Recaps

Lu Bai defeated and killed Hei Jinbao during the blackout, then ended the darkness and left Chikan Bay's faction leaders facing his rise as Spokesperson. Lou Yunyi, Thirteen Yao, and Crow Commander moved to align themselves with Lu Bai, while Noah Zorro struggled to save face.

• Lou Yunyi urged Lu Bai to deal with Hei Jinbao and pledged Arid Tiger Hall's support.
• Hei Jinbao used the darkness to launch a sneak attack, but Lu Bai dodged with [Flash Time] and struck him hard enough to send him crashing through a storefront.
• Hei Jinbao called for Thirteen Yao, Noah Zorro, and Crow Commander to help, but none of them moved.
• Lu Bai closed in and killed Hei Jinbao with a second punch, then dispelled [Ink Dye] and revealed the corpse to the crowd.
• Lou Yunyi knelt before Lu Bai and offered Arid Tiger Hall's service, while Thirteen Yao and Crow Commander also sought to distance themselves from Hei Jinbao's challenge.

Weidao High School prepared to march to war against Chikan Bay, with Simba rallying its students and ordering them to unite. As the expedition set out, Changhu and Huangfu Zhuo discussed Lu Bai and the Deathmatch participants’ limited ability to influence the coming battle.

• Huangfu Zhuo questioned Changhu about Lu Bai, and Changhu warned him that Lu Bai was dangerous after recounting his abilities.
• Simba addressed thousands of Weidao students, declared that Weidao would meet Chikan Bay’s challenge, and forbade infighting during the war.
• Simba leapt to the school gate, the faction leaders followed, and the Weidao students began marching out.
• Huangfu Zhuo told Changhu that Chikan Bay was powerful, while Changhu dismissed the Deathmatch participants as cannon fodder.
• A Deathmatch participant suggested focusing on earning rewards, including Body Tempering Methods, through their contributions to the war.

Lu Bai told Chikan Bay’s faction leaders that Weidao planned to attack, then Weidao’s forces launched a destructive surprise assault. The attackers overwhelmed the Nanxing Association’s defenders as Changhu wondered why Chikan Bay seemed so unprepared.

• Simba led thousands of Weidao students, including more than a hundred Deathmatchers, toward Chikan Bay.
• At a café, Lu Bai met with Chikan Bay’s faction leaders to discuss territory, and the leaders resisted giving up their land.
• Lu Bai warned the leaders that Weidao was planning to attack, but a Nanxing Association member rushed in to report that the attack had already begun.
• Simba and the Weidao commanders led their forces through Chikan Bay, wrecking property and overwhelming the Nanxing Association’s defenders.
• Changhu killed a Nanxing Association member and wondered why the defenders seemed unprepared, while Huangfu Zhuo said the Deathmatchers were only there to stir up trouble.

Simba led Weidao High School’s assault through Chikan Bay, crushing the Nanxing Association’s resistance before Thirteen Yao and the others arrived. Simba demanded to meet Dao Ming Si, and the confrontation was interrupted when Dao Long’s car arrived.

• Simba led Weidao students through Chikan Bay as they smashed windows and overwhelmed Nanxing Association guards.
• A Nanxing Association Innate Martial Artist charged into Weidao’s line but was killed by three Weidao leaders.
• Thirteen Yao arrived and attacked Simba, who took the blow without defending himself.
• Simba demanded that Thirteen Yao bring Dao Ming Si out, while Thirteen Yao defended Chikan Bay and disputed Simba’s accusation.
• Dao Long’s car pulled up as Thirteen Yao was still arguing with Simba.

Lu Bai arrived at Weidao High School as Chikan Bay's new Spokesperson, prompting the deathmatch fighters and Weidao leaders to realize how far he had risen. As Chikan Bay and Weidao's Grandmasters began fighting, Lu Bai asked the veteran Grandmasters to hold Simba off while he turned toward the deathmatch fighters.

• Changhu and Huangfu Zhuo tried to slip away, but they spotted Lu Bai arriving in the Innocent Smile car.
• Lu Bai was revealed as Chikan Bay's new Spokesperson, and Thirteen Yao and the other Chikan Bay leaders took their places behind him.
• Dao Zhengmu, White-Browed Bat King, and other veteran Grandmasters arrived and stood behind Lu Bai, shocking the deathmatch fighters.
• Simba sent A She to test Lu Bai, but Lou Yunyi intercepted him and the two Grandmasters began fighting.
• Crow Commander, Noah Zorro, and Thirteen Yao intercepted the other Weidao leaders as Simba approached Lu Bai and challenged him to fight king against king.
• Lu Bai declined to fight Simba, asked Dao Zhengmu and the other veteran Grandmasters to hold him off, and turned toward the deathmatch fighters.

Lu Bai attacked the deathmatchers gathered with Weidao High School, using darkness to hunt them while Dao Zhengmu, the White-Browed Bat King, and Xiao Fengze held Simba back. As Simba struck blindly at Lu Bai, the prison forces prepared to enter Chikan Bay to fight Weidao and locate Lu Bai.

• Lu Bai charged into Weidao High School's formation, and Dao Zhengmu, the White-Browed Bat King, and Xiao Fengze stopped Simba from pursuing him.
• Lu Bai unleashed [Ink Dye] and used the darkness to kill deathmatchers, rapidly gaining points as they tried to flee.
• Hong Shichong found himself alone in the darkness before Lu Bai killed him, and the surviving deathmatchers panicked as their numbers fell.
• Simba adapted to the darkness using energy vibrations, then unleashed a huge wave of fist energy toward Lu Bai that also sent hundreds of his own men flying.
• At the prison, Warden Xiong Pi's forces prepared to depart after Heide, Sector Chief reported that Weidao had entered Chikan Bay, while Section Chief Misa said they needed to confirm Lu Bai's whereabouts.
• Warden Xiong Pi rebuked Misa for letting personal likes and dislikes cloud the mission to fight crime.

Lu Bai’s dark zone scattered most of the Deathmatch fighters, while Simba defeated Dao Zhengmu and called Lu Bai out to fight. As fleeing fighters Changhu and Huangfu Zhuo reached a suspiciously quiet street entrance, they sensed something was wrong.

• Lu Bai used the darkness to attack Deathmatch fighters, then dispelled it when most of them escaped beyond its reach.
• Dao Zhengmu ambushed Simba, but Simba caught his punch and smashed him into the ground, leaving him unable to continue.
• Weidao students cheered when they saw Simba defeat the veteran Grandmaster, and Simba challenged Lu Bai to a fair fight.
• Changhu and Huangfu Zhuo fled with other Deathmatch fighters, with Huangfu Zhuo realizing Lu Bai had vastly outmatched them.
• Changhu and Huangfu Zhuo reached an unusually quiet street entrance and noticed that almost no pedestrians were entering Chikan Bay.

The Prison Guards began their assault on Chikan Bay after completing the resident evacuation, while the factions of Chikan Bay converged on the battle at the Nanxing Association’s territory. Simba challenged Lu Bai, but Lu Bai vanished before Simba’s opening strike could land.

• Warden Xiong Pi ordered the Prison Guards to move out after staff reported that the resident evacuation was complete.
• Misa led Team A into Chikan Bay as Heide directed Team D to spread out and seek high ground.
• Xiao Xueyin led several thousand All Villains members toward the Nanxing Association’s territory, urging them to hurry.
• Crow’s remaining fighters arrived and joined the battle, while Crow Commander and the other faction leaders struggled against Weidao’s fighters.
• Simba left the other fighting to challenge Lu Bai, but Lu Bai evaded his punch and then dodged Simba’s elbow strike from behind.

Lu Bai avoided Simba, blinded him, and left him to White-Browed Bat King and Xiao Fengze while he continued hunting Death Fighters. He found and killed a group of Death Fighters hiding in an escape-room passage, leaving none of them able to escape.

• Lu Bai evaded Simba’s attacks, darkened Simba’s vision, and left him for White-Browed Bat King and Xiao Fengze to fight.
• Several Death Fighters hid in a dark escape-room passage after an army blocked their route out of Chikan Bay.
• Lu Bai appeared at the passage entrance and charged at the Death Fighters.
• The Death Fighters tried to flee, but Lu Bai killed them one by one, including the high-cheekboned Death Fighter.

Lu Bai hunted down fleeing Weidao students while Prison Guards clashed with Chikan Bay’s powerful fighters across the district. After learning that the fighting had made information hard to gather, Lu Bai set out to quell the chaos and protect his family’s interests.

• Lu Bai killed fleeing Weidao fighters, then told Dao Long they should keep purging Weidao High School of cowards.
• Prison Guards ambushed a gang of over a hundred thugs in a parking lot and continued firing as the survivors fled.
• A muscular middle-aged man withstood the Prison Guards’ bullets and killed the squad at a braised-meat shop.
• Three Innate Martial Artist casino owners slaughtered Prison Guards until Section Chief Misa killed them and turned toward central Chikan Bay.
• Lu Bai questioned Dao Long about the situation across Chikan Bay and decided to quell the chaos as its Spokesperson.

Lu Bai and Dao Long crossed Chikan Bay amid a battle between the Prison Guards and local factions, while the deathmatch participants were being killed or forced into hiding. Sector Chief Heide’s raid on a gang office ended with him investigating noises from the roof, where Lu Bai and Dao Long had been moving.

• Dao Long led Lu Bai through backstreets and into a residential building, where Lu Bai killed a deathmatch participant hiding behind a door and gained a point.
• Dao Long warned Lu Bai that Prison Guard squads and snipers guarded the plaza, then guided him across the rooftops.
• A gang member told the red-nosed boss that the police had entered Chikan Bay, but Sector Chief Heide killed him with a burst of fist wind.
• Heide ordered his Prison Guards to arrest the terrified gang members and sent subordinates upstairs to investigate the noises on the roof.

Lu Bai unlocked the second-round Ability Pool and selected Mental Time Chamber, where he trained his body before rejoining Dao Long. He emerged transformed and decided they no longer needed to join forces with Weidao.

• Heide ordered Prison Guards to search an attic, then fired a full magazine into it when they took too long.
• Lu Bai and Dao Long approached the fighting near Nanxing Association territory as Weidao and Chikan Bay continued battling.
• Lu Bai learned that half the Deathmatch participants had been eliminated and unlocked the second-round Ability Pool.
• Lu Bai chose Mental Time Chamber and entered it, spending time training his body with Internal Energy.
• Lu Bai returned to Dao Long and said they did not need to team up with the people from Weidao.

Lu Bai returned to the battle and faced Simba, the pinnacle of Weidao High School, after dispelling the blindness caused by [Ink Dye]. Lu Bai rejected any chance of peace by demanding Simba be his son, then demonstrated his strength by flicking Weidao fighters apart as Simba prepared to fight him.

• Lou Yunyi and A She fought to a standstill while Weidao High School's top fighters pushed Thirteen Yao, Noah Zorro, Crow Commander, Xiao Fengze, and the White-Browed Bat King onto the defensive.
• Xiao Xueyin arrived with several thousand members of All Villains and sent them into the battle.
• Lu Bai and Dao Long returned, and Lu Bai dispelled the darkness over Simba's eyes.
• Lu Bai told Simba, "Be my son," ending any prospect of peace between Chikan Bay and Weidao High School.
• Weidao fighters charged Lu Bai, who flicked his fingers and blew apart those in front, shocking the crowd and Simba.

Lu Bai defeated Simba in a fierce fight, using [Flash Time] to land a decisive blow. As Lu Bai approached the stunned crowd, Misa, Hong Zhu, and Heide revealed that the fighters had been surrounded and ordered them to surrender.

• Simba charged Lu Bai, and the two exchanged powerful blows as the gathered Grandmasters watched.
• Lu Bai gradually gained the advantage, then activated [Flash Time] and punched Simba in the head, sending him crashing across the ground.
• Lu Bai walked toward Simba while the crowd stared in stunned silence, and A She stepped forward to block his path.
• Misa, seated with Hong Zhu and Heide, announced that the fighters had been surrounded and ordered them to surrender.

Section Chief Misa led an assault on Chikan Bay, surviving a barrage before the Prison Guards and martial artists clashed in a bloody battle. As the fighting escalated, Misa reached Lu Bai and launched an attack.

• Section Chief Misa announced that Chikan Bay was surrounded, and Lu Bai stopped fighting Simba to watch.
• Misa survived gunfire and an RPG blast, then charged through the crowd toward Lu Bai.
• Prison Guards arrived with armored vehicles and machine guns, gaining control of the battlefield as casualties mounted.
• Thirteen Yao, Crow Commander, and the Oshima faction's main commander led the Grandmasters against the Prison Guards, prompting Heide and Hong Zhu to join the fight.
• Misa confronted Lu Bai and sprang at him, vowing not to let him escape again.

Lu Bai defeated Section Chief Misa before Warden Xiong Pi arrived and overwhelmed the battlefield with his aura. Lu Bai discovered that Xiong Pi was the Deathmatch Arena node, and Xiong Pi’s effortless defeat of Simba left the fighters questioning whether he had surpassed the Grandmaster realm.

• Thirteen Yao charged into the Prison Guards’ formation and fought off several senior guards while the other Grandmasters battled across the field.
• Lu Bai used [Flash Time] to punch Section Chief Misa through several buildings, knocking him unconscious and abruptly shifting the battle.
• Hong Zhu and Heide reacted to Misa’s defeat, and Warden Xiong Pi appeared, declaring that he wanted to exchange moves and cross a threshold.
• Lu Bai’s Deathmatch Arena notification identified Xiong Pi as the current node and promised double points to the fighter who claimed it.
• Simba charged at Xiong Pi, who sent him flying with one punch and collapsed an office building around him.

Warden Xiong Pi overwhelmed the fighters at Chikan Bay and challenged Lu Bai, who faced him with [Flash Time] and [Ink Dye]. Their fight left the surrounding ground shattered, but Xiong Pi remained unharmed after Lu Bai threw him to the ground.

• Xiong Pi knocked White-Browed Bat King down with one punch, leaving him unable to rise.
• The surviving factions and Weidao High School students looked to Lu Bai as their only hope, while Xiong Pi called his new realm the Golden Core and challenged him.
• Lu Bai used [Flash Time] to dodge Xiong Pi’s sudden punch and struck his temple, cracking the ground across a vast area.
• Lu Bai explained his lack of a bottom line, used [Ink Dye] to blind Xiong Pi, and dodged another attack with [Flash Time].
• Lu Bai grabbed Xiong Pi from behind and threw him headfirst into the ground, but Xiong Pi stood up without a scratch.

Lu Bai realized he could not defeat Warden Xiong Pi with his current abilities, so he fled and hunted other fighters for abilities that might help him break through Xiong Pi’s defenses. After testing several possibilities, he left a sewer with Great Fire Spray, Dragon Raises Head, and Power Bank equipped, while Xiong Pi continued pursuing him.

• Lu Bai admitted he was running away, then used Flash Time to escape from Warden Xiong Pi and search Chikan Bay for fighters with useful abilities.
• Lu Bai found Maddy Moment and stored it, but decided the Gold abilities he had discovered so far were not powerful enough to stop Xiong Pi.
• Lu Bai considered combining Dragon Raises Head with Shave Head and Kill Uncle, but had not found an ability that could make someone his uncle.
• Lu Bai killed a fighter hiding in a sewer and demonstrated that he had acquired Great Fire Spray.
• Lu Bai climbed out of the sewer with Great Fire Spray, Dragon Raises Head, and Power Bank equipped as Xiong Pi called out that he could not escape.

Lu Bai escaped Warden Xiong Pi while the prison guards and criminal forces continued their bloody battle. He then encountered two Deathmatchers in disguise, read them, and knocked them out as his lead in points grew.

• Lu Bai used [Power Bank] to jolt Warden Xiong Pi out of the air, then ran from the cratered road.
• Section Chief Misa helped the wounded Heide and punched Xiao Fengze away when he attacked.
• Heide told Misa that Warden Xiong Pi had pursued Lu Bai, while the growing casualties made Misa fear the prison guards could not restore order by continuing the fight.
• Two Deathmatchers killed prison guards, began changing into their uniforms, and spotted Lu Bai when he landed nearby.
• Lu Bai read the two Deathmatchers, punched them, and gained two points, bringing his total to 83 and keeping his first-place ranking.

Lu Bai used [Six Senses Enhancement] and [Power Bank] to disorient Warden Xiong Pi, then resumed killing Deathmatch Arena fighters. After the elimination rate reached three-quarters, the arena activated its objectives and opened the third Ability Pool round, leaving Lu Bai to inspect the new abilities.

• Lu Bai replaced [Dragon Raises Head] and [Great Fire Spray] with [God-Ghost Mask] and [Six Senses Enhancement].
• Lu Bai enhanced Xiong Pi’s senses and shocked him, making the warden crash into a house before Lu Bai escaped to Noah Tower.
• Lu Bai killed a fighter who offered to follow him, raising his points to 92 and his rank to first.
• The Deathmatch Arena announced the objectives Create Civilized City and Sinful City of Night after its elimination rate reached three-quarters.
• The third Ability Pool round opened, and Lu Bai looked over its three golden ability panels.

Lu Bai selected Super Male Gene and used it alongside Six Senses Enhancement to overwhelm Warden Xiong Pi while continuing to hunt death-match contestants. Elsewhere, Huangfu Zhuo and Changhu met a tall woman in a bar, where she revealed that her Gold ability made the place hard to detect from outside.

• Lu Bai chose Super Male Gene from the Gold Ability Pool after considering how it might work with his other abilities.
• Lu Bai shocked a female prison guard and her police dog, then used Super Male Gene and Six Senses Enhancement on Xiong Pi before shocking him and leaving him trapped in a flower bed.
• Huangfu Zhuo and Changhu questioned a tall woman at a bar about her plan as they worried that Smiling Face might appear.
• The tall woman assured Huangfu Zhuo and Changhu that the bar was safe and revealed her Environmental Civilization Demonstration Zone ability.

Huangfu Zhuo and the other Deathmatchers discussed joining forces against Smiling Face and turned to how they could use the Node. Meanwhile, Lu Bai hunted down a Deathmatcher controlling Crawlers, then headed toward Nanxing Street, where Warden Xiong Pi was overpowering nine Grandmasters.

• Changhu provoked Guan Jin and argued that only a group of elites could stand against Smiling Face, but no one backed him or objected.
• Huangfu Zhuo said his group had come to cooperate, then asked how they planned to use the Node's power.
• Lu Bai killed a Deathmatcher controlling Crawlers, gained a point, and considered his remaining abilities as he made his way toward Nanxing Street.
• Warden Xiong Pi overwhelmed nine Grandmasters at Nanxing Street, leaving only a few of them able to fight effectively.
• Thirteen Yao concluded that Xiong Pi had probably already killed Lu Bai and urged the Grandmasters to retreat, while Noah Zorro said he was leaving.

Lu Bai returned to Chikan Bay as Warden Xiong Pi was about to kill Simba, then used his strange electrical powers to incapacitate Xiong Pi. The chapter ended with the battlefield falling silent as everyone stared at the Warden’s humiliating spasms.

• Noah Zorro withdrew from the fight, while Lou Yunyi argued that Chikan Bay had nowhere left to retreat.
• Xiong Pi battered Simba and was about to stomp on his head when Lu Bai arrived and interrupted him.
• Lu Bai caught Crow Commander after Xiong Pi hurled him, then dodged Xiong Pi’s charge with [Flash Time].
• Lu Bai applied [Super Male Gene], [Six Senses Enhancement], and [Electronic Succubus] to Xiong Pi and activated [Power Bank], making him jerk and flush with a strange sensation.
• The fighting stopped as the onlookers stared at Xiong Pi, and Section Chief Misa demanded to know what Lu Bai had done.

Lu Bai defeated Xiong Pi and took control of the aftermath, leaving the Prison Guards considering retreat and Weidao High School uncertain about its next move. He asked Simba to join him.

• Lu Bai ignored Misa and approached the Chikan Bay factions, whose leaders were awed by how easily he had disabled Xiong Pi.
• Lu Bai asked the factions to handle the cleanup, and Thirteen Yao, Lou Yunyi, and Noah Zorro competed to help.
• A She and Simba hesitated over whether Weidao High School should keep fighting, while the injured Prison Guard chiefs discussed retreating and possibly abandoning Xiong Pi.
• Xiao Xueyin returned with more than a hundred members of All Villains and ordered them to get Fengze and Zhengmu medical treatment.
• Lu Bai reminded Simba that he had saved his life and asked him to join him.

Lu Bai defeated the Prison Guards and persuaded Simba to keep Weidao’s faction in Chikan Bay while they considered submitting to him. The next day, Xiong Pi pledged loyalty, while Weidao still had not given Lu Bai an answer, and Lu Bai paused his search for the Node to eat with Xiong Pi.

• Simba agreed to stay in Chikan Bay and think over Lu Bai’s offer, while the other Weidao leaders stayed silent.
• Misa, Heide, and the other Section Chiefs fled, and most of the Prison Guards abandoned their vehicles and weapons as they ran.
• Lu Bai organized the cleanup and turned his attention to Xiong Pi, suspecting the Node was a Golden Core on the Warden’s person.
• The next day, Lu Bai learned that Weidao’s people had stayed on Nanxing Street without submitting, while Xiong Pi returned and offered his loyalty.
• Lu Bai asked Sister Shrimp to bring claypot rice, then sat down to eat with Xiong Pi.