Recaps

Hila became the Shattered Star Ring’s sixth Beyond Grade A, and Han Xiao gathered the galaxy’s Beyond Grade As before version 4.0 opened the Shattered World to players. As the Black Star Army expanded through player guilds and fought Gorutan and the Modo Civilization, Han Xiao pursued Chaos Mysterious Energy while Aurora reached Calamity Grade and Han Xiao advanced to level 320.

• Hila defeated Tolain, joined the Black Star Army as deputy commander, and fought Han Xiao in a sparring match that brought them closer.
• Han Xiao hosted more than seventy Beyond Grade As, secured their agreement to keep the Shattered Star Ring peaceful, and earned public acclaim for the gathering.
• The Crimson Dynasty opened the Shattered World, and players returned to find that twenty years had passed and Han Xiao had become a Mechanical Deity.
• Han Xiao ambushed a Modo fleet, captured its personnel, and helped the Kunde Race confront the prisoners over their civilization’s destruction.
• Han Xiao organized Army players into the Immortal Troops, while guilds established bases and pursued exploration missions across the Shattered World.
• Hila fought Gorutan over Planet Ferry, seriously injured him with her death-energy abilities, and received Han Xiao’s backing when he demanded Gorutan withdraw.
• Black Star Army guilds joined Maple Moon’s campaign on Planet Hake, defeated rival forces, and established a profitable foothold as foreign players began joining the Army.
• Aurora advanced to Calamity Grade and revealed that her healing could boost others and potentially extend their lifespans, while Han Xiao pursued Chaos Mysterious Energy and reached level 320.

Han Xiao captured Chaos Mysterious Energy, developed Evans’s ability, and completed the Sovereign while the Black Star Army faced player attacks and a coordinated assault on Hila. The arc ended with Han Xiao arriving in person to break the attackers’ encirclement and confront the Beyond Grade As.

• Han Xiao reached level 320, unlocked Divine Transformation talents and new mechanical blueprints, and began pursuing the Sovereign and Great Emperor’s Robe.
• Han Xiao seized Chaos Mysterious Energy from Ravenlaude and Secret Master, defeated Ravenlaude’s forces, and learned from the energy that it wanted him to find Holy Light Particle.
• Han Xiao absorbed the Chaos Mysterious Energy only briefly before expelling and sealing it, then named it Little Chaos and accepted its mission to find its archenemy.
• Han Xiao recruited Evans after discovering his Esper affinity and Replication ability, and later completed the Sovereign and gained the Universal Treasure Creator talent.
• Han Xiao countered coordinated attacks on Black Star Army players by authorizing bounties and retaliation, prompting most targeted factions to restrain their Immortals.
• The Arcane Church and Glory launched an attack to capture Hila, while Traveler challenged Ames and the Dynasty prepared reinforcements for the Black Star Army.
• Hila fought off the attackers with Aurora’s life-energy link, but Glory’s Beyond Grade As joined Sagman’s group and overwhelmed her as Han Xiao’s Dominion avatar defended her.
• Han Xiao’s original body arrived, severed Seraon’s arm, and opened a path for Hila to escape before telling the stunned Beyond Grade As to run.

Han Xiao defeated the forces targeting Hila, captured Gorutan, and expanded the Black Star Army’s influence while pursuing new projects and exploring secondary dimensions. The arc ended with a mysterious fleet ambushing Han Xiao, Ames, and Clottey and escaping with part of the Chaos Mysterious Energy.

• Han Xiao joined forces with Hila and used his amplified mechanical army to repel the attackers, capturing Tolain, Jack Gonitz, Hedis, and Wormur while Seraon escaped.
• Han Xiao rode Silver Shadow to Gorutan, defeated him with the help of the Empire’s forces, and sealed him in Space-Time Amber, earning public acclaim and completing the Hila rescue mission.
• Han Xiao strengthened his abilities, accepted Jotina and other defectors from Gorutan’s forces, and arranged to free the Beast Ancestor’s slaves and dismantle the breeding facilities.
• Han Xiao secured Gorutan’s vacant shareholder position from Sorokin and worked with Manison to recruit powerful Beyond Grade As for a proposed Development Federation.
• Han Xiao traveled with Ames through secondary dimensions, subdued the Holy Light Particle, and visited the Land of Dead Silence while searching for clues about Hila’s revival coin.
• Clottey destroyed the Fel Energy Aggregation and killed Traveler’s allies, but Traveler escaped and later confessed to working with Sorokin before Han Xiao sealed him in Space-Time Amber.
• Luo and Fei’s fleet ambushed Han Xiao, Ames, and Clottey, banished Clottey, weakened the others, and escaped after capturing part of the Chaos Mysterious Energy.

Han Xiao strengthened the Black Star Army, helped establish the Development Federation, and hosted the first Black Star Cup while dealing with Sanctum and Sorokin. A triangular device unleashed the Intelligence Plague ahead of schedule, and Han Xiao joined Manison and the three Universal Civilizations to contain it in the sealed Ancient Star Desert.

• Han Xiao helped Hila and Aurora inherit Netherland, defeated Bagdora, and expanded his influence among the Void Lords while the Beyond Grade As organized the Development Federation.
• Manison became the Federation’s first president, Han Xiao became vice president, and Han Xiao later gave Aurora the Holy Light Particle in exchange for her help developing Holy Light Seeds.
• Han Xiao secured support from neutral Beyond Grade As, negotiated the release of Tolain and Hedis, and launched the Black Star Cup, drawing players and recruits to the Army.
• Sorokin apologized for interfering in the attack on Hila and offered support, while Han Xiao demanded access to the Infinite Financial Group’s operations and a share of its Universal Treasures.
• Harrison Moore’s scavenger team recovered a triangular device from an ancient ruin, and pirates later opened it, releasing an energy wave and an information signal.
• Oathkeeper negotiated with Han Xiao to exchange the Holy Light Particle and the stolen Chaos Mysterious Energy fragment for portions of two Primal Esper Abilities, then ordered Sanctum to investigate a suspected traitor.
• The device’s information packets spread through the Ancient Star Desert’s quantum network, and Manison warned the Universal Civilizations that an infectious virus was making intelligences attack living beings.
• Han Xiao accepted the mission to eliminate the virus’s core data and traveled to the quarantined Ancient Star Desert, where Manison told him the plague had infected nodes across roughly eight star clusters.