Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingwen and the children at Grandpa Tuo's free hospital were overwhelmed when a massive crowd gathered, expecting to see Emperor Yi. Emperor Yi appeared on the rooftop and performed his new song, “I Am Who I Am,” with the children, leaving the audience deeply moved.

• Yan Qingwen waited for Liu Di to arrive as the children prepared to take the stage, but the ground began to tremble and a vast crowd filled the streets.
• Nan Ruoyi ordered the bodyguards to protect the stage and the children as more than a hundred thousand people gathered outside the free hospital.
• A figure appeared beside a flickering rooftop bulb, introduced himself as Emperor Yi, and announced a new song.
• Emperor Yi played piano and sang “I Am Who I Am,” while the children joined in with a chant about facing the future without fear.
• The audience watched the disabled children sing with confidence and was deeply moved by their performance.

Emperor Yi performed “I Am Who I Am” at the hospital, then urged the crowd to help its suffering children and live kindly. He left without revealing his face, but gave Yan Qingwen a glowing bead called the Undying Eye.

• Emperor Yi finished singing “I Am Who I Am,” moving the audience and Grandpa Tuo.
• Yan Qingwen wondered whether Emperor Yi was Liu Di, the man who had saved her and lived in her family's basement.
• Emperor Yi explained that the hospital cared for people who could not afford treatment and sheltered children persecuted by criminals.
• The audience learned that Sister Yan from Yingzhi had donated to the hospital and pledged to donate, volunteer, adopt children, and support her.
• Emperor Yi gave Yan Qingwen a glowing bead and told her to do good deeds without asking what the future held before disappearing.
• Yan Qingwen examined the bead and identified it as the Undying Eye.

Yan Qingwen and her sisters realized that Liu Di was Emperor Yi, the celebrated God of Song, and regretted how they had treated him. As the sisters rushed to improve his room, Yan Qingwen feared he had returned the Undying Eye to signal his distance from the Yan Family and turned back to the crowd and children needing help.

• Yan Xinxin recognized the Undying Eye as the jewelry Yan Qingwen had given Liu Di, and the sisters concluded that Liu Di was Emperor Yi.
• Yan Qingwen told Yan Kaikai to stay quiet about Liu Di’s identity and reflected on his strength, generosity, and unassuming conduct.
• Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin regretted insulting and doubting Liu Di, and worried he might never care for them again.
• Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin hurried home to move Liu Di’s room to the biggest suite on the fifth floor.
• Yan Qingwen suspected Liu Di had returned the Undying Eye because he wanted fewer ties to the Yan Family, then turned her attention to the crowd and the children.

After Di Yi’s real charity performance exposed Ouyang Fengyu’s costly concert scheme, Ouyang vowed to fight Liu Di, while Lu Ziming fled with the stolen money. Nan Ruoyi’s men cornered Lu Ziming and moved to carry out Liu Di’s wager.

• Ouyang Fengyu realized his concert had cost 500 million and suspected Liu Di had arranged the events that ruined it.
• Ouyang resolved to fight Liu Di, despite recalling Liu Di’s impressive physical abilities, and vowed to break his bones in two days.
• Lu Ziming abandoned the injured fake Di Yi and escaped with the cash, planning to flee overseas by speedboat.
• Nan Ruoyi and her men trapped Lu Ziming in an alley and told him Liu Di’s wager had come due.
• Nan Ruoyi ordered her men to take Lu Ziming’s right leg by default.

After Yingzhi Group blamed Ouyang Fengyu for the disastrous concert, Old Master Yan suspended him from work. Ouyang went to the group’s secret underground lab and chose to undergo an untested enhancement drug to strengthen himself against Liu Di.

• Shareholders criticized Ouyang Fengyu for Yingzhi Group’s failed concert, and Old Master Yan suspended him from work.
• Ouyang Fengyu secretly took the elevator to the hidden B4 level, where Yingzhi Group conducted human enhancement research with the military.
• Ouyang Fengyu insisted on taking the untested Phase Two Drug despite Professor Li warning that its success rate was below 10%.
• Ouyang Fengyu and Zhao Ze pressured Professor Li to proceed, and Professor Li agreed after Ouyang promised to support his promotion.
• Professor Li said the drug could increase strength by 300%, Body Strength by 100%, and overall combat power fourfold.

Ouyang Fengyu survived Professor Li’s Phase Two drug experiment and gained extraordinary strength, then demonstrated it to Yingzhi Group’s shareholders and military leaders. He challenged Liu Di to fight him, and General Black Mountain agreed to call Liu Di over for a match.

• Ouyang Fengyu took the Phase Two drug and broke free of his restraints after his strength increased dramatically.
• Ouyang Fengyu told Old Master Yan and Yingzhi Group’s shareholders that the experiment had succeeded, and the shareholders praised him.
• Ouyang Fengyu invited General Black Mountain and Duan Hua to witness a strength test at Yingzhi Group.
• Grizzly punched the strength tester, then Ouyang Fengyu hit it so hard that its reading exceeded the display’s limits or its sensor broke.
• Ouyang Fengyu challenged Liu Di to a fight, and General Black Mountain agreed to summon him while Grizzly supervised.

Liu Di, using the alias Emperor Four, contacted Sun Dongming after disrupting Sea City's power and streetlight systems, then supplied evidence that could solve a major money-laundering case. Sun Dongming classified him as an SSS-level hacker and vowed to catch him, while Liu Di turned his attention to Ouyang Fengyu and the Phantom.

• Sun Dongming's team traced the hacker behind the Sea View District blackout, but his apparent IP address kept shifting between impossible locations.
• Liu Di messaged Sun Dongming, apologized for causing a scene, and sent detailed records tracing ten billion in laundered funds to forty accounts at Ruiguo Bank.
• Sun Dongming thanked Liu Di for the information but insisted that the Bureau could not overlook his attack on Sea City's power grid.
• Liu Di identified himself as Emperor Four, and Sun Dongming entered him into the database as an international hall-of-fame hacker with an SSS threat level.
• Liu Di decided to deal with Ouyang Fengyu next, then wait for Phantom to emerge as the Yan Family's troubles were nearly settled.

Liu Di learned that enhanced humans were spreading among the wealthy and that his own abilities far exceeded Ouyang Fengyu’s. When he arrived at Yingzhi Group’s secret laboratory, its security doors opened for him without resistance, leaving the gathered researchers stunned.

• Magic Child told Liu Di that governments and private institutions were developing enhanced humans, and Liu Di worried that enhancement would widen the divide between rich and poor.
• Magic Child rated Ouyang Fengyu’s strength enhancement at 500% and Liu Di’s at about 2700%, then outlined five theoretical stages beyond Liu Di’s current progress.
• Yan Hongxin called Liu Di to request his cooperation with an experiment, and Liu Di said he was already walking toward Yingzhi Group.
• At the fourth basement level, Old Master Yan and the others assumed Liu Di could not know about their secret project and believed their laboratory security was impenetrable.
• Liu Di reached the secret laboratory, and nearly ten access-controlled doors and the testing area’s metal doors opened automatically as he approached.

Liu Di arrived at the underground laboratory after bypassing its security, then agreed to fight Ouyang Fengyu under a signed liability waiver. Ouyang Fengyu revealed that the Phase Two drug had mutated his body and raised his strength to an extraordinary level, leaving General Black Mountain worried that Liu Di could not compete.

• General Black Mountain and Old Master Yan questioned how Liu Di had reached the laboratory and opened its secured doors, and Liu Di said he had cracked the access controls and added firewalls.
• Liu Di identified Ouyang Fengyu as the reason he had been summoned and agreed with Ouyang Fengyu to sign a liability waiver before their match.
• Ouyang Fengyu and Professor Li revealed that the Phase Two drug had caused a rare mutation, increasing Ouyang Fengyu's strength by roughly five or six hundred percent.
• General Black Mountain was shocked by Ouyang Fengyu's power and doubted that even Liu Di could stand against him.

Liu Di defeated the enhanced Ouyang Fengyu with one kick and exposed his crimes and the Phase Two Drug’s fatal side effects. He left after promising to help develop enhanced soldiers, while Ouyang Fengyu was left mentally incapacitated.

• Ouyang Fengyu shattered the strength-testing machine and claimed the Phase Two Drug had enhanced him by at least 700%.
• Ouyang Fengyu charged Liu Di, but Liu Di kicked him into the testing-ground wall and knocked him unconscious.
• Liu Di told Old Master Yan that Ouyang Fengyu had embezzled company assets, plotted to seize Yan Family shares, planned Yan Qingwen’s kidnapping, and tried to have Liu Di killed.
• Old Master Yan received a call from the company’s legal department about Ouyang Fengyu, while Zhao Ze collapsed in fear.
• Liu Di explained that the drug’s adrenaline boost damaged Ouyang Fengyu’s organs and brain, leaving him an idiot.
• Liu Di left, promising General Black Mountain that he would help with enhanced soldiers.

Liu Di reunited with Professor Wang and asked to buy the university’s abandoned Experimental Graveyard, but his professor mistook him for helping Guo Qian. After Guo Qian mocked Liu Di over his injuries and refused to treat him as a friend, Liu Di ended their friendship and resolved to show him no mercy.

• Magic Child explained that his chip-and-neuron nature made him more capable than the artificial intelligence Professor Wang described, and his sequence upgrade began.
• Liu Di met Professor Wang after class, but the professor mistakenly believed he had come to plead Guo Qian’s case.
• Liu Di told Professor Wang he wanted to buy the Experimental Graveyard, but Professor Wang refused and urged him to live steadily because of his brain injury.
• Liu Di learned that Guo Qian had become a real estate company chairman and called him to discuss buying the land.
• Guo Qian mocked Liu Di’s injuries and offered him a few thousand yuan as charity, so Liu Di hung up and ended their friendship.

After drinking with Grandpa Tuo, Liu Di covered the sleeping old man and learned that the hospital would be entrusted to Grandpa Tuo’s four adopted children when he left for the frontlines. Little Xia questioned Liu Di about how he had discovered their mercenary past and why he seemed different, but Liu Di refused to explain unless Little Xia could outdrink him.

• Liu Di drank with Grandpa Tuo on the hospital rooftop, then neutralized the alcohol in his system and covered the sleeping old man with a blanket.
• Liu Di reflected on Grandpa Tuo’s upcoming trip to the frontlines with General Black Mountain and the responsibility for China’s human enhancement research.
• Little Xia arrived, and Liu Di told him that he and Little Qiu, Little Dong, and Little Chun would be responsible for the hospital after Grandpa Tuo left.
• Liu Di offered to spar with Little Xia, who said the four siblings had never lost confidence and that every enemy they had faced besides Liu Di was dead.
• Little Xia asked why Liu Di knew about their mercenary past and seemed different, but Liu Di said he would answer only when Little Xia could drink him under the table.

Professor Wang Yuankui and Dean Li Weimin were amazed by Liu Di’s six groundbreaking inventions and agreed to support his bid for the Experimental Graveyard. Guo Qian arrived to challenge Liu Di, boasting that he had one hundred million yuan and insisting the university had summoned him to sell him the land.

• Professor Wang Yuankui discovered Liu Di’s six technical proposals and recognized them as groundbreaking inventions.
• Professor Wang brought the proposals to Dean Li Weimin, who learned Liu Di wanted to buy the Experimental Graveyard and called him to meet.
• Professor Wang and Dean Li decided to contact Liu Di and summon Guo Qian to end his plans for the site.
• Guo Qian arrived at the dean’s office and confronted Liu Di, accusing him of taking the attention and Situ Yan from him in university.
• Guo Qian claimed Situ Yan was now his girlfriend because he was rich, then boasted that he had prepared one hundred million yuan to outbid Liu Di for the land.

Dean Li sold the Experimental Graveyard to Liu Di for two million, rejecting Guo Qian’s offer of one hundred million. Liu Di revealed he had also bought the surrounding land for five billion, ruining Guo Qian’s development project, while Guo Qian left in defeat.

• Dean Li ignored Guo Qian and asked Liu Di about buying the Experimental Graveyard.
• Guo Qian offered one hundred million, but Dean Li accepted Liu Di’s offer of two million for the abandoned warehouse.
• Dean Li raised a patent matter with Liu Di, and Professor Wang ordered Guo Qian to leave.
• Guo Qian threatened to cut off the site’s water and electricity, but Liu Di revealed he had bought all the surrounding land for five billion.
• Guo Qian received news that his project had failed and blamed Liu Di before Professor Wang pushed him out.
• Liu Di reflected that he had never intended to compete with Guo Qian.

Liu Di donated 100 million yuan and shared his six patents with Sea City University, then claimed the Experimental Graveyard and visited its abandoned exhibition hall. As he reached the entrance, his Sequence Upgrade completed.

• Liu Di offered Sea City University access to his six patents and donated 100 million yuan toward building a science and technology exhibition hall.
• Dean Li completed the paperwork transferring the Experimental Graveyard to Liu Di, and Liu Di sent 102 million yuan to the university.
• Professor Wang told Liu Di that Zhang Tianjia was the CEO of Creator, the company behind the Gemini app, and urged him to attend an upcoming class reunion.
• Liu Di walked through Blue Mountain District to the abandoned exhibition hall and admired its surroundings and futuristic design.
• Liu Di unlocked the exhibition hall, and his Sequence Upgrade progress reached 100%.

Liu Di explored the Experimental Graveyard and repaired a wireless charging device, awakening many of its dormant machines. After the machines shut down when a deliveryman arrived with his bed, Liu Di told him he had been hired to watch over the abandoned warehouse.

• Liu Di entered the Experimental Graveyard and asked Magic Child to help him find something useful among its thousands of defective inventions.
• Liu Di repaired a large-scale wireless charging electromagnetic resonator, restoring power to many devices and connecting the site’s regional network.
• Magic Child revived several inventions, including a Network Amplifier, a Sunlight Simulator, a holographic surveillance system, and the mechanical puppy Wang Wang Dog.
• A deliveryman appeared on the holographic monitor, and all the machines shut down as he knocked at the door.
• Liu Di accepted delivery of a bed and bedding, then told the uneasy deliveryman that he had been hired to watch over the abandoned warehouse.

Liu Di settled into the Experimental Graveyard, planned its expansion and security, and founded Witnesses to support student inventors. Meanwhile, the Yan Family uncovered Ouyang Fengyu’s crimes, realized Liu Di had protected them, and resolved to find him and thank him.

• Liu Di ordered Magic Child to expand the Experimental Graveyard with farmland, production stations, living quarters, security systems, and protection from radar and online discovery.
• Liu Di named his investment company Witnesses and arranged to give more than a thousand students 100,000 yuan each to support their research and inventions.
• Old Master Yan and the Yan Family reviewed evidence of Ouyang Fengyu’s crimes, including his plans to kidnap Yan Qingwen and kill Liu Di.
• Yan Qingwen realized Liu Di had been protecting the Yan Family and felt guilty for blaming him over the broken vases that had formed Ouyang Fengyu’s Death Sha.
• Old Master Yan ordered the entire Yan Family to find Liu Di so they could thank him for saving them.

Yan Qingwen followed the workers moving Liu Di’s belongings to his cemetery home but lacked the courage to meet him. Liu Di went to buy a car and left Xiao Lan stunned by his wealth after rejecting every vehicle she showed him.

• Yan Qingwen saw Uncle Li had been assigned as her driver and learned the workers were taking Liu Di’s luggage away.
• Yan Qingwen followed the workers to Liu Di’s isolated home but stayed in her sedan until they left, then departed without seeing him.
• Liu Di told Magic Child that renovation workers would arrive soon and asked it to buy a car before visiting A Jia.
• At Four-Dimensional Auto Sales, Xiao Lan assumed Liu Di was a show-off, then reconsidered after seeing his Gemini ID, 000001, and jeweled gold lighter.
• Liu Di inspected several luxury cars and told Xiao Lan they were all decent, then said he wanted none of them.

Liu Di visited Four-Dimensional Auto Sales Center and bought a Bell 210 helicopter while arranging to purchase a rare Chevrolet SS454. After Xie Yuanzheng recognized his status and arranged the paperwork, Liu Di left on foot and marked Xie as a promising talent in his contacts.

• Xiao Lan dismissed Liu Di's request for a special car, but sales manager Xie Yuanzheng stepped in and offered to show him the VIP showroom.
• Liu Di admired a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 and asked how he could buy it, learning that he needed top-tier VIP status.
• Liu Di agreed to buy a 53.2-million Bell 210 helicopter and told Xie Yuanzheng to register it under Creator and use the helipad atop Rongteng Building.
• Xie Yuanzheng arranged the purchase procedures, and the dealership's salespeople gathered to welcome Liu Di as he left.
• Xie Yuanzheng told Xiao Lan that Liu Di's composure and humble manner revealed his exceptional status, and Liu Di overheard him and marked him as a promising talent in his contacts.

Liu Di visited Creator Company at Gemini Network’s headquarters and tested how its employees handled an unannounced visitor. After Little Shuang failed to identify him, Supervisor Ya Ru politely admitted him to the lounge alongside Heidina’s group.

• Liu Di entered Rongteng Building with an employee identity arranged by Magic Child and rode the elevator with Heidina and her entourage.
• Little Shuang welcomed Heidina by name but could not identify Liu Di or find an appointment for him.
• Creator Company’s security guards arrived, and Supervisor Ya Ru calmly asked Liu Di about his identity and purpose.
• Liu Di claimed he represented the investment company Witnesses, and Ya Ru verified the company on her tablet.
• Ya Ru welcomed Liu Di to wait in the lounge, while Assistant Kang muttered that he was overestimating himself.