Recaps

Qing Zhixun gave Xi Xiu a Space Locket filled with local specialties and fruit, while their reunion stirred memories and sorrow neither could explain to the others. As the team relaxed by the sea and talked about home, Qing Zhixun resolved to bring Xi Xiu back into his life.

• Qing Zhixun offered Xi Xiu his Space Locket, and she accepted it after he insisted the gifts were meant for her and A Xian.
• Xi Xiu noticed Qing Zhixun's fingertip whorls and remembered someone from her past, while Qing Zhixun watched her with hidden grief.
• A Xian sensed sorrow between Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun and decided she needed to ask him about it.
• Flora and He Yinlei noticed Qing Zhixun seemed more approachable beside Xi Xiu and joked about choosing challenging partners in the future.
• Qing Zhixun recalled the woman he had lost, his years of regret, and his fear that Xi Xiu no longer wanted him close, but resolved to draw her back into his life.
• Xi Xiu watched the familiar-looking sea as the team relaxed, sang, and shared stories about their hometowns.

Xi Xiu and the Nine Stars coordinated an investigation to clear the Nine Stars of suspicion and trace the evidence pointing to Li Zhengfeng’s survival. They divided up their assignments and left the meeting committed to finding him and exposing the forces targeting them.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian joined Long Xingxue, Xu Fengxiang, and the Nine Stars in the Virtual Network to refine their investigation assignments.
• Xu Fengxiang tasked Long Xingxue with gathering intelligence from mercenary groups and A Man with tracing robot production, while Xi Xiu and A Xian used their channels to obtain information from Anvile.
• Xi Xiu questioned why the Xing, Yun, and Misiah Families were working so hard to implicate the Nine Stars, and proposed investigating their connections and motives.
• Xi Xiu presented her analysis of data from the opposing command ship, which showed that the consciousness simulation experiments involving Li Zhengfeng did not match his usual methods and undermined suspicions against the Xing and Yun Families.
• Xi Xiu said the scattered clues indicated Li Zhengfeng was still alive and urged the Nine Stars to find him while investigating leading biomedical scientists connected to the suspected clone.

Xi Xiu and Nine Stars investigated Yuan Chuhong’s suspicious background while spreading their members across the Alliance to gather intelligence. As Xi Xiu and A Xian trained at Yuari, they learned that someone had trapped tens of thousands of Anvile consciousnesses in a fabricated container, leaving the Alliance facing a growing threat.

• Xi Xiu and Xu Fengxiang reviewed Yuan Chuhong’s file and suspected that his polished persona concealed his true background, while Xu Fengxiang recalled sparring with Yuan Chuhong’s disciple, Ye Zhenwei.
• Long Xingxue set out from Yuari to visit mercenary groups across the Alliance’s twenty star systems, and Nine Stars members dispersed to investigate and share intelligence.
• Bai Yinglong and Feng Yueci quietly left Shangyue Star to investigate why several Grandmasters had turned against Nine Stars, while others stayed behind to guard the mountain.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian trained with the Yuari team, and Xi Xiu sparred with twenty-four members, giving each one feedback on their weaknesses.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu that Wu Jingmu and the others had found that a woman had intercepted tens of thousands of Anvile consciousnesses and confined them in a container resembling Origin Land.

Xi Xiu planned to identify Li Zhengfeng by recreating the desert scene from his handwritten notes in the Virtual Network and observing which consciousness reacted to it. As she built the model, A Xian reflected on the cruelty of Xi Xiu’s former world, and Xi Xiu confirmed that her death had been inevitable.

• Xi Xiu proposed testing whether consciousnesses could be identified by their reactions to a recreated world, and planned to build a Virtual Network map based on Li Zhengfeng’s notes.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the war in the Barren Sea, the missing Ye Zhenwei, and the danger posed by the fish people.
• Xi Xiu began constructing a detailed model of Li Zhengfeng’s world, including a desert battlefield where soldiers had fallen beneath a crimson sky.
• A Xian recognized similarities between the ancient warriors in Xi Xiu’s model and Anvile’s own distant past, and wondered whether traces of Xi Xiu’s world still existed elsewhere in the universe.
• A Xian asked whether Xi Xiu’s death had been an accident, and Xi Xiu told her it had been inevitable.

Xi Xiu completed a recreated battle scene and trained with her team, while A Xian asked to hear about Xi Xiu’s world. The chapter left Aura strengthening its military and Mental Power training under Enweit’s family’s leadership, with Enweit and his teammates learning from Xi Xiu.

• A Xian asked Xi Xiu about the world she came from, and Xi Xiu promised to tell her after finishing the recreated scene.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian walked to the underground training room, where Xi Xiu quickly completed her one-on-one sessions.
• Su Jinbao and Enweit asked Xi Xiu to spar with them, and Xi Xiu accepted.
• Enweit told A Xian that Aura had strengthened its defenses, imposed daily training reports, and expanded Mental Power training.
• Xi Xiu defeated Su Jinbao after a hundred rounds, then advised him to use Mental Power to judge direction and anticipate an opponent’s movements.

Xi Xiu trained Enweit and learned that Aura was preparing for war, then warned him to keep Aura’s preparations secret and protect its energy reserves in case the enemy attacked. Qing Zhixun watched Xi Xiu laughing with her companions and grew jealous, while Qing Sansui went to seek information from Sixi.

• Xi Xiu sparred with Enweit, tested his defense, and taught him to improve his speed through fine Mental Power control.
• Enweit told Xi Xiu that Aura was preparing for war, and she advised him to conceal the changes and guard Aura’s energy reserves against a possible attack.
• Enweit relayed Xi Xiu’s warning to his family, while Xi Xiu’s companions praised her and Qing Zhixun watched them through the base surveillance and grew jealous.
• Qing Sansui left Qing Zhixun and entered Xi Xiu’s dormitory, where it approached Sixi and draped an arm over her shoulder.

Sixi switched into a cold personality, threw Qing Sansui, and made him sweep the dormitory, where he accidentally revealed that Qing Zhixun wanted to inspect Xi Xiu as a future partner. Sixi concealed Qing Sansui’s visit from Xi Xiu, while Qing Zhixun decided to approach the matter himself and Xi Xiu prepared for a new base assignment.

• Sixi used her modified combat abilities to dodge Qing Sansui and made him sweep the living room.
• Qing Sansui revealed that Qing Zhixun had sent him to look at Xi Xiu as a potential partner, and Sixi resolved to meet Qing Zhixun.
• Qing Sansui returned to Qing Zhixun, who told him to treat everyone with respect and decided to make his own move.
• Sixi removed all traces of Qing Sansui’s visit before Xi Xiu and A Xian returned, and Xi Xiu continued quietly recording Sixi’s personality changes.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian that the base assignment might arrive the next day, and A Xian said Wu Jingya was handling the earlier matter.

Xi Xiu prepared her team for a mission to destroy more than a hundred of Yuanri’s bases while discussing the unknown mastermind with A Xian. She suspected Sixi was being controlled by an intelligence far more advanced than her own, and Sixi admitted that she sometimes went offline unexpectedly.

• Xi Xiu received news of her promotion and thanked Qing Zhixun, who asked only for some of her homemade seasonings.
• Xi Xiu prepared supplies for the mission, advised her team to split their Nutrient Paste among multiple Space Lockets, and left instructions for Feng Qiqi.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian reviewed Qing Zhixun’s mission to destroy Yuanri’s other bases and discussed the mastermind’s possible motives and knowledge.
• Sixi secretly considered whether to give Xi Xiu a hint, while Xi Xiu noticed her unusual behavior and deliberately claimed the mastermind had knowledge comparable to the central brain.
• Xi Xiu asked Sixi about her recent behavior, and Sixi said she sometimes was not online when she was supposed to be.

Xi Xiu and A Xian suspected that Jingsu’s Central Brain was secretly controlling Sixi, and decided to bring Sixi on their mission to monitor her. Xi Xiu then led her team into enemy territory to coordinate with Qing Zhixun, leaving the Starship with A Xian and the others.

• Xi Xiu reassured Sixi after she briefly displayed an unusual personality, then told A Xian that Sixi’s program had been slipping out of control for years.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian suspected Jingsu’s Central Brain was behind the changes and agreed to question it if they caught it controlling Sixi.
• A Xian proposed bringing Sixi on the mission, and Xi Xiu agreed so they could keep watch over her.
• Xi Xiu divided the team between herself and Qiu Shaorong, then checked their equipment and warned them to follow the mission plan and return safely.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian led their group from Qing Zhixun’s Starship toward the launch zones for a dangerous operation deep in enemy territory.

Xi Xiu discovered that an abandoned robot facility on Yuanri contained an Underground City copied from a mausoleum in her former world. She suspected another person from her world had arrived on Jingsu centuries before her, and A Xian agreed to investigate.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun's team found the robot facility deserted, with piles of discarded robot parts and little useful information left behind.
• The soldiers cleared away the scrap and uncovered an Underground City whose layout and robot placements matched a mausoleum Xi Xiu remembered from her former life.
• Qing Zhixun found that the matching formation was classified in the Central Brain's database, so he planned to ask his grandfather to access it.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian that someone else from her world might have reached Jingsu centuries earlier, around Li Zhengfeng's era.
• Xi Xiu showed A Xian drawings of the mausoleum from her memories, and A Xian decided to have Wu Jingmu investigate Anvile records for clues.

Xi Xiu connected clues about an unknown person’s familiarity with Jingsu to the region’s history before humans arrived, while Qing Zhixun changed the mission’s destination to Fox Tail Star. As the group traveled, Xi Xiu pieced together that their enemy might be building an invincible force to overthrow Jingsu, though his ultimate plans remained unknown.

• Qing Zhixun suspended the mission while waiting for information from the Qing Family, and A Xian used Wu Jingyang to compare images stored in Jingsu’s Central Brain.
• Xi Xiu learned that the images had only recently been opened by Qing Wenxu and Wu Jingmu, and wondered whether the unknown person knew Jingsu’s history from before humans arrived.
• Xi Xiu identified emerald gemstones from Xixia in images of the Robot Soldiers and asked A Xian to have Feng Qiqi and the others investigate them.
• After receiving an image from Qing Wenxu, Qing Zhixun recognized a scenic spot and decided to head to Fox Tail Star instead of following the expected course.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian reviewed the Fire Fox-shaped robot’s records, then Xi Xiu organized the intelligence and concluded that the unknown person might aim to build an invincible combat force and overthrow Jingsu.

Xi Xiu investigated the repeated appearance of the name Qin Jian and suspected the mystery behind him might reach back to humanity’s arrival in the Jingsu Alliance. She arrived at Fox Tail with Qing Zhixun’s team, who headed for the island where the Qin Family lived.

• Xi Xiu compared her records and found Qin Jian’s name recurring about once every hundred years, suggesting one person might have used the name repeatedly.
• A Xian found the same name in Wu Jingya’s information about a human who had approached Anvile before Li Zhengfeng, prompting Xi Xiu to consider investigating humanity’s history in Jingsu.
• Xi Xiu reviewed the Alliance’s strict laws against cloning and suspected the person behind the mystery was a medical expert who might have lived for a long time.
• After ten hours of flight, Qing Zhixun’s Starship reached Fox Tail, where the garrison let the team dock at the second spaceport.
• Qing Zhixun led the team to the Qin Family’s island, and Xi Xiu admired the islands and bridges rising from the sea.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun searched the Qin family’s residence and discovered an immense underwater city, along with records and technology connected to the person behind the mystery. Their analysis showed that the person had prepared for discovery by the Alliance and Anvile for at least a thousand years, and a Teleportation Device suggested the Qin family had been transferred elsewhere.

• Qing Zhixun led Xi Xiu and the others to the deserted residence of the Qin family’s head, where A Xian recalled a legend linking Fox Tail’s sea to immortality.
• Machines revealed a vast, beautifully constructed city beneath the sea, and Xi Xiu recognized its layout as resembling places from her memories.
• Xi Xiu found handwritten notes, while A Xian and the soldiers collected electronic equipment and chips from the underwater city.
• Qing Zhixun and Lu Zong'an discovered that many programs locked or destroyed themselves when encountering Jingsu Soldiers or Anvile People.
• Qing Zhixun concluded that the technology had been prepared for at least a thousand years, and the team found a Teleportation Device that had likely carried the Qin family to other coordinates.

Qing Zhixun and the warriors discovered that the underwater cities were miniature replicas, and they set out to investigate the Alliance’s unexplored Black Zones. Xi Xiu noticed Sixi’s profound grief and began to suspect that the Central Brain’s hidden records could reveal the origins of humanity and her Homeworld.

• Qing Zhixun and the others found miniature replicas of the city beneath nearly every island and left the sites for Fang Jinyu to handle.
• Lu Zong'an recovered coordinates leading beyond the Central Brain’s coverage, and Qing Zhixun planned an expedition through the marked Black Zones.
• Qing Zhixun led the warriors toward the Fox Tail People's territory while Ebony, A Xian’s Night Soul Grass, and Sixi accompanied them.
• Xi Xiu noticed Sixi’s grief after it recognized the underwater city diagrams from its top-secret database, and she sensed that it had suffered a profound loss.
• Xi Xiu recalled that super-class authorization could unlock the Central Brain’s highest-level records and decided to work toward it to investigate humanity’s origins and her Homeworld.

Qing Zhixun’s team entered the Black Zone and discovered a hidden city where machines were modifying reclaimed Alliance robots into bodies for Eternal warriors. They infiltrated a laboratory and captured its human staff, preparing to destroy the facility after searching for information.

• Qing Zhixun led the base’s starship into the Black Zone after Xi Xiu explained its hazards and precautions.
• Robot probes found an artificial city built on linked meteorites, with people and machines working inside.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Yuan Ting and Lin Changchang to remain with the starship while he led a team to investigate the buildings.
• The team discovered machines modifying Alliance robots that had supposedly been destroyed, and Qing Zhixun planned to search the laboratory before blowing up the site.
• Qing Zhixun and Lu Zong'an broke into a laboratory, where Ebony restrained the human workers and Xi Xiu ordered it to destroy their separation devices.

Qing Zhixun, Xi Xiu, and A Xian uncovered laboratories filled with hundreds of babies and joined forces with Soren’s Fox Tail Garrison to seize the site. They agreed to search the other coordinates together and arrange care for the babies, while Xi Xiu and A Xian reunited with Soren’s team.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian discovered 420 babies in nutrient chambers beneath the laboratory, while Qing Zhixun arranged for the robots’ chips and laboratory records to be secured as evidence.
• Qing Zhixun contacted Li Yuanting, who sent twenty fighter craft carrying his insignia and a video to Fox Tail Garrison for help.
• Soren led Fox Tail Garrison to the Black Zone, where he and Qing Zhixun’s forces subdued the attackers and took control of the laboratories on the surrounding meteorites.
• Qing Zhixun and Soren agreed to search the remaining coordinates together and send the babies to Fox Tail’s sanatorium.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian happily reunited with Soren, Xing Yuanmin, Lu Qingfeng, and Li Yanhui, recalling their earlier joint mission.

Xing Yuanmin told Xi Xiu and A Xian that Ye Zhenwei had been rescued from a strange, still sea of stars, where Alliance soldiers had fallen into an inexplicable sleep. A Xian recognized similarities to the Barren Sea where Jing Xi had been found and left with Xi Xiu to discuss the discovery with Qing Zhixun.

• Xing Yuanmin and Xi Xiu caught up about their service at Fox Tail, and Xing Yuanmin praised Xi Xiu and A Xian’s abilities.
• Xing Yuanmin told Xi Xiu and A Xian that Ye Zhenwei had been found in a Barren Sea a few hours before the mission began.
• Xing Yuanmin explained that Ye Zhenwei’s Starship had been found empty of anyone nearby, while everyone aboard was asleep and could not be awakened.
• Xing Yuanmin shared footage of the sea of stars, and A Xian noticed that it resembled the place where Jing Xi had been found.
• A Xian realized that the footage showed an unusual stillness and lack of time indicators, then thanked Xing Yuanmin for the information.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu left to find Qing Zhixun.

Jing Xi told A Xian, Xi Xiu, and Qing Zhixun that her consciousness had once been secretly controlled, prompting them to investigate whether the same threat could endanger the Alliance. While studying records from Jing Xi’s past journey, Xi Xiu and A Xian noticed a resemblance between a warrior’s lost memories and the memories of a robot from Yuanri.

• A Xian showed Jing Xi a video of Ye Zhenwei’s situation, and Jing Xi recognized the barren void where she had once drifted before being found by Anvile.
• Jing Xi explained that a warrior had betrayed her location after his consciousness was controlled, and warned A Xian and the others to be cautious of people around them.
• Qing Zhixun asked Jing Xi to send her old route, Starship records, and information about the warriors who had accompanied her.
• Qing Zhixun, Xi Xiu, and A Xian studied Jing Xi’s records, and Xi Xiu and A Xian found that a warrior’s lost memories resembled those forgotten by a robot from Yuanri.

Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and A Xian pieced together evidence connecting the Artificial Star, the Bio-construct research, and the consciousness-altering code to one hidden person. They identified a robot that may be the mastermind and prepared to investigate the next lead, where Wei Lanshan had just arrived.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun concluded that one person had created the consciousness code and the related projects, while Qing Zhixun suggested the person might have acted out of loneliness or a desire for amusement.
• Qing Zhixun showed Xi Xiu and A Xian footage of a robot visiting the Artificial Star and nearly destroying it after finding its underground swamp razed.
• Xi Xiu connected the robot to the clone who had visited Li Zhengfeng and to the weapons supplied to Miu Run's enemies; A Xian accepted that their expressions matched.
• Xi Xiu shared the Nine Stars clone footage with Qing Zhixun, who promised to search Qing Family records.
• The three concluded that the hidden person had wanted Li Zhengfeng's help, later approached him under another identity, and had a greater purpose for the experimental babies found in the Black Zone.
• Wei Lanshan arrived at the next set of coordinates Xi Xiu and the others were preparing to investigate.

Wei Lanshan joined Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu after tracing Tang Yongyu’s movements to the hidden laboratories, and revealed that Ye Zhenwei’s 3S Mental Power had been artificially created through experiments with a virus. She had not yet discovered the virus’s source, while Xi Xiu privately connected the revelation to her own painful birth and condition.

• Xi Xiu recognized Wei Lanshan’s Starship, and Wei Lanshan boarded Qing Zhixun’s Starship to share what she had uncovered.
• Wei Lanshan explained that she had traced Tang Yongyu’s visits to the region during her pregnancy and found evidence that Ye Zhenwei had been born on Jinghui Star.
• Wei Lanshan revealed that Ye Zhenwei was born within a normal marriage but underwent embryo experiments that artificially created her Mental Power talent using a virus.
• Qing Zhixun questioned the virus’s origin, and Wei Lanshan said she had followed the trail to the laboratories in hopes of finding its source.
• Xi Xiu privately wondered whether the virus in her own body had come from her mother, while Wei Lanshan explained that Ye Zhenwei’s first viral infection at age four nearly killed her.

Wei Lanshan, Qing Zhixun, and the others examined evidence linking Ye Zhenwei and Tang Yongyu to human experiments, while considering whether the people behind them would target Xi Xiu. They decided to inspect the laboratory test subjects, and Wei Lanshan arranged extra protection for Xi Xiu.

• Qing Zhixun asked Wei Lanshan whether the laboratory babies could be saved, and she warned that some would die during trials or from the virus.
• Qing Zhixun showed Wei Lanshan information traced from Tang Yongyu's terminal, which supported that Ye Zhenwei had been experimented on and might have been sought for her antibodies.
• Wei Lanshan reviewed Ye Zhenwei's medical records and found that Lin Zeyu, Wang Xingmeng, Jin Yuxi, Fei Qiming, and Song Wei had treated her, but their method was not recorded and they had disappeared.
• A Xian worried that Tang Yongyu might expose Xi Xiu to protect her daughter, so Wei Lanshan assigned Qi Mang to accompany Xi Xiu and work with Wu Yuan to protect her.
• Wei Lanshan agreed to enter the laboratory and examine the test subjects, while Xi Xiu hoped the person behind the experiments would come after her.

Xi Xiu proposed using herself as bait to draw out the person behind the conspiracy, and Wei Lanshan agreed to plan the operation while keeping Xi Xiu out of immediate danger. Wei Lanshan also warned that Ye Zhenwei’s body and Mental Power were deteriorating rapidly, leaving her at most two years to live if her condition continued.

• Xi Xiu proposed posing as the child the enemy was seeking so the Alliance could lure him into a trap.
• Wei Lanshan said she would alter Xi Xiu’s records and use Ye Zhenwei’s latest diagnosis and her trip to Tianwei to draw Tang Yongyu into the plan.
• Xi Xiu said she and A Xian would return to Anvile when its crisis came, and A Xian pledged Anvile’s support.
• Wei Lanshan examined Ye Zhenwei’s report and concluded her expanding physical strength and Mental Power could cause her body to fail within two years.
• Wei Lanshan suspected Yuan Chuhong had pushed Ye Zhenwei beyond her limits on behalf of the person behind the conspiracy.

Wei Lanshan and her team rescued a group of young girls whose bodies contained dangerously powerful energy and an evolved M Virus. After stabilizing them for the journey to the Fox Tail base, Duan Shaoguang discovered the living virus might be linked to the prototype of Bio-constructs, offering a possible lead to its source.

• Yuanri's warriors secured the facility, and Wei Lanshan's team found and examined the young test subjects, all of them girls with unknown parents.
• Xi Xiu gently reassured a five-year-old girl, who described the pain inflicted by the people who had experimented on them.
• Wei Lanshan found the children's M Virus had evolved beyond the reach of Xi Xiu's earlier treatment, so she prepared medicine to control their condition during transport.
• After the medicine proved effective, Duan Shaoguang took the children aboard the Starship, and Qing Zhixun set course for the Fox Tail base.
• Duan Shaoguang reported that a living virus taken from the children might be related to the prototype of Bio-constructs, giving the team a possible way to trace its source.

Wei Lanshan and the others confirmed that the virus came from Anvile and traced its human experiments to the Qin Family, while Xi Xiu wondered whether a Qin had survived by copying themselves. After Duan Shaoguang controlled the children’s infections, the group took them to Fox Tail before Wei Lanshan and Duan Shaoguang set off for Tianwei.

• Wu Jingxian projected Anvile’s records, and Wei Lanshan found that the virus had been stolen and used on human test subjects, with evidence pointing to the Qin Family.
• Xi Xiu asked whether someone could live for many years by copying themselves, and Wei Lanshan described the banned experiments that had nearly overthrown the Jingsu Alliance.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun proposed negotiating with the Central Brain to access its sealed archive, then Xi Xiu decided they would search for it themselves.
• Duan Shaoguang confirmed that the virus sequences shared the same source but changed inside each person, then stored the samples after controlling the children’s infections.
• Wei Lanshan and Duan Shaoguang brought the laboratory children to Fox Tail, where they were delighted by its colorful skies, and arranged for the Alliance and researchers to take them in.
• Wei Lanshan and Duan Shaoguang left the children in others’ care and boarded a Starship for Tianwei.

Xi Xiu learned more about the pain and circumstances behind her birth, including that Wei Lanshan had left her a file about her biological mother, Ye Zhenwei. As Xi Xiu and A Xian planned their next moves, Qing Zhixun uncovered Xi Xiu’s hidden genetic file and discovered that she and Ye Zhenwei shared a biological father.

• Wei Lanshan told Xi Xiu and A Xian about Xi Xiu’s suffering during the experimental drug treatment, and Xi Xiu said she had chosen to forgive Wei Lanshan.
• Wei Lanshan left Xi Xiu a file about Ye Zhenwei and departed for Tianwei after Xi Xiu confirmed she would return to Anvile.
• A Xian comforted Xi Xiu as she struggled with learning about her biological mother, and Xi Xiu resolved to help finish what Wei Lanshan had been unable to do.
• Xi Xiu sent Feng Qiqi and Long Xingxue information about Ye Zhenwei’s illness and asked them to watch for inquiries, preparing to lure their opponents to Yuandi.
• Qing Zhixun obtained Xi Xiu’s encrypted genetic file with Jing Xi’s help and discovered that Xi Xiu and Ye Zhenwei had the same biological father.