Chapter Summaries

Chu Han persuaded Fan Jian to establish the Hunter Alliance, using Fan Jian’s reputation to bring in clients and recruit trusted hunters. Fan Jian agreed to begin the work, while Chu Han planned to use the Alliance’s intelligence network as a hidden bureau for Wolf Fang Base.

• Chu Han explained how Fan Jian could turn away some clients, raise his fees, and distribute jobs to trusted hunters to establish the Hunter Alliance.
• Fan Jian recognized that the Alliance’s confidential records could become an intelligence database, and Chu Han confirmed he intended to use it for Wolf Fang Base.
• Fan Jian refused to join after realizing Chu Han’s hidden objective, but Chu Han tempted him with a secluded valley base and the help of a brilliant technician.
• Fan Jian raised the challenge of completing ten missions across Anluo City in one month, and Chu Han revealed he had prepared a modified motorcycle for him.
• Chu Han left Fan Jian to begin the work and set the Wolf Fang Regiment’s Dark Division in motion.

After returning from settling the Hunter Alliance matter, Chu Han heard the squads’ report on their second stealth-tracking exercise and began explaining why Black Mang Squad and Divine Concealment Squad had lost. He left them considering how quickly they had learned from their first exercise.

• Chu Han arrived at the gathering site after traveling nonstop and asked the three squads to report their training results.
• Xu Feng reported that Feather Slayer Squad had beaten Black Mang Squad and Divine Concealment Squad in the tracking exercise.
• Lu Bingze explained that his squads had used a decoy team and a concealed main force, while Xu Feng said their close familiarity had helped Feather Slayer Squad spot the plan.
• Chu Han explained that the squads’ familiarity with Black Mang Squad and Divine Concealment Squad’s learning ability, rather than their tactics, had led to the victory.
• Chu Han reminded them that the two losing squads had previously learned scouting techniques quickly enough to find Feather Slayer Squad in a difficult-to-detect position.

Chu Han explained why Black Mang and Divine Concealment lost the second combat training round, then praised Feather Slayer for its victory and ordered everyone to rest before the third round. Meanwhile, Shang Jiudi worried about Chu Han’s burdens and asked Jiang Tianqing where Bai Yun’er was.

• Chu Han revealed that Black Mang and Divine Concealment had left traces using a method he had already used during the Battle of the Wilderness, which let Feather Slayer recognize their plan.
• Chu Han told Black Mang and Divine Concealment that they had been outsmarted by their own cleverness, while reminding Feather Slayer that its victory also depended on luck.
• Chu Han commended Feather Slayer, ended the second training round, and gave the squads time to rest before the punishment tied to the third round.
• Shang Jiudi learned from Jiang Tianqing that Chu Han had gone straight to the training grounds after returning and had not slept for three days.
• Shang Jiudi told Jiang Tianqing she understood Chu Han’s burdens, then asked why Bai Yun’er had not appeared on the new Battle Power Ranking.

Shang Jiudi learned that Chu Han had ordered an Entertainment City built around the Assessment Stone Wall, while concern over Bai Yun'er’s disappearance remained unresolved. As Chu Han led three battle teams toward their next training site, Xu Feng spotted a change in the Assessment Stone Wall.

• Jiang Tianqing and Shang Jiudi worried that Bai Yun'er had been missing for several months and wondered whether the Bai family was involved.
• Su Xing brought Shang Jiudi a blueprint for a defensive complex and Entertainment City centered on the Assessment Stone Wall, designed by Chu Han and named Wind Flower Snow Moon City.
• Shang Jiudi approved the plan, and the next morning Su Xing accompanied a two-hundred-man team borrowed from Duan Family Base to begin construction.
• Chu Han led three battle teams toward their third training site near the Assessment Stone Wall, while Xu Feng and Li Bifeng noticed that the wall had changed.
• Xu Feng reported the anomaly to Chu Han.

Chu Han’s group discovered that Fan Jian, under the alias King Hunter, had taken first place on the Battle Power Ranking and completed its first assessment stage. Chu Han recognized the ranking’s hidden indicators and planned to turn the unique dimensional space point entrance near Anluo City into a controlled, profitable destination.

• Xu Feng reported that King Hunter had appeared in first place on the Battle Power Ranking with the unfamiliar indicators 10-1 and K-0.
• Chu Han explained that 10-1 showed Fan Jian had completed the first stage of the assessment, while K-0 tracked kills of people on the ranking.
• News of the change spread across China, shocking people who had assumed the Battle Power Ranking was only a simple ranking.
• Chu Han told Xu Feng and Li Bifeng to try the assessment after they reached fifth order, and the combat teams resumed their journey.
• Chu Han reflected that the valley’s Assessment Stone Wall was a unique entrance to a second-order dimensional space point and planned to occupy it and later charge visitors for access.

Fan Jian received a strange badge after clearing the combat power assessment, while Chu Han infiltrated Jianyi Base by sending disguised Feather Slayer Squad members through its gates. The first fifteen entered successfully, and Chu Han watched from a distant hillside, wondering where the other five were.

• Fan Jian emerged from the assessment with a mysterious star-shaped badge, then headed to the first farming location.
• Chu Han led his team to Jianyi Base’s perimeter and watched a ten-man group enter through the heavily guarded gate.
• Jianyi Base’s guards discussed the unexplained theft of dried meat and feared an outsider had infiltrated their defenses.
• The first fifteen members of the Feather Slayer Squad posed as survivors seeking to join Chu Han and persuaded the guards to let them inside.
• Chu Han watched from a distant hillside and wondered where the squad’s other five members were.

Chu Han watched Xiao Kun lead the Black Radiance Squad and five Feather Slayer Squad members into Jianyi Base by pretending they were bound for Wolf Fang Base. As the base grew wary after admitting several groups, Chu Han and Wang Cai waited for the Divine Concealment Squad, whose arrival was delayed until an injured person cried for help nearby.

• Xiao Kun left Jianyi Base's gate, then let the guard persuade his group to enter by claiming they were traveling to Wolf Fang Base.
• Chu Han watched the group get inside and praised their improvisation, while Wang Cai bet that the Divine Concealment Squad would be stopped.
• The veteran guard admitted three more groups heading for Wolf Fang Base, bringing the day's total to five and making the base suspicious.
• Chu Han and Wang Cai waited as the sun neared setting, but the Divine Concealment Squad still did not appear.
• An injured person ran toward Jianyi Base, shouting for help and alarming the guards.

Chu Han and Wang Cai watched the Divine Concealment Squad stage a dispute over a Tier 4 zombie crystal to slip into Jianyi Base unnoticed. After waiting until the sentries were most likely to be tired, Chu Han finally headed for the outer wall before dawn.

• Lu Bingze and the Divine Concealment Squad staged a fight over a Tier 4 zombie crystal outside Jianyi Base, then charged through the gates when the guards opened them.
• Chu Han explained to Wang Cai that the squad had used the staged conflict to avoid inspection and enter the base freely.
• Wang Cai realized the Divine Concealment Squad had gained an advantage over Sha Yu and Black Radiance by avoiding the base's reception staff.
• Chu Han decided to infiltrate Jianyi Base at night but slept until just before dawn despite Wang Cai's impatience.
• Chu Han set off toward the base's outer wall, aiming to sneak in when the sentries were least alert.

Chu Han entered Jianyi Base to oversee a three-team training contest and begin his plan to bring the base under his control. Black Radiance Squad found itself trapped in its quarters and received a taunting message from Lu Bingze’s rat messenger, which returned with another note.

• Chu Han climbed over Jianyi Base’s wall and headed toward the survivors’ residential area as he planned to steal Lu Yi’s insignia and create unrest in the base.
• Chu Han’s training rules required Black Radiance Squad and Divine Concealment Squad to cause a disturbance without harming anyone or being discovered, while drawing most of Jianyi Base’s troops into the chaos.
• Xiao Kun and Black Radiance Squad discussed how to escape their guarded quarters and complete their extra task.
• A rat pup delivered a paper ball to Black Radiance Squad, and Xiao Kun read Lu Bingze’s message taunting them to beg for help.
• The rat pup returned to the rafters with another paper ball after the squad reacted angrily to Lu Bingze’s first message.

The Black Radiance Squad escaped house arrest with help from the Divine Concealment Squad, while Xu Feng explained why Chu Han had ordered the Feather Slayer Squad to stay behind. He left them waiting to practice patience and recognize the right moment to act.

• Xiao Kun read the Divine Concealment Squad’s message telling Black Radiance to leave in ten seconds and meet at the West Street Refugees District.
• The Divine Concealment Squad lured guards away with a staged fight, allowing Xiao Kun and the Black Radiance Squad to escape.
• Li Bifeng suggested that the Feather Slayer Squad rush out, but Xu Feng stopped him and asked why Chu Han had ordered them to wait.
• Xu Feng explained that Chu Han wanted the impulsive Feather Slayer Squad to train its patience, and the squad reflected on its past failures and Chu Han’s calm command during the Battle of the Wilderness.

Fan Jian secretly entered Jianyi Base and introduced himself to Lieutenant General Lu Yi as King Hunter, offering his services as a hunter. Lu Yi welcomed him, but Fan Jian rejected the prospect of cheap work, leaving the two to negotiate what kind of job he would accept.

• Fan Jian infiltrated Jianyi Base unnoticed and entered Lu Yi's office, where he introduced himself as King Hunter.
• Lu Yi pressed the highest-alert button, but after recognizing Fan Jian's strength, he dismissed the guards and welcomed him.
• Fan Jian told Lu Yi he wanted paid work as a hunter rather than joining or serving a base.
• Lu Yi suggested that hunters found more work outside official bases, but Fan Jian cut him off and said he did not take small jobs.

Fan Jian accepted Lu Yi’s secret letter-delivery job for Shang Jiudi and slipped past Lu Yi’s guards. Disguised as a farmer at Jianyi Base, Chu Han met Liao Wentao, a former soldier, while Lu Bingze prepared a place for Chu Han to stay.

• Fan Jian promised Lu Yi that his jobs and clients would remain secret, then agreed to deliver Lu Yi’s sealed letter to Shang Jiudi and return it after she read it.
• Fan Jian charged Lu Yi 160 Reforging Coins and left his office, effortlessly passing through the guards outside.
• Lu Bingze bought a shack in Jianyi Base’s Refugees area and ordered his group and Black Radiance Squad to clean it for Chu Han’s arrival.
• Disguised as a poor farmer, Chu Han ate noodles at a roadside stall and listened as other farmers discussed the difficulties of becoming Enhancers.
• The farmers asked Liao Wentao why he had left the military, and Chu Han recognized him as the informant he had been looking for.

Chu Han listened as Liao Wentao described how Jianyi Base dismissed veterans who could not become New Humans and left many struggling in low-status, exhausting jobs. He learned that more than half of people like Liao Wentao had starved to death and that former squad leader Liu Xiang worked as a base guard, while Chu Han resolved to proceed with his plans for Jianyi Base.

• Liao Wentao explained that Jianyi Base dismissed old military members unable to become New Humans and reduced the ranks of those with potential who had not yet transformed.
• Chu Han pretended to share the veterans’ anger as others criticized the base’s treatment of former soldiers and compared Chu Han’s rank with Lu Yi’s.
• Liao Wentao said most people with chronic injuries or limited physical ability had starved to death, while surviving veterans were assigned exhausting work.
• Liao Wentao revealed that Liu Xiang, his former squad leader, had helped him find work but now served as a base gate guard despite his abilities.
• Chu Han recalled meeting Liu Xiang and realized the veteran had been relegated to guarding the entrance rather than joining the Staff Department.

Chu Han learned about the old-guard soldiers and New Humans suppressed at Jianyi Base, then prepared to act before Fan Jian returned. At the Refugees district, Black Mang and the Divine Concealment Squad faced a group of would-be robbers, and Xiao Kun ordered them tied up.

• Chu Han questioned Liao Wentao about suppressed old-guard soldiers and learned that Jianyi Base had over a hundred old-guard New Humans and at least a thousand old-guard soldiers who had not become New Humans.
• Liao Wentao and another farmer told Chu Han that Tier 3 Evolver Qin Yuan had been demoted to a civil official and had his combat unit broken apart after offending someone.
• Chu Han left to meet Black Mang and the Divine Concealment Squad, while Wang Cai told him that Fan Jian had left the base; Chu Han decided their people should move before Fan Jian returned.
• At the Refugees district, Xiao Kun stopped Lu Bingze from opening the door when he recognized that the hesitant knocking did not sound like Chu Han.
• A group of Refugees demanded money and the house key from Xiao Kun, who stepped aside and calmly ordered his companions to tie them up.

Chu Han discovered that one of the refugees his subordinates had beaten was Meng Qiwei, a future top-ten powerhouse whose Asura Battle Axe Chu Han had taken in his previous life. He ordered the Black Radiance Squad to accompany him while the Divine Concealment Squad questioned the refugees for information.

• Lu Bingze explained that he had beaten several West Street refugees after they tried to rob the squads.
• Chu Han questioned the refugees and learned that their leader was named Meng Qiwei.
• Chu Han recognized Meng Qiwei as a future top-ten powerhouse and realized he had once owned the Asura Battle Axe.
• Meng Qiwei told Chu Han that he had lived on West Street for four months.
• Chu Han handed Lu Bingze a written task, took the Black Radiance Squad out, and ordered the Divine Concealment Squad to interrogate the refugees.

Chu Han gathered intelligence in the Refugees district and ordered the Black Radiance Squad to map Jianyi Base’s civilian and core districts. After Lu Bingze finished questioning Meng Qiwei, Chu Han found that the information confirmed his own findings and gave him what he needed to settle on a plan.

• Chu Han left Lu Bingze to question Meng Qiwei while he led the Black Radiance Squad through the Refugees district to scout its alleys.
• Xiao Kun showed Chu Han a rough map of two routes from the base core, and Chu Han sent the squad to map the civilian district and core separately.
• Chu Han gathered gossip and information from Refugees by talking with residents and sharing food.
• Lu Bingze gave Chu Han the information gathered from Meng Qiwei, who had repeated the same account before and after being tortured.
• Chu Han judged Meng Qiwei’s information credible, ordered Lu Bingze to treat his wounds, and asked whether Qin Yuan was key to the operation.

Chu Han gathered the Divine Concealment Squad to plan an operation at Jianyi Base, where resentment among veteran soldiers offered a way to sow discord. He identified Qin Yuan and Liang Shuxin as key figures and began explaining how their conflict could be exploited.

• Chu Han ordered Lu Bingze to gather the Divine Concealment Squad and told him to ignore Meng Qiwei.
• Meng Qiwei, afraid of being abandoned, had his lackeys sit guard outside the sealed meeting room.
• Chu Han shared the gathered intelligence and began teaching the squad how to carry out the operation independently.
• Lu Bingze reported that Qin Yuan was a decorated veteran soldier reduced to logistics work after he offended Liang Shuxin's son, Liang Ping.
• Chu Han explained that Qin Yuan could rally Jianyi Base's veteran soldiers against Liang Shuxin, whose rapid promotion of newcomers had stirred resentment.

Chu Han devised a plan to exploit tensions between Lu Yi's new recruits and the veteran soldiers at the base. He ordered the Divine Concealment Squad to impersonate both sides and commit escalating abuses, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt.

• Wu Jicao explained that the veterans lacked the numbers and strength to rebel against Liang Shuxin's recruits over personal grievances alone.
• Chu Han identified recruits' bullying of veterans and ordinary survivors as a way to intensify the existing conflict.
• Chu Han ordered the Divine Concealment Squad to disguise themselves as recruits and stage increasingly cruel attacks on veterans and their families without killing anyone.
• Chu Han told the squad to impersonate veterans in retaliation, beat members of either side, and push their hatred to a breaking point.

Chu Han outlined a plan to exploit tensions between Jianyi Base’s recruits and veterans, using staged public rumors to pressure Qin Yuan and Liang Shuxin. He began analyzing Liang Shuxin’s background and policies as the squad prepared to carry out the scheme.

• Chu Han explained that veterans’ experience and teamwork could overcome the recruits’ greater numbers, but that Qin Yuan would need to unite them.
• Chu Han planned to disguise Divine Concealment Squad members as civilians and spread rumors that Qin Yuan intended to lead the veterans in rebellion.
• Chu Han clarified that the rebellion would be false, and argued that the resulting disorder could give Lu Yi grounds to remove Liang Shuxin.
• Chu Han predicted Liang Shuxin would react angrily to the rumors and began assessing his personality and weaknesses.
• Chu Han concluded that Liang Shuxin likely owed his appointment more to his powerful Shangjing background than to his abilities, and noted that he had promoted newcomers while neglecting veterans.

Chu Han laid out a plan to provoke an uprising at Jianyi Base, using Liang Shuxin’s hostility toward Qin Yuan to spark a clash and drive civilians and old soldiers toward the gates. The squads began their preparations, and the first uprising erupted in the civilian district while Lu Yi waited for Fan Jian’s return.

• Chu Han explained that Liang Shuxin’s personal grudges and ambition would make him lead new soldiers against Qin Yuan and the old soldiers.
• Chu Han predicted that civilians would flee toward the gates and Qin Yuan would escape with his people, advancing their mission to destabilize Jianyi Base.
• Chu Han assigned the Divine Concealment Squad to target seventy-three people and ordered them to scout before beginning the operation the next afternoon.
• Xiao Kun delivered detailed maps from the Black Radiance Squad, which Chu Han assigned to support the Divine Concealment Squad and prepare the Feather Slayer Squad for its badge-stealing mission.
• The Divine Concealment Squad investigated its targets, while Lu Yi waited anxiously for Fan Jian; just after noon, the first uprising erupted in the civilian district.