Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang merged the nine Trees of Life into a sentient World Tree, named Xiao Zhi, and planted it among the Elves on Blue Star. After seeing the tree's extraordinary benefits, he went to the Starry Sky Virtual Platform to ask Quark about his identity and kindness.

• Zhang Yang combined the nine Trees of Life into a seed, which sprouted into a sentient tree that begged him not to sell it.
• Zhang Yang named the tree Xiao Zhi, and it promised to protect Blue Star and never leave Father God.
• Zhang Yang planted Xiao Zhi in the Elf Race's territory, where its roots spread across the Heavenly Mystery Continent and the Elves welcomed it.
• Zhang Yang brought two million Elves to Blue Star, and Xiao Zhi thanked Father God as the Elf Race, Dwarf Race, and Human Race praised him.
• Zhang Yang declared the World Tree a supreme treasure of Blue Star, then decided to ask Quark why he had helped him and appeared on the Starry Sky Virtual Platform.

Zhang Yang discovered that Quark was a vampire and learned that he had been enslaved by the Kua Lineage, which was preventing his advancement. Quark asked Zhang Yang to help him resist the Lineage, leaving Zhang Yang to decide whether to risk confronting a Level Four Civilization.

• Zhang Yang investigated elemental prices and rare divine cards, then realized Quark had quietly helped him before.
• The Foxwoman led Zhang Yang to Quark, whose vampire appearance startled him; Quark revealed that he administered the Local Interstellar Cloud.
• Quark explained that his real name was Nuglas V. K. and that Kuafu’s Kua Lineage had enslaved him under a contract with 125 million years remaining.
• Quark told Zhang Yang that he had supported him as an investment and asked him to help prevent the Lineage from enslaving him again.
• Zhang Yang returned to Blue Star without answering, while the Foxwoman asked whether they would report him if he refused; Quark remained silent.

Zhang Yang agreed to help Quark escape the threat of a level-four civilization, and Quark funded Blue Star’s development with valuable resources. Quark also explained how he had monitored Blue Star and revealed that it had already met the requirements to advance to a level-three civilization, leaving Zhang Yang ready to turn his new gains into strength.

• Zhang Yang initially hesitated to help Quark but changed his mind and promised to save him, even if it meant advancing Blue Star to level five.
• Quark brought Zhang Yang to his office and provided generous Series A funding for Blue Star.
• Quark explained why resources could not be transferred from level-three to level-two civilizations and how the Cosmic Elders Council guarded the Very Good Belt and its rewards.
• Quark recalled first noticing Blue Star during the age of giant beasts and described its rapid technological and combat-power growth.
• Quark revealed that Blue Star’s combat power had passed one hundred thousand and that it could advance to a level-three civilization, then explained the platform’s hidden-data rules.
• Zhang Yang realized Quark had secretly monitored Blue Star, gouged him as a vampire, and returned to develop Blue Star using his new resources.

Zhang Yang used dragon blood to evolve Blue Star’s animals into spirit beasts, then settled them on the uninhabited Sea-Listening Continent. He next sent a drop of dragon blood to a Velociraptor at the Qin Kingdom zoo.

• Quark used his stored resources and energy points to supply Zhang Yang, who exploited their exchange to leave with a large stockpile.
• Zhang Yang released 547 dragons into the Spatial Secret Realm and tested how dragon blood affected Blue Star’s animals.
• After centuries of accelerated time, many animals had gained magical abilities and learned to cultivate; the Titanoboa became intelligent white and green hui serpents named Little White and Little Green.
• Zhang Yang trained the spirit beasts against undead, and Little White became their leader.
• Zhang Yang moved the Sea-Listening Continent away from Blue Star’s mainland and sent the spirit beasts there to live on their own.
• Zhang Yang sent a drop of dragon blood to a Velociraptor at a zoo in the Qin Kingdom, where two visitors were touring.

Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao fought a Velociraptor that went berserk after Zhang Yang secretly infused it with Black Dragon Essence Blood, and both broke through to first grade Foundation Establishment. After their fight went viral, they headed to Chang'an to study cultivation before the continental student Martial Arts Tournament, while the Qin Kingdom achieved a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology.

• Zhang Yang used his Talent Detection card to discover that Lin Hao had S-rank talent and Cheng Yuan had A-rank talent, then sent Black Dragon Essence Blood to the Velociraptor they were riding.
• The Velociraptor went berserk, killed its tamer, and attacked Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao, who drew it away from the crowd and fought back with steel rebar.
• Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao worked together to bring down the Velociraptor, then both broke through to first grade Foundation Establishment.
• After police cordoned off the scene and footage of the fight spread across the country, Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao left for Chang'an to study cultivation and prepare for the continental student Martial Arts Tournament.
• Ten days later, as the provincial-level Martial Arts Tournament was about to begin, Ying Si announced the Qin Kingdom's breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology.

The Qin Kingdom’s scientists achieved controlled nuclear fusion with the machine race’s data, while new technologies and materials advanced rapidly. Meanwhile, Qin Ming’s squad explored the Sea-Listening Continent, where intelligent spirit beasts surrounded them and revealed that humans could understand Beast Speech.

• Ying Si’s research team successfully completed a controlled nuclear fusion experiment, and the Qin Kingdom’s scientific projects advanced with the machine race’s technology.
• The Qin Kingdom developed a superbrain chip, completed the mechanical heart, and began prioritizing nanoweapons, nanoarmor, and nanobugs.
• Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao received commendations for reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm, then visited the Immortal Stele of Enlightenment and met Zhang Han.
• Ying Zheng sent Qin Ming and an eight-person squad to investigate the Sea-Listening Continent after it moved and became invisible to satellites.
• The squad encountered intelligent spirit beasts, and the Qin Kingdom learned that the animals called themselves spirit beasts and spoke a language humans could understand.

Qin Ming met the Spirit Beasts on the Sea-Listening Continent, where Little White and Little Green revealed that they had become talking Flood Dragons after surviving tribulation lightning. Zhang Yang explained the new advancement rules and dragon transformation path, leaving over ten thousand creatures poised to undergo their own lightning trials.

• Qin Ming approached the Spirit Beasts with his hands raised and introduced himself as a human surveying the area.
• Little White and Little Green spoke human language and introduced themselves as Spirit Beasts, astonishing Qin Ming and the generals.
• Zhang Yang explained that Little White and Little Green had survived tribulation lightning and evolved into Flood Dragons after five hundred years of cultivation.
• Zhang Yang established tribulation lightning as a test for creatures breaking through cultivation bottlenecks and outlined the evolutionary path from serpents to Golden Dragons.
• Zhang Yang noted that Little White and Little Green had reached the first grade of the Golden Core Realm, while over ten thousand other creatures were ready for advancement trials.

Qin Ming and his squad began teaching Spirit Beasts on the Sea-Listening Continent while preparing for their tribulations, and the first World Martial Arts Tournament concluded with Cheng Yuan winning the student division. The tournament distributed Secret Realm Keys, and Qin Ming’s team watched another Spirit Beast undergo tribulation lightning.

• The organization ordered Qin Ming and his squad to serve as Beast Tutors and supplied them with teaching equipment and lightning rods as Spirit Beasts prepared to undergo tribulations.
• At the Ji Province student tournament, Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao staged an entertaining final that ended in a draw and joint first place.
• Ten days later, Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao competed in the Nine Provinces finals; Cheng Yuan took first place and Lin Hao finished third.
• Zhang Yang distributed three thousand Secret Realm Keys, and the Spatial Secret Realm was set to open in one month.
• On the Sea-Listening Continent, Qin Ming and his squad watched another Spirit Beast undergo tribulation and wondered how many there had been.

Zhang Yang’s specially created Four Divine Beasts underwent their tribulations, while the wider spirit-beast population suffered heavy losses. After the trials ended, Qin Ming proposed a sparring match with Little White to test the evolved beasts’ strength.

• Zhang Yang’s Grade D Gene Fusion card produced four special spirit-beast types based on the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, which he intended to become the founders of their lineages.
• The spirit beasts’ tribulations struck only those who met the conditions, and Ying Zheng ordered the trials broadcast across Blue Star after the skies cleared enough for satellites to see the Sea-Listening Continent.
• After twenty days, the tribulations ended with only 531 survivors among more than ten thousand spirit beasts, and the survivors displayed changes in form and strength.
• Qin Ming was ordered to test the evolved spirit beasts’ combat abilities, worried that their changed forms might mean changed temperaments.
• Qin Ming challenged Little White to a sparring match, and Little White calmly accepted.

Qin Ming and eight soldiers challenged Little White on a global broadcast, only to be effortlessly overwhelmed by her strength and playful flight. After Zhang Han identified the spirit beasts as likely Golden Core Realm allies, Qin Ming received a new mission a few days later.

• Qin Ming challenged Little White and was knocked back before he could react.
• Little White froze Qin Ming's Golden Serpent Strike with a glob of liquid, then agreed to face all nine men together.
• Little White grew to twenty-one meters, coiled around the soldiers, and carried them through the air until they were dizzy and vomiting.
• Little White declined help with the spirit beast corpses, and the beasts gathered to feast as the broadcast ended.
• Zhang Han told Ying Zheng that Little White and the spirit beasts were likely Golden Core Realm beings, and Ying Zheng considered their coexistence with humanity.
• A few days later, an organization gave Colonel Qin Ming a mission, and he cautiously asked for his orders.

After Qin Ming and his soldiers said goodbye to the spirit beasts, they learned that the beasts also had keys to the Spatial Secret Realm. Three days later, Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao entered the realm with a crowd of cultivators, carrying bags full of snacks to offer the spirit beasts.

• Qin Ming and his eight soldiers broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm after seven days of sparring with spirit beasts.
• Qin Ming learned that Little White and the other spirit beasts had 531 Spatial Secret Realm tokens, then left with his men by helicopter.
• Three days later, Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao traveled to the army camp for the secret realm's opening.
• Lin Hao suggested bringing snacks to win the spirit beasts' protection, and Cheng Yuan packed snacks too; Ye Fenglan mocked them, but other cultivators joined in and gave them snacks.
• When the countdown ended, Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao entered the Spatial Secret Realm through the giant spatial vortex.

After three years of rapid cultivation in the secret realm, its spiritual mist thinned and undead skeletons began attacking the cultivators. Lin Hao and Cheng Yuan headed south through growing numbers of skeletons, and Lin Hao landed at a lake to find water.

• Cheng Jun and Qin Ming entered the secret realm together, followed by Zhang Han and Ying Zheng with his subordinates, who carried keys bestowed by Father God.
• Lin Hao and the other newcomers found the dense spiritual energy safe enough to cultivate, while Little White searched the realm for a familiar figure before settling in a lake.
• During three years in the secret realm, the cultivators advanced to Foundation Establishment, and humans, elves, and dwarves developed new cultivation paths and professions.
• After the mist thinned, undead skeletons emerged from the depths and began attacking living cultivators.
• Lin Hao and Cheng Yuan flew south separately, fighting skeletons along the way; Lin Hao grew thirsty and descended toward a large lake.

Lin Hao and Cheng Yuan encountered Little White at a lake and won her favor by promising to cook her fish. As the Secret Realm grew more dangerous, Zhang Han broke through to the Golden Core Realm but was chased by undead knights, and only three people remained until the realm expelled all living creatures.

• Lin Hao bathed in the lake, and Little White secretly stabbed him with a water needle before revealing herself to him and Cheng Yuan.
• Lin Hao and Cheng Yuan called themselves Little White’s fans and promised to bring her food, but an Undead Mage destroyed their backpacks before Little White killed it.
• After tasting their grilled spirit fish, Little White asked Lin Hao and Cheng Yuan to cook for her every day, and they stayed by the lake until the Secret Realm closed.
• Zhang Han reached the Golden Core Realm and attacked the undead army, but five undead knights forced him to flee across the sky.
• As undead knights cleared the Secret Realm, Lin Hao and Cheng Yuan kept cooking for Little White while Zhang Han flew from his pursuers, until the realm expelled all living creatures at the last second.

After the spatial Secret Realm, Zhang Han shared the Golden Core Realm’s abilities before withdrawing to cultivate, while Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao reunited with Little White and later chose separate paths. Two hundred years passed, and Zhang Yang awoke to find Blue Star flourishing, though its spiritual energy was running low.

• Cheng Yuan, Lin Hao, and Zhang Han emerged from the space, and the Qin Kingdom announced the survivors and cultivation results.
• Zhang Han spoke publicly about the Golden Core Realm, visited the Immortal Stele of Enlightenment, and withdrew from the world to cultivate.
• Little White summoned Cheng Yuan and Lin Hao to the Sea-Listening Continent, where they spent five years catching fish for her before she sent them home.
• Cheng Yuan enlisted in the military, while Lin Hao became a university lecturer in Chang'an.
• Two hundred years later, Zhang Yang awoke, surveyed Blue Star, noted its low spiritual energy, and entered the Starry Sky Virtual Platform.

After more than two hundred years of growth, Blue Star had become crowded with people and Golden Core cultivators, and Zhang Yang prepared to advance toward the First Star Ring. Meanwhile, Ying Zheng weighed whether to relinquish his rule and pursue immortality, leaving Blue Star’s future government unresolved.

• Zhang Yang surveyed Blue Star in Year 283 of the Qin Era and judged its population and cultivation progress sufficient to pursue advancement into the Great Universe.
• Zhang Yang entered the Starry Sky Virtual Platform to speak with Quark and prepare a Star War before targeting the First Star Ring.
• Ying Zheng stood above Chang'an and considered whether to let his old friends retire and devote themselves to cultivation.
• Ying Zheng recalled how he and his allies founded Qin, unified Blue Star, and guided the Human Race through the age of cultivation.
• Ying Zheng weighed hereditary rule, abdication to a worthy successor, and his own desire for immortality, then returned to the imperial palace without deciding.

Zhang Yang secured Quark’s remaining energy points and returned to Blue Star, where he recognized that the Human Race’s desire to cultivate was weakening society and Ying Zheng’s authority. He met Ying Zheng in a dream and sent him a Divine Edict through the Jade Seal, leaving Ying Zheng inspired to lead the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty in service to Father God.

• Zhang Yang persuaded Quark to give him his last seven energy points, while Foxwoman worried that their Main Star still needed them.
• Zhang Yang considered how the Human Race’s pursuit of immortality and cultivation had disrupted society and left Ying Zheng without leverage over cultivators.
• Zhang Yang made Ying Zheng fall asleep and appeared to him as Father God, praising his work and listening to his grievances.
• Ying Zheng woke to find a Divine Edict merge into his Jade Seal, which granted him information and bore the words, “Mandated by Heaven, granted longevity and eternal prosperity!”
• Ying Zheng declared himself Emperor of the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty and vowed to die in service to Father God.

Ying Zheng learned that the Jade Seal granted officials fortune, Spirit Stones, and authority through imperial edicts, while karma punished wrongdoing. He summoned Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Shang Yang and gave them edicts to read, leaving them trembling as they discovered their contents.

• Ying Zheng learned that the Jade Seal let him appoint officials, issue law-bearing imperial edicts, and distribute fortune and monthly Spirit Stones according to rank.
• Ying Zheng understood that Blue Star’s fortune would grow with its prosperity, while karma would punish officials who committed wrongs or failed their duties.
• Zhang Yang reflected on the energy he had spent creating the paths of fortune and karma, then left with Xiao Mei’s medium spirit vein.
• Ying Zheng summoned Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Shang Yang to the palace as Blue Star faced scarce spiritual energy and a limit of eighty-one Human Race golden core cultivators.
• Ying Zheng tossed each of the three men an imperial edict and told them to read it before deciding whether to return to their duties.
• Shang Yang, Bai Qi, and Wang Jian opened the edicts, and their hands began to tremble as they read.

Blue Star completed years of preparations for Star War, and Zhang Yang finally secured a match against the Werewolf Race. The Human Race sent a mechanical legion through the Star Gate, while satellites began transmitting views of the opposing planet.

• Ying Zheng, Bai Qi, Wang Jian, Shang Yang, and senior Qin officials devised and implemented sweeping military and economic reforms, including Spirit Stone salaries and fortune bonuses.
• Blue Star’s military, associations, and academies prepared for war as its forty-five military districts conducted drills and distributed new technology.
• Zhang Yang challenged the top twenty races for five years, but every race rejected him until the Werewolf Race accepted in the sixth year.
• A Star Gate formed east of the Firmament Continent, and Ying Zheng ordered the Dwarf Race and Elf Race to stand by while the Human Race handled the battle.
• The 346th Mechanical Legion entered the Star Gate under the direction of 108 personnel in a Tactical Command Capsule.
• Communications and surveillance satellites rose above the opposing planet and began sending panoramic images back to Blue Star.

Zhang Yang’s mechanical army defeated the Werewolf Race after seven days and nights of battle, and the Qin Kingdom took control of the planet. He gained the Werewolf Altar and continued issuing challenges, until a new Star War began twenty years later against the Goblin Race.

• The Werewolf Race sent wild wolves and warriors against five hundred thousand robots, but the machines blocked their magic and fought back with coordinated laser fire and Lightsabers.
• The Wolf King Tribe’s howls empowered the werewolves, who tore through the robot ranks, but wave after wave of reinforcements emerged from the Star Gate.
• After seven days and nights, the robots crossed the battlefield and forced the surviving werewolves to retreat to Wolf King Valley while human cultivators entered the planet.
• The werewolf Star Lord ordered a final attack, but a human cultivator’s flying Precious Sword split the transformed wolf king in two.
• One year later, Zhang Yang ended the war, converted the opposing deity into energy points, and gained a Level 4 Werewolf Altar, which he placed on Blue Star.
• Zhang Yang continued challenging other Star Lords, and twenty years later a new Star War began between the Human Race and the Goblin Race.

Zhang Yang watched the Qin Kingdom use satellite-class plasma orbital cannons to wipe out the Goblin Planet’s forces, securing an easy victory for Blue Star. After earning 86,516 Energy Points and selling the Goblin Totem, he saw Blue Star continue launching offensives over the following century.

• Reconnaissance satellites revealed the Goblin Planet’s enormous population, tribal warfare, and enslaved pig-headed people and Wind Elves.
• The command center authorized the Satellite-Class Plasma Pulse Orbital Cannon, and three aerospace carriers transported the weapons to the Star Gate while the Mechanical Legion guarded it.
• As the Star War began, the three satellites struck and erased Goblin kings, knights, shamans, and other creatures across the planet.
• Three years later, Zhang Yang received 66,516 Energy Points and the Goblin Totem, which he sold for another 20,000 Energy Points.
• Over the next hundred-odd years, Blue Star launched repeated offensives and continued rising in rank.