Chapter Summaries

Kong Yang explained to Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family that humanity’s strength came from its legacy, then Li Qingshan returned from the rift. They found a charred continent and suspected Fei Xingye had destroyed it, leaving the Shouyang Alliance unsure whether they had been deliberately thwarted.

• Kong Yang argued that humanity’s legacy, including its spirit of chivalry, had helped it grow powerful, while Kong Yin dismissed Li Qingshan’s behavior as reckless.
• Li Qingshan emerged from the rift and told Kong Yang that the other side’s people were gone because another Fortress had opened a rift onto the same planet.
• Kong Yang, Kong Yin, the Three Brothers of the Niu Family, and Li Qingshan crossed the rift and found a recently scorched continent.
• Kong Yin and Kong Yang judged that a powerful attacker had destroyed the continent, and Kong Yang identified the top-ranked Fei Xingye as the likely culprit.
• Kong Yin suspected the Military Department had arranged the attack to hinder the Shouyang Alliance, but Kong Yang cautioned that it could have been a coincidence.
• Li Qingshan pledged to help Kong Yang reach the top of the Merit Ranking.

Li Qingshan persuaded Kong Yang to bring him along when the Shouyang Alliance aided teams in dangerous rifts, while Kong Yang’s teammates remained suspicious of him. Back in the Rest Room, Li Qingshan revealed he could form a 108-zhang Great Sun Dharma Aspect and planned to use Fei Xingye’s name as cover.

• Li Qingshan learned that teams had to wait a day before entering another New Rift, but Kong Yang explained that they could still enter existing rifts to aid other teams.
• Kong Yang promised to bring Li Qingshan along on aid missions, and Li Qingshan left to rest while the others discussed whether they could trust him.
• Kong Yang told Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family that strength would let them control Li Qingshan if he proved deceitful, then worried that Fei Xingye could threaten his Merit Ranking lead.
• In the Rest Room, Li Qingshan decided Fei Xingye could serve as a scapegoat and revealed his Great Sun Dharma Aspect was 108 zhang tall.

Li Qingshan examined the rewards from wiping out the Rabbit Ear Tribe and discovered the immense merit costs of high-grade Lightning Pools and cultivation arts. When a message from the Shouyang Alliance arrived, he eagerly went to meet the long-awaited “good news.”

• Li Qingshan reviewed his kill notifications and found that the Rabbit Ear Tribe had yielded about a hundred thousand Martial Arts Space experience and 10,364 merit points.
• Li Qingshan discovered that a Ninth-Grade Lightning Pool cost fifty million merit points and considered the danger posed by Seventh-Order Exotic Races.
• Li Qingshan learned that the five Eighth-Grade Lightning Pools cost forty million merit points each and were reserved for the top three Merit Ranking positions.
• Li Qingshan found the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra, which cost one million merit points and could help materialize his Dharma Aspect.
• Li Qingshan received a message and hurried out, excited that the Shouyang Alliance’s long-awaited good news had arrived.

Ya Lie and Ye Yukong discussed ways to gain merit points at Fortress 87, while Li Qingshan joined Kong Yang's team outside a dangerous rift at Fortress 13. Li Qingshan volunteered to enter first and draw the attacks of the Yellow Scale Tribe's Sixth-Order beings, then vanished into the rift.

• Ya Lie explained that he had come to Fortress 87 to target Alien Races for merit points but was frustrated by the rules restricting him.
• Ye Yukong reminded Ya Lie that the Yufei Alliance had approached him before and offered a way to quickly accumulate merit points.
• Chi Jifeng warned Li Qingshan that Kong Yang was taking him to a High-Risk Rift, but Li Qingshan asked how humans usually handled such threats.
• Li Qingshan reached Kong Yang's group outside a rift to the Yellow Scale Tribe's planet, where at least five Sixth-Order beings were expected.
• Li Qingshan insisted that scouting was his duty and promised to draw the first attack, then disappeared into the rift before Kong Yang could finish speaking.

Kong Yang’s group entered a planet devastated by Fei Xingye’s Great Sun Dharma Aspect and reunited with Li Qingshan, while Che Yufei concluded that Zhong Jun had targeted her and offered Ya Lie and Ye Yukong a place in her alliance.

• Kong Yang led Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family through the rift after Li Qingshan drew away the first wave of firepower.
• The group found the planet engulfed in lava and learned from Li Qingshan that it had already been devastated when he arrived.
• Kong Yang blamed Fei Xingye’s Great Sun Dharma Aspect for destroying the planet, while Kong Yin urged him to seek help from Minister Ye and he chose to wait.
• Li Qingshan pledged to charge at the front for Kong Yang, who praised his loyalty.
• Che Yufei blamed Zhong Jun’s Nirvana Dharma Aspect for the destruction of her planet, and Ye Yukong asked to join the Yufei Alliance with Ya Lie.

Li Qingshan continued earning merit through Rift missions while concealing his identity as Fei Xingye, leaving Kong Yang increasingly frustrated by the repeated interceptions. As Kong Yang hesitated over whether to contact Ye Hao, Che Yufei called him, and their mirrored expressions ended the chapter.

• Li Qingshan gained nearly a million experience points and almost a hundred thousand merit by destroying the enemies beyond a High-Risk Rift.
• Over the following months, Li Qingshan joined Kong Yang's team on New Rift missions and intercepted the team as Fei Xingye whenever they found a rare High-Risk Rift.
• Kong Yin challenged Kong Yang over his failure to confront Fei Xingye, while Kong Yang defended Li Qingshan and then left to think alone.
• Kong Yang opened his contacts to consider calling Ye Hao, but an incoming call from Che Yufei interrupted him.
• Kong Yang answered Che Yufei's call and froze when they appeared on screen with matching furrowed expressions.

Kong Yang, Che Yufei, and Wan Mu discussed the Military Department targeting the leading merit earners, while Kong Yang tried to contact Minister Ye. When Li Qingshan appeared at 10,000th place with 1.08 million merit points, Kong Yang led the Shouyang Alliance group to confront him, where Li Qingshan urged the Alliance Leader to think twice before acting.

• Che Yufei told Kong Yang that Zhong Jun had targeted her, while Kong Yang said Fei Xingye had targeted him; they found that Wan Mu’s merit points were still rising.
• Che Yufei and Kong Yang called Wan Mu, who joked that the Military Department might simply look down on him before ending the call.
• Che Yufei agreed to share the cost of negotiating with Minister Ye, but Kong Yang’s call was cut off, so he sent a message instead.
• In the Merit Hall, Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family saw Li Qingshan ranked 10,000th with 1.08 million merit points from Fortress 13.
• Kong Yin showed the ranking to Kong Yang, who led her and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family to Li Qingshan’s New Rift.
• Li Qingshan met the group calmly outside the rift and told Kong Yang to think twice before acting.

Li Qingshan revealed that he had deceived the Shouyang Alliance for more than half a year, then made Kong Yang choose between letting him go and fighting him. After leaving the rift, Li Qingshan prepared to cultivate and considered taking control of a High-Risk Rift by force.

• Kong Yang realized Li Qingshan had deceived him, while Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family surrounded Li Qingshan with their Dharma Aspects.
• Li Qingshan asked Kong Yang to make a decision, and Kong Yang ordered his allies to withdraw their Dharma Aspects and let Li Qingshan go.
• Li Qingshan told Kong Yang that prejudice had been built over time and challenged his ambition to compete with Fei Xingye and Zhong Jun.
• Outside the rift, Kuang Li stopped Chi Jifeng from attacking the Shouyang Alliance, and Li Qingshan emerged unharmed.
• Li Qingshan thanked the humans for their support, declined to join a combat team, and hinted that he might seize a High-Risk Rift.
• Li Qingshan left, ready to begin cultivating the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra.

Kong Yang explained why he had refused to fight Li Qingshan, then learned from Ye Hao that Li’s Dharma Aspect was one hundred and eight Zhang and was urged to remove him from the team. Meanwhile, Xie Sen learned that the Blood Rot Tribe’s Elder Council had come to intercept the descending Heavenly Demon and intended to drive it away for good.

• Kong Yang told Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family that Li Qingshan had deliberately waited for them and had left the decision to attack in Kong Yang’s hands.
• Kong Yang answered Ye Hao’s call, learned that Li Qingshan’s Dharma Aspect was one hundred and eight Zhang, and assured Ye Hao that he had not clashed with him.
• Ye Hao warned Kong Yang not to provoke Li Qingshan and told him to find an excuse to kick Li off the team.
• Ye Hao said the Military Department had found an untouched Alien Starry Sky where Kong Yang could lead his forces and catch up on the Merit Ranking.
• Xie Sen told an Elder that the Blood Rot Tribe had sent an Elder Council after receiving a Divine Oracle to intercept the descending Heavenly Demon.

Li Qingshan spent one million merit points to exchange for the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra and discovered its normal version was packed with scientific theory. He chose its laboratory-based Low Comprehension Version, then told Ren Han he belonged to the Practice Faction.

• Li Qingshan saw that he had accumulated over one million merit points and exchanged them for the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra.
• The technique filled the Rest Room with celestial projections and dense formulas, leaving Li Qingshan overwhelmed by its scientific theory.
• Li Qingshan selected the Low Comprehension Version, which replaced the theories with laboratory simulations and procedures for tempering his Dharma Aspect.
• Ren Han called to congratulate Li Qingshan and assumed he would cultivate the normal, high-comprehension version.
• Li Qingshan described the two versions as valuing theory and practice, then told Ren Han that he was from the Practice Faction.

Li Qingshan chose the Practice Edition of Dharma Aspect cultivation and entered the simulated corona to begin sensing its ionization characteristics. Far away, Ya Lie confronted Che Yufei and revealed his Azure Dragon Bloodline, while Ye Yukong fled before their fight began.

• Li Qingshan insisted to Ren Han that he would follow the Practice Edition path, and Ren Han explained that it required prolonged experimentation while the Theory Faction could complete nine temperings quickly.
• Ren Han directed Li Qingshan into the simulated corona, where Li Qingshan transformed into his Starry Aspect and began studying the High-Energy Plasma.
• Li Qingshan reasoned that he only needed to get started with the cultivation technique before using his Status Panel and Martial Arts Space to build proficiency.
• On a distant planet, Ya Lie slaughtered fleeing Alien Races and celebrated as he stood outside the Ten-Thousand-Meter Rift.
• Che Yufei crossed the rift and challenged Ya Lie, who declared that he had Azure Dragon Bloodline and attacked her with his Dharma Aspect.
• Ya Lie called out to Younger Brother Ye, but discovered that Ye Yukong had already fled.

Li Qingshan discovered a way to use the Martial Arts Space to develop electromagnetic characteristics without prolonged laboratory training, then began cultivating in seclusion. Meanwhile, Ya Lie and Ye Yukong returned to Fortress 87, where Ye Yukong learned that his student Li Qingshan was on the Merit Ranking and assured Ya Lie that he would not be defeated by him.

• Ren Han watched Li Qingshan produce electromagnetic characteristics in the laboratory, but Li Qingshan said that practicing once was enough for his path.
• Li Qingshan returned to the Fortress and asked Chi Jifeng to watch the Shouyang Alliance’s movements while he entered the Martial Arts Space.
• Li Qingshan burned the accumulated monsters to ash, confirmed that his Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra had begun progressing, and started altering his Dharma Aspect in seclusion.
• Ya Lie and Ye Yukong emerged from a rift at Fortress 87, where Ya Lie confronted the Yufei Alliance and declared himself human.
• Ye Yukong recognized Li Qingshan at the bottom of the Merit Ranking as his student, and Ya Lie said he hoped not to deal him too heavy a blow; Ye Yukong assured him Li Qingshan would not be defeated.

Li Qingshan cultivated the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra while others mistook his seclusion for idleness, then raided a Shouyang Alliance rift when Chi Jifeng alerted him to their gathered forces. After Kong Yang convinced him to use a laboratory, Li Qingshan went to the Solar Wind Laboratory, where Ren Han realized he had completed the first layer in only three days.

• Li Qingshan discovered that one year of cultivation had earned him one experience point toward the first layer of the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra.
• Chi Jifeng watched Li Qingshan cultivate in seclusion, while Kong Yang and Kong Yin dismissed his practice as an act.
• Chi Jifeng told Li Qingshan that Alien Races had gathered at a Shouyang Alliance rift, and Li Qingshan immediately entered it to provide support.
• Kong Yang argued that Li Qingshan should stop wasting time and cultivate in a laboratory, and Li Qingshan agreed before vanishing.
• Kong Yin confirmed that Li Qingshan had gone to the Solar Wind Laboratory, and Ren Han was astonished that he had completed the first layer in three days.

Li Qingshan rapidly tempered his Dharma Aspect through the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra while defending a High-Risk Rift and spending increasing stretches in seclusion. After reaching the Eighth Layer in two and a half years, he encountered the long-absent Ren Han and asked what had happened to him.

• Li Qingshan completed the First Layer in the Martial Arts Space and immediately entered a blazing laboratory to temper his Dharma Aspect.
• Kong Yang and his group rushed to the High-Risk Rift, but Li Qingshan had already arrived and told the Alliance Leader he would handle the defense.
• Li Qingshan began the Second Layer using simulated solar wind particles, then advanced through the Third and Fourth Layers as Ren Han watched in growing astonishment.
• Li Qingshan continued tempering in specialized laboratories, reaching the Seventh Layer while Ren Han remained absent.
• Two and a half years after exchanging for the technique, Li Qingshan completed the Eighth Layer and began the Ninth before finding Ren Han, disheveled and bloodshot-eyed, at the laboratory passage.

Li Qingshan learned that a new battlefield would open and hurried to the rifts to earn merit, while the Alien Races began suffering devastating losses. The chapter ended with Xue Yin revealing that the Blood Rot Tribe had used their own clans as bait to lure out human prodigies.

• Ren Han learned that Li Qingshan had completed the eighth-layer tempering and explained that the Ninth-Grade Lightning Pool required fifty million merit.
• Ren Han told Li Qingshan that the Military Department had confirmed a new Alien Domain, and warned him about possible seventh-order enemies.
• Li Qingshan saw the official notice, found the Merit Hall empty, and rushed to the Underground Planet, where Kong Yang let him choose a rift first.
• Human forces entered rifts across a hundred Frontier Fortresses as the Heavenly Demons descended into the Alien Starry Sky.
• Xie Sen and the other chieftains discovered that their sixth-order foundations had been destroyed, and Xue Yin said the Blood Rot Tribe had sacrificed them as bait to draw out human prodigies.

The Human Race’s Heavenly Demons swept across more than one hundred thousand Alien Race planets, killing their inhabitants and earning merit and experience. The clan leaders learned that the Great Elder had allowed the surprise attack to reveal the Heavenly Demons’ strongest prodigies, and Xue Yin promised that the next battle would make them pay.

• Wan Mu, Ze Yuan, Che Yufei, Zhong Jun, and Fei Xingye destroyed Alien Races and their worlds across the starry sky, while Che Yufei clashed with Ya Lie and encountered Ye Yukong.
• A young man used a sunlike power to annihilate Life Planets, earning merit and experience as the attacks spread across more than one hundred thousand worlds.
• The Flesh and Blood Fortress’s clan leaders discovered that every Soul Tablet for the planets under their command had shattered.
• Xue Yin told the clan leaders that the Great Elder had allowed the attack to expose the Heavenly Demons’ peak prodigies, and said the Heavenly Demons would pay next time.

Li Qingshan continued exploiting the New Battlefield’s rifts and discovered that the Seventh Order abilities Dean Ye described applied only to humans. The chapter ended as Li Qingshan attacked two Blood Rot Tribe Elders who had mistaken him for a helpless target.

• Li Qingshan earned 230,000 merit points in the New Battlefield, rose to rank 5869, and noticed Ye Yukong on the ranking.
• The next day, Li Qingshan joined the Shouyang Alliance as a reinforcement and entered one of two newly opened rifts while Kong Yang led his group into the other.
• On a distant planet, Wan Mu and his Giant Wood Tribe were trapped by two Seventh Order Blood Rot Tribe Elders preparing a Blood Corrosion Great Array to destroy the planet.
• On another planet, two Blood Rot Tribe Elders sealed the Starry Giant in mucus, believing him to be the Heavenly Demon Aspect they had been seeking.
• Li Qingshan broke through their Void Seal, realized the Seventh Order traits applied only to humans, and ignited his Starry Aspect to attack the Elders.

Human commanders learned that the New Battlefield was a trap targeting humanity’s top prodigies, with five of the Merit Ranking’s top ten confirmed dead. Ren Han revealed that Li Qingshan had entered the rift where Kong Yang’s team was fighting, and his updated Merit records showed he had killed two Seventh-Order Blood Rot Tribe members.

• Ge Lei received confirmation that Wan Mu had died and activated a Level Three Alert across the Frontier Fortresses.
• The commanders saw that Wan Mu, Chang Fengyan, Wei Yijun, Ze Yuan, and Mao Yunxuan had fallen, and Suo Hanchuan concluded the alien races had targeted the top-ranked prodigies.
• Suo Hanchuan ordered the commanders to count the survivors and identify prodigies trapped in the rifts while assuring Ren Han and Wen Yu that Li Qingshan, Ya Lie, and Ye Yukong were alive.
• Wen Yu reported that Ya Lie and Ye Yukong had entered Che Yufei’s rift, while Ren Han explained that Li Qingshan had left one rift and charged into Kong Yang’s.
• The commanders checked Li Qingshan’s Merit records and saw that he had killed two Seventh-Order Blood Rot Tribe members, earning one million Merit Points for each kill.

Fei Xingye, Ye Yukong, and Ya Lie escaped the Blood Rot Tribe’s traps through their powers and teamwork. As the Kong Yu Clan faced being stranded beyond the closing gate, Kong Yang left their hiding place to rescue Li Qingshan, and a sun erupted from the planet below.

• Fei Xingye harnessed a solar wind to break through the mucus sealing him in and escape the star system.
• A human prodigy used the Blood Corrosion Great Array and the Power of Annihilation to destroy his planet and break the Void Seal, leaving only ashes.
• Ye Yukong aged a Blood Rot Tribe Elder until the mucus weakened, letting Ya Lie break free and kill him; Che Yufei carried Ya Lie and Ye Yukong away.
• Kong Yang rejected Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family’s prejudice and went to rescue Li Qingshan, leaving Kong Yin to maintain their subspace.
• A sun suddenly rose from the planet’s surface, flooding the Cosmic Starry Sky with light.

Li Qingshan rescued Kong Yang and the others after destroying the Blood Rot Tribe ambush, while five Blood Rot Elders died. In the Flesh and Blood Fortress, Xue Hui learned of the losses and prepared to hunt the human prodigies responsible, confident in the Flesh and Blood True God's protection.

• Li Qingshan pulled the Blood Rot Tribe Elder back into the blaze, melted the planet's surface, and greeted Kong Yang in orbit.
• Kong Yang told Li Qingshan he had returned to save him, and Li Qingshan accepted him as a comrade-in-arms.
• Kong Yin and the Three Brothers of the Niu Family joined Li Qingshan and Kong Yang as they headed back through the rift.
• Xue Yin reported that the Blood Rot Clan's dependents had become obedient, but Xue Hui showed him five shattered Elders' Soul Tablets.
• Xue Hui explained that sixth-order humans had killed the Elders and declared that the human prodigies were his targets.
• Xue Hui said the three humans who killed Xue Sha were fleeing through the Starry Sky and wondered whether the other two human prodigies would return to reinforce them.