Chapter Summaries

Liu Di defeated King of Spades and drove Qiu Beiming to flee, but Qiu escaped by using Brain Corrosion to manipulate nearby drivers. Liu Di returned to his laboratory and began training to master Combat Awareness Release while Magic Child started a sequence upgrade.

• Liu Di knocked King of Spades unconscious, then Qiu Beiming tried to escape and Liu Di punched him through a window onto the street.
• Ouyang Fengyu grabbed Liu Di's leg, but Liu Di threw him through a wall and chased after Qiu Beiming.
• Qiu Beiming used Brain Corrosion to confuse drivers into ramming Liu Di, then evaded the area's surveillance cameras and vanished.
• Liu Di realized Qiu Beiming might have used Brain Corrosion in past accidents and killings, and decided Yan Yiwen could serve as bait to draw him out.
• Liu Di took King of Spades's Metal Poker, called Duan Hua to report the incident, and returned to his laboratory.
• Liu Di asked Magic Child to teach him Combat Awareness Release, and Magic Child began a sequence upgrade.

Liu Di’s Weak Artificial Intelligence Sequence 5 initialized, and Magic Child explained that Liu Di needed to transform his body into a New Human through accelerated metabolism. Liu Di began a punishing regimen of eating and electromagnetic stimulation, leaving his muscles struggling against the newly made suit.

• Liu Di’s Weak Artificial Intelligence Sequence 5 initialized as the Experimental Graveyard’s assembly line started producing an unknown device, and Magic Child appeared in a 3D-rendered form.
• Magic Child explained that Liu Di’s earlier combat consciousness had come from temporary cellular stimulation and that his ordinary body could not withstand New Human-level activity.
• Magic Child said Liu Di could become a complete New Human by accelerating his metabolism through food, exertion, and external stimulation, and ordered every delivery meal within twenty kilometers.
• Liu Di ate more than a dozen meals as his digestive function, energy absorption, and muscle metabolic rate increased.
• Wangwang Dog II brought Liu Di the Electromagnetic Pulse Suit, which Magic Child had designed to stimulate muscle contractions with electric currents.
• Liu Di put on the suit and found that its stimulation made even lifting his arm difficult despite his great strength.

Liu Di trained relentlessly in Magic Child’s resistance armor and ionized-water tank, rapidly transforming his body through extreme exertion. After twenty days, Little Xia sensed that Liu Di concealed immense power, while Magic Child still struggled to understand his perseverance.

• Magic Child outfitted Liu Di with resistance armor and introduced Hell's Little Bathtub, predicting that the combined training would transform him within a year.
• Liu Di insisted he could do it in a month, began exercising despite the armor, and endured more than an hour in the painful tank.
• Over the following days, Liu Di gradually increased his running distance and time in the tank as his metabolism and strength surged.
• Twenty days later, Little Xia watched Liu Di perform push-ups with a heavy machine on his back and sensed an immense power hidden inside him.
• Magic Child watched Liu Di train and remained puzzled by the meaning of perseverance.

Liu Di told Duan Hua that the corpse identified as Qiu Beiming was a modified human stand-in used to fake Qiu Beiming’s death, and Duan Hua ordered an investigation. At Yingzhi Hospital, Yan Qingwen reflected on Liu Di’s extraordinary knowledge before leaving for Yingzhi Group’s shareholders’ meeting amid the company’s crisis.

• Duan Hua received the forensic report identifying the cave corpse as Qiu Beiming, a modified human who had died from severe injuries.
• Liu Di arrived late and declared that the corpse was a stand-in, claiming Qiu Beiming had used altered fingerprints, a changed face, and implanted consciousness to fake his death.
• Duan Hua trusted Liu Di’s theory and ordered officers to investigate missing people matching the corpse’s age and build.
• Yan Qingwen visited her vegetative father, Yan Hongxin, and recalled how Liu Di had directed her to find Liu Manwen, a long-term vegetative patient with a mysterious past and a vast fortune.
• Yan Qingwen left the hospital to attend Yingzhi Group’s shareholders’ meeting as the company faced turmoil and a sharp decline in its stock value.

At Yingzhi Group’s shareholders’ meeting, Yan Qingwen tried to stop the shareholders from selling their shares to Witte Bio, but Ouyang Fengyu arrived to oversee the deal and threatened to take control of the company. The shareholders signed the contracts, leaving Yan Qingwen helpless as Ouyang Fengyu prepared to seize Yingzhi Group.

• Yan Qingwen pleaded with Yingzhi Group’s shareholders not to sell their combined 52% stake, but they refused and announced the sale would proceed.
• Ouyang Fengyu arrived as Witte Bio’s mergers and acquisitions chief and revealed that he was arranging the acquisition of Yingzhi Group.
• Ouyang Fengyu said Yingzhi’s legal department would not prosecute him and threatened to purge the Yan Family from the group and seize control of Yan Qingwen and the two girls.
• Ouyang Fengyu placed the share auction contracts on the table, and his attendants restrained Yan Qingwen while the shareholders signed them.
• After the shareholders left with Ouyang Fengyu, Yan Qingwen collapsed onto the floor.

After Ouyang Fengyu moved to seize the Yan Family’s company, Yan Qingwen failed to raise enough money to buy back its shares and decided to seek help from Creator’s Emperor San. Liu Di arrived at Creator and prepared to meet the guest coming to see him.

• A Fu told Yan Qingwen that she could try raising funds to buy the Yan Group shares before Witt acquired them at auction.
• Yan Qingwen called her friends, relatives, and business contacts, but none could raise 250 billion before the sale the next day.
• Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin told Yan Qingwen that Ouyang Fengyu had threatened to expel them from their home unless they served him.
• Yan Qingwen decided to approach Creator’s Emperor San and offer him her three percent stake, while her sisters suggested asking Liu Di to intercede.
• Liu Di arrived at Creator, asked to use Emperor San’s office, and told the receptionist that a guest was coming to see him.

Yan Qingwen and her sisters visited Creator Group to ask Emperor San to help save Yingzhi Group. Emperor San rejected Yan Qingwen’s proposed investment deal and challenged her to answer ten questions about Yingzhi’s problems before he would consider helping.

• Yan Qingwen, Yan Kaikai, and Yan Xinxin arrived at Creator Group and were escorted to Emperor San’s secluded office.
• Emperor San gave Yan Qingwen sixty seconds to convince him to help, but rejected her offers to repay his investment at a premium and give him extra shares.
• Yan Qingwen apologized and asked how he could help the Yan Family, and Emperor San handed her ten questions about Yingzhi Group.
• Emperor San criticized Yingzhi’s outdated practices and warned that the group was worthless to him unless its problems were addressed.
• Yan Qingwen began answering the questions while Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin prepared to support her.

Yan Qingwen and her sisters sought Emperor San’s help to save Yingzhi Group, but Liu Di revealed himself to Yan Qingwen after criticizing her plan. He then learned from Magic Child that Yan Qingwen had resisted Qiu Beiming’s implanted guidance because her dissociative identities had caused it to affect the wrong personality.

• Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin apologized for previously insulting Liu Di and told Emperor San how much their family regretted their treatment of him.
• Emperor San dismissed Yan Qingwen’s answers as ineffective but offered to help if she submitted a better plan before the equity transaction.
• Yan Qingwen recognized Liu Di as Emperor San, but the receptionist closed the office door before her sisters could see him.
• Yan Qingwen concealed Liu Di’s identity from her sisters and returned with them to work on a plan to save Yingzhi Group.
• Liu Di asked Magic Child why Yan Qingwen had resisted Qiu Beiming’s consciousness guidance, and Magic Child explained that her two identities had made the implantation ineffective.

Liu Di borrowed 260 billion from Teng Hualong to keep an acquisition under his control, then sent him a valuable advertising algorithm. Meanwhile, Yan Qingwen and the Yingzhi Group team repeatedly revised their proposal for Emperor San, but he rejected every version as the equity auction approached.

• Liu Di called Teng Hualong and asked to borrow 260 billion, saying he wanted complete control over a purchase and would repay the money later.
• Teng Hualong ordered Penguin to gather its funds and transferred 260 billion to Liu Di within two hours.
• Teng Hualong received Liu Di’s advertising recommendation algorithm and recognized its potential to increase Penguin’s advertising revenue.
• Yan Qingwen and the Yingzhi Group team sent Emperor San proposal after proposal, but he called each one trash.
• As the equity auction drew closer, Yan Qingwen sent a fifth proposal, and Emperor San again rejected it as trash.

Liu Di intervened in the auction and secured Yingzhi Group’s controlling shares before Fan Chengan could bid. After disrupting Qiu Beiming’s implanted consciousness, Liu Di introduced himself as Yingzhi’s largest shareholder and sole decision-maker.

• Yan Qingwen arrived at the auction with Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin, believing the Yan Family had failed to save Yingzhi Group.
• Ouyang Fengyu assured Fan Chengan that Witte Bio would acquire Yingzhi’s shares uncontested, while Yan Qingwen pleaded for mercy and Ouyang refused.
• As Fan Chengan began to raise his paddle, the auctioneer announced that Liu Di had won the online bid for 52.13% of Yingzhi Group.
• Liu Di entered the auction hall and used a low-frequency resonance device to disrupt Qiu Beiming’s implanted consciousness in everyone present except Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin.
• Yan Qingwen remained unaffected, Ouyang Fengyu became senile again, and Fan Chengan and the Yingzhi shareholders woke confused.
• Liu Di introduced himself as Yingzhi Group’s largest shareholder and sole decision-maker.

Liu Di revealed that he had acquired 52.3 percent of Yingzhi Group and took control of the company, leaving Yan Qingwen and the Yan Family under his authority. He ordered Yan Qingwen to have Ouyang Fengyu imprisoned and prepare a restructuring proposal for a meeting.

• The auctioneer recognized Liu Di as the buyer who had purchased 52.3 percent of Yingzhi Group for 260.3 billion, and the shareholders realized their shares had been sold.
• Liu Di rejected the shareholders’ protests, declared their ties to Yingzhi over, and told Fan Cheng'en to pass a message to his boss at Witte Bio Group.
• Yan Qingwen thanked Liu Di, but he told her he intended to keep Yingzhi and that the Yan Family would work under him as partners.
• Liu Di ordered Yan Qingwen to send Ouyang Fengyu to prison and call a meeting of Yingzhi’s senior executives in one hour, with a new restructuring proposal ready.
• Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin realized how dramatically Liu Di’s position had changed and recalled his earlier remark that he might acquire the Yan Family within a few months.

Liu Di arrived at Yingzhi Group as its new chairman and publicly rejected Yan Qingwen’s reform proposal. The executives watched in tense silence as Yan Qingwen demanded to know what plan he would accept.

• Yingzhi Group’s executives gathered anxiously after Liu Di acquired control of the company, while Yan Qingwen kept his identity as Emperor San secret.
• Liu Di entered the company and brushed past Zhao Qianqian, who did not know he was the new chairman.
• Yan Qingwen introduced Liu Di to the executives, and Zhao Qianqian realized she had just tried to seduce the new boss.
• Liu Di took the reform proposal from Yan Qingwen and tore it up, calling it trash.
• Yan Qingwen accused Liu Di of humiliating her and challenged him to explain what was not trash.

Liu Di condemned Yingzhi Group’s executives for giving up, announced that he would focus on Project M-069, and appointed Yan Qingwen chairman. His speech restored the executives’ resolve, while Yan Qingwen recognized his actions as a chance to prove herself and lead Yingzhi back to success.

• Liu Di criticized Yingzhi Group’s executives for their weak, passive response to the company’s crisis and urged them to prove themselves through action.
• Liu Di explained to Yan Qingwen that he had acquired Yingzhi at the last moment to give its people a chance to learn from rock bottom and rise again.
• Liu Di announced that he would interfere only with Project M-069 and appointed Yan Qingwen chairman, putting her in charge of Yingzhi’s operations.
• Yan Qingwen realized Liu Di had trusted her and intended to temper her through adversity, and she bowed to thank him as the executives followed.
• Yan Qingwen recalled Yingzhi’s problems and resolved to lead the company’s recovery without letting Liu Di down.

Liu Di trained his Combat Awareness Release by dodging attacks from modified drones, discovering that his instincts outpaced his body’s strength. Magic Child explained that Liu Di was a New Human destined to advance the world’s technology, while Liu Di wondered about a blurry vision of the future.

• Liu Di balanced on one finger atop the Experimental Graveyard while Magic Child reported his progress and arranged a drone combat test.
• Liu Di sensed and blocked the drones’ first attacks, then instinctively dodged and countered volleys of rubber bullets.
• Liu Di’s awareness overwhelmed his body’s coordination and the limits of Hell's Little Leather Armor, so Magic Child stopped the drones and said further progress required the second stage of the Gene Lock.
• Liu Di agreed to test again in a week and reflected on a blurry vision containing a single beam of light.
• Magic Child described modified humans as products of forced growth and told Liu Di that New Humans were rare figures born to advance humanity, with Liu Di’s mission being to elevate the world’s technological dimension.

Seven days after Liu Di reached 99% body metabolism, he learned that the Black Fox Gang had suffered a crushing defeat and prepared to confront whoever caused trouble on his turf. Meanwhile, Mr. Box learned that King of Spades had been captured in Sea City and ordered a Death Kill Order against Emperor San, vowing to bury him beneath the Poker Club’s killers.

• Liu Di reached 99% body metabolism and learned that the Black Fox Gang’s Misa Hall had been wrecked in a brawl.
• Liu Di decided to go after those who had made trouble on his turf, despite Magic Child’s warning that the gang would not help his evolution.
• Mr. Barney learned that King of Spades had been captured in Sea City and suspected Emperor San had wounded him.
• Mr. Barney shot an informant who had come to his farm, then used the Poker Club’s coded telegraph system to contact Kofi Daller.
• Mr. Box authorized a Death Kill Order against Emperor San after King of Spades disappeared from the underground killer ranking.
• Mr. Box smashed his computer in anger and vowed to send more killers to bury Emperor San beneath their bodies.

Black Fox struggled to respond after his gang was beaten and warned by Uncle Seven to surrender its territory, but he chose to lead a final attack. Just as he prepared to leave, a young man in a white shirt entered, and Black Fox silently stepped aside.

• Black Fox’s injured branch leaders urged him to fight back after their headquarters was attacked and their territory began to be seized.
• Uncle Seven told Black Fox that the attackers had defied the elders and warned him to give up his territory rather than risk his life.
• Black Fox ordered his men to gather for an all-out assault and told Nan Ruoyi to leave if they were killed.
• Nan Ruoyi realized Black Fox was concealing the true boss’s identity and hesitated to send a message for help.
• As Black Fox led his men out with a machete, he froze and stepped aside when a young man in a white shirt entered.

After learning that the Mad Dragon Society had injured Nan Ruoyi, Liu Di abandoned his plan to let the police settle the gang dispute and prepared to confront them. He set his sights on Chang Bao, while Nan Ruoyi feared Liu Di might go too far and tried to stop him.

• Liu Di arrived at Black Fox's gathering and listened as Black Fox described the Mad Dragon Society's rise and attack.
• Nan Ruoyi lit Liu Di's cigarette, revealing abrasions on her face that made him erupt in anger and ask who had hurt her.
• Nan Ruoyi told Liu Di about enhanced humans, and he learned the identities and backgrounds of the Chang brothers, including Chang Long's A5+ status.
• Black Fox identified Chang Bao as the one who injured Nan Ruoyi, and Liu Di decided to start with him at the bathhouse.
• As Liu Di rose to leave with the Black Fox Gang, Nan Ruoyi grabbed his shoulder and urged him not to go.

Liu Di rescued Nan Ruoyi by defeating Chang Bao and his armed bodyguards, then brought Chang Bao to Black Fox’s headquarters. There, Black Fox challenged Chang Bao’s brother and the Mad Dragon Gang to meet them at midnight at an abandoned stadium.

• Nan Ruoyi tried to handle Chang Bao’s men herself, but Liu Di insisted the threat was his concern too and treated her wounds.
• After learning Chang Bao had at least thirty underlings at the Wonderland Bathhouse, Liu Di went inside alone and subdued them, then dragged out the unconscious Chang Bao.
• The Black Fox Gang took Chang Bao to Misa’s fifth-floor office, where he threatened them and bragged that his brother would retaliate.
• Liu Di told Black Fox to call Chang Bao’s brother, and Black Fox challenged the Mad Dragon Gang to bring everyone to the abandoned stadium in the northern suburbs at midnight.

Liu Di faced the Mad Dragon Gang’s overwhelming forces at a midnight showdown, intending to defeat them alone while blindfolded. The chapter ended as he stepped into the rain, his fighting spirit silencing everyone watching.

• Black Fox forced Chang Bao to arrange a showdown with Mad Dragon, while Liu Di promised to crush Mad Dragon’s confidence.
• At the abandoned North Suburb Stadium, more than six hundred Mad Dragon Gang members confronted the two hundred Black Fox Gang members and demanded Chang Bao’s release.
• Uncle Seven and the other gang elders feared the Black Fox Gang would be wiped out by Mad Dragon’s superior numbers.
• Liu Di told Black Fox that no one else would need to fight, then asked Nan Ruoyi to tie a black cloth over his eyes.
• Liu Di walked alone into the rain to face Mad Dragon’s fighters, and his fighting spirit made the rain twist around him.

Blindfolded Liu Di fought six hundred Mad Dragon Gang members in the rain to train his consciousness and combat awareness, leaving the gang defeated and terrified. As the rain eased, he stood alone amid the fallen fighters.

• Uncle Seven and the Black Fox Gang members watched Liu Di face the attackers, while Nan Ruoyi ordered them to protect him if he was struck.
• Magic Child timed Liu Di as he used the rain and the crowd of attackers to train his senses and raise his neural transmission speed.
• Liu Di charged into the Mad Dragon Gang, dodging and countering attacks as he knocked down waves of fighters.
• After twelve minutes, Liu Di chased down the last dozen attackers and left the entire gang sprawled across the muddy field.
• The rain eased, and the surviving Mad Dragon Gang members crawled away in terror while Liu Di remained standing, still blindfolded.