Vol. 1Building the Science Kingdom

Li Xiang helped Senku build the Science Kingdom, cure Ruri, and defeat Tsukasa’s faction before joining the voyage to Treasure Island. After a petrification attack scattered the crew, Li Xiang and the survivors allied with Amaryllis and prepared to infiltrate the island chief’s harem to rescue their companions.

  • Li Xiang joined Senku’s effort to revive humanity, helped the group survive Tsukasa’s threat, and restored Senku after Tsukasa nearly killed him.
  • Li Xiang, Senku, Taiju, and Yuzuriha escaped Tsukasa, revived Senku, and set off together.
  • Li Xiang and Senku joined Ishigami Village, gathered support, and helped cure Ruri’s pneumonia.
  • After Ruri recovered, Li Xiang and Senku began building a telephone network to reconnect with their separated allies.
  • Li Xiang and Senku helped Ishigami Village recover the past, build communications, and prepare for war with Tsukasa’s faction.
  • Li Xiang’s drug weakened most of the enemy camp, and the Science Kingdom prepared for the spring showdown.
  • Li Xiang and the Science Kingdom defeated Tsukasa’s faction, built the Perseus, and sailed to Treasure Island to investigate the petrification mystery.
  • After a petrification attack turned much of the crew to stone, Li Xiang and the survivors joined Amaryllis and Soyuz in planning to infiltrate the island chief’s harem and rescue their companions.
Chapters 1–100 Read from Ch. 1

Arc 1The Science Kingdom’s First Trials

Li Xiang joined Senku’s effort to revive humanity and build a new civilization, helping the group survive the wilderness and confront Tsukasa’s plan. After Tsukasa nearly killed Senku, Li Xiang’s quick thinking helped the group escape and revive him, and they set off together again.

  • Li Xiang awakened in the wilderness, met Senku, and agreed to help him build the Science Kingdom.
  • Li Xiang and Senku made clothes, reinforced their shelter, and created revival fluid that awakened Taiju and Yuzuriha.
  • Li Xiang helped the group survive a lion attack, breaking her arm before Tsukasa arrived and defeated the lions.
  • Tsukasa told Li Xiang about his plan to build a new society without reviving adults, but he later left after vowing to kill Senku.
  • Senku led Li Xiang, Taiju, and Yuzuriha to gather ingredients and make black powder while they prepared for Tsukasa’s threat.
  • Li Xiang secretly put laxatives in Tsukasa’s fish, allowing her, Taiju, and Yuzuriha to flee with the unconscious Senku.
  • Li Xiang used revival fluid on petrified tissue at Senku’s neck, restoring him, and the group set off with his neck supported.
Chapters 1–2525 summaries Read

Arc 2The Antibiotic and the Village

Li Xiang and Senku joined Ishigami Village, treated Ruri, and built support while preparing for war with Tsukasa. After curing Ruri, they turned to building a telephone network to reconnect with Taiju and Yuzuriha.

  • Senku and Li Xiang freed Kohaku from fallen logs, then followed her to Ishigami Village and offered to treat Ruri’s chronic pneumonia.
  • Li Xiang and Senku gathered materials with Kohaku and Chrome, while Li Xiang found herbs for Ruri and promised to make Watermelon glasses.
  • Li Xiang injured her arm defending Yuzuriha from lions, and Senku revived Tsukasa, who defeated the remaining lions before leaving the group.
  • Senku and Li Xiang made gunpowder, recruited Gen Asagiri, and won village support with ramen and clothes as they began building a generator.
  • Li Xiang and Senku captured Homura, learned Tsukasa was watching the village, and agreed to recruit allies while preparing for conflict.
  • Senku won the village tournament and became Village Chief, while Li Xiang discovered poisonous mushrooms and considered using their toxins against Tsukasa’s camp.
  • Li Xiang and Kohaku helped Senku, Chrome, and Ginro collect sulfuric acid despite Hyoga’s attack, and the group completed the antibiotic after returning safely.
  • Li Xiang tested and gave Ruri the antibiotic, which cleared her infection, and she and Senku agreed to build a telephone network to reconnect with their separated allies.
Chapters 26–5025 summaries Read

Arc 3The Science Kingdom Prepares

Li Xiang and Senku helped Ishigami Village recover the past, build communications, and prepare for war with the Tsukasa Faction. The arc ended with Li Xiang’s drug weakening most of the enemy camp as the spring showdown approached.

  • Li Xiang recruited Gen Asagiri, helped win the villagers’ support, and entered the tournament, where Senku became Village Chief after the finalists forfeited.
  • Ruri told Li Xiang and Senku the One Hundred Tales, revealing that Byakuya Ishigami had founded the village after the petrification disaster, and Senku mourned his adoptive father while Li Xiang reassured him.
  • Senku’s team mined copper and built a telephone, while Li Xiang organized a winter feast and helped the villagers listen to Byakuya’s recorded message and Lillian Weinberg’s song.
  • Li Xiang and Ginro scattered her drug into the Tsukasa Faction’s water supply as Kohaku, Chrome, and Gen delivered a telephone into enemy territory, escaped capture, and returned with Maguma injured.
  • Li Xiang gave Ginro her gas mask and leapt across a deadly sulfuric-acid gap, then Senku and Chrome developed antibiotics that helped Ruri recover.
  • Nikki agreed to recruit pacifists within the Tsukasa Faction, and the Science Kingdom built a tank as Senku and Tsukasa agreed to settle their conflict in spring.
  • Li Xiang and the villagers surprised Senku with a seventeenth-birthday celebration, where she gave him a handmade fruit cake and a red scarf.
  • After Tsukasa discovered and cut the buried telephone line, Li Xiang planned for the battle and agreed to bring Homura as an observer, while Taiju and Yuzuriha stayed healthy by avoiding the poisoned supplies.
  • Most of the Tsukasa Empire camp developed abdominal pain, diarrhea, weakness, and fatigue, and Li Xiang predicted they would be too weak to fight by spring.
Chapters 51–7525 summaries Read

Arc 4The Treasure Island Infiltration

Li Xiang and the Science Kingdom defeated Tsukasa’s faction, built the Perseus, and sailed to Treasure Island to investigate the petrification mystery. After losing most of their crew to a petrification attack, they joined Amaryllis and Soyuz in planning to infiltrate the island chief’s harem and rescue their companions.

  • Senku and Li Xiang prepared the campaign against Tsukasa’s faction, recruited its sick workers, and helped bring about its surrender, after which Tsukasa reunited with Mirai and pledged to protect the Science Kingdom.
  • Senku and the villagers built telephones, detected a mysterious signal, and revived Ryusui and Francois to help prepare an ocean voyage.
  • Li Xiang helped provision the Perseus, and Senku’s crew found crude oil after surveying the land by hot-air balloon.
  • Ryusui sailed the Perseus to Treasure Island, where armed islanders attacked and a woman’s petrification weapon turned much of the crew to stone.
  • Li Xiang and the survivors reunited with Senku in a cave, and Amaryllis agreed to help them oppose the chief and free her friends.
  • Kohaku, Nikki, and Ginro recovered laboratory equipment and statues from the Perseus, while Thorn ordered the remaining outsider statues destroyed.
  • Senku revived Grandpa Fossil and Soyuz, who revealed that he was the former leader’s son and resolved to help change the island’s future.
  • Lillian helped the group disguise themselves for the harem selection, and Li Xiang, Kohaku, Ginro, and Lillian entered it as the others prepared to act.
Chapters 76–10025 summaries Read
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