Chapter Summaries

Old Cow thanked readers for forming the Silver Alliance and announced that it would be called the Glimmerer Fleet. Old Cow promised to repay the bonus chapters and previous debts despite health problems.

• Old Cow thanked the readers whose support had formed the Silver Alliance.
• Old Cow promised ten extra chapters for the Silver Alliance and said it would repay all outstanding chapters.
• Old Cow explained that years of writing had caused health problems that made mass releases difficult.
• Old Cow said the readers' enthusiasm had renewed its determination to keep writing.
• Old Cow named the Silver Alliance the Glimmerer Fleet and explained the meaning behind the name.

Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng linked Ning Lang’s crimes to a possible hidden mastermind, but more than a hundred coordinated violent crimes erupted across Dragon City at once. As Meng Chao joined the investigation, the human perpetrators escaped detection by blending in with the responders.

• Meng Chao found Shen Yupeng exhausted from working around the clock amid a rising wave of violent and sophisticated crimes.
• Meng Chao told Shen Yupeng that Ning Lang was probably a pawn and that someone else had arranged the robbery and supplied its unusual equipment.
• Shen Yupeng said Ning Lang was too ill for questioning until later that night, and promised to notify Meng Chao when they learned more.
• A distant chain of explosions drew Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng’s attention, while Lü Siya reported that the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts had found no monsters or undead creatures.
• Shen Yupeng received reports of more than a hundred violent crimes involving Superhuman Power and hurried to investigate, with Meng Chao offering his help.
• Transcendents arriving at the crime scenes struggled to identify the human criminals, who were already erasing evidence and disguising themselves as responders.

A wave of coordinated robberies and attacks by ordinary people using God Transformation Capsules plunged Dragon City into chaos, causing deaths and massive destruction. Meng Chao, Ye Xiaoxing, and Lü Siya suspected the anomalous beasts had orchestrated the crimes, and Meng Chao set out to learn what the Adjudication Court planned to do.

• Robbers wearing masks looted warehouses across East City and attacked support-type Transcendents in West City, while their reckless use of God Transformation Capsules and explosives caused widespread casualties and destruction.
• Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng rushed between crime scenes, but they repeatedly arrived too late to prevent the damage.
• By morning, Dragon City's citizens learned that hundreds of crimes had occurred, while most captured criminals were dead or too weak to question and many others remained at large.
• Meng Chao met with Ye Xiaoxing and Lü Siya, and the three suspected the anomalous beasts had coordinated the crimes to destabilize Dragon City.
• Ye Xiaoxing and Lü Siya continued investigating the White Phantom, earthquake, and Abyss Demon Eye leads, while Meng Chao planned to consult Shen Yupeng about the Adjudication Court's response.

Meng Chao waited at the Superhuman Tower as citizens and Fallen Star Superhumans reported the widespread robberies and destruction from the previous night. Shen Yupeng told him that Ning Lang’s confession linked the crimes to an unseen operator who recruited isolated criminals through the Deep Web, and explained how Ning Lang’s desperation and first taste of superhuman power had drawn him into crime.

• Meng Chao heard that bandits had robbed Fallen Star Superhumans and that their attacks had also injured ordinary citizens and damaged homes.
• Meng Chao helped the exhausted Shen Yupeng into a cultivation room after Shen said Ning Lang had confessed.
• Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that Ning Lang had no direct contact with the other bandits and had been directed remotely by a chess player through the Deep Web.
• Shen Yupeng explained that Ning Lang, desperate after losing his fortune and facing debts, followed an anonymous email to an abandoned factory and found a God Transformation Capsule.
• Ning Lang swallowed the capsule, became intoxicated by his temporary superhuman strength, and grew obsessed with obtaining more power.

Shen Yupeng explained how an anonymous email sender manipulated Ning Lang and other desperate youths into committing crimes across Dragon City, while concealing more serious robberies and assassinations. The conversation ended with Shen asking Meng Chao about his booklet, One Hundred Ways to Destroy Dragon City, and its analysis of the city's social divisions.

• Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that an anonymous sender supplied Ning Lang with God Transformation Capsules, weapons, money, and detailed plans for crimes in exchange for carrying them out.
• Shen Yupeng explained that Ning Lang recruited other desperate youths and that the sender used God Transformation Capsules to lure Chicken Crest into taking risks.
• Shen Yupeng said the email sender had instructed the bandits to act early if widespread explosions and crimes began, overwhelming the Dragon City Secret Police and the Adjudication Court.
• Shen Yupeng revealed that the bandits had served as a distraction while expert robbers stole valuable cultivation resources and assassins targeted key figures.
• Shen Yupeng asked Meng Chao about the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts' booklet, One Hundred Ways to Destroy Dragon City, and its warnings about inequality between Transcendents and ordinary citizens.

Meng Chao learned that his booklet had prompted sweeping reforms across Dragon City, including strict audits and efforts to bring Transcendents closer to ordinary citizens. Shen Yupeng explained that the Adjudication Court’s crackdown had made its jobs so unattractive that it lost a third of its staff, leaving too few people to uncover the God Transformation Capsules and the mastermind behind the conspiracy.

• Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that the booklet One Hundred Ways to Destroy Dragon City had inspired sweeping reflection and reforms across Dragon City.
• Departments and enterprises audited their resource use, abolished secret accounts, cut excessive benefits, and redirected resources toward public services and poor children.
• Shen Yupeng said Lü Siya had become a praised example by volunteering and promoting the idea that Transcendents should serve ordinary citizens.
• Shen Yupeng explained that secret police work offered little cultivation, advancement, or public recognition, while hunters and other wilderness careers provided abundant resources and combat experience.
• Shen Yupeng described how the Adjudication Court had relied on gray-area methods and secret resources before its rectification campaign eliminated improper operations.
• Shen Yupeng said a third of Dragon City Secret Police had quit, burdening the remaining officers and helping prevent them from discovering the God Transformation Capsules and the conspiracy's planner in time.

Meng Chao learned that Dragon City's old residential defense renovations had drained resources from law enforcement and pushed many Transcendents out of the city, leaving it vulnerable to the robbery spree. He and Shen Yupeng agreed to investigate the God Transformation Capsules together, beginning at Cosmos Insurance.

• Shen Yupeng explained that budget cuts had reduced rewards for bounty hunters and weakened Dragon City's ability to deal with human criminals.
• He said the Homeland Faction had secured funding for renovations in hundreds of old residential areas, diverting resources from the Superhuman Tower and other institutions.
• Meng Chao considered how these policies could leave vital institutions staffed mainly by wealthy Transcendents, but set the larger problem aside to focus on the God Transformation Capsule case.
• Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng agreed that the Adjudication Court and Investigation Bureau should cooperate against the serial robberies and the threat they posed to Dragon City's social order.
• Shen Yupeng took Meng Chao to Cosmos Insurance, which had suffered catastrophic losses and was willing to pay heavily to uncover the truth.

Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng investigated the robberies with Cosmos Insurance, where they learned that a captured bandit had used the God Transformation Capsule. The bandit’s interrogation ended with him insisting the drug could help ordinary people reclaim resources and overthrow the Transcendents’ control.

• Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that insurance companies were helping investigate the robberies, and Meng agreed to join him at Cosmos Insurance.
• Shen Yupeng brought Meng Chao to meet crisis response director Zhou Chong, a veteran Hunter, and Zhou’s staff sensed Meng’s dangerous aura.
• Zhou Chong showed them a recording of an interrogation with a captured laboratory robber who had taken the God Transformation Capsule.
• The bandit claimed that Cosmos Group’s resources belonged to all humanity and that Transcendents had stolen them from ordinary people.
• The bandit rejected the warning about the capsule’s fatal side effects and called it divine medicine that would let ordinary people reclaim their futures and overthrow the Transcendents.

Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng investigated a robber whose beliefs and dependence on God Transformation Capsules had been manipulated by a hidden force. After seeing an ancient, hypnotic vortex pattern in an email sent to the robber, Meng Chao recognized the signs of a new demon god, even more terrifying than the Abyss Demon Eye.

• Meng Chao noticed that the robber’s polished claims about Transcendents sounded implanted, and Zhou Chong showed that the robber’s brain scan indicated sophisticated hypnosis and severe dependence on God Transformation Capsules.
• Zhou Chong explained that the capsules could addict ordinary users by giving them a sudden taste of the pleasure experienced by powerful cultivators.
• Shen Yupeng asked how the hidden mastermind had reached the robbers, and Zhou Chong revealed an email directing one of them to a storage locker.
• Meng Chao and Shen Yupeng examined the email’s vortex pattern, which Zhou Chong identified as an ancient rune capable of implanting thoughts through hypnosis.
• Meng Chao felt the pattern affect his mind, received a mission-progress increase, and concluded that a new demon god was behind the capsules and robberies.

Meng Chao, Shen Yupeng, and Zhou Chong traced the robberies to a mastermind using hypnotic vortex patterns and God Transformation Capsules to exploit debt-ridden, traumatized people. They suspected the mastermind was hiding in Golden Tooth Nest City, but Shen Yupeng explained that confronting its ruler, Jin Wanhao, would also put more than a million residents’ fate at stake.

• Zhou Chong explained that vortex patterns magnified existing negative emotions, while God Transformation Capsules turned the people who received the emails into dangerous puppets.
• Shen Yupeng learned that the captured robbers were heavily indebted, combat-trained people who had pursued power or wilderness work and suffered hardship.
• Zhou Chong warned that the mastermind’s campaign could overwhelm the Dragon City Secret Police and drive crime to unprecedented levels.
• Shen Yupeng argued that the mastermind likely operated in a nest city, where underground finance, secret laboratories, and robbery supplies were readily available.
• Meng Chao asked why Dragon City’s major forces did not seize Golden Tooth Nest City and deal with its gangs and the mastermind at once.
• Shen Yupeng explained that destroying Golden Tooth Nest City would leave more than a million residents needing somewhere to live.

Shen Yupeng explained why Dragon City could not afford to demolish the nest cities and said he would approach Jin Wanhao about the suspected mastermind. He argued that Jin Wanhao kept Golden Tooth Nest City’s order and would help uncover the robbery and the God Transformation Capsules’ origins.

• Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that Dragon City’s strained finances and sprawling construction projects left no resources to resettle the nest city residents.
• Meng Chao supported the proposed nutritious meals for children but asked whether Dragon City could do anything about the nest cities’ gray industries and hidden criminals.
• Shen Yupeng compared the nest cities to a clogged sewer and said he would contact Jin Wanhao about the suspected aberrant beast and its laboratory.
• Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that notorious Lost Ones often disappeared after entering the nest cities, suggesting Jin Wanhao kept them under control.
• Shen Yupeng said Jin Wanhao would preserve Golden Tooth Nest City’s order and provide an explanation for the robbery, the God Transformation Capsules, and the mastermind.

Meng Chao warned Shen Yupeng that the anomalous beasts might be preparing to attack Golden Tooth Nest City, but a new robbery at Tenglong Group and rumors about God Transformation Capsules quickly intensified public fear. The chapter left Dragon City’s citizens doubting the Survival Committee and seeking the capsules, while Meng Chao tried to reassure his mother and explain why combat-class Transcendents were away.

• Meng Chao told Shen Yupeng and Zhou Chong that the robberies were likely preparation for a major attack on Golden Tooth Nest City and urged them to warn Jin Wanhao.
• Shen Yupeng said Jin Wanhao was difficult to reach and that his deputy, 'Red Brow' Su Lun, handled most affairs for the Golden Tooth Gang.
• An explosion struck Tenglong Group’s laboratory, and more than a dozen glider-borne robbers fled as Shen Yupeng identified the target.
• Rumors spread online that the Survival Committee had concealed the scale of the crimes, abandoned ordinary citizens, and that God Transformation Capsules could turn people into Transcendents.
• Bai Suxin asked Meng Chao about the rumors and whether she could obtain the capsules for relatives, and Meng Chao told her not to believe or spread gossip.
• Meng Chao explained that combat-class Transcendents were working outside the city to gather resources, create jobs, and maintain pressure on the Monster Civilization.

Meng Chao and Qin Hu discovered that hackers had hijacked Fallen Star Society accounts to spread inflammatory posts and drive a wedge between ordinary citizens and Transcendents. Investigators traced some rumor-spreaders to people hypnotized by Vortex, but the true source remained hidden in the Deep Web.

• Meng Chao explained that God Transformation Capsules could not safely turn ordinary people into Transcendents and would eventually cause severe physical and mental harm.
• Qin Hu showed Meng Chao inflammatory posts on the Fallen Star Society forum that urged Transcendents to withhold monster resources from ordinary citizens.
• Qin Hu revealed that the forum accounts behind the posts had been hacked and that similar signs of manipulated public opinion appeared across other platforms.
• Meng Chao and Qin Hu concluded that someone was orchestrating an effort to set ordinary citizens against Transcendents, and Meng Chao informed Lü Siya and Shen Yupeng.
• The Investigation Bureau and Adjudication Court traced rumor-spreaders to Slum residents, some of whom had received Vortex-marked emails and imagined themselves as spokespeople for ordinary citizens.
• Investigators failed to identify the original source of the rumors, which remained concealed in the Deep Web.

Dragon City endured another night of violent crimes as its overstretched defenders feared an anomalous-beast plot involving God Transformation Capsules. Shen Yupeng assembled a powerful Arrest Squad to hunt the mastermind in Golden Tooth Nest City, and Meng Chao asked to join, hoping to stop a future catastrophe and uncover clues about X Eye.

• Criminals empowered by God Transformation Capsules fought Secret Police and citizens, causing severe casualties and damage while the Crimson Dragon Army and Bureau of Anomalous Beasts guarded the city.
• Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that Jin Wanhao had uncovered leaked borrower lists and criminal hideouts in Golden Tooth Nest City, then helped set a trap using two criminals implanted with tracking and listening chips.
• Jin Wanhao agreed to let outside forces pursue the mastermind in Nest City, provided the Secret Police, Bureau of Anomalous Beasts, and Crimson Dragon Army did not use force there.
• Shen Yupeng formed a lavish Arrest Squad led by Man-Eating Shark Zhou Chong, with more than ten Heaven Realm experts, to track the criminals and their hidden mastermind.
• Meng Chao asked Shen Yupeng to let him join the squad so he could investigate Vortex, prevent the future Nest City fire, and seek clues about X Eye.

Meng Chao persuaded Shen Yupeng and Nie Chenglong to let him join the operation against the mastermind in Golden Tooth Nest City. Zhou Chong agreed to consider taking him only if he could last three minutes in the hunters’ training maze.

• Shen Yupeng warned Meng Chao that fighting the demon god Vortex inside the densely populated nest city could cause mass civilian casualties, but Meng Chao insisted on going.
• Shen Yupeng brought Meng Chao to the joint command center near Golden Tooth Nest City, where the Arrest Squad was preparing for the mission.
• Meng Chao told Nie Chenglong that visions he saw during the Imperial Grand Hotel Raid suggested a conspiracy in the nest city, and Nie agreed to introduce him to the squad.
• Nie Chenglong showed Meng Chao the Three-Dimensional Maze, where Zhou Chong and the veteran hunters practiced moving through a fragile, obstacle-filled environment.
• Zhou Chong challenged Meng Chao to last three minutes in the maze, promising to take him into the nest city if he succeeded.

Meng Chao agreed to prove his ability in the Three-Dimensional Maze before joining the arrest mission in Golden Tooth Nest City. After he evaded Multi-Armed Bear Hong Li for a minute, Nie Chenglong ordered two more hunters into the maze to test Meng Chao against multiple opponents.

• Meng Chao entered the Three-Dimensional Maze wearing his Black Soul combat suit and impressed the veteran hunters with his speed and control.
• Multi-Armed Bear Hong Li pursued Meng Chao through the maze, but Meng Chao avoided the obstacles and stayed out of reach.
• When a loose steel pipe made Meng Chao fall, he escaped Hong Li’s attack and secretly weakened a pipe so Hong Li fell as well.
• Meng Chao spat blood at Hong Li to distract him, then scrambled back to the maze’s opposite side without being caught.
• Nie Chenglong stopped Zhou Chong from ending the test and ordered two more hunters into the maze, saying he needed to test Meng Chao’s limits.

Meng Chao faced a three-on-one adaptation test in the Three-Dimensional Maze against Hong Li, Mo Lan, and Xue Rui. After Xue Rui struck him with a hidden fourth projectile, the hunters sensed that Meng Chao might be far more dangerous than he appeared.

• Mo Lan joined Hong Li in pursuing Meng Chao through the maze, while Nie Chenglong explained that surviving the nest city meant facing multiple threats at once.
• Meng Chao fought Mo Lan head-on, deflected her attempts to seize him, and used a loosened steel pipe to force her to retreat.
• Xue Rui entered the maze and fired Small Steel Balls at Meng Chao, who recognized the trap behind the projectiles but pretended to fall for it.
• Xue Rui's concealed fourth Small Steel Ball struck Meng Chao in the chest, and the three hunters rushed to catch him.
• Hong Li and Mo Lan blamed Xue Rui for hitting Meng Chao too hard, while Xue Rui realized instinct had made him treat the young hunter as a deadly threat.

Meng Chao surprised three veteran hunters by turning their bead attack into an opening for a deadly counterattack. His clash with Hong Li ended with their unleashed power bringing down the Three-Dimensional Maze.

• Meng Chao used a magnetic shield and his Black Soul Combat Suit to withstand Xue Rui’s fourth bead, then launched discarded blades at the three hunters.
• Xue Rui intercepted many blades, while Mo Lan dodged the rest and Hong Li stopped most of them with a magnetic shield.
• Meng Chao predicted Hong Li’s movements, unnerved him with Fear Bomb, and struck him with a Dragon Snake Force-enhanced Demon Subduing Pestle.
• Hong Li met Meng Chao’s attack with his full strength, and their collision unleashed blast waves that shattered the maze’s glass and wind chimes.
• Meng Chao and Hong Li’s clashing Spirit Magnetic Fields shook the steel-pipe fixtures loose and collapsed the Three-Dimensional Maze.

Meng Chao impressed the veteran hunters during a spar and joined their special Hunter Squad as they pursued two chipped bandits in Golden Tooth Nest City. Equipped with experimental Nerve Glasses, he adapted to their neural data feed and began using the live surveillance map to track activity in the nest city.

• Meng Chao held off three veteran hunters for three minutes, earning their admiration and an offer from Mo Lan to join a Hunter Squad.
• Nie Chenglong warned that the two bandits implanted with chips had entered Dragon City and urged the team to move out immediately.
• Zhou Chong welcomed Meng Chao into the special Hunter Squad and gave him experimental Nerve Glasses developed by Thunder Cloud Technology.
• Meng Chao adapted to the Nerve Glasses and used their virtual map to inspect Golden Tooth Nest City and hear conversations through connected surveillance feeds.
• Nie Chenglong explained that gangs in the nest city had shared surveillance data, allowing the squad to use their cameras and digital glasses as its own eyes and ears.

Meng Chao and the veteran hunters prepared to enter Golden Tooth Nest City and track the God Transformation Capsule Refinery and the mastermind codenamed Vortex. Disguised as gang members, they reached a warehouse and met their Nest City contacts.

• Shen Yupeng warned the hunters to focus on the refinery and Vortex, not the Nest City's gray industries or its Lost Ones.
• Meng Chao reviewed the mission briefing, which described the crimes, the dangers of fighting in the crowded Nest City, and the squad's orders to locate and investigate its targets before acting.
• The hunters received three doses of Wrath Dragon Blood each, and Mo Lan gave them Disguise Gel to conceal their faces and auras.
• Zhou Chong led the disguised hunters through a secret passage into a warehouse stocked with synthetic food.
• Zhou Chong greeted the cloaked Nest City contacts with their customary exchange beneath their cloaks.