Chapter Summaries

Li Chen’s punch revealed that he had awakened the Small Universe and reached Level 9, astonishing the Shadow Organization team, but Mo Yue easily blocked his attack. Leng Yan pressed Mo Yue while Li Chen faced her devastating sword aura, leaving the gap between him and a Level 13 powerhouse clear.

• Leng Yan predicted that Li Chen had awakened the Small Universe, and her team members questioned how he had advanced so quickly.
• Mo Yue clashed with Li Chen’s punch and emerged unharmed, then sent a sword aura toward Li Chen and the two Zombie Kings.
• Leng Yan pursued Mo Yue as she tried to escape through a Space-Time Tunnel and struck at her left thigh.
• Mo Yue counterattacked Leng Yan, and the Shadow Organization team opened fire to protect their captain.
• Li Chen watched Mo Yue’s sword aura approach and wondered whether he remained insignificant before a Level 13 powerhouse.

Li Chen tested Mo Yue’s devastating sword strike and realized his current cellular regeneration might not save him from atomic-level destruction. He decided to strengthen his Regeneration talent and attributes, but the enormous resource costs left him calculating how much Evolution Energy he would need.

• The First and Second Generation Zombie Kings pulled Li Chen away from Mo Yue’s incoming sword strike, which carved a vast abyss into the ground.
• Li Chen admitted he had stood still to test the strike’s power, then reconsidered when he realized his regeneration might not protect him from atomic destruction.
• Li Chen checked his Level 3 Regeneration talent and found that upgrading it required fifty quadrillion Evolution Energy and millions of high-tier zombie Energy Crystal Cores.
• Li Chen asked Noah about his Advanced Evolution Fluid and learned that he had over 160 million bottles, far fewer than the roughly 25 million bottles needed for the talent upgrade.
• Li Chen calculated that maximizing his attributes would require an enormous amount of Evolution Energy, and he marveled at how costly advancement became beyond Gene Evolution Tier 10.

Li Chen questioned Noah about where it obtained the Evolution Energy behind his rewards and whether it came from plundering life. Noah explained that its energy came from harvesting stars and other high-energy planets, leaving Li Chen to conclude that the Prite Civilization had come to Earth to exploit humanity’s Small Universes.

• Li Chen realized that Gene Evolvers relied on energy taken from zombies, crystals, and other sources, and suspected Earth’s catastrophe was part of a wider energy-plundering scheme.
• Li Chen asked Noah where it had obtained the Evolution Resources it provided him.
• Noah said its energy came from technologically harvesting planets and stars in accordance with the Joint Regulations for Early and Intermediate Civilizations of the Universe.
• Li Chen reasoned that the Prite Civilization had invaded Earth to awaken humans’ Small Universes and steal the immense energy they produced.

Li Chen concluded that the Prite Civilization had invaded Earth to awaken and harvest the Small Universe potential inside humans, rather than to take Earth's resources. He suspected Mo Li and Mo Yue had been deceived and resolved to stop the Prite Civilization's plan.

• Noah told Li Chen that the Prite Civilization could harness planetary and stellar energy, while plundering biological energy was an inefficient, primitive method that violated cosmic rules.
• Li Chen inferred that advanced civilizations once plundered living beings but later shifted to more efficient energy sources, and that a powerful authority enforced laws across the universe.
• Li Chen became ninety percent certain that the Prite Civilization wanted Earth's humans' Small Universe potential, not the planet's ordinary resources or energy.
• Li Chen suspected that Mo Li and Mo Yue had been deceived about their mission to help humans evolve and collect at least fifty thousand humans who had reached Gene Evolution Level 10.
• Li Chen connected Level 10 Gene Evolution to awakening a Small Universe and resolved to intervene in the Prite Civilization's plan.

Li Chen evolved his Regeneration Talent to Level 4 and prepared to raise all his attributes to their maximum. Meanwhile, Leng Yan and her team remained locked in a constrained battle with Mo Yue until the aliens’ Star Destroyer Mothership support fleet arrived.

• Li Chen converted thirty million bottles of Advanced Evolution Fluid into sixty quadrillion Evolution Energy.
• Li Chen evolved his Regeneration Talent to Level 4, gaining enhanced resilience, regeneration, and a chance to resist mental attacks.
• Li Chen sent the First Generation Zombie King and the Second Generation Zombie King away, then ordered Noah to raise all his attributes to their maximum.
• Leng Yan and her team fought Mo Yue while limiting their attacks to avoid destroying Y Province.
• Leng Yan spotted the aliens’ Star Destroyer Mothership support fleet arriving in the sky.

Leng Yan and her allies divided their forces to pursue Mo Yue while returning to defend the Space Shelter from six Star Destroyer Motherships. As Li Chen raised his Gene Evolution Tier 10 attributes to their maximum, his unleashed energy flattened the mountains and forest around him and summoned a massive storm.

• Leng Yan and the others sensed two more Star Destroyer Motherships arriving, bringing the enemy fleet around Earth to six ships.
• Leng Yan used her future-prediction ability to learn Mo Yue's escape route, and Squad Leader 002 offered to lead four others in an ambush while Leng Yan returned to the Main Camp.
• Mo Yue opened a spatial passage and escaped after Leng Yan's Golden Sword Qi slash missed, unaware that Squad Leader 002's team was waiting along her route.
• Leng Yan and four teammates rushed back to support the Space Shelter as Squad Leader 002 and the remaining four pursued Mo Yue.
• Li Chen raised his Gene Evolution Tier 10 attributes to the maximum, flattening nearby mountains and forest as dark clouds gathered into a huge energy storm above him.

Li Chen struggled to control the immense power he had gained at Gene Evolution Tier 10, while more than a thousand International Shelter commanders unknowingly consumed Hua Ju Laboratory’s harmful Inferior Evolution Fluid. The commanders began noticing its strange taste, but most kept drinking and soon started suffering its effects.

• Li Chen suppressed his rampaging energy and realized his awakened Small Universe let his fists strike targets nearly a thousand kilometers away.
• At Hua Ju Laboratory headquarters, Mo Yue’s barrier concealed the shelter commanders as they underwent breakthroughs using Inferior Evolution Fluid distributed by Ma Gudian.
• Ma Gudian left the commanders, knowing the laboratory’s inferior product could cause severe harm and turn people into monsters.
• The commanders celebrated the seemingly endless supply of Evolution Fluid and drank bottle after bottle.
• The commanders noticed the fluid tasted spoiled or strange, but most dismissed the danger and continued drinking it.
• The Inferior Evolution Fluid entered their bodies in large quantities, and its negative effects began to emerge.

The Decision Makers at Hua Ju Laboratory drank hundreds of bottles of Inferior Evolution Fluid and transformed into powerful monsters, while Mo Yue was ambushed after leaving a space tunnel. She was driven into five elemental attacks and badly injured.

• The Decision Makers mocked each other’s new animal traits until one swallowed another and gained his energy.
• The Decision Makers realized the Evolution Fluid was defective, but its effects had already begun, killing some and turning many into enormous monsters.
• Mo Yue sensed the auras from Hua Ju Laboratory after traveling through space tunnels and stopped to rest.
• Five elemental attacks rushed toward Mo Yue, and an unseen attacker kicked her toward them before she could escape through another tunnel.
• Mo Yue raised a Mental Power shield, but the five attacks struck it and made her spit blood.

Mo Yue fought the five Shadow Organization members who had ambushed her before, revealing that she had held back in the Dragon Kingdom. Their Small Universe Sixth Sense let them predict her movements, but Mo Yue’s greater speed kept either side from gaining the upper hand.

• Mo Yue recognized Shadow Organization members No. 002 through No. 006 and wondered how they had found her in the spatial tunnels.
• No. 002 attacked, and Mo Yue revealed that she had restrained her Level 13 Gene Evolution power to avoid destroying Li Chen's Main Camp.
• The five members used their Small Universe Sixth Sense to predict Mo Yue’s movements and intercept her surprise attack.
• Mo Yue realized the Shadow Organization could predict her actions, but she moved faster than their attacks and escaped their counterattacks.
• Mo Yue and the five members faced off, each unable to defeat the other, and Mo Yue decided the drawn-out fight was not worth her time.

Mo Yue fought the Shadow Organization’s five members, but their abilities trapped and badly injured her while 002 and 003 were also wounded in a spatial passage. After surviving a furious barrage, Mo Yue unleashed her Mental Power across the sky and swallowed the enemies.

• Mo Yue tried to use her speed to strike down the enemies, but 005 blocked her attack and 002 cut off her escape.
• The team trapped Mo Yue in a Thunder Cage, and 002 and 003 intercepted her attempt to flee through a spatial passage, only to emerge severely injured.
• 006 struck Mo Yue with lightning while she remained trapped, and 002 ordered the others to take her back for treatment before fainting.
• 005 foresaw Mo Yue’s next escape attempt, so the three remaining members bombarded her with lightning, flames, and wind blades for about ten minutes.
• Mo Yue survived the barrage, revealed that she recovered from injuries faster than her enemies, and unleashed Mental Power that swallowed them.

After defeating Shadow Organization member 004 and four others at sea, Mo Yue captured them and left. At Hua Ju Laboratory Headquarters, decision makers transformed by Inferior Evolution Fluid rampaged while allied shelter leaders watched and discussed the ongoing selection.

• Mo Yue emerged battered from the sea battle, carrying unconscious member 004, then brought out four more unconscious Shadow Organization members and opened a spatial tunnel to take them away.
• At Hua Ju Laboratory Headquarters, Ma Gudian’s order to give more than a thousand International Shelter decision makers Inferior Evolution Fluid turned most of them into powerful monsters.
• The transformed decision makers retained their memories and attacked Hua Ju Laboratory, killing staff, wrecking facilities, and seeking still greater power.
• Leaders from several allied shelters watched the chaos on surveillance footage while consuming pure Evolution Resources; Trujillo mocked the decision makers who had refused to cooperate.
• El Solano questioned why the monsters were being kept trapped, and Toraevsky suggested they were still in a selection phase as Alex watched in disgust.

Decision Makers from several shelters fought over Evolution Resources, with Toraevsky and Trujillo leading a tense standoff. Just as El Solano tried to mediate, the room’s space rippled and everyone became alert.

• Alex looked down on Toraevsky while drinking Evolution Fluid, as Toraevsky seized the bowl of Tier 9 Energy Crystal Cores.
• Toraevsky rejected complaints from the Maple Leaf Kingdom and Kangaroo Kingdom Decision Makers and kept eating the shared cores.
• Trujillo confronted Toraevsky after discovering the bowl was nearly empty, and Toraevsky accused him of secretly hoarding cores earlier.
• Trujillo rallied other Decision Makers against Toraevsky, while Toraevsky stood his ground and accused Trujillo of acting like a boss.
• El Solano tried to calm both sides by reminding them that Li Chen, the Star-Level Shelter, and the Dragon Kingdom were their common enemies.
• The room’s space rippled, putting every Decision Maker on alert.

Mo Yue arrived at the International Shelter with five unconscious captives after a fight with Li Chen left her badly injured. She intimidated the Decision Makers into leaving, then locked up the captives and began recovering while wondering how the Ancient Earthlings had wounded her so severely.

• Mo Yue opened a passage into the room and emerged with five unconscious captives, barely managing to stay upright.
• The Decision Makers considered killing Mo Yue and seizing Hua Ju Laboratory, but her aura frightened them into backing down.
• Trujillo and the other Decision Makers left after Mo Yue ordered them out.
• Mo Yue collapsed, bound the captives, and locked them in the basement.
• Mo Yue drank Evolution Fluid, but her damaged cells did not recover, and she questioned the Ancient Earthlings' power.

Mo Yue discovered that the Ancient Earthlings’ Small Universe attacks had destroyed the insides of her cells, preventing her from healing, though consuming Evolution Energy slowly began to repair them. Outside her room, Trujillo urged the shelter Decision Makers to attack her while she was injured, but El Solano refused.

• Mo Yue examined her injuries and discovered that the attacks had destroyed many of her cells from within at nearly the atomic level.
• Mo Yue realized that Mo Li had taken a similar attack meant for her, and wondered how Mo Li had survived and joined Li Chen’s Star-Level Shelter.
• Mo Yue consumed Evolution Fluid and Energy Crystal Cores until her damaged cells began to repair slowly.
• Trujillo asked the Decision Makers whether they had seen Mo Yue’s condition and urged them to attack her and seize control.
• El Solano refused to join the operation, saying he only wanted to grow stronger quietly.

Trujillo abandoned his plan to attack the injured Mo Yue, and the shelter Decision Makers turned to Hua Ju Laboratory’s Evolution Rooms while its transformed fighters continued killing one another. Li Chen awakened at Gene Evolution Tier 10 Peak Stage, learned that the Shadow Organization’s teams had gone missing from his perception, and began wondering what had happened to them.

• Alex warned the Decision Makers that Mo Yue might be feigning weakness, and Toraevsky stayed silent rather than act as Trujillo’s weapon.
• Trujillo gave up on attacking Mo Yue and led his followers to collect new Evolution Resources, while the other Decision Makers entered Hua Ju Laboratory’s Evolution Rooms.
• The transformed Decision Makers eliminated weaker evolvers, leaving powerful survivors who might help Hua Ju Laboratory oppose the Star-Level Shelter.
• Li Chen awoke at Gene Evolution Tier 10 Peak Stage and discovered that he could not sense Mo Yue or the Shadow Organization members.
• The First Generation Zombie King told Li Chen that one Shadow Organization team had returned to the Dyson Swarm while another had pursued Mo Yue and disappeared beyond perception range.
• Li Chen wondered whether something had happened to the missing Shadow Organization team because its members had not come looking for him.

Li Chen learned that Mo Yue had defeated and captured the five Shadow Organization members, while the Shadow Organization could not help because it was facing danger in space. He returned to the Star-Level Shelter with Mo Li and the two Zombie Kings, ordering them to deal with the shelters, as survivors watched them appear in the sky.

• Mo Li told Li Chen that Mo Yue had defeated and captured the five Shadow Organization members, whom she called Ancient Earthlings.
• Mo Li apologized for not helping the captured men, but Li Chen told her it was not her fault.
• Li Chen called the Shadow Organization and learned its members knew about the capture but could not assist because they were in danger.
• Li Chen ordered Mo Li and the two Zombie Kings to return with him and deal with the shelters.
• Li Chen and the others appeared in the sky outside the Star-Level Shelter, where survivors had been worrying about him.

Li Chen returned unharmed after defeating Mo Yue, and Noah broadcast his survival worldwide. The victory rallied survivors to the Star-Level Shelter and caused small shelters that had opposed it to reconsider their allegiance.

• The survivors at the Star-Level Shelter saw Li Chen return safely and celebrated his victory over Mo Yue.
• Li Chen ordered Noah to broadcast footage of him worldwide so survivors could see that he had won.
• Survivors across the world watched the livestream and praised Li Chen and the Star-Level Shelter.
• Leaders of small shelters recognized Mo Yue as Lord Mo Yue of Hua Ju Laboratory and questioned their decision to oppose Li Chen.
• Small shelters around the world began abandoning plans to resist the Dragon Nation and the Star-Level Shelter.

After Li Chen survived his battle with Mo Yue, shelters began reconsidering their ties to the Star-Level Shelter, including Gao Tian Shelter, which faced an invasion while Liao Gao Tian weighed making peace. Hua Ju Laboratory summoned Liao Gao Tian to a meeting, and he publicly declared that Li Chen and the Star-Level Shelter had to be eliminated.

• Shelters that had learned the truth about Hua Ju Laboratory began drafting surrender and ceasefire requests, while Gao Tian Shelter remained caught in a battle with Strongman Shelter, which claimed to be answering Li Chen's call.
• Liao Gao Tian asked his commanders to assess Mo Yue's and Li Chen's strength, and they realized Li Chen had likely defeated an opponent above Gene Evolution Tier 10.
• Liao Gao Tian prepared to call a ceasefire and contact the Star-Level Shelter, but Hua Ju Laboratory interrupted the livestream and summoned him to a meeting with resources promised.
• Liao Gao Tian told his commanders that Li Chen and the Star-Level Shelter were obstacles to Earth's progress and immortality, and insisted they had to be eliminated.

After Li Chen’s global livestream triggered a mass migration toward the Star-Level Shelter, he ordered the shelter to expand inspections and provide refugees with food and water. Noah reported that 1,197 Dragon Kingdom shelters remained hostile while 2,248 had surrendered or proposed peace talks, and Li Chen questioned Mo Li and the commanders about why hostile shelters had not been swept away.

• Liao Gao Tian and other shelter leaders backed Hua Ju Laboratory and declared the Star-Level Shelter and Li Chen their enemies to gain Evolution Resources.
• Hundreds of millions of survivors crowded the Province Y Border Barrier, hoping to join the Star-Level Shelter.
• Xu Ruoxi warned Li Chen that the shelter lacked enough personnel and capacity to process the incoming refugees.
• Li Chen ordered more inspection gates and troops, strict identity checks, and food and water airdrops for the survivors.
• Noah reported that 1,197 shelters remained hostile and 2,248 had surrendered or proposed Peace Talks.
• Li Chen asked Mo Li and the other commanders why they had not already swept through the hostile shelters.

Li Chen learned that hostile shelters had captured civilians and were protected by Energy Shields, so he went to Sunset Shelter to take charge of the siege. He identified the shield’s weakness to mental attacks, but the commanders admitted they lacked the strength to break it.

• Xu Ruoxi told Li Chen that hostile shelters were resisting behind Energy Shields and holding large numbers of civilian survivors hostage.
• Li Chen watched footage of the captives, grew furious, and chose Sunset Shelter as his next target.
• Li Chen, Mo Li, Xu Ruoxi, and the two Zombie Kings used Space Movement to reach the siege headquarters near Sunset Shelter.
• A commander explained that the troops were probing the Energy Shield to find a weakness and focus their firepower.
• Li Chen recognized the shield as vulnerable to mental attacks, and a commander said their combined Mental Power had not been strong enough to break through.
• Mo Li silently activated her Mental Power.