Chapter Summaries

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.

Yu Sheng told Yuan Hao and the Eileens about the mirror passage and the temple he encountered, and they agreed to secure the mirror while investigating where it led. Elsewhere, Snake Princess returned to Yuan He after spending the night watching fireworks and sleeping in a cool place.

• Yu Sheng recounted how he entered the mirror and saw a temple surrounded by praying phantoms in a strange dimension.
• Yuan Hao speculated that the mirror passage scrambled the rules of time and space, then confirmed his marker could open it without reliably determining its destination.
• Eileen warned Yu Sheng not to touch the mirror again, and Yuan Hao went upstairs with a spiritual brick to seal the marker.
• Yuan He worried that Snake Princess had not returned, but she arrived moments later and explained that she had watched fireworks before sleeping by the moat.
• Snake Princess ate the pavilion's snacks and asked Yuan He why his face was swollen, prompting him to blame the effects of drinking.

Yu Sheng moved No. 66 Wutong Road from Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain back to Boundary City and set up blood-locked portals so his friends could visit. After reuniting with Li Lin, he received a call from Baili Qing asking him to come to the Special Operations Bureau.

• Yu Sheng installed a portal door on Cloud Gazing Platform and invited True Spirit Yuanling, Yuan Hao, Xuan Che, and the disciples to receive blood blessings that let them open it.
• No. 66 Wutong Road reappeared in Boundary City, and Yu Sheng returned with Eileen and Luna while Huli rushed off to buy braised meat.
• Yu Sheng reunited with Li Lin and told him he did not plan to leave for an extended period.
• Baili Qing called Yu Sheng and asked him to come to the Special Operations Bureau.

Yu Sheng told Baili Qing and Baili Xue about the Omen Goddess, the temple hidden in his memories, and other strange phenomena, while Baili Qing investigated the memory and decided to contact Ms. Malin. Back at No. 66 Wutong Road, Eileen kept grinding her Ominous Wandering Star as Huli ate lunch.

• Yu Sheng asked Baili Qing whether the Special Operations Bureau had records about the Omen Goddess, and she said she had already checked.
• Yu Sheng described falling through a mirror into the Omen Goddess's temple, and Baili Qing used her ability to examine his memories.
• Baili Xue entered the temple scene in Yu Sheng's memory, but the half-human, half-spider phantom noticed her and drove her back.
• Yu Sheng told Baili Qing about Eileen, the Black Star, the Star Proliferation Body, and events in the Feather Star Domain, and Baili Qing decided to contact Ms. Malin.
• Eileen ground the Ominous Wandering Star against the ground to smooth it while Huli ate braised-meat rice.

Yu Sheng encountered a doll named Malin from Alice's Cabin at the mall, where she vanished and left him holding her gloved hand. Back home, he gave Eileen a phone watch and told her about Malin, leaving Eileen stunned and eager to know what happened.

• Yu Sheng shopped downtown and noticed a strangely dressed woman who had no heartbeat or breath.
• The woman introduced herself as Malin from Alice's Cabin, then vanished during a moment when the mall seemed to pause, leaving Yu Sheng with her gloved hand.
• Yu Sheng returned home, gave Eileen a phone watch, and told her he had met Malin.
• Eileen excitedly asked whether Malin had come back with Yu Sheng, then froze when he explained that she had disappeared and left one hand behind.

Marlene returned to Alice’s Cabin after an encounter with Yu Sheng left her right hand missing. Yu Sheng learned that Marlene was a legitimate envoy and that she planned to visit him the next day to retrieve the hand she had left behind.

• Marlene printed a new body at her mansion but could not replace her missing right hand, which she said had been taken during an encounter.
• Yu Sheng, Huli, and Eileen examined Marlene’s severed hand and speculated about why she had left it with Yu Sheng.
• Eileen suggested that Yu Sheng ask Baili Qing whether Marlene was an envoy from Alice’s Cabin.
• Yu Sheng called Baili Qing, who confirmed Marlene was a legitimate envoy and said she would investigate the strange encounter.
• Baili Qing called back and told Yu Sheng that Marlene would visit the next day to retrieve her hand.