Chapter Summaries

Commander Mu and Luo Ming attended a meeting where Zhuang Hong led an attack on Chu Han over the Assessment Stone Wall, while Dragon Tooth and Tiger Fang members refused to join in. The meeting erupted when Yi put a dagger to Zhuang Hong’s throat, and the mysterious man seated at the head of the table finally woke up.

• Commander Mu and Luo Ming discussed their worsening positions in Shangjing Survivor Base as they entered the meeting with He Feng.
• Zhuang Hong took charge of the meeting and accused Chu Han of hiding the Assessment Stone Wall’s secrets and acting against Shangjing Survivor Base.
• Dragon Tooth and Tiger Fang members stood to leave after Fan questioned whether the meeting was really about impeaching Chu Han.
• Zhuang Hong insulted the departing squads, and Yi pressed a dagger to his throat.
• The tawny-haired man sleeping in the seat of honor woke and asked why everyone was making so much noise.

Gao Shaohui revealed his extraordinary power during the Shangjing meeting, subduing Yi, Long Ya, and Fan before Zhuang Hong introduced him as the Gao Family’s young master. When Zhuang Hong asked what he thought of the plan to assassinate Chu Han, Gao Shaohui asked who Chu Han was.

• A sleepy young man interrupted Zhuang Hong and Yi’s confrontation, demanding that they stop making noise.
• Yi dropped his dagger and trembled in agony after the young man spoke, while Zhuang Hong froze in fear.
• Long Ya and Fan charged the young man, but he sent them flying into the doors without anyone seeing him move.
• Zhuang Hong introduced the young man as Gao Shaohui of the Gao Family, and Gao Shaohui casually mentioned the Bai Family as well.
• Zhuang Hong told Gao Shaohui that the meeting had concluded with a plan to assassinate Chu Han, and Gao Shaohui asked who Chu Han was.

At Shangjing Survivor Base, Gao Shaohui refused to let the Gao Family get involved in the effort to kill Chu Han, then destroyed the conference building when the officials disturbed his peace. After hearing about Chu Han’s fourth S+ evaluation, Gao Shaohui vanished, while bases across the world began searching for Chu Han and the fourth special Assessment Stone Wall.

• Pan Changxian recognized Gao Shaohui as the Gao Family’s young master, and Zhuang Hong tried to convince him that Chu Han was the base’s enemy.
• Gao Shaohui said the Gao Family would support Shangjing Survivor Base but would not handle its conflict with Chu Han, then lay down to sleep.
• A soldier announced that Chu Han had earned a fourth-rank S+ evaluation, prompting the officials to shout for Chu Han’s death.
• Gao Shaohui warned the crowd to let him rest and collapsed the conference building with a single blow.
• Gao Shaohui speculated about Chu Han’s repeated discoveries of Assessment Stone Walls and vanished from the ruins.
• Large bases sent people to search for Chu Han after he took first place on the fourth-rank Battle Power Ranking and received another S+ evaluation.

Chu Han obtained the fourth Reforging Fragment, advanced to Tier 5, and entered the Assessment Stone Wall’s overall battle power test after seeing the crowded ranking. While he was inside, the Stone Wall began moving, and Xiao Kun ordered the Black Radiance Squad to follow it without waking Lu Bingze and Fan Jian.

• Chu Han emerged from the Tier 4 alternate-dimensional point with the fourth Reforging Fragment and reflected on the shattered trench spike Ye Mo had given him.
• Chu Han refused to leave and decided to test his overall battle power as a newly advanced Tier 5, despite Wang Cai’s warnings that he was exhausted.
• Chu Han and Wang Cai saw the Battle Power Ranking, where Tyrant King held first place and names including Dian Huang, Beautiful Yama, Bu Sha, Xiao Qi, and Duan Jiangwei appeared.
• Chu Han entered the overall battle power assessment, unaware that the Assessment Stone Wall had begun moving silently.
• Guan Ping woke Xiao Kun and reported that the Stone Wall was moving, and Xiao Kun ordered the Black Radiance Squad to pack up and follow it without waking Lu Bingze and Fan Jian.

Chu Han entered the Battle Power Ranking assessment and found himself in a maze where he had to locate the exit and kill every creature inside. Recognizing the route from his previous life, he raced ahead while avoiding monsters, including a juvenile Prismatic Scale Rhinoceros that chased him but soon exhausted itself.

• Chu Han accepted the assessment and was transported to a vast maze filled with roaring creatures.
• The Assessment Stone Wall told Chu Han to find the exit and kill every living creature in the maze.
• Chu Han recognized the maze from his previous life and sprinted along a remembered route, leaving monsters behind as Wang Cai questioned his plan.
• Wang Cai identified a pursuing beast as a juvenile Prismatic Scale Rhinoceros and warned that it could kill a Tier Seven evolver.
• Chu Han explained that the rhinoceros had tremendous burst speed but little endurance, and noted that it had likely collapsed after chasing him for two minutes.

Chu Han continued through the Assessment Stone Wall’s maze while the Black Radiance Squad lost sight of it and discovered they were near Nandu City, home to more than twenty million zombies. Fan Jian and Lu Bingze woke to find the squad gone and a note from Xiao Kun directing them to the Nandu Survivor Base.

• Chu Han wondered whether the monsters in the Assessment Stone Wall had real origins, then continued through the maze, where he had to find the exit and kill every monster.
• After chasing the rapidly moving Assessment Stone Wall for a day, the Black Radiance Squad realized they had entered Nantian County and lost sight of the wall.
• Xiao Kun explained that Nantian County lay near Nandu City, whose population meant an enormous zombie horde, and led the squad toward the city to keep pursuing Chu Han.
• Fan Jian and Lu Bingze woke to find the Assessment Stone Wall and the Black Radiance Squad gone, then found Xiao Kun’s note telling them to meet at the Nandu Survivor Base.

Lu Bingze and Fan Jian learned that the Assessment Stone Wall had carried Chu Han away with Xiao Kun’s squad, so they headed for Nandu Base. Meanwhile, Chu Han neared the end of the maze assessment and threw a blade at the treasure chest beside the exit.

• Lu Bingze questioned a giant turtle and learned that Xiao Kun’s squad and the Assessment Stone Wall had left while he and Fan Jian slept.
• Lu Bingze reassured Fan Jian that Chu Han was alive and had been taken away by the Assessment Stone Wall, then set off with him for Nandu Base.
• Chu Han ran through the maze for ten hours while fleeing its strongest monsters, reaching the passage near the exit.
• Chu Han spotted a treasure chest beside the exit and hurled a blade toward its opening.

Chu Han escaped the maze by triggering an explosion, then completed the Assessment Stone Wall’s level-one assessment and registered as Rakshasa Emperor. He learned that five more qualified people were needed to access a special level-two assessment, and a roar greeted him as he reappeared outside.

• Chu Han cut the red string at the maze exit, causing an explosion that destroyed the maze and its monsters while leaving him and Wang Cai unharmed.
• Chu Han explained that the treasure chest had contained no material reward and entered the dark space beyond the maze.
• The Assessment Stone Wall announced that Chu Han had completed the assessment in exactly ten hours and showed Tyrant King ranked first and King Hunter ranked second.
• Chu Han recognized Tyrant King as Mu Ye, the Abomination King, and registered the codename Rakshasa Emperor.
• Chu Han received a badge and counted the four people who had completed the level-one assessment, deciding that five more were needed because he would not count Mu Ye.
• Chu Han emerged outside the Assessment Stone Wall and heard a roar.

Chu Han emerged from the Assessment Stone Wall into the center of Nandu City, where a massive zombie horde attacked him. He and Wang Cai fled through the city while the Black Radiance Squad reached Nandu’s entrance and collapsed from exhaustion.

• Chu Han fought off the zombies surrounding him and realized the Assessment Stone Wall had brought him to Nandu City.
• Chu Han identified the scale of the danger and ordered Wang Cai to grow larger so they could escape.
• Wang Cai carried Chu Han through the horde while Chu Han used the Asura Battle Axe to clear their way.
• Xiao Kun led the exhausted Black Radiance Squad to Nandu City’s entrance and ordered them to rest.
• The Black Radiance Squad members collapsed and fell asleep before they could search for Chu Han.

Duan Jiangwei brought more than a hundred second-tier New Humans to Wind Flower Snow Moon City, hoping to reach the Assessment Stone Wall, but Chu Han’s preparations left them bewildered. The chapter ended with a crowd of women swarming and overwhelming Duan Jiangwei and his companions as they entered the city.

• Duan Jiangwei mobilized Duan Family Base’s second-tier New Humans and helicopters to race toward the second-tier dimensional space point.
• Jiang Tianqing intercepted Duan Jiangwei’s group and ordered them to land outside Wind Flower Snow Moon City, citing the rule that only generals could use the city’s airfield.
• Duan Jiangwei landed outside the city and led his people through the gate, where the guards welcomed them without checking their identities and reminded him of his past donation to Wolf Fang Base.
• Several hundred women rushed out and surrounded Duan Jiangwei and the other New Humans, leaving them stunned and flustered.

Duan Jiangwei and his Tier-2 New Humans were accosted by Wind Flower Snow Moon City's eager sex workers, and Lin Yu charged them for the contact before promoting her businesses. Shang Jiudi escorted them toward the Assessment Stone Wall after insisting Chu Han had nothing to do with the commercial district.

• Duan Jiangwei shouted at the women crowding his group and demanded that someone in charge come out.
• Lin Yu explained that the women were residents soliciting customers in the city's commercial district, not people sent by Chu Han.
• Shang Jiudi arrived to guide Duan Jiangwei and his group to the Assessment Stone Wall, and Duan apologized for his disrespect toward Chu Han.
• Lin Yu demanded payment from the New Humans for touching the women, and Duan Jiangwei paid more than a hundred Reforging Coins on their behalf.
• Lin Yu offered discounts and free entertainment to experts who ranked highly on the Battle Power Ranking, leaving Duan Jiangwei displeased.

Duan Jiangwei’s group reached Wind Flower Snow Moon City’s Assessment Stone Wall, where they discovered the guards were from the Wolf Fang Regiment and were charged a steep fee to take the test. Meanwhile, Chu Han recovered in an abandoned building in Nandu City after escaping a massive zombie horde, while an unknown man sharpened a knife nearby.

• Shang Jiudi slipped away, and Duan Jiangwei’s group was stopped at the inner city entrance and asked to complete verification forms.
• Duan Jiangwei noticed the inner city’s heavily armed guards and learned they were members of the Wolf Fang Regiment.
• The guard told Duan Jiangwei that testing the 120 second-tier New Humans would cost 120,000 Reforging Coins.
• In Nandu City, Chu Han rested on the twentieth floor of an abandoned building after enduring more than ten hours inside the Assessment Stone Wall and escaping over a million zombies.
• Chu Han and Wang Cai watched uneasily as the bearded stranger who had brought them to safety sharpened his knife.

Chu Han woke in a high-rise after a mysterious bearded man saved him, traded cigarettes with him, and ordered him to stay quiet while he slept. Meanwhile, the Black Radiance Squad struggled through Nandu City and set off to investigate a building where survivors might be sheltering.

• Chu Han broke the silence by criticizing the bearded stranger’s knife-sharpening rhythm, and the stranger admitted he knew only that way of sharpening.
• The bearded stranger asked Chu Han for cigarettes, and the two began talking as they smoked.
• Chu Han declared them even for the rescue and cigarettes, then gave the stranger another pack and told him to keep quiet while he slept.
• Xiao Kun ordered the exhausted Black Radiance Squad to rest while Wang Ling searched for a route through Nandu City’s zombie hordes.
• Wang Ling returned and reported an SOS banner on a high-rise with signs of human life, and Xiao Kun ordered the squad to investigate.

While Chu Han slept, Qin Yuxuan befriended Wang Cai by persuading it to play cards. The Black Radiance Squad found shelter in a survivor settlement, where Wang Ling recognized a woman sitting with her back to them as a possible alien species.

• Qin Yuxuan discovered that Wang Cai understood him and invited it to play cards.
• The Black Radiance Squad reached a construction site and entered a building to find a place to rest.
• Xiao Kun ordered the squad to avoid the residents and head for the seventh floor, but they encountered armed survivors in the stairwell.
• An unseen woman judged the squad by how they treated their female member and allowed them to come upstairs.
• The squad learned that the lower floors were occupied and continued up to the tenth floor.
• Wang Ling saw a woman sitting with her back to them and warned that she might be an alien species.

The Black Radiance Squad met Wang Xiaoxiao, who hid her face while claiming she was human, though she was actually a powerful variant. After waking, Chu Han found Wang Cai playing cards with Qin Yuxuan, then dragged the rabbit away and headed toward a road full of zombies.

• The Black Radiance Squad mistook Wang Xiaoxiao for a variant, and she explained that she hid her face for safety before giving Xiao Kun her name.
• After the squad left, Wang Xiaoxiao removed a contact lens, revealing a scarlet eye and a half-zombified face.
• Chu Han woke to find Wang Cai playing cards and eating instant noodles with Qin Yuxuan.
• Qin Yuxuan said he and Wang Cai had become sworn brothers, but Chu Han declared that Wang Cai was his slave and that Qin Yuxuan was one too.
• Chu Han dragged Wang Cai down the elevator shaft and headed toward a road filled with zombies, leaving Qin Yuxuan behind.

The Black Radiance Squad realized that no survivors had returned to the building overnight and suspected Wang Xiaoxiao was lying. When she tried to force them to eat and trapped them with mutants and hostile survivors, Xiao Kun ordered the squad to fight its way toward the stairwell.

• Xiao Kun questioned the guards after no one detected anyone entering the building during their nine-hour watch.
• Wang Xiaoxiao invited the Black Radiance Squad downstairs for breakfast, and Wang Ling signaled them not to eat.
• Wang Xiaoxiao ordered black-robed mutants to force the food on the squad and had survivors block the stairwell.
• Xiao Kun directed the Black Radiance Squad to charge the stairwell instead of confronting the mutants.
• Xiao Kun ordered the squad to kill the survivors blocking their way, and Zhang Bohan struck first.

The Black Radiance Squad escaped after slaughtering the survivors who tried to stop them, leaving Wang Xiaoxiao furious and unable to pursue them. In the prison corridor, the young mutant stayed behind to care for the feverish Yu Wei, while Yang Kai learned that he had been forcibly turned into a mutant.

• Wang Xiaoxiao ordered the mutants to stop the Black Radiance Squad, but the squad broke through and killed the survivors blocking their way.
• Wang Xiaoxiao stayed behind to guard the captured fifth-rank New Human, Yang Kai, and ordered the young mutant to watch the prisoners.
• The young mutant entered the hidden corridor and gave Yang Kai medicine for Yu Wei's fever.
• Yang Kai asked why the young mutant had not escaped with the Black Radiance Squad, and the mutant said Yu Wei would die if he left.
• The young mutant revealed that he had been knocked unconscious and forcibly turned into a mutant.

Chu Han reached the bridge at Nandu’s city edge and confronted a Super Zombie with metal-hard skin. Survivors watching from a nearby building realized he was evenly matched with the Metal Zombie.

• Chu Han cut through the city’s zombie hordes with the Asura Battle Axe while Wang Cai collected crystals from his pocket.
• At the bridge, Chu Han identified a huge zombie commanding the surrounding hordes as a Super Zombie with lord consciousness.
• Chu Han charged the Super Zombie and began fighting it on the bridge.
• Yang Lin and Yang Han watched the battle from a nearby high-rise with Xiao Yuntian and Yu Wei.
• Yang Lin revealed that Chu Han had attacked first and was evenly matched with the Metal Zombie, shocking Xiao Yuntian and the other survivors.

Chu Han faced a peak Tier 5 Metal Zombie on the bridge and made it reveal its powerful metal-armored form. As the onlookers argued over whether he could survive, Chu Han unleashed a black aura and charged into another attack.

• Chu Han tested his strength against the Metal Zombie and calmly retreated after their weapons clashed.
• Yu Wei tried to leave, but Xiao Yuntian stopped him and insisted that Chu Han would be killed.
• The Metal Zombie roared and revealed its metal armor and blade-like claws, frightening the observers.
• Yang Han and Yang Lin recognized that the Metal Zombie had entered its strongest state after Chu Han threatened it.
• Chu Han's body and Asura Battle Axe became surrounded by black radiance, and he charged forward with another overhead strike.

Chu Han used a feint and the Asura Battle Axe’s reverse blade to exploit the Metal Zombie’s vulnerable ears. He killed the Super Zombie with a second strike to its other ear, while the onlookers watched in shock.

• Xiao Yuntian and the others assumed Chu Han’s repeated attack would fail against the Metal Zombie.
• Chu Han redirected the Asura Battle Axe’s reverse blade and grievously wounded the zombie beside its ear.
• The wounded Metal Zombie swung its arms at Chu Han, striking its own arms with its claws.
• Chu Han used the axe’s momentum to swing at the zombie’s other ear and drive the blade into its skull.
• The Metal Zombie’s brain was destroyed, and its body went still.