Recaps

Xuan Che discovered that Mo City's residents could not perceive a hidden threat around the Refining Tower, while True Spirit Yuan Hao and Zheng Zhi witnessed the concealed crystal growth and a reality-distorting storm. The threat noticed Zheng Zhi, who vanished as the city began to rumble.

• Xuan Che found that Mo Ran and the others perceived an invisible Star Guardian Elder Dao Heng, then left the residence and sent his warnings about the Dark Angel to his allies.
• Xuan Che saw a woman and black-canopied boat remain untouched by the worsening rain as he considered the Dark Angel's likely presence on Gushu and the Great Void Spiritual Pivot.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao asked Zheng Zhi to inspect the Refining Tower, and Zheng Zhi saw crystal branches wrapped around it before the vision disappeared.
• The storm erupted, making the city and its buildings vanish and reappear as a mechanical flower boat crashed into a tavern and then disappeared.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao turned to Zheng Zhi and discovered that he had vanished from the room.

After Dark Angel’s remains collapsed into a vast pit on Garrison-3, Yu Sheng returned to Shouji after learning that Xuan Che and others had lost contact and communications with the Great Void Spiritual Pivot had been severed. There, he found signs of a deep anomaly and discovered a warning that they were inside a vast dream.

• Yu Sheng evacuated Garrison-3 with Huli and the others as the caldera collapsed, leaving a massive pit behind.
• Xu Jiali and Bell returned to the Special Operations Bureau after collecting image data, while Yu Sheng prepared to go back to Shouji.
• True Spirit Yuanling told Yu Sheng that Xuan Che and his senior brother had lost contact and that all communications between the Great Void Spiritual Pivot and Shouji were cut off.
• Yu Sheng returned to the hotel in Shouji with Eileen, Huli, and Luna, where they found no one and his phone displayed a warning about a possible deep criticality.
• A jade-screen ornament showed scenes from Shouji’s past before projecting the view outside their window, where rainwater formed the words “Cognitive Barrier” and “We are inside a vast dream.”

Yu Sheng and his companions discovered that the city of Mo had become a twisted dreamscape after the barrier between reality and illusion broke. As they searched for True Spirit Yuan Hao, a message from Baili Qing identified the phenomenon as the Dark Angel’s “Star Proliferation Body” and warned of planetary-scale cognitive restructuring.

• Yu Sheng saw the city around him collapse into a bizarre landscape of wind, rain, and floating buildings, while Luna confirmed the changes were real.
• Yu Sheng sent Huli to fire two missiles as a signal, then led the group out to search for True Spirit Yuan Hao.
• Rapunzel stepped into the transformed living room, panicked at the scene, and ran back inside to warn Red and Snow White that their outing was canceled.
• Yu Sheng and his companions found hazy figures in the building hall; Eileen sensed that some were dreaming while others believed the world was normal.
• Yu Sheng received messages from Baili Qing identifying the phenomenon as the Dark Angel’s “Star Proliferation Body” and warning of Level IV Cognitive Restructuring.

Yu Sheng learned from Baili Qing that the Star Proliferation Body was nearing the end of its metamorphosis on Garrison Silence and that the planet’s collective cognition was helping it complete the process. After their call was cut off, Yu Sheng used a door to reach Baili Qing directly, then returned to the increasingly distorted Black City to try to stop the Ascension Body from maturing.

• Yu Sheng called Baili Qing after learning that Garrison Silence had undergone reality restructuring, and she identified the parasitic Dark Angel as a Star Proliferation Body nearing ascension.
• Baili Qing explained that the Star Proliferation Body’s cognitive interference hid its parasitism and that affected minds strengthened its reality-altering barrier.
• As Black City grew more distorted, Baili Qing warned Yu Sheng that the planet’s population was collectively dreaming the Star Proliferation Body through its final metamorphosis.
• After the call failed, Yu Sheng opened a door to Baili Qing’s desk and asked her to repeat the warning in person.
• Baili Qing urged Yu Sheng to interrupt the metamorphosis before the Ascension Body matured, and Yu Sheng returned to the nightmare outside the hall.

Baili Qing analyzed the Star Proliferation Body’s threat while Yu Sheng learned that Shuji’s collective dream was colliding with reality. He reached the mountain at Ink City’s center, where a sword-wielding woman stood above the gathering dreamers.

• Baili Qing reviewed possible outcomes of the Star Proliferation Body’s growth and acknowledged that Yu Sheng made its future impossible to predict.
• Yu Sheng read Baili Qing’s materials and concluded that Shuji’s collective cognition concealed widespread crystal growth, though the dream’s collision with reality had opened a possible breach.
• Yu Sheng followed the thunder toward Ink City’s largest focus of reality reconstruction, riding Huli with Eileen while Luna and the Brass Knights accompanied them.
• Yu Sheng and his companions reached the mountain, where dreamers gathered beneath projections insisting that Ink City and Shuji were peaceful.
• Yu Sheng looked up and saw a black-haired woman holding a sword atop the mountain.

Yu Sheng and his companions reached Mo Ran atop the shifting mountain and reunited with Zheng Zhi, who had survived the Nightmare Border after witnessing a Refining Tower become covered in crystals. Yu Sheng told Mo Ran that the Star Proliferation Body had taken control of all Jushi, leaving her to learn the scale of the disaster.

• Eileen spread her threads across the mountain, stabilizing its dreamlike terrain and weakening the shadowy figures below.
• Luna and the Brass Knights fought a black-dressed woman, but another identical woman killed her and identified her as the thirty-seventh.
• Yu Sheng recognized the sword-wielding woman as Mo Ran, Lord of the City, and Mo Ran revealed that Zheng Zhi was sheltering nearby.
• Zheng Zhi explained that he had seen a Refining Tower covered in gray-white crystals before the city turned chaotic and True Spirit Yuan Hao disappeared.
• Yu Sheng and Eileen realized Zheng Zhi had breached the Star Proliferation Body's cognitive barrier and survived the Nightmare Border.
• Yu Sheng told Mo Ran that the Star Proliferation Body had controlled not only Mo City but the entire planet of Jushi.

Yu Sheng explained Shouji’s strange illnesses and cultivation problems as effects of the Star Proliferation Body’s cognitive barrier, then guided Eileen to use the collective dream to awaken Mo City. The city’s disguise fell away, revealing a landscape buried in crystals, and Mo Ran took charge while Yu Sheng prepared to face the greater threat.

• Mo Ran described Shouji’s strange illnesses and unusually frequent cultivation deviations, then agreed to cooperate with Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng proposed breaking the Nightmare Border by awakening Mo City’s population and realized Eileen could intervene in the shared dream.
• After Yu Sheng reminded her of the collective subconscious, Eileen spread her black threads across Mo City and ensnared its inhabitants in a shared dream.
• The Weaver urged the city to wake up, and Mo City’s residents collectively saw through the dream’s disguise.
• The awakened city appeared ancient and covered in crystalline growth, and Mo Ran agreed to stabilize the situation while Yu Sheng and Eileen dealt with the greater threat.

Mo Ran ordered Mo City sealed off after its residents awakened to the crystal infestation, while Yu Sheng and Eileen headed into the wilderness to find a breach in the cognitive barrier. They found True Spirit Yuan Hao fighting black-robed cultivators, and Yuan Hao struck down an attacker with a brick.

• Mo Ran ordered Mo City's cultivators to restore order, halted all transport, and severed communication with other cities.
• Yu Sheng sensed the Star Proliferation Body noticing Mo City's awakening as he and Eileen left the city on Huli.
• Zheng Zhi spotted a crack in the crystalline wilderness, and Yu Sheng redirected Huli toward it.
• Yu Sheng's group found True Spirit Yuan Hao blasting the crystal jungle and battling black-robed cultivators.
• A black-robed cultivator launched a hidden flying-sword attack at Yuan Hao, who casually smashed him with a brick.

Yu Sheng told True Spirit Yuan Hao that the Star Proliferation Body had transformed Shouji and that the group needed to find a hidden entrance to its core. They rushed to rescue Xuan Che, but Yuan Hao’s overwhelming attack blasted him out of his protective barrier along with the enemies.

• True Spirit Yuan Hao reunited with Yu Sheng and explained that he had found Xuan Che outside Mo City before they split up to investigate the crystal jungle.
• Yu Sheng explained that the Star Proliferation Body had altered the entire planet and that the group had opened a gap in its cognitive barrier, while the entrance to its core had vanished.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao sensed that the life-saving treasure he had given Xuan Che had activated and led the group toward him.
• Yu Sheng and the others found Xuan Che holding out inside a Light Screen while black-robed cultivators and Hermetic Society members attacked him.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao unleashed a devastating attack to save Xuan Che, scattering the attackers and blasting Xuan Che out of the Light Screen.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao flew through the lingering explosions to catch Xuan Che, shouting that he had come to save his nephew.

Yu Sheng and his companions fought a crystalline Great Sage clone that had been consumed by the Star Proliferation Body. After Huli destroyed it, multiple crystalline copies emerged across Silent Garrison, leaving Yu Sheng and Eileen facing a far larger threat.

• A white-robed Great Sage appeared through the smoke and targeted Eileen, and Luna identified him as a clone whose condition was abnormal.
• Eileen summoned Mass-produced Eileen dolls to attack the Great Sage, but he unleashed a rain of crystals that scattered the dolls and forced Huli to dodge.
• Huli struck the Great Sage with her tails, revealing that his shattered body was made of crystalline matter and had been consumed by the Star Proliferation Body.
• Huli blasted the damaged Great Sage into fragments, but crystalline matter surged from the ground and rebuilt him.
• Several crystal fountains appeared across the wilderness, and multiple crystalline Great Sages emerged at once.

Yu Sheng and his allies fought the regenerating Great Sages as the Star Proliferation Body’s ascension drew near. Eileen followed the black threads into one Great Sage’s soul, where her presence revealed a vast web of destiny and omens.

• Crystal rifts opened across the battlefield, and Great Sages emerged to attack Yu Sheng’s group.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao and Huli destroyed two Great Sages, but new ones regenerated from fresh rifts while the attacks grew more chaotic.
• Yu Sheng sent Zheng Zhi back to No. 66 Wutong Road and realized the Star Proliferation Body was nearing its ascension.
• Eileen sensed black threads connecting a trapped soul to her, then crawled along the spider silk toward the Great Sage devoured by the Star Proliferation Body.
• Eileen poked the suffering Great Sage’s soul, and he saw her as the master of fear crawling across a vast web of destiny and omens.

Eileen accidentally destroyed the Great Sage’s fragile soul, causing the crystal Great Sages to collapse. Yu Sheng discovered that the Star Proliferation Body was forcing its ascension ahead of schedule, and he set out with Huli to confront the angel underground.

• Eileen wrapped the Great Sage’s soul in spider silk, and it shattered while thanking her for mercy.
• The Great Sages collapsed, the crystal fissures stopped producing new ones, and Eileen returned to Yu Sheng and explained what had happened.
• Yu Sheng sensed Yun Qingzi through a vision, while True Spirit Yuan Hao and Xuan Che warned that a malicious creature was stirring underground.
• A mountain split open as enormous crystal limbs emerged, and Yu Sheng realized the Star Proliferation Body was ending its ascension early.
• Yu Sheng sent Xuan Che and True Spirit Yuan Hao to Ink City to suppress the Star Proliferation Body’s activity, then told Huli they would go underground to meet the angel.

Yu Sheng and the others uncovered a recently betrayed Holy Ascetic Society outpost beneath the fissure, while Mo Ran defended Mo City against the spreading Star Proliferation Body. The chapter leaves Mo City surrounded by Yun Qingzi’s forces, whose commander believes Mo Ran has fallen under a demonic influence.

• Huli broke through the crystal-sealed fissure, and Yu Sheng led Eileen, Luna, and Huli through an ancient Great Void Spiritual Pivot outpost to a hall of Holy Ascetic Society machines and ruptured hibernation pods.
• Mo Ran watched living crystals and tentacles threaten the wilderness around Mo City while the city’s defensive formation and mysterious web-like strands held the Star Proliferation Body at bay.
• A guard reported that an enormous tentacle was crawling beneath Refining Tower Four and that tentacles and crystal matter had appeared beneath other Refining Towers.
• Lord Yunshan arrived with forces that included True Lord Qingyun and Fairy Baihong, and asked Mo Ran to open Mo City’s defensive formation.
• Mo Ran refused and readied the city’s defenses as Yun Qingzi’s commands drove the approaching forces to treat the city’s awakened residents as threats.
• Lord Yunshan concluded that Mo Ran had fallen under a demonic influence.

Yu Sheng reached the Star Proliferation Body’s underground lair and confronted Yun Qingzi, who attacked him after beginning to explain the entity. After surviving repeated attempts to destroy him, Yu Sheng emerged from the crystal mirror and said he would go ask the Star Proliferation Body himself.

• Yu Sheng sensed fighting in Mo City and sent Huli, Eileen, and Luna through a teleportation gate to help.
• Yu Sheng continued alone through the caves until he reached Yun Qingzi, who appeared inside a crystal mirror.
• Yun Qingzi claimed the Star Proliferation Body was an empty shell and said he was the original Yun Qingzi, then began to explain what the entity was.
• Yun Qingzi impaled Yu Sheng with crystal spikes, struck him with lightning, crushed his remains, and burned the cavern with Spirit Flame True Fire.
• Yu Sheng’s blood formed a question about the Star Proliferation Body, and he then stepped out of the mirror behind Yun Qingzi.

Yu Sheng’s attempt to learn the Star Proliferation Body’s nature was cut off when Yun Qingzi severed the contaminated crystal, while the creature prepared to ascend ahead of schedule. At Mo City, Yuan Hao tried to mediate as a vast crystal mountain rose from the earth, and restored orbital communications reported a face on Shu Ji’s surface.

• The Star Proliferation Body detected Yu Sheng’s corrosion, severed the infected crystal structure, and sent it plunging into the magma before Yun Qingzi decided to accelerate the ascension.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao intervened between Mo City and the controlled army, and privately told Xuan Che they were only buying time and might need to retreat.
• Lord Yunshan and his followers became confused and forgot why they had gathered outside Mo City as strange rumbling spread underground.
• Huli, Eileen, and Luna witnessed the ground rise beyond the crystal forest while the opposing battle formation fell into disarray.
• A huge crystal mountain erupted from the plain, and a guard told Mo Ran that orbital platform communications had returned and reported a face on Shu Ji’s surface.

As the Ascension Body broke free of its underground nest, Shouji’s cognitive barrier collapsed and the living planet began attacking Mo City. Mo Ran and the city guards fought to hold the defenses while Luna and her allies turned the monsters against one another, and the Ascension Body rose into the rain.

• The orbital platform revealed Shouji’s mutated surface as the Ascension Body severed its connection to the Eclosion Nest and began ascending.
• Mo Ran watched a crystalline mountain rise near Mo City as the city shook, its defenses failed, and monsters poured through a breach.
• Mo Ran led her personal guards into the battle, and the city guards rallied to defend the city against crystal creatures and black-clad attackers.
• Luna, the Nine-tailed Silver Fox, and blank-faced figures joined the defense, while the rain drove the crystalline monsters and black-clad attackers into chaos.
• The mountain collapsed, and the Ascension Body emerged from its underground shell and rose into the torrential rain.

Mo Ran and the people of Mo City survived the Star Proliferation Body’s catastrophic rise as Shu Ji’s blood rain weakened it. Yu Sheng’s plan drove the Ascension Body into hyperspace, but an emergency broadcast warned that the Great Void Spiritual Pivot was in danger.

• The Ascension Body erupted from beneath Shu Ji, while collapsing Refining Towers left Mo City close to destruction.
• The blood rain suppressed the crystal tentacles and stabilized the Ascension Body’s rampage, while cultivators from other cities reinforced Mo City’s formation.
• Lord Yunshan and Xuan Che arrived to help, and Xuan Che told Mo Ran that Yu Sheng would handle what came next.
• Yu Sheng revealed that he had used the rain to erode the Ascension Body’s protective shell and draw out its core.
• The Ascension Body shed its damaged shell, broke through Shu Ji’s atmosphere, and escaped into hyperspace through a route it opened.
• The Otherworld Inn broadcast that the Star Proliferation Body had entered hyperspace and the Great Void Spiritual Pivot was in danger.

Yu Sheng and the others returned to Tai Xu Star and prepared its defenses against the Star Proliferation Body, which arrived far sooner than expected. The core then appeared motionless and nearly dead in orbit, leaving Yu Sheng unable to tell whether it was dying or what would happen next.

• True Spirit Yuanling told Yu Sheng that Tai Xu Star’s defensive lines were ready, while the Star Proliferation Body’s arrival time and direction remained uncertain.
• Yu Sheng reported that Shouji and most of its population had survived, and True Spirit Yuanling praised his efforts before asking how the Star Proliferation Body could be stopped.
• An inner-sect disciple announced that the Star Proliferation Body had reached orbit, and Yu Sheng ordered the Otherworld Inn and the Immortal Boats to launch.
• Xuan Che showed Yu Sheng an image of the Star Proliferation Body’s Ascension Core, which had emerged from a rift and then stopped moving.
• Luna said the core looked close to death, while Yu Sheng tried to contact it and heard only a hollow howl like wind in the Soul Wilderness.

Yu Sheng boarded a modified Heavy Fortress Torpedo and launched himself into the dormant Star Proliferation Body to reach the Dark Angel's core. Inside the crystal mass, he awoke to a familiar figure greeting him as a Daoist friend.

• Yuan Hao told Yu Sheng that the Star Proliferation Body still had energy activity but did not react to a mechanical bird, and Yu Sheng decided to approach it himself.
• Yu Sheng chose to travel inside a modified Heavy Fortress Torpedo rather than use Huli's tail, and Eileen and Huli watched as he prepared for launch.
• Yu Sheng fired the torpedo from the Otherworld Inn, and it pierced the Star Proliferation Body's outer crystals before lodging deep inside.
• Yu Sheng dispersed into the crystal mass and sensed faint light and voices as he rebuilt his awareness within it.
• Yu Sheng opened his eyes inside the crystal mass and saw a familiar figure greet him: "Daoist friend, you've come."

Yu Sheng spoke with Yun Qingzi inside the Star Proliferation Body and learned that it had died when it left Silent Garrison. The Body’s memories revealed that it had once been a planetary plant whose garden of intelligent life designed a seed to escape their dying world, leaving Yu Sheng to understand why its repeated cycles of growth and regression had seemed pointless.

• Yu Sheng met Yun Qingzi in a shifting crystal space and asked about the Star Proliferation Body’s state.
• Yun Qingzi told Yu Sheng that the Body had died after its leap through the atmosphere and that Yu Sheng had already succeeded.
• Yun Qingzi showed Yu Sheng memories of a planetary Mother Vine that developed a garden of intelligent creatures who learned to think and build a civilization.
• After falling stars destroyed their world, the Mother Vine and its garden designed a seed with instructions to find a new home, take root, and survive.
• Yu Sheng realized the Star Proliferation Body’s repeated growth and regression came from a seed that had lost its homeland and could not find a place to take root.

Yun Qingzi explained that Emperor’s Legacy was not a treasure but Great Void Spiritual Pivot, an abnormal planet absent from the cosmos’s original blueprint. He revealed that he had tried to lure the Star Proliferation Body into parasitizing it and poisoning itself, leaving Yu Sheng to face the urgency and uncertainty of that plan.

• Yun Qingzi admitted that the Star Proliferation Body had influenced him over the centuries, though he had sought a way to stop it.
• Yun Qingzi told Yu Sheng that a rift opened when the Star Proliferation Body descended on Garrison-3, letting him glimpse the cosmos’s original blueprint.
• Yun Qingzi explained that the blueprint marked the region around Tai Xu Star as empty but placed Emperor’s Legacy where Great Void Spiritual Pivot now existed.
• Yun Qingzi recalled that the Ominous Wandering Star had been poisoned by Great Void’s ley lines, suggesting that the planet could harm the Star Proliferation Body.
• Yun Qingzi revealed that he had used the Star Proliferation Body to test Great Void Spiritual Pivot and had planned to lure the creature into parasitizing the planet.
• Yun Qingzi told Yu Sheng he wanted to poison the Star Proliferation Body to death, but it was preparing to ascend again and he had no other plan.

Yu Sheng learned that Yun Qingzi had planned to destroy the Star Proliferation Body even at the cost of countless lives, but the Dark Angel had been defeated before that plan became necessary. As the Star Proliferation Body bloomed and vanished near the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, Yu Sheng reported its fall and the cultivators celebrated.

• Yu Sheng asked Yun Qingzi what would happen if his plan to use the Great Void Spiritual Pivot against the Star Proliferation Body failed, and Yun Qingzi admitted many people might die.
• Yun Qingzi explained that he was departing with the Star Proliferation Body and said he had returned to see the Great Void Spiritual Pivot once more before his image vanished.
• Yu Sheng emerged into the wreckage of the fortress torpedo, sensed the Star Proliferation Body dying, and turned his body to ash to join its remains.
• The Star Proliferation Body erupted into a brilliant crystalline bloom near the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, then shattered and disappeared along with its Ascension Body remains.
• True Spirit Yuanling and True Spirit Yuan Hao watched for word from the Lingxi Platform, where Yu Sheng reported, “The angel has fallen.”
• The cultivators cheered, and True Spirit Yuanling ordered the entire domain to be notified that the angel had fallen.

After the angel fell, the Great Void Spiritual Pivot escaped disaster, while the event triggered strange reactions in the Demon Suppressing Tower and brought relief to the sect and The Crossroads. Baili Qing learned the Star Proliferation Body had been removed from the list and began making arrangements for Wutong Road.

• The Mother Vine disintegrated in space, and planetary defenses intercepted most of its crystal remnants before they could reach the Great Void Spiritual Pivot.
• The Ominous Wandering Star panicked that the predicted calamity had failed to arrive, so the Demon Suppressing Stone Pillars restrained it and flooded it with earth-vein currents while Snake Princess was repeatedly struck by lightning.
• Monitoring disciples noticed an unusual cycle in the spiritual veins and realized something was wrong in the lower levels of the Demon Suppressing Tower.
• True Person Yuan He and True Spirit Yuanling discussed the angel's fall, the collection of its crystal remnants, and Mr. Yu's need to rest after fighting an angel.
• Baili Qing spoke with the mysterious pair of eyes, then Song Cheng reported that the Star Proliferation Body had been removed from the list; she said she had arrangements for Wutong Road and ordered her desk replaced.

After recovering from his battle with Dark Angel, Yu Sheng reunited with the Otherworld Inn’s crew and returned to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, where the disciples thanked him for saving the world. As he prepared to explain the Star Proliferation Body’s origins, a disciple reported that the yokai in True Person Yuan He’s tower had been struck unconscious by lightning.

• Yu Sheng rested in the captain’s cabin with Huli, then told her he believed they might not need to hide the next time they encountered the World Guardian Angel.
• Yu Sheng returned to the bridge, caught Eileen as she rushed at him, and arranged to meet True Spirit Yuanling and Yuan Hao at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• Eileen told Yu Sheng about the chaos in Mo City and the Great Void Spiritual Pivot fleet salvaging crystal fragments as the Otherworld Inn landed at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• True Spirit Yuanling and the gathered disciples bowed to thank Yu Sheng for saving the world, and Yu Sheng accepted their gratitude while asking them to cover the inn’s repair costs.
• As Yu Sheng and the others headed toward Queyun Palace, a white-armored disciple reported that the yokai in True Person Yuan He’s tower had been struck unconscious by lightning.

Yu Sheng and True Spirit Yuanling investigated the Ominous Wandering Star after its sudden rampage injured Snake Princess. Yu Sheng touched the sphere with his blood and glimpsed a strange presence beyond a hazy curtain, then heard Eileen asking why he had called her.

• True Spirit Yuanling and Yu Sheng went to the Demon Suppressing Tower after learning the Ominous Wandering Star had gone berserk.
• Yu Sheng found Snake Princess unconscious from lightning, and she explained that the sphere had become agitated while they argued and fed it.
• Snake Princess reported that the Ominous Wandering Star had spoken of a catastrophe, a vanished omen, and an Omen Goddess.
• Yu Sheng questioned whether the sphere could have faith, then pressed his bloodied hand against it while it was unconscious.
• The Ominous Wandering Star rapidly absorbed Yu Sheng's blood, and he saw a hazy curtain with enormous moving shapes before Eileen's voice pulled him back.