Chapter Summaries

Li Fan moved into graduate housing and checked on the Blood Qi talisman business he had built in Blood Manor Valley. As the company prepared to ship its latest batch, he reflected on the challenges of reaching the Dao Foundation realm and the Qi Destiny he hoped to gain by advancing the Blood Qi Dao and helping students.

• Li Fan moved into Autumn Red Peak, his assigned residence in Tianniu University's graduate housing.
• After another half month, Li Fan's avatar visited Blood Manor Valley and discussed the limits of the old cultivators' Blood Qi talismans.
• Li Fan inspected the storeroom and found at least 273 high-grade talismans ready for the company's upcoming shipment.
• Li Fan gave the talisman makers advice before leaving, then considered how Qi Destiny, comprehension, disposition, and karma affected a cultivator's chance to form a Dao Foundation.
• Li Fan resolved to expand the Blood Qi Dao and help university students gain Qi Destiny, while avoiding casual use of his quasi-Dao Foundation deduction.

Li Fan harvested a Blood Spirit Essence-Nurturing Pearl and Element-Dispelling Blood Wind, then survived an attempted ambush before bringing the pearl to Changnan Interstellar to offer it for sale. Meanwhile, Ming Talisman Hall’s young master shifted from sabotage to a plan to learn Li Fan’s blood qi talisman techniques through Tianniu University.

• Li Fan collected one Blood Spirit Essence-Nurturing Pearl and twelve strands of Element-Dispelling Blood Wind from Blood Manor Valley and set out to sell them.
• Three cultivators staged an attack on Li Fan, but his blood-qi defense stopped their exploding flying artifacts, and the attackers escaped with talismans.
• The young master of Ming Talisman Hall learned that the ambush had failed and decided to have family members study blood qi Dao techniques so they could approach Li Fan at Tianniu University.
• Li Fan went to Changnan Interstellar and showed Manager Xia Hongmei the Blood Spirit Essence-Nurturing Pearl, explaining its cultivation and healing benefits.

Li Fan sold his Blood Spirit Essence-Nurturing Pearl and other products through the Changnan Interstellar branch, then graduated from his master's program and began doctoral studies. After his thesis earned him more Qi Destiny, he used Innate Dao Deduction to create the Blood Star True Mystery Profound Attainment Method, a secret technique that could help him build a Blood Qi Dao world and condense a Dao Foundation.

• Li Fan sold Xia Hongmei a Blood Spirit Essence-Nurturing Pearl for 880 primordial crystals and signed a long-term supply contract for his company's products.
• Li Fan used the proceeds to prepare for more cultivation and production, and three years passed as he reached the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.
• Li Fan passed his master's thesis defense, accepted the professors' invitation to continue studying for a doctorate, and uploaded his thesis to the Federation Cultivation Technology Thesis Repository.
• Li Fan used Innate Dao Deduction to create the Blood Star True Mystery Profound Attainment Method after his Qi Destiny dropped by one level.
• Li Fan spent three days studying the method and realized it could help him acquire resources, shape a Blood Qi Dao world, and improve his chances of condensing a Dao Foundation.

Li Fan gathered rare spiritual objects and vast quantities of spirit blood to prepare the Blood Star True Mystery Profound Attainment Method. After winning the Clear Sky Jade Marrow at auction, he began sacrificially refining the materials at Blood Manor Valley, where the chapter ended with him inscribing blood patterns into the Falling Star Heavy Core.

• Li Fan accepted an invitation to an Altair Blood Qi Dao cultivators' online exchange meeting and decided to attend remotely.
• Li Fan bought bidding qualifications through the Blood Mansion Essence Source Company and won the Clear Sky Jade Marrow for 33,000 primordial crystals.
• Li Fan gathered the Falling Star Heavy Core, spirit blood, and other materials at Blood Manor Valley.
• Li Fan activated the Blood Star True Secret Sacrificial Refining Array and refined the materials into Hundred Spirits Profound Mastery Secret Liquid.
• Li Fan used his mental power to trace blood patterns and arrays through the Falling Star Heavy Core.

Li Fan completed the Blood Star core and used it to expand his inner space, then moved Blood Qi Dao resources into it. At an exchange meeting with leaders of several Blood Qi Dao factions, he learned about a newly discovered demonic beast planet but chose not to get involved; a few days later, his doctoral application was approved.

• Li Fan fused the Falling Star Heavy Core with Clear Sky Jade Marrow and drew the finished blood star core into his dantian, expanding his inner space to 108 meters and producing Blood Space Primordial Qi.
• Li Fan transferred a blood pond and a forest of Blood Qi Dao spirit plants into the blood star space, where their formations resumed and the space began expanding faster.
• Li Fan attended the Altair Blood Qi Dao exchange meeting, where Elder Blood Spirit introduced him to the leaders of five other factions and discussed dividing resources from a newly discovered demonic beast planet.
• Li Fan learned that demonic beast planets had formed throughout the Human Federation's star domain, but saw little value in joining the factions' plans and resolved to focus on developing his blood star.
• Li Fan received notice a few days later that his doctoral application had been approved and that he needed to report in again.

Li Fan pursued doctoral research into transforming an experimental spirit land into a Blood Qi Dao spirit land, developing a method that succeeded after six years. He passed his dissertation defense and became Tianniu University's first doctoral graduate in the Blood Qi Dao.

• Li Fan chose to research artificial spirit lands for the Blood Qi Dao and submitted his proposal to the doctoral research group.
• Three days later, his requested resources, including a natural spirit land and three demon-blood-producing spirit objects, were approved.
• Li Fan studied the land and developed a way to integrate Blood Qi Dao spirit objects, law runes, and an Earth Master Grand Array into its earth veins.
• Six years later, Li Fan reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer and presented his completed fifty-mu Blood Qi Dao spirit land at his dissertation defense.
• The professors inspected the spirit land, confirmed the transformation had succeeded, and congratulated Li Fan on becoming Tianniu University's first Blood Qi Dao doctoral graduate.

Li Fan remained at Tianniu University and used [Innate Dao Deduction] to create a powerful Dao Foundation cultivation codex. After gathering the materials for his fourth innate embryonic reversion, he entered a blood cocoon to begin the transformation.

• Li Fan chose to work at Tianniu University and stay in the Tianniu star system until he established his Dao Foundation.
• His Qi Destiny rose to First Tier Mid-Grade Cyan, and he used [Innate Dao Deduction] to create the [Innate True Blood Deficiency-Mending Codex].
• Li Fan studied the codex, which offered methods for returning to the innate state, surviving through true blood, mending deficiencies, and forming either the [Blood Transformation Light] or [Venerable Blood Palace] Dao Foundation.
• He searched online auctions and, with help from the university's purchasing channels, gathered the spiritual objects and demonic beast blood needed for his fourth innate embryonic reversion.
• Li Fan activated his blood formation and entered a deep primordial sleep inside the resulting blood cocoon.

After nine years of cultivating his Blood Star Space, Li Fan reached Innate True Image comprehension and prepared to pursue the [Venerable Blood Palace] Dao Foundation. He joined Tianniu University's expedition into the Fire Ox Secret Land and raced toward its heart, with two competitors close behind.

• Li Fan awakened from his blood cocoon with Innate True Image comprehension and judged that he could now pursue the 33 imagery types needed for the [Venerable Blood Palace].
• Li Fan developed his Blood Star Space for nine years before learning that the Fire Ox Secret Land was about to open.
• Li Fan joined Tianniu University's professors and teachers, and the university's two vice presidents took them to the secret land.
• The Fire Ox Secret Land opened beneath a mountain, and Li Fan rushed through its entrance ahead of the other Qi Refining cultivators.
• Li Fan flew toward the secret land's heart as streaks of fire and lightning pursued him.

Li Fan raced through the Fire Ox Secret Land, defeated a powerful fire qi giant ox with his transformed Blood Qi true power, and claimed the Heavenly Light Cloud Fire [Imagery Dao Fruit]. After gathering more spiritual items, he and the other cultivators were expelled when the secret land closed.

• Li Fan reflected on the strengths of the Blood Qi Dao while traveling with a Fire Phase cultivator from the Heavenly Fire Xiao Clan and a Thunder Qi Dao cultivator.
• The Xiao Clan cultivator demanded the others let him claim the Fire Phase imagery, and the Thunder Qi Dao cultivator attacked him, sparking a fight as they continued after Li Fan.
• Li Fan found the [Imagery Dao Fruit] beneath a fire tree guarded by a giant ox, then used the [True Power Supreme Yang Transformation Technique] to form a massive black thread of true power.
• Li Fan pierced through and annihilated the fire qi giant ox, then took the fruit and identified its imagery as Heavenly Light Cloud Fire.
• Li Fan continued collecting spiritual items for the Blood Star Space, and three days later the secret land expelled everyone and closed.

Li Fan auctioned the Heavenly Light Cloud Fire Imagery Dao Fruit for the spirit blood of a Later Realm Dao Foundation demonic beast, completing his preparations to break through. A year later, as he prepared to attempt Dao Foundation, Xu Xuan and Li Mingyue arrived to witness him.

• Li Fan refused the Xiao Clan's offer for the Imagery Dao Fruit and announced that it would be auctioned to the highest bidder for Dao Foundation demonic beast spirit blood.
• Li Fan studied the fruit, then sold it through the Thousand Oxen Auction and received the buyer's spirit blood three months later.
• Li Fan placed the spirit blood in the Blood Star Space, where it sank into the blood lake and came to rest against the Blood Star's core.
• After another year, Li Fan announced that he would attempt to break through to Dao Foundation, drawing attention across the Altair Star System.
• Xu Xuan arrived at Tianniu University and saw Li Fan preparing atop the blood-red mountain, while Li Mingyue also arrived to witness the breakthrough.

Li Fan completed his Blood Qi Dao Foundation, the [Venerable Blood Palace], and overcame the demonic trial that followed. After announcing himself as Buzhen and receiving congratulations from cultivators across the region, he examined his new Foundation’s six profundities and their powers.

• Li Fan formed the [Venerable Blood Palace], gained an extraordinary First Tier station, and extended his lifespan to 800 years.
• Li Fan overcame the five-colored demonic qi trial with the Blood Star’s aid and returned to himself.
• Li Fan declared himself Buzhen and announced that Blood Qi Dao cultivators would acknowledge him as their teacher; Tianniu University disciples and other cultivators paid their respects.
• Tianniu University’s president and vice presidents, followed by Dao Foundation cultivators from across the region, congratulated Li Fan.
• Li Fan returned to his residence and examined the six profundities of the [Venerable Blood Palace], including its defensive, blood-gathering, avatar, and control abilities.

Li Fan discovered that his [Chaos Faint Red Star] could grow by helping others along their paths, then planned to travel to the [Academy Star System] to advance his cultivation. Unable to afford a spacecraft or find a timely direct flight, he began considering how the Blood Space Spiritual Qi in Blood Star Space might help him build one.

• Li Fan examined his [Chaos Faint Red Star] and realized that guiding others along the same path could nourish his Qi Destiny.
• He learned that his blood peak would take at least a hundred years to become a first-tier spiritual land and chose to seek a richer cultivation environment.
• His personal AI agent recommended that he travel to the [Academy Star System] before moving on to more challenging regions.
• Li Fan found that spacecraft were far beyond his means and that no direct flight to the [Academy Star System] would leave for fifty years.
• He decided to investigate building a spacecraft from purchased components and turned his attention to the Blood Space Spiritual Qi in Blood Star Space.

Li Fan discovered that Blood Space Spiritual Qi could greatly improve spacecraft engines and submitted it to the Federation's Black Iron Academy for certification, despite fearing it might expose him to danger. The academy certified his discovery as Earth-grade Class B, with a possible upgrade to Class A, and arranged for Perfected Yuanlian to escort him.

• Li Fan modified a light-speed spacecraft design with Blood Space Spiritual Qi and found that a three-phase engine ran 50% faster while using 30% less energy.
• Li Fan decided to apply to the Black Iron Academy's discovery recommendation program and submitted his findings with a Qi Destiny formation inspection request.
• A vast presence examined Li Fan and his Blood Star Space, then withdrew without harming him.
• Heavenly River True Lord watched a blood-red thread in the Federation's information network and said his Dao was nearing fulfillment; Primordial Lady Tianxin asked why he was happy.
• After a month, the academy informed Li Fan that his discovery had passed certification at Earth-grade Class B and could rise to Earth-grade Class A after verification.
• The academy told Li Fan that Perfected Yuanlian would escort him and warned him to observe proper etiquette.

After confirming he would be taken to the Academy Star System, Li Fan met Li Mingyue and Xu Xuan, helping each with a different request. Xu Xuan left to prepare for a Dao Foundation breakthrough and a possible journey to the Academy Star System, taking Li Fan’s Blood Qi spiritual wine with him.

• Li Fan welcomed Li Mingyue and Xu Xuan to the Blood Palace three days after receiving their messages.
• Li Mingyue offered Li Fan two Dao Foundation-level spiritual items in exchange for a lower-grade Blood Qi Dao Foundation inheritance, and he agreed to prepare one in three days.
• Li Mingyue asked Li Fan to look after Li Mingxi, then departed after handing over the spiritual items.
• Xu Xuan explained the Thunder Qi Dao’s Thunderclap, Heavenly Gleam, and Tribulation Punishment paths, and told Li Fan he planned to attempt forming his Dao Foundation.
• Xu Xuan asked Li Fan to arrange a spiritual ground at Tianniu University for his breakthrough, and Li Fan agreed.
• Li Fan told Xu Xuan about his coming trip to the Academy Star System and offered to help bring him along; Xu Xuan left to prepare, taking the pot of Blood Qi spiritual wine.

Xu Xuan condensed the Thunder Qi Dao Foundation Tribulation Lightning Punishment and took the title Daoist Pijie. After Perfected One Yuanlian agreed to take both him and Li Fan to the Academy Star System, they departed for the Equatorial Starport.

• News spread that Xiao Huoyu and Xu Xuan would attempt to break through to the Dao Foundation realm at Tianniu University.
• Xu Xuan condensed the Tribulation Lightning Punishment Dao Foundation and declared himself Pijie, opening another path for the Thunder Qi Dao.
• Li Fan congratulated Xu Xuan, and the two celebrated together at Blood Spirit Peak.
• Li Fan asked Perfected One Yuanlian to let Xu Xuan accompany them to the Academy Star System, and Yuanlian agreed to take them both.
• Li Fan and Xu Xuan left for the Equatorial Starport while Li Fan sent farewell messages to his friends.
• A ten-kilometer black-and-red warship arrived near Longhorn Beetle Star's starport, astonishing the cultivators there.

Li Fan and Xu Xuan traveled aboard Perfected Person Yuanlian’s warship to Black Iron Academy, where they saw the academy’s prosperous planetary system. They arrived at the central starport and were greeted by Dao Cheng and Yuan Yi.

• Huolian introduced himself to Li Fan and Xu Xuan aboard the warship and praised their unusual talents and Dao Foundations.
• Perfected Person Yuanlian examined the two cultivators, recognized their Blood Qi and thunder talents, and ordered Huolian to arrange their accommodations for the month-long voyage.
• Li Fan and Xu Xuan spent the voyage exploring the warship before it emerged near Black Iron Academy’s thirty-six life-bearing planets and Chaos blessed lands.
• Yuanlian told Li Fan and Xu Xuan to disembark, and they bowed in thanks before leaving the warship.
• Dao Cheng and Yuan Yi greeted Li Fan and Xu Xuan at the academy’s central starport, and Dao Cheng introduced their lineages.

Daoist Dao Cheng brought Li Fan to the Earth Immortal Star, where the Black Iron Academy’s Perfected Persons gathered to begin researching his spatial discovery. They summoned Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance, whose immortal qi formed a Golden Edict of Supervision as the project began.

• Daoist Yuan Yi took Xu Xuan to the Heavenly Immortal Star, while Daoist Dao Cheng brought Li Fan to the Earth Immortal Star.
• Daoist Dao Cheng explained the Earth Immortal Star’s role in supporting Inner Scene Earth Immortal cultivators and described the Perfected Persons who would attend the research meeting.
• Li Fan and Daoist Dao Cheng entered the Earth Immortal Palace, where more than twenty Purple Mansion Perfected Persons examined Li Fan’s Blood Qi Dao force field.
• Yuan Zhen, Yuan Hua, and Jinglian welcomed Li Fan and summoned Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance to oversee the Earth-grade, Class A research project.
• Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance’s pressure and gaze descended, and immortal qi gathered into an Immortal Official’s Golden Edict of Supervision.

Li Fan presented his Blood Space Primordial Qi to the Earth Immortal Palace, where Purple Mansion Perfected Persons named it and began a major research project. He then traveled to Heavenly Immortal Star with Fairy Yuanyi, who introduced him to the Dreamlike True and False Realm and the story of Patriarch Heavenly River.

• Li Fan released his Blood Space Primordial Qi for the Purple Mansion Perfected Persons to examine, and they identified its properties and settled on the project name “Blood, Space, Spirit: Beginning, Earth, Change, Achievement, Inquiry.”
• Li Fan left one hundred Blood Space Spirit Crystals for Heavenly Immortal Star and learned he would need Dao Foundation Perfection before joining the secret realm’s construction.
• Daoist Daocheng took Li Fan to Heavenly Immortal Star and explained its open admissions, which judged cultivators by comprehension, Dao attainment, or battle prowess.
• Li Fan met Fairy Yuanyi near the lake and followed her toward a five-colored palace as she explained the lake’s Dreamlike True and False Realm.
• Fairy Yuanyi said the realm had been refined from the Dreamlike Labyrinth Realm and recounted how Patriarch Heavenly River killed five experts who had ambushed him before he attained the Dao.

Fairy Yuanyi explained the Dreamlike True and False Realm and offered Li Fan a chance to join the Heavenly River Dao Lineage by winning combat trials. Li Fan accepted and was matched against his old acquaintance Li Mingxi on Longhorn Beetle Star.

• Fairy Yuanyi described how the Heavenly River True Lord created the Dreamlike Labyrinth Realm and explained that students could fight or study Divine Ability portraits in the five-colored palace.
• Li Fan chose combat, and Fairy Yuanyi arranged for him to face three Dao Foundation cultivators for a chance at her recommendation to Great Perfected One Xuanzhen.
• Li Mingxi, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao arrived, and Li Fan recognized Li Mingxi as an old acquaintance who had become a Supreme Yang sword immortal.
• Li Fan and the three cultivators entered the Dreamlike True and False Realm, where Fairy Yuanyi warned them that Great Perfected One Xuanzhen would watch their matches.
• Fairy Yuanyi selected Longhorn Beetle Star as the battlefield for Li Fan's first match against Li Mingxi, and the two were teleported there.

Li Fan and Li Mingxi fought on Longhorn Beetle Star, testing their powerful Blood Qi and Supreme Yang Dao Foundations. Li Mingxi unleashed his strongest sword strike against Li Fan’s third-transformed Bloodless True Power, and his body disintegrated.

• Jiang Wendao said a person's ability mattered more than where they were born and admired the purity and Spirituality of Li Fan's Blood Qi.
• Li Fan and Li Mingxi returned to Longhorn Beetle Star and began their sparring match, with Li Mingxi attacking using the Great Radiance Manifesting in the World Light-Breaking Sword.
• Li Fan's Black Blood True Power blocked Li Mingxi's attack, but Li Mingxi's transformed Supreme Yang Sword Intent pierced the force field and struck Li Fan, who emerged unharmed through Nurture Blood Body.
• Li Fan's Venerable Blood Palace drained Li Mingxi's vitality, but Li Mingxi used Dawning Light to recover and countered with the Light of the Blazing Yang Destroying the World.
• Li Fan transformed his Black Blood True Power into Bloodless True Power, while Li Mingxi combined his three world-illuminating divine lights into a sword and charged into the attack.
• Li Fan's Bloodless True Power crushed Li Mingxi's Supreme Yang force field and turned his Dao Foundation body to dust.