Chapter Summaries

Bai Fu led the players and the Holy Congregation to the Trola Pirates’ base to capture the pirates and investigate their connection to Mita and the Dissociative Potion. After the players’ staged escape drew the pirate leaders into a trap, Bai Fu subdued Sien and demanded to know why Mita was researching the potion’s mother sample.

• Bai Fu shared her hidden mainline quest with the players, recruited them to help preserve evidence, and agreed to travel with Elon and the Holy Congregation to the Trola Pirates’ base.
• At the edge of the star cemetery, Bai Fu had the players pretend to neglect their guard duties so several pirates would escape and reveal the location of the mining-ship base.
• Trola told Sien that his Second Brother had been captured and then escaped with hostages, and Sien decided to interrogate them and help retrieve the Ulysses People.
• The players attacked Trola and Sien with Bai Fu’s Prayer Card summons, while the Spiritual Energy Legion overwhelmed the mining ship and the players pinned Trola down.
• Bai Fu arrived, immobilized Sien, and demanded to know why Mita was researching the mother sample of the Dissociative Potion.

Bai Fu captured Sean and uncovered Mita’s effort to cultivate an original Dissociative Potion sample using the Ulysses People, while Elon’s interrogation revealed that Mita possessed a True Spirit Pillar. Sean died during a sudden attack, and Mita’s Head Butler realized the Holy Congregation might have found the real pillar and ordered them stopped.

• Bai Fu forced Trola to reveal a hidden lab, where she found an original Dissociative Potion sample and learned Mita had used captured Ulysses People to cultivate it.
• Bai Fu accepted a quest to collect five samples and suspected Mita had deliberately destabilized Ulysses Star to obtain its people.
• Sui Xi hypnotized Sean, who said Mita guarded a True Spirit Pillar, though he did not know whether Suixing had joined Mita.
• Sean suddenly attacked Elon, then died after Elon restrained him, while Mita’s forces approached the mining ship.
• The Head Butler viewed Sean’s memories, concluded the Holy Congregation might have found Suixing and the True Spirit Pillar, and ordered his forces to stop them.

Mita's fleet attacked Bai Fu, Elon, and the others to seize the True Spirit Pillar, forcing them to flee through the Star Cemetery and onto a harsh planet. Bai Fu stalled Mita's pursuers with psychic cards until the Star Network reinforcements arrived, while the fate of Elon and the Holy Congregation remained uncertain.

• Mita's fleet emerged near the Sea Lion Galaxy and attacked the ship carrying Bai Fu and the others; Elon and Sui Xi concluded that Mita possessed the True Spirit Pillar.
• Bai Fu's group fled into the Star Cemetery as Mita's fleet pursued them, and Sui Xi reported that Star Network reinforcements would take two or three hours to arrive.
• With their shields failing, Elon took the group down to a rugged planet, then split up with Bai Fu and Sui Xi to evade Mita and buy time.
• Bai Fu used psychic cards to destroy or confuse Mita's pursuing aircraft, while players piloted fighters and decoys to keep the fleet occupied.
• After failing to find the real Bai Fu among the decoys, Mita's forces began to withdraw, and Bai Fu realized the Star Network reinforcements had arrived.

After Mita’s forces attacked Ulysses Star, Bai Fu returned safely, learned that the Ulysses People had survived, and began striking back by spreading a sensational story about Mita and the Dark Domain Insectoid Empress. Her article stirred the Initial Gate Cluster and left Mita scrambling to identify its author.

• Foster retreated from the Star Cemetery when StarNet’s fleet arrived, then ordered Sesia to deal with Bai Fu while Sesia secretly planned to win Bai Fu’s trust.
• Bai Fu learned Apostle’s Heart, used it to gain Inspiration, and helped Elon publicize Mita’s alleged possession of the True Spirit Pillar, sparking a public dispute between Mita and the Holy Congregation.
• After reporters told Bai Fu that Mita had attacked Ulysses Star, she hurried home and learned that Yulia, Fei Ye, and Sesia had helped repel the attack without any Ulysses People dying.
• Bai Fu thanked Sesia, gave her Spiritual Vision, noticed Sesia’s Favorability was only 1, and shared Elon’s advancement knowledge with Yulia.
• Bai Fu wrote and secretly arranged the publication of an article claiming the Lord of Mita was the Dark Domain Insectoid Empress’s lover and that she had helped Mita control Flood Disasters.
• The article stirred the Initial Gate Cluster’s factions and enraged Mita’s chief steward, who ordered an investigation to find its author.

Bai Fu accepted a quest to eliminate Mita and worked with the Star Network to protect the Ulysses People while strengthening herself and Fei Ye against Voidification. After arranging a player spy to investigate Herbert, she went to replenish mana with Yulia, and Sesia privately approached her with a confession.

• Mita members reacted to Bai Fu’s article, while the chief steward failed to trace its author and decided to target the Holy Congregation’s True Spirit Pillar.
• Elon and Sui Xi planned to seize the True Spirit Pillar while Mita faced scrutiny, and the pontiff went to report to their mysterious lord.
• Bai Fu accepted the [Mita Exposed] quest, and the Star Network proposed moving the Ulysses People to its territory for protection.
• Vik chose to remain on Ulysses Star, while Manu escorted more than a hundred thousand Ulysses People to safety in Star Network territory.
• Bai Fu and Fei Ye raised their Prophet compatibility rates, and Bai Fu ordered Overly Foolish Master to infiltrate Herbert’s circle as a spy.
• Bai Fu entered Yulia’s laboratory for mana replenishment, and Sesia later asked to speak with her privately about something she had been hiding.

Bai Fu used Hei Fu to investigate Sesia, who revealed that Mita had sent her to steal the Holy Congregation’s True Spirit Pillar and frame Bai Fu. After escaping Sesia’s attack, Bai Fu learned Mita backed the Stone Crystal Company and chose to head for Indigo Star, the second Novice Planet and the origin of the Darknight Sovereign legend.

• Bai Fu sent Hei Fu to meet Sesia, and Sesia confessed that she had been assigned to gain Bai Fu’s trust, steal the True Spirit Pillar, and frame her.
• Sesia embraced Hei Fu and revealed her true form as Night Mother, but discovered Hei Fu was a True Spirit summon and could not drain her life force.
• Hei Fu fought Sesia long enough for Bai Fu and the others to escape aboard their spaceship, leaving Sesia behind on Ulysses Star.
• Bai Fu told Manu that Mita backed the Stone Crystal Company, and Manu said he would investigate the information.
• Green Mud sent Bai Fu the coordinates for Indigo Star, the second Novice Planet, and Bai Fu changed course to go there with Fei Ye and the players.

Bai Fu returned to Indigo Star as the Darknight Sovereign, drawing the planet’s secret societies together at the Twilight Sect. After An Ya overwhelmed their forces, Bai Fu began investigating the Demon Gods and the Root while the other leaders scrambled to unite against her.

• Bai Fu sent a probe ahead to the Twilight Sect, prompting Ling Zun to announce the Darknight Sovereign’s return and players across Indigo Star to speculate that she was coming.
• The Drifting House leader and other secret society leaders gathered at the Twilight Sect, intending to summon their Demon Gods and seize control of the players.
• Bai Fu ended the spaceship’s warp flight, and Digging Princess confirmed on the map that they had reached Indigo Star.
• Bai Fu arrived in a small craft and revealed herself to the gathered leaders, who failed to summon the Monarch of Time before the Drifting House forces attacked her.
• Bai Fu stood unharmed as the attacks vanished, then sent An Ya to fight; An Ya’s mental shock wave knocked down hundreds of people.
• Bai Fu restrained the Drifting House leader and demanded information about the Demon Gods, while leaders elsewhere on Indigo Star called for a meeting to unite against her.

Bai Fu defeated the secret societies that attacked the Twilight Sect, killed the Black Mud Demon God, the Painful Order chairman, and General Yaxini, and learned that Iqi and Teresa knew where the Origin was. She went to the Nation of Chasing Stars to seek their help in ending Indigo Star’s disasters, and Iqi and Teresa were on their way to meet her.

• The secret societies formed an alliance to attack Bai Fu, while the Painful Order chairman secretly sought help from the Black Mud Demon God and the Nation of Chasing Stars.
• Bai Fu inferred that Indigo Star’s Origin might be a Starsea item connecting the planet to the wider universe, then prepared to deal with the incoming attackers.
• Bai Fu appeared before the Painful Order’s main force, survived its assault, killed the Black Mud Demon God, and learned that Iqi and Teresa knew where the Origin was.
• Fei Ye attacked the fleeing secret society members, while Bai Fu frightened off the Nation of Chasing Stars aircraft and learned that General Yaxini had colluded with the Painful Order chairman.
• Bai Fu traveled to the capital, killed Yaxini, and asked the president to find Iqi and Teresa so she could investigate the Origin and end Indigo Star’s disasters.
• The president returned an hour later and told Bai Fu that Iqi and Teresa were on their way.

Bai Fu led the Indigo Star players and its people to destroy the source, defeat the Demon Gods, and begin purging the secret societies. After completing the main quest, she claimed her rewards, helped An Ya fuse with the Needle of Sin and Punishment, and prepared a celebration and further training before version 1.3 ended.

• Iqi and Teresa told Bai Fu the source’s location after she promised to end Indigo Star’s calamities and help them recover.
• Bai Fu united Indigo Star’s players and led them, An Ya, Yulia, Iqi, and Teresa toward the source, where she destroyed the incomplete Demon Gods and pulled a marked black iron spike from the plateau.
• Bai Fu announced a campaign against the remaining evil Demon Gods and secret societies, while An Ya and other allies led planet-wide sweeps that won her the people’s support.
• Bai Fu received experience, the Terminator of the Demon God title, an equipment blueprint, and a Contract Certificate; she used the certificate to help An Ya bond with the Needle of Sin and Punishment.
• After the remaining demons were wiped out, Bai Fu joined the Nation of Star Chasers in organizing a celebration and planned to help her allies gain experience and mental mutations.

Bai Fu evolved into a Shadow Ghost (Star-Seeker), strengthened her allies, and uncovered the Needle of Sin and Punishment’s connection to Indigo Star’s history. After earning massive EXP from the players and preparing the island’s new Silent Court branch, she ended the celebration as Version 1.3 concluded and awaited her fifth enhancement.

• Bai Fu triggered enough mental mutations to evolve into a Shadow Ghost (Star-Seeker), gaining new traits and greatly increased attributes.
• An Ya and Vik also became Shadow Ghosts, while Yulia, Fei Ye, and Xia Shi each reached five levels of mental mutation.
• An Ya revealed a vision of the Needle of Sin and Punishment’s arrival on Indigo Star, prompting Bai Fu to receive a hidden quest tied to factions in the Tidal System.
• Bai Fu collected 1.1 billion EXP from Indigo Star’s players, raised Miracle Constructor to Lv. 25, and brought her primary Spiritual Energy profession to level 100.
• Bai Fu recruited Iqi and Teresa to help lead the Indigo Star branch of the Silent Court, gave them medicine and Dissociative Potions, and began selecting 3,000 players to take to the Star Sea.
• On her seventeenth day on Indigo Star, Bai Fu watched the players disappear as Version 1.3 ended and Version 1.4 approached.

Bai Fu received new roles, abilities, and official recognition as the Darknight Sovereign and a regional BOSS, then spent her vacation preparing for version 1.4. After the final trailer highlighted her role in the Star Sea version, she decided to create her own main quest and opened a new video from Digging Princess.

• Bai Fu gained the Darknight Sovereign template and Indigo Star legendary certification, linked An Ya with Darknight Resonance, and received other enhancements to her skills, faction, and status.
• Bai Fu fused new cards for her planned Prayer Card rental shop and asked Fei Ye about earning income through Cosmic Web.
• Bai Fu learned that Manu had destroyed the Stone Crystal Company and captured two Mita envoys, raising her Contribution Points against Mita to 0.6%.
• Bai Fu toured Indigo Star with An Ya and Yulia, and Yulia helped her stack three layers of her Apostle's Heart.
• Bai Fu watched the version 1.4 trailer, saw herself featured prominently as a Sea Lion Galaxy regional BOSS, and decided to create her own main quest.
• Bai Fu clicked a link to Digging Princess's new video analyzing her role in the Star Sea version.

Digging Princess’s video declared Bai Fu the mentor of players and NPCs, and Bai Fu rewarded her with an exclusive title before leading players from Indigo Star into the Sea of Stars. As Bai Fu’s ship entered warp, a signal from Golden Valley Star reached Manu and Mita, and its message was addressed to Saintess Bai Fu.

• Digging Princess argued that Bai Fu was the players’ and NPCs’ mentor, predicted she would visit more novice planets, and offered theories about her age and journey from Indigo Star to Zu Yuan Star.
• After version 1.4 launched, players confirmed Bai Fu’s Darknight Sovereign identity, and Bai Fu rewarded Digging Princess with the title [Bai Fu’s First Player Friend] and Sword Aura Piercing Sky with [Bai Fu’s Top Investor].
• Bai Fu issued more shop titles, gathered rewards for three days, and selected three thousand Indigo Star players to travel with her to the Sea of Stars.
• Bai Fu comforted Iqi and Teresa, then departed Indigo Star aboard a spaceship with An Ya, the others, and the selected players.
• Players on Golden Valley Star activated a superluminal signal transmitter, and Manu learned that the message was addressed to Saintess Bai Fu.

Manu and the Star Network misread Bai Fu’s title, Darknight Sovereign, as proof that she was a wounded Sovereign and began trying to win her favor. After Bai Fu learned that Mita might target Golden Valley Star, she planned to reach the players there first; she then returned to the Star Pact branch with thousands of Undying, while Mita held an emergency meeting about the signal.

• Manu investigated Golden Valley Star’s distress signal, questioned players, and concluded that Bai Fu was a Sovereign recovering her strength.
• The Star Network’s Joint Council agreed to court Bai Fu with commercial deals and workers, while Manu warned her that Mita might act on the signal.
• Bai Fu planned to reach Golden Valley Star before Mita and considered using players who joined Mita to spy on it; Manu also offered her endorsement deals.
• Bai Fu told Yulia that she could buy enough spirit-energy crystals to awaken her, and Yulia took her to the laboratory for experiments.
• Bai Fu returned to the Star Pact branch with Fei Ye and more than three thousand players, asked Green Mud to locate Golden Valley Star and find advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge, and learned that Mita had convened an emergency meeting.

Mita decided to investigate Golden Valley Star and target its Undying, while Sesia grew frustrated at seeing Bai Fu everywhere. After Yulia awakened her Child of True Spirit template, Bai Fu joined a Holy Congregation mission against a Mita stronghold, where she met Herbert and suspected he planned to undermine Fei Ye.

• Mita's chief administrator approved an investigation of Golden Valley Star and assigned Mait to lead it, while ordering Sesia to stay out of the mission.
• Sesia saw news about Bai Fu's business deals and Snow Wave endorsement, then tried to vent her frustration in the gravity training room.
• Bai Fu spent her new Psychic Energy Crystals upgrading her abilities and giving Yulia 120 crystals, which awakened Yulia's Child of True Spirit template and greatly increased her power.
• Yulia demonstrated her new support ability with Bai Fu, whose Inspiration rose to 1,677 for a short time.
• Bai Fu accepted Elon's invitation to attack a Mita stronghold because the reward included Spiritual Energy Advanced Knowledge, then traveled with Fei Ye and thousands of players.
• At Sails Port, Bai Fu met Herbert and suspected he had taken the same mission to outshine her and hurt Fei Ye's chances of becoming department head.

Bai Fu and her allies planned a surprise attack on a Mita base in Sector Nine, while Digging Princess rejected Sui Xi’s invitation to follow her. The mission began with Sesia recognizing Bai Fu through her disguise, leaving the two ready to fight.

• Bai Fu and Fei Ye explored Sailside Port and learned that Sui Xi had joined the Holy Congregation after surviving the slaughter of her idol group.
• At the hotel, Elon briefed Bai Fu’s team on a plan to attack Mita’s hidden base in Sector Nine and retrieve a captive or the base’s data.
• Sui Xi asked Digging Princess to abandon Bai Fu and join her cause, but Digging Princess refused, which made Sui Xi curious about Bai Fu.
• Elon led the disguised teams through an underground passage toward the base, while Sesia trained against a virtual Bai Fu inside Laboratory 013.
• Bai Fu’s group attacked the laboratory, and Sesia arrived at the entrance and recognized Bai Fu by her scent despite her disguise.

Bai Fu and her allies fought Night Mother Sesia at Laboratory 013, where Sesia’s obsession with Bai Fu drove her to trap them in a life-force cocoon. Bai Fu broke free, entered the S+ realm through Blessing of the Heart, and struck Sesia with Dark Burn, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Sesia and Copper Furnace attacked the Mita agents at Laboratory 013, while Herbert struggled against Copper Furnace and Elon tried to help him.
• Sesia confronted Bai Fu, who dodged her attacks, used Dark Vortex to restrain her briefly, and retreated toward the players’ prepared gathering point.
• Bai Fu’s Spiritual Energy Legion and multiple false versions of Bai Fu confused Sesia, while Bai Fu and her allies repeatedly attacked her.
• Sesia drained life force indiscriminately and trapped Bai Fu and Fei Ye inside a cocoon woven from her own life force.
• Bai Fu broke free of the webbing, used Blessing of the Heart to reach S+ energy intensity, and hit Sesia with Dark Burn.

Bai Fu fought Sesia inside and around the black cocoon, using her wraith form and psychological tactics to hold off the Night Mother. Sesia withdrew after warning that Mita was preparing to move against Golden Valley Star, and Bai Fu realized she had to hurry there.

• Bai Fu read Sesia's stats, discovered Sesia's favorability was a positive 27, and learned that Sesia's ultimate form could summon a forest of spider legs.
• Bai Fu freed Fei Ye from the black cocoon and escaped Sesia's attacks with her wraith form before leading Sesia away from the others.
• Bai Fu fought Sesia at close range, then challenged her jealousy and questioned whether humiliating Bai Fu would satisfy her; Sesia stopped attacking and became deeply conflicted.
• Bai Fu killed the Mita agents watching them, easing Sesia's concern about being blamed for failing her orders, while reinforcements approached.
• Sesia warned Bai Fu that Mita had intercepted a signal and was preparing to move against Golden Valley Star, then withdrew; Bai Fu saw Sesia's favorability rise to 36.

Bai Fu’s victory over Sesia made her famous throughout the Initial Gate Cluster, while Mita prepared its next operation around Golden Valley Star. As Bai Fu set out for the planet, Sesia disappeared from Mita’s headquarters.

• Copper Furnace escaped the laboratory, and Sui Xi retrieved its data before Elon paid Bai Fu and gave her The Principle of Truth.
• The Tidal Civilization fleet arrived and learned Bai Fu had driven off Sesia; Mita’s coordinated attacks on the cathedral, communication stations, and Star Gates were revealed as a diversion.
• Bai Fu’s fame surged, while the Chief Steward restricted Sesia to Mita after hearing Sesia’s account of the fight; Sesia searched for news about Bai Fu and vowed to kill her on Golden Valley Star.
• Bai Fu signed advertising deals, received Golden Valley Star’s coordinates, and prepared to travel there with Fei Ye and the others after coordinating with Manu’s side.
• As Bai Fu’s party departed for Golden Valley Star, the Chief Steward planned to capture Undying there and was told that Sesia was missing.

The Mita steward searched for Yulia after she secretly joined the fleet bound for Golden Valley Star, while Bai Fu and her allies arrived ahead of Mita to aid the planet’s players. Bai Fu defeated the Esper King and conquered the City of Espers, then invited Golden Valley Star’s ruler to meet the aliens.

• The Mita steward ordered Foster’s fleet to search for Yulia, who had parasitized a cleaner and hidden aboard a ship.
• Bai Fu traveled toward Golden Valley Star with Manu and experts from several civilizations as players discussed helping her establish a kingdom.
• After arriving, Bai Fu dispatched An Ya and her allies across the planet while she sought out Golden Valley Star’s protagonist.
• An Ya subdued the Esper organization members attacking the players, and Bai Fu persuaded the protagonist to take her to the City of Espers.
• Bai Fu killed the Esper King and used her Spiritual Energy Legion to defeat the City of Espers, completing Golden Valley Star’s main quest.
• Bai Fu invited Golden Valley Star’s ruler to meet the aliens.

Bai Fu defeated the King of Abilities, strengthened herself with a new title, and prepared Golden Valley Star to face Mita. As Mita’s fleet arrived, Sesia looked forward to confronting Bai Fu again.

• Bai Fu completed Golden Valley Star’s main quest by killing the King of Abilities and earned experience, an ability-upgrade fragment, and the Ability Balancer title.
• Bai Fu combined three titles into The Instructor of the Initial Place, boosting her attributes, and gained the Ability Evolution Tree for the Silent Court.
• Bai Fu warned Golden Valley Star’s people about Mita, organized preparations for evacuation, and recruited players by offering equipment, skills, and a chance to go to Starsea.
• Bai Fu gathered 1.5 billion experience and selected several hundred players to act as undercover agents when Mita arrived.
• Two days later, Foster ended the fleet’s warp flight and ordered the ships to alert status as Sesia prepared to confront Bai Fu.