Chapter Summaries

Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng used Ebony to restrain and capture the Star Beasts in the fifth layer, buying time as they destroyed the creatures’ channels. Calculations showed the next wave could reach Anvile’s satellites or main planet, so Wu Jingmu deployed soldiers to defend the threatened sites.

• Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng attacked the Star Beasts, but their weapons barely harmed the creatures as they tried to stack themselves into a path toward Xi Wei.
• Xi Xiu learned the Star Beasts could reach Xi Wei within two hours and decided to use Ebony’s vines to slow them while Anvile sought a way to defend the planet.
• Xi Xiu, Qi Mang, Li Zhengfeng, and the soldiers used Ebony’s vines and nets to capture the Star Beasts and tow them away while other ships destroyed the creatures’ channels.
• The fifth layer quieted temporarily, and Wu Jingmu ordered most forces back to the ground while Combat Robots remained on guard in space.
• Wu Jingyang, Min En, and the Central Brain calculated that another wave could reach Anvile’s satellites or main planet and identified important sites the enemy might target.
• Wu Jingmu sent soldiers to guard the threatened locations across Anvile.

Anvile prepared for an unprecedented invasion by evacuating civilians, distributing Protective Suits, and assigning warriors to defend vital coordinates. Xi Xiu and her companions headed to Origin Land's entrance to establish defenses against the Star Beasts.

• Wu Jingmu ordered residents near threatened coordinates to evacuate and ensured every Anvile citizen received a Protective Suit.
• Xi Xiu, Long Xingxue, and Li Zhengfeng returned to the council hall, where Wu Jingyang displayed the enemy's target coordinates.
• Min En and the Central Brain assigned warriors to defend Anvile's vital locations, while Wu Jingya, Wu Jingxu, and others prepared to intercept enemies in space.
• Wu Jingmu urged the people to protect their home and explained that warriors would rotate out when their Protective Suits could no longer hold.
• Xi Xiu and her companions traveled to Origin Land's entrance to prepare Starship weapons and defenses.

Xi Xiu prepared Nine Stars’ forces to stop the modified Star Beasts emerging near Silver Waterfall, using Wei Lanshan’s analysis to identify their altered body parts and destroy the passage. The creatures’ alliance with Qin Hongjun and the possible involvement of abducted Anvile consciousnesses made the coming battle more dangerous.

• Wei Lanshan advised Xi Xiu to compare each Star Beast with its original form and target the parts added through human interference.
• Wei Lanshan and Li Zhengfeng concluded that the creatures may have contacted Qin Hongjun of their own accord using the missing Anvile consciousnesses.
• Xi Xiu created a database of the creatures and organized Nine Stars’ warriors for close-quarters combat around a wall enclosing the passage.
• Xi Xiu assigned Long Xingxue and the Snow Dragon Group to lure the creatures out, with other teams prepared to fight and reinforce them.
• Xi Xiu estimated the forces could handle about one hundred and ten beasts and planned to seal and destroy the passage before more could arrive.

Xi Xiu and the warriors fought the Star Beasts that emerged through a passage on Anvile, while gathering data to find their weak points and calculate how to destroy the passage. The battle continued under a Protective Shield as Xi Xiu and her allies joined the fight, and the warriors were amazed by her combat ability.

• On the third morning, an anomaly appeared at the coordinates, and Long Xingxue ordered the Snow Dragon Group to lure the emerging Star Beasts away from the passage.
• The Snow Dragon Group drew the Star Beasts into an isolated area, where Xi Xiu and Qi Mang gathered data and Li Zhengfeng led warriors in battle.
• Xi Xiu identified the Star Beasts' weak points, sent structural diagrams to the warriors, and gave Wan Youlin the passage's coordinates and required weaponry.
• Xi Xiu, Qi Mang, Wu Yuan, and Ebony joined the fight, with Xi Xiu taking on a Star Beast alone.
• The warriors watched Li Zhengfeng's side near the end of its battle and marveled at how incredible Xi Xiu was.

Li Zhengfeng and Xi Xiu led the Nine Stars Soldiers in fighting the Star Beasts while Wan Youlin destroyed the passage they were using to reach Anvile. With the passage sealed and more soldiers arriving, Xi Xiu remained at the front as the Star Beasts focused their attacks on her.

• Li Zhengfeng discovered that the eyes covering a Star Beast’s tail let it detect attacks, then coordinated with nearby soldiers to blind them and severed the tail.
• Li Zhengfeng drove an explosive drill into the Star Beast, detonated it behind an explosion-proof barrier, and stored the remains in a Space Locket.
• Xi Xiu and Ebony worked together against a Star Beast whose mirrored face reflected burning light, while Wu Yuan treated injured soldiers and moved them to safety.
• Xi Xiu shared a newly discovered combat method, helping the soldiers fight the Star Beasts more efficiently in groups.
• Wan Youlin adjusted his weapon using Xi Xiu’s data and destroyed the passage after Xi Xiu and the others moved to safety.
• More Nine Stars Soldiers joined the ground battle, while the Star Beasts targeted Xi Xiu as the team’s commander.

Xi Xiu deployed the heavy mecha Jiu Dan and, with Ebony and Qi Mang, helped defeat nearly sixty Star Beasts at her coordinate. While Jiu Dan finished off the remaining enemies, Xi Xiu assessed the strained battles at the other coordinates and focused on preventing the Star Beasts from reaching Origin Land.

• Xi Xiu entered the black heavy mecha, connected her Mental Power to its intelligent system, and named the eager mecha Jiu Dan.
• Xi Xiu and Jiu Dan fought together with Ebony and Qi Mang, defeating nearly sixty Star Beasts as Li Zhengfeng and the soldiers eliminated more than twenty.
• After the many-eyed leading Star Beast died, the remaining enemies lost direction, and Jiu Dan asked Xi Xiu to leave the last ten or so to her.
• Xi Xiu rested and reviewed the other battlefronts, finding Wu Jingxu and Wu Jingya's forces under pressure while Wu Jingxi and Qing Heming were coordinating well.
• Jiu Dan continued fighting as Long Xingxue cleared the battlefield and the Nine Star soldiers admired the mecha's agility.

Xi Xiu and her allies defeated the Star Beasts at Origin Land, and Jiu Dan impressed the warriors with her mech combat. As Xi Xiu watched other battlefields remain under pressure, Li Zhengfeng warned her about the Star Beasts’ instability and the need to fight quickly.

• Li Zhengfeng watched Jiu Dan fight and reflected on the technological gap between Jingsu and his homeland.
• Jiu Dan identified the frozen creatures as prototypes of beings beyond the Star Domain Gate, and Xi Xiu praised her performance.
• Xi Xiu and the warriors discussed her demanding mech training before cleaning up the battlefield, where no one had died.
• Xi Xiu reported that Origin Land was safe, while Wu Jingmu told her to stay and guard the area as other Anvile battles remained difficult.
• Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng discussed the threat of the Star Beasts, and he advised her that they could go mad because something inside them was unstable.

Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng discussed who created the Star Beasts and the fate of the missing Anvile consciousnesses, then reflected on the loss of their Homeworld. Xi Xiu left Silver Waterfall considering a distant search for her planet, perhaps someday with her companions.

• Xi Xiu concluded that the Star Beasts were unlikely to be Qin Hongjun's creations because their flaws contrasted with his perfectionist Bio-constructs.
• Li Zhengfeng explained that the Anvile People killed Star Beasts rather than taming them, and Xi Xiu suspected Qin Hongjun was cultivating vanished Anvile consciousnesses as warriors.
• Xi Xiu proposed asking Wu Jingmu and Jing Xi about Qin Hongjun's possible sanctuary so Nine Stars' warriors could rescue the consciousnesses.
• At Silver Waterfall, Xi Xiu told Li Zhengfeng that their Homeworld had vanished after a disaster forced humanity to flee into space.
• Xi Xiu admitted she once hoped to find traces of her Homeworld but considered a future star-roaming journey with her companions if technology advanced enough.

A Xian struggled to replenish the Anvile warriors’ Mental Power from Origin Land while Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng discussed A Xian’s future and Anvile’s hidden Divine Realm. When a larger wave of Star Beasts attacked Silver Waterfall, Xi Xiu led the defenders into battle and organized the fight.

• A Xian endured the strain of supplying the Anvile warriors’ Mental Power, and the Consciousness Babies shared their strength with her.
• Li Zhengfeng told Xi Xiu that A Xian was destined to become Anvile’s strongest and longest-lived warrior, and said Anvile had another Divine Realm.
• Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng spotted Star Beasts approaching Silver Waterfall after Wu Jingxu, Wu Jingya, and the others had been suppressed.
• Xi Xiu assigned Long Da, Senior Sister Feng, Senior Brother Bai, and Jiu Dan their positions while asking Wan Youlin to compare data on the Star Beasts.
• The Nine Stars warriors joined the fierce battle, and Xi Xiu divided the battlefield to give the defenders room to fight.

During the battle on Anvile, Xi Xiu discovered that some Star Beasts carried devices connected to their brains and suspected they contained the consciousnesses of missing people. She ordered the warriors to capture and search the beasts, leaving the truth to be investigated after the battle.

• Xi Xiu confronted a cautious Star Beast whose hidden wings intercepted her weapon before she bound and knocked it unconscious.
• After noticing fear and helplessness in the beast’s eyes, Xi Xiu spared it and found a device connected to its brain.
• Li Zhengfeng recognized the device, and Xi Xiu explained that the Star Beast’s expression had led her to investigate.
• Xi Xiu ordered the warriors to knock out Star Beasts and search them for consciousness devices.
• Xi Xiu and the others found a handful of devices, while most of the Star Beasts appeared to be ordinary beasts.

Xi Xiu and Wu Jingyang examined Star Beasts carrying consciousness devices and discovered that some contained trapped humanlike consciousnesses. Their accounts revealed a location connected to Qin Hongjun, giving Anvile coordinates to investigate.

• Xi Xiu brought the Star Beasts' bodies to Wu Jingyang so he could analyze their consciousness devices.
• Wu Jingyang extracted two consciousnesses from one body and found that one seemed intelligent while the other behaved like an animal.
• Xi Xiu questioned the frightened consciousness and learned it remembered having a similar body, companions, and a life in a room.
• Xi Xiu entered the consciousness's memories into the Central Brain's database, and the data pointed to Qin Hongjun.
• Wu Jingyang asked Xi Xiu to send the findings to Wu Jingmu, and the combined accounts revealed coordinates for a place where children, teenagers, and young adults lived, but no elderly people.

Xi Xiu joined the struggling Anvile front lines after the Origin Land passage was sealed, leaving Li Zhengfeng to guard it. She faced a powerful Star Beast at the central position and sought to end the battle quickly as its corrupting stench weakened the Anvile warriors.

• Wu Jingyang reviewed coordinates beyond the Star Domain Gate and postponed investigating them until after the battle.
• Xi Xiu left Li Zhengfeng to guard the Origin Land and flew with Jiu Dan to support the other battlefields.
• Wu Jingya welcomed Xi Xiu, who took the central front-line position alongside Jiu Dan and Ebony.
• Xi Xiu fought the leading Star Beast, dodging its attacks as it spread a corrupting stench across the battlefield.
• Xi Xiu told Jiu Dan and Ebony to finish their fights quickly, while Wu Yuan and Qi Mang teamed up against another Star Beast.

Xi Xiu, Wu Yuan, Qi Mang, Ebony, and Jiu Dan helped the Anvile People defeat the Star Beasts and cleanse the contaminated air. After the battle, Wu Jingya thanked Xi Xiu and learned that she had trained so hard because she wanted to survive on the battlefield.

• Qi Mang entered a Star Beast through a wound and destroyed its internal organs while Wu Yuan and Ebony restrained it.
• Xi Xiu and Jiu Dan fought alongside the Anvile warriors for three hours until they stopped the Star Beasts' assault.
• Xi Xiu and Jiu Dan helped build a protective barrier, and Qi Mang detonated the weapon inside it, turning the Star Beasts to ash.
• Wu Jingya filtered the contaminated air, while the exhausted Wu Yuan and Qi Mang replaced their New Energy supplies and went into hibernation.
• Wu Jingya thanked Xi Xiu and praised her Martial Skills, and Xi Xiu explained that she had trained to survive on the battlefield.
• Wu Jingya reflected that A Xian was the exception among the Anvile People, who had not needed to pursue extra training.

Xi Xiu stayed with Wu Jingya as Anvile’s people recovered from the Star Beast assault, while Qin Hongjun gathered intelligence and prepared for another attack. After twenty-seven days, the fighting ended, and Wu Jingmu warned the Anvile People to rebuild their defenses and prepare for future threats.

• Wu Jingya rejected Xi Xiu’s offer to join the warriors supporting other coordinates, saying Anvile needed to face its own crisis.
• Qin Hongjun ordered Qin Yi to send a complaint about the failed cooperation and compile data on Anvile’s defenses and the Star Beasts.
• The Central Brain and Min En monitored the starry network and intercepted some of Qin Hongjun’s secret messages.
• After twenty-seven days without further Star Beast attacks, the Anvile People began assessing the damage and tending to injured warriors.
• Wu Jingmu assigned postwar reconstruction to Wu Jingxu and himself, urged the Anvile People to improve their combat skills, and showed them images of suspicious insects and Artificial Stars.

Xi Xiu prepared to leave Anvile for Gaia, while Qing Zhixun and his family discussed the Alliance’s coming political crisis and his plans to travel with her. Before departing, Xi Xiu visited the recovering A Xian and met the Consciousness Babies in the Origin Land.

• Xi Xiu decided to return to Gaia to visit Wei Lanshan, deliver the Star Beast's body, and assess Gaia’s situation, while Xu Fengxiang, Bai Yinglong, and Feng Yueci planned to meet her there.
• Xi Xiu, Qing Zhixun, Jing Xi, and the others visited A Xian in the Origin Land, where A Xian thanked Xi Xiu and promised to join her at Yuandi after recovering.
• Qing Zhixun told Jing Xi and Qing Heming that he would travel to Gaia with Xi Xiu and make a trip to the Qing Family, as his family discussed preparing for the Alliance’s likely war.
• Qing Heming explained that the Qing Family and allied families planned to remove families secretly supporting Qin Hongjun from the Elder Council and establish a wartime command headquarters.
• Xi Xiu soothed A Xian with her Mental Power as the Consciousness Babies and Exotic Plants gathered around her and greeted her warmly.

Xi Xiu promised the Consciousness Babies she would protect Anvile and learned about the recovery from the battle. Before planning her return to Gaia, she discussed marriage with A Xian and decided to consider her options.

• The Consciousness Babies asked Xi Xiu to keep her promise to protect Anvile, and she agreed that it was her home.
• The Consciousness Babies gave Xi Xiu rare Exotic Plants, which she stored in her Space Locket for Wei Lanshan to process.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian that the other battlefields were being rebuilt and that she would leave for Gaia the day after tomorrow.
• A Xian advised Xi Xiu to consider marriage, and Xi Xiu said she would think about it on the journey back to Gaia.
• A Xian prayed that Xi Xiu would find a partner who loved her wholeheartedly, and Xi Xiu replied that time would tell.

Jing Xi taught Qing Zhixun about Anvile customs and revealed that the mate-bonding ceremony had bound her life to his father’s. After mother and son shared their secrets and grew closer, Jing Xi planned to travel to Gaia to investigate the Star Domain Gate.

• Xi Xiu stayed with A Xian while Qing Zhixun spoke privately with Jing Xi and his father.
• Jing Xi taught Qing Zhixun Anvile knowledge and explained that her life was shared with her partner through their mate-bonding ceremony.
• Jing Xi warned Qing Zhixun to cherish Xi Xiu and give her freedom, then revealed she had sensed that he came from another world.
• Qing Zhixun explained his past connection with Xi Xiu and told Jing Xi that he had traded a secret to the Central Brain for a chance at marriage matching.
• Jing Xi said she and Qing Zhixun’s father would go to Gaia after Anvile was rebuilt to investigate the Star Domain Gate and Qin Hongjun’s contact with its other side.

Jing Xi showed Qing Zhixun around Origin Land and explained the Star Domain Gate’s threats and the sacrifices Anvile people made to protect their starfield. Their conversation ended with Jing Xi warning him that Xi Xiu’s high Mental Power could weaken the effects of her Blockers, leaving Qing Zhixun to reconsider why she had avoided taking a partner.

• Jing Xi led Qing Zhixun through Origin Land and explained that most Anvile consciousnesses returned there after death, while some were lost in sacrifices to protect the starfield.
• Jing Xi told Qing Zhixun that Anvile bodies could suppress the Star Domain Gate if it reached its most dangerous level, and that she needed to visit it to assess the current threat.
• Jing Xi explained that powerful Star Beasts could emerge from the gate and that A Xian, the longest-lived person in Anvile, might know why they existed once she recovered her memories.
• Jing Xi walked with Qing Zhixun and told him how she had met Qing Heming, then advised him to watch out because Xi Xiu’s Blockers might be less effective due to her high Mental Power.

Jing Xi and Qing Zhixun exchanged intelligence about Qin Hongjun as the family prepared to search for the Star Domain Gate. Qing Heming and Wu Jingmu strengthened Gaia’s defenses and revealed that families across every star system had been secretly aiding Qin Hongjun, prompting Gaia and the Central Brain to restrict their activities.

• Jing Xi questioned Qing Zhixun about Qin Hongjun’s background and his knowledge of the Jingsu Alliance, and they shared what they knew.
• Liuga and Wu Jingmu arranged for Jing Xi to investigate the Star Domain Gate with Jing Xu, Jing Mu, and You Lian, while Qing Zhixun returned to the Qing Family.
• Qing Heming promised Liuga that he would not leave Jing Xi again, and he urged her not to force Qing Zhixun into choosing a partner.
• Wu Jingmu and Qing Heming reviewed Gaia’s defenses and discussed algorithms being developed to stop Star Beasts from reaching the ground.
• Qing Heming reported that the Qing Family had purged the Elder Council and uncovered pro-Qin Hongjun families in every star system, including some system leaders.
• Qing Heming said Gaia and the Central Brain had agreed to restrict the families’ activities and would relocate them to uncharted regions under surveillance if the crisis worsened.

Wu Jingmu and Qing Heming coordinated efforts to secure Gaia and address the Alliance’s internal crisis while Jing Xi and Xi Xiu discussed Anvile and marriage matching. Xi Xiu remained unconvinced that she should seek a partner, and Qing Zhixun resolved to find a way past her resistance.

• Wu Jingmu told Qing Heming that the Qing Family, Nine Stars, the Chu Family, and Alliance loyalists were supporting Gaia and cleaning up the Alliance’s internal mess.
• Qing Heming analyzed the information Wu Jingmu shared about Jing Su and Miu Run, then sent his findings back to him.
• Xi Xiu left A Xian in Wu Jingya’s care and told Jing Xi that the Consciousness Babies in Origin Land had shared information she would organize for everyone.
• Jing Xi reassured Xi Xiu about her bond with Anvile and explained the importance of partners, but Xi Xiu said a partner seemed useful mainly for creating life and doubted Gene Engraving would make her fall in love.
• Jing Xi suggested setting marriage matching aside or submitting an application and seeing whether the virtual life simulation succeeded, while Qing Zhixun decided to find a way to overcome Xi Xiu’s resistance.