Recaps

Li Yang recruited the Plow Ox Clan and brought Jiang Yuqing to the eastern district to help prepare for the beast tide. She began breeding Star Plant seeds while the Agronomy Department learned cultivation techniques from the oxen.

• Li Yang offered the Plow Ox Clan 50 merit points a day and a Realm-Breaking Pill each to join her, and Niu Er accepted.
• Zhong Kun and Yu Hongyuan found Jiang Yuqing at the Pill Division and brought him to the eastern district after he eagerly agreed to help Li Yang.
• Li Yang asked Jiang Yuqing to refine Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills and then led everyone to set up camp in the outer city.
• Lin Zhaoqin and the others asked the Plow Ox Clan to teach them how to grow Star Plants, and Mother Ox revealed that the Nature Department had originally taught their techniques.
• Li Yang began breeding Star Plant seeds while the others went to learn planting from the Plow Ox Clan.

Li Yang organized the East District’s defenses against the coming beast tide and directed the Agronomy Department and Plow Ox Clan to plant Star Plants along three paths. After a day of work and a shared dinner, everyone tended the plants overnight while Li Yang teased Jiang Yuqing about repaying the pill materials.

• Li Yang finished cultivating 1,000 seeds at the cost of 5,000 years of her lifespan, then sent the others to plant Star Plants while she mapped the East District’s defense points.
• Li Yang divided the planting among three paths, and Niu Er taught the Agronomy Department how to plant as the group learned which members of the Plow Ox Clan excelled at breaking ground and sowing.
• Li Yang and the others shared a hearty dinner with the Plow Ox Clan, easing the clan’s wariness toward the humans from the Nature Department.
• Jiang Yuqing discovered that a young bull was named Jiang Qingqing, and Ying Qi’s casual use of “Qingqing” amused the group.
• The group returned to tending the 1,000 Star Plants to encourage them to produce extra seeds, while Li Yang refused to reimburse Jiang Yuqing for the pill materials and joked that he had already received Shock Points.

With the Star Plants ready to defend the Nature Department against the beast tide, Li Yang worried that the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo might interfere. She devised a public-opinion campaign to deter him, and the chapter ended as Zhong Kun and Wang Ruika began a staged argument at a busy casino.

• The 1,000 Star Plants flourished across the city defense point, and Zhong Kun expected the department to grow their numbers further by harvesting seeds.
• Li Yang warned Jiang Yuqing that the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo could obstruct the Nature Department, and she refused to give up the Nature Pavilion.
• Li Yang decided to use public opinion to pressure the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo and told Jiang Yuqing to contact the Jiang Family's media company.
• Li Yang assigned Zhong Kun to set up a betting pool at a casino and told him to bring Wang Ruika rather than Yu Hongyuan.
• Zhong Kun and Wang Ruika followed Li Yang's plan and started an arranged argument at the casino that evening.

Li Yang and the Nature Department publicized their ability to defend the east district against the beast tide, while hinting that a Grandmaster could still threaten them. Myriad Forms Media released a promotional video and prepared to livestream the defense, leaving Li Yang to ensure the department received its share of the revenue.

• Zhong Kun and Wang Ruika spread word at a casino that Li Yang could control 2,000 Third Grade Peak Star Plants and that the Nature Department could withstand the beast tide.
• Zhong Kun warned that someone might deliberately interfere, and Wang Ruika bluntly said the Star Plants could not withstand a Grandmaster, implicitly challenging the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo.
• Jiang Yuqing asked Li Yang about Myriad Forms Media's proposal to make a promotional video, and she agreed to a livestream on the day of the beast tide.
• Li Yang reminded Jiang Yuqing to negotiate the livestream revenue split, then Myriad Forms Media released a widely shared video of the Star Plants and the Agronomy Department members.
• Zhong Qian remained injured after he and Lin Zhaoxia fought Descending Star Cult remnants in the Divine Miracle, regretting that they had missed its final battle.

Li Yang prepared the Nature Department to face the eastern district’s beast tide, arranging a livestream and planting all 2,200 Star Plants to ensure the defense would succeed. As the beast tide approached, the Agronomy Department worked through the night to mature the plants before dawn.

• Lin Zhaoxia and Zhong Qian arrived at the Heavenly Palace and applied to support the eastern district, but Kong Ling realized Li Yang had meant it when she said she did not need help.
• Myriad Forms Media’s promotional video went viral, and the agency announced it would livestream the beast tide; the Nature Department warned people not to watch in person.
• Wen Meng met Li Yang at the Nature Pavilion, agreed on the livestream’s revenue split, and signed a contract with her.
• The Marquis of Mirror Bamboo and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion discussed Li Yang and the Nature Pavilion, and the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo refused to use underhanded methods against her.
• The Agronomy Department produced nearly 2,200 seeds, and Li Yang ordered all of them planted rather than setting any aside.
• The Agronomy Department stayed up all night to mature the Star Plants before dawn on the predicted day of the beast tide.

Li Yang’s Nature Department faced the eastern district’s beast tide with a defense of Star Plants as Myriad Forms Media livestreamed the battle. The plants held the beasts back, while Jiang Yuqing’s commentary recast Li Yang’s dangerous work on the battlefield as an act of protecting her companions, earning her the viewers’ admiration.

• Li Yang prepared the Star Plant defenses and coordinated the team as Myriad Forms Media began livestreaming the eastern district.
• The beast tide charged from the desert, and the Thousand-Leaf Flowers decapitated attacking beasts while the wider Star Plant defense slowed the advance.
• Kong Ling and other combat commanders watched the livestream and saw the Star Plants withstand the fierce tide, though many plants were destroyed.
• Li Yang darted between the beasts and Star Plants, harvesting plants that were near death before they could turn on their controllers.
• Jiang Yuqing explained Li Yang’s actions to the livestream audience and praised her courage, prompting viewers to admire her responsibility.

Li Yang’s Nature Department defeated the East District Beast Tide without casualties, and Jiang Yuqing’s livestream review explained the resources and risks behind their victory. The broadcast won public support and gifts for the Nature Department as the students returned safely to the Nature Pavilion.

• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion praised Li Yang’s battle, while the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo realized he had lost the Nature Pavilion.
• Li Yang and the Nature Department students held the East District against the Beast Tide, suffering no deaths or injuries.
• Li Yang kept the cameras following the exhausted students until they reached the Nature Pavilion, while Jiang Yuqing remained on the wall to give a post-battle review.
• Jiang Yuqing described the value of the ruined Star Plants, the Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, and the risks Li Yang faced harvesting wounded plants.
• Jiang Yuqing praised Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students, and viewers responded with Shock Points and gifts for the Nature Department.

After the Nature Department’s victory, Li Yang assessed the rewards, costs, and improvements needed to defend the East District, while the neutral Marquis of Wind Pavilion watched her progress. The chapter ended with Song Menjiao inviting Li Yang and the others to choose treasures from both floors of the Treasure Pavilion.

• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion decided to keep observing Li Yang and ordered the first and second floors of the Treasure Pavilion opened for the Nature Department.
• Li Yang explained that she had killed the gravely injured Star Plants to collect seeds, then received fifty thousand merit points from the livestream earnings.
• Li Yang considered the Nature Department’s need for stronger combat techniques and weapons, and decided she wanted to reach the Fourth Grade Realm and seek a growing divine weapon in the Sword Tomb.
• After resting overnight in the Starlight-rich Nature Pavilion, Li Yang learned that changing its layout could disrupt its nourishing effects.
• Song Menjiao arrived on behalf of the Marquis of Wind Pavilion and invited Li Yang and the Nature Department to choose treasures from both floors of the Treasure Pavilion.

After earning the right to enter the Treasure Pavilion for their service during the Divine Miracle and the beast tide, Li Yang and her companions headed there to choose treasures. Li Yang secured Lianxin’s right to a reward, but the Marquis of Wind Pavilion explained that letting him into the pavilion would cost it at least two of its best treasures, and Li Yang proposed twenty thousand merit points instead.

• Song Menjiao told Li Yang and her companions they could enter the Treasure Pavilion’s second floor and take one treasure each.
• As Song Menjiao warned that Lianxin would detect every treasure, Li Yang insisted he deserved an equal reward for helping her break through the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion summoned Li Yang and introduced Lingling, a bellflower whose greeting gave Li Yang ten years of lifespan.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion explained that Lianxin would not be harmed in the Treasure Pavilion, but his presence would cause it to lose at least two treasures.
• Li Yang offered to keep Lianxin out of the pavilion in exchange for twenty thousand merit points, arguing that he had saved everyone in the Divine Miracle.

Li Yang took Lianxin and the Nature Department members to the Treasure Pavilion after the Marquis of Wind Pavilion granted her access. She introduced Lianxin to the group and explained how he had helped protect their teacher, then encountered Jiang Yuqing waiting outside the pavilion.

• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion sent Li Yang back to the Nature Pavilion and granted her permission to visit the Treasure Pavilion with Lianxin, limited to its first two floors.
• Li Yang told the Nature Department members that Lianxin belonged to their pavilion, and Lianxin greeted them through the Spirit Sea.
• Li Yang explained that Lianxin had protected Si Kui and that Si Kui had been working toward a breakthrough so she could defend the Nature Department.
• Song Menjiao led Li Yang and the group into the South District and toward the Treasure Pavilion.
• Jiang Yuqing greeted Li Yang outside the Treasure Pavilion and said he had a chance to enter as well.

Li Yang entered the Treasure Pavilion with her companions and shared a strategy for choosing treasures, though she could see nothing herself. With Lianxin able to sense 1,314 treasures, Li Yang asked her to find Heavenly Spring Water, and Lianxin’s excitement earned Li Yang a flood of Lifespan Points.

• Master Chen returned to the Pill Department, and Song Menjiao greeted him before he headed upstairs.
• Li Yang advised her companions to spend the first fifteen minutes evaluating treasures and the final fifteen choosing the first one that exceeded their standard.
• Song Menjiao opened the first floor and warned that breaking the rules meant ejection and a 5,000-merit-point repair fee.
• Li Yang entered with the others, found she could see only empty shelves, and confirmed she could still communicate with Lianxin.
• Lianxin said she could sense 1,314 treasures, and Li Yang asked her to locate Heavenly Spring Water for their first pick.
• Lianxin’s excitement generated two 100-year Lifespan Point rewards, leaving Li Yang worried that her lifespan cap could be exceeded once it was unlocked.

Li Yang chose a huge vat of heavenly spring water for Lianxin, then continued searching the Treasure Pavilion with his help. On the second floor, Lianxin sensed an exceptionally bright treasure, and Li Yang approached it to learn its details.

• Li Yang persuaded Lianxin to take heavenly spring water first and asked him to help find a valuable treasure.
• Lianxin located a huge vat of heavenly spring water, which Li Yang chose for its ability to nourish Divine Soil.
• Jiang Yuqing gained Shock Points when he saw Li Yang choose the vat, while the Agronomy Department members admired her generosity.
• Li Yang left the vat with the attendants to be taken outside and promised Lianxin he could drink his fill.
• On the second floor, Lianxin sensed a treasure brighter than everything they had encountered, and Li Yang approached the small shelf where it was located.

Li Yang chose the Sixth Grade Noisy Pot despite its reputation as a useless, disruptive treasure, while Jiang Yuqing mistook her two selections for a violation of the Treasure Pavilion’s rules. After everyone left the pavilion, Li Yang heard Master Chen explain that he had come for the Sword Tomb rather than any treasure.

• Li Yang learned that the Noisy Pot was a Sixth Grade treasure whose noise could disrupt cultivation, but chose it because she sensed something unusual about it and wanted to appraise it herself.
• The Treasure Pavilion administrator and the Agronomy Department members were surprised that Li Yang had taken the pavilion’s long-unwanted Noisy Pot, while Jiang Yuqing gained Shock Points as he wondered how she could choose two treasures.
• Zhong Kun and Fang Chuyun regretted noticing other treasures after making their choices, Ying Qi kept her eyes closed to meditate, and Yu Hongyuan focused on Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing.
• After everyone exited the Treasure Pavilion, the Nature Department members asked Li Yang what she had chosen and Jiang Yuqing asked why she could choose twice.
• Li Yang overheard Song Menjiao ask Master Chen why he had left without a treasure, and Master Chen said he was heading to the Sword Tomb instead.

Li Yang and the others displayed the treasures they had chosen, while Jiang Yuqing puzzled over Li Yang receiving two items and her supposed ties to the Marquis of Wind Pavilion. The Marquis recognized that the Noisy Pot held a sword spirit, and Li Yang returned to the Nature Pavilion with Heavenly Spring Water and her companions.

• Li Yang introduced the Noisy Pot, and the others showed their treasures, including farming tools, Star Formations, a Star Weapon, and Wang Ruika's Sound Sleep Pillow.
• Li Yang joked that she was the Marquis of Wind Pavilion's illegitimate daughter, and the Marquis laughed while recognizing the sword spirit inside the Noisy Pot and the danger it could bring in the Sword Tomb.
• Song Menjiao confirmed that Li Yang had received two treasures by the Marquis's order, leaving Jiang Yuqing shocked and eager to stay close to Li Yang for more Shock Points.
• Song Menjiao gave Li Yang a vat of Heavenly Spring Water, and Li Yang credited Lianxin with choosing it for the Agronomy Department.
• Yu Hongyuan explained that Li Yang had selected the Noisy Pot for weight-bearing cultivation, and Song Menjiao accepted the explanation before the group returned to the Nature Pavilion.

Li Yang arranged a temporary home for the Nature Department in the east district’s outer city and secured approval to take Star Combat Division missions. She searched for a dangerous mission to break through her realm and began investigating the Star-Hunting Battlefield, while reflecting on the Star Nexus Pavilion’s past tolerance of the Descending Star Cult.

• Li Yang asked Little Ox and his family to find a home in the outer city, and the Plow Ox Clan selected a residence near the inner-city walls.
• Zhong Kun offered to pay for a miniature teleportation formation, while Li Yang agreed that the department’s shared funds would cover its operating costs.
• Li Yang entrusted the courtyard to Little Ox and began looking for a mission that would let her challenge a Fourth Grade Realm creature.
• Kong Ling agreed to vouch for Li Yang so she could take Star Combat Division missions despite her teacher being in seclusion.
• Li Yang found five-star missions targeting early-stage Fourth Grade Realm creatures, including one at the Star-Hunting Battlefield, and searched the forum for more information.
• After reading a discussion about the Descending Star Cult, Li Yang considered why the Star Nexus Pavilion had allowed it to operate for so long.

Li Yang rejected the Star-Hunting Battlefield and accepted a solo mission to clear a dangerous Star Plant in the Blue Crystal Realm Domain. Before setting out, she prepared to investigate the Noisy Pot by spending 100 years of lifespan through her system.

• Li Yang read about the Star-Hunting Battlefield, disliked its rule of killing for points, and filtered out missions there.
• Li Yang accepted a dangerous mission to clear a fourth-grade Star Plant blocking the Blue Crystal Realm Domain’s passage, relying on the domain’s suppression of stronger outsiders.
• Li Yang told Zhong Kun, Lin Zhaoqin, and Yu Hongyuan about the mission, but explained that the Blue Crystal Realm Domain allowed only her to go.
• The Blue Crystal King rejected a young clansman’s offer to fight the Star Plant and learned that the Heavenly Palace had sent someone from the Agronomy Department.
• Li Yang prepared for the mission and decided to spend 100 years of lifespan to ask the system about the Noisy Pot.

Li Yang discovered that the Noisy Pot’s effects varied according to the listener’s talent, then used Lianxin to hear its voice clearly. The pot revealed that it was angry and wanted to escape, leaving Li Yang to wonder what it truly was.

• Li Yang learned that the system rated the Noisy Pot as Eighth Grade and decided not to spend 5,000 years of lifespan to identify its use.
• Li Yang meditated with the pot for half an hour without hearing anything, then tested it with Lin Zhaoqin, who could endure only three minutes.
• Yu Hongyuan lasted six minutes and Xia Putao lasted fifteen, and Li Yang concluded that the pot’s noise grew stronger for more talented people.
• Li Yang gave the pot to Lianxin and heard it clearly through their shared senses as it cursed humans and threatened to kill them all once it escaped.

Li Yang questioned the Noisy Pot and learned that its occupant was a Sword Spirit Clan prophet who could strengthen Star Weapons, but she kept him sealed until she had one to offer. After preparing for her mission, she traveled from the Heavenly Palace to the Blue Crystal Main City, where she encountered the Blue Crystal Clan leader.

• Li Yang learned that the Noisy Pot's occupant had been trapped by a Huaxia Clan member and could strengthen one Star Weapon if released from the Heaven and Earth Pot.
• Li Yang put the Noisy Pot away and prepared to improve her combat strength before breaking through in the Blue Crystal Realm Domain.
• Li Yang learned purple-grade Frenzy and Severing Space, arranged pills with Jiang Yuqing, and prepared Star Artifacts and Star Curses.
• Kong Ling gave Li Yang a teleportation key and sent her through the Star Combat Division's array to the Blue Crystal Main City.
• Li Yang arrived in the crystal-filled Blue Crystal Realm Domain and watched a crystal pillar transform into the Blue Crystal Clan leader, who approached with attendants.

Li Yang arrived in Blue Crystal territory to deal with a dangerous Star Plant, but the Blue Crystal Clan doubted her because they thought she was from the little-known Agronomy Department. After she revealed she was a Peak Third Grade Heavenly Fortune Bearer of the Nature Department, their doubts turned to admiration, and she prepared to inspect the Star Plant while considering the value of Blue Crystal Soil.

• Lan Li welcomed Li Yang, while Lan Yu challenged whether she could kill the evil creature.
• Li Yang declined the royal palace's hospitality and asked to be taken straight to the Star Plant, then learned from the system that Blue Crystal Soil could help crops yield ice-attribute Star Cores.
• Li Yang introduced herself as a Heavenly Fortune Bearer of the Nature Department, startling the Blue Crystal Clan and making their hair stand on end.
• Lan Li ordered Lan Yu to apologize, and Lan Yu expressed his admiration for Li Yang.
• Li Yang accepted the apology, asked to see the Star Plant, and considered how Blue Crystal Soil might improve the Nature Department's harvest and profits.

Li Yang fought and killed the Fourth Grade Star Plant that had been tormenting the Blue Crystal Clan. Afterward, she considered the threat posed by cunning intelligent Astral Realm creatures and remembered the tree man’s claim that he belonged to the Bone Peach Clan.

• The Blue Crystal King led Li Yang and the others to the Star Plant at the boundary of the Blue Crystal Realm Domain, where Lan Yu mourned the Blue Crystal Clan members it had eaten.
• Li Yang used the Star Combat Division’s Burst-Speed Combo to attack the Star Plant’s weak points while the Blue Crystal King and a scholar explained her techniques to Lan Yu.
• The Star Plant turned into a tree man, tried to distract Li Yang with promises of treasure, and threatened her with retaliation from the Bone Peach Clan.
• Li Yang ignored the tree man’s offers and threats, then killed him with a converging Severing Space strike that triggered Execution.
• Li Yang reflected on the danger of intelligent Astral Realm creatures and recalled the Bone Peach Clan as the battle ended.

Li Yang explored the Blue Crystal Realm Domain with Lan Yu and discovered that its dangerous flowing-sand wasteland was actually an enormous deposit of Blue Crystal Soil. She confirmed the soil’s different grades and left the Blue Crystal Clan’s hidden resource poised to transform its fortunes.

• Li Yang declined the Blue Crystal King’s victory feast and asked Lan Yu to show her around the realm domain.
• Lan Yu explained that the Blue Crystal Clan depended on Blue Crystal Stone, while limited resources and slow reproduction kept the clan poor and unable to advance to Fourth Grade.
• Li Yang used the system’s route guidance to locate Blue Crystal Soil, spending 500 years of lifespan to find a marker leading to an uninhabited zone.
• Lan Yu warned Li Yang that the zone’s flowing sand corroded and swallowed members of his clan, but she asked him to take her there.
• Li Yang recognized the vast flowing expanse as Blue Crystal Soil and touched it safely while Lan Yu watched in amazement.
• Li Yang spent one year of lifespan on the system’s appraisal and learned that the Blue Crystal Soil came in one-, two-, and three-star qualities.

Li Yang discovered that the blue crystal soil corroded beings below the Third Grade Realm and secretly collected a vast amount to study for growing things. After returning to Huaxia’s Heavenly Palace, she showed the Nature Department her battle with the Bone Peach Clan and warned them that its mother tree might threaten them.

• Li Yang tested the blue crystal soil on Lan Yu, healed his injured finger, and learned from the system that it corroded matter below the Third Grade Realm.
• Li Yang persuaded Lan Yu to keep the soil’s possible significance secret from the Blue Crystal King while she investigated, then collected several dozen tons with Lianxin’s help.
• Li Yang returned to Huaxia’s Heavenly Palace, submitted her mission, and received Kong Li’s offer to sponsor future missions.
• Li Yang used Spirit Connection to show the Nature Department her fight with a Bone Peach and warned them to be cautious of the clan and its mother tree.

Li Yang gathered the Agronomy Department and Little Ox’s family to test whether Blue Crystal Soil could improve cultivation and grow Star Plants that produced Star Cores. They found that the soil accelerated the growth of ice-attribute Star Plants, and everyone waited to see whether the first crop would yield Star Cores.

• Li Yang explained Blue Crystal Soil to the group and assigned Little Ox’s family and the Agronomy Department different planting tests.
• The group planted Star Plants, mutant wheat, and mutant chives in Blue Crystal Soil, and Li Yang observed that it improved cultivation and retained water.
• Xia Putao and Zhong Kun found that their wheat and chives had stopped growing, while some of Little Ox’s Star Plants also stalled.
• Li Yang and several others identified ice-attribute seeds and had Little Ox’s family replant them in the Blue Crystal Soil.
• The ice-attribute Star Plants grew unusually fast, and the group stayed to watch as the crop reached maturity.

Li Yang harvested the Star Plants grown in Blue Crystal Soil and discovered they had yielded three purple Star Cores. She kept the soil’s Star Core-producing ability secret and considered how the weak Nature Department could protect the resource, leaving plans to expand the plantation for later.

• Li Yang harvested twenty Star Plants, gained only ten years of lifespan, and collected three purple Star Cores as the Blue Crystal Soil fell from two-star to one-star quality.
• Li Yang appraised a Star Core and discovered it contained the purple Star Skill Scythe of Ice, which she hoped might help her harvest crops faster.
• Li Yang told Wang Ruika to learn Star Core appraisal, while Zhong Kun persuaded him that he could become the Agronomy Department’s founding grandmaster of the skill.
• Li Yang warned everyone not to reveal that the Blue Crystal Soil produced Star Cores and decided to keep the plantation small while they considered future plans.
• The group discussed the Pill Division’s protection of the Blue Crystal Realm Domain and the Nature Department’s lack of strength to take over its protection.
• Li Yang considered Shen Binghua and the Shen Family’s control of ice-type Star Cores, then concluded there was no need to expand the plantation before the Nature Department had enough people.

Li Yang told Shen Binghua that Blue Crystal Soil let her grow contaminated Star Plants that produced purple Star Cores at an extraordinary rate, and asked for help finding a trustworthy partner. Shen Binghua advised caution about the Marquis of Wind Pavilion but revealed she could not take the matter to the Heavenly Palace because she had been punished for killing a Spirit Department general.

• Ying Qi contacted Shen Shangchi and asked him to arrange a private call with Shen Binghua.
• Li Yang explained the Blue Crystal Soil and its ability to produce Star Cores through planted Star Plants, prompting Shen Binghua to urge her to go to the Marquis of Wind Pavilion.
• Li Yang said she did not trust the Marquis of Wind Pavilion and wanted a cooperative partner who would not take control of the resource.
• Shen Binghua said she could not handle the matter at the Heavenly Palace because, twenty-eight years earlier, she had killed a Spirit Department general and received a military punishment.