Chapter Summaries

Su Li went to the Xilan System to force the Xilan Civilization to negotiate and help recover Monina, whom Qina confirmed had gone missing. After finding that the Xilan Civilization had moved Mifa Star, he infiltrated its Quantum Network and prepared to spread major news across the planet-wide network.

• Su Li reassured Qina that Monina would be brought back and learned that the Xilan Civilization had made no move to contact him.
• Su Li left Linghui Star and crossed the distance to the Xilan System in seconds using his control over space.
• Su Li found that the Chaos Star Zone was undefended and that Mifa Star had been moved.
• Su Li entered a restaurant on Mijis Star and secretly infiltrated the Xilan Civilization's Quantum Network with his consciousness.
• Su Li realized the network's intelligent lifeforms had not detected him and planned to send news to terminals across the network to pressure the Xilan leadership.

Su Li threatened Mijis Star to force the Xilan Civilization to acknowledge him and make its intentions clear. After the Xilan network was cut off from the star, he continued waiting while the Xilan leaders gathered to decide how to respond.

• Su Li sent a threat to all Xilan Humans, demanding that Mujis meet him on Mijis Star within three hours or face the star’s destruction.
• Xilan Humans debated the threat online, with some dismissing it and others suspecting a terrorist plot or a superweapon.
• The Xilan Civilization severed Mijis Star’s connection to the Quantum Network, but Su Li said his message had already achieved its purpose.
• Su Li explained that he wanted to demonstrate his power as an A-rank Superhuman and pressure the Xilan Civilization into dealing with him.
• Su Li sampled food on Mijis Star while warning that the star might pay a price if the Xilan Civilization continued to ignore him.
• Mujis and other Xilan leaders gathered on Yinhuang Star to decide how to respond to Su Li.

Xitel urged the Xilan Civilization’s leaders to attack Su Li, but an elderly man laid out the Superhuman’s formidable abilities and challenged the plan’s feasibility. Pressured to stop delaying, Mu Ri’er faced a decision on how the civilization would respond.

• Xitel called on the Xilan Civilization to strike Su Li rather than accept the threat to its authority.
• An elderly man offered to support the hunt if Xitel devised a feasible plan using the information they had.
• The old man listed Su Li’s A-rank status and his Carbon Manipulation, transformation, infiltration, and virtual-invasion abilities.
• The old man reminded the leaders that Su Li could resurrect, leaving Xitel unable to refute his warning.
• Xitel demanded Mu Ri’er’s position, and Mu Ri’er realized he had to choose before events got out of control.

Su Li met Mujis, the leader of the Xilan Civilization, to negotiate and tried to trace the signal from his phantom to locate his real body. The attempt failed, and the two began their discussion while Su Li remained confident he could face the Xilan Civilization directly.

• Mujis appeared before Su Li and considered how the Xilan Civilization’s rival political factions had forced him to negotiate personally.
• Su Li secretly sent part of his consciousness into Mujis’s phantom to trace its signal, causing the phantom to collapse.
• Mujis reappeared and warned Su Li not to make any moves during negotiations; Su Li claimed he had only checked Mujis’s safety.
• Su Li realized the Xilan Civilization had prepared to sever the connection and prevent him from locating Mujis or the core planets.
• Su Li asked Mujis to begin a proper discussion, and Mujis agreed.

Su Li and Mujis negotiated over the Xilan Civilization’s past conflicts and Su Li’s demands, but neither side agreed to compromise. Su Li revealed that he had seen through Mujis’s plan to stall while forces surrounded Mijis Star, leaving Mujis alarmed by Su Li’s confidence.

• Su Li and Mujis agreed to return Monina in exchange for four B-rank captives and discussed writing off their earlier conflicts.
• Su Li demanded compensation, including access to Flix’s extraordinary corpse and advanced technologies, but Mujis rejected his excessive terms.
• Su Li and Mujis continued negotiating for several hours without reaching an agreement.
• Su Li exposed the spatial lockdown around them and accused Mujis of using negotiations to buy time while Xilan forces surrounded Mijis Star.
• Mujis realized Su Li had seen through the plan and wondered whether Su Li’s Resurrection Ability had any limitations.

Su Li faced the Xilan Civilization’s preparations on Mijis Star, determined to defeat its full strength and force it to accept his conditions. As he charged through its sealed space under a barrage of energy rays, the attacks pierced Mijis Star, leaving its destruction—and the fate of its inhabitants—sealed.

• Mujis dismissed Su Li’s taunts and cut off their communication, deciding to proceed with the Xilan Civilization’s plan to hunt him down.
• Su Li broke free of the planet’s gravity, reached the space around Mijis Star, and discovered that the Xilan Civilization had sealed it with interlocking energy chains.
• Su Li charged toward the energy chains at near-light speed as the Xilan Civilization fired countless red energy rays at him.
• Su Li’s defenses and Energy Manipulation stopped the rays aimed at him, while those that passed him pierced Mijis Star and left it on the verge of collapse.
• Su Li realized the Xilan Civilization had not tried to save the people on Mijis Star, then set aside his concern and continued forward.

Su Li broke through the Xilan Civilization’s energy-chain seal and deduced that the chains used Energy Materialization, which might be the missing part of his Incomplete Energy Manipulation. While he studied a fragment, the Xilan Civilization’s Rule Domain formed around him, and Xite laid out plans to attack him inside it.

• Su Li materialized the energy he had absorbed into a giant hammer and shattered the Xilan Civilization’s sealed boundary.
• Su Li examined a fragment of the dissipating chains and realized they were created through Energy Materialization.
• Su Li guessed that Energy Materialization might complete his Incomplete Energy Manipulation, while failing to notice that the rules around him had changed.
• On Yinhuang Star, Xite and Baijier watched a recording of Su Li breaking the seal as six light screens descended to form the Rule Domain around him.
• Xite told Baijier he would use non-carbon-based weapons, primitive operations, altered size rules, Absolute Pierce weapons, and inorganic toxin against Su Li.

Su Li fought off the Xilan Civilization’s endless monster horde, but discovered that his spatial abilities failed and his transformations were restricted to a height of around a thousand meters. He realized that the battlefield was governed by altered universal rules and began to suspect the Xilan Civilization was behind the change.

• Su Li sensed something unusual as the Xilan Civilization sent mechanical and bio-monsters through wormholes, creatures that his Carbon Element Manipulation and Consciousness Virtualization could not affect.
• Su Li’s spatial manipulation failed to harm the monsters, and he found himself unable to escape as they rushed toward him.
• Su Li destroyed the first wave with his physical strength, then activated Celestial God Transformation and continued crushing the advancing horde.
• Su Li noticed that Celestial God Transformation and his energy giant could not grow beyond roughly a thousand meters, unlike their normal size.
• Su Li concluded that a changed universal rule was restricting his abilities, though he doubted the Xilan Civilization could alter the universe’s rules at will.

Su Li fought through the Xilan Civilization’s monster horde while waiting to see what weapons they had prepared, confident that his Energy Manipulation remained unrestricted. The Xilan Civilization finally pierced his defenses with a surprise attack, but Su Li survived and welcomed the chance to acquire its technology.

• Su Li realized the Xilan Civilization had restricted his abilities and used its monster army to hold him in place while preparing weapons.
• Su Li kept clearing the horde without using Energy Manipulation, hoping to see the Xilan Civilization’s ultimate weapons.
• After Su Li had destroyed countless monsters, spider-shaped machines fired rays that pierced his energy shield and body.
• Su Li discovered that the rays had poisoned him, but trusted his regeneration to recover and looked forward to collecting the technology.
• The Xilan Civilization sent another wave of monsters forward without pausing.

Su Li endured the Xilan Civilization’s attacks until he used Energy Manipulation to destroy their monster forces, forcing them to withdraw. He gave the Xilan Civilization three days to answer his demands and returned to Linghui Star, while Mujis ordered the meeting to proceed according to plan.

• Su Li realized the Xilan Civilization’s piercing weapons carried a rule that let them pierce through anything, but he grew disappointed when they continued using the same attack.
• Su Li used Energy Manipulation to destabilize the energy inside the monsters, causing billions of them to explode across the battlefield.
• Baijier told Xite and another general to stop sending troops, and Mujis interrupted their discussion with a suggestion.
• The Xilan Civilization slowed its troop deployment and closed its wormholes, ending the encirclement after Su Li regained Spatial Teleportation.
• Su Li warned the Xilan Civilization to give him a satisfactory answer within three days or face unconventional methods, then departed for Linghui Star.
• Mujis told the silent meeting room to proceed according to the plan.

Su Li decided to reveal his identity and explain Xia Ke’s situation to the Detective Bureau, then took Xia Ke, Ye Mohan, and Secretary Wang outside the Solar System to demonstrate the truth firsthand. The group vanished from Ye Mohan’s office, leaving the two officials astonished and awaiting proof.

• Su Li considered his plans to reveal everything to Huaguo and inspect the Expedition after confronting the Xilan Civilization in the Virtual Universe.
• Xia Ke woke up, and Su Li told her he would reveal that he was the mysterious person the authorities had been searching for.
• Su Li and Xia Ke went to the Detective Bureau’s southeastern branch to speak with Ye Mohan.
• Su Li stopped himself from explaining and used his power to shrink Ye Mohan and Secretary Wang into his palm.
• Su Li took Xia Ke with him and vanished with Ye Mohan and Secretary Wang, saying he would prove his claims outside the Solar System.

Su Li brought Ye Mohan, Secretary Wang, and Xia Ke to the Proxima Galaxy System to prove that he was the Armored Man and that Xia Ke had reached D+ rank. He left them protected by B-Class mechs and began demonstrating his power by attacking the planet.

• Su Li transported Ye Mohan and Secretary Wang to the Proxima Galaxy System and warned Secretary Wang to stay still in the hostile environment.
• Su Li told Ye Mohan that Xia Ke was a D+ Superhuman and that he was the Armored Man she had been searching for.
• Su Li said he would destroy the planet, then summoned more than ten B-Class mechs to guard the others before vanishing.
• The mechs surrounded Ye Mohan, Secretary Wang, and Xia Ke as a blast shook the ground and golden light surged skyward, leaving Ye Mohan stunned.

Su Li returned with Xia Ke after destroying a planet and offered the country three gifts. He gave Ye Mohan a spatial ring containing Superhuman resources, including a C-Class Gene Blueprint, and began explaining the Superpower Lock.

• Su Li detonated a planet in the Proxima Galaxy System, then returned to the defensive barrier where Xia Ke, Ye Mohan, and Secretary Wang watched the destruction.
• Su Li brought Xia Ke, Ye Mohan, and Secretary Wang back to the Detective Bureau in Donghai City.
• Ye Mohan recognized that Su Li had revealed himself to protect Xia Ke and promised to report that Xia Ke should no longer be disturbed.
• Su Li announced that he would give the country three gifts and tossed Ye Mohan a spatial ring.
• Su Li explained that the ring contained Superhuman resources, including a C-Class Gene Blueprint, and warned against trying to cultivate C-Class Superhumans too soon.
• Su Li explained that the Superpower Lock could boost combat power and help Superhumans above C-Class summon the Superhuman War God.

Su Li gave Ye Mohan advanced technology, a one-use safeguard, and evidence of events in the Proxima Galaxy System before leaving with Xia Ke. He later returned to the Expedition to hear Mu Ri'er’s report and find out whether its exploration had uncovered other advanced civilizations.

• Su Li gave Ye Mohan three spatial rings, including technological products and a final safeguard, and asked to keep his job as director of the Donghai Detective Bureau.
• Su Li gave Secretary Wang a ring, and Ye Mohan told her to keep the day’s events secret and use what Su Li had given her.
• Su Li and Xia Ke walked around Donghai, where Su Li saw how much the city had changed over two years.
• Su Li went aboard the Expedition and asked Mu Ri'er to report on its discoveries and any difficulties.
• Mu Ri'er reported that the Expedition had occupied resource stars and life-bearing planets, while Su Li remained focused on signs of advanced civilizations.

Su Li learned that the Expedition had found faint traces of a Star Destroyer Cannon near the edge of District D and promised Mu Ri'er he would replenish its dwindling rare supplies. He investigated the traces himself and found a signal indicating wreckage on a nearby planet.

• Mu Ri'er told Su Li that the Expedition had found a suspected Star Destroyer Cannon trail near the edge of District D and gave him its coordinates.
• Su Li learned that the Expedition was running low on rare materials and promised Mu Ri'er he would resolve the supply problem within three days.
• Su Li decided to spend Resource Points on more spacecraft and considered obtaining them from the Xilan Civilization.
• Su Li traveled to the coordinates, confirmed that a Star Destroyer Cannon had grazed a planet, and searched the surrounding star system for its target.
• Su Li's instrument began flashing as he landed on a nearby planet, signaling that he had found wreckage.

Su Li discovered an intact escape pod and found a weakened Flesh Evolver inside, linking the pod to an abandoned base he had explored earlier. He extracted the pod’s intelligent life-form’s data and learned that its former owner, Xil Empire prince Chechis Jin, had fled to the Milky Way while being hunted, revealing a powerful neighboring empire.

• Su Li uncovered an intact escape pod buried beneath a hill and caught a weak creature that resembled the Flesh Evolver he had found at an abandoned base.
• Su Li powered up the escape pod and saw a phantom claim that its owner had researched life evolution and left his findings behind.
• Su Li used his consciousness to read the intelligent life-form’s data after it repeatedly played its recorded message.
• Su Li learned that the pod’s former owner was Chechis Jin, a prince of the Xil Empire who had fled to the Milky Way while being hunted for his research on evolvers.
• Su Li discovered that the Xil Empire ruled the neighboring Xil System, which he believed was the Andromeda Galaxy.

Su Li returned from the Xil Empire’s territory to Earth, then entered the Virtual Universe to meet envoys from the Xilan Civilization. After welcoming them, he handed over demands for peace and threatened consequences if they refused.

• Su Li decided to postpone investigating the Xil Empire until he had grown stronger and returned to Earth with Cheqisi’s escape pod and remains.
• Back at the Detective Bureau, Su Li found that the artificial intelligence had preserved his relationships and reputation, aside from a rumor that he and Xia Ke had broken up.
• Su Li entered the Virtual Universe and went to Linghui Star after Qina told him Xilan Civilization envoys were waiting.
• Su Li saw Monina, whom the Xilan Civilization had returned as a gesture of goodwill, and greeted the envoys.
• Su Li sent the envoys electronic documents listing his conditions for peace and warned them to comply.

Su Li forced the Xilan Civilization’s envoys to sign a series of unequal treaties, despite their staged attempts to negotiate away some conditions. After the envoys departed, Su Li suspected they were hiding their true intentions, attributing his intuition to his newly strengthened A-Class Ultimate Wisdom.

• Qina took Monina outside while Su Li presented the envoys with conditions the Xilan Civilization struggled to accept.
• The envoys used elaborate equipment to hold a supposedly secret discussion, but Su Li suspected their debate was an act staged for him.
• The envoys claimed they could not accept several conditions, and Su Li declared negotiations over until they asked to continue.
• After half a day, Su Li signed the treaties with the Xilan Civilization under Qina and Monina’s witness.
• As the envoys’ ship left Linghui Star, Su Li told Qina he sensed something was wrong and explained that his A-Class Ultimate Wisdom might produce precognition-like intuition.

Su Li secured the Xilan Civilization’s agreement to stop hunting Superhumans and offered Monina protection. After returning to the Real Universe, he left the Detective Bureau with Xia Ke, whose affectionate behavior made their colleagues realize the two were a couple.

• Qina warned Su Li that the Xilan Civilization’s supplies and knowledge might be part of a plot, and he agreed to stay cautious.
• Su Li considered whether ending the Xilan Civilization’s hunt for Superhumans would fulfill his protection mission and earn him Resource Points.
• Su Li offered to protect Monina, and Qina encouraged her to stay with them; Monina accepted.
• Su Li returned to his office at the Detective Bureau, where Xia Ke had waited for him and pulled him out with her arm linked through his.
• Su Li and Xia Ke walked downstairs together, and their affectionate manner shocked the bureau staff and sparked gossip.

Su Li received the technical knowledge, warships, supplies, and information about the Divine Corpse promised by the Xilan Civilization, while learning that the enormous energy would have to be collected from separate locations. Suspecting a trap, he used Ultimate Wisdom and concluded that the Xilan Civilization planned to tamper with the mysterious corpse.

• Su Li visited Qina and accepted technical knowledge and twenty super-large warships with supplies from the Xilan Civilization’s envoys.
• An envoy gave Su Li the location of the Divine Corpse, which the Xilan Civilization had transported from the Alternate Dimension into the Main Universe.
• An envoy handed Su Li the locations where the Xilan Civilization was gathering the vast amount of energy he had requested, prompting him to suspect an ambush.
• The envoys asked Su Li to release the remaining prisoners, and he directed them to Qina.
• Su Li used Ultimate Wisdom and identified the mysterious corpse as the Xilan Civilization’s likely trap.