Chapter Summaries

Xi Xiu and the garrison prepared to rescue the Belka People held underground by Parasites, while Elisa revealed how few survivors remained. Disguised as Elisa and her companions, Xi Xiu’s team descended into the enemy’s underground habitat, where they found an old but thriving ecosystem.

• Xi Xiu analyzed Belsha’s Discrimination Instrument, arranged for technicians to reproduce it, and coordinated defenses and reconnaissance with Wang Zichun.
• Xi Xiu organized the rescue team, ordered strict monitoring and safeguards, and sent ten fighters toward the Northern Hemisphere while Qiu Shaorong salvaged readable records in the south.
• Belsha revealed that her true name was Elisa and that her father estimated fewer than ten thousand Belka People remained, including the five hundred she had led away.
• Xi Xiu’s group reached the cave entrance, disguised themselves as Elisa’s people, and agreed that Elisa would guide them inside while the others waited on the surface.
• Elisa activated the underground lift and led Xi Xiu, A Xian, and the others two thousand meters down to a lush habitat with an old ecological system and neglected equipment.

Elisa returned to the Parasites’ underground city with Xi Xiu and the others, using a cover story to reach her father, Andra Belsha. They planned to strike at night, knowing they had at most twelve hours before the Parasites’ unseen controller responded.

• Elisa explained that Belka’s ancestors had planted the abandoned underground garden and led the group toward the Underground City on a slide car.
• Xi Xiu coached Elisa to claim that strangers had taken over the Starship sent to collect her, and the group passed the Parasites’ tunnel inspection.
• Elisa gave the Parasites a false account of the Starship and drew its emblem, while Flora marked a Belka person with identifying substance for the coming fight.
• Elisa reunited with Andra and pretended that she had returned because the outside world frightened her, while Xi Xiu and the others concealed their identities.
• Andra invited the group to stay for dinner, and the chapter revealed that the Parasites had killed Belka People to feed newly created Belka People.

Andra helped Xi Xiu and her team prepare to free the Belka People and destroy the Parasites controlling them. As the rescue operation began at two in the morning, Wu Yuan and Qi Mang encountered fierce resistance inside the Parasites’ nest.

• Andra explained how the Parasites kept the Belka People captive and why he had risked his life to help Elisa and the children leave.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian helped Elisa prepare a meal while Elisa answered the Parasites’ questions without raising suspicion.
• Xi Xiu outlined a plan to identify the Parasites, evacuate the real Belka People, and draw the Parasites into battle.
• Andra agreed to warn the Belka People to leave lights on in their homes after they fell asleep.
• At two in the morning, Xi Xiu sent Wu Yuan and Qi Mang with the robots into the deeper tunnels, where the Parasites discovered them and attacked.

Xi Xiu and the soldiers fought the Parasites while evacuating screened Belka People from the underground nest. Elisa chose to stay with Xi Xiu and learn to fight, and the chapter left Xi Xiu and A Xian pushing deeper into the nest as Elisa watched their strength in awe.

• Wu Yuan struggled to subdue the Parasites, whose soft, flexible bodies resisted ordinary attacks, so Xi Xiu revised the battle plan.
• Xi Xiu ordered Su Jinbao and Hu Yingyi to take screened Belka People to the surface, knocking out those who refused to leave and handing them over to Tarasha for quarantine.
• Elisa refused to leave with Andra and the others, so Xi Xiu gave her mecha armor and brought her along into the nest.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian fought their way through the Parasites, and Xi Xiu captured one alive in a containment vessel.
• Elisa watched Xi Xiu and A Xian fight at astonishing speed and wondered whether she could reach their level if she worked hard.

Xi Xiu and the others fought through the Belka underground nest, trying to capture the Parasites alive and uncover their memories. They discovered that the Parasite leader was reproducing and extracted its true body, but the identity of whoever brought the creatures to Belka remained unknown.

• A Xian admitted Xi Xiu was more talented than she was, while Xi Xiu hoped she could become stronger than her current self.
• Xi Xiu asked the warriors to capture the Parasites alive so they might recover their memories, and Wu Jingyang said success would depend on luck.
• Qing Zhixun watched the battle footage and ordered Qing Sansui to gather and organize information about the Belka People.
• Xi Xiu sent Wu Yuan and Qi Mang to isolate the immature Parasites while Leopard prepared weapons for an exit passage.
• He Yinlei noticed the Parasite leader appeared to be giving birth, and Xi Xiu had the team brighten their devices and activate a barrier.
• Ebony restrained the leader and pulled its true body from its Belka host, leaving the group wondering who had brought the Parasites to Belka.

Xi Xiu and her team defeated the Parasites beneath Belka and rescued the Belka People, then prepared to relocate them while the Alliance investigated the planet. Elisa and Andra tried to convince their tribe of the truth, but some still doubted them, leaving the Belka People divided as they prepared to leave.

• Xi Xiu's team finished destroying the Parasites and their eggs, while Tarasha and Yang Jiuqing cleaned and cared for the rescued Belka People.
• Xi Xiu told Elisa that the Alliance would take over Belka until it was confirmed safe, and Elisa agreed to follow their arrangements.
• A Xian showed the Belka People footage of the Parasites emerging from their supposed tribespeople, challenging them to reconsider their belief that they belonged underground.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Xi Xiu's team to take the Belka People to a transit planet and send the captured Parasites to an experimental base.
• Andra and Elisa explained their suspicions to the tribe, but a stubborn Belka accused the Alliance of staging the events to seize Belka's wealth.
• Andra declared that he and Elisa would leave with the Alliance soldiers, while the young Belka People stood with them.

The older Belka People agreed to leave with the garrison, though some still distrusted the Alliance and questioned its intentions. Xi Xiu outlined the garrison’s plan and warned Elisa about Belka’s internal conflicts, leaving Elisa resolved to grow stronger and guide her people.

• Andra’s challenge led the older Belka People to reconsider their past and agree to leave with the garrison.
• Elisa and Andra warned Xi Xiu that some of their people might not truly trust the garrison.
• Xi Xiu told the Belka People they would be taken to a transfer planet for supplies, safety, and medical care, while their homeland’s recovered items went to a research institute.
• A Belka person accused the garrison of abandoning them, but Xi Xiu explained the decision and offered to let them follow the research process.
• Xi Xiu warned Elisa about Belka’s future internal disputes and explained that strength also came from knowledge, perspective, and planning.
• Elisa decided to become stronger so she could handle Belka’s conflicts.

Xi Xiu brought the Belka People to a transfer planet for medical examinations and decontamination while the young Belka began imagining a future beyond captivity. The chapter ended with Xi Xiu and her warriors cleansing themselves in space as they shared their thoughts over squad comms.

• Xi Xiu let Elisa stay with her and warned that the Belka People needed to resolve their clan’s internal affairs and learn to survive independently.
• Xi Xiu arranged transport to a transfer planet, and the young Belka watched the stars and discussed their ancestors’ lost power.
• Xi Xiu’s group designated a temporary foothold and arranged medical examinations because the Belka People might carry Parasite eggs and could not endure exposure to space or intense sunlight.
• Elisa led Renees, Erno, and the others to the doctors, determined to study and become a leader for the Belka People.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, Ebony, and the other warriors floated in space to remove contaminants while sharing their experiences over squad comms.

Xi Xiu returned to the garrison after the Belka rescue, arranged for the captured Parasites to be delivered to a research institute, and learned that Elisa and the other young Belka People had no Parasite eggs in their bodies. She discussed Belka’s uncertain future with Elisa, then agreed to meet Andra and the older Belka People.

• Xi Xiu and the 909 members joked together on their return, and their conversation turned to their marriage compatibility results.
• Xi Xiu assigned Qiu Shaorong, Tarasha, Yang Jiuqing, and other soldiers to escort the Parasite samples to the research institute.
• Elisa told Xi Xiu that she and the other young Belka People had tested negative for Parasite eggs, then asked to train with her.
• Xi Xiu told Elisa that Belka’s recovery could not be determined until the garrison assessed the planet and its environmental damage.
• Elisa brought Xi Xiu and A Xian to meet her father, Andra, and more than thirty older Belka People.

Xi Xiu welcomed Andra and the other Belka People and learned how Andra had secretly prepared Elisa and the young Belka to escape the underground and fight the Parasites. Andra planned to help the newly arrived Belka settle in and choose a new leader, while Xi Xiu answered his questions about the Alliance.

• Xi Xiu accepted Andra's apology for the Belka People who had spoken out of turn and explained the Alliance's situation to them.
• Andra recalled how the Parasites had executed his partner, driving him to resist them and ensure Elisa would not meet the same fate.
• After discovering the Parasites' conspiracy, Andra devised a plan to send the young Belka to the surface, where they secretly trained and attacked the Parasites at the spaceport.
• Andra explained that the Belka who had questioned the garrison was the son of the current Parasite leader, though he probably knew nothing about the Parasites beforehand.
• Xi Xiu urged the Belka to follow local rules and cooperate with doctors, while Andra said they would choose a new leader and asked her about the Alliance.

Andra and the other Belka elders agreed to support Elisa and let the younger generation choose a leader through duels as Belka rebuilt. Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun traced Belka’s isolation and the Parasites’ arrival to a suspicious group and a commercial starship linked to Qin Hongjun, but the trail ended beyond the Barren Sea.

• Andra, Renees's father, and Erno's father agreed that the younger Belka People would choose their leader through duels and that the elders would support them.
• Andra told Elisa to train with Officer Li, and he reassured her that her grandfather's ID might help recover her mother's photographs from the lost terminal.
• Qing Zhixun told Xi Xiu that he and Lu Zong'an's group had found records of outsiders who sought Belka's City in the Sky and its secrets.
• Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun connected the outsiders' expulsion to Qin Hongjun's retaliation against the Belka People.
• Qing Zhixun identified a commercial starship that had visited Belka five hundred years earlier as suspicious, noting that it later disappeared beyond the Barren Sea where Qin Hongjun had been active.

Xi Xiu coordinated the Alliance’s response to the Belka crisis, while Elisa and the other young Belka trained with the soldiers. The chapter ended with A Xian asking Xi Xiu to tell her wherever she went in the future.

• Xi Xiu told Qing Zhixun not to interfere in Belka’s internal conflict and confirmed that the Alliance would follow its rules.
• Xi Xiu learned from Li Zhengfeng that the older Belka had lied about contacting him five hundred years earlier, and she shared what had happened to their people.
• The Alliance quickly produced and distributed Discrimination Instruments and Protective Suits, and rewarded Belka with supplies and reconstruction support.
• Elisa, Renees, and the other young Belka trained with Xi Xiu’s group, while Xi Xiu explained that they should strengthen their bodies before beginning Mental Power training.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian talked about their pasts and how they had come to meet, and A Xian asked Xi Xiu to tell her wherever she went in the future.

Xi Xiu discussed her Central Brain matching result with A Xian and agreed to tell Liuga the truth, though she still did not know what the future held with Qing Zhixun. She changed the subject to planning a team meal after they returned to base, while Elisa and Renees watched the warriors’ camaraderie and hoped the Belka People might one day share it.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed their return to base, news from Anvile, and Jing Xi’s plans to enter the Star Domain Gate.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu that Liuga had asked about her matching result, and Xi Xiu agreed to let her know the truth.
• A Xian explained that Liuga had already asked Qing Zhixun, who had refused to reveal the result, and Xi Xiu suspected he had arranged their match.
• Xi Xiu changed the subject to relaxing after their return, and Flora and A Xian proposed cooking and grilling food with the team.
• Xi Xiu assigned Flora and He Yinlei to choose a location for the meal, while Elisa and Renees watched the warriors gather and hoped the Belka People could someday do the same.

Xi Xiu prepared Elisa and the others to continue training after she returned to the garrison, giving them supplies and revealing her real name to Elisa. When Qiu Shaorong returned with the sealed memory-retrieval data, Andra sought to make its contents public, even as older Belka People eyed the disk for their own advantage.

• Xi Xiu gave Elisa and the others training advice, a six-month plan, and Nutrient Paste, then arranged a monthly window for them to contact her.
• Xi Xiu told Elisa that her real name was Hong Xixiu and asked her to keep it secret; she also left the group a data packet about the Alliance.
• Elisa led Renees and the others in following Xi Xiu's demanding training schedule while Xi Xiu prepared to leave for the garrison.
• Qiu Shaorong returned with the laboratory's sealed, untouched memory data, and Xi Xiu handed the storage disk to Andra in front of the warriors.
• Andra, wary that he could not protect the disk from those seeking power, called Qing Zhixun and declared that he would open the data publicly.

Andra and the Belka People accepted responsibility for their isolation and agreed that Belka would handle its affairs internally while learning from memory fragments recovered from the Parasites. As the Belka People began studying their ancestors’ skills, they discovered the strength and knowledge they would need to rebuild their legacy.

• Andra apologized to Qing Zhixun and asked him to witness Belka’s decision to make its information available to its people and resolve future affairs internally.
• Qing Zhixun agreed to archive the video for Belka’s access and sent a copy to the Elder Council so potentially troublesome Belka People could be monitored.
• Andra opened Xi Xiu’s storage drive, revealing scattered memory fragments containing Belka’s ancestors’ skills and experiences.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian doubted whether the older Belka People would persevere, while they hoped Elisa and the younger generation would learn the fragments.
• Elisa, Renees, Erno, and the other Belka People saved and studied the fragments, amazed by their ancestors’ combat abilities, training, and knowledge of Mental Power.

Andra understood the ancient Belka words in the recovered memory fragment, preserving the secret his father had entrusted to him. After helping the Belka People begin rebuilding their strength, Xi Xiu and her team left the transfer star, which Qing Zhixun placed under the base’s protection and concealed from the Star Chart.

• Andra recognized the ancient language in the memory fragment and recalled his father’s translation and final warning to remember the words.
• The Belka People thanked Xi Xiu’s group and Qing Zhixun for returning their memories, while Elisa and others resolved to train patiently for the coming competition.
• Qing Zhixun said the base would withdraw some warriors but remain available to assist the Belka People.
• During fifteen days on the transfer star, Xi Xiu trained Elisa and the others alongside the base’s warriors.
• Xi Xiu and her team said farewell and returned to the base, while Elisa and the others stayed on the transfer star.
• Qing Zhixun restricted the transfer star’s Star Net access, closed its route, and concealed its location from the Star Chart.

After completing her mission among the Belka People, Xi Xiu accepted green stones from Elisa and planned to set them into weapons with A Xian. As their starship prepared to enter a jump channel, the crew received an S-class distress signal, and Xi Xiu led the response toward the coordinates.

• Xi Xiu accepted the green stones Elisa and the others had given her, explaining that she liked their traces of time.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed turning the stones into ornaments and setting some into their weapons.
• Xi Xiu's starship received an S-class distress signal from outside the Yuanyang Base's jurisdiction.
• Xi Xiu reported the signal to Qing Zhixun, who ordered a reconnaissance team and vanguard unit to investigate carefully while he sent reinforcements.

Xi Xiu rushed to answer the distress signal from Suxita Planet, whose location matched archived Star Chart coordinates Suo Feihua had once given her. She learned that Suxita was under attack and surrounded by enemy Starships, and ordered Qiu Shaorong’s team to break through the blockade as she approached.

• Qing Zhixun sent Li Yuanting and Lin Changchang with three Starships to rendezvous with Hong Xixiu, while Xi Xiu set out separately with her team.
• Xi Xiu recognized Suxita’s location from the archived coordinates Suo Feihua had given her and decided to assess the situation before attempting contact or rescue.
• Suo Feihua, Feng Shanshan, Suo Feiyue, and Vera fought waves of half-Star Beasts attacking Suxita as its residents evacuated under Jiang Fuyu’s lead.
• Suxita’s defenders remained trapped as enemy warships blocked the planet and the Star Net; Ximo and Sika headed back from the Mingyun Galaxy.
• After reaching Suxita’s vicinity, Xi Xiu saw that ten large Starships had encircled the planet and told Qiu Shaorong to break through the blocking system.

Xi Xiu restored the Star Net and coordinated Yuani garrison reinforcements for Suxita Planet while the Feihua Group fought an endless swarm of half-Star Beasts. As the garrison ships approached, the defenders still could not find where the creatures came from, and the enemy starships remained strangely silent.

• Xi Xiu and Qiu Shaorong's technicians breached the jamming system, allowing Xi Xiu to contact Suxita's Star Lord and prepare a rescue plan.
• Lin Shuan told the Suxita warriors that Yuani garrison soldiers would arrive in thirty minutes, and Suo Feiyue and Vera continued fighting the half-Star Beasts on the ground.
• Jiang Fuyu sent Feng Shanshan's reconnaissance robots toward the silent enemy starships, then learned from Suo Feihua that he should wait for the Yuani garrison and protect the civilians aboard his ships.
• Suo Feihua and Feng Shanshan returned to the ground as Jiang Fuyu monitored the approaching garrison ships and relayed space surveillance to the defenders.
• Lin Shuan's scouts reported no energy fluctuations or source for the creatures, so he ordered them to join the battle while he and Tian Nuolin discussed the Feihua Group's need for biology specialists.

Lin Shuan and Tian Nuolin defended Suxita while Xi Xiu and Li Yuanting confronted five Starships crewed by Eternal Robots. The enemy’s program activated during their attack, and robot soldiers poured from the damaged ships as reinforcements headed to Suxita.

• Lin Shuan and Tian Nuolin prepared to hold Suxita’s surface fortress until Feihua could identify the attackers.
• Xi Xiu met Li Yuanting and reported that five enemy Starships surrounded Suxita with no visible living crew; A Xian confirmed they were Eternal Robots.
• Xi Xiu recalled Wu Yuan and Qi Mang, then coordinated with Li Yuanting to send twenty small Starships and reconnaissance robots toward the enemy ships.
• Lin Changchang destroyed the enemy ships’ protective barriers, and Xi Xiu ordered her to strike their active zones after the robots’ footage revealed the enemy program had not yet started.
• The enemy program activated as the attacks landed, and robot soldiers poured from the damaged Starships.
• Qing Zhixun arranged for two Starships from the western district to reinforce Suxita and raised the Yuari base’s defensive barrier.