Recaps

Yu Sheng questioned a dead black-robed monk and learned that the monks had come seeking the Otherworld’s gradually awakening Emperor’s Legacy. The monk’s final words suggested the sealed Otherworld had more than one entrance, while Yu Sheng planned to ask Xuan Che’s master about the legacy.

• Yu Sheng learned that Luna had fought in both the material world and a separate world of souls, and Luna described the two worlds she experienced.
• Yu Sheng questioned the dead black-robed monk, who said the Emperor’s Legacy was gradually awakening and warned that all beneath heaven would perish if it awakened.
• Before crumbling to ash, the monk whispered that the Emperor’s Illusory Dream was not limited to one place.
• Yu Sheng asked Xuan Che about the Emperor’s Legacy, and Xuan Che admitted he had never heard of it.
• Yu Sheng told Xuan Che that the black-robed monks might have entered through another entrance to the Otherworld.

Yu Sheng investigated the black-clad cultivators and tested whether his blood could activate the buried Trap Formation Giant Divine Soldiers, uncovering a mysterious void beyond them. The group left the Otherworld to investigate further.

• Yu Sheng shared his clues about the Emperor's Illusory Dream, and Xuan Che said Tai Xu Star had no legends of an Emperor or a secret realm formed from an ancient powerhouse's legacy.
• Yu Sheng questioned the remaining corpses and learned that most of their souls were too damaged to provide useful information; Xuan Che arranged for the bodies to be examined at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• Yu Sheng and Xuan Che inspected the Trap Formation Giant Divine Soldiers, finding intact mechanical structures inside but no clear way to activate them.
• At Yu Sheng's request, Luna cut his hand, and his blood was absorbed by the giant soldiers without forming a connection to them.
• Yu Sheng sensed that the blood had flowed into a vast, indistinct emptiness, then opened a door back to the mining park and led the group out of the Otherworld.

Yu Sheng and Xuan Che brought a Giant Siege Mech from the Otherworld to Queyun Palace, where True Spirit Yuanling sealed it for containment. The group returned safely, but the mech’s origins and the identities of the black-robed cultivators remained unresolved.

• Yu Sheng decided to bring a Giant Siege Mech marked with the Ten Halls of Crouching Clouds emblem back through the gate to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• Xuan Che asked True Spirit Yuanling to prepare sealing measures and disciples to help move the mech from the desert.
• Yu Sheng widened the gate, and the group transported the twelve-meter-tall mech intact to the grounds outside Queyun Palace.
• Eileen complained that sand had gotten into her joints, while Huli shook sand from her giant fox form and scattered dust over nearby disciples.
• True Spirit Yuanling sealed the mech and arranged for its transfer to the Demon Suppressing Tower.
• True Spirit Yuanling said he would contact the Ten Halls about the mech and reported that the black-robed cultivators’ techniques showed mixed sect, clan, and Correspondence Course influences.

Yu Sheng learned that the black-robed attackers were likely frontier cultivators searching for the Emperor’s Legacy, and True Spirit Yuanling promised to investigate their origins. Back on Cloud Gazing Platform, Yu Sheng found Zheng Zhi enjoying himself and recounting the strange encounters he had during the day.

• Yu Sheng told True Spirit Yuanling that the black-robed men had sought the Emperor’s Legacy, which was connected to the Otherworld on Taiyou.
• True Spirit Yuanling questioned Xuan Che about signs of madness, then explained the dangers frontier cultivators faced and decided to alert the border guards and the other four sects.
• Yu Sheng and his companions returned to Cloud Gazing Platform, where they found Zheng Zhi relaxing with food, wine, and short videos.
• Eileen teased Zheng Zhi for enjoying himself while the others fought, and Zheng Zhi explained that he had connected his tablet to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain’s Wi-Fi.
• Zheng Zhi recounted seeing disciples quarrel over eaten assignments, a spirit-touched sword fall in love with a hammer, a hunted rabbit who bred a cold-resistant mosquito, and an Enlightenment Hall worker secretly fishing.

Yu Sheng granted Zheng Zhi permission to see No. 66 Wutong Road and explained how he could use its routes to return to Boundary City. Back at home, Rapunzel hurried out through the house’s door and immediately rushed back, shocked by what she found outside.

• Yu Sheng learned that Zheng Zhi’s outpost still had water, electricity, and network access, and explained that No. 66 Wutong Road’s influence had extended to it.
• Yu Sheng used his blood to let Zheng Zhi see and touch No. 66 Wutong Road, then showed him a route through the teleportation hub to Boundary City.
• Yu Sheng and his companions returned home, where he relaxed while Huli washed her tails in the washing machine.
• Rapunzel rushed out through the front door, warning Yu Sheng not to tell Little Red Riding Hood she had left that way.
• Rapunzel immediately returned in a state of shock and asked Yu Sheng what was happening outside.

Rapunzel escaped Little Red Riding Hood and stumbled into Yu Sheng’s home at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, where she proposed bringing the children from the orphanage to visit. Yu Sheng secured permission from True Spirit Yuanling, and Rapunzel rushed off to gather everyone for the outing.

• Rapunzel arrived at Yu Sheng’s home at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain after fleeing Little Red Riding Hood, who soon caught up with her.
• Little Red Riding Hood learned that Yu Sheng had moved his house to the mountain, and Rapunzel suggested inviting the children from the orphanage to visit.
• Yu Sheng called True Spirit Yuanling to ask whether the children could enter without permits, and True Spirit Yuanling approved the visit as an exception.
• True Spirit Yuanling agreed to send disciples to register the more than seventy children and give them Guiding Jade Tokens.
• Yu Sheng explained the rules for the visit, but Rapunzel ran off to gather the children before he finished.

The children of "Fairy Tale" camped on Cloud Gazing Platform as True Spirit Yuanling invited Yu Sheng to discuss a mysterious Formation-Breaking Giant Divine Soldier with True Spirit Qianji. Meanwhile, Zheng Zhi joined the Special Operations Bureau and noticed shadowy birds multiplying in the clouds, prompting Little Red Riding Hood to warn Yu Sheng that he could see filthy things again.

• The "Fairy Tale" children arrived at Cloud Gazing Platform for a picnic and overnight camp, where True Spirit Yuanling joined them and greeted the children.
• True Spirit Yuanling told Yu Sheng that True Spirit Qianji would arrive the next day to examine the suspicious mechanism core of a Formation-Breaking Giant Divine Soldier, and Yu Sheng agreed to attend.
• True Spirit Yuanling praised the name Medical Dispute Demolition Fist, and Eileen enthusiastically discussed new attack names with him.
• Zheng Zhi told Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel that he would work at the Special Operations Bureau with Li Lin, and Rapunzel warned him that seeing strange things since childhood could threaten his mental health.
• Zheng Zhi noticed increasing numbers of shadow-like birds swimming through the clouds, and Little Red Riding Hood shouted to Yu Sheng that his nephew could see filthy things again.

Zheng Zhi saw strange birds in the clouds that no one else could see, and True Spirit Yuanling recognized the apparition as an unexplained threat near Queyun Palace. After the children returned home, Yu Sheng encouraged Zheng Zhi to treat his unusual sight as a useful talent and learned how he had grown accustomed to seeing shadows since infancy.

• Zheng Zhi described the strange birds and sketched one, which True Spirit Yuanling turned into a lifelike phantom and adjusted to match Zheng Zhi’s recollection.
• True Spirit Yuanling said the bird seemed familiar but could not identify it, then promised to investigate the apparitions within the mountain’s protective formation.
• Yu Sheng sent Long Hair and the children back through the gate of No. 66 Wutong Road before nightfall.
• Zheng Zhi worried that reporting the birds had spoiled the children’s fun, and Yu Sheng told him his unusual sight could be put to good use.
• Zheng Zhi explained that he had seen strange shadows since he was a baby and that his uncle had taught him how to distinguish abnormal things and avoid danger.

Yu Sheng and the others toured Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain’s Demon Suppressing Tower and entered the Divine Mechanism Hall to see the Trap Formation Giant Divine Armament being disassembled. Eileen left Yu Sheng stunned by suggesting he build her a 1.67-meter body that she could pilot from inside.

• True Spirit Yuanling explained the Demon Suppressing Tower’s history and containment system as he led Yu Sheng and the others to its hidden entrance.
• Two mountain-protecting disciples emerged from the cliff relief and opened the tower’s gate for the group.
• Yu Sheng and the others crossed the tower’s shifting corridors and containment shaft before reaching the Divine Mechanism Hall.
• Yu Sheng examined the disassembled Trap Formation Giant Divine Armament while Eileen studied it and proposed a body she could pilot.

Yu Sheng and his companions met True Spirit Qianji, a mechanical cultivator who used many artificial bodies, while investigating a mechanical person found in the Otherworld. Qianji became curious about Eileen and Yu Sheng, and the chapter ended with him asking whether Yu Sheng cultivated the Path of Mechanical Ascension.

• True Spirit Yuanling revealed an inscription on the mechanical person's rib armor that named Tian Yuan Year 127, Tai Ming Valley Casting Gold Pavilion, and the craftsman Song Xingzhi.
• True Spirit Yuanling sent Xuan Che to escort True Spirit Qianji into the hall.
• True Spirit Qianji mistook Eileen for a miniature mechanical person, prompting her to lash out until Yu Sheng caught her and Yuanling explained who she was.
• True Spirit Qianji apologized to Eileen, then wondered whether Yu Sheng was using an avatar because he could not see through him.
• True Spirit Yuanling explained that Qianji used many mechanical incarnations, and Qianji asked Eileen and then Yu Sheng whether they cultivated the Path of Mechanical Ascension.

True Spirit Qianji examined the Array-Breaking Giant Divine Soldier and concluded that its inscriptions and mechanical core might come from Tai Xu Star’s lost old world. Comparing it with the Ten Halls of Crouching Clouds’ designs, he identified Tai Ming Valley Casting Gold Pavilion and its craftsman Song Xingzhi as the first names to fill a gap in his sect’s mechanical history.

• True Spirit Qianji detached his head to inspect the giant divine soldier’s core, startling Yu Sheng and prompting Eileen to shout a doll’s saying.
• True Spirit Qianji and True Spirit Yuanling discussed how the Taiyou Calendar’s incompleteness reflected the loss of knowledge when the old world was replaced by the new.
• Yu Sheng inferred that the inscriptions on the giant divine soldier preserved information from the old world, and True Spirit Qianji explained the likely origins of the era name Tian Yuan and the place Tai Ming Valley Casting Gold Pavilion.
• True Spirit Qianji projected models of the Ten Halls of Crouching Clouds’ giant divine soldiers and showed that one mechanical core resembled the excavated soldier’s core.
• True Spirit Qianji declared that the ancient inscription had finally supplied the name of Song Xingzhi, a craftsman who may have stood at the source of his sect’s mechanical arts.

Yu Sheng failed to reopen the door to the desert Otherworld because its destination had become a null value, so he led the group to enter through the mine shaft in Taiyou instead. True Spirit Qianji joined the expedition and prepared his mechanical heart to maintain a connection with True Spirit Yuanling from inside.

• True Spirit Qianji explained that the Great Void Spiritual Pivot had no recoverable records beyond what the Ancient Holy Spirits dug from the Cataclysm’s ashes, and asked Yu Sheng to take him to the desert Otherworld.
• Yu Sheng twice tried to open a door to the desert but watched it vanish, concluding that the destination no longer existed; he proposed checking the Otherworld through its entrance in Taiyou.
• Yu Sheng opened a door to the mine shaft, where Su Yun confirmed the entrance was unchanged, and True Spirit Yuanling lent him a Spiritual Echo Mirror to carry for Qianji.
• Xuan Che, Luna, Huli, Qianji, Eileen, and Yu Sheng traveled through the door to Taiyou, while Yuanling stayed behind and used the mirror to observe.
• True Spirit Qianji removed and adjusted his mechanical heart to open its apertures, explaining that they would let Yuanling communicate with him across the boundary into the Otherworld.

Yu Sheng’s group explored a vast underground cavern and found that his blood briefly connected him to an immense, empty presence in the Otherworld. Meanwhile, Rapunzel and Mermaid wandered Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain with Zheng Zhi as their guide.

• True Spirit Qianji examined the eroding boundary and led Yu Sheng’s group down the slope into a glowing cavern with an enormous underground lake.
• Yu Sheng asked Luna to cut him so he could sprinkle his blood around the cavern, but sensed it vanish into nothingness.
• Yu Sheng briefly perceived an immense, apparently lifeless presence beyond the void, then got no further information after bleeding again.
• Rapunzel and Mermaid explored Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain despite Mermaid’s worry that Red Riding Hood Sister would scold them.
• Zheng Zhi guided the girls along the mountain paths while correcting Eileen’s exaggerated stories about his adventures.

Yu Sheng's group explored a vast underground cavern and found that its lake resisted their attempts to see beneath the surface. At the same time, Zheng Zhi, Long Hair, and Mermaid were pulled from a mountain path into the cavern, where Long Hair crashed into Yu Sheng and Mermaid fell into the lake.

• Yu Sheng's group collected samples while Yuanling, Xuan Che, and Qianji discussed the cavern and the lake's mysterious depths.
• Eileen, Huli, and Yu Sheng sensed that the cavern's atmosphere had grown unsettling, though Luna's radar found no active targets.
• Zheng Zhi led Long Hair and Mermaid toward Cloud Gazing Platform, but their path turned into a dark, steep cavern slope.
• Long Hair fell into the cavern and struck Yu Sheng, while Mermaid plunged into the underground lake.
• Long Hair got up and alerted everyone that Mermaid could not swim.

Long Hair and the Mermaid fell into the Otherworld and reunited with Yu Sheng, but Zheng Zhi was missing. Yu Sheng and the others began searching the cavern while True Spirit Yuanling sent disciples to look near Suspended Ravine Pavilion.

• Huli used her tails to pull the thrashing Mermaid from the underground lake, and Eileen helped her realize she was ashore.
• Rapunzel and the Mermaid recognized Yu Sheng and explained that they had been exploring the mountains with Zheng Zhi when the path changed and they fell into the Otherworld.
• Long Hair and the Mermaid described where they had fallen, and True Spirit Yuanling identified the area as near Suspended Ravine Pavilion and sent disciples to search.
• Yu Sheng and the others started searching the cavern for Zheng Zhi using mechanical spheres, Luna's radar, Huli's tails, and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Chickens.

Yu Sheng and his companions discovered that the underground cavern was inside a colossal living beast after the Mermaid tried to answer a faint humming sound. As they rode toward Zheng Zhi, Yu Sheng glimpsed the devastated planet the beast was crossing.

• Long Hair worried that urging Zheng Zhi to guide them had caused him trouble, but Yu Sheng reminded her that Zheng Zhi had already been wandering around Spirit Nurturing Peak.
• The Mermaid heard a faint hum that no one else could detect and imitated it, causing a crack of light to open in the cavern wall.
• Yu Sheng realized the cavern was inside a colossal beast as its mouth opened and the surrounding ground and underground lake shook.
• True Spirit Qianji used a command to briefly still the beast, while Yu Sheng sensed through their blood connection that Zheng Zhi was outside the Rift.
• Yu Sheng, Huli, Long Hair, the Mermaid, Xuan Che, and True Spirit Qianji crossed the beast's mouth in search of Zheng Zhi.
• Yu Sheng saw a shattered planet engulfed in magma and fire as the colossal beast passed above it and mourned its dying homeland.

Yu Sheng and his companions reached the Cosmic Beast’s back, where Zheng Zhi told them he had met an old man who claimed to own the peach grove and raise the beast. As the shattered planet destroyed the behemoth and its shelter, everyone evacuated to Queyun Palace while Yu Sheng stayed behind to observe the catastrophe and was roasted by molten rock.

• Yu Sheng reunited with Zheng Zhi, who said an old man had disappeared after playing chess with him and claiming the Cosmic Beast as his own.
• True Spirit Qianji and Xuan Che recognized a drifting piece of the planet as Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• The Cosmic Beast began dying as the shattered planet’s molten fragments battered it, and Yu Sheng opened a door for the group to evacuate to Queyun Palace.
• Yu Sheng stayed behind to observe the Otherworld’s destruction while Eileen, Huli, Luna, Zheng Zhi, and the others returned to Queyun Palace.
• The Cosmic Beast’s atmosphere and gravity failed, and a molten-rock droplet swept into the peach grove and roasted Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng considered what the Otherworld’s visions of the old world might mean, then discovered Luna and her knights had built a cathedral in the Shelter Wasteland. He returned to Queyun Palace, where everyone was waiting to hear about his discoveries.

• Yu Sheng reflected on the Otherworld’s visions of the Great Void Spiritual Pivot and wondered how information from the old world had crossed the Second Singularity Eruption’s event barrier.
• Yu Sheng noticed a black cathedral in the Shelter Wasteland and went inside to investigate.
• Luna told Yu Sheng that she and the thirteen Fireguard Knights had built the cathedral by imitating his creations, finishing it in under half a day.
• Yu Sheng learned that everyone was waiting for him at Queyun Palace and returned to the living world.
• Yu Sheng greeted Huli, Luna, and Eileen, then told Eileen to visit the Shelter Wasteland to see a surprise.

Yu Sheng and the True Spirits realized the Bizarre Otherworld could have entrances across the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, prompting plans to warn the sects and investigate the black-robed cultivators. Zheng Zhi chose to remain at No. 66 Wutong Road, and the chapter ended with him escaping Eileen’s complaints to write his report.

• True Spirit Yuanling questioned whether the Bizarre Otherworld was really located on Taiyou after learning that people had entered it from other places.
• Yu Sheng and the True Spirits concluded that the Otherworld might have entrances throughout Feiyu-13b, and they decided to warn the sects and continue investigating the black-robed cultivators.
• True Spirit Yuanling said the captured black-robed man had woken but revealed nothing, so he had been sent to the Heart Questioning Pavilion for interrogation.
• Yu Sheng asked Zheng Zhi to return to Boundary City, but Zheng Zhi chose to stay at No. 66 Wutong Road because his assignment was there and the Crossroads had even more Otherworlds.
• Eileen launched into a lengthy complaint about her life and games, prompting Zheng Zhi to leave and begin writing his report.

Yu Sheng enjoyed a quiet day at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain while Huli, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, and the others settled into their routines. As Yu Sheng dozed over his interstellar driving manual, a sudden warning called on fellow cultivators to activate the Star Protection Great Formation.

• Yu Sheng returned to Boundary City with Huli, freeloaded meals at the Special Operations Bureau, and asked Baili Qing about Zheng Zhi.
• Huli ate discarded alchemy pills at Queyun Palace and received permission from True Spirit Yuanling to keep visiting the recycling depot.
• Yu Sheng refused to write Rapunzel’s essay for her, while Little Red Riding Hood admitted she had driven a training car into a ditch.
• Zheng Zhi went to Enlightenment Hall to learn self-defense skills after True Spirit Yuanling approved his training.
• Yu Sheng began to fall asleep while reading Interstellar Subject One, then heard a voice urge fellow cultivators to activate the Star Protection Great Formation.

Yu Sheng witnessed a mysterious vision of the Emperor’s Legacy and encountered the strange observer Yun Qingzi, who mistook him for a rival before leaving. Back at No. 66 Wutong Road, Yu Sheng resolved to consult True Spirit Yuanling, then found Rapunzel struggling to finish an essay about him.

• Yu Sheng saw a curtain-shrouded vision of ancient figures preparing for a catastrophe and sensed their command to save themselves by every means.
• Yun Qingzi attacked Yu Sheng while accusing him of coveting the Emperor’s Legacy, then retreated after his projection was eroded.
• Yun Qingzi returned twice to introduce himself and ask Yu Sheng’s name, then finally left after Yu Sheng said he was Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng returned to the living room, where Huli was asleep, and wondered whether the vision concerned the Emperor’s Legacy and the Annihilation catastrophe.
• Rapunzel told Yu Sheng that Red had made her finish her essay before joining Mermaid’s outing, so Yu Sheng offered to help.
• Yu Sheng read Rapunzel’s essay, titled “My Brother Yu Sheng,” and refused to write its remaining lines for her.

Yu Sheng told True Spirit Yuanling and Xuan Che about encountering Yun Qingzi in an illusion connected to the Emperor's Legacy. They identified him as an ancient cultivator believed dead for a thousand years, leaving his survival and apparent madness unexplained.

• Little Red Riding Hood told Yu Sheng that Long Hair had once been abandoned by her brother and that calling him Brother made her happy.
• Yu Sheng described the strange, shifting Otherworld to Little Red Riding Hood, who offered help from the fairy tale.
• Yu Sheng went to Queyun Palace and recounted his dream encounter with Yun Qingzi to True Spirit Yuanling and Xuan Che.
• True Spirit Yuanling recognized Yun Qingzi as the ancient Banished Immortal of the Frontier, believed to have died after a battle on an uncharted planet a thousand years earlier.
• True Spirit Yuanling said Yun Qingzi had been remembered as refined and easygoing, not as the unhinged attacker Yu Sheng encountered.

Yu Sheng met the returned True Spirit Yuan Hao and learned that the masked cultivators pursuing the Emperor’s Legacy were connected to a strange abandoned outpost Yuan Hao had explored years earlier. Yuan Hao revealed that he had found an identical mask and a dead man in black inside impossible, anomalous rooms, leaving the group with a possible link between the outpost and the Otherworld.

• Xuan Yun announced that Grand Uncle-Master True Spirit Yuan Hao and True Person Yuan He had returned, and True Spirit Yuanling introduced them to Yu Sheng and Eileen.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao recognized Yu Sheng from the Angel’s Fall incident, and Eileen teased True Spirit Yuanling and speculated about Yuan Hao’s romantic troubles.
• True Spirit Yuanling told True Spirit Yuan Hao about the Otherworld, the Emperor’s Legacy, and the masked cultivators who attacked Yu Sheng’s group.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao produced a mask identical to those worn by the masked cultivators and said he had found it at an abandoned frontier outpost over a decade earlier.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao recounted discovering impossible rooms inside the outpost, where he found the mask and a dead man in black.

Yu Sheng and the others connected the black-robed cultivators to the frontier planet Shujì and the missing Yun Qingzi, who had also sought the Emperor's Legacy. They went to question their captured prisoner, but Eileen accidentally knocked a guard disciple unconscious on arrival, and the prisoner was still dazed.

• True Spirit Yuan Hao recalled finding a jade fragment in the dead black-robed cultivator's mouth, and True Spirit Yuanling explained that the custom pointed to frontier descendants from Handing or Shujì.
• True Spirit Yuanling linked Shujì to the place where Yun Qingzi disappeared a thousand years earlier, and Yu Sheng connected Yun Qingzi's disappearance, the black-robed cultivators, and their shared pursuit of the Emperor's Legacy.
• Yu Sheng proposed interrogating the captured black-robed cultivator, and True Spirit Yuanling agreed they could question him sooner than planned.
• At the Heart Questioning Pavilion, Eileen struck a guard disciple who had used a spell to probe their intentions, and she apologized after Yu Sheng and the others explained the misunderstanding.
• The guard disciple reported that the prisoner remained dazed and that she had given him more pills to seal his spirit and prevent him from taking his own life.

Yu Sheng and True Spirit Yuanling questioned the black-robed cultivator inside an illusion that revealed his memories of Shuji and his search for Emperor's Legacy. The cultivator confirmed that Senior Yun Qingzi sent him and sought the Legacy to overcome a deep fear, leaving Yu Sheng to wonder whether it was connected to Yun Qingzi's powerful enemy from a thousand years ago.

• True Spirit Yuanling increased the black-robed cultivator's doses of Qi-Smoothing and Spirit-Calming Powder after learning his resistance was growing.
• Yu Sheng, Eileen, and the three brothers entered the illusion and found the black-robed cultivator sitting in a rainy mountain teahouse.
• True Spirit Yuanling prompted the cultivator to remember Shuji, transforming the illusion into a rainy, neon-lit city on that planet.
• The black-robed cultivator admitted that he was searching for Emperor's Legacy because Yun Qingzi believed it would settle his inner demon.
• The cultivator said Yun Qingzi feared something despite his great power, and Yu Sheng wondered if it was the enemy Yun Qingzi had encountered a thousand years earlier.