Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue’s convoy cleared a zombie-choked route by sending two fuel tankers into the horde, then reunited with the survivors from the other towns. As the teams gathered in Aguascalientes, Jubei Mutou’s group realized Xu Yue was a valuable Umbrella Corporation executive, while his connection to a Reincarnator who had ambushed them remained uncertain.

• Jubei Mutou and the other Reincarnators returned to Xu Yue’s convoy after holding off a monster, and K revealed that Xu Yue was a top Umbrella Corporation executive with access to advanced Gene Lock methods.
• Jubei Mutou and the other Reincarnators decided not to return and agreed to protect Xu Yue, hoping to gain access to higher-level Gene Lock methods.
• Xu Yue’s convoy sent two tanker trucks spilling gasoline into the zombie horde, setting the street ablaze and clearing more than half the zombies.
• Xu Yue warned the convoy about approaching engines, and Chris recognized the arriving vehicles as the convoy that had completed its mission; the survivors cooled the overheated road and joined the two groups.
• Takahashi Kojiro greeted Chris, while Suzuki excitedly called out to Xu Yue; Jubei Mutou and the other Reincarnators suspected Xu Yue might be connected to the Reincarnator who had ambushed them.

Jubei Mutou's group and Minamoto no Yorisetsu's team each believed they had secretly identified the other as a threat, while Xu Yue and Minamoto no Yorisetsu had engineered their meeting. The convoy headed north toward Mazatlán, where the survivors would be sent through a port quarantine zone to safety.

• Jubei Mutou and the other three Reincarnators concluded that Takahashi's group were enemies who had failed to learn their identities.
• Minamoto no Yorisetsu warned her team that the four were Reincarnators, and her teammates decided to pretend they had not noticed them.
• Hane Muto and the others agreed to play along, believing they had the advantage of numbers and leadership.
• Xu Yue's arrangements with Minamoto no Yorisetsu brought the two Reincarnator groups together while concealing their plan to exploit their mutual suspicion.
• Takahashi Kojiro introduced Xu Yue to Minamoto no Yorisetsu and Hane Muto, and Xu Yue invited Minamoto no Yorisetsu into his Hummer.
• The convoy turned north toward the port of Mazatlán to move the survivors through quarantine and onward to a safer zone.

Xu Yue’s convoy reached the quarantine base in Mazatlán, where the survivors settled into a separate camp. Minamoto no Yorisetsu manipulated a misunderstanding between two Reincarnator groups, triggering a battle that left both sides convinced the other had attacked first.

• Xu Yue’s convoy reached Mazatlán and entered the quarantine zone, where Chris arranged for the BSAA team, the Reincarnators, and Xu Yue’s people to stay in a separate camp.
• Leon said he planned to take a vacation, while Jill worried that the outbreaks were being deliberately manipulated.
• Jubei Mutou’s group and Hane Muto’s group held separate meetings and discussed how to handle each other.
• An anti-materiel rifle round destroyed Jubei Mutou’s tent, and Minamoto no Yorisetsu sent foxfire at the four people who emerged.
• Both groups mistook the other for an enemy that had attacked first and launched into combat as Minamoto no Yorisetsu’s actions escalated the misunderstanding.

Hane Muto's team fought off Jubei Mutou's group after Xu Yue secretly shot an oil tank and the Reincarnators contained the resulting explosions. Hane's team kept control of the key, while Jubei's group fled and sought allies.

• Jubei Mutou's team fell behind Hane Muto's larger force, so Jubei threatened to destroy an aviation fuel tank to halt the battle.
• A sniper round pierced the tank, and fuel ignited when it hit one of Jubei Mutou's magma-covered teammates.
• The Reincarnators united and spent their skills and items to contain the chain explosions before they could spread.
• Jubei Mutou wrapped his injured teammates in his wings and escaped into the sea, while Xu Yue returned to camp after firing the shot.
• Hane Muto's team retained the key and gave some Reincarnators the first level of the Gene Lock, while Jubei Mutou's group searched for allies.

As the global outbreak worsened, Hane Muto reached the third tier and his team decided to end their long struggle for the Key with one final battle. Just as the two groups prepared to clash, a dozen unexpected arrivals appeared and questioned why they were fighting.

• The outbreak spread across the world, leaving China as humanity’s last sanctuary and forcing the BSAA and other organizations to focus on protecting settlements.
• Hane Muto qualified for the third tier after years of fighting alongside the Reincarnators, while Xu Yue revealed the gains and debts accumulated through their struggle.
• Hane Muto decided that his team had enough strength for one final battle and told the Reincarnators they would bring the mission to an end.
• Jubei Mutou’s team attacked the research tower to seize the Key, and both sides prepared to fight under Minamoto no Yorisetsu’s guidance.
• A dozen people suddenly appeared on the battlefield and asked why the teams were fighting.

Xu Yue watched the Main God’s interrupted descent disrupt the impending battle between Jubei Mutou’s and Hane Muto’s sides, allowing Neos’s Southern Continent Team to withdraw. After finding the team, Xu Yue learned their mission rules and discovered that killing him would grant final victory and erase every other team.

• Xu Yue sensed the Main God’s power descend and noticed that a Reincarnation Squad had appeared between the two sides preparing to clash.
• Minamoto no Yorisetsu identified the newcomers as special Reincarnators, while Neos recognized that his Southern Continent Team had arrived in the middle of a dangerous standoff.
• Jubei Mutou and Hane Muto’s sides avoided fighting and let Neos lead his team away to hide.
• Xu Yue appeared before the Southern Continent Team, and Neos explained their survival and victory conditions.
• Neos revealed that killing Umbrella Corporation’s senior consultant, Xu Yue, would grant final victory and erase every other team.

Neos told Xu Yue about the deadly final mission, prompting Xu Yue to head for Raccoon City. Meanwhile, the Demon Team and Zhongzhou Team reacted to the mission’s third target, Xu Yue, and the chapter ended with Chu Xuan discovering that the United States lay in ruins while China seemed largely untouched.

• Neos shared his deductions with Xu Yue, who decided to go to the United States and Raccoon City.
• Neos warned Xu Yue about the three major teams, then learned Xu Yue was the person named in the Lord God's mission.
• The Demon Team's replica Chu Xuan recognized the target as the powerful opponent he had once encountered, while replica Zheng Zha resolved to test him.
• Zhongzhou Team's Chu Xuan, Zheng Zha, and Xiao Honglu agreed that finding and recruiting Xu Yue could help them survive the final battle.
• After launching a satellite, Chu Xuan discovered that the United States was a silent ruin while China seemed largely unaffected.

Luo Gandao arrived at the Heavenly God Team while Luo Yinglong and Song Tian were fighting, and Adam asked him to deliver Chu Xuan’s message. Xu Yue then flew back to the United States, where he believed the Reincarnators were converging on Raccoon City for a final battle, and sensed strange spacetime fluctuations upon landing in Denver.

• Luo Gandao found the Heavenly God Team fighting among themselves, and Adam returned Luo Yinglong’s Spirit-Gathering Bottle before asking what message Chu Xuan had sent.
• Xu Yue studied satellite images showing Reincarnator teams clearing their way toward Raccoon City, where they expected to find clues about advancement to the Fourth Tier.
• Hane Muto questioned Xu Yue’s decision to return to the dangerous United States, while privately weighing whether to kill him and pursue the Fourth Tier clue.
• Xu Yue’s private jet landed at Denver International Airport, and he sensed backward-flowing spacetime fluctuations that he suspected were backlash from the Investiture of the Gods.

Hane Muto’s team tried to capture a lone cultivator near Raccoon City, only to discover that he was Luo Yinglong, a powerful Fourth Tier fighter. They later spotted Luo Gandao and another team engaging him, then withdrew rather than risk another costly fight.

• Hane Muto’s team flew toward Raccoon City and spotted a lone figure riding a flying sword, whom they mistook for an easy target.
• Hane Muto and the Reincarnators attacked Luo Yinglong, who trapped them in a formation and forced them to retreat battered.
• The team spotted Luo Gandao flying toward the same area and considered testing his strength.
• Another team attacked Luo Gandao, and Unit-01 appeared as AT Fields filled the sky and battle erupted.
• Hane Muto ordered a strategic withdrawal, and Xu Yue recognized that their targets were Luo Yinglong and the increasingly powerful Luo Gandao.

Xu Yue’s exhausted pursuers plotted to exploit a three-way standoff among the strongest teams, while Chu Xuan and Adam’s allies made their own plans to use them. The chapter ended with Chu Xuan deciding to send the strange Reincarnators to the Heavenly God Team, alarming Luo Yinglong.

• Xu Yue landed in Raccoon City’s nuclear crater, and his pursuers discussed profiting from conflict between the three supreme powerhouse teams.
• Hane Muto proposed manipulating the native Reincarnators, while Minamoto no Yorisetsu suggested joining forces with their former opponents to field seven Veteran Intruders.
• Jubei Mutou’s group agreed to cooperate, believing their experience and intelligence gave them an advantage over the native Reincarnators.
• Chu Xuan of the Demon Team chose to let the Lord God’s Reincarnators fight and hoped Xu Yue would not interfere.
• Chu Xuan of the Zhongzhou Team identified Xu Yue’s followers as cannon fodder and planned to send them to the Heavenly God Team.
• Luo Yinglong protested that feeding the strange Reincarnators to Adam could make the Heavenly God Team powerful enough to threaten Zheng Zha and his clone.

The Zhongzhou Team and Demon Team reconciled after discovering their former enemies were relatives, then infiltrated the Heavenly God Team’s Angel Alliance to exploit its plans. As Adam prepared a deadly trap and Xu Yue assessed the Tree of Life Formation Diagram, Xu Yue’s punch struck the approaching Luo Yinglong and sent him flying across the Americas.

• Xu Yue tried to keep the departing Reincarnators nearby, and Minamoto no Yorisetsu stayed with him alongside two weakened Reincarnators.
• Hane Muto and Jubei Mutou reunited as uncle and nephew, while the former enemies on both sides apologized and reconciled.
• Jubei Mutou proposed that their group join the Angel Alliance, then sow discord and play its members against one another.
• Hane Muto and the others posed as the South Pole Team and joined Adam’s Angel Alliance, where Adam gathered Mind Controllers to activate a weapon against the Zhongzhou Team and Demon Team.
• Xu Yue examined the Tree of Life Formation Diagram, judged its power limited, and casually punched through space.
• Luo Yinglong was struck by Xu Yue’s overwhelming Fist Intent, but his flying sword shielded him and carried him flying into South America.

Xu Yue tested the Azure Serpent Sword’s ability to suppress his regeneration while Chu Xuan and Zheng Zha weighed Adam’s plan to absorb the Angel Alliance. Adam consumed the Reincarnators and welcomed Luo Gandao, then discovered a second figure hidden behind him.

• Xu Yue saw that a thread of Innate Qi from the Azure Serpent Sword could suppress his regenerative ability.
• Chu Xuan’s clone suspected the opposing main god was pursuing Adam’s success and Human Instrumentality, while Zheng Zha questioned why Luo Yinglong had been sent over alone.
• Chu Xuan told Zheng Zha to let events proceed according to the enemy’s plans, saying their side would ultimately win.
• Adam absorbed the Angel Alliance’s Reincarnators, suppressed Hane Muto and his ojisan, and resolved to consume Zheng Zha and humanity next.
• Adam welcomed Luo Gandao as new nourishment, then noticed another figure behind him that his other senses could not detect.

Xu Yue confronted Adam as the fused Reincarnators inside Adam exposed a weakness, and Adam began merging with Luo Gandao. Xu Yue then absorbed the pair and the other Reincarnators, revealing a power beyond the limits they had known.

• Adam challenged the unseen visitor, and Luo Gandao identified himself before calling for Xu Yue to save him.
• Xu Yue taunted Adam about being an inferior copy of Chu Xuan, destabilizing him and helping the Reincarnators inside his body find a flaw.
• The trapped Reincarnators attacked Adam from within while Xu Yue carried Luo Gandao toward him.
• Adam and Luo Gandao began fusing, each recognizing that their abilities could complement the other's.
• Xu Yue mixed his blood into their orange-juice-like mass and absorbed Adam, Luo Gandao, and the remaining Reincarnators.
• Hane Muto and the others recognized that Xu Yue's power surpassed their limits, but realized it too late.

Xu Yue absorbed Adam's accumulated power and confronted Zheng Zha's original body and clone, who had arrived together to fight. He revealed strength beyond the advanced Fourth Tier and ended the clone's Black Hole technique with a touch.

• Xu Yue absorbed the Mind Light Adam had gathered, gaining a substantial amount of accumulation.
• Zheng Zha's original body and clone appeared together, and Xu Yue realized Chu Xuan had sent them to follow the tide of fate.
• Xu Yue unleashed his Vitality and Blood, sealed off the area, and demonstrated a power beyond the advanced Fourth Tier but short of the Fifth Tier.
• The two Zheng Zhas tore open separate domains, while the clone formed his strongest technique, Original Darkness: Universe End.
• Xu Yue walked through the clone's Black Hole forces and touched its core, dispersing the black specks instantly.

Xu Yue defeated the Intruders in the Punishment mission, neutralized the world’s viruses, and returned to the Fujiwara residence to learn that the Muto Family and Genji Clan had been crippled. As he made plans to exploit the Crown Prince and Imperial Grandson’s next mission, Muren began investigating the force behind the increasingly brutal Punishment missions.

• Zheng Zha realized that Xu Yue’s actions had cost him his chance to resurrect his teammates, but Xu Yue gave him a phone and left him a way to continue his journey.
• Xu Yue cured the world’s viruses with the T-Virus antidote and vanished, then returned to the Fujiwara Family Head’s residence.
• The Fujiwara Family Head reported that most of the Muto Family and Genji Clan’s Intruders had been crippled and burdened with enormous debts.
• Xu Yue told the Fujiwara Family Head not to target the Genji Clan and arranged for the Crown Prince and Imperial Grandson to encounter him in a future mission.
• Muren told the Great Priest that he suspected a powerful force was exploiting Punishment missions, after seeing the damage inflicted on the Muto Family and Genji Clan.

Jiaren refused to abandon his plan to advance to Elite Intruder despite rumors, while Xu Yue advised Chen Zhen on his path and the Penguin Merchant Guild established itself in Japan. Muren judged Penguin to be pursuing profit rather than a direct threat, but arranged for the Great Priest to guard Jiaren during his advancement.

• Jiaren dismissed the rumors relayed by an attendant and resolved to continue his plan, believing success would secure his advancement and persuade Muren to hand him power.
• Xu Yue advised Chen Zhen to follow the Human Immortal Martial Path, then left without revealing his identity to the other overseas students.
• Chen Zhen reassured the struggling overseas students that hope was near and that the future would improve.
• The Penguin Merchant Guild opened a registered branch in Japan and partnered with local families and corps, while cooperating powers suppressed calls to expel it.
• Muren concluded that Penguin was seeking profit and had deliberately subdued its hostile rivals, then asked the Great Priest to serve as Jiaren's Path Guardian when he pursued elite advancement.

Xu Yue learned that Jiaren planned to use Fullmetal Alchemist’s Equivalent Exchange, Blood-Red Stones, and gathered treasures to transform his life, so he ordered the Penguin Merchant Guild to stockpile resources for the next mission. When Ulquiorra reported that they were being followed in Japan, Xu Yue told him to return as usual and delay the next delivery, setting up a possible confrontation with those watching them.

• Xu Yue reviewed intelligence about Fullmetal Alchemist and learned how Equivalent Exchange, alchemy arrays, and Blood-Red Stones could let Jiaren boost his strength.
• Xu Yue decided the Penguin Merchant Guild should gather Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to support both Jiaren’s plan and his own modified Lin Sheng.
• The Penguin Merchant Guild and Jiaren’s side began accumulating supplies ahead of the next mission.
• Ulquiorra reported that their frequent purchases in Japan had drawn watchers who could suspect the guild’s role in the destruction of two great families.
• Xu Yue told Ulquiorra to return with the goods and wait half a month before bringing the next shipment.

Japanese forces ambushed the Penguin Merchant Guild’s liner in territorial waters, aiming to seize its cargo with an Emperor’s Edict. Ulquiorra and Uchiha Itachi repelled the first attack, but an Onmyoji trapped Itachi’s Susanoo with prepared talismans.

• The attackers confirmed Ulquiorra and Uchiha Itachi as their targets and prepared to use an Emperor’s Edict to claim the liner’s goods.
• After the liner entered Japanese territorial waters, the attackers raised an isolation barrier that reduced the cost of using power within it.
• A coordinated group of attackers unleashed a giant Water Dragon Bullet at the liner’s passengers.
• Ulquiorra destroyed the water dragon with King Cero, but three prepared Spirit Talismans flew toward him.
• Uchiha Itachi summoned Susanoo to block the talismans, which ignited and bound the giant in chains of fire.
• A confident Onmyoji revealed that the talismans had been intended to restrain Itachi, not Ulquiorra.

Uchiha Itachi’s complete Susanoo overwhelmed Qingchuan’s team with a devastating senjutsu attack, but Qingchuan destroyed it with an explosive dragon technique. Xu Yue then stopped the blast from reaching the cruise ship and revealed himself.

• Uchiha Itachi broke Qingchuan’s restraining chains with his complete Susanoo and countered his soul-burning water dragon with Sage Art: Wind-Sweeping Clouds.
• Qingchuan raised a Vajra Realm barrier, but the storm killed everyone outside it who was below Intruder level.
• Qingchuan poured talismans into his dragon, cracking the Susanoo, while Itachi used the Totsuka Blade to pull the dragon toward its seal.
• Qingchuan detonated the dragon, tearing apart the Susanoo and sending a blast toward the cruise ship.
• Xu Yue halted the shockwave before it struck the ship and asked Qingchuan whether those moves had been prepared for him.

Xu Yue and his subordinates defeated Qingchuan's forces, and Xu Yue killed Qingchuan when he tried to escape. After deciding to target the enemy's goods in Japan, Xu Yue reassured Uchiha Itachi that he would make their owners hand them over willingly.

• Uchiha Itachi and Ulquiorra overwhelmed Qingchuan and his veteran Intruders, leaving the five veterans floating face-down in the sea.
• Qingchuan used a life-saving ability to flee to the edge of the restricted barrier, but Xu Yue caught and restrained him.
• Qingchuan threatened Xu Yue with retaliation from the Empire, but Xu Yue blasted him into specks of light.
• Xu Yue spared the frightened people aboard the cruise ship and ordered his group to move against the enemy's goods.
• Uchiha Itachi explained that their Authority Items could not be used to seize goods in Japan, and Xu Yue said he would make the owners hand them over willingly.