Chapter Summaries

After completing their wedding rituals, Xianyu and Jingliu spent their wedding night together and shared stories about their pasts. The next day, Jingliu took Xianyu to watch her interrogate serious offenders, while Hua reacted to their unusual honeymoon plans.

• Jingliu and Xianyu drank the Nuptial Wine, cut locks of hair, and tied them together in a Hair-Knotting Ceremony.
• Xianyu and Jingliu became intimate, then talked about his Academy courses, guardians, and carefree student years as he braided her hair.
• Jingliu asked whether anyone had pursued Xianyu, and his answer made her jealous.
• Jingliu changed their destination from the Vacation Planet to the Ten-Lords Commission and brought Xianyu to watch her confront serious offenders.
• Hua granted the newlyweds access to classified locations aboard the Xianzhou, then learned they had gone to the Ten-Lords Commission and called them a perfect match.

Jingliu and Xianyu spent their honeymoon at a private Island Getaway, where Xianyu staged a second proposal and Jingliu urged him to show his imperfect side. After a month of activities together, they continued their travels to witness the Great Animal Migration.

• Jingliu brought Xianyu to watch her interrogate a dangerous prisoner, then reassured him that she accepted his selfish and imperfect side.
• Xianyu discovered that he had lost access to the Luofu Divination Commission’s internal documents, and Jingliu told him he could live off her.
• At the Island Getaway, Xianyu revealed that Jingliu’s signatures had secured them the resort’s first stay and proposed to her again with a ring and a pool of flower petals.
• Jingliu and Xianyu spent their honeymoon enjoying the island’s activities, sharing quiet moments, and planning their itinerary together.
• After a month at the Island Getaway, Xianyu tipped the staff and traveled with Jingliu to see the Great Animal Migration.
• Xianyu spotted a vendor’s puppies and decided to take all of them and send them to the Yaoqing.

Xianyu and Jingliu continued their honeymoon across the stars, visiting a wildlife reserve, watching the aurora, and returning to the Yaoqing to pay their respects and see a healer. Their trip left them heading to their next destination while Guan Liang discovered a litter of Beagles had been delivered to his home.

• Xianyu bought a litter of Beagles and took Jingliu to a zoo and wildlife reserve, where they watched migrating wildebeest cross a river.
• Jingliu and Xianyu received ominous fortunes from a shaman, but Xianyu kept drawing until he was told that everything he wanted would be his.
• Xianyu and Jingliu waited through rain and clouds before seeing the aurora, where they kissed as strangers nearby celebrated a proposal.
• Xianyu and Jingliu visited Hua on the Yaoqing, paid their respects at Chaoyan's memorial tablet, and then went with Guan Liang to a clinic, where a healer found Xianyu healthy.
• Guan Liang saw Xianyu and Jingliu off, returned home, and discovered that a litter of puppies had been delivered to his residence.

Guan Liang struggled to manage the beagles Xianyu had sent him and plotted to retaliate by flooding the Xianzhou with tributes to Xian Zhiyu. Meanwhile, Xianyu and Jingliu visited the memorials of Jingliu’s family and returned to the Luofu, where they encountered people praising Xian Zhiyu.

• Guan Liang discovered that ten beagles had wrecked his garden and koi pond, then confirmed he had not bought them himself.
• After the beagles caused more trouble and one gave birth to ten puppies, Guan Liang proposed a Xianyu Victims' Alliance and planned to send hamsters to Jingliu.
• Guan Liang told Hua he would donate eight hundred billion to put statues of Xian Zhiyu in every Xianzhou cavern abode, and Hua arranged for the plan to proceed.
• Xianyu praised Hua for her work, and Hua hugged him before he and Jingliu set off to visit Jingliu’s family in the Forest of Utmost Loyalty.
• Xianyu and Jingliu paid respects to the generals and Jingliu’s parents, then spent three months traveling before returning to the Luofu.
• Xianyu and Jingliu heard Xianzhou natives passionately declare that God had no form until Xian Zhiyu appeared.

Xianyu and Jingliu found that the Xianzhou had turned Xian Zhiyu into a celebrated historical figure, while rumors and books exaggerated his deeds and relationships. After buying copies of the books, they reunited with their friends, where Dan Feng remarked on Jing Yuan's newfound wealth from a popular book.

• Xianyu and Jingliu overheard Xianzhou natives praising the Former Marshal and his enormous statue, then went to a teahouse to hear how the Xianzhou Alliance, the Interastral Peace Corporation, and the Starsea Council publicized Xian Zhiyu's legacy.
• A tourist asked locals for stories about the Father of the Xianzhou, and Xianyu gave up on staying in the teahouse and took Jingliu to a bookstore.
• The shopkeeper recounted a fanciful tale of Xian Zhiyu's friendship with the Lord of Eternal Joy, and Jingliu ordered ten copies of every unavailable book on the shop's notice.
• Jingliu told Xianyu that she would lock him up if he were reported, then accepted Baiheng's invitation to meet the group that evening.
• Xianyu and Jingliu reunited with Baiheng, Dan Feng, Jing Yuan, and Yingxing, brought them travel gifts, and heard Dan Feng comment that Jing Yuan had achieved financial freedom through his popular book.

Dan Feng tried to limit his spending to a hundred thousand Strale a day while considering what he wanted to do beyond serving as High Elder. After half a month of reflection, he told his friends he had made up his mind: he wanted to drink with them all.

• Dan Feng asked Xianyu what he wanted for himself and whether he would leave the Xianzhou, but Dan Feng could not answer.
• Dan Feng attempted to spend only a hundred thousand Strale in one day, buying gifts and meals for Xianyu, Yingxing, Jingliu, Baiheng, and Jing Yuan.
• Dan Feng exceeded his planned frugality the next day by ordering tea cakes and hiring chefs after asking Xianyu for recommendations.
• Dan Feng reconsidered whether he could leave the Xianzhou and decided he should stay on the Luofu rather than put Xianyu and the Current Marshal in a difficult position.
• Half a month after Xianyu asked him what he wanted, Dan Feng told his friends that he wanted to drink with all of them.

Xianyu and Jingliu confronted the unofficial histories about Xianyu, then read Hua’s account of his life and death together. After stopping when the account overwhelmed Jingliu, they opened their wedding gifts and found twenty hamsters from Guan Liang.

• Dan Feng promised to drink with everyone, while Jing Yuan discovered Dan Feng had arranged tutors for him and lamented that graduation was out of reach.
• Jingliu asked whether Hua wanted Jing Yuan to become Marshal, and Xianyu reassured everyone that Hua would respect Jing Yuan’s wishes.
• Jingliu and the others found an unofficial history by Aha, and Xianyu sent Hua a picture of it with a request to ban it.
• Xianyu and Jingliu read Hua’s account of his life, including her discovery of his death and her grief, until Xianyu stopped the reading to comfort her.
• Xianyu and Jingliu opened their wedding gifts and found twenty hamsters, five of them pregnant, alongside a message from Guan Liang wishing Xianyu a happy Father’s Day.

Xianyu and Jingliu cared for a rapidly growing hamster colony while Xianyu enlisted Chenzhen and Daiyang to spar with Hua and abandoned plans to build her a statue. Jing Yuan donated his royalties, completed his studies, and came of age, and the chapter ended with Huaiyan seeing Yingxing again on the Luofu.

• Xianyu and Jingliu housed twenty hamsters, separated them to prevent fighting and uncontrolled breeding, and later found their numbers had reached seventy.
• Xianyu asked Chenzhen to have Hua beaten up, and Chenzhen and Daiyang sparred with Hua for two rounds before sending Xianyu photos and videos.
• Xianyu tried to commission a statue of Hua, but new Xianzhou regulations prohibited erecting statues without approval, so he gave up.
• Jing Yuan donated his royalties for the Thanksgiving Festival and appeared with General Teng Xiao in a broadcast, prompting Jingliu to challenge him to a sparring match.
• Jing Yuan passed his history exams and came of age, and the Zhuming Fleet arrived on the Luofu a month before the Thanksgiving Festival.
• Huaiyan looked at Yingxing and told him that he had lost weight.

Huaiyan reunited with Yingxing on the Luofu, worried about his apprentice’s transformation into a Vidyadhara and future safety. After Xianyu reassured him, Huaiyan spent time with Yingxing before departing, then sent him a cryptic warning to protect himself.

• Huaiyan brought heliobi materials to the Luofu, met Xianyu, and entrusted him with instructions for releasing and retrieving them.
• Xianyu took Matthias out for ice cream and a film before returning to the research institute and facing Zandar’s reminder about his overdue reports.
• Huaiyan visited Xianyu, gave him weapons and jade pendants, and heard that Yingxing would be safe and the Vidyadhara’s internal problems would be resolved within a hundred years.
• Huaiyan retrieved willow branches but could not bring himself to strike Yingxing, who insisted he would still help Dan Feng and the others even at personal risk.
• Huaiyan spent time with Yingxing and departed for the Zhuming, then messaged him: “Even men need to protect themselves too!”

Yingxing finished Jing Yuan’s massive Formation Blade for his graduation and coming-of-age celebration, while Xianyu arranged for Yingxing to modify Huaiyan’s dagger into a joint master-and-apprentice gift. At the celebration, Jing Yuan received his gifts and gave Xianyu a laurel wreath for his birthday.

• Yingxing finished Jing Yuan’s Formation Blade and agreed to modify Huaiyan’s dagger for Xianyu as a special gift from master and apprentice.
• Yingxing studied the dagger while Jingliu and Xianyu attended Jing Yuan’s graduation ceremony and ball with Dan Feng and Baiheng.
• Jing Yuan received Yingxing’s Formation Blade, Baiheng’s cameras, Jingliu’s hair ornaments and brooches, and Dan Feng’s promise of a spaceship.
• Jing Yuan placed a laurel wreath on Xianyu’s head and wished him a happy birthday.

At his coming-of-age banquet, Jing Yuan celebrated his birthday with Xianyu, Jingliu, and their friends before leaving the Luofu to become a Galaxy Ranger. During his travels, he befriended Igor and asked Xianyu to fund a costly effort for Igor’s homeworld, claiming it would bring the Xianzhou greater returns.

• Jingliu and the others gave Xianyu birthday wishes and letters, then the group toasted Jing Yuan’s coming of age, though he struggled with the wine.
• After the banquet, Jingliu urged Jing Yuan to turn to Xianyu for help, while Dan Feng reflected that Xianyu needed more people to anchor him.
• Jing Yuan told Dan Feng about his childhood friendship with Xianyu and promised to keep in touch while traveling as a Galaxy Ranger.
• The next day, Xianyu and the others saw Jing Yuan off at Starskiff Haven, and Xianyu promised to answer his messages.
• During his travels, Jing Yuan shared stories about his new friend Igor and eventually asked Xianyu to approve a large expense for Igor’s planet.
• Xianyu asked Jing Yuan to justify the expense, and Jing Yuan said it would bring the Xianzhou greater returns.

Xianyu oversaw the birth of the first Vidyadhara child on the Luofu and helped Dan Feng choose a future beyond his title, while Jing Yuan struggled with his calling and began donating to charity. After finally unlocking the real game system, Xianyu read Eric’s instructions and memoir, which ended with Eric recalling how he met Jing Yuan and encouraged him to make the cosmos remember his homeland.

• Jing Yuan proposed that Igor’s planet join the Xianzhou Alliance, but after Xianyu told him to petition Teng Xiao, he settled on saying Igor was his friend.
• The first Vidyadhara child on the Luofu was born, and Xianyu told Dan Feng that he could be remembered simply as Dan Feng; Dan Feng later renamed himself Frostleaf and donated to the Xianzhou’s charitable organization.
• Dan Feng asked Jing Yuan whether he had made the wrong choice, and Jing Yuan admitted that he had visited his planet, found it costly, and begun donating instead of pursuing his Galaxy Ranger dream.
• Xianyu reunited with Gray Wind, continued investigating the system, and eventually solved the puzzle that unlocked the real game interface and its main quest.
• Xianyu read Eric’s game instructions and memoir, learning about the system’s past loops, its powers, and Eric’s first meeting with Jing Yuan at school.

Xianyu read Eric’s account of how his friend died when the Swarm destroyed his home planet, and how that loss led Eric to reject war and seek a way to let people live as humans. The story then revealed Eric’s revenge against Zandar’s killer and his belief that suffering and fate could be resisted by saving and reshaping himself.

• Xianyu inferred that Eric had befriended a bullied classmate, who returned to his war-torn home planet before graduation.
• Eric’s friend read his Journal, accused him of hypocrisy, and ended their call before the Swarm destroyed his home planet and killed him.
• Polka told Eric that his friend had resented their unequal relationship, while Eric remained unable to understand his friend’s final words.
• Eric traveled with Akivili, resolved to let people live as humans, and attacked Aha before meeting Marty.
• Eric restarted the Colossus project, helped end the war, and later avenged Zandar by confronting the killer.
• Eric reflected that suffering did not deserve glorification and that people could reshape themselves and define their own fate.

Xianyu understood Eric’s plan for dimensional ascension and checked Jingliu’s condition before visiting Baiheng in the Alchemy Commission. Baiheng recovered under her friends’ care, while Xianyu left Dan Feng two self-help articles that made him realize how young Xianyu was.

• Xianyu pieced together Eric’s plan: he had to step down from power, reunite with Zandar, and earn doctorates to complete dimensional ascension.
• Xianyu visited Zandar, explained what he had learned, and received seven days off to rest.
• At home, Xianyu checked Jingliu’s status with the System Panel, then joined her on a visit to Baiheng, who was recovering after surgery.
• Baiheng joked with her friends and resisted Dan Feng’s ten-thousand-year ginseng tonic, while Yingxing and Jingliu urged her to follow medical advice.
• Baiheng shared her carefree outlook on life and death with Dan Feng, who resolved to use codonopsis instead of ginseng.
• Xianyu sent Dan Feng two self-help articles about letting go and accepting emotions, leaving Dan Feng stunned by Xianyu’s age.

Dan Feng helped his friends through Jing Yuan’s return and rise to General, then spent centuries preparing his will and arranging his reincarnation’s future. As molting approached, he urged Xianyu to care for himself, and Xianyu told Dan Feng to do the same.

• Dan Feng replied to Xianyu with an inspirational article, then found Jing Yuan keeping watch beside Baiheng and took away her Jade Abacus so she could sleep.
• After Jing Yuan returned to the Luofu and completed a month of service, the friends held a welcome-back banquet where Dan Feng and Xianyu taught Jing Yuan their version of social skills.
• Dan Feng drunkenly explained his plans to leave his assets to Yingxing and make him the guardian of his reincarnation, then drafted his will and chose attendants for the child.
• When Xianyu confronted Gray Wind over abducting nearly one hundred thousand people, Jingliu and Dan Feng helped him interrogate the offenders, and more than half of the Ten-Lords Commission's cells later stood empty.
• After Teng Xiao retired and Jing Yuan became Luofu General, Dan Feng reflected on Xianyu's respect for others' choices and revised his will over the following centuries.
• As his molting approached, Dan Feng spoke privately with Xianyu about their friends, and they urged each other to think more about themselves.

Dan Feng said farewell to Xianyu and Yingxing before his death, leaving his reincarnation, Dan Heng, in Yingxing’s care and entrusting him with wealth and responsibilities. Yingxing built a new life as a healer, while his friends continued theirs; later, Jingliu reunited with Xianyu, and Baiheng brought Jing Yuan a kitten that turned out to be a lion.

• Dan Feng urged Xianyu to live for himself, asked him to name his reincarnation, and left two promises for Dan Heng to fulfill.
• Dan Feng apologized to Yingxing for making him long-lived and gave him assets, attendants, and guardianship duties for Dan Heng.
• After Dan Feng’s farewell ceremony, Yingxing learned how to care for Dan Heng and continued forging and studying medicine on the Luofu.
• Yingxing completed a dagger with his master’s help, then joined the Alchemy Commission’s healers on the battlefield and visited Dan Feng’s statue before the campaign.
• Jingliu returned from battle and reunited with Xianyu, while Yingxing learned she had reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship.
• Baiheng gave Jing Yuan a white kitten, and Xianyu warned him that it would grow into a lion and eat a great deal.

Jing Yuan uncovered the apparent plot behind the rumors about Xianyu and realized the Marshal and Xianyu were baiting the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus. Xianyu told him to wait for Yingxing to reincarnate and return to the Luofu as a Nameless, then the story followed Dan Heng’s rebirth and childhood, ending with Dan Heng correcting Xianyu’s history homework.

• Jing Yuan learned that the people spreading rumors about Xianyu were tied to the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus and inferred that Xianyu and the Marshal were using the Ambrosial Arbor as bait.
• Jing Yuan visited Xianyu, who told him to wait for Yingxing to reincarnate, leave the Xianzhou, and return to the Luofu as one of the Nameless.
• Jing Yuan learned that Imbibitor Lunae had reincarnated as Dan Heng and met him as a newborn at Yingxing’s mansion.
• Jing Yuan, Xianyu, Yingxing, and their friends took turns caring for Dan Heng, and Yingxing later passed Dan Heng’s academy interview.
• Dan Heng grew up and corrected Xianyu’s history homework, explaining that the Father of the Xianzhou had never proclaimed himself emperor.

Dan Heng struggled with school and argued with Yingxing about taking a leave of absence, prompting Xianyu to help them reconcile. On his birthday, Yingxing gave him the leave application he had wanted.

• Yingxing forgot to pick Dan Heng up, so Baiheng collected him and brought him home.
• Dan Heng waited up for Yingxing and said he did not want to attend class, but Yingxing refused to let him leave school.
• Dan Heng asked Jing Yuan whether Yingxing had once been a short-life species, and Jing Yuan confirmed it while giving him Strale.
• Yingxing and Dan Heng argued over the Academy, its elective courses, and Dan Feng's choices, after which Dan Heng locked himself in his courtyard.
• Xianyu checked Dan Feng's arrangements and helped Yingxing and Dan Heng apologize and agree that Dan Heng could take a leave of absence.
• At Dan Heng's birthday banquet, Yingxing gave him an application for a leave of absence.

After leaving the Luofu, Dan Heng traveled with the Astral Express, joined the Nameless, and eventually arrived at Herta Space Station, where he heard Asta was offering a reward to find Xianyu. He agreed to collect it for Xianyu, leaving Asta stunned by the one-Strale fee.

• Yingxing signed Dan Heng’s leave application, and Dan Heng decided to finish his required courses before choosing his own path.
• Dan Heng befriended a classmate, traveled to subsidiary planets, and later joined the Nameless after meeting them.
• At his graduation ceremony, Dan Heng set a boundary with his friend about involving his family, then received Yubie’s letter and left the Luofu.
• Dan Heng passed Xianyu’s message to Pom-Pom, then traveled with the Astral Express and welcomed Stelle as a new Nameless.
• At Herta Space Station, Dan Heng learned Asta was searching for Xianyu and agreed to collect the reward for one Strale.

Dan Heng learned that his friend had arranged gifts for Xianyu and cleared the former Nameless of suspicion, then worried when Stelle described a disturbing figure resembling Xianyu inside the Simulated Universe. The chapter left Dan Heng unsettled by the possibility that the simulation had portrayed Xianyu as a threat, while Stelle continued to admire him.

• Dan Heng's friend learned that Xianyu was the Sword Champion and asked Dan Heng what gift could honor him; Dan Heng revealed he was Imbibitor Lunae and asked for an investigation into a Nameless.
• Dan Heng's friend investigated and reported that the man was a former Nameless who had joined the Corporation, and that neither the Corporation nor the Nameless had caused his death.
• Dan Heng and his friend chose auction gifts, bamboo-eating pets, and a planet known for its liquor, while Dan Heng received the expensive tea set his friend had purchased.
• At dinner, Stelle called Xianyu her best friend, and Dan Heng warned her not to use his full name around outsiders before explaining Xianyu's history to the crew.
• Stelle told Dan Heng that she had encountered a faceless figure in Xianzhou clothing in the Simulated Universe, and Dan Heng feared the simulation had misrepresented Xianyu.