Chapter Summaries

Su Hao traveled to Chiyang City, built a hidden mountain laboratory, and waited for nightfall to observe the city’s Inhumans and help ordinary people caught in their battles. After a crash drew him toward a fight, he masked himself and approached the scene.

• Ashan learned to control his flight, and Su Hao left Temple Forest City for Chiyang City.
• Su Hao hollowed out a mountain near the city to build a concealed laboratory and equipped it with rune-powered lighting and a nearby water source.
• Su Hao entered Chiyang City, bought daily necessities and insect-repellent medicine, then returned to his laboratory as night fell.
• Su Hao searched for ordinary people endangered by fights between Inhumans, reflecting that he could not protect every city or easily change the Zhu Huo People's evolution-driven society.
• After a thunderous crash sounded in Chiyang City, Su Hao flew toward it, concealed his appearance with Steel Armor, and asked, “Do you need help?”

Su Hao rescued Ah Qiang and seven other ordinary people from near death, brought them to his Laboratory, and trained them to build up their Blood Qi. Two months later, he began the first stage of his experiment by asking them to collect their own blood.

• Su Hao healed Ah Qiang after Ah Li agreed that Ah Qiang would follow him for a year and cooperate with a potentially fatal experiment.
• Su Hao rescued two more people, brought all three to the Laboratory, and introduced himself as Boss Wei.
• Su Hao gathered eight rescued people at the Laboratory, taught them to exercise and accumulate Blood Qi, and required them to memorize the Inhuman Code of Conduct.
• Ah Qiang told Xia Tu that he trusted Boss Wei and trained hard so he could survive the experiment and return to Ah Li.
• Two months later, Su Hao announced a four-stage experiment and handed out knives and numbered bottles, and Ah Qiang immediately cut his finger to collect blood.

Su Hao designed and tested a Swift One Gene for Ah Qiang, successfully evolving him with Gene Modification Fluid. The chapter ended with Ah Qiang demonstrating extraordinary speed before the astonished onlookers.

• Su Hao asked Ah Qiang to choose an Inhuman Sequence, and Ah Qiang chose the Swift One.
• Su Hao designed a Swift One Gene matched to Ah Qiang and confirmed with a small tissue test that the modification worked.
• Su Hao injected Ah Qiang with the prepared Gene Modification Fluid, and Ah Qiang's vitality and muscles strengthened as the evolution succeeded.
• Ah Qiang woke feeling powerful and hungry, then followed Su Hao to the open ground to test his speed.
• Ah Qiang sprinted a hundred meters in an instant, leaving the seven onlookers stunned and curious about what had happened in the Laboratory.

Su Hao successfully evolved Ah Qiang and the other Zhu Huo People into Level 1 Inhumans, while realizing that his powerful young body was beginning to affect his thoughts. After confirming Ah Qiang had awakened a new ability, Su Hao prepared to try evolving him into a Level 2 High-Speeder.

• Su Hao gave Ah Qiang a training booklet after successfully evolving him into a Swift One, then later selected Na Qi to become a Residual Poisoner.
• Five days after Na Qi's first visit, Su Hao completed his evolution, and Na Qi's explosive, foul-smelling ability caused the others to flee and avoid him.
• A month later, all the subjects had become Level 1 Inhumans, confirming Su Hao's first-stage experiment had succeeded.
• Su Hao recognized that his strengthened body was influencing his thoughts and used meditation to steady his mind.
• After about twenty days of training, Ah Qiang awakened Silent Movement, and Su Hao found that his injected Gene Modification Fluid had given him greater Blood Qi intensity than ordinary Swift Ones.
• Su Hao told Ah Qiang to return in four days so they could attempt his evolution into a Level 2 High-Speeder.

Su Hao’s gene modification experiments successfully evolved eight subjects into Level 4 Inhumans, and their one-year agreement ended with their return to Chiyang City. After giving Ah Qiang Runes to enforce the Inhuman Code of Conduct, Su Hao left to research how patterns could be expressed through genes.

• Ah Qiang became a Level 2 High-Speeder with Super Speed and Dynamic Vision, and Su Hao gave him instructions for trying to awaken more abilities.
• Na Qi and the other subjects successfully evolved, and over the following year all eight reached Level 4.
• Su Hao ended the subjects’ one-year agreement, warned them to follow the Inhuman Code of Conduct, and said he would leave to find another experimental site.
• Su Hao gave Ah Qiang Level 2—Lightning and Level 2—Barrier Runes and tasked him with stopping or eliminating anyone who broke the rules.
• Su Hao planned to research pattern expression for a year before collecting Level 5 and higher Inhuman genes, then entered Marble Space to begin his research.

After returning to Temple Forest City, Su Hao helped Ashan reorganize the Temple Forest Society and built a much larger Experimental Base for his research. He found a beetle that might lead to a breakthrough in the Rune Array Disk Gene, and the Society’s hunt for it devastated the local population.

• Su Hao returned to Temple Forest City, reassured the exhausted Ashan, and spent three hours advising him on the Society’s problems and management.
• Su Hao told Ashan to prioritize results over relationships and asked him to gather many patterned animals for experiments.
• Ashan arranged an enormous new Experimental Base, where Su Hao moved in with Ashan and Taini; Taini had grown into a thoughtful young woman.
• Two months later, Su Hao identified the Ring Star Insect as a possible breakthrough for the Rune Array Disk Gene and ordered Ashan to find as many as possible.
• Ashan rallied the Temple Forest Society with rewards for capturing Ring Star Insects, and its members hunted every one within a hundred-mile radius in three days.

Su Hao developed a method to map and control the pattern genes of Ring Star Insects, then used it to engrave a Strong Light Rune onto a Round Mouse. As he turned toward embedding runes in flesh and blood, a group of powerful Inhumans from the Four Kings Gang entered his Radar range near Temple Forest City.

• Su Hao captured Ring Star Insects and compared their genes and patterns until he isolated the gene fragment that controlled pattern formation.
• Over several months, Su Hao established a Pattern Coordinate System and learned to control gene expression using Initiation and Termination Sequences.
• Su Hao began experimenting on Round Mice, designed a gene modification fluid, and injected it to gather data on their pattern coordinates.
• After a month, Su Hao established the Round Mouse coordinate system and continued testing until he successfully engraved a Strong Light Rune on a Round Mouse.
• Su Hao considered his next step—engraving runes inside the body to create Blood Qi compatibility gaps—when more than a dozen Inhumans appeared on his Radar.
• Su Hao recognized the group as members of the Four Kings Gang and wondered why they had come to Temple Forest City.

Ashan brought the battered Four Kings Gang into Temple Forest City after learning that Earth Monarch and Mist Monarch had driven them from Abyss City. Su Hao met Gaili the next day, only to learn that the gang had come to seek refuge, leaving Xiao Tong and Kas stunned.

• Su Hao sent Ashan and the Temple Forest Society to intercept the Four Kings Gang outside the city and learn why they had come.
• Gaili told Ashan that Earth Monarch and Mist Monarch had defeated the gang, while Extreme Monarch Kana fled and Origin Monarch remained behind fighting.
• Ashan let the Four Kings Gang enter Temple Forest City, partly because Earth Monarch was a target for Su Hao and Ashan’s evolution.
• Ashan arranged accommodations for the gang and told Su Hao about their defeat; Su Hao said he would meet them the next day.
• Gaili told Su Hao that the Four Kings Gang had nowhere to go and wanted to seek refuge, prompting Xiao Tong and Kas to protest.

Su Hao questioned Gaili about the Four Kings Gang’s request to settle in Temple Forest City and learned that Gaili was a Prophet, a rare Zhu Huo People with an innate ability rather than an Inhuman Sequence. The chapter ended with Su Hao asking what a Prophet’s ability was.

• Gaili praised Temple Forest City as the city of his dreams and explained that the Four Kings Gang sought to protect ordinary people from Inhuman violence.
• Su Hao told Gaili that the city’s peace depended on absolute strength and warned that no individual could prevent darkness from returning everywhere.
• Gaili requested three years of unconditional residence for the Four Kings Gang as a subordinate squad of the Temple Forest Society, and Su Hao asked for more information before deciding.
• Su Hao confirmed that Gaili was a Prophet and asked him to explain the nature of Prophets.
• Gaili revealed that Prophets were a rare group of Zhu Huo People whose abilities were innate, unlike the abilities of the eight Inhuman Sequences, which had originated among Exotic Beasts.
• Su Hao asked Gaili what a Prophet’s ability was.

Su Hao welcomed Gaili and the Four Kings Gang into Temple Forest City, then secretly studied Gaili’s Prophet abilities in his laboratory. After learning that powerful Inhumans were fleeing unrest near Anliang City, Su Hao sensed danger approaching and set out to obtain Earth Monarch’s flesh and blood so he could grow stronger.

• Gaili explained that Prophets used contact to acquire information and analysis to derive likely outcomes, and revealed that he was also a Level 5 Mimic Sequence Inhuman.
• Gaili told Su Hao that Earth Monarch and Mist Monarch remained in Abyss City and that powerful Inhumans were fleeing unrest near Anliang City.
• Su Hao agreed to let Gaili and the Four Kings Gang move into Temple Forest City, then brought Gaili to his Experimental Base and kept him in the laboratory for two days.
• Su Hao found that Prophet Gene would not express in other animals and decided to prioritize Rune Gene research and obtain Earth Monarch’s flesh and blood.
• Su Hao told Ashan not to disturb him, then secretly used Conversion Steel to leave the city and flew into the night.

Su Hao attacked Earth Monarch Donglan and Mist Monarch Beibei in Abyss City with a massive bomb, intending to kill the monarchs responsible for the city's devastation. The blast badly injured them but failed to kill them, and Su Hao faced the two as Mist Monarch vanished into the surrounding air.

• Su Hao saw Abyss City in ruins and decided to kill Earth Monarch Donglan and Mist Monarch Beibei instead of merely injuring them.
• Su Hao dropped a Level 2-Two-Hundred-Blast on Stan's former palace to wake the monarchs.
• Mist Monarch Beibei sensed the incoming bomb and woke Earth Monarch Donglan, who transformed to protect himself as she turned to mist.
• The bomb destroyed the palace and severely injured both monarchs, but they survived the explosion.
• Su Hao descended to confront them, and Earth Monarch Donglan told Mist Monarch Beibei to stay back while she vanished into the surrounding air.

Su Hao fought Earth Monarch Donglan, repeatedly breaking through his Black Crystal attacks and cutting him apart. Donglan regenerated from his wounds and, enraged, summoned the Black Stone Giant.

• Earth Monarch Donglan trapped Su Hao in Black Crystal, but Su Hao sliced through it and escaped.
• Su Hao broke through Donglan’s massive Black Crystal defenses, severed his hand, and cut open his chest, but Donglan quickly regenerated.
• Donglan unleashed a spiked Black Crystal tsunami, which Su Hao split with a slash and shattered with an Oscillation punch.
• Su Hao struck Donglan with Lightning and beheaded him, but Donglan formed a new head from Black Crystal.
• Earth Monarch Donglan stomped the ground and roared, summoning the Black Stone Giant.

Su Hao fought Earth Monarch Donglan and Mist Monarch Beibei, overcoming their attacks and turning Donglan’s Black Crystal terrain into Steel Armor. As Donglan and Beibei escaped into the sky, Su Hao revealed that he could fly too.

• Earth Monarch Donglan transformed into a giant while Mist Monarch Beibei blinded Su Hao and bound him with corrosive mist serpents.
• Su Hao used Little Light’s real-time simulation to locate Donglan, then survived Donglan’s giant stomp.
• Su Hao countered the Mist Snakes with Level 2—Corrosion and used High Temperature to keep them away.
• Su Hao converted Donglan’s Black Crystal terrain into Steel Armor across a range of more than a thousand meters and unleashed Fire Dragon Domain, burning away most of Beibei’s mist.
• Su Hao bound Donglan’s giant form and began converting its Black Crystal armor, but Donglan escaped it and Beibei carried him into the sky.
• Su Hao watched them fly away and said that he could fly too.

Su Hao defeated Mist Monarch Beibei and pursued Earth Monarch Donglan, who escaped underground. After Su Hao killed Beibei and cornered Donglan, Donglan faked his death, and Su Hao considered chopping up his body.

• Mist Monarch Beibei dropped Earth Monarch Donglan so she could flee, but Su Hao struck Donglan with Lightning and cut him into four pieces.
• Su Hao caught up to Beibei, repeatedly shocked her until her Blood Qi ran out, then beheaded her.
• Su Hao carried Beibei’s corpse outside the city while Donglan escaped through an underground tunnel.
• Donglan surfaced and found Su Hao waiting for him; unable to burrow through the Steel Armor ground, he begged for his life.
• Su Hao cut off Donglan’s head, but noticed his Blood Qi was fading too slowly and realized Donglan was playing dead.
• Su Hao circled Donglan and considered chopping up his body to make it easier to carry.

Su Hao killed Earth Monarch Donglan after questioning him about the flight from Anliang City and the Level 7 Life Child. He learned that a Level 7 killer called Fierce Child Slaughter had been slaughtering Inhumans and resolved to evolve quickly before heading to Huiyang City.

• Su Hao repeatedly hacked Earth Monarch Donglan apart until Donglan ran out of strength, then demanded to know why he had come to Abyss City.
• Donglan explained that Fierce Child Slaughter had massacred Anliang City's Inhumans and driven survivors to flee, and he named the Level 7 titles of several Inhuman Sequences.
• Donglan told Su Hao that a Life Child nearing the end of his lifespan was in Huiyang City, where Earth Monarchs had gathered to seek his flesh.
• Su Hao killed Donglan, took his flesh and blood, and worried that Fierce Child Slaughter might be coming for him.
• Su Hao decided to evolve into a Level 6 Earth Monarch as soon as possible, then flew away from ruined Abyss City with two corpses in baskets formed from his Steel Armor.

After killing the Earth Monarch and Mist Monarch, Su Hao returned to his Laboratory, rested, and warned Ashan that a powerful Fierce Child might threaten Temple Forest City. He then began preparing to evolve Ashan into an Earth Monarch using the two monarchs’ corpses.

• The Inhumans who witnessed Su Hao’s battle identified him as Temple Forest City Wei, and many began migrating toward Temple Forest City for protection.
• Su Hao returned to his Laboratory with the Earth Monarch and Mist Monarch’s corpses, preserved them, and slept until morning.
• Su Hao summoned Ashan for breakfast and warned him that Huiyang City’s Fierce Child Lu might force the Temple Forest Society to evacuate.
• Su Hao took Ashan to the Laboratory and told him he would help him evolve into an Earth Monarch.
• Ashan lay on the experimental bed and extended his arm so Su Hao could take blood samples.

After Ashan successfully evolved into a Level 6 Earth Monarch, Su Hao studied his new abilities and evolved into an Earth Monarch himself. Confident in his defenses but wary of further risks, Su Hao decided to travel to Huiyang City to obtain a Life Child’s flesh and blood.

• Ashan evolved into a Level 6 Earth Monarch, gaining Black Crystal, Blood Qi Resistance, and Flesh Transfer, and Su Hao inscribed him with Level 2 Runes and gave him a month of training instructions.
• Su Hao evolved into an Earth Monarch and formed Black Crystal armor, then designed and inscribed decorative Runes before removing the glow that would draw attention.
• Over the next month, Su Hao analyzed Blood Qi Resistance and learned that he could reproduce its protective structure by controlling Blood Qi himself.
• Su Hao assessed his combat advantages, including his Runes, defenses, Radar Perception, and ranged attacks, and concluded that enemies would struggle to reach or kill him.
• Su Hao chose to set aside Rune Gene experiments and head to Huiyang City to obtain a Life Child’s flesh and blood.

Su Hao arrived at Huiyang City and challenged Bright Child, a Level 7 Night Walker, in the sky. Their fight continued as Bright Child unleashed a field of claws around Su Hao.

• Su Hao searched for Huiyang City and found it after dawn, then sensed a powerful Inhuman flying toward him.
• Bright Child confronted Su Hao and demanded that he leave the sky, but Su Hao advanced to fight him.
• Su Hao and Bright Child exchanged blows, with Su Hao cutting off Bright Child's claws and Bright Child scratching his chest.
• Bright Child attacked Su Hao from behind, but Su Hao struck him with lightning and pierced him with Black Crystal Spikes, which slid harmlessly off his fur.
• Su Hao pursued Bright Child through the air, and Bright Child filled the surrounding space with Void Claws aimed at him.

Su Hao defeated and captured Bright Child with his Thunder Domain, then questioned him about the other Level 7 Inhumans. Bright Child refused to answer and launched a final attack, so Su Hao killed him.

• Bright Child's claw shadows damaged Su Hao's armor, but Su Hao burned off Bright Child's fur with a Fire Dragon and revealed his unusual form.
• Su Hao formed the Thunder Domain from Rune Array Disks and overwhelmed Bright Child with lightning before binding him with Hook Spike.
• Su Hao took the captured Bright Child away from Huiyang City, where onlookers realized that Bright Child had lost.
• Su Hao asked Bright Child to identify the other three Level 7 Inhumans, but Bright Child refused to answer.
• Bright Child launched a final claw attack, and Su Hao beheaded him.

After defeating Bright Child, Su Hao entered Huiyang City to locate Life Child and take a sample of his flesh without endangering the city. He identified Life Child’s location at Dongling Pavilion, but learned the guarded building barred outsiders, leaving him unsure how to approach.

• Su Hao decided against fighting Life Child openly in Huiyang City and planned to sneak close, use Level 2—Lightning to numb him, cut off flesh, and escape.
• Su Hao questioned Xiao Bu about the battle with Bright Child, and she led him to a poolside bench to talk.
• Su Hao asked Xiao Bu where Life Child was, and she told him Life Child stayed at Dongling Pavilion and agreed to lead him there.
• As they walked east, Su Hao detected the only Level 7 Blood Qi signature in that direction and recognized it as Life Child.
• Xiao Bu explained that Dongling Pavilion forbade outsiders and had strict security, then said meeting Life Child would be easy.