Chapter Summaries

Hong Xixiu coordinated with Jiang Fuyu to protect Suxita’s citizens and joined the ground forces heading to support Lin Shuan. As Xi Xiu’s team descended onto the beautiful planet, she wondered about its connection to the Feihua Group and ordered everyone to take their positions.

• Hong Xixiu identified herself to Jiang Fuyu, arranged for Suxita’s Starships to shelter among the garrison fleet, and sent Jiang’s forces to assist in the battle.
• Xi Xiu handed command of the command Starship to Wang Zichun and led A Xian, He Yinlei, Su Jinbao, Qiu Shaorong, and the others into space aboard fighter jets.
• Xi Xiu’s team broke through Suxita’s clouds and marveled at the planet’s lush forests, oceans, mountains, and roaming animals.
• Xi Xiu considered Suxita’s history as a private planet and wondered what relationship Lin Shuan had with Suo Feihua and the others.
• Xi Xiu told her team to follow their assignments, stay safe, and wait for her to send an assembly point after the battle.

Xi Xiu and A Xian helped the Suxida forces contain half-Star Beasts that rapidly regenerated from even tiny scraps of tissue. After the battlefield was brought under control, Feng Shanshan suspected Xi Xiu was the child she had once given a saber to and stopped her from putting the weapon away.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian joined the Suxida warriors and discovered that the half-Star Beasts regenerated from any surviving tissue.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian changed tactics, capturing or incapacitating the creatures and using growth inhibitor to slow their regeneration.
• Feng Shanshan recognized that Xi Xiu's saber matched one she had forged and wondered if Xi Xiu was the little girl she remembered.
• Xi Xiu analyzed the creatures and explained that they had to be contained without spilling tissue, while Suo Feihua spread the method to the other fighters.
• The Suxida forces contained the half-Star Beasts, and Xi Xiu and A Xian kept fighting until the remaining creatures were handed to Wu Yuan and Qi Mang.
• Feng Shanshan pressed down on Xi Xiu's hand as she was about to put away her cleaned saber.

Hong Xixiu reunited with Feng Shanshan and Suo Feihua after rescuing the Feihua Group, and the group prepared to face the Eternal Robots above Suxida. Xi Xiu suspected the machines had come to take revenge on Feihua, and the story left them readying their people for battle.

• Feng Shanshan recognized the blade she had given Xi Xiu and joyfully embraced her, while A Xian watched jealously.
• Suo Feihua recognized Xi Xiu as the diligent child she remembered, and Xi Xiu agreed to let the group call her Jiujiu.
• Xi Xiu explained that she had diverted from a nearby mission after receiving the distress signal and reporting to the Yuandai Garrison.
• Xi Xiu told Suo Feihua that many Eternal Robots were above Suxida, and they began planning to organize fighters and leave people to handle the half-Star Beasts.
• Xi Xiu suspected the Eternal Robots were former pirates seeking revenge on Feihua, with Qin Hongjun helping them find the group.
• A Xian explained that Xi Xiu had recognized the distress signal's coordinates from her memories and that they had opened a wartime passage to reach Suxida quickly.

Xi Xiu and the others prepared Suxida’s defenders for an attack by Eternal Robots while they searched the enemy ships for spare robot bodies. They left the defenders ready for battle as the robots approached Suxida’s atmosphere.

• Xi Xiu shared Wang Zichun’s deployment map and warned Suxida’s fighters that robot warriors were preparing to breach the planet’s defenses.
• Su Jinbao and the others distributed and demonstrated weapons that could extract the consciousnesses controlling the robots.
• Xi Xiu told Li Yuanting to search the damaged enemy Starships for spare robot bodies, and his people found and destroyed the robots aboard while uncovering many blank bodies.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu explained that the Alliance’s earlier account of Eternal Robots had obscured how their consciousnesses moved between bodies, and A Xian apologized to Suo Feihua for her harsh tone.
• Xi Xiu spotted the approaching robots and warned the others that they had arrived.

Xi Xiu, A Xian, Suo Feihua, Feng Shanshan, and their allies fought robots carrying the consciousnesses of captured star pirates. Xi Xiu rushed to support the surrounded Suo Feihua as the robots threatened the Feihua Group and planet Suxida.

• Xi Xiu confirmed Suo Feihua and Feng Shanshan had the latest equipment, then she and A Xian charged into the robot forces.
• Suo Feihua and Feng Shanshan discovered that modified robots carried captured pirates' consciousnesses and were familiar with Suo Feihua's fighting style.
• Feng Shanshan used Xi Xiu's device to extract a robot's consciousness, while Xi Xiu and A Xian rapidly destroyed weaker robots.
• Xi Xiu left the weaker robots to A Xian and went to help Suo Feihua, who was surrounded by three powerful robots.
• A robot threatened to destroy the Feihua Group and planet Suxida, and Feng Shanshan attacked it with an incendiary round that it managed to deflect.

Xi Xiu and A Xian watched as Suo Feihua confronted the robots, whose confidence and taunts gave way to a fight. Suo Feihua recognized Barry and changed her tactics, while Xi Xiu found her battle against Xilinwei easy because the robots lacked recent information about the Alliance.

• The robots dismissed Xi Xiu and A Xian as inexperienced children, and Suo Feihua answered their taunts by citing the star pirate leaders her group had captured.
• The robots assigned opponents, sending Xilinwei to fight Xi Xiu and their commander to face Suo Feihua.
• Suo Feihua recognized the commander as Barry, the former Thunderclap Group leader whose capture had once left her severely injured.
• Barry accused Suo Feihua of winning through dirty tactics, and she condemned him for the murders and trafficking he had committed.
• Suo Feihua attacked with changed angles and moves that Barry's combat program had not predicted.
• Xi Xiu discovered that the robots' memories ended when they died, leaving them without information about her and A Xian.

Xi Xiu defeated Xilinwei, captured its consciousness, and took over Feng Shanshan’s fight against Chen Yuzong. The chapter ended as Xi Xiu launched her attack on Chen Yuzong, while Feng Shanshan reacted strongly to his name.

• Xi Xiu analyzed Xilinwei’s combat patterns, then overwhelmed it with faster attacks and redirected its weapons with her Mental Power.
• Xi Xiu trapped Xilinwei with Silver Beads, crushed it, extracted its consciousness, and sealed it in a storage device.
• Xi Xiu checked on Suo Feihua, then went to help Feng Shanshan, who admitted she could not defeat her opponent.
• Feng Shanshan withdrew, and Xi Xiu confronted Chen Yuzong, dismissing his name and attacking him.
• Feng Shanshan’s expression changed several times when she heard Chen Yuzong’s name.

Feng Shanshan revealed that the robot was Chen Yuzong, a former Alliance warrior who had defected to Hanhai and committed atrocities along the border. Xi Xiu fought him while A Xian and Feng Shanshan protected the area, and Chen Yuzong tried to recruit Xi Xiu after realizing her strength.

• Feng Shanshan showed Xi Xiu Chen Yuzong's history as a powerful Alliance defector who had helped Hanhai seize energy reserves and terrorized the border.
• Xi Xiu resolved to kill Chen Yuzong, while A Xian and Feng Shanshan fought the robot grunts and extracted their consciousness codes.
• Xi Xiu challenged Chen Yuzong as he turned his mechanical hand into a sword, and their weapons clashed.
• A Xian and Feng Shanshan raised a protective barrier and watched as Xi Xiu matched Chen Yuzong's speed and strength.
• Chen Yuzong was shocked by Xi Xiu's abilities and offered to make her a leader, but Xi Xiu ignored him and intensified her attack.

Xi Xiu unleashed overwhelming Mental Power against Chen Yuzong and Barry, pinning them down as their mechanical bodies cracked. She blocked Chen Yuzong’s escape through the network and destroyed his body with the Silver Beads, leaving the battle’s next phase to come.

• Chen Yuzong tried to persuade Xi Xiu to defect, but she became furious and her Mental Power surged.
• Xi Xiu trapped Chen Yuzong and Barry in her Mental Power while Suo Feihua withdrew from the fight.
• Barry’s uncontrolled attacks failed, and both robots’ shells began to crack under Xi Xiu’s pressure.
• A Xian sent a video of the battle to Qing Zhixun as the ground fight neared its end.
• Chen Yuzong tried to escape through the network, but Xi Xiu blocked the route and pinned down his consciousness.
• Xi Xiu sent the Silver Beads into Chen Yuzong’s metal body, destroying it before he could complete his unfinished mission.

Suo Feihua’s forces captured Barry’s consciousness after defeating the attackers, and Xi Xiu warned that Chen Yuzong and Barry might be backed-up copies. The group prepared for further assaults, suspecting Qin Hongjun could keep sending replicated soldiers.

• Suo Feihua asked Xi Xiu to extract information from Barry and Chen Yuzong about how they had found Feihua Group’s habitat.
• Feng Shanshan captured Barry’s consciousness code before Suo Feihua could destroy his mechanical head, and Suo Feihua reported the events to Lin Shuan.
• Lin Shuan and Suo Feihua concluded that Barry’s force was made up of captured star pirates and prepared for a possible second attack.
• Xi Xiu suspected Chen Yuzong and Barry could be consciousness copies, based on their similarity to Tang Mushishi and Qin Hongjun’s need for more soldiers.
• Suo Feihua’s group realized that Suxida might have to join the war if Qin Hongjun could repeatedly deploy backed-up soldiers.

Suo Feihua revised Lin Shuan’s deployment after learning the Eternal Robots might be driven by the consciousnesses of captured star pirates. After Suo Feiyue and Vera finished their battle and reunited with the others, they learned the danger could be much greater and discovered that the young warrior they admired was Xi Xiu.

• Suo Feihua warned Lin Shuan about the likely enemy mindset, and Lin Shuan changed the deployment while the base sent two more Starships.
• Qiu Shaorong and He Yinlei explained the Eternal Robots to Suo Feiyue and Vera, who realized the attackers might include the consciousnesses of star pirate leaders captured by the Feihua Group.
• Suo Feiyue and Vera decided to join Suo Feihua’s group before meeting Songnian and following Lin Shuan’s arrangements.
• Suo Feiyue and Vera arrived at the observation room, where Vera noticed Xi Xiu and A Xian and admired Xi Xiu’s presence.
• Feng Shanshan revealed Xi Xiu’s identity, and Suo Feiyue recognized her as the diligent girl she had heard about and praised her beauty.

Xi Xiu reunited with Suo Feihua, Suo Feiyue, Vera, and Jiang Fuyu, then joined Suxida’s leaders as they prepared defenses against the Eternal Robots. The planet was temporarily quiet, and Yuanri was investigating how the enemy had reached Suxida while the defenders awaited the next attack.

• Xi Xiu confirmed to Suo Feiyue and Vera that she was Jiujiu, and Suo Feihua explained that she had rushed to Suxida after receiving their distress signal.
• Feng Shanshan shared the reunion with Jiang Fuyu, who recognized Xi Xiu and reflected on their past kindness to her.
• Suo Feihua and Lin Shuan reviewed sentry-post footage and found no unusual activity, then ordered everyone to remain vigilant through the night.
• Xi Xiu told Lin Shuan that her reinforcements would follow his command, while Yuanri urgently investigated the enemy’s arrival and analyzed nearby fluctuation data.
• Lin Shuan assigned forces to the sentry posts around Suxida, and Suo Feiyue, Vera, and other teams took their positions for the expected battle.
• Suo Feihua and Feng Shanshan planned to study the captured space pirates’ records so they could identify the Eternal Robots when they returned.

Xi Xiu, A Xian, and their allies prepared weapons and reviewed the Feihua Group’s records of captured space pirate leaders before the coming battle at Suxida. Xi Xiu also learned that Anvile’s ancient records might point to the star system from her past life.

• Feng Shanshan agreed to modify weapons that could deploy extraction devices and destroy the robots in a single strike, then went to the workshop with her people.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu discussed the stars and the possibility that Anvile’s ancestors had once visited Xi Xiu’s former star system.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian went to the observation room, where Suo Feihua presented records of more than six thousand captured pirate leaders.
• Suo Feihua identified Xishili as the most formidable leader in the records and explained that capturing him had cost the Feihua Group several hundred people, including her grandfather.

Xi Xiu and the others prepared Suxida’s warriors for a possible attack by sharing a program that could crack the Eternal Robots’ Martial Skills. As they watched the quiet night sky for signs of danger, A Xian told Feng Shanshan about upheaval across the Alliance.

• Xi Xiu explained Qin Hongjun’s history to Suo Feihua, while the Qing Family of the Elder Council searched for clues and the Alliance prepared to reveal its confirmed findings.
• Xi Xiu gave Suo Feihua a Martial Skill decryption program developed by Wu Jingyang and refined by Xi Xiu and A Xian, and Lin Shuan ordered it loaded onto every ground warrior’s terminal.
• Suxida’s warriors loaded the program, and Su Jinbao and the others began showing them how to use it as midnight approached.
• Li Yuanting, Xi Xiu, A Xian, and the others watched the sky for signs of an attack, while Qing Zhixun’s analysis of the previous assault was still underway.
• A Xian told Feng Shanshan that she had joined the Yuanyi Garrison to stay with Xi Xiu, then mentioned Gaia’s recent purge and arrests of prominent families’ members.

A Xian explained the Alliance and Xi Xiu’s circumstances to Feng Shanshan as Suxida’s leaders investigated the enemy’s undetected approach. Qing Zhixun identified likely encrypted transmission routes, and Lin Shuan reinforced the predicted entry points while the defenders prepared for another attack.

• A Xian told Feng Shanshan that Xi Xiu had no intention of acknowledging the Ye Family, while Ye Yunhan focused on reclaiming the family’s power.
• Feng Shanshan, Suo Feihua, Lin Shuan, and Tian Nuolin concluded that their intelligence network had missed crucial information because its agents lacked experience.
• Qing Zhixun told Li Yuanting that the enemy had likely used encrypted transmission to travel without detectable energy leakage and warned that defenders might be unable to predict their movements.
• Qing Zhixun sent likely enemy routes and predicted arrival coordinates to Li Yuanting, Wang Zichun, and Xi Xiu, recommending stronger space defenses and caution against pursuit.
• Xi Xiu forwarded the coordinates to Lin Shuan, who ordered Tian Nuolin to reinforce the predicted entry points with nine defensive layers inside and out.

Xi Xiu refused to let Wu Yuan and Qi Mang join the battle because infection could endanger them and the base, then led A Xian and Jiu Dan to intercept the invading force. The enemy fleet arrived over Suxida, and Xi Xiu ordered the defenders to prepare as the battle began.

• Xi Xiu kept Wu Yuan and Qi Mang off the battlefield, and Qi Mang accepted her decision after recognizing that she treated them as companions.
• Xi Xiu gave Suo Feihua the sentry-post assignment, then set out with A Xian to defend the First Defense Line.
• Xi Xiu awakened Jiu Dan and brought the mech and the others to the coordinates Qing Zhixun had marked as the likely enemy route.
• Xi Xiu sensed the gathered enemy consciousnesses and told Jiu Dan and Suo Feihua to begin preparations.
• The enemy Starships appeared over Suxida, and Xi Xiu and A Xian went to fight while Suo Feihua and Feng Shanshan held the sentry post.

Chen Yuzong led the attack on Suxida, confident that he could quickly defeat its defenders, while Xi Xiu and A Xian prepared to stop the advancing robots. The chapter left Chen Yuzong facing Xi Xiu and Barry confronting A Xian.

• Jiu Dan activated Suxida's defenses, which intercepted six enemy Starships and kept them from entering the planet.
• President Yu ordered the attackers to fight individually, and Barry led a group away to scout while Chen Yuzong studied the defenders' deployment.
• Chen Yuzong left his Starship to attack Xi Xiu and A Xian, convinced that no one in Jingsu could challenge him besides Li Zhengfeng.
• Xi Xiu separated from Jiu Dan to face Chen Yuzong, while A Xian headed with Shi Ding to intercept the other robots and keep them from returning to Qin Hongjun.
• A Xian blocked Barry from reaching Suo Feihua, and Barry hesitated as he assessed the heavy mecha's strength.

A Xian and Xi Xiu fought Barry and Chen Yuzong as their forces resisted the assault on Suxida. Barry realized his Martial Skill program could not overcome A Xian, while Chen Yuzong ordered his troops to press on and faced Xi Xiu, who vowed to bring him to justice.

• A Xian sent her people to fight the enemy foot soldiers and challenged Barry alone, leaving Shi Ding to attack the enemy ranks.
• Barry tested A Xian with tricky attacks and a Martial Skill program, but she countered his moves and struck his metal body with her halberd.
• Barry warned Chen Yuzong that A Xian was a formidable opponent and suspected the opposing team had arrived unexpectedly.
• Chen Yuzong struggled against Xi Xiu and ordered his subordinates to charge despite their resistance and fear of being killed again.
• Xi Xiu identified Chen Yuzong as an experimental subject and declared that she would punish him for his crimes.

Xi Xiu revealed her strength and fought Chen Yuzong in the air while A Xian overpowered Barry and trapped his consciousness. As the battles continued, Xi Xiu rejected Chen Yuzong’s arguments for immortality and studied his Mental Power technique.

• Xi Xiu drew her sword and countered Chen Yuzong’s attacks, including moves based on Li Zhengfeng’s style.
• Feng Shanshan and Suo Feihua watched Xi Xiu fight and discussed sending the younger generation out to gain experience after the crisis.
• A Xian used her Mental Power to trap Barry’s consciousness and mocked him for claiming she had cheated.
• Xi Xiu blocked Chen Yuzong’s attempt to persuade her and reaffirmed that she would choose how she died.
• Chen Yuzong created destructive Mental Power vortices, and Xi Xiu studied them as she considered learning the technique herself.

Xi Xiu defeated Chen Yuzong, extracted his consciousness, and recovered his mechanical remains after a fierce aerial battle. With the teams reporting success and Li Yuanting capturing the enemy Starship, the forces prepared to return to Gaia with their prisoners and equipment for investigation.

• Chen Yuzong’s vortex failed against Xi Xiu’s stronger version, and she thanked him for demonstrating the technique.
• Chen Yuzong attacked at high speed, but Xi Xiu lured him into range and trapped him in her vortex after he struck her nearly ten times.
• Xi Xiu crushed Chen Yuzong’s mechanical body, extracted his consciousness, and packed up his remains for examination.
• A Xian rendezvoused with Xi Xiu, and the teams reported that their battles had ended with no serious injuries.
• Li Yuanting captured Chen Yuzong’s Starship and dismantled its robot bodies and Cradle systems for transport to Gaia.
• Xi Xiu labeled the boxes holding Chen Yuzong and Barry’s consciousnesses and prepared to hand them to Qing Zhixun for processing.