Chapter Summaries

As Starweave’s heroes fell to the Punishers, Witch emerged from her Modification Pod at E9 strength but lost control and set the building ablaze. Nuan Dong and Han Dong arrived, and Han Dong began crushing Witch together with the fire and debris pulled toward her.

• Bertram watched the livestream as Punisher Xia and Punisher Chun killed Starweave’s heroes, then learned Witch’s modification had reached 100% and E9 strength.
• Witch melted her Modification Pod, lost control, and ignited the laboratory, killing a worker who tried to stop her.
• Skywalker emerged from his pod, saw the livestream, and fled through the skylight instead of answering Bertram.
• Nuan Dong and Han Dong descended into the burning building, while the livestream revealed that Witch had murdered three teammates to qualify for modification.
• Nuan Dong retreated as the building burned, and Han Dong used a magnetic field to pull Witch, the flames, and debris into a sphere, then began compressing it.

Han Dong and Nuan Dong destroyed Starweave, while Punishment Chronicle exposed Skywalker’s crimes and launched a pursuit across the Russian border. Three Punishers cornered and killed Skywalker in the snow, and Tie San identified the sniper Qiu as his master.

• Han Dong contained the explosion that killed Witch, and he and Nuan Dong left as Starweave’s building collapsed into ruins.
• Punishment Chronicle revealed Skywalker’s past crimes and announced that Punisher would pursue him after he fled.
• Electric Arc survived the destruction, rescued the barely breathing Bertram, and escaped with him.
• Twelve hours later, Tie San, Jian Xu, and Qiu reached the snowy Russian border to hunt Skywalker.
• Jian Xu ignited millions of talismans to melt the snow, and Qiu shot Skywalker as he tried to take flight.
• Tie San recognized Qiu as his master and praised her unmatched sniping skills.

After the Punishers wiped out most evil modification organizations worldwide, Liu Di considered who had created them on Ghost Island. Electric Arc then arrived to challenge the island, and Liu Di prepared to fight him with a Fluid Metal dagger.

• The Punishers continued destroying modification organizations that violated humanitarian principles, and Punishment Chronicle announced that anyone who crossed their new red line would be executed.
• People began wondering who led the Punishers and heard rumors that Ghost Island workers called him Di Wu.
• Liu Di sat on Ghost Island's shore while the Punishers waited behind him, and he said he would kill Electric Arc for injuring Nuan Dong.
• Electric Arc charged across the sea with an electric spear, and Liu Di formed a dagger from Fluid Metal drawn from the Droplet Pendant.
• Xiao Tang watched eagerly as Liu Di faced Electric Arc, though Liu Di frowned at how small his dagger looked beside the spear.

Liu Di’s group defeated Electric Arc with a hidden turret, then prepared to welcome Fei Nation’s delegation to Ghost Island. Commander Malo arrived with Fei Nation’s head of state, Leopold, and Saint Hou Ji, leaving Kun Sang startled by the beautiful guest.

• Liu Di transformed Fluid Metal into a giant sword, but a turret Little Liu had repaired fired first and killed Electric Arc.
• Liu Di reprimanded Little Liu for repairing the unfinished turret and told Lisa Fei to send him back to the Experimental Graveyard.
• Kun Sang arrived from Fei Nation, and Liu Di revealed that he expected Kun Sang to meet a beautiful international guest who might love him.
• Kun Sang protested that he would remain loyal to Pola, then hid his black trench coat and insisted he was not Black-Clad.
• Commander Malo arrived on Ghost Island with Saint Hou Ji and Fei Nation’s head of state, Leopold, and introduced Leopold to Liu Di.

Emperor Leopold visited Liu Di to thank him for helping the Fei Nation and presented six Saint Stones, which Liu Di analyzed and turned into a useful research plan. As Leopold prepared to leave for the International Cyborg Competition, Liu Di learned the Punishers would compete too and worried about the event coinciding with the Droplet Pendant’s countdown reaching zero.

• Leopold excitedly greeted Liu Di and the Punishers, while Zu Bair asked after the Black-Clad Hero and Kun Sang appeared to flirt with her.
• Leopold presented Liu Di with six Saint Stones, and Magic Child identified their unusual crystalline surfaces and radiation.
• Liu Di scanned a Saint Stone and printed an application plan that Leopold said could improve the Fei Nation’s cyborg technology and create D-Class cyborgs.
• Liu Di returned the Saint Stones and urged Leopold to use the technology for the people rather than to bully others.
• Leopold revealed that the Fei Nation planned to compete in the International Cyborg Competition, and Liu Di warned him that the Punishers would compete as well.
• Liu Di worried that the competition, beginning in three days, might become a danger because the Droplet Pendant’s countdown would end at the same time.

Leip gathered representatives of nearly ten nations in an isolated castle and revealed his plan to destroy Punisher’s Ghost Island with a nuclear weapon. Although several representatives initially refused to get involved, they eventually approved the operation, leaving Leip with their support for the attack.

• Leip told the representatives that Punisher’s leader, Emperor Four, was a hacker who had repeatedly threatened him and uncovered secrets about their organizations.
• The representatives rejected Leip’s proposal to unite against Punisher, but Leip declared that the European Nation would act first.
• Leip revealed that he had restored a decommissioned Black Shark submarine and hidden a thirty-thousand-ton neutron bomb aboard it off Sea City for five days.
• The representatives protested that Leip intended to use a nuclear weapon against Ghost Island, but Leip insisted the attack would eliminate Punisher and could be concealed.
• The Island Nation representative agreed to Leip’s plan, and after deliberating, the other representatives raised their hands in approval.

Liu Di told his mother he would become number one in the world after Starweave Hero Academy shut down. At the International Augmented Human Tournament, the Punishers arrived and claimed an arena, leaving the competing teams in despair.

• Liu Di reassured his mother that he would become number one in the world instead of earning a Starweave diploma.
• Three mornings later, soldiers sealed off Sea City Stadium for the first International Augmented Human Tournament.
• The competing nations gathered in the stadium, where Island Nation's augmented sumo wrestler boasted that he had reached C-Class.
• The Man in White led the Punishers into the stadium and had their arena marked with their name.
• The Man in White sat at the center of the Punishers' arena as the other competitors watched in fear, and the Island Nation sumo wrestler fell when his stool broke.

Liu Di watched the international enhanced-human tournament as the countdown on his Droplet Pendant neared zero, then advanced through the competition without fighting after every opponent forfeited. He stood atop the winner’s platform as the countdown continued.

• Liu Di scanned the venue with Battle Awareness and saw that Dragon Might’s Purple Moon was the only D-class enhanced human present.
• Officials began the twenty-nine-faction elimination tournament, and Punisher received byes in the first two rounds.
• With eight factions remaining and the pendant’s countdown nearing zero, Liu Di challenged FIC, whose representative Robbins immediately forfeited.
• Assassin forfeited for the Great Eagle Empire, Zu Bair forfeited for Fei Nation, and Purple Moon forfeited for Dragon Might as Liu Di approached their platforms.
• The remaining factions also forfeited, leaving Punisher as the winner without a fight.
• Liu Di climbed to the top platform without touching the trophy while the Droplet Pendant showed 00:03:26.

Bertram returned to challenge Liu Di after injecting a powerful enhancement drug, but Liu Di sensed a greater danger when the Droplet Pendant's countdown ended. Magic Child identified an enormous meteorite on course for Sea City, with impact expected in 82 seconds and catastrophic consequences for Earth.

• Bertram emerged at the arena, accused Liu Di of being unqualified, and invoked Starweave's competition slot to challenge him.
• Bertram injected a green substance into his heart and transformed into a towering, immensely powerful modified human.
• Leopold and Cao Chenghe ordered others to protect Liu Di, while the Punishers waited for his command and Liu Di ignored Bertram.
• The Droplet Pendant's countdown reached zero, and Liu Di's battle consciousness warned him of extreme danger.
• Liu Di spotted a distant fireball in the sky, and Magic Child identified it as a 300-meter meteorite set to strike near Sea City in 82 seconds.

As a meteorite threatened to destroy Sea City, Liu Di’s Droplet Pendant triggered a transformation that unlocked his higher Gene Lock stages. He effortlessly killed Bertram, while the meteorite crisis remained unresolved.

• Secretaries warned the leaders that a meteorite would strike near Sea City, and air-raid sirens sounded as it appeared in the sky.
• Bertram continued climbing toward Liu Di and vowed to kill him and the Punishers despite the approaching impact.
• The Droplet Pendant released liquid metal over Liu Di as his DNA turned fully gold and he broke through the second, third, and fourth Gene Lock stages.
• A voice in Liu Di’s mind promised to help resolve the crisis caused by the disrupted order of the planes.
• Bertram lunged at Liu Di, who stopped him with a metallic sound that left him dead and uninjured.

Liu Di transformed into a purple-eyed black figure and destroyed an asteroid before it could strike Earth, revealing himself as the new Savior to the leaders gathered in Sea City. The governments kept the event secret, while a viral online theory suggested an unknown being had protected humanity from asteroid impacts for generations.

• Liu Di transformed, escaped the stadium at immense speed, and shattered the incoming asteroid above Sea City.
• The gathered world leaders recognized Di Wu as the new Savior and ordered their nations to keep the event secret and suspend enhancement programs.
• Leip panicked and ordered Black Shark to return, while the people who had witnessed the explosion struggled to comprehend what had happened.
• A day later, science enthusiasts posted an article analyzing the asteroid's destruction and speculating that an advanced living being had intercepted it.
• Officials worldwide declined to explain the incident, appearing to protect the secret of the Savior.

After Di Wu destroyed the asteroid and saved everyone, governments recognized his overwhelming power and named him Divine Person Di Wu, while Ghost Island became a place no country dared threaten. At the White House, Leip struggled with fear of Liu Di and learned that the neutron-bomb-carrying Black Shark had vanished in the Western Ocean.

• Fos's cyborg rankings placed Di Wu alongside Savior at number one, prompting public questions and protests.
• Officials learned that Di Wu had shattered a hyper-speed asteroid with his body, killed Bertram with a glare, and saved everyone, so governments agreed to call him Divine Person Di Wu.
• Countries added Ghost Island to their no-conflict lists and marked it as a place beyond reality that must not be antagonized.
• Leip's psychologist dismissed his accounts of Liu Di as delusions, and Leip drove the doctor from his office by throwing objects at him.
• Hank told Leip that Punisher had made no further moves but that the Black Shark, carrying neutron bombs, had disappeared in the Western Ocean.
• Leip ordered more submarines and aircraft sent to search for the missing Black Shark.

The Punishers and Chinese authorities searched desperately for Liu Di after he vanished in the meteorite explosion, while his young son demanded his return. Seven days later, a blond man named Lennard learned Liu Di had pierced the meteorite and set out to claim his body, if it was still intact.

• The Punishers searched the area around Sea City while Nan Ruoyi feared Liu Di might have died, and Lawson arrived with information about Liu Di's father.
• After Lisa Fei told the little boy how Liu Di saved everyone, he used a remote control to send an armored sports car crashing through the Dragon Might compound and demanded his father back.
• Cao Chenghe stopped his people from forcibly removing the boy, fearing Liu Di would retaliate if his son were hurt.
• Seven days after Liu Di disappeared, Lisa Fei sent Mother Lu Shuyun his competition trophy with a note explaining that he could not come home yet.
• Lennard attacked a Confidentiality Bureau employee to learn who had pierced the meteorite, discovered it was Liu Di, and said he would take Liu Di's body if it remained intact.

Ten days after shattering the meteor, Liu Di woke in the mountains near Kyoto, badly injured and without Magic Child, while fragments of a powerful future filled his mind. Brother Cheng Long carried him to a temple to meet his mysterious Master, but the temple’s tourist sign left Liu Di stunned.

• Liu Di crawled out of the earth and discovered that his injuries had left him weak, while his Sequence upgrade continued and Magic Child remained silent.
• Liu Di recalled visions of formidable enemies, strange worlds, and his own possible future, and resolved to prepare for the dangers ahead.
• Liu Di realized he could not stand, then met Brother Cheng Long, who said his Master had ordered him to wait there for three days.
• Brother Cheng Long carried Liu Di through the mountains toward an ancient temple, where Liu Di grew wary of the supposedly hidden master.
• Liu Di read a sign advertising the Reincarnation Temple as a tourist attraction and claiming that a 140-year-old hero lived there, leaving him bewildered.

Brother Cheng brought the badly injured Liu Di to the temple, where the White-browed Elder—who called himself Savior—dismissed his injuries with advice to drink hot water. After Liu Di questioned Savior’s claims, the elder boasted about powerful civilizations and life forms beyond humanity’s knowledge, leaving Liu Di with more questions about the meteorite and the elder’s past.

• Brother Cheng carried Liu Di into the temple and placed him before the White-browed Elder.
• The White-browed Elder examined Liu Di, declared him gravely injured, and advised him to drink more hot water.
• Savior showed Liu Di a hand-drawn calculation that predicted where he would land after colliding with the meteorite.
• Liu Di questioned how Savior had known the meteorite would strike, and Savior claimed he had survived a similar feat more easily.
• Savior warned Liu Di that modified humans were no match for the powerful races and civilizations he believed still existed on Earth.

Liu Di questioned the White-browed Elder about mysterious lifeforms and learned that he would have to pay for his stay while recovering at the temple. As Cheng Long carried him to the firewood shed, Liu Di sensed that the temple’s warrior monks possessed extraordinary power.

• Liu Di wondered whether ancient civilizations and mysterious lifeforms explained his memories, but the White-browed Elder joked that he had learned such things from a radio program and warned that Liu Di was weak.
• The White-browed Elder ordered Cheng Long to lodge Liu Di in the firewood shed and charge him for his room and meals, then offered free upgrades if Liu Di defeated his four disciples.
• Liu Di asked to borrow a phone, but Cheng Long explained that the White-browed Elder forbade internet access and that no tourists had visited in three years.
• The White-browed Elder assigned He Chu to care for Liu Di and set her medical and nursing fees at eight hundred a day.
• Cheng Long carried Liu Di toward the shed as Liu Di sensed that the four warrior monks had restrained energy at least H-Class in intensity.
• Hui He reassured Liu Di that he was easy to defeat and would lose as soon as Liu Di hit him.

After Liu Di recovered enough to move, he decided to escape the isolated temple and contact the Punishers. He crept toward the White-browed Elder’s room to steal a radio, leaving his plans for the temple and its mysterious Savior unresolved.

• The White-browed Elder ordered extra food for Liu Di, then secretly prayed before a portrait of a white-clad man and offered him his life savings.
• He Chu tried to wash Liu Di’s clothes and later brought him vegetarian food, while Liu Di ate the temple’s entire meal and began healing rapidly.
• Liu Di asked whether He Chu’s Master was the ranked hero Savior, but she said she only knew that he was unfathomably powerful.
• After several hours of recovery, Liu Di used a bronze bell left by He Chu as he got out of bed and slowly crossed the temple at night.
• Liu Di sneaked toward the White-browed Elder’s room to steal his semiconductor radio, planning to modify it and contact the Punishers.

Liu Di secretly took the White-browed Elder’s radio and solar panel to build a phone charger, then waited on the roof for sunrise to power his phone. He Chu found him at dawn, and the White-browed Elder revealed he could control gravity as he walked through the air toward him.

• Liu Di tested whether the White-browed Elder noticed him, then stole the radio while the elder pretended to sleep.
• Liu Di discovered the radio’s batteries were nearly useless, then found the solar panel powering the electric curtains and took it to make a charger.
• Liu Di spent two hours combining the solar panel with the radio’s voltage regulator to prepare his phone for charging at sunrise.
• He Chu found Liu Di on the roof at dawn and worried about his injuries, while Liu Di said he was enjoying the scenery.
• The White-browed Elder searched for his missing radio, spotted Liu Di, and walked through the air toward him by controlling gravity.

Liu Di learned that the White-browed Elder could control gravity and was urged to recover by leaving the mountain temple on his own within three months. After discovering Harmony Brings Wealth had rapidly grown stronger, Liu Di chose to stay, while the Elder secretly reported that he had completed his task.

• The White-browed Elder demonstrated his gravity-control ability to Liu Di and charged him for watching, then hinted that evolved humans and Innate Gene Carriers lived hidden among ordinary people.
• The White-browed Elder told Liu Di his injuries made him weak and challenged him to walk down the mountain within three months to achieve a true rebirth.
• Liu Di discovered that eleven days had passed while he was unconscious and realized he was closer to the disasters he remembered.
• Liu Di saw Harmony Brings Wealth training at J-Class strength, up from H-Class the previous day, and decided to stay at the temple for ten days before returning.
• Liu Di messaged Little Xia that he was safe, asked the White-browed Elder to prepare the main hall, and went to eat food He Chu had prepared.
• The White-browed Elder knelt before his master's portrait and claimed he had completed his task, then regretted that the whole temple was going hungry.

While recovering from his injuries, Liu Di pushed himself through increasingly strenuous daily treks and climbs, driven by his belief that exertion would speed his healing. After discovering the temple’s enormous, heavy stone mill, he ignored White-browed Elder’s challenge and went to eat.

• Liu Di insisted on exercising despite his injuries, and White-browed Elder sent Hui He to follow him and bring him back when he could no longer continue.
• Liu Di spent the day walking, returned to the temple, and ate so much that the temple ran out of dinner for everyone else.
• Liu Di began climbing the nearby mountain before dawn and returned exhausted, while White-browed Elder repeatedly misjudged how much food the temple needed to prepare for him.
• Over the following days, Liu Di climbed farther up the mountain and returned earlier as his endurance improved.
• Liu Di found a cook grinding tofu with a gigantic stone mill, and White-browed Elder explained that it was made of dense White Gang Stone.
• White-browed Elder tried to provoke Liu Di into challenging him, but Liu Di simply left to eat.