Chapter Summaries

Grandpa Tuo was held captive at the Tanzanian Mercenaries' base and pressured to create an enhanced human serum. He insisted that his child would rescue him, while continuing to bargain for liquor.

• Grandpa Tuo drank at the base and asked Aiden, a mercenary with a three-million-euro bounty, for more liquor.
• A leather-clad lizard man gave Grandpa Tuo three days to create an enhanced human serum and threatened him with violence.
• The leather-clad lizard man crushed Professor Mali's skull to frighten Grandpa Tuo into cooperating.
• Grandpa Tuo mourned Professor Mali and told the lizard man that his child would come to rescue him.
• After the lizard man left, Grandpa Tuo noticed Aiden's flask and offered to have his child spare Aiden in exchange for the liquor.

Liu Di led General Black Mountain and the Tian Luo Group toward a village where he sensed numerous B+ enhanced humans and signs of genetic mutation. As Liu Di and Little Xia walked into the open, a deaf teenage sniper hidden nearby began eliminating the village guards.

• Liu Di ended his conversation with General Black Mountain and took 253 Tian Luo Group members and Little Xia into the jungle.
• Liu Di and Little Xia outpaced the group and reached a vantage point near the village, where Liu Di sensed at least twenty B+ enhanced humans.
• Magic Child identified abnormal plants and an oversized millipede as evidence of genetic mutation, while Liu Di ordered the group to stay back as he and Little Xia approached the village.
• Liu Di walked into the open with his hands behind his back, and General Black Mountain stopped Chi Mei from ordering fire support.
• A deaf eighteen-year-old sniper spotted Liu Di's signal and killed a guard with a Barrett M82A1 before switching rifles to fire repeatedly at the village.

Liu Di and Little Xia reached Grandpa Tuo in the village, where Liu Di questioned the old man while Little Xia fought the lizardmen. Liu Di gave Little Xia Grandpa Tuo’s whiskey, unleashing a surge of strength that turned the battle in his favor.

• Little Qiu sniped the village guards and killed a scaled mutant, then relocated when Liu Di warned her about the approaching B-Class lizardmen.
• Liu Di sent Little Xia to fight the lizardmen while the Heavenly Net members watched from a distance.
• Liu Di broke into the house, killed the lizardman guarding Grandpa Tuo, and demanded to know why the old man had come to the village.
• Little Xia was overwhelmed by more than twenty modified humans, so Liu Di took Grandpa Tuo’s wine gourd and threw it to him.
• Little Xia drank the whiskey and surged in strength, killing a lizardman with one punch as Grandpa Tuo lamented his empty flask.

Grandpa Tuo explained that radiation had driven the lizard-like modified humans to evolve and told Liu Di that he was an Innate Gene Carrier. After Magic Child confirmed radiation was needed for Liu Di’s next stage of evolution, Liu Di identified a possible radiation source buried in the village.

• Grandpa Tuo told Liu Di that humanity had four possible paths of evolution and identified him as an Innate Gene Carrier.
• Grandpa Tuo explained that radiation in the abandoned village had transformed the modified humans and might help Liu Di evolve.
• Magic Child confirmed that radiation was required for the second stage of New Human evolution and planned to build a Radiation Chamber.
• Grandpa Tuo praised Liu Di’s creation of Little Xia’s mechanical hand, then left him to investigate the radiation source.
• Liu Di scanned the surrounding terrain and marked an earthen mound where a rusted gun barrel protruded from the soil.

Little Xia slaughtered the mercenaries but went berserk from drinking, forcing Liu Di to subdue him. Liu Di then unearthed enormous ancient combat machines, leaving the Tian Luo Group stunned.

• Little Xia overwhelmed the modified humans and killed the last armored fighter, wiping out the mercenaries in the village.
• Little Xia charged at the Tian Luo Group while berserk, but Liu Di blocked his punches and knocked him unconscious with a finger tap.
• Grandpa Tuo explained that Little Xia had drunk too much, and Liu Di asked the Tian Luo Group to watch over him and Grandpa Tuo.
• Liu Di pulled a massive, four-legged metal combat machine from beneath the irradiated mound and revealed its European Nation symbol.
• Liu Di jumped into the pit and emerged carrying another strange combat vehicle with tank tracks and mechanical arms.

Liu Di helped General Black Mountain recover radioactive barrels from a buried mecha grave and promised to assist Tian Luo. He challenged the warriors’ assumptions about enhanced humans by recounting how Kun Sang defeated him, leaving the group stunned.

• Liu Di excavated obsolete mechas and three barrels of radium from beneath a village on the Myanmar border.
• Liu Di asked Black Mountain to transport the barrels to Sea City, and Black Mountain agreed after Grandpa Tuo intervened.
• Liu Di collected scales and blood from a Lizardman corpse, then Tian Luo Warriors carried the barrels and the sleeping Grandpa Tuo back to base.
• The next morning, Black Mountain urged the Tian Luo Warriors to challenge Liu Di, but Grizzly argued that Liu Di was an exceptional enhanced human.
• Liu Di said a master ten times stronger than him had defeated him, described the master as a handsome Thai man with a metal baseball bat, and Little Xia recognized him as Kun Sang.

Liu Di persuaded the Tian Luo Group warriors to accept bodily enhancement by exaggerating the dangers posed by international experts. After Chi Mei challenged Little Qiu to a spar, Liu Di learned the enhancement procedure had only a fifty-to-sixty percent success rate and offered to improve Grandpa Tuo’s formula.

• Liu Di and General Black Mountain convinced the Heavenly Net warriors that they needed enhancement to keep pace with international threats.
• The Tian Luo Group warriors agreed to undergo enhancement, and Chi Mei challenged Little Qiu to demonstrate his close-combat skills.
• Little Qiu accepted Chi Mei’s challenge, and the warriors headed to their sparring ground.
• Liu Di asked Grandpa Tuo about the enhancement’s success rate and learned that failure would likely be fatal.
• Liu Di offered to improve Grandpa Tuo’s formula using enhancement knowledge he had acquired.

Liu Di’s research with Grandpa Tuo raised the modification success rate to 98%, and Liu Di proposed using Giant-jawed Tree Ants to make it 100% for the Tian Luo Warriors. As Black Mountain prepared to begin the modifications, Grandpa Tuo revealed that China’s secret Dragon Might project was competing with other nations’ programs.

• Liu Di and Grandpa Tuo discussed extracting useful traits from cancer cells when Chi Mei repeatedly crashed into their tent after being thrown around by Little Qiu.
• Over three days, the Tian Luo Warriors became convinced of the power of modified humans and waited for their own modifications.
• Grandpa Tuo observed that Liu Di’s improvements had achieved a 98% success rate across nearly a hundred samples.
• Liu Di brought Giant-jawed Tree Ants to use their formic acid to stimulate the subjects’ cells, and he said the Tian Luo Warriors’ success rate could reach 100%.
• Black Mountain decided to seek approval and bring the necessary equipment to the camp so his warriors would not be transferred to Dragon Might.
• Grandpa Tuo explained that Dragon Might held China’s secret modified-human research and named other nations’ programs, including Extreme Cold, Pharaoh, and Idol.

General Black Mountain prepared an enhancement experiment for the Tian Luo Group, and 283 soldiers received the First Generation Yanhuang serum despite its excruciating pain. As the experiment began, enemy forces and a reconnaissance drone appeared near the border, leaving the soldiers' trial under threat.

• General Black Mountain arranged a fully equipped enhancement base, and Liu Di told the Tian Luo soldiers that the serum's formic acid would cause extreme pain.
• The 283 Tian Luo Warriors saluted Liu Di and Grandpa Tuo, vowed not to cry out, and took their places for the experiment.
• The doctors injected the soldiers with the newly named First Generation Yanhuang serum, and the warriors endured the pain without a single cry.
• A radar operator warned Black Mountain that about two thousand enemy forces with armored vehicles or Tanks were approaching the border.
• Little Qiu assembled a Barrett and shot down the Owl-90 reconnaissance drone as it passed above the base.

The Tanzanian Lizard Mercenary Group advanced across the Chinese border to attack Liu Di’s camp, prompting Black Mountain and the injured Tian Luo Group members to rage at the incursion. Liu Di rushed out alone to confront the attackers, while Captain Hill ordered his 1,800 mercenaries forward despite warnings that the camp had intercepted their missiles.

• Black Mountain learned that Tanzanian mercenaries were advancing toward the camp, and Chi Mei and the injured Tian Luo Group members struggled to respond despite their weakened condition.
• Black Mountain armed the camp’s remaining logistics personnel and prepared to lead them against the enemy, while Little Qiu shot down incoming rockets before they could strike the base.
• Liu Di told Little Qiu to defend the airspace and Little Xia to protect the base, then leaped nearly a kilometer toward the forest and the approaching mercenaries.
• Heavenly Net detected 1,800 mercenaries supported by seven tanks and four armored vehicles, led by the scarred Captain Hill.
• Captain Hill fired four Stinger Missiles toward the camp, dismissed his communications soldier’s warning about the missile interceptions, and ordered his troops to cross the border and kill the Chinese soldiers.

Liu Di attacked the mercenary force alone, destroying tanks and killing hundreds while Magic Child disabled the remaining tanks. The newly awakened Tian Luo Group arrived, and Liu Di watched as its 283 C-Class warriors charged into battle against the surviving mercenaries.

• Scarface mistook Liu Di falling from the sky for a missile, but Liu Di crushed his head and threw the communications officer away.
• Liu Di tore the turret from an M1 tank to use as a shield, then destroyed an armored vehicle before leaping away from an armor-piercing shell.
• Magic Child hacked several tanks through satellites, and Liu Di used their wreckage as weapons while fighting through the mercenaries.
• Liu Di sensed 283 powerful enhanced humans approaching from the east and climbed a tree to watch them arrive.
• The Tian Luo Warriors declared that invaders of China's borders would die there, then charged the surviving mercenaries as Liu Di identified them all as C-Class enhanced humans.

Liu Di and Grandpa Tuo helped the Heavenly Net Group complete enhancement, and its 283 members destroyed the invading Tanzanian mercenaries. After the warriors pledged their loyalty to Liu Di, he prepared to leave with the radium while Grandpa Tuo stayed behind to observe them.

• The enhanced Heavenly Net Group charged the Tanzanian mercenaries and killed them all in ten minutes without suffering any injuries.
• Chi Mei searched the battlefield for Liu Di, who revealed himself unharmed from atop a tree, and Black Mountain thanked him for saving the group.
• Black Mountain and all 283 Heavenly Net Warriors saluted Liu Di, and Grizzly vowed that they would come to his aid whenever his message arrived.
• Liu Di asked Black Mountain to arrange radiation-proof transport for the radium and invited Grandpa Tuo to return with him, but Grandpa Tuo stayed to monitor the newly enhanced warriors.
• Grandpa Tuo told Liu Di that Hua Yang wanted the experimenters' names, and Liu Di whispered several titles for Grandpa Tuo to count.

After Liu Di returned to Sea City, the Tian Luo Group learned how he had defeated nearly a thousand mercenaries and set their sights on Kun Sang, the man who had once knocked Liu Di out in five seconds. Liu Di arrived at the Experimental Graveyard with Little Qiu and Little Liu, where he prepared to experiment with radioactive material as Kun Sang watched from nearby.

• Black Mountain and the Tian Luo Group realized Liu Di had fought through the mercenaries and destroyed their tanks before they arrived.
• Chi Mei and the Tian Luo Warriors vowed to train harder and challenge Kun Sang, while Black Mountain tried to stop them from going as a group.
• Kun Sang heard Liu Di's party arrive and grew wary of Little Qiu and the box she carried.
• Nan Ruoyi and Magic Child told Liu Di that Little Liu had repeatedly tried to activate the assembly line, and Liu Di decided the boy should stay with Sister Ruoyi during his experiments.
• A Tian Luo logistics team delivered a lead container of radioactive material, and Lisa Fei recognized the Tian Luo Group's emblem and questioned Liu Di about his connection to them.

Liu Di saw that reports and videos of augmented humans had suddenly spread across the internet, while Lisa Fei left to return to her FIC post. He suspected someone was deliberately preparing the public to accept augmented humans and wondered why the authorities allowed it.

• A Heavenly Net logistics soldier noticed Kun Sang in his tent, asked his name, and continued transporting radium after Kun Sang introduced himself.
• Lisa Fei told Liu Di that aggressive augmentation laboratories and FIC’s workload meant she had to return to her post.
• Liu Di read headlines about gene laboratories and augmented humans, then watched videos showing an Electric Man passing through a fence and a baseball-cap figure stopping a car to save a girl.
• Liu Di noticed that reports of augmented humans had flooded the internet during his three-day absence and suspected an unknown force was promoting them.
• Liu Di wondered why the authorities had allowed information that could cause public unrest to spread.

Liu Di built a Radiation Chamber and exposed himself to intense radium radiation to reshape his DNA and imitate Chain Bridge’s ability. The experiment only partially succeeded, but he gained faint control over Fluid Metal.

• Liu Di and Magic Child finished designing a Radiation Chamber, and Liu Di built it over four days.
• Liu Di placed Chain Bridge’s blood sample in the chamber and began reshaping his DNA toward New Human Stage Two using radium radiation.
• When Liu Di’s DNA changes stalled, he asked Magic Child to simulate Chain Bridge’s DNA, despite the danger to his body.
• After seventy seconds, Magic Child stopped the radiation, and Liu Di discovered he could move the Fluid Metal.
• Liu Di controlled the Fluid Metal, shaping it into a cone, blade, and shield with Chain Bridge’s metal control ability.

Liu Di discovered that radiation had awakened his limited ability to control metal, and he named the Fluid Metal bracelet Null. As Magic Child planned their next steps, Liu Di’s body grew dramatically stronger and hungrier, and he adopted a stray puppy exposed to radiation.

• Liu Di used his metal-control ability to shape Fluid Metal into a bracelet, named it Null, and found that he could barely move other metals.
• Magic Child identified Chernobyl and Fukushima as possible sources of radioactive materials and advised Liu Di to gain radiation resistance before exploring them.
• Magic Child arranged for Liu Di to travel to Fei Nation’s Luanda District to claim the Fluid Metal mine.
• Liu Di learned that his metabolism, lung capacity, and strength had increased greatly, leaving him ravenously hungry, so Magic Child ordered 120 deliveries.
• Liu Di found a stray puppy near the Radiation Chamber, welcomed it into his home, and shared his arriving food with it.

Liu Di left for Fei Nation after making a feeder for the stray dog, while Kun Sang’s ambush failed and Liu Di passed through airport security with Null hidden on his wrist. During the flight, Magic Child secretly enhanced Liu Di’s appearance, and Black and White Joker plotted revenge from the Experimental Graveyard.

• Liu Di made an automatic feeder for the stray dog, bandaged his wounds, and set out for the airport.
• Kun Sang attacked Liu Di with his metal bat, but Liu Di struck him with a black sphere and left him hanging from a tree with orders to watch the house.
• Liu Di triggered the airport metal detector, then concealed Null on his wrist and passed through security after the officer let him through.
• A woman on the plane praised Baseball Cap as a mysterious hero, then shyly asked Liu Di for his contact information; he politely declined.
• Magic Child revealed that it had used radiation energy to make Liu Di’s features more attractive, drawing the attention of flight attendants.
• Black and White Joker tore off his underdeveloped arm, vowed revenge on the person who kept him from his queen, and turned toward another half-developed body beside him.

Liu Di traveled to the remote village of Luxor in Fei Nation to survey a Fluid Metal mine. There, he met his local guide, Misha, and stunned her by speaking her village dialect fluently.

• Liu Di arrived in Luanda City and hired an old Mercedes-Benz and its young Black driver for the long trip to Luxor.
• The driver prayed to a plaque of Zu Bair, whom Liu Di recognized as a modified human worshipped as a saint after helping control a locust plague.
• Liu Di crossed the barren countryside as the car struggled along deteriorating roads and passed desperately poor villages.
• At dusk, Liu Di reached Luxor and met Misha, the local guide Magic Child had arranged for him.
• Misha greeted Liu Di in Chinese and English, and Liu Di surprised her by answering in the village dialect.

Liu Di and Misha found the Fluid Metal mine on her family's land, but Misha's father, Muda, refused to let them near it and tried to strike her. Liu Di stopped him and defended Misha, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Misha told Liu Di that the village called the black, cutting liquid Demon Blood and warned him of strange figures and roars in the mine.
• Misha led Liu Di to her family's farmland, where he sensed something like null beneath the mine's crude entrance.
• Muda scolded Misha for bringing Liu Di and raised a ruler to hit her when she defended her education and independence.
• Liu Di caught the ruler and offered to buy the land, but Muda condemned him and others who sought to sell Demon Blood.
• Misha led Liu Di outside, but Muda pursued them and ordered her back to cook.
• Liu Di turned on Muda, told him to respect Misha, and said she could build a better life beyond his control.

Liu Di accompanied Misha to the village ritual and recognized Master Debu’s “divine” display as a chemical trick used to exploit the villagers. He refused to kneel when Master Debu demanded it, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Misha told Liu Di she wanted to study agriculture at university but feared her father and village would prevent her from leaving.
• Misha took Liu Di to watch Master Debu’s ritual, where he used Pharaoh’s Serpent to convince the villagers that evil spirits were hidden in their soil.
• Master Debu demanded the villagers bring him their gold, silver, and jade so he could perform a ritual to make their land fertile.
• Master Debu ordered Liu Di and Misha to kneel, and Misha’s father scolded her for standing.
• Liu Di helped Misha stay upright and refused to kneel before Master Debu.