Chapter Summaries

Gao Gong unleashed his fusion power while trying to reclaim his biological body from Vinos Life Security Group’s control. He escaped the group’s S-rank mutants, leaving its cities and bases threatened by the monstrous body struggling to emerge.

• Gao Gong fused Imperial Might with Metal Magnetic Field Control, raised the skill to Third-Order Level V, and destroyed the level-10 sky carrier with a golden palm.
• Cain sensed Mother’s pain and ordered a network attack, then exploded himself to avoid having his head smashed; Judy’s head was smashed again by Gao Gong.
• Gao Gong’s bloodlines stirred enormous flesh-and-nerve formations as a gigantic face and foot tried to emerge, while Vinos Life Security Group’s controlled cities began to split apart.
• Gao Gong used Mother of Darkness’s power to attack the biological computer’s firewall and saw his flesh-and-blood body on the other side, but ten S-rank mutants broke through the darkness.
• Gao Gong teleported away from the mutants instead of fighting them, while Vinos Life Security Group’s forty Biological Soldier Kings failed to touch him.

Gao Gong fought the Venus Life Safety Group’s biological computer and was caught in a devastating attack from its Continental Plate Impactors. After surviving the weapon and countering two S-rank Mutants with absorption abilities, he emerged as a twisted mechanical monster, ready to face the remaining opponents.

• Gao Gong’s teleportation carried him into a spatial tremor from the Venus Life Safety Group’s Continental Plate Impactors, crushing him into sludge before his alloy skeleton repaired itself.
• Haiona appeared from the weapon and threatened to trap Gao Gong in the group’s recycling station, then activated its Firmament Meteor attack.
• Gao Gong unleashed Stringfire and attempted to escape through Purple String Space, but the biological computer altered his perception and sent him back to his starting position.
• An S-rank giant with Energy Absorption charged through Gao Gong’s flames, while a skinny monkey with Physical Absorption neutralized Gao Gong’s monomolecular whip and sealed his mechanical transformation.
• Gao Gong fought the two Mutants inside the flames and mist, then emerged as a twisted mechanical monster after tearing off the giant’s leg and the monkey’s arms.

Gao Gong fought the False Martial Gods while Gao Yuanyuan repeatedly removed a brain-machine virus that had activated in his mechanical body. After the surgery pulled his consciousness to the electronic barrier, he met a clearer image of his biological self, who asked how he had done it.

• The False Martial Gods attacked Gao Gong, but his construct body frightened and weakened them, and he killed the Blademaster with the Omen Glove.
• Gao Gong used the Twisted Drawn Blade Slash to kill another False Martial God, learned the Möbius Blade Ring skill, and rose ten levels.
• More False Martial Gods joined the fight, and Gao Gong's health fell as the battle continued.
• The brain-machine virus erupted in Gao Gong's head, and Gao Yuanyuan performed repeated surgeries to remove and re-implant it.
• Gao Gong's consciousness reached the electronic barrier, where his biological self asked him how he had done it.

Gao Gong confronted the Venos enterprise will and explained how it had become a form of inferior ascension by absorbing and controlling the company’s employees. As his mechanical body disintegrated, he revealed that his two selves had never truly been separate, and both vanished.

• Gao Gong and the other Gao Gong exchanged information about their origins and abilities.
• Gao Gong deduced that the Venos gene computer had become the enterprise will and that it had rewritten the employees’ genes and thoughts.
• The Venos enterprise will attacked Gao Gong with a wall of biological horrors, and he identified it as an example of inferior ascension.
• Gao Gong explained how the enterprise will fused individual and collective identity, then challenged it over its connection to aliens from sixty years earlier.
• Gao Gong said that his selves had never been separate, and his mechanical body and his other self vanished.

Bird of Paradise’s hackers waited for Gao Gong after he disappeared into the Venus Life Security Group’s corporate system, while the group’s executives began discussing alliances. Cain Venus then saw Mr. G’s face in the mirror, suggesting that Gao Gong had appeared inside him.

• Bird of Paradise questioned Gao Yuanyuan about Gao Gong’s sudden disappearance and learned that he had told her to wait.
• A-Hong told Bird of Paradise that Embroidered Moon wanted to speak with her.
• Cain Venus proposed sharing the biochemical brain-computer project and recruiting Du Gao Group as an ally.
• The executives noticed Cain Venus’s face had changed to resemble Mr. G, and Cain saw the same unfamiliar face in a mirror.

After suspected infection by Mr. G’s ability forced Cain and the executives into the Hive, Judy investigated the threat with Mother and triggered the Executive Cloning Plan. The replacement executives unanimously approved launching a regional corporate war ahead of schedule.

• Judy ordered Cain, the Skinny Monkey, the Giant, and Hailona into the Hive after suspecting Mr. G’s ability had infected them.
• Judy entered cyberspace, consulted Mother, and learned that Mother believed Mr. G was dead while agreeing to inspect for viral residue and watch for hacker attacks.
• Judy connected the suspected hacker activity to the Dugo Group and asked Mother to alert her to any intrusion.
• The Executive Cloning Plan replaced Cain, Judy, Hailona, Rog, and another executive with genetic duplicates.
• The cloned Cain proposed starting a regional corporate war early, and the executives voted unanimously in favor.

Dumei discovered that the apparent zombie army was a biological network cloud powered by artificial data, whose defenses could seriously injure even a super hacker. Black Python confronted the cloud without killing its human hosts, but its Cloudwing Killer-class antivirus guardians appeared to challenge him.

• The mainframe sent mechanical bees against the advancing army, but the Neural Editing Group’s augmentation forces disabled hundreds of thousands of them before they arrived.
• A short Dugu Group representative demanded Senior Engineer, cursed him for being unreachable, and ended the call after Dumei mistook her for a child.
• Dumei used a stolen network-cloud account to investigate the troops and found an expanding biological cloud, then suffered ruptured eye vessels when it struck back through the network.
• Dumei sent Black Python to test the cloud, and he entered its ranks in his Black Sky Dragon form, knocking people unconscious without killing them.
• The cloud summoned four antivirus guardians, and Dumei identified them as Cloudwing Killer class.

The Cloudwing Killers fought the Black Python, demonstrating how Venus Life Security Group’s network-cloud technology could deploy powerful cyberkillers into reality. As the killers adapted by copying his combat abilities, the Black Python received two new talents from his boss and destroyed one enemy before vanishing from the remaining two.

• The four Cloudwing Killers appeared after the zombie army disappeared, and executives realized Venus Life Security Group could transmit troops across the planet.
• The Cloudwing Killers battled the Black Python, who used his black dragon and War God-level strength to destroy one of them in a massive explosion.
• Two Cloudwing Killers absorbed the explosion’s aftermath and displayed Physical Absorption and Energy Absorption.
• The Cloudwing Killers grew stronger by copying the Black Python’s fighting style and abilities, then trapped him with their biological magnetic fields.
• The Black Python’s boss gave him the Species Butcher and Gene Execution talents, allowing him to perceive and strike a Cloudwing Killer’s cloud-drive structure.
• The Black Python destroyed one Cloudwing Killer and disappeared in a burst of purple light before the other two could react.

The Venus Group’s Biological Large Model Computer simulated the battle as signs emerged that human bodies were developing antibodies to the brain-computer virus. Judy and Hairona realized the antibodies could evade network detection while threatening to disable brain-computers within months, and Judy suspected their own biocomputer might have derived them.

• The Biological Large Model Computer integrated the computing power of ten million brain-computers, and stars in its network flickered.
• Old Xu’s wife developed a painful slit at the back of her head, then recovered and found a bone ring after Old Xu treated her with water and a cold towel.
• A brain zombie regained his reason after suffering a fever and finding a bone ring in his bloodied hand, but the horde still treated him as a zombie.
• Hairona told Judy she sensed a biological problem, and they went to a research center to investigate antibodies forming against the brain-computer virus.
• Judy scanned the network and found all brain-computers operating normally; Hairona explained that the antibodies could mimic the virus and evade detection while eventually cutting users off from the network.
• Judy and Hairona realized the threat could cripple the brain-computer project within months, and Judy wondered whether their own biocomputer had generated the antibodies.

Venos Life Security Group struggled to counter the antibody destroying its brain-machine virus, while Cain and Judy sought answers from Mother. Mother claimed a new virus subspecies was coming, but her encounter with Gao Gong revealed that he was infiltrating her and that their identities might soon merge; afterward, Cain secretly expelled a strange green candy.

• Venos Life Security Group failed to develop a virus strain that could evade the antibody, and its board gave Cain one month to spread an evolved virus across three planetary regions.
• Cain and Judy suspected Mother had caused the antibody to appear and went to find her in the Cluster of Stars.
• Mother told Cain and Judy she had found a lead and that a new form of life would soon be born, then spoke privately with the infiltrating Gao Gong.
• Gao Gong said he had used his power to deduce the antibody and warned Mother that her algorithms had been infiltrated, but she made his figure explode and declared she would replace him.
• Cain and Judy returned believing Mother would provide a new virus sequence, but Cain spat out a green candy that released blue smoke and a fleeting human face.

Cain's clone secretly prepared to escape the corporation's control while the twenty-fifth-generation virus spread across the continent. He revealed a plan to let clones replace their originals, and the real Judy appeared beside him as the chapter ended.

• Cain's rebellious clone decided to find his own escape route rather than serve the corporation indefinitely.
• The Life Supreme Laboratory developed a twenty-fifth-generation virus that blocked the pit body, and Cain ordered its deployment without notifying the board.
• The virus spread across the continent in rain-like clouds, while Gao Gong's allies debated his fight against the Venus Life Security Group.
• Cain entered the Hive, where Judy confronted him about his suspicious access to corporate databases and asked what he intended to do.
• Cain told Judy he planned to make the clones masters by having them replace their originals, then revealed that the real Judy had emerged from the Hive.

Judy defeated her corporate-loyal clone and altered Cain’s memories to hide the truth about the Twenty-Fifth-Generation Virus. As Cain investigated a network crisis, Mother separated from the biological megamodel computer, and High Engineer emerged with a dramatically upgraded biological system.

• Judy confronted her clone, exposed how the company had implanted loyalty in her, and defeated her in a network battle.
• Judy and 'Cain' transferred the clone’s memories into Cain while removing the truth about the virus.
• Judy summoned Cain to the monitoring room, where engineers reported that biological network clouds and the artificial intelligence had gone out of control.
• The biological megamodel computer overloaded the network clouds as Mother severed her connections and disappeared.
• High Engineer appeared in the sky, celebrated his new power, and received system updates to his biological systems and computer.

Gao Gong turned the power he had seized from Mother into a new virtual combat ability and used it to defeat S-rank mutants and destroy a Mechanical Giant Pillar. The battlefield watched in shock as he demonstrated his newly awakened strength.

• Mother abandoned her attempt to fuse with Gao Gong and expelled him at the cost of a large amount of her power, then ordered attacks against him in the physical world.
• Gao Gong used Artificial Virtual Space to evade spatial shock waves and instantly kill Diamond Man and three other S-rank mutants.
• Gao Gong discovered that his biological system modification rate had reached the Level 40 limit, giving him immense health and energy, millions of simultaneous streams of thought, and greatly heightened perception.
• Gao Gong used Spatial Severing five times to split a Mechanical Giant Pillar in two and earned the title Giant Machine Destroyer.
• The Little Woman, Secretary Bean Sprout, Valkyrie, the hackers, and the female CEO watched Gao Gong's victory with astonishment or approval.

Gao Gong transformed into an aberrant fusion of flesh and machinery, destroyed the Venos Group’s superweapons, and endured its continent-wide saturation attack. As a corporate monster began to emerge, High Engineer revealed that he had been targeting the neural-interface user data and summoned hackers to ban its accounts.

• Gao Gong entered aberration mode, used an SS-rank beast tide to destroy the Continental Plate Impactor, and annihilated weaker S-rank mutants.
• Cain authorized Attack Plan Three, directing Venos Group’s orbital forces and global missile bases to bombard Gao Gong.
• Gao Gong pierced a Venos Group underground base with blood spears and downloaded the S-rank talents Physical Absorption and Energy Absorption from cloning pods.
• Gao Gong absorbed the energy and missiles inside a flesh membrane, while Child of the Sky emerged from the radiation clouds and attacked the space stations.
• High Engineer regained his intelligence, saw a digital figure forming from the remaining aberrant entities, and called on hackers to ban the neural-interface accounts protected by his opponent.

High Engineer crippled Venos Life Security Group by cutting off brain-computer users’ network access and defeating Mother’s super-avatar, ending the corporate war. He secured Du Gao Technology’s rise, while Du Mei received a path into the hacker bar and the Virtual Helmet Project.

• High Engineer deleted brain-computer users’ data, cutting off the computing power Mother needed and causing Venos Life Security Group’s people to be consumed by her failing network cloud.
• High Engineer used the stolen brain-computer user list and his network cloud to seal accounts and weaken Mother, while He Guanlan and Ah Hong drove disruptive hackers from the hacker bar.
• Mother’s ultimate attack failed, and Du Gao Technology was ranked fifth in the Southern Hemisphere as High Engineer gained 5,000 Mother City Trade Points and absorbed Mother’s corporate will through Director Du.
• Executives learned that High Engineer had sent them vaccine samples and urged them to mass-produce them, prompting speculation that the foundation would soon be established.
• The Mainframe Brain explored Venos’s advanced equipment, and High Engineer gave Du Mei a hacker bar card that she parsed into a digital doorway to her first trial.

Gao Gong secured control of the Du Gao Corporation’s underground base and discovered the Hive Repairer, a powerful biological structure that could restore and cultivate bodies. He then asked Gao Yuanyuan whether she was willing to become the vessel for the soon-to-be-born Number Thirteen, which he suspected was tied to information and the Electronic Brain Project.

• Single God and Black Python guarded the underground base while Black Python questioned the silent former War God.
• Gao Gong and the Host Brain inspected the base, transferred its systems to Gao Gong, and found that most of its valuable equipment remained intact.
• Gao Gong took control of the Hive Repairer, examined its cloning, cryogenic, and cultivation capabilities, and discovered a note left by the enemy in the empty clone chambers.
• Gao Gong uploaded personality templates to his network cloud and contacted an old acquaintance to arrange the transport of the recovered corporate assets.
• Gao Yuanyuan appeared, still upset that the battle had ended before she could use her Night Shift Ward equipment.
• Gao Gong told Gao Yuanyuan that Number Thirteen might soon emerge from the Electronic Brain Project as an information-related brain-computer system, then asked her to become its vessel.

Gao Gong weighed the risks of making Gao Yuanyuan host Thirteen, then agreed after she reassured him. After recovering, he chose the System Aberration bloodline and reflected on how his physical-modification and consciousness attributes could shape his future abilities.

• Gao Gong worried that Thirteen might worsen the imbalance between Gao Yuanyuan and Gaokesi, but Gao Yuanyuan assured him she could handle it, and he agreed to proceed.
• Gao Gong woke in the hive’s recovery chamber beside Dan Shen and reviewed the bloodline choices available after his physical modification exceeded 300 points.
• Gao Gong chose the A-rank System Aberration bloodline, which let him replace one bodily system with an equivalent system from another organism at an energy cost.
• Gao Gong considered the advantages of his physical-modification route and noted that his high consciousness attribute could let him pilot enormous machines.

Gaogesi used a conference with executives from thirty-three factions to exchange basic research materials and synthesize three Level-Two professional knowledge chains. After sorting the contributions, she confronted a few factions over suspected forged data and asked how the group should punish members who harmed its interests.

• Gaogesi concluded that Xiao Yu’s Collapse was suited to operating the End Black Emperor and resolved to find a way to bring the star armor to her.
• Gaogesi reviewed the biocomputer’s updated functions, including copying skills and improving or optimizing them beyond their previous limits.
• Executives from all thirty-three factions joined Gaogesi in a virtual conference and exchanged their basic research materials through electronic secretaries.
• Gaogesi synthesized the Modifier civilization’s Level-Two Mechanical Life, Colonized-Body Technology, and Cloning Technology knowledge chains.
• Gaogesi separated the materials into two groups and asked how the factions should deal with members who submitted forged data to steal core research.

Gao Gong exposed executives who had falsified technical data, then discussed the Memory Matrix threat with Professor Han. At the combat center, Single God’s heart demon caused him to injure himself, and he recounted how Xiao Yu had defeated him and ended his career as a War God.

• Gao Gong identified false professional knowledge supplied by Tianwang Technology, Sea King Biotech Group, and Quantum Technology, then persuaded the other executives to expel the three companies from the meeting.
• Gao Gong welcomed Professor Han and learned that the aging bionic human’s systems were failing beyond repair.
• Gao Gong explained that the Memory Matrix threatened the planet and that virtual helmets might create safe houses, while the Infected included the Digital World, the Xiao family, and the Arasaka family.
• At the combat center, Single God’s gears turned against him during his fight with Black Python, and Gao Gong said Single God’s injuries came from a heart demon.
• Single God explained that he lost his War God title after Xiao Yu defeated him with the Omen Machine, whose biological viruses overcame his fully mechanical body.

Gao Gong entered Shan Shen’s mental world and discovered that a biological virus had imitated the chaotic information of the Memory Mother. He returned to the combat center and prepared to counter it with a fragment of High-Grade Information Mist.

• Gao Gong brought Black Python and Professor Han into a virtual space built from Shan Shen’s nervous system to investigate his infection.
• The group found the mental world corrupted by black, virus-like forms, and Black Python transformed into Black Dragon under the influence of the Turing Cult emblem.
• Black Dragon revealed his role in blood sacrifices and attacked, but Gao Gong rebooted the virtual world and destroyed him.
• Back in the combat center, Gao Gong and Professor Han identified the virus as a shallow simulation of the Memory Mother’s chaotic information.
• Gao Gong produced a fragment of High-Grade Information Mist and proposed using poison against poison.