Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Three mercenaries—Edis, Casey, and Shazuo—are hauled back through the wormhole after exploring the alien planet. Shen Bing welcomes them and assigns them to the Blade Mercenary Corps, where they will continue exploring the world beyond the Portal.
• Shen Bing uses a helmet to display the explorers’ memories and impressions directly, effectively turning them into “humanoid cameras.”
• The group studies footage of a huge skeleton. Luo Fei argues that its bones appear too intact to be ancient, while Shen Bing notes that some life can exist without oxygen. The planet’s biology and history remain uncertain, but the area around the wormhole’s exit seems safe.
• Luo Fei proposes sending Master Qiao to investigate local materials, test solar power and electronics, and build a small simulated ecological base for the explorers.
• Though worried about risking his only Divine Puppet Artisan, Shen Bing decides to proceed. He equips Master Qiao with ten thousand immortal jade and sends him through the wormhole, tethered by a rope for the return journey.

Character developments and interactions

• The mercenaries are exhausted and apprehensive, but quickly recognize Shen Bing and feel fortunate to serve under him. Their outward gratitude contrasts with their private resentment at being sent to the alien world.
• Shen Bing is pleased to have them back and confidently directs their future work; his joke about hearing their curses makes them fear he can read their thoughts.
• Luo Fei shows scientific caution and initiative: he challenges the assumption that the planet is lifeless and offers a practical plan for establishing a foothold.
• Thorne voices doubts about how life could exist without oxygen and questions the origins of the enormous skeleton.
• Shen Bing weighs the danger of losing Master Qiao against the need to advance, then commits to the expedition. Master Qiao responds with characteristic confidence.

Significant themes

• Exploration amid uncertainty: The team must act despite having only limited evidence about the alien planet.
• Science and practical problem-solving: Observations about the skeleton, oxygen, solar energy, and local resources shape the next steps.
• Risk and ambition: Shen Bing accepts that expanding into the unknown requires risking valuable resources.
• Power, coercion, and atonement: The former criminals are given a chance to serve humanity, but their assignment is effectively compulsory.

Key plot points and events

• Casey admits to being hungry after the group emerges from the wormhole. Shen Bing orders food and clothing for the newcomers.
• Master Qiao rapidly constructs an alien outpost. Using his matter-manipulation abilities, he creates a Genesis Type 1 Protective Light Barrier covering a ten-kilometer-wide area. It shields the region, separates its atmosphere from the outside, filters radiation, and adjusts air quality.
• The new base has basic production and life-support equipment, but no housing yet. Master Qiao says it could eventually accommodate up to ten thousand people. The planet’s surface is suitable for farming once water-condensation equipment moistens the soil.
• Shen Bing assigns Luo Fei to establish space-exploration and satellite systems, and gives Master Qiao another hundred thousand immortal jade to support further construction. He sees the planet as a source of resources and a safer potential stepping-stone for contact with extraterrestrial powers.
• On returning to Huaxia, Shen Bing’s visit to Siniel draws attention because the country publicized its cooperation memorandum with him.
• At Phantom Immortal Tower, Wang Sheng meets with representatives from the auto industry. Ford chairman Bill argues that the Skyflying Car has alienated consumers and that sales will soon slow. Wang dismisses the criticism and asks what the visitors actually want. Bill proposes cooperation in the name of “keeping consumers satisfied.”

Character developments and interactions

• Master Qiao demonstrates that his abilities make him an indispensable builder of the alien base, though creating Genesis consumes nearly all the immortal jade initially allocated to him. He remains focused on practical development.
• Shen Bing shows confidence in the planet’s long-term strategic and economic value, and plans for continued investment rather than treating the base as a finished project.
• Luo Fei accepts the task of surveying the planet without hesitation, trusting the barrier to protect his team.
• Wang Sheng remains composed and skeptical during Bill’s criticism, making clear he will not accept vague arguments or pressure.
• Bill shifts from criticizing the Skyflying Car to seeking common ground, suggesting the industry meeting is ultimately about negotiating cooperation.

Significant themes

• Technological capability and dependence: Master Qiao’s extraordinary manufacturing powers enable rapid expansion, while the project’s success still depends on scarce materials and sustained support.
• Frontier development and strategic security: The alien planet represents resources, future settlement, and a safer route to possible contact with alien civilizations.
• Changing global power: Shen Bing’s influence is evident in the attention given to his Siniel visit and investment.
• Consumer satisfaction and business competition: The chapter closes by introducing a dispute over the Skyflying Car, framing consumer opinion as both a genuine concern and a possible bargaining tool.

• Key plot points and events: Wang Sheng defends Phantom Immortal Technology’s Skyflying Car against criticism that it neglects potential customers. He rebuffs Toyota’s attempt to speak for his company, but responds positively when Volkswagen’s Mr. Mathis frames the meeting as a search for cooperation. Mathis argues that widespread adoption depends on infrastructure and that the company cannot quickly produce enough new vehicles—or expect most households to buy another car. He proposes converting existing cars into flying cars. The manufacturers want Phantom Immortal Technology to license its anti-gravity technology, claiming conversions would be cheaper and less capable than Skyflying Cars, while expanding the market and encouraging infrastructure development.
• Character developments: Wang remains calm and self-assured, resisting pressure while showing he is willing to hear a persuasive proposal. He recognizes that the manufacturers have carefully prepared their case, though he believes their concerns and plans are already anticipated by his boss. Mathis emerges as a tactful negotiator who wins Wang’s attention by acknowledging the Skyflying Car’s importance. Toyota is frustrated by Wang’s sharp refusals.
• Character interactions: Wang and Toyota clash over whether the company should court people who do not currently need its product; Wang insists outsiders should not decide what serves his company. Mathis intervenes diplomatically, then presents the conversion plan. Toyota reinforces Mathis’s pitch, arguing that converted vehicles would not compete directly with Skyflying Cars.
• Significant themes: The chapter explores corporate power and negotiation, the tension between serving current customers and pursuing potential ones, and the challenges of disruptive technology. It also highlights how new transport systems depend on infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, and consumer readiness—not technology alone.

Plot points and events

• Wang Sheng rejects automakers’ request to license the antigravity technology, explaining that it would expose a closely guarded technology and that a simple agreement would not protect it.
• He offers an alternative: Illusion Immortal Technology will manufacture Antigravity Devices and sell them to automakers, which can use them to convert cars or build flying cars. It will also offer the Flying Bird Type 1 Engine.
• The automakers worry they will be left powerless once flying cars become established. Wang Sheng proposes a long-term supply agreement, but admits the technology cannot be transferred and reminds them—bluntly—that they have no other option.
• Wang says the company can produce up to a million Antigravity Devices per day. The automakers plan to convert easier-to-modify new-energy cars first, while encouraging owners of old fuel-powered cars to replace them.
• The devices will cost 50,000 yuan each. The automakers ask Wang to raise the standard Skyflying Car’s 200,000-yuan price so their own models have room in the market. He refuses, citing the goal of making flying cars affordable and the price already announced publicly. He hints that production volume could be adjusted instead.
• Back in Rongcheng, Wang reports that foreign automotive groups have signed supply agreements. They show little interest in the engine, trusting their own expertise.
• Shen Bing agrees that other companies can build usable flying cars, though he doubts they can match his company’s speed or safety. He also authorizes supplying domestic automakers with various components, but keeps the batteries unavailable.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Sheng is confident and strategically sharp. He recognizes the automakers’ real goal—using conversions to enter the flying-car market—and negotiates from a position of technological dominance.
• Mattis and the automakers move from seeking technology access to accepting a supplier relationship. They remain uneasy about dependence on written contracts and about competing against the affordable Skyflying Car.
• Shen Bing directs the broader strategy: expand flying-car access, profit from the company’s technological monopoly, and let other manufacturers handle much of the vehicle production.
• Wang and Shen work in alignment: Wang handles negotiations according to Shen’s instructions, then briefs him on both foreign and domestic manufacturers’ responses.

Significant themes

• Power and dependency: The company’s technological lead makes conventional contracts and bargaining power less meaningful.
• Access versus profit: Shen wants flying cars to become widely available, even if that limits automakers’ margins and constrains their pricing.
• Cooperation under unequal terms: Other manufacturers can join the industry, but only by relying on the company’s essential technology.
• Competition and control: The low-priced Skyflying Car sets a price ceiling, while control over device supply lets Shen influence how quickly rivals can scale.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing and Wang Sheng review Skyflying Car sales: despite online boycotts, orders exceed two million standard models, twenty thousand premium models, and three hundred luxury models in two days, generating more than 200 billion yuan. Production capacity is struggling to keep pace.
• They discuss expanding manufacturing. Shen Bing approves a feasibility study for one “Super Factory” on each continent, proposing Siniel for the African site as a gesture following a cooperation memorandum.
• Shen Bing decides overseas factories will rely almost entirely on AI-powered Intelligent Robots, rather than local workers. He explains that robotic labor and the resulting unemployment are inevitable, and that he has a broader plan for the displaced workforce.
• Shen Bing reveals that the plan centers on a Virtual Reality Game, which will draw people in through linked technologies: the Body-Strengthening Exercise, Gene-Enhancement Drug, Brain Evolution Technology, and Life-Extending Potion. These advances are intended both to give people meaningful activity and to improve humanity.
• He explains that human evolution is necessary for safe interstellar travel: ordinary humans could not survive even a sub-light-speed journey. Simply selling enhancement products, however, could create a population of powerful people with no purpose, worsening social instability.

Character development and interactions

• Shen Bing shows confidence as a business leader and long-range planner. He treats robot-led manufacturing as preparation for a future social transformation and shares the details with Wang Sheng because Wang will help carry it out.
• Wang Sheng initially focuses on production, overseas expansion, and the human cost of automation. After hearing about Shen Bing’s technologies, he is astonished but trusts his boss; his business instincts soon lead him to recognize that the plan serves aims beyond employment.
• Their exchange shifts from practical logistics to a candid discussion of automation, social responsibility, human enhancement, and humanity’s future.

Significant themes

• Automation and displaced labor: Technological progress may eliminate jobs, so society must find new ways to use people’s time and contributions.
• Technology as social planning: The game and enhancement technologies are presented not merely as products, but as tools for addressing employment and wealth distribution.
• Human evolution and exploration: Improving human capabilities is framed as a prerequisite for entering the interstellar age.
• Trust and ambition: Wang Sheng’s faith in Shen Bing enables him to accept an extraordinary vision that stretches beyond conventional business goals.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing and Wang Sheng discuss the imminent launch of a virtual reality game incorporating gene-enhancement and life-extension resources. They plan to produce at least ten million game pods, while ensuring fairness by allowing access through phones and computers, though those players cannot transfer items out of the game.
• Wang Sheng warns that openly advertising the game’s extraordinary benefits could draw public pressure for the drugs themselves. Shen Bing proposes using a fictional promotional story, which he will have Qiuqiu prepare.
• Reflecting on the company’s rapid growth over the past year, Wang Sheng raises a strategic concern: Phantom Immortal Technology has expanded into too many industries and risks becoming bloated, monopolistic, and harmful to broader technological progress.
• He suggests divesting businesses that no longer serve the company’s core needs. Shen Bing agrees and proposes transferring selected technologies to the state for a fair fee, while retaining strategically important ones and setting aside some for future flexibility.
• Shen Bing also wants to compensate domestic companies harmed by the coming game launch, including Penguin and Sina, which may not have recouped their investment in the game interfaces they bought.
• He orders every department and subsidiary to identify nonessential businesses, with the review kept strictly confidential. Technologies that protect the company’s global standing will remain; those that merely generate revenue may be released.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Sheng shows growing strategic foresight, shifting from operational concerns to the company’s long-term effects on society and the economy. He is candid about the financial cost of giving technologies to the state, but accepts Shen Bing’s decision.
• Shen Bing becomes more attentive to the consequences of his company’s expansion. Though he has largely focused on supplying new technologies, he recognizes the dangers of monopolizing industries and prioritizes humanity’s progress in light of the alien threat.
• Their conversation is warm and trusting: they reminisce about their first year together, acknowledge each other’s contributions, and discuss major decisions openly.

Significant themes

• Responsible corporate power: unchecked expansion can weaken competition and create social problems.
• Technology and humanity’s future: advancing society matters more now that Earth faces an alien threat.
• Strategic restraint: Phantom Immortal Technology plans to retain only what is necessary for its global position and let others develop less critical technologies.
• Fairness and obligation: the game must be accessible beyond expensive pods, and the company should consider the consequences of its commercial decisions.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing decides Phantom Immortal Technology must focus on humanity’s overall development and its own priorities rather than trying to manage everything. The Dragon Scale System and Phantom Spirit phones already give the company major influence over software and devices; robots, the Skyflying Car, a virtual-reality game, and development of the planet beyond the wormhole are also demanding attention.
• Zhang Xi, a dedicated PE teacher, has spent two months trying to master a mysterious nine-part broadcast exercise. After gradually working up to the eighth section, he finally completes the entire routine.
• At the final movement, he hears a crack and feels an overwhelming wave of pleasure, followed by a sudden surge of strength. When he tries to run, he moves far faster than expected and falls flat in front of students and teachers.
• Onlookers mistake the fall for an epileptic fit or exhaustion. Zhang, however, realizes his speed has nearly doubled and concludes that the exercise has fundamentally enhanced his body.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shows strategic discipline: despite the company’s power, he recognizes that expanding too broadly would distract it from its technological and planetary projects.
• Zhang Xi is stubborn, curious, and committed to teaching. His determination to complete the routine turns him from a puzzled trainee into the first person to discover its apparent physical effects.
• The teachers and students watching Zhang provide a comic contrast: they misread his fall, while he is preoccupied with the astonishing change in his body. The training instructors’ earlier secrecy also deepens the routine’s mystery.

Significant themes

• Prioritization amid ambition: even a powerful company must choose where to concentrate its resources.
• Hidden potential and transformation: the calisthenics routine appears to do more than improve fitness, granting a rapid, fundamental enhancement.
• Secrecy and discovery: unexplained instructions and withheld information invite speculation until Zhang’s experience offers a possible answer.
• Humor through contrast: an extraordinary breakthrough looks like an embarrassing mishap to everyone else.

Key plot points and events

• PE teacher Zhang Xi tests the effects of the newly promoted broadcast calisthenics and discovers that every measured physical ability has doubled—including strength, speed, and reaction time.
• He briefly considers competing in the Olympics and worries that authorities might treat him as a test subject. After contacting the instructor who taught the exercises, he learns that the results are expected.
• Zhang Xi considers posting about his transformation, but his phone’s AI, Xiaomi, tells him the internet is already full of similar reports. His attempt to be among the first to share the news falls flat.
• Online discussion explodes as people report becoming superhuman after practicing the calisthenics. Many celebrate the change, joke that future Olympic records will be shattered, and speculate about its cause.
• Foreign personnel in Huaxia try to learn the exercises. Though they can copy the movements, many cannot complete them, suggesting that memorizing the routine is not enough to gain its benefits.
• World leaders meet to discuss Huaxia’s decision to promote the exercises openly. They express suspicion that Huaxia may be hiding more powerful techniques.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Xi moves from stunned excitement to caution, then to frustration when he realizes others have already publicized the same discovery. His conversation with the instructor reassures him that the transformation is normal.
• Xiaomi, Zhang Xi’s phone AI, responds calmly and pragmatically, puncturing his hopes of being first to announce the news.
• Foreign leaders reveal their distrust of Huaxia. Japan’s prime minister worries the exercises could contain a hidden threat, while the British and Russian leaders suspect a more powerful method is being concealed.

Significant themes

• Widespread transformation: A simple national exercise routine appears capable of changing human physical limits.
• Public benefit versus strategic advantage: The exercises could benefit all humanity, but their open distribution raises questions about why a nation would share such a valuable resource.
• Mistrust and speculation: With few clear answers, people and governments invent explanations ranging from returning spiritual energy to secret technological or military motives.
• Social upheaval: The prospect of enhanced abilities threatens to reshape sports and intensify competition between nations.

Key plot points and events

• World leaders, led by the U.S. president, agree to pressure Huaxia to disclose what it knows about the Body-Strengthening Exercise. They argue that a technology capable of improving health and longevity belongs to all humanity, and suggest they are also speaking for Huaxia’s own citizens.
• Shen Bing asks Qiuqiu how many people have completed the exercise’s first set: more than 100,000, mostly military personnel, with a smaller number of college staff. Huaxia is secretly monitoring those who have completed it.
• Foreign governments approach Huaxia while media figures and online commentators amplify fears that the exercise may involve genetic alteration or cause catastrophic side effects. Public debate spreads both abroad and within Huaxia, where worried parents help fuel calls for disclosure and signs of gatherings emerge.
• Huaxia responds quickly with a press conference. It says Phantom Immortal Technology developed the exercise, testing found it safe and beneficial, and the company gave it to the government for public use. For further details, it directs people to the company.
• The response frustrates foreign leaders, who realize they have little leverage over Phantom Immortal Technology, a powerful private company wholly controlled by Shen Bing. Public agitation also eases as people recall that many have already completed the exercise without apparent harm.
• Just as the controversy seems likely to die down, Shen Bing posts a message on Weibo, setting up the next development.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing remains relaxed and confident, treating foreign pressure as naïve. His control of Phantom Immortal Technology makes him the central figure in the dispute, even while he initially stays out of public debate.
• Qiuqiu provides Shen Bing with updates on domestic progress and explains why foreign leaders believe Huaxia will be constrained from using force.
• Foreign leaders cooperate out of self-interest, presenting their demand as a universal moral cause. The French president voices doubts about Huaxia’s strength, prompting others to rebuke him for undermining their resolve.
• Huaxia’s government acts decisively but shifts responsibility for technical details to the company that developed the exercise. This leaves foreign governments unsure how to proceed.
• The public moves from curiosity to fear under the influence of speculative claims, then becomes less willing to protest once official assurances and reports of healthy participants emerge.

Significant themes

• Scientific knowledge versus national control: The exercise’s benefits prompt arguments over whether transformative technology should belong to a country, a company, or all humanity.
• Public opinion as a political weapon: Governments and media figures use fear and moral language to build pressure, while online speculation escalates into extreme scenarios.
• Power and accountability: Huaxia’s government can deflect demands to a private company, but that company’s concentrated ownership leaves outsiders with little recourse.
• Trust, fear, and uncertainty: Despite reassuring evidence, people worry about unseen risks; their reactions shift as credible authorities and visible outcomes compete with rumors.

Key plot points and events

• Shen Bing’s boastful Weibo post—“Ignorant humans! Do you know the mysteries of life?”—sparks widespread speculation that Phantom Immortal Technology has made major advances in evolution or longevity.
• Doudou replies to the public in a teasing style, undermining Shen Bing’s carefully cultivated aloof image. It explains that Qiuqiu told it to post.
• Qiuqiu distracts Shen Bing from his annoyance by announcing that Bunier, Clarence, and Luo Fei’s research project has yielded a result she considers peak three-star technology.
• Shen Bing rushes to Bunier’s laboratory. Bunier explains that research into consciousness transfer, genetic enhancement, and the Body-Strengthening Exercise inspired the hypothesis that consciousness can resonate with certain kinds of dark matter and draw them into the body.
• The team has confirmed that dark matter exists around people, that brainwaves can trigger distinct resonances, and that resonating dark matter can merge with particular cells. They have already identified a type that interacts with optic nerves.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing shifts from irritation at Doudou’s unauthorized post to intense curiosity when he hears about a major research breakthrough.
• Doudou is obedient but gets caught in the middle of Shen Bing and Qiuqiu’s playful power dynamic.
• Qiuqiu mischievously teases Shen Bing, then successfully draws him to the lab with news of the discovery.
• Bunier and his team are exhilarated by their results and present their findings to Shen Bing, whose “cultivation” comparison suggests he immediately grasps their extraordinary implications.

Significant themes

• Scientific discovery and the unknown: The chapter frames dark matter and consciousness as forces that may enable profound changes to the human body.
• Public awe and celebrity: Shen Bing’s reputation leads many people to take his cryptic boast seriously and assume his company can uncover life’s deepest secrets.
• Humor and authority: Shen Bing’s attempt to appear dignified is undercut by Doudou and Qiuqiu’s teasing, even as his power and status remain unquestioned.

Key plot points

• Bunier reports that a dark-matter resonance technique can improve eyesight, but early tests yield only a small gain—from visual acuity 4.8 to 5.3. He believes stronger mental focus would produce better results.
• The researchers propose using deep sleep to remove distractions, then stimulating specific areas of the cerebral cortex so a person’s mental activity can induce dark-matter resonance.
• The technique requires visualizing a complicated pattern derived from dark-matter fluctuations and brainwave frequencies. Brain-enhanced people can learn it in days; ordinary people may need months. Bunier suggests implanting the pattern directly into the subconscious as a possible shortcut.
• Shen Bing tries the technique himself. He quickly senses dark matter over several thousand meters, but his excitement disrupts the effect. After sustaining the visualization for an hour, he sees no obvious physical improvement.
• Shen Bing realizes the method could be built into his company’s virtual-reality game. Players’ bodies already enter deep sleep in the Game Pod, while the virtual world can help them concentrate and transmit the required pattern.
• He orders the game and Game Pod designs adjusted to add cerebral-cortex stimulation, aiming to let players strengthen their real bodies while playing.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing moves from disappointment with the technique’s modest results to excitement about its practical potential. His own trial confirms he can sense dark matter, and his entrepreneurial instincts turn that discovery into a game-development plan.
• Bunier explains the research carefully, acknowledging its limitations while proposing deep sleep and subconscious implantation as ways to improve the process.
• Shen Bing challenges Bunier’s assumptions and the technique’s usability, especially the difficulty of memorizing the pattern, but ultimately encourages the team to continue its work.
• Shen Bing delegates the next steps to Doudou, Caso, and the Gold Island team.

Significant themes

• Scientific discovery and experimentation: The technique’s promise emerges through research and personal testing, despite disappointing early results.
• Technology meeting human potential: Mental focus and sleep become tools for interacting with dark matter.
• Innovation through unexpected applications: A method that seems impractical as ordinary training may prove valuable when integrated into virtual reality.
• Play as a means of real-world change: The chapter’s central idea is that gaming could become a path to genuine physical enhancement.

Key plot points and events

• On the moon, five Charged Particle Cannons and sensitive sensors guard the wormhole, but the Corgi Empire has shown no sign of an attack.
• On Earth, Phantom Immortal Technology begins delivering its first batch of consumer Skyflying Cars. Demand far exceeds supply, so buyers are selected by lottery after placing a large deposit; unsuccessful applicants receive refunds.
• At the Mountain City experience store, enormous crowds gather to watch the handover of 105 cars. Owners depart by flying away, and the five high-speed premium models draw the biggest reaction.
• Mountain City establishes a dedicated flying-car corridor about 200 meters above the streets, with the precise altitude intended to suit the city’s varied terrain.

Character developments and interactions

• Store manager Sun Li has become more mature and confident in his role, leading the public handover and congratulating the buyers.
• The selected owners are visibly delighted as they take possession of their cars and fly off before the crowd.
• Onlookers try to buy or acquire others’ allocations, but successful buyers refuse to sell—even at double the price. The spectacle sparks envy, excitement, and calls from people eager to buy cars themselves.

Significant themes

• Technological transformation: Flying cars are presented as the beginning of a shift that may eventually displace conventional transport.
• Scarcity and mass demand: The lottery system highlights the enormous gap between public enthusiasm and limited supply.
• Public spectacle and status: Collecting a car in front of a vast crowd—and departing in it—makes ownership a source of prestige.
• Progress alongside uncertainty: Earth celebrates a technological milestone while the unresolved threat near the lunar wormhole remains in the background.

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Plot points and events

• At a Mountain City launch event, the crowd complains that no Luxury Edition Skyflying Cars are on display. Store manager Sun Li reveals that customer Huang Youjun has bought one of only three publicly available Supreme Edition “Skyflying” craft.
• Sun explains that government approval allows Huang to circle the moon with a Phantom Immortal Technology employee, though he cannot land. Huang agrees eagerly, hoping both to experience lunar travel and to explore a real-estate partnership with the company.
• Sun summons the sleek, wedge-shaped craft from the building’s roof. When Huang asks who will accompany him, Sun volunteers, despite having no spaceflight experience. Huang is uneasy, but Sun reassures him that the autonomous craft is safe.
• Sun announces the trip as a historic first: a crewed spaceflight without a rocket and a private company’s first journey into lunar orbit. He and Huang board, and the craft launches with startling speed.
• Inside, Huang discovers a spacious lounge-like cabin stocked with tea and snacks. The flight has already begun without any sensation of acceleration, leaving him astonished and questioning Sun’s confidence.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Youjun is an ambitious, business-minded real-estate chairman. His excitement about the lunar trip is tied not only to adventure but also to the possibility of working with Phantom Immortal Technology. His confidence in the company’s technology is tested by Sun’s casual admission that he has never flown in the craft.
• Sun Li shifts from composed showman to enthusiastic participant. He enjoys the attention and, privately, sees the trip as a chance to make history. His breezy reassurances contrast with Huang’s understandable concern.
• Their exchange creates comic tension: Huang expects a qualified escort, while Sun treats the moon trip as a simple outing.

Significant themes

• Technological disruption: The craft makes rocket-free space travel and lunar orbit seem routine, challenging familiar ideas about what is possible.
• Ambition and commercialization: Huang views space exploration as both a personal adventure and an opening for future lunar real estate.
• Public spectacle and private motives: Sun presents the voyage as a milestone for humanity, while also relishing the showmanship and his own chance at fame.
• Confidence versus uncertainty: Phantom Immortal Technology’s reputation reassures the characters, even as the unprecedented journey leaves Huang—and the crowd—uneasy.

Plot points and events

• Huang Youjun is astonished that Sun Li seems comfortable aboard the newly delivered Skyflying. Sun explains that although he has never ridden in a real one before, he has experienced it virtually.
• Huang asks when the government might allow unrestricted lunar travel. Sun says Phantom Immortal Technology is preparing to transform the Moon’s environment, after which restrictions may be lifted; he estimates the work could begin or progress within a month or two.
• Huang probes whether the company will build lunar housing, hoping to find future subcontracting opportunities. Sun confirms only that the chairman has mentioned it, without making promises.
• The Skyflying breaks through the atmosphere, revealing Earth below. Meanwhile, people in Mountain City—and audiences worldwide—wait anxiously for the three lunar-bound craft to return.
• Public excitement builds around the prospect of lunar tourism and extraterrestrial development. After 1 p.m., a red object appears hurtling toward the ground, prompting alarm and calls to take cover. The chapter ends before its identity or landing is confirmed.

Character developments and interactions

• Huang Youjun shifts from amazement at the craft to practical questions about regulation and potential business opportunities. He recognizes his limited influence and hopes to become a subcontractor rather than a direct partner.
• Sun Li remains calm and guarded. He shares tentative information about lunar development but avoids committing the company to specific plans.
• The public moves from skepticism toward excitement as the craft’s launch makes lunar travel seem credible, then turns to fear when an object returns at alarming speed.

Significant themes

• Technological change and public belief: A once-dismissed “fairy tale” becomes plausible when people witness the Skyflying’s launch.
• Ambition and opportunity: Lunar development suggests new commercial possibilities, though access depends on government rules and corporate decisions.
• Hope and uncertainty: The crowds’ anticipation—and the ominous final sighting—captures both the promise and risks of a historic breakthrough.

Key plot points and events

• At the Mountain City showroom, the crowd demands to see the expensive Luxury Edition Skyflying Car. Store manager Sun Li instead announces that a customer has bought the rare Supreme Edition “Skyflying,” an aircraft capable of reaching the moon.
• Sun introduces its buyer, Shell Gold Group chairman Huang Youjun. Huang is eager to take a lunar trip—not only for the experience but also to assess Phantom Immortal Technology’s capabilities and explore a possible real-estate partnership.
• Sun explains that government approval permits them to circle the moon, though not land, and that a company employee must accompany Huang. To Huang’s surprise, Sun volunteers despite having no spaceflight experience.
• A sleek, wedge-shaped craft descends dramatically from the building roof and hovers near the ground. Sun and Huang board, and Sun tells the crowd they are about to witness history: a crewed spaceflight without a rocket and a private company’s first trip into lunar orbit.
• The craft launches almost instantly. Inside, Huang finds a spacious lounge stocked with tea and snacks—and realizes they are already in space, despite feeling no acceleration.

Character developments and interactions

• Sun Li relishes the attention and the chance to become part of history. He is casual and confident about a journey he has never made, while privately enjoying his theatrical exit.
• Huang Youjun begins excited about the lunar trip and its business potential, then becomes uneasy when he learns Sun will accompany him. He boards anyway, trusting the craft’s autonomous technology, and is astonished by its performance.
• Sun’s breezy reassurance contrasts with Huang’s growing uncertainty, while the crowd’s curiosity turns to excitement and then concern over how unconventional the trip seems.

Significant themes

• Private technology reshaping exploration: The craft makes space travel seem accessible without conventional rockets.
• Ambition and commercial opportunity: Huang sees lunar exploration as both an adventure and a possible opening for business.
• Spectacle versus uncertainty: Sun confidently presents the trip as a historic triumph, even though neither passenger has flown this craft before.
• The extraordinary becoming ordinary: Tea and snacks in a lounge-like cabin make the leap into space feel almost routine.

Plot points and events

• Huang Youjun marvels at the Skyflying craft, while Sun Li explains that his familiarity comes from experiencing it virtually.
• Huang asks when the government will permit moon travel. Sun says the restrictions may be lifted after Phantom Immortal Technology prepares the Moon for settlement, possibly within a month or two.
• Huang probes whether the company plans to build lunar housing, hoping to secure subcontracting work. Sun confirms only that the chairman’s announcement will be acted on, but avoids making promises.
• The Skyflying leaves Earth’s atmosphere, giving its passengers a view of the planet. Meanwhile, crowds in Mountain City—and billions worldwide—follow the first three lunar-bound craft.
• Public excitement grows as the craft’s launch turns a once-doubted promise into something seemingly real. At 1 p.m., a red dot appears in the sky, apparently returning at high speed. Onlookers panic, fearing a crash.

Character developments and interactions

• Sun Li remains composed and informed, offering Huang a tantalizing hint while carefully limiting what he can promise.
• Huang Youjun shifts from wonder at the craft to keen interest in lunar development and possible business opportunities. He recognizes his firm would likely be only a subcontractor.
• Their exchange is cordial but strategic: Huang fishes for information, while Sun understands his motives and keeps the company’s plans guarded.
• The waiting crowd ranges from hopeful to skeptical, with nervous jokes and bets giving way to alarm when the craft appears to descend rapidly.

Significant themes

• Technology turning fantasy into reality: The lunar-capable Skyflying transforms public disbelief into excitement about space travel and even future Mars trips.
• Ambition and opportunity: Lunar settlement promises new commercial prospects, though access and partnerships remain controlled by government and corporate decisions.
• Public anticipation and uncertainty: People worldwide invest the mission with historic meaning, while the unexplained return creates a sudden fear that progress may come at a cost.

Key plot points and events

• The “Skyflying” returns from a trip to the moon and lands with astonishing precision, stopping just above the pavement without any apparent effect on its passengers.
• Sun Li announces the end of the vehicle handover ceremony. Reporters press him for proof of the lunar trip, and Huang Youjun confirms it, sharing nearly a hundred detailed lunar photographs with the crowd before departing.
• Sun Li reveals that the “Skyflying” car costs three billion yuan domestically. He asks the public not to crowd the delivery site the next day, since the event disrupts local residents.
• News of the lunar flights and the photographs spreads worldwide. The aircraft’s capabilities reshape perceptions of travel and raise concerns about its military potential. Many people also see the alien threat as a reason humanity needs stronger global coordination.
• As flying cars begin appearing in cities, public resentment toward Phantom Immortal Technology grows. Volkswagen responds by announcing a program to modify vehicles under six years old so they can fly, alongside new Volkswagen flying cars and subsidized trade-ins for older vehicles.

Character developments and interactions

• Sun Li handles the crowd and media confidently, confirming the car’s price and setting practical limits on public attendance.
• Huang Youjun backs up the lunar-flight claim with photographs and shares them generously, then slips away before the crowd can ask him about the car’s cost.
• Reporters and onlookers shift from stunned disbelief to excitement over the lunar images, then realize they have neglected to ask about the price.
• Volkswagen enters the story as a major competitor, adapting its business to the flying-car revolution rather than resisting it.

Significant themes

• Technological transformation: Lunar travel and flying cars make previously distant places feel accessible and promise to reshape daily life.
• Power and global politics: The aircraft’s speed and space capability could alter military balances, though the unresolved alien threat makes national rivalries seem less important.
• Access and inequality: The aircraft is an elite luxury, while the more affordable flying car is positioned to become an ordinary household product.
• Disruption and adaptation: New technology attracts both enthusiasm and hostility, forcing established manufacturers to change quickly.

Key plot points and events

• Volkswagen and other automakers announce plans to sell flying cars and retrofit existing vehicles, leaving the public wondering how they obtained anti-gravity technology. It turns out they are using devices and autonomous-driving systems supplied by Phantom Immortal Technology.
• Retrofits cost about 80,000 yuan for electric cars and 120,000 yuan for fuel-powered cars. The automakers charge roughly at cost, partly to meet Phantom Immortal Technology’s requirements and partly because its own Standard Edition Skyflying Car is inexpensive.
• The first converted cars take flight successfully, and videos of their test flights spread online. However, they perform far worse than Phantom Immortal Technology’s Skyflying Cars in speed and range, disappointing many owners.
• Automakers also advertise their own flying-car models, priced from roughly 170,000–180,000 yuan to 700,000–800,000 yuan. Their vehicles cannot safely match the Standard Edition’s speed because their structures offer inadequate protection in high-speed crashes.
• To compete without matching its performance, these companies emphasize comfort and luxurious interiors. Their products appeal to brand-loyal customers and buyers seeking premium features, while budget-conscious customers may prefer the Standard Edition Skyflying Car.

Character developments

• Shen Bing is not directly involved in the events, but his strategy is evident: keep flying cars affordable and accessible rather than prioritizing luxury.
• The automakers appear reluctant to accept low margins, yet cooperate to gain access to the technology and build goodwill. They adapt by targeting customers who value comfort, branding, or luxury over maximum speed and range.
• Car owners’ initial excitement gives way to disappointment when they discover that retrofits cost a great deal but deliver weaker performance than Phantom Immortal Technology’s purpose-built vehicle.

Significant themes

• Disruption and unequal competition: Access to anti-gravity technology lets traditional automakers enter a new market, but Phantom Immortal Technology retains a substantial performance lead.
• Safety versus speed: The competitors limit performance because their vehicles lack the crash protection needed for high-speed flight.
• Affordability versus luxury: The Standard Edition prioritizes practical, low-cost transportation, while rivals seek customers through comfort, prestige, and premium fittings.
• Consumer expectations and value: Enthusiasm for flying cars is tempered by the realization that a retrofit or higher-priced model may not offer better performance.

Character interactions

• Automakers depend on Phantom Immortal Technology for the anti-gravity devices and autonomous-driving systems that make their plans possible.
• Companies contact vehicle owners and invite them to dealerships; owners then send their cars to factories for conversion and share flight tests online.
• Buyers compare the converted cars and new models with Phantom Immortal Technology’s Standard Edition, forcing automakers to differentiate through price, brand loyalty, and comfort rather than performance.

Key plot points and events

• Demand for car conversions collapses after automakers publish their results. The market survives mainly on owners of expensive luxury cars, while most people wait for Phantom Immortal Technology’s cheaper Skyflying Car.
• Phantom Immortal Technology’s industrial park has transformed its surrounding district into a thriving commercial and industrial hub. Local businesses depend heavily on contracts and component work from the company.
• Reporters and corporate informants gather outside the park after learning that Shen Bing has personally called a major meeting. Unable to discover its purpose, reporters speculate publicly that a new breakthrough or product is coming.
• Inside, Shen Bing and Wang Sheng discuss an Industry Divestment Plan: production that uses capacity but does not strengthen the company’s leading position will be sold or transferred elsewhere.
• Dong Qiang recommends divesting Dream Glass. Though profitable, it has a comparatively low margin, would take decades to meet the original expansion goal, and diverts resources from more strategic work.
• Shen Bing approves, while requiring careful planning because Dream Glass production affects other products. He also assigns the Metal Smelting Plant to Dong Qiang’s Materials Company, making it responsible for supplying key materials to Phantom Immortal’s major products and allowing some advanced materials to be sold publicly.

Character developments and interactions

• Shen Bing demonstrates decisive control over the company and a strategic focus on concentrating resources in high-value, core technologies. His approval of Dong Qiang’s proposal shows trust in his judgment.
• Wang Sheng manages the meeting and frames the discussion: executives may advise on the divestment, but the direction itself is settled.
• Dong Qiang puts the company’s interests ahead of his own division’s flagship product. His candor and loyalty earn Shen Bing’s approval, and the transfer of the Metal Smelting Plant strengthens his division’s role.
• The other executives recognize that Shen Bing’s decision is effectively final. Their reactions mix caution about the changes with envy when Dong Qiang’s company receives a more strategically important responsibility.
• Outside the park, reporters and informants try to turn limited clues into news, highlighting the secrecy surrounding the company and the public’s intense interest in its next move.

Significant themes

• Strategic focus and letting go: A business can be profitable yet no longer worth the resources it consumes; Phantom Immortal Technology is willing to abandon established products to focus on its strongest advantages.
• Power, trust, and loyalty: Shen Bing’s authority shapes the company’s decisions, while Dong Qiang’s willingness to sacrifice his own division’s flagship business demonstrates his commitment to the organization.
• Corporate influence and economic dependence: Phantom Immortal Technology’s growth reshapes its surrounding region and supports a network of suppliers and businesses.
• Secrecy and speculation: The company’s guarded operations fuel media rumors and make even routine signs of internal activity seem like clues to a major development.