Chapter Summaries

Yu Sui repeatedly shattered her light core in the sea to speak with the other World Destroyers through the Fire Spirit Orb. They rejected her appeal to unite, but she promised to share Shuizhou’s intelligence and save them as their situation grew more dangerous.

• Yu Sui and Xue Mushi discussed the other World Destroyers’ caution and the possibility that they had gained power from their strange flames.
• Yu Sui shattered her light core beneath the sea, causing the shared pain to strike Xue Mushi, Gongsun Qi, Han Ziyang, and the distant World Destroyer.
• Yu Sui told the others that Shuizhou was researching ways to destroy the strange flames and that she had obtained the Futuo Tower Fragments.
• The other World Destroyers refused to join Yu Sui’s plans, warned her against trusting Gao Tianhao, and urged her to discard the fragments.
• Yu Sui triggered the Fire Spirit Orb again and promised to share Shuizhou’s intelligence, give them a way to contact her, and save them if they needed help.

After surviving the Fire Spirit Orb, Yu Sui recovered and checked on Zou Yexi while warning Black Beard to monitor World Destroyer reports. Back at the Academy, she joined the World Destroyer speculation poll and shared a flirtatious exchange with Mei Chengyu before an unexpected knock interrupted them.

• Yu Sui emerged from the sea alive after triggering the Fire Spirit Orb, and Xue Mushi guarded her through the night as her body and light core began to recover.
• At Xide Restaurant, Black Beard reported that Zou Yexi had killed Dragon Martial Gang members and become Star Moon Island's heir; Yu Sui told him to keep watching Zou Yexi and news from the Xingshui Division.
• Yu Sui browsed the Academy forum's World Destroyer poll and voted for Sheng Zui and Gu Gan, while Mei Chengyu received the most nominations.
• Mei Chengyu brought Yu Sui breakfast, and she told him she would pause Soldier School training to study the star sea while he offered to help with her studies.
• Yu Sui jokingly claimed she had passed the strange fire to Mei Chengyu, and he teased her about using Soul Fusion before a knock at the door interrupted them.

Mei Chengyu confronted Princess Shangyang after she arrived to question Yu Sui, then warned Yu Sui that he might destroy the world even if she died in the fire. Meanwhile, Gu Gan asked Zhang Xiangyun and Nian Qiuyan to identify who had taken the Futuo Tower Fragments, and their divination pointed to an unknown Agricultural School disciple.

• Princess Shangyang found Mei Chengyu in Yu Sui's dorm and tried to recruit Yu Sui, who refused and shut the door on her.
• Mei Chengyu challenged Princess Shangyang to a match in the outer city, but Jin Zhi and the others dragged the princess away before she could accept.
• Yu Sui misunderstood Mei Chengyu's offer to synchronize their minds as a proposal for Soul Fusion, then asked what he would do if he became the World Destroyer; he said he would burn everything and might burn her too.
• Gu Gan visited Zhang Xiangyun and Nian Qiuyan, offering to work with them if they helped identify who had stolen the Futuo Tower Fragments.
• Zhang Xiangyun divined who had touched the empty box, narrowed the results to three people, and left an unknown person's birth information as the match.
• Luo Fu concluded that the remaining suspect was an Agricultural School disciple.

Gu Gan sought help identifying the person who stole the Futuo Tower Fragment and secretly contacted him through a Listening Wind Ruler, but divination found no such person. The group connected the mystery to Nian Qiuyan’s theft of the Milky Way Water and suspected someone was manipulating them, while Nian Qiuyan argued that Mei Chengyu was unlikely to be responsible.

• Zhang Xiangyun divined that the Futuo Tower Fragment thief was an Agricultural School Disciple who had failed to use a Technique to avoid divination.
• Gu Gan presented the Listening Wind Ruler, and Nian Qiuyan’s divination found that the person who had contacted Gu Gan did not exist.
• Luo Fu explained that someone had altered the Listening Wind Ruler’s rules and linked the hidden transmissions to the report about Lan Poison and Milky Way Water.
• Zhang Xiangyun revealed that Nian Qiuyan had stolen the Milky Way Water, prompting Gu Gan to attack him with flying shards before Luo Fu stopped the fight.
• Gu Gan, Zhang Xiangyun, and Luo Fu suspected Mei Chengyu, but Nian Qiuyan argued that Mei Chengyu would have killed them rather than toyed with them.

Gu Gan and his allies traced the theft of the Futuo Tower Fragments to Agricultural School Disciple Wei Ren, while Nian Qiuyan suspected the affair involved Nangong Sui. After Yu Sui’s near-death ordeal stirred the Nine Provinces Star Sea, she woke to her Listening Wind Ruler ringing wildly.

• Gu Gan agreed to work with Zhang Xiangyun, then asked him to stop involving Yu Sui and to bring future concerns directly to him.
• Gu Gan, Ji Meng, and Huo Xiao investigated the divination results, and Instructor Chu Qiu identified Wei Ren as the Agricultural School Disciple who could have refined a Ghost Armor Heavenly Spider.
• Gu Gan recognized Wei Ren as one of Lady Su’s former agents and sent his identity to Zhang Xiangyun, while Ji Meng went to search for him.
• Nian Qiuyan left to look for Wei Ren and worried that the theft was connected to Nangong Sui, as Xun Zhiya and the others also began searching in secret.
• Yu Sui slept through the messages, experienced turmoil within the Nine Provinces Star Sea, and woke feeling as if she had recovered for years before her Listening Wind Ruler began ringing.

Yu Sui learned that Wei Ren had gone missing while investigating Lan Poison in the outer city and rushed to find him. Wei Ren was cornered by Zhang Xiangyun, while Yu Sui headed toward his last known location.

• Yu Sui read Wei Ren’s messages and realized he had left the academy to follow a Lan Shi investigating Lan Poison.
• When a dorm inspection sealed the academy, Yu Sui persuaded Instructor Xia to let her leave by claiming Wu Huaiwei had summoned her.
• Yu Sui used Wei Ren’s moving location on the Listening Wind Ruler to hurry toward a barren island in the outer city.
• Wei Ren followed a Lan Shi to a dilapidated manor after observing the man’s Lan Poison fit.
• Li Jinshuang warned Wei Ren that the School of Techniques had divined he stole the Futuo Tower Fragments, and Zhang Xiangyun cornered him on an outer-city street.

Zhang Xiangyun and his allies captured Wei Ren on Barren Island and tried to expose the person behind his Listening Wind Ruler. Their attempt to trace the accomplice instead sent a message to nearly everyone at Taiyi Academy, and the chapter ended with the ruler calling Zhang Xiangyun useless.

• Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu chased Wei Ren through the outer city and onto Barren Island, where Zhang Xiangyun subdued him and destroyed his Ghost Armor Heavenly Spider.
• Zhang Xiangyun found Wei Ren's Listening Wind Ruler empty and pressured him to reveal his accomplice, while Yu Sui arrived and confronted Wei Ren.
• Wei Ren used the ruler to message his hidden contact, and Zhang Xiangyun alerted Song Yubai at the Communication Institute to trace the reply.
• The message appeared on Listening Wind Rulers across Taiyi Academy, preventing Song Yubai from locating the sender and revealing that it had been sent under Zhang Xiangyun's name.
• Zhang Xiangyun threatened Wei Ren again, but his Listening Wind Ruler displayed the word "Useless."

Zhang Xiangyun’s attempt to seize Wei Ren’s Five Elements Light Core triggered a clash with Zou Yexi and a chaotic battle on Barren Island. Yu Sui secretly sent the dying Wei Ren away with a wave, while Wan Guiyue learned what had happened and decided to search for him.

• Zhang Xiangyun destroyed Wei Ren’s Five Elements Light Core, but a Water Arrow triggered the Blood Jade Golden Butterfly Ou Rushuang had left to protect him.
• Zou Yexi emerged from the weeds and fought Luo Fu and Gu Gan, using the Yin-Yang School’s techniques before Zhang Xiangyun trapped him in a Landscape Divination Array.
• Kong Yiyi arrived with Su Tong and Zhongli Shan, broke Zhang Xiangyun’s array, and pulled him into her Military Formation while Zou Yexi’s pursuers joined the growing battle.
• Yu Sui used a sudden wave to carry Wei Ren away from the shore and sent a Sixth Realm Light Core toward his chest as Li Jinshuang rescued her from the water.
• Zhongli Shan went back into the sea to search for Wei Ren, while Zhang Xiangyun emerged injured and confronted Kong Yiyi.
• Ou Rushuang and Wan Guiyue learned what had happened through their Blood Jade Golden Butterflies, and Wan Guiyue decided to find the Agricultural School Disciple who had fallen into the sea.

Mei Chengyu encountered Wan Guiyue while secretly practicing beneath the Wuzhi Sea, while Wei Ren drifted gravely wounded into the path of Shen Tianxue and Pei Daiqing. Shen Tianxue saved Wei Ren from his Phantom Beast Shadows and ordered him brought aboard their raft.

• Mei Chengyu reassured Yan Xiaochuan about earning credits, then instructed him to practice holding his breath before they went underwater.
• Mei Chengyu surfaced and met Wan Guiyue, who claimed she was out for a walk; he asked her about Legalism School techniques as she was reminded of his father.
• Xun Zhiya and Zhongli Shan searched for Wei Ren near Great Desolate Island but returned without finding him as the currents carried him away.
• Wei Ren drifted into a mountain stream beside Shen Tianxue and Pei Daiqing, who were escaping with stolen Herbal Medicine and initially ignored him.
• Wei Ren's Phantom Beast Shadows emerged and prepared to devour him, so Shen Tianxue destroyed them and ordered Pei Daiqing to pull him aboard.

Yu Sui helped Wei Ren survive and escape, while Shen Tianxue and Pei Daiqing took him in and discovered his Five Elements Qi was gathering despite his shattered Light Core. At the shore, the search for Wei Ren ended without a body, and the groups dispersed as Su Tong pressed Zhongli Shan for answers.

• Yu Sui activated Wei Ren's Phantom Beast Shadow, prompting Shen Tianxue to let Pei Daiqing rescue him; Pei Daiqing treated his wounds and noticed his Five Elements Qi gathering.
• Wan Guiyue searched the waters near Barren Island for Wei Ren, found no trace of him, and continued searching after Yu Sui confirmed he was temporarily safe.
• Yu Sui signaled Zou Yexi to retreat, and he escaped Gu Gan's group despite briefly insisting he was fighting well.
• Xun Zhiya reported that she could not find Wei Ren, and Gu Gan decided to leave while Zhang Xiangyun's group and Kong Yiyi's group ended their standoff.
• Nian Qiuyan led Kong Yiyi away, while Zhongli Shan left with Su Tong; Su Tong questioned him about what he was hiding, but he failed to understand what she wanted him to explain.

After learning that Sages could not be killed within Taiyi, Yu Sui went to Moon Mountain to ask Wu Huaiwei to teach her the Yin-Yang Techniques. Wu Huaiwei agreed to teach her under Yu Sui’s conditions, then began to set conditions of her own.

• The instructors recorded point deductions for Yu Sui and her companions, while Gu Gan urged Yu Sui to rest and left with Xun Zhiya.
• Yu Sui told Xue Mushi about the night’s events and kept their involvement separate because their enemy, Xuan Kui, was connected to Taiyi’s Sages.
• Yu Sui concluded she could not kill the Sages in Taiyi and went to Moon Mountain, where Pu Heng helped her gain entry to see Wu Huaiwei.
• Yu Sui asked Wu Huaiwei to teach her the Yin-Yang Techniques, and explained that they should remain instructor and student to avoid entangling Wu Huaiwei in her family’s political affairs.
• Wu Huaiwei accepted Yu Sui’s conditions that their relationship remain private, Xing Chun pass along lessons when possible, and lessons fit Yu Sui’s schedule; she then began to name her own conditions.

Yu Sui accepted Wu Huaiwei’s conditions and was trapped on Moon Mountain until she mastered the Reverse Star Technique. Meanwhile, the Communication Institute concealed the mysterious message as a Number Mountain malfunction, while Zhang Xiangyun and his companions planned to steal Mei Chengyu’s Listening Wind Ruler and Mei Chengyu’s group investigated Xuan Kui.

• Wu Huaiwei required Yu Sui to learn and master her teachings, then used the Reverse Star Technique to turn the stars beneath Yu Sui’s feet and barred her from leaving Moon Mountain until she mastered it.
• Zou Qian and Li Qiuwen agreed to blame Zhang Xiangyun’s mysterious message on a Number Mountain malfunction, and the Communication Institute announced that explanation while continuing its inspections.
• Zhang Xiangyun, Luo Fu, and Gu Gan investigated Wei Ren’s connections and decided to steal Mei Chengyu’s Listening Wind Ruler, unaware that Yu Sui watched them through the Five Elements Light Core.
• Mei Chengyu met with Xing Chun and Zhongli Shan, who explained Xuan Kui’s Lan Poison operations and suspected Luo Fu was using Lan Poison.

Mei Chengyu and his companions investigated Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu’s links to Lan Poison, while Yu Sui studied Wu Huaiwei’s Reverse Star Technique on Moon Mountain. Yu Sui also observed Wei Ren’s Sixth Realm Light Core stabilize inside him, though Pei Daiqing and Shen Tianxue seemed unaware of it as they headed toward Shengzhou Island.

• Mei Chengyu, Xing Chun, and Zhongli Shan discussed their suspicions that Luo Fu and Zhang Xiangyun had helpers inside Taiyi Academy, and Mei Chengyu decided to test Luo Fu.
• Mei Chengyu asked Yu Sui about Zhang Xiangyun and told her his plans; Yu Sui agreed to help him.
• Wu Huaiwei taught Yu Sui the Reverse Star Technique and assigned her to comprehend the Polar Region Circulation by studying the stars’ movements.
• Yu Sui observed Wei Ren’s body recover as the Sixth Realm Light Core returned to its original size and merged with him.
• Pei Daiqing and Shen Tianxue decided to return to Shengzhou Island, apparently unaware of the Light Core inside Wei Ren.

Yu Sui learned Wu Huaiwei’s Reverse Star Reverse Extreme Technique and escaped her Circulating Realm by aligning her star sea with Wu Huaiwei’s. After collapsing from exhaustion, she slept and recalled a childhood night when she had wished for everyone to disappear.

• Pei Daiqing told Shen Tianxue that Wei Ren’s damaged Five Elements Light Core might leave him crippled, while Yu Sui watched the two Sages together.
• Yu Sui deduced how the opposing star seas reflected the seasons and learned that Wu Huaiwei’s technique reversed the extreme of an incoming technique.
• Wu Huaiwei demonstrated the reversal of fire and water, and Yu Sui resumed studying the Three Thousand Stars despite her exhaustion.
• Yu Sui formed her own Three Thousand-Star Spirit Map, set it against Wu Huaiwei’s star sea, and escaped the Circulating Realm by making both star seas turn in the same direction.
• Yu Sui fainted from depleted Five Elements Qi, and Wu Huaiwei carried her to the pavilion and stayed beside her.
• As she slept, Yu Sui remembered that as a child she had told the stars she wanted everyone to disappear.

Mei Chengyu and Yan Xiaochuan were ambushed by Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu, but Liang Zhen interrupted before the fight could finish. Mei Chengyu then changed course to the clinic, while Gu Gan searched Wei Ren’s dormitory for evidence and found his books marked with passages about the breathing earth.

• Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu attacked Mei Chengyu and Yan Xiaochuan with the Landscape Divination Array and Divine General Zhaoming.
• Mei Chengyu used Heavenly Dipper Earthly Fiend Thunder to destroy Divine General Zhaoming, then teleported Yan Xiaochuan to safety with the Nine Palaces Qimen Compass.
• Liang Zhen arrived and ended the confrontation, and Zhang Xiangyun dispersed the array before the fight could continue.
• Mei Chengyu told Yan Xiaochuan that Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu were taking out their anger on him, then decided to go to the clinic instead of Wuzi Sea.
• Gu Gan secretly entered Wei Ren’s dormitory and searched for clues, finding that Wei Ren had marked passages about the breathing earth in his books.

Gu Gan searched Wei Ren's room and found clues that Nian Qiuyan had planted to turn his suspicions toward people close to him. On Moon Mountain, Yu Sui recovered and continued learning Wu Huaiwei's Reverse Star Technique, while Mei Chengyu visited and ended the chapter proposing they kill two suspected World Destroyers.

• Gu Gan found the scent of Ji Meng's Wuxiang Ling on Wei Ren's clothes and suspected Huo Xiao or another person close to Wei Ren of involvement with the Futuo Tower Fragments.
• Nian Qiuyan revealed that he had planted the Wuxiang Ling fragrance at Yu Sui's instruction, then contacted Yu Sui and worried that she might regard him as an enemy.
• Yu Sui woke on Moon Mountain, and Wu Huaiwei praised her restored Star Sea, insisted she keep training, and refused to let her leave until she mastered the Reverse Star Technique.
• Mei Chengyu reached Moon Mountain with Mu Yong'an's help, treated Yu Sui's burns, and listened as she described Wu Huaiwei's Two Extremes Relative technique.
• Yu Sui voted for her Third Brother, Zhang Xiangyun, and Luo Fu in the World Destroyer poll, and Mei Chengyu proposed killing two suspects to test whether they were World Destroyers.

Yu Sui trained in Yin-Yang Techniques under Wu Huaiwei and Zou Qian, surviving Zou Qian’s dangerous lessons and learning the Black Tortoise Star Array. She reunited with Mei Chengyu at the foot of Moon Mountain to share what she had learned, and their playful exchange ended with their foreheads touching.

• Yu Sui walked Mei Chengyu down Moon Mountain, then returned to Wu Huaiwei and followed her to the Observatory.
• Wu Huaiwei freed Zou Qian and arranged for him to teach Yu Sui the Constellation Arrays through combat in exchange for wine.
• Zou Qian attacked Yu Sui with Water Myriad Phenomena and the Black Tortoise Star Array, while Wu Huaiwei restricted Yu Sui to Yin-Yang Techniques.
• Yu Sui endured Zou Qian’s attacks and learned the Black Tortoise Star Array before leaving the Observatory to meet Mei Chengyu.
• Zou Qian told Wu Huaiwei that Yu Sui had already grasped the Reverse Star Technique, though she lacked experience using Yin-Yang School techniques.
• Yu Sui showed Mei Chengyu her Frost White Python Star General, and he pulled her close until their foreheads touched.

Yu Sui brought Zou Qian wine and asked about his ties to Yan Manfeng, while Zou Qian revealed his growing obsession with uncovering what the Bead Heart Incantation had made him forget. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiangyun sent a report to the Qingyang Hundred Bandits, but an unidentified young man in blue stole the unopened letter aboard the flying Dragon Car.

• Zou Qian told Wu Huaiwei that the Bead Heart Incantation had made him forget something other than a person, and that his obsession with finding the answer might drive him to kill and cause chaos.
• Yu Sui returned to Moon Mountain, gave Zou Qian wine, and asked about his relationship with Yan Manfeng and the Xirang.
• Zou Qian said he and Yan Manfeng were not close, dismissed Yan Manfeng as so-so, and said he would not oppose Yu Sui's father or risk making enemies of the Nangong Family and Qingyang.
• Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu continued investigating Wei Ren and the Mysterious Person, and Zhang Xiangyun sent a report to the Qingyang Hundred Bandits.
• An unidentified young man in blue slipped into a Xuan Kui member's compartment aboard the flying Dragon Car and left with Zhang Xiangyun's unopened letter.

Yu Sui mastered the Reverse Star Technique and learned why Yin Ziwu had come to Moon Mountain: noble students were protesting rumors that Pu Heng received private lessons from Wu Huaiwei. After leaving Moon Mountain, Yu Sui met Mei Chengyu, who invited her to the clinic to see something.

• Yu Sui used the Reverse Star Technique to counter Zou Qian’s Water Myriad Phenomena and realized that strange fire could take forms beyond fire.
• Yin Ziwu arrived to address the Academy’s disrupted lessons, and Wu Huaiwei and Zou Qian argued over whether they should return to teaching their students.
• Yin Ziwu explained that Mu Shiyan and other noble students had complained about Pu Heng, whose daily visits to Moon Mountain had fueled rumors of private lessons.
• Wu Huaiwei agreed to teach the students, and Yin Ziwu took Zou Qian away to resume her own classes.
• Yu Sui told Wu Huaiwei she had learned the Reverse Star Technique and could leave Moon Mountain, then went down to meet Mei Chengyu.
• Yu Sui and Mei Chengyu headed to the Dining Hall, and Mei Chengyu said he would show her something at the clinic after they ate.

Mei Chengyu engineered a confrontation at the infirmary that exposed Luo Fu as an absorber of Lan Poison Lotus Mist, while Jiang Shulan and the Saints seized him. After Zhang Xiangyun blamed Yu Sui and demanded that she influence the coming Legalist Judgment, an unknown attacker struck in the rising Dragon Ladder, leaving Zhang in danger.

• Jiang Shulan and Shi Yuezhen discovered Lan Poison in Luo Fu’s blood, and Luo Fu broke free after inhaling Lotus Mist and tried to escape the infirmary.
• Mei Chengyu and the other disciples stopped Luo Fu, and Jiang Shulan subdued him with golden peony vines before ordering the Daoist and Legalism Schools notified.
• The Saints confirmed Luo Fu had absorbed Lan Poison, released Zhongli Shan from custody over their duel, and began investigating Luo Fu’s associates, including Zhang Xiangyun.
• Zhang Xiangyun confronted Yu Sui in the Dragon Ladder and demanded she persuade Mei Chengyu to let her cast the Ghost Dao School’s vote in Luo Fu’s Legalist Judgment.
• Zhang Xiangyun threatened Yu Sui, the Dragon Ladder plunged into darkness and rose toward its top floor, and an unseen figure attacked him.