Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Deputy Director Zhao’s team debates whether the ancient cultivation civilization still exists in the Solar System. Professor Li argues that detectable traces would likely remain, while others point out that powerful barriers could conceal them. They agree they cannot know for certain.
• The immediate concern is Chen Hao’s announced plan to go to Pluto and confront the Heavenly Demons. Since he has no Recording Crystal and Pluto is too distant to observe directly, officials realize Chen Siyao’s livestream may be their only source of information.
• The next morning, Yun Wanlan brings breakfast as Chen Siyao’s stream draws a record audience. The revelation that Pluto is the Netherworld Realm has triggered worldwide speculation linking the planets to ancient realms.
• Chen Hao leaves alone. He tells Siyao to wait for him and promises he will be back. She accepts quietly, visibly worried; Yang Wanqing comforts her as viewers send messages of concern and encouragement.
• On the Moon, Chen Hao searches for the route the Heavenly Demons used. Following faint traces of their corrosive residue across the lunar surface, he reaches a ring-shaped hill and discovers a huge, pitch-black opening at its center.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao is calm and determined, setting out without equipment or fanfare. His gentle gesture of ruffling Siyao’s hair contrasts with the danger of his mission.
• Chen Siyao tries to contain her fear, responding only “Okay” and silently watching him disappear. Her livestream makes her both an emotional witness and the public’s link to Chen Hao.
• Yang Wanqing supports Siyao without words, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
• Professor Li and the other officials differ over how much can be inferred from missing evidence, but the discussion shifts from speculation to the practical limits of monitoring Chen Hao.
• Yun Cangyan’s account guides Chen Hao’s search: the Sushen Tribe’s former chief once pursued the demons to the Netherworld, suggesting an existing passage still connects the realms.

Significant themes

• The limits of knowledge and observation: Barriers, vast distances, and the absence of a recording device prevent officials and viewers from knowing what Chen Hao will face.
• Solitude and sacrifice: Chen Hao chooses to confront the threat alone, leaving Siyao and the watching world behind.
• Hope amid uncertainty: Siyao’s promise to wait and the viewers’ messages show how many people place their hopes in his return.
• Myth and science converging: Ancient realm names become the subject of modern scientific and public debate, blurring the boundaries between mythology and astronomy.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao discovers that Heavenly Demons have gnawed open a spatial rift linking the Moon to Pluto. He crosses it in seconds.
• Pluto has been stripped of nearly all its minerals and spiritual energy. Heavenly Demons cover the surface and burrow through the planet’s interior.
• The Demons sense Chen Hao and converge on him in enormous numbers. He protects himself with Samadhi True Fire, which destroys any Demon that touches it.
• Rather than simply fighting the swarm, Chen Hao searches for whoever is directing it. After about twenty minutes of walking through the horde and burning a vast number of Demons, he detects a powerful presence on the far side of Pluto.
• He flies to Sputnik Planitia, where even the nitrogen and methane ice has been consumed, and lands at the edge of the blackened plain.

Character development

• Chen Hao is calm and purposeful despite facing a planet-wide swarm. His immense power is evident, but his priority is strategic: finding the Demons’ commander rather than merely killing the attackers.
• The Heavenly Demons are shown to be coordinated, responsive to signals, and willing to sacrifice themselves without hesitation—evidence that their attacks are organized rather than instinctive.

Character interactions

• The Demons communicate through shrill roars transmitted as vibrations in spiritual energy. One alerts the others, triggering a planet-wide response directed at Chen Hao.
• Chen Hao engages the horde indirectly, using Samadhi True Fire to clear a path while he searches for its leader.

Significant themes

• Devouring and depletion: The Demons consume space, planetary resources, and spiritual energy, leaving Pluto barren.
• Scale and persistence: Chen Hao faces an effectively uncountable enemy force, yet advances steadily.
• Order behind apparent chaos: The coordinated swarm suggests a commander and a larger strategy, shifting the conflict from survival to investigation.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao encounters a gigantic heavenly demon on Pluto, hundreds of meters tall. Its antennae direct the surrounding swarm, which charges him when it detects his presence.
• He kills the leader with a single enormous Light Sword, splitting it in two. Without its commands, the demons become disorganized, then flee; Chen Hao lets them go.
• Searching the area, he discovers a damaged spatial passage buried underground, over 300 meters wide—far larger than the rift on the Moon.
• He infers that the demons came through it from somewhere beyond the solar system, consumed Pluto, and later opened a passage to the Moon and the Taiyin Realm.
• Chen Hao attempts to repair the passage using the Way of Space, hoping to locate its distant endpoint. Despite an hour of effort, his progress is negligible: repaired fibers repeatedly snap under the passage’s immense spatial stress.

Character developments

• Chen Hao demonstrates overwhelming strength by destroying the demon leader effortlessly, but the failed repair reveals a limit: even his mastery of spatial Dao cannot overcome the passage’s vast scale.
• He acts with restraint after the battle, choosing not to pursue the fleeing demons and focusing instead on understanding their origin.

Significant themes

• Power has limits: Chen Hao can defeat a formidable enemy, yet cannot necessarily solve the larger mystery it represents.
• The scale of the unknown: The passage’s endpoint lies beyond the solar system, hinting at threats and distances beyond current understanding.
• Order and instinct: The swarm’s coordination depends on its leader; once that link is severed, panic and flight take over.
• Escalating invasion: The demons’ movement from their distant origin to Pluto, then the Moon and Taiyin Realm, suggests a pattern of consuming worlds and spreading onward.

Character interactions

• Chen Hao’s encounter with the leader is brief and one-sided: the demon commands the swarm to attack, recoils instinctively from Chen Hao’s sword, and is killed before it can fight back.
• After its death, the leader’s absence disrupts the swarm’s coordination. Chen Hao does not engage the fleeing demons further, turning instead to investigate the passage.

Plot points and events

• Chen Hao realizes the vast passage on Pluto was not opened by the instinct-driven Heavenly Demons. Someone—or something—on the far side deliberately tore open space and sent them into the Solar System. He has no clue who did it or why.
• He destroys the passage, closing the Heavenly Demons’ route into the Solar System, but finds that countless demons still cover Pluto.
• To eliminate the remaining threat, Chen Hao forms a tiny, intensely bright singularity and sends it into Pluto’s core. The planet splits with glowing fissures, and the light erases the demons and all matter around them.
• Pluto contracts into a point of light and vanishes completely. Its moon Charon drifts away, freed from Pluto’s gravity. Chen Hao then opens a spatial rift and leaves.
• The scene shifts to the Sushen Tribe’s Floating Island, where Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing are walking around. Yang repeatedly looks back at a blue-fruit stall, while Yun Wanlan has grown accustomed to her curiosity. The excerpt ends as Yun Wanlan addresses her.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Hao is methodical and composed: he investigates the passage before acting, recognizes the possibility of a larger hidden threat, then makes the ruthless decision to erase Pluto and every demon on it.
• Yang Wanqing is portrayed as inquisitive and easily fascinated, stopping often to inspect things and ask questions. Yun Wanlan is patient and familiar with her habits. Their exchange is cut off before it develops further.
• Chen Hao’s scene focuses on solitary action; the later island scene introduces a lighter, everyday interaction among the women.

Significant themes

• A threat beyond the immediate enemy: The demons may have been deliberately deployed, raising unanswered questions about their sender and purpose.
• Protection through overwhelming force: Chen Hao closes the portal but judges that leaving the demons alive would invite future danger, so he destroys the entire world they infest.
• Scale and consequence: The chapter contrasts the cosmic erasure of Pluto with the ordinary curiosity and social warmth of the island scene.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing asks Yun Wanlan whether Chang’e, the moon-dwelling fairy from Blue Star’s legends, still exists. Yun knows only an ancient Sushen record saying an immortal flew to the moon and lived in Vast Cold; she has no information about Chang’e, the Palace of Vast Cold, Wu Gang, or the Taiyin Star Lord.
• Yang Wanqing learns that the Taiyin Realm is only one area of the moon, and that the Sushen Tribe has not explored the regions beyond it. She then asks about moon trees and eagerly sets off with Yun and Chen Siyao to see the Moon Suo Tree on the Seventh Floating Island.
• As they approach the suspension bridge, a sudden, intense white light floods the Taiyin Realm through its intact dome. It lasts about thirty seconds, then fades, leaving the settlement unharmed.
• The tribespeople emerge, wary and confused. Some elders pray, including a woman who kneels and touches her forehead to the paving.
• Chen Siyao checks the livestream chat. Viewers report that the same flash happened across Blue Star at the same time, suggesting a source in space—possibly beyond the moon. The cause remains unknown.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Wanqing is curious and energetic, pressing Yun for answers about familiar lunar legends and enthusiastically leading the way to the Moon Suo Tree.
• Yun Wanlan explains the limits of her people’s knowledge and protects Yang during the flash, turning away from the light and catching her arm. She is as puzzled by the event as the others.
• Chen Siyao keeps her concern for her absent brother, Chen Hao, mostly to herself. She continues managing the livestream and uses its chat to gather information about the worldwide phenomenon.
• The three rely on one another: Yang asks questions, Yun supplies what she knows and shields her, and Chen interprets the livestream’s reports for both of them.

Significant themes

• The unknown: The moon holds vast regions and mysteries beyond the Sushen Tribe’s reach, while even familiar legends remain unverified.
• Connection across worlds: The synchronized flash links the Taiyin Realm and Blue Star, raising questions about the wider cosmos.
• Fear and uncertainty: The sudden event disrupts ordinary exploration and prompts both practical caution and religious responses.

Plot points and events

• During Chen Siyao’s livestream, a verified researcher reports that Pluto has disappeared. Multiple observatories confirm that Pluto is gone and its gravity has vanished, while its moon Charon remains but is drifting from its orbit.
• Viewers connect Pluto’s disappearance to Chen Hao: he had said he was going to Pluto to confront the Heavenly Demons, and a tremendous flash was observed worldwide shortly afterward.
• Terrified, Chen Siyao runs to the edge of the highest floating island, hoping to see where Chen Hao left through the barrier. She cannot see beyond the dome. Yang Wanqing and Yun Wanlan join her.
• Online discussion suggests the flash may have been an immense eruption of spiritual energy capable of destroying a planet. One commenter raises the possibility that Chen Hao may not have survived.
• The scene shifts to an emergency meeting beneath the White House. U.S. officials review Pluto’s disappearance and the global flash. An analyst notes that Chen Hao left the Taiyin Realm about two hours before the flash, and that the observed light reached Earth far faster than ordinary light.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao is overwhelmed by fear for her brother, whom she has only recently reunited with. She clings to his promise that they would have a long future together.
• Yang Wanqing, usually cheerful, is too frightened to offer comfort and cries beside Chen Siyao.
• Yun Wanlan shows concern for Chen Hao, having witnessed his extraordinary battle against the Heavenly Demons.
• Chen Hao is absent, but his apparent role in Pluto’s destruction transforms him from a powerful fighter into the focus of worldwide alarm and speculation.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing share their fear and grief in silence; Yang stays beside her rather than trying to reassure her.
• Yun Wanlan joins them at the island’s edge, adding her quiet concern.
• Online observers, astronomers, and officials piece together the connection between Chen Hao, the flash, and Pluto’s disappearance.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and fear: The characters and the public have evidence of disaster but no confirmation of Chen Hao’s fate.
• The scale of power and its consequences: The suspected destruction of a planet makes Chen Hao’s abilities—and their destructive potential—seem almost unimaginable.
• Love and attachment: Chen Siyao’s grief centers on her brother and the future they had just begun to share.
• Global scrutiny: A deeply personal crisis becomes an international event, investigated by ordinary viewers, scientific institutions, and governments.

Plot points and events

• U.S. officials assess Pluto’s sudden disappearance and conclude it was almost certainly connected to Chen Hao. They estimate his survival chance at 83%, while finding no evidence that debris is heading toward Earth.
• The U.S. president recognizes that a single person capable of erasing a planet has overturned conventional ideas of power. He orders a request for a highest-level diplomatic meeting with Huaxia.
• In Huaxia’s underground command center, Old Zhao reviews a more informed assessment: the flash is 99.993% correlated with Chen Hao’s actions, and his survival probability is 97.32%.
• Scientists determine Pluto’s disappearance poses no meaningful danger to Blue Star: no significant gravitational, debris, radiation, or other effects are expected. The estimated overall impact is just 0.07%.
• A livestream watched by 670 million people continues to draw a growing audience as the world waits for news of Chen Hao. The chapter ends as Old Zhao receives a communications log about the United States.

Character developments and interactions

• The U.S. president shifts from astonishment to pragmatic deference: he stops treating Chen Hao as an ordinary individual and seeks direct engagement with Huaxia.
• Old Zhao remains composed and focused on practical consequences, checking the survival estimate and Earth’s safety rather than dwelling on the spectacle.
• U.S. and Huaxia officials compare analyses, but Huaxia’s assessment is more confident because its Special Affairs Bureau has fuller records of Chen Hao’s past feats, including his battle with Xiangliu.
• Scientists reassure military and government officials that Pluto’s loss will not materially affect Blue Star.

Significant themes

• Power reshapes politics: One person’s ability to destroy a planet makes national slogans and ordinary military calculations seem irrelevant.
• Knowledge determines confidence: Huaxia’s more complete information about Chen Hao produces a much higher survival estimate than the U.S. model.
• Vast destruction, limited local impact: Pluto’s disappearance is cosmically enormous yet poses almost no physical threat to Blue Star.
• Public uncertainty: Despite detailed analysis, the world’s attention remains fixed on whether Chen Hao survived.

Key plot points and events

• Deputy Director Zhao monitors Chen Siyao’s livestream while an aide reports that she is nineteen. He reflects that the authorities’ estimate of the situation is high—but not certain—and orders the feed to keep being watched.
• In the Taiyin Realm, Chen Siyao, Yang Wanqing, and Yun Wanlan wait anxiously for Chen Hao after the disappearance of Pluto. The livestream draws more than six hundred million viewers, but Chen Siyao remains silent and focused on the barrier.
• Yang Wanqing insists that her master cannot have died, recalling how he single-handedly killed a hundred thousand Heavenly Demons.
• The barrier ripples, and Chen Hao steps through it unharmed. Chen Siyao runs to him and clings to him; Yang Wanqing grabs his arm. Yun Wanlan stays back, relieved.
• Chen Hao reassures them. Chen Siyao explains that rumors about Pluto exploding frightened her. After checking that he is uninjured, she rights the Recording Crystal and resumes the livestream.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao moves from stunned, fearful waiting to intense relief. Her memories of Chen Hao’s reliability help sustain her trust that he will return.
• Yang Wanqing reveals how deeply attached she is to her master: despite her confident claims, her fear is evident when he finally returns.
• Yun Wanlan remains quietly supportive, sharing the group’s anxiety and relaxing once Chen Hao is safe.
• Chen Hao returns calm and apparently untouched, comforting his sister and disciple with brief, gentle reassurance.
• Deputy Director Zhao watches events with measured caution, aware that the official understanding of the crisis is incomplete.

Significant themes

• Faith and trust amid uncertainty: Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing hold on to their belief in Chen Hao despite frightening rumors and the lack of official information.
• Public anxiety and spectacle: Hundreds of millions follow the livestream, turning the group’s private relief into a globally witnessed moment.
• Affection expressed through action: The embraces, gripping hands, and Chen Hao’s gentle pat convey what the characters struggle to say aloud.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing wait together, each expressing faith in Chen Hao in her own way.
• When he returns, both rush to hold on to him; Chen Hao responds tenderly, comforting Chen Siyao and reassuring Yang Wanqing.
• Yun Wanlan supports them from a distance, while Zhao and his aide observe the unfolding reunion through the livestream.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao confirm that Chen Hao destroyed Pluto, which he calls the Netherworld Realm, because the Heavenly Demon had consumed it and left it with “no reason to exist.”
• Chen Hao also reports destroying a spatial rift between the Moon and Pluto, preventing the Heavenly Demon from using that route again.
• Chen Siyao reassures the six hundred million livestream viewers that her brother is safe. Yang Wanqing teases her about having sprinted to the dome in panic, easing the tension.
• Yun Wanlan, representing the Sushen Tribe—which fought the Heavenly Demon for a thousand years—bows in gratitude. She is visibly moved by the news that the threat has ended.
• Chen Siyao jokes that Chen Hao should warn her before making a planet disappear. The exchange delights the viewers.
• The group returns to the Eastern Pavilion to rest and eat. Later, Chen Siyao quietly asks whether there was only one passage. Chen Hao says he has found only one “so far,” leaving the possibility of others open.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao remains calm and outwardly ordinary despite his extraordinary actions. He gives few details, as usual, and answers his sister’s questions only briefly.
• Chen Siyao moves from fear and tears to relief, humor, and quiet concern. She supports Yun Wanlan, jokes with her brother, and privately considers what his careful wording might imply.
• Yang Wanqing shifts quickly from emotion to curiosity and helps lighten the mood by teasing Chen Siyao.
• Yun Wanlan shows restrained gratitude and emotion as the Sushen Tribe’s centuries-long struggle appears to be over. Chen Siyao responds by squeezing her hand.
• The livestream audience reacts with disbelief at the scale of Chen Hao’s power, then joins in the humor and celebrates the siblings’ rapport.

Significant themes

• Power and its distance from ordinary life: Chen Hao’s planet-destroying act contrasts sharply with his quiet, everyday manner.
• Relief after long suffering: The end of the Heavenly Demon threat offers hope to a tribe that has fought for generations.
• Family intimacy amid cosmic events: Chen Siyao’s concern and teasing make an unimaginable feat feel personal.
• Uncertainty remains: “So far” hints that the danger—or the mystery of the Heavenly Demon’s origins—may not be fully resolved.

Key plot points and events

• After Chen Hao’s destruction of Pluto, the livestream chat turns to the growing popularity of cultivation. People discuss crowded schools, new mandatory courses, and military training, while recognizing that even modest cultivation can improve strength and longevity.
• The incident triggers an accelerating worldwide “cultivation for everyone” movement. Chen Siyao reflects that cultivation has shifted from a niche pursuit to something people see as necessary for survival.
• Yang Wanqing asks when she might reach Chen Hao’s level. Chen Siyao tells her to focus on breaking through to the Golden Body Realm; despite her disappointment, Yang begins practicing.
• That night, Chen Siyao watches Chen Hao silently gaze at the missing star in the Taiyin Realm’s dome. She says good night to him, and he acknowledges her.
• On Blue Star, media coverage of Pluto’s disappearance edges toward the truth, though governments avoid making definitive statements. A viral telescope livestream and a hugely popular comment urging people to learn cultivation fuel public urgency.
• Martial arts academies are overwhelmed by applicants. At a Capital City school, people of all ages—including a mother with a baby—queue to enroll. Some want protection and strength; others hope to investigate cultivation scientifically. Schools elsewhere fill just as quickly.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao recognizes how profoundly the Pluto incident has changed public attitudes. Her quiet exchange with Chen Hao conveys their closeness and concern without requiring a long conversation.
• Yang Wanqing remains playful and ambitious, but her instinctive practice shows she is taking cultivation seriously.
• President Hu is caught off guard by the scale and diversity of demand at his academy, as applicants challenge the idea that cultivation is only for the young or specially gifted.
• The crowds include students, workers, parents, and researchers, illustrating how broadly the event has affected society.

Significant themes

• Cultivation becomes mainstream: The disappearance of Pluto turns cultivation from an optional interest into a perceived necessity.
• Power and survival: People hunger for strength after witnessing what one cultivator can do, even if few expect to reach Chen Hao’s level.
• A global turning point: Public behavior and education are changing faster than official statements can keep pace.
• Ordinary ambition versus extraordinary power: Most people may only reach modest stages, yet they see even limited cultivation as meaningful.

Plot and key events

• The destruction of Pluto by a single person triggers a worldwide surge in interest in cultivation. Training centers across Huaxia and other countries are overwhelmed, as people see cultivation as necessary to avoid falling behind.
• In the Taiyin Realm, Chen Siyao wakes to find Yang Wanqing and Yun Wanlan planning a tour of the Sushen Tribe’s Floating Islands. Chen Hao is absent, so Siyao joins them with a Recording Crystal.
• On the Fifth Island, the group visits artisan workshops. Wanqing is curious about the crafts but is told that the Bone-Sigil Craft is secret. A young artisan gifts her a luminous woven hairband, then gives Siyao one too.
• On the Sixth Island, they visit the Ancestral Altar, where new clan chiefs receive their ancestors’ inheritance. Siyao reads an inscription in Ancient Script, revealing that Chen Hao taught her some of the language.
• On the Eighth Island, they find children practicing energy-controlled games. Wanqing asks to join, and Yun Wanlan allows it on the condition that she not use true qi. The excerpt ends as Wanqing runs to play.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Wanqing is exuberant and curious, especially about food, crafts, and playing with the children. Her enthusiasm contrasts humorously with her quick loss of interest when the medicinal plants prove unfit for eating.
• Chen Siyao is observant and appreciative of the artisans’ gifts. Her ability to read Ancient Script impresses Yun Wanlan and hints at the depth of her education under Chen Hao.
• Yun Wanlan acts as guide and cultural interpreter, explaining the islands’ traditions and setting safety limits for Wanqing.
• The warm exchange with the young weaver shows the visitors forming friendly connections with the Sushen people, even across a language barrier.

Significant themes

• The Pluto incident turns cultivation from a personal choice into a widespread social pressure: people fear being left behind as others gain power.
• The chapter contrasts global urgency with the slower, everyday life of the Floating Islands, where craft, tradition, education, and play remain central.
• Curiosity and cultural exchange bridge differences, while protected techniques and the ancestral altar emphasize the importance of tradition and boundaries.

Plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing entertains the Sushen children by turning a large Light Orb into a shower of smaller ones. The children delight in catching them.
• Chen Siyao records the scene and reflects on the children’s isolation: they are the last Sushen bloodline, born on the moon and raised beneath an artificial sky. With the Heavenly Demons and their Pluto stronghold destroyed, their future is uncertain.
• At lunch, Yang Wanqing learns from Yun Wanlan that Chang’e truly lived on the moon in the Primordial Era. Chen Hao confirms it and agrees to take the group to see where she lived after lunch.
• Before leaving, Chen Siyao decides to say goodbye to Yun Wanlan. At the dome’s platform, Yang Wanqing promises to return and makes a playful pinky swear with her.
• Chen Siyao shows Yun Wanlan the photos she took of the children and offers to preserve them so the Sushen can see images of Blue Star. The three girls share a tearful but humorous farewell, and Yang Wanqing finally turns to leave with Chen Hao.

Character developments

• Yang Wanqing shows warmth and generosity toward the children, then expresses genuine affection for Yun Wanlan through her promise to return. Her excitement about Chang’e also reveals her youthful curiosity.
• Chen Siyao is thoughtful and emotionally perceptive. Her recordings become a way to connect the isolated Sushen children with the wider world, and her quiet smile shows how much the farewell affects her.
• Yun Wanlan responds with restrained emotion. Though unfamiliar with Blue Star customs such as a pinky swear, she accepts Yang Wanqing’s promise and is moved by Chen Siyao’s photographs.
• Chen Hao remains understated: he confirms Chang’e’s existence and agrees to the visit, while giving the girls space to say goodbye.

Significant themes

• Connection across different worlds: The girls’ friendship bridges Blue Star and the moon.
• Hope and uncertainty after conflict: The defeat of the Heavenly Demons removes an ancient threat, but the Sushen children’s future remains unresolved.
• Memory and belonging: Chen Siyao’s photographs preserve a glimpse of life beyond the children’s isolated home.
• Goodbyes and promises: The farewell is sad, but the promise to meet again makes it hopeful.

Character interactions

• Yang Wanqing plays with the children and praises a girl who calls her a good playmate.
• At lunch, Yang Wanqing eagerly questions Chen Hao about Chang’e, while Chen Siyao quietly reveals her own interest.
• Yang Wanqing and Yun Wanlan exchange an affectionate promise; Chen Siyao offers Yun Wanlan the photographs as a keepsake.
• The three girls tease one another about crying, easing the sadness of their parting with laughter.

Plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing leaves the Sushen Tribe with Chen Siyao and Chen Hao, waving goodbye as the barrier closes behind them. Chen Hao shields the girls from the Moon’s vacuum and radiation and carries them across the lunar surface.
• The Moon’s monotonous landscape initially bores Yang Wanqing, while Siyao studies the impact craters. Their attention shifts when Blue Star appears over the horizon: Wanqing greets it excitedly, and Siyao quietly reflects on the life and memories she left there.
• Chen Hao lands near a low hill and reveals an invisible barrier by touching it. He forces it open with spiritual energy, and the group passes through.
• Inside, they discover immaculate stone paving marked with active formation patterns and a cluster of illuminated palaces and bridges floating above the ground. Siyao records the astonishing scene, which draws stunned reactions from hundreds of millions of viewers.

Character developments

• Yang Wanqing is visibly emotional about leaving the Sushen Tribe, then shifts from excitement to boredom on the journey and finally to awe at Blue Star and the lunar palaces. Her playful curiosity comes through in her questions about Chang’e and the barrier.
• Chen Siyao comforts Wanqing through quiet companionship rather than reassurance. Seeing Blue Star prompts a reflective moment about her home, university, and past. At the palaces, she responds with focused attention, recording what she sees.
• Chen Hao remains calm and purposeful, protecting the girls, guiding them to their destination, and demonstrating that he can breach the concealed barrier.

Significant themes

• Home and separation: Wanqing’s farewell and Siyao’s silent response to seeing Blue Star emphasize the emotional pull of home.
• Wonder beyond expectation: The familiar, lifeless Moon gives way to an extraordinary hidden world, restoring the girls’ sense of awe.
• The collision of science, mythology, and culture: The lunar setting, spiritual formations, and floating palaces blend physical exploration with legendary imagery. Viewers connect the discovery to Su Shi’s poetic line about “palaces in the heavens.”
• Shared discovery: Siyao’s recording and the live comments make the revelation a collective experience, not just a private adventure.

Character interactions

• Wanqing repeatedly insists she is fine after leaving the tribe; Siyao answers with simple acknowledgments and a gentle nudge, offering understated support.
• The girls share their reactions to the Moon, Blue Star, and the palaces, including a playful exchange in which Siyao pinches Wanqing to prove she is awake.
• Chen Hao leads and protects them throughout, while the girls follow his actions and increasingly rely on his knowledge and confidence.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing explore the first Floating Palace, whose barrier has kept it pristine. From inside, they can see the Moon’s surface and Blue Star, though the palace is invisible from outside.
• The girls admire the architecture and photograph Blue Star framed by the palace’s eaves, while the livestream audience reacts to the remarkable view.
• In the main hall, they discover a huge, intricately engineered bronze instrument. Its rings, gears, inscriptions, display, and joystick suggest it is a working precision machine, not a decorative object.
• Chen Siyao finds its engraved name: “Jade Rabbit One.” She realizes the name is an equipment designation and that the instrument likely models or calculates celestial movements.
• Yang Wanqing calls Chen Siyao into a small adjoining room that resembles an office; the chapter ends before they discover what is inside.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao shifts from documenting the palace’s beauty to closely investigating its technology. Her attention to the instrument’s construction lets her infer its purpose.
• Yang Wanqing remains energetic and curious, exploring the palace and prompting Chen Siyao to notice the adjoining room.
• The pair complement one another: Yang Wanqing explores enthusiastically, while Chen Siyao observes, photographs, and analyzes.
• Livestream viewers move from awe at the palace to astonishment and speculation about the “Jade Rabbit One” and the Primordial Era’s engineering.

Significant themes

• Ancient sophistication: The instrument’s precision challenges assumptions about what Primordial Era people could build.
• Beauty and technology: The palace is both visually magnificent and a setting for advanced machinery.
• Discovery and reinterpretation: “Jade Rabbit One” turns out not to be a literal rabbit, but the name of a machine, hinting that familiar legends may have technological origins.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao discover a remarkably well-preserved book in the Tidewatch Station: Chang’e’s diary. Chen reads it aloud while their recording device and a vast livestream audience capture the account.
• Chang’e arrived at the station in Taiyin year 4217 to monitor the Spiritual Energy tides with an instrument called Jade Rabbit One. At first, readings were stable and her work followed a routine of measurements and inspections.
• Over the centuries, the readings steadily decline. Chang’e reports the change to her sect, but it repeatedly tells her to keep monitoring the situation.
• Chang’e tries to address the decline through corrections and repairs, eventually recognizing that the instrument is not at fault: Spiritual Energy itself is draining from the Nine Provinces.
• Her final recorded readings fall from more than 7,000 to just 47. She concludes that the Nine Provinces are nearing an age of Spiritual Energy depletion, despite all her efforts.

Character developments

• Chang’e begins as a diligent, precise watchkeeper. As her isolation stretches across millennia, her entries become less frequent and more personal. She grows resigned to her post, but still longs to return home. Her continued inspections become an act of duty rather than a practical solution.
• Chen Siyao is initially excited by the discovery, but the diary’s account gradually overwhelms her; her voice falters and softens as she reads.
• Yang Wanqing listens closely, shifting from eager anticipation to visible grief and quiet reflection.

Significant themes

• Isolation and the passage of time: Chang’e’s centuries alone are conveyed through long gaps between entries and the changing handwriting.
• Duty versus personal longing: She wants to return to the Nine Provinces, but stays because her sect never releases her from her post.
• The limits of individual effort: Chang’e exhausts her methods but cannot reverse a civilization-wide decline in Spiritual Energy.
• Loss and absence: Her repeated paintings of peach blossoms preserve their appearance but not the wind and movement that make them feel alive.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing share the diary-reading, while the livestream audience watches and responds with growing silence.
• Chang’e’s relationship with her sect is conveyed through her reports and its terse instruction to “continue monitoring,” underscoring the distance between her devotion and the institution’s response.
• Though Chang’e is absent, her diary creates an intimate connection with the two women and the audience, making her long solitude emotionally present.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao finishes reading Chang’e’s diary. Its final entry reveals that, after receiving a sect order to return, Chang’e sat alone for a long time before leaving the Guanghan Tidewatch Station. She shut the palace and its barrier behind her and wondered whether anyone would ever visit again.
• The diary ends with a simple “Goodbye.” The livestream audience is deeply affected, recasting Chang’e not as a mythic fairy but as a worker who performed a lonely, increasingly meaningless assignment for three thousand years.
• Yang Wanqing asks whether Chang’e made it back to her sect, but neither girl knows. As they continue exploring, they find domestic traces of Chang’e’s life and a cluster of faint marks scratched into a bedroom wall—perhaps a way she counted years.
• Chen Siyao spots her brother, Chen Hao, standing alone on a bridge and looking toward Blue Star. He seems already to know the station and its history, though he says he has never visited.
• Chen Siyao relays Director Han’s request for Special Affairs Bureau researchers to study the station. Chen Hao agrees to provide them with a key to pass through the barrier.
• Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao resume exploring as the palace shifts into its dim, blue-tinged nighttime lighting.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Wanqing is overwhelmed by Chang’e’s loneliness and cries, then quickly regains her curiosity and cheerfulness. She relies on Chen Siyao for comfort and pulls her along to explore.
• Chen Siyao handles the diary with care, respects its emotional weight, and quietly observes her brother. His knowledge of the world deepens her sense that he understands far more than he reveals.
• Chen Hao remains silent and contemplative, focused on Blue Star rather than the palace’s artifacts. He readily allows researchers access, reinforcing his calm authority and hidden knowledge.
• The livestream viewers collectively respond to Chang’e’s story with grief and empathy, emphasizing the ordinary labor behind her legendary status.

Significant themes

• Loneliness and endurance: Chang’e’s three millennia of solitary duty are measured through routine, domestic traces, and the marks on her wall.
• Work behind myth: The audience reframes the moon goddess as an isolated worker carrying out an assignment long after it lost its purpose.
• Memory and absence: The diary, abandoned rooms, and scratched marks preserve evidence of a life that might otherwise have vanished.
• Hidden knowledge and unanswered questions: Chang’e’s fate remains unknown, while Chen Hao’s familiarity with the world raises questions about what he knows.

Key plot points and events

• At Guanghan Tidewatch Station on the moon, Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing finish exploring and reunite with Chen Hao, who has been meditating with the Guixu Pearl.
• Chen Hao opens a portal and brings them home to their apartment in Pengcheng. Yang Wanqing celebrates, Xiao Yue greets the group, and the evening passes with Yang Wanqing reviewing photos while Chen Siyao organizes her research notes.
• The next morning, Chen Siyao receives a message from Qin Xiaoyu: her group has reached the final formation on Penglai’s Main Island but cannot solve it. Chen Siyao agrees to help and requests leave from the High Martial Arts Academy to investigate the ancient site.
• Chen Siyao wakes Yang Wanqing and invites Chen Hao to join them. He agrees, saying he also wants to assess his disciples’ cultivation progress.
• The three set off for Penglai aboard the Three Blue Birds.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao shows growing confidence in her expertise and initiative. Her curiosity about Penglai’s legendary connections drives her to accept the challenge immediately.
• Chen Hao remains calm and attentive, supporting his sister’s plans while using the trip as a chance to check on his disciples.
• Yang Wanqing brings warmth and humor to the group: she is exhausted and hungry after the lunar visit, then quickly perks up at the prospect of another journey.
• Qin Xiaoyu, though off-page, demonstrates her practical, direct style by asking Chen Siyao for help with the formation.
• The chapter highlights the close, familiar bonds among the trio, as well as Chen Siyao’s affectionate reunion with Xiao Yue.

Significant themes

• Ancient mysteries and exploration: Penglai’s final formation promises secrets tied to legendary figures and the mysterious resurgence.
• Modern life adapting to cultivation: The characters balance academy classes and research with advanced travel, portals, and martial training.
• Trust and self-directed growth: Chen Hao has largely let his disciples cultivate independently, while offering support when they need it.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao arrives at Dinghai Island with the Three Blue Birds. The port has been converted into a restricted gateway for people traveling to Penglai.
• He checks his four disciples’ cultivation and recent progress in formations, alchemy, and talisman-making, praising their work as adequate.
• Rather than personally manage the Main Island expedition, Chen Hao leaves the practical work to his disciples and martial aunts, then retreats to a hotel suite to cultivate inside the Guixu Pearl, where time passes far more quickly.
• Qin Xiaoyu explains that the group has cleared the Main Island’s first secret realm but is blocked by its final formation. After seven days of failed attempts, they discovered it is a Heart-Questioning Dao-Realization Formation, not a conventional defensive, offensive, or trapping formation.
• The formation has a Formation Spirit that judges entrants’ character, Dao heart, understanding, and purpose. Ye Chendong recounts that when asked why he cultivated, he answered “to become stronger”—and was told to leave.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao appears calm and exacting as he assesses his disciples, but casually delegates the expedition to them and withdraws to cultivate.
• Qin Xiaoyu is shown as the strongest and most advanced of the disciples, and takes responsibility for briefing Chen Siyao.
• Ying Wenjie, Wu Tian, and Ye Chendong help explain the formation’s unusual rules; their frustration reflects how thoroughly it has stumped them.
• Yang Wanqing lightens the mood by teasing the disciples and laughing at Ye Chendong’s rejected answer. Chen Siyao agrees to help the group tackle the trial.
• Ye Chendong remains composed, though he admits he still does not understand what answer the Formation Spirit expects.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and motivation: The trial challenges whether becoming stronger is a sufficient purpose for pursuing the Dao.
• Limits of technique: Force, deduction, and standard formation-breaking methods fail against a test aimed at inner character rather than technical skill.
• Trust and responsibility: Chen Hao entrusts the expedition to his disciples and their martial aunts, leaving them to confront the challenge themselves.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao considers why earlier attempts to pass the Main Island’s second formation failed: force, loopholes, and counter-formations had all proved useless.
• Qin Xiaoyu leads the group to a densely marked stone gate, where the Formation Spirit tests anyone who approaches by asking why they wish to enter.
• Chen Siyao answers that she is simply curious, explaining that curiosity means examining everything rather than pursuing a specific goal. The Formation Spirit rejects her, saying her Dao heart follows a different path.
• Ying Wenjie, Wu Tian, and Ye Chendong are rejected as well.
• Yang Wanqing casually declares that cultivation should not be restricted by status, race, talent, strength, or background: anyone who seeks cultivation, the Dao, and goodness should have the chance.
• Her words cause the Formation Spirit to tremble, and the gate opens. The group enters a spirit-stone-lit corridor and reaches another plaza.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao approaches the test thoughtfully and honestly. Though she fails, she recognizes the principle behind the formation once Yang Wanqing’s remark opens the gate.
• Yang Wanqing unexpectedly becomes the key to success. She is surprised by what she has done, having spoken without strategy or pretension.
• Qin Xiaoyu explains the previous attempts and watches in astonishment as the gate opens.
• Ye Chendong and Ying Wenjie acknowledge that Yang Wanqing expressed an idea they might have understood but could not have articulated.
• Chen Siyao takes Yang Wanqing by the hand and leads the group inside.

Significant themes

• Unrestricted access to cultivation: The gate responds to an ideal in which all beings deserve the opportunity to pursue the Dao, regardless of identity or circumstance.
• Sincerity versus calculation: Neither force nor clever tactics work; Yang Wanqing’s spontaneous, unguarded words succeed where deliberate answers fail.
• The limits of personal motives: Chen Siyao’s curiosity is genuine, but the formation judges that even this reflects an individual path, while Yang Wanqing articulates a broader principle of universal inclusion.
• Education and the Dao: Chen Siyao understands the gate’s response as reflecting the Jie Sect’s ideals of teaching without discrimination and allowing all beings to seek the Dao.

Key plot points and events

• Penglai’s fully unsealed Main Island is revealed as a vast, majestic complex of ancient palaces and spiritual veins. Chen Siyao resumes her livestream, promising to explore the Jie Sect’s cultivation grounds and investigate the origins of ancient Huaxia civilization and the mysterious resurgence.
• At the entrance, inscriptions declare that all beings may enter regardless of status and that teaching should be without discrimination.
• The group explores the disciples’ halls. Each contains a spiritual-energy image, preserved magical artifacts protected by a barrier, and inscriptions recording the disciple’s life.
• They learn that Duobao Daoist, the Jie Sect’s foremost disciple, was born of the Demon Race. Other principal disciples came from the Human Clan, the Demon Race, or other special bloodlines—evidence that the sect’s egalitarian teaching was practiced.
• In the main hall, Heavenly Lord Tongtian is absent, but seven spiritual images of his attendant immortals remain. Murals and inscriptions detail the sect’s origins, rules, doctrines, and teachings.
• A mural reveals that 117 sects fought over control of the Thirty-Three Heavens in a war that lasted 9,800 years. Chen Siyao moves to the inscription that may answer who won, but the chapter ends before she reads it.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao takes charge as guide and presenter, carefully documenting artifacts and translating inscriptions for an enormous audience. Her composure falters briefly at the scale and duration of the ancient war.
• Qin Xiaoyu shows her knowledge of the site and helps organize the exploration, while openly expressing awe at Penglai’s grandeur.
• Yang Wanqing tests whether the artifacts can be touched and discovers they are protected by spiritual energy.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Qin Xiaoyu coordinate the order of the tour, with Qin Xiaoyu suggesting they inspect the halls systematically.
• The group examines the disciples’ legacies together, while Chen Siyao shares their discoveries with the livestream audience.
• Viewers react with astonishment to the Jie Sect’s inclusion of Demon Race disciples and to the revelation of the immense, nearly ten-millennia-long war.

Significant themes

• Equality and inclusion: The Jie Sect’s principle of teaching without discrimination is reflected in its acceptance of disciples from diverse races and bloodlines.
• History behind legend: The discoveries suggest that stories about the Thirty-Three Heavens and ancient sects may describe real events.
• The scale and cost of conflict: A war lasting nearly ten thousand years challenges ordinary notions of time, sacrifice, and victory.
• Preservation and discovery: Sealed images, artifacts, and inscriptions offer a tangible link to a lost civilization, while leaving major questions unanswered.