Chapter Summaries

Liu Di continued recovering and training at the temple, discovering that his injuries affected his control over Fluid Metal. Despite claiming he was too weak, he defeated Hui He and then Hui Qi, destroying his huts along the way and ending up housed in the main room.

• Liu Di sensed his connection to the Droplet Pendant growing stronger and tested his Fluid Metal, accidentally cutting through the pillars of the thatched hut and collapsing its roof.
• Liu Di challenged Hui He for a proper room and defeated him, shocking the monks and the White-browed Elder despite his injuries.
• Liu Di moved into a side room, trained harder, and practiced controlling Fluid Metal, leaving marks on the walls.
• Liu Di challenged Hui Qi and sent him flying in eight exchanges, but Hui Qi crashed into the side room and brought it down.
• Liu Di moved into the main room while the White-browed Elder silently mourned the damage to his property.

The White-browed Elder tried to preserve his authority and keep his students’ tuition by explaining Qi Gong and claiming it accounted for Harmony Brings Wealth’s defeat by Liu Di. He ordered Hui Sheng to challenge Liu Di so the temple could prove the claim, leaving the Little Baldies eager to see the match.

• The White-browed Elder found the main hall intact and assumed Liu Di had gone out to train.
• During morning meditation, a Little Baldy questioned the Elder’s martial arts claims and demanded a tuition refund.
• The White-browed Elder described Qi Gong’s stages and claimed Harmony Brings Wealth had fought Liu Di without using it.
• When the Little Baldies remained unconvinced, the White-browed Elder told Hui Sheng to challenge Liu Di, whether Liu challenged him first or not.

After drawing with Hui Sheng, Liu Di studied qi gong and accidentally collapsed the hall where he practiced. By morning, he had learned to sense and circulate qi, leaving the White-browed Elder stunned.

• Hui Sheng revealed his Qi-Dispersing Realm qi gong and fought Liu Di to a draw in a ten-minute spar.
• The White-browed Elder stopped the fight, and Liu Di agreed to spar with Hui Sheng again the next day.
• Liu Di practiced qi gong through the night, and his training ended with the collapse of the hall where he was staying.
• Liu Di watched Harmony Brings Wealth lead the monks in morning practice and copied his opening forms from the roof.
• The White-browed Elder saw qi steaming around Liu Di and realized he had learned to sense it in one night.

Liu Di mastered Qi Gong with startling speed, defeated the temple’s senior monks, and left the White-browed Elder scrambling to protect his tuition scheme. The chapter ends with Liu Di using his Qi to spin the elder’s precious millstone and make tofu.

• Liu Di practiced Qi Gong and quickly learned to control and shape his Qi.
• Hui Sheng and Hui Cai reported that Liu Di had defeated them, and the monks saw him form his Qi into a dragon.
• The White-browed Elder refused Liu Di’s challenge, then convinced the Little Baldies that his senior disciples had lost because they were starving.
• Liu Di used Qi to spin the White-browed Elder’s prized millstone, revealing that he was grinding beans to make tofu.

Liu Di kept the temple’s heavy millstone spinning with precise Qi Gong while He Chu added soybeans to grind tofu. The next morning, Liu Di and He Chu served a feast to the temple, beginning with unusually fragrant tofu.

• Liu Di used carefully timed punches to keep the 3,500-jin millstone spinning at high speed without losing alignment.
• He Chu brought soaked soybeans and brown seeds and poured them into the millstone while Liu Di practiced.
• The White-browed Elder and the others fell asleep as Liu Di and He Chu worked through the night.
• In the morning, the temple residents followed the food’s aroma to the kitchen, where Liu Di and He Chu had prepared several dishes.
• Liu Di thanked the temple for hosting him and presented a tray of smooth, fragrant tofu.

Liu Di prepared an elaborate vegetarian feast for the Little Baldies and temple cooks, explaining the ingredients and techniques behind each dish. The hungry monks eagerly awaited permission to eat as he revealed the final pot of wontons.

• Liu Di explained how he made Nut Tofu with soybeans, pine nuts, and almonds, and a Little Baldies secretly tasted it and praised its flavor.
• He Chu opened a pot of cabbage in clear broth, and Liu Di described how he used broth made from five kinds of mushrooms instead of meat.
• Liu Di introduced Mountain Delicacy Stir-fry, made with wild vegetables and mushrooms, while the White-browed Elder reached toward the food.
• He Chu opened Wensi Tofu soup, and Liu Di explained how he sliced the tofu into thousands of delicate strands.
• Liu Di revealed mushroom-and-vegetarian-meat wontons, leaving the monks desperate to begin eating.

Liu Di used a meal to coax the White-browed Elder into revealing that powerful Innate Gene Carrier organizations operated beyond the governments, and learned the Reincarnation Temple worked to maintain order. As the elder finally enjoyed his birthday feast, a helicopter arrived with an organization intent on killing him.

• Liu Di served breakfast to He Chu and the temple disciples, then lured the White-browed Elder into the kitchen with fruit tea and demanded information.
• The White-browed Elder explained that Innate Gene Carriers and hidden organizations held power beyond governments, and said the Reincarnation Temple struck down threats to order.
• Liu Di gave the hungry elder roasted chickens, and the temple residents finished their feast together.
• A black helicopter arrived at the temple, prompting Harmony Brings Wealth and the White-browed Elder to take defensive positions.
• The White-browed Elder told Liu Di that an organization came to kill him every year because he was named Savior.

White-browed Elder faced Systama, the president of the Doomsday Association's Third Branch, inside a huge Gravity Field while Liu Di discovered he could pierce its surface with Fluid Metal. As the battle continued, Harmony Brings Wealth revealed that White-browed Elder was badly injured and weakening, while Cigar Man provoked the monks and turned his attention to Liu Di.

• White-browed Elder identified Systama and explained their history to Liu Di before entering a massive Gravity Field to fight him.
• Liu Di touched the Gravity Field and used Fluid Metal to pierce it, then withdrew his arm after sensing the dangerous energy inside.
• Hui He told Liu Di that White-browed Elder's fights with Systama had grown shorter and that the elder was suffering severe internal injuries.
• Cigar Man taunted Harmony Brings Wealth and burned Hui Cai's arm with his cigar while the monks restrained themselves.
• Cigar Man approached Liu Di and demanded to know who he was.

Liu Di stepped in to protect the temple group, then used his Fluid Metal to help Whitebrow defeat Systama. Systama recognized Liu Di as the new generation’s Savior and mocked his apparent weakness as the confrontation continued.

• Liu Di overpowered Cigar Man, dislocating his shoulders and knocking him unconscious, then complained about the cigar and burned it against him.
• Liu Di noticed Whitebrow’s weakening Gravity Field and moved to intervene as Systama attacked the exhausted elder inside the gray sphere.
• Liu Di unleashed black Fluid Metal blades that interrupted Systama’s attack and gave Whitebrow time to shrink the sphere and strike him.
• Whitebrow landed, and Harmony Brings Wealth realized Liu Di had controlled the Null element that only the Grandmaster was believed to command.
• Systama rose with a black blade Liu Di had not recalled, identified Liu Di as the new generation’s Savior, and mocked him as weak.

Liu Di survived Systama’s attack with the White-browed Elder’s help, then challenged him to a decisive battle in one month. After Liu Di left the temple, he remotely seized missiles that destroyed Systama’s helicopter, and his Right Eye began to glow purple.

• Systama crushed Liu Di’s Fluid Metal and restrained him with sound waves, but the White-browed Elder countered the attack and stopped Systama from continuing the fight.
• Systama agreed to a rematch in three months, but Liu Di insisted on one month and vowed to destroy the Doomsday Association.
• The White-browed Elder offered Liu Di shelter and protection, but Liu Di left, promising to end the saying that every birthday was a death anniversary.
• Systama carried the injured Cigar Man away by helicopter, then saw hundreds of missiles closing in and was killed when the aircraft exploded.
• Liu Di revealed that he had taken control of the missile system, answered the little boy’s greeting, and saw a purple gleam flicker in his Right Eye.

Liu Di learned that Systama had survived the missile barrage and discovered that Systama had attacked Little Xia ten days earlier. The memory fragment matched the surveillance footage, leaving Liu Di afraid that his other visions of the future would also come true.

• Systama survived the missile barrage but was gravely injured and wondered whether an Intelligent God had controlled the missiles.
• Liu Di and Magic Child discussed Magic Child’s upgrade, a mysterious algorithm, and the need to collect human behavioral data.
• Magic Child showed Liu Di footage of Systama defeating Little Xia on Ghost Island ten days earlier.
• Liu Di recognized the attack as a memory fragment from the future and worried that his other memory fragments would come true.

Liu Di prepared the Intelligent Entity Project, sent new Rubik’s Cube benchmarks, and ordered the Punishers to return to Ghost Island, then arranged gifts and temple repairs for Whitebrow and left He Chu a bell for emergencies. The chapter ended with He Chu touched by Liu Di’s message but doubting that he could help with any problem she could not solve.

• Liu Di encouraged himself to change the future, contacted Nan Ruoyi to launch the Intelligent Entity Project, sent Xiao Tang benchmarks for the sixth- and seventh-order Rubik’s Cubes, and ordered the Punishers back to Ghost Island.
• The little boy heard Violent Bear speak through the Experimental Graveyard’s speakers and rejoiced that he was alive.
• Whitebrow received Liu Di’s custom-made gold radio with diamond knobs, fainted at its value, and then fainted again when a crew arrived to rebuild Reincarnation Temple.
• He Chu found Liu Di’s emergency bell and note, felt touched, then wondered whether Liu Di could help with a problem she could not solve.

Liu Di broke into European Country Area 52 to obtain an aircraft for his global search for radioactive materials, but the alien saucer there required genetic commands to operate. Magic Child uncovered another secret facility, and Liu Di decided to investigate it next.

• Liu Di resolved to strengthen himself quickly after sensing New Human Stage Four and set out to find radioactive materials around the world.
• Liu Di used Magic Child to bypass the security systems at European Country Area 52 and found an intact alien flying saucer.
• Magic Child accessed the base’s research files and learned that the saucer controlled gravity, used Moscovium, and could turn invisible and jump through space.
• Magic Child realized the saucer required a specific genetic command, so Liu Di could not operate it, and Liu Di noticed a flyable imitation nearby.
• Magic Child revealed information about the White House underground ice storage called Green House, and Liu Di agreed to go there after Magic Child insisted he wanted the saucer.

At District 52, Leip and Australian President Joyce celebrated reports that Liu Di had vanished, believing him dead. Liu Di then appeared in person, and Leip ended the tour in panic after stopping his guards from confronting him.

• Leip told Joyce that Liu Di had disappeared after officials searched for him for ten days, and both presidents celebrated the news.
• Liu Di emerged from a base hatch and strolled across the grounds while Leip recognized him and feared he had come to kill him.
• When security guards moved to intercept Liu Di, Leip ordered them to stop and claimed Liu Di was his honored guest.
• Liu Di continued out through the gate, while Leip canceled the tour and returned to the White House and Joyce fled to the airport to fly home.

Liu Di infiltrated the White House’s underground Green House, collected samples from an alien corpse and a silver-haired armored body, and planted a trigger virus in a black mech. He then emerged from Leip’s private elevator and casually greeted the stunned Leip.

• Liu Di disguised himself as a professor’s assistant and entered Green House, where he found specimens including a Yeti, a supposed Loch Ness Monster skull, and an alien corpse.
• Liu Di collected tissue from the alien corpse and wondered whether its features were connected to Left Shoulder.
• Liu Di discovered a silver-haired body inside an armored suit marked with symbols resembling the Maya pictograph for “hunter,” then collected a strand of hair.
• Liu Di inspected a twenty-meter black mech on the eighteenth underground level and planted a trigger virus that could force its pilot to eject once it reached network coverage.
• Leip went to inspect Hades and waited by his private elevator, where Liu Di emerged, greeted him, and calmly walked past.

Liu Di and Magic Child analyzed alien DNA and tried to use it to activate the UFO, then reconsidered whether the craft belonged to the Maya Valkyrie. Meanwhile, Leip prepared a trap at District 52’s exit to capture Liu Di.

• Leip learned that Liu Di had returned to District 52 and panicked before deciding to prepare a plan against him.
• Liu Di forced the researchers out of the underground base and sealed the third level before modifying equipment to build a genetic analyzer.
• Liu Di and Magic Child analyzed the alien’s DNA and concluded that its biology was adapted to an environment unlike Earth’s.
• Liu Di and Magic Child built a transmitter to send commands to the UFO, but it did not respond.
• Liu Di suspected the UFO might belong to the frozen Maya Valkyrie rather than the alien, so he and Magic Child began analyzing her hair.
• Leip deployed eight gene-suppressing transmitters outside the underground laboratory and planned to capture Liu Di when he emerged.

Liu Di escaped the underground laboratory in the alien flying saucer TK-02 despite the suppressors surrounding the base. He returned, destroyed the suppressors, and confronted Leip, announcing that he was borrowing the saucer.

• Leip ordered all ten giant suppressors activated when the vibration detectors sensed tremors beneath the base.
• A silver aircraft burst through the ground and flew away, leaving the stunned forces to recognize it as TK-02.
• TK-02 returned, and Liu Di leaped from its hatch into the suppressors' electromagnetic field.
• Liu Di kicked the giant suppressors away one by one and walked toward Leip's armored vehicle.
• Liu Di tore open the vehicle, told Leip he was borrowing TK-02, and Leip nervously agreed.

After Liu Di escaped aboard the flying saucer, which Magic Child named the Silver Shuttle, he set his sights on the Chernobyl reactor’s Stone Coffin to absorb its nuclear materials and strengthen his DNA. The Silver Shuttle could take him to Chernobyl’s outskirts, but radiation might damage its electronics, leaving Liu Di to enter the danger zone alone.

• Liu Di boarded the flying saucer, and it broke the sound barrier as Leip watched in disbelief.
• Magic Child explored the human-designed cabin while Liu Di examined the Silver Shuttle and the Moscovium Element canisters he had taken from European Country Area 52.
• Liu Di learned about the Chernobyl disaster, its Deadly Exclusion Zone, and the Stone Coffin, where he planned to absorb the uranium and graphite mixture.
• Magic Child said the Silver Shuttle could reach Chernobyl in forty minutes but could only take Liu Di to the outer perimeter because radiation might damage its electronics.
• Young men below spotted the Silver Shuttle, but one was punched after his friends accused him of making up the UFO.

A film crew entered a heavily irradiated zone to shoot a movie, but the bodyguards and crew dismissed the danger and began removing their protective gear. International movie star Yan Siwen calmly removed her suit as well, while the group remained unaware of the threat around them.

• A film crew from the European Nation traveled eighty kilometers into the radiation zone with special permission to film at an authentic location.
• The Bodyguard Captain and a bald bodyguard joked about the supposedly harmless surroundings, and the captain removed his protective gear.
• Yan Siwen's assistant warned her to protect herself, but Yan Siwen said she could not film while wearing a gas mask.
• The Bodyguard Captain pretended to choke, then laughed and claimed the air smelled of flowers, revealing that he had been pranking the crew.
• Yan Siwen criticized his acting, removed her protective suit, and revealed her face and figure to the stunned crew.

The Bodyguard Captain went fishing in a lake near Chernobyl while a crew livestreamed, but a huge catfish dragged him underwater. He returned to shore fighting a nearly two-meter catfish and killed it, leaving everyone stunned.

• Yang Joyce urged the film crew to work and invited Yan Siwen into his tent to study the script.
• The Bodyguard Captain and Baldy went to the lake to catch catfish, and a crew member began livestreaming their expedition.
• The Bodyguard Captain dove into the lake and caught two large catfish while the livestream viewers watched.
• A huge creature seized the Bodyguard Captain and dragged him underwater, prompting Baldy and the crew to panic.
• The Bodyguard Captain reappeared on shore fighting a giant catfish and killed it with his dagger.