Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan reported the Blood Rot Tribe’s attack on human prodigies, and Suo Hanchuan devised a plan to find the missing survivors through First-Order Rifts. With the six missing prodigies still alive but trapped in the Alien Starry Sky, Li Qingshan offered to share their burden.

• At the Frontier Fortress, Commanders watched as Li Qingshan quickly killed two Seventh-Order Blood Rot Tribe members and returned from the Alien Starry Sky.
• Suo Hanchuan summoned Li Qingshan, showed him the fallen and missing prodigies, and learned that the Blood Rot Tribe had targeted human geniuses.
• Ye Hao objected to opening a Seventh-Order Rift, warning that it could provoke a catastrophic clash involving a Venerable and the Flesh Demon God.
• Suo Hanchuan revealed he had already applied to open a Seventh-Order Rift and proposed using numerous First-Order Rifts and Communicators to locate the missing prodigies.
• Li Qingshan stood and said he needed to share the burden of his trapped colleagues.

Li Qingshan asked to reenter the Sixth-Order Rift to draw enemy attention away from his comrades, despite the danger posed by the Blood Rot Tribe's Great Elder and his Corruption. Suo Hanchuan approved the plan and arranged staggered rift openings at Fortress 13, leaving Li Qingshan to face the mission with only his willpower to resist Corruption.

• Li Qingshan proposed entering the Sixth-Order Rift again to relieve the pressure on his comrades, but Ye Hao rejected the idea before his Projection disappeared.
• Suo Hanchuan warned Li Qingshan that the Blood Rot Tribe's Great Elder was a mature Divine Son whose Corruption could affect an entire Star System.
• Suo Hanchuan explained that martial artists could resist Corruption only through willpower, which Li Qingshan might lack due to his rapid cultivation.
• Li Qingshan insisted on taking the risk to protect his comrades, even if drawing the Great Elder's pursuit meant he had succeeded.
• Suo Hanchuan ordered the Prodigy Battle suspended, arranged Communicators for the Fortresses, and scheduled Sixth-Order Rift openings at Fortress 13 every hour for Li Qingshan's cleanup operations.

Li Qingshan prepared to enter the Sixth-Order Rift to rescue those lost in the Alien Domain, while Ye Hao tried to have Kong Yang stop him. After Li Qingshan departed, Xue Hui detected a powerful target returning and pursued it as a sacrifice for his lord.

• Li Qingshan ignored Ye Hao’s call and resumed cultivating while the Merit Hall learned that Fei Xingye, Ye Yukong, and others were lost in the Alien Domain.
• Ye Hao ordered Kong Yang to stop Li Qingshan from entering the rift, but Kong Yang concealed his anger and agreed to try.
• Ren Han prepared a spaceship made by Xina as a contingency before Li Qingshan entered the rift.
• Kong Yang saw Li Qingshan off and offered help, and Li Qingshan stepped into the rift.
• Xue Hui revealed that Li Qingshan’s escape had been bait and detected a returning target five thousand light-years away.
• Xue Hui declared the target a big fish and left to capture it, assigning Xue Yin the nearby Heavenly Demons.

Li Qingshan quickly purged an ordinary planet through the Ten-Thousand-Meter Rift, then cultivated while waiting for the next opening. Meanwhile, the Blood Rot Tribe pursued the Six Demons and learned of a distant Heavenly Demon who had killed four elders, whom they called the Seven Demons.

• Li Qingshan returned from the rift within seconds, told Ren Han to prepare the rescue plan, and explained to Kong Yang that his task was to draw the Blood Rot Tribe's fire.
• Li Qingshan calculated that the rifts could bring him over a million experience a day, then sat down to cultivate as the Ten-Thousand-Meter Rift closed.
• Xue Hui arrived at a shrinking rift on a lava planet and waited there, then used a Blood Jade to locate the next signal fifteen hundred light-years away.
• Xie Sen told Xue Yin that another Heavenly Demon had appeared far from the Six Demons, prompting Xue Yin to insist that the Great Elder's plan remained in motion.
• Xue Yin described the Six Demons' portraits and said the Great Elder would handle the distant Heavenly Demon, while Xie Sen proposed calling him the Seven Demons.
• Xue Yin acknowledged that the Seven Demons had killed four elders and privately feared he might become a Titled Sky Demon if he survived and grew stronger.

Ye Yukong, Ya Lie, and Che Yufei fled through Alien space while destroying enemy planets, and Ye Yukong revealed the limits of his unusual Dharma Aspect. Elsewhere, top human prodigies launched attacks of their own as Xue Hui pursued Li Qingshan, also known as Formless, without catching him.

• A chieftain received Soul Tablet fragments and a Blood Jade, then named the Dragon Demon, White Demon, and Wind Demon as Xue Yin demanded a Star Chart.
• Ya Lie celebrated their attack, but Ye Yukong warned that the spaceship had no Star Chart and explained that his interrupted Break Limit had left him with two 36 Zhang Dharma Aspects.
• Ye Yukong told Che Yufei that other human prodigies were likely attacking Alien Races rather than hiding, and Ya Lie affirmed their willingness to die fighting.
• Meng Shan, Zhong Jun, and Fei Xingye each attacked a Life Planet, earning their codenames Meteor Sky Demon, Annihilation Sky Demon, and Great Sun Sky Demon.
• Li Qingshan destroyed a planet and entered a Sixth-Order Rift, while Xue Hui arrived too late and vowed to catch the Heavenly Demon Formless.

Li Qingshan helped coordinate a rescue effort for six prodigies trapped in the Alien Domain while drawing the Blood Rot Tribe's Great Elder away from them. Ten days later, the ranking showed that Meng Shan was no longer marked as trapped.

• Li Qingshan warned the students deploying Communicators at Fortress 13 to stay alert for accidents in the Star Realm.
• Ren Han reported that several trapped prodigies had destroyed planets while continuing the Prodigy Battle, giving them a chance to receive the rescue signal.
• Ren Han said the Military Department would check the Communicators every hour and that the Blood Rot Tribe's Great Elder was likely hunting Li Qingshan.
• Over ten days, Li Qingshan's Merit rose until he reached rank 998 as students searched for news of the trapped prodigies.
• The trapped designation disappeared from Meng Shan's rank-four listing, prompting alarm across the Merit Halls.

Li Qingshan learned that Meng Shan had escaped and that Ye Yukong, Ya Lie, and Che Yufei were trapped, but their planet shattered before a rescue rift could open. He refused to accept Fate and resumed training, while Ye Yukong and the others discovered someone had wiped out the life on a planet before a sword attack erupted beneath them.

• Ren Han told Li Qingshan that Meng Shan had returned after being hunted by the Blood Rot Clan's War Fortress and warned that the remaining trapped prodigies faced growing danger.
• Mao Ang reported that Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, and Che Yufei were on a planet beyond a nearby rift, and Ren Han began arranging a Sixth-Order Rift to retrieve them.
• Mao Ang returned with a wooden plaque reading “Do not come over!” and explained that he had found the three outside the rift without going back in.
• Ren Han learned that the rescue rift's opening had been interrupted and the planet had shattered, while Li Qingshan declared that he did not believe in Fate and entered the Martial Arts Space to train.
• Ye Yukong, Ya Lie, and Che Yufei escaped a destroyed spaceship and found a planet where someone had killed all life with precise wounds.
• A Heaven-Piercing Sword Light shot from the planet toward the three as an unseen attacker shouted, “Beast, die!”

Ya Lie fought Xuantian Mo Yuan after Mo Yuan mistook his True Dragon Body for an alien’s true form. Ye Yukong clarified their identities and invoked Li Qingshan and Tianji, ending the fight; Mo Yuan then explained that his master had sent him toward the Azure Dragon Galaxy.

• Mo Yuan attacked Ya Lie, mistaking him for an alien, and the two clashed while Ye Yukong and Che Yufei worried that the War Fortress had locked onto them.
• Ye Yukong asked Mo Yuan whether he knew Canglan Tianji, and Mo Yuan paused the fight to ask whether Ye Yukong knew Senior Tianji.
• Ye Yukong introduced himself, named Li Qingshan as his source on Tianji, and identified Che Yufei as an ally of humanity.
• Ye Yukong explained that Ya Lie belonged to the Azure Dragon Nine Sons Lineage, and Mo Yuan apologized for mistaking his True Dragon Body for an alien form.
• Mo Yuan said his master had sent him from Canglan toward the Azure Dragon Galaxy and apologized to Master Suixin across the Starry Sky.

Ye Yukong, Ya Lie, Che Yufei, and Mo Yuan escaped the pursuing Flesh and Blood Fortress by powering a random teleportation formation with Ya Lie’s Spirit Stones. Xue Hui learned the Three Demons had slipped away and followed their trail, while Xue Yin presented the other chieftains with a portrait naming the mysterious enemy the Formless Sky Demon.

• Ye Yukong and Ya Lie realized that Mo Yuan’s Master Suixin was the same person they knew, but Che Yufei hurried them to flee as the War Fortress tore through the void.
• Mo Yuan refused to escape by spaceship and led the group to a teleportation formation on a flattened island.
• Ya Lie supplied a mountain of Spirit Stones, allowing Mo Yuan to power the formation for a random teleportation five thousand light-years away; the group vanished as the island sank.
• One day later, Xue Hui learned from a Blood Jade that the Dragon Demon, White Demon, and Wind Demon had escaped, and he sent the news to Xue Yin before pursuing them through a Hyperspace Channel.
• Xue Yin told the chieftains that the Three Demons had gone to the Great Elder’s Star Domain, then displayed a shadowy portrait and named it the Formless Sky Demon.

Li Qingshan learned that Fei Xingye and Zhong Jun had been located, while Ye Yukong, Ya Lie, and Che Yufei remained missing but alive. On a distant planet, Ye Yukong and his companions escaped Xue Hui by teleporting away, and another young man appeared through a rift amid the devastation.

• Ren Han told Li Qingshan and Kong Yang that the Military Department had located Fei Xingye and Zhong Jun and was preparing to bring them back.
• Li Qingshan showed Ren Han that Ye Yukong, Ya Lie, and Che Yufei were still alive, prompting Ren Han to propose expanding the rescue search.
• Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, Che Yufei, and Mo Yuan arrived on a Bloodwing Tribe planet, set up a teleportation formation, and devastated the planet before escaping.
• Xue Hui arrived after they had fled and wondered how the group had escaped his pursuit.
• A young man stepped through a rift onto the shattered planet and froze at the sight of the destruction.

Li Qingshan escaped Xue Hui’s Star-System-wide corruption and fled through a Hyperspace Channel. At the Frontier Fortress, commanders debated sending people back to help him, and four volunteered, including Kong Yang.

• Xue Hui transformed the planet into a Bloody Great Sun and spread Divine Light across the Star System, but Li Qingshan resisted it and escaped aboard a Black Spaceship.
• Xue Hui raged as Li Qingshan vanished into a Hyperspace Channel, then destroyed flesh-and-blood planets with his tentacles.
• Ye Hao accused Suo Hanchuan and the Military Department of endangering Jiao Xiu District by risking Li Qingshan’s future.
• Suo Hanchuan insisted that the Military Department could not force anyone to reenter a rift, and Fei Xingye, Zhong Jun, and Meng Shan volunteered.
• Kong Yang also requested to reenter the rift, surprising the commanders gathered at the Frontier Fortress.

Kong Yang cut off Ye Hao and resolved to stop acting submissively, while Li Qingshan escaped through the Alien Starry Sky after a devastating encounter with the Great Elder. Seeing the dark star chart as an opportunity to explore and strengthen Martial Arts Space, he ordered Xina One to descend toward an uncharted star.

• Ye Hao warned Kong Yang that his survival mattered to long-term plans, and Kong Yang disconnected the call and declared that he would stop being a dog.
• Aboard Xina One, Li Qingshan reflected on the Great Elder's overwhelming power and why he could not safely use self-destruction as a trump card.
• Li Qingshan considered how the Great Elder had appeared along his route and concluded that the encounter might have been a coincidence.
• Li Qingshan examined the star chart and realized that leveling up Martial Arts Space could greatly reduce the time needed to recover after self-destruction.
• Li Qingshan called the dark star chart a vast blue sea and ordered Xina One to descend toward a nearby star.

Ren Han sent Kong Yang and other commanders into the rifts on one-minute missions to draw enemy fire, while Xue Hui received reports of multiple Heavenly Demons and hesitated over which to pursue. After the Evil Horned Tribe’s war fortresses set out to support the Great Elder, Xie Sen discovered the Formless Sky Demon had destroyed more than fifty distant planets and decided to abandon the clan territory and flee to the Ancestral Star.

• Ren Han gave Kong Yang the spacecraft Xina II and ordered him to spend no more than one minute drawing enemy fire before returning.
• Kong Yang, Fei Xingye, Zhong Jun, and Meng Shan entered separate rifts as Xue Hui pursued the Formless Sky Demon through the void.
• Xue Hui received messages reporting the Three Demons and four more Heavenly Demons, including an unknown one, and wavered over which threat to chase.
• Xie Sen convinced the clan chieftains to support the Great Elder’s plan, then secured permission to leave while the Evil Horned Tribe’s upper ranks in other fortresses remained.
• Xie Sen showed the Old Servant that more than fifty Soul Tablets had shattered in three hours, identifying the Formless Sky Demon as the cause.
• Xie Sen ordered the Old Servant to abandon the territory and flee to the Ancestral Star.

Li Qingshan raced through Canine Tooth Tribe territory in the overclocked Black Spaceship while Xue Hui pursued him, and he sent a message seeking Ye Yukong and the others. When Xue Yin captured their group, Li Qingshan appeared above the battlefield as the Black Spaceship neared disintegration.

• Li Qingshan learned that Ye Yukong, Ya Lie, and Che Yufei were safe at Fortress 87, then sent a repeating message to help locate them.
• Xue Hui received coordinates for Li Qingshan in Canine Tooth Tribe territory and split from Xue Yin to pursue him while Xue Yin sought the Three Demons.
• Xue Hui caught up to Li Qingshan, who ordered Xina One to remove its restrictions and accelerate at full overclocked speed as the ship's disintegration progress rose.
• Xue Yin and fifteen Seventh Order Elders trapped Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, Che Yufei, and Mo Yuan at a War Fortress, then seized their Wristwatches after Kong Yang emerged from a Sixth-Order Rift.
• Xue Yin saw Li Qingshan's message on the Wristwatches and mocked the group, but Li Qingshan appeared above them and confronted him.

Li Qingshan revealed himself as the Starry Giant and annihilated the Blood Rot Tribe Elders attacking the platform. With the remaining War Fortresses arriving and the Great Elder close behind, Li entered the Martial Arts Space to test whether his trump card could defeat them.

• Li Qingshan destroyed the War Fortress and killed the sixth-order chieftains, then pursued and killed the fleeing Blood Rot Tribe Elders.
• Ye Yukong and the others recognized Li Qingshan, while Mo Yuan explained that he had trusted Master Suixin to send help.
• Li Qingshan met Mo Yuan and learned he came from the Canglan Realm, where Suixin had gone.
• Three more War Fortresses emerged from Hyperspace Channels, and Li Qingshan concluded that all four had arrived and the Great Elder was approaching.
• Ye Yukong ordered the group to retreat, but Li Qingshan entered the Martial Arts Space to test his trump card against the coming threat.

Li Qingshan stayed behind to face Xue Hui and the Blood Rot Tribe Elder council while the others escaped with a War Fortress core containing Star Chart data. After he unleashed his Starry River power against Xue Hui, the survivors returned to Fortress 13, where Ye Yukong insisted Li Qingshan would win and be brought back the next day.

• Li Qingshan gave Ye Yukong the War Fortress core and stayed behind, saying he had gained insight and wanted to eliminate the Blood Rot Tribe Elder council.
• Li Qingshan sent everyone else through the rift as Xue Hui arrived with three War Fortresses and attacked the planet.
• Li Qingshan scattered his Dharma Aspect into 108 stars, which joined into a vast Starry River that overwhelmed Xue Hui's blood-colored radiance.
• At Fortress 13, Kong Yin and Ren Han waited anxiously until Kong Yang and the other stranded prodigies returned through the rift.
• Ye Yukong gave Ren Han the War Fortress core and said Li Qingshan would survive and win, though the others doubted him.

The return of Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, and Che Yufei left Li Qingshan as the only fallen prodigy, while the Military Department prepared a renewed campaign based on the Star Chart. At Fortress 13, Kong Yang learned that Ye Hao had revoked the expulsion orders against his clan and renamed his third brother Kong Xun.

• Fei Xingye learned that the rift had not opened, while news spread that Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, and Che Yufei had returned from Fortress 13 with the War Fortress core components.
• Prodigies across the Merit Halls saw that Li Qingshan was the only one still marked fallen, and the Commanders discussed Ye Yukong's faith in his insight.
• Suo Hanchuan ordered the Fortresses to prepare to restart the Prodigy Battle after the Blood Jade Sphere's Star Chart data was cracked.
• Che Yufei questioned Kong Yang about why he had entered the rift, and he received a call from his third brother, Kong Bin.
• Kong Bin told Kong Yang that Ye Hao had revoked the expulsion orders against the Kongyu Clan and given him the new name Kong Xun.
• Kong Yang explained that Xun meant to lecture and instruct, and by extension to admonish and encourage someone to return to propriety.

As the Military Department launched a one-day assault across the Alien Starry Sky, Li Qingshan’s allies found him alive amid the remains of a destroyed Star System. Back at the Frontier Fortresses, his merit surged to first place.

• Kong Yang and Che Yufei heard that a million prodigies would sweep the Alien Starry Sky, and Kong Yang set out with Ya Lie, Ye Yukong, and Mo Yuan.
• Xie Sen and the Old Servant found the Evil Horned Tribe’s territory annihilated and fled toward the Ancestral Land to warn the Great Starry Sky Clans about the Formless Sky Demon.
• Ye Yukong, Kong Yang, Ya Lie, Mo Yuan, and Che Yufei found Li Qingshan alive in the shattered remains of a Star System and brought him aboard Xina II.
• Kong Yang told Li Qingshan that the Military Department’s million prodigies had wiped out the alien races across the Starry Sky in one day.
• Across the Frontier Fortresses, Li Qingshan’s merit rapidly rose from 10.68 million until he became First in Merit.

Li Qingshan topped the Merit Ranking after killing a Seventh-Order Divine Son, whose reward the system could not calculate. At a Military Department meeting, the commanders discussed Lightning Pool allocations, while Kong Yang told Li Qingshan not to consider his own eligibility.

• Mao Ang told Chi Jifeng that Commander Ren had already taken Li Qingshan and the others away, and Chi Jifeng saw Li Qingshan ranked first with 73.03 million merits plus an unknown amount.
• Li Qingshan arrived at a meeting with Kong Yang, Dean Ye, Ya Lie, and Che Yufei as commanders received messages asking about the Merit Ranking's apparent error.
• Suo Hanchuan explained that the system had no set reward for killing a Seventh-Order Divine Son, making Li Qingshan's achievement unprecedented.
• Suo Hanchuan began discussing Thunder Pool allocations, and Li Qingshan noticed Kong Yang would fall outside the top three and lose eligibility for an Eighth-Grade Lightning Pool.
• Kong Yang rose and told Li Qingshan not to consider him, facing commanders whose attitudes toward him had changed.

At a Military Department meeting, Ye Hao expelled Kong Yang from his student status, but Li Qingshan and the commanders worked to keep him in the human territories. Li Qingshan invited Kong Yang to join the Evil Slaying Department, then had his battle merits engraved permanently above the Merit Ranking.

• Ye Hao issued Kong Yang a Repatriation Order, claiming he had refused enlightenment and disrespected human rites.
• Li Qingshan and the commanders proposed taking Li off the Merit Ranking so Kong Yang could qualify for a higher-grade Lightning Pool, but Ye Hao argued that the order had ruined Kong Yang's future prospects.
• Li Qingshan revealed an invitation naming him Deputy Director of the Investigation Office and offered Kong Yang a place in the Evil Slaying Department, which Kong Yang accepted.
• Suo Hanchuan displayed Li Qingshan's record of 100 million battle merits and arranged for his name to be engraved above the Merit Ranking in all one hundred Frontier Fortresses.