Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu accepted the Moon Canyon Blockade bounty and entered the instance, where a massive Nebula Beast horde overwhelmed the defending Mecha. He emerged from a spacecraft among the players sent to confront the beasts, piloting an Earth Dragon Type I Mecha.

• Wang Yu considered how mastering Star River’s Mecha and Nebula Beasts could prepare him for future military service and catastrophe.
• Wang Yu accepted the Moon Canyon Blockade bounty at the counter and headed for the Mecha hangar.
• Players crowded around Wang Yu to recruit him, but he concealed his face and left without accepting their offers.
• In the Moon Grand Canyon Blockade, electric-tailed Nebula Beasts broke through the human Mecha defense line.
• A kilometer-long spacecraft fired its main cannon through the horde, then released colorful player Mecha as the surviving beasts charged toward it.
• Wang Yu flew out among the players in an Earth Dragon Type I Mecha.

Wang Yu piloted a basic Earth Dragon Type I into the Nebula Beast horde and fought with astonishing skill despite the mecha’s limitations. He learned about the powerful Pheasant Beast leader as he cut through the flock, drawing shocked praise from nearby Mech Pilots.

• Wang Yu ignored complaints from organized players and charged alone toward the Nebula Beasts in his Earth Dragon Type I.
• Players, NPC mecha, spacecraft guns, and drones clashed with the horde as airborne beasts attacked the rear lines and the spacecraft.
• Wang Yu killed attacking Pheasant Beasts with his golden blade and considered whether he could take on the flock’s powerful leader.
• Wang Yu recognized that the Earth Dragon Type I performed worse than his assessment mecha but relied on his telekinetic perception to defeat every Pheasant Beast that approached.
• Nearby Mech Pilots saw Wang Yu’s performance and praised him as an expert.

Wang Yu fought through the Pheasant Beasts in his Earth Dragon Type I Mecha as the Pheasant Beast Leader appeared early and unleashed devastating attacks. After the Leader focused its assault on Wang Yu, he remained standing at the center of a vast crater.

• Wang Yu used his Telekinetic Power to push his Earth Dragon Type I Mecha beyond its normal limits and cut down the Pheasant Beasts.
• The Pheasant Beast Leader appeared early and used a shrill mental shockwave to knock Mecha and drones from the sky.
• Players attacked the Leader, but its Force-Field Barrier deflected their bullets and beams.
• The Leader shattered its barrier and sent a devastating rain of light down toward Wang Yu, destroying Mecha and beasts across the battlefield.
• The Leader followed with more sonic attacks aimed at Wang Yu's position, but after the dust cleared, Wang Yu's black Mecha stood unharmed at the center of a huge crater.

Wang Yu used Cultivation World spells through the black Mecha to kill the golden Pheasant Beast leader, making the mysterious pilot a sensation across Star River. Helena arrived in Pengjie City, ordered a search for No. 1, and raced to find him before the War God Group arrived.

• Wang Yu cast Golden Needle Technique from the black Mecha, stopping the golden Pheasant Beast leader's attack and pinning it with metal spikes.
• Wang Yu's golden needles killed the trapped Pheasant Beast leader, while the Flame Veil shielded the Mecha.
• Star River players spread a video of the mysterious black Mecha slaying the Pheasant Beast leader and debated the pilot's identity.
• Helena watched the video and ordered her team to search the game for No. 1, whose identity they believed was likely.
• Helena learned the final suspect was in Pengjie City's southern district and ordered her team to find him before the War God Group arrived.

Li Xiaodao discovered that a bounty had exposed Mr. Sai’s identity and warned Wang Yu to flee Pengjie City. Wang Yu uncovered Cindy’s betrayal through a White Bone Fiend, while Ouyang Jia’s gang attacked the villa and Director York learned the gunfight had begun.

• Cindy told Li Xiaodao that the Blood Hand Gang had received a portrait of Mr. Sai and was investigating the villa, then left to stall them.
• Li Xiaodao watched Cindy leave on the surveillance cameras, warned Wang Yu to go west of Karlo, and prepared weapons at the villa.
• Ouyang Jia arrived at the villa with armed gang members as Li Xiaodao continued checking his guns.
• Wang Yu used a White Bone Fiend to escape its box and safe, then overheard Cindy reveal that he had deliberately alerted Li Xiaodao to lure Mr. Sai into a trap with Director York.
• Director York said British Commonwealth forces were coming to capture Mr. Sai, but then received word that another gang had attacked the villa and opened fire.

Wang Yu used a White Bone Fiend to help Li Xiaodao escape the villa, then fled Pengjie City in disguise. Helena’s forces captured the damaged puppet and received a new lead on No. 1.

• Director York learned that other gangs had attacked the villa, and Cindy decided to go after Li Xiaodao.
• Wang Yu ordered a White Bone Fiend to kill the men at the villa and connected his divine sense to the second puppet.
• Li Xiaodao fought off the attackers until the White Bone Fiend slaughtered them, then Wang Yu urged him to escape because Cindy had betrayed them.
• Wang Yu left the villa, drove beyond Pengjie City, and changed his appearance into that of a freckled young white man.
• Helena examined the captured, damaged White Bone Fiend and learned that headquarters had identified a possible suspect for No. 1 using Dawn Angel and Arthur’s deductions.

Helena ordered a pursuit after the British Commonwealth’s satellite surveillance identified Wang Yu, while Wang Yu realized he was being tracked and raced toward his rendezvous near Karlo Town. He sent seven skeletons to delay the pursuing convoy, but an earthen wall suddenly stopped his car and sent it crashing back onto the road.

• Helena reviewed satellite footage of Wang Yu and ordered her team to pursue him from Pengjie City.
• Wang Yu sensed that a satellite was watching him, considered sending a White Bone Puppet into space to destroy it, then continued toward Karlo Town.
• A hidden gas station west of Karlo Town showed fresh tire tracks leading into it.
• Wang Yu saw a convoy of green jeeps closing in and summoned seven armored skeletons to attack the pursuers.
• As Wang Yu tried to escape, an earthen wall rose across the road, and his car smashed into it and crashed backward.

Wang Yu escaped the wrecked car underground, but Helena and her A-Rank companions tracked him and pursued him. As Henry caught up beneath the earth, Wang Yu discovered that Henry's silver armor and helmet resisted Telekinetic Power and prepared another attack.

• Helena, Henry, and the winged boy found the overturned car empty, and Helena concluded that No. 1 had escaped underground.
• The winged boy used Dawn Angel's tracking coordinates to locate No. 1 moving east, while Helena and the boy set off in pursuit and Henry burrowed after him.
• Wang Yu used an Escape Technique to flee a hundred meters underground and hurried toward his support team to escape satellite surveillance.
• Wang Yu's Telekinetic Power struck Henry, but Henry continued swimming through the soil because his silver helmet blocked the attack.
• Wang Yu scanned Henry, spotted the silver armor beneath the earth covering, and sent another wave of Telekinetic Power at him.

Wang Yu escaped an underground attack and emerged into a confrontation involving Helena, a winged boy, and three newcomers from the War God Group. The black-clad woman challenged Helena as the opposing forces gathered for their mission.

• Wang Yu trapped Henry the Earthman in a stone sphere and continued toward the meeting point underground.
• A barrage of mysterious shock waves forced Wang Yu to abandon his Earth-Escape Spell and escape through the surface in black mist.
• Helena struck Wang Yu with lightning while the winged boy retreated, but a Bronze Arrow hit the boy and exposed his armor.
• Old Man Meng appeared behind Helena, and an armored man arrived with a black-clad woman hanging beneath him.
• The black-clad woman confronted Helena and drew her saber, while Helena identified the arrivals as the War God Group.

The War God Group fought three Grade A British Commonwealth ability users, while Wang Yu watched from the air. Mulan defeated Earthman, Helena attacked Master, and the battle continued with the other combatants still engaged.

• Mulan identified the British Commonwealth team and attacked Helena with a Wind Blade, which Helena blocked with a lightning shield.
• Helena ordered Earthman to ambush Mulan and had the winged youth trap Mighty General and Wang Yu in rings.
• Mulan broke free of Earthman's grasp, kicked him out of the ground, and slashed him across the chest.
• Earthman formed a giant from earth and stone and charged Mulan as Helena unleashed a storm of lightning at Master.
• Master evaded Helena's lightning, while Mulan used the Draw-Cutting Art to decapitate Earthman.

The Black-Clothed Woman destroyed the Earth-and-Stone Giant and rescued Henry, while the gray-robed old man repeatedly threw Helena despite her lightning attacks. Wang Yu watched the old man’s strange power leave Helena wary.

• The Black-Clothed Woman used the Black Tiger Breathing Method and a flurry of punches to shatter the headless Earth-and-Stone Giant, then rescued the unconscious Henry.
• The Winged Boy aimed his silver handgun at the Black-Clothed Woman, but the Military General threatened him with a charged Bronze Arrow and forced him to lower it.
• Helena attacked the gray-robed old man with Lightning Spears, but he evaded them while revealing four pupils.
• Helena teleported behind the old man and formed six lightning arms to trap him in a Lightning Net, but he turned and flipped her onto the ground with a touch.
• Helena sprang up and attacked again, but the old man flipped her a second time, leaving her wary as Wang Yu watched.

Wang Yu destroyed the Military General’s enormous Rings with his Bone Banner, but an Orbital Cannon struck the battlefield and blasted a vast crater into the ground. The cannon failed to kill Wang Yu, and the British Commonwealth prepared a stronger second strike just as Huaguo’s Special Department called its general.

• Wang Yu unleashed black mist from his Bone Banner and shattered the enormous Rings around him and the Military General.
• The Winged Boy tightened his grip on the Silver Pistol as the Black-Clothed Woman knocked the Earthman unconscious again.
• Wang Yu spotted a threat in the sky and raised a black-mist pillar, but an Orbital Cannon’s laser blasted it and struck the ground as he fled underground.
• The Military General identified the weapon as a Strategist-Class Laser Cannon, while the others reacted to its devastating strike.
• At a British Commonwealth military base, officers reported that Wang Yu had survived underground, and the hooked-nosed general ordered a stronger second shot.
• A field-grade officer delivered a call from Huaguo’s Special Department, and the hooked-nosed general answered after hearing who was calling.

General McKay and Minister Li argued over the British Commonwealth’s plan to destroy No. 1, while Huaguo threatened a retaliatory orbital strike. Mr. Ressa intervened and brokered a possible research agreement, leaving McKay ready to stand down while negotiations over the Saitan World remained ahead.

• Minister Li warned General McKay that Huaguo’s Heavenly Palace satellite would strike Dawn Angel if it attacked No. 1 again.
• McKay claimed No. 1 was a cloned test subject belonging to the British Commonwealth, while Li insisted No. 1 was a protected Huaguo citizen and threatened to take the dispute to the Future People.
• Mr. Ressa joined the call and urged McKay not to destroy No. 1, saying he could be key to saving both worlds.
• McKay said Parliament would make sparing No. 1 difficult, so Li offered the British Commonwealth a chance to participate in research on the Saitan World in exchange for opening some exclusive projects.
• McKay agreed to order the Superpower Corps to stand down and convene a meeting, while Mr. Ressa declared that he would formally join the Saitan World research.

Dr. Chen explained why No. 1 was vital to Blue Star’s survival and urged Huaguo and the British Commonwealth to cooperate. He announced that he would force an Ark Team vote on the controversial Sky-Opening Plan, leaving Minister Li asking what the plan and Council System involved.

• Raisa told Minister Li that national prejudice and hostility could doom Blue Star, while Minister Li refused to stake Huaguo’s security on other countries’ goodwill.
• Dr. Chen said No. 1 was worth more than the three men combined and that bringing out his potential required the British Commonwealth and possibly other nations.
• Dr. Chen argued that even Mecha had failed to ensure survival in his world and announced his intention to submit the Sky-Opening Plan to the Ark Team.
• Raisa opposed the plan because the Alliance Council had rejected it and most simulations had failed, offering only two additional team members for the Saitan project.
• Dr. Chen said he would use his personal Optical Brain to force a Council vote, and Minister Li asked what the plan and voting system were.

Dr. Chen explained the Sky-Opening Plan to Minister Li, describing No. 1 as the Pangu who might enable humanity to reach a new world. Near Karlo Town, Mulan confirmed Wang Yu was No. 1 and ordered the War God Group to evacuate him toward a port for submarine pickup.

• Raisa warned Minister Li that Chen’s Parliament vote could cost him his helmsman status if it failed, then left to notify the Ark Team.
• Dr. Chen told Minister Li that the Sky-Opening Plan sought a new world as humanity’s refuge and that No. 1 might be its Pangu.
• Wang Yu watched Helena’s convoy leave with the unconscious Earthman as seven damaged White Bone Skeletons appeared before him.
• Master approached Wang Yu and asked whether he had summoned the skeletons, and Wang Yu concealed them with the Bone Banner and Silver Talisman.
• Mulan cut Wang Yu’s hand, verified his identity as No. 1, and ordered the War God Group to retrieve flight packs and escape by air to a port.

Wang Yu and his companions escaped toward Huaguo aboard a submarine, where he slept and dreamed of his injured body in the Cultivation World. After waking, he examined the damage to his White Bone Banner and called for the Taiyuan Auxiliary System, which he expected to have completed its reset.

• Mulan gave Wang Yu and the others flight packs, and they flew toward a distant port.
• The four boarded a submarine and began the journey back to Huaguo.
• After sleeping for more than ten hours, Wang Yu awoke from a vivid dream of his badly burned body in the Cultivation World being tended by a green-robed girl and Little White.
• Wang Yu used yin power to dry his clothes and found that the orbital cannon had nearly depleted the White Bone Banner's yin energy and destroyed its entry-tier ghost creatures.
• Wang Yu called for the Taiyuan Auxiliary System to enter the login interface.

Wang Yu reset the system, retrieved the completed deduction of a secret art designed to ease breakthroughs in the Crimson Sun Great Art, and confirmed that his deduction permissions had been restored. He remained uncertain about Taiyuan’s origins and planned what Cultivation World information to share with Dr. Chen and the researchers at the Huaguo base.

• Wang Yu ordered a system reset, entered the login interface, and found the silver hall unchanged except for a golden icon displaying “Deduction complete.”
• Wang Yu asked Taiyuan to retrieve the results, and a red book titled “Nameless Auxiliary Secret Art” appeared on the screen.
• Wang Yu studied the secret art and learned that it helped practitioners adapt their bodies to the Crimson Sun Great Art, with suggested aids including concentrated sunlight and an Ember Source gene serum.
• Wang Yu considered bringing gene serum from Blue Star to the Cultivation World, but recognized that this depended on whether his consciousness could return there.
• Wang Yu activated deduction permission and confirmed that his three uses had been restored after the system reset and integration.
• Wang Yu pondered Taiyuan’s connection to Blue Star’s superbrain and decided to consider what Cultivation World information to share with Dr. Chen and the Huaguo researchers.

Wang Yu tested how the Login Interface handled living soul iron and confirmed it could not be duplicated. He used the iron to feed the White Bone Fiends and arranged for its stored souls to be released gradually, then logged out.

• Wang Yu summoned the White Bone Banner's Skeleton Soldiers and released blood pig souls from a piece of living soul iron, letting the soldiers and nearby yin spirits battle over them.
• Wang Yu confirmed that he could not copy the living soul iron within the interface, while the original blocks remained in the Mysterious Talisman's storage space after he logged out and back in.
• Wang Yu brought the living soul iron into the White Bone Banner and adjusted its sealing spells so its living souls would emerge in batches for the White Bone Fiends to devour.
• Wang Yu returned the banner to the White Bone Altar and logged out of the interface.

Wang Yu returned to the cramped compartment on the submarine, where Li Shiyi visited him for a drink and revealed that he was a compound Ability User. Li Shiyi demonstrated his Inversion ability on Wang Yu, leaving him curious about the power.

• Wang Yu returned from the Interface Space to the compartment and reflected on his plans for the White Bone Yin Demon Banner.
• Li Shiyi arrived with osmanthus liquor and invited Wang Yu to drink with him.
• Li Shiyi revealed that he was forty and that his aged appearance was the price of his power.
• Li Shiyi explained his Super Pupil ability, which slowed his perception of the world, and his Inversion ability, which turned people and animals upside down.
• Li Shiyi used Inversion to turn Wang Yu upside down, then restored him to his normal posture.

Li Shiyi revealed that his Super Pupil ability came from an experimental operation that shortened his lifespan and left him with semi-mechanical prosthetic legs. He explained the War God Squad’s augmentations and ancient martial arts, then said Mulan had mastered the Black Tiger Breathing Method far better than he had.

• Li Shiyi explained that Inversion required him to touch someone with both hands, while Super Pupil had cost him more than forty years of life.
• Li Shiyi tore back the skin on his ankle to show Wang Yu the semi-mechanical prosthetic limb beneath it.
• Li Shiyi revealed that he, Mulan, and Mighty General had survived experimental operations, with different limbs modified for each of them.
• Li Shiyi said his prosthetic legs were fifty or sixty times stronger and more responsive than his original legs, and described the harsh training behind his family’s Blood Shadow Leg.
• Li Shiyi dismissed internal power and true qi as fiction and said his results from the Black Tiger Breathing Method were far below Mulan’s.