Chapter Summaries

Disguised as Li John, Yang Bo reassured Kalaya Province shareholders while secretly observing the Pirate Alliance Council plan to attack March Star shipping lanes and target the Ninth Fleet. After the Council assigned the mission to the Ninth Elder, Yang Bo contacted the elders as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander and discovered the Third Elder was in Kalaya Province, giving him a chance to investigate.

• Yang Bo ignored Li John's old scandals and told the Mining Company shareholders he would handle the Pirate Alliance, while the Ninth Elder leaked their conversation to the Council.
• The Pirate Alliance Council voted to encircle Li John in six months and approved backup plans for attacking shipping lanes near March Star and confronting the Ninth Fleet.
• The First Elder assigned the March Star mission to the Ninth Elder, who vowed to make March Star pay for his past humiliation.
• Yang Bo messaged the Council elders as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander and tracked several of their locations, but the First and Seventh Elders were aboard moving spacecraft.
• Yang Bo traced the Third Elder to a casino in East Port City, Kalaya Province, and decided to visit him before the elder's hackers could track Yang Bo.

Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, provoked the Pirate Alliance Council’s Third Elder in an East Port City casino and planted a Mental Seed in him after beating him unconscious. He learned the Pirate Alliance was arranging a massive warship purchase, while the Third Elder put a 30-billion bounty on Li John.

• Yang Bo entered a casino as Li John, spotted the Third Elder, and deliberately insulted him while gambling.
• The Third Elder invited Li John to the VIP room, where Robin Councilor introduced him to wealthy shareholders and the Third Elder.
• Yang Bo continued baiting the Third Elder, punched him into a wall, and planted a Mental Seed while Robin Councilor tried to intervene.
• Reading the Third Elder’s memories, Yang Bo learned the Pirate Alliance was negotiating to buy more than a dozen battleships worth over eighty trillion.
• The Third Elder recovered, vowed revenge, and placed a 30-billion bounty on Li John’s capture through the Assassin Platform.
• Yang Bo considered using his knowledge of the elders to gradually take control of the Pirate Alliance rather than destroy its Pirate Groups.

Yang Bo disguised as Prince Holden built up his coastal territory by forcing craftsmen to finish a dock and putting arriving players to work. After discussing the players with Su Wei, he planned to spur rivalry between territories and wondered who the mysterious organization would send to Devon Star.

• Yang Bo kept the dock craftsmen in his territory until it survived Storm Season, then ordered them to build a camp and threatened them if they failed.
• Disguised as Prince Holden, Yang Bo inspected the first sixty outsiders and found no grounds to challenge the Kingdom's officials, then assigned the players labor in exchange for food.
• More players arrived over the following days, and the craftsmen, Butler, and knights organized construction, fishing, and security while Yang Bo watched the territory develop.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star and discussed Prince Holden's territory with Su Wei, who identified several players from rival families in the forum posts.
• Yang Bo asked Su Wei to have her brother pay players in his territory to provoke competition, then wondered who the mysterious organization would send to Devon Star.

Su Hai celebrated Yang Bo’s money giveaway, while Yang Bo traveled to a secretive club’s island base to meet Wang Fang. After refusing to be impressed by the club’s treasures and claims, Yang Bo agreed to a formal test of his superpower, leaving Wang Fang unsure how to persuade him to join.

• Su Hai confirmed with Yang Bo that money was being distributed, then spread the news to his Royal Clan circle and showed off the giveaway on the game forums.
• Yang Bo handed out Silver Coins to territory NPCs and players, then traveled to Devon Star as Bart after receiving a notice about a meeting on an island.
• Wang Fang welcomed Bart to the Kindling club and showed him rare Attribute Energy Stones and preserved Interstellar Creatures.
• Yang Bo showed little interest in the exhibits, told Wang Fang he was busy, and said his material research came from a special superpower rather than scientific skill.
• Wang Fang proposed formally testing Bart’s superpower, and Yang Bo agreed while privately recognizing the club’s interest in his ability.

Yang Bo rejected Wang Fang’s attempt to recruit Bart into the Club, challenging its rules and its claim to protect ordinary people. After Yang Bo left, Wang Fang reported the encounter, and the Club’s leaders debated his criticism and their lack of authority to enforce their rules.

• Yang Bo refused testing and Club membership, arguing that the Club’s restrictions on Rank A+ Superpower Users did not address the harm powerful companies and nobles inflicted on ordinary people.
• Wang Fang could not answer Yang Bo’s challenges, exchanged contact information with him, and watched him leave the South Pole.
• Yang Bo reassured Jerry Butler that the Club was nothing special, while Wang Fang reported the failed recruitment attempt.
• Three Vice Guild Masters and the Secretary-General met with Wang Fang and criticized his recruitment strategy, noting that Bart valued practical benefits and distrusted the valuable items Wang Fang had presented.
• Wang Fang played a recording of Yang Bo’s criticism, and the Secretary-General explained that the Club could not enforce its rules beyond regulating its own members.

Yang Bo rejected Lu Bin’s efforts to recruit Bart into the Kindling Club and insisted that any relationship focus on cooperation over his Ultra-High Temperature Material. The club’s leaders agreed to offer him temporary membership and a chance to see the Cosmic Center, but Bart declined, wary that the trip’s technology might secretly scan him.

• Yang Bo analyzed why the club had approached him, concluded it wanted his Ultra-High Temperature Material, and told Lu Bin he had no intention of joining.
• Lu Bin promoted the club’s benefits, but Yang Bo rejected the sales pitch and proposed discussing substantive cooperation instead.
• Yang Bo and Lu Bin discussed experimental material samples and the club’s limits on sharing its technology, then ended their conversation without an agreement.
• Lu Bin shared the exchange with the Vice Guild Masters, who argued over Imperial and Alliance factions before agreeing that the club should pursue cooperation with Bart.
• Lu Bin offered Bart temporary membership and a visit to the Cosmic Center, but Bart refused, saying he was busy making money.
• Yang Bo privately decided to learn more about the club’s technology before meeting its members at the Cosmic Center, because he feared its equipment could scan him.

The club debated its need for Bart’s materials and discussed recruiting talent and preparing for renewed Interstellar Creature migrations. In the Second World, Yang Bo watched Prince Holden’s territory develop and offered Luo Lan a chance to become its chief overseer.

• Lu Bin and the Vice Guild Masters decided Wang Fang should continue negotiating with Bart through a straightforward business partnership.
• The club reviewed its recruitment plans, including approaching Li John, Swordplay Association candidates, and the Alliance Cleaner, while monitoring the growing threat of Interstellar Creatures.
• Wang Fang tried to contact Bart, but his Butler said Bart had entered the laboratory and could not be reached.
• Yang Bo arrived in Prince Holden’s territory and saw outsiders building a town, clearing land, and preparing farms and pasture.
• Luo Lan, controlling Lan Bo, suggested using monetary rewards and work targets to improve efficiency, and Yang Bo offered him the position of chief overseer if the plan proved good enough.

Luo Lan won Prince Holden’s favor by flattering him and received a 100 Gold Coin budget to prepare a domain-management plan, while Yang Bo used the players’ rivalries to keep them competing. Back on March Star, Yang Bo received the Swordplay Association’s delayed reward, a book of Ripple Fist, and found the technique inferior to the fist method he had learned in the game.

• Luo Lan praised Prince Holden, who gave him a 100 Gold Coin budget and promised to promote him if his plan succeeded.
• Luo Lan posted a video on the forum, attracted inquiries from players, and assembled a team to prepare his plan.
• Yang Bo let Luo Lan proceed, expecting rival player groups to compete for his favor and help manage the domain.
• Su Wei and the other women told Yang Bo that the Swordplay Association had awarded him a prize for his competition performance.
• Yang Bo received a certificate and a book of Ripple Fist, then judged the technique weaker than Yang Family Meteor Fist.
• Su Wei practiced Ripple Fist under Yang Bo’s guidance but chose to keep training the more difficult technique he had taught her.

Yang Bo accepted the Kindling Club’s fist technique but focused on his own training, then used his Prince Holden disguise to launch paid work missions in the Second World and his Bart identity to present improved materials to Wang Fang. The Club’s tests confirmed the materials had set new records, and Secretary-General Lu Bin realized Bart’s offer would likely come at a steep price.

• Yang Bo and Su Wei discussed the Club’s unsuitable rewards, and Su Wei asked to share Yang Bo’s fist technique with Wang Muxue.
• Yang Bo planned to build warships in the Federation and considered taking over an existing warship shipyard.
• Disguised as Prince Holden, Yang Bo appointed Luo Lan deputy steward and funded rewards for domain construction, farming, hunting, and inventions.
• Yang Bo presented two improved material samples to Wang Fang, who tested them and found four properties that set new database records.
• Club members sought the new materials, and Wang Fang asked the Club to cooperate with Bart.
• Secretary-General Lu Bin learned Bart had supplied the samples and suspected he would demand a high price.

Yang Bo let Kalaya Province and the Federation debate whether to aid him against the Pirate Alliance while he secretly left for March Star. There, Wang Muxue tried the Yang Family Meteor Fist, fell badly, and learned Yang Bo had comprehended the powerful technique in a game.

• The Black Skull Pirate Crew and the Pirate Alliance threatened Li John, while Kalaya Province and Federation lawmakers debated whether to intervene.
• Disguised as Li John, Yang Bo stayed silent at the Senate meeting as the Kalaya Provincial House of Representatives narrowly voted against joining his personal conflict.
• Yang Bo left Kalaya Province in secret and returned to March Star, leaving others to believe he was afraid of the pirates.
• Su Wei demonstrated the Yang Family Meteor Fist to Wang Muxue and warned her to begin with very little strength.
• Wang Muxue ignored the warning, lost control during the technique, crashed into the floor, and discovered that her bones might be cracked.
• Su Wei told Wang Muxue that Yang Bo had created the fist technique after comprehending it in a game, and Wang Muxue wondered how it could improve her physique and the fleet's strength-type Superpower Users.

Yang Bo submitted the Yang Family Meteor Fist to the Ancient Martial Arts Association, unaware that its members would discover its extraordinary power and danger while testing it. After learning that the technique required a target to return force, the association’s leaders successfully practiced it and decided to rate it highly and recruit Yang Bo.

• Wang Muxue told Su Wei that registering Yang Bo’s fist technique could protect it as his patent, and Su Wei passed the suggestion on to Yang Bo.
• Yang Bo submitted a video and instructions for the Yang Family Meteor Fist to the Ancient Martial Arts Association.
• Five fist experts injured themselves while testing the technique, and the association’s president and Vice Guild Masters also could not get past the third move.
• Yang Bo explained that practitioners needed a target to feed force back to them, allowing the president to perform more moves and destroy training targets, including one made of Battleship Armor.
• The association’s leaders judged the fist technique potentially S-class and urged the president to invite Yang Bo to join.

Yang Bo discussed joining the Ancient Martial Arts Association with Guild Master Xu Xiangdong and revealed that he had derived an S-rank fist technique from traces in the Second World game. The Guild Master and two Vice Guild Masters were astonished by his explanation, and Yang Bo showed them another force method he had not yet mastered.

• Yang Bo asked about the Ancient Martial Arts Association’s benefits and obligations, and Xu Xiangdong explained its ranks, Contribution Points, and member privileges.
• Yang Bo told Xu Xiangdong that he had learned the fist technique from a stone chamber at Green Academy in the Second World game.
• Yang Bo demonstrated how overlapping the stone-wall traces matched the fist technique’s movements, shocking Xu Xiangdong, Qian Wuji, and Meng Bufan.
• Yang Bo explained that he was a Viscount in the game and that Su Hai worked for him, prompting the three leaders to laugh about his reputation as the Cleaner.
• Yang Bo displayed another force method involving two stone halves, and Meng Bufan asked whether they could download it for study.

Yang Bo joined the Ancient Martial Arts Association as a master-level member after Xu Xiangdong and Meng Bufan demonstrated how ancient martial arts could channel power through specialized weapons. The Association planned to send him formal membership documents and reward him for his S-rank fist technique, while its leaders secretly investigated whether his technique had awakened his girlfriends’ superpowers.

• Xu Xiangdong explained that ancient martial arts could extend Superpower Users’ lifespans, while Gene Serum helped people without the talent to awaken naturally.
• Yang Bo agreed to join the Ancient Martial Arts Association as a master-level member, requested written terms, and mentioned that three friends also knew his fist technique.
• Xu Xiangdong demonstrated swordsmanship that released Sword Qi, and Meng Bufan showed how special gauntlets channeled force into ranged attacks.
• Yang Bo declined to reveal his superpower attribute but said he could release it externally, and Xu Xiangdong promised formal documents and thirty thousand Contribution Points for the S-rank evaluation.
• After Yang Bo left, Xu Xiangdong, Meng Bufan, and Qian Wuji discussed the fist technique’s unusual power-stacking and planned to investigate whether Yang Bo’s three girlfriends were Superpower Users.
• Yang Bo told Su Wei and the other two that his fist technique had earned an S-rank evaluation and joked that learners would owe him one billion in patent fees.

Yang Bo joined the Ancient Martial Arts Association as a Master-level member, then returned to Kalaya Province as Li John and declared war on the Pirate Alliance after the Senate declined to support him. The Pirate Alliance formed a coalition fleet to attack him, just as Yang Bo had hoped.

• Yang Bo joined the Ancient Martial Arts Association, and its leaders announced that his S-rank Yang Family Meteor Fist could improve practitioners’ physiques if they followed its precautions.
• The Kalaya Provincial House of Representatives rejected support for Li John, while the Senate discussed the issue without voting.
• Yang Bo, posing as Li John, declared war on the Pirate Alliance in his personal capacity and announced plans to turn the Fortune Battleship into an intelligent warship.
• Li John taunted the Black Skull Pirate Crew and the Pirate Alliance online, prompting the Pirate Alliance to authorize attacks and mark him as a target.
• Yang Bo bet one hundred billion Credit Points on Li John winning, and the gambling markets drew trillions in wagers on his defeat.
• More than forty Pirate Groups declared war, and the Pirate Alliance announced a coalition fleet, which Yang Bo welcomed as easier to fight than separate attacks.

Yang Bo used Li John to provoke the Pirate Alliance while preparing for a confrontation, then negotiated with Lu Bin as Bart over the Kindling Club’s orders for Ultra-High Temperature Material. Lu Bin left to consult the Club, promising to respond within two days, while Bart asked how the Club had found him.

• Yang Bo released a video as Li John insulting the Pirate Alliance and challenging it to meet him in a marked star region in one month.
• The Pirate Alliance called an emergency meeting to summon its Pirate Groups and plan strikes against Li John and shipping lanes near March Star.
• Yang Bo requested permission to leave the spaceport aboard the Prosperity in one month, then watched Luo Lan’s favoritism stir conflict among Prince Holden’s players.
• Lu Bin met Yang Bo, disguised as Bart, to negotiate the Kindling Club’s order for Ultra-High Temperature Material.
• Bart limited the order’s categories and quantities, demanded an eighty-percent price increase and extra fees for blueprint revisions, and Lu Bin said he would consult the Club and reply in two days.
• As Lu Bin prepared to leave, Bart asked how the Club had found him.

Bart confronted Lu Bin about the Club’s approach and refused to cooperate, while Lu Bin struggled to manage demands for Bart’s materials. Meanwhile, Xu Xiangdong lured members of rival ancient martial arts associations into practicing the dangerous Yang Family Meteor Fist, and hundreds had already acquired it.

• Bart accused the Club of approaching him because someone wanted to use it against him, identified the Empire Investigation Team’s Special Service Department brigadier general as the source, and left after Lu Bin said the Club could not intervene.
• Lu Bin returned to Club headquarters and called for a Virtual Conference while forging Grandmasters pressured him to obtain Bart’s materials.
• Xu Xiangdong challenged members of the Empire Ancient Martial Arts Association to learn the Yang Family Meteor Fist and offered rewards to anyone who mastered it.
• Members practicing the fist technique reported severe injuries after attempting only a few moves, while Xu Xiangdong warned them not to push themselves.
• Xu Xiangdong revealed that 542 people outside his own association had already learned the fist technique, prompting members to predict that Contribution Points would rise in value.

Su Zhengwu and other martial artists learned the Yang Family Meteor Fist and discovered that practicing it without following its precautions could cause severe injuries. Yang Bo found that the technique had earned him 24.85 million Contribution Points, worth over three trillion Credit Points, but he decided not to sell them for now.

• Martial artists discussed the Yang Family Meteor Fist’s popularity and asked Xu Xiangdong whether Yang Bo would sell his Contribution Points.
• Su Zhengwu practiced the fist technique without a target, lost control of his strength, and fractured his thigh bone; he then recommended the technique to more than six hundred members of the Su Family.
• Xu Xiangdong explained that other practitioners had been injured too, showed Su Zhengwu a target damaged by Yang Bo, and teased him for ignoring the precautions.
• Xu Xiangdong, Qian Wuji, and Meng Bufan laughed about the injuries as the Empire and Federation associations saw practitioners suffer fractures while training.
• Yang Bo saw that 2,496 people had bought the technique and counted 24.85 million Contribution Points in his account.
• Yang Bo learned from Xu Xiangdong that the points could be worth over three trillion Credit Points, but declined to sell them after hearing their value had risen because demand was high.

Yang Bo learned that the Yang Family Meteor Fist’s popularity was driving up Contribution Points and could let him obtain discounted goods from the other two associations. Xu Xiangdong tested the technique against Battleship Armor and discovered that its stacked force could reach nearly four times his strength, though the test injured him and improved his physique.

• Xu Xiangdong explained to Yang Bo how rising Contribution Point values could pressure the other two associations and make their goods cheaper to exchange for.
• Yang Bo thanked Wang Muxue for suggesting that he patent the Yang Family Meteor Fist, and they exchanged awkward messages about its success.
• Yang Bo told Su Wei, Siya, and Annie that his Contribution Points had risen to around three trillion, and they agreed to wait before deciding what to exchange them for.
• Xu Xiangdong tested the fist technique against Battleship Armor in battle armor, stacking its rebound force until his fifth punch shattered his hand armor and cracked the battleship plating.
• Xu Xiangdong concluded that the technique’s force stacking varied by user and found that practicing it had quickly improved his physique.

Disguised as Bart, Yang Bo negotiated with Lu Bin over the A+ Club’s supply of Ultra-High Temperature Material, but rejected the Club’s offers and demanded an explanation for its informant. He left after demonstrating his Superpower, while Lu Bin turned to the Club’s forging Grandmasters to handle the informant and continued pressure from both sides.

• Yang Bo visited Prince Holden’s territory, then went to Circular Hotel with Ning Xue and Bai Lu to meet Lu Bin.
• Lu Bin offered advanced weapons and Ancient Martial Arts in exchange for cooperation, but Yang Bo said he wanted a family-sized warship and dismissed the Club’s other offers.
• Yang Bo brought up the Special Service Department Brigadier General who had reported him and refused further talks until the Club addressed the matter.
• Yang Bo flew out of Circular Hotel in a controlled display of his Fire Superpower, leaving Lu Bin to pass the informant’s case to the forging Grandmasters.
• Yang Bo joined Ning Xue, Bai Lu, and Allen’s wife for several hours of shopping, then heard that Ning Xue’s family hoped to obtain Contribution Points for a fist technique.

Yang Bo used the Club’s pressure on the Aquamarine Empire to get the Brigadier General who reported him dismissed, then learned that assassins were targeting his territory. Disguised and traveling under a false identity, he reached the Pandora Federation to investigate the Brotherhood and left for its city, Ploutos City, intent on striking back.

• Ning Xue warned Yang Bo that the expensive S-Class boxing technique had injured the Ancient Martial Arts Association president, while Lu Bin’s meeting with four forging Grandmasters turned into an argument over how to handle Bart.
• Su Dexing ordered the Aquamarine Empire Emperor to deal with the Brigadier General, and Su Zhengwu explained that the officer had reported Bart to the Club, which now wanted to cooperate with him.
• The Emperor told Su Ruoxin that assassins from the Killer Association and the Brotherhood were targeting Bart’s territory, prompting Yang Bo to decide to retaliate against the Brotherhood.
• Yang Bo used a false identity to travel to the Federation, traced Brotherhood customer-service representatives to the Pandora Federation, and resolved to investigate its leaders and military assets.
• After reaching Pandora Planet, Yang Bo discovered that the Brotherhood controlled Ploutos City and operated openly there, then took public transport toward the city and spotted an advertisement for a Stealth equipment company.