Recaps

Amo and Xiaohe watched the stars together after Xiaohe gave him a mysterious pebble, but Amo’s memories of her began to blur. Ayinai confronted Xiaohe about her unusual origins, then accepted her choice to stay with Amo.

• Xiaohe gave Amo a smooth blue pebble she had found in the woods and invited him to watch the stars.
• Ayinai watched them and suspected Xiaohe’s identity could draw dangerous attention if it became known.
• As Amo and Xiaohe watched the stars, Amo’s memories of Xiaohe wavered, so he embraced her; Xiaohe then knocked him unconscious.
• Ayinai appeared before Xiaohe and warned that exposing her identity would put both her and Amo in danger.
• Xiaohe explained that she had escaped Nihility and chosen Amo as her host and as the person she wanted to be with.
• Ayinai told Xiaohe that her choices had the right to exist and gave her permission to do as she wished.

Ayinai allowed Xiaohe to pursue Amo but warned that she would intervene if he failed to meet Xiaohe’s expectations. Meanwhile, the head of the Garden of Existence tried to reach the Heart of Nihility, only to find it missing and suffer Ayinai’s punishment; she left him alive to see what would become of the Garden.

• Ayinai warned Xiaohe that she would take back her true form if matters went too far, then cautioned that she would erase Amo if he disappointed Xiaohe.
• Xiaohe fell asleep beside the unconscious Amo, and at daybreak he woke and gently carried her as the Heart of Nihility hung around his neck.
• The head of the Garden of Existence put on a specially made protective suit and entered the Land of Trials, hoping to claim the Heart of Nihility.
• The head of the Garden reached the altar and found the Heart of Nihility missing, then cursed Ayinai and was struck down by golden lightning.
• Ayinai spared the unconscious head of the Garden and decided to watch whether he or the entire Garden of Existence had fallen, with Amo serving as a variable.

Qingzhu rushed the Xianzhou Daiyu to rescue the powerless Yuanqiao as it plunged toward a red giant, while Ayinai learned from Yaoshi that Voracity’s divine remains were hidden in the Ayinai System. The Yuanqiao’s people prayed to Yaoshi, who could not intervene, and Ayinai became their last hope.

• Qingzhu ordered the Daiyu to tow the Yuanqiao after learning that hidden elements had destroyed its engines and sent it falling toward a red giant.
• The people of the Yuanqiao despaired as a frightened girl asked whether Yaoshi had abandoned them.
• Ayinai asked Yaoshi where Voracity’s divine remains had been hidden, and Yaoshi revealed that one half was in the Ayinai System while Aha had taken the other half.
• Yaoshi explained that Aha had staged Harmony’s absorption of Order to distract the other Aeons while he stole the remains and recovered from Voracity’s wound.
• Ayinai told Yaoshi that the Yuanqiao’s people were praying for help, but Yaoshi said Abundance’s limitations prevented intervention.
• After Ayinai left, the people prayed to her to save them.

Qingzhu rescued Yuanqiao from the red giant and destroyed the star with her divine kingdom, saving its 130 billion inhabitants. Lin thanked her at the Sky-Faring Commission, where Qingzhu accepted his kneeling but forbade him from kowtowing.

• As Yuanqiao neared the red giant, Daiyu and its Starskiff battle groups arrived and attached tow lines to pull the Xianzhou away.
• Qingzhu used her power as an Emanator of Existence to create a divine kingdom around the red giant and destroy it with phantom soldiers.
• The people of Yuanqiao celebrated their survival, while Lin watched Qingzhu's power on a screen and considered converting to the faith of Existence.
• Lin knelt before Qingzhu at the Sky-Faring Commission to thank her for saving Yuanqiao, and she accepted his thanks but stopped him from kowtowing.

The Court Master envied Qingzhu’s status as an Emanator of Existence and vowed to prove himself worthy of Ayinai’s favor. As news of the Xianzhou Daiyu’s Emanator spread, the chapter left the Garden of Existence’s senior elder reflecting on its decline and the goddess’s apparent abandonment.

• The Court Master watched news of Qingzhu’s influence across three galaxies and swore to become Ayinai’s Emanator.
• Amo watched reports about the Xianzhou Daiyu while Xiaohe complained that he had neglected her, and he apologized by giving her lollipops.
• The Court Master summoned the Garden of Existence’s senior elder, who criticized him for turning the organization into a battleground for power.
• The senior elder recalled the Garden of Existence’s original purpose and Ayinai’s past visits, then feared the goddess had abandoned it as its factions fought and people died.

Dong Tian revealed his plan to unify the Garden of Existence through slaughter and used an energy extraction device on missing Pathstriders, claiming he would force the goddess to recognize him. After a transformed Dong Tian struck Elder Ge through a wall, Elder Ge ordered his troops to retreat from the Ayinai System.

• The head of the Garden suppressed Elder Ge’s aura, revealed his new strength, and said he intended to unify the Garden.
• Dong Tian declared that he would kill everyone who refused to obey him, prompting Elder Ge to denounce him.
• Dong Tian revealed captured Pathstriders in glass cylinders and explained that his device drained their power and transferred it to someone else.
• Elder Ge attacked Dong Tian, but a four-armed figure caught his punch and struck him through the conference room wall.
• Elder Ge ordered his soldiers to retreat from the Ayinai System, but Dong Tian emerged with two additional arms and faces growing from his chest.

Dong Tian transformed, seized control of the Garden of Existence, and destroyed the Goddess of Existence’s statue, drawing widespread condemnation and prompting an alliance to mobilize. As Qingzhu and the others prepared to confront him, Wanmeng warned that the crisis involved at least four Aeons, including the Arbiter of Life and Abundance.

• Elder Ge escaped the Garden of Existence with eight hundred guards while Dong Tian destroyed the goddess’s statue and declared his intention to restore the Garden to glory.
• News of Dong Tian’s actions spread across the universe, and an account reported that Xianzhou Daiyu was heading toward the Ayinai System with an Emanator of Existence aboard.
• On Xianzhou Daiyu, Wanmeng suffered a backlash from a vision and told Qingzhu, Xiahou Chan, and Qi Tianque that the events involved at least four Aeons, including the Arbiter of Life and Abundance.
• Ayinai appeared, learned Qingxin was inspecting a shipment, and summoned the others to the Marshy Grotto-Heaven, where they found an island she had made.

Ayinai gave Qingzhu a branch of the Ambrosial Arbor of Abundance to plant on the Xianzhou Daiyu. Meanwhile, Amo and Xiaohe ambushed the Garden Master's soldiers on Amo's planet, leaving Amo facing the last survivor.

• Ayinai gave Qingzhu a branch of the Ambrosial Arbor of Abundance, and Qingzhu planted it in the Higgs soil.
• Garden Master Dong Tian conquered planets around the Garden of Existence while escaped Elder Ge formed the Anti-Garden Alliance on the outskirts.
• Amo and Xiaohe hid in the ruins as three soldiers who had been artificially infused with the Power of Abundance reported clearing a town.
• Amo killed the fat soldier when he entered the ruins alone, then concealed himself with Xiaohe's shadow garment.
• The captain and the remaining soldier entered the ruins, where Amo killed the soldier and revealed himself to the captain.

Amo and Xiaohe returned to their settlement after killing a Courtyard warrior, while Qingxin visited them and bonded with them over Amo’s cooking. Meanwhile, Qingzhu ordered Xianzhou Daiyu to hurry toward the Ayinai System, but Abominations of Abundance surrounded the ship, forcing her to send Xiahou Chan, Wanmeng, and Qi Tianque ahead with an army.

• Amo killed the Courtyard captain, and a palm-shaped bug crawled out of the corpse after he and Xiaohe left.
• Amo and Xiaohe returned to their settlement, where the residents welcomed them and they went home together.
• Qingxin visited Xiaohe and Amo, brought eggs, and joined them for a meal; Xiaohe remained wary of her interest in Amo.
• Qingzhu learned Xianzhou Daiyu was sixty system hours from the Ayinai System and ordered the ship to accelerate.
• Abominations of Abundance surrounded Xianzhou Daiyu, so Qingzhu sent Xiahou Chan, Wanmeng, and Qi Tianque ahead with forty thousand Manifest Existence Army soldiers.

Elder Ge rallied the Alliance Army and led it into a decisive battle against the Garden, refusing to accept Abundance-modified power or surrender. The Guard Corps pushed the Garden’s forces back until the Garden unleashed thousands of elite modified warriors, and Elder Ge opened fire against them.

• Elder Ge rejected the Garden’s offer to surrender and restored the Alliance Army’s morale by declaring that they would fight for the goddess.
• Elder Ge led the Alliance Army in a vow before the statue of the goddess, then rallied them to battle for the goddess.
• The Guard Corps and Alliance Army charged the Garden’s troops, with Elder Ge cutting through enemies and driving the battle line toward the Garden’s rear.
• The Garden opened a passage and deployed roughly ten thousand elite Abundance-modified warriors, threatening the depleted Guard Corps.
• Elder Ge refused to retreat and fired an explosive round empowered by the Path of Existence into the oncoming modified warriors.

Qi Tianque, Xiahou Chan, and Wanmeng arrived to turn the tide of a losing battle against the augmented warriors. The allied army and guards defeated the monsters, though many soldiers died.

• The augmented warriors overwhelmed the allied army and surrounded the guards, leaving their commander convinced they would lose.
• Qi Tianque arrived aboard a Starskiff and used his music to restore the soldiers’ strength.
• Xiahou Chan attacked the Courtyard troops with an Emanator-level strike while Wanmeng led fifty thousand Manifest Existence Army soldiers to rescue the guards.
• Wanmeng healed the guards and struck their attackers with starlight as the Xianzhou Daiyu troops provided fire support.
• Elder Ge rallied the guards to fight alongside the Daiyu army, and they wiped out the augmented warriors.
• The surviving guards mourned their fallen comrades, and one young soldier closed the eyes of a dead former comrade.

Xiahou Chan and the Guard Corps survivors confronted their guilt over failing to protect the Garden, while the war effort gained a hundred thousand troops but lost Qingzhu’s support. The chapter ended with Xiahou Chan catching two curious intruders, Amo and Xiaohe, who apologized and met Wanmeng and Qi Tianque.

• Elder Ge called the Guard Corps survivors sinners for failing to stop Dong Tian and protect the goddess’s statue, and Xiahou Chan apologized for threatening him.
• Qingxin arrived with one hundred thousand reinforcements from the Xianzhou Daiyu and news that Denizens of Abundance had trapped Qingzhu with a miracle.
• Qi Tianque told Xiahou Chan that sacrifices were keeping the Xianzhou Daiyu trapped, leaving Qingzhu unable to provide support.
• Xiahou Chan caught a silver-haired boy and discovered that the boy’s cloak was Xiaohe, who could transform into one.
• Amo and Xiaohe apologized for sneaking into Xiahou Chan’s tent, and Wanmeng and Qi Tianque introduced themselves to the eager Amo.

Amo and Xiaohe told Xiahou Chan, Wanmeng, and Qi Tianque that they had come looking for Qingxin, whom they knew from their home planet. The generals realized Qingxin was Ayinai in disguise, then revealed her identity to the shocked children.

• Amo admitted he was excited to meet the generals, and Xiaohe explained that he was a fan of the Four Existences Atop Nihility.
• Amo and Xiaohe said they knew Qingxin from their home planet and had come to the Alliance camp hoping to help in the coming war against the Garden.
• Xiahou Chan, Wanmeng, and Qi Tianque privately concluded that Qingxin was Ayinai in disguise, the Aeon of Existence.
• Ayinai, watching the camp from a distant mountain, turned into golden-green light and vanished to report to her main body.
• Wanmeng told Amo and Xiaohe that their Qingxin was not the steward in the camp, and Qi Tianque revealed that she was Lady Arbiter of True Existence.
• Amo cried out in awe at learning he had called his goddess Sister Qingxin, while Xiaohe was stunned that she had failed to recognize the goddess who had saved her.

Xiaohe revealed to Xiahou Chan, Wanmeng, and Qi Tianque that she was the Heart of Nihility and that her true body was with Amo. The three learned that Amo had not set foot on a Path, leaving them startled but hopeful about his potential.

• Xiaohe told Xiahou Chan, Wanmeng, and Qi Tianque that she was not human but the Heart of Nihility, brought from IX by Lady Arbiter of Life.
• Qi Tianque deduced that Xiaohe's true body was with Amo, and Xiaohe asked the three to keep her identity secret from him.
• Xiaohe admitted that she had chosen Amo to inherit her power, and the three asked which Path he followed.
• Xiaohe revealed that Amo had not set foot on any Path, shocking the three and prompting them to worry that she had chosen an inexperienced boy.
• The three recalled that Lady Arbiter of Life had allowed Amo and Xiaohe to meet, and took that as a sign that Amo had room to grow.

Xiaohe and Amo settled into secret protection aboard the Xianzhou Daiyu while Dong Tian plotted to complete his miracle. Ayinai revealed that Qingzhu was only pretending to be trapped in the Ambrosial Arbor barrier, as the ruse would help protect a potential new Emanator.

• Xiahou Chan praised Amo's battlefield composure, then asked Xiaohe to get him and the others an autograph or photo of Lady Arbiter of Life.
• Xiahou Chan, Wanmeng, and Qi Tianque formed a secret squad to protect Xiaohe and Amo.
• Dong Tian watched Xiahou Chan turn the battle around and vowed that his unfinished miracle would make even gods bow to him.
• Qingzhu complained about pretending to be trapped, and Ayinai explained that she wanted to keep Qingzhu from entering the Ayinai System and risking a future Emanator.
• Ayinai told Qingzhu that she was considering Xiaohe's companion for the Emanator position.
• A centaur among the Denizens of Abundance mocked Qingzhu's apparent captivity and boasted that his lord could easily kill her.

The first child born since the Xianzhou Daiyu’s reconstruction arrived safely, bringing celebration across the ship and proving that its inhabitants could have children. Meanwhile, Xiahou Chan reported that the Garden had reclaimed sixty percent of the Ayinai System, with a campaign to recover the remaining planets still ahead.

• Houyhnhnms mocked the Xianzhou natives, expecting them to panic, while Daiyu’s officials anxiously waited for Yu Xian’er to give birth.
• Ayinai arrived at the Alchemy Commission and calmed the gathered officials; Yao Gao later reported that Yu Xian’er and her daughter were safe.
• Ayinai blessed the newborn with her power of existence, then Qingzhu carried the baby to her parents.
• Qingzhu declared a day off, and Daiyu celebrated the birth with decorations, free gifts, and shop discounts.
• Xiahou Chan told the legion leaders that the Garden had regained control of sixty percent of the Ayinai System and identified the important planets still to be retaken.

After receiving news that the Xianzhou’s newborn was safe, Xiahou Chan celebrated with the Alliance Army. Once the festivities ended, he ordered a surprise attack on a Garden granary stronghold, hoping the apparent revelry had lowered the enemy’s guard.

• A communications soldier told Xiahou Chan that the Xianzhou’s mother and newborn daughter were safe, and the generals celebrated the news.
• Xiahou Chan declared a day of celebration, giving most personnel leave and allowing the patrols to have drinks with their meals.
• Amo and Xiaohe returned from an assassination mission and joined the celebration, where Amo drank until he fell asleep.
• After the other generals left, Xiahou Chan asked Elder Ge about the army’s preparations for a surprise attack.
• Elder Ge confirmed the Alliance Army was ready, and Xiahou Chan ordered the troops to check their equipment before attacking the Garden’s granary stronghold in two hours.

Xiahou Chan’s forces prepared surprise attacks on the Garden’s agricultural and steel planets while Qi Tianque sensed a powerful, evil presence near the Garden. On the agricultural planet, Amo killed the Garden’s commander and helped the Alliance Army secure victory.

• Xiahou Chan ordered his forces to attack the agricultural planet and coordinated with Wanmeng’s forces to seize the steel planet.
• Amo reported that he had cleared the main walkway, and Xiahou Chan ordered every army to take its assigned planet.
• Qi Tianque warned Wanmeng that a presence near the Garden was more powerful than Xiahou Chan, and stopped her from attempting a risky divination.
• Amo killed the Garden commander and the officers in the command room while the Alliance Army attacked.
• The Alliance Army captured the agricultural planet and found Amo and Xiaohe calmly drinking fruit wine beside the command table.

After Amo and Xiaohe cleared an enemy headquarters, they learned that the Guard Corps had withdrawn from the Bountiful Nation rather than sacrifice civilians used as human shields. Amo condemned the commander’s call for civilian deaths and rushed to help, while Ayinai and a god of preservation considered whether he might be worthy of power.

• Amo and Xiaohe confirmed they had wiped out the enemy headquarters, and the commander ordered his troops to clear the battlefield.
• A communications soldier reported that Elder Ge’s Guard Corps had suffered heavy casualties in the Bountiful Nation after enemy forces used civilians as human shields.
• The commander argued that civilians could be sacrificed for victory, so Amo slapped him and threatened to kill him if he spoke of the greater good again.
• Amo left to assist the Guard Corps, and Xiaohe warned the shaken commander to watch his words.
• Ayinai showed Amo to a middle-aged man associated with preservation, who said he would not grant power without knowing whether Amo’s convictions were genuine.
• Aha spied on Ayinai and the man, then Ayinai froze him, slapped off his mask, and hurled him away.

Amo persuaded Elder Ge to lend him fifty Guard Corps personal guards so he could break the deadlock at Bountiful Nation, staking his life on the mission. That night, he led the guards through the city's barrier and divided them to attack key locations, then approached the city lord's residence with ten men.

• Elder Ge asked Amo how to overcome Bountiful Nation's use of civilians as shields, and Amo requested fifty Guard Corps personal guards.
• Amo made a military pledge to bring Elder Ge his head if he failed, and Elder Ge sent him with the fifty guards.
• At night, Amo had Xiaohe attach herself to him and cut through Bountiful Nation's barrier with a saber formed from the power of Nihility.
• Amo split the guards among the city lord's residence, communications station, barracks, granary, and the soldiers' gathering place.
• After the ten guards with him killed the defenders outside the city lord's residence, Amo led them toward its gates.

Amo slaughtered the city lord and nobles in Bountiful Nation's manor, then welcomed the Alliance Army into the city. Elder Ge praised Amo's conduct and decided he was the best candidate for the new chief judge, while Ayinai and a man discussed his killing and his Path.

• Amo killed the city lord and ordered the guards to execute the nobles and seize their property to fund the army.
• Ayinai watched the massacre, while a man argued that killing to protect could be considered Preservation.
• After Bountiful Nation's barrier was lifted, Amo reported to Elder Ge that all fifty guards had returned without casualties.
• Elder Ge questioned Amo's followers, admired Amo's decisive and rational conduct, and judged him the best candidate for the new chief judge.
• The next morning, Elder Ge looked at Amo with such affection that Xiaohe stepped in front of him and glared at Elder Ge.

Wanmeng’s forces captured the steel planet with relatively few casualties, and she ordered them to await reinforcements before attacking the Garden. Meanwhile, Qingzhu’s army revealed its feigned weakness, wiped out the Houyhnhnms, and prepared to bury its dead as the next battle approached.

• Wanmeng noted the Garden’s silence and ordered her troops to stay on the steel planet until reinforcements arrived from the agricultural planet.
• Qingzhu killed a Houyhnhnm commander with her spear, then ordered the Manifest Existence Army to leave no enemies alive.
• Muyun revealed that he had faked his death to lure the Houyhnhnms in, then shot a bow-wielding enemy with his gun.
• The Manifest Existence Army killed all the Houyhnhnms, losing a hundred soldiers in the fighting.
• Qingzhu ordered the fallen soldiers buried and their families registered for compensation.

Qingzhu ordered the Xianzhou to take the Ambrosial Arbor while Dong Tian revealed his new power and summoned the Garden’s forces for a final battle. As the Alliance Army prepared to attack, Elder Ge and the Guard Corps declared Amo the new head of the Garden of Existence.

• Qingzhu ordered the Xianzhou to seize the Ambrosial Arbor and keep it from the enemy.
• Dong Tian emerged from seclusion with a mutated right arm whose power he said Abundance could temporarily suppress, then killed a messenger by draining his life force.
• Dong Tian ordered the Garden’s forces to gather at the guardian planet and prepare to fight the Alliance Army.
• Xiahou Chan ordered the Alliance Army to prepare for the final battle and assigned Amo, supported by Wanmeng, Tianque, and Elder Ge, to confront Dong Tian.
• Xiahou Chan said he would remain with the main force to face a possible Emanator-level enemy.
• Elder Ge and three hundred Guard Corps members proclaimed Amo the new head of the Garden of Existence and pledged to serve him.

Amo agreed to become the new head of the Garden of Existence after Elder Ge explained that the organization needed new leadership and rules. Elder Ge then remembered how Dong Tian’s genius and convictions had once made him seem like a promising candidate to lead the Garden.

• Amo questioned why Elder Ge had chosen him, and Elder Ge said the Garden needed new leadership and had to abandon its old, power-driven ways.
• Elder Ge explained that his nearly five hundred years of service were nearing their end and that he wanted to find a successor before his soul returned to the Corridor of Existence.
• Amo accepted Elder Ge’s support and agreed to become the new Garden head, while Xiaohe and the Guard Corps welcomed his decision.
• Elder Ge recalled meeting Dong Tian at a Garden research conference, where Dong Tian unveiled the planet-piercing Antenna and declared his ambition to become Garden head.
• Dong Tian argued that a weapon’s moral purpose depended on its wielder, convincing Elder Ge that he had once been a suitable candidate to lead the Garden.

Elder Ge explained Dong Tian’s extraordinary scientific and martial abilities, while Xiahou Chan and the others assessed the threat he posed. In space, Ayinai learned that Dong Tian had refused the mechanical sphere’s invitation because of her.

• Amo asked Elder Ge what kind of person Dong Tian was, and Elder Ge described him as a conceited genius who created the Garden’s Antenna and its advanced soldiers and equipment.
• Elder Ge explained that the Antenna could draw on the Garden’s energy reserves and that Dong Tian had developed a martial technique capable of destroying tissue from the point of impact.
• Elder Ge showed the injury Dong Tian had inflicted on him and said Dong Tian’s extra arms had overwhelmed him.
• Xiahou Chan and Wanmeng concluded that Dong Tian might possess Emanator-level strength without an Aeon’s blessing.
• Ayinai asked the mechanical sphere why Dong Tian had refused its invitation, and it replied that he had refused because of her.