Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo tested his Natural Catalysis ability on plants and meat, discovering that it rapidly grew plants but produced living, immobile animals. After learning that the game had launched Guild Hegemony Battle and finding his Super Backpack was merely a small robot, he became angry about being investigated and headed out to train swordsmanship, noticing the Free Mercenary Guild watching him again.

• Yang Bo catalyzed vegetables, naturally raised beef, cultured beef, and poultry, finding that plants grew and reproduced rapidly while catalyzed animals remained alive but unable to move.
• Yang Bo catalyzed a Mutated Plant and its seeds, then confirmed that Mental Seeds could not make catalyzed animals move.
• The Game Department celebrated the discovery that Super Mutated Animals might cultivate Mutated Plants, and the colonel ordered Guild Hegemony Battle launched early to distract players with guild conflicts.
• Yang Bo found that Guild Hegemony Battle was live and that his Super Backpack was a small storage robot, which angered him because he suspected the military was probing his background.
• Yang Bo messaged Liu Jingxiang to arrange swordsmanship training, left his villa, and noticed the Free Mercenary Guild following him again.

Yang Bo learned that the Free Mercenaries were investigating the Life Energy Stones and pretended to fear them while Liu Zhijie warned him to stay cautious. In secret, Yang Bo posed as Ninth Mister and charged Zhang Bozhen for advice, leaving Zhang Bozhen with a suspicion that Alliance Military infighting was behind the mercenaries’ disappearance.

• Yang Bo decided the Free Mercenaries might lose interest if he stayed home, while Zhang Bozhen worried about how cleanly the mercenaries had vanished.
• Liu Jingxiang warned Yang Bo to avoid risky places, and Yang Bo defeated her and Zhou Kexin in swordsmanship practice.
• Liu Zhijie told Yang Bo the Free Mercenaries had learned about the Life Energy Stones and advised him to avoid going out alone.
• Yang Bo returned to his villa, put on combat armor, used Stealth, and messaged Zhang Bozhen as Ninth Mister.
• Yang Bo repeatedly demanded extra payment before advising Zhang Bozhen that local powers were likely involved and that Alliance Military infighting might explain the incident.

Zhang Bozhen suspected the Zhang Family and military were using the Free Mercenaries to target both him and the Ninth Fleet, so he enlisted Yang Bo to help track them down. When Zhang Bozhen failed to uncover the whole team, Yang Bo decided to investigate the followers himself, then visited Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui to see the new swordsmanship training robot.

• Yang Bo warned Zhang Bozhen that the mission involving the Life Energy Stone might conceal a plot against him and the Ninth Fleet, prompting Zhang Bozhen to strengthen defenses and ask Ninth Mister for help.
• Zhang Bozhen invited Yang Bo for tea to draw out the Free Mercenaries following him, and Yang Bo brought Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui along.
• Butler Niu confirmed that some mercenaries were following Yang Bo, but the Guild’s secrecy and caution kept Zhang Bozhen from finding the full team.
• After waiting several days without progress, Yang Bo decided to use Stealth and Mental Power to investigate the people following him himself.
• Yang Bo visited Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui, where Liu Jingxiang showed him the advanced swordsmanship training robot and explained its levels and free mode.

Yang Bo tested his swordsmanship against training robots and adapted to their attacks before investigating the people tailing his flying car. He discovered that one tracker was contacting the Free Mercenary Team through a game and planned to use the game to find the group’s members.

• Yang Bo defeated the Level 5 training robot with one tentacle twice, then struggled against two tentacles at Difficulty 5C while improving how long he could last.
• After lunch, Yang Bo returned to his villa, sent his flying car on a pickup task, and followed the people who were tracking it while invisible.
• Yang Bo watched the trackers change shifts and followed one man to a hotel, where the man scanned his room and used Restoration Serum to change his appearance.
• When the man contacted his superior through Virtual Glasses, Yang Bo planted a Mental Seed and learned he was using a game’s guild channel to communicate with the Free Mercenary Team.
• Yang Bo memorized several character names and planned to enter the game to trace the mercenaries, while considering asking Young Master Zhang what each person was worth.

Yang Bo tracked down twenty-two Free Mercenaries from three groups who had been monitoring him, then sold their identities and locations to Zhang Bozhen, who arranged for them to be captured. Yang Bo ended the chapter planning to visit Annie and Siya and wondering what skills the mercenaries would give him.

• Yang Bo used the game and his Mental Seed to locate mercenaries monitoring him, then gathered the identities and memories of twenty-two people from three Mercenary Groups.
• Yang Bo learned that the mercenaries were violent criminals from the Scarlet Federation and sent their information to Zhang Bozhen through Ninth Mister.
• Zhang Bozhen paid Yang Bo with Energy Metal and asked him to help capture the mercenaries; Yang Bo tracked them to their temporary residences and helped Zhang Bozhen's people take them away.
• Yang Bo stopped monitoring the captured mercenaries, decided to visit Annie and Siya, and wondered whether the Free Mercenary Guild would retaliate.

After learning that the Free Mercenary Guild suspected the Zhang Family in the disappearance of four Mercenary Groups on March Star, Yang Bo accepted its investigation mission and planned to mislead the guild by pointing it toward the Alliance Military. He also reviewed pirate bounties ahead of the Pirate Assembly and hoped powerful targets would appear.

• Zhang Bozhen learned an Alliance military intelligence agent had been among the captured mercenaries and ordered Butler Niu to openly warn the Free Mercenary Guild against coming to March Star.
• Yang Bo returned to his villa, gained skills from the captured mercenaries, and resolved not to read future victims’ memories.
• The Free Mercenary Guild announced a two-billion-Credit reward for information about four missing Mercenary Groups, and Yang Bo urged Zhang Bozhen to deliver the promised Energy Metal.
• Yang Bo accepted the guild’s investigation mission and planned to use fabricated information tied to the Alliance Military and Scarlet Federation to redirect suspicion.
• Yang Bo browsed the guild’s bounties, noted missions targeting pirates and the Silver Moon Pirate Gang, and planned to pursue suitable targets at the coming Pirate Assembly.

Yang Bo investigated a suspicious visitor at Zhang Bozhen’s request and discovered that Ente was a high-ranking pirate secretly backed by the Aquamarine Empire. He considered how to profit from the discovery and use the Pirate Alliance meeting to gain influence, while the meeting’s location remained unknown.

• The Mercenary Guild grew alarmed over the unexplained disappearances, and free mercenaries avoided March Star, giving the planet a stretch of eerie safety.
• Yang Bo disposed of Invisibility Sand Rats, briefly logged into the game to collect his ranking rewards, and continued training while waiting for news about the Pirate Alliance Assembly.
• Yang Bo learned that the Pirate Alliance Assembly would take place in a week, with its location to be announced the day before, and considered checking March Star’s venue reservations.
• Zhang Bozhen screened newcomers, found several suspicious people, and hired Yang Bo to investigate them after Yang Bo finally checked his messages.
• Yang Bo planted a Mental Seed in Ente and discovered that the disguised visitor was the Deputy Regiment Commander of the Black Skull Pirate Crew, an A+ Level expert and an Aquamarine Empire military member.
• Yang Bo considered reporting Ente to Zhang Bozhen, claiming the available bounties, and potentially controlling a pirate attendee to gain influence within the Pirate Alliance.

Yang Bo uncovered the identities, resources, and plans of members of the Black Skull Pirate Crew and the Red Earl Organization while investigating targets for Young Master Zhang. He decided to keep the intelligence to himself for now and continued monitoring the pirates, wondering what abilities he might gain from killing them.

• Yang Bo learned from Lucas's memories that the Black Skull Pirate Crew had a hidden asteroid base, a large force, and plans to control many subordinates, so he decided its members needed to die in front of him.
• Yang Bo ruled out Young Master Zhang's second target and planted a Mental Power seed in Paul, a seemingly kindly old man who secretly despised people he considered lowlifes.
• Yang Bo discovered that Paul served as a pirate officer, an intelligence operative in the Scarlet Federation, and a Grand Knight in the Red Earl Organization, which planned to manipulate the Pirate Alliance against the Ninth Fleet.
• Yang Bo withheld the intelligence from Young Master Zhang until he could locate the remaining targets and guard against Big Data tracking them.
• Yang Bo learned that Lucas could control and grow bone, while Paul could distort what people saw, and wondered whether killing them would grant him those abilities.

Yang Bo assessed the bounties on Lucas, Paul, and their associates, then attended the Pirate Alliance Assembly disguised as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang’s commander. The meeting began with members demanding answers about the Alliance’s intelligence failure on Green Devil Star.

• Yang Bo valued Lucas and his followers at billions of Credit Points, while Paul and his men were worth even more, and decided Zhang Bozhen would have to help turn the bounties into money.
• Yang Bo sent Zhang Bozhen a message as Ninth Mister, then received the Pirate Alliance Assembly’s location and entry phrase the night before the gathering.
• Yang Bo arrived at the bar in Oma City, passed the security check, and traded insults with Lucas before staff warned them against fighting.
• Yang Bo recognized Paul among the attendees and used passive sonic detection while waiting in his booth.
• The bald host opened the assembly, but attendees immediately demanded an explanation for the Alliance’s handling of intelligence about Green Devil Star.

Yang Bo disrupted the Pirate Alliance Council meeting, attacking its representatives and demanding compensation for the Silver Moon Pirate Gang’s losses. After leaving, he learned that the other pirate groups were watching to see how the council responded, while Lucas recovered and vowed revenge.

• Yang Bo learned that the council had verified the intelligence behind the raids and that Green Devil Star’s Invisibility Rat had caused the fleet encounter.
• After a representative mocked the Silver Moon Pirate Gang, Yang Bo struck him and the bald meeting moderator, then condemned the council for calling the disaster an accident.
• Lucas attacked with his Sky Splitter, but Yang Bo slapped him down and broke the weapon, silencing the other pirate representatives.
• Yang Bo demanded compensation, ended the meeting, and accepted an escort to a lounge while Paul watched the remaining proceedings.
• Paul reported the incident to the Radiant Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander, then contacted a Red Earl official; Yang Bo memorized the official’s game details to search for Red Earl’s base.
• Lucas regained consciousness in his room, complained about Yang Bo, and agreed to receive treatment.

Yang Bo tracked a Red Earl official to Capital Star and discovered the faction was connected to a charity supporting artificial infant cultivation. Meanwhile, the Pirate Alliance Council’s Standing Directors discussed how to handle the Silver Moon Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander and agreed to negotiate with him.

• As Lucas healed, Yang Bo sensed his thoughts, learned that the killed Dog Head Brand representatives belonged to the Greyhound Pirate Gang, and considered using Mental Seeds to uncover more about the gang and Council.
• Yang Bo entered a monster-hunting game with an alt account and tracked the Red Earl contact’s IP after posing as a shopper, locating the official on Capital Star.
• Yang Bo investigated the Red Earl faction’s Capital Star address and found a privately run charity that funded artificial infant and toddler cultivation.
• The Pirate Alliance Council’s thirteen Standing Directors held a secret meeting after one of their people was killed, debating how to eliminate or manipulate the Silver Moon Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander.
• The First Standing Director told the Ninth Standing Director to ask the Regiment Commander about his demands the next day and report back before the Council meeting concluded.

Yang Bo rejected the Pirate Alliance Council’s warship offer and demanded cash compensation, then attacked Ninth Elder when he could not provide specific payment terms. He publicly humiliated and robbed Ninth Elder, leaving with his Gold Soft Armor and Space Mecha button as the Pirate Assembly continued.

• Yang Bo refused to name his demands first, rejected a warship as useless without a crew, and asked the Council to pay its value in cash.
• Ninth Elder returned with the Council’s agreement to pay, but Yang Bo charged him when he could not say how much would be paid or when.
• Yang Bo defeated Ninth Elder and his two armored attendants, took Ninth Elder’s belongings, and planted a Mental Seed in him.
• Yang Bo dragged Ninth Elder into the hallway, stripped off his Gold Soft Armor, and told the gathered pirates that the Council had treated him insincerely.
• Yang Bo slapped and kicked Ninth Elder until he admitted fault, then claimed the Gold Soft Armor and Space Mecha button as compensation.
• Staff took Ninth Elder for treatment, while Yang Bo moved to a new room and declared he was unafraid of the Council.

Yang Bo looted Ninth Elder’s valuable equipment and learned through a Mental Seed that the Council had put a 2-billion-Credit bounty on him. After pirate representatives refused to commit to attacking him, the Council chose to offer compensation first, while secretly preparing to kill him after the Pirate Assembly.

• Yang Bo examined Ninth Elder’s customized Space Mecha Button, energy-absorbing Gold Soft Armor, and other valuables, discovering that his Metal Superpower could control the armor.
• Yang Bo overheard the Council’s Standing Directors discuss an Extermination Order, a 2-billion-Credit bounty, and recruiting the Black Skull Pirate Crew and Greyhound Pirate Gang to kill him.
• Ninth Elder asked Lucas whether the Black Skull Pirate Crew would act, but Lucas refused to speak for the group and left without touching the wine.
• Representatives from two other Pirate Groups also declined to commit, so the Council decided to transfer Yang Bo an initial compensation payment before targeting him after the Pirate Assembly.
• The Razor Pirate Gang’s representative praised Yang Bo for forcing the Council to pay compensation, while Yang Bo considered planting a Mental Seed in him.

Yang Bo accepted the Council’s compensation and secretly arranged for Zhang Bozhen to turn the money into Energy Metal. At the Pirate Assembly, Yang Bo revealed that he had already been paid, leaving Ninth Elder humiliated as the meeting began.

• Yang Bo agreed to the Council’s compensation but demanded that the first payment arrive before the Pirate Assembly.
• Yang Bo contacted Zhang Bozhen and arranged an account to handle 1.5 billion Credit Points, while Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu speculated about the source of the money.
• Yang Bo learned that Ninth Elder suspected rival Standing Directors, then planted a Mental Seed in the Razor Pirate Gang's Deputy Regiment Commander while handing him the account number.
• Zhang Bozhen reported that the transfers had arrived, and Yang Bo told him to exchange the money for Energy Metal.
• At the Pirate Assembly, Yang Bo said he was alone and asked what the Council would pay him to establish new rules.
• Yang Bo announced that he had received compensation, and Ninth Elder reacted with an ugly expression.

Yang Bo attended the Pirate Assembly, disrupted its debates, and learned how the Council controlled the Pirate Alliance through membership, sales, and supply channels. After the Council settled two vacant membership seats and proposed paid information sharing, Yang Bo demanded his second compensation payment and threatened to leave, prompting the others to insist he stay.

• Yang Bo silenced complaints about compensation, while Ninth Elder opened the meeting and explained that the Pirate Alliance needed new members.
• Yang Bo recognized that the Council planned to remove unqualified Pirate Groups, sell weapons and equipment, and profit from distribution channels, while the membership debate dragged on for days.
• Ninth Elder met privately with Pirate Group representatives and collected benefits as small groups relied on larger ones for supplies and access to sales channels.
• The Alliance awarded the two vacant membership seats to other Pirate Groups and approved a paid information-sharing arrangement that Yang Bo saw as another way for the Council to profit.
• Yang Bo asked Ninth Elder to advance his second payment and threatened to leave, but Lucas and other representatives objected, so Ninth Elder asked whether Yang Bo would stay until the meeting ended after receiving the money.

Yang Bo negotiated with the Council for another compensation payment, then bargained with pirate gangs to make him their advocate for compensation when the Council provided false mission intelligence. The pirates settled on a 25 percent commission for his future enforcement work, leaving Yang Bo poised to gain access to their networks.

• Yang Bo received another 1.5 billion Credit Points from the Council and agreed to wait until the meeting ended.
• Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu discussed how Zhang could use credit for future achievements to reward and secure the loyalty of his followers.
• Representatives of the Red Spider, Locke, and Huy Pirate Gangs asked Yang Bo to propose Council compensation for losses caused by faulty mission intelligence.
• Yang Bo promised he could get the proposal passed and negotiated a fee for providing follow-up enforcement if the Council failed to honor an agreement.
• The pirate representatives discussed their offer privately and settled on a 25 percent commission, then sent a group including Paul and 36D to negotiate with Yang Bo.

Yang Bo used his compensation deal with the Pirate Groups to force the Pirate Alliance Council to accept liability for losses caused by false information. He dragged the Ninth Elder away to pressure him into contacting the Council, leaving the meeting in turmoil.

• Yang Bo agreed to take a twenty-percent share from the Pirate Group representatives and accepted a one-billion-Credit-Point deposit.
• At the meeting, Yang Bo interrupted the Ninth Elder, struck him, and proposed that the Council compensate Pirate Groups harmed by false information.
• The representatives applauded Yang Bo’s proposal, and he threatened to call the police and expose the Council if it refused.
• Yang Bo ordered the Ninth Elder to contact the Council, struck him again when he resisted, and threatened to target the people behind him.
• Yang Bo dragged the Ninth Elder outside and warned that he could rob everything belonging to people surnamed Li before leaving.

Yang Bo pressured the Council’s Standing Directors by revealing that he knew their channels and threatening to expose their collusion with pirates unless they paid him. The directors agreed to comply for now and planned to deal with him after reinforcements arrived.

• Ninth Elder told the Standing Directors that Yang Bo had identified the backer behind his channel and was demanding compensation, alarming them about the risk of exposure.
• The directors decided to speak with Yang Bo, and he chose to communicate through a game chatroom rather than use Virtual Glasses.
• Yang Bo provoked the directors to obtain their IP addresses, then threatened to expose their dealings and turn himself and the pirate representatives over to the Police Station.
• Yang Bo left the chatroom after refusing to promise this would be the last time he made trouble.
• The Standing Directors agreed to pay Yang Bo for now and planned to attack him once their reinforcements arrived.

Yang Bo learned that the Council and the Greyhound Pirate Gang planned to assassinate him after the other delegates left, and he arranged to evade the attack. The chapter ended with a woman sent by Ninth Elder pleading at Yang Bo’s door, prompting him to storm off to confront Ninth Elder.

• The Pirate Groups signed contracts with the Council guaranteeing compensation for losses caused by incorrect information, and their Regiment Commanders transferred Yang Bo his payment and added him as a social media friend.
• At the banquet, Yang Bo learned that Council assassins and the Greyhound Pirate Gang planned to attack him after the other delegates departed, with an Electromagnetic Bomb as a backup.
• Yang Bo told Zhang Bozhen about the impending attack, while Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu discussed disrupting the area’s Alarm System and communications to conceal their involvement.
• Yang Bo discovered the attackers had bought every seat on the day’s flight, rented a seaside guesthouse, and replied to Zhang Bozhen’s message with “Add money!”
• Ninth Elder sent a beautiful woman to obtain Yang Bo’s address, but she said she would be punished if she returned, and Yang Bo stormed off to confront Ninth Elder.

Yang Bo uncovered the Council’s control over the bar’s workers, took one of them with him, and prepared for the assassins sent after him. He left the chapter waiting at his guesthouse as he sized up the attackers and their weapons.

• Yang Bo beat Ninth Elder for forcing women to entertain guests, then learned from a frightened bar worker that she and her companions had been raised and controlled by the Pirate Alliance Council.
• Yang Bo read the woman’s memories, planted a Mental Seed in her, and asked Zhang Bozhen to prepare police battle armor and an Energy Shield.
• The next morning, the woman followed Yang Bo, and he used the bar’s identity files to identify Council personnel while Ninth Elder and the other Pirate Group representatives left under changed identities.
• Zhang Bozhen erased the woman’s information from the planet’s records, and Yang Bo reached his guesthouse with her and collected the equipment prepared for him.
• Yang Bo spotted thirty assassins and six Greyhound Pirate Gang members surrounding the guesthouse, including attackers carrying a Space Mecha, a Space Box, heavy weapons, and an Electromagnetic Bomb.