Chapter Summaries

Xi Xiu and the others shared a peaceful evening of food, music, and memories at the base, while Qing Zhixun quietly showed his care for her. After the gathering ended, Qing Zhixun told Lu Zong'an to summon every team captain and vice-captain for a meeting the next morning.

• Xi Xiu ate with He Yinlei, Flora, and the others while Qing Zhixun grilled seafood and gave her the best portions.
• Xi Xiu prepared large portions of grilled food for Li Zhengfeng, and Qing Zhixun helped her arrange for Qi Mang to deliver them to the transfer station.
• Qi Mang left with the food under escort, while the soldiers shared the meal and talked about home, partners, and childhood memories.
• The group spent the evening singing songs from home, and Xi Xiu thought of her loved ones, especially Wei Lanshan.
• Xi Xiu waited until her team members returned safely to their dorms before going back with A Xian, and Qing Zhixun returned with Lu Zong'an.
• Qing Zhixun instructed Lu Zong'an to notify every team captain and vice-captain about a meeting the next morning, then found Li Yuanting waiting at his dormitory.

Xi Xiu attended a meeting about the eastern section’s preparations for a joint exhibition exercise with the western section and learned she would lead a 200-team vanguard alongside Fan Zhengan. After the meeting, she and Qiu Shaorong went to Fan Zhengan to receive their assignments.

• Li Yuanting admitted his mistake to Qing Zhixun, who said he had not taken it to heart and reminded Li about the morning meeting.
• Xi Xiu teased A Xian after waking, then notified her team that outside terminal signals would be blocked after the meeting.
• Qing Zhixun briefed the captains on the upcoming east-west exercise, its new tactics and weapons, and the fifteen days of training beforehand.
• Xi Xiu learned she and Fan Zhengan would lead two hundred reorganized teams, totaling four hundred thousand soldiers, as the vanguard.
• Xi Xiu and Qiu Shaorong approached Fan Zhengan after the meeting to wait for their assignments.

Xi Xiu and Qiu Shaorong accepted their roles in the training for an exhibition with the Western District, which was due to begin in fifteen days. After learning that several new soldiers who were alumni were refusing to cooperate, Xi Xiu decided to watch their conduct and let them face the consequences of their choices.

• Fan Zhengan assigned Xi Xiu and Qiu Shaorong to help lead training, and they agreed to follow the rankings and schedule.
• Fan Zhengan explained the demanding daily training routine and warned Xi Xiu about mistakes to correct before the exhibition.
• Qiu Shaorong told Xi Xiu that several new soldiers were resisting training, and Xi Xiu recognized them as alumni who had been close to Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing.
• Xi Xiu told Qiu Shaorong to monitor the troublemakers, keep the soldiers from 909 in line, and respond if anyone openly provoked them.
• Xi Xiu returned to the dormitory, told A Xian, Flora, and He Yinlei about the exhibition in fifteen days, and said they should avoid breaking the rules.

Xi Xiu entered the Virtual Network to train, where Zhang Xiaoxiang accused her of earning her rank and missions through favoritism. She left him to prove himself on a future mission, while Su Jinbao uncovered a revealing name in Zhang’s partner information.

• Xi Xiu entered a one-to-one restoration training scenario with A Xian and her team after instructing Wu Yuan and Qi Mang to remain alert at the base.
• Zhang Xiaoxiang insulted Xi Xiu’s rank and made a contemptuous gesture, so she confronted him and cited the rule violations his accusations implied.
• Xi Xiu challenged Zhang Xiaoxiang to take the next mission with his own team, then left for training instead of challenging him directly.
• Flora questioned Xi Xiu’s decision, and Xi Xiu told her team to focus on training while He Yinlei and Qiu Shaorong understood her reasoning.
• Su Jinbao checked Zhang Xiaoxiang’s recent information and noticed the name listed under his partner.

Su Jinbao and Xi Xiu discovered that Kuang Biru had been matched with Zhang Xiaoxiang, whose hostility toward their captain raised suspicions about the Zhang Family’s motives. Qing Zhixun investigated Zhang Xiaoxiang’s background, and Qing Wenxu assured him that the Elder Council’s former members had accepted their diminished roles.

• Su Jinbao recognized Kuang Biru in Zhang Xiaoxiang’s profile and recalled her past abuse and suspension.
• Su Jinbao and Xi Xiu considered whether Zhang Xiaoxiang’s accusations against Captain Hong reflected a plot by the Zhang Family against the Qing Family.
• Xi Xiu decided to recommend Zhang Xiaoxiang for the next mission so she would not have to hear his complaints.
• Qing Zhixun reviewed Zhang Xiaoxiang’s file and asked Qing Wenxu about the Zhang Family and its former Elder.
• Qing Wenxu said the former Elders had seen the situation clearly and explained that their failure to protect the Alliance had cost them their positions.

Qing Wenxu and the Elders discussed the looming conflict with Qin Hongjun and investigated the Zhang and Kuang Families after their descendants were matched. They decided to monitor the families and prioritize finding out how Kuang Biru recovered her Mental Power.

• Qing Wenxu told Qing Zhixun to introduce his wife on their next video call and learned that A He had returned with Qing Zhixun's mother.
• Qing Wenxu asked the Central Brain about the search for information on Qin Hongjun, then contacted Chu Zekuan and the other Elders about the Zhang and Kuang Families' marriage match.
• Qing Wenxu and Chu Zekuan reviewed the Zhang Family's strength and suspected its leaders were pursuing their own interests amid the crisis.
• Qing Wenxu and Chu Zekuan agreed to watch the Zhang Family and investigate Kuang Biru's recovered Mental Power as a priority.

As Xi Xiu helped Fan Zhengan train the warriors at Yuanri, Zhang Xiaoxiang accused her of giving 909 special treatment by posting their training checklist. Xi Xiu explained that 909 had already surpassed the listed program, and Fan Zhengan’s warning stopped Zhang from disrupting training further.

• Fan Zhengan recorded Zhang Xiaoxiang's lack of cooperation during training and warned him to work with the team.
• Zhang Xiaoxiang posted 909's training checklist on the Virtual Network and claimed Xi Xiu was giving them special treatment.
• Xi Xiu explained publicly that the checklist was only 909's entry-level program and that they had already completed seven of its nine levels.
• Xi Xiu told the other warriors to train for seven days before submitting complaints, while Ulia urged his squad to follow the program.
• Fan Zhengan threatened Zhang Xiaoxiang with solitary confinement and withdrawn promotion reports if he sent another server-wide message, and Zhang reluctantly resumed training.

Hong Xixiu’s demanding training exposed the gap between Team 909 and other newcomers, while Fan Zhengan and Jiang Huajun examined the methods behind her team’s rapid growth. The chapter left Hong Xixiu’s team preparing to complete the final stage of training before entering live combat in the joint exercise.

• Zhang Xiaoxiang’s remarks failed to discourage the soldiers, who trained harder, while Fan Zhengan judged Zhang’s attitude a danger to battlefield cooperation.
• The soldiers struggled to match Team 909’s speed in formation drills and wondered whether the ten-day training stage would explain the difference.
• Fan Zhengan and Jiang Huajun compared Team 909’s performance and reviewed Hong Xixiu’s training plan.
• Fan Zhengan explained that Hong Xixiu’s program built individual strength first, then shifted toward mecha, fighters, and team coordination.
• Fan Zhengan noted that Hong Xixiu’s team had completed eight of nine training stages and would likely finish the last stage on the Virtual Network before live combat.

Xi Xiu reviewed Kuang Biru’s records and learned that the Kuang Family had hidden her past while she gained influence at Tian'ao Fortress. The group uncovered the family’s many illegitimate children, but Xi Xiu focused on the unanswered question of how Kuang Biru had recovered her Mental Power.

• Qing Zhixun sent Xi Xiu Zhang Xiaoxiang’s files and information on Kuang Biru’s recent activities.
• Xi Xiu and her companions learned that Kuang Biru had gained loyal followers at Tian'ao Fortress while the Kuang Family concealed her past from the Elder Council and others.
• A Xian and Flora noticed that Kuang Biru’s mother was not Kuang Jiayuan’s partner, and the group discussed her status as an illegitimate child.
• Xi Xiu explained that the Kuang Family had pursued gifted descendants, and the group learned that it had produced more than five hundred illegitimate children in fifty years.
• Xi Xiu questioned how Kuang Biru had recovered her Mental Power, since current Jingsu technology could not restore it after a collapse.

Xi Xiu warned her companions that Kuang Biru’s recovered Mental Power might have come from unknown sources, while the Yuanri warriors’ intense training began to reshape the base. Zhang Xiaoxiang lost his captaincy and plotted to use incoming Zhang Family warriors against Hong Xixiu, unaware of the danger posed by Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu.

• Xi Xiu told A Xian, He Yinlei, and the others that no known Alliance drug could restore Mental Power and urged them to stay alert amid the families’ power struggle.
• The warriors completed ten days of rigorous training, and Fan Zhengan and Ulia saw their teams’ efforts produce impressive results.
• Zhang Xiaoxiang decided to build up his strength and target Hong Xixiu, but Qing Zhixun transferred him to Wang Zichun’s team, stripped him of his captaincy, and backed his dismissal with an unfavorable assessment.
• Zhang Xiaoxiang received his father’s message about incoming Zhang Family warriors and planned to use them to eliminate Hong Xixiu and secure his own position.
• Kuang Biru contacted Zhang Xiaoxiang, who reflected on their shared hunger for power and their planned Gene Engraving and marriage registration.
• Zhang Xiaoxiang underestimated Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu, whose great demon lord traits remained hidden under ordinary circumstances.

Xi Xiu led her team through coordinated-combat training as the Eastern District prepared for a demonstration against the Western District. When her vanguard group found no sign of the enemy in the simulated starfield, she planned a layered scout deployment and left her team waiting for its reports.

• Fan Zhengan and Jiang Huajun assigned warriors their combat positions through the system and told them to follow orders without appealing.
• Xi Xiu reviewed the vanguard plan, assigned her team its tasks, and urged the warriors to treat training as seriously as real combat.
• Xi Xiu prepared her team’s ten small Starships and led them into the simulated starfield, where the other vanguard ships surrounded them.
• Xi Xiu and Qiu Shaorong searched for the enemy but found no traces, so Xi Xiu asked the other captains whether they should advance or hold.
• Xi Xiu proposed sending stealth robots ahead with five hundred unmanned fighters and hidden miniature scouts, then kept her team in the safe zone until the scouts reported back.

Xi Xiu’s team used stealth robots to infiltrate the enemy starship and win the first day of joint training, while Zhang Xiaoxiang reconsidered how to deal with her. As full-district coordination training began, Qing Zhixun prepared the Eastern District for its coming contest with Lin Zaiqin’s reformed Western District.

• Xi Xiu sensed enemy reconnaissance fighters, maneuvered her starship to evade them, and coordinated with Su Jinbao and Flora to destroy them.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian revealed that their robots had infiltrated the enemy starship, transmitted its information, and enabled Hong Xixiu to strike its mobile zone, costing the opponents points.
• Zhang Xiaoxiang recognized that Hong Xixiu was calm and strategic, then decided to focus on taking first place in every mission to earn promotion.
• Xi Xiu’s team earned the highest score, and the Eastern District finished the first day of training five points ahead of the opposing side.
• At the Virtual Network meeting, the teams reviewed their coordination shortcomings as Qing Zhixun prepared Fan Zhengan and the other officers for full-district training.
• Qing Zhixun warned the officers that Lin Zaiqin was ruthless and unconventional, and noted that he had reformed the Western District.

As the East-West exhibition began, Qing Zhixun assigned Xi Xiu and her team to the dangerous vanguard to catch the Western District off guard. While the teams prepared for battle, Lin Changchang and Li Yuanting suspected that Ye Zhenwei might not truly be dead, and the chapter left that mystery unresolved.

• Qing Zhixun suppressed dissent among the Western District warriors and organized their teams for the exhibition.
• After five days of joint training, both districts entered space, and Li Yuanting sent the combat plan to the team captains.
• Xi Xiu and Qiu Shaorong reviewed their vanguard assignment to draw enemy fire without suffering excessive losses.
• Qing Zhixun chose Xi Xiu and A Xian for the vanguard because their unknown abilities could give the Eastern District an advantage.
• Lin Changchang told Li Yuanting she suspected Ye Zhenwei had not died, and they noted that her disappearance and Yuan Chuhong's timing remained unexplained.

Xi Xiu led the Eastern District vanguard through a meteorite-filled starfield and devised a plan to outmaneuver the Western District. She split the team between a high-speed surprise attack and Ulia’s trap-laying force, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Fan Zhengan sent Ulia, Xi Xiu, and the vanguard teams toward an asteroid belt to clear a route and set traps.
• Ulia encouraged his team and trusted Xi Xiu’s direction after studying footage of her past battles.
• Xi Xiu identified a meteorite cluster where the Western District could ambush them and planned to attack it from behind using the Eastern District’s faster Starships.
• Xi Xiu took part of the team on a surprise attack and told Ulia to hold position, conceal their strength, and set seven traps along the enemy’s likely route.
• Ulia planted the traps in the Western District’s blind spots and prepared to show Lin Zaiqin’s team that he was more than cannon fodder.

Xi Xiu and A Xian used Mental Power to speed their Starships into position and ambush Xisai Si’s vanguard while Ulia drew the enemy into a trap. Lin Zaiqin learned that the Eastern District had scored full marks in the first round and wondered whether Qing Zhixun had joined the battle.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian reached their ambush positions, while Ulia’s team prepared to lure Xisai Si into range.
• Xi Xiu used Mental Power to drive her Starship at maximum speed, startling Ulia’s team and prompting them to follow her plan.
• Ulia waited for Xi Xiu’s signal, then led his Starships into the trap zone while shielding their vulnerable areas behind asteroids.
• Xisai Si ordered his team to fire at the asteroids, unaware that Xi Xiu and A Xian had concealed their Starships nearby.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian attacked Xisai Si’s rear sections with capture shells, ambushing his vanguard and securing the Eastern District a full score in the first round.
• Lin Zaiqin heard that his vanguard had been hit and wondered if Qing Zhixun had personally entered the field.

Lin Zaiqin studied the Eastern District’s surprise vanguard and wrongly underestimated Xi Xiu and A Xian, while Xisai Si’s Western District force struggled to escape their trap. As more Western District forces converged, Xi Xiu’s fighters continued intercepting attacks, leaving Xisai Si under pressure to recover points before they were captured.

• Lin Zaiqin considered Qing Zhixun’s possible role in the vanguard and ordered Xisai Si to send back combat data.
• Xisai Si’s footage revealed that two Starships concealed by roaming Exotic Plants had ambushed his force.
• Lin Zaiqin reviewed A Xian and Hong Xixiu’s sparse files and wrongly concluded that Qing Zhixun had arranged for the Anvile People to serve as vanguard.
• Xisai Si tried to retreat through the lightly guarded direction, but Xi Xiu and A Xian launched thousands of fighters to block his force.
• The Western District vanguard split into six routes, while Xi Xiu’s soldiers calculated interceptions and dodged the enemy’s attacks.
• Xisai Si sent out his own fighters and urged his crew to improve their weapon trajectories before the other teams arrived and risked capturing them.

Xi Xiu and A Xian drew the pursuing West District teams toward Ulia’s hidden trap while retreating through space. Xisai Si recognized the East District pilots’ extraordinary maneuvering and suspected Hong Xixiu was among them as the West District forces entered the asteroid belt.

• Xisai Si changed his Starship’s cannon parameters and pursued Xi Xiu and A Xian, expecting reinforcements to help surround the East District teams.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian retreated while Ulia prepared to lure the West District into the trap he had set in the asteroid belt.
• Ulia entered the trap zone while skillfully avoiding its weapons and positioned himself to draw the West District Starships closer.
• Xisai Si followed Xi Xiu and A Xian rather than turning toward Ulia, and his deputy captain agreed to stay on their trail.
• Xisai Si watched the two East District Starships evade attacks at astonishing speed and suspected Hong Xixiu was piloting one of them.
• Lin Zaiqin realized the West District vanguards were entering the asteroid belt as more East District teams approached, leaving Xisai Si to judge whether to fight or withdraw.

Xi Xiu, A Xian, and Fan Zhengan’s teams struck the West District forces, forcing Xisai Si and several pursuing teams to withdraw, while Ulia’s traps also eliminated his pursuers. Lin Zaiqin recognized that Qing Zhixun had reshaped the East District’s command and coordination, and he began to reconsider the intelligence he had about Hong Xixiu.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian drew West District fire until Fan Zhengan’s team arrived and attacked, disrupting the West District formation.
• Fan Zhengan’s team hit Xisai Si and the West District teams, and the system forced Xisai Si’s team to withdraw; Xi Xiu’s side captured them.
• Ulia’s pursuers entered his trapped asteroid belt and lost their points, while Lin Zaiqin abandoned the vanguard and focused on reclaiming lost points.
• Lin Zaiqin saw that the East District teams were coordinating well and learned their captains differed from leaked intelligence, including Fan Zhengan and Wang Zichun.
• Lin Zaiqin realized Qing Zhixun could use a victory to promote trusted young soldiers, then asked Filite to investigate Hong Xixiu before changing his mind.

The Eastern District defeated the Western District by ten points, ending its nine-consecutive-loss streak and earning new respect under Qing Zhixun’s command. As Yuanri Garrison intensified its preparations for an approaching war, new Talent Warriors arrived and Xi Xiu reorganized 909’s training to accommodate their different abilities.

• Lin Zaiqin told Filite that Hong Xixiu’s information no longer mattered after the Eastern District’s ten-point victory proved its strength had improved.
• Qing Zhixun uploaded the joint exercise plan and a virtual combat scenario, while the Eastern District celebrated ending its nine consecutive losses and its vanguard’s reputation as cannon fodder.
• The Eastern District skipped a lavish celebration and began more intense training as the districts prepared for a coming battle in the true starry sky.
• Gaia assigned 650 Talent Warriors from four families to Yuanri Garrison, including 200 peak-3S warriors for the Eastern District, and Qing Zhixun discussed their placement with the garrison’s managers.
• Xi Xiu reviewed the abilities of 909’s 500 new members and divided them into strength-based training groups after some could not keep up with the original plan.

Xi Xiu encouraged the soldiers to train harder as the Eastern District adopted Team 909’s training plan and the other districts followed its lead. Meanwhile, Insects attacked Muye Star, leaving visitors stranded while the Alliance investigated and screened them.

• Xi Xiu, Qiu Shaorong, A Xian, and the others helped discouraged soldiers regain confidence, and Xi Xiu spoke candidly about life and death to motivate them.
• Qing Zhixun showed the soldiers a recording of the funeral for those killed when the Inquira attacked Tianwei Star, prompting them to take the coming danger more seriously.
• Soldiers across the Eastern District tested Xi Xiu and A Xian’s speed, then grew excited when they learned Hong Xixiu’s Mental Power rivaled that of the Anvile People.
• Qing Zhixun ordered every Eastern District team to follow Team 909’s training plan, and the Southern, Northern, and Western Districts followed the same intensive schedule.
• Insects appeared in large numbers on Muye Star, forcing the Alliance to close commercial routes and keep visitors there for investigations and physical examinations.