Chapter Summaries

Su Li and Xia Ke were called to Secretary Wang’s office, where Lin Rongrong secretly assessed their connections to the six robbers. Lin Rongrong found Wang Mingming closely linked to three robbers and urged Ye Mohan to investigate her while continuing to search for the mastermind.

• Su Li arrived at the Detective Bureau and joined Xia Ke, Wang Mingming, and Lin Rongrong in Secretary Wang’s office.
• Secretary Wang dismissed Su Li, Xia Ke, and Wang Mingming after claiming she had only wanted to check that they were safe.
• Lin Rongrong told Secretary Wang that her excuse was unconvincing, then went to Ye Mohan’s office.
• Lin Rongrong revealed that Wang Mingming was connected to all six robbers and had life-bound relationships with three of them.
• Lin Rongrong proposed that the mastermind might transfer control or that the power worked in layers, and Ye Mohan made Wang Mingming the focus of her investigation.
• Lin Rongrong confirmed that Su Li and Xia Ke had only weak connections to the robbers, and Ye Mohan arranged for her to pursue further clues.

Ye Mohan assigned Su Li and Xia Ke to protect Lin Rongrong during visits to other cities, but Lin Rongrong secretly recognized Su Li as the mysterious, overwhelmingly powerful figure and persuaded Ye Mohan to replace them. The mission was canceled for Su Li and Xia Ke, while Lin Rongrong planned to keep Su Li’s identity secret and return to the Capital City as soon as she could.

• Ye Mohan summoned Su Li and Xia Ke and told them to protect Lin Rongrong during her upcoming visits to Detective Bureaus in other cities.
• Lin Rongrong pulled Ye Mohan aside and demanded that Su Li and Xia Ke be replaced, claiming she was jealous of Xia Ke’s beauty and worried about Su Li’s looks.
• Lin Rongrong privately revealed that she had recognized the Causality Line connecting Su Li to the mysterious figure, and decided to hide what she knew and leave Donghai City as soon as possible.
• Ye Mohan agreed to Lin Rongrong’s request and, after returning to the office, told Su Li and Xia Ke that the mission had changed and they could go back.

Su Li and Xia Ke spent seven days studying and then reunited after their English CET-4 exam, while Ye Mohan learned that someone in Jinling had obtained the Gene Blueprint from the Armed Forces Department. She rushed to retrieve Lin Rongrong and accelerate the search for the mastermind, whom she suspected was in Donghai.

• Su Li suggested that Xia Ke move in with him, but she said he would need her parents' approval and challenged him to come get her.
• Su Li studied the Gorol Star laws, hunted E-Class Superpower Creatures, and learned to read and write the Qiduo Star language over seven days.
• Su Li and Xia Ke took the English CET-4 exam, then met up; Xia Ke said she was close to mastering the Gene Blueprint, and they went to get grilled fish.
• Ye Mohan reported that her week of surveillance had revealed nothing unusual in Wang Mingming's routine.
• Lin Rongrong told Ye Mohan that Chu Liang of the Armed Forces Department had obtained the Gene Blueprint a week earlier.
• Ye Mohan left to collect Lin Rongrong in Jinling, deciding they needed to investigate across regions before the other side created a Super-class Superhuman.

Miao Yunxi ordered the Gene Blueprint users to gather in Donghai after realizing Ye Mohan had been watching Wang Mingming. Meanwhile, Su Li completed a second major trade with Gorol, learned about C-Class abilities, and began considering a new transaction in the real world to help him advance.

• Miao Yunxi told Wang Mingming to summon everyone who had learned the Gene Blueprint to No. 33, Donghua District, before five that afternoon.
• Su Li met Qias, who offered three million Energy Crystals in exchange for Superpower Creatures and gave Su Li a space-compression necklace.
• Qias explained that C-Class Superhumans perceived space differently and could create compressed storage spaces and travel vast distances quickly.
• Su Li completed the transaction by delivering the prepared Superpower Creatures, and Qias departed.
• Su Li decided he might need to search beyond the Barren Forest for more species and considered starting a second real-world transaction to obtain Resource Points and a C-Class Gene Blueprint.

In the Virtual Universe, investigators lost the signal they had been tracking and abandoned the search. Back in Donghai City, Xia Ke began cultivating Human Race: Thirty-Six, while Ye Mohan and Lin Rongrong continued searching for suspects.

• Virtual Universe investigators argued over why the signal had vanished, then stopped tracking it after their leader dismissed the task.
• Su Li found Xia Ke cultivating and decided to help her reach E-Class by secretly feeding her roasted Cloud-Devouring Python meat.
• Ye Mohan carried Lin Rongrong toward Donghai City and made her investigate shopping centers for suspects, but they found nothing.
• Xia Ke finished cultivating and told Su Li she had chosen to enhance her body because it grew weak after their intimate encounters.
• Su Li accepted Xia Ke's choice and resolved to urge her to cultivate harder so she could keep up with him.

Miao Yunxi gathered three people who had learned the Gene Blueprint at a café in Donghai City and began helping them strengthen their bodies. Chu Liang started transforming with the energy she supplied, putting him on the path to becoming an E-Class Superhuman.

• Miao Yunxi entered a café at No. 33 in Donghua District after leaving Wang Mingming at school to draw Ye Mohan's attention.
• The café owner brought Chu Liang, Luo Zhengchu, and Huang Xun into a storage room to meet Miao Yunxi.
• Chu Liang revealed that he had killed the people watching him and escaped after receiving Miao Yunxi's message.
• Miao Yunxi questioned the three about their identities and talents, then ordered Chu Liang to use the Gene Blueprint while she supplied him with energy.
• Chu Liang began transforming at a rapid pace as Miao Yunxi channeled energy into him, and she expected him to become an E-Class Superhuman soon.

Ye Mohan learned that Chu Liang, an Advanced Superhuman who had killed three colleagues, had fled to Donghai City, and organized a search while keeping the Gene Blueprint in mind. After sending teams to search possible locations, she exposed Qi Rui as connected to the case and took Lin Rongrong to begin their own investigation.

• Ye Mohan learned from Liu Changfeng that Chu Liang had killed someone and fled to Donghai, then agreed to help find him after learning he carried a Gene Blueprint.
• Ye Mohan brought Lin Rongrong back to the Detective Bureau, where Su Li and Xia Ke arrived and found black-suited men waiting.
• Ye Mohan told the assembled teams that Chu Liang had killed three colleagues and ordered them to secretly search five possible locations without alerting him.
• Ye Mohan kept Qi Rui behind after dispatching the other teams, then crushed him with a force field and declared him a criminal until a solution could be found.
• Ye Mohan left Qi Rui in Secretary Wang's hands and took Lin Rongrong to continue the search for Chu Liang.

While Su Li and Xia Ke searched Donghua District for a murderer, Miao Yunxi created three Super-class Superhumans and sent them to expand her influence in Yuan City. She also ordered them to abduct Wang Mingming and bring Su Li to her, leaving Su Li in danger as he entered the Night Sky coffee shop.

• Su Li persuaded the nervous Xia Ke to enter the Night Sky coffee shop during their search for a suspect.
• Miao Yunxi watched Huang Xun, Chu Liang, and Luo Zhengchu become Super-class Superhumans and gave each a portion of her consciousness to use as Contractual Power.
• Miao Yunxi ordered the three men to form a Contract with the director of the Yuan City Detective Bureau and spread her influence through the city.
• Miao Yunxi assigned Luo Zhengchu to abduct Wang Mingming from Donghai University and take her to Yuan City, unless Ye Mohan was present.
• Miao Yunxi ordered Chu Liang to find Su Li in his dorm and bring him to her so she could form a Contract with him.

Su Li and Xia Ke spotted Chu Liang at a coffee shop and learned that he was searching for one of them after they left. Su Li chose to investigate the threat to himself and Xia Ke, then confronted Chu Liang, who tried to lure him into an alley.

• Xia Ke recognized Chu Liang at the coffee shop, and Chu Liang realized he had found the target his boss wanted him to capture.
• Su Li told Xia Ke to alert Director Ye while he followed Chu Liang, who split from Huang Xun and the other companion.
• Chu Liang returned to the coffee shop and searched for Su Li or Xia Ke, leading Su Li to suspect someone had targeted them.
• Su Li disabled nearby cameras, appeared silently behind Chu Liang, and asked whether he needed help.
• Chu Liang claimed he had dropped something and asked Su Li to look for it in an alley, and Su Li agreed.

Su Li defeated Chu Liang when Chu Liang tried to kidnap him, then killed him after he refused to reveal who had sent him. A fragment of Miao Yunxi’s consciousness returned from Chu Liang, and she fled the café believing Ye Mohan had killed him.

• Chu Liang bound Su Li with threads in an alley and tried to take him away, but Su Li freed himself and subdued Chu Liang.
• Su Li questioned Chu Liang about who had ordered the kidnapping, but Chu Liang refused to answer even under torture.
• Su Li destroyed Chu Liang and left the alley, reasoning that the people behind the kidnapping might blame Ye Mohan for his death.
• A phantom rose from Chu Liang’s remains and entered the café, returning part of Miao Yunxi’s divided consciousness to her.
• Miao Yunxi concluded that Ye Mohan had killed Chu Liang and hurried out of the café to avoid suspicion.

Su Li, posing as Johns, pressed Ye Mohan and the Detective Bureau to finalize a deal for his energy barbecue, but Chief Director Feng Qi proposed a massive transaction in Jinling. Feng Qi then privately revealed that he knew Su Li was a D-Class Superhuman, leaving Su Li convinced Earth’s superpower technology had an outside source.

• Su Li left Xia Ke sleeping in their hotel room and went to the Detective Bureau to demand that Ye Mohan settle their barbecue deal.
• Ye Mohan agreed to consider the proposal, and Secretary Wang explained that tests had found the barbecue contained extraordinary energy and unidentified substances.
• Ye Mohan called Chief Director Feng Qi, who told her to send Su Li to Jinling for a trade worth at least ten billion U.S. dollars.
• Su Li rejected Feng Qi’s proposed time and place, suspecting the Detective Bureau might ambush him, and asked for a safer transaction method.
• After Ye Mohan and the others left the office, Feng Qi called Su Li a D-Class Superhuman, and Su Li concluded that Earth’s superpower technology had not been developed independently.

Su Li agreed to trade with Feng Qi in Jinling, insisting on choosing the time and place himself. Feng Qi prepared to travel there, pleased that he had found a way to profit from the barbecue and planning to deal with people in Jinling.

• Feng Qi used Su Li's strength and the risks of fighting in the city to persuade him to trade in Jinling, and Su Li agreed on the condition that he choose the location and time.
• Feng Qi told his secretary that American buyers had ordered barbecue at three times the price Johns offered, and he suspected they wanted it for research.
• Feng Qi said he would go to Jinling himself for the trade and instructed his secretary to prepare for the trip and for action against people there.
• Secretary Wang, Ye Mohan, and Lin Rongrong entered the office and found Feng Qi gone, then resumed screening candidates.

Su Li discovered that Gorol’s modern scientific texts were far more difficult than the older material he had studied, then shifted his focus to practical subjects connected to his abilities. He selected three books on materials and carbon, while Xia Ke rested at the Detective Bureau.

• Su Li woke Xia Ke, brought her to the Detective Bureau, and let her sleep after she asked for a few days of rest.
• Su Li traveled to Gorol Star to study and found that Principles of Laws: Initial Understanding was far harder than his previous books.
• Su Li learned that the book marked a shift from pre-spaceflight theories to modern Gorol science and decided to study practical fields instead.
• Su Li asked Phils for books on energy, information, and materials, and caretaker robots delivered more than a dozen piles.
• Su Li chose Introduction to Materials Science, Detailed Explanation of Carbon Elements, and Fundamentals of Organic Matter for his first studies.

Su Li prepared to complete his deal with the Detective Bureau and travel to Dacheng Star to buy a Gene Blueprint. Meanwhile, Ye Mohan’s team discovered Wang Mingming had disappeared and suspected multiple Super-class Superhumans were involved; Su Li reached Jinling to collect his payment from Feng Qi.

• Su Li decided to finish his deal with the Detective Bureau, buy a Gene Blueprint, and seek experimental equipment on Dacheng Star.
• Secretary Wang reported that Wang Mingming had vanished, and Ye Mohan and Lin Rongrong began searching for her and screening people near the café.
• Su Li escorted Xia Ke home, then traveled from Donghai to downtown Jinling to meet Feng Qi.
• Su Li borrowed a young man’s phone and called Feng Qi to arrange the payment in cash.
• Su Li warned Feng Qi to come alone within twenty minutes, leaving Feng Qi to suspect he was being treated like a kidnapper.

Su Li completed a large roasted-meat deal with Feng Qi, earning about 1.15 billion dollars and roughly eight hundred thousand Resource Points. After Su Li left, Feng Qi learned that Chu Liang might have broken through to the Super-Class, raising new concerns about the case.

• Su Li waited for Feng Qi in Jinling City after destroying a streetlight, and Feng Qi arrived with experts and a truck full of cash.
• Su Li and Feng Qi agreed to trade roasted meat in batches, with Feng Qi ordering hundreds of tons worth 1.15 billion dollars.
• Feng Qi’s experts inspected the meat while Su Li exchanged it for cash, secretly storing the money in the space necklace Qias had given him.
• After the five-hour trade, Su Li left Feng Qi with money to pay his fine, and Feng Qi concluded that Su Li was a D-Class Superhuman.
• Liu Changfeng arrived to manage the meat and suppress reports of the trade, then told Feng Qi that Chu Liang might have reached the Super-Class and asked whether he should go to the East Sea.

Su Li spent Resource Points to raise his real-world rank to D+ and tested his new strength by flying from Donghai City to Japan. He reached Tokyo disguised as Johns and began looking for a shop open all night.

• Su Li stored 1.15 billion dollars in diamond boxes in his rental house and saw that his Resource Points had risen to 713,455.
• Su Li spent 192,000 Resource Points to advance from D-(1%) to D+(1%), then gained strength, speed, vitality, and spiritual force.
• Su Li flew east over the sea to avoid alarming Hua Nation and reached Japan, where hidden alarms began sounding as he passed.
• Su Li flew north toward Tokyo, landed in the city, and disguised himself as the masked, armored Johns.
• Su Li walked out to look for a shop that was open twenty-four hours a day.

Su Li was followed through Tokyo by Takahashi Kazuhito, a D-Class Superhuman, and took him to Mount Fuji to teach him a lesson. Su Li overwhelmed Takahashi and sent him flying with a punch.

• Su Li bought food and souvenirs at a Tokyo convenience store, where he noticed Takahashi Kazuhito waiting outside with a sword.
• Takahashi introduced himself as a host and followed Su Li as he wandered around Tokyo.
• Su Li led Takahashi to Mount Fuji and warned him that it would make a decent burial ground.
• Su Li blasted Takahashi with Carbon Element Manipulation, then caught his sword bare-handed.
• Su Li punched Takahashi and sent him flying away from Mount Fuji.

Su Li returned to his rented house with Takahashi Kazuhito’s sword and learned the third chapter of the Nine Spirit Diagram of the Supreme God. He discovered that C-Class Superhumans were universe-level beings who possessed Anomalous Energy, while his plan to reach C-Class depended on the Energy Crystals he held in the Virtual Universe.

• Su Li took Takahashi Kazuhito’s longsword and flew back to his rented house in Chunhua Residential Area.
• Su Li put the sword in a diamond box and bought the third chapter of the Nine Spirit Diagram of the Supreme God for 135,000 Resource Points.
• Su Li learned that C-Class Superhumans developed Anomalous Energy, which let them survive in space and travel at immense speeds.
• Su Li decided his 3.5 million Energy Crystals in the Virtual Universe could make reaching C-Class a certainty, though consuming them would take several days.
• Su Li checked his phone and realized it was already eight-thirty and he was late.

Ye Mohan identified Donghai University student Miao Yunxi as the likely mastermind behind the mind-controlling Superhuman incident and alerted Feng Qi, who prepared to send forces to arrest her in Yuan City. Meanwhile, Su Li consumed Energy Crystals in the Virtual Universe and discovered that increasing his D+ progress required far more energy than before.

• Lin Rongrong and Secretary Wang uncovered leads connecting Luo Zhengchu and Miao Yunxi to Donghua District, and Ye Mohan decided Miao Yunxi was the stronger suspect.
• Su Li and Xia Ke entered the Virtual Universe to cultivate, where Su Li ate Energy Crystals and found that each one-percent increase in his D+ progress required about sixteen thousand crystals.
• Ye Mohan called Feng Qi and reported that Miao Yunxi was probably the Superhuman controlling others and had returned to Yuan City.
• Ye Mohan told Feng Qi that Miao Yunxi might have other Super-class Superhumans under her, and he arranged to send reinforcements to arrest her.
• Ye Mohan explained that Miao Yunxi’s leave from Donghai University and her links to dozens of suspicious people strengthened the case against her.

Feng Qi dispatched five powerful agents to Yuan City to capture Miao Yunxi, warning them that she might already have controlled people there. In the Virtual Universe, Su Li created Purple Flower Stone and then decided to upgrade Hua Qi’s people’s equipment.

• Feng Qi ordered five agents to capture Miao Yunxi in Yuan City and warned them not to trust anyone, including themselves.
• The agents questioned why Lin Rongrong would not accompany them, but Feng Qi decided she would stay behind.
• Su Li successfully created Purple Flower Stone by shaping Carbon Monotube and considered its potential uses and value.
• Su Li told Hua Qi that he would upgrade the armor and weapons he had previously given her people.