Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan confronted Pang Yan over their connection through Madman, then demanded the White Tiger Pearl from Han Shan at the Unity Banquet. As Pang Yan began to anticipate the battle at Two Mountains, Li Qingshan suddenly self-destructed.

• Li Qingshan revealed that Madman was his teacher and pointed out that Pang Yan bore the hatred of a slain father.
• Li Qingshan entered the inner courtyard and told Han Shan he had come to reclaim the White Tiger Pearl.
• Han Shan unleashed Myriad Swords Overwhelming Heaven and threatened to behead Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan demanded the pearl, and Han Shan revealed it in his hand.
• Pang Yan declared his interest in the battle at Two Mountains, but Li Qingshan's body erupted with bloody holes and blazing light as he self-destructed.

Li Qingshan repeatedly resurrected through Star Origin Power and killed Han Shan, Nan Jianyang, Ling Siyuan, Fu Yu, and Pang Yan’s apparent corpse during the Unity Banquet. Pang Yan revealed that the banquet was a trap powered by the Evil Lord, and in a consciousness space he planned to merge with Li Qingshan and take his identity; Li Qingshan challenged him to endure his Path of Origin.

• Li Qingshan used the Blood Burning Sacred Method to kill Han Shan, then reappeared through Star Origin Power.
• Li Qingshan killed Nan Jianyang, Ling Siyuan, and Fu Yu with repeated self-destruction and resurrection.
• Li Qingshan beheaded Pang Yan, but realized the corpse was not really Pang Yan because it did not turn to ash or grant experience.
• Pang Yan revealed that he had submitted to the Evil Lord, and the manor’s figures trapped the Human Ranking prodigies in a consciousness space.
• Pang Yan explained that he had devoured nine people and intended to replace Li Qingshan, but Li Qingshan invited him to walk his Path of Origin.

Li Qingshan and Pang Yan clashed through each other’s memories, with Li Qingshan remaining unmoved by Pang Yan’s painful childhood. As Pang Yan began experiencing Li Qingshan’s youth, he guessed that Li Qingshan had gained a Heaven-Shaking Opportunity, while Li Qingshan insisted he had advanced step by step.

• Li Qingshan witnessed Pang Yan’s birth and saw Li Hongwu kill Pang Xiu after rejecting the name she gave their son.
• Pang Yan mocked Li Qingshan for being grateful that Madman killed Li Hongwu and destroyed the Black Dragon Gang, but Li Qingshan admitted his earlier assumptions had been mistaken.
• Pang Yan experienced Li Qingshan’s memories of leaving the Public Rearing Center at fifteen and wondered why Li Qingshan was frail and untrained.
• Li Qingshan realized Pang Yan could not see his pre-transmigration memories or his Status Panel, and he watched Pang Yan struggle to understand the Outer World.
• Pang Yan concluded that Li Qingshan’s rise came from a Heaven-Shaking Opportunity, and Li Qingshan confirmed the opportunity existed but said he had progressed step by step.

Li Qingshan forced Pang Yan to relive the repeated deaths that had forged his path, then urged him to imagine a greater purpose than simply becoming stronger. After Pang Yan’s consciousness collapsed, Li Qingshan rejected and destroyed the Evil God’s jade treasure, earning a massive increase to his Martial Arts Space experience and available time.

• Pang Yan watched the young Li Qingshan repeatedly enter the Martial Arts Space and die to Wolf Poison, while Li Qingshan revealed that he had died about ten thousand times to achieve victory.
• Li Qingshan challenged Pang Yan to seek revenge on Li Hongwu and even consider reviving his mother, but Pang Yan’s consciousness collapsed at the thought.
• Li Qingshan returned to the consciousness space and recognized the crystalline jade treasure left behind by Pang Yan as a possible source of increased comprehension.
• Li Qingshan used purple lightning to expose the jade treasure’s bloody light, and an aged voice urged him to swallow it and become a Child of the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Qingshan rejected the offer, destroyed the jade treasure, and received a Kill Notification granting 200,000 Martial Arts Space Experience and 200,000 years of available time.

Li Qingshan killed Pang Yan and escaped the manor’s Evil God trap, then searched Pang Yan’s room and found evidence that a Blood Robe Divine Statue had been hidden there. The Evil Lord’s references to a Child of the Heavenly Dao and uniting with the Dao reminded Li Qingshan of cultivation novels from his past life.

• The bloodlight and strange patterns vanished, revealing Li Qingshan standing over Han Shan’s corpse with a blood-covered bead in hand.
• Li Qingshan told Tian Qingchuan and the other Human Ranking prodigies that Pang Yan had been dealt with, and explained that the grinning Jianghu folk and maids were Puppets on a String.
• The puppets declared that they would meet Li Qingshan again, then shattered into ashes and smoke as he agreed to a future encounter.
• Li Qingshan put on an azure robe in Pang Yan’s room and found an empty hidden compartment bearing the indentation of a Blood Robe Divine Statue.
• Li Qingshan wondered about the Evil Lord’s references to a Child of the Heavenly Dao and uniting with the Dao, recognizing both ideas from cultivation novels he had read before transmigrating.

Li Qingshan used the White Tiger Pearl to complete the Nine Revolutions of Limit Breaking and opened all Nine Apertures, drawing attention from powerful figures across the realm. As those figures sensed his breakthrough, Lin Haochuan wondered whether Senior Brother had succeeded.

• Li Qingshan swallowed the White Tiger Pearl and crushed the Wind Fiend White Tiger’s remnant soul, completing the Nine Revolutions of Limit Breaking.
• Li Qingshan shattered his thousand false apertures and opened all Nine Apertures, sensing the stars without the Status Panel for the first time.
• Figures in the seven Star Academies sensed nine rays of starlight entering the shadow over the Crimson Rainbow Starfield and recognized the return of the Nine Revolutions Ascending to Heaven legend.
• Old Daoist Tianji realized that Pang Yan’s death had likely caused the Resurgence Node to collapse and turned his attention westward.
• Long Yeyun and Lin Haochuan also sensed the dense Star Origin Power, and Lin Haochuan wondered whether Senior Brother had succeeded.

Li Qingshan drew down nine beams of ancient Star Origin Power and completed his breakthrough to Awakened, reaching 9000/10000 progress as his apertures expanded. He emerged far stronger and planned to keep training until Heavenly Phenomenon Seven Methods was complete.

• At the Magic Flame Sect, Shi Zhenghong and two elders saw the nine beams of starlight and discussed the Two Mountains battle and Pang Yan's hoped-for rise.
• At the oasis, the Human Ranking prodigies watched the starlight engulf Li Qingshan's room and realized he was breaking through.
• Li Qingshan absorbed the starlight as his Nine Apertures expanded and his Status Panel advanced to Awakened 9000/10000.
• Li Qingshan tested the inky-black lightning in his palm and judged he could kill Nan Jianyang without using the Blood Burning Sacred Method.
• Li Qingshan noted that completing Heavenly Phenomenon Seven Methods would let him achieve Heavenly Human Unity and resolved to work harder.

After killing Pang Yan, Li Qingshan faced Shi Zhenghong, Pang Yan’s teacher, and forced him to back down by accusing the Magic Flame Sect of responsibility for the Unity Banquet deaths. Li Qingshan left the oasis with the Human Ranking prodigies and promised Tian Qingchuan and Qiao Jingxing that he would help them get revenge.

• Li Qingshan emerged from seclusion after making a breakthrough and sensed the approaching Magic Flame Sect.
• Shi Zhenghong arrived in black-red flames and demanded to know what had happened to Pang Yan.
• Li Qingshan declared that Pang Yan had defected to the Evil God and been killed, then demanded an explanation from the Magic Flame Sect on behalf of the Jianghu.
• Shi Zhenghong suppressed his anger and let the Human Ranking prodigies leave, but threatened to avenge his disciple; Li Qingshan challenged him and alluded to Shen Lingyun.
• Li Qingshan joined the prodigies outside the oasis and told Qiao Jingxing that Shi Zhenghong could not keep him.
• Li Qingshan promised Tian Qingchuan and Qiao Jingxing that he would help them get revenge.

Li Qingshan’s allies traveled toward the wasteland’s edge while Old Daoist Tianji arrived at Seven Stars Sect with his disciple Xingyun. Tianji confirmed Li Qingshan’s victory and warned that the Ling Tian Sect had sent Ding Cheng, but assured Long Yeyun that Li Qingshan would return safely.

• Li Qingshan considered the people he had met and resolved to prevent their deaths from becoming lasting regrets as his group flew across the wasteland.
• Liu Licheng escorted Old Daoist Tianji and Xingyun to meet Long Yeyun at Seven Stars Sect.
• Tianji told Long Yeyun that Han Shan was dead and Li Qingshan had achieved Nine Revolutions Ascending to Heaven.
• Tianji explained that Li Qingshan might be the only chance to break the Great Calamity and asked to wait at the sect for his return.
• Tianji revealed that Ding Cheng had also left Ling Tian Sect, shocking Long Yeyun, then assured him Li Qingshan would return safely.
• Xingyun wrote “Yama Undying” on the stone table after Tianji hinted that he had postponed changing the Three Rankings.

Long Yeyun investigated why Ling Tian Sect had sent Ding Cheng after Li Qingshan and ordered Liu Licheng to seek the Gengchen Secret Order. As Li Qingshan returned to West Desert Town, he escaped Ding Cheng’s ambush by repeatedly blowing himself up, while the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s rankings suddenly updated.

• Long Yeyun told Liu Licheng to return to Star Academy and request that the Seven Deans open the Gengchen Secret Order.
• Several days later, the returning Human Ranking prodigies approached West Desert Town, where Jianghu folk waited for news of the Unity Banquet and the Battle of Two Mountains.
• Li Qingshan sensed an ambush by Ding Cheng, Xiao Baohe, and Shao Yue, then repeatedly blew himself up and reappeared farther away to escape.
• Tong Ming and Yu Jing emerged from the sand, realized Li Qingshan had escaped, and decided to report Ding Cheng’s presence to Seven Stars Sect.
• The prodigies reached West Desert Town as a Blind Old Daoist appeared and vanished unnoticed, and a bystander cried that the Three Rankings had updated.

The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion ranked Li Qingshan first on the Earth Ranking and revealed how he survived the Unity Banquet and escaped an ambush by Ling Tian Sect Celestials. As Jianghu feared a new conflict between the great sects, Lin Haochuan wondered whether his senior brother’s breakthrough meant Li Qingshan was dead.

• The updated rankings omitted Han Shan, Li Qingshan, and Pang Yan from the Human Ranking, until Qiao Jingxing announced that Li Qingshan was first on the Earth Ranking.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion described Li Qingshan’s self-destructive technique and Endless Vitality, then reported that he had killed Han Shan, Nan Jianyang, two Ling Tian Sect Grandmasters, and Pang Yan at the Unity Banquet.
• The Pavilion revealed that Xiao Baohe, Shao Yue, and Ding Cheng had ambushed Li Qingshan on his return, but he escaped; Ding Cheng appeared as eighth on the Heaven Ranking.
• Jianghu observers worried that the Ling Tian Sect’s attack on Li Qingshan would provoke a wider conflict with the Seven Stars Sect.
• At Ten-Thousand-Zhang Mountain, Lin Haochuan stood before his younger brother Lin Hong’s grave and asked whether his senior brother’s breakthrough meant the Little Madman was dead.

After Li Qingshan survived the ambush, Ren Fanyu revealed to Lin Haochuan that the Ling Tian Sect could no longer endure under the rules imposed by its enemies and proposed exchanging the Crimson Rainbow Continent’s ruling order for a new one. Lin Haochuan accepted the Evil Lord’s terms and summoned the sect’s hidden predecessors to emerge.

• A black-robed disciple reported that Li Qingshan had survived, killed Martial Uncle Han and other disciples, and escaped the ambush, while Elder Ding had risen to eighth on the Heaven Ranking.
• Ren Fanyu told Lin Haochuan that he had sent Ding Cheng and argued that the times had changed, prompting him to explain the possibility of moving to a vast new world called the Canglan Realm.
• Ren Fanyu revealed that the Evil Lord was a cultivator from the Canglan Realm whose disciple had been slain by Feng Boyong, and that the Evil Lord offered a new world in exchange for the sect’s help changing the Crimson Rainbow Continent’s ruling order.
• Lin Haochuan reflected on his brother’s death and the Ling Tian Sect’s past submission to its enemies, then decided the sect could not let Li Qingshan become another Sword God.
• Lin Haochuan summoned the Ling Tian Sect’s hidden predecessors, and countless swords rose above the mountains in response.

Li Qingshan returned to Seven Stars City and joined Long Yeyun to hear Old Daoist Tianji discuss the Great Calamity. He learned that the First Dean’s Gengchen Secret Order was about to be opened, while Liu Licheng reached the seven Star Academy Deans to request its release.

• Long Yeyun ordered his disciple to keep watching the Ling Tian Sect, then saw a flash of light before Li Qingshan arrived in the courtyard.
• Li Qingshan told Long Yeyun how he had escaped Outer Scenery Experts by repeatedly detonating himself, and learned Old Daoist Tianji had been waiting for him.
• Young Taoist Xingyun summoned Long Yeyun and Li Qingshan to discuss the Great Calamity, and Long Yeyun warned Li Qingshan not to take Tianji’s words too seriously.
• Long Yeyun revealed that Liu Licheng had returned to request the opening of the First Dean’s Gengchen Secret Order, prompting Li Qingshan to recall that Gengchen preceded the current era by twelve eras.
• Liu Licheng appeared before the seven Star Academy Deans and formally requested that they open the Gengchen Secret Order.

Li Qingshan and Long Yeyun learned that Old Daoist Tianji’s foretold calamity was the Spirit Taming Evil Lord, while the Seven Deans opened the Gengchen Secret Order and watched Xiang Hao’s warning from 120,000 years earlier. The chapter ended with Xiang Hao’s evacuation plan if no Son of Destiny appeared to stop the Evil Lord.

• Old Daoist Tianji concealed the room’s heavenly secrets and told Li Qingshan and Long Yeyun that the Great Calamity was the Spirit Taming Evil Lord.
• The Seven Deans opened the Gengchen Secret Order on a Server and showed Liu Licheng a recording of Xiang Hao.
• Xiang Hao explained that the Spirit Taming Evil Lord and Old Daoist Tianji had fled from the Canglan Realm, and that the Evil Lord sought to merge with the Heavenly Dao.
• Xiang Hao said he had prepared the Martial Arts Seven Stars in case the promised Chosen One failed to appear.
• Xiang Hao ordered the Seven Deans to evacuate all humanity and the Martial Arts Seven Stars if there was no Son of Destiny, warning that the Seven Stars’ destruction would doom Crimson Rainbow.

Old Daoist Tianji revealed that the Spirit Taming Evil Lord had disrupted heavenly providence and that Li Qingshan was beyond its reach, making him the only hope of stopping the calamity. The Seven Deans decided to pursue two plans at once and sent Liu Licheng back to the Crimson Rainbow Continent with the Secret Order’s information.

• Liu Licheng told the Seven Deans that Feng Boyong was the Chosen One, while Li Qingshan had also undergone Nine Revolutions Ascending to Heaven.
• Old Daoist Tianji explained that his true self had merged with This Realm, and that the Spirit Taming Evil Lord had become an evil demon after devouring an Evil God Progeny.
• Old Daoist Tianji told Li Qingshan that he was beyond heavenly providence and the only hope of breaking the calamity.
• The Seven Deans chose to act on two fronts, requisitioning Fourth-Order Mecha Masters while preserving the Martial Arts Seven Stars plan.
• Dawn Dean sent Liu Licheng to the Crimson Rainbow Continent to tell Li Qingshan and Long Yeyun what the Secret Order contained.

Li Qingshan challenged Old Daoist Tianji’s claim that he could break the calamity, then accepted a Storage Ring and a Life-Creating Pill in exchange for staying on the Crimson Rainbow Continent. After Long Yeyun checked the items, Li Qingshan entered the upgraded Martial Arts Space and discovered a vast Starry River surrounding a hazy human figure.

• Li Qingshan realized Old Daoist Tianji had only guessed that he could break the calamity and had used that claim to persuade him to remain on the continent.
• Old Daoist Tianji told Li Qingshan that Ma Jun had fled to the Canglan Realm and gave him a Storage Ring and a Life-Creating Pill, which could restore Ma Jun’s body.
• Li Qingshan promised to stay on the Crimson Rainbow Continent, then left with Long Yeyun and asked him to inspect the items.
• Long Yeyun found no obvious problems with the Storage Ring or Life-Creating Pill and said they should wait for news from the Secret Order before trusting Old Daoist Tianji.
• Li Qingshan entered the Martial Arts Space, defeated Pang Yan’s Projection with one saber strike, and saw a huge Starry River encircling a hazy human figure.

After a month of seclusion, Li Qingshan learned the Secret Order and discovered that the Nine Planetary Fortresses had deployed around one million Fourth-Order Mecha Masters. The Seven Deans planned both to rely on Li Qingshan and to prepare a complete evacuation.

• Li Qingshan sensed a mysterious Meditation Method in the Starry River and resolved to improve his comprehension through relentless practice.
• He spent a month in seclusion, raising Heavenly Phenomenon Seven Methods to mastery.
• Liu Licheng returned with Yan Kang of Zhenyuan Fortress, and they brought Li Qingshan to Long Yeyun to hear the Secret Order.
• Yan Kang projected the Secret Order onto Li Qingshan's retina, showing the Black-Robed Youth and the Martial Arts Seven Stars' 120,000-year readiness.
• Long Yeyun told Li Qingshan that the Seven Deans had chosen a two-pronged plan, and Yan Kang revealed that the Nine Planetary Fortresses had deployed around one million Fourth-Order Mecha Masters.

Long Yeyun taught Li Qingshan about Inner Scenery Cultivation, meditation, and comprehending one’s own Dao, while warning him to choose a meditation subject that suited him. Old Daoist Tianji then revealed that the Ling Tian Sect had pledged itself to the Great Calamity, a suspicion Long Yeyun and Li Qingshan had already reached.

• Long Yeyun explained that he had delayed the second part of the plan because the Ling Tian Sect’s abnormal silence raised fears that it had joined the Great Calamity.
• Long Yeyun told Li Qingshan to advance his Heavenly Phenomenon Seven Methods quickly and agreed to teach him about Inner Scenery Cultivation and the Meditation Method.
• Long Yeyun described Inner Scenery Cultivation’s two steps and explained that Martial Artists use the Principles of the world to comprehend their own Dao.
• Long Yeyun warned Li Qingshan that a Meditation Method must suit its practitioner and that choosing a Dao leaves no room for turning back.
• Old Daoist Tianji announced that the Ling Tian Sect had pledged itself to the Great Calamity, and Li Qingshan said they had already guessed it.

Old Daoist Tianji revealed that Ling Tian Sect had sent nearly three thousand Outer Scene Celestials to destroy the Three Gates, Four Schools, and Five Gangs before attacking Seven Stars Sect. Li Qingshan and Long Yeyun decided to gather the sects in Seven Stars City for a decisive battle, inviting them with a Seven Stars Banquet.

• Old Daoist Tianji explained that the secrets of heaven had been obscured and showed Li Qingshan and Long Yeyun a Heaven Ranking dominated by Ling Tian Sect Elders.
• Old Daoist Tianji revealed that nearly three thousand Ling Tian Sect Elders were moving across the land to attack the Three Gates, Four Schools, and Five Gangs, then Seven Stars Sect.
• Long Yeyun said Seven Stars Sect could not save the distant groups, while Li Qingshan and Long Yeyun relied on their gathering Million Mecha Masters as their decisive advantage.
• Old Daoist Tianji criticized Star Academy's new disciples for relying on Psychic Power, unaware that they were Mecha Masters whose abilities remained hidden.
• Li Qingshan proposed summoning the sects to Seven Stars City for a decisive battle, and named the gathering the Seven Stars Banquet.

Li Qingshan set the Seven Stars Banquet for half a year later to bring the continent’s sects together before Ling Tian Sect could strike. After spending Old Daoist Tianji’s Mystic Spirit Treasure Jade to seek insight into his own Dao, Li Qingshan resumed training, and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion announced the banquet to the martial world.

• Li Qingshan told Long Yeyun and Old Daoist Tianji that the Seven Stars Banquet would be held in half a year and asked Old Daoist Tianji to notify the sects and publicize it.
• Old Daoist Tianji gave Li Qingshan his remaining seven Mystic Spirit Treasure Jade stones after Li Qingshan insisted they were useful.
• Li Qingshan used all seven jade stones to seek insight into the majestic figure in the Starry River, then entered the Martial Arts Space to practice the Heavenly Phenomenon Seven Methods.
• Nearly a hundred Seven Stars Sect Inner Disciples left the residence as the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion updated Li Qingshan’s Earth Ranking entry with invitations to another banquet in half a year.