Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen went to observe the secret trial of the Moye Family in Squid Country, warning officials that his death or disappearance would bring devastating retaliation. After the family’s leaders were executed, he demanded two hundred billion US dollars from its assets as compensation.

• Lin Chen insisted on attending the trial in person and warned Karns that if he died or went missing, Squid Country would face mushroom attacks.
• Karns escorted Lin Chen in a guarded convoy to a prison, where Lin Chen entered without the Mechanical Leopard.
• At the prison, Lin Chen told Squid Country’s officials to proceed with the trial and said he had come only to watch.
• Tasford and Coendy pleaded with Lin Chen to spare the Moye Family, but he said the family was charged with treason and its fate was up to Squid Country.
• The military court tried the Moye Family, and Tasford and the other arrested members were executed by firing squad.
• Lin Chen demanded twenty percent of the Moye Family’s assets, then specified that Squid Country should pay him two hundred billion US dollars in compensation.

Lin Chen returned home after forcing the Moye Family's representatives to pay him two hundred billion US dollars and ordering the deaths of the family's Core Members. He collected the money and agreed to withdraw his eight thousand Mechanical Leopards, leaving the world wary of provoking him.

• Lin Chen demanded two hundred billion US dollars from the Moye Family's representatives before allowing them to divide the family's assets, then left Squid Country for Camel Country.
• Lin Chen told Hayel that his enemies would pay dearly for trying to kill him, then flew home to reunite with Xu Mengyao and their children.
• Over the following days, Squid Country's spies killed Moye Family members around the world, warning other forces against targeting Lin Chen.
• Karns confirmed that the Moye Family's Core Members had been eliminated and offered Lin Chen the two hundred billion US dollars.
• Little Bei confirmed the payment, bringing Lin Chen's total cash holdings to four hundred thirty billion US dollars plus more than three trillion yuan in domestic accounts.
• Karns asked Lin Chen to withdraw his eight thousand Mechanical Leopards, and Lin Chen agreed to have them leave by cargo ship while warning him not to provoke him again.

Lin Chen arranged for his eight thousand Mechanical Leopards to be stationed near the Suez Canal, then spent two months improving his Spiritual Power and caring for Lin Dongyao. After taking his son flying, he awakened the Flight Skill.

• Lin Chen arranged with Ahmed to store the eight thousand Mechanical Leopards near the Suez Canal, where Egypt agreed to rent them if needed.
• When the ship carrying the Mechanical Leopards stopped at the canal, Lin Chen told Karns they would stay there to protect his assets, and Karns could not stop him.
• Over the next two months, Lin Chen enhanced his Meditation Skill and increased his Spiritual Power considerably.
• Lin Dongyao told Lin Chen that his Spiritual Power had grown and asked to go to school, but Lin Chen said he was too young.
• Lin Chen carried Lin Dongyao high into the sky and flew with him, awakening the Flight Skill.

Lin Chen learned that his new Flight Skill was faster and more energy-efficient, then picked up Lin Xiaoqian from school and discovered that a fight had awakened her internal energy. At home, Xu Mengyao told Lin Xiaoqian and Lin Dongyao that she was carrying twins.

• The system explained that Lin Chen's Flight Skill consumed less energy and flew faster than his Grass-Skimming Lightness Skill.
• Lin Chen and Xu Mengyao decided to tell their family about the twins, and Lin Chen went to pick Lin Xiaoqian up from school.
• Lin Xiaoqian explained that Liang Liang had taken another student's toy and hit her after she confronted him, so she hit him back.
• Lin Chen examined Lin Xiaoqian and found that the fight had awakened her internal energy, which he promised to teach her to control.
• Xu Mengyao told Lin Xiaoqian and Lin Dongyao that she had two babies in her belly.

Lin Chen told his family that Xu Mengyao was pregnant with twins, while he and Xu Guofeng discussed East Sakura Country’s preparations for war. The chapter ended with Akita Jiro learning that genetically enhanced sharks could soon carry bombs and evade common defenses.

• Lin Chen announced Xu Mengyao’s twin pregnancy to Chen Mei, and Lin Hai and the grandparents celebrated the news when they visited the next day.
• Lin Chen explained that Lin Dongyao excelled at martial arts and meditation, with greater Tai Chi potential than Lin Xiaoqian.
• Lin Chen told Lin Hai and Xu Guofeng that war involving East Sakura Country might begin within three to seven months.
• Australian media and online commenters spread warnings about a possible China–East Sakura Country war, while some discussed profiting from the conflict.
• Akita Jiro visited Professor Ito’s island base and learned that its genetically enhanced sharks could grow to six or seven meters in three months and carry about two hundred kilograms of explosives.

Lin Chen gave Old Jiang Repellent Gene Potion and Lure Potion to counter East Sakura Country’s mutated sharks, and China deployed Simulation Robots aboard its warships. After arranging safeguards, Lin Chen enhanced his Flight Skill to Legendary level and tested its improved speed and efficiency.

• Akita Jiro warned Professor Ito that the growing mutated sharks needed more food and risked exposure, and stressed that their control could not fail.
• Old Jiang told Lin Chen that East Sakura Country had bred large mutated sharks that could threaten Chinese warships and submarines, and Lin Chen revealed he already knew about them.
• Lin Chen gave Old Jiang Repellent Gene Potion to drive mutated organisms away and Lure Potion to draw them toward East Sakura Country.
• Old Jiang arranged for Simulation Robots carrying the potions to be placed aboard Chinese warships, with detonation devices installed to destroy them if they acted abnormally.
• Lin Chen enhanced his Flight Skill to Legendary level, then flew at high altitude at twice his former speed while using only a quarter of the energy.

Lin Chen learned that East Sakura Country had produced a giant sea snake that might adapt to freshwater, and he used the threat to secure another deployment of Mechanical Leopards there. As production expanded, he upgraded Robotics Manufacturing Technology and gained a practical wireless energy transmission capability for the Mechanical Leopards.

• Lin Chen watched a video of a giant sea snake filmed off northern East Sakura Country, and he and Xu Mengyao suspected it was a Genetic Organism that could travel onto land.
• Old Jiang asked Lin Chen about the snake, and Lin Chen warned that it might adapt to freshwater and threaten inland cities.
• Lin Chen threatened an East Sakura Country official with a cleansing operation unless the country requested more Mechanical Leopards, prompting its Elder to request assistance from China.
• China dispatched one hundred thousand Third Type Mechanical Leopards to East Sakura Country, where their arrival subdued public agitation.
• Lin Chen upgraded Robotics Manufacturing Technology to the Mythical level and learned how Mechanical Leopards could wirelessly replenish energy within ten kilometers of a base station or from one another.

China test-detonated a 30-million-ton non-nuclear Mushroom Bomb, prompting East Sakura Country to abandon plans to attack China and target Australia instead. Its Genetic Organisms launched a surprise assault on Australian naval ports and military bases, while Lin Chen watched the fighting unfold.

• China test-detonated a 30-million-ton New Type Mushroom Bomb, and State Media announced its power and lack of nuclear contamination.
• East Sakura Country's leaders debated their next move, then chose to invade Australia to seize land and resources.
• Half a month later, East Sakura Country's Genetic Organisms reached Australia, and the Elder ordered the surprise attack to begin.
• Mutated Sharks detonated bombs against Australian warships, destroying vessels at multiple naval ports.
• An Octopus Monster infiltrated an Australian Military Base and blew up its ammunition depot.
• Little Bei showed Lin Chen videos of the attacks, and Lin Chen watched as East Sakura Country and Australia fought.

Mutated Sea Snakes launched a devastating surprise attack across Australia, crippling its ports, military bases, and essential infrastructure. As Australia requested American aid, the United States delayed its decision, leaving Australia to face the attack alone for now.

• Mutated Sea Snakes attacked Australian ports, power plants, water plants, oil refineries, military camps, and air bases, destroying warships, submarines, and Fighter Jets while killing soldiers and civilians.
• Australia's Cabinet Elder learned that more than a thousand Mutated Sea Snakes had invaded and ordered a full retaliation, while officials suspected East Sakura Country was behind the assault.
• The United States President reviewed the damage and learned that the snakes could move quickly and infiltrate through rivers and pipelines.
• The United States President weighed the risks of intervening against East Sakura Country and told Australia to wait two weeks for an answer on whether America would enter the war.

East Sakura Country declared war on Australia and devastated its coastal infrastructure, while Lin Chen and Old Jiang discussed waiting before intervening. Lin Chen reassured viewers that East Sakura Country’s 240,000 Mechanical Leopards would retaliate if it attacked China.

• Australia’s Cabinet Elder ordered the military to hold out and demonstrate that Genetic Organisms were not too dangerous, hoping to secure American support.
• East Sakura Country declared war on Australia, recalled recently retired soldiers, and urged its citizens to enlist.
• Lin Chen told Old Jiang he would wait for the two countries to weaken each other before considering action, and Old Jiang suggested he could intervene privately for benefits.
• Genetic Organisms struck Australian military bases, water plants, and power plants, leaving cities without water or electricity and prompting widespread looting.
• Lin Chen held a Douyin livestream with stories and music, and Lin Xiaoqian played piano for viewers.
• Lin Chen assured viewers that East Sakura Country’s 240,000 Mechanical Leopards would launch a full-scale retaliation if East Sakura Country attacked China.

East Sakura Country sent its fleet and troops to invade Australia while the United States refused to intervene, hoping China would be drawn into the conflict. After several days of attacks by Genetic Organisms and a naval bombardment, East Sakura Country's soldiers landed and began overpowering Australia's forces.

• East Sakura Country's officials and citizens shifted their focus to attacking Australia after Lin Chen warned that Mechanical Leopards would target everyone.
• Australia's Cabinet learned that more than thirty East Sakura Country warships carrying around twenty thousand soldiers were headed for its shores and ordered an offensive against the Genetic Organisms.
• The United States refused Australia's requests for aid, with the President prioritizing American personnel in East Sakura Country and hoping China would intervene instead.
• Genetic Organisms devastated Australia's infrastructure, leaving citizens without basic services as the country's military suffered casualties.
• East Sakura Country's warships bombarded a major Australian city, then landed troops who exchanged fire with and outmatched Australia's soldiers.
• Lin Chen judged Australia's military weak and noted that East Sakura Country's soldiers had reached shore within days.

East Sakura Country’s invading soldiers terrorized Australian civilians as Australia’s defenses collapsed. Desperate to protect displaced residents, Australia’s leaders decided to lease territory to Lin Chen so his Mechanical Leopards could provide a safe haven.

• East Sakura Country soldiers raided an Australian family’s home, assaulted the mother and daughter, and shot the father dead.
• Reports of atrocities spread online, while Australia suffered repeated defeats and a second fleet landed fifty thousand more East Sakura Country soldiers.
• Lin Chen refused to sell Australia Mechanical Leopards but told Derrick that leasing territory to him could allow the machines to protect people there.
• Derrick urged Australian officials to lease land to Lin Chen, and the Cabinet Elder agreed to lease one area in the east and one in the west.

As East Sakura Country's invasion of Australia intensified, Lin Chen negotiated a lease of Australian territory in exchange for protection. He set strict terms that left Derrick to decide whether Australia would accept them.

• Lin Chen rejected Derrick's initial offer of two Australian parcels totaling sixty thousand square kilometers and refused further calls while taking his children to an amusement park.
• Australia's leaders failed to secure prompt support from the United States, whose President said the country was preparing aid but gave no arrival date.
• After repeated calls, Derrick offered Lin Chen 270,000 square kilometers of land, and Lin Chen demanded a fifty-year-to-lifetime lease and annual protection fees.
• Derrick proposed a lease of 150,000 square kilometers in the northwest and 120,000 in the Eastern Region, with a minimum fifty-year term and annual rent of one hundred million US dollars.
• Lin Chen made protection free for women, children under sixteen, and people over sixty-five, while men would have to pay between one hundred thousand and ten million dollars, distributed to deceased soldiers' families.

Lin Chen secured two Australian concessions after Derrick and the Australian cabinet agreed to his terms, giving Australian families refuge while requiring men of fighting age to join the war. East Sakura Country withdrew its soldiers, and Lin Chen sent Mechanical Leopards to protect the concessions.

• Derrick and the Australian cabinet agreed to Lin Chen’s concession terms and sent him maps of the two areas.
• Lin Chen announced that East Sakura Country soldiers must leave the concessions, and East Sakura Country’s leaders ordered their troops to withdraw.
• Australian civilians emerged from captivity and shared accounts of the soldiers’ abuses, while Australian officials ordered men aged sixteen to sixty-four to leave the concessions and fight.
• More than a dozen transport aircraft piloted by Simulation Robots delivered two thousand New Model Mechanical Leopards to the concessions.
• Australian residents welcomed the Mechanical Leopards as they entered the cities.

As fighting between Australia and East Sakura Country intensified, Lin Chen watched from afar and focused on his family. East Sakura Country chose to escalate the war after sixty thousand Third Type Mechanical Leopards arrived in Australia, and the story left the conflict poised to grow even more brutal.

• Australians in Lin Chen’s concession welcomed the Mechanical Leopards, while battles elsewhere intensified as Australian men resisted East Sakura Country’s troops.
• Lin Chen learned he had 362 Enhancement Points and later reassured Xu Mengyao that online praise and threats would not affect their family.
• Over the next half month, both sides committed more than four hundred thousand soldiers, and East Sakura Country’s general chose not to attack a cargo ship carrying Mechanical Leopards.
• The cargo ship delivered sixty thousand Third Type Mechanical Leopards, alarming East Sakura Country’s general, who ordered a stronger offensive and requested reinforcements.
• East Sakura Country’s Elder ordered three hundred thousand new recruits and two hundred thousand additional soldiers sent to Australia, then permitted harsher tactics against Australian resistance.

As East Sakura Country’s troops committed atrocities in Australia, Derrick asked Lin Chen to sell Australia Mechanical Leopards, but Lin Chen refused and agreed instead to expand the concessions. Lin Chen announced the new boundaries and ordered East Sakura Country’s forces to withdraw, leaving them furious but unwilling to challenge the 62,000 Third Type Mechanical Leopards stationed there.

• East Sakura Country’s soldiers rampaged through Australia, committing atrocities that drove many citizens to flee.
• Derrick offered Lin Chen increasingly high prices for Mechanical Leopards, but Lin Chen refused to sell weapons to either side and told Australia to fight for itself.
• Derrick asked to expand the concessions, and Lin Chen accepted the proposed boundaries, which increased the total area to about 600,000 square kilometers.
• Lin Chen signed off on the new concessions and ordered East Sakura Country’s troops to leave without further killing or destruction.
• An East Sakura Country bigwig complained to an Elder, but the Elder ordered Tojo Taro to endure the loss because their forces could not defeat the 62,000 Third Type Mechanical Leopards.
• East Sakura Country’s general ordered his troops to withdraw, while Chinese netizens and Australians celebrated the expanded concessions.

As the war in Australia intensified, East Sakura Country mobilized more soldiers while the United States refused to intervene until it could counter Genetic Organisms. Lin Chen rejected Australia’s request to buy Mechanical Leopards but agreed to lease additional concessions under a shorter guaranteed term.

• The US President refused to send troops to Australia until the United States found a way to deal with Genetic Organisms.
• East Sakura Country sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers into Australia, while factories in the existing concessions produced weapons for the Australians.
• Derrick asked Lin Chen to sell Australia fifty thousand Mechanical Leopards, but Lin Chen refused and suggested leasing more land instead.
• Derrick offered new concessions with a ten-year guaranteed lease lasting until three years after Lin Chen’s death, and Lin Chen accepted on the condition that each new concession was no smaller than the previous ones.
• After the call, Lin Chen planned for the new concessions to cover at least six hundred thousand square kilometers.

East Sakura Country reluctantly withdrew from newly leased Australian territories as Lin Chen’s land deal expanded, while Lin Chen received more submarines and strengthened his martial arts. At Old Man Li’s home, Lin Chen stunned the gathered officials by revealing that missiles and poisons could barely threaten him and that he could live for around five hundred years.

• Tojo Taro urged East Sakura Country’s Elder to resist Australia’s expanded lease to Lin Chen, but the Elder ordered their forces to endure and withdraw from the newly leased territories.
• East Sakura Country’s commander in Australia received orders to pull back, while the growing war drew worldwide attention and more East Sakura Country citizens enlisted.
• Old Jiang offered Lin Chen ten Dragon Tooth Type B Submarines from the third batch and ten from the fourth, and Lin Chen agreed to cover the fourth batch’s construction costs.
• Lin Chen spent three hundred Enhancement Value to upgrade Ancient Martial Arts Tai Chi, raising his strength until he could withstand ordinary heavy conventional missiles and resist deadly poisons.
• At Old Man Li’s home, Lin Chen revealed that his lifespan was around five hundred years, shocking Old Man Li, Old Jiang, and the other officials.

Lin Chen discussed his growing strength and military resources with Old Man Li and Old Jiang as the war between Australia and East Sakura Country intensified. Australia’s leaders failed to secure U.S. aid, and the chapter ended with a fierce battle for a strategically important city.

• Lin Chen told Old Man Li and Old Jiang that his Dimensional Space could hold about thirty thousand Mechanical Leopards, and he planned to let Australia and East Sakura Country weaken each other before acting.
• China’s State Media announced that Lin Chen had bought ten Type B submarines, prompting online discussion about his growing forces and safety.
• As the fighting in Australia worsened, an Australian Cabinet Elder asked the President of the United States for aid, but the President told him to seek help from Lin Chen.
• After three days, East Sakura Country’s troops and Genetic Organisms attacked a heavily defended Australian city, and both sides suffered heavy losses in brutal street fighting.

As Australia’s defeat by East Sakura Country appeared imminent, its leaders abandoned their alliance with the United States and sought Lin Chen’s help. Lin Chen agreed to consider assisting if Australia held out another half month, and Derrick departed for China with a negotiating delegation.

• Lin Chen asked Little Bei to predict the war, learning that Australia might surrender in twenty days and that East Sakura Country had a 43 percent chance of massacring surrendered troops.
• Australia’s Cabinet Elder called a vote, and the cabinet unanimously approved terminating all alliances with the United States.
• The United States President ordered Australia condemned and its assets in the United States frozen after receiving news of the alliance’s termination.
• Derrick asked Lin Chen for help, and Lin Chen told Australia to hold out another half month before he would consider its performance.
• Derrick set out for China with a delegation to negotiate for assistance.