Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen searched a ruined building for a Meteorite and discovered a C-Rank Mutated Beast guarding a Dark Energy Stone in its basement. He killed the giant snake at the cost of nearly being crushed to death, and his Mental Power underwent a Silver-level Transformation.

• Lin Zhen followed the remaining venomous snakes to a ruined building and found their nest in its basement.
• Lin Zhen smoked out the snakes and killed the ones that rushed from the basement, then discovered a Meteorite Crater and a giant C-Rank Mutated Beast inside.
• Lin Zhen drew the giant snake from the pit with a fire and attacked it with his spear and Flying Knives.
• The giant snake coiled around Lin Zhen and crushed him, but he used his Mental Power to repeatedly stab its head until it died.
• Lin Zhen collapsed atop the snake's corpse as more than half of the aura of Mental Power in his mind underwent Silver-level Transformation.

After surviving a life-or-death battle with a giant snake, Lin Zhen advanced his Mental Power to the Silver Mid Stage and absorbed a large Dark Energy Stone, reaching the late level eight stage. As the test neared its end, his squad waited anxiously outside while Demon God mocked them, and the military began calling teams to have their points counted.

• Lin Zhen recovered from the battle, found a large Dark Energy Stone in the snake's corpse, and absorbed it, raising his strength to around 870–880.
• Lin Zhen harvested the snake's skin, fangs, gallbladder, and brain crystal before leaving town with less than twenty minutes remaining.
• The Demon Hunter Squad worried that its roughly 26,000–27,000 points would not meet the 30,000-point requirement to enter Yilan County without Lin Zhen's contribution.
• Zhou Tie, Hua Xiaofeng, and Kong Shan mocked the waiting squad, while Li Mengxi worried about Lin Zhen.
• The military announced that five minutes remained and began counting loot, prompting Demon God to taunt the Demon Hunter Squad.

The Demon God Squad qualified for Yilan with 30,040 points, while the Demon Hunter Squad fell short and faced losing a 100-million bet. Just as the countdown ended and Li Mengxi gave up hope that Lin Zhen would return, he rushed out of the town gate.

• The Demon God Squad tallied 30,040 points and qualified to enter Yilan, and Zhou Tie embraced Li Mengxi as the others teased them.
• The Demon Hunter Squad earned 24,800 points from its four members, leaving it short of the qualifying score while awaiting Lin Zhen.
• Zhou Tie reminded Shi Lei of their 100-million bet, and Shi Lei accepted that his squad would honor the loss.
• Li Mengxi resigned herself to leaving her feelings for Lin Zhen behind, while Ruo Ruo mocked his absence.
• As the countdown reached its final seconds, Lin Zhen ran out of the town gate and rejoined the Demon Hunter Squad.

Lin Zhen returned to the Demon Hunters with a backpack full of D-Rank Snake Fangs, stunning both squads as he turned the one-hundred-million bet in his squad’s favor. The fangs still needed to be counted, but the Demon Hunters realized Lin Zhen had brought in a huge haul.

• Li Mengxi reacted to Lin Zhen’s return, and Lin Zhen congratulated her on finding someone suited to her as Zhou Tie held her close.
• Zhou Tie demanded that Lin Zhen pay the one-hundred-million bet because the Demon Hunters were 5,200 points short of their target.
• Lin Zhen handed over several small monster parts, and the Demon God Squad mocked him for producing only 200 points’ worth of spoils.
• Lin Zhen questioned Ruo Ruo after she mentioned him dodging bullets, then revealed the backpack he had carried out of the Testing Area.
• Lin Zhen spilled out a huge pile of Snake Fangs, and Zhao Liang identified them as D-Rank Mutated Beast spoils worth 100 points each.

Lin Zhen’s haul of Snake Fangs gave Demon Hunter enough points to beat Demon God, forcing the rival squad to pay the wager. After collecting the money, Lin Zhen rejected Li Mengxi and Ruo Ruo’s attempt to delay their payment, and the eight qualifying squads prepared to enter Yilan.

• A soldier counted Lin Zhen’s Snake Fangs, including one from a C-Rank Mutated Beast, and raised his total to 8,200 points.
• Demon Hunter celebrated surpassing Demon God, while Ye Tiancheng demanded the wager payment and Hua Xiaofeng accused Lin Zhen of cheating.
• Zhou Tie, Hua Xiaofeng, Kong Shan, Li Mengxi, and Ruo Ruo agreed to divide the 100-million payment, and Demon Hunter’s members received their shares.
• Ruo Ruo asked Lin Zhen to give her and Li Mengxi more time to pay, but Lin Zhen insisted they transfer the money they owed.
• Li Mengxi and Ruo Ruo reluctantly paid Lin Zhen, who returned to his squad and joked with Zhao Liang.
• A military officer ordered the eliminated squads to leave and called the eight qualifying squads, including Demon Hunter and Demon God, to follow him into Yilan.

Lin Zhen’s squad rented an armored vehicle and crossed the Blue River toward Yilan City, where dangerous Mutated Beasts and valuable hunting grounds awaited them. As the squad discussed Li Tianhao’s rise, Shi Lei spotted an approaching threat.

• The Demon Hunter Squad rented a tracked armored vehicle at the Supply Station, and Lin Zhen recognized a man he suspected had ambushed him in the Testing Area.
• The squads drove toward Yilan City, and the military concealed the Supply Station after they departed.
• Shi Lei and Zhao Liang described Yilan’s dangerous monsters and the potential profits, while Zhao Liang said his pregnant wife made him consider retiring.
• Gao Yan reported that Li Tianhao had succeeded with Private Customization, and Lin Zhen suspected that Li Tianhao might come after him.
• Shi Lei shouted that Mutated Beasts were approaching as the vehicle neared Yilan City.

The Demon Hunter Squad encountered six C-Rank Ironclad Bulls in Yilan County and split up to fight them. Lin Zhen killed the largest bull by exploiting its injured eye, then found a fist-sized Bezoar while harvesting it.

• The Demon Hunter Squad left their armored vehicle and spread out to draw the six Ironclad Bulls apart, with Gao Yan taking high ground to provide cover.
• Lin Zhen wounded the largest Ironclad Bull and led it through ruins, while Zhao Liang and Gao Yan fought the remaining bulls near the vehicle.
• Lin Zhen used Mental Power-controlled Flying Knives to blind the bull, then drove his Black Dragon Spear through its eye socket and killed it.
• Lin Zhen harvested the bull's hide, horns, and crystal, intending to sell the materials and donate the crystal to the Martial Hall for points.
• While cutting meat from the bull, Lin Zhen discovered a fist-sized Bezoar in its abdomen.

Lin Zhen’s squad killed the Ironclad Bulls and advanced toward the Giant Palm Human Bear’s lair in Yilan County. At the Ancient City Hotel, someone set off a Blood Mist Bomb, drawing a flock of Brain-Eating Swallows down on the squad.

• Lin Zhen killed the largest Ironclad Bull, took its valuable bezoar, and returned to find the rest of the squad had dealt with the other bulls.
• The squad collected the bull spoils, and Shi Lei explained their plan to advance toward the county gymnasium where the Giant Palm Human Bear was entrenched.
• The squad drove to the Ancient City Hotel, where Lin Zhen warned that a nearby high-rise might shelter Mutated Birds, but Ye Tiancheng dismissed his concern.
• A Blood Mist Bomb exploded near the high-rise, releasing a huge flock of Brain-Eating Swallows that descended on the squad.
• Shi Lei ordered the squad into formation and directed them to protect Gao Yan while pushing toward the hotel entrance.

As Brain-Eating Swallows overwhelmed the group outside the hotel, Lin Zhen took the lead and used the swarm to refine his Rainstorm spear technique. He cleared a path for the others and held off the final wave, leaving a bloodied vacuum around the entrance.

• Gao Yan, Shi Lei, Ye Tiancheng, Zhao Liang, and Lin Zhen fought off thousands of Brain-Eating Swallows as they tried to reach the hotel.
• Zhao Liang was badly wounded, and Shi Lei ordered Ye Tiancheng to take the front and break through.
• After Ye Tiancheng exhausted much of his Inner Force, Lin Zhen took his place and drove the group closer to the entrance with rapid spear strikes.
• Lin Zhen told the others to enter the hotel while he stayed behind to cover their retreat.
• Lin Zhen focused on the incoming swallows and unleashed a storm of spear strikes, killing the attackers and clearing the area before the entrance.

After escaping the mutated swallows, Lin Zhen revealed that he had mastered Rainstorm and was nearing Level Nine Warrior, while his squad recovered in the hotel and suspected someone had guided Demon God to them. As Lin Zhen kept watch that night, he reflected on the coming dangers beyond Earth and entered a tranquil state as his Mental Power spread outward.

• Lin Zhen led the squad into the hotel, where he realized he had comprehended Rainstorm and advanced toward Level Nine Warrior.
• Zhao Liang praised Lin Zhen's progress and suggested the Raging Wind Martial Hall might recommend him for its Special Training Camp, but Lin Zhen declined for now.
• Shi Lei and the others concluded that someone had lured the mutated birds toward them and suspected the Demon God team had received information about their location.
• Lin Zhen suspected Lao Hu had leaked information through his ties to the Myriad Hao Corporation, but he withheld the accusation because he had no proof.
• Shi Lei planned for the squad to rest and eat before heading to the gymnasium after midnight to attack the Giant Palm Human Bear.
• After taking over the watch, Lin Zhen contemplated humanity's future and entered a tranquil state as his Mental Power spread outward.

Lin Zhen entered Mental Power enlightenment, advanced to Early Gold-level, and created a Mental Defense shield that Zhao Liang witnessed. After Lin Zhen revealed his secret to Zhao Liang, he said the leak of their target suggested a problem inside the Martial Hall.

• Lin Zhen absorbed Dark Energy during enlightenment and advanced from Silver-level to Early Gold-level Mental Power.
• Lin Zhen formed a Mental Defense shield, and Zhao Liang woke and saw its silver and gold glow.
• Lin Zhen told Zhao Liang he was a Mind Power Master and asked him to keep the secret.
• Zhao Liang was shocked that Lin Zhen had reached Early Gold-level before turning eighteen, then joked with him about the revelation.
• Lin Zhen told Zhao Liang that the leak of their target meant someone inside the Martial Hall might be responsible.

Lin Zhen warned Zhao Liang that Lao Hu had likely leaked the Demon Hunter Squad’s location and proposed eliminating the Demon God Squad if they crossed paths. The squad set out for the gymnasium after agreeing that Ye Tiancheng would stop posting videos, though Ye Tiancheng remained resentful and wary of Lin Zhen.

• Lin Zhen told Zhao Liang that Lao Hu was suspected of passing the squad’s location to the Demon God Squad, and Zhao Liang agreed to follow Lin Zhen’s lead against them.
• After Gao Yan, Shi Lei, and Ye Tiancheng woke, Zhao Liang stopped Ye Tiancheng from recording a video and warned that posting could endanger the squad.
• Ye Tiancheng challenged Zhao Liang, but Gao Yan and Lin Zhen supported the objection, and Shi Lei ordered Ye Tiancheng not to post more videos.
• Lin Zhen’s gaze frightened Ye Tiancheng, who silently decided to keep his distance from Lin Zhen.
• Zhao Liang drove the squad toward the gymnasium in the armored vehicle, keeping its speed and noise down.

Demon Hunters reached the monster-packed Leisure Square and found the Giant Palm Human Bear likely inside the gymnasium. Lin Zhen proposed that the squads clear the monsters from the outskirts, but he suspected their strange passivity meant a high-level monster was about to complete its evolution.

• Gao Yan searched Leisure Square and reported that the monsters near the gymnasium were high-ranked, while the Giant Palm Human Bear was nowhere in sight.
• Shi Lei rejected advancing through the monster-filled square or using the sewers, and Lin Zhen suggested the squads gradually hunt the monsters around the outskirts.
• A distant squad shot two Three-Horned Sheep, and Gao Yan identified it as Demon God Squad; Ye Tiancheng wanted revenge, but Shi Lei told the team to focus on hunting.
• Several squads began attacking the monsters, and Gao Yan shot a Jackdaw while most of the gathered beasts remained passive.
• Lin Zhen recognized the monsters' behavior as a sign that a high-level monster was close to completing its evolution.

Lin Zhen warned Shi Lei’s squad that the monsters gathered by the gymnasium were on a pilgrimage for an A-Rank evolution and urged them to leave before it finished. Shi Lei chose to stay and hunt, and Lin Zhen decided to stay too while telling Zhao Liang and Gao Yan to go back.

• Eight squads cleared out most of the plaza’s weaker monsters, then spent the afternoon hunting the valuable D-Rank and C-Rank beasts.
• Gao Yan and Lin Zhen complained after the Demon God squad’s artillery drew the Fierce Mane Horses away from their squad.
• Lin Zhen recognized that the remaining monsters were on a pilgrimage and warned Shi Lei that an A-Rank monster could finish evolving soon.
• Zhao Liang and Gao Yan supported Lin Zhen’s plan to leave, but Shi Lei chose to stay and continue hunting.
• Lin Zhen told Zhao Liang and Gao Yan to return while he stayed with Shi Lei.

Lin Zhen left the expedition and hid near the gymnasium as the A-Rank monster emerged, turning the surrounding beasts into a rampaging horde. With the Martial Artists suffering heavy casualties and fleeing, Lin Zhen waited for the War God he expected to arrive.

• Lin Zhen told Zhao Liang and Gao Yan to leave, then separated from Shi Lei and Ye Tiancheng and hid on a rooftop near the gymnasium.
• Martial Artists fought the pilgrim beasts outside the gymnasium, but Kong Shan’s shell provoked a roar that shattered the remaining windows.
• Triangle Man-Bulls, Demon Wolves, a Black Chimpanzee, and other monsters poured out, killing many Martial Artists, while the Giant Palm Human Bear flattened an armored vehicle.
• The A-Rank monster’s emergence drew Mutated Beasts across Yilan County, and the surviving Martial Artists fled as the beasts pursued them.
• Lin Zhen watched the chaos through binoculars and expected a War God to appear; two people appeared atop a roadside building as the fleeing crowd neared despair.

Bai Feng and Ding Yan went to seize the Meteorite in the gymnasium, while Lin Zhen flew away from the fleeing monsters and found Zhou Tie, Li Mengxi, and Ruo Ruo. The chapter ended with Li Mengxi shooting Zhou Tie dead.

• Bai Feng told Ding Yan that the Giant Palm Human Bear had evolved because of energy from a Meteorite and persuaded him to help steal it.
• Bai Feng entered the gymnasium to take the Meteorite while Ding Yan stayed behind to hold off the Giant Palm Human Bear.
• Lin Zhen used Mental Power to fly on a door and located Zhou Tie, Li Mengxi, and Ruo Ruo after the monsters retreated.
• Zhou Tie lamented his losses and blamed Lin Zhen, then fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Li Mengxi shot Zhou Tie in the temple, and Ruo Ruo sprang up in alarm.

After Li Mengxi killed Zhou Tie and disbanded the Demon God Squad, Ruo Ruo fled and stumbled upon Bai Feng and Ding Yan being chased by two Giant Palm Human Bears. Ruo Ruo stole the Meteorite Bai Feng had hidden, but it vanished, and her hiding place was exposed just as Bai Feng returned.

• Li Mengxi killed Zhou Tie, announced that the Demon God Squad had disbanded, and requested that Zhou Tie, Hua Xiaofeng, and Kong Shan's accounts be frozen.
• Ruo Ruo left Li Mengxi and hid beneath the Yilan County TV Tower, where she saw Bai Feng and Ding Yan flee from two Giant Palm Human Bears.
• Bai Feng hid the Meteorite in the rubble and used another stone to mislead the female bear, while Ding Yan drew the male bear away.
• Ruo Ruo found the Meteorite, carried it to a residential building, and set a false trail before returning to retrieve it.
• Ruo Ruo discovered the Meteorite was gone, then hid as Bai Feng returned and searched for his footprints.
• A stone struck Ruo Ruo in the lower back, making her cry out and drawing Bai Feng's attention.

Lin Zhen escaped with the Meteorite and absorbed the Dark Energy Stone inside, reaching Level Nine Peak. He discovered the remaining rock might conceal something valuable and began chipping it open.

• Ruo Ruo fled Bai Feng by leaping into a river, and Bai Feng turned back to search near the TV Tower.
• Lin Zhen carried the Meteorite to an apartment building and chipped out a goose-egg-sized Dark Energy Stone.
• Lin Zhen absorbed the Dark Energy Stone and advanced to Level Nine Peak, though it was not enough to reach War General.
• Lin Zhen suspected the remaining stone weighed more than its size suggested and excitedly resumed chipping it.

Lin Zhen uncovered a huge Child-Mother Stone but avoided the military checkpoint at Yilan County rather than risk exposing his discovery. He stayed in the county to hunt and train while rumors in the Base City declared him dead.

• Lin Zhen revealed the mother stone, stored it without absorbing it, and decided to leave Yilan County with it.
• At Blue River Bridge, Lin Zhen saw Bai Feng overseeing a military checkpoint and chose to return to Yilan County instead of risking inspection.
• Lin Zhen settled on a shopping-center rooftop and hunted monsters, gathering hundreds of crystal cores while advancing his combat and Mental Power training.
• Lin Zhen learned that the Yilan Massacre had wiped out several squads, that Shi Lei and Ye Tiancheng were missing, and that many people believed he had died.
• The Base City’s online rankings named other fighters as contenders for Ice City First Warrior and no longer paid attention to Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen rescued Shi Lei and Ye Tiancheng from a pack of Golden Monkeys and drove the beasts away before returning to the Mall Rooftop with them and a bearded man. As the exhausted men accepted his food and water, the bearded man noticed the many Mutated Beast Crystals in Lin Zhen’s backpack.

• Lin Zhen spotted Shi Lei and Ye Tiancheng fleeing Golden Monkeys alongside a bearded man, and decided to intervene.
• Lin Zhen swung down from the Mall Rooftop, killed several monkeys, and threw a chain to help the three men climb to safety.
• Lin Zhen fought off the pursuing pack, killing several more Golden Monkeys and making the rest retreat with their Monkey King.
• Lin Zhen climbed back onto the rooftop and shared his remaining water, jerky, and Sugar Pills with the exhausted men.
• The bearded man glimpsed the Mutated Beast Crystals in Lin Zhen’s bulging backpack and realized Lin Zhen had accumulated a valuable haul.