Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan announced that he would host a centennial birthday banquet on Qingshan Star and invite the Epoch Prodigies, sparking speculation across the Stellar Sea about his true purpose. Shengyang feared Li Qingshan might attempt to transform into a star too soon, while the invited prodigies debated attending and linked the banquet to Cao Wuyan’s long absence.

• News spread throughout the Stellar Sea that Li Qingshan had invited the Epoch Prodigies to his centennial birthday banquet next year.
• People debated whether Li Qingshan meant to show off his strength, attempt to transform into a star, or simply collect gifts.
• In the Beihe Galaxy, Shengyang read the reports and worried that Li Qingshan might impulsively attempt Body Transforms into a Star before he was ready.
• The Four Saints Ten Fiends discussed their invitations, questioned how their identities had been discovered, and debated whether to attend.
• A prodigy suggested that Li Qingshan’s invitation was connected to Cao Wuyan’s long absence, while Cao Wuyan read the chat and his own invitation at Wuyan Palace.

Cao Wuyan decided to attend Li Qingshan’s birthday banquet with the backing of Taotie’s Ninth Order ancestor, while Yue Zhen accepted Li Qingshan’s invitation and Tai Shang arrived. The chapter left Tai Shang staring at a call from Li Qingshan, who greeted him with conspicuously warm words.

• Cao Wuyan received Li Qingshan’s invitation to his centennial birthday and resolved to attend rather than retreat from the War of the Four Saints.
• Cao Wuyan tried to call Yue Zhen, but Yue Zhen declined the call and chose to prepare a congratulatory gift for Li Qingshan instead.
• Tai Shang appeared before Yue Zhen and said the Taotie Domain’s elders would protect Cao Wuyan, so Li Qingshan would not attack at the banquet.
• Li Qingshan called Tai Shang and greeted him as someone he had missed, leaving Tai Shang and Yue Zhen stunned.

Li Qingshan invited Azure Dragon Councillor Tai Shang to attend his birthday banquet, using the event as a move in the Pure Blood Conflict. As he continued training in Body Transforms into a Star, a year passed and a high platform was built outside his window.

• Li Qingshan ended his call with Tai Shang after inviting him to Qingshan Star, leaving Tai Shang and Yue Zhen stunned.
• Kong Yang explained that Cao Wuyan might bring Cao Wanjin to the banquet, and Li Qingshan said he had invited Tai Shang to stop Cao Wanjin from taking Cao Wuyan away.
• Kong Yang reported that twenty-eight Epoch Prodigies had received invitations and explained that more prodigies trained beyond the Four Saints Galaxy would return for the War of the Four Saints.
• Li Qingshan wondered why the Bai Ze Chamber of Commerce had not invited him, then turned his attention to his Body Transforms into a Star training progress.
• Li Qingshan repeatedly practiced in the Martial Arts Space while construction crews built a high platform outside, and a year passed.

On his centennial birthday, Li Qingshan welcomed powerful guests whose gifts and hidden motives revealed a brewing conflict over the Pure Blood Conflict. Yue Zhen challenged him, but before they could clash, the hostile Canglong Councillor arrived uninvited.

• Li Qingshan reviewed his stagnant cultivation counter on his centennial birthday and dismissed Shengyang’s warning about attempting “Body Transforms into a Star.”
• Zhao Ran, Yang Xiaoyu, and Kong Yang joined Li Qingshan as he said the invited guests had already arrived and were waiting in hiding.
• Cao Wuyan appeared with Time Sand, but Li Qingshan took it as a gift and welcomed Cao Wanjin, who warned him not to interfere in the Pure Blood Conflict.
• Epoch Prodigies, including Lei Zhong, Pan Yao, and Lü Wenfeng, arrived with valuable gifts, while Li Qingshan had Kong Yang record them on the Gift List.
• Yue Zhen arrived empty-handed and threatened Li Qingshan with the fist he had lost, prompting Li Qingshan to reach for his sword.
• The Canglong Councillor appeared uninvited and accused Li Qingshan of wanting to kill him.

Li Qingshan hosted a birthday banquet where Tai Shang’s arrival disrupted his plans and the Epoch Prodigies discussed forming an alliance. As the guests departed, a battle erupted between Tai Shang and Cao Wanjin, and Li Qingshan revealed that he had anticipated the confrontation by setting out to see them off.

• Li Qingshan greeted Tai Shang respectfully, and Tai Shang joined Cao Wanjin while the Epoch Prodigies took their seats for the banquet.
• Lei Zhong proposed an alliance to prepare for the returning Extraterrestrial Prodigies and the War of the Four Saints, and the guests discussed teams and the four available slots.
• Li Qingshan urged Cao Wuyan to reconsider the Pure Blood Conflict, but Cao Wuyan refused and relied on Cao Wanjin and Tai Shang’s presence.
• Tai Shang, Cao Wanjin, Cao Wuyan, and Yue Zhen left together after the banquet, while Cao Wuyan smugly believed Li Qingshan could not act against them.
• A battle between Tai Shang and Cao Wanjin shook the Starry Sky, and Li Qingshan announced that he would go see the guests off before stepping into space.

Li Qingshan’s confrontation with Cao Wanjin and Cao Wuyan ended when Tai Shang was trapped inside an Alien World, and a message sent Li Qingshan rushing to Ziying Star. There, he mourned Hong Qian, returned to his old home to rest, and woke to find his Counter had advanced.

• Li Qingshan and Yue Zhen cornered Cao Wuyan, but Cao Wanjin intervened and revealed that Tai Shang had been swept into a newly formed Alien World.
• Cao Wanjin took Cao Wuyan away after warning Li Qingshan that he would not get another chance to ask about Taotie.
• After receiving a message, Li Qingshan hurried to Ziying Star and attended Hong Qian’s funeral, where he learned his old friend had lived a long life surrounded by family.
• Li Qingshan returned to his former residence, set aside his cultivation concerns, and fell asleep in his old room.
• The next morning, Li Qingshan woke and saw that his Counter had advanced from [1892] to [1894] and from [1] to [2].

Li Qingshan returned to Luoying and found Zhao Hongzhou teaching students the Groin-Stabbing Blade, then learned Yu Man had left the Azure Dragon Galaxy on a mission connected to Godfall Continent. He visited Wan Keshan at Ziying Academy and reassured him that he had gained insight before leaving.

• Zhao Hongzhou taught the students to kill a Wolf Poison with Li Qingshan’s signature Groin-Stabbing Blade, and Li Qingshan watched in dismay.
• Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei told Li Qingshan they planned to get their marriage certificate, and Yu Lei explained that her sister Yu Man had left the Azure Dragon Galaxy for training after a secret mission in the Haijiao Galaxy.
• Li Qingshan told Yu Lei that Yu Man’s departure would benefit her future, then headed to Ziying Academy.
• Wan Keshan worried when Li Qingshan said he would stay in Luoying for a while, but Li Qingshan reassured him that he had gained insight and vanished.

After years spent revising a vast body of writing, Li Qingshan quietly left the museum to visit his friends and return a mysterious gift to the sleeping Little Fatty. As he prepared to depart at the end of 8999, Xiang Feifeng finally saw the long-awaited news opportunity.

• Li Qingshan spent a year revising text as the numbers on his Counter increased, while Shengyang worried that he had disappeared after the birthday banquet.
• Li Qingshan attended Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei's wedding, then let reporter Xiang Feifeng stay on as a museum security guard after warning him not to disturb him.
• Ten years later, Li Qingshan named Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei's newborn son Zhao Yang, then visited the Chiwu Star Domain and told Cao Ya he had returned a gift to little Shao Yu.
• Li Qingshan reassured Chi Baixiu about the Heartless One and later taught Zhao Yang to write during visits to the museum lawn.
• On December 31, 8999, Li Qingshan told five-year-old Zhao Yang he was leaving and that he could be a sun, prompting Xiang Feifeng to realize his opportunity had arrived.

As the Epoch Prodigy Ranking was about to appear, Li Qingshan prepared to leave the Qingshan Former Residence Museum and begin Body Transforms into a Star. His departure left Zhao Yang and his family behind, while Chi Wen received Li’s summons and set out to scout the path ahead.

• More than a hundred media editor-in-chiefs gathered at the Convergence of Four Saints to await the Epoch Prodigy Ranking, then learned Xiang Feifeng was selling broadcast rights for ten Time Sands and saw the announcement that Li Qingshan would Body Transform into a Star.
• At the Qingshan Former Residence Museum, Li Qingshan let Xiang Feifeng keep the proceeds from the broadcast rights and gave Zhao Yang the scabbard of the Thunder Roar Blade as a memento.
• Li Qingshan promised Zhao Yang he would return if fate allowed, said goodbye to Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei, and departed through layers of space with Xiang Feifeng.
• At a Martial Arts Hall, Chi Wen told Zhou Yunze that he intended to honor his Centennial Pact with Li Qingshan and scout the path despite the dangers of Body Transforms into a Star.
• Chi Wen received Li Qingshan’s message summoning him to coordinates X-α17/Y-ξ81/Z-δ39 and declaring that he would scout the path that day.

Li Qingshan began his attempt to break the Seventh Order Limit by transforming his body into a star, drawing the attention of viewers across the Stellar Sea. After a perilous collapse, he ignited the resulting star core and became a brilliant blue sun, leaving the galaxy to witness his unprecedented breakthrough.

• Li Qingshan gave Chi Wen a Counter and a Crystal Core containing papers and a message, then registered his transformation with the Network.
• The Network began broadcasting Li Qingshan’s attempt to thousands of Divine Aspect Research Groups, shocking Jin Yuanli and the researchers who had not known it was coming.
• Li Qingshan dispersed into golden particles that gathered into a sphere of 256 million Quantum Star Cores, which formed a giant gaseous planet and began collapsing.
• After 9 minutes and 56 seconds, the collapse produced a Protoplanetary Core, and viewers across the Stellar Sea waited for Li Qingshan to ignite it.
• Li Qingshan ignited the core and became a blue sun, breaking the Divine Aspect limit; Wan Keshan reassured Zhao Yang that the star would light up just before it appeared on the screen.

Li Qingshan’s successful “Body Transforms into a Star” created a blue supergiant and shattered the Divine Aspect limit, stunning the Stellar Sea. As factions reacted and researchers replayed the collapse, Shengyang became determined to learn Li Qingshan’s method, while He Xianghong brought the footage to the remains of Nanshan Qing Feng.

• The livestream showed Li Qingshan’s collapse ending in the birth of a blue supergiant, and observers across the Stellar Sea realized he had broken the Divine Aspect limit.
• Tai Shang told Yue Zhen that his choice would become clear when the War of the Four Saints arrived.
• Cao Wuyan resolved to use the coming thousand years to seize the Little Taotie and prepare to confront Li Qingshan.
• Shengyang replayed the collapse footage repeatedly, then concluded Li Qingshan must have another method and insisted it be shared with the Research Group.
• Researchers across the Origin Seat Supercluster studied the footage and awaited the paper Li Qingshan had promised Jin Yuanli.
• He Xianghong showed the collapse footage to the stellar remains of Nanshan Qing Feng and said Li Qingshan had completed the path Qing Feng could not.

Li Qingshan watched over Ziying Star as the Eternal aura drew him closer to the Eternal, then fell into a deep slumber. Meanwhile, Chi Wen, Shengyang, and researchers across the Starry Sky opened Li Qingshan’s paper and found themselves surrounded by its seemingly endless words.

• Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei celebrated Li Qingshan becoming the Blue Sun, and Zhao Hongzhou told Zhao Yang that Li Qingshan would watch over Ziying Star.
• Li Qingshan saw Ziying Star’s sun from the Martial Arts Space and realized the Eternal aura was changing his True Spirit without forcing him to sleep.
• Li Qingshan renamed his perfected cultivation method and fell into a deep slumber after saying he would meet Chi Wen again.
• Xiang Feifeng told Chi Wen that he had uploaded the video and sent out the paper, and Chi Wen opened the files Li Qingshan had left.
• Leng Feng received Li Qingshan’s paper, and Jin Yuanli ordered it sent to the other Research Groups.
• Shengyang and researchers across the Starry Sky opened the paper and watched its Light Screen expand around them, filling their view with countless words.

As the Epoch Prodigy Ranking appeared across the Four Saints Galaxy, people saw the names of 28 prodigies and discussed how returning outsiders could compete for rank. The chapter ended with a news alert revealing that Li Qingshan had named the Unnamed Cultivation Method the Qingyang Sutra.

• Xiang Feifeng arrived at the Shattered Meteor Belt and told the editors-in-chief that Minister Li had ordered him to reveal the Unnamed Cultivation Method’s final name for free.
• People across the Four Saints Galaxy celebrated Li Qingshan’s transformation into a star while waiting for the Epoch Prodigy Ranking to appear.
• At the start of Xinchen Era 9000, the ranking emerged and listed 28 Epoch Prodigies, including Yue Zhen, You Qin, Cao Wuyan, and Lei Zhong.
• Viewers discussed the ranking’s rules and anticipated that prodigies who had left the Four Saints Galaxy would return to compete.
• A news alert announced that Li Qingshan had named the Unnamed Cultivation Method the Qingyang Sutra.

The Qingyang Sutra revealed every microsecond of Planetary Collapse in an immense practical manual, stunning readers across the Stellar Sea. Shengyang sought a faster way to study it, while Hua Yu questioned whether Li Qingshan had survived the transformation, and Chi Wen watched Li Qingshan’s video.

• The Qingyang Sutra described Planetary Collapse across 597 million microseconds, ending with instructions that mastering them all would form a star.
• Shengyang realized Li Qingshan had known the process before undergoing Body Transforms into a Star, then decided to contact his mother rather than wait for the Research Groups.
• One thousand Research Groups began analyzing and modeling the scripture, while Jin Yuanli noticed it omitted the Ignite Star stage and its possible impact on the True Spirit.
• Hua Yu confronted Jin Yuanli and demanded to know whether Li Qingshan was alive or dead.
• Chi Wen stopped reading the vast scripture and opened Li Qingshan’s video, where Li Qingshan claimed Planetary Collapse was not difficult.

Chi Wen learned that Li Qingshan had written the Qingyang Sutra and warned him about the dangers of the third step, Ignite Star. The video revealed that Li Qingshan had ignited a star himself and ended with a recording about Xianya Chi Wen's preparations.

• Chi Wen was stunned by the Qingyang Sutra's detail and realized how far Li Qingshan surpassed him.
• Li Qingshan warned Chi Wen that Ignite Star exposed the True Spirit to an unimaginably powerful impact.
• Hua Yu demanded to know whether Li Qingshan was alive, but Jin Yuanli said they could not tell whether his True Spirit had survived.
• Li Qingshan told Chi Wen to keep the video secret until he awakened and urged him to approach Ignite Star cautiously.
• Li Qingshan showed Chi Wen a recording in which a youth said Xianya Chi Wen had prepared for fifty thousand years and should not be rushed.

Shengyang used his third request to ask his Mother for help mastering the Qingyang Sutra, while Li Qingshan’s fate remained uncertain after sharing the scripture. The chapter ended with Jin Yuanli revealing that Shengyang’s Mother had researched the human bloodline since ancient times.

• Shengyang showed his Mother the Qingyang Sutra, and she confirmed that it described Planetary Collapse but not Ignite Star.
• Shengyang asked his Mother to help him master the Qingyang Sutra, and she agreed to grant his third request.
• Chi Wen watched Li Qingshan’s recording and realized Li had left the Qingyang Sutra public while keeping the outcome of his attempt at Ignite Star uncertain.
• Jin Yuanli told the Research Group leaders that Li Qingshan’s life could not be confirmed because his True Spirit imprint had been destroyed.
• The Black-Robed Elder reported that Shengyang had been taken away by his Mother, and Jin Yuanli told Hua Yu that she had researched the human bloodline since ancient times.

After Li Qingshan succeeded in transforming his body into a star, Chi Wen returned to Research Group 68390 to help refine preparations for the path ahead. The Evil Slaying Department learned how it would operate during Li Qingshan’s thousand-year absence, while the research group prepared to study ways to strengthen the True Spirit.

• Chi Wen bid farewell to Zhou Yunze and said he was returning to the Research Group to continue preparing for “Body Transforms into a Star.”
• Kong Yang told Tu Shen, Xia Cunzhen, and Su Yuan that the three offices would report difficult matters to Minister Ming and that Gu Feng Star would become Deputy Minister once Elder Gu awakened.
• Chi Wen traveled through the Bai Ze Chamber of Commerce’s channels and arrived at the Starry Sky Martial Arts Hall’s Research Group 68390.
• Jin Yuanli explained that the research groups were collaborating on the Qingyang Sutra, “Planetary Collapse,” training methods, and Cultivation’s methods of strengthening the True Spirit.
• Chi Wen interrupted Jin Yuanli’s warning about the dangers of “Ignite Star” and said he understood those dangers clearly.

Ten years after the Epoch Prodigy Ranking appeared, it remained unchanged while researchers developed a virtual training method for the Qingyang Sutra. On Ziying Star, fifteen-year-old Zhao Yang watched the night sky with his family as Qingyang Star finally lit up, and Xiang Feifeng realized the prodigies had been hiding their tracks.

• Jin Yuanli showed Chi Wen a virtual cabin designed to train practitioners in the Qingyang Sutra, explaining that they would later continue with real experiments; He Xianghong noticed the progress bar advanced by only 0.000...0001 out of 100.
• At Ziying Academy, Wan Keshan scolded Zhao Yang for being distracted during saber practice, then let him go home to watch the stars.
• Zhao Yang gathered his parents on their balcony, while Xiang Feifeng returned to Ziying Star and prepared cameras to record Qingyang Star's return.
• Qingyang Star lit up the night sky over Ziying Star, delighting Zhao Yang and illuminating the people of Old Continent and New Continent.
• Xiang Feifeng watched the blue-white starlight and realized that the Epoch prodigies had been hiding their tracks.

Zhao Yang entered Ziying Academy determined to follow Li Qingshan’s path, eventually earning a place on both Departure monuments. After years at the Academy, he departed for Seven Stars Academy with Li Qingshan still ranked first and himself ranked one hundredth on each monument.

• Zhao Yang arrived at Ziying Academy among the new students and saw Li Qingshan ranked first on both Departure monuments.
• Gu Ling and Wu Shan challenged the Qi Monument but failed to enter its top hundred, and Zhao Yang decided to wait for his chance.
• Six months later, Zhao Yang reached the Qi Monument’s hundredth position, and he told Wan Keshan he wanted to see the road Li Qingshan had walked.
• Zhao Yang entered the Star Realm in his second year and later suffered a crushing defeat in the collegiate combat league after encountering a Suicide Truck.
• In 9021, Zhao Yang boarded a ship bound for Seven Stars Academy while both monuments showed Li Qingshan first and Zhao Yang one hundredth.

Zhao Yang followed Li Qingshan’s path from Star Academy to Dick Star, but after completing his garrison assignment he chose to remain on that path despite struggling to attain Enlightenment. In 9200, as Zhao Yang’s elderly parents waited for Li Qingshan to emerge, Shengyang announced that he would transform his body into a star.

• At Zhenyuan Fortress, Supervisor Xing told the freshmen that Li Qingshan had once been there, inspiring Zhao Yang.
• At Seven Stars Academy, Zhao Yang chose Wuyang Star Academy because Li Qingshan had stayed there, then trained until he reached the Third Order Awakened stage and entered the Crimson Rainbow Continent.
• In Changyun City, Zhao Yang heard an innkeeper recount the legend of Yanluo Heaven and later traveled to Dick Star for a garrison assignment.
• Zhao Yang met Mou Yu and Zhou Yunze at Dick Academy, where Zhou Yunze stayed for ten years to seek Enlightenment.
• After his assignment ended, Zhao Yang chose to remain on Dick Star, though he was still at the early Inner Scene stage and had not attained Enlightenment.
• In 9200, Zhao Yang sat with his nearly 320-year-old parents as they waited for Li Qingshan, while Shengyang announced on a research group screen that he would transform his body into a star.