Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo uncovered clues that the Aquamarine Empire’s royal family concealed the Red Earl’s identity, while Sophie tried to enlist his help in taking control of her family. After the Pirate Alliance voted to withhold his promised payment, Yang Bo turned to a new concern: Prince Holden’s wedding procession was approaching his territory.

• Yang Bo analyzed samples from Sophie’s daughter, Su Ruoyun, Su Ruoxin, and Su Wei, concluding that the royal family’s relationships made the Red Earl’s Countess a decoy that hid the Red Earl’s identity.
• Sophie quietly left March Star and later asked Yang Bo to show off his strength so she could reveal him to her family, but he refused and blocked her after she threatened to stop helping him.
• Federal Central State replaced its Safety System, formed a new parliament for Gutra Province, and announced major military spending and bounties against the Pirate Alliance as it struggled to recover from the cyberattack.
• The Pirate Alliance Council of Elders voted not to pay Yang Bo his promised 210 trillion Credit Points, and Yang Bo accepted the decision while planning to claim the money openly later.
• Yang Bo learned that Prince Holden was getting married and that a royal envoy was coming to his territory, then arrived as a raiding warship returned with spoils.

Yang Bo welcomed the Ross Kingdom’s marriage delegation to Prince Holden’s thriving domain, then discovered that Alice’s attendant Alya belonged to the Moon God Cult and had damaged memories. Back in the modern world, he exposed the Pirate Alliance’s refusal to pay its promised commission, prepared a battleship dockyard, and watched Alice and Alya try to win over his players.

• Yang Bo ordered the Ross Kingdom’s warships to stay offshore, received Princess Alice and her lavish dowry, and held a wedding attended by few nobles.
• Yang Bo refused to consummate the marriage and pushed Alya aside when she insisted Alice needed heirs, secretly planting a Mental Seed in her.
• Yang Bo discovered Alya was a Moon God Cult member who practiced hypnosis and had memories erased, and he wondered whether the Empire’s royal family was investigating the cult.
• Yang Bo demanded the Pirate Alliance pay its ten-percent commission, received an outright refusal, and deleted his hacker account after pretending to threaten them.
• Yang Bo transferred Bart Laboratory’s robots to Kalaya Province and prepared a heavily protected battleship dockyard with a new Intelligent System.
• Alice and Alya tried to gain the domain’s commoners’ support, while Yang Bo let them distribute goods that the game players resold.

Yang Bo investigated Alya’s moon-based Mental Power cultivation and amplified her perception, then sought a way to acquire an Armed Spaceship for remote exploration. Zhang Bozhen agreed to help, and Yang Bo ended the chapter disguised as Li John, contacting the Alliance about ordering warships.

• Yang Bo observed Alya cultivating Mental Power beneath the moon and learned that she absorbed Soul Particles by spreading her Mental Power like a net.
• Yang Bo amplified Alya’s perception, allowing her to form her Mental Power net much faster, then stopped observing her to avoid attracting the Imperial Royal Family’s attention.
• Yang Bo discussed acquiring an Armed Spaceship with Wang Muxue and proposed remotely controlling one to explore space.
• Zhang Bozhen offered to buy Yang Bo an Armed Spaceship overseas and obtain a Space Quantum Communication Module for him.
• Yang Bo planned to use the spaceship to search for a warship and habitable planet, then disguised himself as Li John and contacted the Alliance to order warships.

Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, secured Alliance battleship components, donations, and support while building a secret warship shipyard in space. After the shipyard began producing warships, he returned to March Star to receive a small armed spaceship that could help him reach and control vessels remotely.

• Yang Bo used Li John's authorization to buy fifty billion Credit Points' worth of battleship components from the Alliance, then received more than eight hundred billion Credit Points in fleet donations at a banquet.
• Yang Bo agreed to train Lisa's classmates Wenna and Liu Meng as future deputy captains and suggested their families trade Central State assets for pirate-struck Mineral Stars.
• Yang Bo and Vivian oversaw a hidden shipyard where robots multiplied and began manufacturing warships; after two months, two hundred thousand robots were at work.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star to receive the Small Armed Spaceship Zhang Bozhen had won cheaply at auction.
• Yang Bo showed the miniature Armed Spaceship to Su Wei, Annie, Xi Ya, Liu Jingxiang, and Zhou Kexin, emphasizing its ability to land on planets and withstand six times standard gravity.

Yang Bo upgraded his miniature Armed Spaceship for a journey into unexplored space while secretly helping Alya improve her cultivation in the Second World. He began to suspect that hidden actors might be using people as experimental subjects, then headed to Kalaya Province to raid supplies for his shipyards.

• Yang Bo launched the miniature Armed Spaceship from Gutra Province, then used his Mechanic abilities to replace its compromised components and upgrade its systems and Energy Stones.
• Su Wei told the other women that Yang Bo had at least reached Rank A, and they discussed introducing him to more potential girlfriends.
• Yang Bo entered the Second World as Prince Holden and secretly guided Alya's Mental Power training, helping her expand her capture range and accelerate her progress.
• Yang Bo wondered whether hidden figures were using people as experiments, then left the Second World for Kalaya Province to rob supplies for his warship shipyards.

Yang Bo assembled four pirate groups for a surprise attack on Federal Central State detachments transporting smuggled battleship materials, while evading surveillance and preparing his own businesses. The pirates gathered and received his orders, but the target’s route and the attack itself remained undisclosed.

• Yang Bo left Kalaya Province aboard two C-Class Battleships, entered Silent Navigation, and found that suspicious ships were watching the Space Jump points.
• Yang Bo visited Prince Holden's territory in the Second World, observed the players’ farming innovations, and checked Alya’s cultivation progress without helping her further.
• Yang Bo disguised himself as Bart on Devon Star, checked the Space Mecha return device’s construction, and produced more high-temperature-resistant material components.
• The Federal Central State secretly arranged two detachments to escort smuggled materials, while the Intelligence Department and military closely monitored the operation for leaks.
• The Greyhound Pirate Gang, Witch Pirate Crew, Death God Pirate Gang, and Seventh Day Pirate Group assembled with their battleships and greeted Yang Bo as their General.
• Yang Bo ordered the pirates to target the battleships, avoid attacking ejected Federation soldiers, and wait for his next order without revealing the target’s route.

Yang Bo reassured the four Pirate Groups that he would help them fight their rivals while using them to build strength against the Federation Central State. The pirates ambushed two Federation detachments and seized their smuggling fleet, and Yang Bo infiltrated the captured fleet’s systems as the Federation President demanded an investigation.

• Yang Bo weighed his plans for the Second World as the Federation and Empire made major battleship deals, then rejected the Greyhound Pirate Gang Regiment Commander's offer to handle stolen goods.
• Yang Bo told the Greyhound Pirate Gang Regiment Commander to watch for battleships ordered by rival Pirate Groups and promised to target their enemies, convincing the four Pirate Groups that their interests were aligned.
• The four Pirate Groups ambushed two detachments, destroyed two C-Class Battleships, drove off the crews, and seized the smuggling fleet.
• Yang Bo disguised himself as Li John and spent more than a day cracking the Federation fleet’s system permissions to conceal how quickly he could have done it.
• The Federation President, angered by the loss of materials connected to the Central State’s Main Fleet, ordered an investigation.

The Federal Central State’s leaders blamed one another for the loss of two Detachments, then considered using peace talks with the Pirate Alliance to buy time. Yang Bo learned of the plan and prepared to undermine it by passing intelligence to Zhang Han once negotiations began.

• The Federation President and Vice President argued with the intelligence chief and Minister of Defense over who was responsible for the Central State’s losses, and the intelligence chief quit.
• The Minister of Defense proposed peace talks, intelligence purchases, and faster military construction, while the President and Vice President arranged for intelligence subordinates to negotiate.
• Yang Bo learned that the Central State planned to seek peace and decided to prevent the talks from ending the conflict.
• Yang Bo chose Zhang Han, commander of the First Detachment of the Third Fleet, as the officer to receive intelligence after negotiations formally began.
• Yang Bo planned to expose the Central State’s delaying tactic and encourage the Pirate Alliance and his allied Pirate Groups to keep fighting.

Yang Bo recruited Zhang Han as a potential ally against peace talks between the Federation and the Pirate Alliance, then decided to use his enormous Ancient Martial Arts Association Contribution Point balance to fund an arena competition on March Star. He left the event’s organization to Zhang Bozhen and ended the chapter refusing to participate beyond making introductions.

• Yang Bo contacted Zhang Han under the false identity Wild Speed 9527 and offered intelligence in exchange for cooperation against the Pirate Alliance.
• Zhang Han refused to provide Federation military intelligence but agreed to consider information about Pirate Groups, and he shared his Detachment’s patrol and drill areas.
• Yang Bo discovered that his Ancient Martial Arts Association Contribution Points were worth more than sixty billion and decided to hold a March Star arena competition using them as prizes.
• Yang Bo asked Su Wei and the others whether they wanted to exchange items, while Wang Muxue explained that her position made such exchanges difficult to conceal.
• Yang Bo proposed the competition to Zhang Bozhen, who planned to involve all three nations’ Ancient Martial Arts Associations and use human and Intelligent System judges.
• Yang Bo agreed only to introduce Zhang Bozhen to the Alliance Ancient Martial Arts Association president and declined to help organize or participate in the event.

Yang Bo expanded his dealings across the Empire, the Pirate Alliance, and the Federation while preparing for March Star’s Ancient Martial Arts Arena Match. After sharing political intelligence with Sophie, he met Li Yong, who sought more help advancing in the Alliance fleet.

• Yang Bo helped Zhang Bozhen contact Xu Xiangdong, Qian Wuji, and Meng Bufan, then Su Wei and the other women exchanged for a mountain ranch and an island on Devon Star.
• Yang Bo found the Flame Dragon Pirate Gang transporting mysterious cargo and warned Zhang Han that its battleships would pass near his patrol sector.
• Yang Bo gathered smuggled battleship materials for Li John, and the Pirate Alliance Council of Elders erupted after the Federation revealed that pirate groups had stolen valuable ships and supplies.
• March Star announced an Ancient Martial Arts Arena Match for the Alliance, Federation, and Empire, with Yang Bo contributing half his Contribution Points to organize it.
• Yang Bo visited Sophie in disguise on Sky Cloud Star and told her about the Central State’s peace talks with the Pirate Alliance and the growing pirate conflict.
• Li Yong told Yang Bo that the Alliance planned to add two Main Fleets and asked for help, while Yang Bo asked what Li Yong could offer in return.

Yang Bo negotiated with Li Yong over intelligence about the Pirate Alliance’s warship purchase, while Li Yong and Li Han weighed a risky plan to obtain captured warships and later eliminate him. After realizing he was being followed in the Underground City, Yang Bo identified a rival faction’s probe and agreed to trade pirate movements for warships, then planned to investigate the family behind the Third Main Fleet.

• Yang Bo persuaded Li Yong to consider giving him captured warships in exchange for detailed information about the Pirate Alliance’s warship shipments.
• Li Yong told Li Han about the offer, and Li Han advised him to agree after two days while planning to use the operation to earn military merit and later move against Yang Bo.
• Yang Bo noticed he was being followed in the Underground City and met a young man who questioned him about his intelligence source and his connection to Li Yong.
• Yang Bo revealed that he could provide information about Pirate Groups and demanded warships as the basis for cooperation.
• Yang Bo recognized the young man’s side as the family behind the Third Main Fleet and set out to investigate its core members and plant Mental Seeds.

Yang Bo traced an intelligence operative to the He Family and discovered that the family planned to use a young heir as a shield for a murder. He planted a Mental Seed in He Liang, leaving the family’s plot exposed to his intervention.

• Yang Bo investigated the He Family and found its core residence at Moon Lake, where he noticed that intelligence operative Wu Jianping had come to report for work.
• Yang Bo learned that Wu Jianping, a journalist and Superpower User sponsored by a He Family foundation, had tracked him through contacts in the Underground City.
• Yang Bo followed Wu Jianping to Cloud Top Sky and overheard an older He Family member order He Liang to kill Wu Jianping and his contact to prevent Li Han from obtaining evidence.
• The older man told He Liang that the family would protect itself at any cost and intended for He Liang to take responsibility if the murder was exposed.
• Yang Bo planted a Mental Seed in He Liang and realized the He Family had chosen him as a sacrificial shield.

Yang Bo watched the He Family use He Liang to kill Wu Jianping and his contact, then exploited the fallout to disrupt their intelligence network. He targeted Zhao Dongfeng, a sidelined He Family officer in the Third Fleet, as a potential new ally and planned to test him.

• He Yuande persuaded He Liang to help kill Wu Jianping and the single-line contact, using him as a firewall for the He Family.
• He Liang trapped the two men with poisoned reward boxes, and his subordinates staged their departure as a drunken group.
• Yang Bo used Wu Jianping's identity to warn his informants to evacuate, but many turned themselves in, alarming the He Family.
• Li Yong's family grew suspicious of rival warlords, while Li Yong temporarily cut contact with Yang Bo through Lin Yue.
• Yang Bo investigated Zhao Dongfeng, a volatile He Family member and Third Fleet acting captain who had been denied recognition, and decided to test him as a potential ally.

Yang Bo targeted Zhao Dongfeng, an acting Captain resentful of the He Family, and used a Mental Seed to learn about him. He contacted Zhao through a game and offered pirate intelligence, leaving Zhao prepared to test the tip despite suspecting a scam.

• Zhao Dongfeng disguised himself and visited Sky Cloud Star’s Underground City, where he indulged in the bar and lost his money gambling.
• Yang Bo bumped into Zhao at the casino and planted a Mental Seed, learning of Zhao’s B-Class rank, resentment toward the He Family, and personal habits.
• Yang Bo returned to Li John's battleship and sent Zhao a friend request through an ancient martial arts game, offering information in exchange for cooperation.
• Zhao challenged Yang Bo to provide pirate intelligence, and Yang Bo gave him the time and region of a Pirate Group’s expected passage.
• Zhao accepted the information and questioned why Yang Bo had approached him, while wondering briefly whether Yang Bo knew his true identity.

Yang Bo optimized Li John's battleship dock while monitoring the family investigations and Zhao Dongfeng's preparations to challenge the He Family. He then contacted the four Pirate Groups to disrupt peace talks, while waiting for the Empire to deliver A-Class Battleships.

• Yang Bo planned to use Zhao Dongfeng's ambitions to separate him from the He Family and watched him and Li Yong through Mental Seeds.
• Yang Bo returned to Kalaya Province, unloaded the battleship materials, and optimized the dock's robots and Intelligent System.
• Li Han investigated a family traitor after learning that Li Yong's informant and pirate intelligence had been exposed.
• Alliance investigators traced Wu Jianping's case to He Liang, prompting the He Family to prepare for the fallout.
• Zhao Dongfeng took temporary command of a B-Class Battleship and took it out for training as he prepared to act against the He Family.
• Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, contacted the four Pirate Groups to sabotage peace talks and looked forward to seizing future A-Class Battleships.

Yang Bo learned that the Greyhound Pirate Gang and three other groups were preparing to attack a Federation transport convoy, while March Star faced growing security risks ahead of its Ancient Martial Arts Arena Match. After Zhang Bozhen asked Ninth Mister for help protecting the event, Yang Bo agreed to investigate but planned to stay out of the public arrangements.

• The Greyhound Pirate Gang, Witch Pirate Crew, First Seven Pirate Gang, and Death God Pirate Gang deployed battleships for a planned raid on a Federation convoy carrying warship materials.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star and learned that representatives from the Federation, Empire, and Alliance were coming to set rules for the Ancient Martial Arts Arena Match.
• Wang Muxue warned Yang Bo that terrorists and Anti-Government Armed Forces might target the event and advised him to avoid participating in its arrangements.
• Zhang Bozhen contacted Ninth Mister to request intelligence and help eliminating risks around the Arena Match, offering to order a B-Class Battleship if it ended safely.
• Yang Bo agreed to help Zhang Bozhen, then searched unsuccessfully for information about the Anti-Government Armed Forces.

Yang Bo hacked March Star’s customs and communication systems, identifying eleven suspicious first-time visitors as possible scouts. While playing as Prince Holden in the Second World, he discovered that Soul Particles rose from beneath the ground at sunset and could be absorbed by his Mental Power, leaving him wondering what was beneath the planet.

• Yang Bo infiltrated March Star’s customs database and analyzed entry records against hacked communication, banking, and spending data.
• Yang Bo identified eleven suspicious visitors among 340,000 first-time entry records, monitored their wristwatches, and began examining repeat visitors.
• Yang Bo became Prince Holden in the Second World and observed that the domain’s players rarely returned from sea raids with loot.
• Yang Bo rested in the sunlight and sensed Soul Particles rising from underground at sunset, then absorbed the particles that fell back onto him.
• Yang Bo watched the Soul Particles rise beyond reach, deduced that sunlight and the ionosphere affected them, and considered how to test whether they emerged during the day.

Yang Bo investigated how sunlight affected Soul Particles in the Second World and built a data model for their reaction. He remained unsure whether absorbing them was safe, but his surveillance analysis identified two members of the Extremist Organization.

• Yang Bo considered how Soul Particles might accelerate Mental Power growth, then postponed further conclusions until he could experiment again.
• Yang Bo reviewed surveillance of eleven suspects but found no useful information at first.
• After returning to the Second World as Prince Holden, Yang Bo went into the castle basement and sensed Soul Particles rising from underground.
• Yang Bo observed how solar energy eroded Soul Particles and created a data model describing their reaction time.
• After night fell, Yang Bo absorbed Soul Particles briefly but worried about possible effects on his Mental Power and decided he needed test subjects.
• Back on Li John's warship, Yang Bo analyzed the surveillance data again and identified two members of the Extremist Organization.

Yang Bo traced Ye Ming and Chatter to the Freedom Front and uncovered suspected links between the group and Alliance financial conglomerates, then asked Mei Xiaoxiao to investigate Ye Ming. He returned to March Star expecting a coming confrontation involving pirates and military factions, while Wang Muxue asked him for Gene Serum and discussed her unease about the military.

• Yang Bo matched Ye Ming and Chatter’s Federation travel patterns, investigated their weapons training, and identified them as suspected Freedom Front members.
• Yang Bo used customs data from 1,315 travelers to find Federation companies and Alliance financial conglomerates suspected of backing the Freedom Front.
• Yang Bo sent the suspects’ identities to Mei Xiaoxiao, who chose to investigate Ye Ming without alerting either suspect.
• Yang Bo anticipated Zhao Dongfeng’s crackdown on pirate groups and a planned pirate attack on a Federation transport fleet that would expose peace negotiations.
• Wang Muxue visited Yang Bo’s villa seeking Gene Serum and warned that she felt something was about to happen within the military.
• Yang Bo offered to investigate the military tensions involving the He Family and Li Yong’s family.

Yang Bo monitored Zhao Dongfeng’s Alliance patrol as it intercepted the Morning Star Pirate Group, while he also awaited news of Zhang Han’s mission against the Flame Dragon Pirate Gang. Zhao Dongfeng’s detachment struck first, forcing the damaged pirates into a direct battle.

• Wang Muxue doubted Yang Bo could find useful information online, then left the villa, and Yang Bo let Shen Gongbao and the other little fellows out.
• Yang Bo left March Star, visited Prince Holden’s territory, and returned to Li John’s battleship as Zhao Dongfeng’s detachment approached its patrol area.
• Yang Bo monitored Zhao Dongfeng and thought about Zhang Han, whom he had supplied with information about a secret Flame Dragon Pirate Gang transport mission.
• The Morning Star Pirate Group’s five battleships, returning from robbing a Federation transport convoy, activated their Auxiliary Engines to turn and triggered Zhao Dongfeng’s passive radar alarms.
• Zhao Dongfeng ordered combat readiness, locked onto the pirates, and hit their lead C-Class Battleship with a Secondary Cannon.
• The First Deputy Regiment Commander of the Morning Star Pirate Group cursed Zhao Dongfeng and refused to submit as the Alliance and pirates prepared to fight.