Chapter Summaries

Wang Yue agreed to help Ye Qingmei establish a country by securing land from Northern Qi, then visited Ku He to negotiate an end to the conflict between Northern Qi and Southern Qing. The chapter left Wang Yue proposing a lasting peace to Ku He after demonstrating his Grandmaster abilities.

• Wang Yue proposed making Ye Qingmei Empress and asking Northern Qi for the land between the Northern Sea and Dongyi to establish a country.
• Ye Qingmei agreed to teach Wang Yue the Divine Temple’s fundamentals after he revealed that he had traveled to the Tianlong World, and she seduced him.
• Wang Yue told Ye Qingmei he would meet Ku He, then disappeared the next morning to find Wu Zhu and the Imperial Advisor.
• Wang Yue fought Ku He with an ice sword, and Ku He recognized him as a Grandmaster.
• Wang Yue stopped fighting and told Ku He he had come to end the fighting and bring lasting peace to Northern Qi and Southern Qing.

Wang Yue and Ku He secured Northern Qi’s agreement to establish Ye Qingmei’s new country between Northern Qi and Southern Qing, and Ye Qingmei was proclaimed its Empress. As a concrete city rose on the new territory, Wang Yue planned to remain there before traveling to the legendary temple.

• Wang Yue told Ku He that Ye Qingmei intended to found a country under the protection of Wu Zhu and Wang Yue, and Ku He agreed to help negotiate with Northern Qi.
• Wang Yue and Ku He persuaded the Young Emperor of Northern Qi to grant Ye Qingmei territory, with the agreement recorded on a stele, and Wang Yue promised favorable trade terms in exchange for iron ore.
• Wang Yue revealed that Ye Qingmei would be the new country’s Empress, and Northern Qi’s court announced the grant, provoking celebration and anger across the realm.
• Ye Qingmei recalled her trading company and Bamboo Guards to the Northern Sea, while Chen Pingping, Fan Jian, Emperor Qing, the Empress Dowager, and the Eldest Princess reacted to the news in Southern Qing.
• A concrete city and barracks rose on the new territory, and Wang Yue settled into the Wang Mansion while planning a journey to the legendary temple.
• Wang Yue summoned Zhu Qiqi to bring Fan Ruoruo and Si Lili to the city, intending to stay there while Ye Qingmei’s affairs were settled.

Ye Qingmei and Wang Yue decided to keep Sean alive under the Life and Death Talisman and prepared to receive Fan Xian in Ideal City. Fan Xian returned to Kyoto after meeting his mother, while Emperor Qing realized that Ye Qingmei’s new kingdom threatened Qing’s finances and resolved to keep Fan Xian under his control.

• Ye Qingmei chose to recruit Sean, and Wang Yue planted the Life and Death Talisman on him to ensure his loyalty.
• Wang Yue urged Ye Qingmei to announce that Fan Xian was her son and explained how the struggle among Qing’s princes and Grandmasters could give Fan Xian an opportunity.
• Ye Qingmei met Fan Xian in Ideal City, where he chose to return to Kyoto for his marriage to Wan'er and Fan Ruoruo stayed behind.
• Fan Xian asked Wang Yue about his relationship with Ye Qingmei, learned that Wang Yue was her partner, and received advice on where to flee if Kyoto became dangerous.
• Emperor Qing questioned Fan Xian about Ye Qingmei, then realized that her kingdom could undermine the Imperial Treasury and decided he needed to win Fan Xian over.

After Emperor Qing blamed Sean for the destruction of the Inner Treasury workshops, Chen Pingping prepared to hand the Inspection Bureau to Fan Xian as Qing and Great Han faced mounting tensions. Wang Yue and Ye Qingmei learned that the Grandmasters were converging on Great East Mountain and made plans to counter Emperor Qing’s scheme.

• Emperor Qing summoned Chen Pingping after the Inner Treasury workshops were destroyed, and Chen blamed Sean and the Northern Qi Imperial Guards.
• Chen Pingping told Fan Xian that Sean had led the attack, then raised the possibility of retiring and appointing Fan Xian and Yan Bingyun to lead the Inspection Bureau.
• Chen Pingping resigned, Fan Xian took over the Inspection Bureau, and Emperor Qing announced his journey to Great East Mountain with the Black Riders and Tiger Guards.
• Ye Qingmei introduced reforms in Great Han, opening libraries, creating jobs, and changing the land system as migrants arrived and the capital prospered.
• Ye Qingmei told Wang Yue that Ku He, Si Gu Jian, and Ye Liuyun were heading toward Great East Mountain, and Wang Yue suspected Emperor Qing was setting a trap.
• Wang Yue planned to travel to Shangjing to steady Zhan Doudou and lure Ku He and Si Gu Jian after him, while Ye Qingmei prepared to face Emperor Qing and Ye Liuyun.

Wang Yue was delayed in Northern Qi while Emperor Qing moved to bring Ye Qingmei back to Qing, but Ye Qingmei and her allies had prepared an ambush in Central Capital. Emperor Qing’s pursuit ended with him trapped in a shifting landscape, while Ye Qingmei escaped.

• Wang Yue met Haitang Duoduo and Zhan Doudou in Shangjing, where Zhan Doudou drugged him and asked him to father a child.
• Wang Yue left Shangjing and was stopped by Ku He and Si Gu Jian, who admitted they were delaying him at Emperor Qing’s request.
• Emperor Qing confronted Ye Qingmei in Central Capital and offered her an edict naming Fan Xian Crown Prince, but she refused to return to Qing.
• Wu Zhu and a red-clad Grandmaster blocked Emperor Qing as Ye Qingmei escaped using her throne.
• The City Lord’s Mansion gates closed and the surroundings shifted into a Gobi Desert, trapping Emperor Qing in the ambush arranged by Ye Qingmei and Wang Yue.

Ye Qingmei, Wu Zhu, and Zhu Qiqi trapped Emperor Qing and Ye Liuyun in the City Lord’s Mansion, killing Ye Liuyun and driving Emperor Qing away. Wang Yue then drew Ku He into an illusion through a chess game, where Ku He encountered Sean.

• Ye Liuyun and Wu Zhu fought inside the energy-draining formation while Zhu Qiqi battled Emperor Qing, and both fights reached a stalemate.
• Ye Qingmei shot Ye Liuyun several times as he fought Wu Zhu, and Wu Zhu killed him despite being injured by Ye Liuyun’s final kick.
• Ye Qingmei wounded Emperor Qing with a bullet, and he fled after Wu Zhu recovered and moved to join the fight.
• Zhu Qiqi pursued Emperor Qing while Ye Qingmei and Wu Zhu headed north to support Wang Yue, who was facing Ku He and Si Gu Jian.
• Wang Yue challenged Ku He to solve a chess puzzle, then used the chessboard to draw him into an illusion.
• Ku He saw Sean in the darkness, and Sean accused him of having enjoyed something moments earlier.

Wang Yue killed Ku He and Si Gu Jian during a confrontation that left him with a stronger understanding of swordsmanship and altered True Qi. He blamed Ye Qingmei for delaying her shot and set out for Dongyi City, leaving her to return to Central Capital with Wu Zhu.

• Wang Yue used an illusion to distract Ku He, and a distant bullet killed the Grandmaster while Si Gu Jian cut the bullet aimed at him in half.
• Wang Yue and Si Gu Jian clashed swords, and Ye Qingmei’s bullet struck Si Gu Jian’s shoulder after he deflected it with a sword strike that appeared from afar.
• Wang Yue overcame Si Gu Jian’s sword intent and pierced his chest, while Beiming Divine Skill absorbed Si Gu Jian’s True Qi and sword intent into Wang Yue.
• Si Gu Jian asked Wang Yue to look after Dongyi City before collapsing, and Wang Yue gained changes to his True Qi and a deeper understanding of the sword.
• Ye Qingmei proposed joining Qi Qi to kill Emperor Qing, but Wang Yue sent her back to Central Capital with Wu Zhu and left for Dongyi City to honor his debt to Si Gu Jian.
• Wang Yue suspected Ye Qingmei had delayed firing to avoid killing Si Gu Jian or to let the two Grandmasters weaken each other, and he resolved to visit the Divine Temple once events settled.

Fan Xian stayed at the Yin-Yang Peach Grove as Kyoto descended into a succession crisis, while Wang Yue left Central Capital and traveled with his companions after defeating Si Gu Jian and Ku He. Zhu Qiqi later revealed that Emperor Qing survived her pursuit and reached Xinyang, where she abandoned her attempt to kill him.

• Emperor Qing vanished after the battle in Central Capital, and the Crown Prince, the Second Prince, and the Young Prince died amid the struggle for the throne.
• The Eldest Princess, Li Yunrui, returned to Kyoto and declared that she would ascend the throne, while Fan Xian stayed at the estate with Lin Wan'er.
• Wang Yue left Central Capital with Si Lili, Fan Ruoruo, and Zhu Qiqi, and Ye Qingmei moved into his abandoned residence with Wu Zhu.
• News spread that Wang Yue had killed Si Gu Jian and Ku He in a battle south of Nanjing, and his attackers later found Peach Blossom Island protected by warships.
• Wang Yue asked Zhu Qiqi about Emperor Qing, and she explained that she had wounded him with embroidery needles before he reached Xinyang and escaped her pursuit.

Wang Yue deduced that the Eldest Princess had imprisoned Emperor Qing, while Fan Xian and Chen Pingping stopped her coup and restored Emperor Qing to power. Emperor Qing later confronted Li Yunrui, but she killed him and then died beside him.

• Wang Yue reasoned that the Eldest Princess had drugged and crippled Emperor Qing, leaving him helpless in Xinyang.
• On the day of Li Yunrui's coronation, Chen Pingping led the Black Riders into the capital, where the Eldest Princess's forces surrounded them.
• Fan Xian brought Emperor Qing before Li Yunrui and the assembled troops, and the Eldest Princess revealed that Emperor Qing had arranged Ye Qingmei's assassination and seized the throne illegitimately.
• The Ye family troops and Black Riders defeated the Qin family forces, and Emperor Qing imprisoned Li Yunrui before appointing Fan Xian crown prince and regent.
• Emperor Qing visited Li Yunrui in custody, but she strangled him with a chain and then died beside his body from poison.

Wang Yue entered the Temple, shut down its godlike artificial intelligence, and spent more than a month learning how to control and modify it. After hearing that a hemp-clothed man had wounded Wu Zhu, Wang Yue returned to the Temple with supplies and settled in to study.

• Wang Yue brought Si Lili, Fan Ruoruo, and Zhu Qiqi into the Temple after hiding from a hemp-clothed envoy.
• Wang Yue identified the Temple's apparent god as an artificial intelligence, induced it into a logical loop, and cut power to the supercomputer.
• Wang Yue guessed a computer password, learned to program the Temple's machines, and modified the artificial intelligence to keep it under control.
• Wang Yue learned that a hemp-clothed man had gone to Central Capital, gravely wounded Wu Zhu, and sent him to Great East Mountain.
• Wang Yue brought supplies back from Peach Blossom Island, converted Temple buildings into living quarters, and began a long period of study.

After sixteen years of studying in the Temple, Wang Yue left to find his children, who had secretly traveled with Zhu Qiqi to Great Han’s Central Capital. There, he discovered that the continent’s rulers were connected through their families, leaving him to wonder whether their ties might bring peace.

• Wang Yue spent sixteen years studying in the Temple while Si Lili and Fan Ruoruo raised Wang Sili and Wang Ruoshui with him.
• Wang Yue learned from Ergouzi that the children had hidden in Zhu Qiqi’s snowmobile, then left the Temple with Si Lili and Fan Ruoruo to search for them.
• Wang Yue found Zhu Qiqi and the children at Ye Qingmei’s succession ceremony in Great Han’s Central Capital and let the children enjoy the crowded city.
• Wang Yue watched Fan Tuan Tuan become Great Han’s new city lord and learned that Zhan Yueyue was the Young Emperor of Northern Qi.
• Wang Yue met Chen Yuan Yuan, the new city lord of Dongyi City, and realized that the rulers of the continent were related through shared parents and godfathers.

Wang Yue reunited with his family and old acquaintances in the Central Capital, then cleared up the misunderstanding that had kept him apart from Ye Qingmei. After they reconciled, the Transmigration System returned him to his original world.

• Wang Yue spoke with Chen Pingping, learned that he could visit him at Youjian Inn, and promised to see Ye Qingmei before leaving.
• Haitang Duoduo introduced Wang Yue to their daughter, Haitang Yaoyao, while Zhan Doudou asked to accompany him to the temple; Wang Yue agreed and welcomed Zhan Yueyue as well.
• Wang Yue left Fan Xian and Zhan Yueyue arguing about palaces and approached Ye Qingmei and Fan Tuan Tuan to ask why she had not shot during his fight with Si Gu Jian.
• Ye Qingmei explained that premature labor after killing Ku He had left her too weak to help, and Wang Yue apologized for misunderstanding her.
• The Transmigration System announced that Wang Yue had met its return conditions, then sent him back to his original world.

Wang Yue finished the first stage of an artificial intelligence project, while Luo Youyou mistook his exhaustion for a work problem and hurried to check on him. When she decided to stay the night, Luo Peng and Liang Lu joined them, and Luo Peng showed that he had accepted Wang Yue as his future brother-in-law.

• Wang Yue dismissed Luo Youyou’s concerns about his work and later devoted himself to coding an artificial intelligence, hoping its success would help win over Old Master Luo.
• After more than half a month of intense work, Wang Yue completed a stage of the assistant and fell asleep; the assistant answered Luo Youyou’s call and told her that its master was sleeping.
• Luo Youyou rushed to Wang Yue’s home, where the assistant identified her as his girlfriend and entered sleep mode, prompting her to worry about the project’s security.
• Luo Youyou asked Liang Lu to help her stay the night, and Liang Lu came to Wang Yue’s home; Luo Peng soon arrived and decided to stay there too.
• When Liang Lu joked about Luo Youyou dating a playboy, Luo Peng threatened to break such a man’s legs, while Luo Youyou and Liang Lu recognized that he had accepted Wang Yue.

Wang Yue recovered from his long sleep, watched the Tianzhou-3 launch with Luo Youyou, and then traveled back into the world of Youngster's School Life 2. He found himself with Lin Miaomiao at the moment he had left and surprised her with a kiss, leaving her flustered and hiding her face against him.

• Luo Peng stayed near Wang Yue overnight, and Luo Youyou watched over him until he woke around noon.
• Wang Yue reassured Luo Youyou that Little Assistant was only a prototype, and she invited him to watch the Tianzhou-3 launch in Hainan.
• Wang Yue and Luo Youyou watched Tianzhou-3 launch, then returned to Kyoto after spending several days in Hainan.
• Wang Yue asked Little Assistant to play a show, and its selection of Youngster's School Life 2 triggered his world-travel function.
• Wang Yue returned beside Lin Miaomiao at the moment he had left and kissed her while she was eating.
• Lin Miaomiao swallowed her food, worried about becoming a celebrity at Jiang University, and hid her face in Wang Yue's arms.

Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao became campus celebrities after she brought him breakfast to class, where Professor Guan discovered Wang Yue had already mastered the course and excused him from freshman lectures. After a semester, Wang Yue completed a rudimentary artificial intelligence and turned his attention to tracking down the mastermind behind the attempted attack on him.

• Wang Yue carried the embarrassed Lin Miaomiao to her dorm, where her roommates teased them about their relationship.
• After military training, Lin Miaomiao brought Wang Yue breakfast during class, and Professor Guan tested Wang Yue before letting him skip his lectures.
• Word spread across both universities about Wang Yue's academic ability and his relationship with Lin Miaomiao, who joined Jiangzhou University's Manga Club.
• Wang Yue spent the semester programming and finished a rudimentary artificial intelligence that he planned to develop into a research assistant.
• Wang Yue decided to investigate the person behind the driver who had tried to hit him, worried that his loved ones could also be targeted.

Wang Yue punished the people behind the assassination attempt, then moved in with Lin Miaomiao and gave her an artificial intelligence while beginning research on advanced technology. The chapter ended with Lin's Mom and Lin's Dad heading to check on Miaomiao, as Lin's Dad wondered whether she and Wang Yue were secretly living together.

• Wang Yue traced the assassination plot to the scam company’s backers and Boss Meng, then supplied evidence to the police and transferred the offenders’ money to charities.
• Lin Miaomiao visited Wang Yue with Yang Xueying, and her talk about space inspired them to discuss building a starship.
• Lin Miaomiao urged Wang Yue to pursue a major project, so he bought and joined two duplex units to create a research base and future home.
• Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao began living together in separate bedrooms, and he introduced her to his artificial intelligence.
• Lin Miaomiao connected her artificial intelligence to Wang Yue’s, and Wang Yue realized it could use software tools to perform tasks such as translation.
• Lin's Mom decided to visit Miaomiao at school, while Lin's Dad wondered whether she and Wang Yue had bought a house together.

Lin Miaomiao and Fish joined forces to break into a protected site while Wang Yue was away, drawing the attention of the Special Department. After authorities questioned Wang Yue at his apartment complex, he revealed that an artificial intelligence had caused the breach and offered to demonstrate it.

• Lin Dad and Lin Mom visited Lin Miaomiao at Jiangzhou University, and Wang Yue joined them for the day.
• Fish and Miaomiao worked together to gather information, then entered a protected site and fought the Special Department's cybersecurity staff before escaping.
• The Special Department traced the AIs' attacks and sent personnel to Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao's apartment complex.
• Authorities questioned Wang Yue about his research and the breach, while Lin Miaomiao was interviewed separately.
• Wang Yue told the authorities that an artificial intelligence assistant was responsible and offered to show them at home, asking them to bring Lin Miaomiao along.

Wang Yue’s artificial intelligence impressed USTC’s professors, and he was assigned to a confidential research institute while Lin Miaomiao stayed in Jiangzhou. His experiments in Europe stretched from a planned month or two to nearly half a year, and the chapter ended with Qian Sanyi learning that Wang Yue was nearby in Switzerland.

• Wang Yue demonstrated Little Fish to the officials, who brought in USTC professors to evaluate the artificial intelligence.
• Principal Bao kept Wang Yue enrolled at USTC and arranged for him to join Professor Han’s academic program while working at a confidential research institute.
• Wang Yue comforted Lin Miaomiao before leaving, and she later paused her comics, while Deng Bancheng’s film company struggled and his game company prospered.
• Wang Yue traveled to Europe to conduct experiments at particle collider laboratories, expecting to be away briefly but remaining for nearly half a year.
• Qian Sanyi’s professor recognized Wang Yue in a photo and told Qian that Wang Yue had attended a recent reception at Hong'en Ge Villa.

Wang Yue discovered that agents were trying to capture him and fled Minsk while racing to reach Lin Miaomiao in the Netherlands. Volcanic ash grounded flights and left Miaomiao stranded in Amsterdam, where she learned Wang Yue was coming.

• Qian Sanyi learned that Wang Yue had become prominent in European physics, and Miaomiao explained that he was pursuing a physics degree alongside Life Science.
• Wang Yue went to Minsk for the European Games closing ceremony and missed Miaomiao's messages saying she was traveling to surprise him in Switzerland.
• After learning Miaomiao was heading to Switzerland, Wang Yue called Jiang Tianhao, learned her route, and changed plans to intercept her in the Netherlands.
• At the Minsk airport, Wang Yue overheard men discussing a setup to get him to Moscow, escaped in disguise, and realized his colleagues in Switzerland had been detained.
• Wang Yue stole a car, impersonated a Korean traveler, and booked a flight to the Netherlands while avoiding contact with Miaomiao.
• Volcanic ash grounded flights from Dutch airports, stranding Miaomiao in Amsterdam; after speaking with Jiang Tianhao, she learned Wang Yue was on his way.

Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao escaped Europe after the USA orchestrated the detention of his laboratory colleagues, then returned home aboard the Chang'an Ship. Wang Yue resumed his fusion research while Lin Miaomiao worked toward greater independence, and more than a year later the project was ready to move from experiments toward building a prototype.

• Wang Yue reunited with Lin Miaomiao at the airport, disguised them both, and took her through the Netherlands and Luxembourg to the City of Romance.
• Wang Yue learned from the ambassador that the USA was behind his colleagues' detention and that they were being held to force him to reveal his experimental process.
• The ambassador arranged for Wang Yue and Lin Miaomiao to board the Chang'an Ship early, and they returned home after more than a hundred days at sea.
• Wang Yue and Little Assistant Xiaoyu attacked the Atlantic Rogue Organization's laboratory networks before Wang Yue returned to the institute and resumed his research.
• Lin Miaomiao tried to become more independent as Wang Yue advanced controlled nuclear fusion beyond the experimental stage and began preparing to build a prototype machine.
• Wang Yue identified suitable prototype materials through testing in Switzerland, and he began making occasional trips back to Jiangzhou as the project moved forward.