Chapter Summaries

Xia Chujian discovered that the Shang people had sniper rifles, forcing her to reconsider her plans on Senze Star. After learning that Longevity Flying Fish feed on Crocodile Dragons beneath the surface deposits, she began considering how to investigate a possible nest near the South Pole.

• Seven Lù warned Xia Chujian about a two-headed Shang sniper, and she shot and killed him before identifying his rifles as modified Adjudicator No. 7 sniper rifles.
• Xia Chujian killed a giant crab that had crept up behind her, then climbed to the treetops to clear her head and discuss their plans with Seven Lù.
• Xia Chujian admitted that her original plan to capture a Longevity Flying Fish was no longer reliable because the base's information was wrong and the Shang people had access to military weapons.
• Seven Lù declared that its goal was to protect Xia Chujian, leaving her touched while the Mechanical Intelligence struggled to process her saying she wanted to protect it too.
• Xia Chujian and Seven Lù checked coordinates from a dead female marine and found they pointed to a possible Longevity Flying Fish nest near Senze Star's South Pole, about one hundred thousand li away.
• Seven Lù explained that Longevity Flying Fish eat Crocodile Dragons, seabed mounts of Haidagong Deep Divers that live beneath the surface deposits.

Xia Chujian returned to the airship after searching Senze Star and met Qiu Zijun, who introduced her to her bodyguard and an injured youth. When the youth fled, Xia Chujian chased him, while Ye Shijie—an old captain from her past—pursued them as well.

• Xia Chujian abandoned her search for Longevity Flying Fish and returned to the airship, where Mao Yonggui, Sun Jiahao, and Li Dali had been waiting anxiously.
• Xia Chujian revealed to Qiu Zijun that she was female and invited her aboard, agreeing to inspect Qiu Zijun's bodyguard and rescued youth.
• Xia Chujian recognized Qiu Zijun's bodyguard as Ye Shijie, her former captain from the Dark Night Hunter Association, but stayed silent to avoid revealing herself.
• The supposedly injured youth escaped from Qiu Zijun's Combat Aircraft, and Xia Chujian immediately chased after him.
• Ye Shijie told Qiu Zijun that the youth had faked his injuries, then rushed east after Xia Chujian and the fugitive.

Xia Chujian caught an injured youth fleeing through the forest and discovered he might be connected to the Deep Diver Haidagong, so she refused to bring him aboard her Starry Sky Cruiser. She revealed her identity to Ye Shijie, who agreed to keep it secret and admitted Qiu Zijun was on a separate mission.

• Xia Chujian chased the injured youth into the forest, knocked him down, and had Seven Lù scan him.
• Seven Lù warned Xia Chujian that the youth was severely wounded and might be a mixed-blood descendant of Deep Diver Haidagong, but Xia Chujian decided not to take him aboard.
• Ye Shijie confronted Xia Chujian with his gun, and she revealed her identity and asked him to hide it from Qiu Zijun.
• Ye Shijie told Xia Chujian that Qiu Zijun had rescued the youth from mutated Sea Beasts and Crocodile Dragons, then gave her the location's coordinates.
• Ye Shijie admitted that Qiu Zijun had come to Senze Star for another mission and that he had been assigned to escort and protect her.

Xia Chujian refused to let Qiu Zijun and Ye Shijie bring an injured youth aboard her airship, suspecting his sudden appearance was suspicious. After leaving them, she followed a Crocodile Dragon into a hidden cave in the forest, where Seven Lù warned her to be careful.

• Xia Chujian refused to take the unconscious youth aboard, while Ye Shijie revealed that his Mental Strength had reached early A-Class.
• Ye Shijie carried the youth back to the Small Combat Aircraft, where Qiu Zijun insisted she needed to bring him to the Medical Cabin to fulfill her mission.
• Qiu Zijun planned to persuade Xia Chujian by offering her Qiu Family's favor, while Ye Shijie doubted Xia Chujian would agree.
• Xia Chujian flew west toward the coordinates Ye Shijie had given her and used radar to locate a glowing sea forest and a Crocodile Dragon.
• Xia Chujian secretly followed the Crocodile Dragon to a hidden cave, and Seven Lù warned her to be careful.

Xia Chujian encountered a nest of Crocodile Dragons on Senze Star, then witnessed a golden egg drain four enormous ancestors and hatch a small golden creature. The creature approached her as Seven Lù searched for its identity.

• Xia Chujian fought off juvenile Crocodile Dragons with her mecha, then discovered that their calls had summoned reinforcements.
• A giant Crocodile Dragon ancestor rose from the black sea, and three more emerged as Xia Chujian prepared to flee rather than spend her Black Silver Bullets.
• A golden light erupted from the sea, and a six-meter Golden Giant Egg trapped and drained all four Crocodile Dragon ancestors.
• Golden rays wrapped around Xia Chujian’s mecha and shocked her after her Black Silver Bullet only dented the egg.
• The Golden Giant Egg cracked open, and a small golden creature flew to Xia Chujian as Seven Lù searched its database for a match.

Xia Chujian met A Wu, a golden, lion-like creature that had hatched from the Golden Giant Egg and mistakenly thought she was someone it knew. Seven Lù discovered the shell held a ruined Gene Incubator created to hatch an Ancient Exotic Beast, but the laboratory behind it remained unknown, leaving Xia Chujian unsure whether to keep A Wu or give it to Su Buyan.

• A Wu called Xia Chujian “Mama,” then accepted her correction and introduced itself as A Wu, though it realized she was not the Big Sister it had been looking for.
• A Wu explained that it had hatched from the Golden Giant Egg after eating the delicious food inside, and Xia Chujian asked whether it needed the shell to find its other Big Sister.
• Seven Lù urged Xia Chujian to use the egg fragments to upgrade her Mecha, but she hesitated because A Wu might need them.
• Seven Lù found a Gene Incubator hidden inside a fragment and explained that it had hatched A Wu, though the device had exhausted its energy and self-destructed.
• Seven Lù recovered information showing that scientists had placed an Ancient Exotic Beast Gene Chain in the incubator before a scientist secretly sent it into space, but it could not identify the laboratory.
• Xia Chujian decided she would keep A Wu if the laboratory was not from the Beichen Empire, but give it to Su Buyan if it was.

Xia Chujian used the Golden Giant Eggshell to upgrade her Shao Siming Mecha and discovered A Wu could transform into an ordinary-looking Lion Dog. She prepared to take A Wu back to her airship in disguise, though the chapter left unclear what else the creature could do.

• Seven Lù explained that the damaged Gene Incubator could no longer function, so Xia Chujian let it absorb the Golden Giant Eggshell to upgrade her Mecha.
• Xia Chujian asked A Wu to hide its ability to speak, and Seven Lù made it a muzzle from leftover eggshell material.
• Seven Lù found that the upgraded Mecha could absorb radiant energy from the environment and convert it into power.
• At Seven Lù's suggestion, Xia Chujian tested A Wu's abilities, but A Wu only demonstrated that it could bow and eat a lot.
• Xia Chujian showed A Wu an image of a Teacup Dog, and A Wu transformed into a tiny white Lion Dog.

Xia Chujian planned to claim the Crocodile Dragon spoils and hunted the remaining dragons with weapons Seven Lù forged from their ancestors’ teeth. She took A Wu underwater with her, leaving its fate in its own hands as she continued the hunt.

• Xia Chujian decided to take the Crocodile Dragon Skin and learned that the commanding officer received first distribution rights to spoils of war.
• Xia Chujian resolved to hunt the remaining Crocodile Dragons in their underwater nests, and Seven Lù explained that A Wu had absorbed the dragons’ insides.
• Seven Lù used the Crocodile Dragon ancestors’ teeth to forge four Cold Weapons, including a retractable Dagger for Xia Chujian.
• Seven Lù made a Crocodile Dragon Skin mesh bag for A Wu, but Xia Chujian chose to bring the unconscious A Wu underwater rather than risk leaving it behind.
• Xia Chujian had Seven Lù wake A Wu before they went underwater.

Xia Chujian entered the underwater Crocodile Dragon nests and killed every Crocodile Dragon there, though she suffered internal injuries. She returned with A Wu hidden in her backpack and called for the Interstellar Airship to collect the spoils of war.

• Xia Chujian left A Wu on watch, had Seven Lù reinforce her Shao Siming Mecha with Crocodile Dragon Skin, and dived toward the underwater nest.
• Xia Chujian used the Dagger made from Crocodile Dragon ancestor teeth to kill a Crocodile Dragon, then switched to the Three-Foot Green Edge after a tail strike injured her.
• Xia Chujian changed her mecha to its close-fitting design and killed the Crocodile Dragons in both nests, pursuing those that tried to flee.
• Xia Chujian surfaced with internal injuries, put a muzzle on A Wu, and hid it in her backpack before asking Mao Yonggui and Sun Jiahao to bring the Interstellar Airship.
• Mao Yonggui and Sun Jiahao arrived with the airship and saw the Crocodile Dragon ancestors, heads, and headless corpses floating across the sea.

Xia Chujian secretly brought A Wu aboard the Interstellar Airship, then collapsed after suffering severe internal injuries from killing more than a thousand Crocodile Dragons. She regained consciousness in the Medical Cabin, where the crew learned she was recovering quickly, and they waited to hear what she would command next.

• Xia Chujian had Seven Lù disable the passage’s scanners so she could smuggle A Wu aboard, then collapsed in her washroom after coughing up a large amount of blood.
• Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, Sun Jiahao, and Li Dali found Xia Chujian unconscious and rushed her to the Starry Sky Cruiser for treatment.
• The medic determined that Xia Chujian had severe internal injuries, and Li Dali explained that she had killed more than a thousand Crocodile Dragons with Cold Weapons.
• Chen Yansheng brought a hemostatic injection while the crew waited, and Xia Chujian woke briefly after the Medical Cabin stopped her bleeding.
• The medic reported that Xia Chujian was recovering rapidly, while Chen Yansheng argued that they should take over her command if she could not continue.

After recovering from her injuries, Xia Chujian returned to the Interstellar Airship and learned that a strange creature had appeared in the newly formed sea. The footage showed a Deep Diver, Haidagong, leaving Xia Chujian facing a dangerous new threat.

• Xia Chujian woke fully recovered in the Medical Cabin, reassured Mao Yonggui and Sang Yadi, and prepared to return to the airship.
• Xia Chujian gathered supplies, including Low-Grade Nutrient Solution for A Wu, and traveled back to the Interstellar Airship with Mao Yonggui and Li Dali.
• Chu Qingjuan and Sun Jiahao explained that they had moved the airship to the Shang People Settlement after unusual activity appeared in the sea and Xia Chujian had not returned.
• Chu Qingjuan showed Xia Chujian footage from a probe that had been torn apart in the sea.
• Xia Chujian watched the footage reveal a strange toad-like face and identified a distant creature as Haidagong, one of the Deep Divers.

Xia Chujian saw a Deep Diver Haidagong attack the probe and realized her mission could be far more dangerous than its military rank suggested. Meanwhile, Huo Yushen infiltrated Chuyun Lane, sold rare Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds to gain access to the area around Wenren Zhao’s residence, and sensed a powerful scan overhead.

• Xia Chujian watched a creature breathe fire at the probe, and Sun Jiahao told her the probe had lost its signal.
• Xia Chujian recognized the likely danger of the Deep Diver Haidagong and worried that her team might not survive the mission.
• Huo Yushen concluded that Wenren Zhao had captured the foreign field operatives sent to Da Zang Star.
• Huo Yushen sold three rare, purple-tailed Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds to Boss Tian, who planned to send the meat and feathers to Wenren Zhao.
• Huo Yushen changed his clothes and appearance, ate in the restaurant, and listened as Boss Tian and the floor manager discussed Wenren Zhao.
• Huo Yushen sensed an intermittent Mental Strength scan sweep across Chuyun Lane as Boss Tian delivered the bird soup to Wenren Zhao.

Huo Yushen discovered that Meng Guanghui had not been captured and used the Da Siming Mecha to infiltrate the Wenren Ancestral Residence. He freed the imprisoned foreign operatives from their Mental Strength inhibitors while Wenren Zhao slept after being drugged.

• Wenren Zhao ate a stew made from a Phoenix-Tailed Luan Bird, then fell asleep after realizing the soup had been drugged.
• Huo Yushen searched the Wenren Ancestral Residence with his Mental Strength and found that Meng Guanghui’s frequency was not among the prisoners in Yongji Alley.
• Huo Yushen changed into the Da Siming Mecha and evaded the estate’s defenses to reach Yongji Alley.
• Huo Yushen removed Yongji Alley’s Smart Door Lock without alerting the security system and entered the prison.
• Huo Yushen threw syringes to the imprisoned operatives and told them the injections would counter their inhibitors and that East Tianyuan’s God had fallen asleep.

Huo Yushen used Wenren Zhao’s forced unconsciousness to devastate the Wenren Ancestral Residence and destroy the largest Temple in the East Tianyuan God Country. With little time before Wenren Zhao and the supposed god might awaken, he searched for the nearby location detected by the Small Wormhole Opener.

• Huo Yushen attacked the Wenren Ancestral Residence with his Da Siming Mecha, destroying its defenses and killing many Wenren Family elites in revenge for the field operatives Wenren Zhao had killed.
• Huo Yushen withdrew as the City Defense Force arrived, while escaped foreign operatives looted and killed inside the residence before fleeing.
• Huo Yushen flew to East Tianyuan’s largest Temple and blasted its God Statue and memorial tablets, briefly seeing the statue’s arms appear to turn into tentacles.
• Wenren Zhao remained unconscious in the Ancestral Mansion’s air-raid shelter, and Huo Yushen estimated he had about fifteen minutes before the drug wore off.
• Huo Yushen searched the wilderness near the Temple for the final activation location he had detected with the Small Wormhole Opener.

Huo Yushen found Meng Guanghui in Xin Ding after attacking the city’s defense base, and the two escaped the awakening god’s search by hiding inside Meng Guanghui’s upgraded mecha. Meng Guanghui explained that a future Mechanical Intelligence had helped them on Eze Star, leaving Huo Yushen questioning his assumptions about Xia Chujian and the time-travel paradox.

• Huo Yushen flew to Xin Ding and attacked the City Defense Force base to draw Meng Guanghui out.
• Meng Guanghui emerged from hiding, damaged Xin Ding’s power and network systems, and joined Huo Yushen.
• Meng Guanghui led Huo Yushen to a Safe House, where they hid inside his mecha until the god’s search passed.
• Huo Yushen told Meng Guanghui that most of their lower- and mid-level personnel had died, while more than a hundred senior personnel had escaped.
• Meng Guanghui praised Huo Yushen’s attack on the Wenren Family and explained that a Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years in the future had helped them on Eze Star.
• Huo Yushen examined Meng Guanghui’s upgraded mecha and reconsidered whether the future Mechanical Intelligence could truly exist despite the time-travel paradox.

Xia Chujian decided to protect the five thousand Starry Sky Marines by taking control of their airships and forcing them to train with Mechas, despite exposing her interference. The Marines saw proof that the planet’s radiation was fatal to ordinary people, while Chu Qingchen and the other officers remained locked aboard.

• Xia Chujian considered the mission’s risks and decided to seek out the First Interstellar Fleet Marines rather than rely on Chu Qingchen to equip them with Mechas.
• Xia Chujian asked Seven Lù to take over the five airships while hiding its involvement, then flew to the landing site where Chu Qingchen and the other officers had arrived.
• Seven Lù took control of the airships, returned the Marines who were exiting to the purification rooms, sealed the cargo-bay doors, and locked the officers in their quarters.
• Xia Chujian warned the Marines that radiation and an unknown virus were fatal to ordinary people and ordered them to learn to use Mechas before going outside.
• Several Marines cursed Chu Qingchen and supported the training, while others objected to Xia Chujian’s actions and invoked military law.
• The Marines who had briefly reached the hatch returned suffering severe Genetic Disease, confirming Xia Chujian’s warning.

Xia Chujian exposed Chu Qingchen's refusal to equip the Starry Sky Marines with mechas and locked the five cruisers for twelve hours so the soldiers could train safely. After returning to her own ship, she discovered A Wu had gone missing, then found it tucked into her bed.

• Witnesses confirmed the nuclear radiation danger and reported that Marines on other cruisers were training to pilot mechas.
• Xia Chujian restored communications, confronted Chu Qingchen, and played a recording showing he had rejected her proposal to equip his Marines with mechas.
• The Marines rushed to the weapons storage and began learning to operate the mechas, while Hui Zhifeng authorized them to use the equipment.
• Xia Chujian locked the five airships' programs for twelve hours and explained to Seven Lù that the delay would give the Marines time to practice and protect them from the five Gene Evolvers.
• Xia Chujian returned to her airship, searched for A Wu, and found the small creature peeking out from beneath a pillow and quilt.

Xia Chujian discovered that A Wu was an ancient Alien Beast that devoured dragons and decided to bring it along while scouting a dangerous route. She secured A Wu in a Crocodile Dragon Skin pouch attached to her Mecha, and A Wu learned to release the clasp and carry the pouch like a backpack.

• Xia Chujian fed A Wu a box of Low-Grade Nutrient Solution, which A Wu drained of nutrients and left as clear water.
• Seven Lù explained that A Wu was a replica of an ancient Alien Beast, while Xia Chujian worried about the cost of feeding it.
• Xia Chujian prepared to scout the route despite Seven Lù reminding her of her promise to Marshal Huo.
• A Wu offered to accompany Xia Chujian, and its reaction to the sound “awu” revealed that its name came from its feeding cry rather than “forget-me-not.”
• Seven Lù found an ancient-book passage describing a beast that fed on dragons, and Xia Chujian decided to bring A Wu on the mission.
• Xia Chujian fastened A Wu’s Crocodile Dragon Skin pouch to her Mecha, and A Wu learned to undo its clasp and carry the pouch on its back.

Xia Chujian flew to Senze Star’s South Pole to investigate a coordinate given by a dying marine and discovered a hidden Shang People settlement on a warm island. After scouting it with a Drone, she prepared to investigate further and gave A Wu a seat on her mecha.

• Xia Chujian left the Interstellar Airship in a Small Combat Aircraft, telling Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, Sun Jiahao, and Li Dali to wait a day while she scouted ahead.
• Seven Lù guided Xia Chujian to the South Pole, where she found a warm, plant-covered area that concealed a sea island and suspected Shang People base.
• Xia Chujian used a stealth Drone to inspect the island and saw orderly barracks, mutated Shang People, and Radar systems that were intact but switched off.
• Xia Chujian decided to go down to the island with Seven Lù and A Wu, then shaped her mecha’s shoulder into a small seat that enclosed A Wu.

Xia Chujian infiltrated the Shang People’s Sea Island and discovered that they had kept missing female Marines as food for the Deep Diver Haidagong. She attacked as Haidagong reached for one of the soldiers’ bodies.

• Seven Lù added matching flower-shaped gunstocks to the Shao Siming Mecha’s shoulders, and Xia Chujian descended to the Sea Island with A Wu and Seven Lù.
• Xia Chujian evaded detection as Shang People gathered to greet a Haidagong that emerged from the sea.
• Xia Chujian entered a barracks and found an old Type 37 Rifle, which she carried outside and concealed near the Shang People’s formation.
• Haidagong Yi Ha demanded food, and the Shang People presented a shell containing the corpse of a female Marine.
• Xia Chujian recognized the soldier as one of the 179 missing female Marines and fired the Type 37 Rifle as Yi Ha reached for her.