Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu learned that Li Shiyi, Mulan, and Mighty General had lost years of life in a special operation and wanted to find a way to recover them. Li Shiyi also explained how his Super Pupil and prosthetic legs let him evade lightning, but Wang Yu pressed him about the martial arts technique behind his movements.

• Li Shiyi asked Wang Yu about Mulan's Breathing Technique, and Wang Yu explained that he had reached its third layer in Saitan World.
• Li Shiyi asked whether the Cultivation World had ways to restore vitality or extend lifespans, and Wang Yu confirmed that such rare methods existed.
• Li Shiyi revealed that Mulan and Mighty General had also lost decades of lifespan after their operation and that all three had come to seek Wang Yu's help.
• Wang Yu asked how Li Shiyi's body could keep pace with his Super Pupil, and Li Shiyi credited his Semi-Mechanical Prosthetic Limbs and their overload mode.
• Li Shiyi said an Ancient Martial Arts Leg Technique from the Li Household had helped him dodge the lightning.

Wang Yu explained how Li Shiyi used Instantaneous Step to evade lightning and laid out the difficulties of finding a treatment for the three modified men’s shortened lifespans. He offered to search the Cultivation World for pill formulas or medicinal prescriptions that might help, and Li Shiyi agreed to proceed with the deal as Wang Yu turned to discuss compensation.

• Li Shiyi explained that he and ancient martial arts masters had transformed the Li Household’s Afterimage Step into Instantaneous Step using his mechanical prosthetic limbs and Super Pupil ability.
• Wang Yu confirmed that Li Shiyi’s apparent calmness amid the lightning came from moving at extreme speed and leaving phantom bodies behind.
• Li Shiyi revealed that he and two others wanted Wang Yu to find something in the Cultivation World to restore their lost lifespan.
• Wang Yu warned that lifespan-extending treasures were exceedingly rare and explained that he might not be able to return to the Cultivation World or bring items back.
• Wang Yu offered to search for pill formulas or ordinary-ingredient medicinal prescriptions that Blue Star’s technology might reproduce, and Li Shiyi accepted the possibility.
• Wang Yu said it was time to discuss his compensation for the deal.

Wang Yu agreed to help Li Eleven, Mulan, and Mighty General find ways to restore their lifespans in exchange for lessons in Ancient Martial Arts. After returning to Huaguo, he trained with Li Eleven for over a month and struggled through the first phase of Instantaneous Step.

• Wang Yu asked Li Eleven, Mulan, and Mighty General to teach him Ancient Martial Arts, especially Li Eleven’s Instantaneous Step, and Li Eleven accepted the bargain.
• Li Eleven told Mulan and Mighty General that Wang Yu had agreed to help them find a way to restore their lifespans.
• Wang Yu wondered how Li Eleven had reached his door without his divine sense noticing, then considered how to deal with Dr. Chen after returning to Huaguo.
• Over ten days later, a guarded convoy carrying three identical black sedans left a secret Huaguo port and headed for the capital before all news of it disappeared.
• Two months later, Wang Yu trained in a secret underground base, where Li Eleven praised his progress with the Four Beasts Art after he struggled through the first phase of the footwork.
• After Li Eleven left for Mulan’s lesson, Wang Yu sat down and practiced the Black Tiger Breathing Method.

Wang Yu trained with Mulan, the Military General, and a foreign instructor to learn several combat techniques, enduring punishing lessons along the way. After the foreign instructor’s brutal training, Wang Yu lay battered in a Medical Pod.

• Mulan began teaching Wang Yu the Mu Family’s Vibrating Force, and Wang Yu explained why he wanted to learn ancient martial arts techniques.
• Wang Yu took Mulan’s Vibrating Force punch and staggered backward as the force numbed his arms.
• The Military General demonstrated Willow-Leaf Flying Knives by striking the vital points of a wooden target from more than thirty meters away while Wang Yu watched.
• Three days later, a foreign White Man introduced the Maboer Combat Technique and warned Wang Yu that training would end only when Wang Yu beat him or was crippled.
• After an hour of training with the foreign White Man, Wang Yu lay bruised in a Medical Pod while nurses treated him.

Wang Yu trained in dagger combat with Major Ika while Dr. Chen briefed Minister Li, Deputy Speaker Ollie, and Raisa on the origins of the Saitan Plan and the future Blue Star Alliance’s Sky-Opening Plan. The chapter left the officials watching footage of Wang Yu’s first entry into Saitan World as Dr. Chen explained why he had revived the plan.

• Wang Yu sparred with Major Ika, who warned him that he was still far behind and continued teaching him dagger combat.
• Dr. Chen ended the projection of Wang Yu’s training and began briefing Minister Li, Deputy Speaker Ollie, and Raisa about No. 1 and the Saitan Project.
• Dr. Chen showed footage of Wang Yu entering Saitan World for the first time nearly two years earlier.
• Dr. Chen explained that the Saitan Plan originated in the future, where Blue Star’s leaders rejected contact with Saitan World and destroyed the forming passage with nuclear warheads.
• Dr. Chen said an Immortal Cultivator from Saitan World later appeared on the future interstellar battlefield, prompting him to launch the Saitan Plan after returning to present-day Blue Star.

Dr. Chen briefed Deputy Speaker Ollie, Raisa, and Minister Li on the Saitan Project, its anomalous failure, and No. 1’s experiences in Saitan World. He ended by revealing that the sleep pods’ Taiyuan subsystems had vanished and that No. 1 had shown unusual interest in Taiyuan.

• Dr. Chen explained that unknown energy from deep space disrupted the first Saitan experiment, damaged most sleep pods, and coincided with the Saitan phenomenon disappearing.
• Dr. Chen said only No. 1 and two others entered Saitan World, while later attempts failed; Raisa and Deputy Speaker Ollie noted that other countries had found no suitable participants.
• Dr. Chen inferred that people from Huaguo could resonate with Saitan World because its people shared a connection with the Hua People, and that the passage’s location limited which groups could enter.
• Dr. Chen revealed that No. 1 had occupied Wang Tiezhu’s body and likely merged with part of his consciousness; Raisa explained that future Blue Star had studied consciousness fusion to counter Nebula Beasts.
• Dr. Chen recounted that No. 1 joined the Four Symbols Sect and returned with information about Saitan World, then disclosed that the sleep pods’ Taiyuan subsystems were gone and No. 1 had shown interest in Taiyuan.

Dr. Chen explained that No. 1 might have merged with a Taiyuan subsystem as a rare Celestial Person, then outlined the strategic value of his discoveries in the Saitan World. The meeting ended after the delegates considered the cultivation methods, spirit inscriptions, and No. 1’s ability to return to the Otherworld.

• Raisa described Celestial Persons, and Dr. Chen speculated that No. 1 might have merged with the Taiyuan Subsystem under the influence of unknown energy.
• Deputy Speaker Ollie raised the possibility of extraterrestrial interference, while Minister Li warned against unsupported speculation.
• Dr. Chen explained that the rudimentary subsystem could not connect to Huaguo’s Superbrain Taiyuan and would offer No. 1 limited assistance.
• Dr. Chen presented footage showing Huaguo soldiers using the Black Tiger Breathing Method and Four Beast Diagram to gain extraordinary physical strength.
• Dr. Chen emphasized that information about Immortal Cultivators, especially spirit inscriptions and No. 1’s ability to return to the Saitan World, could help Blue Star survive its catastrophe.
• After five or six hours, the meeting ended, leaving Ollie dazed, Raisa uncertain, Minister Li worried, and Dr. Chen composed.

Dr. Chen secured support from the British Commonwealth, the Ark Team, and Huaguo for the Sky-Opening Plan, including efforts to find a land of yin energy and expand the base. Wang Yu endured the experimental Thunder Acupoint Infusion Technique and then saw the Moon Palace, a fortified structure being built to aid his travels between worlds.

• Dr. Chen urged Speaker Ollie to send the resources the base urgently needed, and Ollie promised to arrange an initial shipment after returning home.
• Raisa agreed to send people and half the Ark Team's resources to assist the Sky-Opening Plan, while admitting she remained doubtful about its prospects.
• Minister Li pledged Huaguo's support, and Dr. Chen explained the need to expand the base and search for a land of yin energy.
• Two nurses inserted dozens of needles into Wang Yu, and a middle-aged researcher sent electricity through them as he tested the Thunder Acupoint Infusion Technique.
• Dr. Chen showed Wang Yu the Moon Palace, a spherical fortress made of talisman inscription alloy and built to support his journeys between worlds.

Dr. Chen explained the Moon Palace’s plan to trigger Wang Yu’s travel between worlds by exposing him to extreme cold in a sleeping pod, while outlining their theories about a transferable spacetime anchor. Wang Yu was startled to learn that the pod might also let Blue Star contact him through the Star River Game while he was in the Cultivation World.

• Wang Yu questioned whether the Moon Palace could help him travel back to the Cultivation World, and Dr. Chen said he was seventy or eighty percent confident.
• Dr. Chen explained that extreme danger caused abnormal brain-wave fluctuations and proposed using cryogenic equipment in the sleeping pod to trigger Wang Yu’s consciousness to travel to the Saitan World.
• Dr. Chen theorized that a unique spacetime anchor in Wang Yu’s body enabled travel between worlds and said it could transfer or regenerate after the previous body was destroyed.
• Wang Yu asked whether the anchor could exist in multiple clones, and Dr. Chen estimated that it would appear in only one body, likely the clone most similar to the destroyed one.
• Dr. Chen described the Moon Palace’s defenses, supplies, escape systems, and No. 1 Sleeping Pod, including its features for maintaining Wang Yu’s body during long periods of sleep.
• Dr. Chen said researchers were studying whether the Star River Game could enable communication across worlds, and Wang Yu reacted with surprise.

Dr. Chen explained Star River’s origins and warned Wang Yu that his body in the Cultivation World faced growing danger while he remained on Blue Star. He outlined new training and technology courses to prepare Wang Yu for his next crossing, then Wang Yu said he had two requests.

• Dr. Chen told Wang Yu that Star River used material from the Kree People, emerged from a simulation by future Blue Star’s Three Great Optical Brains, and operated beyond anyone’s control.
• Dr. Chen said the Moon Palace would be ready soon and scheduled Wang Yu’s voluntary crossing for ten days later, then described Thunder Acupoint Body Infusion and two incoming instructors: Master Depa and the Martial Ancestor.
• Dr. Chen revealed that the Sky-Opening Group had arranged a crash course in making primitive technologies, including power generators, machine tools, gunpowder, firearms, and alloys, for use in the Cultivation World.
• Dr. Chen warned Wang Yu not to learn the full Sky-Opening Plan because Immortal Cultivators could use Soul Searching, and urged him to protect himself and gather information.
• Wang Yu agreed to study diligently but told Dr. Chen he had two requests before crossing over.

Wang Yu asked Dr. Chen for the Ember Source gene drug and access to Taiyuan’s supposed Blue Star Alliance Great Arsenal. When Dr. Chen and Raisa both denied that the arsenal existed, Wang Yu replaced his request with lessons in mecha manufacturing.

• Wang Yu requested the Ember Source formula and a batch of the experimental gene injections, and Dr. Chen agreed to provide the formula and arrange for samples while warning him not to inject them without fire-attribute abilities.
• Wang Yu asked for access to Superbrain Taiyuan, then narrowed his request to browsing privileges for the Blue Star Alliance Great Arsenal when Dr. Chen refused full access.
• Dr. Chen and Raisa both said they had never heard of the Great Arsenal and explained that an Alliance database with that name could not exist without council approval.
• Wang Yu privately wondered why his Taiyuan Auxiliary System mentioned the Great Arsenal, then changed his request to lessons from a mecha manufacturing expert.
• Wang Yu explained that he wanted to compare mecha with the puppet art he had studied in the Cultivation World.

Wang Yu received specialized instruction in mecha engineering, metal manipulation, and hypnosis before beginning intensive martial arts training. After the Martial Ancestor explained the principles behind combat and offered to teach him the Calamity-Breaking Hand, Wang Yu eagerly accepted.

• Dr. Chen agreed to arrange a mecha expert from the Ark Team to teach Wang Yu and questioned him about the Saitan celestial image he had seen in the Cultivation World.
• A foreign instructor taught Wang Yu to manipulate a metal sphere, while an elderly lecturer showed him designs for power-generating equipment.
• Master Depa demonstrated how sound could hypnotize three wolfdogs, and Wang Yu said he wanted to learn the technique.
• Wang Yu sparred with the Martial Ancestor, who effortlessly threw him and explained that physical strength and skill determined the outcome of combat.
• The Martial Ancestor offered to teach Wang Yu the Calamity-Breaking Hand, and Wang Yu vowed to master it even if he had to train for three days and nights without sleep.

Wang Yu prepared for the Sky-Opening Plan’s first cross-world traversal while the base finalized his equipment and security arrangements. As Dr. Chen began the experiment, Wang Yu fell asleep, expecting to cross into the Cultivation World for a third time.

• Wang Yu studied Mecha armor and underwent preparations in a sleep pod as staff outfitted the enormous sphere with concealed weapons.
• Wang Yu examined the Ember Source serum and read its instructions.
• Dr. Chen introduced Helena as a new member of Wang Yu’s security team, joining Mulan at the base.
• Dr. Chen briefed Wang Yu on cross-space communications and a possible experiment to recall his consciousness from the Cultivation World.
• Researchers and soldiers detected a place of yin energy in a valley south of Creek City and reported the discovery to the base.
• Dr. Chen changed Wang Yu’s code name to Pangu and began the first cross-world traversal experiment, putting Wang Yu to sleep.

Wang Yu awoke from a three-year coma in Spirit Creek Bay, badly burned but slowly recovering, and learned that Shi Qiuping and her sister had cared for him with help from spirit-fish broth. He discovered that Little White had grown stronger and could form the characters for its chosen name, while he waited to meet Shi Hongyao.

• Wang Yu regained consciousness as Shi Qiuping fed him broth, and Little White eagerly greeted him.
• Wang Yu examined his injured body and learned from Shi Qiuping that fishermen had found him three years earlier and brought him to Spirit Creek Bay.
• Wang Yu surveyed the nearby settlement, learned that the river was called the Cold Billow River, and requested a map and a meeting with Shi Hongyao.
• Shi Qiuping gave Wang Yu a Jade Slip map and left to fetch her sister.
• Wang Yu noticed that Little White had reached the great perfection of Qi Refining, and Little White formed the characters for "White Glaze" from freezing mist.

After awakening, Wang Yu asked Little White to fetch Big Green while he investigated his location in the Eastern Wasteland. In Spirit Creek Bay, Shi Qiuping and Shi Hongyao hurried to meet the awakened senior, while locals speculated about the threats facing their settlement.

• Wang Yu confirmed through their spirit contract that Big Green was alive and sent Little White to fetch it.
• Shi Qiuping visited Red Herb Medicine Hall and told Shi Hongyao that the senior they had found had awakened and wanted to see her.
• Shi Hongyao finished treating Madam Li, suspended consultations, and flew with Shi Qiuping toward the scattered rocks.
• Two men in town saw the Shi sisters leave and wondered whether Seven-Star Pool had threatened Spirit Creek Bay again.
• The men said Spirit Creek Bay depended on White Glaze, Green Chill, and the awakened senior to protect it from outsiders coveting its spirit vein.

After waking from three years of unconsciousness, Wang Yu reunited with White Glaze and Big Green at Spirit Creek Bay, though his failed attempt to summon the Yang Ring left him weakened. The bay faced an impending threat from Seven-Star Pool, and Shi Qiuping and Shi Hongyao arrived as Wang Yu met his former companions.

• A fisherman and a woodcutter suspected that Seven-Star Pool was preparing to attack Spirit Creek Bay, but agreed that the settlers would have to fight to keep their home.
• Wang Yu studied a Jade Slip map and wondered where he had landed after the teleportation formation had been disrupted.
• Wang Yu tried to summon the Yang Ring, but it vanished, leaving him pale until he swallowed a medicinal pill.
• White Glaze and Big Green rushed into Wang Yu's room, and he happily greeted the Iron-Head Crocodile, whose cultivation had reached eighth-level qi refining.
• Big Green spat out a live silver-white fish, and Shi Qiuping entered with Shi Hongyao to greet Wang Yu.

Wang Yu learned that Shi Hongyao’s inherited healing arts had helped sustain him, and he arranged for her to continue treating his injuries while improving her cultivation. He removed the curse afflicting Shi Qiuping and destroyed its remnants, then reflected on the differences between divine sense and star thought power.

• Wang Yu read Shi Hongyao’s Medicine Master inheritance and identified Spirit Crisp Oil and Greenwood Hand as the methods that had helped heal his meridians.
• Wang Yu gave Shi Hongyao Cultivation Medicinal Pills and asked her to keep treating him as she advanced her cultivation.
• Wang Yu discovered that a curse was damaging Shi Qiuping’s dantian and warned that she could lose her cultivation within three to five years.
• Wang Yu extracted the weakened curse power from Shi Qiuping with threads of telekinetic power, and she took a Medicinal Pill and meditated.
• Wang Yu burned the extracted curse remnants and considered the differences between divine sense and star thought power.

After Wang Yu helped Shi Qiuping purge the last of her curse energy, he learned that he had arrived in the Chaotic Spirit Domain, a lawless region of the Eastern Wasteland bordering demon territory. He decided to recover and seek a stronger spirit vein, while considering whether the domain’s disorder could help him conduct secret experiments from Blue Star.

• Shi Qiuping expelled the last of the curse energy from her body and offered for herself and Shi Hongyao to serve Wang Yu, but he postponed answering and asked them about the region.
• Shi Qiuping and Shi Hongyao explained that the Cold Billow River lay in the Chaotic Spirit Domain, one of the Eastern Wasteland’s eight human domains and the one closest to demon territory.
• Shi Qiuping described how the Green Water Palace, the Sword-Grinding Sect, and the Spirit Puppet Sect had seized the domain from the Snow Wolf Clan two hundred years earlier, leaving scattered spirit veins and a chaotic landscape.
• After the Shi sisters left, Wang Yu considered the domain’s demon beasts, cultivation factions, and the three great sects’ rule through market cities.
• Wang Yu concluded that he should recover before seeking a first-tier medium spirit vein and considered using the Chaotic Spirit Domain to conduct secret experiments from Blue Star.

Wang Yu began treating the lingering lightning damage in his body, while Spirit Creek Bay’s cultivators prepared for a spirit fish run. Their harvest was interrupted by an armed force from Seven-Star Pool demanding they surrender the bay.

• Wang Yu swallowed three healing pills and began refining their medicinal effects, though he knew he needed lightning-specific pills for a complete recovery.
• Spirit Creek Bay’s cultivators organized mortal fishermen to catch spirit fish fry and warned one another to guard against adult fish.
• The cultivators killed an adult first-tier Sycee Fish, then spotted three spirit rafts carrying more than forty people from Seven-Star Pool.
• A cultivator in yellow robes announced that Brother Lu had reached Qi Refining perfection and threatened to kill the defenders unless they surrendered Spirit Creek Bay.

Wang Yu defeated Lu Bafang and took control of Seven-Star Pool, then gathered nearby forces under the Mount Mi Sect. News of the new Mount Mi High Person reached two powerful figures upstream, who began considering his intentions.

• Lu Bafang threatened Spirit Creek Bay, but Wang Yu restrained Seven-Star Pool’s cultivators with a silver seal and killed Lu Bafang with a flying knife.
• The Seven-Star Pool cultivators surrendered, and Wang Yu ordered Shi Qiuping to occupy Seven-Star Pool and Shi Hongyao to bring the captives to him.
• Wang Yu left to deal with White Scale Hollow while the Shi sisters followed his orders with Big Green and Little White.
• More than a month later, reports said the Mount Mi High Person had brought several nearby forces and about two hundred Rogue Cultivators together to establish the Mount Mi Sect.
• A yellow-haired old man and a young man upstream read reports about Mount Mi High Person; the young man’s subordinate, Xin'er, warned that he seemed to have ill intentions.