Chapter Summaries

Key events

• In the Jade Void Hall’s beast enclosure, Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing find three spirit beasts in a weakened, semi-dormant state because the ancient complex’s spiritual-energy supply has been cut off.
• Yang Wanqing tests whether Flame Spirit Stones can nourish them. The beast resembling a deer absorbs several stones, regains some strength, and rises, suggesting the creatures can draw energy from the stones.
• Chen Siyao then leads Yang Wanqing to the Training Pavilion, a heavily reinforced, otherwise empty hall. When Yang Wanqing enters, it activates and displays options for solo practice, sparring, and illusion trials.
• Chen Siyao infers that the pavilion has an independent spiritual-energy reserve, which explains why its interface still functions. However, when Yang Wanqing tries to start an illusion trial, the system reports that it lacks sufficient spirit stones.
• Yang Wanqing rushes to fetch her master, Chen Hao, asking him to convert Flame Spirit Stones into spirit stones so they can use the pavilion.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Wanqing shows compassion by feeding the starving spirit beast and excitement when it responds. Her curiosity quickly turns to eagerness to use the Training Pavilion, especially to advance her cultivation.
• Chen Siyao remains observant and practical: she explains the beasts’ weakened condition, notices the pavilion’s unusual power system, and advises trying an illusion trial while cautioning Yang Wanqing not to rush.
• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing work together as close friends, with Chen Siyao guiding the investigation and Yang Wanqing acting impulsively but enthusiastically.
• Yang Wanqing and Chen Hao: Yang Wanqing pulls her master into the pavilion and presses him to solve its power requirement, arguing that the training system could help her break through her cultivation plateau.

Significant themes

• Compassion and reciprocity: A small act of kindness revives a neglected spirit beast.
• Ancient technology and cultivation: The pavilion combines a game-like selection interface with spiritual-energy mechanics.
• Discovery and practical problem-solving: The characters test how the relics work and search for ways to restore their functions.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao replenishes the Training Pavilion by crushing Flame Spirit Stones and converting their energy into spiritual energy. The pavilion activates and offers four difficulty levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and extreme.
• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing choose beginner mode. The room transforms into a fully immersive mountain forest, where they face a simulated spirit beast.
• The beast provides convincing physical resistance and strength, but reappears after being defeated. Yang Wanqing uses the trial to practice close combat, while Siyao explains the pavilion’s functions to the Recording Crystal.
• Siyao ends the session, and the room returns to normal. The women plan to continue training the next day.
• Afterward, they reflect on the advanced spiritual-energy technology of the ancient civilization and consider the history of the Floating Palace. Siyao wonders what the Jie Sect was doing during the Chan Sect’s long period of rule, but finds no answer.

Character developments

• Yang Wanqing is enthusiastic about combat practice and quickly shifts from swordplay to hand-to-hand fighting. She recognizes the pavilion’s value and is eager to return.
• Chen Siyao shows analytical insight, identifying the trial as a safe, repeatable training system and recognizing the ancient civilization as technologically sophisticated rather than merely “ancient.” Her curiosity about the past deepens.
• Chen Hao enables the pavilion’s use by supplying its spiritual-energy requirements, then leaves the women to train.

Significant themes

• Technology and civilization: Spiritual-energy systems achieved functions comparable to modern technology—communication, transport, automation, entertainment, and training—while also surpassing it in areas such as teleportation and long-lasting power.
• Preparation through safe practice: The pavilion offers cultivators realistic combat experience without the risks of fighting real creatures.
• Lost history and unanswered questions: The Floating Palace’s former prosperity contrasts with its destruction in the Chan-Jie War, leaving mysteries about the sects and their history.

Character interactions

• Siyao and Wanqing discuss which difficulty to select, then work together to test the pavilion.
• Wanqing fights while Siyao observes, explains the system, and records its capabilities for others.
• Siyao calls a halt to the session; Wanqing agrees, excited to continue the next day.
• Their shared reflections reveal their mutual recognition of the ancient civilization’s sophistication, though Siyao keeps her deeper historical questions to herself.

Key plot points and events

• After leaving the Training Pavilion, Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing speculate about the vast palace complexes around them and wonder whether Lingxiao Palace exists. Siyao glimpses a towering golden roof beyond Jade Void Hall, but keeps what she saw to herself.
• The next morning, both women notice that fighting in the Training Pavilion has greatly improved the flow of spiritual energy through their meridians. Wanqing’s long-standing cultivation bottleneck is beginning to loosen.
• Siyao asks her brother, Chen Hao, if she and Wanqing can keep training there after exploring the palaces. He readily agrees. Siyao also reassures livestream viewers that cultivation will eventually help them reach the Heavenly Court.
• The group follows a star-patterned bridge north to the Purple Tenuity Star Palace. Inside, they find a residence-like complex and documents identifying its former occupant as the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Venerable, master of the North Star Immortal Sect and a rotating administrator of Jade Void Sacred Hall.
• Siyao explains that Jade Void Sacred Hall is a shared administrative center for the cultivation sects of the Thirty-Three Heavens. The chapter ends as she continues reporting what she has learned.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao grows more confident in investigating the Heavenly Court and explaining its history, while remaining guarded about her glimpse of the distant golden structure.
• Yang Wanqing is enthusiastic about exploration and training; her improved meridian flow gives her renewed hope of breaking through her cultivation bottleneck.
• Chen Hao remains calm and generous, quietly supporting the women’s training without making a fuss.
• The livestream audience shifts from envy and impatience toward a more patient outlook after Siyao reminds them that cultivation is a long-term path.

Significant themes

• Training through hardship: intense combat depletes and then strengthens the meridians, making practical experience a powerful form of cultivation.
• Discovery and hidden history: the palace complex reveals that familiar legendary titles and institutions have deeper origins than viewers assumed.
• Patience and long-term growth: progress—and the chance to reach the Heavenly Court—requires time and cultivation.
• Mystery: Siyao’s brief glimpse of a towering golden roof hints that an important, still-unexplored place may lie beyond the visible palaces.

Character interactions

• Wanqing shares her excitement about training and exploration with Siyao, who encourages her and identifies the star patterns on the bridge.
• Siyao asks Hao for permission to continue using the Training Pavilion; he agrees immediately.
• Siyao addresses livestream viewers directly, calming their impatience and sharing the historical discoveries found in the palace.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing explore the side halls of the Purple Tenuity Star Palace. Most contain ordinary living quarters with nothing notable.
• They find the Tianpeng Residence, whose enormous kitchen fills a third of the hall. Recipe records and banquet menus reveal that Marshal Tianpeng was the North Star Immortal Sect’s celebrated head chef.
• A portrait confirms Tianpeng was a burly human—not a pig demon. His residence contains no cultivation manuals or treasures, only carefully organized recipes and evidence of his culinary reputation.
• Yang Wanqing collects the recipe discs, hoping to recreate the dishes someday. Chen Siyao suggests she learn to cook first.
• They then discover the elegant Moonlight Residence. Its name sparks Yang Wanqing’s excitement, and she rushes inside to investigate the study. The chapter ends before its occupant is identified.
• The livestream audience also discusses the Thirty-Three Heavens’ tiny population and the scarcity of spiritual energy, connecting those conditions to the Primordial Era conflict between its ruling sects and the resource-seeking Jie Sect.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao remains methodical, interpreting evidence cautiously and sharing discoveries with the audience.
• Yang Wanqing is initially stunned by Tianpeng’s identity as a chef, then becomes enthusiastic about preserving and potentially recreating his recipes. Her reaction to “Moonlight Residence” hints at a new personal or historical interest.
• Tianpeng, though absent, emerges as a devoted, renowned cook whose recipes may have mattered more to him than conventional records or treasures.

Significant themes

• Historical myths versus reality: The famous Marshal Tianpeng is revealed not as a pig demon but as a human chef.
• What people value: Tianpeng’s legacy is preserved through food and recipes rather than martial achievements or magical artifacts.
• Resource inequality: Viewers frame the Primordial Era war as a struggle over limited spiritual energy and access to power.
• Preserving the past: Yang Wanqing’s effort to save the recipes contrasts with the decay of the long-abandoned residence.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing explore together, with Chen Siyao guiding the investigation and Yang Wanqing responding emotionally to its discoveries.
• Their playful exchange about cooking—Yang Wanqing’s ambition to recreate the recipes and Chen Siyao’s reminder that she must first learn—adds a light, affectionate tone.
• The livestream viewers provide commentary and debate, while Chen Siyao deliberately leaves the discussion to them.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing explore Chang’e’s former residence, finding her personnel files, duty reports, and private notes.
• The records reveal that Chang’e was the North Star Immortal Sect’s tenth disciple and served a three-thousand-year posting in the Taiyin Realm (the moon), maintaining Jade Rabbit One and regulating spiritual-energy tides.
• Chang’e’s personal notes show warm but ordinary ties with fellow disciple Tianpeng. Despite later legends, they had no apparent romance; she mostly praised his cooking.
• Chang’e’s final record says Jade Rabbit One was shut down because the Nine Provinces’ spiritual energy loss could not be stopped. The sect master summoned the disciples back to headquarters, and Chang’e’s story ends there.
• Chen Siyao pieces together the larger history: the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Venerable foresaw the decline, spent over a thousand years helping create Jade Rabbit One, and sent Chang’e to operate it for three thousand years. The effort ultimately failed.
• The livestream audience reconsiders the conflict between the upper heavens and the Nine Provinces: the upper sects had tried to avert the disaster, but their failure did not lessen the suffering below.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao carefully investigates and organizes the records, then explains their significance to the audience. Her findings complicate her understanding of the factions’ past conflict.
• Yang Wanqing shares Chen’s investigation, helps sort the documents, and initially speculates about Chang’e and Tianpeng before the records suggest their bond was simply that of fellow disciples.
• The two work side by side for nearly an hour, with Yang assisting Chen’s research and Chen guiding her through the evidence.

Significant themes

• Duty and sacrifice: Chang’e spent millennia maintaining a system intended to protect the Nine Provinces.
• The limits of intervention: Even immense effort and long preparation could not prevent the spiritual-energy collapse.
• Conflicting perspectives and moral ambiguity: The upper realms tried to help, yet those below still faced deprivation, leaving both sides with understandable grievances.
• Legend versus reality: The records replace romantic myths about Chang’e and Tianpeng with a more mundane history of shared sect life and good food.

Key events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing finish collecting Chang’e’s cultivation notes, which may prove even more useful than the Training Pavilion.
• They explore Yi Sheng’s Study, a stark, undecorated room belonging to a North Star Immortal Sect disciple known for celestial numerology, fate analysis, astrology, and defensive formations. He was ranked third among the Three Sages of the North Star, after Tianpeng and Chang’e.
• In an inner-room niche, they discover a gold seal marked Six Ding and a silver seal marked Six Jia. Chen Siyao identifies them as a magical treasure that summons twelve guardians—six from each seal—each at the peak of the divine treasury realm.
• Yang Wanqing is thrilled by the find, recognizing that the seals could offer extraordinary combat power in Blue Star’s present era. The pair each take a seal.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao remains cautious and methodical: she gathers Chang’e’s notes but avoids judging the ancient civilization’s conflicts, believing an archaeologist should present facts rather than impose moral conclusions.
• Yang Wanqing’s excitement contrasts with Siyao’s restraint. She marvels at the seals, while Siyao explains their significance and calmly reminds her to keep her voice down.
• Siyao suggests that the seals may have seemed unremarkable to Yi Sheng, whose cultivation was far beyond the divine treasury realm. Wanqing jokes that they might have been his childhood toys, prompting amused reactions from the livestream audience.

Significant themes

• Perspective and historical judgment: Civilizational conflicts may arise from competing interests rather than a simple division between good and evil.
• The gap between past and present: A powerful artifact to modern cultivators may have been trivial to an ancient master.
• Preserving knowledge: Chang’e’s cultivation notes and the recovered records are valuable resources, not merely historical curiosities.
• Fame versus significance: Yi Sheng is unfamiliar to the explorers, yet his study contains one of their most consequential discoveries.

Plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing finish exploring the Purple Tenuity Star Palace’s remaining side halls. Yisheng Studio contains no further discoveries, though Chen Siyao wonders whether Yi Sheng—or the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Venerable—foresaw the severing of spiritual energy in the Nine Provinces.
• They discuss the Three Sages of North Star: Tianpeng, Chang’e, and Yi Sheng. They speculate that Tianpeng’s title of “Marshal” suggests a military role, but lack evidence.
• In the courtyard, Chen Hao studies a mural depicting the North Star Immortal Sect. Chen Siyao identifies the Purple Tenuity Heavenly Venerable and the three sages, and estimates that the mural records 272 sect members. She photographs it, reflecting that these people once lived, even if history has forgotten most of their names.
• The explorers wrap up their day, listing their main discoveries: Chang’e’s cultivation notes, information about Jade Rabbit One and the severing of spiritual energy, and the Six Ding and Six Jia Seal. Yang Wanqing is eager to use the seal on Blue Star, but Chen Siyao advises keeping it as a trump card until it is truly needed.
• After a full day of exploration, Yang Wanqing is exhausted. Chen Siyao ends the livestream, and the three return to their lodgings.
• That evening, Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing begin sorting and reading Chang’e’s notes chronologically. The earliest tablets cover foundational cultivation practices and offer useful—but not exceptional—guidance.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao remains cautious and analytical. She records important evidence, avoids jumping to conclusions about the sect’s history, and insists that powerful resources should be saved for the right moment.
• Yang Wanqing is exuberant about their discoveries and imagines the impact of wielding the seal, but accepts Chen Siyao’s advice. Her enthusiasm also makes her thorough—if tiring—searching every room for treasure.
• Chen Hao remains quiet and observant, spending the day alongside the others and later returning to his usual tea-making and contemplation.

Significant themes

• History and remembrance: The mural preserves the faces of people whose names may otherwise have vanished, affirming that they truly existed.
• Caution and restraint: A powerful advantage is most valuable when used strategically, not impulsively.
• Discovery and uncertainty: The explorers uncover clues about the sect and its past while recognizing that important questions remain unanswered.
• The persistence of ordinary knowledge: Chang’e’s notes begin with practical, foundational teachings rather than spectacular revelations.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing compare what they know about the Three Sages and speculate about Tianpeng’s role.
• Chen Siyao and Chen Hao share a brief exchange about the mural; she later checks whether he is tired, but he gives little away.
• Yang Wanqing asks whether they should use the seal, and Chen Siyao explains why it should remain in reserve.
• That night, Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing work together to organize Chang’e’s tablets and begin studying them.

Plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao discover Chang’e’s cultivation records, tracing her progress from the peak of the Mahayana Stage to the Dao Tribulation Realm.
• Chang’e writes that advancing requires more than abundant spiritual power: it requires enlightenment into the Dao. Studying the patterns of spiritual-energy tides helps her understand this.
• After three failed attempts, she breaks through during a heavenly tribulation. She explains that the tribulation is the Heavenly Dao’s test and recognition of a cultivator.
• The records reveal how rare Dao Tribulation cultivators are: only three of the North Star Immortal Sect’s 272 members reached the realm, and the Jade Void Sacred Hall’s seven sects had only about twenty cultivators at Dao Tribulation or above.
• Dao Tribulation has nine levels, each requiring another heavenly tribulation. Chang’e endured four during her three thousand years in the Taiyin Realm, returning at the fifth level. Later tribulations took increasingly longer to prepare for.
• Beyond the ninth level lies Void Refinement and Dao Integration. Those who merge with the Dao may be reborn even after their bodies and souls are destroyed, so long as their associated strand of the Dao remains.
• Chen Siyao connects this ability to the Tianwu they fought in the Guixu World, concluding that it may have survived because its Dao remained intact.
• The records add that beings at this level conceal their true names: because they are merged with the Heavenly Dao, they can sense when those names are spoken. They use titles such as “Heavenly Venerable” instead.
• Chen Siyao stops reading when she reaches this taboo, visibly struck by its implications.

Character developments and interactions

• Chang’e emerges as patient and methodical. Her records show centuries of study, repeated failures, and gradual insight rather than an effortless breakthrough.
• Chen Siyao approaches the records analytically, comparing Chang’e’s teachings with what she knows of her brother and the Tianwu.
• Yang Wanqing reacts with curiosity and amazement, asking about the realms and their rarity; the idea of near-immortality leaves her astonished.
• The two readers build on each other’s observations: Yang Wanqing asks direct questions while Chen Siyao interprets the notes and draws connections.

Significant themes

• Enlightenment over accumulation: spiritual power alone cannot produce a higher realm; qualitative change comes through understanding the Dao.
• Perseverance and increasing difficulty: each breakthrough demands more time and effort than the last.
• The cost and rarity of transcendence: reaching the Dao Tribulation Realm is exceptional, and perfection requires surviving nine ordeals.
• Immortality and identity: Dao-integrated beings can return through the Dao, but their power also changes how they relate to names, perception, and existence.

Key events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing realize that “Venerable” is not simply a respectful title: the true names of the highest-level cultivators cannot be spoken. This explains why figures such as Jingwei and Yun Wanlan address Chen Hao that way.
• They compare the qi-cultivation ranks in Chang’e’s notes with their own body-tempering path and ask Chen Hao what follows the indestructible battle body.
• Chen Hao explains that the next stage is nirvana: cultivators undergo nine transformations, with their flesh burned away by heavenly fire and reforged. Afterward comes the Dao Venerable true body, which, like void refinement and Dao integration, permits rebirth and is effectively indestructible.
• Yang Wanqing excitedly vows to reach that realm, while Chen Siyao reminds her how long cultivation can take.
• Chen Siyao asks how long Chen Hao took to reach void refinement and Dao integration. He answers: two hundred years.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao pieces together the meaning of “Venerable,” then turns her curiosity toward the limits of body tempering. Chen Hao’s answer helps her grasp just how far his accomplishments exceed those of ordinary “geniuses.”
• Yang Wanqing is enthusiastic and ambitious, eager to aim for the Dao Venerable true body. Chen Siyao’s practical reminder about cultivation time briefly dampens her excitement, but she still hopes her talent might make the goal attainable.
• Chen Hao answers their questions calmly and reveals his extraordinary cultivation speed without boasting. He does not disclose that his two-hundred-year journey began at Qi Refining, likely to avoid discouraging them.
• The siblings’ conversation is affectionate but understated: Chen Siyao seeks her brother’s guidance, while Yang Wanqing impulsively pulls her along to ask him.

Significant themes

• The limits of ordinary understanding: Titles such as “Venerable” reflect a reality beyond everyday naming and etiquette.
• Different paths to power: Qi cultivation and body tempering have distinct stages, though their highest realms appear comparable.
• Ambition versus perspective: Yang Wanqing’s dreams meet Chen Siyao’s realism, while Chen Hao’s achievement reveals how relative the labels “genius” and “prodigy” can be.
• Power and restraint: Chen Hao’s casual manner—and his choice not to share the full extent of his achievement—shows both his immense distance from others and his consideration for their confidence.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao explains the five decays of heaven and man: even cultivators who merge with the Heavenly Dao—whether through Void Refinement and Dao Integration or a Dao Venerable True Body—will eventually die when the world and its Dao decay. There is a realm beyond that level, but he refuses to explain it, telling Yang Wanqing to focus on the path ahead.
• Chen Siyao reflects on the two cultivation systems and their shared summit, realizing that even Chen Hao is not exempt from eventual death. The thought brings her urgency rather than fear, but she decides to concentrate on her current cultivation.
• The next day, Chen Siyao, Yang Wanqing, and Chen Hao visit the Golden Que Palace, a vast complex beside the Purple Tenuity Star Palace. Its dark-golden bridge retains traces of an old teleportation array, though it no longer works for lack of spiritual energy.
• The palace differs from the residential Purple Tenuity Star Palace: it resembles a military and cultivation complex. Its entrance opens onto a huge square covered in sword marks, apparently made by Primordial Era cultivators. The chapter ends as Chen Siyao examines nameplates beneath the surrounding corridors.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao calmly corrects the assumption that he is immortal and offers a sober lesson about the limits of even the highest cultivation. He withholds information about realms beyond the girls’ reach.
• Yang Wanqing is curious and persistent, asking about higher realms and privately wondering how powerful Chen Hao is. She accepts his refusal, then helps Chen Siyao gather the Document Discs before falling asleep.
• Chen Siyao takes the lesson seriously, organizing what she has learned and resolving to focus on the next steps of her own cultivation. She guides the group’s exploration of the Golden Que Palace.
• Chen Siyao quietly signals Yang Wanqing not to press Chen Hao for answers; the two also work together to tidy the records.

Significant themes

• Mortality and impermanence: Even beings united with the Dao ultimately perish when the world sustaining it decays.
• The endless path of cultivation: Higher realms exist, but knowing about them is less important than completing the stage immediately ahead.
• Knowledge and urgency: Understanding the limits of power gives Chen Siyao a renewed sense of purpose.
• History revealed through place: The Golden Que Palace’s old bridge and sword-scarred training ground hint at its former role and the strength of its ancient inhabitants.

Plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing explore the Golden Que Palace’s main hall, where they find evidence of a sword-focused sect, including the inscription: “The way of the sword is the Heavenly Dao.”
• Chen reviews the sect’s records and discovers that the Golden Palace Cloud Sect originated in the Long Geng Realm. Its description—west of the Nine Provinces, rich in metal-aspected spiritual energy, and covered in golden wastelands—leads the livestream audience and researchers to identify it as Venus.
• The records explain that the sect was once only the third-ranked sword sect on Long Geng. Its master became a Celestial Venerable, united the realm’s sects under his leadership, and later moved the whole sect to the Thirty-Three Heavens, settling in the Jade Void Sacred Hall.
• The sect master was Long Geng Heavenly Venerable. A portrait shows him as a handsome, white-robed sword cultivator, prompting viewers to speculate that he may be connected to the legendary Taibai Jinxing.
• The explorers enter the Sword Pavilion. Yang Wanqing collects 36 swords from its first floor, each retaining a faint sword spirit after ten thousand years.
• On the second floor, Chen studies carved sword manuals, recognizing their value but admitting some techniques exceed her current understanding. Yang goes on to explore the third floor.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao demonstrates her skill at investigating and interpreting historical records, connecting the sect’s clues to Venus with help from the audience and researchers. As a sword cultivator, she is deeply engaged by the manuals and recognizes how much she still has to learn.
• Yang Wanqing is curious and spontaneous: she reacts excitedly to the swords and efficiently stores them, but sword techniques hold little interest for her.

Significant themes

• The chapter expands the ancient cultivation world beyond Earth’s familiar realms, suggesting that cultivation once flourished across multiple planets in the Solar System.
• It emphasizes the sword as both a martial discipline and a spiritual path, central to the Golden Palace Cloud Sect’s identity.
• Ancient artifacts bridge past and present: even after millennia, the swords retain traces of spirit and could be valuable to modern cultivation.

Character interactions

• Chen explains the palace’s history and the significance of its artifacts to Yang, while Yang asks questions and reacts to what they discover.
• Their differing interests shape their exploration: Chen carefully studies the sword manuals, while Yang gathers the swords and investigates the next floor.
• The livestream audience and Professor Li’s team contribute historical context, helping identify the Long Geng Realm as Venus and suggesting a possible link between Long Geng Heavenly Venerable and Taibai Jinxing.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao records sword manuals in the Sword Pavilion and examines the Sword Intent Tempering Mirror. Its power is intriguing but potentially dangerous, so she and Yang Wanqing postpone trying it.
• They explore a series of facilities built for sword training, including a combat-simulation platform, a narrow speed-training passage, and a strength-training formation. Chen Siyao concludes that the Golden Palace Cloud Sect was essentially a vast training ground for sword cultivators.
• In Celestial Venerable Chang Geng’s study, they learn that the sect once had 189 disciples and two Dao Tribulation Realm cultivators: his eldest disciple Azure Edge, at the Seventh Realm, and the sword immortal Ling Han. The sect was therefore comparable in strength to the North Star Immortal Sect.
• A stele identifies Chang Geng’s sword as one of two famed divine swords of the Primordial Era, alongside the Immortal-Slaying Sword. The discovery prompts speculation among the live audience about the swords’ legendary owners and a possible ancient sect conflict.
• In Chang Geng’s private courtyard, Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing find a sword-scarred tree and an empty stone platform bearing a sword-shaped groove. They infer that Chang Geng took his sword with him when he left.
• Having found little else in the courtyard, Chen Siyao leads Yang Wanqing back to inspect a mural near the palace entrance. The chapter ends as they stand before it.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao remains cautious and methodical: she documents what she can, avoids testing the mysterious mirror prematurely, and distinguishes confirmed evidence from speculation.
• Yang Wanqing is curious and enthusiastic, often drawing attention to discoveries. She is especially awed by the Immortal-Slaying Sword connection and disappointed that Chang Geng’s weapon is gone.
• Their partnership is cooperative: Yang Wanqing spots clues and asks questions, while Chen Siyao interprets the evidence and guides their exploration.

Significant themes

• Discipline and mastery: The palace’s many specialized facilities show that swordsmanship required relentless, varied training.
• The sword as identity: Chang Geng’s empty courtyard and the sword marks on the tree suggest that his weapon was central to his life and practice.
• Legacy and absence: The palace preserves traces of its former inhabitants, but its most important object—the Chang Geng Immortal Sword—was carried away.
• Evidence versus legend: The inscription establishes the sword’s fame, while the audience’s theories about ancient history remain unverified.

Plot points and events

• Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao discover a vast mural in the Golden Que Palace depicting all 189 members of the Golden Palace Cloud Sect flying on swords through the sea of stars, led by Long Geng Heavenly Venerable.
• The image moves Chen Siyao deeply and strengthens her interest in the sect’s sword manuals and training facilities. She summarizes the expedition for the livestream, explaining the sect’s origins, Long Geng’s sword-based cultivation, and the absence of his famous Chang Geng Immortal Sword. The pair have already recovered 36 high-quality swords and numerous manuals.
• They reach the Sword-Listening Hall, whose doors are sealed by a damaged Spirit-Locking Formation. Chen Siyao studies its patterns and opens it by supplying energy from shattered flame spirit stones.
• Inside, they find three floors covered in glowing sword marks. The lingering sword intent feels like fine cuts against body and divine sense, but circulating spiritual power offers partial protection. Chen Siyao realizes the hall was designed to temper sword cultivators. She and Yang Wanqing sit down to acclimate themselves and begin training.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Siyao is visibly captivated by the mural and instinctively mimics gripping a sword. Her passion for sword cultivation shapes her investigation: she identifies the formation, explains the hall’s purpose, and decides to train there.
• Yang Wanqing teases Chen Siyao for being devoted to her sword, then follows her lead in examining the hall and learning to circulate her cultivation technique.
• The two cooperate closely: Chen Siyao instructs Yang Wanqing to stay still and use her technique to reduce the sword intent’s effects. Yang Wanqing trusts her guidance.

Significant themes

• Devotion to a path: The mural presents sword cultivation as a way of life, from disciplehood to mastery.
• Training through hardship: The Sword-Listening Hall turns ancient sword intent into a tool for refining divine sense rather than simply inflicting harm.
• Discovery and preservation: The recovered manuals, weapons, and training methods reveal the depth of the Primordial Era’s cultivation tradition.
• Awe and legacy: The mural’s image of the sect crossing the stars inspires both the explorers and the livestream audience.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing spend seven hours in the Golden Palace Cloud Sect’s Sword-Listening Hall. Though the experience leaves them mentally exhausted, both find their divine senses sharper.
• Over the next two days, they explore other sword-training sites. They gain further insight into sword intent, but avoid the especially dangerous Hundred-Blade Corridor after Yang Wanqing is cut and they recognize its power exceeds their level.
• Their livestream sparks a surge of interest in sword cultivation across Blue Star. Chen Siyao cautions viewers not to abandon their current training paths before a systematic sword-cultivation legacy is available.
• The pair decide to rest before returning to the sword sites and plan to visit the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect, a complex devoted to formations.
• Meanwhile, Chen Hao considers how students at the High Martial Arts School might benefit from the Jade Void Sacred Hall’s Training Pavilion. Because the Thirty-Three Heavens lack oxygen, most students cannot safely travel there in their bodies. He proposes using boundary space stone to project their consciousnesses into the Pavilion instead.

Character developments

• Chen Siyao gains a sharper divine sense and takes a measured, responsible approach to publicizing sword cultivation. She also continues organizing sect records and guides Yang Wanqing’s training.
• Yang Wanqing makes especially strong gains, partly because her cultivation is at the peak of the meridian-opening realm. Her enthusiasm is tempered by a firsthand lesson in the danger of pushing beyond her limits.
• Chen Hao shifts from passive observer to someone seeking a practical way to support the school. He begins planning how to make the Training Pavilion accessible to its students.

Significant themes

• Exploration balanced with caution: Ancient training sites offer rapid growth but can also cause real harm when entered prematurely.
• The pull of new paths: Sword cultivation excites the public, but enthusiasm and spectacle do not replace a complete, reliable training system.
• Access to knowledge: Chen Hao’s plan reflects a desire to extend advanced training opportunities to students who could not otherwise reach them.
• Different stages of cultivation: The chapter highlights how a cultivator’s level determines both the benefits and risks of a training environment.

Character interactions

• Chen Siyao explains Yang Wanqing’s post-training headache and shares her excitement over their improved divine senses.
• Yang Wanqing reacts eagerly to the prospect of sword and formation training, while Chen Siyao sets practical limits and schedules a rest.
• Chen Siyao addresses the livestream audience directly, tempering its excitement with a warning against changing cultivation paths prematurely.
• Chen Hao listens to the women’s plans but focuses on a separate problem: how to help the school’s less advanced students use the Training Pavilion.

Summary

• Chen Hao’s objective: He needs Boundary Space Stone to create a vessel capable of carrying Divine Sense across great distances. Knowing that extreme pressure in Jupiter’s core can form spatially unusual minerals, he decides to search there.
• Journey into Jupiter: After his sister, Chen Siyao, and Yang Wanqing leave, Chen Hao descends through the Thirty-Three Heavens’ cloud layer, past Jupiter’s crushing atmosphere and vast liquid-hydrogen ocean, until he reaches the planet’s solid core. The hostile conditions barely affect him.
• Finding the stone: Using Divine Sense to detect spatial distortions, Chen Hao locates a mineral vein buried beneath the core’s surface. He cuts through the dense ice and collects thirty-seven high-quality Boundary Space Stones—more than enough for his purpose.
• Unexpected discovery: The exposed vein also seeps Earth Core Profound Ice Marrow, a rare substance that can greatly strengthen the body. Chen Hao collects seventeen drops and stores them.
• Return: He rises back through Jupiter and reaches the pavilion in under two hours. Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing have not yet returned.

Character developments and interactions

Chen Hao is shown to be highly capable and composed: he treats Jupiter’s immense heat and pressure as manageable, uses Divine Sense with precision, and adapts quickly when he discovers an additional treasure. His brief exchange with Chen Siyao reflects their familiar sibling dynamic—she asks what he is doing, he gives a minimal answer, and she simply tells him to stay safe. Yang Wanqing remains focused on studying the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect’s formations and does not question her master’s plans.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes Chen Hao’s overwhelming power against an extreme natural environment, the value of careful investigation, and the rewards of exploration: a mission to find one rare resource also yields an unexpected body-refining treasure.

Chapter Summary: “Chen Hao Fired Up the Furnace”

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao examines the thirty-seven Boundary Space Stones he has collected and decides to use them to make a device that projects consciousness—rather than bodies—into the Training Pavilion.
• Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao return from visiting the Heavenly Pivot Array Sect, where they studied formations rooted in Primordial Era methods.
• Wanqing reveals that the sect’s cultivation grounds helped her break through from the peak Meridian Opening Realm to the early Golden Body Realm in one day.
• Siyao, whose secondary specialty is formations, asks to stay at the sect for several more days to study its unfamiliar techniques. Chen Hao agrees, and Wanqing decides to accompany her to stabilize her breakthrough.
• The next morning, Chen Hao visits the Tusita Palace and activates its Bagua Furnace with Flame Spirit Stones.
• He begins crafting a consciousness-projection helmet. He carefully refines a Boundary Space Stone into a spatial core, then combines it with fine gold, chalcedony, and star-patterned iron.
• After half a day of work, a curved, silver helmet with a transparent visor and conductive earpieces emerges from the furnace.

Character developments

• Yang Wanqing makes a major cultivation advance, reaching the Golden Body Realm at nineteen. She is proud of her achievement and eager for Chen Hao’s approval, though his understated praise leaves her playfully disappointed.
• Chen Siyao shows strong intellectual curiosity and commitment to formations. The Primordial Era methods challenge her existing knowledge and motivate her to reconsider and rebuild her understanding.
• Chen Hao demonstrates patience and precision as a craftsman, carefully controlling the furnace to preserve the Boundary Space Stone’s delicate spatial structure.

Character interactions

• Wanqing enthusiastically recounts her visit and breakthrough to Chen Hao, repeatedly fishing for praise. He responds with calm, minimal approval, while Siyao teases her by comparing her expectations with Chen Hao’s extraordinary cultivation progress.
• Siyao asks Chen Hao’s permission to continue studying at the sect; he readily supports her. Wanqing then joins her, and Siyao accepts.
• The siblings’ easy trust and Wanqing’s growing closeness to them are reinforced through their casual, supportive exchanges.

Significant themes

• Learning and adaptation: Primordial Era formations push Siyao to question and reconstruct what she has learned.
• Individual progress and perspective: Wanqing’s rare achievement is impressive, but Chen Hao’s much greater experience makes praise understated.
• Craftsmanship and restraint: Chen Hao’s success depends on meticulous control, patience, and respect for the spatial material’s limits.
• Consciousness over physical travel: The planned helmet offers a safer, more practical way to enter the Training Pavilion through Divine Sense projection.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Hao finishes crafting two Consciousness Helmets, each with a spatial core, divine-sense transmission components, and a buffer layer. Though they resemble advanced VR headsets, they are designed to send a user’s divine sense into a simulated environment.
• He brings the helmets to the loft and demonstrates them to Yang Wanqing and Chen Siyao. Yang tries one first and immediately becomes physically limp as her consciousness enters the device.
• Chen Siyao puts on the second helmet and finds herself in a convincing reconstruction of the Training Pavilion in Jade Void Hall. She can see, hear, move, and feel there, but realizes she has no physical body: the experience is generated through her divine sense.
• Chen Siyao exits the simulation by thought. Yang, unaware that this is possible, panics when Siyao vanishes and discovers the pavilion door will not open. She assumes Chen Hao has trapped her as punishment for slacking during training.
• Siyao returns to the simulated hall, where Yang rushes to embrace her and begs for an explanation.

Character developments

• Chen Hao demonstrates his technical and artifact-refining skill by creating a device that enables immersive consciousness-based simulation. He remains calm as the others test it.
• Chen Siyao is observant and analytical: she quickly identifies the helmet’s sophisticated construction and works out how the simulation functions and how to leave it.
• Yang Wanqing is enthusiastic about the helmet’s appearance and eager to try it, but becomes anxious and guilt-ridden when she cannot escape. Her worry reveals that she knows she has neglected her training.

Character interactions

• Yang and Siyao react differently to the helmets: Yang admires their craftsmanship and tries one first, while Siyao investigates its internal structure before testing it.
• Chen Hao gives them minimal instructions—“Put it on and find out”—and watches their reactions.
• Inside the simulation, Yang mistakes Siyao’s voluntary exit for a disappearance and believes her confinement is punishment from their master. When Siyao reappears, Yang embraces her and urgently asks what happened.

Significant themes

• Reality and perception: The simulated pavilion feels real despite being only a construct experienced through divine sense.
• Technology and cultivation: Chen Hao combines artifact-refining techniques with immersive virtual experience.
• Trust and uncertainty: Yang’s lack of understanding turns a controlled test into a frightening ordeal, while her guilt shapes how she interprets it.

Plot points and events

• Chen Siyao explains to Yang Wanqing that the Training Pavilion she was trapped in is a consciousness space: the helmet projects her divine sense there while her physical body remains in the loft. Yang Wanqing learns how to exit and is delighted by the experience.
• Chen Hao confirms that the helmets let users enter the Training Pavilion remotely, with remarkably lifelike senses and simulated spiritual-power circulation.
• The two women spend much of the night testing the helmets. Yang Wanqing spars with a virtual swordsman, while Chen Siyao examines the pavilion’s formations.
• Chen Siyao asks whether the helmets will work after they return to Blue Star. Chen Hao explains that long-distance use requires a Voidsea Beacon, a relay device anchored to the Training Pavilion. He estimates it will take about six months to refine.
• After the women go to bed, Chen Hao privately reviews the technical obstacles and the remaining boundary space stones. He recognizes that the beacon will be far more difficult than the helmets, but keeps his doubts to himself and commits to working on it at the Bagua Furnace.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Wanqing moves quickly from confusion and worry that her master is punishing her to eager fascination with the helmets. Her impulsiveness and enthusiasm show as she repeatedly returns to the Training Pavilion and reluctantly agrees to go to bed.
• Chen Siyao takes a more analytical interest in the technology, assessing its functions and asking practical questions about using it on Blue Star. She understands that Chen Hao’s confident estimate implies he expects to succeed.
• Chen Hao calmly explains the technology and indulges Yang Wanqing’s excitement. Alone, he reveals the pressure and uncertainty behind his confident promise, choosing to shoulder the challenge rather than worry the others.

Significant themes

• Innovation and cultivation: Advanced technology expands access to spiritual training.
• Confidence and responsibility: Chen Hao presents certainty to his companions while privately confronting the risks and complexity.
• Wonder and practical limits: The helmets feel almost real, but their use across realms depends on solving difficult transmission problems.

Chapter summary

• Chen Hao begins work on the Voidsea Beacon, a device meant to let people on Blue Star project their divine sense to Jupiter across an enormous distance. Its greatest challenge is designing a precise spatial-folding formation that can safely cross the world barrier.
• Meanwhile, Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing explore the Jade Void Sacred Hall. At Spirit Medicine Valley, they find a handful of ancient herbs still alive and collect seventeen plants and more than thirty seed samples. Siyao also sets a goal of surveying the accessible palaces and preserving their treasures, records, and cultivation knowledge.
• The two continue exploring in the following days. Siyao gathers repairable Primordial Era magical-treasure fragments from Soul-Forging Hall and cracks the formation protecting the Scripture Repository’s third floor. She leaves its many bamboo slips to study later.
• After a week, Siyao visits Chen Hao and finds that three attempts at the Beacon have failed: the boundary space stone shattered at the same formation node each time. Hao has identified the failure point and is determined to try a revised design rather than rest.
• By the twelfth day, Siyao and Wanqing are ready to set out exploring again; the chapter ends with Wanqing asking where they are going.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao is intensely focused and persistent, working for days at the Bagua Furnace and methodically learning from each failure. He accepts Siyao’s food and updates but refuses to take a break.
• Chen Siyao takes a practical, organized approach to exploration, carefully harvesting herbs and collecting valuable materials and information. She shows concern for her brother by bringing him food, while respecting his determination.
• Yang Wanqing is energetic and eager to explore. In the evenings, she trains against combat phantoms, adjusting their difficulty to challenge herself.

Significant themes

• Persistence through failure: Hao treats each shattered crystal as evidence that helps refine his design.
• Preserving ancient knowledge: Siyao and Wanqing recover rare herbs, seeds, treasures, and cultivation resources that could benefit Blue Star.
• Parallel pursuits: While Hao works on a difficult technical breakthrough, the women explore and train, each contributing to their wider goals.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing stop streaming while Siyao organizes discoveries from the Jade Void Sacred Hall. Siyao says fans are focused on whether the nine-turn silverleaf orchid can be mass-produced.
• Siyao visits Chen Hao at Tusita Palace and sees nine failed Voidsea Beacon designs. For version ten, he is trying a multilayer system of short spatial jumps, buffered by formation nodes.
• By the twenty-eighth day, Chen Hao completes the first prototype. It can carry his divine sense roughly 300 million kilometers, but cannot cross the world barrier to reach Blue Star. He judges it incomplete rather than a total failure and begins version eleven.
• Meanwhile, Siyao and Wanqing have surveyed all accessible parts of the Jade Void Sacred Hall, recording a vast trove of materials: relics, spirit herbs and seeds, cultivation texts, formation diagrams, and pill recipes. They cannot bring the findings back until the beacon works.
• Wanqing practices against a much stronger sword-cultivator phantom in the Consciousness Helmet, while Siyao advises her to lower the difficulty.
• The chapter ends as Chen Hao begins testing version eleven of the beacon.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Hao is persistent and methodical: he learns from nine failures, tests the first prototype, identifies the world barrier—not merely distance—as the main obstacle, and immediately starts refining the design.
• Chen Siyao contributes technical insight to his design discussion and continues researching formations. She also misses her brother, who has spent nearly a month working at Tusita Palace, but stays focused on her own work.
• Yang Wanqing remains bold and competitive, choosing an opponent far above her level to improve her defense. Her confidence clashes lightly with Siyao’s more practical advice.
• The siblings exchange concise technical ideas about the beacon; Siyao and Wanqing share teasing, familiar banter.

Significant themes

• Persistence through failure: Each unsuccessful design provides information for the next.
• Collaboration and accumulated knowledge: Siyao’s research and Hao’s engineering are both necessary to return the Sacred Hall’s discoveries to Blue Star.
• The limits of progress: The prototype can bridge enormous distances, yet the world barrier remains a deeper challenge.
• Ambition and discipline: Wanqing seeks growth through difficult combat, while Siyao pursues patient study and Hao pursues sustained experimentation.