Chapter Summaries

Bai Heng arranged for Kunyu to help the Cloud Knights repel Starhowl’s Antimatter Legion while Jingliu supported his injured body. The chapter ended with Kunyu’s departure shattering Fu Xuan’s Great Calculation Array, prompting Bai Heng to urge Jingliu to flee before they were made to pay for the damage.

• Bai Heng teased Jingliu about calling someone his little sister or little sister-in-law, and Jingliu helped him stand despite his injuries.
• Fu Xuan reported that Starhowl’s vanguard had attacked the Luofu and that Cloud Knights were locked in a deadlocked battle with the Antimatter Legion.
• Jingliu asked where the battle was so she could join it, but Fu Xuan objected.
• Bai Heng summoned Kunyu and ordered him to assist the Cloud Knights against the Antimatter Legion.
• Kunyu launched toward the battlefield and shattered the Great Calculation Array, and Bai Heng urged Jingliu to flee with him before Fu Xuan made them pay for the damage.

After tending to his injuries at the Alchemy Commission, Bai Heng learned that an alchemist had mistaken him for another man with the same name and warned Jingliu about his supposed excessive lust. Jingliu recalled a different Bai Heng who had challenged the Lord of the Divine Bow centuries earlier, leaving Bai Heng to hear how she had once nearly mistaken that man for him.

• Bai Heng told Fu Xuan to charge the Great Calculation Array's repair bill to Jing Yuan, and Fu Xuan assured him its damage would not affect her divinations.
• Bai Heng rested at the Alchemy Commission while Jingliu fell asleep, and he monitored reports showing the Cloud Knights were winning and could end the war within five days.
• An alchemist asked Jingliu to speak outside the ward, then told her that Bai Heng's supposed excessive lust had harmed his health and made him an unsuitable husband.
• Bai Heng discovered the medical record belonged to another person named Bai Heng and teased Jingliu about whether she still wanted him.
• Jingliu recalled a Bai Heng who had challenged the Lord of the Divine Bow six hundred years earlier and said she had once nearly mistaken him for the man beside her.

Bai Heng told Jingliu a story that closely mirrored his own past and explained how its hero used the Lord of the Divine Bow to end a doomed struggle. Jingliu understood the story’s implications but chose not to confront them directly, and the chapter left her silently grieving after seven hundred years apart.

• Bai Heng threw away his medical report and told Jingliu the story of a young man who invoked the Lord of the Divine Bow to save the woman he loved.
• Bai Heng explained that the young man chose death over another life and used the Aeon's power to end the struggle.
• Jingliu suggested that the Lord of the Divine Bow might have granted the young man the power of The Hunt, while Bai Heng answered, “Perhaps.”
• Jingliu asked whether the story had an ending, and Bai Heng said its author had left it open to countless possibilities, including a reunion through reincarnation.
• Jingliu stood in silence, unable to draw her sword or leave, and cried for the first time in seven hundred years.

After Jingliu confronted Bai Heng at the Alchemy Commission and left, Bai Heng went to the Divination Commission to ask Dabao and Erbao to deliver the strands of hair he had cut off to Fu Xuan. He left the rabbits to help repair his quarrel with their mother.

• Jingliu demolished part of the Alchemy Commission with a sword strike, told Bai Heng she wanted to see her, and left without further words.
• Bai Heng cut off several strands of his hair, told the Cloud Knights to charge the damage to Jing Yuan, and went to the Divination Commission.
• Bai Heng met Dabao and Erbao in the garden, and the rabbits first feared his unusual gentleness before recognizing his familiar manner.
• Bai Heng gave Dabao a handkerchief containing his cut hair and asked her to take it to Fu Xuan, hoping the rabbits could help mend their relationship.

Bai Heng reflected on losing the person who had waited for her for seven hundred years, while Di Kui’s attempts to comfort her only deepened its embarrassment. Jing Yuan and Bai Heng began melting the Six-Phased Ice, and the girl inside showed signs of waking.

• After the front stabilized, Di Kui tried to comfort Bai Heng about her heartbreak but realized she was mocking its advice.
• Bai Heng told Di Kui that its sword strike seven hundred years earlier had caused her to hurt and lose the person she loved.
• Jing Yuan prepared the Sparkle Dream Body and azure spirit fire to melt the Six-Phased Ice.
• Bai Heng approved the preparations, and the azure flames began melting the ice without harming the person inside.
• As the ice broke away, Bai Heng saw the frozen girl's eyelashes tremble.

Bai Heng and Jing Yuan freed the original Bai Heng from the Six-Phased Ice, only for her to reveal that she wanted to take the Seed of Shuhuo deeper into the Prison of Confinement. The chapter ended with her eyes glowing red as she asked whether they would let her take it.

• Bai Heng emerged from the melting ice, confused about the seven centuries that had passed and relieved to learn that Jingliu, Dan Feng, and Yingxing were still alive.
• Bai Heng explained that she had resisted Shuhuo's influence while frozen, and Bai Heng used Aether Editing to remove her frozen condition.
• Jing Yuan and Bai Heng mentioned Luofu foods, lifting Bai Heng's spirits and prompting her to walk ahead.
• Jing Yuan noticed that Bai Heng was heading deeper into the Prison of Confinement rather than toward the exit.
• Bai Heng looked back with a faint red glow in her eyes and asked Jing Yuan and Bai Heng to let her take the Seed of Shuhuo.

Jing Yuan confronted Bai Heng after she awakened, but an Abundance power transformed her into the Emanator known as the Thousand-Tailed Vixen. Her memories revealed how Shuhuo’s influence and seven hundred years of isolation led her to accept the Medicine King’s promise of relief from suffering.

• Jing Yuan questioned Bai Heng and attacked her with Sparkle Dream Body, but a blue-violet phantom swallowed his strike.
• Bai Heng transformed into the Thousand-Tailed Vixen, an Emanator of Abundance, and asked Jing Yuan to let her take It away.
• Bai Heng’s memories recalled her lonely childhood, her life as a starskiff pilot, and the friends and comrades lost to death.
• Shuhuo’s flesh and blood tormented Bai Heng with the suffering of its victims for over seven hundred years.
• A mysterious figure promised to remove illness and suffering, and Bai Heng eventually accepted its hand and followed it toward paradise.

Bai Heng helped Shuhu break free of his prison while Jing Yuan activated the Dark Domain to contain them, setting the stage for their long-awaited confrontation. Shuhu began tearing at the barrier as the Black Sun and falling stars appeared overhead.

• Bai Heng questioned whether she would side with Shuhu or the Xianzhou, then fired a spiritual arrow at Jing Yuan before withdrawing into the shadows.
• Jing Yuan activated the Dark Domain around the Prison of Confinement, following the plan he had made with Bai Heng.
• Bai Heng touched Shuhu’s sealed flesh, and Shuhu’s golden branches emerged as he restored his body.
• Bai Heng refused Shuhu’s attempt to merge with her, and he climbed out of the prison in his revived tree form.
• Shuhu began attacking the Dark Domain, and Bai Heng and Shuhu saw the Black Sun and falling stars gather above the dome.

Bai Heng and Jing Yuan fought Shuhu as Bai Heng concealed her plan to exploit the brief loss of Shuhu’s immortality during a fusion of Paths. After the Black Sun and the Divine General’s blade descended, Bai Heng revealed that she had deceived everyone to create a chance to kill Shuhu permanently.

• Jing Yuan and Bai Heng attacked Shuhu while blood rain eroded Them, and Bai Heng fought Bai Heng without using her full strength.
• Bai Heng let Bai Heng’s arrow pierce his shoulder as his black-flame sword wounded Shuhu, draining Their life force.
• Shuhu called to Bai Heng, and they began fusing their power along the Path of Abundance; Bai Heng told Jing Yuan that her apparent self had only been a projection.
• Bai Heng resisted the fusion, causing Shuhu’s concept to separate from the Path of Abundance and briefly lose immortality.
• Bai Heng summoned the Black Sun as Jing Yuan’s Divine General brought down its blade, then revealed that she had deceived everyone to make Shuhu vulnerable to death.

Bai Heng rescued the collapsing Bai Heng from the Black Sun’s attack and revealed his plan to save her by transferring Shuhu’s Path concepts and consciousness onto himself. He crushed the jade pendant and invoked the Lord of Abundance, beginning the ritual as the blood rain fell.

• Bai Heng threw the collapsing Bai Heng out of harm’s way and called for Jing Yuan to attack the Black Sun.
• Bai Heng summoned Kunyu, which used its quantum barrier to shield him from the combined attack but was left badly damaged.
• Bai Heng returned to Bai Heng’s side and saw that the disorder of the Path concepts in her body could not be reversed.
• Bai Heng showed Bai Heng the jade-green pendant and explained that he would take Shuhu’s Path concepts and consciousness into himself.
• Bai Heng crushed the pendant, drank in the blood rain and Bountiful Rain, and prayed to the Lord of Abundance as its faithful believer.

Bai Heng endured the clash between Abundance and Destruction while absorbing Shuhu’s consciousness and Imaginary energy from Bai Heng through an emerald blood droplet. After using a Baiyuan Flower to withstand the mental burden, he collapsed and apologized to Master Jingliu, as SP Scumbag-Abundance Dual Emanator Form rushed to the battlefield.

• Bai Heng drifted through a fleshly Naraka as an unseen preacher taught of death and the Eternal Life Divine Tree, while strange hands fed him a drop of blood.
• Bai Heng’s body struggled to balance the burning locust blood of Propagation against the forces of Abundance and Destruction.
• Bai Heng made an emerald blood droplet from his wound and told Bai Heng to swallow it.
• Bai Heng absorbed Shuhu’s consciousness and Abundance Imaginary energy from Bai Heng through the droplet.
• Bai Heng bloomed a Baiyuan Flower to bear Shuhu’s mental burden, then collapsed and apologized to Master Jingliu.
• SP Scumbag-Abundance Dual Emanator Form rushed to the battlefield.

Bai Heng woke in the Prison of Confinement and learned that the Xianzhou Alliance was deciding whether he had truly suppressed Shuhu. The chapter left him facing a possible execution if Jing Yuan was wrong—or a fleetwide wedding to Jingliu if he was right.

• Bai Heng woke in the Prison of Confinement, found himself shackled, and realized the restraints could not hold him.
• A young Ten-Lords Commission judge brought Bai Heng food, and he removed his manacles before calmly eating.
• Bai Heng asked about events outside, and the judge explained that Jing Yuan had publicly claimed he sealed Shuhu within himself and became a new Emanator of Abundance.
• The judge said the Xianzhou Alliance had detained Bai Heng while its ships debated his fate, with the marshal set to execute him if Shuhu had taken over.
• The judge explained that if Jing Yuan's judgment proved correct, the Xianzhou planned a grand wedding between Bai Heng and Jingliu.

Bai Heng cooperated with Hanya’s dream divination, which confirmed his identity but could not reveal the karma hidden in his memories. He remained shackled in the Prison of Confinement by choice, reflecting on how his relationships with Jingliu and Ruan Mei had made his situation difficult.

• Bai Heng startled the trainee judge by dismantling his black lock, then wrapping himself back in it.
• Hanya arrived on behalf of the Ten-Lords Commission and introduced herself as a Ten-Lords Envoy.
• Hanya performed dream divination on Bai Heng, confirmed that he was not Shuhu, and decided to report his verified identity.
• Hanya offered to remove Bai Heng’s shackles, but he declined because they made him feel safer.
• Bai Heng stayed in the Prison of Confinement and thought about Jingliu, Ruan Mei, and the complications of having both of them fall in love with him.

Bai Heng worried that Jingliu could not marry him until she faced Ruan Mei and the truth, so he resolved not to wait passively as their relationships risked breaking. After leaving the Prison of Confinement, he learned the wedding was set for a month later and saw the Sword Champion Manor Jing Yuan had kept for him and Jingliu; he ended by telling Jing Yuan to call him Master Uncle.

• Bai Heng considered how Jingliu, Ruan Mei, and the approaching wedding could be affected by the truth, then decided he would not simply wait for the situation to resolve itself.
• Several System Hours later, Jing Yuan accompanied the current Ten-Lords Commission judge to the Prison of Confinement, and Bai Heng learned that the wedding was planned for one month later.
• Jing Yuan told Bai Heng that wedding invitations had not yet been sent, though rumors of Jingliu rekindling her romance with him had already spread across the Luofu.
• Jing Yuan brought Bai Heng to the estate in Chang Le Tian that had once belonged to the former Sword Champion and had been maintained for seven hundred years.
• Jing Yuan joked that he might buy a nearby property and visit Bai Heng, and Bai Heng told him to call him Master Uncle.

Bai Heng visited Dan Yue Manor with Jing Yuan and learned that Jingliu had prepared the residence and rabbit hutch in anticipation of their wedding. After a call from Diamond, Bai Heng learned the Interastral Peace Corporation wanted to recruit him as a future leader of the Strategic Investment Department, leaving his career and allegiance in question.

• Bai Heng toured Dan Yue Manor with Jing Yuan and recognized that Jingliu had arranged for a comfortable hutch for the rabbits.
• Bai Heng told Jing Yuan that he would resolve his disagreement with Jingliu before the wedding so she would not have regrets.
• Bai Heng took a call from Diamond, who proposed business cooperation between the Strategic Investment Department and the Interastral Astronomical Society.
• Bai Heng learned that Diamond wanted to recruit him as his successor and a Ten Stoneheart, offering him a rapid rise in rank and a possible future seat on the company board.

Bai Heng discussed his new role with Diamond and reviewed the progress of the IPC branch on Jarilo-VI, then agreed to visit Sister Bai Heng to reach Jingliu. Jing Yuan warned him that Silver Wolf had hacked into the Luofu and come looking for him.

• Bai Heng considered Diamond’s offer of a seat on the IPC board and signed no contract yet.
• Shilna reported that the Jarilo-VI branch was being established, temporary-worker recruitment had met its target, and senior staff recruitment remained short; Bai Heng directed HR to recruit from nearby planets and improve compensation.
• Shilna asked whether her group could attend Bai Heng’s wedding, and Bai Heng welcomed them but said the date was undecided.
• Jing Yuan urged Bai Heng to visit Sister Bai Heng, and Bai Heng decided to use her to reconnect with Jingliu.
• Jing Yuan revealed that Silver Wolf had hacked the Luofu system, opened the Jade Gate, and entered without a permit, apparently seeking Bai Heng.

Bai Heng found Bai Heng and Jingliu staying in a house near the Star Sea Skiffs Central Hub, where Jingliu had been learning to cook. He arrived with wine and faced Jingliu again, leaving their reunion poised over lunch.

• Bai Heng traveled from Chang Le Tian to the Star Sea Skiffs Central Hub after learning Bai Heng and Jingliu were staying there, but he could not reach Ruan Mei.
• Bai Heng accompanied Jingliu as she practiced cooking, then went to answer a knock at the courtyard gate.
• Bai Heng welcomed Bai Heng inside after seeing the two jars of immortal brew he had brought.
• Bai Heng explained that Yukong had offered her the house and had once considered making her the Sky-Faring Commission's helmsman, but she had refused.
• Bai Heng met Jingliu outside the kitchen and asked her to set out another pair of chopsticks; Jingliu told everyone to eat.

Bai Heng endured Jingliu’s unpleasant cooking at lunch, then prepared an elaborate dinner for her and Bai Heng. The chapter ended with him taking Jingliu’s hand and telling her he had made the meal especially for her.

• Bai Heng left the tense lunch table, and Jingliu’s cooking proved so strange that Bai Heng forced himself to eat it while Jingliu watched his reactions.
• Bai Heng returned with washed pears, and Bai Heng ate most of the meal before offering to wash the dishes; Jingliu went outside to practice her sword.
• Bai Heng bought ingredients and spent the afternoon preparing shredded lemon chicken, pork belly chicken soup, sweet-and-sour pork ribs, and salt-and-pepper shrimp.
• Bai Heng smelled dinner and hurried inside, while Jingliu remained beneath the tree, staring coldly at Bai Heng.
• Bai Heng approached Jingliu, took her hand despite her grip tightening around her sword, and told her he had made dinner especially for her.

Bai Heng and Jingliu shared a large meal before drinking together on the roof, where he admitted he had hidden his past-life romantic debts from her. Jingliu called him a liar as he held her, leaving their relationship strained but emotionally closer.

• Jingliu followed Bai Heng inside, and the two ate all the food he cooked.
• After Bai Heng carried the drunken Bai Heng back to her room, Jingliu went to the roof to drink alone.
• Bai Heng joined Jingliu on the roof and apologized for not keeping his promises and concealing his other romantic debts.
• Bai Heng explained that he had remembered his past lives and believed abandoning the people who had waited for him would be unfair.
• Jingliu asked whether he was only attracted to her beauty, and Bai Heng embraced her and apologized for leaving her with nothing but a liar.
• Jingliu called Bai Heng a liar and stayed in his arms, holding back her tears.

Bai Heng arranged with Herta to reclaim the Seaborn in his own name and learned that Ruan Mei was at the Space Station. After ending the call, he spotted a familiar young girl at a snack street.

• Bai Heng carried the drunk Jingliu back to bed, tucked her in, and left to find food.
• Bai Heng called Herta and agreed to support her research in exchange for help finding Ruan Mei.
• Herta told Bai Heng that Ruan Mei was at the Space Station, and he said he would arrive in two days.
• Bai Heng ended the call and noticed a familiar young girl watching him from a corner of the snack street.