Chapter Summaries

After the Judge Organization was defeated, Huo Yushen summoned Xia Chujian to hear her operation report and reassured her about Qi Yue’s suicide. He rewarded her for her work, but when she returned the bonus, he gave her a smaller personal payment and called it gun maintenance.

• Meng Guanghui told Huo Yushen that the Judge Organization had been wiped out and that Qi Yue had died by suicide, leaving Xia Chujian downcast.
• Huo Yushen sent Xia Chujian a message ordering her to report in person, and she flew up to his vehicle in the Shao Siming Mecha.
• Xia Chujian reported the operation and said she suspected someone beyond Judge had hired killers to target the real Yu Wangyou; Huo Yushen told her to keep that suspicion quiet.
• Huo Yushen transferred Xia Chujian a 777,777 Beichen Coin performance bonus, but she returned it after learning the highest bonus should go to her Leader.
• Huo Yushen gave Xia Chujian 66,666 from his own money and told her to keep it as a gun maintenance expense.

Huo Yushen gave Xia Chujian a top-grade sniper rifle and ammunition, and she returned home to celebrate her completed mission with her family. Over dinner, she and Xia Yuanfang discussed moving to Beichen Star next year and finding San Zong a way to study agriculture there.

• Huo Yushen gave Xia Chujian a Destroyer 1 Large Sniper Rifle and enough personal-use sniper bullets for life, then left after checking that she felt better.
• Xia Chujian returned home, maintained and admired the new rifle, then stored it and its ammunition in the Arsenal.
• Xia Yuanfang served a celebratory dinner, and Xia Chujian ate several fried dough sticks and more than twenty siu mai before the sleepy household members went to bed.
• Xia Chujian asked Xia Yuanfang whether she would move to Beichen Star next year, and Xia Yuanfang said she was considering it after Ning Sa's son recovered and San Zong completed his transformation.
• Xia Yuanfang wondered whether San Zong should attend university, and she and Xia Chujian agreed to ask Ning Sa about letting him audit agricultural classes on Beichen Star.

Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang planned to leave their estate fallow while they studied on Beichen Star, and San Zong proposed protecting the fields and animal enclosures with Mechanical Intelligence Controlled Greenhouses. Xia Chujian arranged the project with Bai Li Xin and secured three custom chips from Su Buyan in exchange for Crispy Small Sesame Cakes.

• Xia Chujian explained that the family would leave their land and livestock undisturbed during the two years Xia Yuanfang stayed on Beichen Star, and Xia Yuanfang agreed.
• Xia Chujian reassured San Zong that their stored food and future harvests would sustain them, and he proposed installing Mechanical Intelligence Controlled Greenhouses over the fields and animal enclosures.
• Xia Chujian asked Bai Li Xin to build the greenhouses, approved his three-million-Beichen-Coin estimate, and paid a six-hundred-thousand-Beichen-Coin deposit.
• Su Buyan warned Xia Chujian against ordering custom chips and offered to make three Mechanical Intelligence chips himself in exchange for Crispy Small Sesame Cakes.
• Xia Yuanfang sent Su Buyan one hundred cakes, and after he finished the chips, Xia Chujian told Bai Li Xin to cancel the custom chip order.

Xia Chujian and her family completed climate-controlled greenhouses, allowing San Zong to grow abundant crops through the early winter. After celebrating her nineteenth birthday and declaring she would remain nineteen forever, she welcomed the New Year with her family and fresh Wild Rhinoceros Pig dumplings.

• Bai Li Xin and his family helped Xia Chujian build greenhouses, and she installed Su Buyan's chips to run them under Mechanical Intelligence control.
• Xia Chujian, San Zong, and Aunt Chen enclosed the Wild Rhinoceros Pigs and Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds, while the controlled climate let San Zong plant more crops.
• Xia Chujian helped San Zong farm, and the rice and wheat yields rose sharply as their saved seeds gained an insect-protection Superpower.
• Xia Chujian celebrated her nineteenth birthday with gifts and messages, returned part of Quan Yuxun's red envelope, and announced that she would no longer celebrate birthdays.
• For New Year's Eve, Xia Chujian and A Wu and A Yuan caught a fat Wild Rhinoceros Pig, and Liushun butchered it after Xia Chujian uploaded a pig-slaughtering program.

Xia Chujian prepared Wild Rhinoceros Pig dishes for New Year and sent them as gifts to her friends across several stars. Huo Yushen received his package, and his mother She Zhuyin tasted the food before he could stop her.

• Liushun explained the value of every part of the Wild Rhinoceros Pig while dismantling it, and Xia Chujian decided to cook the head meat, ears, and tail herself.
• A Yuan ate almost an entire braised pig tongue and said the cartilage blocking her speech was nearly gone.
• Xia Chujian exchanged New Year greetings and gifts with Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, Quan Yuxun, and others, then sent her dishes by express courier to friends on Beichen Star, Kanli Star, and Cangge Star.
• Huo Yushen received Xia Chujian’s food at home, but She Zhuyin opened and plated it before he could stop her.
• She Zhuyin tasted the green-chili stir-fried braised Pig Head Meat and became absorbed in its flavor.

Xia Chujian’s New Year’s Eve dishes of fresh Wild Rhinoceros Pig Meat delighted She Zhuyin, Huo Yushen, Quan Yuxun, and Su Buyan, who all asked for more. With her food stores running low, Xia Chujian reluctantly divided the remaining portions among them, while Huo Yushen found even the Imperial Family’s New Year rice balls inferior to her cooking.

• She Zhuyin and Huo Yushen eagerly ate Xia Chujian’s Pig Head Meat, pig ears, and pig tails, and She Zhuyin urged her son to marry Xia Chujian for her cooking.
• Quan Yuxun and Su Buyan ate Xia Chujian’s dishes after their family dinners, and Su Buyan suspected they were made from fresh Wild Rhinoceros Pig Meat.
• Su Buyan blamed the Rong Clan for Xia Chujian’s troubles and regretted losing the chance to mooch meals from her during the semester.
• Xia Chujian exchanged New Year greetings with Su Buyan, Quan Yuxun, and Huo Yushen, who each praised the food and asked for more.
• Xia Chujian divided her dwindling remaining stores into portions for Huo Yushen, Su Buyan, and Quan Yuxun.
• After New Year’s bells rang on Beichen Star, Huo Yushen ate the Imperial Family’s rice balls and thought they were far inferior to Xia Chujian’s cooking.

Huo Yushen told She Zhuyin that his sense of taste had returned after he entered the first realm of the Six Heavens Realm, while keeping Xia Chujian’s role secret. Xia Chujian returned to Beichen Star for the start of classes, and Wenren Zhao warned foreign generals that the Southern Cross Star Kingdom would be defeated by the Beichen Empire.

• Huo Yushen told She Zhuyin that his genes had evolved beyond Rank 3S and that he had reached the Ming Level, the first realm of the Six Heavens Realm.
• Huo Yushen suggested that a God from the East Tianyuan God Country had triggered his evolution, and She Zhuyin connected him to the region’s recent upheavals.
• Xia Chujian returned to her villa on Beichen Star, learned Zong Ruoning and Ying Wuxin had visited, and went to sleep before the new semester began.
• Wenren Zhao received General Nance Yan and General Zolun Liang and claimed God had revealed the Southern Cross Star Kingdom’s future defeat.
• Wenren Zhao predicted that a Beichen Empire general would destroy the Southern Cross Star Kingdom’s warships within four years, leaving Nance Yan alarmed and Zolun Liang questioning whether Huo Yushen would return to the front lines.

Wenren Zhao told Nance Yan and Zolun Liang that a Beichen Empire Military Academy student would threaten all three nations, and persuaded them to cooperate in finding him. The two leaders left uncertain about her prophecy and frustrated that it offered no advanced military technology.

• Wenren Zhao said the Ximanielli Federation would fall twenty years after the Southern Cross Star Kingdom and revealed that it was researching Star Destroyers, angering Nance Yan.
• Wenren Zhao claimed that a first-year student at a Beichen Empire Military Academy would eventually destroy all three nations and said the student had ordinary aptitude, average grades, and might come from Kanli Star.
• Wenren Zhao proposed using their students in the Interstellar Joint Class and other agents to identify the unknown student and eliminate him before he became a threat.
• Nance Yan lost his temper and shattered a tea table, but apologized and asked Wenren Zhao for her plan.
• Nance Yan and Zolun Liang departed Da Zang Star, then discussed whether Wenren Zhao’s prophecy was true and questioned why her god could not provide Second Generation Mecha or Star Destroyer technology.

Zolun Liang ordered agents to steal the Beichen Empire’s new military technology as Xia Chujian prepared to return to the academy. On her first day back, she faced classmates’ barbed remarks and learned that most foreign students had failed the Game Course.

• Zolun Liang rejected Nance Yan’s proposal to jointly develop Star Destroyer technology and sent secret orders to operatives and Zolun Family students in the Beichen Empire.
• Xia Chujian reviewed the school forum and saw how her reputation had fallen during her absence.
• Flying Bird drove Xia Chujian to the school and refused to reveal who had asked it to care for her, while relaying an apology from that person.
• Xia Chujian answered classmates’ mocking remarks on the Suspension Train and reunited with Tao Pao.
• Tao Pao and the other students told Xia Chujian that only two Southern Cross Star Kingdom students among the foreign Interstellar Joint Class students had passed the Game Course.
• Xia Chujian laughed when she learned the other foreign students had failed the required course.

Xia Chujian began her semester by recognizing that Gu Demao and Pan Nanjie were distancing themselves from her and spending time with the Interstellar Joint Class. In a weapons manufacturing course, she learned she would need to design and build a weapon with distinct specifications, leaving her eager to make a Sniper Rifle and Chen Yanjun confident that hands-on work would challenge the boastful students.

• Xia Chujian reunited with her Star Destroyer Class classmates and noticed Gu Demao and Pan Nanjie were cool toward her.
• Xia Chujian accepted Chen Yanjun's Quantum Optical Brain friend request and prompted him to report Gu Demao and Pan Nanjie's closeness to Interstellar Joint Class students to Political Commissioner Zong Ruoning.
• Xia Chujian saw Gu Demao and Pan Nanjie sitting with the Interstellar Joint Class during Lecturer Lin's Weapon Mechanical Manufacturing and Principles course.
• Lecturer Lin assigned the students to choose and build a weapon with specifications that differed from existing models and were no worse than the lowest standard.
• Xia Chujian grew excited about making a Sniper Rifle, while Chen Yanjun mocked students who had relied on rote copying.

Xia Chujian confronted Wenren Sanshang after he accused the Beichen Empire of blocking knowledge about Second Generation Mecha, and her retorts won over many classmates. The students chose weapon-manufacturing specialties and were assigned class times, while Wenren continued disrupting the lesson and the teacher warned him to behave.

• Chen Yanjun mocked Li Shicai and Shi Miler for boasting about taking first place, while both resolved to prove themselves in weapon-making.
• Xia Chujian asked how the weapon-manufacturing course would work, and Lecturer Lin explained that students would use school-provided materials at the ordnance factory without Mechanical Intelligence assistance.
• Wenren Sanshang asked to study Second Generation Mecha production and accused the Beichen Empire of hypocrisy when Lecturer Lin refused; Xia Chujian then denounced him as a would-be thief, prompting laughter from the Beichen students.
• Lecturer Lin explained the course schedule, and Xia Chujian chose Sniper Rifles alongside Li Shicai, Shi Miler, and Wenren Sanshang; the students were divided into four weapon groups.
• Wenren Sanshang complained about sharing class time with other weapon groups, and Xia Chujian mocked him until Lecturer Lin warned him to observe classroom discipline or leave.

Wenren Sanshang demanded a duel with Xia Chujian after she taunted him about the ruined Wenren Clan Temple. Xia Chujian eagerly accepted, and Wenren Sanshang’s insistence that she kowtow ensured the duel would go ahead.

• Wenren Sanshang reflected on his ambition to claim leadership of the Wenren Clan and his determination to obtain Second Generation Mecha technology.
• Lecturer Lin finished the lesson and announced that the class would visit the School-Run Ordnance Factory.
• Wenren Sanshang asked whether students who finished making guns early could pursue more advanced study, and Xia Chujian suggested he learn Temple restoration instead.
• Wenren Sanshang accused Xia Chujian of insulting his God and challenged her to a duel; Chen Yanjun offered to fight him in her place.
• Lecturer Lin warned Xia Chujian and Wenren Sanshang that a Life and Death Contract was legally binding and could lead to death.
• Wenren Sanshang demanded that Xia Chujian kowtow, and she refused, declaring that she accepted the duel.

Xia Chujian accepted Wenren Sanshang’s challenge despite Mai Aotuo warning her that his marksmanship had been honed by killing people. Their Life and Death Contract was approved and signed, leaving the duel legally binding.

• Xia Chujian challenged Wenren Sanshang to a duel, and Lecturer Lin ended class and left to report the situation to the school leaders.
• Mai Aotuo warned Xia Chujian that Wenren Sanshang was a deadly marksman and offered to train her, but she refused and said she would still duel him.
• Xia Chujian applied for a Life and Death Contract template, but the school placed her request under review.
• Xia Chujian taunted Wenren Sanshang on the School Suspension Train, prompting him to apply for his own contract.
• Wenren Sanshang received approval from the Mechanical Intelligence, and Xia Chujian signed the contract, making it legally binding.

Xia Chujian and Wenren Sanshang signed a legally binding Life and Death Contract and prepared to duel before lunch, alarming school officials and those close to her. As the school forum erupted with speculation, Quan Yuxun found legal loopholes that might invalidate the contract but wondered whether Xia Chujian wanted the duel to proceed.

• School officials learned that Wenren Sanshang had submitted the Life and Death Contract and that its automatic approval made the duel binding, then asked Quan Yuxun to help find a way to cancel it.
• Wenren Sanshang spread news of the duel, and students argued over whether Xia Chujian had the shooting skill to defeat him.
• Mai Aotuo asked Wenren Sanshang whether Xia Chujian had been the sharpshooter who faced him earlier, while Fan Ruisi questioned whether Mai hoped Xia was skilled enough to win.
• Xia Chujian complained about the mandatory three-hour cooling-off period, while Huo Yushen and Su Buyan reacted to the duel and Su urged her to wear her mecha.
• Su Buyan woke Quan Yuxun and told him that his client had signed a Life and Death Contract; Quan reassured him that Xia would likely win.
• Quan Yuxun read Zong Ruoning's request, found several legal loopholes in the contract, and hesitated to disclose them because he suspected Xia Chujian wanted the duel.

Quan Yuxun learned that Xia Chujian wanted to go through with her Life and Death Contract duel against Wenren Sanshang, despite Zong Ruoning’s efforts to stop it. After Zong Ruoning confronted her at the ordnance factory, Xia Chujian insisted she could kill Wenren Sanshang with one shot.

• Zong Ruoning asked Quan Yuxun to help Xia Chujian avoid her duel, and Quan Yuxun agreed to review the Life and Death Contract.
• At the Military Academy’s School-Run Ordnance Factory, Xia Chujian and her classmates began learning to make weapons by hand, starting with paper-and-pen designs.
• Quan Yuxun contacted Xia Chujian, but she rejected his offer to interfere and asked him to tell Zong Ruoning to stop worrying.
• Quan Yuxun told Zong Ruoning that Xia Chujian knew what she was doing and predicted the duel would be a one-sided beating.
• Zong Ruoning went to the ordnance factory to speak with Xia Chujian, who told him to trust that she could kill Wenren Sanshang with one shot.

Xia Chujian faced Wenren Sanshang in a life-and-death duel at the Shooting Range, where his powerful Assault Rifle and her Sniper Rifle drew a large crowd. She shot him repeatedly and asked the spectators to confirm that she had won.

• Zong Ruoning warned Xia Chujian about the duel, and she promised to use her Second Generation Mecha to escape if necessary.
• Wenren Sanshang decided to kill Xia Chujian and arrived at the Shooting Range with a Frostfall 100 Assault Rifle.
• Xia Chujian revealed her Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle as the crowd doubted that she could overcome Wenren Sanshang's weapon advantage.
• When the duel began, Xia Chujian fired three shots that struck Wenren Sanshang's rifle, forehead, and heart, causing the rifle to explode.
• Xia Chujian fired several more shots into Wenren Sanshang's head and throat, then asked the crowd to verify that he was dead and that she had won.

Xia Chujian killed Wenren Sanshang in a duel, stunning the students and prompting Shan Jingsheng to seek revenge on behalf of the Wenren Clan. Wenren Zhao learned of the death and asked what response the Beichen Empire would give.

• A referee confirmed that Wenren Sanshang was dead after Xia Chujian shot him six times.
• Shan Jingsheng demanded that Xia Chujian surrender, but Chen Yanjun and Jiang Sheng reminded him that the duel's Life and Death Contract had legal force.
• Shan Jingsheng and Qian Changxin left for their dormitory, where Shan sent Qian to find Coordinating Commissioner Wang Shiying and contacted the Wenren Clan himself.
• Wenren Zhao learned that Wenren Sanshang had been killed and recalled that he had also died in the history she knew, though then at the hands of the Judge Organization.
• Shan Jingsheng told Wenren Zhao about the duel and urged her to avenge Wenren Sanshang, and she asked what the Beichen Empire would do in response.

Wenren Zhao and Shan Jingsheng sought to punish Xia Chujian for killing Wenren Sanshang, but Beichen Empire officials refused to intervene because the duel had been protected by a Life and Death Contract. As the school forum condemned the demands as blatant double standards, Huo Yushen ordered the posts to spread across Star Net.

• Wenren Zhao agreed with Shan Jingsheng to pursue official pressure against Xia Chujian and considered finding a distant relative to support the Wenren Clan.
• Qian Changxin told Wang Shiying that Xia Chujian had killed Wenren Sanshang, and Wang promised the East Tianyuan God Country an explanation.
• Wang Shiying demanded that the Gendarmerie Department arrest Xia Chujian, but the operator said the signed Life and Death Contract made the duel lawful.
• Wang Shiying contacted other school departments, but their staff refused to arrest Xia Chujian, while forum users criticized his double standards.
• Mai Aotuo denounced people from the East Tianyuan God Country in a forum post, and Huo Yushen told Kang Shanxing to let the posts spread on Star Net.

An anonymous Star Net post exposed Wang Shiying’s attempt to have Xia Chujian arrested after she won a duel under a Life and Death Contract. As the story went viral and drew public outrage, Wang Shiying’s superior ignored his call, leaving him scrambling to find a new patron.

• Kang Shanxing agreed to monitor Star Net for posts about Imperial Royal First Military University, while suspecting Xia Chujian had caused trouble again.
• Members of the “I Love Xia Chujian” fan club debated how to expose the Coordinating Commissioner without breaking school rules, until a member shared Flying Bird’s viral post.
• Flying Bird’s post showed Xia Chujian defeating Wenren Sanshang in a duel and accused Wang Shiying of pressuring the School Authorities to charge her with murder despite their Life and Death Contract.
• The post and its animated duel footage climbed into the Hot Search top three, and Chen Yanjun and other fan club members rallied users to defend Xia Chujian.
• Wang Shiying saw the viral post after his superior sent him the link, but his superior declined his Video Call, so Wang Shiying began looking for a new patron.

Wang Shiying’s role in the duel scandal was exposed, costing him his post, while Wenren Zhao abandoned plans to retaliate publicly and began arranging a visit to the Beichen Empire. Xia Chujian’s aunt and allies reacted to her victory, and Su Buyan learned that she possessed Absolute Gun Sense; the chapter ended with the Dark Night Hunter Association squad waiting to congratulate her.

• Star Net users identified Wang Shiying, whose scandalous conduct prompted public calls for his removal; he suffered a severe stroke and was replaced as coordinating commissioner.
• Wenren Zhao’s effort to retaliate over Wenren Sanshang’s death was thwarted by the trending scandal, so she decided to visit the Beichen Empire while seeking her uncle Shen Junyi, also known as Wenren Yi, as a potential successor.
• Xia Yuanfang recognized Xia Chujian in the duel footage and joked that she might have won even faster with her opponent’s weapon.
• Su Buyan asked Quan Yuxun about Xia Chujian’s marksmanship, learned she had Absolute Gun Sense, and received reassurance that there were no legal loopholes in the duel contract.
• After Xia Chujian finished class at the School-Run Ordnance Factory, the Dark Night Hunter Association squad sent her a group Video Call invitation to congratulate her.