Chapter Summaries

Xi Xiu and her team began their warship exercise against Yue Qila’s team, using coordinated maneuvers to score points. Guo Guangqing’s reckless decisions and insults fractured his team’s cooperation as he pursued the retreating red warship.

• Yue Qila read Guo Guangqing’s disparaging group-chat messages about 626 and 828 and warned Zhang Jixing to focus on coordination and watch the red team.
• Xi Xiu’s team took their assigned stations, reached the designated location, and concealed their warship before revealing it to Yue Qila’s team.
• Guo Guangqing ordered an attack without waiting for calculations, but Xi Xiu’s warship dodged and scored a hit while Zhang Jixing struggled to defend.
• Guo Guangqing abandoned the agreed plan and demanded attacks from all directions, while Yue Qila and Lan Shengwu objected and the instructors withheld bonus points during the dispute.
• Guo Guangqing hit Xi Xiu’s warship but scored less than the red team, then pursued it as it retreated; Yue Qila took control and he insulted women for being timid.

Xi Xiu's team defeated Yue Qila's team by ten points in practical training, outmaneuvering their traps and defenses. Afterward, Guo Guangqing's teammates blamed his tactics and resolved to switch teams, while Xi Xiu learned that their victory had become a major topic on the internal network.

• Lu Mingyue tracked the red side's route, but Xi Xiu's team escaped Yue Qila's encirclement and scored.
• Yue Qila used exploding asteroids to attack Xi Xiu's starship, but Xi Xiu and A Xian dodged the lethal weapons and scored again.
• Guo Guangqing proposed luring the red side into a trap, but Xi Xiu's team stopped safely outside it and began to retreat.
• Yue Qila ordered her starship to intercept Xi Xiu's team, whose weapons broke through the blue side's level-five defenses and secured a ten-point victory.
• Yue Qila blamed Guo Guangqing for changing their tactics, and his teammates decided to switch teams when they returned.
• He Yinlei congratulated Xi Xiu and showed him the match's prominent discussion post, while screenshots of Guo Guangqing's boasts appeared on the internal network.

After Guo Guangqing’s team lost the practical training by ten points, he accused Xi Xiu’s group of cheating and drew condemnation online. Xu Enchi reviewed the evidence and submitted his recommendations to Principal Lu Shouyi, while the practical training ended with Xi Xiu’s group famous across the Combat Department.

• Guo Guangqing argued online that Xi Xiu’s group had hidden their strength or broken the rules, while Hai Suomiao and Liang Jingxian countered with past assessment results and students condemned him.
• Xu Enchi summoned Gan Fu’er and Chen Junwu to discuss the online dispute and their students’ performance.
• Luo Yunzhong gave Xu Enchi recordings of Yue Qila’s team and explained the teams’ previous assessment results and Guo Guangqing’s role in the loss.
• Xu Enchi considered the students’ records and sent his recommendation report to Principal Lu Shouyi.
• Gan Fu’er and Chen Junwu discussed their students’ prospects, and the practical training ended on the third day with Xi Xiu’s group famous throughout the Combat Department.

After winning first place in practical training, Xi Xiu and her classmates learned that none of their teams had been recommended for the school’s key training list. Their teachers and friends helped them regain their resolve, and they decided to train harder as they entered their third year.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian celebrated their first-place practical training result and received congratulations and gifts from their families and friends.
• Gan Fu'er and Chen Junwu showed Team 626 and Team 828 the key training recommendations, which included none of their students, and urged them to keep training and prioritize survival.
• The students found that many recommended names had benefited from connections, and A Xian encouraged her disappointed teammates to prove themselves through future achievements.
• Xi Xiu reminded Liang Jingxian and the others that only they could deny their own efforts, and Enweit declared that he would follow her to build great achievements.
• The students laughed at Enweit's confusion when Xi Xiu questioned why his plans involved her, then resolved to train harder in their third year.

After the recommendation-list uproar faded, Xi Xiu and her classmates prepared for their final warship assessment, Blind Fishing. Team 626 completed the assessment within the allotted time, but the invigilator deducted points, leaving them unsure what they had done wrong.

• Guo Guangqing's three female teammates transferred out after his behavior was reported, and he was left with only two male students; Kuang Biru argued with him and then learned from Guo Songlian that her Mental Power could recover in a year.
• Xi Xiu and her classmates studied warship layouts and compartment locations while preparing for the dangerous final-term Blind Fishing assessment.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, Tarasha, and their teammates split into three groups and entered the warship from separate directions under invigilator Luo Yunzhong.
• Xi Xiu and Enweit inspected and repaired the logistics section, fixing a malfunction in its sixth compartment before continuing their route.
• Team 626 completed the assessment within the allotted time, but Luo Yunzhong deducted points when they exited the warship.

Class 626 challenged Luo Yunzhong’s deduction of their assessment points by arguing that their fast, complete work reflected trust between comrades, and he restored their marks. Afterward, Luo Yunzhong reported their high grades to Xu Enchi, while Xi Xiu and A Xian suspected the teacher had acted deliberately.

• Luo Yunzhong deducted points from Class 626 for taking shortcuts, and Xi Xiu challenged his reasoning by defending the class’s trust in one another as comrades.
• Class 626 backed Xi Xiu, and Luo Yunzhong restored their points after realizing they had followed the rules.
• Su Jinbao, Flora, Tarasha, and A Xian discussed Xi Xiu’s confrontation as the class returned to their dormitory with full marks.
• Luo Yunzhong told Xu Enchi about Class 626’s strong grades, and Xu Enchi ordered that they be pushed to reach the top five by the end of their third year.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian that she had spoken up because the deduction was unfair, and A Xian decided to ask her brother to investigate Luo Yunzhong.

After graduation, Xi Xiu and A Xian received powerful Anvile mechs from Wu Jingyang and each bonded with one of its advanced artificial intelligences. They learned the mechs were dangerous combat-loving troublemakers and were told to name and treat them well.

• Qing Zhixun, Li Yuanting, and Lin Changchang prepared to serve in the Yuanri Star System, while Xi Xiu resolved to return to Gaia alive when her own time came.
• Xi Xiu declined A Xian's invitation to Anvile so she could study equipment with Xue Fanhui.
• Wu Jingyang delivered advanced Anvile mechs to Xi Xiu and A Xian and explained how to bond with their 99th-generation artificial intelligences.
• A Xian used her Mental Power to make the gold mech recognize her as its master.
• Xi Xiu gently connected with the black mech's artificial intelligence, which welcomed her as its master, Hong Xixiu.
• Wu Jingyang revealed that both mechs housed upgraded combat-loving intelligences and told Xi Xiu and A Xian to name them.

Xi Xiu and Xue Fanhui were ambushed at Seven-Star Lake by five powerful attackers, and Xi Xiu realized her opponent was a creature that regarded humans as prey. The battle continued as Wu Yuan engaged three attackers and Xue Fanhui wounded her opponent.

• Xi Xiu thanked A Xian and Wu Jingyang for the mecha, then returned to school and studied machinery with Xue Fanhui.
• Xue Fanhui scolded the recommenders for excluding Xi Xiu, and Xi Xiu explained that the list favored the face of the establishment.
• Xi Xiu and Xue Fanhui went to Seven-Star Lake, where Xi Xiu sensed five attackers and prepared to fight.
• The attackers used a data transmission jammer, so Xi Xiu opened Anvile's encrypted channel and summoned Wu Yuan.
• Wu Yuan took on three attackers while Xi Xiu fought a clawed creature whose metallic skin and predatory gaze made her suspect it was a Star Beast.
• Xi Xiu's Silver Beads inflicted only superficial wounds, while Xue Fanhui struck her opponent in the shoulder.

Xi Xiu and her companions defeated the attackers, but the mysterious force behind them remained hidden. After returning to school, Xi Xiu and Xue Fanhui clashed with Xiao Wenjiu and Tang Zhankuan, leaving Xi Xiu suspecting the danger was not over.

• Xi Xiu killed the strange creature by driving a dagger into the back of its head and then severing its head, while Wu Yuan defeated his three opponents.
• Xue Fanhui said the Alliance had never encountered creatures like these, and Xi Xiu sent her recorded combat footage to the Central Brain before Alliance Guards arrived to collect the bodies.
• The mysterious person who had sent the attackers praised Xi Xiu for killing their Star Spirit Warriors and ordered a subordinate to pay their informant and end contact.
• Xi Xiu, Xue Fanhui, and Wu Yuan returned to school, where Ebony was upset it had missed the battle until Xi Xiu comforted it with Mental Power.
• On the way back, Xue Fanhui traded sharp remarks with Xiao Wenjiu and Tang Zhankuan after Xiao mocked her for having no home, and Xi Xiu drove past them without engaging.

After the Alliance Guards failed to identify the attackers, Wu Jingyang told Xi Xiu and A Xian that the creature was based on an ancient weapon project whose files had supposedly been destroyed. The family suspected the attackers had obtained the old data, and Xi Xiu learned that many powerful families and researchers had once known about it.

• The Alliance Guards sealed away information about the creature and told Xi Xiu that their investigation had stalled, while the Central Brain began a network-wide search.
• A Xian and Wu Jingyang hurried to Gaia after learning Xi Xiu had been attacked, and Wu Jingyang set up a barrier before hearing her account of the creature.
• Wu Jingyang explained that the creature had been envisioned as a weapon over a thousand years earlier, before Marshal Li Zhengfeng rejected the project and its files were supposedly destroyed.
• Wu Jingyang said the old files might have been secretly kept or stolen from beneath the Star Domain, and A Xian asked whether the attackers were responsible; he said his family suspected they were.
• Wu Jingyang listed the families and researchers who had known about the project, warned that the attackers might target Xi Xiu again, and told her and A Xian to master their mechs.

After Wu Jingyang left, Xi Xiu and A Xian learned how dangerous the fully developed Bio-constructs could be and intensified their training, while Xue Fanhui began privately researching a weapon. Xu Fengxiang later visited Xi Xiu on Wei Lanshan’s recommendation and invited her to study as an Ancient Martial Arts inheritor on Shangyue Star.

• Wu Jingyang told Xi Xiu to keep the Ebony plant with her and help it grow quickly before leaving Anvile to assist the Alliance’s investigation.
• A Xian showed Xi Xiu Anvile’s secret data on the Star Beasts, explaining their strength and the grave cost of destroying them.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian increased their training, and Xue Fanhui joined them and privately began researching a weapon using Xi Xiu’s combat data.
• Xi Xiu downloaded Martial Skills from the Star Net as the three prepared to train.
• Xu Fengxiang and Wan Youlin visited Xi Xiu, and Xu Fengxiang offered her access to Shangyue Star’s Martial Skills and a place as one of its Ancient Martial Arts inheritors.

Xi Xiu and Wu Jingxian joined Shangyue Star’s Nine Star lineage and began training under Xu Fengxiang. At Li Zhengfeng’s former residence, Xu Fengxiang assessed Xi Xiu’s martial skills and was impressed by her performance.

• Xi Xiu agreed to join Shangyue Star alongside Wu Jingxian, and Xu Fengxiang arranged for a teacher to instruct them every six months.
• Xu Fengxiang told Wan Youlin to keep their induction quiet while giving the two girls Shangyue Star’s insignia.
• Gu Jinyan learned that Xu Fengxiang had chosen Hong Xixiu and Wu Jingxian, reviewed their records, and regretted misjudging Xi Xiu.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian visited Li Zhengfeng’s former residence, where Wan Youlin welcomed them and Xu Fengxiang prepared to assess their abilities.
• Xi Xiu used her own coherent style, built from more than ten martial skills, and received over a hundred of Xu Fengxiang’s moves, impressing him.

Xi Xiu and A Xian trained under Xu Fengxiang and made rapid progress, learning his Martial Skills and developing distinct combat styles. Xu Fengxiang encouraged Xi Xiu and discussed her weaknesses, while he wondered about the girls’ hidden potential.

• Xi Xiu lasted two hundred moves against Xu Fengxiang, after which he accepted her and A Xian as disciples and introduced them to their other masters on Shangyue Star.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian trained intensively for more than ten days, memorized Xu Fengxiang’s Martial Skills, and shaped different fighting styles.
• Xi Xiu’s speed began to challenge Wan Youlin, while Xu Fengxiang learned that A Xian’s Mental Power had surpassed 3S and suspected Xi Xiu’s was even higher.
• Xu Fengxiang reassured Xi Xiu that her masters would protect her, mentioned taking her to Shangyue Star when Wei Lanshan returned, and advised her on her combat habits.
• After sparring, A Xian told Wan Youlin they would need at least two years to catch up to him, leaving him doubtful and disheartened.

Xi Xiu and A Xian prepared to return to school while Xu Fengxiang went to the Elder Council to reject its demand that Ye Zhenwei inherit Li Zhengfeng’s power. The meeting ended in confrontation after Xu Fengxiang asserted that he had come as Nine Star’s representative to choose a successor.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian decided to return to school after training at Li Zhengfeng's old residence, and Xu Fengxiang arranged for Wan Youlin to escort them safely.
• Xu Fengxiang and Wan Youlin traveled to the Elder Council to discuss its demand that they take Ye Zhenwei in.
• Xu Fengxiang rejected the request, saying the Nine Star lineage had already decided against it and that the choice was not his alone.
• Chen Huan showed Ye Zhenwei's training videos and argued that her growth could benefit the Alliance, but Xu Fengxiang cited her past negligence that had led to two soldiers' deaths.
• Xu Fengxiang declared that he had come as Nine Star's representative to take in a successor, and when Chen Huan challenged his authority, Xu Fengxiang released his Mental Power against the three Elders.

Xu Fengxiang rejected the Elder Council’s efforts to influence Shangyue Star and refused Ye Zhenwei’s plea to become his disciple, while explaining that Shangyue Star had rejected her over her past conduct toward Feng Qiqi. He left to warn Xi Xiu and Wu Jingxian, and Ye Zhenwei learned that Feng Qiqi had been the girl she once dismissed at school.

• Xu Fengxiang refused to reveal which students had caught his eye, while Chen Huan and Jiang Tianyue considered ways to bring Shangyue Star’s influence under Ye Zhenwei’s control.
• Wan Youlin recalled how Shangyue Star had abandoned plans to recruit Ye Zhenwei after Feng Qiqi returned with recordings of Ye Zhenwei’s arrogant and hostile behavior.
• Ye Zhenwei confronted Xu Fengxiang and begged him to accept her as a disciple, but he refused and told Chen Huan to decide what to do with the candidates himself.
• Xu Fengxiang and Wan Youlin returned to the former residence, where Xu Fengxiang agreed they should tell Xi Xiu and Wu Jingxian about the situation and the possible risk from Ye Zhenwei.
• Chen Nansheng told Ye Zhenwei that the girl she had dismissed at school was Feng Qiqi, Feng Yueci’s daughter, and recalled how Xilo and Chris had kept others away from her.

Xi Xiu and A Xian trained with their new mechas, then learned from Wan Youlin about the Nine Stars’ refusal to accept Ye Zhenwei as a disciple and the warning to avoid her. The chapter ended with Wan Youlin reassuring them they could handle Ye Zhenwei if they had to.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian sparred in their new mechas, whose AIs criticized their piloting and displayed distinct personalities.
• Xi Xiu decided to discuss a name for her mecha’s AI, and she and A Xian planned to spar with Wan Youlin when he and Xu Fengxiang returned.
• Wan Youlin told Xi Xiu and A Xian that the Nine Stars had rejected the Elder Council’s request to take Ye Zhenwei as a disciple because her character did not meet their standards.
• Wan Youlin warned the two to avoid Ye Zhenwei, who had improved through comprehensive training, and explained the events behind the rejection.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian promised to avoid unnecessary conflict, and Wan Youlin reassured them they were strong enough to defeat Ye Zhenwei.

Xi Xiu and A Xian returned to school, where their teammates learned about the attack and resolved to train harder. After Tarasha and Flora rejoined them, Room 626 began its demanding new-semester training.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian returned to Jingtian Building, where Ebony’s vines dragged Xi Xiu toward its flowerpot before A Xian rescued her.
• Su Jinbao and Enweit returned to school, asked Xi Xiu about the attack, and learned that the creature’s body had been handed to the Alliance’s biological research institute.
• Enweit offered to help fund mech purchases, but Wu Jingxian said she had already covered the cost, and Xi Xiu drew up a new training plan for the team.
• Su Jinbao and Enweit asked Liang Jingxian about the attack, but the Central Brain had sealed and erased the relevant information.
• After Tarasha and Flora returned, all six members of Room 626 began more difficult training and studied Martial Skills and classic battle videos.

626 trained for the new semester before Xi Xiu and her teammates were assigned to welcome freshmen at the academy gates. Yue Qila watched Xi Xiu with a competitive gaze, while Gu Jinyan regretted having misjudged her and decided to personally guide his disciples.

• Wu Yuan began monitoring information about Xi Xiu, interstellar mercenaries, and Bio-constructs with Xi Xiu's agreement.
• After three days of training, Xi Xiu, A Xian, Enweit, and the rest of 626 stood at the academy entrance to welcome incoming students.
• Yue Qila questioned Gu Jinyan about why the Nine Star lineage had accepted Xi Xiu and Wu Jingxian as disciples.
• Gu Jinyan regretted his earlier judgment of Xi Xiu and decided to return to Gaia to train Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing personally.
• Xi Xiu noticed Yue Qila staring at her with fighting spirit, while A Xian grew impatient at the attention from the freshmen.

After orientation, Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed Yue Qila’s suspicious interest and the risks of Xi Xiu’s hidden identity. A Xian learned about Xi Xiu’s difficult past and arranged extra protection for her records, leaving Xi Xiu more confident that she could keep her identity secret and live peacefully.

• A Xian noticed Yue Qila watching Xi Xiu and decided to record suspicious incidents for Wu Jingyang to investigate.
• Yue Qila resolved to investigate Xi Xiu after doubting that Nine Star had chosen her talent legitimately.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu about Yue Qila’s interest, and Xi Xiu suspected Gu Jinyan had revealed that they were Nine Star’s disciples.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian reviewed her file and discussed how her parents’ information and genetic records might expose her identity.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian about her birth, and A Xian arranged an additional protected identity file with help from her parents, Wu Jingmu, and Liuga.

Xue Fanhui’s battleship and mech designs passed testing, earning her group a major Alliance award, while Xiao Wenjiu grew jealous and an unknown hacker investigated the laboratory’s network. As Xi Xiu and her friends continued training, Ye Zhenwei discovered that Hong Xi Xiu had become the successor of the Nine Stars.

• The first Starlight battleship and mechs passed their basic tests, and Xue Fanhui’s group received the Alliance Outstanding Mech Design Award and ten thousand contribution points.
• Xue Fanhui exchanged congratulations with Xiao Wenjiu, who concealed his jealousy and considered her a major rival for the future Chief of Equipment position.
• After Xiao Wenjiu left the laboratory, its database copied and erased traces of data, and Wu Jingyang traced the activity back to the lab before deciding to investigate further.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, and 626 maintained their demanding studies and training, including guidance from Xu Fengxiang and mech sparring with Wan Youlin.
• Ye Zhenwei uncovered why Xu Fengxiang had secretly left Shangyue Star and learned that Hong Xi Xiu, whom she had once overlooked, was the successor of the Nine Stars.