Chapter Summaries

Tiandao and Jing Liuli joked together on a hill above Ember Base until hundreds of enormous boulders crashed through the clouds and attacked the island. Tiandao sent Jing Liuli to warn the others, and she sped toward the base as the assault began.

• Tiandao and Jing Liuli teased each other on the hill, and Tiandao stopped her Dream Butterfly King Kong Fist with one finger.
• A sudden barrage of giant boulders tore through the clouds and began striking Ember Base, turning the island into a disaster zone.
• Tiandao pulled Jing Liuli out of the path of a boulder, shattered it with a punch, and told her to warn everyone that uninvited guests had arrived.
• Jing Liuli expanded the Dream Pillow and flew toward Ember Base, dodging the falling rocks and slipping between two boulders.
• Tiandao watched Jing Liuli reach the base safely and reflected that she was one of Stellaris's strongest trainees, with maxed-out Innate Star Energy.

The Association attacked Ember Base with Skyfall as Byron confronted Dragon Cybercross, the Doctor, over the Key. While the two Calamity-class Star Envoys went to fight, Gorn and William refused to help target civilians, and the chapter ended with Tiandao reassuring the Starborn that they and the Doctor would survive.

• Skyfall devastated Ember Base, and Tiandao saw Byron and the Association Star Envoys watching from a floating island above.
• William objected to the attack, while Gorn ignored Isaiah and refused to help lure Star Beasts toward the people below.
• The Doctor emerged on a mechanical dragon and faced Byron, who revealed a Mechanoid Fortress before the two Calamity-class Star Envoys flew away to fight.
• Gorn refused Isaiah's plan to deploy the Star Beast Inducers, and William also rejected the order, declaring that his Knight's Path mattered more than his safety.
• Isaiah led the other Star Envoys to set up the Star Beast Inducers, while Gorn went to sleep in preparation for confronting the Dream Star Envoy.
• Tiandao told Chen Xing and the gathered Starborn that they and the Doctor would survive the crisis because he had seen their tomorrow.

Four Star Monuments landed around Ember Base and triggered Star Core Resonance, causing Starborn to suffer rampage symptoms. Tiandao subdued Sak, sent the more vulnerable Starborn underground, and began explaining the Monuments and Resonance to those who remained.

• Four Star Monuments crashed into the waters around Ember Base and unleashed a resonance that affected the Starborn and stirred the sea.
• Sak entered a Star Core Rampage, transformed into a mantis-like creature, and attacked a fellow Starborn before Tiandao subdued him.
• Jing Liuli used Dream Spirit Powder to put Sak to sleep, and Tiandao ordered his companion to take him to the shielded underground core area.
• Tiandao sent the Starborn ranked below fifth underground, leaving Chen Xing, Jing Liuli, Yagami Rin, and Chen Kong with him.
• Jing Liuli asked about Star Core Resonance, and Tiandao began explaining the Star Monuments and their effects.

Tiandao explained that the Star Monuments’ brainwaves had triggered the Starborn’s unstable beast instincts and summoned a Beast Tide against Ember Base. Yun Meng divided the team to destroy the four Monuments, while she and the Earth Dragon Lizard charged toward the northern one, leaving the others to confront their assigned targets.

• Tiandao explained to Chen Xing that the Star Monuments mimicked Calamity-class Star Beasts and that their brainwaves had caused Sak’s rampage and the Starborn’s abnormal behavior.
• A Beast Tide of Ocean-type Star Beasts surged toward Ember Base after answering the Monuments’ summons, and Jing Liuli trembled as she sensed the creatures’ nightmares.
• Yun Meng and Gang Yan joined Tiandao’s group, and Yun Meng assigned herself the northern Monument, Gang Yan the southern one, Tiandao the eastern one, and Chen Xing’s group the western one.
• Yun Meng rode the Earth Dragon Lizard into the northern Beast Tide, where the beast tore through the enemy ranks and used its Gravity Field to crush the Star Beasts in its path.
• Yun Meng and the Earth Dragon Lizard advanced toward the northern Star Monument.

Tiandao raced to the eastern beach and used his Vector Control and Black Azure techniques to clear a path through the Beast Tide. He killed the Rank 2 Sea Wolf Turtle guarding the Star Monument in exactly thirty seconds, then turned toward the monument as more Star Beasts closed in.

• Yun Meng and Gang Yan left Ember Base to face the Beast Tide, and Tiandao set off east after warning Liuli and Kong to be careful.
• Tiandao crossed the forest and reached the beach by using Vector Reversal to step on a falling leaf and launch himself over the Star Beasts.
• Tiandao killed an attacking Octopus Star Beast with a compressed-energy punch and cut down the surrounding beasts with Black Azure shots.
• Tiandao exploited the Sea Wolf Turtle’s weakness, shattered its shell with a fivefold-compression kick, and killed it with Black Azure.
• After confirming the fight took exactly thirty seconds, Tiandao ignored the approaching Star Beasts and turned toward the scarlet Star Monument.

After the Star Beast Tide ended, Chen Xing grew suspicious that their easy victory had been planned and learned Tian Dao had asked Chen Kong for a pain-immune candy days earlier. Remembering Tian Dao’s troubling dream, Chen Xing and Jing Liuli rushed back to base, fearing he had sacrificed himself from their future.

• Chen Xing, Chen Kong, Jing Liuli, and Yagami Rin defeated the Star Beasts and destroyed the last Star Monument on the island’s western coast.
• Chen Xing told the others to rest for three minutes before returning to base, while she worried that the enemy had allowed their victory to proceed too smoothly.
• Chen Kong revealed that Tian Dao had asked him for a Sweet Dream Candy - Blue several days earlier, claiming he wanted it for training.
• Chen Xing and Jing Liuli realized Tian Dao’s request and his earlier dream might signal a hidden danger.
• Chen Xing and Jing Liuli raced toward the base as Jing Liuli feared Tian Dao had erased himself from their promised future.

Tiandao destroyed the Star Monument and visited Caroline in the Quantum Hub, where he said goodbye before going to confront an intruder. Caroline’s fingers moved as he left, hinting that she was close to waking.

• Tiandao shattered the Star Monument off Ember Isle, stopping it from summoning the Beast Tide.
• Tiandao visited Caroline’s calculation pod and recalled how he had spent each night reporting on base life while she remained in Quantum Space.
• An alarm announced that an unidentified Star Envoy had infiltrated the base and activated its Endless Maze City defense mode.
• Tiandao left his old Dolphin Doll beside Caroline’s and took the Deep Blue Sound necklace she had given him before going to welcome the intruder.
• As Tiandao left the calculation chamber, Caroline faintly moved her fingers inside the pod.

Benjamin led the Star Envoy Association’s raiding party into Ember Base’s underground core area under the banner of justice, while secretly pursuing the Iron Dome Family’s mission. Tiandao activated Ember’s defenses and prepared to turn the intruders’ invasion against them.

• Benjamin killed Gang Yan, then roused the raiding party with a speech about justice and led them through the core area’s blast door.
• Tiandao reviewed the invaders’ identities and ordered Glimmer to remove lethal-weapon restrictions, shut down most non-weapons systems, and maximize the Endless Maze City defenses.
• Tiandao ordered the Star Beast test subjects released after a half-hour countdown.
• The Endless Maze City rearranged its corridors faster, scattering Benjamin’s group across the shifting labyrinth.
• Tiandao left the Quantum Hub Control Room, declaring that the intruders had broken Ember’s rules and would pay with their lives.

Benjamin led six Rank 1 Star Envoys through Ember Base, massacring the guards in the cafeteria before confronting Tiandao in the flooded drainage system. Tiandao killed one envoy, survived Benjamin’s Metal Detonation, and used Vector Reversal to take control of the attackers as they charged him.

• Benjamin killed the cowering Ember Base guard and led the six Rank 1 Star Envoys onward from the cafeteria.
• Benjamin and his group entered the flooded drainage system, where Tiandao waited before the route to the base’s Quantum Hub.
• Tiandao said he would not let the Star Envoys pass and killed a Rank 1 envoy when Benjamin insisted on going through.
• Benjamin identified Tiandao’s Star Source as Vector Control after Tiandao emerged unharmed from a Metal Detonation.
• Tiandao activated Vector Reversal, reversing the falling water and taking control of the Star Envoys’ bodies.

Tiandao killed a second Association Star Envoy and Benjamin revealed that Tiandao’s expanded Vector Control came from his Portable Quantum Hub. Tiandao exposed Benjamin’s plan to kill everyone who knew about Miracle Stone: Void, and Benjamin proved him right by killing a fleeing envoy with a sabotaged Association Emblem.

• Tiandao reversed gravity as the werewolf Star Envoy leapt, slammed him into the ground, and killed him with Black Azure.
• Benjamin identified the Star Energy Magnetic Field in Tiandao’s Portable Quantum Hub as the source of his extended range, then ordered the four surviving envoys to attack.
• The envoys refused to approach Tiandao, and Tiandao told them Benjamin intended to kill them to keep the secret of Miracle Stone: Void from leaking.
• One Branch Star Envoy tried to escape, but his Association Emblem exploded and killed him.
• Tiandao challenged the remaining envoys to explain their belief in justice after Benjamin’s betrayal.

Tiandao revealed the Miracle Stone: Void and fought Benjamin in the underground drainage chamber, using Vector Control: Myriad Repulsion to counter the Mechanical Star Envoy’s attacks. Both escalated their powers and pushed themselves toward their limits, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tiandao revealed that the Miracle Stone: Void was connected to Chen Kong and the Twelve Miracle Stones, while Benjamin killed four Association Star Envoys.
• Tiandao attacked Benjamin over his disregard for human life, but Benjamin’s nano-metal body and Metal Detonation initially suppressed him.
• Tiandao used Vector Control: Myriad Repulsion, which reflected incoming attacks with less Star Energy than Flowing Robes of Azure, and Benjamin identified its visual blind spot.
• Benjamin activated Overclocking, while Tiandao injected Heavenly Eye Beast Serum to awaken his Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye at the cost of his lifespan and sight.
• Tiandao and Benjamin resumed their battle as the drainage chamber flooded, both sustaining severe strain and nearing collapse.

Tiandao defeated Benjamin in Ember Base’s underground drainage space, but the victory left him blind, gravely injured, and unable to protect his sight. As he guarded the Quantum Hub from Association Star Envoys who threatened Caroline’s calculation, Tiandao stood firm and faced a gunshot.

• Tiandao used a Black Azure hidden in his mouth to pierce Benjamin’s chest and kill him, though his Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye went completely dark.
• Tiandao lost his last candy in the water, covered his eyes with his blindfold, and followed Caroline’s pendant back to the Quantum Hub.
• Tiandao reflected that he could accept blindness because others could see the future for him, then rested outside the control room.
• Association Star Envoys arrived to reach the control room and shut down Infinite Maze City, but Tiandao rose to block their way.
• Tiandao challenged the Star Envoys to pass over his corpse and recalled promising Caroline that anyone who bullied her would have to do so.
• A gunshot rang through the corridor.

Wounded after defeating the Association Star Envoys, Tiandao questioned the manipulative script he had written and admitted that his wish to save everyone came from cherishing the home they had become to him. He entered the Quantum Hub control room to carry out his final plan for the happy future he had seen.

• Tiandao killed the last invading Association Star Envoy, then collapsed in the corridor with severe injuries and blindness.
• As he reflected on his script, Tiandao regretted tying Caroline to tragedy and recalled how his companions had become precious to him.
• Tiandao remembered the terrible fates awaiting Yun Meng, Caroline, Chen Xing, and Liuli in the original story and resolved to change them.
• Tiandao recognized that he wanted to become a hero not for popularity but to protect the home he cherished.
• Tiandao ate a pale blue special candy, entered the Quantum Hub control room, and prepared to set off the final fireworks for his planned future.

Tiandao Siming ordered the Starborn to evacuate as the Iron Dome Family invaded Ember Base, while he stayed behind with Caroline to ensure her data assimilation could finish. The Starborn began their transfer with the Doctor’s detailed instructions, and Tiandao remained alone in the base with Caroline as the quantum leap carried them away.

• Tiandao announced that the Doctor had known about the crisis and ordered everyone to reach the Quantum Shuttle Room before the base self-destructed.
• Chen Xing, Chen Kong, Jing Liuli, and Yagami Rin hurried to the Quantum Shuttle Room, and Chen Xing detoured to retrieve an unopened gift box from her dormitory.
• Tiandao activated the Ember No. 1 Shuttle Plan despite himself and Caroline being absent, and the Quantum Shuttle Room began its leap countdown.
• Tiandao told the Starborn he would stay behind because Caroline’s Data Assimilation was not complete, then bid them farewell and wished for their reunion in the New Era.
• The Starborn received detailed transfer destinations and tasks from the Doctor, while Chen Xing realized Tiandao was hiding his weakened condition and tried to call out to him.
• The quantum leap safely transferred the Starborn, leaving Tiandao and Caroline as the only ones remaining in Ember Base.

Tiandao connected himself to the base’s Mechanical Nexus through a dangerous calculation pod, while Caroline remained asleep. When Caroline awakened and found Tiandao lying motionless in a Black Calculation Pod, she feared he was dead, then heard his prerecorded hologram and tearfully smiled at it.

• Tiandao entered a Black Calculation Pod and connected to Glimmer, risking catastrophic damage to his brain because he was not a Mechanical Star Envoy.
• Tiandao left Caroline a message as his consciousness connected to Glimmer, and the Base Quantum Firewall’s collapse was delayed.
• Caroline awoke, saw the Dolphin Dolls Tiandao had left beside her, and searched the base’s surveillance feeds for him.
• Caroline found Tiandao lying in the Black Calculation Pod and could not hear his heartbeat, then discovered that his greeting was a prerecorded holographic projection.
• Caroline tearfully told Tiandao’s hologram that she had smiled.

Tiandao explained to Caroline that he had changed the future he foresaw and chosen to erase himself, prompting her to search for a way to save him. Before she could act, he activated Protocol No. 3, suppressing her primary personality and taking control of her body with her Mechanoid Personality.

• Tiandao told Caroline that after his Star Core Surgery, he had seen fragments of the future and changed events to find a happy ending for everyone.
• Caroline realized Tiandao had erased himself from the future and angrily accused him of making the choice without considering her or asking what she wanted.
• Caroline entered overclocking and searched for a way to keep Tiandao alive, deciding that Mechanoid modification might work.
• Tiandao warned that Mechanoid modification without a Mechanoid Star Source would imprison his soul, then ordered Caroline to activate Protocol No. 3.
• Protocol No. 3 suppressed Caroline's primary personality, and her Mechanoid Personality took control of her body.

Tiandao used Caroline’s Protocol No. 3 to erase his memories from her life and sent her away before triggering Ember Base’s self-destruct sequence. The Dimensional Audience took his final words as a promise he would return, and the base’s destruction marked the end of Season 1’s main story.

• Caroline refused to delete Protocol No. 3, explaining that she trusted Tiandao and saw the program as a bond rather than a shackle.
• A holographic Tiandao activated the protocol, sealed Caroline’s memories of him, and ordered her to replace them with memories from the original work and delete photos of him.
• Tiandao promised Caroline he would find her and apologize once he grasped a chance at a miracle, then sent her to the Quantum Shuttle Room.
• Tiandao declared that he would confront those trying to steal Stellaris’s secrets, and his hologram vanished as Ember Base began its self-destruct countdown.
• The Dimensional Audience celebrated Tiandao’s apparent future return as explosions destroyed Ember Base, while the Stellaris Production Team watched the audience’s relieved reaction.

After Ember Base sank, Doctor assured Yun Meng that Tiandao was safe and explained that Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye meant not only seeing the future but dominating it. The finale ended with Tiandao asleep in a Black Calculation Pod on the ocean floor as Doctor and Yun Meng left the area.

• Gorn found William buried in the ruins of Ember Base and took his stopped Pink Children's Watch, which began ticking after Gorn left.
• Yun Meng worried that Tiandao might not be alright as Ember Base sank, but Doctor said Tiandao was more powerful than she realized.
• Doctor explained that Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye meant the power to see and dominate the future, and said Tiandao had already changed it.
• Doctor absorbed the mechanical dragon into the Perpetual Core and told Yun Meng that his preparations would keep Tiandao safe.
• Doctor flew away to deceive the old fossils, while Yun Meng rode Xiao Jin away from the sinking island.
• A camera revealed Tiandao sleeping inside a Black Calculation Pod on the ocean floor.

After Tiandao Siming ranked first in Season 1 popularity, he used Creator Mode to study the original Season 2 story and devised a plan to claim the Miracle Stone: Law. He then turned to using his exclusive background modification reward to gain the Hyper-computation talent.

• Tiandao Siming received the Season 1 popularity rewards and discovered he was an A-Class Fugitive with a five-million-point popularity loan limit after repaying his debt.
• Tiandao spent 500,000 Popularity Points to purchase all episodes of "Stellaris: Glimmer" and watched them repeatedly.
• Tiandao learned that Chen Kong claimed the Miracle Stone: Law in Season 2 and decided he would take it for safekeeping.
• Tiandao finalized his "Above the Heavens" plan, whose tentative objective was to seize the Miracle Stone: Law.
• Tiandao began using his Exclusive Character Story Background Modification Permission to obtain the intelligent-machine talent Hyper-computation.

Tiandao confirmed his exclusive background modification, gaining the Hyper-computation talent and learning that a bonus chapter about him was in production. He tested how Hyper-computation strengthened his All-Encompassing System, then prepared to enter Season 2’s main story after demonstrating new applications of his abilities.

• Tiandao confirmed his modified character background and received the Hyper-computation talent, while an exclusive bonus chapter about him entered production.
• Tiandao activated Hyper-computation in the Quantum Hub and discovered it accelerated his thoughts, visualized data, and let him process information in parallel.
• Tiandao combined Vector Control with Hyper-computation to use Myriad Concealment, erasing the vectors that would let others see, hear, or feel him.
• Tiandao used Vector Control on his own vital points to unleash an All-Encompassing version of the Eight Gates Formation, but recognized its heavy strain and energy cost.