Chapter Summaries

Bald Head and One-Eyed negotiated with the Ash Organization after losing their warships, while Yang Bo explored an underground facility on Green Devil Star. He discovered a hidden factory producing Biological Mecha parts and suspected it belonged to a major organization.

• The Ash Organization's branch manager told Bald Head and One-Eyed they might have to wait three months for transport and offered to introduce them to a Mutant leader.
• Bald Head and One-Eyed agreed to wait and welcomed the chance to meet the Mutant leader, while the branch manager promised headquarters would investigate the intelligence failure.
• Yang Bo followed an underground river, found a guarded passage, and slipped past Mutant sentries and Biological Mecha guards.
• Yang Bo entered a vast cave containing more than a thousand Cultivation Pods filled with living Biological Mecha parts and saw over a hundred workers in Protective Suits.
• Yang Bo concluded that the facility was likely a secret factory operated by a large organization.

Yang Bo discovered that the Gene Serum Company was exploiting Mutants and plotting to dominate their Energy Weapon market. Disguised as Black Blade General, he brought the Black Blade Leader’s Bone Hammer to the company and asked them to alter it.

• Yang Bo saw the Gene Serum Company’s logo at the guarded base and suspected the company was involved in its operations.
• Yang Bo overheard researchers discussing plans to manipulate Mutants and sell them Energy Weapons made from Mutated Beast bones.
• Yang Bo learned the company could reshape bones and decided to have them alter the Bone Hammer he had taken from the Black Blade Leader.
• Yang Bo used a Biological Sample to disguise himself as Black Blade General and approached the base’s Mutant sentries.
• Yang Bo showed the Bone Hammer to the company’s representative, asked him to change its appearance and color, and handed it over.

Yang Bo arranged for the Bone Hammer to be reshaped while secretly investigating the company and learning about Biological Mechas and Energy Metal. He decided to follow its people to the Ash Organization's Treasure Exchange Conference, then tested his Compressed Fire Energy near the base.

• Yang Bo asked the company to reshape the Bone Hammer into a hammer with one flat end and one pointed end, and its staff began processing it.
• Yang Bo used Stealth to watch the staff discuss the Bone Hammer and their plans to attend the Ash Organization's Treasure Exchange Conference.
• Yang Bo learned that the company made Biological Mechas, was not the Gene Serum Company targeting him, and traded for rare materials such as Energy Metal.
• Yang Bo discovered that Green Devil Star held vast Energy Metal reserves and that strange Energy Fluctuations concealed some underground areas from detection.
• Yang Bo decided to follow the company staff to the conference and investigate whether the Gene Serum Company had a branch nearby.
• Yang Bo practiced his abilities at a safe distance from the base and used Compressed Fire Energy to ignite a rat in a passage.

Yang Bo tested his elemental abilities and gravity control, then ambushed two Mutant patrolmen to rob them. He knocked one unconscious and intercepted the other, continuing their fight in the underground cave.

• Yang Bo weighed the strengths and drawbacks of his energy abilities, demonstrated a covert Sonic Attack, and practiced using gravity to move and launch a stone.
• Yang Bo realized he could fly through Anti-Gravity, though doing so consumed a great deal of energy.
• Yang Bo spotted two Mutant patrolmen and confronted them, declaring a robbery when they noticed him.
• Yang Bo charged the patrolmen and fought one with Energy Weapons while secretly storing electrical energy in his left hand.
• Yang Bo charged into the second patrolman again, knocked him unconscious, and used Anti-Gravity to catch the first when he tried to flee.
• The remaining Mutant charged Yang Bo with his Energy Weapon, and their fight continued amid crackling energy clashes.

Yang Bo fought Mutant patrols while testing his abilities, then returned to the Tie Niu Tribe’s territory to recover and experiment with Gravity Control. He left planning to retrieve his Bone Hammer and considering whether radioactive materials could help him gain skills indirectly.

• Yang Bo forced one Mutant to surrender, learned that his tribe would attend the Treasure Exchange Conference in ten days, and sent the Mutants away.
• Yang Bo disguised himself as a member of a neighboring territory and fought five Mutants, knocking one aside before retreating when the others surrounded him.
• Yang Bo returned to Tie Niu’s territory, where he recovered and decided to wait before attacking another Alliance outpost.
• Yang Bo tested Gravity Control and found that he could fly at about 900 meters per second, though his energy and physical endurance limited how far he could travel.
• Yang Bo considered using radioactive materials to gain skills through exotic beasts and prepared to retrieve his Bone Hammer.

Yang Bo triggered an evacuation at the Biological Mecha cultivation base, recovered his Bone Hammer and stole Energy Pillars before leading two Mutant tribes to raid the facility. After the tribes stripped the base bare, Yang Bo considered checking out the Treasure Exchange Conference.

• Yang Bo discovered that robots guarded the cultivation base and secretly provoked two neighboring Mutant tribes into gathering near it.
• Yang Bo pressed the alarm, took back his Bone Hammer, destroyed the main system's optical brain, and stole twenty-four Energy Pillars from the Main Energy Chamber.
• Yang Bo escaped in a Mecha and dropped a container holding an Energy Pillar, prompting both Mutant tribes to charge into the base.
• The Mutants found armed robots and an opened Main Energy Chamber, then looted the facility and dismantled its equipment over the next eighteen hours.
• Yang Bo returned to find the research base stripped down to its rock walls and considered visiting the Treasure Exchange Conference.

Yang Bo disguised himself as a Mutant and reached the Treasure Exchange Conference, where he overheard Mutant Leaders blaming the Ash Organization for a failed pirate attack on the Alliance Fleet. After learning that the Ash Organization was also trafficking captives, he planned to investigate its escape routes and find a way for Mutants to negotiate directly with the Alliance.

• Yang Bo gave Energy Pillars to Tie Niu, prepared his Fire Head disguise, and brought a giant blood-sucking leech to the Treasure Exchange Conference.
• Yang Bo arrived at the sinkhole marketplace and saw Mutant and human vendors, then used Stealth to enter a cave and hide his belongings.
• Yang Bo overheard Tiger-Face King and other Mutant Leaders accuse the Ash Organization of taking their money for a pirate attack that had failed against the Alliance Fleet.
• Yang Bo learned that captives were being sold and resolved to investigate the Ash Organization, cut off its escape routes, and encourage Mutants to deal directly with the Alliance.
• The Ash Organization's person in charge questioned rescued mecha-company employees about who had attacked a Biological Mecha manufacturing base.

Yang Bo set up a stall at the Treasure Exchange Conference and drew the attention of several powerful traders. After One-Eyed inspected his wares, Tiger-Face King arrived and invited him to talk elsewhere.

• The Ash Organization's leader dealt with the aftermath of the destroyed Alliance base and told the rescued personnel to stay in the Safe House for now.
• Yang Bo watched the human entrance to the trading area and arranged his goods beside Mutant traders Black Claws and Nostril Woman.
• Bald Head offered Yang Bo weapons, armor, and Gene Interference Agents, but Yang Bo said he wanted to look around first.
• One-Eyed inspected Yang Bo's containers and offered to show him his goods later, while both men privately suspected the other's background.
• Tiger-Face King hurried over after hearing about Yang Bo's wares and asked him to talk somewhere else.

Yang Bo used Tiger-Face King's suspicions to suggest he represented a group that could help Mutants trade directly with the Alliance, then scouted the Ash Organization's entrance. He discovered the fortified entrance was guarded by warship-grade Laser Cannons and an apparent identification system.

• Yang Bo told Tiger-Face King that the Ash Organization might have people inside the Mutant tribe, then left to search for another way into its base.
• Tiger-Face King revealed that he had been sent there over a hundred years ago but had killed the people sent after him and no longer obeyed those above him.
• Yang Bo suggested that some Mutants could bypass the Ash Organization and trade directly with the Alliance, leaving Tiger-Face King intrigued about the prospect of autonomy and profit.
• Yang Bo used Stealth to follow the bald pirate chief and the one-eyed pirate toward the front entrance.
• Yang Bo saw that the entrance led through a thirty-meter passage into a hall guarded by two armored, warship-grade Laser Cannon turrets, and noticed the pirates removed their helmets inside the passage.

Yang Bo learned that the Ash Organization had manipulated the pirates and Mutants, then warned Tiger-Face King before the groups prepared to negotiate. Tiger-Face King began considering Yang Bo’s risky opportunity as a way to regain autonomy and learn about his family back home.

• Yang Bo overheard the pirate bosses discuss the Ash Organization’s influence, its warship supplies, and suspicions that it had engineered their losses.
• Yang Bo told Tiger-Face King that the Ash Organization had deliberately weakened the pirates and Mutants and had warned some tribes in advance.
• Tiger-Face King suspected the Ash Organization was monitoring his tribe, and Liu Quezi said his own people had lost more than forty mechas.
• Tiger-Face King and Liu Quezi spoke about their lost comrades, the families they had left behind, and whether they could ever return home.
• Tiger-Face King hinted that he had an opportunity, hoping it might let them gain autonomy and contact the Empire about their families.

Huang Lao San and Liu Quezi suspected that an unknown faction had engineered the losses suffered by the pirates, Mutants, and Alliance Fleet, and considered acting together to govern themselves. As tensions rose at a meeting between pirate and Mutant leaders, the Ash Organization offered a reward to find a person shown in a Biological Mecha photograph.

• Huang Lao San told Liu Quezi that a mysterious person had described the recent battle as a conspiracy, and the two discussed waiting for the right moment to ally and build cities on the surface.
• Yang Bo investigated two passageways, learned about the human residents and the Four Seas Gene Serum Manufacturing Company’s experiments, and discovered that Mutants used Interference Serum to prevent deformed offspring.
• Mutant and pirate leaders confronted the Ash Organization over false intelligence, heavy losses, and compensation, while questioning who had profited from the operation.
• The Ash Organization’s person in charge denied deliberate wrongdoing, accepted responsibility for compensation, and showed the leaders a Biological Mecha photograph while offering a reward for finding its owner.

After negotiations over the Mutants’ losses stalled, Yang Bo outlined a plan with Huang Lao San to cut off the Ash Organization’s escape route and eliminate its people. The chapter revealed that the man behind the 100-Biological-Mecha bounty was an Ash Organization Advanced Supervisor who had been spying on Outpost 16, and the organization’s leader feared he had vanished.

• The Mutant Leaders demanded compensation from the Ash Organization, while the two Pirate Bosses urged it to pay for the losses before trade continued.
• Huang Lao San showed Yang Bo a photograph of a man wanted by the Ash Organization for 100 Biological Mecha, and Yang Bo recognized him as the person he had burned and hit with a Laser Cannon.
• Huang Lao San told Yang Bo that negotiations had failed and that more than ten thousand people had died; Yang Bo explained the known layout and proposed finding an escape route before attacking the Ash Organization.
• Yang Bo asked Huang Lao San to find nearby routes suitable for fighters or small warships, while privately considering the wanted man’s background and Stealth ability.
• The narration revealed that the wanted man was an Ash Organization Advanced Supervisor who had been gathering intelligence near Outpost 16, and the organization’s leader worried because he had not returned.

Yang Bo investigated the Ash Organization’s escape route and discovered mechanical birds watching the sinkhole, suggesting the organization might have a concealed spacecraft nearby. With the Treasure Exchange Conference ending the next day, he enlisted Tie Niu to watch for an escape attempt.

• Yang Bo searched the Ash Organization’s base and considered whether its escape route relied on underground passages or a hidden spacecraft above the sinkhole.
• Yang Bo used Stealth to inspect the sinkhole and discovered five fake birds among three flocks, identifying them by their failure to shed feathers.
• Yang Bo realized Tie Niu could help intercept a flying escape vehicle and brought him to a concealed spot near the sinkhole.
• Yang Bo instructed Tie Niu to strike any metal object that flew out of the sinkhole and then run away, and Tie Niu nodded that he understood.
• Huang Lao San told Yang Bo that the Ash Organization had announced the Treasure Exchange Conference’s final day would be tomorrow.

Yang Bo sabotaged the Ash Organization’s weapons and power system, then waited as the base descended into chaos. A silver spaceship attacked the Mutants in the sinkhole, while Huang Lao San and his group escaped underground and prepared to strike back.

• Yang Bo told Huang Lao San to take shelter in the sinkhole if anything went wrong and claimed 250,000 square kilometers for Tie Niu.
• Yang Bo, disguised as Bobby, sabotaged the base’s laser cannons and destroyed the main energy chamber with a gravity-enhanced Bone Hammer.
• The base lost power, and Yang Bo sealed the Main Control Room as Alliance personnel rushed in and out amid the alarms.
• Huang Lao San and the other Mutants fled toward the Underground World when the alarms sounded.
• A silver spaceship attacked the Mutants remaining in the sinkhole and ordered Alliance personnel to board.
• Huang Lao San and his group took cover underground and prepared to attack the Alliance forces.

Yang Bo attacked the Ash Organization’s evacuation spaceship after the battleship’s bombs cleared the sinkhole’s clouds and mist. He smashed through its defenses and entered the hull, leaving the battleship’s crew stunned by his strength.

• Huang Lao San and Liu Quezi agreed to watch out for one another as an Unmanned Fighter dropped Shockwave Bombs into the sinkhole.
• The Jin Gang-class battleship detected the spaceship and cleared the clouds and mist, revealing the Ash Organization’s evacuation operation.
• Yang Bo emerged above the sinkhole in battle armor with a Bone Hammer and charged at the spaceship.
• Yang Bo smashed the spaceship’s Laser Turret off its mount, impressing the battleship’s crew with his strength.
• Yang Bo punched through the spaceship’s hull and jumped inside through a Maintenance Tunnel.

Yang Bo seized the Ash Organization’s ship, rallied Huang Lao San and the Mutant Leaders, and took the Alliance personnel hostage to demand self-governance for the Mutants. He ordered the destruction of the organizations’ bases and factories, while observers aboard a nearby warship watched without intervening.

• Yang Bo destroyed systems aboard the ship, killed the Ash Organization’s leader, and ordered the crew to disable the ship’s weapons.
• Yang Bo called Huang Lao San and Liu Quezi, who led Mutants in capturing the remaining humans and fighting off resistance.
• Yang Bo ordered Huang Lao San to gather the captives and address the Alliance Council, then crashed the ship by damaging its controls.
• Yang Bo declared the Alliance personnel hostages and demanded Mutant self-governance, threatening to kill the captives if the council refused.
• Yang Bo ordered Huang Lao San to destroy the organizations’ research bases and factories and bring their personnel back.
• The Captain of a nearby warship refused to launch a rescue operation because the ships had not identified themselves and held special transit permits.

Yang Bo demanded autonomy for the Mutants while using rescued Alliance citizens and captured researchers to force the Alliance Council to negotiate. The Council saw evidence of illegal experiments and Yang Bo’s strength, then fell silent when he requested the Chief Justice’s intervention.

• Yang Bo declared that the Mutants wanted autonomy and threatened to kill captured Alliance citizens if the Alliance refused to negotiate.
• Yang Bo released residents for the fleet to identify and gave the Alliance one hour to bring Four Seas Company personnel forward for questioning.
• Yang Bo forced Four Seas Company researchers to answer for their crimes, and one revealed the company had used residents in dangerous Gene Serum experiments.
• Captain Daina reported the standoff and its recordings to the Alliance Council, where councilors erupted into debate over Mutant autonomy and Four Seas Company.
• The Council watched footage of Yang Bo defeating a spacecraft, then Yang Bo requested the Chief Justice’s intervention and silenced the councilors.

Yang Bo negotiated Green Devil Star’s autonomy with the Alliance and offered evidence against the Ash Organization in exchange for recognition and protections. The Alliance began cracking down on Four Seas Company, while Yang Bo prepared to return to the organization with supplies from the Ash Organization’s warehouse.

• Yang Bo demanded autonomous rule for Green Devil Star, protection for its residents, and Alliance investment and fleet funding, offering evidence of the Ash Organization’s crimes.
• The Chief Justice said Green Devil Star’s demands complied with Alliance judicial procedures, and Yang Bo’s group returned Four Seas Company and Ash Organization prisoners to the Underground World.
• The Judicial Department froze Four Seas Company’s permissions and began seizing documents and arresting its personnel, including one general manager.
• Huang Lao San and the other Mutant Leaders celebrated the prospect of becoming city lords, then asked Yang Bo what to do with the Ash Organization’s warehouse supplies.
• Yang Bo said he would take the Biological Mecha back to the organization, collect premium goods, and return.

Yang Bo took a small haul from the Ash Organization warehouse, then trained his Electrical Energy Control to Grandmaster and began using attacks on Poison Swamp creatures to raise Light Energy Control. Meanwhile, Huang Lao San and the other Mutant Leaders decided to kill the Ash Organization members in their custody before they could return and retaliate.

• Yang Bo agreed to let himself choose first from the Ash Organization warehouse and took Attribute Energy Metal, Energy Stones, and an Energy Pillar for Tie Niu.
• Yang Bo tested his Mental Control on a rat, then spent five days using Electrical Energy Control on Electric Eels until he reached Grandmaster rank.
• Yang Bo found Fluorescent Poisonous Frogs in the Poison Swamp and killed them with sound waves, gaining Light Energy Control.
• Yang Bo struck a puddle full of four-legged tadpoles with lightning and gained more Light Energy Control.
• Huang Lao San, Liu Quezi, and the other Mutant Leaders agreed to kill the Ash Organization members they had captured so they could not escape punishment or retaliate against their families.

Yang Bo tested his Grandmaster-level Light Energy Control and considered the strengths and limits of his other abilities while traveling through the Underground World. He searched the site where he had encountered Invisibility Rats and used Biological Summoning to draw out nearby rats.

• Yang Bo reached Grandmaster in Light Energy Control, tested its attack speed and range, then stopped training it because its energy use was high and its attacks risked triggering the Planetary Alarm System.
• Yang Bo recharged from his mecha’s Nuclear Batteries and reflected on the importance of energy intensity and reaction speed in battles between Superpower Users.
• Yang Bo assessed the limits of Stealth and Camouflage, then set out to find Invisibility Rats that he could take back to the planet and breed.
• Yang Bo searched the old battlefield for rat traces, collected samples, and transformed into a giant rat.
• Yang Bo used Biological Summoning, attracted many rats, and swatted at one to see what ability it would give him.