Recaps

Li Yang used the Longevity System to raise her abilities and won first place in the provincial practical exam by harvesting mutated plants and helping defeat a Second Grade dahlia. Back in Huangcheng, she received cultivation resources from Zhong Kun and Fang Chuyun as she prepared to enter the Star-Wielding path.

• Li Yang activated the Longevity System, harvested a giant mutated four-leaf clover for ten years of lifespan, and learned from He Song about Zhongdu Military Academy’s bounty missions.
• Li Yang spent lifespan simulating training, raised her Physique to 90, and drew attention at the school assessment, then stayed at Huangcheng No. 1 High School to prepare for the provincial exam.
• Li Yang carefully memorized the quarantine zone’s Entry Instructions, avoided dangerous areas, and harvested Gradeless mutated plants to build a commanding lead in Group 8.
• Li Yang teamed up with Chen Song’s group to kill a Grade One man-eating flower, then learned she had finished first in the rankings before the examiners opened the group partitions.
• Li Yang crossed into other groups to harvest more plants, met Zhong Kun, and joined Zhong Qian and Lin Zhaoqin in fighting a Second Grade mutated dahlia.
• The examiners confirmed Li Yang had taken first place with 380 points, and a retest showed her Physique had reached 95.
• Li Yang received four Star-Attracting Pills and a cultivation technique from Zhong Kun, then Fang Chuyun visited and offered to buy the Second Grade pill Li Yang had improved.

Li Yang advanced her Star Wielding abilities, survived a Descending Star Cult attack, and reached Zhongdu Military Academy. Despite strong recruitment offers, she chose the struggling Agronomy Department and became Si Kui’s disciple after Si Kui refined her Star Apertures.

• Li Yang improved pills and her cultivation, expanded her Star Apertures, and placed first in Huangcheng No. 1 High School’s mock exam.
• Li Yang chose Zhongdu Military Academy and traveled toward Central Capital with Fang Chuyun and Yu Hongyuan, where Descending Star Cult members attacked the convoy.
• Li Yang killed a hidden cultist with Fist Burst, and Lin Yuesuo gave her an Aperture Stabilizing Pill after the attackers retreated.
• At the academy, Li Yang took a mutated-wheat harvesting task, gained strength and lifespan from the work and the Starlight-rich food, and decided to join Agronomy.
• Li Yang advanced her cultivation, bought a Realm-Breaking Pill, and opened her fourth Star Aperture while concealing it with Hidden Shadow.
• At the opening ceremony, Li Yang rejected recruitment offers from the academy’s departments and announced that she would join Agronomy.
• Si Kui agreed to take Li Yang as a student, then refined her four Star Apertures and recognized her as a natural-type Heavenly Fortune Bearer.
• Li Yang received system notifications raising her maximum lifespan and lifespan by 400 years, but she did not know why.

Li Yang reclaimed the Agronomy Department’s Tree Tower, used it to gain Star Cores and skills, and joined He Song’s team on a mission against cultists. After Red Scorpion’s ambush was stopped by Shen Binghua, Si Kui explained the Astral Realm’s connection to other realms and the danger facing Huaxia if its city fell.

• Li Yang acknowledged Si Kui as her teacher, harvested wheat, and began training Yu Hongyuan while deciding to grow stronger.
• Si Kui arranged for Li Yang to enter the Tree Tower with the Star Magic Department, where Li Yang gathered star plants and led the team to defeat one and obtain Star Cores.
• Li Yang challenged the Star Magic Department’s claim to the Tree Tower, publicized her run and its history, and secured its return to the Agronomy Department through a ticket presale plan.
• Li Yang appraised Star Cores for new skills, harvested wheat, and joined He Song’s team to hunt a cultist hideout so she could fight a stronger opponent.
• At the cultist hideout, Li Yang helped He Song’s team defeat the cultists and protect six captive boys, while Red Scorpion prepared to ambush them.
• Red Scorpion immobilized the team, but Shen Binghua arrived and protected the students when he self-destructed, and Li Yang then pressured Shen to investigate who had arranged the attack.
• Si Kui explained to Li Yang that the Astral Realm connected multiple realms and that Huaxia’s people would be prey to invaders if their city fell.

Li Yang built ties with the Pill Department, prepared for the freshman monthly exam, and advanced through its arena matches. After defeating Zhong Qian, she entered the intermission before her decisive match against Lin Zhaoxia.

• Si Kui told Li Yang that the Nature Department’s disciples had been betrayed and ambushed after defeating the Fenglie Clan’s forces, and Li Yang proposed recruiting prominent family heirs to rebuild the department.
• Li Yang advanced to Second Grade, tested her ability to earn lifespan by killing mutated plants, and applied for a Pill Department minor.
• The Pill Department scanner rated Li Yang F-rank, but she later produced a Grade One High Stage pill and accepted Li Yaowan as her minor-study mentor.
• Li Yang and Li Yaowan negotiated a six-four split on pill sales, and Li Yang studied the Agronomy Department’s old cultivation records before preparing for the monthly exam.
• Li Yang trained to use Frenzy, Severing Space, and Execution, then placed second in the exam’s cultivation rankings behind Lin Zhaoxia.
• Li Yang defeated Ning Shaoyu and Shen Shangchi in the arena matches, while Lin Zhaoxia advanced by defeating Fang Chuyun, Lin Zhaoqin, and Zhong Qian.
• Li Yang defeated Zhong Qian with a Frenzy-powered Severing Space and Execution, and prepared to face Lin Zhaoxia after recovering during the intermission.