Ma Xiaoling sped through space.

She was the only one in the entire Starfire Army to join the battlefield early and fight alongside the warriors indirectly controlled by Li Yang.

The reason was simple: having received guidance from Yu Chengde, she began to truly train herself, drawing from her bloodline, combined with a strange gene mutation that gifted her incredible talent, she was constantly evolving.

For a long time, she managed to stand out by relying solely on the supposedly profound education she received at the military academy, which turned out to be quite ordinary and not even comparable to the basic education in "Sid Meier's Armored Insights," becoming an untouchable thorny rose at the school. She also became the youngest and strongest Fourth Level Mechanical Warrior in Starfire Town, and the powerful Town Guard Captain.

She had once envisioned how her life should unfold.

First, assist her father as Guard Captain, then find a barely compatible husband at a certain age, establish a family, and perhaps have a chubby boy or a beautiful, strong girl like herself, to ease her father's perpetual anxiety.

Then, on a sudden day, send off her father who can no longer live without the Anti-aging Potion, and naturally take over the Mayor position of Starfire Town, gradually living out her life.

During this period, Ma Xiaoling believed that with her abilities, she could slowly become a decent Level Six or Seventh Level Mechanical Warrior, reaching the peak of her life under the salaries and stipends from the Association, becoming a rare powerhouse in Liao Yuan County, and accidentally cross the threshold of age thirty-five into old age, watching herself age day by day, her strength waning until death.

With these expectations in mind, she lived quite casually, training routinely and growing stronger day by day, easily leaving behind those peers in Starfire Town who rose from nothing. Unlike others who needed to exert all their strength to touch the Fifth Level threshold, she stood behind the Fifth Level threshold from the start, her progress was a natural progression.

Hence, inherently carefree, she developed a somewhat lazy personality and found a hobby in gaming to pass the time. During those days, she lived leisurely and knew she would sooner or later be the strongest in Liao Yuan County, perhaps even the strongest in Yangsheng City.

During this time, her nature drove her to maintain a certain level of sympathy for the poor in the town, often using her strength and authority to uphold some fairness. However, she did not generously distribute her wealth to try and save every poor person in Starfire Town. She knew it was meaningless; she didn't have enough money, nor could she support everyone single-handedly, and doing so would violate certain rules. So she never attempted it, only fulfilling her existing duties.

Until one day, a man who seemed to have emerged from a rock claimed to be a wild outsider but had none of the characteristics of one quietly appeared in the town.

Later, many things happened; this mysterious man brought numerous changes, even prompting her seemingly smooth-talking yet rigid father to cover up suspicious signs for him. Then, just as she started reconsidering whether the money spent on games was a mistake, this man suddenly produced even more money. But simultaneously, she saw this man tirelessly trying to change something, constantly changing.

Incidentally, he also changed Ma Xiaoling.

After that, she was no longer the strongest in Starfire Town, and the distance between the two not only didn't diminish with time but grew even larger.

Ma Xiaoling, whose life plan was completely disrupted, felt not amusement but loss. She once thought she, the former first strong person of the small town, could only accept the destiny of becoming mediocre, until… her grandfather Yu Chengde traveled through a hundred years to appear before her. Ma Xiaoling saw hope and realized she had been squandering her talents.

And then, she embarked on a road truly belonging to her, a path inherited from Yu Chengde's bloodline, surpassing her predecessors.