Recaps

Li Yang prepared the Agronomy Department to enter the Tree Tower, while Ruan Jinbai learned that war with the Upper Three Realms was approaching. The Tree Tower opened at the Agronomy Department, drawing students from across the academy as its members prepared to collect Star Cores.

• Li Yang reserved a potential Agronomy Department spot for Ying Qi and delayed recruiting Wang Ruika because the department lacked capacity and still faced a hidden threat.
• Niu Qianqian announced that the Tree Tower's second floor would open, and Yu Hongyuan was left to guard the first floor because he did not meet the entry requirements.
• Ruan Jinbai received a message from the Astral Realm warning that war could not be stopped and feared the Divine Descent Ritual would expose Huaxia Main City's coordinates.
• Niu Qianqian deployed the Tree Tower beside the Agronomy Department's fields, where Li Yang, Zhong Kun, Lin Zhaoqin, and others gathered to enter.
• Students from other departments came to watch the Tree Tower open, and Spirit Department and Pill Department students argued over which was Li Yang's second home.

Li Yang led the Agronomy Department and their allies into the Tree Tower’s second floor, where they planned to gather Star Plants along three paths and combine them into a powerful behemoth. The group split up, and Li Yang headed down the middle passage as the others prepared to follow their assigned routes.

• Niu Qianqian explained that awakening the Divine Soil let Li Yang and her companions enter and leave the Tree Tower multiple times during its opening.
• Li Yang led Ying Qi, Shen Shangchi, the Ying Family’s collateral-branch disciples, and the Agronomy Department members into the Tree Tower’s second floor.
• A Star Plant ambushed Li Yang, and she drove it back with Shadow Moon and Severing Space before Ying Qi blasted it away; Li Yang told Ying Qi not to kill it.
• Li Yang explained that they needed to gather Star Plants from three paths so they would devour one another and form a Third Grade Realm behemoth.
• Li Yang assigned herself the middle passage, Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun the left, and Fang Chuyun, Feng Yiqiao, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao the right.

Li Yang led the Agronomy Department team through the Tree Tower’s difficult second floor, urging everyone to clear it in one attempt while prioritizing safety. She and her teammates emerged from their passageways, but the danger intensified as they regrouped.

• Li Yang explained that repeated entries would drain the Tree Tower’s energy and urged the team to coordinate and clear it in one go.
• Li Yang, Lin Zhaoqin, and the others split across three passageways, with Ying Qi following Li Yang and Shen Shangchi joining the right-hand group.
• Li Yang fought through the middle passageway while Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun worked together to draw and manage the Star Plants in the left passageway.
• Fang Chuyun, Lü Shunshun, Feng Yiqiao, and Xia Putao coordinated their way through the right passageway as Shen Shangchi watched.
• Li Yang and the right-passageway group emerged, and Li Yang warned Xia Putao about an incoming vine before rushing to draw the Star Plants behind them.

Li Yang gathered the Star Plants from all three passages and used Hidden Shadow to make them devour one another. The survivors formed a behemoth at the high level of the Third Grade Realm, leaving the students facing a formidable new challenge.

• Li Yang drew the Star Plants together while Feng Yiqiao and the others waited for a chance to help.
• Fang Chuyun and Lü Shunshun took over the Star Plants pursuing Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun from the left passage.
• Li Yang gathered the Star Plants from the right passage and told everyone to hide before she activated Hidden Shadow.
• Li Yang lured the Star Plants into attacking and devouring one another, sustaining herself with Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills as Lianxin sent her lifespan.
• A behemoth emerged from the defeated Star Plants, and Li Yang warned everyone that it was at the high level of the Third Grade Realm.

Li Yang and the others fought the High-Level Third Grade Realm Star Plant on the Tree Tower’s second floor and defeated it by destroying its exposed Spirit Soul. The group claimed a haul of more than thirty blue and purple Star Cores.

• Ying Qi, Fang Chuyun and the other Star Magic Department students blasted the Star Plant while Li Yang coordinated the group through Spirit Connection.
• Li Yang took over the right flank so Lin Zhaoqin, Zhong Kun and the others could recover, then searched for the Star Plant’s weakness as the team resumed its attacks.
• Lianxin told Li Yang to break the Star Plant’s Spirit Soul, and Li Yang used Space Slashes to destroy the exposed blue-purple seed and bring the creature down.
• Shen Shangchi explained that Spirit Souls were normally cultivated in the Fourth Grade Realm, while Feng Yiqiao noted that the Tree Tower had prevented the Star Plant from breaking through.
• Zhong Kun spotted the loot, and the group found more than thirty Star Cores, including several purple ones.

Li Yang and her companions cleared the Tree Tower’s second floor, earning dozens of Star Cores, while Li Yang learned that her teacher, Si Kui, was leaving for the Astral Realm. Si Kui departed after asking Niu Qianqian to oversee the Agronomy Department and ordering Shen Binghua to keep Li Yang on campus, as a looming war against the Descending Star Cult threatened Huaxia.

• Li Yang had the Tree Tower distribute the Star Cores according to each climber’s contribution, and the group collected their rewards before leaving.
• Li Yang sensed that Si Kui had emerged from seclusion, but Si Kui said she was about to go to the Astral Realm and warned Li Yang not to advance to Third Grade until she heard from her.
• The onlookers learned from Zhong Kun that the group had cleared the tower in one attempt and obtained at least forty Star Cores, mostly blue, with several purple.
• Si Kui moved the gathered students to Sun Square, then told Niu Qianqian to manage the Agronomy Department and instructed Shen Binghua to keep Li Yang on campus.
• Shen Binghua reflected that the Marquis of the Long Night was preparing to attack the Descending Star Cult, whose Divine Descent Ritual could expose Huaxia Main City to the Divine Venerables of the Upper Three Realms.

Li Yang obtained an Eighth Grade Origin Stabilizing Pill from Li Yaowan for Si Kui before Si Kui left for the Astral Realm. After reassuring the Agronomy Department, Li Yang resolved to stay put, grow stronger, and wait for her teacher to return.

• Li Yang asked Li Yaowan for an Origin Stabilizing Pill to help Si Kui recover before traveling to the Astral Realm, and Li Yaowan agreed to provide one without demanding repayment.
• Li Yaowan brought Li Yang to Si Kui, who initially refused the pill but accepted it after Li Yang threatened to follow her to the Astral Realm.
• Si Kui told Li Yang to stay in the department and vanished, leaving Li Yang worried about her departure.
• Li Yaowan hinted that Si Kui might be involved in a dangerous plan against the Divine Venerable connected to the Divine Descent Ritual, but refused to explain further.
• Li Yang decided not to leave the Agronomy Department or advance recklessly, and focused on building her strength and cultivating her Star Skills.
• Li Yang told the gathered Agronomy Department students that Si Kui had gone to handle something and urged them to cultivate as usual; Feng Yiqiao and the others proposed examining the Star Cores.

Li Yang appraised the students’ Star Cores, gaining disguise and healing Star Skills, while Si Kui returned to Huaxia Main City and prepared with the Marquis of the Long Night to destroy the Descending Star Cult. The chapter left Si Kui poised to use the cult’s Divine Descent Ritual to confront a Divine Venerable from the Upper Three Realms.

• Li Yang appraised the group’s Star Cores, and the students gained Star Skills suited to their abilities.
• Li Yang appraised her own blue Star Cores and obtained Put On an Alt, and They Won't Recognize You Anymore and Natural Healing.
• Si Kui returned to the Astral Realm after twenty-eight years, while the Marquis of the Long Night stood guard in Huaxia Main City.
• Si Kui realized the Upper Three Realms had used Lianxin to entrap both the Fenglie Clan and the Nature Department.
• Si Kui and the Marquis of the Long Night planned to destroy the Descending Star Cult and use its Divine Descent Ritual to challenge a Divine Venerable.

Li Yang continued cultivating and farming while managing her short lifespan, and the Agronomy Department gained Ying Qi and Wang Ruika as members. At final exams, Li Yang remained far ahead in first place, and the students began to understand the academy’s graduation requirements.

• Si Kui resolved to ascend to the upper realm and kill a Divine Venerable, despite the deadly odds.
• Li Yang kept farming and cultivating through winter, raising her physique and skills while struggling with her lifespan and Li Yaowan’s pill lessons.
• Ying Qi transferred into the Agronomy Department, leaving Shen Shangchi hurt and bewildered by her lack of romantic interest.
• Wang Ruika joined the Agronomy Department after learning Ying Qi had transferred, hoping to secure a place close to Li Yang’s rising influence.
• The Spirit and Star Magic Departments argued online over their members transferring to the Agronomy Department.
• Li Yang finished final exams in first place as the Agronomy Department remained far ahead of the others.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department celebrated the New Year, grew and harvested tier-two mutated wheat, and prepared to turn it into flour. Their peaceful spring was interrupted when Zhong Kun reported that Li Yang’s teacher and the Marquis of the Long Night had killed a Divine Venerable, though both were badly injured.

• The class rankings shifted as Ying Qi passed Lin Zhaoqin, while Zhong Qian fell to fifth.
• The Agronomy Department celebrated New Year’s Eve together, and Fang Suyun gave everyone Body-Tempering Pills while Feng Yiqiao handed out merit points.
• Li Yang guided the others in cultivating tier-two mutated seeds, and the department grew and harvested a field of golden wheat.
• Zhong Kun told Li Yang that her teacher and the Marquis of the Long Night had destroyed the Descending Star Cult’s headquarters and killed a Divine Venerable in the Astral Realm.
• Li Yang panicked at news of her teacher’s injuries, then felt somewhat reassured when Zhong Kun said his great-grandfather had gone to the Astral Realm to ensure they were treated fairly.

After Si Kui and the Marquis of the Long Night slew a Divine Venerable, Li Yang and the Agronomy Department learned their injuries were under control and celebrated Huaxia’s growing strength. News of the victory and the Nature Department’s suppressed history spread through the academy, while Principal Ruan Jinbai chose not to censor the posts.

• Zhong Kun retold the battle, and Li Yang wondered whether she could advance and reach her teacher in the Astral Realm.
• Lin Zhaoqin and Ying Qi reported that star support masters were treating Si Kui and the others, and Li Yang realized Lianxin could provide Si Kui with a naturally born divine object.
• Li Yang resolved to take Lianxin home after the danger passed, while the Zhong, Lin, and Ying families backed the Agronomy Department and Huaxia’s pro-war faction gained influence.
• The academy announced Si Kui and the Marquis of the Long Night had slain a Divine Venerable, prompting students to celebrate and admire the Agronomy Department.
• Students learned that the Nature Department had destroyed the Fenglie Clan twenty-eight years earlier and that the Upper Three Realms had helped drive it into decline.
• Ruan Jinbai rejected his assistant’s suggestion to censor the academy forum posts, warning that censorship would only spread them further.

Ruan Jinbai remembered the Nature Department’s destruction and doubted Huaxia could withstand the Upper Realms, while Niu Qianqian told Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students about a newly formed divine vestige and the chance to explore it. The students learned the risks and entry rules, and Li Yang became interested when she heard the vestige’s secret treasure could be claimed by whoever found it.

• Ruan Jinbai recalled how Divine Exalt Daowu had destroyed the Nature Department and remained fearful despite the victory over the Descending Star Cult.
• Niu Qianqian told Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students that the Divine Venerable’s death had created dense Starlight and a divine vestige near the Astral Realm.
• Niu Qianqian explained that students who made the Huaxia Top 100 Rankings could enter, while Agronomy Department students at the Second Grade Realm had also been granted places.
• Niu Qianqian warned that the unexplored vestige contained dangerous Astral Realm creatures, could separate entrants, and would trap them until its core was removed.
• Li Yang became interested after Niu Qianqian revealed that the secret treasure anchoring the vestige would belong to whoever found it and broke the vestige open.

Li Yang sought Shen Binghua’s advice about entering the dangerous Miracle, where she could advance her realm and pursue its priceless Miracle Core. Shen Binghua warned that hidden enemies and Descending Star Cult remnants might target her, but Li Yang appeared set on going.

• Niu Qianqian warned Yu Hongyuan and Li Yang that the Miracle was dangerous but could offer major breakthroughs, while Li Yang was a likely candidate to close it.
• The Agronomy Department shared information about Miracles, and Li Yang heard that Si Kui was safe but recovering in seclusion.
• Li Yang asked Shen Binghua for advice, and Shen urged her not to enter because enemies could exploit Si Kui’s absence and attackers might disguise their realms.
• Shen Binghua explained that the Miracle could contain a squad of disguised Peak Third Grade Realm Star Wielders, while Li Yang asked about breakthroughs, its creatures, and the Miracle Core.
• Shen Binghua warned that Descending Star Cult remnants might also try to kill Li Yang, and said lower-grade realms were easiest to brainwash.

Li Yang decided to enter the miracle despite the threats and persuaded Shen Binghua to equip her in exchange for helping uncover the person who betrayed the Nature Department. She warned her companions that the culprit might target them inside the miracle and urged them to disguise themselves and focus on advancing their realms; Li Yang aimed to reach Third Grade Sixth Stage.

• Li Yang resolved to enter the miracle, relying on Vest and Hidden Shadow to conceal her identity and strength.
• Li Yang persuaded Shen Binghua to provide heartguard armor and star artifacts, promising to seek clues about the traitor who sold out Cheng Rui.
• Li Yang told her companions about the betrayal and warned them not to inform their families, since the culprit could be among their relatives.
• Li Yang cautioned the group that they could be attacked in the miracle and advised them to avoid strangers, disguise themselves, and flee from human attackers.
• Li Yang urged everyone to advance to Third Grade Fourth Stage and revealed that she aimed to reach Third Grade Sixth Stage.

Li Yang and her companions prepared for the miracle, where she planned to raise her cultivation before confronting hidden enemies. They entered the Astral Realm and began passing through a formation gate into the miracle.

• Li Yang explained her plan to raise her physique through seven stages, and the group agreed on a code phrase: “Divine Soil, Divine Soil; the stars never turn to ash.”
• Li Yang received heartguard armor and star artifacts from Shen Binghua but declined to upgrade them so she could save her lifespan.
• The Zhongdu Military Academy students traveled to the Astral Realm’s outskirts, where Zhong Kun and the teacher described the void-like territory and the wilderness shaped by their predecessors.
• The group learned that a Sixth Grade Star Formation master had opened a guarded gate into the miracle, then prepared to enter in batches.
• Li Yang warned everyone to watch for enemies disguised among the Star Combat Department and prepared a furnished backpack for Lianxin before her group entered the miracle.

Li Yang entered the Star Nexus Pavilion miracle, hid in a clean but apparently empty house, and encountered a frightened calf-like Astral Realm creature. After rescuing him from a powerful Star Plant, she received only 100 years of lifespan, leaving her worried about how slowly she would accumulate more.

• Li Yang entered the miracle with Lianxin and confirmed they had arrived together in a ruined city.
• Li Yang hid in a house and waited, hoping to observe the miracle and avoid running into other entrants.
• A frightened calf-like creature rushed into the house, followed by a tentacled Star Plant that attacked him.
• Li Yang used Frenzy and her blades to defeat the Third Grade Realm Star Plant and save the calf.
• Li Yang received 100 years of lifespan for the kill and worried that future rewards would be too small to help her stockpile lifespan.

Li Yang discovered a Third Grade Star Plant seed and cultivated it into a Thousand-Hand Flower, then learned that Niu Er of the Plow Ox Clan could farm it. After Niu Er planted the seed and explained how quickly he could grow more, Li Yang began considering farming Star Plants for lifespan inside the divine relic.

• Niu Er told Li Yang that his family had been displaced after their realm domain was destroyed and that he had been swept into the divine relic while working in a field.
• Li Yang found a Third Grade Star Plant seed and spent one year of lifespan cultivating it into a Thousand-Hand Flower.
• Li Yang learned that Niu Er's Plow Ox Clan specialized in farming and asked him to plant the seed.
• Niu Er prepared the neglected courtyard soil, planted the seed, and said ordinary water would make it sprout in one day.
• Niu Er said he could plant a hundred seeds in a day, and Li Yang considered farming Star Plants to gain lifespan.

Li Yang learned that Star Plants appeared at night and recruited Niu Er to help her farm while she investigated how to cultivate their seeds. As night fell in the Divine Miracle, she prepared to fight the Astral Realm creatures gathering outside her shelter.

• Li Yang learned that Star Plant seeds could be replanted and disguised herself as Niu Er’s twin brother, promising to help him find his family in exchange for his farming help.
• Niu Er explained that sentient Astral Realm creatures could grow stronger by devouring other sentient beings, but the process made them increasingly ravenous and eventually drove them mad.
• Niu Er told Li Yang that his clan’s food pouches let him survive on stored grain, and Li Yang reasoned that nonsentient crops could feed Star Wielders without driving them mad.
• Night fell, and Li Yang sensed Astral Realm creatures gathering outside the shelter while conserving her Starlight for the coming fight.

Li Yang fought off a nighttime siege of Astral Realm creatures with Lianxin’s help, while Little Ox planted the seeds she collected. By noon, their first Star Plant had matured, revealing that Li Yang’s seeds could grow into mobile plants without spiritual awareness.

• Li Yang brought Lianxin out to scout with her, then charged into the darkness and fought the creatures gathering outside the house.
• With Lianxin warning her of attacks, Li Yang killed fifteen Astral Realm creatures and gave the Star Plant seeds to Little Ox to plant.
• Little Ox’s seven planted seeds sprouted overnight, and he explained that the plants obeyed him because he had fed them his Power of Starlight.
• Li Yang gave Little Ox a Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pill so he could recover and continue planting.
• At noon, Li Yang examined the mature Thousand-Hand Flower and sensed that it resembled the hostile plant she had killed but had no spiritual awareness.

Li Yang cultivated Star Plants in the Divine Miracle, gained lifespan, and broke through while Jiang Yuqing tried to find her after learning that her teacher had killed a Divine Venerable. Jiang Yuqing followed clues toward the inner city, as several groups of explorers independently headed there for their own reasons.

• Li Yang harvested a cultivated Thousand-Hand Flower, preserved its seed, and gained 100 years of lifespan before later breaking through as she filled her backyard with Star Plants.
• Jiang Chunhua told Jiang Yuqing that Li Yang was a Heavenly Fortune Bearer, prompting him to suspect that her presence enabled him to gain Shock Points; news of her teacher's deed had already earned him 100 Shock Points.
• After entering the Divine Miracle, Jiang Yuqing searched for Li Yang and overheard a group discussing her and the Descending Star Cult, but he lost them while following them.
• Jiang Yuqing concluded that Li Yang might be deeper inside the ruined city and set off for the inner reaches of the Divine Miracle.
• Zhong Kun and Yu Hongyuan, Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun, the three old farmers, and Ying Qi with Shen Shangchi each headed toward the inner city for different reasons, while Wang Ruika stayed behind to meditate.

Li Yang left her courtyard to search for people and found Jiang Yuqing being ambushed by three powerful mercenaries. She disguised herself as a little ox and killed one attacker, while Jiang Yuqing and Li Yang faced the other two.

• Li Yang left her courtyard disguised as a little ox, hoping to find people and supplies while wondering whether someone was directing Astral Realm creatures toward her.
• Lianxin sensed three humans lying in ambush, and Li Yang realized they were likely killers targeting Agronomy Department students.
• The three mercenaries attacked Jiang Yuqing, but Li Yang warned him through their Spirit Connection, allowing him to escape their first blow with a Teleportation Star Curse.
• Jiang Yuqing ran as Li Yang told him to hold off the attackers while she struck from behind.
• Li Yang used Burst-Speed Combo and Shadow Moon to kill one mercenary, and Jiang Yuqing threw a ball of flame at the two survivors.

Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing defeated a squad sent to kill her, then escaped to Little Ox’s house with one attacker alive for questioning. There, Jiang Yuqing discovered Little Ox’s identity and the backyard full of mutated Star Plants as Li Yang began harvesting them.

• Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing killed the attackers, but one managed to fire a signal flare before Li Yang captured him alive.
• Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing fled to Little Ox’s house, hiding their tracks and carrying the barely conscious attacker with them.
• Little Ox welcomed them and tied up the attacker with third-grade Green Oriole Vine after Li Yang said she planned to question him.
• Little Ox told Li Yang the backyard crops were ripe, and Jiang Yuqing was stunned to see many mutated Star Plants, including some in the Third Grade Realm.
• Li Yang cut down the Star Plants and purified a Star Seed, then asked Jiang Yuqing to help Little Ox identify and gather the materials.
• Jiang Yuqing asked whether Li Yang was really Li Yang, and she pointed out that his Shock System displayed people’s names.

Li Yang harvested Star Plants and gathered Jiang Yuqing’s Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills before defending their shelter from Astral Realm creatures all night. The next morning, she ordered Jiang Yuqing to refine more pills while puzzling over why her actions gave him Shock Points.

• Li Yang harvested Star Plants with the calf while Jiang Yuqing reacted to the plants and their banter, earning Shock Points.
• After night fell and Astral Realm creatures approached, Li Yang took Jiang Yuqing’s Star Recovery Pills and told him to sort the gathered materials while she fought outside.
• Jiang Yuqing sorted materials as Li Yang fought off the creatures through the night, gaining Shock Points whenever he watched her.
• Li Yang returned bloodied but used Vest to become clean, then told Jiang Yuqing to refine Star Recovery Pills in his pill furnace.
• Li Yang considered why she seemed able to generate Shock Points for Jiang Yuqing despite believing he should only collect points related to himself.

Li Yang discovered that her presence let Jiang Yuqing generate Shock Points, then arranged for him to make Star Recovery Pills and a Realm-Breaking Pill for Little Ox. She expanded the courtyard to grow more Star Plants, while Jiang Yuqing mistakenly concluded that she was collecting Slaughter Points.

• Li Yang realized Jiang Yuqing could generate Shock Points after meeting her and demanded that he refine Star Recovery Pills for her.
• Li Yang broke through the wall into the neighboring courtyard so she could expand the Star Plant plots and increase her lifespan income.
• Li Yang learned that Little Ox's Plow Ox Clan advanced by taking Realm-Breaking Pills and asked Jiang Yuqing to make one for him.
• Jiang Yuqing mistook Li Yang's plans for a way to collect Slaughter Points, and Li Yang let him believe it.
• Jiang Yuqing agreed to make Little Ox an excellent Realm-Breaking Pill and began preparing materials to refine the Star Recovery Pills.

Li Yang tortured the captured attacker, Kuang Daqiang, to learn who had sent him, while the assassin leader discovered she could disguise her appearance. After Li Yang gave Kuang Daqiang an antidote, he was finally able to speak.

• Jiang Yuqing refined pills that helped Little Ox break through and supported Li Yang’s work.
• Li Yang interrogated the captured attacker and used Jiang Yuqing’s Heart-Clawing and Liver-Scratching Pill to torment him.
• The assassin leader used Time Rewind to learn that Li Yang had disguised herself as a Plow Ox Clan member.
• Lianxin reassured Li Yang when she worried that torture and killing were making her cruel.
• Kuang Daqiang revealed his name but resisted answering Li Yang’s questions until Jiang Yuqing gave him a Toxin-Cleansing Pill.