Recaps

Three days after joining the Illuminati, Huang Ji sought a serum compatibility test at Santa Fe and secretly used the visit to locate and remove Keke from her hidden life-support capsule. Mu Yuan believed he had spoken with his sister and went to test Huang Ji, unaware that Keke was now hidden in a house Huang Ji had been provided.

• Huang Ji completed the Illuminati initiation ceremonies and received a promotion to Level 9.
• Amu explained the benefits of Illuminati rank and urged Huang Ji to test whether he could tolerate the gene serums.
• Mu Yuan's influence declined after Santa Fe was destroyed, and the Sword-Keepers shifted resources to Griffin's Nirvana No. 2 research.
• Huang Ji made Mu Yuan notice a message apparently from Keke, prompting Mu Yuan to dismiss Huang Ji and Amu so he could contact her privately.
• Huang Ji impersonated Keke in their computer conversation, then disconnected her and took her life-support capsule from the basement sewer.
• Mu Yuan left his laboratory to perform Huang Ji's test, unaware that Huang Ji had taken Keke to a nearby house.

Huang Ji’s exceptional compatibility with both the Burning Devotion and Ascension Serums led Amu to arrange for him to train as a roaming Illuminati investigator. Amu joined him as his commanding officer, while explaining how Brando had gained authority and escaped punishment for killing Osiris.

• Mu Yuan confirmed Huang Ji had exceptional compatibility with both serums and recorded his potential as S3, possibly S4.
• Amu advised Huang Ji to train through real combat rather than attend an academy, then arranged for him to become a Mysterious Investigator.
• Amu told Huang Ji that he would serve as his commanding officer and train him as a free-roaming operative.
• Amu explained that Feis’s Killing Sword had given Brando the authority to kill Osiris and that Feis had protected Brando after the fact.
• Amu warned Huang Ji not to discuss what he had learned during the Santa Fe incident and promised to help him reach Level 20 within three years.

Mu Yuan discovered that Keke had vanished and concluded that Brando had taken her, while Brando remained preoccupied with Luo Yan’s unprovable alibi. Mu Yuan misread Brando’s anger as a sign that he knew about Keke and was using her to pressure him.

• Mu Yuan found Keke’s life-support cable disconnected and remembered how he had secretly preserved his sister’s head as a Biological Computer.
• Mu Yuan traced Keke’s disappearance to the day Brando inspected the sewer, then suspected Brando had found and taken her.
• Brando and Brandy discussed Luo Yan’s alibi, which depended on Royia Morgan’s testimony and left them unable to prove his guilt.
• Mu Yuan arrived to confront Brando, saw his pent-up anger, and assumed Brando had discovered Keke and was holding her as leverage.

Mu Yuan confronted Brando over the suspicion that he was the Santa Fe mole and demanded the return of a woman Brando believed he had taken. Brando realized Mu Yuan was likely referring to Royia, then suspected Mu Yuan’s three-year promise to create the Longevity Elixir was meant to shift loyalty toward the Double Pupils Faction.

• Mu Yuan denied controlling Santa Fe’s defenses and killing Osiris’s people, then promised to develop the Longevity Elixir within three years if Brando did not harm the woman he cared about.
• Brando asked Brandy whether he had taken someone close to Mu Yuan, and they investigated the women in Mu Yuan’s records.
• Brandy revealed that Royia was under house arrest, and Brando inferred that Mu Yuan mistakenly thought she was being held as leverage.
• Brando ordered Luo Yan released while Royia remained under house arrest, despite her ties to the Morgan Family.
• Brando suspected Mu Yuan had hinted that the Double Pupils Faction could make the Longevity Elixir within three years and ordered Brandy to keep the promise secret, even from the Sword-Keepers.

Huang Ji and Amu helped the Peacekeeping Force capture a gang leader in Port-au-Prince, then returned to the Illuminati base, where Huang Ji hid his extraordinary strength while sparring. He revealed his Heavenly Eye to Amu and considered how to develop it further, while recognizing that his Perfect Human body had made him reproductively isolated from other humans.

• Huang Ji and Amu handed the sugar factory gang leader over to the Peacekeeping Force and explained that the supposed hostages were councilmen secretly working with him.
• Amu praised Huang Ji's rapid physical improvement and sparred with him, unaware that Huang Ji had reached S4 Peak after using his own Perfect Human Serum.
• Huang Ji reflected that his Perfect Human biology made him reproductively incompatible with ordinary humans and even Burning People.
• Huang Ji dodged Amu's surprise attack and knocked him down with an elbow, then let Amu teach him how to predict attacks by reading muscle movements.
• Huang Ji explained that his Heavenly Eye gave him all-angle, X-ray-like vision and considered expanding its range of detectable light.

Huang Ji prepared to use Keke to warn the Illuminati about an unavoidable earthquake in Haiti and evacuate people before it struck. He told Keke he could restore her sensations if she helped him pose as a UFO and announce the coming disaster.

• Amu sparred with Huang Ji and realized his student was rapidly catching up to him in combat skill.
• Amu offered Huang Ji a coup-related mission, but Huang Ji ignored it and focused on the earthquake he predicted would hit Haiti in seven days.
• Huang Ji met Keke in the Buddha Bone's virtual world and explained that she was truly Mu Yuan's sister, kept alive through a machine that sustained her brain.
• Huang Ji offered to restore Keke's sensations in exchange for her help, and Keke agreed to learn the virtual world's computer language.
• Huang Ji told Keke to pose as a UFO and warn the Illuminati of the coming earthquake so they could frighten people into evacuating.

Huang Ji planned to build a living dragonfly-shaped UFO from a decommissioned tanker aircraft and biological materials. He intended to make it undetectable and capable of extraordinary flight, with Keke operating it.

• Huang Ji entered a warehouse in Haiti and began dismantling a broken KC-135 tanker.
• Huang Ji decided to build a fake UFO because he could not yet make a real spaceship, and he explained why exposing the Illuminati alone would not defeat it.
• Huang Ji planned to make the UFO evade detection, glow using A Fu's cells, and fly in ways human aircraft could not.
• Huang Ji designed a half-living aircraft using biological materials, Ascender genes, and a neural-network control system.
• Huang Ji planned to build the aircraft's sensory system so Keke could operate it.

Huang Ji tested the Yinglong-class aircraft, giving Keke a sensory body and letting her learn to pilot it. He concluded that his plans could evade the Little Grey Watchdogs’ attention and decided to win the Illuminati as an ally through a confrontation, using the Great Prophecy to find them a new godfather.

• Huang Ji finished the Yinglong-class aircraft and installed Keke inside it, restoring her senses so she could pilot it.
• Keke test-flew the aircraft over the Caribbean, practiced its agility, and learned to stay within Huang Ji’s limits.
• Huang Ji reasoned that the Watchdogs’ monitoring system would not flag an atmospheric craft or a natural earthquake as alien activity.
• Huang Ji considered the risk that the Illuminati might alert Dis to an unauthorized alien presence on Earth.
• Huang Ji decided to ally with the Illuminati through a clash and find them a new godfather using the Great Prophecy.

A glowing sphere followed a merchant ship toward Port-au-Prince, then overwhelmed sailor Bruno with a strange mental message before flying ahead to the harbor. Thousands witnessed the sphere’s arrival in broad daylight, while the meaning of the numbers Bruno remembered remained unknown.

• A merchant ship’s crew spotted a brilliant sphere over the Caribbean, and the sphere followed them toward Port-au-Prince after a seagull collapsed near it.
• The captain called the port for help, but the staffer doubted the UFO report and told the crew to return on their own.
• After Bruno called out to it, the sphere flew over the sailors, blinding them and making Bruno dizzy as an unintelligible message entered his mind.
• Bruno recovered and wrote down the twenty-digit sequence he remembered, while the crew realized the sphere was intelligent.
• The sphere flew ahead of the ship into Port-au-Prince, where thousands of people saw it above the busy harbor.

Huang Ji and Amu investigated a flying saucer openly roaming a crowded Haitian port, while Amu explained the Illuminati’s agreements with Dis and its efforts to conceal aliens. After the light ball overwhelmed Amu and spread Dis’s language, the Phoenix Group ordered an attack, but the missiles circled harmlessly around it before it asked, “Were you just attacking me?”

• Amu told Huang Ji that the Illuminati had to respond to the UFO, and they flew to the Haitian port where it was seen.
• Amu explained that Dis’s agreement with America restricted spaceflight and required secrecy, while the Illuminati controlled the promised technology deliveries.
• Amu mistook the light ball for an Angel and called to it, but it overwhelmed him with dizziness and what the Phoenix Group identified as Dis’s language.
• Huang Ji rescued Amu from the spinning helicopter and secretly drove black spikes into his back while the light ball bathed them in white light.
• The Phoenix Group ordered Amu and the military to attack the light ball, but their missiles missed and began orbiting it.
• The light ball sent a message to Phoenix Group headquarters asking whether they had just attacked it.

Huang Ji and Amu watched Keke’s light sphere answer the Illuminati’s missile attack with a threat to trigger earthquakes, then depart before they could stop it. Carmen and Feis learned that the Nature Disruptor had come for Earth, while Amu’s pursuit failed and the sphere vanished.

• The light sphere asked whether the Illuminati had attacked it, and Carmen claimed the missiles had been a joke while explaining Earth’s Non-Interference Protocol.
• The sphere launched glowing spores and warned that major earthquakes would strike the places it had hit after one planetary rotation, saying it would not undo its disturbance.
• Carmen learned that the Nature Disruptor had not received the Moon’s permission and dismissed the Civilization of Light’s authority, then said the Anunnaki Corporation should fear its threat to their profits.
• Feis offered humans as compensation, but the Nature Disruptor said it wanted Earth instead and left without answering Feis’s attempt to negotiate.
• Amu pursued the sphere in a Raptor Fighter, but its instruments and controls failed; Amu ejected, and later searches found no trace of the sphere.

After the Nature Disruptor caused an earthquake, Feis and Carmen debated how the Illuminati should respond and whether to seek another patron. In Port-au-Prince, Huang Ji deduced that the alien’s actions planted causes to steer events toward an unknown goal, not simply to take revenge or destroy humanity.

• Feis ordered Carmen to suppress news of the earthquake, control the Haitian government, and keep Dis uninformed while Feis consulted the other Sword-Keepers.
• Feis considered whether the Nature Disruptor could offer the Illuminati an alternative to Dis, but worried that backing both sides could leave him with nothing.
• Carmen assigned Amu and Huang Ji to investigate the people who had encountered the ball of light, and Huang Ji pretended that he had retained an alien language transferred by the craft.
• Huang Ji recognized that Bruno’s recorded numbers matched lottery numbers and had a ticket bought, while explaining that the Nature Disruptor appeared to grant wishes.
• Huang Ji told Amu that the Nature Disruptor’s interventions likely planted causes to guide reality toward an unknown outcome, and that its elaborate actions suggested it did not intend to wipe them out.

Huang Ji’s report led the Illuminati’s experts to debate the Nature Disruptor’s motives and whether to evacuate Port-au-Prince before the threatened earthquake. Dr. Maxi’s elaborate decoding of the alien’s numbers proved unnecessary when they won a lottery, and Carmen sent for Huang Ji again.

• Carmen escorted an international Advisory Group to Port-au-Prince, where Dr. Maxi rebuked the investigators for calling the Zetans “Little Greys.”
• Huang Ji explained that the light ball had granted people’s wishes, but Dr. Maxi dismissed his lottery interpretation and assigned him to record an alien-language dictionary.
• Experts debated the light ball’s power and purpose, while Amu argued that the Illuminati should evacuate Port-au-Prince to test Huang Ji’s theory that the alien wanted to use them.
• Carmen considered Amu’s proposal, but Dr. Maxi urged him to report the alien to Dis and let the earthquake happen rather than risk exposing the Illuminati’s advance knowledge.
• Dr. Maxi used the Yehuoer Model to decode the numbers into a shape, but Amu learned that they were the winning numbers of a recent American lottery.
• Carmen ordered Amu to bring Huang Ji back.

Huang Ji explained that the Disruptor’s questions could be orders to subordinates, prompting Feis to evacuate Port-au-Prince before the predicted earthquake. After the city was emptied and devastated, the Disruptor appeared to Carmen and warned of an even bigger earthquake in Chile.

• Huang Ji explained that the Disruptor’s words could be interpreted as orders, and the Illuminati considered whether he wanted control of Earth or something hidden there.
• Feis ordered Port-au-Prince evacuated, and Carmen persuaded Haiti’s president to stage a fictional coup as cover while the Illuminati supplied relief.
• The January 12 earthquake and tsunami destroyed Port-au-Prince, but the residents and armies had already withdrawn, leaving the disaster to cause economic losses instead of mass casualties.
• Carmen met the Great Light Ball above an aircraft carrier and welcomed the Disruptor on behalf of humanity.
• Huang Ji translated the Disruptor’s warning that Chile would suffer an even bigger earthquake on February 27.

The Illuminati learned that the Nature Disruptor was causing earthquakes to locate an ancient Dragon Race Environment Modifier buried on Earth. Feis chose to cooperate with him, and the Disruptor agreed to help the Illuminati find the Winged God.

• Dr. Maxi resented Huang Ji’s sudden fluency and feared Carmen and Feis were betraying Dis by approaching the Nature Disruptor.
• The Nature Disruptor revealed that he was causing earthquakes to search for an Environment Modifier left on Earth by the ancient Dragon Race.
• The Disruptor explained that the relic could control a planet’s ecology and climate, but he wanted its computer, energy-absorbing force field, and counter-detection system.
• Feis decided the Illuminati should cooperate with the Disruptor, hoping to recover other ancient alien relics for themselves.
• The Disruptor offered to mark the Winged God’s location on a map, identifying it as a Phoenix Race mech.

Huang Ji used the great light ball to reveal the Winged God's location and explain humanity's origins and ancient history to the Illuminati. The Illuminati learned that the relic lay buried in the Sahara, while Huang Ji planned to recover it and ultimately seek the Dragonkin treasure Torch Yin in Qinghai.

• The Illuminati used the great light ball to locate the Winged God in the Sahara Desert, and Huang Ji explained that ancient Egypt's territory had once extended there.
• Huang Ji told the Illuminati that Anunnaki had created Homo Erectus, and Dragon Race researchers later introduced their genes to create Homo Sapiens.
• Huang Ji explained that the Winged God was the Shao Hao Mecha, a relic from the Ten Sun Kingdoms that had been taken to Ancient Egypt and buried in the desert.
• Huang Ji recounted how Gaoyang Clan performed Severing the Heavens, causing the Fusang Pillar and the Ten Sun Kingdoms to vanish and Shao Hao's descendants to flee with the mecha.
• Huang Ji planned to use the Illuminati to recover the Winged God and then pursue Torch Yin in Qinghai.

Maxi rejected the Nature Disruptor’s offer and remained committed to Dis, while Huang Ji identified the Great Light Ball’s missing Environment Modifier as the Torch Dragon recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. He argued that ancient texts described it as a real, electrically powered object, leaving the specialists to reconsider the meaning of the ancient records.

• Maxi weighed the Illuminati’s ties to Dis against the Nature Disruptor’s offer and decided not to abandon his lifelong commitment to Dis.
• Huang Ji asked whether the Great Light Ball was searching for Torch Yin or Torch Dragon, then connected the Environment Modifier to a description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• A balding expert recounted the legend of Torch Dragon, and Huang Ji explained that the ancient word translated as “god” could refer to an electrically powered object.
• Huang Ji pointed the expert to the Overseas Northern Classic, where Torch Yin was described as both a god and “the object itself.”
• Huang Ji argued that Torch Dragon was a vast device that controlled climate and that the Classic of Mountains and Seas recorded real objects rather than invented deities.

Huang Ji used Oracle Bone Script and the Classic of Mountains and Seas to argue that Huaxia’s ancient dragons were members of the alien Dragon Race, then asked the Great Light Ball to help Amu evolve. The Great Light Ball granted the request and warned Carmen that Maxi, Jerry, and Feis would leak information, leaving Carmen and Huang Ji to suspect Feis planned to betray the alliance.

• Huang Ji explained that Torch Dragon was an ancient machine and argued that the Oracle Bone Script characters for dragon and emperor showed that Huaxia’s dragons were human-headed, snake-bodied beings.
• Huang Ji asked the Great Light Ball to help Amu evolve his genes, and it pierced Amu with its spines before leaving for Hua Country.
• The Great Light Ball secretly gave Carmen a list of people who would leak information, including Maxi, Jerry, and Feis.
• Carmen concealed Feis’s name when Feis asked who was on the list, then followed Feis’s orders to monitor Maxi and Jerry and prepare to take them to Egypt.
• Huang Ji told Carmen and Amu that Feis might betray the Disruptor to appease the Anunnaki Corporation, and Carmen realized he and the others could be sacrificed.

After returning to Detroit, Huang Ji checked on Messiah’s expanding base and learned its new rocket and nano spacesuit were ready. He decided to make a concealed crewed trip into space before leaving, intending to use the Buddha Bone Armguard to hide the launch and see Earth’s history.

• Carmen decided to assign Luo Yan to the Winged God Squad so he could search for the Winged God and contact the Double Pupils Faction.
• Huang Ji returned to Detroit and saw that Sophia’s team had improved the nanofactory and built a rocket and portable spacesuit.
• Huang Ji visited the hidden mountain base, where Messiah’s people and the Dragonkin lived and worked alongside one another.
• Huang Ji asked Heinrich to prepare the rocket for a crewed launch before March 3, despite Heinrich and Adams warning him about the risks.
• Huang Ji said he would use the Buddha Bone Armguard to conceal the launch from satellites and the Illuminati because he needed to see Earth’s history from space.

Huang Ji gave Messiah the knowledge to develop nanotechnology and the Longevity Elixir, then launched aboard the spacecraft Preaching to record Earth’s history in his information database. The chapter ended with Huang Ji looking down on Earth and resolving to preserve the ancient history of civilization.

• Huang Ji transferred Mu Yuan’s research to Messiah’s computers, taught the team how to make the Perfect Human Serum and Longevity Elixir, and ordered 160 doses sent with Double Pupils Badges to prospective allies in the Illuminati.
• Huang Ji asked Adams whether he would become a Sword-Bearer and said that otherwise Adams would have to take Veronica abroad and kill her to protect Detroit Base from exposure.
• Messiah prepared its first manned spacecraft, Preaching, using a superconducting energy transmission system, and Huang Ji launched into space.
• From orbit, Huang Ji absorbed Earth’s historical information into his database so he could consult the planet’s history from ancient times to the present.

Huang Ji explained to Lin Li and Adams that Kunlun was Earth's ancient name and that the Mound of Kunlun may have been a vast Dragonkin city or interstellar base. He placed the Kunlun Ruins in northwest Qinghai, setting the group up to search for alien artifacts there.

• Huang Ji met Lin Li and Adams at sea after returning from space and said that seeing Earth had changed his perspective.
• Huang Ji explained that Kunlun meant an ordered world inhabited by beings beneath one sun and argued that the Dragonkin had named Earth.
• Huang Ji interpreted the Mound of Kunlun as a huge Dragonkin structure rather than a natural mountain, possibly serving as a city and interstellar base.
• Huang Ji said the Mound of Kunlun had departed, leaving ruins with traces of surrounding structures and alien equipment.
• Huang Ji located the Kunlun Ruins in northwest Qinghai, and Lin Li wondered whether they lay within the modern Kunlun Mountain Range.

Huang Ji explained to his gathered allies how ancient human history unfolded under alien rule, and revealed that the Yellow Emperor had sent his son Heng Wo to the moon as a Dragonkin undercover agent. The chapter ended with Huang Ji reflecting that no one could know what the Yellow Emperor had truly felt.

• Huang Ji told the assembled group that his Illuminati intelligence had clarified humanity's place in the universe and explained how Earth’s myths described its history.
• Huang Ji recounted how the Yellow Emperor defeated the Eastern Yi, while Anunnaki Corporation claimed the Solar System and treated humanity as its property.
• Huang Ji explained that the Yellow Emperor pursued human unity and tolerance rather than eliminating the Eastern Yi, leaving behind the principle of Great Virtue Carries All.
• Huang Ji revealed that the Yellow Emperor sent his son Heng Wo to steal the Elixir of Immortality, transform into a Dragonkin, and travel to the moon aboard a spacecraft.
• Huang Ji said the Dragonkin accepted Heng Wo and that the Yellow Emperor had secured his promise to pass intelligence and occasional aid to humanity.
• Lin Li called the Yellow Emperor ruthless, and Huang Ji chose not to discuss Nüba before reflecting that later generations could not know the Yellow Emperor's heart.

Huang Ji explained how Zhuanxu’s Severing the Heavens won humanity protection under Star Alliance law by proving that humans could develop independently of alien technology. He left the group understanding that Zhuanxu had destroyed the shamans, artifacts, and even his own power to secure humanity’s future.

• Huang Ji described how alien powers had once controlled Earth and explained that Zhuanxu’s Severing the Heavens drove them away.
• Lin Li recounted how Zhuanxu defeated the first-generation Illuminati and exiled Shao Hao, while Huang Ji explained that alien technology had kept humanity legally unprotected.
• Huang Ji explained that the Yellow Emperor preserved political stability and unified the Central Plains and Eastern Yi under shared rules, paving the way for Zhuanxu.
• Zhuanxu used alien technology to defeat the Great Shamans and Shao Hao, then destroyed the artifacts and records and regressed civilization to the Stone Age.
• Huang Ji revealed that Zhuanxu sacrificed his own power and family to prove humanity’s potential, after which the Star Alliance protected humans and the Era of Ten Suns ended.

Huang Ji explained how the Anunnaki Corporation, the Little Greys, and the Star Alliance controlled humanity, and why reporting or destroying the Illuminati would endanger the resistance without solving the coming catastrophes. He proposed preserving and assimilating the Illuminati so humanity could secretly develop spaceflight, leaving the group to consider his plan.

• Huang Ji explained that the Anunnaki Corporation had become a criminal syndicate under '6,' with the Little Greys overseeing Earth after the Star Alliance inspector outsourced the job.
• Huang Ji warned that reporting the Anunnaki or destroying the Illuminati could provoke retaliation against humanity and Messiah, while neither action would solve the 2012 and 2045 catastrophes.
• Huang Ji said the Anunnaki would obstruct humanity's spaceflight development to prevent it from joining the Star Alliance.
• Lin Li realized that humanity should conceal its plans and develop a long-range spacecraft while dealing with the Illuminati rather than confronting powerful aliens.
• Huang Ji said his plan was to preserve the Illuminati, change its thinking, and assimilate it, as the Yellow Emperor had done with Shao Hao Country.

Huang Ji persuaded the Messiah to absorb the Illuminati and use its resources to develop a long-range spaceship. He revealed that the real plan was to travel alone to Sirius and infiltrate alien society, leaving everyone stunned by the desperate gamble.

• Huang Ji convinced the Dragonkin, Sentinels, and others to replace the Illuminati's ruling echelon and use the organization to support humanity's development.
• Yam asked how a spaceship could evade the moon's surveillance, and Huang Ji said it could not escape openly.
• Huang Ji revealed that he would disguise himself as an alien tourist and leave Earth alone to infiltrate a city in the Sirius Star System.
• Lin Li and the others protested that Huang Ji would be entering an advanced alien civilization with almost no resources or support.
• Huang Ji insisted that sending him into interstellar society was humanity's only chance to survive and gain leverage against the Anunnaki Corporation.