Chapter Summaries

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.

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.