Chapter Summaries

Liu Di’s 283 warriors overwhelmed the Starweave forces and allied nations, then claimed they were the Kun Sang Hunting Squad rather than Heavenly Net. As the warriors asked Liu Di where Kun Sang was, he had yet to answer.

• Bertram surrendered, but Liu Di refused to spare him as Chi Mei ordered uninvolved parties to retreat and the 283 warriors charged.
• Liu Di told the warriors not to kill anyone and to collect blood from female modified humans; they swept through the battlefield and incapacitated the Starweave fighters.
• Liu Di stopped the foreigners and told them he would establish a new organization the next day, then ordered them to leave.
• Chi Mei told Cao Chenghe that the warriors were the Kun Sang Hunting Squad and that they owed Liu Di their lives.
• The Heavenly Net warriors complained that they had barely fought and asked Liu Di where Kun Sang was.

General Black Mountain went to the South China Sea to plead guilty for mobilizing X Heavenly Net, but learned that the imposing elder’s deeper concern was the secretive Apocalypse Association and China’s hidden capabilities. The elder offered Black Mountain a choice between retiring and openly revealing China’s strength, and Black Mountain prepared to surrender his general’s epaulets.

• General Black Mountain stood outside the imposing elder’s courtyard with branches tied to his back and admitted he had come to plead guilty.
• A man in a black suit reported something to the imposing elder, who summoned Black Mountain inside and questioned why he had given X Heavenly Net a long vacation.
• Black Mountain explained that he had acted because Liu Di had asked for help, but the imposing elder said the real danger was the Apocalypse Association and its advanced technology.
• The imposing elder revealed that he had concealed Heavenly Net and sent Dragon Might to investigate the Apocalypse Association, but Black Mountain and Cao Chenghe had disrupted his plans.
• The imposing elder offered Black Mountain the choice of retiring or openly revealing China’s capabilities and risking a confrontation with the Apocalypse Association.
• Black Mountain reached into his chest and took out the general’s epaulets he had brought to surrender.

Black Mountain surrendered his honors after the Tian Luo Group’s public battle exposed it, but the chief secretly reorganized its soldiers as Yi Tian Luo to fight the Doomsday Association. Black Mountain left with a new mission and a poem urging him to find the heroes of the present.

• Black Mountain handed the chief his two three-star shoulder insignias, and the chief said the Tian Luo Group should be disbanded.
• The chief gave Black Mountain a black X medal and ordered the group’s 283 soldiers to become Yi Tian Luo, operate in secret, and investigate the Doomsday Association.
• Black Mountain accepted the mission, and the chief told him that Savior was alive and staying at Xiuxiang Mountain.
• The chief stopped Black Mountain from taking the wintersweet branches, which he had mistaken for dead branches.
• Black Mountain returned the branches, reflected on the wintersweet’s resilience, and read the chief’s poem about finding great heroes in the present.

Liu Di brought 283 modified Tian Luo Warriors to Kun Sang, who had been falsely portrayed as an invincible master, and they challenged him to fight. Liu Di arranged to delay the fight until the next day, leaving Kun Sang preparing to flee rather than accept Liu Di’s offer of a risky modification.

• Chi Mei revealed that the Tian Luo Warriors had located Kun Sang at a white building, and Liu Di led them to his home while promising Cao Chenghe access to Rubik’s Cube modification technology.
• Kun Sang mistook the approaching Tian Luo Warriors for Liu Di’s lackeys until they identified him from a photograph and challenged him to a fight to the death.
• Liu Di persuaded the warriors to wait one night so Kun Sang could recover, then arranged an extravagant seafood feast for them.
• Liu Di pushed Kun Sang into the Experimental Graveyard, where Kun Sang thanked him and began packing to escape.
• Liu Di offered to modify Kun Sang, warning that success might give him a chance to fight the 283 C-class warriors, but Kun Sang chose to keep packing.

Liu Di used a fifth-order Rubik’s Cube to heal and strengthen Kun Sang, who emerged boasting of his newfound power. They found Heavenly Net’s 283 soldiers had departed on General Black Mountain’s orders, leaving a challenge from Chi Mei and a butterfly specimen for Little Qiu.

• Liu Di knocked Kun Sang unconscious, placed him in a metal chamber, and used a fifth-order Rubik’s Cube to enhance him while speaking with the envoy as Di Wu.
• After seven hours, Kun Sang emerged healed and stronger, claiming his strength, speed, and perception had reached unprecedented levels.
• Liu Di urged Kun Sang to test himself against the 283 Heavenly Net soldiers, but they found the Experimental Graveyard’s exterior empty.
• Liu Di read a note explaining that General Black Mountain had ordered the soldiers to assemble immediately.
• Kun Sang found Chi Mei’s taunt challenging him to a fight, while Liu Di discovered Chi Mei had left a butterfly specimen as a gift for Little Qiu.

Liu Di prepared to establish an internationally neutral augmented human organization and gathered representatives of major powers to seek their approval. He declared that the organization would answer to no country and that he would set its own rules and punish anyone who defied him.

• Kun Sang bragged about his new strength and challenged Liu Di, but Liu Di knocked him into the woods and ordered him to carry out a mission.
• Liu Di gave Kun Sang a black trench coat and sent him to wait near the Haijing Line for further orders.
• Cao Chenghe warned Liu Di that gaining approval from the world's twenty-seven major powers would be difficult, but Liu Di said he had prepared everything the previous night.
• Liu Di and Chinese officials met with Bertram, representatives from six allied nations, and other country representatives by video conference.
• Bertram accused China of using its strength to support Liu Di, but Liu Di declared his organization internationally neutral and promised to enforce its own rules.

Liu Di revealed that the Punisher, backed by Creator Group and Witness Group, had ample funding and an independent base in international waters. He left the Allied Nations’ representatives stunned as the Sea Phantom island arrived, towed by three giant cargo ships.

• Liu Di announced that he would establish the Punisher without relying on any country, then revealed Creator Group and Witness Group’s pledge of at least one trillion in funding.
• Liu Di told the gathering that Emperor San was his identity and said the Punisher’s base was already on its way.
• Liu Di revealed the Sea Phantom, a floating island outside China’s territorial waters, being towed by the Poseidon, Queen, and Taishan.
• Bertram called the Poseidon’s owner to order the ship recalled, but was told that Divine Person Di Wu’s order had to be obeyed.
• Bertram was left speechless after the caller dismissed him as a mere mortal and hung up.

Liu Di revealed the vast support behind his new base, while Bertram challenged his organization’s technology and legitimacy. Liu Di then showed footage of a sabotaged tanker train and Iron Mask’s staged rescue, which was interrupted by a mysterious, exceptionally fast figure.

• Liu Di welcomed five cargo ships, hundreds of workers, construction equipment, and transport helicopters as they arrived to build his island base.
• Bertram recognized prominent international businesspeople and technical experts among the arrivals, then accused Liu Di of lacking technology and relying on Dragon Might.
• Liu Di played surveillance footage showing a tanker train catching fire and its brakes failing near Sea City.
• The footage shifted to Iron Mask posing for reporters before rushing toward the burning train as they broadcast his rescue attempt.
• A mysterious black-clad figure raced past Iron Mask and left him far behind.

Black-Clad stopped a runaway train carrying blazing diesel tankers and survived their explosion, revealing himself as a powerful member of the Punisher Organization. His televised rescue stunned Sea City's officials, while Duan Hua suspected Liu Di was behind the appearance.

• Iron Mask rescued the train drivers but failed to stop the runaway locomotive, which continued toward Sea City's urban district.
• Black-Clad lifted the two burning tanker cars away from the locomotive, leaving it to derail and pin Iron Mask beneath it.
• Black-Clad carried the tankers into a pond, where they exploded, then emerged unharmed and introduced himself as a member of the Punisher Organization.
• Black-Clad began boasting to the reporters until Liu Di told him to stop, and he vanished before breaking down in tears over how cool he had looked.
• Cao Chenghe realized Liu Di's Rubik's Cube could create powerful experts, while Duan Hua questioned why Black-Clad had appeared when he had previously suspected Liu Di was posing as him.

Liu Di secured approval for the Punisher from nineteen countries, then won Fei Nation’s signature after its commander recognized him as Saint Hou Ji. European Nation’s leader refused to sign, but Emperor Four appeared on his screen with a threat to destroy the White House if he wrote a refusal.

• Liu Di revealed Black-Clad’s footage, prompting Fei Nation’s Saint Zu Bair to reconsider the Saint inheritance and leaving Starweave CEO Bertram alarmed.
• Cao Chenghe and representatives from eighteen other countries approved the Punisher, bringing its signatures to nineteen while Bertram insisted Liu Di still needed twenty-seven.
• Fei Nation hesitated because of European Nation’s influence, but General Malo recognized Liu Di as Saint Hou Ji, Fei Nation’s benefactor, and signed the agreement.
• Bertram and representatives of the six Allied Nations refused to support the Punisher unless European Nation agreed.
• European Nation leader Leip rejected Liu Di’s proposal and prepared to write “NO,” but Emperor Four appeared on his screen and threatened to level the White House within ten minutes.

Liu Di secured unanimous approval from twenty-seven nations for the Punisher Cyborg Organization, leaving Bertram and the allied representatives bewildered and afraid. After declaring himself Emperor Five, Liu Di departed while Bertram’s deputy Lawson drove off without him.

• After seeing a message on the computer, Leip panicked, signed the assent, and pressured the six Allied Nations to sign as well.
• The representatives of all six Allied Nations signed, giving Liu Di unanimous approval to establish the Punisher as an internationally recognized organization.
• Liu Di refused to explain what had happened, then gave his name and declared that he would use the name Emperor Five in the cyborg era.
• Leip told Bertram to cooperate with Liu Di and ended the call, while Lawson murmured “Oracle” after hearing Liu Di’s title.
• Liu Di told Lawson to make sure Bertram suffered whenever he was unhappy, then left the scene.
• Bertram ordered Lawson to bring the car, but Lawson drove away in the sedan and left him behind.

Bertram and the Allied Nations plotted to assassinate Black-Clad and destroy Sea Phantom Island, while Liu Di continued developing Punisher’s base and arranged modifications for Dragon Might and the Haishi Special Operations Team. Ghost Island neared completion as the world watched its advanced construction, but its workers kept its secrets.

• Bertram promised the Allied Nations modification technology and urged them to send B+ modified humans to Starweave so he could create a C+ team to assassinate Black-Clad.
• The Island Nation representative proposed using an underwater specialist to attack Sea Phantom Island, and Korea’s organization offered to smuggle in C4 bombs; the others agreed to the plan.
• Liu Di continued building Sea Phantom Island and told Cao Chenghe and Duan Hua to wait while Yan Qingwen restarted Project M-69 and Liu kept Punisher separate from the teams modified through Yingzhi Group.
• Five days later, Liu Di told Cao Chenghe and Duan Hua that Yingzhi Group was ready and had received third-tier Rubik’s Cube technology; Dragon Might and the Haishi Special Operations Team each selected ten members for modification.
• Ghost Island took shape as a radar-undetectable technological city with a nuclear reactor and massive thrusters, drawing worldwide attention while private maritime security teams kept visitors away.
• The workers and companies involved in Ghost Island’s construction refused to reveal information, telling inquiries that matters of the Divine Realm were not open for disclosure.

Liu Di welcomed a group of recruits to Ghost Island and erased their identities before using his Modification Pods to enhance them. As the pods opened, Xiao Tang discovered that their strength had reached unprecedented levels, with one boy surpassing the tester’s limit.

• Liu Di gave Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Nuan Dong precision equipment, then welcomed recruits who had answered his call to join the Punishers.
• Liu Di erased the recruits’ online and official identities and brought them to Ghost Island by helicopter.
• Liu Di assigned the recruits to Modification Pods with different-level Rubik’s Cubes, while Kun Sang was barred from undergoing another modification because his body had not recovered.
• Xiao Tang arrived to record the results and questioned Liu Di’s modification methods, but he told her to document the Punishers’ strength.
• After three hours, the pods opened and Xiao Tang’s tester registered recruits at D-Class and E-Class strength.
• The tester crashed when Xiao Tang measured a boy whose combat power exceeded its range.

Black-Clad rescued civilians from a burning building, then evaded seven enhanced humans sent to kill him. Tie Si of the Punisher ambushed the attackers and killed all seven.

• Punishment Chronicle livestreamed Black-Clad rescuing civilians trapped in a burning Sea City building.
• The livestream revealed seven masked C-Class enhanced humans plotting to kill Black-Clad after he left the scene.
• Black-Clad lured the seven pursuers to an empty street, then disappeared when he said he had to leave for Fei Nation.
• Tie Si appeared and identified himself as a member of the Punisher.
• Tie Si killed all seven masked men in the rain.

After Tie Si killed seven C-Class killers, Bertram ordered the Torpedo Plan to begin, sending Water Snake and four divers to destroy the Punishers’ offshore base. Tu Yuan and Tie San stopped the attackers, leaving Ghost Island safe for the moment.

• Tie Si killed seven C-Class killers, and Bertram ordered the Torpedo Plan executed.
• Water Snake and four divers carrying explosives set out to demolish the Punishers’ offshore island.
• Drones livestreamed the divers’ approach as Water Snake sped through the sea toward Ghost Island.
• Tu Yuan attacked Water Snake underwater, drove his head into the seafloor, and removed the explosives.
• Tie San fired his Shark Gun from a speedboat, killing Water Snake’s four companions as they surfaced.

Punishment Chronicle exposed and punished several international organizations for human experimentation, animal abuse, and bullying small countries, while the six Allied Nations distanced themselves from the crimes. Starweave CEO Bertram fled overseas, but the Chronicle announced that Starweave was next.

• Bertram and the six Allied Nations stayed silent after the Punisher executed their agents, and no one publicly objected.
• Tie Sanshi San destroyed Ishii Biochemical Company's poison gas research and killed its researchers.
• Cupcake freed the animals at Australia's Gene Research Institute, which then attacked the researchers.
• Le Long defeated the superhumans threatening Liechtenstein's president and helped expose Lion and War Eagle's attempt to seize the country's oil fields.
• The six Allied Nations disavowed the criminal organizations as their reputations collapsed, and Bertram booked a flight overseas.
• Punishment Chronicle announced that Starweave was next.

Punishment Chronicle exposed Starweave’s role in staging disasters and manufacturing heroic rescues, while Sun Dongming told a subordinate to leave Creator, Gemini, and Punisher alone. Sun Dongming waited to see what Punisher would do next.

• Punishment Chronicle released surveillance footage showing a foreigner build a device, pay a bridge worker, and arrange the device’s installation before Huihai Bridge collapsed.
• The video identified Robin Hall of Starweave’s technical department and revealed a resonance-device blueprint among his encrypted files.
• The footage exposed Starweave’s hiring of the Yingjie Primary School robbers and its orchestration of other disasters to make its heroes look good.
• Angry netizens condemned Starweave, tore down its heroes’ posters, and caused Penguin’s stock price to plummet, leaving Teng Hualong regretful about hiring Skywalker.
• Sun Dongming’s subordinate prepared materials to summon Gemini Stage over its violations, but Sun told him to ignore Creator, Gemini, and Punisher and await Punisher’s next move.

Starweave’s executives tried to escape responsibility, but Bertram returned with E-Class Modification Technology and ordered four heroes enhanced to fight Punisher. On the island, Liu Di prepared Kun Sang for a staged rescue, while Xiao Tang’s upgraded detector revealed that Liu Di’s modification level reached A4 before her machine exploded.

• Starweave and the European Nation blamed rogue employees and recalled their heroes, angering the surrounding crowd and leaving everyone waiting for Punisher’s next move.
• Bertram arrived at Starweave’s conference room with his right arm severed and ordered Skywalker, Iron Mask, Iron Rhino, and Witch enhanced using E-Class Modification Technology.
• Liu Di instructed Kun Sang to bring a sinking ship ashore and make a dramatic appearance, then told him to enter the city and show off.
• Liu Di apologized to Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter for failing to find the people who had caused their disabilities, and Little Xia recalled their leader’s mechanical-sounding voice.
• Xiao Tang tested Little Xia’s strength with her upgraded detector, then scanned Liu Di and saw the reading reach A4 before the device short-circuited and exploded.

Bertram announced that Starweave had created E-Class Cyborgs, but Iron Mask’s rampage at a bank ended when Little Xia effortlessly defeated and killed him. Little Xia identified himself as Punisher, Xia, leaving Starweave’s supposed advantage shattered before the world.

• Iron Rhino and Iron Mask completed their modifications as E-Class Cyborgs, and Bertram sent them out to wipe out Punisher once the others finished.
• Bertram announced Starweave’s E-Class Cyborgs, giving nations hope that they could defeat Punisher.
• Iron Mask took hostages at a Sea City bank and demanded that Black-Clad appear, while Duan Hua ordered a sniper to shoot him.
• Iron Mask dodged the sniper round and threatened the hostages, claiming his E-Class strength made him invulnerable.
• Little Xia entered the bank, overwhelmed Iron Mask with a barrage of punches, and crushed his skull after declaring that Iron Mask’s third wrong was being alive.
• Little Xia walked away and introduced himself as Punisher, Xia.

The Punisher, Chun, rescued a young woman from Iron Rhino, whose enhancement technology had intensified his lust and driven him to attack her. Chun killed Iron Rhino and revealed her identity as the Punisher.

• Punishment Chronicle livestreamed Chun entering Iron Rhino's villa and finding him assaulting a young woman.
• Chun freed the woman and reset her dislocated shoulders while Iron Rhino threatened them.
• Iron Rhino explained that Starweave's enhancement technology had intensified his desires, then revealed his new muscle-control ability and claimed ordinary bullets could not hurt him.
• Chun used the blade attached to her mechanical leg to slice Iron Rhino apart.
• Chun led the terrified woman away and told her not to look back before identifying herself as the Punisher, Chun.