Chapter Summaries

A fleet of cultivators fell prey to a hallucination-inducing planet, and the Great Tang Third Space Fleet rescued those still in space before attacking the planet and driving off its insects. Xue Wanche then led the fleet onward, witnessing a distant planet shatter after a meteor strike.

• Dozens of ships landed on a planet that appeared beautiful, but its illusions drove the cultivators to kill one another while insects devoured them and their vessels.
• A Nascent Soul Realm cultivator regained his senses, identified the planet as a Weird Planet, and sent a highest-level distress signal.
• The Second Squadron of the Great Tang Third Space Fleet answered and dispatched a thirty-six-warship fleet led by Xue Wanche.
• True Person Li recited the Purifying Heart Mantra through the ships' communications, freeing many cultivators from the illusions, while some ships had already landed on the planet.
• Xue Wanche ordered ten thousand Planet-Killer Cannons to bombard the planet, forcing the insects to flee into space before the fleet withdrew.
• As Xue Wanche led the fleet onward, the crew saw a meteor strike and shatter a distant planet.

As Ying Si's lifespan ended, Ying Zheng mourned his brother and asked Black and White Impermanence to care for him in the Underworld. The two Yin Deities revealed that Ying Si's arrival had a special purpose, then escorted him to meet the King of Hell.

• Ying Si, unable to advance beyond ninth-grade Foundation Establishment despite trying many cultivation paths and lifespan-extending treasures, told Ying Zheng he was ready for reincarnation.
• Black and White Impermanence arrived to collect Ying Si's soul, and Ying Zheng asked them to look after his brother in the Underworld.
• Black and White Impermanence privately explained Ying Si's situation to Ying Zheng, who responded by ordering temples and offerings built for the Yin Deities.
• Black and White Impermanence happily escorted Ying Si through the Underworld and brought him toward the King of Hell's Hall.
• Black and White Impermanence told the nervous Ying Si that he would be family with them from then on, leaving him embarrassed and confused.

Ying Si became the Underworld’s reform designer, negotiated the Deity-Summoning Method for the Human Realm, and began planning the Underworld’s technological overhaul. After a century of interstellar exploration, Zhang Yang hurried toward Quark’s star system because a new faction threatened to take over the Local Interstellar Cloud and force Quark into a new Contract.

• The Ten Great Yama Kings explained the Underworld’s need for reform and persuaded Ying Si to become its chief designer instead of reincarnating.
• Ying Si reunited with Ying Zheng and secured Human Realm support for the Underworld in exchange for the Deity-Summoning Method.
• Ying Si completed his ghost body and the Underworld’s overall design blueprint over three years, while the two realms prepared to exchange resources and develop together.
• Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian founded the famous interstellar adventuring groups Shu, Wei, and Wu as cultivators explored space for a century.
• Zhang Yang spent ten million energy points to activate the Star Anchor’s interstellar jump and hurried toward Quark’s star system after learning that a new faction threatened the Kuafu Lineage’s control of the Local Interstellar Cloud.

Zhang Yang brought Blue Star to a battle among dozens of planets and ordered maximum combat readiness while Blue Star’s factions prepared for war. After deciding to rob every planet involved, he waited until the battle ended and prepared contract scrolls, leaving Blue Star poised to attack.

• Zhang Yang jumped Blue Star to a region where dozens of planets were fighting over a treasure and ordered the planet into maximum combat readiness.
• Blue Star’s dynasties, factions, spirit beasts, and Underworld forces prepared for battle under their previously agreed arrangements, with the Qin Kingdom defending the home base.
• Zhang Yang told the Vampire Star Lord that they would rob every planet in the battlefield and ordered the viscounts and higher-ranked vampires to fight alongside the Human Race.
• Blue Star stopped twenty thousand light-years from the battlefield as ships from the other factions monitored and warned it.
• Zhang Yang bought over a hundred contract scrolls while the factions fought, then waited until one planet claimed the treasure and the fighting subsided before preparing to act.

Zhang Yang launched Blue Star’s fleet against a Beast Race civilization while Laozi’s strikes cowed the surrounding Star Lords. After Blue Star seized control of the skies and deployed its Robot Legions, Zhang Yang offered to talk as the enemy’s main star lay under siege.

• Zhang Yang used Space Jump to bring Blue Star’s fleet near the enemy main star and declare war, launching a surprise assault alongside the two Great Han Dynasties.
• Laozi rode the Azure Ox to several nearby planets, killed their strongest creatures in decapitation strikes, and forced the surrounding Star Lords to pull back their fleets.
• Blue Star’s dynasties divided their attacks among the enemy main star and four satellite planets, destroying battleships and bombarding the Beast Race’s worlds.
• The enemy Star Lord admitted defeat and offered treasure and compensation, but Zhang Yang ignored the offer and intensified the attack.
• Blue Star secured air superiority, advanced War Fortresses toward the main star, and released its Robot Legions to surround the Beast Race forces.
• With the Beast Race’s main star encircled, Zhang Yang asked its Star Lord to talk.

Zhang Yang subdued the Star Lords around him with thirty-billion-year Enslavement Contracts, claimed a Cosmic Wonder Fragment, and destroyed one planet after its Star Lord refused to submit. He continued demanding the remaining Star Lords’ allegiance while misleading them about Blue Star’s strength.

• Zhang Yang offered the Beast Race Star Lord a thirty-billion-year Enslavement Contract, and the Star Lord signed it along with the rulers of its subordinate planets and Vampire One Planet.
• Zhang Yang received a Cosmic Wonder Fragment and added the Beast Race planet to Blue Star’s subordinate planets, bringing the total to six.
• Zhang Yang sent the Human Race fleet back to Blue Star, then ordered a new fleet and cultivators to attack a Star Lord who had three subordinate planets.
• After the targeted planet’s defenses collapsed, Zhang Yang ignored its Star Lord’s pleas and killed him, leaving the planet a Wasteland Planet.
• Zhang Yang offered thirty-four more Enslavement Contracts, and one Star Lord signed when Blue Star’s warships aimed at the nearest planet.
• Zhang Yang publicly said he had seven subordinate planets, and the Star Lords mistakenly assumed he meant more than seven hundred.

Zhang Yang brought Blue Star’s satellite planets to forty and established trade and exchange systems to accelerate development across the faction. As Blue Star prospered, he awarded the Cosmic Wonder Fragment to Laozi, who had helped in the battle.

• The Star Lords signed Enslavement Contracts, raising Blue Star’s satellite planets to forty and adding two million annual energy points.
• Zhang Yang let the satellite planets recover before dispersing them, then set up trade through Blue Star’s virtual platform and added an energy-to-Blue Star Coin exchange.
• Blue Star’s people traded technology, books, food, and other goods with the satellite planets, while the visitors were captivated by Blue Star’s culture and abundance.
• Zhang Yang gave the Cosmic Wonder Fragment to Laozi in recognition of his contribution and to strengthen the Human Race.

Laozi created Blue Star’s first cosmic-grade magical treasure, the Taiji Diagram, while Zhang Yang organized Blue Star’s subordinate planets for interstellar expansion. The chapter ended as Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Liu Bei built power on neighboring planets and their Star Lords spotted a passing planet to capture.

• Laozi contemplated yin and yang, forged the Taiji Diagram from a Cosmic Wonder Fragment, and merged it into his body.
• Zhang Yang gathered the forty Star Lords, set rules for planetary missions and advancement, and sent qualified subordinate planets out in groups of three.
• Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism sent disciples to subordinate planets, where their competition for followers escalated into a struggle for faith.
• Buddhism persuaded Star Lords to support it in battle, while other human sects and prodigies also sought influence on subordinate planets.
• Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian developed empires on nearby planets, and their three Star Lords spotted a passing planet and prepared for action.

Zhang Yang built Blue Star’s faction to eighty-eight subordinate planets while traveling toward Quark’s planet, but a hostile Star Lord named Man Huang advanced with 175 planets to attack them. Blue Star’s forces formed the Star War Eight Formation Diagram as the two factions prepared for battle.

• Star Lord Mu Yin surrounded an opposing Star Lord with three planets, and Zhang Yang sent three more planets as reinforcements until the Star Lord signed a thirty-billion-year Enslavement Contract.
• Blue Star’s faction traveled onward through cosmic dangers, growing to fifty-eight subordinate planets while Zhang Yang accumulated 33.41 million energy points.
• Two hundred years later, Zhang Yang remained eighty-seven million light-years from his destination, and his faction had grown to eighty-eight subordinate planets.
• Zhang Yang detected Man Huang approaching with 175 planets and ordered Blue Star’s forces into combat readiness and a rehearsed layered retreat.
• Man Huang ordered his planets to pursue and enslave Blue Star’s Main Star, while Blue Star’s subordinate planets assembled around it in the Star War Eight Formation Diagram.

Blue Star’s forces defended the Eight Formation Diagram against Man Huang’s larger army, fighting a space war that turned into brutal battles across the first and second star chains. The enemy failed to reach the third line, while Liu Bei and Cao Cao continued fighting on neighboring planets.

• The Heavenly Dao assigned Blue Star’s factions to three defensive star chains, and their armies deployed throughout Laozi’s Eight Formation Diagram.
• Blue Star and Man Huang’s forces exchanged fire for three years, with the formation and supply routes gradually giving Blue Star a slight advantage.
• Man Huang ordered his warships to advance, and his vassal forces charged through the bombardment to land on Blue Star’s outer planets.
• The armies clashed across planets in the first and second star chains as the enemy sought to seize territory and uproot planets, but Blue Star’s defenses kept them from reaching the third line.
• Liu Bei fought Vampire Race members on a Beast Race planet, while Cao Cao charged at towering treefolk on a neighboring planet.

Cao Cao and the human cultivators fought the invading other races as reinforcements poured onto the battlefield. After Little Black sacrificed himself to save Cao Cao, Cao Cao prepared to detonate his nascent soul, but a burly man rushed to his aid.

• Cao Cao burned and split a Tree Spirit with help from the Black Dragon, then moved to another part of the battlefield.
• Hua Xiong detonated his golden core to blast a vampire and a Tiger Spirit away, and Jueyuan tore the wounded enemies apart before a Vampire Duke killed him.
• Cao Cao fought enemy dragons alongside Little Black, but the dragons killed his mount after Little Black shielded him from a Silver Dragon's fatal strike.
• Cao Cao battered a Black Dragon with his broken sword and fists until he was thrown off and surrounded by enemy dragons.
• Cao Cao prepared to detonate his nascent soul, but a burly man rushed over.

Dian Wei rescued Cao Cao while Sun Jian received reinforcements, but Blue Star's subordinate planets remained in danger as Wells darkened the battlefield. Buddhist disciples summoned Tathagata, whose scriptures and golden palm defeated the invading forces, making Buddhism's power known across the region; the Daoist Sect then refused to be outdone.

• Dian Wei stopped Cao Cao from self-detonating, bound him to his back, and flew to attack the Black Dragons while Cao Cao recovered his strength.
• Sun Jian was overwhelmed by the Bear Race until Gan Xingba, Lu Meng, Taishi Ci, and Zhou Tai arrived to protect him.
• Wells cast Moonshadow Realm, weakening human vision and giving enemy forces the advantage across Blue Star's subordinate planets.
• Buddhist disciples summoned Tathagata's golden body, whose scriptures turned enemies against one another and caused weaker aliens to dissipate.
• Tathagata struck Wells with a golden palm, killing him and the surrounding aliens while leaving Blue Star's forces unharmed.
• Buddhism's name spread across the region as the same intervention occurred on other planets, and the Daoist Sect refused to be outdone.

Zhang Jue and the Great Peace Teaching fought a Ghost Emperor on Mu Yin Planet, using a blood-fueled lightning Daoist art at great cost. As Zhang Jue prepared to sacrifice himself and his disciples, a mysterious Daoist arrived and healed him.

• Zhang Jue led over a hundred thousand Great Peace Teaching disciples in a battle on Mu Yin Planet, using mist, storms, and lightning to aid the Starfolk.
• A Ghost Emperor attacked Zhang Jue with the Vengeful God Curse and summoned a hundred Nascent Soul Realm ghosts to overwhelm the Daoists.
• Zhang Jue and his disciples used their blood essence to form a blood-red lightning strike, and Zhang Jue spent his heart's blood to strengthen it.
• The Ghost Emperor split the lightning with Ghost God Claw, devastating the battlefield, then sent the hundred ghosts after Zhang Jue and his followers.
• Zhang Jue and his disciples resolved to die fighting, and Zhang Jue prepared to detonate his Nascent Soul before a yellow-robed Daoist descended and healed him.

Zhang Daoling revealed that Zhang Jue was his junior brother and used Daoist incense to summon the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox Yun Qingmo to help fight the Ghost Emperors. As more Ghosts rushed toward Mu Yin Star, Zhang Daoling stayed behind to face them while Zhang Jue evacuated the other living beings.

• Zhang Daoling told Zhang Jue that Laozi had sent him and that the man who took Zhang Jue as a disciple had been one of Laozi’s incarnations.
• Two more Ghost Emperors arrived on Mu Yin Star and helped Ghost Three recover, leaving Zhang Daoling and Zhang Jue facing three powerful enemies.
• Zhang Daoling used a Deity-Summoning Talisman and golden incense to summon Yun Qingmo, who absorbed the offerings and agreed to help.
• Yun Qingmo’s past encounter with Laozi was revealed: she had signed a contract to become one of Daoism’s Faith-Protecting Immortal Beasts.
• The Ghost Emperors summoned further reinforcements, so Zhang Daoling ordered the living beings to evacuate and told Zhang Jue to lead them to fight on other planets.
• Zhang Daoling remained on Mu Yin Star to face the Ghost Emperors, taking out five more sticks of golden incense as Yun Qingmo stared at them in amazement.

Zhang Daoling summoned the Four Sacred Beasts, who joined the White Fox in battling Man Huang’s Ghost Emperors on Mu Yin Planet. As reinforcements from both sides turned the planet into a massive showdown, Man Huang unleashed his hidden force of Space Battleships and nearly a hundred deity transformation cultivators.

• Zhang Daoling summoned the Four Sacred Beasts with golden incense, and they attacked the three Ghost Emperors while the White Fox intercepted their rescuers.
• Zhang Daoling used the Five Thunders from Heaven to distract the Ghost Emperors, allowing the Four Sacred Beasts to wound and then kill them.
• Man Huang and Zhang Yang sent more cultivators and spirit beasts to Mu Yin Planet, where Xiang Yu, Han Xin, Bai Qi, and other powerful figures joined the expanding battle.
• The White Fox revealed nine tails and fought alongside Zhang Daoling, hoping to earn a fearsome reputation and be summoned more often.
• Man Huang noticed Blue Star could no longer send fresh experts and ordered all his forces to attack, sending out Space Battleships concealing nearly a hundred deity transformation cultivators.

Man Huang’s concealed spacecraft broke through the Qin Kingdom’s defenses and brought a Myriad Races invasion force to Blue Star, where Laozi and other powerful humans were waiting. The battle began with Laozi repelling an Immortal Race expert and Little White killing a Golden Holy Dragon, whose body fell toward a human city.

• Zhang Yang ordered his army to stop enemy warships from reaching Blue Star while allowing top-tier experts to pass through.
• Man Huang’s concealed spacecraft slipped past the defenses, accelerated away from the fleet, and entered Blue Star.
• The spacecraft’s crew opened fire on Blue Star, but Laozi’s Taiji Diagram blocked the attacks.
• Laozi summoned Tathagata, Kong Qiu, the five figures from Firecloud Cave, and Little White as the Myriad Races forces emerged to attack.
• Laozi repelled an Immortal Race expert, then helped Little White kill a Golden Holy Dragon, which fell toward a human city.

Blue Star’s forces fought the invading Myriad Races across the planet, but the battle reached Peach Immortal University when Bai Muyin was mortally wounded and Lin Hao was badly injured. Cheng Yuan arrived and rushed to help, while Lin Hao’s fate remained uncertain.

• City Gods, Earth Gods, and Underworld forces joined the battle, shielding mortals as Blue Star’s cultivators and spirit beasts drove the aliens back.
• Lin Hao led Peach Immortal University’s teachers against Nascent Soul Realm enemies while Bai Muyin supported them with magic.
• A Deity Transformation Realm Beast King attacked Bai Muyin, killed a charging student, and wounded her; Lin Hao fought back but was thrown aside.
• Ying Zheng killed an undead knight and engaged the Beast King, while Lin Hao crawled toward Bai Muyin through the battlefield.
• Cheng Yuan arrived and tried to save Lin Hao, who pleaded with him to save Bai Muyin before passing out; Cheng Yuan hurried to her.

Cheng Yuan tried to save the fallen defenders as Blue Star’s forces drove back the foreign races, while Confucius summoned Chiyou and his eighty-one brothers to fight. The battle began turning in Blue Star’s favor across its subordinate planets.

• The Beast King shattered Bai Muyin’s qi sea, and Cheng Yuan captured her soul in a Soul-Nourishing Bottle before rushing to aid Fatty.
• Blue Star’s Mortal Realm and Underworld forces pursued the fleeing foreign cultivators, while Black and White Impermanence destroyed a Ghost King.
• Confucius summoned Chiyou, who returned as a Ghost Cultivator and asked him to bring back his eighty-one brothers.
• Confucius’s poem summoned Chiyou’s eighty-one warriors, and Chiyou led them into battle against the foreign races.
• Zhang Yang observed that Blue Star’s subordinate planets were gaining the upper hand, and their Deity Transformation Cultivators began supporting nearby worlds.

Blue Star’s reinforcements turned the battle on Mu Yin Star, and Zhang Yang forced Man Huang to surrender, securing victory for Blue Star. After the fighting stopped, Zhang Yang sent Enslavement Contracts to the opposing Star Lords, leaving Man Huang wondering whether following him might lead to greater heights.

• Zhang Han fought three Deity Transformation Realm cultivators with Mount Shu Swordsmanship, killed one, and Taotie swallowed the enemy’s fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Reinforcements from Blue Star’s subordinate planets arrived on Mu Yin Star, shifting the battle in Blue Star’s favor, while Laozi captured the enemy spaceship with a Taiji Diagram.
• Zhang Yang demanded Man Huang surrender and accept thirty billion years of enslavement, warning that he would otherwise be killed after the war.
• Man Huang surrendered and issued Divine Edicts ordering his forces to stop fighting, after which Zhang Yang declared Blue Star victorious.
• Zhang Yang sent 175 Enslavement Contracts to the opposing Star Lords, and Man Huang wondered whether following him could help him advance further.

Man Huang tore up Zhang Yang’s Enslavement Contract, then chose to sign a permanent one and transferred eighty planets to Blue Star. Zhang Yang expanded Blue Star’s laws and rewarded its warriors, while Man Huang watched 134 planets approach and thought his scheme had succeeded.

• Man Huang tore up the Contract and asked to sign a permanent one so he could advance alongside Zhang Yang.
• Man Huang ordered eighty planets to join Blue Star, while the remaining Star Lords kept their Contracts unsigned.
• Man Huang declared the battle a draw and left with his remaining planets after Zhang Yang told him to get lost.
• Zhang Yang incorporated useful laws from Blue Star’s subordinate planets and explained how he controlled merit and karma.
• Zhang Yang distributed merit and energy fluid to Blue Star’s warriors, while subordinate planets’ Star Lords received reduced enslavement terms.
• Man Huang saw 134 planets approaching and thought the fish had taken the bait.