Chapter Summaries

Baiheng took Bai Luoming on a dangerously fast starskiff ride, ignoring traffic rules as he slowly began to enjoy the thrill. Sky-Faring Commission pilots recognized her as the notorious Starskiff Killer and decided to let events take their course.

• Baiheng insisted that Bai Luoming join her for a high-speed starskiff ride despite his protests.
• Baiheng accelerated to maximum speed, let wind into the craft, ran a red light, and turned onto a road Bai Luoming suspected was the wrong way.
• Baiheng dismissed the Sky-Faring Commission pilots checking traffic as cosplayers and told Bai Luoming not to worry because someone would bail them out.
• Pilot B asked Pilot A whether the speeding starskiff had broken any rules, and Pilot A identified its driver as Officer Baiheng Bai.
• Pilot A warned Pilot B that Baiheng had many supporters in the Sky-Faring Commission and predicted she would crash before long, so they did not need to stop her.

Baiheng crashed her nearly powerless starskiff while racing around the Luofu with Bai Luoming, and the Helmsman arrived to hold them accountable. He ordered both of them taken to jail after recognizing Bai Luoming as an unexplained arrival who had bypassed the Sky-Faring Commission's surveillance.

• Baiheng sped around the Luofu with Bai Luoming until the starskiff was nearly out of power.
• Baiheng crashed the starskiff into a trench, and she and Bai Luoming escaped in ejected seats.
• Baiheng mourned her wrecked starskiff as the Helmsman confronted her about repeated crashes and threatened to review her pilot's license.
• The Helmsman questioned Bai Luoming about appearing on the Luofu undetected and ordered Cloud Knights to take both of them to jail.
• Baiheng and Bai Luoming accepted their arrest and raised their hands for the shackles.

Baiheng and Bai Luoming waited in a Sky-Faring Commission jail after being arrested, bickering while they hoped someone would come for them. Jingliu arrived with the Helmsman and the jail’s person in charge just as Baiheng grabbed Bai Luoming by the collar.

• Baiheng blamed Bai Luoming for their arrest, and he reminded her that she had picked a fight with the Helmsman and flown recklessly against traffic.
• Baiheng said Jingliu would come because she had set an emergency contact on her Starskiff, while warning Bai Luoming that his lack of Luofu registration could leave him imprisoned longer.
• A commotion outside the cell briefly raised Baiheng’s hopes, but no one came, so she and Bai Luoming settled down to wait until morning.
• Bai Luoming used his Jade Abacus in the cell, and Baiheng begged to borrow it so she could contact someone to secure their release.
• Bai Luoming teased Baiheng by refusing to lend her the Jade Abacus, so she grabbed his collar and demanded an explanation.
• Jingliu entered the jail with the Helmsman and the person in charge, saw Baiheng clutching Bai Luoming, and asked what they were doing.

Jingliu secured Bai Luoming and Baiheng’s release from the Sky-Faring Commission, though Baiheng lost her pilot’s license. Jingliu took Bai Luoming to stay at her courtyard, where he saw Jing Yuan training late into the night under Jingliu’s orders.

• Jingliu arrived at the Sky-Faring Commission after Bai Luoming requested help, and the Helmsman released him while revoking Baiheng’s pilot’s license.
• Bai Luoming and Jingliu left Baiheng to collect her belongings, then headed to Jingliu’s courtyard without waiting for her.
• Baiheng retrieved her things and went to Aurum Alley, planning to treat herself despite her debts.
• Bai Luoming heard someone chopping at a wooden post and learned that Jing Yuan was doing extra training because he felt embarrassed about being caught up to.
• Jingliu told Jing Yuan to stop training and return early the next day, then took Bai Luoming to prepare a room for him.

Bai Luoming settled into the room Jingliu prepared for him while Dan Feng and Teng Xiao discussed whether his warning could be trusted. An urgent military dispatch confirmed that Shuhu was approaching the Luofu as the other Xianzhou faced attacks, so Teng Xiao summoned the Luofu’s senior leaders.

• Jingliu showed Bai Luoming his room, and he thanked her before she left him to rest.
• Bai Luoming found that his damaged terminal would not turn on, so he used his Jade Abacus to access his account and went to bed.
• At the Seat of Divine Foresight, Teng Xiao questioned whether Bai Luoming’s warning was accurate, and Dan Feng agreed to bring him in the next day.
• A Cloud Knight delivered an urgent dispatch reporting that Shuhu and a horde of abominations were heading toward the Luofu.
• Teng Xiao learned that the other Xianzhou were under attack, including the Jade Abacus Xianzhou, which had encountered Ketu Mirage.
• Teng Xiao told Dan Feng not to panic and called a meeting of the Luofu’s senior leaders.

As Shuhu’s invasion reached the Luofu, Jingliu, Teng Xiao, and the Cloud Knights fought to defend the ship while an unknown weapon wiped out the Abominations that had landed. Shuhu remained engaged with Jingliu and the Lightning-Lord as more enemy warships approached.

• Jingliu and Baiheng discussed the coming battle and Bai Luoming’s prediction before the officials set out to prepare defenses and evacuate civilians.
• Shuhu and his forces arrived at the Luofu, and the Cloud Knights gathered to meet the invasion.
• Teng Xiao sent the Lightning-Lord to grapple with Shuhu while Jingliu cut into his body, whose severed pieces became monsters.
• Borisin warships landed Abominations across the Luofu, overwhelming the Cloud Knights until a powerful blast from the ship incinerated the enemies already on the ground.
• Shuhu questioned the Luofu’s weapon, and Teng Xiao and Jingliu continued attacking him as more enemy ships approached.

Bai Luoming joined the battle against Shuhu and severely wounded him with a strike empowered by Destruction. He then overwhelmed Shuhu, whipping him around like a spinning top while Jingliu and Dan Feng watched in disbelief.

• Dan Feng, Jingliu, and Teng Xiao struggled to hold back Shuhu, who knocked them down and prepared to attack the Scalegorge Waterscape.
• Shuhu sensed someone approaching, then overcame the fighters with a powerful attack that left them injured and exposed to his corrupting power.
• Bai Luoming arrived from the sky and cut through Shuhu's branches and body, preventing him from repairing himself with Abundance's power.
• Shuhu challenged Bai Luoming's right to interfere, but Bai Luoming dismissed his claims and attacked him.
• Bai Luoming whipped Shuhu around like a spinning top, while Dan Feng and Jingliu watched in astonishment.

Bai Luoming fought Shuhu alongside Jingliu, Dan Feng, and Teng Xiao, but Shuhu trapped them in a blood-red field and nearly defeated them. The Amber Lord intervened and empowered Bai Luoming to strike Shuhu down, while Nanook later noticed Bai Luoming and secretly granted him a blessing.

• Teng Xiao, Dan Feng, and Jingliu joined Bai Luoming in attacking Shuhu as he prepared a powerful assault.
• Shuhu unleashed the Blood-Painted Prison Realm, spreading Mara through the battlefield and incapacitating Jingliu, Dan Feng, and the others.
• Bai Luoming split Shuhu nearly in half with a charged sword strike, but Shuhu trapped him in the blood-red field and began recovering.
• The Amber Lord appeared to Bai Luoming, who raised a great hammer and brought it down in unison with Him, ushering in a new Amber Era.
• Nanook sensed that the Amber Lord had elevated Bai Luoming, chose not to make him a Lord Ravager, and bestowed a blessing on him instead.

Bai Luoming defeated Shuhu, but Nanook’s attention left his Paths clashing and stripped him of his weapons before a spacetime opening swallowed him. Baiheng followed him into the opening, while Old Bai and Aha erased everyone’s memories of Bai Luoming and prepared the Stellaron beneath the Ambrosial Arbor.

• Bai Luoming crushed Shuhu and sealed its remains in Preservation Path energy, then encountered Nanook, whose intervention left his Paths fighting and his powers weakened.
• A spacetime opening dragged Bai Luoming away, and Baiheng’s Starskiff was swallowed when she tried to reach him; Jingliu and Dan Heng watched the opening vanish.
• Aha and Old Bai concealed the incident across the Luofu, causing everyone to forget Bai Luoming.
• Old Bai connected the nearly exhausted Stellaron to the Ambrosial Arbor so it could recharge while awaiting the day it would erupt.

Bai Luoming was teleported into Scalegorge Waterscape and fled from a battle after realizing Herta and others were nearby. A Cloud Knight ferried him to the Knights’ temporary base, where Tingyun greeted him and began touching his abs.

• Bai Luoming fell into Scalegorge Waterscape and swam toward the sounds of fighting, then turned away when he recognized Herta among the fighters.
• Bai Luoming used the Stellaron’s energy to swim faster, but a Cloud Knight arrived by ferry and took him aboard.
• Bai Luoming offered the Cloud Knight an orange, and the Cloud Knight declined after remembering how sour the previous one had been.
• The Cloud Knight brought Bai Luoming to the Cloud Knights’ temporary base, where Bai Luoming got off the ferry to look around.
• Tingyun greeted Bai Luoming as her benefactor and reached out to touch his abs.

Bai Luoming urgently asked Tingyun for clothes while fighting drew near, and she took him toward her home in her Starskiff. At the Scalegorge Waterscape entrance, Yaoguang stopped Tingyun and grew suspicious of what she was hiding inside the vehicle.

• As fighting approached, Bai Luoming asked Tingyun for clothes, and she offered to take him to her home.
• Tingyun drove Bai Luoming toward Scalegorge Waterscape at reckless speed, while he clung to his seat.
• At the entrance, a Cloud Knight requested an inspection, but Yaoguang intervened and approached Tingyun.
• Tingyun rolled up the window beside Bai Luoming to hide him, and Yaoguang questioned why she would not let anyone see inside.
• Yaoguang teased Tingyun about her search duties and watched her with distrust, wondering if Tingyun was connected to her ominous divination.

Yaoguang confronted Tingyun and tried to get Bai Luoming out of her starskiff, while Bai Luoming hesitated over how to respond. After a mask in his storage space glimmered, he changed his mind and agreed to go with Yaoguang, leaving Tingyun stunned.

• Yaoguang accused Tingyun of hiding something and tried to inspect her starskiff, but Bai Luoming appeared at the window.
• Yaoguang had a Cloud Knight bring Bai Luoming clothes and demanded that he leave the starskiff, while Tingyun objected.
• Yaoguang tore a piece from the starskiff's door when Bai Luoming would not explain why he and Tingyun needed to go somewhere.
• A mask in Bai Luoming's storage space glimmered, and he teased Yaoguang about being interested in him before stepping out of the starskiff.
• Yaoguang invited Bai Luoming to go with her, and he agreed, leaving Tingyun stunned as Yaoguang wondered why she was still there.

Tingyun and Yaoguang tried to escape with Bai Luoming, but Kafka intercepted their Starskiff and used her spirit whisper to arrange his abduction. Firefly carried Bai Luoming to the Stellaron Hunters’ spaceship, where she learned from Kafka that they did not intend to keep their promise to return him.

• Tingyun and Yaoguang argued over Bai Luoming before agreeing to leave with him in a Starskiff.
• Kafka and Sam stopped the Starskiff and asked to take Bai Luoming to meet the Stellaron Hunters’ leader.
• Kafka used her spirit whisper to persuade Yaoguang, while Tingyun remained dazed.
• Firefly carried Bai Luoming to the Stellaron Hunters’ spaceship and knocked him unconscious when he struggled.
• Firefly asked Kafka if they would return Bai Luoming, and Kafka admitted the Stellaron Hunters would not keep their word.

Yaoguang and Tingyun agreed to work together to find Bai Luoming, while Herta realized he had escaped her tracker and set off after him with Ruan Mei. A Starskiff then brought Baiheng back from a space-time tunnel, and Jingliu explained the centuries that had passed before Baiheng comforted Jing Yuan.

• Yaoguang confronted Tingyun after Bai Luoming disappeared, but agreed to talk when Tingyun suggested they stop competing for him and work together.
• Herta discovered that Bai Luoming had left the tracker’s range, interrupted Jingliu and Feixiao’s fight, and flew off with Ruan Mei to pursue him.
• Baiheng emerged from a Starskiff that plunged out of a space-time tunnel and surprised Jingliu, Feixiao, and Jing Yuan with her sudden return.
• Jingliu explained that centuries had passed and recounted Baiheng’s disappearance, Dan Feng and Yingxing’s forbidden resurrection attempt, and her own affliction by Mara.
• Baiheng realized how much Jing Yuan had endured and gently comforted him as he struggled to hold back tears.

The Stellaron Hunters abducted Bai Luoming and brought him to their base, where Firefly cared for him while he slept. Elio, appearing as a black cat, approached Bai Luoming and asked how he had been.

• Kafka searched Bai Luoming and removed several items, but left his Jade Abacus in his pocket.
• Blade warped the ship toward the Stellaron Hunters’ base while Herta arrived at the empty location and began searching for Bai Luoming.
• Firefly carried Bai Luoming off the ship and almost kissed him before Kafka interrupted her.
• Firefly laid Bai Luoming on her lap and soothed his furrowed brow as Kafka spoke with her.
• Elio appeared as a black cat, approached Bai Luoming, and asked, “Bai Luoming, how have you been?”

Elio and Kafka left Firefly alone with the sleeping Bai Luoming, while Silver Wolf sulked upstairs, convinced the others had forgotten her. Bai Luoming woke up and questioned Firefly about his kidnapping, but Kafka walked in on their awkwardly intimate position before Firefly finally let him go.

• Elio told Kafka that Bai Luoming did not want to see him, so Kafka carried Elio away to find Blade and planned to bring Silver Wolf food later.
• Silver Wolf listened for the others downstairs while gaming, lost a match, and worried that she was unimportant because no one had come to see her.
• Bai Luoming woke on Firefly's lap, asked what the Stellaron Hunters were planning, and learned that Kafka had ordered his kidnapping.
• Firefly stopped Bai Luoming from getting up, and Kafka walked in, mistook their pose for an intimate moment, and left to buy food with Blade.
• Firefly released Bai Luoming when he asked, and she blushed and told him to stop commenting on her strength.

Kafka and Blade went shopping while Elio waited in the mall’s pet area, then returned to the villa with groceries and treats. Meanwhile, Firefly stayed flustered around Bai Luoming, who tried to reassure her despite being the one she had tied up and brought away.

• Kafka, Blade, and Elio headed to a nearby mall, and Elio hinted that Firefly and Bai Luoming’s relationship would be explained later.
• Kafka left Elio in the mall’s pet area while she and Blade bought groceries, chilies, pudding, and snacks for the household.
• After shopping, Kafka told Elio to walk, but he got Blade to carry him on his shoulder back to the villa.
• Bai Luoming told the embarrassed Firefly to stop acting as though he were the culprit, reminding her that she had tied him up and brought him somewhere unknown.

Kafka, Blade, and Elio returned to the villa and found Bai Luoming and Firefly sitting together, prompting awkward explanations and a clash between Bai Luoming and Elio. Elio revealed he knew Bai Luoming’s future self, and Bai Luoming ended by asking Firefly to help him beat Elio up.

• Kafka and Blade returned to the villa with Elio and found Bai Luoming leaning against Firefly on the couch.
• Bai Luoming picked up Elio without realizing he was the Stellaron Hunters’ leader, then tossed him off his lap after Kafka left.
• Elio angrily hissed at Bai Luoming, who joked about his catlike behavior and tried to demonstrate a way to hold him.
• Bai Luoming guessed that Elio had come from the future and knew his future self, and Elio confirmed the guess.
• Elio predicted Bai Luoming’s next words, and Bai Luoming asked Firefly to help him beat Elio up.

After Firefly nearly squeezed Elio while wrestling with her feelings about Bai Luoming, Elio formally invited Bai Luoming to join the Stellaron Hunters. Bai Luoming questioned the offer, and Elio ended by promising to restore his strength if he accepted.

• Firefly struggled to resist the urge to attack Bai Luoming, then let Elio escape her tightening embrace.
• Kafka picked Elio up and reminded him to act like the leader of the Stellaron Hunters before he spoke with their guest.
• Elio invited Bai Luoming to join the Stellaron Hunters, and Firefly imagined the two of them spending more time together.
• Bai Luoming asked why he should join a criminal organization when he was a Nameless of the Astral Express and still wanted to take the civil service exam.
• Elio said they both served Terminus and offered to help Bai Luoming recover his strength if he joined.

Bai Luoming agreed to join Elio’s group after Elio ordered Firefly to ravish him, but learned Elio could not yet restore his power. At dinner, Kafka sent Bai Luoming upstairs to find Silver Wolf, while Elio insisted he go alone.

• Bai Luoming tried to bargain for a better offer, so Elio told Firefly to ravish him until Bai Luoming agreed to join.
• Firefly reluctantly stopped when Elio told her Bai Luoming had agreed, though she looked disappointed.
• Bai Luoming asked Elio to restore his power, but Elio said the conflict between Bai Luoming’s Paths would take longer to resolve.
• Blade called everyone to dinner and told them to bring Silver Wolf downstairs.
• Kafka asked Bai Luoming to find Silver Wolf’s room upstairs, and Elio stopped Firefly from accompanying him.