Chapter Summaries

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.

Li Yang learned that Shen Binghua and Li Yaowan’s past hardships could be eased by a Ninth Grade Origin Restoration Pill and a rebuilt bonded pill furnace, and she promised to help them. As Li Yang prepared for the Sword Tomb, Jiang Yuqing revealed he had reached the Fourth Grade and invited her to go with him.

• Shen Binghua told Li Yang that she was bound to teach at Zhongdu Military Academy for 300 years unless she advanced to the Eighth Grade Realm, and explained that Li Yaowan had once been an Eighth Grade pill Master before her bonded pill furnace exploded.
• Li Yang vowed to find materials in the Sword Tomb to help Li Yaowan reconstruct her bonded pill furnace, and learned that Shen Binghua needed a Ninth Grade Origin Restoration Pill made with a Ninth Grade lotus seed.
• Lianxin told Li Yang that he had many Ninth Grade lotus seeds, and Li Yang promised Shen Binghua she would find a way to help her return to the Heavenly Palace.
• Jiang Yuqing refined a Fourth Grade Realm-Breaking Pill and earned a place in the upcoming Sword Tomb expedition.
• Jiang Yuqing visited Li Yang, said the Sword Tomb would surface in about ten Heavenly Palace days, and invited her to go with him after announcing he had advanced to the Fourth Grade.

Li Yang asked Jiang Yuqing to deliver a letter to Lan Yu while concealing the Blue Crystal Soil’s properties. As she prepared for the Sword Tomb, the soil unexpectedly transformed mutated wheat and chives, and the resulting food strengthened ice-type Star Skills.

• Li Yang told Jiang Yuqing she had saved the Blue Crystal Realm Domain and asked him to deliver a letter to Lan Yu; Jiang Yuqing agreed because the Jiang Family protected the clan.
• Li Yang instructed the Nature Department to hide that Blue Crystal Soil helped Star Plants produce Star Cores, and Jiang Yuqing mistakenly suspected she had romantic feelings for Lan Yu.
• Lianxin felt better when Li Yang promised to find food he liked, and Li Yang gained another lifespan increase.
• Li Yang and her companions found that crops exposed to Blue Crystal Soil had become icy blue and survived a second mutation, despite initially failing to sprout.
• Zhong Kun, Lin Zhaoqin, Fang Chuyun, and Lü Shunshun tested the mutated crops; the ice-type Star Skills of Fang Chuyun and Lü Shunshun became stronger after they ate the steamed buns.

Li Yang planned to sell mutated crops to the Shen Family and learned that the Noisy Pot’s sword spirit could attract growth-type divine weapons in the Sword Tomb. Lianxin offered to hide the pot’s presence until Li Yang found the materials Professor Li needed, leaving Li Yang ready to bring it along.

• Ying Qi asked to take mutated steamed buns to Shen Shangchi, and Li Yang proposed selling the Shen Family mutated wheat and Jade Ice Vegetables for a hundred merit points per portion.
• Jiang Yuqing saw the crops growing in Blue Crystal Soil, and Li Yang passed it off as East District soil.
• Song Menjiao brought Li Yang an invitation to the Sword Tomb and relayed the Marquis of Wind Pavilion’s request that she bring the Noisy Pot.
• Song Menjiao explained that the sword spirit would attract growth-type divine weapons, which could endanger Li Yang in the Sword Tomb.
• Lianxin offered to take the Noisy Pot and play dead until Li Yang found materials to repair Professor Li’s natal pill furnace, and Li Yang accepted.

Li Yang entered the Sword Tomb’s Death Domain alone, where she battled a steel mech and learned it was a masterless sword that had taken the form of its former master. She remained trapped in the dangerous domain, while Jiang Yuqing had arrived safely in the Life Domain.

• Li Yang said goodbye to the Nature Department and left with Jiang Yuqing for the Sword Tomb.
• The lieutenant general escorted Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing to the Astral Realm, and they used their invitations to enter the Sword Tomb.
• The two were separated: Jiang Yuqing landed in the Life Domain, while Li Yang arrived in the Death Domain.
• Li Yang dodged a red laser and fought a steel mech, using her mental power to interfere with it until it charged into a wall and exploded.
• Lianxin relayed the Noisy Pot’s explanation that the mech was a masterless sword that had taken its former master’s shape in the Death Domain.

Li Yang survived repeated attacks from dead Star Weapon mechas in the Death Domain by using her spiritual power to make them self-destruct, then spent lifespan to speed up her spiritual power recovery. She began exploring the ruins and collecting useful wreckage, but another mecha was already approaching.

• Li Yang fought and destroyed five mechas after learning that her spiritual power made them self-destruct rather than accept a new master.
• Li Yang reasoned that most Star Wielders entering the Sword Tomb lacked enough Spirit Points to counter the Death Domain’s mechas, while her own Spirit Points were unusually high.
• Li Yang spent one hundred years of lifespan to double her spiritual power recovery speed, then learned that the effect would last only this time.
• Li Yang examined the ruins, rejected an expensive appraisal of the walls, and collected a piece of mecha wreckage instead.
• Li Yang continued exploring, destroyed another attacking mecha, and gathered its wreckage before hearing more approaching footsteps.

Li Yang used her spiritual power to turn a swarm of masterless swords against itself and save Qingchen, a Huaxia Star Wielder from the Pill Division. After they reunited in hiding, Qingchen revealed he had entered the Sword Tomb by taking a slot from the Bone Peach Realm Domain.

• Li Yang saw Qingchen fleeing hundreds of mechs, then controlled ten of them and triggered a chain of collisions that let him escape.
• Li Yang and Qingchen met again behind a sturdy wall, recognized each other from the Treasure Pavilion, and introduced themselves.
• Li Yang learned that Qingchen's Buddhist name was Qingchen and confirmed he was not Professor Li's son.
• Li Yang and Qingchen wondered how each had dealt with the masterless swords, and Qingchen asked whether she could control them.
• Qingchen said he had entered the Sword Tomb through another Realm Domain because Huaxia had only two slots.
• Qingchen revealed that he had taken a slot from the Bone Peach Clan, renewing Li Yang's concern about that Realm Domain.

Li Yang and Qingchen discussed the Bone Peach Domain, their abilities, and their reasons for entering the Sword Tomb before setting out together to find another reversal array eye. Qingchen explained that the Life Domain was ruled by a rebellious ownerless Star Weapon, leaving Li Yang with a clearer picture of the danger ahead.

• Qingchen reminisced about his ties to the Nature Department and warned Li Yang not to trust anyone merely because they had once been a minor disciple.
• Li Yang learned Qingchen had reached Fifth Grade Peak and had over 4,000 Spirit Points, while Qingchen learned she could use spiritual power against the ownerless swords.
• Qingchen offered to take Li Yang to a reversal array eye leading to the Life Domain, but admitted he was in the Sword Tomb to seek heavenly treasures rather than a growth-type Star Weapon.
• Li Yang insisted that she and Qingchen find a second reversal array eye so they could leave the Death Domain together.
• As they traveled, Qingchen described how the Life Domain's ruler could assimilate visitors into Star Weapons and explained that its ownerless swords had escaped their creators rather than lost former masters.

Li Yang and Qingchen fought through the Death Domain while searching for another Reversal Formation Core, and Qingchen revealed that its ruler was at least Immortal Grade. Li Yang became more certain that the material she sought lay in the Death Domain, while Jiang Yuqing was captured in the Life Domain and feared he would be forced to marry a bandit chief.

• Qingchen explained that Sword Tombs gathered ownerless swords and that the ruler of the Life Domain was its strongest ownerless sword.
• Li Yang and Qingchen destroyed several mechas, collected materials, and Qingchen revealed that his Star Soul could appraise items.
• Qingchen guided Li Yang through the mecha-filled Death Domain until they reached a second Reversal Formation Core, but Li Yang chose to continue with him.
• A blue Sixth Grade ownerless sword attacked them, and Li Yang subdued it before it detonated; Qingchen shielded himself, while Bark protected Li Yang from most of the blast.
• Qingchen told Li Yang that the Death Domain's ruler was at least Immortal Grade, strengthening her belief that the material she sought was there.
• In the Life Domain, Jiang Yuqing searched for a route to the Death Domain but was captured by a she-devil and feared he would become a bandit chief's bride.

Jiang Yuqing was captured with the other Star Wielders in the Life Domain and chosen as a slave by its Steel Majesty, an ownerless sword. In the Death Domain, Li Yang tried to convince Qingchen to let her stay near a Sixth Grade Realm ownerless sword.

• Jiang Yuqing used his communicator to learn that Li Yang had landed in the Death Domain, then set out to find the reversal formation’s eye.
• Steel figures captured every Star Wielder in the Life Domain and took them to a red castle, where Jiang Yuqing found them locked in cages with price labels.
• The Steel Majesty chose Jiang Yuqing after he tested her with a Huaxia-language joke, then declared that he would be her slave.
• A steel guard shocked Jiang Yuqing unconscious, and he woke up bound to a bed, calling for Li Yang to rescue him.
• In the Death Domain, Li Yang tried to persuade Qingchen to let her stay near the Sixth Grade Realm ownerless sword, and she called it a mecha.

Li Yang persuaded Qingchen to abandon his plan to risk his life for Eighth Grade Light-Congealing Titanium and proposed provoking a war between the Life Domain and Death Domain instead. Their first attempt to send a Masterless Sword through a Reversal Formation Core failed, leaving the pair to reconsider how to make the domains clash.

• Qingchen revealed that a secret treasure could briefly raise him to the Eighth Grade Realm, but Li Yang realized using it would exact a terrible price tied to his decades-long search for Light-Condensed Titanium.
• Li Yang proposed drawing the Life Domain and Death Domain into conflict so they could take advantage of the rulers fighting, and Qingchen agreed to explore her plan with her.
• Li Yang and Qingchen decided to test whether a Death Domain mecha could pass through a Reversal Formation Core into the Life Domain.
• They lured a Masterless Sword onto a Reversal Formation Core, but it passed through without being transported, and Qingchen concluded that the mechas could not leave the Death Domain that way.

Li Yang discovered that she could spend her lifespan to briefly give ownerless mechas life and send them through reversal array cores into the Life Domain. After activating twenty cores with Qingchen, the pair found the Death Domain’s ruler, an immense sleeping immortal-grade Star Weapon, and prepared to head for the Life Domain.

• Li Yang spent fifty years of lifespan to animate an ownerless sword mecha, which then charged into a reversal array core and entered the Life Domain.
• Li Yang and Qingchen worked together to activate twenty reversal array cores, sending mechas into the Life Domain while Qingchen tempered his Spirit Points.
• Li Yang set a goal of activating a third of the reversal array cores to attract the Life Domain’s ruler.
• Two Heavenly Palace days later, Li Yang and Qingchen found the Death Domain’s ruler: a sleeping, multicolored-black Eighth Grade Star Weapon shaped like a giant sword.
• Li Yang told Qingchen they should leave for the Life Domain, then warned him not to waste his secret treasure.

Jiang Yuqing remained imprisoned by Chen Ri in the Life Domain while she prepared to auction Star Wielders to masterless swords. After Li Yang contacted him, he learned she and Qingchen had brought a mech from the Death Domain into the Life Domain to provoke a conflict, leaving him stunned by the scale of her plans.

• Jiang Yuqing repeatedly tried to attack and poison Chen Ri, but she effortlessly restrained him and revealed her plan to auction the captured Star Wielders and brand them with Slave Marks.
• Chen Ri postponed the auction after masterless swords from the Death Domain entered the Life Domain, and Jiang Yuqing suspected Li Yang was behind their arrival.
• Jiang Yuqing spent two days trapped in the steel fortress, checking his communicator and trying to concoct poison while Chen Ri stayed away.
• Li Yang contacted Jiang Yuqing, who tearfully explained his imprisonment and Chen Ri's plan to auction the Star Wielders.
• Li Yang told Jiang Yuqing and Qingchen that she and Qingchen had interfered with a mech and teleported it from the Death Domain to the Life Domain to spark a conflict.
• Jiang Yuqing was shocked to learn Li Yang planned to take down an Eighth Grade Realm.

Li Yang learned that the Life Domain’s ruler planned to brand Jiang Yuqing with a Slave Mark, stripping him of his will, and devised a dangerous plan to rescue him and escape the Sword Tomb. The chapter ended with Qingchen agreeing they had to save Jiang Yuqing before the auction.

• Jiang Yuqing learned that Chen Ri had cleared out the Life Domain intruders and planned to take him to an auction the next day.
• Chen Ri revealed her contempt for the Death Domain’s masterless swords and threatened to discover why its ruler had surrendered his will by placing a Slave Mark on Jiang Yuqing.
• Li Yang hid from Life Domain patrols, and Qingchen learned that the ruler intended to auction captured Star Wielders.
• Li Yang told Jiang Yuqing she would use the auction to rescue him and provoke a fight between the rulers of the Life and Death Domains so they could escape.
• Jiang Yuqing agreed to follow Li Yang’s plan, and she told Qingchen that the Slave Mark would strip Jiang Yuqing of his will.
• Qingchen urged Li Yang to hurry and save Jiang Yuqing.

Li Yang and Qingchen planned to rescue Jiang Yuqing during the trip to the auction and make it seem as if the Death Domain's ruler had abducted her, provoking a conflict between the domains. Qingchen gave Li Yang the lifespan-burning secret treasure Risking Life after she revealed her ability to replenish her lifespan, and they agreed to divide the light-condensed titanium according to their needs.

• Li Yang told Qingchen she would use the confusion on the way to the auction to swap places with Jiang Yuqing and frame the Death Domain's ruler for the abduction.
• Qingchen revealed that his secret treasure Risking Life could raise its user's realm to Eighth Grade at the cost of burning lifespan.
• Li Yang claimed that her cultivation replenished her lifespan, making Risking Life suitable for her.
• Qingchen agreed to give Li Yang Risking Life in exchange for a portion of the light-condensed titanium.
• Li Yang accepted the treasure and promised Qingchen she would watch her lifespan carefully.

Li Yang and Qingchen carried out a plan to rescue Jiang Yuqing from the Life Domain’s ruler, using an explosion to scatter the Masterless Swords and let Li Yang swap places with him. As Chen Ri returned to the formation and approached the disguised Li Yang, the rescue remained in its most dangerous stage.

• Li Yang confirmed that Risking Life burned lifespan, learned the Light of the Divine Sun was inside the ruler’s castle, and planned to rescue Jiang Yuqing during the auction preparations.
• Li Yang and Qingchen scouted the castle route, the mecha holding area, and the auction venue while Jiang Yuqing awaited his departure with Chen Ri.
• Chen Ri led Jiang Yuqing out of the castle surrounded by Masterless Swords as Li Yang and Qingchen waited in ambush.
• Qingchen hurled explosive pills at the formation and drew Chen Ri away, while Li Yang used a black hood and her swap ability to replace Jiang Yuqing.
• Chen Ri returned, restored the Masterless Swords’ formation, and approached Li Yang disguised as Jiang Yuqing.