Chapter Summaries

Ning Sa asked Xia Yuanfang to examine her unborn child, a Humanoid who had remained in Beast Form throughout the pregnancy, and feared he would be taken away and enslaved after birth. Xia Yuanfang offered a four-course treatment to help the child take human form, and Ning Sa agreed to trust her.

• Ning Sa arrived at Xia Yuanfang's workshop with Xia Chujian and suffered a bout of abdominal pain, so Xia Yuanfang brought her in for an examination.
• Xia Yuanfang used a Three-Dimensional Color Doppler Ultrasound Imager and saw that Ning Sa's unborn child was a horned leopard Humanoid who had never taken human form.
• Ning Sa told Xia Yuanfang that the child's father had urged her to abort and get sterilized, but she had refused and feared her son would be made a slave.
• Xia Yuanfang said the child might never switch into complete human form, then offered four courses of treatment for one hundred thousand to help him take human form before birth.
• Ning Sa asked if Xia Yuanfang could guarantee the result, and Xia Yuanfang told her she had to trust the treatment or leave.

Xia Yuanfang treated Ning Sa’s difficult pregnancy while Xia Chujian returned to her estate to discuss a secret arsenal and protective renovations with Bai Li Xin. By evening, Xia Yuanfang had finished her experiment, and Xia Chujian’s preparations to secure her home continued.

• Xia Yuanfang warned Ning Sa that her experimental treatment might fail, and Ning Sa signed a confidentiality contract and paid her one hundred thousand Beichen Coin.
• Xia Yuanfang drew Ning Sa’s blood and inserted a long needle into the fetus, which fell asleep; Ning Sa also drifted off while Xia Yuanfang began her experiment.
• Xia Chujian learned about the payment, then left the Workshop with Wufu and Sixi after Aunt Chen called her back to discuss the library project with Bai Li Xin.
• Bai Li Xin showed Xia Chujian the secret arsenal and explained that his racial talent, Fire Aversion, would keep it from burning; Xia Chujian agreed to keep his talent secret.
• Bai Li Xin agreed to add materials that would block Visual Radar detection and said he could finish the renovations by the following day.
• Xia Yuanfang returned to Xia Chujian’s estate that evening, saying she had tested her idea on Ning Sa but offering no further details.

After the renovation was finished, Xia Chujian accompanied San Zong to inspect his rice fields and learned how he grew Dang Kang Zhu Yu Rice. Their moonlit walk ended with the rice maturing two weeks early, though neither understood why it had changed so quickly.

• Xia Chujian paid Bai Li Xin the final balance and a ten-thousand-Beichen-Coin red envelope, then saw his family off.
• Xia Chujian joined San Zong on a nighttime visit to his farmland while Wufu and Zhu Yingying stayed behind.
• San Zong showed Xia Chujian his near-ripe Dang Kang Zhu Yu Rice and explained his planting, irrigation, and harvesting methods.
• As San Zong inspected the rice, the ears behind them changed from rouge red to golden, but neither he nor Xia Chujian noticed.
• After Xia Chujian ran around the field, San Zong discovered that the rice had matured two weeks early.

Xia Chujian helped San Zong harvest rice that ripened two weeks early, and the work left her bedridden the next day. As San Zong raised a second crop of seedlings in just three days, he became convinced Xia Chujian was responsible and urged her to apply to Agricultural University.

• San Zong credited Xia Chujian with the rice ripening early, and she joined him in harvesting the field by moonlight.
• Xia Yuanfang and Aunt Chen brought food and water, and San Zong again said Xia Chujian's visit had made the rice mature.
• Xia Chujian struggled to get out of bed the next day, while Zhu Yingying fed her and discussed university plans.
• San Zong processed the harvest, then began preparing the field and raising seedlings for a second crop.
• The seedlings sprouted in three days instead of the usual fifteen or thirty, and San Zong urged Xia Chujian to apply to Agricultural University.

Xia Chujian discovered that San Zong had been swindled online, but Liushun recovered his money and proved its analytical skills. Su Buyan arrived on Guiyuan Star to install an air defense system and discuss improvements to Xia Chujian’s mecha, while she asked him to keep their master-disciple relationship secret from her aunt.

• Xia Chujian learned that San Zong had paid a scammer four hundred credits for fake rice seeds and warned Wufu and Sixi to avoid sending money to personal accounts.
• Liushun tracked down the scammer and threatened to report him, prompting him to refund San Zong’s money.
• Su Buyan arrived on Guiyuan Star, and Xia Chujian took him to her home to install an advanced Air Defense Identification System.
• Xia Chujian told Su Buyan that the Shao Siming Mecha worked well but that its conspicuous Helmet was difficult to conceal.
• Xia Chujian persuaded Su Buyan to let her tell her aunt that he was there on Special Security Bureau business rather than reveal that she was his disciple.

Xia Chujian welcomed Su Buyan to her Estate, where he inspected Liushun and promised to repair its damaged head. Over breakfast, Su Buyan met Wufu and learned about his wish for a Quantum Optical Brain, while Xia Chujian steered him toward safer toys.

• Su Buyan visited Xia Chujian's Estate under the guise of a Special Security Bureau technician, and Xia Yuanfang welcomed him before leaving for work.
• Su Buyan inspected Liushun and found that its central processing unit was intact, offering to replace its damaged carapace and upgrade its eye Display Screen.
• Su Buyan devoured Xia Yuanfang's Small Sesame Cakes, while Xia Chujian made wontons for Wufu and prepared breakfast for Sixi.
• Wufu came downstairs, greeted Su Buyan, and asked for a Quantum Optical Brain so he could look up information.
• Xia Chujian refused to give Wufu a Quantum Optical Brain and suggested other toys, while Liushun reminded her that Wufu wanted jigsaw puzzles of the Five Great Planets.

Xia Chujian and Su Buyan installed an Air Defense Identification System and repaired Liushun before discussing mechas. Inspired by Xia Chujian’s idea, Su Buyan realized the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha could be made to take the form of an ordinary-sized mecha, giving her a way to use it openly.

• Su Buyan and Xia Chujian installed the Air Defense Identification System, which would alert Xia Chujian to approaching aircraft and prevent others from scanning the Estate with Radar.
• Su Buyan upgraded the Central Control Room’s network security and added fingerprint, iris, and biometric verification to its entrances.
• Su Buyan repaired Liushun’s head using Lapis Lightstone and Special Metal Composite Titanium.
• Su Buyan showed Xia Chujian different grades of Regular Mechas and explained that the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha was a classified new design sought by foreign spies.
• Xia Chujian wondered why Black Silver could not solidify into a larger form, and Su Buyan realized he could add a command that would let the mecha assume an ordinary three-meter form.

Su Buyan modified the Shao Siming Mecha to take on the appearance of a regular mecha, and Xia Chujian tested its new form in the Exotic Beast Forest. She found it easy to control but worried its Black Silver Bullets could devastate the land, so Su Buyan began showing her how to mount ordinary weapons instead.

• Su Buyan finished modifying the Shao Siming Mecha's program after lunch and uploaded it through Xia Chujian's Other Shore Flower Necklace.
• Xia Chujian took Su Buyan to a remote clearing in the Exotic Beast Forest to test the new regular-mecha appearance.
• Xia Chujian transformed the Shao Siming Mecha, flew and moved with it, and confirmed that its controls were faster and less strenuous than a real regular mecha.
• Xia Chujian told Su Buyan that the mecha's Black Silver Bullets were too destructive for use inside the Beichen Empire.
• Su Buyan offered to teach Xia Chujian how to mount regular weapons on the Shao Siming Mecha's arms and began demonstrating.

Xia Chujian received new equipment and an energy crystal from Su Buyan, then returned to school after vacation to find a Sanctuary ceremony honoring the students killed in the shooting. At lunch, she overheard Advanced Class students discussing Ji Jiayi’s recommendation to Beichen University.

• Xia Chujian learned how to mount weapons on her mecha, and Su Buyan gave her a dedicated Energy Crystal, a tactical backpack, and a Tactical Dagger.
• Su Buyan asked Xia Chujian to repay his work on the Air Defense Identification System with Small Sesame Cakes, but she also transferred him a hundred thousand Beichen Coin.
• Xia Chujian returned to school and passed security check with the concealed gun components in her tactical backpack.
• Xia Chujian watched Sanctuary deacons hold a ceremony for the ordinary class students killed in the shooting, while their grieving parents attended.
• Xia Chujian overheard Advanced Class students say Ji Jiayi had received a university recommendation to Beichen University.

Xia Chujian confronted a Remnant that attacked Ji Jiayi and the students at school, stopping its shriek and destroying its tentacles. A cyan humanoid creature emerged from the bodyguard and declared that it wanted Xia Chujian’s body, while she transformed into her three-meter mechanical mecha form to face it.

• Xia Chujian encountered Ji Jiayi at school as Ji Jiayi came to handle her paperwork for Beichen Star.
• A Remnant emerged from one of Ji Jiayi’s bodyguards, killed the other bodyguard, and pierced Ji Jiayi as she clung to Xia Chujian.
• Xia Chujian cut off the Remnant’s tentacle with her dagger, then silenced its shriek by stabbing the bodyguard’s mouth and destroying his vocal organs.
• The Remnant threw Xia Chujian out a window, but she activated her mecha and used Huo Yushen’s Qu Zhong 110 Hand Cannon to destroy its remaining tentacles.
• A cyan humanoid creature emerged from the bodyguard’s back, said it wanted Xia Chujian’s body, and expanded to three meters tall.
• Xia Chujian assembled her heavy sniper rifle, activated the Shao Siming Mecha modification mode, and grew to three meters tall in her updated black iron mechanical form.

Xia Chujian killed a Drought Ba at Mulan City No. 1 High School and alerted Meng Guanghui, who arrived with Special Security Bureau forces. The Bureau confirmed the creature was dead and prepared to transport it to headquarters as its first captured Ba, while Xia Chujian earned credit for the kill.

• Xia Chujian shot the green-shirted humanoid creature repeatedly, then used the mecha's Slaying Blade to destroy its hidden green form when it tried to attack her.
• Xia Chujian checked Ji Jiayi's body, recovered her tactical backpack, and concealed her mecha before Meng Guanghui arrived with Special Security Bureau personnel.
• Meng Guanghui identified the creature as a Drought Ba and was stunned to find it dead in the corridor.
• Meng Guanghui confirmed the Ba was dead and ordered it transported to Special Security Bureau Headquarters on Beichen Star for research.
• Xia Chujian asked whether capturing the Ba alive would have earned more merit, and Meng Guanghui warned her that the creature had previously badly injured four S-Class-or-higher Gene Evolvers.

Xia Chujian helped the Special Security Bureau conceal her role in defeating the Remnants at school, and the principal allowed students to study from home after their complaints. Later, she learned Xia Yuanfang was experimenting with Blood Kirin to help stabilize Ning Sa’s fetus’s human genes, while a familiar Big Black Dog left her suspicious.

• Meng Guanghui sent the Medical Team to treat the unconscious students, and the Special Security Bureau collected the bodies and Remnant remains.
• Xia Chujian showed Meng Guanghui her recorded footage and asked him to say the Bureau had killed the Remnants, and he agreed to cover for her.
• The principal blamed Xia Chujian, but students and parents condemned him until he announced that students could take online classes from home.
• Xia Chujian left school and traveled to Xia Yuanfang’s Workshop, where Xia Yuanfang said she was testing Blood Kirin mixtures to stabilize Ning Sa’s fetus’s human genes.
• Xia Chujian spotted the Big Black Dog again and recalled that it had survived the Teflon Alkane exposure, making her suspect something was unusual about it.

Xia Chujian learned from San Zong that the green entity she encountered was Ba, a body-stealing creature that caused its hosts to spontaneously combust. The chapter left her considering the danger Ba posed while San Zong tended the rare medicinal plants, including Blood Kirin.

• Xia Yuanfang agreed that Xia Chujian would take online classes at work after another student died during a Remnant attack at school.
• San Zong predicted a severe storm for the next day and told Xia Chujian that he had begun growing the rare medicinal herbs Xia Yuanfang requested.
• San Zong revealed that Sixi's daily visits seemed to make the Blood Kirin grow faster.
• San Zong asked whether Xia Chujian had encountered anything besides a Remnant, then described a green, hairless being that stole bodies at his former plantation.
• Xia Chujian recognized the being as Ba after San Zong explained that its possessed hosts spontaneously combusted.

After the Drought Ba’s death brought torrential rain to Mulan City, Xia Chujian accompanied Xia Yuanfang to the Workshop to treat Ning Sa, whose pregnancy had become critical. Xia Yuanfang injected the first Gene Serum into the placenta and fetus, and the chapter ended with Xia Yuanfang telling Xia Chujian that the unborn child could hear her.

• Xia Chujian told San Zong that an advanced Gene Evolver from the Special Security Bureau had killed the Drought Ba, and San Zong expected rain to return.
• Heavy rain flooded Mulan City and threatened the Su Nv Wheat and Drought Rice harvest, while Xia Chujian and San Zong inspected the Estate’s drainage system.
• Ning Sa told Xia Yuanfang that she was in severe pain and might give birth, so Xia Yuanfang prepared to treat her at the Workshop.
• Xia Chujian drove Xia Yuanfang through the storm to the Workshop, narrowly avoiding another flying vehicle, and Ning Sa arrived shortly afterward.
• Xia Yuanfang injected Gene Serum into Ning Sa’s placenta and fetus, while Xia Chujian held the restless leopard cub still through Ning Sa’s belly.
• After Xia Chujian spoke to the unconscious Ning Sa’s unborn child, Xia Yuanfang returned and told her that the child could hear her.

Xia Yuanfang treated Ning Sa’s endangered pregnancy with an intensified medicine dose and stayed at the workshop to monitor her. While waiting through the storm, Xia Chujian went out for food and returned to find a luxurious vintage-style self-driving sedan outside the building.

• Xia Yuanfang explained to Xia Chujian that Ning Sa wanted a child for herself, and Xia Chujian joked that she would reluctantly have one if her aunt asked.
• Ning Sa woke briefly after the medicine eased her pain, but the fetus moved and caused another painful episode, so Xia Yuanfang anesthetized her and decided to observe her for twenty-four hours.
• Xia Yuanfang told Xia Chujian that the storm made it unsafe to travel home, and the two stayed at the workshop while Xia Yuanfang helped her with physics.
• Xia Chujian ate steamed buns, then went out in the rain to buy Yangchun Noodles and Roasted Cakes for their meals.
• Xia Chujian returned to the building and saw a luxurious vintage-style self-driving sedan parked at the entrance.

Xia Chujian killed the armed intruders who attacked Xia Yuanfang and Ning Sa at the workshop. Ning Sa revealed that she ran the Hunted List, making her a target for people seeking to seize control of it.

• Xia Chujian photographed a wealthy-looking car outside the workshop, then found two Humanoids guarding its entrance as Aunt and Big Black Dog cried out inside.
• Xia Chujian shot and killed the two Humanoids after they attacked her, then entered the workshop and found a gunman threatening Xia Yuanfang beside Ning Sa's bed.
• Xia Chujian shot the gunman as he fired at Big Black Dog and finished him off, then checked that Xia Yuanfang and Ning Sa were safe.
• Xia Chujian told Xia Yuanfang to call the Punishment Department, and Ning Sa awoke from the anesthetic and thanked Xia Yuanfang for protecting her and her child.
• Ning Sa explained that her company ran the Hunted List and that the attackers likely wanted to take it from her, especially after she had separated from her powerful former partner.

After Xia Chujian killed the attackers who targeted Ning Sa, Ning Sa’s people cleaned the Workshop, and Xia Chujian discovered that the Big Black Dog had a Brain-Computer Interface. She asked Meng Guanghui about removing its Chip, and he said he needed to examine it in person.

• Xia Yuanfang and Ning Sa agreed to remain at the Workshop while Ning Sa’s subordinates removed the corpses and repaired the damage.
• Xia Chujian treated the Big Black Dog’s gunshot wound, and it licked her shoe in apparent gratitude.
• Ning Sa’s people cleaned the Workshop, while Xia Yuanfang continued monitoring Ning Sa and her fetus.
• Xia Chujian invited the Big Black Dog to return with her and Xia Yuanfang, then noticed a Brain-Computer Interface on its head.
• Xia Chujian messaged Meng Guanghui about the Chip, and he asked where she was so he could examine the dog himself.

Xia Chujian told Meng Guanghui about the attack on her aunt’s pregnant patient, and Meng removed a self-destructing Chip from Big Black Dog. Huo Yushen explained why the dog had resisted the knockout drug and warned Xia to gain its loyalty before relying on it to guard her home.

• Meng Guanghui visited Xia Yuanfang’s Workshop and learned from Xia Chujian’s recording that armed Humanoids had attacked her aunt’s pregnant patient, whom Xia had defended.
• Meng Guanghui anesthetized Big Black Dog and removed its Brain-Computer Interface Chip, but the Chip destroyed itself when he tried to test it.
• Meng Guanghui sent Huo Yushen information about the Chip, and Huo recognized that its self-destruction revealed clues about the Mastermind.
• Huo Yushen questioned Xia Chujian about Big Black Dog’s escape, and she recounted how it had resisted Teflon Alkane and helped her during the Yu Family incident.
• Huo Yushen explained that Big Black Dog’s enhanced body and Chip had helped it stay conscious, then told Xia to make the dog submit before trusting it to guard her home.

Xia Yuanfang’s treatment transformed Ning Sa’s fetus into a human form, and Ning Sa returned home after thanking her. Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang then brought Big Black Dog back to the Estate, where the family welcomed him.

• Xia Chujian spoke with Aunt Chen and the family at home by video call before preparing dinner at the hospital.
• Xia Yuanfang watched Ning Sa develop a fever and the fetus move violently, then treated Ning Sa and saw the fetus gradually transform into a human form.
• Ning Sa woke, saw the human fetus on the ultrasound display, and learned from Xia Yuanfang that its genes remained unstable and the treatment had worked.
• Ning Sa thanked Xia Yuanfang, left with her subordinates, and Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang returned to the Estate with Big Black Dog.
• Xia Chujian introduced Big Black Dog to the household, and Aunt Chen, Zhu Yingying, and San Zong welcomed him after Xia Yuanfang explained that he had saved her.
• Xia Chujian ate dinner and went upstairs, while Sixi and Wufu played in her room and Big Black Dog stood guard by the front door.

Xia Chujian learned that the Ji family had died in a suspicious villa fire, while Xia Yuanfang treated Ning Sa and agreed to accompany her for the birth. When Ning Sa went into labor early, Xia Yuanfang and Xia Chujian reached Li's Hospital but found the building sealed off and were denied entry.

• Liushun told Xia Chujian that Big Black had moved his doghouse to the storage room, and Xia Chujian left room arrangements to the robot butler.
• After two weeks of heavy rain, Xia Chujian saw news that the Ji family and their household had died in a villa fire and learned from Meng Guanghui that the Special Security Bureau was investigating.
• Ning Sa bought three floors across from Xia Yuanfang's Workshop, received another dose of medicine, and asked Xia Yuanfang to accompany her when she gave birth.
• Ning Sa's amniotic fluid ruptured more than a week before her due date, so Xia Yuanfang and Xia Chujian traveled to Li's Hospital.
• Guards sealed the hospital building and refused to let Xia Yuanfang and Xia Chujian enter, saying a specialist had already gone inside.