Chapter Summaries

Li Yang resisted Daowu’s attempt to make her kill him, destroyed the Human Emperor’s body, and stripped Daowu of his divine Authorities. Taking the Authority of Fate revealed Xia Changsheng’s memories, which began with her rescuing Pure Lianxin from the Spatial Rift.

• Li Yang learned that her consciousness had emerged from the Power of Chaos through her will to survive, while Daowu urged her to abandon the world and kill him.
• Li Yang realized that Daowu wanted her to kill him and that his death would annihilate heaven and earth, so she instead destroyed the Human Emperor’s body he cherished.
• Li Yang spared Daowu, sealed him in his space, and removed his Authorities of God until only the Authority of Fate remained.
• Li Yang took the Authority of Fate and received Xia Changsheng’s memories, learning that Xia had been born in the Astral Realm and risen to Ninth-Grade Supreme.
• Xia Changsheng met Pure Petal, obtained the Authority of Space, and used it to rescue Pure Lianxin from the Spatial Rift.
• Pure Lianxin transformed into the human form Xia Changsheng preferred and offered her Ninth Grade Lotus Seeds in gratitude.

Xia Changsheng left the Lotus Domain with Pure Lianxin and Pure Petal after receiving the Authority of Fate and promising to spread the Dao of Pure Cultivation throughout the Astral Realm. Back in Huaxia, she established the Huaxia Heavenly Palace and became its leader, but other Realm Domains began eyeing it as its cultivators struggled to advance under the difficult sutra.

• Xia Changsheng entered a Symbiotic Contract with Pure Lianxin and Pure Petal and received their Ninth Grade sacred objects in the Lotus Domain.
• The Lotus Domain offered to help Xia Changsheng reach the Divine Venerable Realm if she spread the Dao of Pure Cultivation, then entrusted her with the Authority of Fate.
• Xia Changsheng brought the pair to Huaxia, where Lianxin chose the name Daowu and Petal chose the name Xingshu.
• Xia Changsheng used her Authority of Space to build the Huaxia Heavenly Palace and took the throne as Huaxia's leader.
• Other Realm Domains tried to invade the Huaxia Heavenly Palace while its Star Wielders struggled to progress by cultivating the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra.

Xia Changsheng conquered the Astral Realm and spread the Dao of Pure Cultivation, then began distributing the Authorities of God to ease growing resentment among Ninth-Grade Supremes. After granting Xingshu the Authority of Time and assigning the seven great elements, she left the Authority of Humanity for later, but the people of the Huaxia Heavenly Palace grew impatient for their share.

• Xia Changsheng defeated invaders, subdued Realm Domains that cultivated the Dao of Devouring, and spread the Dao of Pure Cultivation under the Huaxia Heavenly Palace’s protection.
• Xia Changsheng became the Astral Realm’s sole Human Emperor, but Ninth-Grade Supremes began doubting her claims when they saw how far her strength surpassed theirs.
• A Ninth-Grade Supreme confronted Xia Changsheng about the Authorities of God taken from slain devourers, and she decided to distribute them among the people who had cultivated the Dao of Pure Cultivation.
• Daowu refused the Authority of Space, while Xingshu accepted the Authority of Time and became the first Divine Venerable of Time.
• Xia Changsheng assigned the seven great elements to suitable holders from their corresponding Realm Domains, but delayed distributing the Authority of Humanity.
• People in the Huaxia Heavenly Palace grew impatient, believing Xia Changsheng would keep the Authority of Fate while Space would likely go to Daowu.

Xia Changsheng faced growing suspicion in the Huaxia Heavenly Palace after distributing the Elemental Authorities to other Realm Domains, while a conspiracy against Xingshu left him gravely wounded. At a hostile Star Nexus meeting, she explained the Authorities and released the Emotion Authorities, then questioned whether she should keep protecting the Astral Realm.

• Xia Changsheng gave all seven Elemental Authorities to other Realm Domains, angering the Huaxia Heavenly Palace’s upper echelon, who accused her of favoring outsiders and pursuing the Dao of Devouring.
• Huaxia subordinates attacked Xingshu to seize his Authority of Time; after he tore it from his own Divine Soul, Xia Changsheng returned and found him trampled and near death.
• Xia Changsheng entrusted Xingshu to Daowu, who took him to the Lotus Domain for healing, while she returned to the chaotic Huaxia Heavenly Palace.
• At a Star Nexus meeting, Xia Changsheng explained the Lotus Domain’s warning and the dangers of the Dao of Devouring, but Huaxia’s Ninth-Grade Supremes accused her of trusting outsiders and demanded that she cleanse her own sins.
• Xia Changsheng explained the strengths and limits of the Authorities, released all the Emotion Authorities, and wondered why she should share her knowledge or protect the Astral Realm.

Xia Changsheng returned to the Lotus Domain with Daowu and used the Authority of Fate to create a law that would protect him, sacrificing her life in the process. Daowu caught the last trace of her life soul as the memory continued.

• After Xia Changsheng gave away the Authority of God, greed spread through the Astral Realm, and Divine Venerables began devouring one another until the Dao of Pure Cultivation disappeared.
• Xia Changsheng asked Daowu to take her to the Lotus Domain, and they formed a Symbiotic Contract with terms she had prepared while supposedly resting.
• At the Lotus Domain, Xia Changsheng discovered that a newborn Pure Petal was not Xingshu and learned that a new Pure Lianxin had been born.
• Xia Changsheng used the Authority of Fate to create the law, “If Daowu ceases to be, heaven and earth shall perish,” and embedded it in the World Tree.
• Xia Changsheng sacrificed her life to protect Daowu, and Daowu seized the Authority of Fate and held onto the last trace of her life soul.

Li Yang learned how Daowu had tried to resurrect Xia Changsheng and build a world for her, then imprisoned him and recognized that the Lotus Domain and Evil Domain formed a cycle of balance. She left the World Tree with the Flower of Evil to return to the Evil Domain as news of the Upper Three Realms' defeat spread.

• Li Yang learned from Xia Changsheng's memories that Daowu had reclaimed her Authorities of God, polluted the Astral Realm, and sought to create a new world for her.
• Xia Changsheng revealed that she had sent her Fortune Spirit away and left Li Yang a message about balance, natural change, and the Dao of Pure Cultivation.
• Li Yang rejected Daowu's curse and sealed him in a transparent cell where he could neither see nor hear the outside world.
• Li Yang realized that the Evil Domain and the Lotus Domain were opposing sides of a cycle, so she left the World Tree unpurified for the moment.
• Li Yang told the Flower of Evil that they were returning to the Evil Domain, while news of the Upper Three Realms' defeat at the Greedy Wolf Transit Point spread across the Astral Realm.

Li Yang announced that God King Daowu had fallen and that Huaxia ruled the Upper Three Realms, then invited the Astral Realm to challenge her for his Authorities of God. Back in the Evil Domain, she helped arrange for her master, the Marquis of Crimson Dawn, to absorb Si Kui’s Origin Soul and decided to wait until she woke before explaining what had happened.

• Li Yang appeared before the Realm Domain experts near the Evil Domain carrying Daowu’s Authorities of God and declared that the Upper Three Realms belonged to Huaxia.
• Li Yang captured the lurking Star Wielders and challenged anyone to defeat her using the corresponding Authority, while declaring that nature was the true god and the Divine Venerable Realm was over.
• Li Yang returned to the Evil Domain and asked Li Yaowan to use Si Kui’s tainted Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul to restore the Marquis of Crimson Dawn.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion and the Marquis of the Long Night questioned Li Yang about her public challenge, but Li Yang said she would explain after her master woke.
• Li Yaowan told Li Yang that the Marquis of Crimson Dawn had awakened and had already taken the pills prepared for her.

After reuniting with Si Kui, Li Yang shared the first Human Emperor’s memories and discussed how to promote the Dao of Pure Cultivation without forcing it on others. She proposed accepting open challenges so cultivators could choose that path themselves, leaving the future of the Authority of God to whoever could defeat her.

• Si Kui examined Li Yang and confirmed she was safe, and Li Yang embraced her.
• Li Yang used Time Rewind to show her trusted companions the first Human Emperor’s memories and explain why she had resisted advancing to the Divine Venerable Realm.
• Si Kui reminded the group that the Human Emperor had shared her painful memories to pass on experience, not to dictate answers.
• Li Yang explained that the Dao of Pure Cultivation should be promoted by showing its merits rather than forcing people to follow it.
• Li Yang described her plan to accept challenges from cultivators, allowing anyone who defeated her to claim the Authority of God and become a new standard for others.
• The group agreed that each generation would build on the work of those before it to sustain the Lotus Domain.

Li Yang proposed balancing the Dao of Pure Cultivation with regulated guidance for the Dao of Devouring, appointing the Flower of Evil to monitor its cultivators. As the group prepared to restore the deteriorating Lotus Domain, Li Yang revealed that the purification might force her to remain there forever.

• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion volunteered to draft regulations for promoting the Dao of Pure Cultivation, and Li Yang argued that the Dao of Devouring should be guided rather than abolished.
• Li Yang asked the Flower of Evil to oversee cultivators of the Dao of Devouring, and he agreed to monitor their malice.
• Si Kui asked what it meant to encompass all things, prompting those present to gain insight into the coexistence of good and evil.
• Li Yang outlined a balanced approach to both cultivation paths and warned that the Lotus Domain had deteriorated more than tenfold since her last visit.
• Li Yang said they urgently needed to put the Laws of Heaven and Earth Daowu had stockpiled into the Lotus Domain, but admitted she might have to remain there forever.
• Si Kui and Si Yue offered to take Li Yang's place, but Li Yang said only she could carry enough Laws of Heaven and Earth because of the Human Emperor's Fortune Spirit.

As the Power of Chaos spread across the Astral Realm, Li Yang prepared to purify its contaminated sites and told Lianxin that she came from the Power of Chaos. Lianxin remembered their past conversations and recalled how they had connected across the ages, ending with his promise to create a world like Li Yang’s home.

• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion reported that black matter had spread throughout the Astral Realm, and Si Kui urged Li Yang to purify the contamination there so cultivators could witness the danger firsthand.
• Li Yang agreed to gather the Laws of Heaven and Earth in the First Realm Domain and purify contaminated locations one by one as the Marquis of Wind Pavilion collected their coordinates.
• Li Yang confessed to Lianxin that she had come from the Power of Chaos, and Lianxin said he remembered their earlier conversations.
• Lianxin recalled how he had sensed Li Yang within the Power of Chaos and helped awaken her through their conversations.
• Lianxin told Li Yang he planned to create a new world in the image of hers and asked whether she would go with him.

Li Yang and Lianxin spent countless years together in the Lotus Domain before Lianxin left to create a world of his own, promising that they might meet again. After 900,000 years, Lianxin helped the Human Emperor’s lingering consciousness find a host for her Fortune Spirit by describing Li Yang’s qualities, unknowingly passing his memories of her into it.

• Li Yang ate lotus seeds with Black Power of Chaos and found that their vitality lightened her color and slightly reduced the harm she caused the Lotus Domain.
• Lianxin matured and prepared to leave the Lotus Domain, while Li Yang encouraged him to create a world full of living beings and promised they might meet again.
• Lianxin left the Lotus Domain to search spatial rifts for a chance to create a new world, but was later forcibly dragged out of a rift by Daowu.
• During 900,000 years, Lianxin avoided revealing himself to hostile beings but spoke with the Human Emperor’s lingering consciousness and learned her Fortune Spirit needed a host.
• Lianxin described Li Yang’s vitality, determination, and connection to plants and lotus seeds as qualities for the Fortune Spirit’s host, repeating them until they were preserved in the Fortune Spirit.

Li Yang recovered her memories of Lianxin and told him she might disappear while cleansing the Power of Chaos, urging him to find his own purpose. As the corruption spread through the Astral Realm, Li Yang and Lianxin began purifying it in the Blue Crystal Realm Domain, where the Laws of Heaven and Earth started clearing the black matter.

• Lianxin recounted how Li Yang had escaped the Lotus Domain and returned in the body of a dead orphan, awakening her buried memories of their past.
• Li Yang confessed the danger of her disappearance and urged Lianxin to live as a complete person rather than follow a mission imposed on him; he chose to accompany her.
• The Power of Chaos spread across the Astral Realm, causing deaths, evacuations, and uprisings against rulers who had consumed their Realm Domains.
• The Huaxia Heavenly Palace announced that the Power of Chaos came from corruption in the Lotus Domain and could be purified with the Authority of God or the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Li Yang and Lianxin reached the First Realm Domain, gathered its Laws of Heaven and Earth, and headed for the Blue Crystal Realm Domain to purify the corruption there first.
• Li Yang released the Laws of Heaven and Earth over the Power of Chaos in the Blue Crystal Realm Domain, and Lianxin watched the blackness begin to turn transparent.

Li Yang purified the Power of Chaos across the Astral Realm with the Laws of Heaven and Earth, while Lianxin grew increasingly troubled by the possibility that the process could make her disappear. When the contamination finally emerged in the Huaxia Realm Domain where Li Yang had descended, she and Lianxin entered it together to investigate.

• Li Yang purified the Power of Chaos in the Sand Fruit Realm Domain, saving contaminated clan members and comforting a young girl whose mother had been affected.
• Li Yang purified the Blood God Realm Domain and, with Lianxin opening Spatial Teleportation, went on to cleanse allied and other Realm Domains throughout the Astral Realm.
• The Huaxia Heavenly Palace received appeals for help from Realm Domains across the Astral Realm and found it had effectively completed a census as Li Yang’s work stabilized the region.
• Li Yang asked Lianxin to rest, but he continued opening portals despite the toll, and she fed him a pill before they visited dozens more Realm Domains.
• The Huaxia Heavenly Palace reported that the Power of Chaos had appeared in the Huaxia Realm Domain, prompting Lianxin to warn Li Yang that it was where she had descended.
• Li Yang and Lianxin entered the azure gate to the Huaxia Realm Domain together and headed for the first contamination site at Zhongdu Military Academy.

Li Yang purified the final Power of Chaos at her former home in Huangcheng, but the effort caused her consciousness to vanish. Sister Longevity used one year of Li Yang’s lifespan to reconstruct her mental body, and Li Yang woke beside Lianxin as the Chaos was fully purified.

• Li Yang arrived at Zhongdu Military Academy, reunited with Feng Yiqiao, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao, and purified the Power of Chaos there.
• Marquis of Wind Pavilion told Li Yang that the last outbreak was in Huangcheng, so Li Yang and Lianxin traveled to her former home.
• Li Yang purified the Chaos in the house where her current body had once lived, but her spirit was torn apart and she lost consciousness.
• Sister Longevity offered to reconstruct Li Yang’s mental body for one year of lifespan, and Li Yang accepted.
• Li Yang woke as the Flower of Evil and the others rejoiced, while Lianxin stayed beside her.
• The remaining Power of Chaos was purified, and Huaxia Star Wielders cheered outside the residential complex.

After Li Yang fell into a near-death state, Lianxin tried to give her his Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul, but Li Yaowan realized the Human Emperor Fortune Spirit was rebuilding Li Yang’s spirit body with origin soul fragments. The Marquis of Wind Pavilion contributed a fragment that joined Lianxin’s, giving the spirit body reconstruction the material it needed.

• Lianxin held Li Yang and nearly gave in to despair, while the Marquis of Wind Pavilion sent for Si Kui.
• Si Kui sensed a faint life soul in Li Yang, and Li Yaowan confirmed that Li Yang’s soul was gone and her origin soul was failing.
• Lianxin tore out part of his Myriad Phenomena Origin Soul and began putting it into Li Yang, despite Si Kui and Li Yaowan trying to stop him.
• Li Yaowan realized the Human Emperor Fortune Spirit was rebuilding Li Yang’s spirit body and needed many origin soul fragments.
• The Marquis of Wind Pavilion offered a fragment she had stored in her windbell flower bracelet, and the Human Emperor Fortune Spirit joined it to Lianxin’s fragment.

After Li Yang’s Origin Soul began to dissipate, Li Yaowan and her allies gathered fragments from across the Astral Realm to restore her. Li Yang awoke a year later with an unusual Origin Soul and chose not to complete it with the Authority of God.

• Si Kui tried to separate an Origin Soul fragment, but the Marquis of Wind Pavilion stopped her, and Li Yaowan sent her and Lianxin to find an artifact in the Upper Three Realms.
• Li Yaowan proposed rebuilding Li Yang’s Origin Soul with fragments of different attributes, and the Marquis of Wind Pavilion arranged restorative pills and resources for contributors.
• Shennü and rulers and clans across the Astral Realm offered qualifying Origin Soul fragments, while the Flower of Evil and Jiang Yuqing provided the final two.
• After a year of gathering and embedding fragments, Li Yang woke, and Lianxin told her what had happened while she was unconscious.
• Li Yang sensed that her Origin Soul was one percent short in every attribute and said it was better that way than to become complete.

Shen Binghua and Cheng Rui became freshman representatives, and Cheng Rui’s admiration for her turned into a determination to surpass her despite repeated defeats. Years later, they reunited for an exploration mission, where Shen Binghua acknowledged that they knew each other, leaving Cheng Rui surprised and uncertain about their relationship.

• Cheng Rui became determined to beat Shen Binghua after she defeated him decisively in the first monthly exam, and Si Yue urged him to persist in the Nature Department.
• Cheng Rui continued losing to Shen Binghua in exams but trained harder and eventually joined her at the Huaxia Heavenly Palace.
• Cheng Rui admired the Nature Department’s strength after witnessing Si Kui return from wiping out a beast tide, then wrote Shen Binghua a letter asking to fight her, but she did not reply.
• Cheng Rui accepted an exploration mission posted by Shen Binghua and joined her team in an abandoned Realm Domain.
• When a teammate asked whether they knew each other, Shen Binghua said they did, surprising Cheng Rui.

Cheng Rui realized during a dangerous Realm Domain expedition that he wanted to protect Shen Binghua rather than defeat her, and changed his cultivation path to focus on defense and support. The chapter also revealed that Shen Binghua had long valued Cheng Rui as her rival, though after they reached the Huaxia Heavenly Palace, she could no longer find chances to fight him.

• Cheng Rui joined Shen Binghua and their teammates for drinks at Late Night, where he drunkenly called himself the Eternal Runner-Up and glimpsed Shen Binghua smiling.
• During an expedition into an unknown Realm Domain, Shen Binghua exhausted herself after powerful attacks, and Cheng Rui shielded her from a fast Star Beast while their teammates fought beside them.
• After the mission, Shen Binghua thanked Cheng Rui, prompting him to realize he wanted to protect her and redirect his cultivation toward defensive skills, Star Curses, and Star Artifacts.
• Cheng Rui cultivated in seclusion for a hundred years and worked hard for three Huaxia years without seeing Shen Binghua again.
• Shen Binghua remembered Cheng Rui as a closely matched rival, had pushed herself to keep defeating him, and regretted that the Huaxia Heavenly Palace offered no regular assessments where they could compete.

A century after the war, Li Yang helped the Astral Realm recover and reshape its relationships between Realm Domains. After serving as dean of the Agronomy Department and testing adjustments to its resources and other departments, she continued planning a stable future for the realms.

• By Year 100 of the Dawn Calendar, the Astral Realm had gradually moved beyond the shadow of the Upper Three Realms' rule.
• Li Yang chose not to unify the Realm Domains, instead promoting cooperation that respected their different environments and values.
• Li Yang served as dean of the Agronomy Department for ten years, drawing many prominent students to it.
• The Star-Slaying Military Academy sought to establish an Agronomy Department, and Jiang Yuqing advised its acting principal to wait for Li Yang to finish her plans.
• Li Yang used knowledge carried by Sister Longevity's collected Origin Soul fragments to test adjustments to the Tree Tower, Divine Soil, and other departmental resources.

Li Yang expanded her education reforms across the Astral Realm, using Sister Longevity to discover resources and building mutually beneficial ties between Realm Domains. After a century of work, she was revered as the God of the Astral Realm.

• Li Yang established Agronomy Departments across the military academies and relied on Lianxin to help manage her work.
• Li Yang and Lianxin traveled to the Sand Fruit Realm Domain, where she rested before returning to her duties.
• Over the next hundred years, Li Yang visited Realm Domains, shared knowledge, and helped each develop its strengths.
• Li Yang spent one million years of lifespan to explore a Realm Domain at triple speed and uncovered a valuable resource.
• The Realm Domain's ruler asked to join Huaxia Heavenly Palace, and Li Yang arranged for its people and resources to be protected and managed through mutual benefit.
• After a century of work across the Astral Realm, Li Yang was regarded by its people as its God.