Chapter Summaries

Li Yang organized the Pill Department students to gather ingredients for Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, promising one pill for every two sets after proving she could refine them rapidly. As the Star Ash Mystic Realm neared its closure, Lianxin completed the fresh-air task, and the system began unlocking Li Yang’s lifespan.

• Li Yang learned that completing the fresh-air task would unlock 20,000 years of lifespan, then struggled to gather enough ingredients to use it refining pills.
• Li Yang offered Pill Department students one Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pill for every two sets of ingredients and demonstrated her rapid pill refinement to convince them.
• The students began gathering ingredients for Li Yang, who promised to fulfill the exchange for the first 800 sets and said Teacher Li had instructed her.
• Jiang Yuqing and Wei Cang collected 500 ingredient sets while Jiang Yuqing delayed refining until the final two days so he could impress the Central Capital Pill Department students and earn Shock Points.
• With two days remaining, the fresh-air task reached 99%; Lianxin thanked Li Yang as the system announced the task was complete and that lifespan would soon be unlocked.

Li Yang used her temporary lifespan to raise her spirit and rapidly refined 777 Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, sharing many with the Central Capital Pill Department students. Jiang Yuqing discovered that the Star Ash Soil had all been collected before he arrived, and he set out to find Li Yang.

• Li Yang spent 4,000 years of temporary lifespan to raise her spirit to 680 points, then used the remaining lifespan to refine pills at extraordinary speed.
• The Pill Department and Weapon Forging Department students gathered to watch Li Yang refine, and several who tried the recipe themselves failed and wasted materials.
• Li Yang refined 777 Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills and gave 386 to the Pill Department students who had helped gather and prepare materials.
• Jiang Yuqing and Wei Cang found Star Ash Ore instead of Star Ash Soil, and Jiang Yuqing concluded someone had collected all the soil ahead of them.
• Jiang Yuqing blamed a leak to the Central Capital Pill Department and went to find Li Yang, while Wei Cang warned him that Li Yang was formidable.

Li Yang negotiated 500 grams of star ash soil from Jiang Yuqing in exchange for 200 Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, then watched him begin refining them. Jiang Yuqing expected his rapid pill-making to astonish the crowd, but nearly everyone remained unmoved.

• Jiang Yuqing confronted Li Yang about taking the star ash soil and said he needed 500 grams to refine higher-quality Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills.
• Li Yang learned that Jiang Yuqing could make 500 pills with the soil and negotiated for 200 of them in exchange for 500 grams.
• Jiang Yuqing accepted the deal, took the soil, and began refining pills with his Exquisite Furnace.
• Jiang Yuqing used Shock Points to finish one pill in about a minute, but the crowd stayed silent except for Wei Cang.
• Jiang Yuqing refined more than ten additional pills, yet the onlookers remained completely composed.

Li Yang revealed her extraordinary pill-refining ability and reassured the Zhongdu Pill Department that it had produced enough pills to compete with Jiang Yuqing. As the students left the Star Ash Mystic Realm, Li Yaowan and the Star-Slaying professors waited anxiously for the pill departments’ results, with the Star-Slaying side confident of victory.

• Jiang Yuqing realized Li Yang might also be a Pill Dao Department Heavenly Fortune Bearer, and Li Yang confirmed with Lianxin that his pills were slightly better than hers.
• Li Yang praised Jiang Yuqing’s formula, told him she had refined two hundred pills, and refused to reveal her total; Jiang Yuqing struggled to believe she was not a Pill Dao Department Heavenly Fortune Bearer.
• Li Yang considered the merit points she could earn from the pills, while the professors outside the Star Ash Mystic Realm prepared to bring the students out.
• Lin Zhaoxia, Zhong Qian, and the other combat students emerged from the mystic realm after making substantial cultivation progress.
• Professor Jiang waited confidently for Jiang Yuqing, while Li Yaowan worried that Li Yang might have spent her time cultivating instead of refining pills.
• Star-Slaying professors praised Jiang Yuqing as a Heavenly Fortune Bearer and declared that heaven favored their Pill Department.

Li Yang emerged from the Star Ash Mystic Realm after refining 777 Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, stunning both academies and reversing Zhongdu’s apparent defeat. The chapter ended with Li Yaowan delighted and Jiang Chunhua unable to believe the result.

• Li Yaowan and Jiang Chunhua argued over the Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pill formula until another professor intervened.
• Jiang Yuqing reported refining 500 pills, and the professors appraised their exceptional quality.
• Li Yaowan assumed Li Yang had spent her time cultivating when she saw her full Star Apertures and learned her pill furnace had broken.
• Lü Tiantian announced that Zhongdu’s students had refined more than 900 pills, including 777 refined by Li Yang.
• Li Yang credited her seniors for preparing the materials, while the Zhongdu professors celebrated and Jiang Chunhua stared at her in disbelief.

Li Yang’s pill haul and success in the Star Ash Mystic Realm exposed Star-Slaying Military Academy’s failed scheme and established her as a formidable Pill Dao Heavenly Fortune Bearer. The chapter ended with Li Yaowan offering Li Yang a better furnace and permanent rights to several pill formulas, while Li Yang remained devoted to agronomy.

• Lü Tiantian revealed that Li Yang had shared Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills with the students, and Jiang Yuqing admitted he had bought Star Ash Soil from her.
• Li Yang explained that she had collected Star Ash Soil to maintain Divine Soil, not to interfere in the Pill Department dispute, and Star-Slaying’s professors reacted with shock.
• Li Yang and the Zhongdu Military Academy students outproduced Jiang Yuqing, ruining Star-Slaying Military Academy’s plan to promote its new pill formula and leaving Jiang Chunhua in seclusion.
• The academy forum spread stories of Li Yang’s victory, while students debated whether she should leave agronomy for the Pill Department.
• Li Yaowan offered Li Yang a better Exquisite Furnace and granted her permanent rights to the Fast-Acting Star Recovery, Mind-Clearing, and Body-Tempering Pill formulas.

Li Yang sold her pills to Li Yaowan and returned to the Agronomy Department, where she revealed that she had filled all seven Star Apertures and shared her plan to use Star Ash Soil to cultivate mutated crops. She headed to report to Si Kui before the department began farming the next day.

• Li Yaowan offered Li Yang fifty thousand merit points for her 586 Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills, and Li Yang wondered whether Jiang Yuqing had a system.
• Li Yang's fellow students welcomed her back, and she told them she had filled all seven Star Apertures.
• Li Yang explained that she had gone to the Star Ash Mystic Realm to obtain Star Ash Soil and described research on nourishing Divine Soil.
• Feng Yiqiao proposed planting mutated crops, and Li Yang said the research included mutated corn and chives.
• Li Yang agreed to begin nourishing the Divine Soil and planting crops the next day, then returned to Si Kui to report in.

Li Yang returned from the Star Ash Mystic Realm, reunited with Si Kui, and brought Star Ash Soil back to the Agronomy Department courtyard. As the group began cultivating the soil, Fang Chuyun discovered that loosening it increased both her physique and spirit values, leaving Zhong Kun eager to try.

• Li Yang told Si Kui about her experiences in the Star Ash Mystic Realm, and Si Kui said she would recover from her injured origin by going into seclusion.
• Si Kui asked Lianxin to stay in his miniature doll form and protect Li Yang, while Li Yang transferred the Star Ash Soil into her spatial bag.
• Li Yang checked her system, decided against spending lifespan to extract her improved pill formula, and bought several inexpensive Star Cores to learn noncombat Star Skills.
• Li Yang gathered Feng Yiqiao, Yu Hongyuan, Fang Chuyun, and Zhong Kun to work the Star Ash Soil, explaining how to sense and loosen the Divine Soil.
• Fang Chuyun became the first to loosen the Divine Soil and noticed her physique value had risen; Li Yang also sensed that Fang Chuyun's spirit value had increased, and Zhong Kun grew eager to work the soil.

The Agronomy Department discovered that tending Divine Soil mixed with Star Ash Soil raised their physique and mental stats, giving the group a cheap, safe way to cultivate. Lin Zhaoqin returned from the combat training room unaware of their discovery, while Xia Putao prepared to join a breakthrough mission.

• Zhong Kun, Lü Shunshun, Xia Putao, and Feng Yiqiao loosened the Divine Soil and increased their stats as they worked.
• Li Yang told Zhong Kun that cultivation shortcuts like Realm-Breaking Pills could make him pay a greater price later, then wondered whether her lifespan-based system was her unique cultivation method.
• Lin Zhaoqin returned hungry from the combat training room and said she had missed tending the Divine Soil because she wanted to fill her Star Aperture.
• Xia Putao said his improved strength meant he could join Xiao Li and the others on a breakthrough mission, while Lü Shunshun warned him to learn a Star Skill.
• Lin Zhaoqin heard the others discuss their gains and realized that tending the Divine Soil had raised their stats.

Lin Zhaoqin discovered that tending the Divine Soil raised both her physique and spirit stats more efficiently than combat training, and joined the Agronomy Department’s work. Li Yang proposed that the department could recover its former strength by cultivating higher-tier mutated crops, though they had to wait for the Divine Soil to settle.

• Fang Chuyun and Zhong Kun told Lin Zhaoqin that tending the Divine Soil had increased their stats, and Li Yang invited her to try it the next day.
• Zhong Kun measured his stats and confirmed that tending the soil had raised his physique by 30 points and his spirit by at least 10.
• Lin Zhaoqin tended the Divine Soil, gained more physique and spirit points than the others, and decided that farming was more efficient than combat training.
• Li Yang explained that spirit strengthened Star Apertures with a golden rim, while physique filled them with light.
• Li Yang suggested that Divine Soil might exist in the Astral Realm, and the group resolved to reach the Third Grade Realm and search for Agronomy Department treasures.
• Li Yang proposed breeding second-tier mutated wheat, corn, and chives to improve their cultivation, but said they had to wait two more days for the Divine Soil to settle.

Li Yang asked Professor Li Yaowan for seed-breeding materials and an introduction to a weapon forger so she could obtain a cultivation dish. Professor Song Jinhuan agreed to make one on the condition that Li Yang become her assistant, leaving Li Yang and Li Yaowan to wonder what Song intended.

• Li Yang told her companions she planned to study seed-breeding techniques with Professor Li Yaowan and use lifespan to develop a stable supply of seeds.
• Li Yaowan provided ten sets of breeding materials at cost and took Li Yang to meet her old friend, Professor Song Jinhuan.
• Li Yang visited the Weapon Forging Department and met Song Jinhuan, who had made her Exquisite Furnace.
• Song Jinhuan agreed to make Li Yang a cultivation dish if Li Yang became her assistant.
• Li Yaowan warned Song not to waste her effort on Li Yang, and Song replied that everyone should follow the tide of nature's emergence.

Li Yang visited Professor Song to make a Second Grade cultivation dish and discovered that forging one cost her 200 years of lifespan. Song Jinhuan recognized Li Yang’s persistence as love for weapon forging and recalled a Nature Department senior sister who had helped defend Huaxia Main City.

• Li Yaowan introduced Li Yang to Song Jinhuan, who insisted Li Yang had talent for weapon forging and offered to teach her to make a cultivation dish.
• Song Jinhuan led Li Yang to the weapon-forging workshop and asked her to forge a Second Grade cultivation dish herself.
• Li Yang spent 200 years of lifespan to complete the dish, while the workshop onlookers saw it appear almost instantly.
• Song Jinhuan praised Li Yang’s forging talent and told her how a Nature Department senior sister had forged 1,000 Star Weapons to help the Falcon Corps defend Huaxia Main City.
• Li Yang returned to her courtyard as notifications repeatedly granted her one year of lifespan.

Li Yang gave Lianxin a cultivation dish to use as a bed, then experimented with cultivating mutated chive seeds and learned how to advance one to the Second Grade Realm. The chapter ended with Lianxin accidentally breaking his dish, and Li Yang making him a replacement.

• Lianxin told Li Yang that he liked her cultivation dish as a bed, and she gave it to him, gaining 300 years of life span.
• Li Yang spent life span and materials cultivating chive seeds, accidentally creating seed monsters that she killed to recover life span.
• Lianxin explained that Li Yang's mutated chive seed could be raised to the Second Grade Realm, and she eventually cultivated one successfully.
• Lianxin's cultivation dish exploded, and Li Yang comforted him before making him a replacement.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department cultivated and sowed mutated chive seeds in the restored Divine Soil, gaining strength as they worked. When the chives matured unusually quickly, the group rushed to harvest them, but the tough crop resisted their sickles while Li Yang’s Star Skills triggered Execution.

• Li Yang cultivated a first batch of mutated chive seeds and gave Lianxin a cultivation dish that added 300 years to his lifespan.
• After the Divine Soil recovered with Star Ash Soil, Feng Yiqiao demonstrated how to sow the tier-two chive seeds, and the Agronomy Department planted them.
• The group gained physique and spirit stats through farming and arranged shifts to tend the rapidly growing chives.
• Li Yang planned to take Feng Yiqiao and Lin Zhaoqin to scout the Astral Realm’s outskirts once they were ready to advance.
• Lin Zhaoqin discovered the chives were ready to harvest, and the group entered the field with sickles.
• The chives proved too tough for ordinary harvesting, but Li Yang activated Frenzy and Burst-Speed Combo and struck with Severing Space, triggering Execution.

Li Yang harvested the mutant chives while her exhausted Agronomy Department companions rested, and the group learned that harvesting offered no stat increases because their rewards came from tending and growing the crops. She finished the field and gained 600 years of lifespan, while Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun watched and learned combat techniques.

• Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun harvested mutant chives but found that neither their physique nor spirit stats increased.
• Li Yang asked the system why harvesting gave no stat increase, learned that the rewards came from the earlier cultivation work, and explained it to the others.
• Li Yang persuaded the exhausted farmers to rest and harvest the chives herself, while they decided to give her the proceeds from selling them.
• Feng Yiqiao took chives to the kitchen with Lü Shunshun and Xia Putao to test them, and Zhong Kun was recruited as a taste-tester and cook.
• Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun watched Li Yang harvest and studied her technique while she worked hard to keep them from joining in.
• Li Yang finished harvesting the field, gained 600 years of lifespan, and collapsed from exhaustion as the others admired her generosity.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department shared a meal made with their harvested mutant chives, which restored their Power of Starlight and encouraged them to keep farming. As the midterm exam approached, other students mocked the department, but Yu Hongyuan believed their cultivation gains would soon show in the rankings.

• Yu Hongyuan invited Li Yang to eat chive pockets and scrambled eggs made by Feng Yiqiao, Zhong Kun, and the others, using mutant ingredients.
• Li Yang offered food to Lianxin, who declined, and then praised the mutant chives for their flavor and their ability to restore the Power of Starlight.
• The students discussed giving the mutant chives a more upscale name and enjoyed the meal, feeling more motivated to tend their crops and cultivate.
• As the midterm exam neared, students on the forum questioned whether Li Yang and the Agronomy Department were neglecting cultivation by farming, while Star Magic Department students predicted poor results.
• Yu Hongyuan dismissed the criticism and expected the Agronomy Department to rise in the rankings after breakthroughs; Zhong Kun joked that spirit values should count so he could outrank his brother.

Li Yang distributed the chive profits, accepted a dangerous Tianyang Port mission for the Agronomy Department, and prepared the group for their breakthrough. The others bought discounted Star Skills, and Yu Hongyuan was promptly beaten black and blue while testing his new skill against Lin Zhaoqin.

• Li Yang split the mutated chive earnings among the group, keeping 300 Merit Points and giving the rest to her companions.
• He Song warned Li Yang of unusual activity in the Astral Realm and helped her accept a City Defense Army mission to support an operation against cultists at Tianyang Port.
• Li Yang learned that the Descending Star Cult planned to bring Astral Realm creatures into Huaxia, and she notified Shen Binghua that the Agronomy Department would break through together.
• Zhong Kun led Feng Yiqiao, Xia Putao, and Lü Shunshun to buy suitable Star Skills, securing them a thirty percent discount through an attendant at the trading office.
• Lin Zhaoqin offered to test the group’s new Star Skills, and Yu Hongyuan volunteered first before she beat him black and blue.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students prepared for a mission near Tianyang Port, where they were assigned to ambush cultists escaping a ship. When the battle grew unusually fierce and no cultists appeared at their post, Team Leader Yang ordered them to retreat and provide support.

• The students practiced their Star Skills before setting out for Tianyang Port, with Feng Yiqiao intending to watch over the weaker Yu Hongyuan.
• Team Leader Yang welcomed the group and assigned them to guard the left passage while a Fifth Grade Star Wielder led the assault on the ship.
• Zhong Kun worried that Team Leader Yang’s mention of her daughter foreshadowed danger, but Li Yang reassured the team that Professor Shen was watching over them.
• The battle aboard the ship began, but no cultists fled through the passage, and Li Yang suspected the cultists had sent their elites.
• Team Leader Yang told Li Yang that the mission had changed and ordered the students to retreat and provide support.

Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students stayed at the left passage as the City Defense Army fought cultists aboard the ship and discovered the true threat: a spore-filled creature they called the Mother Goddess. With only three minutes before it could emerge, Li Yang led her group into battle as the cultists began a ritual to protect it.

• Li Yang refused to abandon the position, while Xie Junqing and Team Leader Yang led the City Defense Army in an assault on the giant ship.
• Xie Junqing and Team Leader Yang realized the cultists were delaying them while the contraband approached the left passage, so Xie Junqing unleashed a powerful attack and ordered the others to retrieve it.
• Li Yang spotted the cultist group and learned from Lianxin that the wounded man they escorted carried spores that could contaminate Central Capital.
• Li Yang warned her companions not to use their mental power and charged at the cultists, followed by Lin Zhaonan and Fang Chuyun.
• Shen Binghua suffered a backlash after sensing the contraband and rushed toward Tianyang Port.
• The cultists surrounded the man carrying the Mother Goddess and pressed their blood onto a black crystal.

Li Yang infiltrated a Life Guardian Formation and killed the Flower of Evil’s manifestation before Shen Binghua arrived and rescued her. After waking in Shen Binghua’s room, Li Yang learned more about the Flower of Evil and revealed Lianxin’s identity as a Ninth-Grade being.

• Li Yang used her symbiotic connection with Lianxin to enter the completed Life Guardian Formation and attacked the swollen-bellied cultist.
• Li Yang resisted the Flower of Evil’s soothing mental influence with Lianxin’s help, then killed its manifestation as the cultists cried out for the Mother Goddess.
• Shen Binghua shattered the formation, crushed the nine cultists, caught the Flower of Evil’s spores, and carried the unconscious Li Yang to safety.
• Li Yang woke in Shen Binghua’s room, thanked Lianxin, and learned that the Flower of Evil occupied the Evil Domain and was a collective of powerful beings.
• Li Yang introduced Lianxin to Shen Binghua, who realized he was a Ninth-Grade Lianxin.