Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu destroyed the wilderness artillery positions, only to learn that the military stations could bombard the Secret Vault area. After enduring days of waiting through a massive artillery sweep and fires, Pan Yifu met Qu Jianlei again, who had survived but demanded more Oxygen Supplement.

• Qu Jianlei revealed that he had taken eight cannons and most of the shells, and Pan Yifu destroyed the two cannons left behind.
• Pan Yifu and Qu Jianlei realized the military stations would respond to the ruined artillery positions and might bombard the Secret Vault, but Pan Yifu persuaded Qu Jianlei to try entering it.
• Military stations launched a fierce artillery sweep and a day-long incendiary bombardment across the area while Pan Yifu waited for Qu Jianlei.
• After Space Pirate mechs searched the area, Pan Yifu waited until the sixth night, when Qu Jianlei contacted him and returned wearing intact clothes but smelling strongly of earth.
• Qu Jianlei complained that Pan Yifu needed to replenish his Oxygen Supplement.

Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu split supplies after escaping the artillery bombardment, then negotiated a deal for information about the Turtle Breath Technique. Qu Jianlei returned to camp at dawn and learned the Space Pirates had intensified their searches.

• Qu Jianlei emerged after six days underground and negotiated fuel and a share of the remaining Secret Vault supplies with Pan Yifu.
• Pan Yifu explained that the military restricted the Turtle Breath Technique, and Qu Jianlei agreed to split the supplies in exchange for a lead on how to obtain it.
• Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu divided the supplies, discussed their complementary battlefield skills, and agreed to keep working together.
• Qu Jianlei returned to camp near dawn, where a Rank C Warrior warned him that the Space Pirates had increased their searches and tensions were rising.

Qu Jianlei returned to the hidden camp with food and medicine, then learned that Space Pirates were searching the area with help from conscripted natives. He left after dark to strike a military station away from the camp, hoping to reduce the danger to the wounded.

• Qu Jianlei brought food, medicine, and liquor to the camp, where Mu Huahua told him the searches had grown more frequent.
• Qu Jianlei discussed obtaining the Turtle Breath Technique through a trade with Red Cloud and offered to ask about artillery for Blaze.
• After sleeping for nearly a day and a half, Qu Jianlei learned that Space Pirates and conscripted natives had searched close to the camp without finding it.
• Qu Jianlei explained why using natives to search for Pioneering Groups suggested a major change, then decided to make the searchers pull back.
• Qu Jianlei left the camp after dark and headed for a medium-sized military station twenty kilometers away.

Qu Jianlei attacked a medium-sized space pirate outpost with Thermobaric Bombs while Black Sky and a Rank A Earth Attribute Warrior struck its search teams and watchtowers. The outpost commander ordered the perimeter abandoned and prepared to pull everyone into the Main Station.

• Qu Jianlei slipped up to a perimeter bunker and pushed a Thermobaric Bomb through its firing slit, killing the guards inside and alerting the outpost.
• Qu Jianlei destroyed another bunker with a second Thermobaric Bomb, then Black Sky attacked a search team and brought down its mechs with electromagnetic attacks.
• The commander ordered a saturation strike with High-Explosive Rounds, killing many of his own search-team members and denying the survivors permission to withdraw.
• Black Sky attacked another search team, and the commander ordered full artillery coverage despite the team's pleas for help.
• A Rank A Earth Attribute Warrior brought down the outpost's watchtowers, prompting the commander to prepare to abandon the perimeter support points and retreat into the Main Station.

Qu Jianlei attacked two Space Pirate barracks, then traded medicine with Red Cloud for the Turtle Breath Technique. Red Cloud revealed that the Space Pirates had launched a full-scale assault on the Pioneering Groups, and Mu Huahua looked to Qu Jianlei for a way to respond.

• The commander at the first barracks refused to send Rank B warriors searching for Qu Jianlei, but Black Sky destroyed its radar and Aerospace Railgun with Electromagnetic Art.
• Qu Jianlei attacked a second barracks, while the General Barracks concealed news of the first attack; the following day, the second commander reported the cover-up to the Leaders.
• Qu Jianlei contacted Mu Guoguo, offered artillery to support the Pioneering Groups, and arranged to trade medicine for the Turtle Breath Technique.
• Red Cloud met Qu Jianlei, gave him the Turtle Breath Technique, and followed him to the Secret Camp, where Mu Huahua confirmed they could shelter wounded Engineering Corps members.
• Red Cloud told Qu Jianlei and Mu Huahua that eight A-ranks were attacking the Engineering Corps and Black Rain as the Space Pirates launched a broader offensive.
• Mu Huahua proposed that the Pioneering Groups resist being drawn into the Space Pirates' rhythm, and Red Cloud asked for specific ideas as she pointed to Qu Jianlei's earlier raid behind enemy lines.

Qu Jianlei advised Red Cloud on how the Pioneering Group could exploit the Space Pirates’ weak rear and probe a possible trap around the Control Center. Red Cloud asked him to contact Pan Yifu and the escaped A-rank fighter, then left with food while Qu Jianlei departed after receiving a call from Pan Yifu.

• Qu Jianlei suggested harassing the Space Pirates’ rear and possibly assaulting their Control Center to occupy the Signal Tower and send a distress signal.
• Qu Jianlei proposed combining broad harassment with a feigned attack on the Core Area, then testing the pirates’ response with two A-rank fighters.
• Red Cloud asked Qu Jianlei to contact Pan Yifu and the escaped Earth Attribute A-rank fighter about cooperating with the Pioneering Group.
• Red Cloud asked to take food for morale, and Qu Jianlei agreed to let him have some.
• Pan Yifu called Qu Jianlei on his Handheld Transceiver, and Qu Jianlei ignored the call before leaving the Secret Camp.

Qu Jianlei studied the Turtle Breath Technique while Mu Huahua told him about Spirit Fox’s missing arm and the possibility of restoring it with Limb Regeneration Potions. As Mu Huahua arranged contact with her brother and Qian Duoduo, Qu Jianlei returned to his research and later contacted Pan Yifu as Black Sky, leaving Pan asking to meet in person.

• Qu Jianlei sensed Daoist-like mysteries in the Turtle Breath Technique but found its translated text awkward and struggled to make progress studying it.
• Qu Jianlei brought supplies to the Secret Camp, and Mu Huahua told him Black Rain had no Limb Regeneration Potions while Spirit Fox of Qian Duoduo had lost his right arm.
• Qu Jianlei considered helping Spirit Fox regain his arm, and Mu Huahua contacted Leader Mu, who said Black Rain had to be informed about the matter.
• Pan Yifu asked Qu Jianlei, as Asking Heart, to introduce him to Black Sky so he could borrow Black Sky’s Electromagnetic Art, but Qu Jianlei declined to get involved.
• After two days of studying without progress, Qu Jianlei contacted Pan Yifu as Black Sky, and Pan Yifu asked to meet in person.

Qu Jianlei met Pan Yifu to discuss a possible escape from Zalifu Star and a plan to attack military stations, but Pan Yifu postponed the details. Two days later, Qu Jianlei rushed to help Mu Huahua after hearing gunfire and found her alive after an ambush by Space Pirates.

• Qu Jianlei demanded a fuel barrel or other payment before meeting Pan Yifu, then asked what Pan Yifu wanted him to do.
• Pan Yifu proposed attacking military stations as a way to test Qu Jianlei and build coordination, saying the attacks could yield gains and might eventually lead to the Control Center.
• Qu Jianlei wondered whether another way existed to leave Zalifu Star, but Pan Yifu left without explaining further.
• After hearing prolonged gunfire near the place where Mu Huahua used the radio, Qu Jianlei flew there and trapped dozens of Space Pirates' mechs with Quicksand Art.
• The Space Pirates fled their mechs, Qu Jianlei shot down two flying mechs, and incoming shells destroyed the trapped machines.
• Qu Jianlei found Mu Huahua unharmed and learned that she had been ambushed while using the radio to contact the Pioneering Group.

After Mu Huahua and Qu Jianlei escaped a mech ambush, they met Red Cloud and a large group of wounded, along with Spirit Fox and Baldy. Qu Jianlei agreed to take in the wounded under strict conditions, and the leaders discussed potions, alliances, and a possible feigned attack on the Control Center.

• Mu Huahua and Qu Jianlei contacted Red Cloud, escaped nearby artillery fire, and went to meet the group coming out of the mountains.
• Qu Jianlei and Mu Huahua found more than a hundred wounded at the rendezvous, where Red Cloud introduced Spirit Fox and Baldy.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to shelter the wounded if he could make unilateral decisions about threats to the camp, and Baldy and Mu Guoguo accepted his terms.
• Baldy asked Qu Jianlei about cooperation with Asking Heart and Pan Yifu, while Spirit Fox requested Limb Regeneration Potions for himself and A'Hu.
• Baldy asked Qu Jianlei for more potions to treat Deputy Leader Fang Cao, and Qu Jianlei agreed to try to obtain them.
• Baldy asked Qu Jianlei what he thought of a feigned attack on the Control Center.

Qu Jianlei helped the Pioneering Group obtain artillery and medicine while arranging limited cooperation with Pan Yifu. Three days later, he joined Pan Yifu’s attack on a military outpost, where Pan Yifu began the assault with a Flame Meteor.

• Qu Jianlei told the Pioneering Group where he had buried eight artillery pieces, and Spirit Fox and Baldy retrieved the guns and shells.
• Pan Yifu contacted Qu Jianlei and agreed to limited cooperation with the Pioneering Group before Qu Jianlei left to seek medicine.
• Qu Jianlei returned with twenty-five doses of medicine, and Spirit Fox left a Rank B Earth Attribute Warrior to help guard and modify the Secret Camp.
• Three days later, Pan Yifu told Qu Jianlei he had selected a military outpost as their target and showed him its structural diagrams.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to attack the outpost with Pan Yifu, vanished from sight, and watched as Pan Yifu launched a Flame Meteor that triggered the outpost alarm.

Pan Yifu and Qu Jianlei attacked a space-pirate outpost, using Flame Meteors and an improvised Electromagnetic Storm to cripple its power and communications. The outpost braced for a long wait without reinforcements as the two attackers prepared to keep pressing their assault.

• Pan Yifu’s Flame Meteors destroyed the outpost’s main and backup high-voltage pipelines, then its low-voltage line.
• The outpost’s wireless, satellite, microwave, and public-address communications failed, and the Commander ordered the troops to top-level combat readiness.
• The Commander realized the outpost would have to hold out alone until dawn, while the Rank A Earth Attribute attacker had yet to appear.
• Pan Yifu praised Qu Jianlei’s Electromagnetic Storm, which Qu Jianlei had improvised using his knowledge of electromagnetic fields.
• Qu Jianlei accepted a Rank B Crystal from Pan Yifu so he could keep sustaining the attack, and Pan Yifu said they had to go all out to break the deadlock.

Pan Yifu and Qu Jianlei worked together to cripple a Space Pirate military outpost, destroying its generators and igniting its fuel depot. They prepared to enter the burning outpost and loot supplies, wary that Rank B Warriors might still be waiting inside.

• Pan Yifu began attacking the outpost with Fire Rain, while Qu Jianlei used Thunder Dragon to breach its defenses and disable much of its power grid.
• Qu Jianlei struck the generator with Lightning Strike, weakening the Energy Shield and creating an opening for Pan Yifu to hit the fuel depot with Flame Meteor.
• The fuel depot exploded, fires and power failures threw the outpost into chaos, and Qu Jianlei destroyed the last generator and the power distribution center.
• Pan Yifu and Qu Jianlei discussed looting the outpost, and Pan Yifu used Fire Rain for nearly ten minutes while carefully sparing the warehouses.
• Pan Yifu said they could enter but warned Qu Jianlei about a possible ambush, and Qu Jianlei said he was ready to kill anyone who tried.

Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu raided a Space Pirate outpost for supplies, destroyed its Command Center and ammunition stores, then fled to Pan Yifu's Secret Camp. There, Pan Yifu reclaimed the crystal he had lent Qu Jianlei and learned that Qu Jianlei was treating more than a hundred wounded people.

• Qu Jianlei took medicine from the outpost's Medical Room and killed two Rank Bs who tried to ambush him.
• Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu collected Energy Blocks, food, medicine, and ammunition while Qu Jianlei concealed how much he stored with his Item-Storing Talisman.
• Pan Yifu and Qu Jianlei bombed the Command Center and used Falling Thunder Art to detonate the remaining shells before escaping.
• Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu reached Pan Yifu's Secret Camp, where Pan Yifu asked for the Rank B Crystal back.
• Qu Jianlei told Pan Yifu that he was treating more than a hundred wounded people from Blaze, the Engineering Corps, Black Rain, and Qian Duoduo's group.

Pan Yifu gave Qu Jianlei medicine for the wounded and confirmed that Qu had passed his test, while they waited to see how the space pirates would respond to their attack. The destroyed supply station left the pirates reeling, and Qu returned to the Secret Camp with supplies that astonished Mu Huahua.

• Pan Yifu offered medicine for the wounded without charge, told Qu Jianlei that he had passed the test, and proposed waiting before attacking the Control Center.
• The supply station commander emerged from the Safe House at daybreak and found that fewer than eight hundred of his more than four thousand people had survived.
• The space pirates learned that Pan Yifu and Black Sky had destroyed the supply station and debated how to respond, while central command urged them to guard against Electromagnetic Art.
• Qu Jianlei rested at his Secret Camp for two days and one night, then brought another batch of supplies to the Field Hospital.
• Qian Duoduo's Earth Attribute B-rank expanded the Secret Camp, and Mu Huahua was astonished when Qu Jianlei said he and Pan Yifu had destroyed a medium-sized supply station.

Qu Jianlei delivered ammunition and Energy Blocks to Spirit Fox for a planned assault on the Control Center, while Spirit Fox asked him to persuade Pan Yifu to raid another military outpost. Qu Jianlei warned that he might not be able to convince Pan Yifu, and Spirit Fox offered support for the raid.

• Qu Jianlei recruited injured and healthy pioneers to transport supplies, putting Mu Huahua in charge of registering and assessing them.
• After studying the Turtle Breath Technique for several days, Qu Jianlei told Pan Yifu that he could not contact Asking Heart Array and learned Pan Yifu had not chosen another outpost to raid.
• Spirit Fox asked Qu Jianlei for all his remaining ammunition and Energy Blocks to support the groups’ planned counterattack on the Control Center.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to deliver the supplies in three trips, and Spirit Fox said the groups would pay him a satisfactory price.
• After Qu Jianlei completed the deliveries, Spirit Fox gave him six bottles of pills as a gesture of good faith and asked him to urge Pan Yifu to raid another outpost.
• Qu Jianlei said he might not persuade Pan Yifu, so Spirit Fox offered to provide support if the raid seemed too difficult.

Qu Jianlei used Spirit Fox’s Qi Recovery Pills to persuade Pan Yifu to join an assault on a military outpost. As the group attacked, Spirit Fox watched Qu Jianlei’s seemingly powerful Electromagnetic Arts and began to suspect they were beyond Rank B.

• Spirit Fox gave Qu Jianlei six bottles of Qi Recovery Pills and agreed to disguise himself as a Rank B Warrior while secretly supporting the assault.
• Qu Jianlei negotiated with Pan Yifu, offering nine pills for his cooperation; Pan Yifu bargained for eighteen before agreeing to choose an outpost and give an answer the next day.
• Pan Yifu selected a larger military outpost, and Qu Jianlei led more than twenty people there, where they hid until nightfall and donned Rank B Rock Armor.
• Pan Yifu opened the attack with Flame Meteor and Fire Rain while an Earth Attribute fighter raised walls to shield him from the outpost’s artillery.
• Qu Jianlei used Electromagnetic Interference and Silver Snake Dance to disrupt and attack the outpost, leaving Spirit Fox wondering whether his arts were actually Rank A.

Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu destroyed the Space Pirates’ outpost with sustained electromagnetic attacks, then began recovering its supplies as Spirit Fox guarded the outside. When gunfire erupted from pirates hiding inside, Qu Jianlei reacted too late, but three golden shields appeared to intercept the bullets.

• Qu Jianlei and Pan Yifu continued their electromagnetic assault for nearly an hour, wrecking the outpost’s power systems and facilities.
• Pan Yifu entered the outpost to clear it while Qu Jianlei kept attacking to stop shielded electronic devices from sending messages, and Spirit Fox stayed outside to guard the area.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the wounded team to collect supplies, and Spirit Fox joined in by using his Item-Storing Talismans to carry out Energy Blocks.
• Qu Jianlei revealed that Spirit Fox was Qian Duoduo’s peak Rank A leader and explained that other Pioneering Groups needed the supplies for a counterattack.
• Hidden Space Pirates opened fire on the supply team, and three golden shields appeared to block the bullets.

Qu Jianlei and the others fought off space pirate ambushes, escaped with supplies, and laid a trap for their pursuers. After returning to the Field Hospital, Spirit Fox tried to recruit Qu Jianlei, who declined and asked what equipment could help them leave Zalifu quickly.

• Spirit Fox, Pan Yifu, and Qu Jianlei destroyed firing positions and repelled space pirates ambushing the supply team inside the military station.
• Qu Jianlei realized the space pirates were fighting back because their previous attack had destroyed most of the ammunition depot, and Pan Yifu detonated the remaining ammunition before the group withdrew.
• Spirit Fox and Qu Jianlei planted an ammunition trap that killed a dozen pursuers, including one Rank B Warrior.
• Qu Jianlei borrowed Spirit Fox's Item-Storing Talisman, sent Pan Yifu away with part of the supplies, and returned to the Field Hospital with the rest of the team.
• Spirit Fox invited Qu Jianlei to join Qian Duoduo, but Qu Jianlei declined because he did not want to follow the group's rules.
• Qu Jianlei asked Spirit Fox what equipment could help them escape Zalifu quickly.

Qu Jianlei recovered while monitoring the Space Pirates, then entered the Core Area disguised as Boerteni to gather intelligence and check on You You. He found You You serving with a patrol, and she recognized him beneath his disguise as she confronted the man who had requisitioned him.

• Qu Jianlei learned that the Space Pirates had reinforced their outposts, intensified searches in the Security Zone, and brought back a Second Squad with two Rank A Warriors.
• After recovering for several days, Qu Jianlei decided to visit the Core Area and chose Boerteni, a native with an access pass, as his disguise.
• Qu Jianlei impersonated Boerteni, gathered scattered intelligence, and was ordered by a middle-aged native to work overnight at a construction site.
• You You arrived with a Space Pirate patrol, and Qu Jianlei secretly contacted her with his Mental Strength.
• You You recognized Qu Jianlei despite his disguise, demanded his identification, and challenged the middle-aged man for requisitioning outsiders.

Qu Jianlei endured harsh labor in disguise while You You checked that the workers had temporary permits. That night, they met secretly at the Starry Night Bar, where Qu Jianlei tested whether he could trust her and she shared what she knew about Black Sky and the Pioneers.

• You You challenged the supervisor for keeping unregistered laborers in the Core Area, and he agreed to get them temporary permits.
• After the supervisor issued the permits, he collapsed when he hurried toward You You, and she inspected all five permits while keeping her exchange with Qu Jianlei guarded.
• A Space Pirate sent Qu Jianlei to deliver documents to You You at the Starry Night Bar, where they spoke privately in the shadows.
• Qu Jianlei asked whether he could still trust You You, and she said no one knew Black Sky was A-rank or knew the identity of the Earth Attribute A-rank.
• You You said she had gained limited freedom as a supposed traitor from Garbage Star and credited Pan Yifu and Black Sky's actions with helping her get out of confinement.