Chapter Summaries

After emerging from seclusion, the Nature Department members celebrated their new Star Souls and learned how far Li Yang had advanced during her trips to the Thousand Flowers Realm Domain. Li Yang then began explaining the Power of Nature, a distinctive cultivation power of their department.

• Wang Ruika, Zhong Kun, Yu Hongyuan, and Fang Chuyun successfully condensed their Star Souls, with Yu Hongyuan forming an ice halo and Fang Chuyun a snowflake.
• Ying Qi and the others read Shen Shangchi's messages about the Light of Dawn's deeds, while Jiang Yuqing refused to hear the news from anyone but Li Yang.
• Li Yang returned from the Bone Peach Domain and listened as the group described their Star Souls before agreeing to tell them about her experiences.
• Li Yang recounted confronting the Flower of Evil, learning about its Time Rewind, and rescuing 481 Nature Department survivors from Divine Exalt Daowu's disciple at the Thousand-Person Feast.
• At Li Yaowan's suggestion, Li Yang began explaining the Power of Nature to the group as a cultivation power unique to the Nature Department.

Li Yang prepared for the Mystifying Space Gathering in the Deep Space Realm Domain while the Nature Department helped build an elite force using the evolved Sand Fruit Trees’ Star Cores. After receiving a Teleportation Anchor and learning that she would have to kill fellow Disciples to claim a place as a Wise One, she considered the danger and asked Flower of Evil about her progress.

• Li Yang explained the Power of Nature, then revealed she had used it to evolve Risking Life despite remaining at the Sixth Grade Realm Peak.
• Li Yang showed the others the evolved Sand Fruit Trees, which produced more fruit and higher-grade Star Cores, and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion planned a force of 500 Sixth Grade Realm Peak fighters.
• The Nature Department planted Sand Fruit Trees intensively, and Li Yang learned they could evolve only as far as the Sixth Grade Realm.
• Kong Shisan gave Li Yang a Teleportation Anchor for the Deep Space Realm Domain and warned her that she would have to kill competing Disciples to become a Wise One.
• Flower of Evil told Li Yang that anyone could use the unbound Teleportation Anchor, and Li Yang asked how Flower of Evil’s preparations were going.

The Flower of Evil negotiated with Sage Xuanyuan and received an invitation to the Mystifying Space Gathering, while Li Yang learned that Divine Venerables gained their standing by replacing predecessors and began investigating how to advance. After studying the gathering’s schedule, Li Yang focused on the brutal Wise One advancement ceremony as her first hurdle.

• The Flower of Evil confronted Sage Xuanyuan over Jiang Nianchu’s death, and Xuanyuan offered him an eighth Sage position in the Lost Space Society and an invitation to the Mystifying Space Gathering.
• The Flower of Evil reluctantly accepted Xuanyuan’s Teleportation Anchor and used Time Rewind to show Li Yang their conversation.
• Li Yang learned that Xuanyuan had become the God of Water after the previous God of Water fell, and the information overwhelmed her until Lianxin helped her recover.
• Li Yang asked the Flower of Evil to obtain the Mystifying Space Gathering’s schedule, and Xuanyuan sent it to him.
• Li Yang studied the schedule and identified the bloody Wise One advancement ceremony as her first hurdle.

Li Yang prepared for the dangerous Wise One promotion ceremony while Jiang Yuqing revealed that his system update let him bind her to a Shock Points Subsystem. As they began the binding, Li Yang wondered whether Sister Longevity could offer a subsystem too, but she had not yet learned what the binding would allow.

• Li Yang told Li Yaowan and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion that she would avoid using Risking Life and prepared new Star Skills to conceal her identity at the gathering.
• Li Yang met Jiang Yuqing at the Nature Pavilion after he hurriedly asked to speak with her.
• Jiang Yuqing explained that his updated Shock Points System could bind Li Yang to a subsystem that collected Shock Points, refined pills, and increased spiritual power.
• Li Yang agreed to try binding the subsystem after considering the benefits and warning Jiang Yuqing that she was also a Heavenly Fortune Bearer.
• Jiang Yuqing adjusted the system and asked Li Yang to accept his Spirit Connection.

Li Yang bound Jiang Yuqing’s Shock subsystem and discovered she could convert Shock Points into lifespan, then set out to earn more before leaving for the Mystifying Space Gathering. At the Star Combat Division, she wondered whether she had to be physically present to collect Shock Points.

• Li Yang accepted Jiang Yuqing’s invitation to bind the Shock subsystem and confirmed that its crude panel could identify people and track their Shock Points.
• Li Yang visited the Pill Division with Jiang Yuqing and gained Shock Points from Jiang Chunhua and other Jiang Family members.
• Li Yang discovered that Sister Longevity could convert 2,000 Shock Points into 1,000 years of lifespan and thanked Jiang Yuqing, earning even more points from him.
• Li Yang decided to visit the Combat Departments to gather Shock Points before departing for the Mystifying Space Gathering.
• Li Yang went to the Star Combat Division during a beast tide, drew questions from Kong Ling and his subordinates, and asked Jiang Yuqing whether she needed to be present to earn Shock Points.

Li Yang prepared to enter the Deep Space Realm Domain by arranging defensive Star Plants for the Huaxia Heavenly Palace and bringing Shen Binghua as captain of the Spirit-Dwelling Box Troops. She arrived at the Wise One Promotion Ceremony as a Disciple, facing unknown trials in a realm filled with the Power of Space.

• Li Yang arranged for the Plow Ox Clan to plant defensive Star Plants around the Combat Departments' outer cities, earning 400,000 Shock Points from the Star Wielders' reaction.
• Li Yang said farewell to Li Yaowan and left for the Mystifying Space Gathering, accompanied by Shen Binghua, who entered the Spirit-Dwelling Box to lead its troops.
• Li Yang traveled through the Bone Peach Domain to the Mystifying Space Gathering, while the Flower of Evil was assigned to watch the ceremony from the audience seats.
• Li Yang reviewed the ceremony's three undisclosed stages and learned that more than 1,800 Disciples would compete for ten Third-Class Wise One places.
• Li Yang arrived in the Deep Space Realm Domain, whose nature was largely unknown to the Huaxia Heavenly Palace.

Li Yang entered the weightless Mystifying Space Realm Domain and struggled to understand the Wise One promotion assessment, while the Flower of Evil watched from the audience as Xuanyuan revealed the maze-like challenge. The assessment began with contestants trapped in shifting compartments, and Li Yang faced a difficult route to the maze as others began discovering how to escape.

• Li Yang found herself alone in a weightless blank space and used her Star Soul to control her body while Lianxin searched for nearby threats.
• The Flower of Evil arrived at the gathering, sat beside Xuanyuan, and learned that the promotion assessment required contestants to find an exit through the Mystifying Space Realm Domain.
• Xuanyuan revealed the platform of blank compartments, where Star Wielders who could adapt to the Power of Space had a chance to advance.
• The platform rotated, and the Flower of Evil spotted Li Yang in a compartment far from the maze passage, leaving her with a difficult starting position.
• Several contestants tried to break through their compartment walls, losing body parts or Star Weapons as the Power of Space transferred them elsewhere.
• Some gifted contestants began using the Power of Space to merge with the walls, while the Flower of Evil noticed a Seventh Grade Star Plant resembling bamboo with a strong affinity for space.

Li Yang faced Zhu Qing, a Seventh Grade Realm Disciple who used the Power of Space to ambush and corner her in the Mystifying Space Realm Domain. Li Yang blocked Zhu Qing’s lethal strike with the Invincible Shield, leaving the audience stunned and her battle still unresolved.

• Zhu Qing used the Power of Space to enter other blank rooms, kill dozens of Disciples, and reach the room beside Li Yang’s.
• Lianxin warned Li Yang of Zhu Qing’s ambush, allowing Li Yang to dodge several invisible attacks despite being only at the Sixth Grade Realm Peak.
• Zhu Qing drove Li Yang toward a corner bordered by dangerous walls of space, while the audience watched and doubted Li Yang could survive.
• Li Yang waited for an opening to counterattack, then raised the Invincible Shield to block Zhu Qing’s full-strength strike.
• Kong Shisan told the audience that Li Yang’s secret treasure consumed a great deal of lifespan, easing their interest in taking it.

Li Yang defeated Zhu Qing in the blank cell after Zhu Qing’s use of the Power of Space backfired under her relentless attacks. Li Yang began meditating to break through to the Seventh Grade Realm, while Lianxin guarded her and replenished her lifespan.

• Li Yang endured Zhu Qing’s full-powered strike, then struck her with the Fire Whip and Flame Vines, exposing Zhu Qing’s true form.
• Li Yang used the whip to track Zhu Qing and pressed her with attacks as Zhu Qing retreated and prepared a counterattack.
• Zhu Qing hurled spheres of the Power of Space at Li Yang, but her attempt to wield two spheres overloaded her Origin Soul and caused a backlash.
• Li Yang bound Zhu Qing with Flame Vines and flung her into the blank wall, which swallowed her body.
• Li Yang closed her eyes and meditated to break through, while Lianxin replenished her lifespan and kept watch.

After breaking through to the Seventh Grade Realm, Li Yang sensed the Power of Space and discovered she could move through the cubicle walls. She decided to exploit the advancement ceremony to gather lifespan and Shock Points, and began planning how to imitate the Bone Peach Mother Tree’s appetite without exposing herself to Xuanyuan.

• Li Yang transformed her Star Soul into an Origin Soul and advanced safely while the Wise Ones mistook her breakthrough for an ordinary one.
• Li Yang sensed the Power of Space, learned she could merge into the walls, and realized the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra could absorb that power.
• Xuanyuan watched Li Yang, but the Flower of Evil interrupted his scrutiny and said he would ask for her after she advanced to Wise One.
• Li Yang found the labyrinth route and the other Disciples, then decided to stay and harvest lifespan and Shock Points rather than leave.
• Li Yang rejected killing the Disciples one by one and began working out how to imitate the Bone Peach Mother Tree by “eating” as many as possible efficiently.

Li Yang used the Mystifying Space Realm Domain’s abundant Power of Space to raise Spatial Teleportation to the fifth tier, then began throwing the trapped Disciples into one another’s rooms to provoke a massacre. The Wise Ones watching recognized her talent as chaos spread through the cells, while the concealed Bone Peach Mother Tree continued her plan.

• Li Yang realized she could make the 1,800 trapped Disciples fight each other and leave the last survivor for the Bone Peach Mother Tree to eat.
• Li Yang spent lifespan to raise Spatial Teleportation from the first tier to the fifth, stopping when the cost of the sixth tier reached 200,000 years.
• The Wise Ones watching praised the Bone Peach Mother Tree’s talent, and Kong Shisan defended her when another Wise One implied she had earned the Divine Venerable of Space’s favor.
• The Flower of Evil asked Xuanyuan whether he would object to eating the Bone Peach Mother Tree, and Xuanyuan replied that the Lost Space Society had many Wise Ones of her caliber.
• Li Yang used rapid random teleports to toss Disciples from room to room, gathering them in uneven groups while hiding herself with the Power of Space.
• The trapped Disciples began slaughtering one another when unconscious, frenzied, and space-sensing occupants were thrown together.

Li Yang exploited the Mystifying Space Realm Domain to make its Disciples devour one another, raising a powerful gu king while generating abundant malice for the Flower of Evil. With no sign that the trial would end, she prepared to fight the Seventh Grade Realm Peak gu king she had inadvertently created.

• Li Yang used random teleportation to throw more than 1,800 Disciples together, triggering chaos and earning Shock Points while the Flower of Evil feasted on the malice.
• The Wise Ones realized the Bone Peach Mother Tree was trying to condense all the Disciples into one meal, and worried that her greed would leave her unable to consume the resulting gu king.
• As the Disciples dwindled, Li Yang kept teleporting faster because the Labyrinth route remained clear and she could find no excuse to leave the trial.
• A lucky Sixth Grade Realm Peak Disciple devoured the unconscious Disciples Li Yang dropped near him, then killed and ate a frenzied Seventh Grade cultivator to advance.
• Li Yang accepted that she would have to fight the gu king, who had reached the Seventh Grade Realm Peak, while she was only at the Seventh Grade Realm Initial Stage.

Li Yang faced the Gu King, whose realm was much higher than hers, and used her control of the Power of Space to fight him. She pierced his chest with an explosive strike, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Wise Ones discussed Li Yang’s slim chances against the Gu King, while Kong Shisan and Kong Shiliu watched with hopes tied to the outcome.
• Li Yang ambushed the Gu King with her whip and a detonation Star Skill, but he regenerated and counterattacked with wide-ranging lightning attacks.
• Li Yang evaded the Gu King’s attacks by passing through a blank wall and then switched to a close-range assault with her whip transformed into a longsword.
• Li Yang used the Power of Space to teleport her weapon behind the Gu King and stabbed through his heart.
• Li Yang’s Burst Star Skill exploded inside the Gu King’s chest, blasting a large hole through it.

Li Yang defeated the Gu King by trapping his body in the Noisy Pot after Lianxin repelled his attempt to possess her, leaving his Origin Soul to dissipate. She escaped the Mystifying Space Realm Domain, and the first trial ended with only thirty-five Disciples emerging, leaving them puzzled about what had happened inside.

• The Gu King's Origin Soul attacked Li Yang, but Lianxin drove it through her body and out the other side.
• Li Yang used the Noisy Pot to take the Gu King's unguarded body, leaving his Origin Soul without a body to inhabit.
• Li Yang escaped through the mystifying space route as the Gu King's Origin Soul searched unsuccessfully for a body and dissipated.
• Li Yang gained over a million shock points from the astonished audience and hoped to use a break to raise her cultivation in secret.
• Xuanyuan announced the end of the first trial, and the thirty-five Disciples who had emerged wondered why so few participants had passed.

Li Yang and the other 35 Disciples began the second trial, enduring a flood saturated with the Power of Water for seven days and nights. As the trial wore down the contestants, Li Yang recognized that sensing and absorbing the Power of Water was the key to surviving it.

• The Disciples asked Li Yang what had happened in the Mystifying Space Realm Domain, but she gave them no explanation before the second trial began.
• Xuanyuan sent a flood filled with the Power of Water against all 36 contestants and announced that they had to endure it for seven days and nights.
• Li Yang resisted absorbing the Power of Water because her Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra could sense and transform it, while the Flower of Evil realized Xuanyuan was selecting Disciples with an affinity for the power.
• Two Disciples gave up on the first day, five on the second, and six on the third, leaving 16 contestants still struggling by the fourth day.
• Near the end of the fourth day, Men Sishiyi sensed the Power of Water and began absorbing it, becoming comfortable in the flood as Li Yang realized the trial's key.

Li Yang finally stopped resisting the Power of Water, but it flooded into her origin soul uncontrollably and triggered a strange balance among her water-, wood-, and fire-element powers. The Wise Ones watched as her cultivation surged, leaving it unclear what the transformation would bring.

• After Men Sishiyi sensed the Power of Water, she helped Kong Yi’s Disciple Men Si sense it as well, while a Disciple of Kong Er achieved an unusually balanced fusion of water and space.
• Li Yang watched seven others sense the Power of Water and tried to make her own breakthrough look inconspicuous, but the moment she relaxed, a torrent of water power rushed into her origin soul.
• Li Yang tried to resist with the Power of Space, but it was too weak to stop her origin soul from turning watery blue.
• The Wise Ones noticed a blue vortex forming around the Bone Peach Mother Tree as she absorbed a vast amount of the Power of Water.
• The water power overwhelmed her fire-element Star Skills while nourishing her wood-element Star Skills, and the three attributes began to reach a strange balance.

Li Yang’s Star Skills formed a cycle that drew in vast amounts of water power, mutating her fire-type skill and refining her Origin Soul into something resembling a Soul of Nature. Xuanyuan rose, captivated by her talent, while Kong Yi and Kong Er could only watch as the assessment’s water power was consumed.

• Li Yang absorbed water power without control, drawing shock from Xuanyuan and the Flower of Evil, until Lianxin explained that her Star Skills—not the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra—were creating a powerful cycle.
• Li Yang realized her wood- and fire-type Star Skills were working together to withstand the water power, and her fire-type Star Skill began to show signs of mutation.
• Kong Yi and Kong Er worried Li Yang would absorb all the water power and force their Disciples into a tie; when Kong Er accused Li Yang of breaking the rules, Xuanyuan demanded to know how.
• Kong Shisan feared Li Yang would surpass him and regretted not helping her recover her lost Star Coins earlier.
• Li Yang’s fire-type Star Skill mutated, and her Origin Soul burst into overlapping colors that resembled a Soul of Nature, astonishing the Flower of Evil.
• Xuanyuan stood and stared intently at Li Yang as Kong Yi and Kong Er, unable to act from outside the assessment area, watched with killing intent.

Li Yang, the Bone Peach Mother Tree, turned back seven Disciples who attacked her by reflecting their water-powered strikes and killing five of them as her realm rose. Men Sishiyi begged Lord Sage to save her, while the two surviving attackers stayed back.

• Men Sishiyi and six other Disciples attacked Li Yang, but her multicolored Origin Soul reflected their water-infused attacks and severely injured them.
• Li Yang bound one Disciple with vines, then cut his Origin Soul in two with a sword formed from her own Origin Soul.
• Li Yang advanced to the Seventh Grade, Second Stage, killed another Disciple with Star Skills, and shot through his fleeing Origin Soul with a bow and arrow.
• Li Yang continued killing her attackers, gaining Shock Points and using them to raise her realm through the Seventh Grade stages.
• After Li Yang had killed five Disciples, the two remaining attackers backed away, and Men Sishiyi cried out for Lord Sage to save her.

Li Yang survived the second promotion trial after killing the seven Disciples who attacked her, and Xuanyuan let the remaining survivors offer themselves as her Disciples. Xuanyuan presented Li Yang with a choice that would decide whether she continued to the arena tournament or became the sole victor, and she worried that accepting the Disciples might be a trap.

• Xuanyuan revealed that the second trial required the Disciples to endure seven days and seven nights, while Men Sishiyi attacked Li Yang with a water-powered spear.
• Li Yang reflected Men Sishiyi’s attack, killed her, and reached the Seventh Grade Realm, Fourth Stage; she spared the Disciples who had not attacked her.
• The remaining Disciples survived until the seventh day, thanked Li Yang, and asked her to accept them as her Disciples.
• Xuanyuan explained that the Disciples were not yet qualified to become Wise Ones and revealed that the third trial would be an arena tournament.
• The survivors gave up their promotion and asked to enter Li Yang’s service, while Xuanyuan offered Li Yang the choice to accept them or continue to the tournament.

Li Yang won the arena match and Xuanyuan named her Xuan Shiyi, signaling that she was his eleventh personal disciple while using her new status to pressure the Flower of Evil to join the Lost Space Society. After the Flower of Evil reassured her that Xuanyuan believed her cover, Li Yang followed Xuanyuan to a chapel, where he directly asked her to become his disciple.

• Xuanyuan declared Li Yang the sole winner of the third round and promoted her as Xuan Shiyi, a codename normally reserved for his personal disciples.
• Xuanyuan told the Flower of Evil that he could become the Lost Space Society's eighth Sage and warned that Xuan Shiyi would remain behind if he left; the Flower of Evil agreed to consider the offer.
• The Flower of Evil explained to Li Yang that Xuanyuan believed her Origin Soul was a naturally created Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul, and he recounted their conversation to calm her fears.
• Li Yang followed Xuanyuan through numerous spatial Realm Domains to a chapel beneath a dark blue dome.
• Xuanyuan asked Li Yang to become his disciple, and she accepted under the name Shiyi.