Chapter Summaries

Song Jinbo faced the Black Bone Gang’s aggressive takeover after Jin Wanhao’s death, while a terrifying aura in the Golden Tooth Gang headquarters revealed Meng Chao wielding the Golden Tooth Battle Blade. Xiong Wei prepared to exploit the gang leaders’ meeting, unaware that Meng Chao had appeared.

• Song Jinbo and the Golden Tooth Gang’s old brothers sensed a monstrous aura rising from the headquarters and rushed to the sealed Golden Blade Hall.
• Song Jinbo and the others found Meng Chao holding the Golden Tooth Battle Blade amid blazing Hell Blood Flame.
• Xiong Wei’s forces defeated the defenders of a strategic supplies warehouse, and he ordered half the supplies taken for the Black Bone Gang.
• Xiong Wei told his strategist that he planned to seize control of the nest city while outside forces were distracted, then use the Golden Tooth Gang’s destruction as leverage.
• A Black Bone Gang member reported that Song Jinbo had invited all major gang leaders to the Golden Tooth Gang headquarters to announce Jin Wanhao’s death, and Xiong Wei assumed the Golden Tooth Gang was surrendering.

Xiong Wei arrived at the Golden Tooth Gang’s headquarters hoping to gain control of Nest City, but he overheard other gangs planning a reconstruction committee with outside support. Their proposal involved Meng Chao as Nest City’s image ambassador, leaving Xiong Wei alarmed by Meng Chao’s growing influence.

• Xiong Wei arrived at the Golden Tooth Gang’s headquarters and received flattery from minor gang leaders, while second-tier gangs kept their distance.
• Xiong Wei overheard gang leaders argue that Nest City’s destruction made rebuilding and cooperation with outside forces unavoidable.
• Xiong Wei decided that leading a Nest City reconstruction organization could give him lasting control over the city.
• Xiong Wei learned that the Golden Tooth and Poison Scorpion Gangs planned a reconstruction committee and that Meng Chao and Lü Siya had pledged ten million to aid residents.
• Gang leaders praised Meng Chao and proposed that his organizations help rebuild Nest City and that he become the city’s image ambassador.

Song Jinbo told Nest City's gang leaders that Jin Wanhao had died fighting the Anomalous Beast Vortex and had secretly orchestrated Meng Chao and Lü Siya's investigation. Xiong Wei challenged the account, but Song Jinbo claimed evidence would be examined by the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts and the Superhuman Tower.

• Xiong Wei suspected that the praise for Meng Chao at the gathering was a deliberate attempt to shape public opinion.
• Song Jinbo announced that Jin Wanhao had died in the battle against Vortex, contradicting rumors that he had died helplessly in a Medical Chamber.
• Song Jinbo claimed Jin Wanhao had feigned illness to draw out enemies and had secretly asked Meng Chao and Lü Siya to uncover traitors in Nest City.
• Song Jinbo said Jin Wanhao, Meng Chao, and Lü Siya had killed Vortex in the Underground Secret Chamber and collected tissue from its remains.
• Xiong Wei questioned Song Jinbo's claims, and Song Jinbo said the remains would be examined by the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts.

Song Jinbo declared that Jin Wanhao had died defeating Vortex and named Meng Chao the Golden Tooth Gang’s new leader. Xiong Wei challenged the succession, but Meng Chao’s imposing arrival and the Golden Tooth Battle Blade showed that the struggle for Nest City had begun.

• Song Jinbo described Jin Wanhao’s heroic death in the battle against Vortex, and the hall paid tribute to him.
• Song Jinbo said Jin Wanhao’s final wish was to establish a Nest City Reconstruction Committee and have Meng Chao lead its rebuilding efforts.
• Song Jinbo revealed that Meng Chao had secretly joined the Golden Tooth Gang and announced him as its new leader.
• Xiong Wei openly rejected the succession and questioned whether Jin Wanhao would have chosen Meng Chao.
• Meng Chao entered the hall in the Golden Tooth Gang’s colors and confronted Xiong Wei with an overwhelming aura.
• Xiong Wei and the gang members noticed the Golden Tooth Battle Blade at Meng Chao’s waist.

Meng Chao demonstrated his command of Jin Wanhao’s Golden Tooth Battle Blade and secret techniques to convince the gathered gangs that he was the Golden Tooth Gang’s chosen successor. By the end, nearly everyone accepted him as the new leader, leaving “Ghost Bear” Xiong Wei under pressure to respond.

• Meng Chao unleashed the Golden Tooth Battle Blade’s blinding radiance and flooded the hall with an overwhelming Hell Blood Flame, impressing the gang leaders.
• Meng Chao struggled to unlock the blade’s Second Form, and the gathered generals assumed he had reached his limit.
• Meng Chao performed the Nine Dragons Divine Seal, amplifying his Spiritual Energy enough to transform the Golden Tooth Battle Blade into its Second Form.
• Meng Chao formed the opening stance of Jin Wanhao’s Celestial Overlord Shattering Star Strike, convincing the gang leaders that Jin Wanhao had personally taught him.
• The gang leaders accepted Meng Chao as the Golden Tooth Gang’s new leader, while all attention turned to “Ghost Bear” Xiong Wei.

Meng Chao rallied Nest City's gangs behind a Reconstruction Committee by presenting the city as part of a greater future for Dragon City and the Otherworld. He won Xiong Wei's support by offering the Black Bone Gang a leading role in reconstruction, leaving the committee poised to unite most of Nest City.

• Xiong Wei reconsidered attacking Meng Chao after he noticed the God Realm Expert Crippled Sword Ye Xiaoyue watching from the shadows.
• Meng Chao urged Nest City's gangs to abandon their divisions and join together to rebuild a stronger Nest City and expand into the wider world.
• The Rose Gang, Iron Eagle Gang, Poison Scorpion Gang, and most other gangs declared support for the Nest City Reconstruction Committee, leaving Xiong Wei and his allies isolated.
• Meng Chao invited Xiong Wei to become the committee's vice chairman and oversee construction, citing Jin Wanhao's final wishes and the Black Bone Gang's experience.
• Xiong Wei weighed his gang's future and accepted Meng Chao's offer, first breaking off their handshake and then embracing him.

After helping secure agreement to establish the Nest City Reconstruction Committee, Meng Chao collapsed from the strain and received treatment from Su Mu Lian. He learned that Leprosy Village had largely survived the attack, then denied that he and Lü Siya were a couple.

• Meng Chao collapsed backstage after using the Celestial Overlord Shattering Star Strike, and Lü Siya and Su Mu Lian helped him.
• Su Mu Lian treated Meng Chao and explained that the Hell Blood inside him remained dangerously unstable.
• Lü Siya left to handle negotiations and other arrangements for the Nest City Reconstruction Committee.
• Su Mu Lian reported that the Safe Zone and rescue efforts had saved most of Leprosy Village's residents.
• Meng Chao thanked Su Mu Lian and asked Leprosy Village to support the Reconstruction Committee.
• Su Mu Lian mistakenly called Meng Chao and Lü Siya a couple, and Meng Chao said they were only partners and comrades.

Meng Chao explained why he avoided romance with Lü Siya and asked Su Mu Lian to become Nest City’s image spokesperson. He left her with the task of telling Dragon City about Leprosy Village and helping Nest City build a new public image.

• Meng Chao reflected that his past-life memories and dreams had made him uninterested in ordinary human women, while his uncertain future with the Nine Super Enterprises made pursuing Lü Siya dangerous.
• Su Mu Lian apologized for mistaking Meng Chao and Lü Siya for a couple, and Meng Chao said he would pass her gratitude on to Lü Siya.
• Meng Chao asked Su Mu Lian to represent Nest City and help change citizens’ negative impressions of it during its reconstruction.
• Meng Chao explained that Su Mu Lian could tell citizens about Leprosy Village’s residents, their hardships, and their contributions to Dragon City.
• Su Mu Lian worried that revealing Leprosy Village would expose its residents’ appearance, but Meng Chao urged her to help Dragon City welcome them.

After persuading Su Mu Lian to help rebuild Leprosy Village, Meng Chao recovered from his exhaustion and learned that Lü Siya had secured his appointment as chairman of the Nest City Reconstruction Committee. Lü Siya warned that the gang leaders might treat him as a figurehead, then revealed Su Mu Lian had watched him sleep with the same strange expression she had.

• Su Mu Lian agreed to help raise funds and find work for Leprosy Village’s residents, and vowed to save Meng Chao at all costs.
• Meng Chao fell asleep under Su Mu Lian’s care and woke six hours later with the Hell Blood in his body under control.
• Lü Siya told Meng Chao that forty-one nest city gang leaders had formed the Nest City Reconstruction Committee and elected him its chairman.
• Lü Siya warned that the appointment depended on Meng Chao’s future strength and that the gangs might expect to use him as a figurehead.
• Meng Chao said he and Lü Siya would surprise the gang leaders, then asked why she had been staring at him.
• Lü Siya explained that Su Mu Lian had watched Meng Chao in the same thoughtful posture before she arrived.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya tried to understand Su Mu Lian’s contradictory fear, intent to eliminate him, and desire to save him, but the mystery remained unresolved. As sunlight broke through the smoke over Nest City, the chapter recounted Dragon City’s recent crises and the evolved flying monsters’ devastating aerial attacks.

• Lü Siya sensed that Su Mu Lian feared Meng Chao and had briefly considered eliminating him, though she also seemed intent on saving him.
• Meng Chao insisted he had done nothing to Su Mu Lian and decided he would not meet her alone again.
• Meng Chao opened the curtains and shared the sight of sunlight breaking through the clouds with Lü Siya and the people across Nest City.
• Dragon City faced a Beast Tide on its outskirts while insect monsters and evolved flying monsters attacked the city’s defenses.
• The evolved flying monsters dove from beyond anti-aircraft range, crashing into gun positions and populated streets with devastating force.

After the Nest City’s crisis was brought under control, Meng Chao and Lü Siya emerged to reassure Dragon City that it was safe. Nie Chenglong welcomed them back and recognized Meng Chao’s astonishing growth.

• Nie Chenglong feared the Nest City would erupt into chaos while Dragon City’s forces were stretched thin fighting the Beast Tide.
• Lü Siya’s report revealed that Meng Chao, Lü Siya, and their allies had stabilized the Nest City and captured wanted criminals and former Death Squad members.
• Crippled Sword Ye Xiaoyue praised Meng Chao and Lü Siya, giving them credit for the criminals’ capture and predicting Meng Chao would soon become a worthy opponent.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya flew golden Unpowered Gliders around the Nest City, showing soldiers and civilians that their home was safe.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya landed before Nie Chenglong, who slapped Meng Chao’s shoulder and told him that his return was what mattered.

After recounting the Nest City Battle, Meng Chao secured Nie Chenglong’s support for the Nest City Reconstruction Committee and Jin Wanhao’s inheritance. Nie Chenglong then revealed that Dragon City’s Battle of Annihilation was already costing thousands of lives, leaving Meng Chao and Lü Siya confronted with the brutality of the front lines.

• Meng Chao gave Nie Chenglong evidence of the battle against Vortex and explained why he had become chairman of the Nest City Reconstruction Committee.
• Meng Chao said Jin Wanhao had named him his sworn brother and left him his inheritance, and proposed investing most of it in Nest City’s reconstruction.
• Nie Chenglong promised the Anomalous Beasts Investigation Bureau would support Meng Chao if his evidence was genuine and help rebuild Nest City.
• Meng Chao asked about the Battle of Annihilation, and Nie Chenglong said Dragon City had suffered more than five thousand casualties in its first twenty-four hours.
• Nie Chenglong showed Meng Chao and Lü Siya images of a Forward Base overrun by monsters and footage of soldiers fighting to the death.

Nie Chenglong explained how Dragon City survived the Beast Tide’s first three days and began cautiously pushing the monsters back. After learning how close the Nest City crisis had brought humanity to disaster, Meng Chao refused to rest and chose to head to the battlefield.

• Nie Chenglong told Meng Chao that Agricultural University's Forward Base had lost most of its defenders while buying time for Dragon City to mobilize.
• Dragon City used layered defenses and upgraded Train Cannons to inflict heavy losses on the Beast Tide, while Meng Chao and Lü Siya's actions in Nest City prevented a crisis behind the front lines.
• After forty-eight hours of attacks, the Beast Tide weakened, and some monsters fled or turned on one another.
• Humanity began a cautious counterattack, advancing five to ten kilometers while clearing the battlefield and eliminating undead creatures.
• Nie Chenglong said victory was gradually tilting toward humanity and urged Meng Chao and Lü Siya to rest.
• Meng Chao refused to rest and said he needed to go to the battlefield.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya persuaded Nie Chenglong to let them join the Battle of Annihilation, arguing they were recovered and eager to earn merit. After logging into the Battle Network, they discovered their victory in Nest City had already been recorded as an exceptionally difficult mission, leaving them poised to claim enormous rewards.

• Meng Chao insisted that fighting would help him recover and asked Nie Chenglong to send him to the front lines.
• Lü Siya agreed to accompany Meng Chao, explaining that both of them needed strength, public recognition, and War Merit to secure their influence in Nest City.
• Nie Chenglong accepted their decision and activated the Battle Network System to find missions for them.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya logged into their accounts and saw their names displayed in gold with celebratory effects.
• Nie Chenglong told them he had recorded their Nest City victory, which earned them recognition for an ultra-high-difficulty mission and promised generous rewards.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya chose to reinforce Burning Island, a vital stronghold facing an overwhelming Beast Tide. As the defenders rushed to fortify it, enemy aerial attacks disrupted construction and destroyed half a Heavy Cannon position.

• Meng Chao and Lü Siya reviewed the battlefront and independently chose Burning Island as their mission.
• They saw that their teachers, classmates, and Qingtian Corporation forces were among the defenders, and agreed to reinforce the island.
• Armored Airships crash-landed supplies while engineers and student volunteers salvaged equipment and built defenses under artillery fire.
• Void-Rending Demon Eyes attacked the defenders with Mind Lightning, driving some ordinary soldiers into hallucinations.
• Void-Rending Demon Eye mutants rammed supply airships and shredded them with their tentacles, disrupting the island's defenses.
• A burning airship wreck triggered an explosion near a Heavy Cannon position, destroying half of it and killing artillerymen with flying debris.

Humanity fortified Burning Island against coordinated aerial attacks, monster vermin, and undead while preparing for the coming Beast Tide. The Agricultural University Martial Arts Department was assigned to clear and fortify the eastern slope, a key approach to the island.

• Humanity deployed armored airships, loudspeakers, anti-aircraft guns, and heavy artillery to attack Void-Rending Demon Eyes and defend its supply routes.
• Falcon-type and griffin-type monsters bombarded human positions and scattered deadly insect monsters, slowing construction and artillery operations.
• Corpses across Burning Island decayed, burst with infectious fluids, and rose as undead after the Monster Civilization’s Zombie Virus and Bloodpetal Flowers took hold.
• Fallen human warriors turned into zombies fought other undead, their remaining memories and battle songs driving them to defend their comrades.
• Humanity assigned the Agricultural University Martial Arts Department to clear the eastern slope, remove corpses, and prepare trenches, mines, grids, turrets, and anti-aircraft guns.

Duan Lian killed a reanimated monster while clearing the battlefield, and he and Xie Feng checked their rankings in the Battle of Annihilation. The chapter showed how Meng Chao’s changes had strengthened the Agricultural University Martial Arts Department and left Duan Lian and Xie Feng poised for the coming super Beast Tide.

• Duan Lian harvested a Sword Halberd Demon Pig King, then destroyed a reanimated centipede-like monster with his blades, a Flame Thrower, and grenades.
• Xie Feng flew over after hearing the undead creature scream, and Duan Lian joked that humans were the strongest undead creatures on the Another World Continent.
• Meng Chao’s actions had helped control the Northern Front’s Red Radiance Jade Mania and advance the Limit Stream and other Future Martial Arts, making the Agricultural University Martial Arts Department far stronger than in his previous life.
• Duan Lian and Xie Feng wiped out nearby undead creatures so engineering crews could establish defenses, then checked their Battle Network System rankings.
• Xie Feng praised Duan Lian’s high kill count and ranking, and Duan Lian teased him about holding back before the coming super Beast Tide.

Duan Lian and Xie Feng discussed the strongest student fighters and assumed Meng Chao was still in seclusion, while Wu Wu risked her life scouting the super Beast Tide. After Wu Wu returned safely and uploaded her intelligence, the students learned that Meng Chao had arrived.

• Duan Lian and Xie Feng compared their abilities with Wu Wu, Shao Jianqing, and Wang Dao, and discussed doubts about how much of Meng Chao's Heaven Realm breakthrough he had absorbed.
• Duan Lian told Xie Feng that Meng Chao would need years to stabilize his strength, but Xie Feng showed him a video of Meng Chao flying above a nest city with golden wings and a familiar battle saber.
• Wu Wu rode Ghost Leopard through the forest while monsters pursued them, gathering images and intelligence about the super Beast Tide for Burning Island's forces.
• Wu Wu used Ghost Leopard's gas and the Anti-Monster Mines she had planted to escape the pursuing monsters and reach the waiting force.
• Wu Wu uploaded her captured images to the battle network and saw the message that Meng Chao had arrived.

The Beast Tide launched a massive assault on Burning Island, using corpse bombs and waves of monsters to overwhelm the human defenses. Meng Chao and Lü Siya watched the battle from an Armored Airship as the human lines held and the Beast Tide began to thin.

• Chu Feixiong and his classmates guarded the Artillery Position as Shao Jianqing warned him about monster corpses falling from the sky.
• Flying monsters dropped hundreds of rotting corpses that exploded into poisonous gas and swarms of parasitic creatures across the Artillery Position.
• The Beast Tide advanced on Burning Island, with cannon fodder, armored monsters, mobile predators, and clouds of insects attacking the human defenses.
• The artillery barrage weakened after more than half an hour, and Chu Feixiong, Shao Jianqing, Wu Wu, Duan Lian, Xie Feng, and the other defenders prepared for close combat.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya watched the brutal battle from an Armored Airship as human artillery and layered defenses inflicted heavy losses on the Beast Tide.
• Meng Chao saw the formations behind the advancing monsters grow thinner, suggesting the Beast Tide was nearing exhaustion.

On the way to the front, Meng Chao concluded that the Monster Civilization was weaker than in his previous life and that Dragon City could cripple it by destroying the Beast Tide. He spotted the monsters forming an attack on a gap between human defenses, where the Crimson Dragon Army and the Super Enterprises were failing to coordinate.

• Meng Chao compared the Monster Civilization’s current strength with the forces he remembered from his previous life and realized it had lacked the resources and time to grow.
• Meng Chao resolved that humanity had to win the battle decisively, seize the spoils, and uncover the secrets behind the Monster Civilization.
• Meng Chao noticed Tyrant Mammoths gathering monsters into an arrowhead aimed at a gap between two human defensive lines on Burning Island.
• Lü Siya explained that the defensive gap lay between the Crimson Dragon Army and the Super Enterprises, whose forces lacked effective coordination.
• Meng Chao recognized that the strengthened Crimson Dragon Army and the Super Enterprises were increasingly at odds over military authority and strategy.