Chapter Summaries

After hearing about ordinary citizens and soldiers who sacrificed themselves to protect Dragon City, Meng Chao resolved to grow stronger and spent months cultivating alone in the wilderness. Now confident in his abilities, he set out to return to Dragon City but detected a nearby attack and rushed toward a massive Beast Tide.

• Meng Chao heard the stories of Blood Badge recipients, including a bus driver, a researcher, and a Crimson Dragon Army soldier, and recognized that many heroes had contributed to humanity’s survival.
• After the ceremony, Meng Chao began intensive cultivation at Agricultural University under Gu Jianbo and Li Yingzi’s guidance, then trained alone in the wilderness.
• Three months later, Meng Chao judged that his strength had advanced enough to face formidable Heaven Realm experts and decided it was time to return to Dragon City.
• Meng Chao’s Tactical Watch warned him that humans were under attack seven kilometers to the southeast and that a Level Six Hell Beast might be present.
• Meng Chao used a flexible Python Vine to launch himself into the air, spotted a huge Beast Tide, and sped toward it.

Tenglong Construction’s isolated Forward Base faced a berserk Beast Tide empowered by a Tyrant Mammoth, whose attacks shattered the defenders’ morale and fortifications. As the Transcendents prepared to cover a breakout, a tiny black dot flew over the Beast Tide.

• A Beast Tide overwhelmed Tenglong Construction’s Forward Base, while a jammed network prevented the defenders from calling for help.
• The two peak Earth Realm experts spotted a Tyrant Mammoth driving the herd and strengthening the hoofed monsters with its Berserk War Song.
• The Tyrant Mammoth used War Stomp to trigger the minefield early and blast defenders from the walls.
• The Tyrant Mammoth tore an automated turret from the ground and hurled it into the Guard Tower, destroying both.
• The two peak Earth Realm experts rallied the Transcendents to cover the others’ escape, and a tiny black dot streaked over the Beast Tide.

Meng Chao returned from three months of wilderness cultivation and used his new Blood Soul battle blade and Ghost Blade to attack a Tyrant Mammoth threatening the Forward Base. After wounding the beast and drawing it away from the gate, he faced its counterattack alongside three charging monster herds.

• Meng Chao appeared above the monsters and dodged the Tyrant Mammoth's trunk before landing on its back.
• Meng Chao hacked the Tyrant Mammoth's neck with the Blood Soul Battle Blade, then used its chain to hold on and lash its neck with flames and electricity.
• The Tyrant Mammoth charged into the Forward Base's main gate, and Meng Chao jumped clear after driving the Ghost Blade into its left eye.
• Meng Chao pulled the Blood Soul Blade free and challenged the injured Tyrant Mammoth, which attacked with a War Stomp and Mind Attack as Sword Halberd Demon Pigs, Ironclad Rhinoceroses, and Blood Spotted Hippos charged him.

Meng Chao used the Beast Tide to wear down the Tyrant Mammoth, then killed it with a single strike from his fully empowered Blood Soul Battle Blade. The Forward Base’s Transcendents routed the remaining monsters without casualties, while its leaders wondered who the mysterious fighter was and found he had carved the mammoth into more than a thousand pieces.

• Meng Chao maneuvered through the Beast Tide, using the monsters to block the Tyrant Mammoth and make the packs injure one another until they fled in fear.
• Meng Chao unleashed a Fear Bomb to disrupt the Tyrant Mammoth, then cut through its throat and severed its spinal nerves with the Blood Soul Battle Blade.
• The Transcendents charged the scattered Beast Tide after Meng Chao killed the Tyrant Mammoth, and the battle ended with more than three hundred monsters slain or captured and no human casualties.
• The Forward Base’s director and two Earth Realm peak fighters approached Meng Chao, speculating about his identity and discovering that he had disassembled the mammoth into more than a thousand pieces.

Meng Chao killed a Tyrant Mammoth and expertly harvested its materials, stunning Director Jiang and two peak Earth Realm experts when they learned his identity. After settling the hunting proceeds, Meng Chao planned to patrol for dangers left by the Beast Tide, and Director Jiang warned him of an unlicensed reclamation point in the Southern Swamp Jungle.

• Meng Chao removed the Tyrant Mammoth’s bones and valuable energy stone with extraordinary precision.
• Director Jiang recognized Meng Chao, and the two peak Earth Realm experts revised their low opinion of his abilities after learning he had killed the Level Six Hell Beast.
• Meng Chao and Director Jiang agreed to split the value of the Tyrant Mammoth and the other monsters’ proceeds fifty-fifty.
• Meng Chao declined Director Jiang’s invitation to visit the base immediately and said he would patrol the surrounding area for monsters displaced by the Beast Tide.
• Director Jiang told Meng Chao that several dozen reclaimers might be at an unlicensed reclamation point five or six kilometers away in the Southern Swamp Jungle.

Meng Chao and Director Jiang discussed the dangers and legal gray area surrounding unlicensed pioneer outposts before Meng Chao went to inspect one called Happy Farm. He found its buildings intact and its monsters slaughtered with extraordinary brutality, but no human bodies, leaving the outpost’s fate unclear.

• Director Jiang told Meng Chao that the nearby unlicensed outpost had three Transcendents, trained pioneers, and secondhand weapons and vehicles.
• Meng Chao chose to inspect the outpost, and Director Jiang sent an Earth Realm peak expert and a Dragon Tooth Commando team with him.
• The convoy reached Happy Farm, where Meng Chao spotted black smoke and smelled blood before leading the group into the forest.
• Meng Chao and the team found no human corpses, but discovered scattered monster remains and signs of a fierce battle.
• Meng Chao examined the corpses and determined that one or two humans had slaughtered dozens of powerful monsters in minutes.

Meng Chao and Director Jiang investigated the devastated outpost and found evidence that its Transcendent defenders had undergone terrifying, unexplained mutations. The search left Meng Chao facing several different apparent causes of death, with the mystery of what happened at the outpost still unresolved.

• Meng Chao examined a Blood Moon Wolf King's crushed skull and realized a human had killed it with a powerful hand.
• A deranged ape-like attacker injured a Dragon Tooth Commando member, and Meng Chao subdued it before discovering its Tactical Watch and identifying it as the missing Gun Fighting Stream Transcendent.
• Meng Chao led Director Jiang and the commandos toward the outpost, where they found monsters burned to ash and a human who melted away in uncontrollable flames.
• Meng Chao and the commandos discovered pioneers who had died fighting monsters, including one whose body had been mysteriously drained of fluid.
• Meng Chao examined more pioneer corpses and found severe dehydration and hearts torn apart without obvious chest wounds.

Meng Chao discovered that the outpost’s pioneers had died or transformed after taking mysterious God Transformation Capsules during a monster attack. Surveillance footage revealed how the capsules gave them monstrous strength before the beast horde broke through the gate and the transformed pioneers charged into battle.

• Meng Chao examined the outpost’s corpses, found several barely alive survivors with monstrous mutations, and heard them mutter about “God... transformation...”.
• Director Jiang used a female survivor’s fingerprints and iris to unlock the outpost computer and review footage of the attack.
• The footage showed the pioneers taking God Transformation Capsules as the Blood Moon Demon Wolves and Ghost Leopards battered down the gate.
• The capsules caused the pioneers to mutate and gain overwhelming strength, while Liao Ge transformed into an ape-like monster and claimed he was nearing the Earth Realm.
• The beast horde breached the gate, and the transformed pioneers charged at the monsters.

Meng Chao and the others reviewed the God Transformation Capsules’ horrifying effects, recovered survivors and evidence, and sent samples for testing. The initial analysis suggested the capsules contained Blood Pattern Flower Spores, leaving their origin and purpose unresolved.

• Meng Chao watched footage of pioneers using God Transformation Capsules to gain Transcendent-level power, lose their reason, and die from the capsules’ effects.
• The surviving girl threw away her capsule after witnessing the pioneers’ deaths, while Meng Chao examined the remaining capsules and concluded they were dangerously powerful forbidden drugs.
• Meng Chao and Director Jiang decided to find the source of the capsules, then collected the remains, repaired the stronghold, and returned to the Forward Base with the survivors.
• Meng Chao and the others sent a capsule and samples from the remains to Tenglong Construction’s biochemical laboratory for testing.
• The laboratory report indicated that the God Transformation Capsules contained components suspected to be Blood Pattern Flower Spores.

Meng Chao investigated the deadly God Transformation Capsules and suspected they contained Bloodpetal Flower components linked to the anomalous beasts. A survivor revealed that her dead boyfriend had obtained the capsules from a mysterious man called Brother Wolf, giving Meng Chao a lead to pursue.

• Meng Chao told Ye Xiaoxing about the God Transformation Capsules and proposed investigating their possible connection to the Bloodpetal Flower and the anomalous beasts.
• Ye Xiaoxing promised the Bureau’s support while arranging for the Drug Administration Bureau to take over the capsule investigation.
• Director Jiang told Meng Chao that a young woman had survived and that her dead boyfriend had admired Meng Chao.
• Meng Chao comforted the young woman, who explained that her boyfriend, Xiao Hua, had received the capsules from a man known as Brother Wolf.
• The young woman said Brother Wolf lived near the East City Temporary Settlement, had returned from a failed wilderness expedition, and claimed the capsules were a safe but unapproved new serum.

After learning how Chicken Crest and his companions received God Transformation Capsules from Brother Wolf, Meng Chao questioned the girl’s explanation of the capsules’ deadly effects. He contacted Qin Hu to investigate Brother Wolf and continued pursuing his plans to find promising young cultivators from humble families.

• The girl told Meng Chao how Chicken Crest joined Liao Ge’s wilderness venture and brought God Transformation Capsules supplied by Brother Wolf.
• The girl blamed Brother Wolf for Xiao Hua’s death and urged Meng Chao to catch him before he harmed anyone else.
• Meng Chao questioned whether Brother Wolf had truly deceived the group, since the capsules had helped some of them survive.
• Meng Chao called Qin Hu and asked him to investigate Brother Wolf and find people connected to the East City Temporary Settlement.
• Qin Hu said he did not know Brother Wolf but promised to ask his contacts in the area.

Meng Chao learned that Ning Lang, a debt-ridden hoodlum, was Ning Xing’s older brother and decided to visit their home to investigate his connection to the God Transformation Capsules. On his way through Temporary Settlement No. 4, he saw that conditions had improved during his three months away.

• Qin Hu told Meng Chao that Ning Lang had lost equipment and money on a failed expedition and was hiding from creditors, while his talented younger sister Ning Xing studied in Meng Chao’s martial arts class.
• Meng Chao questioned how Ning Lang could afford to buy God Transformation Capsules and arranged to visit Ning Xing’s home, while Qin Hu promised to investigate Ning Lang’s recent activities.
• The Drug Administration Bureau reviewed the capsule evidence and said it would collect the capsules, survivors, and bodies, but its investigation would focus on analyzing the drug’s ingredients.
• Meng Chao received surveillance footage, an experimental report, and capsule fluid from Director Jiang, then returned to Dragon City with spoils from the wilderness.
• Meng Chao visited Temporary Settlement No. 4 and observed that shelters, sanitation, and residents’ living conditions had improved since his departure.

Meng Chao visited Ning Xing’s family in the East District settlement and learned that her brother Ning Lang had disappeared after taking a risky, debt-funded venture into the wilderness. Ning Xing explained that he had formed his own pioneering team, and the chapter left his fate unknown.

• Meng Chao saw unemployed residents and arrived at Ning Xing’s room, where debt collectors had trashed the home and painted “Repay Your Debts” on the walls.
• Meng Chao reunited with Ning Xing and her mother, helped restore the room, and offered them food and support.
• Meng Chao learned that Ning Lang was missing and asked Ning Xing what had happened.
• Ning Xing explained that Ning Lang had become volatile after a cultivation injury and later borrowed heavily to buy equipment and start his own pioneering team.
• Ning Xing described how pioneering fortunes depended on luck, then revealed that Ning Lang had been particularly unlucky.

Meng Chao learned that Ning Lang’s failed reclamation venture had left him deeply indebted and in hiding, while creditors threatened his family. After Ning Xing revealed that her brother expected to obtain a huge sum of money, Meng Chao went to question Ning Lang’s surviving companions and spotted debt collectors leaving the settlement.

• Meng Chao learned that Ning Lang’s stronghold had failed after the Crystal Veins proved worthless, an insect plague destroyed the Spirit-infused Plants, and monsters killed most of the pioneers during their retreat.
• Ning Xing told Meng Chao that several groups of creditors had been searching for her brother and that particularly vicious men from the Nest City had come earlier.
• Meng Chao offered to find Ning Lang and discuss a solution, but Ning Xing said she did not know where he was hiding.
• Ning Xing recalled that Ning Lang had secretly given her five hundred dollars and promised he would soon repay his debts and provide for their family.
• Meng Chao suspected Ning Lang was planning something beyond selling God Transformation Capsules and went to question the survivors of his pioneer team.
• Before Meng Chao found a survivor’s home, he saw the burly debt collectors hurrying out of the Temporary Settlement.

Meng Chao followed the debt collectors to an abandoned incineration workshop, where he discovered that Ning Lang had killed them and fled. He found evidence that Ning Lang and his companions had been testing extraordinary strength, along with charred paper fragments that appeared to form a map.

• Meng Chao followed the debt collectors from the Temporary Settlement to a garbage disposal center and tracked them into an abandoned underground incineration workshop.
• Meng Chao found a severed finger and bloodstains, then deduced that Ning Lang or someone hiding with him had killed the debt collectors and removed the bodies.
• Meng Chao found supplies, damaged steel, and iron plates marked with fingerprints, suggesting Ning Lang and his companions had been staying underground and displaying extraordinary strength.
• Meng Chao discovered warm ashes and pieced together scorched paper fragments that looked like a map.

Meng Chao discovered that Ning Lang was planning to rob a warehouse using God Transformation Capsules and feared the capsule-fueled accomplices would kill more people. He contacted Shen Yupeng for help identifying the target, but the burned blueprint fragments were too incomplete to locate it quickly.

• Meng Chao pieced together the surviving blueprint fragments and realized Ning Lang planned to rob a warehouse storing crystals and monster materials.
• Meng Chao worried that Ning Lang and his accomplices had taken God Transformation Capsules and might become berserk killers, so he decided to stop them.
• Unable to reach Ye Xiaoxing or Lü Siya and unable to identify the warehouse himself, Meng Chao called Shen Yupeng for help.
• Shen Yupeng answered while doing volunteer cleanup work in West City, then examined the blueprint fragments Meng Chao sent him.
• Shen Yupeng confirmed the case fell under the Adjudication Court's jurisdiction but said the fragments were too blurry to identify the warehouse quickly and asked Meng Chao for more clues.

Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng identified Superstar Resources as Ning Lang’s planned robbery target, prompting Meng Chao to race toward the warehouse. On Wufu Road, Ning Lang prepared to ambush a Superstar Resources truck and urged his hesitant accomplices to use Second Generation God Transformation Capsules.

• Meng Chao reasoned that Ning Lang would target a large, poorly guarded warehouse and asked Shen Yupeng to identify likely companies.
• Shen Yupeng traced the warehouse to Superstar Resources, and Meng Chao realized his own company had become the target.
• Meng Chao learned the warehouse was near Wufu Road and rushed there while calling his father about a materials warehouse on the road.
• Ning Lang told his two accomplices that they had no way back after killing Scarface Lao Liu and argued that the robbery would let them eliminate their loan sharks.
• Ning Lang’s accomplices worried about Meng Chao and the consequences of the robbery, but Ning Lang dismissed their fears.
• A refrigerated Superstar Resources truck approached, and Ning Lang showed his accomplices three Second Generation God Transformation Capsules.

Ning Lang and three accomplices attacked Superstar Resources' Material Warehouse, using God Transformation Capsules and Poisonous Fog to overpower the staff and steal valuable materials. A mysterious figure floating into the warehouse interrupted them, and Ning Lang detonated a bomb beneath the truck as his accomplices charged the newcomer.

• Ning Lang and his two accomplices swallowed God Transformation Capsules, then hid beneath a truck and rode it into the warehouse while a fourth robber waited above.
• Ning Lang's accomplices released Poisonous Fog, and the robbers disabled communications while subduing the guards and harvesters.
• Ning Lang ordered the staff to load Nightmare Beast materials, crystal ore, and raw Gene Serum, then attacked the hesitant security supervisor.
• An unseen attacker struck Ning Lang with frozen monster meat, saving the supervisor as a floating figure entered through the warehouse doors.
• Ning Lang recognized the newcomer as a Heaven Realm expert and ordered his accomplices to attack while he retreated behind a cargo container.
• Ning Lang pressed the detonator, and the Crystals Bomb beneath the refrigerated truck exploded.

Meng Chao stopped a robbery at Superstar Resources, but Ning Lang detonated explosives and destroyed the warehouse before Meng Chao captured him. The bandit’s escape plan and weapons left Meng Chao suspecting a highly organized operation, while the warehouse’s raw materials were lost in the fire.

• Ning Lang detonated a Crystals Bomb, igniting the warehouse and destroying its contents as Meng Chao subdued three other bandits.
• Ning Lang escaped through a pre-blasted hole in the warehouse wall, then used Thunderclap mines and more explosives to slow Meng Chao’s pursuit.
• Meng Chao caught Ning Lang after knocking down a perimeter wall, broke his arm, confiscated his weapons and three God Transformation Capsules, and rendered him unconscious.
• Further explosions tore through the warehouse, destroying its raw materials and leaving Meng Chao to watch the fire spread.
• Shen Yupeng and the Secret Police Squad arrived with the fire department, followed by Meng Yishan, Qin Hu, Xie Xiaolei, and other Superstar Resources managers.

After a warehouse holding valuable materials burned down, Meng Chao questioned how robbers had exploited Superstar Resources’ security gaps and obtained such precise information and equipment. He suspected the attack involved more than ordinary criminals, but the source of their intelligence and God Transformation Capsules remained unknown.

• Meng Chao learned that the warehouse fire had injured no one on his side, but Ning Lang’s three accomplices had died and all the stored materials were destroyed.
• Meng Chao criticized the warehouse’s weak security, while Xie Xiaolei and Qin Hu explained that rapid expansion and a shortage of Transcendent guards had delayed its defenses.
• Xie Xiaolei and Qin Hu revealed that the warehouse had unusually valuable, lightweight materials and was awaiting a new security team and defense-system upgrade.
• Meng Chao concluded that someone had deliberately targeted the warehouse and asked who knew its details.
• Meng Chao noted that Ning Lang’s group had professional blueprints, advanced tactics, incendiary bombs, landmines, and God Transformation Capsules, then questioned where they had obtained them.