Chapter Summaries

After waking in an unfamiliar interstellar world, Yuqing learned that the soldiers believed she was a Guide and asked her to soothe Ers, an SS-rank Sentinel in a dangerous berserk state. She entered the room where Ers was chained and crouched beside him, preparing to try her healing ability.

• Yuqing woke in Mist Forest surrounded by Federation soldiers, who mistook her for a Guide and asked her to help Ers.
• Yuqing discovered a white kitten, which the soldiers identified as her Spirit Entity, and agreed to try soothing Ers despite having little power left.
• Shang Yu led Yuqing into a sealed room, where Ers was chained and muzzled as he struggled in a level eight berserk state.
• Shang Yu explained Ers's condition and the danger of Sentinel contamination while the soldiers held the chains taut.
• Yuqing approached the growling Ers and crouched beside him, struck by his handsome appearance.

Yuqing entered Ers's mental world while healing him and discovered how deeply concealed and damaged it was. As she reached his true mental world, Ers broke free of his restraints in the real world, forcing Shang Yu and the others to protect her.

• Yuqing was pulled into Ers's mirror-filled mental world while trying to heal him.
• A white kitten led Yuqing through a mirror into a burning landscape, where she found Ers in despair.
• Yuqing calmed Ers with her words and abilities, then entered the hidden core of his mental world to heal him.
• Ers reacted intensely when Yuqing's healing ability reached his mind, and he snapped the chains binding him in the real world.
• Shang Yu reached for the blue medicine while ordering the others to protect Yuqing.

Yuqing soothed Ers in his mindscape, but the effort depleted her mental power and left her unconscious. As Ers prepared to evacuate with her toward Federation territory, Shang Yu realized she had entered the deepest part of Ers's mindscape.

• Yuqing's soothing brought signs of life back to Ers's mindscape, while Ers concealed that he had already regained his senses.
• Yuqing's white kitten returned to her arms, pulling her back to the real world, where she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ers caught the unconscious Yuqing, and Shang Yu confirmed that her mental power had been depleted but her injuries were superficial.
• Ers asked about the mission, and Shang Yu reported that the Iron Curtain had deceived the team with false information.
• After a guard spotted avian spirit forms nearby, Ers ordered the team to assemble and evacuate immediately with Yuqing.
• Shang Yu noticed Ers's altered pheromones and realized that Yuqing had entered the deepest part of his mindscape.

Ers and the Federation squad escaped through the border forest with Yuqing, while Imperial scouts discovered a guide’s scent at the safe house and concluded that the Federation had taken an Imperial guide. Carlos ordered his forces to pursue them and bring the guide back, despite his dangerously high pollution level.

• Ers confirmed that Yuqing had reached the deepest part of his mindscape, and the Federation squad set out with her in his arms.
• Imperial scouts found the safe house and detected a faint guide scent beneath the sentinels’ pheromones.
• Will and Carlos concluded that the guide was likely from the nearby Imperial city and had been taken by the Federation.
• Daniel grew furious at the thought that an Imperial guide had been left unprotected, and Carlos ordered his soldiers to pursue the Federation and recover the guide.
• Daniel warned Carlos that his pollution level was dangerously high, but Carlos refused to leave, saying ordinary guides could not help him.

As corrupted creatures attacked the Federation team, Ers sent Shang Yu to protect the unconscious Yuqing while he stayed behind to fight. Shang Yu hid with her in an abandoned bird’s nest, then faced Rosent Campbell, whose arrival threatened to expose their hiding place and start a fight.

• A swarm of corrupted creatures blocked the Federation’s route, and Ers ordered Shang Yu to take Yuqing somewhere safe.
• Shang Yu carried Yuqing east and hid with her in an abandoned bird’s nest high in an ancient tree.
• Yuqing’s scent soothed Shang Yu, who wiped the paint from her face and saw her beauty.
• Shang Yu vowed to take Yuqing to the Federation and offer her better conditions, then Rosent Campbell confronted him from a nearby branch.
• Shang Yu’s fox spirit challenged Rosent’s Ghost Bat, and Rosent demanded that Shang Yu put Yuqing down and fight.

Shang Yu lured Rosent and the imperial sentinels toward a nest of pollution entities while keeping Yuqing hidden in a giant bird’s nest. Yuqing woke, tried to climb down, and fell into the arms of an unidentified person.

• Shang Yu disguised his plan to draw Rosent toward Ers and attached a protective device to Yuqing before attacking Rosent.
• Shang Yu and Rosent fought their way toward Ers, while Daniel, Will, and the imperial sentinels followed Rosent’s pheromone trail into a pollution entities’ nest.
• Rosent warned the imperial sentinels about the nest, but the pollution entities had already noticed them; Daniel demanded to know where the guide was, and Rosent said Yuqing was in a tree behind them.
• Ers confronted Shang Yu for leaving Yuqing alone, and Shang Yu insisted she was safe and that his plan was their only way to retreat with her.
• Yuqing woke in a giant bird’s nest, climbed down the nearby tree, and fell when a branch broke.
• An unidentified person caught Yuqing and cushioned her fall.

Yuqing healed Carlos after colliding with him in the forest, and he immediately sought to bind himself to her as her guardian sentinel. Their conversation was interrupted when the Federation sentinels searching for Yuqing found her with Carlos.

• Yuqing crashed into Carlos, apologized, and used her mental power to soothe his chaotic mental sea and ease the toxins in his body.
• When Yuqing withdrew her power, Carlos clung to her and nearly bit her neck, so she slapped him and called him a bad dog.
• Carlos offered to become Yuqing’s guardian sentinel, but Yuqing worried she would be unable to explain her unfamiliar identity in the Empire.
• Daniel and the other Federation sentinels searched for Yuqing, and Will’s bloodhound led them toward her.
• Will found Yuqing with Carlos, and Yuqing called out to Ers as the group noticed her strange clothing.

Yuqing chose to leave with Ers and the Federation sentinels, despite the imperial sentinels’ protests. Carlos let her go after realizing she had a reason to leave, and his final question suggested he suspected she was far more powerful than she appeared.

• Shang Yu invoked the Guide Protection Act and asked Yuqing who she wanted to go with.
• Yuqing firmly chose Ers, leaving the imperial sentinels stunned and prompting them to ask why she would abandon the empire.
• Carlos asked whether Yuqing liked Ers, then realized she had another reason to leave and asked if he could visit her someday.
• Yuqing agreed, and Carlos ordered the imperial sentinels to let her and the Federation group go.
• After Yuqing left with Ers, Daniel challenged Carlos’s decision, and Carlos questioned whether a guide of extraordinary strength could really have been found on the empire’s frontier.

Carlos concluded that the mysterious woman who had healed him was an extraordinarily powerful guide whose identity did not fit the empire’s system. Meanwhile, Yuqing reached the Ninth Military District with Ers, where her guide pheromones began soothing the sentinels around her.

• Carlos explained that the guide’s strength was impossible to gauge, that she had entered his mental sea and healed his wounds, and that he had let her leave to avoid upsetting her.
• Ers carried the sleeping Yuqing to the arriving airship, where Asmodeus’s wind blade struck Ers as he shielded her.
• Hothos Welch ordered Yuqing taken to the medical pod and sent Ers to report on the mission, while Asmodeus was escorted away for punishment.
• Yuqing clung to Ers until his rum pheromones calmed her, then her jasmine pheromones spread and eased the nearby sentinels’ mental distress.

After Yuqing’s pheromones affected the sentinels aboard the warship, Huosuosi restored order and Ers placed her in a medical pod. In a command-room briefing, Ers asked to become Yuqing’s personal sentinel guard, while Huosuosi left the decision to her.

• Huosuosi’s pressure broke the sentinels out of Yuqing’s pheromone thrall and sent them back to their duties.
• Ers carefully placed Yuqing in the medical pod, then struggled to leave her as sentinels gathered around to admire her.
• Shang Yu told Huosuosi that Iron Group mercenaries had ambushed the squad and driven them into the Dark Forest, where Yuqing had saved Ers during his frenzy.
• Ers asked to become Yuqing’s personal sentinel guard, despite the likelihood that he would have to leave his military posts and the Ninth Military District.
• Huosuosi said Yuqing’s wishes would come first and considered the possibility that she might choose to stay at the border.

Yuqing woke in the medical pod feeling restored and delightedly cuddled Duoduo, unaware that the puppy’s shared sensations were overwhelming Noi through their mental link. Ers led the sentinels to the infirmary to see the waking Guide, leaving Noi to struggle with his embarrassment.

• Yuqing woke in the medical pod feeling refreshed and examined the strange pale blue liquid.
• Yuqing cuddled Duoduo, a golden retriever puppy that eagerly climbed into her arms.
• Noi felt Yuqing's touch and soothing Guide Pheromone through Duoduo’s shared senses, leaving him flushed and weak.
• Noi’s teammates mistook his reaction for an injury and tried to take him to the infirmary.
• Ers came out of the conference room and ordered the group to go to the infirmary with him to see the waking Guide.

Yuqing made Duoduo a healing dog bone, which eased the golden retriever Spirit Entity’s pain and drew a crowd of hungry Spirit Entities into the infirmary. Ers restored order and reprimanded the sentinels, while Yuqing comforted Duoduo after another Spirit Entity stole his treat.

• Yuqing formed a spiritual-power dog bone for Duoduo, and he eagerly ate it, tasting food for the first time and feeling his toothache ease.
• The sentinels realized Duoduo had entered the infirmary to be petted, then watched their own Spirit Entities rush toward the irresistible bone.
• A pack of Spirit Entities swarmed Duoduo, and a Maine Coon stole his bone while he fled crying into Yuqing’s arms.
• Yuqing soothed Duoduo and offered him another bone as the snow-white wolf silenced the roomful of Spirit Entities.
• Ers entered and ordered the sentinels to control their Spirit Entities, and they hurried to recall them.

Yuqing fed treats made from her mental power to the sentinels’ spirit forms and discovered that they eased deep mental toxins. Shang Yu invited her to see the pink nebulae as their ship passed through the Andromeda Spiral Arm, leaving Yuqing stunned to learn she was in space.

• Ers and Noi thanked Yuqing as the bone eased Noi’s mental toxins through Duoduo.
• Yuqing made a catnip ball for the Maine Coon, easing its sentinel’s mental frenzy, then created treats for the other spirit forms.
• Yuqing fed the red fox and snow wolf, and Shang Yu felt a deep patch of mental toxins dissolve.
• Eos worried that making so many treats would exhaust Yuqing, but she said she felt fine.
• Yuqing worried about Yun Qi, and Shang Yu offered to show her the view outside the medical room.
• Yuqing learned they were passing through the Andromeda Spiral Arm and realized she was floating in space.

Huosuosi discovered that Yuqing’s energy had passed through his mental barrier after his panther ate the bone Duoduo had chewed. When Yuqing arrived on Eremos, she showed no disgust at its harsh environment, and Ers escorted her toward dinner and her room.

• Huosuosi’s panther eagerly ate the broken bone, and Huosuosi felt a gentle energy pass through his mental barrier via their connection.
• Huosuosi watched Yuqing talk with Shang Yu and told Noi to prepare what she needed while waiting for her to decide whether to stay.
• Ers and Shang Yu brought Yuqing to Eremos, where the sentinels waited for her to reject the bleak landscape.
• Yuqing calmly looked over Eremos and asked why they had stopped, surprising the men who expected her to want to leave.
• Ers helped Yuqing down the warship’s steps and told her that dinner and a room had been prepared.

The Ninth Military District confirmed that the Third Squad had brought a guide back from the Dark Forest, prompting an unprecedented lockdown. Liechuan, whose contamination was nearing a fatal threshold, decided to send his spirit body Hawk to secretly look at the guide.

• The military district issued a highest-priority order suspending training and confining soldiers to their dormitories, and a logistics worker confirmed that the Third Squad had brought back a guide.
• Liechuan's squad members rushed into his room with news of the guide, and he hoped the guide might be able to save him from his worsening contamination.
• Gu Ye asked Liechuan to let Hawk sneak a look at the guide, and Liechuan agreed despite the risk of the marshal discovering them.
• Liechuan summoned Hawk from his mindscape and told the griffin to secretly visit the newly arrived guide.

Hawk watched Yuqing arrive at the Ninth Military District, and Liechuan saw her face through their shared senses, leaving him with a sudden nosebleed. At the cafeteria, Yuqing eagerly ate the welcome meal and invited Ers and the others to join her.

• Hawk hid on a rooftop and relayed Yuqing's arrival to Liechuan through their shared senses.
• Yuqing noticed Hawk, smiled, and nodded before entering the military district with Ers and the others.
• Liechuan got a nosebleed while watching Yuqing, and Gu Ye and the other sentinels teased him about her beauty.
• Yuqing saw the cafeteria feast, asked if she could eat, and devoured two bowls of rice with guobaorou.
• Yuqing invited Ers and the others to share the meal, and Ers wiped sauce from the corner of her mouth.

Yuqing agreed to stay in the Ninth Military District for a while, and Ers promised that the sentinels would respect her wishes if she decided to leave. Ers showed her the district’s Dark Prison and settled her into a luxurious room on the administration building’s top floor.

• Ers knelt beside Yuqing and asked her to stay in the Ninth Military District, and she agreed because the sentinels were the only people she knew in the Federation.
• Yuqing said she might leave someday to search for Yun Qi, and Ers promised that they would respect her wishes.
• The head of logistics asked Ers to take Yuqing to rest and went to report to the marshal.
• Ers explained the military district’s layout as he escorted Yuqing through the administration building, and he warned her to stay away from the Dark Prison.
• Ers showed Yuqing her room on the top floor, ran her a bath, and said he would keep watch outside her door.

Yuqing awakened the system 01010 embedded in her identification tag and learned how to develop her abilities and communicate with Yun Qi. She decided to build her mental and water powers in the Ninth Military District, where 01010 said energy and crystals were plentiful.

• Yuqing cut her palm on her identification tag, and her blood awakened the system 01010 inside it.
• 01010 explained that systems were embedded in ability users’ tags, but needed enough energy to activate.
• Yuqing learned that she and Yun Qi could communicate once both reached Lv5, while she was currently Lv0 with water and mental abilities.
• 01010 advised Yuqing to develop her mental power using energy from mutants, pollutants, and high-level sentinels, and said her water ability could eventually mutate into ice.
• 01010 identified Yuqing’s white cat as the young auspicious beast Bai Ze, which needed crystals to develop.
• Yuqing resolved to gather crystals in the Ninth Military District and grow stronger.

Yuqing woke with severe abdominal pain after overeating, and Ers rushed her to the infirmary. Han Yu diagnosed indigestion caused by severe long-term malnutrition and suspected she had been abused, leaving Ers and the others angry and determined to find out what happened to her.

• Yuqing developed painful indigestion during the night, and 01010 alerted Ers when she could not call for help.
• Ers carried Yuqing to the infirmary while Noi summoned Han Yu and the medical team.
• Han Yu’s examination and blood tests showed that Yuqing was severely malnourished and had colic after eating too much greasy meat.
• Han Yu suspected Yuqing had been abused and said the Guide Protection Association needed to get involved.
• Ers vowed to find those responsible, while Han Yu stayed to care for Yuqing.

Huosuosi threatened a scar-faced man after learning the man’s group had nearly endangered his guide, then rushed back to the Ninth Military District when he heard something had happened to Yuqing. Yuqing woke in the district infirmary, felt better, and went to see a handsome merman resting in a pool.

• Huosuosi told the scar-faced man he would settle the score because the man had nearly dragged his guide into danger.
• The adjutant reported that something might have happened to the guide, so Huosuosi ordered everyone to return and demanded Ers report Yuqing’s condition.
• After Huosuosi’s soldiers left, the scar-faced man ordered his group to stay out of conflicts involving the Empire’s northern frontier and the Ninth Military District, then secretly informed the family head that Huosuosi had a guide.
• Yuqing woke in the Ninth Military District’s infirmary with her cramps gone and learned from the system that a merman was nearby.
• Yuqing followed the system’s directions and found a silver-haired merman resting in a pool of pale blue solution.