Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xiao fought Xie Yan in the tournament, enduring his black flames and using Star Skills to turn the battle around. After Xie Yan left the arena, Jiang Xiao broke through to Star River amid the gathered Star Power.

• Jiang Xiao kept getting back up as Xie Yan overpowered him in their Star Skill-free sparring match.
• Jiang Xiao announced he would use a Star Skill, and Xie Yan charged as their agreement not to use Star Skills ended.
• Xie Yan attacked Jiang Xiao with his black flames and shadow technique, while Jiang Xiao fought through the pain and refused to use his great blade.
• Jiang Xiao and Xie Yan traded powerful attacks, and Jiang Xiao used Silence, Blessing, and Light of Reversal against him.
• Jiang Xiao's Star Power surged as he lay in the arena, and Xie Yan sensed the breakthrough and left the field.
• The Big Dipper Nine Stars Chart appeared around Jiang Xiao as he broke through to Star River.

Jiang Xiao broke through to Star River Stage during his match with Xie Yan, who forfeited and left the field. Afterward, Jiang Xiao upgraded Unarmed Combat to Gold Quality and discovered it focused on grappling and ground techniques, prompting him to consider new sparring partners.

• Jiang Xiao advanced from Half-Step Star River to Star River Stage Lv.1 during his battle with Xie Yan.
• Xie Yan forfeited, explaining that Jiang Xiao had already won when he used Blessing, and the referee declared Jiang Xiao the victor.
• Jiang Xiao tested Space-Time Gap and found that it consumed far less Star Power than before.
• Jiang Xiao spent 10 Skill Points to upgrade Unarmed Combat to Gold Quality and received extensive grappling and ground-fighting techniques.
• Nine Tails considered finding a stronger sparring partner, while Jiang Xiao thought of using Xie Yan or Zhao Wenlong to practice his new skills.

Jiang Xiao left the National Team trials after Two Tails urgently called for help, while Zhao Wenlong and Hou Mingming settled their match with a spectacular bombardment. Two Tails waited beside a ruined warehouse as an angry man confronted soldiers carrying out a battered person.

• Zhao Wenlong and Hou Mingming exchanged attacks, then Hou Mingming unleashed a barrage of bombardment arrows as neither fighter defended or retreated.
• Fang Xingyun gave Jiang Xiao a phone and told him that Han Jiangxue was looking for him urgently.
• Jiang Xiao called Han Jiangxue, learned that Two Tails wanted to speak with him, and then called Two Tails back.
• Two Tails told Jiang Xiao that her Light Chasing Squad needed him, and Jiang Xiao agreed to go without hesitation.
• At a ruined warehouse, Two Tails heard an angry Tang Blade man accuse someone of failing to appreciate their help as soldiers carried out a battered person.

Jiang Xiao was summoned from the National Team selection to join Two Tails’s mission against a dangerous enemy near the Sacred Ruins. After Wu Ji approved his withdrawal and promised to keep his place open, Jiang Xiao left the stadium and waited for the military vehicle, determined to reach Two Tails.

• Shadow Crow demanded a direct hunt for the enemy, and Two Tails revealed that she had called in Nine Tails, her teammate Jiang Xiao.
• Jiang Xiao told Fang Xingyun that he was a Night Watch Army soldier and a member of the Tail Feather Team, then met selection leader Wu Ji, who approved his transfer to the mission.
• Wu Ji told Jiang Xiao to complete the mission and come back alive, while Hou Mingming called after him and reminded him that they still had a battle ahead.
• Jiang Xiao tried to call Two Tails without getting an answer, then waited outside Xuchang City Stadium as a military vehicle approached.

Jiang Xiao parachuted into the Konkkinder Republic, where he discovered the Dark Hall Holy Ruins and fought a giant crow that had split into a flock. His Star Skills drew the attention of the reinforcements, and Two Tails and Tiangou recognized him as Nine Tails.

• Jiang Xiao rode with soldiers on a military transport plane and signed a photograph for Yao Bowen, the son of a fellow soldier.
• Jiang Xiao jumped from the plane without a parachute and used his abilities to reach a mountaintop near the dark-red Portal.
• Jiang Xiao changed into black camouflage, received Two Tails' warning not to approach the Dark Hall Holy Ruins, and encountered a flock of one-eyed crows.
• Jiang Xiao used Silence to reveal that the flock was one giant crow, then killed it with his greatsword.
• Jiang Xiao summoned rain and lightning with Wounding Tear, weakening the crows as he attacked them from the sky.
• Tiangou spotted Jiang Xiao fighting above the battlefield, and Two Tails confirmed that he was Nine Tails.

Jiang Xiao helped Two Tails destroy a Sacred Ruins portal, reached Star River, and met two new teammates, Xiao Ye and Zhang Wenqing. The team returned to their vehicle, where Two Tails and Xiao Ye reacted with surprise when Jiang Xiao said he had advanced that morning.

• Jiang Xiao learned he had reached a hundred Gold Rank kills, stopped the Hurt Tears rain, and watched Two Tails destroy the Sacred Ruins portal with her Pegasus.
• Jiang Xiao collected a Gold Quality Shadow Crow Star Bead but chose not to absorb it, then noticed that Little Little had grown much larger.
• A flock of Shadow Crows delivered more than thirty Star Pearls to Jiang Xiao before transforming into Xiao Ye, who introduced himself as a new teammate.
• Jiang Xiao introduced himself, met Tiangou, Zhang Wenqing, and joined Two Tails and the others as they returned to their military vehicle.
• Two Tails asked when Jiang Xiao had advanced to Star River, and Xiao Ye reacted incredulously when Jiang Xiao said it had happened that morning.

Jiang Xiao was tasked with analyzing and locating Konkkinder, a Star Sea Stage criminal who protected Dark Hall Other Dimension Spaces and targeted medical Star Warriors. His team concluded that her hometown might be the key to drawing her out, and Two Tails proposed setting the village on fire.

• Shadow Crow briefed Jiang Xiao, Two Tails, and Tiangou on Konkkinder’s history, her Dark Hall Organization, and its attacks on civilians and soldiers.
• Two Tails ordered Jiang Xiao to understand Konkkinder, analyze her, and find her before the team received its next mission.
• Jiang Xiao and Tiangou theorized that Konkkinder’s hatred of ordinary people stemmed from losing both her biological and adoptive families, who were unable to protect her.
• Jiang Xiao questioned why Konkkinder had left her hometown, Ci'en Village, intact despite her hatred of ordinary people.
• Two Tails suggested burning Ci'en Village to draw Konkkinder out, and Shadow Crow agreed that she would likely appear if the village were threatened.

Jiang Xiao and Shadow Crow searched the abandoned village for Konkkinder’s home and set fire to her adoptive parents’ house. They discovered a hidden boy who defended Konkkinder, but he vanished before they left; the blaze was meant to draw her attention.

• Jiang Xiao and Shadow Crow discussed why their small team had to act without local forces, then headed for Konkkinder’s old home.
• Shadow Crow checked the empty house and lit it with a black-flame Star Skill while Jiang Xiao poured gasoline through the rooms.
• Jiang Xiao found a frightened teenage boy hiding in a bedroom and argued with him about Konkkinder and the new order she had created.
• The boy vanished into a puddle of mud after Jiang Xiao threatened to burn him with the house, while Shadow Crow acted as though nothing was wrong.
• Shadow Crow set the house ablaze, then scattered into a flock of crows as Jiang Xiao watched the fire and called for Konkkinder to come out.

A Dark Hall Organization meeting rallied its followers under the name Konkkinder as Jiang Xiao and Two Tails fought the group’s third combat team in a deserted village. The team was defeated, and Jiang Xiao captured one enemy alive, while Two Tails questioned his muddy restraint technique.

• A woman urged nearly a hundred followers to reject outside help and rallied them to the Dark Hall Organization, which they also called Konkkinder.
• Two Tails detected six enemies approaching underground, and one grabbed Jiang Xiao’s ankle before he blasted the attacker into a crater.
• Shadow Crow and Two Tails killed enemies using crow forms, a giant blade, and explosive attacks, while Tiangou transformed and sent shockwaves through the village.
• Jiang Xiao used Flashing and Silence to choke out the mud-wielding enemy and keep him alive as a captive.
• Two Tails said the group was Konkkinder’s third combat team, and Jiang Xiao responded to her question by asking, “Huh? Gensokyo?”

In Ci'en Village, Two Tails and Jiang Xiao learned that the Dark Hall Organization was marching toward 83 Fir City, while they suspected its leader might be using the attack to draw nearby forces away. They prepared to watch for her return to the village and shared what might be their last meal as Shadow Crow observed the enemy.

• Tiangou reported that the number of Dark Hall Organization Sacred Ruins opening across the country was falling, and expected them to stop within three days.
• Shadow Crow reported that nearly a hundred Dark Hall Organization members had destroyed the Korienna Town military camp and were heading north toward 83 Fir City.
• Two Tails and Tiangou considered whether the attack on Fir City was meant to divert forces while the Dark Hall leader returned to Ci'en Village and its burned wooden house.
• Two Tails ordered Shadow Crow to watch the enemy and Tiangou to keep communications open from the tallest building.
• Jiang Xiao brought cream puffs and milk through overlapping space, and he and Two Tails ate while awaiting the enemy's move.

Jiang Xiao, Two Tails, Shadow Crow, and Tiangou confronted Konkkinder in Ci'en Village, where the encounter escalated into a battle against her hidden true body. The village was swallowed by Konkkinder’s Mudflow River, and Jiang Xiao plunged toward her underground with his newly named Fourteenth Form, Letter of Divorce.

• Two Tails and Jiang Xiao prepared for Konkkinder’s arrival, and Jiang Xiao poured gasoline around the ruins of her biological parents’ home.
• Konkkinder arrived with two servants and revealed that she had brutally killed Two Tails’ former medic; Jiang Xiao and Two Tails declared their personal grudge and set the ruins alight.
• Konkkinder ordered her servants to kill, but Jiang Xiao used Voice of Silence as Tiangou attacked, while Shadow Crow and Two Tails killed the two servants.
• Jiang Xiao sensed through Domain Tear that the speaking Konkkinder was a Mud Body, then detected her true body underground as she unleashed a Mudflow River that swallowed the village.
• Two Tails, Tiangou, and Shadow Crow attacked Konkkinder from above while Jiang Xiao leaped down with his giant blade, naming the technique Xia Family Blade Art: Fourteenth Form Letter of Divorce.

Jiang Xiao and Two Tails tracked Konkkinder to 83 Fir City, where the Dark Hall Organization’s attack had turned the city into a battlefield of mud and betrayal. They broke through her defenses and Two Tails killed her, leaving the battle momentarily silent.

• Two Tails used her Long-tailed Lynx form to track Konkkinder’s scent, and Tiangou identified 83 Fir City as her likely destination.
• The Dark Hall Organization and Konkkinder soldiers fought through 83 Fir City as a vast Mudflow River devastated the city and civilians.
• Jiang Xiao’s Four-person Team arrived, and Konkkinder redirected the muddy sea toward them while the Huaxia forces advanced against her nine mud pillars.
• Jiang Xiao used Blessing to dizzy the three members maintaining Konkkinder’s shield, then kicked Konkkinder toward Two Tails.
• Two Tails cut Konkkinder in half and hurled her great blade into the Female Leader’s head, declaring that they were even.

After Jiang Xiao and Two Tails killed Konkkinder, the demoralized Dark Hall Organization forces were defeated and the battle ended. Jiang Xiao stayed among the devastated battlefield to heal the wounded, where a fellow soldier reminded him that he belonged among his comrades.

• Jiang Xiao and Two Tails killed Konkkinder, causing her fanatical followers to lose their will to fight as the soldiers attacked them.
• Jiang Xiao healed the surface troops with Bell Chime while reinforcements overwhelmed the Dark Hall Organization underground.
• After the fighting ended, Jiang Xiao continued treating the wounded as Two Tails recovered Konkkinder's Star Pearl and arranged for her remains to be returned to their superiors.
• Two Tails found Jiang Xiao shaken by a half-buried soldier and urged him to help the survivors, so he used Rain of Tears to locate and treat the wounded.
• A soldier Jiang Xiao had met on the plane recognized him and called him a comrade; Jiang Xiao told Two Tails that he had written the soldier’s child a message honoring his father.

After the victory in Konkkinder, Jiang Xiao and Two Tails returned home while the first wave of Huaxia troops withdrew and reconstruction continued. Two Tails revealed that the Female Leader’s remains and Star Pearl had been turned in, and warned Jiang Xiao that his proven abilities might bring greater responsibilities when they met an important Northwest Night Watch Army figure.

• The Dark Hall remnants were arrested, 83 Fir City was rebuilt with help from Huaxia and Konkkinder forces, and the sun rose over the region after the Holy Ruins were destroyed.
• The people of Konkkinder celebrated the dawn and honored the Night Watch Army, Light Chasing Group, and Tail Feather Team, especially Two Tails and Nine Tails.
• The first wave of assisting units received withdrawal orders, while a second wave arrived to aid reconstruction and pursue remaining threats.
• At the airport, Shadow Crow and Tiangou saw off Two Tails and Jiang Xiao, joking about future promotions and serving together.
• During the flight, Two Tails told Jiang Xiao that her application had been rejected and the Female Leader’s corpse and Star Pearl had been handed in.
• Two Tails urged Jiang Xiao to prepare for greater responsibilities, while Jiang Xiao protested that he was not suited to lead a team.

Jiang Xiaopi and Two Tails arrived at a military camp in Long Gan Province, where they were assigned to stand by. After sneaking out with Two Tails for a meal, Jiang Xiaopi found his Night Watch Officer Certificate and learned he had officially been registered as a lieutenant in the Northwest Night Watch Army’s Light Chasing Group and Tail Feather Team.

• Feng Yi welcomed Jiang Xiaopi and Two Tails, then brought them to a military camp and ordered them to rest that day and stand by the next.
• Jiang Xiaopi persuaded Two Tails to leave the camp with him to try the local beef noodles, and they returned after eating.
• Jiang Xiaopi found a Night Watch camouflage uniform and Officer Certificate waiting in his room.
• Jiang Xiaopi read his certificate and saw that he was listed as a lieutenant in the Northwest Night Watch Army’s Light Chasing Group and assigned to the Tail Feather Team.
• Jiang Xiaopi reasoned that his service date reflected his recruitment after meeting Two Tails in the Snowfield and that his achievements had earned his exceptional rank.

Jiang Xiao and Two Tails received the Night Watch Army’s Crescent Moon Medal for their contributions in battle, and Jiang Xiao unlocked the Merit System and gained 3,000 Skill Points. The chapter left Jiang Xiao reflecting on the honor while Two Tails quietly revisited the memories behind hers.

• Jiang Xiao dressed in his Night Watch Army uniform, and Two Tails showed him how to salute before Officer Feng Yi escorted them to meet a senior officer.
• The senior officer praised Two Tails for bringing the Northwest Night Watch Army a fine soldier and told Jiang Xiao that one day people would know the Han couple as his parents.
• Feng Yi led Jiang Xiao and Two Tails to a ceremony where both received the Crescent Moon Medal for their service.
• Jiang Xiao’s Inner Star Map unlocked the Merit System and awarded him 3,000 Skill Points for the medal.
• Jiang Xiao examined the medal and its certificate, while Two Tails quietly held hers and remembered her military career.
• Jiang Xiao went to Two Tails and gently placed his hand on her head as she studied the medal.

Jiang Xiao returned from Jincheng after his mission, said goodbye to Two Tails, and traveled toward home while catching up on news about the National Team selections. The chapter left him reflecting on the online uproar over Dai Lun’s defeat and the mystery surrounding his own fourth-place individual ranking.

• Two Tails told Jiang Xiao that she would lead three squads before commanding twelve Light Chasing Squads, and warned that she might recall him at any time.
• Jiang Xiao said goodbye to Two Tails at Jincheng Zhongchuan International Airport, passed through security after giving an autograph, and boarded his flight.
• Jiang Xiao landed at Shangdu Xinzheng Airport and read news about the National Team, including Song Chunxi’s selection and the teams chosen for the group competition.
• Jiang Xiao saw that Dai Lun had been eliminated by Magic Capital Star Warrior University and was facing widespread criticism online.
• Jiang Xiao read that he had ranked fourth in the National Team’s individual competition after defeating Xie Yan, then sighed at the speculation about why he had not competed for captain.

Jiang Xiao went to Ancient Tower Peak to train alone, but the staff refused to let him enter without an escort. He used his Night Watch Officer Certificate to pose as an inspector, and the chapter left him allowed to visit only the first level as word of his actions reached Tail Feather Team.

• Jiang Xiao went to Ancient Tower Peak instead of returning to his unit and planned to capture Ghost Face Monks for his Decoy to spar with.
• Wu Ke told Jiang Xiao that regulations required soldiers to accompany him, so Jiang Xiao showed him his Night Watch Officer Certificate.
• Wu Ke suspected the certificate was forged, detained Jiang Xiao, and reported the matter to his superiors.
• A North China Night Watch Army officer examined Jiang Xiao’s credentials and asked what instructions he had.
• Jiang Xiao claimed he wanted to inspect the posts and was allowed to visit the first level, but not the more dangerous upper levels.
• Jiang Xiao realized Tail Feather Team would hear that he had skipped returning to his unit and gone to Ancient Tower Peak.

Jiang Xiao returned from Ancient Tower Peak, learned that Two Tails had summoned him back to the National Team, and contacted Han Jiangxue to reassure her. Before rejoining the team, he ordered a lucky shirt bearing his number and a promise, then watched a televised interview in which he declared his ambitions for the World Cup.

• Jiang Xiao refined his sparring routine in his Calamity Shadow Ruins before returning to Earth and receiving Two Tails's message to return to the National Team.
• Jiang Xiao called Han Jiangxue, assured her he was safe, and learned that the team's final lineup was still being arranged.
• Jiang Xiao ordered a custom white shirt marked with 29 and “Heroes Never Die,” intending to wear it beneath the National Team uniform.
• Jiang Xiao watched his interview with Ye Xunyang on a mall television wall and heard her describe his career as a path leading to the Holy Hall.
• Jiang Xiao lowered his cap and disappeared into the crowd after the interview recalled his promise to break the World Cup record for a support warrior.

Jiang Xiao reunited with Han Jiangxue at the airport, where his antics broke the tension between the individual- and team-competition National Teams. As the teams waited to travel to the World Cup, he and Han Jiangxue discussed his mission, her Star Skill choices, and he tied up her hair.

• Hou Mingming and the other individual-competition National Team members waited at Liuting International Airport while travelers stared and took photos.
• The team-competition National Team arrived, and the two groups faced each other in a tense standoff.
• Jiang Xiao used Teleportation to appear beside Han Jiangxue, lifted and spun her, then escaped her attempt to lecture him, easing the hostility between the teams.
• Jiang Xiao told Han Jiangxue about his mission in the Konkkinder Republic and offered her Shadow Crow Star Beads, but she declined because she had only one usable Star Slot.
• Jiang Xiao advised Han Jiangxue to choose a mobility skill over large-scale output, and she pointed out that he was the only Star Warrior she had seen with teleportation.
• Jiang Xiao removed Han Jiangxue's hair tie and began tying her hair up with a silver-white ribbon.