Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingyu learned from Zhang Yanqing that Wu Chenkong planned to destroy the Divine Void Small World to free its Great Void power, then left the world after completing their exchange. Wu Chenkong noticed Chen Qingyu’s departure and continued refining a mysterious black liquid in a golden furnace.

• Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu that Wu Chenkong intended to abandon and destroy the Divine Void Small World, freeing its Great Void power for the coming war.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that Wu Chenkong’s strength would remain formidable without the world’s Human Dao Dragon Qi, but she did not know what the black stone was for.
• Zhang Yanqing shared what she knew about the Extreme Transformation Realm Saints of the Great Cang Divine Kingdom and the Sage Evolution Palace, but could not reveal where the Great Void Primal Spirit had planned to reincarnate.
• Chen Qingyu ended the exchange, promised to seek a way to rescue Zhang Yanqing, and allowed the Divine Void Small World’s repulsive force to expel him.
• Wu Chenkong sensed that Chen Qingyu had been forced out, then returned his attention to refining a mass of black liquid in a golden furnace.

After returning from the Divine Void Small World, Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that Wu Chenkong led the Sage Evolution Palace and that the Great Void Primal Spirit had reincarnated. The Ninth Ancestor revealed that the Emperor Yuan Palace was rapidly expanding its influence across the Desolate Continent, while the major holy lands struggled to form an alliance against it.

• Chen Qingyu emerged from the Divine Void Small World and reunited with the Ninth Ancestor in the space containing the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror's true body.
• Chen Qingyu gave the Ninth Ancestor a detailed account of what he had learned, including the Great Void Primal Spirit's reincarnation and Wu Chenkong's control of the Sage Evolution Palace.
• Chen Qingyu urged the Ninth Ancestor to share the intelligence with the major holy lands and devise a countermeasure.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained that the Emperor Yuan Palace had opened twenty-four permanent gates and sent envoys to the major holy lands, rapidly gaining influence.
• The Ninth Ancestor said the human and nonhuman holy lands had failed to establish an alliance because of their conflicting interests and ambitions.

Chen Qingyu warned the Ninth Ancestor that Wu Chenkong might have hidden his body to return as a Corpse Demon, so they traveled to the Taihuang Imperial Capital to inspect his coffin. As Wu Xiangchen prepared to open the Great Yin Grotto, an unknown voice challenged him.

• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that the Chen Clan was preparing to flee the Desolate Continent if the war became unwinnable, and warned him to stay in the Divine Capital.
• Chen Qingyu proposed inspecting Wu Chenkong's coffin, explaining that Wu Chenkong might have hidden his body to use as a Corpse Demon vessel.
• The Ninth Ancestor agreed and contacted Wu Xiangchen, then traveled with Chen Qingyu to the Taihuang Imperial Capital.
• Wu Xiangchen met them and, after hearing their intelligence, agreed to open Wu Chenkong's coffin despite the disrespect to his ancestor.
• As Wu Xiangchen ordered the Great Yin Grotto opened, a deep voice from afar asked what he was planning to do.

Wu Xiangchen and the Ninth Ancestor confirmed that Wu Chenkong’s coffin in the Great Yin Grotto was empty, strengthening their suspicion that he controlled the Sage Evolution Palace. Wu Xiangchen vowed to search for Wu Chenkong’s remains and destroy the Great Yin Grotto if they could not find them before Emperor Yuan’s death.

• Honored Envoy Zhao tried to interfere in the Wu Clan’s affairs, but Wu Xiangchen drove him away.
• Wu Xiangchen led the Ninth Ancestor and Chen Qingyu into the Great Yin Grotto to inspect Wu Chenkong’s coffin.
• Wu Xiangchen opened the coffin and found it empty, confirming the Ninth Ancestor’s worst suspicion.
• Wu Xiangchen agreed that Wu Chenkong was likely behind the Sage Evolution Palace and promised to search for his remains using the clan-guarding Mystic Artifact.
• Wu Xiangchen vowed to destroy the Great Yin Grotto and the ancestors’ bodies if Wu Chenkong’s remains were not found before Emperor Yuan’s death.

After returning to Divine Capital Changluo, Chen Qingyu began evolving the Gravity Tempering Method and used Purple Star Astrology to seek the Great Void Primal Spirit. His divination pointed to Liyang City, so he and the Ninth Ancestor prepared to investigate.

• Chen Qingyu ignored an envoy from Emperor Yuan Palace and sealed himself inside his residence.
• Chen Qingyu chose the Gravity Tempering Method as his next calamity, hoping to gain a wide-area art for controlling opponents, and began its evolution.
• Chen Qingyu used Purple Star Astrology to divine the Great Void Primal Spirit’s whereabouts and saw a vision of Liyang City.
• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor about the vision and said he would go to Liyang City to investigate.
• The Ninth Ancestor agreed to accompany Chen Qingyu to Liyang City.

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.