Chapter Summaries

Boss Yun and the Xu siblings remained hunted by the Dawn Consortium while Xu Wen grew stronger and learned that Boss Yun was the legendary Luoluo, the Mech Combat King. After an Alliance member betrayed the siblings, the Consortium cut off the district’s supplies, forcing them to flee as Boss Yun insisted Xu Wen must end his own trial.

• Xu Wen confronted Boss Yun about his suspicious abilities, and Boss Yun revealed that he was Luoluo, a Mech Combat King returned from three hundred years in the past.
• Boss Yun summoned a War Dragon Generation 9 and explained that he was letting Xu Wen face his own karma rather than defeating the Consortium for him.
• In January 2890, Boss Yun secretly allocated points to Xu Wen, Xu Yan, and selected Scavenger Alliance members to strengthen them.
• In February 2890, a Scavenger Alliance member reported Xu Wen and Xu Yan for their bounties, and the Consortium retaliated by cutting off the district’s water, electricity, and supplies.
• Wang Xiang helped Xu Wen, Xu Yan, and Boss Yun escape the Alliance before their former companions could hand them over.
• Boss Yun told Xu Wen that the situation was his trial and that only Xu Wen could bring it to an end.

After reaching the Sixth Stage of Inner Manipulator, Yun Shou watched Xu Wen use Battle Dragon Generation Eleven to attack the Dawn Consortium’s Sixth Branch and confront Wu Litian, who had murdered Xu Wen’s mother. Xu Wen and Yun Shou thwarted Wu Litian’s attempt to threaten Xu Yan, but a call from consortium headquarters urged Xu Wen to stop before he delivered the final blow.

• By 2891, Yun Shou had reached the Sixth Stage of Inner Manipulator, and Xu Wen had become strong enough to pilot Battle Dragon Generation Eleven.
• Xu Wen fought his way into the Dawn Consortium’s Sixth Branch and confronted Wu Litian, who confessed to having his mother captured and killed and to arranging his father’s death.
• Wu Litian claimed that consortium forces had been testing Xu Wen and threatened Xu Yan, but Yun Shou appeared on the holographic projection, revealing she was safe.
• Xu Wen crushed Wu Litian’s arm and tortured him for half an hour while Yun Shou covered Xu Yan’s eyes, though Xu Yan insisted on watching.
• Consortium headquarters contacted Xu Wen and demanded that he stop, claiming Wu Litian had already been punished and that the pursuit had been a test of Xu Wen’s talent.

Xu Wen killed Wu Litian and refused the consortium’s demand to submit, prompting its elders to put a global bounty on him and his companions. You took control of Battle Dragon Generation Eleven and charged into battle, leaving Xu Wen to protect your sister.

• Xu Wen crushed Wu Litian’s skull, rejected the consortium’s offer, and destroyed the cameras recording him.
• The consortium’s elders ordered a public kill-on-sight bounty, placing a higher price on the pilot of the red special exoskeleton.
• Xu Wen returned to you and your sister as the bounty announcement played, then admitted their situation had become troublesome.
• You used the Power of Manipulation to eject Xu Wen from Battle Dragon Generation Eleven and took control of the armor yourself.
• You gave Xu Wen a spare unit to protect his sister, then charged off alone as your crimson cape unfurled.

You entered the city and battled the Sixth Branch’s exoskeleton fighters, defeating three powerful Kings in seconds before tearing through waves of attackers. The city’s remaining experts continued to charge, but you showed no sign of being stopped.

• You announced your arrival over the city and decided to erode the conglomerate’s confidence rather than attack its headquarters directly.
• Black Gold Stone, Four-Winged Sky Cutter, and Earth-Dominating Tiger attacked you together, but you crippled or destroyed all three in under ten seconds.
• The city’s experts realized you had grown far stronger than before and argued that your Power of Manipulation would eventually run out.
• Several exoskeletons charged you and were blasted apart.
• Dozens more exoskeletons attacked, and you destroyed them with punches, thermal rays, and plasma.

You slaughtered the bounty hunters who attacked you, proving that Battle Dragon Generation Eleven could overwhelm their exoskeletons and their pilots. After killing a powerful father and daughter who tried to ambush you, you reflected that the battle took place in the true spacetime of twenty-two years earlier, when the future had not yet happened.

• You destroyed nearly a hundred and fifty attacking exoskeletons in five minutes, and the surviving hunters mistook your strength for that of an Inner Manipulator.
• You cut down the fleeing enemies and killed more attackers who pleaded for their lives or claimed to be streamers.
• You impaled a camouflaged exoskeleton attempting to stab you from behind while its enormous companion demanded a fair fight.
• You tore open the giant bear-like exoskeleton and killed the middle-aged father inside, who had been fighting alongside his daughter.
• You recognized the setting as the true spacetime of twenty-two years earlier, before the events that would shape the future had occurred.

You faced an overwhelming artillery barrage and relied on unpredictable movement and Battle Dragon Generation Eleven’s armor to survive. You then charged toward an artillery encampment.

• You and Yun Shou discussed whether the Simulator had omitted parts of their past conversations, including your recommendation of Warm-Warm and Roast-Roast.
• An artillery force tracked your position and unleashed thousands of shells across the area, destroying many nearby exoskeletons.
• You drew your Power of Manipulation into your exoskeleton and dodged through the bombardment instead of fighting with it directly.
• Your erratic movements kept you near the edges of the artillery’s coverage, and the explosions caused little damage to your armor.
• You charged toward an artillery encampment.

Yun Shou destroyed the artillery camp after rejecting a Dawn Consortium director’s demand that he kneel and pledge loyalty. He then faced the Sixth Branch’s exoskeleton legion and began a one-against-360 battle.

• Yun Shou evaded the artillery bombardment and advanced toward the camp, forcing its personnel to call a ceasefire.
• A Dawn Consortium director offered to forgive Yun Shou and Xu Wen’s actions if Yun Shou joined the consortium, but demanded that he kneel and pledge loyalty.
• Yun Shou destroyed the camp’s projector, equipment, and exoskeleton soldiers before leaving its ruins.
• The consortium deployed its core exoskeleton force of 360 units against Yun Shou.
• Yun Shou asked whether the legion was certain it wanted to fight, then leaped away as its lasers struck his former position.

The conglomerate raised Yun Shou’s bounty to five hundred million credits, drawing Trash Kings across the planet while preparing its hidden weapons. Yun Shou told Xu Wen and Xu Yan to stay safe, then threatened to punish Xu Wen for doubting his strength.

• Xu Wen discovered that Yun Shou’s bounty had reached five hundred million credits after the conglomerate’s second-tier legion was wiped out.
• Conglomerate leaders dismissed the bounty hunters as a distraction and prepared to unleash forbidden objects built up over more than a thousand years.
• Xu Wen contacted Yun Shou and worried that the planet’s forces would overwhelm him, while Xu Yan offered to come help.
• Yun Shou ordered the siblings to hide and insisted he had earned his bounty by defeating his enemies one by one.
• Yun Shou accused Xu Wen of doubting his claim to be Unrivaled Under Heaven and threatened to keep a tally of his offenses for a year.

Yun Shou reflected on how absolute power would leave him isolated from friends and surrounded by people who only revered him. He realized he might have no equal friends in the future, only subordinates who called him Senior.

• Yun Shou remembered a future in which he crushed the conglomerate directors and resort monsters, then was honored by the Mech Kings.
• Yun Shou imagined future simulations repeating a pattern of being revered, gaining power, and eventually fleeing or dying, a life he found lonely.
• Yun Shou recognized that his overwhelming strength kept people such as Yun Qi, Yun Jiu, Xi Xiqi, Qin Zhenhai, and the Supremes from treating him as an equal.
• Yun Shou recalled Xi Xiqi panicking when he found her bathing in poisonous broth, and how his reassurance led many water spirits to imitate her.
• Yun Shou lamented that invincibility would leave him without equal friends, and Yun Shou accepted that he might have only subordinates who addressed him as Senior.

Twelve entered a city in his Battle Dragon Generation Eleven, mocked a boy who wanted his father back, and survived a bar full of bounty hunters trying to claim the reward on his head. He left the city for the neighboring junk district, where Trash Kings from across the world gathered around him.

• Twelve visited a boy whose father he had killed, then cruelly told him he was not his dad.
• Twelve drank Burning Tongue through a straw in a bar while its patrons prepared to attack him.
• A gunshot triggered a chaotic shootout in the bar, but none of the bullets harmed Twelve, who walked away.
• Twelve left the city and headed deeper into the junk district as Trash Kings arrived and gathered around him.
• Steel King, Glacier King, Meteor King, River Blade King, Purple Gold King, Iron Claw King, Soaring Sky King, and Indestructible King were among the kings gathered there.

You faced a coalition of Trash Kings, whose ranks ranged from Quasi-Kings to Monarchs, and fought them alone. You left the first clash having crippled four Kings, with at least two dead.

• You heard the Kings boast of their numbers and the bounty that would draw even Monarchs to hunt you.
• You considered the five grades of Trash Kings, from Quasi-Kings to Monarchs, and how their strength and territory differed.
• The Glacier King, Purple Gold King, River Blade King, and Steel King attacked as the battle erupted.
• You dodged the Glacier King's icy breath, shattered the Purple Gold King's spear and the River Blade King's blade-light, and redirected the Steel King's projectile into the Elephant Power King.
• You killed the Earth Splitter King, crushed the Indestructible King's armor, and struck the Phoenix King from the sky, crippling four Kings in the opening exchange.

You slaughtered the Trash Kings sent to delay you, while the conglomerates relied on them to exhaust your strength before the other Monarch-level fighters arrived. The chapter ended as a battlefield observer sensed a Monarch approaching.

• You defeated Purple Gold King, killed White Feather King, and hurled spears to kill more than twenty-five Trash Kings.
• The Trash Kings realized they could not overpower you and switched to ranged attacks while more fighters rushed toward the battle.
• The conglomerates had withheld footage of your strongest feats, using the Trash Kings only to delay and tire you.
• A distant observer counted the dead kings and watched Azure Dragon King charge you, only to be cut down with one slash.
• The observer felt a tremor beneath his feet and recognized the presence of a Monarch.

You battled the Shear King and more than two hundred Trash Kings after the Shear King ambushed and killed Iron Claw King. As the fight continued, Mountain-Bearing King arrived and declared that he had come to help you fight the corporations.

• You struck Iron Claw King, then leaped away as the Shear King's Eight-Wheel Shear cut Iron Claw King into sixteen pieces.
• The assembled kings recognized the Shear King as a Monarch-level figure whose Shear Body made his attacks exceptionally sharp.
• The Shear King announced that corporations had raised your bounty to 800 million credit points, but a king checking his communicator found it had reached 900 million.
• You resumed fighting the Shear King and more than two hundred kings, while observing that the Shear King's strength came from his personal qualities rather than his exoskeleton technology.
• Mountain-Bearing King arrived and told you he had come to help oppose the corporations, revealing that he too was wanted, with a 95-million-credit-point bounty.

You defeated Shear King and killed Mountain-Bearing King after discovering he intended to betray you for the Dawn Consortium. As the surviving Trash Kings’ morale collapsed, twenty-three Divine Abominations—monstrous fighters with Trash Emperor strength—advanced onto the battlefield.

• You fought alongside Mountain-Bearing King to destroy Shear King, then ended a future in which Mountain-Bearing King attacked you from behind.
• You ended another future in which Mountain-Bearing King revealed the consortium had offered him a billion for your death and you beheaded him.
• You stabbed Mountain-Bearing King for calling you Red Cape King, then killed him after confirming he had planned to betray you.
• At the consortium’s core meeting, Xu An’s colleagues discussed the failed plot, and a middle-aged man said their mass-produced Emperor-level fighters were about to enter the battle.
• In Scrap Zone No. 162, the Trash Kings’ morale collapsed after heavy losses, and you watched twenty-three Divine Abominations approach.

Yun Shou defeated the divine aberrations and scattered the Trash Kings, who hailed him as a being above emperors. The corporation responded by offering an unrestricted Azure Domain travel quota to draw the two remaining Trash Emperors into delaying him while it prepared the Bright Heaven forbidden weapon.

• Yun Shou fought the twenty-three divine aberrations while Xu Wen and his sister watched from more than two hundred kilometers away.
• By sunset, Yun Shou had killed or driven off nearly all three hundred Trash Kings, and the survivors knelt and praised him as the strongest being Scrap Mining Planet had seen in a thousand years.
• Yun Shou told Xu Wen to stay put because he had one more matter to handle, then flew away as the Trash Kings watched without trying to stop him.
• Xu Wen saw that Yun Shou’s bounty had become an unrestricted quota to travel to the Azure Domain.
• The corporation’s leaders panicked over Yun Shou’s victory and decided to raise his bounty to lure the two remaining Trash Emperors into holding him back before they deployed Bright Heaven.

The consortium’s elders approved using Bright Sky, a devastating nuclear weapon, to eliminate Yun Shou despite the danger to populated areas. As they reviewed surveillance showing Yun Shou standing motionless among kneeling Trash Kings, someone realized the footage had stopped updating.

• The middle-aged man told the consortium’s elders that Yun Shou had surpassed expectations and destroyed the Godspawn, then requested approval to activate Bright Sky.
• The elders criticized the current leadership and agreed to use Bright Sky, a weapon capable of destroying areas tens of kilometers wide and causing lasting radiation disasters.
• An elder overruled Little Du’s concerns about civilian casualties and demoted him, declaring that Bright Sky could be used even in a city as long as schools were avoided where possible.
• The elders watched surveillance feeds showing Yun Shou standing atop a mountain of trash while the surrounding Trash Kings knelt in submission.
• A member of the meeting noticed that the surveillance footage of Yun Shou had stopped updating, despite appearing to show his cape fluttering.

Yun Shou’s heightened comprehension infiltrated the conglomerate’s network, trapping its directors in a false surveillance feed and cutting them off from the outside world. The directors realized they had lost track of him and ordered the network shut down as one of them claimed to have a way to deal with him.

• The directors noticed that the surveillance footage of Yun Shou was looping and discovered their calls to personnel in Scrap Zone No. 162 were failing.
• A newcomer reported that outside requests to contact the meeting had repeatedly been rejected, exposing the network failure.
• The directors realized the network around Zone 162 had been hacked and that they no longer knew Yun Shou’s location or movements.
• A director announced that he had a way to deal with Yun Shou, but another warned them to shut down the network so the hacker could not keep listening.

The conglomerate’s directors realized the network takeover had ruined their hostage plan and decided to seek peace, while their hidden elders learned their location might be exposed to Yun Shou. Wang Shan, terrified and enraged, took out his fear on Tao Xiaoxiao.

• A director proposed capturing Xu Wen and his sister to lure Yun Shou into a trap and detonate Guangtian, but the directors realized they could no longer contact or control the region.
• A messenger announced that every network had been breached, and the chairman ordered the conglomerate to prepare to seek peace.
• Yun Shou said the network breach would make him wary of Guangtian, and the chairman concluded that continuing the fight could only lead to ruin.
• After the network disconnected, more than a dozen elderly men awakened in a secluded town and learned that the hacker might have exposed their location to Yun Shou.
• Wang Shan grew furious and afraid, grabbed Tao Xiaoxiao by the wrist, and pierced her skin with his fingers.

Wang Shan brutally injured Tao Xiaoxiao as he panicked about the hunt, while Yun Shou reflected on why Twelve had chosen to return to mortality. You arrived in the town, healed Tao Xiaoxiao, and began killing the men responsible for the hunt; the chapter ended as you found one old man hiding in a basement.

• Wang Shan beat Tao Xiaoxiao, broke her leg, and ordered guards to help him flee with his exoskeleton.
• Yun Shou concluded that Twelve had returned to mortality to avoid becoming an arrogant monster accustomed to others' obedience.
• You descended into the town and healed Tao Xiaoxiao with True Qi.
• You used Descent to identify which old men deserved to die, then began killing them while sparing several others.
• You entered a flower-filled courtyard, cut down a bodyguard, and discovered that the old man who owned the house was hiding in the basement.

You rescued the victims imprisoned in the town’s basement, then hunted down the elders who had fled and punished them for their crimes. After Wang Shan finally remembered the woman he had nearly beaten to death, you granted him a quick death.

• You broke into the basement, healed and hypnotized the captives, then subjected the old man who had tortured them to prolonged agony.
• You tracked down the elders who had escaped, using your power to travel through space and reach them at tremendous speed.
• You confronted an old woman who realized that the elders’ arrogance had doomed them.
• You found Wang Shan among the elders and beat him repeatedly until he remembered the woman he had nearly killed.
• Wang Shan begged for mercy, and you gave him a quick death.