Chapter Summaries

After Hong Yue praised Lin Yan’s skill in extracting Lin Luosu, Wen Xiuyong assigned him to assist with research, despite Lin Yan’s reluctance. Lin Yan began studying Coenzyme R3V and laboratory basics, while Wen Zhi'an offered to support him.

• Hong Yue told Wen Xiuyong that Lin Yan had performed the Lin Luosu extraction better than he had after watching the procedure once.
• Wen Xiuyong asked Lin Yan to help with research, and Lin Yan first refused before agreeing when Wen Zhi'an prepared to request assistance from headquarters.
• Qi Ze gave Lin Yan books and a laptop and explained the importance of Wen Xiuyong’s Coenzyme R3V research.
• Wen Zhi'an brought Lin Yan coffee, reassured him that he could choose his own path, and said she found laboratory work interesting.

Lin Yan rapidly mastered the laboratory’s research materials and demonstrated extraordinary skill by extracting high-quality Coenzyme R3V. He declined Wen Xiuyong’s offer to study under him, declaring that he aimed to surpass the powerful figures above the clouds of the War God Palace.

• Lin Yan used Mind Palace to study dozens of books and rapidly watch the laboratory’s videos while Wen Zhi'an observed his detailed notes.
• Wen Xiuyong tested Lin Yan’s knowledge and insisted that he demonstrate the Coenzyme R3V extraction that night.
• Wen Zhi'an told Qi Ze that Lin Yan had apparently learned the material in only three hours, and Qi Ze joined the researchers watching the experiment.
• Lin Yan performed the extraction with subtle procedural improvements, producing a sample that met the ideal quality standard.
• Wen Xiuyong offered to take Lin Yan as his student, but Lin Yan said he intended to surpass the figures who stood above the clouds of the War God Palace.

Lin Yan improved the Coenzyme R3V production process while growing closer to Wen Zhi'an, and Wen Xiuyong reluctantly accepted their time together. Meanwhile, a monster disguised as Professor Wu infiltrated the research institute, and it approached Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an at the chapter's end.

• Lin Yan asked Wen Xiuyong for a biology reading list, while Wen Zhi'an wondered whether Lin Yan still liked her and found herself drawn to him.
• A monster disguised as Professor Wu briefly knocked Bu Xiangyang unconscious, then used him to pass through the research institute's security checkpoints.
• Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an discussed the recent lack of disappearances and the expected return of powerful explorers from Tianjing Base City.
• After more than ten thousand experiments in the Virtual Hall, Lin Yan found that Niyelo could serve as a new raw material for Coenzyme R3V and developed a plan that increased output by 1.5 times.
• The disguised Professor Wu approached Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an and asked where Wen Xiuyong had gone.

A silver-haired woman named Fanny ordered the Truth Society to gather in Tianjing to seize an item locked in a coded box. At the North District Laboratory, Lin Yan realized a beast had impersonated Professor Wu and taken control of the institute, and he and Wen Zhi'an faced it near the emergency exit.

• Fanny learned that the Alloy Coded Box required Wen Xiuyong's iris verification and ordered her personnel in Tianjing to assemble.
• Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an discussed his improved Coenzyme R3V experiment while he worked on a paper for Wen Xiuyong.
• Lin Yan noticed that the Professor Wu who visited the laboratory had a different stance from the real one and suspected he was a beast in disguise.
• After a call revealed that the beast had also taken over Liu Mingxuan's phone, Lin Yan led Wen Zhi'an toward the warehouse emergency passage.
• The system issued a mission to escape or eliminate the Beast of Misfortune, and Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an saw its golden eyes emerge from the shadows.

Liu Mingxuan discovered that a monster had infiltrated the research institute by intercepting communications and falsifying surveillance. He sent teams to secure the area and investigate the laboratory, where Lin Yan and Wen Xiuyong’s daughter remained trapped.

• Chen Lian told Liu Mingxuan that the 76th Regiment Chief of Staff had gone missing, and Liu Mingxuan warned Lin Yan to stay alert.
• Wen Xiuyong returned to the institute as Qi Ze concluded that the Gray Gorilla’s Gene Modification was extraordinarily advanced, and Wen Xiuyong said he thought he knew who was responsible.
• Jia Yan realized he had no record of Chu Wei’s call approving his Series 7 weapons application, prompting Liu Mingxuan to test whether the person answering Lin Yan’s phone was really Lin Yan.
• Liu Mingxuan deduced that communications and surveillance had been intercepted and that a monster disguised as Professor Wu had entered the laboratory over five hours earlier.
• Liu Mingxuan ordered Jia Yan to evacuate Wen Xiuyong, Chen Lian to find Team Leader Jiang, and Bu Xiangyang to summon the Jiaolong Commando and Sky Wolf Special Forces.
• Wen Xiuyong refused to leave without his daughter, so Jia Yan knocked him unconscious, and Liu Mingxuan ordered the operation to begin.

Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an faced a golden-eyed black cat that Lin Yan suspected was a Lord-level monster, and its gaze trapped them in an illusion. Lin Yan recognized the school attack as unreal, broke free of the illusion's rules, and activated the Virtual Hall.

• Lin Yan realized the black cat's golden eyes matched the eyes Zhang Wei had seen before losing consciousness and suspected it was another Lord-level monster.
• Lin Yan asked Wen Zhi'an if he could call her Zhi'an, then attacked the cat with the Po Jun Sword Style.
• The black cat's golden glow pulled Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an into an illusion of a monster attack at Tianjing City Sheng'an District First High School.
• Lin Yan remembered that the scene was an illusion, stood up after the Shadow Leopard killed him, and blasted the creature away with a shout.
• Lin Yan taunted the cat and activated the Virtual Hall.

Lin Yan defeated the black cat in the Illusionary Realm and discovered a mental imprint that appeared to control beasts, but he collapsed from exhaustion before opening the emergency passage. In the laboratory, Professor Wu awakened the Gray Gorilla and revealed his strange true face, promising revenge on everyone who had bullied them.

• Lin Yan summoned a golden-armored archer and shot the black mist giant, defeating the black cat.
• Lin Yan found a strange mental imprint in the black cat and triggered it, causing the cat to convulse before the Illusionary Realm shattered.
• Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an returned to reality, where Lin Yan found the emergency passage door locked and collapsed from mental exhaustion.
• Professor Wu removed the Gray Gorilla from its cage and awakened it with an injection.
• Professor Wu revealed the gray membrane beneath his human face, comforted the Gray Gorilla, and vowed to kill everyone who had bullied them.

Professor Wu’s true form, the Faceless Ape, fought its way through the military forces at the research institute while an explosion tore open the 76th Regiment’s defensive line. The North District entered emergency combat as the beast tide poured through the breach and monsters infiltrated the camp.

• Professor Wu left the laboratory after Liu Mingxuan arrived, but Liu Mingxuan attacked with two special forces officers and tranquilizer rounds.
• Professor Wu revealed himself as Weapon No. 18, transformed into the Faceless Ape, and severely injured Liu Mingxuan and the two officers.
• The Faceless Ape smashed through the research institute’s wall and confronted Jiang Long and the forces outside.
• The Combat Command Center learned that explosives had destroyed the 76th Regiment’s defensive position, causing mass casualties and opening the line to the beast tide.
• Xu Minghai ordered missiles and artillery to strike the breach, then placed the North District on alert and ordered all units to assemble.

Wen Zhi'an faced a swarm of pythons at the North District Research Institute while Lin Yan recovered from unconsciousness. After waking and taking charge, Lin Yan fought the snakes, but a mid-level Beast General Jade Yellow King Python entered the warehouse, leaving him to face a much stronger enemy.

• Wen Zhi'an heard pythons outside the warehouse and waited anxiously for Lin Yan to wake after she injected him with a T-3 mental potion.
• A swarm of Jade Yellow Pythons broke through the warehouse doors, and Wen Zhi'an prepared to defend herself with Lin Yan's Heavenly Gang Battle Sword.
• Lin Yan woke, took back his sword, and told Wen Zhi'an to spread irritating substances across the floor to weaken the snakes' senses.
• Lin Yan fought the swarm and deepened his understanding of swordsmanship, while Wen Zhi'an scattered the substances around the warehouse.
• A mid-level Beast General Jade Yellow King Python entered, and Lin Yan resolved to fight it despite his doubts about piercing its scales.

Lin Yan fought the Jade Yellow King Python while protecting Wen Zhi'an, then killed it with his Secret Sword of Po Jun—Heavenly Choice after Wen Zhi'an wounded it and was bitten. He treated her snakebite, and Wen Zhi'an realized she had fallen for him despite her mother's warnings.

• Lin Yan evaded the Jade Yellow King Python's attacks and injured it while keeping ordinary pythons away from Wen Zhi'an.
• The Jade Yellow King Python trapped Lin Yan in its coils, and Wen Zhi'an wounded it with the blade hidden in her pen before being thrown into a wall.
• An ordinary Jade Yellow Python bit Wen Zhi'an's wrist, and Lin Yan killed the king python with Secret Sword of Po Jun—Heavenly Choice.
• Lin Yan found medical supplies and treated Wen Zhi'an's bite while she watched him and decided she no longer wanted to follow her mother's advice to avoid dangerous men.

After escaping the research institute with Wen Zhi'an, Lin Yan learned that Star Team had suffered severe losses in the battle against the Faceless Ape and returned to the front lines. While fighting, he realized the Faceless Ape was bait and suspected the mastermind’s real target was Professor Wen.

• Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an treated each other’s wounds, then left the ruined laboratory and reached the soldiers outside.
• Chen Lian told Lin Yan that two people had died and the captain and other Star Team members were gravely injured after fighting the Faceless Ape.
• Lin Yan took Wen Zhi'an to the military hospital’s protected rear area, then returned to battle and killed monsters with his M92 Sniper Rifle.
• Xie Ting watched Lin Yan kill a fast-moving Shadow Cat with a single shot and recognized his exceptional skill.
• Lin Yan observed Jiang Long and two other war gods fighting the Faceless Ape, then realized its pain came from an activated mental imprint and suspected Professor Wen was the mastermind’s target.

Lin Yan realized the monsters were being used to distract the authorities while Edward Meredith’s agents targeted Wen Xiuyong, so he rushed to headquarters to intervene. There, Fanny confronted Wen and revealed an Alloy Coded Box, leaving him shocked by the plan behind it.

• Lin Yan suspected the monster attacks were bait and warned Jia Yan that Wen Xiuyong was in danger.
• Lin Yan drove toward headquarters and cautiously approached the building to observe what was happening inside.
• Fanny removed her helmet and told Wen Xiuyong that Edward Meredith had ordered him killed after the mission.
• Fanny’s men brought out an Alloy Coded Box, and Wen recognized its significance and demanded to know why they had it.

Fanny and her followers seized the Alloy Coded Box and its vial of blood after killing Liu Fu, intending to use the blood to create a monster. They left Wen Xiuyong trapped in a timed bomb vest as Fanny departed with the others.

• Fanny revealed that Xu Xiao had given her group the Alloy Coded Box and used Wen Xiuyong’s eye to unlock it.
• Liu Fu burst into the conference hall and attacked Fanny, but she overwhelmed him and killed him.
• Fanny opened the box, took the crystal vial containing a drop of blood, and ordered two men to stay behind with Wen Xiuyong.
• One of the men locked a timed bomb vest onto Wen Xiuyong and set its countdown to three minutes.

Lin Yan rescued Wen Xiuyong from two men in black and used his Mind Palace to find the wire that stopped the bomb at the last second. Wen Xiuyong survived, stunned by Lin Yan’s calm and seemingly impossible abilities.

• Wen Xiuyong faced death in the conference hall as a man in black mocked him beside the ticking bomb.
• Lin Yan shot the mocking man from a nearby rooftop, then crossed to the conference hall and entered through a window.
• The surviving man in black used Wen Xiuyong as a shield, but Lin Yan shot him when he lunged with his blade.
• With seconds left on the bomb, Lin Yan simulated its explosion in his Mind Palace and tested wires until he found the one that stopped the timer at 00:01.
• Wen Xiuyong realized he had survived and wondered whether Lin Yan was a god.

Dai Chun arrived at the North District base, where he organized an investigation and joined a video conference to hear Wen Xiuyong explain the attack. Wen revealed that the operation sought dinosaur DNA from an ancient mosquito preserved in amber, and confirmed that dinosaurs could be cultivated.

• Dai Chun reprimanded Xu Minghai, ordered a review of North District surveillance, and learned that Xu Xiao had been detained while trying to flee.
• Dai Chun convened a confidential video conference with Jia Yi and the others to discuss the incident.
• Wen Xiuyong identified Fanny as the operation team's leader and said biologist Edward Meredith advised the organization.
• Wen Xiuyong explained that the team sought genetic material from dinosaur blood found in an ancient mosquito preserved in amber.
• Jia Yi asked whether dinosaurs could be cultivated, and Wen Xiuyong confirmed that they could.

Wen Xiuyong explained how the organization stole the Dinosaur Blood and manipulated events in the North District, prompting Jia Yi to order an investigation and broader action against them. Wen Xiuyong then asked the military to help the critically wounded soldiers, and Dai Chun invited Lin Yan to accompany them to the hospital.

• Wen Xiuyong explained that Dinosaur Blood could be used to create powerful Tyrannosaurus Rex monsters and that the organization had orchestrated the beast tide and infiltrated the laboratory to steal it.
• Jia Yi suspected the organization had also arranged the Oceania ruins exploration and ordered Dai Chun to assess North District casualties while Jiang Long protected Wen Xiuyong.
• Jia Yi said he would coordinate with martial arts schools, the HR Alliance, and various nations to respond to the Gene Modification organization.
• Wen Xiuyong asked Dai Chun to help the critically wounded soldiers, including Liu Mingxuan and Lin Yan's teammates, but Dai Chun said only Jia Yi could authorize the scarce Water of Life.
• Dai Chun invited Lin Yan to go with him to the hospital, and Lin Yan agreed.

After the battle, Lin Yan mourned the wounded and promised Wen Zhi'an he would change the horrors of war. The next day, Jia Yi committed scarce Water of Life to saving the survivors, and Lin Yan offered to solve the production shortage holding back Jade Marrow.

• Wen Zhi'an followed Lin Yan, and Wen Xiuyong accepted her feelings for him while Jiang Long offered to take him home.
• Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an visited the hospital, where Lin Yan saw the wounded, including Liu Mingxuan, Bu Xiangyang, and Li Tao; he vowed to change the world, and Wen Zhi'an embraced him.
• Jia Yi arrived with reinforcements and learned that the battle had killed 6,532 soldiers and War Gods Liu Fu and Chen Zhao.
• After a doctor estimated that seventeen portions of Water of Life could restore the wounded, Jia Yi ordered them delivered despite the strain on their reserves.
• Jia Yi asked Wen Xiuyong about increasing Coenzyme R3V production, and Lin Yan said he was confident he could solve the problem.

Lin Yan demonstrated a new method for producing Coenzyme R3V using Niyelo, solving the shortage that had hindered Jade Marrow and X gene capsules. Wen Xiuyong and Jia Yi thanked him, leaving the group hopeful that genetic optimization could become widely accessible.

• Lin Yan insisted he could solve the Coenzyme R3V production problem, and Jia Yi invited him to demonstrate in the laboratory.
• Lin Yan used Niyelo instead of monster visceral tissue as the raw material and completed a new extraction process.
• Wen Xiuyong tested the extract and found its quality was about ninety percent of the previous product, while its production line could yield more than ten times as much.
• Wen Xiuyong explained that expanded production could support Jade Marrow and bring X gene capsules to market, broadening access to genetic optimization.
• Wen Xiuyong and Jia Yi bowed to Lin Yan and thanked him for his contribution to humanity.

Lin Yan discussed a high-yield Coenzyme R3V extraction method with Wen Xiuyong, then the command center reviewed a report cataloguing Lin Yan’s extraordinary combat feats. Jia Yi asked to see the footage himself, and the first clip showed Lin Yan rescuing Wen Xiuyong and disarming a bomb at the last second.

• Lin Yan and Wen Xiuyong drafted an initial design concept for a Niyelo production line.
• Jia Yi and Wen Xiuyong discussed the mysterious organization whose members had no genetic records, and Jia Yi suspected they might live in the monster Wilderness Area.
• A review team delivered its report, which described Lin Yan killing powerful beasts and a suspected High Lord-level monster despite being an Intermediate Warrior.
• Jia Yi asked the team to show Lin Yan’s combat footage, while Jiang Long mistakenly suspected Lin Yan had betrayed the organization.
• The footage showed Lin Yan shoot a man in black, reach Wen Xiuyong’s bomb, and cut its fatal wire with one second remaining.

Jia Yi and Zhu Xi secretly reviewed footage of Lin Yan killing a High Lord-level Black Cat with dormant Mental Power. Lin Yan claimed he could awaken as a Mental Master only after reaching the general level, leaving them convinced he possessed extraordinary potential.

• Jia Yi asked Zhu Xi and Lin Yan to stay behind and ordered the captain to show them the Black Cat footage.
• Jia Yi learned that only the people present knew about the Black Cat and its corpse, then ordered the captain to delete all backups and keep the matter secret.
• Lin Yan claimed the Black Cat's Mental Attack had revealed his dormant Mental Power and that it would awaken when he reached general-level physical fitness.
• Jia Yi and Zhu Xi believed Lin Yan might possess Planetary-level Mental Master potential, even greater than East's.
• Jia Yi concluded that Lin Yan's earlier collapse in the warehouse had been caused by his Mental Power being triggered.