Recaps

Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed a bio-construct researcher who had pursued an Anvile noblewoman, leaving Xi Xiu uneasy about what the buried history might conceal. In a Virtual Network drill, Xi Xiu’s team used her navigation plan to escape a star region’s gravity and trap an opposing warship.

• A Xian told Xi Xiu that Jing Ya had gone to Fox Tail and explained that the Qin family head had pursued an Anvile noblewoman to produce superior descendants.
• Xi Xiu worried that the researcher might have become dangerously obsessed, and A Xian said she would ask Jing Xi what had happened.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian joined their team in the Virtual Network, where Hai Suomiao led the third simulated battle near a powerful gravitational region at the Gaia border.
• Xi Xiu identified a heading that would let their warship skim past the region, and Hai Suomiao ordered the team to follow her plan.
• An opposing warship attempted an ambush but was caught by the region’s gravity, while Xi Xiu’s team escaped and earned a perfect score by intercepting its attacks.

After the team prepared for the exhibition, Xi Xiu learned that people were investigating her identity and chose not to interfere. Yan Lanxi sought advice about his strained engagement with Hai Suomiao, prompting Qing Zhixun to confront memories of someone he had lost.

• After leaving the Virtual Network, Xi Xiu learned from Wu Yuan that Lord Lan had left and that people were investigating her identity, but she decided to let them continue.
• Wu Yuan told Xi Xiu that Wu Jingyang had found signs that her records were accessed, while he and Wu Jingya had made progress investigating Anvile.
• Yan Lanxi warned Hai Suomiao to be careful during the exhibition and tried to explain himself, but she ended their call abruptly.
• Li Yuanting told Yan Lanxi to seek advice from Qing Zhixun, who recommended a direct conversation and making his feelings clear.
• After Yan Lanxi left, Qing Zhixun remembered the person who had died saving him and reflected that his painful memories were probably a punishment.

Xi Xiu and her team arrived at the Gaia garrison and learned that the joint exercise would deploy every blue and red fleet in a large-scale battle using real weapons. As the captains debated plans and some resisted taking orders, Xi Xiu prepared a strategy and arranged for hidden small warships to support their Main Battle Ship.

• Xi Xiu led the twelve hundred blue-flag students to the Gaia garrison, where they received their dormitory tags and settled in.
• The students learned that the exercise would pit all thirty thousand blue-flag teams against an equal number of red-flag teams, with real weapons and Elder Council observers.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, and Hai Suomiao watched the captains' group chat and worried that poor planning, disobedience, and personal ambition would undermine coordination.
• The Combat Department students said they would follow the commands of 626 and 828 at critical moments, but Xi Xiu still doubted their willingness to cooperate.
• Xi Xiu proposed sending small warships into stealth mode to observe and intercept enemy fire, and Tarasha, Flora, Yi Mingda, and Xia Wentao volunteered to pilot them.
• Xi Xiu told her teammates to wait for her final formation instructions and said the exercise's comprehensive scoring would expose anyone who ignored orders.

Xi Xiu and the other captains organized their fleets for the joint exercise, despite resistance from students who wanted to fight independently. After Xi Xiu reminded them of their duty to obey orders, she and Hai Suomiao finalized a conventional formation and sent each warship its position.

• Xi Xiu explained Hong Xixiu's advice about coordination, and the captains agreed to follow 626 and 828's command despite lingering objections.
• A Xian grew frustrated with the students' resistance, but Xi Xiu calmed her and urged her to trust that they would prioritize the bigger picture.
• Hai Suomiao and Xi Xiu arranged the warships in a flexible conventional formation, while Tarasha's and Yi Mingda's small ships prepared to strike under stealth.
• Xi Xiu posted a photo of the school's words—obedience, responsibility, glory, and Alliance—in the group chat, silencing the arguments.
• Xi Xiu and Hai Suomiao assigned positions through the intelligent system and sent the formation to every warship captain.

Xi Xiu’s team prepared for a fleet demonstration, but their departure was disrupted by a logistics officer’s misconduct and several warships’ unauthorized manual control. The fleet entered the demonstration starfield with trust and coordination already strained.

• Xi Xiu and Hai Suomiao planned emergency procedures and assigned Su Jinbao and Yi Mingda to lead the assault team and guard the fleet’s rear.
• Xi Xiu’s team boarded a Starry Sky Series warship, and Wu Yuan connected to its system to control it.
• Xi Xiu learned that logistics officer Cheng Yixue had made a warship’s supplies disappear, so she warned the captain to use backups and replace her.
• Xi Xiu’s fleet set off, and instructors and Elder Council members watched the demonstration from the training ground.
• Ten warships in the middle switched to manual control without authorization and nearly caused a collision before the ships behind them slowed down.
• The school issued written disciplinary records to the ten warships’ crews, while Xi Daiyu and Li Shuqi worried their disobedience would endanger Xi Xiu’s team.

Xi Xiu’s fleet cleared a field of debris and arrived in time for the exercise, where the blue and red sides began their battle. Su Jinbao and Nan Hejia led a flawless interception, and Xi Xiu prepared an encircling maneuver as Yue Qila ordered the red fleet to split apart.

• Xi Xiu had Hai Suomiao destroy the debris blocking the fleet’s route, and the blue side reached the designated starfield on time.
• Xi Xiu arranged the blue fleet according to its battle plan while Su Jinbao and Yi Mingda led a thousand stealth warships to their assigned position.
• Yue Qila and the red captains agreed to split their forces and attack the blue fleet, though Yue Qila warned Zhang Jixing that Xi Xiu might anticipate their moves.
• The red side opened fire as the blue fleet advanced, but Nan Hejia and Su Jinbao coordinated the interception and stopped every shot.
• Xi Xiu ordered the blue fleet to spread out in an encircling maneuver, and Yue Qila responded by ordering the red fleet to split its formation.

Xi Xiu and Yue Qila led the Blue and Red sides through a warship demonstration, with the score shifting as both teams traded attacks. The Red side pursued the Blue side into a Black Zone and lost more than half its fleet when the region swallowed the passing warships.

• A Xian urged the heavy weapons unit to focus on accurate tracking as Xi Xiu's Blue side intercepted Red attacks and took the lead.
• Yue Qila split the Red side's forces to attack the Blue formation, but Tarasha and Yi Mingda destroyed the exposed fighters and helped the Blue side inflict greater damage.
• Yue Qila recognized the Red side was losing ground, then volunteered to act as bait and ordered her teammates to coordinate from behind.
• The Red side pursued the retreating Blue fleet until it overtook the score, while Xi Xiu told her captains to hold steady and led them away from the Black Zone.
• Yue Qila ordered the Red side to pursue at full speed through the Black Zone, where more than half its fleet was swallowed.

A Black Zone’s increasing gravity trapped most of the Red side fleet, and Xi Xiu led a rescue effort despite the danger. After Chen Junwu joined the rescue, their ships also lost contact inside the zone, leaving the trapped fleets cut off from the outside.

• The Black Zone’s gravity surged and swallowed more than half of the Red side fleet after Yue Qila ignored the Star Chart team’s warning.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian linked their warships together and entered the danger zone to rescue the Red side, while Yue Qila’s fleet prepared to cooperate.
• Chen Junwu refused Yue Qila’s request to enter because she was too shaken, then agreed to lead Xi Xiu and A Xian inside after no signal emerged.
• Wu Yuan kept Xi Xiu’s ships in contact with the outside briefly, allowing them to send data to Gan Fu’er before their signal was cut off.
• Su Jinbao activated Emergency Communication but found that the Black Zone trapped all Star Radiation and prevented signals from getting out.

Xi Xiu and A Xian used Wu Mu and their Mental Power to search the Black Zone after the swallowed warships vanished from their displays. They found the Red side’s fleet and established contact, learning that the trapped students were unharmed.

• Xi Xiu proposed extending Wu Mu through space and using Mental Power to search, and Chen Junwu reluctantly allowed her and A Xian to try.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian sent Wu Mu outside the warship, where its vines spread through space as they searched in opposite directions.
• Xi Xiu detected a cluster of more than a thousand vessels ahead, and A Xian confirmed they were likely warships.
• Chen Junwu’s communications crew sent an emergency signal, and Xi Xiu and A Xian withdrew their Mental Power to rest.
• Chen Junwu connected with the Red side’s warships and learned that the trapped students were unharmed.

Chen Junwu’s group rescued the students trapped in the Black Zone and returned safely, ending the exhibition match with the Blue side ahead. Xi Xiu and A Xian rested after exhausting themselves, while Enweit and Su Jinbao resolved to support Xi Xiu at their future service posts.

• Chen Junwu coordinated the trapped students’ return, and Xi Xiu’s fleet brought them out of the Black Zone.
• Yue Qila acknowledged her mistake and accepted that she would face punishment, while Luo Yunzhong judged her decision harshly.
• The exhibition match ended with the Blue side ahead by two points after Hong Xixiu and Wu Jingxian rescued the students.
• Gan Fu'er checked on Xi Xiu and her teammates, then ordered them to rest while his warship led the journey back.
• Su Jinbao and Enweit admired Xi Xiu’s strength and dedication, and Enweit said Aola Star would follow her to the same service location.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian fell asleep in their cabin while Wu Mu absorbed the energy it had gained.

After the Red Team was rescued from the Black Zone, Luo Yunzhong pressed Chen Junwu and the students for the rescue method but learned nothing. Chu Xuliang and Lu Shouyi reviewed the teams’ performance and Alliance leadership, then planned to replace Xu Enchi and Luo Yunzhong and give the Blue Team closer support.

• Chen Junwu refused to tell Luo Yunzhong and Xu Enchi how they had found the Red Team, saying the rescue had been pure luck.
• Luo Yunzhong questioned the rescued Red Team students and Xing Zongfan, but they could not explain how the rescue had happened.
• Chu Xuliang praised the Blue Team’s calm response and rescue effort while criticizing the Red Team leader’s decision to enter the Black Zone.
• Lu Shouyi explained how the Blue Team’s high-scoring students had been excluded from priority training, and Chu Xuliang urged him to support the two teams and watch them closely.
• Lu Shouyi said he planned to replace Xu Enchi and Luo Yunzhong with Chen Junwu and Mei Zhenyue, and Chu Xuliang advised sending the two former teachers into clerical work.

The performance ended with Hong Xixiu’s team receiving commendation for rescuing the Red side, while Lu Shouyi and Chu Xuliang assessed the students’ shortcomings and prepared them for military service. Chu Xuliang revealed that a major Bio-construct threat was approaching, leaving the students to face the Alliance’s coming crisis with new Wearable Mecha and harsher training ahead.

• Lu Shouyi reviewed the performance footage, criticized the teams’ lack of coordination, and announced extra points for the Blue side’s leading warship.
• Su Jinbao, Enweit, Tarasha, and Flora felt proud to serve under Hong Xixiu after her rescue mission with Wu Jingxian.
• Lu Shouyi urged the graduating students to keep training and protect the Alliance as their seven years of study came to an end.
• Chu Xuliang analyzed star warfare and warned the students that the Alliance faced an approaching crisis and a possible large-scale Bio-construct outbreak.
• Chu Xuliang showed the students images of the Bio-constructs and explained that new Wearable Mecha could withstand most of their attacks.
• Chu Xuliang said the students would train with the new mecha after reaching their service assignments, with training far harsher than military academy.

After the graduation assembly, Xi Xiu and A Xian met with Lu Shouyi and Chu Xuliang, who explained that Bio-constructs were an emerging threat linked to Yuanyang and Aola Star. The team accepted their assignment to serve the Alliance, and Chu Xuliang selected additional graduates to accompany them to Yuanyang.

• After the assembly, Lu Shouyi summoned Xi Xiu, A Xian, Su Jinbao, and their teammates to his office, where Chen Junwu, Chu Xuliang, and other officials were waiting.
• Chu Xuliang warned them that the completed Bio-constructs could soon appear on battlefields and that the Alliance had found traces of them near Yuanyang and Aola Star.
• Enweit asked which Administrative Star in Aola was involved, but Chu Xuliang said the creatures’ traces had vanished before the Alliance could investigate further.
• Xi Xiu accepted the team’s service assignment, and A Xian disclosed that she had surpassed level sixteen in Mental Power while explaining Xi Xiu’s unusual training.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian truthfully described what happened in the Black Zone, and Lu Shouyi said outstanding graduates would join them to help protect the Jingsu Alliance.
• After Xi Xiu and her team left, Chu Xuliang chose several graduates to accompany them to Yuanyang and told Lu Shouyi he would return to Tianwei Star.

After Squad 626 won the showcase, Hai Suomiao told 828 Squad she would leave Gaia to guard Miu Run Star and said goodbye to her comrades. The chapter ended with 828 Squad completing their farewells while Xi Xiu and her teammates continued investigating the Bio-constructs.

• Squad 626 won the showcase, and Xi Xiu's team received a bonus for rescuing others; Yue Qila regretted her mistake.
• Xue Fanhui and Zhen congratulated Xi Xiu as the students returned to Gaia aboard the school's Starship.
• Hai Suomiao told 828 Squad that she would return to Miu Run Star to guard the Barren Sea and would miss their graduation ceremony.
• Hai Suomiao learned that 828 Squad would be assigned to Tianwei with Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing, and urged them to serve well and stay alive.
• Hai Suomiao revealed that her fiancé was Yan Lanxi, and 828 Squad exchanged farewells and blessings with her.
• Xi Xiu stayed focused on the Bio-constructs while Su Jinbao and Enweit analyzed their activity on Aola Star.

Xi Xiu and A Xian investigated conflicting accounts about Li Zhengfeng while Team 626 prepared for service in the Yuanri and Aola star regions. Their discussion of unexplored Black Zones raised the possibility that the creator of the Bio-constructs and Eternal Robots was hiding in one.

• Enweit briefed Su Jinbao, Tarasha, and Flora on Aola Star’s stagnation, factions, and defenses.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed contradictions in the Qin family member’s records about Li Zhengfeng and awaited his handwritten documents for clues.
• Feng Qiqi delivered Li Zhengfeng’s unopened records so Nine Stars could pass them to the Alliance Council and clear its name.
• Team 626 compiled and studied extensive information about Aola and Yuanri as they prepared for service.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian considered whether the maker of the Bio-constructs and Eternal Robots could be concealed in a Black Zone, including the vast unexplored region between Yuanri and Aola.

Xi Xiu recalled how Yuanri’s war and mechanical uprising led the Alliance to control mechanization, then discussed recent unidentified mechanized people with A Xian. As they prepared to investigate Yuanri, Xi Xiu decided to make Hai Suomiao a lake-blue diamond pendant before her departure from Gaia.

• Xi Xiu remembered Yuanri’s history: after war devastated the system, its citizens embraced mechanization, and the Alliance later imposed a control program following a violent upheaval.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the recent appearance of mechanized humans and other intelligent lifeforms whose identities could not be traced, and noted that Qing Zhixun’s team was investigating.
• A Xian set aside the unresolved matter Wu Jingya was investigating and told Xi Xiu that Hai Suomiao would leave Gaia in a few days.
• Xi Xiu searched her Space Locket for a farewell gift and chose a lake-blue diamond from the diamonds Damian had given her to make Hai Suomiao a pendant.

Xi Xiu designed diamond pendants while A Xian and Qing Zhixun discussed Yuanri and the hidden intruder in the Star Net. Qing Zhixun’s attention stirred Xi Xiu’s painful memories, but she resolved to leave the past behind and live only as Hong Xixiu.

• Xi Xiu began designing diamond pendants and invited A Xian to choose a design to make together.
• Qing Zhixun called A Xian and reported Yuanri’s movements, then explained that he had used their conversation to track a hidden presence inside the Star Net.
• Qing Zhixun repeatedly focused on Xi Xiu and wondered why her diamond designs resembled ones he remembered from the past.
• A Xian asked Xi Xiu what she thought of Qing Zhixun, and Xi Xiu called him terrifying and cold before steering the conversation away from him.
• A Xian’s mention of Qing Zhixun awakened Xi Xiu’s memories of a man she had once tried to keep pace with while repaying a debt, and Xi Xiu decided she no longer needed to repay anyone and would live as Hong Xixiu.

Xi Xiu, A Xian, and Sister Suomiao exchanged gifts and discussed marriage as Sister Suomiao prepared to return to Miu Run Star. Xi Xiu said she might avoid marriage and adopt a child, but Sister Suomiao warned that the Central Brain could force a match if her compatibility reached the optimum level.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian visited Sister Suomiao, exchanged gifts with her, and sat down to talk before her departure.
• Sister Suomiao said she had accepted her engagement to Yan Lanxi and described how his recent attentiveness had unsettled her.
• A Xian admitted she had never considered marriage and could not think of an Anvile noble with whom she could bond.
• Xi Xiu said she might remain unmarried and adopt a child after retiring, explaining that she valued living independently.
• Sister Suomiao warned Xi Xiu that the Central Brain could force her to accept a match if her compatibility threshold reached the optimum level.

Xi Xiu worried about her future matches, then said goodbye to Hai Suomiao, who was leaving early, and received valuable pearls from her. A Xian suggested Xi Xiu could help Hai Suomiao break through her Mental Power barrier, and Hai Suomiao agreed to come over quietly.

• Xi Xiu asked Hai Suomiao and A Xian how she could lower the threshold for her matches, but they said the Central Brain’s records made it impossible.
• Hai Suomiao told Xi Xiu she would leave the day after tomorrow, and the three friends took a photo and said their farewells.
• Hai Suomiao gave Xi Xiu and A Xian passage badges and valuable pearls, including an energy pearl that could balance and replenish Xi Xiu’s Mental Power.
• A Xian suggested Xi Xiu could use her method for awakening Jing Xi to help Hai Suomiao break through her Mental Power barrier.
• A Xian messaged Hai Suomiao, and she replied that she would come over quietly.

Hai Suomiao received Wu Jingxian’s encrypted message and asked Xi Xiu to help her break through her Mental Power barrier. After Xi Xiu succeeded, Hai Suomiao left with renewed strength and promised to meet Xi Xiu and her friends on Miu Run Star.

• Hai Suomiao admired Xi Xiu’s handmade gift before Wu Jingxian sent her a highly secured message about Xi Xiu’s ability to help her break through her Mental Power barrier.
• Hai Suomiao agreed to Xi Xiu and A Xian’s plan and arrived at Xi Xiu’s dormitory, which Wu Yuan and Wu Mu secured against intruders and surveillance.
• A Xian explained that Xi Xiu’s Mental Power exceeded 4S and that she and Xi Xiu could hide their true levels from testing instruments.
• Xi Xiu guided Hai Suomiao’s Mental Power through its restrictions and raised her threshold to 3S.
• A Xian advised Hai Suomiao to suppress her new strength when needed, and Hai Suomiao thanked Xi Xiu and promised to host the group on Miu Run Star.

Hai Suomiao returned to Miu Run Star to take over the defense of the Barren Sea as displaced creatures threatened to breach its defenses. At First Military Academy, Xi Xiu and her friends attended their graduation send-off before leaving for their military postings.

• Hai Qingbo and Hai Suohui told Hai Suomiao that creatures from Miu Run Star's borders wanted to return because their waters had been contaminated, and that the family had rejected their ceasefire agreement.
• Hai Suomiao learned that she would replace her tenth sister at the Barren Sea post, accepted the coming fight, and agreed that her wedding to Yan Lanxi would proceed in about a year.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, and their classmates gathered at the school's plaza for the graduation send-off, where Flora and Nan Hejia complained that the speeches never changed.
• Lu Shouyi addressed the graduating warriors, honored those lost at the front, and urged the students to work together, consider others' opinions, and return safely.

After the graduation ceremony, Xi Xiu and A Xian reflected on the dangers awaiting them at their garrisons and shared a quiet moment on the observation tower. Xi Xiu received data from Aunt Lan about the Qin Family, and the chapter ended with Flora bringing her snacks.

• Lu Shouyi gave a speech about the students’ future dangers before the awards ceremony began.
• Group 626 won the Combat Department’s top graduating team honor, while Group 828 received the Outstanding Team award.
• Yue Qila apologized to Xi Xiu, and the two wished each other well before parting.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian escaped the crowd and talked on the observation tower about their fears and hopes for the future.
• Xi Xiu forwarded Aunt Lan’s data on the Qin Family’s movements to Wu Jingya for follow-up.
• Flora brought Xi Xiu snacks after she returned to the dormitory.

After receiving their service assignments, Xi Xiu and her classmates prepared to part ways and learned that Kuang Biru would join them on dangerous Yuanri. Xi Xiu then translated Li Zhengfeng’s handwritten document, uncovering evidence that the Nine-Star Marshal had come from another spacetime.

• Xi Xiu learned that Class 626 would serve in Yuanri, Class 828 in Tianwei, and Zhen in the Sulaina Star System; He Yinlei’s team and Qiu Shaorong were also assigned to Yuanri.
• Su Jinbao discovered that Kuang Biru’s Mental Power had recovered and that she and Guo Guangqing would join them in Yuanri.
• Feng Qiqi and Bai Jungo brought Xi Xiu Li Zhengfeng’s sealed handwritten document, which no one had been able to read.
• Xi Xiu decided to translate the document and asked A Xian to have Wu Jingyang make the translation appear authentic.
• As Xi Xiu translated, A Xian, Feng Qiqi, and Bai Jungo realized that Li Zhengfeng had come from another spacetime.

Xi Xiu translated Li Zhengfeng’s notes, which described his opposition to Bio-construct and Eternal Robot experiments and exposed a conflict between his account and the Qin Family’s. The group prepared a convincing file containing his evidence and a method for destroying consciousness in robotic bodies, then planned to deliver it to the Elder Council.

• Xi Xiu translated Li Zhengfeng’s handwritten notes, which said he came from another spacetime and opposed the Eternal Robot experiments because they threatened the Alliance.
• Li Zhengfeng’s notes said the Elder Council had ordered the experiments destroyed, but someone stole crucial files, and the Qin Family’s story about their former member’s death conflicted with his account.
• Xi Xiu and the others found Li Zhengfeng’s method for killing consciousness inside a robotic body and decided to submit it to the Elder Council.
• Xi Xiu translated Li Zhengfeng’s final reflections on being unable to return to his lost home, and A Xian comforted her with a hug.
• Wu Jingyang prepared a copy of the translated notes with the method included, and Xi Xiu planned to take it to the Elder Council with Feng Qiqi and the others.

Xi Xiu and the Nine-Star delegation brought Li Zhengfeng’s files to the Elder Council, where the Xing Family head demanded them and accused the Marshal of wrongdoing. Xi Xiu and A Xian stood their ground, and Chen Huan intervened before the confrontation escalated further.

• Xi Xiu and the others entered the Elder Council building and met Chen Huan, Jiang Tianyue, Zhou Yuanqun, the Xing and Yun Family heads, and Chu Zekuan.
• The Xing Family head demanded the files and refused to identify himself, so Xi Xiu said an unnamed Elder Council member could not inspect the Nine-Star Marshal’s records.
• Xi Xiu challenged the Xing Family head’s accusation against Li Zhengfeng and unleashed her Mental Power, while A Xian joined her and overwhelmed the room.
• A Xian pointed out that Li Zhengfeng’s remains were in his grave on Shangyue Star and that the Qin Family member’s fate was unknown.
• Chu Zekuan and Chen Huan supported Nine-Star’s position, and Chen Huan urged the Xing Family head to stop making things difficult for the young delegation.