Chapter Summaries

After revealing that Chu Qingchen’s betrayal began before the mission, Xia Chujian told the survivors she could not determine whether the Military had sent them to die, and they rallied around her. As the airships headed south, she failed to trigger Gene Evolution with Kongsang water and tried to persuade A Wu and A Yuan to stay on Senze Star, but they insisted they could raise her instead.

• Xia Chujian told the Marines and pilots that she did not know whether the Military had sent them to their deaths, and they declared they would follow her and seek transfers to the Fourth Interstellar Fleet.
• Xia Chujian returned to her Captain's Room and drank the remaining Kongsang water, but Seven Lù explained that Kongsang—not Blood Kirin—caused Gene Evolution.
• Five Interstellar Airships headed toward the South Pole as Xia Chujian told A Wu and A Yuan to stay on Senze Star, where they could grow and find food.
• A Yuan transformed into a little girl and spoke for the first time, but changed back into a bird after Xia Chujian asked her to.
• A Wu told Xia Chujian that it and A Yuan could raise her, while Xia Chujian explained that Senze Star was unsuitable for humans; A Wu and A Yuan did not understand.

Xia Chujian agreed to bring A Wu and A Yuan home after they promised not to eat people or transform without permission. She secretly returned to the seabed to collect Longevity Flying Fish and found evidence that Chu Qingchen and his people had previously tried to break into the fish’s enclosure.

• A Wu and A Yuan promised to wear their muzzles and not eat people, and Xia Chujian decided to take them home as pets and early-warning helpers.
• Seven Lù complained that A Wu was chatty, and Xia Chujian told Seven Lù not to bully or mistreat its younger companions.
• Xia Chujian secretly left the Interstellar Airship with Seven Lù, A Wu, and A Yuan to collect Longevity Flying Fish without being seen.
• A Yuan confirmed that no Haidagong remained at the seabed site, and Seven Lù explained that their breeding grounds were in warm, tropical places.
• Xia Chujian found bullet marks around the metal door containing the Longevity Flying Fish, and Seven Lù identified Super Miniature Ion Beam Cannon traces.
• Xia Chujian concluded that Chu Qingchen and his people had tried to force their way inside and realized why they had not used those cannons against her.

Xia Chujian discovered that the South Pole Underwater Building predated Senze Star’s recorded history and found a map of its Special Metal deposits. She also learned that a Starry Sky Yuan-chu Spinal Tendon could upgrade her Mecha, but chose to keep it for A Yuan; when it wrapped around her wrist, the freed Longevity Flying Fish turned hostile.

• Seven Lù dated the metal door to over a million years ago, and Xia Chujian entered the building without a facial scan.
• Xia Chujian found three captive Longevity Flying Fish and learned that their neck cords were Starry Sky Yuan-chu Spinal Tendons.
• Seven Lù found Haidagong’s Special Metal deposit map, and Xia Chujian planned to trade it to Quan Yuxun for mining benefits and help for Su Buyan.
• Seven Lù discovered that the Spinal Tendon could raise Xia Chujian’s Mecha to High-Grade and block Mental Strength Attacks, but Xia Chujian decided it belonged to A Yuan and asked Seven Lù to make something for the bird.
• A Yuan returned to Xia Chujian’s shoulder as the Spinal Tendon wrapped around her wrist, and the freed Longevity Flying Fish turned vicious.

Xia Chujian fed the three Longevity Flying Fish eggshell fragments from A Yuan, causing them to transform into small evolved creatures while the originals died. She brought the three bodies back toward the Cruiser, with A Yuan choosing to accompany her, and the group left Senze Star.

• Xia Chujian asked Seven Lù whether the Longevity Flying Fish could survive on their own, and A Wu relayed A Yuan’s suggestion to feed them eggshell fragments.
• Xia Chujian brought Starry Sky Yuan-chu eggshell fragments to the Longevity Flying Fish, while removing their Spinal Tendons.
• A Yuan called out, and the three large Longevity Flying Fish died as three small evolved fish emerged and swam free.
• Seven Lù explained that the small fish had been transformed by the eggshells, and Xia Chujian decided to take the bodies to complete her mission.
• A Yuan chose to follow Xia Chujian, who surfaced with the three bodies and ordered the airships to return to the Cruiser.
• Xia Chujian and the others departed Senze Star, intending to take Lin Xiaoxiao’s body back to her family in the Beichen Empire.

Xia Chujian returned to the D1 Starry Sky Cruiser after seeing two other cruisers explode, then destroyed the attacking Southern Cross Star Kingdom space turret in under a minute. She led the cruiser into a Wormhole while nearby enemy submersibles held back, and their crew vowed to protest the Beichen Empire.

• Xia Chujian and Seven Lù discovered that the D235 and D337 Starry Sky Cruisers had been destroyed and learned that an enemy warship was approaching the D1.
• Xia Chujian returned to the D1, found that only a little over two thousand of the twenty thousand deployed Starry Sky Marines had survived, and took control of the cruiser.
• Xia Chujian fired repeated Space Ion Beam Cannon volleys, broke through the enemy space turret's shield, and caused its weapons system to explode with the vessel.
• Xia Chujian announced that the D1 had returned fire in self-defense, ordered the crew to prepare for silent flight, and entered a Wormhole before engaging nearby cloaked submersibles.
• While Xia Chujian slept, Southern Cross Star Kingdom submersibles revealed themselves after holding back, and their crew members argued over protesting or declaring war.

Xia Chujian returned to Beichen Empire space, where four General Logistics Department Cruisers blocked her route to Kanli Star and accused her of crimes. She challenged them to identify themselves and locked her weapons on them, leaving Major Ji scrambling as the countdown began.

• A Southern Cross Star Kingdom officer struck a fellow officer for proposing a diplomatic protest, while another stealth aircraft followed the group through the Wormhole.
• After sleeping nearly twelve hours, Xia Chujian woke aboard her Cruiser in Beichen Empire space and prepared to return to Kanli Star with A Wu and A Yuan hidden in her backpack.
• Seven Lù identified four Falcon-class B-Type Cruisers from the General Logistics Department Execution Brigade, which had formed a blockade around Xia Chujian's vessel.
• The opposing flagship accused Xia Chujian of killing Marines, stealing spoils, trading with the enemy, and murdering a superior, then demanded that she disarm and surrender.
• Xia Chujian identified herself and demanded the Cruisers' unit, fleet, department, superior, and rank, warning that she would fire if they did not answer within a minute.
• Xia Chujian's weapons locked onto the opposing Cruisers, and Major Ji hesitated as his crew urged him to respond before the countdown ended.

Xia Chujian stalled Ji Shunliang’s attempt to seize her ship while calling for help and using the three Longevity Flying Fish as leverage. As Ji Shunliang’s forces surrounded her, she realized the trap was meant to make her lose either her life, her military career, or the lives of ordinary soldiers, and resolved more firmly to join the military and reform it from within.

• Xia Chujian refused to accept Ji Shunliang’s authority and secretly sent pleas for help to Kang Shanxing, Su Buyan, Quan Yuxun, Kanli Star Flying Base personnel, Meng Guanghui, and Huo Yushen.
• Ji Shunliang’s subordinates urged him to attack Xia Chujian before she could expose their actions, and Ji Shunliang prepared to order an assault.
• Xia Chujian revealed that she had brought back the last three Longevity Flying Fish and threatened to destroy them, while recording a subordinate’s remark about informants on Senze Star.
• Xia Chujian accused Ji Shunliang of intercepting her to seize her mission’s spoils, and Ji Shunliang angrily denied her charges.
• Seven Lù detected that more than five thousand fighters and Combat Aircraft had surrounded Xia Chujian’s Cruiser, alongside Ji Shunliang’s four Cruisers and eight Space Ion Beam Cannons.
• Xia Chujian recognized the trap’s possible outcomes, resolved to join the military despite the danger, and heard Ji Shunliang demand that she surrender the Longevity Flying Fish.

Xia Chujian and her crew were surrounded by Ji Shunliang’s forces, but Huo Yushen’s Bat-style Fighter Jet arrived with the Special Security Bureau Audit and Discipline Department. Ji Shunliang killed his subordinates and himself rather than face the investigation, while Huo Yushen ordered the aftermath handled.

• Xia Chujian told her crew they were surrounded and tried to keep them from fighting, but they chose to stand by her.
• Sang Yadi warned that Ji Shunliang’s forces would not let the crew go, and Xia Chujian agreed they would face the danger together.
• Huo Yushen’s Bat-style Fighter Jet appeared, and Xia Chujian recognized the Special Security Bureau’s symbol as their reinforcements arrived.
• The Special Security Bureau Audit and Discipline Department surrounded Ji Shunliang’s Starry Sky Cruiser and ordered him to cooperate with its investigation.
• Ji Shunliang killed his trusted subordinates and himself, while Huo Yushen ordered Kang Shanxing to handle the aftermath and appoint an interim captain unrelated to the Ji Family.

Huo Yushen led a rescue after seeing Xia Chujian's distress message, while the Special Security Bureau investigated Ji Shunliang's death and appointed Yan Nanhong acting captain. Xia Chujian reunited with Meng Guanghui, then watched more powerful families arrive as Huo Yushen learned Su Buyan was her master.

• Huo Yushen arrived with Meng Guanghui, organized a rescue for Xia Chujian, and Kang Shanxing discovered her distress message only after the operation was underway.
• Jiang Yuanshu investigated the dead crew in Ji Shunliang's Captain's Room, while Kang Shanxing announced Ji's suicide and appointed Yan Nanhong acting captain.
• Meng Guanghui went to Xia Chujian's ship and told her Huo Yushen had been the first to see her message and arrange the rescue.
• Three ships bearing the emblems of Quan, the Su Clan, and Li arrived, and Xia Chujian said she had not asked Li for help.
• Su Buyan called Huo Yushen to challenge his handling of Xia Chujian's danger, then revealed that he was her master and that she had asked him for help.

After Huo Yushen stopped Xia Chujian from destroying military vehicles, Su Buyan, Quan Yuxun, and Zong Ruoan all came to check on her. Huo Yushen agreed to receive the concerned visitors, while considering the seriousness of the trouble Xia Chujian had caused.

• Huo Yushen told Su Buyan that he had arrived in time to stop Xia Chujian from damaging more than half of the General Logistics Department's fighter jets and flying vehicles.
• Su Buyan called Xia Chujian, promised her a raise, and eagerly asked about the Crocodile Dragon Skin, Haidagong hide, and minerals she had acquired.
• Meng Guanghui escorted Xia Chujian toward Huo Yushen's Bat-style Fighter Jet, and Xia Chujian ordered Mao Yonggui and the others to keep everyone out of her Captain's Room.
• Xia Chujian replied to Quan Yuxun's message and offered to discuss a business deal with him.
• Zong Ruoan told Xia Chujian he had come aboard the Li Family's spaceship, then asked Huo Yushen for permission to visit her.
• Huo Yushen received Zong Ruoan's request after Quan Yuxun had also asked to visit, and decided not to refuse either man.

Xia Chujian recounted the disastrous Senze Star mission to Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, and Quan Yuxun, showing evidence of betrayal, mass casualties, and her fight against the officers who attacked her. The chapter ended with her revealing that she had killed Rong Zhongruo, prompting Su Buyan to recognize the name.

• Huo Yushen questioned Xia Chujian about the Senze Star mission and the General Logistics Department's accusation against her.
• Xia Chujian described the Shang People and Haidagong capturing Starry Sky Marines, and she showed footage of the battle that left only two thousand of twenty thousand Marines alive.
• Xia Chujian explained that noble trainees had betrayed the Marines, and she showed Chu Qingchen, Ji Nabi, and Lü Luyu attacking her after Zhuo Hanchen poisoned the airships.
• Xia Chujian said Lin Xiaoxiao had saved her from an Electromagnetic Railgun shot, and Huo Yushen advised her to report Lin's sacrifice so the Military could recognize her as a martyr.
• Xia Chujian showed footage of herself killing Chu Qingchen, Ji Nabi, and Lü Luyu, then revealed that she had killed Rong Zhongruo in self-defense.
• Su Buyan reacted in shock at Rong Zhongruo's name, while Huo Yushen and Quan Yuxun remained outwardly composed.

Xia Chujian explained the evidence surrounding the deaths of Rong Zhongruo and Chu Qingchen’s group, then began revealing how she had cured the poisoned Marines and Pilots. She left off after Huo Yushen and Su Buyan paid her deposits, while Quan Yuxun had yet to agree.

• Xia Chujian told Quan Yuxun that Rong Zhongruo attacked her first and that she had original footage implicating Chu Qingchen’s group in abandoning Marines and attempting to silence her.
• Quan Yuxun questioned Xia Chujian about Hui Zhifeng and the antidote, and she explained that Rong Zhongruo killed Hui Zhifeng after he helped her.
• Xia Chujian said the poisoned Marines and Pilots had symptoms of Genetic Disease and connected their recovery to how her Aunt had awakened from the illness.
• Xia Chujian demanded that Su Buyan, Quan Yuxun, and Huo Yushen swear secrecy and pay fifty million Beichen Coin each before she explained further.
• Huo Yushen and Su Buyan transferred the money, while Xia Chujian told Quan Yuxun he could leave if he did not believe her.

Xia Chujian revealed to Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, and Quan Yuxun that she had used Fresh Blood Kirin to cure her aunt and poisoned soldiers, then disclosed that more than two thousand soldiers achieved Gene Evolution after being detoxified. The three men were stunned by the revelation, and Xia Chujian left them to grasp its significance.

• Xia Chujian secured a signed agreement and a fifty-million-Beichen-Coin deposit from Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, and Quan Yuxun before agreeing to share her secret.
• Xia Chujian revealed that her aunt Xia Yuanfang had been poisoned with Wind-Dried Blood Kirin, not afflicted with Genetic Disease, and that Fresh Blood Kirin had cured her.
• Xia Chujian explained that her team found three Fresh Blood Kirin plants on a Dark Night Hunter Association mission, and she secretly kept two, using one to treat her aunt.
• Xia Chujian said she had dissolved her remaining Fresh Blood Kirin in water to treat more than two thousand soldiers poisoned through an airship's ventilation system.
• Xia Chujian revealed that every treated soldier had achieved Gene Evolution, leaving Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, and Quan Yuxun shocked.

Xia Chujian and the others devised a cover story for how more than two thousand Starry Sky Marines achieved Gene Evolution, hiding that she had cured their poisoning with Fresh Blood Kirin. Huo Yushen planned to alter their memories and report the truth to the Emperor, while Xia Chujian worried that the Emperor might seek more Blood Kirin and that San Zong might be connected to the Imperial Family.

• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen, Quan Yuxun, and Su Buyan that all the Marines who evolved were over eighteen, and Huo Yushen mapped the Fresh Blood Kirin's northward movement toward the Restricted Life Zone.
• Su Buyan proposed blaming the Marines' evolution on Senze Star, but Xia Chujian and Huo Yushen rejected the idea because it could lure ordinary people to their deaths.
• Quan Yuxun proposed a confidentiality agreement blaming repeated Wormhole crossings, and Huo Yushen suggested altering the Marines' memories to reinforce that false explanation.
• Huo Yushen said he would report the true cause to the Emperor, and Xia Chujian worried that the Emperor might seek more Blood Kirin.
• Quan Yuxun agreed that only the Emperor and the four people present should know the truth, while Huo Yushen promised to alter only a brief part of the Marines' memories and asked Xia Chujian to identify when their poison was cured.

Xia Chujian offered Quan Yuxun a mineral deposit map of Senze Star and arranged for Quan's Mining and Su Buyan to exploit the deposits together. After securing her conditions, she prepared to show Su Buyan the Crocodile Dragon Skin and Haidagong.

• Xia Chujian showed Quan Yuxun the names and reserves of Senze Star's mineral deposits, including vast quantities of Cyan Obsidian Titanium, and confirmed the data was accurate.
• Quan Yuxun agreed to cooperate with Su Buyan, dividing the mining venture equally between Quan's Mining and the Su Clan, with Su Buyan providing funding and receiving priority access to Special Metals.
• Huo Yushen raised Xia Chujian's stake in the deal, but she declined shares and asked Quan Yuxun to forgive her four-million Beichen Coin loan and grant her the mineral-free seabed area at Senze Star's South Pole.
• Quan Yuxun agreed to both conditions, and Su Buyan revealed that Xia Chujian was his one and only final disciple before leaving to prepare the cooperation agreement.
• Xia Chujian told Su Buyan that the Crocodile Dragon Skin was aboard her Starry Sky Cruiser, while Huo Yushen arranged for the cruiser to enter his Bat-style Fighter Jet and sent Kang Shanxing to oversee matters.
• Huo Yushen shared the Special Security Bureau's information on Haidagong with Su Buyan, who studied it as Xia Chujian prepared to show him the creature.

Xia Chujian thanked Zong Ruoan for rushing to check on her, then discussed the Ji Clan’s accusations and the danger of confronting nobles directly. As Su Buyan took her to the lower cargo hold, Zong Ruoan offered to help with her education, prompting her to privately conclude that his biggest fault was having a mouth.

• Gu Zhongjin piloted his Starry Sky Cruiser into the Bat-style Fighter Jet’s lower cargo hold, while Kang Shanxing began altering the memories of the people aboard Xia Chujian’s cruiser.
• Su Buyan urged Xia Chujian toward the lower cargo hold, but she stopped to meet Zong Ruoan, who had come after hearing that the Ji Clan accused her of killing Ji Nabi.
• Xia Chujian told Zong Ruoan that she was safe and said she would settle accounts with the Ji Clan baroness for spreading accusations about her.
• Zong Ruoan warned Xia Chujian that nobles had Criminal Immunity when dealing with commoners and advised her to ask him for help rather than fight back herself.
• Zong Ruoan asked Xia Chujian about her military training and College Entrance Exam, then offered to seek her a special admission quota at a university funded by the Zong Clan.

Xia Chujian showed Su Buyan the Crocodile Dragon and Haidagong hides, then asked him to make protective vests for her family. Su Buyan arranged to study a Longevity Flying Fish with Xia Chujian’s aunt, and Huo Yushen asked what Xia Chujian would do to thank him.

• Zong Ruoan offered Xia Chujian a security job, then promised to pay her a hundred thousand a day if she became his personal bodyguard.
• Xia Chujian showed Su Buyan the Crocodile Dragon and Haidagong hides, explained how she had obtained them, and asked him to make bulletproof vests for her family.
• Su Buyan examined the Longevity Flying Fish and suggested they might be descendants of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu.
• Xia Chujian proposed her Aunt Xia Yuanfang as a biological genetics collaborator, and Su Buyan agreed to visit her for guidance.
• Su Buyan asked Huo Yushen to reserve and transport one Longevity Flying Fish for research.
• After Su Buyan left, Huo Yushen asked Xia Chujian what she would do to thank him.

Xia Chujian showed Huo Yushen evidence of betrayal and advanced interference technology behind the Senze Star battle, and he agreed to investigate while keeping the final battle footage secret. She gave him the casualty list and bodies, then revealed that her distress message had mentioned the three Longevity Flying Fish to numerous recipients, leaving him furious that she had initially omitted him and her leader.

• Xia Chujian showed Huo Yushen the dying soldier’s video and asked whether the betrayal had been ordered by the Military’s upper ranks or by individuals, and he admitted he did not know.
• Xia Chujian shared the battle footage, and Huo Yushen praised her command while identifying the Phantom Fighter Jets’ interference as advanced technology likely used by people from one of the four Beichen Galaxy countries.
• Huo Yushen decided to seal the final battle footage to keep the hidden attacker from realizing they had identified human involvement, and promised Xia Chujian he would investigate the deaths.
• Xia Chujian handed Huo Yushen the casualty list, more than twenty thousand identity tags, and Rong Zhongruo’s corpse for investigation, while Huo Yushen asked her to leave one Longevity Flying Fish for him.
• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that her distress message had disclosed she had recovered three Longevity Flying Fish, and he grew angry when she admitted she had initially not sent it to him or her leader.

After the battle on Senze Star, Xia Chujian learned that her Special Training was over and discussed applying to university with Huo Yushen, who also promised to take her on a revenge mission during winter break. She returned with the surviving trainees, while Pei Zijing learned that only two thousand of the twenty thousand Starry Sky Marines had survived and struggled to believe the primitive Shang People and Haidagong had killed them.

• Huo Yushen arranged a cover story for Xia Chujian’s Longevity Flying Fish and explained that Ji Shunliang and his loyal subordinates had died by suicide.
• Huo Yushen showed Xia Chujian a Phoenix-shaped Mecha, then discussed her university plans and confirmed that she could help change the Military Department.
• Huo Yushen offered to take Xia Chujian to the East Tianyuan God Country during winter break to avenge the field operatives killed by the Wenren Family, and she agreed to discuss the trip with her family.
• Huo Yushen explained that the surviving trainees’ memories had been altered and told Xia Chujian to return the one remaining Longevity Flying Fish to the base as her mission spoils.
• Xia Chujian left Huo Yushen’s Bat-style Fighter Jet and told Meng Guanghui she was returning to base.
• Pei Zijing contacted Xia Chujian during the return flight, learned that only two thousand of the twenty thousand Starry Sky Marines had returned, and was shocked when she said the Shang People and Haidagong had killed the rest.

Xia Chujian returned to the base with the survivors and the bodies of six missing trainees, then faced accusations from Lieutenant Colonel Chu and the General Logistics Department. As she was placed in confinement, Seven Lù uploaded her evidence to the Star Net, where the videos began spreading rapidly.

• Xia Chujian honored the fallen Marines aboard the Starry Sky Cruiser and returned to the base with the surviving trainees and the bodies of six dead trainees.
• Xia Chujian showed footage explaining how the six trainees had died, but Lieutenant Colonel Chu accused her of fabricating evidence and tried to seize her.
• Pei Zijing blocked Lieutenant Colonel Chu, and the surviving trainees stood with Xia Chujian when he ordered her confined.
• After learning that the Special Security Bureau had verified the videos and that Xia Chujian had returned the Longevity Flying Fish, Lieutenant Colonel Chu shifted his attention to claiming it.
• Xia Chujian went with the Inspection Team to the Level One Confinement Room, while Seven Lù bypassed the base network blockade and uploaded the videos to the Star Net.