Recaps

Wei Lanshan returned to the Jingsu Alliance with Xi Xiu’s reunion and discoveries of a machine-consciousness conspiracy, while the Alliance prepared for outside threats. Ye Zhenwei’s confrontation with Wei Lanshan deepened her resolve to train as Yuan Chuhong prepared to counter the Boyuan Family’s plans.

• Ye Zhenwei challenged Xi Xiu over Hong Xixiu, lost the fight, and was bound by an agreement not to trouble Hong Xixiu again.
• Wei Lanshan fought off repeated attacks on the Communication Ships, reached Liuning Fortress with help from Long Xingxue and Ming Weiman, and learned that enemies were waiting along her route.
• Fang Jinyu discovered a Bionic Robot carrying an enemy consciousness aboard a Communication Ship, prompting the Central Brain and Elder Council to tighten robot security.
• Wei Lanshan returned to Gaia and reunited with Xi Xiu after fourteen years, then described her work and discoveries in the Xianri Alliance.
• The Elder Council recalled household robots and shared Wei Lanshan’s research under strict controls as the Alliance investigated stolen archives and prepared defenses against bio-constructs and foreign forces.
• Ye Zhenwei confronted Wei Lanshan over the Ye Family’s test subjects, but Wei Lanshan said the subjects had died and their agreement with the family was settled.
• Ye Zhenwei returned to training under Yuan Chuhong, who learned that the Boyuan Family planned to break her engagement and began preparing countermeasures.

Xi Xiu and her teammates completed their final year of training as the Alliance prepared them for service, while clues about a hidden enemy and the danger of Eternal Robots remained unresolved. As graduation approached, Xi Xiu and A Xian said farewells, received support for their future assignments, and returned to school for their final joint drill.

• Yuan Chuhong told Ye Zhenwei about the Boyuan Family’s plans, and Ye Zhenwei accepted the breakup, vowed to surpass Qing Shihao, and publicly accused the family of wanting her as a breeding machine.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian considered whether a surviving project leader had uploaded his consciousness into an Eternal Robot, while Wu Jingya’s investigation lost its leads and the Alliance issued a warning about tampered robots.
• Xi Xiu and Xue Fanhui underwent gene modification surgery, then welcomed Zhen and Nie Xien to Gaia for their exchange visit before saying goodbye as their paths began to diverge.
• After 626 Squad finished first in the sixth-year test, Lu Shouyi challenged Xu Enchi’s candidate selections and arranged special seventh-year training for 626 and 828.
• Xi Xiu’s team beat 828 in their first special session, and later Xi Xiu defeated Yue Qila as 626 won their matches against the specially selected students.
• During intense final training, Xi Xiu and her teammates mastered repairing clothing with mecha, shared their future plans, and promised to survive service and reunite after retirement.
• Wei Lanshan gave Xi Xiu medical pods and weapons before leaving on a secret mission, while Xu Fengxiang’s elders gave Xi Xiu and A Xian gifts and arranged support for Xi Xiu’s base.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian returned to school for their final joint drill after A Xian reported that Wu Jingya and Wu Jingyang had found strange but incomplete leads about a hidden enemy.

Xi Xiu led her classmates through a dangerous military exercise, rescued the trapped Red Team, and prepared for the Alliance’s growing threat from Bio-constructs. As graduation brought the friends to their new assignments, Li Zhengfeng’s records revealed his origins and drew Xi Xiu into a confrontation with the Xing Family head at the Elder Council.

• Xi Xiu guided her team through the Virtual Network battle and later organized the blue-flag students for the Gaia exhibition, where the Blue side outmaneuvered the Red side.
• When Yue Qila led the Red fleet into the Black Zone and more than half its ships were trapped, Xi Xiu and A Xian entered the danger zone and helped rescue the students.
• The exhibition ended with the Blue side ahead, and Chu Xuliang warned the graduating students that Bio-constructs could soon threaten the Alliance.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian investigated the Bio-constructs’ possible origins as Team 626 prepared for service in Yuanri, while Hai Suomiao accepted her assignment at the Barren Sea and raised her Mental Power threshold with Xi Xiu’s help.
• At graduation, Group 626 received the Combat Department’s top team honor, and Xi Xiu learned that Kuang Biru and Guo Guangqing would join her in Yuanri.
• Xi Xiu translated Li Zhengfeng’s sealed notes, which revealed that he came from another spacetime, opposed the Eternal Robot experiments, and knew a method for killing consciousness inside a robotic body.
• At the Elder Council, the Xing Family head demanded Li Zhengfeng’s files, and Xi Xiu and A Xian challenged him with their Mental Power while A Xian pointed out that Li Zhengfeng’s remains were buried on Shangyue Star.

Xi Xiu and her team left Gaia for Yuan Ri, trained new recruits, and uncovered evidence that missing citizens were being turned into Eternal Robot soldiers. After the team passed its assessment, Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun infiltrated Yuan Ri Prime to investigate its unrestricted mechs and their plans to fight the Jingsu Alliance.

• Xi Xiu revealed Li Zhengfeng’s manuscript to the Elder Council, which agreed to test his proposed solution to the Eternal Robots issue, while Chu Zekuan took charge of the files.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian about her former life and embraced her new family before leaving Gaia with her team and the First Military Academy graduates.
• Qing Zhixun led the fleet to Yuan Ri, where Xi Xiu and her team discovered that Minghuo Star Pirates had captured soldiers’ consciousnesses and sent them to a shifting destination called The Cradle.
• Fang Jinyu brought records of missing people to Qing Zhixun, who suspected the missing citizens had become Eternal Robot soldiers and sent the evidence to Gaia for investigation.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian trained team H909 intensively for three months, and the team passed its assessment before being assigned to stop the Mech Soldiers’ secession movement on Yuan Ri’s main planet.
• When Yuan Ri’s warships barred the Alliance forces from landing, Qing Zhixun led Xi Xiu and others in a disguised infiltration of Central City and the Underground City.
• Xi Xiu learned that Yuan Ri’s mechs planned to gather for a battle against the Jingsu Alliance, then joined Qing Zhixun in defeating the gathering ground’s challengers and leaders.
• Inside the gathering place, Xi Xiu recognized its transparent metal as material from the Endless Sea and struck out when Spring Arm ordered Genetic Verification.