Chapter Summaries

Yun Yujin and Xi Muyan tried to kill the Emperor and seize power, but Su Qiao intervened and fought their forces. The Emperor revealed that he had taken an antidote long ago, and Su Qiao returned after defeating the attackers.

• Yun Yujin accused the Emperor of rejecting her, then broke down and tried to kill him with a sword.
• Su Qiao snapped Yun Yujin's sword and stood between her and the Emperor.
• Xi Muyan summoned his Long Blade Squad, which clashed with Su Qiao's Scythe Reaper Squad.
• Su Qiao charged into the fight, while the Emperor scolded Xi Hanzhou for turning her into someone who fought so eagerly.
• The Emperor revealed that he had taken an Antidote Pill long ago and had only pretended to be helpless.
• Su Qiao returned after fighting the attackers.

Su Qiao and the Emperor discussed how they had anticipated the Fourth Prince’s rebellion, and the Emperor revealed that his forces were ready to strike. The rebellion’s attackers were surrounded as Gu Jincheng’s main force broke into the palace.

• The Scythe Squad joined the Crossbow Squad and Spear Squad to surround the Fourth Prince’s people.
• Gu Jincheng’s main force broke into the palace, and Su Qiao relaxed when she heard the battle cry.
• The Emperor admitted that he had been prepared and asked how Su Qiao knew he was pretending to be poisoned.
• Su Qiao explained that she had prepared medicine in case of poisoning and suspected trouble after seeing guards carrying red silk.
• Su Qiao insisted that her accurate premonitions had warned her about earlier dangers as well.

Su Qiao and Xi Hanzhou discussed her perilous childhood and their hopes for the future with the Emperor, who insisted they focus on recovery and succession. The palace coup was settled, leaving Xi Hanzhou set to inherit the throne and Su Qiao set to become Empress.

• Su Qiao told the Emperor that her stepmother had tried to poison her when she was an infant, but she had knocked away the porridge.
• The Emperor suspected Su Qiao was hiding extraordinary abilities, while Xi Hanzhou comforted her about her past.
• Xi Hanzhou suggested the Emperor raise another heir so they could eventually roam the martial world together, but the Emperor told him to recuperate and consider adopting a nephew later.
• The Imperial Noble Consort died while fleeing, Xi Muyan survived with a severed leg, and Grand Tutor Yun committed suicide after the palace coup.
• The Emperor demoted officials from the Imperial Noble Consort's family who had not joined the coup and barred their descendants from office for five generations.
• The ministers learned that Xi Hanzhou would become the next emperor and Su Qiao the next Empress.

Su Qiao visited the defeated Su Yuxin after the Fourth Prince's failed rebellion and revealed why she had helped Xi Hanzhou. She left Su Yuxin confronting the gap between her claims of pure love and her ambitions for power.

• Chief Physician Yu announced that Su Qiao's leg ailment had been cured, while Su Yuxin learned that Xi Muyan's rebellion had failed and he had been crippled and confined.
• Su Qiao visited Su Yuxin at the old manor and mocked her belief that Xi Muyan would become Emperor and make her Empress.
• Su Yuxin suspected that Su Qiao had written the storybooks and operas that helped bring Xi Muyan down.
• Su Qiao said she loved Xi Hanzhou and had helped him, then criticized Su Yuxin for pursuing Xi Muyan despite his past with other women and for mixing ambition with her supposed devotion.

Su Qiao confronted Su Yuxin about her schemes and warned her not to reveal Su Qiao’s origins. She then told Su Yuxin she would be sent to keep Xi Muyan company, leaving Su Yuxin terrified of being locked up with him.

• Su Qiao said she had once considered giving Su Yuxin a peaceful life but blamed her for the trouble she now faced.
• Su Yuxin threatened to expose Su Qiao’s origins, and Su Qiao countered that Su Yuxin’s strange inventions made her more suspicious.
• Su Qiao threatened Su Yuxin with a painful execution if she spoke about her, and Su Yuxin begged for mercy.
• Su Qiao told Su Yuxin that Xi Muyan had asked for her company and promised to free her after he died.
• Su Yuxin protested that she did not want to be locked up with Xi Muyan.

Su Qiao pressured Su Yuxin into agreeing to kill the Fourth Prince in exchange for protection and a comfortable life. After sending Su Yuxin to the Fourth Prince’s estate, Su Qiao left with Xi Hanzhou to go hunting outside the city.

• Su Yuxin panicked at Su Qiao’s demand, haunted by nightmares about killing her mother.
• Su Qiao warned Su Yuxin that being burned alive would be agonizing and offered to protect her if she followed instructions.
• Su Yuxin agreed to do as Su Qiao asked, hoping to preserve her newly reborn life and gain peace and prosperity.
• Su Qiao sent Su Yuxin by carriage to the estate where the Fourth Prince was confined.
• Xi Hanzhou questioned Su Qiao about sending Su Yuxin there, but she said he would soon understand and led him out to hunt.
• Xi Hanzhou asked to ride the same horse as Su Qiao, then stopped himself from threatening anyone when he remembered her view of him.

Su Qiao and Xi Hanzhou married after she avenged him and settled Su Yuxin, while the Emperor protected Su Qiao from court pressure. Su Qiao gave birth to Dragon-Phoenix Twins, and when they turned one, the Emperor abdicated in Xi Hanzhou’s favor and went traveling.

• Xi Hanzhou insisted Su Qiao sit in front of him on horseback so he could protect her from falling.
• Xi Muyan was burned alive when his estate caught fire, while Su Yuxin escaped; Su Qiao later arranged a home and servants for Su Yuxin.
• Prime Minister Su was demoted and forced to withdraw from court, and the Emperor rejected the ministers’ proposal to give Xi Hanzhou more consorts.
• After the New Year, Xi Hanzhou married Su Qiao in a lavish wedding with six hundred and eighty loads of dowry.
• Su Qiao became pregnant and gave birth to Dragon-Phoenix Twins, prompting the Emperor to declare a general amnesty.
• When the twins turned one, the Emperor abdicated in favor of Xi Hanzhou and went traveling with several consorts.

Su Qiao found herself in a cold, foul-smelling wilderness with an armed expedition group that treated her with contempt. As the group continued on, Jiang Keyun and Ding Hongguang mocked Su Qiao for sharing a name with a loser.

• Su Qiao arrived among eleven people in a remote, overgrown area and ignored Jiang Keyun's demand that she take a backpack.
• Jiang Keyun accused Su Qiao of being weak and a burden, while a professor defended her physical limitations.
• Ding Hongguang agreed to carry Jiang Keyun's backpack after the group's tall leader pointed out her injured ankle.
• Jiang Keyun and Ding Hongguang insulted Su Qiao over her name, leaving her confused about the group's hostility.

Su Qiao tried to understand her low standing in the team as she traveled across the strange Planet D. The chapter left her without a way to scan for danger because radiation and an abnormal magnetic field were disrupting 444.

• Jiang Keyun bullied Su Qiao by demanding that she carry a backpack, and Gao Cheng silenced the arguing team members.
• Su Qiao noticed that the other two men knew Jiang Keyun was bullying her but stayed silent.
• Su Qiao asked 444 where they were, and 444 identified the place as Planet D.
• Su Qiao asked 444 to scan for danger, but 444 said radiation and an abnormal magnetic field were corrupting its data.

Su Qiao learned that humanity had left the ruined D Planet after wars and disasters devastated it, and she began sorting through her memories while traveling with the group. The story left her on Planet Mercury, humanity’s new home, still facing threats from mutated creatures and humans.

• Su Qiao learned that radiation and widespread pollution remained on D Planet centuries after nuclear war, Ability User battles, and natural disasters.
• Su Qiao sensed the group’s strength and asked 444 to watch over them while she sorted through her memories.
• Su Qiao recalled that a meteorite virus had caused humans, animals, and plants to mutate, beginning the apocalypse more than a thousand years earlier.
• Su Qiao remembered that humanity rebuilt its governments and restored order before another global war and disasters made D Planet uninhabitable.
• Su Qiao recalled that humanity migrated to Planet Mercury, a world with cleaner air and water, whose surface was mostly ocean.

Five hundred years after humanity left Planet D, H-Xia sent Ability Teams back to search for secrets of longevity and ways to awaken Mental Abilities, despite the planet’s extreme dangers. Su Qiao, a weak Ability User from one of H-Xia’s great families, appeared among one of the powerful teams.

• Humanity’s leaders identified short lifespans and the scarcity of Mental Ability Users as urgent problems for survival and military strength.
• Countries began sending Ability Teams to Planet D to seek knowledge about longevity and Mental Abilities.
• Planet D remained hazardous, with radiation, chaotic magnetic fields, giant mutated creatures, and a lack of safe transport and water.
• Other countries stopped sending teams after suffering heavy losses, but H-Xia continued to dispatch teams for cautious exploration.
• Su Qiao joined a powerful-looking team despite having an almost negligible ability.

Su Qiao learned about the original owner's life, from her limited Mental Ability and passion for studying Planet D to her death after someone pushed her into a sinkhole. She inherited the original owner's wishes to investigate Planet D, map it, write a paper, and discover who tried to kill her.

• The original owner was born with a Mental Ability, but it barely improved, and her family's regard for her declined.
• She studied Planet D's ancient culture, gained recognition through her research, and joined Professor Jiang Hongzhi's expedition after learning about it from Su Suya.
• The expedition team treated her like a servant, but she was excited to explore Planet D firsthand.
• Mutated Humans ambushed the team and killed two members, after which others took out their anger on the original owner.
• Someone shoved the original owner into a sinkhole, killing her before she could fulfill her wishes.
• Su Qiao reflected that the killer might not have held a grudge and could simply have found the original owner an eyesore.

Su Qiao traveled with the team as they encountered a group of Mutated Humans. While Captain Gao organized the defense and Professor Jiang and Liu Yue were escorted away, Su Qiao looked back at the approaching enemies.

• Su Qiao wondered whether the man she was looking for had joined a stronger Ability Team scouting ahead.
• 444 sensed an abnormal change in the air, and Su Qiao prepared for danger.
• Uncle Qi returned from scouting and warned that thirty or forty Mutated Humans were approaching.
• Xiao Wu charged forward in anger, but Captain Gao pulled him back and ordered Liuzi and Xiao Wu to escort Professor Jiang and Liu Yue away.
• Professor Jiang asked Captain Gao to keep one Mutated Human alive if possible, and Su Qiao saw the group’s strange bark-skinned bodies.

Su Qiao fled from the attacking Mutated Humans with Professor Jiang and the others, but she fell behind while studying them. After an unseen force sent her tumbling into a deep pit, 444 urged her to grab the dead roots along its wall.

• Su Qiao recalled how the Mutated Humans had evolved on Planet D and observed that they fought through injuries without feeling pain.
• The Mutated Humans charged the group through the forest, forcing the Ability Users to fight with their abilities and knives.
• Professor Jiang and Liu Yue ran ahead with Xiao Wu and Liuzi while Su Qiao lagged behind under her heavy pack.
• Su Qiao was knocked into a sinkhole, and 444 told her to grab the dead tree roots on the wall before she fell farther.

Su Qiao survived her fall into a deep cave but found herself trapped inside a stone coffin with an ancient corpse. She struggled to free her injured arm as the corpse sucked her blood.

• Su Qiao grabbed a tree root and rocks during her fall, landed safely, and cut her arm.
• Su Qiao used a Glow Stick to see the cave and discovered scattered bones and freshly torn corpses.
• Su Qiao realized she was inside a Stone Coffin, sitting astride a man in a black Python Robe.
• Su Qiao saw that the Ancient Corpse had come alive and was sucking blood from her injured arm.

Su Qiao escaped the Ancient Corpse after it sucked her blood, then confronted it in the Underground Cave. The man in ancient clothes kept calling her fragrant and evaded her attacks, leaving her unsure what kind of creature he was.

• Su Qiao realized the Ancient Corpse had been sucking her blood and fought free of the Stone Coffin.
• Su Qiao ran through the Underground Cave, fearing she might be assimilated after the creature touched her wound.
• Su Qiao found the man in a black Python Robe approaching her with blood on his mouth and muttering that she smelled fragrant.
• Su Qiao summoned her golden sword and attacked, but the man appeared around her with strange movements and avoided every strike.

Su Qiao tried to keep the strange man from approaching and insisted she was not the Xiangxiang he sought. After 444 restored its system, Su Qiao wondered if the man was a Mutated Zombie left over from the ancient apocalypse.

• Su Qiao stopped attacking the man when she realized he was far stronger than she was and demanded to know who Xiangxiang was.
• The man ignored her warnings and stared at her wound before licking his lips, making Su Qiao fear he wanted to drink her blood.
• Su Qiao pointed out the corpses nearby as alternative food, but the man turned away from them and pointed at her, saying, “Xiang... xiang...”
• 444 restored its system and appeared beside Su Qiao, who suggested the man might be a Mutated Zombie.

Su Qiao suspected the dazed man in the Underground Cave might be the Great Demon King, but she fled when 444 warned that his Mental Power had nearly destroyed its data system. After failing to find a way out, she turned back, accepting that she might have to face him again.

• 444 said the man was likely the Great Demon King, though it could not scan him because his Mental Power had nearly destroyed its data system.
• Su Qiao ran toward the entrance while the man stayed still and watched her leave.
• Su Qiao realized her backpack and belongings were still inside the Underground Cave.
• 444 urged Su Qiao not to abandon the man, saying his Soul Fluctuation felt familiar and that they might be fated to meet.
• Su Qiao stopped before the dark, ominous cave and turned back, reluctantly accepting that the man might be her thousand-year-old zombie companion.

Su Qiao investigated the bodies of a scouting team in the underground cave and learned from 444 that the connected caverns were dangerous. She tried to keep her distance from the man who had emerged from the stone coffin, but he followed her and said her blood smelled fragrant.

• Su Qiao searched the four bodies and found that they belonged to the Divine Eagle Squad, an Ability Team that had scouted the area a week earlier.
• 444 explained that the caves were connected and warned Su Qiao that Mutated Animals and Mutated Humans could be nearby.
• Su Qiao wondered how the stone coffin had ended up in the cave, then quietly retrieved her backpack.
• The man appeared behind Su Qiao and reached for her, calling her fragrant.
• Su Qiao insisted he had mistaken her for someone else, and 444 told her he wanted to drink her blood.

Su Qiao discovered that she could cultivate the Wood Element Cultivation Technique in the spiritually dense underground shelter. She considered teaching the strangely imitative man, who remained calm around her, and planned to use cultivation techniques to disguise herself as a Multi-element Ability User.

• Su Qiao poked the motionless man with a branch and asked his name and how he had used his ability to move.
• Su Qiao sensed dense spiritual energy nearby, and 444 explained that much of Planet D had recovered since the war.
• Su Qiao began practicing Qi Induction and discovered she could cultivate the Wood Element Cultivation Technique.
• The man silently watched Su Qiao, then copied her by sitting cross-legged on her cushion.
• Su Qiao told 444 that cultivation techniques could let her imitate multiple elemental abilities and make life more convenient.