Chapter Summaries

Zhang Bozhen told Yang Bo that his commendation ceremony would take place in space amid security concerns and growing political unrest. Yang Bo trained with Su Wei, Siya, and Annie, then recruited the disillusioned God Hall assassin An An, who accepted a new identity as Marlena and was assigned to test the Mecha Recall Skill.

• Zhang Bozhen explained that Yang Bo's commendation ceremony would be held aboard a spaceship to guard against soul secret arts and possible attacks, and warned him about pirates and the arrival of an Imperial Princess.
• Yang Bo defeated Su Wei, Siya, and Annie in training mechas, then showed them his Underground Laboratory and demonstrated how to formulate a perfect E-Rank Energy Potion.
• Yang Bo visited An An on Devon Star and offered her a chance to cooperate in an experiment in exchange for some freedom.
• An An learned that God Hall had been exposed and destroyed, then looked up Bart's feats and became convinced of his power.
• Yang Bo left An An a new wristwatch, the key to her Inhibition Collar, and a message assigning her to test the Mecha Recall Skill; An An took the new identity Marlena and pledged loyalty to him.

Yang Bo conducted livestreamed tests showing that the Mecha Recall Skill worked under intense electromagnetic interference, then prepared a willing Rank A volunteer for a human teleportation experiment. He used his Bart identity to draw Su Ruoxin, Wang Rui, Ruth, and Allen into his plans for managing the emerging space technology industry before preparing to return to March Star.

• Yang Bo told White and the other researchers that assassin Marlena had agreed to serve as their teleportation test subject, and they designed experiments using electromagnetic interference.
• Yang Bo livestreamed five successful Mecha Recall Skill tests, during which the spatial coordinates shifted away from strong electromagnetic interference, and Marlena agreed to proceed with a human test.
• Su Ruoxin contacted Bart, then offered Wang Rui and Ruth money and the choice to become his lovers; Yang Bo later visited the three women at the Circular Hotel.
• Yang Bo proposed a Space Technology Management Committee to Su Ruoxin, who agreed to help manage it, and he invited Allen to take a position on the committee.
• Yang Bo offered to investigate secondary Gene Evolution for Allen, then secretly returned to his laboratory and prepared to go back to March Star.

Yang Bo planned to use the Second World and the Ninth Fleet to advance his interests while misleading the Empire's investigators. After setting a trap for corporations through Zhang Bozhen and producing medicine and invisibility serum, he discovered that infiltrators had searched Prince Holden's ship but had not uncovered his secrets.

• Yang Bo decided that his real identity was the best way to obtain the Second World and planned to deepen the Alliance Military's hostility toward the Ninth Fleet.
• Yang Bo, posing as Bart and using Ninth Mister's identity, urged Zhang Bozhen to prepare robots, Bionic Humans, or Unmanned Mecha for a scheme that could damage their manufacturers' stock prices.
• Marlena reflected on God Hall's destruction and decided to stay quietly in Bart's laboratory, while Yang Bo made medicine for Wang Muxue and injected invisibility Gene Serum into more than three hundred Sand Rats.
• Yang Bo returned to Prince Holden's Domain and sensed mechanical insects aboard the ship, while Imperial infiltrators searched the vessel and found crystals hidden behind lead shielding.
• Investigators in space discussed their plans to control Prince Holden's Domain and learn what Yang Bo had discovered at Green Academy, but Yang Bo returned to the ship without arousing further suspicion.

Yang Bo watched the Alliance respond to recent piracy and fraud scares while the Empire Swordplay Association traveled to meet him and investigate his rise. Su Ruoyun learned the truth about Second World and the crimes expected of her, leaving her conflicted about her duty and increasingly curious about Yang Bo.

• Yang Bo read reports about Red Earl's near-heist and the Alliance's plans to strengthen March Star's defenses, including ordering three warships that Zhang Bozhen knew would never arrive.
• The Empire Swordplay Association studied Yang Bo's unusual history and planned to win his goodwill or recruit him, while noting that Su Wei had become a Superpower User.
• Su Ruoyun learned that Second World characters were clones and that her mission was to use the harmful Divine Soul Secret Method on Yang Bo to extract information.
• Su Ruoyun compared her burdens with Ning Xue's and Su Wei's lives, envied them, and wondered what kind of person Yang Bo was.
• The Vice Guild Master announced that the association would reach the Alliance Capital Star in twelve hours and later travel to March Star alongside two Alliance military warships.

Su Ruoyun contacted Su Wei to approach Yang Bo, but Su Wei refused and deleted her contact, leaving Su Ruoyun resolved to pursue her mission alone. Half a month later, the Ninth Fleet’s base opened on March Star, where Wang Muxue brought Su Wei, Siya, Annie, and Yang Bo for mecha training.

• Su Ruoyun struggled with her duties as a Princess but contacted Su Wei because she needed to get close to Yang Bo.
• Yang Bo warned Su Wei that Su Ruoyun might be dangerous, and Su Wei followed his advice, declined to meet her, and deleted her contact.
• Su Ruoyun accepted the rejection and decided to proceed with her original plan against Yang Bo.
• After half a month, the Ninth Fleet’s base began operating, and Wang Muxue prepared to receive over two thousand difficult-to-manage elite soldiers.
• Wang Muxue granted Yang Bo, Su Wei, Siya, and Annie access to a training room at the base.
• Su Wei and the others challenged Yang Bo to another mecha match, this time with their mechas able to fly.

Yang Bo learned that the Pirate Alliance planned to target him and the visiting Empire Princess, then used the threat to shape a new plan around the March Star Grand Theater. He arranged to attend a performance on the likely attack date, while Su Ruoyun grew envious of Su Wei and Zhang Bozhen prepared for the theater under Ninth Mister’s instructions.

• Yang Bo discovered that the Pirate Alliance had redirected its terrorist plan toward him and the Empire Princess, and decided to identify its attackers and turn their operation against the Alliance.
• Yang Bo took Su Wei, Siya, and Annie shopping to attract the pirates’ attention, then planted a Mental Seed in a scout and learned that the March Star Grand Theater was a likely target.
• Su Ruoyun saw news of Su Wei’s shopping trip and realized she envied her cousin’s life and wanted to ruin it.
• Yang Bo told Zhang Bozhen to place equipment and robot security at the grand theater, while implying that pirate terrorists would livestream their abuse of military elites.
• Zhang Bozhen agreed to appear at the theater and leave quickly, then relaxed after Ninth Mister assured him he would be safe and grew excited about the planned livestream.

Su Ruoyun attended Yang Bo’s award ceremony on March Star, where the Federation and Empire honored him with titles, appointments, equipment, and property. She tried to draw close to him as Su Wei’s cousin, but Yang Bo avoided her advances, and Zhang Bozhen kept watch over him.

• Su Ruoyun arrived on March Star and Zhang Bozhen escorted her to Yang Bo’s award ceremony.
• The Federal Ancient Martial Arts Association made Yang Bo an honorary consultant and awarded him armor, weapons, and a residence, while the Empire granted him a barony, an academy appointment, and territory on Devon Star.
• Su Ruoyun called Yang Bo her brother-in-law, offered him gifts from the Empire Swordplay Association and Imperial Royal Family, and asked to visit his home, but he hurried away.
• Su Ruoyun confirmed to reporters that Su Wei was an Imperial Princess and praised Yang Bo, while Zhang Bozhen sent him for medical checks and warned him that the Empire might try to seduce him.
• At the banquet, Yang Bo told reporters he had been playing games and said the associations wanted him to spend his Contribution Points; he then refused Su Ruoyun’s request to visit Su Wei, and Zhang Bozhen interrupted their conversation with an invitation to the opera.

Yang Bo infiltrated the Pirate Alliance’s terrorist operation, killed and impersonated Ward, and secretly equipped the attackers with weapons while planning to turn the attack into a catastrophe for the Alliance and its robot manufacturers. As the Imperial opera performance began at the March Star Grand Theater, Yang Bo gathered the terrorists and prepared to seize control of the robots.

• Yang Bo slipped away from Su Ruoyun and later evaded questions from Su Wei and Siya about her looks.
• Yang Bo infiltrated Ward’s safe house, knocked him unconscious, planted a Mental Seed, killed him through a spatial rift, and disguised himself as him.
• Impersonating Ward, Yang Bo promised the Pirate Alliance Council of Elders he would complete the mission, then learned the Council had planted an informant among the attackers.
• Yang Bo prepared weapons, interference equipment, and a plan to make the theater robots self-destruct, intending to blame the Pirate Alliance and benefit Li John.
• Zhang Bozhen welcomed Su Ruoyun and the other guests to the grand theater while Yang Bo, disguised as Ward, assembled the terrorists and revealed their hidden weapons.
• Yang Bo told the gathered terrorists that they would act in two minutes, as he prepared to disrupt communications and take control of the theater robots.

Yang Bo, disguised as Ward, led armed terrorists in taking hostages at the March Star Grand Theater and livestreamed their brutal abuse of Alliance Military elites to pressure the Alliance for pirate releases and ransom. As Su Ruoyun sought a chance to summon her Space Mecha and Yang Bo prepared to withdraw, he ordered the Guardian Robots to self-destruct and destroy the evidence.

• Yang Bo armed and organized more than a hundred terrorists, who seized the theater entrances and held the audience and visiting delegations hostage with Guardian Robots.
• Disguised as Ward, Yang Bo announced the terrorists' demands, and the pirates attacked protesting Alliance Military elites while he livestreamed the hostage crisis.
• Yang Bo used the stream to demand pirate releases and ransom from the Alliance, Federation, and Empire, while the March Star Governor blamed robot companies and Pirate Alliance Council elders denied responsibility.
• The pirates tortured Alliance Military elites onstage as the livestream spread across the interstellar society; Zhang Bozhen watched as the robot companies' stock prices fell.
• Su Ruoyun asked to use the restroom to prepare to summon her Space Mecha, while Yang Bo told a deputy to take over and ordered the Guardian Robots to self-destruct.

Yang Bo’s hacked Life Robots crippled March Star’s police rescue operation and triggered panic across the Alliance. Zhang Bozhen received Ninth Mister’s warning that the robots would self-destruct soon and that Su Ruoyun planned to escape by Space Mecha, while Yang Bo teleported to his laboratory on Devon Star.

• Yang Bo abandoned his plan to approach Empire or Federation representatives, then escaped the grand theater by teleporting from a Safe House on March Star to his Private Laboratory on Devon Star.
• March Star police sent Police Robots into the grand theater, where hacked Cleaning Robots attacked them, sprayed unknown liquid, and exploded after a Suicide Electromagnetic Drone struck them.
• A coffee-serving Life Robot attacked the Police Robots in the staff passage, while Life Robots in the Maintenance Tunnel also turned berserk and self-destructed, forcing the police to halt the rescue operation.
• Viewers shut down their Life Robots as complaints and refunds battered manufacturers and their industrial chains, and the Alliance Council held an emergency meeting.
• Zhang Bozhen received Ninth Mister’s warning that Su Ruoyun would escape using a Space Mecha, that the pirates had biological genetic passwords, and that the robots would self-destruct in two minutes.
• Zhang Bozhen thanked Ninth Mister and watched the livestream, wondering whether Ninth Mister had issued his order as soon as the incident began.

Su Ruoyun escaped the restroom by summoning her Space Mecha, but the Alliance police detained her for using an unregistered mecha. After the Ninth Fleet rescued the Grand Theater hostages and subdued the terrorists, Yang Bo and Su Wei arranged Su Ruoyun’s release on bail, leaving her under residential surveillance and unable to continue her mission.

• Su Ruoyun summoned her Space Mecha in the restroom and struck down two Guardian Robots, which self-destructed and trapped her inside.
• Zhang Bozhen ordered the Ninth Fleet to storm the Grand Theater, where its Mecha Pilots subdued the terrorists and Rescue Robots evacuated the injured hostages.
• The police detained Su Ruoyun and impounded her Space Mecha because she had used it illegally on March Star.
• Yang Bo consulted Zhang Bozhen, who advised avoiding diplomatic intervention and having Su Wei post bail for Su Ruoyun.
• Su Wei and Yang Bo arranged a lawyer, reduced the bail to five hundred million Credit Points, and brought Su Ruoyun to Yang Bo’s villa under residential surveillance.

The pirate attack triggered protests, military turmoil, and political fallout across the Alliance, while Su Ruoyun faced public scrutiny over her Space Mecha. As the Pirate Alliance came under mounting pressure, Yang Bo and Su Wei criticized Su Ruoyun’s handling of the crisis.

• Zhang Bozhen visited abused soldiers in the hospital and encouraged their protests by emphasizing the danger of remaining on March Star.
• Terrified elite soldiers abandoned treatment and streamed toward the spaceport, demanding to leave March Star.
• The Alliance Council ordered the Ninth Fleet to escort two thousand soldiers home, shelved plans to send four thousand more, and allocated emergency funds.
• News of Su Ruoyun’s Space Mecha drew public anger, but her lawyer argued that she was a victim and that Alliance laws and Customs procedures were inadequate.
• March Star authorities linked the terrorists to the Pirate Alliance through their confessions and genetic evidence, while other pirate groups publicly threatened further attacks.
• Yang Bo and Su Wei watched the news and criticized Su Ruoyun for not putting away her Space Mecha and feigning unconsciousness.

Yang Bo, disguised as Bart, conducted a livestreamed human test of the Space Mecha Recall Skill using Marlena, a former God Hall assassin and Rank A Mental System Superpower User. Marlena survived the recall, and Bart announced plans to improve the technology’s safety and eventually make it available to ordinary people.

• Su Wei agreed to limit contact with Su Ruoyun, while March Star and Alliance officials pursued legal and political measures after the terrorist attack.
• Yang Bo prepared Marlena for the recall experiment and announced the livestream, while ignoring Su Ruoxin’s message.
• Bart introduced Marlena to the livestream audience, gave her a Space Mecha, and explained the experiment as viewers tuned in by the billions.
• Marlena flew the Space Mecha above Circular Hotel, and White’s team recalled it into their laboratory on Bart’s order.
• Marlena emerged safely, and Bart declared the experiment a crucial advance and promised further safety improvements.

Bart announced the Space Mecha Recall Skill, received praise and earned Marlena an Imperial title, while Yang Bo concealed the experiment’s greater capabilities. As Li John, Yang Bo prepared to seize Kalaya Province and weighed how to build a lasting power base amid political turmoil and threats from the Federation and Pirate Alliance.

• Bart announced plans for an Imperial Cosmic Center base, further space technology research, and a lottery for livestream viewers; Marlena received a Space Mecha and the title of Imperial Baron.
• White and the other two scanned Marlena after the livestream, while Yang Bo kept secret that his technology could deploy mechas and transport people through space.
• Yang Bo left to review the experiment and then considered Li John's plans to take control of Kalaya Province, recognizing that six battleships required allies to handle supplies and maintenance.
• The Pirate Alliance warned pirate groups to stockpile supplies, and several groups planned raids on Federation conglomerates and mineral stars.
• Yang Bo reviewed Federation and Pirate Alliance accusations over Li John's victory and saw the Alliance Military face lawsuits from troops sent to March Star.
• Yang Bo contacted Lisa and Vivian as Li John, flirted with them, and considered sharing power in Kalaya Province rather than ruling alone.

Disguised as Li John, Yang Bo used a virtual conference to secure support for impeaching Kalaya Province’s Governor, then became the new Governor and opened his fleet to recruitment. Company leaders planned to gain influence by placing their people in the fleet, while Yang Bo reserved a Captain position for Lisa.

• Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, had Nelson invite Kalaya Province’s city and company leaders to a virtual conference.
• Yang Bo announced his plan to impeach the Governor, and Nelson proposed Li John as the next Governor; attendees supported both measures.
• Yang Bo asked the attendees to recommend qualified personnel for his six warships, and the leaders privately planned to place their own people in the fleet.
• Nelson warned Yang Bo that the recruitment plan might be risky, but Yang Bo told him to manage his assets and invited him to recommend talent.
• The Senate impeached and removed the Governor, then elected Li John as the new Governor.
• Yang Bo asked Lisa whether she wanted to be a Captain, while Alliance- and Empire-linked companies began recruiting talent and gathering intelligence to protect Li John.

Yang Bo, now Governor of Kalaya Province, recruited Lisa to command one of his six battleships and announced a province-wide fleet examination while secretly planning to let rival factions compete for influence. After the fleet returned to Kalaya Province, he arrived at a victory banquet and prepared to turn the Federal Intelligence Department’s assassination team against local power brokers.

• Yang Bo offered Lisa a captain's position aboard an optimized battleship and invited her to recommend classmates and upperclassmen for the fleet.
• Lisa reported the offer to her superiors, and the Federal Intelligence Department told her to stay undercover and recommend candidates in case its assassination attempt failed.
• Yang Bo announced fleet recruitment and examinations for Kalaya Province citizens, prompting public speculation about his motives and the factions competing to control his fleet.
• After visiting Prince Holden's territory in the Second World and appearing on Devon Star, Yang Bo returned with his six battleships, four of which docked while two remained on alert.
• Lisa and Vivian admired the upgraded battleship before accompanying Yang Bo to the victory banquet, where Kalaya Province officials celebrated his arrival.
• A Federal Intelligence Department special operations team watched Yang Bo descend from a Contact Spaceship, and Yang Bo planned to pit them against Kalaya Province's local forces.

Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, took office as Kalaya Province’s Governor and used a cocktail party to announce military plans while secretly advancing his own schemes. He discovered Federal Intelligence Department operatives had infiltrated the Governor’s Mansion to assassinate him and learned they planned to escape through a secret passage.

• Yang Bo ordered the Governor’s office and lounge renovated, appointed Vivian as his secretary, and told Lisa to choose antiques from the mansion.
• At the cocktail party, Yang Bo told Kalaya Province’s leaders he wanted a military shipyard and ground training base, and planned to lead battleships against pirate groups.
• Yang Bo claimed pirate-alliance insiders had supplied intelligence and hinted that Federation officials had secretly plotted against him.
• Yang Bo proposed taking only half the battleships on his first mission and leaving the rest in Kalaya Province while recruits trained.
• Yang Bo noticed two suspicious party staff members, planted a Mental Seed in one, and learned that Federal Intelligence Department operatives planned to assassinate him and escape through a secret passage.

Yang Bo turned the Federal Intelligence Department’s assassination attempt at the Governor’s Residence into a massacre, using his control of the operation commander to manipulate the attackers. He exposed the plot, captured the mysterious A+ Level expert, and put Kalaya Province under lockdown.

• Yang Bo used a Mental Seed to control the operation commander and ordered four self-destructing Modified Humans to attack as Li John left the reception hall.
• Yang Bo escaped the electromagnetic blast with Vivian and Lisa, while the explosion and the Strength Superpower Users’ gunfire killed powerful guests and gave him several Mind Control skills.
• Yang Bo dodged an attack from the disguised A+ Level expert, destroyed her sword with a Laser Gun, then knocked her unconscious and placed her in the Mecha Cockpit.
• Yang Bo used his mecha to kill the three Strength Superpower Users and the operation commander, then incapacitated the Ice Superpower User and destroyed his Biochip.
• Yang Bo brought Vivian and Lisa into the mecha, declared Kalaya Province under lockdown using Governor Li John’s authority, and announced a fifty-billion-Credit-Point reward for capturing the suspects.
• Kalaya Province’s guards rushed the Governor’s Residence and detained the staff as fighter craft descended around the province.

Li John used a public livestream and emergency powers to expose a terrorist attack that pointed toward the Federal Central Government, while consolidating control of Kalaya Province. After ending the broadcast, Yang Bo moved to form a powerful temporary committee and prepared to hear Lisa and Vivian’s news.

• Li John livestreamed the attack, offered massive rewards, and declared Kalaya Province under emergency lockdown while its officials searched for suspects.
• Yang Bo issued administrative orders, recruited for his fleet, and announced that Kalaya Province would bar foreign investment for three years.
• Lisa and Vivian realized the Federal Intelligence Department had deceived them after seeing officials killed in the attack, while Yang Bo used a Mental Seed to identify the captured assassin as a Morris Family operative.
• Kalaya Province arrested more than a hundred suspects, whose movements and transactions pointed to Federal Central State; Li John offered two trillion Credit Points for direct evidence before ending the livestream.
• Yang Bo handed the assassin to the acting police minister, proposed a Temporary Management Committee to coordinate Kalaya Province, and asked Lisa and Vivian to speak with him aboard a fighter.

Yang Bo exposed Lisa and Vivian as Federal Intelligence Department informants, used their confession to protect himself, and reorganized Kalaya Province while the Federation reeled from the attack. After returning to March Star, he decided to stir up trouble in the Empire and arrived on Devon Star to target the Crown Prince.

• Lisa and Vivian confessed that they worked for the Federal Intelligence Department, and Yang Bo revealed he had known their identities and fed them false information to trap the department.
• Yang Bo told Lisa and Vivian to keep serving him and returned to the warship, where he later accepted their performance and saw his Mind Control points rise above 9,200.
• Disguised as Li John, Yang Bo addressed Kalaya's new senators, proposed an annual Half-Mast Day, called for a stronger private fleet, and appointed the Acting Minister of the Judicial Department to lead a Management Committee.
• Yang Bo learned that an A+ Level assassin had escaped after attacking the Police Department and offered a 100-billion reward for information.
• After reviewing the turmoil across the Federation, Yang Bo went to Devon Star disguised as Bart and ordered Jerry Butler to obtain crucial information about the Crown Prince and a list of people who had sent gifts.