Recaps

Ye Jin used a strange book by Li Hu to unlock a blueprint for the Shanhai, a star-cruising warship from the Deep Sea Civilization. The system simulated the ship on credit, but Ye Jin learned that building it required extensive foundational knowledge and more Talent Points.

• Ye Jin discovered that Li Hu's book had connected his system to a level-three civilization and revealed a star-cruising warship blueprint.
• Li Hu, excited that his idol Ye Jin was reading his work, began writing a new online novel.
• Ye Jin studied the compressed blueprint and learned that the Shanhai belonged to the Deep Sea Civilization and could carry up to one hundred people.
• Ye Jin chose to begin construction, and the system granted him ten thousand Talent Points in credit before successfully simulating the warship.
• The system told Ye Jin that building the Shanhai required foundational knowledge skills for its seven parts, leaving him dismayed by his debt and the work ahead.

Ye Jin’s emotional reaction to Li Hu’s obscure book made it a worldwide sensation, while he studied the star cruiser he hoped to build before the coming battle. After viewers mocked his brief library visit, he sat down with another book and began studying again.

• Viewers worldwide searched for Li Hu’s book after seeing Ye Jin nearly cry over it, and its popularity sent it onto the trending rankings.
• The publisher that had rejected Li Hu regretted its decision, while Li Hu watched the discussion and began typing with renewed inspiration.
• Ye Jin examined the star cruiser blueprint in his mind and considered how its thousands of components could help him fight the invading race in a hundred days.
• Ye Jin returned “Conceptual Design and Applications of Interstellar Cruising Vessels” to a prominent shelf, prompting viewers to argue over reading and education.
• After picking up “Principles of Computer Organization,” Ye Jin sat down and began studying, leaving the viewers and haters speechless.

Ye Jin read Computer Organization in a few minutes and used twenty Talent Points to master it, lighting a tiny point in his battleship’s command system. As viewers mocked or praised his unusual pace, he picked up another computer book and continued reading.

• Ye Jin settled into a library and rapidly flipped through a difficult computer science textbook while viewers and commentators questioned whether he was actually reading.
• Ye Jin spent twenty Talent Points to learn Computer Organization, gaining extensive computer knowledge and lighting a small point in the battleship’s command system in his mind.
• Ye Jin returned the textbook to the shelf and picked up The Soulful Chip: How Computers Work in Simple Terms.
• Viewers challenged a commenter who had promised to livestream himself having diarrhea while doing a handstand, and he said he would start the stream.
• Ye Jin sipped bitter coffee, added sugar, and wondered about the hotel’s broken power system.

Ye Jin finished a second book in eight minutes and immediately began a third, while viewers condemned his reading and accused the show of being rigged. Brian’s attempt to steer the discussion backfired, and he was ordered to report to the director after the overnight shift change.

• Ye Jin finished reading The Engine of Logic’s predecessor in eight minutes, gaining two Talent Points, then picked up The Engine of Logic as his third book.
• Brian questioned the value of Ye Jin’s rapid reading, prompting viewers to accuse the Nine Domains Nation contestant and the production team of disrespecting knowledge and rigging the show.
• Viewers praised Brian as a hero and urged him to join their boycott, leaving him unable to shake off their support as he feared the Human Destiny Alliance would discard him.
• Ailiya stayed silent as the comments spiraled, and Brian finally shouted at the viewers to shut up before asking them to trust the production team.
• The director ordered Brian to come to his office after the overnight shift change, and Brian feared the consequences of his outburst.

The production team defended the show by revealing that more than a hundred prominent psychologists were observing it, but viewers and scholars then condemned Ye Jin for flipping through a book. After finishing it, Ye Jin recited passages from across the book word for word, leaving viewers stunned by his memory.

• Brian privately resented Ailiya and regretted his earlier remarks as he feared the powerful people behind the show.
• Professor Chase announced that the program was noncommercial and overseen by more than a hundred psychologists, then the feed returned to the livestream.
• Viewers and a group of scholars criticized Ye Jin for treating a book disrespectfully and demanded an apology and government action.
• Ye Jin finished the third book, spent another twenty Talent Points, and put it back on the shelf.
• Ye Jin recited passages from different parts of the book, and viewers who checked the text realized he had memorized it word for word.

Ye Jin demonstrated extraordinary memory and comprehension by reading and reciting computer books, impressing viewers around the world. After gaining twenty points of light from twelve books, he ran out of Talent Points and left on his electric bike to retrieve his vehicle and earn more.

• Ye Jin recited The Engines of Logic word for word, silencing viewers who had mocked him.
• Ye Jin read twelve computer books over nearly two hours and then recited their essential passages in order without mistakes.
• Viewers around the world watched in awe as Ye Jin’s memory and comprehension became clear.
• Ye Jin discovered that the twelve books had lit twenty points of light, but he had run out of Talent Points and owed ten thousand.
• Ye Jin cleaned up, rode his electric bike out, and set off to retrieve his vehicle from the mountain and earn Talent Points.

Ye Jin amazed viewers with his memory and then headed to a rock-climbing store, where he prepared for a free solo climb. As viewers realized he planned to climb without safety gear despite apparently being a beginner, they watched in shock.

• Ye Jin left after impressing the crowd, who praised his memory and wondered where he would go next.
• Andrew drove an M1A2 tank out of the military base, while Yige'er chopped trees and began building a house.
• Boudreau's small fishing boat capsized in a storm, leaving him adrift until he reached a tiny deserted island and ended his competition.
• Ye Jin entered a rock-climbing equipment store and watched an instructional video while choosing his gear.
• Viewers recognized the video as a free solo climbing tutorial and noticed Ye Jin had bought no safety equipment.

After realizing he had no Talent Points, Ye Jin earned more by doing push-ups and learned master-level free solo climbing. He reached the sheer cliff on Tainan Mountain and began an unprotected ascent as viewers watched in fear.

• Ye Jin did fifty push-ups, gained thirty Talent Points, and spent twenty to learn master-level free solo climbing.
• Ye Jin packed his gear, rode his electric scooter to Tainan Mountain, and walked to the cliff beneath the Wuling Hongguang he had left near its top.
• Viewers recognized the cliff from Ye Jin's earlier stunt, while a famous international climber explained the extreme danger of free solo climbing.
• Ye Jin put on his climbing gear and began climbing the nearly 3,000-foot cliff without protection.

Ye Jin began a free solo climb up an exceptionally smooth, high cliff with no safety equipment, leaving viewers terrified as he moved rapidly upward. He reached thirty meters without slowing, while the livestream audience worried about the route and his dwindling strength.

• Ye Jin started climbing the cliff with only his hands, climbing shoes, and daggers, while viewers feared he would fall.
• Ye Jin clung to the rock and climbed nearly ten meters within a minute or two, drawing increasingly anxious reactions from the livestream audience.
• Nanocameras filmed Ye Jin from multiple angles as viewers compared his speed with Alex and other rock climbers.
• Ye Jin reached thirty meters by choosing footholds and routes without looking down.
• Ye Jin continued surging upward without slowing, despite carrying no supplies to replenish his strength.

Ye Jin climbed a sheer cliff without safety equipment, stunning viewers with his speed and expert technique. As he reached 100 meters, the wind began to pick up.

• Ye Jin used a difficult leg-powered move to grab a protruding rock and continued climbing without pausing.
• Viewers and climbing experts watched in fear and recognized Ye Jin’s skill as that of a top-tier climber.
• Ye Jin climbed rapidly, relying on movements he had carefully simulated and aiming to finish before nightfall.
• Ye Jin reached 100 meters as the grass around the cliff began moving in the rising wind.

As strong winds threatened Ye Jin’s climb, viewers feared he would fall, but he deliberately performed a dangerous flip against the cliff to intensify his calorie burn. The chapter ended with the audience screaming as he prepared to do something even more shocking.

• The island’s wind picked up, and climbers warned that Ye Jin faced near-certain death more than a hundred meters above the ground.
• An expert climber urged the production team to provide safety protection, but the team refused to intervene unless Ye Jin was gravely injured.
• Viewers pleaded for Ye Jin’s safety while others wished for his death, as he focused on the rapid calorie consumption caused by the climb.
• Ye Jin loosened his grip, repositioned his feet, and flipped himself against the cliff face in a lightning-fast maneuver.
• The audience reacted with shock and excitement, then screamed even louder when Ye Jin made another move.

Ye Jin climbed a sheer cliff in fierce winds, calmly looking down before reaching a near-impossible section with only a tiny fingerhold. He crossed it using one finger on each hand, leaving viewers stunned by his feat.

• Ye Jin braced himself against the cliff and admired the sunset while viewers feared he would fall.
• Ye Jin looked down without showing fear, then turned back to the cliff and continued climbing.
• Ye Jin climbed to 200 meters and reached a section where the only handhold was a tiny indentation.
• Ye Jin hooked one finger into the indentation, launched himself upward, and secured both hands on separate holds with one finger each.
• Ye Jin made it across the dangerous section, astonishing viewers around the world.

Ye Jin climbed more than two hundred meters up a narrow crack in the cliff, then rested in a recess beneath a dangerous overhang. After recovering, he launched himself toward the rock above, leaving viewers terrified that he would fall.

• Brian praised Ye Jin’s precise climbing after he passed a deadly obstacle.
• Ye Jin used a narrow crack as a ladder and climbed rapidly to 420 meters.
• Ye Jin reached the end of the crack and stopped in a recess beneath a smooth, overhanging section of rock.
• Viewers feared Ye Jin would have to hang from tiny holds and pull his entire body upward.
• After resting and recovering his strength, Ye Jin braced against the rock and pushed himself outward toward the upper face.

Ye Jin climbed an 800-meter cliff at record-breaking speed, then used climbing daggers to scale a sheer rock face and reach the summit. His unprecedented feat left viewers and professional climbers stunned.

• Ye Jin caught a protruding rock after leaping across a gap, then hauled himself upward using only his arms.
• Ye Jin climbed the cliff with extraordinary speed, passing dangerous obstacles with ease.
• After two hours, Ye Jin reached 800 meters, breaking Alex’s record.
• Ye Jin faced a near-vertical rock face with almost no cracks and drew two climbing daggers.
• Ye Jin alternated the daggers to climb the final stretch and reached the summit, leaving the world silent.

Ye Jin completed a record-setting climb up a sheer cliff, earned Talent Points, and drove dangerously back down the mountain. After returning to the hotel and eating, he went out again to study at the library, leaving viewers stunned by his relentless drive.

• Ye Jin reached the summit after climbing over a hundred meters in just over two hours, setting a record that viewers around the world celebrated.
• Ye Jin watched the sunset, took a photo, and received 5,000 Talent Points as his Human Body Shackles breakthrough reached 20%.
• Ye Jin drove down the mountain at extreme speed, then returned a shared electric scooter and went back to the hotel.
• Ye Jin restored power at the hotel, cooked Yanjing noodles with soybean paste, and ate alone while viewers reacted to the lonely scene.
• Ye Jin drove to the library late at night, astonishing viewers who had expected him to rest or play games.

Ye Jin read computer science books at extraordinary speed until he acquired AI humanlike artificial intelligence technology programming. He then began writing code for an artificial intelligence in the library management room, while viewers dismissed his work as gibberish.

• Ye Jin settled into the librarian’s chair and began rapidly reading computer books to earn Talent Points.
• Ye Jin’s reading speed increased as he worked through dozens of books, and more than 120 command-system lights appeared in his mind’s warship.
• After finishing his sixtieth book, Ye Jin received the key technology for AI humanlike artificial intelligence programming.
• Ye Jin decided to create an artificial intelligence and began typing code at a computer in the library management room.
• Viewers watched Ye Jin’s code and assumed he was writing gibberish, while host Brian announced that the rankings would be revealed at eight the next morning.

Eighteen confidential commentators gathered to score the first day of Humanity's Future, but national loyalties shaped their debate over the contestants. Dong Wending challenged them to recognize Ye Jin's superior performance, leaving the commentators unable to answer.

• James welcomed the eighteen special guest commentators and told each to award one point to the contestant they recognized.
• Daniel supported Duke, while the Sea Eagle Country commentator insulted Duke and defended Andrew's conduct and his country's military strength.
• Qie'erfu opposed pressure to vote for Andrew and praised Yige'er for building a house.
• Dong Wending challenged the commentators for ignoring Ye Jin and listed Ye Jin's accomplishments across the day's activities.
• Dong Wending demanded that the other countries identify their contestants' strengths and declared that Ye Jin was number one if they could not.

Brandon and Dong Wending argued over whether Andrew or Ye Jin deserved first place, and the representatives’ votes gave Andrew the lead. The leader of Nine Domains Nation vetoed the result, invalidating the vote and leaving the ranking unresolved.

• Brandon criticized Ye Jin’s dangerous sports and argued that Andrew deserved first place, while Dong Wending defended Ye Jin and challenged the fairness of the process.
• Brandon cast his vote for Andrew, and Qie'erfu voted for Yige'er; other representatives also tried to support contestants from their own countries before Brandon pressured them to stop.
• Dong Wending voted for Ye Jin, and all eighteen votes were cast: Andrew received nine, Ye Jin four, Yige'er three, and Duke two.
• Brandon celebrated Andrew’s apparent victory and asked Director James to confirm the result.
• The leader of Nine Domains Nation pressed the red button, and James announced that one vote could veto the outcome, making the vote invalid.

Repeated vetoes by Nine Domains Nation’s Mr. Liang blocked Sea Eagle Country’s attempts to secure first place in the scoring round, forcing the program to pause while officials escalated the dispute. At the Human Destiny Alliance talks, Nine Domains Nation’s leader defended Ye Jin’s performance and refused to accept manipulation of the competition.

• Brandon canvassed for votes again, but Nine Domains Nation’s official vetoed Sea Eagle Country’s first-place result twice more.
• Sea Eagle Country’s official proposed abolishing Nine Domains Nation’s veto, and Mr. Liang vetoed that proposal as well.
• Mr. Liang said he would accept a reasonable result but would keep exercising his veto if the outcome was unreasonable.
• Sea Eagle Country’s representative suspended the scoring round, and the commentators were cut off from the officials’ discussion and warned to keep it secret.
• The five top decision-makers began talks, where Nine Domains Nation’s leader argued that Ye Jin had performed best and condemned efforts to manipulate the competition.

The top decision-makers uncovered the truth behind Humanity’s Future: it was a secret project to find a gene-serum-compatible winner and create a controllable god. Madison backed down from manipulating Ye Jin’s result, and the nations agreed to revise the scoring system while keeping the decision within their control.

• Madison denied directing Brandon and claimed he respected the show, but the Nine Domains Nation’s chief person in charge accused him of manipulating it and insisted Ye Jin should take first place.
• The decision-makers recalled how Pioneer 11 had found and returned a crashed alien spacecraft, which the Sea Eagle Country researched at Area 51 with the other major nations.
• The nations discovered gene serums aboard the spacecraft, then identified Divinity as the human genetic trait compatible with them after the serums caused disastrous effects in test subjects.
• The decision-makers revealed that Humanity’s Future was the God-Making Project, designed to select a God's Chosen Son and implant a chip to keep the winner under control.
• Madison argued that Ye Jin should be spared the chip, but the Nine Domains Nation’s chief person in charge said Ye Jin would decide for himself and demanded that his victory be respected.
• Madison agreed to change the scoring system, and the other top decision-makers accepted the agreement.

After the five decision-makers settled the dispute over the competition, voting resumed under revised rules, and Ye Jin won overwhelming support. The Rose of Sharon Country and Night Cherry Country commentators accused the show of vote manipulation, but Sea Eagle Country's representative silenced them and warned them against leaking secrets.

• The five decision-makers reached an agreement, and the organizers restarted voting with eighteen individual votes determining the day's best performer.
• Brandon of Sea Eagle Country voted for Ye Jin, prompting other countries that had followed his earlier lead to cast their votes for Ye Jin as well.
• The Rose of Sharon Country and East Night Cherry Country commentators urged voters to support their contestants, but Brandon ignored them and the remaining fence-sitting countries voted for Ye Jin.
• Ye Jin received sixteen votes, and the two commentators accused the show of manipulating the results.
• The person in charge of Sea Eagle Country rejected their accusations, told them to submit written complaints or quit, and warned that leaking information would bring a joint strike from the Human Destiny Alliance.

Ye Jin spent over an hour typing code that viewers and experts dismissed as gibberish. He completed a function for transmitting information from an advanced civilization’s code into Blue Water Planet code, then pressed the completion key.

• The Night Cherry Country commentator apologized for his earlier remarks and voted for Ye Jin, while the Rose of Sharon Country commentator also backed down.
• Ye Jin typed rapidly in the library as viewers debated whether his apparent gibberish had any purpose.
• A Microsoft Corporation software developer declared that Ye Jin’s screen contained meaningless, illogical text typed without conscious thought.
• Ye Jin finished converting advanced-civilization code into Blue Water Planet code for an information-transmission function and pressed the completion key.