Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming bought and refined star beads to gain a powerful attack technique, then headed out to train against Berserk Iron Apes. Meanwhile, Qin Feng arranged for a Star Vein Realm death warrior to face Dongfang Yueming at the Rising Star Competition and cripple him.

• Dongfang Yueming told Shen Yuyan that he had mastered his movement technique but needed a powerful attack skill for the Rising Star Competition.
• Dongfang Yueming sold the Shadow Swift Wolf King Star Bead for 150,000 star coins and bought eight Stone Splitting Fist Star Beads.
• Dongfang Yueming refined the eight beads into a Bronze One-Star Mountain-Collapsing Peak-Breaking Force star skill and embedded it in his star palace.
• Dongfang Yueming left the academy for the Broken Spine Stone Forest to train against its Berserk Iron Apes.
• Qin Feng learned that Dongfang Yueming had survived and returned to the academy, then heard his middle-aged retainer had rigged the competition draw.
• Qin Feng's retainer arranged for Mad Saber Han Hu, a Star Vein Realm Third Layer death warrior, to face Dongfang Yueming in the first round, and Qin Feng celebrated the plan.

Dongfang Yueming slaughtered the Berserk Iron Apes in the Broken Spine Stone Forest with his divine dragon Star Skill and collected their star beads. With 2,040 Stone Splitting Fist Star Beads added to his stock, he planned to forge another supreme gold killing move that night.

• Dongfang Yueming entered the Broken Spine Stone Forest and used Sun-Chasing Void-Breaking Steps and Mountain-Collapsing Peak-Breaking Force to kill the charging Berserk Iron Apes.
• More than a hundred Star Vortex Realm ape commanders formed a killing formation and attacked Dongfang Yueming with a destructive shockwave.
• Dongfang Yueming manifested his Purple-Gold Divine Dragon Star Soul and activated Divine Dragon Suppresses the World, crushing the apes beneath overwhelming gravity.
• Dongfang Yueming gathered the fallen apes' star beads, including 2,040 Stone Splitting Fist Star Beads, and decided to forge another gold killing move that night.

Dongfang Yueming used 2,040 Black Iron Star Beads to advance his fist art to Gold Three-Star, then learned that Leng Qingqiu planned to break their engagement publicly. He dismissed the threat and drew Shen Yuyan into a romantic embrace, where she called him husband.

• Dongfang Yueming refined 2,040 Black Iron One-Star Stone Splitting Fist Star Beads and transformed his fist art into the Gold Three-Star Great Sun Star-Shattering Divine Fist.
• Shen Yuyan warned Dongfang Yueming that Leng Qingqiu, his fiancée and an A-Rank Star Soul prodigy, planned to break off their engagement publicly at the academy match.
• Dongfang Yueming said Leng Qingqiu could end the engagement if she wished and pulled Shen Yuyan into his embrace.
• Dongfang Yueming confessed his feelings to Shen Yuyan and told her to call him husband.
• Shen Yuyan overcame her reservations, called Dongfang Yueming husband, and kissed him.

Dongfang Yueming returned to Youye Wolf Valley to gather Star Beads and break through the Gold limit of his movement technique. After reaching Platinum Grade, he prepared to compete at Fallen Star First Martial Dao Academy the next day.

• Shen Yuyan wished Dongfang Yueming a safe return as he left for the wasteland to improve his movement technique before the academy competition.
• Dongfang Yueming descended on Youye Wolf Valley and slaughtered the Star Vein Realm Shadow Swift Wolves with his Great Sun Star-Shattering Divine Fist and Sun-Chasing Void-Breaking Steps.
• Dongfang Yueming gathered 3,072 Black Iron One-Star Star Beads and used them to fuse and advance his movement technique.
• The fusion broke the Gold limit and promoted Dongfang Yueming's movement technique to Platinum One-Star · Taixu Wandering Dragon Step.
• Dongfang Yueming reviewed his powers and vowed to make Fallen Star City tremble at the competition the next day.

Shen Yuyan confronted Leng Qingqiu, Dongfang Yueming’s nominal fiancée, and tested her loyalty to the Dongfang Clan. Leng Qingqiu agreed to retrieve the clan’s martial arts texts from the academy’s Supreme Repository, leaving Shen Yuyan willing to set aside their past misunderstandings.

• Shen Yuyan arrived at the special-grade teachers' office and found Leng Qingqiu waiting outside her VIP lounge.
• Shen Yuyan warned Leng Qingqiu not to come seeking a public engagement break, but Leng Qingqiu said she had no intention of ending the engagement.
• Leng Qingqiu explained that rumors of a broken engagement had been spread by her clan’s elders, not by her, and vowed to keep the engagement unless Yueming rejected her.
• Shen Yuyan asked Leng Qingqiu to retrieve the Dongfang Clan’s True Explanation of the Martial God from the Supreme Repository as proof of her sincerity.
• Leng Qingqiu agreed, explaining that her authority let her requisition techniques up to the Star River Realm, while higher-level texts required the Leng Family patriarch’s approval.
• Shen Yuyan accepted Leng Qingqiu’s offer and said their past misunderstandings were wiped clean if she retrieved the techniques through the Star River Realm.

Dongfang Yueming learned that Leng Qingqiu had agreed to steal her family's cultivation techniques, then welcomed her at his manor the night before the Rising Star Competition. After discovering his relationship with Shen Yuyan, Leng Qingqiu delivered the techniques and knelt, accepting Shen as her mistress and offering to become Dongfang Yueming’s concubine.

• Shen Yuyan told Dongfang Yueming that Leng Qingqiu had agreed to steal her family's cultivation techniques from the Supreme Library.
• Dongfang Yueming reassured the jealous Shen Yuyan that no other woman could compare to her.
• On the night before the Rising Star Competition, Leng Qingqiu arrived at Dongfang Manor with two ancient jade slips.
• Leng Qingqiu was shocked to find Shen Yuyan in Dongfang Yueming's arms but composed herself and presented the cultivation scrolls.
• Leng Qingqiu knelt before Dongfang Yueming, called Shen Yuyan her mistress, and said she would accept being his concubine.

Dongfang Yueming left Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu together while he cultivated the Star Vein Chapter in his secret chamber. He used the system to reach Star Vein Realm Tenth Layer perfection and emerged confident he could defeat an ordinary Star River Realm cultivator.

• Dongfang Yueming welcomed Leng Qingqiu into the Dongfang Clan as his secondary wife and went to the underground secret chamber.
• Shen Yuyan reassured Leng Qingqiu that Dongfang Yueming’s abilities and foundations surpassed common understanding.
• Dongfang Yueming used 2,000 Source Points to cultivate the Star Vein Chapter to major mastery and open his first golden star vein.
• Dongfang Yueming spent more Source Points to advance through the Star Vein Realm’s tenth layer.
• Dongfang Yueming completed ten Nine-Turn Golden Star Veins and declared that he could defeat an ordinary Star River Realm cultivator with one punch.

Dongfang Yueming used Source Points to reach Star River Realm Tenth Layer Great Perfection, then left seclusion to ask Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu who held the Dongfang Clan’s stolen scriptures for the higher realms.

• Dongfang Yueming spent 20,000 Source Points to break through to Star River Realm First Layer, while his Divine-grade Purple-Gold Divine Dragon Star Soul suppressed the resulting disturbance.
• He continued spending Source Points to reach Star River Realm Tenth Layer Great Perfection, forming ten Nine-Turn Golden Star Rivers within his body.
• Dongfang Yueming considered the need to find more supreme-grade star beads and obtain scriptures for the higher Martial Dao realms from powerful organizations.
• Dongfang Yueming left the secret chamber and joined Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu in the living room.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu who now possessed the Dongfang Clan’s supreme methods for the Star Core Realm, Shattered Star Realm, and beyond.

Dongfang Yueming learned that the Qin Family held the Star Core Chapter and resolved to take it after defeating Qin Feng at the Rising Star Competition. He set off for the competition with Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu, confident he would crush the financial-group geniuses.

• Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu told Dongfang Yueming that the Qin Family held the Star Core Chapter, while the Tianyu Financial Group and Star Alliance Holy Land controlled the later chapters.
• Leng Qingqiu warned Dongfang Yueming that Qin Tianba was a powerful Star Core Realm expert, but Dongfang Yueming dismissed the threat and planned to raid the Qin Family treasury after the competition.
• Dongfang Yueming pulled Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu into his embrace and teased them as they worried over his plans.
• The Rising Star Competition drew Fallen Star City's elite families, financial-group figures, and battle-department officers to the First Martial Dao Academy's central arena.
• Dongfang Yueming departed for the competition in a hovercar with Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu, promising to show the financial-group geniuses true despair.

Dongfang Yueming entered the Rising Star Competition with Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu, drawing jeers from the crowd and the attention of the Qin Family. After the rigged draw paired him with Mad Saber Han Hu, Dongfang Yueming headed for the arena, intent on killing his opponent.

• Dongfang Yueming arrived at the arena beside Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu as spectators mocked him and wealthy young men coveted his companions.
• Qin Feng watched from the VIP box and anticipated the trap he had prepared for Dongfang Yueming.
• The vice dean announced the start of the Rising Star Competition and began the first-round draw.
• The draw paired Dongfang Yueming with Mad Saber Han Hu, a specially recruited student at the Star Vein Realm Third Layer.
• Leng Qingqiu and Shen Yuyan recognized that the Qin Family had rigged the draw, while Dongfang Yueming calmly went to face Han Hu and vowed to kill him.

At the arena, Mad Saber Han Hu attacked Dongfang Yueming with a powerful bronze two-star saber skill while Qin Feng and the crowd expected him to die. The chapter ended as Han Hu’s blade bore down on Dongfang Yueming, who remained completely calm.

• Qin Feng secretly ordered Han Hu to cripple Dongfang Yueming and destroy his dantian.
• Leng Qingqiu worried about Han Hu, but Shen Yuyan assured her that their husband would prevail.
• Young Master Zhao threatened Leng Qingqiu and the Leng Family, demanding that she submit to him after the match.
• The referee began the fight, and Han Hu summoned his C-rank Star Soul and unleashed the bronze two-star Mountain-Sundering Mad Baleful Slash.
• Han Hu’s heavy blade charged toward Dongfang Yueming, who stood calmly without moving.

Dongfang Yueming killed Mad Saber Han Hu with one punch, then broke through the arena barrier to pursue Qin Feng. He ignored the academy elders’ orders and vowed to destroy anyone who tried to stop him.

• Dongfang Yueming dodged Han Hu’s saber strike using only his physical reflexes.
• Dongfang Yueming shattered Han Hu’s heavy blade with his fist and killed him with a blow to the chest.
• Qin Feng panicked and fled the arena under the escort of his guards.
• Dongfang Yueming broke through the arena’s light barrier and chased after Qin Feng.
• Dongfang Yueming rebuked the academy elders and threatened to kill anyone who stood in his way.

Dongfang Yueming ignored Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu’s warnings and pursued Qin Feng toward the Qin Family’s ancestral grounds, carrying both women through the void with his movement technique. He caught up with Qin Feng’s armored hovercar in midair and tore open its roof, leaving Qin Feng at his mercy.

• The academy’s enforcement elders backed away from Dongfang Yueming after he killed Han Hu.
• Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu warned Dongfang Yueming that Qin Feng had fled to the Qin Family’s ancestral grounds, but he swept them into his arms and set off after him.
• Dongfang Yueming used Taixu Wandering Dragon Step to travel through the void with Shen Yuyan and Leng Qingqiu.
• Qin Feng fled in an armored hovercar and vowed to get the Qin Family’s ancestor to destroy Dongfang Manor and punish Dongfang Yueming’s wives.
• Dongfang Yueming caught up with the hovercar, smashed its roof open, and confronted the terrified Qin Feng.