Chapter Summaries

Li Shan used his second ability, Empress Lu's Human Pig, to escape the Rebel Army, leaving more than twenty people mutilated. Their injuries enraged the crowd and pushed them toward attacking the City Association, while the Sports Student and his companion watched with satisfaction.

• The Sports Student and the surrounding Rebel Army demanded that Li Shan explain why he was there.
• Li Shan activated Empress Lu's Human Pig, trapping more than twenty people in a ten-meter execution ground.
• Ghostly blue blades mutilated everyone inside the domain, which vanished after the punishments were complete.
• Li Shan fled as the Rebel Army stood stunned and did not dare stop him.
• A young Rebel Army leader found the victims, and the crowd swore revenge against the City Association.
• The Sports Student and the woman beside him hid their amusement as she said things were about to get interesting.

The Rebel Army marched toward the Forward Base while Mona Warriors Sports Student and the woman slipped away, having engineered Li Shan’s exposure. The Coordination Committee ordered the rebels annihilated and prepared to meet them outside the base, while Lu Bai and Feng Yixuan noticed the troop assembly and went to investigate.

• Sports Student and the woman left the Rebel Army, revealing that Mona Warriors had deliberately exposed Li Shan and engineered his use of [Empress Lu's Human Pig].
• The Security Department reported the approaching Rebel Army, and the Coordination Committee ordered its annihilation.
• The operations command dispatched troops and drones to destroy the Rebel Army beyond the Forward Base, treating the battle as a prewar exercise.
• Feng Yixuan noticed armed forces gathering outside the Third Cafeteria and asked Lu Bai to investigate.
• Lu Bai agreed to go with Feng Yixuan, suspecting the incident involved Mona Warriors.

The Rebel Army advanced on Forward Base, but the City Council’s modern forces devastated its assault team. The Mona people then intervened from orbit, and Lu Bai recognized their arrival.

• The young man sent his friend and the assault team ahead to scout while the Rebel Army fired on the drones, bringing dozens down.
• The City Council detected the rebel scouts and ordered the 213th and 214th Field Battalions to fire, while the 217th Field Battalion moved to flank the rebels.
• The assault team suffered heavy casualties under overwhelming gunfire and artillery, and the young man’s friend lost the will to fight.
• A deep-red beam struck the mechanized infantry regiment’s position, erasing its fortifications and leaving a vast crater.
• Lu Bai looked toward the sky and identified the arriving force as the Mona people.

After the Mona people destroyed a forward position with a devastating beam, the attack unsettled the military and triggered widespread panic and riots around Forward Base. Lu Bai launched himself into the night sky to find out whether the Mona people were still there, leaving Feng Yixuan behind.

• The military received drone footage showing that the Mona people's beam had obliterated a crater more than three kilometers wide and cut off contact with frontline troops.
• A white-haired commander reprimanded the officers for losing their nerve, while the chief of staff learned that the attack was a high-thermal-energy containment beam and asked how they could strike the Mona warship.
• The Mona people's arrival overwhelmed the Coordination Committee, and rumors, disputes, and riots spread as crowds rushed toward Forward Base for food and water.
• Feng Yixuan asked Lu Bai whether he had seen the Mona people, and he said he would find out.
• Lu Bai shot into the sky, while the gust he left behind blew Feng Yixuan off the cafeteria roof.

Lu Bai reached low orbit, identified the Mona warship’s enormous plates as a heat-dissipation system, and destroyed the ship himself. After reading the minds of its two Mona Warriors, he learned that the vessel had been left on Earth four hundred years earlier.

• Lu Bai flew into low orbit and saw the Mona interstellar warship more than two thousand kilometers away.
• Lu Bai guessed that the warship’s four huge plates dissipated waste heat, and the Combat Command Room concluded that humanity’s technological gap was under a hundred years.
• Lu Bai charged into the warship and split it in two with his Steel Body.
• Lu Bai searched the wreckage, found two Mona Warriors in the cockpit, and read their minds.
• Lu Bai learned that the warship was equipment the Mona people had left behind when they first came to Earth four hundred years earlier.

After Lu Bai destroyed a Mona starship, military commanders and Mona Warriors reacted with shock and reassessed their plans. Lu Bai remained in orbit, wondering when the Mona fleet would arrive and estimating that humanity had time to prepare between attacks.

• The Forward Base command staff identified Lu Bai as the man who had destroyed the starship and marveled at his strength.
• The Sports Student and the woman saw the wreckage through a telescope and decided to gather Mona Warriors to find a way to wear Lu Bai down without confronting him directly.
• Mona Warriors across the Forward Base began contacting nearby comrades to coordinate against Lu Bai before the Lord descended.
• Lu Bai considered the starship’s age and the Mona fleet’s absence, and concluded humanity would likely have time to plan between waves of attacks.

Forward Base descended into widespread rebellion after the City Council failed to suppress the riots. As the Rebel Army seized weapons and advanced into the base, its clear-eyed young leader believed victory was within reach.

• Crowds and Rebel Army fighters overwhelmed scattered soldiers across Forward Base while smoke and fires hindered the drones.
• Rebel Army fighters killed a sixteen-person armed squad and took its weapons, helping the uprising grow.
• Armed rebels attacked the Coordination Committee's office, while the Committee members remained in the shelter and Pu Xueli stayed at the Combat Command Center.
• The regrouped Rebel Army led by the clear-eyed young man crossed the crater and reached Forward Base's undefended rear.
• The fighters overwhelmed the guards at a warehouse armory, and the young man declared that they had the winning hand.

Commander Zhang’s Rebel Army captured the weapons depot and prepared to attack the Coordination Committee. Meanwhile, the office’s security platoon evacuated staff under fire, but rioters pinned them down before they could escape.

• Commander Zhang’s men seized the weapons depot, where Brother Wang identified unfamiliar equipment and sent it to the commander.
• Commander Zhang gave his troops ten minutes to arm themselves before ordering them to fight their way into the Coordination Committee.
• Rioters kept attacking the Coordination Committee office, while staff learned that the security platoon was running low on ammunition and needed to break out.
• The security platoon used grenades and smoke to lead more than thirty soldiers and staff carrying important documents out of the office.
• Rioters opened fire on the group and pinned them down, while the security platoon commander focused on holding their position and escaping.

Feng Yixuan rescued a guard platoon while searching for Li Shan, as Xiao Zhengyan refused the City Council’s Ground Return Plan and ordered City Direct Military to suppress the rebellion. The chapter ended with a secretary reporting that the person with the Blood Pool ability had vanished.

• Feng Yixuan used her Lion's Roar Skill to smash a path through the rioters and reached the battered guard platoon, asking for Li Shan.
• Feng Yixuan kicked a staff member who challenged her and demanded that he answer her questions.
• A councilor told Xiao Zhengyan that the City Council would proceed with the Ground Return Plan despite reports that the surface riot was out of control.
• Xiao Zhengyan rejected the plan and said he would send City Direct Military to suppress the rebellion.
• A secretary rushed into Xiao Zhengyan’s office and reported that the thug with the Blood Pool ability had disappeared.

Xiao Zhengyan investigated the sudden disappearance of a criminal while delaying a council document, then contacted the City Direct Military. Meanwhile, the Rebel Army advanced on the Forward Base command center, where Brother Wang used an electromagnetic pulse device to bring down the drone swarm, prompting the staff to consider deploying the Exoskeleton Legion.

• Xiao Zhengyan watched surveillance footage showing a criminal vanish from the City Council Building’s guarded security room and ordered a connection to the City Direct Military’s Third and Fourth Squadrons.
• Commander Zhang led the Rebel Army toward the Forward Base command center as organized defenders fell back or waited for orders.
• The Combat Command Center sent more than ten thousand drones to attack the Rebel Army.
• Brother Wang activated an electromagnetic pulse device, disabling the drones and sending them crashing into the Rebel Army.
• A staff officer suggested deploying the Exoskeleton Legion, but someone replied that they would handle the situation themselves.

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.