Chapter Summaries

Li Xun and Li Yibai prepared an armed ambush for Lin Chen, while Lin Chen coordinated with Captain Yang Bei to have police secretly surround the Bai Alliance. As Tang Wanqing’s flight approached, Lin Chen and his allies staged an airport escort for You, and Lin Chen scanned the entrance for snipers.

• Li Yibai promised Li Xun that three hundred Bai Alliance members would kill Lin Chen, and Li Xun pledged five hundred million if the plan succeeded.
• Lin Chen visited Yang Bei and asked him to secretly deploy police to the eastern outskirts, where Lin Chen planned to draw the Bai Alliance into an ambush.
• Yang Bei agreed to prepare the operation and route his officers through the northern and northeastern outskirts to avoid informants.
• Lin Chen drove to the airport as Lightning’s five escort vehicles and twenty Tiandihui and Sihai Gang experts waited for Tang Wanqing’s flight, though the passenger they were protecting was actually You.
• Li Xun received word that the plane would land in seven minutes, and Li Yibai replied that everything was ready.
• Lin Chen reached the airport entrance and used his full-view ability to scan for snipers.

Lin Chen diverted You's convoy to avoid the Bai Alliance's planned ambush, then used a staged breakdown to draw their pursuers into a police trap. As SWAT surrounded the attackers, Li Hai ordered his men to fight rather than surrender.

• Lin Chen spotted three Mercedes tailing his convoy and redirected everyone onto Huangni Road to avoid the ambush on Ring Road.
• Li Xun sent Li Hai and Mo Wen with two hundred men to pursue Lin Chen while he transported heavy weapons.
• Lin Chen stopped beside a sugarcane field and told the Tiandihui brothers to hide there when the fighting began.
• Li Hai's men arrived, and Lin Chen incapacitated one attacker as police and SWAT officers surrounded the group.
• Mo Wen was knocked down while trying to call for help, and Li Hai ordered his men to attack the police.

Lin Chen helped the police defeat the Bai Alliance and pursue Li Yibai, who crashed his car rather than collide with Lin Chen. After Li Xun was arrested for conspiring to murder Tang Wanqing, Lin Chen met him and offered to reduce his sentence.

• Lin Chen used flashbangs to disorient the Bai Alliance, and Li Yibai ordered his men to retreat as the police pursued them.
• Lin Chen chased Li Yibai toward the airport with You, while Li Yibai turned his Hummer around and drove toward them.
• Lin Chen put You in his storage space, and Li Yibai swerved into the wasteland and overturned his car.
• The police arrested the Bai Alliance members and found Li Yibai alive but badly injured, while their testimony led to Li Xun's arrest.
• Lin Chen met Li Xun before his interrogation and offered to help reduce his sentence.

Lin Chen took control of the Li Group and completed his Kyoto Bai Alliance mission, prompting the system to reach level ten and reveal new abilities and information. Xiao Yi appeared as a projection, explained that the system belonged to Terra’s Light Faction, and left Lin Chen eager to keep leveling up.

• Lin Chen persuaded Li Xun to agree to sell his Li Group shares, and Yang Bei arranged half a day for him to handle the transfer.
• Lin Chen took control of the Li Group as its shareholders defected to him, completing his mission to control the Kyoto Bai Alliance.
• Lin Chen confirmed his rewards, and the system advanced to level ten, allowing Xiao Yi to appear as a projection.
• Xiao Yi told Lin Chen that the system was created by the Terrans and belonged to the Light Faction, but she could not yet explain why he had been chosen.
• Lin Chen checked his upgraded attributes and tested his new Internal Energy Wave by shattering a mirror and denting a wall with a ranged punch.

Lin Chen strengthened Lightning to protect the Kyoto holdings, then returned to Donghai City and found Guo Xiang waiting at Aimei Group. Qin Xueqing hired Guo Xiang as her secretary, keeping her close after learning about her past with Lin Chen.

• Lin Chen gave Lightning a Perfect Physique Potion and planned to send Lu Hai and Chen He to help secure the Kyoto holdings.
• Lin Chen returned to Aimei Group, where Manager Liu told him a woman claiming to be his girlfriend had come to see him.
• Lin Chen found Guo Xiang in Qin Xueqing's office, and Qin Xueqing teased him about his past with her.
• Guo Xiang explained that her sister had married and that she had applied for a job at Lin Chen's company; she said she had accepted that Lin Chen was with Qin Xueqing.
• Qin Xueqing hired Guo Xiang as her secretary to keep her close, while Guo Xiang understood that Qin Xueqing was watching her as a potential love rival.

Lin Chen welcomed Guo Xiang back while worrying that she might have ulterior motives, then followed leads about the Masked Man and the Heavenly Palace. The next morning, Guo Xiang told Lin Chen to stop apologizing, leaving him unsettled by her words.

• Lin Chen apologized to Guo Xiang, who said she had moved on, and he later wondered whether her return was planned.
• Wang Bei told Lin Chen that surveillance traced the vehicle to Hengyuan City, so Lin Chen planned to go there the next day to find the Masked Man and Zhou Bin.
• Qin Xueqing invited Guo Xiang to stay at the villa, where she joined the household and spent the evening with its residents and Tang Wanqing.
• Lin Chen connected clues from Li Meier's tomb to the Heavenly Palace and learned from You that a rare grass tied to the fragrance came from Changbai Mountain.
• The next morning, Guo Xiang told Lin Chen that he and Qin Xueqing seemed close; when he apologized, she insisted he stop and headed downstairs.

Lin Chen accepted a mission to find Zhou Bin and traveled to Hengyuan City with Wang Bei to investigate his last known whereabouts. They headed toward an area near a factory, suspecting Zhou Bin was connected to the dangerous Masked Man.

• Qin Xueqing encouraged Tang Wanqing to pursue her dreams, and Lin Chen escorted Tang Wanqing to the airport before she flew to Kyoto with bodyguards.
• Xiao Yi gave Lin Chen a mission to find Zhou Bin and explained that future three-day missions would become seven-day missions.
• Jue Wei warned Lin Chen that Qin Xueqing seemed different since Guo Xiang arrived, and Lin Chen agreed to handle the situation.
• Lin Chen met Wang Bei in Nanzhou City, and they flew to Hengyuan City with two police officers to investigate Zhou Bin.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei discussed whether the Masked Man had helped Zhou Nan escape and concluded that Zhou Bin might be working with a powerful mutant.
• Wang Bei borrowed a police car from the western district police station, and the group set out for the factory area where surveillance had last spotted the suspect's car.

Lin Chen traced the van’s parking spot to a suspicious man who had scouted the factory, then followed signs of deception to the food plant’s nervous supervisor, Li Hang. The investigation reached the monitoring room, where Lin Chen still had not learned why Li Hang was lying.

• Lin Chen noticed the vans had been deliberately positioned partly outside the camera’s view and concluded the abductor had scouted the location beforehand.
• Wang Bei obtained surveillance footage from the previous three days, and Lin Chen spotted a masked man wearing a Bluetooth earpiece scouting the area.
• Lin Chen suspected the scout had help inside the factory, so Wang Bei and the others went to the food processing plant to check its internal surveillance.
• Li Hang met the officers and led them inside, while Lin Chen heard his racing heartbeat and noticed his unnatural smile.
• Lin Chen asked Li Hang why he seemed nervous, and Li Hang claimed he was tired after skipping his nap.
• In the monitoring room, Li Hang scolded Xiao Nan for playing games and threatened to report him to the boss.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei questioned Li Hang and Xiao Nan about the missing surveillance footage, uncovering Li Hang’s role in deleting it. Li Hang identified Zhou Bin as the masked man who had kidnapped and threatened him, leaving the officers with a lead on the suspect.

• Lin Chen found that surveillance footage from eight to nine on the night before last was missing and questioned Xiao Nan about his shift.
• Xiao Nan recalled that Li Hang had sent him to buy cigarettes, leaving the monitoring room unattended for about fifteen minutes.
• Lin Chen revealed that footage placed Li Hang near the monitoring room, and Li Hang admitted he had deleted the recordings under threat.
• Li Hang said a masked man had held him at knifepoint after he struck him with his car and forced him to erase the footage.
• Li Hang recognized Zhou Bin’s eyes in Lin Chen’s photo and said Zhou Bin had supplied software and taught him how to tamper with the recordings.

Lin Chen used Li Hang to lure Zhou Bin into the open, but Zhou Bin escaped when Lin Chen and Wang Bei tried to capture him. The chapter left Lin Chen chasing Zhou Bin, whose system-enhanced speed made him difficult to catch.

• Lin Chen questioned Li Hang and learned that a masked computer expert had instructed him to call out “Literary and Martial Arts Master” if the police came looking.
• Lin Chen identified the code phrase as a reference to Zhou Bin and persuaded Li Hang to use it as bait, promising to protect him.
• At three thirty, Li Hang called out the phrase twice at the collision site, and Zhou Bin appeared wearing a mask and sunglasses.
• Zhou Bin refused to get into Li Hang’s car, then lunged for Li Hang’s throat before Lin Chen burst out and Wang Bei followed with a handgun.
• Zhou Bin fled at extraordinary speed, and Lin Chen used Lingbo Weibu to pursue him while Wang Bei warned that she would shoot.

Lin Chen pursued Zhou Bin, Zhou Nan, and Hu Chongsheng after they escaped through the factory district. When Zhou Nan lured the pursuers away in a Hummer, Lin Chen and Wang Bei caught and disabled his vehicle, then Lin Chen stopped him with the Laser Gun.

• Lin Chen discovered that Zhou Bin had enhanced speed and bullet-resistant defenses, but wounded his shoulder with Lu Hao's Laser Gun.
• Zhou Bin escaped with Zhou Nan and Hu Chongsheng in an SUV after they used TNT to block the pursuit and destroy evidence.
• Wang Bei picked up Lin Chen, and Zhou Nan had Hu Chongsheng and Zhou Bin leave the SUV at an intersection while he drove on alone.
• Lin Chen realized that Zhou Nan was driving the Hummer and chose to pursue him because he was the murderer.
• Wang Bei and Lin Chen caught up with Zhou Nan; Lin Chen shot out the Hummer's front tires, then used the Laser Gun to wound Zhou Nan and stop his escape.

Lin Chen crippled Zhou Nan to prevent him from escaping or revealing information, then helped Wang Bei search the abandoned factory district for Zhou Bin and the Masked Man. After the search turned up nothing, Lin Chen suspected they had fled south toward the Hengyuan River and organized a broader investigation.

• Wang Bei captured Zhou Nan, and Lin Chen broke Zhou Nan's legs and spine after he refused to reveal where his accomplices had gone.
• Lin Chen told Wang Bei that Zhou Bin and the Masked Man might still be hiding nearby and asked him to have the police surround the abandoned factory district.
• Lin Chen and Wang Bei searched nearby buildings but found neither fugitive, then met Yang Rongrong and her team of more than sixty officers.
• After Yang Rongrong described the routes around the district, Lin Chen suspected Zhou Bin and the Masked Man had headed south toward the Hengyuan River.
• Yang Rongrong split the officers into groups to check the northern ring road, the food processing plant, and the western main road, while the rest followed her toward the river.

Lin Chen investigated reports of people crossing the Hengyuan River and used his teleportation ability to reach the village on the opposite bank. Xiao Mei then revealed that she had seen two men enter the village, giving Lin Chen and the police a lead on Zhou Bin and the Masked Man.

• Lin Chen learned from an old fisherman that one person had crossed the Hengyuan River, and he suspected the swimmer was one of the fugitives.
• Wang Bei sent Yang Rongrong and the officers to search the riverbank while Lin Chen teleported to the opposite bank.
• Lin Chen waited at a nearby village, reasoning that the fugitives were more likely hiding there than in the sparse woods.
• Lin Chen questioned a farming couple, who said they had not noticed anyone, but their daughter Xiao Mei insisted she had seen two men enter the village.

Lin Chen and the police searched the village for Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng, who had taken a mother and daughter hostage and planned to escape abroad. After spotting a lie in the mother's account, Lin Chen realized the fugitives were hiding in her house and led the police back there.

• Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng entered a house, tied up a mother and daughter, and discussed using them to evade the police before escaping China.
• Yang Rongrong led the police in searching the village while Lin Chen avoided scanning bathrooms with his X-ray vision.
• The mother told Lin Chen that her daughter was upstairs bathing, but a neighbor said the mother had left a mahjong game about twenty minutes earlier to go home and cook.
• Lin Chen concluded the mother had lied because she was being threatened and ordered everyone to return to her house.

After Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng evaded the police in Dukou Village, Zhou Bin killed a gambling-addicted villager to complete his daily task. Lin Chen ordered the villagers evacuated and realized the fugitives might be hiding at the mother and daughter's house.

• After the police failed to find Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng, Lin Chen ordered them to watch the area and warn the villagers.
• Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng emerged from a sand pile where they had hidden, and Hu Chongsheng urged Zhou Bin to complete his seventh daily task independently.
• Hu Chongsheng explained that Zhou Bin might unlock a Teleportation Gate attendance reward, which could help them escape.
• Zhou Bin killed Zhou Biao, a gambling-addicted villager, to fulfill his task.
• Lin Chen identified the murder as likely connected to the fugitives and ordered the villagers evacuated while the police guarded the village.
• Lin Chen told Wang Bei he suspected Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng had returned to hide at the mother and daughter's house.

Lin Chen secured the mother and daughter overnight after Zhou Biao's murder, then joined a massive police search for the two suspects. His new system missions pulled him away from the case, but he checked the sand pile where the suspects had hidden and found it had been flattened.

• Lin Chen and Wang Bei escorted the mother and daughter to safety after Lin Chen discovered a bamboo breathing tube in the disturbed sand pile where the suspects had hidden.
• Yang Rongrong arranged for villagers to evacuate and sent fifty people to patrol while Lin Chen claimed a system reward and spent the night without incident.
• Xiao Yi appeared while Lin Chen was using the bathroom, then assigned him missions to take over East City Commercial Street and Fugui Haoting's headquarters.
• Wang Bei brought Lin Chen breakfast and took him to Dukou Village, where Yang Rongrong prepared a carpet search with five hundred officers and armed police.
• Lin Chen returned with Wang Bei to check the sand pile at the mother and daughter's home and found that Yang Rongrong had already flattened it.

Lin Chen and Wang Bei searched Zhou Biao’s home for the fugitives but found only signs that someone had recently been on the roof. A new murder drew the police away, leaving Hu Chongsheng hidden on the rooftop and preparing to escape.

• Lin Chen suggested the criminals might have escaped by disguising themselves or hiding in Zhou Biao’s home, so he and Wang Bei searched the house.
• Lin Chen found a half-finished bottle of water and fresh water stains on the roof, indicating someone had recently been there.
• Wang Bei received a report that someone resembling Zhou Bin had committed another murder in the western city district, and Lin Chen ordered the police to withdraw.
• Lin Chen left about ten officers behind to guard the area before heading to the new crime scene with the others.
• Hu Chongsheng emerged from his hiding place on the roof after the police left and planned to overcome the two remaining guards.

Lin Chen investigated the murders and concluded that Zhou Bin had recently gained a system that let him teleport, but the suspects escaped before he could catch them. He left Hengyuan City for Nanzhou, where he planned to strengthen Jingwu Hall before the Divine Tiger Sect’s attack.

• Lin Chen inferred that Zhou Bin had used a Teleportation Gate to escape and suspected his system assigned murder missions.
• Yang Rongrong learned that another suspect remained in Dukou Village, and Lin Chen urged the police to treat Zhou Bin as a suspect and track the accomplice.
• Surveillance found the accomplice heading toward the eastern dock, so Lin Chen teleported onto the departing cruise ship, but he found neither man aboard.
• Lin Chen, Wang Bei, and Yang Rongrong failed to locate the suspects, and Wang Bei said authorities were applying to issue a nationwide warrant for Zhou Bin.
• Lin Chen teleported to Nanzhou City and visited Jingwu Hall, intent on strengthening its forces before the Divine Tiger Sect’s alliance came after him.

Lin Chen and You staged an assassination attempt to frighten Cheng Sihai into selling East City Commercial Street. Cheng Sihai agreed to meet Lin Chen, while Lin Chen expected him to wait for Golden Saber Sect’s reinforcements before retaliating.

• Lin Chen learned about Golden Saber Sect’s strength and You explained that its formidable fighter Golden Saber was the former Shaolin monk Xukong.
• Lin Chen and You teleported to Cheng Sihai’s villa, where You wounded him in a staged attack before escaping with Lin Chen.
• Cheng Sihai realized the attack was a warning and ordered Feng Dong to arrange a meeting with Lin Chen about selling East City Commercial Street.
• Feng Dong agreed with Cheng Sihai’s plan to sell first, then wait for Golden Saber Sect and strike back at Jingwu Hall.
• At Jingwu Hall, Lin Chen predicted Cheng Sihai would agree to the sale while secretly waiting for reinforcements.

Lin Chen completed the purchase of East City Commercial Street from Cheng Sihai, who planned to have the Golden Saber Sect ambush him. Back at Aimei Group, Lin Chen learned that Guo Xiang might be dying, and confronted her after overhearing her call to a doctor.

• Feng Dong invited Lin Chen and Cheng Feng to meet Cheng Sihai, and Lin Chen signed the contract to acquire East City Commercial Street.
• Cheng Sihai left after Lin Chen hinted that he knew about Lin Feng, then resolved to rely on the Golden Saber Sect to deal with him.
• Lin Chen returned to Aimei Group, where he and Qin Xueqing discussed Guo Xiang's changed behavior and planned a new beauty product.
• Lin Chen overheard Guo Xiang ask a doctor whether her report meant she might die, then approached her and asked if she was unwell.