Recaps

Huang Ji and his companions watched Ma Ye’s staged ice-cream delivery, but Golden Tooth’s men seized the warehouse and tried to steal the goods and silence the suppliers. Ma Ye’s forces intervened, and the confrontation ended with Tie Long holding Golden Tooth hostage.

• Li Kun received an abusive insurance sales call, called back to complain, then arrived at Di Feng Park with Ma Ye’s group.
• Huang Ji met Lin Li, Xiao Zha, Zhang Junwei, and Old Wang near the park and explained that Ma Ye had brought real money to draw out a mole while Golden Tooth came looking for an opportunity.
• Golden Tooth’s men ambushed the warehouse staff, restrained the suppliers and Ma Ye’s guards, and drove away with the delivery truck.
• A Meng ordered his men to kill the suppliers, but Ma Ye’s forces rushed down from the second floor and Golden Tooth called for everyone to stop.
• Tie Long entered holding Golden Tooth hostage, halting the standoff.

Tie Long captured Golden Tooth during Ma Ye’s deal, and the ensuing hostage standoff led Ma Ye to suspect Li Kun of being the mole. Ma Ye and Golden Tooth exchanged hostages, leaving Li Kun on Golden Tooth’s side and the former allies bitter enemies.

• Tie Long captured Golden Tooth and brought him into the warehouse, where Ma Ye’s men held him while Golden Tooth’s men held the suppliers.
• Huang Ji realized the escaped truck could lead him to Golden Tooth’s stash and sent Zhang Junwei to call the police when Cao Jing arrived with the case.
• Golden Tooth and Ma Ye exchanged Golden Tooth for the three suppliers, but Golden Tooth then threatened Ma Ye and pointed his gun at Xiao Dao.
• Golden Tooth claimed Li Kun had leaked the deal’s location, and Ma Ye’s men confirmed Li Kun had made a call near a Kangtai Life Insurance office.
• Ma Ye ordered Tie Long to subdue Li Kun, then exchanged him for Xiao Dao after Golden Tooth admitted that Li Kun was his mole.
• Golden Tooth welcomed Li Kun onto his side, and Li Kun and Ma Ye became bitter enemies.

Cao Jing arrived at the warehouse and discovered the four million in his cash cases had been replaced with blank paper, prompting Ma Ye to accuse and dismiss him. As Cao Jing fought Tie Long and A Lei attacked Ma Ye, Tie Long killed Cao Jing and knocked A Lei unconscious; Ma Ye and Golden Tooth were still facing off when an unexpected ice cream delivery arrived.

• Cao Jing arrived with A Lei and two cash cases, then learned the cases held blank paper instead of the four million.
• Cao Jing accused Tie Long of switching the money, but Ma Ye ordered his men to take Cao Jing away.
• Cao Jing fought Tie Long while A Lei attacked Ma Ye, and Xiao Dao subdued A Lei.
• Ma Ye ordered Tie Long to finish Cao Jing, and Tie Long killed him with a strike to the temple before knocking A Lei unconscious.
• Ma Ye asked Golden Tooth how he wanted to continue, but a horn announced an ice cream delivery outside.

The police raided the warehouse and found twenty kilograms of heroin hidden in the suppliers’ ice cream shipment. Golden Tooth was arrested after his underlings accused him of arranging the drugs, while Tie Long escaped with Ma Ye’s money and left Ma Ye suspecting he had been betrayed.

• Golden Tooth tried to leave the warehouse after the suppliers’ truck returned, but armed police surrounded the cold drink shop and arrested the people inside.
• Ma Ye and the others discarded their weapons, while Tie Long broke through the police blockade in a car and escaped.
• Ma Ye suspected Tie Long had engineered the events and stolen six million, as the police found no large amount of cash at the warehouse.
• The police found twenty kilograms of heroin hidden in ice cream boxes and arrested Ma Ye, Golden Tooth, and the suppliers.
• Golden Tooth’s two underlings confessed that he had ordered them to put heroin in the truck, and they showed the police incriminating text messages.
• Golden Tooth was taken away as his underlings revealed his crimes and hideouts to the police.

Tie Long fled after Ma Ye’s organization was raided, convinced that an unseen force had framed him and left him to take the blame. As Tie Long arranged an escape by boat and eliminated A Lei, Huang Ji and Old Wang secretly took the cash, while the police learned Tie Long’s location.

• Tie Long transferred six million into a stolen car, changed SIM cards, and told Dong Mei that Li Kun was the real mole before saying he planned to flee to America.
• The narcotics squad listened to Tie Long’s call through Dong Mei, dispatched officers to find him, and questioned Ma Ye about his escape channels.
• Tie Long called Hai Ge to arrange two boats, then discarded the phone card after realizing the police were likely monitoring Dong Mei.
• A Lei woke and attacked Tie Long, who knocked him out, locked him inside the original car, and pushed it into the river.
• Huang Ji and Old Wang took the cash cases while Tie Long disposed of the car and drove away without noticing the money was gone.

Huang Ji arranged for Zhang Junwei to rescue A Lei and Cao Jing from the river, then revived Cao Jing, whose brain was severely damaged. He took Cao Jing to his laboratory, where he planned to give him a new identity as a perfect double who could conceal Huang Ji from the Illuminati.

• Zhang Junwei pulled A Lei and Cao Jing from the river, and A Lei vowed to avenge Cao Jing by finding Tie Long and using the police against him.
• Huang Ji revealed that he had told Zhang Junwei to save A Lei, expecting him to pursue Tie Long after hearing about his plans to meet Hai Ge.
• Huang Ji treated Cao Jing, who woke up with severe brain damage, amnesia, and the intelligence of a small child.
• Huang Ji took Cao Jing to the laboratory and told Old Wang that he would use him as research material and give him a new life.
• Huang Ji planned to use Cao Jing's near-identical build and a perfect plastic surgery operation to create a double who could pass as Huang Ji.

Tie Long’s attempt to flee ended when A Lei held him for the police, who shot him dead at the wharf. A week later, Huang Ji left the profitable game MC in Lin Li’s hands while helping Cao Jing change his voice, confident the game would become a worldwide success.

• Tie Long discovered that the six million yuan in his trunk had vanished, then grew suspicious of boarding Hai Ge’s ship and tried to leave.
• A Lei attacked Tie Long at the wharf, and police arrived after A Lei revealed he had called them.
• Tie Long shot A Lei and tried to escape by swimming, but the wounded A Lei grabbed his leg and held him until police shot Tie Long nine times.
• A Lei survived his injuries and was likely to receive a life sentence after agreeing to confess.
• A week later, Huang Ji told Lin Li to manage revenue from MC and predicted it would earn at least eighty million dollars within three years.
• Huang Ji helped Cao Jing train his voice for a permanent change and chose to leave MC’s development and operation to its creator.

Huang Ji completed Cao Jing’s transformation into his double, prepared to treat Grandpa, and offered to teach Lin Li his cultivation method. On the train to Xin Zheng, Huang Ji recognized an ancient Yellow River channel and resolved to investigate the secrets hidden in history.

• Huang Ji removed Cao Jing’s bandages and trained him to believe he was Huang Ji, using Grandpa’s photograph to guide him.
• Lin Li tested Cao Jing’s fighting ability and was injured before Huang Ji stopped Cao Jing with the photograph of Grandpa.
• Lin Li explained that Old Wang could no longer find an illegal ship to London, and Huang Ji suggested hitching a ride on a legal cruise ship.
• Huang Ji and Lin Li traveled to Xin Zheng so Huang Ji could treat Grandpa, and Huang Ji offered to teach Lin Li the Inner Canon.
• Huang Ji identified a mountain ravine as a waterway carved by Da Yu and decided to investigate historical information for clues left by aliens.

Huang Ji began studying history to learn how to trace the past state of information, while he and Lin Li stayed in a hotel in Xin Zheng. He taught Lin Li a martial arts routine that let him unleash far more of his existing strength, then returned to his books as Lin Li continued practicing.

• Huang Ji explained that historical research could let him trace an object's past information and decided to study history.
• Huang Ji and Lin Li checked into a hotel in Xin Zheng, where Huang Ji planned to get a village clinic job before returning to treat Grandpa.
• Huang Ji taught Lin Li nine sections of breathing, movement, and force generation from the fourth set of his martial arts.
• Lin Li completed the routine and punched through the hotel sofa, but Huang Ji explained that the technique had only let him use seventy percent of his potential power.
• Lin Li failed to repeat the feat without linking all nine sections and resumed practicing while Huang Ji studied history books.

Huang Ji deduced that the Central Plains Elephant’s extinction was not simply caused by hunting, but by catastrophic Yellow River floods, Da Yu’s flood-control projects, and the agricultural development they enabled. After unlocking the past state of information, he traced the environmental changes that drove elephants from their habitat and left the survivors to die out.

• Huang Ji tried and failed to deduce why the Central Plains Elephant went extinct, rejecting his initial theory that ivory hunting was the main cause.
• Huang Ji noticed how an inconspicuous advertisement could outlast a flashy one and connected this to species surviving by adapting to their environments.
• Huang Ji reconsidered the elephants’ extinction and unlocked the past state of information by examining the history of the land beneath him.
• Huang Ji discovered that an earthquake-triggered Yellow River flood devastated the region for forty-two years and killed many wild elephants.
• Huang Ji traced how Da Yu’s flood-control work redirected rivers, destroyed habitats, and helped agriculture expand, leaving the Central Plains Elephants with little water or refuge.

Huang Ji used the Classic of Mountains and Seas to reconstruct God Shao Hao and explain that ancient records described an alien civilization displaced by Zhuanxu’s Severing the Heavens. He left the chapter eager to discover how Zhuanxu had driven the aliens away, with three possible ways to investigate the event.

• Huang Ji drew God Shao Hao as an eagle-headed machine and explained the meanings of several ancient rulers’ honorific titles to Lin Li.
• Huang Ji read the Classic of Mountains and Seas and concluded that its accounts preserved more reliable traces of ancient events than later historical works.
• Huang Ji explained that Zhuanxu had forced Shao Hao Country and the Qing Yang Clan westward during Severing the Heavens, rejecting later claims that Shao Hao was the Yellow Emperor’s son.
• Huang Ji told Lin Li that aliens had once openly visited Earth during the Era of Ten Suns before Zhuanxu cut off travel between above and below.
• Huang Ji considered searching Zhuanxu’s possessions or remains, visiting a site tied to Severing the Heavens, or examining Earth’s past from a planetary perspective.

Huang Ji interpreted the stories of Shao Hao and Zhuanxu as evidence of an ancient struggle against alien influence, then connected the defeated Qing Yang Clan’s sun-worshipping legacy to Egyptian mythology and the Illuminati. He left Lin Li considering how that culture had survived through centuries of decline and reinvention.

• Huang Ji explained that the “gods” in the Classic of Mountains and Seas referred to electrical devices and that Zhuanxu had studied music in Shao Hao Country.
• Huang Ji said Zhuanxu had driven out the Qing Yang Clan and ended the Era of Ten Suns, though he had not defeated the aliens themselves.
• Lin Li compared the High Sun, Young Sun, and setting Sun to Egyptian sun gods Ra, Khepri, and Atum.
• Huang Ji proposed that the defeated Qing Yang Clan’s cultural core had reached Egypt and influenced sun worship before eventually contributing to the Illuminati.
• Lin Li connected the Illuminati’s All-Seeing Eye to Horus, and Huang Ji described how Earth-traitor culture had been repeatedly inherited and transformed.

Huang Ji joined Hua Zhuang Village as a temporary doctor and secretly treated his grandfather while posing as a stranger. After surveying the village, he took Lin Li to the site of the buried Ruins of Zhurong and prepared to excavate the ancient city.

• Huang Ji submitted his résumé, became the village's temporary doctor, and visited households to examine residents.
• Huang Ji met his grandfather while disguised as Ji Hua, diagnosed his emphysema, and used acupuncture and massage to ease his breathing.
• Huang Ji promised to bring his grandfather medicine and prepared a customized Longevity Elixir for him.
• Huang Ji finished visiting the village and decided to stay until his grandfather had recovered.
• Huang Ji explained that a flood had buried the Ruins of Zhurong and led Lin Li to the site near Shang Shen River Reservoir.
• Huang Ji told Lin Li they were going to dig up an ancient city.

Huang Ji explained why the Ruins of Zhurong lay beneath Xin Zheng and used their discovery as bait to draw archaeologists away from a Tang Dynasty Golden Buddha he wanted to steal for the alien-related object hidden inside. After he and Lin Li unearthed a Jade Tablet, Lin Li eagerly helped dig more looters' holes, convinced Huang Ji would defeat the aliens.

• Huang Ji argued that floods had buried the Ruins of Zhurong beneath Xin Zheng and persuaded Lin Li to help search for the ancient city.
• Huang Ji and Lin Li dug through the night and unearthed a Jade Tablet more than six meters underground.
• Huang Ji told Lin Li to make more looters' holes so the discovery would bring archaeologists from across Henan Province to Xin Zheng.
• Huang Ji revealed that he wanted to use the excavation as a distraction to steal the alien-related object hidden inside a Tang Dynasty Golden Buddha at the Luoyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.
• Lin Li accepted Huang Ji's plan and began digging again, declaring his faith that Huang Ji would defeat the aliens.

A farmer’s field in Xin Zheng revealed a vast, flood-buried city filled with pottery, jade, and bronze, prompting an urgent archaeological excavation. After uncovering a Bronze Divine Tree and massive production workshops, archaeologists identified the site as the Ruins of Zhurong, an ancient industrial and military center.

• A farmer found looters’ tunnels and artifacts in his fields, and the Village Chief halted digging and called the Cultural Relics Bureau.
• Villagers dug up more than twenty pits before officials secured the area and experts identified the site as a city ruin with valuable artifacts.
• Professor Chen urged emergency excavation after experts found bronze artifacts that suggested the site predated the Shang Dynasty.
• Archaeologists uncovered enormous pottery and bronze workshops beneath flood deposits, along with thousands of artifacts and a preserved city complex.
• Archaeologists found a Bronze Divine Tree resembling Sanxingdui artifacts and debated the city’s links to Zhuanxu and the Xia Dynasty.
• The experts concluded that the site was the Ruins of Zhurong, a centralized center for smelting, manufacturing, and military production.

After C14 tests dated the Caogou Village Ruins and fueled speculation that they were the Ruins of Zhurong, Huang Ji arrived in Luoyang and went looking for cheap antiques. He identified a valuable bronze mirror among a collection of fakes and arranged to buy the lot with gold, while its sellers privately discussed their bargain.

• Archaeologists dated the Caogou Village Ruins to roughly 2900–2000 BC, and online discussions speculated that the flooded city was connected to Zhurong and Gonggong despite a lack of evidence.
• After curing Grandpa, Huang Ji traveled to Luoyang and searched antique shops and street stalls without buying anything.
• Huang Ji and Lin Li followed Bai Hu to a courtyard, where Bai Hu and Mao Hou offered a collection of antiques for four million.
• Huang Ji pointed out numerous modern fakes, then agreed to buy the remaining pieces with gold.
• After Huang Ji and Lin Li left to fetch the gold, Mao Hou asked whether they were really selling the Flying Immortal Pattern Inscription Mirror for four million, and Bai Hu said the mirror had cost them nothing.

Huang Ji tricked a tomb-raiding crew into fleeing their hideout, then led the police to the stolen artifacts buried in its courtyard. The two thieves escaped, but the officers recovered ten artifacts and credited the young officer with merit.

• Huang Ji had Lin Li buy the genuine bronze mirror and leave the thirty-nine fake antiques behind, then followed Bai Hu and Mao Hou to their hideout.
• Huang Ji predicted two more crew members would leave to sell another artifact and had Lin Li call Bai Hu with a warning that the police were coming.
• Bai Hu and Mao Hou panicked and escaped over the courtyard wall when Huang Ji kicked in the gate, leaving the gold bars behind.
• Huang Ji took the gold bars, planted the shovel in the courtyard, cleaned the hideout, and told Lin Li to report the illegal artifact sale to the police.
• The bald man and Wolf Head returned, found the gold bars and their partners gone, and began digging when they spotted the shovel.
• The two police officers arrived as the bald man and Wolf Head fled, then the officers dug up a box containing nine artifacts alongside the porcelain jar, recovering ten artifacts in total.

Huang Ji used a forged donation and Lin Li’s staged car accident to get access to the Luoyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, where he secretly removed the Buddha’s golden finger and replaced it with gold. The finger’s information called it a “Buddha Bone,” leaving Huang Ji wondering whether alien civilization also had a concept of Buddha.

• Huang Ji posed as Jia Hua and offered Tang Xia a Tang Dynasty bronze mirror, persuading her to take it to the preservation center for treatment.
• Huang Ji took Tang Xia’s keys and entered the storage room while Lin Li staged a car accident that drew the institute’s guards outside.
• Huang Ji removed the golden Buddha’s hidden finger, replaced it with a gold pestle, and restored the statue before returning to Tang Xia’s workshop.
• Huang Ji examined the finger’s information and learned that it was called a “Buddha Bone,” whose name translated from an alien language.

Huang Ji uncovered the Buddha Finger Bone’s function and explained to Lin Li how alien civilization shaped humanity’s Buddhist traditions and the cosmic pursuit of the Dao. He left Lin Li with the idea that Buddhism’s alternative to unattainable unity with the Dao was to enter a virtual universe and become its rules.

• Huang Ji donated the Flying Immortal Pattern Inscription Mirror to Tang Xia’s institute, gave false contact details, and left without approaching Lin Li.
• Huang Ji studied the Buddha Finger Bone at the hotel, then collapsed after chanting unfamiliar sounds; Lin Li carried him toward an ambulance, but Huang Ji woke in the elevator.
• Huang Ji told Lin Li that the Buddha Finger Bone had been assembled by Gautama Siddhartha, whom aliens had enlightened and appointed as Earth’s Buddha.
• Huang Ji explained that Dao culture guided civilizations seeking natural laws, while Buddhism arose from the belief that attaining the Dao was impossible.
• Huang Ji described Buddhist emptiness as a way to abandon the pursuit of the Dao by transferring consciousness into a virtual universe, where one could become its governing rules.

Huang Ji explained that the Buddha’s Pure Land was a virtual universe and revealed that the Buddha Finger Bone was a remnant of Shakyamuni’s mechanical body. He showed Lin Li how to log in to the damaged offline sandbox, where the two began exploring its limits.

• Huang Ji explained that Buddhism offered a virtual world of bliss while Daoism sought control over the real universe’s laws, and he privately knew that the Dao could be attained.
• Huang Ji told Lin Li that aliens had uploaded Gautama’s consciousness into a mechanical body, and that Shakyamuni had collected and transmitted Earthlings’ consciousnesses before the body was destroyed.
• Huang Ji tested the Buddha Finger Bone and found that it held an offline sandbox with a damaged database, then taught Lin Li the login phrase and precise image password.
• Lin Li and Huang Ji logged into Shakyamuni’s account and entered a small, empty virtual space containing the warehouse Huang Ji had started building.
• Lin Li created a sports car shell, but Huang Ji showed him it lacked an engine and explained that the sandbox required detailed construction from its available atomic building blocks.

Huang Ji explained how the virtual world could serve as a research laboratory and supercomputer, then uncovered its Karma and merit economy. He and Lin Li realized that the system could trap primitive civilizations’ members in eternal service, and the chapter left them concerned about the danger.

• Huang Ji told Lin Li that the virtual world could test inventions under adjustable conditions and that its computing power far surpassed Earth's computers.
• Lin Li entered backend mode and found an alien programming language, while Huang Ji concealed that he had already deciphered it.
• Huang Ji and Lin Li tested a transaction and discovered that purchases increased the buyer's Karma while clearing the seller's Karma.
• Huang Ji explained that merit could erase Karma and that reaching the Karma limit could turn users into NPCs serving the virtual-world company.
• Lin Li realized that ancient human recruits without money would eventually have filled their Karma, and Huang Ji agreed that the system preyed on the poor and primitive civilizations.

Huang Ji devised a way to board the Sea Garden without tickets by making the crew believe he was only visiting to repair the cold storage. After getting himself, Old Wang, and Lin Li aboard, he led them below deck to blend in with the ship’s crew.

• Old Wang told Huang Ji that the Sea Garden would sail the next day and explained the obstacles to boarding without tickets, passports, or visas.
• Huang Ji instructed Zhang Junwei to remain in the country and manage the gaming company, then arrived at the harbor with Old Wang and Lin Li dressed as ship workers.
• Huang Ji opened a side gate past the security checkpoint and sent Old Wang and Lin Li aboard with a ladder, claiming they had been called to repair the cold storage.
• Huang Ji pretended to call Captain Wu Tao, persuaded crew members Hu Xiaodong and Li Meng that he had permission to board, and walked onto the ship without an inspection.
• Huang Ji explained his deception to Old Wang and Lin Li, then took them to inspect the cold storage and blend in with the crew.

Huang Ji used a maintenance inspection as cover to win Tao Jun’s trust and secure rooms for his group aboard the ship. After examining a superconducting sample taken from an Illuminati base, Huang Ji learned that the beings humanity called Little Greys were artificial humans known as Watchdogs, and realized humanity was under their surveillance.

• Huang Ji convinced Tao Jun that the cold-storage inspection was unnecessary, then reassembled the unit and gained Tao Jun’s confidence.
• Huang Ji used Tao Jun’s help to move his group into rooms 9 through 12, and the group changed into casual clothes.
• Old Wang handed Huang Ji the golden pill, and Huang Ji removed its casing to examine the superconductor inside.
• Huang Ji perceived the Little Grey connected to the sample and learned its translated designation was Zeta Third-Generation Watchdog 1-6-33.
• Huang Ji realized the Little Greys were artificial humans created as tools and concluded that humanity was being monitored by Watchdogs.

Huang Ji explained the Little Greys’ role in humanity’s captivity and why the Roswell incident had been concealed, then discussed the ship’s superconductor with Old Wang. As they considered how to reach London without passports, Huang Ji proposed using a commotion to evade immigration inspectors.

• Huang Ji reasoned that the Little Greys were disposable Watchdogs and that a Little Grey pilot’s mistake had caused the Roswell crash.
• Huang Ji returned the superconductor to Old Wang and described how it could power handheld Electromagnetic Cannons and maglev aircraft.
• Huang Ji, Old Wang, and Lin Li ate in the ship’s restaurant while Huang Ji observed the passengers.
• Old Wang asked how they could enter London without passports, and Huang Ji ruled out escaping by swimming.
• Huang Ji proposed posing as inspectors and using a thief to draw attention away from them.

Pineapple Roll and Huang Ji planned to steal Zhang Rui’s diamonds by exploiting an immigration inspection and separating his bodyguards from him. Pineapple Roll agreed to join the heist while secretly considering how to betray Huang Ji and retire with the loot.

• Pineapple Roll robbed Uncle Tong’s room but lost the stolen cash and watches when Huang Ji stopped him and pickpocketed him during their fight.
• Huang Ji returned Pineapple Roll’s stolen valuables, introduced himself, and revealed that he was targeting Zhang Rui, who carried diamonds worth five hundred million.
• Huang Ji proposed stealing the bodyguards’ visas and knocking Zhang Rui unconscious during the immigration inspection so they could take the diamonds unnoticed.
• Pineapple Roll agreed to break into Zhang Rui’s room while Huang Ji guarded the staircase, and Huang Ji showed him detailed notes on the bodyguards’ schedules.
• Pineapple Roll accepted the fifty-fifty split while privately planning to frame Huang Ji and keep the diamonds for himself.