Chapter Summaries

Li Yang traveled to the Sand Fruit Realm Domain disguised as the Bone Peach Mother Tree to inspect the realm while Sister Longevity scanned it for resources. The Sand Fruit King hosted her and showed off his fertile domain, while Li Yang remained focused on keeping her cover and finding a way to plant a Teleportation Anchor on him.

• Li Yang warned the Qing Teng Squad not to act in the Sand Fruit Realm Domain and gave each member a Teleportation Anchor before they traveled through the Lost Space Society's channel.
• Li Yang arrived in the Sand Fruit Realm Domain with Lianxin and Chen Ri hidden in the Noisy Pot, and she began a scan of the realm at Sister Longevity's cost.
• The Sand Fruit King welcomed Li Yang, and she posed as the Bone Peach Mother Tree conducting an inspection under orders from Kong Shisan.
• The Sand Fruit King toured Li Yang through the realm's fertile lands as Sister Longevity's scan progressed.
• The Sand Fruit King hosted a banquet after the tour, and Li Yang praised the realm's bounty after several rounds of drinks.

Li Yang accepted tribute from the Sand Fruit King and learned he lacked guidance to safely devour his own kind, then Princess Jiangyue attacked her over the king’s ambitions. Li Yang stopped the king from striking his daughter and claimed Jiangyue as her own, while delaying her inspection of the Sand Fruit Realm Domain until the next day.

• The Sand Fruit King gave Li Yang Star Cores and revealed that he wanted to serve Kong Shisan because Kong Shier had not guided him in devouring his own kind.
• Princess Jiangyue used Earth Escape Technique to ambush Li Yang, but Qing Teng’s team shielded Li Yang and restrained the princess.
• Jiangyue denounced her father for endangering the Sand Fruit Realm Domain, and the Sand Fruit King struck her and ordered her taken to the Shattered Fruit Sea.
• Li Yang stopped the Sand Fruit King from striking Jiangyue again and asked him to give the princess to her instead.
• The Sand Fruit King agreed, and Li Yang ended the banquet while arranging to continue her inspection the next day.

Li Yang probed Jiang Yue’s memories and discovered that the Sand Fruit King had sacrificed his own people to advance, while Jiang Yue had secretly helped the Huaxia Heavenly Palace obtain the Fenglie Clan’s coordinates. The probe revealed how Jiang Yue reached the Nature Department, where she was captured but spared.

• The Sand Fruit King gave Jiang Yue to Li Yang, who learned her name and suppressed her resistance.
• Li Yang used spiritual probing to uncover Jiang Yue’s sealed memories and learned that she was over three hundred years old.
• Jiang Yue discovered that the Sand Fruit King had sacrificed missing Fifth Grade Star Wielders, including her teacher, to advance his realm.
• Jiang Yue blamed the Fenglie Clan for controlling her father and infiltrated them to obtain the coordinates of their main city.
• Jiang Yue used the Earth Escape Technique to enter the Nature Department with the coordinates, where its people restrained her but did not kill her.

Li Yang uncovered Jiang Yue’s history of exposing Fenglie Main City and learned that Jiang Yue had been resisting her father’s renewed slaughter of their people. Li Yang urged Jiang Yue to stop relying on the Sand Fruit King, revealed her identity as a Heavenly Fortune Bearer of Huaxia’s Nature Department, and left Jiang Yue curious about her.

• The old pavilion master verified Jiang Yue’s account, obtained Fenglie Main City’s coordinates, sealed Jiang Yue’s memories, and sent her back to the Sand Fruit Realm Domain.
• Jiang Yue spent years urging her people not to make an enemy of Huaxia, then discovered that the Sand Fruit King had resumed devouring his clan members under the Lost Space Society’s influence.
• Li Yang realized Jiang Yue’s mind was collapsing as she faced the truth about her father, and told her that she could replace the rotten pillar protecting the Sand Fruit Realm Domain.
• Jiang Yue questioned whether she could protect what she loved, and Li Yang asked her to consider the Bone Peach Domain.
• Li Yang revealed her true appearance and introduced herself as Li Yang, a Heavenly Fortune Bearer of Huaxia’s Nature Department; Jiang Yue remembered the old pavilion master and asked how she could know Li Yang was telling the truth.

Li Yang showed Jiang Yue the ruined Bone Peach Domain and convinced her that the Sand Fruit King’s greed threatened their home. Jiang Yue agreed to help Li Yang overthrow her father and become the new Sand Fruit King, though the danger of confronting him remained.

• Li Yang showed Jiang Yue memories of the Bone Peach Domain’s destruction and explained that the Sand Fruit King was leading their realm toward the same fate.
• Li Yang reminded Jiang Yue that she had once helped protect the Sand Fruit Realm Domain by providing the Fenglie Clan’s coordinates to Huaxia.
• Jiang Yue asked what Li Yang expected in return, and Li Yang said she intended to kill the Sand Fruit King and his trusted followers while sparing innocent Sand Fruit Clan members.
• Li Yang proposed that Jiang Yue take the throne, and Jiang Yue agreed to work with her.
• Li Yang warned Jiang Yue that the plan meant killing her father and seizing his throne, but Jiang Yue affirmed her resolve.

Li Yang learned that the Sand Fruit King’s treasure could block teleportation, but Jiang Yue revealed that Bloodline Tether could locate him if she was brought to the verge of death. Li Yang gave Jiang Yue a life-saving pill and agreed to the plan, then contacted Qing Teng to prepare for the attack.

• Jiang Yue warned Li Yang that the Sand Fruit King possessed a secret treasure that blocked teleportation, making her Teleportation Anchor useless against him.
• Jiang Yue explained that Bloodline Tether could reveal the Sand Fruit King’s location if she came close to death, and Li Yang promised the Nature Pavilion would protect the Sand Fruit Realm Domain.
• Li Yang gave Jiang Yue a precious life-sustaining pill, and Jiang Yue agreed to use Bloodline Tether.
• Li Yang decided to kill the Sand Fruit King while the opportunity was favorable and contacted Qing Teng through Spirit Connection.
• Qing Teng was stunned by Li Yang’s message while the Sand Fruit King’s attendants waited outside the hall.

Li Yang learned that deep star water in the Shattered Fruit Sea could help produce earth-element Star Cores, then led the Qing Teng Squad into the Sand Fruit King's bedchamber to attack him. She disguised herself as the Bone Peach Mother Tree and convinced the Sand Fruit King that she planned to seize his Realm Domain, while his call for help was blocked.

• Sister Longevity reported deep star water in the Shattered Fruit Sea, and Li Yang learned it could help Star Plants produce earth-element Star Cores.
• The Qing Teng Squad subdued the Sand Fruit King's attendants and prevented them from sending messages.
• Li Yang and the squad planned to infiltrate the Sand Fruit King's bedchamber, with Jiang Yue ready to provide his coordinates if he used the Earth Escape Technique.
• The Sand Fruit King brooded over his plans to join Kong Shisan and dismissed his concerns about Jiang Yue.
• Li Yang and the Qing Teng Squad attacked the Sand Fruit King in his bedchamber, and the squad's spiritual interception blocked his call for help.
• Li Yang took the Bone Peach Mother Tree's appearance and told the Sand Fruit King she intended to take his Realm Domain, leading him to believe she wanted to eliminate a rival.

Li Yang pursued the Sand Fruit King with help from Jiang Yue and the Qing Teng Squad, then attacked his forces at the Third Military Camp. As the Sand Fruit King began devouring his own people to gain power, Li Yang stopped him and the battle escalated.

• Li Yang used Sister Longevity’s navigation to race toward the Sand Fruit King after Jiang Yue sent his coordinates, while Qing Teng’s squad followed.
• The Sand Fruit King discovered Li Yang waiting at his escape point, but Qing Teng intercepted his attempts to summon help as Li Yang repeatedly attacked him.
• After learning the Sand Fruit King was heading for the Third Military Camp, Li Yang urged Jiang Yue to take a Life-Extending Pill and pursued him there.
• Li Yang cut down the Third Grade Realm soldiers and immobilized the Fifth Grade Realm commanders with mental pressure, while Qing Teng’s squad blocked reinforcements.
• Unable to escape, the Sand Fruit King began devouring his own kind to try to advance to Master, growing into a monstrous form.
• Li Yang summoned Chen Ri and attacked the Sand Fruit King as he reached for more Sand Fruit Clan members, while the Qing Teng Squad joined the fight.

Li Yang and the Qing Teng Squad killed the frenzied Sand Fruit King before he could escape the Sand Fruit Realm Domain, then collected the contaminated seeds left behind. Li Yang reunited with the recovering Jiang Yue, whose Star Apertures had been reshaped by Li Yaowan’s Life-Extending Pill.

• Li Yang charged through the Sand Fruit King’s attacks with the Invincible Shield and pierced his weakness with Chen Ri, killing him at the cost of 130,000 years of lifespan.
• The Sand Fruit King’s explosion reduced the Sand Fruit Clan in the military camp to snow-white ash, and Sister Longevity identified the ash as contaminated seeds.
• Li Yang learned to coat their palms with the Power of Starlight and led the Qing Teng Squad in collecting at least five hundred thousand seeds.
• Li Yang hurried to Jiang Yue, who told her that Li Yaowan’s Life-Extending Pill had reshaped her Star Apertures.
• Qing Teng explained that the pill would help Jiang Yue condense her Star Soul in the future, and Jiang Yue thanked Li Yang for saving her.

Li Yang arranged to purge the Sand Fruit King's distorted followers and build support for Jiang Yue to rule the Sand Fruit Realm Domain. After learning that deep spring water could purify polluted seeds, Li Yang returned to the realm to obtain some while Jiang Yue’s squad continued its covert assassinations.

• Li Yang showed Jiang Yue the Sand Fruit King’s flight, his transformation after devouring his followers, and Li Yang’s killing blow, then persuaded her to become the next ruler.
• Li Yang planned to use the Sand Fruit King’s identity to purge his distorted followers and stage Jiang Yue as the leader who would protect the realm.
• Li Yang returned to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace and gave Li Yaowan the polluted seeds, while they discussed how Jiang Yue’s coordinates had helped defeat the Fenglie Clan and how to conceal the Bone Peach Mother Tree’s role.
• Li Yang asked the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra about the pollution and learned that deep spring water could be refined into purification liquid.
• Li Yang returned to the Sand Fruit Realm Domain to seek deep spring water as Jiang Yue’s Qing Teng Squad covertly assassinated distorted Sand Fruit Clan members and the Third Barracks remained sealed.

Li Yang struggled to reach the Deep Spring Water beneath the Shattered Fruit Sea until she discovered that Chaochao could pass through it and carry the water in his soul. After confirming the water was genuine, she considered how to obtain more and asked about Chaochao’s sword spirit clan.

• Li Yang investigated the Shattered Fruit Sea and found that neither force nor gentleness let her descend, while the Sand Fruit Clan’s archives offered no solution.
• Li Yang let Lianxin, Chen Ri, and Chaochao out to play in the sea, and Lianxin sensed water vapor beneath its surface.
• Chaochao discovered that his bodiless spirit could dive through the Shattered Fruit Sea and see the star-like Deep Spring Water below.
• Li Yang persuaded Chaochao to soak in the Deep Spring Water, then squeezed about ten jin of it from his spirit body into her Qiankun Bag.
• Li Yang used Sister Longevity to confirm the water was Deep Spring Water, then asked Chaochao how his sword spirit clan was doing.

Li Yang learned that most of the Sword Spirit Clan had been abducted because their talents could enhance or alter Star Weapons, while the remaining befuddled spirits were trapped in a collapsing ecosystem. Chaochao revealed that even one befuddled sword spirit could eventually make the plantation’s Masterless Swords self-destruct.

• Li Yang used Lianxin to make Chaochao explain what had happened to the Sword Spirit Clan.
• Chaochao said that prophets, aware spirits, and unaware spirits had been captured, leaving only befuddled sword spirits in the Sword Spirit Boundary Domain.
• Chaochao explained that the Sword Spirit Clan’s different talents once formed a cycle that sustained their harsh home, but the loss of three groups had thrown the domain into chaos.
• Chaochao said the remaining befuddled spirits could not safely leave and were hiding in the domain’s last safe zone.
• Chaochao warned Li Yang that one befuddled sword spirit could cause the plantation’s more than 27,000 Masterless Swords to develop self-destructive feelings and perish within a century.

Li Yang arranged to exchange Deep Star Water for soul pills with Chaochao and proposed researching a way to suppress Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits’ abilities. She brought the water to Li Yaowan for study, leaving Chaochao hopeful that it would prove valuable and help his clan.

• Li Yang told Chaochao she needed Deep Star Water and offered to pay him in merit points, which he could use to buy Star Soul Pills or Origin Soul Pills.
• Chaochao agreed to fetch water and revealed that he knew many Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits, but warned that they were dangerous around Star Weapons.
• Li Yang proposed visiting the Sword Spirit Boundary Domain and inviting a Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirit to Teacher Li’s research institute to investigate how to suppress its innate ability.
• Chaochao agreed to take Li Yang to the domain, but worried she would abandon the spirits if the water had no value; Li Yang reassured him it was valuable.
• Li Yang returned to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace with the Deep Star Water and told Li Yaowan how Chaochao had retrieved it from the Shattered Fruit Sea.

Li Yang arranged to obtain a Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirit so Li Yaowan could study how to neutralize the Sword Spirits’ abilities, while Deep Star Water proved useful for purifying Sand Fruit seeds. After Jiang Yuqing advanced to the Fifth Grade Realm, Li Yang prepared to travel to the Sword Spirit Boundary Domain with Li Qingchen and Jiang Yuqing.

• Li Yaowan confirmed that Deep Star Water purified Sand Fruit seeds and discussed its potential uses with Li Yang, who explained that Chaochao was the only one able to extract it.
• Li Yang asked Li Yaowan to study a Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirit and develop a pill to neutralize the Sword Spirits’ abilities.
• Jiang Yuqing emerged from seclusion after more than a hundred years in the minor Realm Domain, having condensed his Star Soul and advanced to the Fifth Grade Realm; he also unlocked the Star Soul Pill formula.
• Li Yang and Li Yaowan decided that Li Yang needed to visit the Sword Spirit Boundary Domain to bring back a Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirit, and Li Yaowan arranged for Li Qingchen to accompany her.
• Li Qingchen agreed to travel with Li Yang, who explained their mission and received Li Yaowan’s warning to teleport away immediately if she sensed the Upper Three Realms.
• Jiang Yuqing contacted Li Yang, announced his advancement, and asked to join her trip; Li Yang realized he had accidentally revealed that Professor Li was present.

Li Yang traveled with Li Qingchen and Jiang Yuqing to the Sword Spirit Boundary Domain to investigate the worsening danger facing Chaochao’s people. After arriving safely through Huaxia’s teleportation passage, they found the domain beset by chaotic astral winds and began moving cautiously under Li Qingchen’s protection.

• Li Yang told Jiang Yuqing she was going to the Sword Spirit Boundary Domain, and he joined her after hearing about her recent actions.
• Li Yang paid 100,000 merit points to open a teleportation passage using the coordinates Chaochao provided.
• Li Yang, Li Qingchen, and Jiang Yuqing passed through the passage and arrived in the Sword Spirit Boundary Domain, where an astral wind swept over them.
• Chaochao warned that the domain’s energy fluctuations had grown more chaotic, while Li Qingchen detected a protective net that had not noticed their arrival.
• Li Yang spent 10,000 years of lifespan to scan for detection signals; after finding none, the group followed Chaochao onward as Li Qingchen shielded them and monitored their surroundings.

Li Yang and her companions found Naonao, a Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirit, and persuaded her to return to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace so Li Yang’s teacher could study how to neutralize her confusion talent. Chaochao took Naonao into the Noisy Pot, which could carry at least thirty thousand Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits back with them.

• Jiang Yuqing gave Li Yang a Star Soul Pill he had refined, and it helped Li Qingchen keep traveling without tiring.
• Chaochao led Li Yang, Li Qingchen, and Jiang Yuqing to a ravine where Naonao was hiding from the astral winds.
• Li Yang and Chaochao reassured Naonao that they wanted to help, and Naonao agreed to go to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace for research into neutralizing her confusion talent.
• Chaochao placed Naonao in the Noisy Pot, and he told Li Yang it could hold at least thirty thousand Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits.
• Li Yang and her companions returned toward the Huaxia Heavenly Palace through the teleportation passage, avoiding the lifespan cost of using Teleportation Anchors for each sword spirit.

Li Yang returned to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace with Chaochao and Naonao and brought Li Qingchen to Li Yaowan’s research institute to investigate a way to help the Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits. After examining Naonao, Li Yaowan proposed giving the sword spirits physical bodies so they could move freely without disrupting Star Weapons.

• Li Yang negotiated a ten percent discount on the teleportation fee before returning to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace with Chaochao and Naonao.
• Li Yang persuaded Li Qingchen to visit Li Yaowan’s research institute by reminding him that the neutralization method could save the Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits.
• Li Yaowan examined Naonao while Li Yang, Jiang Yuqing, and Li Qingchen waited at the institute.
• Li Yaowan explained that the sword spirits’ natural spirit-body properties disrupted Star Weapons and that neutralizing those properties could harm them.
• Li Yaowan proposed making physical bodies for the sword spirits to block their disruptive spirit-body properties.

Li Yang arranged for the Song Family to mass-produce isolation clothes so Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits could safely collect Deep Star Water. Song Jinhuan arrived to negotiate the order and eagerly offered to help Chen Ri advance, leaving Li Yang to consider her offer.

• Li Yaowan told Li Yang that Song Jinhuan could make isolation clothes for 1,000 merit points each, and Li Yang planned contracts and work arrangements for the Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits.
• Naonao woke and excitedly asked whether the isolation clothes could be green.
• Song Jinhuan visited the Huaxia Heavenly Palace, and Li Yaowan negotiated a price of 1,200 merit points per garment and ordered twenty thousand.
• Song Jinhuan offered to help Chen Ri advance to the Sixth Grade, and Chen Ri told her to hurry because Li Yang would soon reach the Peak Fifth Grade Realm.

Li Yang arranged for Song Jinhuan to make protective clothing for Naonao and the Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits, then returned to Nature Pavilion to test Deep Star Water on Sand Fruit seeds. She began growing a Sand Fruit tree in Little Ox’s family’s hidden Blue Crystal Soil field and accelerated its growth with Power of Starlight and Jiang Yuqing’s pills.

• Li Yang agreed to let Song Jinhuan handle Chen Ri’s advancement and make protective clothing for Naonao and the Lost-Knowledge Sword Spirits.
• Song Jinhuan left Zhongdu Military Academy to focus on making the protective outfits and isolation barriers.
• Li Yang returned to Nature Pavilion, where she found Jiang Yuqing and arranged for Little Ox’s family to plant Sand Fruit seeds in secret.
• Li Yang used Deep Star Water to moisten Blue Crystal Soil and planted a Sand Fruit tree.
• Li Yang fed the tree Power of Starlight while Jiang Yuqing supplied Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills to speed its growth.

Li Yang discovered that mature Sand Fruit trees produced lifespan, useful fruit, and ice- and earth-type Star Cores, including a powerful dual-type core. After identifying its Star Skill, she wondered whether the earth-type core could grant the Sand Fruit Realm Domain’s Earth Escape Technique.

• Jiang Yuqing watched as Li Yang accelerated the Sand Fruit tree’s growth until it matured in Little Ox’s family’s backyard.
• Li Yang harvested the tree’s Sand Fruits and gained more than four hundred years of lifespan.
• Li Yang used Sister Longevity to learn that Sand Fruits restored Starlight for Executors of the Third Grade Realm or above and could improve pill-making or serve as hidden weapons.
• Li Yang found that some harvested fruits contained earth-type, ice-type, or dual-type Star Cores, shocking Jiang Yuqing.
• Li Yang appraised the dual-type core and discovered its Fourth Grade Earth Dragon of Ice Star Skill, which let an ice dragon travel through soil.
• Li Yang wondered whether the earth-type Star Core could grant the Sand Fruit Realm Domain’s Earth Escape Technique, and Jiang Yuqing recognized the possibility.