Chapter Summaries

Xianyu set the Corporation and other powers in motion to join a campaign against the Intellitrons and the Swarm Disaster, then visited Yubie and discussed the needs of the people. After learning that Akivili and the Nameless had arrived on the Luofu, he went to meet them and arranged to meet the Corporation’s recruited allies on a cruise.

• Xianyu persuaded a Corporation shareholder to support recruiting the universe’s powers for the campaign, and the Corporation coordinated with the Sky-Faring Commission to contact them.
• Xianyu brought Yubie a painting, shared wine with him, and explained how he addressed the Xianzhou natives’ practical and emotional needs.
• Xianyu tried to persuade Yubie to reveal his dragon tail, but Yubie refused even after getting half drunk.
• Daiyang told Xianyu that Akivili and the Nameless had arrived on the Luofu, and Xianyu decided to meet them.
• The Corporation shareholder asked where Xianyu wanted to meet the recruited allies, and Xianyu chose a cruise for Daiyang’s sake.

Xianyu befriended Akivili and the Nameless on the Luofu, while Daiyang tried to manage the risks of their meeting and plan his vacation. After arriving at the Vacation Planet, Xianyu watched the sea through the night and told the Chief Strategist that he alone defined justice.

• Xianyu met Akivili and the Nameless at Starskiff Haven and offered to cover their expenses, hoping to become friends with them.
• Daiyang paid each Nameless one hundred million Credits to keep Xianyu's visit confidential, and the group later decided to return the money through Akivili.
• Akivili defended Xianyu as a good person, while the Nameless remained wary after learning he was the Xianzhou Marshal.
• Xianyu told Daiyang that befriending the Nameless could help protect the Galaxy Rangers, then said he preferred hot pot to the cruise ship's activities.
• Xianyu traveled with the Chief Strategist and Daiyang to the Vacation Planet, watched the sea until dawn, and answered the Chief Strategist's question about justice by saying it was his to define.

Xianyu met with representatives from various factions and urged them to help end the Swarm Disaster and the Emperor's War, using moral appeals and a reminder of the Xianzhou's power. After leaving the meeting, he rested aboard the cruise ship while Daiyang considered how the representatives might become useful allies.

• Xianyu arrived at the Reception Room and brushed off a representative's veiled complaint about his late arrival.
• Xianyu announced that he intended to end the Swarm Disaster and the Emperor's War, shocking the assembled representatives.
• Xianyu appealed to the representatives to help bring peace, then reminded them of the suffering caused by the Golems and the Intellitrons.
• Xianyu left the meeting with the Corporation shareholder and returned to his floor, where Daiyang and the Chief Strategist were waiting.
• Xianyu declined Daiyang's offer to visit the water park and said the representatives might be useful later, while warning that anyone who refused would make an enemy of the Xianzhou.

Xianyu spent his vacation negotiating an alliance, reflecting on his future successor, and brewing wine with Yubie before returning to the Yaoqing. Half a month later, the partners’ fleets were ready and formally joined forces with the Xianzhou.

• Xianyu exchanged messages with Akivili, returned Daiyang’s hush money for safekeeping, and wrote a document that the Chief Strategist recognized as a final testament.
• Daiyang discussed romance and children with Xianyu, who said he would likely be a strict parent and resolved to limit his future successor’s spending.
• Xianyu persuaded the business partners to contribute to peace, then agreed to return to the Luofu with Daiyang after she gave up her plan to poach cruise-ship staff.
• After Akivili reported infiltrating followers of Abundance on the Luofu, Xianyu visited Yubie and helped him brew jars of wine to bury beneath a tree.
• Xianyu returned to the Yaoqing, and half a month later the partners’ fleets assembled and formally joined forces with the Xianzhou.

Xianyu coordinated the Xianzhou Alliance’s campaign against the Swarm and Intellitrons while directing allied fleets and speaking with a blunt commander. After the campaign advanced, Aha visited Xianyu, who teased the Aeon about eating bugs, and Akivili appeared, only for Aha to claim them both as a Best Friend.

• Xianyu used the System Map to guide fleets against the Swarm and Intellitrons, and he spoke with the mustached ally who had joined the fight because he believed Xianyu cared about casualties.
• Chaoyan took command of the mustached man's fleet and ordered it to destroy bug-infested planets with orbital cannons.
• Chenzhen warned Chaoyan that the Intellitrons were fleeing toward her, then angrily urged her fleets to ram them before Chaoyan reminded her to keep their distance.
• Xianyu discovered two high-level NPCs approaching, then shared champagne and a can of True Sting with Aha and asked how the bugs tasted.
• Aha laughed and declared Xianyu their Best Friend, and Akivili appeared and learned that Aha considered them a Best Friend too.

Xianyu hosted Akivili and Aha, traded insults and drinks with Aha, and declined Akivili’s offer to help fight the Propagation scourge. Days later, while directing the campaign, Xianyu detected an Aeon-level energy surge in the Yadelifen star system, ordered a retreat, and watched to see whether a newly emerging god could destroy a planet protected by the Angel of Mercy.

• Xianyu explained Aha’s past connection to the Swarm to Akivili, leaving Akivili confused about the Aeons and their Paths.
• Xianyu charged Aha five billion Credits for a drink, then thanked Akivili for helping the Luofu against Abundance followers led by Daiyang.
• Akivili offered to help with the Propagation scourge, but Xianyu declined; Aha then offered help, and Xianyu told Aha to return when the war was nearly over.
• Xianyu gave Aha three cases of canned True Sting as a parting gift, and Akivili later messaged him from the Express to ask when his birthday was.
• Xianyu and his subordinates continued fighting the scourge with fleets and Colossi until he detected an Aeon-level energy fluctuation in the Yadelifen star system.
• Xianyu ordered nearby fleets to retreat and watched the rising energy near a planet protected by the Angel of Mercy, wondering whether the emerging god could destroy it.

Xianyu withdrew the fleet from Yadelifen and watched a new Aeon of Destruction arise and destroy its homeworld and nearby planets. After learning that Mustache and his soldiers had narrowly escaped the star system’s destruction, Xianyu comforted him and continued directing the fleet toward other disasters.

• Mustache followed the Xianzhou fleet out of Yadelifen after the Marshal ordered an immediate retreat, then learned that Xianyu expected an Aeon to be born.
• Xianyu and his subordinates waited for the new Aeon, while Mustache watched the generals discuss attacking it and praise their Marshal.
• The new Aeon of Destruction destroyed its homeworld and several nearby planets, sparing the planet protected by Preservation but destroying the planet sealed by the Angel of Mercy.
• Xianyu identified the Aeon as Destruction and redirected the fleet to other star systems, planning to use its power against disasters while keeping his forces safe.
• Mustache realized that the Aeon had destroyed Yadelifen and thanked Xianyu for saving his soldiers; Xianyu waited patiently as he recovered, then urged him onward.

Xianyu equipped the Cloud Knights with Marty's Neutron Guns and redirected them to rescue people on planets not yet lost to disaster, while arranging for the Corporation to provide reconstruction supplies. Chaoyan led Mustache through the devastation and accepted a wreath from survivors, telling them to thank the Marshal of the Xianzhou Alliance.

• Xianyu tracked high-level threats and exchanged messages with Akivili and Yubie, then approved mass production of Marty's Neutron Gun with strict usage records.
• Xianyu requested an intact Intellitron ship for Marty to modify and reminded him to balance work with rest.
• Xianyu placed Tenseiga where it would remind him to value lives, arranged Corporation support, and sent Cloud Knights to rescue people on planets that could still be saved.
• Mustache asked Chaoyan about Xianyu's unexpected kindness, and Chaoyan explained that rogue Intellitrons destroyed their planets after losses reached fifty percent.
• Chaoyan led Mustache's fleet through Intellitron-occupied planets and then to a Swarm-ravaged world, where they protected survivors and helped the Corporation distribute supplies.
• The survivors gave Chaoyan a wreath of broken flowering branches, and she told them to thank the Marshal of the Xianzhou Alliance.

Xianyu led the fleet toward its final offensive against the Swarm Offspring and the out-of-control Intellitrons while preparing to give Aha a game on the Jade Abacus. Akivili joined him to watch the battle, and Aha failed to beat the game’s final boss.

• Xianyu watched progress fall as the two calamities expanded, then coordinated the fleet’s efforts until progress stopped declining and only a handful of star systems remained.
• After checking in with Akivili, Yubie, and Marty, Xianyu directed the fleet away from the Aeon of Erudition and prepared a final attack at 95% progress.
• Akivili arrived with Aha, and Xianyu gave Aha a Jade Abacus containing a game, promising a visit to a more real and interesting world if Aha beat the final boss.
• Xianyu and Akivili watched the fleet attack while Aha played, but Aha lost and complained that the game was no fun.

Xianyu used Aha’s mask to attack Erudition while helping the fleet eliminate the Swarm Offspring and rogue Intellitrons, bringing the war to victory. As humanity celebrated, news reports hinted that Aha had clashed with Erudition and that the Masked Fools were being arrested.

• Xianyu returned Aha’s powerful mask so Aha could use it to bomb Erudition and the scourges, settling their grudge while fulfilling his old promise to kill an Aeon for fun.
• Akivili noticed Aha’s divine power at the edge of the star systems but concluded that Best Friend had persuaded Aha to help humanity.
• Xianyu ignored the rogue Intellitrons’ threats as the fleet destroyed their final stronghold; the Intellitrons self-destructed, and the system declared victory at 100% progress.
• Xianyu thanked the fleet for fighting to protect humanity and urged everyone to rest and enjoy the peace they had won.
• Xianyu tuned in to an IPC broadcast reporting the arrest of Masked Fools, and a commentator speculated that Aha might have blown up Erudition.

Xianyu returned home with his subordinates and later attended the Starsea Community meeting, where he rejected the IPC’s plan to exterminate Mechanical Lifeforms and proposed laws against slavery. After defending a young woman from a condescending attendee, he was unanimously elected the first Supervisor and pledged to preserve peace and defend human rights for as long as he lived.

• Aha left with Akivili and all the alcohol, and Xianyu decided to collect the debt from Aha’s followers if necessary.
• Xianyu welcomed his cheering subordinates home, and Chenzhen won the chance to accompany him to the Starsea Community meeting.
• Chenzhen rested aboard the Stellar Destroyer while Xianyu read, then joined him at the meeting with an IPC shareholder.
• Xianyu rejected the IPC shareholder’s proposal to exterminate Mechanical Lifeforms and proposed a Star System Law protecting human rights and prohibiting slavery.
• Xianyu rebuked a man who belittled a young woman, then urged the assembled leaders to begin the meeting without pointless talk.
• The delegates approved Xianyu’s proposed law and unanimously elected him the first Starsea Council Supervisor, and he pledged to defend peace and human rights.

Chenzhen shared the Marshal’s speech with her colleagues, who realized he had accepted the Star-Sea Overseer position to give Xianzhou natives the freedom to travel the stars. After learning that Yubie had undergone molting, Xianyu confronted the Dragon Preceptors over their concealment and threatened them, but Yubie’s wine and the Preceptors’ professed loyalty led him to spare their lives while warning them they might one day choose to follow Yubie.

• Chenzhen abandoned her colleagues to accompany Xianyu and later recounted his inspiring speech to them.
• Daiyang’s subordinates realized Xianyu had become Star-Sea Overseer to let Xianzhou ships travel freely through member nations’ territories and protect their people.
• Xianyu decided to visit Yubie, but Daiyang and a Vidyadhara told him that Yubie had undergone molting.
• Xianyu confronted the Dragon Preceptors, accused them of concealing Yubie’s molting, and ordered Daiyang to bring several of them to the brink of death.
• A Vidyadhara delivered wine from Yubie, and Xianyu spared the Dragon Preceptors after they professed loyalty, warning that they might one day miss Yubie enough to undergo molting themselves.

Xianyu dealt with Yubie's death by forcing the Dragon Preceptors to honor him, then agreed to protect the dying Company Shareholder's daughter in exchange for a family heirloom. At the shareholder's funeral, Xianyu offered the Pink-Haired Girl help with her future, but his blunt advice left her in tears.

• Xianyu replaced a Dragon Preceptor with Yubie's attendant, then made the Dragon Preceptors erect a statue of Yubie and pour out the sealed wine.
• The Company Shareholder asked Xianyu to marry his daughter in exchange for his wealth, but Xianyu refused and agreed to protect her instead.
• Xianyu rejected the shareholder's offer of company shares and accepted his Family Crest necklace, which bound the shareholder's descendants to help him.
• After the Company Shareholder died on the Yaoqing, Xianyu attended his funeral with the Chief Strategist to support the shareholder's pink-haired daughter.
• Xianyu offered the Pink-Haired Girl help whether she wanted marriage or another path, then warned her against relying on romance and approval; she began to cry.

Xianyu attended a shareholder’s funeral, then returned to work and unknowingly approved a holiday that his subordinates had designed to celebrate his birthday. At the celebration, he accepted their gifts and Akivili’s blessing, which wished him a lasting journey through the stars and reunion with his ideals.

• Xianyu publicly showed support for the shareholder’s daughter at the funeral, then left without collecting the one Strale the shareholder owed him.
• Xianyu instructed the Chief Strategist to use diplomatic gifts to build schools and roads where needed and approved a proposal for a Festival of Gratitude.
• Daiyang and the other subordinates revealed that they had secretly planned the festival to celebrate Xianyu’s birthday, and Xianyu agreed to an annual fireworks display after they pushed for more.
• Xianyu watched a projection of people whose lives had improved through the Xianzhou’s protection, then received a wreath from Akivili and his subordinates.
• Akivili asked Xianyu to become a follower of the Trailblaze for the day, then blessed him and wished that they would travel the sea of stars together and that Xianyu would reunite with his ideals.

On Xianyu’s birthday, Akivili helped the Xianzhou generals coax their Marshal into taking photos and giving them hugs, while Daiyang remembered the old days and the cost of the immortality he granted. As fireworks celebrated Xianyu across the Alliance, Daiyang recalled the baffling order he had eventually issued: recall and permanently ban the Neutron Guns.

• Akivili gave Xianyu a Nameless token, and Xianyu’s subordinates asked for birthday wishes, including photos, visits, and hugs.
• Akivili encouraged the generals to ask for cheek kisses and other gestures, prompting Xianyu to allow hugs; Chaoyan asked whether he liked pets, and Daiyang asked to braid his hair.
• Daiyang remembered how she and her colleagues had once secretly braided Xianyu’s hair with Longevity Braids, hoping to protect him, and how he had granted immortality to the Xianzhou.
• Daiyang recalled colleagues suffering under the undying curse and Xianzhou natives becoming mara-struck, while she remained grateful that Xianyu was not short-lived.
• Xianyu took photos and hugged the generals before watching fireworks that celebrated his birthday across the Xianzhou Alliance.
• Daiyang remembered the day Xianyu ordered the Neutron Guns recalled and permanently banned, a decision that offered the Xianzhou no apparent benefit.

Daiyang learned that the Marshal had banned the Neutron Gun to spare its creator, Marty, the guilt of Chaoyan’s death, then retrieved Chaoyan’s remains’ last traces and attended her funeral. Later, at Gratitude Day on the Luofu, Xianyu reunited with Imbibitor Lunae and wondered whether their old promise to drink together still stood.

• Daiyang delivered the order to seal away the Neutron Guns and found Marty crying at the Marshal’s residence.
• The Marshal comforted Marty, explained that Chaoyan had died by her own hand with a Neutron Gun, and promised that Marty’s weapons would never hurt anyone again.
• Daiyang retrieved the gun and Chaoyan’s final footage from her Stellar Destroyer, then returned to attend Chaoyan’s funeral.
• The Marshal approved the new Yaoqing General’s funeral arrangements and later explained his changes to the generals’ education, leaving them convinced he had their best interests at heart.
• Daiyang arranged Gratitude Day on the Luofu and invited Imbibitor Lunae to meet Xianyu.
• Imbibitor Lunae presented Xianyu with an expensive antique, and Xianyu recalled their promise to drink together even if offered a thousand gold pieces.

Daiyang realized that the Marshal’s long-lived subordinates had hidden their decline and deaths because they feared making him grieve, and she prayed for his happiness before retiring. On the Yaoqing, Xianyu searched for the cat Chaoyan had given him and learned it had run away so he would not see it die.

• As fireworks ended, Imbibitor Lunae silently watched the Marshal, Daiyang, and the other attendants, while Xianyu left Imbibitor Lunae’s gift on the Luofu in Daiyang’s care.
• Much later, as ginkgo leaves emerged from her flesh, Daiyang understood that her colleagues had concealed their deaths to spare the Marshal grief, and she prayed to the Reignbow Arbiter for his peace.
• Daiyang chose a successor, visited Xianyu on the Yaoqing, and wept as he admitted he wished he could be a god and avoid watching his subordinates die.
• After Daiyang left, Xianyu searched for the missing cat Chaoyan had given him and found it with a group of children.
• The children told Xianyu that the cat had run away because it knew it was about to die and did not want to make him sad.

After burying Kitty, Xianyu began writing farewell letters and planning to erase himself from the Xianzhou’s history. An assassination left him gravely wounded, and his confrontation with Lan revealed that he could kill Aeons; Xianyu invited Lan to join him in killing them all.

• Xianyu buried Kitty beneath a tree, then decided the Xianzhou should eventually forget him and began writing farewell letters for his subordinates.
• The Chief Strategist told Xianyu that Daiyang was missing after her Stellar Destroyer encountered a starquake, and Xianyu entrusted him with Daiyang’s letter.
• Xianyu tried to persuade the Chief Strategist to undergo mechanical ascension, but an assassin stabbed Xianyu in the chest before he could continue.
• Xianyu killed the attackers with the Chief Strategist’s help, while his wound would not stop bleeding and the others were ordered to keep his condition secret.
• Xianyu questioned Lan about what he could do beyond breaking the curse of immortality, recognized Lan’s reaction as confirmation, and invited him to help kill the Aeons.

Xianyu recovered from his wounds, renewed his plans to kill the Aeons, and spent a long time searching for a successor while outliving generations of Xianzhou natives. The chapter ended with the dying Chief Strategist stopping Xianyu from killing him and telling him to get lost.

• Xianyu invited Lan to kill the Aeons with him, but Lan refused and knocked him unconscious after telling him he had succeeded.
• After waking, Xianyu re-equipped the Mara-Struck debuff, accepted a coat from Akivili, and joined Nous's group chat to clear up their supposed bad blood.
• Xianyu used Aha as an excuse when Nous asked why star systems had been destroyed, then told Akivili he could not travel with him until he found a successor.
• Xianyu searched for a successor for generations, rejected a shareholder's political-marriage suggestion, and repeatedly turned away girls pursuing him because of an ancestor's instructions.
• The Cauldron Master told Xianyu that the Chief Strategist was near death, and Xianyu approached the bed intending to end his suffering.
• The Chief Strategist stopped Xianyu by speaking, and Xianyu withdrew his hand and promised to kill him after he returned.

Xianyu discovered that Marty’s computer had survived as an intelligent voice in his Jade Abacus, with the power to activate the Aether-Phase Engine and command powerful weapons. He then reunited with Lan, who had tracked him through their contract and said Hua was nicer than he was.

• Xianyu read the Cangcheng Laboratory report and wondered whether Marty and the other researchers had died after his obituary was released.
• Xianyu imagined using his constitution to change the past and considered whether Marty had completed a powerful computer for Hua.
• Marty’s computer contacted Xianyu through the Jade Abacus, recognized him as Marshal, and offered to activate the Aether-Phase Engine, but Xianyu refused.
• The computer said it had found Xianyu through voiceprint comparison, then fell silent when he asked how it got along with Hua.
• Lan appeared in Xianyu’s courtyard and explained that the contract had led him to Xianyu; he said Hua was very nice, prompting Xianyu to ask him to stop insulting him.