Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The hundred students are split into ten teams for a three-day trial in the Wutong Mountain secret realm. Students can form teams themselves or accept random assignments.
• Tang Zhou and Yun Wanlan both choose random assignment. Tang is placed in Team Seven after classmates avoid him for his arrogance; Yun, whose exceptional talent makes her popular, chooses randomly simply because she sees no reason to select teammates.
• At the school briefing, Principal Zhou Dehai explains that teams earn rewards by killing demonic beasts. Vice Principal Ji Yan emphasizes that students should prioritize survival, withdraw from dangerous encounters, and remember that communications and location tracking may be unreliable.
• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing travel separately to the heavily secured secret-realm base, where the Special Affairs Bureau and military are coordinating the operation.
• Chen tells Tang Zhou that she and Yang will operate independently and head deep into the realm, where stronger beasts are found. Tang is disappointed he will not have a chance to demonstrate his abilities to her.
• Chen and Yun pass one another without speaking. Yang wonders whether Yun is avoiding Chen; Chen thinks Yun simply does not look at people in general. The chapter ends as they reach the equipment area.

Character developments

• Tang Zhou remains proud and eager to prove himself, but his disappointment at missing a chance to impress Chen reveals that he is also seeking her recognition.
• Yun Wanlan is portrayed as exceptionally talented but withdrawn and self-contained. She chooses her team without apparent concern for companionship.
• Chen Siyao is confident about entering the realm’s dangerous depths and attentive to Yun, though she does not initiate contact.
• Yang Wanqing is curious about Yun’s aloofness and asks Chen what she thinks of her.

Significant themes

• Teamwork versus independence: Most students choose familiar teammates, while Tang and Yun accept random groups; Chen and Yang take an even more independent path.
• Ambition balanced by caution: The trial rewards combat achievements, but the teachers stress that survival matters more than points.
• Isolation and perception: Yun’s quiet distance prompts speculation, while Chen interprets it as a general habit rather than deliberate rejection.

Character interactions

• Yang tells Chen why students avoided Tang, and the two discuss Yun’s demeanor and whether Chen’s brother might take Yun as a disciple.
• Chen and Tang speak at the assembly area; his eagerness to impress her contrasts with her matter-of-fact announcement that she is heading deeper into the realm.
• Chen and Yun pass without exchanging a greeting, leaving Yang to wonder whether Yun deliberately avoided looking at Chen.

Plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing collect specially equipped supplies and enter the newly opened Secret Realm. A liaison officer reports that its outskirts hold mostly C- and B-Rank beasts, with A-Rank beasts farther in.
• Before entering, Chen Siyao spots her older brother watching from the base but does not speak to him.
• Inside, the pair travel through a cold, gloomy forest. Chen Siyao easily kills a few C-Rank beasts, and they avoid unfamiliar spirit plants.
• They hear a battle and find Tang Zhou’s squad—ten students—surrounded by powerful beasts. The exhausted team is close to being overwhelmed.
• Tang Zhou refuses repeated calls to send a distress signal, since doing so would mean failing the trial. When a beast is about to kill him, Chen Siyao intervenes, killing it with a beam of spiritual energy. She then begins dispatching the remaining beasts.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao is confident and composed, quickly assessing the danger and choosing to go deeper rather than linger on weaker beasts. She helps Tang Zhou’s squad without fanfare.
• Yang Wanqing remains an eager, casual companion, asking about the spirit plants and following Chen Siyao’s lead.
• Tang Zhou shows determination and pride, refusing rescue despite being badly injured and outmatched. His resolve may be admirable, but it also puts him and his squad at risk.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing coordinate easily, exchanging brief remarks as they explore.
• Chen Siyao speaks with Liaison Officer Lin about conditions in the Secret Realm before entering.
• Tang Zhou’s squad repeatedly urges him to signal for help, but he insists on continuing the trial.
• Tang Zhou recognizes Chen Siyao when she arrives, though she ignores him and focuses on the beasts.

Significant themes

• Courage versus recklessness: Tang Zhou’s refusal to retreat demonstrates grit but nearly costs him his life.
• Competence and responsibility: Chen Siyao intervenes decisively when the students face an imminent threat.
• The unknown and escalating danger: The changing forest, strange spirit plants, and stronger beasts underline the Secret Realm’s uncertainty.
  The chapter ends as Chen Siyao attacks the remaining beasts; the fight’s outcome is not yet shown.

Plot points and events

• Chen Siyao arrives just as Tang Zhou’s team is overwhelmed by a dozen powerful demonic beasts and kills them all in seconds.
• She gives the exhausted team an energy-recovery elixir and warns Tang Zhou that he should have sent a distress signal. She stresses that survival matters more than pride or winning the trial.
• Taking her advice, Tang Zhou leads his teammates back to the outskirts instead of pressing deeper into the secret realm.
• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing continue inward, fighting increasingly powerful beasts and collecting their inner cores. They learn the realm’s core zone draws high-rank beasts and head toward it.
• A peak A-Rank Three-Horned Demonic Rhino blocks their way. Chen Siyao has Yang Wanqing fight it herself, intervening only to watch over her. After a hard battle, Yang Wanqing kills it.
• The pair reach a raised stone platform bearing a rune-carved stele identified by Chen Siyao as the Secret Realm Core, and leap onto it.

Character developments

• Tang Zhou accepts that risking his life for a championship is foolish and chooses his team’s safety over pride and ambition.
• Yang Wanqing gains practical combat experience against a formidable opponent. Her skill and confidence grow, bringing her closer to a breakthrough into the golden body realm.
• Chen Siyao acts as both protector and mentor: she rescues the students but also insists they learn to make safer choices, while pushing Yang Wanqing to grow through real combat.

Significant themes

• Life over pride and achievement: Chen Siyao’s advice reframes survival as more important than passing a trial or winning.
• Growth through challenge: Yang Wanqing’s fight shows that progress requires confronting danger, not relying solely on secluded cultivation.
• Mentorship and responsibility: Chen Siyao protects others while teaching them to judge their limits and develop their abilities.
• Cooperation: Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing work smoothly together, with Chen Siyao creating opportunities for Yang Wanqing while keeping her safe.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao firmly counsels Tang Zhou, and Yang Wanqing reinforces the message by reminding him that Chen Siyao is her master’s teacher.
• Tang Zhou’s teammates defer to his decision to retreat after he changes his priorities.
• Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao share light banter about collecting cores for points and food, alongside a trusting training relationship.
• After Yang Wanqing’s victory, Chen Siyao praises her strike and helps treat her wounds before they continue together.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao deciphers an ancient tablet’s instruction: “Break it with force.” After striking it with her golden-body strength, she shatters the tablet and receives a magical ring called Chaos, which can control gravity. Yang Wanqing receives a hairpin called Soul Anchor, apparently connected to anchoring a soul or divine sense.
• Breaking the tablet releases a seal and triggers a massive demonic-beast tide. Chen and Yang fight their way through the forest and escape the Rift; the beasts stop at its boundary.
• Outside, they meet Yun Wanlan, who is spotless despite the beast tide. She asks to spar, first with Chen Siyao, then Yang Wanqing, explaining that she wants to understand her limits.
• Yun reveals that she wants to become Chen Hao’s disciple and asks the women to pass him a warning: the Taiyin Realm is close to breaking apart, and when it does, the Nine Provinces will fall.
• Yun says the Taiyin Realm is her homeland and believes Chen Hao may understand her message if he is the person she seeks. She leaves, and Chen and Yang resolve to ask Chen Hao about it.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao demonstrates the power of her golden-body cultivation, gains a gravity-controlling treasure, and remains alert and protective during the escape. Yun’s knowledge of her realm unsettles her.
• Yang Wanqing receives the Soul Anchor hairpin and helps Chen fight through the beast tide. Yun’s challenge catches her off guard, though she takes the request seriously.
• Yun Wanlan appears exceptionally capable and composed, but her warning reveals a personal stake in a looming catastrophe and a hidden emotional depth beneath her reserved demeanor.

Significant themes

• Power and its consequences: Claiming the treasures also breaks a seal, unleashing danger.
• Limits and self-understanding: Yun seeks a spar not out of hostility, but to measure her own abilities.
• Foreboding and uncertain truth: Yun’s warning raises the possibility of a disaster beyond the Rift, though Chen and Yang cannot yet verify it.
• Homeland and responsibility: Yun’s concern for the Taiyin Realm and Nine Provinces motivates her search for Chen Hao.

Character interactions

• Chen and Yang rely on each other during the beast-tide escape, with Chen leading the way and Yang covering her.
• Yun’s request to spar creates tension, but she clarifies that she seeks a test rather than a fight.
• Chen questions Yun about her knowledge and motives; Yun answers only partly, leaving the sisters uncertain about her identity and warning.

Plot points and events

• The three-day demonic-beast trial ends, and the participants return with varying degrees of success and injury. Tang Zhou’s squad makes it out alive and finishes third; Tang Zhou’s teammates note that he has become less focused on winning and more grateful for survival.
• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing report a combined 1,327 kills, including more than a hundred A-Rank beasts. They take first place but decline the rewards, which pass to Yun Wanlan’s squad in second place. Tang Zhou’s squad ranks third.
• Chen Siyao learns that Yun Wanlan’s teammates struggled to keep pace with her. Yun herself says little when her squad receives the unexpected reward.
• Yang Wanqing regrets giving up the Magical Treasure because she wanted a replacement for her candied hawthorn stick. Chen Siyao promises to ask her brother to forge her one.
• In the base office, Chen Siyao tells Chen Hao that Yun Wanlan mentioned the Taiyin Realm, its possible shattering, and the “fall of the Nine Provinces.” Chen Hao confirms the realm exists but says he does not know what happened there or what the prophecy-like warning means. He asks Chen Siyao to bring Yun Wanlan to see him back at school.
• After the women leave, Chen Hao remains alone by the window, troubled by a distant memory connected to the Taiyin Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Zhou shows a shift in priorities: he values his squad’s survival over their final ranking, suggesting greater maturity.
• Chen Siyao remains decisive and generous, willingly passing up valuable rewards. She also notices Chen Hao’s unusual mood and respects his need for solitude.
• Yang Wanqing is excitable and easily cheered, first complaining that Chen Hao did not rescue her, then quickly accepting his explanation. Her playful attachment to her magical stick lightens the scene.
• Chen Hao responds calmly to Yang Wanqing’s complaints, but becomes visibly affected by the Taiyin Realm. His refusal to speculate and his lingering at the window suggest the subject is personally significant.
• The interactions highlight the contrast between the women’s lighthearted banter and the serious, unresolved mystery surrounding Chen Hao’s past.

Significant themes

• Survival over achievement: Tang Zhou’s changed outlook and the trial’s injuries make simply returning alive a meaningful victory.
• Generosity and merit: Chen Siyao gives up the top prize, allowing it to pass to Yun Wanlan’s squad.
• Uneven teamwork: Yun Wanlan’s strength stands out, but her teammates’ limited coordination affects their overall performance.
• Buried history and foreboding: The Taiyin Realm and the possible “fall of the Nine Provinces” introduce a larger mystery tied to Chen Hao’s nearly forgotten past.

Key plot points and events

• After a school trial, Yun Wanlan claims Flame Spirit Stones and a finely made Jade Ruler. The stones can aid her cultivation, but she values the ruler more because it could benefit the Sushen Tribe, where magical treasures are scarce.
• Looking over Pengcheng, she recalls arriving from the Taiyin Realm and struggling to understand the Nine Provinces’ modern cities, weak spiritual energy, and fragmented political order. She had come seeking the supreme ruler described by her tribal chief, but found no unified ruler.
• Desperate and without a place to stay, she exchanged Flame Spirit Stones for shelter with the Zhao-Liu family. Their daughter, Liu Xiaoman, and her parents treated her warmly.
• With their help, Yun learned about phones and discovered online that Chen Hao—the High God and honorary principal of Pengcheng High Martial Arts—was likely the most powerful person in the Nine Provinces. Sister Zhao advised her that entering his school might offer a chance to meet him.
• Sister Zhao helped Yun register as the family’s adopted daughter. Yun’s mid-stage meridian-opening cultivation and record-breaking 13.5% absorption rate secured her admission. After months of waiting, she still has not met Chen Hao.
• In the present, Yun looks back on her gains while worrying that her tribe remains at war and people may be dying.

Character development and interactions

• Yun Wanlan is capable and determined, adapting to an unfamiliar society and using its technology to pursue her mission. Beneath her practical choices, she carries grief and guilt over being far from her endangered tribe.
• Sister Zhao is kind and resourceful: she shelters Yun, helps her navigate the modern world, and creates a way for her to take the entrance exam.
• Uncle Liu shows care through quiet concern, while Liu Xiaoman quickly grows affectionate and welcoming toward Yun.
• Yun responds to the family’s generosity, but keeps her origins largely private.

Significant themes

• Displacement and culture shock: Yun must reconcile her traditional homeland with the Nine Provinces’ advanced technology and different social order.
• Belonging and kindness: The Zhao-Liu family offers her a temporary home and a path into school despite her lack of identity documents.
• Duty versus comfort: Yun’s school life and rewards contrast sharply with the ongoing war and danger facing her people.
• Hope and uncertainty: Chen Hao may be the person Yun seeks, but reaching him—and finding the ruler her tribe needs—remains uncertain.

Key plot points and events

• Yun Wanlan, a Sushen Tribe member who has spent months searching for the person her chief described, enters Chen Hao’s office at Pengcheng High Martial Arts.
• Chen Hao immediately identifies her tribe despite her concealed origins. Convinced he is the powerful figure she sought, Yun kneels and addresses him as the Venerable.
• She explains that Extraterrestrial Demons have attacked the Taiyin Realm for nearly a thousand years. Their numbers have recently multiplied, and they consume realms’ earth-vein energy. The Taiyin Realm is close to collapse; the demons previously drained the Netherworld Realm, leaving it barren.
• Chen Hao agrees without demanding proof or payment: in three days, he will accompany Yun to the Taiyin Realm.
• Overcome with relief after months of fear and uncertainty, Yun quietly breaks down in tears. Chen Siyao lets her have space, while Yang Wanqing initially moves to comfort her.
• After Yun leaves, Yang asks how Chen Hao recognized her. He explains that he encountered the Sushen Tribe in the primordial era, when they were known for body refinement and archery.

Character developments

• Yun Wanlan moves from anxious uncertainty to certainty that she has found the person who can help her people. Her composure gives way to long-suppressed grief and relief, then she regains control.
• Chen Hao reveals deep knowledge of ancient tribes and acts decisively, agreeing to help without questioning Yun’s account or setting conditions.
• Chen Siyao shows perceptiveness and compassion by stopping Yang from interrupting Yun’s moment of release.
• Yang Wanqing is openly curious and eager to comfort Yun, then asks Chen Hao about his knowledge.

Significant themes

• Hope after prolonged hardship: Yun’s search and suffering culminate in a promise of help.
• Trust and compassion: Chen Hao’s immediate commitment gives Yun reassurance, while Siyao’s quiet restraint allows her to grieve.
• Ancient knowledge and hidden power: Chen Hao’s calm, ordinary appearance contrasts with his vast experience and ability to recognize Yun’s lineage.
• Existential threat and sacrifice: The demons’ destruction of earth veins threatens entire realms and the survival of Yun’s people.

Character interactions

• Chen Hao identifies Yun’s heritage, asks about the demons’ nature, and promises to accompany her to the Taiyin Realm.
• Yun responds with reverence, explains her people’s crisis, and thanks him.
• Siyao and Yang exchange surprised looks at Chen Hao’s recognition; Siyao later prevents Yang from interrupting Yun’s tears.
• Yang asks Chen Hao how he knew Yun was Sushen, and he connects her ancestry to the tribe’s ancient reputation for archery and body refinement.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao agrees to take his younger sister, Chen Siyao, and Yang Wanqing to the Taiyin Realm in three days. He confirms they will not hinder him.
• Chen Siyao announces the trip on Doule, then reveals its purpose: the Taiyin Realm is being attacked by Extraterrestrial Demons, who may target Blue Star if they conquer it. She plans to livestream the journey so Huaxia can study the threat.
• The warning triggers an emergency response in Huaxia, with military research institutions ordered to monitor the livestream. Governments and intelligence services worldwide also scramble to assess the news.
• The revelation that Yun Wanlan comes from the Taiyin Realm sparks a separate online frenzy, as the public debates whether to call her an alien or a person from another world.
• Before departure, Siyao carefully packs medical and travel supplies and prepares the Recording Crystal. Wanqing packs snacks and a speaker, including treats for Wanlan.
• Yun Wanlan arrives at the penthouse in combat gear with a distinctive black longbow, ready for the trip.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao is excited to go but worries about burdening her brother. Once reassured, she takes responsibility for informing the public and presenting the expedition as important research.
• Yang Wanqing is exuberant and impulsive, celebrating the trip and packing according to her own priorities. Her eagerness contrasts with Siyao’s careful preparation.
• Chen Hao is calm and confident, agreeing to the journey and brushing off questions about his extensive knowledge.
• Yun Wanlan is revealed to be from the Taiyin Realm; her arrival in combat gear signals the seriousness of the mission.
• Siyao and Wanqing share an affectionate, playful dynamic: Wanqing shakes Siyao in excitement, while Siyao patiently tolerates her antics.

Significant themes

• Interconnected worlds and looming danger: Events in the Taiyin Realm may directly threaten Blue Star.
• Public information and global response: A livestream turns a private expedition into an international security concern and potential research resource.
• Preparation versus spontaneity: Siyao plans carefully, while Wanqing approaches the journey with humor and snacks.
• Identity and perception: The public’s reaction to Wanlan’s origins reveals how quickly “another world” becomes sensationalized as “alien.”

Key plot points and events

• Yun Wanlan arrives at Chen Siyao’s apartment, where Yang Wanqing eagerly quizzes her about the Taiyin Realm, its food, climate, and Extraterrestrial Demons.
• Yun Wanlan greets Chen Hao with a traditional Sushen Tribe salute and calls him “Venerable.” She explains that her people have long-standing oral tradition requiring them to show him this respect.
• Chen Siyao starts a livestream, whose viewers quickly notice Yun Wanlan’s unusual title for Chen Hao.
• When asked how they will reach the Taiyin Realm, Yun Wanlan admits she does not know. She came to Blue Star using the tribe’s single-use World-Breaking Pearl, which shattered after bringing her there.
• Her admission leaves the group and livestream viewers stunned, especially as it becomes clear she sacrificed her only way home to seek help for her tribe.
• Chen Hao calmly walks to the balcony and tears open the air with his raised hand, apparently creating a passage. The chapter ends as this extraordinary action begins.

Character developments

• Yun Wanlan is respectful but increasingly embarrassed as she reveals she has no return route. Her use of the sole World-Breaking Pearl shows her commitment to helping her people.
• Yang Wanqing is cheerful, curious, and spontaneous; her excitement gives way to disbelief and sympathy when she learns of Yun Wanlan’s predicament.
• Chen Siyao is composed and practical, asking the essential questions and sharing Yang Wanqing’s concern.
• Chen Hao remains calm and decisive. Rather than dwelling on the obstacle, he appears to solve it through a display of immense power.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and duty: Yun Wanlan used her tribe’s only inter-realm treasure for what the chief considered most important, even at the cost of her way home.
• Tradition and hidden history: The Sushen Tribe’s ancient reverence for Chen Hao hints at a deep connection between him and their past.
• Cultural contrast and discovery: Wanqing’s questions highlight the unfamiliar customs and dangers of the Taiyin Realm, while the livestream brings the encounter to a wider audience.
• Hope in crisis: The group’s apparent dead end is answered by Chen Hao’s sudden intervention.

Character interactions

• Wanqing warmly welcomes Yun Wanlan and draws her into conversation, while Chen Siyao joins in with more focused questions.
• Yun Wanlan’s formal deference to Chen Hao prompts Siyao to ask about the title “Venerable”; Wanqing jokes that it suits his age, prompting Chen Hao to glance at her.
• Wanlan’s confession creates an awkward silence, then shifts the mood from comic disbelief to compassion.
• Chen Hao does not explain his plan; his silent action on the balcony gives the others—and the livestream audience—an abrupt demonstration of his abilities.

Plot points and events

• Chen Hao opens a spatial gateway to the Taiyin Realm, revealing that he could have taken the group there earlier but had waited out of “courtesy.”
• Chen Siyao, Yang Wanqing, and Yun Wanlan pass through, while Siyao’s pet Xiao Yue is left to watch the house. Siyao also ensures her livestream records the gateway.
• The gateway’s appearance causes a huge online reaction. U.S. officials record the event, while China’s Special Affairs Bureau orders its provincial martial bureaus to prepare for combat, fearing the Extraterrestrial Demons Chen Hao intends to confront.
• The group emerges onto a barren, airless plain. Yang Wanqing discovers the low gravity by jumping and briefly floating.
• Siyao and Wanqing realize that the immense blue-and-white sphere overhead is Blue Star: they are standing on the moon.

Character developments

• Chen Hao demonstrates immense power by tearing open space casually, while remaining unruffled and matter-of-fact.
• Chen Siyao is composed and practical: she records the gateway, makes arrangements at home, and quickly identifies their location.
• Yang Wanqing is excitable and outspoken. Her initial amazement at low gravity gives way to stunned disbelief at realizing she is on the moon.
• Yun Wanlan shows nervousness before the gateway opens and a moment of wistful attachment as she looks back at the familiar view of Pengcheng.

Character interactions

• Wanqing questions Chen Hao about why he waited to open the gateway; his dry answer, “Courtesy,” leaves her speechless.
• Siyao takes charge of the departure, instructing Xiao Yue to watch the house and urging the others onward.
• The three women react differently to the crossing: Siyao steps through decisively, Wanqing charges in after gathering herself, and Wanlan pauses to take in the home she may not see for a long time.
• On the moon, Wanqing shares her excitement about the weak gravity, while Siyao explains the cause and identifies their location.

Significant themes

• Power and awe: Chen Hao’s effortless manipulation of space inspires amazement online and concern among governments.
• The personal and the cosmic: The group leaves the comfort of home and arrives somewhere unimaginably vast and remote, with Blue Star looming overhead.
• Uncertainty and preparedness: The threat of the Extraterrestrial Demons is not yet confirmed, but authorities prepare for the possibility of danger.
• Discovery: The unfamiliar environment—airless, barren, and low-gravity—turns a journey between realms into a startling encounter with the moon.

• Journey across the lunar surface: Yang Wanqing, Chen Siyao, Yun Wanlan, and Chen Hao emerge onto a gray wasteland beneath a black sky, with Blue Star visible overhead. A livestream reveals that the Taiyin Realm is the moon, prompting astonishment—and concern—about the Extraterrestrial Demons’ proximity. Chen Hao creates a breathable spiritual-energy shield and carries the group swiftly across the cratered terrain.
• Discovery of the Moon Tower: Guided by Yun Wanlan, the group reaches a weathered stone tower about thirty meters tall. Its carved patterns and arched entrance show that it is artificial. Viewers recognize it as the structure photographed by a U.S. lunar orbiter in 1966 and later dismissed as an optical illusion. The discovery challenges that explanation and promises to unsettle public understanding of the moon.
• Entering the tower: Yun Wanlan leads the group inside after Chen Hao’s nod. The tower is hollow and surprisingly spacious, with dim orange stone lamps that glow steadily without heat or flicker.
• Character developments and interactions: Yang Wanqing is openly fascinated, lingering over the lunar soil and marveling at the craters; Chen Siyao gently urges her to keep moving and stays focused on their route. Yun Wanlan, once alone on this stretch, is now visibly more composed with Chen Hao beside her, and continues guiding the group. Chen Hao remains calm and decisive, providing protection and direction.
• Themes: The chapter blends wonder at space exploration with the collision of myth and modern science: the Taiyin Realm proves to be the moon, and a supposedly illusory lunar structure is revealed as real. The livestream makes the discovery a shared public event while raising questions about hidden history and the dangers beyond Blue Star.

• The stone passage and its history: Yun Wanlan uses the Sushen Tribe’s Gate-Opening Jade to open a massive stone door inside the tower. Chen Hao carries her and the others down the passage, which takes about twelve minutes at high speed and stretches roughly 1,200–1,800 kilometers beneath the moon. Yun explains that she once walked it alone for seven days. At the far end, they open another door from a mechanism on the wall; fresh scrape marks suggest Yun passed through it recently.
• How Yun reached Blue Star: Chen Siyao realizes Yun first traveled from her tribe across the moon to the near side, then used a World-Breaking Pearl to cross from the moon to Blue Star. This clarifies that the pearl was for the interplanetary crossing, not for the underground journey.
• Arrival on the far side: Outside the second tower, the group finds themselves on the moon’s far side, where Blue Star cannot be seen. Chen Siyao explains the moon’s synchronous rotation; Yang Wanqing admits she was never good at geography. The group walks about a kilometer toward Yun’s destination beneath an exceptionally clear, star-filled sky, while the livestream audience briefly falls quiet at the scene’s beauty and loneliness.
• A new threat emerges: A faint scraping sound comes from all around them. Yun quickly readies her bow, and Chen Siyao turns the Recording Crystal toward the noise. A fast-moving, dog-sized creature crawls over a ridge: gray-skinned, with unusually long limbs and extra joints. The chapter ends as the group spots it.
  Character developments and interactions: Chen Siyao’s calculations reveal her analytical nature, while learning how far Yun traveled alone makes her reconsider her earlier amusement about the World-Breaking Pearl. Yun’s endurance and resourcefulness become clearer, as does her calm familiarity with the route. Chen Hao guides the group with his spiritual energy. Yang Wanqing provides a light comic moment, then shares the viewers’ wonder at the lunar landscape. The chapter shifts from exploration and awe to suspense as Yun prepares for danger. Themes include isolation and perseverance, the wonder of unfamiliar worlds, and the contrast between scientific explanation and mystical travel.

Key plot points

• The group is surrounded by hundreds or thousands of eyeless Extraterrestrial Demons, which Yun Wanlan identifies as creatures that feed on the energy of the earth veins. Though she warns that they are dangerous in numbers and that stronger demons exist, the swarm’s fighters are only at the Body-Tempering Realm.
• Chen Hao kills the entire swarm with a single crescent-shaped strike, slicing the demons in half within seconds. He then studies a corpse’s anatomy and observes that the creatures are neither spirit beasts nor yao.
• The group continues across the Moon’s rugged far side, following Yun Wanlan to an unnaturally smooth area and a vast, invisible barrier.
• Yang Wanqing discovers the barrier is solid. Yun Wanlan uses a leaf-shaped Jade Talisman given to her by the clan chief to open a circular passage into the Taiyin Realm. Through it, Chen Siyao sees a green landscape.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao demonstrates overwhelming strength and calm detachment, treating the demons less as enemies than as specimens to examine. He questions Yun Wanlan about their diet but does not explain his conclusions.
• Yang Wanqing is eager for a chance to fight and jokes that Chen Hao should have left a demon for her to practice on. Her confidence grows once she senses the demons’ modest strength.
• Chen Siyao watches both Chen Hao’s examination of the corpse and the opening of the barrier. She shares the concern that the defeated swarm may be only a weak outer threat.
• Yun Wanlan guides the group confidently and supplies crucial knowledge and the talisman needed to enter the Taiyin Realm.
• The livestream audience reacts with astonishment at Chen Hao’s effortless victory and reflects on the contrast between his power and the Sushen Tribe’s long struggle against the demons.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: A threat that has challenged a tribe for generations is trivial to Chen Hao.
• Curiosity and discovery: Chen Hao’s interest in the demons’ anatomy suggests the encounter is also an investigation into what they are.
• Escalating mystery: The stronger demons mentioned, the sealed barrier, and the green world beyond it hint that the real danger and discoveries lie ahead.

Key plot points and events

• Yun Wanlan, Chen Siyao, Chen Hao, and Yang Wanqing pass through a ring of light from the lifeless lunar landscape into a lush world of floating islands.
• The new environment has breathable air, familiar gravity, and abundant vegetation. Yang Wanqing struggles to adjust to the unusually oxygen-rich air, and Chen Siyao steadies her.
• The group explores several islands, finding homes and everyday objects—but no inhabitants. A stove is still warm, suggesting the residents left recently, perhaps within a day.
• Yun Wanlan hurries toward the largest island, where they cross a broad stone bridge decorated with bird carvings and enter an ancient, deteriorating palace-like complex.
• The chapter ends as they reach the Main Hall, where a raised platform holds a stone table, incense burner, offering plates, and bronze mirror.

Character developments and interactions

• Yun Wanlan takes the lead throughout. Her growing haste, and her hesitation before entering the palace, suggest she has a personal reason to reach it, though it is not yet revealed.
• Chen Siyao remains attentive and practical: she switches back to ordinary breathing, supports Yang Wanqing, and follows Yun Wanlan across the bridges.
• Yang Wanqing responds with awe to the islands, then becomes troubled by the abandoned homes and signs of a sudden evacuation.
• Chen Hao accompanies the group but has little individual focus in this passage. The group stays together as they investigate.

Significant themes

• Wonder and contrast: A vibrant, living landscape sharply contrasts with the gray, airless lunar world.
• Absence and uncertainty: Signs of ordinary life remain, but the people have vanished, raising questions about what happened and where they went.
• Decay and endurance: The palace’s age and repeated repairs suggest a once-important place struggling to persist.
• Discovery and anticipation: Yun Wanlan’s urgency and the unexplained objects in the hall build suspense around the island’s history and purpose.

Plot and key events

• Yun Wanlan uses a Jade Talisman to open a hidden passage beneath the altar, revealing a cellar where roughly a thousand Sushen women, children, and elderly people are sheltering.
• Aunt Yun explains that Heavenly Demons breached the barrier after a day and night of fighting. The tribe’s fighters, led by Yun Wanlan’s grandfather, went west to hold the breach. He insisted that the tribe’s survival mattered more than his own.
• Realizing the cellar offers only temporary protection, the group follows Chen Hao toward the battle.
• They reach the barrier and see a breach more than a hundred meters wide, swarming with Heavenly Demons. The Sushen fighters are desperately defending it in rotating lines, amid mounting casualties, wounded people, and exhausted survivors—including children fighting.

Character developments and interactions

• Yun Wanlan’s composure cracks when she learns her grandfather and the fighters are still battling; she responds with determination, tightening her grip on her bow. Chen Hao takes the lead with a brief command to move.
• Aunt Yun’s fear and exhaustion show through her hurried account, but her reunion with Yun Wanlan briefly rekindles hope among the people in the cellar.
• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing watch in silence, troubled by the scale of the danger. Chen Siyao recognizes that the cellar can delay the Demons, not save the refugees.
• Yun Wanlan and Chen Hao act together: she identifies the situation and direction, and he swiftly carries the group to the battlefield.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and duty: Yun Wanlan’s grandfather and the fighters risk everything to protect the tribe.
• Hope amid catastrophe: The refugees’ relief at Yun Wanlan’s return contrasts with their precarious situation.
• The human cost of survival: The battlefield’s dead, wounded, exhausted fighters, and armed children show how thoroughly the invasion has consumed the community.
• A fragile refuge: The cellar offers shelter only temporarily, underscoring the urgency and desperation of the crisis.

Plot points and events

• Chen Hao arrives with Chen Siyao, Yang Wanqing, and Yun Wanlan at the Sushen Tribe’s battlefield, where a breach in the barrier is letting heavenly demons pour in.
• The tribe’s defenders are exhausted and badly wounded, yet continue holding the defensive lines with crude weapons and improvised teamwork.
• At the breach, Yun Cangyan—Yun Wanlan’s elderly grandfather—faces an enormous heavenly demon. Though he is in the late Golden Body Realm and the demon is at the peak of the Divine Treasury Realm, he keeps it at bay.
• The wounded recognize Yun Wanlan as the “Moon Princess,” and news of her return spreads through the defenders, lifting their attention and spirits.
• Yun Wanlan reaches her grandfather and apologizes for arriving too late. Yun Cangyan asks how she returned; she credits “the Venerable,” meaning Chen Hao.
• Yun Cangyan begins to bow to Chen Hao, but Chen Hao stops him, saying the immediate danger comes first. He steps past Yun Cangyan and rises above the battlefield.
• Chen Hao creates a vast disk of light. Its radiance makes the defenders pause, and the heavenly demons react with fear. Translucent swords begin forming within the disk.

Character developments and interactions

• Yun Wanlan returns to the battlefield despite its danger, focused on reaching her grandfather. Her reunion with him is emotional, though she quickly points to Chen Hao as the reason she could come back.
• Yun Cangyan reveals his resolve and endurance by holding off a vastly stronger enemy. Seeing Yun Wanlan briefly distracts him, leaving him vulnerable, but he regains control. Chen Hao’s unreadable presence unsettles him and suggests Chen Hao’s extraordinary power.
• Chen Hao remains composed and decisive. Rather than accept Yun Cangyan’s deference, he prioritizes stopping the invasion and displays a power that affects the entire battlefield.
• The Sushen defenders show courage and solidarity, rotating attackers and supporting one another despite severe casualties. Yun Wanlan’s return becomes a rallying point for them.

Significant themes

• Courage against overwhelming odds: The defenders and Yun Cangyan keep fighting despite facing stronger, seemingly endless enemies.
• Duty and sacrifice: Yun Cangyan stays at the breach, while the wounded continue contributing to the defense.
• Hope and morale: Yun Wanlan’s return and Chen Hao’s sudden intervention bring a change in the battlefield’s mood.
• Power and reverence: Yun Cangyan’s instinct to bow reflects Chen Hao’s legendary status, while Chen Hao’s restraint and action emphasize practical responsibility over ceremony.

Key plot points

• Chen Hao unleashes a vast rain of Light Swords, silently killing the demons pouring through the barrier breach and pursuing those who flee. Even the giant demon leader is impaled and dies outside the barrier.
• He closes the breach with a gesture, restoring the barrier. The exhausted defenders realize they have survived and erupt into cheering, laughter, and tears.
• Yun Cangyan kneels to thank Chen Hao on behalf of the Sushen Tribe, and the others follow. Chen Hao uses his power to make everyone stand, then asks where the Extraterrestrial Demons came from.
• Yun Wanlan confronts her father about why she was sent away with the World-Breaking Pearl. He admits that her grandfather intended her to escape, not to find help. Her family never truly believed in the legendary Venerable; the story had no reliable records or confirmed identity.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao demonstrates overwhelming power and calmly shifts from battle to inquiry. He accepts the tribe’s gratitude but prevents them from kneeling.
• Yun Cangyan openly acknowledges Chen Hao as the Venerable and thanks him for saving his people.
• Yun Wanlan learns that her family’s mission was really a means of getting her to safety. She presses her father about whether he believed the Venerable existed, but is left struggling to respond after hearing that no one in her family did.
• The survivors move from terror and despair to collective relief and celebration. Chen Siyao watches their reaction; she and Yang Wanqing also witness Yun Wanlan’s conversation.

Significant themes

• Legend versus belief: The supposed Venerable was dismissed as an unverifiable tale, yet Chen Hao’s arrival makes the legend tangible.
• Sacrifice and protection: Yun Wanlan’s family sent her away to save her, even while concealing the truth about their intentions.
• Relief after devastation: The victory does not erase the losses, but releases the survivors’ fear and grief.
• Power and humility: Despite his spectacular display, Chen Hao discourages worship and turns immediately to practical questions.

Key plot points and events

• The livestream audience realizes the patriarch gave Yun Wanlan the one-use World-Breaking Pearl not to fetch help, but to ensure she could escape after he had accepted that the Sushen Tribe might fall. He invented the quest for the Venerable because Wanlan would not have left if told simply to run.
• Yun Cangyan explains that Wanlan is the only daughter of the Yun family in her generation. With the family’s older men aging and one brother already lost, her father and eldest brother decided she must survive, whatever happened to the tribe.
• Wanlan reveals that she found Chen Hao—and that the Venerable is real. Yun Cangyan recognizes Chen Hao’s power: his sword storm defeated the demons and restored the barrier in minutes, averting the tribe’s imminent extinction.
• After the battle, the tribe brings survivors out of hiding, treats the wounded, and lays out the dead. Chen Hao and Yun Cangyan discuss the Sushen Tribe’s history and the worsening demon threat.
• The tribe once thrived in the Taiyin Realm, but dwindling spiritual energy weakened each generation. Extraterrestrial Demons emerged from the Netherworld Realm, which they had drained of its energy; their attacks grew steadily more frequent and devastating. The barrier, once reliable for years, had recently begun failing within days.
• A young attendant addresses Wanlan as “Moon Princess.” Wanqing learns that this is the inherited title for women of the Yun patriarchal line, while male heirs are called “Sun Lord.” The livestream erupts at the revelation that Wanlan is royalty.

Character developments and interactions

• Yun Wanlan is confronted with the depth of her family’s sacrifice, but can now tell her father that the hope he sent her to seek truly exists.
• Yun Cangyan shifts from preparing for the tribe’s likely destruction to witnessing its salvation. His account reveals both his grim resolve and his determination to preserve Wanlan.
• Chen Hao remains strikingly calm while hearing about the catastrophe, underscoring the gulf between his power and the tribe’s desperate situation.
• Yang Wanqing first listens closely to the history, then reacts with delighted astonishment to Wanlan’s royal status, sharing the news with the livestream audience.
• Chen Siyao listens in on the discussion and supplies the comparison that helps explain Wanlan’s title.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and survival: The patriarch’s apparent mission was a loving pretext to save his granddaughter.
• Hope after despair: Chen Hao’s arrival turns the tribe’s expected extinction into a chance to rebuild.
• Environmental collapse and escalating danger: The demons’ destruction of one realm and the fading energy of another explain how the crisis worsened over centuries.
• Hidden identity and social status: Wanlan’s royal title reframes how others—and the livestream viewers—understand her.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing sings dramatically in the Main Hall, entertaining the livestream audience and embarrassing Yun Wanlan. Chen Siyao watches with amusement.
• Chen Hao leaves the celebration and considers the heavenly demons’ origins. Though they came from the Netherworld Realm, he suspects their true source lies farther away—and reflects that the distance to Blue Star would be no obstacle to something powerful enough to drain an entire plane.
• He declines to join the others on a tour, choosing solitude at the Eastern Pavilion. There, he drinks a local herbal infusion and continues studying the Taiyin Realm and the distant western horizon.
• Yun Wanlan takes Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing to explore the tribe’s floating islands. The tribe has quickly learned that the heavenly demon is dead and the barrier has been repaired.
• Children greet Yun Wanlan warmly. Yang Wanqing shares Blue Star candy, playfully advertising it to her livestream.
• Villagers express gratitude by giving the visitors homemade food, carved-bone earrings, and other small gifts. A messenger also offers them magical artifacts on the chief’s behalf, but Chen Siyao declines.
• The excerpt ends as Yang Wanqing pauses at a woodworking shop.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao remains reserved and focused on the larger danger beyond the Taiyin Realm. He separates himself from the others to think and observe.
• Yun Wanlan is warmly welcomed home. Despite her recent exhaustion and injuries, she responds affectionately to the children and guides the visitors around the islands.
• Yang Wanqing brings levity through her singing and livestream antics, but the villagers’ losses and young combatants have clearly affected her.
• Chen Siyao is amused by Yang Wanqing and declines the tribe’s gifts without hesitation, confident that she and her companions need nothing.
• The villagers show their gratitude through personal, modest gifts and affectionate attention toward Yun Wanlan and her guests.

Significant themes

• Gratitude and community: The tribe responds to its rescue with generous gestures, even when its offerings are humble.
• Celebration alongside grief: The barrier is restored and the demon defeated, but the battle’s casualties still weigh on Yang Wanqing.
• A wider looming threat: Chen Hao’s thoughts suggest that the Netherworld Realm may only be part of a much larger danger.
• Cultural exchange and humor: Blue Star candy and livestream jokes bring a light, commercial twist to the visitors’ encounter with the tribe.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing, Chen Siyao, and Yun Wanlan explore the Floating Island Archipelago, learning about Sushen culture and the Three-Tailed Mysterious Bird, an ancestral totem said to have guided their people to the Taiyin Realm.
• They return to the Eastern Pavilion and share a meal of unfamiliar local foods. Yang Wanqing enthusiastically samples the blue fruit and shows it to her livestream audience.
• Chen Siyao asks her brother, Chen Hao, what he plans to do about the Extraterrestrial Demons. He says he will investigate the Netherworld Realm the next day.
• Asked where that realm is, Chen Hao answers: Pluto. His revelation shocks those at the table and sends the livestream chat into a frenzy, prompting speculation about how far Primordial Era civilization reached.
• The chapter closes by shifting to Blue Star, where officials and experts in the Special Affairs Bureau’s underground command center watch a recording of Chen Hao’s statement.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao remains quiet and withdrawn during dinner. His use of “I’ll go” rather than “we’ll go” signals that he intends to face the danger alone, though he gives no explanation.
• Chen Siyao notices his wording and is concerned, but avoids confronting him about it. Instead, she asks where the Netherworld Realm is and quietly considers the implications of his answer.
• Yang Wanqing keeps the mood lively with her curiosity, shopping, food reactions, and livestream commentary. Chen Hao’s revelation catches her so off guard she nearly chokes.
• Yun Wanlan shares cultural knowledge about the Sushen Tribe and helps introduce the travelers to local crafts and food.
• The group’s ordinary, convivial dinner contrasts with the alarming scale of Chen Hao’s next mission.

Significant themes

• Ancient civilization and cosmic scale: The Taiyin Realm’s connection to the moon and the Netherworld Realm’s location on Pluto raise questions about the reach and fate of Primordial Era civilization.
• Discovery and uncertainty: The characters—and the livestream audience—can only speculate about the past; the answers remain beyond their current knowledge.
• Isolation and responsibility: Chen Hao’s choice to say he will go alone hints at his tendency to bear danger by himself.
• Public revelation: The livestream turns a private dinner-table disclosure into a major event, immediately drawing the attention of authorities on Blue Star.