Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi accepted Ji Shiya as his woman, and their encounter unlocked Dongfeng-61, a globally capable missile. Afterward, Ji Shiya explained how Little Black created and controlled duplicate puppets, and confirmed that Ruan Nansheng was real.

• Ji Shiya offered to become Shen Yi's woman and help him expand his power, and Shen Yi used Explore to confirm she had no ill intentions.
• Shen Yi took Ji Shiya to the bathroom, and the system unlocked Dongfeng-61 and stored it in the System Space.
• Ji Shiya asked Shen Yi for food, then explained that Little Black stripped victims of independent consciousness to create controllable duplicates.
• Shen Yi asked whether Ruan Nansheng really existed, and Ji Shiya confirmed that she did.

Jiucai Hezi offered to help Shen Yi, but he had no work for her. Meanwhile, Fu Yunxi led an aerial assault on Mountain City's Mutant Giant Tree as Shen Yi prepared to return to Rongcheng with Huo Jin before joining the fight.

• Jiucai Hezi visited Shen Yi to offer her help, but he told her to count bricks if she was idle.
• Fu Yunxi assembled elite troops and flew armed helicopters and bombers toward Mountain City to attack the Mutant Giant Tree.
• Fu Yunxi saw that Mountain City had been consumed more severely than expected and that its Black Fog seemed denser as her forces descended.
• Shen Yi decided to return to Rongcheng first to tend to the Colored Great Tree and obtain Colored Fruits with Huo Jin's help.
• Huo Jin arrived at Shen Yi's room, resigned to the dangerous assignment and excited to ride in an armed helicopter.

Shen Yi brought Huo Jin to Rongcheng and had her use her ability to ripen a Colored Ability Fruit, while Fu Yunxi’s forces struggled to stop the Mutant Giant Tree consuming Mountain City. The chapter left Fu Yunxi’s bombers compromised by the tree’s mental interference.

• Shen Yi teleported Huo Jin to Rongcheng, where a gray wolf pack bowed to him beside the Colored Great Tree.
• Shen Yi asked Huo Jin to ripen the tree’s fruits, and she used her ability to mature one colorful fruit before exhausting herself.
• A Shadow Puppet picked the fruit and handed it to Shen Yi, who ate it.
• In Mountain City, Fu Yunxi ordered heavy weapons and other attacks against the Mutant Giant Tree as it continued devouring buildings and spreading its roots.
• The Mutant Giant Tree disrupted nearby bomber pilots with mental interference, forcing Fu Yunxi’s forces to reconsider their attack tactics.

Shen Yi stopped the Mutant Giant Tree’s assault on Mountain City and used his overwhelming mental power to make it submit to him. With the tree no longer devouring the city, Shen Yi prepared to learn more about the catastrophe through it.

• Fu Yunxi ordered the bombers and armed helicopters to cease fire after Shen Yi contacted her through their Mental Link.
• Shen Yi appeared in midair as the Mutant Giant Tree turned its vines against him.
• Shen Yi overwhelmed the tree’s mental resistance and commanded it to recognize him as its only master.
• The Mutant Giant Tree lowered its vines and stopped devouring Mountain City, prompting the people in the aircraft to celebrate.
• Shen Yi focused on the subdued tree, intending to learn more about the catastrophe through it.

After forcing the Mutant Giant Tree to submit, Shen Yi learned that the Insect Race had destroyed its home planet and ordered it to protect Mountain City. He then prepared to take an armed force to the United States, intending to conquer it, while Emily believed she was simply going home to see her family.

• Shen Yi established a Mental Link with the Mutant Giant Tree and saw memories of the Insect Race devouring its home planet.
• The Mutant Giant Tree told Shen Yi that its planet had been destroyed, and Shen Yi ordered it to protect Mountain City.
• Shen Yi returned to Rongcheng and chose the United States as his next target in his plan to unify the new world.
• Shen Yi told Fu Yunxi and the other women that he would travel to the United States, and Emily eagerly expected to visit her family.
• Shen Yi prepared bombers and armed helicopters for the journey, while Fu Yunxi realized he intended to bring military force into the United States.

Shen Yi and Fu Yunxi brought their armed forces to New York, where survivors had descended into violence and cannibalism. After landing near Steven’s Shelter, they prepared to use Emily’s knowledge of the city to proceed, while Steven realized the soldiers approaching were not from his country.

• Shen Yi observed through Telepathy as New York’s ability users and survivors preyed on one another amid the collapse of order.
• Fu Yunxi ordered the aircraft to land at an outlying stronghold so the group could assess local conditions before expanding.
• Ryan told Steven that helicopters were approaching Nassau Shelter, and Steven went outside to investigate.
• Fu Yunxi landed the armed helicopters and bombers near the Shelter, and Emily offered to lead the group through New York toward her parents.
• A group of fully armed soldiers appeared before Steven, who realized they did not seem to be from his country.

Fu Yunxi announced that her forces were taking over the shelter, and Shen Yi killed Steven with his Storm Lord ability after Steven insulted them. The shelter’s residents surrendered, and Fu Yunxi revealed that Shen Yi was her husband.

• Fu Yunxi told Steven and the shelter’s residents that her group was taking over, but Steven mocked and threatened them.
• Shen Yi used his Storm Lord ability to lift Steven into the air and shred him with a whirlwind.
• Ryan and the shelter’s residents watched Steven die, then thousands of people knelt in submission.
• Ryan respectfully invited Fu Yunxi into the shelter and agreed to discuss the takeover.
• Fu Yunxi told Shen Yi that the takeover was done, and Shen Yi stepped out of the helicopter as the residents recognized him as Lord Shen.

Shen Yi took control of Steven’s failing Shelter and settled in while his people reinforced it. Elsewhere, Andre reported mysterious aircraft activity to a hostile New York group, and Shen Yi encountered a silver-glowing figure singing in the Black Fog.

• Shen Yi claimed command of the Shelter, and Ryan and the others submitted to him after Steven’s death.
• Fu Yunxi ordered the Shelter reinforced and its top-floor rooms prepared for Shen Yi, who settled in with his maids.
• Andre escaped a colossal Mutated Creature and reported that bombers and armed helicopters had flown toward a suburban Shelter.
• The men in Times Square questioned Andre about the aircraft and discussed striking first if they encountered intruders.
• Shen Yi surveyed ruined New York and used Telepathy to notice a slender, silver-glowing figure singing within the Black Fog.

Shen Yi identified Tyle Allison as a remarkable woman whose singing calmed Mutated Creatures, and decided to claim her. At Times Square Shelter, Marquis rejected Leo and Sophia’s request for cooperation unless they merged Shelters, and the twins encountered a sudden burst of gunfire as they left.

• Shen Yi observed Tyle Allison singing and inferred that her ability could purify or calm Mutated Creatures.
• Times Square Shelter leaders discussed the unknown force above New York and agreed they needed to learn its intentions.
• Marquis met Leo and Sophia, then proposed merging their Shelters in exchange for help with the Mutated Black Bear.
• Leo rejected Marquis’s terms, and he and Sophia left Times Square Shelter without an agreement.
• Gunfire suddenly erupted beside Leo and Sophia as they traveled back, putting them on alert.

Leo and Sophia witnessed Lord Shen’s heavily armed followers drive off the Mutant Centipede, while Tyle struggled alone for food and water until Shen Yi appeared and offered her a lavish meal. Tyle recognized that Shen Yi wanted something from her, but the food left her astonished.

• Leo pulled Sophia into hiding as the wounded Mutant Centipede fled from tanks emerging through the Black Fog.
• The tank crew praised Lord Shen, and Leo and Sophia realized the force was likely connected to the bomber squadron they had seen before.
• Tyle returned to her shelter and forced herself to eat a plant branch while wishing for a normal meal.
• Shen Yi appeared in Tyle’s shelter and said he could grant her wish, then warned her not to try her Purification Ability on him.
• Tyle guessed Shen Yi wanted her, and he snapped his fingers to produce burgers, eel rice, roast chicken, lobster, and fruit.
• Tyle stared at Shen Yi in astonishment after seeing the lavish food he had offered.

Shen Yi gained the Space Slash ability after meeting Tyle, while Leo and Sophia decided to seek shelter with his convoy. The chapter ended with Ryan’s armed team confronting Leo’s group in the Black Fog.

• Shen Yi gave Tyle water and clean clothes, then became intimate with her and received several Space Slash Ability Fruits.
• Shen Yi consumed a Space Slash Ability Fruit and discovered that the ability could attack targets within 50 meters.
• Tyle asked how Shen Yi had so many Ability Fruits, and he falsely claimed they were common across Xia Country.
• Leo and Sophia abandoned plans to cooperate with Marquis and followed Shen Yi’s convoy, hoping to join its Shelter.
• Ryan’s team spotted Leo’s group and aimed their guns at them, then demanded that Leo state his purpose.

Leo and Sophia persuaded Ryan to take them to his Shelter, while Shen Yi encountered a strange time loop in New York and discovered a mysterious Time Plunderer named Jiang Huo. Jiang Huo vanished before Shen Yi could investigate further, leaving him intrigued by the anomaly.

• Leo and Sophia claimed that the Times Square administrators had threatened them, and Ryan agreed to bring them to his Shelter after warning them not to cause trouble.
• Shen Yi and Tyle left Tyle’s home and walked through New York, where Shen Yi used Telepathy to survey the streets.
• Shen Yi and Tyle watched a man in a tattered suit repeat the same movements and fall in the same place, while the surrounding world continued to change.
• Shen Yi attacked the looping man with ice spikes, but the man did not react to the external assault.
• Shen Yi used Telepathy and detected Jiang Huo, a 279-year-old Time Plunderer, before she glitched into static and disappeared.

Leo and Sophia arrived at Shen Yi’s powerful suburban shelter, where Leo sought to join and warned him about Marquis. Shen Yi exposed Leo’s lie and declared that he wanted Sophia.

• Ryan escorted Leo and Sophia into the shelter and told Shen Yi that the manager of the 37th Street Apartment wanted to join.
• Shen Yi arrived with Tyle and ordered Ryan to take Leo and Sophia to the conference room.
• Leo told Shen Yi that Marquis wanted to join forces against the shelter and claimed he wanted nothing to do with Marquis.
• Shen Yi called Leo a liar, then looked at Sophia and said he wanted her.

Shen Yi’s full younger sister Sophia agreed to his offer while Leo struggled with the decision. Outside the city, Marquis sent a mutant horde against Shen Yi’s Shelter, but its defenders annihilated the attackers with heavy weapons and bombers, leaving Marquis stunned and Andre worried.

• Sophia agreed to Shen Yi’s offer, while Leo looked conflicted about his sister’s decision.
• Marquis ordered Andre’s team to unleash mutants on the Shelter using drones carrying blood bags and pheromone inducer.
• The Shelter’s scouts detected the approaching horde, and its guns and tanks destroyed mutants before they could reach the defenses.
• The assault squad captain deployed bombers, which dropped bombs on the densest parts of the horde and vaporized countless mutants.
• Marquis refused to believe the Shelter could keep firing, while Andre realized they had attacked a formidable opponent.

After a zombie horde was wiped out, Shen Yi sent an assault squad to retaliate against the Shelter that had lured the zombies toward him. Marquis and Andre fled back toward Times Square under fire, only to see bombers arrive over the Shelter.

• The suburban Shelter assault squad reported that it had eliminated the zombie horde and tracked the drones, then set out to attack the Shelter behind them.
• Fu Yunxi told Shen Yi that a Shelter had lured zombies with blood bags, and Shen Yi ordered her squad to leave no survivors.
• Shen Yi told Fu Yunxi to take Sophia to wash up, and Sophia followed her while Leo accepted that handing over his sister was necessary for their survival.
• Marquis and Andre hurried toward their Shelter, but Shen Yi's forces caught up and attacked them with gunfire and snipers.
• As Marquis and Andre neared Times Square, bombers appeared overhead, and someone rushed into the management meeting to warn that the bombers had arrived.

After Times Square was destroyed, Fu Yunxi expanded her Shelter’s influence and reported that people were becoming trapped in ghostly loops, which Shen Yi connected to the Time Plunderer. Meanwhile, Shen Yi considered bringing Fei Mi to meet the elusive woman, while Jimmy’s Shelter struggled to find help against a murderous organization.

• Marquis and his people watched as bombers bombarded Times Square, reducing it to a crater and destroying the surrounding area.
• Fu Yunxi expanded the outskirts Shelter from around two thousand people to thirty or forty thousand and began advancing toward New York City Center.
• Fu Yunxi told Shen Yi that their teams had encountered people trapped in ghostly loops, and Shen Yi suspected the Time Plunderer was responsible.
• Shen Yi considered bringing Fei Mi to approach the Time Plunderer, while Fu Yunxi promised to monitor the strange incidents.
• Jimmy learned that the authorities still had not responded to his pleas for help against a murderous organization targeting survivors.

With gunfire drawing near his Shelter, Jimmy went looking for supplies and met Scarlett’s group. They agreed to cooperate and reached a stocked hotel warehouse, where they began gathering its contaminated supplies.

• Jimmy put his Shelter on alert and ordered his people to prepare to evacuate as gunfire and explosions grew closer.
• Scarlett led her group through the Black Fog to search for supplies near Times Square.
• Jimmy met Scarlett and told her a hostile Shelter near Wall Street had been slaughtering survivors and taking territory.
• Scarlett proposed that their groups join forces and split whatever supplies they found, and Jimmy agreed.
• Joe used his ability to see through the Black Fog and confirmed the warehouse was safe to enter.
• The groups entered the stocked hotel warehouse, and Jimmy drank contaminated mineral water.

Shen Yi rescued Scarlett Johnny from a swarm of Mutated Creatures and introduced himself. The other survivors remained trapped as the attack continued.

• Jimmy and his group found supplies in a warehouse before Mutated Creatures suddenly attacked them.
• Jimmy used his flame ability to hold off the creatures while Scarlett and the others tried to escape.
• Shen Yi detected Scarlett Johnny with the system and saw her surrounded by Mutated Creatures.
• A golden beam disintegrated the creatures threatening Scarlett, and Shen Yi appeared behind her.
• Scarlett asked Shen Yi if he had saved her, and he introduced himself.

Shen Yi agreed to save Scarlett Johnny’s teammates only if she followed him, and Scarlett accepted as the mutants closed in. Shen Yi then used his Space Slash ability to restrain the mutants throughout the warehouse, leaving the survivors unharmed.

• Scarlett Johnny asked Shen Yi to save her teammates and offered him the warehouse supplies, but he dismissed them as trash.
• Shen Yi demanded that Scarlett follow him in exchange for saving the group, and warned her that her teammates had only seconds left.
• With Joe and the others cornered by mutants, Scarlett agreed to Shen Yi’s condition.
• Shen Yi spread golden grids through the warehouse, immobilizing the mutants without harming the survivors.
• Joe escaped the boxes, Jimmy and the others saw that Shen Yi had restrained the mutants, and Jimmy walked toward him.

Shen Yi rescued Scarlett and her group from the mutants, prompting Scarlett to declare him her boyfriend and Joe to resent their relationship. After Shen Yi wiped out the mutant horde, Scarlett celebrated his power, unaware that he was disgusted by her affection.

• Scarlett accepted Shen Yi as her new boyfriend after he saved the group, while Joe angrily confronted her about it.
• Shen Yi threatened Joe, who backed down because he feared Shen Yi's power.
• Jimmy invited Shen Yi to join their Shelter, offering him one full meal every three days, but Shen Yi ignored the offer.
• Shen Yi used Space Slash to slice the mutants into a bloody mist.
• Scarlett called Shen Yi amazing and kissed him, while he concealed his disgust.