Chapter Summaries

After breaking the First Level record in the Required Public Course, Xia Chujian learned more about the secretive Game System and defended her result on the school forum. She challenged a skeptical sophomore to a duel under a Life and Death Contract, but he backed down when she mentioned her Shao Siming Mecha First Generation.

• Meng Guanghui congratulated Xia Chujian and explained the course records, warning that the later levels would be harder to clear.
• Meng Guanghui revealed that the Game was developed by the Empire’s most advanced Mechanical Intelligence, created by Founding Emperor Tantai Lin, and that its clearance records could not be viewed without a student’s consent.
• Xia Chujian suspected the Mechanical Intelligence might be behind the school’s robots and browsed the campus forum, where students questioned her record and demanded that her Game results be disclosed.
• Xia Chujian registered on the forum, condemned a sophomore’s appeal to reveal her test results, and challenged him to a duel with a signed Life and Death Contract.
• The sophomore boasted that he was a B-Level Gene Evolver, but Xia Chujian repeatedly cited her Shao Siming Mecha First Generation until he backed down.

Xia Chujian forced a sophomore to apologize for spreading rumors about her, winning broad support on the military academy forum. She returned to her villa, learned about the robots’ anonymous forum, and bought a housekeeping robot, which arrived as the chapter ended.

• Xia Chujian threatened to report the sophomore who had spread rumors about her, and he formally apologized on the forum; she had his apology pinned for a month.
• Students on the forum praised Xia Chujian, and 1,888 of the 2,001 students currently at Imperial Royal First Military University supported the claim that she might surpass Marshal Huo.
• Xia Chujian rode a school flying vehicle to her villa and learned from the robot driver that robots had an anonymous forum called Flying Bird’s forum.
• Xia Chujian sent the forum link to Huo Yushen to ask whether it was safe to visit, then left the vehicle after the robot revealed its account name was Flying Bird.
• Xia Chujian bought a low-configured housekeeping robot for two hundred thousand Beichen Coin, and a drone delivered it half an hour later.

Xia Chujian set up and named a new housekeeping robot, then cooked a fragrant meal that attracted a nearby couple and their Corgi to her yard. After Seven Lù reported that the visitors seemed to want to enter, Xia Chujian armed herself and watched them from behind the curtains.

• Xia Chujian had Seven Lù configure the Housekeeping Robot, named it Bei Jia One, and assigned it cleaning and gardening duties.
• Xia Chujian cooked Wild Rhinoceros Pig Meat with Red Lion Morels and rice, and the cooking aroma drew a couple and their Corgi toward her villa.
• The Corgi ran into Xia Chujian's visible Electronic Fence, was shocked, and later circled and barked near the fence as the food's aroma lured it.
• Seven Lù warned Xia Chujian that the couple and Corgi were outside the fence and that the people seemed to want to enter.
• Xia Chujian took her Assassin 095 Handgun and watched the front yard from behind the Dining Room curtains.

Xia Chujian met Ying Wuxin and Zong Ruoning after their dog Beiguo followed the smell of her cooking to her Villa. She invited them in to share her meal, and the chapter left them eating together as Zong Ruoning felt unexpectedly at ease with her.

• Ying Wuxin and Zong Ruoning asked to visit the Quan family residence, and Xia Chujian checked the area before greeting them.
• Xia Chujian introduced herself as Xia and explained that Quan Yuxun had transferred the house to her.
• Ying Wuxin asked whether Xia Chujian attended Imperial Royal First Military University, and Zong Ruoning said he had graduated ten years earlier.
• Xia Chujian invited Ying Wuxin and Zong Ruoning to share her food and gave Beiguo dog food topped with Wild Rhinoceros Pig Meat.
• Zong Ruoning regretted intruding but felt comfortable with Xia Chujian's generosity.

Xia Chujian shared a meal with Zong Ruoning and Ying Wuxin, and their conversation revealed their family ties and her recent public attention. As they left, Zong Ruoning asked Ying Wuxin whether he was useless, and she pointed out that he seemed to have already made up his mind about what to do.

• Xia Chujian served Zong Ruoning and Ying Wuxin Wild Rhinoceros Pig Meat, Red Lion Morels, and Dang Kang Zhu Yu Rice, and they ate the meal enthusiastically.
• Xia Chujian learned that Zong Ruoning was Zong Ruo An's cousin and that Ying Wuxin was related to Su Buyan.
• Zong Ruoning and Ying Wuxin recognized Xia Chujian as the Empire's College Entrance Exam top scorer and recalled the online incident involving Zong Ruo An's public confession.
• Xia Chujian invited Ying Wuxin to visit for future meals and said Zong Ruoning could come with her.
• As they walked home, Zong Ruoning asked Ying Wuxin whether he was useless, and she said she thought he had already decided what he wanted to do.

Ying Wuxin and Zong Ruoning clarified that they saw each other as friends and decided to pursue their own paths. Zong Ruoning told his mother, Su Shuangluo, that he wanted to work at his former university, and she contacted Su Yanxing to arrange a Political Commissioner position for him.

• Ying Wuxin told Zong Ruoning she had someone she liked, and he admitted he wanted to build a career of his own.
• Ying Wuxin and Zong Ruoning discussed Xia Chujian and the villa, then Ying Wuxin went inside to wait for a Video Call.
• Zong Ruoning called Su Shuangluo and said he wanted to work at Imperial Royal First Military University.
• Su Shuangluo suggested he pursue further studies and worried he might enlist, while Zong Ruoning proposed becoming a Political Commissioner and studying for a doctorate part-time.
• Su Shuangluo messaged her elder brother, Su Yanxing, and asked him to arrange the position for Zong Ruoning.

Su Yanxing secured the Emperor’s approval for Zong Ruoning to become Director of Imperial Royal First Military University’s Political Commissioner Department. Xia Chujian returned to school with Zong Ruoning and learned that her record-setting first lesson had impressed the university, though it had not been reported publicly.

• Su Yanxing asked Emperor Tantai Hongyuan to approve Zong Ruoning’s appointment as a Political Commissioner, and Tantai Hongyuan agreed.
• The university appointed Zong Ruoning Director of the Political Commissioner Department, and he told Xia Chujian and Qiu Shenxing that he was starting work at the school.
• Huo Yushen warned Xia Chujian that the Robot Anonymous Forum link contained a virus and told her not to click it; she stayed home and watched Bei Jia One tend her garden.
• Xia Chujian met Zong Ruoning and Qiu Shenxing at the flying vehicle station, learned that Zong Ruoning had graduated first in the Star Destroyer Major, and rode with them to school.
• After returning to campus, Xia Chujian resumed preparing for class, while the university’s Mechanical Intelligence circulated news of her record-setting first lesson to graduates and faculty.

Xia Chujian's record-breaking First Level result earned her the respect of most classmates, while Wenren Sanshang suspected fraud and sought to pressure the Beichen Empire to release her clearance video. As students prepared to challenge the Game again, Xia Chujian learned how their different identities shaped their paths to Tantai Lin and reflected on how her own experience had taken a very different course.

• Lieutenant General Yan Xu celebrated Xia Chujian's record but regretted that Mechanical Intelligence restrictions prevented him from watching her clearance.
• Qiu Shenxing announced that students could set longer time limits and enter the Game after class, while classmates praised Xia Chujian and discussed her achievement.
• Wenren Sanshang doubted Xia Chujian's results and asked his family to enlist Wenren Zhao's help in pressuring the Beichen Empire to release her clearance video.
• Chen Yanjun, Jiang Sheng, and their classmates compared their Game identities and encounters with Tantai Lin, learning that their scenarios and challenges differed.
• Xia Chujian revealed that she was an assassin and privately recalled that she had already gathered followers, defeated a great monster, and built a country without encountering Tantai Lin.
• Qiu Shenxing told students they could go directly to the Nutrient Cabin after morning runs if they did not need questions answered.

Xia Chujian entered a new stage of the Required Public Course Game and found herself called Seven Kill, guarding Second Princess Tantai Jinci at a high-tech state council meeting. Seeing the Tantai siblings made her question whether the history she changed in the previous level had been erased, and the chapter ended as the meeting was about to unfold.

• Xia Chujian arranged a one-week absence from morning runs and entered the Nutrient Cabin to begin the Game.
• Xia Chujian woke on palace steps in a military uniform and learned she was Seven Kill, Royal Inner Guard Leader and guard captain to the Second Princess.
• Su Yueming told Xia Chujian that Professor Zuo Lunhui would report on technology for stabilizing and traversing space wormholes.
• Xia Chujian followed Su Yueming into a technologically advanced council chamber and took her place beside the Second Princess’s empty seat.
• Second Princess Tantai Jinci and Third Prince Tantai Jinshu arrived, and Xia Chujian recognized their Tantai features and wondered whether her past changes to history had been erased.

Xia Chujian attended a Beichen Empire council meeting and learned that the Tantai Clan ruled the kingdom she believed she had conquered. The meeting approved outward expansion through wormhole travel, while Xia Chujian remained bitter about the game’s rewritten history.

• Xia Chujian watched Emperor Tantai address the council and wondered how the Tantai Clan had regained the throne from Seven Kill’s line.
• Professor Zuo Lunhui reported that Beichen Star’s population had surpassed fifty billion and that overcrowding and food shortages demanded expansion beyond the planet.
• Zuo Lunhui announced that the Academy of Sciences had developed mature Wormhole Travel Technology using ideas left by Tantai Lin.
• Xia Chujian recognized Tantai Lin’s portrait and refused to swear loyalty to him, despite joining the council’s bow.
• Emperor Tantai endorsed outward expansion, and the council applauded.

After Tantai Jinci named Xia Chujian captain of her first Interstellar Fleet, Xia Chujian reconsidered the rumored True God on Da Zang Star and came to terms with her reset abilities. The scene then shifted to a lone Interstellar Spaceship, where she realized that nine thousand years earlier, one ship counted as a fleet.

• The Emperor declared that whichever of his children brought Da Zang Star into the Beichen Empire within a year would become Crown Princess or Crown Prince, and Tantai Jinshu accused Tantai Jinci of knowing about the announcement.
• Tantai Jinci told Xia Chujian that she intended to pursue Da Zang Star and appointed her captain of the first Interstellar Fleet, revealing that the planet might hold a True God who could grant Gene Evolver abilities.
• Xia Chujian connected the rumored True God to the later events surrounding Wenren Zhao and the East Tianyuan God Country, and promised Tantai Jinci she would invite the god to Beichen Star.
• After Tantai Jinci led a beautiful man into her Bedchamber, Xia Chujian complained to Seven Lù about losing her former abilities, then realized that her experience was an exam rather than a game.
• The scene shifted to an Interstellar Spaceship, where Su Yueming showed Xia Chujian what she called the fleet, and Xia Chujian realized that a single ship counted as an Interstellar Fleet in that era.

Xia Chujian reviewed the fleet’s personnel and equipment and learned it was only an advance team bound for Da Zang Star. When she discovered she had not received the planet’s intelligence, she forced Li Fengqing to take her to Professor Zuo Lunhui at the Academy of Sciences.

• Xia Chujian inspected her in-game appearance and summoned Li Fengqing to report the Fourth Interstellar Fleet’s status.
• Li Fengqing sent Xia Chujian the fleet list, which showed that the ship carried fifty thousand soldiers, weapons, ammunition, and construction equipment.
• Li Fengqing explained that the fleet was an advance team and that reinforcements would follow after it established a base on Da Zang Star.
• Xia Chujian learned that she lacked the Da Zang Star information Professor Zuo Lunhui had sent, then threatened Li Fengqing until she agreed to take her to him.
• Li Fengqing drove Xia Chujian to the Academy of Sciences, where they stopped outside a door in the building.

Xia Chujian confronted the Academy of Sciences over the planned Wormhole flight and learned that its tests had only been conducted in a Virtual Environment. After forcing her way into the council chamber, she heard Professor Chen promise to seek a suspension of the voyage, then moved toward Zuo Lunhui and his supporters.

• Xia Chujian discovered that Li Fengqing would not board the spaceship and suspected the Wormhole mission was a death trap.
• Xia Chujian confronted the Academy of Sciences through the intercom and demanded information about Da Zang Star and Wormhole flight.
• Zuo Lunhui admitted that the Wormhole tests had only been verified in a Virtual Environment and dismissed the need to share the data with soldiers.
• Xia Chujian used her mecha and sniper rifle to blast open the council chamber door after Zuo Lunhui refused to let her in.
• Professor Chen accused Zuo Lunhui of claiming salvaged knowledge as his own and promised to request suspension of the voyage.
• Xia Chujian walked toward the people surrounding Zuo Lunhui and ordered them to move.

Xia Chujian forced Zuo Lunhui to surrender Academy of Sciences materials and ordered a search of his homes, office, and laboratory. Most items were recovered, but crucial technologies were missing, and Xia Chujian suspected Zuo Lunhui had hidden them elsewhere.

• Xia Chujian threatened Zuo Lunhui and demanded the Da Zang Star and Wormhole data, along with scientific materials belonging to the Academy of Sciences.
• Xia Chujian ordered Li Fengqing and Professor Chen to search Zuo Lunhui's homes, office, and laboratory, and delayed the mission until they returned.
• Zuo Lunhui warned Xia Chujian that she had to depart immediately, but she insisted she could choose when to leave.
• Li Fengqing and Professor Chen returned with most of the materials, while Professor Chen reported that key technologies and data were missing.
• Xia Chujian questioned where Zuo Lunhui could have hidden the missing materials after Li Fengqing said all three of his homes had been searched.

Xia Chujian uncovered that Zuo Lunhui had planned to use fifty thousand people in a fatal wormhole experiment and that he and several scientists had Brain-Computer Interface chips. After extracting chips from Zuo Lunhui and Wenren Chuan, she confronted the other chip-equipped scientists.

• Xia Chujian ordered another search of Zuo Lunhui's homes, office, and laboratory, and the searchers found hidden chambers containing Academy of Sciences materials.
• Professor Chen identified the materials as wormhole test data showing that the planned voyage had a ninety percent chance of destroying the spaceship and a ten percent chance of knocking it off course.
• A scientist revealed that Zuo Lunhui and Wenren Chuan had insisted on testing the wormhole with real people, and Xia Chujian slapped them both and demanded the remaining materials.
• Xia Chujian found a Brain-Computer Interface mark on Zuo Lunhui's head, removed its chip, and then found and extracted a matching chip from Wenren Chuan.
• Xia Chujian confronted four or five other scientists who appeared to have Brain-Computer Interface chips and asked whether they would remove them or let her do it.

Xia Chujian forced scientists to remove their brain-computer chips, then exposed Professor Zuo Lunhui’s theft of Imperial family research materials to Second Princess Tantai Jinci. Tantai Jinci killed Zuo Lunhui and his son, reaffirmed Xia Chujian’s dangerous Wormhole mission, and Xia Chujian boarded the spaceship with Li Fengqing, hoping to find a route that would let them survive.

• Xia Chujian made the scientists remove their chips and ordered Professor Chen to keep the Academy of Sciences’ books inside the library.
• Second Princess Tantai Jinci arrived with a young man who accused Xia Chujian of attacking his family, but Xia Chujian showed surveillance footage and explained Zuo Lunhui’s theft of Imperial research materials.
• Tantai Jinci killed Zuo Lunhui and the young man, then ordered the scientists to send future offenders to Xia Chujian for execution.
• Professor Chen warned that Xia Chujian was unlikely to survive the Wormhole mission, but she accepted the assignment, and Tantai Jinci promised to recommend her for promotion up to Marshal if she returned.
• Xia Chujian boarded the Interstellar Spaceship and found that Li Fengqing had joined her; she asked Li Fengqing to manage the ship while she considered the flight route.

Xia Chujian asked Seven Lù to assess the spaceship’s ability to cross a Wormhole, and Seven Lù found the test data had understated the danger but offered to modify the ship’s parameters. After Li Fengqing reported that the troops and equipment were ready, she revealed her complicated ties to the Li family, and Xia Chujian affirmed that a person could choose who to become.

• Xia Chujian summoned Seven Lù and shared Wormhole data from Zuo Lunhui, asking it to check whether the spaceship could cross safely.
• Seven Lù found that a misplaced decimal point had made the Wormhole’s gravitational and attraction values appear one-tenth their normal levels, leaving the crew with no chance of survival under the original data.
• Seven Lù said it could modify the spaceship’s Game parameters by creating materials in the simulation, and Xia Chujian told it to be careful.
• Li Fengqing reported that all fifty thousand soldiers had boarded and that their weapons, equipment, and ammunition had been checked.
• Xia Chujian asked Li Fengqing about the Li family’s dukedom, and Li Fengqing explained that she was an illegitimate daughter who had been brought into the family so she could attend Jiang Wu Hall.
• Li Fengqing said she felt no resentment toward the Li family, and Xia Chujian told her that people could choose what kind of person to become.

Xia Chujian launched the Interstellar Spaceship after checking its repairs and filling a pilot vacancy, while the ground team discovered the error that had made them fear the ship would fail. The ship performed normally as it approached the Wormhole, and Professor Chen contacted Xia Chujian to ask how it had been improved.

• Li Fengqing told Xia Chujian that she had regained confidence in the mission after watching her at the Academy of Sciences, and Xia Chujian resolved to base her command decisions on data and calm judgment.
• Seven Lù reported that the spaceship’s modifications were complete, and Xia Chujian inspected the ship before ordering it to depart.
• When one of the ten Navigators fainted, Ji Panxi volunteered to fill the vacancy, and Seven Lù confirmed that she could serve as an assistant.
• Xia Chujian ordered the launch, and the Interstellar Spaceship escaped Beichen Star and began transmitting its flight data to the ground station.
• Professor Chen and the Scientists discovered Zuo Lunhui’s decimal-point error and feared the ship would break apart, but the incoming data showed that its systems were operating normally.
• Professor Chen contacted Xia Chujian before the ship reached the Wormhole and asked what had happened to it.

Xia Chujian led the Interstellar Spaceship into the first stable wormhole discovered by the Beichen Empire. As the vessel was pulled toward the wormhole’s exit, its crew faced an uncertain fate.

• Professor Chen told Xia Chujian that Zuo Lunhui's wormhole calculations had a decimal error, and she assured him the ship had been repaired to match the correct data.
• Xia Chujian showed the wormhole to the crew and sent a photograph to Beichen Star, where Professor Chen and the observers celebrated the discovery.
• Seven Lù inspected the ship and confirmed it could withstand the passage, though the wormhole's stability and destination remained uncertain.
• Xia Chujian ordered the Interstellar Spaceship to enter the wormhole, and the vessel endured immense forces as it crossed the glowing grid.
• A black opening appeared ahead, and Seven Lù identified it as the wormhole's exit as the ship was pulled toward it.

Xia Chujian and her crew escaped the wormhole and arrived at Da Zang Star, where she prepared to investigate the planet despite unreliable data and the threat of an unknown powerful lifeform. The chapter left her ready to descend alone in her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha while the officers waited for her signal.

• The spaceship passed through the wormhole into the Da Zang Star Region, and Xia Chujian wondered about the power of the game's Mechanical Intelligence.
• Xia Chujian learned that Seven Lù had exhausted its limited in-game computing power and ordered the crew to prepare for a landing while she planned a reconnaissance mission.
• Li Fengqing, Ji Panxi, and three other Officers volunteered to join Xia Chujian, but she ordered them to remain aboard while she scouted Da Zang Star first.
• Xia Chujian told the Officers to descend if they had not heard from her within twenty-four hours, then asked Seven Lù to link her Mecha's communications to the Captain's Room.
• Xia Chujian reviewed Zuo Lunhui's estimates of Da Zang Star's oxygen, oceans, and terrain, but doubted their accuracy after the wormhole data proved severely wrong.