Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan’s Dharma Aspect surpassed a hundred zhang as Xiang Hao appeared during the Calamity of Establishing Dao, introduced himself, and vanished after boasting about his past. Li Qingshan reached the Dharma Aspect stage at one hundred and eight zhang, but a furious enemy then tore open the void and threatened to kill him.

• Wang Duanxing realized that Dean Xiang Hao had established Dao in the remote region, and Fu Yang told him they could only wait after the Tribulation Wave was interrupted.
• As Li Qingshan’s Dharma Aspect rose past ninety-nine zhang, the Chaotic Star Sea froze and a Hundred-Zhang Xiang Hao appeared before him.
• Xiang Hao recognized Li Qingshan’s Crimson Rainbow Starfield origins, then introduced himself and recounted his fame before his Projection dissipated.
• Li Qingshan’s Dharma Aspect continued rising without further appearances, and his Star River Universe Scripture advanced to the Dharma Aspect stage at one hundred and eight stars.
• The Chaotic Star Sea resumed moving, and Li Qingshan wondered whether to follow Xiang Hao’s example before a crack opened in the void and an enemy blamed him for ruining Taotie’s grand affair.

Li Qingshan survived Xiao Yi’s ambush and used his 108 Zhang Dharma Aspect to overwhelm him in battle. Xiao Yi escaped through a Hyperspace Channel while claiming to serve Taotie, but Li Qingshan noticed someone approaching from behind.

• Cao Ya and Cao Ding'an realized the attack was a false-flag attempt to kill Li Qingshan, and Xiao Yi ambushed him with a Long Spear from a Hyperspace Channel.
• Li Qingshan’s 108 Zhang Starry Aspect endured Xiao Yi’s strike unharmed and counterattacked, damaging Xiao Yi’s spear and driving him through the Shattered Star Belt.
• Li Qingshan pursued Xiao Yi and forcibly widened the Hyperspace Channel, but stopped outside rather than enter it.
• Xiao Yi claimed he was from Taotie and threatened Li Qingshan before retreating into the channel.
• Li Qingshan looked past Xiao Yi, and a longsword suddenly crashed into view.

Li Qingshan watched Feng Boyong kill a Seventh-Order Divine Aspect, then traced the attempted assassination to the Ling Tian Sect and received an apology from the Panlong Auction House. He left the auction house's motives and future sacrifices in question.

• Feng Boyong's sword destroyed the Shadow, and Li Qingshan said he hoped to meet him on the fourth time.
• Cao Ding'an marveled at Feng Boyong's strength, while Cao Ya praised Ziying Star and recognized Li Qingshan's greater potential.
• Cao Ya concluded that the Ling Tian Sect had arranged the assassination under Taotie's name, and he identified the Panlong Auction House's subsidiary companies as possible sources of evidence.
• Li Qingshan received a message from Li Wenbo, who showed Yu Feng's severed head and apologized for the subsidiary companies' actions against the Cao Family.
• Li Qingshan accepted the Panlong Auction House's apology and wondered how many more people it would sacrifice to protect itself.

Li Wenbo covered up the killing of Yu Feng and refused to investigate the Black Gold VIP information linked to Li Qingshan. As Li Qingshan and Cao Ya traveled toward Dick Star, Cao Ya began explaining the history of bloodline cultivation and Little Fatty’s ancestral reversion.

• Li Wenbo killed Yu Feng, deleted the Black Gold VIP communication record from Yu Feng’s Communicator, and destroyed the device.
• Two Qiong Xiao members learned that Xiao Yi had died and agreed to let the matter end, while warning that his death might have exposed them.
• Cao Ya said Feng Boyong had deliberately left no survivors, but Li Qingshan argued that sufficient strength could overcome any trouble.
• Li Qingshan and Cao Ya discussed Little Fatty’s continued growth and his reversion to his ancestral bloodline.
• Cao Ya explained that bloodline cultivation originated from Astral Beasts and that humanity’s ancient sages hunted Ancestor Beasts to establish a foothold in the Starry Sky.

Li Qingshan learned that Cao Shaoyu was becoming a Pureblood Taotie, but another ancestral-reversion Taotie already existed, making Shao Yu a threat to the clans. Cao Ya planned to take him to the Heart Constellation Sector for protection and answers, while Li Qingshan noticed his new realm had only three stages.

• Cao Ya explained the origins and limits of bloodline cultivation and revealed that Cao Shaoyu was transforming into a Pureblood Taotie with the potential to reach the Ninth Order.
• Li Qingshan learned that another ancestral-reversion bloodline had appeared in the Taotie Domain ten thousand years earlier, and only one Pureblood Ancestor Beast could be born from the same source in an era.
• Cao Ya said the Cao Family would take Li Qingshan back to Dick Star and then travel to the Heart Constellation Sector, where the Azure Dragon Nine Sons could protect Shao Yu and assess his condition.
• Li Qingshan left the control room and saw that his available time had fallen after forming his 108 Zhang Dharma Aspect.
• Li Qingshan noticed that the Dharma Form Realm progress bar contained only three points.

Li Qingshan asked Cao Ding'an about cultivating in the Dharma Form Realm and learned that the Prodigy Battle prepared prodigies for its first step, while the second required joining a major power. He left Cao Ding'an with the surprise that he planned to join the Evil Slaying Department.

• Li Qingshan visited Cao Ding'an in the dining hall and ate with him before asking for guidance on the Dharma Form Realm.
• Cao Ding'an explained that the Prodigy Battle provided cultivation techniques and special environments for prodigies to condense and materialize their Dharma Aspects.
• Cao Ding'an described the second step, Void Transformation, which required rare Astral Energy resources and techniques held by major powers.
• Li Qingshan told Cao Ding'an that he planned to join the Evil Slaying Department.

Li Qingshan learned more about Dharma Aspect cultivation and the Military Department’s Prodigy Battle, which sends prodigies into combat against Alien Races through World Gates. He left Cao Ding'an with a righteous justification for extending humanity’s defensive line into alien territory.

• Li Qingshan told Cao Ding'an he planned to join the Evil Slaying Department’s Investigation Office and explained that it could still take action.
• Cao Ding'an explained that the Dharma Aspect’s third cultivation step involved tempering the body and engraving Dao Principle, and that a Dharma Aspect had to reach at least nine zhang to form a complete Divine Aspect.
• Cao Ding'an described a possible True Spirit transformation during the breakthrough, which Li Qingshan realized was not a separate step according to his Status Panel.
• Cao Ding'an told Li Qingshan that the Military Department would likely collect him for the Prodigy Battle, which involved repeated battles against Alien Races through World Gates.
• Li Qingshan corrected Cao Ding'an’s description of entering alien territory as an invasion, calling it an extension of humanity’s defensive line.

Li Qingshan clarified his path forward, then spent the remainder of the journey admiring the stars outside the Hyperspace Channel. Meanwhile, Xina rushed a warship to collect him, and You Xuan, Sang Yu, and Kuang Li learned that Li Qingshan had reached the Dharma Form Realm.

• Cao Ding'an praised Li Qingshan's defensive insight and predicted he would one day push humanity's defenses toward the Evil Gods.
• Li Qingshan set aside cultivation and quietly watched the stars from his Rest Cabin during the journey through the Hyperspace Channel.
• Xina forced her heavily modified warship to travel at dangerous speed because the Military Department had ordered her to collect a newly advanced prodigy.
• You Xuan, Sang Yu, and Kuang Li recognized Li Qingshan's name and were shocked to learn he had advanced from Fourth-Order Inner Scene to the Dharma Form Realm in six years.
• The thin middle-aged man revealed that Li Qingshan had a Dharma Aspect Hundred Zhang.

Li Qingshan’s hundred-zhang Dharma Aspect astonished the prodigies, and his warship reached Dick Star as he prepared to give one final sermon before leaving the Academy. As students, graduates, and former classmates gathered at the Academy, a hundred strange stars appeared in the daytime sky and began growing larger.

• The prodigies learned that Li Qingshan’s Dharma Aspect stood a hundred zhang tall and crowded You Xuan and the others with questions about him.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Dick Star and gave Cao Ya a contact who might help the Cao Family connect with the Azure Dragon Nine Sons in Heart Constellation Sector.
• Li Qingshan asked Cao Ya to delay their departure so they could pick up Wunian, then decided to give a sermon at the Academy before leaving office.
• Graduates and current students packed Dick Academy’s Grand Auditorium, while Zhao Hongzhou, Yu Lei, Hong Qian, Lu Jing, and Mou Yu gathered to see Li Qingshan.
• People in the auditorium spotted a hundred shining objects in the daytime sky and watched them grow larger.

Li Qingshan returned to Dick Academy as the Hundred Domains Star Academy arrived to attend his sermon. He began displaying his Dao as a Starry Dharma Aspect, leaving the visitors astonished by its size.

• Gao Nianren calmed the stadium crowd and announced Li Qingshan's return and the Hundred Domains Star Academy's arrival.
• Li Qingshan appeared above the stadium, greeted the students, and told Gao Nianren to receive the visiting guests.
• You Xinghan apologized for the Hundred Domains Star Academy's past offenses, and Li Qingshan forgave them.
• Li Qingshan told the audience he would display his Dao, then manifested a Starry Dharma Aspect measuring one hundred and eight zhang.
• The Starry Aspect began the sermon by explaining that Dao could not be fully expressed in words and that seekers used the heart to imprint Dao and Dao to unfold Principle.

Li Qingshan demonstrated a thousand Starry Sky Martial Arts by Transforming Dao into Principle, inspiring the teachers and students before he stepped down as Dean. After reuniting with Old Monk Wunian and celebrating with old friends, he departed Dick Academy to begin a new journey.

• Li Qingshan used his Starry Aspect to demonstrate the creation of a thousand Starry Sky Martial Arts, revealing how Dao could be transformed into Principle.
• Li Qingshan told the students that the martial arts were inheritances from Federation predecessors and urged them to cultivate the Dao and pass on the torch.
• The teachers and students bowed to Li Qingshan, and You Xinghan praised his character as well as his talent and strength.
• Beyond the atmosphere, Li Qingshan thanked Old Monk Wunian for guarding Dick Sub-star, and Wunian joined his friend's spacecraft bound for the Heart Constellation Sector.
• Li Qingshan gathered more than a hundred old friends at Dick Academy for a farewell meal, then left to meet the Military Battleship as everyone wished him well.

Li Qingshan boarded a hastily modified military warship headed for the Borderlands and met the other prodigies traveling with him. After revealing that his Dharma Aspect had reached one hundred and eight zhang, he told Commander Xina that his combat strength was still slightly below the seventh order.

• Li Qingshan entered the military warship, which shook violently as it sped through the Hyperspace Channel.
• Li Qingshan met the gathered prodigies, including You Xuan, Kuang Li, and Sang Yu, and insisted they were still friends.
• Commander Xina introduced herself as the Seventh-Order Mecha Master leading the voyage and revealed she had removed the warship’s safety systems to increase its speed.
• Li Qingshan stated that his Dharma Aspect measured one hundred and eight zhang, shocking the prodigies and Xina.
• Xina asked about Li Qingshan’s combat strength, and he said it was still a little short of the seventh order.

Xina explained the Prodigy Battle, its Merit Ranking, and the century-long cycle as Li Qingshan and the other prodigies traveled toward the Borderlands. With three martial-arts-trained Alien Races dominating the current ranking, Li Qingshan urged Xina to hurry.

• Li Qingshan asked Xina whether they were heading straight to the Borderlands, and explained he hoped to find an elder who might have been conscripted.
• Xina showed the prodigies a Star Chart of the Jiao Xiu District and explained that its one hundred Frontier Fortresses received fighters for the ongoing Prodigy Battle.
• Xina explained that prodigies fought Alien Races to gather battle merit, which granted access to cultivation techniques and Thunder Pools, including rare special training grounds.
• Xina told the group that the Merit Ranking concluded every hundred years and that Feng Boyong had been the previous champion.
• Xina revealed that three Alien Races who came to study martial arts occupied the current ranking's top ten, with one in the top three.
• Li Qingshan told Xina to speed up because he was in a hurry.

Wunian contacted Chi Baixiu while arranging passage to the Heart Constellation Sector, where he learned that Suixin had a wife who was waiting for him. Meanwhile, Suixin stood outside a village in the Canglan Realm until Mo Yuan appeared and accused him of borrowing the Evil God's power.

• Wunian called Chi Baixiu, who recognized him from a portrait painted by her husband, Suixin.
• Chi Baixiu said Suixin had disappeared three years earlier and invited Wunian to the Heart Constellation Sector; Cao Ya offered the Cao Family's transport.
• Chi Baixiu heard that Ya Lie had gone to the Horn Mansion front lines to claim the top spot on the Merit Ranking and joked that he wanted to erase his shame after Feng Boyong defeated him.
• Suixin waited outside a village in the Canglan Realm as villagers mistook his stillness for foolishness.
• Mo Yuan emerged from the darkness and accused Suixin of using the Evil God's power to detect him.

Mo Yuan learned that the Forbidden Lands’ seals had been destroyed and sought a route to the Cosmic Starry Sky, hoping to find a way forward for cultivation. A Sixth-Order Astral Rift opened, and Mo Yuan entered it; the story then shifted to the frontier, where Ye Yukong arrived at Fortress 87 and a Metal Planet burst apart at Fortress 13.

• Mo Yuan told Suixin that he had secretly followed him for two years and wanted to find a path to the Cosmic Starry Sky.
• Mo Yuan revealed that the seals in ten Forbidden Lands had been destroyed and suspected powerful figures, possibly within the Xuantian Sword Sect, already knew.
• Mo Yuan explained that he wanted to reopen the path to Celestial Immortal, since Earth Immortal cultivation was a dead end.
• A Sixth-Order Astral Rift opened, and Mo Yuan charged through it before it closed, leaving Suixin behind.
• At Fortress 87, Ya Lie welcomed Ye Yukong onto his team and declared his aim to top the Merit Ranking.
• At Fortress 13, a Metal Planet emerged from a Hyperspace Channel and shattered.

Ren Han welcomed Li Qingshan and the other prodigies to Fortress 13 after Xina arrived with them in a damaged, heavily modified battleship. He explained the Fortress’s work in the Borderlands and the coming Prodigy Battle, then led them toward a building to show how its Astral Rift was opened.

• Xina emerged from her wrecked planetary class battleship with more than a dozen prodigies, and Ren Han agreed to provide her with a replacement after reading Li Qingshan’s information.
• Ren Han welcomed Li Qingshan and the prodigies to Fortress 13, while Xina worried whether thirteen years would be enough for them.
• Ren Han explained that Fortress 13’s seventh-order experts scouted dangerous high-energy plasma fields and sought materials and safe routes for those who followed.
• Li Qingshan asked about special periods, and Ren Han described the Prodigy Battle and the cost of opening Astral Rifts.
• Ren Han led the prodigies toward a square building, explaining that the Fortress was not made solely of artificial objects and that they would soon understand how its Rift was opened.

Li Qingshan and the other prodigies learned how battle merits were recorded and saw the risks of fighting Alien Races in the hinterlands. At Fortress 13, Li Qingshan revealed that he had requested to come there himself, then walked toward Kong Yang, the Alien Race member ranked third.

• Ren Han showed the prodigies the battle merit ranking and explained that its gray names belonged to comrades who had died in the Alien Races' hinterlands.
• Ren Han distributed Merit Recording Devices and explained the rewards for killing Alien Races, including one million battle merits for a Seventh-Order Alien Race, while warning the group not to seek one out.
• The prodigies examined the costly martial technique and Thunder Pool exchanges before Ren Han led them down to the planet at the fortress's center, where Astral Rifts opened.
• Ren Han told the group that Kong Yang, an Alien Race member, ranked third in Fortress 13 and that the next ranking conclusion was thirteen years away.
• Li Qingshan told Ren Han that coming to Fortress 13 had been his own request, then walked toward Kong Yang.

Li Qingshan arrived at Fortress 13 and chose to join Kong Yang’s Shouyang Alliance despite Chi Jifeng’s warning. He volunteered to be the first to enter the rift and scout, leaving Kong Yang with an eager new recruit.

• Li Qingshan surveyed the crowded fortress and learned that Alien Race prodigies dominated Fortress 13 and several other fortresses.
• Chi Jifeng introduced himself and invited Li Qingshan to join his squad, but Li Qingshan said he had already chosen where to go.
• Chi Jifeng warned Li Qingshan that the Shouyang Alliance would likely send a newcomer into the rift first to scout.
• Kong Yang arrived, greeted Li Qingshan, and explained that new members had to contribute before joining the squad and alliance.
• Li Qingshan declared that he would gladly gain experience by being the first to charge into the rift and explore.

Li Qingshan joined Kong Yang’s Shouyang Alliance squad and volunteered to scout a rift in the Alien Domain, while Ren Han and the others watched, aware that Li Qingshan was using the Alliance as scouts. After hearing the scouting rules, Li Qingshan entered the rift, and Kong Yang remained convinced of his courage and righteousness.

• Li Qingshan convinced Kong Yang to let him join the Shouyang Alliance’s squad and volunteer for its dangerous scouting work.
• Kong Yang introduced Li Qingshan to Kong Yin, Niu He, Niu Chuan, and Niu Hai as the squad’s newest member.
• Ren Han explained that the Fortress’s people did not know Li Qingshan because the Military Department had kept his information restricted, and the onlookers realized Li Qingshan planned to use the Alliance as scouts.
• The squad entered a Sixth-Order Rift, where Li Qingshan immediately prepared to scout a Ten-Thousand-Meter Rift leading into Alien Race territory.
• Kong Yin explained the scouting and return-time rules, and Li Qingshan promised to return within fifteen minutes before flying into the rift.

Li Qingshan arrived on a forest-covered planet and discovered that the Rabbit Ear Tribe was fleeing through blood-colored gates while sacrificing members of other races. He revealed his Heavenly Demon Aspect and spread a burning sea of nebulae across the continent, leaving the Rabbit Ear Tribe beneath a sky engulfed in flames.

• Li Qingshan found a group of elderly Rabbit Ear Tribe members hiding in a tree, but killing them yielded no experience.
• Li Qingshan rose above the continent and saw Rabbit Ear Tribe members fleeing toward four blood vortices as sacrifices were performed beneath Blood Trees.
• Rabbit Ear Tribe leaders flew toward Li Qingshan, determined to delay him so their people could escape.
• Li Qingshan manifested his Heavenly Demon Aspect, terrifying the Rabbit Ear Tribe members who confronted him.
• Li Qingshan spread nebulae across the continent and ignited them, turning the sky into a sea of fire.