Chapter Summaries

Xu Jintang and her allies captured a group that tried to seize their cabin and began organizing a larger coalition. After Wang Qian arrived and was mistaken for an enemy, Xu Jintang recognized her.

• Xu Jintang signaled for reinforcements when a group attacked her cabin, and Fatty Fang led allies in capturing the attackers.
• Xu Jintang ordered the captives tied up as a warning, and Wang Qian arrived and agreed to join their team.
• Fatty Fang proposed himself as captain of the growing force, but Lu Wei'an recommended Xu Jintang, who postponed the decision until everyone gathered.
• Xu Jintang recognized the captured newcomer as Wang Qian, who struggled to speak through her gag.

Xu Jintang reunited with Wang Qian, then joined a contest to choose an overall captain for the fifteen cooperating teams. She volunteered to hold the arena and began fighting a burly challenger, leaving the match unresolved as his meteor hammer sent a blast of air toward her.

• Xu Jintang recognized Wang Qian, had her freed, and reassured Fatty Fang that Wang Qian would not betray them.
• Wang Qian left after learning the team’s cabins were full, and Fatty Fang gathered the fifteen teams to choose an overall captain.
• The team members agreed to select their captain through arena matches, and Xu Jintang volunteered to compete first.
• A burly man challenged Xu Jintang with a meteor hammer, but she repeatedly dodged his attacks and maneuvered behind him.
• The burly man roared and smashed his meteor hammer into the ground, sending a crack and a blast of air toward Xu Jintang.

Xu Jintang defeated a burly challenger by enduring his meteor hammer’s fiery special attack and counterattacking, then faced Fang Kexin after a break. Fang Kexin unleashed a swarm of concealed throwing knives that surrounded Xu Jintang, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Xu Jintang blocked the burly man’s flame attack with the Power of Dragon Blood, broke through it, and forced him to surrender.
• The Command Camp leaders learned that Xu Jintang had only reported that day and already possessed Fourth Tier mental power.
• After the break, Fang Kexin challenged Xu Jintang, and they exchanged attacks as Fang dodged and threw knives.
• Fang Kexin unleashed over a hundred concealed throwing knives, and the swarm surrounded Xu Jintang.

Xu Jintang won the defender tournament and became the overall captain of the Cabin Alliance. As the temperature plunged and snow buried the battlefield, she and the others faced the prospect of a struggle over scarce fire starters and special fuel.

• Xu Jintang unleashed power from her dragon bones, froze Fang Kexin's flying knives, and defeated her to win the match.
• After no one else challenged Xu Jintang, Fatty Fang proposed making her overall captain, and the other captains agreed.
• Wang Qian returned to her cave, regretted entering the battlefield alone, and set out to find new teammates.
• Snow began falling as the temperature dropped to minus thirteen degrees, and Xu Jintang and Lu Wei'an predicted that the cold would worsen overnight.
• Xu Jintang, Fatty Fang, and Fang Kexin debated how the Cabin Alliance should distribute future supplies of fire starters and special fuel, and Xu Jintang told them to let her think of a solution.

Xu Jintang’s team used a surprise attack to hold off rival teams while Lu Wei'an led the others to seize most of the supply crates in plateau region A. The group returned safely to the cabin territory with twenty-three crates and no casualties.

• Xu Jintang’s team prepared for the supply drop as rival teams gathered in plateau region A.
• After the supplies landed, Lu Wei'an led most of the team toward the red marker while Xu Jintang, Fang Kexin, and Fatty Fang blocked the other teams with a barrier and a surprise attack.
• Wang Qian escaped the fighting and reached the supply site, taking one crate into the woods.
• Lu Wei'an’s team carried away more than half the crates and withdrew before the other teams arrived, leaving the remaining supplies to spark a fight.
• Lu Wei'an reported that the team had secured twenty-three crates without casualties, and Xu Jintang returned with Fang Kexin and Fatty Fang.

As the snowfall intensified, Xu Jintang organized her cabin alliance through supply distribution, snow clearing, and tighter defenses, but an avalanche forced them to flee. A system attack abruptly ejected all survivors from the simulated battlefield, and Wang Yile's leaders captured a trainee suspected of carrying it out.

• Xu Jintang distributed the supply crates among the cabin teams and ordered stronger patrols as the snow deepened and participants froze.
• The leaders, including Wang Yile, agreed to intensify the assessment, while Wang Qian received a coded message in her cave.
• An avalanche threatened the cabin area, so Xu Jintang signaled nearby teams and ordered everyone to evacuate with supplies.
• As the avalanche overtook the fleeing trainees, the simulation system announced an attack and ejected all survivors, including Xu Jintang and Fatty Fang.
• Wang Yile questioned a trainee caught attacking the simulation pods' main system, ordered an investigation, and the leaders directed checks on the ejected trainees and notification of the Administration Bureau.

After the Reform Society attacked the Command Camp’s simulation system, Xu Jintang learned the assessment would continue with eliminations based on the two survival rounds. The next day, Gu Xiuwen arrived as the commander who would lead the trainees in training and missions, leaving Xu Jintang wondering whether he was the man she had encountered before.

• Medics treated Xu Jintang and the other trainees after they were forcibly ejected from the simulation battlefield, while soldiers warned them the system had been attacked.
• Shi Anyu announced over the loudspeakers that the Reform Society had attacked the simulation pods and vowed to oppose the Federation, prompting soldiers to lock down the Command Camp.
• Xu Jintang browsed online discussions and wondered whether Gu Xiuwen, the owner of the underground black market, had framed the Reform Society.
• Wang Yile announced that trainees eliminated in either survival assessment would not continue, and many trainees left the Command Camp.
• Wang Yile introduced Gu Xiuwen as the new commander who would lead training and missions, and Xu Jintang recognized a resemblance to the man she had met before.

Gu Xiuwen began leading Xu Jintang, Mo Yuqi, Fatty Fang, Fang Kexin, and Wang Qian through their Command Camp internship after the Reform Society struck again. As the five explored the central command room, Fang Kexin asked whether their month of training would end with a simulated combat assessment.

• Wang Yile introduced Major Gu Xiuwen as the interns’ new instructor, and Xu Jintang wondered why he had been sent from the Federation Command Bureau.
• Shi Anyu collected data from the Command Camp and ordered his team to leave Wang Qian embedded while they set off a firework bearing the Reform Society’s insignia; the camp searched but found no members.
• Gu Xiuwen explained that the avalanche assessment was designed to make interns experience the despair of waiting to die, then announced that 198 interns remained and assigned them to teams of five.
• Xu Jintang, Mo Yuqi, Fatty Fang, Fang Kexin, and Wang Qian were named Team One, which Gu Xiuwen would personally lead.
• Xu Jintang asked whether Gu Xiuwen’s main job was being a black market boss, and he confirmed that it was before taking the team on a tour of the central command room.
• Xu Jintang tried the satellite surveillance controls, and after the team finished exploring the command room, Fang Kexin asked about a simulated combat assessment.

Xu Jintang and the other four trainees failed their first simulated battlefield exercise, then coordinated well enough to pass a later attempt. The next morning, Wang Yile doubled their physical training as the four camps prepared for a joint assessment that would determine whether they continued operating.

• Xu Jintang, Fatty Fang, and Mo Yuqi monitored the simulated battlefield until Xu Jintang spotted a strange shadow, but the sixth-tier Shadow-Body Demon Beast destroyed the equipment before they could respond, ending the mission in failure.
• Gu Xiuwen explained how to recognize the demon beast, and Xu Jintang and the others eventually completed a simulation together after several failed attempts.
• Xu Jintang read the experimental class group chat, where Jiang Shiyi said the Reform Society's flag theft at Border Defense Star City was probably motivated by what its members had seen.
• Wang Yile ordered the trainees to run twenty laps before resuming practical training, and Xu Jintang quickly took the lead.
• Wang Yile told Gu Xiuwen that leaders would observe the four camps' joint assessment in a month, which would determine whether the newly established camps continued operating.

Xu Jintang and her four teammates passed a simulated battlefield exercise with an excellent rating, then faced taunts from Feng Ruihan at lunch. After a week of repeated simulations, Gu Xiuwen announced a field visit to several camps.

• Wang Yile waived the remaining laps for Gu Xiuwen's team, and Xu Jintang and the others left to train.
• Xu Jintang spotted a patrol lapse during the simulation, directed her team to respond to an enemy incursion, and earned an excellent rating with a five-second completion time.
• Gu Xiuwen congratulated the team and sent them to lunch before heading to the training ground himself.
• Feng Ruihan taunted Xu Jintang and her team in the cafeteria, but Xu Jintang and Fang Kexin challenged him to report her, and he backed down.
• Xu Jintang and her teammates repeated practical training throughout the first week, then Gu Xiuwen announced a visit to the armaments camp, logistics camp, and recruit camp.

Xu Jintang and the Command Camp interns toured the Armament, Logistics, and Recruit Camps to learn how they operated. At the Recruit Camp, she ran into Song Tianqi, who recognized her and wondered why Gu Xiuwen had arranged their visits.

• Gu Xiuwen took Xu Jintang and her teammates to tour the Armament Camp, where they learned about its workshop, inscription-enhanced weapons, and Xue Zhongqi’s training.
• Xu Jintang asked Xue Zhongqi whether interns could enter the Armament Camp’s core area, and he said they were limited to outer-area logistics work for now.
• The Command Camp interns visited the Logistics Camp the next day, but Xu Jintang did not see Yan Yuting.
• At the Recruit Camp, Xu Jintang saw Song Tianqi declaring himself the winner of an arena match after no one dared challenge him.
• Song Tianqi recognized Xu Jintang and asked why only the Command Camp got to visit the other camps, then studied Gu Xiuwen and said he looked familiar.

Xu Jintang and the other Command Camp trainees learned that their tour of the Armament, Logistics, and Recruit Camps would be followed by a surprise assessment. In an individual simulation, Xu Jintang coordinated responses to a sixth-tier demonic beast incursion and passed with a good rating, while Fatty Fang barely passed after ordering the recruits to deploy.

• Gu Xiuwen revealed that the Command Camp would assess the trainees on their visits to the other three camps, prompting Xu Jintang and her companions to study the Recruit Camp carefully.
• A midnight alarm summoned the trainees, and Wang Yile announced a surprise assessment based on their camp visits.
• Xu Jintang entered a simulation as an order relay officer and received a mission to coordinate a response to a sixth-tier Cartilage Vajra Beast.
• Xu Jintang ordered the Armament Camp to launch a Swift Thunder Missile, the Logistics Camp to send medical teams, and the Recruit Camp to evacuate.
• Xu Jintang received a good rating, while Fatty Fang revealed that he had ordered the Recruit Camp to deploy and had barely passed.

After a month of intense training, Xu Jintang and the other trainees prepared for the four-camp joint simulated combat assessment, which the commander-in-chief and Command Bureau leaders would observe. As they planned their approach, Xu Jintang suspected the camp’s regular troops might be assigned as their opponents.

• Wang Yile explained that the surprise assessment graded trainees according to how many people their orders left alive, and over eighty percent had failed.
• Xu Jintang spent the month training with her companions while repeatedly defeating Feng Ruihan and making him serve as her lackey under their wager.
• Wang Yile announced that the joint combat assessment would begin the next day and that the commander-in-chief and Command Bureau leaders would attend.
• Feng Ruihan tried to challenge Xu Jintang again, but she refused and left with her companions; he vowed to crush them in the assessment.
• Xu Jintang and the others discussed the assessment with Gu Xiuwen, and Xu Jintang guessed that the camp’s regular troops might be the attackers.

Xu Jintang and the other trainees learned that their joint assessment required them to defend a city against the four camps’ regular troops for three days. After entering the simulated battlefield, Xu Jintang and Fang Kexin found themselves outside the city and reached its gates as the five-hour protection countdown began.

• Gu Xiuwen confirmed that the trainees would face regular troops, and Xu Jintang reassured her worried teammates before the assessment.
• Xu Jintang told the other camp trainees that one cannon shot probably would not settle the assessment, then cultivated overnight.
• Feng Ruihan challenged Xu Jintang to a bet, but she refused and continued to the training grounds.
• Jing Hongyi arrived, briefly acknowledged Xu Jintang, and Wang Yile announced a three-day siege assessment against the regular troops.
• The simulation transported Xu Jintang and Fang Kexin to a drought-stricken wilderness, where they walked to the main city gates as the protection countdown began.

Xu Jintang organized the trainees in the main city and assigned command duties as their protective shield counted down. With water running low, she headed to the Armament Camp to assess its supplies as regular soldiers prepared their assault.

• Xu Jintang arrived in the main city, where trainees from the four camps were struggling to organize themselves.
• Song Tianqi, Xue Zhongqi, and Yan Yuting gathered trainees from their camps, and Xue Zhongqi proposed that the Command Camp direct everyone.
• Xu Jintang took charge of the Command Camp and assigned trainees to command positions, giving Feng Ruihan responsibility for reserve personnel and communication between camps.
• Outside the battlefield, Wang Yile and Jing Hongyi discussed the assessment and watched Xu Jintang organize the trainees.
• Lei Wenche sent two squads to find water, and the regular soldiers discovered a spring half an hour later.
• Xu Jintang learned that the city had little clean water and went to the Armament Camp, where Xue Zhongqi was inventorying weapons and equipment.

With the main city’s protection period nearing its end, Xu Jintang ordered the Armament Camp to destroy the springs occupied by Lei Wenche’s regular soldiers, then used reconnaissance drones to target more of them. Lei Wenche recalled his surviving forces and planned to wait for the first fire rain disaster before attacking.

• Xue Zhongqi inventoried the Armament Camp’s weapons as the camps prepared their supplies and personnel for the coming battle.
• Lei Wenche assembled his forces after securing four springs, while Xu Jintang ordered missiles launched at the springs to deny the regular soldiers access to water.
• The missiles destroyed the occupied springs and eliminated seven regular soldiers; Lei Wenche withdrew his remaining troops and ordered them to search discreetly for other water sources.
• Concealed reconnaissance drones found regular soldiers hiding on a ridge, and Xue Zhongqi launched a missile that eliminated three more.
• After the elimination count exceeded ten, Lei Wenche recalled his forces and decided to wait for the first fire rain disaster before attacking.

After the main city's protection period ended, Xu Jintang and her team prepared for a fire rain disaster, which struck as a regular army squad infiltrated the city. Song Tianqi stopped the squad leader from reaching the warehouse and eliminated him, while the fire rain continued to threaten the city.

• Xu Jintang, Xue Zhongqi, and Yan Yuting realized that the regular army might attack when a fire rain disaster weakened the city's defenses.
• Jing Hongyi arranged for the fire rain to begin, and Xu Jintang used her ice ability to cool and cover the main city in ice.
• A satellite warning prompted Feng Ruihan to prepare defenses, but the fire rain soon shattered the city's barrier and eliminated several trainees.
• A regular army squad slipped through the rear gate during the chaos, and its leader headed toward the warehouse to destroy supplies on Captain Lei's orders.
• Song Tianqi intercepted the squad leader at the warehouse and eliminated him with his Scarlet Flame attacks.

After the fire rain ended, Xu Jintang restored the city’s defenses and sent squads to search for water, while Xue Zhongqi used surveillance drones and missiles to eliminate regular soldiers. As night fell, Lei Wenche led a counterattack and tore a crack through the city’s shield with Thunder Myriad-Slash Wave.

• Song Tianqi reported that his ambush had eliminated the regular soldiers who infiltrated the city, while Lei Wenche learned his five-man squad had been wiped out.
• Xue Zhongqi restored the defensive shield after the fire rain weakened, and Xu Jintang learned that seven teammates had been eliminated and the city had used seventy percent of its water.
• Xu Jintang dispatched reconnaissance drones and elite squads to search for a spring, while Xue Zhongqi used the drones to guide missile attacks against regular soldiers.
• Regular soldiers’ losses climbed to forty-six, and Lei Wenche told his force he would lead a night operation to attack the trainees.
• Lei Wenche approached the main city under cover of darkness and used Thunder Myriad-Slash Wave to tear a crack through its shield, triggering alarms.

Lei Wenche led a regular-army assault on the city, but Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi repelled the attackers at the cost of more than a hundred trainee soldiers. The next morning, Xu Jintang investigated a nearby fissure that might erupt with lava and began sending ice into it.

• Lei Wenche led a surprise attack that broke through the city's protective barrier and eliminated dozens of trainee soldiers.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi fought Lei Wenche's forces, then pursued them as Logistics Camp members slowed their retreat; Lei Wenche covered his team's escape with Boundless Lightning.
• Xu Jintang ordered the city to regroup and resume night patrols, while Yan Yuting learned that the battle had cost the trainees over a hundred people.
• The next morning, reports revealed two new springs, rising temperatures, and a fissure ten kilometers from the city that might erupt with lava.
• Xu Jintang went to the fissure, summoned Song Tianqi and other strong team members, and extended ice into the gap as the heat melted it into mist.

Xu Jintang used ice to divert erupting lava toward the regular army’s camp, forcing Lei Wenche’s troops to defend themselves. The regular army suspected the trainee army’s involvement and focused on finding water, while Xu Jintang ordered her forces to hold back and monitor them.

• Xu Jintang led Song Tianqi and the team in widening a fissure, then froze the erupting lava and sent it flowing toward the regular army’s encampment.
• Lei Wenche and his troops fought lava attacking the camp from all sides, then concluded that Xu Jintang had transported it using ice.
• Lei Wenche ordered his forces to stay alert and find at least two more springs, while Xu Jintang told the Armament Camp to monitor the regular army without attacking.
• Xue Zhongqi reported to Xu Jintang that the regular army had found two new springs and was guarding them closely.