Recaps

Jingxing and Fu Xuan changed Fanghu’s fate, then traveled to the Swarm Disaster era to anchor their existence by helping the IPC and defending threatened settlements. After Jingxing killed the King Bug, HooH began erasing Fu Xuan from the present, but Qlipoth restored her in a new Amber Era.

• Jingxing destroyed the Jidu Mirage with his ink creations, saving Fanghu and changing Jingtian’s divination so Fu Xuan did not need to use the Cloud-Gazing Mirror.
• Polka Kakamond took Jingxing and Fu Xuan to the Ninth Mechanism and explained that their changes to history risked making them anomalies, so they traveled back to the Swarm Disaster era to anchor themselves.
• On Priva II, Jingxing and Fu Xuan helped Jenny’s convoy defend settlements from the Swarm and then traveled to Pier Point, where they joined the IPC’s planned Market Development Department.
• Dongfang Qixing and Louis Fleming gave Jingxing and Fu Xuan a ship and support to fight the Swarm, and Fu Xuan chose Zeus Tehetra as their next destination.
• Jingxing and Fu Xuan defended Zeus Tehetra alongside the Mournful Actors, while Fu Xuan built a planetary defensive line and the IPC fleet was delayed.
• Jenny arrived with the Corporation fleet, and Jingxing found the hidden King Bug and forged the natives’ hopes into a sword strike that killed it and sent the Swarm fleeing.
• Jingxing and Fu Xuan left Zeus Tehetra, but HooH froze their ship and began erasing Fu Xuan from the present until Qlipoth’s new Amber Era restored her existence.

Jingxing returned to the present, reclaimed his place at the IPC, and renewed his bonds with Fu Xuan and Robin before helping launch the Simulated Universe. A warning from Xuzhao led him to Yaxche, where he faced an academy that demanded proof that emotion had value.

• Jingxing and Fu Xuan returned to the Xianzhou Alliance, where Yaoguang anchored herself in the present and the generals kept Fu Xuan’s position open.
• Jingxing learned that Xianzhou law barred him and Fu Xuan from having children together, then reunited with her on the Luofu and told her he would claim his old IPC wages.
• Jingxing reclaimed his P47 status at Pier Point, chose to remain attached to the Traditional Projects Department, repaid Asta, and arranged to meet Robin.
• Jingxing reunited with Robin, confessed that he loved both her and Fu Xuan, and helped her win more control over her contracts and schedule, while Sunday reluctantly accepted their relationship.
• Jingxing and Robin spent time together before he left Thousand Stars City, and he later agreed to visit the Herta Space Station after hearing of a breakthrough using material taken from him.
• Jingxing followed Kafka and Silver Wolf during the station attack, witnessed Stelle’s awakening, and then met Stelle, March 7th, Dan Heng, Welt, and Himeko.
• After Stelle joined the Astral Express, Jingxing entered the Simulated Universe, encountered Aha, and was expelled before Xuzhao warned him not to interfere or visit the Luofu.
• Jingxing ignored Xuzhao’s warning, but an unseen force stranded him in Yaxche and enrolled him at Vaksya, where he discovered the academy’s endless exams and found the Imaginary Tree.
• Jingxing defended the value of emotion before the academy’s examiners by painting the lives and relationships of the outsiders buried in its graveyard.