Chapter Summaries

Xia Chujian and her roommates began the Asteroid Belt assessment after forming a linked four-fighter unit. They entered Sest, where a shifting Gravity Field and a small comet immediately put their formation in danger.

• Jiang Yongbai learned that his deal for a Ghost-Class Starry Sky Fighter had fallen through, while Xia Chujian mastered one and helped her roommates install Optical Fiber Data Cables on their fighters.
• Xia Chujian, Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi joined the other fighters aboard Interstellar Spaceships and traveled from Kanli Star to the edge of Sest.
• Pei Zijing explained the assessment rules, banned attacks on other students, and told the students that activating a fighter's green locator button would end their qualification and summon rescue.
• After the fighters launched, Xia Chujian led her three roommates into an open area, arranged them in a pyramid formation, and connected their fighter systems with the data cables.
• The four fighters entered the Asteroid Belt, where a sudden Gravity Field shift inverted their formation and a small comet sped toward them.
• Xia Chujian ordered an emergency descent to avoid the comet, but Star Rocks and Ice Crystals followed the fighters as Mao Yonggui and Chu Qingjuan warned her to keep descending.

Xia Chujian led her roommates through the Asteroid Belt, escaping orbiting debris before a Magnetic Field Storm forced them to seek shelter. As they approached a small asteroid, Jiang Yongbai pursued them in an armed fighter and prepared to fire an illegal weapon.

• Xia Chujian descended rapidly with the other three fighters to escape Star Rock Fragments and Ice Crystals orbiting them, and Chu Qingjuan explained the danger.
• Xia Chujian learned that the Southern Cross Star Kingdom had sent spies to steal Su Buyan's Special Metal Mecha technology and suspected more spies might have slipped through.
• A powerful Magnetic Field Storm struck, so Xia Chujian used the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha's Mechanical Intelligence to restore the fighters' radar displays and guide them toward a small asteroid.
• The Mechanical Intelligence warned Xia Chujian that an Aurora-class Starry Sky Fighter was closing in, and she maneuvered to avoid it while Chu Qingjuan called for it to change course.
• Jiang Yongbai pursued Xia Chujian out of resentment and, piloting a fighter fitted with an illegal Ultra-Micro Space Ion Beam Cannon, prepared to fire from within ten kilometers.

Xia Chujian and her roommates survived an Ion Beam Cannon attack and used their connected Nano-level Optical Fiber Data Cables to destroy Jiang Yongbai’s fighter. Afterward, Xia Chujian proposed speeding across the Asteroid Belt at maximum engine output, and her roommates suggested she control all four fighters through their connections.

• Jiang Yongbai fired an Ion Beam Cannon at Xia Chujian’s group, but the Magnetic Field Storm disrupted their fighters and swept them into a dangerous spin.
• The four fighters rotated together, and their Nano-level Optical Fiber Data Cables sliced a massive starry sky rock apart.
• Xia Chujian led the group in a synchronized charge at Jiang Yongbai, whose Ion Beam Cannon still needed forty seconds to finish charging.
• Jiang Yongbai flew into the gap between the fighters and was caught and sliced apart by their Optical Fiber Data Cables.
• Xia Chujian and her roommates recorded Jiang Yongbai’s attack and continued through the Asteroid Belt without further incident.
• Xia Chujian proposed using maximum engine output to halve their crossing time, and her roommates asked whether she could directly control all four fighters.

Xia Chujian took control of Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi’s fighters and accelerated the four craft through the Asteroid Belt. She found an unexpected star map, but when all four engines suddenly stopped, she was left facing an unexplained failure.

• Xia Chujian took control of the three Thunder-Class Starry Sky Fighters and linked them with her Ghost-class Fighter.
• Xia Chujian activated all four Controllable Nuclear Fusion engines at maximum output, and the fighters raced through the Asteroid Belt.
• Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi succumbed to drowsiness and fell asleep in their fighters.
• Xia Chujian discovered a detailed star map of the Asteroid Belt on a Display Screen and recorded it while trying to determine whether it was real.
• The four engines stopped expelling energy, and Xia Chujian noticed a new development in their exhaust ports as she feared the fighters had malfunctioned.

Xia Chujian’s fighters absorbed an unknown energy that sent them speeding through space, where she witnessed an impossible silver-white city and later spotted a strange fenced mountain. The fighters continued toward Cangge Star, while Xia Chujian was left unsure whether her vision of the city had been real.

• Xia Chujian watched the engines on all four fighters reverse-spin and absorb an unknown substance before their speed surged to thirty thousand kilometers per minute.
• Xia Chujian realized the engines had likely taken in Antimatter and discovered that a powerful Gravity Field now surrounded the fighters.
• Xia Chujian saw a shattered planetary fragment carrying a silver-white city whose inhabitants and buildings seemed to merge, and a youth there waved back at her.
• Xia Chujian’s camera failed to capture the city, while its recording and the fighter’s clock showed that three hours had passed.
• Xia Chujian noticed another celestial fragment outside the right window: a stone mountain enclosed by black trees, with a small wooden house at its peak.

Xia Chujian dreamed of a fantastical world and then encountered a miniature planet where monstrous beings slaughtered towering humanoids. She recognized creatures resembling Bunis among the attackers, and the chapter ended with her watching the devastation from her fighter jet.

• Xia Chujian saw a giant egg and strange creatures gather around her fighter jet before the vision vanished, and she found that another three hours had passed.
• Xia Chujian's Mechanical Intelligence detected an unknown planet and maneuvered the fighter jets to avoid colliding with it.
• Xia Chujian circled the miniature planet and saw monstrous creatures emerging from an Abyss to destroy the land and attack its humanoid inhabitants.
• A group of humanoids fired a triangular instrument at a blurry figure by a door, but the figure caught the energy blast and destroyed their Black Vortex with it.
• Scaled Giant Birds joined the massacre, and Xia Chujian saw Black Goat-headed monsters that reminded her of Bunis's ancestors.

Xia Chujian discovered Meng Guanghui among the battered mechas trapped on a hostile Miniature Planet and broke through its anti-Gravity Field using her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha. She attacked a giant Bunis-like creature with special ammunition and watched it dissolve, leaving her to face the spreading black liquid and the planet’s advancing monsters.

• Xia Chujian reviewed her fighter’s footage and recognized Meng Guanghui removing his Helmet to help someone else on the Miniature Planet.
• After her fighter was repeatedly repelled by the planet’s anti-Gravity Field, Xia Chujian left it wearing the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha and successfully entered the atmosphere.
• Xia Chujian transformed her mecha into a fiery-red, 150-meter-tall Phoenix form and identified a giant Bunis-like creature approaching the mountaintop.
• Xia Chujian shot the creature’s brain core with a Shao Siming special round, causing it to collapse and dissolve into black liquid.
• Xia Chujian retreated as the black liquid erased the plants and monsters it touched.

Xia Chujian fought the monsters around the mountain, rescued stranded Mecha Warriors and local natives, and discovered Eternal Crystal that repaired and protected her Mecha from corrosive liquid. As the invading creatures multiplied and her Mecha group remained badly damaged, she realized she needed help to save everyone.

• Xia Chujian changed into a fifteen-meter Shao Siming Mecha, rescued two Mecha that were falling into a pool, and killed several monsters before throwing their bodies into the Abyss.
• Xia Chujian cleared monsters around the mountain while Meng Guanghui and his surviving Special Security Bureau squad helped fire from the summit.
• Xia Chujian rescued local natives as creatures from the sea arrived, but their corrosive liquid damaged her Mecha and forced her to stop and repair it.
• Xia Chujian mined Eternal Crystal, repaired her Mecha, and gained protection from the local liquid corrosion.
• Xia Chujian surveyed the multiplying monsters, endangered natives, and damaged Mecha Warriors, then recognized that fighting alone would not be enough to save them.

Xia Chujian destroyed Tayam, the entity directing the strange creatures, and reached Meng Guanghui’s stranded team. After learning their Small Wormhole Opener was damaged, she used Quantum Black Iron to repair it, leaving the group with a possible route back.

• Xia Chujian spotted a door in the sky and flew toward Tayam, whom she identified as the force commanding the strange creatures.
• Xia Chujian shot Tayam four times, causing the figure and its door to collapse and vanish; the resulting energy storm exposed deposits of Quantum Black Iron.
• Xia Chujian met Meng Guanghui and his team, pretended to be a Mechanical Intelligence from the future, and learned their Small Wormhole Opener had been destroyed.
• Xia Chujian’s mecha identified Quantum Black Iron as a repair material, mined it, and used it to restore the Small Wormhole Opener.

Xia Chujian repaired Meng Guanghui’s team’s Mechas with Mystic Light Soft Stone and escaped the miniature planet as it collapsed into a Black Hole. She returned to the Asteroid Belt and reached Cangge Star far earlier than expected, where the Interstellar Terminal contacted her fighter for verification.

• Xia Chujian told Meng Guanghui she could not return with his team, then offered to repair their Mechas so they could keep mining.
• Xia Chujian used Mystic Light Soft Stone to repair and upgrade Meng Guanghui’s Mecha and the other nine Mechas before flying away from the miniature planet.
• After Xia Chujian escaped the planet’s Anti-Gravity Field, Tayam reappeared and pushed the planet away, triggering a Black Hole and a violent energy eruption.
• Xia Chujian piloted her fighter and dragged the three fighters carrying her roommates away from the Black Hole, escaping into the Asteroid Belt.
• Xia Chujian received a message that she would reach Cangge Star in fifteen minutes, then heard the Interstellar Terminal demand her fleet designation and verification.

Xia Chujian and her three roommates reached Cangge Star in only twelve hours, leaving the terminal staff unable to explain how their fighters crossed the Asteroid Belt so quickly. The security alert spread through Cangge Star’s authorities and the Quan family, and the news eventually reached Quan Caiwei.

• Xia Chujian woke Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi and told them they had reached Cangge Star after twelve hours of travel.
• Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi confirmed their fighter identities to the Cangge Star Interstellar Terminal and were shocked when the terminal staff said the trip should have taken at least nine days.
• Sang Yadi calculated that their speed must have been 30,000 kilometers per minute, while Xia Chujian said she did not know how the fighters had traveled so fast.
• Xia Chujian and her roommates checked their fighter surveillance and found only electromagnetic static; the fighters’ mechanical intelligences also reported severe electromagnetic equipment damage.
• The Cangge Star Interstellar Terminal staff verified the fighters’ frequencies but reported the impossible arrival to their supervisors, the Governor’s Office, and the Quan family.
• Quan Caiwei received the report while at the Interstellar Terminal to meet Zong Ruoan, as Quan Yuxun had already gone to bed.

Xia Chujian and three other pilots arrived at the Cangge Star Interstellar Terminal far ahead of schedule, prompting officials to mistake them for enemy aircraft and lock weapons onto them. Quan Caiwei and Zong Ruoan recognized Xia Chujian and intervened before anyone opened fire, and Zong Ruoan began speaking to her over the communicator.

• Quan Caiwei left Zong Ruoan to investigate the four fighters and protect Xia Chujian if she was among the pilots.
• Deputy Chief Instructor Zhuo Wangying declared the fighters impostors and authorized the Cangge Star Interstellar Terminal to destroy them.
• The terminal's Ion Beam Cannons locked onto Mao Yonggui's and Chu Qingjuan's fighters, while Xia Chujian locked onto the cannons in return.
• Quan Caiwei and Zong Ruoan arrived at the dispatch room and asked the terminal to verify the pilots before opening fire.
• Xia Chujian removed her helmet, and Quan Caiwei and Zong Ruoan recognized her by her birthmark and discovered they both knew her.
• Zong Ruoan addressed Xia Chujian over the communicator, and she recognized his voice.

Xia Chujian used a fabricated story about the Zong Family to conceal her identity from her roommates while negotiating safe passage into Cangge Star's Interstellar Terminal. After meeting Quan Caiwei and Zong Ruoan, she traveled with them to the Quan Family Manor, where she was offered a place to stay.

• Xia Chujian claimed that the Zong Family had supported her marksmanship and that Zong Ruoan had once offered her shelter, prompting him to play along with her cover.
• Xia Chujian identified Zhuo Wangying as the deputy chief instructor who had branded her group enemy aircraft, and Quan Caiwei arranged for the terminal to lift its Fire Control Radar lock after the fighters unloaded their weapons.
• Xia Chujian, Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi docked at the terminal, where Xia introduced her roommates to Quan Caiwei and Zong Ruoan.
• Quan Caiwei invited Xia and her roommates to the Quan Family Manor, and Zong Ruoan waited for his subordinates to investigate Xia's sudden rise to chief pilot.
• Xia and Quan Caiwei discussed the Scarlet Essence Cloud Top Peony before Quan Caiwei showed Xia to a detached villa where she could stay for the night.

Xia Chujian settled in at the Quan residence after arriving with Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi, but Zong Ruoan summoned her to talk in the middle of the night. Quan Caiwei learned Xia Chujian had become Chief Pilot of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet and joined Quan Yuxun on the way to meet her and Zong Ruoan.

• Xia Chujian and her roommates entered Villa No. 17, where Aunt Cai prepared them a late-night meal and Xia Chujian asked her to make coffee for the morning.
• After Xia Chujian showered and ate, Zong Ruoan video-called her and asked her to come talk because he might leave at noon the next day.
• Xia Chujian agreed to meet Zong Ruoan, put on her Military Uniform over the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha, and rode to his villa in the car he sent.
• Quan Caiwei learned Zong Ruoan had sent for Xia Chujian and decided to accompany her, but encountered Quan Yuxun in the corridor.
• Quan Caiwei told Quan Yuxun that Xia Chujian was the Fourth Interstellar Fleet's Chief Pilot and had crossed the Asteroid Belt between Cangge Star and Kanli Star in twelve hours.
• Quan Yuxun reacted with astonishment and decided to go with Quan Caiwei to see Zong Ruoan and Xia Chujian.

Xia Chujian visited Zong Ruoan with Quan Caiwei and Quan Yuxun, secured his agreement to support the story she had told about her marksmanship, and explained her borrowed military identity. She also described the fighter jet’s unexplained autonomous flight through the Asteroid Belt, leaving Zong Ruoan curious about the aircraft’s Mechanical Intelligence.

• Quan Caiwei and Quan Yuxun joined Xia Chujian on her late-night visit to Zong Ruoan’s Detached Villa.
• Quan Caiwei tactfully explained that Zong Ruoan had called Xia Chujian over because he was concerned about her, while Quan Yuxun added sugar and Unicorn Milk to Xia’s bitter coffee.
• Xia Chujian asked Zong Ruoan to back up her claim that he had supplied her with bullets, and he agreed that his company sponsored students and could have provided them.
• When Zong Ruoan asked about her military pilot identity, Xia Chujian said she had borrowed it to train as a fighter pilot through the Dark Night Hunter Association.
• Xia Chujian told Zong Ruoan that her fighter jet had crossed the Asteroid Belt in twelve hours while its Mechanical Intelligence flew the aircraft, and she blamed the base’s systems for the unexplained journey.

Xia Chujian fielded Zong Ruoan’s questions about her flight training and record-breaking arrival, then Quan Yuxun confronted her privately about how she had entered the Military’s Flight Training Base. Quan Yuxun suspected she was a Special Security Bureau agent, but Xia Chujian refused to confirm his theory and left him guessing.

• Xia Chujian told Zong Ruoan that she and her roommates had reached the Interstellar Terminal on Cangge Star in twelve hours and said she had not checked her fighter’s surveillance footage.
• Zong Ruoan explained that he had only eight hours in Changliu County before visiting other cities and attending campaign rallies, and Quan Caiwei took Xia Chujian back to the Villa.
• Quan Yuxun waited near the Villa and asked Xia Chujian what connections had gotten her into the Military’s Flight Training Base; she said she did not want to tell him.
• Quan Yuxun guessed that Huo Yushen had sent Xia Chujian as a Special Security Bureau agent, and Xia Chujian answered, “You guess.”
• Quan Yuxun asked about the importance of her flight achievement, and Xia Chujian boasted that her twelve-hour record would last a thousand years.
• Xia Chujian asked whether she could say Quan’s Mining had supplied her with practice bullets, and Quan Yuxun agreed.

Xia Chujian secured Quan Yuxun’s support at the base, then told Huo Yushen about the dangerous Asteroid Belt crossing and a noble trainee’s fighter being destroyed. Huo Yushen agreed to investigate while warning her to keep the incident quiet.

• Xia Chujian persuaded Quan Yuxun to add her Smart Bracelet as a friend and send her a Video Call invitation at the base to discourage nobles from targeting her.
• Quan Yuxun invited Xia Chujian and her teammates to dinner and an opera performance after she deflected his questions about the twelve hours in the Asteroid Belt.
• Xia Chujian messaged Meng Guanghui, and Huo Yushen revealed that Meng Guanghui had left on a mission and offered her an encrypted Video Call.
• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that she and her three roommates had crossed the Asteroid Belt using Nano-level Optical Fiber Data Cables, which also destroyed a trainee’s Aurora-class Starry Sky Fighter after he attacked her.
• Huo Yushen said he would investigate the incident and ordered Xia Chujian to keep it secret and ensure her roommates did the same.

Xia Chujian explained her impossible crossing of the Sest Asteroid Belt to Huo Yushen, who challenged gaps in her account and investigated the fighter cables and a mysterious star map she sent him. Huo Yushen proposed that a Magnetic Field Storm had created a Small Wormhole, giving Xia Chujian a plausible explanation while he examined the star map and arranged an investigation.

• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that her fighters’ Optical Fiber Data Cables might have sliced apart an attacking Aurora-class Starry Sky Fighter, and he asked her to preserve the cables for research.
• Huo Yushen said the Special Security Bureau would question Xia Chujian’s roommates and help rescue trainees and airships that had lost contact; Xia Chujian offered to assist but admitted she did not know how she had crossed the Asteroid Belt.
• Huo Yushen pointed out that Xia Chujian’s claimed speed and the fighters’ unaffected electronics were difficult to explain, while Xia Chujian withheld her suspicions about her Mecha and described seeing a star map.
• Xia Chujian sent Huo Yushen a photograph of the star map, and he recognized that the Sest Asteroid Belt had possessed a map long ago, though the image was too blurry to read clearly.
• Huo Yushen suggested that a Magnetic Field Storm had formed a new Small Wormhole, and Xia Chujian agreed that it could explain her rapid crossing.
• Xia Chujian asked Huo Yushen to tell her if he heard news about her leader and joked that she would keep coming to him for help; Huo Yushen suspected she had set him up.

After Xia Chujian reported Zhuo Wangying for falsely identifying her group as enemy fighters, Huo Yushen ordered an investigation that led to Zhuo’s arrest and sparked a struggle over the Zhuo Family’s viscountcy. Emperor Tantai Hongyuan questioned Huo Yushen, who explained that both a trainee and Chief Instructor Pei Zijing had reported Zhuo; the investigation was underway.

• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that Zhuo Wangying had falsely accused her group of being enemy aircraft and provided a recording as evidence.
• Huo Yushen ordered Jiang Yuanshu to arrest Zhuo, secure the fighters and call recording, and investigate the source of the rebel intelligence.
• Jiang Yuanshu arrested Zhuo Wangying at the Kanli Star Flying Base, and the news spread through the empire as rivals targeted the Zhuo Family’s viscountcy.
• Reports from the base and Cangge Star accused Zhuo of aiding the rebels and trying to get the elite trainees killed, reaching Emperor Tantai Hongyuan.
• After Quan Jiuyi confirmed the danger to Cangge Star, Tantai Hongyuan questioned Huo Yushen, who said a trainee and Pei Zijing had both reported Zhuo’s faulty intelligence.

Emperor Tantai Hongyuan ordered Zhuo Wangying shot, stripped the Zhuo Family of its nobility, and ordered Zhuo Keyi investigated after hearing reports of Zhuo Wangying’s faulty intelligence and alleged collusion with the Rebels. Huo Yushen used the decree to lead Special Security Bureau agents to arrest Zhuo Keyi, who denied that his grandnephew had betrayed the Empire.

• Huo Yushen told Emperor Tantai Hongyuan that Pei Zijing’s report about Zhuo Wangying’s intelligence and treatment of a trainee matched reports from Flight Training Base trainees.
• Emperor Tantai Hongyuan learned that Zhuo Keyi, Zhuo Wangying’s paternal uncle, had overseen the report’s stalled review and ordered Zhuo Wangying shot and the Zhuo Family stripped of its nobility.
• Huo Yushen secured a written decree ordering Zhuo Keyi investigated, then used a recording pen to silence the Emperor’s Attendant, who accused him of settling a personal grudge against Zhuo Keyi.
• Huo Yushen led Special Security Bureau agents into Zhuo Keyi’s office at Military headquarters and presented the decree ordering Zhuo Keyi taken for interrogation.
• Zhuo Keyi denied that Zhuo Wangying had colluded with the Rebels.