Recaps

Li Yang won her duel with Lin Zhaoxia, protected Si Kui from the living lotus, and expanded the Agronomy Department while preparing for the Star Ash Mystic Realm. There, she collected the realm’s star ash soil, completed a lifespan task, and shocked both academies by refining 777 pills before returning to Zhongdu.

• Li Yang defeated Lin Zhaoxia in the final match, then returned to the Agronomy Department as Si Kui entered seclusion and the department drew a rush of transfer applicants.
• Li Yang stopped Si Kui from devouring the sentient lotus, formed a Spirit Pact with Lianxin, and helped Fang Chuyun, Lin Zhaoqin, and Zhong Kun join the Nature Department.
• Li Yang and her teammates completed a City Defense Army mission, then she prepared to enter the Star Ash Mystic Realm with Lianxin and agreed to help Zhongdu’s Pill Department in its contest with Star-Slaying Military Academy.
• Li Yang collected the realm’s star ash soil through Lianxin, completed the fresh-air task, and gained access to thousands of years of lifespan while the realm became brighter and more stable.
• Li Yang exchanged Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills for ingredients and refined 777 pills, while Jiang Yuqing collected shock points and later made a deal with her for star ash soil.
• Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing each returned with pills, and Lü Tiantian announced that Zhongdu students had refined more than 900 in total, including Li Yang’s 777, leaving Jiang Chunhua stunned.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department nurtured Divine Soil and cultivated mutated crops, while Li Yang helped stop the Descending Star Cult from bringing the Flower of Evil into Central Capital. The midterm rankings then placed Li Yang first after the academy counted spirit value toward the Agronomy Department’s assessment.

• Li Yang outproduced Jiang Yuqing in pill-making, earning permanent rights to several pill formulas and an offer of merit points for her pills.
• Li Yang and her companions loosened the Divine Soil, raised their stats through farming, and planted second-tier mutated chives that Li Yang later harvested for a large lifespan reward.
• Li Yang learned seed breeding from Song Jinhuan, forged a cultivation dish, and cultivated chive seeds with Lianxin’s help.
• He Song recruited Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students for a City Defense Army mission at Tianyang Port, where Li Yang confronted cultists carrying the Flower of Evil.
• Shen Binghua rescued Li Yang, and the academy rewarded her with merit, a future Sword Domain opportunity, and access to the Nature Pavilion while Si Kui paid a heavy price for killing suspected traitors.
• Jiang Yuqing told Li Yang that the Descending Star Cult had placed a bounty on her, admitted he was undercover, and later brought pills to her midterm examination.
• Li Yang scored 818 in physique and 730 in spirit, beating Jiang Yuqing’s spirit score and winning his wager of pills and a Qiankun Bag.
• The academy counted thirty percent of spirit value in the Agronomy Department’s assessment, placing Li Yang first with 1,037 points and prompting students to debate the scoring rule.

Li Yang entered the Divine Miracle, saved Niu Er, and turned his courtyard into a Star Plant farm that supplied lifespan and drew Jiang Yuqing into her plans. After the pair fought off mercenaries, Li Yang captured one and began questioning him while their enemies learned her disguise.

• Li Yang and her companions entered the Tree Tower’s second floor, where they gathered Star Plants and formed a Third Grade Realm behemoth that Li Yang defeated by destroying its Spirit Soul.
• Si Kui left for the Astral Realm, and Li Yang stayed in the Agronomy Department, cultivated her skills, and learned that Si Kui and the Marquis of the Long Night had slain a Divine Venerable.
• Li Yang decided to enter the Divine Miracle despite Shen Binghua’s warnings, prepared her companions for possible attacks, and entered with Lianxin.
• Li Yang saved Niu Er from a Star Plant and enlisted the Plow Ox Clan farmer to cultivate Star Plant seeds, discovering that harvested plants could provide her with lifespan.
• Li Yang fought the creatures gathering outside their shelter while Niu Er planted the seeds, then expanded her Star Plant farm as Jiang Yuqing searched the ruined city for her.
• Li Yang warned Jiang Yuqing of an ambush, helped him kill the mercenaries, and brought a captured attacker back to Niu Er’s house.
• Li Yang harvested the courtyard’s Star Plants and had Jiang Yuqing refine pills while she fought off creatures through the night and expanded the farm into a neighboring courtyard.
• Li Yang asked Jiang Yuqing to help Niu Er advance, interrogated the captured attacker, and learned that the assassin leader had used Time Rewind to discover her Plow Ox Clan disguise.

Li Yang exposed and defeated the Hunting Blade assassins, then helped break the Divine Miracle’s shield and escaped with the explorers. In the Astral Realm, she took possession of the Nature Pavilion, joined the defense against a beast tide, and offered the displaced Plow Ox Clan work and temporary identity tokens.

• Li Yang lured Yan Wu and the Hunting Blade assassins into a confrontation by posing as the Divine Miracle Core, then killed Yan Wu and helped her companions defeat the remaining assassins.
• Li Yang and the explorers attacked the golden shield surrounding Lianxin until it shattered, and Li Yang repaired her Invincible Shield with lifespan as the Divine Miracle crumbled.
• After Jiang Yuqing’s account praised Li Yang for protecting the explorers, the Agronomy Department graduated and traveled with He Song through the passage into the Astral Realm.
• Li Yang received the emerald key to the Nature Pavilion and decided to claim it despite He Song’s warning that the eastern sector was difficult to defend against beast tides.
• When a beast tide struck the northern wall, Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students helped the wounded and fought effectively on the left flank, earning Kong Ling’s apology.
• Li Yang activated the Nature Pavilion with the emerald key, then sent her companions to prepare seeds and contact Jiang Yuqing while she went to find Little Ox’s family.
• Li Yang met Little Ox’s displaced family and offered the Plow Ox Clan temporary identity tokens and paid farming work at the Nature Pavilion.