Chapter Summaries

Bai Fu used Igor’s revelations to rally players and Zu Yuan Star’s enemies of the Gene Primordial into a sweeping assault that routed its forces and brought her into Haidu. After killing General Pombaton, she asked to be taken to Xia Shude to learn where Xia Shi was being held.

• Igor and Digging Princess revealed the truth about the Great Cataclysm, while Digging Princess’s speculation that Bai Fu was the Darknight Sovereign inspired players on Indigo Star to join her faction.
• Bai Fu deployed players and allied forces against the Gene Primordial after Igor’s broadcast sparked public outrage, and the Gene Primordial’s forces suffered attacks across its territory.
• Pombaton and the Seven-Member Council learned that their lord Suixing had found a compatible artificial-human vessel, but their plans were disrupted as the Gene Primordial’s camps fell.
• An Ya directed the players as they captured military camps, while Bai Fu led an assault on the Haidu garrison camp and then entered Haidu with Yulia’s help.
• Bai Fu killed Pombaton, took control of the city, and ordered a prisoner to lead her to Xia Shude so she could find Xia Shi.

Bai Fu led the assault on Haidu and the Gene Primordial’s Underground Base, killing the Seven-Member Council members who resisted and reaching Suixing’s chamber. As she shattered the barrier around Suixing, he recognized her darkness-attributed spirit energy and declared that she was not from Zu Yuan Star.

• After Pombaton’s death disrupted the Gene Primordial’s command, Bai Fu’s players stormed Haidu while the city’s high-level espers hid from her.
• Xia Shude prepared to rescue Xia Shi, but Bai Fu arrived and asked him to lead her to the Underground Base.
• Bai Fu and her allies fought through the base, killed the Seven-Member Council members, and confronted the transformed Satori, whom Yulia held back.
• Bai Fu reached Xia Shi and Suixing’s chamber, where players destroyed Suixing’s mechanical defenses with repeated explosions.
• Bai Fu used Ling Blast to shatter Suixing’s glass enclosure, and Suixing recognized her darkness-attributed spirit energy and said she was not from Zu Yuan Star.

Bai Fu defeated Suixing and escaped the collapsing Underground Base after rescuing Xia Shi, while Digging Princess’s livestream convinced players that Bai Fu was the Darknight Sovereign. With Haidu under her control and the other major factions reacting, Bai Fu prepared to pursue the remaining clues to the True Spirit Pillar and the spaceship.

• Digging Princess livestreamed footage of Suixing revealing that Bai Fu was not from Zu Yuan Star, and players concluded that Bai Fu was the Darknight Sovereign.
• Suixing accused Bai Fu of pursuing the True Spirit Pillar and activated the Underground Base’s self-destruct sequence after realizing he could not defeat her directly.
• Bai Fu stopped Suixing from taking Xia Shi hostage, and Yulia evacuated Xia Shi and Xia Shude while Digging Princess contacted the Undying to evacuate civilians.
• Bai Fu endured the collapsing base and killed Suixing with Dark Spiritual Energy, completing the hidden quest tied to the Chairman of the Truth Society’s last wish.
• Bai Fu escaped the Underground Base with several researchers as Yulia reported that An Ya and the Undying had taken control of the Psychic Research Institute’s Third Branch and the suspected Obsidian Shard lab.
• The Gene Primordial’s seven-member council was wiped out, its survivors surrendered, and the Railroad Guild, Human Alliance, and Old Republic prepared to contact Bai Fu.

After destroying the Gene Primordial and claiming the final Obsidian Shard, Bai Fu secured the spaceship Suixing had left behind and strengthened herself with new abilities. She agreed to meet the Railroad Guild, the Old Republic, and the Human Alliance to discuss her plan for rebuilding Zu Yuan Star.

• Bai Fu’s victory over the Gene Primordial ended the Seven-Man Council’s control of Haidu, while the Railroad Guild welcomed her rise and the Old Republic and Human Alliance worried about her intentions.
• Bai Fu left Hei Fu and Little Hei Fu to guard Haidu, then found Suixing’s spaceship and learned that its computer obeyed only the master of the True Spirit Pillar.
• Bai Fu completed the Third Branch research quest, found the final Obsidian Shard in another laboratory, and gathered all three shards.
• Bai Fu gained the Blessing of the Heart Prayer Card and used an Ordinary Copycat Card to copy Yulia’s Psychic Field, which she raised to level eight.
• Su Li told Bai Fu that the Railroad Guild, the Old Republic, and the Human Alliance wanted to know where she stood, and Bai Fu agreed to meet them and share her reconstruction plan.

Bai Fu secured support from Zu Yuan Star’s factions for a planet-wide reconstruction plan and prepared the public for it through a televised appearance. After discovering that Yulia’s Spirit Core linked her to a spaceship, Bai Fu began planning for the stars while leaving the chapter waiting on the players’ and developers’ response to her announcement.

• Bai Fu explained her plan to rebuild Zu Yuan Star to representatives of the Railroad Guild, the Old Republic, and the Human Alliance, and they considered joining her effort.
• Bai Fu returned to Bai Fu Town with Xia Shude and Xia Shi, discovered Xia Shi had awakened mechanical talents, and placed the three True Spirit Pillar fragments in a new laboratory, where they merged.
• Bai Fu triggered a quest involving the incomplete True Spirit Pillar, learned that Yulia’s Spirit Core powered her psionic abilities, and kept the pillar instead of handing it to a faction.
• Bai Fu used Yulia’s Spirit Core to authenticate the cargo spaceship, learned it could be repaired within two months, and added the universal language of the stars to the players’ shop.
• Bai Fu appeared on Igor’s Agate Channel program, announced a plan to restore Zu Yuan Star, and became the planet’s most celebrated public figure.
• After the broadcast, Bai Fu opened the player community to see how the players and developers would respond.

After Bai Fu’s broadcast made her a Zu Yuan Star idol, she organized reconstruction work and gave Xia Shi a new purpose, then discovered that players had invented a backstory linking An Ya to her. The Version 1.3 preview finally appeared, and Bai Fu eagerly watched for new information about the Starsea.

• Players praised Bai Fu’s broadcast photo, and Digging Princess posted a popular video chronicling Bai Fu’s achievements.
• Bai Fu’s popularity boosted Galactic Common sales, while Igor reported offers for broadcast rights and merchandise.
• Factions began recruiting players for Zu Yuan Star’s reconstruction, and Bai Fu urged Xia Shi to study mechanical knowledge and help rebuild the planet.
• Yulia took Bai Fu to the lab to investigate how physical contact restored her psionic energy.
• Bai Fu found a player theory identifying An Ya as the disciple of a follower who had died saving the Darknight Sovereign, and she adopted the story as her own.
• Bai Fu watched the Version 1.3 update preview and listened closely as it revealed information about the stars.

Bai Fu learned that players could reach the Starsea before Version 2.0, prepared to leave Zu Yuan Star, and turned their enthusiasm into a chance to earn more experience. As she settled affairs on the planet and considered how to make money in space, Calamity Dragon’s advertising problem gave her a new idea.

• The update preview revealed that players could unlock the Starsea early, and Bai Fu mapped the Sea Lion Galaxy’s factions and decided to avoid Kalinas Spaceport.
• After players began fighting to prove they deserved to travel with Bai Fu, she staged a conversation with An Ya that led Digging Princess to announce a hundred-player selection, prompting players to train and buy items.
• Bai Fu prepared her ship and supplies, while Xia Shi chose to stay on Zu Yuan Star and protect Bai Fu’s projects until she returned.
• Bai Fu discussed mutant discrimination with the Human Alliance leader, who urged her to decide whether Zu Yuan Star should evolve alongside the wider cosmic civilization network.
• Gao Yuan told Bai Fu that her merchandise sales were making her one of Zu Yuan Star’s richest people, and Bai Fu considered building a business in the Starsea.
• Bai Fu watched Digging Princess’s stream and learned that Calamity Dragon’s father wanted her to advertise his company’s drinks, inspiring Bai Fu to pursue the endorsement and boost her fame.

Bai Fu became Zu Yuan Star’s Legendary Protagonist, evolved into a Star-Seeker, and strengthened the Silent Court before preparing to leave for the Star Sea. After Stone Crystal Security Company detected her ship, Bai Fu chose players to accompany her and launched from Zu Yuan Star, leaving Xia Shi and the others behind as a new journey began.

• Bai Fu’s story involvement rose, making her a Legendary Protagonist; she evolved into a Star-Seeker and gained upgraded talents, skills, and a legendary title.
• Bai Fu expanded the Silent Court, added two faction instances, strengthened Psychic Field, and synthesized three Prayer Cards while An Ya awakened psychic abilities.
• Bai Fu and Xia Shi found that the repaired ship had briefly sent a signal, alerting Stone Crystal Security Company, whose leaders began searching for it.
• After the players returned, Bai Fu announced her departure for the Star Sea, selected ninety-six companions, and attended a farewell dinner with her allies.
• Gao Yuan’s statue of Bai Fu was erected as her ship launched; Xia Shi and the players watched her depart, while Igor prepared a documentary about her.
• The Wildfire Gang leader heard that Bai Fu had left Zu Yuan Star and boasted that he had always known she would become a legend.

Bai Fu and the players traveled from Zu Yuan Star to Light Curtain Star Harbor in the Sea Lion Galaxy, while a viral documentary and Cosmic Web cards boosted her popularity. After arriving at Mining Area 3 Star, Bai Fu began looking for ways to make money and suspected a local guide who approached them might be connected to the starport’s underworld.

• Bai Fu learned about Esper ranks from Cosmic Web cards and planned to explore the Sea Lion Galaxy’s storylines and locate other Novice Planets.
• Bai Fu entered warp for a 115-hour journey, while Igor and Gao Yuan released a documentary about her that went viral and sparked speculation about her former Sovereign rank.
• The ship reached the Sea Lion Galaxy, and Bai Fu chose the remote Light Curtain Star Harbor as a place to change her appearance and establish a new identity.
• Bai Fu registered a temporary identity and landed with An Ya, Yulia, and the players on Mining Area 3 Star, intending to sell Prayer Cards and earn money.
• A low-level alien offered to guide Bai Fu around the planet, but she refused and Yulia warned that he might have ulterior motives.
• Bai Fu realized the alien likely had connections at the starport and considered exploiting the local disorder to make money or obtain a spaceship.

Bai Fu learned that the Fire-Setting House planned to capture her group, so she set a trap, stole the gang’s spaceship, and escaped Light Curtain Star Harbor. Rong Yan then discovered the signal from Suixing’s old ship had identified it to Stone Crystal Planet, where observers located the stolen vessel.

• Bai Fu sent the players to borrow money from Star Sea NPCs, then explored the trading hub with An Ya, Yulia, and Hei Fu to search for advancement manuals and a star chart.
• Bai Fu discovered that Rong Yan and the Fire-Setting House intended to capture her group, and she planned to use the attack to steal their spaceship while abandoning Suixing’s ship.
• Bai Fu had the players change their respawn points and move their valuables, then sent Hei Fu and the players to draw Rong Yan’s forces away from the Fire-Setting House base.
• Hei Fu badly wounded Rong Yan, and the Fire-Setting House’s fighters bombarded her and the players as Bai Fu and Yulia subdued the guards at the base.
• Bai Fu escaped aboard the Fire-Setting House’s spaceship with Yulia’s equipment and the revived players, while Rong Yan found Suixing’s signal transmitter and its message identifying the ship.
• An observatory officer on Stone Crystal Planet announced that they had located the spaceship stolen by Suixing.

Bai Fu tested whether the factions could detect the True Spirit Pillar, then used Hei Fu to kill Rong Yan and mislead Shijing Corporation into blaming Suixing. After earning enough credits to buy advanced psychic-arts texts, Bai Fu unlocked her class advancement mission.

• Bai Fu learned that the Stone Crystal Company had surrounded the Firebearer House and discovered that it could not detect the True Spirit Pillar at a distance.
• Fabian's Stone Crystal Company searched Rong Yan's base, failed to find the True Spirit Pillar, and let him go after reaching a settlement with the Dead Line Pirate Group.
• Bai Fu learned that only the Holy Congregation could detect the True Spirit Pillar, then sent Hei Fu to kill Rong Yan and the remaining Fire Passing House thugs.
• Bai Fu left a taunting message signed in Suixing's name, earned experience and a skill card, and took the players to borrow money across the Chaotic Star Route.
• Shijing Corporation issued a 500,000-credit bounty for Suixing after Rong Yan's body and message were found, while Bai Fu's players accumulated enough credits for her purchases.
• Bai Fu bought three advanced psychic-arts texts and unlocked a class advancement mission.

Bai Fu sought work and resources to advance her class, then accepted a commission from Vik to stop interstellar slave traders attacking his homeworld. She and the players arrived near Ulysses Star, where the rescue mission was about to begin.

• Bai Fu reviewed her class advancement quest and planned to build her faction, earn money, and attract more players.
• Bai Fu visited the Pan-Universe Commission Platform, where she noticed Vik struggling to hire an A-rank Esper to save his homeworld.
• Vik explained that slave traders had attacked Ulysses Star and that he had only 2,000 credits; Bai Fu offered to help in exchange for knowledge or other rewards.
• Bai Fu triggered and accepted the hidden chain quest to stop the slave traders, and her registered hunter followers accepted Vik's commission.
• Bai Fu led Vik and the players aboard their ship, and they arrived near Ulysses Star after a day and a half of travel.

Bai Fu arrived on Ulysses Star with Vik and learned that slave traders had abducted hundreds of people while the civilization teetered on the brink of collapse. After seeing the Ulysses people’s despair, she prepared with Vik to rescue the captives and began considering the planet as a future base.

• Bai Fu learned that Ulysses had lost its protector and most of its population to raids, while Vik remained its last A-Rank esper.
• Bai Fu showed Vik that the Brave could resurrect themselves, convincing him they could infiltrate the slave traders despite losing their weapons.
• Vik told Bai Fu about the Ulysses people’s hardships and his father’s sacrifice as their ship descended onto the ravaged planet.
• Vik and Bai Fu met the city’s administrator, who opposed a rescue attempt, and Vik decided to act with Bai Fu’s help.
• Bai Fu encouraged a little girl and assigned An Ya to watch for a suspected mole while Vik led half the players away to draw the slave traders’ attention.
• After Vik reported that the slave traders were interrogating captured players and planned to attack, Bai Fu set out with Yulia to join the fight.

Bai Fu led an assault on the slave traders’ ship, rescued the captured Ulysses People, and helped kill Freek while Vik delayed Mosen. Freek’s death completed Bai Fu’s advancement mission and granted her the rare talent Apostle’s Will, and she began preparing to break through to A-rank while Mosen confronted her in his armor.

• Digging Princess told Bai Fu that the slave traders sought Ulysses People with a valuable gene and that their leader wanted Vik alive, so Bai Fu used Vik as bait and led an attack on the ship.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky and the other players freed themselves, wrecked the ship’s equipment, and helped Bai Fu and Yulia fight Freek.
• Hei Fu killed the controlled slave traders, while the players freed the captured Ulysses People from the cargo hold.
• Mosen returned in Black Sparrow VI-type Armor, and Vik warned Bai Fu that he could stun Freek for only three seconds.
• Vik’s mental shock stunned Freek, allowing Hei Fu to kill him; Bai Fu completed the Warrior’s Glory advancement quest and obtained the rare talent Apostle’s Will.
• Bai Fu told Vik to hold Mosen off for thirty seconds while she prepared to advance from B-rank to A-rank.

Bai Fu advanced to Anomaly Constructor, built a flying psychic combat suit, and used her new strength to kill Mosen and defeat the slave traders threatening Vik's people. After uncovering Singularity Company's Dissociative Potion and accepting a related quest, she helped the Ulysses People capture more slave traders, leaving them hopeful and ready to sell their captors in turn.

• Bai Fu advanced to Anomaly Constructor, created the Psychic Construct - Fu, and raised her new class to Lv12.
• Bai Fu used her enhanced powers to destroy Mosen's Black Sparrow-class armor and kill him, causing the remaining slave traders to surrender.
• Bai Fu learned that Singularity Company was seeking Ulysses People to test the Dissociative Potion, obtained a sample, and accepted a quest to investigate it.
• Bai Fu and Vik returned the captured Ulysses People to their community, where they resolved to sell the slave traders and resist future raids.
• Bai Fu enlisted Yulia to help contain incoming slave traders, then joined the others in capturing several more groups over ten days.

Bai Fu used the players to ambush and destroy Brom’s slave-trader ship, cementing her fearsome reputation as Silver Moon across the Sea Lion Galaxy. With her reputation unlocked and the slave traders frightened of her, she planned to enter the Chaotic Star Routes, confront the Singularity Company, and find an advanced spacecraft to bring more players to Ulysses Star.

• Bai Fu decided she needed a better ship before transporting players from other Novice Planets, while Vik taught An Ya his mental technique.
• Yulia revealed that Ulysses Star’s administrator had betrayed them and warned slave traders that they planned to attack; Bai Fu prepared a counterattack with the players and two damaged ships.
• Brom arrived aboard the Fallen Leaves Forest and ordered his crew to attack, but the players opened fire and rammed his ship with one of their own.
• Hei Fu boarded the crippled Fallen Leaves Forest, defeated Brom, and let a fleeing slave trader escape so he could spread word of the battle.
• Bai Fu’s reputation in the Sea Lion Galaxy reached 100, and she began planning to enter the Chaotic Star Routes and obtain a spacecraft from the Singularity Company.

After rejecting the Ulysses People’s call to rule them, Bai Fu organized a committee and built her strength and income while preparing to confront Singularity Company. She ended the chapter joining a group commission against the company, hoping to stay harder to target if the operation failed.

• After the Ulysses People hanged their administrator, Bai Fu declined to replace him, and Vik formed a Revival Committee with himself as chairman and Bai Fu as honorary chairman.
• Bai Fu left Ulysses Star to register the Darkmoon Tide private military company, while Hei Fu escorted the captured slave traders to Fengdeng Star and sold them for 520,000 credits.
• Hei Fu’s actions alarmed Singularity Company, whose leaders discussed investigating Silver Moon’s background and possible bewitching abilities.
• Bai Fu bought advanced knowledge, a combat suit blueprint, and psionic crystals, strengthening herself and upgrading Yulia after Yulia ate one crystal.
• Bai Fu announced that she might return to Zu Yuan Star aboard a ship able to withstand spatial distortions, prompting players to prepare and buy goods from her dungeon shop.
• After earning experience from the players and upgrading her skills and Little Bai Fu and Little Hei Fu cards, Bai Fu joined a group commission targeting Singularity Company.

Bai Fu assembled Darkmoon Tide for The Pioneer's commission to destroy the Singularity Company, while discovering that Hong Lian was a dangerous peak A-rank Esper who tried to recruit her players. The group reached the company's planet and prepared to attack during a window when two of its A-rank Espers were away.

• Bai Fu, Vik, and Hei Fu joined The Pioneer's commission, triggering the hidden quest [Dark Tide Rising].
• Bai Fu met The Pioneer, Green Mud, and Hong Lian, whose threat rating was Black and whose level was 74.
• On the way to the Singularity Company's headquarters, Bai Fu gave credits to the players, who spent them on equipment and gear.
• Hong Lian tried to persuade Convert to My Fu and the other players to leave Bai Fu, but they all refused.
• Bai Fu grew concerned that Hong Lian had recognized her identity and decided she needed to show the players more of what made her special.
• The Pioneer explained that two of the company's five A-rank Espers were away and assigned Hong Lian to hold off Jia Yi while he, Bai Fu, and her players handled the others.

Bai Fu and the players raided Singularity Company to seize the Dissociative Potion’s original sample and uncovered the company’s connection to Mita. Hong Lian revealed herself as the S+ Rank Void War Maiden, leaving Bai Fu alarmed by her new rival for the players’ attention.

• Green Mud infiltrated Singularity Company during an explosion, allowing the Pioneer, Bai Fu, and their allies to launch an attack.
• Bai Fu and the players broke through Singularity Company’s defenses, defeated an A-Rank Esper, and found the hidden laboratory.
• Bai Fu seized the original sample and stored Dissociative Potion, while Green Mud found Aoguchi dead in a cryogenic pod and Hong Lian vowed to avenge him.
• Jia Yi confronted Hong Lian in the secret room, but she killed him with a single blast, prompting the company’s executives to flee aboard a spacecraft.
• The spacecraft aimed its laser cannon at the raiders, but Hong Lian transformed into the Void War Maiden and destroyed it with her anti-ship sword.
• Bai Fu recognized Hong Lian as an S+ Rank Esper and feared that her spectacular display would make her a major rival for player popularity.

Bai Fu convinced Fei Ye, the Void War Maiden, that her players were loyal, reviving comrades, and joined the Star Covenant with them. After receiving mission rewards and planning a return to Zu Yuan Star, Bai Fu left with Fei Ye while an unknown man learned that Darkmoon had obtained a drug sample and ordered it recovered before its research threatened Mita.

• Fei Ye confronted Bai Fu, but Green Mud explained that she wanted to recruit Bai Fu’s brave and loyal subordinates into the Star Covenant.
• Bai Fu claimed the players could revive and told Fei Ye an embellished story about their shared struggle on Zu Yuan Star, earning Fei Ye’s trust and admiration.
• Fei Ye offered to help protect Bai Fu’s second home and invited her to join the Star Covenant; Bai Fu accepted after asking the players, who agreed.
• Fei Ye introduced herself by her real name, and she and Bai Fu planned to travel to Ulysses Star; the Pioneer paid his fee and hurried away.
• Bai Fu received rewards for completing two hidden quests, including a Prayer Card Production Device Blueprint and the Spinning Flying Demon Blade skill, then departed with Fei Ye and her companions.
• An unknown man interrogated a criminal at Singularity Company’s ruins, learned that Darkmoon had taken the original drug sample, and ordered it recovered before its research could threaten Mita.