Chapter Summaries

During the campus lockdown, Luo Jun tracked down and killed a Polluter posing as a teacher, then escaped with Zhuge Lan. As they headed to Zhuge Lan’s apartment, a woman aimed a pistol at Luo Jun on the subway platform, but a transparent screen protector decapitated her; the chapter ended as a cleaner discovered the body.

• Parents stormed the school during a fire evacuation, and Luo Jun used his tracking ability to locate a Polluter inside the Teaching Building.
• Luo Jun killed the Polluter with a single punch, earned 430 points, and escaped the campus with Zhuge Lan.
• Luo Jun opened the Hundred Treasure Box, then changed into a tracksuit Zhuge Lan had bought for him.
• Luo Jun and Zhuge Lan checked their inherited addresses and decided to stay at Zhuge Lan’s upscale apartment.
• At a crowded subway station, Luo Jun noticed a middle-aged woman aiming a pistol at him, and a transparent screen protector cut off her head as the train arrived.

Luo Jun and Zhuge Lan returned to her home, where her parents mistook them for a couple before Polluters attacked. Luo Jun captured one attacker and began torturing him for information about how the enemies had tracked him.

• Luo Jun and Zhuge Lan entered Zhuge Lan’s apartment, where her parents welcomed them and her father questioned Luo Jun about his age, job, and relationship with her.
• Zhuge Lan announced that they would leave after her father objected to Luo Jun staying overnight, but a deliveryman attacked them with a Fine-level shotgun.
• Luo Jun crushed the shotgun barrel, incapacitated the deliveryman, and charged into the stairwell after hearing more attackers approach.
• Luo Jun fought off another attacker in the stairwell, chased down a fleeing Polluter, and captured him alive.
• Luo Jun questioned the captive about how the Polluters had found him, then tortured him when he refused to answer.

Luo Jun tortured White Night Bat into revealing that the Polluters targeting him served Long Hui, who had entered the mission at Sanjiang Middle School with the Poison Blood Gu King. White Night Bat said Long Hui’s Rebirth Plan had been interrupted, leaving him with a teenager’s appearance and only partially restored strength.

• Luo Jun learned that White Night Bat and the assassins tracking him were Polluters from the [Martial World] who followed poisonous blood traces left by the Poison Blood Gu King.
• White Night Bat admitted that Long Hui had entered the mission and revealed that he had appeared at Sanjiang Middle School alongside the Poison Blood Gu King.
• Luo Jun used the Pain Amplification Potion to force White Night Bat to answer his final question about Long Hui’s condition.
• White Night Bat revealed that Long Hui’s Rebirth Plan had been interrupted halfway through, and that he still looked like a teenager despite recovering some strength.

Luo Jun learned that Long Hui might be the Polluter responsible for Teacher Zhao’s death and realized he had to find him before he grew stronger. After killing White Night Bat and helping Zhuge Lan unlock an ability, Luo Jun parted ways with her to keep her out of danger.

• White Night Bat’s answer confirmed Luo Jun’s suspicion that Long Hui had been hiding among the evacuated students at Sanjiang Middle School, and Luo Jun feared Long Hui might have killed Teacher Zhao and gained mission points.
• Luo Jun concluded that Long Hui would be difficult to locate and dangerous to fight in the city, then killed White Night Bat and earned enough points to unlock Midnight Mask.
• Zhuge Lan killed the delivery guy and unlocked the Body Refinement Realm while Old Master Yu and his wife recoiled from her in fear.
• Luo Jun told Zhuge Lan he had been cursed and that enemies would keep pursuing him, then exchanged contact information with her before leaving through the window.
• Zhuge Lan watched Luo Jun depart and resolved to unlock her abilities so she could prove herself to him.

Luo Jun lured a confident pair of contestants to an abandoned factory and killed them, then waited for the first-stage Source of Calamity to appear. It appeared in the East Suburbs, where a livestream team had just opened the basement of an abandoned hospital and unleashed something monstrous.

• Luo Jun used his poison-blood pheromone trail to lure enemies to a ruined factory and killed a sniper with a sheet of iron.
• Luo Jun caught and killed the white-robed man who had tried to ambush him, bringing his total score to 1,430 points.
• Luo Jun exchanged points for Midnight Mask but saved the rest, then learned that the first-stage Source of Calamity would appear soon.
• The Source of Calamity appeared in the East Suburbs, and Luo Jun raced toward it wearing Midnight Mask.
• At an abandoned East Suburbs hospital, a livestream team opened the basement door, and a rotten arm grabbed the streamer as an inhuman roar sounded.

A hospital courtyard filled with rotten monsters became the meeting point for several mission contestants, while Ling Xin and Ling Yu joined forces to kill a giant beast. Zhuge Lan revealed that Luo Jun, disguised as Lin Feng, had already killed several Polluters and drawn the enemy’s attention; then the hospital began to collapse beneath them.

• The streamer was attacked and killed by a rotten monster, and Xiao Nan fled as more monsters overwhelmed the team and courtyard.
• Ling Xin rescued Xiao Nan and destroyed the zombies, then confronted a giant crocodilian monster until Ling Yu speared it through the skull.
• Lu Gaoen, Qian Qing, Ling Fei, and Ling Yu arrived and compared their kills, with Ling Yu boasting that he had defeated Li Huai for 680 points.
• Zhuge Lan arrived and said Luo Jun, using the name Lin Feng, had already taken at least five heads and was drawing powerful enemies toward himself.
• The ground trembled and collapsed, and the hospital began sinking.

The contestants confronted the enormous Corpse King, whose armored body resisted their strongest attacks and spawned more zombies. They realized the gathering contestants could gain points by hunting nearby Polluters, but Qian Qing was suddenly stabbed from behind.

• Xiao Nan fell into a tumor-like mass and became trapped as the Corpse King roared into the night.
• Ling Yu’s Epic-level spear failed to pierce the Corpse King’s armor, and the monster pulled it out and hurled it toward Ling Xin.
• The Corpse King sprayed black liquid that spawned Flandre Monsters, forcing the group to retreat and seek out nearby Polluters for points.
• Ling Yu used Enemy Detection and spotted many Polluters nearby, while Ling Xin led the group toward an explosion at a construction site.
• Lu Gaoen saved Chu Xin from a bomb, and Chu Xin learned the group had arrived to fight the Polluters.
• Qian Qing offered to help Chu Xin treat his wounds, but a long blade suddenly pierced through her chest.

Long Hui and the other Polluters attacked the contestants, and Ling Xin’s group fought back before Long Hui revealed his Heart Refining Realm strength and turned the battle against them. As Long Hui pursued the fleeing survivors, an unknown figure suddenly killed the Corpse King with a single strike.

• Long Hui killed Lu Gaoen and Qian Qing, then attacked Chu Xin until Ling Yu and Ling Fei intervened.
• Ling Xin, Zhuge Lan, and the others joined the fight against Long Hui, Zhang Shi, Azure Silk Ink Cloud, and Feng Zi Ming.
• The Corpse King emerged after the fighting drew it to the group, and Ling Yu killed Azure Silk Ink Cloud before unlocking the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Ling Xin killed Zhang Shi, and Ling Yu took the kill on Feng Zi Ming, leaving Long Hui as the last surviving Polluter.
• Long Hui revealed Dragon Pattern Qi and his Heart Refining Realm, killed Ling Yu and Ling Fei, and pursued Ling Xin as the others fled.
• A black shadow plunged from the sky and shattered the Corpse King’s skull, stunning everyone who witnessed it.

Luo Jun rescued Xiao Nan after killing the Corpse King, then hunted Polluters while trying to catch Long Hui, who escaped using a decoy and teleportation. He met the injured Chu Xin and offered him points and a healing injection in exchange for help with detection.

• Luo Jun pulled Xiao Nan from the Corpse King's chest, healed her, and completed the side mission to rescue her.
• Luo Jun tracked Long Hui, but Long Hui used a decoy and teleportation to escape, leaving Luo Jun to kill another Polluter instead.
• Luo Jun scanned the area and killed several fleeing Polluters before finding the wounded Chu Xin.
• Chu Xin recognized Luo Jun as Night and confirmed that Luo Jun had killed the Source of Calamity.
• Luo Jun offered Chu Xin three hundred points and a Healing Injection, then asked whether Chu Xin's detection ability was available.

Luo Jun used Chu Xin’s detection abilities to hunt hidden Polluters across Cheng City, then recruited him to keep finding targets for a fee. With twenty enemies still remaining, Luo Jun left Chu Xin to gather intelligence and await further orders.

• Luo Jun carried Chu Xin across the rooftops and told him to use Enemy Detection to locate Polluters.
• Chu Xin detected a Polluter disguised as a woman in an apartment, and Luo Jun killed her before moving on.
• Chu Xin found a second Polluter in a hotel, and Luo Jun dodged its attack and killed it, earning points from both targets.
• After Chu Xin’s Solo Scan found no more enemies, Luo Jun exchanged contact information with him and offered him a hundred points for each Polluter he located.
• Chu Xin accepted the intelligence deal, and Luo Jun leaped away as sunrise reached the city.

Luo Jun reviewed his huge point total after killing the Corpse King and considered how to find more contestants before the next Source of Calamity appeared. News of the monster and the escalating violence spread across the city, and a map search gave him a new lead.

• Luo Jun bought breakfast from a stall owner and heard that her daughter was performing as the lead dancer at Riverside Theater.
• Luo Jun rested in Clerical Xiao Wang's apartment and calculated that he had earned 4,403 points during the night, bringing his total to 5,213.
• Luo Jun checked the countdown and contestant numbers, then concluded that finding more enemies in the vast city would mostly depend on luck.
• Luo Jun watched online reports about stolen firearms, violent deaths, and widespread footage of the Corpse King, and wondered whether the mission's chaos would draw armed forces.
• Luo Jun searched for an address on the map, realized he had found a way to stop relying on luck, and smiled.

Ling Xin warned her false family about the danger and went to meet Night’s recruits at the Wanghe Road shopping center, where several powerful figures gathered. As she waited, a long-haired man approached her and brought up their shared past and a proposed marriage.

• Ling Xin told her family to stay home and described the danger expected around one in the afternoon, but they doubted her warning.
• Night hijacked the television broadcast, identified himself as Luo Jun, and invited the city’s mission participants to meet him at the shopping center at ten o’clock.
• Ling Xin demonstrated her strength to convince her family the world had changed, then left for the shopping center despite their objections.
• Ling Xin watched the entrance, spotted plainclothes officers and several experts, including Shi Yong, Chen Yan, Chen Fei, and Zhuge Lan.
• A long-haired man sat across from Ling Xin, asked how she had returned from a recent Chaos Mission, and reminded her that Uncle Jue had said they would marry.

Luo Jun gathered the Main World contestants in Binhe Park and proposed a group network to locate and surround the remaining Polluters. He left with their contact information secured, while Zhuge Lan failed to connect his phone to Lin Feng's identity.

• Ling Xin and Wan Zisheng saw Night kill disguised Polluters and blast a hidden enemy near the mall before declaring a new meeting location at Fountain Square in Binhe Park.
• Luo Jun reached the park and met the contestants who had arrived, then had Chu Xin use his detection ability to check for Polluters.
• Luo Jun explained that the remaining Polluters would be difficult to find and proposed a contact group where contestants could share enemy locations and gather to attack together.
• Luo Jun offered one hundred points to anyone who provided information that helped kill a Polluter, and the contestants exchanged contact details with him.
• Zhuge Lan examined Luo Jun's phone while pretending to scan his code, but she found no link between his work account and Lin Feng.

Luo Jun waited for the Second Stage Source of Calamity to appear, then rushed to Xianghe Avenue when it emerged in a crowded downtown district. He rescued Jia Jia from a falling office building and revealed himself as Brother Wang, but the Nine-Headed Serpent remained alive and attacked the building.

• Luo Jun joined the Night's Gathering group chat through his alternate account and waited with the others for news of the Polluters and the next Source of Calamity.
• The mission announced that the Second Stage Source of Calamity would appear in five minutes and offered a total reward of 4,500 points, while survivors lost points for Ordinary People killed.
• The Source of Calamity appeared on Xianghe Avenue, where a massive sinkhole swallowed people and cars and caused an Office Building to tilt.
• Manager Liu kicked Jia Jia off the office door they were clinging to, and a gigantic dinosaur-like monster opened its jaws to catch her.
• Luo Jun blew apart one of the monster's heads with a Black Shadow and caught Jia Jia as she fell, then told her to run.
• Jia Jia saw that the monster was a Nine-Headed Serpent, which rammed into the building and seized Manager Liu in one of its mouths.

Luo Jun and Chen Fei coordinated to stop the Nine-Headed Serpent from spreading its infectious slime and destroy its heads. After the serpent split and two heads fled, they killed them and helped contain the remaining monsters until the mission completion notification appeared.

• Zhuge Lan witnessed the Nine-Headed Serpent spray infectious slime that transformed nearby pedestrians into snake-like monsters, then killed one and charged to fight others.
• Luo Jun realized the serpent had multiple independent sections and could not be killed in one strike, but struggled to catch its evasive heads and stop it from escaping.
• Chen Fei spent 300 points to use her fire technique to seal the serpent’s severed necks, allowing Luo Jun to destroy its heads without releasing more slime.
• Luo Jun and Chen Fei worked together to blow apart and seal the serpent’s remaining heads while their teammates fought the monsters already created.
• The final two heads detached and fled, but Luo Jun and Chen Fei killed both and joined the other contestants in clearing the remaining monsters until the mission completion notification appeared.

After the Nine-Headed Serpent was defeated, Zhuge Lan learned that the masked fighter Night was likely Lin Feng, while Luo Jun acquired the Myriad Jun Hammer. Zhuge Lan then lured Luo Jun toward a Polluter she had detected, and he set off to meet her.

• The remaining Snake People and Mutated Monsters died or were killed, and Zhuge Lan earned enough points to unlock the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Zhuge Lan questioned Jia Jia about Clerical Xiao Wang and realized the man she described was Lin Feng, whom she knew as Night.
• Luo Jun scanned the area for Polluters, counted his rewards, and summoned the Myriad Jun Hammer, leaving himself with over 6,000 points before its cost.
• Zhuge Lan told Luo Jun she had found a lone Polluter in a supermarket and proposed that they defeat him together for the points.
• Luo Jun received Zhuge Lan's location in a nearby residential area and headed there.

Zhuge Lan waited in a teahouse to test whether “Lin Feng” was Night, but she and Ling Xin instead discovered Polluters upstairs and were ambushed by the Corpse King’s controlled residents. Surrounded by hundreds of puppets, they realized the district was a trap.

• Zhuge Lan waited for “Lin Feng” while planning to expose him by sending him to another location in the group chat.
• Ling Xin found Zhuge Lan and said she had scanned three Polluters on the teahouse’s fifth floor; the two agreed to cooperate and wait for Zhuge Lan’s teammate.
• A waiter attacked them with Ghost Shadows concealed in pastries, and Ling Xin struck him down before Zhuge Lan could attack two customers.
• Ling Xin warned Zhuge Lan that the customers were Ordinary People, then the customers and other people on the floor transformed into puppets controlled by the Corpse King.
• Zhuge Lan and Ling Xin escaped through a window, dodged transformed residents outside, and found hundreds of puppets surrounding them.

Luo Jun rescued Zhuge Lan and Ling Xin from the Corpse King's puppets, tracked down the Corpse King, and destroyed her with the Myriad Jun Hammer. After earning 850 points, he discovered that his points had fallen to zero and the Annihilation Process had begun.

• Zhuge Lan and Ling Xin fled the Corpse King's puppets while avoiding killing them, and Ling Xin alerted the group to the Polluters.
• Luo Jun reached the residential complex as Night, rescued Zhuge Lan and Ling Xin, and helped them purge the contamination.
• Zhuge Lan used her detection ability to locate three red dots, and Luo Jun pursued the one moving away from the others.
• Luo Jun identified the Corpse King as an old woman, seized her, and carried her to an open space away from the residents.
• The Corpse King boasted that her defense could withstand a Peak Expert, but Luo Jun struck her with the Myriad Jun Hammer and vaporized her.
• Luo Jun received 850 points, then found his total at zero as the Annihilation Process countdown began; he saw that the puppets had all died.

After the Corpse King’s death triggered the Annihilation Program, Luo Jun drew the Doomsday Escape challenge and prepared to flee a collapsing world. Just before the challenge began, time stopped, and Midnight appeared, reclaiming the mask she had given him.

• Luo Jun realized his points had been reset and tried to kill two controlled [Wilderness] Polluters, but the Dice of Heavenly Secrets said the Mandatory Event could not be determined.
• The Annihilation Program sent Luo Jun to a white room and required him to draw a Death Challenge with his treasures prohibited.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to select a suitable challenge, achieved a Great Success, and drew Doomsday Escape.
• The challenge world began forming around Luo Jun, with disasters and a devouring void ahead, but the world abruptly froze before the challenge started.
• Luo Jun’s Midnight Mask flickered with strange patterns, and Midnight appeared, took the mask, and reminded him they had met before.

After Night vanished, Ling Xin and Zhuge Lan assessed the Main World's weakened position against the Polluters. Meanwhile, Midnight upgraded Luo Jun's mask with the ability to let her descend wherever it was, and Luo Jun refused to risk bringing her into the Main World.

• Ling Xin restored her Golden Edge Witch abilities, and she and Zhuge Lan realized Night had disappeared during the Annihilation Program.
• Zhuge Lan suspected Lin Feng was Night but kept her suspicion from Ling Xin.
• Midnight told Luo Jun she had upgraded his mask, making it a Legendary Treasure Item with the ability to let her descend to its location.
• Luo Jun realized Midnight could use the mask to enter the Main World and returned it, refusing to endanger his homeland.
• Midnight questioned Luo Jun's refusal, and he insisted she would not enter the Main World through him.