Chapter Summaries

After dying in a truck accident, Bai Mo accepted three hours of immense power from a system, used the time to settle his affairs and find a new home for his cat, Bozai, then disappeared. A mysterious man watched over Bozai and remarked that Bai Mo was interesting, though he still had to remain cautious.

• Bai Mo was struck by an out-of-control truck while riding to his night job and died.
• A system offered to reincarnate Bai Mo, but he refused until it promised him temporary power to take revenge on people he resented.
• Bai Mo accepted the system's three-hour limit, withdrew his savings, bought a special meal, and destroyed his phone.
• Bai Mo fed Bozai one last time, brought the cat and his supplies to a cat café, and left a note asking it to take Bozai in.
• Bai Mo dissolved and vanished, while a mysterious man put Bozai to sleep and said the cat would need to live without his owner.

Bai Mo entered the system’s training space to develop his electric current push, but the overseer trapped him there until he could cleave the sea and break the waves. After narrowly escaping drowning by lifting the enormous blade blank, Bai Mo recognized the overseer as the Great Blade Martial God.

• Bai Mo arrived in a mountain forest in another world and learned that the system could provide electric current push and access to a training space.
• Bai Mo entered the training space, a beach beside an endless sea, and spent half a month developing basic strength and endurance.
• When Bai Mo tried to leave, the system told him that the overseer had to grant permission and that he needed to find the overseer.
• A black iron blade blank emerged from the sea with instructions that Bai Mo had to train with it and cleave the sea before he could leave.
• As a rising tide trapped Bai Mo underwater beneath the blade blank, he summoned his strength and lifted it.
• The Great Blade Martial God appeared, and Bai Mo recognized him as the figure Bai Wunan had once given a three-move handicap.

Bai Mo endured years of brutal training under the Great Blade Martial God, mastered the Avici Hell Blade, and learned that he needed a personal reason to wield the Peerless Demon Blade. After Great Saber sent him through a vortex, Bai Mo left the training shore with his blade blank and said goodbye to his master.

• Bai Mo trained with the blade blank until Great Saber healed his ruined hands, taught him the Avici Hell Blade, and left him a stone tablet of techniques.
• Bai Mo spent three years training, while Great Saber later returned and guided him through flaws in his technique.
• Bai Mo tested his strength against the stone tablet but failed to damage it, and Great Saber warned him against arrogance before challenging him with a tsunami.
• Bai Mo used Eighteen Levels of Hell to cut down the waves, and Great Saber told him he remained at Electric Current Push with about thirty percent of the Complete Realm.
• Great Saber explained that Bai Mo needed his own blade intent and a reason to swing his blade, then sent him through a vortex.
• Bai Mo bowed to Great Saber, took the blade blank that appeared after he left, and said goodbye to his master.

Bai Mo was sent by Bai Wunan to ancient Thessaly instead of modern Fuyuki, where he discovered that returning home would require him to draw power from the gods. After meeting Jason and a snake that directed him toward Athena’s temple, he was left weighing the goddess’s offer of a path to gain strength and wisdom.

• Bai Wunan confronted Great Saber, revealed that he had changed Bai Mo’s destination, and watched the world shatter.
• Bai Mo emerged in ancient Thessaly, accidentally knocked Jason unconscious with his weapon, and learned where he was.
• Bai Mo recognized Jason as the future captain of the Argo Hero and learned from the system that he needed power from the gods to return home.
• Bai Mo reached the shore while Jason went to Pelias’s palace, where Pelias planned to deceive him.
• A talking snake urged Bai Mo to visit Athena’s temple, and Bai Mo declined gifts without earning them.
• The snake told Bai Mo to accomplish great deeds and gain strength and wisdom through the gods’ trials before becoming Athena’s retainer.

Bai Mo avoided becoming Athena’s retainer but went to her temple after a confrontation with a dishonest blacksmith revealed how dangerously strong he had become. He arrived at dusk and heard Athena ask what he sought.

• Bai Mo decided to visit Athena’s temple before leaving, and declined offers of help while asking directions.
• A blacksmith tried to pressure Bai Mo into trading his blade blank for a sword, so Bai Mo challenged him to a contest.
• Bai Mo struck the blacksmith through his smithy, breaking the man’s arms and his sword, then realized he had nearly killed him despite using little strength.
• Bai Mo learned the location of Athena’s temple and traveled there without showing off his superhuman speed.
• Bai Mo entered the temple, saw Medusa’s head carved on Athena’s shield, and heard Athena ask what he had come seeking.

Bai Mo accepted Athena’s olive-branch blessing and learned that Jason was destined to recruit him for the Golden Fleece voyage. After joining Jason, Bai Mo used the prince’s token to negotiate supplies from the palace, leaving the steward under pressure to hand over more.

• Bai Mo asked Athena for guidance, and she told him to stand beside Jason, the country’s future king.
• A priestess gave Bai Mo an olive branch blessed by Athena, which cleared his mind, while his silent system offered no help.
• Jason arrived at the temple seeking guidance about the Golden Fleece, and Athena directed him to recruit Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo agreed to join Jason’s voyage, then split from him to negotiate for supplies using Jason’s token.
• The palace steward tried to bribe Bai Mo into abandoning Jason, but Bai Mo demanded sixty percent of the supplies.

Bai Mo secured a leaden arrow from Athena to keep Jason focused on the Argonauts’ quest, then faced a blacksmith who had sold the soldiers shoddy weapons. After Heracles killed the blacksmith, Bai Mo questioned what kind of person he wanted to become and left at dawn with the Argo’s expedition.

• Bai Mo asked Athena for a leaden arrow to guard against Jason abandoning the quest for love, and Athena obtained one from Cupid.
• At the eve-of-departure banquet, Bai Mo noticed Heracles and was confronted by the blacksmith he had previously spared, who brought soldiers to attack him.
• Heracles intervened, recognized the soldiers’ weapons as the blacksmith’s poor work, and killed the blacksmith; the soldiers fled.
• Bai Mo turned the blacksmith’s body to ash and spent the night reflecting on his character and future before setting out at dawn.

Bai Mo and the Argonauts reached Lemnos, where the women welcomed them and Jason and most of the crew stayed behind for half a month. Atalanta and Heracles planned to make the heroes return, while Bai Mo continued training aboard the Argo.

• Bai Mo defeated Polydeuces in a boxing match by controlling the angle and force of his strikes, earning the heroes' cheers and Heracles's praise.
• The Argo reached Lemnos, and Atalanta noticed that the city's walls had no guards.
• The women of Lemnos welcomed Jason and the crew into the palace, and Jason became involved with the queen.
• After half a month, only Bai Mo, Hylas, Atalanta, and Heracles remained aboard the Argo, prompting Atalanta to condemn the crew for neglecting their mission.
• Heracles promised to remind the heroes of their duty the next day, while Bai Mo trained in the sea and Atalanta watched him.

Bai Mo pushed the Argonauts to leave Lemnos and warned that the women might sabotage the Argo to keep them there. As Jason and Bai Mo waited in disguise to uncover the city’s secret, several people approached the ship with tools.

• Bai Mo refused to teach Hylas, explained why he avoided forming attachments, and urged Hylas to investigate the city’s gutters.
• Bai Mo gave Atalanta Athena-Cupid’s lead-colored arrow and warned Jason that it could strip him of worldly desires, prompting Jason to support Heracles’s call to leave Lemnos.
• The women of Lemnos rushed toward the Argo as the heroes prepared to depart, and Bai Mo suspected they planned to sabotage the ship that night.
• Bai Mo showed Jason an ordinary dagger Hylas had found in a gutter and pointed out the mystery of the vanished men and the women’s silence.
• During a rainstorm, Jason disguised himself in plain clothes and joined Bai Mo to investigate, while several people approached the Argo carrying saws and hammers.

Jason and Bai Mo uncovered the Lemnian women’s plot against the Argo, and Jason chose to leave without judging them before learning the full truth. After the Argonauts sailed, Bai Mo urged Jason to say goodbye to the queen and later challenged Heracles over the gods’ treatment of humans.

• Bai Mo confronted the women preparing to damage the Argo, and Jason drew his sword to judge them for killing their husbands and plotting against his ship.
• Bai Mo stopped Jason from acting at once and asked one woman to tell them what had happened; later, the Argonauts slipped away from the island without looking back.
• Bai Mo urged Jason to say goodbye to the queen, whom he called the only person on the island with clean hands, and left Jason to meet her.
• Bai Mo gave Hylas a lead-colored arrow for protection and joked that he should beware of brawny men who might make advances toward him.
• Bai Mo told Heracles that the goddess of love had caused the trouble and argued that humans had no reason to respect gods who showed them none.
• Heracles warned Bai Mo that his words would anger the gods, but Bai Mo said he respected only his master and left Heracles wrestling with conflicting thoughts.

After the Argonauts ran low on supplies, Bai Mo purified seawater and later fought alongside Heracles to defeat the giants of Doliones. At a feast, Atalanta noticed lightning around Bai Mo’s blade, and Jason and Heracles concluded that Bai Mo was a son of Zeus.

• Jason and Bai Mo realized the Argo was lost and running short on supplies, so Bai Mo used Magnetic Field Power to turn seawater into drinking water.
• Atalanta reported that they had reached land, and the Argonauts arrived at Doliones while Bai Mo stayed aboard with Heracles.
• When giants attacked the Argo, Heracles and Atalanta fought them, and Bai Mo charged into their ranks and killed them with his unfinished blade.
• The Argonauts celebrated their victory, and Bai Mo joined the feast after another failed attempt to break through.
• Atalanta questioned Jason about Bai Mo after seeing lightning around his blade, and Jason and Heracles concluded that Bai Mo was a son of Zeus.

Bai Mo used lightning to stop the Argonauts and islanders from killing one another after a storm blew the Argo back to the island. His display convinced the gods and his companions that he was Zeus’s son, leaving Bai Mo with an explanation for his powers that could bring him either fortune or trouble.

• A storm struck the Argo at night, but Jason steered the ship through it and brought the crew safely clear.
• Bai Mo realized the Argo had drifted back to the island and that the storm had blown away the glowing flag he had meant to use to identify the ship.
• The islanders and Argonauts began fighting in the darkness, and Bai Mo used lightning to make them recognize one another and stop.
• The king thanked Bai Mo for preventing more deaths and declared him an eternal friend of the nation.
• On Mount Olympus, the gods assumed Bai Mo was Zeus’s son, and Polydeuces treated Bai Mo as his half brother.

Bai Mo traveled with the Argonauts as the little god of love tried to force him and Heracles off the Argo. Hylas was seized by a spring goddess, while Artemis stopped Cupid’s attempt to make Atalanta fall in love with Bai Ermo and punished him.

• Bai Mo grew more comfortable among the Argonauts, while Cupid received orders from the gods to make him leave the Argo.
• On the island, Bai Mo told Hylas that the gods would not count Heracles’s Hydra trial and that Heracles would have to rely on himself.
• The spring goddess grabbed Hylas, and Bai Mo moved to rescue him before Atalanta pulled him back.
• Cupid tried to shoot Bai Ermo with a golden arrow, but Artemis’s arrow shattered it.
• Artemis confronted Cupid for targeting her follower and shot him with her bow.

Bai Mo freed Hylas from the spring goddess and used Athena’s leaden arrow to break the love spell affecting both Atalanta and the goddess. After Hylas chose to stay with the goddess, Artemis confronted Bai Mo about Atalanta, who secretly overheard their conversation, while the Fates noticed that a predetermined fate had changed.

• Bai Mo rescued Hylas from the spring goddess and used the leaden arrow to end the love spell affecting Atalanta and the goddess.
• The spring goddess apologized, then confessed that she still loved Hylas; Hylas chose to remain with her, and Heracles freed him from service.
• Artemis visited Bai Mo because Atalanta had been praying about him, and she asked why he was not interested in Atalanta.
• Bai Mo told Artemis that Atalanta should control her own feelings and fate, and Artemis criticized his lack of consideration toward her.
• Atalanta secretly overheard Bai Mo and Artemis speaking, while the Fates noticed that a predetermined fate had changed.

Bai Mo defeated Amycus in a boxing match, then challenged him to choose between being a boxer and ruling as king. Amycus began reforming his kingdom and welcomed the Argonauts with supplies and a feast, where Atalanta interrupted a possible romance between Bai Mo and a beautiful girl.

• Polydeuces asked Bai Mo to face Amycus, and Bai Mo defeated the Bithynian king with a series of powerful blows.
• When a Bithynian urged the crowd to avenge Amycus, Bai Mo warned Amycus that his subjects would die for him and urged him to choose between kingship and boxing.
• Amycus recognized the voice of a corrupt courtier and ordered the man's execution that night.
• Jason worried that the Bithynians would refuse to sell supplies, but Amycus arrived with provisions and invited the Argonauts to a feast.
• Amycus told Bai Mo that he had stopped boxing and discovered corruption in his kingdom, then introduced him to a beautiful girl.
• Atalanta fired an arrow that cut the girl's hair and shattered Jason's cup, leaving Bai Mo alone with Atalanta's cold gaze.

The Argo’s crew rescued Phineus from the harpies, but Jason’s mention of Heracles shattered the blind prophet’s confidence in his visions. Phineus foretold that Bai Mo’s futures ended in death and urged him to seek his thread of fate as the Argo reached the Clashing Rocks.

• Heracles, Bai Mo, and Atalanta led the crew to a ruined temple, where they met the starving, blind Phineus and learned that harpies had been tormenting him.
• The heroes drove off the harpies, and Phineus warned Jason that the Argo would face the deadly Clashing Rocks and should test them with a white dove.
• When Jason mentioned Heracles, Phineus realized his prophecy had not accounted for Heracles and despaired that fate had only shown him what it wanted him to see.
• Bai Mo urged Phineus to act despite his fear, and Phineus agreed to divine Bai Mo’s future.
• Phineus told Bai Mo that nearly every path led to death and that he needed to obtain his thread of fate from the goddess of fate; meanwhile, the Argo reached the Clashing Rocks.

Jason and the Argonauts faced the Clashing Rocks and the sea monsters blocking their passage. Bai Mo and Heracles helped the Argo survive the crushing rocks, leaving the ship perched atop them.

• Jason considered sending Bai Mo and Heracles ahead, but Atalanta reminded him that Phineus had shown them a way through, so Bai Mo sent a white dove between the Clashing Rocks.
• As the Argo crossed the gap, a sea monster seized the ship, and Heracles poisoned one of its tentacles with an arrow.
• Bai Mo dove underwater and severed the monster’s tentacles, then fought a second octopus that wrapped around the Argo; Heracles joined him and killed it.
• Bai Mo told Heracles to press the monsters’ bodies against the ship’s sides, and the heroes tied them in place with ropes.
• When the Clashing Rocks crushed the monsters’ bodies, Bai Mo formed a whirlpool and struck the water, lifting the Argo onto the rocks.

After surviving the Clashing Rocks, Bai Mo arrived in Colchis with the Argonauts and decided to pursue a thread of fate so he could escape the gods’ control. On Olympus, the gods discussed their failed attempt to stop the voyage, while Athena and Hera planned to use Medea to help Jason obtain the Golden Fleece.

• Bai Mo was rescued from the Clashing Rocks, then Asclepius quarantined him and Heracles and ordered the crew to clean the Argo.
• Bai Mo and Heracles suspected the sea monsters were Poseidon's divine offspring, and Bai Mo resolved to resist the gods rather than rely on their mercy.
• After the Argo reached Colchis, Bai Mo told Jason he would act alone and decided he needed to obtain his own thread of fate.
• Poseidon dismissed his dead sea-monster offspring, and Ares declared he would pursue Heracles and Bai Ermo after the failed attack.
• Athena and Hera agreed that Medea could help Jason get the Golden Fleece, while Hera warned that Bai Ermo might disrupt their plan.

As the Argo approached Colchis, Medea feared Heracles would destroy her country, but Bai Mo proposed a way to avert war by giving Jason the Golden Fleece and later taking it back. Medea volunteered to act as a mole, while Bai Mo refused to help her and continued seeking the Goddess of Fate’s temple.

• King Aeëtes learned that Heracles was aboard the Argo and asked Medea to defend Colchis with her True Magic.
• Medea dreamed that Heracles slew Aeëtes and defeated her magic, then woke in terror and went out to clear her head.
• Bai Mo met Medea and explained that Jason sought the Golden Fleece to claim the throne, while the gods’ designs made conflict likely even without him.
• Bai Mo proposed that Colchis give Jason the Golden Fleece and reclaim it afterward, and Medea recognized that the plan required a trusted mole.
• Medea volunteered for the mission and asked Bai Mo to help, but he refused because he was searching for the Goddess of Fate’s temple.

Bai Mo accompanied Medea to Hecate’s temple, where he rejected the futures offered to him and demanded his thread of fate. Hecate gave the thread to Medea, enabling her to compel Bai Mo to fight for Colchis, and Medea prepared to use it despite feeling she had betrayed him.

• Medea persuaded Bai Mo to guide her to Hecate’s temple, while he offered only limited information to help her approach the Argo’s crew.
• At a crossroads in the forest, Hecate appeared and presented Bai Mo with three possible futures, but he rejected them and demanded his thread of fate.
• Hecate told Bai Mo that his chosen path was a dead end, then heard Medea’s plea for guidance on defeating the Argo.
• Hecate gave Medea Bai Mo’s thread of fate and explained that she could use it to make him fight for Colchis.
• Medea apologized to Bai Mo for what she intended to do, and he recognized that she planned to force him to help her country.