Chapter Summaries

Yu Tu carried Yun Baihe’s body away after Yun Tiange’s scheme ended in Yun Baihe’s death, then returned to Lu Mi and confessed how deeply he had missed him. The chapter left Yu Tu seeking comfort in Lu Mi as they went to bathe together.

• Yu Tu carried Yun Baihe away and told Yun Tiange that he would not kill him, but reminded him to honor Yun Baihe’s wishes and have him cremated.
• Yu Tu told Yun Tiange to change Yun Baihe into clean clothes, then hurried to Lu Mi and asked him to leave with him.
• Back in their room, Yu Tu kissed Lu Mi and admitted that he had missed him and that his heart and soul were hurting.
• Lu Mi regretted not seeing through Yu Tu’s scheme sooner, and Yu Tu explained that he had made Lu Xiaojiu disappear to protect him.
• Yu Tu asked Lu Mi to carry him to a cold bath, but Lu Mi refused and Yu Tu teased him as they headed to the bathroom.

After Yun Baihe’s death, Yun Tiange took up his role as Skycloud Star’s new lord and joined a council debating an alliance. Yu Tu pushed the group to back Lan Su as ruler of the Blue River Empire, and the others agreed to his plan to overturn the existing powers.

• Seven days after Yun Baihe’s death, Skycloud Star held his state funeral, and the next day Yun Tiange was named its star lord.
• Yun Tiange arrived at the council hall wearing Yun Baihe’s clothes and glasses and declared his unconditional support for Yu Tu.
• Yu Tu rejected territorial expansion and proposed a hundred-year peace agreement while asking the alliance to support Lan Su as the rightful ruler.
• Lu Mi, Yun Yuan, and Ming Qiuxue backed Yu Tu with threats and a plan to build support for Lan Su on Blue Star.
• Lan Su agreed to overturn the powers that be, and Cen Meng and Hua Qing accepted the plan without objection.

Black Cat Sector, Freedom Sector, several planets, and Ming Qiuxue’s operatives turned public opinion against Lan Xiao, while Yu Tu and Yan Mei struck at him from afar. The chapter ended with Yu Tu, Lu Mi, Ming Qiuxue, and Yan Mei laughing together aboard the Black Shark Battleship as Yun Yuan felt reassured that her child would not be lonely.

• Black Cat Sector, Freedom Sector, Skycloud Star, White Wolf Star, Fallen Feather Star, and Siyue Planet declared that they recognized Lan Su rather than Lan Xiao, and Ming Qiuxue’s operatives spread damaging rumors across Blue Star.
• Lan Xiao raged over Yun Tiange’s failure to kill Yu Tu, admitted he had destroyed the evidence against Lan Su, and ordered harsher suppression as a petition demanding that he depose Elisa gained support.
• Yu Tu used evidence against Elisa to fuel the online petition, while Yan Mei and Ming Qiuxue vacationed on Black Cat Planet with Yu Tu and Lu Mi.
• Yan Mei called Lan Xiao, revealed that he and Ming Qiuxue had married, kissed Ming Qiuxue on camera, and demanded a wedding gift before ending the call.
• Lu Mi and Yan Mei teased each other and sought comfort from Yu Tu and Ming Qiuxue, while Yun Yuan watched their laughter and felt glad her child would not be lonely.

Elisa launched a coup against Lan Xiao, seized the throne, and became empress after a bloody clash left Lan Xiao missing. Her takeover failed to calm the Blue River Empire, whose sectors began rebelling as Yu Tu and Lan Su had anticipated.

• Lan Xiao smashed his tablet, denounced Yan Mei, and threw the golden throne to the floor.
• Elisa entered the palace with Imperial Army soldiers, ordered Lan Xiao seized, and claimed the throne for herself.
• Lan Xiao summoned the Source-Energy Weapon Unwearied, confronted Elisa, and declared that he hated her.
• The palace coup left many dead or wounded, Lan Xiao missing, and Elisa ruling as empress.
• Several nearby planets pledged allegiance to Lan Su while other sectors declared independence, plunging the empire into chaos that Yu Tu and Lan Su had awaited.

The Ninth Army and Freedom Army prepared to invade Blue Star and end the Blue River Empire, while Lu Mi, Yun Yuan, and Ming Qiuxue joked and bet on capturing Elisa alive. As the armies began their assault, Elisa ordered the Imperial Army to fight back.

• The Freedom Sector expanded until Blue Star was the Blue River Empire's last remaining territory, and Elisa ordered the Imperial Army to engage the invading forces.
• Yu Tu and Lu Mi shared a kiss before Lu Mi joined Yun Yuan and Ming Qiuxue for the final battle, betting on who would capture Elisa alive.
• Lu Mi recalled how Ming Qiuxue had slaughtered the Heaven-Sacrificing Army after its commander insulted Yan Mei, whom Ming Qiuxue had declared his reverse scale.
• Ming Qiuxue noted that Lu Mi had surpassed Yu Tu on the Fierce God Ranking, and Lu Mi recalled forcing a netizen to apologize for questioning their relationship.
• Yun Yuan flew ahead, and Ming Qiuxue ordered the Ninth Army and Freedom Army to begin their assault on Blue Star.

Lu Mi led the assault on the imperial palace while Yu Tu broke into the Blue Star Pharmaceutical Research Institute to search for records about himself and the vines. After Cang Qi helped him connect the institute to the network, Yu Tu accessed a list of reports, leaving his search for his past unresolved.

• Lu Mi and the other commanders attacked Blue Star from four directions, and Lu Mi kicked down the imperial palace gates and offered the Imperial Army a chance to surrender.
• Yu Tu entered the deserted Pharmaceutical Research Institute and broke through seven security doors to reach its basement laboratory.
• Yu Tu found Tianguang and used the dead director's face to gain access to the main terminal, but the system rejected the voice command.
• Yu Tu called Cang Qi, who guided him through connecting the institute to the network using Tianguang's fingerprint.
• Cang Qi accessed the institute's files and displayed a list of reports matching Yu Tu's name or the keyword “vines.”

Yu Tu uncovered records showing Lan Xiao had experimented on his vines and used a Diamond-rank Orca Energy Crystal to control him. After discovering Lan Xiao had killed the researchers and remained inside the institute, Yu Tu was ambushed, while Cang Qi called Lu Mi and the others for help.

• Yu Tu and Cang Qi found vine experiment files dating back to Era 2026, and Yu Tu asked Cang Qi to destroy them so Lu Mi would not learn the institute’s secrets.
• Yu Tu examined Tianguang and the dead researchers, then asked Cang Qi to review the entrance surveillance footage.
• The footage showed Lan Xiao entering the facility, and Cang Qi found his special system permissions and Origin Essence signature.
• Yu Tu noticed there was no footage of Lan Xiao leaving and realized Lan Xiao was still inside the facility.
• Lan Xiao attacked Yu Tu with Unwearied, collapsing the floor beneath him, as Cang Qi called Lu Mi for help.
• Lu Mi abandoned the capture of Elisa and headed for the institute with Ming Qiuxue and Yun Yuan.

Yu Tu fought Lan Xiao in the hidden research base and wounded them both as his Violet Slaughter Vines overwhelmed the chamber. When Lu Mi arrived and embraced him, Yu Tu mistook him for Lu Xiaojiu and said he had protected him.

• Lan Xiao attacked Yu Tu with Unwearied, and Yu Tu admitted that Lan Xiao’s Diamond-grade Energy Crystal had injured him.
• Yu Tu cut his own carotid artery, using the blood that spilled to grow masses of Violet Slaughter Vines.
• Yu Tu ordered a vine to attack him, then used their shared wounds to pierce Lan Xiao and kept fighting despite being slashed across the chest.
• Lu Mi, Ming Qiuxue, and Yun Yuan broke into the secret research base and followed the battle sounds through the wreckage.
• Lu Mi found Yu Tu and Lan Xiao pinned to a wall by vines and embraced Yu Tu as he prepared to strike again.
• Yu Tu’s vine stopped, and he mistook Lu Mi for Lu Xiaojiu, saying he had protected him and no one could take him away.

After the battle, Lu Mi calmed the injured Yu Tu, who suffered a nightmare about being experimented on, while Ming Qiuxue took Lan Xiao to the Royal Hospital. Elisa died during surgery, Lan Xiao survived, and Yu Tu woke asking to see him.

• Lu Mi caught Yu Tu as the vines withdrew, then soothed him when the mention of his Bean Sprout triggered a terrified, disoriented reaction.
• Yu Tu healed himself with his white vines and fell asleep, while Ming Qiuxue stopped Yun Yuan from killing the wounded Lan Xiao and took him to the Royal Hospital.
• Chang Feng brought the stabbed Elisa to the hospital and rushed her into surgery alongside Lan Xiao.
• On the Black Shark Battleship, Lu Mi comforted Yu Tu through a nightmare in which he cried that needles and experiments hurt.
• The surgeons reported that Elisa had died and Lan Xiao was out of immediate danger.
• Yu Tu woke fully healed and told Lu Mi that he wanted to see Lan Xiao.

Lu Mi confronted Lan Xiao in the hospital, while Yan Mei rejected Lan Xiao’s pleas and reminded him of his blood feud with the Ming Family. Yu Tu then questioned Lan Xiao about his sealed memories and the Pharmaceutical Research Academy, concluding that Lan Xiao had gone there to obtain documents Yu Tu wanted destroyed.

• Lu Mi threatened Lan Xiao and called Yan Mei, who told Lan Xiao to die and explained that Lan Xiao had wronged the Ming Family.
• Lan Xiao wept over his past sacrifices for Yan Mei, but Yan Mei said the Ming Family’s dead had done nothing to deserve Lan Xiao’s crimes.
• Yu Tu asked Lu Mi to stay, then asked Lan Xiao whether he had been one of the keys used to seal Yu Tu’s memories; Lan Xiao admitted it.
• Lan Xiao said he did not know where Yu Tu came from or who brought him to Blue Star, and gave no clear answer about the deaths at the Pharmaceutical Research Academy.
• Yu Tu reasoned that Lan Xiao had gone to the Pharmaceutical Research Academy to obtain documents that Yu Tu had been trying to destroy.

Yu Tu deduced that Tianguang had killed the Pharmaceutical Research Academy researchers and went to examine his body. He discovered that someone had removed Tianguang’s left eye, which reminded Lu Mi of the Slave-Taming Eye.

• Yu Tu reasoned that Tianguang had killed the researchers with a drug, and Lan Xiao admitted that Tianguang had wanted to protect Lan Su.
• Yu Tu left Lan Xiao’s hospital room with Lu Mi and said the researchers would have died even if Lan Xiao had not gone to the academy.
• Yu Tu and Lu Mi went to the Royal Hospital morgue, where Yu Tu examined Tianguang’s body.
• Yu Tu found that Tianguang’s left eye had been removed and asked Yun Yuan to question the soldiers who transported the body and review hospital surveillance.
• Yu Tu asked Lu Mi if he remembered the Slave-Taming Eye from Calamity Planet, and Lu Mi’s pupils contracted.

Lu Mi confronted Lan Xiao about the file Yu Tu wanted destroyed and learned that Yu Tu had been subjected to experiments from childhood and had once carried Lan Xiao’s Energy Crystal. Lu Mi left after beating Lan Xiao, concealing his own distress behind a taunt.

• Yu Tu ended the investigation into Elisa’s killer after learning that Xue Cheng was the sole survivor of Twin Bright Village and had a valid reason to assassinate her.
• Yun Yuan reviewed testimony and surveillance related to the Ninth Army but found no breakthrough, so Yu Tu told her to continue the postwar arrangements.
• Lu Mi visited Lan Xiao, who revealed that Yu Tu had been a mutated vine without an Energy Crystal and had undergone experiments since he was nine.
• Lan Xiao said Yu Tu’s Violet Slaughter Vine had emerged through repeated experiments, hatred, and blood, and that Lan Xiao’s Energy Crystal had once been implanted in Yu Tu.
• Lu Mi beat Lan Xiao, then taunted him about having kissed the Energy Crystal before leaving the room and gagging in regret.

After learning how Yu Tu had quietly helped people and spent years trying to reach him, Lu Mi visited the palace where Yu Tu had been imprisoned and burned it down. Yu Tu arrived and took Lu Mi home.

• Lu Mi questioned Blue Star residents about Yu Tu and heard stories of his loneliness, kindness, and efforts to help others.
• Lu Mi realized Yu Tu’s reunion with him was no coincidence and that Yu Tu had been working toward him all along.
• Lu Mi entered Yu Tu’s former palace, found the Energy Lock Cage where he had lived, and wept on his bed.
• Lu Mi set the palace ablaze and left as Yu Tu arrived on Q16.
• Yu Tu smiled at Lu Mi and said he had come to take him home.

After the Blue River Empire fell, Lan Su prepared to establish the Freedom Empire while his failing health worried Cang Qi. Yu Tu agreed that Lan Su could ask him for treatment on the empire’s founding day, which would coincide with Lan Xiao’s public trial.

• Ming Qiuxue presented the people’s petition to rename the Freedom Sector the Freedom Empire, and Lan Su chose the date of Lan Xiao’s public trial as the founding day.
• Cang Qi grew concerned about Lan Su’s worsening health and contacted Yu Tu to ask him to examine Lan Su.
• Yu Tu told Cang Qi that he had never refused to treat Lan Su, but that Lan Su himself had to ask.
• Lu Mi summoned Lin Luo, Mo Ke, and Luo Wei, then bragged that he had finally proved himself while the three concluded Yu Tu was indulging him.
• Cang Qi asked Lan Su to let Yu Tu treat him, and Lan Su agreed to ask Yu Tu on the Freedom Empire’s founding day.

Yu Tu and Yan Mei arranged to start a merchandise company with Yun Tiange, then attended Freedom Star’s founding-day public trial of Lan Xiao. The trial began with Lan Xiao pleading guilty to two charges while insisting he had done nothing wrong.

• Yu Tu, Yan Mei, and Yun Tiange agreed to launch a merchandise company, with Yu Tu and Yan Mei each holding forty-five percent and Yun Tiange holding ten percent.
• On June 8, Freedom Star held a crowded celebration for its founding as an Empire and hosted Lan Xiao’s public trial at Freedom Plaza.
• Lu Mi told Yu Tu that people in the audience were praising their relationship, and the Bean Sprout on Yu Tu’s head drew cheers from the crowd.
• The interstellar judge charged Lan Xiao with abusing his authority and massacring innocents; Lan Xiao pleaded guilty but defended his actions.
• The judge charged Lan Xiao with sacrificing Imperial Army soldiers and ordering the Qi Family massacre to conceal the truth; Lan Xiao pleaded guilty, and Yun Yuan’s gaze turned cold.

Lan Xiao confessed to his crimes, including framing the Ming Family and Lan Su, and received a sentence of life imprisonment before taking his own life. His death released nineteen years of sealed memories, leaving Yu Tu overwhelmed as the blizzard in his sea vanished.

• Lan Xiao admitted that he had betrayed Qi An and framed the Ming Family, and Ming Qiuxue mourned as the family’s name was cleared.
• Lan Xiao confessed to framing Lan Su and admitted the remaining charges as the court sentenced him to life imprisonment after stripping his Energy Crystal.
• Lan Xiao added that he had imprisoned Yan Mei and slandered Ming Qiuxue, then called his confession Yan Mei’s wedding gift.
• Lan Xiao destroyed his Origin Essence and died before the enforcers could stop him.
• Yan Mei wondered whether Lan Xiao had left him money, while Yu Tu collapsed into dizziness and regained the nineteen years of memories Lan Xiao had sealed away.

Yu Tu remembered how Lan Su had destroyed his clan, how the empire had imprisoned and experimented on him, and how he had crippled Lan Su in revenge. On the Freedom Empire’s founding day, seeing Lan Su again brought the hatred back, and Yu Tu sought comfort from Lu Mi.

• Yu Tu was born with a White Vine that healed his mother, and his power brought life to the barren planet where the Yu Clan lived.
• Black-clad attackers slaughtered Yu Tu’s clan, including Ayiduo, and Lan Su took the surviving child away.
• Lan Su’s people imprisoned Yu Tu and subjected him to experiments that strengthened his White Vine and awakened his Violet Slaughter Vines.
• Yu Tu used Lan Xiao to expose Lan Su’s crime to Elisa, then agreed to have his memories overwritten in exchange for meeting Lan Su in prison.
• Yu Tu severed Lan Su’s legs, but later helped him become ruler of the Freedom Sector and founding emperor of the Freedom Empire.
• At the founding celebration, Yu Tu saw Lan Su and remembered their past before asking Lu Mi to hold him.

At the Freedom Empire’s founding ceremony, Lan Su declared himself unworthy to rule because he had once led the slaughter of an innocent planet. He revealed that Yu Tu was a witness, prompting a tense standoff between the Ninth Army and the Freedom Army before both sides stood down.

• The citizens celebrated Lan Xiao’s death and the end of the Blue River Empire as Lan Su prepared to announce the new nation.
• Lan Su declared the Freedom Empire founded and promised citizenship and homes for the Drifting Refugees.
• After the crowd hailed him as emperor, Lan Su admitted his role in the slaughter of an innocent planet and said he was unfit to rule.
• When the crowd defended Lan Su, he said a witness was present, and Yu Tu opened his eyes as the plaza realized he was the witness.
• Yun Yuan and the Ninth Army drew their weapons, while the Freedom Army also armed itself; Lan Su ordered his soldiers to stand down, and Yu Tu persuaded the Ninth Army to do the same.

Lan Su sentenced himself to life imprisonment and named Cang Qi emperor of the Freedom Empire, while Yu Tu explained why he would not pursue revenge against him. As Lan Su was taken away to Central Prison, he parted from Cang Qi, knowing his remaining life was short.

• Lan Su declared himself unfit to rule, sentenced himself to life imprisonment, and appointed Cang Qi emperor, with Ming Qiuxue accepting his decision.
• Cang Qi agreed to take the throne, and Lan Su gave him the seat of honor as Freedom Star celebrated the empire’s founding.
• Aboard the Black Shark Battleship, Yu Tu told Lu Mi and Yun Yuan that he had chosen to honor Lan Su’s promise to be a good Star Lord.
• Yu Tu acknowledged the suffering of the Ming Family and said that he, Lan Su, and Lan Xiao were not completely innocent.
• Lan Su asked Ming Qiuxue to escort him to prison, then told Cang Qi that they would not meet again.

Yu Tu and Lu Mi traveled to Black Cat Planet, where Lu Mi arranged a surprise proposal surrounded by their friends and family. Yu Tu accepted, and the newlyweds stayed behind for a month-long wedding leave.

• Black Shark AI revealed that the battleship was headed to Black Cat Planet, where Yu Tu and Lu Mi exchanged playful kisses during the trip.
• Lu Mi blindfolded Yu Tu and led him to a gathering of friends and family, who lit up Black Cat Planet with lamps and decorations.
• Lu Mi proposed marriage to Yu Tu, and Yu Tu accepted before Lu Mi placed the ring on his finger.
• Yu Tu carried Lu Mi away and announced that they would take a month-long wedding leave on Black Cat Planet.
• The guests departed while Black Shadow raced around, and Yu Tu and Lu Mi kissed inside Black Cat House.