Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue and Neo met Oracle after Guardian Chang Wei tested their strength and led them through a backdoor in The Matrix. Oracle revealed that the Keymaker, needed to open the door from Neo’s dreams, was held by Merovingian, then left as Agent Smith appeared.

• Xu Yue and Neo went to the teahouse and met Chang Wei, who tested them by attacking under a force field that restricted their powers.
• After Xu Yue defeated Chang Wei, the Guardian accepted their identities and led them through a backdoor program to Oracle.
• Oracle explained that Neo needed to enter the door from his dreams and that Merovingian held the Keymaker who could open it.
• Oracle and Chang Wei left through another door, and Agent Smith appeared before Xu Yue and Neo.

Neo and Xu Yue fought a horde of Agent Smiths in The Matrix before escaping to the World of the Living. The group then set out for France to find Merovingian, but interference scattered them near his hotel, where Xu Yue entered alone.

• Agent Smith confronted Neo and Xu Yue with countless copies of himself, while Neo and Xu Yue fought them off.
• Smith infected Agent Ruixing and continued replicating, so Neo flew with Xu Yue toward an exit point as Smith vowed to meet them again.
• Back in the World of the Living, Neo told Morpheus and the others they needed to find Merovingian and obtain the Keymaker.
• Tank and Dozer sent the group to a nearby access point after finding the area around Merovingian's hotel was encrypted and protected.
• Interference scattered the group and disrupted their communications, and Xu Yue crushed his tracking earpiece before entering the hotel alone.

Xu Yue entered a hotel he owned to meet Merovingian without revealing his true identity, while Merovingian watched him from across the restaurant. The chapter left Merovingian’s associates and several guests tense as Xu Yue dined nearby.

• Xu Yue entered the encrypted hotel, where a waiter tried to turn him away because it was a members-only establishment.
• Xu Yue told the waiter to collect three months’ salary and leave, and the manager recognized Xu Yue, ordered the waiter dismissed, and escorted Xu Yue to the top-floor restaurant.
• Xu Yue was served the restaurant’s finest dishes while wealthy guests who recognized him struggled to decide whether to greet him.
• Merovingian recognized Xu Yue as an influential ordinary person, and Persephone warned Merovingian not to interfere with him.
• Merovingian shrugged off Persephone’s warning and glanced toward three guests who were unsettled by Xu Yue’s arrival.

Xu Yue used Merovingian’s program to lure Seraph to the restroom, then overpowered Merovingian and forced him to cooperate. He arranged for Neo’s group to wait while he enlisted Merovingian to create entertainment for the Reincarnators.

• Xu Yue recognized Merovingian’s target, Seraph, and approached her while Merovingian secretly put a program into her cake.
• After eating the cake, Seraph asked Xu Yue to escort her to the restroom, and Merovingian followed them, eager to join the diversion.
• Xu Yue beat Merovingian in the restroom and forced him to surrender by threatening to decipher and delete him.
• Merovingian told his subordinates to keep Neo’s group waiting for two hours while Xu Yue removed the program from Seraph and left her unconscious in a stall.
• Xu Yue asked Merovingian to help him create entertainment, and Merovingian agreed to cooperate.

Merovingian agreed to hand over the Keymaker only if Morpheus and the Reincarnators survived a hunt by his subordinates, after giving them programs that boosted their abilities. Neo left through a portal, while Xu Yue watched the Reincarnators flee and decided their pursuit needed to be made harder.

• Merovingian refused Neo’s request for the Keymaker, then offered a game in exchange for handing him over.
• Merovingian gave Morpheus and the Reincarnators pills that evolved their Mind Power and granted them the ability to walk on slopes and ceilings as if they were flat.
• Neo entered a door that transported him to a mountain forest, leaving the others to face Merovingian’s challenge.
• Merovingian presented the Keymaker and ordered Morpheus and the Reincarnators to survive pursuit by his subordinates.
• Xu Yue watched the Reincarnators escape in a car and decided to make their situation harder.

Howard and the other Reincarnators escorted Morpheus, Trinity, and the Keymaker through a gauntlet of attackers, but Xu Yue’s strange intervention and Neo’s early arrival raised suspicions about the escalating pursuit. Albert began to suspect that something was wrong as Xu Yue worried that the Reincarnators might uncover his scheme before he could finish exploiting them.

• Howard and the Reincarnators fled in two vehicles while Morpheus, Trinity, and the Keymaker rode in a third, and pursuing creatures and Agents targeted the Reincarnators instead of the Keymaker’s car.
• The Reincarnators paid to overload and disable their pursuers, then drove onto an elevated highway, where Xu "Ninja" Yue sliced their two vehicles apart while sparing everyone inside.
• After the pursuers caught up again, Howard, Albert, and the others complained that their payments had not stopped the attacks until Neo arrived to support them.
• Howard assumed the Savior’s interference had raised the difficulty, but Albert began to suspect the repeated ambushes had been deliberately manipulated.
• Xu Yue realized Neo had returned early and feared the Reincarnators would discover his scheme before he could secure an SS-rank harvest.

Albert realized that Xu Yue might have orchestrated the group’s repeated misfortunes and suspected he had no way to escape the resulting debt. Meanwhile, the Keymaker explained how to reach The Architect, and the group assigned tasks for the final mission.

• After Neo rescued him, Albert reviewed the group’s past expenses and coincidences, then suspected Xu Yue had been manipulating them.
• Xu Yue arrived and joined Neo, Morpheus, and the others, while Albert recognized that Xu Yue might be behind the supposed Mysterious Guardian and their escalating debts.
• Xu Yue praised Albert, who feared he had been discovered and saw no way out of his financial predicament except completing the mission.
• The Keymaker explained that Neo needed to reach a protected room by entering a door within five minutes of the power being cut across twenty-seven blocks.
• Howard volunteered to cut the building’s power, Xu Yue took responsibility for the backup system, and Albert asked to work alongside Xu Yue.

Albert joined Xu Yue’s team while Howard and the other Reincarnators prepared to destroy the power plant and cut off its backup supply. As the operation began, Agent Smith’s clones appeared, triggering a mission that threatened to derail the bombing and endanger Zion.

• Morpheus assigned Trinity and himself to accompany Neo, while Albert agreed to work with Xu Yue and Howard’s team took the power plant.
• Albert promised to handle the backup power supply so Xu Yue could focus on the power plant.
• Howard and six teammates prepared the explosives, but three Agents arrived and attacked them.
• Xu Yue captured the three Agents and watched as the empowered Reincarnators gained the upper hand.
• Agent Smith clones appeared at the power plant and were also intercepting Neo’s group, prompting a trigger mission for Xu Yue and the Reincarnators.
• Smith told Howard’s team they could not blow up the power plant yet, revealing that the clones intended to infiltrate the Architect’s room.

Xu Yue infiltrated the Smith clones at the power plant, then revealed himself and destroyed the station in a massive blast. The Reincarnators exhausted their borrowing limits and begged for mercy, but Xu Yue declared their usefulness spent.

• Xu Yue joined the Smith clones at the power plant while Howard and the others prepared to face them.
• The Smiths noticed an eleventh Agent among them and recognized Xu Yue, who killed one Smith with a single blow.
• Xu Yue unleashed his power, overwhelmed the remaining Smiths, and blasted the power plant and nearby hills into a crater.
• The Reincarnators tried to borrow more money but received a notice that their overdraft limit was insufficient, so they begged Xu Yue to spare them.
• Xu Yue crushed the dying Smith clone and told the Reincarnators they had lost their value of existence.

Xu Yue destroyed the Reincarnators who had been manipulated into opposing him, then headed for the root of The Matrix to confront The Architect. Meanwhile, Neo reached The Architect and learned Zion had been destroyed five times before; he was left to choose between resetting the system or risking humanity’s extinction.

• Xu Yue revealed himself as a Reincarnator, killed Howard and the other Reincarnators, and set out to confront The Architect.
• Neo and his allies fought their way through Smith’s copies, and Neo entered the door to The Architect’s chamber while Smith remained outside.
• Xu Yue arrived and intimidated Smith’s copies, who let him pass toward the door.
• The Architect told Neo that the system repeatedly destroyed Zion and selected survivors to rebuild it, and that Neo was the sixth Savior.
• The Architect offered Neo a choice between returning to the Source of Code or opposing the system, warning that failure would kill every human connected to The Matrix.

Neo refused to obey the Matrix and chose to fight, while Xu Yue negotiated with the Architect for access to the Source of Code and entered it. Back in the World of the Living, Neo learned that Howard, Yage, and seven others had died, and told Morpheus that their mission had failed.

• Neo rejected the Architect’s choice and left the room, after which Xu Yue revealed himself and confronted the Architect.
• Xu Yue demanded entry to the Source of Code, and the Architect opened its door rather than risk Xu Yue siding with Smith.
• Xu Yue entered the Source of Code and began copying and analyzing its rules and structure.
• Neo returned to the World of the Living and found Morpheus, Trinity, Tank, and Dozer handling the bodies of Howard, Yage, and seven other crew members.
• Dozer told Neo that Howard and the others had died after Smith and the Agents intercepted them at the power plant.
• Neo said the mission had failed and prepared to reconnect to find Xu Yue.

Neo returned to The Matrix and discovered the destruction at the power plant, while Xu Yue admitted that he had killed Howard and the others. As the Mechanical Squids threatened Zion, Neo discovered that he could destroy them remotely, then collapsed as his consciousness connected to an interlayer between The Matrix and the World of the Living.

• Neo saw the craters from nuclear explosions at the power plant, then reunited with Xu Yue, who revealed that he had killed Howard and the others.
• Xu Yue, Neo, and Albert returned to the cabin, where Tank reported that most of Zion’s ships had been destroyed by an EMP detonated before the planned ambush.
• Captain Soren and Captain Niobe arrived with news that only three ships remained and that a Mechanical Squid army was approaching the repair dock.
• Neo sensed that he could affect the Mechanical Squids, raised his hand from a ship’s bridge, and destroyed large numbers of them.
• Neo collapsed unconscious, and Xu Yue sensed that his consciousness had connected to an interlayer between The Matrix and the World of the Living.

Xu Yue learned that Smith had infected a Reincarnator, then helped Neo escape the Trainman's station by taking control of the space between The Matrix and the World of the Living. He returned Neo to his body and left the warships able to enter and leave The Matrix without connecting through the station.

• Xu Yue noticed Smith had entered the body of a Reincarnator who had survived the fleet battle.
• Nock conscripted the Reincarnators in Zion and sent them to defend the spaceport as the Mechanical Squid advanced.
• Chang Wei, Morpheus, and Trinity failed to capture the Trainman, while Xu Yue persuaded Merovingian and traveled with Albert.
• Xu Yue entered the station and found Neo waiting there, then urged him to understand and break the world's rules.
• Xu Yue erased the station's boundaries, returned Neo to his unconscious body, and made it possible to enter and leave The Matrix without the Trainman.

Xu Yue took Neo and Smith Richard to Mechanical City, destroying the Mechanical Squids in their path and preparing to negotiate with the machines. Meanwhile, the squids breached Zion’s defenses and began targeting Reincarnators, leaving the survivors in confusion and despair.

• Morpheus learned that Neo had returned to the World of the Living and agreed to give Xu Yue a ship to take Neo to Mechanical City.
• Xu Yue brought Smith Richard along, and Smith Richard agreed to go with him despite fearing him.
• Xu Yue used the Interstice World to destroy the Mechanical Squids blocking their route, then continued toward Mechanical City while watching the attack on Zion.
• Mechanical Squids breached Zion’s upper defenses and adapted their tactics to break through the defenders’ barrage.
• Xu Yue ordered the Mechanical Squids to prioritize killing Reincarnators, and they killed the Reincarnator with the electric rifle and began hunting the others.

Xu Yue secured peace between the machines and humanity, and the mechanical army stopped attacking Zion. The chapter ended with the machines withdrawing and Zion celebrating the Reincarnators who had been sacrificed to protect the survivors.

• Commander Nock ordered his mechas to use captured Reincarnators as bait, drawing the Mechanical Squids away from Zion's defenses while the soldiers avoided losses.
• Xu Yue confronted the mechanical collective in Mechanical City, brought Smith and Neo before it, and negotiated peace for humanity.
• Morpheus realized the machines had stopped pursuing his ships and celebrated that the prophecy had come true.
• The Mechanical Squids attacking Zion froze and then began withdrawing after the spaceport received news that the machines had agreed to peace.
• A retreating Mechanical Squid returned to kill the last Reincarnator, while Zion's leaders praised the fallen as heroes and promised to build statues in their honor.

After returning to Zion, Xu Yue recruited Smith and publicized the powerful Authorities Smith and Albert gained in the Punishment mission. Their abilities prompted American legions to reconsider the risks of such missions, while powerful figures began discussing how to use Authorities to reshape the balance of power.

• Xu Yue and Neo returned to Zion, where the people honored the forty-seven fallen heroes with a memorial service.
• Xu Yue invited Smith to join his team, and Smith accepted after learning about Reincarnation Space and Xu Yue's strength.
• Back in his world, Xu Yue ordered the Fujiwara Family Head to publicize Smith's and Albert's new Authorities.
• Smith revealed that his clones could copy his abilities and let him revive after death, then joined the Morgan Conglomerate; Albert's Mind Power Authority also drew attention.
• American legion leaders debated the rewards and risks of Punishment missions and considered adjusting their strategies to obtain powerful Authorities.

Xu Yue expanded Japan’s influence in the United States while keeping the Morgan Conglomerate under observation. He then amplified intelligence about the Seed of Fire World, leaving American powers startled by reports of Unicron and godlike power.

• Xu Yue heard that Japanese agents had established connections with American conglomerates and that Albert’s standing in the Morgan Conglomerate had risen.
• Xu Yue ordered his people to openly build relationships with American politicians, using lobbying firms and business partners to work around restrictions on foreign donations.
• The Fujiwara Family Head suggested targeting the Morgan Conglomerate, but Xu Yue decided to wait and let their influence grow before acting.
• Xu Yue learned that Master Luo had revealed the Seed of Fire contained cosmic-level power, prompting several conglomerates to investigate the world.
• Xu Yue spread information claiming that Unicron’s source blood could grant godlike power, shocking those who had thought the Seed of Fire World was merely science fiction.

Xu Yue and the major legions prepared for a designated mission in the Seed of Fire world after Master Luo’s intelligence made the Transformers setting a coveted target. The legions agreed to cooperate while sharing risks, and Nakayama Shion won the right to lead one of Xu Yue’s teams as the operation approached.

• Xu Yue learned that the Transformers world combined the movie storyline with comic-book background and that even its weakest Transformers matched Elite Reincarnator mechs in strength.
• Major legions, including the Morgan Conglomerate, Rockefeller Conglomerate, and Adams Family, prepared for the mission while agreeing to cooperate and share risks.
• The legions discussed verifying Master Luo’s sudden intelligence, testing Albert’s authority, and potentially acquiring the Seed of Fire.
• Nakayama Shion prepared to lead six ordinary Intruders and forty-two Elite Reincarnator puppet troops alongside Xu Yue.
• Nakayama Shion defeated Minamoto no Yorisetsu in the contest to lead the team, and the mission was about to begin.

Xu Yue entered the Transformers universe as the Observer and set his arrival around the end of Cybertron’s war. As Optimus Prime sent B-127 toward Earth and fought the Decepticons, Xu Yue appeared before both factions and asked them to take their battle off Cybertron and leave the planet to him.

• Xu Yue reviewed Cybertron’s history and chose to arrive as the war ended and the Transformers began heading toward Earth.
• Optimus Prime fought off Decepticons and told B-127 to travel to a remote planet and establish a forward base while he covered the retreat.
• B-127 launched in a spacecraft, and Xu Yue collected the benefits from the triggered mission.
• Xu Yue introduced himself to the Transformers as the Observer and asked them to fight elsewhere and give him Cybertron.

As the Autobots and Decepticons left Cybertron, B-127 crash-landed on Earth and was attacked by a Decepticon disguised as a fighter jet. Xu Yue arrived on Earth, found B-127 at an auto repair shop, and noticed Chali Watson approaching.

• The Autobots and Decepticons left Cybertron, and Optimus Prime chose to preserve the Autobots and their Seed of Fire by departing.
• B-127 crash-landed in a US military exercise zone and tried to avoid fighting the soldiers pursuing him.
• A Decepticon fighter jet attacked the soldiers, leaving Captain Burns unconscious and nearly everyone else dead.
• Xu Yue arrived on Earth with a fabricated identity and became one of the United States' top tycoons.
• Xu Yue visited the repair shop where B-127 was disguised as an old yellow Beetle, declined to buy him, and spotted Chali Watson approaching.