Recaps

Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor searched Liyang City for clues to the Great Void Primal Spirit’s reincarnation, but Chen Qingyu’s divination revealed no precise location. After Chen Qingyu rescued a little girl from bullies and recognized the handkerchief she treasured as his own, he realized they shared a bond of fate, and the Ninth Ancestor asked whether she was the reincarnation.

• Chen Qingyu failed to divine a more specific location for the Great Void Primal Spirit than Liyang City, so he and the Ninth Ancestor searched the city on foot.
• Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor observed Liyang City’s peaceful life and reflected on how its people would be endangered by the approaching war.
• Chen Qingyu stopped several boys from bullying a little girl and discovered she had a white silk handkerchief bearing his name.
• Chen Qingyu explained the handkerchief’s value, and the girl offered it back to him.
• Chen Qingyu said he and the girl had shared a bond of fate long ago, and the Ninth Ancestor asked if she was the Great Void Primal Spirit’s reincarnation.

Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor confirmed that the little girl was the reincarnation of the Great Void Primal Spirit. Chen Qingyu persuaded her to leave Liyang City with him, named her Chen Qingmeng, and prepared to take her to the Divine Capital as his little sister.

• Chen Qingyu recognized the handkerchief he had discarded years earlier and sensed that the little girl had a special connection to the Great Void Primal Spirit.
• The Ninth Ancestor discovered that the girl had remained unchanged for over a hundred and thirty years and was forgotten by people once they grew up.
• Chen Qingyu channeled the power of the Great Void into the girl, causing her to grow slightly and confirming her identity.
• Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor invited the girl to live with them in the Divine Capital, and she agreed to leave with them.
• Chen Qingyu named the girl Chen Qingmeng, then he and the Ninth Ancestor prepared to return.

Chen Qingyu settled Chen Qingmeng into the Divine Capital and learned that she depended on Great Void Might to grow. The Ninth Ancestor shared his suspicion that the true Great Void Primal Spirit was already dead.

• The Ninth Ancestor concealed Chen Qingmeng within the Divine Capital using the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell and agreed to add her to the clan register.
• Chen Qingyu brought Chen Qingmeng to his residence, introduced her to the maids as his younger sister, and arranged for her to be bathed, clothed, and fed.
• Chen Qingmeng settled into life in the Divine Capital, made friends, and explored the marketplace with Chen Qingyu over the following twenty days.
• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that Chen Qingmeng could not cultivate or grow without Great Void Might, but developed rapidly while being nourished by it.
• The Ninth Ancestor said he suspected that the true Great Void Primal Spirit was already dead.

Chen Qingyu learned that Qingmeng carried the Great Void Primal Spirit’s true spirit and would need protection until she reached adulthood. As he returned to his residence, his twelfth calamity, Omnidirectional Calamity, finished evolving, and he began evolving another calamity while preparing to reach the Heavenly Impulse Realm.

• The Ninth Ancestor explained that Qingmeng had inherited the Great Void Primal Spirit’s true spirit, while the other existing primal spirits lacked the complete self that had perished during reincarnation.
• Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor agreed that Qingmeng could eventually reclaim the empty shell and help them suppress Wu Chenkong, but she needed protection from him and the Emperor Yuan Palace.
• The Ninth Ancestor said Chen Qingyu would reach the Heavenly Impulse Realm within seven or eight days and later pursue a major opportunity using Saint King Chenliu’s map and command token.
• As Chen Qingyu flew back from the Floating Heavenly Palace, his twelfth calamity, Omnidirectional Calamity, finished evolving and gave him control over gravity and gravitational attraction.
• Chen Qingyu decided to focus on cultivation and began evolving Qi Absorption in Nine Breaths into another calamity.

Chen Qingyu exhausted the Thirteen Golden Grain Pill’s power as he broke through into the Heavenly Impulse Realm and discovered his Divine Treasure Seed. The Ninth Ancestor revealed that the opportunity awaiting him was said by Saint King Chenliu to make the rank of Emperor Venerable attainable.

• Chen Qingyu used the pill’s fifth eruption of medicinal power to break through the Ninth Heaven of the Divine Ability Realm and enter the Heavenly Impulse Realm.
• Chen Qingyu sensed his Divine Treasure Seed within the Great Radiance Ziwei Star and understood that he would need to nurture it to reach the Divine Treasure Realm.
• The Thirteen Golden Grain Pill’s medicinal power ran out, and Chen Qingyu decided to visit the Ninth Ancestor.
• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that the opportunity he sought was worth far more than the pill.
• The Ninth Ancestor said Saint King Chenliu had claimed that a descendant who obtained the opportunity could reach the rank of Emperor Venerable.

The Ninth Ancestor explained that the world contained countless Dao Domains linked by the Void Cosmos, and revealed that Saint King Chenliu’s opportunity lay among the remains of Taihao Star. Chen Qingyu recognized the location as the Ancestral Star Remains indicated by his Sign-In System.

• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that the Desolate Continent was an isolated corner of the Myriad Dharma Dao Domain, one of the Three Thousand Dao Domains.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained that Emperor Yuan had reached the Desolate Continent by chance and later left using paths unavailable to ordinary cultivators.
• The Ninth Ancestor revealed that the Void Cosmos connected all Dao Domains and held the opportunity Saint King Chenliu had mentioned.
• The Ninth Ancestor identified Chen Qingyu’s parchment as a star chart and the dark token as a key and proof of identity for entering the destination.
• The Ninth Ancestor revealed that the opportunity was the remains of Taihao Star, and Chen Qingyu recognized it as the Ancestral Star Remains from his Sign-In System.

The Ninth Ancestor explained the origins of Taihao Essence and the contest held at the remnants of Taihao Star, urging Chen Qingyu to represent the Chen Clan. Chen Qingyu learned that only cultivators in the Heavenly Impulse Realm could compete, and prepared himself to face the sea of stars’ supreme prodigies.

• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that the Supreme Star Palace controlled the remnants of Taihao Star and that they produced Taihao Essence every ten thousand years.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained that factions across the sea of stars and the three thousand Dao domains competed for Taihao Essence using a star map and token to enter the remnants.
• The Ninth Ancestor revealed that Saint King Chenliu had kept the map and token from the Chen Clan’s weak prodigies, and that Chen Qingyu had now recovered them.
• The Ninth Ancestor urged Chen Qingyu to represent the Chen Clan and claim Taihao Essence, while warning him not to underestimate the other prodigies.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained that only cultivators in the Heavenly Impulse Realm could enter because Taihao Essence most effectively nurtured a Divine Treasure Seed.

Chen Qingyu learned that the Void Cosmos competition could include prodigies who had reached the Divine Origin Realm, then discovered Emperor Yuan had left him cultivation insights from that realm. The Ninth Ancestor explained how the Chen Clan’s Star Receiving Platform worked, leaving Chen Qingyu wondering whether it had recharged after his father’s journey.

• The Ninth Ancestor warned Chen Qingyu that powerful competitors might have reached the Divine Shore Realm or the Divine Origin Realm, also known as the Second Divine Realm.
• Chen Qingyu opened Emperor Yuan’s brocade pouch and found cultivation insights from when Emperor Yuan achieved the Divine Origin Realm.
• The Ninth Ancestor said the insights were uniquely precious and could help Chen Qingyu pursue the Divine Origin Realm if he obtained the Taihao Essence.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained that only Saint Kings could forge Star Receiving Platforms, and that the Chen Clan’s single platform could send one person into the Void Cosmos once every thousand years.
• The Ninth Ancestor revealed that he, Chen Guangsheng, and Chen Qingyu’s father had all cultivated in the Void Cosmos, and Chen Qingyu asked whether the platform had finished recharging.

Chen Qingyu learned that the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell could replenish the Star Receiving Platform, then prepared to travel to the Void Cosmos to seek the Taihao Essence. After bidding farewell to Chen Qingmeng, he departed through the Star Receiving Platform under the Ninth Ancestor’s warning to return within a year.

• The Ninth Ancestor explained that the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell could gather stellar power from the Void Cosmos and identified the command token’s material as Taihao Divine Iron, also called Extradomain Star Iron.
• Chen Qingyu revealed that the stone he had retrieved for Zhang Yanqing from Emperor Yuan’s treasury was made of the same material, and he and the Ninth Ancestor wondered why Wu Chenkong had taken it.
• The Ninth Ancestor replenished the Star Receiving Platform and told Chen Qingyu that the contest for the Taihao Essence had already been underway for several years and that he must return within a year.
• Chen Qingyu reassured Chen Qingmeng that he was leaving to strive for their future and the Chen Clan’s, and she agreed to wait for him.
• The Ninth Ancestor activated the Star Receiving Platform, sending Chen Qingyu into the Void Cosmos in a pillar of starlight.

Chen Qingyu arrived in the Void Cosmos and discovered that its abundant star power could greatly accelerate his cultivation as he pursued the Taihao Essence. After examining the Star Receiving Platform and its protective formation, he decided to conceal the meteorite that held his only way home before venturing beyond the barrier.

• Chen Qingyu awakened in the Void Cosmos and found that its dense star power made his cultivation dramatically faster.
• He estimated that he could reach the peak of the Heavenly Impulse Realm within nine months and resolved to obtain the Taihao Essence.
• Chen Qingyu examined the Star Receiving Platform, checked the one-year timer, and confirmed that he had to return before its guiding force faded.
• He decided to hide the meteorite carrying the Star Receiving Platform so the Supreme Star Palace would not easily discover his route home.
• Chen Qingyu flew toward the edge of Saint King Chenliu's protective formation and recognized that he would have to cross its barrier to leave the meteorite.

Chen Qingyu escaped the meteorite’s formation, hid it in a vast ring around an ocher-yellow star, and used a star chart to set off toward Taihao Star’s remains. He left the region at great speed, still facing the immense journey through the Void Cosmos.

• Chen Qingyu used the Myriad Star Destruction Fist Seal to make the formation recognize him and open a passage, then flew outside and adapted to the Myriad Stars Counterlight Primordial Magnetism.
• Chen Qingyu pushed the giant meteorite beyond a nearby purple star’s gravitational pull and hid it among countless meteorites orbiting an ocher-yellow star.
• Chen Qingyu memorized the surrounding meteorites’ positions so he could find the hidden meteorite again.
• Chen Qingyu unfurled the parchment scroll, which formed a star chart showing his position and direction, then flew away using Golden Light Traversing the Earth.
• Chen Qingyu considered the vastness of the Void Cosmos and recalled that the spatial laws around Taihao Star’s remains would make the distance unlike an ordinary journey.

Chen Qingyu encountered Zhou Yan while flying alone through the Void Cosmos and accepted a ride aboard his boat to the remains of Taihao Star. After introducing himself and sharing tea, Chen Qingyu explained that he had separated from his clan’s peers and lost his own flying boat.

• Chen Qingyu spotted a flying boat after three days of travel, and Zhou Yan approached him.
• Chen Qingyu claimed stellar essence turbulence had destroyed his flying boat, and Zhou Yan invited him aboard.
• Chen Qingyu introduced himself as being from the Kunyu Continent in the Myriad Dharma Dao Domain, while Zhou Yan said he was from the Zhou Clan of Sanhe Island.
• Zhou Yan served Chen Qingyu spirit tea that could dispel contamination from myriad stars counterlight primordial magnetism.
• Chen Qingyu told Zhou Yan that conflicts with his clan’s peers had led him to travel alone.

Chen Qingyu and Zhou Yan compared their homelands and discussed the ranks of prodigies competing for the Taihao Essence. Zhou Yan described the most powerful contestants as Divine Origin Realm super prodigies, leaving Chen Qingyu to measure the contest’s scale against his own inheritance.

• Zhou Yan told Chen Qingyu that they shared a fate and that they would become rivals once they entered the star gate seeking the Taihao Essence.
• Chen Qingyu and Zhou Yan exchanged information about their homelands, and Chen Qingyu learned about the vast Chuanming Dao Domain and the powerful Zhou Clan.
• Zhou Yan explained that prodigies in the contest fell into four tiers, describing the weakest as cannon fodder and Chen Qingyu and himself as third-tier contestants.
• Zhou Yan said second-tier prodigies could rival the Divine Treasure Realm and often came from Emperor Venerable forces.
• Zhou Yan described first-tier super prodigies as Divine Origin Realm cultivators from superpowers with the potential to become Quasi-Emperors.

Chen Qingyu learned about the Divine Origin Realm prodigies competing for Taihao Essence before Zhou Yan revealed that he had poisoned him and tried to kill him. Chen Qingyu subdued Zhou Yan with Words Become Law and forced him to confess, then discovered Zhou Yan wanted his star chart and command token.

• Zhou Yan explained that Divine Origin Realm prodigies were rare Quasi-Emperor Candidates and that the Supreme Star Palace dominated the contests for Taihao Essence.
• Zhou Yan revealed that he had poisoned Chen Qingyu's tea and expected the poison to leave him unable to move.
• Chen Qingyu stood up unharmed, used Words Become Law to make Zhou Yan kneel, and forced him to explain his motive.
• Zhou Yan confessed that he had judged Chen Qingyu to be an inexperienced target because of his claim that stellar essence turbulence had destroyed his flying ship.
• Zhou Yan admitted that he had wanted Chen Qingyu's star chart and command token, leaving Chen Qingyu wondering why he needed them when he had his own.

Chen Qingyu forced Zhou Yan to reveal what he knew about the Void Cosmos and the Taihao Essence, then killed him and took control of his flying ship. With the ship following his star chart, Chen Qingyu settled in to study Emperor Yuan’s insights on reaching the Divine Origin Realm during the long journey.

• Zhou Yan explained that star charts and command tokens were scarce, unevenly distributed treasures, and only those who held both could enter the star gate.
• Chen Qingyu made Zhou Yan reveal everything he knew about the Void Cosmos, the Taihao Essence contest, and the flying ship’s controls.
• Chen Qingyu transferred the flying ship’s control to himself, threw Zhou Yan into space, and killed him with a palm strike.
• Chen Qingyu placed his star chart on the ship’s jade platform, which automatically set the vessel on course.
• As the ship began a journey expected to last over two months, Chen Qingyu took out Emperor Yuan’s insights and prepared to study the Divine Origin Realm.

Chen Qingyu studied Emperor Yuan’s insights into the Divine Origin Realm and learned that reaching it required the convergence of the three Yuans, a challenge he resolved to overcome by his own path. After two months of travel, he continued toward Taihao Star’s remains, destroying another group of star pirates and reflecting on the Supreme Star Palace’s dangerous journey.

• Chen Qingyu reviewed Emperor Yuan’s cultivation insights and learned the prerequisites for the Divine Origin Realm, including the convergence of the three Yuans.
• He judged that myriad laws return to Yuan would be manageable through his power of myriad calamities’ evolution, but that the other two stages would require finding his own way.
• Two months later, Chen Qingyu’s flying boat was pinned by star pirates, and he killed them with the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal.
• Chen Qingyu recalled that he had repeatedly encountered pirates during the journey and concluded that the Supreme Star Palace’s long route likely tested travelers’ strength and luck.

Chen Qingyu reached the stargate and found tens of thousands of Gate-Blocking Tigers gathered to intercept newcomers seeking entry. As the Zhou Clan prodigies recognized Zhou Yan’s vessel, a white-robed man burst out and raced toward the gate, leaving them to realize Zhou Yan had likely been killed.

• Chen Qingyu entered an altered region of space and saw the immense stargate, then recalled Zhou Yan’s warning about the Gate-Blocking Tigers.
• Chen Qingyu steered his flying vessel toward the stargate, where tens of thousands of vessels had gathered to intercept newcomers.
• The Gate-Blocking Tigers swarmed toward Chen Qingyu’s vessel, hoping to seize a token from whoever was aboard.
• Zhou Clan prodigies recognized the vessel as one belonging to their clan and thought Zhou Yan might have acquired a star chart and token.
• As the Zhou Clan prepared to help the vessel enter the stargate, a white-robed man emerged and sped toward the gate in a streak of golden light.
• The leading Zhou Clan prodigy realized the man was not Zhou Yan and suspected that Zhou Yan had been killed.

Chen Qingyu broke through the prodigies surrounding the star gate and annihilated those who attacked him with the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal. With no one daring to stop him, he entered the star gate and vanished.

• Chen Qingyu abandoned his flying ship and used [Golden Light Traversing the Earth] to race toward the star gate.
• A purple-haired Divine Shore Realm prodigy slowed Chen Qingyu with a divine ability as hundreds of prodigies attacked him.
• Chen Qingyu activated the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal and unleashed the Calamity of Stellar Destruction, killing the purple-haired man, other powerful attackers, and a thousand prodigies.
• Chen Qingyu asked who else wanted to stop him, and the surviving prodigies fell silent and moved away.
• Chen Qingyu rushed into the star gate, and his black metal token flashed as he disappeared.

Chen Qingyu passed through the Star Gate and arrived in the starry space surrounding the remains of Taihao Star, where he met Qiu Luguang, a reception envoy of the Supreme Star Palace. Outside the gate, Zhou Clan prodigies worried that Zhou Daochen might confront Chen Qingyu to avenge Zhou Yan.

• Prodigies outside the Star Gate compared Chen Qingyu's strength to that of a Divine Origin Realm monster from the Twelve Yuanchen Palace.
• A Zhou Clan prodigy realized Zhou Daochen's Mind-Calming Disc could identify Chen Qingyu as Zhou Yan's killer, and the Zhou Clan members feared a confrontation.
• The Zhou Clan prodigies discussed warning Zhou Daochen but admitted they had no reliable way to send a message through the Star Gate.
• Chen Qingyu entered the starry space and recognized the remains of the Taihao Ancestral Star at its center.
• Qiu Luguang introduced herself to Chen Qingyu as a reception envoy of the Supreme Star Palace and asked his name.

Chen Qingyu registered at the Supreme Star Palace’s Pavilion of Stars after confirming his identity, while a deacon secretly assessed his strength and placed him on a priority observation list. Qiu Luguang escorted him toward the Pavilion of Stars and explained the rules and duration of the contest for the Taihao Essence.

• Chen Qingyu followed Qiu Luguang to a palace in the stars and met a blue-robed deacon who asked for his name and origins.
• Chen Qingyu gave his name and home domain, and an attendant used a treasured mirror to verify his soul signature.
• After Chen Qingyu left, the deacon viewed a recording of him fighting at the star gate and added him to the priority observation list.
• Qiu Luguang escorted Chen Qingyu toward the Pavilion of Stars and explained that the Taihao Essence contest lasted at most ten years and had already continued for more than three.
• Qiu Luguang told Chen Qingyu that if no one took the Taihao Essence within ten years, a powerful figure from the Supreme Star Palace would claim it.

Chen Qingyu learned about the Three Heavenly Passes and the Supreme Star Palace’s tactics for the Taihao Essence contest as Qiu Luguang guided him toward the Pavilion of Stars. As he neared registration and his next sign-in, a boy reported that the Mind-Calming Disc had reacted.

• Qiu Luguang told Chen Qingyu that the Taihao Essence had once gone unclaimed for ten years because its location was perilous.
• Qiu Luguang explained that the contest remained in its early exploration stage, with a little over thirty-five thousand geniuses staying at the Pavilion of Stars.
• Chen Qingyu saw the Hundred-Step Divine Rankings and suspected the Supreme Star Palace had published them to provoke conflict among the contestants.
• Qiu Luguang brought Chen Qingyu close to the Pavilion of Stars so he could register and choose a residence.
• A rosy-faced boy hurried into a study and told Cousin Daochen that the Mind-Calming Disc had reacted.

Zhou Daochen learned that Chen Qingyu had killed Zhou Yan and ordered the Zhou Clan prodigies to track him so he could take revenge. After registering at the Pavilion of Stars, Chen Qingyu noticed a Zhou Clan youth spying on him but left without confronting him.

• Zhou Daochen gathered the Zhou Clan prodigies and said the Mind-Calming Disc had detected Zhou Yan’s killer.
• Zhou Daochen declared that he would personally eliminate the killer and ordered Zhou He to identify and watch him.
• Chen Qingyu completed his registration at the Hall of Ten Thousand Stars with Qiu Luguang and received a jade disc for his residence.
• Chen Qingyu noticed a Zhou Clan youth spying on him and suspected the youth was seeking revenge for people he had killed.
• The youth, frightened by Chen Qingyu’s presence, decided to find out where he was staying and report back to Zhou Daochen.

At the Pavilion of Stars, Chen Qingyu secluded himself to decipher Emperor Yuan’s insights and realized Supreme Yuan Naturally Formed required a trace of power beyond ordinary realms. He suspected the white crystal jade Emperor Yuan had given him might provide the needed power.

• Chen Qingyu explored his residence at the Pavilion of Stars, summoned its Star Spirit servants, and ordered a bath and banquet.
• After bathing and dining, Chen Qingyu entered seclusion to pursue the mysteries of Supreme Yuan Naturally Formed.
• Half a month later, Chen Qingyu concluded that attaining Supreme Yuan Naturally Formed required external power as a medium, possibly power at the Quasi-Emperor level.
• Chen Qingyu considered possible sources of such power and realized that Emperor Yuan’s white crystal jade might be the answer.

Chen Qingyu realized Emperor Yuan had hidden the means to achieve supreme yuan naturally formed in the crystalline jade, but decided to save it so Emperor Yuan could live longer and use the Taihao Essence instead. He set out for the Ancestral Star’s remains, planning to test his theory by drawing out the prodigies pursuing him.

• Chen Qingyu understood that Emperor Yuan had created the crystalline jade as a medium for supreme yuan naturally formed and had concealed its purpose as a test.
• Chen Qingyu chose not to use the jade, intending to return it to Emperor Yuan, and resolved to use the Taihao Essence as a stronger medium.
• Chen Qingyu left his cultivation chamber and noticed that people were still watching him, so he slowed down to let them report his departure.
• Chen Qingyu examined the Hundred-Step Divine Rankings and saw Situ Nan at the top, with Xiao Zizai also among the leading prodigies.
• Chen Qingyu flew toward the silver-gray speck at the heart of the starry sky, intending to sign in and lure out pursuers.

Zhou Daochen set out to kill Chen Qingyu at the remains of Taihao Star, while Chen Qingyu crossed the dangerous repulsion field on his way there. Zhou Daochen used a special ability to break through the field and began closing in on him.

• Zhou Daochen learned that Chen Qingyu had left for the remains of Taihao Star and decided to pursue and kill him before rival factions could act.
• Chen Qingyu flew away from the Pavilion of Stars and entered the repulsion field surrounding Taihao Star’s remains.
• Chen Qingyu pushed through the increasingly powerful field, which slowed nearby prodigies and gradually damaged his body.
• Chen Qingyu noticed several prodigies using the repulsion field to cultivate, then increased his speed with True Gang power.
• Zhou Daochen judged that Chen Qingyu had reached the Divine Shore Realm and used his power to disperse the repulsion field, accelerating until he was faster than Chen Qingyu.