Chapter Summaries

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun showed the others footage of a hidden swamp where engineered Insects had bred and produced corruption aura aimed at Anvile. Wu Jingyang vowed to find whoever was behind the plot, and the group began examining the Underground City for signs of further threats.

• Xi Xiu projected footage of the underground swamp and its enormous, unknown Insects, while Qing Zhixun showed that their genes overlapped with every Star Beast type known to the Alliance.
• The group watched the Insects kill and devour one another, and Wu Jingyang suspected they had been cultivated to attack Anvile.
• A Xian confirmed that the aura in the Underground City was corruption aura, and Xi Xiu explained that she and Qing Zhixun had destroyed the two kings and burned the swamp clean of eggs.
• Wu Jingyang archived the Underground City's layout and vowed on behalf of the Anweier Royal Family and its nobility to find the person plotting against Anvile.
• Wu Jingyang worried that other Artificial Stars might exist and planned to search for them with Anvile's warriors.

After confirming the Artificial Star was free of insect eggs, Wu Jingyang’s group disabled its systems and returned to the garrison, where Xi Xiu was reunited with Flora. The group left the Artificial Star intact, and Qing Zhixun stayed close to Xi Xiu as they headed home.

• A Xian and Wu Jingyang confirmed that every insect egg had been destroyed, while the Anvile People collected useful items from the underground area.
• Wu Jingyang returned Xi Xiu’s Space Locket, disabled the Artificial Star’s systems, and planted code that could help trace the person who had been monitoring him.
• Wu Jingyang decided to leave the Artificial Star intact, and Qing Zhixun ordered the garrison group to return after scouts found no further problems.
• Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, and the others boarded the Teleportation Device, while A Xian noticed Qing Zhixun’s closeness to Xi Xiu and resolved to question him.
• The Teleportation Device landed safely, and Flora rushed to hug Xi Xiu, relieved that she had returned unharmed.

After reuniting with her friends and returning from the Holy Land, Hong Xixiu and Qing Zhixun headed back to the garrison. Qing Zhixun told A Xian he planned to return to Anvile with Xi Xiu and admitted his feelings, but learned she wanted to find mutual love rather than form a partnership.

• Hong Xixiu reunited with Flora and the others, while Qing Zhixun watched Flora cling to Xi Xiu with irritation.
• The garrison ended the battle in the Holy Land, intercepted thirty percent of the Mech Soldiers' consciousnesses, and seized devices for specialists to study.
• Qing Zhixun told Wu Jingxi that he and Xi Xiu were safe, and said he planned to return to Anvile with Jing Xian once matters on Yuan Day were settled.
• A Xian told Qing Zhixun that Xi Xiu wanted mutual love rather than a partnership, and Qing Zhixun said he would try to persuade the Central Brain to approve her return.
• Qing Zhixun admitted he liked Xi Xiu's scent, and A Xian reminded him that every Anvile Person liked it.

Wu Jingxian agreed to help Qing Zhixun pursue Xi Xiu, then learned Xi Xiu suspected the plot against Anvile was part of a wider plan to overthrow the Jingsu Alliance. The chapter ended with Xi Xiu asking whether A Xian had any leads on the mastermind.

• Wu Jingxian agreed to ask her family about transferring Xi Xiu's match to Qing Zhixun, though she warned that Xi Xiu wanted to avoid him.
• Qing Zhixun told Wu Jingxian that Xi Xiu had supported him when his Mental Power nearly ran dry underground and praised her cooking.
• After returning from Artificial Star, Xi Xiu told Wu Jingxian she suspected the person plotting against Anvile might also target Miu Run Star.
• Wu Jingxian said she would inform her family and try to contact Hai Suomiao in the Barren Sea, where the threat could endanger Miu Run Star.
• Xi Xiu asked Wu Jingxian whether she had any leads on the person behind the plot.

Xi Xiu and A Xian warned Sister Suomiao about a threat in the Barren Sea, while the Alliance prepared an attack on Yuanyang after Xi Xiu returned to base. The chapter ended with Xi Xiu reassuring Yang Jiuqing and Hu Yingyi that she was safe after being rescued from the Holy Land.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian warned Sister Suomiao about a mineral found on Yuanyang, and Sister Suomiao and Yan Lanxi reinforced the Barren Sea defenses before planning to investigate its Homeworld origin.
• Lin Zaiqin and his team destroyed the Holy Land outside Central City, while Wu Jingyang arranged for magnetic-field and Spatial Distortion data to be collected.
• A mysterious man revealed that he had created Eternal Robots and blank carbon-based bodies, and said he intended to make the Jingsu Alliance immortal under his rule.
• The Alliance ordered Xi Xiu's base to attack Yuanyang and supplied a weapon that could stop Mechs from extracting consciousness without causing neural damage.
• Yang Jiuqing and Hu Yingyi visited Xi Xiu after her return, and she told them she was safe but had struggled to find food.

Xi Xiu and Team 909 prepared to join the Alliance’s assault on Yuanri, whose plan to mechanize the Jingsu Alliance threatened another devastating war. The chapter leaves Xi Xiu’s team waiting to descend as the Alliance fleet faces Yuanri’s warships, marking the start of a ten-year conflict.

• Xi Xiu listened to reports from Yang Jiuqing and Hu Yingyi, then decided to spread her Nutrient Paste and seasonings across multiple Space Lockets.
• Xu Jiusong led the soldiers stationed in Yuanri aboard Starships toward Yuanri’s main planet as the base prepared to suppress the Mechanical Star.
• The chapter recounted how Huovian’s century of preparation led to Yuanri’s devastating defeat a thousand years earlier and its subsequent mechanical transformation.
• The Alliance assigned Xi Xiu’s Team 909 to the ground combat vanguard under Qing Zhixun, tasked with disabling Yuanri’s stripping device and capturing Mechs.
• The Alliance fleet arrived beyond Yuanri’s main planet, where Yuanri’s warships awaited, and Xi Xiu told her team to keep their protective equipment on and coordinate in battle.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun led Alliance forces to Yuanri’s main planet, where they identified a suspicious imitation of Li Zhengfeng’s tactics and found the Central City eerily deserted. The chapter left the teams on high alert as they recognized that the changed environment resembled reports about the Eternal Robots.

• Xi Xiu reminded 909 to stay together, avoid reckless fights, and prioritize returning safely as the teams prepared to deploy.
• Xu Jiusong led the fleet toward Yuanri’s main planet, where the Alliance forces faced a much larger enemy formation than before.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian suspected the mastermind was someone close to Li Zhengfeng, while Qing Zhixun concluded Yuanri’s formation only imitated Li Zhengfeng’s tactics.
• Xu Jiusong ordered a fierce barrage that broke Yuanri’s protective barrier, allowing Qing Zhixun and the others to reach the surface without resistance.
• Qing Zhixun’s team entered a deserted Central City, and Xi Xiu raised a Level One Alert after sensing that the environment had changed dramatically.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu noted that Yuanri’s altered environment resembled reports about the Eternal Robots.

Wu Jingxian and the Alliance team discovered that Yuanri’s residents had been stripped of their consciousnesses and that those consciousnesses now inhabited crude Eternal Robot bodies in the plaza. Qing Zhixun arranged to contain the robots and move the brain-dead residents to medical care, while the robots began realizing they were no longer in their own bodies.

• Wu Jingxian found that consciousnesses transferred into Eternal Robots were incomplete and could behave differently from their originals.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian found a plaza full of crude robots whose bodies held human consciousnesses, and Qing Zhixun sent Xi Xiu’s group to investigate nearby homes.
• Xi Xiu’s team found Yuanri families lying brain-dead in their beds, with their bodily functions still active, and Wu Yuan said only leading neural researchers might be able to help them.
• After receiving reports that the same thing had happened elsewhere, Qing Zhixun consulted Xu Jiusong, who ordered the plaza robots contained and the residents moved to Yuanri Central City’s medical center.
• The robots noticed the Alliance soldiers and began examining their mechanical bodies, and one woman screamed when she discovered her former body was gone.

After the Eternal Robots transformed the people in the square into crude metal bodies, Qing Zhixun promised to seek an Alliance response and began organizing them for settlement. He left Qing Sansui to secretly mark those who seemed to covet its body.

• The transformed people realized they had lost their human bodies, memories, and families, and sorrowfully gathered around Qing Zhixun for help.
• Qing Zhixun said he had reported the situation to the Alliance and asked the Eternal Robots to wait for an emergency plan and follow the base’s arrangements.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Qing Sansui and the soldiers to assign numbers to the robots so the base could settle them.
• Qing Sansui told Qing Zhixun that some Eternal Robots were coveting its body, and Qing Zhixun instructed it to discreetly mark suspicious robots and record their unfriendly looks.

Qing Zhixun and Qing Sansui confronted the Eternal Robots on Yuanri while Xu Jiusong's fleet defeated the Yuanri vanguard in space. The Alliance ordered the brain-dead citizens frozen until experts could investigate whether their consciousnesses could be restored.

• Qing Sansui reported nearly two thousand hostile looks from the Eternal Robots, and Qing Zhixun told it to avoid infection and stop assuming he would not try to save it.
• Xu Jiusong's fleet destroyed every Yuanri warship within six hours and cleared the wreckage with an Atomic Light Bomb.
• Qing Zhixun showed Xu Jiusong the empty Yuanri Central City and the confused, memoryless Eternal Robots gathered in its square.
• Xu Jiusong sent the footage to Gaia and received the Elder Council's order to freeze the recoverable bodies of the brain-dead Yuanri citizens until a medical team arrived.
• The base doctors rushed to Yuanri, Xu Jiusong reinforced the space defense line, and Qing Zhixun decided to remain on the planet while the Eternal Robots' purpose was still unknown.

Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu’s forces secured Yuan Ri, monitored the Eternal Robots, and stored the citizens’ bodies in cryogenic pods while the Alliance investigated the conspiracy behind the disaster. Xi Xiu and A Xian resolved to uncover those responsible as they waited for Alliance personnel to arrive.

• Qing Zhixun reconnected the Central Brain, placed Yuan Ri under surveillance, and sent Fang Jinyu information about the robots’ models and manufacturers.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Qing Sansui to monitor the Eternal Robots while Xi Xiu, A Xian, and the soldiers guarded the square and camped nearby.
• Xi Xiu suspected Li Zhengfeng and the Qin Family member might be connected to the disaster, while A Xian vowed to find the person who targeted her Anvile clan.
• Qing Zhixun and the soldiers built warehouses and placed Yuan Ri citizens’ bodies into cryogenic pods, while commanders handled the planet’s other regions.
• Xu Jiusong ordered the Eternal Robots sealed off and the warehouses protected until Alliance neural research experts arrived.
• Xi Xiu sent Wei Lanshan videos and investigation clues, then camped with the others outside the warehouses while awaiting a reply.

Xi Xiu and her companions guarded Yuanri while the Alliance’s medical team arrived to investigate how the Eternal Robots’ consciousnesses could be returned to their bodies. Fu Xuan found that the consciousnesses had been thoroughly stripped and partly lost, leaving the recovery effort uncertain.

• The Eternal Robots settled into homes across Yuanri, while Xi Xiu, A Xian, He Yinlei, and Flora worried about whether they could return to their bodies.
• Three days later, Fu Xuan and an Alliance medical team arrived, and Qing Zhixun verified their identities and let them land.
• Qing Zhixun led Fu Xuan and the researchers to examine more than fifty citizens’ bodies in the warehouse.
• The researchers found that the consciousnesses had been stripped away thoroughly and that parts had been lost during transmission, making full restoration uncertain.
• Fu Xuan told Qing Zhixun that the team could only do its best, and Qing Zhixun offered to help inspect the Eternal Robots’ programs for three days.

Qing Zhixun and the others uncovered how the Eternal Robots’ programs could combine with incomplete consciousnesses to let someone control them, and found Li Zhengfeng’s mark embedded in the code. They suspected the mastermind was deliberately implicating famous figures and provoking the Alliance, while preparing to use Eternal Robots, Bio-constructs, and a weapon that could restrain Anvile.

• The Jingsu Alliance replaced its second-generation robots with simpler, specialized machines and safeguards against program tampering.
• With Fu Xuan and the others’ help, Qing Zhixun identified fifty kinds of programs in the Eternal Robots and discovered that their incomplete consciousnesses made them vulnerable to hidden triggers.
• Qing Zhixun explained that terminals and machines across Yuanri had been seeded with code that stripped citizens of their consciousness, leaving the star system without intelligent life.
• Qing Zhixun found Li Zhengfeng’s personal mark at the end of the code and discussed with Lu Zong'an, Gerhe, and Xian Quanlong whether the mastermind was framing Li Zhengfeng or deliberately exposing himself.
• Qing Zhixun agreed with Gerhe that the mastermind seemed arrogant and was inviting the Alliance to pursue him, while Lu Zong'an considered that he might be showing off after centuries of planning.
• The group recognized that the mastermind possessed Eternal Robots and Bio-constructs, and might also have a weapon capable of restraining Anvile.

Qing Zhixun shared clues about Li Zhengfeng and a Qing Family archive with Xi Xiu, who suspected that Li Zhengfeng and others from his era might still exist on Jingsu. After the rain, Xi Xiu and A Xian visited an Eternal Robot whose consciousness was trapped in a program and asked it to record what it remembered of its former life.

• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu and A Xian that someone was imitating Li Zhengfeng’s methods and had sent Xi Xiu a Qing Family archive about Li Zhengfeng and a Qin Family genius.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun discussed the possibility that Li Zhengfeng and others from his era were still living somewhere on Jingsu.
• Qing Zhixun returned to his office as rain began, while A Xian stayed outside until she was drenched and then joined Xi Xiu in their quarters.
• After the rain stopped, Xi Xiu and A Xian went to check on the Eternal Robots and found the robot that had first spoken in the square sitting by a window.
• The robot said it had spent three days trying to discover who it was, and Xi Xiu asked it to draw or write down the details it remembered from its former life.

Xi Xiu and A Xian explored a robot girl's memories and learned that her consciousness had separated from her body before it was stripped away. They traced her former home through Yuanri's network and went there with Qing Zhixun to investigate.

• A Xian entered the robot girl's consciousness while Xi Xiu guided her through memories of her life as a programmer, and Xi Xiu copied the scenes she drew.
• Xi Xiu promised to help the robot find her home, then left the residential building with A Xian as the surrounding robots watched them.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu that the girl's consciousness had briefly separated from her body and recalled a frequent contact from outside the Yuanri Star System who had sent her packages, possibly containing drugs.
• A Xian decided to give the contact's ID to Wu Jingyang for investigation, while Qing Zhixun began searching Yuanri's network for the girl's home.
• Qing Zhixun found a residence matching the robot's drawing, and Xi Xiu and A Xian followed him there.

Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun uncovered evidence that Yuanri had secretly stopped giving most citizens Blockers and that five carefully prepared leaders might have helped conceal the scheme. As Xi Xiu left Yuanri, she mourned how much the planet resembled her lost hometown, while Qing Zhixun wondered whether she ever thought of him.

• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun searched the murdered girl's home and learned she had never received Blockers, while Yuanri had hidden the practice from the Alliance for about twenty-five years.
• Qing Zhixun obtained information on Yuanri's five successive leaders and found that their unusually spotless backgrounds suggested they had been cultivated to secure those posts.
• Xi Xiu agreed to share investigation files with Qing Zhixun and planned to have Nine Stars' veterans investigate the leaders.
• Xi Xiu asked Fu Xuan to tell the girl what had happened and begin extracting her consciousness, though how much could be restored remained uncertain.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian departed Yuanri aboard their Starship, and Xi Xiu said the planet reminded her of her hometown.
• A Xian comforted Xi Xiu, while Qing Zhixun watched her and wondered whether she ever thought of him.

Qing Zhixun reflected on Yuanri’s lost past while Xi Xiu remained focused on surviving and investigating the Nine Star past. On Miu Run Star’s Homeworld, Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi found evidence of an unknown visitor and saw the birthplace of their people ruined beneath a black sea.

• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that Yuanri had once been a planet people longed to return to, before its leader mechanized the population and it became Mechanical Star.
• Xi Xiu said returning would mean nothing unless someone could restore Mechanical Star, then left Qing Zhixun.
• After A Xian and Xi Xiu advised Hai Suomiao, Hai Suomiao changed the defenses and traveled with Yan Lanxi to the Homeworld.
• Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi sensed an unfamiliar presence on the Homeworld and found that someone had visited without their people knowing.
• Hai Suomiao sent machines into the black sea and watched footage of the ruined underwater structures, realizing how much the mermen had lost.

Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi discovered that someone had secretly mined most of the Sea of Run’s ore, destroying its ruins, and sent samples to Anvile for investigation. After arranging to guard the Homeworld and investigate further, they left holding hands and agreed to marry once the danger was resolved.

• Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi saw footage of the Sea of Run’s ruined buildings and learned that most of its ore had been secretly mined.
• Hai Suomiao questioned Shaliya and learned that attacks on all eight sides of the Barren Sea had left the Homeworld undefended.
• Hai Suomiao ordered machines to collect ore samples and send them to Anvile, while she and Yan Lanxi searched the Homeworld for clues and arranged constant monitoring.
• Yan Lanxi suggested holding their wedding after the mining threat was resolved, and Hai Suomiao allowed him to hold her hand.
• Yan Lanxi apologized for his past behavior, and Hai Suomiao told him they should move forward and defend the Barren Sea together.

Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi struggled to defend the Barren Sea against a well-equipped assault by Miu Run’s splinter groups, and Yan Lanxi discovered the attackers were using the Alliance’s newest weapons. As Alliance reinforcements headed to the Barren Sea, Hai Suomiao piloted into the enemy’s fire to reach their Starship and learn why they wanted Miu Run.

• Hai Suomiao rejected Yan Lanxi’s plan to attack from both sides and ordered Shaliya to ambush the enemy beyond the Barren Sea’s boundaries while wearing three layers of Protective Suits.
• Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi held the fourth line of defense as the battle dragged on, but the enemy surrounded the Barren Sea and inflicted heavy losses despite three waves of Miu Run reinforcements.
• Yan Lanxi recorded the attackers’ unfamiliar weapons and sent the data to Qing Zhixun, who recognized them as the Alliance’s newest armaments, designed to destroy Eternal Robots and Bio-constructs.
• Xu Jiusong ordered Ye Zhenwei to take thirty large Starships from Tianwei to support the Barren Sea, while Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi prepared to fight in their mechs.
• Hai Suomiao piloted her fighter through the artillery fire toward an enemy Starship, intending to board it and discover why the splinter groups wanted to reclaim Miu Run.

Ye Zhenwei led Tianwei’s reinforcements toward Miu Run and learned about the mermen’s dwindling numbers and the breakaway group attacking them. She reached the Barren Sea’s sixth defensive line as Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi continued fighting the enemy.

• Ye Zhenwei took Yuan Chuhong and Xue Zixian with her to support Miu Run, and they discussed the mermen’s manpower shortage and the enemy threat.
• Yuan Chuhong decided they would attack the area with the most enemy warships and capture their leader, while Ye Zhenwei agreed to test the breakaway mermen’s strength.
• Ye Zhenwei and the others reached the edge of the Barren Sea in a forced march.
• Hai Suomiao boarded an enemy Starship but failed to gather more information, while she and Yan Lanxi continued battling at the sixth defensive line.