Chapter Summaries

Lan Lan revealed her ties to Azure Star’s ruling family and agreed to report the group’s demands, while Yunxi and her companions settled beside the Special Department. The group discussed how to address Azure Star’s Reincarnation crisis and planned to seek a way through the Underworld’s Ghost Gate.

• Yun Chen warned Lan Lan that the group would not help Azure Star only to be betrayed, and Yunxi explained how she had deduced Lan Lan’s identity and learned her soul would dissipate after she turned forty.
• Lan Lan confirmed that she belonged to Azure Star’s ruling family, and Han Lian asked her to return home and learn her family’s decision.
• Yunxi let Lan Lan take Lili home and told Minister Ruobai that the group would stay near the Special Department while awaiting her reply.
• Yunxi set up the Capsule Dharma House beside the Special Department, then explained her discovery about the Secret Realm to Han Lian and Yun Chen.
• Han Lian and Yun Chen discussed the danger posed by the monsters and Azure Star’s Reincarnation system, while Xun Kun proposed destroying the system and seeking passage through the Ghost Gate.

The Special Department and military learned that Yunxi’s group of four had reunited, while the Azure Family faced Lan Lan’s discovery that she might not live past forty. The chapter ended with Lan Lan’s family demanding to know why the Azure Family should pay the price to save Azure Star.

• Ruobai told the Gongsun siblings not to disturb Yunxi’s group and assigned them to investigate the man in black while he contacted the military about Han Lian.
• Captain Chen told Academician Noske that Han Lian had reunited with three companions, prompting Noske to order him to keep watch over all four Visitors from Beyond.
• Captain Chen and his deputy admitted they could not hold back Han Lian and her companions, and that Noske’s plan to use Han Lian as a research subject could not proceed.
• Lan Lan returned to the Azure Family estate with Lili and waited until her family came home.
• Lan Lan asked her parents whether they knew she would not live past forty, then explained that Ranxi had said the Azure Family would have to pay an enormous price to save Azure Star.
• Lan Lan’s family members protested that the Azure Family should not have to pay.

Wei Lanlan persuaded Wei Lansong to meet Ranxi about Azure Star’s Reincarnation System, while Ranxi and her companions prepared to open the Secret Realm and return to the Weiyu Realm. The chapter ended with the group gathering spirit plants and hair samples for personalized breakthrough potions and genetic enhancement agents.

• Wei Lanlan told the Azure Family what she had learned from the Special Department, and Wei Lansong agreed to meet Ranxi.
• Wei Lanlan arranged a video call, and Wei Lansong asked Ranxi to visit his residence the next day to discuss the Reincarnation System.
• Ranxi told Han Lian to locate the Original Ghost Gate so they could prepare the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation and release White Peak.
• Yun Chen warned that the four cultivators lacked enough strength to activate the formation, and Xun Kun said he still needed to reach the Void-Traversal Realm.
• Ranxi offered to refine personalized Breakthrough Potions, explaining that the group needed the Void-Traversal Realm to keep their divine souls separated from their bodies in the Underworld.
• Han Lian, Xun Kun, and Yun Chen gathered spirit plants, and Ranxi requested their hair samples for personalized genetic enhancement agents from Star Trek.

Yunxi arrived at the Azure Family estate to retrieve Lili and speak with Wei Lan, but Wei Liang tried to detain her with armed guards. Yunxi killed Wei Liang’s soul and vanished, leaving the guards immobilized as Wei Lansong returned.

• Yunxi evaded surveillance, reached the Azure Family estate, and learned from Lili that Wei Liang was trying to control the family’s response.
• Lili broke Lan Lan out of her locked room, and she followed him to the Reception Hall, where Yunxi said she planned to leave because the family had not reached an agreement.
• Wei Liang surrounded Yunxi with armed guards and declared that he intended to keep her there, while Lan Lan objected.
• Yunxi pulled Wei Liang’s soul from his body and burned it away with Ziyan, then disappeared as the guards remained immobilized.
• Lan Lan called for a doctor and ordered the guards to leave, and Wei Lansong returned to find Wei Liang collapsed.

After Wei Liang died trying to force Ranxi to stay, Yunxi reunited with Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun and told Minister Ruobai they planned to leave while continuing their investigation. They departed the Special Department branch after warning Captain Chen to guard the base and deal with the monsters.

• Lan Lan told Wei Lansong that Wei Liang had collapsed after angering Ranxi, and Doctor Shen confirmed that Wei Liang was dead while the guards gradually recovered from being frozen.
• Yunxi told Lili that she would avoid the Azure Family for now and that the families supporting the Reincarnation System would eventually pay for their actions.
• Han Lian told Yun Chen and Xun Kun that Ranxi's negotiations with the Azure Family had failed and that the group would visit Elder Nan at the Special Department headquarters.
• Yunxi reunited with Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun, then told Minister Ruobai that Wei Liang's corrupted divine soul could not reincarnate and that they would leave after arranging their next steps.
• Han Lian told Captain Chen that they were leaving and instructed him to guard the base and eliminate the monsters if possible.

The Azure Family and the Special Department failed to track down Han Lian, Ranxi, and their companions after they vanished with their residence. At Zone C headquarters, Elder Nan revealed that he had traveled from Azure Star’s future to prevent the Reincarnation System, but his mission had failed.

• The Azure Family found the residence gone and learned from Minister Ruobai that Ranxi had left to avoid a confrontation.
• Captain Chen told Noske that Han Lian had spoken to him and that he remembered nothing afterward, while Wei Lansong ordered the search for Han Lian to continue.
• The Azure Family declared Wei Liang dead from overwork, and the four companions arrived at Zone C headquarters to meet Elder Nan.
• Yunxi used Spiritual Qi to strengthen Elder Nan, who said he had seen portraits and achievement steles of Yun Chen and Han Lian from five hundred years in the future.
• Elder Nan explained that Yun Chen and Han Lian had died delaying Azure Star’s destruction, and that he had traveled back to stop the Reincarnation technology from being developed.
• Elder Nan said a timing error meant he arrived after the technology had already been developed, and that he had only managed to make the Xie couple die one after the other.

Yunxi and the others understood how Elder Nan had taken control of the Reincarnation System to delay Azure Star’s destruction until the saviors arrived. After seeing the system’s core and its inadequate purification of divine souls, they questioned whether its equipment should be destroyed.

• Yunxi explained that Elder Nan had made himself responsible for the Reincarnation System to keep it from becoming a tool of the powerful while waiting for the saviors.
• Yunxi, Xun Kun, Yun Chen, and Han Lian traced how their past choices and timely arrivals had made it possible to save Azure Star.
• Elder Nan said he had traveled alone because Azure Star had enough energy for only one time-space transmission.
• With Elder Nan’s authorization, the four entered the Reincarnation Department’s core and saw artificial wombs, monitoring machines, and ghosts being purified by Purification Crystals.
• Xun Kun and Yunxi connected incomplete soul purification to Benjamin’s distress and the growing paranormal incidents, and Han Lian asked whether the purification equipment should be destroyed.

Yun Chen, Yunxi, Xun Kun, and Han Lian decided to preserve the Reincarnation System until they could reconnect Azure Star with the Underworld and safely destroy it. Elsewhere, Daphne lost Xun Kun’s Jade Talisman, while Professor Huang discovered evidence that Han Lian was more than two centuries old.

• Yun Chen, Yunxi, and Xun Kun agreed to maintain the Reincarnation System until the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation and Ghost Gate were ready, then left the Special Department headquarters with Han Lian.
• The Azure Family's guard captain took Daphne's Jade Talisman for inspection, but it shattered, and its three sealed balls of light entered Daphne's body.
• Xun Kun revealed that he had caused the Jade Talisman to shatter so its protective power would still reach Daphne, who cried over losing her last gift from him.
• Mr. Noske examined Captain Chen and found nothing unusual, then let him rest before returning to duty.
• Professor Huang reviewed Han Lian's DNA methylation report, which estimated her age at 256 to 260 years, and considered the research value of the discovery.

Han Lian and Yunxi discussed the research base’s interest in Han Lian’s test results aboard the Flying Boat. In the Weiyu Realm, Yuling learned that Huaxian Sect’s Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been stolen and suspected someone from the Spirit Realm was responsible.

• Professor Huang studied Han Lian’s test report and cursed the guards for letting her escape.
• Han Lian told Yunxi that the research base had tested her saliva, and they agreed to be cautious in this unfamiliar world.
• Yuling reviewed news of the Evil Cultivators’ failed Western Regions scheme and learned that Famous Sword Sect had destroyed their disguised sect.
• Hao Yi summoned Yuling and the other Haoran Sect elders to report that Huaxian Sect’s Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had been stolen.
• Yuling suspected someone from the Spirit Realm had taken the scroll, which contained the sealed evil artifact Longya.
• Hao Yi said the thief could not remain long in the Weiyu Realm because of suppression and backlash from using excessive power.

Huaxian Sect lost the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, prompting cultivators across the regions to search for it. Feng Fen divined that it had last appeared in a mountain range in the Southern Region, while Xiao He received orders from the evil cultivators to head to the Qinghua Mountain Range.

• Venerable Huitang sent newly advanced Spirit Transformation cultivators, including Xian Yao and Xian Feng, to search for the stolen Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Wei Yunqing continued cultivating in forced seclusion, while Wei Zonghao became Ranhao and reassured the Wei and Feng Families that Ranxi’s Soul Lamp remained lit.
• Du Ruolan grew ill from the Ice Needle in her Dantian and died, while Wei Lingyue perished during seclusion and Wei Lingkai advanced to late-stage Golden Core after taking Life Tracing.
• Lin Keyang and Zhang Lingrui learned of the Scroll’s theft and left the Northern Regions to meet Cao Yi, while Han Yan and Han Ying stayed to search there.
• Venerable Mingjia asked Feng Fen to divine the Scroll’s whereabouts, and Feng Fen located its last appearance in a mountain range in the Southern Region.
• Xiao He received orders from the evil cultivators to disguise himself and go to the Qinghua Mountain Range in the Southern Region.

Venerable Linlang received news that led Kunmo Sect cultivators to Qinghua Mountain Range, where rumors drew powerful cultivators searching for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers. Meanwhile, Yunxi and her companions continued preparing formations on Azure Star, expecting to finish in about a year before addressing Azure Family’s pursuit.

• Venerable Linlang confirmed Xun Kun’s divine soul was stable, then left after receiving a Message Talisman.
• Rumors of an immortal treasure drew cultivators from across the Weiyu Realm to Qinghua Mountain Range to search for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers.
• Haoqing and Haohui discussed the misleading rumors and headed to meet Minghong and Mingxian before entering the Inner Ring.
• The red fox carrying the scroll felt it tremble and ran back toward its den, while Xiao He erased an evil cultivator’s mark and sent a message.
• Yunxi and her companions traveled to Han Lian’s former research base to set up another formation, and Yun Chen estimated the remaining four auxiliary formations would take about a year.
• Yunxi promised to send Xun Kun into the Secret Realm for secluded cultivation after they resolved Azure Star’s problem.

Yunxi, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Han Lian returned to the research base and warned Professor Huang to evacuate before they destroyed it. Noske arrived after they vanished, and Professor Huang told him Han Lian had come to make them abandon their research.

• Yun Chen, Yunxi, and Xun Kun discussed their cultivation gains and credited their years of fighting, the Golden Light of Merit, and Ranxi’s potion.
• Ten days later, Han Lian brought Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun to the research base, where they visited Professor Huang.
• Professor Huang explained that Noske had taken Han Lian’s research data, kept the base under surveillance, and had Captain Chen arrested after he destroyed a laboratory of monsters.
• Han Lian admitted she had ordered Captain Chen to destroy the monsters, and Yunxi said the group had come to make the base’s staff leave before it disappeared the next day.
• Yun Chen sensed Noske and the guards approaching, so Han Lian and her companions vanished before Noske could stop them.
• Professor Huang told Noske that Han Lian had warned them to abandon the research base and their investigation into her longevity.

Han Lian and Yunxi helped destroy the research base and its monsters before escaping its explosion and sandstorm. The group then set out for Film City to continue placing formations, after Yun Chen confirmed the remaining locations they needed to visit.

• Noske imprisoned Professor Huang after rejecting Han Lian's warning, but Han Lian emptied Noske's office and the base's test subjects began spontaneously combusting.
• The base's self-destruct alarm sounded, and Noske ran for the control room while the guard captain organized an evacuation.
• Han Lian freed Professor Huang, and Yunxi and Ziyan destroyed the captive monsters as Yun Chen and Xun Kun prepared the formation.
• Han Lian, Yunxi, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun completed the formation and left before the base exploded and was buried by a sandstorm, which also buried Noske.
• The group boarded the Flying Boat for Film City, and Yun Chen confirmed that Film City, Sack Manor, and the scenic area where he fell were the remaining formation sites.

Yunxi and the others discussed the cultivation needed to activate the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation, then traveled to Area W to locate its Formation Core. There, Yunxi gave Xia Mengmeng a screenplay called “Reincarnation” to pass to Director Lian Tao, intending for the film to reveal Azure Star’s Reincarnation System and warn those controlling it of the planet’s impending destruction.

• Yunxi agreed with Xun Kun’s deduction, while Han Lian and Yun Chen explained the cultivation needed to sustain the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation.
• Twenty days later, Yunxi and her companions arrived above the Area W film studio so Yun Chen could calculate the Formation Core’s location.
• Yunxi visited Xia Mengmeng in her trailer, where Xia Mengmeng told her that the Azure Family had questioned her about Master Ranxi.
• Yunxi gave Xia Mengmeng her screenplay, “Reincarnation,” and asked her to pass it to Director Lian Tao and try for the female lead role.
• Yunxi told Han Lian that the film would reveal Azure Star’s Reincarnation System to the public and make those controlling it confront the planet’s future.

Xia Mengmeng’s film “Reincarnation” exposed the truth about the Reincarnation System after Yunxi arranged for it to premiere despite failing review. As the film shook Azure Star, Yunxi’s group completed the auxiliary formations and prepared to activate them.

• Xun Kun altered the script’s romantic scenes, while Xia Mengmeng secured the female lead role and Director Lian Tao agreed to make the film.
• Xia Mengmeng filmed “Reincarnation” after Yunxi gave her Rejuvenation Fluid, but the film failed review until an unsigned message promised its release across all platforms.
• Yunxi explained that she wanted the film to reveal the truth and distract the Azure Family while her group set up the final auxiliary formation.
• “Reincarnation” premiered simultaneously across Azure Star, stirring public discussion and prompting Lan Lan and Daphne to seek answers from their families.
• Daphne learned from Sack that she was on her fourth Reincarnation and that another could make her suffer the same fate as her brother.
• Yunxi’s group finished the final auxiliary formation, and Yun Chen said it was time to activate it.

Yunxi, Yun Chen, Han Lian, Xun Kun, and White Peak activated the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation across Azure Star and used their Merit to open the Ghost Gate. As Yunxi lit Soul Incense and Ghost Messengers began to arrive, Azure Star’s rulers attacked them with missiles.

• Yun Chen convinced Han Lian and Xun Kun to activate the formation immediately, and the group split up to reach their assigned formations.
• Han Lian brought White Peak to his formation and warned him that activating the formation was necessary to return to the Weiyu Realm.
• The nine formations joined into a vast wheel over Azure Star, alarming the public and throwing the ruling families into arguments over whether to stop it.
• When the Ghost Gate did not open, Yunxi urged everyone to pour their Merit into the formation, and their combined power created a black hole that released an Underworld aura.
• Yunxi lit Soul Incense as the group gathered before the Ghost Gate, then sent missiles launched by Azure Star’s rulers back toward their original destinations.
• Voices from the Ghost Gate warned that it had been forcibly opened and that the arrivals should be careful.

Yunxi summoned Black and White Impermanence to explain Azure Star’s severed connection to the Underworld and its human-made Reincarnation System, and they agreed to report the matter to First Hall Yama while ordering her to preserve the status quo. As footage of the summoning spread across the Star Net and Azure Star’s rulers faced scrutiny, Yunxi and her companions retreated to the Misty Snow Region to recover and await news.

• Yunxi explained to Black and White Impermanence that Azure Star’s heavenly laws had been tampered with and asked them to help restore its dead to the Underworld’s cycle of Reincarnation.
• White Impermanence said Azure Star had been recorded as a dead star, ordered Yunxi not to disrupt its existing Reincarnation System, and promised to report the matter to First Hall Yama.
• Black and White Impermanence returned through the Ghost Gate, and Yunxi and her companions left in Xun Kun’s Flying Boat as drones approached.
• Footage of the Five Elements Reincarnation Formation spread across the Star Net, bringing attention to Director Lian Tao, screenwriter Ranxi, and the Reincarnation production team while Azure Star’s officials reacted to the revelations.
• Yunxi brought Han Lian, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and the others into the Misty Snow Region through her concealed Capsule Dharma House so they could restore their spiritual power.

Yunxi and her companions waited for the Underworld to investigate Azure Star’s broken reincarnation system while raising their cultivation. The Judge discovered that the Book of Life and Death had been tampered with and rushed to report the Judge’s Office’s dereliction to the First Hall Yama.

• Han Lian, Yun Chen, Xun Kun, and Yunxi discussed avoiding the Underworld until they understood the danger and agreed to wait for news while cultivating.
• Black and White Impermanence reported Azure Star’s corrupted souls and failed reincarnation records to the Judge, who ordered them to keep the matter secret and promised to ask the four cultivators for help after investigating.
• The Judge found Azure Star’s Book of Life and Death blank, but names appeared when he marked it with the Soul-Seizing Brush, revealing that the records had been tampered with.
• The Judge rushed to see the First Hall Yama and report the Judge’s Office’s major dereliction of duty.
• Yunxi advanced to the late Spirit Transformation stage, then waited with Lili for the Ghost Messengers’ reply and said she would move if Azure Star’s people searched the area.

Yunxi negotiated with Judge Cui for the Underworld’s help in restoring Azure Star’s reincarnation cycle in exchange for the four cultivators’ assistance. Judge Cui agreed to let them travel through the Underworld to the Weiyu Realm, where Yunxi intended to confront the evil cultivators behind the crisis.

• Yunxi concluded that Azure Star’s broken reincarnation cycle might be part of a wider plot by evil cultivators to create Evil Souls.
• Judge Cui arrived with Black and White Impermanence and admitted the Underworld had failed to protect Azure Star’s Book of Life and Death.
• Yunxi agreed to erase Azure Star’s Reincarnation System and help Black and White Impermanence restore the cycle in exchange for passage through the Underworld to the Weiyu Realm.
• Yunxi told Black and White Impermanence that evil cultivators had trapped the four in the Spirit-Nullifying Land and that they planned to return and settle the score.
• Yunxi brought Han Lian and Xun Kun out of the space and told them Judge Cui had approved their return, though Xun Kun worried that their cultivation was still insufficient.

Yunxi and her companions helped Black and White Impermanence seize the corrupted Soul Spirits on Azure Star, but the resulting disasters fueled public panic and suspected interference by the Evil Cultivator's followers. The four and Xun Kun's beast erased Azure Star's memories of the reincarnation System, leaving the inscription's golden Formation Wheel sinking into the planet.

• Yunxi, Han Lian, Yun Chen, and Xun Kun agreed to help restore Azure Star's reincarnation cycle and continued assisting the Ghost Messengers in collecting corrupted Soul Spirits through natural disasters.
• Reports of widespread calamities and prominent families' deaths caused panic, while rumors claimed Heaven was purging people who had reincarnated too often.
• After Han Lian created a blizzard and Yunxi and Xun Kun handled an elevator accident, Yun Chen reported growing public panic and the group decided to erase memories of the reincarnation System.
• Yunxi and Xun Kun suspected the Evil Cultivator's followers were stirring up trouble, and Yunxi taught the others an inscription that erased specific memories over a wide area.
• The four and one beast formed a giant wheel over Azure Star and sent the golden, memory-erasing Formation Wheel into the planet.