Chapter Summaries

Firmament Star consolidated under Chu Kuangren’s Empire while Red Sun Dao Lord and Formation Dao Lord tested a devastating new warship. A Blood Tribe fleet carrying Purple Star Immortal Seed Li Feng neared Firmament Star as Chu Kuangren continued strengthening his Undying Star Body.

• Under Elder Ruyan’s direction, Firmament Star’s Human Race factions submitted to the Empire after learning Chu Kuangren was the Human King.
• Formation Dao Lord and Red Sun Dao Lord tested a warship cannon that destroyed a distant planet, then decided to build three more with their available resources.
• A Blood Tribe fleet carrying Li Feng, a Purple Star Immortal Seed, approached Firmament Star, and its leaders discussed Chu Kuangren and the damage he had caused Blood Origin Star.
• Chu Kuangren asked Xiao Ai to analyze an uninhabited planet, learned that devouring its resources could bring his Undying Star Body to major accomplishment, and plunged underground.

Firmament Star’s Dao Lords intercepted the Blood Tribe fleet before it reached the planet and launched a fierce counterattack. As the fighting spread across the void, the Sword Dao Master and Li Feng prepared to face each other.

• Dao Lord Luo Shui learned that the Blood Tribe army was approaching and gathered Firmament Star’s Heavenly Venerables and Dao Lords to organize its defenses.
• The Ming King led the Blood Tribe fleet toward Firmament Star, while Li Feng sensed the cultivators who had come to intercept them.
• The Myriad Laws Dao Lord warned the Blood Tribe to turn back, but the Ming King refused and ordered his army to attack.
• Dao Lord Luo Shui, Yanwu, the Heavenly Baleful Dao Lord, and the Buddhist Dao Lord destroyed warships and killed many Blood Tribe fighters with their techniques.
• The Blood Kings engaged Firmament Star’s Dao Lords, while the Sword Dao Master and Li Feng faced off with their sword pressure.

The Sword Dao Master fought Li Feng of Purple Star in a fierce duel, but Li Feng prevailed and revealed that Purple Star had intervened in Firmament Star’s conflict with the Blood Tribe. The Myriad Laws Dao Lord realized that Firmament Star now faced a powerful Immortal Art Civilization.

• The Sword Dao Master and Li Feng exchanged powerful sword techniques while their battle damaged nearby warships and asteroids.
• A purple-robed man observed that the Sword Dao Master’s age and exhausted potential left him little chance of becoming an Immortal.
• The Sword Dao Master and Li Feng unleashed their strongest attacks, and the Sword Dao Master collapsed injured as Li Feng remained standing.
• Li Feng declared that he had defeated the Sword Dao Master, easing the Ming King’s concern while alarming Luo Shui Dao Lord and the other Firmament Star Dao Lords.
• Li Feng identified himself as a cultivator from Purple Star, and the Myriad Laws Dao Lord recognized it as one of the Purple-Gold Star System’s strongest Immortal Art Civilizations.

A powerful warship arrived to rescue Sword Dao Master and drove back Li Feng, but its cannon and defenses began to falter as Blood Tribe forces surrounded it. Just as Ming King threatened to wipe out Firmament Star’s gathered fighters, an indifferent voice rang across the cosmos.

• Li Feng prepared to kill the wounded Sword Dao Master, but a cannon beam from a massive warship struck him and destroyed dozens of warships.
• Dao Lord Luo Shui and the others recognized Chi Yang and Formation Dao Lord aboard the warship, then boarded it while Blood King’s forces held back.
• Li Feng survived the first blast with a rune Defensive Supreme Treasure, but the Buddhist Dao Lord pinned him down so the warship’s second shot could shatter the barrier and badly wound him.
• Li Feng healed himself with a Life-Saving Dao Pill and attacked the warship, while Formation Dao Lord warned that its energy barrier could not withstand much more.
• Blood Tribe warships surrounded the rescuers as Dao Lord Luo Shui tried to retreat, and Ming King threatened to kill Firmament Star’s gathered fighters before an indifferent voice rang out.

Chu Kuangren returned to the battle and effortlessly destroyed the Blood Tribe’s warships, then confronted Li Feng after learning he had injured the Sword Dao Master. He shattered Li Feng’s massive sword attack with one punch, leaving him battered as the fight continued.

• Chu Kuangren arrived and used the White Jade Sword to destroy the Blood Tribe’s warships.
• The Blood Kings recognized Chu Kuangren and were shocked that he had survived the destruction at Blood God Mountain.
• Chu Kuangren’s Kunwu Sword killed a Blood King who attacked him, and Chu rejoined the Sword Dao Master and the others.
• Chu Kuangren ordered Ming King and the Blood Kings to withdraw, then identified Li Feng as the one who had injured the Sword Dao Master.
• Li Feng unleashed Slay Heaven, but Chu Kuangren’s punch tore apart the Sword Qi and sent it crashing back into Li Feng, breaking his Dao Patterns and bones.

Chu Kuangren killed Li Feng and confronted Zi Wuhen, a powerful Immortal Seed from Purple Star, defeating his attacks in battle. Zi Wuhen was sent flying by Chu Kuangren’s Divine Phoenix flames as the Blood Kings watched in shock.

• Chu Kuangren shattered Li Feng’s sword strike with a punch, bound him as he fled, and killed him body and soul.
• Zi Wuhen left the Blood Tribe’s flagship and revealed that he was the Tenth Seat of Purple Star’s Violet Star Temple.
• Chu Kuangren and Zi Wuhen clashed their powers, and Chu Kuangren’s Heaven and Earth Reversed overwhelmed Zi Wuhen’s Star-Plucking Hand.
• Zi Wuhen attacked with Sixty-Four Tiangang Fingers, but Chu Kuangren’s psychic power destroyed his many figures.
• Chu Kuangren used a Divine Phoenix-fire lotus to shatter Zi Wuhen’s Star-Plucking Hand and send him flying.

Chu Kuangren defeated Zi Wuhen’s Immortal Art, drove him to flee, and wiped out the Blood Tribe forces before returning to Firmament Star. Yue Zhaowu revealed that the Blood God had used the Heaven-Seizing Method to devour Blood Origin Star’s Heavenly Dao, and Yin Honghua waited outside Chu Kuangren’s door.

• Zi Wuhen unleashed the Immortal Art Star River Annihilates the World, but Chu Kuangren’s Venerable Emperor Sword Art shattered it and forced Zi Wuhen to escape.
• Chu Kuangren slaughtered the Blood Tribe forces, including the Blood Kings, and took Yue Zhaowu back aboard the warship.
• Yue Zhaowu told Chu Kuangren that the Blood Kings had traded the Heaven-Seizing Method for Purple Star’s aid and that the Blood God had used the method to devour Blood Origin Star’s Heavenly Dao.
• After Yue Zhaowu left, Chu Kuangren saw Yin Honghua hesitating outside his door.

Yin Honghua learned that Chu Kuangren was the Human King and resolved to cultivate harder to support him. Meanwhile, Zi Wuhen awakened the Blood God on Blood Origin Star and showed him the devastation there.

• Yin Honghua asked Chu Kuangren if he was the Human King, and Chu Kuangren confirmed it and explained his plans to unite the Human Race.
• Yin Honghua told Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable that she felt unworthy of admiring the Human King and vowed to work harder at cultivation.
• Zi Wuhen decided to awaken the Blood God rather than ask Purple Star for reinforcements against Chu Kuangren.
• Zi Wuhen traveled to Blood Origin Star and used a Seven-Revolution Creation Golden Core to awaken the Blood God.
• The Blood God sensed the ruined state of Blood Origin Star and grew grim after Zi Wuhen urged him to look.

As the Blood God learned that Firmament Star had devastated Blood Origin Star, he vowed revenge, while Chu Kuangren prepared to found a unified Human Race empire. At the enthronement ceremony in Mystic Heaven City, Chu Kuangren proclaimed the nation’s name as Firmament and its era name as Kaiyuan.

• The Blood God questioned Zi Wuhen about Blood Origin Star’s destruction, learned Firmament Star was responsible, and vowed revenge.
• Elder Ruyan and the others had Chu Kuangren try on many ceremonial robes, while Shang Qingxue secretly recorded images of him.
• Chu Kuangren studied the Time-Space Treasure Mirror, then turned his attention to founding the empire.
• The Enthronement Ceremony began in Mystic Heaven City, where Chu Kuangren arrived on a Divine Phoenix and ascended the Heaven-Ascending Platform.
• Chu Kuangren presented the Human King Seal and read the founding declaration, naming the nation Firmament, the era Kaiyuan, and the capital Mystic Heaven City.

The Firmament Empire was established with Chu Kuangren as its first King, but the ceremony was interrupted when the Blood God arrived and attacked the Seventeenth Fortress. Chu Kuangren blocked his strike and discovered that he faced the Blood God, a peak Great Dao Lord who had devoured the Blood Origin Star’s Heavenly Dao.

• Chu Kuangren finished reading the declaration, and the Heavenly Dao spoke to witness the establishment of the Firmament Empire and name him its first King.
• Chu Kuangren sensed a powerful Blood Source aura outside the Hate Separation Heaven Formation and left Elder Ruyan to handle the remaining affairs.
• The Blood God and Zi Wuhen arrived at the Seventeenth Fortress, where the Blood God launched Blood Star Falls from Heaven at the fortress.
• Chu Kuangren’s golden sword ray struck the blood-colored star and protected the Seventeenth Fortress from destruction.
• Chu Kuangren used Xiao Ai to identify the Blood God and learned that he was a peak Great Dao Lord who had devoured the Blood Origin Star’s Heavenly Dao.
• The Blood God declared that he would finish off the Firmament Star’s gathered powerhouses in one attack.

Chu Kuangren used the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to kill the Blood God and Zi Wuhen, securing Firmament Star’s founding and obtaining Heavenly Dao Origin. Back in Mystic Heaven City, he fed the Origin to Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao and drew a Heavenly Dao Lord Battle Puppet.

• The Blood God unleashed his peak Great Dao Lord strength and attacked Chu Kuangren and the other Dao Lords.
• Chu Kuangren used the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to freeze the space-time around the Blood God and Zi Wuhen, then killed them with a sword strike.
• Chu Kuangren collected the Heavenly Dao Origin left by the Blood God and Zi Wuhen’s Heaven and Earth Ring before returning to Firmament Star with the others.
• In Ling Tian Hall, Chu Kuangren fed the Heavenly Dao of Firmament Star the Blood Origin Star Heavenly Dao Origin and petted the Little Golden Man as it ate.
• Chu Kuangren opened the Fantasy Roulette and drew the legendary Heavenly Dao Lord Battle Puppet.

Chu Kuangren tested the Heavenly Dao Lord Battle Puppet, left it to protect the newly established Firmament Empire, and departed to seek greater strength. After more than half a year roaming the Vast Universe and devouring uninhabited planets, he encountered a band of interstellar raiders who tried to rob him.

• Chu Kuangren possessed the Heavenly Dao Lord Battle Puppet and discovered its immense power, then left it in the Firmament Empire as its strongest defense.
• Chu Kuangren handed imperial affairs to Gu Linglong and Elder Ruyan, gained the Dao Lords’ approval, and left Firmament Star to pursue becoming an Immortal.
• Chu Kuangren spent over half a year traveling through the Vast Universe and devouring uninhabited planets to strengthen his Undying Star Body.
• Several warships surrounded Chu Kuangren, and their leader demanded that he surrender his possessions.
• Chu Kuangren asked Xiao Ai to analyze the raiders and learned that their strongest fighter was an Upper Heavenly Venerable.

Chu Kuangren subdued a band of spacefaring robbers and learned about the Purple-Gold Star System before traveling to Skywind Star. He traded a Main God Godhead for spiritual marrow and other supplies, while noting that Skywind Star had no Heavenly Dao.

• Chu Kuangren killed the octopus-headed attacker with Phoenix Fire and shattered the golden-armored chief's trident with one finger.
• He trapped the robbers with his minor world, forced them to explain the Purple-Gold Star System, and took their resources and star map.
• Chu Kuangren learned that Purple Star and Gold Star were the system's two strongest civilizations and that nearby Skywind Star was under Purple Star's jurisdiction.
• Months later, Chu Kuangren arrived on Skywind Star and sensed that it had no Heavenly Dao, leading him to consider how the Heaven-Seizing Method might help Firmament Star.
• Chu Kuangren traded a Main God Godhead at a resource exchange for spiritual marrow, Emperor Weapons, and local specialties.

Chu Kuangren traveled to Dust Heaven Star to investigate Dust Heaven Void Immortal’s Dao Weapon challenge and watched numerous Heavenly Prides undergo the White Jade Dragon Gate’s assessment. As Immortal Seeds and other exceptional talents entered the formation, Chu Kuangren’s interest in the gathered rivals grew.

• Chu Kuangren heard that Dust Heaven Void Immortal had hidden a supreme Dao Weapon behind a formation and decided to visit Dust Heaven Star.
• Chu Kuangren learned that Dust Heaven Void Immortal had once been an Immortal Seed before becoming a renowned artifact refiner and formation master.
• Dust Heaven Void Immortal’s White Jade Dragon Gate assessed challengers’ age and aptitude, admitting those who qualified and killing a furious Heavenly Venerable who tried to force entry.
• Zi Yunfan, the Purple Star Eighth Sequence, and Jin Jie, the Gold Star Ninth Sequence, received exceptional aptitude ratings and entered the formation.
• Several other Heavenly Prides received exceptional ratings, including a swordsman who was not an Immortal Seed, and Chu Kuangren became interested in the gathered talents.

Chu Kuangren’s aptitude overwhelms the White Jade Dragon Pillar, causing it to shatter, and he then easily passes the first trial of Dust Heaven Void Immortal’s formation. Dust Heaven Void Immortal watches with curiosity and decides to see how far Chu Kuangren can go.

• Chu Kuangren approaches the White Jade Dragon Gate, where the dragon identifies him as thirty-nine years old and then fails to announce his aptitude.
• The white dragon shatters while trying to measure Chu Kuangren, and Dust Heaven Void Immortal sends out a replacement pillar to invite him inside.
• Dust Heaven Void Immortal examines the shattered pillar and switches his view to the Cloud-Void Grand Formation.
• Chu Kuangren recognizes the Stele Forest Formation and walks straight through it, clearing the first trial.
• Dust Heaven Void Immortal notes Chu Kuangren’s skill and resolves to see how many of the formation’s nine trials he can pass.

Chu Kuangren swiftly passed the Cloud-Void Grand Formation’s early trials and reached the Ten Thousand Swords Formation, where even powerful Heavenly Prides failed. After Zhao Wutian’s attempt was repelled, Chu Kuangren told him he could not break the formation, provoking Zhao Wutian to attack.

• Chu Kuangren saw through the second trial’s Blazing Fire Formation and crossed safely, then broke the third trial and quickly passed the following trials.
• Dust Heaven Void Immortal marveled at Chu Kuangren’s formation mastery and wondered how someone so young could be so skilled.
• At the seventh trial, a spear-wielding Heavenly Pride was thrown back by the Ten Thousand Swords Formation, and Zhao Wutian’s golden Sword Qi was defeated by its second transformation.
• Immortal Seed Zi Yunfan invited the others to try the formation, and Feng Feiyun prepared to act before Chu Kuangren arrived and walked toward it.
• Chu Kuangren told the recovering Zhao Wutian to step aside because he could not break the formation, and Zhao Wutian angrily attacked him.

Chu Kuangren killed Zhao Wutian and broke through the Cloud-Void Grand Formation’s passes by using his mastery of formations. While the other Immortal Seeds fought over the Dao Weapon, Chu Kuangren finished deducing the Ninth Pass and prepared to break it.

• Zhao Wutian attacked Chu Kuangren, who disarmed him and sent him into the Sword Formation, killing him.
• Chu Kuangren used a streak of purple light to strike the Ten Thousand Swords Formation’s nodes and pass through it.
• Chu Kuangren studied and broke the Five Elements Grand Formation before reaching the Ninth Pass.
• Zi Yunfan invited Chu Kuangren to join the Immortal Seeds in breaking the Ninth Pass, but Chu Kuangren refused so he could study it alone.
• After the Immortal Seeds reached the palace, they fought each other over the Dao Weapon.
• Chu Kuangren used his three souls to deduce the Ninth Pass’s secrets in five days and declared that it was time to break the formation.

Chu Kuangren broke the Ninth Pass formation, entered the white palace, and claimed the Heavenly Dao Weapon there. After he overpowered the Immortal Seeds who challenged him, he taunted them to attack together, leaving them enraged and preparing to face him as a group.

• Chu Kuangren entered the Ninth Pass and used Kunwu to break its formations in five days, revealing the white palace and its Dao Weapon.
• Dust Heaven Void Immortal watched the formation collapse and wondered where the unknown Immortal Seed had come from.
• Chu Kuangren learned from Xiao Ai that the palace held a defensive Heavenly Dao Weapon and walked toward it.
• A burly Immortal Seed attacked Chu Kuangren, who dodged with Spatial Techniques and wounded him with Sword Qi.
• Jin Jie struck Chu Kuangren with his Great Dao Weapon, but Chu Kuangren shattered the attack with one punch and sent him flying.
• The burly man urged the Immortal Seeds to attack together, and Chu Kuangren taunted them that they might have a chance to hurt him.

Chu Kuangren faced the Immortal Seeds alone after they joined forces to seize the Dao Weapon. He overwhelmed them with his diverse techniques and Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation, leaving Dust Heaven Void Immortal to declare that he had the makings of an Immortal.

• Feng Feiyun, Jin Jie, and Zi Yunfan attacked Chu Kuangren, but he repelled them with sword qi, physical strength, and Psychic Power.
• Chu Kuangren summoned his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and shattered a female Immortal Seed’s Waterfall Sky Strike.
• A burly Immortal Seed used the Golden Armor Strongman manifestation, but Chu Kuangren destroyed it with a multicolored blow that injured the gathered Immortal Seeds.
• Observers outside Dust Heaven Star recognized Chu Kuangren’s strength as reaching the Great Dao Lord level despite his late Minor Dao Lord cultivation.
• Dust Heaven Void Immortal watched Chu Kuangren and declared that he had the makings of an Immortal.

Chu Kuangren defeated a host of Immortal Seeds by matching their Immortal Arts with his Venerable Emperor Sword Art, then claimed the defensive Dao Weapon they had fought over. After Dust Heaven Void Immortal invited him into the palace, Chu Kuangren revealed his name by carving it into the landscape with Emperor Qi.

• Zi Yunfan urged the Immortal Seeds to use their full strength, and they unleashed several Immortal Arts against Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren answered with Venerable Emperor Sword Art, Sole Sovereign of the Universe, and defeated the Immortal Seeds while remaining unharmed; Dust Heaven Void Immortal protected Dust Heaven Star from the clash.
• Chu Kuangren overcame the peerless Dao Weapon's resistance and claimed it, whereupon it became a defensive robe.
• Dust Heaven Void Immortal invited Chu Kuangren into the palace and dismissed the other Immortal Seeds.
• Zi Yunfan asked Chu Kuangren to leave his name, and Chu Kuangren inscribed “Chu Kuangren” into the terrain with his Emperor Qi.