Chapter Summaries

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.