Chapter Summaries

Li Yang prepared to face Lin Zhaoxia in the decisive final match, gaining a small insight into the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra and accepting a Star Recovery Pill from her opponent. The chapter ended as both fighters activated Frenzy and charged at each other.

• Li Yang realized that winning would strengthen the Agronomy Department and help protect her from the person plotting against her.
• Li Yang gained a tiny amount of progress in the Sparse Words, Natural Heart Sutra after reflecting on her experience.
• Lin Zhaoxia gave Li Yang a Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pill so they could fight without an advantage from Li Yang’s injuries.
• Li Yang invited Lin Zhaoqin to join the Agronomy Department, while the livestream audience sent gifts and debated the finalists’ chances.
• The final match began, and Li Yang and Lin Zhaoxia activated Frenzy before charging at each other with their double blades.

Li Yang defeated Lin Zhaoxia in a brutal duel by using Hidden Shadow without interrupting her doubled Frenzy or Severing Space, then collapsed from her injuries. As the healers treated her, Si Kui reflected on the risk Li Yang had taken and remembered her own teacher’s promise to protect her students.

• Li Yang refused to use Bark and took Lin Zhaoxia’s attack, building toward doubled Frenzy while the two fought at close range.
• Li Yang and Lin Zhaoxia triggered doubled Frenzy at the same time and raced to complete seven Severing Spaces.
• Li Yang used Hidden Shadow, reappeared behind Lin Zhaoxia without interrupting her Star Skills, and unleashed Execution first.
• Professor Xu stopped the duel and declared Li Yang the winner; both fighters collapsed, and Lin Zhaoxia smiled as she acknowledged Li Yang’s victory.
• A medical teacher treated Li Yang, who joked about the cost of her care and said she had to count every penny.
• Si Kui watched Li Yang’s exchange with the healer and remembered her teacher’s vow that her students would never have to risk their lives.

Si Kui cut off her mental connection with Li Yang and announced that she would enter seclusion, prompting Li Yang to rush back to the Agronomy Department. News that Si Kui was a Half-Step Supreme spread through Zhongdu Military Academy, and Li Yang left Si Kui agreeing to let her enter seclusion while insisting it must not last long.

• Si Kui told Li Yang and Feng Yiqiao that she would enter seclusion and ordered Li Yang to move to the courtyard at the mountain’s foot.
• Li Yang hurried back to the Agronomy Department despite Feng Yiqiao trying to stop her, while Zhong Kun revealed that Li Yang’s teacher was a Half-Step Supreme.
• Students and livestream viewers reacted to the news, and the Academic Affairs Office deleted posts and closed the department transfer channel after a rush of applications.
• Li Yang reached the Agronomy Department and questioned Si Kui about her sudden seclusion; Si Kui said she would be away for at least ten days or half a month.
• Li Yang tried to persuade Si Kui not to stay in seclusion too long, and Si Kui reminded her that she was already eighteen.

Li Yang prepared for the Star Ash Mystic Realm while the monthly exam results stirred resentment in the Star Magic Department and drew potential transfer students to the Agronomy Department. After receiving congratulatory gifts and repaying Li Yaowan, she learned that transfers were paused until Si Kui emerged from seclusion.

• Si Kui agreed to leave seclusion within half a month, and Li Yang promised to look after her fellow students.
• The monthly exam rankings placed Li Yang first, Lin Zhaoxia second, and Zhong Qian third, while Star Magic Department students redirected their criticism toward Fang Chuyun.
• Li Yang invited Fang Chuyun to transfer, and Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun each decided to seek a place in the Agronomy Department.
• Li Yang received 12,333 merit points in gifts and used the income to repay Li Yaowan.
• The academic affairs office suspended Agronomy Department transfers while Si Kui was in seclusion, and Li Yang told Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun to ask again in half a month.

Li Yang discovered that Si Kui was in a life-or-death struggle with a sentient lotus that Si Kui had tried to devour to advance to Ninth Grade. After learning that consuming a sentient divine object could bring heavenly punishment, Li Yang stopped Si Kui from continuing, leaving her teacher to reconsider the dangerous breakthrough.

• For twelve nights, Li Yang dreamed of a trembling white lotus and gained a year of lifespan each night, until Si Kui’s face appeared on the lotus and the lifespan gains stopped.
• Li Yang sensed golden and white lights clashing in Si Kui’s courtyard, found it destroyed, and discovered Si Kui fighting the lotus inside the cave abode.
• The lotus spirit explained that Si Kui had tried to eat it, while Li Yang used 100 years of lifespan to confirm that consuming a sentient divine object could fix Si Kui’s realm or kill her.
• Li Yang persuaded the lotus spirit to leave Si Kui’s body, then embraced Si Kui and pleaded with her not to eat the living lotus.
• Si Kui stopped devouring the lotus after realizing the danger of heavenly punishment, with Li Yang’s intervention interrupting the struggle.

Li Yang saved Si Kui from a dangerous attempt to fuse with the lotus heart, which awakened and asked for water. After Li Yang brought it water, it transformed into a tiny human and offered Si Kui lotus seeds, but Si Kui revealed that she could not safely enter its home in the Lotus Domain.

• The lotus heart revealed that it had spiritual awareness, and Si Kui explained that she had been trying to fuse with it without realizing it was alive.
• Si Kui told Li Yang that her intervention had prevented severe heavenly punishment, and Li Yang urged her not to risk everything for cultivation.
• The lotus heart offered to find Si Kui a lotus seed if Li Yang helped it return home, so Li Yang carried water up the mountain and poured it into the crystal coffin.
• The water vanished, and the lotus heart appeared as a palm-sized human figure whom Li Yang recognized from her dreams.
• Si Kui explained that the lotus heart belonged to the Lotus Domain and that its planet-sized mother would eat her if she went there.

Li Yang and Lianxin formed a Spirit Pact: she would take him home, and he would give her lotus seeds. After restoring Lianxin with water and praise, Li Yang set out to begin recruiting people, with her system showing 834 years of lifespan and 900,000 years awaiting unlocking.

• Si Kui explained the risks of a Spirit Pact, and Li Yang made one with Lianxin, binding their lives until its conditions for ending were met.
• Lianxin weakened after the pact, so Li Yang poured water on him and gained lifespan from the system until he passed out from drinking too much.
• Li Yang discovered that praising Lianxin also granted her lifespan, then promised to care for him as Si Kui restored the courtyard.
• Li Yang left to begin recruiting people and checked her system panel, which showed 834 years of lifespan and 900,000 years awaiting unlocking.

Li Yang learned how her spirit pact with Lianxin affected her lifespan and decided to pursue lifespan through favorability and farming. As Si Kui’s Agronomy Department gained new students, Fang Chuyun became her disciple while Lin Zhaoqin was offered a minor instead of a transfer.

• Li Yang spent lifespan querying the system and learned that her pact with Lianxin had locked away nine hundred thousand years, which she could unlock by collecting Star Ash Soil.
• Li Yang discovered that lifespan rewards depended on favorability and that unlocked lifespan would be lost if the spirit pact ended before she claimed it.
• After Dean Si emerged from seclusion, Fang Chuyun asked to transfer to the Agronomy Department, and Si Kui accepted her as his sixth disciple.
• Fang Suyun worried that her younger sister would not become Si Kui’s disciple, but Fang Chuyun completed the ceremony and received a Starlight-rich courtyard.
• Lin Zhaoqin arrived bruised after fighting her parents to secure a department transfer, and Si Kui told her she could minor in the Nature Department instead because her great-grandfather had once studied there.

Li Yang’s new junior sisters exhausted her with constant sparring, while Zhong Kun grew convinced his bad luck made him a burden. Li Yang reframed his past help as good fortune for her, and Zhong Kun agreed to join the Agronomy Department.

• Lin Zhaoqin asked Si Kui to become his disciple, joined the Nature Department as his seventh disciple, and challenged Li Yang to spar.
• Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun took turns fighting Li Yang until she fled to her room, while the other Agronomy Department students avoided Lin Zhaoqin’s challenges.
• Zhong Kun brooded over his family’s quick agreement to his transfer and decided his supposed bad luck meant he should not join Li Yang.
• Li Yang messaged Zhong Kun about his promised surprise and learned he feared bringing misfortune to her and the Agronomy Department.
• Li Yang listed the ways Zhong Kun’s help had brought her good fortune, and Zhong Kun eagerly agreed to transfer to the Agronomy Department.

Li Yang learned more about the Star Ash Mystic Realm, including its resources, Realm Domain suppression, and accelerated passage of time, as she prepared to enter it in three days. The chapter ended with Zhong Kun explaining that she could spend the two-day visit cultivating in meditation, potentially filling her Star Apertures.

• Li Yang confirmed that the Star Ash Mystic Realm would open in three days and asked Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun what to expect there.
• Zhong Kun and Lin Zhaoqin explained that Star Ash Rain could sculpt Star Apertures and that Realm Domain resources usually dissolved upon entering Huaxia unless carried by someone with sufficient status or a special container.
• Li Yang asked the system whether Lianxin's status could let him bring Star Ash Soil out, and the system charged her thirty years of lifespan to inquire.
• Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun revealed that time passed at different speeds in Realm Domains and that one day in Huaxia equaled one month in the Star Ash Mystic Realm.
• Li Yang connected the Longevity System to the Astral Realm's time differences, while the system ignored her questions about its origins.
• Zhong Kun told Li Yang that she could meditate through the Star Ash Mystic Realm's two-day visit, during which she would experience only two days while cultivating for two months.

Li Yang led Lin Zhaoqin, Fang Chuyun, and Zhong Kun on a breakthrough mission to help destroy a Descending Star Cult hideout, while a hidden enemy plotted to ambush her later. The raid began with Zhong Kun overwhelming the cultists using an arsenal of costly defensive gear and star devices.

• Li Yang announced that Nature Department members had to break through without Realm-Breaking Pills, and Zhong Kun agreed to follow the rule rather than quit.
• Li Yang consulted He Song and chose a mission supporting the City Defense Army's attack on a Descending Star Cult hideout, while an unseen elder ordered an ambush against her once she reached Peak Second Grade.
• Li Yang, Lin Zhaoqin, Fang Chuyun, and Zhong Kun set out together, and Zhong Kun paid Li Yang 200 Merit Points to stay behind her.
• The City Defense Army welcomed the prominent-family students as protective talismans and prepared to raid the cult hideout.
• During the battle, Zhong Kun's armor repelled a cultist's attack, and he charged through the enemies while blasting them with star devices and star curses, leaving Lin Zhaoqin demanding a chance to fight.

After breaking through during the Agronomy Department’s mission, Li Yang prepared for the Star Ash Mystic Realm and arranged to bring Little Lianxin with her so he could collect star ash soil. As the realm’s opening approached, Li Yaowan contacted Li Yang and began a conversation about her recent breakthrough.

• Li Yang and her teammates completed their City Defense Army mission, each killing a cultist and breaking through, while Zhong Kun’s Star Artifact blast accidentally caught Lin Zhaoqin.
• Li Yang asked Si Kui to let Little Lianxin accompany her to the Star Ash Mystic Realm, and Si Kui explained that he could travel in Li Yang’s mental sea and bring out star ash soil.
• Si Kui gave Little Lianxin a miniature human form, and Li Yang settled him on her shoulder for the journey.
• Li Yang reviewed her updated cultivation panel, which showed her at the Second Grade Middle Stage with seven Star Apertures and a new star ash soil collection task.
• Li Yaowan contacted Li Yang, congratulated her on reaching the Second Grade Middle Stage, and prompted Li Yang to ask what she really wanted.

Li Yaowan asked Li Yang to help Zhongdu Military Academy’s Pill Department compete against Star-Slaying Military Academy in the Star Ash Mystic Realm. Li Yang agreed to do her best in exchange for the Potent Star Recovery Pill formula, but cautioned that she might not be able to defeat the two rival freshmen.

• Li Yaowan told Li Yang that Star-Slaying Military Academy had won two slots in the Star Ash Mystic Realm and challenged Zhongdu’s Pill Department to a pill-making contest.
• Li Yaowan explained that Zhongdu was sending eighteen Pill Department students and asked Li Yang to help them beat Star Slaying’s two freshmen.
• Li Yaowan offered Li Yang a personally developed Realm-Breaking Pill formula, but Li Yang refused to refine pills her teacher discouraged.
• Li Yaowan offered several alternative formulas, and Li Yang chose the Potent Star Recovery Pill formula after learning its annual usage fee was 2,500 points.
• Li Yang agreed to do her best to refine pills but warned Li Yaowan that she might still fail to beat the two Star-Slaying students.

Li Yang agreed to represent Zhongdu’s Pill Department against Star-Slaying Military Academy and used her lifespan to learn the Potent Star Recovery Pill formula. After learning that her opponent might be Jiang Yuqing, a celebrated young alchemist said to have refined ten pills in an instant, she became wary of the challenge.

• Li Yaowan promised Li Yang the pill formula and arranged a blue-quality pill furnace and supplies, hoping Li Yang could help Zhongdu’s Pill Department defeat the Jiang Family.
• Li Yang received Li Yao’s Potent Star Recovery Pill formula and spent fifty years of lifespan learning it, discovering that the formula could still be improved.
• Lin Zhaoqin told Li Yang that Star-Slaying Military Academy wanted to compete with her in alchemy at the Star Ash Mystic Realm.
• Li Yaowan contacted Li Yang and swore that she had not arranged the challenge, explaining that Star-Slaying’s informants had learned about Li Yang’s assessment.
• Lin Zhaoqin described Jiang Yuqing’s alchemy reputation and said he had reportedly refined ten pills in an instant, making Li Yang’s antennae stand up.

Li Yang accepted the Pill Department’s request to face Jiang Yuqing and received a high-quality furnace and a qiankun pouch packed with Starlight Carbon. As the Star Ash Mystic Realm’s opening approached, she learned that the apparent boy from Star-Slaying Military Academy was not Jiang Yuqing; the girl beside him was.

• Li Yang heard that Jiang Yuqing might be a Pill Dao Heavenly Fortune Bearer but decided she would only do her best in the challenge.
• Li Yaowan gave Li Yang a blue-purple pill furnace and a purple-quality qiankun pouch filled with Starlight Carbon.
• Li Yang used Tongzi to load the pouch’s contents, then failed to expand its capacity and lost five mental stat points.
• The Jiang Family party arrived at Zhongdu Military Academy with Jiang Yuqing among them, though onlookers mistook a boy for him.
• Yu Hongyuan sent a video of the party to the Loving Agronomy Group, where Lin Zhaoqin and Zhong Kun identified the girl as Jiang Yuqing.

As the Star Ash Mystic Realm opening approached, Central Capital First Military Academy and Star-Slaying Military Academy students argued online over Jiang Yuqing and Li Yang’s abilities. Jiang Yuqing prepared to enter the realm, revealing that his Shock System let him spend Shock Points to refine pills almost instantly, and planned to earn more by shocking the Central Capital Pill Department students.

• Lin Zhaoqin explained that he had mistaken Jiang Yuqing for a girl when they first met, while Zhong Kun and Li Yang reacted to the revelation.
• Students on the Central Capital school forum argued about Jiang Yuqing’s pill-refining ability and the Star-Slaying Military Academy’s two entrants, then clashed over whether Li Yang was a Pill Dao or Spirit Department Heavenly Fortune Bearer.
• Central Capital and Star-Slaying students escalated their online arguments with three hours left before the Star Ash Mystic Realm opened.
• Wei Cang asked Jiang Yuqing whether he was confident, and Jiang Yuqing answered by producing a pill before saying he would sleep.
• Jiang Yuqing reviewed his Shock System, recalling how shocking people earned him Shock Points that he could spend to refine pills in seconds.
• Jiang Yuqing planned to shock as many Central Capital Pill Department students as possible in the realm and collect their Shock Points.

Li Yang entered the Star Ash Mystic Realm, where Jiang Yuqing publicly challenged her claim to be the Pill Dao Heavenly Fortune Bearer, while Lin Zhaoxia and Zhong Qian offered to help her cultivate. She declined their offer to pursue the resources promised by Professor Li and began exploring the realm with her own goals in mind.

• Jiang Yuqing announced that he would prove himself the true Pill Dao Heavenly Fortune Bearer, but Li Yang politely accepted his claim and sent him into the realm when his turn came.
• Lin Zhaoxia and Zhong Qian invited Li Yang to cultivate at their families’ cave abodes, offering maps and access to better Starlight.
• Li Yang declined, explaining that cultivation was not her main purpose and that she had agreed to Professor Li’s request.
• Li Yang entered the Star Ash Mystic Realm and saw its star-lit, ash-filled landscape as Starlight began nourishing her body.

Li Yang entered the Star Ash Mystic Realm to find star ash soil, while students cultivated or searched for materials. Jiang Yuqing and Wei Cang planned to collect the soil later, unaware that Li Yang was already racing toward it.

• Li Yang learned from Lianxin that the stars in the sky represented star ash soil, and gained lifespan as she understood him.
• Li Yang crossed the beach and jungle, where students cultivated and Pill Department students defeated a Glazed Glass Grass while gathering it.
• Li Yang declined the Pill Department students’ offer to help, saying they should divide their efforts, then continued searching for star ash soil.
• Jiang Yuqing told Wei Cang to call him Qingqing so he could earn shock points, and explained they should postpone collecting star ash soil to avoid alerting Zhongdu students.
• Jiang Yuqing revealed he had saved five thousand shock points to speed up pill refining and impress everyone in the mystic realm.

Li Yang brought Lianxin to a vast deposit of star ash soil, where he began collecting it while she watched over him and used the realm’s cultivation benefits to improve her physique. Their conversation revealed that Lianxin belonged to the Longevity Race and had sought Li Yang out after sensing her secret words, leaving her wondering whether her Longevity System was connected to his people.

• Li Yang found a vast expanse of star ash soil and placed Lianxin in it so he could absorb and collect it.
• Li Yang spent one hundred years of lifespan to cultivate in the Star Ash Mystic Realm, raising her physique to 510 points.
• Lianxin explained that Li Yang’s complaints about slow cultivation were secret thought power associated with the Longevity Race, and he confirmed that he had entered her dream after sensing them.
• Li Yang asked the system whether it was a remnant soul of the Longevity Race, but the system refused to answer because her current lifespan was too low.
• Lianxin said he had lived for nine hundred thousand years and had sought Li Yang’s help after hearing her secret words; Li Yang reflected on the possible connection between the Longevity Race and her system.
• Li Yang told Lianxin that those bound by fate would meet across a thousand miles, and he corrected her that they had met across hundreds of millions of light-years.

Li Yang completed the Star Ash Mystic Realm mission, gained five thousand years of lifespan, and used much of it to improve her stats and plan pill production. After Lianxin cleared away the star ash soil, the realm grew brighter and healthier, and Li Yang began helping him breathe fresh air for her next mission.

• After a month of collecting star ash soil, Lianxin finished the mission, and Li Yang received two thousand years of maximum lifespan plus three thousand temporarily stored years.
• Li Yang spent lifespan to raise her spirit and physique stats, saved some for refining Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, and learned that her next mission was to breathe fresh air.
• At Zhongdu Military Academy, professors discovered that the Star Ash Mystic Realm had become brighter and more stable after its star ash soil was cleared.
• Li Yang realized Lianxin’s cleanup had improved the realm and praised him, earning more lifespan from his happiness.
• Li Yang encouraged Lianxin to notice his own needs, then showed him how to breathe deeply so he could complete her new mission.