Recaps

Lu Qingshan received twenty vials of Evolution Spirit Liquid and used some to accelerate his cultivation, finding that he could reach Stellar Level Three in a little over half a year. Meanwhile, Heavenly Pillar Mountain’s World Lord Level experts investigated his past, and several interested in taking him as a disciple began to act.

• A Star Level Ninth Stage squad delivered twenty vials of Evolution Spirit Liquid to Lu Qingshan, and its members discussed how rare and expensive the liquid was.
• Lu Qingshan opened the safe, read the instructions, and applied a few drops of Evolution Spirit Liquid to his body.
• Lu Qingshan absorbed the liquid’s energy and estimated that he could reach Stellar Level Three in a little over half a year.
• Heavenly Pillar Mountain’s intelligence department investigated Lu Qingshan’s history on Xuanhuang Star and after he joined the Kanuo Family.
• Several World Lord Level experts interested in taking Lu Qingshan as a disciple began making their moves.

After receiving several offers of discipleship, Lu Qingshan met Heavy Mountain World Lord Wells, a peak expert recognized by the earth origin law. Lu Qingshan accepted Wells as his master.

• Deep Blue alerted Lu Qingshan to an offer from Thunder World Lord Cuisi Te, and two other World Lords also invited him to become their disciple.
• Wang Chen told Lu Qingshan that his grandfather wanted to take him as a disciple, but Lu Qingshan asked for time to consider.
• Lord Aomengsi arrived and offered to teach Lu Qingshan because they both studied the Earth Domain and earth origin law.
• Wells arrived, revealed that Aomengsi was his disciple, and offered to take Lu Qingshan as his own disciple.
• Lu Qingshan prostrated himself before Wells and asked him to accept him as a disciple.

Lu Qingshan became Heavy Mountain World Lord Wells’s eighteenth direct disciple and received a lavish gift from senior brother Aomengsi. At Wells’s residence, his teacher gave him an E-Grade Nutrient Pod and instructed him to use it to reach Star Level 4 before the acceptance ceremony three months later.

• Wells accepted Lu Qingshan as his eighteenth direct disciple and told him to prepare for a ceremony in three months.
• Aomengsi congratulated Lu Qingshan and gave him a territory of over a hundred inhabited planets.
• Wang Chen congratulated Lu Qingshan, then left after offering to help him.
• Lu Qingshan declined the other World Lord Level powerhouses’ offers of discipleship and went to Wells’s residence.
• Wells presented Lu Qingshan with an E-Grade Nutrient Pod and told him to use it to advance to Star Level 4.

Lu Qingshan began using Wells’s E-Grade Nutrient Pod while continuing to practice secret techniques, then prepared to attend his apprenticeship banquet. Aomengsi escorted him to the hall, where he met his sixth senior brother, Sherman, a powerful World Lord who had traveled to attend.

• Wells lent Lu Qingshan an E-Grade Nutrient Pod, and Lu Qingshan thanked him before entering it to evolve his body and practice in his virtual space.
• Aomengsi praised Lu Qingshan for cultivating diligently, while Wells said that persistent effort was necessary to become a true expert.
• Three months later, Aomengsi called Lu Qingshan away from the pod because his apprenticeship banquet was about to begin.
• Aomengsi explained that more than ten thousand guests might attend the banquet and advised Lu Qingshan to accept gifts and make connections.
• Aomengsi brought Lu Qingshan to the banquet hall and introduced him to Sherman, their sixth senior brother and a World Lord serving in the Eighteenth Legion of the Heavenly Star Universe Country.

At the banquet welcoming Lu Qingshan as Wells’s disciple, Sherman gave him a first-meeting gift, and Aomengsi reflected on the difficulty of advancing in cultivation. Wells introduced Lu Qingshan to World Lord experts, who also gave him gifts, while Lu Yi discussed forming a team to venture into the Outer Domain Battlefield.

• Sherman congratulated Lu Qingshan on his rapid cultivation and gave him a Space Ring, which Lu Qingshan accepted.
• Aomengsi told Lu Qingshan about his own long path to the World Lord Level and warned that future cultivation bottlenecks could take thousands of years to overcome.
• Lu Qingshan went with Aomengsi to find Wells, who was speaking with World Lord experts at the banquet.
• Lu Yi arrived and said he planned to enter the Outer Domain Battlefield with an Elite Squad or a team of fellow experts, despite another World Lord’s warning about the dangers.
• Wells introduced Lu Qingshan as his youngest disciple, and Lu Yi gave him a Space Ring as a first-meeting gift.
• The other World Lord experts also presented Lu Qingshan with gifts, and he thanked them with Aomengsi’s help.

After a three-day banquet introduced Lu Qingshan to the Golden Lion Starfield’s powerful figures, Wells praised his understanding that strength earned genuine respect. Wells then gave Lu Qingshan new secret arts and a Heavy Mountain Bead, and began answering his questions about the Earth Domain.

• Zichuan Feng welcomed Lu Qingshan and promised to protect him within the Purple River Empire, then gave him a gift.
• Wells introduced Lu Qingshan to the banquet guests, who included Wang Tiankuo and representatives of the Heavenly Pillar Mountain lineage.
• After the three-day banquet, Wells asked Lu Qingshan what he had learned, and Lu Qingshan said he needed strength of his own to earn respect.
• Wells told Lu Qingshan to stop studying Soul Tempering and the Thick Earth Secret Canon, and gave him the Heaven and Earth of Earth and Soul Ring secret arts.
• Wells bestowed a Heavy Mountain Bead on Lu Qingshan to aid his Earth Domain and Earth Origin Law comprehension.
• Lu Qingshan asked Wells about his difficulties studying the Earth Domain, and Wells began explaining them.

After Wells guided Lu Qingshan in the Earth Domain, he reminded his new disciple that advancement at Heavenly Pillar Mountain depended on his own efforts and cultivation. Lu Qingshan returned home and began opening the gifts from his discipleship banquet, discovering that World Lord guests had given him a vast fortune in universe crystals.

• Wells explained the Earth Domain to Lu Qingshan, helping him resolve questions and improve his understanding.
• Lu Qingshan thanked Wells and said he expected to reach the Earth Domain Fourth Layer after more study.
• Wells told Lu Qingshan that he could not interfere with Heavenly Pillar Mountain's selection of Special Grade Elites and advised him to seek guidance from him or his senior disciples.
• Wells advised Lu Qingshan to balance time in the Nutrient Pod with rest, estimating that he could reach the Star Level Ninth Stage in about five years.
• Lu Qingshan returned to his residence and began inspecting the more than one hundred Space Rings he had received as gifts.
• Lu Qingshan found that a World Lord's ring contained ten thousand cubic meters of universe crystals, and learned that 43 of the 51 World Lords had given him that standard amount.

After receiving an enormous fortune from Wells and the other guests, Lu Qingshan decided to invest some of it in raising a Cloud-Touching Vine. He ordered a seedling and foundation resources through Heavenly Pillar Mountain, aiming to develop a powerful auxiliary lifeform.

• Lu Qingshan totaled his gifts at over eight hundred million Universe Coins, along with 233 life-bearing planets and the Heavy Mountain Bead from Wells.
• Lu Qingshan decided that his existing cultivation techniques, treasure, and nutrient pod meant he could spend his new wealth on an auxiliary plant lifeform.
• Lu Qingshan researched auxiliary lifeforms and chose the popular Cloud-Touching Vine, whose potential depended on the resources used to raise it.
• Lu Qingshan concluded that his fortune could support a Cloud-Touching Vine with World Lord potential and help it reach Universe Level.
• Lu Qingshan ordered a Cloud-Touching Vine seedling and foundation resources through Heavenly Pillar Mountain's internal channels.

Lu Qingshan received and bonded with a Cloud-Touching Vine, then used a costly Blood Spirit Fruit to begin strengthening it. He contacted Kanuo and the others as Kanuo returned with a surprising deal from the Longkaqi Family to buy Weisitan Planet.

• A Heavenly Pillar Mountain squad delivered Lu Qingshan’s Cloud-Touching Vine seedling and treated him deferentially after learning he was the Heavy Mountain World Lord’s disciple.
• Lu Qingshan bonded with the Cloud-Touching Vine using his blood and fed it a Blood Spirit Fruit to begin its first evolution.
• Lu Qingshan put away a unit of Azure Light Fruits for the vine’s later growth and connected to the Virtual Universe to contact Kanuo, Yunshang, and the others.
• Huang Ziwei worried that the Longkaqi Family wanted to buy Weisitan Planet cheaply despite nearby purple gold deposits.
• Kanuo told Huang Ziwei that the Longkaqi Family had agreed to pay twelve billion Heavenly Star Coins for Weisitan Planet, far above its expected value.

Lu Qingshan explained that the Longkaqi Family’s generous offer for Weisitan Planet had likely resulted from his new status as Wells’s disciple, then asked Kanuo to help manage the 233 inhabited planets he had received. He entrusted the planets’ administration to Li Yunshang and his family, leaving them astonished at the scale of his wealth.

• Kanuo told Huang Ziwei that the Longkaqi Family had raised its offer for Weisitan Planet to twelve billion Heavenly Star Coins after the Purple River Empire’s emperor intervened.
• Lu Qingshan explained that Wells had introduced him to Zichuan Feng, whose influence likely prompted the emperor to help Kanuo’s family.
• Lu Qingshan asked Kanuo to find Star Level candidates to help manage his 233 inhabited planets, and Kanuo agreed.
• Lu Qingshan also asked Kanuo to grant Lanta Star to Weilusi, and Kanuo agreed to arrange it.
• Lu Qingshan learned from Li Yunshang that Xuanhuang Star was thriving and had saved 1.2 billion Golden Lion Currency, which he told them to keep.
• Lu Qingshan assigned management of his other 232 inhabited planets to Li Yunshang and the others, leaving them stunned.

Lu Qingshan entrusted his family with managing his life-bearing planets and urged them to keep cultivating after becoming a World Lord Level expert’s disciple. Weilusi learned that Lu Qingshan had given him Lanta Star, and as Weilusi’s team prepared to claim it, Lu Qingshan returned to cultivation.

• Lu Qingshan told Li Yunshang and their children that his introductory gifts included over two hundred life-bearing planets, then entrusted their management to his family and appointed administrators through Teacher Kanuo.
• Lu Qingshan urged his family to cultivate toward the Star Level or Universe Level while he entered long periods of seclusion, then returned to cultivating.
• Weilusi learned from Ancestor Kanuo that Lu Qingshan had given him Lanta Star and was instructed to travel to Imperial Capital Star to complete the transfer.
• Weilusi told his adventurer team that Lanta Star would become a home for their families, and ordered the spaceship to change course for Imperial Capital Star.
• Weilusi sent Lu Qingshan a grateful email, and Lu Qingshan replied that he was in seclusion before resuming cultivation.

Fifty years later, Lu Qingshan cleared the Trial Tower’s twelfth layer and became eligible to apply for Special Grade Elite status. He failed to defeat the ten opponents on the thirteenth layer, then submitted his application to Heavenly Pillar Mountain.

• Lu Qingshan defeated one hundred Stellar Level One Sky Wolves and cleared the Trial Tower’s twelfth layer.
• He reflected on reaching the Earth Domain fourth layer after fifty years of guidance from Wells and regretted how slowly domain comprehension progressed.
• Lu Qingshan entered the thirteenth layer, killed two Stellar Level 4 Azure Sky Demon Apes, and was defeated by the rest.
• His Trial Tower rating became 13.2, making him eligible to become a Special Grade Elite.
• Lu Qingshan applied through Heavenly Pillar Mountain’s internal system for Special Grade Elite status.

Lu Qingshan’s application to become a Special Grade Elite was approved, granting him exceptional status and resources within Heavenly Pillar Mountain. As Terrance considered seeking a mentor and Wang Chen prepared to advance to the Universe Level, Lu Qingshan received an email from his teacher, Wells.

• Fisher and two other Heavenly Pillar Mountain managers approved Lu Qingshan’s Special Grade Elite application after discussing his rapid progress.
• Terrance learned that Lu Qingshan had reached the fourth-level domain and emailed Normanden about becoming his disciple.
• Wang Chen heard that Lu Qingshan had become a Special Grade Elite, decided he could advance to the Universe Level, and went to congratulate him.
• Lu Qingshan reviewed the benefits of Special Grade Elite status, including a territory, guards, personal instruction, and access to fleets.
• Wang Chen gave Lu Qingshan an inhabited planet, then told him he planned to break through to the Universe Level and left.
• Lu Qingshan received an email from Wells as he prepared to move to his new residence.

Lu Qingshan met with Wells after becoming a Special Grade Elite and learned that reaching the earth domain eighth layer within two thousand years could earn him a recommendation to the Heavenly Star Holy Land. Wells explained the benefits and dangers of joining, while Aomengsi worried Lu Qingshan might meet the same fate as a genius who died on a training mission.

• Lu Qingshan visited Wells, where Aomengsi congratulated him on becoming a Special Grade Elite after clearing the Trial Tower's twelfth floor.
• Wells praised Lu Qingshan for reaching the earth domain fourth layer in fifty years and credited his rapid progress to his talent and comprehension.
• Wells said he could recommend Lu Qingshan to the Heavenly Star Holy Land if he reached the earth domain eighth layer within two thousand years.
• Wells explained that the Holy Land's resources could save Lu Qingshan over a million years of energy accumulation, but Aomengsi warned that its training missions had a high death rate.
• Aomengsi recalled that Edgar, a once-in-a-million-years genius, had died on a Holy Land training mission and resolved to dissuade Lu Qingshan if he later qualified.

Wells demonstrated the Earth Domain and Earth Origin Law to Lu Qingshan, then advised him to focus on the domain before studying the law. Lu Qingshan settled into his new Special Grade Elite manor and began planning to cultivate at Star Level for longer.

• Wells demonstrated the first five layers of the Earth Domain to Lu Qingshan, then showed Aomengsi his insights into the Earth Origin Law.
• Wells told Lu Qingshan to focus on comprehending the Earth Domain and sent him to arrange the privileges and resources that came with becoming a Special Grade Elite.
• Aomengsi asked Wells about becoming an Immortal God, and Wells explained how rare the achievement was in the Golden Lion Starfield.
• Fogel led Lu Qingshan to the Special Grade Elites' World Lord World and introduced his manor, guard captain Oliver, and staff.
• Lu Qingshan decided to keep cultivating the Earth Domain at Star Level, handed his new territory to Li Yunshang and the others, and began secluded cultivation.

After more than six hundred years of cultivation, Terrance broke through to the Wind Domain Fourth Layer and gained the strength to clear the Trial Tower’s twelfth layer. He deliberately stopped one kill short so Liu Guangyuan would remain a First Grade Elite for another hundred years, then waited for the rankings to update.

• Terrance reached the Wind Domain Fourth Layer in Falling Wind Valley after hundreds of years of cultivation.
• Terrance recalled how he and Liu Guangyuan had competed for first place for more than two hundred years, until Liu Guangyuan cleared the Trial Tower’s Eleventh Layer.
• Terrance arrived at the Trial Pagoda as the First Grade Elite rankings were about to update, and Liu Guangyuan taunted him about becoming a Special Grade Elite soon.
• Terrance cleared the Trial Tower’s Eleventh Layer and killed ninety-nine of the hundred Sky Wolves on the twelfth layer.
• Terrance let the final Sky Wolf kill him so Liu Guangyuan would have to wait another hundred years to become a Special Grade Elite, then waited for the rankings to update.

Terrance cleared the Trial Tower’s twelfth floor, became a Special Grade Elite, and ended his centuries-long rivalry with Liu Guangyuan. As he moved into the Special Grade Elites’ World Lord World, he learned that his neighboring residence belonged to Lu Qingshan, whose astonishing progress dwarfed his own.

• Terrance overtook Liu Guangyuan in the rankings, then cleared the twelfth floor of the Trial Tower and raised his rating to 13.4.
• Terrance applied to become a Special Grade Elite, and an email confirmed his promotion after he left the Trial Pagoda.
• Terrance taunted Liu Guangyuan with his own earlier words, while Liu Guangyuan recognized the gulf between their cultivation speeds and said nothing.
• Terrance informed Normanden of his promotion, then traveled to the World Lord World where the Special Grade Elites lived.
• Fogel showed Terrance his new residence beside Lu Qingshan’s, and Terrance reflected on Lu Qingshan’s extraordinary cultivation while resolving to surpass the other Special Grade Elites.

Lu Qingshan mastered the Heaven-Splitting Staff’s third form, Heaven-Splitting Strike, and assessed his growing strength and prospects among the universe’s greatest geniuses. He remained determined to improve, trusting his late bloomer destiny to help him eventually surpass them.

• Lu Qingshan practiced Wind and Rain from Eight Directions and concluded he had brought the Heaven-Splitting Staff’s second form to its limit.
• Lu Qingshan successfully activated the staff’s third form, Heaven-Splitting Strike, and smashed a C-grade alloy pillar with one blow.
• Lu Qingshan estimated that his new attack could threaten most Universe Level First Stage experts, though it consumed more than thirty percent of his Origin Force.
• Lu Qingshan reflected on his age, cultivation progress, and the gap between his current talent and the universe’s top geniuses.
• Lu Qingshan remained confident that his late bloomer destiny would let his comprehension keep growing until he could surpass those geniuses.

Lu Qingshan demonstrated that he could unleash the Heaven-Splitting Staff’s third form, impressing his instructor Clemens. After Aomengsi told him about an upcoming public lecture on the Earth Origin Law by an Immortal God, Lu Qingshan and Clemens joined him on a journey to Imperial Capital Star.

• Lu Qingshan showed Clemens that he could unleash the Heaven-Splitting Staff’s third form, and Clemens praised his talent and rapid progress.
• Aomengsi arrived and invited Lu Qingshan to attend a ten-year public lecture by a Four-Star Heavenly Star Practitioner who had mastered the complete Earth Origin Law.
• Lu Qingshan agreed to go, and Aomengsi also let Clemens join them on the trip to Imperial Capital Star.
• Aomengsi took Lu Qingshan and Clemens aboard his spaceship, which entered the Dark Universe and set course for Imperial Capital Star at eight times the speed of light.

Lu Qingshan arrived at the Heavenly Star Dojo with Aomengsi and Clemens for a rare public course on the Earth Domain and Earth Origin Law, drawing attention as Heavenly Pillar Mountain’s famed young genius. Over three years, experts and cultivators gathered in enormous numbers, and the chapter ended as a powerful pressure descended upon the packed plaza.

• Aomengsi brought Lu Qingshan and Clemens to Imperial Capital Star, where attendees recognized Aomengsi and Clemens and focused especially on Lu Qingshan’s reputation as a prodigy.
• Lambert greeted Lu Qingshan and Aomengsi at the Heavenly Star Dojo and explained that Wells, Sherman, Seraphina, and other disciples were expected to attend.
• Lu Qingshan and his companions joined Lambert and acquaintances to wait for the course and share news and cultivation insights.
• Wells, Sherman, Seraphina, other Heavenly Pillar Mountain geniuses, and promising cultivators from other factions arrived as the gathering grew into a major starfield event.
• Three years later, over sixty World Lord experts, several hundred Domain Lord experts, more than ten thousand Universe Level experts, and several hundred thousand Star Level geniuses filled the plaza.
• A powerful pressure suddenly descended upon the orderly crowd.

Alfred, a Four-Star Heavenly Star Practitioner, began a ten-year public lecture in the Golden Lion Starfield on the Earth Domain and Earth Origin Law. His explanations helped cultivators break through, while Lu Qingshan became fully absorbed in the lecture.

• Alfred arrived at the Heavenly Star Dojo and explained that his lectures served cultivators in remote starfields and earned him contribution points.
• Alfred began teaching the mysteries of the Earth Domain, presenting intricate secret patterns that gave listeners insights according to their cultivation levels.
• On the third day, a Universe Level Ninth Stage cultivator entered the Domain Realm after nearly ninety thousand years of cultivation.
• On the eighteenth day, a Star Level genius comprehended the Earth Domain and rose into the ranks of supreme Star Level geniuses.
• As Alfred continued lecturing and cultivators occasionally broke through, Lu Qingshan ignored the commotion and focused entirely on Alfred's explanations.

Lu Qingshan entered the Earth Domain Eighth Layer while listening to Alfred’s public lectures, strengthening his resolve to cultivate at the Heavenly Star Holy Land. As Alfred’s ten-year lectures ended, Clemens crossed the threshold of the Earth Origin Law.

• After eight years of listening to Alfred explain the Earth Domain and the Earth Origin Law, Lu Qingshan broke through to the Earth Domain Eighth Layer.
• Aomengsi, Lambert, and Lu Qingshan’s other senior brothers and sisters congratulated him, while Alfred noticed his talent and decided to offer him an opportunity after the lectures.
• Lu Qingshan reflected on the benefits of Alfred’s teaching and resolved to keep listening and pursue cultivation at the Heavenly Star Holy Land.
• Near the end of the lectures, Clemens crossed the threshold of the Earth Origin Law after more than sixty thousand years stuck at the Earth Domain Ninth Layer.
• Alfred’s ten-year public lectures ended shortly after Clemens’s breakthrough.

After his public lecture, Alfred invited Lu Qingshan, Chen Jin, and Copperfield to join the Heavenly Star Holy Land, explaining that its training included dangerous but voluntary life-and-death missions. Chen Jin refused, while Lu Qingshan and Copperfield accepted and agreed to travel there together.

• Alfred ended his public lecture and summoned Lu Qingshan, Chen Jin, and Copperfield to meet him privately.
• Alfred introduced himself as an instructor at the Heavenly Star Holy Land and praised the three cultivators’ talent before inviting them to join.
• Chen Jin asked about the Holy Land’s dangerous training missions, then refused the invitation because he feared dying like the genius Edgar.
• Copperfield and Lu Qingshan accepted Alfred’s invitation, and Alfred gave them silver tokens containing the Holy Land’s coordinates.
• After leaving the hall, Chen Jin departed separately, while Lu Qingshan and Copperfield exchanged contact details and agreed to travel to the Heavenly Star Holy Land together.

Lu Qingshan told Wells and the others that he had accepted Alfred’s invitation to join the Heavenly Star Holy Land, arguing that its risks were worth taking for a chance at immortality. Wells was inspired to consider venturing onto the Outer Domain Battlefield, then arranged for Aomengsi to escort Lu Qingshan and Copperfield to the Holy Land.

• Lu Qingshan returned to the square and told Wells that he and Copperfield had accepted Alfred’s invitations to cultivate in the Heavenly Star Holy Land, while Chen Jin had refused.
• Aomengsi warned Lu Qingshan that the Holy Land was dangerous and recalled how the gifted Edgar had died there, but Lu Qingshan insisted that he had to pursue every chance to become immortal.
• Wells praised Lu Qingshan’s determination and said he should take a chance on the Outer Domain Battlefield, which prompted Lu Qingshan and the others to urge him to reconsider.
• Wells said he would think carefully about the battlefield and asked how Lu Qingshan planned to travel to the Holy Land; Lu Qingshan explained that he and Copperfield would go together after handling their affairs.
• Wells arranged for Aomengsi to escort Lu Qingshan and Copperfield through the distant starfields, and Aomengsi agreed.

Lu Qingshan returned to Pastoral Song Star to visit his teacher Kanuo before leaving for the Heavenly Star Holy Land, where he would cultivate after being recruited by Lord Alfred. After arranging for Kanuo to watch over his home, Lu Qingshan traveled to Xuanhuang Star and saw his birthplace again.

• Lu Qingshan arrived at Pastoral Song Star aboard a D-class spaceship with Oliver, startling Huang Ziwei with Oliver’s Universe Level 7 strength.
• Lu Qingshan greeted Huang Ziwei and Kanuo, then told Kanuo that he was leaving to cultivate at the Heavenly Star Holy Land.
• Lu Qingshan explained that Lord Alfred had recruited him after he broke through to the Eighth-Level Domain during Alfred’s public lecture.
• Lu Qingshan asked Kanuo to watch over his home, and Kanuo assured him that his wife managed his territories well and that the Purple River Empire kept them safe.
• After spending a day with Kanuo, Lu Qingshan departed for Xuanhuang Star and recognized the star system where he had been born.