Chapter Summaries

Theresa caused trouble in the Astral Express group chat by revealing Dan Heng’s identity and inviting the Stellaron Hunters, while Dan Heng and Ruan Mei encountered Xueyi near the Ambrosial Arbor. Xueyi recruited them to help with her investigation, but her search of the Ten Lords Bureau’s records failed to identify Dan Heng.

• Joyful Aha invited the Stellaron Hunters Family into the Astral Express chat and revealed Dan Heng’s identity, prompting Blade to threaten him.
• Theresa invited Joyful Aha to watch her planned stunt near the Ambrosial Arbor and told Dan Heng to pass a message to a dangerous man.
• The Ambrosial Arbor’s roots wrapped around the Forge of Creation again after Theresa left.
• Sushang admired the flower sea as Dan Heng and Ruan Mei noticed the Arbor’s renewed growth and the roots around the Forge of Creation.
• Xueyi ordered Dan Heng, Ruan Mei, and Sushang to help her reach a starskiff dock so she could investigate the Arbor’s growth.
• Xueyi searched the Ten Lords Bureau’s records for Dan Heng but found no match and concluded she had mistaken him for someone else.

Dan Heng and his companions traveled with Xueyi through the Artificer Department, fighting off enemies and learning about her work in the Ten Lords Bureau. They reached Master Gongshu, who insisted he would defend the department himself, adding another person to their growing group.

• Dan Heng told Ruan Mei to relay a teasing message from Theresa to Welt, warning him to emphasize that Theresa had sent it if Welt reacted strangely.
• Xueyi led Dan Heng, Ruan Mei, and Sushang toward the skiff dock while they fought mechanical constructs and the Abominations Legion.
• Xueyi explained that she handled the lifespans of Eternals and escorted people afflicted by mara to the Ten Lords Bureau for judgment.
• The group passed through an illusionary realm and found Master Gongshu in the Artificer Department, where he declared that he would turn the tide himself.

Sushang and the others escorted Master Gongshu through the dangerous Artificer Department, but he chose to stay behind and protect his workplace. They fought their way past a giant aurumaton and reached the exit, where they found Awei crying because he feared leaving would prevent him from graduating.

• Sushang persuaded Master Gongshu to leave the Forge of Creation with the group, and he carried the Diviner Beast as they made their way toward the exit.
• Master Gongshu stopped near the entrance and insisted on returning to the Artificer Department, saying he would not abandon his duties or set a bad example for his students.
• Sushang, Dan Heng, and Xueyi fought a giant aurumaton blocking the exit while Ruan Mei supported them, and they eventually defeated it.
• Xueyi told Sushang that she reminded her of her younger sister, leaving Sushang feeling guilty without understanding the reason.
• The group found Awei weeping at the entrance because he feared he would not graduate if he evacuated, then continued toward the dock.

After parting ways with Xueyi, Dan Heng and Sushang took Ruan Mei to the Divination Department, where the Stellaron Hunters reunited with Tingyun. Tingyun guided them past the aftermath of a Cloud Knights battle, while Qingque left to buy sugar for Fu Xuan.

• Xueyi thanked Dan Heng and the others, then piloted a starskiff back to the Ten Lords Bureau.
• Sushang took Dan Heng and Ruan Mei to the Divination Department by starskiff.
• Qingque delivered the Stellaron Hunters to the Divination Department, then left to buy sugar for Fu Xuan before returning to her.
• Tingyun greeted the Stellaron Hunters and offered to guide them around the Divination Department, noting that Rin was there.
• Tingyun led the group past the bodies of Cloud Knights and Abominations Legion creatures, and Welt inferred that Fu Xuan had dispatched the Cloud Knights based on her divinations.

Theresa’s grief over the fallen Cloud Knights awakened and expanded the embryonic Sea of Paths within her, while the group searched the Divination Commission for survivors. They discovered a Medicine Master's Legacy physician commanding the monsters, and Theresa pursued her as the physician tried to escape.

• Theresa prayed for the dead Cloud Knights, and the growing Sea of Paths eased the suffering of those near death before they passed away peacefully.
• Welt, March 7th, Stelle, Himeko, and Theresa debated whether the Diviners had won and searched the battlefield for clues, while Welt quietly watched Tingyun.
• The group found a wounded Cloud Knight and a Fox Person physician, who mocked them and was identified as a member of the Medicine Master's Legacy.
• The Cloud Knight warned them before collapsing, then transformed into an Abominations Legion monster as the physician used her power to revive nearby monsters.
• Theresa transformed Judas into the Chainsaw Greatsword, unfurled her Dragon Wings, and flew after the fleeing physician.

Theresa awakened the Insignia of Wisdom and destroyed the Medicine Master's Legacy member and her Abominations Legion. After the battle, Tingyun remained terrified of Theresa and began to doubt her own plans.

• Theresa earned the Insignia of Wisdom, whose Wheel of Causality reflected enemy attacks back at them.
• Theresa charged through the Abominations Legion and killed the Medicine Master's Legacy member after she transformed into a Dew-Gathering Celestial.
• Theresa annihilated the remaining monsters with Immortal Flame and Immortal Lightning, then burned the Dew-Gathering Celestial's remains to ash.
• Theresa returned to the others, and March 7th warned her that her excitement made her eyes glow red.
• Tingyun claimed she had trembled because the monsters nearly reached her, while privately fearing Theresa and reconsidering her plan.

The group encountered a badly wounded Cloud Knight and helped her recover, while Tingyun warned them that the Medicine Master's Legacy had likely infiltrated the Xianzhou. After the Cloud Knight departed for her garrison, Tingyun spoke wistfully about the short lives of Foxians.

• Welt reassured Tingyun that the group would keep her safe, and Tingyun warned that the Medicine Master's Legacy had infiltrated the Divination Department and possibly other Xianzhou departments.
• The group found a severely wounded female Cloud Knight, and March 7th treated her while Theresa gave her an Expert Healing Potion.
• The Cloud Knight rapidly recovered, thanked the group, and headed toward the garrison ahead.
• Tingyun explained that the Xianzhou people's Power of Abundance helped them heal quickly and said that Foxians' lifespans were short by comparison.
• Theresa teased Tingyun about wanting to stop being a fox, and Tingyun replied that she envied the long-lived Xianzhou people and Vidyadhara Dragon Clan.

Theresa and the others entered the Divination Department as Tingyun, secretly possessed by Phantylia, pursued the Ambrosial Arbor. After hearing signs of trouble and Tingyun’s unusual interest in Abundance-related matters, Theresa warned the others to be cautious; the chapter ended with them teasing her about being a glutton.

• The Cloud Knights recognized Theresa and her companions, let them into the Divination Department, and explained that Fu Xuan had gone to investigate the Medicine Master's Legacy.
• Welt proposed questioning the Cloud Knights about the crisis, while Theresa planned to find Lingbao and Bailu; Tingyun departed on her own.
• Theresa, Himeko, March 7th, and Stelle split from Welt and heard Cloud Knights discussing the growing chaos and injured soldiers.
• Theresa pointed out Tingyun’s suspicious interest in the Medicine Master's Legacy and the Ambrosial Arbor, and Stelle recalled Tingyun asking whether Abundance Xuanlu’s fruit could be eaten.
• Theresa denied being a glutton and explained that she ate substances useful to her, then pinched Himeko’s cheeks after Himeko teased her.

Theresa and the others questioned a captured member of the Medicine Master's Legacy about the Stellar Core and the revived Ambrosial Arbor. His answers revealed the Legacy's beliefs and its role in turning Cloud Knights into Mara-struck Soldiers, and the chapter ended with a Cloud Knight kicking him down.

• Theresa led Stelle and March 7th toward the giant Ambrosial Arbor, where they noticed Cloud Knights guarding a captured healer.
• Theresa introduced the group as Stellaron Hunters commissioned by General Jing Yuan and Diviner Fu, and the Cloud Knights agreed to let them question the prisoner while recording his testimony.
• The healer said he had seen the Stellar Core, heard a voice in his head, and believed it could help restore the Ambrosial Arbor.
• The healer praised the Medicine Master of Abundance and claimed the Ambrosial Arbor had granted power to the Legacy's beasts and would restore an ancient age of prosperity.
• Theresa asked whether the Legacy had harmed Cloud Knights, and the healer defended making Mara-struck Soldiers as a gift of a second life.
• An enraged Cloud Knight kicked the healer down before he could finish his claim that he could offer the others power.

After the healer promoted Medicine Master's Legacy, Theresa reassured March 7th and Stelle that she had no interest in becoming Mara-struck and explained that she wanted to devour the Ambrosial Arbor. The group continued toward the Divination Department’s dragon tree, while the Cloud Knights beat the healer and took him away for treatment.

• The healer admitted he had tried to spark interest in Medicine Master's Legacy, then claimed that short-lived species could not survive its transformation without the Abundance's blessing.
• Theresa led March 7th and Stelle away, and the Cloud Knights beat the healer until their captain ordered them to leave him alive.
• March 7th and Stelle worried that the healer had influenced Theresa, who explained that she was interested in the Ambrosial Arbor because devouring it might strengthen her.
• Theresa described her perfectly controlled power and comprehensive physical evolution, dismissing the Mara-struck condition as an inferior transformation.
• Stelle and March 7th praised Theresa's strength and recalled how she had helped the Stellaron Hunters avoid trouble on their trailblazing journeys.

Tingyun explained the Xianzhou’s Unpardonable Ten Evils to Theresa, March 7th, and Stelle, describing how the Medicine Master’s Legacy had committed nearly all of them. She secretly arranged for Celenova to send an Antimatter Legion battalion to the Luofu and planned to stall until it arrived.

• Stelle spotted Tingyun beneath the Dragon Tree, and Theresa, March 7th, and Stelle went to speak with her.
• Theresa told Tingyun they had learned about the Medicine Master’s Legacy from a detained physician, and Tingyun criticized the group’s pursuit of immortality.
• Tingyun recalled that Celenova had refused to fight alongside Phantylia but had dispatched an Antimatter Legion battalion to the Luofu, so Phantylia planned to stall for time.
• At Stelle’s request, Tingyun listed the Unpardonable Ten Evils and explained that the Medicine Master’s Legacy had committed nearly all of them.
• March 7th, Theresa, and Stelle agreed that the Medicine Master’s Legacy had made itself an enemy of the Xianzhou Alliance.

Theresa and her companions searched the Divination Commission for Bailu and Rin, then questioned the Vidyadhara merchant Leng Leng about the Dragon Maiden and her people. Theresa revealed that she was a Vidyadhara Dragon Venerate, leaving Leng Leng overwhelmed and ready to answer her questions.

• Theresa, March 7th, and Stelle discovered that Bailu and Rin were missing beneath the dragon tree and stopped at Leng Leng's medicine stall.
• Theresa bought Leng Leng's medicines and asked where Bailu was, making the merchant wary of her intentions.
• Theresa explained that Bailu had taken their doctor Rin to study medicine, and Leng Leng said she could not reveal the Dragon Maiden's whereabouts.
• Leng Leng explained that Bailu was a Dragon Venerate who inherited the Dragon Venerate's power and differed from ordinary Vidyadhara.
• Theresa manifested rainbow-colored dragon horns and revealed that she was also a Vidyadhara Dragon Venerate, leaving Leng Leng trembling with excitement.

Theresa and her companions learned from the Vidyadhara merchant Leng Leng that Bailu had taken Rin to another realm to practice medicine, but Leng Leng did not know where they had gone. Welt rejoined the group, and Theresa told him she had claimed to be a Vidyadhara Dragon Sovereign.

• Leng Leng excitedly recognized Theresa as a Dragon Sovereign and hugged her, prompting a Cloud Knight to warn them against public displays of affection.
• Theresa told Leng Leng that she had returned to the Xianzhou with her friends, and Leng Leng eagerly agreed to answer her questions.
• Leng Leng identified Rin as Bailu’s disciple and said the two had gone to another realm to practice medicine, though she did not know which one.
• Theresa told March 7th and Stelle that their search for Rin and Bailu had reached a dead end, and Stelle spotted Welt returning.
• Theresa introduced Welt to Leng Leng and explained that she had claimed Dragon Sovereign status because she could manifest dragon horns and a tail.

Welt and the others learned that the Medicine Master's Legacy had spread across several locations on the Luofu, while Leng Leng feared that outsiders would target the Vidyadhara for their marrow. As Theresa promised to protect her, Leng Leng began explaining the Vidyadhara Clan's origins, revealing that they came from an ocean planet rather than the Xianzhou Alliance.

• Welt told March 7th, Stelle, and Leng Leng that the Medicine Master's Legacy had appeared in several places and could draw on the Ambrosial Arbor and Yaoshi's power.
• Welt suspected that Jing Yuan was waiting for the Legacy's leaders to reveal themselves and exchanged a wary glance with Tingyun.
• Leng Leng said rumors about Vidyadhara marrow had made her fear that factions would capture her and extract it, especially since the Luofu's lockdown kept her from returning to Fuhu Xianzhou.
• Theresa comforted Leng Leng and promised to protect the Vidyadhara Clan, then asked why outsiders believed Vidyadhara marrow could make them immortal.
• Leng Leng explained that the Vidyadhara were descendants of the Immortal but had originally come from an ocean planet, not the Xianzhou Alliance.

Leng Leng explained the Vidyadhara Clan’s origins and how it joined the Xianzhou Alliance, then pleaded with Theresa to help restore order on the Luofu. Theresa agreed to help without accepting the title of Dragon Lord, and her Immortal Power grew as an unknown dragon-horned young man sent power into the Path of Immortality.

• Leng Leng told March 7th and the others that the Vidyadhara once lived in a vast Sea of Fluids, where their ancestors used Immortal Power to alter sea life, until the waters became too dangerous to inhabit.
• Leng Leng explained that the Vidyadhara ancestors negotiated with the Xianzhou Alliance for a vessel, and that Dragon Lord Yubie later moved the Ancient Sea of Plenty and sealed Jianmu’s Profound Root beneath it.
• Leng Leng knelt before Theresa and begged her to save the Vidyadhara Clan and restore order on the Luofu, while Welt, March 7th, and Stelle left the choice to Theresa.
• Theresa decided to help the Vidyadhara but refused to become their Dragon Lord, saying she would not abandon the Express Crew or give up her search for home.
• Theresa’s Sea of Paths expanded and her Immortal Power grew as a dragon-horned young man in a neighboring universe sent Colored Flame into the Path of Immortality.
• Welt, March 7th, and Stelle affirmed that they would support Theresa, and Leng Leng and the Cloud Knights responded with gratitude and relief.

Theresa gave Leng Leng a Vidyadhara bracelet that awakened her hidden power, then explained her plan to devour the Ambrosial Arbor and remove its danger from the Luofu. At the Divination Department’s exit, a Cloud Knight began describing the Cloud Knights’ operation against the Medicine Master's Legacy but faltered before revealing what went wrong.

• Theresa gave Leng Leng a bracelet containing Immortal Power, which awakened her strength and briefly changed her eyes into dragon eyes.
• Theresa and the Stellaron Hunters left Leng Leng, and Welt and the others advised Theresa not to take responsibility for solving all the Vidyadhara Clan’s problems.
• Theresa said she planned to refine and devour the Ambrosial Arbor to grow stronger and prevent further danger to the Xianzhou.
• March 7th pointed out a Cloud Knight guarding the Divination Department’s exit, and Stelle asked him why so many Cloud Knights were injured inside.
• The Cloud Knight said the Cloud Knights had captured the area under the Diviner’s orders and initially defeated the Medicine Master's Legacy, but he became angry before explaining what happened next.

A Cloud Knight recounted how the Medicine Master's Legacy had provoked his squad into becoming Mara-struck, and Fu Xuan arrived to explain the danger of his uncontrolled emotions. After saying she had uncovered the enemy’s scheme, Fu Xuan was playfully grabbed and embraced by Theresa, leaving the Cloud Knights embarrassed and unsure how to intervene.

• A Cloud Knight described how the Medicine Master's Legacy had driven his squadmates to attack one another and become Mara-struck Soldiers.
• Fu Xuan warned the enraged Cloud Knight that he was unfit to fight and ordered other Cloud Knights to take him away to rest.
• Fu Xuan explained to the Stellaron Hunters that Xianzhou people had to keep their emotions stable to avoid becoming Mara-struck.
• Theresa teased Fu Xuan about her apology, grabbed her, and held her until Fu Xuan struggled free.
• Fu Xuan scolded Theresa and the watching Cloud Knights, who admitted they had not known whether to intervene.

Fu Xuan recruited Theresa and the others as a surprise force against the Medicine Master's Legacy and explained how a pink mask could protect the Cloud Knights by sharing damage. She left Fu Xuan weighing the mask's benefits against its mysterious side effect.

• Fu Xuan said Jing Yuan wanted the Stellaron Hunters to act as a surprise force against the Medicine Master's Legacy rather than join the Cloud Knights' frontal assault.
• Theresa joked about tugging Fu Xuan's skirt ribbon, and March 7th stopped Stelle from trying it.
• Fu Xuan showed Theresa a pink mask Qingque had submitted, and Theresa claimed it could use the Grand Void Astral Compass to distribute damage across allied forces.
• Tingyun secretly considered destroying the mask but concealed her Destruction power and held back.
• Theresa warned that the mask would last only an hour and leave Fu Xuan unable to fight afterward, so Fu Xuan asked what the side effect was.

Fu Xuan accepted Theresa’s Wisdom Mask, which could extend a protective formation around the Cloud Knights, and led the group toward the Purple Cloud Mansion. She explained that they would need to extinguish the alchemy furnaces to advance through the deadly mist, while keeping the furnaces intact.

• Theresa explained that Fu Xuan’s mask could extend the Grand Void Astral Compass’s protection across a wide area, and Fu Xuan agreed to use it for the Cloud Knights.
• Fu Xuan led the group out of the Divination Department and described how the old alchemists’ experiments with the Ambrosial Arbor had produced strange beasts and dangerous practices.
• The group reached the smoking furnaces beside the Ancient Sea, where Fu Xuan explained that the mist had earned the area the name Purple Cloud Mansion.
• Theresa embraced Fu Xuan as she offered to disperse the smoke, but Fu Xuan insisted that the furnaces were precious and must not be destroyed.
• Fu Xuan revealed that the Medicine Master’s Legacy had tainted the furnace smoke with pills that could trigger Mara, making it too dangerous for Cloud Knights to cross.
• Welt confirmed that Fu Xuan planned to draw the enemy away with the main Cloud Knight forces, then bring their group to extinguish the furnaces.

Fu Xuan asked Theresa and the others to raid the Medicine Master's Legacy after extinguishing its alchemy furnaces, explaining that the demonic fog would not affect them. The group agreed to help, and after they confirmed Theresa would not become Mara-struck, she asked Fu Xuan to explain what Mara-struck Soldiers were.

• Fu Xuan explained that the Medicine Master's Legacy had prepared its demonic fog to target the Cloud Knights and would not expect the Astral Express crew and Theresa to interfere.
• Welt recognized that Fu Xuan meant them by Jing Yuan's surprise force, and Fu Xuan acknowledged that the Stellaron Hunters' prophecies were coming true.
• Theresa, Stelle, Welt, and the others agreed to extinguish the alchemy furnaces, and Fu Xuan promised to bring the Cloud Knights in once the fog cleared.
• March 7th worried that the fog might harm Theresa because she was an Immortality Envoy, but Theresa assured everyone that she could not become Mara-struck.
• Theresa asked Fu Xuan to explain what a Mara-struck Soldier was.