Chapter Summaries

The Destroyer Squad found the Wolf Demons reduced to White Bones and discovered that a Barren Attribute with a peak concentration above 50 had consumed them. Meanwhile, Fang Yi returned home carrying the evolved Little Wild Flower and let a stray dog follow him inside.

• The Destroyer Squad reached the forest and found White Bones covering the ground, with an intact Divine Axe Realm Wolf Bone at the center.
• The captain and the female agent detected residual Barren Attribute at 15 and estimated its peak concentration had exceeded 50.
• The captain read the Pioneers' message that several flowers had appeared, devoured the Wolf Pack, and vanished.
• Fang Yi walked home carrying the Little Wild Flower and reflected that it could grow by consuming powerful Demonic Beasts.
• A stray dog rubbed against Fang Yi, and he allowed it to come inside.

Fang Yi returned home with a stray puppy and told Lin Yiyi he might soon break through again. After comparing him to the Pioneers she had seen on a mission, Lin Yiyi privately boasted to Zhao Meng that her brother might reach six stars.

• Fang Yi came home with a stray puppy, and Lin Yiyi eagerly picked it up and admired it.
• Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi bathed and dried the puppy, revealing its white fur beneath the grime.
• Fang Yi told Lin Yiyi he might be about to break through, so she agreed to go out.
• Lin Yiyi exchanged messages with Zhao Meng and agreed that the Pioneers she had seen could not compare to Fang Yi.
• Lin Yiyi messaged Zhao Meng that her brother might soon reach six stars.

After reaching Divine Axe Sixth Star, Fang Yi confronted Jiang Lu, a battle-hungry Fire Attribute Pioneer who challenged him. Fang Yi effortlessly crushed Jiang Lu’s flames and pinned him to the ground, leaving Jiang Lu shaken by the vast difference in their strength.

• Fang Yi broke through to Divine Axe Sixth Star and gained finer control over his abilities.
• Jiang Lu sensed Fang Yi in Tai City and went to Baiyuan Street to challenge him.
• Jiang Lu introduced himself and attacked Fang Yi with a blazing Fireball.
• Fang Yi destroyed Jiang Lu’s attack with lightning and pinned him in a crater.
• Fang Yi left, while Jiang Lu sat defeated and wondered whether he was too weak.

Jiang Lu returned home devastated after being defeated in a single move by a Pioneer whose lightning shattered his Fire Attribute. He told Wang Ping and Li Ming that the opponent was already at Divine Axe Sixth Star, two realms above him.

• Jiang Lu came back to his apartment in silence, startling his roommates Wang Ping and Li Ming, who were used to his combative attitude.
• Jiang Lu admitted that he had been one-shotted, and Wang Ping and Li Ming found him crying.
• Jiang Lu explained that his opponent's lightning shattered his flames and overwhelmed him with its power.
• Jiang Lu revealed that the lightning wielder was already Divine Axe Sixth Star, two realms above Jiang Lu's Divine Axe Fourth Star.

Fang Yi killed a mutated bat that attacked him and Lin Yiyi in Tai City, while Su Qingying returned to the city and detected a rapidly rising Anomaly concentration. She reported for duty as the Spirit Association warned that a Class A Aberrant might descend at any time.

• Fang Yi sensed an anomalous aura and killed a flying mutated bat with lightning as it attacked him and Lin Yiyi.
• Fang Yi judged the bat to be a Divine Axe Two Stars Anomaly and hurried home with Lin Yiyi, troubled by the dark clouds and the daytime attack.
• Su Qingying returned to Tai City, reflected on Fang Yi's strength, and watched the high-rise apartment where he lived.
• Su Qingying's Silver Bracelet detected an Anomaly concentration of 9 that was still rising, and she reported that she was ready to stand by.
• The Spirit Association told Su Qingying to stay in contact and await orders as a Class A Aberrant threatened to descend upon Tai City.

Su Qingying monitored preparations for a looming Class A Anomaly while Tai City’s skies grew ominously dark. Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi’s martial arts group grew alarmed by the strange storm and decided to gather at Fang Yi’s house.

• Su Qingying recalled the devastating Corrupted Behemoth invasion overseas as she watched the Anomaly reading rise above Tai City.
• Su Qingying checked in with the four Pioneer patrol teams, which reported no anomalies, and warned them to report again later.
• Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi saw lightning strike near their home as a meteorological alert warned residents to stay indoors.
• Lin Yiyi showed Fang Yi the Martial Arts Pioneer Squad chat, where members expressed unease about the storm and proposed meeting at his house.
• Fang Yi agreed to let Lin Yiyi’s friends come over.

Fang Yi gathered the Martial Arts Pioneer Squad and other Pioneers to compare reports of Dark Attribute bats and strange Black Mist spreading through Tai City. After learning the Spirit Association and military had sent reinforcements, the group realized the danger was far greater than they had expected, while Su Qingying warned everyone to survive the day.

• Zhao Meng, Li Wenzhu, and Lu Jiahe arrived at Fang Yi's home and described bats or Black Mist they had encountered around the city.
• Fang Yi created a group chat called Pioneers, where members compared reports and Li Wenzhu suggested the bats might be a vanguard for a more powerful Anomaly.
• Ant Tooth Black warned the group that the Spirit Association had sent Pioneers to Tai City and the military had deployed powerful people to guard the surrounding area.
• The gathered Pioneers grew alarmed as they realized the situation was unusually serious and urged one another to stick together.
• Su Qingying surveyed Tai City from the Clock Tower, saw dense Black Mist covering the city, and warned everyone through her earpiece to be careful and survive today.

As darkness and a torrential rain threatened Tai City, Su Qingying and C Team fought a swarm of Mutant Bats and rescued a girl who had gone outside. The Pioneers discovered the bats were multiplying and evolving by feeding on humans, and Tai City was already overrun.

• Su Qingying shot down a Mutant Bat and protected a girl who had wandered outside despite the warnings.
• After the Liaison Officer warned her of approaching C-Class Mutant Bats, Su Qingying requested support from C Team.
• Bai Qiu and the Pioneers joined Su Qingying in fighting the swarm, then escorted the girl home.
• As drizzle began, Bai Qiu complained that the mutated creatures kept appearing, while Su Qingying learned the bats were breeding rapidly and gaining strength by devouring humans.
• Su Qingying learned from drone images that Bat Swarms had spread across Tai City and concluded the city had become a blood feast for their evolution.

As a torrential rain accompanied a growing Anomaly crisis, Fang Yi told Lin Yiyi that Tai City might be wiped out because the Spirit Association could not contain the evolving bats. Tai City’s defenses collapsed as the Bat Swarm broke into homes, while the Spirit Association struggled to respond.

• Fang Yi reassured Lin Yiyi about her mother, then privately warned her that the Dark Attribute-contaminated bats could overwhelm Tai City.
• The Bat Swarm overran Tai City in thirty minutes, and Su Qingying’s C Team fought to hold the last line of defense.
• The bats evolved by devouring flesh and blood, growing stronger after three Pioneer teams were destroyed.
• Bats smashed through building windows and began attacking ordinary people inside their homes.
• Wei Zheng and the Spirit Association’s Coordination Room faced the crisis without enough experts available to stop it.

Su Qingying and C Team were nearly wiped out defending an apartment district from an evolving swarm of bats, including a newly emerged Divine Axe Fifth Star King. Lin Yiyi rescued them into her apartment, but the King smashed through the window just as someone complained about the broken glass.

• Su Qingying led the wounded C Team toward an apartment district threatened by bats, where they fought to protect the residents as their Spirit Qi and ammunition ran out.
• A mutated bat evolved into a Divine Axe Fifth Star King, leaving Su Qingying and Bai Qiushi facing certain death as Bai Qiushi sacrificed his remaining strength to distract it.
• A girl named Lin Yiyi pulled Su Qingying and Bai Qiushi through a window into an apartment, and the other unconscious members of C Team were brought inside.
• The Bat Swarm battered the Spirit Qi-covered window until the Divine Axe Fifth Star anomaly shattered it, prompting an irritated voice to complain about the glass.

Fang Yi rescued C Team by killing a Divine Axe Fifth Star bat and clearing Dark Attribute from Bai Qiushi’s wound. The team learned that a massive Cocoon was forming in central Tai City, while the military faced hordes of powerful bats at the city’s edge and struggled to reach the center.

• Fang Yi killed the giant bat with a combined thunder and Crimson Fire Blade strike, setting the surrounding swarm ablaze.
• Fang Yi cleared the Dark Attribute from Bai Qiushi’s severed-arm wound, and Bai Qiushi recognized him as the Pioneer who had killed Candle Night.
• Su Qingying reported that C Team had survived and that Fang Yi had eliminated the Divine Axe Fifth Star Aberrant.
• Bai Qiushi assessed that the bats were growing and using Tai City as blood food, while the Liaison Officer revealed a massive Cocoon in the city center.
• The military reached Tai City’s border but found countless powerful bats blocking entry as a black vortex formed over the city.

Su Qingying warned that a Perfect Bat King was incubating in the giant cocoon while the military was blocked outside Tai City. As the Spirit Association tried to gather the city's Pioneers, Groups A, B, and D all lost contact after being surrounded by bat aberrants.

• Su Qingying explained that the organized bat aberrants served a Perfect Evolutionary King incubating inside the giant cocoon.
• Su Qingying reported that powerful bat aberrants had blocked the military outside Tai City, leaving the city without help.
• The Liaison Officer said the Pioneers should gather at Tai City Square and reported that the other groups were approaching.
• Spirit Association agents discovered that Groups A, B, and D had stopped responding after their stations were attacked by large bat swarms.
• The Liaison Officer told Su Qingying that Groups A, B, and D had all lost contact.

After all teams lost contact in Tai City, Su Qingying and the injured Spirit Association members decided to go out and fight the Bat Swarm. Fang Yi took Su Qingying’s tracking bracelet and set off alone to face the danger.

• Su Qingying learned that all teams had lost contact and feared the Pioneers were trapped in the Bat Sea.
• Su Qingying urged the injured C Team members to leave their shelter and fight, and Bai Qiushi and the others agreed.
• Lin Yiyi and the other Pioneers joined the injured members, determined to defend Tai City from the Bat Swarm and the King inside the Cocoon.
• Fang Yi questioned the use of sending the wounded out, then decided to go himself.
• Fang Yi took Su Qingying’s Silver Bracelet for its tracking and communication functions, fastened his Tang Saber, and released a brilliant golden aura as he set out.

As Tai City faced the imminent birth of the King and the military could not reach Central Plaza in time, a mysterious man used Su Qingying’s wristband to contact the command room. He demanded that everyone link up with him and declared he would take down the King.

• The command room learned that the Spirit Association’s teams had been wiped out or lost contact, while the military needed at least thirty minutes to reach Central Plaza.
• The officers debated whether to abandon Tai City to keep the Dark Attribute from spreading beyond the city.
• The command room spotted a fast-moving agent heading toward Central Plaza and identified the agent as Su Qingying, a Divine Axe Fourth Star.
• A man answered the liaison officer through Su Qingying’s communications wristband, revealing that he was not Su Qingying.
• The man ordered everyone to link up with him and announced that he would take down the King at the center.

Fang Yi raced toward Central Plaza as the Spirit Association coordinated its intelligence network to guide him through Tai City. He instantly killed a powerful Aberrant, reviving the team’s hope that the city could be saved.

• Fang Yi struggled to use his communicator while fighting through the bat Aberrants on his way to Central Plaza.
• Fang Yi demanded that the Liaison Officers connect with him and use their equipment and information to assist him.
• The commander ordered the intelligence team to guide Fang Yi, and they identified a route through the Aberrant encirclement.
• The Liaison Officers warned Fang Yi that two powerful Aberrants were approaching, but he met them before he could retreat.
• Fang Yi killed an Aberrant in a single strike, shocking the intelligence team and restoring their confidence.
• The Spirit Association rallied around Fang Yi as their comrade and the hope of Tai City.

Fang Yi unleashed a vast sea of Purifying World Fire that burned through the bat swarm and opened a path toward the Clock Tower. Lin Yiyi and the Spirit Association recognized his blade art, while Li Zhongyue watched in stunned silence as Fang Yi advanced through Tai City.

• Bats swarmed Fang Yi on the route to Central Plaza, but he slashed through them with the Purifying World Fire and cleared the road.
• Lin Yiyi and Zhao Meng saw Fang Yi’s scarlet flames illuminate Tai City and recognized his blade art.
• Fang Yi’s flames tore through the dark encirclement near the Clock Tower and killed powerful Divine Axe Fifth Star bat aberrants.
• Spirit Association members and Special Operations Division personnel recognized Fang Yi as the Pioneer from the circulating video and called him the King of Flames.
• Li Zhongyue watched the sea of fire on the satellite screen and wondered whether a Pioneer could truly accomplish such a feat.

As bloodied bats terrorized Tai City and the Information Cocoon Web cut residents off from the outside, the authorities calmed them with an image of someone fighting through a sea of fire. Encouraged residents began helping themselves, while hundreds of Pioneers organized across the city to kill anomalies and protect people.

• Tai City residents posted about bats attacking homes, but their messages were deleted and their ability to communicate beyond the city was blocked.
• A fire dragon incinerated the bats, and the Tai City Meteorological Bureau urged residents to stay calm and trust the figure advancing into the darkness.
• Residents rallied around the official message, encouraged one another, and began following guidance to light fires and save themselves.
• Lin Yiyi gathered everyone at Fang Yi's home and led them out as a post declared, "It's our turn to act."
• Special Operations Division satellite footage showed Pioneers organizing across Tai City to kill anomalies and protect residents, with hundreds taking part.

Fang Yi used Little Flower and his Yang Attribute to cut through the Dark Aberrants in Tai City and reveal the King’s cocoon. As powerful Aberrants converged on him, the Operations Department watched in horror.

• Fang Yi unleashed Little Flower’s Vines, which trapped the bats and drained their life force.
• Fang Yi sensed the King’s heartbeat, and C02 located the cocoon ahead of him in Central Plaza.
• Fang Yi fully released his Yang Attribute, forming a Golden Sun that melted the city’s darkness and destroyed waves of bats.
• The Golden Sun exposed the King’s swaying cocoon, and the Operations Department recognized the threat of the King’s birth.
• Dark Aberrants, including Ghost Axe Sixth Star, Seven Stars, and Eight Star creatures, rushed toward Fang Yi as C02 warned him of the danger.

Fang Yi fought through the Dark Aberrants and used Seal Burial to bind the King’s Giant Cocoon to the Clock Tower, halting its hatching. Drained of spiritual energy, he walked away from the burning Central Plaza as the Pioneers arrived.

• Fang Yi’s golden sun burned through the Aberrants as they converged on Central Plaza.
• Fang Yi used the Crimson Fire Blade Technique and lightning-charged attacks to kill the surrounding Aberrants and advance toward the Giant Cocoon.
• The King sensed Fang Yi as a threat and sent Black Qi bat fangs roaring toward him.
• Fang Yi declared that the King should die and struck the Giant Cocoon with his saber.
• Fang Yi used Seal Burial and Nine Dragon Heavenly Fire to shrink and seal the Giant Cocoon onto the Clock Tower’s dial.
• Fang Yi, weakened after exhausting his spiritual energy, walked away from the burning plaza as the Pioneers arrived.

Tai City celebrated after Fang Yi sealed the A+-grade Giant Cocoon and ended the crisis, while Pioneers across the region searched for the mysterious hero’s identity. The city’s officials and residents came to know their savior as the Undertaker.

• Tai City's survivors, Special Operations Department agents, and Pioneers celebrated as the fog cleared and the bat threat ended.
• Pioneers across the Forum praised the unknown fighter who had sealed the King Cocoon and saved Tai City.
• Zhao Meng received messages asking about the hero, while Lin Yiyi and the other Pioneers agreed to keep Fang Yi’s identity secret.
• Su Qingying rejoiced that Fang Yi had fulfilled his promise and realized he had saved her three times.
• A legend spread that the Undertaker had sealed the Giant Cocoon and saved Tai City.