Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen forced the Black Bear Gang’s backers to surrender most of their family wealth in exchange for a chance to live. At midnight, he named fourteen people who had scored too low and ordered the others to kill them, threatening to include anyone who refused.

• Turgenev and the other backers entered separate rooms, where Little Bei presented evidence of their crimes and pressed them to surrender assets.
• Turgenev offered up to ninety percent of his family’s wealth as the backers returned upstairs for repeated negotiations.
• At midnight, Lin Chen asked Little Bei to reveal the fourteen lowest scorers, whose scores fell below eighty.
• Lin Chen had mechanical guards bring daggers and ordered the other backers to kill the fourteen, threatening to include anyone who did not act within five minutes.

Lin Chen forced the captured families to surrender nearly ten trillion RMB in money and assets, then had their representatives kill the fourteen captives under threat. The next day, fifty thousand Mechanical Leopards and five thousand Simulation Robots arrived, but Sirius told Lin Chen that something had happened.

• Lin Chen ordered the gathered representatives to cut the fourteen captives, and all fourteen eventually died.
• Lin Chen ordered the representatives to keep the killings secret and remain until their families transferred the money and assets.
• Little Bei told Lin Chen that the offered money totaled three trillion RMB and the assets were worth nearly seven trillion RMB.
• Fifty thousand Mechanical Leopards and five thousand Simulation Robots arrived the next day.
• Sirius approached Lin Chen and reported that something had happened.

Lin Chen confronted a convoy of Bear Country citizens incited to protest in Haiwai City and forced them to surrender their guns and undergo inspections. He warned that further unrest would bring severe punishment for protesters and their families, leaving the crowd facing the choice of going home or risking expulsion and lasting penalties.

• Sirius told Lin Chen that a Town Head who hated Chinese people had incited citizens to travel to Haiwai City, so Lin Chen sent Hive Drones, Mechanical Leopards, and Simulation Robots to intercept them.
• Lin Chen ordered the protesters to put down their guns within five minutes, claiming Yanhuang Territory had fifty thousand Mechanical Leopards and warning that armed rioters would be killed.
• When a burly protester refused three warnings to line up for inspection, a Mechanical Leopard shot him; a Simulation Robot later shot another man found carrying a handgun.
• The Simulation Robots inspected the crowd, and the remaining citizens surrendered their hidden guns without further deaths.
• Lin Chen ordered the protesters to go home or face expulsion with their immediate families and confiscation of their property, then warned that drone assessments could affect their taxes, pensions, and children's opportunities.

Lin Chen quelled a protest in Bear Country by imprisoning its organizer and his sons, then commissioned ten Dragon Tooth Type B Submarines to guard Yanhuang Territory. He demonstrated their powerful anti-ship missile and warned other countries not to enter its waters.

• Lin Chen ordered Leonid and his two sons arrested and sentenced for illegal acts, while the people who had protested left without supporting them.
• Lin Chen told Sirius that fear would maintain stability until Bear Country's residents could come to accept his rule over time.
• Ten Dragon Tooth Type B Submarines arrived at Haiwai City's port, and Lin Chen assigned their robot crews to guard Yanhuang Territory's waters.
• Lin Chen told reporters the submarines had been gifted by China and warned foreign warships and submarines against trespassing.
• Lin Chen demonstrated an anti-ship missile loaded with new explosives and claimed it could destroy an aircraft carrier.

Lin Chen returned to the Imperial Capital after stabilizing Yanhuang Territory, while U.S. leaders worried that his submarines and Mechanical Leopards threatened their military advantage. He offered to invest one trillion yuan in Yanhuang Territory’s infrastructure and ended by asking Old Man Li to sell him weapons.

• U.S. President and Mandel discussed the Dragon Tooth Type B Submarines, their powerful missiles, and the threat they posed to U.S. carriers and submarine superiority.
• Mandel warned that Lin Chen’s death would not eliminate his Artificial Intelligence or the thousands of Mechanical Leopards and submarines under its control.
• Lin Chen returned to the Imperial Capital and reunited with Lin Xiaoqian, Lin Dongyao, and Xu Mengyao.
• Old Man Li told Lin Chen that some people wanted the country to condemn his actions in Yanhuang Territory, but Lin Chen defended his crackdown on the rioters.
• Lin Chen agreed that Yanhuang Territory needed extensive infrastructure and offered to invest one trillion yuan through domestic companies.
• Lin Chen told Old Man Li that he had one condition: he wanted to buy a batch of weapons.

Lin Chen arranged to buy aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, and destroyers to defend Yanhuang Territory, then used all his Enhancement Points to transform his inner strength into liquid. After strengthening Xu Mengyao’s meridians, he decided the family would return to their hometown for the New Year in three days.

• Lin Chen asked Old Man Li to arrange gradual military purchases, including fighter jets, early warning aircraft, helicopters, armored carriers, destroyers, and anti-aircraft vehicles.
• After more than half a month, Lin Chen spent all two hundred Enhancement Points strengthening his Ancient Martial Arts Tai Chi, transforming his inner strength from gas into liquid.
• The next day, Lin Chen told Xu Mengyao about his breakthrough and strengthened her meridians, greatly increasing her strength.
• Lin Chen agreed with Xu Mengyao to return to their hometown for the New Year in three days and planned to strengthen his parents before the trip.

Lin Chen helped Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue strengthen themselves before taking his family to his hometown for the New Year. There, he discovered that Xu Mengyao was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, and she asked him to keep the news secret for now.

• Xu Mengyao suggested that the family return to the countryside for the New Year, while Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue discussed taking a domestic vacation despite the danger.
• Lin Chen said he would improve Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue's strength and warned that risks would remain while Yanhuang Territory developed.
• After two days, Lin Chen increased the couple's speed, strength, and reaction time, then took the family back to the village.
• Xu Mengyao told Lin Chen that Lin Hai and Chen Mei might be happier staying in their hometown, and Lin Chen agreed to ask what they wanted.
• Lin Chen checked Xu Mengyao's pulse and told her she was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl.
• Xu Mengyao asked Lin Chen to keep the pregnancy secret because it was still early, and he agreed.

Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue were attacked by five unusually strong octopuses in Hainan, which Lin Chen suspected were genetic creations from East Sakura Country. After learning his in-laws were safe, Lin Chen returned to Magic City with two octopuses to examine.

• An octopus dragged Yang Qingyue underwater, and Xu Guofeng joined her in fighting it before two National Security agents and four Simulation Robots helped drive the five octopuses off.
• The Simulation Robots shocked the octopuses and brought them ashore, where Xu Guofeng concluded they may have deliberately lured the group into the sea.
• Xu Guofeng sent Lin Chen photos and reported the attack, and Lin Chen suspected East Sakura Country had created the octopuses and asked Xu Xiangyang for two to study.
• Lin Chen ended his vacation and returned to Magic City with Xu Mengyao and the children after reassuring Xu Mengyao that her parents were safe.
• Two live octopuses arrived in Magic City, and Lin Chen cut off a small piece of flesh to examine under a microscope.

Lin Chen examined an intelligent, gene-engineered Octopus Monster and warned Xu Xiangyang that East Sakura Country might be developing other biological weapons. After discussing the danger with Xu Guofeng, Lin Chen suggested East Sakura Country could bring about its own destruction through a Biohazard outbreak.

• Lin Chen discovered the Octopus Monster had strong Spiritual Power and identified it as the product of multiple gene technologies.
• Xu Xiangyang warned Lin Chen that the octopuses could walk and spit sticky spider silk, and Lin Chen estimated they could grow to ten meters within a year.
• Lin Chen and Xu Xiangyang discussed the possibility that East Sakura Country had created other biological weapons and might have hidden equipment or additional monsters in the sea.
• Lin Chen greeted Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue, then went with Xu Guofeng to discuss the Octopus Monsters.
• Lin Chen told Xu Guofeng that East Sakura Country would not stop its experiments and might trigger an even worse Biohazard outbreak; Xu Guofeng said the resulting deaths could still be preferable to a direct war.

After East Sakura Country’s Octopus Beasts failed to kidnap Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue, China and other countries imposed sanctions, while East Sakura’s leaders accelerated their plans to build a biological force. Lin Chen agreed to research a way to make the monsters lose control, and Old Jiang also told him that the Moye Family was likely behind Zhang Yang’s earlier abduction.

• Xu Xiangyang reported the failed kidnapping, and China informed other countries, prompting widespread sanctions against East Sakura Country.
• Fujiyoshi Sa told the East Sakura Elder that China had captured five Octopus Beasts and that Simulation Robots had stunned them with electricity; the Elder ordered the biological-force plan accelerated.
• Old Jiang warned Lin Chen that the Octopus Beasts could threaten ships and global trade, and Lin Chen proposed making them lose control or, as a last resort, fighting back with Mechanical Leopards.
• Lin Chen said he could affect the monsters if their location was known, and Old Jiang urged him to find a way to unleash them near East Sakura Country.
• Old Jiang revealed that the Moye Family was likely responsible for taking Zhang Yang, and Lin Chen said he already knew.

Lin Chen agreed to wait before confronting the Moye Family until his weapons and Yanhuang Territory were better prepared, then used Enhancement Points to advance his Western Medicine Skill. He developed two Genetic Potions to counter East Sakura Country’s biological weapons and left Xu Xiangyang to obtain the required materials in secret.

• Old Jiang and Lin Chen discussed the Moye Family’s ties to Skull and Bones, and Lin Chen agreed to delay revenge until his forces and Yanhuang Territory were stronger.
• Old Jiang offered Lin Chen an initial delivery of warships, aircraft, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers, and Lin Chen asked him to invite Mekav to Magic City.
• Lin Chen spent all 186 Enhancement Points to improve his Western Medicine Skill and learned advanced genetic technologies, including Human Gene Improvement Technology.
• Lin Chen developed a Gene Inducer to attract Octopus Monsters and another Genetic Potion to make them lose control, while the Simulation Robots learned how to manufacture both.
• Lin Chen asked Xu Xiangyang to obtain a large, confidential batch of experimental materials, explaining that the research was connected to East Sakura Country’s biological weapons.

Lin Chen discussed weapons purchases and East Sakura Country’s possible invasion plans with Meijef and Old Jiang, then prepared Genetic Potions for his family. He gave two doses to Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue, claiming they could extend their lives by more than thirty years.

• Lin Chen told Meijef he planned to buy destroyers, frigates, and fighter jets to deter the United States, and Meijef agreed as long as they did not remain stationed at Yanhuang Island for long periods.
• Lin Chen, Old Jiang, and Meijef considered whether East Sakura Country might invade Australia, and Lin Chen said he would let the invasion unfold before intervening.
• Old Jiang told Lin Chen the procurement contract would soon be announced and that the fighter jets would head to the Northeast, while Lin Chen called for a closer border airfield.
• Lin Chen spent the day preparing four doses of Genetic Medicine to extend human lifespans, intending them for his and Xu Mengyao’s parents.
• Lin Chen visited the Xu Family, played with Lin Xiaoqian and Lin Dongyao, and gave Genetic Potions to Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue.

Lin Chen developed a Genetic Potion that could extend his family’s lives, then strengthened Yanhuang Territory’s defenses and influence. With the territory stabilizing and his Spiritual Power greatly increased, he prepared to target the Moye Family.

• Lin Chen reassured Xu Mengyao, Xu Guofeng, and Yang Qingyue that the Genetic Potion was safe, injected Xu Guofeng and Yang Qingyue, and explained its effects and side effects.
• A shipment of military equipment for Lin Chen arrived, prompting the United States to move its nearby fleet farther from Yanhuang Island.
• After half a month, Lin Chen reviewed Yanhuang Territory’s improving stability, rising property values, and decreasing public resistance with Little Bei.
• Lin Chen decided it was time to target the Moye Family and used all his Enhancement Points to improve his Meditation Skill.
• Lin Chen’s Spiritual Power rose above three hundred, and Lin Dongyao entered the study saying he felt strange.

Lin Chen prepared to travel to Camel Country to deal with the Moye Family, which had orchestrated Zhang Yang’s kidnapping. He left his family and National Security behind, while Hayel and Salman organized a security-heavy welcome in Camel Country.

• Lin Chen examined Lin Dongyao and found that the boy’s meditation talent and Spiritual Power had improved.
• Lin Chen told Xu Mengyao he was going to Camel Country because the Moye Family had been behind Zhang Yang’s kidnapping, and he urged his family to stay home.
• Lin Chen explained his aircraft’s defenses to Xu Mengyao and decided to travel with Simulation Robots instead of bodyguards.
• Lin Chen informed Xu Xiangyang that he was leaving for Camel Country, and Old Jiang approved his decision to go without National Security.
• Lin Chen’s aircraft took off, and Hayel told Salman that Lin Chen was coming to Camel Country.
• Salman ordered three thousand Mechanical Leopards and the police to secure the airport and asked Hayel to offer fighter-jet escorts.

The Moye Family arranged for four Squid Country Stealth Fighter Jets to shoot down Lin Chen as he flew to Camel Country, but Lin Chen used Little Bei to launch United States missiles that destroyed them. Tasford Moye concluded the United States would not sanction Lin Chen, while the purpose of Lin Chen’s trip remained uncertain.

• A middle-aged Moye Family member told Tasford Moye that Lin Chen was flying alone to Riyadh City, and they discussed the Mechanical Leopards in Camel Country and Egypt.
• Tasford initially rejected the plan to shoot Lin Chen down, then approved a secret attack after considering that Lin Chen might be pursuing a major plan without China’s involvement.
• As Lin Chen’s plane crossed the Gulf of Oman, Little Bei warned him that four Squid Country Stealth Fighter Jets were approaching from a United States Air Force base.
• Lin Chen ordered Little Bei to launch eight controllable United States missiles, which destroyed all four fighter jets after Little Bei cut off their communications.
• Tasford and the middle-aged man learned the jets had been destroyed and concluded that the United States would not sanction Lin Chen.

After the United States and Squid Country concealed the missile attack on Lin Chen’s plane, Lin Chen arrived in Camel Country and agreed to sell Salman fifty thousand Simulation Robots. He planned to travel to the northwestern border the next day to settle his own grudge.

• Mandel told the President that missiles had destroyed four Squid Country fighter jets, but the President ordered him to call the incident fake news.
• The United States and Squid Country stayed silent about the attack, and Little Bei told Lin Chen that nothing had appeared online.
• Salman welcomed Lin Chen to Camel Country, where Lin Chen offered to sell fifty thousand Simulation Robots for one million dollars each.
• Lin Chen told Salman and Hayel that the Simulation Robots could operate aircraft, tanks, and warships, and that he would deliver the robots over a year.
• Lin Chen told Salman to send him by helicopter to the northwestern border the next day, saying he would handle his own grudge.

Lin Chen signed an agreement for Camel Country to buy fifty thousand Simulation Robots, then announced that he had another confidential matter to handle. As night fell, he asked Hayel to fly him to a location near Squid Country’s border, leaving the Moye Family fearing that he was coming after them.

• Tasford worried that Lin Chen would retaliate against the Moye Family for arranging the attack that destroyed four Fighter Jets, while Cowady tried to reassure him.
• Lin Chen agreed with Hayel to hold a Press Conference and sign Camel Country’s Simulation Robot purchase agreement.
• At the Press Conference, Salman welcomed Lin Chen, and Lin Chen signed an agreement for Camel Country to buy fifty thousand Simulation Robots for fifty billion dollars.
• Lin Chen told reporters that he had another confidential matter to handle, prompting Tasford and Cowady to suspect it was aimed at the Moye Family.
• After touring Camel Country, Lin Chen asked Hayel to arrange a helicopter to take him to a location near Squid Country’s northwestern border, and Hayel worried about the danger.

Lin Chen entered Squid Country and deployed eight thousand heavily armed Mechanical Leopards, sending two thousand toward the Moye Family while spreading the rest along the coast. After demonstrating their destructive power to Karns, he left Squid Country facing a force capable of devastating the nation.

• Lin Chen chose to fly toward Squid Country, then parachuted from his plane and traveled overland to its border.
• Lin Chen ordered Little Bei to interfere with satellites and sent two thousand Mechanical Leopards toward the Moye Family while the others spread along the coastline.
• Tasford learned that the Mechanical Leopards were approaching and transferred to a secret bunker, leaving Cowady to take responsibility.
• Squid Country's police let the Mechanical Leopards pass, while an official confronted Lin Chen at the beach.
• Karns arrived with military forces and challenged Lin Chen, who demonstrated a Mechanical Leopard's explosive power and warned that all eight thousand were configured the same way.

Lin Chen confronted Squid Country with thousands of Mechanical Leopards and demanded that it investigate the attempts on his life. After learning the Moye Family had orchestrated the attacks, he demanded its destruction and said he would leave only if satisfied.

• Lin Chen told Karns to investigate the assassination attempts and warned that another thirty thousand Mechanical Leopards would arrive if the matter remained unresolved.
• Karns reported Lin Chen's demands to Squid Country's leaders, who learned the Moye Family had tried to kidnap Lin Chen's friend and kill him.
• Cowady admitted he had ordered the attacks and offered Lin Chen compensation, but Lin Chen refused the money.
• Lin Chen told Karns he wanted the Moye Family's core members killed and threatened to keep the Mechanical Leopards in Squid Country if he was not satisfied.

Squid Country's leaders voted to arrest the Moye Family after learning that thirty thousand Chinese Mechanical Leopards were sailing toward them. Lin Chen demanded that Squid Country track down the family's members worldwide, while Karns offered him a chance to watch their secret trial.

• Squid Country's leaders debated Lin Chen's demand and voted overwhelmingly to arrest the Moye Family rather than risk a confrontation with his forces.
• Squid Country's soldiers arrested the Moye Family's members at their headquarters, tortured Cowady until he revealed the bunker, and took Tasford into custody.
• Karns told Lin Chen that the Moye Family had been arrested, but Lin Chen demanded that Squid Country find the family's members around the world.
• Lin Chen refused to recall the thirty thousand Mechanical Leopards already sailing, saying they would continue to Egypt and Camel Country if Squid Country handled the arrests thoroughly.
• Karns invited Lin Chen to watch the secret trial of the Moye Family members.