Chapter Summaries

Ye Yan, the Aeon of Eternity, ran a milk tea shop on the Xianzhou Luofu while looking for a more interesting way to spend his endless life. He handed the shop over to Qingque temporarily and planned to leave on a tour in a few days.

• A mask incarnation of Aha tried to trick Ye Yan into giving it milk tea, but Ye Yan gave it Immortal's Joy Tea instead.
• Ye Yan recalled his rise to Aeonhood, his Eternity abilities, and his decision to open a milk tea shop on the Luofu.
• Qingque visited Ye Yan's shop, ordered boba milk tea, and complained about her work at the Divination Commission.
• Qingque asked Ye Yan to write her performance summary, but he refused and listened as she complained about Fu Xuan assigning her more tasks.
• Ye Yan offered Qingque temporary responsibility for the shop while he went on a tour, and she agreed.
• After Qingque left, Ye Yan closed the shop and clocked out.

Ye Yan maintained his cover as an ordinary Luofu milk tea shop owner while using the alias Yite of [Eternity], and Silver Wolf invited him to join the Stellaron Hunters at Herta Space Station. Kafka learned of Silver Wolf’s connection to [Eternity] and questioned the dubious stories about its Aeon.

• Ye Yan recalled tying [The Hunt] to [Abundance] with a red thread, letting Lan track Yaoshi while making Yaoshi impossible to kill, and said Aha and Fuli had witnessed the ceremony.
• Ye Yan adopted the Aeon-like name Yite of [Eternity] and kept his identity hidden, posing as a milk tea shop owner on the Luofu.
• Silver Wolf messaged Ye Yan and invited him to Herta Space Station with the Stellaron Hunters, but he declined and went offline when she suggested gaming.
• Silver Wolf worried Ye Yan might have found another gaming partner, then received his warning to protect her 76 game accounts.
• Kafka read Silver Wolf’s chat with Ye Yan and reflected on the unreliable stories about [Eternity], doubting that its Aeon’s reputation matched the truth.

Ye Yan prepared to leave the Xianzhou Luofu, gave Bailu supplies and warned her to stay safe, then returned to his shop to think about Eternity. Aha appeared and declared that he wanted to become the Aeon of Erudition.

• Kafka asked Silver Wolf whether Ye Yan belonged to the Church of Eternity, and Silver Wolf denied it before reading his message and deciding to stop cheating in games.
• Ye Yan visited Bailu, gave her Immortal's Joy Tea and snacks, and warned her to stay safe while he was away.
• Ye Yan bought milk tea from Mengming and listened to her safety advice before returning to his shop.
• Ye Yan discussed the nature of Eternity with Aha, who accused him of hypocrisy over a trapped bug.
• Ye Yan and Aha joked about Aha becoming an Emanator of Eternity, then Aha claimed he was the new Aeon of Erudition seeking universal truths.

Ye Yan reminisced about his old pranks with Aha and Akivili, including the Swarm Disaster and Tayzzyronth’s defeat, then left his shop in Qingque’s care. The chapter ended with Qingque planning to learn Ye Yan’s vanishing trick while she played Imperial Jade.

• Ye Yan toasted the deceased Akivili with Aha, but Aha vanished along with the milk tea.
• Ye Yan recalled how he and Aha had once disguised themselves as Nameless and blown up Akivili’s train.
• Ye Yan remembered joining Aha and Akivili in a scheme around Qlipoth’s battle with Tayzzyronth, while Ye Yan distracted Qlipoth and the others collected Tayzzyronth’s fragments.
• Ye Yan showed off an amber crystal containing a figurine of Tayzzyronth and said he had obtained it from Qlipoth.
• Qingque arrived at Ye Yan’s shop, and Ye Yan handed her the key before vanishing.
• Qingque decided to look after the shop and ask Ye Yan to teach her his trick, then headed off to play Imperial Jade.

Ye Yan spoke with Jing Yuan about the threat of Destruction before meeting Tingyun at the Sky-Faring Commission ferry landing. Their conversation recalled how a childhood encounter with Ye Yan and his endless milk tea had helped set Tingyun on her path, and Ye Yan secretly gave her a reserve of energy.

• Ye Yan warned Jing Yuan to watch the Minghuo Merchant Guild's little fox for a possible pawn of Destruction.
• Ye Yan met Tingyun at the ferry landing, where she guessed he was preparing for a long journey and teased him about smelling of milk tea.
• Tingyun recalled sneaking into Ye Yan's shop as a child and finding milk tea that never ran out.
• Tingyun remembered Ye Yan meeting her parents and agreeing to teach her to fly a Starskiff after taking a sip that ended the endless milk tea.
• Ye Yan pinched Tingyun's cheek and secretly gave her energy, claiming Bailu had asked him to get revenge for her.

Ye Yan drifted along the star rail and collided with the Astral Express, then reunited with Himeko, Pom-Pom, March 7th, Welt Yang, and Dan Heng. Pom-Pom accepted his gifts in exchange for forgiving the collision, while Welt remained wary of Ye Yan.

• Ye Yan thought about Tingyun and his old friend Akivili while drifting along the star rail, then collided with the Astral Express.
• March 7th, Welt Yang, and Dan Heng reacted to the crash as Ye Yan appeared beside them and called March 7th a peeping tom.
• Himeko recognized Ye Yan from when he had helped repair the Express and teased him about being the worst Nameless.
• Ye Yan admitted to his past mischief, and Pom-Pom bit his trouser leg over the damage until he offered milk tea, muffins, and Pom Pom pies.
• March 7th realized Ye Yan was the person the Express had hit, while Welt stayed suspicious and Dan Heng took notes.

Ye Yan joined the Astral Express, repaired and reinforced it, and won over the crew with his cooking. After March 7th decided his recent arrival made him her junior, the Express warped to Herta Space Station, where Himeko and Welt discussed Ye Yan’s power and unusual manner.

• Dan Heng questioned Ye Yan about pretending to belong to the Church of Eternity, and Ye Yan gave March 7th an enormous cup of milk tea.
• Ye Yan repaired the Express’s damaged front and added protective shields between its carriages, then spent several days winning over the crew with his cooking.
• March 7th asked whether Ye Yan was a senior or junior, and he concluded that he was the Express’s newest member, making him her junior.
• Pom-Pom announced a warp to Herta Space Station, and March 7th fell over during the trip while Ye Yan remained standing.
• Himeko and Welt discussed Ye Yan, identifying him as an Emanator of Eternity and wondering whether his behavior resembled the Elation faction.

Ye Yan reunited with The Herta at the Herta Space Station, where she showed him a custom puppet she had made for him. After Ye Yan suggested a new direction for her research, The Herta asked him to obtain a sample of an Aeon’s blood, and he agreed to help.

• Ye Yan, March 7th, and Himeko arrived at the Herta Space Station, and Himeko asked Ye Yan about his relationship with The Herta.
• Ye Yan found a Herta Puppet in The Herta’s office, which brought him to his private office and reunited him with The Herta.
• The Herta showed Ye Yan a custom puppet with enhanced joints and changeable hairstyles, and Ye Yan asked her to send it to the Church of Eternity as a guard.
• Ye Yan urged The Herta to broaden her research beyond him and suggested using Nanook as a starting point for studying Aeons.
• The Herta asked Ye Yan to get her a sample of an Aeon’s blood, and Ye Yan agreed to help her.

Ye Yan sent Silver Wolf a Herta Puppet and learned she was working with Kafka, while Silver Wolf grew jealous of his interest in the dolls. On the Astral Express, the crew heard that Oswaldo Schneider had been attacked, and Ye Yan modified Dan Heng’s spear with a secret art and a surprise-launch button.

• Ye Yan sent Silver Wolf a Herta Puppet through a digital portal, and she told him Kafka was joining her operation.
• Silver Wolf suspected that Herta’s dolls had distracted Ye Yan from gaming with her and lost every game she played that night.
• The Astral Express crew heard a report that Oswaldo Schneider had been beaten and left in a wheelchair, with eight boxes of soap found at the scene.
• Welt and Dan Heng considered the attack and the mysterious soap while Ye Yan thought about making an entrance before the unborn Stellaron spirit.
• Ye Yan enhanced Cloud-Piercer with an Eternity secret art and added a button that launched its spearhead, but Dan Heng declined a proposed magnetic attachment.

Ye Yan and the Astral Express crew discussed an unusual ∞-shaped bar of soap and the Church of Eternity before Aha appeared to confess to attacking Oswaldo Schneider. Aha explained that Schneider had planned to target the church’s base and insulted Eternity, while Ye Yan listened in disbelief.

• Pom-Pom served breakfast, and March 7th and Dan Heng discussed a report about soap and the Church of Eternity.
• Dan Heng showed everyone an 8-shaped bar of soap, and Ye Yan turned it to reveal the Church of Eternity’s ∞ symbol.
• Ye Yan returned to his office and was interrupted by Aha, who said Aha had visited the Interastral Peace Corporation disguised as Ye Yan.
• Aha revealed that Oswaldo Schneider had planned to target the church’s base and had insulted Eternity, Elation, and the church.
• Aha described beating Schneider with a wooden club, and Ye Yan reacted with disbelief at Aha’s antics.

Ye Yan retaliated against Aha for framing him by sending Lan’s upgraded cloud-piercing arrow across the universe, with Aha as its target. The arrow struck Aha, while its passage also affected Cocolia and summoned an elven follower of Eternity.

• Ye Yan asked Lan to send him a cloud-piercing arrow, caught it through a teleportation gate, and upgraded it to track targets across time and space.
• Ye Yan livestreamed for Guinaifen and Sushang, designated Aha as the Hunt’s target, and launched the arrow through the gate.
• The arrow’s passage over Jarilo-VI caused Imaginary Energy to enter Cocolia’s mind, and she fainted.
• The arrow grazed Little Fu as she recognized it as a call to assemble, and she eagerly set off toward its source.
• The arrow hit Aha in the backside, and he screamed across the universe.

Ye Yan returned to the Astral Express after delivering the Cloud-Piercing Arrow to Aha, then joined the crew as the Antimatter Legion invaded Herta Space Station. As Kafka and Silver Wolf began their mission amid a garbled script, Ye Yan discovered five Doomsday Beasts waiting near the blue planet and charged toward them.

• March 7th fell during a sudden boom, while Welt and Dan Heng checked on her and Ye Yan joked about getting her armor and medical equipment.
• Fuli sent Ye Yan an image of a Light Cone depicting a pitch-black arrow piercing a mask, and Ye Yan teased Fuli about using punctuation before Fuli went offline.
• After the Antimatter Legion invaded, March 7th and Dan Heng fought Voidrangers while Dan Heng tested his modified Cloud-Piercer, and Ye Yan tore open the void to leave them.
• Kafka and Silver Wolf discussed Elio's garbled script and their mission to put the target inside, learning that an Emanator-level presence was on the station and that Ye Yan was as strong as an Emanator.
• Ye Yan let the Voidrangers' attacks hit him, wiped them out with damage transfer, then spotted five Doomsday Beasts near the blue planet and charged at them.

Ye Yan met Kafka and Silver Wolf in Herta Space Station’s surveillance room as they retrieved the Stellaron and implanted it in Stelle. Stelle woke to find Kafka beside her, while Silver Wolf was gaming with a muscular trash can.

• Kafka and Silver Wolf encountered Ye Yan in the surveillance room, where Silver Wolf’s Rating Gun failed to give him a clear rating.
• Ye Yan joined Kafka and Silver Wolf as they entered the Stellaron’s protected chamber and prepared Stelle as its vessel.
• Kafka placed the Stellaron in Stelle and waited for her to wake while Ye Yan questioned Silver Wolf about sending five Doomsday Beasts to the station.
• Silver Wolf admitted she had brought extra Doomsday Beasts because the script was unclear, and Ye Yan agreed to play games with her.
• Stelle woke, recognized Kafka, and saw Silver Wolf playing a game with a muscular trash can.

Kafka used Spirit Whisper to guide Stelle before leaving her with Ye Yan’s baseball bat, and Stelle later woke up during the Antimatter Legion attack and joined March 7th. Ye Yan waited with the injured Arlan in a surveillance room until Dan Heng arrived.

• Kafka tried to shape Stelle’s memories with Spirit Whisper, but Stelle fixated on Ye Yan’s trash-can disguise.
• Kafka and Silver Wolf left the space station, and Ye Yan placed a specially made baseball bat in Stelle’s hand.
• Stelle woke as Dan Heng and March 7th found her, learned that the Antimatter Legion had attacked, and agreed to head back with March 7th.
• Stelle picked up the baseball bat and gained a strange memory about carrying it to spread Eternity, then declared that rules were made to be broken.
• Ye Yan healed the injured Arlan and waited with him in the surveillance room, where Arlan described the attack and his failed attempt to protect Asta’s staff.
• Dan Heng entered the surveillance room and found Ye Yan and Arlan sitting calmly together.

Ye Yan stayed behind to face the Doomsday Beast while Himeko led Stelle and the others toward a platform, where they fought the monster. When Stelle took its attack, she encountered Nanook in a vision, and a muscular trash can struck him and sent him flying.

• Dan Heng brought Ye Yan and Arlan back to the monitoring room, and the group returned safely to the Master Control Zone.
• The Doomsday Beast attacked the station’s barrier, and Ye Yan stayed behind while Himeko led Stelle, March 7th, and Dan Heng toward a platform.
• March 7th provoked the Doomsday Beast, and Stelle fought it alongside the others as they weakened it.
• Stelle shielded March 7th from the Doomsday Beast’s beam and found herself face-to-face with Nanook in a vision.
• A muscular trash can struck Nanook with its iron lid and sent him flying, then looked toward Stelle and caused her consciousness to scatter.

Ye Yan defeated the Doomsday Beast after sealing the Stellaron’s unstable energy inside Stelle, then returned to Herta with the beast’s remains. Herta learned about the attack and showed interest in studying Stelle, while Ye Yan revealed that Aha had attacked the Corporation’s higher-ups.

• Ye Yan knocked Stelle unconscious with a forehead flick that sealed the Imaginary Energy in her Stellaron, then took the Doomsday Beast away to fight it alone.
• Welt arrived as the Astral Express reached the platform, and the crew helped Asta assess the damage; no researchers had died.
• Asta suspected Ye Yan’s past matched a story about a youth who followed several Paths and vowed to kill an Aeon.
• Ye Yan returned to Herta’s tower with the Doomsday Beast’s remains and discussed the station attack and Ruan Mei’s failed experiment with her.
• Herta asked to study Stelle, and Ye Yan said the Stellaron Hunters had turned a Stellaron into a child.
• When Herta asked what he thought of the attack on the Corporation’s higher-ups, Ye Yan answered that Aha had done it.

Ye Yan returned to the space station after the battle with Nanook, while Herta invented a tragic backstory for him that Asta took seriously. The chapter ended with Ye Yan accepting Asta’s billion-Credit transfer and deciding to give the money to the unconscious Stelle.

• Ye Yan reunited with March 7th and Dan Heng, brushed off questions about being an Emanator, and noted that Stelle had not woken up.
• Asta asked Herta about Ye Yan’s past, and Herta fabricated a story about the Antimatter Legion destroying his home.
• Asta believed Herta’s story and grew more impressed with Ye Yan, while an invisible force cut Herta off from her puppets.
• Ye Yan accepted Asta’s one-billion-Credit transfer and decided Stelle should get the money.

After waking on the space station, Stelle learned that Ye Yan had finished off the Doomsday Beast and heard his strange claims about Aeons. Himeko offered Stelle a place on the Astral Express, and Stelle chose to join it rather than stay for Herta’s research.

• Stelle woke in the Master Control Zone, exchanged contact details with Ye Yan, and learned he had finished off the Doomsday Beast after her team weakened it.
• Ye Yan told Stelle that the Aeon of Permanence was a muscular trash can and encouraged her to insult Aha in exchange for milk tea.
• Ye Yan brought Stelle to Himeko and Herta, who discussed studying Stelle and her claim that a trash can had beaten Nanook.
• Himeko offered Stelle a place aboard the Astral Express while leaving open the option of returning for Herta’s research.
• Stelle chose to board the Astral Express.

Stelle became devoted to the Simulated Universe while Ye Yan and the Astral Express crew prepared to welcome her as one of the Nameless. After the ceremony, Pom-Pom tried to find Stelle and Ye Yan rooms of their own, but the Express had too few cabins.

• Stelle asked Herta why the Simulated Universe showed the Aeon of Eternity as a rainbow-colored infinity symbol instead of a trash can, and Herta warned her not to antagonize the simulated Aeons.
• Dan Heng updated the Data Bank's entry for the Aeon of Eternity, while Ye Yan explained that Aha had disrupted Herta's connection to her puppet and continued to complain about Lan's arrow.
• March 7th got stuck in a ventilation duct with Stelle and Peppy, and Ye Yan claimed he had only mentioned hearing a noise there.
• Pom-Pom asked Stelle whether she wanted to become one of the Nameless, and Stelle eagerly accepted; the crew then voted to remove the Trailblazers' creed from the joining ceremony.
• Pom-Pom welcomed Stelle to the Nameless and said she and Ye Yan needed their own rooms, but the Express lacked enough cabins, leaving Ye Yan suggesting he could move in with the engine.

Ye Yan and Stelle finished setting up their room on the Astral Express, then celebrated with a pillow fight before Ye Yan gave Stelle eight hundred million Credits. The next morning, the Express crew heard interastral news about Ye Yan’s trash-can disguise, Bishop Blake, and a missing elven girl, while Stelle remembered only the report of a trash can fighting Nanook.

• Ye Yan and Dan Heng finished preparing the storage room, and Stelle promptly messed up Ye Yan’s bed by starting a pillow fight.
• After the fight, Ye Yan gave Stelle eight hundred million Credits, and she jokingly called him her godfather and tried to make a wish to the Aeon of Permanence.
• March 7th took photos of Ye Yan and Peppy, while Pom-Pom objected to Ye Yan comparing the Conductor to a pet dog.
• The radio reported that Ye Yan’s trash-can disguise had been mistaken for an Aeon’s true form, then corrected the rumor after Bishop Blake apprehended a History Fictionologist.
• Dan Heng said Blake had appeared aboard the Mourning Actors’ ship and demonstrated his ability to hide his presence and move at high speed.
• The broadcast announced a missing elven girl and said Blake was hunting History Fictionologists; Stelle recalled only the opening report about a trash can fighting Nanook.