Recaps

Chen Xing remembered how Tiandao Siming had shown her kindness during the early days after the Beast Tide, and how his later distance drove her to compete with him. In the Ember Organization's training room, she told Tiandao she would no longer look up to him, while Caroline began to regard Chen Xing as a rival.

• After the Beast Tide, Chen Xing struggled to protect Chen Kong and scavenged alone for supplies in a ruined supermarket.
• Tiandao Siming gave Chen Xing food and warned her about mutated beasts, and she cried before learning his name.
• Chen Xing returned to the supermarket hoping to see Tiandao again, but they did not meet until the Ember Organization brought her and Chen Kong to its base.
• When Tiandao treated her like a stranger, Chen Xing kept competing with him so he would see her as more than someone dispensable.
• During training, Chen Xing told Tiandao she had once looked up to him but would not keep doing so, and Caroline began to see her as a serious rival.

Chen Xing challenged Tiandao to a three-minute fight, but his Vector Control and predictive eyes countered her attacks, and she failed to push him from his one-meter circle. Afterward, she left in silence, while Tiandao remained confused about why she was angry.

• Tiandao mistook Chen Xing's resentment for frustration over losing the Stellar Apex position, but Chen Xing and Caroline called him an idiot without explaining why.
• Chen Xing drew the Demonic Blade Blood Flame and attacked Tiandao, showing how well she had adapted her Red Lotus Karmic Fire Star Source.
• Tiandao deflected Chen Xing's attacks with Vector Control and predicted her moves with the Stellar Eclipse Heavenly Eye.
• Chen Xing failed to force Tiandao from his one-meter circle before Caroline ended the three-minute match.
• Chen Xing left without responding to Tiandao, and Caroline told him she thought he was a block of wood.
• Tiandao asked Chen Kong what the women meant, then called him a block of wood and headed to the cafeteria.

After the Final Assessment, the fifth episode showed Chen Kong recovering in a Healing Pod while the Ember Organization gathered to discuss Tiandao’s future. Tiandao chose Vector Control and began absorbing its Star Source, as Chen Kong remained under treatment three days after the assessment.

• Chen Kong remained unconscious in a Healing Pod, and the doctor said he would recover in a few days.
• Yun Meng entered a conference room where Tiandao sat among the Starborn, then smacked him for his casual posture.
• Doctor presented Tiandao with The Visionary and Vector Control, and Tiandao chose Vector Control.
• Tiandao absorbed Vector Control’s Star Source, and the story returned to Chen Kong on the third day after the Final Assessment.

Chen Kong visited the Ember Organization’s training base and saw Jing Liuli’s Star Source, Daydream, before Chen Xing led him toward Tiandao after a tremor shook the base. The fifth episode ended with viewers learning that Tiandao had gained a major enhancement, leaving them eager to see his power in the next episode.

• Chen Kong went to the training base and encountered Jing Liuli, whose Star Source was Daydream.
• Chen Xing demanded Jing Liuli’s Sweet Dream Candy, but Chen Kong paid her debt with a week of his own desserts.
• A violent tremor shook the base, and Jing Liuli said Tiandao was probably researching his Star Source.
• Chen Xing explained that Tiandao’s strength came from himself, then took Chen Kong to see him.
• The episode ended with viewers anticipating Tiandao’s enhanced power and noting that Jing Liuli had spent another episode lazing around.

Episode six showed Tiandao’s overwhelming strength and Chen Xing challenging him to a match before revealing her childhood in a flashback. Tiandao realized that the episode contained a new plot he had never seen in the original novel.

• Tiandao tested Black Azure, reached a Star Energy reading of 1900, and casually brushed aside Chen Xing’s Red Lotus Karmic Fire when she visited him with Chen Kong.
• Chen Xing challenged Tiandao to fight again, and he proposed that she try to force him out of a one-meter circle within three minutes.
• Before the match, Chen Xing told Chen Kong that the gap between her and Tiandao was vast and despairing.
• The episode shifted to Chen Xing’s childhood, showing her happy birthday transformed into the ruins where she and Chen Kong lived after disaster struck.
• Young Chen Xing told Chen Kong to stay put, then ventured alone into the dangerous city ruins to find food.
• Watching the episode, Tiandao realized that Chen Xing’s flashback and its events had never appeared in the original novel.

Tiandao realized the production team had added a childhood encounter with Chen Xing to his backstory, then used his Popularity Points to obtain Star Binding Myriad Forms for his cultivation plan. The item arrived at his dorm as a silver-white fluid and transformed into a black blindfold at his touch.

• Tiandao watched a flashback of his childhood meeting with Chen Xing and realized the production team had filled in his blank memories with new character settings.
• Tiandao understood that the added flashbacks could accompany future talents granted through his Exclusive Character Story Background Modification Permission.
• Tiandao spent 150,000 Popularity Points to obtain Star Binding Myriad Forms, an item meant to speed up his cultivation.
• An Ember Organization member delivered the item in a metal case, saying Doctor had sent it to help Tiandao cultivate Star Energy.
• Tiandao opened the case and touched the silver-white fluid, which transformed into a black blindfold.

Three months later, Tiandao trained at Ember Base and joined Doctor’s meeting with Caroline, Yun Meng, Chen Xing, and Chen Kong. Doctor announced that the Starborn would leave the base for an outbound mission, and Tiandao realized it would lead into Ember’s coming destruction while planning a birthday surprise for Caroline.

• Tiandao completed an eighteen-hour training session under five times gravity, while an Ember member secretly worried about his growing strength and the Association’s plans.
• Doctor gathered Tiandao and the others, and Yun Meng stole Tiandao’s premium dried fruit before Doctor began the meeting.
• Doctor announced that the Starborn’s training was ending and they would go outside the base to experience the real world.
• Tiandao recognized the outbound mission as the lead-in to the great battle that would destroy Ember, though he expected the mission itself to be a simulated exercise.
• Tiandao remembered that Caroline’s birthday would fall during the mission and decided to choose a special gift for her.

Tiandao and Caroline arrived in Deep Blue Metropolis, where Tiandao’s new Advance Playback feature revealed a livestream audience and a way to spend Popularity Points on exclusive camera time. After Tiandao teased Caroline with a deliberately unflattering selfie, they raced off together while viewers speculated about their relationship and feared future tragedy.

• Tiandao admired Deep Blue Metropolis through the port passageway as Caroline tugged at him, worried about drawing attention.
• Tiandao dismissed the locals’ mockery and showed Caroline the Deep Blue Pearl, easing her travel nerves.
• Tiandao’s system activated Advance Playback, adding real-time comments and an Exclusive Camera option that cost 10,000 Popularity Points per minute.
• Tiandao noticed the audience comments and took a carefully angled selfie that made him look handsome and Caroline look bewildered.
• Caroline scolded and hit Tiandao for the prank, then chased him as they hurried to catch up with Yun Meng and the others.
• Viewers joked about Tiandao and Caroline’s chemistry while worrying that the story might later separate them or turn tragic.

Tiandao and his companions began a bodyguard mission in Deep Blue Metropolis, where a sudden fog separated the group. The Coral Knight challenged Tiandao to prove his ability, and Tiandao declared that she was the challenger.

• Yun Meng led Tiandao, Caroline, and the others from the harbor toward the parking lot for their mission protecting Isabelle, daughter of Dorian, the richest man in Deep Blue Metropolis.
• Tiandao recalled that Dorian’s apparent protection mission was tied to a staged effort to purge traitors from the Skysea Group, and anticipated the first crisis of the arc.
• A strange fog engulfed the parking lot and separated Caroline and the Chen siblings from their companions, while Tiandao later emerged from the fog beside Yun Meng and the Coral Knight.
• The Coral Knight asked Yun Meng for permission to test Tiandao’s ability to protect Isabelle, and Yun Meng agreed.
• Tiandao slicked back his hair, released an oppressive aura, and told the Coral Knight, “You’re the challenger.”

Tiandao fought the Coral Knight in a test at the academy and dominated their first exchange, prompting the Coral Knight to stop holding back. The Coral Knight awakened the poison trait of his Star Source and prepared to fight seriously.

• The Coral Knight challenged Tiandao and attacked with coral spikes, but Tiandao raised concrete slabs and vanished before they could hit him.
• Tiandao appeared above the Coral Knight and kicked his shield hard enough to drive him back several steps.
• Yun Meng teased the Coral Knight for holding back, and he lifted his shield one-handed and drew a Cross-hook Harpoon.
• The Coral Knight's Star Energy rose to 2,100 points as his coral spikes turned purple with poison.
• Tiandao showed interest as the audience learned that Star Envoys advanced in rank through awakenings of their Star Source.

Tiandao faced Coral Knight in a serious battle, using Vector Control to catch and return his attacks. The exchange ended with Coral Knight badly injured but protected by Coral Armor, while Tiandao landed at a distance and the fight paused.

• Tiandao invited Coral Knight to attack after warming up, and Coral Knight transformed his weapons into a Fist Gauntlet and Spear Gauntlet.
• Coral Knight charged Tiandao with Deep Blue Flow: Fang Thrust, but Tiandao caught the punch and stopped its venomous spikes just short of his skin.
• Tiandao crushed Coral Knight’s Fist Gauntlet, used Vector Control to hurl him into the air, and struck his chest with an elbow.
• Coral Knight hit the ground in a crater and coughed up blood, then formed Coral Armor to block Tiandao’s descending leg strike.
• Tiandao landed ten meters away as the battle paused and the stunned viewers fell briefly silent.

Tiandao overwhelmed the Coral Knight, revealing that his Vector Control could penetrate armor at close range and that his Black Azure could strike from a distance. The Coral Knight admitted defeat and realized Tiandao had spared his life.

• Yun Meng and the Coral Knight were shocked when Tiandao suppressed the Rank 2 fighter with his attacks.
• The Coral Knight deduced that Tiandao's Vector Control reached only nine millimeters, and Tiandao confirmed it.
• The Coral Knight thickened his armor and extended his spear to counter Tiandao at a distance, but Tiandao formed and launched Black Azure.
• Black Azure pierced the Coral Knight's Deep Blue Flow Armor and badly injured him, leaving him unable to fight.
• The Coral Knight surrendered, removed his helmet, and asked whether Tiandao had deliberately struck an old injury.
• Tiandao gave no direct answer, and the Coral Knight acknowledged that Tiandao had spared his life.

After crushing the Coral Knight, Tiandao revealed that he had spent two years preparing for the battle and recruited Yun Meng and the Coral Knight to stage a fake tragedy for Chen Kong and his companions. He also intended the performance to condition Caroline and the dimensional audience to mistake the real tragedy at the end of Season 1 for another act, leaving them with deeper despair when Tiandao could not recover.

• The audience watched Tiandao defeat the Coral Knight decisively, unaware that Tiandao had spent two years preparing for the fight using information from the original story.
• Tiandao proposed an Artificial Desperate Situation Plan to Yun Meng and the Coral Knight, persuading the reluctant Coral Knight to join them.
• Tiandao and Yun Meng staged convincing scenes of severe injuries using fake blood, torn clothing, coral fluid, and Coral Spikes while Chen Kong and the others fought in the mist.
• The dimensional audience realized Tiandao was faking a defeat to spur Chen Kong and his companions, and they eagerly anticipated their reaction.
• Tiandao revealed that the staged tragedy was also meant to make Caroline and the audience dismiss the real tragedy at the end of Season 1 as another fake, intensifying their eventual despair.

Caroline investigated Crab Exotic Beast corpses in the harbor parking lot and identified signs of a parasitic coral controlling them, suggesting multiple Star Envoy enemies were behind the ambush. She reunited with Chen Kong, who had escaped the fog using the Mark of the Void, but the Crab Exotic Beasts sensed him again and charged.

• Caroline scanned the Crab Exotic Beast corpses and found that they had been kept alive by neural-parasitic Purple Coral.
• Caroline analyzed the coral and concluded that the enemies likely included an Ocean type Star Envoy and several others, possibly with one Rank 2 Star Envoy among them.
• Caroline nearly struck Chen Kong when he approached, then stopped her attack after recognizing him and asked where Tiandao was.
• Chen Kong explained that the fog had separated him from everyone and that the Mark of the Void had helped him evade the Crab Exotic Beasts and escape the fog.
• The Crab Exotic Beasts sensed Chen Kong after he dismissed the Mark of the Void, and Caroline told him to move aside as they approached.

Caroline and Chen Kong fought their way through the fog and found Chen Xing, then discovered Tiandao apparently lying in a pool of blood outside the parking lot. Believing Tiandao might be dead, Caroline unleashed her power and attacked the Coral Knight, while the secretly watching Tiandao panicked about how he would explain the staged crisis to her.

• Chen Kong retreated while Caroline killed three Crab Exotic Beasts with her controllable Data Throwing Knives and detected and killed a hidden Mother-Child Crab.
• Caroline made Chen Kong use his Mark of the Void to clear the fog as they searched for Tiandao, and they found Chen Xing in the parking lot.
• The three reached the parking lot's edge and saw Tiandao lying in a pool of blood, leaving Chen Kong terrified and Chen Xing tense.
• Caroline erupted with rage, activated Power Overload, and attacked the Coral Knight, who blocked her knives before Chen Xing joined the fight.
• The Coral Knight took the battle more seriously against Caroline and Chen Xing, while Tiandao secretly watched and worried that Caroline would punish him when she learned the crisis was staged.

Caroline and Chen Xing were overwhelmed by the Coral Knight, but Chen Kong seized his chance to ambush him with three special bullets. The Coral Knight survived with only a cheek wound and unexpectedly praised Chen Kong, asking where the bullets came from.

• Caroline unleashed her hidden strength, but she and Chen Xing fell behind once the Coral Knight fought seriously.
• As Caroline was knocked down and Chen Xing was bound by the Coral Knight, Chen Kong decided to attack from hiding.
• Chen Kong fired three special bullets that disrupted the Coral Knight’s shield, cracked his helmet, and cut his cheek.
• The Coral Knight released the unconscious Chen Xing and approached Chen Kong, who shut his eyes expecting to be hurt.
• Instead, the Coral Knight praised Chen Kong for injuring him and asked where he had obtained the special bullets, leaving Chen Kong speechless.

On the way to their new base, Chen Kong explained how Doctor had developed bullets that temporarily carried the Mark of the Void, though they had strict limits. The group arrived at Dorian’s villa district and received exchange-student identities and uniforms so they could enter Trillan Junior High.

• Tiandao changed the subject after Caroline released his ear, and Chen Kong explained that his blood could briefly preserve the Mark of the Void in specially made bullets.
• Chen Kong described the bullets’ restrictions: they lasted at most ten minutes, worked only within ten meters, and required rare casings.
• Tiandao realized the Dimensional Audience had guessed that Chen Kong would eventually seek to erase Star Energy, and he reaffirmed that he would oppose that plan.
• Coral Knight Wolf brought the group to a villa in Dorian’s villa district and said Dorian would explain his circumstances that evening.
• Coral Knight Wolf gave the group exchange-student identities and school uniforms so they could enter Trillan Junior High.

Tiandao and Caroline arrived at Trillan Junior High as exchange students, where Tiandao noticed the teaching building was powered by hidden Star Energy. Ignoring Caroline’s warning to keep a low profile, he headed for the cafeteria, intending to find Chen Kong and intervene in his bullying.

• Caroline repeatedly warned Tiandao to behave discreetly during their protection mission in Deep Blue Metropolis, but Tiandao assured her he would not cause trouble.
• Tiandao reflected that Dorian’s conflict over Tears of Deep Blue mining rights stemmed from a struggle between factions of the Frostsound Family.
• Tiandao and Caroline arrived at Trillan Junior High, and Tiandao joked that its shell-shaped teaching building might contain valuable pearls.
• Tiandao saw Star Energy flowing through channels in the teaching building but could not locate its hidden source.
• Tiandao learned that Chen Kong had already faced regional discrimination from classmates and decided to find him after visiting the cafeteria.
• Tiandao ignored the usual registration process and strode across campus in his conspicuous uniform and sunglasses, determined not to keep a low profile.

Chen Kong was pressured by Dekola and his classmates into paying for drinks, while Tiandao arrived at the cafeteria and found him being mocked. Tiandao recognized Dekola’s hostility as an opportunity to confront his regional prejudice and gain popularity.

• Dekola and his classmates mocked Chen Kong for refusing to buy drinks, after already making him run errands and pay for their lunches.
• Dekola learned Chen Kong was at Trillan Junior High because of his grades, then dropped his polite act and joined his lackeys in belittling him.
• Tiandao asked a stunned female student where the cafeteria was, and she hurried off afterward to tell her friends about him.
• Tiandao entered the cafeteria, greeted Chen Kong, and noticed Dekola sizing him up with suspicion.
• Tiandao decided to use Dekola’s hostility to reclaim the Dimensional Audience’s grievances and gain popularity by challenging his regional bigotry.

Tiandao humiliated Dekola with an exploding bottle of Blue Mountain City, then Isabelle intervened and sent Dekola away. Tiandao tasked Chen Kong with befriending Isabelle and left him to deliver the drinks, while Chen Kong wondered whether being a simp was really not an insult.

• Tiandao used Yun Meng's bank card to have Chen Kong buy drinks and handed Dekola a bottle that burst, soaking him in soda.
• Tiandao admitted he had made the bottle explode on purpose, and Dekola prepared to retaliate.
• Isabelle arrived, ordered Dekola back to his dormitory, and threatened him with school discipline if he refused.
• After Isabelle left, Tiandao teased Chen Kong about admiring her and told him to become her friend and protect her.
• Tiandao left Chen Kong to carry the drinks to class and say he was treating everyone, and Chen Kong questioned Tiandao's remark about being a simp.

Tiandao settled into his exchange-student role while Chen Kong’s efforts to help him brought him closer to Isabelle. The chapter ended with Tiandao learning that Dark Star Envoys planned to kidnap Isabelle during a group retreat, while Caroline remained skeptical that he had behaved himself.

• Tiandao believed his added scene had preserved Season 1’s main storyline after Chen Kong became smitten with Isabelle.
• Chen Kong brought drinks to Class 1 and awkwardly explained that Tiandao had bought them, leaving his classmates suspicious and silent.
• Isabelle eased the tension by organizing the students to hand out the drinks, then asked Chen Kong about Tiandao and promised to help the exchange students fit in.
• Chen Kong described Tiandao as a kind model student, and Isabelle thanked him before returning to her seat, while Chen Kong happily savored that she had used his name.
• Caroline told Tiandao that Dark Star Envoys planned to kidnap Isabelle during the group retreat, and Tiandao agreed to follow Instructor Yun Meng’s plan to wait and prepare.
• Caroline asked whether Tiandao had caused trouble, and after he denied it, she said she would believe him for now.

Tiandao drew the attention of his new classmates and encouraged Chen Kong to be more confident, while secretly watching the anime in class. Meanwhile, Dekola reported that Chen Kong was a Rank 1 Star Envoy, and his father ordered him to provoke the transfer students so the Star Envoy Association would have grounds to act against them.

• After class, more than a dozen girls surrounded Tiandao with questions, and he pulled Chen Kong into the conversation to help answer them.
• The girls questioned Chen Kong about Tiandao, and their attention made Chen Kong feel noticed and cared for.
• Tiandao told Chen Kong to be more confident, then joked that his looks explained his popularity; Chen Kong said Tiandao was bad at comforting people.
• When class resumed, Tiandao secretly watched Stellaris Prequel: Embers on the Dimensional Screen.
• Dekola called his father and reported that his Star Energy Sensor had detected more than 100 points of Star Energy in Chen Kong, identifying him as a Rank 1 Star Envoy.
• Dekola's father told him to keep provoking the transfer students until they used their Star Source in public, giving the Star Envoy Association a reason to act.

Bordian gathered four Dark Star Envoys to discuss Tiandao Siming and the other transfer students, while Molten Mountain eagerly set out to confront Tiandao. Bordian intended to use Molten Mountain’s attack to discover what Star Envoys Dorian could deploy, leaving the conflict poised to escalate.

• Molten Mountain arrived late at Bordian’s meeting and dismissed Tiandao and the other young Star Envoys as easy targets.
• When Bordian’s bodyguard threatened him, Molten Mountain melted the man’s wrist and burned him to death, forcing Bordian to order the other guards to stand down.
• Bordian showed Molten Mountain information about twelve-year-old Tiandao Siming, whose Star Energy Value exceeded eight hundred, and warned that Tiandao’s group likely had powerful backing.
• Excited by the prospect of fighting a young genius, Molten Mountain left to confront Tiandao and declined to take Lina with him.
• Lina questioned Bordian’s decision to let Molten Mountain act, and Bordian explained that he wanted to see what Star Envoys Dorian would reveal in response.

Chen Kong left the villa to buy dinner ingredients and snacks, unaware that Molten Mountain and Claude had set a trap for him. The chapter ended as Molten Mountain emerged from Claude’s iron coffin at the supermarket and greeted Chen Kong.

• Chen Xing sent Chen Kong to the supermarket for beef, while Tiandao asked him to buy snacks and Chen Xing chased Tiandao around the villa.
• Chen Kong reflected on how much he wished their peaceful life together could last, then headed toward the pedestrian street.
• Molten Mountain and Claude watched Chen Kong leave, and Molten Mountain entered Claude’s Silent Coffin to pursue him.
• Claude waited on a rooftop as the coffin transported Molten Mountain to the supermarket entrance.
• Chen Kong sensed a terrifying aura at the supermarket, and Molten Mountain emerged from the iron coffin and greeted him.

Chen Kong fought Molten Mountain in a supermarket, risking his life to protect the people trapped inside. Just as he fired his Special Black Gun at Molten Mountain, the story shifted to Tiandao rushing to a supermarket after leaving Xing at home.

• Molten Mountain attacked Chen Kong with lava, but Chen Kong used Mark of the Void to protect the cashier and other shoppers.
• Molten Mountain targeted the people inside the supermarket, then unleashed a barrage of lava that set the store ablaze.
• Chen Kong shielded a little girl from falling debris and sent her toward the crowded fire exit.
• Chen Kong admitted he was afraid but stayed because the others would have nowhere to run, then aimed his Special Black Gun at Molten Mountain.
• Tiandao left Xing at the villa and raced toward the nearest supermarket.