Recaps

Feng Jingshi and the veterans failed to report Jiang Fan’s Boneyard merit, while the Grand Marshal issued Jiang Fan a rear logistics appointment. Jiang Fan accepted the post and its freedom to act, as his colleagues privately looked down on him.

• Feng Jingshi and the veterans tried to report the great expert’s identity at the Command Center, but the guards refused to let them see Garrison Commander Shen.
• The guards told Feng Jingshi that Jiang Fan’s duty evaluation had already been submitted to the Heavenly Palace at the Grand Marshal’s urging.
• Feng Jingshi and the veterans returned dispirited, while Jiang Fan told them not to worry and decided a rear post would let him travel to battlefields more freely.
• The Grand Marshal appointed Jiang Fan as a One-Star Colonel responsible for allocating logistics resources in the Star Domain Frontier Army.
• Jiang Fan spent his days cultivating in his office while colleagues privately mocked his Red Talisman status and treated him with distance.

Jiang Fan used his logistics post to learn about a Star Beast Tide at the Blazing Furnace and secretly helped stabilize its defenses. After returning home, he found that his blood energy had reached 265 million.

• Jiang Fan signed an emergency military-supplies allocation for the Blazing Furnace while his subordinate mocked him as a nepotism hire.
• Jiang Fan learned of the Star Beast Tide through logistics dispatches, left Section Chief Shang in charge of approvals, and went to the Blazing Furnace.
• The Blazing Furnace's invasion subsided within two days, while the Grand Marshal and several garrison commanders discussed the mysterious expert repeatedly assisting the Frontier Army.
• The Grand Marshal rejected the idea that the expert was a Deep Space Cultivator, and the commanders began discussing adjustments to the First Energy Barrier's defensive deployment.
• Jiang Fan returned to his residence, tested his blood energy, and saw that it had reached 265 million.

Over six months in the Star Domain Frontier, Jiang Fan raised his blood-energy value to 403 million and broke through to the second realm of the Primordial Meditation Technique, greatly expanding his spiritual perception. The chapter ended when a powerful, sinister fluctuation erupted near the Jade Bug Nest, alarming Jiang Fan.

• Jiang Fan calculated that hunting Star Beasts had contributed roughly half of his recent blood-energy growth, but he still could not freely cross the First Energy Barrier.
• Over the next six months, Jiang Fan fought in eleven Star Beast Tides and raised his blood-energy value to 403 million, barely reaching the threshold of Level 15 advanced.
• While cultivating in deep space, Jiang Fan broke through to the second realm of the Primordial Meditation Technique and learned to transform freely within his Spiritual Domain.
• Jiang Fan discovered that his spiritual perception range had expanded from a little over ten light-ranges to one hundred light-ranges.
• An alarm sounded as a powerful, sinister fluctuation erupted to the left of the Heavenly Palace, in the direction of the Jade Bug Nest, and Jiang Fan turned to investigate.

Jiang Fan realized that the Jade Bug Nest’s long silence concealed an unusual Star Beast Tide controlled by a mysterious Spiritual Power. He left the Logistics Department to investigate, while his colleagues prepared supplies and questioned his habit of leaving whenever a crisis erupted.

• Jiang Fan recognized that the Jade Bug Nest’s prolonged calm likely meant a major Star Beast Tide was building and sensed a mysterious Spiritual Power behind it.
• Jiang Fan told Xiao Liu to let Section Chief Shang use his authority and to approve frontline supply requests without hesitation during wartime.
• Jiang Fan left to investigate, prompting his coworkers to gossip that he was avoiding danger whenever a Star Beast Tide occurred.
• A bald middle-aged officer ordered the Logistics Department staff to prepare supplies immediately in case the incoming Tide caused shortages.

Chi Ling and the arriving reinforcements struggled to hold back the Bug Race as its Bug Nest produced seemingly endless troops. Jiang Fan realized he could disrupt the Overlord’s control with his mental domain, and his mental fluctuation made the Bug Race lose direction.

• Chi Ling held the collapsing First Energy Barrier while her forces suffered heavy losses and awaited reinforcements.
• Duan Zhuo and the other commanders arrived, but they found the Bug Race’s endless waves were still overwhelming the allied army.
• Chi Ling urged the commanders to destroy the Bug Nest and kill the Bug Race Overlord, though they doubted they could reach it or defeat it.
• Jiang Fan concluded that the Overlord’s control of the Bug Race could be disrupted by expanding his Mental Projection across the battlefield.
• Jiang Fan released a mental fluctuation that caused nearby Bug Race to stagger and lose their sense of direction.

Jiang Fan used Myriad Manifestations to conjure a vast flock of real Fei Niao that overwhelmed the bugs and helped the human army advance. He led the charge to the Bug Nest and used his Gravity Field to break through its force field.

• Jiang Fan's Fei Niao attacked the bug swarm, while Shen Liao rallied the human soldiers to exploit the opening and push toward the Bug Nest.
• Jiang Fan concentrated the birds into a narrow, tornado-like formation and transformed into a Golden Giant Eagle to lead the advance.
• Chi Ling and the others followed the eagle as Jiang Fan carved through the bugs with Spatial Blades and deflected their corrosive attacks.
• Jiang Fan reached the Bug Nest, struck its Biological Force Field, and found that his initial impact could not damage it.
• Jiang Fan focused his gravitational energy into the eagle's beak and hammered the Bug Nest until its force field shattered and a rift opened.

Jiang Fan entered the Bug Nest and confronted the Bug Race Overlord, discovering its true body was weaker than its feared reputation suggested. He exploited the Overlord’s rage to sever its connections and destroy its body, then prepared a Mental Blade to finish it off.

• Jiang Fan transformed back into his true form, entered the rift, and reached the Bug Nest’s inner chamber, while Chi Ling and the others mistakenly believed he had been devoured.
• Jiang Fan identified the Overlord’s central lump of flesh as its true body and resisted its spiritual communication and attacks.
• Jiang Fan froze the Overlord’s tentacles with Space Solidification and burned away its purple spiritual energy with his golden radiance.
• Jiang Fan provoked the Overlord into pulling its consciousness links to the outside Bug Race back into its body.
• Jiang Fan sealed the Overlord’s core with Space Power, sliced it apart, crushed its flesh and Bug Eggs with gravity, and burned the remains.
• As the Overlord screamed and threatened Jiang Fan, he formed an unrivaled Mental Blade inside the sealed space.

Jiang Fan annihilated the Bug Race Overlord, causing the Bug Race army to collapse across the Jade Battlefield. After absorbing some of the Overlord’s energy, he surpassed 500 million blood and qi and reached Level 16, then revealed himself to the stunned soldiers as Jiang Fan.

• Jiang Fan destroyed the Bug Race Overlord’s final consciousness, leaving the Bug Nest withered and lifeless.
• The Bug Race army lost consciousness and collapsed, and Chi Ling, Shen Liao, Duan Zhuo, and the other soldiers thanked the senior they believed had saved them.
• Inside the Bug Nest, Jiang Fan absorbed the Overlord’s Life Essence and spiritual consciousness until his blood and qi exceeded 500 million.
• Jiang Fan cut off the excess energy, released it in a burst of light, and confirmed that he had reached Level 16.
• The soldiers saw the surviving senior emerge from the light and recognized him as Jiang Fan.

The Star Domain Frontier Army realized that the mysterious senior who had repeatedly protected them was Jiang Fan, the Red Talisman Holder who had suppressed the Bug Nest and killed the Bug Race Overlord. After the soldiers and commanders bowed to thank him, Jiang Fan called Chi Ling “Senior Sister,” leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Shen Liao explained that the powerful senior was Jiang Fan, and the officers connected his identity to his past actions in the Star Domain Frontier.
• The soldiers spread the news that Jiang Fan was the Red Talisman Holder, while veterans celebrated that they had known and shared drinks with him.
• Jiang Fan waved to Lao Feng and the other veterans after finishing his display of power.
• Chi Ling and the Garrison Commanders led the soldiers in bowing to thank Jiang Fan for eradicating the Bug Race calamity.
• Jiang Fan helped Chi Ling rise and called her “Senior Sister,” shocking everyone on the battlefield.

After Jiang Fan called Chi Ling his Senior Sister, the Frontier Army learned that they were disciples of the same master, a Pillar of the Star Domain. Jiang Fan helped Chi Ling preserve her standing, then she organized the cleanup and repairs before the Grand Marshal summoned Jiang Fan to the Heavenly Palace.

• Jiang Fan called Chi Ling his Senior Sister and revealed their shared connection to their master, changing the soldiers’ understanding of his origins.
• Jiang Fan took responsibility for their delayed reunion and praised Chi Ling’s service, easing her guilt and protecting her prestige in the army.
• Jiang Fan urged Chi Ling to clear the surviving Bug Race and repair the damaged Energy Barrier, and she issued orders to the commanders and defenders.
• The Grand Marshal invited Jiang Fan to the Heavenly Palace, and Jiang Fan left Chi Ling to oversee the battlefield.
• Jiang Fan appeared in the Heavenly Palace’s core area, where a Staff Officer recognized him and the busy command center briefly fell silent.

After killing the Bug Race Overlord, Jiang Fan returned to Heaven's Palace and received the gratitude of its officers, the Logistics Department, and the Grand Marshal. The Grand Marshal apologized for misjudging him and began to explain why he had not fought on the frontline.

• Officers and clerks in Heaven's Palace recognized Jiang Fan as the Red Talisman Holder who had killed the Bug Race Overlord and thanked him for saving the Frontier Army and Qiyuan Star Domain.
• Xiao Liu, Section Chief Shang, and their colleagues praised Jiang Fan's leadership of the Logistics Department, and Jiang Fan thanked them for their work supporting the front line.
• The Logistics Department staff promised to follow Jiang Fan's lead after he treated them warmly and left to meet the Grand Marshal.
• The Grand Marshal thanked Jiang Fan for defeating the Bug Race Overlord, apologized for having treated him harshly, and praised his strength and character.
• Jiang Fan asked why the Grand Marshal had not fought the Star Beasts, and the Grand Marshal replied that he had a reason for not acting.

The Grand Marshal explained that an old injury and an unknown threat in the Deep Space kept him from fighting at full strength, then told Jiang Fan about legends of Deep Space Cultivators. He recognized Jiang Fan’s service at the Jade Bug Nest and offered him a new appointment, asking where he wanted to go.

• The Grand Marshal revealed that a Star Beast Commander had wounded him with Corrosive Power more than ten years earlier, leaving him unable to safely use his full strength.
• The Grand Marshal said he had sensed an unknown will in the Deep Space and stayed at the Command Center to preserve his strength in case it threatened the Qiyuan Star Domain.
• The Grand Marshal told Jiang Fan about legendary Deep Space Cultivators who wandered the Sea of Stars, though he had never confirmed that they existed.
• The Grand Marshal praised Jiang Fan’s service and character, offered him a new appointment, and asked where he wanted to go.

Jiang Fan accepted appointment as Star Domain Frontier Defense Director-General while the Grand Marshal departed for Deep Space to investigate its threats and seek a cure for his old injuries. After a week in the role, Jiang Fan told Chi Ling that the Grand Marshal was gone, and she was surprised to learn he had left without informing the Garrison Commanders.

• The Grand Marshal offered Jiang Fan command of the Star Domain Frontier Army so he could leave for Deep Space, and Jiang Fan accepted.
• Heavenly Palace approved Jiang Fan's appointment as Defense Director-General and promoted him to Three-Star Star General, drawing support from the frontier army.
• Over the next half month, Chi Ling completed the Jade Bug Nest's defenses, and she later congratulated Jiang Fan and asked how his new position felt.
• Jiang Fan told Chi Ling that the role brought him more mental pressure because he had to worry about every Garrison Area.
• Jiang Fan said the Grand Marshal was no longer there, and Chi Ling reacted with surprise and asked what had happened to him.

Jiang Fan learned that the Grand Marshal had secretly gone into Deep Space and spent three months recovering and strengthening his abilities while worrying about the Marshal’s silence. The chapter ended with the wounded Grand Marshal fleeing an unknown pursuer in Deep Space.

• Jiang Fan told Chi Ling that the Grand Marshal had left for Deep Space to investigate a threat while dealing with his old injuries, and Chi Ling agreed to keep the news from others.
• Chi Ling reassured Jiang Fan that the border-defense system and its officers could handle most matters, though Jiang Fan regretted accepting the Commander position.
• After three quiet months, Jiang Fan recovered from the strain of absorbing the Bug Race Overlord’s Life Energy, raised his vitality to 536 million, and expanded his spiritual perception to 500 light-years.
• Jiang Fan worried that the Grand Marshal had not contacted him for nearly a month and wondered whether something had happened.
• The Grand Marshal fled through a shattered asteroid belt in Deep Space, badly wounded and pursued by an unknown creature.

The Grand Marshal fled a corrosive void entity in Deep Space and sent Jiang Fan a final warning. After receiving it, Jiang Fan decided to enter Deep Space and investigate.

• The Grand Marshal realized the void entity was tied to his erosion and feared that contacting Jiang Fan would put him in danger.
• Jiang Fan spent a year hunting Star Beasts, raising his qi and blood from 536 million to 862 million and reaching High-level Level 16.
• Jiang Fan sensed the Grand Marshal’s intermittent Mental Imprint warning him of a dangerous Dark Domain and Void Erosion Rule.
• Jiang Fan interpreted the message as a possible farewell and resolved to explore Deep Space.

Jiang Fan overcame the frontier guardians’ objections to entering Deep Space by demonstrating his Level 16 strength and abilities to protect the defense line. After arranging affairs at the Star Domain Frontier, he set out to follow the Grand Marshal’s faint Mental Imprint into the cold, lifeless expanse.

• Chi Ling and the other frontier guardians urged Jiang Fan not to leave the Star Domain Frontier while the Grand Marshal’s fate remained unknown.
• Jiang Fan demonstrated that he could manifest himself in multiple locations through Space Power and Mental Projection, and return to the defense line quickly if needed.
• Jiang Fan revealed that he had reached the high rank of Level 16, convincing the guardians to let him go while warning him to return if Deep Space became too dangerous.
• Three days later, Jiang Fan finished arranging the defense line’s affairs and traveled into Boundless Deep Space.
• Jiang Fan continued deeper into space, occasionally sensing the Grand Marshal’s faint Mental Imprint, as a week passed without him finding other life.

Jiang Fan encountered an apparently immortal black phantom in deep space and fought to weaken it, only for a woman to seal its scattered mist in a Jade Pure Bottle. She rebuked him for leaving Tianshu City without the bottle.

• Jiang Fan destroyed a mechanical Star Beast and searched the area for signs of humanity.
• Jiang Fan sensed the Grand Marshal's aura in a malicious phantom and realized it had likely assimilated the Grand Marshal.
• Jiang Fan fought the phantom with repeated attacks, weakening it despite its ability to reassemble and erode his mental defenses.
• The phantom split into strands of Black Mist and rushed toward Jiang Fan.
• A woman appeared, absorbed the mist into a Jade Pure Bottle, and scolded Jiang Fan for leaving Tianshu City without it.

Jiang Fan learned that the woman who helped him was a herb gatherer named Hong Ling, and she gave him her Jade Pure Bottle so he could pass as a gatherer and find his way back to Tianshu City. After Hong Ling vanished with another gatherer, Jiang Fan decided to wait for another team and try to return with them.

• Hong Ling mistook Jiang Fan for a reckless traveler and explained that the creature he had fought was a dangerous Shadow Demon.
• Jiang Fan asked Hong Ling how he could return to Tianshu City, and a summons ordered all herb gatherers to return to their spaceship within fifteen minutes.
• Hong Ling gave Jiang Fan her Jade Pure Bottle and advised him to join another herb-gathering team to avoid being recognized by her ship's steward.
• A young girl told Hong Ling that Xiao Ding had been taken by a Shadow Demon, and Hong Ling left with her using Talisman Tokens.
• Jiang Fan failed to detect where Hong Ling had gone and decided to wait for another Herb Gathering Team so he could travel back toward Tianshu City.

Jiang Fan used Hong Ling’s Jade Pure Bottle to collect Shadow Demons in Deep Space, then discovered that untrained children were sent to gather them. He followed one group back and learned that more than half of the forty gatherers had died, leaving him appalled by the cruel work.

• Jiang Fan collected roughly fifty Shadow Demons over three days, turning them into gray liquid inside the Jade Pure Bottle.
• More than a dozen young herb gatherers arrived in Deep Space, and Jiang Fan realized they were Mortals using external tools to fly.
• When a Shadow Demon broke free of a boy’s bottle and attacked, Jiang Fan pinned it down so the boy could collect it.
• After the gatherers vanished at the end of their three-hour shift, Jiang Fan traced one boy’s anchor to a spaceship where a black-robed Steward counted the survivors.
• Jiang Fan learned that only twenty-two of forty gatherers had returned and condemned the medicine-gathering work as cruel.

Jiang Fan followed a spaceship to Tianshu City, a vast fortress floating in deep space, and entered unnoticed while searching for Hong Ling. Unable to find her, he stopped at a restaurant to wait and learn about the city, but discovered that his usual currency was worthless there.

• Jiang Fan followed the spaceship for seven days until it reached Tianshu City, a massive deep-space fortress.
• At the city entrances, Jiang Fan watched guards inspect travelers and let high-status Cultivators pass with deference.
• Jiang Fan entered the city without using an entrance and searched for Hong Ling with his Spiritual Power, but could not find her.
• Jiang Fan went to the Drunken Star Tower, ordered food, and learned that the city used Silver Notes as currency.
• Jiang Fan offered a Crystal Core from the Qiyuan Star Domain as payment, but the waiter called it worthless and accused him of trying to get a free meal.

Jiang Fan was mistaken for a penniless diner at Drunken Star Tower, but Little Bean paid for his meal with money supplied by a wealthy young woman. After learning Little Bean knew Tianshu City well but recognized Jiang Fan’s Crystal Core as foreign, Jiang Fan offered him Spirit Liquid in exchange for answering questions.

• The waiter accused Jiang Fan of eating without paying and surrounded him with burly men when he tried to leave.
• Little Bean paid for Jiang Fan’s meal with Silver Notes given to him by a wealthy young woman, then sat down to eat with him.
• Little Bean told Jiang Fan that the woman was the daughter of the owner of Rong Cheng Department Store on Phoenix Street.
• Little Bean examined Jiang Fan’s Crystal Core and said that if he did not recognize it, it must not come from Tianshu City.
• Little Bean recognized Jiang Fan’s Spirit Liquid as a valuable cultivation item, and Jiang Fan offered it to him in exchange for answers.

Jiang Fan questioned Little Bean about Tianshu City’s origins and powers, learning that the city was built from the wreckage of the Star Pivot and was controlled by three great families. Little Bean revealed that the families sent impoverished, untrained children into Deep Space as “Bait People,” disguising the dangerous work as Medicine gathering.

• Little Bean told Jiang Fan that Tianshu City had been built from the surviving pieces of the fallen Star Pivot, using materials scavenged from the Deep Space Ruins.
• Little Bean said Tianshu City was supposedly founded by criminals exiled into Deep Space, though he knew few details.
• Little Bean named the Situ, Nangong, and Huangfu families as Tianshu City’s strongest forces, each guarded by a Level 12 Old Ancestor.
• Little Bean explained that Deep Space Medicine gathering required costly ships, Bait People, and powerful Martial Artists to handle emergencies.
• Little Bean told Jiang Fan that Medicine Gatherers were actually untrained children used as Bait People to trap Shadow Demons, with hunger or death awaiting those who failed.

Jiang Fan learned that Little Bean had been killed after someone targeted him for the Spirit Liquid he had received, and the news filled him with rage. He had found no trace of Hong Ling and ended the chapter unleashing a terrifying pressure inside Drunken Star Tower.

• Jiang Fan gave Little Bean a bottle of Spirit Liquid after hearing about the hardships faced by children in Tianshu City.
• Jiang Fan pawned a bottle of ordinary Spirit Liquid, settled into an inn, and spent several days listening to stories and searching for Hong Ling.
• Jiang Fan noticed that Little Bean had disappeared and asked the waiter what had happened to him.
• The waiter told Jiang Fan that Little Bean had been found dead near the abandoned factory and that someone had targeted him after he acquired a Precious Treasure.
• Jiang Fan's teacup cracked as his blood and qi surged, and a terrifying pressure swept through the restaurant.

Jiang Fan discovered that Little Bean had been murdered after receiving Spirit Liquid, then used his Spiritual Domain to identify the suspected killer and locate him. The chapter ended with the black-clad old man threatening He Rongcheng’s family as he demanded to know who had given Little Bean the Spirit Liquid.

• Jiang Fan’s leaked aura terrified everyone at Drunken Star Tower, and the waiter directed him to the factory where Little Bean had lived.
• Jiang Fan found Little Bean’s battered corpse beside the factory and learned from the Little Beggars that a masked man had abducted him to demand the source of the Spirit Liquid.
• Jiang Fan used his Spiritual Domain to see the attacker’s appearance, estimated his strength at around Level 10, and searched all of Tianshu City until he found him.
• At Rong Cheng Department Store, He Rongcheng knelt before the black-clad old man, who threatened his family while demanding to know who had given Little Bean the Spirit Liquid.

He Cai'er was confronted by a Black-Clad Man searching for Little Bean and the person who gave him Spirit Liquid. She realized Little Bean was the boy she had helped at Drunken Star Tower, while her father urged her to explain what she knew.

• The Black-Clad Man accused He Cai'er of knowing Little Bean and threatened the He family if she did not confess.
• He Cai'er remembered helping a little beggar at Drunken Star Tower and wondered whether he was Little Bean.
• The Black-Clad Man pressed He Cai'er to say whether she had met the person who gave Little Bean Spirit Liquid there.
• He Cai'er asked if the little boy was dead, and He Rongcheng urged her to explain her connection to the two people.