Chapter Summaries

After exhausting the miniature spirit veins, Bai Qi prepared a final assault on the Immortal Race using the Qin Kingdom’s long-range missiles. The chapter left the Immortal Race’s sect masters realizing the missiles were heading toward them, with the first strike imminent.

• After Ying Zheng sent his message, Bai Qi ordered preparations for a final all-out assault while fighter jets and Human Race troops secured the rear.
• The Qin Kingdom’s Rocket Corps deployed nearly two thousand mobile missile vehicles within striking range of the Immortal Race.
• Cross warned the Immortal Race’s sect masters that the enemy was preparing a major move, and the sects tightened their guard.
• Bai Qi ordered the missiles launched, and the rockets changed course toward the Immortal Race’s position.
• The Three Great Sect Masters realized the missiles were coming for them, and the Immortal Sect’s sect master heard an unfamiliar sound.

Chao Zhu and the Immortal Race tried to stop the Human Race’s missile attack, but guided warheads devastated their forces and forced the Three Great Sect Masters to flee. As fighter jets pursued the three toward the Star Gate, they joined forces to unleash Myriad Swords Return to the Source.

• Chao Zhu and the other sect masters formed the Nine Suns Firmament Array, drawing tens of thousands of disciples’ spiritual energy into a vast defensive wall.
• Bai Qi activated Plan B, and missiles changed course, split into multiple warheads, and struck the Immortal Race on the ground.
• A second missile wave scattered the Immortal Race, and the Three Great Sect Masters abandoned the defensive wall and fled toward the Star Gate.
• Bai Qi ordered a full assault, and fighter jets took off to hunt the retreating Immortal Race under satellite surveillance.
• Chao Zhu and the other sect masters turned to face the pursuing fighter jets and formed the fusion skill Myriad Swords Return to the Source, condensing a nearly invisible lightsaber.

The Human Race defeated Cross Planet’s Immortal Race after the Three Great Sect Masters sacrificed themselves, then fulfilled the Star War’s victory conditions. Zhang Yang converted Cross into energy, claimed the planet’s treasures, and returned to Blue Star, where the Elves had been resettled.

• The Three Great Sect Masters killed pilots who had ejected, then detonated themselves to destroy nearby fighter jets and died.
• The Human Race lost twenty-seven fighter jets and eighteen pilots, while Ying Zheng ordered the fallen soldiers’ remains brought back to Blue Star and the military began pursuing the Immortal Race.
• The Human Race escorted thirty million Elves to Blue Star and spent nearly half a year settling them and transporting soil from Cross Planet.
• Zhang Yang allowed the Human Race to occupy 51% of Cross Planet, completing the Star War’s victory conditions.
• Zhang Yang converted Cross into energy, collected the Immortal Pool, small spirit vein, Immortal Stele of Enlightenment, and three Trees of Life, then transported his soldiers back to Blue Star.

Zhang Yang scattered a small spirit vein across Blue Star, raising its spiritual energy and ushering in an era of widespread evolution. A year later, Ying Zheng and his generals benefited from the Water of Life, and Ying Zheng showed Bai Qi and Wang Jian a book containing the laboratory’s results.

• Zhang Yang placed three Trees of Life for the elves, then decided to spread a small spirit vein across Blue Star to increase its spiritual energy.
• Ying Zheng announced the battle’s results, honored the fallen, and declared a five-day Thanksgiving holiday before Blue Star’s transformation.
• After a state sacrificial ceremony, Zhang Yang scattered the spirit vein’s dust across Blue Star, raising spiritual energy and healing and strengthening living things.
• Blue Star’s spiritual energy eventually stabilized at 33%, and the year’s changes became known as the Spiritual Energy Era.
• Ying Zheng received Water of Life from the elves and rewarded veteran generals and officials with drops that made them decades younger.
• Ying Zheng showed Bai Qi and Wang Jian a book reporting the laboratory’s results.

Ying Si completed a human cultivation method based on strengthening acupoints and meridians, and Ying Zheng and the generals approved a plan to test it. After a month of training, one of the thirty-six selected Warriors successfully completed the lesser celestial circuit.

• Ying Si developed the Great Qin Body-Training Technique, which began with opening the Ren and Du Meridians and could lead to broader cultivation.
• Ying Zheng and the generals decided to make the lesser celestial circuit humanity’s foundational method, test it in the army, and later consider wider promotion.
• The Qin Kingdom selected thirty-six Warriors to train under Ying Si’s guidance, first memorizing the acupoints and meridian route.
• The Warriors practiced guiding spiritual energy through the circuit while undergoing daily physical tests, and one Warrior succeeded after a month.

Zhang Han became the first human to complete the Lesser Celestial Circuit, then tested the emerging paths of immortality and magic before choosing cultivation as an immortal. He rose to become the Qin Kingdom’s first Attendant and a cultivation instructor, and five years passed as he continued training.

• Zhang Han broke through his first acupoint, and tests showed that Spirit Stones and cultivation chambers accelerated cultivation and helped warriors overcome bottlenecks.
• After three months, Zhang Han had opened forty-seven acupoints, and on February 1, Qin Era 53, he completed the Lesser Celestial Circuit through his Ren and Du Meridians.
• Ying Si and the researchers found that cultivation talent varied and that Spirit Stones could give wealthier practitioners an advantage; Zhang Han tested both immortality and magic, then chose to become an immortal cultivator.
• Zhang Han graduated, met Ying Zheng, Bai Qi, and Wang Jian, and became the Qin Kingdom’s first Attendant, with spirit vein resources provided for his cultivation.
• Zhang Han began teaching warriors to cultivate, and five more warriors opened their Ren and Du Meridians during the following year.
• Zhang Han left training duties to his subordinates, secluded himself to cultivate, and five years passed.

Five years after Zhang Han became the first immortal cultivator, the Qin Kingdom had transformed education, government, and the military to support cultivation for all, while humans rapidly advanced through the qi refining realm. Zhang Yang considered placing the Immortal Stele of Enlightenment on Blue Star to see what skills the Human Race might comprehend.

• The Qin Kingdom introduced meridian and martial arts training in schools, made cultivation standard in the military, and distributed the revised [Great Qin Body-Tempering Art] nationwide.
• The Human Race entered an age of cultivation for all, with people choosing between immortal cultivation and magic while plants and animals neared their own evolutionary breakthroughs.
• Ying Zheng reached the fourth grade of the qi refining realm, Bai Qi reached the fifth, and Zhang Han became the Human Race's strongest cultivator at the seventh grade.
• Zhang Yang credited Blue Star's abundant spiritual energy for the Human Race's rapid progress and decided the civilization should build its strength without advancing to level three too soon.
• Zhang Yang remembered the Immortal Stele of Enlightenment and wondered what skills it could help the Human Race comprehend.

Zhang Yang rewarded the Dwarf Race for its service in the Star War, bought a Meteor Fall Divine Card, and befriended the trader Quark, who offered him a War Fog card. He considered upgrading the Elf Race’s Trees of Life but delayed the choice to let Blue Star’s mages develop before the next Star War; five years then passed.

• Zhang Yang placed the Immortal Stele of Enlightenment in a secret realm in Chang'an after letting Ying Zheng choose its location.
• Zhang Yang bought the Meteor Fall Divine Card from Quark for 400 energy points and learned that Quark could help him find Divine Cards.
• Zhang Yang arranged for four million dwarf women to join the Dwarf Race and revoked the race’s Criminal Race status, making it Blue Star’s First Affiliated Race.
• Zhang Yang decided to delay upgrading one of the Elf Race’s Trees of Life until human mages had more time to develop and prepare for the next Star War.
• Five years passed.

After wandering the continents to quiet his troubled heart, Zhang Han returned to Chang'an and meditated before the Immortal Stele of Enlightenment. He broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, rode his Precious Sword into the sky, and demonstrated its power before the stunned crowd.

• Wang Jian told Zhang Han that his anxiety over fame and rank had unsettled his heart, prompting Zhang Han to resign and wander the continents.
• Zhang Han traveled for two years, observed other races and their cultivation, and spent eight months cultivating on the Sea-Listening Continent until his spiritual energy was compressed to its limit.
• Zhang Han returned to the Qin Kingdom, where soldiers failed to recognize him until they verified his identity, and he later reunited with Ying Zheng, Wang Jian, Bai Qi, and his former cultivation companions.
• Zhang Han sat before the Immortal Stele of Enlightenment for three days and nights, reflecting on his path and his reasons for seeking immortality.
• Zhang Han opened his eyes, rode his Precious Sword into the sky, summoned it to his hand, and slashed toward a mountain peak as the onlookers watched in disbelief.

Zhang Han returned as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and recorded his Sword-Controlling Art while humanity advanced across cultivation, magic, technology, and new professions. Zhang Yang watched these changes until the ruler of Hilles Star challenged him to war, and he decided to accept.

• Zhang Han demonstrated his Foundation Establishment power, admitted his feet had gone numb, and celebrated his return with Ying Zheng and the others.
• Zhang Han wrote down the Sword-Controlling Art, including its three stages and his cultivation insights, but kept it from public release because it required Foundation Establishment.
• Humans developed new weapons, spiritual medicines, cultivation methods, and technologies as cultivation reshaped society, while the dwarf race became the leading smiths.
• Zhang Yang watched the human race develop and imagined Zhang Han and other geniuses founding new lineages.
• The medal announced that the ruler of Hilles Star had declared war on Zhang Yang, who chose to fight after checking the challenger’s race.

Zhang Yang accepted a Star War against Hilles Star, and the Undead Race’s Star Gate appeared beside the sea on Blue Star. Ying Zheng prepared a rapid technological counterattack as Hillnais led its undead army through the gate, then arrived over Blue Star and stopped laughing at what it saw.

• Zhang Yang accepted the Star War despite the Undead Race offering little reward.
• The Star Gate appeared on the Sea-Listening Continent, and Ying Zheng ordered Qin Kingdom officials to prepare for the invasion.
• Ying Zheng’s leaders planned to use missiles carrying mushrooms, then launch a counterattack on Hilles Star.
• Skeleton soldiers streamed through the Star Gate as Hillnais celebrated beginning its second Star War.
• Hillnais crossed into Blue Star’s sky in its true form, boasted at the humans, and abruptly stopped laughing when it saw the planet.

Hillnais realized the Human Race vastly outnumbered his undead and withdrew through the Star Gate, while Ying Zheng ordered a joint naval campaign against the Sea-Listening Continent. Before the Star War began, Hillnais spent all his energy points on divine cards to strengthen and conceal his forces, then resolved to hold out until the Star Gate closed.

• Hillnais surveyed Blue Star, panicked at its population and defenses, and pulled his advanced undead troops back through the Star Gate.
• Ying Zheng ordered the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise Legions to attack together and mobilized human, dwarf, and elven forces for war.
• The Qin Kingdom assembled a large naval fleet, troop transports, aircraft carriers, submarines, and missile-equipped ships near the Sea-Listening Continent.
• Zhang Yang went to the Starry Sky Virtual Platform after learning Hillnais had lived for 230 million years and was entering only his second Star War.
• Hillnais spent his 120,000 energy points on War Fog, Enhancement, and Frenzy cards, then prepared to defend until the Star Gate closed.
• The Star War countdown ended, and the Star War began.

The Human Race bombarded the Undead Race through the Star Gate with mushroom missiles, devastating Hillnais’s defenses and leaving Hillnais to reflect on his long, lonely history. Three days later, Dwarf Race troops landed on the Sea-Listening Continent and advanced toward the Star Gate.

• The Human Race fleet fired missile volleys across the Sea-Listening Continent, then sent mushroom missiles through the Star Gate toward the Undead Race.
• Mozhafei and the undead army tried to intercept the incoming missiles, but the explosions destroyed the formations and sent mushroom clouds rising across Hillnais.
• Hillnais watched his planet burn and recalled how he had raised the Undead Race, become isolated on the Starry Sky Virtual Platform, and grown notorious for slaughtering his opponents.
• The bombardment continued across Hillnais for three days, after which Dwarf Race soldiers in radiation-proof combat suits landed on the Sea-Listening Continent and advanced toward the Star Gate.

Zhang Yang tricked Hillnais into buying three divine cards at an inflated price, then used them to win the Star War. After Hillnais surrendered, Zhang Yang converted Hillnais into energy and kept the Undead Bone Sea.

• The dwarves entered Hillnais's oxygen-free plane, established defenses around the Star Gate, and reported that the enemy's deployments were hidden by War Fog.
• Zhang Yang revealed that he had borrowed three permanent divine cards from Quark and waited for Hillnais to arrive, hoping to sell them before the Star War.
• Zhang Yang and Quark staged a fake negotiation, prompting Hillnais to buy War Fog and two E-rank war cards for 120,000 energy points.
• Zhang Yang used the cards during the battle, and Hillnais surrendered after Blue Star's forces bombarded the Undead Race's remaining troops.
• Zhang Yang declined Hillnais's request to talk, converted Hillnais into energy, kept the level-six Undead Bone Sea, and returned to Blue Star as Hillnais's planet vanished.

After ending the Star War, Zhang Yang activated War Fog and considered how to strengthen Blue Star with his new energy points. Quark explained how Star Lords earned money and hinted at an approaching crisis, leaving Zhang Yang curious as he entered the auction house.

• Zhang Yang ended the Star War, cleared radiation and harmful chemicals from Blue Star, and chose not to deploy the Undead Bone Sea.
• Zhang Yang activated the War Fog divine card and kept his two other war-type cards in his inventory.
• Zhang Yang asked Quark how to become a stallholder and learned about auction-house deposits, commissions, and paid staff jobs.
• Quark advised Zhang Yang to raise Blue Star's level quickly and hinted that a coming crisis could bring preferential treatment to promising Star Lords.
• Zhang Yang wondered what awaited third-level civilizations and entered the auction house, where Foxwoman guided him toward the reception room.

Zhang Yang spent energy points at the Auction House on Immortal Race spirit veins and Machine Race technology, then returned to Blue Star. Quark revealed that he had secretly given Zhang Yang an exceptionally valuable technology tree and hoped he would advance, while explaining the universe’s exploitative hierarchy and the danger awaiting promising Star Lords.

• A fox woman showed Zhang Yang the Auction House’s spirit veins and Machine Race technology, and he bought one medium and one small Immortal Race spirit vein.
• Zhang Yang purchased a Machine Race technology tree for 10,000 energy points, believing it contained valuable technology, then left the Auction House.
• Zhang Yang went looking for Quark to buy Elf Race Trees of Life and slaves, but Quark was absent, so Zhang Yang returned to Blue Star.
• Quark told the fox woman that he had privately sold Zhang Yang a technology tree containing level-three civilization technologies and hoped Zhang Yang would advance during his management term.
• Quark explained that the Local Interstellar Cloud was a fief managed for the Kua Family and that promising Star Lords could be reported, hunted, and enslaved by a Lineage.

Zhang Yang decided to use the Machine Race’s technology to create a cultivation secret realm and upgrade Blue Star. He sent Ying Zheng a Divine Edict announcing the plan and new technology, leaving Ying Zheng eager to organize the Qin Kingdom Martial Arts Tournament for Secret Realm Keys.

• Quark reflected on Blue Star’s potential and chose not to report Zhang Yang to his Lineage.
• Zhang Yang questioned how Quark had obtained such advanced mechanical technology and decided to focus on developing Blue Star.
• Zhang Yang planned to upgrade Blue Star and create a vast secret realm with accelerated time, locked lifespans, and the Undead Bone Sea as a training ground.
• Zhang Yang sent Ying Zheng a Divine Edict with Machine Race technology and instructions to hold a martial arts tournament offering Secret Realm Keys.
• Ying Zheng read about the secret realm’s promise of immortality and summoned his trusted ministers to discuss the tournament.

Zhang Yang expanded Blue Star, created the Primordial Secret Realm, and announced its dangers and entry rules. Ying Zheng and his ministers planned a martial arts tournament to select entrants, then received a thousand keys that would activate in 365 days.

• Zhang Yang expanded Blue Star to seven continents, raised its spiritual energy, and formed the Primordial Secret Realm with a medium-sized spiritual vein, a fixed sun, and escalating undead threats.
• Zhang Yang announced that keys would grant access to the secret realm, where time passed ten times faster and eternal life was possible only for those who survived; he also ordered the Qin Kingdom to hold a martial arts tournament.
• Ying Zheng and his ministers initially celebrated the promise of eternal life, but Shang Yang discovered the tiny-print rules and warned that the secret realm was dangerous and likely meant to strengthen Blue Star for an approaching crisis.
• Ying Zheng ordered the ministers to develop machine-race technology and organize an annual martial arts tournament, while Wang Jian proposed qualifying divisions for the military, society, and schools.
• A thousand Primordial Secret Realm keys appeared before the ministers, each containing the rules and a countdown of 365 days until activation.
• A week later, Qin Kingdom officials announced the tournament rules to the public.

Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao won first and second place in Peach Immortal University’s martial arts qualifiers, earning the chance to compete in Ji Province. Watching the tournament’s effect on cultivators, Zhang Yang decided to seek Divine Cards that could help dinosaurs and plants evolve and challenge humanity.

• Cheng Yuan rushed to Peach Immortal University for the qualifiers after asking Father God to bless him, and he reunited with his childhood friend Lin Hao.
• Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao competed at ninth-grade Qi Refining Realm, while they recalled how Cheng Yuan’s father had broken through to Foundation Establishment under deadly pressure.
• Cheng Yuan won first place and Lin Hao took second, qualifying with a female mage who placed third for the Ji Province tournament in ten days.
• Zhang Yang considered how the Human Race’s lack of danger and combat experience had limited Foundation Establishment breakthroughs, despite 97 cultivators advancing during the military tournament.
• Zhang Yang decided to seek Divine Cards that could evolve species, hoping to give dinosaurs and plants intelligence and put pressure on humanity, then appeared on the Starry Sky Virtual Platform to find Quark.

Zhang Yang bought six elemental Trees of Life and two million elves from Quark so the Elf Race could create a World Tree for Blue Star. After learning that Ying Zheng and Elf Queen Alice had a half-human, half-elf son, Zhang Yang began fusing the trees with his divine power.

• Zhang Yang asked Quark for ways to evolve Blue Star’s beasts, and Quark suggested obtaining dragon blood, though dragons were too difficult to reach for now.
• Quark explained that Trees of Life from nine elements could form a World Tree, which could produce elves of eleven elements and purify spiritual energy; mutant elves could also wield ice or space magic.
• Zhang Yang paid Quark for six elemental Trees of Life and bought two million elves, then returned to Blue Star with no energy points left.
• Zhang Yang sent divine decrees to Ying Zheng and Elf Queen Alice, ordering them to prepare for the World Tree and establish a Magic Association to research the elements.
• The next day, Zhang Yang began fusing the Trees of Life with his supreme divine power.