Chapter Summaries

Luo Ruzhuo accepted the Firmament Squad’s commission to purify Captain Xianzhu for three months, drawn by the pay and a chance to shorten her service. After arranging extensive safety measures, Lin Sheng privately urged her to reconsider if she had any doubts.

• Luo Ruzhuo used the imperial green badge to replenish her mental power and discovered her spirit entity, a tiny naked sea butterfly that reacted indignantly to her teasing.
• The Firmament Squad requested that Luo Ruzhuo take responsibility for Xianzhu’s long-term purification after other guides failed to clear his contamination.
• Fang Yingbai told Luo Ruzhuo that success would earn her a service record and could shorten her term by about six months, in addition to the squad’s commission fee.
• Luo Ruzhuo accepted the commission after Lin Sheng described a secured steel cage and a three-month stay at the squad’s forested base.
• After ending their call, Lin Sheng sent and recalled messages telling Luo Ruzhuo to refuse if she had any hesitation.

Luo Ruzhuo accepted a long-term commission that took her to the Central District aboard the Firmament Squad’s starship. After noticing that the darkness outside her window was not the starry sky, she realized something enormous was blocking the view.

• Luo Ruzhuo signed Lin Sheng’s commission contract, seeing it as a chance to travel openly to the Central District while the Feier Family watched her.
• Luo Ruzhuo boarded the Firmament Squad’s hovercar and met Liu Sui, the vanguard division’s vice captain, and his glittering, strikingly handsome sentinels.
• Luo Ruzhuo declined Liu Sui’s offer to meet Captain Xianzhu and boarded the Firmament Squad’s starship instead.
• Liu Sui showed Luo Ruzhuo around the ship and assured her they would be safe as it traveled through space.
• Luo Ruzhuo settled into her lounge, exercised, and then noticed that a vast shadow had swallowed the view outside her window.

When an unknown virus disabled the Firmament Squad’s contamination protection, Luo Ruzhuo joined Liu Sui and the sentinels in the central control room as they fought the spreading contaminants. The creatures suddenly converged on Luo Ruzhuo and swept her away, leaving the sentinels shocked.

• Luo Ruzhuo saw the ship’s protective halo fail and hurried to the central control room, where she met Liu Sui.
• Xiao Xue reported that an unknown virus had breached the communications room’s protection network and that an A-grade contamination zone had formed.
• Liu Sui sent Flight Squad 1 to restore the protection equipment while the sentinels formed a defensive ring and fought the contaminants.
• Luo Ruzhuo secretly attacked several contaminants with Mental Blades, causing them to vanish.
• The remaining contaminants merged into a black torrent and rushed toward Luo Ruzhuo; a shadow seized her and carried her away.

Flight Squad 1 discovered that a virus targeting the starship’s protection system had been sent by someone who knew its coordinates and route, suggesting a mole in the Firmament Squad. As Xiao Xue and Cang Yun rushed to rescue the abducted Luo Ruzhuo, she broke free from the contamination and froze at what she saw.

• Wu Lu traced the protection-system virus to a satellite and concluded that someone inside the Firmament Squad had leaked the starship’s coordinates and flight route.
• Liu Sui reported that an unknown contaminant had abducted Luo Ruzhuo and ordered Flight Squad 1 to split up, with one group repairing the system and the other rescuing her.
• Xiao Xue and Cang Yun followed Luo Ruzhuo’s location signal toward an enclosed bridge, while You Ling and Wu Lu stayed to repair the protection system.
• Luo Ruzhuo let the contamination carry her so she could investigate it, then used mental attacks to tear open its cocoon and escape.
• Luo Ruzhuo reached the ground and froze at the sight before her.

Luo Ruzhuo escaped a black cocoon and discovered that the pollution source was using captured sentinels as breeding grounds. After freeing and purifying them, she pretended to be unconscious when Xiao Xue and Cang Yun arrived; they found her and the other sentinels stable but had to wait among the threatening cocoons for reinforcements.

• Luo Ruzhuo realized the black cocoons held captured people whose mental pollution was producing pollutants.
• Luo Ruzhuo freed a sentinel with wing-like hands, cleared pollution from their mental domain, and saw their swallow spiritual form recover.
• Luo Ruzhuo cut open and purified the other cocoons, then pretended to be unconscious when she heard Xiao Xue and Cang Yun approaching.
• Cang Yun and Xiao Xue found Luo Ruzhuo and the rescued sentinels, and Cang Yun confirmed their vital signs and mental domains were stable.
• Liu Sui ordered Cang Yun and Xiao Xue to hold their position and protect Luo Ruzhuo while reinforcements came to rescue the unconscious sentinels.
• Xiao Xue asked Cang Yun whether they really had to wait among the slit-open, still-writhing cocoons.

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.