Chapter Summaries

Liu Di took Pang Bo and Little Liu from the bridge accident while Dragon Might members arrived to help with rescue efforts. At Starweave Group headquarters, Bertram ordered Lawson to begin the risky mutation plan, believing it was necessary to keep Starweave ahead of Black Windbreaker.

• Pang Bo called Liu Di his dad, and Little Liu clarified that he was not Liu Di's biological son either.
• Ji Baiwei assumed Liu Di was pursuing the children and rebuked him before leaving to join the rescue.
• Liu Di examined a fragment of high-density metal and learned it had likely come from a machine that exploded from the inside.
• Bertram tore up Starweave's apology speech after Black Windbreaker saved the bridge victims and overshadowed the Starweave Heroes.
• Bertram ordered Lawson to start the mutation plan immediately, arguing that Starweave could use it to create eight C-Class enhanced humans.

Videos of the Black Windbreaker's bridge rescue went viral, drawing public adoration and alarming governments and enhanced-human organizations with evidence of his unprecedented strength. Fos added him to its Hero List as Black-Clad and raised him to fourth place, while the mysterious Savior remained untouchable at number one.

• Videos of the Black Windbreaker's rescue spread across the internet, and Chinese viewers embraced him as a local hero.
• News reports spread as experts estimated his strength at at least 150 tons and classified him as a C-Class enhanced human.
• Foreign governments asked China whether the Black Windbreaker belonged to them, and Chinese officials replied, "Classified!"
• Fos executives named the unknown hero Black-Clad and placed him twentieth on the Fos Hero List.
• After Black-Clad gained hundreds of millions of supporters, Fos moved him to fourth place, ahead of Starweave's Iron Mask.
• Fos kept Savior at number one because the International Alliance Council had required it and senior staff had seen a top-secret file.

Liu Di brought Pang Bo home, returned to the Experimental Graveyard to advance the Rubik’s Cube research, and went to Starweave Hero Academy for the first team gathering. The Huaxia and International teams were set against each other, and Purple Moon began training by forcefully punishing a disrespectful recruit.

• Liu Di took Pang Bo to Cheng Manor, where Pang Bo reunited with his father, Cheng Long, and asked him to have his mother take him to school the next day.
• Back at the Experimental Graveyard, Liu Di checked the sixth-stage Rubik’s Cube deduction and ordered Magic Child to buy advanced instruments for a new research setup.
• Purple Moon messaged Liu Di that the first Starweave Hero Academy squad had assembled and told him to report to the base the next morning.
• At the academy gathering, Liu Di found the recruits split into a Huaxia team and an International Team, with the rich heir who had bought his registration among the international recruits.
• Purple Moon announced that the teams would compete for the right to receive modifications, then lifted a leering blond recruit by the throat and threw him to the floor after warning him to show respect.

Purple Moon had the trainees introduce themselves, and the Huaxia team endured mockery from the International Team. Liu Di challenged Lan Zuoren after the latter showed off his martial arts, leaving Tu Yuan trying to stop a fight.

• Wei Zhengxiang introduced himself as Tu Yuan, and Cupcake, Tie Sanshi San, Le Long, and Jian Xu followed with their introductions.
• Lan Zuoren mocked Liu Di for barely passing the tests, but Liu Di answered that he had still made the Huaxia team.
• A young man from the European Nation demonstrated his ability to control electric currents and revealed that Electric Arc was his older brother.
• Lan Zuoren introduced himself as a martial artist from the Lan family and demonstrated Lan Style Tai Chi.
• Liu Di criticized Lan Zuoren for joining the International Team, and Lan Zuoren threatened to eliminate him in a fight.
• Liu Di accepted the challenge, but Tu Yuan grabbed his arm and urged him not to cause trouble.

Liu Di and the Huaxia team learned that their Starweave Hero Academy training was part of a covert struggle between Starweave and the Huaxia War Department. The team agreed to continue, while Liu Di asked how they could speed through selection, and Purple Moon explained that all three assessments were mandatory.

• The International Team introduced its members, and Lennard greeted the Huaxia team; Liu Di noticed a Joker tattoo and felt Lennard probe his brainwaves.
• Magic Child found that Lennard had once been an ordinary teacher, recovered from a long coma, and stayed at the same hospital where Kofi had been hidden.
• Purple Moon revealed that she represented the Huaxia War Department and that the team was meant to pass Starweave’s assessments to learn its modification technology.
• Tu Yuan, Cupcake, Le Long, and Jian Xu said they were willing to take part, while Liu Di asked if they could defeat the International Team outright.
• Purple Moon told Liu Di that the three assessments—physical enhancement, combat testing, and facing disasters—could not be skipped.

Iron Rhino’s attempt to award medals to the Huaxia team ended in rejection, while Purple Moon introduced the Haishi Special Operations Team as their combat trainers. The team’s commander recognized Liu Di in the gym and spat out his tea.

• Iron Rhino offered academy medals to the Huaxia team, but Tie Sanshi, Tu Yuan, Girl Cupcake, and Liu Di refused them and professed their support for Black-Clad.
• Iron Rhino left in disgrace, privately blaming Black-Clad and vowing to make the students’ upcoming training difficult.
• Liu Di joked with Liao Long about his exchange with Iron Rhino, and Purple Moon warned the students that their combat skills needed work.
• Purple Moon announced that the Huaxia team would train with the Haishi Special Operations Team, whose elderly commander entered the gym with thirty soldiers.
• The commander spotted Liu Di’s faintly glowing purple eye and sprayed tea from his mouth.

Duan Hua recognized Liu Di at the academy and proposed that the Huaxia team challenge the International Team, hoping to secure access to Starweave's technology. Liu Di agreed and set off with the others, then told his mother he might graduate the next day.

• Duan Hua was shocked to find Liu Di among Purple Moon's students and suggested defeating the International Team to obtain direct admission.
• Tu Yuan, Cupcake, Daoist Jian Xu, and Tie Sanshi doubted that the Huaxia team could beat the International Team, but Liu Di agreed to fight.
• Duan Hua declared the challenge settled and led the reluctant Huaxia team toward the International Team's training center.
• Liu Di decided that the challenge would help him investigate Starweave and assist the China officials.
• Liu Di's mother called to check on him, and he told her he had passed the test and might graduate the next day.

Duan Hua brought the Huaxia team to watch the Cobra Unit train and clashed with its commander, General Carmen, his old rival. Carmen refused a fight before Starweave’s third test and insulted China’s physique, so Duan Hua angrily cursed him in Chinese.

• Duan Hua led the Huaxia team into a swimming pool venue, where Black Jack and Cobra Unit members demonstrated their strength by sparring underwater.
• Duan Hua confronted General Carmen, and the two recalled their past rivalries in international military competitions.
• Duan Hua challenged Carmen, then clarified that the Huaxia team wanted to challenge the International Team immediately.
• Carmen said Starweave’s rules barred students from fighting before the third test and insulted the Huaxia team’s physique and Chinese bloodline.
• Duan Hua said he was uneducated, then shouted a string of insults at Carmen in Chinese.

Duan Hua provoked Carmen into arranging a fight between the Huaxia and International teams inside an empty teaching building, with the Cobra Unit entering under the guise of protecting the trainees. Liu Di led the Huaxia team inside, leaving Purple Moon worried about the escalating contest.

• Duan Hua insulted Carmen in Chinese, and Carmen accepted his challenge to have the International Team crush the Huaxia team.
• Carmen chose a five-story teaching building as the battleground and said the team with more trainees walking out would win.
• Carmen proposed sending personnel inside to protect the trainees, while Duan Hua appointed Tu Yuan to the Haishi Special Operations Team and challenged the Cobra Unit to send all its members.
• Duan Hua promised to publicly declare the Special Operations Team inferior if Cobra defeated Tu Yuan, and Carmen agreed to send his entire unit.
• Liu Di dismissed Purple Moon's attempt to report the contest and led the Huaxia team into the building; Tie Sanshi urged the others not to retreat.
• Carmen ordered the Cobra Unit to protect the trainees, especially Tu Yuan, while Duan Hua calmly settled in outside to await the result.

Carmen ordered Cobra to use level-four force against the Huaxia trainees, while Jian Xu organized the Huaxia team to defend the fifth floor. As fighting shook the building, Liu Di vanished from the room and the conflict’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Carmen ordered all Cobra personnel to use level-four drill intensity and claimed their strength-enhancing drug would give them an advantage over Duan Hua’s Special Operations Team.
• Jian Xu assigned the Huaxia trainees roles after Cupcake’s scouting beads detected fifty-nine opponents on the first floor.
• Jian Xu drew his sword and told Liu Di to stay behind, but Liu Di had already disappeared from the room.
• A blast shook the building, and Cupcake reported that three enemies had fallen from the second floor.
• Carmen boasted about Cobra’s drug as more impacts shook the building, while Purple Moon worried about her trainees.

Liu Di single-handedly battered Cobra Unit members through the teaching building, demolishing it floor by floor. The structure finally collapsed into dust, leaving a dirt-covered little fatty insisting the destruction had nothing to do with him.

• Jian Xu kept the Huaxia team on the fifth floor as Liu Di's rapid attacks shook the building and demolished its lower floors.
• Liu Di reached Lan Zuoren, knocked him unconscious, and then turned his attention to Black Jack as the third floor collapsed.
• Jian Xu realized Liu Di was the lone attacker and ordered the Huaxia team to protect themselves and keep the expert's identity confidential.
• Duan Hua reminded Carmen that Carmen had proposed fighting inside the building, while Purple Moon urged Carmen to stop the match; Carmen's radio received only static.
• Liu Di's assault brought down the remaining floors, and a dust-covered little fatty looked at his instructor and claimed he had nothing to do with it.

Liu Di was revealed as the one who had defeated the International Team and Cobra Unit, then left the campus while Carmen and the Huaxia team reacted to the destruction. Outside the gate, Liu Di discovered that Teacher Ji Anyi had called him 137 times.

• Carmen demanded to know who had taken down his soldiers, while the Huaxia team members denied doing it.
• A collapsing wall exposed Liu Di holding a Cobra soldier, and he claimed he knew nothing about the battle.
• Purple Moon suspected Liu Di had defeated the International Team and fifty Cobra soldiers alone, while Lennard remarked on his physique.
• Liu Di told Purple Moon to contact him about his graduation certificate, asked Duan Hua about the cleanup, and walked out of the campus.
• Duan Hua mocked Carmen and ordered his subordinates to announce that a chubby cook had defeated the Cobra special forces single-handedly, causing Carmen to faint.
• Outside the main gate, Liu Di saw 137 missed calls from Teacher Ji Anyi and panicked.

Little Liu caused chaos across Yingjie Education by mastering its curricula and provoking staff, forcing Liu Di to use Witnesses’ takeover of the group to keep him enrolled. That night, Ji Anyi told her sister Ji Baiwei about Little Liu’s extraordinary academic feats.

• Liu Di reviewed surveillance showing Little Liu disrupting classes and alarming educators across Yingjie while students joined a school-wide strike.
• Liu Di arrived at Yingjie Primary School, where the principal announced that Little Liu had graduated and been expelled.
• Liu Di ordered Heidina to use Witnesses’ newly acquired control of Yingjie Education to secure Little Liu’s place at the school.
• The principal made Little Liu student representative and primary division student council president, with guaranteed admission to the group’s later divisions, and asked him to finish the term.
• Liu Di ordered Little Liu to return to school the next day, and Little Liu called him Violent Bear.
• That night, Ji Anyi told Ji Baiwei that Little Liu had completed primary, middle school, high school, and seventeen university majors in a single day.

Ji Anyi and Ji Baiwei compared stories about a troublesome genius boy and a destructive trainee, wondering if the two Liu troublemakers were related. Liu Di confronted the little boy over his behavior and sent him back to school under strict conditions, though the boy’s criticism left Liu Di reconsidering his own views.

• Ji Anyi told Ji Baiwei how a gifted little boy challenged professors, disrupted school, and earned the nickname Liu the Challenger.
• Ji Baiwei described her trainee Liu the Demolisher, who injured the International Group and Cobra Unit members and tore down a five-story office building.
• The sisters joked that the two Liu troublemakers might be father and son, then agreed to help their talented students.
• At the Experimental Graveyard, Liu Di confronted the little boy, who said he acted out because he disliked school and felt his inventions were dismissed.
• The little boy accused Liu Di of hiding behind rules, and Liu Di ordered him to return to school, promising to monitor him and allow him to skip a grade if he behaved.
• After the boy returned to his room, Liu Di privately admitted that the four-year-old’s criticism had some merit.

Qiu Beiming tracked his missing child to Liu Di and rushed to Sea City to confront him. At Yingjie Primary School, Pang Bo introduced Liu Di to his beautiful mother, who said she wanted to talk privately about Liu Di’s situation.

• Qiu Beiming hypnotized a student at Petersburg Medical College and learned that a helicopter carrying the number LD000001 had visited the burned genetics laboratory.
• Qiu Beiming discovered that the helicopter belonged to Liu Di, blamed him for taking his child, and hurried to Sea City.
• Liu Di drove the silent little boy to Yingjie Primary School and arranged for Lisa Fei to pick him up that evening.
• Pang Bo introduced Liu Di to his mother and joked that he would take Liu Di as his dad, while Little Liu insisted Liu Di was not his father.
• Pang Bo’s mother told Liu Di she had come because of his situation and suggested they find somewhere private to talk.

Ye Yun used her supposed face-reading skills to warn Liu Di that a calamity would befall him in thirty days, matching the countdown on his pendant. As Liu Di learned that Starweave’s second team was confronting the Huaxia students, Starweave CEO Bertram gathered foreign allies to showcase a C5 modified human and promote Mr. Leip’s hostility toward China.

• Ye Yun revealed that she knew Liu Di was the Black-Clad Hero through Pang Bo and warned him that disaster would strike in thirty days.
• Liu Di checked his black water-drop pendant and saw that its countdown ended exactly thirty days later.
• Purple Moon told Liu Di that Starweave’s second batch of international team members was confronting the Huaxia team and that fighting was about to break out.
• Representatives from six countries gathered at a classified experimental center to see Starweave’s C5 modified human.
• Bertram claimed Starweave’s technology would make its allies superior and said Mr. Leip wanted them to oppose China.

Bertram revealed Starweave’s newly upgraded C-Class cyborg, Count, to the assembled nations and claimed he could suppress China’s young talents. Count swiftly defeated two Island Nation B+ cyborgs, then challenged everyone else to attack him together.

• The Island Nation and several other countries agreed to sign Bertram’s alliance against China, while the Germany and Italy Lion Organization’s leader remained cautious.
• Bertram claimed that Count had undergone a successful C-Class upgrade and showed him emerging from the chamber.
• Count awakened and stepped out, terrifying the gathered leaders with his size and power.
• The Island Nation’s Musashi brothers attacked Count, who seized them and hurled them through a wall.
• A B9 fighter from the Germany and Italy Lion Organization challenged Count, who invited everyone to fight him at once.

Count lost control after Starweave’s experiment and slaughtered the enhanced humans at the research facility before escaping. He attacked Liu Di, who killed him with one punch, while Bertram’s guests discovered Count’s body and Bertram fainted.

• Count ignored Bertram’s orders and killed more than twenty enhanced humans at Starweave’s research facility before smashing through a wall to escape.
• Bertram learned from Lawson that FIC was already on its way, then ordered everyone to evacuate because radioactive material threatened to leak.
• Liu Di noticed that Little Liu had received zero points on an essay titled “My Father,” then encountered Count in an alley.
• Count attacked Liu Di, who struck him with enough force to kill him and destroy his head and shoulder.
• Liu Di turned his car toward a nearby radiation source, while Starweave’s guests found Count’s corpse and Bertram fainted.

FIC took credit for Count’s sudden death, and Robbins later suspected that Di Liu had killed him. Robbins ordered Agent Lisa to be contacted.

• The international visitors mistook FIC’s newly arrived team for the ones who had killed Count and praised FIC’s weapons and strength.
• Robbins instructed his team to claim that FIC’s photon guns had defeated Count and to keep the real circumstances secret.
• Back at the Sea City branch, Robbins reviewed the team’s footage and spotted a black sedan at the scene.
• Robbins magnified a reflection in the sedan’s windshield and recognized a purple glow near the driver’s right eye, recalling Di Liu.
• Robbins concluded Di Liu might have killed Count and shouted for Agent Lisa to be contacted.

Liu Di broke into Starweave’s experimental site and found the aftermath of a modified human’s rampage, along with a huge stockpile of highly concentrated polonium-210. As he removed the radioactive material, his DNA and Droplet Pendant reacted, but he found no information about Starweave’s other plans or his father.

• Liu Di had Magic Child disable nearby surveillance and jam Sea City’s emergency lines before he entered the experimental site.
• Liu Di found the facility full of corpses and damaged equipment, then discovered two leaking lead cylinders of polonium-210.
• Liu Di’s DNA began changing near the radiation, while he sensed a force stirring inside the Droplet Pendant.
• Liu Di opened a sealed room and found ten more lead containers of polonium-210, which he decided to take away from Starweave.
• Liu Di searched the facility’s computer but found only outdated research on radiation-modified humans and no clues about Starweave’s other schemes or his father.