Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng returned from the Soul Wilderness, reunited with the others, and sent the injured corsac fox and Linglong to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain for treatment. Meanwhile, Xuan Che began a private investigation in Mo City with the cooperation of City Lord Mo Ran.

• Luna told Yu Sheng that rain from Shuji had appeared in the Soul Wilderness, but its limited range caused no other changes.
• Yu Sheng returned to the abandoned factory, where Eileen and another puppet joyfully rushed at him; he promised Eileen an event skin after hearing how she had helped.
• Yu Sheng opened a gate to Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain and sent the injured corsac fox through, followed by Linglong after Eileen startled her with a spark.
• Yu Sheng said he would search the factory for overlooked clues before checking on Xuan Che's progress.
• Mo Ran offered Xuan Che a sunnier place to stay, but he declined because he was conducting a private investigation on his master's orders.
• Mo Ran pledged that the Shuji Mo Family would cooperate with the High Master's investigation.

Mo Ran briefed Xuan Che on a wave of demonic corruption and disappearances in Mo City, and Xuan Che revealed that the cases were likely tied to the insane ancient being Yun Qingzi. In a hidden underground refuge, the Great Sage examined corrupted memories from a dead clone and learned that its killer may have been a tiny figure.

• Mo Ran showed Xuan Che reports of cultivators and other beings falling into demonic corruption, including a Refining Tower administrator who vanished into a ley-line rift.
• Mo Ran explained that many victims had projected their divine senses, though some had lost control without meditating or cultivating.
• Xuan Che warned Mo Ran to keep the matter secret and said the incidents were likely connected to the insane ancient mighty being Yun Qingzi.
• The Great Sage awakened in the Hermetic Society's underground refuge and asked what the recovered signal from his dead clone had revealed.
• A technical cultivator showed the Great Sage chaotic memory fragments ending with a red-eyed woman in black, apparently only a few dozen centimeters tall, killing the clone.
• The Great Sage questioned whether a doll had killed him and silently studied the image.

The Great Sage investigated the memory fragments showing a mysterious woman, then confronted Yun Qingzi about the danger his actions had brought to Mo City. Yun Qingzi revealed that the Great Void Spiritual Pivot itself was the Emperor's Legacy, leaving Mo Ran alarmed by the possibility that his influence was already affecting her city.

• The Great Sage ordered a technomancer to report the clone's final memories and continue investigating the mysterious woman called the doll.
• The Great Sage struggled with memory gaps and strange symptoms after transferring into a new clone, then traveled deeper underground to meet Yun Qingzi.
• The Great Sage accused Yun Qingzi of attracting unidentified enemies to Mo City, but Yun Qingzi said his recent actions had been a deliberate search for the Emperor's Legacy.
• Yun Qingzi revealed that the Great Void Spiritual Pivot itself was the Emperor's Legacy and said he had his own plan to obtain it.
• The Great Sage agreed to keep helping suppress the Star Proliferation Body's influence, asking Yun Qingzi to warn them before making further major moves.
• After Xuan Che explained Yun Qingzi's condition and the anomalies tied to him, Mo Ran realized the danger might already be close to home.

Xuan Che told Mo Ran about the attack on Mo City and the discovery of a spatial overlap, leaving her to absorb the growing threat from Yun Qingzi and the Holy Ascetic Society. Yu Sheng and True Spirit Yuan Hao searched the site but could not find the rift again, so Yu Sheng decided to return and investigate the clues.

• Xuan Che told Mo Ran that cultivators had vanished in Mo City and discussed the possible involvement of Yun Qingzi, then questioned her about Star Guardian Elder Dao Heng.
• Xuan Che received Yu Sheng’s message and reported that Yun Qingzi’s black-robed cultivators, Demonic Beasts, and a Holy Ascetic Society heretic had attacked near Mo City, where a huge spatial overlap had appeared.
• Yu Sheng and True Spirit Yuan Hao searched the rainy site but found no trace of the rift or any hidden entrance.
• Eileen (Pika) joked with Huli and Luna while Yu Sheng and True Spirit Yuan Hao searched overhead.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen that he could not reopen the rift and decided to return to consider the clues, then offered to wash the mud-covered Eileen (rebar).

After returning to the Huixian Continent, Yu Sheng dealt with Eileen’s muddy, overcharged state and began considering how to develop her automaton body’s unusual abilities. He proposed mass-producing matching shells to create an Eileen Matrix, and Eileen eagerly agreed to try the idea.

• Yu Sheng filled a bathtub with hot water for Eileen, who splashed mud onto his pants before he tossed her into the tub.
• Huli brought her wet tails into the bathroom, then washed them alongside Eileen despite Eileen’s protests.
• Yu Sheng returned to the hotel suite and learned that Eileen was slowly discharging excess electricity through a grounding wire.
• Yu Sheng considered how Eileen’s body could use its ability to absorb and release electricity, then proposed making identical shells that could coordinate as an Eileen Matrix.
• Eileen found the plan exciting and agreed to try it.

Yu Sheng and Eileen discussed making mass-produced puppet bodies, then turned to investigating the Holy Ascetic Society and its connection to Yun Qingzi. Xuan Che suggested the cultists and Yun Qingzi shared a target, and Yu Sheng realized that target was Dark Angel.

• Yu Sheng and Eileen agreed to test how many mass-produced puppet bodies Eileen could control after making them.
• Yu Sheng asked True Spirit Yuan Hao about the Holy Ascetic Society, and Yuan Hao said Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain had recently caught heretics near its borders.
• Xuan Che flew through the window, was struck by Eileen’s electrical discharge, and asked Yu Sheng to save him from another zap.
• Xuan Che reported that the lord of Mo City knew nothing about the Hermetic Society or the black-robed cultivators and suspected local leaders had been negligent.
• Xuan Che proposed that the Hermetic Society and Yun Qingzi might have a common target, and Yu Sheng identified it as Dark Angel.

Yu Sheng, Xuan Che, Zheng Zhi, and True Spirit Yuan Hao connected Yun Qingzi’s disappearance to a possible battle with a Dark Angel and his cooperation with the Holy Ascetic Society. They decided to investigate the uninhabited planet near Shujì where the fight took place, hoping to find clues about the angel and Yun Qingzi’s hidden danger.

• Yu Sheng and Xuan Che reasoned that Yun Qingzi may have fought a Dark Angel a thousand years ago and obtained its Angel Catalyst, giving him a reason to work with the Holy Ascetic Society.
• True Spirit Yuan Hao suggested the society might be helping Yun Qingzi suppress a hidden danger from that battle, while Xuan Che guessed the Emperor’s Legacy could offer another cure.
• Yu Sheng pointed out that their theory needed confirmation, and the group considered whether the Dark Angel had been destroyed or had survived.
• Yu Sheng proposed checking historical records for signs of a Dark Angel’s arrival or death, but Xuan Che explained that the battle site had been outside the monitoring network.
• Yu Sheng decided they should visit the uninhabited planet near Shujì anyway to search for any remaining clues.

Yu Sheng and his companions prepared for further danger on Shouji, then Eileen accidentally blasted Xuan Che with divine lightning. Back in Boundary City, Baili Qing learned that the Dark Angel was causing trouble around Yu Sheng again.

• Yu Sheng warned that Yun Qingzi’s influence and the Holy Ascetic Society might still threaten Shouji, while Zheng Zhi and Yuan Hao arranged investigations and reports.
• Eileen accidentally discharged powerful divine lightning when Xuan Che tripped over her, sending him crashing into the ceiling and floor.
• Yuan Hao warned Xuan Che that his constitution made a lightning tribulation likely when he sought the Dao.
• Song Cheng reported to Baili Qing that Boundary City and Mist City had been peaceful and their operations were progressing steadily.
• Song Cheng received Zheng Zhi’s message about trouble on Yu Sheng’s side, and Baili Qing learned that the Dark Angel was causing trouble there again.

Yu Sheng, Huli, and Eileen built a prototype mass-produced doll body designed to fight and operate independently. After rejecting a dangerous self-destruct feature, Yu Sheng decided to equip the dolls with portable No. 66 Wutong Road, and the newly awakened Eileen (mass-produced) marked the end of the chapter.

• Yu Sheng returned to the sunny valley with Eileen and Huli and took them to the Nexus Pyramid's alchemy workshop to make a mass-produced combat body.
• Huli prepared a Spirit Fox Profound Iron skeleton while Yu Sheng tried to reduce its size and cost, and Eileen insisted it retain enough strength and energy storage for combat.
• Eileen proposed adding a self-destruct function, and she and Yu Sheng eagerly discussed ways to make the doll explode before deciding that explosives would be dangerous in their valley home.
• Yu Sheng decided to give the mass-produced dolls portable No. 66 Wutong Road instead of a self-destruct mechanism.
• Yu Sheng completed the spirit-infusion ritual, and Eileen (mass-produced) opened her eyes on the alchemy platform.

Yu Sheng and Eileen awakened a mass-produced Eileen doll’s basic spirit, taught it to follow commands, and tested its built-in door. Yu Sheng successfully used the door to teleport the doll beside him, then hinted that the dolls could serve broader purposes.

• Eileen struggled to teach the newly activated mass-produced doll to stand and walk until the group helped awaken its basic spirituality.
• Eileen tested the doll’s movements and found it could imitate tasks, understand speech, and learn by observing, while explaining that future dolls could share knowledge through their connection.
• Yu Sheng asked the mass-produced doll to move across the laboratory and used the door imprinted in its body to teleport it back beside him.
• Yu Sheng explained that the dolls’ built-in doors could be used for more than summoning them, suggesting greater applications.

Yu Sheng and Eileen explored the uses of the doors built into mass-produced automatons, then began expanding production by teaching a test unit to make more. The work left Yu Sheng and Huli considering the limits imposed by the key materials, while Eileen joked about extracting Yu Sheng’s blood.

• Yu Sheng explained that mass-produced automatons could serve as mobile beacons, teleport themselves to safety, and potentially summon one another.
• Eileen offered to personally control the automatons when their limited judgment was insufficient, and Yu Sheng discovered she was experimenting with keeping some of her bodies awake while others slept.
• Yu Sheng decided to increase production and set up molds and alchemy platforms in the laboratory.
• Yu Sheng demonstrated the automaton-making process, and the test unit quickly learned to engrave ritual formations and shape mud around the skeletons.
• Huli and Yu Sheng identified Spirit Fox Profound Iron and Yu Sheng’s blood as the main materials limiting production.
• Eileen suggested draining Yu Sheng for blood, then amended her plan to draining him only half to death.

Yu Sheng and Eileen discovered that mass-produced dolls could awaken more dolls on their own, allowing their numbers to grow without constant human involvement. Yu Sheng began assigning them to understaffed facilities around the valley, and he introduced a first group to Fairy Tale Town, leaving Little Red Riding Hood bewildered.

• A third mass-produced Eileen awakened after two dolls built her and named her, prompting Yu Sheng and Eileen to realize the dolls could repeat the process themselves.
• Yu Sheng decided to store more of his regenerating blood, while the dolls multiplied until the laboratory’s available raw materials ran out.
• Yu Sheng explained to Huli and Eileen that the dolls could help maintain the starport, care for children, clean the Nexus, and staff other facilities.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen to leave half the dolls making more machines and take the rest outside to meet the others.
• Yu Sheng led more than a dozen mass-produced Eileens into Fairy Tale Town and told Little Red Riding Hood they would be assigned to local facilities.

Mass-produced Eileen dolls began settling into the valley and learning basic tasks, while Yu Sheng and his companions secretly traveled from Silent Guarding to Garrison-3 to investigate the site of Yun Qingzi’s battle. As Xuan Che warned them to be careful, Yu Sheng learned that professionals had already cleaned up the aftermath of Yun Qingzi’s death.

• Yu Sheng sent the first batches of mass-produced Eileen dolls to the power station, lumberyard, and spaceport to familiarize themselves with their surroundings before taking on basic work.
• Little Red Riding Hood, Eileen, and Rapunzel watched the dolls settle into the valley, while Yu Sheng said they could build an Eileen Doll Town if the Nexus Pyramid filled up.
• The dolls struggled to find tools and understand their assignments, and the Eileen Matrix began sharing skills as more dolls awakened in the Nexus Pyramid.
• Yu Sheng, Eileen (rebar), and Luna left Silent Guarding aboard Huli for Garrison-3, while Xuan Che, True Spirit Yuan Hao, and Zheng Zhi remained in Ink City.
• Xuan Che explained that Garrison-3 was barren and that Yun Qingzi’s battle site lay in a large impact crater in its southern hemisphere.
• Yu Sheng wondered why the battle site was not treated as a forbidden land, and Xuan Che explained that professionals had managed Yun Qingzi’s remains and that modern burial techniques prevented such hazards.

True Spirit Yuanling and his allies responded to signs that Yun Qingzi was drawing people toward Shuju while a greater danger loomed over Tai Xu Star. In the Demon Suppressing Tower, the Ominous Wandering Star warned Snake Princess of impending doom, but found her response so unimpressed that it demanded a more intelligent conversation partner.

• True Spirit Yuanling and True Person Yuan He reviewed reports of unusual travel toward Shuju and arranged inspections and a search for people influenced by Yun Qingzi.
• True Spirit Qianji reported that Ten Halls of Crouching Clouds and Hengxu had sealed routes to Shuju and that Yaolan Sect and Nether Valley would share records about the planet.
• True Spirit Yuanling sensed that a shadow of danger over Tai Xu Star was greater than Yun Qingzi and his followers could explain.
• The Ominous Wandering Star startled Snake Princess awake, and she explained that Yuan He had sent her to the lower level after she informed on other captured demons.
• The Ominous Wandering Star told Snake Princess that doom was approaching and its escape was near, but she merely asked what that meant.
• The Ominous Wandering Star demanded that Yuanling or Yuan He send it someone with a brain, but no one answered.

Yu Sheng, Eileen, and Luna reached the barren Garrison-3, where Luna sensed a death aura and Yu Sheng recognized the planet’s strange condition from his earlier visit to Silent Garrison. After landing at the impact crater Xuan Che had identified, Yu Sheng began searching for traces of a Dark Angel.

• True Person Yuan He and True Spirit Yuanling discussed the Ominous Wandering Star’s warnings and Yuan He’s efforts to help Snake Princess.
• Yu Sheng and his companions approached Garrison-3, and Luna sensed that a death aura surrounded the planet.
• Yu Sheng compared Garrison-3’s strange condition to Silent Garrison and felt as though he were nearing a gigantic corpse.
• Eileen predicted that Yu Sheng would suffer another bloody disaster, then Huli descended through Garrison-3’s atmosphere.
• Yu Sheng landed Huli inside the crater’s ring-shaped mountains, messaged Xuan Che, and headed toward the crater’s center to search for traces of a Dark Angel.

Yu Sheng and his companions investigated the ancient impact crater on Garrison-3 and found strange crystals that connected his consciousness to Warden Silence. The crystals awakened and formed a giant, Yun Qingzi-like figure that addressed Yu Sheng as an old acquaintance.

• Huli found lingering spiritual power and a deathly aura throughout the crater, while Luna’s scans found no traces of the Dark Angel.
• Yu Sheng examined pale crystals at the crater’s center and experienced a vision of Warden Silence surrounded by a swirling, darkening sky.
• Eileen and the little rebar puppet jolted Yu Sheng out of his daze, and he discovered that a crystal fragment had cut his palm.
• The crystal clusters across the crater began growing and surging out of the ground as something massive emerged beneath the glass-like surface.
• A towering crystal aggregate resembling Yun Qingzi turned toward Yu Sheng and greeted him, saying, “Daoist friend... long time no see...”

Yu Sheng and his companions encountered a crystal mass resembling Yun Qingzi at Garrison-3, but it became hostile and repeatedly regenerated as a crystal jungle despite their attacks. As the battle wore on and the Mass-produced Eileens began retreating, Yu Sheng remained wounded and unable to determine what the entity was.

• Yu Sheng recognized the crystalline figure as Yun Qingzi, prepared to fight, and cautiously called out to him.
• Yun Qingzi muttered in confusion before identifying Yu Sheng's group as a threat and attacking with growing crystals, blades, and electricity.
• Yu Sheng summoned hundreds of Mass-produced Eileens while Huli launched Fox Carrot Missiles, and their combined fire shattered Yun Qingzi's body.
• The crystals regenerated into a jungle, repeatedly forming new Yun Qingzis and forcing Yu Sheng's group into a prolonged fight.
• Yu Sheng was wounded by crystal shards and felt a strange buzzing connection pointing toward Shouji, while Luna protected him and many Eileens retreated to the valley.

Yu Sheng realized the crystal forest was trying to transmit a signal to Silence Guard and decided it had to be stopped before the transmission succeeded. Huli launched her ultimate technique from near-Earth orbit, leaving the group watching as she prepared to bombard the forest from above.

• Yu Sheng sensed that the crystal forest was sending information to Silence Guard and learned that its regeneration could be overwhelmed by destroying much of its surface at once.
• Yu Sheng considered sacrificing the Otherworld Inn's unusable subsystems, but Huli offered to use a powerful move taught to her by her mother.
• Huli warned that she would be left hungry and helpless afterward, then leaped into the sky as Yu Sheng evacuated Eileen, Luna, and the puppets.
• Yu Sheng saw the crystal forest spread across the crater and sensed it struggling to escape the restraints around its buried heart.
• Huli reached near-Earth orbit, enlarged her body, gathered foxfire into her nine tails, and aimed her orbital bombardment at the planet.

Yu Sheng and Huli struck the crystal jungle with a space-based fox bomb, destroying it but leaving Huli stuck headfirst in the crater. After Yu Sheng revived, he called Engineer Sun to help free the exhausted, hungry fox.

• Yu Sheng sensed an enormous energy reaction in the crystal jungle, returned to suppress it, and died as Huli's bombardment struck.
• Luna carried Eileen away from the blast, and the fox bomb obliterated the crystal jungle.
• Yu Sheng transferred his consciousness to the Otherworld Inn and learned that Huli was trapped upside down in the crater.
• Eileen summoned mass-produced dolls to dig Huli out, but their shovels made little progress.
• Yu Sheng revived, heard Huli ask for food, and called Engineer Sun for help.

Yu Sheng had Huli freed from the fused crystal on Garrison-3 and arranged for samples to be collected from a buried crystal structure. In Mo City, Xuan Che awaited Garrison Silence’s Star Guardian, but Mo Ran’s introduction revealed that no one stood beside her.

• Engineer Sun and his crew dug Huli out of the fused crystal while Yu Sheng asked them to investigate a buried crystal branch and collect samples.
• Huli recovered, complained of hunger, and rushed through Yu Sheng’s door to eat at the Special Operations Bureau cafeteria.
• Yu Sheng sensed faint underground reactions through his blood connection and directed Engineer Sun’s crew to begin digging.
• Xuan Che reviewed Yu Sheng’s reports from Garrison-3 and sensed an unsettling discordance across Mo City.
• Mo Ran introduced Elder Dao Heng as Garrison Silence’s Star Guardian, but Xuan Che saw no one beside her at the doorway.