Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo disrupted Allen’s kidnapping and marriage scheme, damaged Princess Su Ruoyun’s Space Mecha, then repaired it while concealing that it could have fixed itself. Allen remained married to Amanda, while Su Ruoyun and Amanda left wondering how Bart knew so much about mechas.

• Yang Bo entered Su Ruoyun’s cockpit to stop her from interfering with Allen’s marriage scheme, then dismantled her mecha’s hatch and left her unable to store it.
• Allen showed his marriage certificate to his Old Ancestor and announced that Amanda was his wife, while Amanda attacked him in anger.
• After learning Su Ruoyun was the Princess, Yang Bo agreed to repair her mecha and restored it by resetting its cockpit and energy compartment.
• Su Ruoyun stored the repaired mecha after discovering its optical brain could have fixed it automatically, and she suspected Yang Bo had deliberately misled her.
• Allen left to find Amanda, while Yang Bo discussed investing in Space Mechas and Amanda asked Su Ruoyun what to do about her marriage.

After Allen’s bride-snatching scandal, Yang Bo accepted Prince Su Hai’s swordsmanship challenge and deliberately lost the match, then returned to the game to message Su Wei. The chapter ended with them planning to meet at a restaurant, while Yang Bo warned her to be cautious about monitored messages.

• Rumors about Allen and Bart’s attempted bride-snatching spread across the Empire, prompting noble families to tighten protections and the Noble Council to condemn Allen.
• Yang Bo explained to Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin that he would accept Su Hai’s challenge, and the Swordplay Association announced their match.
• Su Hai defeated Yang Bo in the arena, winning the challenge as the audience celebrated and bettors reacted.
• Yang Bo reassured Liu Jingxiang that the loss cost him little and returned to the hotel to resume playing the game.
• Su Wei accused Yang Bo of losing on purpose, and they agreed to meet at a restaurant while avoiding sensitive messages in case they were monitored.

After Su Hai’s victory raised his reputation, Yang Bo comforted Su Wei and the two princes discussed how to use the political fallout. Later, Yang Bo discovered that the SSS Laboratory fugitive was on Devon Star and decided to investigate the concealed research institute.

• Su Hai publicly credited earlier challengers for exposing Yang Bo’s weaknesses, while privately agreeing to keep Su Wei’s relationship with Yang Bo hidden.
• Yang Bo comforted Su Wei, who feared being married off and doubted she could remain worthy of his affection.
• Su Yong praised Su Hai’s conduct and warned him to watch the Great Nobles and the royal family’s other factions.
• Yang Bo told Su Wei to act normally around Su Hai, then considered building private forces to protect his interests.
• After logging into Second World, Yang Bo used shared vision to locate the SSS Laboratory fugitive at a guarded research institute on Devon Star and decided to investigate.

Yang Bo defeated Liu Shengnan in the regular competition and then faced Earl Ke Qi in a high-stakes challenge match. The chapter ended as Ke Qi spoke to the crowd, unaware that Yang Bo and his supporters had bet heavily on Yang Bo to win.

• Yang Bo learned he would face Liu Shengnan, while Ke Qi challenged him to a match backed by a five-billion wager.
• Yang Bo feinted Liu Shengnan into misjudging his jump and won with a strike to her vital point.
• The angry crowd cursed Yang Bo, while Su Hai and Jerry Butler celebrated the winnings from their bets on him.
• Su Wei met Yang Bo after his victory, and he later returned to the venue for his match against Ke Qi.
• Ke Qi called for victory through honorable swordplay as the crowd cheered, while Su Hai privately celebrated another bet on Yang Bo.

Yang Bo defeated Ke Qi by exploiting the force on his sword, then chose to pursue profitable challenge matches rather than compete for first place. After investigating a suspected conspiracy involving the Carter Family, he selected Rip, a former Swordplay Competition champion, as his next opponent.

• Yang Bo used Ke Qi's force against him, disarmed him, and won their match, prompting the spectators to blame Ke Qi for his reckless loss.
• Yang Bo received another bye and told Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin that he planned to earn money from challenge matches instead of risking the nobles' hostility by taking first place.
• Yang Bo visited Allen and Amanda, then returned to his territory, where the Forty-Sixth Princess questioned him about kidnapping her sister and his knowledge of Space Mechas.
• Yang Bo studied a map of noble territories and connected a person making potions from Interstellar Creature genes in Carter territory to two suspicious auction items and a possible royal conspiracy.
• Yang Bo accepted a fifty-billion challenge from Rip, a prominent Carter Family swordsman and former Swordplay Competition champion.

Yang Bo defeated Rip in under thirty seconds by launching an unexpectedly aggressive attack, deepening his reputation as a schemer among Empire spectators. After receiving a bye for the next day, he planned to spend time with Su Wei and visit the Carter Family nobles’ laboratory.

• Su Hai reassured Su Wei about her move to Yang Bo’s planet and agreed to get her bees, while the Swordplay Association announced that Yang Bo would face Terrier.
• Yang Bo defeated Terrier quickly, then learned that Aquamarine Empire contestants had pushed the Alliance’s other swordplay contestants below rank 300.
• Yang Bo charged Rip at the start of their match and knocked him out in under thirty seconds, though Rip’s sword also struck Yang Bo’s vital spot.
• The Swordplay Association announced that Rip had suffered a medical episode, while Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin celebrated Yang Bo’s victory and Empire spectators condemned him.
• Yang Bo and Su Wei discussed earning money and raising Black Rock Honey bees, and Yang Bo received a bye for the next day’s draw.

Yang Bo transformed into Bart and raided the Carter Family’s laboratory, stealing research materials and destroying equipment. He then seized an older man from the manor and escaped with him as a hostage, leaving the family’s guards to discover that the Butler and three young heirs were dead.

• Yang Bo disguised himself as an ancient Aquamarine Empire knight, traveled to the Carter Family’s territory, and evaded its Energy Detectors.
• Yang Bo charged into the Carter Family laboratory, killed Modified Human guards, subdued the lead researcher, and stole research materials and equipment.
• Yang Bo broke into a manor building and killed three young men and the Butler, gaining Fire Energy Mastery and Supple Force.
• Yang Bo threatened the guards, cut off the middle-aged man’s legs, and carried him away as a hostage.
• The guards discovered that the Butler and the three Young Masters were dead.

Yang Bo destroyed the Carter Family’s laboratory, escaped with its research materials, and returned to Wan Dao City as the family struggled to understand the attack. He then figured out how the Yang Family Meteor Fist built and transferred force, while the Princess told him the Fante Family had noticed something unusual.

• Yang Bo learned that the Carter laboratory researched human and Interstellar Creature fusion, Biological Mecha, creature shaping, and breeding, and that the escaped SSS Laboratory subject had been a Carter Family spy.
• The Carter Family Clan Leader reviewed footage of Yang Bo’s attack and suspected an insider or an attempt to eliminate the family’s young geniuses.
• Yang Bo returned to Wan Dao City as Bart, discussed his marriage and the construction of his laboratory with Jerry Butler, then practiced the Yang Family Meteor Fist.
• Yang Bo discovered that the Meteor Fist transferred and amplified force between moves, using a training mannequin and the Training Ground wall to complete all eighteen moves.
• Jerry Butler saw the destroyed mannequin and fist-shaped dents in the Battleship Armor walls, while the Princess told Yang Bo the Fante Family had found something unusual at the Carter Family’s territory.

Yang Bo investigated reports of an attack on the Carter Family, then continued his arena matches while planning to leave the Aquamarine Empire in half a month. He defeated Hanite with a transformed Meteor Fist move and won another five billion Blue Coins.

• Princess told Yang Bo that an intruder had infiltrated the Carter Family's territory, maimed its northern official, and prompted the Clan Leader to head north; Yang Bo denied involvement and suspected an inside job or royal intrigue.
• Yang Bo told Su Wei that he planned to leave the Aquamarine Empire in half a month, then defeated Hunter in a noon match by trading injuries for a knockout.
• Yang Bo chose Hanite of the Halin Family as his next opponent, and he privately told Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin that he planned to leave soon after earning more money.
• Hanite used his long reach and swordsmanship to drive Yang Bo to the edge of the arena, but Yang Bo changed his footwork and struck Hanite's vital point with a transformed Meteor Fist move.
• Yang Bo won the match and five billion Blue Coins, while Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin celebrated their share of the winnings.

Yang Bo defeated Hartney, advanced to eighteenth place in the Swordplay Competition, and welcomed White, Davis, and Wilson to his territory to establish a research partnership. After securing a laboratory and government subsidies, he left the laboratory project in their hands while preparing for his remaining matches.

• Yang Bo defeated Hartney, who realized afterward that Yang Bo had been acting and had earned twenty billion Blue Coins from the challenge.
• Yang Bo beat his next opponent and rose to eighteenth place in the Swordplay Competition rankings.
• Yang Bo, disguised as Bart, welcomed White, Davis, and Wilson to his territory and offered them favorable terms to collaborate on research.
• White, Davis, and Wilson signed the agreement, became Bart's subjects, and selected laboratory equipment costing nearly forty billion.
• Yang Bo arranged a thirty-billion subsidy through Allen and ordered his household to keep betting on Yang Bo's victories.

Yang Bo used his Swordplay Competition wins to fund a high-tech laboratory, then kept betting on and swiftly defeating noble contestants. After arranging to leave in two days, he returned to his territory and entrusted the laboratory and its defenses to Jerry Butler.

• Yang Bo told the Princess that he had earned his money through hard work, while the 44-billion laboratory began construction with rapid underground machinery.
• Yang Bo admitted to Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin that he had met a woman he knew from the Second World game, then chose Lister as his next opponent.
• Yang Bo knocked out Lister in under ten seconds, won the match, and later selected Hou Fang as his next opponent.
• Yang Bo told Su Hai that he planned to leave in two days, and Su Hai agreed to arrange a spaceship for him.
• Yang Bo returned to his territory as Bart, told Jerry Butler he would be away for about a month, and ordered him to follow White's instructions about the laboratory and strengthen the territory's defenses.

Yang Bo won his final arena matches against Hou Fang and Watt, then secretly left Devon Star with Liu Jingxiang, Zhou Kexin, and Su Wei. After the Swordplay Association reported him missing, the Aquamarine Empire erupted in anger over his forty-billion-dollar winnings.

• Yang Bo instructed White to establish the laboratory and produce Ultra-High Temperature Material, then learned the Carter Family suspected an internal traitor over the deaths of its geniuses and Butler.
• Yang Bo defeated Hou Fang in a swift match, angering spectators who had bet against him, and then accepted Watt’s challenge.
• Yang Bo knocked out Watt, hurried Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin out of the hotel, and escaped Devon Star with them aboard a small fighter and spaceship.
• Yang Bo reunited with Su Wei aboard the spaceship, where she joined him and introduced the Black Rock Honeybee eggs her brother had prepared.
• Three days after Yang Bo’s departure, the Swordplay Association reported him missing, and people across the Aquamarine Empire searched for the man who had won forty billion.

After winning 40 billion, Yang Bo returned to the Alliance with Su Wei and learned that nobles had placed a 3-billion-Credit bounty on him. In the game, Handy and Adam returned to Green City, where Locke assigned them to guard the Harvest Festival against the Thieves Guild.

• Yang Bo's 40-billion win stunned the noble scions and people in the Alliance, while Zhang Bozhen celebrated his younger brother's success.
• Yang Bo told Su Wei that she might become a Superpower User, and she eagerly looked forward to testing his claim after they returned to March Star.
• Yang Bo learned through Jerry Butler that a Brotherhood member had accepted a 3-billion-Credit contract to kill him, and he planned to confront the Brotherhood after returning to Devon Star.
• Handy and Adam reported to Locke in the Second World, where Locke said their rewards had been sent to the Kingdom and summoned them to help secure the Harvest Festival.
• Locke warned that the Thieves Guild planned to disrupt the festival and assigned Handy to watch the crowds from a watchtower.

Yang Bo inspected the festival site, reported disguised suspects to Locke, and returned to Alliance territory with Su Wei, where he resumed his hidden life and reunited with Lin Yue. After Sky Cloud Star’s Energy Stone Reserve was robbed, Yang Bo investigated and suspected collusion between the Third Fleet and insiders.

• Yang Bo found the festival site's Arrow Tower foundations unsafe, ordered the workers to rebuild them, and spotted suspicious people disguised as farmers.
• Yang Bo reported the suspects to Locke, who assigned his squad to patrol the festival site and act if they caught the suspects committing a crime.
• After Yang Bo and Su Wei returned to Alliance territory, news of Yang Bo's return spread, while people from the Alliance and Aquamarine Empire argued online about his escape with forty billion.
• Yang Bo changed identities in the Underground City and met Lin Yue, while Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin took Su Wei shopping on Sky Cloud Star.
• After Yang Bo left to meet Lin Yue, Sky Cloud Star's Energy Stone Reserve was robbed, and Yang Bo's investigation pointed to collusion involving the Third Fleet and reserve insiders.

News of the Energy Stone Reserve theft and rumors that Yang Bo had abducted a Princess stirred both the Alliance and the Aquamarine Empire. Yang Bo denied the rumor, while the Guild Master explained that the imperial family and Great Nobles had reason to protect him, leaving Yang Bo free to return to the empire without fear of secret retaliation.

• News footage showed five thieves in Clown Masks stealing Energy Stones and disappearing after driving their transport Flying Car into a wealthy man's villa.
• Yang Bo told Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin to keep their earnings instead of investing, and he described his plan with Su Wei to turn his vast land into a garden.
• Reports claimed Yang Bo had abducted a Prince's daughter, prompting Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin to confront him, but Yang Bo denied that Su Wei was a Princess.
• Aquamarine Empire noble youths challenged Yang Bo to Free-for-all Competitions, and Yang Bo told Su Wei that his superpower was the ability to release lasers.
• The Guild Master told his assistant that Yang Bo's victories had strengthened the imperial family's standing and that neither the imperial family nor the Great Nobles would let anyone secretly harm him.

Yang Bo and Su Wei attended Green City's three-day Harvest Festival in Second World, where Yang Bo watched the crowds from an Arrow Tower and kept petty thieves at bay. On the festival’s second day, he identified several suspicious groups, including apparent Aquamarine Empire players, and suspected they were preparing to abduct women and children.

• Yang Bo entered Second World with Su Wei and used new external equipment to improve his archery while watching over Green City's Harvest Festival.
• The City Lord led the nobles in a sacrifice ceremony, and Yang Bo surveyed the crowds, spotted a thief, and drove him away with a stone.
• After leaving the game, Yang Bo and Su Wei talked about the festival before joking together and kissing.
• On the next day, Yang Bo tracked suspicious Black Carriages, merchant caravans, and a noble carriage that attracted girls.
• Yang Bo recognized several suspicious people as players from the Aquamarine Empire and suspected they were planning to abduct women and children.

Yang Bo helped the City Guards catch numerous child traffickers at the festival and warned Locke that the real Thieves Guild had not yet acted. The two suspicious Black Carriages remained unexplained, and Yang Bo left without knowing their target.

• Yang Bo shot two thieves as they abducted a child, and Sander and the other City Guards arrested the remaining traffickers and rescued the child.
• Yang Bo led the City Guards to other stalls, where they captured more child traffickers and rescued two more children.
• Yang Bo left the two suspicious Black Carriages alone because he suspected they were connected to the real Thieves Guild.
• Locke praised Yang Bo for helping the City Guards catch more than thirty criminals and kill several others.
• Yang Bo told Locke that the Thieves Guild might be targeting a merchant caravan, the Banshee Circus, or someone else, and Locke asked what he should do.
• Yang Bo advised Locke not to make preparations that might leave him responsible if the suspected attack did not happen, and Locke left after patting him on the shoulder.

Yang Bo weighed the risk of a Thieves Guild attack in Green City and decided to wait for more information while warning Su Wei to stay alert. Over dinner, the group discussed the growing player population and their impending return home, and Yang Bo and Su Wei ended the night looking forward to seeing their home in person.

• Yang Bo warned Su Wei that something might happen during their patrol, then considered whether someone in the Black Carriages was watching Green City and what the Thieves Guild might be targeting.
• Yang Bo decided to wait and see because he lacked information about Green City's nobles, the Banshee Circus, and the Second World's secrets.
• At dinner, Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin discussed how the game's force-control equipment improved their work, while Yang Bo remarked that winter would challenge the new players.
• Yang Bo explained that the authorities were screening the millions seeking entry to the Second World and would prevent disruptive players from overturning its order.
• Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin thanked Yang Bo and Su Wei for their help, and Su Wei said Aquamarine Empire nobles could not accept that Yang Bo had outdone them.
• Yang Bo and Su Wei lay together that night and talked about how excited they were to reach their home in a few days.

Yang Bo recognized the Thieves Guild’s plan to attack the nobles at the Banshee Circus, but the raid began before he could warn anyone. After the guild took hostages and seized a noble carriage, Yang Bo hid in its trunk and told Adam to find Locke.

• Yang Bo suspected two Black Carriages and a heavily guarded baron’s carriage were part of a plan to target the Banshee Circus nobles.
• When a loud bang spooked two Black Carriages into charging the circus, Yang Bo rushed over and inspected the baron’s carriage while guards dealt with the drivers.
• Members of the Red Headscarf Thieves Guild revealed themselves, took two viscounts and two women hostage, and exposed accomplices among the guards.
• Yang Bo hid in the baron’s carriage trunk as the thieves forced the hostages into the carriage and took control of the horses.
• Yang Bo messaged Adam to find Locke, and Adam reported the situation to Locke after he came out.

Yang Bo rescued two viscounts and two Banshee Circus performers after ambushing the Red Headscarf Thieves Guild, then joined Locke’s forces in capturing the remaining thieves. After returning to Green City, he wondered whether the Second World contained evolvers like the one he had killed.

• Yang Bo escaped the carriage and killed the thieves guarding it, then rescued the hostages and sent Adam a message asking Locke to come to White Stone Beach.
• Yang Bo ambushed more Thieves Guild members as they arrived, while Locke and Adam led City Guard knights toward the site.
• Yang Bo and the knights dealt with the last three thieves, rescued the hostages, and returned to Green City with the Banshee Circus performers.
• Locke told Yang Bo that someone wanted to buy his Cavalry Merit, and Yang Bo arranged to give one merit to Adam.
• After logging out, Yang Bo embraced Su Wei and wondered whether the Second World had superpowers and whether they were the secret the Aquamarine Empire sought.