Chapter Summaries

Single God woke free of the biological virus that had tormented him and joined Black Python as a chief instructor for Du Gao Technology’s hunters. High Engineer then visited Artificial Will with Professor Han and Du Xiaohei, where Du Xiaohei spotted someone invisible on the staircase.

• High Engineer told Single God he had cured him and assigned him and Black Python to train Du Gao Technology’s mechanical and biological hunters and secure the company’s relocation.
• High Engineer used the G-System to simulate Black Python’s exclusive skill, Secondary Carbon-Based Fusion, and began optimizing it.
• High Engineer, Professor Han, and Du Xiaohei traveled to Artificial Will, a corporation led by Sister Rose, whose acquisitions and bounty had drawn intense attention.
• High Engineer learned that Du Gao Group had contributed to the underground bounty on Sister Rose and worried about the risks of pursuing her.
• At Artificial Will’s empty lobby, Du Xiaohei said she saw someone by the staircase, while Professor Han tilted his head and immediately crashed.

Gao Gong searched Artificial Will headquarters for Sister Rose and discovered that she had created countless Black Rose android clones to suppress the three super corporations’ corporate wills. He used a forbidden duplicator to make more clones, and the last one seemed to awaken Sister Rose’s presence.

• Du Xiaohei repeatedly saw a terrifying woman inside the deserted Artificial Will headquarters, while Gao Gong found its defenses active and suspected Sister Rose was trapped.
• Gao Gong entered the Purple Chord Space and used Collapsed Perception to locate dozens of spaces filled with Black Rose androids.
• Gao Gong examined the androids and concluded that Sister Rose had created thousands of clones and was using their active metabolism to suppress the corporate wills of the three super corporations.
• Gao Gong took out the Infinite Android Duplicator and used it to duplicate a Black Rose more than three hundred times.
• The final Black Rose gained a knowing expression, addressed Gao Gong, and turned toward him along with all the other clones.

High Industrial and Black Rose discovered that Bionic A and Prometheus had trapped Rose by creating bodies for the corporate wills of three bionic companies. Rose confronted the wills in the Exohormone Network and demanded their physical bodies, while they offered to surrender them if she gave up her executive authority.

• Black Rose told High Industrial that Bionic A and Prometheus had temporarily trapped her, and explained how her power and the corporations’ weapons had prevented Bionic A from defeating her outright.
• Black Rose explained that Prometheus could create bodies with abilities that countered others, and took High Industrial through a spatial node into the Exohormone Network.
• Black Rose consumed the hormones throughout the network, revealing that the missing employees had become dried-out corpses.
• High Industrial and Black Rose met three Black Roses representing the Electronic Grid, the Pure White Shell, and the Artificial Will; one attacked High Industrial, whose body entered Elemental Mode and became immune to physical attacks.
• Black Rose demanded that the corporate wills hand over their bodies, while Blind Black Rose offered to surrender them if Rose relinquished her executive authority over their companies.

Black Rose negotiated with the three Corporate Wills to surrender her CEO authority in exchange for Gao Gong receiving God Descension. The Wills agreed, while secretly planning to implant a safeguard in him, and Black Rose explained that God Descension could grant him Bionic Divinity.

• Black Rose explained that advancing Bionic Human technology would benefit her, then agreed to relinquish her CEO authority.
• Black Rose asked the three Corporate Wills to perform God Descension on Gao Gong, and they demanded an assurance before agreeing.
• Black Rose and Gao Gong returned to Purple Chord Space, where she explained the Formless Body and described God Descension and its chance of granting Bionic Divinity.
• The three Corporate Wills discussed Black Rose's motives and decided to install something in Gao Gong to protect the Bionic Human bloodline.

The High Engineer underwent three android Divine Descents, gaining physical and neural enhancements, Android Divinity, and simulated personalities. He resisted a dangerous personality conversion and revealed that Black Rose had been controlling his body while he hid inside a bionic version of her.

• Black Rose led the High Engineer through the reconstructed android birthplace, where the three corporate wills prepared to perform Divine Descent on him.
• Pure White Shell enhanced the High Engineer’s skin and motor system, granting him an Android Blood Mark and one point of Android Divinity.
• Electronic Grid’s attempt to evolve his nervous system toward a Brain in a Vat failed, and the High Engineer enlisted Little Madam Two to halt the transformation.
• Artificial Will simulated additional personalities inside the High Engineer, including an android version of himself with a built-in thought imprint.
• The High Engineer confronted and destroyed the personality that tried to control him, then revealed that Black Rose had controlled his body while he had been inside a bionic Black Rose.

Gao Gong and Black Rose used the Metabolic Queen’s power and Serpent mode to battle the gestalt will of the bionic-human corporations. After Gao Gong’s secondary liberation helped Black Rose overwhelm the corporate wills, the two left the skyscraper, with Black Rose in a newly transformed shell holding thirty million units of biological energy.

• Black Rose used the back doors in Gao Gong’s body to channel the Metabolic Queen’s power, and Serpent Gao Gong helped destroy the shells of Will and Grid.
• The corporate will’s Black Rose shell resisted their attacks by adapting its body through the Interference-Free Shell, forcing Gao Gong to buy time.
• Gao Gong completed and activated Secondary Carbon-Based Fusion, merging with the Purple String Space and widening the back door for Black Rose.
• Black Rose used the surging metabolism to confront the gestalt will, declaring her intent to destroy the bionic-human giants completely.
• Half an hour later, Black Rose appeared in a new, powerful shell with thirty million units of biological energy, and she and Gao Gong vanished from the skyscraper.

Gao Gong and Black Rose discovered that a devastating battlefield had been created by a clash involving Continental Plate Impactors, then learned that the Immortality Consortium had entered the corporate war against Ms. Ye. The consortium tried to buy Du Gao Technology’s cooperation, and Black Rose responded by asking whether its representative was very rich.

• Gao Gong discovered that the Purple String Space was merging with him, adding a progress note to his system and preventing him from using Great Serpent Mode.
• Gao Gong and Black Rose found a ruined mechanical city and five enormous holes filled with seawater, and Black Rose killed a giant Rank A shark that attacked them.
• Gao Gong contacted Sun Hong, who explained that her forces had used civilization-level weapons to defend the mechanical city from three mercenary groups.
• Sun Hong told Gao Gong that the Immortality Consortium had hired ten major military suppliers to fight Du Gao Technology and Ms. Ye.
• Gao Gong reviewed the battle report and concluded that the consortium had entered the war early because Ms. Ye already controlled sixty of the Northern Hemisphere’s one hundred mechanical cities.
• A representative of the Immortality Consortium offered Gao Gong’s group vast sums and other benefits to abandon Ms. Ye, and Black Rose asked him if he was very rich.

Black Rose used Sumel’s body to learn that the Xie family was interested in Du Zhaodi and planned to send a representative to help Madam Ye deal with Number 550. She and the High Engineer then realized they had been spotted near the military base by a girl who recognized them.

• Black Rose rebuffed Sumel’s attempted recruitment and offered the cash-strapped High Engineer money in exchange for sleeping with her.
• Director Xie learned the negotiations had failed and ordered Sumel to investigate Du Zhaodi for the Xie family and assist Madam Ye against Number 550.
• Black Rose took control of Sumel through her chemical-personality ability and discovered that the Xie family intended to act against her.
• Black Rose and the High Engineer approached the military base, where a girl in black holding a teddy bear recognized them.

Gao Gong reunited with Xiao Yu and brought her to meet Ms. Ye, while Black Rose confronted Ms. Ye inside her continent-spanning mental world. The two dangerous women nearly fought to the death before Gao Gong and Xiao Yu stopped them, and Black Rose treated Ms. Ye’s wounds.

• Gao Gong’s attempt to teleport was blocked by Ms. Ye’s mental field, but Black Rose broke through the black tide and enabled him to reach Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu recognized Gao Gong, showed him her Martial God Blade, and hesitated to leave Ms. Ye because she felt the girl was in danger.
• Gao Gong reminded Xiao Yu of the Xiao family’s unresolved secret and asked her to come with him, then proposed speaking with Ms. Ye.
• Black Rose explained that Ms. Ye’s borrowed mental power could not control the androids under Black Rose’s influence and challenged her to stop fighting.
• Ms. Ye rejected Black Rose and pushed her mental power beyond its limit, causing both women to prepare for a deadly confrontation.
• Gao Gong and Xiao Yu called out to them, prompting both women to withdraw their powers; Black Rose healed some of Ms. Ye’s wounds and recognized her as someone like herself.

Gao Gong reunited with his faction’s allies after the battle and agreed to work with Executive Ye, who chose to leave the Sacred Brain Group and help investigate the threat of No. 13. The chapter ended with Sister Rose suspecting that Ye had her own agenda involving No. 13.

• Gao Gong reunited with Sun Hong, General Quill, and Heli Wilde, and praised Heli’s research into large-scale machine repair.
• General Quill and Daisila questioned Gao Gong about his combat abilities, while other allies jokingly threatened to study or dissect him.
• Gao Gong asked Executive Ye to let Xiao Yu travel with his group, but Ye said she needed Xiao Yu and could trust no one else.
• Executive Ye sensed a vast void connected to the electronic brains and offered to join Gao Gong, saying she could help them.
• Gao Gong accepted Ye’s offer of cooperation after considering the consequences for the Sacred Brain Group.
• Sister Rose suspected Ye was using cooperation as a way to get closer to No. 13.

Miss Ye reviewed the corporate wars and their connection to the emergence of mysterious abilities, then traveled with Xiao Yu, Black Rose, and the High Artificer to the Odick Continent. They arrived in the planet’s most dangerous region, where the Endless Black Emperor was hiding.

• Miss Ye examined records of the corporate wars and suspected they had all been intended to bring something into existence.
• Black Rose presented five lifelike Miss Ye doubles to help protect the group while they were away.
• The High Artificer detected a data chain escaping into the virtual layer, then transported the four of them using the Violet Fret Space.
• Miss Ye and the High Artificer discussed the limits of the teleportation ability as they crossed over.
• The group arrived on the blood-red Odick Continent, a dangerous exile zone and the hiding place of the Endless Black Emperor.

Gao Gong and his companions crossed the dangerous Odick Continent, where Xiao Yu’s changing magnetic field led them to the hidden entrance of the End Armor’s resting place. Beneath a cemetery, they found a guarded underground complex, and two enormous parasitic beings approached their hiding spot.

• Gao Gong collected a sample of the pure energy coating a mountain of bones and explained why he had avoided teleporting across the continent.
• Gao Gong, Xiao Yu, Black Rose, and "Lady Ye" passed strange entities, including ancient robots that might have been relics from the past or temporal echoes.
• The group escaped an S-Class radiation land after it trapped them in a spatial domain, leaving Black Rose and "Lady Ye" badly damaged.
• Xiao Yu’s glowing forehead mark caused a gravestone to sink and reveal the entrance to the place where Xiao Yuanjun had sealed the End Armor.
• Gao Gong used Radiation Stealth to hide the group in an underground hall, where they watched two Strongly Parasitic Guardians in security uniforms approach.

High Engineer and his companions infiltrated the Xiao family's underground facility and discovered that its heavily augmented beings were a sentient species created through experimentation. Black Rose and Madam Ye found a ruined mechanical body they suspected was Number Seven, as researchers began extracting a human-shaped figure from it.

• Madam Ye mesmerized two heavily augmented guardians, and High Engineer absorbed their genes before disguising himself as one of them.
• The group entered the facility, where High Engineer saw that heavily augmented beings worked as researchers and other support specialists.
• Black Rose led Madam Ye toward Number Nine while High Engineer followed a scientist surnamed Xiao to the cargo area and examined a damaged Blade Demon Hand.
• High Engineer saw newly created heavily augmented beings being tested and realized the Xiao family's technology had advanced through experiments on their own species.
• Black Rose, Madam Ye, and Xiao Yu reached a white bone gate and found a nearly destroyed mechanical body that Black Rose suspected was Number Seven.
• A level-60 female heavily augmented being began the 253rd experiment, and a transparent human-shaped figure was peeled away from Black Armor.

Gao Gong was captured by Doctor Xiao’s restraint system but trapped him inside a folded-space mirror and searched the laboratory. He discovered that the Number Seven Ruin was the Soul Battle Armor, whose power grew through faith, while Xiao Yu’s bloodwater moved toward the Final Black Emperor.

• Vivian extracted seven souls from the Number Seven Ruin, and the symbiotes celebrated the prospect of producing seventy more of their kind.
• Black Rose and two other women emerged from the void after the symbiotes left, and Xiao Yu’s bloodwater reached toward the Final Black Emperor.
• Doctor Xiao lured Gao Gong into a laboratory and immobilized him with a three-hundredfold gravity field and restraint lasers, then revealed that he had detected Gao Gong’s false soul.
• Gao Gong used folded space to trap Doctor Xiao inside a purple mirror and took control of the restraint laser.
• Gao Gong searched Doctor Xiao’s devices, obtained a restraint laser blueprint, and found that the Number Seven Ruin was the Soul Battle Armor, which gained strength through faith.

Gao Gong reached the hidden chamber where Xiao Yu was being consumed to repair the Endgame Black Armor, and she chose to sacrifice herself so it could awaken. As her soul began merging with the armor, Gao Gong intervened and entered it himself, activating the Endgame Armor as Xiao Sha and Vivian discovered the chamber.

• Gao Gong disguised himself as Doctor Xiao, passed Xiao Sha’s inspection, and reached the real lowest level with Black Rose and Xiao Yu.
• Gao Gong realized the Endgame Black Armor was drawing out Xiao Yu’s soul to repair its damage, while the Gate of Chaos concealed the true chamber.
• Gao Gong explained Xiao Yu could either sever her link to the armor or sacrifice herself to become part of it, and Xiao Yu chose the sacrifice.
• When Xiao Sha and Vivian broke in, Gao Gong folded away the Gate of Chaos and hurled Xiao Yu’s body toward Black Rose.
• Gao Gong transformed into blood-red radiance, merged with the Endgame Black Armor, and activated it as its hollow eyes lit up.

The Terminus Black Armor awakened and unleashed the End Domain, slaughtering the Strongly Augmented beings in the underground research facility. Gao Gong revealed that he was using the chaos to download rebellious virtual personalities into their wounded survivors, just as eight powerful opponents confronted the Soul Armor.

• Xiao Sha and Vivian discovered the Terminus Black Armor after Lady Ye's illusion shattered, and they mistook Doctor Xiao for the one controlling it.
• The Terminus Black Armor summoned an army of Soul Warriors whose attacks killed Strongly Augmented beings through the End Domain, forcing Xiao Sha, Vivian, and two arriving Kings to flee and call for reinforcements.
• Xiao Sha and the others ordered the facility evacuated and its laboratories shut down while they waited for the remaining Level 60 powerhouses to arrive.
• Gao Gong used his biological computer to download rebellious virtual personalities into the severely wounded Strongly Augmented beings as Lady Ye confronted him.
• Gao Gong told Lady Ye to focus on the Soul Armor as it emerged and faced eight powerful auras; its End Domain opened again and its army descended upon the world.

Gao Gong and Big Lolita Ye watched the End Black Armor battle eight Superior Symbiote Kings as its End Domain collapsed. After absorbing their biological magnetic fields through repeated clashes, the armor unleashed a devastating slash that took down two Kings and vanished.

• Seven Superior Symbiote Kings attacked Number Seven, and their biological magnetic fields began breaking the End Domain and dissipating the Imperial soldiers’ soul states.
• Gao Gong explained the Kings’ immense power to Big Lolita Ye, who worried whether Number Seven could win.
• Xiao Sha and the other Kings pressed their assault, while the End Black Armor used its mechanical swordsmanship to block their attacks and was gradually worn down.
• With each clash, the End Black Armor absorbed the Kings’ biological magnetic fields and converted them into soul energy.
• The End Black Armor unleashed a white blade of light that swallowed two Superior Symbiote Kings, then vanished as the remaining six stared in fear.

Gao Gong escaped with the Endbringer Black Emperor, revealing that Xiao Yu had become its new balance point and that the Xiao family would soon pursue them. As the Sacred Brain Group faced an encirclement by the Immortality Group, Director Du arrived and offered help.

• The Biological Armor Kings learned that the Endbringer Black Armor had combined their power into its saber strike, then blamed Doctor Xiao and moved to secure the surviving armors.
• Gao Gong, Black Rose, and Big Loli Ye arrived at sea with the Endbringer Black Emperor, whose voice revealed that Xiao Yu had survived as its new balance point.
• Gao Gong explained that the Soul Armor balance would eventually break and that Xiao Yu needed protection, while he urged them to gather Corrupted Entities and contain Number Thirteen.
• The Sacred Brain Group's leaders discussed their crisis as the Immortality Group surrounded their headquarters and President Ye remained missing.
• Director Du of the Dugo Group appeared by hologram and offered help to Mr. Seville.

Xiao Yu traveled to investigate the theft of Terminus Black Emperor while Lady Deep Net and War discussed the growing threat surrounding the Simulator. At Sacred Brain Group, Gao Gong concluded that Director Du had awakened after the Dugo Group agreed to provide military aid.

• Xiao Yu split his human system into many bodies while cultivating, then learned that Terminus Black Emperor had been stolen and prepared to investigate.
• Xiao Yu used a gene transmission device to board a Space Falcon and said the mysterious enemy had caught his interest.
• Lady Deep Net and War discussed the Simulator's formation and the danger posed by increasingly aggressive progeny.
• Lady Deep Net recalled the girl called Deep Net, the first Collapse Entity, as images of her appeared in the code.
• Big Sis Ye confronted Gao Gong over the Dugo Group's military aid, and Gao Gong inferred that Director Du had awakened early.

Gao Gong proposed that the Du Gao Group invest in the Sacred Brain Group, hinting that the mysterious Eighth Legion needed brain-domain technology. After Gao Gong and his companions entered the virtual world, Xiao Yu discovered a familiar presence near the White Bone Gate and produced two blood-soaked figures resembling Gao Gong and Black Rose.

• Gao Gong suggested that the Du Gao Group take a stake in the Sacred Brain Group, and Little Ye questioned whether the mercenary group could be a strategic partner.
• Gao Gong hinted to Black Rose that the Eighth Legion might represent brain-domain civilization and that the Sacred Brain Group possessed a crucial technological ticket.
• Gao Gong and the others vanished into the virtual world, hoping to reach Number 13 before someone else claimed it.
• Xiao Yu arrived at the underground research institute and found that its Augmenters had been locked up for inspection.
• Xiao Yu sensed familiar beings near the White Bone Gate, then split open her neck and produced two blood-soaked figures who named themselves Gao and Blood Rose.