Chapter Summaries

Han Bao reported that Shelters No. 39, No. 38, and No. 40 had been devastated, with their residents and Gene Warriors missing, and the evidence suggested multiple seventh-tier Tyrant-class rat Source Beasts were responsible. Lin Xuankong faced the choice of fleeing with his companions or staying to protect Shelter No. 36’s tens of thousands of refugees, and the chapter ended with everyone awaiting his decision.

• Ma Long welcomed Han Bao and was astonished by his peak eighth-tier strength, while You Rui suspected Lin Xuankong had influenced the group’s rapid growth.
• Han Bao told Lin Xuankong that Shelter No. 39 had been destroyed and its residents had vanished, despite its formidable defenders and weapons.
• Han Bao reported that Shelters No. 38 and No. 40 had suffered similar destruction, with blood and scorch damage but no bodies.
• Han Bao said the shelters bore differently sized claw marks from giant rat-like creatures, leading Lin Xuankong and the others to suspect several seventh-tier Tyrant-class Source Beasts.
• You Rui asked Lin Xuankong whether Shelter No. 36 should evacuate, and he weighed escaping with his companions against leaving its refugees defenseless.
• Lin Xuankong sat in silence as the group considered the threat and waited for his decision.

Lin Xuankong decided to turn Shelter No. 36 into a fortified, self-sufficient base rather than flee from the growing threat of Tyrant-class Source Beasts. After assigning defenses, reconnaissance, food production, and Gene Potion work, he left open the possibility of defeating a Tyrant-class beast and reaching the seventh Life Tier.

• Lin Xuankong argued that Shelter No. 36 should pool its resources and become a fortress instead of leading tens of thousands of people into the ruins.
• Han Liu accepted the task of finding Xiao Lu and other skilled survivors to repair the shelter’s automatic weapons and Heavy Cannons.
• You Rui took charge of reconnaissance, while Ma Long was assigned to organize the disaster victims and develop local food production.
• Li Pingfei agreed to produce second-generation YZMM Gene Potions and SW Alloy, but said that restarting research on the third-generation potion exceeded Shelter No. 36’s current capabilities.
• Lin Xuankong considered the danger posed by seventh-tier Tyrant-class Source Beasts and resolved to seek a chance to ambush one, gain its Source Stone Crystal, and advance to the seventh Life Tier.

Lin Xuankong learned that Shelter No. 36’s automatic weapons had been repaired and that Lu Ye had refined eighth-tier SW Alloy bullets from the Predator Giant Python’s remains. He appointed Lu Ye to lead a weapons laboratory, leaving the shelter with renewed prospects for its defense and research.

• Han Liu reported that the shelter’s automatic cannons and Heavy Cannons had been repaired, and Lin Xuankong assigned him and Han Bao to manage the weapons.
• Lin Xuankong praised Shelter No. 36’s technical experts and argued that humanity still needed researchers and weapons even if Gene Warriors grew stronger.
• Lu Ye presented an eighth-tier SW Alloy bullet and explained that his team had produced about five hundred from the Predator Giant Python’s scales and bones.
• Lu Ye revealed that Xu Rong had rejected his research proposals and that Xu Chong had taken his wife, while Han Liu promised that such abuses would not recur under Lin Xuankong.
• Lin Xuankong appointed Lu Ye to lead a weapons laboratory and offered him Gene Warrior-level treatment and access to the shelter’s resources.

Lin Xuankong visited Li Pingfei’s laboratory, where the researchers had developed a YZMM Gene Potion with a three-percent awakening rate but were still pursuing a much safer third-generation formula. Lin Xuankong promised to keep supplying Source Beast flesh, leaving Li Pingfei eager to continue his research and Lin Xuankong hopeful about the potion’s potential.

• Shelter No. 36’s survivors grew more hopeful as contribution-point distribution and stronger rooftop cannons made life feel safer.
• Lin Xuankong visited Li Pingfei in Laboratory No. 2 and learned that Reagent No. 1877 had a three-percent awakening success rate.
• A biologist urged Li Pingfei to mass-produce Reagent No. 1877, but Li Pingfei refused because failed recipients could permanently lose their chance to awaken.
• Li Pingfei promised to keep working toward a third-generation potion with an awakening rate above fifty percent and proposed naming it the Lin Kong Potion.
• Lin Xuankong assured Li Pingfei that he would provide as much Source Beast flesh as needed and left to lead a hunt.
• Li Pingfei rallied his team to review Reagent No. 1877, while Lin Xuankong reflected hopefully on supporting the research.

After Shelter No. 1 reported that five shelters had fallen to powerful Source Beasts, Lin Xuankong rejected its order to gather at Shelter No. 1 and directed Shelter No. 36 to prepare to take in refugees from nearby shelters. He kept the source of his confidence secret as Shelter No. 36 continued preparing for the growing threat.

• You Rui told Lin Xuankong that Shelter No. 1 had reported the fall of Shelters No. 9, No. 6, No. 23, No. 28, and No. 29, likely to seventh-tier Source Beasts.
• You Rui relayed Director Huang's order for every shelter to bring its Gene Warriors and important people to Shelter No. 1 within seven days, leaving most refugees without transport.
• Lin Xuankong refused to follow the order and told Han Bao to prepare to bring refugees from Shelters No. 35, No. 34, and No. 33 to Shelter No. 36 if they were abandoned.
• Lin Xuankong told Ma Long to coordinate with Lu Ye and speed up Heavy Cannon production, while Ma Long worried that the shelter might be attacked before its defenses were ready.
• You Rui questioned Lin Xuankong's confidence in the face of the threat, but he kept its source secret and said Shelter No. 36 would continue to grow stronger.

Lin Xuankong revealed that Shelter No. 36 planned to rescue the 120,000 disaster victims abandoned by three nearby shelters and began preparing defenses for their arrival. After the other shelters’ leaders left for Shelter No. 1, Shelter No. 36 kept its strength and Xu Rong’s death secret.

• Han Bao and Lu Ye discussed the convoy carrying fewer than five hundred people while the rest of the disaster victims remained in Shelters No. 35, No. 34, and No. 33.
• Lin Xuankong told Lu Ye to recruit specialists and manufacture weapons because he planned to bring the abandoned disaster victims to Shelter No. 36.
• The three Captain Generals from Shelters No. 35, No. 34, and No. 33 demanded to see Xu Rong, but Han Liu stopped them and revealed his peak eighth-tier Manifestation ability.
• You Rui refused to join the other shelters’ journey to Shelter No. 1, and Lei Che warned that Shelter No. 36 might regret traveling alone before the three Captain Generals departed.
• Han Liu said he had refrained from using his Void Devouring Worm because he feared Lin Xuankong would punish him with more exhausting work.

Lin Xuankong sent Han Liu to rescue the survivors at Shelter No. 33 and ordered Han Bao to organize work at Shelter No. 36, while You Rui confirmed that two underground Insectoid Tyrants were stalking Lei Che’s convoy. The convoy’s life detector then alerted them to a powerful lifeform ahead, leaving Lei Che and the other Captain Generals preparing for an attack.

• You Rui reported that Lei Che’s group had abandoned survivors from Shelters No. 35, No. 34, and No. 33 and taken most of their Alloy Bullets with them.
• Lin Xuankong sent Han Liu with fifty Auxiliary Security Members and more than thirty vehicles to aid Shelter No. 33, while Han Bao began organizing workers to build a wall around Shelter No. 36’s residential compounds.
• Lin Xuankong asked You Rui to scout Lei Che’s convoy, and she spotted seven Predator Source Beasts retreating from it before discovering two underground Tyrant-class Insectoid Source Beasts ahead.
• You Rui confirmed that the two Tyrants were cicada-type Insectoid Source Beasts, and Lin Xuankong told her to observe their abilities and attack patterns.
• The convoy’s life detector flashed a red warning and stopped the vehicles; Lei Che armed himself and turned the convoy’s automatic cannons toward the powerful lifeform detected ahead.

Lei Che’s armored convoy was ambushed by two powerful Cicada Abomination Source Beasts in the ruins of Stone City and quickly shattered despite its overwhelming firepower. Lei Che and the other Captain Generals fled, leaving the convoy’s survivors scattered and the beasts feeding on the wreckage.

• Lei Che ordered three armored vehicles to scout the unnaturally quiet road after their life detectors showed no nearby threats.
• Two Cicada Abomination Source Beasts burst from beneath the convoy, tore apart two armored vehicles, and drained more than twenty Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors.
• Lei Che ordered the convoy’s cannons to fire, but the beasts endured the barrage and broke free to smash through dozens of vehicles.
• Lin Hu urged Lei Che to carry out Plan B, and Lei Che ordered the Gene Warriors to retreat in different directions before fleeing with Lin Hu and Lang Pu.
• The convoy collapsed into chaos as the Cicada Abomination Source Beasts killed and fed on stranded Gene Warriors.
• Three or four kilometers away, Lei Che and Lin Hu escaped and feared the beasts were as powerful as Director Huang.

Lei Che, Lin Hu, and Lang Pu fled toward Shelter No. 1 while condemning Shelter No. 36 for refusing to join them. At Shelter No. 36, Lin Xuankong refused to let You Rui risk rescuing the abandoned Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors and began assessing how they might defend against the two Cicada Abomination Source Beasts.

• Lei Che rejected Lin Hu’s suggestion to gather surviving Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors, and Lang Pu agreed that stopping near the two Tyrant Source Beasts was too dangerous.
• Lin Hu and Lang Pu discussed how little their forces could do against the Cicada Abomination Source Beasts, while Lei Che predicted Shelter No. 36 would be destroyed for refusing to retreat with them.
• You Rui observed that most of the fleeing vehicles were in danger and asked Lin Xuankong for permission to rescue some Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors.
• Lin Xuankong refused to let You Rui go, arguing that those who abandoned the disaster victims had to bear the consequences of their choices.
• You Rui assessed the two beasts as mid-Seventh-Tier threats and said Shelter No. 36 would need heavy firepower and Lin Xuankong’s abilities to resist them.
• Lin Xuankong promised to fight if the beasts attacked Shelter No. 36, but warned You Rui that the battle’s outcome might surprise her.

You Rui learned that a massive Dog Tribe Source Beast horde was approaching Shelter No. 35, threatening its tens of thousands of residents and Shelter No. 36. Lin Xuankong set out alone to confront the horde, leaving You Rui to prepare for the survivors’ evacuation.

• You Rui finished settling the disaster victims at Shelter No. 33 and wrote about her lingering curiosity over Lin Xuankong’s prediction.
• Xiao Li reported that a horde with more than two hundred ninth-tier Dog Tribe Source Beasts and at least twenty Predator-level beasts was approaching Shelter No. 35.
• You Rui confirmed the horde’s strength and warned that it could destroy Shelter No. 35 before attacking Shelter No. 36.
• Lin Xuankong arrived and told You Rui to prepare Han Liu and Ma Long to gather Shelter No. 35’s residents after they returned from Shelter No. 34.
• Lin Xuankong left alone in an armored vehicle to confront the horde, while You Rui and Hu Fang watched him go and worried about his safety.

Zhu Ling and Lu Yun learned that a massive Dog Tribe Source Beast horde was approaching Shelter No. 35, which lacked the forces to defend itself. As the terrified residents faced near-certain death, Zhu Ling had to decide whether to flee or stand by them.

• Zhu Ling and Lu Yun discussed Shelter No. 35’s weakness and remembered Li Wu as Zhu Ling’s idol, while Lu Yun urged her to prioritize survival.
• A messenger reported that more than two hundred Dog Tribe Source Beasts, including dozens of enormous beasts, were headed toward Shelter No. 35.
• Zhu Ling, Lu Yun, and several dozen Auxiliary Security Members saw the approaching horde and realized their five Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors and fewer than a hundred cannons could not stop it.
• The Auxiliary Security Members argued over whether the residents should flee, but Zhu Ling pointed out that they lacked vehicles and the beasts could track them by scent.
• Lu Yun reminded Zhu Ling to remember her own survival, while Zhu Ling looked from the horde to the despairing residents of Shelter No. 35.

As a massive Dog Tribe Source Beast pack approached Shelter No. 35, Zhu Ling organized an evacuation and volunteered to stay behind as bait. Lin Xuankong appeared and claimed he would kill the beasts for their Source Stone Crystals, leaving Zhu Ling doubtful but willing to become his student if he saved the refugees.

• Zhu Ling warned the Auxiliary Security Members that the refugees could neither outrun nor defeat the approaching Dog Tribe Source Beasts, and proposed drawing the pack away while others escaped in different directions.
• Zhu Ling told her aunt Lu Yun to gather the refugees and declared that she would stay behind, despite Lu Yun's objections.
• Lin Xuankong arrived, praised Zhu Ling's courage, and said he intended to kill the Dog Tribe Source Beasts and collect the crystals from their twenty-eight Predator-level beasts.
• The Auxiliary Security Members dismissed Lin Xuankong's claim and began retreating, while Lu Yun also went to prepare the refugees after learning he was not a Manifestation-type or Seventh Tier Gene Warrior.
• Lin Xuankong offered to take Zhu Ling as his student, and Zhu Ling said she would accept if he saved the refugees, even if he saved only half of them.

Lin Xuankong revealed himself as an Elemental Gene Warrior and flew to Shelter No. 35’s entrance to face the approaching Dog Tribe Source Beast pack. Zhu Ling rallied the shelter to prepare for battle as the beasts appeared at the far end of the street, leaving the refugees waiting anxiously for the fight to begin.

• Lin Xuankong stepped off the rooftop, hovered in midair, and flew to Shelter No. 35’s entrance.
• Zhu Ling and Lu Yun recognized Lin Xuankong as a powerful Eighth Tier Elemental Gene Warrior and discussed whether he could withstand the approaching pack.
• Zhu Ling ordered the newly awakened Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors and Auxiliary Security Members to prepare the automatic cannons and Alloy Rifles.
• Lu Yun and the refugees helped set up weapons and ammunition while others watched from their windows or wrote wills.
• More than two hundred Dog Tribe Source Beasts appeared at the far end of the street, approaching Shelter No. 35.

Lin Xuankong defended Shelter No. 35 by swiftly killing a peak Ninth Tier Dog Tribe Source Beast and then more than fifty others at once. The remaining Dog Tribe pack hesitated, while its twenty-eight Eighth Tier Predator Source Beasts moved to the front to face him.

• A peak Ninth Tier Dog Tribe Source Beast charged Lin Xuankong, but he severed its head with a flash of white light.
• More than fifty peak Ninth Tier Dog Tribe Source Beasts attacked together, and Lin Xuankong killed them all in an instant.
• The residents of Shelter No. 35 gained hope, while Zhu Ling and Lu Yun recognized Lin Xuankong's strength and worried about the twenty-eight Predator Source Beasts.
• The Dog Tribe pack grew wary, and the twenty-eight Eighth Tier Predator Source Beasts gathered around their leader and advanced to the front.

Lin Xuankong trapped twenty-eight Predator-level Dog Tribe Source Beasts in ice at Shelter No. 35, then called on something beneath the ground to eat them. Meanwhile, at Shelter No. 1, Huang Wentao learned that many shelter convoys had been lost and heard that Shelter No. 36 had refused his evacuation order.

• The twenty-eight Predator-level Dog Tribe Source Beasts charged Lin Xuankong, and Zhu Ling fired automatic cannons to support him.
• Lin Xuankong froze all twenty-eight attackers in hardened ice, then told something underground to eat them and spit out their Predator-level Source Stone Crystals.
• At Shelter No. 1, Huang Wentao questioned why so few shelter convoys had arrived and learned that many were likely destroyed by Seventh Tier Source Beast hordes.
• Huang Wentao asked again about Shelter No. 36, and Lei Che reported that You Rui had rejected the evacuation request and Huang Wentao's order.

Huang Wentao revealed that Tang Nation’s shelters were collapsing under the evolving Source Beast disaster and announced he would align Shelter No. 1 with Yunqin Nation to seek survival. He offered the assembled Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors the choice to join Yunqin Nation or leave.

• Lei Che complained to Huang Wentao that Shelter No. 36 had defied Shelter No. 1, and Huang decided to let it face the Source Beasts without their protection.
• Huang Wentao told his adjutant that he could no longer protect Shelter No. 36 or retrieve Han Liu because he needed to change allegiances.
• Huang’s mention of Yunqin Nation alarmed the shelter captains, and two black-robed Yunqin Gene Warriors appeared before them.
• The captains aimed weapons at the Yunqin warriors, but Huang ordered everyone to stand down and explained that Source Beasts had devastated shelters across Tang Nation.
• Huang admitted he had accepted Yunqin Nation’s offer to lead his students and subordinates to safety, then gave them the choice to join Yunqin Nation or leave.

Bai Dedong used a powerful Cloud Beast and promises of Yunqin Nation’s resources and protection to persuade the shelter Captain Generals to defect from Tang Nation and swear loyalty to him. Meanwhile, Lin Xuankong’s Little Fat Snake Princess swallowed an icebound Eighth Tier Predator Dog Tribe Source Beast whole.

• Bai Dedong displayed his Late Seventh Tier Cloud Beast to the shelter Captain Generals and described Yunqin Nation’s method for taming Source Beasts.
• Bai Dedong offered the Captain Generals resources, protection from Tang Nation, and the chance to tame powerful pet beasts if they swore loyalty to Yunqin Nation and gave him their origin energy.
• Lei Che pledged loyalty to Bai Dedong first, and Lin Hu, Lang Pu, and the other Captain Generals followed by completing the oath and ritual.
• Bai Dedong welcomed the more than twenty Captain Generals as his subordinates and promised they would tame powerful Source Beasts in the Stone City ruins.
• At Shelter No. 35, Lin Xuankong’s Little Fat Snake Princess burst from underground and swallowed an icebound Eighth Tier Predator Dog Tribe Source Beast.

Lin Xuankong and the Little Fat Snake Princess destroyed the Dog Tribe Source Beast pack that threatened Shelter No. 35, then Zhu Ling asked him to take the shelter’s survivors under his command. The chapter ended with Lin Xuankong yet to answer her request.

• Lin Xuankong kept twenty-seven predator-class Dog Tribe Source Beasts frozen while the Little Fat Snake Princess swallowed them one by one.
• Lin Xuankong trapped and killed more than one hundred Ninth Tier Dog Tribe Source Beasts with his Water Drawing Technique, while the Little Fat Snake Princess devoured the remaining beasts and planned to break through her Life Tier.
• Lin Xuankong confirmed that the Little Fat Snake Princess would try to recover the Source Stone Crystals from her stomach, then flew toward Shelter No. 35.
• Zhu Ling, the four newly awakened Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors, and the survivors witnessed the pack’s defeat and thanked Lin Xuankong.
• Zhu Ling asked Lin Xuankong to let her, her subordinates, and the shelter’s tens of thousands of disaster victims become his subordinates.

Lin Xuankong brought the tens of thousands of disaster victims from Shelter No. 35 to Shelter No. 36, where Zhu Ling was recognized for her exceptional genetic compatibility. He took her as his student and planned to train her on the Elemental Gene cultivation path while building a much larger force of Elemental Gene Warriors.

• Lin Xuankong agreed to let the disaster victims of Shelter No. 35 follow him to Shelter No. 36, and Zhu Ling organized their departure.
• Zhu Ling left behind her portrait of Li Wu and resolved to become someone who could save lives like him and Lin Xuankong.
• At Shelter No. 36, You Rui praised Zhu Ling’s genetic compatibility of ninety-four and offered to teach her, but Lin Xuankong took her as his student instead.
• Lin Xuankong planned for Zhu Ling to abandon her Dragon Elephant cultivation and begin the Elemental Gene cultivation path.
• Lin Xuankong planned to select several thousand capable residents of Shelter No. 36 to become Elemental Gene Warriors using Old Mr. Li’s new YZMM Gene Potion.

Lin Xuankong persuaded Li Pingfei to produce five thousand YZMM Gene Potions ahead of schedule, giving Shelter No. 36 a chance to expand its Gene Warrior ranks. He left Han Bao to prepare the recipients and uphold the limits on potion injections, while the shelter looked toward a much larger force.

• Lin Xuankong discussed the potential of training thousands of Elemental Gene Warriors and went with Zhu Ling to Li Pingfei’s laboratory.
• Han Bao explained that he and You Rui needed more powerful workers to build a defensive wall, but Li Pingfei had refused to release his 3.9% success-rate YZMM Gene Potion.
• Lin Xuankong warned Han Bao that powerful nations might suppress potion success rates to keep ordinary people from gaining influence.
• Lin Xuankong persuaded Li Pingfei to produce five thousand No. 2089 YZMM Gene Potions by warning that the shelter needed to send people to clear nearby Source Beast nests.
• Lin Xuankong told Han Bao to reserve the potions for people who had never received an injection, and Han Bao promised to choose worthy candidates carefully.