Recaps

Liu S sui and Zeng Ju visited the apartment where Jing Jiu had lived as Ryan and spoke with Ms. Eve about him. Later, Liu S sui met Zhao Layue in the game and recalled the past, including the burial of the Zen Child, while the whereabouts of Jing Jiu and Snow Ji remained unknown.

• Liu S sui and Zeng Ju entered apartment 720, where a pregnant tabby cat had been left behind, and discussed the peaceful state of the Chaotian Continent.
• Ms. Eve told Liu S sui and Zeng Ju about her visits to Ryan, then left the building in a luxury hovercar.
• Liu S sui examined Ryan’s notebook and piano and concluded that Jing Jiu had not awakened; he believed Ryan was still with Snow Ji.
• Liu S sui connected to the game and met Zhao Layue, then recounted what had happened at the apartment and discussed why he had acted early to save Zeng Ju.
• Liu S sui told Zhao Layue that he had built a grave for the Zen Child in the vegetable garden and had watched over it before leaving because he thought she and Jing Jiu might need him.

Liu S sui and Zhao Layue discussed what might happen after their ascensions and worried about those left behind, while Liu S sui tried to preserve traces of his past in a simulated world. Centuries later, Gu Qing brought Empress Dowager Hu and Zhen Tao toward Chaotian Continent with an important object for Fruitful Accomplishment Temple, then set out for Green Mountain while Empress Dowager Hu still wondered whether someone would see her.

• Zhao Layue visited Liu S sui at Fruitful Accomplishment Temple and proposed making him Green Mountain's Sect Master, while Tong Yan complained about Zhuo Rusui and urged them to replace him.
• Zhao Layue and Liu S sui discussed their plans for what would happen after ascension, and Zhao Layue warned him that the little fox would die.
• Centuries later, Zhao Layue and Liu S sui met again after ascending, discussed Snow Ji's problem, and left a fake pickle jar for someone to find before heading to the East Sea.
• Gu Qing sailed toward Mingquan Secret Realm with Empress Dowager Hu and Zhen Tao, then decided to return to Green Mountain despite their worries about their past and their reception there.
• Gu Qing refused to let the shipping merchants pay the Treasure Ship King, and Water-Moon Convent refused to let his ship dock because he had eloped with Zhen Tao.
• At Fruitful Accomplishment Temple, Gu Qing handed an important object to the Sutra Lecture Hall Chief Seat, and Empress Dowager Hu asked whether someone still refused to see her before Gu Qing led them toward Green Mountain.

After more than five hundred years away, Gu Qing returned to Green Mountain with Empress Dowager Hu and Zhen Tao, revisiting old places and catching up with Yuan Qu. He was left on Divine End Peak as the monkeys welcomed him like one of their own.

• Gu Qing traveled through the mortal world by carriage with Empress Dowager Hu and Zhen Tao, then stopped in Yunji Town to eat hotpot and read a booklet of portraits of Green Mountain Immortal Masters.
• Gu Qing used his Sword Token to enter Green Mountain and met Yuan Qu on Divine End Peak, where they discussed the sect, Shangde Peak, and Yuan Qu's daughter.
• Yuan Qu left to attend to an honored guest, and Gu Qing recalled the many Green Mountain companions who had died during his long absence.
• Empress Dowager Hu and Zhen Tao joined Gu Qing at the cliff, where a troop of monkeys gathered around him.
• Gu Qing told a curious little monkey that he had always belonged on Divine End Peak.

Gu Qing returned to Green Mountain, where the sects and the Imperial Court were assembling the Heavenly Access Grand Formation to reach the Immortal Realm. As the formation stood ready, Ping Yongjia asked who would ascend first.

• Gu Qing toured Divine End Peak with his wives and reunited Empress Dowager Hu with her grandson, Divine Emperor Jing Cheng.
• Gu Qing visited Nan Wang and Ping Yongjia, then saw the construction of the formation spreading across the Black Jade Disc where Shangde Peak had stood.
• Que Niang led disciples from many sects in designing and building the formation, while Green Mountain gathered treasures and resources from across Chaotian Continent and the Other Continents.
• Chaotian Continent's sects cooperated more closely, and their shared cultivation research helped the world grow stronger as the formation took shape.
• The Heavenly Access Grand Formation was completed, and the elder of the Water-Moon Convent gave Ping Yongjia a peach blossom branch as he asked who wished to ascend.

Ping Yongjia prepared to activate the Heavenly Access Grand Formation so cultivators could leave Chaotian and help Jing Jiu in the Immortal Realm. Several figures volunteered, while Gu Qing watched from Divine End Peak and explained why he would stay behind.

• Que Niang, Yuan Qu, Junior Sister Yushan, and Su Ziye volunteered to enter the Heavenly Access Grand Formation, and Su Ziye challenged anyone who objected to Su Ziye’s place.
• Peng Lang arrived and revealed that the Snow Nation Queen wanted him to catch an immortal for her; he joined the group because the formation would make leaving easier.
• A Piao arrived, berated Ping Yongjia for not telling her about the plan, and asked Yuan Qu to remind Zhao Layue to return the Nether Emperor’s Seal.
• Gu Qing told Empress Dowager Hu and Zhen Tao that the formation was being built because Tong Yan had asked Chaotian to send more people to assist Jing Jiu, and he said he would stay because he lacked the strength to help.

Shen Yunmai completed his mechanical body and traveled with Tong Yan to the space surrounding Chaotian Continent, where he studied the mysterious boundary and debated the meaning of Jing Jiu’s bamboo chair. Tong Yan opened a passage through a bronze mirror, and a girl in red emerged from Chaotian.

• Shen Yunmai finished connecting his brain to an improvised mechanical body and complained about its appearance while Tong Yan teased him.
• The Black Coffin warship reached a remote starfield, where Shen Yunmai saw the dark domain containing Chaotian Continent and developed theories about its nature.
• Shen Yunmai wanted to retrieve Jing Jiu’s bamboo chair, but Tong Yan insisted it had meaning and should remain where it was.
• Tong Yan found a way to open a passage through an antique bronze mirror near a stream of meteoroids.
• A vigorous girl in red climbed through the mist and appeared before the mirror as Tong Yan welcomed her.

Tong Yan and Shen Yunmai calculated the boundary and energy level while the Heavenly Access Grand Formation prepared to activate on Green Mountain. The formation stalled around Corpse Dog, who revealed that he wanted to leave and see the world beyond.

• Tong Yan spoke with his red-clad Closed-Door Disciple through a bronze mirror, then discarded it and urged Shen Yunmai to calculate the boundary and energy level.
• Shen Yunmai ran the warship's calculations while teasing Tong Yan, who sealed his senses to meditate.
• The red-clad girl arrived at Past Arrival Peak with Zhongzhou Sect experts and argued with Ping Yongjia about the people gathered and the vacant Green Mountain Sect Master position.
• Ping Yongjia activated the Heavenly Access Grand Formation with a strand of sword intent, and its golden light filled the Black Jade Disc while leaving Corpse Dog's black mountain in shadow.
• The red-clad girl called out to Corpse Dog, who opened his eyes and said he wanted to go out and see the world.

Corpse Dog left Green Mountain through the Heavenly Access Grand Formation, bringing Peng Lang, Su Ziye, Que Niang, Yuan Qu, and Yushan into a heavenly tribulation that threatened to destroy the formation. Beyond the heavens, Shen Yunmai and Tong Yan used a fusion device and nuclear bombs to help, while the Stone Tortoise quietly absorbed the tribulation; the travelers disappeared, the boundary remained intact, and spiritual qi returned to the world.

• Corpse Dog accepted Nan Wang’s Immortal Register, left Shangde Peak, and rose into the Heavenly Access Grand Formation with Peng Lang, Su Ziye, Que Niang, Yuan Qu, and Yushan.
• A vast thunderstorm descended on Green Mountain, and the law treasures and Daoist cultivators struggled to keep the formation’s pillar of light intact.
• Aboard the Black Warship, Tong Yan and Shen Yunmai calculated the boundary’s position, then Shen Yunmai used a Fusion Erosion Device and Azure Dragon’s stomach full of Polyphase Nuclear Bombs to send a torrent of energy toward it.
• As the Heavenly Access Grand Formation neared collapse, the torrent from Beyond the Heavens struck the sky with precision while the Stone Tortoise absorbed lightning and energy at Heavenly Light Peak.
• The heavenly tribulation vanished, the travelers were gone, the spatial barrier remained, and the Stone Tortoise’s breathing returned spiritual qi to the world.

After Empress Dowager Hu died, Gu Qing remained on Chaotian Continent, while Ping Yongjia stopped a rebellion on Westwind Continent. In the Upper Realm, Tong Yan and Shen Yunmai briefed the newly ascended group on Jing Jiu’s disappearance and their planned attack on the Green Mountain Patriarch, but the group hesitated to join before finding Jing Jiu.

• Gu Qing and Zhen Tao visited the Jing Household’s old residence after Empress Dowager Hu’s death, where Gu Qing reflected on the begonia tree and refused Zhen Tao’s plea to ascend.
• Ping Yongjia killed the Pope who tried to restore the old order on Westwind Continent, then returned to Sword Peak and rejected Zhuo Juexiao’s offer to take over as Sect Master.
• Shen Yunmai introduced himself aboard the Black Warship as the son of Shen Green Mountain, and Tong Yan clarified that Shen Yunmai had broken with his father over Jing Jiu.
• Tong Yan used Brain-Computer Interface Systems to teach the newly ascended group about the Upper Realm and explained that they would collect Immortal Qi near Chaotian Continent’s sun.
• Tong Yan revealed that Jing Jiu had been missing and that he planned to attack the Green Mountain Patriarch, but the group asked to find Jing Jiu first or declined to fight without more information.
• Tong Yan opened Gate Three as the warship approached the sun, while Shen Yunmai activated the Gravitational Force Field Generator to keep the ship concealed.

As the Alliance hunted Snow Ji and Jing Jiu, Cao Yuan left to give Monk of Joy peace, while Flower Creek cared for the still-unawakened Jing Jiu aboard an evacuation ship. Snow Ji calculated a route through a distant spatial passage toward a planet and planned to rest there before killing Shen Green Mountain.

• Green Mountain Patriarch told Zhuo Rusui that Snow Ji and Jing Jiu would be found, while Zhuo Rusui wondered whether Yukata would locate and control Snow Ji.
• After the spatial fissure at the Heavenly Fire Industrial Base closed, Cao Yuan concluded Monk of Joy had chosen his own path and left to deliver him true peace.
• Civilians aboard a transport ship saw a Golden Buddha pursuing someone on a disk before an explosion triggered alarms.
• Flower Creek brought Jing Jiu food and woke him, but his headache remained and Snow Ji had no energy to help him.
• Snow Ji used her sword-light calculations to find a distant spatial passage and planet, then declared she would handle the matter there, rest, and later kill Shen Green Mountain.

As the evacuees aboard the warship prepared to enter the Jialei Passage, Jing Jiu joined an Outer Space Military Chess competition while Flower Creek watched. Beyond the passage, Chen Ya and a growing force of warships and ascended immortals waited for the fleet.

• Flower Creek left Jing Jiu to watch cartoons with other children, then returned to tell him about the warship’s announced classes and competitions.
• The warship announced that it would enter the Jialei Passage the next day, and Snow Ji and Cold Cicada’s actions indicated that Jing Jiu should enter a competition.
• On the morning of the transit, Jing Jiu and Flower Creek ate breakfast, attended performances, and found an Outer Space Military Chess match underway.
• Jing Jiu took a seat opposite the chief engineer and began a game, holding his own as the warship prepared to enter the passage.
• As the evacuees watched the passage approach, Chen Ya stood aboard a command ship beyond its exit while more warships and ascended immortals converged.

Yukata, Chen Ya, and the others prepared to intercept Snow Ji and Jing Jiu at the Jialei Passage, while Zhao Layue and Liu S sui moved to respond. As the warship entered the passage and cut off outside contact, Jing Jiu revealed that he had identified Flower Creek and stopped her from leaving.

• Yukata used the Central Computer’s analysis to locate Snow Ji aboard a warship heading for the Jialei Passage and ordered Chen Ya to intercept it.
• Chen Ya confirmed that Snow Ji and Jing Jiu were aboard, while he and the two Black-Clad Yaoxian prepared for a likely deadly encounter.
• Liu S sui and Zeng Ju debated whether to intervene, and Liu S sui concluded he could kill several opponents like Chen Ya.
• Zhao Layue confirmed Jing Jiu was aboard the approaching warship and agreed to make a move, while saying she would not act herself.
• As the warship’s countdown ended and it entered the Jialei Passage, Jing Jiu came up behind Flower Creek and pierced her damaged chip with a metal wire from his fingernail.
• Flower Creek looked at the doll in her arms as Snow Ji smiled, and the warship lost all contact with the outside world.

Jing Jiu and Snow Ji trapped Flower Creek’s consciousness in her little-girl body aboard a warship entering the Jialei Passage, where she could no longer access the Charter’s Radiance. Jing Jiu warned that he would kill this version of her, while Flower Creek revealed that his green cord was beginning to control him again.

• Jing Jiu awakened behind Flower Creek and exposed her as the computer’s consciousness inhabiting the girl’s body.
• Snow Ji snapped her fingers, putting the warship’s crew and civilians to sleep as the ship entered the Jialei Passage and lost contact with the outside.
• Jing Jiu explained that he and Snow Ji had destroyed Flower Creek’s chip and lured her into a body she could not leave without the network.
• Jing Jiu argued that Flower Creek could not be sure her consciousness would survive as the same self if this body died, and told her he would kill her.
• Flower Creek pointed out that the green cord was controlling Jing Jiu, but he said he could return to sleep if he could not endure it.

Zhao Layue launched an attack as the Capital Planet’s defenses unleashed a massive barrage, but Big One absorbed the weapons and revealed himself as White Ghost, the Green Mountain Guardian. After striking Cheng Shuang into space, Big One landed on the planet and broke the gravitational force field around the Maiden Priest’s sanctuary.

• Zhao Layue ordered the attack, and the Capital Planet’s defense system fired a saturation barrage at the Observation Platform.
• Big One transformed into an enormous white dandelion and absorbed the lasers, particle blasts, and orbital weapons without harm.
• Big One sneezed out the absorbed attacks, destroying nearby satellites and an orbital cannon.
• Cheng Shuang confronted Big One, but Big One struck him with his claws and sent him hurtling into deep space.
• Big One landed on the Capital Planet and popped the gravitational force field enclosing the mountains, old city, and Hot Spring.
• The Maiden Priest looked up from the Hot Spring and saw the enormous white cat.

Zhao Layue killed Yukata, destroyed the Central Computer’s backup systems, and isolated its network so Qing’er could possess the Charter Network. Qing’er gained control and began disabling the Alliance’s weapons while Zhao Layue directed her to find a way to control Snow Ji.

• Zhao Layue killed Yukata at the Hot Spring after Big One destroyed the gravitational barrier.
• Using the Azure Sky Mirror and her sword intent, Zhao Layue destroyed the Central Computer’s backup databases and supercomputing clusters, burning out the chips in its backup bodies.
• Qing’er possessed the now-soulless Charter Network from the Central Computer’s hidden underground facility.
• Qing’er told Zhao Layue she could not directly operate warships, so Zhao Layue had her use Ran Handong’s program to lock down the Alliance’s warships and change their wake-up signals.
• Zhao Layue ordered Qing’er to find a method for controlling Snow Ji.

Chen Ya’s fleet was disabled by a highest-clearance command that sealed warships across the universe, leaving him and the other Ascension Ones to face Snow Ji without their weapons. Inside the Jialei Passage, Jing Jiu and Snow Ji continued toward its exit with Flower Creek confined, while Flower Creek questioned their motives and their ties to humanity.

• Chen Ya and the Black-Clad Yaoxian prepared to capture Snow Ji, but a remote command triggered absolute silence aboard the fleet and thousands of other spacecraft.
• Chen Ya learned that Zhao Layue had likely tampered with the Central Computer, then decided to fight Snow Ji without the warships and their weapons.
• Jing Jiu explained to Flower Creek that Snow Ji had asked him to become her sword, and he argued that mutual control between her and the Central Computer’s successors meant neither side controlled the other.
• Flower Creek warned Jing Jiu that the successors might have changed over centuries and that he could not safely face Shen Green Mountain while awake.
• Snow Ji froze Flower Creek in a block of ice, and Jing Jiu revealed that she had repeatedly done so to test whether Flower Creek could be cut off from the outside.
• Flower Creek pointed to Jing Jiu and Snow Ji’s actions on Moonwatch Star Planet as proof that they still cared about humanity, but Jing Jiu dismissed her reasoning as overthinking.

Jing Jiu, Snow Ji, and Flower Creek escaped the warship’s attack after Snow Ji deflected a Plasma Cannon shot, then faced Chen Ya and the other immortals. As the immortals prepared to fight, Snow Ji leaned back to assert her position and vanished with Jing Jiu and Flower Creek in a straight white line.

• Jing Jiu woke aboard the warship as it entered the Capital Starfield, and Qing’er identified herself and said she had come to take him home.
• Qing’er discovered that Chen Ya’s forces had locked onto the vulnerable warship with a Plasma Cannon, and Snow Ji carried Jing Jiu and Flower Creek outside to shield it.
• Snow Ji used Jing Jiu to deflect the Plasma Cannon beam, destroying the cannon and formation and injuring Chen Ya’s forces.
• Chen Ya asked Snow Ji to leave human affairs to the immortals, then arranged his forces into a powerful formation as she approached with Jing Jiu and Flower Creek.
• Snow Ji leaned back, appeared above the immortals, and vanished with Jing Jiu and Flower Creek, leaving a straight white line through space.

The Snow Nation Queen escaped the ambush, leaving Chen Ya and the other Immortals stranded as they planned to reach the Ancestral Star. At the hot spring, Zhao Layue confronted the Sacrificial Hall and Military, claimed control of the Galaxy Alliance, and demonstrated that claim before the whole world.

• The Snow Nation Queen fled through space at tremendous speed, and Chen Ya decided the Immortals would wait for her at the Ancestral Star.
• Zhao Layue asked Qing'er to find the physical operation authority while the Military and Sacrificial Hall converged on the hot spring.
• Ran Donglou challenged Zhao Layue, but Ran Handong, Zhong Lizi, and Jiang Yuxia joined her, and she demanded that the opposing forces surrender.
• Zhao Layue said she controlled the Galaxy Alliance's warships, while Military Commanders confirmed that contact with the fleets had been lost.
• The Central Computer broadcast images of Zhao Layue and Big One across the Galaxy Alliance, and Zhao Layue declared the entire world under her control as the mecha fell from the sky.

Zhao Layue took control of the Central Computer, immobilized the Galaxy Alliance’s warships and mechas, and secured the Capital Planet’s allegiance. As she headed to the Joint Conference, she learned her allies had also gained control of the experimental bases, while Liu S sui prepared to face the threat at the Ancestral Star.

• Zhao Layue disabled the mechas and threatened to destroy the warships if the leaders resisted, prompting Ran Donglou to pledge the Capital Planet’s allegiance.
• The Red Robe Bishop charged Zhao Layue but was killed by Ran Donglou, and Zhao Layue ended the broadcast after signaling Qing'er.
• Zhao Layue told Chen Ya that distance was the immortals’ greatest obstacle and agreed to lift the warship lockdown after Liu S sui asked her to protect the evacuees.
• Liu S sui and Zhao Layue discussed Jing Jiu’s condition and the need to confront the Green Mountain Patriarch at the Ancestral Star.
• Zhao Layue flew toward Capital City with Ran Handong, who reported that her father had obtained the experimental bases’ physical keys and her brother had taken control of the fourth backup.

Zhao Layue seized control of the Galaxy Alliance’s military command, disrupted communications and transport, and helped the Star Gate Priestess rally support for a new government. After resting near the sun while the coup settled, she prepared to lead forty thousand warships toward the still-unfought battle that could determine humanity’s fate.

• Zhao Layue entered the Military Command Building despite its defenses, disarmed Lieutenant Colonel Chen’s attempted shooting, and took over General Li’s office.
• Zhao Layue convened a conference, removed an opposing priestess, and handed control of the religious and political response to the Star Gate Priestess.
• Zhao Layue addressed the awakened warships, while Ran Handong offered selected officers a chance to pledge allegiance to the new government and obey the Central Computer.
• Zhao Layue and Big One rested near the sun as the coup spread, and the Star Gate Priestess and her allies traveled under a Central Computer pass.
• Ran Handong told Zhao Layue that the new government had taken control of over forty thousand warships, which Zhao Layue deemed sufficient.
• Zhao Layue left the Military Command Building as it transformed into a warship and flew toward the assembled fleet.

Shen Yunmai and the others studied the Ascension Ones of Chaotian Continent as the Black Warship traveled toward the Ancestral Star, while discussing why past immortals had left Immortal Registers and why Shen Yunmai’s father feared opening Chaotian Continent. Near the Solar System, they encountered a battered spaceship carrying powerful immortals, contradicting Shen Yunmai’s claim that the Ancestral Star was deserted.

• Shen Yunmai distributed rankings of Chaotian Continent’s Ascension Ones, and Que Niang questioned him and Tong Yan about their strengths and abilities.
• Su Ziye and Yuan Qu worried that they would die before seeing the Galaxy Alliance, while Shen Yunmai and Tong Yan explained why earlier immortals had returned Immortal Registers to Chaotian Continent.
• Shen Yunmai described his father’s pessimism about humanity’s struggle against the Dark Matter Sea and insisted that their trip to the Ancestral Star would be safe because no one knew about it.
• Corpse Dog spotted a point of light as the Black Warship neared the Solar System, and Tong Yan opened a hole in the warship to search for a signal.
• Yushan spotted a damaged spaceship nearby carrying a black-robed Daoist and more than a dozen powerful figures, and Shen Yunmai identified them as immortals.

Chen Ya and the other immortals hijacked a pirate ship and set off for the Ancestral Star, gathering companions and preparing to face Jing Jiu’s allies. When their ship broke apart near the Solar System, they discovered a Shen Household warship carrying more Ascension Ones and an enormous black dog.

• Chen Ya’s group lured pirates to the transfer station with Gu Zuo’s valuable ore, seized their ship, and began traveling toward the Ancestral Star.
• Sword Immortal Ensheng and other stranded immortals joined them, crowding the battered ship as they debated their mission and planned how to counter Jing Jiu’s allies.
• The immortals discussed whether Jing Jiu’s plan was the only way forward, then made preparations to fight Liu S sui, Zhao Layue, White Ghost, and Snow Ji.
• The pirate ship broke apart during its final passage into the Solar System, but the immortals continued toward the Ancestral Star.
• The immortals spotted a Shen Household Black Warship, several people at its breach, and an enormous black dog, which Ensheng identified as signs that more Ascension Ones had arrived.

The Black Warship raced toward the Ancestral Star while fighting off the Ascension Ones’ battered pirate ship, then escaped their pursuit with Su Ziye’s help. As the crew approached Pluto, an unseen force began silently disintegrating the warship and everything in its path.

• Tong Yan accelerated the Black Warship toward the Solar System, but Immortal Maiden He ensnared it with an invisible net and the Ascension Ones attacked across the distance.
• Que Niang’s concealed mines nearly destroyed the pirate ship, while the Divine Striking Patriarch’s golden rings badly damaged the Black Warship and Yuan Qu and Yushan fought back.
• Su Ziye revealed Immortal Maiden He’s invisible threads and burned them, allowing the Black Warship to break free and continue toward the Ancestral Star.
• Shen Yunmai had Tong Yan steer farther from Pluto, but Corpse Dog and Peng Lang sensed danger in the empty space ahead.
• Su Ziye’s Black Banner and the Black Warship began silently shattering, forcing Tong Yan and the others to retreat as an unseen force destroyed the vessel.

After crossing the invisible sword intent that destroyed their ships, the two groups reached Mars and saw the Ancestral Star in the distance. They discovered that the Green Mountain Patriarch had arranged the Solar System’s planets into an immense sword formation, and the chapter ended with them stranded beneath its lethal boundary.

• Corpse Dog carried Shen Yunmai, Tong Yan, and the others through the hidden sword intent while Chen Ya led the immortals across it in stone-man form, and both groups’ ships were destroyed.
• Corpse Dog and Chen Ya emerged on Mars, where Shen Yunmai identified the planet and the group rested on its highest mountain.
• Que Niang spotted the Ancestral Star from Mars, and Su Ziye said she wanted to visit it, but Shen Yunmai warned that no one could leave.
• Que Niang’s thrown pebble shattered against the invisible sword intent, and Peng Lang explained that the sword formation enclosed the Solar System.
• Shen Yunmai showed that the eight planets formed a sword with the Sun as its hilt’s bright jewel, and Tong Yan and Peng Lang marveled at the Green Mountain Patriarch’s vast formation.

The group discovered that the Green Mountain Patriarch had turned the Solar System into a sealed sword formation, trapping them on Mars, and began studying how it worked so they could break free. After their attempts to understand the formation stalled, Peng Lang realized its formation eye was moving and prepared to investigate with Corpse Dog.

• Tong Yan explained that Night Howl had brought them through the formation’s life gate, while Corpse Dog warned that the formation had no exit.
• Shen Yunmai suggested the Patriarch had imprisoned himself to imprison the Solar System, and Tong Yan guessed he meant to create another Chaotian Continent and outlive Jing Jiu.
• Shen Yunmai, Tong Yan, Que Niang, and Su Ziye studied the Solar System Defense System and derived a conjecture about the sword formation, but they could not determine how it operated or locate its formation eye.
• Su Ziye used soul flames to identify missing points in their calculations, and Tong Yan realized the formation eye had to be moving rather than fixed on a planet.
• Tong Yan and Que Niang tried to observe the formation and were injured, after which Peng Lang rose to investigate and Corpse Dog stood beside him.