Recaps

Xi Xiu and A Xian captured the Golden Individuals’ leader, developed a countermeasure to its toxin, and uncovered links between the creatures, Qin Hongjun, and Anvile’s ancient history. After the battlefield was cleared and sealed, the story shifted to Aura’s successful defense against Hanhai.

• Xi Xiu’s team fought the creatures until their golden leader emerged, and A Xian captured it after using Night Soul Grass to counter its toxin.
• A Xian preserved the leader’s consciousness for study, while Xi Xiu’s team destroyed the underground channel and Xu Zhuming investigated the creatures’ reproduction and poison.
• Xi Xiu led a scouting mission to collect toxin data, then set traps using fragments of the leader’s Consciousness Copy and helped Xu Zhuming develop an effective antidote.
• A Xian fought Golden Individuals that transformed into powerful plants, while Xi Xiu’s traps and the new medicine helped the soldiers defeat the creatures.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian uncovered evidence of Qin Jian’s hidden network and learned that the invasive creatures shared an ancient origin with the Anvile People.
• A Xian recounted the conflict between Anvile’s golden and emerald-green branches, and suspected Qin Hongjun had exploited the surviving Green Individuals.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, and their team investigated and sealed the underground passages before watching Aura’s defenses repel Hanhai’s attack.
• Bresen realized Aura had used a decoy flagship to lure Hanhai’s drones into destruction, then learned Qing Yuhui had been sent to Aura Star.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun left Yuari for Liuning Fortress, where they faced Basia’s obstruction and the fortress’s divided command. As both groups began settling in, Xi Xiu exposed Arivik’s concealed strength and defeated his Mental Power attack.

• Xi Xiu helped prepare Jing Su’s defenses, then learned that Qin Hongjun and The Untrustworthy might be developing a weapon against Anvile using Qin Jian’s assistance.
• Xi Xiu said farewell to her friends in Yuari and set out for Liuning Fortress with A Xian and a group of followers, while Flora and He Yinlei transferred elsewhere.
• During the journey, Xi Xiu’s team discussed their mission to find the Huovian people and the influence of Basia and Liuning’s prominent families.
• Basia delayed the arriving starship’s access code, then assigned Qing Zhixun’s group to the eastern district and Xi Xiu’s team to the western district.
• Xi Xiu won over Arivik and the western district soldiers, while Qing Zhixun found gaps in the records of the eastern district’s failed Huovian search and began planning to curb Basia’s power.
• Basia sent Runell and several officers to provoke Qing Zhixun, while Arivik arranged lodging for Xi Xiu’s team and learned that they had come to lead the Huovian investigation.
• Xi Xiu noticed that the western district roster concealed the warriors’ true strength, and Arivik attacked her with Mental Power after sealing the meeting room.
• Xi Xiu remained unaffected by Arivik’s attack and cut his wrist with fine Mental Power threads he could not detect.

Xi Xiu led the West District to Ningkui Star, where her investigation uncovered Parasites, compromised Alliance officials, and a Huovian scheme to use orphaned children. The Parasite threat spread across the Alliance as Xi Xiu and her allies prepared to intercept the Huovian operation at the starport.

• Xi Xiu defeated Arivik, recognized his nine trusted subordinates as members of the Nine Stars’ Dark Department, and secured the West District’s cooperation for the Huovian mission.
• Xi Xiu found that Leisiren had delayed mission supplies and was sending information to the Huovian people, then took eight thousand West District soldiers to Ningkui Star to investigate.
• Xi Xiu’s team discovered juvenile Parasites beneath Ningkui Star’s forest, captured specimens, and helped seal off the area while authorities recalled contaminated Nutrient Paste and screened residents.
• Marianne and Eric discovered that Parasites could merge their Mental Power with a host’s, allowing Xi Xiu to develop a detection method that the Alliance distributed across its star systems.
• Xi Xiu and her allies identified Degu and Teli as hosts, while the Elder Council removed Basia from his post and restricted Leisiren to Liuning Fortress.
• Xi Xiu reunited with Vivian and went undercover with Jiang Li'an at the Children’s Affairs Bureau, where they uncovered Mel and Moffas’s plan to use orphanage children’s identities to move Huovian children between star systems.
• Dora discovered Moffas copying the children’s identity data, and Xi Xiu and Arivik concluded that the Huovian people planned to seize a government Starship.
• Xi Xiu, Dora, and the Orphanage kept the children’s trip on schedule while planning a switch at the starport, as Ningkui Star barred uncertified departures and Mel and Moffas decided to proceed anyway.

Xi Xiu exposed infiltrators, strengthened Ningkui Star’s defenses, and fought Q and Wang Xiankun as the Alliance faced growing attacks. Q survived as a consciousness, and the arc ended with Liuning Fortress fighting a fleet of bio-constructs linked to a likely Qin Hongjun base.

• Song Jing'an used the Star Eye to identify nearly a thousand people with altered terminal marks, while Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun exposed the Xiwen Family’s security failures and Basia realized the Wang Family had manipulated him.
• Nan Hejia and Xi Xiu captured Mel, who revealed that Julie was dead, and Xi Xiu told her that she was the Shixi Family head’s daughter, and Yueye later surrendered and was taken into custody.
• Xi Xiu prepared Ningkui Star’s defenses and joined forces with Feng Qiqi, Bai Jungo, Li Zhengfeng, and Arivik as the Alliance faced attacks across its planets and investigated the spread of clones.
• Qing Wenxu and Chu Xuliang uncovered widespread replacements on Tianning Star, while Ye Zhenwei took command of Tianwei and Bian Linchun extracted a Parasite consciousness from Degu.
• Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng intercepted Q and Wang Xiankun near Ningkui Star, then fought them as Q used a forbidden Anvile technique to strengthen his Mental Power and Li Zhengfeng destroyed Wang Xiankun’s Combat Robot.
• Xi Xiu, Li Zhengfeng, and A Xian coordinated against Q, and Xi Xiu destroyed his body, and Q sent his consciousness to The Cradle, where Qin Hongjun and Qin Jian placed him in a new Blank Body.
• Xi Xiu briefed the captains on Q’s attack, while Arivik and Xi Xiu agreed to share intelligence as partners, after seven days of preparation, six motherships attacked Liuning Fortress.
• Qing Zhixun and Lu Zong'an traced the attacking fleet to a likely Qin Hongjun experimental base, as Lin Changchang, Li Yuanting, and Gerhe led the counterattack.