Chapter Summaries

Bai Yun'er delivered Chu Han’s message to Su Xing and Lu Hongsheng, while He Shang rescued Xie Ding on his way to find Chu Han. After passing the S-rank assessment, Chu Han recorded his result and postponed entering the dimensional space point until he was ready.

• Bai Yun'er told Su Xing and Lu Hongsheng to gather in Anluo City next March, and Su Xing calculated how much equipment they could carry from Ye Mo’s estate.
• He Shang spotted Xie Ding buried beneath the snow, dug him out, and took him along on his journey to find Chu Han.
• Chu Han passed the S-rank third-stage assessment and asked to rest before entering the dimensional space point.
• The Assessment Stone Wall let Chu Han record his result and return later for the S+ assessment, and Chu Han appeared in the icy lake as his ranking information changed.

Chu Han earned first place on the Tier 3 Battle Power Ranking with an S rating, alarming Lu Bingze and stirring a dispute over his general rank in Shangjing Survivor Base. As the base’s leaders debated stripping his title, Chu Han entered the Tier 3 Assessment Stone Wall again.

• A Tier 2 Evolver emerged from an Assessment Stone Wall after failing, and Lu Bingze discussed Chu Han’s long-held first place on the Tier 2 ranking with him.
• Chu Han’s name disappeared from the Tier 2 ranking and appeared first on the Tier 3 ranking with an S overall rating, leading Lu Bingze to suspect he was the mysterious Tier 3 Evolver who had taken his crystals.
• News of Chu Han’s Tier 3 result reached a meeting in Shangjing Survivor Base, where his opponents argued that his S rating did not justify his rank of general.
• Commander Mu noted that Chu Han had earned an S on his first attempt, but the gathered leaders continued debating whether to demote him.
• Chu Han entered the Tier 3 Assessment Stone Wall again and agreed to connect to the alternate-dimensional spatial point.

As Shangjing Survivor Base debated stripping Chu Han of his general rank, his Tier 3 Battle Power Ranking assessment rose from S to S+. The stunned officials abandoned the vote to verify the result, leaving Chu Han’s position unresolved.

• Officials argued that Chu Han was unworthy of being a general, and Commander Mu called for a vote on dismissing him.
• Luo Ming counted the real-name ballots and found that at least fifty officials supported stripping Chu Han of his rank.
• A reporter rushed in to announce that Chu Han’s Tier 3 ranking had changed to S+.
• The officials reacted in shock, and Zhuang Hong led the group out to check the ranking for themselves.
• Commander Mu and Luo Ming remained in the conference hall as the meeting dispersed.

Commander Mu asked Luo Ming to help safeguard Huaxia and sent Zheng Tao to find He Feng, while Chu Han earned a third consecutive S+ evaluation and took first place on the Tier 3 Battle Power Ranking. After emerging exhausted from the dimensional space point, Chu Han celebrated with Wang Cai over the twenty thousand Points they had gained.

• Commander Mu asked Luo Ming to help carry Huaxia forward, and Luo Ming agreed.
• Commander Mu assigned Zheng Tao a helicopter and ordered him to find He Feng and bring him to Shangjing to report to Luo Ming.
• Chu Han's S+ evaluation appeared at the top of the Tier 3 Battle Power Ranking, leaving Shangjing's officials shaken and the base abuzz with admiration.
• Chen Shaoye praised Chu Han as his boss, and Luo Ming taunted those who had opposed Chu Han's position.
• Chu Han emerged from the Assessment Stone Wall exhausted but healed, and he and Wang Cai celebrated gaining twenty thousand Points.

Chu Han obtained the third Reforging Fragment and earned an S+ rating to claim the top spot on the Tier 3 Battle Power Ranking. He fooled Lu Bingze and the others about his identity as the ranked fighter, while a group of uninvited guests arrived at the village.

• Chu Han obtained a crystal worth twenty thousand Points and the third Reforging Fragment, bringing him closer to waking his mother.
• Lu Bingze and the other Evolvers marveled at Chu Han’s S+ rating and first-place position on the Tier 3 Battle Power Ranking.
• Chu Han emerged and claimed his name was Wang Cai and that he had never taken the assessment, leaving the group confused.
• Chu Han told the group that even Shangjing Survivor Base could not provide him several hundred Tier 2 Crystals a day, and Lu Bingze dismissed his suspicions about him.
• Chu Han and the group headed back, while a group of uninvited guests arrived at the village they had left earlier.

Bi Tian led a horde of more than five hundred zombies into a village and slaughtered its inhabitants while feasting on them. Zhang Bohan and Zeng Tianyi stayed hidden in her tavern, where Feng Chenzi appeared and claimed her side was the safest place; Zhang Bohan wondered whether he was an Enhancer like her.

• Bi Tian gathered several dozen zombies under his control and led a horde of more than five hundred toward the village.
• Bi Tian and the zombies overran the village, killing its inhabitants as Bi Tian devoured human flesh and the black growths on his arms swelled.
• Zhang Bohan hid in her tavern with Zeng Tianyi, and the zombies passed by without detecting them.
• Feng Chenzi stumbled into the tavern, startled Zhang Bohan, and claimed that a fortune-telling guidance had led him to her as the safest place.
• After the zombie horde moved away, Zhang Bohan questioned Feng Chenzi's identity and wondered whether he was an Enhancer like her.

Bi Tian discovered Zhang Bohan, Feng Chenzi, and Zeng Tianyi hiding in the tavern and revealed that he was a talking Tier 2 Abomination. As the Evolvers returned to the massacred village, Chu Han charged into the zombie horde and demonstrated speed and power that led them to suspect he had reached Tier 4.

• Bi Tian entered the tavern and exposed Zhang Bohan and Feng Chenzi, whose abilities had kept the zombies from detecting them.
• Bi Tian ordered the zombies under his control to guard the tavern while he confronted the three survivors.
• Lu Bingze and the other Evolvers returned to the village and found it devastated by a zombie horde.
• Chu Han charged into the horde and killed a ring of zombies with a single axe strike too fast for the Evolvers to follow.
• A Tier 2 Evolver concluded that Chu Han was likely Tier 4, and Lu Bingze wondered if the fog had helped him advance.

Lu Bingze left to pursue advancement while Bi Tian cornered Zhang Bohan, Zeng Tianyi, and Feng Chenzi in the tavern. Chu Han arrived, struck Bi Tian down, and identified him as a Ghost Species, leaving Bi Tian shocked to learn the zombies outside had already been destroyed.

• Lu Bingze ran toward the rear, and several Evolvers followed him while others stayed to watch Wang Cai fight the zombies.
• Bi Tian terrorized Zhang Bohan, Zeng Tianyi, and Feng Chenzi, then demanded to know who could keep zombies from sensing them.
• Feng Chenzi and Zhang Bohan argued to stall Bi Tian until Chu Han burst in and sent him crashing through the wall.
• Bi Tian recognized Chu Han and accidentally revealed he had expected him to go left.
• Chu Han explained that Bi Tian was a Ghost Species, an alien species that consumed its own kind and grew something inside its body.
• Chu Han pointed outside to the destroyed horde, and Bi Tian cried out in disbelief that he had heard nothing.

Chu Han killed Bi Tian after the mutant’s body transformed into a Ghost Species, then had his corpse burned. As the surviving Evolvers praised Chu Han and asked to follow him, he told Xiao Kun that he did not know him.

• Bi Tian’s arms burst open and revealed two parasitic, fanged creatures, which terrified everyone in the tavern except Chu Han and Zeng Tianyi.
• Chu Han asked Bi Tian why he had eaten a mutant, then killed him before he could answer; the parasites began devouring Bi Tian’s corpse until Chu Han destroyed them.
• Chu Han ordered Bi Tian’s body burned, and Zhang Bohan brought alcohol and firewood to carry out the task.
• The Evolvers who had stayed behind returned after seeing the hundreds of zombies Chu Han had killed and praised his strength.
• A Tier 2 Evolver named Xiao Kun asked to follow Chu Han, who drank Zhang Bohan’s liquor and replied that he did not know him.

Chu Han tested Xiao Kun and his companions by demanding they reach Anluo City and find Yang Tian within three months. Lu Bingze returned, recognized Chu Han, and begged to join him, leaving Chu Han wondering how he had learned his identity.

• Chu Han asked Xiao Kun where Lu Bingze had gone and learned that he had headed toward the lake with the other Evolvers.
• Chu Han offered Xiao Kun's group a place with him only if they reached Anluo City within three months and found Yang Tian, prompting them to doubt the journey was possible.
• Lu Bingze and the Evolvers who had left returned to the tavern, and Lu Bingze addressed Chu Han with respect.
• Lu Bingze and the returning Evolvers begged Chu Han to take them in, shocking Xiao Kun's group by revealing that he was the famous Chu Han.
• Chu Han kicked the clinging Evolvers away, ordered everyone to stand quietly, and asked Lu Bingze how he knew who he was.

Chu Han revealed the test for anyone who wanted to follow him: every person had to reach Anluo City within three months and find Yang Tian. He split the group into two teams taking separate routes, set a crystal reward for the first team to arrive, and assigned members to each team.

• Lu Bingze explained that a rabbit from the lake had told him Chu Han's identity, leaving Chu Han stunned and Xiao Kun's group impressed.
• Chu Han told Lu Bingze's and Xiao Kun's groups that they all had to reach Anluo City within three months and find Yang Tian, with no one missing or injured.
• Chu Han proposed dividing everyone into two teams traveling separate routes and offered one hundred Tier 2 Crystals, with seventy for the first team and thirty for the other.
• Xiao Kun and Lu Bingze accepted the mission, and Feng Chenzi chose to join Lu Bingze's team.
• Chu Han assigned Zhang Bohan and the little boy to Xiao Kun's team and put Zeng Tianyi in Lu Bingze's care.

Chu Han divided the survivors into two competing teams and gave Xiao Kun’s group the name Black Glint, instructing them to focus on defense, teamwork, and steady progress. After Black Glint set out, Lu Bingze’s disorderly group gathered for its own guidance, and Chu Han asked Lu Bingze to name their strengths and weaknesses.

• Chu Han recognized Zhang Bohan and Feng Chenzi as enhanced humans, then sent Lu Bingze’s team out first and kept Xiao Kun’s group behind.
• Chu Han asked Xiao Kun to assess his team and named it Black Glint, urging its members to develop speed, efficiency, cohesion, perseverance, and defense.
• Zhang Bohan asked whether the teams had to provide their own supplies and lodging for three months, and Chu Han confirmed they did.
• Xiao Kun led Black Glint away after telling Lu Bingze they would meet again in three months, while Lu Bingze wondered what Chu Han had told them.
• Chu Han sat on the floor and invited Lu Bingze’s scattered group to sit around him, then asked Lu Bingze to describe the team’s strengths and weaknesses.

Chu Han coached Lu Bingze’s dispirited group into an unconventional team called Divine Concealment and chose Zeng Tianyi as a trump card for their mission. He tasked them with reaching Anluo City safely within three months and finding Yang Tian, while Wang Cai doubted they could manage it.

• Lu Bingze listed the group’s weaknesses, and Chu Han asked them to gather close before secretly teaching them a new approach.
• Chu Han named the newly energized group Divine Concealment and entrusted its development to Lu Bingze.
• Chu Han explained that Zeng Tianyi’s apparent helplessness made him a useful trump card for the team’s mission.
• Chu Han said the group’s mission was to reach Anluo City safely within three months and find Yang Tian, though he had given them a misleading clue.
• Wang Cai objected that the group could not match Chu Han’s own journey, and Chu Han admitted he had forgotten how much his abilities and vehicle had helped.

As He Feng and Teng Hao searched the Duan Family Base for Chu Han, Chu Han disguised himself as a refugee and left the base, entrusting Song Xiao with intelligence work. He Feng then boarded a helicopter with Teng Hao and Zheng Tao, recognizing that Chu Han’s S+ evaluation had intensified the conflict in Shangjing.

• He Feng and Teng Hao decided to wait at the Duan Family Base rather than walk back to Shangjing while they searched for Chu Han.
• Chu Han, disguised as a ragged man with Song Xiao, accepted a Tier 2 zombie crystal from Teng Hao and revealed his identity to Song Xiao after He Feng and Teng Hao left.
• Chu Han asked Song Xiao to act as an intelligence agent in the Duan Family Base, then departed for the Shangjing Survivor Base.
• A gate guard mistook Song Xiao’s farewell for sadness about his father, and Song Xiao silently dismissed the misunderstanding.
• He Feng and Teng Hao met Zheng Tao, an officer from Shangjing, and boarded his helicopter as He Feng inferred that Chu Han’s ranking had worsened Shangjing’s internal turmoil.

Chu Han explained why he avoided going to Anluo City or Shangjing before he could control the timing and initiative. At the Anluo City base, Shang Jiudi struggled to decide how to celebrate the New Year with scarce supplies, just as envoys from Shangjing and the Huaxia Research Institute arrived.

• Wang Cai recognized one of the two men who had sought Chu Han as someone from Anluo City, but Chu Han refused to follow them to Shangjing or return to Anluo City yet.
• Chu Han reflected on his growing ties and worries, including Fang Rong, Deng Weibo, and Fan Hongxuan, as he fought through a horde of zombies.
• Yang Tian asked Shang Jiudi for funding to celebrate the base’s first New Year, but she worried that the base lacked the supplies to do so.
• Ding Siyao urged Shang Jiudi to consider what Chu Han would do, and she concluded that he would make the celebration lively.
• Jiang Hongyu reported that a major general from the Shangjing Survivor Base and a representative of the Huaxia Research Institute had arrived at the base.

Shang Jiudi and Yang Tian turned Chu Han’s advice to worsen a crisis and use violence into a plan to confront the visitors. After Crazy Lion tried to intimidate her and impose Shangjing’s control over the base, Shang Jiudi claimed her rank had been stripped and announced that she would take the visitors’ supplies.

• Yang Tian told Shang Jiudi that Chu Han had advised making a bad situation worse and crushing trouble with violence, so she told him to act like a bandit and call her sister-in-law.
• Shang Jiudi entered the meeting room with Yang Tian, where Crazy Lion and Research Institute representative Rong Yuanjia were waiting.
• Crazy Lion praised Shang Jiudi’s looks, then threatened that she had been stripped of her rank for disobeying military orders.
• Shang Jiudi threw her badge at Crazy Lion and listened as he revealed he had brought supplies and intended to place one of his people in the base’s management.
• Shang Jiudi said Chu Han had nothing to do with the base, called herself a bandit, and declared that she had robbed the supplies and would let the visitors leave.

Shang Jiudi rejected Crazy Lion’s attempt to take control of the Anluo City base and ordered Yang Tian and Jiang Hongyu to throw him out. After Crazy Lion fled with his men, Ding Siyao entered the conference room and found Shang Jiudi facing a stranger.

• Shang Jiudi denied her relationship with Chu Han, refused Crazy Lion’s terms, and claimed the supplies he had brought.
• Crazy Lion threatened Shang Jiudi, but Yang Tian overpowered him with his Tier 5 strength and punched him.
• Jiang Hongyu blocked Crazy Lion’s men from entering while Shang Jiudi ordered Yang Tian to throw Crazy Lion out.
• Yang Tian and Jiang Hongyu beat, bound, and expelled Crazy Lion and his men, who fled in their helicopter without the supplies.
• Ding Siyao saw Crazy Lion’s helicopter leave, then entered the conference room and found Shang Jiudi confronting a stranger.

Shang Jiudi rejected the Shangjing Survivor Base’s support and the research institute’s cooperation, following Chu Han’s warning while keeping his real plans hidden. Far from Shangjing, Chu Han explained that her next crisis could be solved by killing the envoys, then prepared to continue toward the base.

• Shang Jiudi refused Rong Yuanjia’s proposed cooperation with the research institute, and Ding Siyao questioned her about rejecting both it and the Shangjing Survivor Base’s major general.
• Shang Jiudi told Ding Siyao that if the visitors would not submit, they should fight, and privately felt relieved that Chu Han was not there to face the major general.
• Chu Han slaughtered a highway horde of zombies, including several Tier 3 zombies, while Wang Cai showed him the calculated figures.
• Chu Han explained that Shang Jiudi might drive the envoys away and pin blame on them, but that this could expose Yang Tian and Jiang Hongyu.
• Chu Han revealed that his other solution was to interrogate and kill the envoys, blaming their deaths on zombies or alien species, and Wang Cai asked why he had not told Shang Jiudi.

Chu Han left the survivors after explaining that he had let Shang Jiudi handle the base’s crisis as training, then encountered the Tiger Fang Team twins Jun Zhi and Zui Chu, who debated whether to pursue him. As the country-wide search for Chu Han continued, He Feng returned to Shangjing and was confronted by the injured Crazy Lion, who threatened to dismiss him.

• Chu Han explained to Wang Cai that he had left Shang Jiudi to resolve the crisis herself so she could gain management experience.
• Jun Zhi and Zui Chu recognized Chu Han after he passed them, then got stuck debating whether to bring him back or continue their mission.
• Chu Han left while the twins were still deliberating, as soldiers searched across the country for him.
• He Feng, Teng Hao, and Zheng Tao arrived at the Shangjing Survivor Base by helicopter and encountered Crazy Lion’s battered group.
• Crazy Lion reprimanded He Feng for not saluting and threatened to dismiss him from his post.

Crazy Lion tried to dismiss He Feng, but the arrival of the Dragon Tooth Squad revealed that its members treated He Feng with reverence and familiarity. He Feng left after speaking with Dragon Tooth, while Crazy Lion realized he had seriously misjudged him.

• Crazy Lion ordered He Feng to remove his insignia and uniform, but He Feng ignored him and walked away.
• Crazy Lion, Teng Hao, and Zheng Tao recognized Dragon Tooth and his teammates Yi and Fan as the Dragon Tooth Squad approached.
• Yi and Fan saluted He Feng, stunning everyone gathered there.
• He Feng and Dragon Tooth exchanged a familiar conversation about He Feng's failed mission before He Feng continued on his way.
• Yi and Fan saluted He Feng again and followed Dragon Tooth to a helicopter, while Crazy Lion cowered in fear.