Recaps

Lin Chen used Mechanical Leopards and Dragon Tooth submarines to pressure East Sakura Country, the United States, and the Sun Never Sets Empire while expanding his weapons production. The arc left the Sun Never Sets Empire facing scattered robots and a cultural-relic dispute that Lin Chen refused to settle until his cargo ship arrived.

• Takashima-gawa accepted Lin Chen’s thirty-year lease for the Mechanical Leopards after East Sakura Country’s outbreak worsened, and Lin Chen negotiated bases and operating authority for the robots.
• The Mechanical Leopards imposed a curfew in Tojin City, killed attackers and infected people, and later fought a U.S. force that had tried to capture them, killing its soldiers before American helicopters withdrew.
• Lin Chen sent Dragon Tooth Type B Submarines against U.S. submarines, damaging several and forcing the American fleet to retreat, then dispatched twenty submarines toward the United States.
• Lin Chen sent four thousand Mechanical Leopards by submarine to the Sun Never Sets Empire, where they disembarked at Foggy City Port as its officials feared an attack and the robots began patrolling nearby waters.
• Lin Chen developed a powerful new explosive but chose not to share its formula, while his family celebrated the New Year and he told Old Man Li and Old Jiang about his cultivation abilities.
• Lin Chen proposed continued operations in East Sakura Country and expanded robot production, then sent eight thousand more Mechanical Leopards toward the Sun Never Sets Empire to increase pressure over its Chinese cultural relics.
• Lin Chen told Lambert and Virgil that the four thousand robots in the Sun Never Sets had malfunctioned and that more might be sent, while demanding the return of looted Chinese relics.
• Herman’s officials abandoned plans to attack the scattered robots and agreed to negotiate, but Lin Chen rejected Virgil’s proposal to return 2,000 relics over fifty years and postponed talks until his cargo ship arrived.

Lin Chen secured the return of Chinese relics, expanded his robot deployments and humanitarian projects, and faced mounting international tensions. The arc left him in the Imperial Capital as Indian officials prepared to negotiate and Chinese officials awaited a demonstration of his ability to fly.

• Lin Chen compelled the Sun Never Sets Empire to sign an agreement returning its Chinese artifacts within three years, while France agreed to buy fifty thousand Mechanical Leopards.
• Lin Chen negotiated to bring Mechanical Leopards into Australia, where the machines helped him crush the Blood Serpent Gang and establish his authority.
• Lin Chen faced a campaign portraying him as an aspiring emperor, but scientists and officials publicly revealed his contributions and shifted public opinion in his favor.
• Lin Chen developed upgraded Mechanical Leopards and established the Dream Protection Foundation to support families of people who died in the line of duty.
• Lin Chen supplied firefighting robots that rescued people from a burning building and arranged mass production of the machines.
• Lin Chen sent robots to the plateau, where Wang Peng’s forces used them to repel an Indian assault, prompting Lin Chen to threaten a much larger Mechanical Leopard deployment.
• Lin Chen began upgrading his system after traveling toward the Imperial Capital with his family, while Indian officials decided to send an envoy to negotiate.
• Lin Chen agreed to meet the Indian envoy and told officials he would demonstrate his ability to fly after everyone arrived.

Lin Chen exposed Zhang Yang’s kidnapping, strengthened his military and personal power, and secured a vast lease from Bear Country. After setting out for Haiwai City, he survived an ambush and sent Mechanical Leopards to confront the Black Bear Gang.

• Lin Chen demonstrated his abilities to Chinese officials, secured Egypt’s canal operating rights, and gained Enhancement Points that let him raise his Grass-Skimming Lightness Skill to Mythical level.
• Lin Chen traced Zhang Yang’s kidnapping to foreign agents, rescued Zhang Yang, and threatened East Sakura Country into accepting a large deployment of Mechanical Leopards and Simulation Robots.
• Lin Chen tracked down Joseph and Anna, learned that the Moye Family had backed them, and had the authorities capture them and dispose of their planted bombs.
• Lin Xiaoqian performed at Lin Chen’s Annual Meeting, while Lin Chen improved his Explosives Technology and Meditation and showed Chinese officials a pollution-free bomb that could destroy a city.
• Lin Chen tested a powerful New Type Mushroom Bomb with China, while East Sakura Country, the United States, and Bear Country reassessed their military position.
• Lin Chen negotiated a long-term lease of a large territory around Haiwai City from Bear Country, retaining control of its land and taxation, and then prepared to visit it with a large force.
• Lin Chen’s transport aircraft survived an anti-aircraft and missile attack using Force Field Shields, and General Kutsostan identified the Black Bear Gang as the likely attackers.
• Lin Chen ordered Mechanical Leopards to surround the Black Bear Gang’s strongholds, but Valentin ordered his men to attack.

Lin Chen consolidated his rule over Yanhuang Territory, strengthened his family, and prepared for East Sakura Country’s biological weapons while expanding his military power. After the Moye Family plotted to kill him, he forced Squid Country to arrest its members and left the family’s worldwide fate unresolved.

• The Mechanical Leopards crushed the Black Bear Gang, and Lin Chen used a banquet to force Yanhuang Territory’s powerful figures to surrender assets and execute fourteen captives.
• Lin Chen expanded his forces, quelled an armed protest, secured the territory’s waters, and returned to the Imperial Capital to reunite with his family and arrange major investments and weapons purchases.
• After Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue were attacked by Octopus Monsters, Lin Chen studied the creatures and developed genetic agents to attract them and make them lose control.
• Lin Chen improved his Meditation Skill, discovered Lin Dongyao’s growing spiritual ability, and traveled to Camel Country to confront the Moye Family over Zhang Yang’s kidnapping.
• The Moye Family arranged an attack on Lin Chen’s aircraft, but Little Bei used captured missiles to destroy four Squid Country fighter jets, and Lin Chen later signed a deal for Camel Country to buy fifty thousand Simulation Robots.
• Lin Chen crossed into Squid Country with Mechanical Leopards and demanded that the Moye Family’s core members be killed, while warning that more forces were on the way.
• Squid Country arrested the Moye Family, including Tasford and Cowady, but Lin Chen demanded that its members around the world also be found and refused to recall the thirty thousand Mechanical Leopards already sailing.