Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan protected Chen Xi and grew stronger as her trust nourished his Red Dust Dao Seed. Elder Song then offered him a lightning source core in exchange for escorting a dangerous convoy across the Silent Wasteland, leaving Chen Fan to consider a mission involving Old Freak Chu and a powerful biochemical weapon.

• Chen Fan comforted Chen Xi, and her pure attachment healed the remaining damage from his third Genes Lock and raised his physical strength to its limit.
• For seven days, Chen Fan and Chen Xi stayed under the chamber of commerce's protection while she recovered from malnutrition.
• Elder Song visited Chen Fan with a peak Fourth Tier Thunder Dragon Lizard's Companion Source Core and offered it as payment for an escort mission.
• Elder Song explained that Chen Fan must protect the Worldbreaker and an important person carrying Second Base City's high-energy reactor blueprints across four hundred kilometers of the Silent Wasteland.
• Elder Song warned that Old Freak Chu might send God's Chosen Phase Four to kill the convoy, and said Chen Fan was the only person he trusted to stop it.

Chen Fan accepted Elder Song’s offer of a fourth-tier Core Crystal in exchange for joining the Wasteland convoy, but insisted that Chen Xi be secured in the Pagoda Fortress. After safeguarding her and leaving her behind, he returned to Black Street as dusk fell, his aura abruptly changing.

• Chen Fan initially refused the Core Crystal because leaving would put Chen Xi at risk, then agreed to the deal after Elder Song promised to keep her in the Pagoda Fortress.
• Chen Fan demanded the case and its code immediately, secured Elder Song’s agreement to leave in three days, and threatened him if Chen Xi came to harm.
• Elder Song escorted Chen Fan and Chen Xi through the blast doors to the nuclear-resistant shelter a hundred meters underground.
• Chen Fan checked the shelter with his Divine Thought, promised Chen Xi he would return, and secretly placed a protective killing lock in her Niwan Palace.
• Chen Fan left the fortress, returned to Building A-1 on Black Street at dusk, and barred the door as his aura changed.

Chen Fan absorbed the Thunder Dragon Lizard’s Core Crystal, broke through the Fourth Genes Lock, and reached Fourth Tier Low Rank. After recovering for three days, he boarded the Far East Chamber of Commerce’s Land Cruiser Ship, while an unseen figure watched him from the VIP cabin carrying a Metal Secret Casket.

• Chen Fan swallowed the Thunder Dragon Lizard’s Core Crystal and suppressed its Beast Soul with the Life-and-Death Millstone, refining its energy into Pure Yang lightning.
• Chen Fan broke the Fourth Genes Lock and raised his strength beyond sixty thousand jin, reaching Fourth Tier Low Rank.
• After three days, Chen Fan shed the charred shell covering his body, dressed, and left his courtyard.
• Chen Fan arrived at the Far East Chamber of Commerce’s underground spaceport, where Elder Song greeted him and led him aboard the Land Cruiser Ship Worldbreaker.
• A radiation-suited figure watched Chen Fan pass the VIP cabin while gripping a silver-white Metal Secret Casket.

Chen Fan and Lin Wei traveled through the Wasteland aboard the Worldbreaker, where Lin Wei questioned his ability to protect her and the reactor blueprints she carried. The cruiser was ambushed by buried mines, and Chen Fan caught Lin Wei as the cabin lurched, leaving him standing unharmed amid the attack.

• The Worldbreaker crossed into the radiation-filled Wasteland, and Chen Fan absorbed the radiation while Lin Wei watched him from across the cabin.
• Lin Wei introduced herself as a High-Energy Applications Research Institute engineer carrying fusion-reactor blueprints and warned Chen Fan about the monsters ahead.
• Chen Fan told Lin Wei she was noisy, and she angrily rebuked him for dismissing her warnings.
• Three anti-armor mines detonated beneath the Worldbreaker, damaging its propulsion and reactor as the cabin tipped sharply.
• Lin Wei was thrown toward the cabin door, but Chen Fan caught her by the collar and remained steady on the tilted deck.

Prometheus’s Death Soldier Legion ambushed Lin Wei’s convoy and cornered her and Chen Fan inside the Worldbreaker. As Poison Scorpion ordered his soldiers to kill Chen Fan, Chen Fan drew his Broken Saber and stopped both attackers with a single strike.

• Prometheus’s Death Soldier Legion destroyed the convoy’s escorts and sent two Peak Third Tier death soldiers and Poison Scorpion into the VIP Cabin.
• Poison Scorpion demanded the blueprints from Lin Wei and ordered his death soldiers to maim Chen Fan before killing her.
• Lin Wei tried to shield Chen Fan and urged him to escape, but he remained still as the attackers charged.
• Chen Fan drew his Broken Saber by an inch, releasing a gray-white aura that shattered the soldiers’ blade circuits and left matching cuts across their necks.

Chen Fan protected Lin Wei and fought Poison Scorpion after effortlessly killing two Biochemical Death Soldiers. He disarmed and crippled Poison Scorpion, then sliced apart the explosives in his final attack.

• Chen Fan devoured the energy of two Biochemical Death Soldiers, leaving them as ash and stunning Lin Wei and Poison Scorpion.
• Poison Scorpion abandoned his capture order and engulfed the cabin in neurotoxic acid mist and radiation flames, but Chen Fan’s Taiji Halo dissolved the attack before it could reach Lin Wei.
• Poison Scorpion charged Chen Fan with his mechanical pincers, but Chen Fan dodged and struck the joints and stress seams of his arms seven times with his sheathed saber.
• Chen Fan’s hidden force shattered Poison Scorpion’s Titanium Alloy arms, sending him crashing through the bulkhead.
• Poison Scorpion activated his self-destruct program and launched eight explosive Bone Spikes, but Chen Fan drew his Broken Saber and cut them into powder before they could detonate.

Chen Fan killed Poison Scorpion, absorbed his energy, and stabilized his lower tier-four realm, while Lin Wei was left unable to walk. He restarted the crippled Worldbreaker with his powers and drove off with Lin Wei and the secret case into the Silent Wasteland.

• Chen Fan cut Poison Scorpion apart and absorbed his remains and tier-four crystal core, completing the stabilization of his lower tier-four realm.
• Lin Wei admitted that her legs had gone weak and that she could not walk.
• Chen Fan examined the Worldbreaker's damaged machinery with Divine Thought and used Hidden Force and Pure Yang internal force to restart its engine.
• Chen Fan carried Lin Wei and the secret case to the cockpit and ordered her to fasten her safety harness.
• Chen Fan drove the Worldbreaker through the wreckage and back into the Silent Wasteland.

Chen Fan drove Lin Wei through the radiation-filled Wasteland toward Black Wind Gorge Valley while she questioned his abilities and warned him about the deadly passage. He ignored her warnings and accelerated into the gorge, leaving Lin Wei braced for disaster.

• Lin Wei questioned Chen Fan about the force field and saber technique he had used, but he ignored her and checked that Chen Xi remained safe.
• Chen Fan drove the Worldbreaker toward Black Wind Gorge Valley as Lin Wei tried to analyze his abilities on her tablet.
• The Geiger counter surged into severe overload at the gorge entrance, and Lin Wei warned Chen Fan that Radiation Beasts had wiped out a heavily armed scouting force.
• Lin Wei urged Chen Fan to take a longer detour, but he told her to shut up and drove the Worldbreaker into the gorge at full speed.
• Lin Wei squeezed her eyes shut and braced herself for the land cruiser to crash or roll over.