Chapter Summaries

Jing Liuli welcomed Liu Yao and told her that Tiandao would help with her planned breakthrough. Liu Yao teased Jing Liuli about her feelings for Tiandao, then warned her that Chen Kong and her other friends might be more complicated than she realized and should be kept away from the core of the stage.

• Jing Liuli celebrated Caroline’s departure for her concert and joked that Caroline’s arrival would stop Tiandao from stealing her soda.
• Liu Yao arrived with Mei Ling and asked Jing Liuli about her preparations and the old fossils opposing her breakthrough.
• Jing Liuli said she had invited Tiandao as a powerful outside helper, and Liu Yao teased her about her feelings for him.
• Liu Yao questioned why little was known about Chen Kong and Tiandao, suggesting Dragon had concealed something about them.
• Liu Yao warned Jing Liuli to be cautious with Chen Kong and her other friends and not let them near the core of the stage.

Liu Yao warned Jing Liuli that Chen Kong and his family were surrounded by unanswered questions, while Jing Liuli insisted on keeping faith in a happy ending. As Jing Liuli showed Liu Yao her concert stage, Tiandao awaited someone arriving aboard the Star Orbit Train.

• Liu Yao cautioned Jing Liuli about Chen Kong’s suspicious background, and Jing Liuli decided to seat Chen Kong and his companions in the closest audience section.
• Liu Yao told Jing Liuli that happy endings were rare in the adult world and could require personal sacrifice, but Jing Liuli insisted she wanted to believe in fairy tales.
• Liu Yao agreed to inspect Jing Liuli’s stage for the New Year’s Concert, and Jing Liuli changed out of her pajamas before taking her there.
• Liu Yao remembered meeting Jing Liuli as a child and hoped her singing could resolve the Frostsound Family’s longstanding divide.
• Tiandao watched the Star Orbit Train approach Seaside Concert Hall and felt uneasy anticipation for the person aboard it.

Tiandao reunited with Jing Liuli and Liu Yao after worrying about Caroline’s impending arrival and his role in changing her life. Liu Yao hinted that Tiandao’s adulthood made certain things possible, leaving him alarmed and Jing Liuli curious.

• Tiandao admitted he felt guilty about interfering with Caroline’s life, then decided he would accept a scolding from her when they reunited.
• Jing Liuli accused Tiandao of meeting another woman after pretending to smell perfume on his sleeve, but Tiandao denied it.
• Jing Liuli asked Liu Yao to make Tiandao reveal where he had gone, but Liu Yao said people were entitled to keep secrets.
• Tiandao told Jing Liuli that he and Liu Yao had met before, and Liu Yao realized he had seen through the glass that concealed them from stellar-energy detection.
• Liu Yao asked whether Tiandao was an adult and hinted that adulthood made certain things convenient, startling Tiandao and intriguing Jing Liuli.

Tiandao and Liu Yao discussed how Jing Liuli’s New Year’s concert would help her achieve Perfect Awakening by weaving the dreams of a hundred thousand people into a Dreamy Star Sea. The chapter left Tiandao responsible for protecting Liuli and the Star Dream Stone while powerful Calamity-class beings withdrew from the area.

• Liu Yao teased Jing Liuli about adult restrictions before explaining the importance of her concert to Tiandao.
• Tiandao explained that the Star Dream Stone could collect dream energy and that Liuli needed the good dreams of a hundred thousand people for Perfect Awakening.
• Tiandao pointed out that weaving so many dreams could create Liuli’s own Calamity Domain and bring her close to Calamity-class.
• Tiandao warned that varied dreams and any Calamity-class Dream Power could threaten the process, so Liu Yao said he would need to protect Liuli and the Star Dream Stone.
• Jing Liuli trusted Tiandao to keep the concert safe, and he confidently agreed while joking that he could not save her from singing off-key.

Six days before the New Year's Concert, Tiandao realized that Jing Liuli’s joyful singing lacked the pain that had shaped her original style. He told her that her dreams sounded too distant for most people to reach, leaving her to reconsider how she could connect with the audience.

• Jing Liuli rehearsed in the Aurora Aria concert hall and insisted to Tiandao that she never sang off-key.
• Tiandao noticed Jing Liuli’s nerves and considered whether her happiness had changed the quality of her singing.
• Jing Liuli sang as Pale Purple Dream Butterflies danced around her, but Tiandao frowned at the performance.
• After the song, Tiandao told Jing Liuli that her singing was too empty and her dreams too distant to resonate with most people.

Tiandao showed Jing Liuli the painful future she had avoided and helped her understand how reality could give her singing emotional resonance. They then headed to the Deep Blue Metropolis, where Caroline was already traveling by ship.

• Tiandao told Jing Liuli that her singing lacked emotional resonance and asked her to experience his dream.
• Jing Liuli used Star Source: Daydream to witness a future without Tiandao, where she endured the deaths of people at the base and suffered lasting fear and nightmares.
• After the dream ended, Jing Liuli told Tiandao she understood what he meant by reality, and he invited her to visit the Deep Blue Metropolis.
• Jing Liuli eagerly took Tiandao by the wrist and ran off with him toward the Deep Blue Metropolis.
• Caroline, aboard a ship bound for the Crimson Mist Capital, messaged Jing Liuli that she had left the Star Orbit Train and looked toward the Deep Blue Metropolis.

Tiandao took Jing Liuli through the Old Street District to show her the reality of ordinary people’s lives, inspiring her to sing with more genuine feeling. After her song resonated with the crowd, they fled when some girls suspected her identity and ended the evening heading for more street food.

• Tiandao brought Jing Liuli to the Old Street District and showed her the everyday joys and hardships of its visitors.
• Jing Liuli realized her earlier songs felt distant from ordinary life, borrowed a busker’s guitar, and sang a grounded song that moved Tiandao and drew applause.
• Some girls thought Jing Liuli looked like the famous singer, so she grabbed Tiandao and ran before they could approach.
• Tiandao revealed he could have hidden them with Myriad Concealment and teased Jing Liuli, then told her that her casual performance had more soul than her concert singing.
• Jing Liuli forgave Tiandao and eagerly followed him to a takoyaki stall, where she shouted at him while he used Myriad Concealment to block her sonic attack.

Caroline returned to Deep Blue Capital and entered the Sunken Ship Grand Restaurant, where Tiandao had brought Jing Liuli to the same table he had chosen for Caroline’s birthday six years earlier. The chapter ended with Caroline seeing Tiandao and Jing Liuli sharing a close, cheerful moment, and her expression changing.

• Caroline disembarked in Deep Blue Capital and decided to look around during the ship’s one-day stop.
• Tiandao brought Jing Liuli to the Sunken Ship Grand Restaurant, where he frightened a White Dolphin and Jing Liuli ordered the restaurant’s signature dishes.
• The Dimensional Audience recognized that Tiandao had chosen the same table where he had celebrated Caroline’s birthday six years earlier and suspected he was arranging a meeting.
• Caroline entered the restaurant without a reservation and followed a waiter toward the dolphin-themed dining area.
• Caroline saw Tiandao and Jing Liuli sitting close together by the window, and her fingers tightened around her suitcase as her expression changed.

Caroline met Tiandao and Jing Liuli at a restaurant in the Deep Blue Capital and pretended not to recognize Tiandao, despite remembering him. As the three sat down to eat, Jing Liuli realized Tiandao had planned the encounter and suspected she had been drawn into their private drama.

• Caroline got off her cruise ship at the Deep Blue Capital and entered the restaurant where Tiandao and Jing Liuli were dining.
• Caroline greeted Jing Liuli but acted as if Tiandao were a stranger, while Tiandao recognized that she was deliberately teasing him.
• Caroline told Tiandao not to speak to her familiarly and sat beside Jing Liuli, leaving him to play along with her act.
• Caroline recalled the memories sealed inside her and remained angry at Tiandao for what he had done.
• Jing Liuli realized Tiandao had known Caroline would appear and wondered whether he had used her as part of his plan.

Tiandao recalled Caroline’s childhood as he answered her question about what she had been like before, turning his teasing into a personal reassurance that he had always noticed her. Caroline tried to keep up her act of having amnesia and make him feel the cost of abandoning her, but his compliment left her flustered.

• Jing Liuli broke the tense silence at dinner and prompted Tiandao and Caroline to introduce themselves.
• Tiandao introduced himself as Caroline’s former companion, while Caroline hid her feelings and asked what she had been like in the past.
• Tiandao described Caroline as a solitary child who spent her days absorbed in data and code, leaving Jing Liuli bewildered by Caroline’s pleased reaction.
• Tiandao told Caroline she had looked better when she seriously analyzed things than when she focused on cold data.
• Caroline blushed and pretended to concentrate on her fish steak as her emotions overwhelmed her.

Tiandao, Caroline, and Jing Liuli shared a meal that turned into a playful confrontation, with Caroline pretending to have amnesia while warning Tiandao about his sweet talk. Caroline’s reaction to a familiar White Dolphin suggested she remembered more of their past than she admitted.

• Caroline challenged Tiandao for sounding practiced at flattering girls, and Jing Liuli backed her up by teasing him about Xingxing and his supposed lies.
• Tiandao told Caroline that his sweet words to others were just polite small talk and that he only spoke his true feelings to people he cared about.
• A White Dolphin swam up to the water barrier, and Caroline and Jing Liuli both warned Tiandao not to scare it.
• Caroline claimed she remembered only fragmented details, but Tiandao suspected she recalled their visit six years earlier.
• Tiandao made a face at the White Dolphin and scared it away, prompting Caroline and Jing Liuli to scold him.

Chen Kong, Liu Ma, Vivian, and Isabelle left their hotel for the Crimson Mist Capital Fireworks Festival, while Liu Ma explained how the Calamity-class Star Beast Mimic Obelisk had made the event safe during Red Mist Season. An unknown figure quietly followed them toward the beach.

• Chen Kong emerged from the bathroom in a Tactical Suit and slicked-back hair, and Liu Ma, Vivian, and Isabelle teased him for making them wait.
• Vivian stopped Chen Kong and Liu Ma from arguing so the four could leave before the Fireworks Festival crowd filled the beach.
• Liu Ma told Chen Kong that Star Beasts once spread from the Sea of Crimson Mist during Red Mist Season until the Star Envoy Association created the Calamity-class Star Beast Mimic Obelisk.
• Chen Kong, Liu Ma, Vivian, and Isabelle left the hotel and headed toward the beach beneath the red-misted sky, confident the obelisk and the Association would keep them safe.
• An unknown figure quietly followed the four after they left the hotel.

Chen Kong and his companions were trapped in a freezing Subspace by Shuang Mo Bing, a Rank 3 Upper Star Envoy of the Frostsound Family. Meanwhile, Tiandao revealed that he had deliberately let the Starfrost Faction’s scheme unfold so he could exploit their confidence and expose their flaws.

• Chen Kong and his companions noticed the streets near Crimson Mist Capital’s Fireworks Festival had grown deserted and bitterly cold, and Isabelle identified the area as Subspace.
• Shuang Mo Bing emerged, identified the group, and attacked them with icy thornbushes; they narrowly escaped and recognized his Rank 3 Upper strength.
• At Jellyfish Amusement Park, Tiandao asked Liuli how to breach a fortress, prompting Caroline to infer that he had allowed the Starfrost Faction to target Chen Kong’s group as part of a plan.
• Tiandao explained that hunters let their prey enter a trap so they would lower their guard, while Liuli, confused and feeling left out, stomped toward a shooting stall for them to follow.

Jing Liuli sulked while Tiandao and Caroline talked, then won a Dolphin Doll at the shooting stall, only for Tiandao to snatch it and provoke a chase. Caroline broke up their squabble and returned the prize to Liuli, then watched them bicker as she sat down with ice cream and her Book.

• Jing Liuli missed her shots and angrily fired at balloons while watching Tiandao and Caroline whisper together.
• Caroline offered to comfort Liuli, but Tiandao stopped her and said he would wait until Liuli won a prize before taking it.
• Jing Liuli hit the biggest target and won a Dolphin Doll, but Tiandao grabbed it before she could claim it.
• Tiandao gave the doll to Caroline and ran, so Jing Liuli chased him with her Dream Pillow.
• Caroline caught Tiandao and Liuli, returned the doll to Liuli, then sat on a bench with ice cream and her Book while they resumed bickering.

Tiandao confronted two Starfrost Faction members who tried to buy his protection of Jing Liuli with a Calamity Source, then vanished with them into a blizzard. Caroline and Jing Liuli waited calmly for him to return, unaware that he had kept the pursuers around to create a contrast with the Protagonist Group.

• Jing Liuli failed to catch Tiandao and complained to Caroline, who stopped their bickering and led her toward the Observation Deck before the fireworks.
• Tiandao stayed behind, revealed that two Starfrost Faction members had been following them, and asked why they had come.
• The tall Starfrost member offered Tiandao a Calamity Source in exchange for abandoning Jing Liuli, but Tiandao refused.
• The two men froze the area and pulled Tiandao into a blizzard, leaving the street empty when it cleared.
• Jing Liuli asked Caroline how long Tiandao would take to return, and Caroline said he would be back before the fireworks began.
• Tiandao had deliberately let the two men follow him so he could later create a comparison with the Protagonist Group.

Tiandao faced Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang inside their Frostsnow Storm Fusion Domain, where his Myriad Repulsion rendered the domain’s deadly ice and wind harmless. He shattered the battlefield with a single step, sending many Ice Sculpture Warriors into a bottomless rift while the two Star Envoys remained hidden.

• Tiandao stood unharmed in the Frostsnow Storm Fusion Domain and identified how Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang had combined their Star Sources and a Subspace item to create it.
• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang claimed that Tiandao’s limited Star Energy Value was his weakness, and Tiandao acknowledged the limitation but doubted they could exploit it.
• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang summoned ice spikes and a horde of Ice Sculpture Warriors, then vanished into the mist to wear Tiandao down and seek a chance to ambush him.
• Tiandao advanced through the domain as his force field stopped the ice in midair, then challenged the hidden Star Envoys to keep hiding.
• Tiandao took one step that split the snowfield open, and many approaching Ice Sculpture Warriors fell into the rift.

Tiandao endured the brothers Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang’s endless ice sculptures, found their hidden storage room, and shattered its concealment. Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang then summoned the Ice Queen, leaving Tiandao facing their enormous new weapon.

• Tiandao used his physical strength to destroy the ice sculpture warriors while Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang remained hidden and replenished them with snow.
• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang watched Tiandao through the Ice Queen’s Crystal Ball and continued their plan to draw out his hidden abilities.
• Tiandao sensed the brothers’ location, vanished through the snow, and used Black Azure to shatter the space hiding their storage room.
• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang emerged from the storage room and unleashed the Special Star Energy Technique Ice Queen, summoning a colossal ice statue from the ground.

Tiandao faced the Frost God Phantom, an existence near Calamity-class, and survived her freezing attack by adapting to the extreme cold. After demonstrating his Tian Dao Cells and Supreme Will, he prepared to counterattack before the Amusement Park’s Fireworks Display.

• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang summoned the Frost God Phantom within the Frostsnow Storm domain and presented her as their trump card.
• Tiandao provoked the Ice Queen, who blew a freezing wind that encased him in ice.
• Tiandao shattered the ice covering him and emerged unharmed, while Doctor Dragon’s narration explained his adaptable Tian Dao Cells and Supreme Will.
• Tiandao revealed that he had adapted to the minus-fifty-degree environment in three minutes and announced that his turn had begun.

Tiandao used Purgatory Rashomon to answer Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang’s Frost God’s Spear: Myriad Calamities, turning their attack into a dramatic display of power. Elsewhere, Danika sensed Tiandao was facing trouble, while Chen Xing asked if she could contact him; the scene then returned to Tiandao as his clash continued.

• Tiandao planned to use his confrontation with Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang to build his popularity by contrasting his strength with Chen Kong and the others’ helplessness.
• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang summoned Frost God’s Spear: Myriad Calamities, sending hundreds of ice spears toward Tiandao.
• Tiandao revealed a star-patterned cube and unleashed Perfect Technique—Purgatory Rashomon, filling the battlefield with a vision of corpses and blood.
• At an unknown building in Crimson Mist Capital, Danika sensed that Tiandao had encountered trouble and told Chen Xing that the Words around him were laughing at his enemy.
• Chen Xing asked Danika to send Tiandao a message offering help, but Danika explained that he rarely replied and she did not want to trouble him.

Tiandao used Purgatory Rashomon and invisible rule-infused slashes to sever the anchors connecting Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang to the Ice Queen, forcing the brothers to flee. He then returned to the Amusement Park Observation Deck to join Jing Liuli and Caroline for the fireworks, while planning to use the brothers to make the Protagonist Group look weak and boost his popularity.

• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang realized Tiandao had created a domain-like technique despite being a Rank 2 Star Envoy.
• Tiandao's invisible slashes destroyed the Ice Queen's ice spears and injured the brothers by severing their Star Energy anchors.
• Shuang Yuan and Shuang Hang teleported away as the icy space collapsed, leaving Tiandao alone in the Amusement Park.
• Tiandao headed to the fireworks, saying he had spared the brothers because he did not want to miss the display he had promised Caroline.
• Tiandao explained that he intended to let the brothers overpower the Protagonist Group so his own strength and popularity would stand out.
• At the Observation Deck, Tiandao reunited with Jing Liuli and Caroline and bickered with Jing Liuli over her cotton candy.