Chapter Summaries

Li Yang reunited with the Agronomy Department and explained her plan to make the attackers believe she was the Divine Miracle's core. While Jiang Yuqing tried to join the scheme as her bandit bride, Shen Shangchi, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao began maneuvering the ambushing teams toward choosing Fifth Master as their commander.

• Li Yang returned to the fortress with the disguised Agronomy Department, and Jiang Yuqing learned that the misunderstanding could not be cleared up yet.
• Lin Zhaoqin eagerly asked Little Ox about controlling Star Plants, and Li Yang said the group could study the ability after the conflict.
• Jiang Yuqing volunteered to join Li Yang's plan as her bandit bride, but Li Yang refused despite his offers of pills and the lifespan rewards she received from Lianxin.
• Shen Shangchi, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao approached the ambushing teams and persuaded them that they needed to unite against the Divine Miracle's core.
• The three urged the teams to appoint an experienced commander, prompting the attackers to ask who should lead them.

Shen Shangchi helped draw Yan Wu into taking command of the Divine Miracle explorers, while Li Yang prepared a staged hostage threat to disrupt their attack on the fortress. The chapter ended as the explorers saw the bound Agronomy Department students and questioned Yan Wu about them.

• Shen Shangchi revealed his identity and campaigned to lead the explorers, prompting Yan Wu to claim the leadership to prevent their plans from being exposed.
• Yan Wu challenged Shen Shangchi to a duel, but Shen Shangchi backed down convincingly and withdrew with Lü Shunshun.
• Lü Shunshun reported back to Li Yang, who asked Jiang Yuqing to pose as the Divine Miracle core's lackey and claim she had taken students hostage.
• Li Yang had Little Ox bind Feng Yiqiao, Lin Zhaoqin, and other Agronomy Department students with Thousand-Hand Flowers as Jiang Yuqing shouted a warning to the assembled explorers.
• Yan Wu insisted the hostage display meant the Divine Miracle core feared them, but an explorer asked why the captives looked like students.

Li Yang used Jiang Yuqing to turn Yan Wu’s scheme against him, revealing the thousand Star Plants and pressuring him to step forward. The chapter ended with Li Yang swiftly cutting down a hundred Star Plants after Yan Wu was shoved ahead, while Shen Shangchi urged Yan Wu to bait her into destroying more.

• Jiang Yuqing announced that Li Yang would trade Yan Wu’s life for the thousand Star Plants, and Little Ox arranged the plants in a formation to prove their number.
• The Divine Miracle Core’s soul fragment in Kong Daban questioned why Li Yang would destroy her own Star Plants, while Yan Wu tried to keep the group from turning against him.
• Jiang Yuqing challenged Yan Wu to step forward, and Shen Shangchi and Xia Putao disguised their voices to urge him on with the others.
• Someone shoved Yan Wu forward, and Li Yang cut down a hundred Star Plants with startling speed.
• Jiang Yuqing challenged Yan Wu to take another step, and Shen Shangchi urged him to lure Li Yang into killing more Star Plants.

Li Yang used the Divine Miracle Core’s red light to make Yan Wu believe the Star Plants were an illusion, drawing his team together while the Agronomy Department students escaped their bonds and attacked. Li Yang revealed herself at Third Grade Ninth Stage as the team battle began.

• The explorers pressured Yan Wu into advancing while the red light appeared to destroy hundreds of Star Plants, and Jiang Yuqing urged him onward with claims about what the Divine Miracle Core liked to eat.
• Yan Wu decided Li Yang was bluffing with illusions and summoned his trusted subordinates, convincing them that the remaining Star Plants posed no threat.
• Once Yan Wu’s team had gathered, the vines binding the Agronomy Department students loosened, and Ying Qi, Fang Chuyun, Lü Shunshun, Lin Zhaoqin, and Zhong Kun attacked.
• Li Yang formed a Spirit Connection with her teammates, coordinated their first team battle, and shed her Little Ox Vest.
• Li Yang’s accumulated Slaughter Points raised her realm to the Third Grade Ninth Stage, and she entered the fight at peak condition.

Li Yang killed Yan Wu and the Hunting Blade assassins, then discovered that the Divine Miracle Core had appeared as a golden shield around Lianxin and was trying to attach itself to him. The group began attacking the shield, but their strongest blows could not damage it.

• Li Yang saw through Yan Wu's Time Rewind illusion, killed him, learned Time Rewind, and helped defeat the remaining Hunting Blade assassins.
• Jiang Yuqing told the Divine Miracle explorers that the attackers were Hunting Blade assassins who had stolen entry slots to target Huaxia's Heavenly Fortune Bearers.
• A golden shield formed around Lianxin, and Li Yang realized the Divine Miracle Core had come for him and was trying to attach itself to him.
• Li Yang identified the shield as the Divine Miracle Core, and Lianxin asked her to break it so he would not have to eat it.
• Li Yang and Lin Zhaoqin attacked the shield, but it remained unharmed, so Li Yang called on everyone to attack together.

Li Yang and the Divine Miracle explorers attacked the golden shield protecting the Divine Miracle Core, but its Laws of Heaven and Earth made it seem invincible. As the group grew exhausted and despairing, Li Yang kept fighting and refused to let Lianxin devour soul fragments to help her.

• The Agronomy Department's attacks failed to damage the golden shield, and Lin Zhaoqin and Shen Shangchi recognized that it was protected by the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Li Yang urged Jiang Yuqing to rally the explorers and attack the Divine Miracle Core together, warning that they would be trapped if they could not break it.
• The explorers joined the assault, but their attacks and weapons recoiled harmlessly from the shield as they learned it was the Divine Miracle Core.
• Jiang Yuqing organized students and explorers to make Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills while Li Yang and the strongest attackers continued striking the shield.
• After hours of failed attacks, the explorers became exhausted and despairing; Jiang Yuqing ran out of usable materials, and Ying Qi collapsed from exhaustion.
• When Lianxin weakly offered to eat soul fragments, Li Yang forcefully refused and continued attacking the golden shield.

Li Yang and the other explorers broke the Invincible Shield through relentless attacks, freeing Lianxin and causing the Divine Miracle to collapse. Li Yang passed out from exhaustion, then woke to find Lianxin beside her and realized his lifespan had helped repair the shield.

• Li Yang kept attacking the shield after the others had begun to give up, and her progress in the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra reached 1%.
• Lin Zhaoqin, Ying Qi, Shen Shangchi, Fang Chuyun, Jiang Yuqing, and the other explorers joined Li Yang in attacking the shield again.
• The golden shield cracked and shattered, and Li Yang caught Lianxin before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Li Yang told the system to repair the damaged Invincible Shield using lifespan, and Shen Binghua caught her as the Divine Miracle began to crumble.
• Li Yang woke after a long sleep and realized she had dreamed of Lianxin announcing lifespan gains in a sweet doll-like voice.

After returning from the Divine Miracle, Li Yang recovered and explored the upgraded system, discovering her new Star Aperture interface and the costs attached to the Divine Soil. She left off wondering whether her senior brothers and sisters had suffered its lifespan penalty.

• Li Yang thanked Lianxin for helping her escape the Divine Miracle, and he promised to repay her with lotus seeds when he returned to the Lotus Domain.
• Li Yang checked her progress and saw that she had reached Peak Third Grade, filled 20 more Star Apertures, and spent 60,000 years of lifespan during the expedition.
• Li Yang examined the upgraded system, which displayed her Star Aperture cores and halos and added separate interfaces for cultivation, pills, weapon forging, breeding, Star Artifacts, Star Curses, and secret treasures.
• Li Yang opened the Divine Soil entry and learned that harvesting crops with it carried a small chance of deducting five to ten years from the harvester’s lifespan.
• Li Yang wondered whether her senior brothers and sisters had ever triggered the Divine Soil’s lifespan penalty.

Li Yang examined the secret treasures and Star Skill she had obtained from the Divine Miracle, learning that the Invincible Shield could block any attack but consumed lifespan. She planned to repair it by improving her weapon-forging skills and looked forward to visiting the Sword Tomb, then Shen Binghua spoke to her in her Spirit Sea.

• Li Yang read the Tree Tower's details and discovered that activating it could make its caretaker strip naked and undergo photosynthesis in sunlight for 48 hours.
• Li Yang examined the damaged Divine Venerable-grade Invincible Shield and concluded that its lifespan cost would be manageable for her, whose maximum lifespan had reached 30,000 years.
• Li Yang asked how to repair the Invincible Shield and learned she needed to reach Third Grade in weapon forging, while her current weapon-forging level was only Grade One First Stage.
• Li Yang considered visiting the Sword Tomb to gain weapon-forging experience and obtain a growth-type divine weapon, since Shadow Moon was ruined.
• Li Yang examined Time Rewind and learned it could replay events from a marked location within the past 24 hours, then reflected that her Divine Miracle trip had been profitable despite its costs.
• Shen Binghua spoke to Li Yang through her Spirit Sea, and Li Yang thanked her for her efforts.

After the Divine Miracle, Li Yang learned that the captured killers had been silenced and that the survivors would receive access to the Star Nexus Treasure Pavilion, where she hoped to find Heavenly Spring Water. Meanwhile, Jiang Yuqing’s report made Li Yang a celebrated hero across military academies, while Yu Hongyuan grew uneasy about the praise.

• Zhong Kun told Li Yang and Shen Binghua that the two captured killers had been killed, and Li Yang reasoned that their deaths might leave clues to the people behind the attack.
• Shen Binghua went to the Zhong Family to investigate, while Niu Qianqian told Li Yang and Zhong Kun that the S-rank Divine Miracle survivors had earned special permission to enter the Star Nexus Treasure Pavilion.
• Li Yang asked whether the pavilion held Heavenly Spring Water, learned that it did, and decided they should hurry to the Astral Realm.
• Jiang Yuqing published a detailed account of the Divine Miracle that credited Li Yang with protecting the explorers and bearing much of the danger herself.
• The surviving explorers and students across military academies praised Li Yang after reading Jiang Yuqing’s report, and even the Star Magic Department was won over.
• Yu Hongyuan read the report and grew alarmed.

After the Agronomy Department graduated and celebrated with the other students, Li Yang prepared to leave for the Astral Realm. Shen Binghua warned her about potential enemies in the Sword Tomb, and Li Yang left with pill recipes and a request from Li Yaowan to watch for materials to repair her life-bound pill furnace.

• Li Yang demanded seventy percent of Jiang Yuqing's Shock Points, and Jiang Yuqing sent her 500 Shock Points.
• The entire Agronomy Department graduated, prompting the students of Zhongdu Military Academy to hold a farewell party for them.
• Li Yang realized Shen Binghua might have been suppressed for twenty-eight years and received a list of people to watch in the Astral Realm, including the Marquis of Wind Pavilion.
• Shen Binghua warned Li Yang that the person behind the scenes might target her in the Sword Tomb, while the Treasure Pavilion was too closely monitored for an attack.
• Li Yaowan gave Li Yang pill recipes and asked her to watch for two materials in the Sword Tomb that might help repair her life-bound pill furnace.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department traveled through Zhongdu Military Academy’s passage to enter the Astral Realm, where they found a secure but unnerving bridge through the void. At the outskirts of the Astral Realm, Little Ox learned that his home and plantation were gone.

• Li Yang learned that Li Yaowan wanted her to tell her son Li Qingchen, if they met, that she was cutting ties with him for life.
• The Agronomy Department prepared to leave for the Astral Realm, while Feng Yiqiao, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao planned to return to teaching afterward.
• He Song led Li Yang and the others to the gate behind Zhongdu Military Academy and explained that the academies guarded passages between realms.
• Li Yang, Yu Hongyuan, and the others passed the physique checkpoint and entered the Astral Realm through a bridge spanning the void.
• He Song demonstrated that an invisible barrier kept travelers from falling off the bridge, then explained that it was an enclosed passage built by their predecessors.
• Little Ox reunited with his family at the Astral Realm’s outskirts and learned that their plantation and home were gone.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students entered Huaxia Main City, the Heavenly Palace, and learned about its leadership and training requirements. Li Yang received a key to the Nature Pavilion, while the group prepared to accept their first training mission and heard that failing to complete one could leave them exposed in the Astral Realm.

• He Song led the students across the bridge into Huaxia Main City, where they marveled at its jade buildings and learned that the city had been built with white jade from a conquered realm domain.
• He Song explained that the Star Nexus Pavilion governed Huaxia, its Twelve Marquises were peak ninth-grade Star Wielders, and Huaxia had once been ruled by a Divine Venerable king.
• During registration, a staff member gave Li Yang the emerald key to the Nature Pavilion at the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo's instruction, and Li Yang entrusted it to Lianxin.
• He Song directed the students to accept a training mission, explaining that third-grade Star Wielders had to complete monthly missions or pay 2,000 merit points to skip them.
• He Song warned that anyone who neither completed a mission nor paid to skip it would lose the main city's protection and be thrown into the Astral Realm, startling Yu Hongyuan.

Li Yang learned that taking over the Nature Pavilion would also make her responsible for defending Huaxia Main City's eastern sector, and she decided to accept the challenge despite the risks. After discovering that the Plow Ox Clan lived in the eastern outskirts, she considered seeking their help to protect the sector.

• He Song explained that residents needed identity tokens to enter Huaxia Main City and accept missions, and the group registered at the Star Combat Division's mission office.
• He Song warned Li Yang to wait for Si Kui to leave seclusion before taking over the Nature Pavilion, but Li Yang said she needed to claim it while she had a legitimate opportunity.
• He Song explained that the Nature Pavilion guarded the eastern sector, where beast tides attacked, and that the small Agronomy Department might not be able to defend it.
• Li Yang realized that the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo might be using the danger to reclaim the Nature Pavilion, but she insisted on trying to hold the sector.
• Li Yang asked He Song where the Plow Ox Clan had settled, and he found that they lived in the outer city in the eastern outskirts.
• Li Yang considered contacting the Plow Ox Clan, believing their help might let her defend the eastern sector.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students accepted a field training mission to repel a beast tide in the northern district, where they encountered the harsh outer city and Major Kong Ling. Kong Ling drove them away from the battle, and Li Yang stopped Lin Zhaoqin from confronting him as the students faced the risk of losing their mission or being sent into the Astral Realm.

• Li Yang accepted the Star Combat Department’s urgent mission to repel a beast tide, and He Song escorted the Agronomy Department students to the northern district.
• He Song warned the students that Major Kong Ling had a temper, then left them with the Star Combat Division.
• Li Yang learned that the beast attacks seemed driven by hunger, and the students reached the exposed outer city wall as Star Beasts surged toward the defenses.
• Kong Ling berated a squad that had fled, then ordered Lin Zhaoqin and the Agronomy Department students to leave.
• Lin Zhaoqin challenged Kong Ling, but Li Yang restrained him and urged him to calm down.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department graduates helped the wounded at the medical station after Kong Ling initially refused to send them to the front. When reinforcements were needed on the left flank, they joined the battle and eased the pressure on the defenders.

• Li Yang calmed Lin Zhaoqin and led the group to help the Star Support Masters, where they treated wounded soldiers and learned a temporary skill to stop bleeding.
• After seeing the graduates aiding the medical team, Kong Ling agreed to send them to the understaffed left flank.
• Feng Yiqiao led the group to the city wall, where they confronted the powerful and grotesque Star Beasts.
• Li Yang, Lin Zhaoqin, Fang Chuyun, and Ying Qi worked together to repel and kill a Star Beast, then Li Yang saved a defender from another beast.
• The Agronomy Department group fought effectively on the left flank and greatly eased the defenders’ pressure.

After the Agronomy Department graduates fought through a beast tide, Kong Ling apologized to Li Yang and offered support when the Nature Pavilion faced an approaching eastern-district tide, but Li Yang declined. She led her group toward the eastern district to prepare, and they passed a commercial district where Zhong Kun decided he wanted to buy property.

• Li Yang's group fought for three hours during the beast tide, with Li Yang killing thirty Star Beasts and Yu Hongyuan killing five.
• Kong Ling learned of their results, apologized for misjudging them, and offered to support them when a beast tide reached the eastern district in three days.
• Li Yang declined Kong Ling's help, while he resolved to support the Nature Pavilion anyway.
• Li Yang decided to scout the eastern district, find Little Ox's family, and leave a message for Jiang Yuqing at the Pill Division.
• Zhong Kun told a property agent that he wanted to buy rather than rent as the group crossed a commercial district.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department learned about the eastern district’s valuable but dangerous properties as they made their way to the Nature Pavilion. Li Yang opened its barrier with the green jade token, and the pavilion’s flourishing natural power welcomed the group.

• A real estate Star Wielder explained property prices and warned that an approaching beast tide could devastate the eastern district, prompting Li Yang to consider buying if prices fell.
• The Star Wielder loudly announced that the Marquis of Mirror Bamboo had handed the Nature Pavilion to young Agronomy Department graduates and urged people to sell eastern district properties before the beast tide.
• Li Yang and the others reached the eastern district, where Ying Qi noted that its properties had been divided among various departments and none showed the Agronomy Department’s green.
• Zhong Kun rushed toward the Nature Pavilion and hit its invisible barrier, so Li Yang pressed the green jade token against it.
• Green light rippled across the barrier, nature bloomed around the pavilion, and Li Yang’s progress in the “Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra” rose to 1.5%.

Li Yang reclaimed the Nature Pavilion and began organizing the Agronomy Department to prepare for a beast tide in three days. She and her companions encountered Little Ox’s family in the outer city, where his father begged her not to drive them away.

• Li Yang and the others climbed the white jade stairs and discovered that the Nature Pavilion was mostly open-air, with a locked Scripture Repository and unusually dense Starlight.
• Li Yang saw the barren land beyond the inner city and urged everyone to work hard so they could plant it green.
• Li Yang sent Zhong Kun and Yu Hongyuan to contact Jiang Yuqing, while she and Feng Yiqiao went to find Little Ox’s family and the others prepared seeds.
• Li Yang and her companions met a herd of oxen outside the inner city, and Little Ox’s father knelt to beg her to let his children stay.
• Little Ox’s family returned from the Divine Miracle to find the Plow Ox Clan without land, because Star Wielders had reclaimed their leased fields and left the eastern district.

Li Yang reunited with Niu Er and his displaced Plow Ox Clan family, then offered them work farming and issued them temporary identity tokens. The family began preparing to help the Nature Pavilion students plant Star Plants ahead of the beast tide.

• Ox Dad and Ox Mom begged Li Yang and the others to take in their family after losing their home and identity tokens.
• Li Yang reunited with Niu Er, met Niu Da, Niu San, and Niu Si, and promised Niu San tender grass shoots for the name she had borrowed.
• Li Yang offered the Plow Ox Clan work farming, and Ox Dad and Ox Mom recognized the Nature Pavilion as the group that had once helped their people.
• Feng Yiqiao discovered that Nature Pavilion Star Wielders could issue temporary identity tokens, and Li Yang gave tokens to the oxen.
• Li Yang offered to pay each worker 50 merit points per day for three days of urgent farm work, leaving the family astonished and grateful.