Chapter Summaries

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.

Peng Lang and Corpse Dog entered the Solar System Sword Formation while Tong Yan and the others continued calculating on Mars. Chen Ya suddenly attacked the mountaintop, scattering the group, and Immortal Maiden He confronted Que Niang after defeating Yushan and Yuan Qu.

• Tong Yan explained that Peng Lang and Corpse Dog were probing the formation, while the others continued their calculations on Mars.
• Yuan Qu and Yushan returned from an outing just as Chen Ya descended from the sky and struck the mountaintop with overwhelming force.
• Chen Ya’s attack blasted the group across the Martian surface, and Que Niang and Yushan encountered Immortal Maiden He with several other figures.
• Yushan challenged Immortal Maiden He but was hurled into a cliff, and Yuan Qu fought next, warning Que Niang about the immortal’s Dream Butterfly treasure before he was defeated.
• Que Niang scattered her damaged bronze mirrors and revealed that her formation was the self-created Way of Black-and-White Dividing the Board, not a Mirror Sect formation.

Immortal Maiden He and the other Immortals subdued Que Niang’s companions while Chen Ya’s group secured the mountaintop, but Tong Yan fought the Immortals pursuing him in the canyon. Tong Yan then emerged with two defeated Immortals, challenging Chen Ya’s claim of victory.

• Immortal Maiden He defeated Que Niang but spared her after learning that Jing Jiu was her teacher, then recovered the unconscious Yushan and Yuan Qu.
• Sword Immortal Ensheng found the battered robot in a crater, while Su Ziye fled Cloud Master and was captured after returning to the cliff.
• Tong Yan faced Divine Striking Patriarch and two other Immortals alone in a canyon as Chen Ya’s group subdued the remaining attackers.
• The robot revealed that it was Shen Yunmai, prompting Immortal Maiden He and the other Immortals to recognize their former student.
• Tong Yan stepped through a rift onto the cliff carrying an ancient bell and bringing two half-conscious Immortals with him.

Tong Yan forced the immortals to negotiate after capturing two of them, while Shen Yunmai explained why they backed Jing Jiu. Peng Lang arrived and escaped the immortals’ formations, but Chen Ya bound his sword with the Azure Light Rope and struck him flying across Mars.

• Tong Yan revealed that he had grievously wounded two immortals and threatened to kill them until Immortal Maiden He stopped him and proposed a discussion.
• Tong Yan released the captives and brought Su Ziye, Yuan Qu, and Yushan to the cliff as Immortal Maiden He questioned Shen Yunmai about his alliance with Jing Jiu.
• Tong Yan and Shen Yunmai explained that they opposed the Founding Patriarch because his plan required Jing Jiu’s death, and Shen Yunmai said their conflict would be settled by who survived.
• Peng Lang returned from the Founding Patriarch’s Sword Formation and slipped through the immortals’ formations using the Sword Escape Technique.
• Chen Ya used the Azure Light Rope to bind Peng Lang’s sword and hand, then struck him with the Stone Pestle and sent him hurtling across Mars.

After Chen Ya’s ambush left Peng Lang badly injured and his sword bound, Peng Lang returned and defeated Immortal Maiden He and the Divine Striking Patriarch, stopping the formation against Corpse Dog. Sword Immortal Ensheng then blocked Peng Lang’s path as the battle continued.

• Chen Ya declared victory after striking Peng Lang down, while Tong Yan refused to surrender and checked on Shen Yunmai.
• Eight immortals scattered across Mars to form the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Grand Formation against Corpse Dog.
• Shen Yunmai revealed that he could detonate himself to bring down Mount Olympus and signal Corpse Dog, but Tong Yan doubted it would help.
• Peng Lang appeared and broke through Immortal Maiden He’s attack, sending her crashing into a cliff.
• Peng Lang used his sword’s music to overcome the Divine Striking Patriarch’s thunder, then shattered the patriarch’s drum and wounded him.
• As Cloud Master prepared to withdraw, Sword Immortal Ensheng stepped in front of Peng Lang, who greeted him with his sword still held across his neck.

Peng Lang defeated Sword Immortal Ensheng by turning Ensheng’s sword intent against the Azure Light Rope, then returned to face the remaining Immortals. Daoist Wuwen attacked Chen Ya over Mr. Dan’s death, and Tong Yan silently recognized his own connection to what had happened.

• Sword Immortal Ensheng fought Peng Lang without a sword, and Peng Lang used Ensheng’s One Sword for All Things to sever the Azure Light Rope at the cost of a deep wound to his neck.
• Peng Lang defeated Ensheng, who praised him for creating a No-Grace Gate Sword Dao and sent him back to face the others.
• Though badly injured, Peng Lang refused to stop and challenged Chen Ya, but Daoist Wuwen stepped in and attacked Chen Ya instead.
• Daoist Wuwen revealed that he had acted for Dan, and the Immortals learned that Mr. Dan had died after the Black-Clad Yaoxian were involved.
• Tong Yan closed his eyes, recalled his past with Mr. Dan, and silently acknowledged his connection to the death before looking coldly at Chen Ya.