Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan arrived on Dick New Star as the Star Academy’s acting dean and confronted Shi Tianhe over Dean Wei’s death. Kong Lanxin exposed the Shi Family’s secret underground Mine, and Li ordered Shi Tianhe to lead them there.

• Li Qingshan corrected Shi Tianhe, who had addressed him as garrison commander, and introduced himself as the acting dean.
• Kong Lanxin and the Zhang, Zheng, and Li family chairmen pledged to cooperate with Li, while Shi Tianhe tried to protect himself with a live broadcast.
• Shi Tianhe accused Wei Huai'an of slandering him, but Kong Lanxin defended Wei and revealed a map of a vast underground base beneath Central City.
• Kong Lanxin accused the Shi Family of secretly sending Brain Ore from the NPC Dormitory to the base, which she identified as the Mine.
• Li Qingshan ordered Shi Tianhe to lead the group to the Mine, and the six flew toward Dick New Star.

Li Qingshan and the others entered Shi Meng Tower’s hidden Server Room, where Shi Tianhe revealed that his True Spirit was protected by a Divine Kingdom beyond the servers. Li Qingshan was drawn into its Virtual City, but then appeared within the Divine Kingdom itself and confronted Shi Tianhe.

• In Nova, people watched the six figures descend toward City Center and debated protesting the proposed changes to their work terms.
• Shi Tianhe led Li Qingshan, Kong Lanxin, and the three family chairmen through twenty sealed doors to a vast Server Room filled with servers and urns.
• Shi Tianhe demanded that Li Qingshan explain himself, and Li Qingshan destroyed his head with a hovering Flower Bud.
• A synthetic voice announced that Shi Tianhe’s True Spirit was protected by the Divine Kingdom, and the servers exploded as Green Data Stream enveloped Li Qingshan.
• Shi Tianhe revealed that he had drawn Li Qingshan into a Virtual City and declared that Li Qingshan would be sacrificed to his lord.
• Starlight pierced the city’s black clouds as Li Qingshan announced that he was inside the Divine Kingdom.

Li Qingshan destroyed Shi Tianhe’s virtual Divine Kingdom and killed him, then escaped the Underground Base with Kong Lanxin and the three family Chairmen. The chapter ended as Li Qingshan saw that killing the monster had granted him 1,100,000 years of additional time.

• Li Qingshan revealed his Star River Universe Meditation Aspect and traced the depraved Data Stream to the Abyss of Depravity before cutting off his gaze.
• Shi Tianhe boasted that his master’s Divine Kingdom would claim Li Qingshan, but Li Qingshan thanked him and summoned falling stars that shattered the Virtual City.
• In the Underground Base, Kong Lanxin and the Chairmen of the Zhang, Zheng, and Li families discussed their inability to escape while Li Qingshan remained wrapped in Data Streams.
• Li Qingshan told them Shi Tianhe was dead, then sent a Green Lotus Flower Bud through the base’s alloy doors and Protective Shields, reducing them to powder.
• Li Qingshan led the others toward the elevator as his Status Panel showed a gain of 1,100,000 years.

After killing Shi Tianhe and dismantling the Virtual City, Li Qingshan took control of Dick New Star’s leadership and began planning how to address its restless citizens. He left the story preparing to contact Suixin—Young Monk.

• Li Qingshan gained 1.1 million experience from defeating Shi Tianhe and destroying the Virtual City, then questioned the company leaders about Underground Bases.
• Kong Lanxin warned that removing Shi Meng Group could destabilize Dick New Star, but Li Qingshan decided the citizens’ demands called for a thorough change.
• Li Qingshan cut the Federal Council from eleven seats to nine and accepted Kong Lanxin’s proposal to become Council Speaker.
• Li Qingshan told Gao Nianren that Shi Tianhe was dead, he was Acting Dean and Council Speaker, and Dick Academy would return to normal within twenty years.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Yan to inform Zhao Ran of Wei Huai'an’s death and invite Tian Qingchuan, Qiao Jingxing, and other Inner Scene prodigies to gather in the Starry Sky.
• Li Qingshan searched his contacts for Suixin—Young Monk as he planned to calm Dick Star.

Li Qingshan called Suixin after twelve years and discovered that the young monk was in the Heart Constellation Sector with Chi Baixiu of the Chiwen Clan. After calling her Suixin’s sister-in-law, Li Qingshan asked Suixin for his master’s and Martial Aunt’s contact information, then abruptly ended the expensive call.

• Li Qingshan tried to call Suixin and learned that reaching him in the Heart Constellation Sector would cost one hundred Azure Dragon Coin per minute.
• Suixin answered from a shaky camera feed and begged Li Qingshan to save him while Chi Baixiu teased him.
• Li Qingshan mistook Chi Baixiu’s silver scales for python scales, and Suixin explained that the Chiwen Clan was one of the Nine Sons of the Dragon bloodline Lineages.
• Li Qingshan called Chi Baixiu his sister-in-law, prompting her to become shy and leave them to talk.
• Li Qingshan asked Suixin to send his master’s and Martial Aunt’s contact information, received the cards, and disconnected before Suixin could ask why.

Li Qingshan contacted Wunian and asked him to bring the Cold Moon Illusion to Dick Star, then told Gao Nianren to wait until the Academy Council before attempting reforms. As the three-month countdown began, the public speculated about Shi Tianhe’s disappearance and looked to Li Qingshan for answers.

• Li Qingshan contacted Wunian, who recognized Suixin’s former name, Wuxin, and learned that his former disciple was alive and had climbed to the thousandth step of the Moon Ascending Stairway.
• Li Qingshan sent Wunian Suixin’s contact information and invited him to use the Cold Moon Illusion to calm Dick Star; Wunian agreed to arrive within three months.
• Gao Nianren urged Li Qingshan to intervene in New Star after Shi Tianhe’s death, but Li told him to focus on the Academy until the conference in three months.
• Li Qingshan resumed seclusion while news of his appointment and Shi Tianhe’s disappearance spread across Old Star and the New Star Network.
• As the Academy Council approached, people online debated the mine, Shi Tianhe’s disappearance, and the Five Major Companies, while many expected Li Qingshan to uphold justice and improve workers’ compensation.

Li Qingshan received word that Bao Hetong of the Evil Slaying Department was investigating the Shi Family’s underground base and hurried to meet him, worried that Wunian would be in danger. He found Bao and Wunian together, and Bao explained that genuine Cold Moon Cultists could be used as allies so long as they did not cross the red line of faith and sacrifice.

• Li Qingshan learned from Wunian that his starship had emerged from hyperspace and was heading toward Dick Star.
• Bao Hetong called Li Qingshan and said the Evil Slaying Department had ordered an investigation of the Shi Family and that he was coming to inspect the underground base.
• Li Qingshan realized Wunian might encounter Bao Hetong and rushed to Far Orbit, where he found Bao and Wunian standing together beside an Evil Slaying Department starship.
• Bao Hetong explained that he and Wunian were old friends and that genuine Cold Moon Cultists could be used, but faith and sacrifice were forbidden.

Li Qingshan and Bao Hetong investigated the Underground Base on Dick New Star and learned how the Network could suppress Evil Fall. Li Qingshan considered joining the Evil Slaying Department but ruled out the Investigation Office, hoping to find work that offered opportunities to gain experience.

• Wunian left for Dick New Star to help settle the planet's unrest, while Li Qingshan and Bao Hetong followed with a hundred-person team.
• Bao Hetong inspected the Underground Base and identified the shattered Servers as evidence of Evil Fall's involvement.
• Bao Hetong explained that the base isolated the Network and that connecting a Virtual Divine Kingdom to it could destroy the Data Stream and punish Evil Fall.
• Li Qingshan privately rejected Bao Hetong's safer approach because it would cost him experience he could earn by fighting Evil Fall himself.
• Bao Hetong invited Li Qingshan to join the Investigation Office, but Li Qingshan declined to commit after learning its missions focused on investigation and cleanup.

Li Qingshan returned to the Academy after handing the captured Shi Meng Group members to the Investigation Office, then prepared for the Academy Council as citizens on Dick New Star awaited its decisions. At the live-broadcast meeting, he took the seat of Speaker, announced that Old Star and New Star would be renamed Main Star and Sub Star, and began to explain the agenda.

• Li Qingshan watched the Investigation Office's starship depart with the Shi Meng Group members, then returned to the Academy to train.
• As the Academy Council approached, people across Dick New Star and Old Star discussed the Shi Meng Group's collapse and hoped Li Qingshan would negotiate better contracts.
• On June 15th, the Academy Council was broadcast live across Dick New Star after its citywide projections shut off and displayed the meeting room.
• Kong Lanxin and the chairmen of the Zhang, Zheng, and Li families greeted Li Qingshan as Speaker when he entered and took the head seat.
• Li Qingshan announced that Old Star and New Star would be renamed Main Star and Sub Star, provoking an uproar among citizens.
• Li Qingshan addressed the camera and began explaining the Academy Council's agenda.

Li Qingshan announced that Shi Meng Group had colluded with an Evil God and proposed replacing citizens’ contracts with resource-gathering work at a World Gate. He revealed that entertainment on Dick Sub-star would end and introduced Moon Climbing, just as darkness covered the planet.

• Li Qingshan declared Shi Meng Group destroyed after executing Shi Tianhe for colluding with an Evil God.
• Li Qingshan proposed that the Four Major Companies replace contract work years with quotas for citizens to gather resources through a World Gate.
• The Four Major Companies agreed, and Li Qingshan clarified that citizens could choose whether to sign new contracts.
• Li Qingshan announced that entertainment companies had shut down and introduced Moon Climbing as a way for the Academy to repay citizens’ debts.
• A black spot spread across the sky Projection until deep night enveloped Dick Sub-star.

Li Qingshan used a Cold Moon Illusion to make the citizens of Dick Sub-star confront the Moon Ascending Stairway and its soul-drowning trials, encouraging them to revise their contracts and return to the Main Star. After arranging support for Dick Star’s development, he began planning to restore the Main Star’s population and deserted continents.

• A bright moon appeared over the planet and calmed the citizens, while the Moon Ascending Stairway rose in the centers of more than a thousand cities.
• Citizens rushed to climb the stairs, but the Cold Moon Illusion overwhelmed them with coldness and loneliness, forcing them to retreat in terror.
• At Dick Academy, Li Qingshan explained that he had reported the illusion to Section Chief Bao and expected citizens to revise their contracts; he arranged for Star Origin Mining to help with future drug development.
• Kong Lanxin told the family Chairmen that Li Qingshan’s question about their difficulties had been genuine, and that involving the Cao Family would help keep Dick Star on course after he left.
• Gao Nianren urged Li Qingshan to begin rebuilding the Main Star, and Li Qingshan planned to restore its Five Continents gradually while awaiting old friends who could help the Academy.

Li Qingshan arranged for Star Origin Mining to help stabilize Dick Star and welcomed the Academy’s Human Ranking prodigies, including Zhao Ran, to the Main Star. As Yang Xiaoyu and Yin Zhengyu continued searching for a Nine-Revolution Heavenly Treasure, Yin Zhengyu refused to give up on helping her catch up to Li Qingshan.

• Li Qingshan asked Cao Ya to establish Star Origin Mining on Dick Star, and Cao Ya promised to do so within half a year.
• Li Qingshan learned that Cao Shaoyu was doing well but had to keep his prolonged sleep secret, while Dick Star’s citizens began working in the Star Realm under new contracts.
• Three months later, Li Qingshan welcomed nearly a hundred Human Ranking prodigies arriving at the Academy, while Tian Qingchuan led them to look around.
• Li Qingshan brought Zhao Ran to Wei Huai'an’s grave and passed on Wei’s message; Zhao Ran had reached Breaking Limits Eighth Order.
• Yang Xiaoyu urged Yin Zhengyu to stop searching for a Nine-Revolution Heavenly Treasure, but Yin Zhengyu insisted she must keep trying to catch up to Li Qingshan.

Yin Zhengyu and Yang Xiaoyu received a celestial map pointing to an opportunity near the Crimson Rainbow Starfield, where Li Qingshan was staying. The chapter ended as Li Qingshan entered the dining hall on Dick Star and Huang Lingwei asked about the Sun-Flicking Sword.

• Yang Xiaoyu pressed Yin Zhengyu about his knowledge of Li Qingshan, and he privately recalled news that Li Qingshan had reached Nine Revolutions Ascending to Heaven and gained the power to destroy a Meteor-class Battleship.
• Yang Xiaoyu asked Yin Zhengyu for money to buy a Nine-Revolution Heavenly Treasure, and he proposed praying for the Ancestor to manifest.
• The Ancestor manifested and turned Yin Zhengyu's tortoiseshell into a map bearing the message, “Seek your own Opportunity.”
• Yin Zhengyu traced the map to the Chaotic Star Sea and noticed that the route passed near the Crimson Rainbow Starfield; Yang Xiaoyu decided to go there despite worrying Li Qingshan might take the opportunity.
• On Dick Star, Li Qingshan entered the dining hall where nearly a hundred Human Ranking prodigies had gathered, and Huang Lingwei asked whether the Sun-Flicking Sword was all right.

Li Qingshan learned that Zhao Ran, the Sun-Flicking Sword, needed a Nine-Revolution Heavenly Treasure to advance and sent her to seek an opportunity at the Planetary Fortress. As Li settled back into seclusion, Yang Xiaoyu departed by starship to seek her own opportunity, despite Yin Zhengyu warning her not to seek out Li.

• Huang Lingwei and Qiao Jingxing told Li Qingshan that Zhao Ran had risen to first place on the Human Ranking as the Sun-Flicking Sword.
• Li met Zhao Ran and learned she planned to visit her family and explore the Primordial Dragon Forbidden Area, but he explained that Crimson Rainbow Continent had no Nine-Revolution Heavenly Treasures left.
• Li contacted Bao Hetong, learned that such treasures cost at least one billion Azure Dragon Coins at auction, and decided to send Zhao Ran to the Planetary Fortress to seek an opportunity.
• Li messaged Zhao Ran to report to the Planetary Fortress, then returned to the training room to enter seclusion.
• Yin Zhengyu saw Yang Xiaoyu off on a starship and warned her not to look for Li Qingshan, while Yang insisted she would not let him steal her opportunity.

After five years in seclusion, Li Qingshan reunited with Ye Yukong, Wan Keshan, and Dai Lan. Ye Yukong explained that advancing from the peak of the Outer Scene to the Dharma Aspect required Establishing Dao, and that the sought-after Opportunity was a place or object suited to anchoring one's Dao in the Cosmic Starry Sky.

• Zhao Ran returned to the Academy, waited a day for Li Qingshan, then left for Zhenyuan Fortress to seek the Nine Revolutions opportunity in the Astral Rift.
• During Li Qingshan's seclusion, Gao Nianren oversaw the Academy and the Second Continent's reconstruction, while a thirteen-year-old boy became the first person to climb a step in the National Moon Climbing campaign.
• Gao Nianren waived the boy's parents' debts, brought his family to the Main Star, and admitted him to the Academy, spurring more people to attempt Moon Climbing.
• After five years, Ye Yukong, Wan Keshan, and Dai Lan visited Li Qingshan, who welcomed them and caught up on events.
• Li Qingshan asked Ye Yukong about the Opportunity needed to reach the Dharma Aspect, and Ye Yukong explained that Establishing Dao meant finding a place or object where one's Dao Principle could gain a foothold in the Cosmic Starry Sky.

Ye Yukong explained how Establishing Dao required finding a suitable opportunity and surviving attacks from Spacetime Projections of nearby Dao-establishing seniors. After Li Qingshan saw Ye Yukong and the others off, the story shifted to Yang Xiaoyu discovering she had boarded the wrong starship again.

• Ye Yukong told Li Qingshan, Wan Keshan, and Dai Lan that an Establishing Dao opportunity could be ordinary, but they would recognize it at the right moment.
• Ye Yukong explained that the Calamity of Establishing Dao struck at each nine-zhang threshold with peak-strength Spacetime Projections of nearby seniors who had established their Dao.
• Li Qingshan connected the calamity to the Academy's two 'Departure' steles and understood that nearby figures such as Feng Boyong could appear in the trials.
• Ye Yukong urged Li Qingshan to focus on Comprehending Dao and Principle and to patiently accumulate Star Origin Power for Outer Scene cultivation.
• Li Qingshan watched Ye Yukong and the others depart through a Hyperspace Channel, confident that his Child of Stars nature would speed his cultivation.
• Yang Xiaoyu anxiously learned that she had boarded the wrong Cross-Domain Starship instead of the one bound for Dust Star in the Black Flame Domain.

Ten years after becoming acting dean, Li Qingshan continued cultivating in seclusion while Dick Academy flourished, and Zhao Ran searched the planetary fortresses for Nine-Revolution Heavenly Treasures. The chapter ended when Bao Hetong told Li that Panlong Auction House would sell Blazing Sun Liquid.

• Li Qingshan visited Dick Academy, encouraged Zhou Xiuwu to keep following his chosen cultivation path, and recalled his friend Zhou Yunze.
• Li Qingshan learned from Yan Tao that Zhao Ran had been fighting Alien Races across the Nine Planetary Fortresses, but had found no Nine-Revolution Heavenly Treasures.
• Li Qingshan returned to secluded cultivation as the Main Star, the Second Continent, and Dick Academy continued to grow over the following years.
• Ten years after Li Qingshan took over as acting dean, Bao Hetong contacted him with news that Panlong Auction House would auction Blazing Sun Liquid.

Li Qingshan learned that authentic Blazing Sun Liquid was coming from a newly opened Third-Order World Gate in the Chaotic Star Sea, while the Star Academy prepared to pressure its leaders to open the gate. Yang Xiaoyu waited as a prisoner to be sent inside, and the Yuan leaders planned to use the contest to advance a more important objective.

• Bao Hetong told Li Qingshan that the Chaotic Star Sea had sold authentic Blazing Sun Liquid from a newly opened World Gate and warned him not to act rashly.
• Li Qingshan contacted Lu Yan, who explained that the Star Academy and nearby Hundred Domains were pressuring the Chaotic Star Sea to open the gate for Zhao Ran and other Prodigies.
• Yang Xiaoyu argued with her captor aboard a Pirate Warship and urged him to send her into the World Gate on Barren Star No. 9527.
• Yuan Wu reminded Yuan Shi and the other Yuan leaders that Blazing Sun Liquid was secondary to their true objective.
• Yuan Yi said the Chaotic Star Sea would establish rules for Prodigies of the Hundred Domains to enter the World Gate and contend for it.

Li Qingshan agreed to accompany Zhao Ran to the Chaotic Star Sea’s Prodigy Contest after the Star Academy was barred from sending Dharma Aspect Experts. As more than a hundred Star Domains prepared for the journey, the Purple Brilliance Starfield’s delegation discussed recovering the Blazing Sun Liquid, possibly through Space Pirates.

• Lu Yan told Li Qingshan that the Chaotic Star Sea would allow three prodigies below the Fourth Order from each Star Domain into the World Gate, but would bar Star Academy Dharma Aspect Experts from accompanying them.
• Li Qingshan volunteered to take Zhao Ran, and Lu Yan agreed to the plan while warning that the journey would involve pressure from other Star Domains and Cross-Domain Companies.
• More than a hundred nearby Star Domains began sending starships toward the Chaotic Star Sea with their prodigies and accompanying Dharma Aspect Experts.
• Aboard a Purple Brilliance Starfield starship, You Xinghan asked Shi Daohuan to support the delegation, and Shi Daohuan demanded that the Star Academy honor its promise to help the Shi Meng Group recover.
• You Xinghan revealed that the academy wanted the Blazing Sun Liquid returned and suggested using Space Pirates to seize it.

Li Qingshan joined Chu Hong, Zhao Ran, Qin Feng, and Tu Wei on their journey to the World Gate, warning that Zhao Ran would be targeted and hinting that the Chaotic Star Sea could keep seized Blazing Sun Liquid from leaving. At the gate, Li Qingshan arrived as the Hundred Domains’ teams debated the Prodigy Contest’s rules, while Yang Xiaoyu recognized him from a pirate ship and feared she had lost her chance to enter.

• Li Qingshan boarded Chu Hong’s starship and reunited with Chu Hong, Zhao Ran, Qin Feng, and Tu Wei.
• Li Qingshan warned Zhao Ran that other Star Domains would target her in the World Gate and said the Chaotic Star Sea could prevent anyone who seized the Blazing Sun Liquid from taking it away.
• Ten months later, Yang Xiaoyu saw a World Gate in the Chaotic Star Sea but learned the space pirates had reserved it as an opportunity for nearby Hundred Domains prodigies.
• Yuan Wu told the assembled teams that the Chaotic Star Sea would not participate in the contest and left them to decide its rules.
• Li Qingshan arrived with four others and offered to make a suggestion, while Yang Xiaoyu recognized him from a pirate ship.