Chapter Summaries

After Houtu became the final Sage Realm cultivator and agreed to guard the Underworld, Zhang Yang summoned the Blue Star Lineage’s powerful cultivators to prepare for a major move. The chapter leaves them gathered in the Heavenly Realm, excited for what was coming.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerable reached the Sage Realm, then taught the Chan Sect disciples and refined magical treasures for them.
• Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable, and the remaining candidates reached saint-level over the following years.
• Zhang Yang gave the final Sage Realm slot to Houtu, who agreed to remain in the Underworld and guard it.
• Zhang Yang summoned all Star Lords of level three and above, along with Sage Realm, Quasi-Sage, and Golden Immortal cultivators, to the Thirty-Sixth Heaven.
• Ao Tian, Ye Fan, and Ri Tian greeted Quark and made amends after he caught them bragging.

Zhang Yang gathered the Blue Star Lineage, revealed its powerful cultivators, and ordered preparations to defeat the Fire Spirit Tribe and expand across the Milky Way. After a secret meeting, a tiny stone merged with an ancient stone atop Flower-Fruit Mountain in the Spirit Realm.

• Quark reported the full attendance to Zhang Yang, who announced that the Blue Star Lineage had over a hundred Golden Immortals and higher-level cultivators.
• At Zhang Yang’s direction, Taibai Jinxing introduced the Golden Immortals, including himself as a Quasi-Sage, and the Lineage’s thirteen Sages were identified.
• Zhang Yang declared that the Lineage would defeat and annex the Fire Spirit Tribe within ten universe years, then pursue control of the Milky Way.
• After the assembly, Zhang Yang secretly conferred with the Three Pure Ones and Little White.
• A tiny stone fell onto the ancient stone at Flower-Fruit Mountain and merged into it.

Zhang Yang absorbed the Fire Spirit Tribe into the Blue Star Lineage and arranged its next expansion while recognizing Blue Star needed capable generals. In the Spirit Realm, Stone Monkey emerged from a rock on Flower-Fruit Mountain, survived a lightning strike, and scattered the monkeys who attacked him.

• Zhang Yang incorporated the Fire Spirit Tribe into the Blue Star Lineage and met its saint-level ancestor, Huoyan Shan, years later.
• Huoyan Shan explained that he had kept the war going because he feared negotiating with Blue Star, and he identified the Firebird Lineage as a nearby rival.
• Zhang Yang ordered Huoyan Shan to expand toward the Firebird Lineage and put Quark in charge of coordinating the Fire Spirit Tribe's affairs.
• Zhang Yang asked Quark to train Human Race Third-Level Star Lords to become independent generals.
• A thunderbolt struck a rock on Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Stone Monkey sprang out of it.
• Stone Monkey survived another lightning strike, stole the monkey king's banana, and sent the monkeys who attacked him flying.

The Handsome Monkey King left Flower-Fruit Mountain after learning that he and the other monkeys would eventually die, determined to find a way to gain immortality. After a deadly clash with another troop, he grew more resolute in his search for strength.

• The stone monkey accepted the title Handsome Monkey King and led the monkeys on Flower-Fruit Mountain for a year.
• After a little monkey was beaten to death, the old monkey king explained death and urged the Handsome Monkey King to seek answers beyond the mountain.
• The Handsome Monkey King left the Water-Curtain Cave, promising not to avenge the dead monkey so the others could avoid further bloodshed.
• While traveling, the Handsome Monkey King killed a monkey who tried to steal his bananas and fled when the monkey king’s troop surrounded him.
• The Handsome Monkey King fought off the attackers and killed their monkey king with a thrown stone, then continued his journey determined to become stronger.

The Handsome Monkey King encountered the Long-Armed Ape battling a Titanoboa and received a Token directing him to Crescent Moon, Three Stars Cave. After a ten-year journey and passage through the Northern Heavenly Gate, he reached the cave and called for a master.

• The Handsome Monkey King tried to wake the Long-Armed Ape and warned him of an approaching Titanoboa, then dodged the serpent’s attacks.
• The Long-Armed Ape protected the Handsome Monkey King and fought the Titanoboa, while the Handsome Monkey King watched and copied his moves.
• The Handsome Monkey King asked the Long-Armed Ape to teach him, and the ape gave him a Token to seek a master at Crescent Moon, Three Stars Cave.
• The Handsome Monkey King traveled for ten years to the Northern Heavenly Gate, showed the guard his Token, and entered the Heavenly Realm.
• The Handsome Monkey King reached Crescent Moon, Three Stars Cave, knelt at the entrance, and called for his master.

Sun Wukong trained under the Bodhi Patriarch, left the cave to make a name for himself, and rose through the Heavenly Court ranks. While patrolling as one of its Four Great Marshals, he accepted an invitation to join the Demon God Society after hearing his master's voice urge him to agree.

• The Bodhi Patriarch named the Handsome Monkey King Sun Wukong and taught him cultivation arts and abilities, including the Somersault Cloud and the Seventy-Two Transformations.
• After more than five hundred years, Sun Wukong left Crescent Moon, Three Stars Cave, but found he could not reach the Spirit Realm and was barred from returning until he made a name for himself.
• Sun Wukong endured years of hardship in the First Heaven, then won the Heavenly Court's recruitment tournament and became a sixth-rank Heavenly General.
• Over the next thousand years, Sun Wukong earned military honors and rose to become one of the Four Great Marshals, while the Blue Star Lineage began expanding and warring with the Firebird Tribe.
• A flea representing the Demon God Society invited Sun Wukong to join and promised to help him become a Sage; after hearing his master's voice tell him to agree, Sun Wukong accepted.

Sun Wukong rejected the Demon God Society's recruitment and learned from Zhang Yang that he had been awakened from a stone found in the Demon Realm, then accepted a dangerous mission inspired by the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. After an invasion and a leaked accusation that he was a Demon spy, Sun Wukong was stripped of his post and imprisoned in the Heavenly Court.

• A flea tried to recruit Sun Wukong into the Demon God Society, but Sun Wukong flew away after refusing.
• Sun Wukong met Zhang Yang and the Bodhi Patriarch in the Thirty-Sixth Heaven, where Zhang Yang explained his origins and told him the stories of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
• Zhang Yang offered Sun Wukong a dangerous mission, and Sun Wukong accepted it for the title of Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
• The Angel Race, Insect Race, Devil Race, and Demon Race invaded the Laniakea Universe, and the Blue Star Lineage was ordered to fight them.
• A rumor accused Sun Wukong of being a Demon spy, and after a Blue Star defeat, the Heavenly Court removed him from command and sent him to the Heavenly Prison.

In the Heavenly Prison, Sun Wukong agreed to join the Demon God Society after a flea offered to secure his release. Meanwhile, Zhang Yang won the ancestors’ approval for Blue Star to shelter vulnerable Star Lords and carry out his Havoc in Heaven Plan, and the Elders’ Council publicized Blue Star’s cooperation terms.

• A flea visited Sun Wukong in the Heavenly Prison and persuaded him to join the Demon God Society, promising to arrange his release.
• Zhang Yang reviewed the Alien Races’ invasion and offered for Blue Star to shelter Third-Level Star Lords and unprotected civilizations under a long-term cooperation contract.
• Zhang Yang presented the Havoc in Heaven Plan to Ancestor Yang Mei and the Demon Gods, proposing to cripple the Demon and Angel Races and rescue some Demon Gods.
• Ancestor Yang Mei and the other Demon Gods approved Zhang Yang’s plan and agreed that Blue Star should rise to become a fifth-level overlord.
• The Cosmic Elders Council announced Blue Star’s cooperation terms through the Cosmic Virtual Platform, prompting countless Star Lords to head for Blue Star Territory.

After the Cosmic Elders Council warned the Milky Way’s weaker Star Lords to seek protection, Cha Jiu chose to join the Blue Star Lineage. Meanwhile, Jin Ling Star’s Flesh-and-Blood Machines fought the Angel Race until their strongest warrior, Ye Jinling, faced a Ten-Winged Angel and Jin Ling Star unleashed its ultimate weapon.

• Cha Jiu learned that the Milky Way was at war and, after consulting Cha Baike and Shui Zhi, decided to take the Empty Dream and Hundred Faces Races to the Blue Star Lineage.
• Jin Ling Star joined the battle against the invading Angel Race, whose light magic and charm proved ineffective against the Flesh-and-Blood Machines.
• The Angels sent a Ten-Winged Angel against Ye Jinling after finding that the Jin Ling Lineage’s strongest attacks reached only the Mystic Immortal Realm.
• Ye Jinling’s combat chips warned it to retreat, but the Ten-Winged Angel closed in with a flaming holy sword.
• Ye Jinling activated Jin Ling Star’s Star of Annihilation, and an enormous seal struck the angel’s sword before it could kill Ye Jinling.

Guang Chengzi drove Michael away from Jin Ling Star while Sun Wukong learned that the Demon Race planned to recruit him to disrupt the Heavenly Court. Sun Wukong accepted the offer after securing demon god essence blood and promises of escape and protection.

• Guang Chengzi struck Michael with the Heaven-Flipping Seal and told Ye Jin Ling to help other Starfolk while he defended Jin Ling Star.
• The Heavenly Court discovered that Sun Wukong had been framed by a subordinate who conspired with the Demon Race, but stripped him of his marshal rank and made him Bima Wen.
• A flea from the Demon God Society approached the disgruntled Sun Wukong and urged him to cause chaos in the Heavenly Court before defecting to the Demon Race.
• The flea explained that the Demon Master Kunpeng wanted to win over members of the Laniakea Universe to give the Demon Race room to change sides and improve its standing.
• Sun Wukong agreed to the scheme on the condition that he receive demon god essence blood and guarantees of an escape route and safety.

Sun Wukong refined the Demon God bloodline, broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm, and began his assigned plan by raiding the Heavenly Court. After eating the Peaches of Immortality and taking elixirs and the As-You-Will Gold-Banded Cudgel, he escaped to the Spirit Realm as news spread that he had rebelled.

• Sun Wukong refined the golden blood in the Token and reached the pinnacle of his realm before smoothly breaking through to the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Zhang Yang decided to proceed with his plan while Blue Star's factions expanded their control across the Milky Way.
• Sun Wukong received the command to begin, sneaked into the Peach Garden, and ate and packed away the Peaches of Immortality.
• Sun Wukong knocked out the attendants at Doushuai Palace, consumed and stole elixirs, and claimed the As-You-Will Gold-Banded Cudgel.
• The awakened attendants raised the alarm, and Sun Wukong fled through the Northern Heavenly Gate to the Spirit Realm as news of his rebellion spread.

Sun Wukong defected to the Demon Realm after fighting the Heavenly Court, while Blue Star’s influence grew until Zhang Yang began the ritual to become Fifth-Level Star Lord. The Universal Consciousness approved his ascension, giving him authority over the Milky Way.

• Sun Wukong defected from the Heavenly Court, defeated its forces, and was rescued by the Demon Realm after Blue Star’s Sages intervened.
• The Demon Realm named Sun Wukong Great Sage Equal to Heaven and brought him to its Great Universe to go undercover.
• Over the next thousand years, Blue Star’s lineage grew powerful, and the Cosmic Elders Council selected it to rule the Milky Way.
• Zhang Yang offered sacrifices to the Universal Consciousness, with Ancestor Yang Mei presiding over the ascension ceremony.
• The Universal Consciousness approved Zhang Yang’s ascension, granting him control over the Milky Way and its Star Lords.

After becoming the Milky Way’s Fifth-Level Star Lord, Zhang Yang assessed the galaxy’s disunity and planned reforms, including strengthening humanity through a new genetic template. Learning that the universe’s blessing was draining its power to resist invading races, he resolved to develop the Milky Way and protect the Laniakea Universe, preparing to change its laws.

• Zhang Yang took control of the Milky Way and discovered that its institutions and leadership were far less unified than those of other galaxies.
• Zhang Yang learned that his advancement had invalidated the Blue Star Lineage’s Enslavement Contracts, and he began observing the galaxy before introducing policies.
• Zhang Yang approved the Melta Lineage’s request to advance to Fourth-Level Star Lord and surveyed the unassigned life-bearing star systems.
• Zhang Yang spent a thousand years simulating genetic changes and devised a human racial template that increased strength, lifespan, and intelligence while reducing fertility.
• The Will of the Universe told Zhang Yang that its blessings consumed Universal Origin power as it struggled against four invading races, prompting him to prepare to alter the Milky Way’s laws.

Zhang Yang revised the Milky Way’s laws to make humans its core race and considered ways to strengthen the galaxy. After his promotion to Fifth-Level Star Lord drew attention across the Local Group, he joined the galaxy lords’ chat and sent them divine source through a new red-envelope function.

• Zhang Yang made the Human Race the first race template, and a newly awakened Star Lord chose it for its advantages and status as the Milky Way’s core race.
• Zhang Yang arranged for humans to appear throughout the Milky Way while preserving Blue Star Lineage’s exclusive Territory 0786, then outlined economic, cultural, technological, and military plans for strengthening the galaxy.
• The Local Group’s fifty-three galaxy lords took notice of Zhang Yang’s advancement to Fifth-Level Star Lord, a rare achievement for a lord of a large galaxy.
• The Cosmic Elders Council added Zhang Yang to the galaxy lords’ group chat, where members welcomed him as the Lord of the Milky Way.
• Zhang Yang created a red-envelope function, placed ten thousand points of divine source into fifty-three envelopes, and sent them to the group.
• The Lord of the Andromeda Galaxy opened an envelope, and the galaxy lords discovered they had received different amounts, with one marked the Luckiest Draw.

Zhang Yang left a fragment of his will to collect red packets while Sun Wukong traveled to the Demon Race universe and met Kunpeng. Kunpeng revealed that the red sphere held one-third of Pangu’s Will, and Zhang Yang manifested through Sun Wukong to meet Pangu.

• Galaxy lords and other figures sent red packets, and Zhang Yang collected Divine Source Points before returning to his research.
• Sun Wukong entered the Demon Race universe and converted his body to absorb Demon Qi, doubling his strength.
• Great Sage Dijiang brought Sun Wukong to the Treasure Pagoda, where Kunpeng was waiting.
• Kunpeng identified the red sphere as one-third of Pangu’s Will and revealed that he knew Sun Wukong was Zhang Yang.
• Zhang Yang took over Sun Wukong’s body and greeted Kunpeng, then saw Pangu manifest from the red sphere.

Zhang Yang met Pangu, who explained that Zhang Yang was a naturally born Star Lord carrying memories from Pangu’s simulations, not anyone’s incarnation. Pangu also revealed how he and Kunpeng had created the Witch Race and worked together inside the Demon Race, leaving Zhang Yang to realize Kunpeng had gone undercover willingly.

• Pangu told Zhang Yang that he was an independent Star Lord whose inherited memories had guided him toward creating the Human Race.
• Pangu explained that Zhang Yang’s memories came from simulations and that other possible inheritors would have lost them if they had not created the Human Race first.
• Pangu revealed that he had not expected Zhang Yang to arrive and praised him for how well he had done.
• Zhang Yang asked about the Witch Race, and Pangu said he and Kunpeng had created it as Kunpeng’s faction within the Demon Race.
• Pangu recounted how he befriended Kunpeng while Kunpeng guarded him, then helped Kunpeng build power and sent a wisp of consciousness away to simulate Blue Star.
• Zhang Yang realized that Kunpeng had chosen to go undercover and had even turned the Demon Race’s powerful figure into Pangu’s ally.

Patriarch Pangu explained why the Laniakea Universe opened the heavens and how disagreements among the Demon Gods may have helped bring about the invasion by the Four Great Universes. Zhang Yang learned that many captured Demon Gods might have defected to other universes, leaving their loyalty and willingness to help uncertain.

• Zhang Yang asked Patriarch Pangu why they did not rescue the Demon Gods trapped in the Four Great Universes.
• Patriarch Pangu explained that the universal consciousness ordered the Demon Gods to open the heavens so living beings could cultivate and strengthen the universe, but the Demon Gods split over the loss of their control.
• Patriarch Pangu told Zhang Yang that he and the universal consciousness had favored growth to protect the universe from rival universes and cosmic catastrophes.
• Patriarch Pangu revealed that some Demon Gods may have exposed the Laniakea Universe's coordinates to the Alien Races after the conflict over opening the heavens.
• Patriarch Pangu explained that captured Demon Gods could have joined other universes, so their loyalty was unknown and their rescue could not be relied upon.
• Zhang Yang realized that the trapped Demon Gods might not help their universe and cursed in frustration.

Pangu explained the risks surrounding the captured and remaining Demon Gods, then gave Zhang Yang his token and urged him to rely on the Human Race. After Pangu’s will disappeared, Zhang Yang used what he had learned to direct researchers toward developing advanced weapons and new energy sources.

• Pangu told Zhang Yang that some captured Demon Gods could still betray the Laniakea Universe, while the remaining Demon Gods were bound by oaths, missing, hidden, or assigned to defend and monitor the universe.
• Pangu gave Zhang Yang his token as chairman of the Cosmic Elders Council, explaining that it could protect Zhang Yang from interference and let him communicate with the Universal Consciousness.
• When Kunpeng arrived to bring Sun Wukong before the Demon Emperor, Zhang Yang dispersed his will, causing Sun Wukong to lose his memories of their meeting.
• Zhang Yang’s true body planned to strengthen the Milky Way and gathered researchers from the Machine Race, Spirit Machine Race, and Human Race in Blue Star’s Hextech Realm.
• Zhang Yang outlined theoretical research into dark matter, red matter, dimensional weapons, and black hole weapons, then left the scientists to develop them.

Zhang Yang reorganized the Milky Way’s cultivation and administration, introducing mentorship, performance reviews, and incentives to identify and develop talent across many fields. The galaxy embraced his Genius Agreement, while the Cosmic Elders Council watched to see whether his policies would work.

• Zhang Yang planned a mentorship system, expanded the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, and sought a Great Dao Realm mentor for the Milky Way’s Sage Realm experts.
• He summoned the Milky Way’s Fourth-Level Star Lords to Blue Star’s Heavenly Realm, heard their concerns, and announced reviews every thousand years with dismissal for those who ranked in the bottom thousand for five consecutive reviews.
• Zhang Yang told Third-Level Star Lords that the thousand best-performing candidates would be promoted every five thousand years and announced rewards for Star Lords who developed qualified geniuses.
• He placed the Genius Agreement on the Cosmic Virtual Platform, where it could identify promising Starfolk in cultivation and other fields and provide them with targeted training plans.
• Star Lords bought agreements in large numbers, and Zhang Yang watched the number of identified geniuses grow as the Cosmic Elders Council observed his reforms from the shadows.

Zhang Yang organized galaxy-wide mentorship and training, then recruited Ancestor Yang Mei and several Demon Gods to help guide the Milky Way’s cultivators. The Nethersea Demon God began teaching Sage Realm experts through brutal combat, and the same beatings spread down the training ranks.

• Zhang Yang established tiered mentorship across the Milky Way and asked Ancestor Yang Mei to find an elder to train Saint-Level cultivators.
• Several Demon Gods volunteered to send avatars to teach, and the Nethersea Demon God agreed to train the Sage Realm experts in combat.
• While Zhang Yang waited, Ling Mengxin advanced from Qi Refining to Golden Core through the rotating mentorship system.
• Ancestor Nethersea arrived and battered the Sage Realm experts, teaching them to improve through battle.
• Sage Realm experts competed for chances to beat and guide Quasi-Sages, while Quasi-Sages sought similar teaching posts with Golden Immortals.
• Ling Mengxin and the other young geniuses endured peer brawls after their teachers beat them, leaving her wondering how cultivation had become so brutal.