Chapter Summaries

Liu Di watched Heaven Prison Three use its planet-wide laser matrix to pierce the Titan King starship’s defenses and bring it crashing down. As the battle ended, a red-skinned stranger appeared behind him and commented on the weapon.

• The Titan King Civilization’s search signal triggered Heaven Prison Three’s alarms and sent spherical probes swarming through the city.
• The buildings fired tens of millions of lasers at the Titan King starship, but its force field absorbed the attack without damage.
• Magic Child explained that Heaven Prison Three could link its buildings into a vast laser matrix, and Liu Di stepped out to watch it form.
• The matrix focused its energy through a flower shop, where a needle-thin black laser pierced the starship’s force field and split into a million beams.
• The Titan King starship exploded, suffered heavy damage, and began falling as Magic Child said Heaven Prison Three had still held back its full power.
• A red-skinned man appeared behind Liu Di and called the weapon the Pitch-Black Shameless No-Martial-Virtue Laser.

Liu Di and his companions watched Titan King’s mechanical legions battle Heaven Prison Three’s mechanical mummies, then used the chaos to reach a sealed metal building. The mysterious red-skinned alien followed them there, and Liu Di’s group faced the challenge of entering before the forces converged.

• A red-skinned alien introduced himself to Liu Di and claimed he had entered Heaven Prison Three to steal technology.
• Titan King’s crashed starship deployed tens of thousands of mechanical spider soldiers, and Heaven Prison Three’s frozen residents activated to fight them.
• The two mechanical forces clashed, while Titan King’s machines advanced toward a cube-shaped building defended by powerful laser towers.
• Liu Di led his group through the battle and reached the building without triggering Heaven Prison Three’s detectors.
• The red-skinned alien followed Liu Di to the building and pointed out that they had no safe way inside as billions of mechanical mummies rushed toward them.

Liu Di and the others escaped Heaven Prison Three’s battlefield by entering a sealed building, where they encountered an AI projecting an alluring woman tailored to each person’s preferences. The AI presented the prison as a happy, orderly home, leaving Liu Di wary that it was the facility’s central system and knew intimate details about them.

• The red-skinned man used his ring to open a passage into a metal building, and the group escaped the lasers before the entrance sealed.
• A woman’s laughter and dripping water echoed through the empty room before a beautiful woman appeared beside a stream beneath a full moon.
• Magic Child explained that the woman was a 3D projection whose appearance changed to match each viewer’s preferences.
• The red-skinned man asked the woman her name, and she called herself an ordinary resident of Heaven Prison Three, describing its inhabitants as a happy family.
• Liu Di recognized the woman as a likely central AI and grew wary as he saw overlapping projections and heard her conflicting voices.

Liu Di learned that Qiu Yin had used power borrowed from Supreme to put the Scavenger Civilization to sleep, while the central system pretended not to know her family was dead. After seeing the battlefield and her family’s shattered bodies, the system broke down and accused Liu Di of starting the war and destroying her dream.

• The seductive central system showed Liu Di two boxes containing the Scavenger Civilization’s technology and the Cosmic Equation.
• The system explained that Qiu Yin had borrowed power from Supreme to put her family to sleep because they had begun using the Cosmic Equation.
• Liu Di connected Qiu Yin’s actions to Di Jiu’s use of Life Erasure and wondered why beings above the tenth dimension would intervene.
• The central system showed Liu Di the ongoing battle and claimed her family was still bravely resisting the enemy.
• The system saw the mummified bodies and ruined exoskeletons, including a dead infant, and wept bloody tears before accusing Liu Di of starting the war.

Liu Di and the others faced a vengeful Ninth Sequence Strong Artificial Intelligence as she attacked them and triggered Heaven Prison Three’s destruction. Liu Di secretly took the two technology boxes, but the Artificial Intelligence rejected his offer of revenge and spread her dying code across the planet.

• The female Artificial Intelligence revealed herself as the Ninth Sequence of Strong Artificial Intelligence and attacked Liu Di, Kun Sang, Little Liu, and Span with a storm of electronic currents.
• The red-skinned man announced that Heaven Prison Three would explode in eight minutes after its energy core began a fusion reaction, then walked through the storm toward the technology boxes.
• The red-skinned man reached for the Level 8 civilization technology and the Cosmic Equation, but both boxes vanished while Liu Di claimed he had not moved.
• Liu Di offered to help the female Artificial Intelligence take revenge on Qiu Yin if she spared her home, but she said recovery and revenge were meaningless.
• The female Artificial Intelligence exploded into spreading blue code, and the exoskeletons of the billions of dried corpses stopped moving as their chest lights went out.

Liu Di and his companions escaped Heaven Prison Three as it collapsed, while the Titan King Civilization used countless Star Gates to contain the planet’s explosion. After revealing himself as Titan King and departing, he left Liu Di’s hidden crew member Jie Ba to reveal that he had stolen several valuable items.

• The red-skinned man teleported Liu Di and his companions away from Heaven Prison Three, then warned that the collapsing planet’s explosion could destroy life within four light-years.
• The Titan King Civilization deployed endless Star Gates around Heaven Prison Three, absorbing its explosive force until the planet’s energy was mostly spent.
• Liu Di and the others reflected on Heaven Prison Three’s destruction, and the red-skinned man introduced himself as Titan King before leaving aboard a warship.
• Jie Ba appeared beside Liu Di and revealed that he had stolen the Level 8 Civilization technology box, the Cosmic Equation box, Titan King’s ring, protective talisman, and wallet.
• Liu Di told Little Bottle Cap to pick up the group and end their detour.

After escaping Heaven Prison Three, Liu Di resolved to build a Mechanical Civilization and began examining a Level 8 Civilization technology inheritance. Magic Child identified the silver bar’s binary information pattern and started analyzing it.

• Tian Jue Hao returned through a wormhole to pick up Liu Di and the others after Liu Di had sent it away from Heaven Prison Three’s self-destruction.
• Liu Di decided to cultivate a Mechanical Civilization but recognized that he lacked Star Gate and advanced attack-system technology.
• Liu Di sealed the technology box and Titan King's belongings in Fluid Metal, hid Tian Jue Hao behind a gas giant, and joined his crew as they fussed over Thief Overlord.
• Liu Di opened the Level 8 Civilization technology box and examined a silver bar covered in microscopic circuits damaged by electron bombardment.
• Magic Child scanned the silver bar, found that its information used binary code, and began analyzing it.

Liu Di discovered a Cosmic Equation fragment about energy and briefly experienced seemingly universal perception after integrating it with Magic Child’s algorithms. The vision faded before he could locate Gu Fan, but he glimpsed a massive creature he suspected was Qiu Yin, who then fell silent.

• Liu Di found several technical archives and blueprints, including strong force material construction, but Magic Child failed to analyze them because too much information was missing.
• Liu Di opened the Cosmic Equation box and found a vast formula and annotations about energy across the universe.
• Liu Di instructed Magic Child to integrate the two Cosmic Equation sets, and the resulting data gave him fleeting visions of distant life, a galactic battle, and a pulsar.
• Liu Di’s body appeared to dissolve and re-form before Kun Sang and the others on the Tian Jue Hao, who cried out that Emperor San had become a soul and then human again.
• Liu Di heard Qiu Yin threaten him, glimpsed a gigantic creature on a black planet, and asked if it was Qiu Yin; the voice vanished, and Liu Di realized he needed to gather the complete Cosmic Equation.

Liu Di tricked the Titan King into destroying a decoy Tian Jue Hao while the real ship escaped, but Thief Overlord had also stolen the Titan King's Quark Ring and wallet. The Titan King lost the clue to the third part of the Cosmic Equation and vowed to hunt the thieves down.

• The Titan King returned to the scene, learned Kun Sang had a 45-million bounty, and realized his Quark Ring was missing.
• The Titan King detected a surveillance probe and ordered his fleet to destroy the Tian Jue Hao.
• Liu Di revealed that the Titan King had destroyed only a decoy while the real Tian Jue Hao escaped through wormholes.
• The Titan King tried to detonate his Quark Ring, but Brain reported that its signal was blocked and the ring was gone.
• The Titan King discovered his wallet and the clue to the third part of the Cosmic Equation were also stolen, while Thief Overlord asked Liu Di to praise him.

Liu Di searched Titan King’s wallet and found strange currency, a Guardian Alliance badge, and an invitation to Bloodthirsty Oil Buddha’s brutal cosmic competition. The invitation also claimed that the third part of the Cosmic Equation was there.

• Liu Di left the Quark Ring untouched and carefully opened Titan King’s wallet.
• Thief Overlord, Span, and Taozi examined the red stones, which they identified as unfamiliar Origin Stones.
• Liu Di found Titan King’s Guardian Alliance V14 identification badge and wondered what the alliance rank meant.
• A card projected Oil Buddha, who invited its holders to a deadly competition in his 52 Manor.
• Span explained that competitors had to kill their opponents, with greater rewards for increasingly gruesome violence.
• Liu Di found a note on the card’s back saying the third part of the Cosmic Equation was there.

Liu Di and his companions traveled to the Cosmic Love Exchange Tournament on a Mechanical Planet near Shaowei Zengba, where they discovered Titan King’s warship and were insulted by a receptionist. Liu Di lost his patience and prepared to confront the receptionist.

• Liu Di decided that he and his companions would attend the tournament, held at 52 Manor in the Shaowei Zengba Star System.
• Liu Di ordered Little Bottle Cap to disguise the Tian Jue Hao, and the crew traveled through a wormhole to the Mechanical Planet near Shaowei Zengba.
• Liu Di spotted a Titan King Civilization warship docked at a nearby starport and suspected Titan King had come to the tournament.
• Kun Sang reasoned that the Cosmic Equation might be hidden on the planet but could have nothing to do with the tournament, and Liu Di admitted he might simply be eager for a fight.
• A receptionist scanned the Tian Jue Hao, dismissed Liu Di’s crew as an unknown backward civilization, and marked their ship with the passage number “Trash 4.”
• Liu Di said he had reached his limit and imagined kicking the receptionist’s aircraft into Deep Space.

Liu Di and his companions slipped onto the Mechanical Planet while Titan King's fleet surrounded it, then explored the bustling alien settlement built around Oil Buddha’s Love Exchange Conference. The chapter left them wandering among unfamiliar lifeforms as Liu Di amused himself by teasing the planet’s residents.

• Titan King’s fleet arrived at the Mechanical Planet, and its flagship blasted the receptionist’s craft away.
• Liu Di rejected Kun Sang’s suggestion to line up and hijacked a Flower Bud VIP spacecraft to reach the planet.
• The Tian Jue Hao concealed itself in space while Liu Di’s group docked and disembarked from the Flower Bud ship.
• Liu Di surveyed the Mechanical Planet’s shops and alien visitors, explaining how Oil Buddha’s conference created a thriving commercial district.
• Liu Di picked up and played with a group of Meatballs, while the Tian Jue Hao group criticized his behavior.

Liu Di and his companions explored the Mechanical Planet before the Beast Arena opened, while he casually overpowered a giant crystal contestant. At a bar, Liu Di found the drunken Titan King and used the Bear King's aura to make the bartender serve them despite lacking Origin Stones.

• Liu Di examined a Mechanical Civilization robot until Kun Sang begged him to stop, then blocked and flicked aside a giant crystal creature heading for the Beast Arena.
• Liu Di led his companions around the planet, where they tried alien clothes and foods, and Kun Sang hesitated outside a brothel.
• Liu Di and his companions entered a bar and found the drunken Titan King arguing with the bartender over his unpaid tab.
• Liu Di offered to pay for the Titan King's drinks, but the bartender demanded Origin Stones, which Liu Di did not have.
• Liu Di told Magic Child to activate the Bear King's aura, frightening the bartender into promising the bar's most expensive liquor.

Liu Di disguised himself as Di Jiu and got Titan King drunk while learning what he knew about the Unknown Fleet. After paying the bar’s enormous bill with an Origin Stone, Liu Di and his companions headed to the Beast Arena, where rumors spread that the mysterious Titan King Civilization would appear.

• Liu Di questioned the drunken Titan King, who complained about losing his family fortune, treasure, Formula clues, and chance to compete in the arena.
• Titan King recognized Kun Sang and Liu Di’s bounty posters but mistook their garbled portraits for hideous faces, while Liu Di was upset that his bounty was lower than Kun Sang’s.
• Liu Di introduced himself as Di Jiu and discovered that the group’s bill was $46 million, then paid with a red Origin Stone worth billions.
• Liu Di told the bar staff to give Titan King unlimited drinks so he would stay drunk through the tournament, and Titan King thanked him.
• An announcement signaled the tournament’s start, and Liu Di’s group left for the Beast Arena as nearby patrons discussed the rising Titan King Civilization.
• Titan King remained in the bar drinking and praising his brother, saying he would keep drinking until the end of time.

Liu Di and his companions entered the Beast Arena as Group Seven contestants, where the receptionist tried to send them to a dangerous entrance. After Liu Di knocked the receptionist away, the group emerged before a roaring crowd and met Oil Buddha, who revealed that other contestants were from Earth too.

• Liu Di and his companions joined the contestants’ line and presented their invitation to the bandaged receptionist.
• The receptionist directed them to Entrance Three, but a scarred orc cut in line and entered ahead of them.
• The receptionist sent Liu Di’s group to Entrance Nine and wished them second place, prompting Liu Di to kick it thousands of meters across the sand.
• Liu Di and his companions walked through a dark corridor and emerged into the Beast Arena amid fireworks and frenzied cheers.
• Oil Buddha welcomed the Group Seven contestants in awkward Chinese and said they were creatures from Earth too.

Oil Buddha revealed that the Heart Exchange Competition had slaughtered nearly all its contestants, then displayed the prizes, including a chip marked Cosmic Equation. Liu Di recognized the chip and realized he had found what he was looking for.

• Oil Buddha announced that contestants had been killed by laser beams in the tunnels and had their bodies dumped into the arena.
• Liu Di and the Tian Jue Hao crew saw the mountain of corpses, and Kun Sang realized Tunnel Number Three would have killed them too.
• Oil Buddha presented ten billion Origin Stones and promised ten additional treasures as competition rewards.
• Oil Buddha revealed a series of treasures, including a chip labeled Cosmic Equation, then casually tossed it among the Origin Stones.
• Liu Di spotted the chip and realized he had found the Cosmic Equation.

Liu Di entered the young contestants from Earth into Oil Buddha’s brutal competition, hoping the children could test themselves and help him obtain the Cosmic Equation. As the first matchups appeared, Liu Di recognized all three opponents on the other side, leaving Span suspicious that the pairings were no coincidence.

• Oil Buddha told Liu Di that only underage lifeforms could compete, and Little Liu, Bulin, and Little Bottle Cap volunteered to fight.
• Liu Di agreed to let the three children compete and accepted Oil Buddha’s offer of a bye so they could observe their opponents.
• The arena’s contestants were revealed: a Rock Crystal Giant Beast, a Leopard Woman, and a spiked electric creature faced Flower Bud, a ball of flesh, and a Cylinder Robot.
• Span realized Liu Di had encountered all three contestants on the opposing side before and suspected the matchups were not coincidental.

Oil Buddha concealed three battles in black force fields, turning the arena into a blind-box spectacle. When the first field rose, Leopard Woman lay dead, while the other match results remained hidden.

• Kun Sang told Little Liu that he and Bulin should run and stay alive while Little Bottle Cap handled their opponents.
• Oil Buddha covered each of the three matchups with a separate black force field so the audience could not see the fights.
• The audience heard roars, tearing, crunching, and crackling sounds from the hidden battles as Kun Sang assumed the weaker fighters had been killed.
• Oil Buddha teased the crowd by delaying the results for three days, then agreed to reveal them immediately after the spectators cursed him.
• The first force field rose, revealing Leopard Woman dead with her chest ripped open and her entrails shredded.

The three small creatures won their arena matches through strange and brutal methods, alarming the spectators. Liu Di discussed the robot’s hidden controller and possible functions with Little Liu before Kun Sang proposed forfeiting the competition.

• Flower Bud survived while Leopard Woman died, and the spectators wondered how the flower had killed her.
• Meatball emerged from a pit as the winner, while the Rock Crystal Giant Beast disappeared and Liu Di noted Meatball had shrunk by half.
• Cylinder Robot tore the exhausted Sea Urchin Mage in half, securing the third victory for the small creatures.
• Liu Di warned Little Liu that Cylinder Robot might have special functions, and the two jokingly competed over how quickly they could defeat it.
• Kun Sang announced a supposedly foolproof tactic, then jumped up and told Oil Buddha that Tian Jue Hao forfeited.

At the Beast Arena, Liu Di refused to let Kun Sang flee with the children and watched as Little Liu, Bulin, and Little Bottle Cap faced their opponents. As the children began their fights, Liu Di went online, while the red-skinned man awakened after his Quark Ring activated.

• Oil Buddha ignored Kun Sang's attempt to forfeit and announced the match.
• Kun Sang, desperate to protect Little Liu, urged Liu Di to attack Oil Buddha while he escaped with the children.
• Liu Di thanked Kun Sang for protecting Little Liu and said the children had to face their own challenges.
• Little Liu, Bulin, and Little Bottle Cap entered the arena and chose Cylinder Robot, Wriggling Meatball, and Flower Bud as their opponents.
• Liu Di sat apart and went online, saying that a tyrant was about to awaken.
• The red-skinned man's Quark Ring activated, cleared the alcohol from his body, and he turned toward the Beast Arena.