Recaps

Yu Sheng and Eileen discovered that Eileen’s touch had caused the Ominous Wandering Star to break apart, leaving behind a miniature sphere that followed her. Yu Sheng suspected a connection between Eileen and the star, and the group turned to deciding what to do with the strange object.

• Yu Sheng told Eileen about seeing a shadow when he contacted the Ominous Wandering Star, and Eileen denied recognizing it.
• Eileen touched the star’s shell, causing it to crack and collapse into fragments while the group watched in shock.
• Luna noticed something floating in the ruins: an apple-sized miniature of the Ominous Wandering Star.
• The miniature sphere pursued Eileen around the platform, dodging Huli, True Spirit Yuan Hao, and Xuan Che as they tried to stop it.
• Yu Sheng lifted Eileen and noticed the sphere had stopped beside her, then suggested it only wanted to stay near her.
• Yu Sheng asked True Spirit Yuanling and the others to discuss what to do about the miniature sphere.

Eileen shattered the Ominous Wandering Star, leaving a harmless stone ball that followed her and had lost its mind and powers. With the Demon Suppressing Tower’s seal destroyed, Yu Sheng took Eileen and the ball back to No. 66 Wutong Road, while Yuan He realized Snake Princess was speaking coherently again.

• Eileen touched the Ominous Wandering Star, which shattered into a small stone ball that floated beside her.
• True Spirit Yuanling and Yuan Hao examined the ball and found that it had lost its mental responses and former abilities.
• Yuan He noticed that Snake Princess was speaking coherently, and she reacted with surprise.
• Yuan Hao explained that the tower’s seal had failed and suggested that Yu Sheng and Eileen take the ball with them.
• Yu Sheng persuaded Eileen to accept the ball as a magical treasure and left for No. 66 Wutong Road with Eileen, Huli, and Luna.
• Yuan He questioned whether taking the Ominous Wandering Star away was safe, but Yuanling said it was more secure with Yu Sheng.

A dazed traveler recovered fragments of his memories as he crossed a gray wilderness, found a Great Bonfire called Hope, and continued onward with a crystal seed. Back at home, Eileen and her companions examined the Ominous Wandering Star, which Huli used to crack walnuts, and Eileen thought she saw it open its mouth.

• The traveler remembered that his great undertaking had gone wrong but had ultimately been brought to a safe conclusion with another person's help.
• The traveler found a Great Bonfire called Hope, recognized the crystal seed he carried, and invited it to continue with him.
• The traveler learned from the fire that a hidden path called No Return led toward a Grand Cathedral that sheltered travelers.
• Eileen asked Yu Sheng about the Ominous Wandering Star while he messaged Baili Qing and Little Red Riding Hood about the incident and its aftermath.
• Huli used the Ominous Wandering Star to crack walnuts, then returned it to Eileen, who thought she saw it open its mouth.

Yu Sheng experimented with Ominous Wandering Star and its reaction to Eileen’s other bodies, causing it to crash into the ceiling. Xuan Che then brought Yu Sheng to Queyun Palace, where True Spirit Yuanling and Yuan Hao prepared to discuss Emperor's Legacy and the Star Proliferation Body.

• Eileen noticed Ominous Wandering Star briefly appear to grow a mouth, and Yu Sheng suggested testing how it would react to her other bodies.
• As four Eileens gathered around the sphere, it shook violently and launched itself into the ceiling, prompting a chaotic scramble to retrieve it.
• Yu Sheng borrowed Huli’s tail to reach the ceiling and pry out the sphere while Huli tied the Eileens together to keep them from interfering.
• Xuan Che arrived with Zheng Zhi and invited Yu Sheng to Queyun Palace to discuss the angels’ fall and preparations for an upcoming celebration.
• Yu Sheng left the inn with Xuan Che and met True Spirit Yuanling and Yuan Hao at Queyun Palace.
• True Spirit Yuanling proposed discussing Emperor's Legacy and the Star Proliferation Body now that events had settled.

Yu Sheng told True Spirit Yuanling and True Spirit Yuan Hao about Yun Qingzi’s plans and the mysteries of the Emperor’s Legacy, prompting the Great Void Spiritual Pivot to investigate the Otherworlds. The chapter ended with True Person Yuan He telling Snake Princess that she was free to leave the Demon Suppressing Tower and roam Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.

• Yu Sheng explained Yun Qingzi’s plan and the secrets of the Star Proliferation Body, the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, the Feather Star Domain, and the Emperor’s Legacy to True Spirit Yuanling and True Spirit Yuan Hao.
• Yuanling and Yuan Hao described Shouji’s continuing rescue and recovery efforts after the Star Proliferation Body disaster.
• Yuanling and Yuan Hao decided to investigate the Emperor’s Legacy by exploring the Otherworlds and planned to seek help from the Crossroads.
• Yu Sheng asked Yuanling and Yuan Hao to tell him if the investigation uncovered major findings related to the Dark Angel, and he suspected it would.
• Yuanling mentioned that the Ominous Wandering Star might have helped explain the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, but Yu Sheng doubted it could be trusted to cooperate.
• True Person Yuan He told Snake Princess she no longer had to return to the Demon Suppressing Tower and could roam freely throughout Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.

Snake Princess learned that the lightning strike had cured her cultivation deviation and made her a demon immortal, then returned to Yuan He to ask for travel money and lessons in transformation. Yu Sheng returned home to find Huli repairing the ceiling and Eileen controlling the Ominous Wandering Star, which she explained she had stabilized by spinning it like a top.

• True Person Yuan He told Snake Princess that the lightning strike had completed her tribulation and restored her spiritual awareness.
• Snake Princess left the mountain, then returned because she had no money for an Immortal Boat ticket.
• True Person Yuan He agreed to teach Snake Princess transformation techniques so she could travel in a smaller form.
• Yu Sheng returned to No. 66 Wutong Road and found Huli repairing the ceiling while Luna and several Eileens occupied the living room.
• Huli rushed to eat the food Yu Sheng had brought, while Eileen explained that she had stabilized the Ominous Wandering Star by spinning it like a top.

Yu Sheng watched Eileen train the Ominous Wandering Star and settle into her new doll storage boxes, while the lively household carried on around them. The chapter ended with Yu Sheng hoping the stone ball understood that Eileen was happy, as three Eileens turned off the light for him.

• Eileen decided to train the Ominous Wandering Star to pick up packages because she considered it a drone.
• Yu Sheng shared his saved meal with Huli, whose wagging tail knocked an Eileen against the wall.
• Eileen and her other bodies inspected and arranged four doll storage boxes before climbing inside to sleep.
• Eileen placed the Ominous Wandering Star beside Yu Sheng's oil painting and told it to obey him and stay quiet.
• Yu Sheng spoke to the motionless stone ball and tried to get it to turn off the light, but three Eileens came out of their boxes and switched it off themselves.

Yu Sheng discovered that his connection to Shuji remained active as Mo Ran struggled to restore Mo City and maintain order. The chapter ended with a crystal cluster displaying an advertisement from the Inn and a tendril waving at Mo Ran’s group.

• Yu Sheng failed to sleep without Eileen, and she left her box to roll around beside him before they both drifted off.
• Yu Sheng’s consciousness connected to Shuji again, and he cautiously confirmed that he could still sense the distant planet.
• Mo Ran inspected the ruined Sixth Refining Tower and watched residents work to clear crystals and repair Mo City.
• Mo Ran ordered a public trial and execution for wealthy families caught stealing government supplies to flee Shuji.
• A crystal cluster flashed and displayed an Inn advertisement, while a tendril emerged from the ground and waved at Mo Ran and her guards.

Yu Sheng adapted to his new existence as Tanyuan’s living planetary body and contacted Mo Ran through a crystal cluster. He promised to stabilize the damaged region and left Mo Ran with a way to contact him, while the question of how his transformation affected Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain remained unresolved.

• Mo Ran spoke with Yu Sheng through the crystals and described Tanyuan’s damage after the Star Proliferation Body’s ascension.
• Yu Sheng explored Tanyuan through its crystal network and realized that the planet’s vastness made his thoughts sluggish when he remained fully connected to it.
• Yu Sheng promised Mo Ran that geological instability would improve, the northern mountain range would stop collapsing, and he would repair damage around the cities.
• Mo Ran asked whether Yu Sheng had become Tanyuan, and Yu Sheng wondered whether that meant he had occupied Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain’s territory.
• Yu Sheng told Mo Ran to consult Yuan Hao and the others about the matter, then gave her his contact number before disappearing.

After becoming connected to Shuju as a new body, Yu Sheng told Yuan Ling and True Spirit Yuan Hao what had happened. They explained that he already functioned as Shuju’s Star Guardian, and he agreed to accept the title to reassure and protect the planet’s people.

• Yu Sheng woke at Cloud Gazing Platform, practiced controlling his perception across Shuju and other places, and watched Eileen and her other bodies get ready.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen that Shuju was now connected to him as his new body, and she was stunned.
• Yu Sheng explained Shuju’s situation to Yuan Ling and True Spirit Yuan Hao at Queyun Palace.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao proposed that Yu Sheng become Shuju’s Star Guardian, explaining that he already protected the planet and could help reassure its people.
• Yu Sheng agreed to accept the Star Guardian title, then protested when Yuan Ling and True Spirit Yuan Hao formally thanked him.

Yu Sheng learned more about his new role as Shujì’s Star Guardian before Luna reported a visitor at the Fire Protection Great Church. There, Yu Sheng reunited with Yun Qingzi, whose consciousness had arrived in the sanctuary after his death, and invited him to explain what dying felt like.

• Yu Sheng discussed Star Guardians’ usual duties with Yuan Ling and Yuan Hao and accepted the practical benefits of his new title.
• On the way back from Queyun Palace, Eileen asked whether Yu Sheng would receive a Star Guardian salary, and he explained that his unprecedented situation would take time for the Great Void Spiritual Pivot to address.
• Luna sensed that the Fire Protection Great Church had a visitor, while Yun Qingzi arrived at the cathedral through the No Return Path carrying a sleeping crystal seed.
• A blonde armored maiden questioned Yun Qingzi and contacted her master after he entered the cathedral.
• Yu Sheng appeared before Yun Qingzi, recognized him, and explained that he had intercepted Yun Qingzi’s consciousness after his death.
• Yu Sheng invited Yun Qingzi to sit and asked him what it felt like to be dead.

Yun Qingzi arrived in the Soul Wilderness and told Yu Sheng about his journey, including a crystal seed he had brought with him. Yu Sheng identified it as the third generation of the Star Proliferation Body and proposed planting it as a possible way to make the Dark Angel compatible with this universe.

• Yu Sheng explained the Soul Wilderness to Yun Qingzi and introduced him to Luna and Eileen.
• Yun Qingzi recounted awakening gradually after death, finding a Great Bonfire surrounded by twelve stone pillars, and bringing back a crystal seed.
• Eileen recognized the seed and reacted with alarm, while Yu Sheng examined it and asked Luna where they could plant a tree.
• Yu Sheng read the seed’s information and concluded it was the third generation of the Star Proliferation Body, formed after the entity broke through its ascension cycle.
• Yu Sheng reasoned that death was the only common ground between the Dark Angel and this world, and proposed nurturing the seed to develop a way to make the Dark Angel compatible with this universe.

Yu Sheng planted the Star Proliferation Body seed in the Soul Courtyard, confident it would grow under his control. He then offered the restored Yun Qingzi a choice about his future, and Yun Qingzi asked for a quiet place or some work.

• Yu Sheng buried the Star Proliferation Body seed in the Soul Courtyard and explained that it was connected to him and could take root anywhere.
• Eileen admitted she had only been casually worried that the seed might run out of control, while Luna dismissed her boasting.
• Yu Sheng told Yun Qingzi that he had stopped him from dying and that he could choose to stay, leave, or die completely.
• Yun Qingzi declined to return to the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, saying he felt lost and wanted somewhere quiet to rest or some idle work.
• Yu Sheng offered Yun Qingzi a job as a gatekeeper at his orphanage.

Yu Sheng brought Yun Qingzi to Fairy Tale Town and offered him a quiet retirement job guarding the valley’s teleportation gates. Yun Qingzi was welcomed by the children, while Rapunzel learned that the new guard was a legendary fighter who had battled the Star Proliferation Body for a thousand years.

• Yun Qingzi manifested a temporary physical body in the valley and asked whether he could return to the Soul Wilderness after recreating his original body.
• Yu Sheng promised to open a permanent door to the Soul Wilderness and led Yun Qingzi toward Fairy Tale Town.
• Yu Sheng told Yun Qingzi that Ankaela was dead and that he had also defeated the Star Proliferation Body, startling the old man.
• Rapunzel returned from fishing with the children, and Yu Sheng scolded her for catching fish and shrimp he had recently stocked in the river.
• Yu Sheng introduced Yun Qingzi as a retired visitor who would guard the valley’s teleportation gates, and the children surrounded him, calling him Uncle Yun.
• Yu Sheng told Rapunzel that Yun Qingzi had fought the Star Proliferation Body for a thousand years and was more reliable as a guard than Sleeping Beauty.

Yu Sheng and Yun Qingzi discussed the uncertain memories left by the universe’s reshaping, and Yun Qingzi decided to remain officially dead during the Great Void Spiritual Pivot’s celebration. On the festival’s first day, Yu Sheng took Eileen, Huli, Luna, and the children down the mountain, while Xuan Che tried to recruit Zheng Zhi to speak about Yu Sheng’s power.

• Yun Qingzi told Yu Sheng and Eileen that his former sect might have been a memory, a brief dream, or an illusion from the universe’s reshaping.
• Yun Qingzi declined to attend the celebration of the Dark Angel’s fall and said he would later pay his respects at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• Eileen and Huli woke Yu Sheng early for the three-day celebration, and he found Rapunzel, Snow White, and the Dragon Slayer preparing the children for an outing.
• Little Red Riding Hood assigned shadow wolves to guard the children, and Yu Sheng added a mass-produced Eileen puppet for each child.
• Yu Sheng led the group through a portal to the foot of the mountain to avoid visitors seeking him, leaving Zheng Zhi behind.
• Xuan Che asked Zheng Zhi to tell the Five Sect Leaders about Yu Sheng’s might, and Zheng Zhi panicked and called for Yu Sheng to save him.

Yu Sheng and his companions explored the bustling city at the foot of Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, where Huli sampled food and Eileen collected trinkets. Luna finally found something that interested her: a souvenir statue of Yu Sheng, and the stall owner turned out to be Yuan Hao.

• Yu Sheng led Huli, Eileen, Luna, Ominous Wandering Star, and the children into the lively city below Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• Huli devoured pastries and other street food while Yu Sheng paid, and Eileen collected small decorations.
• Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel took the bowl-cut children to watch wandering cultivators perform street feats.
• Yu Sheng encouraged Luna to look around, and she eagerly led him toward a souvenir stall.
• Yu Sheng discovered a statue of himself labeled True Lord Yu Sheng, Sage of Great Virtue Who Bestows Grace and Saves Those in Distress.
• The stall owner turned around and revealed himself as Yuan Hao, who had dyed his white hair black and was selling blessed souvenirs and Yu Sheng figurines.

Yu Sheng and True Spirit Yuan Hao conspired to profit from souvenirs bearing Yu Sheng’s likeness before examining a mysterious cloth fragment. Yuan Hao linked his matching fragment to a crash inside a strange Black Star, where he encountered vast ruins and a gigantic, indistinct shadow.

• Yu Sheng discovered that portraits and blessed statues of him were being sold around the celebration, then joined Yuan Hao in plotting to share the profits.
• Yu Sheng asked Yuan Hao about a patterned cloth fragment that had appeared in his house, and Yuan Hao confirmed that he possessed a similar one.
• Yuan Hao recounted how his malfunctioning Immortal Boat crashed into a Black Star near the Argraidean Star Domain about a hundred years earlier.
• Yuan Hao described passing through the Black Star’s shifting outer layer and chaotic interior, where strange floating scenes gave way to enormous, cycling ruins.
• Yuan Hao said he flew into the central pit and reached a vast temple-like ruin, where he saw a gigantic shadow with a roughly human upper-body shape.

Yu Sheng listened as True Spirit Yuan Hao recounted vanishing into a black star, drifting through a mirrored chaos, and being rescued by a messenger named Kong Daman with the Ominous Banner. Their discussion linked Yuan Hao’s experience to the strange mirror at No. 66 Wutong Road, and the chapter ended with Eileen returning to Yu Sheng.

• Yu Sheng recognized Yuan Hao’s description of dark ruins as a scene he had seen reflected in the mirror at No. 66 Wutong Road.
• Yuan Hao described losing his body and Immortal Boat after entering a black star, then wandering through a chaotic realm of phantom cities, mountains, and ships.
• Yuan Hao said a messenger named Kong Daman wrapped him in cloth torn from the Ominous Banner and sent him back to the Immortal Boat.
• Yuan Hao revealed that the navigation log had skipped seventeen minutes and that he and the Immortal Boat had vanished from the world during that interval, costing him a small portion of his lifespan.
• Yu Sheng considered whether the snow-covered mountain cave in the mirror belonged to the phantoms Yuan Hao had seen, and Yuan Hao said it might have.
• Eileen returned, climbed onto Yu Sheng’s shoulder, and showed off the strange trinkets she had collected.

Yu Sheng explored the festival in the Great Void Spiritual Pivot while using his new connection to Shuzhi to inspect and repair the planet. He began planning Shuzhi’s recovery, but ended by discovering another painting of himself hanging behind Mo Ran.

• Eileen decorated herself and Ominous Wandering Star with festival trinkets, then asked Yu Sheng about Kong Daman, whom she did not recognize.
• Yu Sheng saw another painting of “XXXX True Lord Yu Sheng” for sale and listened as Eileen predicted people would soon worship images of him.
• Yu Sheng sent his consciousness through Shuzhi and oversaw a crystal-and-magma experimental furnace he had built underground.
• Yu Sheng inspected Shuzhi’s damaged crystal structures and resources, resolving to restore the declining planet and protect its people.
• Yu Sheng shifted his attention to Mo Ran in Mo City and saw an enormous painting of himself hanging behind her.

Yu Sheng discussed Dusk Silence’s recovery with Mo Ran and encouraged her to develop tourism, research, and trade around the planet’s history and crystals. He then sent her a mysterious semi-finished material from the Star Proliferation Body’s construction of the Ascension Body, which he believed had genuine potential.

• Mo Ran reported that Dusk Silence and the surrounding cities were recovering, though many residents were leaving and the planet’s future looked bleak.
• Mo Ran proposed attracting tourists, studying the angelic remains with outside researchers, and finding uses for the planet’s crystals.
• Yu Sheng approved her plans and suggested selling crystals, building cultural attractions, and promoting Dusk Silence’s history.
• Mo Ran began imagining ways to carry out the development plans, including turning nearby Refining Tower ruins into attractions.
• Yu Sheng sent Mo Ran a crystal-metal lump he had dug up near the mantle, explaining that it was likely a semi-finished product from the Star Proliferation Body’s construction of the Ascension Body.

Mo Ran learned that Shuji’s abundant crystals could support the planet’s recovery, and Yu Sheng promised to help expose a shallow vein for mining. Elsewhere, True Spirit Yuanling discussed Yu Sheng’s new role and the Angel Catalysts with Baili Qing, then learned that Yuan He was fretting over a girl who had left the mountain.

• Yu Sheng explained the crystals’ properties to Mo Ran, who resolved to have them refined and put to use rebuilding Shuji.
• Yu Sheng told Mo Ran he would move a shallow mineral vein toward a rift valley north of Mo City so mining could resume.
• True Spirit Yuanling told Baili Qing that Angel Catalysts from the Star Proliferation Body’s remains were secured and that Yu Sheng had become Shuji’s Star Guardian.
• Baili Qing warned Yuanling not to use hyperspace or subspace technology near an Angel Catalyst, then agreed that Yu Sheng was developing in a positive direction.
• Yuanling found Yuan He worrying about the girl who had left the mountain, and suggested they drink wine together while Senior Brother’s incarnation sat nearby.
• Yuanling stuck a spirit talisman on Senior Brother’s incarnation, and he and Yuan He hurried off to drink where Senior Brother could not find them.

Snake Princess returned to the village where she had lived, only to find it abandoned and learn from Song Shan that nearly two hundred years had passed. After sharing food and memories with him, she declined his offer to stay and set off for home.

• Snake Princess searched the overgrown village and found its houses abandoned, its well filled in, and her old cave in ruins.
• Song Shan recognized Snake Princess and told her the village had been relocated more than a century earlier and most of their old friends had died.
• Song Shan brought pastries and wine, and Snake Princess remembered the children who used to visit her cave as she ate and talked with him.
• Song Shan explained that he and the others had visited Snake Princess at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, where seeing familiar faces had helped calm her inner demons.
• As night fell, Snake Princess declined Song Shan's invitation to his home, said she could find him by scent, and told him she was going home.

Yu Sheng spent the day exploring Great Void Spiritual Pivot with Eileen, Huli, and Luna, then examined a fragment of the Ominous Banner in the empty room at home. Huli joined him and voiced concern that Eileen might not be an Alice doll, while Yu Sheng promised to investigate the Black Star and the Ominous.

• Yu Sheng admired the city’s nightscape with Eileen, Huli, and Luna, and they watched fireworks before heading home.
• Eileen grew exhausted and fell asleep in the bedroom, while Yu Sheng went alone to examine the scrap of cloth he had identified as an Ominous Banner fragment.
• Yu Sheng connected the fragment to the Black Star, its mirror-like space, the figure inside it, and Kong Daman, who had called himself an envoy.
• Huli found Yu Sheng and revealed that she and Luna had overheard his earlier discussion about the Black Star and the envoy.
• Huli worried that Eileen might not be an Alice doll and might be doubting herself; Yu Sheng reassured her that he would investigate the mystery.

Yu Sheng brought True Spirit Yuan Hao to investigate the mirror rift, and Yuan Hao covered the room’s walls with ancient spacetime waymarkers. When Yu Sheng reached toward the mirror, the rift opened and pulled him into darkness, where he saw the Dark Angel and a series of immense, otherworldly beings.

• Yu Sheng sent Huli, Eileen, and Luna down the mountain together and warned them to behave and look after one another.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao told Yu Sheng that his two junior brothers had found and drunk twelve jars of his Spirit Frost Brew.
• Yu Sheng showed Yuan Hao the empty room and explained how the mirror and surrounding wall sometimes let matter cross from the other side.
• Yuan Hao scattered his old waymarker talismans across the walls to try to stimulate the unstable rift.
• Yu Sheng felt intense resistance as he reached toward the mirror, which became covered in black fog and spread across the wall.
• Yu Sheng touched the fog and was drawn into darkness, where he witnessed visions of strange entities and the Dark Angel surrounding the mortal world.

Yu Sheng fell through the mirror’s black fog into an ancient temple dimension, where its worshipers’ prayers dragged his mind toward the temple. Eileen’s black webs pulled him back to the real world, leaving Yuan Hao and Old Handsome to notice his strange disappearance.

• Yu Sheng found that the doors in the black fog led to unfamiliar places and walked toward an intact temple among ancient pillars.
• Black fog formed countless worshipers, whose prayers drew Yu Sheng’s mind toward the temple and threatened to consume him.
• Eileen used black spiderwebs to pull Yu Sheng away from the temple and guide him back through the fog.
• Yu Sheng returned to the room as the mirror’s ripples vanished, and the three Eileens rushed over to check on him.
• Yuan Hao came out of his stillness, while Old Handsome asked Yu Sheng where he had gone.