Chapter Summaries

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.

Yu Sheng and True Spirit Yuanling interrogated the black-robed cultivator, uncovering details about Emperor’s Legacy and Yun Qingzi before Yun Qingzi’s mental restriction interrupted the questioning. The group left the prison with new questions about Yun Qingzi’s whereabouts, and Yuan Hao considered whether any place near Shuji matched the clues.

• The black-robed cultivator revealed that Emperor’s Legacy lay in hidden depths reached through rifts scattered across the Feather Star Domain, and that his benefactor Yun Qingzi was nearby but not in Shuji.
• Yun Qingzi’s consciousness emerged through the restriction in the cultivator’s mind, but True Spirit Yuanling, Yuan He, and Yuan Hao disrupted the illusion and prevented the backlash from killing him.
• The black-robed cultivator awakened and admitted that he and his companions had volunteered, but he refused to answer True Spirit Yuanling’s further questions about the Otherworld and their plans.
• True Spirit Yuanling arranged for the cultivator to receive more medicine, then left the prison with Yu Sheng and Eileen.
• Yu Sheng urged the group to find Yun Qingzi, and True Spirit Yuanling asked Yuan Hao to identify a rainy place near Shuji where Yun Qingzi might be hiding.
• Yuan Hao said Shuji was rainy near its equator but knew of no nearby secluded place that stayed rainy year-round.

Yu Sheng and the Queyun Palace elders responded to reports of a strange fissure appearing in the sky above the Cloud Gazing Platform. After learning it seemed to strike the mountains near the Demon Suppressing Tower, they realized the abnormality could be serious.

• Yu Sheng agreed with True Spirit Yuanling and True Spirit Yuan Hao that they should investigate the evil cultivators on Shuji, while Xuan Che offered to go with him.
• True Spirit Yuanling recounted True Spirit Yuan Hao’s reckless outings with Xuan Che, and the elders bickered until Zheng Zhi called Yu Sheng about a crack in the sky.
• Yu Sheng opened a doorway to the Cloud Gazing Platform and brought Eileen and the elders through, while Lin Lang stayed behind and reminded them to register when leaving the Heart Questioning Pavilion.
• At No. 66 Wutong Road, Zheng Zhi, Rapunzel, and Cinderella confirmed they had briefly seen a dark, lightning-like fissure strike toward the mountain forest.
• After Yu Sheng questioned Zheng Zhi about the fissure’s location, he realized it appeared to have landed near the Demon Suppressing Tower, and True Spirit Yuanling exclaimed that something was wrong.

Yu Sheng and the others responded as the Demon Suppressing Tower’s containment failures unleashed monsters across Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain. The Cloud Gazing Platform became a battlefield, where Yuan Hao, Eileen, Huli, and Rapunzel fought back as more rifts opened.

• True Spirit Yuanling used Yu Sheng’s door to reach the Demon Suppressing Tower and ordered Xuan Che and Yuan He to secure the mountain while Yuan Hao prepared to fight.
• A rumble shook Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, rifts opened, and warning bells sounded as creatures began pouring out.
• A chained bone-and-flesh beast broke through a rift and charged the Cloud Gazing Platform, but Eileen bound it with webs and Yuan Hao destroyed it with his Ten Directions Heaven Suppressing Ruler.
• More rifts opened throughout the sea of clouds, and Eileen, Huli, and Yu Sheng fought the escaping creatures as they swarmed the Cloud Gazing Platform.
• Rapunzel cut down the monsters around her and spread her magical golden hair across the platform, using its weapons to attack the incoming enemies.

As the rifts multiplied, Yu Sheng and the others fought monsters on the Cloud Gazing Platform until the Great Desolate Meteorite Crystal emerged and began turning creatures into crystal statues. Luna silenced it, and True Spirit Yuan Hao destroyed it with the Haotian Demon Suppressing Hammer.

• Yu Sheng sent Zheng Zhi and Cinderella into No. 66 Wutong Road, then joined the fight with Eileen, Huli, and Rapunzel on the Cloud Gazing Platform.
• Rapunzel killed an ape-like ferocious beast with her golden hair, while Eileen and Huli fought off other monsters.
• A crystalline passage opened, and the Great Desolate Meteorite Crystal emerged as its chimes pacified the battlefield and transformed a lizard-shaped demon into a crystal statue.
• Luna resisted the crystal’s influence and struck it, interrupting its chimes; True Spirit Yuan Hao explained that it was a dangerous entity from Desolate Heaven that had been used to suppress demons.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao summoned the Haotian Demon Suppressing Hammer and smashed the Great Desolate Meteorite Crystal to pieces.

Xuan Che and the mountain-guarding disciples fought demons escaping the Demon Suppressing Tower as experts from across the mountain joined the battle. True Spirit Yuanling and Elder Qianji began sealing the tower together, leaving the breach on the verge of being contained.

• True Spirit Yuan Hao shattered the Great Desolate Meteorite Crystal, releasing a force that erased nearby spatial rifts and eased the defenders’ pressure.
• Xuan Che surveyed the mountain-sealing formation and the activated defenses before confronting the seven-headed Snake Princess as she attacked the mountain road.
• Seven Thunder Titans overwhelmed Snake Princess, while Snow White and the King joined the assault and left her tied up and unconscious.
• The Kingdom Mage Corps, heavy bombers, a Red Dragon, and a giant beanstalk attacked the demons escaping across Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• True Spirit Yuanling and Elder Qianji formed Dharma Body Illusions and led the mountain-guarding disciples in chanting a seal over the Demon Suppressing Tower.