Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo designed and built a fist-sized Machine Insect to excavate a concealed passage from his Underground Fortress to the Underground River. The Machine Insect completed more than half the excavation before returning with its Energy Stone nearly depleted, and Yang Bo considered making more for emergencies.

• Yang Bo studied the geology beneath his villa and decided to connect his Underground Laboratory to the Underground River with a small excavation robot.
• Yang Bo gathered materials as Bart and used Mechanic mode to build a fist-sized, Energy Stone-powered Machine Insect modeled on a Dung Beetle.
• Yang Bo cut through the Underground Fortress’s layers of Battleship Armor and concrete-like material, then sent the Machine Insect into a crack in the surrounding rock to begin excavation.
• Yang Bo considered adapting Machine Insects into stealthy Energy Bombs, but recognized their costs and the risk of detection by active Energy Defense Systems.
• The next day, Yang Bo found the Machine Insect had returned automatically and read its progress, discovering that it had completed more than half the passage with almost no wear.

Yang Bo used the Machine Insect to extend a concealed tunnel from his fortress toward the Underground River, then went out in Stealth to investigate twenty suspicious people connected to Zhang Bozhen and his territory. He uncovered several groups’ plans and returned to restart the excavation, which was expected to take another half month.

• Yang Bo found that the Machine Insect had dug a passage over five hundred meters long to the Underground River, then planned a second route to make the tunnel look like a natural geological feature and let water erase signs of construction.
• Yang Bo left through the Underground River in Stealth to investigate twenty people and discovered that a six-person tour group was spying on Zhang Bozhen and trying to learn the source of his High-Quality Gene Serum.
• Yang Bo overheard four women plotting to seduce him and seize his territory, while his investigation identified a poaching gang and other agents linked to the Pirate Alliance Council, the Alliance’s secret investigation department, and the Aquamarine Empire.
• Yang Bo spent two and a half days investigating the groups, returned to his villa, replaced the Machine Insect’s Energy Stone, and learned the remaining construction would take about half a month.

Yang Bo upgraded the Machine Insect to grind stone in his tunnel, then shared intelligence with Zhang Bozhen about threats on Devon Star. Zhang Bozhen ordered countermeasures against the people targeting Yang Bo while weighing the risks of the planet’s wider political and military ties.

• Yang Bo replaced the Machine Insect’s Energy Stones and excavation module so it could grind stone into particles that the tunnel’s water would carry away.
• Yang Bo returned to the villa, where Annie, Su Wei, and Siya urged him not to work so hard and said they wanted to contribute once their superpowers improved.
• Yang Bo transformed into Bart and messaged Zhang Bozhen with information about an organization and people near him, while withholding details about the four women’s plans and the Zhang Family’s trump cards.
• Butler Niu verified that two people had been surveilling Zhang Bozhen, and Zhang ordered them detained and the four women linked to an animal-protection group and a poaching operation.
• Zhang Bozhen ordered surveillance of Alliance investigators and Aquamarine Empire spies, while directing Butler Niu to eliminate the pirates and avoid contacting the military for now.

Yang Bo used his Mental Power to quickly manufacture five precision mecha engine components, then agreed to help White and the others bring their families to the Empire. He learned that Su Ruoxin was coming to Devon Star and that the Wu Family might target him, so he ordered tighter security and an intelligence network.

• Yang Bo and White's team made five mecha engine components in just over twenty minutes, and their scans confirmed they met the client's specifications.
• Yang Bo told White not to deliver the parts too quickly and agreed to help White and the others bring their families to Devon Star, promising them titles in two years.
• Jerry Butler told Yang Bo that Su Ruoxin was on her way to Devon Star, and Yang Bo said she should not come to his territory.
• Jerry Butler warned Yang Bo that the Wu Family might take extreme measures against him.
• Yang Bo ordered his territory to maintain its Energy Defense System, keep the ladies indoors unless necessary, and build an intelligence network.

Yang Bo sought to strengthen Bart’s weak foundations by acquiring intelligence talent and information about rival families and the emperor’s network. After Ning Xue warned that someone planned to disrupt their wedding, he decided to keep the venue and prepare extensive security, leaving the couple expecting her Sword Saint grandfather to help protect them.

• Yang Bo told Jerry Butler to look for intelligence talent and investigate the intelligence chiefs of major families and the emperor’s service.
• Yang Bo considered poaching experienced intelligence workers, including the emperor’s former Grand Steward, to build Bart’s foundations.
• Ning Xue told Yang Bo that her family had heard someone intended to cause trouble at their wedding and wanted them to change the venue.
• Yang Bo refused to move the wedding from the Circular Hotel and ordered Jerry Butler to coordinate security with the hotel and Devon Star’s authorities.
• Bai Lu suggested buying information from major organizations, and Ning Xue said her Sword Saint grandfather would attend and help protect them.

Yang Bo warned Ning Xue about the dangers around them, received Zhang Bozhen’s warning about an organization targeting his assets, and met Zhou Rui to discuss her need for Stealth Potions. The chapter ended with Zhou Rui proposing that she and Yang Bo become partners without expecting him to take responsibility.

• Yang Bo told Ning Xue to avoid going out because the planet’s security was poor and people might target them.
• Zhang Bozhen warned Yang Bo that an organization was using women to target his assets and advised him to be careful at the auction.
• Yang Bo agreed to attend the auction himself and later messaged Zhou Rui that he was free to meet.
• Yang Bo told Zhou Rui he valued feelings over benefits and was not interested in a relationship with a Strong Woman.
• Zhou Rui said marriage was impossible for her but she wanted children, then asked Yang Bo to be partners without requiring him to take responsibility.

Yang Bo refused Zhou Rui’s attempt to make their partnership a romantic relationship, while assuring her he would still help with Gene Serums. He returned home with supplies and learned that Su Wei’s brother’s character had died again in the Second Game World.

• Zhou Rui proposed that she and Yang Bo consider themselves boyfriend and girlfriend, but Yang Bo declined and said he already had three girlfriends.
• Yang Bo told Zhou Rui he would continue making serums when he had time and reminded her that he had already received the combat armor she gave him.
• Zhou Rui warned Yang Bo that Wang Muxue would likely make the same request, while Yang Bo promised to help Zhou Rui when she asked.
• Yang Bo left, bought supplies, and hurried home to avoid drawing attention to his strength amid the presence of people with ill intentions.
• Su Wei helped Yang Bo unpack and said her brother’s character had died again in the Second Game World, prompting Yang Bo to ask about the Gold Coins he had earned.

Yang Bo discussed Su Wei’s brother losing his recruited troops to a betrayal, then followed news linked to Zhang Bozhen and checked the women’s Superpower training. The chapter ended with Annie demonstrating rapid plant growth and the group discussing their progress with Superpowers and mechas.

• Su Wei told Yang Bo that other Thieves Guilds and infiltrators had cost her brother and father the troops and results they had worked to build.
• Yang Bo watched news about four women arrested for feeding wild animals, a person missing at sea, and a hotel suicide linked to a cult, and he suspected Zhang Bozhen had orchestrated the incidents.
• Yang Bo checked reports speculating that Andrew, Santo, or Brian was the Grandmaster Alchemist behind Zhang Bozhen’s high-quality Gene Serum.
• Su Wei practiced controlling her Mental Power to write with ink, and Yang Bo praised her progress.
• Annie used her Superpower to grow a flowering plant from a seed in seconds, and she and Yang Bo discussed testing whether its altered seeds would grow true.
• Siya demonstrated her Fire Energy Ray, Annie said she had passed her mecha assessment, and Yang Bo urged the women to keep training while he agreed to work on his own Superpower.

Yang Bo considered his plans for Green Devil Star while Zhang Bozhen used the upcoming Gene Evolution Serum auction to strengthen his influence and protect Yang Bo from becoming a target. Ma Mingpeng and his brother Ma Yunpeng recognized that March Star was poised to rise, but they could not investigate how its Mutated Animals had gone undiscovered.

• Yang Bo wondered when he would need to return to Green Devil Star and speculated that the Ghost Spaceship appeared and vanished as its energy levels changed.
• Zhang Bozhen told Ma Mingpeng that Yang Bo would attend the auction and implied that he could use Yang Bo's buying power to deter anyone who tried to manipulate the sale or target him.
• Ma Mingpeng returned to his villa and told Ma Yunpeng that Zhang Bozhen had offered him discounted Gene Serum if he failed to obtain any at the auction.
• Ma Yunpeng warned that Zhang Bozhen's alliance with Yang Bo made the Ma Family's private plans risky, and he questioned how their company's earlier survey had missed March Star's Mutated Animals.
• Ma Mingpeng and Ma Yunpeng acknowledged that they could not obtain an exploration permit to investigate March Star.

Ma Mingpeng and Ma Yunpeng discussed the rush to buy Zhang Bozhen’s Gene Serum and the unknown Grandmaster Alchemist behind it. Zhang Bozhen prepared for the auction while guarding against his family’s schemes, and Yang Bo agreed to take his three girlfriends to a concert.

• Ma Mingpeng and Ma Yunpeng discussed the serum auction, the shortage of doses, and their need to buy at least two doses.
• Zhang Bozhen rejected his family’s renewed overtures after learning they had plotted to poison him, and he told Butler Niu to watch over Yang Bo’s territory.
• Yang Bo swam with Su Wei, Annie, and Siya, who asked to attend March Star’s upcoming Galaxy Concert.
• Yang Bo agreed to take the three women to the concert, though he suspected someone might cause trouble there.

Yang Bozhen hosted an in-person auction of fifty Five-Star Gene Evolution Serums made from Yang Bo’s material, drawing representatives from major families. The first serum’s bidding began, and Yang Bo joined in while calculating his share of the proceeds.

• Representatives from major families warmly greeted Zhang Bozhen when they arrived for the auction.
• Zhang Bozhen welcomed Yang Bo, then had the attendees inspect the serums and review the auction terms.
• After confirming the documents and serum quality, the attendees signed and paid their deposits.
• Butler Niu opened the auction, explaining that fifty serums were available and that the next auction date was unknown.
• Bidders quickly raised the first serum’s price, and Yang Bo calculated how much he might earn from the sales.
• Yang Bo bid 220 million Credit Points on the first serum.

Yang Bo helped Zhang Bozhen drive up bids at the March Star auction, where fifty high-quality Gene Serums sold for 16.2 billion Credit Points. After the auction, Yang Bo returned home and reassured Su Wei that he had not paid for the serums he bid on.

• Yang Bo raised bids on the first Gene Serums, then stopped once the prices reached Zhang Bozhen's 250-million-credit floor.
• Yang Bo opened the third Gene Serum's bidding at 250 million, and the auction participants pushed its price higher.
• Yang Bo kept setting a 250-million-credit floor whenever bids fell short, and all fifty Gene Serums sold for 16.2 billion Credit Points.
• Zhang Bozhen thanked the guests and said he could not promise when another auction would be held because the Grandmaster Alchemist needed time to produce more serums.
• Yang Bo left before the reception, and news reports linked his Gene Serum bids to his ordinary-person girlfriend.
• Su Wei asked whether Yang Bo had paid for the Gene Serum, and he explained that Zhang Bozhen had resold it and that he had no use for it.

After a bombing at Zhang Bozhen’s reception, Yang Bo posed as Ninth Mister and offered to investigate the attacker through the suspect’s wristwatch. He traced the watch’s security network, hacked the Scarlet Federation’s Central State network, and left Zhang Bozhen believing Ninth Mister was responsible for the attack.

• A flying car’s Energy Bomb detonated outside Zhang Bozhen’s reception, killing one person and injuring 175; Fatty Boss warned Yang Bo not to leave home.
• Yang Bo told Zhang Bozhen he would investigate the suspect’s wristwatch, retrieved it from a beach locker, and removed its self-destruct device.
• Yang Bo found the wristwatch’s stored data had been erased, so he traced its connection to two virtual servers and seized their administrative access.
• Yang Bo planted viruses in the servers, paralyzing most of the Scarlet Federation’s Central State civilian network and exposing an administrator through a camera.
• Dozens of Alliance organizations claimed responsibility for the hack, while Zhang Bozhen concluded that Ninth Mister had carried it out.

Yang Bo’s cyberattack devastated the Scarlet Federation’s civilian network, while Zhang Bozhen learned that Ninth Mister had helped expose the attack’s trail and agreed to a strategic partnership. The Scarlet Federation’s investigation pointed toward an Alliance IP, and Zhang Bozhen used the crisis to announce another Gene Serum auction.

• Yang Bo generated hacking programs inside the Scarlet Federation’s virtual servers, causing widespread destruction and losses worth several million billion.
• Zhang Bozhen received Ninth Mister’s evidence identifying a Zhang Family security leader and decided to retaliate against his family without openly breaking with them.
• Ninth Mister told Zhang Bozhen the Scarlet Federation would eventually trace the attack to his family and proposed warships as the basis of their partnership.
• Zhang Bozhen agreed to arrange warships and planned to have the Planetary Council purchase them so Ninth Mister’s team could seize them in transit.
• Zhang Bozhen announced a second auction of fifty D-Class five-star Gene Serums, while Yang Bo recognized the move as a way to sell more stock.
• The Scarlet Federation released clues pointing to an Alliance IP address, prompting the Alliance Security Department to investigate, and Zhang Bozhen celebrated the news.

Yang Bo considered the fallout from his cyberattack and discussed the Alliance’s laws and recent terrorist attacks with Su Wei, Annie, and Siya. The next morning, Zhang Bozhen delivered three advanced mechas to Yang Bo, who planned to upgrade them and begin designing his own Space Mechas.

• The Scarlet Federation’s public findings implicated the Zhang Family in the cyberattack, prompting Alliance scrutiny and chaos within the family.
• Yang Bo concluded that his Optoelectric Superpower and Mental Power had greatly enhanced his hacking ability, then discussed the Alliance’s scandals and laws with Su Wei, Annie, and Siya.
• Yang Bo received three fifteenth-generation Special Mechas that Zhang Bozhen had purchased for him, with special authorization to use them on his private land.
• Su Wei, Annie, and Siya chose the blue, white, and green mechas respectively, while Yang Bo considered upgrading them and building different types of Space Mechas.
• Yang Bo raised the possibility that the Energy Bomb attack had targeted Zhang Bozhen’s gene-serum business, and Zhang Bozhen assured him their cooperation would continue.

Yang Bo arranged defenses for his Mutated Animals, studied the new mechas, and bought Bionic Robots to guard his territory. After going to Devon Star for training, he learned that the Death Knight Regiment planned to challenge him for Ultra-High Temperature Material, while another group was preparing a suicide attack.

• Zhang Bozhen warned Yang Bo that people might target his Mutated Animals and helped him arrange advanced Bionic Robots to protect them.
• Yang Bo hosted Zhang Bozhen, declined to pursue selling Black Mountain Honey, and watched Su Wei train with her mecha.
• Yang Bo ordered more than three billion Credit Points’ worth of land, sea, and flying Bionic Robots, choosing a private system disconnected from the outside network.
• Yang Bo spent three days learning the designs of Su Wei, Siya, and Annie’s mechas, then went to Devon Star to train with the new Training Mechas.
• Jerry Butler told Yang Bo that the Death Knight Regiment’s Regiment Commander planned to challenge him for Ultra-High Temperature Material and that someone intended a suicide attack.
• Yang Bo learned that the Death Knight Regiment was connected to noble and military training networks, then invited them to come.

Yang Bo learned that numerous assassins and mercenary groups were targeting him, but he refused to cancel his wedding and considered using the crisis to gain power in the Scarlet Federation. After speaking with Su Ruoxin and Allen, he became interested in an auction that might offer rare mecha talent and a remedy for Mental Power problems.

• Yang Bo researched the Death Knight Mercenary Group and learned about its formidable forces and the Scarlet Federation’s war-torn politics.
• Yang Bo re-added Su Ruoxin, who warned him that assassins, mercenary groups, and Death Warriors were targeting him, but he refused to cancel his wedding.
• Su Ruoxin suggested that the royal family might want to win Yang Bo over, and the two traded barbs before ending their call.
• Yang Bo asked Jerry Butler to investigate the Assassin List but learned that its members used anonymous codenames.
• Yang Bo called Allen, who told him that Paradise Island would auction a Grandmaster blacksmith’s notes, two Mecha Grandmaster slaves, two women with Perfect Gene, and a potion formula that could repair Mental Power.
• Yang Bo asked Allen to send the auction details and considered acquiring the mecha talent for himself.

Yang Bo reviewed the Paradise Island auction and decided to bid on two Grandmaster-level Mecha Pilots, while several assassins prepared to target him for a 180-billion-Blue-Coin bounty. He planned how to protect himself on the journey, and Su Ruoxin warned him that assassins could use Superpower abilities to kill from long distances, but he ignored her.

• Yang Bo examined the auction listings, dismissed the Perfect Gene women and forging notes as targets, and chose to bid on the two Mecha Grandmasters.
• Yang Bo asked Allen to reserve an auction spot, and Allen told him the auction would take place in one week and that the Perfect Gene women were attracting major interest.
• Assassins in Wan Dao City received news of the 180-billion-Blue-Coin bounty on Bart and prepared weapons, abilities, and a modified yacht to attack him.
• Yang Bo considered the dangers of traveling to the auction and decided to bring combat armor, avoid revealing his Space Mecha and Sky Rend, and rely on Superpower abilities.
• Su Ruoxin warned Yang Bo that assassins could control Sky Rend and kill targets from over a thousand kilometers away, but Yang Bo ignored her messages.

Yang Bo learned that powerful superpower users were restrained by unknown forces and welcomed the chance to face three top assassins, hoping to gain their abilities. He also agreed to let Ning Xue’s family send recruits to his territory, while the Emperor chose not to protect Bart from the coming danger.

• Su Ruoxin warned Bart that three top-ten assassins were targeting him and described their unusual abilities, while Yang Bo eagerly considered gaining those powers.
• Su Ruoxin told the Emperor about Bart’s behavior, and he decided not to intervene, saying Bart needed to face setbacks before the imperial family could manage him.
• Ning Xue asked Bart about his Mecha combat skills and whether he would take a pilot certification test, but he declined because he worried about revealing his abilities.
• Ning Xue suggested recruiting people from her family, and Bart agreed to welcome those they could not afford to train as residents of his territory.
• Yang Bo stayed with Ning Xue that night, pleased by her affectionate response to his support for her family.

Yang Bo considered how to build his equipment and robot-production plans while waiting for the Empire’s advanced mechas. In his workshop, he examined a strand of mutated animal fur and discovered a molecular-vibration effect he planned to incorporate into a new Sky Rend.

• Yang Bo reviewed the news about the Scarlet Federation’s demands and the Alliance’s investigation of the Zhang Family as March Star prepared for another gene serum auction.
• Watching construction of the garden with Su Wei and the other women, Yang Bo decided to add a robot legion to his plans and divide future equipment into specialized and standardized types.
• Yang Bo worried about the missing Ghost Spaceship, the lack of information on interstellar creatures, and his growing but uncontrolled Space Energy.
• In the basement, Yang Bo planned a Sky Rend powered by Energy Stones and a Fire Energy Battle Armor with an Energy Shield.
• Yang Bo discovered that mutated animal fur concentrated force at its tip through molecular-level vibration, then returned to the forging laboratory to design a new Sky Rend using the structure.