Recaps

Li Yang traded a high-grade Star-Attracting Pill for lower-stage pills, then used her lifespan to improve pills and master the Basic Star-Wielding Cultivation Technique. The system upgrade revealed that she had opened a Star Aperture, and raising her physique greatly increased her strength and lifespan.

• Li Yang traded Fang Chuyun a Second Grade Star-Attracting Pill for three First Grade Low Stage pills and decided to improve them for profit.
• Li Yang spent one year of lifespan on each of three low-stage pills, raising them to Second Grade.
• Li Yang consumed ten years of lifespan to reach 100% in the Basic Star-Wielding Cultivation Technique, triggering a system upgrade.
• Li Yang saw that she had one Star Aperture at 95% and sensed a bright point of starlight at her heart.
• Li Yang spent one year raising her physique, which jumped to 120 as her Star Apertures increased to two and her maximum lifespan rose to one hundred years.

Li Yang raised her physique and spirit by cultivating, but reached the limit of her two Star Apertures and learned she needed a breakthrough opportunity to advance. After Yu Hongyuan tried to tutor her, she crushed the school mock exam, leaving him stunned.

• Li Yang used a Star-Attracting Pill and lifespan to raise her physique, then reached 200 and learned that opening a third Star Aperture required a fight or a Realm-Breaking Pill.
• Zhong Kun meditated to draw a star into his body, hoping to open his second Star Aperture and surpass Li Yang before school enrollment.
• Li Yang raised her spirit to 200, discovered she could sense Starlight, and saw that only eight years of lifespan remained.
• Yu Hongyuan came to take Li Yang to academic tutoring, hoping to tutor her before Fang Chuyun.
• Three days later, Li Yang placed first in Huangcheng No. 1 High School's mock exam, and Fang Chuyun explained that her spirit had grown enough to make studying easy.

Li Yang and her classmates chose Zhongdu Military Academy and prepared to leave Donghua Province for Central Capital. As their escorted convoy crossed the provincial border, Li Yang observed the dense Starlight in the wilderness, and the students began their journey beyond the safety of home.

• Li Yang, Fang Chuyun, and Yu Hongyuan all chose Zhongdu Military Academy, while Jiang Yuqing was the only top-twenty student to choose Star-Slaying Military Academy.
• During the summer, Li Yang grew close to Teacher Xu, who often fed her, and Li Yang gave her a new oven with her scholarship money.
• Fang Chuyun explained that the Descending Star Cult wanted the Astral Realm opened, while Li Yang and Yu Hongyuan reacted to the danger this posed to ordinary people.
• Principal Sun warned the departing students about the dangers of crossing provincial borders, and Huangcheng arranged an escorted convoy led by a third-grade Star Wielder.
• Teacher Xu gave Li Yang cookies before the convoy departed for Central Capital with twenty-three students and a ten-person city guard squad.
• After the convoy crossed Donghua Province's wall, Li Yang saw the murky wilderness and its dense Starlight as the students stared outside.

Li Yang received training in the Fist Burst Star Skill from Leader Lin Yuesuo during the convoy’s wilderness journey and used her system to master it by spending two years of lifespan. Meanwhile, the Descending Star Cult prepared an ambush, with Shadow Man assigned to capture Li Yang and Yu Hongyuan.

• As the convoy camped for the night, Lin Yuesuo ordered Li Yang, Fang Chuyun, and Yu Hongyuan to stay inside a tent and warned Li Yang that the Descending Star Cult might attack.
• Lin Yuesuo used Mental Resonance to teach Li Yang the Fist Burst Star Skill, and Li Yang’s system added it to her abilities.
• Li Yang spent two years of lifespan to raise her Fist Burst proficiency from 1% to 100%.
• Ten kilometers away, a Descending Star Cult leader organized more than twenty people to attack the camp and assigned squads to distract Lin Yuesuo and the city guards.
• The leader ordered Shadow Man to target Li Yang first and Yu Hongyuan second, and offered a reward for capturing Li Yang alive.

Li Yang, Fang Chuyun, and Yu Hongyuan waited in their tent as the City Guard prepared for a possible Descending Star Cult ambush. The cultists attacked after midnight, and Lin Yuesuo fought them off while a hidden attacker remained poised to seize the students.

• Li Yang warned Yu Hongyuan that the route could expose them to an attack, so he stayed in the tent with her and Fang Chuyun.
• The Huangcheng branch leader planned to use Shadow Man’s stealth skill to abduct Li Yang and Yu Hongyuan while the other cultists distracted Lin Yuesuo.
• A sudden explosion at two thirty in the morning woke the students as the Descending Star Cult attacked the camp.
• Lin Yuesuo charged into the battle and killed a Grade One High Stage cultist, bolstering the City Guard’s morale.
• Li Yang watched the fight and recognized the danger, while Fang Chuyun tried to reassure her and Yu Hongyuan retched in fear.

Li Yang sensed an intruder in the tent and killed a Descending Star Cult attacker who tried to ambush her, revealing that she was already a Star Wielder. After learning Hidden Shadow by spending three years of lifespan, she faced the aftermath with Lin Yuesuo as the cultists retreated.

• Li Yang remained wary despite Fang Chuyun and Yu Hongyuan reassuring her that nobody could have entered the tent.
• A shadowy Descending Star Cult member approached the students, discovered Li Yang had a Star Skill, and decided to attack her.
• Li Yang dodged his blade and repeatedly used Fist Burst, breaking his defensive Star Skill and killing him.
• Lin Yuesuo sensed the intruder, ordered guards to protect Li Yang, and the cultists outside retreated.
• Li Yang spent three years of lifespan to learn Hidden Shadow, and Lin Yuesuo ordered the attacker’s body removed before telling the students to stay in the bloodstained tent.

After Li Yang defeated the cultist who attacked the students, Lin Yuesuo rewarded her with an Aperture Stabilizing Pill and explained the incident to Fang Chuyun and Yu Hongyuan. Li Yang discovered she had opened her third Star Aperture and began drawing in Starlight, while the group remained at the wilderness camp.

• Lin Yuesuo confirmed that Li Yang had mastered Fist Burst, praised her for protecting her classmates, and gave her an Aperture Stabilizing Pill.
• Lin Yuesuo examined the dead attacker and identified him as a First Grade Low Stage Star Wielder with a rare concealment Star Skill; city guards reported that Huangcheng had sent forces to pursue the fleeing cultists.
• Fang Chuyun and Yu Hongyuan thanked Li Yang, and Fang Chuyun explained that rare Star Skills could cost hundreds of merit points and often came from the Astral Realm.
• After learning that the Aperture Stabilizing Pill cost about ten merit points, Li Yang checked her system panel and saw that she had three Star Apertures, with the third at one percent.
• Li Yang meditated and found that drawing Starlight into her body was easier in the wilderness, then wondered whether a Star-Attracting Pill would improve the process.

Li Yang arrived in Central Capital with Fang Chuyun and Yu Hongyuan and reached Zhongdu Military Academy, where she began settling in as a new student. She learned that campus housing and daily expenses required Merit Points, and considered earning them through beginner missions rather than taking out a loan.

• Li Yang and the other students traveled safely to Central Capital, where Li Yang saw the city’s many Star Wielders and arrived at Zhongdu Military Academy.
• Lin Yuesuo told Li Yang that her niece Lin Zhaoqin wanted to challenge her, while Li Yang said she planned to get along peacefully with Lin.
• A senior separated Yu Hongyuan from Li Yang and Fang Chuyun, then gave the girls enrollment kits, room cards, and information about dorm fees and student loans.
• Li Yang learned that a dorm room cost one Merit Point per week and that Merit Points could be bought with money or borrowed through a student loan.
• The senior suggested that Li Yang earn Merit Points by taking simple new-student missions before the opening ceremony and department selection.
• Li Yang unpacked in her hotel-like dorm room and complained that the accommodation was too expensive.

Li Yang explored the military academy’s departments, dorms, and merit-point system, then went to the task office to find a way to earn money. She began browsing easy tasks for freshmen, but another student claimed the first one she tried to accept.

• Li Yang read the enrollment information, learned about the academy’s departments and assessments, and decided to pursue Agriculture while exploring the other options.
• Li Yang discovered that better dorms offered denser Starlight but cost far more, and she resolved to look for paid tasks.
• Li Yang told Fang Chuyun she was heading to the task office, then walked five kilometers across the enormous campus.
• Li Yang registered at the task office and saw that welcoming freshmen could earn merit points.
• Li Yang tried to accept a 0.5-merit-point document delivery task, but another student claimed it before her.

Li Yang accepted a one-day mutated-wheat harvesting task from the Department of Agronomy, delighted despite warnings that it was a trap. Meanwhile, He Song confronted Dean Si about the academy’s plans for her department and was thrown out before learning whether it would be shut down.

• Jiang Shengchu invited Li Yang to join a team task collecting Star Condensation Liquid, but she refused to leave campus.
• Li Yang accepted Si Kui’s mutated-wheat harvesting task, ignoring Jiang Shengchu’s warning that it was a trap.
• He Song visited Si Kui and relayed Director Niu’s suggestion that she give up the Department of Agronomy for another position.
• Si Kui angrily rejected the proposal and hurled He Song out of the courtyard.
• Director Niu told He Song to leave the matter there, and He Song asked whether Central Capital planned to shut down the Department of Agronomy.

Si Kui gave up on training her three unmotivated students, while Feng Yiqiao welcomed Li Yang to the agronomy department’s wheat-harvesting task. Li Yang eagerly harvested a stalk of mutated wheat and gained one year of lifespan, leaving her ready to continue.

• Si Kui returned to her courtyard, saw her three students slacking off, and resolved to abandon teaching and return to the Astral Realm if she could not assimilate the Ninth-Grade Lianxin.
• Feng Yiqiao and Xia Putao discussed luring a student into harvesting wheat for one merit point while Lü Shunshun slept.
• Li Yang accepted the task and reached the agronomy department, where Feng Yiqiao mistakenly assumed she wanted to start the next morning.
• Li Yang insisted on beginning immediately, took a sickle that the system identified as a low-quality Star Weapon, and entered the wheat field.
• Li Yang struck a mutated wheat stalk until its head came off, and the system awarded her one year of lifespan.

Li Yang harvested mutated wheat for three hours, gaining lifespan until she reached her hundred-year limit, then joined Feng Yiqiao and the agronomy students for dinner. She discovered that mutated wheat buns helped replenish Starlight and eagerly ate more, while Feng Yiqiao felt guilty for mistaking her for a rich young lady.

• Li Yang harvested mutated wheat while Feng Yiqiao, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao watched and speculated about her background.
• After three hours of harvesting, Li Yang reached her lifespan limit and agreed to stop when Feng Yiqiao urged her to rest.
• Feng Yiqiao invited Li Yang to dinner and led her to the agronomy department's free living quarters.
• Feng Yiqiao introduced Li Yang to Lü Shunshun and Xia Putao, then served mutated wheat buns and pickles.
• Li Yang enjoyed the buns, discovered they replenished Starlight in her Star Apertures, and asked Feng Yiqiao for more.

Li Yang worked for steamed buns, then spent much of her newly restored lifespan improving her stats and Star Skill: Hidden Shadow. She forced Hidden Shadow to stage two without a matching Star Core, leaving herself with far less lifespan than before.

• Li Yang ate seven Starlight-rich steamed buns while helping Feng Yiqiao, Xia Putao, and Lü Shunshun, then agreed to return the next morning.
• Li Yang returned to the dormitory, saw that her lifespan had reached 100 years, and spent ten years raising her physique to 300 and filling her Star Apertures to their limit.
• Li Yang spent thirty years raising her mental stat to 300, then used twenty years to bring Hidden Shadow to stage one, 100% proficiency.
• Li Yang tested Hidden Shadow and found that it consumed a great deal of Starlight but could conceal her from stronger opponents.
• Li Yang learned from the school app that Star Cores contained Star Skills and that matching cores were normally needed to advance a skill's stage.
• Li Yang spent twenty-two years forcing Hidden Shadow to stage two without a matching Star Core, leaving her lifespan greatly reduced.

Li Yang appraised her second-tier Hidden Shadow Star Skill and discovered it could conceal her Star Apertures with little Starlight, letting her develop in secret. She bought a First Grade Realm-Breaking Pill at the trading center and left to attempt a breakthrough.

• Li Yang spent one year of lifespan to appraise Hidden Shadow and learned that its second-tier effect concealed her Star Apertures and evaded probes from seas of consciousness with spirit stats up to ten times her own.
• Li Yang found that maintaining the harmless state required little Starlight and decided she could use it to develop her strength without attracting attention.
• Li Yang went to the trading center to search for a First Grade Realm-Breaking Pill.
• Li Yang exchanged 300,000 Huaxia Currency for 30 Merit Points and bought a First Grade Realm-Breaking Pill.
• Li Yang browsed prices for pills and Star Skills, then collected her pill and prepared to return to attempt a breakthrough.

Li Yang used her Realm-Breaking Pill to open a fourth Star Aperture, reaching Grade One High Stage at the cost of nearly all her remaining lifespan. The next morning, the agronomy students waited for her to return to the wheat field, while Fang Chuyun woke her for her meeting with Dean Si.

• Li Yang overheard Zhong Kun discussing her strength and realized he had opened two Star Apertures.
• Li Yang purified the Realm-Breaking Pill to 96% by spending fifteen years of lifespan, then swallowed it and opened her fourth Star Aperture.
• Li Yang’s lifespan limit rose to 500 years, but her remaining lifespan fell to one year as she reached Grade One High Stage.
• Li Yang concealed her fourth Star Aperture with second-tier Hidden Shadow and went to bed.
• Feng Yiqiao, Xia Putao, and Lü Shunshun waited for Li Yang at the wheat field and discussed whether she would return to harvest.
• Fang Chuyun knocked on Li Yang’s door at 7:30, waking her before her scheduled meeting with Dean Si.

Li Yang rejected the popular departments and chose Agronomy, then joined Feng Yiqiao, Xia Putao, and Lü Shunshun at the wheat field. Harvesting strengthened her body and added 150 years to her lifespan, while the department welcomed her with breakfast and lunch.

• Fang Chuyun told Li Yang she had opened her first Star Aperture, and Yu Hongyuan explained that top students could choose departments and mentors with priority.
• Li Yang told Yu Hongyuan and Fang Chuyun she would join the Agronomy Department, leaving them bewildered.
• Feng Yiqiao, Xia Putao, and Lü Shunshun waited for Li Yang, who arrived at the field just before 8 a.m.
• Li Yang ate five steamed buns and harvested wheat, gaining strength and 150 years of lifespan over the morning.
• Feng Yiqiao served Li Yang a large lunch of mutated steamed buns to restore her Star Aperture's power.

Li Yang ate enough mutated steamed buns to fill three Star Apertures, then returned to harvesting wheat while the Agronomy Department trio considered recruiting her. Feng Yiqiao learned that the department might be shut down next year, and Si Kui rejected the idea of taking Li Yang as a student because she had a Limit Physique and ties to the Zhong Family.

• Li Yang ate 21 mutated steamed buns, filled three Star Apertures, and went back to harvesting wheat.
• Xia Putao and Lü Shunshun urged Feng Yiqiao to ask Si Kui whether the Agronomy Department could recruit Li Yang.
• Si Kui visited the cave abode where the Ninth-Grade Lianxin rested and reflected on her long-standing effort to assimilate it and avenge fallen comrades.
• Feng Yiqiao asked Si Kui about recruiting students, and she revealed that the Agronomy Department could be shut down next year unless it produced a student in the top hundred rankings.
• Feng Yiqiao proposed inviting Li Yang, but Si Kui identified her Limit Physique and connection to the Zhong Family and said the Star Combat Department had likely reserved her.

Li Yang decided to join the agronomy department because she loved crops, despite Feng Yiqiao warning that other departments might recruit her. Yu Zhiying then ordered Yu Hongyuan to follow Li Yang into agronomy, believing that staying close to her would bring him opportunities.

• Li Yang asked Feng Yiqiao to send her more wheat-harvesting tasks and learned that she could choose any department as her province’s top scorer.
• Li Yang announced she wanted to join agronomy because she liked crops, and Feng Yiqiao revealed he was a fellow student rather than a teacher.
• Li Yang promised to report to agronomy after the opening ceremony and arranged to harvest its wheat herself the following day.
• Feng Yiqiao warned Li Yang that other departments might try to recruit her, but she insisted she would only choose agronomy.
• Yu Hongyuan told Yu Zhiying that Li Yang had chosen agronomy, and Yu Zhiying ordered him to apply to the same department and stay close to her.

Li Yang confirmed her choice to join the Agronomy Department and spent lifespan improving her stats, pills, and a knife. She ended the chapter with plans to pursue profitable skills and possibly minor in several departments.

• Li Yang reassured Fang Chuyun that she had chosen Agronomy because she liked plants and wanted to live freely, while Fang Chuyun decided to join the Star Magic Department.
• Li Yang used lifespan to raise her physique and spirit to 400 points, but found that improving Hidden Shadow barely worked at her current realm.
• Li Yang raised her Star-Attracting Pills and Aperture Stabilizing Pill to Grade One High Stage, leaving herself with 127 years of lifespan.
• Li Yang sold two Star-Attracting Pills for 45 merit points after the trading office deducted its fee.
• Li Yang bought a First Grade Low Stage knife and spent seven years of lifespan raising its quality to the middle stage.

Li Yang attended the opening ceremony at Central Capital First Military Academy, where she listened to student gossip and learned about the standout freshmen before hearing the deans introduce their departments. The speeches ended with the Beast Taming Department dean, whose inhuman appearance and motto stunned the freshmen.

• Yu Hongyuan sent Li Yang detailed instructions about the opening ceremony, including the speeches and the freshman banquet.
• Li Yang went to Sun Square and heard freshmen discuss standout students, including Lin Zhaoxia, Shen Shangchi, Zhong Qian, and Ning Shaoyu.
• The vice principal welcomed the freshmen, and Li Yang sensed that she had majored in the Spirit Department.
• The department deans introduced their specialties, and Li Yang was impressed by the Star Combat, Pill, and Weapon Forging deans.
• The Beast Taming Department dean appeared with a woman's head, eagle-taloned limbs, and a fox's tail, then declared that its students must put beasts first.

At Zhongdu Military Academy’s opening banquet, teaching assistants from all seven departments competed to recruit Li Yang, offering her generous benefits. Li Yang declared that she had chosen the neglected Agronomy Department, leaving everyone doubtful about her decision and the department’s precarious state.

• Teaching assistants from all seven departments surrounded Li Yang and offered her places, with the Star Support, Pill, and Weapon Forging Departments promising especially valuable benefits.
• Li Yang refused to hear more offers and announced that she was joining the Agronomy Department.
• The students and teaching assistants were confused, and Yu Hongyuan defended Agronomy as one of the academy’s eight major departments.
• The group learned that Agronomy had only three students, no easily found teaching staff, and apparently just one dean teaching, making Li Yang worry it might be shut down.
• The students assumed Li Yang’s choice was a joke, while the Star Magic teaching assistant resumed pitching his department and hinted at its rare Star Skills.

Li Yang turned down every department’s offer and reaffirmed her choice of the Agronomy Department, then focused on the Starlight-rich banquet. Zhong Ruirui later told Zhong Kun and Zhong Qian about Li Yang’s decision, leaving both men stunned.

• The Star Magic, Star Combat, Spirit, and Star Support assistants tried to recruit Li Yang, but she insisted she would join the Agronomy Department.
• After the crowd dispersed, Li Yang filled a huge plate and enjoyed the Starlight-rich food with Yu Hongyuan.
• Ning Shaoyu chose the Star Magic Department, while Zhong Ruirui sulked after failing to recruit either of her assigned students.
• Zhong Kun asked Zhong Ruirui about Li Yang, and Zhong Qian joined them to hear the answer.
• Zhong Ruirui revealed that Li Yang had chosen the Agronomy Department, astonishing Zhong Kun and Zhong Qian.

After Li Yang chose the Agronomy Department despite generous offers from other departments, its three long-term students were moved by her commitment and resolved to secure comparable benefits for her. Feng Yiqiao headed to their teacher’s secluded courtyard, where dense Starlight and lively plants greeted him.

• Zhong Kun approached Li Yang intending to recruit her for the Star Combat Department, but learned she had opened three Star Apertures and killed a cultist, then gave up on persuading her.
• Students discussed Li Yang’s announced choice of the Agronomy Department on the school forum.
• Feng Yiqiao, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao watched the banquet livestream and were moved when Li Yang rejected other departments’ offers to join Agronomy.
• Feng Yiqiao decided to ask their Eighth Grade teacher to provide Li Yang with benefits matching the other departments’ offers.
• Feng Yiqiao reached the teacher’s courtyard and saw dense Starlight surrounding lively plants.

Feng Yiqiao persuaded Si Kui to accept Li Yang into the Agronomy Department, though Si Kui suspected someone had arranged Li Yang’s choice for ulterior reasons. Li Yang officially enrolled and arrived at the department, where upperclassmen gathered to watch and wonder about its mysterious history.

• Feng Yiqiao showed Si Kui a video of Li Yang rejecting offers from seven major departments and choosing Agronomy, and Si Kui agreed to take her in and prepare the east-wing room.
• Si Kui privately suspected Li Yang had been deliberately sent to the Agronomy Department and decided to keep her close while investigating her motives.
• Li Yang submitted her department application, received confirmation of admission, packed her belongings, and chose to leave the fourth-class dormitory.
• Zhong Kun tried to dissuade Li Yang from joining Agronomy by warning her about the resources needed to advance, but accepted her decision after she explained her outlook.
• Li Yang arrived at the Agronomy Department, where upperclassmen discussed its crops and wondered why information about its past was restricted.

Li Yang met Agronomy Department dean Si Kui, who tested her with a Blood-Devouring Lotus, refined her Star Apertures, and offered to take her as a disciple. Afterward, Li Yang discovered that her maximum lifespan and lifespan had both increased by 400 years, but she could not work out why.

• Lü Shunshun and Xia Putao scared away the senior students by pretending visitors to the mutant wheat plantation would be charged Merit Points.
• Feng Yiqiao told Li Yang that Si Kui was a peak eighth-grade Half-Step Supreme, and Si Kui brought Li Yang to the courtyard alone.
• A Blood-Devouring Lotus threatened Li Yang while Si Kui questioned her motives, then Si Kui subdued the plant and examined Li Yang's Star Apertures.
• Si Kui refined Li Yang's four Star Apertures and recognized her as a natural-type Heavenly Fortune Bearer before asking whether she still wanted to become her disciple.
• Li Yang saw system notifications granting her 400 years of maximum lifespan and 400 years of lifespan, but she could not explain the increase.