Chapter Summaries

Military officers analyzed Lin An’s overwhelming victory over the Steel City Gathering Place and debated whether his abilities came from Mental Strength or physical power. Commander Fan and Bai Yu admitted they could not match him, leaving the political official uneasy about Lin An’s strength.

• A Capital Garrison Command officer explained that Lin An had killed his enemies with Mental Strength, making the battle seem impossibly fast.
• The officers debated whether Lin An’s final impact showed immense physical strength or a charge protected by a Mental Strength barrier.
• Captain Bai argued that Lin An was likely a pure Mental Type Awakened, since his enormous Mental Strength and physical abilities would conflict and using Mental Strength was costly.
• The political official asked Bai Yu and Commander Fan whether they could reach Lin An’s level, and both said they could not.

Officials and Awakeners watched Lin An’s attack and debated his strength, equipment, and tactics. They left the footage running as Lin An approached the next group of opponents and survivors across the China War Zone continued to watch.

• Commander Fan said General Li and the other three lords could match Lin An, while General Li’s modified body gave him a much greater burst of energy.
• Bai Yu speculated that Lin An had charged a Mental Strength attack in advance and used multiple pieces of equipment to control weapons afterward.
• Commander Fan and Bai Yu discussed whether Lin An had deliberately displayed overwhelming force to intimidate the factions in the Deathmatch War.
• An official suggested warning the factions to prepare to attack Lin An in midair, but Commander Fan dismissed the idea because they lacked the necessary equipment.
• The command room continued watching as Lin An neared another group, while survivors throughout the China War Zone followed the broadcast.

Hao Yan prepared Grain City’s seven hundred Awakened ones to attack Lin An together during his descent, hoping to kill him before he could land. Other factions watched tensely as Lin An approached, and the chapter ended just before Grain City’s attack began.

• Hao Yan realized Grain City was the next target in the System’s Deathmatch and ordered his Awakened ones to attack Lin An in advance.
• Hao Yan urged his people to stay packed together and claimed their numbers could overwhelm Lin An before he landed.
• A minor leader questioned the formation, while Hao Yan stayed inside a building to calculate the timing of the attack.
• Hao Yan’s loyal subordinate rallied the crowd by promising they would claim Dragon An’s spoils if Lin An died.
• The various factions watched the battlefield broadcast as Lin An drew near Grain City.

Lin An used a fighter’s missile to destroy the Awakened gathered at Grain City, then killed Hao Yan and absorbed the scattered energy. The military regions realized Lin An could potentially eliminate other Gathering Places just as quickly, while Commander Fan learned the fighter had been taken from a Wangjiang Air Force Base occupied by Mutants.

• Huan Jiang Military Region officers ordered every frame of Lin An’s attack recorded as the black dot approached Grain City.
• Hao Yan ordered the Awakened to fire at the falling object, but military observers recognized it as a missile as its propulsion flame appeared.
• Lin An’s supersonic air-to-ground missile struck the clustered Awakened, killing them and triggering the System to count Grain City below the Deathmatch standard.
• Lin An entered the damaged building, killed Hao Yan with his sword, absorbed the scattered energy, and flew away.
• Lin An reflected that he and Chu An had arranged for Mo Ling to steal a fighter from the Wangjiang Air Force Base so he could conserve energy while dealing with the Deathmatch targets.
• Commander Fan berated the Wangjiang Military Region for losing a fighter, then learned Mutants had occupied its Air Force Base and Lin An had obtained the aircraft himself.

Commander Fan and Bai Yu concluded that Lin An’s missile attack showed his strength was limited and that Modern Safe Zone’s air defenses could stop his approach. Zhang Ming prepared the safe zone for battle, confident its military forces could defeat Lin An.

• A Political Faction official questioned whether Lin An would use missiles to destroy the other forces, and Commander Fan said Lin An would still have to land to fight.
• Bai Yu argued that Lin An had spent much of his Mental Strength and had used the missiles early because he lacked confidence in a direct fight.
• Commander Fan and Bai Yu reasoned that Modern Safe Zone’s air defenses could block the missiles and disrupt Lin An’s midair movement.
• Zhang Ming ordered the air defenses activated, the Armored Corps placed on standby, civilians moved into fortifications, and Awakeners readied to stop Lin Han’s hundred-man squad.
• Zhang Ming remained confident that Modern Safe Zone’s military forces could defeat Lin An.

Wanhe Palace’s leaders learned that Lin An was approaching after destroying Grain City, and argued over whether to flee or fight. Zhao Gang escaped, while Lin Yumin organized the remaining forces to prepare for Lin An’s arrival.

• Wanhe Palace’s leaders blamed Lin Yumin for buying false information about Lin An and realized their faction was next in the Deathmatch.
• Zhao Gang accused the factory owners of provoking Lin An and said Dragon An Base had likely planted the information.
• Zhao Gang rejected Lin Yumin’s plan to fight, then used his invisibility ability to flee with his men and wait for the others to die.
• Lin Yumin ordered the remaining Awakeners and soldiers to hide in underground facilities and prepare to wear Lin An down.
• Survivors across China’s War Zone watched the unfolding conflict and wondered whether Lin An would launch a massacre or a prolonged war of attrition.

Lin An prepared to use the Undead Army against the hidden Wanhe Palace Gathering Place as he flew toward it. At the Huan Jiang District Command, officers debated his route and the threat he could pose, while the Modern Safe Zone remained his apparent final target.

• Chu An told Lin An that the Wanhe Palace Gathering Place had split into fifteen groups across an industrial park, and shared a map of their positions.
• Lin An decided to summon Necro-spirits with his accumulated Soul Points, since their incorporeal bodies could bypass the enemies' defenses.
• Lin An accelerated his fighter jet toward the Wanhe Palace Gathering Place.
• At the Huan Jiang District Command, the commander and officers studied Lin An's circular route and speculated that he had planned his targets in advance.
• A staff officer argued that Lin An's campaign could intimidate every faction and that, if driven into hiding, he would be more dangerous than a Third Order Mutant.

Lin An confronted Wanhe Palace’s hidden forces while its leaders hoped to wear him down, then summoned his Undead Legion. The chapter ended as Hell’s Gate opened above Wanhe Palace and ten thousand ghosts shrieked.

• Military leaders debated Lin An’s strength and ordered the battle recorded so they could learn his weaknesses or obtain his corpse.
• Lin An identified fifteen hidden locations containing 1,672 Awakened and descended from the sky without attacking civilians.
• Wanhe Palace’s ordinary soldiers refused to fire, while Lin Yumin’s elite squad waited to ambush Lin An and Zhao Gang sensed his overwhelming Mental Strength.
• Lin An gathered Resentment Energy and summoned the Undead Legion, opening a bronze Hell’s Gate above Wanhe Palace.

Lin An unleashed the Undead Legion skill, summoning twenty Necro-spirits that overwhelmed the Awakened hiding in the settlement. After the massacre, the surviving soldiers and watching factions recognized that no one could stop him.

• Lin An opened a Bronze Gate with the Death God Crystal and summoned twenty savage Necro-spirits.
• The Necro-spirits burrowed through the fortifications and attacked the Awakened hiding underground.
• Lin Yumin ordered the Awakened to fight, but their skills could not harm the Necro-bodies, which killed them as they tried to flee.
• Lin An's Alloy Longsword cut down escaping Awakened while the Necro-spirits pursued them, and Zhao Gang and his companions survived at a distance.
• After twenty seconds, the battlefield was covered in corpses, and the watching factions concluded that they were doomed to face Lin An.

Lin An continued killing the forces opposing him, gathering enough life force to revive Bear Dunce while leaving ordinary civilians largely unharmed. When the Huan Jiang Military Region intervened to protect the Modern Safe Zone, Lin An decided to use the Causality Sequence and unleash his full strength.

• Lin An watched survivors turn on one another as he collected the life force from nearly four thousand dead awakeners, enough to revive Bear Dunce.
• Lin An reasoned that the gathered survivors were likely doomed in the coming Zombie Tide and that his actions would make people take his warnings seriously.
• Lin An collected the equipment and flew toward the last remaining force.
• Senior Colonel Chu told Lin An that the Huan Jiang Military Region had sent armored units to protect the Modern Safe Zone and that the leader had received a mysterious trade.
• Senior Colonel Chu urged Lin An to use the Causality Sequence, and Lin An decided to combine it with his other powers and unleash his full strength.

Zhang Ming and the Modern Safe Zone prepared to stop Lin An, convinced that his unchecked killings threatened the China War Zone, while Huan Jiang Military Region sent armored units and powerful weapons to support them. As Lin An’s fighter jet approached, the Safe Zone opened fire and began its planned defense.

• Huan Jiang Military Region rushed armored units toward the Modern Safe Zone and provided Zhang Ming with restraint chains and an Energy Bomb.
• Zhang Ming’s subordinates condemned Lin An in the Chat Channel, while survivors praised him for accepting ordinary people into Dragon An Base.
• Zhang Ming ordered his forces to kill Lin An, first with an anti-aircraft fire network and then by drawing him into an encirclement if he broke through.
• Zhang Ming led his group to the underground third floor as Lin An’s fighter jet emerged from the clouds and anti-aircraft artillery opened fire.

Lin An broke through the Huan Jiang Military Region’s air blockade by activating Destruction and plunging from the clouds toward Zhang Ming. He struck the Modern Safe Zone with devastating force, leaving Zhang Ming and the surviving Awakeners badly injured.

• Lin An struggled to descend through the Modern Safe Zone’s missiles and explosive shockwaves, then climbed into the clouds as Zhang Ming’s forces believed he had fled.
• Zhang Ming ordered his forces to stay vigilant and prepare to attack Dragon Security, while survivors watching the broadcast assumed Lin An had abandoned the battle.
• Lin An received warnings from Chu An about the Safe Zone’s traps and learned that a crystal bomb’s power was roughly at the Second Order Peak.
• Lin An activated Destruction and locked onto Zhang Ming, charging through the air defenses despite the explosions.
• Lin An crashed into the ground near Zhang Ming, vaporizing nearby Awakeners and severely injuring those underground.

Lin An survived the Modern Safe Zone’s all-out attack, recovered from his injuries, and destroyed the Safe Zone with a single sword strike. The Deathmatch ended after the Safe Zone was delisted and more than seventy percent of its awakened had died, leaving the Huan Jiang Military Region defeated.

• Zhang Ming and the awakened trapped Lin An and unleashed a crystal self-destruct followed by a barrage of attacks, believing they had killed him.
• A staff officer noticed Lin An’s name remained at the top of the Safe Zone Leaderboard and warned that he was still alive.
• Lin An rose from the Deep Pit, regenerated his body, and overwhelmed the soldiers with his Coercive Pressure.
• Lin An activated Demon Form and used a full-power sword strike that shattered the city and destroyed the Modern Safe Zone’s Spiritual Energy Core.
• The System announced that the Modern Safe Zone had been delisted and the Deathmatch had ended after awakened deaths exceeded seventy percent; the Huan Jiang Military Region’s commander admitted defeat.

After Lin An’s broadcasted sword strike stunned the China War Zone, Jiang Hao Chen struggled with the gulf between his own strength and Lin An’s. Unable to bear feeling powerless, Jiang Hao Chen sent Lin An a private message asking to follow him.

• Players across the China War Zone reacted with awe to Lin An’s strike, which had split open half of a Safe Zone.
• Jiang Hao Chen’s subordinates noticed that their boss had fallen silent while watching the broadcast.
• Jiang Hao Chen recalled his ambition to establish a Safe Zone and confronted how far Lin An surpassed him.
• Overcome by humiliation and a desire to learn Lin An’s secret, Jiang Hao Chen sent him a message asking to follow him.
• Jiang Hao Chen closed the panel and tried to convince himself that he had lowered his head only to become stronger.

Lin An returned from the battle with the Safety Token and reflected on his need for a movement skill as survivors flooded him with messages. Chu An proposed selling the forged artifacts to the Southeast Asia and East Ying War Zones to weaken foreign threats instead of fueling conflict within China.

• Survivors across the provinces surrounding Linjiang rushed to join Dragon Security, while Lin An's private channel filled with requests for help and offers to join.
• On the flight home, Lin An valued the reusable Safety Token and his companions more than his new equipment or the attention he received.
• Lin An reviewed his battle against the nine factions and concluded that he needed a movement skill to survive against larger groups of Second-Order Awakeners.
• Lin An asked Chu An about the forged artifacts, potential buyers, and movement-type Skill Books.
• Chu An said Li Xingwen could convincingly copy equipment and that he planned to hold an auction after negotiations with the capital.
• Chu An proposed selling the forged artifacts to the Southeast Asia and East Ying War Zones, whose proxies had operated in China, to weaken them rather than worsen domestic conflict.

Lin An returned to Dragon An Base and prepared to revive Zhang Tie using the Death Seed and Bear Dunce’s remaining arm. The procedure began under Chu An’s direction, with Lin An carefully controlling the energy so Zhang Tie’s consciousness—not the Undying Asura—would be restored.

• Lin An returned to Dragon An Base, where its members celebrated his victory and described how their standing had improved across the China War Zone.
• An Xia rushed to embrace Lin An, and Gao Tian told him Mo Ling had taken two Flesh Puppets out to train them toward Third Order.
• Lin An went to the Spiritual Energy Core, where Chu An explained that the Death Seed held enough energy to revive Zhang Tie, but had to feed Zhang Tie’s information rather than the Undying Asura.
• Lin An activated Heavenly Man and Demon Form, then used the Death God Phantom to weaken the Undying Asura until it entered Bear Dunce’s remaining arm.
• The iron-blue arm trembled at its fingertips as the revival procedure began.

Lin An and Chu An used the Undying Asura and the Death Seed to revive Zhang Tie by restoring his preserved data. When Zhang Tie’s body began collapsing under the backlash of third-order power, Lin An chose to stop the energy and save his life rather than risk forcing him to that rank.

• Lin An activated the Causality Sequence as Chu An began the resurrection, and the process stirred memories of Zhang Tie in everyone present.
• Chu An explained that the resurrection reread Zhang Tie’s preserved information, while Lin An watched his body regenerate from death and regain vitality.
• Zhang Tie’s body began collapsing as it resisted the backlash from the third-order power he had once forced himself to wield.
• Chu An offered to use the remaining energy to force Zhang Tie directly to the third order, warning that failure would kill him permanently.
• Lin An cut off the energy supply, choosing Zhang Tie’s survival over a risky breakthrough, and Zhang Tie’s body began to stabilize.

Lin An welcomed Zhang Tie back to life and reunited him with the Savior Squad. In the Core Fortress, the group discussed plans for the Wangjiang Military Region and discovered that Zhang Tie had gained an extraordinary talent after his resurrection.

• Bear Dunce woke up, mistook the squad for the dead, and was shocked by Lin An’s transformed appearance.
• Mo Ling returned with You Wei, and Lin An welcomed Zhang Tie back; Zhang Tie accepted the System’s invitation to rejoin the Savior Squad.
• After realizing Gao Tian had tricked him, Zhang Tie chased him around the base until Gao Tian paid him ten cans of yellow-peach preserves.
• Lin An said the squad would negotiate with the Capital Military Region before annexing the Wangjiang Military Region.
• Zhang Tie revealed his new Undying talent, which granted him four powerful traits, including recovery after lethal damage and permanent attribute gains from attacks.

Lin An explained why he had to enter the dangerous Secret Realm to break through to the Third Order, while Chu An tried to recruit Zhang Tie for weapons testing. Chu An warned that the Apocalypse System had noticed Lin An’s abnormal advancement and might not let him remain in the real world.

• Lin An assessed Zhang Tie’s new traits, and Chu An praised his potential before proposing that he test weapons at the Weapon Research Institute.
• Chu An described using missiles, explosives, and other hazards to strengthen Zhang Tie, who recoiled in fear and refused.
• Lin An announced that he planned to take Zhang Tie into the Secret Realm, then explained its dangers and why he needed to advance without relying on System missions.
• An Xia and Mo Ling reacted to Lin An’s departure, while Gao Tian and Wen Ya urged him not to risk entering the Secret Realm.
• Chu An explained that the Apocalypse System had issued a notification after the Deathmatch and had noticed Lin An’s situation, warning that it might not let him remain in the real world.

Lin An explained that the System could turn future quests into punishment quests, leaving the Secret Realm as his best route to strengthen himself safely. After Zhang Tie asked whether his loved ones could be revived, Lin An recalled that he had died in the real world before being reborn and began to doubt whether revival was truly impossible.

• Lin An warned that the System could force punishment quests if he triggered them, and explained that the Void Ghoul seemed to have inspected him.
• Huang Shao Hua said Lin An was still short of the Third Order and suggested using the Secret Realm to increase his basic attributes and fool the System’s monitoring.
• Lin An decided to wait until the auction was over and events had stabilized before entering the Secret Realm, reassuring An Xia that he would return soon.
• Zhang Tie asked Lin An to revive his dead brothers and parents, but Gao Tian explained that revival required a surviving body part and death inside an instance.
• Lin An remembered Zhang Tie’s revival and wondered whether the rules could be wrong, since he himself had died in the real world before being reborn.