Chapter Summaries

After the Demon Suppressing Tower’s seal was restored, the mountain’s defenders hunted down escaped creatures while Yu Sheng and his companions headed to Queyun Palace. Zheng Zhi still saw a stable, immense rift near the tower, and the chapter ended with the group encountering a bound seven-headed serpent amid the cleanup.

• The restored seal stopped new rifts from appearing, and Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain’s forces searched the mountain and captured escaped containment subjects.
• Yu Sheng, carrying the two Eileens on Huli, traveled toward Queyun Palace with Luna, Rapunzel, Zheng Zhi, and Cinderella’s group.
• Zheng Zhi reported that he could still see the enormous rift, though it had stabilized and its branching cracks had vanished.
• Yu Sheng said the rift was not an ordinary spatial rift, while True Spirit Yuan Hao flew nearby on a chainsaw-like sword.
• Xuan Che told Yu Sheng that the defense at Queyun Palace had suffered injuries but no deaths, and a bound seven-headed serpent wailed nearby.

Yu Sheng and his companions helped manage the aftermath of the Demon Suppressing Tower’s escape, then headed to the tower to assist with repairs. Snake Princess remained bound in the plaza, furious that the Crossroads experts were free while she was confined.

• Yu Sheng learned that Snake Princess had escaped the Demon Suppressing Tower and that Xuan Che’s martial uncle had accidentally given her a dog head that made her obsess over eating him.
• Xuan Che reported that his master had sealed the tower’s damaged areas and that True Spirit Qianji was repairing its mechanisms.
• Yu Sheng sent Cinderella and Rapunzel to warn and gather their companions, then told Zheng Zhi to accompany him to the tower.
• Yu Sheng opened a door to the Core Containment Zone, and he, Eileen, Zheng Zhi, and True Spirit Yuan Hao crossed through to help.
• Snake Princess complained to Xuan Che that Yu Sheng’s group looked like monsters too and demanded to know why they were not imprisoned.

Yu Sheng and the others inspected the catastrophic damage to the Demon Suppressing Tower and learned why dangerous entities had been imprisoned rather than killed. True Spirit Yuanling took them deeper into the tower to investigate a stable fissure that continued toward the earth vein, where the chapter left them nearing the source of the star core’s power.

• True Spirit Yuanling described how the failed core formation and attacking Demonic Beasts had damaged the tower and allowed monsters to escape.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao explained that some prisoners were spared because they could reform, were difficult to kill safely, or were connected to the cycle of heaven and earth.
• True Spirit Yuanling revealed that killing a primordial giant beast had shifted Eight Gates Star’s magnetic poles and potentially threatened local harvests.
• Yu Sheng warned that the fissure Zheng Zhi had seen remained stable but might still pose a danger, so True Spirit Yuanling decided to take them to the tower’s bottom.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao offered True Spirit Yuanling an assortment of oddly shaped magical treasures, and Yuanling hurried the group away on a flying platform.
• True Spirit Yuanling brought Yu Sheng and the others to a deep cavern where the earth vein and the Great Void Spiritual Pivot’s star-core power lay.

Yu Sheng and the others descended to the bottom of the Demon Suppressing Tower, where they found the chained Ominous Wandering Star and learned about the planet’s earth veins. Zheng Zhi showed Yu Sheng the rift that had pierced through the tower’s foundation and was still burrowing toward the planet’s core.

• Yu Sheng felt the planet’s earth veins pulsing beneath the tower and asked True Spirit Yuanling about them.
• The group reached the tower’s foundation and found a chained stone sphere at the center of the Demon Suppressing Array.
• True Spirit Yuanling identified the prisoner as the Ominous Wandering Star, a star-sea entity sealed after devouring earth veins.
• The Ominous Wandering Star asked whether Chao Gu had died, and True Spirit Yuanling confirmed that it had been killed after escaping.
• Zheng Zhi showed Yu Sheng where the rift had pierced the ground and said it was still descending toward the planet’s core.

Yu Sheng concluded that the Emperor's Legacy may be awakening and arranged to travel to Shuji to find Yun Qingzi aboard the inn's spaceship. As the group departed, the Ominous Wandering Star recovered from Eileen's strike and murmured, "...Ominous?"

• Yu Sheng, Eileen, and Huli suspected the rift near the main peak was connected to the Emperor's Legacy and that someone was trying to activate it.
• Yu Sheng decided to travel to Shuji to find Yun Qingzi, and True Spirit Yuanling agreed to arrange travel permits and navigation coordinates.
• Yu Sheng revealed that the inn's spaceship was ready to fly, despite unfinished modifications, and the group agreed to use it.
• As Yu Sheng and the others left, the Ominous Wandering Star taunted them until Eileen struck it with a strand of black webbing and silenced it.
• After the group departed, the Ominous Wandering Star's wounds healed, and it rose slightly before murmuring, "...Ominous?"

Yu Sheng and the Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain group inspected the remodeled Otherworld Inn and its newly built spaceport. True Spirit Yuan Hao explained why he planned to join the trip to the borderlands, ending with his claim that he had experience with navigation accidents.

• Yu Sheng and the others saw the Otherworld Inn, remodeled into a giant church-like starship, while a technician warned that its subsystems, including weapons, were offline.
• Yuan He admired the valley’s many distinct auras and suggested breeding spirit beasts there, but Yuanling reminded him that creatures living in the valley would become part of the Inn.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao told Yuanling that he intended to accompany Yu Sheng to the borderlands, and Yuanling worried he would disappear on another years-long journey.
• Yuan Hao explained that Yun Qingzi might have established a hidden secret realm near Shuju, and that his experience with strange realms could help locate it and prepare for ancient cultivators.
• Yu Sheng asked about Yuan Hao’s final reason for going, and Yuan Hao said he had extensive experience with navigation accidents.

Yu Sheng and his companions boarded the Otherworld Inn and launched it into space for their journey to Taiyou to search for Yun Qingzi and the black-robed cultivators. The ship reached the Great Void Spiritual Pivot safely, but Yu Sheng began piloting by reading the navigation manual aloud, leaving Xuan Che and True Spirit Yuan Hao uneasy.

• True Spirit Yuan Hao agreed to accompany Yu Sheng and Xuan Che to Taiyou, and Little Red Riding Hood came to see them off after keeping Long Hair from joining the voyage.
• Yu Sheng and the others boarded the Otherworld Inn, which lifted off from the spaceport and entered the real universe near the Great Void Spiritual Pivot.
• Eileen excitedly celebrated the ship's first voyage until Luna restrained her.
• Yu Sheng synchronized with the ship, studied its manual, and started the conventional engines while asking the Special Operations Bureau technicians about navigation procedures.
• Xuan Che expressed concern about Yu Sheng's piloting, and True Spirit Yuan Hao reassured him that he had experience with navigation accidents and wilderness survival.

Yu Sheng piloted the Otherworld Inn into hyperspace, where synchronizing with the ship let him perceive the universe and hear messages from the stars. When he reached toward information embedded in the cosmic background radiation, he received a warning not to tamper with a universe-scale BUG.

• Yu Sheng sensed something like whispers among the stars as the Otherworld Inn prepared to jump, and Zheng Zhi explained the Argraideans' star-reading ability.
• The ship entered hyperspace, and Eileen, Huli, Luna, Xuan Che, and True Spirit Yuan Hao watched the strange light beyond the observation window.
• Yu Sheng's awareness moved beyond his body and the ship as he perceived distant celestial phenomena and received strange information from the stars.
• Yu Sheng touched information clusters in the cosmic background radiation and heard a warning that a section of the laws depended on a BUG and should not be touched.

While piloting the Otherworld Inn through hyperspace, Yu Sheng’s mind touched the information embedded in the stars and glimpsed traces of the world’s creation. After returning to himself, he learned that no one else had experienced anything like it and sensed a figure within the reflection of the universe.

• The Phase Engine’s jump exposed Yu Sheng’s perception to the foundations of the world, where he heard the Creator’s confused thoughts as it rebooted reality.
• Yu Sheng ended his observation, returned to awareness in the control hall, and found Eileen trying to check whether he was breathing.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen he had seen things while entering hyperspace, then asked True Spirit Yuan Hao and Xuan Che whether faster-than-light travel revealed similar visions.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao said he had only received a speeding warning during his fastest trip, confirming Yu Sheng’s experience was unusual.
• Yu Sheng reassured Huli, walked to the observation window, and sensed a figure bustling through an eternal instant in the reflected universe.

Yu Sheng and his companions arrived in Dushu’s orbit aboard the Otherworld Inn and docked at a high-orbit berthing station. After completing the arrival procedures, they learned that Ink City, their destination, had been unsettled recently.

• Eileen asked about reaching Dushu, and Yu Sheng explained they would dock at an orbital station before taking Huli down to the planet.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao checked for surveillance, while Yu Sheng scanned for threats and found only routine identification, navigation, and traffic signals.
• Yu Sheng precisely docked the Otherworld Inn at Dushu’s berthing station and completed its registration procedures.
• Yu Sheng told the station guides that the group was heading to Ink City on a commission from Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
• A guide warned Yu Sheng that Ink City had been unsettled over the past two days.

Yu Sheng and his companions arrived at Shouji, where reports of cultivators suffering hallucinations and cultivation deviations had unsettled Mo City. As they descended toward the planet, Yu Sheng sensed that Shouji itself was in an abnormal, weakened state.

• A guide told Yu Sheng and Xuan Che that cultivators across Mo City had recently experienced strange visions and cultivation deviations, while local officials had found no cause.
• The guides described Shouji as a quiet frontier planet whose mining prosperity had faded after damage to its earth veins and the rise of a nearby star gate on Yao Lu Star.
• Huli, True Spirit Yuan Hao, and Xuan Che registered their unconventional vehicles for atmospheric travel, then left the orbital starport with Yu Sheng and Zheng Zhi.
• As the group approached Shouji, Yu Sheng sensed that the planet felt weak and unwell, and the others took his concern seriously even though they could not explain it.

Yu Sheng and his companions entered Ink City, where strict air-traffic rules and modern urban life contrasted with the cultivation world he knew. After Huli became distracted by a tail-care advertisement, the group headed toward their arranged lodging to eat.

• The Nine-tailed Fox carried Yu Sheng and Eileen through Shouji’s stormy equatorial skies toward Ink City, followed by True Spirit Yuan Hao and Xuan Che.
• At Ink City’s aerial checkpoint, cloaked cultivators detained a drunk Wine Sword Immortal because he flew on a sword instead of his registered purple-gold gourd.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao and Xuan Che explained the regulations and commercialized practice surrounding the Wine Sword Immortal path, prompting Yu Sheng to reflect on the Great Void-Feather Star civilization.
• The group passed through the checkpoint and landed in Ink City, where Huli collected advertising flyers, including one promoting care for spirit-beast tails.
• Xuan Che told the group that Master had arranged lodging near the city center, and Huli eagerly agreed to go there for food.

Yu Sheng and his companions began investigating the strange disturbances in Shuju, while Yu Sheng created a portable doorway linking their hotel to No. 66 Wutong Road. Elsewhere, a group of black-robed cultivators discovered that all twenty-two of their arrays had been disrupted and were ordered to find out why.

• True Spirit Yuan Hao proposed having Xuan Che work with Mo City while the group investigated places with abnormal spiritual energy and sluggish ley currents.
• Yu Sheng used a prepared card and his blood to create a doorway in the hotel that opened into the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road.
• Eileen, Xuan Che, and True Spirit Yuan Hao reacted with astonishment, while Huli casually used the doorway to fetch buns from home.
• At an abandoned industrial site outside Mo City, a black-robed group inspected an array surrounded by unstable rifts.
• The old man overseeing the cultivators ordered them to investigate the simultaneous disruption of all twenty-two arrays across the planet.

Yu Sheng and his companions crossed rainy Shujin while investigating anomalies near an ancient Refining Tower. After Huli sensed blood and the group rushed toward it, the tower vanished and a vast black rift appeared in its place.

• Yu Sheng and his companions disguised themselves in local styles and headed toward the city outskirts near the ancient Refining Tower.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao noticed that the strange disturbances in spiritual energy and leyline currents had disappeared as they approached, suggesting they had been concealed.
• Huli smelled blood nearby, and True Spirit Yuan Hao halted the rain long enough to pinpoint its source.
• Yu Sheng and the others hurried toward a desolate district as the surroundings flickered between the city and a barren wilderness.
• Zheng Zhi caught up with the group and saw that the ancient Refining Tower had vanished, replaced by a pitch-black rift stretching from sky to ground.

Yu Sheng and his companions found an injured six-tailed demon fox and a red-dressed five-tailed fox in the abandoned industrial district near the Refining Tower. True Spirit Yuan Hao stabilized the six-tailed fox, while the group learned that the pair had been ambushed in a strange place after an immortal sent them to seek an opportunity.

• Zheng Zhi spotted a huge rift near the Refining Tower, but it vanished seconds later.
• Yu Sheng, Luna, Huli, and Eileen followed the strong smell of blood into an abandoned factory complex.
• Yu Sheng’s group found the red-dressed five-tailed fox treating her badly wounded six-tailed maternal great uncle.
• Huli recognized the five-tailed fox as the one they had met in Taiyou, and the girl explained that black-clad attackers had ambushed them in a strange place before withdrawing.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao stabilized the six-tailed fox and said Yu Sheng’s physician junior brother would need to treat him fully.
• Eileen called the injured fox ugly, and Yu Sheng identified him as a Tibetan fox.

Yu Sheng and his allies fought black-clad cultivators and their demonic beasts as spatial rifts opened over the city. The battle continued while Yu Sheng sensed an unseen watcher, and Zheng Zhi pointed out someone hiding in the sky who seemed to bear Yu Sheng ill will.

• True Spirit Yuan Hao stabilized the injured Six-tailed Fox Demon as Huli and Luna detected strange noises and spatial rifts opening nearby.
• Black-clad cultivators and their demonic beasts charged through the collapsing rifts, and Yu Sheng went to meet them while telling Zheng Zhi to stay with True Spirit Yuan Hao.
• Yu Sheng, Luna, the Jade-faced Golden Fox, and Huli fought the attackers; the Jade-faced Golden Fox slowed the beasts with her flute, while Huli launched Fox Carrot Missiles.
• Yu Sheng sensed an unseen presence watching the battlefield, though Luna reported no hidden enemies on her radar.
• Zheng Zhi pointed toward the sky and told Yu Sheng that someone there was watching him and seemed to mean him harm.

Yu Sheng fought through a storm to uncover the hidden enemy directing the battle, a cleric of the Hermetic Society. As the enemy forces converged on him and Luna, the battlefield erupted into chaos.

• Yu Sheng rode Huli’s Fox Tail into the sky, where Huli’s attacks and Eileen’s beams helped him defeat two Demonic Beasts and wound a black-robed cultivator.
• Yu Sheng sensed and shattered the hidden spatial Barrier, revealing a white-robed Hermetic Society cleric controlling the thunderstorm.
• Luna attacked the cleric but struggled to hit him, while he recognized her as an Artificial Saintess who had broken away from the cognitive network.
• Yu Sheng questioned the cleric about his cooperation with the local cultivators, but the cleric summoned more thunder and sent the surrounding forces to attack.
• Luna, Huli, and Yu Sheng’s allies fought off waves of Demonic Beasts and cultivators as the battle descended into chaos.

Yu Sheng tore open the spatial Barrier and exposed the hidden black rift and the wilderness beyond Ink City, but the Hermetic Society priest killed him with lightning. As the priest attacked Eileen, she recharged herself and unleashed a massive energy beam.

• Yu Sheng realized the priest was confined to a small area because he had to maintain the fractured sky, then asked Eileen to hold him back while he charged behind him.
• Eileen trapped the priest with black threads and energy beams, giving Yu Sheng time to reach a hidden crack and rip open the space Barrier.
• The breach revealed a gigantic black rift, a wilderness beneath Ink City, and immense artificial structures, but the priest struck Yu Sheng with lightning and killed him.
• The priest destroyed the Fox Tail and repeatedly blasted Eileen, who had run out of power, while she tumbled helplessly through the air.
• Eileen survived the barrage by charging herself, then fired a scorching torrent of energy at the priest.

After Eileen destroyed the Holy Ascetic Society attacker with an uncontrolled Light Cannon, the group regrouped and prepared to take the injured Shang An for treatment. Linglong revealed that the mysterious immortal who had guided her was named Yun Qingzi, leaving the group stunned.

• Eileen’s Light Cannon wiped out the remaining attackers, and Eileen realized she had killed the cultist they had wanted to capture alive.
• Huli found Eileen’s rebar body in a mud pit while Eileen’s overcharged body landed nearby, and Eileen explained what had happened.
• Eileen told True Spirit Yuan Hao and Zheng Zhi that Yu Sheng would return soon, though she refused to explain further.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao said Shang An was stable but badly injured and needed treatment at Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, so the group waited in the ruined factory.
• Linglong introduced herself and explained that an immortal named Yun Qingzi had guided her and Shang An to seek an opportunity.

Linglong learned that Yun Qingzi had contaminated her mind and was drawing people toward a supposed destiny, while the others pieced together the timing of the influence. Yu Sheng returned from death to find the battle won and sensed that the rain falling through the Soul Wilderness might be connected to “Silent Garrison.”

• Linglong recalled that a voice named Yun Qingzi had led her and her Maternal Great Uncle to Taiyou, and True Spirit Yuan Hao dispelled the mental contamination clouding her mind.
• Linglong remembered that the influence began around the time Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain announced a malfunction in its mountain-protecting formation, and True Spirit Yuan Hao explained recent events to her.
• Linglong fainted after realizing that True Spirit Yuan Hao was the sect master, and Eileen accidentally shocked her into a deep coma while Huli tried to help.
• Yu Sheng returned to the Soul Wilderness, where Luna told him that Eileen had killed the Hermetic Society priest with a beam of light after being struck by lightning.
• Yu Sheng examined the strange rain falling across the wilderness and sensed information in it, wondering whether it was part of “Silent Garrison.”