Recaps

Li Yang’s pill haul and success in the Star Ash Mystic Realm exposed Star-Slaying Military Academy’s failed scheme and established her as a formidable Pill Dao Heavenly Fortune Bearer. The chapter ended with Li Yaowan offering Li Yang a better furnace and permanent rights to several pill formulas, while Li Yang remained devoted to agronomy.

• Lü Tiantian revealed that Li Yang had shared Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills with the students, and Jiang Yuqing admitted he had bought Star Ash Soil from her.
• Li Yang explained that she had collected Star Ash Soil to maintain Divine Soil, not to interfere in the Pill Department dispute, and Star-Slaying’s professors reacted with shock.
• Li Yang and the Zhongdu Military Academy students outproduced Jiang Yuqing, ruining Star-Slaying Military Academy’s plan to promote its new pill formula and leaving Jiang Chunhua in seclusion.
• The academy forum spread stories of Li Yang’s victory, while students debated whether she should leave agronomy for the Pill Department.
• Li Yaowan offered Li Yang a better Exquisite Furnace and granted her permanent rights to the Fast-Acting Star Recovery, Mind-Clearing, and Body-Tempering Pill formulas.

Li Yang sold her pills to Li Yaowan and returned to the Agronomy Department, where she revealed that she had filled all seven Star Apertures and shared her plan to use Star Ash Soil to cultivate mutated crops. She headed to report to Si Kui before the department began farming the next day.

• Li Yaowan offered Li Yang fifty thousand merit points for her 586 Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, and Li Yang wondered whether Jiang Yuqing had a system.
• Li Yang's fellow students welcomed her back, and she told them she had filled all seven Star Apertures.
• Li Yang explained that she had gone to the Star Ash Mystic Realm to obtain Star Ash Soil and described research on nourishing Divine Soil.
• Feng Yiqiao proposed planting mutated crops, and Li Yang said the research included mutated corn and chives.
• Li Yang agreed to begin nourishing the Divine Soil and planting crops the next day, then returned to Si Kui to report in.

Li Yang returned from the Star Ash Mystic Realm, reunited with Si Kui, and brought Star Ash Soil back to the Agronomy Department courtyard. As the group began cultivating the soil, Fang Chuyun discovered that loosening it increased both her physique and spirit values, leaving Zhong Kun eager to try.

• Li Yang told Si Kui about her experiences in the Star Ash Mystic Realm, and Si Kui said she would recover from her injured origin by going into seclusion.
• Si Kui asked Lianxin to stay in his miniature doll form and protect Li Yang, while Li Yang transferred the Star Ash Soil into her spatial bag.
• Li Yang checked her system, decided against spending lifespan to extract her improved pill formula, and bought several inexpensive Star Cores to learn noncombat Star Skills.
• Li Yang gathered Feng Yiqiao, Yu Hongyuan, Fang Chuyun, and Zhong Kun to work the Star Ash Soil, explaining how to sense and loosen the Divine Soil.
• Fang Chuyun became the first to loosen the Divine Soil and noticed her physique value had risen; Li Yang also sensed that Fang Chuyun's spirit value had increased, and Zhong Kun grew eager to work the soil.

The Agronomy Department discovered that tending Divine Soil mixed with Star Ash Soil raised their physique and mental stats, giving the group a cheap, safe way to cultivate. Lin Zhaoqin returned from the combat training room unaware of their discovery, while Xia Putao prepared to join a breakthrough mission.

• Zhong Kun, Lü Shunshun, Xia Putao, and Feng Yiqiao loosened the Divine Soil and increased their stats as they worked.
• Li Yang told Zhong Kun that cultivation shortcuts like Realm-Breaking Pills could make him pay a greater price later, then wondered whether her lifespan-based system was her unique cultivation method.
• Lin Zhaoqin returned hungry from the combat training room and said she had missed tending the Divine Soil because she wanted to fill her Star Aperture.
• Xia Putao said his improved strength meant he could join Xiao Li and the others on a breakthrough mission, while Lü Shunshun warned him to learn a Star Skill.
• Lin Zhaoqin heard the others discuss their gains and realized that tending the Divine Soil had raised their stats.

Lin Zhaoqin discovered that tending the Divine Soil raised both her physique and spirit stats more efficiently than combat training, and joined the Agronomy Department’s work. Li Yang proposed that the department could recover its former strength by cultivating higher-tier mutated crops, though they had to wait for the Divine Soil to settle.

• Fang Chuyun and Zhong Kun told Lin Zhaoqin that tending the Divine Soil had increased their stats, and Li Yang invited her to try it the next day.
• Zhong Kun measured his stats and confirmed that tending the soil had raised his physique by 30 points and his spirit by at least 10.
• Lin Zhaoqin tended the Divine Soil, gained more physique and spirit points than the others, and decided that farming was more efficient than combat training.
• Li Yang explained that spirit strengthened Star Apertures with a golden rim, while physique filled them with light.
• Li Yang suggested that Divine Soil might exist in the Astral Realm, and the group resolved to reach the Third Grade Realm and search for Agronomy Department treasures.
• Li Yang proposed breeding second-tier mutated wheat, corn, and chives to improve their cultivation, but said they had to wait two more days for the Divine Soil to settle.

Li Yang asked Professor Li Yaowan for seed-breeding materials and an introduction to a weapon forger so she could obtain a cultivation dish. Professor Song Jinhuan agreed to make one on the condition that Li Yang become her assistant, leaving Li Yang and Li Yaowan to wonder what Song intended.

• Li Yang told her companions she planned to study seed-breeding techniques with Professor Li Yaowan and use lifespan to develop a stable supply of seeds.
• Li Yaowan provided ten sets of breeding materials at cost and took Li Yang to meet her old friend, Professor Song Jinhuan.
• Li Yang visited the Weapon Forging Department and met Song Jinhuan, who had made her Exquisite Furnace.
• Song Jinhuan agreed to make Li Yang a cultivation dish if Li Yang became her assistant.
• Li Yaowan warned Song not to waste her effort on Li Yang, and Song replied that everyone should follow the tide of nature's emergence.

Li Yang visited Professor Song to make a Second Grade cultivation dish and discovered that forging one cost her 200 years of lifespan. Song Jinhuan recognized Li Yang’s persistence as love for weapon forging and recalled a Nature Department senior sister who had helped defend Huaxia Main City.

• Li Yaowan introduced Li Yang to Song Jinhuan, who insisted Li Yang had talent for weapon forging and offered to teach her to make a cultivation dish.
• Song Jinhuan led Li Yang to the weapon-forging workshop and asked her to forge a Second Grade cultivation dish herself.
• Li Yang spent 200 years of lifespan to complete the dish, while the workshop onlookers saw it appear almost instantly.
• Song Jinhuan praised Li Yang’s forging talent and told her how a Nature Department senior sister had forged 1,000 Star Weapons to help the Falcon Corps defend Huaxia Main City.
• Li Yang returned to her courtyard as notifications repeatedly granted her one year of lifespan.

Li Yang gave Lianxin a cultivation dish to use as a bed, then experimented with cultivating mutated chive seeds and learned how to advance one to the Second Grade Realm. The chapter ended with Lianxin accidentally breaking his dish, and Li Yang making him a replacement.

• Lianxin told Li Yang that he liked her cultivation dish as a bed, and she gave it to him, gaining 300 years of life span.
• Li Yang spent life span and materials cultivating chive seeds, accidentally creating seed monsters that she killed to recover life span.
• Lianxin explained that Li Yang's mutated chive seed could be raised to the Second Grade Realm, and she eventually cultivated one successfully.
• Lianxin's cultivation dish exploded, and Li Yang comforted him before making him a replacement.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department cultivated and sowed mutated chive seeds in the restored Divine Soil, gaining strength as they worked. When the chives matured unusually quickly, the group rushed to harvest them, but the tough crop resisted their sickles while Li Yang’s Star Skills triggered Execution.

• Li Yang cultivated a first batch of mutated chive seeds and gave Lianxin a cultivation dish that added 300 years to his lifespan.
• After the Divine Soil recovered with Star Ash Soil, Feng Yiqiao demonstrated how to sow the tier-two chive seeds, and the Agronomy Department planted them.
• The group gained physique and spirit stats through farming and arranged shifts to tend the rapidly growing chives.
• Li Yang planned to take Feng Yiqiao and Lin Zhaoqin to scout the Astral Realm’s outskirts once they were ready to advance.
• Lin Zhaoqin discovered the chives were ready to harvest, and the group entered the field with sickles.
• The chives proved too tough for ordinary harvesting, but Li Yang activated Frenzy and Burst-Speed Combo and struck with Severing Space, triggering Execution.

Li Yang harvested the mutant chives while her exhausted Agronomy Department companions rested, and the group learned that harvesting offered no stat increases because their rewards came from tending and growing the crops. She finished the field and gained 600 years of lifespan, while Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun watched and learned combat techniques.

• Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun harvested mutant chives but found that neither their physique nor spirit stats increased.
• Li Yang asked the system why harvesting gave no stat increase, learned that the rewards came from the earlier cultivation work, and explained it to the others.
• Li Yang persuaded the exhausted farmers to rest and harvest the chives herself, while they decided to give her the proceeds from selling them.
• Feng Yiqiao took chives to the kitchen with Lü Shunshun and Xia Putao to test them, and Zhong Kun was recruited as a taste-tester and cook.
• Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun watched Li Yang harvest and studied her technique while she worked hard to keep them from joining in.
• Li Yang finished harvesting the field, gained 600 years of lifespan, and collapsed from exhaustion as the others admired her generosity.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department shared a meal made with their harvested mutant chives, which restored their Power of Starlight and encouraged them to keep farming. As the midterm exam approached, other students mocked the department, but Yu Hongyuan believed their cultivation gains would soon show in the rankings.

• Yu Hongyuan invited Li Yang to eat chive pockets and scrambled eggs made by Feng Yiqiao, Zhong Kun, and the others, using mutant ingredients.
• Li Yang offered food to Lianxin, who declined, and then praised the mutant chives for their flavor and their ability to restore the Power of Starlight.
• The students discussed giving the mutant chives a more upscale name and enjoyed the meal, feeling more motivated to tend their crops and cultivate.
• As the midterm exam neared, students on the forum questioned whether Li Yang and the Agronomy Department were neglecting cultivation by farming, while Star Magic Department students predicted poor results.
• Yu Hongyuan dismissed the criticism and expected the Agronomy Department to rise in the rankings after breakthroughs; Zhong Kun joked that spirit values should count so he could outrank his brother.

Li Yang distributed the chive profits, accepted a dangerous Tianyang Port mission for the Agronomy Department, and prepared the group for their breakthrough. The others bought discounted Star Skills, and Yu Hongyuan was promptly beaten black and blue while testing his new skill against Lin Zhaoqin.

• Li Yang split the mutated chive earnings among the group, keeping 300 Merit Points and giving the rest to her companions.
• He Song warned Li Yang of unusual activity in the Astral Realm and helped her accept a City Defense Army mission to support an operation against cultists at Tianyang Port.
• Li Yang learned that the Descending Star Cult planned to bring Astral Realm creatures into Huaxia, and she notified Shen Binghua that the Agronomy Department would break through together.
• Zhong Kun led Feng Yiqiao, Xia Putao, and Lü Shunshun to buy suitable Star Skills, securing them a thirty percent discount through an attendant at the trading office.
• Lin Zhaoqin offered to test the group’s new Star Skills, and Yu Hongyuan volunteered first before she beat him black and blue.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students prepared for a mission near Tianyang Port, where they were assigned to ambush cultists escaping a ship. When the battle grew unusually fierce and no cultists appeared at their post, Team Leader Yang ordered them to retreat and provide support.

• The students practiced their Star Skills before setting out for Tianyang Port, with Feng Yiqiao intending to watch over the weaker Yu Hongyuan.
• Team Leader Yang welcomed the group and assigned them to guard the left passage while a Fifth Grade Star Wielder led the assault on the ship.
• Zhong Kun worried that Team Leader Yang’s mention of her daughter foreshadowed danger, but Li Yang reassured the team that Professor Shen was watching over them.
• The battle aboard the ship began, but no cultists fled through the passage, and Li Yang suspected the cultists had sent their elites.
• Team Leader Yang told Li Yang that the mission had changed and ordered the students to retreat and provide support.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students stayed at the left passage as the City Defense Army fought cultists aboard the ship and discovered the true threat: a spore-filled creature they called the Mother Goddess. With only three minutes before it could emerge, Li Yang led her group into battle as the cultists began a ritual to protect it.

• Li Yang refused to abandon the position, while Xie Junqing and Team Leader Yang led the City Defense Army in an assault on the giant ship.
• Xie Junqing and Team Leader Yang realized the cultists were delaying them while the contraband approached the left passage, so Xie Junqing unleashed a powerful attack and ordered the others to retrieve it.
• Li Yang spotted the cultist group and learned from Lianxin that the wounded man they escorted carried spores that could contaminate Central Capital.
• Li Yang warned her companions not to use their mental power and charged at the cultists, followed by Lin Zhaonan and Fang Chuyun.
• Shen Binghua suffered a backlash after sensing the contraband and rushed toward Tianyang Port.
• The cultists surrounded the man carrying the Mother Goddess and pressed their blood onto a black crystal.

Li Yang infiltrated a Life Guardian Formation and killed the Flower of Evil’s manifestation before Shen Binghua arrived and rescued her. After waking in Shen Binghua’s room, Li Yang learned more about the Flower of Evil and revealed Lianxin’s identity as a Ninth-Grade being.

• Li Yang used her symbiotic connection with Lianxin to enter the completed Life Guardian Formation and attacked the swollen-bellied cultist.
• Li Yang resisted the Flower of Evil’s soothing mental influence with Lianxin’s help, then killed its manifestation as the cultists cried out for the Mother Goddess.
• Shen Binghua shattered the formation, crushed the nine cultists, caught the Flower of Evil’s spores, and carried the unconscious Li Yang to safety.
• Li Yang woke in Shen Binghua’s room, thanked Lianxin, and learned that the Flower of Evil occupied the Evil Domain and was a collective of powerful beings.
• Li Yang introduced Lianxin to Shen Binghua, who realized he was a Ninth-Grade Lianxin.

Li Yang recovered from the Flower of Evil spores and returned to the Agronomy Department, while Shen Binghua confronted Vice Principal Ruan Jinbai over the security failure and secured rewards for Li Yang. Li Yang learned she could seek a growth-type divine weapon in the Sword Domain and that the Nature Pavilion would be placed in her hands, then heard how Si Kui’s past actions had cost the Agronomy Department dearly.

• Li Yang teased Shen Binghua before returning to the Agronomy Department, where her colleagues welcomed her and recounted how they had helped the City Defense Army defeat the remaining cultists.
• Shen Binghua accused the city’s Entry Inspection Office of negligence and learned that the Star Nexus Pavilion was investigating the breach and the Marquis of the Long Night was preparing to purge the Descending Star Cult.
• Ruan Jinbai offered Li Yang a first-class merit award, a chance to obtain a growth-type divine weapon in the Sword Domain after reaching Fourth Grade, and the Nature Pavilion when she entered the Astral Realm.
• Director Niu visited Li Yang, awarded merit points to the Agronomy Department, and explained that Shen Binghua had secured the Nature Pavilion and a Sword Domain opportunity for her.
• Niu Qianqian told Li Yang that Si Kui had killed several high-ranking officers suspected of treason, paid a heavy price, and lost much of the Agronomy Department’s property as a result.

After the Tianyang Port incident was kept secret, Li Yang and the Agronomy Department received thanks from District 13’s City Defense Army. Li Yang’s heart technique progressed, and she realized her talent might be improvable, while the story left her facing a new problem with work in the department.

• Niu Qianqian worried that war might soon return to the Astral Realm, while Ruan Jinbai urged the principal to stop the Marquis of the Long Night from purging the Descending Star Cult.
• The City Defense Army kept the Tianyang Port incident quiet, and Li Yang agreed that concealing Lianxin’s existence would protect her from the Descending Star Cult’s revenge.
• Fang Chuyun reassured Fang Suyun about her cultivation, and Yang Lingwen and her deputy thanked Li Yang on behalf of District 13’s City Defense Army.
• Li Yang’s Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra progress reached 0.1%, and she inferred from the system’s costly query that her talent could be improved.
• The Agronomy Department began growing Emerald Jade Vegetables, and Li Yang struggled to explain why she no longer needed to work after reaching Peak Second Grade.

Li Yang used harvesting mutated chives to raise her physique stat and convinced the Agronomy Department to leave future harvests to her, while her classmates continued training for the midterm exams. Meanwhile, Jiang Chunhua reassured Jiang Yuqing after the Star Ash Mystic Realm incident and warned that the Jiang Family should remain cautious.

• Li Yang pretended she still needed to recover so her classmates could plant the mutated chives, then eagerly harvested them once they had grown.
• Li Yang spent 200 years of lifespan to raise her physique stat by ten points and claimed that harvesting had increased it.
• Yu Hongyuan realized Li Yang's Heavenly Fortune Bearer status explained her unusual gain, and the group agreed to let her handle future harvesting.
• The Agronomy Department trained hard for the midterm exams, while its members believed Li Yang was advancing at a remarkable pace despite having fewer resources than Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun.
• Jiang Chunhua comforted Jiang Yuqing and cautioned that the Jiang Family should avoid carelessness because heavenly fortune was unpredictable.

Jiang Yuqing visited Li Yang to warn her that the Descending Star Cult had placed a 10,000 Merit Point bounty on her and revealed that he was undercover in the cult. Li Yang barely reacted, then proposed faking her death to claim the reward before brushing the idea off, leaving Jiang Yuqing asking if they could be friends.

• Jiang Yuqing received a Descending Star Cult notice offering 10,000 contribution points for Li Yang and arranged to meet her at Zhongdu Military Academy.
• Jiang Yuqing told Li Yang about the bounty, but she was only slightly surprised and guessed that he had learned about it through the Jiang Family.
• Jiang Yuqing admitted that he had gone undercover in the Descending Star Cult, and Li Yang responded by sympathizing with him and suggesting he transfer to her academy.
• Li Yang proposed staging her death so she and Jiang Yuqing could split the bounty, then said she had been joking and was too busy to fake her death.
• Jiang Yuqing, overwhelmed by Li Yang's reactions, asked whether they could be friends.

Li Yang struck a deal with Jiang Yuqing to bring her Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills whenever he visited, while he used their exchanges to earn Shock Points. As the Agronomy Department’s freshmen joined the Spirit Department for midterms, Jiang Yuqing arrived at the examination classroom and began collecting reactions from the students.

• Li Yang told Jiang Yuqing he could visit the Agronomy Department if he brought her Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, and he agreed to bring four the next day.
• Li Yang told Yu Hongyuan that Jiang Yuqing planned to bring pills whenever he visited, while students on the school forum argued over the Tree Tower and the Agronomy Department.
• The Agronomy Department’s five freshmen joined the Spirit Department’s classroom for midterms, where Zhong Kun and Wang Ruika discussed the Emerald Jade Vegetable.
• Jiang Yuqing arrived at the Spirit Department’s examination classroom in his Star-Slaying Military Academy uniform, drawing attention and earning Shock Points.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students stunned the crowd with their high physique scores during the midterm assessment, with Li Yang reaching 818. As they prepared to leave, Jiang Yuqing challenged Li Yang to test her spirit score.

• Jiang Yuqing brought Li Yang a Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pill and earned Shock Points as she accepted it and ignored him.
• Yu Hongyuan scored 298 on the physique test, and Fang Chuyun scored 480.
• Zhong Kun scored 481, while Lin Zhaoqin scored 580.
• Li Yang scored 818, leaving Jiang Yuqing and the onlookers stunned.
• Jiang Yuqing challenged Li Yang to test her spirit score, questioning whether it was only 80.

Jiang Yuqing challenged Li Yang to a spirit-stat contest at Zhongdu Military Academy, provoking the Spirit Department students as he tried to earn Shock Points. After revealing his spirit stat was 500, he wagered thirty Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, and Li Yang accepted by demanding fifty if she won.

• Zhong Kun prepared to accept the Star-Slaying students’ challenge, but Li Yang defended Zhongdu Military Academy’s right to follow its own rules.
• Jiang Yuqing argued with the Spirit Department students about their Astral Realm death rate, then challenged Li Yang to compete in spirit stats.
• Wang Ruika offered to compete instead, but Jiang Yuqing dismissed him and used the spirit testing device to reveal his stat was 500.
• Jiang Yuqing offered thirty Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills if Li Yang’s spirit stat exceeded his, and Li Yang countered by asking for fifty while refusing to offer anything if she lost.

Li Yang raised her spirit value and stunned the academy by scoring 730, defeating Jiang Yuqing and winning his pills and Qiankun Bag. She discovered Jiang Yuqing was collecting shock points, while Zhong Kun eagerly volunteered to test the spirit detector.

• Li Yang spent lifespan to raise her spirit value to 730, and Lianxin worried that she was under pressure.
• The spirit test revealed Li Yang’s score of 730, leaving the students stunned and Jiang Yuqing delighted by the shock points he gained.
• Jiang Yuqing handed Li Yang the Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills and Qiankun Bag he had wagered.
• Li Yang used the Spirit Connection Star Skill to ask Jiang Yuqing if he was collecting shock points, then guessed that other people’s reactions earned them for him.
• Zhong Kun volunteered to test his own spirit value, wondering whether the detector was faulty.

Agronomy Department students Zhong Kun, Lin Zhaoqin, Fang Chuyun, and Yu Hongyuan stunned the Spirit Department with their spirit values, prompting Professor Wang to explain the Nature Department’s role in strengthening Astral Realm teams. After Li Yang persuaded Jiang Yuqing to compensate the students with Mind-Clearing Pills, the chapter ended with departments boasting about their midterm results while Li Yang’s physique score remained unknown.

• Zhong Kun tested at 280 spirit points, and Lin Zhaoqin tested at 350, leaving Wang Ruika so shocked that he fainted.
• Professor Wang explained that the Agronomy Department was the Nature Department, whose cultivators had once helped Zhongdu Military Academy teams fight above their level, and urged Wang Ruika to get close to Zhong Kun.
• Li Yang convinced Jiang Yuqing to give Mind-Clearing Pills to the Spirit Department and Agronomy Department students, along with a visiting fee.
• The midterm assessment ended, and Star Combat students celebrated Lin Zhaoxia’s record physique value of 850 while Zhong Qian scored 680.
• Shen Shangchi scored 670 physique points and Ying Qi scored 682, leading Star Magic students to claim they had surpassed Zhong Qian; Li Yang’s score was still unknown.

The midterm rankings showed Li Yang in first place after the school counted thirty percent of students’ spirit values, while Lin Zhaoxia placed second and Lin Zhaoqin third. The forum erupted over the scoring rule, and a makeup exam was announced for students whose spirit values exceeded 200.

• Yu Hongyuan and Zhong Kun saw Lin Zhaoxia’s physique value and lamented that Li Yang had lost while supporting the Agronomy Department.
• Niu Qianqian and Professor Wang agreed to include thirty percent of spirit value in the Agronomy Department’s assessment scores.
• The school published the rankings, with Li Yang first at 1,037 points, Lin Zhaoxia second, and Lin Zhaoqin third; Fang Chuyun also made the top ten.
• The academic affairs office explained that Li Yang’s score combined her 818 physique points with thirty percent of her 730 spirit points, prompting students to argue about the scoring rule.
• The school announced that students with spirit values above 200 could be reranked after a makeup exam, but Lin Zhaoxia said her spirit value was only 200, and Shen Shangchi said his was 210.
• A video of the Agronomy Department’s assessment showed that Li Yang had taken the spirit test because of a Star Slaying provocation, winning the support of students who had questioned the results.