Chapter Summaries

Su Hao observed the spacecraft’s Warp Drive and spent a year restoring himself to peak condition. He failed to record the active engine, but the spacecraft announced that it would shut down the Warp Drive in two hours, giving him a chance to try again.

• Su Hao watched space stretch and contract during the Warp Drive’s activation, but the increasing speed blurred his Perception beyond the spacecraft.
• After the Warp Drive activated, Su Hao decided to obtain its technology and planned to record the engine into Marble Space once his Blood Qi was strong enough.
• Su Hao spent a year cultivating in his Small World and restored himself to a state comparable to his peak in his previous life.
• Su Hao approached the Warp Drive and tried to record it with his Blood Qi, but an inexplicable force scattered the energy and prevented him from reaching the engine’s interior.
• The spacecraft announced that it would shut down the Warp Drive in two hours, and Su Hao prepared to take advantage of the opportunity.

Su Hao learned that the Distant Star needed energy and agreed to help raid Eight-Armed Tribe supply stations, demonstrating that he could hit targets from tens of thousands of meters away. After the Captain promised him unlimited leave, Su Hao said the others might be able to learn a simplified version of Superpower.

• Su Hao identified the ring-shaped machine as the Warp Drive and realized he needed to return to Blue Light to acquire its technology.
• Captain Yan and Xiao Chang told Su Hao that Officer Jiang had called Squad 405 to the command center for a special mission.
• The Captain explained that the Distant Star was low on energy and planned to raid several Eight-Armed Tribe supply stations, asking Su Hao to lead the attacks.
• Su Hao claimed he could shoot accurately from tens of thousands of meters away and shattered a cup fired into space from fifty thousand meters away.
• The Captain promised Su Hao indefinite leave aboard the Distant Star, and Su Hao told the others they might learn a simplified version of Superpower.

Su Hao told the Captain and the others that they could learn simplified Superpowers by using Energy Blocks, and the crew eagerly accepted the prospect. After studying an Energy Block, Su Hao confirmed it released nuclear fusion energy and concluded that Spiritual Power could guide its release.

• Su Hao explained that Superpowers could be learned through training with Energy Blocks, and the Captain agreed to prepare for future experiments.
• Officer Jiang celebrated the possibility of learning Superpowers, while the Captain proposed raiding an Eight-Armed Tribe Military Port instead of a Supply Station.
• Captain Yan and Xiao Chang praised Su Hao and pressed him about when they could learn Superpowers.
• Su Hao examined an Energy Block and explained how its unusual atomic structure fused into iron as it released its energy.
• Su Hao concluded that Spiritual Power could guide the Energy Block’s energy release.

Su Hao planned to master Energy Blocks and capture Eight-Armed Tribe members for his research as the Distant Star prepared to raid a Supply Station. He began the attack by secretly transferring most of its inhabitants into the Small World Prison.

• Su Hao planned to develop a Superpower Mental Method, investigate converting Source into Energy Blocks, and capture Eight-Armed Tribe members to help evolve God.
• After two months in space, the Distant Star found an Eight-Armed Tribe Supply Station, and Officer Ji briefed the crew on a five-day raid plan.
• Twenty days later, the Distant Star landed on the planet’s far side, and two hundred armored soldiers ran toward the Supply Station with Su Hao.
• Fifty kilometers from the target, Su Hao aimed an Energy Machine Cannon and opened fire while redirecting the Energy Bullets elsewhere.
• Su Hao linked spatial modules to the Small World Prison and began transferring the Supply Station’s Eight-Armed Tribe members, intending to leave about two hundred behind and capture the rest.

Su Hao captured the Eight-Armed Tribe Supply Station, collected its supplies, and recorded the Distant Star’s Warp Drive. He then entered the Small World Prison to prepare the captured Eight-Armed Tribe for experiments, converting their dead into source and producing glowing Small Beads.

• Su Hao killed the Eight-Armed Tribe defenders at the Supply Station, and Officer Jiang’s team secured the station and reported its Energy Blocks to the Distant Star.
• Su Hao recorded the shut-down Warp Drive while the Distant Star loaded the supplies and fled before Eight-Armed Tribe reinforcements could arrive.
• Su Hao teleported into the Small World Prison, where surviving Eight-Armed Tribe members approached him and attacked, but their Energy Bullets passed through him.
• Su Hao created gravity in the Small World, gathered the dead Eight-Armed Tribe members, and used their corpses to make source and oxygen for the survivors.
• Su Hao transformed the corpses into a pile of glowing Small Beads before the stunned Eight-Armed Tribe members.

Su Hao began dissecting an Eight-Armed Tribe captive to study its biology and genes while the Distant Star faced an approaching enemy fleet. After Su Hao promised to destroy the five warships, the Captain turned the ship around to fight.

• The Eight-Armed Tribe officer ordered its captured people to wait and observe, while Su Hao imprisoned them separately in his Small World.
• Su Hao brought an Eight-Armed Tribe member to his Laboratory, examined its body, and recorded its bodily and Consciousness Information in Marble Space.
• The Distant Star detected an Eight-Armed Tribe fleet of one Leap Mothership and four Guerrilla III Battleships closing in after tracking the ship through Warp Navigation.
• The Captain changed the Distant Star's course to avoid the fleet and summoned Xu Shiqiang to the Command Center.
• Su Hao offered to attack the five warships in a fighter, and the Captain assigned him an Air Piercing-88 and ordered the Distant Star to turn and fight.

Su Hao used his fighter to approach the Eight-Armed Tribe’s Leap Mothership, surviving its attacks and killing nearby pilots with his abilities. After spatial disruption forced him to abandon his destroyed fighter, he realized the enemy could interfere with space and prepared to attack the Mothership directly.

• The Eight-Armed Tribe fleet formed an encirclement as the Distant Star maneuvered toward the right side of their ships.
• Su Hao flew his fighter toward the Leap Mothership, whose energy cannons struck him without harming him.
• The Mothership launched Octo-Fighters, but pilots within fifty kilometers of Su Hao died abruptly, prompting the commander to order a retreat and unleash every weapon.
• The Mothership’s spatial disruption forced Su Hao out of Second-Level Space, and he used Flash Step to escape as his fighter was destroyed.
• Su Hao recognized the danger of the Eight-Armed Tribe’s spatial technology, transformed into a Life Child, covered himself in Diamond Armor, and began using Flash Step to attack the Mothership.

After both sides believed Xu Shiqiang had died, Su Hao secretly reached the Eight-Armed Tribe Mothership and captured many of its crew. He disabled the remaining crew and headed toward another warship, while the Distant Star turned toward the meteorite belt to continue fighting.

• The Captain rallied the Distant Star's officers after Xu Shiqiang's fighter was destroyed and ordered the ship into the meteorite belt.
• The Eight-Armed Tribe commander learned that an Impact Missile had destroyed the fighter and ordered the attack recorded for analysis.
• Su Hao used Subject Capture Technique to take two thousand Eight-Armed Tribe members from their Mothership into his Small World.
• Su Hao struck the Mothership's hull with Locking Fist, destroying the crew members' Main Brains and leaving their bodies mindless.
• A Guerrilla III Battleship approached the Mothership, and its crew also lost their minds; Su Hao then used Flash Step to approach the nearest of the other three warships.

Su Hao defeated the Eight-Armed Tribe fleet, occupied its five warships, and secretly stored them in a Small World instead of letting the Distant Star destroy them. The Distant Star headed for the Star-Eating Worm Domain to escape the Signal Nest's lock-on, but the Captain wondered whether Su Hao could use Hundred Hits to avoid that detour.

• The Eight-Armed Tribe Military Port received the battle footage, ordered its Warships to stop the human Cruiser, and discovered that all five dispatched ships had gone silent.
• Su Hao reported to Officer Jiang that he had survived, wiped out the enemy crews, and occupied all five warships, startling the Distant Star's crew, who had thought he was dead.
• The Captain ordered the Distant Star to collect the warships' Energy Blocks, but Su Hao stored all five ships in a Small World for later study.
• The Distant Star loaded its remaining supplies and warped toward the Star-Eating Worm Domain to escape the Signal Nest's lock-on.
• The Captain asked Su Hao whether Hundred Hits could send a spaceship beyond the Signal Nest's tracking, and Su Hao asked how the Signal Nest located ships.

Su Hao studied the Eight-Armed Tribe’s genetics aboard the Distant Star and found a way to evolve one of them into a God. He took control of the new Eight-Armed God as his Proxy and began adapting a control system for its unusual body and nine brains.

• The Captain explained that the Distant Star was heading for the Star-Eating Worm Domain to escape the Eight-Armed Tribe’s Signal Nest, then offered Su Hao a place at officers’ meetings, which Su Hao refused.
• During warp flight, Su Hao found that the Eight-Armed Tribe had poor compatibility with the Shen Armor Person Sequence and devised a plan to give a Level 7 Total Child or Constant Child the vitality needed to evolve into a God.
• After another year of experiments, Su Hao successfully evolved an Eight-Armed Tribe member into a God, a tentacled creature covered in pale red armor.
• Su Hao named the creature the Eight-Armed God and used the Dark Room to control all nine of its brains, making it his Proxy.
• Su Hao entered the Exploration Space and began designing a Full-Reality Simulation Control System adapted to the Eight-Armed God’s Main Brain and eight Sub-Brains.

Su Hao completed the Eight-Armed God's full-immersion control system and tested its many abilities, finding the body powerful but still limited by weak Spiritual Power. He then gave it Space Tentacles that enabled Teleport and Flash Step, and planned to strengthen its Divine Intent so he could load Spirit Transformation Cultivator next.

• Su Hao activated the Eight-Armed God control program and tested its movement and language systems, finding the body easy to control.
• Su Hao tested the Eight-Armed God's abilities, including crystal-domain control, regeneration, invisible threads, mimicry, intangibility, speed, destructive strength, and gene toxin.
• Su Hao concluded that the Eight-Armed God was powerful but still a warrior whose abilities could be countered, and planned to load his own Cultivator, Source Mage, and space abilities onto it.
• Su Hao devised a way to give the god the spiritual traits needed for those abilities by applying the Break Surface with Point Mental Method.
• Su Hao spent half a year evolving the Eight-Armed God's Space Tentacles, giving it Teleport and Flash Step, then planned to develop its Divine Intent and load Spirit Transformation Cultivator.

Su Hao hid his true body in the Second-Level Space and sent the Eight-Armed God, disguised as Xu Shiqiang, to explore the Star-Eating Worm Domain aboard the Distant Star. After capturing a Star-Eating Worm egg, he urged the alarmed officers to visit a planet and capture mature worms for research.

• Su Hao learned that Star-Eating Worm eggs could drift through space for millennia and that the egg-filled domain was forbidden because worms could overrun planets and ships.
• As the Distant Star exited Warp Navigation, Su Hao hid his body and used the Eight-Armed God as his proxy.
• Su Hao detected fast-moving worm eggs and captured one with a Negative Space Module.
• The Distant Star's officers discussed the worm eggs, their escape from the Eight-Armed Tribe's Lock-on, and plans to leave the dangerous domain.
• Su Hao showed the officers the egg and proposed visiting a planet to capture mature Star-Eating Worms for research.

Su Hao negotiated with the Distant Star to travel near Star-Eating Worms in exchange for teaching humanity how to obtain Superpowers. After the Captain accepted, Su Hao trained him and began studying captured worm eggs, ending by smashing one to activate it.

• Su Hao proposed visiting a Star-Eating Worm Planet, but the Captain initially refused because of the danger and humanity's past failures.
• Su Hao offered to teach humanity how to gain Superpowers in return for the Distant Star taking him near the Star-Eating Worms, and the Captain agreed after requiring proof that the method worked.
• The Captain and officers discussed the deal after Su Hao left, and the Captain warned them that they could only cooperate with Xu Shiqiang rather than force him.
• Su Hao taught the Captain the Break Surface with Point Mental Method, then spent the next month helping the crew train and studying fifteen captured worm eggs.
• Su Hao smashed a worm egg against the ground to activate its hidden life system.

Su Hao watched a Star-Eating Worm Queen hatch and begin laying eggs while the Distant Star’s officers mastered the Superpower Method. After Blue Light confirmed the method worked, the ship reached the Star-Eating Worm Planet, where Su Hao shielded it from insect eggs so he could study the worms.

• Su Hao observed the murky slime from smashed insect eggs transform into a Star-Eating Worm Queen, which grew underground and laid eggs.
• The Captain and other Distant Star officers learned their first spells using Energy Blocks and prepared to approach the Star-Eating Worm Planet.
• After Blue Light confirmed the Superpower Method was feasible, the Distant Star traveled to the planet and encountered dense swarms of insect eggs.
• Su Hao created nine Rebound Shield Formations around the Distant Star, deflecting an insect egg without letting it break.
• Su Hao returned to the Command Center and told the officers to stay near the planet while he studied the Star-Eating Worms.

Su Hao traveled to the Star-Eating Worm Planet to collect its unusual insects in his Small World, using his Eight-Armed God body to withstand their attacks. After testing a distant region, he confirmed that the planet’s insect swarms shared one control system.

• Su Hao left the Distant Star and flew to the Star-Eating Worm Planet, where he stored a Balloon and began collecting its insects.
• He pushed through the dense insect swarms and collected Flying Ants, then faced giant fire-spitting beetles and a massive Acid Worm.
• Su Hao collected the powerful insects that attacked him and realized their coordinated tactics suggested an intelligent controller.
• He pretended to be weakened by a lightning attack from Giant Floating Umbrella Worms and fled to another part of the planet.
• Su Hao revealed himself in the distant region and confirmed that its insects were linked to the same control system.

Su Hao investigated the Star-Eating Worms’ collective control system but failed to locate their Queen before returning to the Distant Star. As the ship set course for Blue Light, he planned to study the insects and reflected on how hiding his main body protected him from dangers that could defeat his proxy.

• Su Hao recorded and examined several insects’ consciousnesses, discovering that an unseen system sent them commands and that he could control an insect himself after erasing its consciousness.
• Su Hao tried to communicate with the controller through an insect, but the insect’s signals became chaotic and the swarm devoured it.
• Su Hao searched through the planet as an Eight-Armed God but failed to find the Queen, then hid Location Stones and teleported back to the Distant Star.
• Su Hao told the Captain that his inspection was complete, and the Distant Star escaped the Star-Eating Worm Domain and the Eight-Armed Tribe’s lock-on before receiving Blue Light’s authorization to return.
• The Captain ordered the Distant Star to set course for Blue Light, while Su Hao planned to cultivate a Queen and study its control system during the voyage.
• Su Hao reviewed his progress and concluded that his hidden main body would survive even if his Eight-Armed God proxy was destroyed.

Su Hao outlined his research goals, including mastering interstellar technology and learning to control Fortune Wave, then studied the Star-Eating Worm Queen and its colony. After recording the insects’ Consciousness Information, he entered Marble Space to investigate how the Queen controlled them.

• Su Hao listed his learning goals, including Warp Drive navigation, interstellar communications, Star-Eating Worm control, and finding a way to master Fortune Wave.
• Su Hao observed that the Star-Eating Worm Queen had grown to the size of a van, laid thousands of eggs, and raised two batches of offspring into an orderly colony.
• Su Hao discovered that Star-Eating Worms absorbed nutrients from soil and rocks, and decided to have Ashan and Feng Cheng explore whether gods could gain the same ability.
• Su Hao recorded the Queen’s Consciousness Information, provoking a fierce reaction from the Queen and causing it to lay eggs faster.
• Su Hao recorded the hatched insects’ Consciousness Information and entered Marble Space to study how the Queen transmitted signals and controlled the colony.

Three years later, Su Hao inspected the Gods and Star-Eating Worms he had cultivated aboard the Distant Star, discovering how the Queen increased its intelligence by superimposing synchronized nervous systems. The ship reached Blue Light after months of checks, where crowds watched its return and awaited the celebrated hero Xu Shiqiang.

• Su Hao reviewed his hundred enhanced Gods, then inspected the Queen and found that it grew smarter by adding nervous systems developed from paired, synchronized worm eggs.
• A broadcast announced the Distant Star would leave Warp Drive near Blue Light, prompting the returning soldiers to celebrate before realizing they still faced a long journey and inspections.
• Su Hao passed a blood test by submitting blood from his true body after modifying it with Gene Degeneration Fluid.
• Two months later, escorted by warships, the Distant Star entered Blue Light's atmosphere as people across the planet watched its return and celebrated Xu Shiqiang.

Su Hao returned to Blue Light aboard the Distant Star and decided to pursue scientific research at the Academy of Sciences while retaining his military status. The ship received a grand welcome, and photographers crowded around Su Hao as the public clamored to see Superhero Xu Shiqiang.

• People across Blue Light celebrated the Distant Star’s return and hailed Su Hao as Superhero Xu Shiqiang.
• Su Hao told Captain Yan and Xiao Chang that he wanted to leave the military and become a scientist.
• Captain Yan explained that Su Hao could join the Academy of Sciences while keeping his military position, and Su Hao accepted the idea.
• The Distant Star’s crew disembarked in formation and saluted the Leader and Republic Organization officials welcoming them home.
• Photographers crowded around Su Hao during the live broadcast because viewers demanded to see Superhero Xu Shiqiang.

Su Hao reunited with Xu Shiqiang’s family in Victory City and learned how the Hero’s return had changed their fortunes. After settling his Small Worlds and requesting reassignment, he went to speak with the Captain, waking him at home.

• Su Hao met Xu Ruyun, her family, and Xu Shiqiang’s elderly parents after initially failing to recognize them.
• Xu Ruyun described how the family had received a Hero’s Home, money, a villa, and enhancer eligibility after Xu Shiqiang became a Hero.
• At the reunion dinner, Yonghua peppered Su Hao with questions and told him her friends wanted to marry him; he replied, “As long as you’re happy.”
• Su Hao moved the Research Small World beneath Victory City and relocated the Star-Eating Worm Small World to a barren rocky planet, leaving the Warship Small World where it was.
• Su Hao requested reassignment at the Military Affairs Office, then went to the Captain’s villa and woke him to talk.