Recaps

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun explored a strange planet where seasons changed abruptly across neighboring landscapes and their signal receiver had failed. After eating, they headed south to find a river and establish camp, while Qing Zhixun suspected Xi Xiu was the girl he had once fought on the Virtual Network.

• Wu Mu nestled in Xi Xiu's hair as she recorded the bizarre trees and mountains and found that she could not contact Anvile.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun crossed from a summer mountain into a winter desert and discovered their signal receiver was dead.
• Xi Xiu suggested finding a plain near a river to solve their water and food needs, and Qing Zhixun agreed to head south after lunch.
• As they prepared and ate a meal, Qing Zhixun connected Xi Xiu's comments to a childhood Virtual Network opponent and suspected she was Hong Xixiu.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun changed direction and traveled south, observing the strange terrain as they searched for a place to camp.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun realized the planet was likely an abandoned experimental Tractor Type artificial star and headed south to find its Underground City. They found a hill made from expensive Artificial Soil, suggesting construction had stopped abruptly, and prepared to search for an entrance.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun failed to match the planet’s star map to any of the artificial planets in Qing Zhixun’s database.
• Xi Xiu reasoned that the planet might be a Tractor Type artificial star, designed with separate zones for different seasons and landscapes.
• Qing Zhixun agreed with Xi Xiu’s theory and suggested they search south for the Underground City and information about the planet.
• Xi Xiu used a detector to help them search, and they found a tall hill made from expensive Artificial Soil.
• Qing Zhixun guessed construction had been halted midway, then activated his protective equipment and told Xi Xiu to put on her protective suit.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun explored the underground of the Artificial Star, documenting its abandoned living areas and recovering unusual robots. They found evidence that the site had been hurriedly abandoned and hoped the robots’ data would reveal who built it.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun uncovered the underground entrance, secured the area, and descended into the Artificial Star.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun explored overgrown living quarters and photographed objects that could help identify the Artificial Star’s age and owner.
• Qing Zhixun found a Fire Fox robot, and Xi Xiu explained that Fire Foxes were unique to Fox Tail Star and died if they left it.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun found about fifty old construction robots; Qing Zhixun removed one robot’s chip to recover its programs and blueprints.
• Xi Xiu detected an anomaly a thousand meters ahead.

Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu followed a terrifying, decaying aura beneath the Artificial Star to a vast black swamp. A reconnaissance robot revealed that the swamp teemed with rapidly reproducing Insects that their Mental Powers could not detect.

• Wu Mu shifted into combat mode as Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu sensed a dangerous aura underground and pressed on to investigate.
• Qing Zhixun recognized the aura as resembling the decaying presence that threatened Anvile, and he and Xi Xiu traced it to a black swamp.
• Qing Zhixun sent a reconnaissance robot toward the swamp’s center while Wu Mu reacted as if an unseen enemy were nearby.
• The robot revealed densely packed Insects that neither Qing Zhixun nor Xi Xiu could sense with Mental Power.
• Xi Xiu saw the Insects kill and devour one another, lay eggs, and hatch new adults within minutes.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun discovered that the giant Insects in the Artificial Star were intelligent, dangerous creatures carrying a corrupting aura, and resolved to destroy them before they could reach the Alliance. They found dormant surveillance equipment recording the Insects’ growth and prepared to test whether Xi Xiu’s powder could kill the larvae.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun realized the largest Insects could block Mental Power and that the creatures had consciousness.
• Xi Xiu concluded the Insects had to be destroyed, and she and Qing Zhixun discussed their weapons and the dangers of fighting over the swamp.
• Xi Xiu found surveillance devices, and Qing Zhixun discovered they had recently run out of energy after monitoring the Insects for centuries.
• Qing Zhixun copied the surveillance footage for the Alliance to study.
• Xi Xiu proposed testing powder from Wei Lanshan’s supplies on the larvae.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun used Wei Lanshan’s toxic powder against the swamp Insects, but the two kings reacted by gathering the colony and emerging as enormous Behemoths. As the Behemoths approached, Qing Zhixun struggled against their aura and stepped in front of Xi Xiu to protect her.

• Xi Xiu ordered the scouting robots to spread Wei Lanshan’s powder, and it slowed the Insects’ egg-laying and incubation.
• The two largest Insects called the colony toward them, and the others lifted the kings out of the swamp.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun saw that the Behemoths were gigantic and had energy-storing abdomens, wings, and poisonous slime.
• Qing Zhixun showed signs of distress, and Xi Xiu told him she could support his Mental Power if he began to weaken.
• The Behemoths flew toward Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun, and Qing Zhixun stepped in front of Xi Xiu to shield her.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun fought two Behemoths with Wu Yuan, Qing Sansui, and Wu Mu, but their attacks could not penetrate the creatures’ armor. The Behemoths seemed unable to move far from the swamp, and Xi Xiu questioned whether they could leave the threat there.

• Wu Yuan, Qing Sansui, and Wu Mu confronted the two Behemoths as Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun prepared to fight.
• Wu Mu bound the Behemoths while Wu Yuan and Qing Sansui attacked, but the creatures dodged and resisted every strike.
• Xi Xiu tested the Behemoths with her metal sphere and recorded their eyes and wingbeats, but her attacks could not pierce their skin.
• Xi Xiu called Wu Yuan back after ten failed attacks, and Qing Zhixun returned without making progress against his Behemoth.
• Qing Zhixun noted that the Behemoths seemed unable to move far from the swamp, and Xi Xiu wondered whether they could leave them there.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun tried to force two Behemoths back into the swamp, but their Mental Power attacks met fierce resistance and the Behemoths’ decay aura began to exhaust Qing Zhixun. Xi Xiu decided to wear the creatures down by using their own kind as bait, and Ebony brought dead Insects near them.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun agreed to confront the Behemoths with Mental Power, each taking one and promising to help the other if needed.
• Xi Xiu discovered that each Behemoth stored Mental Power in six chambers around its eyes, making covert attacks difficult.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun attacked the Behemoths, but their piercing cries and oppressive decay aura forced them to retreat.
• Xi Xiu proposed exhausting the Behemoths until they returned to the swamp to feed, while Qing Zhixun rested.
• Ebony killed Insects from the swamp and dragged their bodies near the Behemoths as bait.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun exploited the Behemoths’ return to the swamp to attack them with Mental Power and Atomic Light Cannons. The wounded creatures began healing, and Xi Xiu prepared poisoned metal balls as the group readied an all-out strike.

• Ebony lured the hungry Behemoths back into the swamp, where they fed on the corpses of their kind.
• Wu Yuan analyzed the foul air while Xi Xiu soothed Qing Zhixun with her Mental Power, helping him recover.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun attacked the Behemoths’ Mental Power while they fed, severely wounding them and trapping their wings in vines.
• Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu fired Atomic Light Cannons at the Behemoths, damaging their eyes and wings as they tried to escape the swamp.
• Xi Xiu noticed the Behemoths healing, so she coated the metal balls with poisonous powder and prepared to attack before they recovered.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun killed the two Behemoths and began exterminating the remaining Insects in the swamp. With the Alliance still unreachable and the Artificial Star difficult to escape, Xi Xiu offered Qing Zhixun her stored Energy Stones.

• Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, Wu Yuan, and Ebony attacked the Behemoths, weakening them with powder and forcing them to expose their bodies.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun planted weapons in the Behemoths’ wounds, then Ebony pulled the team to safety before the weapons exploded.
• Wu Yuan and Qing Sansui cleared the decay from the air, and Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun returned to find adult Insects feeding on the Behemoths’ remains.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun agreed to spread the remaining powder and camp nearby until the adult Insects and eggs were dead.
• Qing Zhixun calculated that his energy supply could not power a mecha out of the Artificial Star, so Xi Xiu offered to lend him about five Space Lockets’ worth of Energy Stones.

After Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun vanished into a vortex, A Xian and the Alliance forces gathered at Yuanri’s base to search for them. Wu Jingyang joined the rescue effort, and A Xian prepared to re-enter Holy Land with Su Jinbao’s team while the soldiers secured the area.

• A Xian learned from Su Jinbao that Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun had been swept into an unknown starfield, and their signals and trackers could not be found.
• Wu Jingyang arrived at Yuanri’s starfield and agreed with Xu Jiusong to enter Holy Land and retrieve environmental data to estimate where Xi Xiu had gone.
• Xu Jiusong assigned Lin Zaiqin to command the battle at the base while Wu Jingyang prepared to follow A Xian inside.
• A Xian called Wu Jingyang, arranged to meet him inside Holy Land, and prepared to re-enter with Su Jinbao’s group.
• A Xian asked Su Jinbao about the Spatial Distortion, then reassured the guilt-ridden Enweit that they would bring Xi Xiu back.

A Xian and Wu Jingyang investigated the Spatial Collapse that had swallowed Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun, then prepared a way to follow them. They left for the unknown space while Tarasha and Flora remained behind to oversee the base.

• A Xian and her group met Wu Jingyang outside Central City, where he began studying the unusual magnetic field.
• A machine-aligned creature ordered its subordinates to accelerate their collection of consciousnesses and prepare a counterattack against the Jingsu Alliance.
• Su Jinbao and Enweit recalled that the collapse occurred thirty seconds after their Teleportation Device activated, and Flora noted that they had been the twenty-ninth squad to leave.
• Wu Jingyang reproduced the collapse on the twenty-ninth test and ran further experiments to identify where transported objects would arrive.
• After upgrading the Teleportation Device and adjusting its positioning system, Wu Jingyang led A Xian, Li Yuanting, Su Jinbao, Enweit, and his team into the device to search for Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun.
• Tarasha and Flora stayed behind to oversee the base after the warriors finished dealing with the Mechs.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun destroyed the swamp and its Insect eggs, then discussed the Artificial Star owner's confidence and concealment as they left the underground facility. After disinfecting themselves at dawn, the group camped on the surface to continue their journey the next day.

• Qing Zhixun fired an Atomic Light Cannon into the swamp and used incendiary bombs to burn the Insect eggs to ash while Xi Xiu and the others verified the area was clear.
• Xi Xiu worried that some Insects might survive and reproduce again, so Qing Zhixun said they would report the threat to the Alliance for biomedical research.
• As the group left the underground area, Xi Xiu questioned why the Artificial Star's owner had left the facilities so accessible and discussed how the hidden system concealed the star.
• Qing Zhixun explained that the owner had accounted for nearly everything, while Xi Xiu suggested he had also trusted that any intruder would be unable to trace the operation back to him.
• After emerging at dawn, Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun disinfected themselves inside a protective barrier, then decided to camp until the next day.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun camped separately after their battle underground, and Xi Xiu dreamed that Qing Zhixun appeared in a scene she had long desired. The next morning, unsettled by the dream and her feelings around him, Xi Xiu set out with Qing Zhixun to find food and continue south in search of a signal.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun ate, set up separate tents, and rested after their exhausting underground battle.
• Xi Xiu dreamed of a splendid spring scene, and Qing Zhixun's face appeared in it.
• Qing Zhixun watched over Xi Xiu as she slept and resolved not to let her leave him again.
• Xi Xiu woke unsettled by the dream, especially after seeing Qing Zhixun, and decided to shield her mind from dreams in the future.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun found an animal for a meal and then continued south, planning to leave by mech if they could not find a signal.

Wu Jingxian and her allies arrived on the Artificial Star and reunited with Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun. As they headed toward the underground swamp to show Wu Jingyang what they had found, Xi Xiu explained how they had survived and why their Nutrient Paste Space Lockets had vanished.

• Wu Jingxian, Su Jinbao, Enweit, and Wu Jingyang teleported to the Artificial Star, where Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun confirmed they were allies and emerged from hiding.
• Wu Jingxian embraced Xi Xiu in relief, while Li Yuanting apologized to Qing Zhixun for arriving late.
• Wu Jingyang began investigating the site, and Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun offered to show him and Wu Jingxian what they had discovered underground.
• Xi Xiu learned that her and Qing Zhixun's Nutrient Paste Space Lockets were made from Shulai Stone, which had been drawn to the Artificial Star's Shulai Stone deposits.
• Wu Jingxian gave Xi Xiu Nutrient Paste, and Xi Xiu reassured Enweit that saving him had been the right choice.
• Su Jinbao asked Xi Xiu to play the video of their discoveries.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun showed the others footage of a hidden swamp where engineered Insects had bred and produced corruption aura aimed at Anvile. Wu Jingyang vowed to find whoever was behind the plot, and the group began examining the Underground City for signs of further threats.

• Xi Xiu projected footage of the underground swamp and its enormous, unknown Insects, while Qing Zhixun showed that their genes overlapped with every Star Beast type known to the Alliance.
• The group watched the Insects kill and devour one another, and Wu Jingyang suspected they had been cultivated to attack Anvile.
• A Xian confirmed that the aura in the Underground City was corruption aura, and Xi Xiu explained that she and Qing Zhixun had destroyed the two kings and burned the swamp clean of eggs.
• Wu Jingyang archived the Underground City's layout and vowed on behalf of the Anweier Royal Family and its nobility to find the person plotting against Anvile.
• Wu Jingyang worried that other Artificial Stars might exist and planned to search for them with Anvile's warriors.

After confirming the Artificial Star was free of insect eggs, Wu Jingyang’s group disabled its systems and returned to the garrison, where Xi Xiu was reunited with Flora. The group left the Artificial Star intact, and Qing Zhixun stayed close to Xi Xiu as they headed home.

• A Xian and Wu Jingyang confirmed that every insect egg had been destroyed, while the Anvile People collected useful items from the underground area.
• Wu Jingyang returned Xi Xiu’s Space Locket, disabled the Artificial Star’s systems, and planted code that could help trace the person who had been monitoring him.
• Wu Jingyang decided to leave the Artificial Star intact, and Qing Zhixun ordered the garrison group to return after scouts found no further problems.
• Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and the others boarded the Teleportation Device, while A Xian noticed Qing Zhixun’s closeness to Xi Xiu and resolved to question him.
• The Teleportation Device landed safely, and Flora rushed to hug Xi Xiu, relieved that she had returned unharmed.

After reuniting with her friends and returning from the Holy Land, Hong Xixiu and Qing Zhixun headed back to the garrison. Qing Zhixun told A Xian he planned to return to Anvile with Xi Xiu and admitted his feelings, but learned she wanted to find mutual love rather than form a partnership.

• Hong Xixiu reunited with Flora and the others, while Qing Zhixun watched Flora cling to Xi Xiu with irritation.
• The garrison ended the battle in the Holy Land, intercepted thirty percent of the Mech Soldiers' consciousnesses, and seized devices for specialists to study.
• Qing Zhixun told Wu Jingxi that he and Xi Xiu were safe, and said he planned to return to Anvile with Jing Xian once matters on Yuan Day were settled.
• A Xian told Qing Zhixun that Xi Xiu wanted mutual love rather than a partnership, and Qing Zhixun said he would try to persuade the Central Brain to approve her return.
• Qing Zhixun admitted he liked Xi Xiu's scent, and A Xian reminded him that every Anvile Person liked it.

Wu Jingxian agreed to help Qing Zhixun pursue Xi Xiu, then learned Xi Xiu suspected the plot against Anvile was part of a wider plan to overthrow the Jingsu Alliance. The chapter ended with Xi Xiu asking whether A Xian had any leads on the mastermind.

• Wu Jingxian agreed to ask her family about transferring Xi Xiu's match to Qing Zhixun, though she warned that Xi Xiu wanted to avoid him.
• Qing Zhixun told Wu Jingxian that Xi Xiu had supported him when his Mental Power nearly ran dry underground and praised her cooking.
• After returning from Artificial Star, Xi Xiu told Wu Jingxian she suspected the person plotting against Anvile might also target Miu Run Star.
• Wu Jingxian said she would inform her family and try to contact Hai Suomiao in the Barren Sea, where the threat could endanger Miu Run Star.
• Xi Xiu asked Wu Jingxian whether she had any leads on the person behind the plot.

Xi Xiu and A Xian warned Sister Suomiao about a threat in the Barren Sea, while the Alliance prepared an attack on Yuanyang after Xi Xiu returned to base. The chapter ended with Xi Xiu reassuring Yang Jiuqing and Hu Yingyi that she was safe after being rescued from the Holy Land.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian warned Sister Suomiao about a mineral found on Yuanyang, and Sister Suomiao and Yan Lanxi reinforced the Barren Sea defenses before planning to investigate its Homeworld origin.
• Lin Zaiqin and his team destroyed the Holy Land outside Central City, while Wu Jingyang arranged for magnetic-field and Spatial Distortion data to be collected.
• A mysterious man revealed that he had created Eternal Robots and blank carbon-based bodies, and said he intended to make the Jingsu Alliance immortal under his rule.
• The Alliance ordered Xi Xiu's base to attack Yuanyang and supplied a weapon that could stop Mechs from extracting consciousness without causing neural damage.
• Yang Jiuqing and Hu Yingyi visited Xi Xiu after her return, and she told them she was safe but had struggled to find food.

Xi Xiu and Team 909 prepared to join the Alliance’s assault on Yuanri, whose plan to mechanize the Jingsu Alliance threatened another devastating war. The chapter leaves Xi Xiu’s team waiting to descend as the Alliance fleet faces Yuanri’s warships, marking the start of a ten-year conflict.

• Xi Xiu listened to reports from Yang Jiuqing and Hu Yingyi, then decided to spread her Nutrient Paste and seasonings across multiple Space Lockets.
• Xu Jiusong led the soldiers stationed in Yuanri aboard Starships toward Yuanri’s main planet as the base prepared to suppress the Mechanical Star.
• The chapter recounted how Huovian’s century of preparation led to Yuanri’s devastating defeat a thousand years earlier and its subsequent mechanical transformation.
• The Alliance assigned Xi Xiu’s Team 909 to the ground combat vanguard under Qing Zhixun, tasked with disabling Yuanri’s stripping device and capturing Mechs.
• The Alliance fleet arrived beyond Yuanri’s main planet, where Yuanri’s warships awaited, and Xi Xiu told her team to keep their protective equipment on and coordinate in battle.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun led Alliance forces to Yuanri’s main planet, where they identified a suspicious imitation of Li Zhengfeng’s tactics and found the Central City eerily deserted. The chapter left the teams on high alert as they recognized that the changed environment resembled reports about the Eternal Robots.

• Xi Xiu reminded 909 to stay together, avoid reckless fights, and prioritize returning safely as the teams prepared to deploy.
• Xu Jiusong led the fleet toward Yuanri’s main planet, where the Alliance forces faced a much larger enemy formation than before.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian suspected the mastermind was someone close to Li Zhengfeng, while Qing Zhixun concluded Yuanri’s formation only imitated Li Zhengfeng’s tactics.
• Xu Jiusong ordered a fierce barrage that broke Yuanri’s protective barrier, allowing Qing Zhixun and the others to reach the surface without resistance.
• Qing Zhixun’s team entered a deserted Central City, and Xi Xiu raised a Level One Alert after sensing that the environment had changed dramatically.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu noted that Yuanri’s altered environment resembled reports about the Eternal Robots.

Wu Jingxian and the Alliance team discovered that Yuanri’s residents had been stripped of their consciousnesses and that those consciousnesses now inhabited crude Eternal Robot bodies in the plaza. Qing Zhixun arranged to contain the robots and move the brain-dead residents to medical care, while the robots began realizing they were no longer in their own bodies.

• Wu Jingxian found that consciousnesses transferred into Eternal Robots were incomplete and could behave differently from their originals.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian found a plaza full of crude robots whose bodies held human consciousnesses, and Qing Zhixun sent Xi Xiu’s group to investigate nearby homes.
• Xi Xiu’s team found Yuanri families lying brain-dead in their beds, with their bodily functions still active, and Wu Yuan said only leading neural researchers might be able to help them.
• After receiving reports that the same thing had happened elsewhere, Qing Zhixun consulted Xu Jiusong, who ordered the plaza robots contained and the residents moved to Yuanri Central City’s medical center.
• The robots noticed the Alliance soldiers and began examining their mechanical bodies, and one woman screamed when she discovered her former body was gone.

After the Eternal Robots transformed the people in the square into crude metal bodies, Qing Zhixun promised to seek an Alliance response and began organizing them for settlement. He left Qing Sansui to secretly mark those who seemed to covet its body.

• The transformed people realized they had lost their human bodies, memories, and families, and sorrowfully gathered around Qing Zhixun for help.
• Qing Zhixun said he had reported the situation to the Alliance and asked the Eternal Robots to wait for an emergency plan and follow the base’s arrangements.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Qing Sansui and the soldiers to assign numbers to the robots so the base could settle them.
• Qing Sansui told Qing Zhixun that some Eternal Robots were coveting its body, and Qing Zhixun instructed it to discreetly mark suspicious robots and record their unfriendly looks.

Qing Zhixun and Qing Sansui confronted the Eternal Robots on Yuanri while Xu Jiusong's fleet defeated the Yuanri vanguard in space. The Alliance ordered the brain-dead citizens frozen until experts could investigate whether their consciousnesses could be restored.

• Qing Sansui reported nearly two thousand hostile looks from the Eternal Robots, and Qing Zhixun told it to avoid infection and stop assuming he would not try to save it.
• Xu Jiusong's fleet destroyed every Yuanri warship within six hours and cleared the wreckage with an Atomic Light Bomb.
• Qing Zhixun showed Xu Jiusong the empty Yuanri Central City and the confused, memoryless Eternal Robots gathered in its square.
• Xu Jiusong sent the footage to Gaia and received the Elder Council's order to freeze the recoverable bodies of the brain-dead Yuanri citizens until a medical team arrived.
• The base doctors rushed to Yuanri, Xu Jiusong reinforced the space defense line, and Qing Zhixun decided to remain on the planet while the Eternal Robots' purpose was still unknown.