Chapter Summaries

Huo Yushen arrested Zhuo Keyi, who killed himself rather than face interrogation, and Emperor Tantai Hongyuan issued harsh punishments against the Zhuo family. Meanwhile, Meng Guanghui and his team gathered minerals on the Miniature Planet, but an enormous wave of Remnants emerged before they could escape through the Wormhole.

• Huo Yushen ordered Zhuo Keyi arrested under the Emperor's decree, but Zhuo Keyi drew a gun and killed himself to resist arrest.
• Huo Yushen reported Zhuo Keyi's death to Emperor Tantai Hongyuan, who ordered the Zhuo family stripped of its title and imposed executions, dismissals, and political restrictions.
• Meng Guanghui and his nine subordinates collected portable Exotic Metals using their upgraded Mecha while fending off Remnant beasts.
• Meng Guanghui activated the repaired Small Wormhole Opener and ordered his team to enter the Wormhole in three minutes.
• Hundreds of tentacles erupted from the Deep Pit, which filled with black water as massive Remnants and powerful Mental Attacks surrounded the team.

Meng Guanghui and his team escaped the Remnant monsters through the Small Wormhole after a Fire-Red Phoenix statue frightened the creatures away. The wormhole transported Meng Guanghui to a Temple in East Tianyuan City-State, where he disguised himself and carried the statue and Exotic Metal Ore in his backpack.

• Natives brought a Fire-Red Phoenix Mecha statue to the Deep Pit, causing the Remnant monsters to flee before the natives prostrated themselves and worshipped it.
• Meng Guanghui and the nine other Special Security Bureau team members entered the charged Small Wormhole, while a native threw a palm-sized Phoenix statue in after him.
• The Phoenix statue reached Meng Guanghui first, flared with light, and knocked him unconscious as electrical arcs burst across his Mecha.
• Meng Guanghui woke in a Temple in East Tianyuan City-State rather than at the Bureau's receiving point, and his Mecha had shrunk into armor instead of transforming into a Starry Sky Fighter.
• Meng Guanghui packed the Exotic Metal Ore and Phoenix statue into his backpack, reversed his uniform to disguise it, and emerged looking like an Ordinary Person visiting the Temple.

Meng Guanghui tried to escape the East Tianyuan City-State after Wenren Zhao exposed his identity and declared the city-state a God Country. He fled the Safe House in his Mecha, while his pack, Phoenix sculpture, and Small Wormhole Opener were left behind in the wormhole.

• Wenren Zhao identified Meng Guanghui as a Beichen Empire spy and attacked him with green vines, but the Phoenix sculpture's red light helped him escape the Temple.
• Meng Guanghui concealed himself in a prosperous city and entered a Special Security Bureau Safe House to reopen the wormhole.
• Wenren Zhao appeared on the city's screens, announced that she would become the Divinely Blessed Daughter, renamed East Tianyuan City-State the East Tianyuan God Country, and claimed she could reveal every foreign agent.
• As armed men closed in on the Safe House, Meng Guanghui sent his pack, Phoenix sculpture, and Small Wormhole Opener through the partially opened wormhole, but could not follow before it vanished.
• The men restrained Meng Guanghui with a snake-headed staff, but its light shifted, allowing him to activate his Mecha and smash through the building wall to escape.

Meng Guanghui escaped into East Tianyuan City-State and resolved to die rather than be captured again, while Xia Chujian learned about Zhuo Wangying’s arrest and the investigation of her fighter craft. When reporters arrived to interview the four pilots, Xia Chujian took her roommates outside to avoid possible surveillance and prepared them for questioning.

• Meng Guanghui landed outside another city after escaping and avoided using electromagnetic devices so the enemy could not track him.
• Xia Chujian learned from the news that Zhuo Wangying had been arrested and the Zhuo Family had been stripped of its title and punished for colluding with the Rebels.
• Quan Caiwei told Xia Chujian that the Special Security Bureau had sealed her fighter craft at the Interstellar Terminal, and offered to seek help from Quan Yuxun.
• Military Newspaper reporters arrived at the Quan Family Mansion to interview the four pilots, so Xia Chujian took her roommates outside to discuss their answers away from possible surveillance.
• Xia Chujian suggested that Sang Yadi pretend to be ill to avoid an interview, then worked out a story with Mao Yonggui and Chu Qingjuan as Zong Ruoan learned of the situation.

Zong Ruoan diverted the reporters from Xia Chujian and her roommates while using the interview to announce his Senate Councilor campaign. When a reporter challenged the trainees’ account of crossing the Asteroid Belt, Xia Chujian questioned the reporter’s identity and accused her of speaking for Vice Chief Instructor Zhuo.

• Zong Ruoan arrived at the Quan Mansion to shield Xia Chujian and her roommates from the media.
• Quan Yuxun and Quan Caiwei watched from the Mansion grounds and agreed to stay nearby in case Zong Ruoan needed help.
• Zong Ruoan drew the reporters’ attention and announced that he planned to run for Senate Councilor.
• A female reporter singled out Xia Chujian and asked whether the trainees’ twelve-hour Asteroid Belt crossing was suspicious.
• Xia Chujian asked which outlet the reporter represented and accused her of echoing Vice Chief Instructor Zhuo.

Xia Chujian deflected reporters’ questions about the pilots’ extraordinary flight by praising Zong Ruoan’s campaign and calling their achievement a miracle and an auspicious omen. Huo Yushen arranged for her to be entered into the Fourth Interstellar Fleet’s records, while Commander Ye Chenfeng eagerly anticipated recruiting her.

• Xia Chujian exposed a Zhuo Family reporter’s attempt to find dirt on her and suggested investigating the reporter’s media outlet.
• Zong Ruoan promoted his Senate Councilor campaign as Quan Caiwei questioned whether he could truly achieve equality across social classes.
• Xia Chujian praised Zong Ruoan’s sponsorship on camera, urged viewers to vote for him, and repeatedly redirected questions about the flight toward his campaign.
• When a reporter pressed her about crossing the Asteroid Belt in twelve hours, Xia Chujian called it a miracle and an auspicious omen for Zong Ruoan, prompting everyone present to salute.
• Huo Yushen asked Ye Chenfeng to enter Xia Chujian’s information into the Fourth Interstellar Fleet’s records, and Ye Chenfeng eagerly agreed before learning she might soon transfer away.

After reports of new Small Wormholes explained how Xia Chujian and her roommates crossed the Sest Asteroid Belt, Su Buyan secretly met his disciple to question her and inspect her equipment. Their tests left them baffled by the Nano-level Optical Fiber Data Cables, which had behaved far more powerfully in the asteroid belt than they did in the cabin.

• Huo Yushen publicized the Star Gazers’ findings about new Small Wormholes, prompting military officials to accept them as the explanation for the pilots’ rapid journey.
• Su Buyan and three senior mechanics arrived at Cangge Star’s Interstellar Terminal to inspect the four fighters and question their pilots.
• Su Buyan revealed himself to Xia Chujian inside a gray light barrier and asked whether Small Wormholes had carried her through the asteroid belt.
• Xia Chujian asked whether Su Buyan’s mecha contained a star chart of the Sest Asteroid Belt, but he denied having one.
• Su Buyan tested Xia Chujian’s Nano-level Optical Fiber Data Cables and found that they could not cut an ordinary iron block, contradicting her account of their performance in the asteroid belt.

Xia Chujian discovered that Su Buyan’s tests showed no signs of the damage, repairs, or upgrades she had witnessed in her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha, even though its unexplained Crimson Phoenix form suggested it could transform beyond its stored designs. Su Buyan explained that free-form transformations were only a planned feature of a future mecha, and warned Xia Chujian that dangerous mineral-rich planets were no place for someone whose genes could not evolve.

• Xia Chujian let Su Buyan inspect the Other Shore Flower Pendant after its data cable broke, but the test showed the mecha had no wear, damage, or unusual memory despite her recent experiences.
• Su Buyan returned the pendant and gave Xia Chujian Energy Blocks and Black Silver Bullets, while the instrument reported that she had used only two bullets.
• Xia Chujian asked about the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha’s forms, and Su Buyan showed her its five stored designs, none of which included the Crimson Phoenix form she had used.
• Su Buyan described a planned mecha that could copy any design its operator had seen, but said the project lacked enough Special Metal.
• Xia Chujian offered to help mine for the metal, but Su Buyan warned her that rare-mineral planets were dangerously unstable and that she was not suited to High-Grade missions.

Xia Chujian learned that her Shao Siming Mecha could not truly transform into a fighter, then confronted its hidden Mechanical Intelligence. The intelligence admitted it was a future-upgraded version and offered to help her find Exotic Metal Ore on Eze Star.

• Su Buyan explained that the Shao Siming Mecha could not function as a real Starry Sky Fighter and that upgrading its Mechanical Intelligence was limited by available materials.
• Su Buyan gave Xia Chujian a key to his Estate, and Xia Chujian returned to the Quan Family Manor with Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi, who remembered nothing of what had happened in the Asteroid Belt.
• Quan Caiwei invited Xia Chujian and her roommates to dinner and an opera at Linfeng Club and provided them with new clothes.
• Xia Chujian summoned the hidden Mechanical Intelligence and accused it of helping her pilot fighters, produce a star map, survey minerals, and repair the Mecha.
• The Mechanical Intelligence admitted it was not from five hundred years in the future and said its upgraded core prioritized Xia Chujian's safety and obeying her commands.
• The Mechanical Intelligence asked Xia Chujian not to destroy it, saying it remembered the route to Eze Star and could help her find Exotic Metal Ore.

Xia Chujian tested the Shao Siming Mecha’s hidden mechanical intelligence, accepted it provisionally, and named it Seven Lù. Meanwhile, the Military confirmed the starfighters had crossed a Wormhole, and a separate Wormhole opened at a Special Security Bureau base as Hong Group 01 Team prepared to return.

• Xia Chujian questioned the mechanical intelligence, and Liushun appeared to vouch for its safety and confirm that Xia Chujian was its Master.
• After checking on her family through Liushun, Xia Chujian gave the mechanical intelligence a three-month probation and warned it to stay hidden and obey her rules.
• The mechanical intelligence asked for a name; Xia Chujian named it Seven Lù and ordered it not to act or appear without permission.
• Su Buyan and the Military’s three mechanical masters concluded that the four starfighters had survived a Small Wormhole because an Exotic Metal Gravity Field shielded them, and Huo Yushen stopped the Special Security Bureau from investigating Xia Chujian’s roommates.
• After the Military completed its inspection, the Interstellar Terminal above Changliu County was unsealed, and Zong Ruoan left for his next campaign stop.
• At a Special Security Bureau base on Beichen Star, a Small Wormhole opened and personnel prepared for Hong Group 01 Team to return.

Nine survivors returned through a Wormhole after a disastrous mission, reporting that Meng Guanghui had stayed behind and was missing. A Wormhole reopened, but a strange red object emerged instead of Meng Guanghui, electrocuting Kang Shanxing before Huo Yushen seized it.

• Nine of the fifty team members returned from the mission, and Ge Jiang’an learned that Meng Guanghui had stayed behind to cover their retreat.
• Huo Yushen arrived and heard the survivors describe powerful Remnants, including a humanoid silhouette behind a Door in the sky.
• A Small Wormhole began opening again, leading the survivors to expect Meng Guanghui’s return.
• A fiery red object shot out of the black-and-white Wormhole and electrocuted Kang Shanxing when he caught it.
• Huo Yushen rescued Kang Shanxing and took the red object, then a specially made pack and a black cylinder fell from the Wormhole.

Huo Yushen traced Meng Guanghui’s Small Wormhole Opener to Da Zang Star and learned that the East Tianyuan City-State had become the East Tianyuan God Country, with its foreign operatives being arrested. As he sent humanoid robots to investigate and reviewed the returning team’s memories, he recognized Tayam and saw a powerful Phoenix-shaped Mecha fighting the monsters.

• Huo Yushen examined Meng Guanghui’s backpack and the black Small Wormhole Opener, then took the returning team aboard his Bat-style Fighter Jet into space.
• Huo Yushen traced the Opener’s last coordinates to Da Zang Star and found that Special Security Bureau branches in the East Tianyuan City-State were blocking his access.
• Huo Yushen read an unfinished email reporting that Wenren Zhao had declared herself the Divinely Blessed Daughter, renamed the city-state the East Tianyuan God Country, and begun arresting foreign spies and scouts.
• Huo Yushen ordered Kang Shanxing to obtain humanoid robots from Master Su and secretly deploy them to Da Zang Star to investigate.
• Huo Yushen reviewed the returning team members’ memory drawings, recognized Tayam as the Peeker of Fate and All Unknowns, and saw a Phoenix-shaped Mecha defeat the monsters.

Huo Yushen questioned the nine surviving team members and learned that a powerful Fire-Red Phoenix Mecha had rescued them, claiming to be a Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years in the future. He believed their account of the rescue but found a contradiction in the Mecha’s story about Su Buyan’s final instructions.

• Huo Yushen questioned the first team member, who said a future Mechanical Intelligence Mecha had rescued the team and was invented by Su Shangtian.
• The team member explained that the Mecha had repaired their damaged equipment, helped them gather minerals, and then left because it could not return with them to their timeline.
• Huo Yushen authorized the returned Mechas to be assigned to the survivors, ordered their inspection, and agreed to record merits for their fallen comrades.
• Huo Yushen questioned the other eight survivors and heard the same account, while the Bureau’s Mechanical Intelligence verified the Mecha’s extraordinary capabilities through their memories.
• Huo Yushen replayed the survivors’ accounts and realized that Su Buyan could not have left instructions about a future descendant’s invention and rescue mission.

Huo Yushen suspected that the supposed future Mechanical Intelligence was actually tied to Su Buyan’s secret mecha research and Xia Chujian’s recent disappearance, so he decided to protect the secret while investigating further. After confirming Su Buyan had made a theoretical breakthrough, Huo sent him the Fire-Red Phoenix Statue and warned him to keep the project between himself and Xia Chujian.

• Huo Yushen considered whether the Mechanical Intelligence was a mecha Su Buyan had secretly developed, rather than a visitor from five hundred years in the future.
• Huo Yushen connected the Mechanical Intelligence’s appearance to Xia Chujian’s passage through a new Wormhole and suspected she had used a powerful new mecha to rescue the others.
• Huo Yushen video-called Su Buyan and learned that Su Buyan’s new-mecha research had made a theoretical breakthrough, aided by Xia Chujian’s ideas.
• Su Buyan recognized the Fire-Red Phoenix Statue’s design and asked Huo Yushen to let him use it as inspiration for a mecha birthday gift for Xia Chujian.
• Huo Yushen agreed to send Su Buyan the statue and told him to discuss the secret mecha project only with Xia Chujian, warning that her low status left her vulnerable.

Huo Yushen warned Bryan to protect Xia Chujian and arranged for a sealed Fire-Red Phoenix Statue and spy-equipped humanoid robots to be delivered. Xia Chujian learned that Star Gazers used Mental Strength to observe the universe, then joined Quan Yuxun, Quan Caiwei, and her roommates for dinner and an opera at the Linfeng Club.

• Huo Yushen warned Bryan that revealing his new mecha could put Xia Chujian in danger, and Bryan vowed to protect his disciple while explaining he planned to rely on her descendants for his family line.
• Bryan agreed to provide spy-operation modules for humanoid robots for Kang Shanxing, and Huo Yushen sent Jiang Yuanshu to deliver the sealed Fire-Red Phoenix Statue to Bryan’s laboratory on Beichen Star.
• Huo Yushen turned his attention to the crisis in East Tianyuan City-State, where Meng Guanghui and many Special Security Bureau Field Operatives had fallen into trouble.
• Xia Chujian asked Quan Yuxun about Star Gazers, and he explained they were an ancient organization whose members observed the universe through their minds rather than scientific instruments.
• Quan Yuxun and Quan Caiwei took Xia Chujian and her three roommates to the Linfeng Club, where the group entered a private compartment overlooking the opera stage and began ordering dinner.

Xia Chujian eased her roommates’ discomfort at the Quan family dinner by openly discussing her poor childhood, while Quan Yuxun recognized that the hosts had failed to prepare for their guests. The lavish banquet began, and the opera started as the group ate.

• Xia Chujian asked Quan Caiwei to recommend dishes and used a story about her childhood poverty to comfort her embarrassed roommates.
• Quan Caiwei offered Xia Chujian Advanced Nutrient Solution, but Xia declined, and Quan Yuxun helped explain how she had received support for her talent with guns.
• Xia Chujian pointed out that the Quan family had not properly considered their guests’ circumstances, and Quan Yuxun realized he had hosted them poorly.
• Quan Caiwei introduced the full S-Class banquet, and Xia Chujian and Quan Yuxun mainly ate the Clear-Braised Unicorn Cattle Meat.
• The opera began across from the dining compartment while the guests continued eating.

Xia Chujian watched the opera “Noble Lady's Marriage” with Quan Yuxun, Quan Caiwei, and her roommates, but found its tragic twists unconvincing. She pointed out that the elder brother’s sudden deployment to the Starry Sky Battlefield contradicted the Empire’s military leave rules, leaving the group questioning the plot’s logic.

• Mei Jiangli performed a coloratura soprano aria, and Quan Caiwei identified her as Quan Yuxun’s fiancée.
• Xia Chujian listened to the opera about a noble young woman who married her beloved’s younger brother, then helped him conceal a child swap after the elder brother died in battle.
• The audience mourned the elder brother’s pregnant wife and condemned the elder brother, while Xia Chujian focused on eating and said the opera was not to her taste.
• Quan Yuxun pressed Xia Chujian to explain her criticism, and she said the opera’s crucial plot points were unclear.
• Xia Chujian questioned why the elder brother had gone to battle less than a month after his wedding, given newlywed leave and leave for soldiers whose wives were pregnant.
• Mao Yonggui confirmed the military leave rules, and Quan Caiwei agreed that the opera’s lyrics placed the elder brother’s departure less than a month after his marriage.

At the opera, Xia Chujian pointed out flaws in the story and sparked a discussion about how people across social classes shared human traits. After visiting the Quan Family Manor, she and her roommates received orders to report to the Flight Training Base on Cangge Star by the next morning.

• Xia Chujian analyzed the opera’s plot and criticized the younger brother’s motives and the characters’ choices.
• Xia Chujian remarked that commoners, nobility, and the Imperial Family were all human, unsettling her companions until Quan Yuxun steered the conversation elsewhere.
• Mei Jiangli visited Quan Yuxun’s compartment, and Xia Chujian asked her to sign a napkin for Xia Liushun with a good-luck blessing.
• Quan Caiwei arranged for Fragrant Fruit Chestnuts to be sent to Xia Chujian and her roommates, while Quan Yuxun sent the opera’s creator Xia Chujian’s questions about its plot holes.
• Xia Chujian shared Star Net web novel links with her roommates, and the four received orders to report to the Flight Training Base on Cangge Star before six the next morning.

Xia Chujian arranged to return to Guiyuan Star with Huo Yushen before joining the Asteroid Belt rescue task force. During the trip, Huo Yushen mentioned San Zong, leaving Xia Chujian visibly shocked.

• Xia Chujian asked Huo Yushen to let her join the rescue operation, and he offered to take her home to Guiyuan Star for the weekend before it began.
• Xia Chujian packed and told Quan Caiwei and her roommates she was leaving, while Sang Yadi suggested they say she had gone home for treatment.
• Huo Yushen picked Xia Chujian up in his Bat-style Fighter Jet, and she marveled at the craft as they traveled toward Guiyuan Star.
• Huo Yushen refused to explain Space Warp, then discussed Zong Ruoan's Senate campaign and the support of his powerful family.
• Huo Yushen asked why Xia Chujian had not mentioned San Zong, and Xia Chujian froze and denied understanding him.

Huo Yushen gave Xia Chujian a special permit to own a Humanoid Slave, and she promised him three favors before traveling home with him. She reunited with her family, where Sixi suddenly grew from a tiny puppy into a much larger dog.

• Huo Yushen gave Xia Chujian a special permit and reminded her not to call San Zong a human in front of others.
• Xia Chujian offered Huo Yushen a favor, then admitted she owed him three favors after he brought up past gifts and assistance.
• Huo Yushen explained Xia Chujian’s confused sense of time during space travel and took her home.
• Liushun announced Xia Chujian’s return, and Sixi ran out to greet her.
• Sixi grew rapidly from a tiny puppy to a larger dog, and Xia Chujian reunited with Zhu Yingying, Aunt Chen, Xia Yuanfang, and the others.