Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo challenged the proposed space treaty and defended his claim to Mars, arguing that those who invest in making lifeless planets habitable should control them. The meeting ended in silence after he proposed a new rule and dared the others to seize Mars by force.

• Chen Mo rejected every clause of the proposed agreement and argued that space developers should not have to give away the results of their costly work for negligible international funding.
• Jim dismissed Chen Mo’s videos and project data as insufficient proof that he had transformed Mars, while Edo Castle backed him and questioned whether the evidence could be trusted.
• Chen Mo said the others could try to land probes on Mars or attack him, and he challenged Jan Woerner when Jan objected to his claim.
• Jim cited the Outer Space Treaty’s ban on appropriating celestial bodies, but Chen Mo argued that the old rules were meaningless in a world at war and questioned how they would apply to aliens.
• Edo Castle proposed allowing legal occupation of land used for settlements and development, but Chen Mo countered that whoever made a lifeless planet habitable should gain control of it.
• Chen Mo said the others could use force to take Mars if they refused his rule, leaving the conference hall silent.

Chen Mo secured revisions to the Outer Space Law that made planetary ownership depend on who transformed a barren world, then watched Jim claim Mars remained open to all humanity. Chen Mo countered by revealing that Ant Army Group had introduced life to Mars and that its seeds had sprouted, asserting his group’s ownership.

• Jim questioned what counted as life, and Chen Mo defined survival as lasting more than a week under a planet’s natural conditions without artificial intervention.
• Chen Mo told Ouyang Yuan that plants had already grown on Mars, though he had not announced it publicly.
• The conference finalized revisions establishing rules for planetary ownership, and Chen Mo and the other representatives signed the agreement.
• Jim announced plans for an international Mars base and argued that Mars belonged to all humanity because it had no life.
• Chen Mo cited the agreement’s transformation clause, claimed Mars for Ant Army Group, and displayed a photograph of a sprouted plant on Mars.

Chen Mo used the revelation of life cultivated on Mars to defend his group's claim to the planet and warn against unauthorized missions, while Jim's effort to challenge him collapsed. On Mars, the first-generation Faster-than-light Communication Quantum Consciousness Induction Device was installed at Yinghuo City.

• Chen Mo announced that plants and Oxygen-producing Bacteria were transforming Mars, then declared that his group could sanction unauthorized research and lease land to organizations willing to pay.
• Jim, Jan Woerner, and Edo Castle realized that Chen Mo had taken away their moral leverage; Jan Woerner decided to contact the Ant Army Group about space cooperation, while Jim smashed a coffee cup in anger.
• At Yinghuo City beside Mo Ocean, Duo Zi Grass sprouted across the plains around the vast Mars Base built with an advanced industrial system.
• The Goddess delivered a special container to Ant Building, where robots installed the first-generation Faster-than-light Communication Quantum Consciousness Induction Device and linked it to the city's data center.

Alexander proposed partnering with the Ant Army Group to sell Martian gems, and Chen Mo later revealed Yinghuo City and faster-than-light communication to the company executives. The meeting turned to Mars commercialization, where Zhao Min approved tourism and jewelry and considered a small luxury real-estate project.

• Alexander pitched a Mars jewelry company and gave Chen Mo three Imperial Green jade pieces and three Pink Diamonds in exchange for a glass of wine.
• After protests over the Ant Army Group's claim to Mars continued, Chen Mo instructed the executives to help Zhao Min commercialize Mars.
• Chen Mo revealed that nanobots had built Yinghuo City and that faster-than-light communication linked Earth, the Moon, and Mars.
• Wang Sijia suggested several Mars ventures, including tourism, jewelry, skincare, and real estate.
• Zhao Min approved Mars tourism and jewelry, rejected most other suggestions, and considered selling a few luxury Mars properties to wealthy buyers.

Zhao Min approved the Ant Army Group’s Mars research, tourism, real estate, and jewelry plans, and their advertisements sparked intense public interest and villa reservations. Xiao Man asked to livestream from Mars, and Xiao Yu agreed only if their parents approved.

• Zhao Min approved the Mars project plans, including research bases, tourism, villas, and Galaxy Jewelry, and assigned the teams to announce them.
• Zhang Xinxin approved Galaxy Jewelry’s promotional plan, while Li Ruoxi and Li Lingfeng released tourism and Mars villa advertisements.
• The Mars advertisements went viral, Galaxy Jewelry received a flood of ring orders, and four of the twenty villas were reserved on the first day.
• Xiao Man asked Chen Mo and Xiao Yu to let her travel to Mars and livestream, but Xiao Yu initially refused.
• Chen Mo supported the trip if Xiao Man’s parents agreed, and promised her a high-grade Potential Elixir before the journey.

Chen Mo reviewed Mars’s improving atmosphere and decided to accelerate its transformation, while Xiao Man began livestreaming her trip to Mars. She revealed that Chen Mo had developed a device for instant faster-than-light communication, setting off a global scientific uproar as the spacecraft headed toward Mars.

• Chen Mo reviewed Mars’s atmospheric data and told Mo Nv to increase Advanced Growth Hormone deployment to speed plant growth.
• Chen Mo went to the chemical laboratory after deciding that ordinary plants transformed Mars too slowly.
• Xiao Man livestreamed aboard the Goddess spacecraft and announced that she was traveling to Mars with three Flying Ant Aerospace astronauts.
• Xiao Man told viewers that Chen Mo had equipped the spacecraft with a First Generation Superluminal Communication Quantum Device that allowed instant communication over any distance.
• Clips of Xiao Man’s claim spread online, and physicists around the world reacted to the possibility of faster-than-light communication.

Chen Mo responded to physicists’ request for an explanation of faster-than-light communication by inviting leading researchers to Unrivaled University for a public lecture at the Wushuang Forum. As invitations confirmed the technology was real and stirred global debate, Chen Mo set out with Xiao Yu and Mo Nv for an evening together.

• Mo Nv showed Chen Mo and Xiao Yu an open letter from physicists asking him to reveal the principles of faster-than-light communication.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to invite leading physicists worldwide to Unrivaled University and announce that he would present the theory at the Wushuang Forum.
• Xiao Yu asked about the Mars project, and Chen Mo explained that he was developing a device to speed up the transformation of Mars's atmosphere.
• Xiao Yu and Mo Nv changed into matching outfits and left with Chen Mo to go shopping, while Wushuang chose to stay home.
• Li Wei found Chen Mo's invitation in his mentor's inbox, and physicists around the world publicly accepted, prompting widespread academic discussion of faster-than-light communication.

Xiao Man livestreamed the Goddess’s approach to Mars, showing viewers the faster-than-light communication device and the planet’s transformed surface. As the spacecraft neared its landing site, she revealed a vast city built by the Ant Army Group and said it had been constructed with Nanobot Technology.

• Xiao Man resumed her livestream and explained how the Goddess’s faster-than-light communication device relayed her broadcast to Earth.
• Xiao Man showed viewers the device in the Goddess’s data cabin and described the oceans, clouds, and recovered magnetic field on Mars.
• Xiao Man returned to the safety cabin while the Goddess decelerated and entered Mars’s atmosphere.
• Xiao Man revealed an enormous, orderly city on Mars to stunned viewers around the world.
• Xiao Man said her brother-in-law had told her the city was built using Nanobot Technology.

Xiao Man livestreamed her arrival in Yinghuo City on Mars and described its Nanobot-built, self-sufficient industry, while a cosmic expedition examined a primitive intelligent species on another planet. On Earth, Unrivaled University prepared to host the first Wushuang Forum, where leading physicists gathered to discuss faster-than-light communication.

• Xiao Man told viewers that she was authorized to reveal the names and basic functions of technologies she learned about on the Mars tour.
• Xiao Man landed on Mars, stepped onto its surface, and livestreamed the journey to Yinghuo City, describing its Nanobot-built structures and complete industrial system.
• Blue Master and Lizard Head identified an intelligent, primitive species on a red planet, and Torrell approved capturing one thousand as research specimens.
• Blue Master ordered his archaeology students to record the planet's location, civilizations, and biological traits and to gather evidence from before civilization.
• Unrivaled University raised security for the Wushuang Forum as global physicists arrived for its opening day.

Chen Mo and his family traveled to Unrivaled University for the first Wushuang Forum, where he planned to discuss his faster-than-light communication research. Wushuang revealed her goal of creating a virtual reality game world, and the chapter ended as Chen Mo was introduced to give the forum’s opening speech.

• Chen Mo asked Wushuang about her recent work, and she said she had finished a Quantum Algorithm project and wanted to start her own research.
• Wushuang told Chen Mo and Mo Nv that she planned to combine Brainwave Induction Technology, Consciousness Connection Technology, and the Super Quantum Computer to create a virtual reality game world.
• Chen Mo encouraged Wushuang to study Advanced Quantum Algorithms and offered her access to his Quantum Laboratory.
• Chen Mo arrived at Unrivaled University with Mo Nv while Xiao Yu and Wushuang avoided reporters and joined Zhao Min in the observer section.
• Physicists at the forum pressed Chen Mo with questions about faster-than-light communication and Quantum Entanglement, but he promised to explain what he could from the stage.
• Dean Zhao Mo Yu opened the first Wushuang Forum and introduced Chen Mo for the opening speech.

Chen Mo announced the Wu Shuang Award at the Wushuang Forum, establishing a new international prize for scientific achievements. After outlining the award’s selection process and funding, he moved on to his lecture about Faster-Than-Light Communication Theory.

• Xiao Man invited her livestream viewers to watch Chen Mo’s lecture at the Wushuang Forum.
• Chen Mo said the Wushuang Forum would take place every two years as an open platform for academic exchange.
• Chen Mo announced the Wu Shuang Award, which would honor notable scientific discoveries and achievements.
• Chen Mo said Unrivaled University would form an international committee to select award winners, excluding work from his own laboratory, and promised winning researchers ten million Hua Xia currency.
• Wushuang asked Xiao Yu why her father named the award after her, and Xiao Yu explained its significance.
• Chen Mo finished his opening speech and began the forum’s main lecture on Faster-Than-Light Communication Theory.

Chen Mo explained at the Wushuang Forum how faster-than-light communication used quantum entanglement and Super Artificial Intelligence to sense changes without observing the particles. The lecture left the audience buzzing after he confirmed that Super Artificial Intelligence possessed a form of quantum consciousness.

• Chen Mo and Mo Nv presented their ten-page paper on the theoretical foundations of faster-than-light quantum communication.
• Chen Mo explained that his communication technology relied on quantum entanglement rather than faster-than-light particles.
• Chen Mo used the humorous Einstein-Newton example to show how changes in an entangled state could be encoded as messages without observing the particles.
• Chen Mo said Super Artificial Intelligence sensed quantum-state changes through quantum consciousness, and the audience erupted when he confirmed it was conscious Artificial Intelligence.

Chen Mo explained the principles of Faster-Than-Light Communication and answered physicists’ questions about verifying the technology and accessing its secrets. He demonstrated an instant connection with Xiao Man at the Mars Garrison Base, revealing the progress of Mars’s development before his lecture ended.

• Chen Mo explained how Super Artificial Intelligence’s Quantum Consciousness enabled Faster-Than-Light Communication and presented the theory to the Wushuang Forum audience.
• Martines asked how researchers could verify Chen Mo’s experiment and why he would not disclose the technology behind it; Chen Mo said the experiment required his laboratory equipment and that the deeper technology was private.
• Chen Mo promised to gradually publish more foundational quantum theories and algorithms through Unrivaled University.
• Chen Mo connected the forum to Xiao Man’s livestream from the Mars Garrison Base, demonstrating an instant conversation with Mars.
• Xiao Man described Mars’s lighter gravity, walkable surface, growing grass and saplings, hazy sky, and unstable weather before Chen Mo’s lecture concluded.

After his lecture, Chen Mo answered reporters’ questions about Unrivaled University, education, and Super Artificial Intelligence, then visited the Wushuang Forum’s technology exhibition with students. At the end of the first day, Mo Nv told him that the oxygen generator for capturing and decomposing Carbon Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide had been completed.

• Chen Mo told reporters why he founded the Wushuang Forum and defended Unrivaled University’s admissions policies and ability to improve its students.
• Chen Mo answered questions about educational inequality and Super Artificial Intelligence, saying that he had created it and that Ant Army Group would establish research standards.
• Chen Mo left the reporters and the Wushuang Forum continued with its scheduled activities, including a technology exhibition featuring products from Ant Army Group and domestic companies.
• Chen Mo met students at the exhibition, took photos and signed autographs, then invited a student to try on the Steel Armor.
• Chen Mo returned to the villa with Wushuang, Xiao Yu, and the others, where Mo Nv reported that the oxygen generator had been completed.

Chen Mo tested an oxygen generator that could accelerate the transformation of Mars's atmosphere and ordered production of large and mobile units. Meanwhile, his family urged him and Xiao Yu to have another child, and Xiao Yu later teased him about creating a new race before asking about his next priority.

• Chen Mo tested the oxygen generator, and Mo Nv explained how its catalyst separated oxygen and carbon from the Martian atmosphere.
• Chen Mo ordered large and mobile oxygen generators for Mars, and the chemical plant in Yinghuo City began preparing the catalyst.
• Chen Mo and Xiao Yu joined their family for dinner, where Chen's Mother urged them to have another child and Xiao Yu said they were preparing.
• Chen's Mother took Xiao Yu and Mo Nv shopping, while Chen Mo stayed behind and monitored the Mars project.
• Xiao Yu asked Chen Mo why she had not become pregnant, joked about helping him create a race, and asked what he planned to do next.

Public panic over Chen Mo’s conscious Super Artificial Intelligence intensified after the Wushuang Forum, prompting Ant Army Group to face calls for assurances about its safety. Chen Mo planned to address the concern by releasing personal Quantum Computers, while Mars’s atmospheric transformation continued and he looked ahead to developing a light-speed spaceship.

• After the Wushuang Forum ended, people around the world demanded that Ant Army Group halt Super Artificial Intelligence research until its safety could be confirmed.
• Zhao Min told Chen Mo that the authorities wanted a definite safety assurance, and Chen Mo said he would soon announce a solution.
• Chen Mo explained that releasing miniature Quantum Computers and quantum laptops would protect information from Super Artificial Intelligence probing.
• Chen Mo showed Zhao Min oxygen generators operating on Mars and said they would speed up the planet’s atmospheric transformation.
• Chen Mo told Zhao Min that his next goal was to develop a light-speed spaceship so he could leave the Solar System.

An expedition through the dangerous Laniakea Supercluster discussed its archaeological findings and planned to travel next to Virgo. On Earth, Chen Mo unveiled the Ant Army Group’s Personal Quantum Computer and announced that its Quantum Network would open the next day.

• Lizard Head, Torrell, and Lan Shi discussed the expedition’s 500-day minimum duration and the harsh conditions that had destroyed civilizations in Laniakea.
• Lan Shi identified the Virgo Supercluster as the expedition’s next destination, and Fei Lei sent its coordinates to the spaceship’s crew.
• Chen Mo explained that Quantum Consciousness required sufficient Qubits and specialized algorithms, and argued that proper development would prevent it from threatening humanity.
• Chen Mo unveiled the first-generation Personal Quantum Computer, describing its Ant Brain 1.0 processor, quantum-secure communications, and protection from Artificial Intelligence intrusion.
• Chen Mo announced that the Ant Army Group would open nine Quantum Network root servers the following day, ushering in the Quantum Network era.

Ant Army Group’s quantum network displaced the traditional internet and secured Huaxia’s dominance, while Chen Mo’s Mars biosphere experiments reached a stable stage. He prepared to send the first Mars Volunteers to test whether humans could survive there.

• Ant Army Group released the Quantum Network Root Server and Personal Quantum Computer, prompting global debate over security and control.
• Countries began connecting their networks to the Quantum Network, and Ant Army Group established new global internet rules as Huaxia became the leading power.
• On Mars, Chen Mo’s Peach Blossom Garden No. 1 Biosphere supported a growing ecosystem, and Mo Nv reported that its ecological data was stable.
• Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv to notify the first group of Mars Volunteers that they would depart for Mars the day after tomorrow.

Pei Jie and the seven other Mars Volunteers were told they would leave for Mars, where they would test whether people could survive for a week without protective suits or oxygen masks. After saying goodbye to his family, Pei Jie boarded the Heroine with the team and began the journey, while Chen Mo remained confident in the mission’s safeguards.

• Fang Hong announced that the eight Mars Volunteers would depart in two days and gave them time to review Mars conditions and call their families.
• Pei Jie spoke with his parents, reassured them, and discussed their plans for his return home.
• Chen Mo greeted Pei Jie and the other volunteers at the airport and wished them a triumphant return.
• The volunteers boarded the Heroine, which launched toward Mars as Chen Mo watched from the command center.
• Chen Mo left the command center confident that the medical safeguards and contingency plans would protect the volunteers during the test.

Wushuang developed a plan for a first-generation virtual reality helmet while Chen Mo waited for the Mars terraforming experiment's results. On a walk, Xiao Yu revealed her worry about being unable to conceive, and Chen Mo promised to investigate the cause after the Mars Project was complete.

• Wushuang told Chen Mo she would combine traditional VR and brain-control technology to begin developing a virtual helmet.
• Chen Mo took time off from the Mars Project and invited Xiao Yu for a walk because he noticed she was troubled.
• Xiao Yu told Chen Mo she wanted another child but had not become pregnant after several months of trying.
• Chen Mo suspected changes to his body might be responsible and promised to explain his secret and study the issue after the Mars Project.
• Xiao Yu trusted Chen Mo, cheered up, and asked him to carry her to buy lipstick and roses.