Chapter Summaries

Xi Xiu and her classmates were sent to industrial star Bright Illumination to hunt invading Level Two Star Beasts. After landing in the desert of Luoluo, the team set up camp and began scouting their surroundings.

• During the twenty-day vacation, Xi Xiu, A Xian, and Xue Fanhui sparred on the Virtual Network while Enweit and Su Jinbao worked to improve their Martial Skills.
• Xi Xiu's grade received an emergency assembly notice and prepared weapons for a mission to Bright Illumination, where Level Two Star Beasts had arrived through temporal-spatial turbulence.
• Tarasha's group learned they were assigned to western Luoluo, planned to scout in small teams, and discussed coordinating with Hai Suomiao's Group 828.
• Xi Xiu and her classmates traveled to Luoluo, where the authorities had evacuated citizens to safe zones, and launched from their Starship to the desert fringe.
• After reaching the ground, Su Jinbao, Enweit, and Flora set up camp while Tarasha, Xi Xiu, and A Xian scouted nearby and found nothing unusual.

Xi Xiu and her teammates prepared for a dangerous night on Luoluo Star, then fought off a pack of Yuanla Beasts. Xi Xiu and A Xian revealed overwhelming combat strength, leaving the rest of the group astonished.

• A Xian, Xi Xiu, and Tarasha surveyed the ruined surroundings and warned their group to stay alert overnight.
• Xi Xiu spoke with Xue Fanhui, then agreed with A Xian that they would use their full strength if the situation became critical.
• The six teammates practiced their battle formation, with A Xian and Xi Xiu leading the vanguard.
• After nightfall, Tarasha activated the Protective Shield and directed the group to fight a pack of twenty-six Yuanla Beasts.
• Xi Xiu killed ten Yuanla Beasts and A Xian killed nine, while the rest of the group joined the battle and improved their teamwork.
• Tarasha and Flora called Xi Xiu and A Xian humanoid reapers, and Xi Xiu happily accepted the description as a compliment.

Xi Xiu and her team faced a pack of Level Two Star Beasts whose tough hides resisted their weapons. After Xi Xiu’s throwing knives blinded them, the team prepared to fight at close range before another wave arrived.

• Xi Xiu woke in high spirits after dreaming of earning Star Coins and buying a Starship, and Su Jinbao and Enweit offered to support her plans.
• Tarasha scouted the area and led the group toward a safer campsite, but A Xian sensed that more than ten Star Beasts were charging toward them.
• Xi Xiu recognized the approaching Star Beasts as unusually formidable and reorganized the team’s formation and weapons.
• Su Jinbao and Enweit opened fire while Xi Xiu hurled thirty knives into the Star Beasts’ eyes, leaving the creatures wounded and enraged.
• Xi Xiu and Tarasha decided the team had to attack at close range, targeting the Star Beasts’ weak points before another wave could arrive.

Xi Xiu and Team 626 fought off a group of Star Beasts on Luoluo Star, then fled from an approaching pack of Level Two Beasts and rested at an abandoned factory. After recovering, Xi Xiu explained that Mental Power could enhance the body as well as weapons.

• A Xian and Xi Xiu helped the inexperienced team defeat a dozen Star Beasts, and Xi Xiu showed Enweit how to focus his Mental Power on a target.
• A pack of Level Two Beasts approached, so Tarasha ordered the team to retreat in Enweit’s mech, which A Xian piloted to high altitude.
• The team chose an abandoned factory across the desert as a temporary shelter and landed on its rooftop.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian used the Tranquil Heart Art to recover, while the rest of the team rested and Su Jinbao resolved to train harder.
• After the team regrouped, Xi Xiu told Flora that Mental Power could be used to support the body, explaining that she had begun treating herself like a weapon.

Xi Xiu taught A Xian how to use Mental Power to control multiple weapons, while the team learned that mutated Yuanla Beasts were threatening nearby groups. The six were caught between a horde of Level Two Beasts and mutated Yuanla Beasts, and began a desperate battle.

• Xi Xiu explained her Mental Power weapon-control technique to A Xian, who tried it with throwing knives.
• Tarasha shared reports of mutated Yuanla Beasts south of the team, and the group prepared to investigate the western edge of the desert.
• The six encountered at least thirty Level Two Beasts ahead and mutated Yuanla Beasts behind them, trapping the team in a pincer attack.
• Tarasha assigned herself and Flora to fight the Yuanla Beasts while Xi Xiu, A Xian, Enweit, and Su Jinbao faced the Level Two Beasts.
• Xi Xiu charged the Level Two Beasts with Enweit behind her, and Enweit infused his laser cannon with Mental Power to boost its power.

Xi Xiu, A Xian, Enweit, and Su Jinbao used a powerful weapon from Xue Fanhui to destroy the Level Two Beasts, then helped Tarasha and Flora defeat the mutated Yuanla Beasts. On their way back, they encountered another battle between Level Two Beasts, and Ebony expanded into a forest and swiftly cut down the beasts with its vines.

• A Xian fought at full strength as Xi Xiu and Enweit prepared a powerful weapon to trap the Level Two Beasts within its blast radius.
• Enweit detonated the weapon, destroying the Level Two Beasts, and the group hurried to help Tarasha and Flora fight the mutated Yuanla Beast.
• The six of them killed the remaining Yuanla Beasts, and Xi Xiu collected a horn and hide sample for Xue Fanhui.
• As the group returned toward the abandoned factory, Xi Xiu and A Xian sensed blood and discovered Level Two Beasts fighting nearby.
• Ebony placed its flowerpot on the ground, grew into a forest, and used its vines to surround and sever the Level Two Beasts.

After Ebony helped Xi Xiu's team defeat the Level Two Beasts, they received a distress signal from Hai Suomiao's squad and rushed to rescue them. They escaped with the badly injured Hai Suomiao and began treating her with seawater from Miu Run Star.

• Ebony killed the Level Two Beasts and returned to Xi Xiu, startling Tarasha, Flora, and Su Jinbao with its strength and playful behavior.
• Tarasha received a distress signal from Hai Suomiao's 828 Squad, and A Xian decided that their team would go rescue them.
• The six teammates traveled by mecha to Hai Suomiao's location, where they found her squad surrounded by Level Two Beasts and Hai Suomiao near collapse.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian fought their way to Hai Suomiao while the others helped her injured teammates retreat; Tarasha brought out a second mecha, and the group escaped the forest.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian placed the unconscious Hai Suomiao in Miu Run Star's seawater, and A Xian explained that she needed three soaks before receiving recovery agent.

Hai Suomiao recovered after Kuang Biru’s team stole her group’s mecha and left them in danger. As the students awaited military reinforcements on Luoluo Star, they learned Kuang Biru had used medicine to enhance her Mental Power.

• Hai Suomiao woke with her scales gone and told Xi Xiu and A Xian that Kuang Biru’s team had driven off with their mecha during a beast attack after Hai Suomiao had helped them.
• A Xian told Tarasha, Flora, and the others that Hai Suomiao would recover, while the group rested and sent Gu Jinyan footage of what happened.
• After students questioned the dangerous challenge and reports revealed a Source Point on Luoluo Star, the school arranged for active-duty soldiers to join them in five hours.
• Xi Xiu’s group discussed Kuang Biru’s behavior, and Su Jinbao recounted how she had complained to Gu Jinyan and invoked her family’s ancestors.
• Liang Jingxian guessed that Kuang Biru had enhanced her Mental Power with medicine, and Su Jinbao confirmed it.

Hai Suomiao recovered and thanked Team 626 for rescuing 828, and the two squads became comrades. After the Sulaina Star System Border Guard Team arrived, Soren and Xing Yuanmin began organizing the students’ search, and they learned that Ye Zhenwei was leading a nearby squad.

• Hai Suomiao reflected on her weakness, recovered with medicine, and promised Team 626 a favor in accordance with Alliance Law.
• The members of 828 thanked Team 626, and Su Jinbao and Liang Jingxian sealed their squads’ friendship with a fist bump.
• Soren, Lu Qingfeng, Li Yanhui, and Xing Yuanmin arrived from the Sulaina Star System Border Guard Team and assigned leaders to both squads.
• The next morning, Soren projected a map and planned an eastward search with the students.
• Soren confirmed that Ye Zhenwei was leading the squad to the north, exciting her fans, while Xi Xiu noticed that their leaders seemed unimpressed by her reputation.

A Xian’s group traveled toward Ye Zhenwei while discussing her fame and uncertain strength, then fought and defeated the Level Two Beasts in a canyon. Soren was impressed by Xi Xiu and A Xian’s team and asked who had trained them.

• Xi Xiu said that Nine-Star Marshal Li Zhengfeng was her only idol, while she planned to keep quiet when she met Ye Zhenwei to protect her identity.
• Su Jinbao told A Xian about Ye Zhenwei’s reputation and background, but admitted that the group had not heard how strong she was after her tournament.
• Soren led the group into a canyon, where Level Two Beasts charged from caves in the surrounding hills.
• Xi Xiu, Enweit, A Xian, and the others fought with their preferred weapons and helped Soren’s group wipe out all the Level Two Beasts in less than two hours.
• After the battle, Soren asked Su Jinbao who had trained Hong Xiuxiu and Student Wu, and learned that they had taught themselves or received no formal instruction.

Group 626 reached the northern border and joined Lieutenant Ye Zhenwei, where Ye’s strange approach to Wu Jingxian provoked A Xian’s anger. A Xian walked away with Xi Xiu, while Ye continued following her around the camp.

• Soren led Group 626 to the northern border after Tarasha submitted the battle data to Gu Jinyan.
• Group 626 arrived at Yue Qila’s canyon camp, where Ye Zhenwei told Soren to wait while she reviewed the terrain map.
• Ye Zhenwei approached resting Wu Jingxian, announced her 3S talent, and asked whether A Xian knew Qing Shihao.
• A Xian angrily told Ye Zhenwei to move aside and walked away, with Xi Xiu following her.
• A Xian calmed down while Xi Xiu reassured her, but Ye Zhenwei later abandoned her duties and followed A Xian around all day.

A Xian confronted Ye Zhenwei after Ye asked about Qing Shihao and invoked Anvile’s Grand Princess Jing Xi, then decisively defeated her in a fight. The chapter ended with Su Jinbao and Flora seeking out Soren to ask about the gap between Ye Zhenwei’s 3S talent and her actual ability.

• A Xian told Ye Zhenwei she did not know Qing Shihao and demanded that Ye stop asking her about him.
• Ye Zhenwei mentioned Jing Xi, prompting A Xian to attack her while Soren and Xing Yuanmin stopped Su Jinbao and Tarasha from intervening.
• A Xian defeated Ye Zhenwei in less than twenty minutes and warned her to stay away and learn Anvile’s taboos.
• Yue Qila explained Anvile’s taboo about mentioning Grand Princess Jing Xi, and A Xian contacted Wu Jingxu about Ye Zhenwei and Wu Jingxi.
• Xi Xiu comforted A Xian with snacks, and they discussed how Ye Zhenwei’s Martial Skill and physical fitness failed to match her 3S Mental Power.
• Su Jinbao and Flora decided to ask Team Leader Soren about Ye Zhenwei’s poor performance.

Soren's team prepared to destroy the northern Level Two beast outbreak Source Point, but Ye Zhenwei's lost atomic weapons left them short of the required firepower. As the deadline approached, the students remained unaware of the crisis, while Ye Zhenwei's engagement to Chris became an uncomfortable topic.

• Soren's team studied the canyon Source Point and learned that six atomic weapons would be needed to destroy its passage.
• Soren ordered 626 to wear protective suits and defensive gear while they waited for the other teams to arrive.
• Jin Chi Yue told Soren that Ye Zhenwei had lost the two atomic weapons he had been carrying, and their trackers showed the weapons moving a hundred kilometers away.
• Soren and Xing Yuanmin realized that the available weapons could not meet the energy requirement before the nine o'clock deadline and discussed requesting an airdrop or teleportation delivery.
• Ye Zhenwei told the students about her service, and Tan Qingquan warned Han Jiajia not to bring up Ye Zhenwei's engagement to Chris.

Han Jiajia’s gossip about Ye Zhenwei’s engagement exposed her fixation on Qing Shihao and changed how Yue Qila’s squad viewed her. Ye Zhenwei clung to Chris’s engagement as protection while declaring she would go to Haian Border Fortress and postpone marriage until she advanced further.

• Han Jiajia wondered aloud whether Ye Zhenwei was pursuing Qing Shihao despite being engaged to Chris, and Yue Qila warned her with a look.
• Ye Zhenwei called Tang Yongyu and insisted that Qing Shihao should be hers, while Tang warned that ending her engagement could leave her subject to a Central Brain marriage match.
• Tang Yongyu recalled how Ye Zhenwei had pursued Qing Shihao before, and how the Qing Family had arranged for experts to examine her and ensure she received a Blocker injection.
• Ye Zhenwei learned that rumors placing Qing Shihao in Sulaina had been deliberately released while he was on a mission at Haian Fortress.
• Chris urged Ye Zhenwei to leave dangerous Luoluo Star, but she said she would go to Haian Border Fortress and consider marriage only after advancing two more ranks.

Chris confronted Ye Zhenwei over treating him as a bargaining chip, then ended their call and resolved to stop hoping for her affection. As Soren’s group entered the canyon for their operation, communications failed and the Level Two Beasts lay motionless; Gu Jinyan arrived and suspected that “kings” were keeping their distance.

• Chris challenged Ye Zhenwei about the cost to his dignity and the Boyuan Family, then ended the call after asking her to keep her promise.
• Soren reminded Team 626 and Yue Qila to focus on their assigned kills, keep their Protective Suits and defensive gear on, and retreat when ordered.
• A Xian and Xi Xiu noticed the canyon was unnaturally quiet, while Soren discovered that communications had failed and other teams were motionless nearby.
• Soren ordered everyone to stop advancing, but Ye Zhenwei challenged his authority before apologizing to A Xian and agreeing to keep her distance.
• Soren continued the mission with Combat Robots and sent updates to Sulaina and Gu Jinyan, who dispatched an emergency squad and headed to the Source Point.
• Gu Jinyan found the Level Two Beasts lying prone and asked Soren whether there were major energy fluctuations in the Source Point.

Gu Jinyan and the others fought three unknown creatures emerging from the Source Point, whose armor resisted attacks and whose wounds healed rapidly. As the battle grew more difficult, Gu Jinyan assembled a coordinated attack force, while Ye Zhenwei’s boastful confidence gave way to reluctance to fight.

• Gu Jinyan ordered emergency squads to form groups, but the atomic weapons Xing Yuanmin and Jin Chi Yue launched failed to damage the Source Point entrance.
• Three armored creatures crawled out, and Gu Jinyan directed the teams to prepare for battle and protect the students.
• Gu Jinyan, Soren, Xing Yuanmin, Jin Chi Yue, and the emergency squads attacked the creatures, but their armor and agility thwarted the assault.
• Gu Jinyan used hundreds of Mental Power-controlled fragments to locate weak points, enabling the fighters to wound the creatures, whose wounds quickly healed.
• Gu Jinyan asked about everyone’s fragment-control abilities, and Team 626 revealed they had practiced precise control before offering to join the attack.
• Yue Qila and Zhang Jixing volunteered to fight, and Gu Jinyan gathered the scattered fragments for another coordinated strike.

Xi Xiu, A Xian, and Group 626 helped defeat the giant beasts and clear the canyon’s Source Point, while Gu Jinyan taught Yue Qila that sharing experience and working as a team mattered. After returning to camp, Xi Xiu confirmed Xue Fanhui was safe and fell asleep beside A Xian.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian attacked the giant beasts’ weak points, shredding their internal organs as the emergency squad cut off the lead beast’s tail.
• The wounded beasts summoned Level Two beasts, and Group 626 and the others split up to fight them, with Xi Xiu, A Xian, and their teammates killing them quickly.
• The emergency squad collected samples and established a Transmission Channel before destroying the hollow, while the teams learned that other reinforcements had lost their way.
• Gu Jinyan told Yue Qila that Group 626’s results came from teamwork and sharing experience, but Yue Qila remained unwilling to share her battlefield techniques.
• After returning to camp, Xi Xiu contacted Xue Fanhui, learned she was safe, and fell asleep with her head against A Xian’s.

After the crisis on Luoluo Star ended, Xi Xiu, A Xian, and the others prepared to leave and return toward Capital Star. As they departed, Gu Jinyan warned Yue Qila to consider her future carefully, but she remained determined to follow Ye Zhenwei.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed hiding their strength, imagined traveling together in the future, and cared for Ebony.
• Gu Jinyan announced that the Luoluo Star crisis had been resolved and ordered the group to prepare for departure.
• Ye Zhenwei dismissed A Xian as politically useless, while Gu Jinyan privately judged Ye Zhenwei to be undeserving of her reputation.
• Yue Qila told Gu Jinyan she intended to follow Ye Zhenwei, despite his advice to keep her future options open.
• Xi Xiu invited A Xian and Flora to visit a Gaia tourist spot after they returned, and Flora joined their plan.
• The group departed at noon, and 626 thanked Soren and promised to keep improving together.

After returning safely from the mission, Xi Xiu and her friends celebrated 626’s success and resumed school life, then set out on a group outing on Gaia. On the way, they discussed Kuang Biru’s harsh punishment for abandoning her classmates.

• Xi Xiu and A Xian reunited with Xue Fanhui, who was relieved they had survived the dangerous mission to Luoluo Star.
• The students celebrated learning that the Source Point threat had been resolved, and Xi Xiu rested during the school’s two-day break.
• Group 626 received full credits and an extra five hundred credits, while Enweit sent the group a generous red packet.
• Xi Xiu and her classmates returned to their studies and training, and more than ten days later prepared for their planned outing.
• Su Jinbao, Tarasha, Xue Fanhui, and Damian joined Xi Xiu, A Xian, and Flora, making eight people who traveled east by Hovercar.
• Flora said Kuang Biru had lost her credits, suffered a collapse of her Mental Power, and would not advance with the group; Min Yuandeng had also been punished.

Xi Xiu prepared a picnic for her classmates, impressing everyone with her cooking and the unfamiliar seasonings she had brought. As they enjoyed the food, A Xian and the others tried to persuade Xi Xiu to visit or settle on their home planets.

• Tarasha introduced the ingredients he had bought, while Xue Fanhui defended Xi Xiu’s ambition to become a top nutrition student.
• Xi Xiu taught Su Jinbao, Enweit, and Tarasha to help prepare barbecue and salads, while A Xian made steamed egg custards.
• Xue Fanhui gave Damian his custard after he promised to bring her and Xi Xiu more pink gemstones, and everyone marveled at the food.
• A Xian invited Xi Xiu to Anvile, and Xue Fanhui agreed that their group could visit; Damian and Flora also promoted their home planets.
• Su Jinbao asked to make the picnic a monthly event, but Enweit pointed out that he would need to pay for the ingredients.