Recaps

The Astral Express joined the Luofu’s search for Kafka while Bai Luoming was caught between Tingyun and Yaoguang at Returnstar Harbor. After reuniting with March 7th, he later went to Aurum Alley, where he shared a meal and a stroll with Bailu, ending as she turned toward a commotion at a stall.

• March 7th walked with Bai Luoming to her room, turned down his suggestion that he stay the night, and then went with him to Welt’s meeting about the Luofu mission.
• Welt explained that Jing Yuan had asked the Astral Express to help the Divination Commission capture Kafka, and the next morning March 7th woke in Bai Luoming’s bed before she and Bai Luoming escaped Stelle’s attempted visit.
• Fu Xuan assigned Qingque to guide the Astral Express crew’s search for Kafka in Returnstar Harbor, where Tingyun asked Bai Luoming to remain as a guarantor.
• Bai Luoming stayed with Tingyun, who revealed that she had been reborn from the future, while Yaoguang joined them and the two women competed for his attention.
• Fu Xuan arrived at the duty room with the Express crew, challenged Tingyun and Yaoguang, and then left with the others after Bai Luoming confirmed he was unharmed.
• Bai Luoming returned to the guesthouse, where March 7th visited him, and the two spent the night together before she woke sore and teased him the next morning.
• Fu Xuan told Stelle and Welt that the Stellaron Hunters were not responsible for the Luofu crisis, while Kafka said Elio could not foresee Bai Luoming’s entire fate and that he might join the Stellaron Hunters.
• Bai Luoming went to Aurum Alley, bought sour oranges, shared noodles with hiding Bailu, gave her a concealing brooch, and walked with her as she turned toward an argument at a nearby stall.

Bai Luoming became Jingliu’s disciple and trained with her while the Astral Express crew and Luofu allies dealt with the prison breakout and the Ambrosial Arbor’s revival. The arc ended with Jing Yuan calming a tense confrontation among Jingliu, Blade, Dan Heng, and the others.

• Jingliu killed the Borisin who threatened Bai Luoming, then challenged him and asked him to become her disciple.
• After Jingliu defeated Bai Luoming in a spar, he accepted her as his master and began sword lessons at her residence.
• Fu Xuan met Yaoguang, while Bai Luoming continued training with Jingliu and faced her increasingly personal lessons.
• Hoolay escaped the Prison of Deep Seclusion, but Blade struck him down as Jing Yuan and the Cloud Knights contained the disturbance.
• The Ambrosial Arbor revived, and Jingliu defeated Hoolay after he confronted her while holding Yanqing.
• Jingliu, Bai Luoming, and Yanqing reached the Arbor, where they encountered Blade, Dan Heng, Kafka, and Sam.
• Blade revealed Dan Heng’s past as the exiled Imbibitor Lunae and attacked him, prompting Jingliu and the others to draw their weapons.
• Bai Luoming released his power as the group faced off, but Jing Yuan arrived and persuaded Blade, Dan Heng, and Jingliu to put away their weapons.

Bai Luoming was pulled centuries into the past, where he tried to change the Luofu’s fate and fought Shuhu alongside its defenders. After he vanished again, Baiheng returned to a world that had moved on, while the Stellaron Hunters brought Bai Luoming to Elio.

• Feixiao defeated Hoolay and claimed his Red Moon, while Jing Yuan gathered the others to confront Phantylia at the Ambrosial Arbor.
• The group destroyed Phantylia’s constructed body, but Bai Luoming touched the Stellaron and disappeared into a black opening.
• Bai Luoming woke in the past and met Jingliu, Baiheng, Jing Yuan, Dan Feng, and Yingxing, telling them about the coming Shuhu Rebellion and the Luofu’s losses.
• Baiheng took Bai Luoming on a reckless starskiff ride that ended in a crash and their arrest, but Jingliu secured his release.
• Shuhu invaded the Luofu, and Bai Luoming joined Teng Xiao, Jingliu, and Dan Feng in battle before the Amber Lord empowered him to defeat Shuhu.
• Nanook’s intervention weakened Bai Luoming’s powers, and a spacetime opening carried him away as Baiheng’s starskiff was swallowed, and Aha and Old Bai concealed the event across the Luofu.
• Bai Luoming reappeared near Scalegorge Waterscape, but Kafka and Firefly took him to the Stellaron Hunters’ ship, while Baiheng returned through a spacetime tunnel and reunited with Jingliu and Jing Yuan.
• Kafka brought Bai Luoming to the Stellaron Hunters’ base, where Elio appeared as a black cat and spoke to him.