Recaps

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun survived the Hu Jing Beast’s explosion, then woke in a forest beside a lake. Xi Xiu revealed she had known Qing Zhixun’s true identity, and he explained why he had hidden his feelings from her.

• Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and Li Zhengfeng fled the Hu Jing Beast’s metal sphere while preparing weapons to attack it.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun threw their linked weapons at the sphere, and its explosion left them gravely injured; Ebony rescued Li Zhengfeng’s mechanical brain and carried Xi Xiu away.
• Qing Zhixun used Anvile’s secret method to help Xi Xiu, then raised a protective barrier before falling unconscious with her.
• Qing Zhixun awoke with Xi Xiu in a lake, and she revealed she had recognized him as Li Qinzhi.
• Qing Zhixun admitted he had loved Xi Xiu but had held back because of his incomplete body and fear that she only wanted to repay his grandfather’s kindness.

After escaping the explosion, Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun recovered on an unfamiliar world while trying to determine how to return to the Alliance. They discovered they were beyond Alliance territory, beneath a starless sky with an unknown source of light.

• Xi Xiu told Qing Zhixun that gratitude and marriage were separate, then checked on Li Zhengfeng and the injured Ebony.
• Xi Xiu recalled tearing open a spatial rift with the explosion's energy and her, Qing Zhixun, and Ebony's Mental Power, while Qing Zhixun tended to her injuries.
• Qing Zhixun searched for Alliance signals and matching terrain but found no useful information or Star Net coverage.
• Xi Xiu woke, noticed the starless night sky, and asked Qing Zhixun whether they had arrived outside the Alliance.

While recovering in a forest beside a lake, Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun found no way to contact the Alliance and planned to leave once they were healthy. On the seventh night, Xi Xiu sensed a visitor and came face-to-face with a human-shaped figure made of Light Spots.

• Xi Xiu fell asleep while Qing Zhixun watched over her inside their protective barrier, and after they both slept, Light Spots gathered into a human shape and observed them.
• The Light Spots discussed the pair, noting Xi Xiu's unusual scent of time and space, and decided to speak with them after they recovered and to repair the hole they had fallen through.
• Xi Xiu sensed that something had visited them, but Qing Zhixun urged her to rest; their attempts to contact the Alliance continued to produce only static.
• Xi Xiu proposed camping in the forest until they recovered, then using their emergency pods to search for a way back if they still could not contact the Alliance.
• After five days, Xi Xiu's body had recovered, and on the seventh night she sensed a lifeform approaching, opened her eyes, and saw a human-shaped figure made of Light Spots.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun encountered powerful Light Spots that spoke Anvile and realized they might be in the legendary Divine Realm. After more than two months stranded beside a lake, Xi Xiu had recovered, and the pair planned to explore the forest for food.

• The Light Spots passed through Qing Zhixun's protective barrier, spoke with Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun, then vanished before the two could question them further.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun searched for the Light Spots over the following nights, but found no trace of them and no record of them in their information.
• Xi Xiu connected the Light Spots and their use of Anvile to the Divine Realm, a forbidden place described by the Consciousness Babies.
• Qing Zhixun tried his communicator, but the signal remained blocked, and Xi Xiu said the Consciousness Babies had not told her how to reopen the passage.
• After camping beside the lake for over two months, Xi Xiu recovered, and she and Qing Zhixun set out to explore the forest and find fresh food.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun explored a lively forest, where Ebony began stirring and Sixi’s comments about human young embarrassed Xi Xiu. They discovered a lake and caught fish-shaped creatures for dinner, while unseen energy beings grew excited about the idea of new life.

• Xi Xiu noticed that the forest’s unfamiliar plants had Mental Power and that Ebony began stretching as they explored.
• Sixi pointed out the forest’s saplings, then asked Xi Xiu about human young, leaving Xi Xiu flustered and Qing Zhixun amused.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun found a lake covered in huge black-and-white flowers and discussed the energy bodies said to inhabit the forest.
• The energy beings overheard Sixi’s remarks about human young and excitedly wondered how new life was born and whether they could help raise it.
• Xi Xiu caught several fish-shaped aquatic creatures, checked them for toxins, and agreed with Qing Zhixun to eat them for dinner.

Hong Xixiu and Qing Zhixun met the Light People in the Divine Realm, shared food with them, and learned about their role in protecting life. The Light People refused to explain the Hu Jing Beast’s connection to the Divine Realm, leaving Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun to suspect the creatures were hiding information and that the Star Domain Gate might be their only way home.

• The Light People gathered around Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun’s meal, and their representative, Claire, introduced herself to Xi Xiu.
• Xi Xiu offered the Light People some roasted aquatic creatures, and they devoured the food before apologizing for their enthusiasm.
• The Light People told Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun that the Divine Realm was their home and that they had helped protect life in the star domain, including the Anvile People.
• The Light People said their kin had destroyed the route to the Alliance, and Xi Xiu doubted their claim that no signals could reach the Divine Realm.
• When Xi Xiu asked about the Hu Jing Beast, the Light Person avoided answering and dispersed.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun speculated that the Star Domain Gate connected to the Divine Realm and that the Hu Jing Beast might have been created by the Light People.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun explored the Divine Realm while searching for a route back to the Alliance, and the Light People stayed hidden after realizing the pair suspected them of creating the Hu Jing Beasts. Sixi revealed she had prepared extensive childcare supplies, while Qing Zhixun waited for a catalyst to bring him and Xi Xiu closer.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun speculated that the Hu Jing Beasts had a connection to the Divine Realm and discussed using the Star Domain Gate to return to the Alliance.
• Qing Zhixun shared what he knew about Anvile and the Star Domain Gate, and Xi Xiu became eager to find it.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun explored the forest east of the lake, documenting unfamiliar plants and lifeforms rather than bringing them back to the Alliance.
• Krell ordered the Light People to remain hidden while they considered how Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun had uncovered the truth about the Hu Jing Beasts.
• Sixi showed Xi Xiu a Space Locket filled with childcare supplies she had prepared after Xi Xiu’s marriage match succeeded.
• Qing Zhixun kept his distance from Xi Xiu and reflected on the supplies he had bought in preparation for their future children.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun discovered that an invisible barrier enclosed the forests and learned from Krell that the Light Spots had been trapped in the Divine Realm for ages. Unable to find a way home, they began studying the Light Spots’ knowledge and technology.

• Xi Xiu tested the forest boundary with her Mental Power and found an invisible substance blocking her from sensing beyond it.
• Krell revealed that the Light Spots had been unable to leave the Divine Realm and that their attempts to send Hu Jing Beasts through the Star Domain Gate had failed.
• Krell explained that he and the other Light Spots had only reinforced the forest barrier, and he led Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun through several boundaries to show them the endless forests beyond.
• Qing Zhixun analyzed the data but found no way out, so Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun began learning the knowledge and technology of Krell’s race.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun spent many years in the Divine Realm, raising five children with help from Krell and the other energy beings. As Li Zhengfeng and Qing Zhixun mapped the realm in search of a way home, Krell began to suspect they might uncover places the energy beings had overlooked.

• Xi Xiu conceived and gave birth to five children over fifteen years, while Sixi and the energy beings helped care for them.
• The energy beings made a mechanical body for Li Zhengfeng and helped awaken him, and he later repaired his Mental Power with their help.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun resolved their past misunderstandings and built a happy life with their children in the Divine Realm.
• Li Zhengfeng and Qing Zhixun explored forests and other locations, finding 990,000 forests and discovering patterns in their arrangement.
• Krell reconsidered the energy beings' assumptions after realizing they had not explored every forest or the deepest parts of the lakes, and joined the others in processing the new data.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun prepared to leave after locating the Star Domain Gate, while Xi Xiu proposed a way for Krell and the other energy beings to pass through it by dispersing their power. Krell agreed to try the idea, and Qing Zhixun planned to test it the next day.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun discussed leaving the children with Wu Jingxian or Grandfather and traveling together after returning to the Alliance.
• Krell and the others confirmed that the Star Domain Gate had been located, while Qing Zhixun kept secret that he had sensed his mother Jing Xi among the Anvile People.
• Xi Xiu reassured the children that Qing Zhixun was looking for a way to bring Krell and the others home with them.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun invited Krell and the other energy beings to talk, and Xi Xiu suggested they try entering the Star Domain Gate after dispersing their power.
• Krell grew eager to test Xi Xiu's idea, which Qing Zhixun planned to try with them the next day.

Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and Li Zhengfeng successfully tested whether energy beings could pass through the Star Domain Gate using Ebony’s split plants. Krell’s group began arranging to send some of their kind outside, while preparing to follow the rules that bound them to their Source Point.

• Krell arranged for Xi Xiu to test whether energy beings could enter the Star Domain Gate, and she and Qing Zhixun prepared Ebony’s protective plants.
• Qing Zhixun and Li Zhengfeng led several energy beings into the gate and spent about ten hours collecting data before returning safely.
• Krell inspected the returning group and concluded that the energy beings could likely cross the gate without falling dormant.
• Qing Zhixun warned that not all the energy beings might be able to pass through, so Krell proposed that they leave in shifts.
• The energy beings chose who would go first, and Krell led the first group to the bottom of the lake to prepare to leave under their binding rules.

Krell and the departing energy beings prepared to enter the Star Domain Gate with Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and their children, while those remaining behind took responsibility for the Divine Realm. Thirty years after Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun vanished, A Xian learned that life had entered the Gate and realized they might have reached the legendary Divine Realm.

• Krell arranged for some energy beings to remain and made Aruoy the leader of the Divine Realm before preparing the departing group to hunt the Hu Jing Beasts.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun traveled with their children to the Star Domain Gate, where Aruoy and the other energy beings monitored them from the ground.
• The energy beings split their strength among four entities, occupied Ebony's offshoots, and entered the Gate with Xi Xiu's group.
• Thirty years after the battle, Wu Jingyang told A Xian that life had entered the Star Domain Gate, while the Alliance had long since declared Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun dead.
• A Xian concluded that Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun might have entered the Divine Realm, and Wu Jingyang said Qing Zhixun would try to save Xi Xiu.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun crossed the dangerous Star Domain Gate and reunited with Jing Xi after Krell and the other energy beings split off to hunt the Hu Jing Beasts. Xi Xiu and her group returned safely to the Alliance, where A Xian had been waiting for them.

• Wu Jingyang and Liuga comforted A Xian as she worried that Xi Xiu might not return.
• Krell and the other energy beings split their strength to search for the Hu Jing Beasts' nest, while Xi Xiu's group stayed aboard their spacecraft.
• Xi Xiu piloted the spacecraft through the Star Domain Gate, and Li Zhengfeng fought off attacking creatures while the children watched.
• Krell and the other energy beings found the Hu Jing Beasts' nest and left Xi Xiu's group to continue toward Jing Xi.
• Xi Xiu's group reached Jing Xi, and Jing Xi led them back toward the Alliance.
• A Xian waited in Anvile's starry sky as Jing Xi's message confirmed that Xi Xiu and the others had returned safely.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun escaped the Star Domain Gate and reunited with A Xian, their friends, and the Anvile royal family, bringing their five children home. After Xi Xiu arranged for the damaged energy entities to recover, everyone learned that the Hu Jing Beasts had been eliminated and the Star Domain Gate no longer threatened the star domain.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun escaped the Star Domain Gate, and A Xian rushed aboard their spacecraft to embrace Xi Xiu.
• A Xian and Jing Xi saw Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun's five children, while friends and allies contacted Xi Xiu to welcome her return.
• A Xian brought the spacecraft to Anvile, where the royal family and nobles gathered to greet Xi Xiu.
• Xi Xiu sent the energy entities affected by the Star Domain Gate to a quiet place on Anvile to recover.
• Qing Zhixun explained their experiences, and Xi Xiu told everyone that Krell and the others had destroyed the Hu Jing Beasts and filled the Star Domain Gate with their energy, ending its threat.

Xi Xiu refused the Elder Council’s transfer order and set out with Qing Zhixun and their children to explore the stars, bringing Krell and six other energy beings along. They arrived at Gaia, where Xi Xiu surprised her old friends by appearing with five children.

• Xi Xiu refused the Elder Council’s transfer order, and the council let her and Qing Zhixun retire from active service while retaining their honorary privileges.
• A Xian told Liuga she was planning a long journey, and Liuga and Wu Jingya equipped the family with supplies before they departed Anvile for Gaia.
• Krell secretly brought six energy beings aboard Xi Xiu’s Starship, while Hels took responsibility for the others remaining behind.
• Xi Xiu and Krell taught the children about space travel and technology as they slowly crossed the starfields, and the children resolved to become strong warriors like their mother.
• Xi Xiu’s Starship arrived at Gaia, where Xue Fanhui, Wei Lanshan, Arivik, Yi Mingda, Qiu Shaorong, and others greeted her and saw her five children for the first time.

Xi Xiu reunited with her friends and comrades on Gaia after returning to the Alliance, then told Wei Lanshan that she and Qing Zhixun planned to travel again. She left the children’s next steps arranged, with two staying in the Alliance and three preparing to explore the wider world.

• Xi Xiu reunited with her friends, recounted her decades away, and celebrated that Wei Lanshan and Xu Jiusong had become partners.
• Xi Xiu gathered everyone at Li Zhengfeng’s former residence on Gaia, where Wu Yuan, Qi Mang, elders, and the energy beings joined the celebration.
• Xi Xiu said goodbye in her heart as those returning to their posts departed, while Wei Lanshan and Xu Jiusong stayed to meet the children and energy beings.
• Xi Xiu told Wei Lanshan that she and Qing Zhixun planned to travel, and explained which children would remain in the Alliance and which would go with them.
• Wei Lanshan decided to give Liu Yao to the third child, while Xu Jiusong arranged for his subordinates to look after the eldest child.

Xi Xiu learned how the Alliance had dealt with Qin Hongjun and his collaborators, then returned to the Central Brain to ask about the Homeworld records. The AI Brain began explaining that it had collected the data long before meeting her, when it planned to turn the Homeworld’s fate into a cautionary virtual game.

• Wei Lanshan told Xi Xiu that Qin Hongjun and Qin Jian had been destroyed, Ye Zhenwei had died, and the Alliance had punished the families that collaborated with Qin Hongjun.
• The Alliance eradicated Qin Hongjun’s creatures and Artificial Stars, and Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun felt reassured by the Alliance’s recovery after the war.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun visited the Elder Council, explained their plans, and Chu Zekuan told them to rest.
• Xi Xiu entered the Central Brain’s Virtual Network and asked the AI Brain whether Qing Zhixun and Li Zhengfeng could view the Homeworld records with her.
• Xi Xiu confronted the AI Brain about matching her with Qing Zhixun, and it defended its impartial process by showing their one hundred percent match.
• The AI Brain said it had collected the Homeworld data before meeting Xi Xiu and had wanted to make a virtual game warning others.

Xi Xiu learned more about Qin Jian’s search for the Homeworld and the memories he left with the AI Brain. She and Qing Zhixun received the AI Brain’s simulation data and planned to investigate why people had left the Homeworld.

• The AI Brain told Xi Xiu that Qin Jian had failed to find the Homeworld, turned to Bio-construct research, and was eventually executed after his crimes were exposed.
• Xi Xiu learned that Qin Jian had left the AI Brain a message to find her and go back, along with data and a childhood Card Toy depicting a Homeworld landmark.
• The AI Brain gave Xi Xiu a data package containing a simulation of the Homeworld departure, built partly from Qin Jian’s stored memories.
• Xi Xiu passed the data package to Qing Zhixun, and they discussed the possibility that a disaster had forced some people to leave the Homeworld while others remained behind.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun recognized that the AI Brain had not explained why the pioneers never returned to the Homeworld.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun prepared to leave the Alliance on a long journey to search for their homeland, and Qing Zhixun promised to support her unconditionally. As friends and family gathered to say goodbye, Xi Xiu divided responsibilities and gave the Belka People Exotic Plant seeds that could help restore their planet.

• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that he understood her desire to search for their homeland and would support her, and the two discussed preparing for a journey that could last many years.
• Xi Xiu explained how she had secured enough energy for six hundred years of Interstellar Navigation, while she and Qing Zhixun decided to leave the Qing Family's businesses for the eldest and third children to manage.
• Su Jinbao lamented that Xi Xiu was leaving again, while Yi Mingda understood her decision and wished her well.
• Xi Xiu's children promised to behave and keep up with their studies and Martial Skills, and she sent Li Zhengfeng their departure time.
• Elisa brought gifts from the Belka People, and Xi Xiu gave them Exotic Plant seeds that Krell said could help restore Belka's environment.
• Hai Suomiao left Yan Lanxi to guard the Barren Sea and brought the children to Gaia.

Xi Xiu spent time with A Xian, Hai Suomiao, and their children on Gaia, where citizens honored her and the Alliance memorialized her wartime deeds. Before Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun prepared to leave on a long journey, she gave Hai Suomiao training data for her children; then she and Qing Zhixun entered the virtual world.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian spent a day with Hai Suomiao and the children, and Gaia's citizens thanked Xi Xiu for defending the Alliance.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian visited the monument honoring fallen warriors and reconciled over Xi Xiu's past sacrifice, while A Xian kept Qing Zhixun's life-sharing ritual secret from her.
• Xi Xiu learned that Hai Suomiao planned to send her children to study on Gaia and offered to share training methods for them to practice at home.
• After Hai Suomiao departed, Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun loaded a data package provided by the AI Brain and entered the virtual world.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun investigated Qin Jian’s simulated laboratory to learn why the Homeworld had sent people away and what the researchers were preparing for. After a week, Qing Zhixun’s examination of other workers’ memories revealed that the laboratory’s work would have been forbidden in their era, but the purpose behind it remained unclear.

• Xi Xiu entered the simulation as a scientist and began working in Qin Jian’s laboratory while Qing Zhixun assumed the role of its owner.
• Xi Xiu noticed a countdown of 774 hours and learned that her simulated identity had volunteered and signed an obscured document before arriving.
• Qing Zhixun discovered that he lacked access to the laboratory’s most important computer, suggesting someone else secretly controlled it.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun agreed to investigate by gathering information from the laboratory workers and trying different identities.
• After seven days, Qing Zhixun reported that the workers’ research involved activities that would not be permitted in their era.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun investigated the secret laboratory and discovered that a foreign power was using researchers with implanted fears to develop controllable biological soldiers for space exploration. They learned that the Homeworld still had energy, but a devastating war had brought it close to a crisis that would eventually force people to escape the planet.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun suspected the laboratory was a secret project run by an alliance of powerful families, and Xi Xiu failed in repeated attempts to escape.
• Xi Xiu discovered that the researchers all feared the Homeworld would collapse, though that belief appeared only after they entered the laboratory.
• Xi Xiu persuaded Qin Jian to develop a system for modeling long-lasting energy sources, diverting him from his biotechnology research.
• Qing Zhixun traced the mysterious person behind the laboratory and learned that a foreign power backed the project to create controllable biological soldiers for finding space energy.
• Qing Zhixun confirmed that the researchers' memories had been altered, and Xi Xiu concluded that the Homeworld's approaching crisis meant escape from the planet would eventually happen.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun uncovered Qin Jian’s past and realized that his longing to return to the Homeworld was tied to Yu Lian. With their help, Qin Jian escaped the laboratory with Yu Lian, and the four discovered that the Homeworld had been devastated.

• Xi Xiu learned that Qin Jian had once been Li Huajing, a gifted researcher whose brain death had been engineered so his brain could be transplanted into Qin Jian’s body.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun concluded that Qin Jian’s attachment to the Homeworld could help them obtain the stored memories, and Xi Xiu identified Yu Lian as the person he loved.
• Xi Xiu befriended Yu Lian and earned Qin Jian’s trust; Yu Lian revealed that she felt she was occupying someone else’s body and wished to find her own.
• After Yu Lian told Qin Jian she wanted to find her original body, Qin Jian planned an escape and enlisted Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun to help.
• The four escaped the laboratory, and Qin Jian used surveillance and his system to evade their pursuers.
• Outside, Yu Lian saw a vast desert beside the sea, while Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun realized the Homeworld had been devastated by war.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun helped Qin Jian fulfill his wish to live with Yu Lian, then recovered the Homeworld’s memories and learned of its ruin. After a ten-year journey with their companions, they found the Blue Planet and stopped their Starship nearby, ready to return home.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun escaped the experimental base with Qin Jian and Yu Lian, then helped Qin Jian discover that his family had died decades earlier and settle with Yu Lian in a remote village.
• Qin Jian unlocked his complete memories, revealing the Homeworld’s devastation, the experiments conducted there, and how his spacecraft had drifted to the Jingsu Alliance.
• Xi Xiu agreed to help the AI Brain establish signal relay stations, and she and Qing Zhixun prepared to leave on a long journey.
• Wei Lanshan, Vivian, A Xian, Krell, and others joined Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and Li Zhengfeng aboard the Starship.
• After traveling for ten Alliance years, the group reached A Xian’s coordinates and found the Blue Planet; Qing Zhixun stopped the Starship nearby and activated stealth mode.