Chapter Summaries

After the Fukushima disaster was mysteriously neutralized, reporter Jiang Wei searched for the white-clad figure he believed was an alien called Emperor. In the Takla Makan Desert, Liu Di tested his growing control over sand before armed artifact hunters confronted him, and a familiar woman greeted him as Senior Brother Liu.

• The Island Nation discovered that its citizens’ symptoms were only colds and that radiation from the wastewater and leaking reactors had nearly vanished.
• Jiang Wei published footage of a white-clad man leaving Fukushima in a flying saucer and vowed to find the figure he called Emperor.
• Liu Di used a simulation of 99% of Magician DNA to sense sand beyond 30 kilometers and control it within roughly 20 kilometers.
• Three off-road vehicles approached Liu Di, and he identified the armed men as employees of Maya International Artifact Auction Company suspected of seeking ancient artifacts.
• A woman dressed for desert exploration stopped the men from shooting Liu Di and greeted him as Senior Brother Liu.

Liu Di joined He Chu’s armed archaeological expedition across the desert while secretly searching for an underground city and monitoring the group’s unusual technology. The convoy continued toward the desert’s center, with He Chu offering Liu Di water and apples as Van Hol showed off their equipment.

• He Chu introduced her armed companions and explained that they were searching for the lost city of El Dorado, while Van Hol scanned Liu Di with an advanced detector.
• He Chu invited Liu Di to travel with the convoy after killing a desert cobra with a laser-equipped dagger, and Liu Di climbed into the pickup’s truck bed.
• Van Hol tried to stand steadily beside Liu Di, fell when the truck crossed a slope, and then demonstrated the expedition’s Hummingbird drones and enhanced metal detector.
• Liu Di ignored Van Hol’s boasting as he used the Silver Shuttle and the Magician’s DNA to search the desert for underground structures.
• He Chu offered Liu Di water and washed apples, and frowned when Van Hol said he was thirsty too.

Liu Di recognized clues linking the Apocalypse Association to earlier cyborg organizations while traveling with He Chu’s archaeological team. He sensed something buried in the desert and persuaded He Chu to investigate, leaving Van Hol skeptical as Liu Di prepared to act.

• Liu Di connected Hercules and Starweave’s offline practices and advanced technology to the Apocalypse Association, but remained confused by the group’s relationship with networks.
• Liu Di sensed something southwest of the convoy and convinced He Chu to redirect the vehicles despite Van Hol’s objections.
• At a flat stretch of desert, the team’s detector found metal twenty meters underground, and Liu Di said the instrument could not scan deeply enough.
• Liu Di warned He Chu that the buried site might be an ancient city or a modern city, and He Chu ordered the team to prepare to dig.
• Liu Di told the others to step back and gathered his focus, while Van Hol mocked him for seemingly preparing to use divine power.

Liu Di used his ability to lift away the desert sand and uncover the Golden Kingdom ruins, then rejected the archaeological team’s offer and left. He Chu watched him go with the bronze bell he had entrusted to her, while Van Hol finally understood its importance.

• Liu Di lifted and parted the sand across a two-kilometer area, revealing a buried ancient city with medieval-style buildings and a metal tower tip.
• A professor examined carved markings on the exposed walls and identified the ruins as the Golden Kingdom, whose gold inlays had been pried out.
• Van Hol apologized to Liu Di and offered the archaeological team’s research and payment in exchange for access to the ruins, but Liu Di refused.
• Liu Di told He Chu to remember the bronze bell if she faced trouble, then used the moving sand to carry himself away.
• He Chu explained that Liu Di likely sought something beyond wealth, and Van Hol reverently returned the bell to her after realizing it could summon a powerful ally.

Liu Di uncovered the Apocalypse Association’s desert bunker, tracked its satellite communications, and found an abandoned site in the African Great Rift Valley where the group had built a fake ark. After discovering that the satellite was warning the world that civilization would end in four days, Liu Di headed for the next coordinate to investigate the Association’s plans.

• Liu Di exposed the Apocalypse Association’s underground bunker, and its occupants detonated it before he could enter.
• Magic Child traced the Association’s satellite to a shell company and identified coordinates for the Mariana Trench, the African Great Rift Valley, and a fast-moving aircraft.
• Liu Di ordered Magic Child to hack the satellite quietly, but the satellite began sending disguised alien signals to astronomical observatories, warning that humanity would be wiped out in four days.
• Liu Di flew to the African Great Rift Valley and found a cave filled with blood, more than a hundred dead people, and an unfinished vessel named Noah.
• Magic Child said Noah was built to fly and carry cargo but lacked the technology to take off, and Liu Di left to investigate the Association’s next location.

Liu Di discovered eleven activated nuclear weapons hidden in the Mariana Trench, which the Apocalypse Association intended to use to trigger global disasters. With the bombs set to explode within forty hours and impossible to disarm, Liu Di decided to test whether he could absorb the energy from one.

• Liu Di reached the coordinates in the Mariana Trench and found dozens of connected devices that turned out to be eleven activated nuclear weapons.
• Magic Child explained that detonating the bombs could trigger tsunamis, global earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other catastrophes.
• Liu Di found a crushed submarine marked Black Shark, which Magic Child identified as a stolen, decommissioned submarine from the European Nation.
• Magic Child said the bombs could not be safely disarmed and would reach critical mass within forty hours even if their detonators were removed.
• After Magic Child warned that absorbing energy from a nuclear weapon gave Liu Di no more than a thirteen percent chance of survival, Liu Di decided to try it anyway.

Liu Di dismantled a neutron bomb and detonated one of its charges inside a Fluid Metal sphere to absorb its radiation, risking his life to strengthen himself. With Magic Child's help, he used Black and White Joker DNA to survive the blast, then released the pressure deep beneath the sea.

• Liu Di dismantled a neutron bomb into ten small nuclear charges and explained that the Apocalypse Association used panic and despair to weaken humanity.
• Liu Di triggered one charge inside a sealed Fluid Metal sphere, enduring extreme heat, pressure, and radiation while absorbing the energy.
• As Liu Di's armor and body began to fail, Magic Child had Little Liu retrieve the Black and White Joker DNA sample from the Experimental Graveyard.
• Liu Di simulated Black and White Joker DNA, allowing his wounds to heal as he balanced it against Chain Bridge DNA and continued absorbing radiation.
• After the radiation faded, Liu Di opened the sphere and released its immense pressure two thousand meters beneath the sea.

After astronomers confirmed that the Humanity Elimination Warning came from an alien signal, world leaders gathered to discuss how to respond. Leip blamed Liu Di, also known as Di Wu, and persuaded several nations to consider attacking Punisher Island despite China's objection.

• Astronomers worldwide traced the signal to outer space and confirmed it matched the suspected alien signal, prompting nations to activate emergency plans and prepare for a possible threat.
• World leaders held a video conference, where Pu Bai proposed lifting technological restrictions and the Chinese elder said China had not found a new Savior.
• Leip showed leaders photographs of a UFO from District 53 and Liu Di beside it, claiming Di Wu had stolen and could operate the craft.
• Leip accused Di Wu of causing the space threat and urged the nations to unite against Punisher Island, citing the nuclear wastewater incident as evidence.
• Several leaders gradually agreed with Leip, but the Chinese elder objected, and Leip argued that Di Wu's Ghost Island was in international waters.

Liu Di absorbed the final nuclear material and completed New Human Stage Two: Restriction Liberation, gaining vastly increased abilities. As he tested his strength, Magic Child warned that Ghost Island was in trouble, with an international fleet preparing to attack it.

• Liu Di entered the center of a nuclear fission reaction and unlocked Restriction Liberation as his New Human Stage Two reached completion.
• Liu Di fused more Witch DNA, greatly increased his heat resistance, and saw his DNA become pure gold as Gene Lock Stage Three began.
• Liu Di suppressed the remaining fission energy in his fist and crushed the nuclear material.
• Magic Child told Liu Di that Ghost Island had run into trouble.
• Nearly 150 warships and aircraft carriers gathered near Ghost Island, while Leip prepared to bombard it and posted, 'Don't panic. Dad's here!'

The global fleet attacked Ghost Island, but Punisher’s advanced defenses stopped its bombardment and destroyed a European Nation helicopter. The nations’ leaders and weapons experts were left awed by the island’s technology, while Leip feared the fleet could not break through.

• Leip volunteered the European Nation to fire first, and its cannon shell exploded against a protective barrier over Ghost Island.
• Leip launched three SM-62 Caltrop missiles, but the barrier melted their cluster bombs before they could breach it.
• Weapons experts identified the defense as a plasma curtain capable of vaporizing metal and marveled at Ghost Island’s technology.
• Leip sent an armed helicopter to investigate the barrier, and Ghost Island’s turret destroyed it with a quantum beam.
• The nations’ leaders looked at Ghost Island with fear and greed as Leip wondered whether their fleet could penetrate its defenses.

Ghost Island’s shield resisted the nations’ attacks until Systama, an Innate Gene Carrier from the Apocalypse Association, arrived and destabilized it with sound waves. As the island’s Punishers remained unconscious in their Modification Pods, Little Xia awakened early to confront him.

• The nations’ attacks failed to penetrate Ghost Island’s shield, while Leip regretted joining the campaign.
• Systama silenced the fleets with a destructive sound wave, identified himself as an Innate Gene Carrier, and declared he had come to kill Di Wu.
• Systama’s high-frequency sound waves made Ghost Island’s shield unstable, and the nations’ commanders stopped their attacks to watch.
• Xiao Tang revealed that the Punishers were still undergoing modifications and that she was the only person on Ghost Island able to act.
• Little Xia broke out of his Modification Pod at 60% progress, despite his injuries, and said he had awakened to stop Systama.

Systama breached Ghost Island’s protective barrier and faced Little Xia, who fought to defend the island despite his injuries. Little Xia’s attacks failed to hurt Systama, leaving him battered and despairing as Jian Xu watched helplessly from the Modification Pod.

• Systama used sound waves to open a gap in Ghost Island’s barrier, entered the island, and smashed a defensive turret.
• Little Xia emerged to confront Systama, who mocked his injuries and demanded that Di Wu appear.
• Little Xia charged Systama, but was repeatedly knocked back and badly injured while the watching nations looked on.
• Jian Xu woke partially inside the Modification Pod and watched Little Xia’s struggle, unable to move or help him.
• Systama caught Little Xia’s mechanical arm and tried to tear it off, but a hidden blade made him release his grip.
• Little Xia landed a punch on Systama, but it barely affected him, and Systama declared that Little Xia could never defeat him.

Little Xia was saved when Liu Di empowered his punch, and Liu Di returned to face Systama. After Systama challenged him, Liu Di carried him far out over the sea to fight.

• Little Xia, badly injured but refusing to yield, charged Systama again.
• A black substance covered Little Xia’s mechanical arm, and his punch sent Systama crashing through the ground.
• Little Xia recognized his brother Liu Di, who had returned in black armor, and Liu Di told him to rest.
• Systama accused Liu Di of ambushing him and revealed that the Apocalypse Association believed the hollow Noah could help them escape the apocalypse.
• Liu Di, consumed by rage, seized Systama and carried him more than a dozen kilometers over the sea.

Liu Di defeated Systama and confronted Leip Tongguo after unleashing devastating waves that crippled the international fleet. He exposed the Apocalypse Association’s nuclear plot, demanded accountability for the attack on Ghost Island, and warned the world against targeting him again.

• Leip ordered the fleet to prepare heavy weapons while Liu Di fought Systama, overwhelming him and pounding the sea until Systama disappeared and the warships were battered by giant waves.
• Liu Di entered Leip’s command room, questioned him about his actions and the Black Shark submarine, and learned that the fleet was fleeing rather than obeying Leip’s command to fire.
• Liu Di announced that the Apocalypse Association had planted nuclear bombs in the Mariana Trench and that he had removed them, then demanded that the countries involved explain their lost weapons and apologize to the world.
• Liu Di held Leip and the other commanders responsible for firing on Ghost Island and ordered the named warships not to escape.
• An enormous octopus and a giant electric fish sank the warships Benmu and Xiukaesi as Liu Di warned that no one who targeted him would return.

Liu Di warned the world against provoking him, but Leip’s carrier revealed the colossal Hades mecha, piloted by Elliot, who challenged Di Wu with its advanced weapons. The chapter ended with the world’s leaders realizing Hades might be powerful enough to kill Di Wu.

• Liu Di’s warning reminded the Unified Nation leaders of Di Wu’s past feats and left them afraid to challenge him.
• A lift on Leip’s aircraft carrier raised the thirty-meter-tall Hades mecha, which aimed its weapon at Di Wu.
• Leip realized he had not ordered Hades to activate and that its weapon was also aimed at him.
• Elliot identified himself as Hades’s pilot and claimed the mecha’s armor, agility, and quantum cannon could defeat Di Wu.
• The Unified Nation leaders recognized Hades’s technology as far beyond their own and considered its cannon a potential threat to Di Wu.

Liu Di stopped the Pluto Mecha from firing by triggering its pilot’s ejection system, then recognized the Apocalypse Association’s role in controlling the pilot and supplying advanced technology. He returned to Ghost Island while Leip withdrew the fleet and other nations demanded access to the mecha’s technology.

• As the Pluto Mecha prepared to fire at Liu Di, Magic Child confirmed that its pilot had an Apocalypse Association control device implanted in his brain.
• Liu Di triggered an ejection program he had left in the mecha, sending the pilot into the sea and shutting down the Pluto Mecha.
• Liu Di recognized the pilot’s unusual body as resembling Left Shoulder’s and connected both men’s control devices and Starweave Company’s technology to the Apocalypse Association.
• Leip claimed the Pluto Mecha had been displayed for Liu Di’s review, and Liu Di let the near-attack go before returning to Ghost Island.
• Other nations pressed Leip for the mecha’s technology as he ordered the fleet to withdraw, while Pu Bai offered to share advanced robotics technology for free.

Liu Di tracked the Apocalypse Association to its airborne headquarters and confronted its Chairman, who tried to recruit and intimidate him. Liu Di revealed that he had seized control of the Association’s network, then began recounting a village massacre that appeared to fuel his fury.

• Leip gave up on reelection after watching Di Wu remain calm before Hades’s quantum cannon.
• Liu Di returned to Ghost Island, reassured Jian Xu, and told Xiao Tang to let Little Xia recover before planning his modification.
• Liu Di flew the Silver Shuttle to an airborne B-52 that he identified as the Apocalypse Association’s headquarters and entered its cabin.
• Liu Di killed the modified humans who attacked him and confronted the Apocalypse Association Chairman in a conference room.
• The Chairman threatened Liu Di and offered to awaken his genes, but Liu Di revealed that Magic Child had seized the Association’s satellites and exposed its thirteen secret bases and 536 subordinates.
• Liu Di described a village in the Ulan Country whose 86 residents had been slaughtered because they had no research value.

Liu Di used the Apocalypse Association’s control satellite to kill its members and hidden agents, then confronted its Chairman aboard a plane and discovered he was half human and half machine. The Chairman survived Liu Di’s antique musket when its damp gunpowder failed to fire.

• Liu Di hijacked the Apocalypse Association’s master control satellite and triggered the Mission Devices in its members’ heads, killing the organization’s 530 members around the world.
• Liu Di questioned the Chairman about whether someone had framed the Tian Luo Group, which had been killed after being sent to Chernobyl.
• Liu Di used the satellite to kill the Apocalypse Association’s controlled officials and destroy its hidden assassination and riot plans.
• Liu Di opened the cabin’s electric shades and saw that the Chairman’s body was half human and half machine, with wires connecting him to the wall.
• Liu Di pressed an antique flintlock to the Chairman’s head and pulled the trigger, but the damp gunpowder failed to fire.

Liu Di exposed the man posing as the Apocalypse Association Chairman as a puppet, then watched the real chairman’s B-52 crash. As the Silver Shuttle returned to China, Liu Di planned to pursue the hidden mastermind and learned that Nan Ruoyi’s Intelligent Store had received an offer it could not refuse.

• Liu Di heated the antique gun until it fired, wounding the false chairman, then left him alive to test his suspicions.
• Liu Di told Magic Child that the real chairman had used a recorded message and a puppet body to conceal himself, and Magic Child confirmed the B-52 had almost no fuel remaining.
• The B-52 crashed into a mountain, and Liu Di watched to make sure nobody escaped.
• Liu Di refused to trace the brain-computer interface to avoid alerting the hidden chairman, and he vowed to avenge Yulia Village and the Tian Luo Group.
• Liu Di had Magic Child destroy four European Nation military satellites, causing Leip to seek medical treatment after the costly collision.
• On the way back to China, Liu Di asked about Nan Ruoyi’s Intelligent Store and learned that someone had made an offer that could not be refused.

At the Nan Family’s gathering for Nan Tianhai’s seventieth birthday, he confronted his daughter Nan Ruoyi over her ties to Sea City’s underworld and ordered her to end them. He left the reception room refusing her birthday toast, leaving her temporarily disowned by her father.

• Nan Tianhai berated Nan Ruoyi for running a hotel business alongside gangsters from Sea City.
• Nan Ruoyi said the gang members had turned over a new leaf, but Nan Tianhai insisted her involvement disgraced the family.
• Nan Yingjie explained that Nan Ruoyi was not the owner of the Intelligent Stores and suggested she resign from the work.
• Nan Ruoyi insisted that she had chosen the work herself and defended Sir as a good person.
• Nan Tianhai ordered Nan Ruoyi confined and said she could not toast him at his birthday banquet until she cut ties with the underworld.