Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo built and tested a compact New-Model Sky Rend, then made ten more and planned an Energy Stone-powered armor that would conceal his strength. He researched robots for manufacturing mechs but realized that production would require controlled materials and far more resources than he could readily obtain.

• Yang Bo designed a small Sky Rend around a rice-grain-sized Energy Stone and finished a working prototype in under five minutes.
• Yang Bo tested the Sky Rend’s Mental Power control and detonation mode, then made ten additional units to prepare for powerful enemies.
• Yang Bo decided to make Energy Stone-powered armor from ordinary materials so he could appear like a nouveau riche while guarding against assassins and Death Warriors.
• Yang Bo researched nanobots and learned that building mechs required multiple kinds of specialized manufacturing robots.
• Yang Bo concluded that buying and modifying existing robots was more practical, but material controls in the Alliance, Empire, and Scarlet Federation still made large-scale mech production difficult.

Yang Bo built a Shield Battle Armor and attended Paradise Island’s auction on Devon Star with Allen, where he sensed several assassins tracking him. The auction revealed an Interstellar Creature’s Egg, which Allen decided he wanted, while Yang Bo suspected the Carter Family might be using it to bait whoever stole their research.

• Yang Bo made a silver Shield Battle Armor from Energy Metal, fitted it with eighteen Energy Stones, and gave it both Mental Power and watch controls.
• Yang Bo considered the dangers facing his Second World character and planned to gather information from Su Ruoxin about the world’s location and her royal-family enemies.
• Yang Bo and Allen traveled to Paradise Island for its Devon Star auction, where Yang Bo sensed a red-haired woman and two middle-aged men using unusual abilities to track him.
• The auction staff gave Yang Bo information about a mysterious Interstellar Creature’s Egg, which reminded him of the Carter Family’s research and the stolen laboratory information.
• Allen declared that he wanted the Interstellar Creature’s Egg because such creatures could be controlled and used as powerful weapons.

At the Paradise Island Auction, Yang Bo and Allen watched several lots sell before Yang Bo bought an Interstellar Creature's head for study. He left the auction lamenting that he had meant to trick another bidder.

• Yang Bo and Allen discussed the auction lots, the Allen Family's method of controlling Interstellar Creatures, and the possibility that Yang Bo's rivals would interfere with his bids.
• The auctioneer sold a Grandmaster's forging notes for seventy-two million Blue Coins, while Bart's associates wondered why Bart had not bid.
• Yang Bo drove the bidding on a Fire Attribute Energy Stone to two hundred and fifty-two million Blue Coins, then joked that he had no intention of paying for it.
• Allen bid for the women with Perfect Genes but stopped because he was saving his budget for the Interstellar Creature's Egg; the women sold for one billion and ten million Blue Coins.
• Yang Bo noticed Life Energy in an Interstellar Creature's head and won it for twenty-five million Blue Coins after other bidders stopped raising the price.
• After the head arrived in their private room, Allen examined it and Yang Bo sighed, saying he had originally planned to trick the other side.

Yang Bo won two master-level Mecha Pilots at auction and noticed that bidders were acting suspiciously over an Interstellar Creature’s Egg. As he left Paradise Island, assassins attacked him, but Yang Bo survived the destruction of his flying car and prepared to capture the attackers and uncover who backed them.

• Yang Bo used Bart’s bidding to buy Watson and Paya for 150 million, then drove other buyers’ prices up during the auction.
• A bidding war pushed the Interstellar Creature’s Egg to 3.5 billion, and Yang Bo and Allen suspected the sale was abnormal.
• Yang Bo completed the handover, took the artwork with him, and noticed that it still had Life Energy and that an assassin’s water trail was following him.
• A red-haired woman sent a blood-powered Sky Rend after Yang Bo, but his Force Field Shield stopped it and he trapped the weapon in a metal box.
• Terrorists blew up Yang Bo’s flying car and launched missiles at him, but he survived in his armor and shot down the missiles with a Laser Pistol.
• Yang Bo detected the attackers swimming toward him and decided to capture them, suspecting that a family had supplied their weapons.

Bart survived an Energy Cannon attack and killed two Modified Human assassins, then released footage and used a paid livestream to demand answers about how terrorists obtained military weapons. The Emperor, the Imperial Noble Council, Parliament, and the military launched investigations as Bart’s livestream audience surged.

• The two Modified Humans launched missiles at Bart and tried to escape underwater, but Bart used Ultra-High Temperature Rays to kill them and destroy their self-destruct systems.
• Yang Bo posted edited footage of the attack to Bart’s social media, showing the Energy Cannon strike, the intercepted missiles, and Bart’s fight with the assassins.
• The Devon Star Governor condemned the attack, while the Emperor, the Imperial Noble Council, Parliament, and the military announced separate investigations.
• Bart began a paid livestream, showed evidence of the attack, and accused powerful people of letting terrorists obtain an Energy Cannon and missiles.
• Bart revealed that his Shield Battle Armor and eighteen Energy Stones had protected him, then said he would hand the captured Modified Humans over to the military.

Bart livestreamed his attack and abduction, then survived by revealing a second suit of armor and using his Flame Shield until the military destroyed the seawater giant with underwater missiles. After the livestream ended, Yang Bo returned to Bart Territory with the new Elemental Clone skill and faced questions about the attack and his wedding.

• Bart accused powerful figures in the Empire and Alliance of colluding with terrorists, and authorized an Alliance reporter to publish his claims.
• A seawater giant seized Bart after he deactivated his Shield Battle Armor and dragged him underwater, but Bart used a second armor and a Flame Shield to survive.
• Military jets detonated underwater missiles, destroying the seawater giant, and Yang Bo gained the A+ Elemental Clone skill.
• Bart surfaced, criticized the military, then flew back to his territory and ended his livestream, which viewers continued discussing until it was shut down.
• Ning Xue urged Yang Bo to cancel their wedding, while Jerry Butler reported that the military had identified a water-wielding Superpower User's corpse as the culprit.
• Yang Bo told Jerry Butler to follow up on the case and handle the Alliance reporter through normal business practices.

After earning trillions from livestreaming his terrorist attack, Bart offered rewards for information and donations while hiding the extent of his strength. Back in his laboratory, Yang Bo tested his Elemental Clones and weighed their powers against their costs and vulnerabilities as news of Bart’s fame and the attack spread across the interstellar world.

• Bart ordered Jerry Butler to offer a one-hundred-billion reward for information about the attackers and donate one hundred billion to the Noble Council.
• Bart told Ning Xue he had not been hurt, explained that he wanted others to underestimate him, and ordered the territory placed on maximum alert while deliveries were suspended for a month.
• Yang Bo returned to his laboratory on March Star and tested Light, Fire, Lightning, and Metal Elemental Clones, finding that they were versatile but consumed Mental Power and could injure him if destroyed.
• News spread that Viscount Bart had earned 2.1 trillion Blue Coins and drawn 2.43 billion paid livestream viewers; reports also linked the seawater attacker to Water Man and said the two captured Modified Humans might be revived.
• At a Zhang Family clan meeting, the Clan Leader said the attack had nothing to do with the family, while members worried about Bart’s rapid growth and mysterious armor.

The Zhang Family and the Emperor scrutinized Bart’s livestream, uncovering evidence of powerful Forgemasters and Bart’s ties to larger schemes. After learning that captured Modified Humans were Alliance Anti-Government Armed Forces members supplied with weapons and information, the Emperor ordered the news released to stir chaos among the old nobles.

• The Zhang Family analyzed Bart’s battle armor, suspected powerful Forgemasters were behind him, and began investigating his connections, including possible ties to the Watson Family.
• The Emperor’s Think Tank Team concluded Bart’s Shield Battle Armor was likely made by a Master-level Forgemaster and his custom Fire Energy Battle Armor by a Grandmaster-level Forgemaster.
• The Emperor ordered surveillance plans for nobles like Bart who frequently left the Empire, then reviewed analysis linking the Sky Cloud Star Energy Stone theft to attacks on Devon Star and anti-government forces.
• The Emperor learned that the two Modified Humans Bart captured had awakened and were core Alliance Anti-Government Armed Forces members who had received weapons, a yacht, and Bart’s Flying Car energy signature.
• The Emperor ordered the news released to throw the old noble circle into chaos and told his staff to notify the Alliance ambassador.

Yang Bo exploited the failed investigation into the attack on Bart to stir public anger and stop paying taxes, while the bounty on Bart rose to 300 billion. Allen warned Bart that the top-ranked assassin had arrived on Devon Star and could use undetectable superpowers to kill him.

• Yang Bo read that the Aquamarine Empire had identified two captured attackers as A-rank Modified Humans and was negotiating with the Alliance, then discussed the attack and Bart’s fortune with Su Wei, Siya, and Annie.
• The Alliance Council held an emergency meeting, while investigators reported that people tied to the attack had killed themselves and that the weapons had come from the Scarlet Federation.
• Yang Bo sent Devon Star’s authorities an inquiry and posted on Bart’s social media that Bart would stop paying taxes because the government had failed to protect him.
• Yang Bo wondered why the third attacker had not struck, then called Allen, who said Bart’s bounty had risen to 300 billion and the top assassin was on Devon Star.
• Allen warned Bart about assassins with stealth, dream-control, animal-control, and mind-control powers, and Bart threatened to destroy the bounty platform.

Yang Bo examined an apparently dead Interstellar Creature and discovered it was a space-attribute creature whose Energy Core still absorbed Space Energy. After dispelling his Mental Seed to kill it, he gained new space abilities and used a biological sample to reveal the creature’s original form.

• Yang Bo tested the creature’s head with several abilities and found that only Space Energy was absorbed.
• Yang Bo used Space Energy to guide his Mental Power to the creature’s Energy Core, learned how its space-based defenses and attacks worked, and successfully planted a Mental Seed.
• Yang Bo chose to kill the creature rather than revive it, dispelled the Mental Seed, and gained Space Energy Mastery +32.
• Yang Bo learned to create a Space Barrier around himself and to emerge through objects by rending space, then tested the abilities in the laboratory.
• Yang Bo examined a Biological Sample and found that his body had taken on the creature’s gourd-shaped form.

Yang Bo tested his new Space Gourd Worm form and discovered it could travel between March Star and Devon Star with far less energy and fewer Energy Fluctuations than his human form. He planned to use the creature to record Spatial Coordinates and improve space travel, then prepared to attend the next day's auction.

• Yang Bo examined his Space Gourd Worm body and found it could endure Space Energy, lock onto Spatial Coordinates, and travel through space efficiently.
• Yang Bo placed Spatial Coordinates in Bart's Private Laboratory and on March Star, then tested Space Movement between March Star and Devon Star in his human form.
• Yang Bo measured the Energy Fluctuations from his human-form teleportation and found they remained detectable and consumed substantial energy.
• Yang Bo transformed into a Space Gourd Worm and traveled between March Star and Devon Star using one-tenth the energy and producing minimal Energy Fluctuations.
• Yang Bo told Su Wei, Annie, and Siya that his experiments were going well, confirmed he would attend the auction, and said he would drive his Training Mecha.
• Yang Bo asked about the women's mecha training, and Su Wei, Annie, and Siya said they were not ready to train outside yet.

Yang Bo tested the limits of Space Movement and developed Space Rupture, then began exploring whether Spatial Coordinates could be placed in Energy Stones and used remotely. After returning to Wan Dao City, he met Su Ruoxin, who said she had come on behalf of more than herself.

• Yang Bo discovered that strong energy interference could divert his Space Movement and that energy protection could block his spatial attacks.
• Yang Bo developed Space Rupture and found it could pierce fighter craft and mecha shields and punch through multiple layers of Battleship Armor, but it could not penetrate a battleship's Energy Shield.
• Yang Bo failed to use a Mental Seed as a Space Walking anchor, then placed a Spatial Coordinate in an Energy Stone and sensed it while it moved around his territory.
• Yang Bo considered using an Energy Stone to send a Spatial Coordinate to the planet from the Doomsday Dungeon game, but worried about detectable energy fluctuations and how to reach the planet.
• Su Ruoxin met Bart on an island in Wan Dao City and warned him that many people wanted him dead; Bart asked whether she had come to placate him or recruit him for the royal family.

Yang Bo negotiated with Su Ruoxin for access to royal intelligence while concealing his own network, then continued his spatial research and prepared for more assassins. On Devon Star, he identified a would-be assassin offering information and secretly traced the man’s location, but chose to pay him and keep drawing out what he knew.

• Yang Bo and Su Ruoxin discussed deeper cooperation, with Yang Bo offering to remove threats in exchange for help accessing royal information channels.
• Su Ruoxin warned Yang Bo that assassins were taking missions against him, and Yang Bo decided to wait before asking her for more help.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star and found that Space Energy Stones could carry Spatial Coordinates, but worried that visiting the marked locations might bring Space Gourd Worms into human star systems.
• On Devon Star, Yang Bo learned that a visitor from the Scarlet Federation was willing to wear an Inhibition Collar and offer information about the attackers and three top-ranked assassins.
• The visitor claimed to know the location of the Assassin List’s second-ranked killer, who could evade electronic detection, and demanded one billion credits.
• Yang Bo traced the visitor through his reply and ordered Jerry Butler to transfer the one billion credits while withholding any immediate move against him.

Yang Bo paid an assassin for information on the second-ranked assassin, Invisible Man, and ordered Bart Territory’s Guard Platoon to capture him alive. The guards began a carefully planned mech operation while Invisible Man remained unaware in a Wan Dao City guesthouse.

• An assassin received ten billion from Yang Bo and sold him information about the second-ranked assassin, Invisible Man.
• Yang Bo considered capturing Invisible Man himself, but Jerry Butler warned him it might be a trap, so Yang Bo assigned the arrest to the Guard Platoon.
• The Guard Platoon commander planned a surprise assault using mechs hidden aboard a cargo ship and assigned roles to his guards.
• Yang Bo told the guards to keep Invisible Man alive, even if they had to injure him, because his rumored power could prevent mech systems from locking onto him.
• Invisible Man studied the mission intelligence at a Wan Dao City guesthouse and worried that approaching Bart Territory would make escape difficult.

Yang Bo captured Lusende, the second-ranked assassin, and discovered his Energy Etherealization ability. He kept Lusende alive to experiment with his blood and ordered Jerry Butler to look after him.

• Yang Bo’s drones and mechas ambushed the assassin in his apartment, forced him to surrender, and carried him to Bart’s territory.
• Yang Bo praised the guard commander and guards, then questioned the captive, who denied being an assassin.
• Yang Bo shocked Lusende with the drones and planted a Mental Seed, learning that his real name was Lusende and that he could use Energy Etherealization.
• Yang Bo drew Lusende’s blood for Gene Serum experiments, hoping to obtain the ability without killing him.
• Yang Bo had robots move Lusende to a special room and told Jerry Butler to feed him well and keep him alive.

Yang Bo interrogated one captured assassin indirectly by negotiating with the assassin who had tipped him off, then used the new lead to send his guards after another target. The chapter ended when a red-haired woman trespassed into his territory and Yang Bo ordered her taken to a neighboring island.

• Jerry Butler restrained the captured assassin, and Yang Bo ordered him to give the authorities the evidence found at the scene.
• The authorities investigated Lusende, learned he was from the Scarlet Federation, and questioned Bart, while Bart submitted suspicious evidence found at Lusende’s residence.
• Yang Bo offered the informant money for verified information, and the informant identified Wind God, an assassin ranked sixteenth on the list.
• Yang Bo transferred another ten billion to the informant and promised more if the lead checked out, while both men planned to use the other for their own ends.
• The Bart Territory guards received a new capture mission, and Yang Bo wondered how the informant knew about other assassins.
• Jerry Butler reported a trespasser, and Yang Bo recognized the red-haired woman from Paradise Island and ordered her taken to the neighboring island.

Yang Bo captured the red-haired assassin who came to retrieve her missing weapon and overcame the mental defense planted in her mind. He learned that she belonged to the mysterious God Hall and decided to keep her alive as bait, expecting the organization to come after him.

• Yang Bo waited on his private island as the red-haired woman confronted him and demanded the return of her weapon.
• When she refused to reveal where the weapon came from, Yang Bo knocked her unconscious, put an Inhibition Collar on her, and tried to implant a Mental Seed.
• Yang Bo repeatedly planted Mental Seeds to wear down the woman's mental defense, then shattered its counterattack and successfully entered her memories.
• Yang Bo learned that the woman was a Cleaner for God Hall, whose superior had planted the mental power she used with a weapon lent to her by the organization.
• Yang Bo discovered that God Hall had raised the woman from childhood and decided not to kill her, keeping her as bait for the organization.

Yang Bo imprisoned An An on an isolated island and captured A Long, the assassin known as Wind God, before killing him and gaining Wind Energy Control. He released evidence of A Long’s crimes and exchanged messages with an assassin who planned to visit his territory, while Yang Bo prepared to test his Air Blade power.

• Yang Bo ordered Jerry Butler to imprison An An in isolation and have robots guard and serve her.
• Yang Bo remotely watched his guards capture A Long, the assassin ranked sixteenth on the Assassin List.
• Yang Bo planted a Mental Seed in A Long, read his memories, and killed him with a Fire Energy Ray, gaining Wind Energy Control.
• Yang Bo confirmed that killing someone bearing his Mental Seed caused him no harm and told Jerry Butler to release the evidence against A Long.
• Yang Bo sent an assassin sixty billion and invited him to visit; the assassin planned to verify new information before coming to Devon Star.
• Yang Bo decided to test his Air Blade superpower.

Yang Bo tested his Wind Attribute Superpower, discovering it could sharpen his senses, let him fly undetected by radar when combined with photoelectric interference, and create a powder barrier that scattered energy attacks. Meanwhile, An An woke under house arrest without the Vigilant One’s Mental Power, and Yang Bo planned to infiltrate the God Hall through an assassin.

• Yang Bo compressed Air Blades and found they could cut and grind Battleship Armor, though he considered their offensive power limited.
• Yang Bo used wind to sense objects, fly, and blend his Energy Fluctuation with the air; combined with photoelectric interference, this made him vanish from radar.
• Yang Bo tested glass and metal powder barriers and found they could scatter lasers and defend against energy attacks more cheaply than Energy Shields.
• An An woke in Bart’s residence, discovered her Inhibition Collar and the loss of the Vigilant One’s Mental Power, and learned from the robots that she was under house arrest.
• Yang Bo realized the God Hall could track An An and planned to control an assassin, send him to the Scarlet Federation, and use his identity to investigate the organization.

Yang Bo used Bart’s identity to demand answers from the Devon Star authorities about the terrorist attack, but his public complaints drew mockery rather than sympathy. After returning to March Star, he learned that the Pirate Alliance had accepted a phased bounty to disrupt routes to the planet and later attack it, prompting him to plan a new identity as a Scarlet Federation warlord.

• Yang Bo questioned Jerry Butler about the authorities’ lack of progress and learned that the terrorists and their families had all died by suicide, suggesting Great Nobles were behind the attack.
• Yang Bo posted as Bart, condemning the Devon Star authorities for failing to investigate or compensate him, but readers mocked him for earning more than two hundred billion from the attack.
• Yang Bo searched Mei Xiaoxiao’s information and the memories of a Pirate Alliance Council elder, discovering a four-hundred-billion-Credit-Point bounty targeting March Star’s routes and the planet itself.
• Yang Bo considered whether the bounty targeted the Ninth Fleet or March Star and decided to create another identity now that he had Space Movement.
• Yang Bo chose a Scarlet Federation warlord as an identity that could own warships and help him build up his strength.