Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren and the Golden Profound Great Emperor arrived at the Seventeenth Fortress beyond Firmament Star and learned that its barracks required newcomers to prove their strength. After the Golden Profound Great Emperor failed to open the barracks gate, Chu Kuangren stepped forward to try.

• Chu Kuangren and the Golden Profound Great Emperor discovered that the Seventeenth Fortress floated beyond the world and saw Firmament Star protected by a golden shield.
• Chu Kuangren sensed other fortresses nearby, while the Golden Profound Great Emperor eagerly anticipated fighting to protect his home planet.
• A cultivator directed the newcomers to register at the barracks and obtain their soldier's identification.
• The Emperors guarding the barracks challenged the Golden Profound Great Emperor to open its gate himself.
• The Golden Profound Great Emperor struck the gate with his fists and Ten Thousand Armies Fist Manual, but could not budge it.
• Chu Kuangren raised his hand and thrust his palm toward the gate, producing an explosive crash.

Chu Kuangren and the Golden Profound Great Emperor arrived at the Seventeenth Fortress, where Chu Kuangren shattered its gates and drew attention for his reputation. After registering as soldiers, Chu Kuangren heard about the fortress’s three types of soldiers and left open whether he would join the garrison.

• Chu Kuangren blasted open the Seventeenth Fortress’s gates, and the soldiers rushed out before learning that he and the Golden Profound Great Emperor had come to register.
• The commander made the tall, thin Emperor pay for the damaged gates and ordered the Emperors to take the newcomers to register.
• Feixue and the other Emperors recognized Chu Kuangren, discussed his reputation, and escorted him to the registration office.
• Chu Kuangren and the Golden Profound Great Emperor registered by giving blood samples and receiving soldier tokens.
• Feixue explained the garrison, private, and independent soldiers, and Chu Kuangren said he would consider joining the garrison.
• The Golden Profound Great Emperor arrived after hearing about Chu Kuangren and felt insignificant by comparison.

Chu Kuangren visited the Seventeenth Fortress’s general using a jade pendant from Qixing. Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable recognized it as his benefactor’s and welcomed Chu Kuangren after explaining how Qixing had once saved his life.

• Chu Kuangren left the military camp and went to the general’s residence with the jade pendant Qixing had given him.
• A household guard made Chu Kuangren wait while Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable discussed defenses against the Blood Tribe with the fortress commanders.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable recognized the pendant, hurried outside, apologized for the delay, and invited Chu Kuangren inside.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable introduced Chu Kuangren to the commanders, all of whom were Heavenly Venerables.
• Chu Kuangren told Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable that Qixing was guarding the Deity Seal on Firmament Star.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable explained that Qixing had saved him during the Battle Against the Gods, which was why he treasured the jade pendant.

Chu Kuangren declined Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable’s offer of a commander’s post and stayed at the General’s Residence as an independent soldier. After refining the World Fruit, he learned that the residence’s formidable young general was soon returning and often tested its soldiers.

• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable offered Chu Kuangren a commander’s position, but Chu Kuangren refused and chose to serve as an independent soldier.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable invited Chu Kuangren to stay at the General’s Residence, and Chu Kuangren accepted.
• Chu Kuangren refined the World Fruit, strengthening his understanding of World Power and stabilizing his Minor World.
• While surveying the fortress with his Emperor Thought, Chu Kuangren joined Great Emperor Feixue and Golden Profound Great Emperor’s discussion about the returning young general.
• Great Emperor Feixue explained that the young general was a highly talented Perfection-stage Emperor under fifty who regularly tested her grandfather’s soldiers.

Chu Kuangren met Yin Honghua, the Seventeenth Fortress’s young general, and accompanied her to the military camp, where she tested her soldiers and then had him test them. Chu Kuangren effortlessly defeated Xiefeng with a single sword strike, leaving the assembled soldiers astonished.

• Chu Kuangren met Yin Honghua at the General's Residence, and she invited him to the military camp.
• Yin Honghua tested Li Youdao with one punch, sent him flying, and ordered him to double his training.
• Yin Honghua tested Great Emperor Feixue and invited her to become deputy commander of the Red-Clad Guards.
• Yin Honghua asked Chu Kuangren to test the remaining soldiers, and Xiefeng stepped forward to challenge him.
• Chu Kuangren tore through Xiefeng's black storms with one Sword Qi strike and stopped it at his throat, stunning the soldiers.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Emperor commanders with one move each, then fought Yin Honghua in the void and beat her after deliberately holding back. He revealed that he had reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm, while Yin Honghua left furious that he had shown her courtesy instead of fighting seriously.

• Chu Kuangren defeated Xiefeng and the other Emperor commanders in one move, astonishing the soldiers.
• Yin Honghua challenged Chu Kuangren to test his abilities, and they continued their fight in the void.
• Chu Kuangren held back through more than thirty exchanges before defeating Yin Honghua and placing Kunwu at her neck.
• Yin Honghua accused Chu Kuangren of treating her like a fool and left the camp in anger.
• Chu Kuangren admitted to the bushy-bearded commander that he had reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Yin Honghua declared that she would rather suffer a complete defeat than accept an opponent holding back.

Yin Honghua prepared to lead her Red-Clad Guards to the dangerous Seventh Asteroid Belt in search of a Chaos Spirit Source, and Chu Kuangren agreed to join them. She reluctantly accepted his presence after her guards welcomed him enthusiastically.

• Bai Chongquan warned Chu Kuangren that Yin Honghua was angry, while Bai Chongxue asked what he had done to upset her.
• Yin Honghua told Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable that she planned to fight in the Seventh Asteroid Belt to seek a Chaos Spirit Source, despite his warnings about the danger.
• Chu Kuangren arrived to bid farewell, and Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable persuaded him to travel with Yin Honghua; Yin Honghua reluctantly agreed.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable explained that Yin Honghua pursued strength and revenge because a Heavenly Venerable of the Blood Tribe had killed her parents.
• Yin Honghua told the Red-Clad Guards that Chu Kuangren would join them, and they welcomed him excitedly, leaving her annoyed.

Chu Kuangren traveled with Yin Honghua’s Red-Clad Guards toward the Seventh Asteroid Belt and drew the Time-Space Treasure Mirror, refining it enough to gain time-stopping and spatial-transfer abilities. He later found Yin Honghua reading a biography of the Human King and learned how deeply she admired him.

• Yin Honghua led the Red-Clad Guards and Chu Kuangren aboard a Seventeenth Fortress warship bound for the Seventh Asteroid Belt, a journey expected to take seven days.
• Chu Kuangren drew the Time-Space Treasure Mirror, but Xiao Ai could not fully analyze the treasure’s space-time laws and warned that forcing an analysis could destroy him.
• Chu Kuangren refined the mirror over three days and gained limited Time Stop and Spatial Transfer abilities, which could enhance his Space Transport Technique.
• Chu Kuangren found Yin Honghua reading Human King Biography and asked about her interest in the Human King.
• Yin Honghua praised the Human King as humanity’s first and only true king, saying he had freed humans from life under the Gods.

Yin Honghua and Chu Kuangren encountered the Blood Beast Tribe when its warships attacked their vessel, and they counterattacked. Chu Kuangren used Time Stop for the first time to evade a Blood Beast Emperor’s strike, leaving the Emperor shaken and confused.

• The Blood Beast Tribe attacked Yin Honghua’s warship, and Yin Honghua ordered the Red-Clad Guards to open the barrier before charging at the enemy.
• Yin Honghua broke through a Blood Beast warship’s shield and fought its crew while Chu Kuangren boarded another vessel and crushed its barrier with a stomp.
• Chu Kuangren analyzed the Blood Beast Tribe and learned that one Emperor could absorb the blood essence of fallen kin to strengthen himself.
• The Blood Beast Emperor empowered himself with Blood Darkness Power and attacked Chu Kuangren with his spear.
• Chu Kuangren used Time Stop to freeze everything within ten meters, moved behind the Blood Beast Emperor, and let time resume; the Emperor’s spear hit the warship, and he sensed something was wrong.

Chu Kuangren used time and spatial abilities to defeat and kill the Blood Beast Tribe Emperor, then learned how soldiers earned battle merit and how Yin Honghua ranked among the fortress’s fighters. The chapter left the Red-Clad Guards collecting proof of their kills while Chu Kuangren considered the scale of Yin Honghua’s achievements.

• Chu Kuangren stopped time and used a spatial passage to redirect the Blood Beast Emperor’s spear into the Emperor’s own chest.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Blood Beast Emperor with Sword Qi and preserved his body for study, while Yin Honghua finished off the Blood Beast Tribe members aboard the other warships.
• Yin Honghua told Chu Kuangren he was stronger than her, and the Red-Clad Guards whispered that he would make a good match for her.
• Baili Xue explained that soldiers collected parts from Blood Tribe members as proof of their kills and earned battle merit based on the enemy’s rank.
• Baili Xue said Yin Honghua had 3,180,000 battle merit points and ranked twenty-seventh on the Seventeenth Fortress’s Battle Merit Ranking.

Chu Kuangren led Yin Honghua and the Red-Clad Guards across the Seventh Asteroid, using his Treasure-Seeking Art to find Chaos Spirit Sources and helping them collect dozens. As Baili Xue tried to match him with Yin Honghua, Chu Kuangren revealed he was already married, leaving the Red-Clad Guards heartbroken.

• Baili Xue gave Chu Kuangren the fangs collected from the Blood Tribe members he had killed as the group traveled toward the Seventh Asteroid.
• Chu Kuangren sensed three Chaos Spirit Sources and offered the low- and mid-grade sources they found to Yin Honghua, keeping only high-grade sources and above for himself.
• Blood Tribe cultivators ambushed the group, but Yin Honghua and the Red-Clad Guards quickly defeated them.
• Over the next two days, Chu Kuangren guided the Red-Clad Guards to dozens of Chaos Spirit Sources, and they teased Yin Honghua about becoming his partner.
• Baili Xue asked Chu Kuangren what he thought of Yin Honghua, and he said they could not be together because he was already married.

Chu Kuangren left Yin Honghua and the Red-Clad Guards to investigate a supreme-grade chaos spirit source, where a Blood Tribe force had trapped Firmament Star cultivators. After the Blood Tribe commander revealed his Middle Heavenly Venerable cultivation, Chu Kuangren took the source, drawing the commander’s attack.

• Chu Kuangren sensed a supreme-grade chaos spirit source and used the Space Transport Technique to leave Yin Honghua and the Red-Clad Guards behind.
• A Firmament Star commander ignored his soldiers’ pleas to retreat and charged for the chaos spirit source while his troops fought the Blood Tribe.
• The commander battled a Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable, who revealed he was a Middle Heavenly Venerable and had deliberately concealed his strength to trap the humans.
• Chu Kuangren appeared beside the chaos spirit source and put it into his Heaven and Earth Ring.
• The Blood Tribe commander recognized Chu Kuangren as a Firmament Star cultivator and slashed at him.

Chu Kuangren rescued the Eighteenth Fortress’s Sword Clan Private Soldiers and defeated a Middle Heavenly Venerable Blood Tribe fighter with his Minor World and Supreme Mystery. After revealing that he was an Independent Soldier from the Seventeenth Fortress, he encountered a Sword Clan Commander who recognized his history with the Sword Clan, while a Sword Clan cultivator recognized Yin Honghua.

• Chu Kuangren intervened as the Blood Tribe attacked the cultivators and used the Space Condensing Character Talisman and Sword Qi Clones to wipe out thousands of enemies.
• Chu Kuangren told the Sword Clan Commander to dispel his Minor World, then unfolded his own Minor World, collapsing the Commander’s and the Blood Tribe man’s worlds.
• The Blood Tribe man absorbed Blood Source Power from fallen allies and attacked, but Chu Kuangren’s Invincible Law, Heaven and Earth Reversed, killed him.
• Chu Kuangren collected the Blood Tribe’s wing bones and learned the rescued cultivators were Sword Clan Private Soldiers from the Eighteenth Fortress.
• Chu Kuangren introduced himself as an Independent Soldier from the Seventeenth Fortress, and the Sword Clan Commander recognized him as the Chu Kuangren who had opposed the Sword Clan.
• Yin Honghua arrived with the Red-Clad Guards, and a Sword Clan cultivator recognized her.

After meeting Chu Kuangren and Yin Honghua, Jian Que led his Sword Clan cultivators to rest near the battlefield, where two Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables arrived. To save himself, Jian Que betrayed Chu Kuangren and Yin Honghua’s location, then threatened his comrades into silence.

• Jian Que greeted Yin Honghua and watched her leave with Chu Kuangren, while privately viewing Chu as a threat to the Sword Clan.
• Jian Que ignored a subordinate’s warning to move away from the recent battle site and ordered the Sword Clan cultivators to rest there.
• Two Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables arrived and questioned Jian Que about the dead Blood Tribe members and the person who killed them.
• Jian Que offered information about Chu Kuangren, Yin Honghua, and a supreme-grade Chaos Spirit Source in exchange for his life, then secured the Blood Tribe’s oath not to harm him.
• After the Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables left to pursue Chu Kuangren and Yin Honghua, Jian Que threatened the Sword Clan cultivators not to reveal his betrayal and claimed he had acted to save them.

After collecting dozens of Chaos Spirit Sources on the Seventh Asteroid, Chu Kuangren and Yin Honghua were confronted by two Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables. Chu Kuangren faced them alone and trapped them with his powerful Minor World, gaining the upper hand.

• Chu Kuangren, Yin Honghua, and the Red-Clad Guards collected fifty Chaos Spirit Sources and accumulated battle merits while searching the Seven Seas Asteroid.
• Two Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables discovered the group and shattered Yin Honghua’s concealment; Chu Kuangren absorbed and returned their attack with Heavenly Vortex.
• Chu Kuangren told Yin Honghua to stay with the Red-Clad Guards, then confronted the two Heavenly Venerables and used Xiao Ai to analyze them.
• One Heavenly Venerable tried to fly toward Yin Honghua, but Chu Kuangren stopped him by forming a Minor World.
• Chu Kuangren’s Minor World clashed with the two Heavenly Venerables’ Minor Worlds and gained the upper hand, leaving Yin Honghua stunned by his strength.

Chu Kuangren defeated two Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables and learned that a Cosmic Secret Realm had appeared near the Seventh Asteroid, drawing the Blood Tribe’s main force toward it. He captured Yue Zhaowu’s spirit core and placed a Soul-Controlling Slave Seal on it.

• The Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable and Yue Zhaowu attacked Chu Kuangren, but his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation overwhelmed them.
• The Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable tried to flee, but Chu Kuangren struck him down from afar and left him near death.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed Yue Zhaowu’s body and seized his Blood Spirit Core, preventing him from escaping.
• Yue Zhaowu revealed that scouts had found a drifting Cosmic Secret Realm near the Seventh Asteroid and that the Blood Tribe’s main force would soon arrive.
• Yin Honghua decided to warn her grandfather and the others, while Chu Kuangren used the Soul-Controlling Slave Seal on Yue Zhaowu’s spirit core.

After enslaving Yue Zhaowu and learning that the Blood Tribe’s main force was coming for the Cosmic Secret Realm, Chu Kuangren decided to stay behind and stop them. He went to confront the Sword Clan for betraying him and announced his intent to kill.

• Chu Kuangren enslaved Yue Zhaowu’s soul and questioned him about the Cosmic Secret Realm.
• Yin Honghua reported that Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable had advised the Seventh Asteroid Belt’s forces to withdraw before the Blood Tribe’s main force arrived.
• Chu Kuangren refused to leave the Cosmic Secret Realm and decided to deal with the Sword Clan for informing on them.
• Jian Que joined Jian Wuwei’s Sword Clan force and concealed that Chu Kuangren had saved him before.
• Jian Wuwei learned that the Blood Tribe’s main force was approaching and ordered the Sword Clan to withdraw.
• Chu Kuangren arrived before Jian Wuwei and Jian Que, declaring that he had come to kill people.

Chu Kuangren confronted Jian Wuwei to kill Jian Que, who had betrayed him by revealing his and Yin Honghua’s whereabouts to two Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables. After a fierce clash, Chu Kuangren exploited an opening in Jian Wuwei’s defenses and killed Jian Que with a sword strike that passed through the void.

• Chu Kuangren accused Jian Que of betraying him and demanded his life, but Jian Wuwei intervened to protect the Sword Clan commander.
• Jian Que denied the accusation, while Jian Wuwei said the Sword Clan should investigate and punish him.
• Chu Kuangren and Jian Wuwei unfolded their Minor Worlds and fought, with Chu Kuangren’s Supreme Mystery and Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation matching Jian Wuwei’s power.
• Jian Wuwei drew his Minor World inward to concentrate its World Power, giving Chu Kuangren an opening to target Jian Que.
• Jian Wuwei tried to block Chu Kuangren’s strike, but the sword light passed through the void and cleaved Jian Que in two.

Chu Kuangren killed Jian Que, sent the Firmament Star cultivators away, and prepared to face the Blood Tribe’s approaching main force. When Bai Juexin, a half-step Dao Lord and son of a Blood King, arrived, Chu Kuangren recognized that he could not defeat him in a direct fight.

• Chu Kuangren used spatial techniques to kill Jian Que, then warned Jian Wuwei that the Blood Tribe’s main force was coming.
• Chu Kuangren returned to Yin Honghua, who worried that killing Jian Que had made an enemy of the Sword Clan, and told her and the others to leave the Seventh Asteroid.
• Chu Kuangren learned that the Blood Tribe’s main force would arrive in about three days, sent Yue Zhaowu back to gather information, and secluded himself to refine the supreme-grade chaos origin.
• Three days later, Chu Kuangren sensed the arriving fleet and learned from Xiao Ai that its leader, Bai Juexin, was the Blood King’s son and a half-step Dao Lord.
• Bai Juexin confirmed the Cosmic Secret Realm’s location and attacked it with a blood-colored strike that carried his entire minor world.

Chu Kuangren entered the Pink Secret Realm and began collecting its treasures, then used the Space Transport Technique to ambush Blood Tribe warships and seize their plunder. After hearing that a Firmament Star Heavenly Venerable was killing his forces, Bai Juexin spread his Emperor Thought across the secret realm to find him.

• Bai Juexin opened the Pink Secret Realm, and Chu Kuangren entered after the Blood Tribe warships.
• Chu Kuangren found Heavenly Crystal Strange Flowers and decided to use the Space Transport Technique to carry out his second plan.
• Chu Kuangren killed a Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable and his soldiers aboard a warship, then took nearly a thousand Heavenly Crystal Strange Flowers.
• Chu Kuangren used his Emperor Thought and Space Transport Technique to locate and raid more Blood Tribe warships.
• A Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable reported Chu Kuangren's attacks to Bai Juexin, who spread his Emperor Thought across the secret realm.