Recaps

Jiang Li'an’s forces captured the Dashi Fleet while Xi Xiu’s soldiers destroyed the first wave of Star Beasts. A new Star Beast tide then erupted across space and Siyun Star, where Xi Xiu organized the defense as Arivik returned and asked to join the battle.

• Arivik told Jiang Li'an to capture the Dashi flagship within two hours because Xi Xiu had warned that a Star Beast tide was approaching.
• Jiang Li'an surrounded the Dashi Starships, and her forces captured A Si after the Dashi Fleet collapsed.
• Xi Xiu’s soldiers killed the trapped Star Beasts and rested, but vortices soon brought another wave into space and onto Siyun Star.
• Xi Xiu divided her soldiers into teams of six to attack the powerful Star Beasts, while her group joined the ground battle.
• Arivik returned with his men and asked Xi Xiu to assign them a battlefield.

Xi Xiu and the warriors faced a prolonged Star Beast invasion on Siyun while investigating how to collect data from the dangerous star region. With Alliance technology unable to reach its center or destroy it safely, the chapter left them relying on killing the Star Beasts and awaiting laboratory progress.

• Xi Xiu ordered the returning warriors to rest before heading back to the battlefield, while Fan Zhengan coordinated with the Alliance's scientists.
• A Xian and the others discussed the exhausting battle, and Nan Hejia looked forward to fighting larger Star Beasts to improve her skills.
• Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng determined that Alliance robots could not safely reach the star region's center and existing weapons could not destroy it.
• A Xian concluded that the warriors would have to kill every Star Beast for now as Xi Xiu estimated the laboratories needed at least fifteen days to make progress.
• Xi Xiu asked A Xian what she learned from the battle, and A Xian said the armored Star Beasts required tremendous strength to defeat.

Xi Xiu prepared her warriors for another day of fighting after the Star Beasts devastated Siyun Star, while A Xian warned that the Star Domain Gate’s broken survival balance could allow its most powerful beasts to appear. Xi Xiu accepted that if they encountered those threats, they would have no choice but to fight.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian recorded their battle experiences, and Xi Xiu shared Jing Xi’s Star Beast guide with the group leaders.
• Xi Xiu and the others spent the night behind the protective barrier as Star Beasts battered it, then woke to find Siyun Star’s vegetation and buildings devastated.
• Sixi comforted Xi Xiu, who then reviewed Qi Mang’s compiled battle findings and sent useful advice to the warriors before their next mission.
• A Xian examined the Star Beast data and told Xi Xiu that one species’ appearance meant the Star Domain Gate’s balance had broken, potentially allowing Hu Jing Beasts and two other top-tier Star Beasts to emerge.
• A Xian said Anvile had informed the Elder Council, and Xi Xiu resolved that they would fight if they encountered the powerful beasts.

Xi Xiu and her team fought the Star Beasts on Siyun, mourned and recovered fallen warriors, and learned that Liuning would soon face an attack. Xi Xiu and the others planned to use Combat Robots in the next battle while guarding against Qin Hongjun and Qin Jian’s interference.

• Xi Xiu, Arivik, Li Zhengfeng, and the other warriors separated the Star Beasts with protective barriers and killed them one by one, but warriors continued to die.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian helped recover and identify fallen warriors’ remains, then arranged for them to be sent home for burial.
• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that an unidentified force was heading toward Liuning Fortress, and Xi Xiu worried that someone might betray them as Ye Zhenwei had.
• Xi Xiu, Arivik, and Li Zhengfeng agreed to use Combat Robots to reduce warrior losses, with the robots fighting in separate zones while remaining able to support the warriors.
• Li Zhengfeng warned that Qin Hongjun and Qin Jian could have hidden plans, so the group agreed they needed to reconsider their preparations.

Xi Xiu decided to destroy the newborn star region that was sending Star Beasts toward the Alliance, and left Siyun Star with A Xian and Ebony to carry out the mission. She left Li Zhengfeng to guard the western district, while the worsening battle at Liuning continued to demand reinforcements.

• Xi Xiu asked Li Zhengfeng when his system could be taken over, then arranged safeguards in her robots' programs and had their codes replaced.
• Long Xingxue brought the Snow Dragon Group to reinforce the fighting, while its deputy commander prepared to intercept starships heading for the Liuzhao Galaxy System.
• As Star Beasts continued to emerge and the Alliance lacked precise data on destroying their source, Xi Xiu decided to destroy the newborn star region with Ebony.
• Xi Xiu asked Li Zhengfeng to watch over the western district and concealed her plan from Wu Jingxian, knowing A Xian would otherwise join her.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian set off in a stealth starship piloted by Arivik, aiming to destroy the star region before sunrise.

A Xian and Xi Xiu prepared to enter the newborn starfield and destroy it, while Arivik agreed to deliver their weapons at the crucial moment. As the mission approached, Li Zhengfeng’s battlefield on Siyun Star grew more dangerous when Mechs joined the Star Beasts.

• Arivik said the Alliance could endure a war of attrition, but A Xian insisted that no territory could be sacrificed.
• A Xian said she and Xi Xiu would enter the newborn starfield, and she reported that Wu Jingyang’s calculations gave them a seventy percent chance of success.
• Xi Xiu and the Central Brain simulated the detonation plan, while Arivik agreed to pilot the Starship and time the weapon delivery.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian that Ebony would scout ahead and that they would use Xue Fanhui’s latest weapons to break through the starfield’s simulated Star Domain Gate.
• Li Zhengfeng activated surveillance on Siyun Star as Star Beasts spread across the battlefield and Mechs appeared during the ground battle.

Xi Xiu and A Xian prepared to enter the newborn star domain and destroy it using newly developed weapons. After receiving detailed instructions and saying goodbye to the others, they piloted a spacecraft into its depths, leaving their allies waiting anxiously for their return.

• After Xi Xiu left, Fan Zhengan took command of Siyun with Li Zhengfeng assisting him, while the Nine Stars people agreed to defend one battlefield against the Mechs.
• Fan Zhengan informed Xi Xiu that the Mechs were the missing citizens of the Yuanri Star System, led by Siyun's Star Lord, Yarosla, and seeking to turn Siyun into another Yuanri.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian met Wu Jingya and the Alliance experts led by Claudir near the newborn star domain to prepare for their mission.
• Claudir explained the risks, coordinates, protective equipment, and detonation plan, warning Xi Xiu and A Xian that they might have to detonate the weapon manually if the spacecraft systems failed.
• Wu Jingya explained that Anvile had brought ten powerful new shells designed to destroy the star domain, and Xi Xiu memorized the instructions before departing with A Xian.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian piloted the spacecraft into the depths of the star domain as Claudir and the others waited anxiously, while Wu Jingya trusted they would return safely.

Xi Xiu and A Xian launched weapons into a newborn star region to destroy the force that let Star Beasts reach Siyun Star. After confirming the region had returned to normal, they made it back safely and reunited with everyone.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian calculated launch coordinates near the star region and prepared five waves of weapons while communications failed.
• The first two waves veered off course, but Xi Xiu used their explosions to guide the third wave to the target and the fourth wave to complete the mission.
• Ebony carried the craft out of the star region, and Xi Xiu sent Claudir the data she had recorded.
• The equipment confirmed that the star region had returned to normal and Star Beasts could no longer use its force to reach Siyun Star.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian's signals returned, easing everyone's fears, and Wu Jingya welcomed them back.

Xi Xiu and the Alliance prepared to defeat Qin Hongjun's powerful Mechs while keeping Li Zhengfeng protected from capture or a backup consciousness. On the battlefield, Xi Xiu faced an arrogant Mech whose attacks were fast but whose strength fell short of Q's.

• After Liuning's warriors wiped out the remaining Star Beasts, Xi Xiu reviewed the Mechs' combat data and devised a plan to counter their lethal Martial Skill programs.
• Xi Xiu warned Li Zhengfeng that Qin Hongjun might create a backup consciousness of him, so Li Zhengfeng agreed to fight alongside the Dark Department instead of alone.
• Xi Xiu visited the injured warriors, saw how badly the battles had depleted their forces, and entered the battlefield before dawn the next day.
• Arivik escorted Li Zhengfeng to the western battlefield while Fan Zhengan, Wang Zichun, Ulia, and Buhete led teams in other directions.
• Xi Xiu encountered a heavily mechanized Mech who taunted her and attacked, but she twisted his arm and recognized that his strength was below Q's.

Xi Xiu fought a modified mech on Siyun Star, overcoming his lethal Martial Skills, metal net, and thermal weapons. After destroying his eyes and Teleportation Device, she trapped him and waited while recording the encounter.

• Xi Xiu dodged the mech’s attacks and realized his Martial Skills were no match for her speed.
• The mech deployed a metal net, but Xi Xiu cut through it with her longsword, and Ebony gathered the severed net.
• The mech hid among the ruins and fired thermal weapons, but Xi Xiu used her Mental Power to locate him and shot out his mechanical eye.
• Xi Xiu evaded his bullets, then destroyed his Teleportation Device and mechanical legs when he tried to escape.
• Xi Xiu recorded the disabled mech for five minutes, waiting for him to speak or surrender.

Xi Xiu returned from clearing the Mechs on Siyun Star and joined Qing Zhixun’s forces at Liuning Fortress, where the enemy had advanced far beyond expectations. Qing Zhixun laid out a plan to trap the scattered invaders, and Xi Xiu deployed her troops to their assigned positions as the enemy entered the Fifth Defense Line.

• Xi Xiu and Long Xingxue discussed the battle against the Mechs, and Xi Xiu approved using discarded robots to support the Snow Dragon Group in the northwest corner.
• After twenty days of fighting, the Mechs were mostly cleared, and Xi Xiu led Liuning’s survivors back to the fortress three days later.
• Xi Xiu found that the enemy had reached beyond the Sixth Defense Line and learned from Qing Zhixun that the First Defense Line had fallen while the Second Defense Line had been abandoned deliberately.
• Qing Zhixun explained his plan to lure the enemy into a trap at the Third Defense Line, and Xi Xiu agreed to deploy her troops to designated positions.
• The enemy entered the Fifth Defense Line and split up, while Xi Xiu’s soldiers began moving toward their assigned coordinates.

Xi Xiu assessed the enemy forces and their likely origins before reaching her position on the First Defense Line, where both sides’ fleets waited without firing. She reviewed the wider war and received reassuring updates about several Homeworlds, though Blue Rain remained a crucial concern for the Alliance’s food supply.

• Xi Xiu reviewed Qing Zhixun’s deployment data and learned that the enemy had powerful forces, including unfamiliar creatures, but its commander remained unidentified.
• Xi Xiu and Arivik concluded that Qin Hongjun’s forces might be built from the consciousnesses of Alliance warriors believed dead, allowing him to replenish his army as long as he had metal and mechanical bodies.
• Xi Xiu’s Starship reached its assigned position on the First Defense Line, where Qing Zhixun’s silver fleet faced Qin Hongjun’s black Starships without either side opening fire.
• Xi Xiu learned that Anvile remained calm, Aura’s defenses held against Musar and Hanhai, and Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi continued guarding Miu Run Star.
• Xi Xiu worried about Blue Rain, but the Alliance had spread its crops to other planets and had enough food production to avoid a crisis for ten years.

Xi Xiu and the others assessed the damage Qin Hongjun’s forces had inflicted and investigated how he had obtained enough energy to create artificial Star Domain Gates. Xi Xiu identified old mining sites in the Snowy Region as a likely source of the energy ore, leaving the Alliance with locations to investigate.

• Alliance troops reinforced Blue Rain as citizens, many of them retired soldiers, took up arms, while survivors from devastated star systems were relocated to safety.
• Xi Xiu and the others discussed the spread of Qin Hongjun’s Eternal Robots, and Xi Xiu said the old death soldiers had likely lost much of their original Martial Skills.
• A Xian reported that researchers on Anvile had found a way to create something like a Star Domain Gate, but the energy figures left the group baffled.
• Xi Xiu requested all Alliance images of the Snowy Region from Chu Zekuan and examined them for signs of where Qin Hongjun had obtained the energy.
• Xi Xiu spotted changes and mine shafts across the Snowy Region and marked locations for investigation, while Chu Zekuan questioned how the ore had been transported and processed.

The Alliance prepared to defend Tianwei’s energy-rich subsidiary planets as Qin Hongjun’s forces attacked them, while Jingsu’s citizens learned of the Alliance’s sacrifices and the traitors aiding the enemy. Ye Zhenwei and Xilo remained determined to seize Jingsu, with Xilo threatening to kill those who criticized her.

• Chu Zekuan reviewed the Snowy Region data and planned to search for remnants of the energy ore so the Alliance could develop weapons against future newborn star domains.
• The Alliance evacuated stranded Tianwei citizens, concealed its newly discovered energy planets, and mined their resources while preparing robot miners to become combat units.
• Qin Hongjun’s Mechs attacked Tianwei’s subsidiary planets, but they could not alter the Alliance robots’ programs and were ordered to fight them directly.
• Footage of the robots’ desperate defense reached Jingsu’s citizens, and the network exposed Qin Hongjun’s supporters, including Ye Zhenwei’s flight from the battlefield.
• Ye Zhenwei read the hostile comments aboard her Starship, and Xilo promised to kill everyone who had insulted her.

Ye Zhenwei tried to expose her relationship with Hong Xixiu, but the Central Brain blocked her, so she continued toward Haian Fortress to confront Qing Shihao. Qing Shihao prepared the fortress defenses, while Qing Zhixun warned him that Ye Zhenwei might have an artificial program installed in her brain.

• Ye Zhenwei logged into Jingsu’s network to reveal her relationship with Hong Xixiu, but the Central Brain blocked her signal and prevented her from publishing anything.
• Ye Zhenwei decided to settle the score with Qing Shihao at Haian Fortress, and the Central Brain alerted the Elder Council to her location.
• Qing Wenxu warned Qing Shihao that Ye Zhenwei was approaching Haian Fortress and urged him to be careful.
• Qing Shihao and the commanders added three defense lines and discussed who might be supporting Ye Zhenwei’s attack.
• Qing Zhixun called Qing Shihao and said Ye Zhenwei might have an artificial program installed in her brain.

Qing Shihao and Qing Zhixun discussed Ye Zhenwei’s altered abilities and their plans for the coming battles. At Haian Fortress, Xie Changkui reorganized the defenses and assigned Qing Shihao to draw Ye Zhenwei’s attention in the first battle.

• Qing Zhixun warned Qing Shihao that Ye Zhenwei had likely been modified and could use Qin Hongjun’s backup AI Brain to make rapid battle judgments.
• Qing Shihao and Qing Zhixun discussed the situations at Haian and Liuning, then agreed to meet again on Gaia after victory.
• After hearing Qing Wenxu’s report, Xie Changkui convened Haian’s generals and spent the night revising the fortress’s defenses against Ye Zhenwei.
• Xie Changkui concluded that Ye Zhenwei was likely acting independently and that Qin Hongjun might send captured warriors’ consciousnesses to command forces against the Alliance.
• Xie Changkui assigned Qing Shihao to lead the first battle and keep Ye Zhenwei focused on him.

Qing Shihao realized Xie Changkui intended to use him to draw Ye Zhenwei’s attention, while Ye Zhenwei prepared her robot forces near Haian Fortress and used her system to study its defenses. After infiltrating Jingsu’s Star Net, she learned that Boranlan had taken control of the Ye Family’s remaining forces and vowed not to let her keep them.

• Qing Shihao understood that Xie Changkui wanted him to draw Ye Zhenwei’s fire, and he reflected on the Ye Family’s mistaken beliefs about his family.
• Ye Zhenwei activated the black-shelled robots aboard her starship and sent them to their assigned stations.
• Ye Zhenwei’s system failed to breach Haian Fortress’s defenses, so she requested a predicted deployment map based on Xie Changkui’s past tactics.
• Yuan Chuhong contacted Ye Zhenwei, who told him her new condition matched or exceeded his predictions and learned no further news from him.
• Ye Zhenwei infiltrated Jingsu’s Star Net and discovered her father was imprisoned, the Ye Family’s power had been divided, and Boranlan had taken over its remaining forces.
• Ye Zhenwei decided she would not spare Boranlan or allow her to keep the Ye Family’s remaining power.

Ye Zhenwei attacked Haian Fortress’s First Defense Line while the system revealed that Jingsu had secretly mined energy planets in Tianwei. Qing Shihao anticipated her tactics and held the line, leaving Ye Zhenwei waiting for an opening until he struck her Starship.

• Ye Zhenwei attacked Haian Fortress’s First Defense Line, and the system told her Jingsu personnel had nearly exhausted energy planets in Tianwei.
• Ye Zhenwei ordered the system to find more energy and spent heavily on repeated attacks, while Qing Shihao used exposed flaws to draw her fire without losing Haian’s order.
• Ye Zhenwei learned that Qing Shihao was commanding the defense and mistakenly believed Haian would be easier to take because Xie Changkui was not in command.
• After Ye Zhenwei’s attacks failed, she reviewed Qing Shihao’s information and waited for the other side to act.
• When Ye Zhenwei hesitated, Qing Shihao fired and hit her Starship.

Ye Zhenwei’s system struggled against Haian Fortress’s new defenses while Qin Hongjun ordered it to prioritize taking Haian at any cost. As losses mounted, Ye Zhenwei ignored the system’s warning and flew into battle herself without backing up her consciousness.

• Ye Zhenwei’s system failed to intercept Haian’s shells, discovered the fortress was using an unfamiliar algorithm, and informed Qin Hongjun, who ordered it to adapt and seize Haian at any cost.
• The system secretly changed the starships’ deployments, and Ye Zhenwei watched dozens of ships get destroyed before it found a way to intercept the shells.
• Qing Shihao grieved for the soldiers killed in the battle, while Li Wangshu comforted him and Song Huiyong told him not to blame himself for Ye Zhenwei’s actions.
• Ye Zhenwei sent robots to attack Haian’s Medical Robots, then decided to enter the battle herself after her robots gained no advantage.
• The system warned Ye Zhenwei that Haian’s fighters could kill her and urged her to back up her consciousness, but she refused and piloted a fighter craft into space with her mech, weapons, and robots.

Qing Shihao led Hai'an's forces against Ye Zhenwei and her fighters while rescue robots evacuated the wounded. Ye Zhenwei was isolated and battled Qing Shihao, unaware that the system in her mind was only a backup with historical data.

• Before Ye Zhenwei left the Starship, the system secretly backed up its data and replaced her system with the backup.
• Qing Shihao organized the defense, sent robots to help rescue the wounded, and led his Guard Team into battle.
• After Ye Zhenwei left, the system took command of the fleet, changed its orders, and reported Hai'an's worsening position to Qin Hongjun.
• Qing Shihao's forces scattered Ye Zhenwei's team, and his fighter intercepted her black fighter.
• Ye Zhenwei evaded Qing Shihao's attacks with her Mental Power as her backup system struggled to keep her fighter fighting.

Ye Zhenwei fought Qing Shihao in space but struggled against his skill and the system’s control of her Mental Power. She withdrew to her Starship, while Qing Shihao’s Mini Robots secretly entered her fighter.

• Qing Shihao evaded Ye Zhenwei’s attacks and began targeting weaknesses in her fighter.
• Ye Zhenwei unleashed her Mental Power despite the system warning that her body was deteriorating, so the system cut off her access to it.
• Ye Zhenwei broke free of the system’s control but learned that removing it could kill her because Yuan Chuhong’s surgery had permanently connected it to her brain.
• Ye Zhenwei accepted that she could not defeat Qing Shihao that day and let the system pilot her fighter back to the Starship.
• Qing Shihao’s Mini Robots entered Ye Zhenwei’s fighter undetected as it returned.

Ye Zhenwei returned from the battlefield, cut off her connection to the system, and struggled with the realization that others had used her. Qing Shihao’s hidden robots gathered information aboard her starship as she withdrew to reconsider her future.

• Qin Hongjun refused to rescue Ye Zhenwei, while the system returned to him and left instructions for her backup system.
• Ye Zhenwei severed her connection to the system, reflected on how Yuan Chuhong and the Elder Council had used her, and decided she could trust only Xilo.
• Xilo checked on Ye Zhenwei, but she withheld the truth about the system and told him Qing Shihao had struck her several times.
• Qing Shihao’s undetected robots collected information about Ye Zhenwei’s forces, and he sent their data to the Elder Council.
• Ye Zhenwei ordered her starship to withdraw slightly from the battlefield so she could sort out her affairs.

Ye Zhenwei planned to hide her intentions and find a way to recover her Mental Power while the system directed its fleet toward Hai'an's defenses. Qing Shihao and Xie Changkui prepared a trap for Ye Zhenwei as the system unleashed powerful Bio-constructs against the Third Defense Line.

• Ye Zhenwei blamed the Qing Family, Tang Yongyu, and Yuan Chuhong for her downfall, then decided to lie low and use Qin Hongjun's medical technology to restore or replace her body.
• The system redirected its fleet toward a weak point at Hai'an's First Defense Line, while Xie Changkui's forces waited to spring traps on the Bio-constructs.
• Qing Shihao's Mini Robot returned with data showing that Ye Zhenwei was not truly in command, and he reported the discovery to Xie Changkui.
• Qing Shihao destroyed the Eternal Robots at the First Defense Line and joined Xie Changkui in preparing a trap for Ye Zhenwei's retreat.
• The system released starving, heavily armored Bio-constructs at the Third Defense Line, where Hai'an's soldiers fought them in rotating groups.

At Liuning Fortress, Xi Xiu and her team fought Qin Hongjun’s forces, led by the resurrected legendary general Urnos and Li Zhengfeng’s backup consciousness, M9. Li Zhengfeng warned Xi Xiu about his backup and left her to command as the space battle continued.

• Xi Xiu’s team identified the enemy commander as Urnos, a legendary general whose consciousness Qin Hongjun had turned into a weapon.
• Li Zhengfeng realized that his backup consciousness was aboard the enemy Starship and suspected Qin Hongjun wanted it to infiltrate Xi Xiu’s circle.
• After Urnos’s forces were driven back, M9 took command and connected to the Starship’s intelligent system.
• Xi Xiu recognized the enemy’s tactics as resembling Li Zhengfeng’s, and he told her to command the battle and try to capture his backup alive.
• Xi Xiu adjusted the defense plan while Li Zhengfeng watched from his room as both sides’ Starships exchanged fire.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun disrupted Li Zhengfeng’s forces, while Urnos’s reckless charge isolated his fleet and forced him to unleash dangerous Bio-constructs. A Xian’s forces destroyed the creatures as the battle turned against both Urnos and M9, leaving Xi Xiu confident that Liuning had nearly won.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun attacked and pursued Urnos’s forces, while Li Zhengfeng’s Consciousness Backup took command.
• Urnos ignored M9’s orders, charged with his fleet, and was surrounded after A Xian repositioned her forces.
• Urnos released Bio-constructs to attack Liuning’s Starships, but the creatures attacked their own side as well.
• A Xian’s fleet gathered samples and then destroyed the Bio-constructs with full firepower, while Urnos’s fleet struggled to contain them.
• M9 ordered Urnos to return and threatened to activate the destruction device, but Urnos could no longer escape his fight.
• Xi Xiu recognized that the battle was nearly over and reflected that she and Qing Zhixun had prepared for Li Zhengfeng’s command tactics.