Chapter Summaries

A giant rat swarm attacked Yan Siwen’s film crew in Chernobyl, devouring most of them despite the Bodyguard Captain’s attempts to protect everyone. The survivors clung to a tree while the rats gathered below, seemingly afraid to climb it.

• The Bodyguard Captain killed a giant catfish, then found a deformed two-headed rat that the crew bought as a prop.
• A half-meter rat emerged from the grass, and the Bodyguard Captain shot it before warning the crew of a surrounding swarm of giant rats.
• The rats killed a bodyguard and several crew members, devouring them despite the flames and gunfire used to hold them back.
• The survivors climbed a tree, but the rats consumed more people who fell or tried to escape.
• The Bodyguard Captain, Yan Siwen, Yang, Baldy, and several others remained in the tree as the rats gathered below without climbing it.

Liu Di entered the abandoned Turguy Town with Magic Child and reunited with Kun Sang, who had brought him a large box from the Experimental Graveyard. After Magic Child spotted people trapped by giant man-eating rats nearby, Liu Di prepared to leave in the Silver Shuttle, while Kun Sang decided to join him.

• Liu Di and Magic Child reached Turguy Town, where wildlife and overgrown plants had reclaimed the deserted streets.
• Kun Sang arrived carrying a large box and told Liu Di that 283 Han men had tried to attack him nearby.
• Kun Sang said he had seen a silver flying saucer, and Liu Di told him to return home after delivering the equipment.
• Magic Child showed Liu Di a livestream of people trapped in a tree by giant man-eating rats about one hundred kilometers away, and Liu Di decided they needed rescuing.
• Kun Sang announced that he had sent away his plane and would stay with Liu Di; when the Silver Shuttle arrived, Liu Di boarded and asked Kun Sang if he was coming.

Liu Di arrived in the radiation zone and stopped the giant rats from attacking the crew, discovering that they responded to the radiation on his body. After a giant moth carried off a crew member, he pursued it, only for more moths to emerge from the ground.

• The surviving crew members spotted their fallen livestream phone and desperately called for help as viewers watched in alarm.
• Liu Di arrived in the Silver Shuttle, and the giant rats stopped attacking and parted around him.
• Liu Di freed the Two-Headed Rat from its cage, and Magic Child explained that the rats treated Liu Di as their king because of his radiation.
• The rat swarm retreated, and Yan Siwen recognized Liu Di as the man she had admired as God of Song Di Yi.
• A giant moth spread its wings, seized a crew girl, and carried her away as Liu Di pursued it.
• The moth stopped above the ground, which cracked and shook as countless moth wings rose from beneath the soil.

Liu Di saved the film crew girl from a ravine filled with insect cocoons and used radiation to stop a swarm of giant moths from attacking. The moths created a radiant display, then returned to the ravine, while livestream viewers mistook the events for a movie promotion before the phone battery died.

• Liu Di caught the girl the moths dropped toward the ravine and carried her back to safety.
• Liu Di asked Magic Child why his Radioactive Great Demon King ability did not affect the moths, and Magic Child explained that he could reverse his constitution to release radiation.
• Liu Di released radiation, causing the moths to retreat and form a dazzling, aurora-like display with their dust.
• Magic Child said the moths’ display was their courtship behavior, and the moths circled Liu Di before returning to the ravine.
• Livestream viewers decided the bizarre events were a promotional film for Terrifying Radiation Zone, and the livestream ended when the phone ran out of battery.

Liu Di rescued Yan Siwen and the film crew, but mutant moth dust drove the bodyguard and Director Yang to attack the women. After Liu Di stopped them, Yan Siwen succumbed to the same effects and confessed her feelings to him.

• Liu Di waited with the rescued film crew for help, while Yan Siwen revealed she was the Yan Family's second daughter.
• Liu Di found a film crew member unconscious and violated, then discovered the missing Bodyguard Captain was responsible.
• Director Yang attacked the Bodyguard Captain and tried to force himself on Yan Siwen, but Liu Di rescued her and defeated Yang.
• Magic Child explained that the mutant moth dust had caused powerful arousal effects, and Kun Sang restrained the affected crew members.
• Yan Siwen approached Liu Di under the dust's influence and told him she had liked him for a long time.

Liu Di and Yan Siwen were both affected by the moths’ hormones, leaving Liu Di struggling to control himself. After Kun Sang refused to help directly, Magic Child found a massage technique as the only solution, and Liu Di told Kun Sang to handle four men while he dealt with Yan Siwen.

• Yan Siwen confessed her feelings to Liu Di and tried to unbutton her clothes, but Liu Di grabbed her hand to stop her.
• Liu Di realized he had also been affected by the moths’ hormones and called for Kun Sang.
• Kun Sang agreed to stand guard outside the tent but refused to help Liu Di because he was devoted to Xiao Bai Bai.
• Magic Child searched for a way to calm Liu Di and Yan Siwen, then found a traditional massage technique.
• Liu Di told Kun Sang to handle four men while he dealt with Yan Siwen, and Kun Sang praised Liu Di’s changed tastes.

Liu Di treated Yan Siwen and four men after they were affected by moth dust, fighting off the effects himself. When the rescue team arrived, Yan Siwen confronted him about undressing her, and Liu Di fled with Kun Sang in the Silver Shuttle.

• Liu Di knocked Yan Siwen unconscious and treated her with acupressure while Kun Sang used plant stalks to help four men.
• Liu Di asked Magic Child for acupoint locations, treated Yan Siwen with his eyes closed, and waited until her symptoms subsided.
• Liu Di released his own strength by leaping into the sky and punching apart low clouds, overcoming the moth dust's effects.
• Yan Siwen woke and questioned Liu Di about removing her clothes and fastening her bra incorrectly.
• When the rescue team arrived, Yan Siwen demanded that Liu Di take responsibility, but he grabbed Kun Sang and escaped in the Silver Shuttle.

Liu Di and Kun Sang explored the irradiated wilderness in Chernobyl, where Kun Sang began hallucinating after being poisoned by a mutated Datura flower. They encountered two grotesque figures who said they had been waiting for them.

• Liu Di and Kun Sang left the Silver Shuttle and continued on foot into the dark, dangerous wilderness.
• Kun Sang giggled, complained of hunger, and mistook dirt and a branch for food.
• Liu Di and Magic Child realized Kun Sang had been poisoned by a mutated Datura flower and that his hallucinations would eventually pass.
• Liu Di spotted a gaunt childlike figure watching them from the grass, but it vanished before he could investigate.
• A scarred giant carrying a cage with two children and a festering woman appeared with a lantern; Liu Di pulled Kun Sang away as the woman greeted them in a sweet voice and said they had been waiting.

Liu Di and Kun Sang met the grotesque residents of Yulia Village, who said their Village Chief knew Liu Di was seeking the stone coffin and offered to guide him. Liu Di learned that they were survivors and descendants of Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster, and the chapter ended with the group reaching a huge vine dome concealing the village.

• Liu Di questioned Chou Daisha and Gai Jia after they appeared in the contaminated region, while Kun Sang accepted a giant corn kernel from Gary and Garn.
• Chou Daisha said the Village Chief had sent them to guide Liu Di and knew he was headed for the stone coffin, prompting Liu Di to agree to meet him.
• Gai Jia carried the hungry Kun Sang on his iron cage as the group traveled toward Yulia Village.
• Liu Di learned that Chou Daisha and Gai Jia had died and returned to life, and that Gary and Garn had been in their mothers’ wombs during the nuclear explosion.
• Chou Daisha introduced herself, Gai Jia, Gary, and Garn, and said more than a hundred people lived in the village.
• Liu Di and the others reached a vast dome of tangled vines concealing Yulia Village.

Liu Di and his companions entered Lost Village, where radiation-mutated plants and villagers surrounded them. The Village Chief revealed that Liu Di could end the villagers’ suffering, but his prophecy was interrupted when Kun Sang climbed onto the platform and mistook his head for food.

• Dasha led Liu Di and the others through the living vine wall, which opened wide for Liu Di but trapped Kun Sang until Dasha freed him.
• Liu Di saw the grotesquely mutated villagers, accepted their strange food, and listened as they pleaded for help ending their suffering.
• Dasha and Gai Jia brought the group to the Village Chief, who revealed his enormous head and withered body.
• The Village Chief said Liu Di could end the villagers’ suffering and began to mention the stone coffin, but Kun Sang climbed onto the platform and called his bald head a braised egg.

The Village Chief explained that his prophetic dreams had shown Liu Di entering the Stone Coffin and gave him a map of dangerous areas on the way there. Liu Di shared a feast with the villagers, then listened as Dasha sang about her village as home.

• The Village Chief revealed that radiation had given him dreams of future events, including Liu Di entering the Stone Coffin and changing the village’s fate.
• The Village Chief gave Liu Di a map marking mutated animals and warned him to avoid them on the way to the Stone Coffin.
• The villagers welcomed Liu Di and Kun Sang with a feast, and Liu Di discovered that the irradiated food and wine increased his energy.
• Kun Sang ate the mutated food while still hallucinating that the villagers and their meal were ordinary and pleasant.
• After the feast, Dasha played a banjo and sang a song about the village being home.

Liu Di was moved by Dasha’s singing and posted a recording online, where it quickly captivated millions of listeners. After learning that five unaffected villagers might help him find a way to treat the others, Liu Di left alone for the Stone Coffin while Kun Sang stayed behind sick from the village’s food.

• Liu Di listened to Dasha sing and reflected on the villagers’ isolation and the Village Chief’s warning that he might end their lives.
• Liu Di gave Dasha a rose made from Fluid Metal and uploaded her performance through God of Song Di Yi’s account, where it went viral.
• Dasha told Liu Di that Noah and four others had remained unchanged and were powerful, and that they would return from a supply trip within days.
• The next morning, Kun Sang vomited after eating mutated food and begged the villagers to let him try their Salted Egg again.
• Liu Di set off alone for the Stone Coffin as the Village Chief reassured the villagers that Liu Di was invincible and joked that Kun Sang was their giant pig mascot, Saar.

Liu Di crossed the heavily irradiated wasteland toward the Stone Coffin, discovering that mutant beasts had been captured and that a colony of giant ants feared his radiation. Elsewhere, Gallup's procession was confronted by Yi Tian Luo and 283 modified humans, while Liu Di reached the point where the ants fled and faced the Stone Coffin with growing apprehension.

• Gallup ordered Number Four to inject the captured mutant beasts as his procession traveled back toward its base.
• Yi Tian Luo confronted Gallup and identified him as the vice president of the Doomsday Association's Second Branch, then led 283 modified humans in an attack.
• Liu Di found an empty cave and realized the mutant lizards, wolves, and horses had been captured by someone.
• Magic Child explained that bullet-sized mutant ants sensed Liu Di's radiation and wanted to prey on him but were afraid to approach.
• Liu Di continued toward the Stone Coffin as the ants followed, then watched them panic and burrow underground when he neared it.

Liu Di entered the Stone Coffin to investigate its radiation and found a gigantic mutated sloth lurking inside. The sloth attacked him with overwhelming force, leaving him pinned against the concrete.

• Liu Di entered the Stone Coffin, determined to absorb its radiation and remove a danger to the world.
• Liu Di discovered the ruined reactor, heaps of animal bones, and a rotting furry arm beneath a mound of sand.
• The rotting arm crushed a giant crow, and a huge mutated sloth emerged from the soil and ate it.
• Magic Child claimed the sloth was slow, but it lunged at Liu Di and smashed him into the ground.
• Liu Di struggled to hold back the sloth's claws as Magic Child admitted he would never trust QianDu again.

Liu Di fought a mutant sloth inside the Stone Coffin but was weakened when the reactor’s radiation overwhelmed his immunity. After the sloth fell asleep, Liu Di began using his radiation-absorption equipment nearby, leaving his New Human Stage Two DNA evolving.

• Liu Di attacked the mutant sloth with Fluid Metal blades and his fists, but it blocked his attacks and remained unharmed.
• Radiation overwhelmed Liu Di’s immunity, weakening him until the sloth struck him and sent him flying.
• The mutant sloth’s strength faded, and it fell asleep after exhausting its stored energy.
• Liu Di placed four radiation-absorption devices around himself and activated them beside the sleeping sloth.
• Liu Di absorbed the reactor’s radiation as his New Human Stage Two DNA evolved and his physical limits began to break through.

Kun Sang fled Yulia Village after waking to its mutated residents, while a blond young man arrived and slaughtered the villagers. The blond man ordered his men to stay in the village for two days and wait for Liu, hoping to find a powerful opponent.

• Kun Sang woke at Rita's home, mistook the villagers and their food for monsters, and ran from the village before its protective vines opened for him.
• The Village Chief said Kun Sang was strong and connected to Liu, then told the villagers to wait for Liu because their fate was due to change that day.
• A blond young man arrived with men in black and captured Mutated Beast Kings, then entered the village through its opened vines.
• The blond man killed Gary, wounded Gai Jia, and ordered his men to slaughter the villagers.
• The blond man told his subordinates to build him a bed and wait two days for Liu to return.

Liu Di endured intense radiation to strengthen his body, using an oscillator to accelerate the reactor’s output until its fission energy was nearly exhausted. After reaching 82% DNA evolution, he discovered that the mutated sloth feared him.

• Liu Di fought the mutated sloth, then used Magic Child’s calculations to put it to sleep.
• Liu Di activated an oscillator to increase the reactor’s radiation and continued his evolution while the sloth slept and woke between bouts.
• After eighteen hours, Liu Di had absorbed energy equivalent to 3.8 nuclear bombs, but his DNA evolution had reached only 82% of Stage Two.
• Liu Di realized the reactor’s remaining material could no longer help him and learned that his Hell Vest was nearing its strength limit.
• Liu Di opened his eyes to find the sloth nearby, but it trembled, backed away, and prostrated itself before him.

Liu Di defeated the mutated sloth and discovered that it was protecting two cubs. He brought the sloth family aboard the Silver Shuttle, then spotted the trembling Kun Sang nearby and turned back.

• Liu Di tested his new strength by punching the mutated sloth and overpowering it.
• He used Magic Child to combine DNA traits that let his Fluid Metal swords release electricity, then shocked the sloth into submission.
• Magic Child revealed that the sloth was female, and Liu Di found her two cubs hiding in the sand.
• Liu Di soothed the sloth, offered to provide a home and food for her family, and led them out of the Stone Coffin.
• Liu Di named the sloth Little Tree and her cubs Leaf and Branch, then boarded the Silver Shuttle with them.
• Liu Di spotted Kun Sang trembling on a dead tree and rapidly returned the Silver Shuttle.

Liu Di found Little Tree aboard the Silver Shuttle and planned to study it to help the villagers of Yulia Village. The journey ended in tragedy when he discovered 283 dead China soldiers and watched Chi Mei die, leaving him grieving and desperate to learn who had killed them.

• Liu Di reunited with Kun Sang and brought him aboard the Silver Shuttle, where Kun Sang encountered Little Tree.
• Liu Di explained that Little Tree might be able to neutralize radiation and said he would take it back to help the villagers of Yulia Village.
• The Silver Shuttle stopped 150 kilometers from the Stone Coffin, where Liu Di found 283 dead China soldiers.
• Liu Di discovered that Chi Mei had survived, barely, and asked who had attacked the soldiers.
• Chi Mei gave his last breath after trying to punch Kun Sang, and Liu Di and Kun Sang mourned him alongside the fallen Heavenly Net members.

After discovering that the Apocalypse Association had killed the villagers of Yulia Village, Liu Di confronted the blond President and killed him with his newly fused crimson armor. He left the surviving battle unresolved as Kun Sang fought the President’s nine subordinates.

• Liu Di decoded a communicator and learned that the dead Heavenly Net warriors had been Yi Tian Luo on a secret mission connected to Chernobyl and the Apocalypse Association.
• Liu Di and Kun Sang rushed north after realizing the Association might be targeting Yulia Village, while Kun Sang left Silver Shuttle to guard the warriors.
• Liu Di found every villager dead, lost control of the village’s protective vines, and spotted the group responsible leaving the village.
• The blond President ordered nine F-Class modified humans to capture Liu Di and fought him with metal wires as Kun Sang clashed with the subordinates.
• Liu Di transformed into black armor, fused 30% of Witch’s genes, and used intense crimson flames to burn the President to death.