Chapter Summaries

Lin Changchang opened a safe route through the space battle for Li Yuanting and the others while Qing Zhixun prepared to intercept a rescue attempt for Leisiren. As a Transmission Channel opened in Leisiren’s detention cell, Qing Zhixun’s trap was ready and Leisiren prepared to escape and lead Huovian against Jingsu.

• Lin Changchang used precise calculations and weapons fire to clear a path for Li Yuanting and the other fighters.
• Lu Zong'an reported energy fluctuations in Leisiren’s detention cell, and Qing Zhixun recognized that the expected rescue had begun.
• Qing Zhixun explained that Leisiren’s genetic records linked him to Huovian’s leader and that he had arranged nine barriers to catch the rescuers.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Lu Zong'an to keep their people careful as the Huovian rescue attempt began.
• Leisiren detected the Transmission Channel, welcomed the chance to escape, and resolved to lead Huovian against Jingsu as the vortex opened.

Leisiren’s attempted escape failed, and Qing Zhixun confronted him with evidence of his Huovian identity and his family’s situation. Qing Zhixun offered to protect Leisiren’s partner and children if he helped obtain important information, leaving Leisiren to decide whether to cooperate.

• An unknown energy sealed the transmission channel, and Qing Sansui subdued Leisiren after he attacked it.
• Qing Zhixun and Lu Zong'an questioned Leisiren in a shielded room and revealed that Yueye had uncovered his identity as the Huovian leader’s son.
• Qing Zhixun showed Leisiren evidence of his contacts with Huovian agents and a video of his three children, prompting Leisiren to protest that they should not be punished for his actions.
• Qing Zhixun offered to keep Leisiren’s family safe if Leisiren helped obtain the requested information, provided he had not killed Jingsu citizens.
• Leisiren asked what Qing Zhixun wanted in exchange.

Qing Zhixun and Lu Zong'an assessed Leisiren’s betrayal and likely plans to escape, while the Huovian people regrouped after Qin Hongjun refused to help them. Qing Zhixun sent his findings to Gaia and Xi Xiu as attacks across Jingsu continued.

• Qing Zhixun recognized that Huovian propaganda had persuaded Leisiren, who remained convinced of their cause despite doubts about why he had believed them so readily.
• Leisiren resolved to knock out the next person who entered his confinement room and escape using his own strength.
• Qing Zhixun told Lu Zong'an that Leisiren seemed prepared to die rather than talk.
• Qin Hongjun told the Huovian people to handle their own affairs after failing to enter the passage, and they began secretly planning another approach.
• Qing Zhixun sent his data about Leisiren and his partner to Gaia, then forwarded his organized findings to Xi Xiu as further attacks threatened Jingsu.

Xi Xiu and the Alliance remained on alert as Aola stayed protected and the enemy forces kept quiet. In the fifth month, Marianne and Eric found that strange creatures appearing across Sulaina carried traits linked to Belka genes, and Xi Xiu suspected the Parasites had taken those genes from the Belka People they controlled.

• The Hanhai and Musar surrounded Aola Star, while Enweit strengthened its shielding measures with Xi Xiu’s advice and Li Zhengfeng’s changing passwords.
• The Huovian people abandoned Leisiren after his capture, and the Alliance Guards secretly took him away for interrogation.
• In the fifth month, unidentified creatures flooded into the Sulaina Star System, prompting Marianne and Eric to investigate samples and reports from across the region.
• Marianne and Eric found that several creatures resembled those in Xi Xiu’s earlier data and could absorb Star Radiation for energy.
• Marianne told Xi Xiu that some creatures carried Belka traits, including wings, and asked her to help obtain enemy genes for further research.
• Xi Xiu suspected the Parasites had acquired Belka genes from the people they had controlled and asked Marianne what else the data showed.

Xi Xiu prepared Ningkui Star for an attack by Bio-constructs carrying Belka genes, evacuating its citizens and arranging an ambush in space. The battle began with Li Zhengfeng tearing through the enemy, though the Bio-constructs destroyed hundreds of Liuning fighters; Xi Xiu confirmed the pilots had only minor injuries.

• Elisa let Belka People return to their rebuilding homeworld under strict conditions, while some returnees tried and failed to replace her.
• Xi Xiu suspected the attacking Bio-constructs contained Belka consciousnesses and shifted Ningkui Star's defenses to counter their flying abilities.
• Song Jing'an activated wartime shelters, and Ningkui Star's citizens were moved to safe areas before the enemy arrived.
• Xi Xiu's forces ambushed the Bio-constructs near Ningkui Star, then improved their precision fire after Liang Jingxian and Gu Peidong analyzed the creatures' evasive movements.
• Li Zhengfeng joined Arivik and the other pilots, recognized familiar fighting patterns, and destroyed several Bio-constructs before they concentrated their attacks on him.
• The Bio-constructs wrecked several hundred Liuning fighters, but Xi Xiu checked the pilots' terminals and found their injuries were minor; Wu Yuan remained on medical standby.

The Alliance uncovered Ye Zhenwei’s betrayal as Tianwei fell, then stripped her of command after she fled with elite soldiers. Alliance forces recaptured Tianwei, but its energy was exhausted, and Xi Xiu feared Ye Zhenwei would return as an enemy with the soldiers she had taken.

• Xi Xiu sent reinforcements to Tianwei as the Alliance investigated its breached defenses and secretly monitored Ye Zhenwei.
• Qing Wenxu and Chu Xuliang revealed Tianwei’s strategic energy reserves and explained that Ye Zhenwei had been sent there so the Alliance could track her.
• The Elder Council stripped Ye Zhenwei of command and ordered her arrest, but she escaped Tianwei with soldiers aboard a starship.
• Alliance troops and mercenaries recaptured Tianwei after more than a month, discovering that the enemy had drained its remaining energy.
• Marianne confirmed that the creatures attacking Ningkui Star carried genes from earlier generations of the Belka People, while Xi Xiu and A Xian feared Ye Zhenwei would return with her captured soldiers as an enemy.

As Ningkui Star faced Qin Hongjun’s third attack, Xi Xiu and her allies detected powerful unknown creatures approaching through space. Xi Xiu’s team prepared to intercept them, but a growing Star Vortex caused severe headaches, and the chapter ended as Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng sent their Mental Power into it.

• Qin Hongjun’s forces arrived outside Ningkui Star with mechanical, Bio-construct, and Green Reaper troops aboard worn-out motherships.
• Xi Xiu, Li Zhengfeng, and A Xian sensed enormous unknown creatures with unprecedented Mental Power approaching the star system.
• Xi Xiu warned the space forces to retreat behind the protective barrier if they detected the creatures and arranged for the defenders to split into four teams.
• Xi Xiu’s team reached its position and found that a Star Vortex was rapidly expanding nearby.
• The soldiers suffered dizziness and splitting headaches after looking at the vortex, and Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng tried sending their Mental Power into it.

Xi Xiu and the others discovered that the creatures approaching through the vortices could not be stopped with ordinary shells, so they sealed off the starfield and waited for them to emerge. Xi Xiu studied the powerful, apparently natural Star Beasts with a robot reconnaissance wave and prepared to fight despite the danger.

• Li Zhengfeng, Xi Xiu, A Xian, Buhete, and Ulia fired shells at the vortices, but the blasts failed to move them.
• Xi Xiu decided against using Prohibited Weapons because their destructive remnants could endanger nearby Administrative Stars, and the group agreed to face the emerging creatures directly.
• Xi Xiu's forces sealed off the starfield as the winged Star Beasts and Qin Hongjun's robot legion waited for an opportunity to attack.
• A pair of huge claws and glowing eyes appeared in Xi Xiu's vortex, and strange armored Star Beasts crawled out; A Xian determined they were not artificially created.
• Xi Xiu, Su Jinbao, and Tarasha sent robots to gather data, and the Star Beasts easily detected and hurled the robots away with their tremendous strength.
• The Central Brain asked Xi Xiu whether she was confident, and she said she still had to fight because completing the mission was her responsibility.

Xi Xiu led a team into space to fight the Star Beasts, using a plan to separate and capture them. Their first target resisted the anesthetic and weapons, so Xi Xiu ordered Qi Mang and Ebony to launch a sneak attack as the battle continued.

• The Central Brain simulated Xi Xiu's chances against the Star Beasts and stopped trying to prevent her from fighting them.
• Xi Xiu and the other warriors entered space in ten starships and spread out to separate the Star Beasts.
• Xi Xiu's team pierced the largest Star Beast with a specialized weapon, anesthetized it, and trapped it in a towing net.
• The Star Beast broke free, dodged Kong Lingxue's attack, and charged the starship, but Xi Xiu maneuvered out of its way.
• Xi Xiu ordered Kong Lingxue to fire again and sent Qi Mang and Ebony out of the starship to launch a sneak attack.

Xi Xiu and her team studied a Star Beast while Ebony distracted it and Qi Mang gathered samples. As the creature’s scales began glowing different colors across the battlefields, the team raised its danger level, and Qi Mang collected hairs from its strange tail.

• Ebony wrapped its vines around the Star Beast while Qi Mang climbed onto its back and reached toward its abdomen and tail.
• Xi Xiu monitored the creature as Ebony collected muscle tissue, and Wu Yuan’s analysis showed that its genes were primitive and unmodified despite their unusual perfection.
• Xi Xiu warned Su Jinbao to watch the Star Beast’s eyes and alert the fleets, then noticed its scales glowing pale green as Ebony withdrew its vines.
• Xi Xiu learned that other Star Beasts glowed amber, crimson, and other colors, though their internal structures and secretions were alike.
• Ebony tore off an abdominal scale, and the Star Beast straightened and swiped at it while Qi Mang slid down to the creature’s furry, scale-free tail and plucked several hairs.

Qi Mang discovered a lethal toxin in the Star Beast’s nose but could not penetrate its protective internal membranes. As Xi Xiu, Li Zhengfeng, and A Xian trapped the Star Beasts’ senses, the teams attacked them, and A Xian turned their mental assault back on them.

• Qi Mang’s atomic robots failed to pierce the Star Beast’s protective membrane, so Qi Mang entered through its nose and found a lethal toxin.
• Xi Xiu sent Qi Mang’s findings to Marianne, whose team developed an antidote nine hours later.
• Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng detected two Star Beasts communicating and realized the beasts planned to join the others for a counterattack.
• Li Zhengfeng proposed linking mental barriers from Xi Xiu, Wu Jingxian, and himself, and the three blocked the Star Beasts from reaching the center.
• The trapped Star Beasts lost their ability to sense events in space, allowing Buhete, Jiang Li'an, and the other teams to detonate weapons inside them.
• As the Star Beasts’ mental assault hurt Xi Xiu and A Xian, A Xian turned the force back against their heads, making their front claws droop.

Xi Xiu and her allies escaped the Star Beast after Qi Mang planted weapons inside it and Night Soul Grass poisoned its mouth, but the creature survived and pursued them. Xi Xiu coordinated a new strike against the five Star Beasts, sending Li Zhengfeng and four machines to inject agents into them.

• Qi Mang planted more than twenty traps and destructive weapons inside the Star Beast, then escaped through its esophagus after Night Soul Grass poisoned its mouth.
• Xi Xiu recalled Ebony and Night Soul Grass to the Starship, and Qi Mang returned as the ship began a rapid jump away.
• Qi Mang's monitoring showed that the weapons had blown apart the Star Beast's interior, but it survived and charged after Xi Xiu's group.
• Su Jinbao threw a shell into the Star Beast's mouth, and the creature crushed a meteorite before scattering its fragments to block the Starships' routes.
• Xi Xiu and Li Zhengfeng arranged to inject agents into the Star Beasts, and the Central Brain took control of Wu Yuan and Qi Mang as five machines and Li Zhengfeng set out.

Xi Xiu’s forces prepared to eliminate the Star Beasts, but a sudden meteor attack threatened the nearby inhabited planets. After destroying more than a hundred meteors, Wu Yuan and Qi Mang returned with data showing the Star Beasts had eaten passing meteors.

• Xi Xiu ordered the teams to strike the Star Beasts once Wu Yuan and Qi Mang connected the weapons, and arranged reinforcements and identity checks for nearby planets.
• Wu Yuan and Qi Mang reached the Star Beasts and found the interface, but Xi Xiu, Li Zhengfeng, and A Xian sensed unusual energy fluctuations as meteors broke from their orbits and rushed toward the group.
• Xi Xiu ordered Su Jinbao to calculate the meteor paths and opened every gunport, while Li Zhengfeng fired on the fastest meteor and teams moved to protect the planets.
• Xi Xiu’s forces and Li Zhengfeng destroyed more than a hundred meteors as Arivik and the Dark Department investigated who had triggered the attack.
• Wu Yuan and Qi Mang returned with data showing that the Star Beasts had swallowed nearby meteors as food.

Xi Xiu and her forces rushed to defend several planets from approaching Star Beasts, while she investigated the suspicious conduct of Siyun Star Lord Yarosla. After reviewing Siyun Star’s defenses, she questioned why its military had made no plans to evacuate civilians.

• Xi Xiu redirected Su Jinbao’s Starship to intercept the Star Beasts as they neared the planets, and Arivik arrived with part of the Dark Department.
• Xi Xiu learned that the planets had weak defenses and low populations, then spoke with Siyun Star Lord Yarosla to obtain his military strength and deployment codes.
• Xi Xiu noticed signs that Yarosla was making the call from a Starship in space, and Arivik sent her Yarosla’s unusually flawless record.
• Xi Xiu found that Siyun Star had fewer than two hundred thousand soldiers and fewer than twenty million intelligent lifeforms, and she criticized its failure to plan civilian evacuations.

Xi Xiu and Liuning Fortress prepared to defend Siyun Star after discovering that Yarosla had lured the Star Beasts there and planned to attack the Alliance forces. Yarosla changed his tactics and secretly ordered reinforcements to pose as space pirates, while Liuning's forces intercepted only part of the message.

• Xi Xiu reported the Siyun Star anomaly to the Alliance and organized Liuning Fortress's defensive deployment.
• Su Jinbao and Gu Peidong located Yarosla, and Arivik concluded that Yarosla was guiding the Star Beasts toward Siyun Star.
• Yarosla ordered Buda to kill the Alliance warriors entering their territory, ignoring local powers who warned that the Star Beasts would endanger Siyun's citizens.
• Nearly twenty local families tried to recall their warriors, but their messages went unanswered, and they realized Yarosla had likely uncovered their efforts long ago.
• Xi Xiu's forces sealed the space around Siyun Star with layered defenses instead of landing, prompting Yarosla to order a base to disguise itself as space pirates and raid Siyun.
• Arivik's people intercepted part of the secret signal, and Arivik warned Xi Xiu that Yarosla appeared to have reinforcements.

Xi Xiu used the LA00 nebula to conceal the Alliance fleet and ambush Yarosla’s Starship with stealth vessels. Yarosla’s ship suffered heavy damage and retreated, while he assessed Xi Xiu as a meticulous Jingsu commander.

• Xi Xiu and Arivik concluded Yarosla’s reinforcements would come from behind him and hid the Alliance Starship near the LA00 nebula.
• Gu Peidong and Liang Jingxian reacquired Yarosla’s Starship, and Xi Xiu ordered an ambush using stealth vessels.
• The Alliance’s small Starships surrounded Yarosla’s flagship without being detected, then Xi Xiu’s fleet opened fire with support from Liuning Fortress.
• Yarosla’s Starship took several hits, and Buda reported that its interception system could not accurately catch the enemy’s weapons.
• Yarosla ordered a retreat and studied Xi Xiu’s deployment, judging her a careful commander who valued citizens’ lives.

Yarosla planned to send civilians and Liuning's forces through a concealed, deadly starfield, while Xi Xiu's team investigated the abandoned route. Qi Mang and Ebony exposed the starfield as a rapidly growing, living black hole, and Xi Xiu received the alarming findings.

• Yarosla ordered Buda to direct the civilian evacuation route through a dangerous, unreported starfield so it would destroy Liuning's soldiers and Alliance Guards.
• Xi Xiu grew suspicious of Yarosla and ordered Leopard to investigate the area around Siyun Star.
• Su Jinbao and Liang Jingxian found that Siyun Star's military had stopped using a familiar route three months earlier, and Gu Peidong connected Yarosla to the route's unexplained change.
• Xi Xiu sent Qi Mang and Ebony to examine the route's critical passage in secret.
• Ebony helped Qi Mang find the concealed black hole, and Qi Mang sent the data back to Xi Xiu.
• Xi Xiu's analysis revealed that the starfield was alive, had grown thirty thousand times larger in three months, and devoured nearby celestial bodies and anything that passed close.

Xi Xiu and the others uncovered evidence that Siyun Star’s declining population had been deliberately manipulated, possibly to supply Qin Hongjun with experimental subjects. As Siyun’s citizens and soldiers were pulled into a newly formed star region, their Starships began breaking apart, but their approach toward its center suddenly slowed.

• Xi Xiu connected suspicious death records on Siyun Star to the periods when Qin Hongjun conducted large-scale human experiments.
• Xi Xiu and the others watched as Siyun’s military tried to evacuate citizens through the newly formed star region, but Su Jinbao said they could no longer intercept the Starships.
• The captured Starships lost control of their routes and escape systems, leaving the citizens and escorting soldiers trapped as the ships were drawn inward.
• Captain Laixi realized that Yarosla had concealed the danger and disregarded the lives of Siyun’s citizens and soldiers.
• The star region tore open the Starships’ hulls, killing citizens near the breaches, until the ships’ approach toward its center suddenly slowed.

Li Zhengfeng and Ebony rescued six of twenty civilian starships from a deadly stellar region, while the other fourteen were destroyed. As Xi Xiu’s forces faced hundreds of enemy starships built exactly like Alliance models and the arrival of powerful Star Beasts, Qing Zhixun warned that an even greater crisis could follow.

• Captain Laixi’s damaged starship was pulled away from the stellar region’s deadly center, while another civilian vessel was destroyed before his crew’s eyes.
• Li Zhengfeng and Ebony disrupted the stellar region and helped Liuning Fortress’s rescue ships save six of the twenty civilian starships; the other fourteen were lost.
• Li Zhengfeng, Ebony, and the rescued ships returned toward the region near Siyun as Star Beasts and the enemy’s reinforcements reached Xi Xiu’s forces.
• Arivik reported that several hundred enemy starships matched Alliance models in materials and internal structure, and Xi Xiu sent the evidence to Gaia and the Elder Council.
• Qing Zhixun reviewed Alliance intelligence about the Star Beasts and warned Li Yuanting that failing to contain them could bring an even greater crisis.

Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu assessed the Alliance’s worsening war situation as Xi Xiu prepared Siyun Star for an expected Star Beast tide. Li Zhengfeng returned with data confirming that the newborn star region was a simplified Star Domain Gate that let Star Beasts reach the Alliance.

• Qing Zhixun told Li Yuanting that Ye Zhenwei had taken Tianwei Garrison’s soldiers to Qin Hongjun’s base, where they would be turned into an immortal mech legion.
• Qing Zhixun warned Xi Xiu that a Star Beast tide was likely approaching Ningkui Star System, and Liuning Fortress sent additional personnel there.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu questioned how Star Beasts could arrive without passing through the Star Domain Gate, and Jing Xi confirmed that someone had created another route into the Jingsu Alliance.
• Xi Xiu suspected the newborn star region was connected to the Star Beasts’ arrival and organized Siyun’s forces to defend against them.
• Li Zhengfeng returned to Siyun Star with surviving citizens and shared his data with Xi Xiu, whose Central Brain confirmed the region was a simplified Star Domain Gate.