Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng traveled with a Blue Starlight escort to Tom No. 4 Battle Star to observe a mysterious ceremony at the Thorn Star Field. Meanwhile, Su Qin and her teammates prepared to intervene in the events surrounding Wang Mu’s return, and the chapter ended with Lu Sheng seeing a huge planet from the spaceship.

• Red Thorn gave Lu Sheng dossiers showing that Su Qin and the other visitors had suspiciously detailed but apparently ordinary records, and she reported that Xifu De Lei Di was a formidable Mind Power Master.
• Lu Sheng told Red Thorn to observe Xifu De Lei Di rather than capture him, then waited by the lake until a white-haired Blue Starlight escort opened a portal.
• Lu Sheng entered the portal and traveled through a dark passage to a spaceship, where the escort welcomed him to Tom No. 4 Battle Star.
• Su Qin and her teammates arrived at the lake after Lu Sheng disappeared and planned to change Wang Mu’s fate by helping him defeat Blue Starlight’s experts.
• The escort told Lu Sheng they had reached the Thorn Star Field, and Lu Sheng saw a massive earth-yellow planet through the ship’s window.

Lu Sheng watched Blue Starlight erase inhabited planets as part of a ceremony and condemned the organization’s mass killings, while the old man defended them as voluntary sacrifices for justice. After learning Blue Starlight had sensed the power of Nothingness fused within him, Lu Sheng agreed to return and consider joining them.

• The old man showed Lu Sheng a black metallic spike erase an inhabited planet, then led him to watch the same process destroy a second planet and its orbiting stations.
• Lu Sheng condemned the ceremony as pointless slaughter, while the old man claimed the planets’ inhabitants had volunteered and compared them to crops being harvested.
• Lu Sheng argued that he hunted only when necessary and that his past killings were forced by circumstances, leaving the old man unable to answer his reasoning.
• The old man revealed that the ceremony would erase thirty-three planets to mark Blue Starlight’s coming war with the Mind Power Alliance, and Lu Sheng called the organization’s actions terrorism.
• The old man showed translucent bumps on his arm and said Blue Starlight had sensed the power of Nothingness within Lu Sheng, making him one of them.
• Lu Sheng agreed to return with the old man and take time to consider the organization’s offer.

After returning from Blue Starlight, Lu Sheng was ambushed by Nesseran and a woman who tried to implant a control chip in him. He broke free, killed the woman, and crushed Nesseran in a fight over the lake.

• Lu Sheng declined to join Blue Starlight, shook hands with the old man, and returned to the artificial lake through a passage showing scenes of human disasters.
• Nesseran revealed that he had helped resolve Lu Sheng’s situation and urged him to join the organization, while a woman used Ice Devil Light to immobilize him.
• The woman injected Lu Sheng with microscopic robots intended to form a control chip, but the needle became stuck in his hardened arm.
• Lu Sheng transformed, killed the woman, and attacked Nesseran, destroying his shield and driving him into the lake.
• Lu Sheng caught Nesseran as he emerged from the water and struck him until his spine broke.

Lu Sheng defeated Nesseran and treated the surviving members of Su Qin’s squad, then negotiated with them to learn about Beiga Star’s coming disaster and recruit them for a skill experiment. The chapter ended with Su Qin and the others accepting his request in exchange for the complete Thousand Locking Dragon Skill.

• Lu Sheng defeated Nesseran, who wet himself and fainted, then left with him as Su Qin emerged from hiding and found De En buried in a compartment beneath the dirt.
• Su Qin mourned De En with the two surviving squad members, while Bai Juncheng and Ansha found him buried and brought him to Nine Lives Hall for treatment.
• Lu Sheng treated De En and considered how to build influence to find Lu Ning and prepare for the planet’s destruction and powerful Dark Energy Users.
• Su Qin and her injured teammates met Lu Sheng, offered information about an enemy squad, and warned him of a surprise attack expected between that night and the following day.
• Su Qin asked for the complete Thousand Locking Dragon Skill, and Lu Sheng agreed to teach it if they cooperated with one of his skill experiments; they accepted after a mission panel appeared.

Lu Sheng studied the abilities of Su Qin’s team and gained insights that brought him closer to the Sixth Destiny of the brain marrow. After Su Qin learned that powerful squads had entered the scenario and might have discovered her team, Lu Sheng turned to investigating Wang Mu’s family before the Star Annihilation battle.

• Lu Sheng invited Su Qin, De En, and their companion to demonstrate their abilities, then improved their skills and learned from their different power systems.
• Su Qin and her teammates decided to remain with Nine Lives Hall after Lu Sheng revived De En and offered to teach them the complete Thousand Locking Dragon Skill.
• Su Qin learned that the Angel and Demon Spirit squads had entered the scenario, while Sha Ti reported that five squads had arrived and identified Xifu De Lei Di as the story’s key figure.
• When Angel Squad invited the teams to a meeting under a confidentiality agreement, Su Qin suspected that her squad had been exposed.
• Lu Sheng set aside the squad’s troubles and decided to contact Wang Mu’s biological parents before arranging escape routes for them.

Lu Sheng visited the residential complex where his father, Wang Yumin, lived to observe him and meet his half-sisters. Wang Yumin recognized Lu Sheng but could not bring himself to acknowledge or ask him to stay, and Lu Sheng left while Wang Ruojing called someone.

• Lu Sheng arrived at He'ai Residential Area with Wang Ruojing and waited in the central courtyard for Wang Yumin.
• Wang Ruojing introduced Wang An'an and Zhao Xinmei as Lu Sheng watched them from the pavilion.
• Wang Yumin came out, recognized Lu Sheng, and tried to introduce him to Wang An'an as her big brother.
• Lu Sheng said he would visit again and walked away after Wang Yumin failed to ask him to stay.
• Wang Ruojing hurried after Lu Sheng and called someone on her phone.

Lu Sheng met Wang Mu’s biological mother, Zhou Ye, and learned why his parents had abandoned him, but he rejected her request to reunite. After arranging places for both parents and their families, he returned to the main hall and agreed to meet Bai Songdie, a young mining executive whose sudden rise and interest in him seemed tied to the Main God squads.

• Wang Ruojing brought Lu Sheng to a café, where he met Zhou Ye and heard her confess that her affair had led to the divorce and Wang Mu’s abandonment.
• Lu Sheng declined to live with Zhou Ye, then asked Wei Handong to reserve places for her and Wang Yumin and their current families.
• Lu Sheng told Wang Ruojing his food costs were too high for Zhou Ye to support, then drove off in a heavy armored vehicle.
• Bai Juncheng reported that Bai Songdie, Kuangyun Group’s chairwoman, had offered part of her Scale Stone mining operations in exchange for meeting Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng agreed to meet Bai Songdie because her rapid transformation and apparent connection to the Main God squads intrigued him.

Lu Sheng met with Su Qin and her companions, who asked for his help against Cross Sword and traded a Moon Fruit for a chance to improve their cultivation. He began training De En, then turned his attention to the high-stakes Kuangyun Group deal with Bai Songdie, preparing either to complete the trade or seize the goods.

• Su Qin warned Lu Sheng that Bai Songdie and Cross Sword were dangerous, then asked him to help find an enemy spy near their residence.
• Su Qin offered Lu Sheng a Moon Fruit, and he ate it before learning it could have been used to create a Moon Well.
• Su Qin traded a Moon Fruit for Lu Sheng to raise the group's Thousand Locking Dragon Skill cultivation, and De En volunteered to go first.
• Lu Sheng used his hellish training method on De En, who laughed until he collapsed unconscious; Su Qin and the others carried him away after Lu Sheng assured them he would recover.
• Lu Sheng absorbed newly delivered Scale Stone and considered how to secure the Kuangyun Group deal, with Red Thorn and others ready to handle the handover or rob them if negotiations failed.

Bai Songdie tried to take control of Wang Mu, the master of Nine Lives Hall, after arranging for Kuangyun Group to join his commercial system. Her Illusory Tree Seed entered Lu Sheng’s consciousness space, where the Extinguishing Emotion Seeds struck it down.

• Bai Songdie planned to subdue Wang Mu and Li Shaozong, and traveled to Nine Lives Hall with the Tree King’s help.
• Bai Songdie offered Kuangyun Group’s assets to Nine Lives Hall, and she and Wang Mu completed the business contracts.
• Bai Songdie asked Wang Mu to meet privately and sent her Illusory Tree Seed into his consciousness space.
• The Illusory Tree Seed encountered Lu Sheng’s Extinguishing Emotion Seeds, and one of them battered it and prepared to attack again.

Lu Sheng subdued Bai Songdie, learned about the Reincarnators and the Tree King, and arranged to take control of Kuangyun Group's Scale Stone business. A Hellfire Stone Man then destroyed the restaurant, and Lu Sheng ordered Red Thorn to investigate and respond within three days.

• Lu Sheng removed the Tree King's influence from Bai Songdie, put her to sleep, and used Psychological Guidance Art to question her about her mission and Reincarnator team.
• Lu Sheng learned that the Tree King parasitically controlled up to five people and that he could issue missions to Reincarnator teams for rewards.
• Bai Juncheng told Lu Sheng that Kuangyun Group's Scale Stone business would transfer to them the next day, and reported that Su Qin had been targeted and lightly injured in a clash.
• A Hellfire Stone Man emerged from the exploding restaurant, but Nine Lives Hall disciples defeated it and handed its head to Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng ordered the branch to investigate the attack, told Bai Juncheng to have Red Thorn act, and demanded results within three days.

Bai Songdie escaped after Wang Mu defeated her and released a silver substance before leaving, while Lu Sheng sensed danger and discovered a rapidly spreading infection that drove people into a violent frenzy. The outbreak reached the hospital, where Lu Sheng and Wei Zhenyu prepared to escape as infected people attacked those around them.

• Bai Songdie returned injured and told Milo and Ron that Wang Mu had countered her ability, then ordered them to abandon their hidden squad and leave.
• Bai Songdie dropped a test tube of silver liquid in the hotel room, and its vapor spread through the air.
• Lu Sheng sensed danger, questioned Wei Zhenyu about his family and Nine Lives Hall's core members, and learned that people at a shopping mall had become violently infected.
• Lu Sheng and Wei Zhenyu visited an infected Nine Lives Hall disciple in a private hospital, where Lu Sheng sensed something living in the air and concluded the patient could not be saved.
• A coughing nurse attacked Wei Zhenyu, and Lu Sheng knocked her away as more people in the hospital became infected and began biting others.
• Lu Sheng told Wei Zhenyu to leave with him as infected people attacked throughout the hospital.

Lu Sheng ordered Nine Lives Hall to gather survivors and fortify its headquarters as a sudden zombie outbreak plunged the city into chaos. Powerful outsiders fought amid the outbreak, while Lu Sheng learned that unidentified fighters were causing severe casualties among his people.

• Lu Sheng led the disciples out of the hospital, where a wounded infected man kept moving after his spine was broken.
• Lu Sheng told the disciples to rescue their families and return with survivors to Nine Lives Hall headquarters within two hours, while he and Wei Zhenyu headed there.
• Adi vanished after his sports car was destroyed, and two gray-coated men discussed preparations as a cigarette butt ignited the zombie-filled mall.
• Bright confronted Dylan, and their battle engulfed nearby people and Nine Lives Hall's rescue team as Bright tried to summon demonic power by sacrificing lives.
• Lu Sheng waited at headquarters as Wei Handong reported that unidentified powerful fighters had appeared and caused severe casualties among Nine Lives Hall's people.

Lu Sheng faced the invasion threatening his city and transformed himself to lead the Nine Lives Hall against it, while powerful Reincarnators fought amid the chaos. The chapter ended with an unknown black fighter losing to a white-browed woman’s sword as a collapsing building crushed Nine Lives Hall disciples.

• Lu Sheng refused to send his people into battle because they were too weak, then urged the Core Department members to give everything to become stronger and released his blood mist over them.
• Wang Jing sensed that her little brother was in danger, but the old man told her she had to finish inheriting O'Nardu’s power before she could help, so she returned to Bitter Cultivation.
• Su Qin fled through the devastated city as the black sphere absorbed lives and encountered a silver-glowing old man fighting a white-browed woman.
• The white-browed woman summoned the Azure Blood Transformation Sword and split the old man, a supermarket, and the ground with one strike.
• A black figure wielding a scythe fought the white-browed woman, was knocked through a building, and caused it to collapse on rescuing Nine Lives Hall disciples.

Lu Sheng defeated Dylan and forced the Demon Prince Xia Du Ha Er Si to retreat by posing as a Formless Heavenly Devil. He unleashed his Core Cadres on the city and began turning Bright into his servant.

• Lu Sheng struck Bright and Dylan, then survived Dylan's Ice Emperor summon and killed her with the Fierce God Palm.
• Bright tried to escape as Devil's Gate neared completion, but Xia Du Ha Er Si mistook Lu Sheng for a Formless Heavenly Devil and withdrew with the gate.
• Lu Sheng smashed a giant monster formed from zombies and ordered his Core Cadres to slaughter the remaining zombies.
• Bright fled, but a black sphere took root in his consciousness as Lu Sheng declared that every slaughter would make him stronger and called him back as his servant.

Lu Sheng gathered defeated Reincarnators under his control, killed Bright, and forced Bai Songdie to reveal that she had released the virus and hand over two test tubes. As Nine Lives Hall cleared the city, Ansha and Red Thorn fought through zombie hordes and Reincarnators, while Wei Handong faced another attack.

• Nine Lives Hall cadres rescued survivors and cleared half of Anming City, leaving the heavily infected Central Business District as the final area.
• Lu Sheng summoned the defeated Reincarnators, declared them his servants, and killed Bright when he hesitated.
• Lu Sheng confronted Bai Songdie, discovered she had released the virus, took two sealed test tubes from her, and dragged her away to identify key Reincarnators.
• Ansha drew zombies toward a hardware store and shattered them with metal fragments from his blade.
• Red Thorn attacked Reincarnators near a collapsing mall and blasted Thunder Dragon and another fighter backward with Nether Star High Soar.
• Wei Handong endured a battle-axe strike from a black-clad man who had appeared behind him, while the attacker remained unable to wound him.

Wei Handong and Zheng Huan’s forces kept outside attackers from interfering in Anming while Lu Sheng prepared to enter an underground shelter disguised as an ordinary librarian. The chapter ended with Lu Sheng demanding that Wei Handong call him Big Brother so they could maintain his cover.

• Wei Handong fought off attackers while dragging a woman through headquarters, and the others charged him after he mocked their weakness.
• Zheng Huan ordered the Mind Power Alliance and Blue Starlight to withdraw, and his subordinates drove back the Alliance’s battleship, gravely injuring several Mind Power Masters.
• Zheng Huan destroyed an interstellar teleportation array after its operators threatened him and offered information about the previous virus outbreak.
• Lu Sheng entered an underground shelter with Wei Handong and Nine Lives Hall disciples, changed into ordinary clothes, and told them to treat him as a poorly paid librarian.
• Lu Sheng struck two disciples who failed to address him as Little Wang, then agreed that Wei Handong could call him Big Brother as part of his cover.

Lu Sheng visited his relatives in the underground shelter and reassured them that they were safe, then discussed the cleanup and resource shortages with Wei Handong. As Lu Sheng prepared to leave, Zhen He approached to thank him.

• Wei Handong escorted Lu Sheng through the shelter’s defenses and reported that his family was safe, though several distant relatives had caught the virus.
• Lu Sheng visited Wang Junhao, Wang Cheng, and Wang Ziyun, explaining that he had used his connections to secure their places in the shelter.
• Lu Sheng left his uncle’s room without waiting for his aunt and declined to visit Wei Handong’s parents.
• Wei Handong reported that the zombie cleanup was nearly complete, the virus had been contained, and the Business Department needed new mining and excavation staff.
• Zhen He found Lu Sheng at the shelter’s conveyor belt and said she had come to thank him.

Zhen He asked to stay by Lu Sheng’s side, and Wang Jing appeared to deliver him a gift before Lu Sheng abruptly ate her temporary avatar and retrieved a platinum box. Lu Sheng brought Zhen He to Nine Lives Hall headquarters, where Bai Juncheng asked him to intervene after the White Family was attacked.

• Zhen He thanked Lu Sheng for saving her and asked to remain by his side as an assistant.
• Wang Jing appeared and told Lu Sheng that Zhen He could accompany him; after an intimate exchange, Lu Sheng ate Wang Jing’s temporary avatar and found a platinum box.
• Wang Jing and her teacher discussed the mishap inside Dark Space, while Wang Jing resolved to be more direct with Lu Sheng next time.
• Lu Sheng traveled to Nine Lives Hall headquarters with Zhen He, Wei Zhenyu, and Wei Handong, instructing the others to report after the cleanup operation.
• Bai Juncheng told Lu Sheng that the White Family had been attacked and his father was near death, and Lu Sheng asked him to provide details about the attackers.

Lu Sheng received Blue Starlight representative Xi Xiang’s offer for Nine Lives Hall to cooperate with the organization, while Su Qin’s team planned how to use Nine Lives Hall’s strength to change the story’s course. The chapter ended with Nesseran confirming that Blue Starlight’s leaders genuinely wanted Lu Sheng to join them.

• Lu Sheng sent Zhen He to begin basic special training, telling her to qualify for the Three Saints Department and eventually the Core Department.
• Su Qin, De En, and Sha Ti discussed Xifu De Lei Di, Li Shaozong, and how Nine Lives Hall might help them alter the plot and gain support.
• Xi Xiang met Lu Sheng and praised his strength before proposing long-term cooperation, dead-soldier training, and a possible place for Lu Sheng on the Cross Council.
• Lu Sheng said he needed time to consider Blue Starlight’s offer, and Xi Xiang gave him a week to respond.
• Nesseran appeared after Xi Xiang’s departure and told Lu Sheng that Blue Starlight’s leaders sincerely wanted him to join.

Lu Sheng met with Juyi Group chairman Li Shaozong to arrange research on virus-infected mutants and identify Xifu De Lei Di, while Li offered help with Nine Lives Hall’s Scale Stone mining. The meeting ended with Mo Er attempting to assassinate Lu Sheng, who caught and shattered his silver spike and sent him crashing into a wall.

• Lu Sheng and Zheng Huan postponed Blue Starlight’s recruitment offer and discussed the Mind Power Alliance, Juyi Group, and Xifu De Lei Di.
• Li Shaozong reviewed reports of Nine Lives Hall’s role in eliminating infected people in Anming City and prepared to meet Lu Sheng with his bodyguards, including Xifu De Lei Di.
• Lu Sheng asked Juyi Group to research the virus and its infected mutants, and Li offered to connect Nine Lives Hall with Scale Stone mining channels.
• When Li declined Lu Sheng’s request to spar with Xifu De Lei Di, Mo Er volunteered to fight Lu Sheng’s black-haired companion.
• Mo Er attacked Lu Sheng with a silver spike and invoked Horus, but Lu Sheng caught the spike, shattered it, and blasted Mo Er into the wall.