Chapter Summaries

Liu Di asked Mo Yu to help cure his brothers, whose brains had been invaded by mutated Toxoplasma. Mo Yu agreed to take on the treatment, and Liu Di ended by warning him that any harm to the brothers would cost Mo Yu his life.

• Mo Yu explained that the Mohist School had mapped the brain's neurons and used them to interpret human thoughts, while Magic Child speculated that a Super Artificial Intelligence could improve the human brain.
• Liu Di asked Mo Yu about mental power, but Mo Yu dismissed it as something from novels.
• Liu Di told Mo Yu that his brothers had trusted him and explained that mutated Toxoplasma had invaded their brains.
• Liu Di asked Mo Yu to remove the Toxoplasma so his brothers could go home, and Mo Yu agreed despite the uncertain costs and consequences.
• Liu Di called Mo Yu brother and warned him that he would not live if even one of the brothers was hurt.

Liu Di sent the Heavenly Net warriors to the Mohist School for treatment while asking Mo Yu to cure them safely. Before leaving, Chi Mei revealed that Color Joker had tried to control him, escaped through a tattoo artist, and planned to capture Liu Di in three days.

• Liu Di watched the Heavenly Net warriors board Mohist School helicopters and entrusted their treatment to Mo Yu, promising him a favor if they were cured.
• Liu Di admitted that he had hacked the Mohist School's systems at Weishan Lake so he could review and improve the treatment plan.
• Chi Mei remained behind in the rain, and Liu Di discovered an incomplete Joker tattoo on his wrist.
• Chi Mei told Liu Di that Color Joker had tried to take over his consciousness, but Chi Mei had fought him off and Color Joker escaped by possessing the tattoo artist.
• Chi Mei warned Liu Di that Color Joker planned to capture him in three days, leaving Liu Di uncertain whether Color Joker had truly left Chi Mei's body.

Liu Di decided to trust Chi Mei and let him remain at the Experimental Graveyard as a potential ally against Color Joker. He discovered that a rare celestial alignment would occur in three days and suspected it might mark the merging of two worlds.

• Chi Mei refused to leave and offered to help Liu Di face the enemy, so Liu Di let him stay at the Experimental Graveyard.
• Mo Yu remained at the graveyard too, claiming loyalty despite Liu Di suspecting he wanted to watch the research on Liu Zhengqing.
• Liu Di learned from Magic Child that a super lunar eclipse and rare planetary alignment would occur in three days.
• Magic Child explained that the alignment involved Fomalhaut b, also called the Zombie Planet, which Liu Di suspected might be the world of Consciousness Particles.
• Liu Di connected the alignment to Color Joker and theorized that it could be the moment when the two worlds merged.

Liu Di planned to use Mo Yu's clone as bait to capture Color Joker, and Mo Yu agreed in exchange for a favor and access to Liu Di's research. Their discussion turned to psychic power, but Liu Di's analysis of Ming Wan's blood showed that Ming Wan was an ordinary person, leaving Liu Di baffled about how psychic power worked.

• Liu Di realized Mo Yu's clone could serve as bait to lure Color Joker into a body that could be restrained.
• Liu Di persuaded Mo Yu to help with the plan, and Mo Yu agreed in exchange for a future favor and research on Liu Zhengqing's machine.
• Liu Di told Mo Yu that the machine required psychic power, which he could not learn, and said he had obtained blood from the psychic master Ming Wan.
• Mo Yu believed Liu Di was hiding his blood-analysis technique and wanted to steal it.
• Liu Di's analysis showed that Ming Wan was an ordinary person, leaving Liu Di wondering why he could not learn psychic power.

Liu Di discovered that Whitebrow’s blood contained Moscovium Element and used some from the Silver Shuttle’s engine to gain the ability to fly. When Ghost Island came under attack, Liu Di set off to confront the threat, but he flew in the wrong direction.

• Liu Di found Moscovium Element in Whitebrow’s blood and learned from Magic Child that Whitebrow had likely been modified after an energy explosion.
• Liu Di decided to fuse with Moscovium Element from the Silver Shuttle’s engine and flew to the roof to obtain it.
• Song Yu and Guanyin brought Liu Di a Crystal Ball from Ringmaster Ming Wan, but it lit up in Mo Yu’s hands and not Liu Di’s.
• Liu Di injected himself with a tube of black liquid, then alarms showed dozens of Copper Armor figures rising from whirlpools around Ghost Island.
• Liu Di flew off to help, and Mo Yu realized he was heading east instead of south toward Ghost Island.

Golden Island neared defeat in an assault by the Underground People, and Oya reluctantly prepared to sacrifice herself to save her people. Liu Di arrived and promised to throw one punch, while the attackers revealed that Ghost Island was also under siege.

• The Underground People killed several of Golden Island's defenders, leaving Oya and the remaining Twelve Palaces warriors badly wounded.
• Oya refused to ask Liu Di for help until the white-robed elder warned that her people would be slaughtered, and she offered herself in exchange for their lives.
• Liu Di arrived, but Oya insisted she could still repel the attackers; he said he would return the favor for her past protection by throwing one punch.
• Liu Di recognized a copper-armored giant and learned that the Underground People had attacked Ghost Island while he was away.
• Dozens of Underground People emerged from whirlpools around Ghost Island and landed on its shore, outnumbering and overpowering the island's defenders.

Liu Di’s upgraded Punishers fought off the Underground People’s invasion of Ghost Island, but Sun Priest Meg’s light-enhanced assault put them in danger. As Meg battered Little Xia and Tu Yuan, the Thailand man emerged from the last modification pod and attacked him.

• Punisher Little Chun and the other upgraded Punishers overwhelmed the Underground People’s first wave on Ghost Island, but hundreds more surfaced around the island.
• Xiao Tang was fooled by Meg’s mental illusion, while the recovered Sun Priest rose into the sky and empowered the Underground People with his light.
• Meg attacked the Punishers, burned Little Xia’s metal arm, and blasted Tu Yuan away before Little Xia’s reinforcement time ran out.
• Liu Di announced that 321 Universe’s Number One Expert had completed 0.01% of his modification, and the Thailand man emerged from the last pod.
• The Thailand man charged Meg, struck him repeatedly, and drove him from the sky deep into the ground.

Liu Di used Moscovium Element control to expose and destroy the Underground People threatening Golden Island, then left after reassuring Aoya. At Ghost Island, Kun Sang defeated the Sun Priest and announced his new slogan, while Meg died after hearing it.

• Liu Di used antigravity to lift the Underground People’s drill rigs from the sea and reveal the hidden clan.
• Liu Di introduced himself to the Copper Hammer Giant and destroyed the rigs and more than a hundred Underground People with a single punch.
• Liu Di told Aoya to call him if she faced trouble again, then vanished into the darkness as Aoya collapsed in shock.
• At Ghost Island, Kun Sang finished pummeling the Sun Priest, who still had enough strength to ask his name.
• Kun Sang declared himself invincible and said he had come to make the Sun Priest heartbroken, and Meg died after hearing his slogan.

Liu Di watched the Punishers defeat the Underground People on Ghost Island and monitored Mo Yu’s preparations to activate the Consciousness Particles machine. He rushed to stop Mo Yu from risking himself, only to discover that Mo Yu had put Chi Mei in the chamber instead.

• Liu Di observed Little Chun, Tu Yuan, Jian Xu, Little Xia, and Kun Sang overpower the Underground People, while Kun Sang soon collapsed in pain from his own strength.
• Liu Di reflected on how he had discovered Aoya’s crisis through the Golden Scarabs and regretted that Kun Sang’s slogan had driven Sun Priest Meg to his death before Liu Di could question him.
• Mo Yu secretly activated the Consciousness Particles machine’s preparations and refined Qi'ao Isotope from diamonds in the Experimental Graveyard.
• Liu Di hurried to the Experimental Graveyard to stop Mo Yu from entering the dangerous machine.
• Liu Di found that Mo Yu had tricked Chi Mei into sitting inside the experimental chamber and lunged at Mo Yu with a flying kick.

Liu Di’s consciousness was pulled out of his body by the Consciousness Particle Machine, and he briefly perceived a separate world he could not enter. After Mo Yu shut down the machine, Liu Di returned to his body and realized that souls existed, then began questioning where his clone’s soul was.

• Mo Yu activated the Consciousness Particle Machine, and Liu Di pulled Chi Mei away before the released energy struck him.
• The energy separated Liu Di’s consciousness from his body, leaving him floating as a soul while his body remained inside the machine.
• Liu Di saw a second world form but could not enter it, and he concluded that his mental strength was too weak.
• Mo Yu cut off the machine’s energy, and Liu Di returned to his body, kicking Mo Yu as he regained control.
• Liu Di asked Magic Child about the change, learned his weight had dropped by 0.4 grams, and concluded that souls were real.
• Liu Di asked Mo Yu whether his clone ever talked to him, wondering where the clone’s own soul was.

Liu Di prepared to catch Color Joker by using the Eye of Space satellite to monitor the Experimental Graveyard, and he wondered whether unconscious people could enter the Consciousness Universe. When a blood-marked man approached the graveyard, a hidden sniper killed him before Liu Di could reach him.

• Liu Di ordered Magic Child to prepare defenses around the Experimental Graveyard before the Nine-Planet Alignment in three days.
• Magic Child discovered that Gaden Quake had issued an order to aim the Eye of Space satellite at the graveyard, then hacked the satellite so only they could view its feed.
• Liu Di suspected Color Joker might be entering the Consciousness Universe through unconscious people to learn their secrets.
• The Eye of Space feed showed a China man approaching the graveyard with blood-written words on his chest, and Liu Di rushed out to meet him.
• A sniper shot the man dead from three kilometers away, and Liu Di turned toward the hidden shooter.

Liu Di captured Kuang Yewei, a former master marksman sent to assassinate him by the organization Scorpion's Tail Thorn. Under deep hypnosis, Kuang Yewei revealed that 2,200 dormant killers had received the same order to kill Liu Di within three days.

• Kuang Yewei fired a sniper rifle at Liu Di, then tried to kill himself, but Liu Di stopped him and crushed his weapons.
• Liu Di deduced that Kuang Yewei was a former soldier with a young daughter and demanded to know why he had been ordered to assassinate him.
• Kuang Yewei resisted Liu Di's hypnosis by biting his tongue until a drone showed him his daughter asking when he would come home.
• Under hypnosis, Kuang Yewei explained that Scorpion's Tail Thorn had been funded by drug lord Luo Kun and had resumed operations after his assassination order reappeared.
• Kuang Yewei revealed that 2,200 killers had been ordered to kill Liu Di within three days and would face suicide or family extermination if they failed or fled.

Liu Di defeated Scorpion's Tail Thorn's attackers and told Officer Duan about the organization and the hidden enemy behind it. He then discovered that Duan Hua's unfamiliar policewoman attendant was his daughter, Xiao Jie.

• Liu Di used Steel Di Qi to knock out the Scorpion's Tail Thorn killers and spared the middle-aged man for the sake of his daughter, Xiao Ni.
• Liu Di found a threatening message on a sniper's victim and suspected that the hidden enemy was trying to break his mind.
• Duan Hua arrived and warned Liu Di about a large, unknown assassination force, but Liu Di revealed that it was Scorpion's Tail Thorn, founded by Luo Kun, and explained that Luo Kun had ordered the attack while comatose.
• Steel Di Qi brought more than a dozen unconscious killers to Liu Di, who asked Duan Hua to handle the scene and explained that the enemy had used hypnosis and European Nation satellites to monitor him.
• Liu Di sensed that Duan Hua's unfamiliar policewoman attendant was an augmented human, and Duan Hua introduced her as his daughter, Xiao Jie.

Duan Hua introduced his daughter Xiao Jie to Liu Di, but she openly confessed that she liked him and insisted on protecting him. After criticizing Liu Di’s security and questioning Mo Yu, she began investigating the people around him, leaving Duan Hua promising to keep her away the next day.

• Duan Hua introduced Xiao Jie as a talented member of the Special Operations Team, and she told Liu Di that she liked him.
• Duan Hua tried to explain that Xiao Jie admired Liu Di, but she insisted she had meant exactly what she said and requested the protection assignment.
• Xiao Jie ordered a commuter vehicle and a surveillance vehicle, then criticized Liu Di’s exposed home and careless security.
• Xiao Jie mistook Mo Yu for an underage C-Class bodyguard and demanded to see his identification.
• Liu Di asked Duan Hua what was happening, and Duan Hua promised to ensure Xiao Jie would not visit the next day.

Liu Di discovered that Duan Xiao Jie had organized a large force to protect him, while Duan Hua and his monstrous brother secretly planned to attack that night and take over Liu Di’s body. The chapter left Liu Di unaware that the supposed challenge in three days was a deception and that his enemies intended to strike immediately.

• Liu Di found hundreds of police and War Department forces deployed outside the Experimental Graveyard under Duan Xiao Jie’s command.
• Duan Hua told Liu Di that Duan Xiao Jie had devised the defense plan and been appointed overall commander, while Liu Di worried that her forces did not understand Color Joker’s abilities.
• Duan Hua privately told his monstrous brother that the crowded battlefield would overwhelm Liu Di’s restraint and leave him unable to fight effectively.
• Duan Hua revealed that he had planted the idea of a battle three days later in Liu Di’s mind, but planned to attack that night and seize Liu Di’s body.
• Duan Hua told his brother that his increased mental power let him split his consciousness, while refusing to reveal how many bodies he had possessed.

Liu Di learned that Scorpion's Tail Thorn planned a coordinated attack on the Experimental Graveyard and examined the encrypted receiver Kuang Yewei had brought him. He identified how the device transmitted orders but still needed to crack its code, leaving him to work out how to control the organization before the attack.

• Duan Hua and the monster watched Liu Di as fog covered the Experimental Graveyard, then dismissed it as ordinary sea fog when it cleared.
• Liu Di returned to the Experimental Graveyard and found Kuang Yewei hiding with his daughter, Xiao Ni.
• Kuang Yewei admitted that Scorpion's Tail Thorn members had orders to attack the Experimental Graveyard within two days and gave Liu Di a receiver and a coded message.
• Liu Di examined the receiver's cesium component under an electron microscope and deduced the frequency band used to transmit orders.
• Liu Di realized he would have to reverse-engineer the encryption from the numbers alone because he could not interrogate Luo Kun directly.

Liu Di cracked Scorpion's Tail Thorn's encrypted order and redirected its assassins to obey him, then waited outside the Experimental Graveyard as Color Joker's threat loomed. Duan Hua arrived, and Liu Di realized he knew more about Color Joker than he should; the chapter ended as an airship dropped ancient robots and a giant mechanical dog charged from the graveyard.

• Liu Di decoded Luo Kun's 36-cell Sudoku encryption and used Magic Child to broadcast a new order that made the assassins follow Liu Di's commands at the assassination site.
• Liu Di told Kuang Yewei to remain with Xiao Ni for three days while he prepared to face Color Joker near the Experimental Graveyard.
• Liu Di shared tea and coffee with Duan Hua and questioned how he knew that Liu Di's enemy was Color Joker.
• Duan Hua claimed he had learned about Joker from interrogating the Poker Club, and Liu Di agreed to help catch him.
• A hydrogen airship arrived and dropped rust-covered robots as a five-meter mechanical dog charged out of the Experimental Graveyard.

Liu Di and Duan Hua watched as antique Iron Executioner war machines attacked, while Liu Di refused to reveal whether he was the real Liu Di or Di Qi. His mechanical dog destroyed the machines and their airship, and Liu Di left Duan Hua with an ominous toast to Old Master Duan.

• Magic Child identified the attacking machines as Iron Executioners, secret weapons from a sealed former Soviet Russian facility.
• Liu Di refused to fight or reveal his true identity, suspecting that Duan Hua was waiting for a chance to kill him.
• Liu Di's mechanical dog used upgraded Fluid Metal to destroy the war machines and tear open the airship, which exploded as it fell.
• After the battlefield fell silent, Liu Di poured Duan Hua tea and warned that appearances could not be trusted.
• Liu Di raised his head and murmured, "Old Master Duan, please enjoy the tea."

Scorpion's Tail Thorn and an army of Black and White Joker clones surrounded the Experimental Graveyard, leaving Liu Di outnumbered by nearly four thousand attackers. As Duan Hua tried to seize Liu Di's wrist, Liu Di revealed that the plan had not gone as Duan Hua expected.

• Duan Hua watched hundreds of vehicles approach the Experimental Graveyard while Liu Di and the Man in White sat nearby.
• Nearly three hundred vehicles brought over a thousand Scorpion's Tail Thorn killers to confront the Sea City SWAT Team.
• A horde of Black and White Joker clones charged from the darkness and joined the killers, bringing the besieging force to nearly four thousand.
• Duan Hua ordered the Special Forces and SWAT officers to crowd around the tea table, then reached for Liu Di's wrist.
• Liu Di told Duan Hua that his wrist felt icy cold, like steel.

Liu Di discovered that the Color Joker had three clones and forced the Scorpion's Tail Thorn members to escape before attacking a suspicious Black and White Joker. When Duan Hua tried to threaten the special police, they vanished as projections, leaving only Mo Yu beside him.

• Duan Hua taunted Liu Di, using Old Master Duan's body to provoke him and threaten the people around them.
• Liu Di determined from Duan Hua's reactions that the Color Joker had three clones.
• Liu Di ordered the Scorpion's Tail Thorn members to disband, and more than two thousand of them fled.
• Liu Di attacked a Black and White Joker whose eyes looked different and burned it to ash with his Reaction Furnace.
• Duan Hua tried to seize a Special Operations Team member, but the surrounding officers vanished as projections, leaving Mo Yu with him.