Chapter Summaries

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun challenged Spring Arm’s demand for their identities and used Yuari’s body-modification custom to establish their loyalty. They learned they could join the second gathering in five days, while Qing Zhixun assessed Yuari’s preparations for war against the Jingsu Alliance.

• Xi Xiu refused to reveal their information, arguing that the stronger newcomers had no obligation to answer questions from Yuari’s leaders.
• When someone accused them of being Jingsu spies, Xi Xiu cited Yuari’s custom that warriors with over fifty percent of their bodies modified should not have their origins or loyalty questioned.
• Spring Arm confirmed the custom but demanded to know how Xi Xiu had learned about it, and she claimed Yuari had guided her there.
• Spring Arm told them the first gathering was complete and they could join the second batch in five days, possibly as captains of the warrior vanguard.
• Qing Zhixun estimated that Yuari could assemble its forces within days and considered how the Alliance might defend against the first wave of Mech Soldiers.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun infiltrated Yuanri’s gathering site with fabricated identities and uncovered signs of its preparations for war against the Alliance. They headed for the square to gather intelligence, while Spring Arm ordered them watched and they planned to observe the next assembly before leaving.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun submitted fabricated identities, and Spring Arm’s system verified them without finding problems.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun noticed an extra icon on the Central Brain-like system and considered capturing an administrator to learn how Yuanri bypassed the Central Brain.
• Spring Arm let Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun go to the square, while he ordered his subordinates to monitor their movements.
• Xi Xiu sensed that Yuanri’s forces were united and ready to either unify the Alliance or destroy it, and Qing Zhixun learned the next assembly would begin at dawn and finish within three days.
• Qing Zhixun said the team would use the short-range Transmission Channel to leave, but he and Xi Xiu would stay to gather intelligence about Yuanri’s leaders and assembly.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun uncovered clues that Yuan Ri’s Mech Soldiers might rely on archived consciousness, then evaded surveillance and prepared to gather intelligence at Yuan Ri Star Plaza. The five disguised themselves and joined the solemn crowd, reaching the plaza as armed Mechs assembled ahead.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun discussed Yuan Ri’s resolve to conquer or destroy the Jingsu Alliance and the unexplained concept of archiving powerful lifeforms’ consciousnesses.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun evaded patrolling Mech Soldiers and returned to A Xian, then led the group away from the entrance.
• Spring Arm learned his subordinate had lost the five, received instructions to ignore them, and ordered private surveillance to continue.
• Qing Zhixun released more than a hundred nearly undetectable Mini Robots to collect intelligence, while Xi Xiu told A Xian what she had learned.
• Xi Xiu and the others disguised themselves, blended into the crowd, and followed it to Yuan Ri Star Plaza.
• Xi Xiu recorded the fully armed Mechs standing before the plaza in armor resembling the Alliance’s Wearable Mecha.

Xi Xiu and her companions infiltrated a square where Mechs received assignments, but a sudden fight exposed their strength and drew the attention of a disguised Grandmaster. The man recognized their credentials as figures from the Holy Land, leaving Qing Zhixun wary and determined to investigate it further after they escaped.

• Xi Xiu recorded the strange language as the group listened to the Mechs receive their assignments and followed them toward the Starship docking area.
• A fight broke out between Mechs, and Qing Zhixun led Xi Xiu and the others away from the clash.
• A group of Mechs attacked Xi Xiu's team for retreating, forcing them to fight back as more combatants joined.
• A powerful newcomer arrived, stopped the other Mechs, and questioned why Yuanri had not reported the team's talents.
• Qing Zhixun presented their genuine registration data, and the newcomer identified them as figures from the Holy Land.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun convinced Yuanri's leader to let them join the vanguard, while Xi Xiu provoked him and A Xian intimidated him. After boarding the ship, they discovered that the vanguard was being equipped with devices attached to their modified arms, leaving their purpose unclear.

• Qing Zhixun followed the leader's account of the vanguard mission while the leader promised rewards and surgeries to persuade the group to serve Yuanri.
• Xi Xiu pretended to covet the leader's position and said she wanted to fight the Saint, while Su Jinbao and Enweit were shocked by her violent act.
• A Xian released her intimidating aura and challenged the leader, and the group was allowed to leave and join the vanguard.
• The leader's associates revealed that the vanguard was a suicide unit for a plan requiring a vast amount of consciousness.
• Xi Xiu and the others boarded the ship, where staff attached devices to every Mech's modified arm, and Qing Zhixun noticed something was wrong.

Qing Zhixun and his team escaped Yuan Ri with a captured Mech and warned the base that Yuan Ri’s forces were preparing to attack. The base mobilized for battle, while Qing Zhixun planned to strike the enemy in space before it could reach the ground.

• Qing Zhixun proposed capturing a Mech, but Xi Xiu revealed that Wu Mu had already gone and brought one back silently.
• Qing Zhixun and the others attached their cloaked aircraft to Yuan Ri’s Starship, then escaped and rendezvoused with their base’s Starship.
• Qing Zhixun warned Jin Xida that Yuan Ri had cracked the Mechs’ restriction program and was sending forces toward the base.
• Jin Xida and the other district commanders put the base on high alert as reconnaissance robots counted over a thousand Starships carrying around twenty million individuals.
• The base deployed its forces into space under Lin Zaiqin’s command, while Qing Zhixun resolved to destroy Yuan Ri’s warships before they reached the ground.

Lin Zaiqin’s fleet intercepted Yuanshi’s vanguard while Qing Zhixun’s forces waited in hiding to defend the base from any fighters that broke through. Yuanshi sent waves of fighters and adaptable Mechs into battle, leaving Lin Zaiqin worried about the base’s defenses and the growing threat of Yuanshi’s technology.

• Lin Zaiqin divided the base’s warships into six groups, keeping two fleets in front while the others hid to ambush Yuanshi’s vanguard.
• Qing Zhixun had A Xian send the extracted device data to Wu Jingyang and suspected the devices were consciousness extraction systems.
• Yuanshi’s vanguard attacked Lin Zaiqin’s fleet, and its Mech Soldiers poured out in fighters aimed at the base.
• The base’s warships destroyed many fighters, but Yuanshi continued launching them, and some Mechs transformed and assembled themselves in space.
• Xi Xiu revealed that Senior Sister Feng had positioned Nine Stars’ people above the base to stop any Mechs that slipped through.
• Lin Zaiqin watched Yuanshi’s Mechs display technology that seemed to surpass the Alliance’s and feared they would reach the base.

Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu led the defense against Yuari Mechs, pursuing those that escaped the space battle down to the base planet. Xi Xiu killed her first opponent in real combat and rushed to help a teammate, while more Mechs reached the surface.

• Qing Zhixun ordered the defenders to stop the Yuari Mechs from reaching the ground, and Xi Xiu led Team 909 into space in fighters and wearable mecha.
• Xi Xiu arranged her team and allied forces into encirclements, eliminating many Yuari Mechs before some escaped toward the planet.
• Qiu Shaorong pursued the escaping Mechs while Xi Xiu and A Xian followed them toward the surface, and Qing Zhixun warned the ground teams to prepare.
• Xi Xiu's team intercepted some Mechs before they landed, but increasing numbers reached the surface, where Xi Xiu, A Xian, and Qing Zhixun joined the fight.
• Xi Xiu defeated her experienced Mech opponent by tearing off his arm and destroying his leg's mobility system, then rushed to support a teammate as the dying Mech's device activated.

Xi Xiu, A Xian, Qing Zhixun, and the base soldiers defeated Yuanri’s vanguard after rescuing the nearly destroyed southern base. The southern commander’s death revealed that the Alliance had been infiltrated, leaving Qing Zhixun and the Elder Council facing a threat they did not know how to investigate.

• Xi Xiu, A Xian, Qing Zhixun, and Team 909 fought the Mechs as they poured onto the base, while injured soldiers received treatment from Medical Robots.
• Qing Zhixun led reinforcements through the wartime Teleportation Channel to the southern base, where the Mechs had nearly razed the sector and overwhelmed its defenders.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, Qiu Shaorong, and the others helped turn the battle around, and Alliance forces destroyed the Mechs on the ground and Yuanri’s vanguard fleet in space.
• Qing Zhixun found the southern commander dead in his office with the same strange smile as the other infiltrated people and reported the scene to Gaia.
• The Elder Council held an emergency meeting but could not determine how to identify infiltrators, so it began investigating its own members.

Qing Zhixun oversaw the Yuanri Base’s recovery after the Mech attack, while Wu Jingyang’s discovery of the Mechs’ consciousness-transfer code helped the Alliance strengthen its defenses. As the base prepared for a potentially larger second attack, Xi Xiu learned that Wu Jingya’s investigation into the Qin Family had led near Shangyue Star and asked Xu Fengxiang to check the Nine Stars archives.

• Qing Zhixun returned to the eastern district, urged Jin Xida to alert the other districts to the danger, and sent his soldiers to rest and prepare combat reports.
• Marcel took temporary command of the southern district, which was rebuilt within seven days, while all four districts added new defenses.
• Wu Jingyang found that dying Mechs could have their consciousness stripped and transmitted to “The Cradle,” and his new detection program was installed at bases and border fortresses.
• Qing Zhixun and other teams concluded that Yuanri’s second attack would involve even more Mechs, prompting the four district commanders to plan targeted training.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu that Wu Jingya had found the last place a Qin Family member appeared, near Shangyue Star, and Xi Xiu asked Xu Fengxiang to investigate the Nine Stars archives for signs of what happened after Li Zhengfeng’s death.

Xi Xiu organized a secret investigation into the possibility that someone had been stealing and altering the consciousnesses of the dead, while her team began intensive training at the Yuan Ri Star base. She was also assigned to teach dialogue simulations and reluctantly prepared a detailed guide based on her interrogation tactics.

• Xi Xiu showed Xu Fengxiang and the others Li Zhengfeng’s warning that any other version of him should be killed, then urged them to investigate those who had cared for him and arranged his funeral.
• Xi Xiu had Nine Stars personnel secretly investigate prominent figures from Li Zhengfeng’s era and install Wu Jingyang’s consciousness-stripping program on their terminals.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian feared that the culprit had intercepted deceased Anvile people and might have learned Jing Xi’s identity and Anvile’s secrets.
• Alliance investigators arrived at the Yuan Ri Star base, where Xi Xiu’s team joined the special operations unit and began rigorous training under Qing Zhixun.
• Qing Zhixun assigned Xi Xiu to teach dialogue simulations, so she prepared a detailed guide based on Alliance negotiation videos and her conversations with Mechs on Yuan Ri Star.
• Su Jinbao, Enweit, Flora, and Tarasha praised Xi Xiu’s guide and asked her for a live demonstration.

Xu Jiusong arrived at the Yuan Ri base to command the next battles as Yuan Ri locked down its main planet and prepared to reclaim its Administrative Stars. Qing Zhixun planned a covert mission to investigate Yuan Ri’s Holy Land, where abducted people were transformed into Mech Soldiers.

• Xi Xiu trained soldiers in role-playing techniques, and Wu Jingyang arranged a virtual scenario mode for further practice.
• Yuan Ri locked down its main planet, required entry codes, and announced plans to reclaim its Administrative Stars by force.
• Xu Jiusong arrived at the Yuan Ri base to command the second and third battles, with Qing Family members joining as reinforcements.
• Qing Zhixun presented Xu Jiusong with a detailed plan to investigate the Holy Land, selecting Xi Xiu and experienced veterans for the mission.
• Qing Zhixun explained that the Minghuo Regiment sent abducted people to a secret site for brainwashing and mechanical surgery before they became Yuan Ri’s Mech Soldiers.

Qing Zhixun prepared to investigate and destroy a hidden experimental base while the Alliance struggled with political divisions over Yuanri. Before the team departed, Xi Xiu received Wei Lanshan’s encrypted findings that Xi He was alive and that Xiwei’s mercenary base was still operating under outside control.

• Xu Jiusong ordered Qing Zhixun to gather intelligence on the Holy Land and send coordinates so reinforcements could destroy it.
• Qing Zhixun assured Xu Jiusong that the Qing Family would put the Alliance’s safety first, then issued mission details for an early-morning departure.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, and the others collected the required weapons and protective suits from logistics.
• Wei Lanshan sent Xi Xiu a heavily encrypted message, which Wu Yuan decrypted.
• Wei Lanshan reported that Xi He was alive and had been involved in the ambush on her ship, and that Xiwei’s second-in-command needed approval from someone else before acting.

Xi Xiu and A Xian considered Wei Lanshan’s discovery that the Alliance’s enemy might be hiding in the Black Zone and had been plotting for centuries. After arranging precautions for their team before a mission, they woke with dark circles from a restless night and used Aunt Lan’s special concealer.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian suspected the enemy might be hiding in a Black Zone and asked Sister Jingya and the others to investigate that lead.
• Xi Xiu reviewed Wei Lanshan’s findings about Xi He’s ties to a mysterious person who had promised his followers eternal life and greater power.
• Xi Xiu recalled the strange box-shaped device in Xi He’s room and worried that the hidden enemy’s plans had begun centuries earlier.
• Xi Xiu assigned Yang Jiuqing and Hu Yingyi to oversee team training and stay alert under Marshal Xu Jiusong, then asked Feng Qiqi and Bai Jungo to watch Wu Yuan and assist the garrison if needed.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian woke with dark circles after sleeping poorly, applied Aunt Lan’s special concealer, and A Xian said she had dreamed of being chased by Bio-constructs.

A Xian told Xi Xiu about a frightening dream in which Xi Xiu could not reach her, then warned her to stay safe on their dangerous mission. Xi Xiu and her team boarded a Starship bound for Yuanri’s “Holy Land,” where they prepared for an operation against heavily modified Mechs.

• A Xian recalled dreaming that Xi Xiu was absent and warned her that the mission might be dangerous, while Xi Xiu reassured her and promised to be careful.
• Xi Xiu checked her team’s luggage and led them to the Starship after Qing Zhixun ordered the mission group to board.
• Su Jinbao voiced concern about the mission, and Enweit encouraged him to trust his abilities.
• Xi Xiu and her teammates watched intelligence footage showing that Mechs in the “Holy Land” fought, underwent extensive modifications, and lacked pain nerves.
• Xi Xiu instructed her team to use short-range communicators when their terminals lost signal and to regroup in threes if separated.

Qing Zhixun organized a hundred soldiers into teams to infiltrate Yuanri’s “Holy Land,” gather intelligence, and destroy the facility. After the Starship reached the region, the teams prepared to teleport in, and a mole signaled that they could enter.

• Xi Xiu remembered the survival guidelines she and A Xian had prepared for the team and checked that everyone could recite them.
• Qing Zhixun assigned the mission: one hundred soldiers would enter the “Holy Land” in teams, collect intelligence, and destroy it, while others stayed aboard the Starship to provide support.
• Qing Zhixun warned the soldiers to stay alert and avoid strangers who might fit them with the stripping program; A Xian separately urged Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun to be careful.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu parted ways as the Starship departed, and Xu Jiusong began arranging the base’s defenses.
• After two hours, Qing Zhixun’s Starship reached the “Holy Land” region and sent the infiltrators to the teleportation chamber.
• A mole inside the “Holy Land” signaled Qing Zhixun that the soldiers could enter.

Qing Zhixun led Xi Xiu and a hundred soldiers into the Holy Land under cover of a brief transmission blind spot, then took his team toward Central City to investigate its surgical facilities. As they moved through the strangely familiar city, Xi Xiu grew increasingly suspicious that someone besides Li Zhengfeng had brought knowledge of her era to the Jingsu Alliance.

• Qing Zhixun prepared disguises and identities for the soldiers, then led them into the Holy Land during a one-minute transmission window.
• The twenty teams split up to carry out their assignments, and Qing Zhixun took Xi Xiu and several others toward Central City.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun noticed that the Holy Land's tall concrete buildings and city layout differed from Alliance conventions and resembled places Xi Xiu had known.
• Qing Zhixun reminded his team to maintain their cover as competitors seeking surgery, and they entered Central City without attracting attention.
• Xi Xiu saw familiar shopping plazas, neon lights, milk tea shops, and fast-food restaurants, deepening her suspicions about the Holy Land's origins.

Xi Xiu and her team entered Central City under cover of surgery appointments to steal the facility's data and destroy it. Their plan began when they attacked the Eternal Robot, Medical Robots, and surgeons in the operating room.

• Qing Zhixun led Xi Xiu, Enweit, and the others through identity checks and obtained temporary chips and terminals for them.
• Xi Xiu reassured the nervous Enweit and used her Mental Power to observe the operating rooms and plan an escape route.
• Xi Xiu and Enweit entered their assigned operating room, where Xi Xiu recognized the missing Alliance scientist Gao Shenyi among the surgeons.
• Xi Xiu, Enweit, Wu Mu, and Wu Yuan launched their attack, with Wu Mu destroying the Eternal Robot and Wu Yuan engaging the Medical Robots.

Xi Xiu and Wu Mu destroyed the Eternal Robots’ consciousness before Xi Xiu confronted Gao Shenyi, who tried to capture her but could not overpower her. As the fight continued, another doctor battling Enweit began trying to break Xi Xiu’s Protective Shield and call for help.

• Xi Xiu and Wu Mu attacked the Eternal Robots, and Xi Xiu used Mental Power to destroy their consciousness and stop them from escaping or sending a warning.
• Xi Xiu attacked Gao Shenyi, but he enclosed himself in a transparent protective device that withstood her strike and tried to escape using a teleportation device.
• Xi Xiu immobilized Gao Shenyi’s hand with Mental Power, destroyed the teleportation device, and traded insults with him before they fought.
• Xi Xiu accurately blocked Gao Shenyi’s attacks and gradually gained the upper hand, while he searched for a way to escape.
• Xi Xiu checked that Enweit was holding his own, then focused on Gao Shenyi as another doctor began trying to break through her Protective Shield and call for help.

Xi Xiu defeated Gao Shenyi by using resonance to damage his Mental Power, but he escaped by stripping away his consciousness. After the team gathered evidence and fled the operating rooms, Central City went into emergency lockdown, leaving Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and Fang Jinyu fighting their way toward a rendezvous.

• Xi Xiu used resonating metal spheres to damage Gao Shenyi's Mental Power, but he stripped away his consciousness and escaped; Xi Xiu intercepted part of the transmission data and took his device.
• Xi Xiu and Enweit searched the operating room and copied its records, while Wu Mu bound the doctors and Wu Yuan killed them after the team left.
• Xi Xiu gave Qing Zhixun the evidence and Gao Shenyi's information, and he told the team Fang Jinyu would collect it before they headed to their designated meeting point.
• Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and their companions escaped through a window as Mechs sounded the alarm and Central City descended into disorder.
• Mechs trapped Qing Zhixun's team and Fang Jinyu's people in Central City, forcing them to fight toward one another without using teleportation devices.
• Fang Jinyu arrived and watched Wu Yuan and Wu Mu hold off the Mechs as Xi Xiu led Tarasha, Enweit, and Flora forward.