Chapter Summaries

March Star’s councilors and civilians protested the Alliance Military’s handling of the Ninth Fleet, while Pirate Alliance leaders argued over the Special Mixed Fleet’s disastrous losses and planned their next operation against Li John. Yang Bo returned to the Xue Er and contacted Ning Xue while impersonating Viscount Bart.

• March Star councilors accused the Alliance Military of endangering the planet, and civilians demanded disclosure of military budget reviews and the Oversight Committee’s resignation.
• The six Pirate Groups’ commanders blamed the Pirate Alliance Council for the Special Mixed Fleet’s losses and demanded compensation.
• The Pirate Alliance Council’s elders questioned Sixth Elder about the failed mission, and he suspected a traitor while agreeing to investigate responsibility.
• First Elder and Fourth Elder discussed the planned operation against Li John and believed the Joint Fleet would prevail because Li John had only one C-Class Battleship.
• Yang Bo returned to the Xue Er, contacted Ning Xue on Devon Star, and appeared to her as Viscount Bart.

Yang Bo, still disguised as Bart, returned to Ning Xue’s support after destroying the Brotherhood and learned the Empire planned to make him a Hereditary Marquis. The Minister of Defense then plotted to push Bart toward a dukedom, hoping his growing fame would drive his enemies to attack him.

• Yang Bo reassured Ning Xue, who praised his actions and asked him not to risk himself for her again.
• The Empire and other powers largely accepted the Brotherhood’s destruction, while rival groups divided its assets and the Empire’s nobles rallied behind Bart.
• Yang Bo ignored messages from the Bart Family Clan Leader, Su Ruoxin, and the Kindling Club’s Secretary-General, but accepted an online meeting with the Minister of Defense.
• The Minister of Defense told Yang Bo that the Emperor would grant him a Hereditary Marquis title and Ning Xue a Marchioness title, and said Imperial warships would escort him home.
• Yang Bo declined the escort, and the Minister of Defense privately planned to promote Bart toward a dukedom to provoke his enemies into taking action.

Yang Bo prepared an ambush aboard Prosperity as the Pirate United Fleet traveled toward Li John, intending to exploit the fleet’s formation change. The chapter left the pirates adjusting their formation inside Yang Bo’s attack zone as he began the hunt.

• The Ninth Fleet captured five C-Class Battleships and thousands of pirates, then announced that it had completed the first phase of its strike mission.
• The Pirate Alliance Council ordered the Pirate United Fleet to heighten its vigilance and revise its plan before confronting Li John.
• The five Pirate Groups agreed that the Black Skull Pirate Crew would lead the fleet’s vanguard while the Ghost Shadow, Drummer, and Radiant crews took the center and the Witch crew guarded the rear.
• Yang Bo used the fleet’s route to plan a surprise attack from Prosperity, hiding the battleship behind an asteroid and preparing its Energy Cannons with stored Energy Stones.
• The Pirate United Fleet began changing formation without active radar, and Yang Bo controlled the shape-shifted Interstellar Creatures to launch the ambush.

Yang Bo ambushed the Pirate United Fleet with Prosperity, destroying the Black Skull Pirate Crew's flagship and turning its debris into a deadly hazard for the ships behind it. As the fleet struggled to defend itself from the wreckage and further attacks, Aaron ordered his battleship to retreat.

• Yang Bo fired Prosperity's cannons at the Pirate United Fleet and taunted the pirates over the public channel.
• The Witch Pirate Crew's D-Class Battleship detected the incoming salvo and warned the fleet, but one shot struck the Black Skull Pirate Crew's flagship and destroyed it.
• Aaron accelerated his C-Class Battleship and fired Energy Shock missiles as the flagship's explosion disrupted communications and radar systems.
• The pirate commanders identified Li John as the attacker and activated their Energy Shields against the flagship's debris.
• Yang Bo continued attacking the fleet, and a Ghost Shadow Pirate Crew commander reported that his D-Class Battleship had been hit.
• Aaron ordered his battleship to accelerate away from the battlefield and retreat.

Yang Bo, posing as Li John aboard the Prosperity, livestreamed his ambush of the Pirate Alliance Joint Fleet as the damaged fleet struggled to flee amid explosions and debris. Expert analysis of the broadcast concluded that the pirates faced severe losses and that Li John had a strong chance of victory, while Yang Bo hoped they would return for another fight.

• Aaron ordered the Black Skull Pirate Crew to flee at full speed rather than turn toward Li John's Prosperity, while debris and four pirate groups threatened their route.
• A D-Class Battleship from the Radiant Pirate Crew exploded, adding debris and an Energy Shock to the Joint Fleet's chaos.
• Yang Bo started a paid livestream as Li John and announced that the Prosperity had ambushed the Pirate Alliance Joint Fleet, destroying a C-Class Battleship.
• Hundreds of millions of viewers watched the broadcast, and news outlets and military experts analyzed the Prosperity's data and the pirates' worsening position.
• Dean Fendi estimated that Li John had an eighty percent chance of victory, and Yang Bo privately hoped the pirates would return to fight him.

Fendi explained how the debris field, strained Pirate Joint Fleet shields, and Li John's rear position could give the Fortune Battleship an advantage, while Yang Bo planned to capture two C-Class Battleships. The pirate commanders failed to agree on a sacrifice or payment plan, and the surviving Black Skull ships fled ahead as debris chased them.

• Fendi told the livestream audience that debris, disabled radars, and the pirates' energy drain could let Li John's Fortune Battleship catch the fleet from behind.
• A viewer asked why the Pirate Joint Fleet could not turn; Fendi explained the risks and suggested that half the fleet turn to draw fire, though he doubted the pirates would cooperate.
• Yang Bo privately planned to capture at least two C-Class Battleships and let the rest escape.
• The Regiment Commanders of the Witch, Radiant, Drummer, and Ghost Shadow Pirate Crews argued over paying the Witch Pirate Crew ten trillion Credit Points to cover the retreat, but they reached no agreement.
• The Black Skull Pirate Crew lost two more E-Class Battleships to debris from its flagship and shut down internal communications as its remaining ships fled forward.

Yang Bo, posing as Li John, pursued the Pirate United Fleet while taunting its crews in a hugely popular livestream. As the pirates finally began firing back, he destroyed a Witch Pirate Crew D-Class Battleship with a single long-range Secondary Cannon hit, earning Dean Fendi’s declaration that he deserved the title of War God.

• Aaron told the Pirate Alliance Council that the Black Skull Pirate Crew’s flagship and Regiment Commander had been destroyed, and that the crew would suspend accepting tasks while it returned to base.
• The four remaining Pirate Groups argued over whether to sacrifice a warship to delay Li John, but their negotiations with the Witch Pirate Crew stalled over payment.
• Yang Bo mocked the Pirate United Fleet in his livestream, promised a giveaway if viewership passed six billion, and showed his navigation log to defend his ambush.
• After the fleet cleared the debris field, its four Pirate Groups fired on the pursuing Prosperity while Yang Bo maneuvered to close the distance.
• Yang Bo hit the Witch Pirate Crew’s D-Class Battleship with a Secondary Cannon, destroying it, and Dean Fendi called him the War God.

Yang Bo watched Dean Fendi reconstruct how Li John had trapped and crippled the Pirate United Fleet, then learned the Witch Pirate Crew’s commander wanted to surrender in exchange for protection. The Witch Pirate Crew refused Yang Bo’s demand for temporary authority over its battleship, leaving its fate unresolved as his Fortune Battleship closed in.

• Dean Fendi used Li John’s radar data to explain how the Fortune Battleship’s predictions had trapped the Pirate United Fleet and predicted that Li John would catch it in thirty-two minutes.
• Yang Bo concluded that the Alliance’s formal military procedures and vast reserves were beyond the Pirate United Fleet’s means.
• Dean Fendi said the fleet had missed its chance to recover when it failed to leave battleships behind to slow Li John, and the livestream went dark as Yang Bo took a private call.
• Luna, the Witch Pirate Crew’s Regiment Commander, offered the locations of the Ghost Shadow, Radiant, and Drummer Pirate Crews in return for sparing her battleship.
• Yang Bo demanded temporary authority over the Witch Pirate Crew’s battleship, but Luna refused, and he ended the call after warning that he would catch up to her in twenty-three minutes.

Yang Bo, acting as Li John, struck a deal with the Witch Pirate Crew Leader for the crew’s flagship and coordinates to the other pirate fleets in exchange for ten trillion Credit Points. After Yang Bo destroyed a D-Class Battleship, the Witch Pirate Crew abandoned its flagship under treaty protection, leaving him with full authority over it.

• Yang Bo pressured the Witch Pirate Crew Leader into agreeing to provide full battleship authority and coordinates to the other Pirate Groups for ten trillion Credit Points.
• Yang Bo resumed Li John's livestream, threatened the Pirate United Fleet, and ordered the Energy Cannons to fire.
• Yang Bo used the Witch Pirate Crew Leader's coordinates to destroy a D-Class Battleship while the crew argued with the other Pirate Groups over whether they would help.
• The other Pirate Groups refused to support the Witch Pirate Crew, so its members abandoned their flagship and fled in Transport Spaceships.
• Dean Fendi explained that treaty protections prevented Li John from attacking the fleeing crew, while Yang Bo secretly retained full control of the flagship and transferred the agreed payment.

Yang Bo, posing as Li John, extorted the three fleeing pirate crews while the Prosperity pursued them. He collected payments from the Drummer and Radiant Pirate Crews, then resumed the livestream and targeted the Ghost Shadow Pirate Crew’s C-Class Battleship.

• Li John taunted the fleeing pirate crews during his livestream while the Prosperity chased them with its Energy Shield facing their fleet.
• Yang Bo sent all three pirate commanders an ultimatum demanding one trillion Credit Points and privately negotiated with them.
• The Drummer Pirate Crew pooled its funds and paid Yang Bo 345 billion Credit Points.
• The Radiant Pirate Crew raised its offer to 800 billion Credit Points, paid Yang Bo, and the Ghost Shadow Pirate Crew’s late request for his account was rejected.
• Li John restarted the livestream and announced that he would attack the Ghost Shadow Pirate Crew’s C-Class Battleship.
• The Ghost Shadow Pirate Crew’s commander transferred to another battleship and urged the other crews to attack the Prosperity, but they warned him about a possible ambush.

Li John captured the Ghost Shadow Pirate Crew’s abandoned C-Class Battleship and celebrated the victory during a hugely popular livestream. Afterward, Yang Bo secretly took control of the warship and prepared to use it, while Li John announced his triumphant return with three battleships.

• The Drummer and Radiant Pirate Crews abandoned the Ghost Shadow Pirate Crew’s Regiment Commander, who evacuated his flagship and ordered its crew to flee.
• Li John attacked the Ghost Shadow flagship, announced that it was his second C-Class Battleship, and drew millions of viewers with lavish Credit Point giveaways.
• Dean Fendi warned that the Pirate Alliance would likely target Li John, while Li John boasted about capturing another warship and welcomed the pirates’ retaliation.
• Li John’s forces boarded the abandoned flagship, and Yang Bo secretly disabled its communications and surveillance before taking control through the warship’s backdoors.
• Yang Bo placed shape-shifting Interstellar Creatures in the command room and set up Space Beacons as Li John’s social media posted photos of him aboard all three warships.

Yang Bo watched the fallout after Li John seized three C-Class Battleships, while rival governments and factions investigated him and rumors spread. He juggled his identities as Bart, Li John, and himself, then learned the Ninth Fleet had routed the Pirate Alliance’s fleet as he and his companions discussed the Alliance’s secretive criminal trials and privacy laws.

• The Aquamarine Empire’s Imperial Emperor and the Alliance Ministry of Homeland Security investigated Li John’s unexpected control of three battleships and suspected a powerful force was backing him.
• Disguised as Prince Holden, Yang Bo approved Watson’s proposal for a new mortar formula and ordered him to produce it within a month.
• Back aboard the Xue Er as Bart, Yang Bo encouraged rumors that the Pirate Alliance had betrayed disobedient pirate groups and questioned how Li John gained control of the battleships.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star and learned that Wang Muxue’s Ninth Fleet had destroyed or captured most of the Pirate Alliance’s Special Mixed Fleet.
• Yang Bo and Su Wei discussed the Alliance’s private trials and concealed criminal records, while Siya and Annie complained that major companies traded people’s personal information.

Yang Bo watched the Alliance praise the Ninth Fleet while shifting the captured pirates’ trial to March Star, then spread theories blaming the Aquamarine Empire Emperor for supporting Li John. After arranging with Zhang Bozhen to exchange Wisdom Potion for a future battleship and access to prisoner names, Yang Bo learned the Pirate Alliance was collapsing into disputes over compensation.

• Yang Bo, Annie, Siya, and Su Wei watched Alliance officials announce the Ninth Fleet’s victory and the Council’s plans to sanction pirate supporters and consider a promotion for Wang Muxue.
• The Alliance Judicial Department sent the captured pirates to March Star for trial, and Yang Bo expected Zhang Bozhen to punish them harshly.
• Yang Bo proposed that the Aquamarine Empire Emperor secretly backed both Viscount Bart and Li John, and Su Wei and Siya found his theory plausible.
• In Ninth Mister’s name, Yang Bo told Zhang Bozhen that his mission was complete, requested another battleship, and arranged to deliver Wisdom Potion at sea in exchange for prisoner information.
• Yang Bo learned through his Mental Seeds that the Pirate Alliance’s factions were fighting over compensation for the fleet’s huge losses.

Yang Bo returned to Kalaya Province posing as Li John, forced local elites to restore Li John’s shares and pay compensation, and seized control of the province’s defenses. He also fed the Pirate Alliance misleading information to provoke another attack, while the Federation President began considering a joint effort with the pirates to crush him.

• Yang Bo planned to use Kalaya Province as a base, reclaim Li John’s stolen assets, and mislead the Pirate Alliance while waiting for its next retaliation.
• Nelson refused the former shareholders’ bribes and offers to resume his CEO position until Li John returned, then received orders to reclaim the company and collect tenfold compensation in assets.
• Yang Bo posted a fake request for battleship Energy Stones to suggest Li John lacked reserves, while the Pirate Alliance planned a fifty-trillion bounty and contacted Kalaya Province figures who wanted Li John dead.
• After a week, Yang Bo arrived in Kalaya Province with three C-Class Battleships, demanded half the officials’ illicit earnings, and ordered them to address him as Marshal Li.
• Yang Bo took over Kalaya Province’s planetary and ground defenses and became Commander-in-Chief of its military as one battleship patrolled the region.
• The Federation President dismissed Li John’s apparent arrogance and considered joining forces with the Pirate Alliance to crush him.

Yang Bo disguised himself as Li John at a celebration in Kalaya Province while the Federation’s leaders plotted to eliminate him and investigate the forces supporting him. The chapter ended with the President and Vice President expecting their agents to exploit Li John’s apparent susceptibility to women, unaware that Yang Bo had planted a Mental Seed in Vivian.

• Federation power brokers decided that Li John’s rapid rise threatened their control and planned to eliminate him, while the President and Vice President suspected the Empire or Alliance was backing him.
• Yang Bo disguised himself as Li John and addressed a crowd at Kalaya Province’s celebration, knowingly playing along with the praise meant to inflate his ego.
• The Federation President and Vice President watched the livestream and discussed using two women to approach Li John while intelligence agents investigated the disappearance of Aquamarine Empire personnel connected to warships.
• At the rooftop party, Vivian approached Yang Bo for an autograph, and he signed her breast, planted a Mental Seed in her, and discovered she was a Federal Intelligence Department operative.
• A girl claiming to be a Federal Command Academy student gave Yang Bo her private contact information, while the President and Vice President believed their women would soon succeed in getting close to Li John.

Yang Bo, impersonating Li John, fielded disguised agents while March Star investigated Roman Group’s alleged pirate-backed insurance fraud and imprisoned captured pirates. Zhang Bozhen arranged brutal revenge on the pirates, and Yang Bo began an intimate meeting with Vivian, a Federation intelligence agent, leaving their attempts to extract information from each other ongoing.

• Yang Bo recognized a female assassin posing as a trading-company manager, then refused a donation from John and promised to protect honest businesses.
• March Star detained Roman Transport Ship’s crew, accused Roman Group of insurance fraud, and began investigating pirates captured by the Ninth Fleet.
• Yang Bo told Zhang Bozhen that the first batch of captured pirates were not connected to their team, and Zhang Bozhen ordered them imprisoned.
• Zhang Bozhen arranged for prisoners to torture a Scythe Pirate Gang minor leader, then ordered the injured pirates healed and targeted again.
• Yang Bo met Vivian, praised her in return as she flattered him, and used the prospect of a battleship visit to draw her into continuing their relationship.

Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, exposed and captured four female assassins while expanding Nelson’s role and preparing an intelligence network. Vivian reported to the Federal Intelligence Department, which ordered her to investigate Li John’s fleet and infiltrate his network, while Yang Bo recognized Lisa as another operative and planned to use her to draw out a more important target.

• Nelson interrogated four female assassins captured after they entered Li John’s residence and learned their identities, though not who had hired them.
• Yang Bo ordered Nelson to hand the assassins to the Judicial Department, turned down company donations, and gave Nelson one trillion Credit Points to build an intelligence network.
• Vivian left on the pretext of work and reported to the Federal Intelligence Department, which decided to infiltrate Nelson’s network and have Vivian investigate the people in Li John’s fleet.
• Yang Bo met Lisa, recognized her as another Federal Intelligence Department operative, and decided to use her to lure out a higher-ranking target rather than plant a Mental Seed in her.

Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, used Lisa’s investigation to feed her misleading information about his victories and fleet while concealing his real plans. Lisa reported what she learned, prompting the Federal Intelligence Department to send an Advanced Commissioner to investigate the battleships, while Yang Bo left to visit Green Devil Star.

• Yang Bo recognized Lisa as a skilled Mental System Superpower User and answered her questions about his battles against the Pirate United Fleet with a fabricated account.
• Lisa probed Li John about his intelligence sources, fleet personnel, battleship systems, and whether she could visit his ships, but he repeatedly refused.
• Yang Bo hinted that the battleships needed maintenance and system upgrades, leading Lisa to suspect something unusual and agree to wait before visiting.
• Lisa reported her findings to the Federal Intelligence Department, which dispatched an Advanced Commissioner to investigate Li John's battleships.
• After Lisa left, Yang Bo considered the risks of mental and soul detection and headed to Green Devil Star.

Yang Bo learned that the Pirate Alliance Council planned to attack Li John and was gathering intelligence with help from Federation officials. After discovering that the Federation had sent intelligence officers to inspect Li John's battleships, Yang Bo decided to target them and consider what powerful force to falsely claim was backing Li John.

• The Pirate Alliance Council blamed its losses on bad intelligence and prepared to strike Li John, whom it considered easier to target than the Ninth Fleet.
• The Council elders complained about the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander and debated whether the Empire or someone inside their ranks had compromised their operations.
• The Council ordered closer monitoring of people connected to battleship operations in Kalaya Province to uncover Li John's backers.
• Vivian told Yang Bo that the Federation's Secret Intelligence Division had sent its Deputy Director and two Advanced Commissioners to assess Li John's battleships.
• Yang Bo decided to plant a Mental Seed in the Deputy Director and use him to find more senior officials, while planning what false backstory to assign Li John.

Yang Bo attended Green Devil Star’s import-export auction disguised as Gold Armor King and signed contracts for the planet’s Mutated Materials. He suspected that Omnipotent Insurance Company’s secretary belonged to Red Earl’s Faction and planned to use Li Yong to turn the faction against the First Fleet.

• Tiger-Face King presided over the auction while Yang Bo, disguised as Gold Armor King, observed the representatives and noticed a man he suspected was linked to Red Earl’s Faction.
• Yang Bo learned the man represented Omnipotent Insurance Company and suspected Red Earl’s Faction planned to rob shipments of rare Mutated Materials.
• Yang Bo decided to support Li Yong and considered feeding information to Red Earl’s Faction so it would clash with the First Fleet.
• The companies won quotas for Green Devil Star’s Mutated Materials, and Yang Bo warned them against hidden motives before signing the contracts as Gold Armor King.
• The vice president of Omnipotent Insurance Company presented the final contract, and Yang Bo planned to plant a Mental Seed in the vice president’s secretary.