystal Nexus while Jin Ling used her superior vision and the Mist Technique to gain the initiative over Wang Lin's forces. As Ye Fan ordered a volley of javelins and crossbow bolts, Wang Lin received a last-minute reinforcement from outside the battlefield.

• Ye Fan ordered his fifty-thousand-strong army to advance, while Jin Ling explained the limits on reinforcements and their suppressed strength.
• The armies' scouts encountered powerful Fierce Beasts as they moved through the battlefield's varied terrain.
• Jin Ling spotted Wang Lin's army and covered the area in fog, leaving the enemy with sharply limited vision.
• Ye Fan ordered his soldiers to advance into range and fire javelins and crossbow bolts at Wang Lin's troops.
• Wang Lin accepted an outside reinforcement, and a monk entered through the Star Gate, announcing his arrival.

Wang Lin’s forces came under attack, but Jin Ling used the Four Symbols Pagoda to defeat Vajrapani Bodhisattva and secure Buddhism’s withdrawal. Wang Lin conceded to Ye Fan, leaving Planet No. 01 with its first victory and drawing attention to Ye Fan and Holy Mother Jin Ling.

• Vajrapani Bodhisattva calmed Wang Lin’s panicked Starfolk and shielded them from a rain of javelins and crossbow bolts.
• Jin Ling summoned the Four Symbols Pagoda, which broke Vajrapani Bodhisattva’s golden barrier and trapped him despite Venerable Heavenly King’s attempts to intervene.
• Venerable Heavenly King asked Jin Ling to release Vajrapani Bodhisattva and offered to withdraw, so Jin Ling recalled the pagoda and accepted their courtesy.
• Buddhism’s forces apologized to Wang Lin and retreated toward the Star Gate, prompting Wang Lin to concede to Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan ordered his forces to stop attacking, and the world announced Planet No. 01 as the winner with a 1-0-0 record.

After winning his battle, Ye Fan used his rewards to strengthen his planet and develop its civilization, while Holy Mother Jin Ling returned to the Sect of the Heavens and was named its eldest senior sister. Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable rewarded his returning disciples and left with his Immortal-Slaying Swords after sensing someone pursuing him.

• Ye Fan gave Holy Mother Jin Ling one fortune point, received a miniature spirit vein from her, and used half of it to raise his planet's spiritual energy.
• Ye Fan unlocked the Steel Age technology tree, distributed spirit stones to gifted Starfolk, and continued developing his civilization.
• Jin Ling returned to the Sect of the Heavens, transferred her fortune point to the sect, and saw that the Thirty-Fourth Heaven had become a busy home for its growing membership.
• Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable named Jin Ling the eldest senior sister, gave her several spirit treasures and a sacred flame, and told her that personal disciples would live in Jade Purity Palace.
• As more personal disciples returned and received treasures and guidance, Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable sensed someone pursuing him and vanished with his four Immortal-Slaying Swords.

The Primordial Heavenly Venerable kept his disciples cultivating until they reached the Golden Immortal Realm, while the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable fought three Quasi-Sages of the Fire Spirit Tribe over their Sacred Fire. He killed one with the Immortal-Slaying Sword, but the Fire Spirit Tribe's chief summoned their ancestor as the battle turned against him.

• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable left the Old Immortal of the South Pole in charge, and he told the disciples they could venture out once they reached the Golden Immortal Realm.
• The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable used the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against three Fire Spirit Tribe Quasi-Sages, wounding them and forcing them to flee in their Sacred Fires.
• The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable ignored a strike from the Fire Spirit Tribe's ancestor and empowered the Immortal-Slaying Sword with his blood essence.
• The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable killed an Early Quasi-Sage, whose Saint Soul was trapped in the Entrapping Immortal Sword and could not revive.
• The Fire Spirit Tribe's chief stopped fleeing and invoked the tribe's ancestor, declaring that their Sacred Fire had been seized.

The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable fought the Fire Spirit Tribe after stealing its Sacred Fire, but the tribe’s ancestor overwhelmed him with a powerful tower. He killed the Fire Spirit patriarch before being struck down, and the chapter ended as the Immortal-Slaying Sword shielded him from the ancestor’s next attack.

• The Fire Spirit Tribe’s ancestor attacked the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable, damaging the Nine Dragons Cauldron and forcing him to retrieve the Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• The Fire Spirit ancestor trapped the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable beneath the Sacred Flame Heaven-and-Earth Tower and offered to spare him if he returned the Sacred Fire and joined the tribe.
• The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable used heavenly thunder to break free, feinted toward the Fire Spirit ancestor, and killed the current patriarch with the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• The enraged Fire Spirit ancestor fought the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable and wounded him until he could no longer resist.
• The Immortal-Slaying Sword moved in front of the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable as the Fire Spirit ancestor’s final slash approached.

Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Virtue Heavenly Venerable joined Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable against Fire Spirit Ancestor, and Virtue Heavenly Venerable exposed the Fire Spirit Tribe’s history of slaughter and sacrifice. Fire Spirit Ancestor tried to retreat, but the Blue Star Lineage trapped him and declared that he would pay for the Fire Spirit Tribe’s crimes.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Virtue Heavenly Venerable arrived, and Virtue Heavenly Venerable gave Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs to restore his strength.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor demanded the Sacred Flame’s return and the lives of two of the brothers, while Virtue Heavenly Venerable offered compensation and then challenged his claim to justice.
• Virtue Heavenly Venerable recounted how the Fire Spirit Tribe had sacrificed countless beings and betrayed Wang Chuan’s tribe, revealing how he knew about its secret art.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor tried to leave, but the Innate Five-Colored Banners and Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation trapped him.
• Virtue Heavenly Venerable declared that Fire Spirit Ancestor and another member of his tribe would pay for two of Wang Chuan’s fallen Golden Core Realm cultivators, and that the Blue Star Lineage would later confront the tribe.

The Three Pure Ones slew the Fire Spirit Ancestor, seized his treasures, and brought the surviving Fire Spirit Tribe Quasi-Sage under their control. As the army prepared to conquer the Fire Spirit Tribe, the Heavenly Venerables returned to their sects to distribute their spoils and cultivate, and five hundred years passed.

• The Three Pure Ones sealed the Fire Spirit Ancestor’s treasures, overwhelmed him, and killed him, while the Primordial Heavenly Venerable sealed his Saint Soul in a Primordial Chaos Pearl.
• The Three Pure Ones divided the treasures and controlled the surviving Quasi-Sage, Fire Whirlwind, with a Three Corpses Pill before sending him with the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable to join Wang Chuan’s expedition against the Fire Spirit Tribe.
• After sensing the deaths of three Quasi-Sages and the disappearance of the last one’s aura, the Fire Spirit Tribe’s Star Lord contacted several old friends through the platform.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable gave Guang Chengzi the Heaven-Flipping Seal and entered seclusion, while the Virtue Heavenly Venerable also went into seclusion after giving his sacred flame to the Grand Supreme Elder.
• The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable made a stone stele from the Saint Souls and inscribed his cultivation insights for his disciples before departing with the army for the Fire Spirit Tribe.
• The Jade Purity Palace disciples began cultivating from the stele, and five hundred years passed.

The Blue Star Lineage fought an all-out war against the Fire Spirit Tribe, which sought its territory and the Sacred Flame Secret Art. The battle devastated both sides, and Zhang Yang’s forces pursued unconventional ways to overcome their disadvantage in high-level strength.

• Zhao Gongming led twelve legions of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals into battle while the Three Xiao Sisters stayed behind.
• The Fire Spirit Tribe declared war as Wang Chuan approached, and prepared forces ambushed his Star Lords before Blue Star reinforcements arrived.
• The Heavenly Court, the Underworld, the Confucian Path, and the Spirit Realm joined Blue Star’s forces, and the two lineages began a fierce war.
• Zhang Yang ordered Blue Star’s forces to fight ruthlessly, and Shi Shuang launched poison-filled missiles at Fire Spirit planets.
• After years of heavy casualties, Zhang Yang sent Little White on a mission while the Technological Realm and Shi Shuang worked on new ways to win.

Zhang Yang changed his cautious approach to the war, using the Blue Star Lineage’s resources to strengthen the Human Race and prepare new weapons against the Fire Spirit Tribe. He contacted Jun Yu for supplies and Ancestor Yang Mei for support, leaving the story with Ancestor Yang Mei preparing to meet him.

• Zhang Yang decided to deploy Genetic Engineering across the Lineage, raising newborns’ strength and giving adults Gene Injections to reach the Body Tempering Realm.
• Zhang Yang sent Little White to test a Soul Potion designed to attack the Fire Spirit Tribe, while the Investiture of the Gods helped fallen True Immortals reincarnate.
• Zhang Yang distributed spirit veins and other resources according to the Rankings and asked Jun Yu for Spirit Pearls, fragments, and financial support.
• The Human Race’s baseline strength rose sharply, drawing the attention of the Wise Race and the three Demon Gods.
• Zhang Yang contacted Ancestor Yang Mei, who agreed to go meet him and give him a talking-to.

Zhang Yang appealed to Ancestor Yang Mei, Chu, and Yu for support, exposing a dangerous method tied to the Angel Race and securing resources and advancement slots for Blue Star. The ancestors sent him back to confront the Fire Spirit Tribe and establish Blue Star’s might.

• Zhang Yang invited the three ancestors to inspect Blue Star and pledged to advance its civilization and aid the suppressed Demon Gods.
• Yang Mei, Chu, and Yu praised Blue Star’s progress, while Yu questioned whether they should intervene during its war with the Fire Spirit Family.
• Zhang Yang explained the opposing Star Lord’s use of living sacrifices to refine Sacred Fire, then revealed that Qiu Xue had used a similar method.
• Chu identified the method’s connection to the Angel Race and warned that its beneficiaries might betray their allies when war began; Yang Mei vowed to investigate such cases across the universe.
• Chu granted Blue Star eleven special advancement slots for Quasi-Sages, Yu added Divine Source Points to Zhang Yang’s account, and Yang Mei gave him a brocade pouch containing tea.
• Yang Mei warned Zhang Yang that the Milky Way had never had a Fifth-Level Star Lord and told him to use the Fire Spirit Tribe as Blue Star’s first battle to establish its might.

After returning to Blue Star, Zhang Yang examined the Enlightenment Tea and Enlightenment Stone and prepared to strengthen the Lineage while the war continued. He revealed that Blue Star had two Sages and sent five Quasi-Sages into seclusion with Sage Realm advancement slots.

• Zhang Yang found dozens of Enlightenment Tea leaves and an Enlightenment Stone in Ancestor Yang Mei’s pouch, and considered how the treasures could strengthen Blue Star.
• Zhang Yang recalled that Virtue Heavenly Venerable had secretly become Blue Star’s first Sage, alongside Shadow Nine, while Blue Star continued fighting the Alien Races.
• Zhang Yang summoned Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable, Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, and Amitabha Buddha back to headquarters, where Ying Zheng joined them.
• Zhang Yang ordered the five Quasi-Sages to enter seclusion until they reached the Sage Realm, explaining that Blue Star had two Sages and the enemy’s Sage was deterred.
• Zhang Yang gave the five Sage Realm advancement slots he had obtained from the Cosmic Elders Council, and they gained insight into the Great Dao bottleneck before vanishing to cultivate.

Zhang Yang established the Confucian Realm and tasked Kong Qiu with educating the Blue Star Lineage’s inhabitants while secretly recording events and guarding against interference. Kong Qiu and five Confucian worthies rose to new realms, and the chapter ended with the literary path flourishing across the Three Realms.

• Zhang Yang summoned Kong Qiu, praised Confucianism’s contributions, and ordered him to establish an autonomous Confucian Realm devoted to education and record-keeping.
• Zhang Yang helped Kong Qiu advance to Quasi-Sage, granted him a Sage Realm slot, and created the Confucian Realm for him to govern.
• Zhang Yang granted five Golden Immortal slots and five leaves of Enlightenment Tea to Meng Ke, Yan Yuan, Zeng Shen, Zhu Xi, and Wang Mingyang, who advanced to Golden Immortal.
• Kong Qiu assigned his five disciples to lead the Confucian Realm’s work, with Yan Yuan overseeing its secret records.
• Two years later, Kong Qiu publicly ascended to Quasi-Sage and became master of the Confucian Realm, then the five worthies ascended to it three days afterward.

Zhang Yang strengthened his Star Lords’ loyalty and used Enlightenment Tea to help Xiang Yu advance in the Martial Path. He then planned to distribute Sage-realm opportunities, but Guiguzi and the five Human Sages had already advanced to Quasi-Sage.

• Zhang Yang reflected that loyal Star Lords, nurtured to love Blue Star and the Human Race, would be more dependable than contracts when the defensive war turned into an offensive struggle.
• Zhang Yang visited Xiang Yu in the Immortal Realm and gave him Quasi-Sage-grade Enlightenment Tea, sending him into a dream where he tested martial arts ideas until he reached Quasi-Sage.
• Zhang Yang gave Xiang Yu a Sage-realm slot and left him five Golden Immortal slots to distribute.
• Zhang Yang found Guiguzi working as a fortune-teller on a First-Level Human Race Planet; Guiguzi refused the tea but accepted a Sage-realm slot.
• When the five Human Sages all broke through to Quasi-Sage at once, Zhang Yang decided to give them the three remaining slots and remarked on having subordinates who were too strong.

Zhang Yang prepared the Blue Star Lineage for future conflicts by strengthening key allies, distributing advancement resources, and upgrading its realms and policies. He left the final Quasi-Sage and sainthood slots unassigned while setting plans in motion against the Demon Race and other Alien Races.

• Zhang Yang decided to reserve a slot for the Spirit Realm and told Little White to advance toward Sagehood, while keeping the Plague Pig Plan for the Alien Races.
• Zhang Yang gave Xiao Zhi Quasi-Sage and Golden Immortal leaves, then also granted the World Tree a sainthood slot to support its evolution.
• Zhang Yang gave Ying Zheng twenty Golden Immortal leaves, and Ying Zheng allotted six to the Underworld and used nine to reward accomplished Heavenly Court gods.
• Ying Zheng gave Bai Qi an Enlightenment Tea leaf, appointed Zhang Han the Curtain-Raising General, and distributed the remaining leaves among Ying Lingxiang, Ying Si, and Taibai Jinxing.
• Zhang Yang upgraded the soil of the Heavenly, Earth, and Mortal Realms, then changed his territory's settings so new Human Race planets began with two spirit veins and chose their development path at the second civilization level.

Over five thousand years, the Blue Star Lineage expanded through tournaments, incense offerings, and the rise of new Star Lords while its war with the Fire Spirit Tribe remained stalled. After awakening, Xiao Zhi learned Little White had become the second Sage, and Zhang Yang prepared to begin his plan once more of his forces reached Sage-level.

• Fifty Rankings Tournaments passed as Immortals and gods gained incense offerings and lower-level civilizations received support and rewards.
• Many Second-Level Star Lords advanced to Third-Level, and the Blue Star Lineage formed twenty-five Fourth-Level Lineages to guard its territories.
• Xiao Zhi awakened after five thousand years, while Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, and Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable approached quasi-sage perfection.
• Zhang Yang met Little White in the Spirit Realm and learned she had become the second Sage after Virtue Heavenly Venerable.
• Little White said she had given five slots to Yinglong, Phoenix, Qilin, Nine-Tailed Fox, and Taotie, and Zhang Yang departed to put his plan into action.
• The Blue Star Lineage and the Fire Spirit Tribe continued their limited battles, while Zhang Yang waited for more allies to reach Sage-level and the opposing Sage remained unsure whether to fight.