Chapter Summaries

After Si Kui and the Marquis of the Long Night slew a Divine Venerable, Li Yang and the Agronomy Department learned their injuries were under control and celebrated Huaxia’s growing strength. News of the victory and the Nature Department’s suppressed history spread through the academy, while Principal Ruan Jinbai chose not to censor the posts.

• Zhong Kun retold the battle, and Li Yang wondered whether she could advance and reach her teacher in the Astral Realm.
• Lin Zhaoqin and Ying Qi reported that star support masters were treating Si Kui and the others, and Li Yang realized Lianxin could provide Si Kui with a naturally born divine object.
• Li Yang resolved to take Lianxin home after the danger passed, while the Zhong, Lin, and Ying families backed the Agronomy Department and Huaxia’s pro-war faction gained influence.
• The academy announced Si Kui and the Marquis of the Long Night had slain a Divine Venerable, prompting students to celebrate and admire the Agronomy Department.
• Students learned that the Nature Department had destroyed the Fenglie Clan twenty-eight years earlier and that the Upper Three Realms had helped drive it into decline.
• Ruan Jinbai rejected his assistant’s suggestion to censor the academy forum posts, warning that censorship would only spread them further.

Ruan Jinbai remembered the Nature Department’s destruction and doubted Huaxia could withstand the Upper Realms, while Niu Qianqian told Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students about a newly formed divine vestige and the chance to explore it. The students learned the risks and entry rules, and Li Yang became interested when she heard the vestige’s secret treasure could be claimed by whoever found it.

• Ruan Jinbai recalled how Divine Exalt Daowu had destroyed the Nature Department and remained fearful despite the victory over the Descending Star Cult.
• Niu Qianqian told Li Yang and the Agronomy Department students that the Divine Venerable’s death had created dense Starlight and a divine vestige near the Astral Realm.
• Niu Qianqian explained that students who made the Huaxia Top 100 Rankings could enter, while Agronomy Department students at the Second Grade Realm had also been granted places.
• Niu Qianqian warned that the unexplored vestige contained dangerous Astral Realm creatures, could separate entrants, and would trap them until its core was removed.
• Li Yang became interested after Niu Qianqian revealed that the secret treasure anchoring the vestige would belong to whoever found it and broke the vestige open.

Li Yang sought Shen Binghua’s advice about entering the dangerous Miracle, where she could advance her realm and pursue its priceless Miracle Core. Shen Binghua warned that hidden enemies and Descending Star Cult remnants might target her, but Li Yang appeared set on going.

• Niu Qianqian warned Yu Hongyuan and Li Yang that the Miracle was dangerous but could offer major breakthroughs, while Li Yang was a likely candidate to close it.
• The Agronomy Department shared information about Miracles, and Li Yang heard that Si Kui was safe but recovering in seclusion.
• Li Yang asked Shen Binghua for advice, and Shen urged her not to enter because enemies could exploit Si Kui’s absence and attackers might disguise their realms.
• Shen Binghua explained that the Miracle could contain a squad of disguised Peak Third Grade Realm Star Wielders, while Li Yang asked about breakthroughs, its creatures, and the Miracle Core.
• Shen Binghua warned that Descending Star Cult remnants might also try to kill Li Yang, and said lower-grade realms were easiest to brainwash.

Li Yang decided to enter the miracle despite the threats and persuaded Shen Binghua to equip her in exchange for helping uncover the person who betrayed the Nature Department. She warned her companions that the culprit might target them inside the miracle and urged them to disguise themselves and focus on advancing their realms; Li Yang aimed to reach Third Grade Sixth Stage.

• Li Yang resolved to enter the miracle, relying on Vest and Hidden Shadow to conceal her identity and strength.
• Li Yang persuaded Shen Binghua to provide heartguard armor and star artifacts, promising to seek clues about the traitor who sold out Cheng Rui.
• Li Yang told her companions about the betrayal and warned them not to inform their families, since the culprit could be among their relatives.
• Li Yang cautioned the group that they could be attacked in the miracle and advised them to avoid strangers, disguise themselves, and flee from human attackers.
• Li Yang urged everyone to advance to Third Grade Fourth Stage and revealed that she aimed to reach Third Grade Sixth Stage.

Li Yang and her companions prepared for the miracle, where she planned to raise her cultivation before confronting hidden enemies. They entered the Astral Realm and began passing through a formation gate into the miracle.

• Li Yang explained her plan to raise her physique through seven stages, and the group agreed on a code phrase: “Divine Soil, Divine Soil; the stars never turn to ash.”
• Li Yang received heartguard armor and star artifacts from Shen Binghua but declined to upgrade them so she could save her lifespan.
• The Zhongdu Military Academy students traveled to the Astral Realm’s outskirts, where Zhong Kun and the teacher described the void-like territory and the wilderness shaped by their predecessors.
• The group learned that a Sixth Grade Star Formation master had opened a guarded gate into the miracle, then prepared to enter in batches.
• Li Yang warned everyone to watch for enemies disguised among the Star Combat Department and prepared a furnished backpack for Lianxin before her group entered the miracle.

Li Yang entered the Star Nexus Pavilion miracle, hid in a clean but apparently empty house, and encountered a frightened calf-like Astral Realm creature. After rescuing him from a powerful Star Plant, she received only 100 years of lifespan, leaving her worried about how slowly she would accumulate more.

• Li Yang entered the miracle with Lianxin and confirmed they had arrived together in a ruined city.
• Li Yang hid in a house and waited, hoping to observe the miracle and avoid running into other entrants.
• A frightened calf-like creature rushed into the house, followed by a tentacled Star Plant that attacked him.
• Li Yang used Frenzy and her blades to defeat the Third Grade Realm Star Plant and save the calf.
• Li Yang received 100 years of lifespan for the kill and worried that future rewards would be too small to help her stockpile lifespan.

Li Yang discovered a Third Grade Star Plant seed and cultivated it into a Thousand-Hand Flower, then learned that Niu Er of the Plow Ox Clan could farm it. After Niu Er planted the seed and explained how quickly he could grow more, Li Yang began considering farming Star Plants for lifespan inside the divine relic.

• Niu Er told Li Yang that his family had been displaced after their realm domain was destroyed and that he had been swept into the divine relic while working in a field.
• Li Yang found a Third Grade Star Plant seed and spent one year of lifespan cultivating it into a Thousand-Hand Flower.
• Li Yang learned that Niu Er's Plow Ox Clan specialized in farming and asked him to plant the seed.
• Niu Er prepared the neglected courtyard soil, planted the seed, and said ordinary water would make it sprout in one day.
• Niu Er said he could plant a hundred seeds in a day, and Li Yang considered farming Star Plants to gain lifespan.

Li Yang learned that Star Plants appeared at night and recruited Niu Er to help her farm while she investigated how to cultivate their seeds. As night fell in the Divine Miracle, she prepared to fight the Astral Realm creatures gathering outside her shelter.

• Li Yang learned that Star Plant seeds could be replanted and disguised herself as Niu Er’s twin brother, promising to help him find his family in exchange for his farming help.
• Niu Er explained that sentient Astral Realm creatures could grow stronger by devouring other sentient beings, but the process made them increasingly ravenous and eventually drove them mad.
• Niu Er told Li Yang that his clan’s food pouches let him survive on stored grain, and Li Yang reasoned that nonsentient crops could feed Star Wielders without driving them mad.
• Night fell, and Li Yang sensed Astral Realm creatures gathering outside the shelter while conserving her Starlight for the coming fight.

Li Yang fought off a nighttime siege of Astral Realm creatures with Lianxin’s help, while Little Ox planted the seeds she collected. By noon, their first Star Plant had matured, revealing that Li Yang’s seeds could grow into mobile plants without spiritual awareness.

• Li Yang brought Lianxin out to scout with her, then charged into the darkness and fought the creatures gathering outside the house.
• With Lianxin warning her of attacks, Li Yang killed fifteen Astral Realm creatures and gave the Star Plant seeds to Little Ox to plant.
• Little Ox’s seven planted seeds sprouted overnight, and he explained that the plants obeyed him because he had fed them his Power of Starlight.
• Li Yang gave Little Ox a Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pill so he could recover and continue planting.
• At noon, Li Yang examined the mature Thousand-Hand Flower and sensed that it resembled the hostile plant she had killed but had no spiritual awareness.

Li Yang cultivated Star Plants in the Divine Miracle, gained lifespan, and broke through while Jiang Yuqing tried to find her after learning that her teacher had killed a Divine Venerable. Jiang Yuqing followed clues toward the inner city, as several groups of explorers independently headed there for their own reasons.

• Li Yang harvested a cultivated Thousand-Hand Flower, preserved its seed, and gained 100 years of lifespan before later breaking through as she filled her backyard with Star Plants.
• Jiang Chunhua told Jiang Yuqing that Li Yang was a Heavenly Fortune Bearer, prompting him to suspect that her presence enabled him to gain Shock Points; news of her teacher's deed had already earned him 100 Shock Points.
• After entering the Divine Miracle, Jiang Yuqing searched for Li Yang and overheard a group discussing her and the Descending Star Cult, but he lost them while following them.
• Jiang Yuqing concluded that Li Yang might be deeper inside the ruined city and set off for the inner reaches of the Divine Miracle.
• Zhong Kun and Yu Hongyuan, Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun, the three old farmers, and Ying Qi with Shen Shangchi each headed toward the inner city for different reasons, while Wang Ruika stayed behind to meditate.

Li Yang left her courtyard to search for people and found Jiang Yuqing being ambushed by three powerful mercenaries. She disguised herself as a little ox and killed one attacker, while Jiang Yuqing and Li Yang faced the other two.

• Li Yang left her courtyard disguised as a little ox, hoping to find people and supplies while wondering whether someone was directing Astral Realm creatures toward her.
• Lianxin sensed three humans lying in ambush, and Li Yang realized they were likely killers targeting Agronomy Department students.
• The three mercenaries attacked Jiang Yuqing, but Li Yang warned him through their Spirit Connection, allowing him to escape their first blow with a Teleportation Star Curse.
• Jiang Yuqing ran as Li Yang told him to hold off the attackers while she struck from behind.
• Li Yang used Burst-Speed Combo and Shadow Moon to kill one mercenary, and Jiang Yuqing threw a ball of flame at the two survivors.

Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing defeated a squad sent to kill her, then escaped to Little Ox’s house with one attacker alive for questioning. There, Jiang Yuqing discovered Little Ox’s identity and the backyard full of mutated Star Plants as Li Yang began harvesting them.

• Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing killed the attackers, but one managed to fire a signal flare before Li Yang captured him alive.
• Li Yang and Jiang Yuqing fled to Little Ox’s house, hiding their tracks and carrying the barely conscious attacker with them.
• Little Ox welcomed them and tied up the attacker with third-grade Green Oriole Vine after Li Yang said she planned to question him.
• Little Ox told Li Yang the backyard crops were ripe, and Jiang Yuqing was stunned to see many mutated Star Plants, including some in the Third Grade Realm.
• Li Yang cut down the Star Plants and purified a Star Seed, then asked Jiang Yuqing to help Little Ox identify and gather the materials.
• Jiang Yuqing asked whether Li Yang was really Li Yang, and she pointed out that his Shock System displayed people’s names.

Li Yang harvested Star Plants and gathered Jiang Yuqing’s Fast-Acting Star Recovery Pills before defending their shelter from Astral Realm creatures all night. The next morning, she ordered Jiang Yuqing to refine more pills while puzzling over why her actions gave him Shock Points.

• Li Yang harvested Star Plants with the calf while Jiang Yuqing reacted to the plants and their banter, earning Shock Points.
• After night fell and Astral Realm creatures approached, Li Yang took Jiang Yuqing’s Star Recovery Pills and told him to sort the gathered materials while she fought outside.
• Jiang Yuqing sorted materials as Li Yang fought off the creatures through the night, gaining Shock Points whenever he watched her.
• Li Yang returned bloodied but used Vest to become clean, then told Jiang Yuqing to refine Star Recovery Pills in his pill furnace.
• Li Yang considered why she seemed able to generate Shock Points for Jiang Yuqing despite believing he should only collect points related to himself.

Li Yang discovered that her presence let Jiang Yuqing generate Shock Points, then arranged for him to make Star Recovery Pills and a Realm-Breaking Pill for Little Ox. She expanded the courtyard to grow more Star Plants, while Jiang Yuqing mistakenly concluded that she was collecting Slaughter Points.

• Li Yang realized Jiang Yuqing could generate Shock Points after meeting her and demanded that he refine Star Recovery Pills for her.
• Li Yang broke through the wall into the neighboring courtyard so she could expand the Star Plant plots and increase her lifespan income.
• Li Yang learned that Little Ox's Plow Ox Clan advanced by taking Realm-Breaking Pills and asked Jiang Yuqing to make one for him.
• Jiang Yuqing mistook Li Yang's plans for a way to collect Slaughter Points, and Li Yang let him believe it.
• Jiang Yuqing agreed to make Little Ox an excellent Realm-Breaking Pill and began preparing materials to refine the Star Recovery Pills.

Li Yang tortured the captured attacker, Kuang Daqiang, to learn who had sent him, while the assassin leader discovered she could disguise her appearance. After Li Yang gave Kuang Daqiang an antidote, he was finally able to speak.

• Jiang Yuqing refined pills that helped Little Ox break through and supported Li Yang’s work.
• Li Yang interrogated the captured attacker and used Jiang Yuqing’s Heart-Clawing and Liver-Scratching Pill to torment him.
• The assassin leader used Time Rewind to learn that Li Yang had disguised herself as a Plow Ox Clan member.
• Lianxin reassured Li Yang when she worried that torture and killing were making her cruel.
• Kuang Daqiang revealed his name but resisted answering Li Yang’s questions until Jiang Yuqing gave him a Toxin-Cleansing Pill.

Li Yang tortured Kuang Daqiang into revealing that the Hunting Blade had sent a squad led by Fifth Master, Yan Wu, to kill her, then executed him. As the Agronomy Department group traveled toward the inner city, Yan Wu spotted Li Yang and followed her, prompting her to prepare for an attack.

• Li Yang threatened Kuang Daqiang with another Heart-Clawing and Liver-Scratching Pill until he confessed that the Hunting Blade had targeted her and that Fifth Master possessed the rare Star Skill Time Rewind.
• After questioning Kuang Daqiang about Fifth Master's squad and abilities, Li Yang killed him and told Jiang Yuqing to dispose of the body.
• Lin Zhaoqin and Fang Chuyun joined the other Agronomy Department members, and the group headed toward the inner city to find the Divine Miracle's core and Li Yang.
• Yan Wu, the Fifth Master leading the assassination squad, recognized Li Yang in the inner city and watched her while his six companions followed.
• After Lianxin detected seven pursuers, Li Yang returned to the courtyard, ordered Little Ox to put the Thousand-Hand Flowers into attack mode, and asked Jiang Yuqing to help refine Star Recovery Pills.

Li Yang continued building her Star Plant fortress while Yan Wu devised a scheme to lure other explorers into attacking it by claiming it was the Divine Miracle's core. The core's soul fragment seized the chance to possess Kong Daban as the rumor spread through the inner city.

• Li Yang told Jiang Yuqing that the cost of her Star Recovery Pills was worthwhile, while Little Ox reflected on his growing strength and his hope that Li Yang would find the Divine Miracle's core.
• Yan Wu and his seven men discovered Li Yang's heavily defended base and realized they could not break through it alone.
• Yan Wu ordered his men to tell the other explorers that Li Yang's fortress was the Divine Miracle's core and to describe it as a secret treasure that controlled Astral Realm creatures.
• The Divine Miracle's core's soul fragment heard Yan Wu's plan, approached Kong Daban, and possessed him after he picked up a small golden shield.
• Yan Wu's men spread the rumor, and nearly everyone who had reached the inner city learned where the supposed core was located.

Li Yang realized the explorers had mistaken her Star Plant-covered homes for the Divine Miracle’s core and went out in disguise to learn what they planned to do. She confirmed their misunderstanding and began looking for someone to question, while the explorers gathered to attack the supposed core.

• The Agronomy Department gathered without news of Li Yang, and Feng Yiqiao urged everyone to stay together and destroy the Divine Miracle’s core.
• Li Yang guessed that the crowds outside had mistaken her Star Plants for protection around the core, then left Jiang Yuqing and Little Ox inside while she went to investigate.
• Li Yang used Hidden Shadow and a borrowed appearance to move among the explorers without drawing attention.
• Li Yang overheard explorers discussing the fortress, the Star Plants, and the supposed power of the Divine Miracle’s core.
• Li Yang confirmed that the explorers had mistaken her homes for the core’s location and began seeking a squad she could approach for information.

Li Yang found a group of stranded explorers who believed a disguised enemy was the Divine Miracle core and then tracked down the Agronomy Department students. She reunited with them as they prepared to attack the fortress, but their plan risked destroying the base she had built.

• Li Yang learned from Sister Xu and the Star-Slaying Military Academy students that they believed the Divine Miracle core had disguised itself as a Plow Ox and a human to attack people.
• Li Yang suspected Fifth Master had exposed her identity and location, then declined to join Sister Xu's group and went looking for the Agronomy Department students.
• Lianxin sensed the Agronomy Department group hiding in a ruined storehouse near the fortress, and Li Yang confirmed her identity with Feng Yiqiao.
• Li Yang heard that the group was safe and learned they planned to break through the core, while Wang Ruijia was still missing.
• Ying Qi proposed blowing up the villa, and the others discussed using long-range Star Skills to test how many Star Plants guarded the fortress.

Li Yang revealed that the supposed Divine Miracle Core fortress was her Agronomy Department plantation and that Yan Wu’s group was manipulating explorers to attack it. She planned to use the explorers as hostages and bait the killers into exposing themselves, while Jiang Yuqing stayed inside the fortress.

• Li Yang told the explorers that she and Little Ox had planted the Star Plants and that the fortress was where she had been staying.
• After hearing about Kuang Daqiang, Li Yang and Fang Chuyun concluded that someone was deliberately using the explorers to seize the fortress, and Li Yang warned that they could not safely testify for her.
• Li Yang explained her plan to pose as the Divine Miracle Core and use the explorers as hostages to provoke the killers into acting.
• Shen Shangchi, Lü Shunshun, and Xia Putao agreed to stir up the explorers outside and help choose a leader, while Li Yang took the others back to the fortress.
• Li Yang explained how Jiang Yuqing’s pills and Little Ox’s planting had helped build the plantation, as Jiang Yuqing remained inside, worried that Fifth Master’s group might attack.