Chapter Summaries

Hai Suomiao and the Miu Run warriors repelled an enemy assault and raised a powerful Mental Power barrier, while the enemy Lord suspected his mysterious ally had manipulated him. He ordered another all-out attack on the Barren Sea as Ye Zhenwei arrived.

• Hai Suomiao broadcast herself destroying an enemy mech, prompting the hesitant Miu Run warriors to fight back and drive the attackers beyond the third defense layer.
• Hai Suomiao, Yan Lanxi, and their clansmen reinforced Miu Run's protective barrier, stopping the enemy's attacks for the moment.
• The enemy Lord discovered that his unseen ally was a machine and connected the attack to reports that the Jingsu Alliance was creating Eternal Robots.
• The Lord concluded that his ally might be using his forces as cannon fodder, but decided to keep attacking because his people needed access to clean waters.
• The Lord ordered every warship to prepare a full-caliber barrage against the barrier, and Ye Zhenwei arrived at the Barren Sea as the battle intensified.

Hai Suomiao and Yan Lanxi struggled to hold Miu Run’s Barren Sea defenses until Ye Zhenwei arrived with reinforcements. After the attack was contained, Hai Suomiao discovered her Mental Power had advanced, while Ye Zhenwei prepared to board the enemy ship and capture its leader.

• Hai Suomiao took over the Protective Shield when Yan Lanxi’s Mental Power reached its limit, then released her own power to help exhausted Miu Run warriors endure.
• Yan Lanxi joined his Mental Power with Hai Suomiao’s, giving her a chance to recover until reinforcements arrived and attacked the enemy ships.
• Hai Suomiao rested and found that her Mental Power had advanced after she emptied it while following the channel-clearing route Xi Xiu had shown her.
• Ye Zhenwei identified herself to Hai Suomiao as a Tianwei garrison colonel and promised to drive the attackers away from the Barren Sea.
• Ye Zhenwei ordered Yue Qila, Yi Mingda, five others, and soldiers numbered 209 through 509 to board an enemy warship with her and capture its leader.

Ye Zhenwei led a squad onto the fishmen’s command Starship and confronted their leader, while Yuan Chuhong received orders to leave Tianwei and carry out a final mission. Ye Zhenwei prepared to fight the commander, unaware that Yuan Chuhong had completed his mission and planned not to return.

• Ye Zhenwei led a small assault squad to the enemy Starship, whose fishmen could not detect them.
• Ye Zhenwei’s team crippled the Starship’s control system, forced entry, and fought their way toward the command room.
• The fishmen’s lord dismissed Ye Zhenwei’s squad, while Pang Erbei failed to find her protected file.
• Yuan Chuhong received a coded order to leave Tianwei, and he decided that his mission was complete and he would not return.
• Ye Zhenwei reached the command room, signaled Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing to handle the guard, and prepared to attack the fishmen’s lord.

Ye Zhenwei led Tianwei warriors into a confrontation with a merfolk leader and fought him with Mental Power while her companions battled Pang Erbei. She exploited the leader’s vulnerable respiratory organs near his ears, leaving him injured and secretly ordering Pang Erbei to prepare their escape.

• Ye Zhenwei identified herself as a Jingsu Alliance colonel and demanded that the merfolk leader reveal where his weapons came from.
• The merfolk leader attacked the Tianwei warriors with his Mental Power while Pang Erbei fought Ye Zhenwei’s companions.
• Ye Zhenwei maneuvered around the leader’s Mental Power, and Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing helped protect the others as the fight continued.
• After recalling some of his Mental Power, the leader concentrated his attack on Ye Zhenwei, giving her a brief opening to strike the respiratory organs behind his ears.
• The leader halted his attack and claimed he was fine, then silently told Pang Erbei to activate the Teleportation Device and abandon the Starship.

Ye Zhenwei defeated the remaining fishmen’s allies after their leader escaped, while Yi Mingda and the others uncovered evidence of a machine arranging an attack on Yuari. The group returned to the Barren Sea, where Hai Suomiao asked Yi Mingda where Ye Zhenwei was.

• Ye Zhenwei emptied the enemy leader’s Mental Power, forcing him and Pang Erbei to escape through a temporary Teleportation Channel.
• Ye Zhenwei sent Nan Hejia and the others to copy the Starship’s data while she and Yue Qila checked the fishmen’s weapons storage.
• Nan Hejia and Liang Jingxian found communications footage suggesting a machine was behind the transactions and had a battle plan for Yuari.
• Yi Mingda decided to send the intelligence through Tianwei’s command structure and have everyone keep a copy in case Yuari was not warned.
• Yi Mingda led the others back to the Barren Sea, where Hai Suomiao asked where Ye Zhenwei was.

Hai Suomiao and Xu Jiusong investigated Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance after her Starship vanished with six others, leaving no trace in space. Xue Zixian then revealed that Yuan Chuhong had secretly left hours before Ye, raising suspicion that his departure was connected.

• Hai Suomiao discovered that Ye Zhenwei’s Starship and its hundred thousand soldiers could not be contacted, and searches found no trace of them.
• Shaliya reported seeing Ye Zhenwei’s Starship surrounded by six Starships before all seven vanished, and sent Hai Suomiao a recording.
• Hai Suomiao forwarded the video and collected spatial data to Xu Jiusong, who planned to send the evidence to Gaia’s researchers and travel to the site.
• Xue Zixian failed to contact Yuan Chuhong and told Xu Jiusong that Yuan had secretly departed about four hours before Ye Zhenwei, leaving his Starship behind.

Xue Zixian and Xu Jiusong investigated Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance and grew suspicious of Yuan Chuhong, who had left at critical moments. The search around the Barren Sea found no trace of the missing Starships, and the Alliance’s researchers arrived to investigate possible large-scale transmission technology.

• Xue Zixian recalled that Yuan Chuhong had left Tianwei shortly before the first battle of Yuan Day, and he told Xu Jiusong that the timing made Yuan Chuhong suspicious.
• Xue Zixian asked Guo Qiyan why Yuan Chuhong had recruited them to teach Ye Zhenwei, then told him that Ye Zhenwei and a hundred thousand warriors had vanished while Yuan Chuhong was missing.
• Xue Zixian asked friends on Gaia to investigate Yuan Chuhong and began analyzing the travel routes of his Starship.
• Hai Suomiao and her companions searched within ten light-years of the Barren Sea but found no trace of Ye Zhenwei or the missing Starships.
• Xu Jiusong tested the area and considered whether an undisclosed large-scale transmission device had abducted the Starships; Hai Suomiao’s vessels joined his formation.
• Chen Huan and Jiang Tianyue arrived with the Alliance research team, and Chen Huan asked Xu Jiusong about the situation.

The Alliance discovered that Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance involved a recently built Transmission Channel using leaked Alliance technology, and suspected internal betrayal. As Ye Zhenwei’s family gathered at Tianwei, Tang Yongyu revealed that someone had sent her a message saying he wanted to borrow Zhenwei.

• Xu Jiusong, Chen Huan, and Jiang Tianyue concluded that someone inside the Alliance had leaked technology and arranged Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance.
• Alliance specialists found that the seven ships had used a newly built Transmission Channel based on technology still under development in Alliance laboratories.
• Chen Huan and Jiang Tianyue met Xue Zixian and learned of suspicions surrounding Yuan Chuhong, then decided to warn Alliance stations about both him and Ye Zhenwei.
• Xu Jiusong told Ye Yunhan and the Tang Family that Ye Zhenwei’s tracker was disabled and promised the Alliance would find her.
• Ye Yunhan sent the Ye Family’s forces to search for his daughter while Tang Yonghuang confronted Tang Yongyu in a sealed room.
• Tang Yongyu showed Tang Yonghuang a message from someone who said he wanted to borrow Ye Zhenwei.

Tang Yongyu and Tang Yonghuang tried to conceal their connection to Ye Zhenwei’s illness while searching for the missing girl. Chen Huan’s investigation revealed that Yuan Chuhong had approached Ye Zhenwei for experiments, and the chapter left Tang Yongyu desperate enough to contact the unknown man who had messaged her.

• Tang Yongyu feared that the message she received was connected to Ye Zhenwei’s disappearance, but Tang Yonghuang told her to stay calm and ordered Tang Zhankuan to trace it.
• Ye Yunhan set out to search the Barren Sea while the Tang Family searched near Jinghui Star, and Tang Yonghuang told Tang Yongyu to remain in Tianwei.
• Tang Zhankuan failed to trace the message and destroyed it at Tang Yonghuang’s order.
• Chen Huan and the Gaia investigators uncovered Yuan Chuhong’s ties to the Qin Family and learned that he had once used the name Qin Huai.
• Chen Huan’s investigation suggested Yuan Chuhong wanted to experiment on Ye Zhenwei to learn how to obtain exceptional Mental Power talent, so the Elder Council ordered an urgent search.
• After hearing the warning, Tang Yongyu became more anxious and decided to contact the man who had sent her the message.

Xu Jiusong traced Tang Yongyu’s message to Ye Zhenwei’s location, prompting the Alliance to send a rescue fleet to the Barren Sea. Meanwhile, Wei Lanshan contacted Xi Xiu with intelligence about a hidden base in a dark starfield, where she discovered researchers cultivating unstable fetuses and seeking to study Number One.

• Xu Jiusong tracked Tang Yongyu’s suspicious message, identified Ye Zhenwei’s location, and the Alliance dispatched more than a hundred Starships to rescue her.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian learned the Barren Sea had been attacked, while soldiers across the Alliance watched its defense against the runaway fishmen.
• Wei Lanshan video-called Xi Xiu, sent her data, and said Long Xingxue and Ming Weiman would join Feng Qiqi and the others on Yuanri to investigate.
• Wei Lanshan observed Xi He’s hidden base in a dark starfield and found several missing Alliance biomedical experts living there.
• Wei Lanshan saw hundreds of unborn fetuses in a sterile cultivation chamber, where researchers said the babies were unstable and they needed to study Number One.

Wei Lanshan uncovered evidence that the Ye Family’s virus research had harmed children and sent her intelligence to the Alliance. Meanwhile, Xi Xiu investigated Li Zhengfeng’s final movements and found that he had met an unidentified entity before his death.

• Wei Lanshan watched footage of children suffering violent episodes at Star Glory Base and concluded that her and Ye Zhenwei’s virus infections had not been accidents.
• Wei Lanshan reported the evidence, traveled toward Jinghui Star, and sent her intelligence to Xi Xiu while planning to investigate the Tang and Ye Families and the relevant birth records.
• Wei Lanshan escaped without Xi He noticing, destroyed her access code, and sent the Star Glory Base coordinates to the Alliance for its guards to handle.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the possibility that Li Zhengfeng survived in another form and reviewed his movements before his death.
• Xu Fengxiang recovered Li Zhengfeng’s robot assistant and restored its data, revealing footage of the unidentified entity Li Zhengfeng had met.

Xi Xiu and A Xian investigated a suspected clone connected to Li Zhengfeng and a Qin Family member, while Long Xingxue arrived at Yuanri to join the search. New records traced the mysterious person through places tied to Li Zhengfeng’s past, and Feng Qiqi reported that the group had finished comparing their findings.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the suspected clone’s possible connection to Li Zhengfeng, the Qin Family, and the leaked Anvile secrets.
• Xi Xiu asked Long Da to contact Wu Jingya and planned to leave the investigation to Long Xingxue and Ming Weiman when they arrived.
• Long Xingxue arrived at Yuanri, shared Xi Xiu’s intelligence with Feng Qiqi, Bai Jungo, and Nine Stars, and brought a report confirming that the body in Li Zhengfeng’s tomb was his.
• Wu Jingyang traced the mysterious person’s movements to star systems and people connected to Li Zhengfeng’s past, then simulated the scenes for Xi Xiu and A Xian.
• Xi Xiu sent Long Xingxue the new records and simulations, and Feng Qiqi said her group had finished comparing and analyzing their information.

Xi Xiu and A Xian reviewed Nine Stars’ evidence linking the plot against Li Zhengfeng to the Qin Family, and discussed how they might locate Li Zhengfeng’s surviving consciousness. With their vacation approaching, Xi Xiu arranged a group outing for the team, whose members eagerly began planning what to bring.

• Long Xingxue and Xi Xiu reviewed Nine Stars’ gathered materials, which partly cleared Nine Stars and suggested Li Zhengfeng was still alive in another form.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu reasoned that Li Zhengfeng was likely being controlled and discussed asking Wu Jingyang whether they could locate the suspected Eternal Robot on Anvile.
• A Xian reminded Xi Xiu that they had been at the base for more than half a year, and Xi Xiu agreed to request leave for the team.
• A Xian called Su Jinbao and the others to tell them about the planned vacation, and they eagerly discussed snacks, ingredients, and supplies.
• Qing Zhixun approved Xi Xiu’s team’s vacation application, allowing them to travel within the Yuannri base’s boundaries.

Xi Xiu took 909 on vacation, where Qing Zhixun and A Xian plotted to bring Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun closer. Qing Zhixun told his mother he wanted to marry Xi Xiu, then joined Xi Xiu in the forest and discussed an upcoming mission.

• Qing Zhixun accepted A Xian's invitation to join the holiday feast and ordered unusual fruits to bring as a gift for Xi Xiu.
• The 909 team arrived at the beach with far more food and supplies than Xi Xiu had requested, while Xi Xiu and the others inspected the surroundings.
• A Xian urged Qing Zhixun to win Xi Xiu over, and Qing Zhixun said Wu Jingyang had asked the Central Brain to match them.
• Wu Jingxi video-called Qing Zhixun, learned he wanted to marry Xi Xiu, and agreed to keep it secret while advising him to be considerate and prepare gifts.
• Qing Zhixun joined Xi Xiu in the forest after He Yinlei and Flora hurried away, then told her Yuanri would clear the surrounding regions, including the Black Star Domain, after the holiday.

Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that her team would train for a mission to destroy an enemy base on Yuanri, and promised her team’s rewards. The soldiers then prepared a huge barbecue feast, where Qing Zhixun stayed close to Xi Xiu and asked her to teach him how to grill.

• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that her team would follow him to destroy an enemy base after the holiday and urged her to prepare 909 for training.
• Qing Zhixun said 909’s rewards would be approved, and Xi Xiu thanked him for recognizing the team’s work.
• A Xian hurried Xi Xiu to the barbecue, where Qiu Shaorong handed her a Space Locket filled with five enormous animals’ worth of meat.
• Xi Xiu and the others divided the meat and prepared seasonings and barbecue racks for the feast.
• Qing Zhixun took the seasonings from Xi Xiu and asked her to teach him how to grill, while the other soldiers kept their distance.
• The group began grilling and eating, and many soldiers switched from skewers to large chunks of meat.

Qing Zhixun gave Xi Xiu a Space Locket filled with local specialties and fruit, while their reunion stirred memories and sorrow neither could explain to the others. As the team relaxed by the sea and talked about home, Qing Zhixun resolved to bring Xi Xiu back into his life.

• Qing Zhixun offered Xi Xiu his Space Locket, and she accepted it after he insisted the gifts were meant for her and A Xian.
• Xi Xiu noticed Qing Zhixun's fingertip whorls and remembered someone from her past, while Qing Zhixun watched her with hidden grief.
• A Xian sensed sorrow between Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun and decided she needed to ask him about it.
• Flora and He Yinlei noticed Qing Zhixun seemed more approachable beside Xi Xiu and joked about choosing challenging partners in the future.
• Qing Zhixun recalled the woman he had lost, his years of regret, and his fear that Xi Xiu no longer wanted him close, but resolved to draw her back into his life.
• Xi Xiu watched the familiar-looking sea as the team relaxed, sang, and shared stories about their hometowns.

Xi Xiu and the Nine Stars coordinated an investigation to clear the Nine Stars of suspicion and trace the evidence pointing to Li Zhengfeng’s survival. They divided up their assignments and left the meeting committed to finding him and exposing the forces targeting them.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian joined Long Xingxue, Xu Fengxiang, and the Nine Stars in the Virtual Network to refine their investigation assignments.
• Xu Fengxiang tasked Long Xingxue with gathering intelligence from mercenary groups and A Man with tracing robot production, while Xi Xiu and A Xian used their channels to obtain information from Anvile.
• Xi Xiu questioned why the Xing, Yun, and Misiah Families were working so hard to implicate the Nine Stars, and proposed investigating their connections and motives.
• Xi Xiu presented her analysis of data from the opposing command ship, which showed that the consciousness simulation experiments involving Li Zhengfeng did not match his usual methods and undermined suspicions against the Xing and Yun Families.
• Xi Xiu said the scattered clues indicated Li Zhengfeng was still alive and urged the Nine Stars to find him while investigating leading biomedical scientists connected to the suspected clone.

Xi Xiu and Nine Stars investigated Yuan Chuhong’s suspicious background while spreading their members across the Alliance to gather intelligence. As Xi Xiu and A Xian trained at Yuari, they learned that someone had trapped tens of thousands of Anvile consciousnesses in a fabricated container, leaving the Alliance facing a growing threat.

• Xi Xiu and Xu Fengxiang reviewed Yuan Chuhong’s file and suspected that his polished persona concealed his true background, while Xu Fengxiang recalled sparring with Yuan Chuhong’s disciple, Ye Zhenwei.
• Long Xingxue set out from Yuari to visit mercenary groups across the Alliance’s twenty star systems, and Nine Stars members dispersed to investigate and share intelligence.
• Bai Yinglong and Feng Yueci quietly left Shangyue Star to investigate why several Grandmasters had turned against Nine Stars, while others stayed behind to guard the mountain.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian trained with the Yuari team, and Xi Xiu sparred with twenty-four members, giving each one feedback on their weaknesses.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu that Wu Jingmu and the others had found that a woman had intercepted tens of thousands of Anvile consciousnesses and confined them in a container resembling Origin Land.

Xi Xiu planned to identify Li Zhengfeng by recreating the desert scene from his handwritten notes in the Virtual Network and observing which consciousness reacted to it. As she built the model, A Xian reflected on the cruelty of Xi Xiu’s former world, and Xi Xiu confirmed that her death had been inevitable.

• Xi Xiu proposed testing whether consciousnesses could be identified by their reactions to a recreated world, and planned to build a Virtual Network map based on Li Zhengfeng’s notes.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the war in the Barren Sea, the missing Ye Zhenwei, and the danger posed by the fish people.
• Xi Xiu began constructing a detailed model of Li Zhengfeng’s world, including a desert battlefield where soldiers had fallen beneath a crimson sky.
• A Xian recognized similarities between the ancient warriors in Xi Xiu’s model and Anvile’s own distant past, and wondered whether traces of Xi Xiu’s world still existed elsewhere in the universe.
• A Xian asked whether Xi Xiu’s death had been an accident, and Xi Xiu told her it had been inevitable.

Xi Xiu completed a recreated battle scene and trained with her team, while A Xian asked to hear about Xi Xiu’s world. The chapter left Aura strengthening its military and Mental Power training under Enweit’s family’s leadership, with Enweit and his teammates learning from Xi Xiu.

• A Xian asked Xi Xiu about the world she came from, and Xi Xiu promised to tell her after finishing the recreated scene.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian walked to the underground training room, where Xi Xiu quickly completed her one-on-one sessions.
• Su Jinbao and Enweit asked Xi Xiu to spar with them, and Xi Xiu accepted.
• Enweit told A Xian that Aura had strengthened its defenses, imposed daily training reports, and expanded Mental Power training.
• Xi Xiu defeated Su Jinbao after a hundred rounds, then advised him to use Mental Power to judge direction and anticipate an opponent’s movements.