Recaps

City Direct Military's Team One moved to defend the Combat Command Room and routed the Rebel Army with supernatural powers. Lu Bai watched from nearby, judging that neither crushing the rebellion nor backing the rebels would solve the underlying unrest, and wondered what to do.

• Team One captain ordered his elite squad to move out and claimed the rebels' approach counted as self-defense.
• Rebels charged the Combat Command Room, where magma erupted and two City Direct Military fighters hurled attackers away.
• Commander Zhang watched the rebels fire on the two fighters, but their barrage left them unharmed.
• A woman appeared at a second-floor window and caused rebels to turn their guns on one another, prompting Commander Zhang to order a retreat.
• Lu Bai watched from a nearby rooftop and decided that eliminating the rebels would leave the City Council's oppressive system intact.

Lu Bai questioned whether he should trust future generations with a new system or rule as a god, then decided to test his resolve by acting. He canceled the supernatural effects that had trapped and weakened the Rebel Army and appeared before both sides, asking them to stop.

• Lu Bai watched Team One massacre the Rebel Army and weighed whether to establish a system or rule the world himself.
• Lu Bai activated [Read], making the lava vanish and restoring the Rebel Army soldiers’ control of their minds.
• Team One discovered it could no longer use its abilities, while Rebel Army soldiers realized the City Direct Military’s powers had stopped working.
• Commander Zhang fired at Team One, and the Rebel Army began to understand that the balance had shifted.
• Lu Bai appeared above the ground before the Combat Command Center and asked everyone to stop.

Lu Bai stopped a confrontation between the Rebel Army and City Direct Military by revealing that he could resurrect the dead. After restoring everyone killed across the Forward Base and surrounding area, he left both sides watching in awe and the riot brought to a halt.

• Lu Bai told the Rebel Army to stop fighting and revealed that he was strong enough to defeat them, while City Direct Military soldiers wondered why he had appeared.
• Lu Bai asked the Rebel Army whether they knew why City Direct Military soldiers could not use their abilities, then urged them to stop the violence.
• Commander Zhang refused at first, saying the Rebel Army's dead could not have died in vain, but Lu Bai interrupted him by forming a hand seal.
• Lu Bai sent streams of green light into corpses across the Forward Base and surrounding area, using [Reincarnation Technique] to resurrect the dead.
• Millions who witnessed Lu Bai's actions saw the riot stop, and resurrected Rebel Army soldiers kowtowed to him as Commander Zhang abandoned his plan to fight.

Lu Bai revealed that he could take and use other people’s abilities, then demanded that society be remade according to his will. At Forward Base, he forced the commanders to answer whether they agreed, while elsewhere a demonic-sect figure discovered a strange text asking for help with a system error.

• Lu Bai demonstrated abilities taken from City Direct Military members and told them he could use their powers while their own abilities no longer worked.
• Lu Bai told the commanders at Forward Base that he did not want the world to remain as it was, then demanded each person give a personal answer about his plan for society.
• A disheveled young man in Third Livability City found text in his vision asking him to help clear a system error and questioned it about restoring his cultivation.
• The gray-haired commander began to offer a qualified agreement, so Lu Bai erased his upper body and restored him, warning him not to give a diplomatic answer.
• The gray-haired commander and several senior commanders agreed to Lu Bai’s demand under the threat of death.

Lu Bai took control of Forward Base and promised to provide its people with food and water despite the shortage of supplies. He then prepared to deal with those who had broken the law, using the Mindstream Network to identify them.

• The uniformed old man and the other senior officials agreed to follow Lu Bai’s orders, while the Rebel Army and ordinary people accepted his rule.
• Lu Bai kept the surface-return plan in place, adjusted the benefits for ordinary people, and took charge of Forward Base.
• When the uniformed old man warned that supplies would run out by the next night, Lu Bai created fresh meat and said he could open rivers for drinking water.
• Lu Bai handed the uniformed old man a list of lawbreakers identified through the Mindstream Network and said they would be dealt with.

Lu Bai kept the Forward Base stable by enforcing published rules, punishing wrongdoing, and expanding work opportunities for civilians. As the City Council began noticing his actions, Feng Yixuan asked Li Shan whether he was surprised that Lu Bai had turned out to be a major villain.

• Lu Bai gave the old man in uniform a list of people who had committed crimes and continued overseeing the Forward Base according to its emergency guidelines.
• Over the next two days, strict enforcement and Lu Bai’s use of the Mindstream Network prevented major disturbances, and the Forward Base began to thrive.
• Lu Bai approved recruiting the earliest surface arrivals into the construction crew to expand the base and provide civilians with work.
• The old man in uniform warned Lu Bai that the City Council had not sent questions despite likely learning what happened, but Lu Bai told him to leave the Evacuation Elevator operating and find economics experts.
• In the cafeteria, Feng Yixuan asked Li Shan why he was not surprised that his junior Lu Bai was a major villain.

Li Shan defended Lu Bai’s equal treatment of Deathmatch participants and warned him that some were seeking special privileges, while Lu Bai refused to reward them for making trouble. As civilians returned to the surface, a newly arrived young man focused on investigating a system error.

• Li Shan told Feng Yixuan he thought Lu Bai’s changes to the Forward Base were for the better.
• Feng Yixuan argued that City Direct Military and other Deathmatch participants deserved extra benefits, and Li Shan said he would talk to Lu Bai.
• Li Shan advised Lu Bai to watch the Deathmatch participants, but Lu Bai said he would not grant them special privileges just because they complained.
• Staff escorted a new group of civilians out of the civil defense shelter as the Ground Return Plan continued.
• A young man arriving on the surface restrained his urge to kill and decided to investigate a system error after accepting the Deathmatch System’s choice of him.

Lu Bai oversaw the growing surface city and delegated its economic planning to three economists, demanding efficiency and fairness. After learning that the orbital surveillance network was complete, he focused on preparing the troops for the unpredictable arrival of the Mona people.

• Newly surfaced civilians saw the expanding city around the Forward Base and registered for supplies.
• Lu Bai delegated the city's utility network construction to specialists, telling them to report results rather than details.
• Lu Bai asked three economists to redesign the economy, requiring efficiency and fairness while reciting his prepared vision for development and social justice.
• A white-haired officer reported that the near-Earth orbital surveillance network was complete, and Lu Bai ordered continuous monitoring.
• Lu Bai asked how the troops were coping and told Old Yuan to work harder to overcome their resistance to his orders.

Lu Bai dismissed concerns about the City Council and learned that it had chosen to wait and see rather than oppose him. When a vast shadow appeared across the moon, he went to the Combat Command Center to assess the threat, where officials identified it as a possible gravitational projection and raised the troops to Level One Alert.

• Lu Bai told the uniformed old man that the City Council posed no immediate threat, since it had little to gain by intervening.
• At two thirty in the morning, a vast shadow appeared across the moon, prompting the Space Monitoring Force and Forward Base departments to respond.
• Lu Bai ordered that civilians be notified and went with the old man to the Combat Command Center.
• Technicians told Lu Bai and the old man that the lunar shadow was likely a projection caused by irregular gravity, though they could not determine its source or effects.
• The old man ordered the troops to go to Level One Alert while a lunar rover was still hours from reaching the moon.

A shadow on the moon steadily expanded while Lu Bai and the Forward Base staff monitored it and waited for a probe to arrive. The probe landed safely and confirmed the shadow was only a shadow, leaving its cause unexplained.

• Lu Bai kept the Forward Base calm as civilians struggled to resume work and the Combat Command Center waited for probe results.
• Lu Bai noticed the lunar shadow seemed to be growing, and technicians confirmed that image comparisons showed it had expanded despite monitoring instruments reporting no change.
• Over the next three hours, the shadow spread across nearly half the moon’s visible face while instrument readings remained unchanged.
• Lu Bai activated the [Mindstream Network] to reassure the staff and switched to [Spider Sense] with [Flash Time] before the probe’s arrival.
• The probe landed safely and sent footage showing that the shadow was still only a shadow, prompting the staff to question how it had appeared.

Lu Bai and the military watched the Mona shadow on the Moon disable probes and reverse the state of matter, revealing a terrifying ability. At Forward Base, a demonic cultivator from another world saw the looming crisis as an opportunity and headed for the Combat Command Center.

• Probe One stopped at the edge of the lunar shadow, and Probes Two and Three stopped there as well despite the military's attempts to regain control.
• Technicians concluded that an unusual gravitational force around the shadow had affected the probes, while the old man in military uniform urged everyone to analyze it and find countermeasures.
• Lu Bai watched the shadow darken until it absorbed the surrounding light, then saw it engulf a probe and restore the probe to its factory-fresh condition.
• Lu Bai realized that the shadow was reversing changes in matter, and a technician wondered whether humanity could resist the Mona civilization.
• A young demonic cultivator at Forward Base saw the shadow covering the Moon, welcomed the chance for chaos, and made his way to the Combat Command Center.

A young man infiltrated the Combat Command Center building by trapping its guards in the Bewitching Sect's illusion. As Lu Bai watched the Mona people's lunar activity, security reported that the Third Security Company had stopped responding, and he suspected the Mona people had made their move.

• A young man used the Bewitching Sect's illusion to incapacitate two guards at the Combat Command Center building's entrance.
• Lu Bai questioned what the Mona people hoped to accomplish by slowly reversing time on the moon.
• Lu Bai ordered Pu Xueli to arrange the Civilian Protection Corps and prioritize the safety of civilians at the Forward Base.
• The uniformed old man learned that the Third Security Company had lost contact, though surveillance still showed its members at their posts.
• Lu Bai saw no deathmatchers downstairs and suspected the Mona people were using high technology to hypnotize the guards.

Lu Bai and the command center witnessed the Mona civilization destroy most of the Moon, leaving Earth facing catastrophic changes and an imminent lunar fragment impact. Lu Bai concluded that the Mona people were trying to drive humanity underground rather than confront him directly.

• Lu Bai reassured the uniformed old man and told him to carry out the existing plan.
• The probe image vanished, and satellite footage showed that the shadow and most of the Moon had disappeared.
• A researcher deduced that the Mona people had used the reversed state of matter to establish attack coordinates.
• The uniformed old man reported that the remaining lunar fragment would strike Earth in one hour and fifty-three minutes, and Lu Bai left him to handle interception.
• The command center considered the Moon’s disappearance and its consequences for Earth as Lu Bai concluded that the Mona people were trying to force humanity underground.

After the Mona people destroyed the moon, Lu Bai considered how to protect Earth as its environment deteriorated. An unfamiliar young man barged into the Combat Command Center, but Lu Bai stopped the guards from taking him away.

• Lu Bai and the researchers recognized that the Mona people’s long-range targeting could inspire new technology, though the moon’s destruction threatened Earth’s future.
• Lu Bai rejected entering another Deathmatch Showdown because it would be too late to save Earth, and he considered other options for the Forward Base.
• A young man kicked open the Combat Command Center’s doors and greeted its occupants, but no one recognized him.
• The Deathmatch System identified Lu Bai as the target the young man had been sent to deal with, and the young man backed down after recognizing him as Heavenly Venerate Lu.
• The old man in uniform ordered guards to take the young man for questioning, but Lu Bai stopped them.

Lu Bai confronted the young man who had illegally crossed over from the Deathmatch Arena, but the man unexpectedly gained an Ultraman Barrier ability and revealed himself as Old Ancestor Blood River. Convinced the Deathmatch System was backing him against Lu Bai, Old Ancestor Blood River unleashed a tide of blood through the command center corridor.

• Lu Bai suspected the young man was connected to the missing guards and tried to use mind control on him.
• The young man released a powerful aura, identified Lu Bai as Heavenly Venerate Lu, and tried to escape as blood, but Lu Bai stopped him with an invisible barrier.
• Lu Bai attacked with three wind blades, and the young man unexpectedly manifested an Ultraman Barrier that blocked the final strike.
• Lu Bai realized the young man had somehow gained an ability without being a Deathmatch participant or earning the right to keep one.
• The young man declared himself Old Ancestor Blood River and claimed the Heavenly Dao had turned against Lu Bai.
• Old Ancestor Blood River unleashed a tide of blood through the corridor, and the commanders and technical staff fled.

Lu Bai stopped Old Ancestor Blood River’s blood tide, then endured a devastating light-spear blast without injury. After Lu Bai revealed he could take the Deathmatch System’s abilities, he challenged the system as he launched a spear at Old Ancestor Blood River.

• The technical staff and advisory team retreated as Old Ancestor Blood River sent a tide of blood down the corridor, while Lu Bai remained calm.
• An energy barrier appeared before Lu Bai and halted the blood tide, prompting Old Ancestor Blood River to attack with a spear of light.
• The spear shattered Lu Bai’s barrier and blasted a passage through the building, damaging the Combat Command Center but causing no casualties.
• Lu Bai stood unharmed and asked whether Old Ancestor Blood River had any other abilities, then formed an identical spear of light.
• Old Ancestor Blood River discovered he could no longer use the spear technique, and Lu Bai threw his spear at him while challenging the Deathmatch System.

Lu Bai tested the Deathmatch System's ability to protect Old Ancestor Blood River, but Blood River revealed that the Heavenly Dao had chosen him and granted him countless abilities. The chapter left Lu Bai facing a sky full of powers represented by shining points of light.

• Lu Bai tested the Deathmatch System with a spear of light, and Old Ancestor Blood River's metallic defense stopped it.
• Lu Bai used [Flash Time] to strike Blood River from behind, destroying the building and injuring people in the crowd.
• Lu Bai calmed the panicking crowd through [Mindstream Network], while Blood River climbed out of the ruins.
• Blood River told Lu Bai that the Heavenly Dao had chosen him and that Lu Bai's stolen power was only a drop in the bucket.
• Blood River spread his arms, revealing countless points of light representing abilities, and Lu Bai asked whether the System had given him everything.

Old Ancestor Blood River used the Deathmatch System’s vast Ability Pool to attack Lu Bai, while Lu Bai tried to steal abilities with [Read File]. As the battle devastated New City and the moon’s absence threatened Earth’s ecosystem, Lu Bai decided he had to take the initiative.

• The Deathmatch System gave Old Ancestor Blood River access to every ability in its Ability Pool, and Lu Bai began reading and stealing them with [Read File].
• Old Ancestor Blood River summoned a massive pressure vortex and challenged Lu Bai to another round as Lu Bai hurried to acquire as many abilities as possible.
• Two Mona Warriors saw the vortex over New City and hurried toward it, wondering whether their comrades had started the fight.
• Old Ancestor Blood River combined [Heavenly Phenomenon Descends] with [Magic to Physics], devastating New City, while Lu Bai survived with [Steel Body].
• Lu Bai recognized that he had no immediate answer to Old Ancestor Blood River’s attacks and decided to take the initiative.

Old Ancestor Blood River used the Deathmatch System’s many abilities to overwhelm Lu Bai while New City descended into chaos. After killing Mona Warriors hiding among the civilians, he grabbed Lu Bai by the neck, but Lu Bai claimed he knew what a truly invincible ability looked like.

• Old Ancestor Blood River destroyed the Combat Command Center, leaving New City’s officials and civilians in panic as Lu Bai focused on stopping him.
• Old Ancestor Blood River dodged Lu Bai’s attack, kicked him through three high-rises, and pursued him to the crater where he landed.
• Two Mona Warriors mocked the fight, so Old Ancestor Blood River read their memories and killed them along with dozens of other Mona Warriors hidden in the city.
• Lu Bai noticed the Mona people had made no move since destroying the moon, while Old Ancestor Blood River warned that [Steel Body] could not protect him.
• Old Ancestor Blood River grabbed Lu Bai by the neck, and Lu Bai said he knew what a truly invincible ability looked like.

Lu Bai survived Old Ancestor Blood River’s attacks and pursued him while reading more of his abilities, leaving the two facing off near Earth after Blood River revealed that the Mona Warriors had captured Xiao Xueyin. Blood River tried to use Xiao Xueyin as leverage, but Lu Bai said he could learn the captive’s location by reading Blood River’s memories.

• Old Ancestor Blood River attacked Lu Bai with four weak-point runes and [Flash Time], but Lu Bai’s [Divine Might] made him untouchable and he escaped.
• Lu Bai pursued Blood River, using [Ink Dye] and [Act Under Cover of Darkness] to keep pace while reading his abilities and thwarting his attacks.
• After they circled Earth several times, Blood River stopped in near-Earth orbit and told Lu Bai the Mona Warriors had captured Xiao Xueyin.
• Blood River claimed he alone knew where Xiao Xueyin was hidden and expected Lu Bai to hesitate, but Lu Bai said he could read Blood River’s memories if he killed him.

Lu Bai survived Old Ancestor Blood River’s soul-based attack with the ability [Materialist], leaving Blood River’s costly ambush ineffective. Blood River then revealed that Lu Bai had stolen System Authority and claimed he could use that authority too.

• Lu Bai admitted that Old Ancestor Blood River had been his friend and warned that Blood River was overacting.
• Old Ancestor Blood River kowtowed three times, using a costly ability that left Lu Bai dazed while chaotic phantoms formed around him.
• Lu Bai woke from the effect because [Materialist], retained through [Load Save], protected him from nonphysical influences.
• Lu Bai taunted Blood River and continued reading his abilities while hoping he would surrender.
• Old Ancestor Blood River identified Lu Bai’s power as System Authority and claimed he could use it as well.

Lu Bai and Old Ancestor Blood River used their black-level Deathmatch System privileges against each other, revealing that [Restore] could undo the restrictions imposed by [Disable]. Lu Bai survived his fall and began loading [Disable] as Old Ancestor Blood River struggled to obtain more system privileges.

• Lu Bai inferred that black-level abilities were administrator privileges and dived toward the ground as Old Ancestor Blood River gained a black privilege.
• Old Ancestor Blood River used [Disable] to block Lu Bai from using his abilities while Lu Bai fell from the sky.
• Lu Bai struck the plain but survived by using [Restore] to undo [Disable]’s restrictions.
• Lu Bai explained that [Restore] could counter system privileges and began loading Old Ancestor Blood River’s [Disable].
• Old Ancestor Blood River tried to obtain more black-level privileges, while Lu Bai pressed him to ask the system about [Browse], [Protocol], [Edit], and [Drive].

A moon-driven flood swept across the plain while Lu Bai and Old Ancestor Blood River watched from the sky, and Old Ancestor Blood River warned that Lu Bai’s friend might die. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhengyan convened the City Council and secured approval to use a hidden radio transmitter to contact the other shelters.

• Seawater surged inland across the plain, and Lu Bai and Old Ancestor Blood River flew above it without trying to stop the flood.
• Old Ancestor Blood River taunted Lu Bai that his missing friend might not survive, and Lu Bai calmly acknowledged he could not revive someone whose location he did not know.
• Xiao Zhengyan called a meeting of the City Council’s twelve standing members after learning the moon had been destroyed.
• The standing members voted four to three, with six abstaining, to authorize Xiao Zhengyan’s plan.
• Councilor Shen opened the safe, and Xiao Zhengyan prepared the radio transmitter and its authentication key to contact the other shelters.

Xiao Zhengyan sent the City Council’s call for shelters to unite, while Lu Bai fought Old Ancestor Blood River on the surface. Old Ancestor Blood River used the Deathmatch System’s new authorities to pin Lu Bai beneath the torrent, but Lu Bai found a way to use [Disable] against him.

• Xiao Zhengyan sent the City Council’s notice to the shelters and prepared the councilors for a meeting under the Flower City Treaty.
• Old Ancestor Blood River repeatedly tried to disable Lu Bai’s abilities, but Lu Bai restored [Disable] from the discard pile and resisted the restriction.
• The Deathmatch System granted Old Ancestor Blood River three more System Authorities, giving him four in total.
• Old Ancestor Blood River used [Inspect] and [Edit] to increase the weight of Lu Bai’s [Steel Body], crushing him into the torrent.
• Lu Bai spotted [Disable] in his ability list and used it on Old Ancestor Blood River.

Lu Bai used [Disable] to strip Old Ancestor Blood River of his abilities, then raced to read [Rewrite] while struggling to survive without his own powers. He halted Blood River’s attack with three achievement titles, leaving the two facing off as Blood River hesitated to continue fighting.

• Lu Bai disabled Old Ancestor Blood River’s powers and escaped the flood, while Blood River later re-formed from a pool of blood.
• Old Ancestor Blood River rewrote Lu Bai’s abilities with unbearable side effects, and Lu Bai restored [Wind Riding (Modified)], sending it back to Li Shan.
• Lu Bai began reading Blood River’s [Rewrite] ability while Blood River attacked him with blood beads.
• Lu Bai equipped three four-star achievement titles, whose tangible killing intent slowed the blood beads.
• Old Ancestor Blood River lost confidence in fighting Lu Bai, and Lu Bai stayed guarded without provoking him.