Chapter Summaries

Mu Fan defeated Lang Ge in their final virtual mecha battle, completed his placement matches, and reached Silver 1 Star. With Military Training behind him, Mu Fan prepared to ask Instructor Xu Jiang for leave before setting out the day after tomorrow.

• Mu Fan greeted Lang Ge, but Lang Ge angrily told him to get lost, while ten new students watched their match eagerly.
• Lang Ge attacked Mu Fan with his agile Dual Blade Warrior, but Mu Fan used his shield to block the strikes and waited for an opening.
• Mu Fan used the Lotus technique to knock Lang Ge off course, disarm him, and grab him from behind before slamming both mechas into the ground.
• Lang Ge’s students mistook the battle for an impressive performance and praised him, while Lang Ge tried to convince them it had been a demonstration.
• Mu Fan finished his placement matches with seven wins, two losses, and one draw, earning Silver 1 Star and looking forward to his journey the day after tomorrow.

Mu Fan and his friends attended Dingchuan Academy’s freshmen welcome party, where he spoke with Wang Nuonuo before her performance. The party began with You Shi Wan hosting, and Mu Fan waited for Wang Nuonuo’s turn to perform.

• White Hair, Mu Fan, Gu Yunyou, Li Xiaoxi, and Brother Fatty found seats at the Great Hall’s welcome party.
• Mu Fan took a call from Wang Nuonuo, who asked him to cheer loudly when she performed as the ninth act.
• Wang Nuonuo told Mu Fan that she had secured leave and that the other Extreme Soldier was expected to arrive before their competition registration.
• Mu Fan returned to his seat, declined Black’s offer to coordinate the stage lighting, and learned that Yin Shuai had gone to prepare it.
• You Shi Wan appeared as the party’s host, and the freshmen welcome party began as Mu Fan waited for Wang Nuonuo’s performance.

Wang Nuonuo learned that her grandfather Wang Ji had been critically injured and rushed to the 15th Spaceport, leaving her performance behind. Meanwhile, Roderick discovered that Tang Nashiu had engineered the crisis and was holding Roderick’s family while seeking control of Luoqi Heavy Industries and the Extreme Soldier GE-R.

• During gala rehearsals, Wang Nuonuo received a call from Roderick saying Wang Ji was critically injured and they were surrounded at the 15th Spaceport.
• Wang Nuonuo ran from the rehearsal area to find Roderick, and Orseria arranged for the dance to continue with three performers.
• At Warehouse 55, Roderick confronted Tang Nashiu after learning that Tang had orchestrated the scheme against Luoqi Heavy Industries.
• Tang Nashiu told Roderick that his wife and child were safe and demanded his help, while thanking him for bringing the Extreme Soldier GE-R.

Tang Nashiu secured Roderick’s cooperation by showing him that his family was safe, then set out with Li Shen to manipulate Wang Nuonuo. Nuonuo rushed toward the 15th Spaceport in a taxi, but military personnel stopped the vehicle on N104 Highway.

• Roderick agreed to cooperate with Tang Nashiu after speaking with his wife and child and confirming they were safe.
• Tang Nashiu ordered Roderick to pretend the military had detained him and planned to weaken Wang Nuonuo’s psychological defenses with Li Shen’s help.
• Tang Nashiu sent Luo Saihu to invite Gao Lingze and Young Master Lin before leaving the warehouse with armed soldiers.
• Wang Nuonuo, unable to find her Sky Communicator, hailed a taxi and offered the driver all her money to take her to the 15th Spaceport.
• The taxi took a fork on N104 Highway, then braked sharply when aircraft lights exposed military personnel ahead.

Wang Nuonuo was detained by Federation soldiers over Luoqi Heavy Industries’ alleged weapons smuggling as a coordinated takeover crippled the company. The chapter left Mu Fan at Dingchuan Academy, unaware that the crisis was unfolding around Wang Nuonuo and her family.

• Federation soldiers stopped Wang Nuonuo, told her that Roderick had been arrested for weapons smuggling, and took her to an armored vehicle bound for Warehouse 55.
• A junior officer jammed the armored vehicle’s communications, preventing Wang Nuonuo from calling anyone.
• Gao Lingze and Lin Wu traveled toward a meeting after receiving identical notes from two Tang family descendants, while Lin Wu reflected on the moves against Luoqi Heavy Industries.
• Eight major shareholders withdrew their capital and shares, allowing a mysterious shareholder to acquire 29% of Luoqi Heavy Industries and begin restructuring the company.
• Luoqi Heavy Industries’ staff failed to reach Wang Ji, Wang Nuonuo, or Wang Lingfeng, who was on a secret assignment with his communications confiscated.
• At Dingchuan Academy, Mu Fan watched the gala as Rachael introduced the next performance.

Mu Fan discovered that Wang Nuonuo had abruptly left the welcome party after receiving an emergency call from Luoqi Heavy Industries, and he traced her toward a warehouse district. As he prepared to follow, an unknown number called him.

• Mu Fan noticed Wang Nuonuo was missing from the Starry Sky Dance and learned from Orseria that she had rushed away after an emergency call, leaving behind her damaged Sky Communicator.
• Black traced the call to an internal Luoqi Heavy Industries number and found news that the conglomerate's shareholders had withdrawn their investments and transferred their shares.
• Mu Fan ordered Black to search academy surveillance, prompting a major intrusion alarm at Dingchuan Academy's network monitoring center before Black abruptly stopped the search.
• Black sent Mu Fan footage showing Nuonuo boarding a taxi east toward N104 Highway, and Mu Fan set out for the Warehouse District on its Second Branch Road.
• An unknown number began calling Mu Fan as he was about to put away his Sky Communicator.

Tang Nashiu called Mu Fan and threatened Wang Nuonuo to force him to come to Warehouse 55, where the families’ armed forces were waiting. Mu Fan went alone, while Nuonuo silently hoped he would stay away.

• Tang Nashiu revealed that he had captured Wang Nuonuo and gave Mu Fan ten seconds to decide whether to rescue her.
• Tang Nashiu demanded that Nuonuo hand over her 15% stake in Luoqi Heavy Industries, while she struggled and hoped Mu Fan would not come.
• Mu Fan agreed to meet Tang Nashiu at Warehouse 55 and left the academy in an autonomous car arranged by Black.
• Mu Fan asked Black whether its monitoring had detected anything abnormal about the Gaoling Family, and Black said it had not.
• Gao Lingze and Lin Wu waited with Tang Nashiu as more than a hundred armed subordinates surrounded the warehouse and Nuonuo wept.

Mu Fan entered the warehouse to find Wang Nuonuo held hostage by Tang Nashiu and Gao Lingze. After Mu Fan fought off two soldiers, Tang Nashiu pressed a revolver to Wang Nuonuo’s head to force him to stay calm.

• Mu Fan ignored the surveillance cameras and approached the warehouse while Black waited for his signal.
• Tang Nashiu and Gao Lingze watched Mu Fan approach and prepared their armed men and two soldiers to confront him.
• Mu Fan entered the warehouse and demanded to know why he had been summoned and where Wang Nuonuo was.
• Tang Nashiu revealed Wang Nuonuo bound inside a cargo container, and Mu Fan rushed forward before two soldiers blocked him.
• Tang Nashiu pressed his golden revolver against Wang Nuonuo’s head as Mu Fan’s eyes turned bloodshot.

Tang Nashiu held Wang Nuonuo hostage and revealed that Luoqi Heavy Industries was being dismantled by a coordinated takeover. He forced Mu Fan to choose between picking up a revolver and risking Nuonuo’s life, leaving Mu Fan facing the challenge.

• Tang Nashiu demanded that Wang Nuonuo transfer her Luoqi Heavy Industries shares, but she refused with a gun aimed at her head.
• Black explained that investors were maneuvering to seize Luoqi Heavy Industries, and Tang Nashiu showed Wang Nuonuo news of the company’s collapse.
• Wang Nuonuo learned that her grandfather was missing, Uncle Roderick was imprisoned, and the company’s shareholders, suppliers, and employees were abandoning it.
• Mu Fan demanded to know why Tang Nashiu had summoned him and threatened to kill him, despite the severe pain caused by his still-healing heart.
• Tang Nashiu gagged Wang Nuonuo, loaded three bullets into his revolver, held a dagger to her neck, tossed the gun at Mu Fan’s feet, and ordered him to pick it up.

Tang Nashiu forced Mu Fan to choose between shooting Wang Nuonuo or himself, while Gao Lingze watched. Mu Fan chose to shoot himself three times, leaving his left shoulder badly wounded but still smiling as he silently promised to take Nuonuo home.

• Tang Nashiu offered Mu Fan a golden revolver and demanded that he fire three shots at Wang Nuonuo or himself to earn their release.
• Tang Nashiu threatened Wang Nuonuo with a share-transfer agreement and taunted Mu Fan about his role as Luoqi Heavy Industries' competing mech pilot.
• Mu Fan warned Tang Nashiu that he had informed the military and that his mentor, Ruan Xiongfeng, was watching him.
• Tang Nashiu insisted he would let Wang Nuonuo go if Mu Fan shot himself, and Mu Fan picked up the revolver.
• Mu Fan smiled reassuringly at Wang Nuonuo, pressed the revolver to his left shoulder, and fired three shots; his shoulder was left bloody, but he kept smiling.

After Mu Fan took three bullets to protect Wang Nuonuo, Tang Nashiu released her and revealed that he had been toying with them all along. Mu Fan and Nuonuo left the warehouse together, while Mu Fan quietly fixed his gaze on the darkness with killing intent.

• Mu Fan stood despite his bleeding shoulder and warned Tang Nashiu that he had finished the three shots.
• Tang Nashiu threatened to capture Mu Fan, then ordered his men to release Wang Nuonuo.
• Wang Nuonuo rushed to Mu Fan, and he comforted her before turning back to Tang Nashiu.
• Tang Nashiu mocked Mu Fan and Nuonuo by explaining he had never planned to harm Nuonuo and had only been tormenting them.
• Mu Fan told Nuonuo they were going home, and they supported each other through the armed crowd and out of the warehouse.
• After the doors closed behind them, Mu Fan looked into the darkness as killing intent spread through his eyes.

Mu Fan and Wang Nuonuo escaped the warehouse, but Mu Fan was badly wounded and Tang Nashiu sent a tail after them. Tang Nashiu planned to exploit Luoqi Heavy Industries’ crisis and use the pursuit to uncover its secret base.

• Mu Fan and Wang Nuonuo got into a self-driving Hover Car, and Black warned that three black cars were following them.
• Mu Fan directed the car to a nearby clinic, where Black advised him to remove the bullet and treat his wound himself.
• Tang Nashiu ordered Luo Saihu to pursue Mu Fan and Wang Nuonuo, deliberately letting them notice the tail.
• Tang Nashiu explained that he intended to keep Wang Nuonuo under pressure while Luoqi Heavy Industries weakened and to discover the location of its secret base.
• Gao Lingze and Lin Wu listened as Tang Nashiu described how he had undermined Luoqi Heavy Industries’ chances in the Mecha Martial Arts Competition.

Mu Fan and Wang Nuonuo reached a closed Medical Center while three pursuers watched from nearby. Mu Fan hacked their way inside to obtain medical supplies, but his wound had fused his clothes to his skin, and he stopped Nuonuo from cutting them away.

• Wang Nuonuo found the No. 1032 Medical Center closed and urged Mu Fan to go elsewhere, while three Hover Cars watched from the roadside.
• Mu Fan had Black block the surveillance and hack the Medical Center's access permissions, then opened the entrance gate and reassured Wang Nuonuo.
• Mu Fan led Wang Nuonuo inside, where the doors locked behind them, and took her to the third-floor Storage Room.
• Mu Fan kicked through the Storage Room's locks and glass, then collected a first-aid kit, surgical instruments, and a Medical Center uniform.
• Wang Nuonuo tried to remove Mu Fan's blood-stiffened suit, but when she offered to cut the fabric away with surgical scissors, Mu Fan said no.

Mu Fan refused to let Wang Nuonuo cut off the suit she had given him, then performed surgery on his own gunshot wounds while she assisted. After removing the three bullets and stitching the wound, he asked Nuonuo to tell him everything that had happened that night.

• Mu Fan tore off his blood-soaked suit himself because it was a gift from Wang Nuonuo, exposing his badly damaged shoulder wound.
• Wang Nuonuo broke down in tears, and Mu Fan urged her to compose herself and help treat his injury.
• Following Black's instructions, Mu Fan used Dark Breath to suppress his pain and calmly cut open and cleaned the wound.
• Mu Fan removed three bullets, applied treatment, and stitched the wound with Wang Nuonuo's help, completing the basic surgery without anesthetic.
• Mu Fan told Wang Nuonuo he still needed further treatment and asked her to recount everything that had happened that night.

Mu Fan concluded that Roderick’s call to Wang Nuonuo had likely been a lie, then encouraged her to keep fighting for Luoqi Heavy Industries. As she began planning to save the company, Lin Wu contacted her with an offer to discuss something that could benefit her family.

• Mu Fan told Wang Nuonuo that Roderick’s call was likely false because its location data pointed to the warehouse where Mu Fan had found her.
• Mu Fan urged Wang Nuonuo to pull herself together and protect Luoqi Heavy Industries, and she resolved to carry on her grandfather’s work.
• Wang Nuonuo explained that nearly ten thousand mass-produced mechas were stored at a transit warehouse and that only she and Wang Ji held their authorization.
• Mu Fan spotted watchers surrounding their location and received a call from Lin Wu, who asked to speak with Wang Nuonuo.
• Lin Wu told Wang Nuonuo that the watchers were not his and proposed a discussion he claimed would benefit her and her family.

Lin Wu offered Wang Nuonuo a marriage alliance in exchange for saving Luoqi Heavy Industries, but she refused. After reassuring Nuonuo and learning what the Mecha Martial Arts Competition could offer, Mu Fan waited for her to fall asleep, left her a message, and mobilized the Shadow Fleet for the coming battle on Landu Star.

• Lin Wu called Wang Nuonuo and offered to rescue Luoqi Heavy Industries if she agreed to a marriage alliance between the Wang and Lin families, but she told him to get lost.
• After Lin Wu ended the call, Wang Nuonuo broke down in tears, and Mu Fan encouraged her and asked about the Interstellar Mecha Association's support for the competition's top contenders.
• Wang Nuonuo resolved to protect Mu Fan and Luoqi Heavy Industries, then fell asleep beside him as he pretended to rest.
• Mu Fan left Nuonuo a message saying he would give her a gift and show her that nothing was impossible.
• Mu Fan ordered Black to mobilize the Shadow Fleet.

Mu Fan used Black to deploy the hidden Shadow Fleet toward Landu Star while preparing to slip past the surveillance around the Medical Center. After evading the watchers with Dark Breath and Black’s interference, he set out to deceive them without killing them.

• Mu Fan ordered Black to deploy the Shadow Fleet, and the fleet hidden on Planet 131 began moving toward Landu Star.
• Mu Fan asked Black to identify the Medical Center’s surveillance blind spots and unlock a concealed window.
• Mu Fan used Dark Breath to conceal himself as Black sealed the Medical Center’s entrances and exits.
• Black looped the surveillance footage from the three Hover Cars watching the Medical Center.
• Mu Fan observed the surveillance operatives, climbed down from a tree, and began moving silently past them without intending to kill anyone.

Mu Fan escaped the Medical Center’s surveillance and reached Bai Guyue’s residence for emergency treatment. Though his wounds required at least eighteen hours to heal, he told her he needed his left hand’s nerve function restored within three hours.

• Mu Fan memorized the guards’ patrol patterns and slipped past the Medical Center’s perimeter without being detected.
• Mu Fan reached his hidden vehicle and asked Black to call Bai Guyue, explaining that his gunshot wounds were still bleeding and his left hand’s nerve function was impaired.
• Bai Guyue answered Mu Fan’s call, prepared her equipment, and told him to come to her residence immediately.
• Mu Fan arrived at Bai Guyue’s residence, where she examined his wounds and estimated that healing would take at least eighteen hours.
• Mu Fan refused to wait that long and asked Bai Guyue to restore his nerve function within three hours.

Mu Fan endured a second operation without anesthesia and an intense Bio-Cabin treatment, recovering far more quickly than Bai Guyue expected. After leaving the Medical Center, he told Black to return him to Dingchuan, arrange a robot at the academy entrance, and fight alongside him.

• Bai Guyue reopened Mu Fan’s wound and treated it without anesthesia at his insistence.
• Bai Guyue used needle stimulators and Cell Repair Fluid to restore Mu Fan’s nerve function, and he endured the treatment in silence.
• Mu Fan regained control of his fingers, thanked Bai Guyue, and left after she warned him to keep using Special Medicine.
• Bai Yiduo praised Bai Guyue’s surgery, then recognized familiar killing intent and hatred in Mu Fan.
• Mu Fan boarded the Hover Car and ordered Black to erase its traces, arrange a robot at the academy entrance, and join him in the fight.

Mu Fan left Dingchuan Academy and headed to Nautilus Warehouse, determined to pilot the Extreme Soldier prototype and give Luoqi Heavy Industries a chance to recover. Meanwhile, Zhongjing City filled with visiting companies and spectators as Landu Star prepared to host the Galaxy First Martial Arts Tournament.

• Mu Fan ate three Magma Fruits to recover from his exhausted state, then gathered his supplies and entered a Hover Car alone.
• Mu Fan explained that he planned to pilot the Extreme Soldier prototype and try to earn Luoqi Heavy Industries a place among the top thirty-two in the unrestricted matches.
• Mu Fan treated his shoulder wound, reached Nautilus Warehouse, and entered with renewed determination to claim his place in the competition.
• As dawn broke, visitors saw spacecraft, military escorts, and industrial companies arriving in Zhongjing City for the Mecha Martial Arts Competition.
• A crowd cheered as a convoy painted light blue arrived.