Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan and the Epoch Prodigies discovered that Cangyan’s contingency plan had sent the Heavenly Book fragments into the Astral Realm Rules to help the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book suppress the Cold Moon. The Azure Sky Curtain then turned transparent, revealing Yue Zhen and the Young Monk beneath the Cold Moon, where a white-robed monk sat at the top of a million-step stairway.

• Xingyun warned Li Qingshan that the Heavenly Book had a contingency plan, but the Jade Fragments vanished into space before they could stop them.
• Li Qingshan and the Epoch Top Ten attacked the fading fragments, which merged into the outermost Astral Realm Rules.
• In World 5000, moonlight struck Yue Zhen and the Young Monk, making them disappear along with the fading Heavenly Book phantom.
• The Earth Immortals debated spreading Golden Core Dao Seeds until Heaven manifested the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book and its golden light struck those who supported the idea.
• Xuanjian realized Heaven was using the Heavenly Book to suppress the Cold Moon, while the Gloomy Elder mocked the Earth Immortals’ reaction.
• Li Qingshan and the Epoch Prodigies saw the Azure Sky Curtain turn transparent and found Yue Zhen beside the Young Monk, beneath the Cold Moon and a white-robed monk seated atop a million-step stairway.

Li Qingshan discovered that Suixin had spent a thousand years using the Cold Moon to resist Cangyan and protect the Ten Thousand Worlds, but the Heavenly Book fragments began tipping their struggle with Heaven. As Heaven issued a proclamation branding all beings sinful, the Ten Thousand Worlds rejected its decree and rallied behind the Azure Sky Society.

• Li Qingshan recognized the young monk as Suixin and realized that his million-step vigil beneath the Cold Moon had made him the Ten Thousand Worlds' defense against Cangyan.
• Feng Boyong and Tu Xie explained how Suixin's cultivation of the Cold Moon had kept Heaven from devouring the Ten Thousand Worlds, while Heavenly Book pages and fragments pierced the moonlight and threatened the balance.
• On a Canglan Realm battlefield, Heaven's Vast Sky Proclamation declared humanity guilty and ordered the lower realms to submit, prompting soldiers to kneel in worship.
• Across the Ten Thousand Worlds, people refused to kneel and condemned Heaven's accusations, with farmers, parents, and scholars denouncing the Wicked Immortals.
• The crowd raised Azure Sky Society pamphlets and shouted, “Heaven is dead, feeding on devoured spirits!” and “Azure Sky shall rise, and all things shall shine bright!”

As Heaven’s golden erosion spread, Li Qingshan and the Epoch Prodigies considered evacuating the Ten Thousand Worlds while hoping Yue Zhen’s jade pendant would change their fate. Yue Zhen shattered it, freeing Suixin and granting him fortune, while Tai Shang emerged in a distant star system and charged the Blood Rot Clan.

• Xingyun explained that Cangyan could interfere with the Sky-Breaking Great Array, so Li Qingshan proposed moving everyone to World 9527 instead.
• The Epoch Prodigies watched Yue Zhen take out a jade pendant, while Li Qingshan recognized the Young Monk as the desire Suixin had severed.
• Yue Zhen smashed the jade pendant, causing the Young Monk to disappear and Suixin to appear above the million steps.
• Suixin thanked the shattered pendant for gifting him fortune, leaving Yue Zhen bewildered.
• A Bedraggled Middle-aged Man escaped an Astral Storm into the Blood Rot Clan’s ancestral land, declared himself Tai Shang, and charged the Blood Rot forces.

Suixin awakened after accepting Tai Shang’s severed Heavenly Good Fortune, but the Moon Ascending Stairway weakened and Cangyan’s golden light spread through the Ten Thousand Worlds. Li Qingshan urged the Epoch Prodigies to follow their original plan and pointed to a rising Cold Moon as Cangyan confronted them.

• Suixin told Yue Zhen that Tai Shang had given away his Heavenly Good Fortune and claimed that he could take what he wanted.
• As Suixin awakened, the Moon Ascending Stairway shortened and its Cold White Moonlight weakened, allowing golden light to overrun the Myriad Canglan Worlds.
• Li Qingshan told the Epoch Prodigies to carry out their plan to devour the Ten Thousand Worlds and defy Heaven, explaining that Suixin was his fortunate friend and a new variable.
• Cangyan appeared through the [Vast Sky Proclamation] and declared that he had allowed the Heavenly Book to descend and had trapped the Epoch Prodigies.
• Li Qingshan thanked Cangyan for letting them in, then pointed toward a Cold Moon rising in deep space and challenged him to show his strength.

Li Qingshan drove Cangyan away by drawing the gaze of Cold Moon, then set the plan to shatter the Myriad Canglan Worlds in motion. The worlds’ people were transported toward the Immortal Realm as the Heavenly Secrets Disk broke their skies and the outer Astral Realm Rules.

• Cold Moon’s gaze shattered Cangyan’s golden light and forced him to flee to the Vast Continent, leaving Li Qingshan’s Heavenly Book in his hands.
• Li Qingshan told Xingyun and the Epoch Prodigies to proceed with their plan, and the people of the Myriad Canglan Worlds prepared for immigration.
• Gu Yueqi ate Old Green Ox before leaving, while Gu Family Elder and Gu’s Wife joined hands with him and vowed that their family would stay together.
• The Tianji No. 1 rune formations activated across the Ten Thousand Worlds, and the Heavenly Secrets Disk shattered the skies and the outer Astral Realm Rules.
• The Tianji No. 2 talismans enveloped the worlds’ people in silver light and sent them streaming toward the Immortal Realm.

After Cangyan’s scheme failed and the Astral Realm Rules shattered, Li Qingshan launched the Ten Thousand Worlds’ mass immigration into the Immortal Realm. He sent Xingyun ahead with the Heavenly Secrets Disk to awaken Old Daoist Tianji, while he prepared to save the now-undefended worlds.

• Xuanjian and the Earth Immortals watched the Demon Stars brighten as the Astral Realm Rules shattered, leaving the Ten Thousand Worlds open to Heavenly Demons.
• At Tianji Group headquarters, Fat Daoist reported that the Sky-Breaking Great Array was active and living beings across the Ten Thousand Worlds were ascending toward the Immortal Realm.
• Li Qingshan learned that twenty million Golden Core cultivators were ready to protect the immigrants and that Xingyun planned to use the Heavenly Secrets Disk to awaken Old Daoist Tianji.
• Li Qingshan asked Xingyun to request a favor from Old Daoist Tianji, then watched Xingyun depart with the Heavenly Secrets Disk.
• Li Qingshan studied his cultivation progress and turned toward the undefended Myriad Canglan Worlds, ready to save them.

As the Demon Stars descended, Zhang Tingnan and the Azure Sky Society protected the accused humans and urged them to reject Heaven’s rule. Cangyan sent the Ten Directions Immortal Court to attack the newcomers, but the Epoch Prodigies fought back beyond the heavens as humanity witnessed the battle.

• A young squad leader stopped his soldiers from attacking a family who had descended from a Demon Star, and Zhang Tingnan invited him to join the Azure Sky Society.
• The Vast Sky Proclamation branded the descended humans as sinful rebels and ordered the Ten Directions Immortal Court to exterminate them, while people across the Mortal Realm either knelt or prepared to resist.
• Cangyan’s golden cloud seized the Ten Directions Immortal Court disciples and carried them beyond the heavens toward the Demon Stars.
• Cangyan demanded that the Outer Realm Sky Demons return the immortals, but the Epoch Prodigies attacked, destroying Demon Stars and worlds across the Stellar Sea.
• Zhang Tingnan, Hao Peiyun, and other Azure Sky Society members tried to raise the kneeling people, who looked up as the battle beyond the heavens revealed a thousand Blue-White Great Suns.

Four Saints Councilors worried that the Epoch Prodigies had not returned, then watched the ranking’s top names flare as Li Qingshan’s light swallowed them. Beyond the Canglan Realm, Li Qingshan’s Great Suns swept across the battlefields, killing Earth Immortals and Immortal Court disciples alike.

• The Councilors debated whether the War of the Four Saints was still underway and whether the Mind Nightmare Demon Ancestor had interfered, while Shi Feng warned that intervention required the Council Court’s approval.
• Shi Feng pointed out that none of the 101 Epoch Prodigies had fallen, but he and the Councilors saw the Epoch Top Ten’s names light up before their starlight was pulled toward Li Qingshan’s name.
• Tu Xie trapped the battered Ninth-Order Earth Immortal Xuanjian in the Sea of Blood and tried to turn him into a Blood Prison Evil General.
• Li Qingshan’s Blue-White Flame struck the Sea of Blood, vaporized Xuanjian, and then destroyed three more of Tu Xie’s chosen Earth Immortal generals.
• Li Qingshan’s thousand Great Suns swept across multiple battlefields, harvesting Ninth-Order Earth Immortals and Nascent Soul Realm Immortal Court disciples.

Li Qingshan refined the origins of the shattered Ten Thousand Worlds at an extraordinary speed while the Epoch Prodigies destroyed worlds and killed immortals. After ten thousand Great Suns formed a vast stellar formation and overwhelmed Cangyan, Li Qingshan appeared before him, ready to challenge the Heavenly Dao.

• Cangyan raged as the immortals and Ten Thousand Worlds were destroyed, leaving him unable to interfere from within Canglan.
• Li Qingshan refined Mystic Yellow origins through a thousand Great Sun Furnaces, then increased the refining speed tenfold and urged the Epoch Prodigies to destroy worlds faster.
• Cangyan accused Li Qingshan of harvesting the worlds to challenge him, then threatened him and questioned how he could reach the Ninth Order.
• As the number of Great Suns grew, Cangyan's golden face faltered, and he offered to cease hostilities and let the others return.
• Ten thousand Great Suns filled the Starry Sky, and Li Qingshan appeared before Cangyan and invited him to test how he would contend against the Heavenly Dao.

Li Qingshan revealed the strength of his Ten Thousand Suns cultivation and challenged Cangyan’s belief that the ancient path was superior to new martial arts. After Cangyan used the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book to steady himself and shield Canglan, Li Qingshan began tearing open the realm’s defenses.

• Li Qingshan explained that he remained at the Eighth Order despite gaining the power to pry at the Astral Realm Rules.
• Li Qingshan and the Epoch Prodigies argued that Human Martial Dao advanced through research, practice, and generations of progress, shaking Cangyan’s Dao heart.
• Cangyan used the forty-nine pages of the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book to recover his resolve, then enclosed Canglan in a golden barrier and dared Li Qingshan to break it.
• Li Qingshan demanded the Heavenly Book back and gripped the layered void, spreading cracks across Cangyan’s golden barrier until he pried open the sky of Canglan.

Li Qingshan entered Canglan and began attacking Cangyan, whose golden light had kept the realm’s people submissive to Heaven. With Old Daoist Tianji’s help, Li Qingshan broke the Heavenly Dao’s hold, leaving Azure Sky Society members to proclaim Heaven’s fall across Canglan.

• Li Qingshan pried at the Astral Realm Rules with Ten Thousand Wheels of Great Sun and stepped into Canglan while still at Eighth Order Myriad Manifestations.
• Blue-white fissures split Canglan’s golden sky, and crowds celebrated Li Qingshan’s arrival as Azure Sky Society members tried to raise the kneeling people to their feet.
• Zhang Tingnan told a young squad leader that they should wait until Heaven was dead, and firmly declared that Azure Sky would win.
• In the Heavenly Dao Space, Cangyan threatened to destroy Canglan unless Li Qingshan withdrew, but Li Qingshan said he was waiting for an old friend.
• Old Daoist Tianji used the Heavenly Secrets Disk to pry open a fissure in the Heavenly Dao, allowing Li Qingshan to attack the golden light and reclaim the Heavenly Book.
• The golden light vanished from Canglan’s sky, and Azure Sky Society members projected the messages, “Heaven is dead, feeding on spirits!” and “Azure Sky shall rise, all things attain Bright Dawn!”

The Councilors watched the Epoch Prodigy Ranking stall as Li Qingshan’s title remained unresolved, and they celebrated the unprecedented strength of the Four Saints Galaxy’s prodigies. Shi Feng warned that the Mind Nightmare Clan might exploit the gathering of peerless talents in Canglan to capture them.

• The Councilors debated why the starlight around Li Qingshan’s ranking had stopped changing, while Shi Feng reminded them to focus on the War of the Four Saints.
• The Councilors discussed the nine new Sons of the Four Saints and expected Li Qingshan to make the Four Saints Galaxy a force in the Land of Returning Ruins.
• Shi Feng cautioned that danger remained until the prodigies left the Star Realm and raised the possibility that the Mind Nightmare Demon Ancestor had planted a Hidden Hand in Canglan.
• Shi Feng recalled that the Mind Nightmare Clan targeted peerless prodigies, and the Councilors recognized that the transformed Epoch Top Ten and Li Qingshan could be its targets.

After Cangyan's death, Li Qingshan examined the Heavenly Book and had Old Daoist Tianji restore its scattered pages. As Tianji worked, Feng Boyong, Tu Xie, and the other Epoch Prodigies arrived, and Li Qingshan invited them to wait.

• Li Qingshan confirmed Cangyan was dead, but noticed the kill reward was unexpectedly small and the Heavenly Book had not appeared.
• Old Daoist Tianji emerged and asked Li Qingshan to help suppress the struggling Heavenly Book and Heavenly Secrets Disk.
• Li Qingshan used blue-white flames to restrain the Immortal Artifacts, then Tianji shrank the Heavenly Secrets Disk and brought out the forty-nine blank pages.
• Li Qingshan gathered the pages and discovered they no longer amplified insight; Tianji explained the Heavenly Book could reveal suitable cultivation methods and offered to restore it.
• Old Daoist Tianji began joining the pages, and Feng Boyong, Tu Xie, and the other Epoch Prodigies entered the Heavenly Dao Space; Li Qingshan told them to wait.

Li Qingshan and the Epoch Prodigies watched as Old Daoist Tianji restored the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book, hoping it would help Li Qingshan advance his martial arts. The restored book awakened and began displaying Immortal Dao Inscriptions, presenting the group with an unexpected opportunity.

• Li Qingshan assured the Epoch Prodigies that Old Daoist Tianji was an old ally, while Feng Boyong questioned the risks of restoring the Heavenly Book.
• Li Qingshan examined his status and worried that the Martial Arts Space’s latest upgrade had not helped Myriad Evolution Star River progress beyond Myriad Manifestations.
• Old Daoist Tianji reassembled all forty-nine pages, restoring the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book and triggering a violent reaction from the Heavenly Secrets Disk.
• The Heavenly Book flew into the air, and Tu Xie and the other Epoch Prodigies attacked it as Li Qingshan watched without joining in.
• The Heavenly Book opened and began displaying Immortal Dao Inscriptions, which Old Daoist Tianji said could guide its readers toward enlightenment and the foundation of the Great Dao.

The Mind Nightmare Demon Ancestor’s agent tried to use the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book to ensnare the Epoch Prodigies and recruit Li Qingshan, but Li saw through the impostor posing as Daoist Tianji and freed the real Daoist from the Heavenly Secrets Disk. With the prodigies still trapped in the Book’s influence, Li demanded that the two Tianjis teach him to read its inscriptions.

• The false Old Daoist Tianji revealed that the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book belonged to the Mind Nightmare Demon Ancestor and was drawing the Epoch Prodigies toward the Mind Nightmare Clan.
• Li Qingshan withdrew his gaze from the Book and confronted the impostor, exposing him by pointing out that the real Daoist Tianji would have reacted to his familiar smile.
• Li Qingshan used Blue-White Flame to burn away the Book’s suppression of the Heavenly Secrets Disk and free the real Daoist Tianji.
• The impostor realized Li Qingshan had seen through his act from the start, while the other Epoch Prodigies remained immersed in the Book’s inscriptions.
• Li Qingshan demanded that the real and false Tianji teach him to read the Heavenly Book.

Li Qingshan confronted the Heavenly Book’s corrupting inscriptions and forced False Tianji to teach him how to read them. After burning the book’s half-artifact spirit into submission, he prepared to study the inscriptions through sheer persistence.

• Li Qingshan reassured True Tianji, then ordered False Tianji to explain the Heavenly Book’s inscriptions.
• Li Qingshan argued that human willpower, tempered over time, could resist the Evil Gods’ corruption, while the Epoch Prodigies began to show signs of its effects.
• Li Qingshan used Blue-White Flame to remove True Tianji and the Epoch Prodigies from the Heavenly Dao Space, then seized False Tianji and approached the Heavenly Book.
• False Tianji revealed that he was half an artifact spirit and claimed he could not perish while the Heavenly Book remained intact.
• Li Qingshan burned the Heavenly Book until False Tianji submitted, then demanded that he teach him to recognize its inscriptions.

The Epoch Prodigies learned that Li Qingshan had stayed in the Heavenly Dao Space to resist the Heavenly Book’s Corruption, while Old Daoist Tianji was saved from their attacks and vouched for by Suixin. As Li Qingshan read the entire Heavenly Book, its clear sounds reached the group beyond the heavens and gave them a chance to gain enlightenment.

• The Epoch Prodigies emerged from the Heavenly Book’s trap and attacked Old Daoist Tianji, but Blue-White Flame shielded him from their strikes.
• Old Daoist Tianji explained what had happened in the Heavenly Dao Space, and Tu Xie questioned why Li Qingshan had stayed behind.
• Suixin testified for Old Daoist Tianji, easing the Epoch Prodigies’ suspicions.
• Li Qingshan continued reading the Heavenly Book as its clear sounds carried through spatial fissures, letting the Epoch Prodigies comprehend its teachings without Corruption.
• The Epoch Prodigies listened to the clear sounds for the full forty-nine pages, then realized Li Qingshan had read the entire Heavenly Book.

Li Qingshan began reading the Heavenly Book a second time, drawing the Epoch Prodigies into another round of enlightenment despite their concerns about its Evil God Corruption. As the book’s corruption intensified, his overwhelming will protected him, and he focused on extracting its secrets with help from his Status Panel.

• Feng Boyong concluded that Li Qingshan had endured the Heavenly Book through sheer will, and the Epoch Prodigies marveled at his talent.
• You Qixuan and the others hoped Li Qingshan would read the book again so they could gain further insight into their Martial Paths, but Feng Boyong and Tu Xie warned them about the danger of the Mind Nightmare Demon Ancestor’s treasure.
• Li Qingshan began reading again, and the Clear Sound drew Feng Boyong, Tu Xie, and the other Epoch Prodigies into enlightenment.
• Suixin joined the others briefly, then opened his eyes and fingered his prayer beads after failing to understand the reading.
• False Tianji thought Li Qingshan’s repeated reading would bring disaster, but Li Qingshan remained calm as the Heavenly Book’s Corruption intensified and his will burned away its whispers.
• Li Qingshan, dissatisfied with gaining little from his first reading, stared at the Book Pages as a Status Panel revealed a flickering technique entry.

Li Qingshan recited the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book repeatedly, enduring escalating Corruption while its sound guided the Epoch Prodigies’ Martial Dao. As he began the hundredth recitation, the Status Panel’s starlit flames protected his will, and he prepared to use the Child of Stars’ power against the Reversed Inscription.

• Li Qingshan realized the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book could be recorded in the Status Panel and began reciting it repeatedly, while False Tianji expected the Corruption to overwhelm him.
• Suixin and the Epoch Prodigies were drawn into repeated enlightenment as the clear sound spread beyond the heavens and transformed their Martial Dao phenomena.
• Li Qingshan completed ninety-nine recitations without faltering, and Suixin revealed the count to the astonished Epoch Prodigies.
• False Tianji urged Li Qingshan to stop, but Li Qingshan saw that the Status Panel entry was nearly complete and began his hundredth recitation.
• The hundredth recitation unleashed a hundredfold surge of Corruption, but the Status Panel consumed available Martial Arts Space time to surround Li Qingshan’s will with protective starlit flames.
• Li Qingshan recognized the flames as an upgraded Child of Stars ability and prepared to baptize the Reversed Inscription.

Li Qingshan completed his hundredth recitation of the Jade Heavenly Book, sharing the resulting starlight with all 100 other ranked Epoch prodigies. He left the book behind and turned to the Illusory Status Panel in Martial Arts Space, where the cultivation method showed only Level 1 progress.

• False Tianji thought Li Qingshan had succumbed to Corruption, but Li Qingshan opened his eyes and resumed reading the Inscriptions.
• Li Qingshan used Martial Arts Space and his resources from the Ten Directions Immortal Court to withstand the Corruption and begin his hundredth recitation.
• Li Qingshan's recitation filled Heavenly Dao Space with phenomena and caused starlight to appear for all 101 Epoch prodigies on the ranking.
• Shi Feng suggested that all 101 prodigies might become Sons of the Four Saints, and the Councilors considered the possibility of gaining entry to the Land of Returning Ruins.
• After finishing the recitation, Li Qingshan said he would not read again, then entered Martial Arts Space and saw the Heavenly Evolution Jade Book at Level 1.