Chapter Summaries

Li Qi defeated Martial Alliance attackers at a shopping mall, but one transformed into a monstrous fighter before Academy Planet’s Garrison Legion intervened. After the attack was suppressed, Li Qi learned it had been part of a coordinated assault and wondered what was going on with Zhao Dongxue.

• Li Qi used the Nine Flying Arrows to destroy the Dantians and seal the acupoints of the Martial Alliance attackers who charged him.
• A female martial artist rose after Li Qi incapacitated her, transformed into a monstrous creature, and attacked him.
• Art moved to protect Li Qi, but a huge hammer-shaped flying weapon crushed the transformed attacker.
• A short-haired woman leading Academy Planet’s Garrison Legion arrived and ordered her subordinates to handle the scene.
• The Security Team and Garrison Legion suppressed attacks in four cities, and Li Qi learned that Zhao Dongxue had disappeared.

After Zhao Dongxue recovered from the mall fight, her Inheritance Mecha explained that the transformed fighter might have been a Klund Empire cultivator whose Life Seed had gone out of control. Kili visited to check on Zhao Dongxue, while Li Qi confirmed that she possessed an Inheritance Mecha and considered how its inheritance shaped a pilot’s advancement.

• Zhao Dongxue asked her Inheritance Mecha about the powerful fighter, and it suspected she was a Klund Empire Fate Master whose Life Seed had lost control.
• The Inheritance Mecha warned Zhao Dongxue that the boy she had rescued might identify her, but Zhao Dongxue believed her altered voice had concealed her identity.
• Kili visited Zhao Dongxue with a gift, checked that she was unharmed, and told her they could stay in contact as friends.
• Kili encouraged Zhao Dongxue to work hard if she wanted to meet him again, leaving her overjoyed as he departed.
• Li Qi confirmed that Zhao Dongxue had obtained an Inheritance Mecha and reflected on how inherited mechas let pilots advance easily up to the previous holder’s level but made further progress extremely difficult.

Li Qi suspected that Zhao Dongxue’s inherited mecha and rescue might mark her as a Child of Fortune, but he chose not to get involved in her troubles. At Alfland Branch Campus, he was assigned to Shalina Jarvis’s class, where the students learned the course requirements and prepared to choose a class monitor in virtual space.

• Li Qi realized Zhao Dongxue’s Inheritance Mecha required Consciousness Compatibility and wondered whether she was a Child of Fortune, but decided against following her around.
• Li Qi moved into an Advanced Apartment in the academy district and encountered Zoe Weber, who flirted with him until he threatened her with his short sword.
• Li Qi and Zoe were assigned to the same freshman class, where Shalina Jarvis introduced herself as their homeroom teacher.
• Shalina explained that Mecha Pilots had to take eight compulsory courses and four electives, and warned that failing courses meant leaving the academy or changing majors.
• Shalina handed out Consciousness Transmitters and announced that the class would enter virtual space to choose a class monitor.

Shalina held a one-on-one competition in the Consciousness Space to choose Class F3’s class monitor, and Lana Alvis became the first arena master. After defeating three challengers with ease, Lana faced Zoe Weber, the region’s top-ranked student.

• Shalina explained that the class monitor and vice monitor would receive extra cultivation resources and announced the rules for the class monitor contest.
• Shalina ordered Lana Alvis to take the arena first, and Lana summoned six Third-Tier flying swords.
• Shen Cong reluctantly challenged Lana but was defeated in under a minute, followed by two more challengers who also lost quickly.
• Zoe Weber appeared beside Li Qi, noted that Lana had not used her Martial Arts, and then announced her challenge.

Lana admitted defeat after lasting three rounds, leaving Zoe to become Arena Master, and Zoe easily defeated Liu Chengyu. Li Qi then challenged Zoe and overwhelmed her, ending with her battered and in his grip as he demanded that she admit defeat.

• Lana surrendered to Zoe after completing Shalina’s three-round task and left the stage.
• Zoe challenged the class, and Liu Chengyu of the Sky Sword Sect stepped forward to fight her.
• Zoe’s magic overwhelmed Liu Chengyu, broke his defenses, and knocked him out of the arena.
• Li Qi challenged Zoe and shattered two layers of her Magic Shield with a single punch.
• Zoe took to the air, but Li Qi caught up, struck her down, and slammed her head into the ground.
• Li Qi lifted Zoe by the head and told her she could now admit defeat.

Li Qi defeated Zoe, became the monitor of Class F03, and left the first Mecha Pilot class with plans to gather resources and advance his Consciousness Power. Zoe and Lana explained that academy missions required a three-person team, but Li Qi declined their invitations and boarded the train with Shen Cong following him.

• Li Qi destroyed Zoe's flying staffs and won their duel, then defeated the remaining challengers and became monitor of Class F03.
• After class, Li Qi planned to find Consciousness Cultivation Methods, reach Level Five, and use his monitor position to gain access to resources.
• Shen Cong asked Li Qi to form a team, but he refused; Zoe and Lana argued over who deserved to join him.
• Zoe explained that students needed a three-person team to take academy missions for extra Academic Credits, and Li Qi said he would find his own teammates.
• Li Qi boarded the electric train to the Dormitory Area, and Shen Cong followed him aboard.

Li Qi agreed to form an academy mission team with Shen Cong, who found a third teammate while he developed a personalized Consciousness Cultivation Method. The group met at the spacecraft port to head to a nearby Mining Planet, where Li Qi met the heavily modified Miliya Frost.

• Li Qi reminded Shen Cong of her boast during the Combat Assessment, then gave her his contact information and told her to find a teammate who would follow his lead.
• Li Qi studied the academy’s Consciousness Cultivation Methods, used Academic Credits to obtain materials, and combined them with the Sarnak Family’s method to create a technique tailored to himself.
• Shen Cong found a teammate, while Li Qi studied Mecha Pilot textbooks at home under Art’s guidance.
• Li Qi contacted Shen Cong, and she told him she had assembled a team for an upcoming mission.
• Li Qi met Shen Cong and their third teammate, the heavily modified Mecha Department student Miliya Frost, at the spacecraft port before their mission to drive away Planetary Mechanical Beasts.

Li Qi, Shen Cong, and Milia arrived at a mining planet to protect an ore shipment from self-reproducing Mechanical Beasts. As Shen Cong arranged the mission with the miners, Li Qi continued wondering whether his talent in this life was Charm.

• Li Qi learned that Milia ranked third in the Mecha Division and that she had joined the team after judging his strength and finding him pleasing to look at.
• Milia's compliment made Li Qi question whether Charm was his talent in this life and whether it could help with Consciousness Power or machinery.
• Shen Cong woke Li Qi as their spaceship descended to the Mining Planet, where Mechanical Beasts had repeatedly attacked the mines and ore shipments.
• A mine worker explained that the team would escort stored ore to a Transport Ship because the ore's energy attracted the Mechanical Beasts.
• Shen Cong accepted responsibility for the mine while Li Qi and Milia began choosing suitable machinery and mecha.

Li Qi and the other defenders fought an overwhelming Mechanical Beast Tide at the mine, but the beasts breached the first Protective Barrier and began pouring inside. As the defensive line faltered, Li Qi wondered why the Commander had not ordered a retreat or revealed what he was waiting for.

• Li Qi deployed laser-equipped drones and destroyed more than a hundred Mechanical Beasts as the Commander ordered the defenders to open fire.
• The Mechanical Beast Tide kept growing, prompting the Commander to activate the second-stage Defense Cannons and send Milia and the other Mecha Pilots to defend the barrier.
• After twenty minutes of fighting, Mechanical Beasts piled against the Protective Barrier until they cracked and pierced it, and the defenders struggled to stop them from entering.
• Milia led the Mecha Pilots in melee combat while beasts slipped past the line and charged the mechanics, who remained in place because the Commander had not ordered them to retreat.
• Li Qi judged that the defenders might soon lose the line and questioned what the Commander was waiting for.

Anya prepared to hold the mining base until the Defense Legion arrived, while Milia spotted a Special Individual among the Mechanical Beasts. The Sky Sword strike failed to kill it, and the beasts launched a suicidal assault on the defenders.

• Anya ordered the Mecha Pilots to defend the Second Layer barrier and readied the Sky Sword System while the Defense Legion was eight minutes away.
• Milia flew toward the rear of the horde after spotting a possible Beast King, but Anya ordered her back and prepared an aerial strike.
• Li Qi confronted Milia over her unexplained charge, and Milia admitted that she had lost control and would explain later.
• The Mechanical Beasts piled up around the Special Individual and formed a barrier that endured the Sky Sword laser strike.
• After the strike failed to destroy the Special Individual, the Mechanical Beasts abruptly charged the Mechanical Pilots and Mecha Pilots in suicidal attacks.

Li Qi survived a Fifth-Rank Purple Laser strike and unleashed a colossal Mechanical Greatsword against the mechanical beast horde. He destroyed the beasts and their Special Individual, then lost consciousness.

• Li Qi fled toward the second-layer barrier while a Special Individual fired a Purple Laser that killed a mechanic and then struck Li Qi.
• Li Qi survived the laser with the Undying Heart Scripture, but badly injured, he turned toward the Special Individual instead of seeking shelter.
• Anya saw Li Qi rise and sensed the immense Consciousness Power emanating from him, along with an illusory woman behind him.
• The illusory woman assembled nearby machines into a kilometers-long Mechanical Greatsword, which Li Qi brought down on the Special Individual and the beast horde.
• The sword split the ground and wiped out every mechanical beast, after which Li Qi lost consciousness.

Li Qi woke in the mining-star base infirmary and discovered that Zelia had long known he was a heterogeneous soul, yet had raised him as her son and placed barriers around his Undead Core. Before he could decide how to handle the Federation’s investigation, Councilor Jetus arrived claiming to be his uncle and took him into custody under escort.

• Li Qi woke after nearly five hours in the infirmary and recalled only fragments of the battlefield, while remembering clearly his childhood conversation with Zelia about heterogeneous souls.
• Li Qi found Zelia’s Consciousness Power barriers around his Undead Core and realized she had known about his transmigrator identity, though he could not understand why she had protected and raised him.
• Li Qi suspected Zelia had prevented him from cultivating the Consciousness Law to protect him, then resolved to focus on surviving the likely Federation investigation.
• Councilor Jetus rushed into the infirmary and embraced Li Qi, calling him Kili and identifying himself as his uncle.
• Major Luo Qi insisted on questioning Li Qi about the unregistered seventh-tier mechanical engineer, but Jetus refused and arranged to take him back to Academy Planet under Federation escort.

Aboard the ship to Academy Planet, Li Qi learned that Yolin and Zelia had discovered his identity but would not force him to return, and Yolin gave him the Sarnak Family’s cultivation method. The conversation ended tensely when Li Qi asked Yolin about a “Heterogeneous Soul.”

• Jetus introduced himself as Yolin’s agent, explained that he had identified Li Qi through Zelia’s activated Consciousness Clone, and arranged a meeting with Yolin in the Consciousness Space.
• Yolin told Li Qi that Zelia had found him but had decided to let him continue cultivating in the Federation until he returned for his wedding in four years.
• Yolin passed Li Qi the Sarnak Family’s ancestral cultivation method, which could support stable cultivation up to the ninth tier, though Yolin only gave him the technique through the seventh tier.
• Li Qi refined his own modified method with Yolin’s teachings, then thanked his brother for helping him.
• Li Qi asked Yolin whether he knew about a “Heterogeneous Soul,” and Yolin’s smile disappeared.

Li Qi learned that the Sarnak Family accepted him as one of their own because his soul could be recorded in their Family Tree, and Yolin promised the family would always protect him. Yolin recalled how Li Qi had once shown him kindness and began planning retaliation against the groups responsible for Li Qi’s injuries, while Li Qi returned to Academy Planet and considered how much his personality had changed.

• Yolin told Li Qi that Zelia considered him a Sarnak because his consciousness could be recorded in the family lineage imprint, and assured him the family would stand behind him.
• Li Qi worried about Li Qiao sleeping inside his sealed Undead Core and concluded that it might be safer for her not to appear in this world.
• Yolin remembered how six-year-old Li Qi had sheltered him with an umbrella when he was bullied and alone in the rain, inspiring him to protect Li Qi and pursue the family leadership.
• After learning that Li Qi had been injured, Yolin studied information about the Martial Alliance and Sage Society and began making arrangements against them.
• Li Qi returned to Academy Planet for treatment, read about the Sarnak Family’s Federation assets, and reflected that he had become increasingly softhearted.

Li Qi learned that his outburst during the Mining Planet defense had revealed power suggesting a Seventh-Tier Mecha Pilot stood behind him, then confronted Milia over disobeying orders. Milia left the team and told Shen Cong that her special chip sometimes drove her actions against her will.

• Shen Cong and Milia visited Li Qi in the hospital and transferred him five hundred Academic Credits for his contribution to the mission.
• Milia showed Li Qi footage of him using the Mechanical Domain to assemble a giant flying sword that destroyed the Mechanical Beasts and the Special Individual.
• Li Qi realized the footage could make others suspect a Seventh-Tier Mecha Pilot protected him, but learned the recording had been kept confidential by the academy's higher-ups.
• Li Qi told Milia that she had to obey his orders to remain on the team, and Milia apologized and left.
• Shen Cong followed Milia and urged her to explain herself, so Milia revealed that her special chip sometimes drove her actions against her will.

After Jetus secured Li Qi a fabricated identity, Li Qi broke through to the fourth tier and began studying the universe’s many Power Systems. While researching the Sage Society and Martial Alliance, he discovered an abandoned game called Endless World that caught his interest.

• Li Qi learned Jetus had fabricated a family background for him, allowing him to return home without further federal monitoring.
• Li Qi used Yolin’s family Cultivation Method to break through from the third tier to the fourth and gained the Mechanical Seizure ability.
• Li Qi considered the fourth tier’s capabilities and the vast gap between his strength and that of higher-tier powers in the Interstellar World.
• Li Qi asked Art for information on the Martial Alliance and Sage Society and studied other Power Systems to improve his own.
• Li Qi discovered that Great Thousand Worlds had shut down Endless World more than thirty years earlier, and the game’s changing worlds drew his attention.

Li Qi prepared to report to the Security Bureau while confronting Art about his need to live for himself and giving Milia five minutes to explain her actions. Meanwhile, Hongye received a new mission from the Revival Society and was ordered to join the Martial Alliance.

• Li Qi reviewed his Security Bureau assignment and told Art about the dangers of his recent mission, urging him to stop living only to protect Li Qi.
• Li Qi met Shen Cong and Milia, heard that Milia’s Smart Chip had connected with the Mechanical Beast, and gave Milia five minutes to explain herself.
• Hongye accepted a new Revival Society mission and waited on an Administrative Planet for instructions from a comrade.
• A woman met Hongye at a restaurant, gave her an iron token, and told her to report to the Martial Arts Hall as a new member of the Martial Alliance.

Hongye learned that the Martial Alliance had recruited her to enter Alfland’s Secret Realm Trial as exchange student Jenna Trey after its agents were purged from Academy Planet. Elsewhere, Milia told Li Qi that her black-market Smart Chip had malfunctioned during her first mission after she sensed a calling from the Mechanical Beasts.

• Ye Xian explained that the Revival Society and Martial Alliance secretly cooperated and that Hongye’s recruitment served the Alliance’s needs.
• Ye Xian gave Hongye the Mystic Maiden Heart Sutra and told her to memorize its principles so someone could impart its cultivation to her.
• Ye Xian revealed that the Martial Alliance’s agents on Academy Planet had been purged and asked Hongye to enter the Secret Realm Trial as exchange student Jenna Trey.
• Li Qi learned that Milia’s untraceable black-market Smart Chip had failed during her first mission.
• Milia told Li Qi that she had sensed a calling from the Mechanical Beasts.

Milia revealed that her black chip was connected to the Mechanical Beasts, and Li Qi offered to keep her in the squad and replace it in exchange for her service until graduation. After a quiet stretch, Li Qi found himself pursued by Glaire Morrison and Zoe, and the chapter ended with an Imperial exchange student named Efficia Valenna seeking him out.

• Milia told Li Qi and Shen Cong that her chip was linked to the Mechanical Beasts and that she had stayed silent for fear of being reported.
• Li Qi offered to help replace Milia's chip if she signed a Consciousness Contract and obeyed him until graduation.
• Li Qi's name appeared on the Mechanics Department's Campus Heartthrob Ranking, drawing Glaire Morrison's unwanted attention alongside Zoe's pursuit.
• Li Qi angrily told Glaire and Zoe to stop arguing and leave him alone, and they quieted down for class.
• After class, Efficia Valenna, an exchange student from the Empire with the royal surname, came looking for Li Qi.

Effiecia recognized Li Qi at Alfland Academy and confronted him about Sofiyuna, but Li Qi reaffirmed his engagement and warned her not to hope for a future with him. After leaving campus to pursue materials and check on Milia, Li Qi was immobilized on a tram by a powerful woman who had been waiting for him.

• Effiecia dragged Li Qi into a private lounge, recognized him by his scent, and demanded to know why he was there and where Sofiyuna was.
• Li Qi told Effiecia that he was still Sofiyuna's fiancé and urged her to give up any hopes of being with him.
• Li Qi recalled that Effiecia had once been intended to marry him, but Sofiyuna had become the Ninth Imperial Princess and his fiancée instead.
• Li Qi evaded Glaire and Zoe, left the academy, and planned to visit the Capital Group's branch to find materials and check on Milia's chip replacement.
• A powerful woman immobilized Li Qi as he boarded an electric tram and addressed him in a seductive voice.