Chapter Summaries

Chen Nan monitored Wang Yide’s hideout and confirmed the Wang family’s involvement in child trafficking, while Wang Yide arranged criminal deals and worried about his family’s “great tree.” The chapter ended with Wang Yide deciding to visit Third Sister the next day.

• Chen Nan trained in his rented apartment, investigated missing-person records, and confirmed that children were being trafficked to the Orphanage.
• Chen Nan’s surveillance camera captured Wang Yide ordering his men to search rental advertisements for him.
• Wang Yide accepted a batch of trafficked children from Big Grey Wolf and had them taken away.
• Wang Yide completed a drug deal with respectable-looking businessmen and grew agitated after Big Grey Wolf mentioned a “tree.”
• Wang Yide smashed his wineglass and decided to visit Third Sister the next day.

Chen Nan prepared to use evidence against the Wu City Prefecture Office and monitored Renxin Maternity Hospital, where he overheard the Wang siblings plotting to find and kill him. Wang Yifu planned to publicize Chen Nan as a missing child and interfere with his attempt to enter the Preparatory Academy.

• Chen Nan rejected Secretary Huang as a target, planned to gather evidence against the Wu City Prefecture Office, and decided to rent a computer.
• Chen Nan rented a laptop from his landlord and used his surveillance software to monitor Renxin Maternity Hospital.
• Chen Nan watched Wang Yifu, Wang Yide, and Wang Yuane meet in the director's office and discuss their fear of him.
• Wang Yifu said Chen Nan would likely seek entry to the Preparatory Academy and become a Transcendent, so they needed to stop him.
• Wang Yifu ordered Wang Yide to search private rentals and spread missing-person notices claiming traffickers had taken Chen Nan from the Orphanage.

Chen Nan recorded the Wang siblings discussing their criminal businesses and their plans against him, then called Wu City's Prefecture Office to expose the official's corruption and demand that he bring down the Wang Clan. The Prefecture Office identified Chen Nan and threatened to locate him, but Chen Nan warned that any attempt would release his evidence.

• Wang Yuane told Wang Yifu about the maternity hospital's business of sending unwanted newborns and premature babies to the Orphanage for profit.
• Chen Nan reviewed and backed up recordings of the Wang siblings planning against him, then prepared to make a crucial call.
• Chen Nan called the Prefecture Office Hotline and warned the Prefecture Office that the call carried serious consequences.
• After the Prefecture Office hung up, he called Chen Nan back, and Chen Nan verified his identity by video before accusing him of accepting bribes.
• Chen Nan demanded that the Prefecture Office use the law to eradicate the Wang Clan in exchange for keeping the corruption evidence secret.
• The Prefecture Office recognized Chen Nan and said he could locate him, but Chen Nan warned that the evidence would spread online if he tried.

Chen Nan forced the Prefecture Office to accept evidence against the Wang siblings and gave it three days to arrest them, then fled to an unfinished apartment as he tried to stay safe. While preparing to hide, he realized his fainting spells might come from the AI System consuming his energy during startup.

• The Prefecture Office offered to protect Chen Nan, but he refused and demanded a secure way to send his evidence.
• Chen Nan sent evidence against the Wang siblings and recordings of the Prefecture Office’s corruption, then gave the office three days to arrest the siblings and their subordinates.
• Chen Nan realized his current home was unsafe and planned to hide in an unfinished apartment while the Wang siblings searched for private rentals.
• After fainting, Chen Nan saw the AI System’s display and heard warnings that his body had adapted to dangerous radiation and that the system lacked energy.
• Chen Nan deduced that the AI System’s startup might be consuming his glucose, causing his fainting spells.
• Chen Nan used sparrows to open an unfinished apartment’s door and hid inside with food, water, and his charged phone.

After evading a search at his residence, Chen Nan reasoned that his AI System came from his smart glasses on Earth and needed more energy to operate. He bought concentrated glucose and began drinking it when the System started loading into his neural electromagnetic field.

• Chen Nan watched the landlord and a stranger leave, while the Wang siblings and the Prefecture Office learned he was missing from his residence.
• Chen Nan concluded that the AI System had originated from his smart glasses and that its failed startups had drained his energy.
• Chen Nan reasoned that glucose might keep the AI System running longer and decided to buy glucose injections at a nearby pharmacy.
• Chen Nan used his dogs to scout, rigged his apartment door, and bought twenty boxes of 50% glucose injections.
• After returning and eating, Chen Nan waited for the AI System to activate, then drank an ampoule as it began loading into his neural electromagnetic field.

Chen Nan completed the AI System’s fusion with his brain, gaining enhanced vision and analysis, while the Wang siblings and the Prefecture Office faced growing pressure. After the pharmacy owner traced Chen Nan’s glucose purchase to him, the Wang siblings’ thugs surrounded his apartment building, leaving Chen Nan preparing to flee.

• Chen Nan drank glucose injections until the AI System fused with his brain, ending its unusually high energy consumption.
• Chen Nan discovered that his eyes now provided night vision, infrared imaging, and explanatory information that he could switch off by thought.
• The Wang siblings learned that the Patrol Bureau was secretly investigating them, while the Prefecture Office planned to use the conflict between them and Chen Nan to escape his own predicament.
• A pharmacy owner connected to Wang Yuan'e remembered Chen Nan’s large glucose purchase and reported it to her, prompting the Wang siblings to gather their men.
• Chen Nan received danger signals from the dogs, spotted the Wang siblings’ thugs searching below, and packed glucose while waiting for them to split up so he could attempt an escape.

Chen Nan fled Ghost Head's gang and reached a district patrol station, but the criminals attacked the officers and forced him to escape with their guns. After the AI System helped him aim, he killed twelve pursuers, then dropped an empty pistol and continued fleeing as the gang chased him through the rain.

• Ghost Head sent his subordinates to search for Chen Nan, who slipped out of the residential complex and ran toward a district patrol station.
• Chen Nan's dogs delayed the pursuers, and he reached the patrol station, where Old Blackie and the other officers confronted Ghost Head.
• Ghost Head ordered his men to attack the officers, and Chen Nan took a pistol and fled after the patrol officers were beaten down.
• The AI System helped Chen Nan learn to use the pistol, and he killed twelve charging men with a series of shots.
• Chen Nan discarded the empty pistol and ran with another gun as Ghost Head and the remaining men pursued him in the rain.

Chen Nan turned the pursuit around, killed many of Ghost Head’s men, and was cornered in a dead-end alley. With the AI System guiding his movements, he wounded Ghost Head but was stabbed in the shoulder while trying to finish him.

• Chen Nan shot down a pursuer, then used Ghost Head’s ten-million-yuan bounty to lure the remaining men into charging at him.
• Chen Nan killed twelve more attackers before running out of bullets and fleeing into a dead-end alley, where Ghost Head confronted him with two butterfly knives.
• Chen Nan used the AI System to identify Ghost Head’s carotid artery as a target, then sent his dog and the Rats to restrain him.
• Chen Nan discovered that the AI System could guide his movements, letting him dodge Ghost Head’s attack and slash his thigh.
• Ghost Head stabbed the dog’s neck and threw his other knife at Chen Nan, striking his shoulder as Chen Nan rushed in to attack.

Chen Nan escaped after killing Ghost Head and his men, then hid with his former landlady while the evidence he had gathered brought down the Wang Clan and exposed major criminal networks. The story left Chen Nan celebrated as a young hero while the Wang siblings received their sentences.

• Chen Nan killed Ghost Head's men and left Ghost Head to die in the alley after explaining that oppression had taught him his knife skills.
• Chen Nan called his former landlady, reached her home, and hid there while she treated his wounds and heard his story.
• News reports publicized Chen Nan's actions, and the Prefecture Office promised to ensure the Wang Clan faced legal punishment.
• Police used Chen Nan's evidence to dismantle human and drug trafficking rings, while the Wang siblings and others were taken into custody.
• Chen Nan became famous as a young hero, and an unknown novelist gained fame by writing a book based on his deeds.
• After a six-month trial, Wang Yifu and Wang Yide were sentenced to immediate execution, while Wang Yuan'e received thirty years in prison and a lifelong deprivation of political rights.

Chen Nan’s fame earned him money and admission to Wu City Preparatory Academy, while Chen Jiadong, Wang Bodan, Li Yu, and Xun Xin resented his success. Li Yu and Xun Xin steered Wang Bodan toward reporting Chen Nan to the Transcendent authorities, threatening his reward and school admission.

• Chen Wan'er taunted Chen Jiadong by comparing him with the newly famous Chen Nan, and Chen Jiadong left in anger.
• The Prefecture Office offered Chen Nan fifty thousand Qingyang Coins and exam-free admission to Wu City Preparatory Academy, and Chen Nan handed over evidence of its crimes.
• Chen Nan accepted his reward and faced reporters as Wang Bodan watched, furious over his family’s downfall.
• Li Yu and Xun Xin encouraged Wang Bodan to report Chen Nan for killing someone and using Transcendent abilities to steal property, hoping to block his academy admission.

After the tribunal revoked Chen Nan’s exempt admission and ordered him to pay Wang Bodan fifty thousand yuan, Chen Nan feared he could no longer afford the Preparatory Academy entrance exam. Jiang Lili gave him a card to cover the fee, and he left grateful for her support and uncertain whether he deserved her praise.

• Chen Nan presented evidence at Wang Bodan’s tribunal hearing, but the ruling revoked his free admission and ordered him to pay fifty thousand yuan in compensation.
• Wang Bodan threatened to make Chen Nan pay for the pain he had caused, and Chen Nan left without responding.
• Jiang Lili picked Chen Nan up and offered to cover the ten-thousand-yuan fee for his entrance exam.
• Jiang Lili gave Chen Nan her spending-money card, and he promised to repay her when he could.
• Jiang Lili explained that she cherished Chen Nan for helping others, while Chen Nan admitted he was not entirely kind.

After missing the annual Preparatory Academy entrance assessment, Chen Nan decided to use his year of forced idleness to earn money for his future studies. His AI System could not yet analyze stocks, so he sought underground casinos and asked Chen Xiao for information, but their conversation ended with her offering him money instead.

• Chen Nan accepted that he had missed the Preparatory Academy admissions date and decided to find a way to earn money during his year off.
• Chen Nan considered gambling as a route to wealth, but learned his AI System was only 9.5% developed and lacked the computing power to analyze stocks.
• Chen Nan ruled out stocks and lotteries and began asking animals to search for information about underground casinos where a child might gamble.
• Chen Nan called Chen Xiao to ask about underground casinos, but she warned him against going and offered him her savings.
• Chen Nan refused to take Chen Xiao's money and eventually calmed her after she thought he considered her earnings dirty.

Chen Nan arranged with Feng Wu to visit an illegal casino, hoping to find a way to make money. While preparing to go, he used the AI System to select traditional martial arts for self-defense, but the choice triggered a severe seizure.

• Chen Nan called Feng Wu and offered her a ten-percent commission if she helped him find an illegal casino.
• Feng Wu agreed to work with Chen Nan, and they met the next day to arrange a later visit to a casino run by Yang Wankun, whose brother Yang Wangan was Wu City's Patrol Bureau chief.
• Chen Nan returned home and considered how the AI System might help him win money and protect himself at the casino.
• Chen Nan selected traditional martial arts from the AI System's self-defense options and suffered a seizure from the backlash.
• Chen Nan regained consciousness, drank a glucose injection solution, and accepted that the AI System's effects were causing his symptoms.

Chen Nan followed Feng Wu to an underground black-market casino, where he used his newly enhanced abilities to study its games. After finding card games too complicated, he focused on dice and began learning to infer the results from their sounds.

• Chen Nan secretly left home at night, and Jiang Lili stayed awake, suspicious of his behavior.
• Chen Nan met Feng Wu and followed her to the underground casino, where two men dragged out a bloodied gambler accused of cheating.
• Feng Wu brought Chen Nan inside, and he toured the casino's different gambling areas.
• Chen Nan used his Eye of AI to study a Bull Bull table but concluded that card games were too unpredictable for him.
• Chen Nan watched a dice dealer and listened closely, gradually detecting sound differences that might reveal the dice results.

Chen Nan explained that he planned to train a unique ability at the casino while earning money for school, easing Jiang Lili’s fears after she caught him with Feng Wu. He demonstrated that he could identify dice rolls while blindfolded, leaving both women astonished.

• Chen Nan left the casino with Feng Wu, but Jiang Lili confronted them on the street and fought Feng Wu over their late-night outing.
• Chen Nan stopped the women from fighting and brought them to Jiang Lili’s home, where he explained why he had gone to the casino.
• Jiang Lili offered to sell apartments to pay for Chen Nan’s schooling, while Feng Wu challenged her right to control him.
• Chen Nan told Jiang Lili that he intended to earn school money and train his abilities at the casino, not become a gambling addict.
• Chen Nan demonstrated that he could correctly guess dice rolls while blindfolded, revealing the ability he planned to develop at the casino.

Chen Nan, Jiang Lili, and Feng Wu argued about Feng Wu’s work before Jiang Lili offered her a job managing rentals. The next evening, they took Chen Nan to a casino, where his ability to read dice sounds improved enough to identify their values as soon as the dealer set down the cup.

• Feng Wu defended her work to Jiang Lili and said she had no hope for the future once her beauty faded.
• Jiang Lili offered Feng Wu a job managing her rental properties and splitting the rent, and Feng Wu accepted.
• The next day, Feng Wu settled into the apartment and learned to cook from Jiang Lili before Jiang Lili went to work.
• That evening, Jiang Lili drove Chen Nan and Feng Wu to a casino, where Chen Nan correctly predicted the first dice result by listening.
• As Chen Nan practiced at the table, he learned to track the dice while they rolled and to determine their values as soon as the dealer set down the cup.

Chen Nan returned to the Orphanage and reunited with Little Black Ox, whose life had improved under the new management. On the way home, Chen Nan continued piecing together how the AI System, his brain, and his unusual abilities might be connected.

• Chen Nan stopped gambling after winning more than three thousand Qingyang Coins that night and promised Feng Wu he would settle her commission later.
• After winning around thirty thousand Qingyang Coins over several days, Chen Nan took Jiang Lili and Feng Wu to visit the Orphanage.
• Chen Nan ignored the new director’s attempts to use his visit for publicity, then found Little Black Ox and gave him gifts and a card loaded with one thousand yuan.
• Chen Nan left the Orphanage after spending the day talking with Little Black Ox, who watched him depart with reluctance.
• On the drive home, Chen Nan reasoned that the AI System had become part of his brain and that electromagnetic and metaphysical forces might explain his abilities.

Chen Nan and the two women faced armed robbers twice after gambling, with Jiang Lili accidentally killing three attackers in a car and Chen Nan later defeating six more with his martial arts. After the second incident, the trio were cleared and released, and no one dared trouble them again.

• Chen Nan won money at the casino, and Jiang Lili ran over three men who tried to rob the trio as they escaped in her car.
• The patrol officers reviewed the evidence and released Chen Nan, Jiang Lili, and Feng Wu without charges.
• Chen Nan bought a pair of Twin Duckbill Sabers, and Jiang Lili returned to the casino after recovering from her shock.
• Six men ambushed the trio outside the casino, but Chen Nan used the Nine Palaces Bagua Steps and Body-Wandering Bagua Palm to cut them down without immediately killing them.
• Chen Nan called the police and emergency services, and the trio were released after the attackers died before doctors could save them.

As the Preparatory Academy assessment approached, Chen Nan arranged a Spicy Hot Pot business for Jiang Lili, Little Black Ox, Chen Xiao, and Feng Wu, while the Nature Master faction secretly planned to recruit him. At the assessment, Zhang Hua tried to make Chen Nan his follower, and Li Yu began testing Chen Nan, whose Bone Observing Mirror reading stopped at a fixed value.

• Chen Nan used the AI System to develop a Spicy Hot Pot soup-base recipe, registered it as a permanent patent through Jiang Lili, and set up the business with Jiang Lili, Little Black Ox, Chen Xiao, and Feng Wu as shareholders.
• Little Black Ox moved in with Jiang Lili and the others, and Chen Nan finished his preparations before the October 1 assessment.
• Children gathered at the Wu City Preparatory Academy assessment grounds, where Chen Nan drew attention from other examinees and their families.
• Zhang Hua introduced himself as Zhang Jiye's son and asked Chen Nan to follow him, but Chen Nan politely refused and offered friendship instead.
• Li Yu arrived to examine Chen Nan, performed Qi Gazing, then scanned him with the Bone Observing Mirror until its reading stopped at a fixed number.

Chen Nan failed Li Yu’s assessment, but Lu Fangliang recognized his unusual Transcendent aptitude and secured his admission to the Preparatory Academy. After the children began enrolling, the chapter explained how wealth and connections shaped access to the academy’s special resources.

• Li Yu rejected Chen Nan and humiliated him in front of the other children.
• Lu Fangliang examined Chen Nan, recognized his unusual qi signs, and persuaded Li Yu to pass him.
• Chen Nan entered the academy’s inner courtyard, where the other successful applicants gathered, including Zhang Hua.
• The children began enrollment, and their families paid the fifty-thousand-yuan tuition fee.
• The chapter described how students could pursue early graduation and entry to a Transcendent Academy, while access to special resources depended on money, talent, and personal influence.