Recaps

Cang Yun and Xiao Xue fought a rapidly forming S-rank contaminant in the corridor while protecting their unconscious teammates. The contaminant overwhelmed them, and Cang Yun was pierced while trying to shield Luo Ruzhuo.

• Cang Yun and Xiao Xue noticed black substance flowing from the cocoons and gathering into a contaminant as their contamination readings surged.
• Cang Yun and Xiao Xue attacked the contaminant with their weapons and spirit animals, but it rapidly healed and spread contamination through contact.
• Cang Yun identified the monster as S-rank and ordered Xiao Xue to carry Luo Ruzhuo away to find reinforcements while she protected the others.
• The contaminant split into dozens of tendrils that trapped Xiao Xue and Cang Yun and began corrupting their spirit animals.
• Cang Yun saw a tendril reaching for the unconscious teammates and lunged to stop it, but it pierced her torso as it continued toward Luo Ruzhuo.

Cang Yun recovered from severe aberration after an unknown force purified her mental domain, then joined Xiao Xue in fighting the spreading contaminants. Xiao Xue found a black box marked TK30085, and Luo Ruzhuo discovered it was an illegally discarded brain-computer chip tied to Ankang Pharmaceuticals, likely placed aboard the ship by the Feier Family.

• Cang Yun's aberration rapidly worsened, but an unknown force entered her mental domain and restored her and her goshawk.
• Cang Yun freed Xiao Xue from the tendrils, and they fought contaminants whose numbers and strength continued to grow.
• Cang Yun sent Xiao Xue to investigate where the contaminants were gathering while she covered him with gunfire.
• Xiao Xue found an intact flesh cocoon containing a black box marked TK30085 and took it, drawing the contaminants toward him.
• Luo Ruzhuo searched the Star Network and learned TK30085 was an illegally discarded brain-computer chip promoted by Ankang Pharmaceuticals, then suspected the Feier Family had brought it aboard.

A mysterious sentinel bearing Liu Sui’s face rescued Cang Yun and Xiao Xue and destroyed the powerful contaminant with a black swan transformed into a saber. Afterward, he noticed signs that Luo Ruzhuo was awake but did not reveal her.

• As Cang Yun and Xiao Xue struggled against the contaminant, a black-haired man with Liu Sui’s face arrived and freed Xiao Xue from the tentacles.
• The man ordered Cang Yun and Xiao Xue to retreat, then used his black swan’s sound waves and a manifested saber to expose the contaminant’s core.
• The man endured the contaminant’s mental attack and shattered its core, causing the contaminant to dissolve and its contamination reading to fall into the safe range.
• The man checked Cang Yun’s injury and looked over the unconscious sentinels before focusing on Luo Ruzhuo.
• Luo Ruzhuo withdrew her mental power and feigned sleep, but the man noticed her eyelids tremble and chose not to expose her.

Liu Sui reunited with his twin brother, Liu Qing, as the squad uncovered evidence that a mole had engineered the starship crisis. Luo Ruzhuo pretended to remain unconscious in a high-security ward while Liu Sui stayed nearby, and the chapter ended as he followed a masked medical worker into a room that might have been a trap.

• Liu Sui arrived with reinforcements, found Luo Ruzhuo unharmed, and recognized Liu Qing as his long-missing twin brother.
• Cang Yun and Xiao Xue told Liu Sui they suspected a mole and showed him the contaminant host box, which Liu Qing identified as a product of Ankang Pharmaceuticals.
• Liu Sui concluded that the enemy had planned the crisis to disable the starship's protective equipment, strengthen the contaminated zone, and abduct Luo Ruzhuo, but chose not to alert the suspected mole.
• Luo Ruzhuo pretended to be unconscious during her medical examination, while Liu Qing reassured Liu Sui and Liu Sui stayed to watch over her.
• After the protective equipment was repaired, Liu Sui followed a masked medical worker who said the person in charge had to collect medication personally, and the room door shut behind them.

Luo Ruzhuo fought off an assassin in the medical room and uncovered the Feier Family’s plot, along with the origin of the assassin’s altered Mental Domain. After Liu Qing rescued her and tended to her wounds, Liu Sui arrived and saw them embracing.

• Luo Ruzhuo dodged the disguised medical worker’s attacks and used mental blades to cripple his Mental Domain.
• Liu Qing burst into the medical room and killed the assassin before Luo Ruzhuo could finish reading his memories.
• Luo Ruzhuo read the assassin’s memories and learned Phil White had hired him and another mole to kill her aboard the starship.
• Luo Ruzhuo discovered Ankang Pharmaceuticals had implanted a chip in the assassin, raising his rank while merging his Mental Entity with his body.
• Liu Qing held Luo Ruzhuo and dressed her wounds, and Liu Sui entered the room and saw them together.

Liu Sui returned after dealing with a mole and found Liu Qing holding the injured Luo Ruzhuo; the twins privately acknowledged Liu Sui’s feelings for her. During the three-day journey to the Firmament Squad’s base, Luo Ruzhuo received Liu Sui’s cooking and Liu Qing’s combat training, then learned that Xianzhu’s aberration had reached 80 percent and transformed his appearance into a dragon’s.

• Liu Sui returned to the medical room, admitted to Liu Qing that he liked Luo Ruzhuo, and thanked him for treating her.
• Luo Ruzhuo woke, learned Liu Qing was Liu Sui’s twin, and chose to postpone sharing what she had learned from the dead sentinel’s memories.
• Liu Sui put Luo Ruzhuo in a medical pod before leaving to handle the aftermath, and the starship resumed its course to the Firmament Squad’s base.
• Over the next three days, Liu Sui brought Luo Ruzhuo meals he had cooked, while Liu Qing gave her a combat-experience chip and sparred with her.
• Lin Sheng visited Luo Ruzhuo, apologized for the logistics detachment, and revealed that Xianzhu’s aberration had reached 80 percent and transformed him into a dragon.

Lin Sheng told Luo Ruzhuo that Xianzhu was likely a dark sentinel and warned her that the Black Tower and Firmament Squad were risking her safety, but she chose to continue. As the starship neared Planet b-475, Liu Qing and Liu Sui both asked her to make them temporary sentinels, leaving her trapped between the brothers’ confessions.

• Lin Sheng revealed that Xianzhu was likely a dark sentinel and offered to help Luo Ruzhuo withdraw, but she decided to stay.
• Liu Qing summoned Luo Ruzhuo to the observation room and told her he was leaving on a confidential mission.
• Liu Qing sent Luo Ruzhuo an eight-figure transfer and asked her to put him on her list of temporary sentinels.
• Liu Sui arrived and confronted Liu Qing, then told Luo Ruzhuo that he also wanted to be one of her temporary sentinels.
• The brothers each insisted they could serve her and blocked her from retreating as she realized they were both confessing to her.

Luo Ruzhuo learned why Liu Qing and Liu Sui wanted to be her permanent sentinels, but declined to bond while serving her sentence and offered a place on her temporary sentinel list in exchange for an unregistered aircraft. She arrived on Planet b-475, where Captain Xianzhu reacted to her from inside his cage, then reviewed the purification procedure Lin Sheng had sent.

• Liu Qing said he had felt an inexplicable certainty that he would regret losing Luo Ruzhuo, and Liu Sui explained that sentinels sensed their compatibility with guides through match scores.
• Luo Ruzhuo realized her reported 100% match score might be genuine, though she felt no attraction herself, and wondered whether a dark guide could be unaffected by match scores.
• Luo Ruzhuo told the twins she would not bond with a permanent sentinel while serving her sentence, and Liu Qing and Liu Sui agreed to wait.
• Luo Ruzhuo offered to place whoever first provided an unregistered aircraft capable of reaching the Central District on her temporary sentinel list.
• Luo Ruzhuo arrived on Planet b-475, where Captain Xianzhu reacted to her from inside his covered steel cage and Lin Sheng ordered the team to increase his suppressant.
• Luo Ruzhuo went to her quarters and opened the purification procedure Lin Sheng had sent.

Luo Ruzhuo entered the protected purification room to approach Xianzhu, the dragon imprisoned in the cage, and tried to make contact with him. After finally earning his trust enough to touch his forehead, she pushed her spiritual power through his mental barrier and froze at what she found inside.

• Luo Ruzhuo inspected the cage and entered the purification room while Lin Sheng and Liu Qing stayed outside to guard her.
• Luo Ruzhuo opened the contact window and invited Xianzhu to play a game, but he panicked when she first touched him and retreated across the cage.
• Luo Ruzhuo waited and exercised until Xianzhu quietly approached the room again.
• Luo Ruzhuo touched Xianzhu's forehead and sent a strand of spiritual power through his difficult mental barrier.
• Luo Ruzhuo entered Xianzhu's Mental Domain and froze at what she saw.

Luo Ruzhuo’s attempt to purify Xianzhu ended painfully, leaving her determined to find rare materials to help her mental entity grow. Liu Qing and Liu Sui both arranged aircraft for her, and she accepted both when they arrived at the base.

• Luo Ruzhuo was struck by a vision of an erupting volcano in Xianzhu’s mental domain and woke in pain, realizing she needed more resources to develop her immature mental entity.
• Lin Sheng and Liu Sui gave Luo Ruzhuo a growth potion and cookies after purification, and Liu Sui told her he had arranged for an aircraft to arrive that night.
• Luo Ruzhuo researched the expensive materials her mental entity needed, then found information about the Feier Family’s auction listings and assets.
• Liu Sui and Liu Qing separately confirmed that their aircraft would arrive at eight that evening and invited Luo Ruzhuo to the base’s auxiliary landing pad.
• Liu Qing and Liu Sui showed Luo Ruzhuo their nearly identical stealth aircraft, and she decided to take both.

Luo Ruzhuo went to the Central District to draw out anyone connected to the original owner and was led to a secret organization of Ankang Pharmaceuticals' victims. She agreed to help the organization one last time, but demanded information about a Feier Family collection.

• Luo Ruzhuo practiced with her aircraft and continued purifying Captain Xianzhu until his distortion value fell by one percent, then received leave from Lin Sheng.
• Luo Ruzhuo traveled to Morning Star and used her mental power to watch for anyone who recognized her, eventually attracting a young woman who called her Phoenix.
• The young woman led Luo Ruzhuo through a hidden route to a secret room, where Luo Yongtao and Yuan Xiao explained that their organization was struggling against Ankang Pharmaceuticals.
• Yuan Xiao urged Luo Yongtao to let Luo Ruzhuo leave the organization and live peacefully, but Luo Ruzhuo offered to help one last time.
• Luo Ruzhuo made her help conditional on receiving the location and details of one of the Feier Family's collections.

Luo Ruzhuo obtained a decoder and information about the Feier Family’s collection room, then infiltrated the Green Ivy Training Center to search for materials to help her underdeveloped Mental Entity. After hearing a lecture by the second prince, Sean Fergus, she entered the collection room and found it filled with wealth.

• Luo Yongtao warned Luo Ruzhuo that an unknown group was searching for her, and she agreed to remain wary while asking what task the organization needed her to do.
• The organization gave Luo Ruzhuo a data card and pupil-mimicking decoder for the Feier Family’s collection room on the top floor of Morning Star’s Green Ivy Training Center.
• Luo Ruzhuo disguised herself, took a cleaning job, and spent two days scouting the training center’s restricted twelfth floor.
• While cleaning, Luo Ruzhuo overheard Sean Fergus explain ways to help underdeveloped Mental Entities and suspected he might have shared the information deliberately.
• Luo Ruzhuo used a maintenance passage and the decoder to bypass the twelfth floor’s security and enter the collection room, where she found a staggering hoard of wealth.

Luo Ruzhuo stole rare Mental Entity materials from Ankang Pharmaceuticals and planned to use them to help her sea angel grow. A month later, Liu Sui extracted Guide Element for Xianzhu and, as Luo Ruzhuo’s temporary sentinel, made an intimate advance toward her.

• Luo Ruzhuo filled her compression backpack with nearly everything in Ankang Pharmaceuticals’ collection room and returned to Planet b-475.
• Luo Ruzhuo wondered whether the organization’s head was connected to Sean Fergus, then planned to use the stolen materials to develop her sea angel.
• Phil White learned that his assassination attempt had failed and ordered Eugene to prepare a prisoner with an implanted chip to attack Luo Ruzhuo while she purified Xianzhu.
• After a month of eating Liu Sui’s snacks, Luo Ruzhuo asked Lin Sheng to extract Guide Element for Xianzhu, but Liu Sui came to do it in his place.
• Liu Sui reminded Luo Ruzhuo that he was her temporary sentinel, kissed her hand, and began unbuttoning his shirt.

Luo Ruzhuo refused Liu Sui’s request for a temporary marking but let him stay as her body pillow and purified his mental domain. The next day, she kept her distance from the dragon-form Xianzhu until Lin Sheng asked her to soothe the captain during an injection of guide element.

• Luo Ruzhuo refused to mark Liu Sui, then purified his mental domain while he stayed beside her overnight.
• Liu Sui’s mental domain contained a black swan and a white swan in a forest lake, and Luo Ruzhuo nearly finished purifying its pollution.
• Luo Ruzhuo woke to steamed buns and red date soy milk, then watched dragon-form Xianzhu catch fish through the communication window.
• Xianzhu tried to pass Luo Ruzhuo a fish but returned it to the river and withdrew to his corner after she declined it.
• Lin Sheng stopped Luo Ruzhuo after work and asked her to soothe Captain Xianzhu while the logistics department injected him with guide element.

Luo Ruzhuo’s Guide Element lowered Captain Xianzhu’s aberration level and allowed him to speak, while she completed her naked sea butterfly and reached level six. Xianzhu asked her to provide Guide Element twice as often in exchange for the Firmament Squad’s protection and resources, but she refused his offer of Insect Jade because she no longer needed it.

• Lin Sheng’s team injected Luo Ruzhuo’s Guide Element into the dragon, and Xianzhu briefly spoke as his aberration level fell to 50%.
• Lin Sheng offered to buy all of Luo Ruzhuo’s Guide Element every month at twice the market price, but she agreed only for the duration of the commission.
• Luo Ruzhuo used two Insect Jade stones to complete her naked sea butterfly and break through to level-six spiritual ability.
• Xianzhu regained his senses and introduced himself as a Dark Sentinel who could not be purified through the usual method of entering his Mental Domain.
• Xianzhu asked Luo Ruzhuo to provide Guide Element every half month and promised the Firmament Squad would protect and supply her, but she said she no longer needed Insect Jade.

Luo Ruzhuo refused to let Xianzhu extract Guide Element more often than she had agreed, and he apologized and accepted her terms. After learning that a new double-S-rank guide had arrived and that Fenrir Talo wanted to discuss Zhu Rongtian, Luo Ruzhuo encountered the unsettling new guide and began a video call with Fenrir.

• Luo Ruzhuo told Xianzhu she would purify him on her own terms and provide Guide Element only as she had promised Vice-Captain Lin; Xianzhu apologized and backed down.
• Lin Sheng told Luo Ruzhuo that a new double-S-rank guide had arrived and would purify the captain alongside her, with their sessions staggered to avoid contact.
• Fenrir Talo messaged Luo Ruzhuo that Zhu Rongtian had been released, then asked her to video call him that night so he could explain who Zhu Rongtian was.
• Luo Ruzhuo saw the new guide arrive in a white dress and sensed that she seemed unnaturally doll-like.
• The new guide abruptly looked up after detecting Luo Ruzhuo's mental power, so Luo Ruzhuo withdrew it and hurried to her dormitory.
• Luo Ruzhuo placed a video call to Fenrir Talo, and he answered immediately.

Fenrir Talo told Luo Ruzhuo that Zhu Rongtian was an imprisoned guide with lethal offensive abilities and warned her that Ankang Pharmaceuticals meant her harm. Luo Ruzhuo investigated new colleague Bai Li, then invited her to try entering Xianzhu’s Mental Domain after Bai Li accused her of neglecting purification duties.

• Fenrir Talo explained that Zhu Rongtian had killed forty-seven people upon awakening, and the Alliance Court had sentenced her to life imprisonment in a prison funded by Ankang Pharmaceuticals.
• Luo Ruzhuo suspected Zhu Rongtian might be a Dark Guide, and Fenrir Talo warned her to be wary of guides around her and contact him if she faced danger.
• Luo Ruzhuo read Lin Sheng’s file on Bai Li, an SS-rank guide newly assigned to assist with Xianzhu’s purification.
• During the following days, Luo Ruzhuo continued signing in and slacking off while Xianzhu remained in his cross-eyed dragon state.
• Bai Li confronted Luo Ruzhuo for not entering Xianzhu’s Mental Domain, and Luo Ruzhuo admitted she could not get in and invited Bai Li to try.

Luo Ruzhuo agreed to enter Xianzhu’s Mental Domain with Bai Li, who revealed herself as Zhu Rongtian and attacked her as soon as they entered. Luo Ruzhuo forced her way into Zhu Rongtian’s own Mental Domain, where she appeared as a child and encountered a humanoid contaminant.

• Bai Li threatened to report Luo Ruzhuo’s work record unless she joined her in purifying Xianzhu’s Mental Domain, and Luo Ruzhuo agreed.
• The next morning, Luo Ruzhuo and Bai Li entered Xianzhu’s Mental Domain together, where Bai Li attacked her with a giant scorpion Mental Entity.
• Luo Ruzhuo realized Bai Li was Zhu Rongtian and that she seemed driven by destructive instincts despite the contamination consuming her scorpion.
• Luo Ruzhuo charged through Zhu Rongtian’s attack, grabbed her, and drove a needle of mental power into Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain.
• Luo Ruzhuo found herself in a shabby village setting with a child’s body and saw a man whose face was obscured by black vapor and garbled characters.

Luo Ruzhuo entered Zhu Rongtian’s contaminated Mental Domain and followed a humanoid contaminant, Wang Fuzhuang, to his home, where she found a chained girl who seemed human. The girl urged Luo Ruzhuo to escape, but Luo Ruzhuo asked whether she recognized her.

• Luo Ruzhuo wondered why Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain contained contaminants despite his appearing ordinary.
• Wang Fuzhuang brought Luo Ruzhuo to his home and introduced her to the elderly woman living there, both of whom appeared as contaminants to her.
• Luo Ruzhuo saw a girl chained by the ankle in the courtyard and recognized that she was not covered by contamination’s mosaic.
• Wang Fuzhuang said the girl was Luo Ruzhuo’s older sister and ordered her to cook, while the girl stayed silent.
• The girl quietly warned Luo Ruzhuo not to eat the food and explained how to escape over the back wall after dark.
• Luo Ruzhuo asked the girl whether she recognized her.

Luo Ruzhuo discovered that the pollutants in Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Domain regenerated after being killed, while the chained girl remained central to the domain. When Wang Fuzhuang attacked Zhu Rongtian, Luo Ruzhuo placed a dagger within her reach and told her to do what she wanted.

• Luo Ruzhuo stayed with young Zhu Rongtian, learned that her grandmother had chained her after she tried to run away, and decided not to kill her.
• Luo Ruzhuo killed Wang Fuzhuang and the old woman with Mental Blades, but both returned the next morning.
• The old woman developed a fever, and Zhu Rongtian cared for her while Wang Fuzhuang went out drinking.
• Wang Fuzhuang tried to touch Luo Ruzhuo, then attacked Zhu Rongtian and dragged her toward the bed.
• Luo Ruzhuo placed a dagger beside Zhu Rongtian and urged her to pick it up and do what she wanted.

Luo Ruzhuo helped Zhu Rongtian escape Wang Fuzhuang’s house with her grandmother, but their drive returned them to the town at the center of the Pollution Domain. After Zhu Rongtian claimed they were taking Grandma to a doctor, two pollutants led them into a courtyard crowded with mosaic-faced men.

• Zhu Rongtian killed Wang Fuzhuang, and Luo Ruzhuo urged her to flee with Grandma.
• Luo Ruzhuo tore the nail anchoring Zhu Rongtian’s chain from the wall and carried Grandma to the transport vehicle.
• Luo Ruzhuo drove through the gate and traveled for a day and a night, but the road brought them back to the town.
• Luo Ruzhuo found that attacks only dispersed the town’s pollutants temporarily and suspected the domain trapped people in a repeating cycle.
• Two pollutants approached the vehicle, and Zhu Rongtian told them she and Luo Ruzhuo were taking Grandma to a doctor.
• The pollutants led the group into a large courtyard where more than a dozen mosaic-faced men were waiting.

At a trafficking den, Zhu Rongtian learned that her grandmother had bought her as a child, and the shock triggered the awakening that destroyed the town’s contaminants. Luo Ruzhuo discovered a chip binding Zhu Rongtian’s Mental Entity and chose to help her break free, leaving Zhu Rongtian’s fate in her own hands.

• A bespectacled man revealed from his ledger that Zhu Rongtian’s grandmother had bought her from traffickers when she was three.
• Zhu Rongtian remembered her abuse and imprisonment, then tried to give Luo Ruzhuo a chance to escape before collapsing.
• Zhu Rongtian’s mental power erupted, and Fenrir Talo explained that her awakening had once killed her adoptive father and everyone in the town.
• The surge of power reduced the contaminants and the recreated town to ashes while leaving Luo Ruzhuo unharmed.
• Luo Ruzhuo saw a scorpion-shaped Mental Entity bound by a contaminated chain to a black chip, and her attack could not damage the chip.
• Luo Ruzhuo gave Zhu Rongtian her dagger and urged her to save herself from the restraints in her Mental Domain.

Luo Ruzhuo helped Zhu Rongtian break the chip controlling her and her Mental Entity, freeing them inside Zhu Rongtian’s true Mental Domain. Zhu Rongtian then described Ankang Pharmaceuticals’ experiments on offensive-type Guides and the abuse they endured in prison.

• Luo Ruzhuo and Zhu Rongtian combined their mental attacks with a dagger strike to shatter the chain binding Zhu Rongtian’s scorpion and free her from the chip’s control.
• Luo Ruzhuo found the chip marked SA30067, crushed it, and watched Xianzhu’s town dissolve into a starry desert that Zhu Rongtian called her true Mental Domain.
• Zhu Rongtian thanked Luo Ruzhuo and explained that Ankang Pharmaceuticals had implanted a chip in her brain and forced her to pursue Luo Ruzhuo as an assassination target.
• Zhu Rongtian told Luo Ruzhuo that offensive-type Guides were secretly imprisoned and had their Mental Entities’ claws, teeth, and other traits repeatedly removed for so-called correction.
• Zhu Rongtian recalled that the prison had removed the venom sac from her scorpion’s tail on her first day there.

Luo Ruzhuo learned that the Black Tower used Mental Entity growth potions to expose and imprison attack-type guides, and she resolved to build a rival tower for guides. After waking from Zhu Rongtian's Mental Domain, she pretended Bai Li had caused the damage and demanded Bai Li's transfer.

• Luo Ruzhuo released her sea angel, which comforted Zhu Rongtian and drew her attention.
• Zhu Rongtian explained that attack-type guides could implant pollution inside sentinels' Mental Domains and that growth potions helped the Black Tower detect them.
• Zhu Rongtian warned Luo Ruzhuo to hide her attack-type nature, but Luo Ruzhuo declared that she would one day challenge the Black Tower and build a new one.
• Luo Ruzhuo woke in the medical room after three days, where Lin Sheng and Liu Sui asked what had happened in Captain Xianzhu's Mental Domain.
• Luo Ruzhuo accused Bai Li of damaging Captain Xianzhu's Mental Domain and demanded Guide Bai Li's transfer, claiming only one of them could remain.

After Zhu Rongtian left, Luo Ruzhuo began purifying Xianzhu’s increasingly chaotic mental domain and discovered a strange building at the volcano’s deepest point. She reached it while enduring the domain’s eruptions and heat, but the chapter ended before she entered.

• Lin Sheng promised to report Bai Li to the Black Tower, while Liu Sui brought Luo Ruzhuo compensation from the Guide Association and secretly gave her another Insect Jade.
• After returning to her dormitory, Luo Ruzhuo poured the mental entity growth fluid onto the grass outside.
• Zhu Rongtian told Luo Ruzhuo she was leaving and had misled Ankang Pharmaceuticals to keep them from investigating her for a while.
• Luo Ruzhuo gave Zhu Rongtian a stealth aircraft key, and Zhu Rongtian gave her a secure communication tag; they promised to build a new tower together.
• Luo Ruzhuo entered Xianzhu’s volatile mental domain and followed the lava toward its source, sustaining burns as she went.
• At the volcano’s deepest point, Luo Ruzhuo found a square gray building standing amid the lava.