Chapter Summaries

China destroyed the Iron Thistle army with its secret Pangu weapon, but Liu Di detected violent tides and a global tremor that suggested Earth's rotation had slowed. He suspected an unseen rogue planet was exerting its gravity on Earth.

• China's secret Tiangong satellite fired the Pangu missile, which wiped out the Iron Thistle army.
• Mr. Song told the stunned world leaders that the weapon was called Pangu, and the Iron Thistle debris burned up in the atmosphere.
• Liu Di questioned why the unmanned aircraft had gathered over China and why they had stopped using their space-jump capability.
• Liu Di detected abnormal tides around the world and observed the apparently tranquil moon.
• Earth shuddered globally, and Magic Child calculated that its rotation had slowed by 0.36%.
• Liu Di concluded that a massive celestial body was affecting Earth's gravity and suspected it was a rogue planet.

A gigantic planet encased in a Dyson Sphere emerged near Earth, revealing the Reaper Civilization’s arrival and its apparent intention to harvest Earth. After the structure anchored itself near Kyoto, China, a blue shockwave disabled electronics and communications worldwide, leaving humanity unable to resist.

• Liu Di and the people of Earth watched a dark-green planet emerge from a hidden space-time gate eight million kilometers away and loom beside Earth.
• Liu Di recognized the planet’s Dyson Sphere and realized its gravitational influence had caused the apparent increase in Earth’s mass.
• Bulin explained that the Reaper Civilization’s planet was nearly out of energy, and Liu Di concluded that the invaders had targeted Earth.
• The Dyson Sphere’s observation deck rotated toward Kyoto, China, and four iron chains anchored the planet to the ground outside the city.
• World leaders mobilized their militaries, but the Reaper Civilization released a blue shockwave that disabled electronics, communications, aircraft, and power grids around the world.

The Reaper Civilization revealed that Liu Di’s beam of light had led its probes to Earth and announced its intention to enslave humanity. It broadcast its arrival across the planet and promised to demonstrate its power by destroying humanity’s home.

• The Reaper Civilization disabled Earth’s major networks and aimed its Dyson Sphere watchtower at Kyoto, China, where Liu Di sensed its attention.
• A Reaper spoke directly to Liu Di, explaining that his beam of light had alerted seventeen probes and enabled them to locate Earth.
• Liu Di recalled firing the beam toward the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Watcher appeared to tell him, “Cause and effect.”
• The Reaper dismissed humanity as weak but said it would preserve people as workers to build the Dyson Sphere and crush their will first.
• Screens around the world displayed the Reaper beings and the dark green planet chained to the ground in Kyoto.
• The Reaper Civilization addressed Earth, declaring that humanity would witness its home’s destruction before submitting.

Liu Di faced the Reapers alone after they disabled Earth's military systems and unleashed the Demon Dragonfly People. As the swarm descended, Qin Changhe arrived in the museum-restored Jiu Jiu Gao Lian and attacked, leaving his fate uncertain as the enemy surrounded his aircraft.

• The Reapers opened the planet's volcano hatches, releasing swarms of Demon Dragonfly People, and restored communications only for world leaders.
• The Watcher taunted Liu Di while nations reported their weapons and vehicles disabled, and Liu Di left Bulin behind to confront the Reapers alone.
• Liu Di's flickering body avoided the Reapers' blue beam, while nearly one hundred thousand Demon Dragonfly People gathered and dove toward Earth.
• Qin Changhe flew the network-independent Jiu Jiu Gao Lian toward Liu Di and saluted him, declaring that the aircraft would not return.
• Qin Changhe fired the fighter's nuclear cannon into the swarm, burning thousands of Dragonfly People before they surrounded the aircraft.

Liu Di used his Dark Matter Network to deploy thousands of Steel Di Qi units and revealed that the Reaper Civilization had nearly exhausted its energy. As the battle turned against the defenders and Liu Di remained unable to fight directly, A Jia and the Punishers arrived to join the counterattack.

• Liu Di used the Dark Matter Network to activate Steel Di Qi units, which caught Qin Changhe’s falling fighter and helped him attack the Demon Dragonfly People.
• Liu Di revealed that the Reaper Planet had almost exhausted its energy and that the Reapers could no longer use their planet-destroying weapon effectively.
• Steel Di Qi units poured into the battle, but they struggled without Liu Di’s precise commands and many were destroyed by the Dragonfly People.
• The Reaper commander ordered the Demon Dragonflies to attack Liu Di, and A Jia arrived in Kyoto and kicked one away from him.
• A silver-armed youth saved A Jia and called Liu Di “Brother,” while Chun, Xia, Qiu, Dong, Tu Yuan, Jian Xu, Tie Sanshi San, and Little Xia’s fellow Punishers arrived to fight.
• Little Xia and the Punishers charged into the Demon Dragonfly People after Xiao Tang had developed the God Cube to Level 10, raising their average strength to at least S-Class.

Liu Di’s forces gained reinforcements from Earth’s enhanced humans and the Maya Civilization, but the Reaper Civilization unleashed methane-filled worms that detonated beneath the battlefield. The battle continued as the underground explosions threatened the allied forces.

• Liu Di welcomed FIC Robbins, Lisa Fei, Dragon Might, and hundreds of enhanced humans who had answered his call for help.
• The Reaper Civilization deployed Angsu Aliens, and Tu Yuan was knocked aside by one of the monsters.
• Little Tree and Unique fought the Angsu Aliens, while Unique said it was protecting Xirou rather than helping Liu Di.
• He Chu and the Maya Valkyrie arrived with Maya aircraft and attacked the Demon Dragonflies.
• The Reaper Civilization released thousands of methane worms, which burrowed underground and caused powerful explosions that injured the Punishers and charred Little Tree.

Whitebrow, Bulin, and other reinforcements joined Liu Di’s battle against the Reaper Civilization, forcing the aliens to unleash five powerful slaves from Red 141 Star. As thousands of Mohist School disciples arrived, Liu Di saw an apparently endless crowd of Mo Yus approaching.

• Whitebrow arrived with Harmony Brings Wealth, Ming Wan, Liu Yi, Guanyin, and circus members, then used gravity control to rip worms from the ground and hurl them into the sky.
• Bulin attacked the Reaper Civilization’s planet with bricks that became miniature neutron bombs, draining its defensive shield.
• The Reaper Civilization released five powerful Red 141 Star People from their restraints and sent them into the battle.
• Thousands of Mohist School disciples rushed toward the battlefield with Mohist energy devices.
• Liu Di spotted a seemingly endless crowd of white-robed Mo Yus advancing beyond the horizon.

Liu Di's allies joined the battle against the Red 141 Star People and Demon Dragonflies, turning the tide until the Reaper Civilization deployed giant robots. Little Liu entered the fight in his newly upgraded Gao Da F19.

• Mo Yu sent thousands of clones against a Red 141 Star Person, but the alien cut them down before Liu Shang arrived and killed it with the Time Halberd.
• Liu Shang and Little Xia fought stronger Red 141 Star People, and Aoya joined with the Golden Twelve Palaces warriors and slew one of the aliens.
• A vampire youth revealed himself as Dracula and led thousands of descendants into battle to repay Liu Di's favor.
• Gu Gu Gu opened a small passage to the Brain Realm and dropped a mountain on the Demon Dragonflies, while the Red Back Wolfdog transformed into a dragon and destroyed many more with its breath.
• The Reaper Civilization deployed over a hundred giant robots, and Little Liu piloted his upgraded Gao Da F19 into the fight and destroyed an enemy mech.

Liu Di’s allies turned the battle against the Reaper Civilization, and he realized that the kindness he had shown people had become his Causality Weapon. As humanity’s forces overwhelmed the invaders, the Watcher fell silent, unable to comprehend what it saw.

• Jiuluo Xiou Si arrived with several thousand exoskeletons and joined the battlefield, while Morr piloted Ta Mo Hao down from Noah’s Ark and crushed the enemy mechs.
• During a brief pause in his flickering, Liu Di used the God Scepter Satellite to kill Red 141 Rock Man and gave the Antimatter Supercannon to Little Qiu.
• Liu Di entrusted Luol with control of the Steel Di Qi, and Luol used Gemini’s servers to command the units with greater tactical strength.
• Little Bottle Cap took control of SDERS and ordered it to kill the enemies, spreading poisonous spores and fungal colonies across the battlefield.
• More human and allied forces joined the fight, reversing the battle as the Reaper Civilization’s forces were crushed.
• Liu Di reflected on the people he had helped and concluded that his kindness had become his Causality Weapon, while the Watcher remained silent in the glass shard on his chest.

Little Bottle Cap’s evolved ability wiped out the alien forces and turned the battle in Earth’s favor, but Mo Yu died after sacrificing his last body and core control brain. Liu Di was left grieving the loss as the Watcher lamented that its causality attack had killed only one person.

• Little Bottle Cap spread poisonous spores across the battlefield, killing the Demon Dragonflies and other invading life within seconds.
• Liu Shang, the Golden Queen, and Dracula had already killed the five Red 141 Star People, while Ta Mo Hao had nearly destroyed the Reaper Civilization’s robots.
• Mo Yu told Liu Di that he had committed all his clones to Earth’s defense, then fell dead from his wounds.
• Mo Jiuli revealed that Mo Yu had burned through his life force and that his core control brain had been destroyed, leaving no clones or spare bodies.
• Liu Di broke down and shouted for Mo Yu to wake up while the Watcher mourned that its attack had killed only one Earthling.

The Reaper Civilization pulled a volatile planetary core from its world and prepared to hurl it at Earth, but the Time Halberd arrived and fused with Liu Di. Liu Di traveled back to complete his own origin, returned to the battlefield with his body made whole, and faced the enemy with Mo Yu’s corpse at his side.

• The Reaper Civilization extracted its planetary core and intensified its nuclear reactions to launch it at Earth.
• The Time Halberd descended from the sky, stopped before Liu Di, and fused into his brow, making him master of time.
• Liu Di traveled six months into the past, took Infant No. 2 from the Mohist Base, and later brought him to Weikang Hospital twenty-six years earlier.
• Liu Zhengqing discovered the infant and amused him with a Metal Ballpoint Pen, completing Liu Di’s contact with his father across time.
• Liu Di returned to Kyoto twenty-six years later, where the cycle of cause and effect closed and his body stopped flickering.
• Liu Di caught the Mohist School robe, draped it over Mo Yu’s corpse, and turned his crimson Right Eye toward the sky.

Liu Di destroyed the dark green planet from within with a single punch, but the Reaper Civilization escaped through a dimensional Star Gate. The Watcher revealed that high-dimensional beings had helped them use eight-dimensional Space Folding, leaving their next return impossible to predict.

• Liu Di blasted the planet’s core back through the Dyson Sphere’s shield, causing it to explode inside the planet and break it apart.
• Little Bottle Cap sent slime-mold jellyfish into the sky to restore the ozone layer after the explosion opened a gap in the atmosphere.
• A Reaper leader ordered the Space Urns activated, then discovered that one of the four had been stolen by the Thief Overlord, who had hidden it in the Silver Shuttle.
• The Reapers used the three remaining Space Urns to open a triangular Star Gate and send the Dyson Sphere away.
• The Watcher told Liu Di that the Reapers had used eight-dimensional Space Folding with help from High-Dimensional Lifeforms and could return through any time or space.

Liu Di trapped the fleeing Reaper Civilization in a wormhole and sent it seven hundred and twenty years into the future, while discovering that he could not change Mo Yu’s death. He confronted the starving Reapers on a future Earth, declaring that he had mastered a trace of the secrets of space and time and was God there.

• Magic Child found the Time Halberd carrying a wormhole containing the Dyson Sphere, and Liu Di redirected it to Earth seven hundred and twenty years in the future.
• Earth’s warriors celebrated their victory, but Liu Di returned to Mo Yu’s body and found that he could not save him by traveling into the past.
• Liu Di sent his consciousness into the Gemini Metaverse and waited for the Reaper Civilization to emerge from the wormhole.
• The Reapers arrived at a future Earth after their energy and supplies had run out, and they found the planet’s residents calm and indifferent.
• Liu Di appeared as a forty-thousand-meter-tall figure, explained that he had adjusted the wormhole using his understanding of space and time, and told the Reapers that he was God.

In the Gemini Metaverse, Liu Di used his creator-like control to inspect and punish the Reaper Civilization, then mastered Dyson Sphere technology. After The Watcher fled from his power, Liu Di wondered whether the universe itself was controlled like a stream of information.

• Liu Di examined the Reapers' memories and learned that a mysterious black figure had given them four Space Urns, but the Urns vanished when they entered the Metaverse.
• Liu Di recreated the Reapers' home planet, forced them to endure repeated invasions and destruction, then crushed the planet and ended their civilization.
• Liu Di dismantled and scanned the Dyson Sphere, mastering its technology in twenty seconds.
• The Watcher saw Liu Di's power, compared it to the Supreme, and fled the Metaverse.
• Liu Di considered whether the universe's creator controlled reality by coding everything and wondered if he could reach that level.

After Mo Yu's funeral, Liu Di searched the future and the Earth for Mo Yu but found no trace of him. He realized his power was limited to Earth's data and resolved to expand his reach, while Mr. Song invited him to advise a global cosmic exploration effort.

• Liu Di traveled three years into the future and found that Mo Jiuli had become the Mohist School's new Giant Son, while Liu Di himself had vanished from Earth.
• Liu Di entered space and realized Gemini Future could only construct Earth's future, leaving him too weak to confront the coming eighth dimension.
• Liu Di visited the Grim Reaper, who swore he had never seen the white-robed youth Liu Di described.
• Liu Di returned to Mo Yu's funeral and then met Black-haired Taozi at the Experimental Graveyard, where they discussed Earth's recent attack.
• Mr. Song called Liu Di and invited him to advise the leaders of the nations, who planned to launch the largest cosmic exploration in history.

Liu Di met with the world’s leaders and announced that he would pilot a spacecraft on an exploration mission in fifteen days, then returned to River Town and brought Liu Shang to dinner with his family. After Lu Shuyun gave Liu Shang the cloth shoes she had sewn for her lost son, the family spent the evening together, and Liu Di said he planned to go out for a walk.

• Liu Di told the assembled world leaders that he knew about their space program and would join their expedition in fifteen days, then left for River Town.
• Liu Di brought Liu Shang to dinner with Lu Shuyun and Little Liu, where Lu Shuyun recognized his resemblance to her lost son.
• Lu Shuyun gave Liu Shang the cloth shoes she had sewn for the son she lost, and he put them on despite initially rejecting the idea of family emotions.
• Liu Di, Liu Shang, Little Liu, and Lu Shuyun shared a meal and later sat together in the courtyard.
• When Lu Shuyun asked Liu Di what he planned to do next, he said he intended to go out and take a walk.

Liu Di said goodbye to Lu Shuyun and set out toward deep space, naming the Lu Jing Galaxy and Saintess Star as possible destinations. After leaving Little Liu and handing over responsibilities on Ghost Island, he told A Jia that he was now Chairman of Creator Group.

• Liu Di said goodbye to Lu Shuyun, and Liu Shang recorded the courtyard's time coordinates before joining Liu Di and Little Liu in the car.
• Liu Di told Little Liu he was heading into the universe, possibly traveling through Enemy-Repelling Star, the Ascension Galaxy, and the NGC2237 Rose Nebula before reaching Saintess Star.
• Liu Shang left the car in Sea City and vanished using the Time Halberd.
• Liu Di sent Little Liu back to Ghost Island, where Peach of Split Personality was waiting, and asked Little Xia to take charge of the island.
• Liu Di went to Gemini headquarters and told A Jia that his title was now Chairman of Creator Group.

As the Wang Kong 1 prepared to carry 230 astronauts toward Neptune, Little Liu wondered about Violent Bear’s place in the mission. On launch day, Liu Di approached the spacecraft’s guarded entrance and was identified as Astronaut No. 231.

• The world completed final testing of the Wang Kong 1, a spacecraft carrying astronauts, DNA samples, seeds, and animals on a mission toward Neptune.
• The Chinese astronauts used their final days on Earth to say goodbye to their families and admire their home planet.
• At school, Pang Bo showed Little Liu a photo of an astronaut he claimed was a distant relative, while Little Liu wondered about Violent Bear and his father’s future.
• On May 22, 2022, Liu Di approached the guarded launch site in the Kuzuo Desert.
• A guard’s scanner identified Liu Di as Astronaut No. 231.

Liu Di completed Earth’s concealment barrier and launched Wang Kong 1 alongside Gemini’s massive assembled starship. As he boarded a landing craft, Pang Bo spotted the white-clad figure and mistook him for his dad.

• Liu Di activated the Antimatter Energy Barrier, making Earth invisible to outside observers, then authorized Wang Kong 1’s launch with the world’s leaders.
• Wang Kong 1 lifted off from the desert with 230 astronauts aboard, while Mr. Song asked Liu Di when his own spacecraft would arrive.
• Liu Di’s black triangular craft appeared and joined with nine others, forming a vast starship loaded with supplies, equipment, Steel Di Qi units, and Ta Mo Hao.
• Liu Di’s starship launched ahead of Wang Kong 1, and Liu Di rose into the sky to board a landing craft.
• Pang Bo saw Liu Di in the sky and exclaimed that he looked like Pang Bo’s dad.

Liu Di left Earth aboard Tian Jue to pursue a way to reach a higher dimension, defeat hidden enemies, and find a woman, but the loneliness of space weighed on him. He discovered Kun Sang and Little Liu had secretly come aboard, giving him unexpected company for the journey.

• Liu Di launched Tian Jue into space while Wang Kong 1 followed on its own mission, and people on Earth watched him depart.
• Tian Jue accelerated far ahead of Wang Kong 1, and Liu Di looked back at Earth and thought of it as home.
• As Earth faded from view, Liu Di felt the unknown and loneliness of traveling alone.
• Liu Di entered a storage room and found Kun Sang and Little Liu floating among the supplies after the gravity system shut down.
• Kun Sang and Little Liu realized they were aboard Liu Di's spaceship and concluded they would have to explore the universe with him.