Recaps

Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu’s forces secured Yuan Ri, monitored the Eternal Robots, and stored the citizens’ bodies in cryogenic pods while the Alliance investigated the conspiracy behind the disaster. Xi Xiu and A Xian resolved to uncover those responsible as they waited for Alliance personnel to arrive.

• Qing Zhixun reconnected the Central Brain, placed Yuan Ri under surveillance, and sent Fang Jinyu information about the robots’ models and manufacturers.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Qing Sansui to monitor the Eternal Robots while Xi Xiu, A Xian, and the soldiers guarded the square and camped nearby.
• Xi Xiu suspected Li Zhengfeng and the Qin Family member might be connected to the disaster, while A Xian vowed to find the person who targeted her Anvile clan.
• Qing Zhixun and the soldiers built warehouses and placed Yuan Ri citizens’ bodies into cryogenic pods, while commanders handled the planet’s other regions.
• Xu Jiusong ordered the Eternal Robots sealed off and the warehouses protected until Alliance neural research experts arrived.
• Xi Xiu sent Wei Lanshan videos and investigation clues, then camped with the others outside the warehouses while awaiting a reply.

Xi Xiu and her companions guarded Yuanri while the Alliance’s medical team arrived to investigate how the Eternal Robots’ consciousnesses could be returned to their bodies. Fu Xuan found that the consciousnesses had been thoroughly stripped and partly lost, leaving the recovery effort uncertain.

• The Eternal Robots settled into homes across Yuanri, while Xi Xiu, A Xian, He Yinlei, and Flora worried about whether they could return to their bodies.
• Three days later, Fu Xuan and an Alliance medical team arrived, and Qing Zhixun verified their identities and let them land.
• Qing Zhixun led Fu Xuan and the researchers to examine more than fifty citizens’ bodies in the warehouse.
• The researchers found that the consciousnesses had been stripped away thoroughly and that parts had been lost during transmission, making full restoration uncertain.
• Fu Xuan told Qing Zhixun that the team could only do its best, and Qing Zhixun offered to help inspect the Eternal Robots’ programs for three days.

Qing Zhixun and the others uncovered how the Eternal Robots’ programs could combine with incomplete consciousnesses to let someone control them, and found Li Zhengfeng’s mark embedded in the code. They suspected the mastermind was deliberately implicating famous figures and provoking the Alliance, while preparing to use Eternal Robots, Bio-constructs, and a weapon that could restrain Anvile.

• The Jingsu Alliance replaced its second-generation robots with simpler, specialized machines and safeguards against program tampering.
• With Fu Xuan and the others’ help, Qing Zhixun identified fifty kinds of programs in the Eternal Robots and discovered that their incomplete consciousnesses made them vulnerable to hidden triggers.
• Qing Zhixun explained that terminals and machines across Yuanri had been seeded with code that stripped citizens of their consciousness, leaving the star system without intelligent life.
• Qing Zhixun found Li Zhengfeng’s personal mark at the end of the code and discussed with Lu Zong'an, Gerhe, and Xian Quanlong whether the mastermind was framing Li Zhengfeng or deliberately exposing himself.
• Qing Zhixun agreed with Gerhe that the mastermind seemed arrogant and was inviting the Alliance to pursue him, while Lu Zong'an considered that he might be showing off after centuries of planning.
• The group recognized that the mastermind possessed Eternal Robots and Bio-constructs, and might also have a weapon capable of restraining Anvile.

Qing Zhixun shared clues about Li Zhengfeng and a Qing Family archive with Xi Xiu, who suspected that Li Zhengfeng and others from his era might still exist on Jingsu. After the rain, Xi Xiu and A Xian visited an Eternal Robot whose consciousness was trapped in a program and asked it to record what it remembered of its former life.

• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu and A Xian that someone was imitating Li Zhengfeng’s methods and had sent Xi Xiu a Qing Family archive about Li Zhengfeng and a Qin Family genius.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun discussed the possibility that Li Zhengfeng and others from his era were still living somewhere on Jingsu.
• Qing Zhixun returned to his office as rain began, while A Xian stayed outside until she was drenched and then joined Xi Xiu in their quarters.
• After the rain stopped, Xi Xiu and A Xian went to check on the Eternal Robots and found the robot that had first spoken in the square sitting by a window.
• The robot said it had spent three days trying to discover who it was, and Xi Xiu asked it to draw or write down the details it remembered from its former life.

Xi Xiu and A Xian explored a robot girl's memories and learned that her consciousness had separated from her body before it was stripped away. They traced her former home through Yuanri's network and went there with Qing Zhixun to investigate.

• A Xian entered the robot girl's consciousness while Xi Xiu guided her through memories of her life as a programmer, and Xi Xiu copied the scenes she drew.
• Xi Xiu promised to help the robot find her home, then left the residential building with A Xian as the surrounding robots watched them.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu that the girl's consciousness had briefly separated from her body and recalled a frequent contact from outside the Yuanri Star System who had sent her packages, possibly containing drugs.
• A Xian decided to give the contact's ID to Wu Jingyang for investigation, while Qing Zhixun began searching Yuanri's network for the girl's home.
• Qing Zhixun found a residence matching the robot's drawing, and Xi Xiu and A Xian followed him there.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun uncovered evidence that Yuanri had secretly stopped giving most citizens Blockers and that five carefully prepared leaders might have helped conceal the scheme. As Xi Xiu left Yuanri, she mourned how much the planet resembled her lost hometown, while Qing Zhixun wondered whether she ever thought of him.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun searched the murdered girl's home and learned she had never received Blockers, while Yuanri had hidden the practice from the Alliance for about twenty-five years.
• Qing Zhixun obtained information on Yuanri's five successive leaders and found that their unusually spotless backgrounds suggested they had been cultivated to secure those posts.
• Xi Xiu agreed to share investigation files with Qing Zhixun and planned to have Nine Stars' veterans investigate the leaders.
• Xi Xiu asked Fu Xuan to tell the girl what had happened and begin extracting her consciousness, though how much could be restored remained uncertain.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian departed Yuanri aboard their Starship, and Xi Xiu said the planet reminded her of her hometown.
• A Xian comforted Xi Xiu, while Qing Zhixun watched her and wondered whether she ever thought of him.

Qing Zhixun reflected on Yuanri’s lost past while Xi Xiu remained focused on surviving and investigating the Nine Star past. On Miu Run Star’s Homeworld, Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi found evidence of an unknown visitor and saw the birthplace of their people ruined beneath a black sea.

• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that Yuanri had once been a planet people longed to return to, before its leader mechanized the population and it became Mechanical Star.
• Xi Xiu said returning would mean nothing unless someone could restore Mechanical Star, then left Qing Zhixun.
• After A Xian and Xi Xiu advised Hai Suomiao, Hai Suomiao changed the defenses and traveled with Yan Lanxi to the Homeworld.
• Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi sensed an unfamiliar presence on the Homeworld and found that someone had visited without their people knowing.
• Hai Suomiao sent machines into the black sea and watched footage of the ruined underwater structures, realizing how much the mermen had lost.

Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi discovered that someone had secretly mined most of the Sea of Run’s ore, destroying its ruins, and sent samples to Anvile for investigation. After arranging to guard the Homeworld and investigate further, they left holding hands and agreed to marry once the danger was resolved.

• Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi saw footage of the Sea of Run’s ruined buildings and learned that most of its ore had been secretly mined.
• Hai Suomiao questioned Shaliya and learned that attacks on all eight sides of the Barren Sea had left the Homeworld undefended.
• Hai Suomiao ordered machines to collect ore samples and send them to Anvile, while she and Yan Lanxi searched the Homeworld for clues and arranged constant monitoring.
• Yan Lanxi suggested holding their wedding after the mining threat was resolved, and Hai Suomiao allowed him to hold her hand.
• Yan Lanxi apologized for his past behavior, and Hai Suomiao told him they should move forward and defend the Barren Sea together.

Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi struggled to defend the Barren Sea against a well-equipped assault by Miu Run’s splinter groups, and Yan Lanxi discovered the attackers were using the Alliance’s newest weapons. As Alliance reinforcements headed to the Barren Sea, Hai Suomiao piloted into the enemy’s fire to reach their Starship and learn why they wanted Miu Run.

• Hai Suomiao rejected Yan Lanxi’s plan to attack from both sides and ordered Shaliya to ambush the enemy beyond the Barren Sea’s boundaries while wearing three layers of Protective Suits.
• Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi held the fourth line of defense as the battle dragged on, but the enemy surrounded the Barren Sea and inflicted heavy losses despite three waves of Miu Run reinforcements.
• Yan Lanxi recorded the attackers’ unfamiliar weapons and sent the data to Qing Zhixun, who recognized them as the Alliance’s newest armaments, designed to destroy Eternal Robots and Bio-constructs.
• Xu Jiusong ordered Ye Zhenwei to take thirty large Starships from Tianwei to support the Barren Sea, while Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi prepared to fight in their mechs.
• Hai Suomiao piloted her fighter through the artillery fire toward an enemy Starship, intending to board it and discover why the splinter groups wanted to reclaim Miu Run.

Ye Zhenwei led Tianwei’s reinforcements toward Miu Run and learned about the mermen’s dwindling numbers and the breakaway group attacking them. She reached the Barren Sea’s sixth defensive line as Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi continued fighting the enemy.

• Ye Zhenwei took Yuan Chuhong and Xue Zixian with her to support Miu Run, and they discussed the mermen’s manpower shortage and the enemy threat.
• Yuan Chuhong decided they would attack the area with the most enemy warships and capture their leader, while Ye Zhenwei agreed to test the breakaway mermen’s strength.
• Ye Zhenwei and the others reached the edge of the Barren Sea in a forced march.
• Hai Suomiao boarded an enemy Starship but failed to gather more information, while she and Yan Lanxi continued battling at the sixth defensive line.

Hai Suomiao and the Miu Run warriors repelled an enemy assault and raised a powerful Mental Power barrier, while the enemy Lord suspected his mysterious ally had manipulated him. He ordered another all-out attack on the Barren Sea as Ye Zhenwei arrived.

• Hai Suomiao broadcast herself destroying an enemy mech, prompting the hesitant Miu Run warriors to fight back and drive the attackers beyond the third defense layer.
• Hai Suomiao, Yan Lanxi, and their clansmen reinforced Miu Run's protective barrier, stopping the enemy's attacks for the moment.
• The enemy Lord discovered that his unseen ally was a machine and connected the attack to reports that the Jingsu Alliance was creating Eternal Robots.
• The Lord concluded that his ally might be using his forces as cannon fodder, but decided to keep attacking because his people needed access to clean waters.
• The Lord ordered every warship to prepare a full-caliber barrage against the barrier, and Ye Zhenwei arrived at the Barren Sea as the battle intensified.

Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi struggled to hold Miu Run’s Barren Sea defenses until Ye Zhenwei arrived with reinforcements. After the attack was contained, Hai Suomiao discovered her Mental Power had advanced, while Ye Zhenwei prepared to board the enemy ship and capture its leader.

• Hai Suomiao took over the Protective Shield when Yan Lanxi’s Mental Power reached its limit, then released her own power to help exhausted Miu Run warriors endure.
• Yan Lanxi joined his Mental Power with Hai Suomiao’s, giving her a chance to recover until reinforcements arrived and attacked the enemy ships.
• Hai Suomiao rested and found that her Mental Power had advanced after she emptied it while following the channel-clearing route Xi Xiu had shown her.
• Ye Zhenwei identified herself to Hai Suomiao as a Tianwei garrison colonel and promised to drive the attackers away from the Barren Sea.
• Ye Zhenwei ordered Yue Qila, Yi Mingda, five others, and soldiers numbered 209 through 509 to board an enemy warship with her and capture its leader.

Ye Zhenwei led a squad onto the fishmen’s command Starship and confronted their leader, while Yuan Chuhong received orders to leave Tianwei and carry out a final mission. Ye Zhenwei prepared to fight the commander, unaware that Yuan Chuhong had completed his mission and planned not to return.

• Ye Zhenwei led a small assault squad to the enemy Starship, whose fishmen could not detect them.
• Ye Zhenwei’s team crippled the Starship’s control system, forced entry, and fought their way toward the command room.
• The fishmen’s lord dismissed Ye Zhenwei’s squad, while Pang Erbei failed to find her protected file.
• Yuan Chuhong received a coded order to leave Tianwei, and he decided that his mission was complete and he would not return.
• Ye Zhenwei reached the command room, signaled Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing to handle the guard, and prepared to attack the fishmen’s lord.

Ye Zhenwei led Tianwei warriors into a confrontation with a merfolk leader and fought him with Mental Power while her companions battled Pang Erbei. She exploited the leader’s vulnerable respiratory organs near his ears, leaving him injured and secretly ordering Pang Erbei to prepare their escape.

• Ye Zhenwei identified herself as a Jingsu Alliance colonel and demanded that the merfolk leader reveal where his weapons came from.
• The merfolk leader attacked the Tianwei warriors with his Mental Power while Pang Erbei fought Ye Zhenwei’s companions.
• Ye Zhenwei maneuvered around the leader’s Mental Power, and Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing helped protect the others as the fight continued.
• After recalling some of his Mental Power, the leader concentrated his attack on Ye Zhenwei, giving her a brief opening to strike the respiratory organs behind his ears.
• The leader halted his attack and claimed he was fine, then silently told Pang Erbei to activate the Teleportation Device and abandon the Starship.

Ye Zhenwei defeated the remaining fishmen’s allies after their leader escaped, while Yi Mingda and the others uncovered evidence of a machine arranging an attack on Yuari. The group returned to the Barren Sea, where Hai Suomiao asked Yi Mingda where Ye Zhenwei was.

• Ye Zhenwei emptied the enemy leader’s Mental Power, forcing him and Pang Erbei to escape through a temporary Teleportation Channel.
• Ye Zhenwei sent Nan Hejia and the others to copy the Starship’s data while she and Yue Qila checked the fishmen’s weapons storage.
• Nan Hejia and Liang Jingxian found communications footage suggesting a machine was behind the transactions and had a battle plan for Yuari.
• Yi Mingda decided to send the intelligence through Tianwei’s command structure and have everyone keep a copy in case Yuari was not warned.
• Yi Mingda led the others back to the Barren Sea, where Hai Suomiao asked where Ye Zhenwei was.

Hai Suomiao and Xu Jiusong investigated Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance after her Starship vanished with six others, leaving no trace in space. Xue Zixian then revealed that Yuan Chuhong had secretly left hours before Ye, raising suspicion that his departure was connected.

• Hai Suomiao discovered that Ye Zhenwei’s Starship and its hundred thousand soldiers could not be contacted, and searches found no trace of them.
• Shaliya reported seeing Ye Zhenwei’s Starship surrounded by six Starships before all seven vanished, and sent Hai Suomiao a recording.
• Hai Suomiao forwarded the video and collected spatial data to Xu Jiusong, who planned to send the evidence to Gaia’s researchers and travel to the site.
• Xue Zixian failed to contact Yuan Chuhong and told Xu Jiusong that Yuan had secretly departed about four hours before Ye Zhenwei, leaving his Starship behind.

Xue Zixian and Xu Jiusong investigated Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance and grew suspicious of Yuan Chuhong, who had left at critical moments. The search around the Barren Sea found no trace of the missing Starships, and the Alliance’s researchers arrived to investigate possible large-scale transmission technology.

• Xue Zixian recalled that Yuan Chuhong had left Tianwei shortly before the first battle of Yuan Day, and he told Xu Jiusong that the timing made Yuan Chuhong suspicious.
• Xue Zixian asked Guo Qiyan why Yuan Chuhong had recruited them to teach Ye Zhenwei, then told him that Ye Zhenwei and a hundred thousand warriors had vanished while Yuan Chuhong was missing.
• Xue Zixian asked friends on Gaia to investigate Yuan Chuhong and began analyzing the travel routes of his Starship.
• Hai Suomiao and her companions searched within ten light-years of the Barren Sea but found no trace of Ye Zhenwei or the missing Starships.
• Xu Jiusong tested the area and considered whether an undisclosed large-scale transmission device had abducted the Starships; Hai Suomiao’s vessels joined his formation.
• Chen Huan and Jiang Tianyue arrived with the Alliance research team, and Chen Huan asked Xu Jiusong about the situation.

The Alliance discovered that Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance involved a recently built Transmission Channel using leaked Alliance technology, and suspected internal betrayal. As Ye Zhenwei’s family gathered at Tianwei, Tang Yongyu revealed that someone had sent her a message saying he wanted to borrow Zhenwei.

• Xu Jiusong, Chen Huan, and Jiang Tianyue concluded that someone inside the Alliance had leaked technology and arranged Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance.
• Alliance specialists found that the seven ships had used a newly built Transmission Channel based on technology still under development in Alliance laboratories.
• Chen Huan and Jiang Tianyue met Xue Zixian and learned of suspicions surrounding Yuan Chuhong, then decided to warn Alliance stations about both him and Ye Zhenwei.
• Xu Jiusong told Ye Yunhan and the Tang Family that Ye Zhenwei’s tracker was disabled and promised the Alliance would find her.
• Ye Yunhan sent the Ye Family’s forces to search for his daughter while Tang Yonghuang confronted Tang Yongyu in a sealed room.
• Tang Yongyu showed Tang Yonghuang a message from someone who said he wanted to borrow Ye Zhenwei.

Tang Yongyu and Tang Yonghuang tried to conceal their connection to Ye Zhenwei’s illness while searching for the missing girl. Chen Huan’s investigation revealed that Yuan Chuhong had approached Ye Zhenwei for experiments, and the chapter left Tang Yongyu desperate enough to contact the unknown man who had messaged her.

• Tang Yongyu feared that the message she received was connected to Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance, but Tang Yonghuang told her to stay calm and ordered Tang Zhankuan to trace it.
• Ye Yunhan set out to search the Barren Sea while the Tang Family searched near Jinghui Star, and Tang Yonghuang told Tang Yongyu to remain in Tianwei.
• Tang Zhankuan failed to trace the message and destroyed it at Tang Yonghuang’s order.
• Chen Huan and the Gaia investigators uncovered Yuan Chuhong’s ties to the Qin Family and learned that he had once used the name Qin Huai.
• Chen Huan’s investigation suggested Yuan Chuhong wanted to experiment on Ye Zhenwei to learn how to obtain exceptional Mental Power talent, so the Elder Council ordered an urgent search.
• After hearing the warning, Tang Yongyu became more anxious and decided to contact the man who had sent her the message.

Xu Jiusong traced Tang Yongyu’s message to Ye Zhenwei’s location, prompting the Alliance to send a rescue fleet to the Barren Sea. Meanwhile, Wei Lanshan contacted Xi Xiu with intelligence about a hidden base in a dark starfield, where she discovered researchers cultivating unstable fetuses and seeking to study Number One.

• Xu Jiusong tracked Tang Yongyu’s suspicious message, identified Ye Zhenwei’s location, and the Alliance dispatched more than a hundred Starships to rescue her.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian learned the Barren Sea had been attacked, while soldiers across the Alliance watched its defense against the runaway fishmen.
• Wei Lanshan video-called Xi Xiu, sent her data, and said Long Xingxue and Ming Weiman would join Feng Qiqi and the others on Yuanri to investigate.
• Wei Lanshan observed Xi He’s hidden base in a dark starfield and found several missing Alliance biomedical experts living there.
• Wei Lanshan saw hundreds of unborn fetuses in a sterile cultivation chamber, where researchers said the babies were unstable and they needed to study Number One.

Wei Lanshan uncovered evidence that the Ye Family’s virus research had harmed children and sent her intelligence to the Alliance. Meanwhile, Xi Xiu investigated Li Zhengfeng’s final movements and found that he had met an unidentified entity before his death.

• Wei Lanshan watched footage of children suffering violent episodes at Star Glory Base and concluded that her and Ye Zhenwei’s virus infections had not been accidents.
• Wei Lanshan reported the evidence, traveled toward Jinghui Star, and sent her intelligence to Xi Xiu while planning to investigate the Tang and Ye Families and the relevant birth records.
• Wei Lanshan escaped without Xi He noticing, destroyed her access code, and sent the Star Glory Base coordinates to the Alliance for its guards to handle.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the possibility that Li Zhengfeng survived in another form and reviewed his movements before his death.
• Xu Fengxiang recovered Li Zhengfeng’s robot assistant and restored its data, revealing footage of the unidentified entity Li Zhengfeng had met.

Xi Xiu and A Xian investigated a suspected clone connected to Li Zhengfeng and a Qin Family member, while Long Xingxue arrived at Yuanri to join the search. New records traced the mysterious person through places tied to Li Zhengfeng’s past, and Feng Qiqi reported that the group had finished comparing their findings.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the suspected clone’s possible connection to Li Zhengfeng, the Qin Family, and the leaked Anvile secrets.
• Xi Xiu asked Long Da to contact Wu Jingya and planned to leave the investigation to Long Xingxue and Ming Weiman when they arrived.
• Long Xingxue arrived at Yuanri, shared Xi Xiu’s intelligence with Feng Qiqi, Bai Jungo, and Nine Stars, and brought a report confirming that the body in Li Zhengfeng’s tomb was his.
• Wu Jingyang traced the mysterious person’s movements to star systems and people connected to Li Zhengfeng’s past, then simulated the scenes for Xi Xiu and A Xian.
• Xi Xiu sent Long Xingxue the new records and simulations, and Feng Qiqi said her group had finished comparing and analyzing their information.

Xi Xiu and A Xian reviewed Nine Stars’ evidence linking the plot against Li Zhengfeng to the Qin Family, and discussed how they might locate Li Zhengfeng’s surviving consciousness. With their vacation approaching, Xi Xiu arranged a group outing for the team, whose members eagerly began planning what to bring.

• Long Xingxue and Xi Xiu reviewed Nine Stars’ gathered materials, which partly cleared Nine Stars and suggested Li Zhengfeng was still alive in another form.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu reasoned that Li Zhengfeng was likely being controlled and discussed asking Wu Jingyang whether they could locate the suspected Eternal Robot on Anvile.
• A Xian reminded Xi Xiu that they had been at the base for more than half a year, and Xi Xiu agreed to request leave for the team.
• A Xian called Su Jinbao and the others to tell them about the planned vacation, and they eagerly discussed snacks, ingredients, and supplies.
• Qing Zhixun approved Xi Xiu’s team’s vacation application, allowing them to travel within the Yuannri base’s boundaries.

Xi Xiu took 909 on vacation, where Qing Zhixun and A Xian plotted to bring Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun closer. Qing Zhixun told his mother he wanted to marry Xi Xiu, then joined Xi Xiu in the forest and discussed an upcoming mission.

• Qing Zhixun accepted A Xian's invitation to join the holiday feast and ordered unusual fruits to bring as a gift for Xi Xiu.
• The 909 team arrived at the beach with far more food and supplies than Xi Xiu had requested, while Xi Xiu and the others inspected the surroundings.
• A Xian urged Qing Zhixun to win Xi Xiu over, and Qing Zhixun said Wu Jingyang had asked the Central Brain to match them.
• Wu Jingxi video-called Qing Zhixun, learned he wanted to marry Xi Xiu, and agreed to keep it secret while advising him to be considerate and prepare gifts.
• Qing Zhixun joined Xi Xiu in the forest after He Yinlei and Flora hurried away, then told her Yuanri would clear the surrounding regions, including the Black Star Domain, after the holiday.

Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that her team would train for a mission to destroy an enemy base on Yuanri, and promised her team’s rewards. The soldiers then prepared a huge barbecue feast, where Qing Zhixun stayed close to Xi Xiu and asked her to teach him how to grill.

• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that her team would follow him to destroy an enemy base after the holiday and urged her to prepare 909 for training.
• Qing Zhixun said 909’s rewards would be approved, and Xi Xiu thanked him for recognizing the team’s work.
• A Xian hurried Xi Xiu to the barbecue, where Qiu Shaorong handed her a Space Locket filled with five enormous animals’ worth of meat.
• Xi Xiu and the others divided the meat and prepared seasonings and barbecue racks for the feast.
• Qing Zhixun took the seasonings from Xi Xiu and asked her to teach him how to grill, while the other soldiers kept their distance.
• The group began grilling and eating, and many soldiers switched from skewers to large chunks of meat.