Chapter Summaries

Su Hao killed all ten Great Masters sent after him, then spent half a month building and testing his first Wing Armor. As he began considering a high-explosive weapon, the Human King learned that the pursuit had failed and all ten Great Masters were dead.

• Su Hao hunted down the fleeing Great Masters, killing Targets No. 4 through No. 9 and ensuring none escaped.
• Su Hao flew away to rest and study his fighting, then spent half a month making a pair of light-alloy wings for his armor.
• Su Hao tested the wings with Burst Runes, refined his flight control, and named the successful design Wing Armor.
• Su Hao set aside long-range weapons and began designing a high-explosive bomb, reasoning that many Burst Runes might produce greater force if they could be detonated together.
• A messenger told the Human King in Yonghe Hall that all ten Great Masters sent after Passerby had been killed.

Su Hao designed and tested increasingly powerful rune bombs, then discovered that authorities across Human Race towns had banned and burned his books. He concluded that his work could not change the world by itself and that its people had to awaken and take charge of their own future.

• Su Hao built a spherical bomb that activated multiple Burst runes together and tested a basic version that created a crater about four meters wide.
• Su Hao added a Hardness rune and increased the bomb's power, producing a crater over ten meters across in a second test.
• Su Hao flew toward a nearby town to gather materials and saw townspeople burning Path of the Warrior and Complete Explanation of Runes.
• Su Hao learned the books had been banned, with copies confiscated and book owners threatened with imprisonment and execution.
• Su Hao visited other towns and confirmed that authorities everywhere were suppressing the books, then recognized that only the people themselves could change their world.

The Human King reflected on the threat posed by Su Hao’s books, while Su Hao tested an Eight Hundred Blast bomb and prepared a new gift for He'an Main City. Three months later, a roaring black dot appeared in the sky above the city as the Human King came out to see it.

• The Human King learned that Passerby was still missing and concluded that banning the books had only delayed a conflict between the Human Race and its ruling families.
• Su Hao tested an Eight Hundred Blast bomb that blasted a vast crater, then made another bomb packed with sharp fragments and tested carrying it with his Wing Armor.
• Su Hao resolved to give the people a gift on his sixteenth birthday and began constructing a Rune-based Divine Ability.
• Three months later, a continuous roar startled He'an Main City's residents, who spotted a distant black dot moving across the sky.
• The Human King emerged from the royal palace with an escort to look at the approaching object.

Su Hao flew into He'an Main City and dropped Rune Radiance toward the royal palace, where the Human King intercepted him in midair. The Human King recognized the runes on his armor after passing through the light, then attacked Su Hao but failed to stop him as Rune Radiance struck the ground.

• Su Hao circled above He'an Main City, climbed high, and infused a metal sphere with Blood Qi to create Rune Radiance.
• The Human King and the palace warriors watched Rune Radiance fall toward the royal palace as people fled in panic.
• The Human King leaped toward the falling light and cut through it with Air-Piercing Blade, then saw his armor and weapon covered in text from the Path of the Warrior and Complete Explanation of Runes.
• Su Hao pushed Rune Radiance toward the ground and tried to turn upward, but the Human King used Air Step to intercept him.
• The Human King and Su Hao clashed; the Human King's blade narrowly missed Su Hao, while both men's blades broke.
• Su Hao flew away as the Human King fell back toward the ground, and Rune Radiance struck the earth.

Su Hao's Rune Radiance spread inscriptions from his books across He'an Main City and beyond, inspiring people to embrace Rune knowledge. As he fled the Human King, two Ancestor Realm Iron-Armored Flying Dragons attacked and destroyed his wings, forcing him to crash; the Human King caught up, and they faced each other.

• Su Hao's spreading halo covered He'an Main City and the surrounding land with Rune inscriptions, and onlookers recognized the banned books' contents and celebrated their spread.
• The Human King pursued Su Hao while the Great Master Warriors and Grandmaster Warriors fell behind, and Su Hao flew away from the city.
• Two Ancestor Realm Iron-Armored Flying Dragons intercepted Su Hao; he wounded one with his broken blade, but the other froze him and bit apart his wings.
• Su Hao crashed to the ground, checked his injuries and equipment, and tried to escape on foot as the Human King and dragons closed in.
• The Human King appeared before Su Hao, identified him as Passerby, and reflected that he had come too late to take the Rune master as his disciple.

Su Hao and the Human King temporarily joined forces against two Iron-Armored Flying Dragons, but Su Hao’s plan ended with Eight Hundred Blast flying toward all three of them. The chapter left the blast’s outcome unresolved, then the author’s note said Su Hao would leave this world and seek a fundamental transformation in the next one.

• The Human King and Su Hao argued over whether the Rune Path should be spread to everyone or introduced gradually under the ruling class.
• The two Iron-Armored Flying Dragons attacked, and Su Hao and the Human King wounded them enough to cripple their ability to fly.
• The dragons unleashed Blue Flowing Flame, forcing Su Hao and the Human King to flee as the blasts froze and shattered everything they touched.
• Su Hao asked the Human King to draw the dragons together while he charged Eight Hundred Blast with Blood Qi.
• Su Hao and the Human King ran past each other as the dragons converged, and Su Hao hurled Eight Hundred Blast into the space between them.

Su Hao survived the explosion and confronted the badly injured Human King over whether Rune knowledge should be shared with everyone or controlled by the ruling elite. They chose to fight to settle their opposing convictions, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Su Hao recovered from the explosion and found the two Flying Dragons dying, but the Human King had survived.
• The Human King stopped Su Hao from fleeing and demanded that he return to He'an Main City and abandon his plan to spread Runes freely.
• Su Hao argued that everyone deserved a chance to learn Runes and resist Ferocious Beasts, while the Human King insisted the existing system was essential to the Human Race.
• The Human King and Su Hao agreed to fight to the death, with the Human King accepting either outcome as the Human Race's choice.

Su Hao defeated the Human King by using traps, Earth Spikes, and High-Voltage Current to drive his lodged blade through the King’s skull. Exhausted and surrounded by furious Martial Artists, Su Hao fought until he lost consciousness, satisfied that he had finally chosen his own path.

• Su Hao fought the Human King through repeated clashes, but the King’s strength and Hardness Rune thwarted his attacks.
• Su Hao used High-Voltage Current to paralyze the Human King and stabbed his short blade into the King’s eye socket, but Hardness stopped it from reaching his brain.
• Su Hao lured the Human King into a pit, struck him with a rock, and launched him upward with a Giant Earth Spike.
• Su Hao paralyzed the Human King with a stronger High-Voltage Current, then drove the blade through the back of his head and killed him.
• Surrounded by Martial Artists from He'an Main City, Su Hao recovered his blade and charged into their attack, fighting until he collapsed unconscious.

After waking in a new world, Su Hao discovered that more than ten million years had passed and found himself in the frail body of a starving child. Alone in a silent, eerie city, he ventured out at dusk to search for food.

• Su Hao checked Marble Space and learned that more than ten million years had passed since the battle he remembered.
• Su Hao saved his Martial World body data, created a blank table for his new body, and confirmed Marble Space and Little Light were intact.
• Su Hao awoke hungry, cold, and weak in a filthy alley and found himself in a backward-looking city with no one in sight.
• Su Hao reasoned that the streets showed signs of many residents, but the empty city and approaching night suggested danger.
• Su Hao decided not to wait until dawn and carefully walked into the city to find food.

Su Hao hid in a courtyard overnight, then discovered that the city’s residents were a tall, catlike race and that people were being Gnawed to bones at night. He decided to stay active during the day and hide after dark while searching for a way to survive.

• Su Hao found a dog hole, snuck into a courtyard, ate leftovers, and hid inside a pile of firewood until morning.
• Su Hao left the courtyard after eating more and noticed his own dark skin, pointed ears, and sharp nails.
• Su Hao saw a handcart carrying a barrel filled with freshly stripped bones while passersby acted as though it was ordinary.
• Su Hao guessed that something hunted people at night and resolved to explore the city by day and hide at night.
• Su Hao wandered the streets as a small child, unsure how to earn money or find food.

Su Hao adapted to his Zhu Huo body in Temple Forest City, mastered Blood Qi, and moved into a concealed shelter while preparing to grow stronger. After driving off a gang of child extortionists, he sensed that something was watching him as he headed home at night.

• Su Hao discovered that his Zhu Huo body could refine Blood Qi and, over two months, reached the High-Rank Ordinary Warrior level and learned the local language.
• Su Hao left the kitchen where he had been hiding and built a concealed shelter inside a collapsed mud wall, where he began converting elite Blood Qi.
• Su Hao went to the market in Temple Forest City and was confronted by six older children from the Little Flying Dragon Gang demanding protection money.
• Su Hao defeated the six children by stomping on their feet, but the scarred leader's frightened reaction to the word “Mut” left Su Hao puzzled.
• Su Hao bought warm clothes and a cotton blanket, then sensed something watching him as he prepared to return to his shelter.

Su Hao spotted and killed a bat-like freak that had stalked him, then witnessed masked Zhu Huo People devour its corpse and realized the city’s nights concealed a deadly secret. He escaped to his hiding place and resolved to replenish his elite Blood Qi and reach the Grandmaster Realm before investigating further.

• Little Light marked subtle changes in Su Hao’s surroundings, allowing him to spot a bat-like freak hiding in a tree and follow it as night fell.
• The freak glided toward Su Hao, but he blocked its claw strike with Barrier and killed it with his short spear.
• Su Hao found a bag containing at least two hundred Zhu Coins on the freak and slipped away from its corpse.
• Masked people emerged and ate the freak’s body, prompting Su Hao to connect their behavior with the carts of bones he had seen leaving the city each morning.
• In his hiding place, Su Hao considered the dangers and mysteries of Temple Forest City and began refining Blood Qi to pursue the Grandmaster Realm.

Su Hao returned to High-Rank Grandmaster after engraving a Perception Rune, then ventured into the city to record the Zhu Huo People’s Radar signatures. He discovered that powerful warriors were hiding in plain sight and decided to conceal his own strength until he understood the city.

• Su Hao chose to engrave a single Perception Rune and used Little Light to imprint it, later regaining High-Rank Grandmaster strength and a four-hundred-meter Radar range.
• Su Hao recognized that his current body was far weaker than his previous one and decided to research its strengthening functions rather than pursue Great Master Realm power.
• Su Hao entered the city to record the Zhu Huo People’s Radar information and was shocked to find powerful Grandmasters and Great Masters living as ordinary townspeople.
• Su Hao turned away from the city center and decided to imitate the other Zhu Huo People by hiding his strength.

Su Hao secretly watched the city’s nighttime hunters and discovered that people transformed into strange creatures and devoured one another. After the Bat Monster killed the transformed survivor and ordinary people stripped the corpses to bones, Su Hao followed them to learn why they ate human flesh.

• Su Hao used his expanded Radar to observe the city’s nighttime routines and saw Elite Realm hunters stalking their targets.
• Su Hao watched a hooded Elite Realm person transform into a leopard-like creature, which the black-clothed Light-Footed One ambushed.
• The Leopard Man transformed into a Mantis Man and killed the Light-Footed One, then ate two bites of his flesh.
• The Bat Monster that had attacked Su Hao before killed the wounded Mantis Man and quietly left after consuming both corpses.
• Ordinary people gathered to eat the remains until only bones were left, and Su Hao followed them to find out why they consumed human flesh.

Su Hao observed Zhu Huo People who had eaten flesh and discovered that some gained traits resembling those of their prey while others died during the transformation. He concluded that the city’s Evolutionists competed for power in secret and made plans to investigate how their abilities worked.

• Su Hao watched a tall Zhu Huo man undergo a painful transformation and noticed that his body developed an elusive quality like the black-clothed man's.
• Su Hao observed a woman who had eaten Mantis Man flesh as her nails and ears briefly changed, confirming that she had gained a similar transformation ability.
• Su Hao learned that two of the five people he tracked died during the process, while the others survived with new traits.
• Su Hao returned to his hideout and reasoned that Zhu Huo People devoured one another to evolve, while Evolutionist organizations hunted rivals and concealed their identities.
• Su Hao set rules for surviving in the city and planned to study Evolutionists, preserve flesh samples, capture someone for questioning, and uncover the mechanism of evolution.

Su Hao struggled to find work, reflected on how repeated rebirths were changing his humanity, and bought a small courtyard in Temple Forest City. After moving in, he was left thinking about the homes and family he had lost in past lives.

• Su Hao failed to find anyone willing to hire him and accepted that he might have to steal to survive.
• Su Hao reflected on how his goals and values had shifted across lives and wondered whether he was still human.
• Su Hao saved enough money to buy a small courtyard through a housing broker, who explained that the Shanghe Chamber of Commerce guaranteed transactions.
• Su Hao paid the broker to have the Sandworm Gang protect his new home for a month, then complained about the gang's fees.
• Su Hao moved his few belongings into the courtyard and remembered the homes and family from his previous lives.

Su Hao captured two powerful Evolutionaries to learn why people in Temple Forest City developed unusual traits. After discovering that they were a Shen Armor Person and a Great Strength Person, he forced the scaled man to explain how such transformations happened.

• Su Hao watched a scaled man and a Muscle Man fight to a stalemate, then knocked both unconscious with a stone and dragged them away.
• Su Hao tied up the two men and questioned the scaled man after knocking the Muscle Man unconscious again.
• The scaled man identified himself as a Shen Armor Person and the Muscle Man as a Great Strength Person.
• Su Hao asked how they had gained their abilities, and the scaled man began explaining from the beginning.

Su Hao questioned the captured Scale-Armor Person about Inhumans, their evolution, and their Sequences. After learning how evolution worked, Su Hao knocked the Scaled Man unconscious.

• The Scaled Man explained that creatures could gain strength by devouring Inhumans or Exotic Beasts, but evolution required enough bodily energy to survive.
• The Scaled Man described the nine Inhuman Sequences and said that each had seven levels, with God as the legendary ultimate realm.
• The Scaled Man explained that a Shen Armor Person needed stored energy and Rampager flesh to evolve into a Rampager, while Great Strength Person flesh could replenish energy.
• Su Hao picked up a stone and knocked the Scaled Man unconscious.

Su Hao subdued Suobang and recruited Ashan as a test subject in exchange for sparing his life and promising to help him advance. After Ashan returned home and reflected on what mattered to him, Su Hao went back to investigate how to record other people’s bodily information in Marble Space.

• Su Hao repeatedly knocked Suobang unconscious with a stone after his kick failed to subdue him.
• Su Hao woke Ashan, learned his name and occupation, and persuaded him to become a test subject by promising to spare and help him.
• Su Hao freed Ashan, who bit off and swallowed a piece of Suobang’s flesh before Su Hao knocked Suobang unconscious again.
• Su Hao let Ashan leave without killing Suobang, and Ashan went home thinking about his children and his desire to stay alive.
• Su Hao returned home and wondered how to record other people’s flesh-and-blood information in Marble Space.

Su Hao discovered that he could record another person's genetic information by swallowing their blood, and he studied how his body’s Transformation Chamber used it to modify genes. He left the chapter imagining that mastering Gene Modification Fluid would let him redesign his body at will.

• Su Hao concluded that genes held the key to recording and understanding the information of living beings, then created a plan to compare genetic information from reincarnated bodies, Zhu Huo People, and Inhumans.
• Su Hao swallowed Ashan’s blood and saw the fleshy tumor in his stomach activate, draw in the blood, and produce a tiny amount of material that Marble Space recorded.
• Su Hao used Little Light to review the process and identified the tumor as the Transformation Chamber, which matched and plundered Gene Fragments from the blood to create Gene Modification Fluid.
• Su Hao realized that successful genetic modification was rare and required consuming large quantities of flesh and blood, since failed matches decayed and insufficient material could cause the body to collapse.
• Su Hao imagined using decoded genes and Gene Modification Fluid to redesign his body, then went to sleep.