Recaps

Xiang Yi and King Lanling were ambushed while stealing documents from a shipyard safe, and Xiang Yi unleashed a devastating psychic attack to save his protector. They escaped the ninjas, but King Lanling was poisoned, Xiang Yi was left injured and shaken, and the stolen papers revealed a symbol of ten interlocking rings as sirens closed in.

• Xiang Yi guided King Lanling into a container, where he opened a hidden safe and retrieved a document pouch.
• Smoke bombs and three ninjas ambushed King Lanling, and one poisoned him with a dart beneath his shoulder blade.
• Xiang Yi killed one ninja with a psychic attack, allowing King Lanling to blast through the container wall and escape with him.
• Xiang Yi and King Lanling fled through the shipyard while Xiang Yi used a fragile psychic shield to deflect poisoned darts.
• They reached a breakwater, where Xiang Yi recoiled from the psychic attack’s bloody aftermath as King Lanling noticed the symbol of ten interlocking rings on the documents.
• Sirens sounded nearby as scraps of paper drifted into the sea.

Xiang Yi called Guiguzi to save the poisoned King Lanling, who stabilized the warrior’s condition but could only delay the poison for twenty-four hours. After finding a clue in the Ten Rings documents, Xiang Yi received a mission to intercept the Sea Serpent and seize or destroy its marked cargo to obtain an antidote.

• Xiang Yi summoned Guiguzi after learning he lacked enough energy points to buy an antidote for King Lanling.
• Guiguzi used Xuan Weizi particles to seal the poison’s spread, warning that King Lanling had only twelve double-hours to live without a cure.
• Guiguzi urged Xiang Yi to study the documents and trace the Ten Rings and Xu markings rather than succumb to guilt over the fight.
• Xiang Yi and the system identified a shipment aboard the Sea Serpent, bound for East Sea City, with a target container marked Xu and Ten Rings.
• The system assigned Xiang Yi a seventy-two-hour mission to infiltrate Cabin 7 and seize or destroy the container, offering an antidote as a reward and King Lanling’s death as the failure penalty.
• Xiang Yi declared that they would return home, steal a ship, and seize their chance to survive, and Guiguzi carried King Lanling away with him.

With King Lanling’s poison seal failing, Xiang Yi borrowed Energy Points and summoned A Ke, then sent her to infiltrate the Sea Serpent and find an antidote in Cabin 7. A Ke vanished into the shadows on her mission while Xiang Yi collapsed from the strain, leaving King Lanling’s survival uncertain.

• Guiguzi warned Xiang Yi that the poison was breaking through his seal around King Lanling’s heart meridians.
• Xiang Yi took an emergency loan of 107 Energy Points and forcibly raised his Mental Power enough to summon A Ke.
• A Ke appeared, and Xiang Yi ordered her to save King Lanling by finding the antidote aboard the Sea Serpent.
• Guiguzi used the Xuan Weizi to map the ship’s route, guard placements, and a lightly guarded ventilation duct near Cabin 7.
• Xiang Yi briefed A Ke on the infiltration route and gave her a photograph of the Ten Rings symbol before she disappeared into the shadows.
• Xiang Yi suffered a nosebleed and collapsed against the desk while Guiguzi continued protecting King Lanling.

A Ke infiltrated the Sea Serpent, broke into Cabin 7, and stole a Vibranium fragment from Xu Wenwu’s guarded chamber before escaping the ship despite severe injuries. She reached Xiang Yi with the fragment, which began to repel the Ten Rings poison in the King Lanling’s heart, while a sniper sent hunting hounds after her.

• A Ke forced her way through an energy barrier, killed two guards, and breached Cabin 7 by cutting the cables to its isolation door.
• A Ke disabled the room’s automatic weapons and destroyed the energy core beneath the container, causing a devastating explosion that freed the Vibranium fragment.
• A Ke escaped the wrecked chamber with the fragment, but a sniper on the Sea Serpent attacked her with destructive beams and drove her overboard.
• A Ke swam away from the ship with the fragment as the sniper reported her fall and requested hunting hounds to search the waters.
• Xiang Yi and Guiguzi struggled to maintain the seal on the dying King Lanling as A Ke returned to the Xiang family study and delivered the fragment.
• Xiang Yi and Guiguzi sensed the fragment repelling the Ten Rings poison in the King Lanling’s heart as dawn broke.

Xiang Yi used Primordial Vibranium and Guiguzi’s Xuan Weizi to purge the Ten Rings poison from King Lanling, breaking through his limits before collapsing. King Lanling recovered and renewed his oath to serve Xiang Yi as news of Tony Stark’s rescue and new threats reached the room.

• Xiang Yi pressed the Vibranium fragment against King Lanling’s wound, and its silver energy began battling the poison while Guiguzi struggled to maintain the seal.
• Xiang Yi took over guiding the Vibranium energy through King Lanling’s heart meridians, enduring severe soul damage as Guiguzi protected his consciousness.
• Xiang Yi’s Soul Core exceeded its limits and broke through, allowing him to purge the Ten Rings Malevolent Energy and dissolve the poison.
• Xiang Yi lost consciousness, while Guiguzi confirmed that his life was safe and King Lanling’s breathing had stabilized.
• After waking at dawn, King Lanling saw Xiang Yi’s condition and vowed that his body and soul would forever serve as his lord’s blade.
• The morning news reported the Sea Serpent explosion and Tony Stark’s rescue, while Guiguzi sensed S.H.I.E.L.D., the Ten Rings Syndicate, The Hand, and Stark gathering around the city.

After learning that Tony Stark had been attacked and gone missing in Afghanistan, Xiang Yi accepted a mission to observe the Ten Rings Syndicate and began mobilizing his allies. He left the chapter preparing to gather intelligence on the group as Tony’s kidnapping set Iron Man’s origin in motion.

• Xiang Yi heard the news that Tony Stark had been ambushed in Afghanistan and his whereabouts were unknown.
• Xiang Yi accepted the mission to investigate the Ten Rings Syndicate, risking increased attention from S.H.I.E.L.D. and the syndicate.
• Xiang Yi reassured his parents that Tony’s kidnapping was not the end, then returned to his room.
• Xiang Yi ordered King Lanling to search for Ten Rings activity near the attack site, Guiguzi to focus the Xuan Weizi Network on Afghanistan, Ming Shiyin to divine the syndicate’s plans, and A Ke to stand by.
• Xiang Yi received his allies’ acknowledgments as the Ten Rings observation mission began with clue collection at zero percent.

Xiang Yi used Guiguzi and the Xuan Weizi to spy on the Ten Rings Syndicate in Afghanistan, uncovering a transfer route and evidence that Andrei Vanko was involved. After S.H.I.E.L.D. traced the intrusion and struck back, Xiang Yi severed the link and ordered the Hidden Star Court into silent dormancy while he and Guiguzi recovered.

• Xiang Yi and Guiguzi breached a U.S. satellite’s defenses and found Ten Rings markings and a convoy of suspicious heat sources in Afghanistan.
• Xiang Yi ordered Guiguzi to trace the convoy’s communications despite the risk of alerting S.H.I.E.L.D.
• The intercepted messages mentioned the Sand Nest, Stark blueprints, Whiplash, and coordinates linked to Andrei Vanko.
• Phil Coulson detected the intrusion at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and ordered the Insight Initiative’s secondary surveillance array to track its source.
• Cyclops traced the link and struck Xiang Yi and Guiguzi with a devastating backlash, but they destroyed the Xuan Weizi node and disconnected.
• Xiang Yi recognized Andrei Vanko in the final satellite image and ordered Guiguzi to heal and erase tracking marks while King Lanling and A Ke raised the alert level and put the Hidden Star Court into silent dormancy.

Xiang Yi summoned Ming Shiyin, who paid a devastating price to divine an imminent fire at the Xiang family factory, warn Xiang Yi to remain hidden, and glimpse a golden-red star that pointed to Iron Man. With Ming Shiyin unconscious and his Energy Points depleted, Xiang Yi ordered King Lanling to secretly stop the arson plot and A Ke to guard their hideout while he recovered.

• Xiang Yi spent 400 Energy Points to summon Ming Shiyin despite the danger to his injured mind.
• Ming Shiyin divined that a fire would threaten the Xiang family factory within three days and warned Xiang Yi that acting or revealing himself would bring immediate calamity.
• Ming Shiyin's final hexagram showed a golden-red star, which Xiang Yi recognized as Tony and the coming of Iron Man, before the backlash left Ming Shiyin unconscious.
• Xiang Yi ordered King Lanling to identify and silently prevent the planned arson at the Xiang family factory.
• Xiang Yi told A Ke to guard Ming Shiyin and eliminate anyone spying on their hideout, then resumed meditating to recover his Mental Power.

Xiang Yi warned Xiang Haishan of an impending factory fire through a nightmare, and Xiang Haishan uncovered and reported an arson plot. King Lanling abducted Zhang Zhenhua and delivered him, with evidence, to the police, while Xiang Yi received a crisis-resolution reward and prepared to exploit Stark Industries’ falling stock.

• Xiang Yi told Xiang Haishan that he had dreamed of a gasoline-fueled fire at the factory and described a suspect with a black snake tattoo.
• Xiang Haishan searched the factory before dawn, found gasoline bottles hidden by the raw materials warehouse, and called the police.
• King Lanling seized Zhang Zhenhua from his villa and left him hanging upside down at the police station with a USB drive containing evidence of the arson order.
• The police watched the video, confirmed Zhang Zhenhua’s role in the plot, and ordered his arrest and the freezing of his assets.
• Xiang Yi saw the Family Fire Calamity warning disappear and gained 50 energy points as he considered investing in Stark Industries during the panic over Tony Stark’s disappearance.

Xiang Yi spent his last 50 Energy Points on an offshore company template, causing Ming Shiyin’s life-support formation to shut down, then ordered his allies to create identities and seize funds. With Cygnus Holdings established and eight million dollars secured, Xiang Yi prepared to exploit Stark Industries’ collapsing stock price as the first weapon of his Dark Court.

• Xiang Yi exchanged his last 50 Energy Points for an offshore company template, interrupting Ming Shiyin’s energy supply and shutting down the Life-Sustaining Formation.
• Xiang Yi ordered Guiguzi to create three untraceable identities, and Guiguzi used the Xuan Weizi to register Cygnus Holdings Limited.
• Xiang Yi ordered King Lanling to steal eight million dollars in cash, bonds, diamonds, and gold from the Scorpion Gang’s basement safe.
• King Lanling delivered the three cases to Xiang Yi as Guiguzi confirmed the identities and company records were complete.
• Xiang Yi watched Stark Industries’ stock price collapse and declared that Cygnus Holdings would use the panic as the first sword of his Dark Court.

As Tony Stark returned and shut down Stark Industries’ weapons division, Xiang Yi used the resulting stock crash to amass millions of STK shares and revive Ming Shiyin’s failing formation. Tony noticed the mysterious Cygnus Holdings’ role in the crash, while Xiang Yi’s shadowy financial operation established its first foothold.

• Xiang Yi struggled to maintain the Life-Sustaining Formation as Ming Shiyin’s condition worsened and his energy points ran out.
• Tony Stark crashed into Stark Industries’ press conference in his Mark III Armor, revealed he was alive, and announced that the weapons division would close.
• Xiang Yi directed Cosmos Holdings Limited to buy STK shares during the panic sell-off, ending with 8,673,200 shares at an average cost of $16.88.
• The Life-Sustaining Formation pulsed with renewed strength after Xiang Yi’s funds were exhausted, and Xiang Yi declared that they had secured their first pot of gold.
• Pepper told Tony that Cygnus Holdings had bought heavily during the crash, and Tony studied the Cygnus name with interest.

Xiang Yi and his companions established Hidden Star Court in an abandoned Kunlun weather station, fortifying it and concealing it with Guiguzi’s illusion. When a mountain patrolman spotted a flaw, Guiguzi altered his perception at great cost, leaving the base hidden but revealing the danger of maintaining their refuge.

• Xiang Yi, King Lanling, A Ke, and Guiguzi reached the abandoned weather station and began setting up Hidden Star Court.
• Guiguzi cloaked the station with Cognitive Interference while King Lanling reinforced the structure and A Ke placed traps and organized supplies.
• An old weather transmitter made a sudden noise, and King Lanling found and destroyed it.
• A mountain patrolman spotted a flaw in the illusion, so Xiang Yi ordered Guiguzi to make him believe falling rocks had caused what he saw.
• Guiguzi changed Old Zhang’s perception and sent him away, but the effort injured him and left a hidden mental wound in the patrolman.
• Xiang Yi ordered the others to reinforce the base, hide supplies, expand its defenses, and let Guiguzi recover.

Phil Coulson and Melinda May investigated the Xiang family over fragments from the factory fire, and Xiang Yi hid his connection to Cygnus Holdings and distracted them with a staged coughing fit. A Mind-Guarding Formation obscured Coulson’s suspicions, but S.H.I.E.L.D. continued investigating the Zhang family and the factory as Xiang Yi realized the threat was not over.

• Coulson and May visited the Xiang family to ask about the factory fire and showed Xiang Haishan fragments bearing the Hand’s mark.
• Xiang Yi spotted the active Cygnus Holdings analysis in the study and faked a coughing fit to block Coulson’s view of the computer.
• Ming Shiyin used Guiguzi’s Mind-Guarding Formation to blur Coulson and May’s doubts, and Coulson left without confronting the family about Cygnus.
• In the car, Coulson briefly recalled seeing the Stark analysis but lost that suspicion and instead directed S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate the Zhang family and the factory’s unusual radiation.
• Xiang Yi erased the Cygnus and Stark evidence, discovered that his spiritual power had fallen to 63/210, and resolved to prepare for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s continued scrutiny.

King Lanling and A Ke attacked The Hand's Yunnan base, but Poison Fang's poison and an ambush left both assassins critically injured. Xiang Yi supplied A Ke with an antidote, and the two fought back long enough to cripple Poison Fang as reinforcements approached; they still had to secure the intelligence and withdraw.

• A Ke killed the outer guards while King Lanling infiltrated the ruined temple to attack Poison Fang.
• Poison Fang evaded King Lanling's strike and poisoned him, while a disguised elite ninja ambushed A Ke and wounded her with a poisoned blade.
• Xiang Yi exchanged a potent antidote for A Ke, who used her remaining strength to kill the ambusher as King Lanling destroyed Poison Fang's poison mist with a grenade.
• The explosion badly injured Poison Fang and his guards, while King Lanling and A Ke survived but remained critically wounded.
• Xiang Yi ordered King Lanling and A Ke to secure the intelligence and withdraw as the Stardust Workshop's rapid-response team approached.

Xiang Yi broke through his mental-power limit and used the system to obtain an antidote for King Lanling’s fatal poison. After A Ke helped remove the poison, King Lanling stabilized, while Xiang Yi was left exhausted and bound to her debt.

• King Lanling succumbed to The Hand’s Ghost-Faced Spider poison, and the system warned Xiang Yi that he lacked the resources to buy an antidote.
• Xiang Yi forced himself through a mental-power breakthrough, raising his cap to 300 and restoring enough power to exchange for the serum.
• Xiang Yi injected King Lanling with the antidote and used his remaining mental power to fight the poison inside him.
• A Ke pinned King Lanling down, then sucked the remaining poison from his wound until the blood ran bright red.
• A Ke told Xiang Yi that King Lanling would live and said Xiang Yi owed her, then disappeared into the warehouse shadows.

Ming Shiyin’s divination linked the Ten Rings Syndicate to a mysterious hidden dragon and a blueprint for Tony Stark’s Mark I armor, while a strange character, “Xu,” provoked a reaction in his bloodline. As S.H.I.E.L.D. began probing Xiang Yi’s electronic records, Xiang Yi decided to turn the investigation into a trap.

• Ming Shiyin’s divination produced the omen “A Dragon Trapped in Shallow Waters,” then cracked the bronze disk and triggered a strange resonance between his bloodline and the character “Xu.”
• Guiguzi projected a Mark I armor blueprint intercepted from an encrypted source connected to the Ten Rings Syndicate’s routes in the Golden Triangle, and Xiang Yi spotted the character “Xu” on it.
• Guiguzi intercepted a Level 7 S.H.I.E.L.D. directive from Phil Coulson ordering Su Rui to examine students’ electronic records, especially Xiang Yi’s irregular file modifications.
• A Ke prepared to secure the warehouse’s vulnerable electronics as Xiang Yi welcomed the investigation and hinted that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s deeper search would lead into a trap.

Xiang Yi feigned weakness to mislead the new classmate Su Rui, an undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, while his overexertion triggered a dangerous backlash called Eclipsing Touch. Su Rui provisionally rated him a low threat but began arranging more invasive surveillance as Xiang Yi and his allies studied the backlash and sought a countermeasure.

• Su Rui joined Xiang Yi’s class, and Guiguzi detected a S.H.I.E.L.D. tracker and an anomalous δ-7 fluctuation linked to the Dimensional Shackles.
• Xiang Yi solved Mr. Zhang’s geometry problem while pretending to struggle, drawing Su Rui’s scrutiny before suffering a severe headache and nosebleed as Eclipsing Touch emerged through the damaged Shackles.
• King Lanling woke and tried to rise to protect Xiang Yi, but A Ke forced him to stay in bed and rebuked him for risking the life Xiang Yi had saved.
• Guiguzi altered Xiang Yi’s medical record to support his weak-boy cover, while Mozi began analyzing Eclipsing Touch and warned that using Xiao Yu’s energy to counter it might accelerate her aging.
• After school, Xiang Yi noticed Su Rui’s S.H.I.E.L.D. keychain, secretly scratched it, and accepted her offer to walk together without revealing his suspicions.
• Su Rui filed a low-threat assessment on Xiang Yi but requested expanded physiological monitoring and access to his household devices through the Nightingale Protocol.

Xiang Yi pretended to be a harmless young genius while Su Rui tested him and secretly signaled S.H.I.E.L.D., then learned that Xiao Yu’s life force could counter the corruption threatening his fate. Ming Shiyin warned that drawing on Xiao Yu’s power could destroy her, leaving Xiang Yi facing a choice that challenged his bottom line.

• Xiang Yi deliberately made mistakes while solving a difficult problem for Su Rui, and Guiguzi concealed his true work from the surveillance cameras.
• Su Rui dropped an eagle-shaped S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem for Xiang Yi to find, and he returned it while maintaining his innocent act.
• Xiang Yi ordered Guiguzi to monitor Su Rui and told King Lanling to raise the base’s perimeter alert, choosing to play along with their probe.
• Ming Shiyin’s attempt to divine Xiang Yi’s fate was disrupted by the violet-black energy, but a cyan light resonated with Xiao Yu’s life-frequency signal.
• Ming Shiyin revealed that Xiao Yu was the source of the life-force variable and warned that forcing her power could destroy her, alarming Xiang Yi.

A collision between the Ancient One’s Vishanti Power and Dormammu’s Power devastated Xiang Yi’s outpost, and Xiang Yi spent 500 Energy Points to help Guiguzi divert the destructive force. After the Ancient One briefly saw through their disguises and exposed the secrets within Xiang Yi and his heroes, Xiang Yi ordered the survivors to prepare the Zeroing Protocol and leave the ruined outpost.

• Ming Shiyin divined that two transcendent powers were colliding, and the resulting energy surge wrecked the outpost’s defenses and injured everyone inside.
• Guiguzi imitated the frequency of the Ancient One’s Vishanti Power to divert Dormammu’s Power, while Xiang Yi exchanged 500 Energy Points for a crystal prism that stabilized the failing resonance network.
• The Ancient One destroyed a Dormammu projection and briefly looked through the damaged space at Xiang Yi, exposing his system and the heroes’ alien imprints before turning away.
• The outpost was left crippled, Guiguzi’s origin was damaged, Ming Shiyin remained unconscious, and Xiang Yi ordered Guiguzi to activate the Zeroing Protocol.
• Strange golden traces clung to a charred instrument fragment amid the ruins, preserving a trace of the powers’ collision.

After the Sorcerer Supreme’s gaze exposed the Kunlun base, Xiang Yi ordered an evacuation and used a controlled landslide to disrupt the law-level scan. The group escaped toward Backup Point C, but Xiang Yi’s injured arm showed a strange resonance with a distant power, and King Lanling reacted with fury and alarm.

• Ming Shiyin collapsed after divining the Sorcerer Supreme, while Guiguzi warned Xiang Yi that the base’s location had been branded and its defenses would fail within half an hour.
• The Eye of Rules began scanning the Kunlun Mountains, and Xiang Yi ordered King Lanling to carry Ming Shiyin, A Ke to erase biological traces, and Guiguzi to trigger a landslide.
• King Lanling carried Ming Shiyin through the rear passage as A Ke destroyed a contaminated corpse and followed with a bleeding leg.
• Guiguzi detonated the base’s remaining energy nodes through the earth veins, and the resulting collapse buried the entrance and disrupted the Eye of Rules’ scan.
• The group fled through the snow toward Backup Point C, while Xiang Yi’s dark-blue arm patterns briefly resonated with a distant will and King Lanling’s dagger slipped from his hand.

Xiang Yi and his companions escaped the Ancient One’s reality-warping aftermath, while the dagger’s Star Guide began safely replenishing his damaged mind. With the group badly injured, Xiang Yi led them toward the city to hide in an abandoned factory, where the Star Guide started adapting to the urban energy field.

• Guiguzi buried the ruined outpost in a landslide, and King Lanling carried Xiang Yi through a perilous leap while his old shoulder wound reopened.
• A Ke returned after eliminating a pursuer and concealed the group’s tracks with a strange rune.
• Xiang Yi sensed a silver-armored figure through the dagger, and Ming Shiyin warned him that no mortal vessel could bear the sea of stars.
• Xiang Yi accepted the dagger’s faint, passive replenishment and stabilized his failing mental strength.
• Xiang Yi ordered the group to seek an abandoned factory on the city’s edge, and Guiguzi, A Ke, and King Lanling prepared to get them there.
• As the group departed, the dagger’s star mark began subtly synchronizing with the distant city’s electrical and life-force rhythms.

Xiang Yi tried to stabilize Ming Shiyin and Guiguzi while securing Warehouse Seven as a hidden base. He silenced Joey, arranged a risky plan to expedite construction, and used Guiguzi’s fading strength to mark Hudson’s resentment, leaving a dangerous source of contamination lurking in the warehouse.

• King Lanling reported that Ming Shiyin and Guiguzi were near collapse and that Warehouse Seven could serve as a sheltered base.
• Xiang Yi learned Hudson hated Stark and ordered A Ke to silence Joey, whose daughter’s illness had made him vulnerable to the Viper Gang’s coercion.
• A Ke frightened Joey into silence with money, a threat to his daughter’s medical records, and a severed Viper emblem.
• Xiang Yi ordered soundproofing and accelerated construction, while directing Guiguzi to influence permit officials and mislead night patrols at key moments.
• Xiang Yi told Guiguzi to mark Hudson’s resentment and track when it might overwhelm his reason and make him useful.
• Hudson’s Xuan Weizi Mark seeped into the shadow beneath the Stark scrap, dimming nearby lights and unsettling the unconscious Ming Shiyin.

Xiang Yi pushed King Lanling and A Ke through a dangerous combat test that unlocked their combination skill, Flashstep Shadow Kill, but the attack tore open space and triggered the Ancient One’s Shackles. With Xiang Yi unconscious and the breach devouring their energy, the group faced a three-minute countdown before the base was tracked.

• Xiang Yi coordinated King Lanling and A Ke’s fight despite the Dimensional Shackles destabilizing the energy field and draining his strength.
• King Lanling and A Ke’s bond broke through its limits, unlocking Flashstep Shadow Kill and causing Xiang Yi to collapse from the energy surge.
• A Ke and King Lanling released Flashstep Shadow Kill, tearing a huge breach through the warehouse wall and leaving Shadow Erosion patterns in the steel.
• Guiguzi failed to seal the breach as its blue-gold Taiji diagram consumed Xuan Weizi, while Ming Shiyin warned that the tear had marked them and intensified Heaven’s rejection.
• A Ke chose to keep fighting, and King Lanling collected marked steel fragments as Guiguzi warned that the base would be locked onto within three minutes.

Xiang Yi and Guiguzi hid the high-dimensional energy trace during Tony Stark’s Expo, but the effort left them badly injured and attracted hostile attention. Xiang Yi directed Cygnus profits to Afghan refugees before losing consciousness, while S.H.I.E.L.D. opened a high-priority file on Cygnus and unknown forces turned their attention toward him.

• Guiguzi burned his life essence to mask the residual high-dimensional energy as Stark’s Expo opened, while Xiang Yi feared the Ancient One would detect it.
• Pepper Potts activated backup sensors after detecting strange interference, and Xiang Yi ordered King Lanling to detonate Firefly beneath a trash can during a precisely timed gap.
• The EMP disabled the Expo’s backup sensors for three seconds, allowing the energy trace to blend into background noise, but King Lanling lost his left forearm and Xiang Yi collapsed from the backlash.
• Xiang Yi ordered Ming Shiyin to donate up to fifteen percent of Cygnus’s profits to Afghan refugees, earning a faint blessing from the system as malicious dimensional gazes fixed on him.
• Pepper reported Cygnus to Nick Fury, who opened the Alpha-priority file Deep Cygnus, while Cygnus aid reached a refugee camp near Kabul.

Xiang Yi established the Hidden Star Court after the destruction of the Kunlun base and received a powerful Zhao Yun fragment that he could not awaken without Uru Metal or high-purity Vibranium. He ordered the team to investigate Hammer Industries and its shadowy backers, while Ming Shiyin’s divination revealed a looming catastrophe in New York.

• Xiang Yi named the renovated warehouse the Hidden Star Court as he and his allies struggled with injuries and the lingering cost of their escape.
• The system rewarded Xiang Yi for establishing the base with 1000 Energy Points and a Zhao Yun fragment, but warned that awakening it without Uru Metal or high-purity Vibranium carried an extreme risk of mental collapse.
• The team watched Justin Hammer announce Hammer Industries’ entry into the defense industry, and A Ke, Ming Shiyin, Guiguzi, and King Lanling identified signs of a conspiracy involving Centipede, Hibernation, and Hammer’s Abomination Heart.
• Xiang Yi ordered Guiguzi to monitor New York and sent King Lanling and A Ke to obtain incriminating evidence and details about the Abomination Heart, while Ming Shiyin investigated its nature and impending explosion.
• Ming Shiyin’s divination showed a bloody countdown linked to Hammer and warned of a great calamity in six days and seven hours.