Chapter Summaries

After Su Ruoyun awakened, the Aquamarine Empire Emperor sought Yang Bo’s Black Rock Honey, while Yang Bo publicly explained its limits and offered it through a monitored vote instead of selling exclusive rights. His video triggered an Alliance export ban and a global backlash, leaving Zhang Bozhen unable to challenge Yang Bo’s sudden influence.

• The Emperor ordered the Grand Steward to obtain Yang Bo’s honey after learning Su Ruoyun had recovered her Mental Power and awakened with temporary amnesia.
• Yang Bo sensed Su Ruoyun’s mental fluctuations and suspected she might be pretending to have lost her memory, but he did not confront her.
• Yang Bo gave Zhou Rui some Black Rock Honey to try for her father and took her advice to explain the honey publicly.
• Yang Bo posted a video from Flower Fruit Mountain, described the honey’s uncertain effects, and offered limited portions to people chosen by a public vote rather than through auctions or exclusive deals.
• The Alliance Council banned the export of Secondary Mutant insects and related products, and Yang Bo’s follower count surged as people across the Empire, Federation, and Alliance fought over the ban.
• Yang Bo prepared five monitored portions of honey, while Zhang Bozhen swallowed his frustration and congratulated him on becoming the internet’s most-followed person.

Yang Bo investigated the terrorists who had attacked Su Ruoyun and uncovered a March Star intelligence network serving King Chu Jiang. He left the Security Captain in place for now so he could identify the other agents and exploit King Chu Jiang’s interests.

• Yang Bo warned Annie and Siya to watch Su Ruoyun, keep sensitive information from her, and encourage Su Wei to take her to the hospital.
• Yang Bo searched the terrorists’ coworkers, usual routes, and favorite bars but found no suspicious people.
• Yang Bo traced the terrorists’ bomb delivery to the spaceport and noticed a tense Security Captain who worked there.
• Yang Bo followed the captain to his dormitory and planted a Mental Seed while the man showered.
• Yang Bo learned that the captain led King Chu Jiang’s sixteen-agent intelligence network on March Star and had delivered the terrorists’ package.
• Yang Bo decided not to expose the captain yet because he wanted to find the other agents and take advantage of King Chu Jiang’s Federation businesses.

Yang Bo exploited King Chu Jiang’s planned attack and the Federation’s pirate conflict while manipulating Catherine and persuading Su Ruoxin to bring Su Ruoyun back. He suspected the Emperor had secretly prepared another heir and identified a young pharmacist as a possible hidden Crown Prince.

• Yang Bo learned that King Chu Jiang had forced March Star informants to help target an Imperial Princess, and he planned to extort King Chu Jiang before exposing him.
• Yang Bo sent the Hunting Dog Pirate Group intelligence about the Central State’s bait shipment and ordered it to gather for an attack on the Central State’s Main Fleet base.
• Yang Bo confronted Catherine at Zhang Sen’s residence, suppressed her resistance, and used Mental Soothe to undermine her faith in Red Earl’s Faction.
• Disguised as Bart, Yang Bo convinced Su Ruoxin to propose bringing Su Ruoyun back using protective equipment, while suggesting that the Emperor might have secretly raised another heir.
• Yang Bo searched for possible hidden heirs and grew suspicious of a young hereditary noble pharmacist who was also a Mecha Master.

Yang Bo investigated Yang Tianming as a possible hidden Imperial heir, helped arrange Su Ruoyun’s return to the Empire, and began negotiating for battleships in Kalaya Province. The chapter ended with Yang Bo attacking King Chu Jiang’s envoy Donald while reading his memories.

• Yang Bo suspected medicine crafter Yang Tianming might be the Emperor’s secretly cultivated successor, but postponed investigating him and told Zhang Bozhen he would report any findings.
• Zhang Bozhen informed Yang Bo that March Star’s two ordered battleships would arrive in six months, and Yang Bo began planning how to seize them through pirates without exposing Alliance involvement.
• Yang Bo noticed that Prince Holden’s Domain had no children and wondered whether the Imperial Royal Family was controlling the planet’s population.
• The Emperor arranged for Su Ruoyun to return to the Empire, and Zhang Bozhen hired an escort after the Alliance Council rejected his request for a fleet; Su Ruoyun departed without saying goodbye to Su Wei or Yang Bo.
• Yang Bo met Donald, King Chu Jiang’s steward, and demanded one A-Class and at least two B-Class Battleships; after Donald questioned the value of the deal, Yang Bo slapped him, seized him by the throat, and read his memories.

Yang Bo negotiated with King Chu Jiang for two B-Class Battleships while suspecting the deal was a trap meant to capture him. After arranging the exchange and handing over the twins, he prepared a counterattack, then returned to Devon Star and subdued Catherine.

• Yang Bo beat Donald and demanded battleships in exchange for the Modified Human twins, while inferring that King Chu Jiang wanted them for the Emperor.
• King Chu Jiang offered two B-Class Battleships and secretly planned to use their test authorization to capture Yang Bo and take him for experiments.
• Yang Bo agreed to exchange payment and goods simultaneously in a neutral Star Region, handed the twins to Donald, and prepared battleships to intercept the Empire's forces.
• Yang Bo returned to Devon Star, transformed into Zhang Sen, and forced himself on Catherine.

Yang Bo used a staged hacking attack to expose King Chu Jiang’s role in the March Star terrorist attack while secretly taking control of two B-Class Battleships. King Chu Jiang was arrested, and the Empire faced a diplomatic crisis over both the attack and the warship sale.

• Yang Bo gathered evidence against King Chu Jiang’s intelligence network and arranged with Zhang Bozhen to stage a hacking attack that would appear to uncover it.
• Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, took control of two B-Class Battleships and ejected Fain and his attendants after discovering the ships’ formal systems.
• The staged attack released evidence implicating King Chu Jiang in the terrorist attack, while Li John livestreamed the battleship purchase and its transfer records.
• Zhang Bozhen moved to dismantle King Chu Jiang’s network, and the Royal Guard Knights brought King Chu Jiang before the emperor, who ordered him handed to the Noble Council.
• The Federation ambassador requested an audience to protest the Empire’s sale of warships to a Federation province.

Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, displayed his two newly acquired B-Class Battleships and seized Donald’s ship and its cargo. Donald learned that King Chu Jiang had been stripped of his title and sent back toward the Empire, while Yang Bo wondered whether the twins aboard the ship could draw out the Emperor.

• The Federation President and Vice President blamed Li John’s battleships and suspected the Empire had used King Chu Jiang to deliver them as part of a conspiracy.
• Yang Bo ended the livestream, added the two B-Class Battleships to his fleet, and left Fain and his attendants in an escape boat.
• Yang Bo intercepted Donald’s private spaceship, whose crew learned that the Noble Council had stripped King Chu Jiang of his title and referred his case to the Imperial Inspection Bureau.
• Donald accused Li John of breaking their deal, but Li John detained the spaceship and offered to sell its cargo within a year.
• The captain took Donald and the crew away in an escape craft, and Yang Bo redirected the transport ship back to Kalaya Province with the two battleships.
• Yang Bo considered whether the twins aboard the ship could be used to draw out the Emperor.

Yang Bo arranged staffing for his two new B-Class Battleships while the Empire and Alliance secretly prepared to infiltrate them and seize control. After returning to March Star, he learned King Chu Jiang had died and reunited with Wang Muxue, who immediately attacked him when he suggested they spar.

• Yang Bo promised Lisa a deputy captain position and assigned Vivian to be his governor's secretary, then invited Kalaya Province's ministers to recommend personnel for the battleships.
• Kalaya Province's ministers planned to place their own people aboard the ships, while imperial and Alliance interests prepared thousands of agents to take control of them.
• Yang Bo sent four C-Class Battleships to join a pirate operation and visited Prince Holden's Domain before returning to March Star.
• Yang Bo learned King Chu Jiang had died and that the Imperial Royal Family was negotiating compensation with March Star; he suspected the death was caused by interrogation.
• Wang Muxue sneaked into Yang Bo's villa, and when he suggested they spar, she struck at him.

Yang Bo learned from Wang Muxue that the Alliance suspected Li John was an Imperial pawn, then returned to Li John’s fleet and considered the motives of the incoming engineers. He also learned that Red Earl had sent a powerful Butler to Devon Star, while an unknown inner-circle team stood ready to intervene, leaving Yang Bo planning how to protect Bart and track the threat.

• Yang Bo absorbed Wang Muxue’s electrical attacks, and she confided in him that the Alliance suspected Li John was an Imperial puppet and feared the Empire’s influence over the Federation and pirates.
• Wang Muxue said she wanted a child with Yang Bo but needed to keep their relationship private; afterward, Yang Bo returned to Li John’s fleet and kept the warship engineers’ access restricted.
• Yang Bo learned that several thousand technical personnel from the Alliance and Empire were being sent to the warships, and he suspected they were professional military personnel with hidden motives.
• Victor told Yang Bo that Red Earl had sent a powerful Butler to Devon Star to target Catherine and Zhang Sen and to deal with Bart, prompting Yang Bo to consider capturing the Butler.
• Red Earl secretly dispatched an inner-circle team to Devon Star as backup, while Yang Bo planned to monitor suspicious arrivals or give Bart an official position to access customs information.

Yang Bo arranged a customs job on Devon Star, offered Ning Xue's family refuge and a title, and decided how to free the engineers aboard Li John's battleships from their Biochips. After the fleet reached Kalaya Province, Li John told the engineers they now belonged to him and ordered them to undergo Biochip shielding surgery, setting the stage for battleship manufacturing in the Federation.

• Yang Bo arranged for the servant Wood to take a systems maintenance job at Devon Star Customs so he could access customs data under Wood's identity.
• Ning Xue told Yang Bo that her family might be caught in the Imperial Royal Family's internal conflict, and Yang Bo offered her grandfather an Earldom and her family an island to settle on.
• Yang Bo considered ways to disable the engineers' Biochips without damaging their brains and settled on concealing the process with biological shielding.
• Yang Bo reviewed Federation, Alliance, and Imperial reactions to Li John's battleship deal as the fleet entered Kalaya Province.
• Li John told the engineers that the Empire had given him the two battleships and that they were now his private property, then ordered them to the medical bay for Biochip shielding surgery.
• Yang Bo used his Metal Superpower to wrap the engineers' Biochips while presenting the operation as a safe treatment that cut them off from external networks.

Yang Bo disguised as Li John disabled the Biochips of 218 Imperial engineers and demanded their families, then threatened to sell the engineers to the Alliance. After the Empire convened its Council of Elders, Yang Bo attended as Bart, uncovered plans to seize the battleships and assassinate Li John, and challenged the elders’ strategy.

• Yang Bo disguised as a medical staff member, altered 218 engineers’ Biochips, implanted Mental Seeds in the three chief engineers, and restored the battleship’s communications.
• Yang Bo, posing as Li John, demanded the engineers’ families from the Aquamarine Empire and demonstrated that the Empire could no longer control their Biochips.
• When the Emperor refused, Yang Bo threatened to sell the engineers to the Alliance, livestreamed the offer, and cut off contact as the Empire’s officials erupted in anger.
• Yang Bo learned the Empire had convened the Council of Elders and returned to Devon Star disguised as Bart.
• At the Council, Yang Bo accessed King Chu Jiang’s testimony and the Empire’s plans to send two thousand operatives to seize or destroy the battleships and assassinate Li John.
• Yang Bo mocked the elders for sending operatives against Li John, pointing out that Li John could disable Biochips and might implant them himself.

Yang Bo used the Council of Elders meeting to stall the Empire’s response to Li John and warn nobles against targeting Devon Star. He then prepared to screen customs records for threats as Red Earl’s faction planned retaliation.

• Yang Bo blamed the Emperor and royal family for their failures to learn about Li John, urged caution, and suggested investigating the engineers, Biological Mecha, and Energy Potions as leads.
• Yang Bo threatened nobles who targeted him or Devon Star, rejected their questions about seized warships, and left the Council of Elders meeting.
• Yang Bo arranged for the engineers’ family members to be sent to Kalaya Province and continued expanding Li John’s fleet alongside pirate groups.
• Yang Bo reviewed plans for a Mecha Recall Skill licensing forum and told Allen he would not get involved in the royal family’s succession struggle.
• Yang Bo disguised himself as Wood and went to Devon Star’s customs office to inspect records for suspicious arrivals as Red Earl prepared retaliation.

Yang Bo used Wood’s customs access to search for Red Earl operatives and identified three suspicious Alliance tourists arriving on Devon Star. Meanwhile, Li John’s public auction plans shifted the nations’ recruitment strategies, and Yang Bo prepared Kalaya Province’s new battleships for defense while planning another move against the Central State fleet.

• Yang Bo reviewed customs facial records and spotted three Alliance tourists who appeared to be in their thirties but were registered as Superpower Users in their fifties, suspecting they were Red Earl’s hidden operatives.
• The Alliance and Empire changed their plans for staffing Li John’s fleet after his livestream suggested he could bypass Biochip restrictions, while intelligence agents entered Kalaya Province among its recruits.
• Yang Bo obtained the Circular Hotel guest list from Allen, found the three suspected operatives’ reservations, and asked for the list to support Space Technology Forum security.
• Yang Bo reviewed fleet candidates and recognized that Alliance-backed companies had recommended members of organized campus groups, then warned those companies to ensure their recruits obeyed Kalaya Province’s laws.
• Two B-Class Battleships returned to Kalaya Province, and Yang Bo appointed Lisa acting Captain of one while explaining that the ships would serve as guard ships.
• Yang Bo prepared to join pirates in an attack on the Central State fleet and planned to rob the pirates while they struck.

Yang Bo prepared for the coming clash between the Central State and the Pirate Alliance while considering how to claim the Second World under his own identity. After Wang Muxue explained the risks of founding a country on a habitable planet, she pressed Yang Bo about the secrets behind his unusual abilities.

• Yang Bo activated planetary alert mode on two B-Class Battleships, and Lisa named one of them Dawn.
• Yang Bo disguised four C-Class Battleships as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang and prepared to act in the conflict between the Central State and the Pirate Alliance.
• Yang Bo reviewed his plans to claim the Second World, concluding that only his Alliance identity could plausibly establish a country there.
• Yang Bo asked Wang Muxue how to found a country in the Alliance, and she explained the basic process and the dangers of claiming a habitable planet.
• Wang Muxue accused Yang Bo of having found a clue to a habitable planet and told him he would need a way to deter powerful nations and conglomerates.

Yang Bo reconsidered his plans for independence, concluding that he needed military strength and a growing organization while keeping his true capabilities hidden. He decided to develop Interstellar Creatures and build up Li John’s fleet and influence, then set course to seize the supplies Central State had offered as bait.

• Wang Muxue warned Yang Bo that the three nations and their conglomerates could suppress any attempt to establish an independent planet, and Yang Bo refused to reveal whether he had found one.
• After Wang Muxue left, Yang Bo rejected ruling the Second World under the Alliance, Federation, or Empire and worried that building an independent organization would take time and invite internal challenges.
• Yang Bo considered raising Interstellar Creatures in a shielded laboratory, possibly giving them Stealth, but worried that powerful creatures might escape the control of his Mental Seeds.
• Yang Bo set plans to deepen tensions among the three nations, investigate the strongest Interstellar Creatures, expand Li John’s and Bart’s influence, and experiment with raising the creatures.
• Yang Bo returned to Prince Holden’s territory and Li John’s four-ship fleet, deciding to build a warship factory and capture the Energy Stones and rare ores Central State had offered as pirate bait.
• Aboard Li John’s fleet, Yang Bo considered how to make his own identity more famous, reach the Cosmic Center, and recruit people.

Yang Bo persuaded Catherine to cooperate with the nobles against Red Earl, then moved between the Second World, Devon Star, and Li John's fleet to advance his plans. He assembled pirate forces for a surprise attack on a Federation trap, leaving the fleets poised to clash.

• Yang Bo told Catherine that the nobles had long tracked Red Earl and offered her a new identity if she accepted a Biochip and helped identify the arriving chief stewards; Catherine agreed and warned that the three chief stewards might be a diversion.
• Yang Bo set a five-year plan to take the planet, strengthen Bart and Li John, and use Li John's identity to build a warship factory, then checked Devon Star's customs records for suspicious noble ships.
• Yang Bo decided to provoke conflict between the Federation and the Alliance by publicly punishing Alliance soldiers, and he inspected Li John's fleet before other Pirate Groups arrived.
• Yang Bo warned the Pirate Groups that Central State had set a trap, explained how to ambush the Federation fleets after they fought the Pirate Alliance, and gained eight more C-Class Battleships for a total of twelve.
• Yang Bo's fleet moved into position as the Federation escorts and Pirate Alliance groups headed toward the planned battle, and he anticipated getting rich from the coming attack.

The Federation used a transport convoy carrying valuable supplies as bait to lure the Pirate Alliance into an ambush, while Yang Bo hid with a Joint Fleet to exploit the battle. After the pirates attacked the convoy in Vik State, a massive Energy Fluctuation appeared behind their pursuing force.

• The Federation concealed its Third Fleet and Fifth Fleet while fourteen Pirate Groups planned to attack the convoy, and Yang Bo positioned his Joint Fleet along a pirate retreat route.
• Small Pirate Groups harassed the convoy before it entered Vik State, where the escort Detachments mistakenly believed they had reached safer territory.
• More than a dozen Pirate Groups ambushed the convoy, crippling two Transport Ships and severely damaging two D-Class Battleships.
• The Detachments pushed the crippled Transport Ships forward with Unmanned Fighters and sent distress signals as the pirates pursued them.
• Two and a half hours into the chase, a massive Energy Fluctuation appeared behind the Pirate Groups.

Yang Bo used four pirate groups to ambush the Federation transport fleet, then crippled the Fifth Main Fleet’s capital ship, the Boulder, with a self-destructing battleship and a swarm of bombs and drones. He left the Boulder’s commander under threat as Federation reinforcements raced to respond.

• The Federation’s Third and Fifth Main Fleets trapped the pirate groups, forcing them to flee through a Space Jump point while Yang Bo tracked their movements.
• Yang Bo ordered his four pirate groups to ambush the Federation transport fleet and its two escorting detachments, crippling several escort ships.
• The Fifth Main Fleet sent its capital ship, the Boulder, ahead to aid the transport fleet, and Yang Bo positioned three C-Class Battleships to intercept it.
• Yang Bo destroyed one C-Class Battleship beside the Boulder, using its explosion to disable the capital ship’s sensors and propel Energy Bombs and concealed drones into its defenses.
• Yang Bo’s three C-Class Battleships attacked the Boulder’s engines, and he identified himself as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander and gave its crew ten minutes to evacuate.
• The Federation President ordered Hassen to evacuate the Boulder and set it to automatic navigation while the fleet behind it accelerated.

Yang Bo seized control of the Boulder and used a staged pirate ambush to cripple the Fifth Fleet, capture its unmanned battleships, and mislead the Federation into attacking other pirates. Five days later, as news of the Fifth Fleet’s destruction spread, Doctor Yang caught up with four pirate groups.

• Hassen ordered the crew to abandon the Boulder after Yang Bo’s ships crippled its engines, and Yang Bo infiltrated the battleship and triggered control-system conflicts that sent it flying into space.
• Yang Bo posed as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander and led an ambush that disabled Fifth Fleet battleships, prompting their crews to evacuate and pirate groups to capture the ships.
• The Federation Military realized that the transport convoy had been a diversion and ordered the Third Fleet to attack the pirates pursuing it, destroying many ships and driving the rest toward space-jump points.
• Yang Bo exchanged a captured C-Class Battleship for a pirate ship, took control of four C-Class Battleships, and pursued four pirate groups whose ships he had previously compromised.
• Five days later, the news that the Fifth Fleet had been annihilated spread across the Federation, Empire, Alliance, and Pirate Alliance, while Doctor Yang caught up with the four pirate groups.

The Federation blamed the Boulder’s malfunction on system conflicts and rewarded anyone who could intercept it, while Yang Bo used the incident to build his public image and prepare to take control of pirate warships. After returning to Li John’s warship, he headed to ambush four pirate groups that had split from the main force.

• The Federation claimed the Boulder had lost control after a malfunction, revealed its location, and announced a fifty-trillion-Credit-Point reward for its interception.
• Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, condemned the Federation and the Pirate Alliance, while the Pirate Alliance Council panicked over the Silver Moon Pirate Gang’s strength and possible allies.
• Yang Bo offered Black Rock Honey for information about the Silver Moon Pirate Gang, asked the public what skills he should learn to defeat pirates, and decided to study hacking technology.
• After returning to March Star, Yang Bo told Su Wei, Siya, and Annie that he planned to exploit vulnerabilities in pirate warships’ Intelligent Systems.
• Yang Bo returned to Li John’s warship and used Space Jump to get ahead of four pirate groups, planning to ambush them together.