Chapter Summaries

Liu Di survived Ye Yun and Shui'er’s hallucinogenic toxins, took hair samples from both in exchange for a toy bear, and left San Zhi Po. As he approached the Mohist Mechanical City, Mr. Song worried that a battle there would turn Liu Di and the Mohist School into enemies, while Aoya remained confident in Liu Di’s abilities.

• Liu Di identified the machines producing the fog and guessed that Shui'er controlled it, while Ye Yun wondered how he could remain unaffected by the toxins.
• Liu Di used black blades to cut strands of hair from Ye Yun and Shui'er, then revealed that he had traded Shui'er a metal teddy bear for her sample.
• Shui'er showed Ye Yun the teddy bear, and the enormous figure overseeing San Zhi Po vowed that Liu Di would not leave after taking DNA samples from two genetic evolvers.
• Liu Di climbed out of the fog, pleased that he had obtained the samples through a fair trade.
• Mr. Song saw Liu Di heading toward the Mohist Mechanical City and feared their weapons would make a conflict disastrous.
• Mo Lan offered Aoya cover behind his electronic shield, but Aoya refused and remained confident in Liu Di.

Liu Di’s tiny creatures devoured the Mohist Mechanical City, but as he climbed San Zhi Po, he became trapped in the Mohist School’s Dragon Confinement Array. Mo Lan and Mr. Song believed the formation had stopped Liu Di, while Mo Jiuli fled on the Wooden Sparrow.

• Liu Di asked Magic Child whether the tiny creatures had finished eating, and they devoured the Mohist Mechanical City after Mo Jiuli ordered it to fire.
• Mo Jiuli escaped the collapsing city on the Wooden Sparrow as Liu Di calmly continued up the slope, leaving the onlookers stunned.
• At the third bend, Liu Di lost his way and repeatedly turned back through San Zhi Po’s winding paths.
• Mo Lan explained that the Dragon Confinement Array used carefully arranged terrain and vegetation to create visual discrepancies that confused direction.
• Mr. Song concluded that Liu Di was trapped and praised Mo Jiuli for choosing San Zhi Po as the site of the battle.

The Mohist School used the Ice Coffin Formation to immobilize Liu Di as he struggled through the Dragon Trapping Formation toward San Zhi Po. The Giant Son in Command’s immense statue was revealed, but a white-robed youth named Mo Yu appeared beneath it and greeted everyone.

• Mo Lan explained that the Mohist disciples’ devices formed an Ice Coffin Formation capable of stopping biological and brain activity, and the disciples activated it against Liu Di.
• Liu Di kept walking through the blue beam, but the formation slowed him until he became rigid and fell silent hundreds of meters from San Zhi Po’s summit.
• Mr. Song and the others assumed Liu Di had lost, while Mo Lan waited for the incense controlling the Giant Son in Command to burn out.
• The mist cleared to reveal a thirty-meter statue, and the Mohist disciples bowed and hailed it as the Giant Son in Command.
• A white-robed youth standing beneath the statue laughed and introduced himself as Mo Yu.

Liu Di revealed that the Liu Di trapped in Mo Yu’s formations was actually his mechanical clone, while he had watched from a new slope he created above San Zhi Po’s summit. He left Mo Yu exposed by questioning the hidden message on the burned incense.

• Mo Yu announced that the Dragon Confinement Array and Ice Coffin Formation had contained Liu Di, then boasted of the Mohist School’s technological advantage.
• Liu Di appeared above Mo Yu on a newly formed slope and asked who was really standing beneath whose feet.
• The figure trapped in the Ice Coffin Formation rose and fired a polonium-powered beam that destroyed the formation, revealing itself as Di Qi.
• Liu Di explained that Di Qi had become his mechanical clone after leaving Ye Yun, and that he had used sand from a nearby branch of the Yi River to make a fourth slope.
• Liu Di revealed that he had watched Mo Yu for seven minutes and fifty seconds and asked whether the incense’s hidden four-character idiom was “not to be taken lightly” or “ambiguous and equivocal,” leaving Mo Yu speechless.

As Liu Di stood atop a newly conjured fourth slope, Mo Yu revealed his rejection of the Mohist School’s old rules and unveiled a mech hidden inside Mozi’s statue. Mo Yu entered the mech to challenge Liu Di, who chose to let him do so, leaving their fight poised to begin.

• Mr. Song realized Liu Di’s power reminded him of Leip’s reaction to the modern military exercise and understood why Leip had felt overwhelmed.
• Zhang Mofeng struggled to describe Liu Di’s feat, while Queen Oya admired him and the crowd assumed he could not lose.
• Mo Yu explained that the incense’s idiom was “not bound by convention” and rose into the air using technology in his shoes.
• Mo Yu revealed that the statue of Mozi concealed a combat mech named Mozi and asked Liu Di whether he had one.
• Liu Di said he had no mech, and Mo Yu entered his own to fight him; Liu Di let him board before making a move.

Liu Di tested the Mozi Mecha and discovered its self-repairing Fluid Metal armor, kinetic-energy recovery, and consciousness-blocking shield. The Mohist School summoned a Mechanical Qilin and Mechanical Dragon, leaving Liu Di scrambling to evade their attacks as the Qilin descended over him.

• Mozi Mecha battered Liu Di with its fists, but Liu Di dodged and dented its face with a kick.
• The mech’s Fluid Metal armor repaired itself and absorbed the force of Liu Di’s kick into its greatsword.
• Mo Yu activated a blue shield that blocked Liu Di’s consciousness and challenged him to exhaust himself fighting the Mozi Mecha.
• The Mozi Mecha fired a beam into the sky, opening a blue ring through which the Mechanical Qilin and Mechanical Dragon emerged.
• Liu Di evaded the Mozi Mecha’s sword, the Qilin’s claw, and the Dragon’s tail as the Qilin crashed down in front of him.

Liu Di used his awakened abilities to overwhelm the Mechanical Dragon, Mechanical Qilin, and Mozi Mecha, demolishing San Zhi Po in the battle. The damaged mechanical beasts escaped through the blue halo, while Mr. Song and the others emerged from their shield stunned by the destruction and Liu Di’s fury.

• Liu Di blasted the Mechanical Dragon with powerful electric currents, then punched the attacking Mozi Mecha away and endured the Mechanical Qilin’s flames.
• Liu Di charged the Mechanical Qilin, dented its head, and burned and short-circuited its limbs before kicking it through the trees.
• Liu Di used Fluid Metal to form a five-kilometer blade that leveled San Zhi Po, exposed the Mechanical Dragon, and severed its claws.
• Liu Di turned the Fluid Metal blade into a club and smashed the Mozi Mecha back into the earth as the battlefield collapsed.
• The damaged Mechanical Dragon and Mechanical Qilin fled through the blue halo, while Mr. Song, Elder Fanxi, Mo Lan, Aoya, Ye Yun, Shui'er, Zhang Mofeng, and the others emerged from their shield and reacted to the devastation.

After Mr. Song showed Liu Di footage proving the subway accident had not happened, Magic Child explained that Liu Di’s hallucinations could affect reality through mental power. Liu Di suspected his father’s illusions were training him and resolved to seek clues from Mo Yu about his father’s disappearance.

• Mr. Song’s secretary returned with railway surveillance footage, and Mr. Song showed it to Liu Di after mistaking an illusion of him for the real Liu Di.
• Liu Di watched footage of himself stopping a subway that was absent from the tracks, and Magic Child confirmed that no accident had occurred.
• Magic Child explained that Liu Di’s hallucinations could manifest as real physical forces and suggested this involved higher-dimensional mental power.
• Liu Di realized his brain had tricked him into believing the second subway accident was real, and he wondered whether his visions of the Mohist School were also illusions.
• Magic Child suggested Liu Di’s father had left the illusions to train his mental strength, and Liu Di turned his thoughts toward questioning Mo Yu about his father’s disappearance.

After demolishing the Mozi Mecha, Liu Di forced Mo Yu to concede and learned that his father, Liu Zhengqing, had conducted research on Consciousness Particles. He left to keep his appointment, while Mo Yu publicly insisted the battle was undecided because Liu Di had no mecha.

• Liu Di listed his victories, but Mo Yu repeatedly argued that Liu Di could not win a technology contest without a mecha.
• Mr. Song changed his stance toward Liu Di and promised to help him, while Liu Di told Magic Child he wanted to build a mecha.
• Liu Di asked about Liu Zhengqing, and Mr. Song revealed that Liu Zhengqing's laboratory had been raided and his research materials entrusted to the Mohist School.
• Mo Yu promised to show Liu Di the research results the next day, and Liu Di warned that anyone seeking his father's research could face him.
• Liu Di departed in a silver aircraft with Steel Di Qi, Little Tree, and the black mist; Queen Oya followed in a golden aircraft.
• Mo Yu told the crowd that his battle with Liu Di remained undecided because Liu Di did not have a mecha.

Liu Di commissioned his apprentice Morr to finish building the giant aircraft Noah, then learned from Mo Yu that he needed a mecha. The chapter ended with Liu Di revealing that he planned to use a massive mecha to destroy the Mozi Mecha.

• Liu Di returned to the Experimental Graveyard, found Little Liu doing homework, and worked through the night on a blueprint.
• Morr arrived at Liu Di's summons, admired the blueprint for a huge aircraft, and agreed to build it.
• Liu Di showed Morr Noah, a warship hidden in a canyon, and sent Punishers to secure the site for construction.
• Mo Yu visited Liu Di to remind him that he did not have a mecha, prompting Liu Di to slam the door.
• Liu Di told Morr that he was building one enormous mecha to stomp the Mozi Mecha to pieces.

Liu Di sent Morr to study the Noah mecha blueprints while he went to stop a clash between Aoya and Purple Moon. Morr was soon offered a mecha design by a mischievous child, as Kun Sang and Tu Yuan continued searching the Silver Shuttle for Golden Scarabs.

• Morr pleaded to build Liu Di’s mecha, but Liu Di refused and asked him to use their money to contact Heidina and speed up construction of Noah.
• Liu Di preserved DNA samples from Ye Yun and Shui'er, then left Morr in the Experimental Graveyard to investigate a disturbance outside.
• A child piloting a crude mechanical skeleton revealed himself to Morr and offered him mecha design blueprints.
• Liu Di stopped Aoya’s golden blade from striking Purple Moon and told Aoya that Purple Moon was a friend he had invited.
• On Punisher Island, Kun Sang and Tu Yuan searched the Silver Shuttle for Golden Scarabs, and Tu Yuan found another one.

Liu Di, Purple Moon, and Aoya tracked Lennard to an abandoned villa district in Sea City, where they encountered a vicious rat swarm and signs of bloody slaughter. They reached a concealed room on the third floor, where a seated figure laughed at Liu Di as he tore away the plastic sheet.

• Liu Di asked Purple Moon to lead him to Lennard, whose address she had found in Starweave's records, while Aoya followed them in displeasure.
• The three entered an abandoned villa district rumored to be haunted and made their way to Villa No. 16, where Liu Di noticed its number plates seemed to change.
• A swarm of enormous rats surrounded the three, and Liu Di killed one that lunged at him before they passed through the swarm.
• Liu Di, Purple Moon, and Aoya found blood-covered rooms and battered weapons on the second floor, suggesting that animals or people had been slaughtered there.
• On the third floor, a figure behind a plastic sheet laughed at Liu Di, who tore the sheet down.

Liu Di found Lennard dead in an abandoned villa, cutting off a lead in his investigation of Color Joker and Xiao Jie. After revealing that he had begun to understand Aoya’s gold-control technique, he failed to convince her to leave him, while a leather-clad woman sought a tattoo of the Color Joker design on human skin.

• Liu Di and Aoya discovered Lennard’s month-old corpse in a villa, with a Color Joker tattoo on his wrist.
• Liu Di found no clues at the scene, and Purple Moon called Dragon Might to remove Lennard’s body for an autopsy.
• Aoya demanded that Liu Di stop seeing Purple Moon, but Liu Di defended her as an ordinary friend who was helping him.
• Liu Di drew the Golden Scarabs onto his palm and explained that he had begun to decipher Aoya’s gold-control technique, but Aoya decided to stay with him.
• A leather-clad woman entered a tattoo shop and asked the owner to tattoo a Color Joker design taken from human skin, then told him she would kill him afterward.

Liu Di and Mo Yu examined a machine Liu Di’s father had left behind, which the Mohist School had spent years trying to restore. Liu Di identified the missing component in his Metal Ballpoint Pen and had the Mohist School manufacture it, leaving the machine ready for further work.

• Liu Di met Mo Yu at an unregistered dam and followed him to the underground facility housing the restored machine.
• Mo Yu admitted that the Mohist School’s team had been unable to activate the machine because it was missing a component.
• Liu Di recognized that the machine’s missing sixth component matched the Metal Ballpoint Pen’s internal structure and projected its design with his Sky Screen Watch.
• Liu Di concluded that the machine might control Consciousness Particles and help locate the other space where they had gone.
• Mohist School disciples delivered precisely manufactured alloy components, which Liu Di inspected.

Liu Di entered the newly activated Consciousness Particle device before Mo Yu could conduct a safety test, but the machine immediately lost power and left them in darkness. He discovered he was still in the underground chamber, and Mo Yu was alive beside him.

• Mo Yu described how the device might reveal a universe of thoughts, while Liu Di questioned him about the Mohist School's secret technology.
• Liu Di finished assembling the device, and Mo Yu activated it using the hydroelectric station's power.
• Liu Di ignored Mo Yu's warning and stepped into the space capsule as six beams of colored light swirled inside it.
• The machine overloaded and shut down, plunging the underground chamber into darkness as Liu Di found himself surrounded by silence.
• Mo Yu answered Liu Di's call from nearby, explaining that the chamber had simply suffered a power outage.

Liu Di discovered that the particle equipment needed an otherworldly energy source and traced its previous activation to a meteorite believed to be a fragment of Halley’s Comet. As Halley’s Comet was due to return, he learned that Mo Yu’s Mozi Mecha was already headed north to compete for the meteorite fragments.

• Mo Yu explained that every energy source he had tried failed to power the equipment, and Liu Di realized the machine required an energy unlike anything on Earth.
• Liu Di asked Magic Child to investigate events connected to outer space in 1997, and learned that his father had inspected a meteorite believed to come from Halley’s Comet.
• Magic Child reported that Halley’s Comet would return in a month and shed more fragments near the Far Northern Icefield, where countries were secretly sending mechas.
• Liu Di asked Mo Yu where his Mozi Mecha was, and Mo Yu realized it was already on its way north to compete for a meteorite.
• Mo Yu presented Liu Di with a mocking calligraphy scroll that read “You Don’t Have a Mecha,” but Liu Di reminded him of an unsolved riddle, leaving Mo Yu angry.

After Liu Di left, Mo Yu prepared the Mozi Mecha for the Far Northern Icefield, while Morr secretly gathered his family’s resources to carry out his Master’s mission. Morr’s father discovered the cost of his son’s departure only after Morr had vanished again.

• Mo Yu ordered every module of the Mozi Mecha and its external equipment transported to the Far North after Liu Di left him a cryptic farewell.
• Morr packed to leave the Morr family manor, telling his father that his Master had given him a confidential mission.
• Morr’s father tried to persuade him to stay by describing the family’s lucrative mecha-component orders and Leip Tongguo’s visit.
• Morr declared he would bring honor to his family, then escaped through a third-floor window on his floating platform.
• Morr’s father learned that Morr had taken half the factory’s equipment, more than three thousand workers, and 800 million euros, leaving half the factory paralyzed.
• Morr briefly reappeared from behind a tree to reassure his father, then vanished again.

Liu Di oversaw construction of a colossal mecha while Magic Child’s progress toward Strong Artificial Intelligence reached 60%. When Little Liu claimed he had surpassed Liu Di, he revealed that he had fallen in love, leaving Liu Di shocked by the five-year-old’s precocious romance.

• Liu Di showed Nan Ruoyi the enormous mecha skeleton and said its armor was in his heart.
• Liu Di traveled between Sea City and Fei Nation for a month to oversee construction as Magic Child reached 60% progress toward becoming a Strong Artificial Intelligence.
• Liu Di asked Little Liu what had been troubling him, and Little Liu claimed he had surpassed his master.
• Little Liu revealed that he had fallen in love and explained that he was five years old and had received a birthday gift from Kun Sang.
• Liu Di realized Little Liu had surpassed him in love but objected to the boy dating at such a young age.

Liu Di approved Morr’s construction of Little Liu’s mecha as a belated birthday gift and made plans to learn more about Shui’er, the young Giant Son of the Mohist School. As Halley’s Comet approached Earth, Liu Di prepared to head to the Far North, while Sister Purple Moon appeared to escort Little Liu and Shui’er home after a group of thugs threatened them.

• Liu Di discovered that Little Liu had a crush on Shui’er and scolded him for talking about buying her a house and car.
• Feeling guilty for neglecting Little Liu and forgetting his birthday, Liu Di approved Morr’s plan to build the boy a mecha.
• Liu Di contacted Mo Yu to ask about Shui’er, whom he learned had become the Mohist School’s Giant Son at four.
• Leip learned that Emperor Four had taken a Star-Grasp K32 Interstellar Missile, while an anonymous donor bought rights to twenty kilometers of land in the Far North.
• At the Experimental Graveyard, Liu Di asked Nan Ruoyi to pick up Little Liu before they headed north to confront Halley’s Comet.
• Little Liu walked Shui’er home, stood up to a group of young thugs who tried to rob them, and watched them flee when Sister Purple Moon appeared.

Little Liu recognized that the woman posing as Purple Moon was an impostor and chose to stay behind with Shui'er instead of joining Liu Di on the trip. Liu Di flew to the Far Northern Icefield, where world powers prepared for the arrival of meteorite fragments and an impending battle.

• Little Liu noticed the woman claiming to be Purple Moon had mismatched makeup and a Joker tattoo, and he refused to go with her.
• Little Liu told Liu Di that he was staying behind to study, while surveillance showed him standing with Shui'er and Nan Ruoyi.
• Liu Di boarded the Silver Shuttle and found the Fox Fur Coat Nan Ruoyi had prepared for him.
• Liu Di arrived at the Far Northern Icefield, where more than a dozen nations had established bases around a twenty-kilometer stretch of snow and ice.
• Pu Bai watched the empty icefield from the Montan Nation's base as its upgraded God Slayer mech stood behind him.