Chapter Summaries

Chen Jue fused three skills into the Zhoutian Star Sword Formula, greatly increasing his strength and testing its destructive power. After using the Heavenly Eye to glimpse a Bronze Sacred Tree and a red-eyed creature, he flew west with Little Parrot to search for rainbow crystals, while a stranded exploration team struggled in a desert.

• Chen Jue discovered that the Bronze Mask stimulated his senses, attributes, and Qi cultivation, then returned to his base and trained through the long night.
• Chen Jue fused Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Orbits Circulation, Dragon Slaying Sword Art, and Seven-Star Life Extension into the Zhoutian Star Sword Formula.
• Chen Jue tested the new method by blasting the lakebed with sword Qi and cleaving the lake with a giant energy sword.
• Chen Jue and Little Parrot hunted Luoyu Fish, then Chen Jue restored his strength and prepared to explore west for rainbow crystals.
• Chen Jue activated the Heavenly Eye and saw a golden artificial space, a Bronze Sacred Tree, and enormous red eyes before departing west with Little Parrot.
• An exploration team in Lunar Rovers crossed a desert, lamenting that four teammates had died while searching for water.

Bruce's expedition found a hypersaline sea and began making fresh water, then encountered the Bear expedition and agreed to cooperate while Zhao Zhen promised to guide Linglong to a Seven-Colored Ore site. Far away, Chen Jue and Little Parrot fled a pack of flying giant rats.

• Bruce spotted water, and Jason and Pier drove the team to a sea with dangerously high salinity.
• Bruce, Jason, and Pier built solar stills and called the other expedition teams to join them.
• Bruce recognized the approaching Bear expedition, rushed to greet Linglong, and she demanded information about the Śarīra and Seven-Colored Ore.
• Zhao Zhen told Linglong that a terrifying beast guarded the mining area, and the expedition groups lowered their weapons after Abula and Ivan renewed their old friendship.
• Chen Jue and Little Parrot flew through the mountains to escape a pack of red-eyed giant rats pursuing them.

Chen Jue escaped a flock of poisonous Flying Squirrels and discovered that the red fruits they guarded could rapidly strengthen muscle and increase strength. After eating one fruit, he identified the tree as a Huai Tree and carefully saved its two pits, leaving him with a valuable discovery to cultivate after completing his mission.

• Chen Jue fought off the Flying Squirrels with a torrent of sword qi, then escaped their deadly green venom mist with Little Parrot.
• Chen Jue ate the red fruit and found that its nutrients stimulated muscle growth and raised his Strength attribute.
• Chen Jue fed fruit to Little Parrot, which rapidly grew into a heavily muscled bird resembling a Harpy Eagle.
• Chen Jue recognized the fruit-bearing tree as a Huai Tree from the Classic of Mountains and Seas and considered its potential for strengthening people.
• Chen Jue stored the two pits in his backpack and planned to plant them after finding the Seven-Colored Crystal and improving his spiritual cultivation.

Chen Jue synthesized the Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill, sharpening his awareness as he traveled toward the mining pit. There, he found Linglong mourning a dead man and witnessed her martial true intent as she charged a roaring beast in the cave.

• Chen Jue and Little Parrot crossed the wasteland, and Chen Jue cultivated while Little Parrot grew rapidly in the high concentration of true qi.
• Chen Jue fused six techniques into the Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill, which enhanced his senses and awareness.
• Chen Jue and Little Parrot flew to a gravel quarry after hearing beast roars and seeing gunfire in the distance.
• Chen Jue recognized the quarry scene as the vision he had experienced when he first opened the Heavenly Eye.
• Linglong laid the dead man down, revealed the dragon-shaped martial true intent of the Xingyi Dragon Form, and charged the cave with a metal spike as her spear.

Chen Jue and Linglong fought Bai Ze in the mining pit, where the beast’s psychic powers overwhelmed their attacks and nearly broke Chen Jue’s will. Chen Jue escaped with Little Parrot, and Linglong threw her Śarīra pendant into the sea as he began examining his injuries.

• Linglong charged into Bai Ze’s cave and wounded its forefoot, but Bai Ze hurled her out and attacked her with a silver spike.
• Chen Jue caught Linglong and defended the group from Bai Ze’s returning bullets, while Little Parrot carried her out of the pit.
• Chen Jue blocked Bai Ze’s silver spikes with Golden Sword Qi, but Bai Ze struck him into the pit wall and tore his Aerospace Combat Suit.
• Chen Jue severed Bai Ze’s injured forefoot with a golden energy sword, endured its psychic assault, and escaped the pit after unleashing Sword Qi.
• Little Parrot carried Chen Jue and Linglong several hundred kilometers to a beach, where Linglong threw her Śarīra pendant into the sea and Chen Jue examined his injuries.

After surviving Bai Ze’s psychic attack, Chen Jue healed his severe injuries and reunited with Linglong on Second Home. Their discussion of the lunar expeditions and Linglong’s Blood Gang led Chen Jue to infer that it fused blood, true qi, and psychic energy.

• Chen Jue used Buddhist chants and true qi to repair his injuries while Linglong recovered beside him.
• After more than ten hours, Chen Jue’s condition improved, and he shared nutritional supplements with Little Parrot before speaking with Linglong.
• Linglong explained that the Xingyi Sect had reached the moon aboard Bear’s spacecraft and described the other expedition groups and their landing sites.
• Chen Jue and Linglong compared the island, desert, and forest sites, each of which had a flat-topped mountain beyond its Wormhole Tunnel.
• Linglong explained how she formed Blood Gang by combining blood and true qi, and Chen Jue concluded that psychic energy and martial intent had also contributed to it.

Chen Jue and Linglong discussed blood gang and cultivation, leading Chen Jue to realize that cultivating the mind and body were two paths toward transcending the ordinary and manifesting the sacred. After parting, Chen Jue flew toward the base with Little Parrot and encountered the enormous red Phoenix Bird in the clouds.

• Chen Jue analyzed how Linglong's blood gang and barbed spear had pierced Bai Ze's psychic barrier, and Linglong asked him how to subdue the mind.
• Chen Jue explained his understanding of the mind and meditation, and Linglong compared his cultivation with her own experience fusing blood gang.
• Watching sand slip through his fingers, Chen Jue realized that the mind, body, and matter were connected, and that cultivating the mind and body could lead to the same transcendent state.
• Chen Jue and Linglong parted at sunset, with Linglong heading back to the island to recover and reunite with her disciple while Chen Jue returned toward the base on Little Parrot.
• As Little Parrot carried Chen Jue above the desert, an enormous red Phoenix Bird emerged from the clouds.

Chen Jue encountered the Vermilion Bird and used his observations to develop a new idea for cultivating martial blood force. Back at the outpost, he deduced a blood-burning technique and named it the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique].

• Chen Jue recognized the scarlet bird soaring beside Little Parrot as the Vermilion Bird and studied its life-infused martial blood force.
• Chen Jue considered creating a human blood-force cultivation method but postponed his deductions because he was injured; the Vermilion Bird soon vanished into the clouds.
• Little Parrot carried Chen Jue back to the outpost in five days, and his injuries fully healed during the journey.
• Chen Jue heard Bai Ze's lingering plea for help and resolved to try to free it if he returned to the mine when stronger.
• Chen Jue recorded his observations and deduced a blood-burning technique whose acupoints matched those of the [Seven-Star Life Extension Skill], then named it the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique].

Chen Jue created the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique] and fused several arts into [Pure Yang Skill], which let him unleash a devastating punch but quickly drained his martial blood gang. After hearing people arrive at the forbidden zone, he found eight base candidates at the wormhole, including a girl who greeted him as Brother Chen Jue.

• Chen Jue tested the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique], boosting his attributes by about ten percent while burning through blood cells, then stopped the burst and recovered.
• Chen Jue spent 3.2 free attribute points to fuse [Supreme Ultimate Fist], [Zhoutian Star Sword Formula], [Ten Body-Tempering Forms], and [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique] into [Pure Yang Skill].
• Chen Jue cultivated [Pure Yang Skill], forming scarlet-gold martial blood gang and completing his theory of [Transcendent Level] cultivation.
• Chen Jue fired a scarlet-gold punch into the forest, snapping several towering trees and raising a small mushroom cloud, but the attack consumed a fifth of his blood gang.
• Chen Jue heard human footsteps and breathing, leaped to the mountaintop platform, and found eight base candidates at the wormhole, where a petite girl greeted him excitedly.

Chen Jue reunited with Yun Xiaomei and the other Chinese Candidates as they arrived at the Second Home, where he introduced them to the Safe Zone and Little Parrot. The newcomers began exploring their new surroundings together, and the chapter ended with Little Parrot calling Yun Xiaomei “Mama.”

• Yun Xiaomei told Chen Jue she had mastered the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, reached Embracing the Elixir, and learned he had gone to the moon.
• Sun Wu, Luo Qiong, and the other Candidates greeted Chen Jue, who led them to the mountaintop platform to view the forest and lakes.
• Little Parrot descended onto the platform, alarming the Candidates until Chen Jue reassured them that the giant bird was tame.
• Yun Xiaomei approached Little Parrot, and the bird affectionately nuzzled her as she stroked and hugged it.
• Chen Jue explained Little Parrot’s rapid growth, the dangers beyond the Safe Zone, and how life ore and the local environment could affect people.
• Yun Xiaomei whispered to Little Parrot, which called her “Mama” and left Chen Jue dumbfounded.

Chen Jue welcomed Yun Xiaomei's landing party to Second Home and learned that his Ten Body-Tempering Forms had transformed Earth and enabled the mission. After carrying the party's supplies to a campsite, he left them wondering what had scorched the ground there.

• Little Parrot willingly learned from Yun Xiaomei, then flew her into the sky while the landing party began unloading supplies.
• Sun Wu told Chen Jue that the Ten Body-Tempering Forms had fueled a global cultivation craze and helped Earth build a lunar spacecraft; Yun Xiaomei had perfected the tenth form.
• Chen Jue lifted several-ton supply crates with ease and carried them down the mountain, astonishing the landing party.
• Chen Jue led the party to a campsite marked by burned trees, carbonized ground, and lingering heat, prompting them to speculate about an attack.

Chen Jue helped the new expedition team establish their camp, then assisted Xiao Mu in setting up a weather-monitoring and radio-relay device on the summit. After showing off his extraordinary strength, Chen Jue revealed the large cave he had excavated, leaving Xiao Mu astonished.

• Chen Jue worked with Sun Wu and the others to unpack supplies and build a camp, while Xiao Mu assessed the team's needs and plans for future cabins.
• Chen Jue drove Xiao Mu to the summit and gouged a hole into rock with his fingers after Xiao Mu's electric drill ran out of power.
• Chen Jue pressed three alloy nails into the rock with his fingers to secure the weather instrument's support collar.
• Xiao Mu activated the instrument, which monitored weather conditions and relayed radio signals back to camp.
• Chen Jue went to retrieve supplies from his cave, and Xiao Mu marveled at the large, apartment-sized chamber Chen Jue had dug into the mountain.

Chen Jue welcomed Mu Yin’s team to camp and helped them secure fresh food for a celebratory meal. He then stunned Liu Jun by felling a gigantic alien tree with an entrenching shovel and a powerful kick.

• Chen Jue returned to camp with Mu Yin and supply crates, where Luo Qiong and the others were preparing a stove and discussing their shortage of food and seasonings.
• Little Parrot brought back two Luoyu Fish after Yun Xiaomei showed how it had blasted them out of a river, and Chen Jue identified the fish as safe and delicious.
• The team divided up tasks to prepare a welcome feast, while Yun Xiaomei and Little Parrot went to play in the woods.
• Chen Jue offered to cut down a giant tree for Liu Jun, who was measuring the unusual trees near camp.
• Chen Jue hacked through the tree’s massive trunk with repeated shovel strikes, then leaped between nearby trees and kicked it down as Liu Jun watched in shock.

Chen Jue helped Liu Jun turn a felled giant tree into boards and a water tank, then sent Little Parrot to fetch water for camp. When the camp struggled to light a cooking fire, Chen Jue ignited the wood with flames from his palm, leaving Xiao Mu astonished.

• Chen Jue chopped the fallen tree into boards for Liu Jun and hollowed out a log to make a large water tank.
• Chen Jue made buckets and persuaded Yun Xiaomei to take Little Parrot to fetch water from the lake.
• Chen Jue and Liu Jun carried the remaining timber back to camp, where the team struggled to light a fire with damp wood.
• Chen Jue used scarlet-gold flames from his palm to ignite a thick strip of wood for the cooking fire.
• Xiao Mu grabbed Chen Jue's arm and asked if he had used the legendary Shaolin Fire Cloud Palm.

Chen Jue demonstrated his new alloy Bionic Wings and used Martial Dao Gang Qi to fly at supersonic speed across Second Home. He explained the basics of cultivating Gang Qi to Yun Xiaomei and prepared to test whether she was ready to learn it.

• Chen Jue reassured Mu Yin that transcendence could come through steady practice of the Ten Body-Tempering Forms.
• Luo Qiong delivered the custom-made alloy Bionic Wings, and Chen Jue mounted them on his Aerospace Combat Suit and flew from camp.
• Chen Jue found Yun Xiaomei and Little Parrot, then challenged them to race to the lake.
• Chen Jue used Gang Qi jets to break the sound barrier, reached 610 meters per second, and landed at the lake after covering dozens of kilometers.
• Yun Xiaomei arrived with Little Parrot, and Chen Jue explained Martial Dao Gang Qi before inviting her to spar so he could assess her readiness to learn it.

Chen Jue evaluated Yun Xiaomei’s martial arts and explained how she could advance beyond the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, including the use of life ore as a cultivation aid. He discovered that Yun Xiaomei could interpret Bai Ze’s roars, which seemed to reveal that the beast was in pain and wanted to leave its guarded territory.

• Yun Xiaomei demonstrated all Ten Body-Tempering Forms, and Chen Jue sensed her innate Unity of Heaven and Man state and budding beast-inspired martial dao true intent.
• Chen Jue explained the transcendent level and demonstrated the Pure Yang Skill’s Gang energy, then advised Yun Xiaomei to develop her own cultivation method.
• Chen Jue gave Yun Xiaomei life ore and explained that its concentrated True Qi could speed her physical cultivation.
• Yun Xiaomei explained that she could understand Little Parrot because its calls resembled Earth birds’ sounds.
• Chen Jue imitated Bai Ze’s roars, and Yun Xiaomei translated them as a plea for help, saying Bai Ze was in pain and wanted to be taken away.

Chen Jue taught Yun Xiaomei spiritual cultivation and took her to practice communicating with alien beasts before bringing her to meet the aggressive Kui Oxen. The chapter ended as one Kui Ox attacked them with lightning and Chen Jue caught the bolts in his hands.

• Chen Jue taught Yun Xiaomei the Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill and explained how cultivation and the planet's life ore affected the landing team.
• The team settled into camp, discussed their first day, and practiced the Ten Body-Tempering Forms together.
• Chen Jue gave Liu Jun two Huai Tree seeds to cultivate and pointed out an Immortal Tree for him to study.
• Chen Jue took Yun Xiaomei beyond the Safe Zone, where she soothed a Feiyi and demonstrated her ability to communicate with wild beasts.
• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei entered the misty swamp and approached a Kui Ox, which fired lightning at them after Chen Jue asked to be friends.
• Chen Jue caught the Kui Ox's two lightning bolts in his hands.

Chen Jue subdued the lightning-wielding Kui Ox, then studied its unusual body and breathing until he created the [Kui Ox Guiding Technique]. He left Yun Xiaomei to learn the beast’s methods through observation, and she began practicing beside it.

• Chen Jue met the Kui Ox’s charge head-on and pinned it to the ground, withstanding its lightning attacks.
• Yun Xiaomei spoke with the subdued Kui Ox, which agreed not to attack them and offered part of its territory.
• Chen Jue examined the Kui Ox’s hide, muscles, breathing, and roar, noticing how its physiology integrated the training of essence, Qi, and spirit.
• Chen Jue synchronized his breathing with the Kui Ox and developed the [Kui Ox Guiding Technique].
• Chen Jue urged Yun Xiaomei to study the Kui Ox’s breathing and stance herself, and she began observing and imitating it.

Chen Jue strengthened himself with the Kui Ox Guiding Technique until his strength and constitution surpassed 10, then traveled with Yun Xiaomei to confront Bai Ze. He wounded Bai Ze with gang qi and began cutting through its defenses, leaving their battle underway.

• Yun Xiaomei learned the Kui Ox’s breathing resonance and one-legged stance as Chen Jue guided her in Cloud-Mist Swamp.
• Chen Jue practiced the Kui Ox Guiding Technique for several days, raising his strength and constitution above 10 before setting out west with Yun Xiaomei.
• Chen Jue gave Sun Wu and Luo Qiong a special Buddhist Chant Resonance session before the journey, while he and Yun Xiaomei reached the desert after five days and found the Huai Tree and Flying Squirrels gone.
• Chen Jue and Yun Xiaomei reached Bai Ze’s Mine Pit, where Chen Jue hurled a gang-qi-coated spear into Bai Ze and discovered its old wounds had healed.
• Bai Ze attacked with a storm of spikes, but Chen Jue dodged them and slashed a deep wound into its foreleg, cutting through its five-colored barrier.

Chen Jue fought Bai Ze in the mining pit, broke through its psychic defenses, and severed its horns with a powerful sword strike. Bai Ze regenerated and regained its sanity, then thanked Chen Jue through Yun Xiaomei, who explained that its horns had been overloading its mind with psychic energy.

• Chen Jue battled Bai Ze, using his martial gang energy to withstand its attacks and shatter its condensed psychic barrier.
• Chen Jue spent his remaining Free Attribute Points on constitution, empowered his sword light, and cut Bai Ze's horns off.
• Bai Ze regenerated its wounds and changed into a calm, lucid state as five-colored light returned to its broken horns.
• Chen Jue called Yun Xiaomei down and asked her to communicate with Bai Ze.
• Yun Xiaomei translated Bai Ze's thanks and explained that its psychic energy had overwhelmed its mind until Chen Jue cut off its horns.