Chapter Summaries

Shengyang registered on the Network and announced that he would attempt Body Transforms into a Star, prompting the Research Group leaders to worry about the dangers of Ignite Star. He dismissed their concerns and flew into the Starry Sky, convinced his foundation would let him withstand the transformation.

• Shengyang appeared on the Network livestream and announced his intention to Body Transforms into a Star, while Chi Wen and the Research Group leaders watched in alarm.
• Gui Rong connected with Shengyang to warn him, but Shengyang asked whether a star could expand beyond a blue supergiant and collapse into a black hole.
• Jin Yuanli explained that the Quantum Star Core could not reach the threshold for a second collapse or black hole transformation.
• Gui Rong cautioned Shengyang that his True Spirit might not withstand Ignite Star, but Shengyang argued that Li Qingshan’s choice proved the danger could be overcome.
• Shengyang declared he would not shrink back, disconnected the call, and flew toward the depths of the Starry Sky.

Shengyang publicly attempted to transform into a star, with observers across the Origin Seat Supercluster expecting him to surpass Li Qingshan. His star ignited as a Dwarf Star, and the True Spirit imprint held by Gui Rong shattered.

• Ying Yu reassured Fu Shan that Li Qingshan's breakthrough did not rule out her chances on the Epoch Prodigy Ranking, while they watched Shengyang fly far from the camera.
• At Divine Aspect--Research Group 68390, Jin Yuanli said there was no need to record more Planetary Collapse data, and Gui Rong prepared the jade disk holding Shengyang's True Spirit imprint.
• Shengyang completed Planetary Collapse in 9 minutes and 56 seconds, forming a Protoplanetary Core as viewers expected his final star to surpass Li Qingshan's.
• A woman gazed at a photograph of a young man and said, "Silly child, people are not all the same," before adding it to a wall covered with black-and-white photographs.
• Shengyang ignited into a Dwarf Star, far smaller than the blue supergiant and even smaller than a normal Main Sequence Star.
• At Divine Aspect--Research Group 68390, Gui Rong's jade disk dimmed and shattered as the researchers looked on.

Shengyang’s attempt to transform into a star ended with his True Spirit perishing, leaving behind an ordinary Dwarf Star. Yang Zhixuan then revealed that Shengyang had demanded a change to his research direction, and his failed transformation shattered Yang’s hopes for a powerful new Fundamental Image.

• Shengyang’s True Spirit imprint shattered after his star ignited, leaving the researchers to realize that he had died and become only a Dwarf Star.
• Yang Zhixuan contacted Jin Yuanli and asked what had happened to Shengyang.
• Yang Zhixuan explained that Shengyang had asked his Research Group to perfect an Eighth Order Myriad Manifestations cultivation method within a thousand years.
• Yang Zhixuan described his research into using a star as the Fundamental Image and said Li Qingshan’s transformation had revealed a path beyond Martial Dao Will and bloodline.
• Yang Zhixuan said Shengyang had claimed his foundation surpassed Li Qingshan’s and demanded that Yang change his research direction.
• Yang Zhixuan recalled expecting Shengyang to become a black hole or blue supergiant, only to see an ordinary Dwarf Star appear.

After Shengyang’s True Spirit shattered, Yang Zhixuan feared that Li Qingshan had also died during “Body Transforms into a Star.” Chi Wen defended the path and concealed his confidence that Li Qingshan was alive, while Jin Yuanli decided the researchers would report Shengyang’s fall and let the Origin Seat speculate about Li Qingshan until the truth emerged in eight hundred years.

• Yang Zhixuan learned that Shengyang had fallen and questioned whether Li Qingshan had survived the True Spirit impact.
• Chi Wen insisted that Shengyang’s failure did not prove Li Qingshan was dead and promised to continue advancing along the path.
• Yang Zhixuan accepted that the Qingyang Sutra’s inheritance could eventually lead to success, then ended the call.
• Jin Yuanli asked Chi Wen whether he truly intended to continue, and Chi Wen said he had prepared for “Body Transforms into a Star” for fifty thousand years.
• Chi Wen entered Virtual Space and privately reflected that Li Qingshan’s life was not in doubt, though others might soon prepare his funeral.
• Jin Yuanli ordered the researchers to truthfully report Shengyang’s fall and let others speculate about Li Qingshan for eight hundred years.

After Shengyang’s True Spirit dispersed during his transformation into a star, the Star Martial Hall left Li Qingshan’s fate unknown, prompting prodigies across the galaxy to react. You Qixuan decided to return to the Four Saints Galaxy and announce his challenge as news of Shengyang’s death spread.

• Ying Yu told Fu Shan that Shengyang had died, and they concluded the Star Martial Hall did not know whether Li Qingshan was alive or dead.
• Fu Shan said she hoped to contend with Li Qingshan in eight hundred years, then left with her Long Spear.
• Qiu Zhan rebuked Chao Chen for assuming Li Qingshan was gone and reminded his brothers that Li Qingshan came from the Azure Dragon.
• You Qixuan revealed he had waited outside the Four Saints Galaxy for two hundred years and ordered his starship to return.
• You Qixuan sent his prepared announcements, including news of Shengyang’s death, to major media outlets across the Four Saints Galaxy.
• News outlets across the galaxy reported You Qixuan’s return, his challenge to Yue Zhen, the start of the Epoch Prodigy Ranking competition, and uncertainty over Li Qingshan’s fate.

After You Qixuan returned and challenged Yue Zhen, news of Li Qingshan’s uncertain fate spread across the Four Saints Galaxy. Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei died believing Li Qingshan would return, while their son Zhao Yang attained Enlightenment by choosing to believe in him.

• People across the galaxy watched the Epoch Prodigy Ranking livestream and argued over You Qixuan’s challenge, Li Qingshan’s fate, and whether he would revive.
• Cao Wuyan dismissed the prospect of Li Qingshan’s revival and planned to seize the Little Taotie to strengthen his bloodline.
• Yue Zhen worried about Li Qingshan, while Tai Shang assured him that Li Qingshan had survived—then an Astral Storm swept Tai Shang away.
• Xiang Feifeng showed Zhao Yang news claiming Li Qingshan had fallen, and Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei insisted that they still believed in him.
• Zhao Hongzhou urged Zhao Yang to believe in Li Qingshan, and Zhao Yang attained Enlightenment through his resolve to keep watch.
• Zhao Hongzhou and Yu Lei died as Qingyang Star’s light shone over them, leaving Zhao Yang to witness the Starry Sea for them.

Zhou Yunze spoke with Chi Wen, who confirmed that they would meet again, then joined his students to watch You Qixuan challenge Yue Zhen. The battle began with Yue Zhen's Iron Fist pursuing and crushing You Qixuan's Sky-Covering Giant Hand through shattered space.

• Chi Wen told Zhou Yunze that Shengyang was dead, and Zhou Yunze said he had no doubts that Li Qingshan was alive.
• Zhou Yunze asked Chi Wen whether they would meet again in the future, and Chi Wen solemnly confirmed that they would.
• Zhou Yunze joined his students at the Martial Arts Hall to watch You Qixuan's live challenge against Yue Zhen.
• Yue Zhen's Iron Fist collided with You Qixuan's Sky-Covering Giant Hand, shattering space across the battlefield.
• You Qixuan cried out in anger as Yue Zhen's Iron Fist pursued and crushed the retreating Giant Hand.

You Qixuan was mocked after Yue Zhen defeated him, but later won their appointed battle against Cao Wuyan as the Epoch Prodigy Ranking Competition grew into a golden age. A century later, Fu Shan dethroned Yue Zhen, while Zhou Yunze traveled to the Blue Sun and died there, still believing he would meet Li Qingshan again in the future.

• You Qixuan appeared at the bottom of the Epoch Prodigy Ranking after Yue Zhen crushed him, drawing ridicule across the Four Saints Galaxy.
• Cao Wuyan dismissed You Qixuan as a threat, then received his challenge to fight in the Taotie Starry Sky three years later.
• You Qixuan defeated Cao Wuyan, and returning Extraterrestrial Prodigies began challenging ranked fighters and transforming the Ranking Competition into a golden age.
• Fu Shan returned a century later, defeated Yue Zhen, and rose to the top of the Epoch Prodigy Ranking.
• Zhou Yunze met Mou Yu beside the Blue Sun, said he regretted only being unable to fulfill his promise to Li Qingshan, and let the star's heat consume him.

Fu Shan discussed the paths to overwhelming combat power with Ying Shilan, while Chi Baixiu asked her three grandfathers not to interfere with Cao Wuyan. After two centuries passed, Wan Keshan handed the duty of guarding Ziying Academy to Zhao Yang and departed the Four Saints Galaxy to explore the Starry Sky.

• Fu Shan explained to Ying Shilan that Martial Dao Will and bloodline could unite a warrior’s images and grant overwhelming combat power.
• Ying Shilan planned to recruit Li Qingshan after he lost the War of the Four Saints, but Fu Shan silently doubted her assumptions.
• Chi Baixiu greeted Qiu Zhan, Suan He, and Chao Chen as her grandfathers and asked them not to interfere with Cao Wuyan, citing Li Qingshan’s final message.
• Over the following centuries, Extraterrestrial Prodigies continued to return and compete for places on the Epoch Prodigy Ranking, while people debated the fate of Li Qingshan.
• After five hundred years of guarding Ziying Academy, Wan Keshan entrusted Zhao Yang with the duty and left aboard a starship to explore beyond the Four Saints Galaxy.

After centuries of shifting rankings and political maneuvering, Gu Feng awakened at the eighth rank, believing Li Qingshan had fallen to Zhuang Chenxing’s scheme. The gathered Evil Slaying officials instead invited Gu Feng to become Deputy Minister, leaving him bewildered.

• Xin Moyu defeated Fu Shan and took first place in the Epoch Prodigy Ranking, beginning a succession of Four Saint prodigies who traded the top rank.
• Qiu Zhan and his brothers realized Cao Wuyan might have known of their return all along, while Cao Wuyan waited for an old enemy to return and help him seize Little Taotie.
• Nearly three hundred years later, officials gathered at Gu Feng Star to await Gu Feng’s awakening after a thousand years.
• Gu Feng emerged at the eighth rank and resolved to support Li Qingshan, but became distressed when he could not find Li Qingshan among the officials.
• The gathered officials invited Gu Feng to emerge from seclusion and assume the post of Deputy Minister.

Gu Feng learned that Li Qingshan had eliminated Zhuang Chenxing and the Net a thousand years earlier, then arranged for Gu Feng to become Deputy Minister. As Gu Feng read accounts of Li Qingshan’s astonishing deeds and apparent death, he recalled Li Qingshan’s old promise about insight and trusted his arrangements.

• Xia Cunzhen and Kong Yang told Gu Feng that Li Qingshan had arranged for him to take over as Deputy Minister.
• Kong Yang explained that Li Qingshan had publicly judged Zhuang Chenxing, killed thirty-eight corrupt Eighth Order experts, and destroyed the Net.
• Kong Yang brought Gu Feng to Qingshan Star, where Gu Feng began reading news reports about the past thousand years.
• Gu Feng read that Li Qingshan had reached Body Transforms into a Star and that Shengyang’s death had left Li Qingshan’s fate uncertain.
• Gu Feng recalled Li Qingshan asking to borrow 300,000 Contribution Points to reveal the true meaning of insight, and he trusted Li Qingshan’s insight.

Gu Feng reviewed current events and the Epoch Prodigy Ranking as the Xinchen Era neared its end, then explained to Xia Cunzhen how bodily foundations shaped advancement to the ninth order. Feng Boyong emerged from seclusion and defeated Yue Zhen to claim fifth place, while Gu Feng declared that transforming the body into a star had never been achieved.

• Gu Feng read the Epoch Prodigy Ranking livestream and saw that Qiu Zhan had held first place for three hundred years while viewers debated whether Feng Boyong and Li Qingshan would appear.
• In Xinchen Era year 9975, Feng Boyong emerged from seclusion, defeated Yue Zhen, and took fifth place on the ranking.
• Xia Cunzhen questioned Gu Feng about Feng Boyong's strength, and Gu Feng explained how the Five Divine Aspect Bodies built a foundation for manifesting phenomena and potentially reaching the ninth order.
• Gu Feng said that higher-order strength could depend on Martial Dao Will or bloodline, and that Qiu Zhan had likely fused his bloodline into a Prison Dragon Aspect.
• When Xia Cunzhen asked how Feng Boyong and Qiu Zhan compared without those factors, Gu Feng said that transforming the body into a star had never been achieved.

Tai Shang discussed Feng Boyong’s transformed Fundamental Image and warned Yue Zhen that the approaching War of the Four Saints would bring other dangerous contenders, including a Heavenly Kill Apostate. In Wuyan Palace, Cao Wuyan reacted to Feng Boyong’s rise and insisted that the person he was waiting for would return.

• Tai Shang told Yue Zhen that Feng Boyong had transformed his Fundamental Image and urged him to clarify the will behind his fist.
• Tai Shang warned Yue Zhen that Feng Boyong and other prodigies might awaken Martial Dao Will before the end of the epoch, and revealed that a deadly Heavenly Kill Apostate would return for the War of the Four Saints.
• Cao Wuyan saw that Feng Boyong had defeated Yue Zhen and taken fifth place in the Epoch ranking, while Cao Wuyan had fallen to eleventh.
• Cao Wuyan rejected his subordinate’s urging to act, saying that Venerable Wanjin would not interfere in the Pure Blood Conflict and that confronting Qiu Zhan would mean death.
• Cao Wuyan told his subordinate to wait, confident that the person he had mentioned three hundred years earlier would return.

Tu Xie returned to the Epoch Prodigy Ranking and defeated one prodigy each day until he reached eleventh place, while Cao Wuyan agreed to let him witness Li Qingshan’s transformation. The chapter ended with Tu Xie challenging every prodigy in the top ten—and Li Qingshan.

• Feng Boyong defeated a series of challengers for years before Yue Zhen finally beat him in March 9990, and the other Epoch Prodigies later won against him as they broke through.
• By 9999, Feng Boyong had fallen to tenth place, while Cao Wuyan spotted Tu Xie entering the rankings at one hundred and first.
• Tu Xie climbed one place each day, defeating the ranked prodigies until he reached eleventh place after three months.
• Tu Xie confronted Cao Wuyan, then agreed to witness Li Qingshan’s unprecedented “Body Transforms into a Star.”
• Tu Xie issued a challenge to all the Epoch Prodigies in the top ten and Li Qingshan.

Tu Xie challenged the Epoch Top Ten and singled out Li Qingshan, prompting the Stellar Sea to learn the histories of both men and anticipate a clash at the end of the Xinchen Era. As the Ten accepted Tu Xie's challenge, Yang Zhixuan, Jin Yuanli, and Chi Wen traveled toward the Four Saints Galaxy, where Li Qingshan's awakening remained the key question.

• Tu Xie challenged the entire Epoch Top Ten, including Li Qingshan, and reports revealed that he had defeated the Four Saints' young prodigies eight thousand years earlier.
• News outlets publicized Li Qingshan's legendary deeds and raised the question of whether he could awaken and return to fight.
• Qiu Zhan, Yue Zhen, Feng Boyong, and the rest of the Epoch Top Ten accepted Tu Xie's challenge, setting the confrontation for December 31, 9999.
• Yang Zhixuan told Chi Wen and Jin Yuanli that his research group had made some headway toward a new cultivation path, though it lacked sample data.
• Jin Yuanli affirmed to Yang Zhixuan that he believed Li Qingshan could awaken, while he and Chi Wen continued toward the Four Saints Galaxy.
• The Four Saints Galaxy's anticipation grew as the Xinchen Era reached December 31, 9999.

As the Stellar Sea waited for Li Qingshan to awaken at the thousand-year mark, Tu Xie and the Epoch Top Ten began their battle without him. Li Qingshan finally revealed himself, saved Little Taotie from Cao Wuyan, and arrived before Tu Xie as his Great Sun in the Sky manifestation appeared.

• At 17:50, Li Qingshan failed to awaken, and the waiting crowds grew anxious as Tu Xie delayed before finally setting out to fight.
• Tu Xie and the Epoch Top Ten manifested in the Wasteland Starry Sky, where Tu Xie unleashed a thousand eighth-rank Blood Prison Evil Soldiers against them.
• Cao Wuyan went to seize Little Taotie, but Li Qingshan's hidden Thunder Roar Blade split Cao Wuyan in two and sent his blood toward the sleeping Little Fatty.
• Tu Xie recognized Li Qingshan's blade and called for him, prompting the watching crowds to notice that the blue supergiant star had vanished.
• Li Qingshan appeared in the Starry Sky, and his Great Sun in the Sky manifestation made the Ten Manifestations retreat while the Blood Prison Evil Soldiers stood frozen.

Li Qingshan awakened with the Great Sun in the Sky and confronted Tu Xie, who returned the blade instead of fighting. After the livestream was cut off, Li Qingshan called Tu Xie a friend and asked where he had killed a thousand eighth-order Evil God Alien Race members.

• Li Qingshan emerged from his awakening, and the Great Sun in the Sky suppressed the phenomena across the battlefield.
• Tu Xie returned the long blade to Li Qingshan, but Li Qingshan said he had something to discuss with him.
• The livestream and cameras were shut off as Qiu Zhan, Yue Zhen, Fu Shan, and the others cleared the battlefield.
• Li Qingshan stopped Tu Xie from unleashing his Sea of Blood and persuaded him that they were friends and comrades-in-arms.
• Li Qingshan asked Tu Xie where he had killed a thousand eighth-order Evil God Alien Race members.

Li Qingshan learned that Pioneer Constellations were humanity’s expanding frontiers and that the War of the Four Saints offered rare resources and a chance to advance. After Shi Feng urged him to stay for the ranking, Li Qingshan approached Feng Boyong and greeted him as a senior.

• Tu Xie explained that Pioneer Constellations were unnamed supergalactic clusters that humanity could pacify and incorporate into its territory.
• Li Qingshan asked Tu Xie to recommend him for a Pioneer Constellation, but Shi Feng warned him about its dangers and urged him to remain for the War of the Four Saints.
• Shi Feng revealed that the war’s Opportunity offered Myriad Phenomena Star Sand and Hundredfold Time resources, and that the Four Saints Galaxy’s Epoch Prodigy Ranking gave its young prodigies a special advantage.
• Tu Xie said he had returned to the Four Saints Galaxy to reach the Ninth Order before becoming a Titled General.
• After everyone departed, Li Qingshan walked up to Feng Boyong and greeted him as Senior Boyong.

Li Qingshan reunited with Feng Boyong, awakened Little Fatty after his bloodline breakthrough, and promised Chi Baixiu and Master Wunian that he would search for Suixin. He then joined Jin Yuanli, Chi Wen, and Yang Zhixuan, accepting a cultivation method while pointing out that he lacked support and Myriad Phenomena Star Sand.

• Li Qingshan met Feng Boyong in the starry sky, and Feng Boyong left for the Heavenly Kill Sect ahead of the Convergence of Four Saints.
• Li Qingshan arrived on a life planet and awakened Little Fatty, who had reached the seventh order after absorbing Cao Wuyan's bloodline.
• Li Qingshan promised Chi Baixiu and Master Wunian that he would search for Suixin in the Canglan Realm, then left as Cao Wanjin arrived to reunite with Little Fatty.
• Li Qingshan met Chi Wen, Jin Yuanli, and Yang Zhixuan, who explained his research into reaching the limits of the eighth order and gave Li Qingshan a Crystal Core containing a cultivation method.
• Li Qingshan accepted Yang Zhixuan's invitation to help perfect the method, then said he lacked support and had never seen Myriad Phenomena Star Sand.

Li Qingshan received Myriad Phenomena Star Sand from Yang Zhixuan and learned that manifesting Myriad Manifestations could let him challenge the Ninth Order. He reunited with Zhao Yang on Ziying Star, restored his strength with the Thunder Roar Blade, and began cultivating beside two gravestones, facing a million-year requirement to advance.

• Li Qingshan accepted one hundred thousand grains of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand from Yang Zhixuan, who explained that his blue supergiant Fundamental Image might need them to manifest Myriad Manifestations.
• Yang Zhixuan said Li Qingshan could use Myriad Manifestations to pry at Astral Realm Rules and cross the Ninth-Order Heavenly Moat in combat, then left with Jin Yuanli and Chi Wen.
• Li Qingshan traveled to Ziying Star and reunited with Zhao Yang, giving him the Thunder Roar Blade and helping him reach a nine-zhang Establishing Dao Nascent Dharma Aspect.
• Li Qingshan sat beside the gravestones of Old Zhao and Old Yu and saw that reaching Myriad Manifestations required one million years of cultivation.