Chapter Summaries

Xia Yuanfang helped Ning Sa deliver a healthy baby boy with a complete human form, despite an ultrasound suggesting he would be born as a horned humanoid. The child’s father came to see him and asked Ning Sa how Doctor Xia had made it possible.

• Ning Sa rejected the child’s father’s offer to take her away and insisted she would give birth at the hospital.
• A Xin brought Xia Yuanfang and Xia Chujian into the building, and Xia Yuanfang oversaw Ning Sa’s delivery.
• Ning Sa gave birth to a healthy boy, and Xia Yuanfang secretly took a blood sample to test his genes.
• Ning Sa asked Xia Yuanfang to stay until the child’s father arrived, while Xia Chujian recognized the man’s mental pressure and lowered her head.
• The child’s father held his son and asked how he had been born with a complete human form, and Ning Sa credited Doctor Xia’s herbal expertise.

Ning Sa left the hospital with her son and brought him to Xia Yuanfang’s Workshop, where Xia promised to keep developing natural potions to protect his human identity. The women also agreed to help one another, and Ning Sa offered Xia access to legal identity documents through Guiyuan Star’s paper-based registration system.

• Ning Sa explained that Xia Yuanfang’s Pure Natural Potion had let her son take Human Form before birth, and the powerful man who was the child’s father praised Xia and offered Ning Sa’s support for her.
• After the man left, Ning Sa took her son to Xia Yuanfang’s Workshop, where Xia gave him the final Gene Stabilizer injection to prevent a switch to Beast Form for thirty days.
• Ning Sa asked Xia to make her son permanently remain in Human Form and conceal his Humanoid genes; Xia agreed to research natural-herb potions and outlined a long-term injection schedule and fees.
• Ning Sa worried that Xia’s research might violate the Empire’s laws, but Xia assured her that the treatments used natural medicinal herbs, and Ning Sa offered legal and personal support if trouble arose.
• Ning Sa revealed that she could arrange verified identity documents through Guiyuan Star’s paper-based household registration system, and Xia learned that the system’s outdated structure was deliberately maintained.

After Xia Yuanfang explained how Fresh Blood Kirin helped her turn Ning Sa’s newborn into a human baby, Xia Chujian continued her exam preparations and steadily improved. Meanwhile, Meng Guanghui and Kang Shanxing led the Special Security Bureau’s elite squads toward a heavily defended island in the Langya Sea, where they began an assault.

• Xia Yuanfang explained that Fresh Blood Kirin could repair and strengthen genes, and told Xia Chujian to keep the potion secret.
• Xia Yuanfang discussed returning Xia Chujian’s interest and assigned her hundreds of test papers, while Xia Chujian urged her aunt to pursue her own career.
• Over the next month, Xia Chujian’s exam scores improved, and Xia Yuanfang gave her two hundred predicted-question papers to prepare for Beichen University.
• Aunt Chen gathered rare herbs, while Xia Chujian, Zhu Yingying, Wufu, and Sixi settled into the quiet routine at the estate.
• Meng Guanghui and Kang Shanxing led twelve Wilderness Squad teams toward an island in the Langya Sea and briefed them on the risks and orders to destroy its facilities, capture technical personnel if possible, and kill the rest.

Meng Guanghui and Kang Shanxing led the Huang Group in an assault on a hidden Gene Evolution drug factory on a small island, but the enemy destroyed the facility and killed its workers before escaping. After Huo Yushen credited the operation despite its losses, he ordered an investigation into the factories that supplied the island’s weapons.

• Gui Squad disabled the island’s air defenses, and Huang Group aircraft attacked its weapons and vehicles, but snipers shot down a Combat Aircraft and killed three squad members.
• Meng Guanghui used rockets to eliminate the island’s snipers, then led the ground assault and helped defeat its armed personnel.
• Meng Guanghui’s team found that the factory workers and technical staff had been killed and the machines destroyed, then withdrew as the island exploded and sank.
• Kang Shanxing and Meng Guanghui reported the operation and traced the island factory to a Gene Evolution drug distribution network that had operated for years.
• Huo Yushen acknowledged the operation’s achievement but ordered an investigation into every factory that could have produced the island’s weapons.

Huo Yushen ordered a crackdown on the dangerous Gene Evolution drug while Xia Chujian struggled with exam preparation. In her Workshop, Xia Yuanfang began treating San Zong with a medicine intended to restore his human form and revealed to Aunt Chen that she could stabilize her genes as well.

• Huo Yushen explained that the Gene Evolution drug caused fatal instability and later Genetic Diseases, then ordered investigations at hospitals and continued confiscations.
• Xia Chujian emerged from studying exhausted, and San Zong suggested she farm with him before Xia Yuanfang called him to her Workshop.
• Xia Yuanfang showed San Zong a video of a horned leopard fetus becoming human and offered to treat him; San Zong eagerly agreed despite the uncertain results.
• Xia Yuanfang injected San Zong and told him he would receive monthly treatments, then asked him to bring Aunt Chen to the Workshop.
• Xia Yuanfang showed Aunt Chen the video and told her she could stabilize her genes so she would no longer lose control of her transformation.

Xia Chujian began the College Entrance Exam after two months of intensive tutoring from Xia Yuanfang, while Xia Yuanfang waited anxiously at her workshop. The chapter ended with Xia Chujian starting the physics exam, the subject she feared most.

• Aunt Chen agreed to try Xia Yuanfang's experimental monthly injections, hoping to help Zhu Yingying, and promised to serve Xia Yuanfang in return.
• Xia Chujian took the literature exam at Mulan City No. 1 High School and felt confident after recognizing questions similar to those Xia Yuanfang had prepared her for.
• Xia Chujian encouraged Xi Danyu, who was anxious about taking the exam in a classroom where hundreds of students had died.
• During the break, Xia Yuanfang examined Ning Sa's son, Ning Zheng, and Ning Sa offered to arrange Xia Chujian's admission to any university she chose.
• Xia Chujian finished the mathematics exam feeling certain she could get a perfect score, then began the physics exam after lunch.

After finishing the College Entrance Exam, Xia Chujian returned home to celebrate with her family, confident she might qualify for Beichen University's Mecha Department. She forgot to contact Huo Yushen and ended the evening drunk in the backyard as he called again.

• Xia Chujian finished the physics and chemistry exams, then left without approaching the sobbing Xi Danyu because the proctor was watching.
• Xia Chujian met Xia Yuanfang at Plaza Garden station, declined Huo Yushen's Video Call request, and later delighted Ning Sa by holding the smiling baby A Zheng.
• Xia Chujian returned to the Estate, where Zhu Yingying, Aunt Chen, San Zong, Liushun, Wufu, Sixi, and Big Black Dog welcomed her and celebrated her exam.
• Xia Yuanfang prepared a celebratory dinner, and Xia Chujian became tipsy after one small glass of wine.
• Xia Chujian wandered into the backyard and sat on the porch as Huo Yushen sent another Video Call request.

While drunk, Xia Chujian learned from Huo Yushen that Beichen University reserved eighty percent of its places for recommended students, leaving her uncertain about admission. Huo arranged her next training stage on Kanli Star, and Xia Yuanfang began considering whether Ning Sa could help secure Xia Chujian a recommendation.

• Xia Chujian showed Huo Yushen a walking Purple Orchid Bodhi Grass during their Video Call, and he told her to stop drinking and asked about her exam results.
• Huo explained that Beichen University admitted only four hundred students through the College Entrance Exam and suggested Xia consider Imperial Royal First Military University.
• Huo told Xia Chujian that Meng Guanghui would arrange her training at the Flight Training Base on Kanli Star and assured her that the Special Security Bureau protected her family.
• After Huo ended the call, Xia Chujian told Xia Yuanfang she might not get into Beichen University because most places went to recommended students.
• Xia Yuanfang considered asking Ning Sa for a recommendation slot and told Xia Chujian to wait for her exam scores.

After Xia Chujian finished her College Entrance Exam, Huo Yushen ordered her to begin flight Special Training on Kanli Star immediately. She left home with military gear and supplies from her family, expecting to return before university applications were due.

• Huo Yushen told Meng Guanghui to send Xia Chujian to the flight Special Training Base on Kanli Star and persuade her to apply to the Imperial Royal First Military University.
• Meng Guanghui woke Xia Chujian the next morning and ordered her to pack quickly for the ten-thirty Interstellar Spaceship.
• Xia Chujian packed weapons, protective equipment, clothes, and personal items before telling Xia Yuanfang and her family she was leaving for Kanli Star.
• Xia Yuanfang asked Xia Chujian to stay in touch, while Zhu Yingying and Aunt Chen gave her fur from Fei Fei to ease her troubles.

Xia Chujian left home with Meng Guanghui to begin her journey to Kanli Star, where she would undergo Special Security Bureau training. Aboard the spaceship, she discovered the provided meals were unappetizing and asked to use the kitchen to improve them.

• Wufu declined to search for a souvenir and touched Xia Chujian’s Other Shore Flower Necklace, which she called her amulet.
• San Zong gave Xia Chujian fresh Blood Kirin plants and a Kongsang plant, then she said goodbye to him and Sixi before departing with Meng Guanghui.
• At Guiyuan Star’s Interstellar Terminal, Meng Guanghui and Xia Chujian boarded a first-class spaceship bound for Kanli Star.
• Xia Chujian learned the trip would take eighteen hours and ordered shredded pork noodles and pan-fried steak, but found both dishes unpleasant.
• Xia Chujian asked Meng Guanghui if she could use the induction cooker and frying pan to rework the food, explaining that she had learned to cook while supporting herself during Aunt’s illness.

Xia Chujian outsmarted Meng Guanghui by reworking their spaceship meal into delicious dishes, then agreed to host him for dinner after their training. The two fastened their seatbelts as the ship began its Space Warp, leaving Xia Chujian unable to see inside the Wormhole.

• Xia Chujian fried her shredded pork noodles and reworked the pan-fried steak with natural seasonings, tempting Meng Guanghui with the aroma.
• Meng Guanghui snatched Xia Chujian's steak, tasted it, and admitted he had been wrong; Xia Chujian then reworked his steak for him.
• Meng Guanghui finished both his steak and Xia Chujian's remaining piece, praised her cooking, and asked to visit her home for a meal after training.
• Xia Chujian agreed to invite Meng Guanghui to her home, and the two fastened their seatbelts when the spaceship announced the Space Warp.
• Meng Guanghui explained that the ship's counterforce field shield blocked the view as it entered the Wormhole.

Xia Chujian arrived at Kanli Star with Meng Guanghui and learned that Marshal Huo was a remarkably young military genius. Meng Guanghui began recounting Huo Yushen’s decisive battles, leaving the story in the middle of his account of a dangerous encounter with a collapsing black hole.

• Xia Chujian emerged from a wormhole and learned from Meng Guanghui that the shortcut had saved them months of travel.
• After several more Space Warps, Xia Chujian arrived at Kanli Star, noticed its two moons, and explained why its gravity resembled Guiyuan Star’s despite its greater size.
• Meng Guanghui told Xia Chujian that Marshal Huo was not yet twenty-nine and urged her to ask him about advanced theoretical knowledge.
• As Xia Chujian packed to disembark, Meng Guanghui recounted how Huo Yushen rose from a commoner background, transformed the Fifth Interstellar Fleet, and won a major victory against the Southern Cross Star Kingdom.
• Meng Guanghui described how Huo Yushen used himself as bait near a Super Miniature Black Hole, destroyed the pursuing enemy fleet, and narrowly escaped the black hole’s collapse.

Xia Chujian heard Meng Guanghui recount how Huo Yushen defeated the Southern Cross Star Kingdom’s fleets, was forced to withdraw, and later became a Special Security Bureau inspector. She and Meng Guanghui arrived at the Flying Base on Kanli Star, where she admired the unfamiliar landscape and asked about visiting Galuo City.

• Meng Guanghui told Xia Chujian that Huo Yushen’s depleted fleet destroyed five Southern Cross Star Kingdom fleets, but the Cabinet and Military blocked a further advance after Emperor was injured and promoted Huo to General instead.
• Meng Guanghui described how Huo later killed the Southern Cross Star Kingdom’s Grand Duke, but was ordered to withdraw and accept a non-aggression treaty before Emperor promoted him to Marshal and transferred him away from frontline combat.
• Xia Chujian declared that she would train to surpass Huo Yushen and become the youngest Marshal, prompting Meng Guanghui to explain that Huo later solved a murder and purged foreign spies at the Special Security Bureau.
• Xia Chujian asked how Meng Guanghui and Kang Shanxing escaped the Black Hole collapse, and Meng Guanghui explained that Huo had used a Small Wormhole to reach a Space Fortress.
• Xia Chujian and Meng Guanghui flew over Kanli Star toward the Flying Base, and Meng Guanghui pointed out Galuo City and told her she could visit it on rest days.

Xia Chujian arrived with Meng Guanghui at a concealed military flying base in the mountains, where the terrain and hidden entrance were part of her special training. After a pilot secretly tested her with Mental Strength, she discovered that the path into the base was already exposing her to a much stronger attack.

• The pilot explained that the flying base was deliberately built in mountainous terrain to train military pilots for changing conditions, and Meng Guanghui led Xia Chujian to a mist-covered ridge.
• The pilot attacked Xia Chujian with low-level Mental Strength, and she pretended to be badly hurt while criticizing him for testing a comrade without warning.
• Xia Chujian declined Meng Guanghui's offer to settle the score, saying she wanted to challenge the pilot herself if they met again.
• Meng Guanghui revealed that they had to use Mental Strength to clear the clouds and descend, then showed Xia Chujian the camouflaged path into the base.
• As Xia Chujian followed Meng Guanghui through the forest, a stronger Mental Strength attack struck her, and she put on her Lily-of-the-Valley Purple Silk Hat while pretending to have a headache.

Xia Chujian entered Kanli Star’s forest assessment and discovered she could permanently kill Remnant Species Infected by destroying their vocal organs. She broke the record and reached rank one, then asked Meng Guanghui for more ammunition so she could keep hunting.

• Meng Guanghui explained that trainees had to kill Remnant Species Infected in the forest to enter the base, and Xia Chujian insisted she could handle them without Mental Strength.
• Xia Chujian killed a Remnant-infected Sika Deer by stabbing its throat, triggering a leaderboard that tracked her kills and rank.
• After killing more Remnants with her dagger, Xia Chujian used her Assassin 095 Handgun to eliminate 352 infected Mountain Rabbits and set a new record.
• Xia Chujian killed 148 infected wolves from a tree, bringing her total to 504 and reaching rank one.
• Xia Chujian asked Meng Guanghui to lend her more bullets so she could continue hunting during the remaining assessment time.

Xia Chujian’s record-breaking kill count stunned the recruits at the Flying Base, though they eventually explained it away as luck and unusual Remnant Species Core placement. After leaving the forest, Xia Chujian learned that the base used holographic concealment and heard Meng Guanghui praise her marksmanship, while she wondered whether her success could really be repeated.

• A1777’s record of killing more than five hundred Remnant Species Infected in two hours sparked disbelief among the recruits, so the administration reviewed the surveillance footage and revealed Xia Chujian’s precise shooting.
• The recruits concluded that the Remnant Species Cores had been concentrated in the infected creatures’ throats or stomachs and that Xia Chujian had been lucky to encounter two large nests.
• Xia Chujian and Meng Guanghui left the forest and discovered that the path behind them had vanished beneath an Electronic Curtain’s holographic display.
• Meng Guanghui explained that the forest where they fought was real but that the concealment system protected the military-restricted base from surveillance satellites.
• Xia Chujian realized she had been targeting the creatures’ vocal organs rather than their Remnant Species Cores and decided to ask Huo Yushen about her previous successes.
• Meng Guanghui praised Xia Chujian’s marksmanship and encouraged her not to feel inferior for lacking Gene Evolution, while she doubted his claim that she was the best sharpshooter among the Interstellar forces.

Xia Chujian began training for military life as Meng Guanghui warned her about the strict rules at the elite pilot base and corrected her first military salute. They reached the concealed base, where Meng Guanghui explained its role as a training and assessment center for the Interstellar Fleet.

• Xia Chujian dismissed the difference between ordinary and elite Gene Evolvers, while Meng Guanghui warned her that the flight base was for experienced pilots and promotion assessments.
• Xia Chujian joked about the Imperial Family and the Four Great Noble Families controlling the military, and Meng Guanghui accidentally knocked her unconscious while covering her mouth.
• Meng Guanghui revived Xia Chujian and warned her not to voice or even think such treasonous ideas; she promised to obey orders and began learning a proper military salute.
• Meng Guanghui spent half an hour correcting Xia Chujian's salute, and she finally performed it correctly and felt like a real soldier.
• After walking fifteen kilometers across the basin, Meng Guanghui opened the Electronic Curtain and showed Xia Chujian the concealed base buildings.
• Meng Guanghui explained that the facility served as the Interstellar Fleet Rear Headquarters Station, hosting troop training and veterans serving as Instructors.

Xia Chujian registered at the Flight Training Base, learned that other trainees were speculating about the identity behind her record-breaking codename, and met Jiang Yongbai, who had misled them. Meng Guanghui helped her collect supplies and settle into a dormitory with three female pilots, where the chapter left her beginning life at the base.

• Xia Chujian registered with Meng Guanghui and learned practical tips from clerk Aunt Liu about the base's food and supply warehouses.
• Xia Chujian saw that her codename, A1777, topped the new-trainee ranking and realized Jiang Yongbai had let others believe he broke the record.
• Meng Guanghui reassured Xia Chujian that the system would preserve her results and reminded her that the Special Security Bureau backed her.
• At the Seventh Material Warehouse, Meng Guanghui corrected Jiang Yongbai's disrespectful greeting and ordered him to leave after he lingered to watch Xia Chujian collect supplies.
• Captain Zhuo gave Xia Chujian extra down quilts and mattresses, and Meng Guanghui escorted her to a dormitory shared with Mao Yonggui, Sang Yadi, and Chu Qingjuan.

Xia Chujian settled into the flight training base and met her three non-Gene-Evolver roommates, while Meng Guanghui delivered the Smart Bracelet Huo Yushen had arranged for her. The four roommates bonded over their similar backgrounds and went to collect extra quilts, where they heard trainees discussing the record-breaking newcomer.

• Xia Chujian met Mao Yonggui, Sang Yadi, and Chu Qingjuan, and introduced herself as a poor eighteen-year-old from the Fourth Interstellar Fleet.
• When Chu Qingjuan asked for Xia Chujian’s Smart Bracelet number, Meng Guanghui gave Xia Chujian a bracelet prepared for her and explained that Huo Yushen had arranged it.
• Xia Chujian confirmed with Huo Yushen that the bracelet had the Mini Program she needed, switched her family contact to the new bracelet, and added Meng Guanghui as a friend.
• Back at the dormitory, Xia Chujian learned that all three roommates were not Gene Evolvers and suggested they collect extra quilts together.
• The four roommates went to the Seventh Material Warehouse, where five trainees ahead of them discussed the year’s record-breaking new trainee.

At the Special Training Base, Xia Chujian defended her roommates after wealthy new trainees mocked Sang Yadi’s stutter and Xia’s appearance. As the four walked to their dormitory, Xia learned how space battles differed from ground combat and became eager to fight in both large-scale warfare and decapitation operations.

• Xia Chujian questioned why other trainees assumed the skilled sharpshooter came from nobility connected to the Zong family, and Mao Yonggui explained the rivalry between Zong Military Industries and Royal Heavy Industries.
• Five new trainees mocked Sang Yadi’s stutter, and Xia defended her before trading insults with Nana over her appearance and the group’s behavior.
• Mao Yonggui calmed the confrontation with flattery, while Brother Chu warned that trainees without real skill were courting death at the Special Training Base.
• After the four collected their supplies, Xia discreetly asked her roommates about fleet life and learned that mental attacks were of limited use in large-scale space warfare.
• Xia imagined joining both a vast fleet battle and a decapitation operation, and she longed to experience them.