Chapter Summaries

Zhu Wujiu traveled through a wormhole to a planet whose inhabitants had merged into a shared consciousness called The Lone One, which tried to absorb him as its next primary consciousness. On Noan Star, Yang Susu waited for Bai Zhiyi to finish her national exam, and Huang Tian arrived with a spacecraft as her graduation gift.

• Zhu Wujiu crossed the wormhole and discovered a bustling planet whose people were controlled by a collective consciousness.
• The Lone One revealed that its eleventh primary consciousness spoke for trillions of merged minds and urged Zhu Wujiu to become the twelfth.
• Zhu Wujiu fled, but The Lone One transformed into black mist and engulfed him as he fought back with his saber.
• Yang Susu discussed her vision of the apocalypse with Old Xiang and a young officer, concluding that Huang Tian had changed the timeline and deciding to stay near Bai Zhiyi.
• Bai Zhiyi finished her national exam and worried that Huang Tian had not come to meet her.
• Huang Tian arrived and presented Bai Zhiyi with the Sea-Listening Ship, which descended from the sky and astonished the crowd.

Huang Tian let Bai Zhiyi pilot the Sea-Listening Ship, then learned that Yang Susu and her companions came from the Moral Space and obtained an Envoy Invitation Letter from them. Meanwhile, Zhu Wujiu embraced his growing power to merge minds and flew toward space, determined to unite everyone with himself.

• Huang Tian transferred control of the Sea-Listening Ship to Bai Zhiyi, who flew it to Pinghe Mountain and discovered that he knew she was an awakened one.
• Huang Tian told Yang Susu, Xiang Kuan, and Li Hailin that Bai Zhiyi could not hear them, and Yang Susu revealed that they came from the Moral Space, though Huang Tian pretended not to hear the name.
• Huang Tian asked how he could join their faction and offered the team technical materials for Modified Humans through Delta-Class Cyborgs in exchange for an invitation.
• Yang Susu gave Huang Tian an Envoy Invitation Letter, and he accepted it as a way to investigate the Moral Space.
• Zhu Wujiu reveled in the wisdom he gained by merging consciousnesses, then flew toward the wormhole and vowed to make everyone on Noan Star and the moon one with him.

As Zhu Wujiu returned from the wormhole transformed, he destroyed a probe and attacked Noan Star with a beam of dark Divine Light. Just as the black sun threatened the planet, the Jade Ruyi rose to meet it, and the two forces collided in space.

• Chief Engineer Gu told General Li that the gravitational signal might come from a wormhole or alien spacecraft, while Xia Zhongliu learned that mysterious people across several countries had warned of an approaching cataclysm.
• Xia Zhongliu organized an international Joint Army to patrol space and the seas as Zhu Wujiu emerged from the wormhole and headed for Noan Star.
• Zhu Wujiu destroyed Insight One, alarming the moon base, and Xia Zhongliu ordered the Joint Army to prepare for his attack.
• Zhu Wujiu unleashed a colossal beam of dark Divine Light toward Noan Star, while the Joint Army fleets fell into disarray and people across the planet panicked.
• The Jade Ruyi rose from Yuxin City, expanded into a mountain-sized object, and collided with the black sun in space.

Huang Tian confronted Zhu Wujiu after Zhu attacked Noan Star, defeating him with the Snow Frost Saber and a moonlit strike. Zhu Wujiu and the countless consciousnesses he had consumed were released, leaving Noan Star’s people safe.

• Zhu Wujiu’s attack on Noan Star was blocked by Huang Tian, who appeared in space to face him.
• Huang Tian overwhelmed Zhu Wujiu, broke his Battle Blade, wounded him, and cut off his head, but Zhu regrew it and tried to flee.
• Zhu Wujiu urged Huang Tian to merge with him, but Huang Tian refused and summoned layers of moonlike halos.
• Huang Tian’s full-moon strike shattered Zhu Wujiu’s blood-red spear and destroyed his body.
• The strike freed the countless consciousnesses inside Zhu Wujiu, which dissolved into points of light and vanished.

After defeating Zhu Wujiu, Huang Tian became humanity’s celebrated protector while the Moral Space teams chose to remain on Noan Star. A year later, as Huang Tian advanced to the Mid-Seventh Stage, the Dead Realm descended, and You Kao’s treasure-fishing rod snagged Huang Tian instead of the Ji River Water Emperor Seal.

• Xia Zhongliu mourned Zhu Wujiu, while the Moral Space teams celebrated completing Phase Two and chose to continue exploring Noan Star.
• Huang Tian collected three bottles of cultivation liquid, returned to Yuxin City, and entered seclusion after telling Yang Susu to notify him before the team returned to Moral Space.
• After Dream Night’s leader delivered an apology, Huang Tian refused to meet the organization, and the world’s powers destroyed Dream Night within a month.
• A year later, Bai Zhiyi returned to Yuxin City and spoke with Yang Susu about the Martial Path’s growth, interstellar migration, and Huang Tian’s long seclusion.
• Huang Tian finished refining his pills and spiritual liquids, reached the Mid-Seventh Stage, and sensed the Dead Realm’s descent.
• You Kao cast his fishing rod to find the Ji River Water Emperor Seal, but the hook caught Huang Tian’s sleeve instead.

Huang Tian defeated You Kao and Ji Xi, learned that Zhu Yong’s followers had nearly conquered the Xiangping Realm, and revealed power that rallied the besieged gods. As the gods prepared to fight back, Yun Ge the Great Venerable fired a blood-red arrow at him.

• Huang Tian broke free of You Kao’s fishing hook, defeated You Kao and Ji Xi, searched their souls, and killed them.
• Huang Tian learned that Gu Su the Great Venerable, Yuan Qi the Great Venerable, and Yun Ge the Great Venerable had invaded the Xiangping Realm on behalf of Zhu Yong.
• Huang Tian displayed his immense power, prompting Cangxuan Dragon Lord to leave his palace and Emperor Zhaoming to assemble his troops.
• Yuan Qi the Great Venerable and Gu Su the Great Venerable noticed Huang Tian’s display, while Madam Houci welcomed the prospect of help.
• Yun Ge the Great Venerable drew a blood-red bow and fired an arrow across the heavens at Huang Tian.

Huang Tian fought Yun Ge the Great Venerable, Gu Su the Great Venerable, and Yuan Qi the Great Venerable alone, then killed all three with his Great Five-Element Divine Fist. As his allies watched, Huang Tian stood amid the dust with his blood surging skyward.

• Huang Tian countered Yun Ge the Great Venerable’s attacks and fought off the combined assault of Yun Ge, Gu Su, and Yuan Qi with his five saber techniques.
• When Huang Tian’s Snow Frost Saber broke, the three demons combined their attacks into a demonic dragon, which Huang Tian shattered with his Great Five-Element Divine Fist.
• Huang Tian destroyed the demons’ defenses and killed Yun Ge the Great Venerable with a barrage of five-colored punches.
• Cangxuan Dragon Lord blocked Yuan Qi the Great Venerable while Huang Tian pursued Gu Su the Great Venerable and killed him.
• Huang Tian returned to Yuan Qi, struck him into a crater, and killed him with another crushing punch.

After defeating the demons in Xiangping Realm, Huang Tian cultivated to the Eighth Stage and investigated Moral Space before sending a blood-made double into its newcomer mission. He arrived in a turbulent version of Shenghai, where a guide assigned the newcomers a mission to change the world, and he introduced himself as Academician Huang.

• Huang Tian helped Emperor Zhaoming, Cangxuan Dragon Lord, and Madam Houci wipe out the demon army, then accepted gifts at a farewell feast before returning to Noan Star.
• Huang Tian cultivated to the Eighth Stage, while Yang Susu and the Sacred Sea Starlight Team prepared to leave Noan Star and return to Moral Space.
• Yang Susu and her teammates returned to their residence in Moral Space, and Huang Tian surveyed the realm but could not locate the Lord of Morality.
• Huang Tian created a double from his blood, equipped it with everyday accessories, and used the Envoy Invitation Letter to enter Moral Space.
• Guide Liu Yuanying introduced the newcomers to their mission in Shenghai, and Huang Tian said his name and invited them to call him Teacher Huang or Academician Huang.

Huang Tian arrived in Shenghai with Liu Yuanying and the other newcomers, then used his knowledge to secure a professorship at Wangdan University. With a salary, an advance, and the group’s support, he prepared to begin changing the world.

• Liu Yuanying explained the mission’s possible rewards and the group discussed how to survive and earn money in Shenghai.
• After the group entered the city, Huang Tian spotted Wangdan University’s advertisement for instructors and led them there.
• Huang Tian applied to Wangdan University, passed Cai Jun’s chemistry examination, and impressed him with his knowledge of polymer science.
• Lin Jiting and Cai Jun appointed Huang Tian a chemistry professor, and the university gave him a hundred-silver-dollar advance against his monthly salary of four hundred and twenty silver dollars.
• Huang Tian offered to support the others and declared that he would show the world the power of knowledge.

Huang Tian planned to remake the world by founding Mystic Umbrella Technology, offering his teammates rapid strength-enhancing modifications, and beginning work as a chemistry professor at Wangdan University. After his first class, he created Antuo Tablets, the world’s first antibacterial medicine.

• Du Xiaomai, Ou Ling, and Liu Yuanying reported on harsh factory conditions and Shenghai’s political powers, while Liu Yuanying explained the martial arts ranks and the dangers firearms posed to cultivators.
• Huang Tian rejected plans to destroy humanity, announced Mystic Umbrella Technology, and offered to modify his teammates so they could become much stronger; Liu Yuanying and the others agreed to consider it.
• Huang Tian went to Wangdan University for his first chemistry class, encouraged the students to study so they could help build the country, and then headed to the laboratory.
• Huang Tian finished making Antuo Tablets, enhanced antibacterial medicine that could treat infections previously considered deadly.

Huang Tian introduced his Antuo Tablets to university leaders and doctors, and the medicine rapidly rescued a woman with puerperal fever. As the patient continued recovering, Shenghai’s newspapers announced the breakthrough, while Huang Tian prepared to protect and use the wealth and influence it could bring.

• Huang Tian told Lin Jiting he had developed Antuo Tablets, and Lin arranged a clinical trial with Li Shenghui and Yan Qing at National Shenghai Hospital.
• Huang Tian gave a tablet to a gravely ill woman with puerperal fever, and within fifteen minutes her fever fell and she regained consciousness.
• Yan Qing confirmed the woman was out of immediate danger and warned Huang Tian that the medicine’s immense potential profits would attract powerful rivals.
• Over the following days, the woman recovered quickly without apparent adverse reactions, and Yan Qing requested more tablets.
• Shenghai’s major newspapers published front-page stories heralding the Antuo Tablets as a savior of humanity.

Huang Tian gained national fame for Antuo Tablets, secured support and funding to build a large research complex and factories, and began modifying Ma Zhang with an infrasound-producing throat procedure. The chapter left Huang Tian and Liu Yuanying arriving at a prestigious reception in the concessions, where Shenghai’s powerful figures would meet the rising magnate.

• Newspapers across Shenghai praised Huang Tian and Antuo Tablets, and the president’s endorsement helped spread the medicine’s name nationwide.
• Huang Tian negotiated with powerful figures, sold some tablets at high prices, and began building a large experimental complex and factories in Jiangyan District.
• Ma Zhang volunteered for modification, and Huang Tian performed a throat operation that enabled him to produce organ-shaking infrasound.
• Huang Tian accepted Fei Xinzhen’s invitation to a reception at the Huamao Hotel and brought Ma Zhang and Liu Yuanying with him.
• Huang Tian and Liu Yuanying arrived at the reception in the concessions, where Shenghai’s elite had gathered.

At a Huamao Hotel reception, Huang Tian learned that Fei Xinzhen might back him for a vacant Municipal Council seat, angering Eastern Isles officials who wanted it for themselves. Funatsu Kiji sent swordsman Takahashi Shizuo to seize Huang Tian, but Huang Tian’s allies had prepared an ambush and killed him.

• Fei Xinzhen introduced Huang Tian to Shenghai’s political, commercial, and foreign leaders at the reception.
• Liu Yuanying explained Shenghai’s power structure and deduced that Fei Xinzhen wanted Huang Tian to fill the Municipal Council vacancy.
• Funatsu Kiji urged Yata Rokutaro to capture Huang Tian and force him to reveal how to make Antuo Tablets, but Yata hesitated.
• Funatsu Kiji recruited Takahashi Shizuo to attack Huang Tian at his garden villa.
• Liu Yuanying and Ma Zhang opened fire on Takahashi Shizuo as he attacked, and Liu Yuanying killed him.

After Huang Tian transferred Takahashi Shizuo’s remaining true qi to his teammates, he led Ma Zhang, Liu Yuanying, and Bao Baiqi to Hongkou District to kill Funatsu Kiji and massacre the swordsmen who pursued them. The car sped back toward Jiangyan District as dawn approached, leaving the consequences of the attack unresolved.

• Huang Tian offered his teammates the true qi from Takahashi Shizuo’s corpse, and Ma Zhang, Du Xiaomai, Kang Jietao, Bao Baiqi, Ou Ling, and Liu Yuanying each underwent the procedure.
• Huang Tian took Ma Zhang, Liu Yuanying, and Bao Baiqi to Beichuan Road, where they found Funatsu Kiji drinking in the Sakurai tavern.
• Huang Tian threw a bomb into the tavern, killing Funatsu Kiji and his three armed bodyguards.
• More than twenty wandering swordsmen pursued the car, and Huang Tian, Liu Yuanying, and Ma Zhang opened fire with machine guns, killing them.
• Huang Tian ordered Bao Baiqi to drive the group back toward Jiangyan District as the night neared dawn.

After Funatsu Kiji was killed in Shenghai, authorities identified Huang Tian as the likely attacker, but Mayor Ming Jue refused to arrest him or grant the Eastern Isles consul’s demand for a share of Antuo Tablets profits. Huang Tian continued building factories and buying equipment as international tensions mounted, while Yata Rokutaro anticipated the Eastern Isles army’s eventual invasion of Dayi.

• Ming Jue learned that Funatsu Kiji and his bodyguards had been killed in a bombing and shooting in Hongkou District, and Ming Heng reported evidence pointing to Huang Tian.
• Ming Jue concluded that Funatsu had attacked Huang Tian first and coordinated with Fei Xinzhen and Wan Wulong before rejecting Yata Rokutaro’s demand to arrest Huang Tian.
• Huang Tian refused to give the Eastern Isles five percent of Antuo Tablets profits and told Ming Jue he was willing to face whatever retaliation came.
• Newspapers reported that the Korean Restoration Society claimed responsibility for the attack, while Huang Tian and Liu Yuanying discussed the construction site, factory purchases, and plans to acquire uranium ore.
• Nearly a month later, Huang Tian’s Antuo Tablets factory began production, sold its first batch quickly, and used the revenue to fund further purchases of factories and machinery.
• Yata Rokutaro watched Huang Tian’s industrial expansion and anticipated that the Eastern Isles army would invade Shenghai and use the factories for its own purposes.

Ma Zhang and his team captured a giant rabbit for Huang Tian’s laboratory, while Zhou Xing and Lin Cong joined Huang Tian’s factory guard and received Snake Blood Type-II Serum injections. Six months later, Huang Tian’s growing workforce advanced his Civilization Restoration Project, until news broke that the Eastern Isles had invaded the four northeastern provinces and Zhang Pingyang had fled.

• Ma Zhang and his team found and defeated a giant rabbit in the Stone Forest, then delivered it to Laboratory No. 2.
• Du Xiaomai explained that Huang Tian planned to train factory guards and use Inner Refining workers’ true qi to build advanced machines and refine materials.
• Piglet told Zhou Xing and Lin Cong about the factory guard recruitment, and the two men passed the literacy test and enrolled.
• Nurses injected Zhou Xing and Lin Cong with Snake Blood Type-II Serum, and both recruits lost consciousness.
• Six months later, Mystic Umbrella Technology employed over ten thousand workers, including 160 true-qi workers who helped Huang Tian’s Civilization Restoration Project.
• A news report announced that the Eastern Isles had invaded the four northeastern provinces and that Zhang Pingyang had fled without fighting.

As the Eastern Isles engineered clashes to justify an invasion of Shenghai, Mayor Ming Jue struggled to resist pressure while Wan Wulong rushed to prepare defenses. With the Eastern Isles fleet approaching, Huang Tian revealed a massive new weapon at the Mystic Umbrella Company and named it the Terminator.

• News of the Eastern Isles army's takeover of the Four Eastern Provinces enraged Shenghai's citizens, and students marched to demand resistance.
• Yata Rokutaro ordered Ai Yun to provoke clashes, and rōnin wounded citizens to create a pretext for intervention.
• After Yata forced Ming Jue to apologize and punish citizens, he announced that the Eastern Isles fleet would land in Shenghai to protect its expatriates.
• Ming Jue informed the president and Wan Wulong, who ordered defenses as the president sought foreign pressure against the invasion.
• Shirakawa Ize briefed his officers aboard the approaching fleet and outlined a landing plan to defeat Wan Wulong's forces quickly.
• At the Mystic Umbrella Company's experimental compound, Huang Tian showed Liu Yuanying, Ma Zhang, Du Xiaomai, and the others a massive device and named it the Terminator.

Huang Tian’s team dropped the Terminator nuclear bomb on the Eastern Isles fleet approaching Shenghai, destroying its flagship and devastating the surrounding ships. As the mushroom cloud rose over the sea, Shenghai’s soldiers and civilians struggled to understand what had happened, while Wan Wulong suspected Huang Tian’s planes were involved.

• Huang Tian ordered Mystic Umbrella Company’s planes to scout the Eastern Isles fleet, and Wan Wulong assumed they would report their findings to him.
• Ma Zhang led the team carrying the Terminator and cameras toward the fleet, while Shirakawa Ize ordered the Eighth Squadron to intercept them.
• Ma Zhang dropped the Terminator above the fleet, and the blast vaporized Shirakawa Ize and destroyed or capsized many warships, killing tens of thousands of soldiers.
• Ma Zhang, Bao Baiqi, Du Xiaomai, Liu Yuanying, and the others recorded the explosion as the surviving Eastern Isles pilots panicked over the sea.
• Shenghai’s soldiers and civilians saw the mushroom cloud and heard the delayed blast, while Wan Wulong wondered whether Huang Tian’s planes had caused it.

After Mystic Umbrella Technology announced that Huang Tian’s Terminator nuclear bomb had destroyed the Eastern Isles’ Third Fleet, investigators confirmed the fleet’s annihilation and world leaders gathered in Shenghai for a special screening. The film showed the attack in vivid detail, leaving the audience stunned by the bomb’s power.

• Ming Jue sent ships to investigate the white sun over the sea, while Huang Tian announced that his Terminator nuclear bomb had destroyed the Eastern Isles’ Third Fleet.
• The Eastern Isles’ leaders failed to contact the Third Fleet and considered withdrawing their army from the Four Eastern Provinces to avoid provoking Huang Tian.
• Yu Faqing’s ships found wreckage, dead sailors, and a few blinded survivors, confirming that the Third Fleet had been nearly wiped out.
• Mystic Umbrella Company invited prominent figures to the Cathay Grand Theater and offered free screenings across Shenghai.
• Huang Tian attended the screening with officials, foreign envoys, scholars, and other guests as the film showed the Eastern Isles’ fleet being destroyed by the nuclear bomb.
• The audience watched the mushroom cloud and destruction in shock, while Yata Rokutaro grew pale and the editor-in-chief of the Sheng Report imagined an article about the weapon.

After showcasing nuclear-bomb footage and new color television technology, Huang Tian demanded that foreign powers end their unequal treaties and asserted control over Shenghai’s army. He assembled Mystic Umbrella Company forces to begin purging the city’s gangs, leaving the campaign poised to start.

• The film of the nuclear bomb destroying the Eastern Isles' Third Fleet stunned the theater audience, while foreign envoys wondered how many bombs Huang Tian had made.
• Bao Baiqi introduced the electronic color camera, color television, and magnetic tapes, then described a future system for broadcasting images around the world.
• Huang Tian ordered foreign envoys to seek an end to unequal treaties within five days, and Ma Zhang warned them that resistance could bring nuclear attacks.
• Huang Tian told Ming Jue that company guards would eliminate Shenghai’s gangs and demanded Wan Wulong surrender his army and seventy percent of his movable wealth; Wan Wulong agreed to hand over his forces and requested two days to sell his assets.
• As citizens and newspapers spread news of the nuclear film, Huang Tian gathered more than ten thousand armed workers and hundreds of Inner Refining fighters, then declared, “Today, we cleanse Shenghai!”