Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan received news that he and his companions could exchange merit for Thunder Pools early, then sought out Mo Yuan to discuss the Canglan Demonic Tribulation. Deputy Minister Suo Hanchuan revealed that the Azure Dragon Council would make the threat the theme of the next War of the Four Saints.

• Ren Han told Kong Yang, Che Yufei, Ye Yukong, and Ya Lie that they could exchange merit for Thunder Pools ahead of schedule.
• Li Qingshan said he would return to practice, then asked Ren Han where Mo Yuan was and went to find him.
• At Mo Yuan's room, Li Qingshan met Suo Hanchuan, who warned that the Canglan Demonic Tribulation involved multiple Earth Immortals and was too dangerous for Li Qingshan to investigate.
• Suo Hanchuan said the Council had directed Mo Yuan to remain in the Starry Sky and continue cultivating rather than investigate the Canglan Realm.
• Suo Hanchuan announced that the Council had chosen the Canglan Demonic Tribulation as the theme of the next War of the Four Saints.

Suo Hanchuan explained that the War of the Four Saints would take place in a thousand years and that reaching higher Martial Dao realms required enduring ten thousand years of time erosion. Li Qingshan discovered his Status Panel could accelerate time in reality and began exchanging a monster sculpture and available time for Star Fragments, while forces across the galaxies reacted to his latest feat.

• Suo Hanchuan told Li Qingshan that Xiang Hao had become the Son of the Azure Dragon through the War of the Four Saints and explained the contest’s role in securing time resources for cultivation.
• Suo Hanchuan warned Li Qingshan that advancing from Seventh Order to Eighth Order required ten thousand years of time erosion, and advised him to Materialize, join the Evil Slaying Department, and earn Astral Realm Fragments.
• Li Qingshan entered the Martial Arts Space, recognized that his new reality-acceleration function could help him endure time erosion, and declared that he would resolve the Canglan Demonic Tribulation.
• Li Qingshan offered the Blood Rot Tribe’s Seventh-Order Divine Son sculpture and millions of years of available time to obtain Star Fragments for Void Transformation.
• Two Shadows discussed the War of the Four Saints being held in the Canglan Realm and debated its possible connection to Feng Boyong and Li Qingshan.
• The Shadows learned that Li Qingshan had topped the Merit Ranking after a Sixth Order killed a Seventh-Order Divine Son, and reacted with shock.

Li Qingshan spent time and Seventh Order statues drawing random Star Fragments, then began cultivating the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra. Three months later, Ren Han was startled when Li Qingshan arrived at the Ninth-Grade Lightning Pool aboard a Mecha, praising Commander Xina’s speed.

• Li Qingshan spent 10 million years of available time to draw a Blazing Sun Fragment, but could not absorb it without a suitable technique.
• Li Qingshan used more Seventh Order statues to draw additional Star Fragments and realized each draw required a Divine Son’s worth of statues and 10 million years.
• Li Qingshan began cultivating the Nine-Quench True Tribulation Reality Sutra beside the final Wolf statue.
• Ren Han led Che Yufei and Kong Yang to Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Lightning Pools, while Che Yufei and Kong Yang entered their respective pools to cultivate.
• After three months, Li Qingshan arrived at the Ninth-Grade Lightning Pool aboard a ten-thousand-meter Mecha and praised Commander Xina’s speed.

Li Qingshan reached Dharma Aspect materialization after half a year of tempering in the Ninth-Grade Lightning Pool, then learned that he had been appointed Deputy Director overseeing the Investigation Office’s Third Division. His first call to Bao Hetong put him face-to-face with Deputy Director Ye Lei, whom he ordered out of his division’s office.

• Li Qingshan confirmed to Ren Han that he had perfected the Ninth Layer, while Xina asked to borrow money to deal with the Quartermaster Department’s pressure.
• Li Qingshan gave Xina five billion Azure Dragon Coins in exchange for her modifying a reliable, fast starship for him.
• Li Qingshan spent half a year in the Ninth-Grade Lightning Pool and materialized his Dharma Aspect.
• Li Qingshan read his appointment notice and learned that he would oversee the Investigation Office’s Third Division, including Bao Hetong and Ni Mochuan.
• Li Qingshan called Bao Hetong, found him arguing with Deputy Director Ye Lei, and ordered Ye Lei to leave the Third Division office or face the consequences.

Li Qingshan confronted internal resistance in the Investigation Office and learned that Director Gu Feng might be nearing the end of his life. At Panlong Auction House headquarters, Li Wenbo planned to welcome Li Qingshan with a Star Fragment while seeking to bind him to the auction house.

• Ye Lei cut off her call with Li Qingshan after recognizing him, and Bao Hetong greeted him as the new Director Li.
• Bao Hetong told Li Qingshan that Gu Feng had withdrawn from affairs and might be preparing to transform into a Celestial Body as the Third Division faced growing resistance.
• Li Qingshan assured Bao Hetong he would report for duty soon, while Ren Han warned him not to underestimate Panlong Auction House.
• Li Wenbo told Ye Lei that he intended to make friends with Li Qingshan, then ended their call when she objected.
• Li Wenbo ordered his secretary to prepare a Star Fragment as a courtesy gift for Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan arrived at the Third Investigation Division’s station in Xina Three and met the division’s staff, who worried that he might be corrupt. He accepted a Star Fragment from Li Wenbo, then revealed that his proposed trade with Panlong Auction House was for one hundred seventh-rank Divine Sons.

• Xina showed Li Qingshan the refitted Xina Three and assured him that its Disintegration Progress Bar was more stable.
• Li Qingshan and Kong Yang departed the Frontier Fortress and arrived three months later at the Third Investigation Division’s station.
• Bao Hetong and Ni Mochuan reassured their colleagues that Li Qingshan was not corrupt as the staff prepared to greet him.
• Li Wenbo arrived on behalf of Panlong Auction House and invited Li Qingshan to speak privately.
• Li Qingshan took the Blazing Sun Fragment Li Wenbo offered and said he preferred trade to favors.
• Li Qingshan told Li Wenbo he wanted one hundred seventh-rank Divine Sons, not maidservants.

Li Qingshan pressured Li Wenbo for gifts, then told the Third Division staff to accept gifts and investigate anyone who offered them for links to Evil God Cultists. He entered his new office and found an old man waiting for him.

• Li Qingshan tried to bargain with Li Wenbo for seventh-rank Divine Sons, but Li Wenbo refused and offered Star Fragments instead.
• Li Qingshan rejected Li Wenbo’s offer and accused him of slandering him, then watched Li Wenbo escape through a Hyperspace Channel.
• At the Third Division Station on Dongsheng Star, Li Qingshan told the gathered staff that Li Wenbo had come to give him a gift and urged them to accept gifts while investigating the givers.
• Li Qingshan ordered the Section Chiefs to send all clues to him for review before forwarding them to the Action Office.
• Li Qingshan entered his office and found an old man waiting, who praised him as For Public Good.

Li Qingshan met Gu Feng, the Investigation Office director, who explained Star Fragment cultivation and the risks of breaking through to the eighth rank. Gu Feng named Li Qingshan as his prospective successor, and Li Qingshan hinted that he could help Gu Feng advance sooner.

• Gu Feng praised Li Qingshan’s work and explained that common Star Fragments had readily available cultivation methods, while Li Qingshan could choose a blazing sun-type method for free.
• Gu Feng revealed that he had come to keep Xia Cunzhen from recruiting Li Qingshan into the Action Office and warned that his own body was failing.
• Gu Feng explained that a seventh-rank cultivator’s True Spirit had to awaken after ten thousand years of dormancy to complete the eighth-rank breakthrough.
• Gu Feng called Li Qingshan the best successor to lead the Investigation Office, but said he could still hold on for some time.
• Li Qingshan urged Gu Feng not to delay his breakthrough and said he truly wanted to make progress.

Li Qingshan urged Gu Feng to hand over the directorship so he could clean up the Investigation Office, but Gu Feng explained that the department would choose his successor and warned Li Qingshan not to neglect cultivation. Gu Feng’s failing health remained clear as he left, claiming he was simply unwilling to let go of power.

• Li Qingshan declared that he wanted to take over the directorship to protect the people of Jiao Xiu District and root out Evil God Cultists.
• Gu Feng praised Li Qingshan’s motives but explained that his own approval would not be enough to appoint him director.
• Gu Feng said the department would likely choose among Shao Fenghua, He Jian, and Ye Lei, and admitted there were problems throughout the Investigation Office.
• Li Qingshan urged Gu Feng to break through before his remaining hope ran out, but Gu Feng told him to focus on cultivation instead.
• Gu Feng tore open the void and departed while coughing, saying he was unwilling to let go of power.

Li Qingshan settled into his new role as Deputy Director of the Investigation Office and explored the Evil Slaying Department’s internal network. He turned down Xia Cunzhen’s attempt to recruit him to the Action Office and insisted that Zone Three was peaceful.

• After Gu Feng departed, Li Qingshan reviewed the department’s structure and learned about its ministers and six Offices.
• Li Qingshan explored the task system, discovered that he could not accept Action Office tasks, and declared that Zone Three would have no tasks.
• Li Qingshan examined the exchange store and spent 1,000 contribution points on the True Flame Art for the Blazing Sun Fragment.
• Xia Cunzhen called Li Qingshan and tried to persuade him to join the Action Office, but Li refused, saying he preferred a peaceful life in Zone Three.
• When footsteps sounded and Xia asked about a lead, Li Qingshan said there was none and called his contact a routine work report.

Li Qingshan learned that Old Fang had uncovered suspected smuggling of high-level Evil God Alien Races by Chuanhui Group in the Nanchuan Star Domain and set out to investigate. He left Bao Hetong and Kong Yang aboard Xina Three while he entered seclusion for the long journey.

• Bao Hetong reported that Old Fang had traced a lead to Chuanhui Group and suspected it of smuggling high-level Evil God Alien Races.
• Li Qingshan decided to investigate personally, but Bao Hetong explained that Old Fang had already asked an Action Department for help and that Deputy Director Ye Lei had created a standoff.
• Bao Hetong revealed that Chuanhui Group was backed by Hui Banxing and connected to Panlong Auction House through Xu He.
• Li Qingshan told Kong Yang that he had applied for him to become section chief of the Ninth Department and reminded him to learn from the trip.
• Bao Hetong assured Li Qingshan that the Action Department had sealed off the planet, preventing the suspected goods from being transferred.
• Li Qingshan entered seclusion aboard Xina Three, leaving Kong Yang and Bao Hetong together.

Li Qingshan studied the True Flame Art and calculated the time and Star Fragments needed to cultivate it, then entered the Martial Arts Space to train. Twenty days later, he arrived at Chuanhui Star amid a standoff over the suspected high-order Evil God Alien Race inside Chuanhui Building.

• Li Qingshan read that the True Flame Art relied on slow cultivation and estimated that his Dharma Aspect would require forty Star Fragments.
• Li Qingshan realized his Martial Arts Space could compress the cultivation time and entered it to train.
• Fang Tao and the Action Department confronted Hui Banxing at Chuanhui Group headquarters, insisting that evidence was inside the building.
• Ye Lei continued to block Fang Tao, while Hui Banxing denied that the building contained anything.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Chuanhui Star, and Ye Lei and Hui Banxing reacted with alarm when he appeared above the building.
• Li Qingshan told Ye Lei that she was right and that there was nothing inside.

Li Qingshan led Ye Lei, Hui Banxing, and the Action Department members to the thirteenth floor, which Hui Banxing and Ye Lei’s reactions suggested concealed a high-ranking Evil God Alien Race. When Li Qingshan exposed the floor, however, it was empty of Alien Races, leaving the supposed target’s whereabouts unexplained.

• Fang Tao protested that the reports about Alien Races in the building could not be wrong, but Bao Hetong reminded him that Li Qingshan had verified the lead.
• Li Qingshan apologized to Hui Banxing, then asked to enter the building for tea despite Ye Lei’s request that the Three Departments withdraw.
• Kong Yang invited the Action Department members to join Li Qingshan, and they followed, hoping to find evidence of Alien Races themselves.
• Hui Banxing directed Li Qingshan toward his top-floor office, but Li Qingshan instead chose the thirteenth floor, alarming Hui Banxing and Ye Lei.
• Li Qingshan destroyed the thirteenth-floor window and outer wall, revealing a pink room decorated with fox-tailed women’s posters but no Alien Races.

Li Qingshan covered up the disappearance of five Nine-tailed Heavenly Foxes, then made Hui Banxing pay the Action Department for their visit and promised to protect Chuanhui Group’s trafficking channel. As he left, he declined a call from Panlong Auction House vice president Li Wenbo, who was holding a severed head at the auction house’s headquarters.

• The Action Department members found only posters of Nine-tailed Heavenly Foxes and concluded that Li Qingshan had removed the foxes and erased the evidence.
• Li Qingshan sent Fang Tao after the departing officials, then made Hui Banxing pay for tea with Black Gold Cards and said he would protect Chuanhui Group’s channel.
• Li Qingshan proposed pursuing a Ten-tailed Heavenly Fox, but Hui Banxing failed to reach his superior, Xu He, so Li Qingshan left with Kong Yang and Bao Hetong.
• On Far Orbit, Kong Yang told the Action Department members to keep the cards Li Qingshan had given them as payment for their trip.
• Li Qingshan declined a call from Li Wenbo, who stood at Panlong Auction House headquarters holding a human head.

Ye Lei and Li Wenbo discussed Panlong Auction House’s dealings and why they would not openly oppose Li Qingshan, while Li Wenbo arranged to teach him a lesson. Aboard Xina Three, Li Qingshan prepared to absorb a Star Fragment, with his perfected technique and accelerated time flow promising to speed the process.

• Ye Lei confronted Li Wenbo after he killed Xu He, and they debated whether to oppose Li Qingshan.
• Li Wenbo warned Ye Lei that Li Qingshan was ruthless and that Director Gu—not Li Qingshan—was her main rival for the director’s position.
• Li Wenbo showed Ye Lei photographs of five Nine-tailed Heavenly Foxes and explained that powerful figures tolerated Panlong Auction House’s business.
• Li Wenbo told Ye Lei that Director Gu could not act before the formal handover and that Li Qingshan would need a long time to reach Void Transformation.
• Li Wenbo received a message from Hui Banxing and said he would make Li Qingshan understand that Panlong’s property could not be taken freely.
• Aboard Xina Three, Li Qingshan examined a Star Fragment and used his perfected True Flame Art and accelerated time flow to prepare for faster absorption.

Li Qingshan discovered that Reality Acceleration let him cultivate ten times faster inside the Martial Arts Space, then learned a video of him accepting gifts had spread across the Horn Mansion District. Rather than deny the authentic footage, he planned to use the resulting attention to target those with problems, while enemies prepared a trap involving Evil God Cultists.

• Li Qingshan activated Reality Acceleration and realized the Martial Arts Space's time flowed ten times faster, though it consumed available time at an extreme rate.
• Posts accusing Director Li of acting “For Public Good” appeared across departmental, company, and sect forums, spreading a video of him accepting Black Gold Cards at Chuanhui Building.
• After twenty days of cultivation, Li Qingshan returned to the bridge and heard Kong Yin warn Kong Yang not to associate with him.
• Bao Hetong and Fang Tao urged Li Qingshan to take down Hui Banxing and issue a clarification, but Li Qingshan said the genuine video was no rumor and decided to protect Hui Banxing as his public “reputation.”
• In the Hut Constellation District, two hidden figures planned to use the Dark Pawn to drive Evil God Cultists into Horn Mansion Zone Three, expecting Li Qingshan to take the bait.

After returning to Dongsheng Star, Li Qingshan found his subordinates defending him on the Evil Slaying Department forum and used his Deputy Director Permission to delete hostile posts. The forum’s uproar spread again, while his gains from killing five Nine-tailed Heavenly Foxes fell far short of what he needed, leaving him hoping a bigger target would take the bait.

• Li Qingshan returned to the Third Division Station and told Bao Hetong and Fang Tao to organize the news gathered during his month-and-a-half absence.
• Kong Yang explained that the subordinates’ defenses would be dismissed as whitewashing, and Li Qingshan praised him before leaving for his office.
• Li Qingshan liked his subordinates’ forum posts, then used his Permission to delete messages attacking him and the “For Public Good” controversy.
• After deleting tens of thousands of posts, Li Qingshan had his Permission suspended for seven days, though the forum commotion had reignited.
• Li Qingshan received 500,000 experience from the five Nine-tailed Heavenly Foxes he had killed and hoped a bigger target would take the bait.

The Void God Cult fled a peak Rank Seven pursuer and decided to seek help from Li Qingshan, believing rumors that he would accept bribes. Six months later, after exhausting his Star Fragments, Li Qingshan learned that an Evil God Cultist wanted to meet him.

• The Handsome Youth and the Void God Cult Elders escaped when the pursuing Long Spear abruptly withdrew, and they suspected the Evil Slaying Department was hunting them.
• The Wizened Elder persuaded the Handsome Youth to enter Zone Three and approach Li Qingshan, whom rumors described as greedy and in need of Star Fragments.
• After six months, Li Qingshan absorbed his fourth and final Star Fragment but remained far from the forty needed for Void Transformation.
• Bao Hetong told Li Qingshan that a human Evil God Cultist had approached Old Ni to request a meeting, and Li Qingshan urgently confirmed that he meant an Evil God Cult.

Li Qingshan refused to meet Qu Jie until the cult showed sufficient “sincerity,” while ordering Bao Hetong to investigate the suspected Evil God Cult. The Void God Cult tried again with an offering, but Qu Jie returned with another rejection from Li Qingshan.

• Li Qingshan told Bao Hetong not to capture or meet Qu Jie yet, and ordered him to investigate the suspected cult’s origins.
• Li Qingshan’s missing goods left a smug middle-aged man with an empty basement.
• Ni Mochuan noticed that two young women arriving at Jiuhua Star had Inner Scenes achieved through Nine Revolutions Ascending to Heaven, and overheard them mention reporting the “Mine” to the investigation section.
• The Handsome Youth gave Qu Jie a Star Fragment and ordered him to offer it to Li Qingshan while discussing the Divine Kingdom’s expansion.
• Seven days later, Qu Jie returned to the Void God Cult with a video of Li Qingshan refusing to meet him.

Li Qingshan investigated the Void God Cult and welcomed a reunion with Qiao Jingxing, Zhao Ran, and Yang Xiaoyu, who asked him to help find the missing Xing Yang. Su Yuan had taken Xing Yang as his disciple, and the chapter ended with Xing Yang convinced that Li Yanluo had become a corrupt man and that he himself had avoided a calamity by missing the chance to become his disciple.

• Li Qingshan learned that the Void God Cult had fled to Jiao Xiu District after being hunted, and he hoped Cult Leader Tu Qianliu would meet him in person.
• Ni Mochuan introduced Qiao Jingxing, Zhao Ran, and Yang Xiaoyu to Li Qingshan, and they told him Xing Yang had vanished three years earlier to pursue the martial path.
• Li Qingshan asked the investigation section to watch for Xing Yang and gave the three visitors his direct contact information.
• Su Yuan stood with Xing Yang over a photograph of Li Yanluo, and Xing Yang praised his master while vowing not to follow what he believed was Li Yanluo's crooked path.