Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan pressed Ye Lei for information about Panlong’s Source of Goods, then led an investigation that drew interference from departments across Horn Mansion. He enlisted Xia Cunzhen’s Action Office, and his blade appeared over Cuiyu Star as he ordered outsiders to stand aside.

• Li Qingshan confronted Ye Lei about Panlong Auction House’s Source of Goods in Zone Two, but she denied knowing anything and feared he could not defeat Minister Zhuang or Panlong.
• Yuan Zong told Li Wenbo to abandon the companies Li Qingshan was investigating and said Zhuang Chenxing had already made his move.
• As other departments obstructed the Evil Slaying Department’s investigations, Li Qingshan invited Xia Cunzhen’s Action Office to join the operation.
• On Cuiyu Star, Lei Chen confronted Commerce Department director Liao Zhian, who claimed his department had a right to act first.
• Li Qingshan addressed Liao Zhian through a Light Screen as a blade-light loomed over the planet, ordering idle outsiders to retreat.

Li Qingshan’s display of power forced the Commerce Department to withdraw from the Evil Slaying Department’s operation, while his subordinates closed in on their targets. Far away, researchers confirmed that he had reached Divine Aspect Eleventh Order but debated whether he would take the Final Step their project required.

• Li Qingshan ordered the Evil Slaying Department to act, and Lei Chen led its forces past the intimidated Liao Zhian toward the planet below.
• Evil Slaying Department members posted a photograph of Li Qingshan’s blade and spread the post across other departments’ forums.
• Li Qingshan told Xia Cunzhen that the blade was no longer needed as other departments withdrew and the operation’s net closed in.
• Jin Yuanli’s team confirmed that Li Qingshan had reached Divine Aspect Eleventh Order, likely through Time Sand, and discussed his lack of resources.
• Jin Yuanli explained that Hua Yu had barred him from contacting Li Qingshan because Hua Yu did not intend for Li Qingshan to take the Final Step.

Li Qingshan’s Investigation Office seized thousands of Cross-Domain Companies, but Zhuang Chenxing retaliated by arresting Ye Lei and the Second Investigation Division. As Zhuang tried to install Tu Shen as Ye Lei’s replacement, Li told him to wait, and Zhuang suddenly vanished from the virtual meeting.

• Li Qingshan’s three Deputy Directors reported that their divisions had apprehended the listed Cross-Domain Companies and seized their assets, while their investigation into Panlong’s network had stalled.
• Li Qingshan assigned Shi Yan to exchange the seized goods for Cosmic Matter, then received eight Starry Sky coordinates from Ye Lei that might point to Panlong’s Source of Goods.
• Kong Yang announced that Zhuang Chenxing had arrested the Second Investigation Division and executed Ye Lei, prompting a meeting about the division.
• Li Qingshan entered the virtual meeting, where Zhuang Chenxing proposed that Tu Shen take over the Second Investigation Division and challenged Li’s appointment as Deputy Director.
• Li Qingshan told Zhuang Chenxing to wait, and Zhuang’s figure suddenly vanished from the meeting room.

Li Qingshan deflected Zhuang Chenxing’s accusations while Tu Shen was appointed Deputy Director and took charge of the Second Investigation Division. Shadow later explained to Su Yuan that Qiong Xiao’s real purpose in the meeting was to help Tu Shen—or, more precisely, God Slaying.

• Zhuang Chenxing reappeared and accused Li Qingshan of ambushing him, but Li denied it and offered to investigate the attack.
• Li asked Ming Shuang to investigate Zhuang Chenxing’s location, forcing Zhuang to back down and withdraw his complaint.
• Ming Shuang appointed Tu Shen Deputy Director and placed her in charge of the Second Investigation Division.
• After the meeting, Shadow told Su Yuan that Qiong Xiao had helped Tu Shen rather than Zhuang Chenxing or acted against Li Qingshan.
• Shadow identified the meeting’s true purpose as helping Tu Shen, or God Slaying.

Su Yuan learned why Tu Shen was investigating Panlong Auction House and heard Shadow explain Qiong Xiao's plan to confront the self-proclaimed gods. Meanwhile, Zhuang Chenxing prepared a trap for Li Qingshan, who was warned that the coordinates were bait just as he chose to focus on cultivation resources.

• Shadow told Su Yuan that Tu Shen came from an Alien World where native Alien Races enslaved the world using fragments of Evil God power, and that she traced them to Panlong Auction House.
• Shadow said he would lead a team to slay the gods if their World Gate was Eighth Order, while Su Yuan told Xing Yang that good and evil depended on one's position.
• Zhuang Chenxing dismissed Li Wenbo's concerns about Tu Shen and revealed eight coordinates on a Star Chart, planning to lure Li Qingshan into a trap.
• Li Qingshan set the coordinates aside and told Shi Yan to prepare cultivation resources so he could return to seclusion.
• Bao Hetong contacted Li Qingshan with a note warning that the coordinates were a trap.

Li Qingshan investigated the memory-wiped Evil God Alien Races, resolved to capture a Seventh-Order Alien Race, and calculated how much stronger he needed to become to challenge Zhuang Chenxing. After receiving resources and entering seclusion again, Li Qingshan remained the target of Zhuang Chenxing, who patiently waited for him to appear.

• Kong Yang reported that the captured Evil God Alien Races had been turned into memoryless goods, so Li Qingshan ordered the Three Departments to find routes transporting Seventh-Order Alien Races and capture one for interrogation.
• Li Qingshan refused Kong Yang's suggestion to make more Longswords and estimated that he would need twenty million Quantum Star Cores to kill Zhuang Chenxing.
• Shi Yan personally escorted eight Hundred-Thousand-Meter Class cargo starships carrying cultivation resources to headquarters, and Li Qingshan began another seclusion.
• Tu Shen told Li Wenbo that she had staffed 108 divisions and restarted the Second Investigation Division, while Li Wenbo advised her to keep a low profile as Zhuang Chenxing went fishing.
• Zhuang Chenxing learned that Li Qingshan had likely entered seclusion and continued waiting in Unknown Deep Space for him to walk into the net.

Li Qingshan led the Investigation Room to intercept a smuggled Ten-tailed Heavenly Fox, only to learn it was merely “goods” with no clue to Tu Shen’s homeland. As Li Qingshan wondered about the secret behind the goods, Old Daoist Tianji arrived to find that Master Suixin had fallen into an Astral Rift again.

• Shao Fenghua, Lei Chen, and He Jian traced thirty-seven leads to the Huashi Group and reported the Ten-tailed Heavenly Fox’s location to Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan crossed five thousand light-years in an hour and ordered the Investigation Room to seize the fox while continuing to cultivate Quantum Star Cores.
• Yuan Zong failed to retrieve the fox before Li Qingshan intercepted it, then learned that goods in Zone Three had also been seized and their Seventh-Order guards killed.
• Tu Shen presented the fox to a shadow, which found that the Evil God’s power had corrupted her True Spirit and that she knew nothing about Tu Shen’s homeland.
• Li Qingshan received experience for killing the fox and wondered what secret the Source of Goods concealed.
• Old Daoist Tianji came to meet Master Suixin, but found that Suixin had fallen into an Astral Rift; the novice monk said his master would return within three days.

Suixin arrived in a desolate world and discovered that the starving humans living there were ruled as Inferior Demons by the Pigman Clan. After he killed the pig-headed overseers and brought down their airship, Chen Qi told him the world was Seven Gods Continent, where the Seven Gods dwelled on a mountain in the sky.

• Suixin watched a flying steam airship scatter packaged Energy Bars across the wilderness, drawing emaciated people out of underground caves to collect them.
• Chen Qi warned Suixin to hide from the airship’s attendants, but several Pigman Clan members arrived and called them Inferior Demons.
• When the pig-headed men claimed humans were beneath them, Suixin declared himself human and reduced them to ash.
• Suixin used an Invisible Ripple to twist the airship’s hull and send it crashing to the ground.
• The cave dwellers emerged and bowed to Suixin, who told them they were humans rather than Inferior Demons.
• Chen Qi identified the land as Seven Gods Continent and revealed Divine Realm Mountain, where the Seven Gods lived above the world.

Suixin’s hoped-for savior turned out to be Li Qingshan’s disciples, who found Suixin in the Seven Gods Continent and reported the people’s plight. Li Qingshan arrived, examined Chen Qi’s memories, and discovered that Divine Realm Mountain was a cosmic crystal corrupted by False Gods.

• Suixin learned that humans on the Seven Gods Continent were enslaved as sacrificial materials and wished Li Qingshan were there to save them.
• A World Gate opened, and Yang Xiaoyu and Zhao Ran fell through; the kneeling people mistook them for saviors, while Yang Xiaoyu showed Suixin a wanted notice offering a reward for him.
• Suixin fled when Yang Xiaoyu revealed the notice, and Zhao Ran proposed taking the people back and notifying Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Haijiao Academy, spoke with Chen Qi, and examined his memories to verify what had happened on the Seven Gods Continent.
• Li Qingshan saw that Divine Realm Mountain was a crystal linking the Astral Realm and the real universe, and realized False Gods had defiled it.

Li Qingshan uncovered Seven Gods Continent as Panlong's source of goods and ordered a covert investigation into its supply network. Meanwhile, Tu Shen recognized an Energy Bar as something she had not tasted in three thousand years.

• Li Qingshan examined Chen Qi and other survivors' memories, learning that the Hundred Races raised humans for sacrifice and traded selected goods to Panlong.
• Li Qingshan told Bao Hetong to seal the news and recruit Fourth Order Martial Artists and Mecha Masters to investigate Seven Gods Continent, while Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu volunteered to help.
• Li Qingshan returned to Investigation Star, gave Kong Yang Energy Bars, and ordered secret investigations into manufacturers and freight routes, beginning with Eagle Beak Group.
• Zhuang Chenxing questioned Tu Shen about Li Qingshan, and Tu Shen said he had not contacted her while in seclusion.
• Tu Shen ate an Energy Bar and recognized its taste from three thousand years earlier.

Yuan Zong and Li Wenbo discussed Li Qingshan’s rapid cultivation and concluded he was unlikely to challenge an Eighth Order before leaving Jiao Xiu District. After Li Qingshan investigated the Seven Gods, Feng Boyong’s rank-defying killing of an Eighth-Order powerhouse made headlines across the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon.

• Li Wenbo warned Yuan Zong that Black Scale’s resource shipments to Evil Slaying Headquarters exceeded what Divine Aspect Ten Orders required, but Yuan Zong believed Li Qingshan would eventually leave Jiao Xiu District.
• Yuan Zong told Li Wenbo to keep supplying resources while leaving no evidence, and dismissed the possibility that Li Qingshan could Defy Eighth Order.
• Li Qingshan absorbed the delivered Cosmic Matter, reviewed evidence of the Pig-headed Tribe’s Sacrifices to the God of the Wilderness, and secretly sent the materials and his questions to Ming Shuang.
• Chi Yiyu told Li Qingshan that the Seven Gods were Eighth-Order Evil God Progeny still undergoing transformation and proposed a joint operation, but Li Qingshan kept the matter to himself.
• Jin Yuanli learned Feng Boyong had reached sixteenth-order perfection and that he intended to murder someone before completing Body Transforms into Celestial Body.
• News outlets across the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon reported that Feng Boyong had killed Wu Hua Sect Elder Ding Yanfeng, an Eighth-Order powerhouse, across ranks.

News of Feng Boyong defeating an eighth-order powerhouse sparked a galaxy-wide debate over his origins, allegiance, and the War of the Four Saints. Li Qingshan learned more about Feng Boyong’s history and finished digesting Panlong’s sponsorship, but complained that the report lacked video footage.

• Feng Boyong’s feat of defying Eighth Order became headline news and stirred reactions across the Starry Sky.
• White Tiger Galaxy commenters revealed that Feng Boyong had joined the Heavenly Kill Sect after leaving the Frontier Fortress and had once entered the Wu Hua Sect.
• White Tiger Galaxy commenters claimed Ding Yanfeng had tried to suppress and kill Feng Boyong, and hinted that powerful figures had concealed Feng Boyong’s defection from the Azure Dragon Galaxy.
• Li Qingshan inferred that Ling Tian Sect elders beyond Ding Yanfeng held influence in the Starry Sky and recalled the name Ling Tian.
• Li Qingshan checked his Status Panel and saw that he had fully digested Panlong’s sponsorship, reaching 21,183,912 toward his Fifteenth-Order cultivation method.
• Li Qingshan called Feng Boyong’s feat a useful demonstration, then complained that the news report had no on-site video.

Li Qingshan watched footage of Feng Boyong’s battle with the Eighth Order and learned that Yue Zhen had defeated him. After receiving new intelligence about Panlong and Zhuang Chenxing, Li Qingshan left his office to pursue the clues concerning the trap and the Huashi Group.

• Yuan Zong tried to find Zhuang Chenxing, but discovered he was missing and could not be reached.
• Li Qingshan watched footage of Feng Boyong killing Ding Yanfeng before Yue Zhen intervened, shattered Feng Boyong’s sword, and left him severely injured.
• Kong Yang reported that investigators suspected Panlong was transporting Energy Bars using Seventh-Order powerhouses and that Tu Shen’s confidants were also investigating the Eagle Beak Group.
• Li Qingshan learned that Zhuang Chenxing had not appeared for a long time and that Shi Yan had found another travel palace without locating him.
• Li Qingshan examined messages warning that the coordinates were a trap and naming the Ten-tailed Heavenly Fox and Huashi Group, then vanished from his office.

News of Feng Boyong surviving Yue Zhen’s pursuit shook the Azure Dragon Galaxy, while Yuan Zong tightened security around the concealed Source of Goods. Tu Shen decided to act on her own and began leaving its coordinates for Li Qingshan, but someone took the note before she could finish.

• Footage of Feng Boyong defeating Ding Yanfeng and escaping Yue Zhen’s hunt spread across the Azure Dragon Galaxy, provoking arguments over who had broken the rules.
• Yuan Zong told Li Wenbo that the Azure Dragon’s rules would constrain Feng Boyong and Li Qingshan, then ordered supplies halted and the Entrance’s coordinates protected.
• Yuan Zong asked Bilo Chen for help, while two Shadows discussed Yue Zhen’s attack and warned that Qiong Xiao must not be drawn into another incident involving Li Qingshan.
• Xiao Tianyou reassured Tu Shen that Feng Boyong might recover and that Li Qingshan could surpass him, but Tu Shen resolved not to wait any longer.
• Tu Shen began writing the Source of Goods’ coordinates for Li Qingshan, but an unseen person pinched up the note and thanked her.

Li Qingshan learned that Tu Shen had found the coordinates of the Source of Goods and immediately set out to reclaim Divine Realm Mountain. As he attacked an Alien False God, Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu waited with the rescued humans in the Wilderness for their escape, and a blade light appeared in the sky.

• Li Qingshan questioned Tu Shen about Su Yuan's support and learned that a Local Deity guarded the coordinates she had found.
• Tu Shen could not tell Li Qingshan where Zhuang Chenxing was, so Li Qingshan opened a Void Crack and left to reclaim what belonged to him.
• Li Qingshan found the Thin Old Man in a hidden starship and killed him with a single strike of the Thunder Roar Blade.
• Li Qingshan lit the dark void with blade light, spotted the Seven-Colored Smoke, and charged toward Divine Realm Mountain.
• Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu guarded the rescued humans in the Wilderness as Zhao Ran told a little girl that the light in the sky was a blade.

Li Qingshan revealed himself to the humans oppressed by the Seven Gods and destroyed the gods and the Alien Hundred Cities. The humans recognized their shared humanity and turned toward Divine Realm Mountain, where the blade of humanity now stood above the mountain.

• Li Qingshan appeared above Divine Realm Mountain, and the Seven Gods tried to present him as an Inferior Demon while privately asking him to cooperate with their deception.
• Li Qingshan told the humans in the Wilderness and Underground Caves that he was human and that they were human too, giving them a new understanding of themselves.
• The Seven Gods used their halos to close the rift in the Sky Dome and force Li Qingshan's giant face back beyond the heavens.
• Li Qingshan declared death for the usurpers of Heavenly Dao Authority, the thieves of Divine Realm Mountain, and those who humiliated humanity, then sent over a hundred blade lights down upon the world.
• Li Qingshan's blade destroyed the Alien Hundred Cities and killed the Seven Gods, returning their authority to heaven and earth and bringing rain to the parched land.
• The humans washed the dust from their faces, recognized one another as human, and looked toward Divine Realm Mountain, above which the blade of humanity stood.

Zhuang Chenxing publicly exposed Panlong Auction House and mobilized government agencies to move against it, while Li Wenbo prepared to release Panlong’s information. The chapter ended as enormous hands descended on Metal Planets across the Starry Sky.

• Tu Shen received Zhuang Chenxing’s order to seize more than a hundred companies and families tied to Panlong, then called the minister and was told to obey.
• Kong Yang, Xia Cunzhen, Shao Fenghua, Lei Chen, and He Jian learned that several departments had received orders to act against Panlong and watched Zhuang Chenxing’s public accusation.
• Zhuang Chenxing apologized for the Investigation Office’s failure, accused Panlong of aiding the Evil God Alien Race, and promised a full investigation while praising Li Qingshan’s actions in the Alien World.
• Yuan Zong told Li Wenbo that Zhuang Chenxing had secretly persuaded Panlong’s clients to abandon it, and that Bilo Chen’s death and the exposed Source of Goods had prompted the attack.
• Li Wenbo insisted that someone would not let Panlong’s client list be buried, recorded a message, and sent an email.
• Enormous hands descended through the shattered Starry Sky toward multiple Metal Planets.

After emerging from Seven-Colored Smoke, Li Qingshan learned that Panlong Auction House had been destroyed and received Li Wenbo’s evidence exposing powerful figures connected to its vast Net. He decided the Evil Slaying Department would handle the case, leaving him poised to confront the thirty-eight Eighth Order clients.

• Li Qingshan emerged from Seven-Colored Smoke, and Tu Shen thanked him for ending the suffering of her homeland, which he renamed Godfall Continent.
• Tu Shen told Li Qingshan that Zhuang Chenxing had led a joint operation that wiped out Panlong Auction House headquarters.
• Li Qingshan opened an email from Li Wenbo, who warned that Panlong’s Net extended throughout Jiao Xiu District and included clients beyond its Black Gold VIPs.
• Li Qingshan reviewed records implicating thirty-eight Eighth Order Myriad Manifestations, including Zhuang Chenxing, in receiving Alien Races as gifts.
• Tu Shen warned that confronting the powerful clients could endanger Li Qingshan, but he said the Evil Slaying Department would settle the case itself.

Li Qingshan returned to Godfall Continent, assigned Tu Shen to locate the people on his list, and entered seclusion atop Divine Realm Mountain to build his strength. Zhuang Chenxing planned to use a press conference to shape public opinion while forging his Golden Body.

• Li Qingshan told Zhuang Chenxing that the Seven Gods had been dealt with and said he would enter seclusion, leaving the follow-up matters to him.
• Li Qingshan sent Tu Shen and Kong Yang the list of clients and ordered Tu Shen to find exact coordinates for every person on it.
• Li Qingshan returned to Godfall Continent and judged that its human inhabitants needed guidance from the Starry Sky to survive.
• Li Qingshan inspected his gains from killing the Seven Gods and the Hundred Cities Alien Races, then settled atop Divine Realm Mountain to cultivate.
• Zhuang Chenxing welcomed Li Qingshan's seclusion and ordered an immediate press conference to announce the latest developments and the Alien World rescue operation.

At Haijiao Academy, Bao Hetong and the students learned that Zhuang Chenxing was publicly presenting the rescue of the Godfall Continent as an Evil Slaying Department operation, while online commenters argued over who deserved credit. Bao Hetong said Li Qingshan had entered seclusion on Godfall and that the truth would become clear when he emerged.

• Students guided gaunt survivors from the Godfall Continent around Haijiao Academy as rescue operations continued.
• Yang Xiaoyu and Zhao Ran told Bao Hetong that Li Qingshan had slain the Seven Gods and the Alien Hundred Cities, but Bao Hetong showed them headlines and a livestream from Zhuang Chenxing.
• Zhuang Chenxing announced that Li Qingshan had defeated the Seven Gods and said he would lead a publicly witnessed rescue operation with multiple departments.
• Online commenters praised Zhuang Chenxing and Li Qingshan, while a few accused Zhuang of stealing credit; Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu recognized that their own critical comments were being drowned out.
• Bao Hetong received a message, closed the screen, and told Zhao Ran and Yang Xiaoyu that Li Qingshan was in seclusion on Godfall and they should wait for him to emerge.