Chapter Summaries

Su Li listened in on Li Bo and Xu Yuxiu planning to team up against him, then went to confront them. He easily blocked their first attacks and sent swords toward both of them, leaving the fight underway.

• Su Li walked through the jungle while Li Bo and Xu Yuxiu secretly met and waited for Liu Renyi to join their alliance against him.
• Li Bo and Xu Yuxiu speculated that Su Li had intercepted Liu Renyi, and Xu Yuxiu said she planned to develop Mars after losing the competition.
• Su Li overheard their conversation and headed toward them, realizing that their hidden third competitor was trying to manipulate them into fighting first.
• Su Li arrived and challenged Li Bo and Xu Yuxiu to attack him together, and they agreed.
• Xu Yuxiu sent sand and soil at Su Li while Li Bo attacked from behind, but Su Li blocked both attacks with shields and sent long swords toward them.

Su Li defeated Xu Yuxiu, Li Bo, and Shi Lei in succession during the trial, overwhelming them with his flying swords and forcing them to surrender. Afterward, Ye Mohan praised his performance as they walked through the forest.

• Xu Yuxiu tried to defend herself against Su Li’s flying swords with earthen walls and a rocky mountain, but surrendered when her defenses collapsed.
• A rescuer took Xu Yuxiu away, and Su Li defeated Li Bo after Li Bo charged at him.
• Su Li found Shi Lei hiding in a huge tree and wounded him with a torrent of flying swords until Shi Lei was rescued.
• Su Li congratulated the firefighter and headed into the forest, where Ye Mohan joined him and praised his battle.

After winning the competition and securing the Donghai Detective Bureau Director position, Su Li reunited with Xia Ke and proposed inviting both their parents to celebrate his appointment. When he asked what she wanted him to give her when he proposed, his ability to create enormous diamonds left Xia Ke unsure what to ask for, and the two ended the chapter teasing each other at the hotel.

• Su Li told Li Bo and Xu Yuxiu how Shi Lei had tried to win the competition by hiding away, and they congratulated him and exchanged contact information.
• Su Li returned to the hotel with Xia Ke and Secretary Wang, who reacted with surprise to his coming appointment as Director of the Donghai Detective Bureau.
• Su Li suggested that he and Xia Ke invite both sets of parents to celebrate his appointment, and Xia Ke agreed.
• Su Li asked Xia Ke what she wanted for a proposal, then showed her diamonds he could create in many sizes and colors.
• Xia Ke said she already knew how Su Li felt and that she would like anything he gave her, while Su Li insisted they should find a meaningful gift.
• Su Li tossed Xia Ke onto the bed, and she urged him to plan the celebration guest list instead of fooling around.

Su Li learned from Monina that a Xilan envoy was investigating the battle where Su Li had supposedly died, along with precious-metal transactions that might expose him. Su Li claimed he had already made a plan, then asked Monina to help confirm several things.

• Su Li contacted Qina and asked her to return to Linghui Star to speak with him.
• Qina arrived at Su Li's laboratory with Monina, who warned that a Xilan envoy was investigating Su Li's apparent death on Mel Star.
• Monina explained that the envoy was also tracing precious-metal flows in the Zidar System, which could connect Su Li to the investigation.
• Su Li confirmed that his Class-B mecha might have been exposed and that the Class-B Mind Oscillator seizure could have revealed it.
• Su Li told Qina and Monina that he had a complete plan, then asked Monina to help him confirm a few things.

Su Li explained that he suspected the Xilan Civilization had traced its investigation to Netri and invited Monina to hear his plan. He revealed that he had designed a powerful galactic defense system for the sanctuary, but its immense energy requirements were a fatal flaw.

• Su Li asked whether Monina had brought the investigating envoy, and Qina explained that she had used her as an excuse to leave.
• Su Li wondered why the Xilan envoy had gone to the Messi District and suspected that Netri’s information had led the civilization to investigate him.
• Monina tried to leave, but Su Li stopped her and said he needed her advice; she agreed to stay for Qina’s sake.
• Su Li said his plan aimed to protect the sanctuary’s Superhumans and described a defense system that could repel fleets and withstand attacks from B-rank Superhumans.
• Su Li revealed that the defense system required an extraordinarily vast amount of energy to activate and operate.

Su Li claimed he needed vast amounts of pure, compressed energy to build a defense system against the Xilan Civilization, though his real goal was to advance to Rank A. After Qina and Monina privately argued, Qina revealed she had information to share if Su Li agreed to do something for her, and he accepted immediately.

• Su Li said the defense system required enormous amounts of highly pure, compressed energy, and insisted he would not abandon the effort against the Xilan Civilization.
• Monina said no civilization could provide that much energy at once, and Qina reluctantly agreed that obtaining it would be difficult.
• Su Li privately considered asking Netri for help or searching the Xilan Civilization's Quantum Network, while concealing that he wanted the energy to advance to Rank A.
• Su Li noticed Qina and Monina arguing behind a spatial barrier and guessed that Qina knew about an energy reserve but was hesitant to reveal it.
• Qina told Su Li she had information to share if he agreed to do one thing for her, and Su Li immediately agreed.

Su Li agreed to seize the energy in a pure-energy Alternate Dimension, while Qina asked him to visit Mifa Star and avoid harming its guardian, their grandfather. He considered the risks of infiltrating a core Xilan planet and revealed that his nearly complete Soul Consciousness Technology could make the mission easier.

• Qina told Su Li about a pure-energy Alternate Dimension discovered by the Xilan Civilization and offered its coordinates in exchange for two promises.
• Monina revealed that the dimension's guardian was her and Qina's grandfather, who had guarded the energy for a thousand years.
• Qina explained that the energy was once the Xilan Civilization's contingency plan against the Radiant Civilization, though she believed taking it would let their grandfather return home.
• Qina asked Su Li to leave traces on Mifa Star so the Xilan Civilization would have a plausible source for the leaked information and Monina would avoid suspicion.
• Su Li said he could infiltrate the Xilan Civilization and pointed to his nearly completed Soul Consciousness Technology as a way to make his Bloodline Transformation harder to detect.

Su Li completed a device to disguise his soul aura, traveled to the Xilan System, and infiltrated Origin Sector One in search of information about Mifa Star. On Xilan Star, he posed as a tourist and met a silver-haired girl who asked him about planets beyond the system.

• Su Li planned to build a Soul Camouflage device and infiltrate Mifa Star to learn where the Xilan Civilization kept its intelligence.
• Su Li finished the device in less than a day and traveled through the wormhole to the Xilan System.
• Su Li disguised himself as Xilan people, hitched rides to Origin Sector One, and decided to seek information on Xilan Star from someone near the center of power.
• Su Li arrived on Xilan Star with a temporary identity card and toured its preserved ancient buildings.
• A silver-haired girl asked Su Li about the planets he had visited outside the Xilan System.

While touring Xilan Star, Su Li questioned Raldor about the planet’s important figures and learned that Qina Di Yuesi was celebrated as a hero who had died in a war. He realized the Xilan Civilization believed Qina had sacrificed herself, unaware that she survived and became a space-pirate leader, and asked Raldor whether any living heroes remained.

• Su Li asked Raldor about Xilan Star’s practical importance and the important figures who came from it.
• Raldor praised Xilan Star as the hometown of many heroes and began recounting their stories.
• Raldor described Qina Di Yuesi as a B-rank Superhuman who supposedly died holding off the Radiant Civilization’s fleet.
• Su Li recognized Qina as the woman he knew and realized the Xilan Civilization believed she had died, though she had survived and become a space-pirate leader.
• Raldor invited Su Li to get off the sightseeing vehicle and hear more stories, but Su Li pulled his arm free and asked about living heroes.

Su Li provoked a crisis on Xilan Star to draw out a politically influential person who could reveal Mifa Star’s location. His two mechs devastated public infrastructure before Xilan’s defenses slowed them, leaving the planet in chaos.

• Raldor angrily rejected Su Li after he called the Head of State a hero, revealing her intense hostility toward politicians.
• Su Li concluded that Xilan Star sheltered someone with great political influence and decided to create a disturbance to find that person.
• Su Li deployed two powerful mechs, which breached city defenses and attacked public buildings while avoiding areas with many pedestrians.
• The mechs moved from city to city, spreading panic across Xilan Star as the planet struggled to organize a defense.
• Xilan’s technology trapped and slowed the mechs, but Su Li believed they could stall for time and considered his objective largely achieved.

Su Li infiltrated Xilan Star’s signal dead zones while his two mecha distracted the planet’s defenses, stealing research and extensive records on the Di Yue Si Family. The records revealed several possible targets, including the former Head of State, but Su Li hesitated over whether the old man was a genuine source of secrets or a trap.

• Su Li sent his consciousness into Xilan Star’s signal dead zones while his two mecha kept the defenses occupied.
• He discovered and copied a secret laboratory’s research, a seemingly ordinary house, and a vast archive of the Di Yue Si Family’s activities.
• Su Li reviewed the archived intelligence and learned that more than ten retired Xilan officials on Xilan Star met his requirements.
• He identified the former Head of State as the highest-ranking potential target but worried that the Xilan Civilization had not left such a valuable figure exposed without safeguards.

Su Li searched Z City for the former Head of State, Lars, using Xilan Civilization records and residents’ online posts to narrow down his possible home. He identified Lars as his primary suspect and set out to capture him.

• Su Li decided to prioritize capturing the former Head of State while also planning to retrieve the prisoner in the second signal vacuum zone.
• Su Li accessed the Xilan Civilization’s Quantum Network and used records of Lars’s encounters with the Di Yue Si Family to investigate locations across Z City.
• Su Li compared the terrain around dozens of places where Lars had been seen and narrowed his search to a small area.
• Su Li searched residents’ old online posts and found a boy’s description of an imposing new neighbor accompanied by two unsettling men.
• Su Li matched the post’s timing to Lars’s abdication, identified him as his primary suspect, and vanished to find him.

Su Li kidnapped former Xilan Head of State Lars and another elderly man, hoping to learn the location of Mifa Star. Lars had no memory of it, so Su Li began examining him for signs of tampering and turned to the second captive as his backup.

• Su Li escaped the Xilan System with Lars and another elderly man, then brought them to Gorol Star.
• Su Li threatened Lars and asked him for Mifa Star’s location, but Lars said he could not remember anything about it.
• Su Li examined Lars’s consciousness but found no detectable abnormality.
• Lars offered to let Su Li read his memories or use him to extort the Xilan Civilization, frustrating Su Li.
• Su Li told Lars to sit aside and turned his attention to the second captive.

Su Li learned that Lars’s missing memories were stored in a removed part of his brain on Mifa Star, and that the old man could restore them. The old man also revealed Mifa Star’s location and the designated teleportation route, leaving Su Li asking why he was sharing so much information.

• The old man told Su Li that Lars had undergone memory surgery after stepping down as Xilan Civilization’s Head of State, and that he had performed it.
• The old man explained that part of Lars’s brain had been removed to isolate his memories, and Lars reacted when he realized the old man had operated on him.
• The old man said Lars’s removed brain was stored in Area Ninety-Seven of Mifa Star.
• The old man located Mifa Star near the Great Arm in the Chaos Star Zone of the Xilan System and said the most commonly used route began at a teleportation device in the Kefeng Star System.
• Su Li asked why the old man was willing to share so much valuable information.

Su Li planned to infiltrate Mifa Star after escaping the Xilan Civilization’s search, then returned to Donghai City and took over the Detective Bureau. He was formally appointed director and began the transition to the bureau’s new headquarters.

• Su Li learned that the old man had shared information to seek revenge on the Xilan Civilization, and decided to travel to Mifa Star in the Kefeng Star System.
• Su Li left the Virtual Universe and met Xia Ke and Ye Mohan, who told him his appointment documents had arrived.
• Ye Mohan announced Su Li’s appointment as director of the Donghai Detective Bureau at an all-staff meeting.
• Ye Mohan introduced Su Li to influential figures in Donghai and took Secretary Wang and selected staff to the bureau’s new branch headquarters.
• Su Li invited Ye Mohan and Secretary Wang to attend the headquarters transition, which proceeded amid several days of busy work.

Su Li and Xia Ke hosted a banquet in Donghai City to celebrate Su Li’s promotion and introduce their families. After greeting the guests, Su Li learned that Secretary Wang had already described him to Su Miao as a homebody.

• Su Li and Xia Ke welcomed Ye Mohan and Secretary Wang at Tianxin Grand Hotel, and Xia Ke escorted them upstairs.
• Su Li greeted Xia Ke’s parents, accepted a red envelope, and reassured them before bringing them to meet his parents.
• The two families met warmly and chatted, while Su Li left to greet his other guests.
• After spending over half an hour greeting everyone, Su Li rested in the hallway and admitted to Su Miao that social gatherings exhausted him.
• Su Miao told Su Li that Secretary Wang had called him a homebody after meeting her.

After the banquet, Su Li and Xia Ke returned to their usual lives, while Su Li focused on infiltrating Mifa Star to advance to A-rank. He located the spatial teleportation device at Hongyu Interstellar’s headquarters on Kefeng Star and prepared to use one of its ships to get closer.

• Su Miao told Su Li that the local Detective Bureau director had questioned her about him, and Su Li joked with her before she left.
• Su Li and Xia Ke discussed the banquet arrangements, then went together to their place in the sky.
• Su’s Father and Su’s Mother left Donghai after staying for two more days, while Su Li and Xia Ke resumed their lives with Su Li now working as Detective Bureau director.
• Su Li abandoned an attempt to infiltrate the heavily monitored Chaos Star Zone and searched Kefeng Star for the route to Mifa Star.
• Su Li identified Hongyu Interstellar’s headquarters as the site of a spatial teleportation device to Mifa Star and planned to intercept one of its spaceships.

Su Li infiltrated Hongyu Interstellar by replacing increasingly senior officials and used his high-level clearance to search its internal data for the spatial teleportation device. He narrowed the search to three flawless locations and decided to investigate them in person.

• Su Li hijacked a Hongyu Interstellar ship and successively impersonated officials to gain greater authority.
• After more than half a day, Su Li became a high-ranking intelligence operative and accessed Hongyu Interstellar's internal Quantum Network without detection.
• Su Li searched Hongyu Interstellar's data for signs of the spatial teleportation device but found no likely location among the obvious anomalies.
• Su Li identified three places that had remained flawless for decades and seemed suitable for concealing a teleportation device.
• Su Li concluded that Hongyu Interstellar either had three devices or had moved one between the locations, and decided to investigate them personally.

Su Li chose Hongyu Interstellar’s underground radioactive-materials factory as the likeliest place to find a spatial teleportation device and entered it under the identity of Director Pierre. The factory’s manager, Duolun, let him inside despite trying to warn him, while the group’s hidden leadership began considering how to respond.

• Su Li destroyed the traces of his research and decided to infiltrate the factory, where he planned to replace an employee and quickly advance his infiltration before moving on to Mifa Star.
• Su Li reasoned that the factory was more likely than the other suspicious locations to contain the spatial teleportation device because its security had recently tightened.
• Su Li took his two subordinates on a surprise inspection, using his role as the group’s security director to approach the factory.
• The guards tried to stop Su Li from entering, but Duolun emerged and warned him about the radiation before allowing him inside.
• Su Li walked into the factory, while the executive who knew about the teleportation device learned of his arrival and considered how to deal with him.

Su Li infiltrated the high-radiation storage room, incapacitated Duolun, and used the Shop to obtain information about the factory’s spatial teleportation device. Disguised as Duolun, he lured Duolun’s superior toward the storage room, where he planned to take his place.

• Su Li inspected the factory with Duolun but found no clues about the spatial teleportation device.
• Su Li persuaded Duolun to take him to the high-radiation storage room and planted devices to interfere with its surveillance.
• Su Li incapacitated Duolun, spent eighty million Resource Points to buy him, and learned that the factory contained a spatial teleportation device.
• Su Li disguised himself as Duolun and told the guards to keep Director Pierre in the storage room.
• Su Li told Duolun’s superior that a radiation vortex had disrupted monitoring in the storage room, and the superior decided to investigate personally while disguised as Director Pierre.