Chapter Summaries

Xin Lan arrived in a sentinel-and-guide world, used her mental powers to save Chi Lin, and registered as an S-rank guide in K9 District. Star Brain matched her with five escort sentinels and transferred their assets to her, while she planned to pursue power in the Federation.

• Xin Lan controlled the rampaging Chi Lin, learned she was on Iota M19, and discovered that guides soothed sentinels’ mental landscapes.
• Xin Lan cleansed Chi Lin’s mental landscape, then had him summon his hovercar and drive her to the K9 District sentinel tower.
• Xin Lan tested her mental energy at the tower and stopped the test at S-rank to avoid being sent to the Sanctuary under guard.
• The testing station registered Xin Lan as a newly awakened guide and matched her with five escort sentinels.
• Star Brain transferred the five sentinels’ assets to Xin Lan and announced that she could make them exclusive sentinels or dissolve their bonds.

After Xin Lan registered as a guide, five sentinels in K9 District learned she was their nearly perfect match and rushed to find her. Xin Lan tried to satisfy her hunger with nutrient solution, but after vomiting it up, she encountered Wu Xi, who declared her his lady guide.

• Xin Lan accepted the system’s asset-sharing arrangement and went looking for food and a smart wristband.
• Mo Xiao informed the K9 District sentinels that the Federation had stopped sending guides because of the war with the Free Alliance.
• The Star Brain matched Xin Lan with Mo Xiao, Yun Jin, Wu Xi, Cang Leng, and Chi Ming at 99.99% compatibility, and the sentinels saw that she was an unregistered S-rank guide.
• Wu Xi left to find Xin Lan, while Chi Ming recognized the testing station in her photo and headed for South Tower.
• Xin Lan bought nutrient solution on credit, vomited after trying it, and followed her wristband’s navigation toward a restaurant.
• Wu Xi stopped Xin Lan in the street, knelt before her, kissed her hand, and called her his lady guide.

Xin Lan met her matched guard sentinels, Wu Xi and Chi Ming, and chose to visit Chi Ming’s nearby South Tower for food. There, the sentinels swarmed her and competed for her attention, while Chi Ming offered to strip for her after dinner.

• Wu Xi introduced himself as Xin Lan’s matched sentinel and invited her to the North Tower to eat his cooking.
• Chi Ming arrived, introduced himself as another matched sentinel, and persuaded Xin Lan to go to the nearby South Tower instead.
• Xin Lan accepted Wu Xi’s offer to cook as well and rode with Chi Ming to the South Tower.
• The South Tower’s sentinels crowded around Xin Lan, showing off their bodies and asking to join her guard.
• When Xin Lan’s stomach growled, Chi Ming offered to take her to eat and said he could strip for her afterward.

Xin Lan entered Chi Ming’s private floor, where Chi Ming and Wu Xi competed for her attention while preparing a meal. After Xin Lan emerged from the bath, she noticed a small teddy bear with a red bow that suddenly rushed toward her.

• Wu Xi followed Xin Lan and Chi Ming, offering to show off his body too, and Xin Lan agreed to let both men do it later.
• Chi Ming brought Xin Lan to his luxurious 88th-floor residence, offered her hot water and clean clothes, and won her permission to call her Lanlan.
• Chi Ming and Wu Xi cooked together and discussed whether Xin Lan was different from the guides who had mistreated sentinels; Chi Ming insisted that she was.
• Chi Ming and Wu Xi brought Xin Lan the finished meal, then admired her when she came out of the bathroom wearing his oversized black shirt.
• Xin Lan noticed a small white teddy bear with a red bow beside the door, and it suddenly scrambled toward her.

Xin Lan saw Wu Xi and Chi Ming’s Spirit Bodies, frightened by Wu Xi’s polar bear but delighted by Chi Ming’s anaconda. After Wu Xi impulsively placed her hand on his chest, she slapped him and warned him not to touch her without permission.

• Wu Xi startled Xin Lan by revealing his small polar bear Spirit Body, then apologized when she recoiled.
• During the meal, Xin Lan asked both men to show their Spirit Bodies and learned that Chi Ming’s was an anaconda.
• Xin Lan liked Chi Ming’s anaconda, let it coil beneath her feet, and asked him to make it small enough to sleep beside her.
• After asking where she would work, Xin Lan praised Wu Xi’s physique and listened as he complimented her Guide Pheromones.
• Wu Xi took Xin Lan’s hand and placed it on his chest, so she slapped him, then accepted his apology and told him not to touch her without permission.

Xin Lan partially purified Chi Ming’s dangerously high rampage level, causing him to become intensely attached to her. Wu Xi explained that their mental link did not make Chi Ming her exclusive sentinel, which required a permanent physical link.

• Xin Lan praised and touched Chi Ming while asking him to dress in a suit, and he obediently followed her instructions.
• Xin Lan learned that Chi Ming’s rampage level was 93% and entered his mental landscape to purify its corruption.
• After ten minutes, Xin Lan purified about half of Chi Ming’s mental corruption and then stopped because she felt tired.
• Chi Ming said the purification made him feel reborn and asked to hug Xin Lan or kiss her hand.
• Wu Xi explained that Chi Ming’s reaction came from their first deep mental link and clarified that only a physical link made a sentinel exclusive to a guide.

Xin Lan discussed her work and exclusive sentinels with Wu Xi, then teased Wu Xi and Chi Ming by suggesting she might unbind them. After Chi Ming cried at the thought of being abandoned, Xin Lan kissed him and decided to keep him, warning him to behave.

• Wu Xi advised Xin Lan to choose powerful exclusive sentinels and explained that she could work in K9 District for higher pay.
• Xin Lan asked whether she could unbind her sentinels, and Wu Xi and Chi Ming assured her that they would never harm her or resent her choice.
• Xin Lan teased Wu Xi and Chi Ming about unbinding them, and both pleaded for another chance.
• Chi Ming cried when Xin Lan said she did not need his money and might not want him anymore.
• Xin Lan praised Chi Ming for looking beautiful when he cried, kissed him, and agreed to keep him if he behaved.

Xin Lan visited the K9 District Sanctuary to inspect the work environment before deciding whether to stay, while Chi Ming and Wu Xi prepared for threats from the Federation and Free Alliance. She left Mo Xiao waiting outside and demanded details about the job first.

• Xin Lan kissed Chi Ming, promised not to abandon him, and asked him to prepare clothes so she could visit the Sanctuary.
• Chi Ming and Wu Xi learned that Federation officials were coming and discussed the danger posed by the Free Alliance and Xin Lan’s importance to K9 District’s sentinels.
• Wu Xi lamented his worsening condition, while Chi Ming described how Xin Lan’s purification had relieved him.
• Xin Lan discovered her spirit form was a sentient dark blue vine, turned it into a bracelet, and took it with her.
• At the Sanctuary, Xin Lan ignored Mo Xiao’s offered handshake and asked him to explain the work and conditions before she decided whether to stay.

Xin Lan negotiated her work and housing terms with administrator Mo Xiao, choosing to stay close to Chi Ming and hold his anaconda spirit form at night. The other sentinels learned that Xin Lan had purified Chi Ming through a deep mental link, leaving them jealous and wary as Yun Jin decided her identity needed investigation.

• Cang Leng, Yun Jin, and Wu Xi followed Xin Lan into the soothing room and watched her take Chi Ming's hand.
• Xin Lan asked Mo Xiao how many sentinels she would need to soothe, and he said she could choose five to eight applicants, take time off freely, and stay safely at the sanctuary.
• Xin Lan asked to stay at Chi Ming's place so she could hold his anaconda spirit form at night, and Chi Ming offered to visit her every night instead.
• Mo Xiao asked Chi Ming about his rampage value, and Chi Ming said Xin Lan had purified his mental landscape below the acceptable threshold.
• Cang Leng and Yun Jin blamed Wu Xi for missing his chance to form a deep link with Xin Lan, but Wu Xi insisted she had chosen Chi Ming freely and that they had done nothing else.
• Yun Jin decided they should investigate Xin Lan's identity before rushing to become her exclusive sentinel.

Xin Lan accepted Mo Xiao's former residence and invited the five sentinels to make their cases for becoming her exclusive sentinels. Chi Ming won her approval as her personal assistant, while Cang Leng began revealing his transformed form, startling Yun Jin.

• Mo Xiao explained that the Sanctuary had not prepared a guide's residence in K9 District, offered Xin Lan his own floor, and promised to move to the 89th floor.
• Xin Lan accepted the residence temporarily and asked for the 91st floor to be decorated the same way.
• Xin Lan asked the five sentinels to explain their advantages and the benefits of becoming her exclusive sentinel.
• Chi Ming promised to obey Xin Lan, care for her, and keep his word, so she made him her personal assistant and claimed his personal time outside missions.
• Cang Leng let his body transform, growing scales on his arms and translucent purple fins in place of his ears, and Yun Jin shouted at him for doing so.

Cang Leng tried to use his partial merfolk mutation and seductive voice to win Xin Lan over, but she attacked his mindscape with powerful spiritual force. After enduring five minutes of agony, he crawled to her feet and apologized, and Xin Lan asked him to explain what he had done wrong.

• Cang Leng partially mutated and tried to persuade Xin Lan to accept him as her sentinel, while the others warned him and tried to stop his advances.
• Cang Leng used his merfolk charm to draw close to Xin Lan, believing she had fallen under his spell.
• Xin Lan slapped Cang Leng and struck his mindscape with spiritual power, forcing his mutation to disappear and leaving him screaming in pain.
• Xin Lan maintained the punishment for five minutes as the others watched in shock, then ended it with a yawn.
• Cang Leng crawled to Xin Lan's feet and apologized, and she asked him to tell her exactly what he had done wrong.

Xin Lan assessed Yun Jin and Wu Xi after revealing her unusual mental power, while Cang Leng became fervently grateful for her punishment. Yun Jin presented his fire qilin, but Xin Lan dismissed the spirit entity and asked Wu Xi to make his case.

• Mo Xiao and Yun Jin suspected Xin Lan's mental power was far beyond an ordinary guide's and considered how to protect her secret.
• Cang Leng knelt before Xin Lan, thanked her for punishing him, and claimed she had calmed his mental landscape, though Xin Lan denied doing so.
• Xin Lan told Cang Leng to move away and called on Yun Jin to present himself.
• Yun Jin summoned his miniature fire qilin, which leaped into Xin Lan's arms, and described its uses as she stroked it.
• Xin Lan returned the fire qilin to the floor when Yun Jin offered nothing else, then invited Wu Xi to speak.
• Wu Xi said he was adaptable, quick to learn, physically capable, a good cook, and willing to entertain or defend Xin Lan.

Xin Lan accepted Mo Xiao’s offer of elevated compensation and administrative privileges, then let Cang Leng stay so she could nap with his mermaid spirit body. Cang Leng teased Chi Ming about being jealous until Chi Ming punched him, and Cang Leng ran to Xin Lan’s bedroom in tears.

• Wu Xi described himself to Xin Lan, who told him to wait while she considered her decision.
• Mo Xiao offered Xin Lan SSS-class compensation and some administrative authority, and she agreed to work with him.
• Xin Lan dismissed the others but allowed Cang Leng to stay after he offered his mermaid spirit body as a cool body pillow.
• Cang Leng followed Chi Ming and teased him about being jealous that Xin Lan was cuddling his spirit body.
• Chi Ming punched Cang Leng, who wiped away his blood and ran toward Xin Lan’s bedroom in tears.

Xin Lan punished Chi Ming and Cang Leng for disturbing her sleep, then they went to test their riot levels and discovered her mental power had dramatically reduced them. Yun Jin remained skeptical until Chi Ming’s test results confirmed the drop, leaving him stunned.

• Cang Leng blamed Chi Ming for hitting him, and Xin Lan ordered them to punch each other before punishing both with her mental power for waking her.
• Xin Lan warned the five men not to disturb her sleep again, while Chi Ming and Cang Leng realized she could both purify and attack mental landscapes.
• Chi Ming and Cang Leng went to the 89th floor to test their riot levels, and Cang Leng said Xin Lan’s abilities seemed to exceed S rank.
• Yun Jin dismissed their claims, but Cang Leng’s test showed his riot level had fallen by five percentage points.
• Chi Ming’s test results appeared, and Yun Jin was dumbfounded by how much his riot level had dropped.

After Xin Lan’s spiritual power readings matched across three machines, Chi Ming and the other sentinels feared she might be stronger than SSS-rank and leave K9 District. Xin Lan woke to a smart butler she renamed Fuxi and discovered Mo Xiao had arranged a comfortable room and dinner for her.

• Chi Ming tested Xin Lan’s spiritual power on three machines, and each showed the same unusually low turmoil reading.
• Yun Jin suggested hiding Xin Lan’s rank and making her an exclusive guide, but Chi Ming insisted they respect her wishes.
• Mo Xiao sent Chi Ming and Cang Leng back to watch their spiritual bodies, then returned to the administrator’s office.
• Xin Lan woke in the evening, drank warm water, and let the anaconda and mermaid tend to her.
• Xin Lan renamed the smart butler Fuxi, agreed to let Chi Ming cook, and found a dressing room stocked with clothes and accessories.

Xin Lan slipped out of the Sanctuary and evaded the sentinels following her, then entered an underground auction. The auction’s first exhibit was an Azure Dragon, a mythical creature that startled the crowd by striking its cage.

• Xin Lan refused to meet Chi Lin about joining her sentinel guard team and learned she would eventually need to form a team of at least five sentinels.
• Xin Lan sent Chi Ming and Cang Leng away, then left the Sanctuary in disguise despite knowing Mo Xiao might notice.
• Yun Jin and Chi Ming lost track of Xin Lan when she vanished from a street without leaving a scent, and Mo Xiao told them to return.
• Xin Lan avoided the city cameras and entered a venue hosting a Free Auction.
• The auctioneer unveiled an Azure Dragon in a cage, and the creature roared and bent the alloy bars as Xin Lan recognized it.

Xin Lan entered an underground auction where Yu Yuan, the former East Tower commander of District K1, was being sold as a transformed Azure Dragon. She drove Du Ke’s bid up to twenty-five billion before stopping, leaving him furious after he won the auction.

• The auctioneer shocked the caged Azure Dragon and revealed that it had once been Yu Yuan, commander of the East Tower in District K1.
• Du Ke bid fifteen billion for Yu Yuan, driven by hatred over how Yu Yuan’s rejection of a guide had ruined Du Ke’s family and clan.
• Xin Lan outbid Du Ke in small increments, prompting him to raise his bid to twenty-five billion.
• Xin Lan stopped bidding while checking her wristband, and Du Ke won Yu Yuan but blamed her for making him spend ten billion more.

At the auction’s final lot, the nine-tailed fox bewitched the buyers and drove its price to 130 billion star coins. Du Ke won after bidding against Xin Lan, but could not pay, and Xin Lan refused to take the fox as the auction house turned on him.

• Du Ke waited for another chance to spite Xin Lan as the auction reached its final showpiece.
• The man in the tailcoat revealed a sleeping nine-tailed fox, and its appearance sent buyers into a bidding frenzy before its eyes bewitched them.
• Xin Lan bid 130 billion star coins, prompting Du Ke to bid 130 billion and 100 million; when she stopped, he won the fox.
• Unable to pay, Du Ke blamed Xin Lan and offered to pay the auction house another billion star coins if she took the fox.
• Ulysses asked Xin Lan to accept the fox, but she refused and called it junk.
• Ulysses had his sentinels restrain Du Ke, threatened him over his malicious bidding, and Du Ke begged for time to borrow the money.

Xin Lan used her mental power to take Du Ke’s hovercar and auction purchases, then hid the Azure Dragon and Nine-Tailed Fox in an abandoned district. After the fox tried to bewitch and attack her, Xin Lan restrained it, and the Azure Dragon suddenly reacted as she prepared to punish it again.

• Du Ke raised the money for his auction purchases, and Ulysses helped him load the Azure Dragon and Nine-Tailed Fox into his hovercar.
• Xin Lan stopped Du Ke’s attack with her mental power, made him erase his hovercar authentication, purified his Mental Landscape, and flew away with the car and its cargo.
• Du Ke woke in an alley with his headache gone and discovered his hovercar and the auction items were missing.
• Xin Lan took the Azure Dragon and Nine-Tailed Fox to an abandoned residential district, where she kicked the fox inside after it resisted her control.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox tried to bewitch and attack Xin Lan, but she kicked it and bound it with a dark-blue vine; as it begged for mercy, the Azure Dragon bared its teeth and snorted at them.

Xin Lan discovered that linking her spirit body with the Azure Dragon could restore his human consciousness, though the nine-tailed fox remained badly injured and feral. After returning to the Sanctuary late at night, she found Mo Xiao and her guards waiting alongside a group of unfamiliar K1 sentinels.

• The nine-tailed fox and Azure Dragon suddenly lost control, forcing Xin Lan to restrain them and nearly strangle them both.
• Unable to find a mental landscape to purify, Xin Lan linked her spirit body with the Azure Dragon, whose red eyes eventually returned to blue-green as his human consciousness resurfaced.
• Mo Xiao messaged Xin Lan to return to the Sanctuary, and she left the still-bound fox and the newly conscious Azure Dragon behind.
• On the drive back, Xin Lan read the guide regulations and Mo Xiao's precautions, noticing his repeated warnings against deep connections with too many sentinels.
• Xin Lan arrived at the Sanctuary after 11:30 p.m. and found Mo Xiao, her guards, and several unfamiliar sentinels in white-and-gold uniforms waiting for her.