Recaps

Li Yang negotiated with Daowu to free the Nature Department's Star Wielders in exchange for giving him the Authority of Time and producing a Divine Venerable Realm Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul within ten astral years. Daowu agreed, and they began sealing their terms with the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

• Li Yang threatened to destroy the Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul and the Authority of Time unless Daowu released the Nature Department's cultivators, and Daowu accepted.
• Li Yang used Sister Longevity to learn that the Laws of Heaven and Earth could bind Daowu if they were sufficiently pure.
• Li Yang demanded that all Nature Department Star Wielders be allowed to leave safely and offered Daowu the Authority of Time; Daowu agreed to both terms.
• Daowu required Li Yang to provide a Divine Venerable Realm Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul within ten astral years, or the contract would take the lives of everyone she rescued.
• Li Yang accepted the deadline and, using the Flower of Evil's Divine Venerable Authority, began signing the contract as Daowu set its terms upon the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

Li Yang sealed a heaven and earth contract with Daowu, who promised to return the Nature Department's Star Wielders and took her to the Lost Space Society. There, Daowu revealed Li Yang's true identity and ordered the Society to gather its Star Wielders, exposing the Seven Sages' possession of them.

• Li Yang added a condition requiring Daowu to personally help her reclaim every Nature Department Star Wielder, then sealed the contract with her spiritual imprint.
• Daowu brought Li Yang to the Star Repository Pavilion in the Deep Space Realm Domain and told her that what she saw might not be real.
• At the Lost Space Society, Daowu assembled the God King of Space and the Seven Sages, who learned that the Bone Peach Mother Tree was actually Huaxia Heavenly Palace's “Light of Dawn.”
• Xuanyuan erupted in fury over Li Yang's deception, but Daowu stopped him by revealing that Li Yang had signed a heaven and earth contract with him.
• Daowu ordered the Seven Sages to summon all the Nature Department's Star Wielders, including the Spacetime Puppets, and more than ten figures appeared behind each Sage.

Li Yang reclaimed the awakened Nature Department Star Wielders from Daowu, handed over the Authority of Time, and escaped the Deep Space Realm Domain. Rather than return to Huaxia Heavenly Palace, she persuaded the Flower of Evil to take her to the Evil Domain to collect Sacred Heart Flowers and dissolve their contract.

• Daowu removed the false fates imposed on the Seven Sages’ personal disciples, awakening them and revealing their hatred for what had been done to them.
• Li Yang gathered the Nature Department Star Wielders into the Spirit-Dwelling Box, accepted them from Daowu, and gave him the Authority of Time before teleporting away.
• The seven Sages demanded action, and Daowu ordered them to prepare for war while warning that Li Yang might conceal Huaxia Heavenly Palace’s coordinates.
• Li Yang avoided returning to Huaxia Heavenly Palace, suspecting Daowu had planted anchors on the Star Wielders, and asked the Flower of Evil to take her to the Evil Domain.
• The Flower of Evil admitted he had gathered over fifty million malice, so Li Yang was owed seventeen Ninth Grade Sacred Heart Flowers; she offered to return two after their Symbiotic Contract was dissolved.
• The Flower of Evil agreed to travel to the Evil Domain with Li Yang, unaware that she intended to end their contract before bringing the Star Wielders home.

Li Yang returned to the Evil Domain after killing the God King of Time and rescuing the Nature Department’s Master Realm cultivators, then summoned Li Yaowan and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion to prepare for what came next. She used Time Rewind to show them her experiences, and they watched as the replay reached the Personal Disciple Tournament.

• Li Yang traveled through the Single-Horn Domain to the Evil Domain, where she stayed in symbiosis with the Flower of Evil and postponed picking the Ninth Grade Sacred Heart Flowers.
• Li Yang contacted Li Yaowan and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion, who hurried to the Evil Domain after worrying about her safety and the Shock Points she had earned.
• Li Yaowan gave Li Yang a restorative pill, and Li Yang reassured the two elders by offering to show them what had happened through Time Rewind.
• Li Yang replayed her experiences in the Upper Three Realms, and Li Yaowan and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion watched the Personal Disciple Tournament and Huoji and Shi Yun’s battle.

Li Yang recounted killing the Divine Venerable of Time and rescuing Cheng Rui and the other Nature Department Masters, shocking Li Yaowan and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion. She then negotiated with the Flower of Evil to shelter the rescued Masters in the Evil Domain and secure a path to the Lotus Domain.

• Li Yaowan and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion watched Li Yang's Time Rewind and realized she had killed the Divine Venerable of Time and saved Cheng Rui and the Nature Department Masters.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion welcomed the chance to reunite Cheng Rui with Shen Binghua and promised the Scripture Repository would provide the materials for their treatment.
• Li Yang revealed that she had brought the Nature Department Masters to the Evil Domain, prompting the Flower of Evil to accuse her of taking advantage of him.
• Li Yang proposed staying in the Evil Domain for ten years, moving the Nature Department there, and helping cultivate Sacred Heart Flowers in exchange for his protection.
• Li Yang asked the Flower of Evil to take her to the Lotus Domain so she could find a way for Lianxin to stop eating people, then offered him one hundred million malice.

Li Yang negotiated a new contract with the Flower of Evil, securing his help and access to the Evil Domain while planning how to survive surrendering her Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul to Daowu. She and her allies resolved to use the next ten years to strengthen themselves and prepare to reclaim her soul.

• The Flower of Evil agreed to take Li Yang back to the Lotus Domain and let her use the Evil Domain, provided she protected it, and they signed a new contract.
• Li Yaowan and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion warned that the Heaven and Earth Contract with Daowu would claim the rescued Nature Department members' lifespans if Li Yang failed to reach the Divine Venerable Realm in ten years.
• Li Yang suggested that losing an Origin Soul might not guarantee death, and the others recalled that the Nature Department's Master Realm cultivators had survived destroying theirs.
• Li Yang privately relied on Sister Longevity as her real safeguard and planned to recover her Myriad Phenomena Divine Soul after Daowu was killed.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion and Li Yaowan urged the group to use the ten years to prepare, with Li Yaowan ready to heal the freed cultivators and the Marquis arranging Realm Domains for their advancement.

Li Yang and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion planned to rally the Huaxia Heavenly Palace and the Astral Realm with news of her return from the Upper Three Realms. As Li Yang released the rescued Nature Department Star Wielders, she learned that her teacher Si Kui had reached Ninth-Grade Supreme, while Bai Muxue and the others began receiving care.

• Li Yang and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion agreed to publicize what Li Yang had learned in the Upper Three Realms and convene a Star Nexus meeting to unite the Huaxia Heavenly Palace.
• Li Yang learned that Admiral Si Kui had reached Ninth-Grade Supreme, and she saw through Li Yaowan's Spirit Connection the golden sun phenomenon that blessed the Huaxia Heavenly Palace.
• Li Yang urged the Marquis of Wind Pavilion to deploy the Evil Domain's army, then opened the Spirit-Dwelling Box to release the Nature Department's Star Wielders.
• Bai Muxue emerged badly changed by embedded black markings, and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion used her Innate Sacred Object to purify her while Li Yaowan promised to treat her.
• Lan Zhang and Si Yue emerged with damaged Origin Souls, and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion apologized to them for the Huaxia Heavenly Palace's failure to protect them.
• Si Yue told the Marquis of Wind Pavilion that the Nature Department had never fought alone and revealed a star-like fragment on her brow.

Li Yang freed 231 Nature Department Masters and brought them to the Evil Domain, where Li Yaowan and researchers began treating them. As the Masters recovered, Li Yang cared for Lianxin and learned that the Lotus Domain was a living being with an independent consciousness; the Flower of Evil agreed to take her there if she helped him gather malice.

• Li Yang released 231 Masters, including the Nature Department members who carried Origin Soul fragments from Huaxia Heavenly Palace’s Ninth-Grade Supremes.
• Li Yaowan brought two research institutes and Alchemical Dao Department researchers to the Evil Domain, where Li Yang’s rescue of the Masters earned her Shock Points.
• Li Yaowan and the researchers treated the rescued Masters, and Xing Yao and others learned they could recover to the Eighth Grade Realm with their Spacetime Puppets.
• For five days, Li Yaowan worked at the institutes, the Marquis of Wind Pavilion delivered resources, and Li Yang visited the patients while keeping Lianxin company.
• The Flower of Evil told Li Yang that he had to return to the Ninth-Grade Supreme Realm to enter the Lotus Domain, which had an independent consciousness and was like a mother to its inhabitants.
• The Flower of Evil agreed to take Li Yang to the Lotus Domain if she collected at least thirty million malice for him.

Li Yang returned to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace with Marquis of Wind Pavilion after learning that Bai Muxue could recover and discussing Lianxin’s condition. Marquis of Wind Pavilion arranged a lavish airship arrival to earn Li Yang Shock Points, then revealed that Li Yang had helped destroy the Realm Domain of Time and slay the God King of Time, leaving the gathered Star Wielders stunned and doubtful.

• Li Yaowan told Li Yang that Bai Muxue could make a full recovery, and Li Yang explained Lianxin’s situation to her and Marquis of Wind Pavilion.
• Marquis of Wind Pavilion agreed to seek information about Lianxin and then took Li Yang back to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace with Li Yaowan’s treatment resources.
• Marquis of Wind Pavilion brought Li Yang back aboard a lavish airship, collecting Shock Points as they flew over the Huaxia Heavenly Palace.
• Yu Hongyuan and Jiang Yuqing welcomed Li Yang at the Nature Pavilion, and Jiang Yuqing loudly claimed she had destroyed the Upper Three Realms and killed the God King.
• Marquis of Wind Pavilion confirmed that Li Yang had joined the Nature Department’s Master Realm experts to destroy the Realm Domain of Time and slay the God King of Time, stunning the crowd.

Li Yang’s victory over the God King of Time was shown to Huaxia Heavenly Palace, inspiring its Star Wielders and revealing that the Nature Department had recovered 231 Master Realm cultivators. As Huaxia prepared for a Star Nexus meeting, Si Kui emerged from seclusion at her peak, and Li Yang reunited with her teacher.

• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion showed Li Yang’s consented Time Rewind footage of her killing the God King of Time to Huaxia’s Star Wielders, earning Li Yang a flood of Shock Points.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion led Li Yang through Huaxia Heavenly Palace and announced that Li Yang had rescued the tortured Nature Department cultivators, bringing the department’s Master Realm total to 231.
• Huaxia’s Star Wielders shouted Li Yang’s title, “Light of Dawn,” as the Marquis of Wind Pavilion used the spies in Huaxia to spread the news across the Astral Realm.
• The spaceship arrived above the Star Nexus Pavilion, where Huaxia prepared to show the God King’s defeat to its Ninth-Grade Supremes and convene a Star Nexus meeting.
• Si Kui emerged from seclusion as a Ninth-Grade Supreme, and Li Yang leaped from the spaceship to embrace her teacher.

Si Kui emerged from seclusion and carefully refined Li Yang’s Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul, repairing the dangers left by Li Yang’s rapid cultivation. Afterward, Si Kui asked what had happened while she was away, and Li Yang invited her to the Star Nexus Pavilion to show her the Time Rewind.

• Li Yang rushed into Si Kui’s arms, and Si Kui held her while examining her condition.
• Si Kui refined Li Yang’s Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul, healing its damaged foundation and easing Li Yang’s exhaustion.
• The Flower of Evil reassured Li Yang that Si Kui’s lifespan could recover and that her knowledge would help Li Yang advance.
• Si Kui finished refining Li Yang’s Origin Soul and asked what had happened during her seclusion.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion invited Si Kui to the Star Nexus Pavilion, and Li Yang offered to show her the Time Rewind.
• Si Kui agreed to go and descended onto the ship with Li Yang.

At a Star Nexus meeting, Li Yang revealed how she had fought Daowu and saved the Nature Department’s Master Realm experts, while Si Kui learned what had happened during her seclusion. The Huaxia Heavenly Palace’s leaders rallied around Li Yang and agreed to bring the Nature and Star Nexus Pavilions closer together, with Si Kui joining the Twelve Marquises.

• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion proposed that Si Kui fill the vacant seat among the Twelve Marquises of the Star Nexus, and Si Kui asked Li Yang to explain what had happened during her seclusion.
• Li Yang showed the Star Nexus Pavilion a Time Rewind of her battles in the Upper Three Realms, including her confrontation with Daowu and the Heaven and Earth Contract that gave her ten years to reach the Divine Venerable Realm.
• The Time Rewind revealed that Li Yang had taken the rescued Nature Department experts to the Evil Domain, where they received treatment and survived with help from Si Yue, Cheng Rui, and others.
• Si Yue’s words and the recovered Origin Soul fragments reminded the gathering that the Nature and Star Nexus Pavilions had once fought together, and that the Huaxia Heavenly Palace needed to unite again.
• Si Kui agreed to serve as one of the Twelve Marquises, and everyone present voted in favor.

Li Yang returned from the Upper Three Realms as the Star Nexus prepared to fight Daowu, and she headed back to the Nature Pavilion before returning to the Evil Domain to improve her cultivation. Si Kui planned to reach the Divine Venerable Realm within ten years and offer Daowu her own Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul, while Li Yang recruited Jiang Yuqing to help in the Evil Domain.

• Marquis of Wind Pavilion urged the Star Nexus to stop Daowu from taking the Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul and vowed they would kill him in ten years.
• Si Kui told Marquis of Wind Pavilion to obtain Ninth Grade Innate Sacred Objects for her, revealing that she intended to reach the Divine Venerable Realm and give Daowu her own Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul.
• Li Yang returned to the Nature Pavilion, reunited with its students, and checked their cultivation progress while Yu Hongyuan praised her accomplishments.
• Jiang Yuqing returned from gathering Shock Points, and Li Yang discovered that he had reached the Seventh Grade Initial Stage despite barely leaving home.
• Li Yang invited Jiang Yuqing to help her in the Evil Domain, while Lin Zhaoqin, Fang Chuyun, and Ying Qi were told to keep cultivating until they reached the Master Realm.

Li Yang returned to the Evil Domain and learned that most of the rescued experts had recovered, while Cheng Rui admitted he could not face Shen Binghua. Shen Binghua arrived, found Cheng Rui alive, and immediately attacked him, leaving Li Yang bewildered as the others watched with fond familiarity.

• The Lin, Ying, Zhong, and Shen Family ancestors discussed sending younger relatives to the Nature Department under Si Kui’s new authority.
• Li Yang returned to the Evil Domain and heard that most patients had recovered, while Cheng Rui excelled at studying secret treasures and Star Weapons.
• Li Yang offered to ask the Marquis to send Shen Binghua to help, but Cheng Rui said he could not face his former partner.
• Shen Binghua learned from Song Menjiao that Cheng Rui was alive in the Evil Domain and hurried there.
• The Flower of Evil arranged for Shen Binghua to appear behind Cheng Rui, and she launched an ice attack after hearing him say he did not want to see her.
• Cheng Rui dodged Shen Binghua’s attacks as Li Yang watched in shock, while Li Yaowan and Si Yue reminisced and the Flower of Evil warned them not to damage the Evil Domain.

Li Yang learned how to strengthen her Nature Department foundation and prepared to break through in battle against the Lost Space Society. She then asked Si Kui to help Lianxin, who had sacrificed part of himself to protect her, and Si Kui suggested he cultivate the Divine Soul he had devoured from the God King of Time.

• Li Yang learned that her Origin Soul had been imbalanced by cultivating too much Power of Abstraction, and that Si Kui’s reshaping had given her a solid elemental foundation.
• Si Yue explained the Nature Department’s cultivation cycle and how Innate Sacred Objects helped cultivators advance through major realms.
• Li Yang used her lifespan to build up the Powers of Elements she needed, and found that Sister Longevity demanded less as her elemental cycle took shape.
• Si Kui arrived and said Li Yang was nearly ready to break through in battle, then proposed a surprise attack on the Lost Space Society.
• Li Yang brought Si Kui into her Spirit Sea and showed her how Lianxin had helped during the fight with the God King of Time.
• Si Kui said Lianxin could cultivate the portion of the God King of Time’s Divine Soul he had devoured and might eventually wield the Authority of Time.

Li Yang learned that Lianxin could control the contamination from devouring the God King of Time by returning to the Lotus Domain, eating a Ninth Grade lotus seed, and cultivating the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra. The chapter ended with Si Kui explaining that Li Yang would need to impart the sutra because she knew Lianxin well enough.

• Si Kui explained that Lianxin's growing Power of Time would make him more vulnerable to devouring, which could cause him to lose control.
• Si Kui found her master's journal describing Lotus Leaf, a Ninth-Grade Supreme who had become lucid after returning to the Lotus Domain and eating a Ninth Grade Sacred Heart Leaf.
• Si Kui recounted that Lotus Leaf used the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra to remain lucid longer, but ultimately died because the contamination was too deep and there were too few Sacred Heart Leaves.
• Si Kui advised Li Yang to take Lianxin to the Lotus Domain, give him a Ninth Grade lotus seed, and teach him the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra to purify the contamination.
• Si Kui told Li Yang that imparting the sutra required knowing the recipient well, so Li Yang would need to teach Lianxin herself.

Li Yang prepared to take Lianxin to the Lotus Domain so he could recover and later learn the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra, while Kong Shisan surrendered to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace with intelligence about the Lost Space Society. Li Yang left Kong Shisan waiting and set off with the Flower of Evil, who reluctantly lowered his realm for the journey.

• Si Kui told Li Yang to impart the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra to Lianxin, but rejected Lianxin's offer to become her disciple and explained that he should wait until he reached the Lotus Domain and used a Ninth Grade lotus seed.
• Li Yang chose to take Lianxin to the Lotus Domain before joining Si Kui to test the Lost Space Society, while news spread that Li Yang had disguised herself as the Bone Peach Mother Tree and assassinated the God King of Time.
• Kong Shisan fled the Lost Space Society and surrendered to the Huaxia forces at the Bone Peach Domain, offering intelligence in exchange for protection.
• Li Yang decided to leave Kong Shisan waiting until she returned from the Lotus Domain, then asked the Flower of Evil to take her there.
• The Flower of Evil lowered his realm, drawing tens of millions of Malice Points from the Lost Space Society's outrage, and told Li Yang that he had left the Authority of Evil behind in the Evil Domain.

Li Yang reached the Lotus Domain through the Flower of Evil’s meditation, but found herself alone before a gigantic starry tree and heard a mysterious voice demand that she fulfill a promise tied to Daowu. After she blacked out, Lianxin and the Flower of Evil found her, leaving her to wonder about the strange vision and the two companions’ resemblance.

• The Flower of Evil meditated and transported Li Yang and Lianxin to the Lotus Domain.
• Li Yang awoke before a gigantic tree resembling the one she had seen in the First Realm Domain, unable to sense Lianxin or the Flower of Evil.
• Li Yang walked along the tree’s starry trunk and heard a mysterious voice say she was both like and unlike someone else, then ask her to fulfill a promise.
• The voice warned Li Yang that heaven and earth would be annihilated once Daowu was no more, and she blacked out amid a rush of visions.
• Lianxin and the Flower of Evil woke Li Yang, who noticed how alike they looked and wondered what her vision meant.

Li Yang explored the Lotus Domain with Lianxin and the Flower of Evil, learned how its living lotus and many overlapping domains worked, and searched for lotus seeds. She discovered that she could eventually harvest Ninth Grade Sacred Heart Leaves, though only after reaching the Ninth Grade Realm.

• Li Yang told Lianxin and the Flower of Evil about seeing a giant tree, then saw the enormous lotus and starry sea of the Lotus Domain.
• The Flower of Evil led Li Yang and Lianxin across the sea and onto a lotus leaf, where the landscape changed and their journey stretched far ahead.
• Lianxin explained that countless Lotus Domains together formed the true Lotus Domain, while the Flower of Evil and Lianxin said they could not sense the Lotus Domain's will.
• Li Yang learned that Lotus Leaf had not been replaced and that the Sacred Heart Leaves, flowers, and lotus seeds were generally impossible to harvest.
• Li Yang asked Sister Longevity what realm she needed to harvest a Sacred Heart Leaf and learned that the requirement was the Ninth Grade Realm.

Li Yang, Lianxin, and the Flower of Evil reached Lianxin’s emerald castle in the Lotus Domain, hoping to find lotus seeds that could remove the Heart Worm. As they prepared to enter, Li Yang wondered whether reaching the Ninth Grade Realm would let her harvest the Lotus Domain’s sacred treasures.

• Li Yang considered how the Lotus Domain’s treasures might depend on cultivation realm and worried that her lifespan limit would remain too low.
• Li Yang and the Flower of Evil competed to hold her hand as they walked with Lianxin toward the petals; Lianxin said the Sacred Heart Flowers there were not mature.
• The group reached Lianxin’s emerald castle, and the Flower of Evil remarked that Mother had given Lianxin the best home in the Lotus Domain.
• Lianxin took Li Yang and the Flower of Evil through the castle’s barrier, and Li Yang hoped its lotus seeds could help remove the Heart Worm.
• The Flower of Evil reminded Li Yang that he was only at the Ninth Grade Realm now, prompting her to wonder whether she could harvest the lotus leaf at that level.

Li Yang entered Lianxin’s emerald castle to harvest the Ninth Grade Lotus Seeds and discovered that each seed contained a large amount of Power of Nature. After collecting the first seed and gaining 200,000 years of lifespan and maximum lifespan, she learned that Lianxin could store the seeds in a pattern on his robe.

• Lianxin led Li Yang and the Flower of Evil into his emerald castle, where dense Power of Time preserved countless lotus seeds.
• Li Yang learned she could use Lianxin’s authority and the Power of Space to enter the barriers and harvest the seeds, and Lianxin offered to let her take them all.
• Li Yang entered a seed’s space and rose to ninth grade using the Flower of Evil’s status, revealing the valuable lotus seed inside its milky shell.
• The shell dissolved into mist carrying Power of Nature, which flowed into Li Yang’s Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul, and she harvested the lotus seed.
• Li Yang gained 200,000 years of lifespan and maximum lifespan, then watched Lianxin make the seed vanish into a new pattern on his robe.

Li Yang discovered that the Lotus Domain’s lotus seeds were being contaminated by a strange black power and learned that the Power of Nature could destroy the black monsters attacking the emerald castle. With their escape blocked and the monsters overwhelming them, she prepared to fight back using a wide-range skill.

• Li Yang gathered lotus seeds for Lianxin, noticed their Power of Nature and lifespan gains dwindling, and found that a later seed was contaminated.
• After a half-black lotus seed released a chaotic power, Li Yang used the Power of Nature to drive it out and warned Lianxin and the Flower of Evil that the seeds were changing.
• Lianxin concluded that something had happened to Mother, and black humanoid monsters smashed into the emerald castle while Li Yang found she could not use the Teleportation Star Curse.
• The Flower of Evil’s Ten Thousand Thorns failed against the monsters, but Li Yang infused her own Ten Thousand Thorns with the Power of Nature and melted many of them.
• Li Yang saw that the monsters were too numerous to fight with Ten Thousand Thorns alone and prepared to use a wider-range skill.

Li Yang and her companions escaped the Lotus Domain as black monsters overwhelmed it, but Lianxin was separated from her and Flower of Evil. As Li Yang and Si Kui investigate the Lotus Domain’s corruption and search for Lianxin, they learn the contaminated lotus seeds contain a dense force called the Power of Chaos.

• Li Yang fought the black monsters while Lianxin used the Power of Time to restrain them, and the Lotus Domain’s will sent Li Yang, Lianxin, and Flower of Evil away.
• Li Yang returned to her body in the Evil Domain, where Si Yue reassured her that Lianxin and Flower of Evil remained tied to her through their symbiotic relationship.
• Flower of Evil returned to Li Yang’s Spirit Sea alone and explained that he had been teleported into the void, where memories of nearly getting lost there nine hundred thousand years ago had resurfaced.
• Li Yang and Flower of Evil suspected that the Lotus Domain had sent them away long ago rather than letting them be stolen, and Li Yang feared Lianxin might have landed somewhere dangerous.
• Li Yang asked Si Kui and Si Yue to help locate Fenglie Main City, where Lianxin might be, and Si Kui said the search could take up to three days.
• Li Yang told Si Kui about the black monsters and gave her contaminated lotus seeds; Si Kui identified their dense contamination as the Power of Chaos.

Li Yang and Si Kui traced the Lotus Domain’s decline to at least five thousand years ago and examined the old pavilion master’s sealed research notebook. Li Yang opened it with her four-leaf-clover Star Aperture and retrieved Sister Longevity’s subsystem, which revealed a gift from the grandmaster.

• Si Yue and Si Kui recalled that the old pavilion master had taken a Chaos-tainted leaf from the Huaxia Heavenly Palace, and the group suspected it had come from the Lotus Domain.
• Li Yang pieced together that the Lotus Domain had worsened by the time Lotus Leaf reached the Ninth Grade five thousand years earlier.
• Si Kui showed Li Yang the notebook sealed by a four-leaf clover, and Li Yang explained Sister Longevity’s connection to her own four-leaf-clover Star Aperture.
• Si Kui explained that the old pavilion master could glimpse a future destined to become history, and Li Yang linked this power to time, fate, and Daowu’s pursuit of the Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul.
• Li Yang touched the notebook’s seal, and Sister Longevity detected and retrieved her subsystem.
• Sister Longevity reported that the subsystem contained 10 million years of retrieved lifespan and a 2 million-year lifespan limit.

Li Yang learned from the former pavilion master that the Lotus Domain was the Astral Realm’s foundation and was nearing collapse after enduring the Upper Three Realms’ mental contamination. The former pavilion master explained the Human Emperor’s promise and the successors’ burden, then revealed that both she and Li Yang had died and returned to life, giving them the talent that drew the Fortune Spirit to them.

• Li Yang met the former pavilion master’s recorded message, and the former pavilion master explained that the Lotus Domain had asked her to keep a promise possibly made by the first Human Emperor.
• The former pavilion master revealed that the Lotus Domain had suppressed the Power of Chaos for nine hundred thousand years, but contamination caused by the Upper Three Realms had cracked it and threatened the Astral Realm.
• The former pavilion master told Li Yang that earlier successors had left records and urged her to learn the full situation before deciding whether to shoulder the promise.
• The former pavilion master explained that the first Human Emperor founded the Nature Department and that its cultivation methods had once formed the foundation of Huaxia’s power.
• The former pavilion master said the Fortune Spirit chose people from the Nature Department because they could grow Star Plants, and that she and Li Yang had both died and returned to life.