Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen killed two Nether Hunters that had entered Base D01359, proving to the survivors that they could be defeated without mecha or heavy weapons. He then ordered the exposed passage sealed and asked Lu Kui to lead everyone to an emergency exit.

• Wang Chen wounded the first Nether Hunter with shotgun blasts, then cut it down with his combat blade and collected its Nether Crystal.
• A second Nether Hunter attacked Wang Chen with ultrasonic waves, but his Psionic Power shield deflected them and he killed it with another blade strike.
• Wang Chen confirmed there were no more enemies nearby and returned to the base, where Lu Kui and the others had gathered to help.
• Wang Chen showed the survivors a Nether Crystal and told them he had killed both Nether Hunters.
• Lu Kui told Wang Chen that the base had emergency escape routes, and Wang Chen ordered the exposed passage sealed or blown up.

After helping secure Base D01359, Wang Chen refused to take its survivors with him and promised to report their situation to the Empire. He left for Draei City to search for Xu Chengzhi at B00785 Base and entered the sewers to look for its entrance.

• Wang Chen told Lu Kui and the other survivors that he could not take them with him, but said the Empire was working toward a rescue and he would report their situation.
• Wang Chen told Lu Kui he planned to leave for B00785 Base the next morning to look for Xu Chengzhi.
• Wang Chen said goodbye to Lu Kui, gave him an assault rifle and magazines, and set off for B00785 Base.
• Wang Chen crossed the hazardous terrain, fighting off mutated creatures as he made his way toward Draei City.
• Wang Chen reached Draei, checked the map, and entered a manhole to search the sewers for B00785 Base.

Wang Chen searched Draei City's underground network and found B00785 Base, which had been devastated and emptied by the Nether Race. When more than fifty Nether Hunters surrounded him inside, he met their first attack with a Gatling.

• Wang Chen used his Gatling to slaughter the rat swarms that ambushed him in the sewers.
• Wang Chen searched the underground passages with his Psionic Power and found a concealed entrance to B00785 Base.
• Wang Chen discovered the base's defensive doors had been torn open and found battle damage, but no people or corpses inside.
• Wang Chen sensed more than fifty Nether Hunters surrounding him and prepared ammunition against the metal wall.
• A Nether Hunter attacked from above, and Wang Chen's armor-piercing Gatling rounds tore into it and severed several tentacles.

Wang Chen slaughtered the Nether Hunters at B00785 Base, then calmly ate dinner while waiting to see whether more enemies would appear. A group of five armed strangers infiltrated the base and confronted him, asking who he was and where he had come from.

• Wang Chen trapped the Nether Hunters in a Psionic Power barrier and killed them with armor-piercing rounds and a force that disrupted their Phasing.
• Wang Chen finished off the fleeing Nether Hunters with invisible Psionic Power blades, collected their Nether Crystals, and found no more enemies in the base.
• Wang Chen set up camp in B00785 Base, brewed coffee, and cooked hot pot while waiting for more Nether Race stragglers.
• Five people in Combat Suits entered through a pipeline and watched Wang Chen from a distance.
• The five cautiously approached with their assault rifles aimed at Wang Chen, and one asked who he was and where he had come from.

Wang Chen confronted armed survivors on Tampas Star and used his Psionic Power to subdue them after they tried to take his bag. He identified himself as an Imperial agent and persuaded their leader to admit he had seen Xu Chengzhi and the others, offering to take the group off the planet.

• Armed survivors surrounded Wang Chen and questioned him about his supplies and his origins.
• When one young man tried to seize Wang Chen's bag, Wang Chen forced all five men to their knees and disarmed them with his Psionic Power.
• Wang Chen showed the middle-aged man photographs of Xu Chengzhi and the others, and the man denied knowing them despite recognizing Xu Chengzhi.
• Wang Chen threatened the youngest man with a rifle, prompting Wu Xiaotian to offer information and angering the middle-aged man.
• Wang Chen revealed that he was the Empire's Chief Advisor on a mission, and the middle-aged man admitted he had seen the people in the photographs.
• Wang Chen promised to spare the survivors and offered to take them away from Tampas Star.

Wang Chen learned from Zhang Zhiyi and the other survivors that B00785 Base had fallen and its backup base was running dangerously low on supplies. After revealing that the Empire had retaken the Tampas Star Cluster, he suspected Mu Haitao had concealed the news and decided to resolve the situation quickly.

• Wang Chen promised to take the five survivors off Tampas Star, and they agreed to cooperate before sharing his food.
• Zhang Zhiyi explained that the Nether Race had destroyed B00785 Base, leaving fewer than five thousand people in its understocked backup base.
• Zhang Zhiyi said he had seen Xu Chengzhi and other members of the Empire's Special Operations Team three months earlier and suspected Mu Haitao had imprisoned them.
• Wang Chen told the survivors that the Empire had retaken the Tampas Star Cluster and showed them a beverage's production date as proof.
• Wu Xiaotian claimed that Mu Haitao had opened cells holding Rebel Forces members, leading Wang Chen to decide to end his mission quickly.

Wang Chen reached Backup Base B00785 and confronted Major Mu Haitao about the detained special operations personnel from the Empire's Second Rapid Response Fleet. Mu attacked him, but Wang Chen effortlessly stopped the assault and left Mu's bullets suspended in midair.

• Wang Chen left the Main Base with Zhang Zhiyi and the others and traveled through underground pipelines to Backup Base B00785.
• Captain Li escorted Wang Chen and Zhang Zhiyi through the crowded base toward its command center, where Wang Chen gave an energy bar to an orphaned child named Little Tiger.
• Wang Chen met Mu Haitao and said he had come to take back the special operations personnel detained three months earlier.
• Mu Haitao suspected Zhang Zhiyi had revealed the secret and ordered his guards and Captain Li to attack Wang Chen and Zhang Zhiyi.
• Wang Chen knocked the three attackers unconscious, caught Mu Haitao's kick, and stopped the bullets Mu fired with an invisible barrier.

Wang Chen defeated Mu Haitao and learned why he had confined Xu Chengzhi and the other soldiers, then went to the holding cells to meet them. There he found Xu Chengzhi playing chess with Mu Haitao’s daughter, Mu Zhenzhen.

• Wang Chen used his Psionic Power to overpower Mu Haitao and knock out the soldiers who rushed into the command tower.
• Mu Haitao surrendered, stopped his soldiers from interfering, and told Wang Chen that all seven confined soldiers were alive.
• Mu Haitao explained that he had detained Xu Chengzhi and the others to keep survivors from learning about the situation beyond the planet, and revealed that his unit had rescued them from Nether Race hunters at the cost of five comrades.
• Wang Chen suspected Mu Haitao had joined the Rebel Forces but chose not to confront him, and asked to see the prisoners.
• Mu Haitao led Wang Chen to the holding cells, where Wang Chen found Xu Chengzhi playing chess with Mu Zhenzhen, Mu Haitao’s nineteen-year-old daughter.

Wang Chen met with Xu Chengzhi, ordered him and his comrades to prepare for a return to the Empire in twenty-seven days, and told Mu Haitao how many survivors could leave Tampa Star. The chapter left Wang Chen equipped with a vintage motorcycle for his next mission.

• Mu Haitao took Mu Zhenzhen away, and Wang Chen gave Xu Chengzhi a letter from Xu Shaocheng explaining Wang Chen's authority.
• Xu Chengzhi accepted Wang Chen's orders to stay put until the landing ship arrived in twenty-seven days, though he showed little enthusiasm about leaving.
• Wang Chen inspected Xu Chengzhi's teammates and told Mu Haitao the ship could carry thirty people, including twelve already accounted for, leaving eighteen places for the base to allocate.
• Mu Haitao lent Wang Chen a vintage gasoline motorcycle, and Wang Chen paid the bearded engineer a Nether Crystal before storing the vehicle, fuel, and parts in his Sea of Stars Ring.

Wang Chen traveled across Tampas Star to investigate the energy radiation that disabled high-tech equipment, then sheltered from a storm in a ruined mall. After killing a Nether Hunter that had stalked him, he sensed more hunters emerging to surround him as he finished dinner.

• Wang Chen rode inland across Tampas Star, searching for the source of the planet-wide energy radiation.
• Wang Chen took shelter in a largely intact shopping mall and reflected on the radiation’s possible connection to Mu Haitao and the Rebel Forces.
• Wang Chen sensed and killed a Nether Hunter that had approached him while phased, then collected its Nether Crystal.
• Wang Chen finished dinner and sensed numerous Nether Hunters silently surrounding him.

Wang Chen faced hundreds of Nether Hunters and a Nether Eye, the alien commander that tried to recruit him for Taigelan. Wang Chen unleashed a powerful Psionic Storm that destroyed the Hunters, but the Nether Eye vanished.

• More than three hundred Nether Hunters surrounded Wang Chen in the abandoned mall, and a Nether Eye floated forward to confront him.
• The Nether Eye communicated with Wang Chen, asked why he had come to the planet, and offered him eternal life if he pledged loyalty to Taigelan.
• Wang Chen questioned why the Nether Eye had remained on the planet and laughed off its offer.
• Wang Chen unleashed seventy percent of his mental strength in a Psionic Storm, annihilating hundreds of Nether Hunters and leaving their Nether Crystals behind.
• The Nether Eye concealed itself in a burst of blood-red light and vanished.

Wang Chen killed the Nether Eye and discovered that its Blood Crystal could replenish the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil’s spiritual power. As he prepared to continue searching Tampas Star for more Nether Eyes, a violent tremor shook the mall and the ground bulged before him.

• Wang Chen used Psionic Power and his combat blade to defeat the Nether Eye, then crushed it and collected its Blood Crystal.
• Wang Chen used the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil to drain the Blood Crystal’s evil energy, while the Nether Eye’s remnant cursed him in the name of the Taigelan God.
• Wang Chen learned that the Blood Crystal restored five percent of the net’s spiritual power capacity, but an ordinary Nether Crystal could not be absorbed.
• Wang Chen put away the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil as a powerful tremor shook the mall and the ground suddenly bulged upward.

Wang Chen fought and killed a Nether Dragon that emerged beneath a shopping mall on Tampas Star. After the dragon destroyed itself, he discovered its underground passage and descended into a vast Cave Dwelling, suspecting the Nether Race was hiding a secret there.

• A Nether Dragon burst from underground, and Wang Chen charged it with his combat blade.
• Wang Chen blocked the dragon’s breath and attacks, then cut through its claw and wounded its head with a powerful blade strike.
• The Nether Dragon exploded, destroying the shopping mall and leaving a massive crater.
• Wang Chen sensed the dragon’s underground passage, opened a hole into it, and jumped down.
• Wang Chen descended several thousand meters and found a vast Cave Dwelling.

Wang Chen discovered an ancient cultivator’s Cave Dwelling beneath Tampas Star, where studying the runes on its sealed gates let him comprehend the Great Five Elements Divine Light. After returning to Backup Base B00785, he dealt with Xu Chengzhi’s decision to give up his evacuation slot and prepared to leave with the others.

• Wang Chen found a powerful sealed Cave Dwelling beneath Tampas Star and deduced that its formation had caused the planet’s high-technology systems to fail.
• Wang Chen spent half a month studying the True Script Runes from the gates and comprehended the Great Five Elements Divine Light.
• Wang Chen gathered the Nether Crystals, concealed the underground passage, and returned to Backup Base B00785 using his Psionic Power.
• Mu Haitao told Wang Chen that everyone was present, but Xu Chengzhi wanted to stay and fight alongside Mu Zhenzhen.
• Wang Chen knocked Xu Chengzhi down and ordered the group to take him along or forfeit their evacuation, and the others carried Xu Chengzhi away as they prepared to leave.

Wang Chen rescued Xu Chengzhi and other survivors from Tampas Star, then returned to Holy Light Star with them. After Xu Shaocheng thanked him and promised the Xu family’s support, Wang Chen planned to rest before returning to the Haotian Realm.

• Wang Chen led the survivors onto a modified spacecraft, which escaped Tampas Star and was captured by an Imperial Army frigate.
• Wang Chen contacted Xu Shaocheng to confirm that he had rescued Xu Chengzhi.
• Three days later, Wang Chen arrived on Holy Light Star with Xu Chengzhi, and Xu Shaocheng thanked him and reaffirmed the Xu family’s promise of support.
• Xu Shaocheng asked Wang Chen to keep Xu Chengzhi’s ties to the Rebel Forces and his brainwashing confidential, and Wang Chen agreed.
• Wang Chen left the father and son and planned to rest before returning to the Haotian Realm.

After settling into the Xu family’s estate on Holy Light Star, Wang Chen enjoyed a brief vacation with Tang Mi and Akemi before selling a large cache of Nether Crystals to Gash Auction House. The chapter ended as Chu Xing'an discovered Wang Chen had brought a second case containing at least ten times as many crystals as the first.

• Wang Chen relaxed at the estate with Tang Mi and Akemi, who worried their vacation was ending and would soon have to return to Taiwu Star.
• Wang Chen told his girlfriends he would visit them later, then received Chu Xing'an and two other representatives from Gash Auction House.
• Wang Chen showed the visitors a case of Nether Crystals and asked Gash to appraise and buy them directly.
• Chu Xing'an completed the appraisal and contract, and Gash transferred over a hundred million Star Yuan to Wang Chen.
• Wang Chen revealed a second case of Nether Crystals, leaving Chu Xing'an stunned by the enormous additional quantity.

Wang Chen sold a large supply of Nether Crystals, then used his wealth to support Tang Mi and Akemi and secure their futures. After they returned to Taiwu Star, he traveled back to Tampas Star to prepare the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil for splitting his Soul and Consciousness.

• Chu Xing'an bought all of Wang Chen's Nether Crystals for Gash Auction House at a high price and asked him to sell more in the future.
• Wang Chen transferred two hundred million Star Yuan to Tang Mi and seven hundred million to Akemi, earmarking five hundred million for Akemi to design and build a heavy mech.
• Wang Chen gave Tang Mi and Akemi a co-ownership agreement for his manor and privately arranged with Xu Shaocheng to secure noble titles for both women.
• Tang Mi and Akemi spent their remaining vacation with Wang Chen, then returned to Taiwu Star after he arranged to see them again ten months later.
• Wang Chen contacted Xu Shaocheng and returned to Tampas Star to replenish the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil in preparation for splitting his Soul and Consciousness.

Wang Chen returned to Tampas Star and saw the Empire rebuilding the planet around a newly constructed space fortress. After visiting a lively new bar, he set out alone to hunt the Alien Races still hiding there.

• Wang Chen arrived at Tampas Star aboard Tianyun No. 157 and watched the Empire’s new space fortress taking shape.
• Wang Chen landed among soldiers, survivors, and workers as the Empire began rebuilding the ruined surface.
• Wang Chen visited the Veteran Bar, paid with Star Yuan cash, and heard that survivors and migrant workers were helping restore the planet.
• Wang Chen left the reconstruction zone to hunt high-level prey such as the Nether Eye for the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil’s spiritual power reserves.

After nine months of hunting Nether Race across Tampas Star, Wang Chen returned to the rebuilding city of Draei and planned to leave the planet. At a tavern, the bartender and construction workers turned hostile after Wang Chen rejected their beer, and he fought back when they attacked.

• Wang Chen reflected on his success in destroying more than a hundred Nether nests and killing dozens of Nether Eyes during his journey across Tampas Star.
• Wang Chen traveled for seven days to Draei City, where a new city was rising beside the ruins, and decided to head back into space the following evening.
• Wang Chen entered a crowded tavern and paid three hundred Star Yuan for a pitcher of homemade dark beer.
• Wang Chen spat out the bitter beer, angering the bartender, who accused him of being an outsider and demanded that he drink it.
• The bartender grabbed for Wang Chen's throat, but Wang Chen bent his hand and used an invisible force to send the attacking construction workers crashing into tables.

Wang Chen confronted the Blue Collar Union workers at a bar on Tampa Star, killing a gunman and overpowering a naturally awakened young man. Mu Haitao arrived and revealed he led the union in Drexin City, then took Wang Chen aside to explain the situation.

• Wang Chen caught the punch of a young superpowered man and threw him across the bar.
• A scar-faced worker drew a revolver, and Wang Chen shot him dead, silencing the other workers.
• Wang Chen questioned the young man about his Natural Awakening and told him to value his ability.
• Mu Haitao arrived with a group of people, recognized Wang Chen as Chief Wang, and invited him to speak privately.
• Mu Haitao explained that he had retired from military service and was now president of the Blue Collar Union in Drexin City.