Chapter Summaries

Hongye completed her mission by giving Richie the Listening Device and discovered that he was a member of the Revival Society. While listening to Richie and Sofiyuna, she learned that the Empire had destroyed Planet D12263 as a warning, and the chapter ended with a comrade confirming the planet was gone.

• The steward slapped Hongye, but Richie struck him and ordered him and the other servants to leave, keeping Hongye to serve him.
• Richie secretly signaled that he belonged to the Revival Society, and Hongye confirmed her mission and explained that the Society had few members on James Star.
• Hongye covertly gave Richie the Listening Device, and he sent her away before Sofiyuna arrived.
• Sofiyuna joined Richie for a meal and dismissed the other servants so they could be alone.
• Hongye hid in a bathroom and listened as Sofiyuna described the Empire's plan to destroy Planet D12263 as a warning.
• A Revival Society comrade told Hongye that Planet D12263 was gone, and Hongye clenched her fists.

Li Qi watched Planet D12263 explode with Sofiyuna, then returned to his quarters frustrated by his enforced inability to cultivate and the empire’s rigid hierarchy. He planned to escape with the Revival Society, while Sofiyuna tried to make amends and Li Qi ordered his exhausted personal knight Art to rest.

• Sofiyuna showed Li Qi the destruction of Planet D12263, but he was displeased and asked to return to his quarters.
• Li Qi reflected on his privileged position, his ban from cultivating, and his plan to flee the empire with the Revival Society in two months.
• Sofiyuna brought Li Qi back to Art, then scolded her subordinates and demanded they find a way to make him happy.
• Li Qi considered the empire’s hidden system of slavery and told Art that he wanted to escape to the Irin Federation.
• Li Qi ordered Art, who had gone three days without sleep, to rest and promised to stay in his room until he woke.

Li Qi examined his talents and questioned whether his privileged Sarnak family background was the real advantage of this life, while planning to escape home and pursue cultivation in the Irin Federation. Meanwhile, Hongye learned that the empire had destroyed Planet D12263 and realized the Revival Society's leader was aboard the warship negotiating with the Ninth Imperial Princess.

• Li Qi reviewed his weakened cultivation skills and planned to leave for the Irin Federation to study its cultivation methods.
• Li Qi found no new talent after Player Qualification and wondered whether his high status in the Sarnak Family was his true talent.
• Li Qi considered that his family background might have saved him from dying when the empire destroyed a planet.
• Hongye learned that Planet D12263 had been destroyed, killing nearly three hundred million people and the Resistance Army members there.
• Hongye realized the Revival Society's leader was aboard the warship and had personally come to negotiate with the Ninth Imperial Princess.

Sofiyuna tried to figure out how to make Richie happy and decided to arrange a mecha battle for him to watch. She secretly manipulated two nearby fleets into treating each other as enemies, leaving Li Qi horrified by the plan.

• Sofiyuna ordered her knights to pretend to negotiate with the Revival Society and capture its members if they boarded her ship.
• Sofiyuna wondered what Richie liked and decided to take him to watch a mecha pilot's simulated war.
• Li Qi explained that a safe simulated war required an Eighth-Tier mecha pilot's Mechanical Domain to restore damaged machines.
• Sofiyuna revealed that she had sent a fake distress signal and altered the communications of two nearby fleets so their Sixth-Tier captains would fight.
• Li Qi realized the fleets would wage a real battle and feared the consequences of Sofiyuna's reckless plan.

Li Qi tried to stop Sofiyuna from using ordinary people as disposable bait, but an unexpected attack brought the Revival Society to her warship. The chapter ended with Nameless threatening Li Qi’s life to force Sofiyuna to turn away her reinforcements.

• Li Qi persuaded Sofiyuna to treat ordinary people more kindly, and she agreed because she wanted to make him happy.
• Despite Peggy canceling the distress signal, two imperial fleets arrived and opened fire on the Richie.
• Sofiyuna prepared to retaliate, but a powerful Spiritual Pressure revealed an intruder aboard her warship.
• Nameless, leader of the Revival Society, entered the private restaurant with his Radiant Knights and confronted Sofiyuna.
• Nameless revealed that metal needles were aimed at Li Qi’s vital points and demanded that Sofiyuna turn back her reinforcements.

Sophie agreed to the Nameless’s deal to save Li Qi, who was taken aboard the Revival Society’s warship as a hostage. Li Qi escaped during a Mecha attack by stealing a prepared Flying Device and fled into space with Hongye.

• Sofiyuna ordered her reinforcements to stand by and agreed to release the captured Mecha Pilot in exchange for Li Qi.
• The Nameless sent Li Qi away toward the warship’s lower port while promising to release him after the deal.
• Li Qi removed the metal spikes and asked Hongye to protect him when they reached the elevator.
• A Mecha attacked the elevator, so Hongye carried Li Qi out and they ran to a Flying Device he had prepared.
• Li Qi used a Consciousness Backup transmission helmet to take control of the Flying Device, break through the port barrier, and escape with Hongye.
• Qingliu reported Li Qi’s escape to the Nameless, who realized the Flying Device had a Domain Shield and laughed.

Li Qi escaped the Revival Society by using a prepared Shielding Device and fled with Hongye through a Jump Lane, while Art pursued them. After the Richie returned to the Imperial Star without Li Qi, Yolin confronted Sofiyuna and demanded that she find his brother.

• Li Qi recalled how he had deceived Nameless and the Revival Society, then prepared to jump away with Hongye in an escort ship.
• Art pursued Li Qi, but Li Qi accelerated into the Jump Lane despite the dangerous strain on himself and Hongye; Art followed just before the gate closed.
• The Richie returned to James Star, and Sofiyuna was summoned to the Imperial Star to answer for the failed mission.
• Yolin slapped Sofiyuna and demanded to know where Li Qi was, then warned that the Sarnak Family would stop supporting her if she did not find him.
• After leaving Sofiyuna, Yolin's anger gave way to his usual fox-like smile.

Yolin reported Richie’s disappearance to Zelia, who revealed little and used Time Stop to silence his questions. After Li Qi and Hongye survived a disastrous Super-High Speed Jump landing, Li Qi stopped Art from attacking Hongye and ordered him to keep their escape secret from the family.

• Yolin told Zelia that Richie had disappeared in the C-10253 sector of the Border Planet, and she said he would not be able to run for long.
• When Yolin challenged Zelia about Richie’s escape, she froze time and told him to protect his younger brother and handle his own affairs.
• Li Qi’s Flying Device crashed into a desert, and Hongye used an Emergency Treatment Device to stabilize his life-threatening injuries.
• Art arrived, seized Hongye by the neck, and slammed her into the spacecraft wall, but Li Qi ordered him to let her go.
• Li Qi forbade Art from contacting anyone, sending a distress signal, or contacting the family, and Art agreed to obey.
• Li Qi ordered Art to repair the Flying Device and asked Hongye to help them make preparations in a nearby city.

Li Qi took Art and Hongye to a Black Market on Planet A-336 to collect disguises and prepare for their escape to the Irin Federation. After revealing that he had anticipated the challenges of hiding his identity as a Natural Human, he left Art wondering how well he truly knew his young master.

• Li Qi led Art and Hongye through the Black Market, surprising them with his familiarity with the place.
• Art reacted to a Sentient Machine in an alley, but Li Qi explained that it had no self-awareness and would destroy itself after its mission.
• Li Qi collected disguises from the Sentient Machine and changed his hair and eye colors to conceal his identity.
• Li Qi gave Art Hair Color Changing Spray and said they would head to the Irin Federation while keeping a low profile.
• Art warned that Li Qi’s Natural Human body could expose him as a high-ranking noble, but Li Qi assured him he had prepared for that risk.

Yolin confirmed that Li Qi had reached the supplies and identity he had arranged, while Li Qi, traveling under the name Rocky, was captured by pirates and held aboard their ship. As the pirates prepared to sell their captives, an Imperial patrol surrounded the vessel, threatening to expose Li Qi before he escaped the Empire.

• Yolin learned that Li Qi had activated the intelligent machine on Planet A-336, ordered the machine destroyed, and felt reassured that his brother was safe.
• Yolin reflected that he had helped Li Qi escape the Sarnak Family so Li Qi could pursue cultivation, which their mother had forbidden.
• Li Qi and Art were confined aboard an interstellar pirate ship after the fleet they were traveling with was attacked, and Li Qi refused to let Art fight and risk alerting Sophie.
• Li Qi realized the pirates planned to sell the captured young men and tried to locate Hongye, who had been confined separately, but the ship's ability-suppressing device interfered.
• An Imperial patrol from the Third Defense Legion announced that the pirates were surrounded and ordered them to surrender, leaving Li Qi alarmed.

Li Qi and Art fought through the pirate ship to rescue Hongye and escape before the Imperial patrol could board, but Hongye revealed that her hereditary noble status might keep them from being inspected. With the patrol already aboard, Li Qi trusted her to use that privilege.

• Li Qi ordered Art to rescue Hongye and find a way off the pirate ship before the Defense Legion patrol arrived.
• Art smashed through the ship, found Hongye, and carried Li Qi to the Mecha Bay, where Li Qi took control of a Standard Mecha.
• Art urged Li Qi to surrender to the patrol for his safety, but Li Qi insisted that Art follow his escape order.
• Hongye offered to use her noble identity to exempt them from inspection and revealed that her real name was Jenna Trey, from a hereditary baron family.
• Hongye admitted she had contacted the Revival Society but denied revealing their location, and Li Qi trusted her as the patrol members boarded the ship.

Hongye used her noble status and a fabricated romance to stop Captain Matt from inspecting Richie and Art for signs of the kidnapped Sarnak heir. Matt let them go, and Hongye asked him to prepare a spaceship so she could keep traveling with Richie instead of returning home.

• Hongye felt relieved that the Revival Society would not pursue them and resolved not to betray Richie's trust.
• Captain Matt verified Hongye's identity and explained that his Patrol Team was searching for a kidnapped member of the Sarnak Family with white hair and red eyes.
• Hongye invoked noble inspection immunity, then claimed Richie and Art were her bedmates and that Richie was her intended lover.
• Matt hesitated but accepted Hongye's explanation and released her companions without inspecting them.
• Hongye took Richie's hand and asked Matt to prepare a spaceship so she would not have to go home.

Li Qi escaped with Hongye and Art, but a powerful mecha blocked their jump after the Legion Commander learned that Li Qi might be the kidnapped figure he was pursuing. The chapter left Li Qi’s spacecraft trapped before the crimson mecha, while Captain Matt realized he had let the important figure’s kidnappers go.

• Art threatened Hongye for holding Li Qi’s hand, but Li Qi stopped him and warned Hongye that Yuffie had once executed a noble family over someone’s unwanted advances toward him.
• Li Qi reflected that he could not leave the world or truly die without cultivating to at least the Ninth-Tier, and he welcomed the challenge of the world’s cultivation system.
• As Hongye began the spacecraft’s jump, Art spotted a pursuer, and Li Qi ordered her to jump before the coordinates were fully locked.
• A crimson mecha blocked the spacecraft and sealed its jump channel, revealing that its pilot was at least Eighth-Tier.
• The Legion Commander’s secretary questioned Matt about Li Qi’s pink eyes and whether he had examined him, then told him the Legion Commander had gone to intercept the spacecraft.
• Matt realized that Li Qi was the important kidnapped figure and that he had allowed the kidnappers to leave.

Li Qi escaped the Empire by threatening Legion Commander Rose with his own life, then entered the Pitch-Black Star Sea and began rebuilding his strength with the Undying Heart Scripture. After a safe jump, his spaceship reached the Irin Federation, where he prepared to continue his plans under the name Rocky.

• Li Qi held Art’s Consciousness Power weapon to his throat and forced Legion Commander Rose to reopen the Jump Gate.
• Rose let Li Qi’s spaceship pass, and Li Qi told her to tell Sophie, “Don’t make me hate you,” before jumping away.
• In the Pitch-Black Star Sea, Li Qi told Hongye to call him Rocky and resolved to regain his former power.
• Li Qi ate an Energy Bar and began cultivating the first layer of the Undying Heart Scripture.
• After another jump, Li Qi and his companions entered the Irin Federation without further trouble.

Li Qi entered the Irin Federation under a new identity and headed for Martial Spirit Nation to attend an Alfland Academy branch campus as a Mecha Pilot. Back in the Empire, Sofiyuna learned that Richie had left willingly, but spared Rose after hearing his final message.

• Li Qi dismissed Hongye and told her she could find him later at Alfland Academy, then chose to pursue the Mecha Pilot path.
• Li Qi adopted a new identity and appearance, traveled with Art to Martial Spirit Nation, and looked forward to academy life.
• Sofiyuna confronted Rose over letting Richie escape, and Rose insisted that he had left the Empire willingly.
• Rose relayed Li Qi's message to Sofiyuna: "Don't make me hate you."
• Sofiyuna canceled Rose's punishment and told her to thank Richie for sparing her life.

Alfland Academy held the final combat assessment, where candidates fought using their own abilities and hunted Enhanced Creatures for points. Examiner Shalina watched Zoe Weber eliminate a Mecha Pilot and then focused on a Martial Artist boy, whose ambush of two candidates left one of them eliminated by his Flying Machine.

• Zoe Weber used magic and her Floating Cannons to destroy a Mecha Pilot's mecha, eliminating the candidate.
• Examiner Shalina recognized Zoe's name and noted her connection to the Weber Family.
• A black-haired Martial Artist boy stole a Fourth-Tier Enhanced Creature kill from a Mecha Pilot and a Mechanic, then escaped into a Steel Forest.
• The Mechanic searched for the boy from above but could not find him.
• The boy's Flying Machine struck the Mecha Pilot's cockpit and exploded, eliminating her.

Li Qi used abilities from his past lives to defeat Shen Cong in the combat assessment and secure ninth place under his disguised identity, Kili. As he waited to protect his ranking, a pink-haired girl attacked him, then showed interest in his combined magic and martial arts.

• Li Qi lured Shen Cong into attacking a Mimic Doll, then wounded her with flying arrows until her teleportation device removed her from the assessment.
• Li Qi collected Shen Cong’s three flying machines and reflected on how magic, martial arts, runes, and alchemy from his past lives could help him grow stronger in this universe.
• Li Qi checked the rankings, saw that Kili was ninth, and planned to hide until the combat assessment ended.
• A red fireball struck where Li Qi had been standing, and he dodged it before sending three flying arrows toward his attacker.
• A pink-haired girl emerged behind a Magic Shield, admired Li Qi’s use of magic and martial arts, and called him an adorable cutie.

Li Qi advanced to the Final Assessment in ninth place after refusing Zoe Weber’s offer to cooperate. In his battle against a Mecha Pilot on an open desert battlefield, he used a Substitute Doll and Spirit Eyes to find the Mecha’s weaknesses and turn the fight in his favor.

• Zoe Weber introduced herself as a top-ranked mage and offered to help Li Qi reach the top ten, but he refused and warned her off when she followed him.
• The Combat Assessment ended, and Li Qi advanced in ninth place; the academy announced that the Final Assessment’s duels would determine class assignments.
• Li Qi entered a desert battlefield against a martial-arts Mecha Pilot, while Examiner Shalina worried that the open terrain put him at a disadvantage.
• Li Qi summoned a sandstorm, then let the Mecha Pilot’s punch strike a Substitute Doll and appeared behind her Mecha.
• Li Qi used Spirit Eyes to locate three weak points and sent his arrow device toward them, deciding the battle in his favor.

Li Qi won Alfland Academy’s Final Assessment while keeping his altered identity hidden, then returned to his apartment and received an expensive flying machine from Zhao Dongxue. The gift revealed that Zhao had gained a powerful inheritance, and Li Qi suspected the machine was beyond the work of an ordinary Rank-Two Mecha Pilot.

• Li Qi defeated the Mecha Pilot in the Final Assessment and worried that the broadcast might expose him to the Empire.
• Zoe pursued Li Qi after the examination, but he escaped her by leaving through the men’s changing room’s back door.
• Zhao Dongxue brought Art a gift for Kili and asked to invite him to dinner, but she left before Li Qi returned.
• Li Qi opened Zhao Dongxue’s gift and discovered a flying machine that split into nine arrows after he recorded his Consciousness Power.
• Zhao Dongxue’s Inheritance Mecha revealed that she had gained a vast fortune and bought the Third-Tier Flying Machine for nearly ten million Federation Credits.

After rejecting Zhao Dongxue’s romantic feelings, Li Qi was caught in a Shopping Mall explosion and learned that Zhao Dongxue had inherited a powerful mecha. As Zhao fought an attacker inside the mall, Martial Maniacs launched a street assault, and Li Qi prepared to defend himself with the weapon she had given him.

• Li Qi gave Zhao Dongxue a martial cultivation technique, thanked her, and told her not to expect him to fall in love, but Zhao Dongxue privately remained determined to like him.
• The Shopping Mall exploded after Li Qi left the restaurant, and Zhao Dongxue caught him in her white-and-blue Humanoid Mecha before entering the mall to confront the danger.
• Art reached Li Qi, and they watched Zhao Dongxue get blasted through a nearby building as Guard Team mechas responded to the attack.
• The Security Team identified the attackers emerging from the mall as members of the Martial Maniacs, and Li Qi decided to leave with Art.
• Martial Maniacs disguised as bystanders attacked cultivators and charged Li Qi, who put Art behind him and summoned Zhao Dongxue’s Third-Tier Flying Machine, splitting it into nine arrows.