Chapter Summaries

Jin Yicheng tried to get help and negotiate with Lin An, but Twin Star Base’s allies refused to assist. After ordering the Electromagnetic Imprisonment device brought back, Jin Yicheng learned that the attacker was likely Lin An.

• Jin Yicheng waited for Lin An to respond while Lin An and Black Bear continued plundering Twin Star Base.
• The Busan military and foreign forces refused to send help, citing distrust of Twin Star Base.
• Jin Yicheng ordered his subordinates to retrieve the Electromagnetic Imprisonment device as a last resort.
• Twin Star Base soldiers brought Han Youzhen and her companions into the Command Room after one of them recognized the attacker’s possible identity.
• A young woman told Jin Yicheng that a dying Mutant had recited a list of names that included Lin An.
• Jin Yicheng realized that Lin An was likely behind the attack and wondered if it was connected to the auction.

Jin Yicheng learned that the mysterious attacker was Lin An and decided to use the revelation to rally other forces against him. At the Material Warehouse, Lin An faced down Twin Star Base’s soldiers and rescued abused Hua Country survivors, leaving him preparing to take supplies and confronting the base’s crimes.

• A Survivor team member confirmed to Jin Yicheng that the mysterious person was Lin An and that he had the stolen Mechanical Compass.
• Jin Yicheng decided to stall Lin An and seek help from the military and other forces, believing they would want revenge and covet Lin An’s resources.
• At the Material Warehouse, Lin An’s defenses rendered the soldiers’ attacks and control skills useless, while the survivors pleaded with him for help.
• A Hua Country man remembered how Twin Star Base had enslaved and abused survivors, including his wife, and recognized Lin An as their hope.
• Lin An distributed food to the survivors, assessed supplies to take, and privately expressed his anger at the soldiers for harming his people.

Zhang Tie discovered that Twin Star Base used a strange item to create short-lived Awakeners, then cut off their limbs and grafted them onto soldiers to make mechanical fighters. As Zhang Tie grieved over a dying girl, Lin An judged the method cruel and ineffective, took the base’s supplies, and waited for its forces to attack.

• Zhang Tie interrogated Twin Star Base’s laboratory supervisor and learned that the base induced Awakeners who died within three days, then grafted their limbs onto soldiers.
• Zhang Tie found a dying girl whose limbs and eyes had been removed, and she warned him that there were many dangerous people nearby.
• Zhang Tie told Lin An that he could not save the girl, and Lin An understood his anger but had no words to comfort him.
• Lin An reviewed the modification data, concluded the method produced weak fighters who could not progress, and deleted the data.
• Lin An gathered supplies while the base’s soldiers watched, then flew away and waited for its fighter jets and reinforcements to attack.

A military officer reported that Lin An had appeared at Twin Star Base in the Busan War Zone and urged the government to mobilize against him. Park Geun-hye initially dismissed the proposal, but her Secretary-General persuaded her that capturing Lin An could boost her prestige.

• A National Defense Force officer burst into a meeting at the Seoul Defense Line’s Second Base Group and reported that Twin Star Base had identified Lin An as the intruder and requested support.
• The officer explained that Military Headquarters had verified Lin An’s presence in the Busan War Zone and urged an all-out effort to kill him before he escaped.
• Park Geun-hye questioned why the military should intervene and accused it of using a troop shortage as an excuse to resist her plans for Seoul Cathedral.
• The Secretary-General reminded Park Geun-hye that Lin An had taken supplies from them and argued that capturing him could restore those losses and raise her prestige.
• Park Geun-hye’s eyes lit up as she considered the Secretary-General’s suggestion.

Park Geun-hye approved the Military Headquarters’ plan to capture Lin An with a tactical nuclear bomb, while Max set out from Americ Garrison Base to kill him himself. The chapter left both forces preparing to target Lin An.

• Park Geun-hye agreed to let the Military Headquarters handle Lin An and approved its plan to deploy a low-yield tactical nuclear bomb.
• The National Defense Military Officer dismissed the legislators’ concerns and left, while Park Geun-hye and the Secretary-General discussed announcing Lin An’s impending capture.
• Max told his companion that he had agreed to Twin Star Base’s terms in exchange for half its equipment and Mechanical Modification Technology.
• Max dismissed warnings about Lin An’s strength and boarded an Armed Helicopter, declaring that he would kill Lin An with one punch.

Lin An arrived above Twin Star Base after the Busan War Zone’s leaders branded him a Korean traitor and blamed China for his actions. As the base’s defenders feared his power, Lin An studied the Death God Declaration skill and considered how to use it.

• Soldiers evacuated Busan Port with the recovered Electromagnetic Imprisonment device as a sea beast neared escape, while the order was given to destroy the port.
• Park Geun-hye’s announcement portrayed Lin An as a Korean spy working for China, and Survivors in the Busan War Zone grew furious at his supposed betrayal.
• Lin An appeared above Twin Star Base’s Base Core, leaving soldiers and Awakened afraid to move.
• Jin Yicheng hid Lin An’s battle record from the military and Americans, hoping their weapons could still stop him, while considering whether the Mechanical Compass caused his powers.
• Lin An gave up trying to fuse the Sand of Time with the Mechanical Compass and studied the Death God Declaration skill.

Lin An faced the reinforcements from Twin Star Base and Busan, sensing that the Busan military had brought a dangerous Space-Type awakened one and a 350-kiloton tactical nuclear warhead. Jin Yicheng ordered an attack to trap Lin An with Electromagnetic Imprisonment, while troops evacuated the area.

• Lin An discovered that Death God Declaration consumed too much mental strength, so he continued defeating weak enemies with Mental Shock.
• American awakened ones Max and Terrell arrived, and Max entered the Safe Zone while under Lin An’s mental perception.
• Lin An sensed a gaunt First Order awakened one whose Space-Type aura posed a greater danger than the gathered troops and awakened ones.
• Jin Yicheng learned that the military had supplied a 350-kiloton tactical nuclear warhead and ordered the surrounding area evacuated.
• Jin Yicheng commanded the modified soldiers to activate Electromagnetic Imprisonment against Lin An.

Twin Star Base used the Electromagnetic Imprisonment device to drag Lin An from the sky, then bombarded the place where he landed. Max charged into the blast zone to kill Lin An himself.

• An Awakened One and two other Twin Star Awakened Ones poured their psionic energy into the imprisonment device, whose magnetic force began pulling Lin An down and slowing his energy circulation.
• Jin Yicheng waited tensely while Max complained that the group should use artillery instead of wasting time on the device.
• Lin An noticed the Gaunt Man carrying a nuclear bomb and stopped resisting, plunging into the ground.
• Jin Yicheng ordered everyone to attack, and Twin Star Base's artillery opened fire on Lin An's landing site.
• Max activated High-Energy Muscle, rushed into the blast zone, and headed toward the smoke-covered pit to kill Lin An.

Max attacked Lin An after the artillery bombardment failed, but Lin An remained unharmed and shattered Max’s arm with his defense. As Max fled, Lin An activated the Death God Mask’s special skill, and Max vanished under its spreading ripples.

• The hawkeye awakener warned Max that Lin An was uninjured and sensed his immense power, while the military commander told Jin Yicheng to prepare a nuclear strike.
• Max charged Lin An and broke his arm against Lin An’s chest, suffering only minor damage to Lin An.
• Max fled as the factions ordered a nuclear strike and began withdrawing under covering fire.
• Lin An summoned the Death God Phantom and activated Death God Declaration, causing Max to vanish piece by piece.

Lin An fought off the military forces at Twin Star Base as Korea announced a nuclear strike, while his allies rushed toward Busan in alarm. The chapter ended as a tactical nuclear bomb appeared beside Lin An and detonated.

• Lin An erased the Awakened attacking him, then killed the military commander who ordered his forces to attack.
• Korea’s military prepared a nuclear strike and issued a warning to Survivors in the Busan War Zone.
• Lin An told Zhang Tie and Bear Dunce that he would face the bomb to test his defenses, including the Sand of Time and Avici State.
• Wen Ya, Gao Tian, and An JingTian learned of the strike while flying toward Busan, and Lin An told them to watch the fireworks.
• A Space-Type Awakened appeared beside Lin An with a tactical nuclear bomb, then sent his own head into the void before the bomb appeared and detonated.

Lin An survived the nuclear blast at its center by entering the Avici State and using his damage-immunity rule, while the explosion devastated Twin Star Base and killed or injured many fleeing soldiers. Jin Yicheng and the military representative survived at a distance and planned to retrieve Lin An's equipment, believing he was dead.

• Lin An entered the Avici State as the nuclear bomb detonated and regenerated after the initial radiation and heat nearly destroyed his body.
• Lin An examined the explosion's center, touched its expanding light, and realized a nuclear blast within a hundred meters would kill him without the Avici State.
• The flash and heat vaporized soldiers and Awakened around Twin Star Base before the shock wave demolished the Double Star Building and hurled Jin Yicheng's fleeing companions into the ruins.
• Jin Yicheng survived nearly seven kilometers from the blast, celebrated Lin An's presumed death, and cursed him for destroying the base.
• The military representative told Jin Yicheng to wait for surviving Mechanical Soldiers to retrieve Lin An's equipment.

After a nuclear blast devastated Twin Star Base, Lin An’s allies learned that Busan had attacked him and rushed to help. At the blast site, Jin Yicheng suspected the military intended to seize the equipment and charged toward it alone.

• Wen Ya and the Dragon An Troops watched the nuclear mushroom cloud from their fighters while Yun Tian repaired aircraft damaged by the electromagnetic pulse.
• Wen Ya received Zhang Tie’s message that Lin An had been hit by a nuclear bomb and ordered Mo Ling to take them to Twin Star Base.
• Gao Tian and the others realized Lin An had been bombed, feared for his condition, and prepared to go help him.
• At Twin Star Base, Jin Yicheng and a wounded military commander disputed when to approach the blast site and claim its equipment.
• Jin Yicheng suspected the military planned to take the equipment and rode a Mechanical Soldier toward the blast site.

Jin Yicheng and the Military Headquarters commander raced to the explosion site to seize Lin An’s equipment, then secretly agreed to join forces and build their own power. They found Lin An alive in the crater, and he crushed Jin Yicheng’s skull.

• Jin Yicheng rushed toward the explosion with the Military Headquarters commander and soldiers pursuing him, and he threatened to use a heart core to keep them at bay.
• The commander privately offered Jin Yicheng half of Lin An’s equipment in exchange for helping him abandon the Military Headquarters and establish their own forces.
• Jin Yicheng agreed and warned the commander about Lin An’s Bear Transformation Awakened One, suggesting they capture Hua Country Survivors to lure him out.
• Jin Yicheng and the commander reached the crater and searched the scorched ground for Lin An’s equipment, especially his book.
• Lin An appeared above them alive, and he crushed Jin Yicheng’s skull as the others stared in terror.

Lin An survived the nuclear explosion and wiped out the military forces in the Deep Pit, leaving only the commander alive. He planned to force the commander to expose the military’s crimes to the Great Korean War Zone, then used his Fool’s title skill when the commander refused.

• Lin An revealed that he had survived the nuclear blast, and his Mental Shock killed the fleeing soldiers and left the commander alone.
• Lin An immobilized the commander and explained that Bear Dunce had taken the Rat King Ring, emptied the Material Warehouse, and rescued the remaining China Survivors.
• The commander demanded a quick death, but Lin An said he still had a use for him.
• Lin An sent the commander a statement to broadcast through the War Zone Channel, accusing the military of the nuclear attack, Human Experiments, and fabricating the supply-theft story.
• The commander refused to cooperate, so Lin An activated Foolery, fooling the human heart.

Lin An reunited with the Dragon An Base squad after destroying the enemy and learned that the base faced unresolved supernatural events. The squad discovered that Lin An had forced a military commander to expose Busan’s human experimentation, throwing the Busan War Zone into chaos.

• An JingTian and the squad rushed to Lin An, who asked where An Xia was and learned she had stayed behind to protect Dragon An Base.
• Gao Tian told Lin An that Chu An had withdrawn from base affairs and was focused on the Spiritual Energy Warplanes.
• Wen Ya took Lin An’s hand, and he reassured her before asking about Zhang Tie.
• Mo Ling told Lin An that Bear Dunce was grieving for survivors rescued from the laboratory, several of whom had died.
• Gao Tian asked about the Dried Corpse, and Lin An explained that he had made the commander send messages until the System drained his spiritual energy.
• Gao Tian checked Busan’s Chat Channel and saw survivors confronting officials over messages accusing the Busan military of using people to manufacture weapons.

Lin An explained that he intended to destabilize the Great Korean War Zone and help its Hua Country Survivors before returning to Dragon Security. He then announced he would send Korea the nuclear bomb officials accused him of stealing, while Park Geun-hye was condemned and died before completing a curse.

• Lin An told Gao Tian that he planned to expose the truth, weaken the Great Korean War Zone, and improve conditions for its Hua Country Survivors.
• Lin An ordered the team to search the bodies for dropped Equipment and said he would return the stolen nuclear bomb by dropping it on the Busan military base.
• At the Seoul Joint Base, military leaders charged Park Geun-hye with wartime failures and secret human experiments, sentencing her to life imprisonment.
• As factions turned against the government and officials prepared to appease Dragon Security, Park Geun-hye accused them of framing her.
• Park Geun-hye shot herself, and her unfinished curse faded with her death.

Lin An’s group mourned the thousands of survivors killed in Twin Star Base’s laboratory, then struck the Ameriken military base and seized its aircraft and supplies. As Lin An’s team teleported back to Dragon An Base, a wounded figure stirred in Twin Star Base’s ruined Underground Core fortress.

• Lin An comforted Bear Dunce and assured Zhang Tie and the grieving survivors that their suffering would end, after Dragon An Base buried the laboratory’s victims.
• Ameriken Awakeners worried over conflicting reports and the disappearance of Max and Eagle Eye as their commander raised the base’s alert level.
• A Black Dragon carried Gao Tian in an assault on the Ameriken military base, while Lin An’s forces later escorted captured aircraft away from Busan.
• Lin An ordered Mo Ling to teleport the squad back to Dragon An Base and left Gao Tian and Yun Tian to fly the planes home.
• A pus-covered rat carrying a slip of paper and a frozen heart crawled toward a hoarse moan in Twin Star Base’s ruined Underground Core fortress.

Dragon An Base had grown into a heavily fortified refuge, with its residents and factions unsettled by the Inner City’s two-day alert. As an Ice Awakener worried about the base’s future, a white blur broke the sound barrier and rushed inside.

• Dragon An Base expanded its defenses, residences, and satellite city while housing more than a million ordinary people and welcoming arriving Survivors.
• Awakeners gathered outside the city to recruit squads for supply runs and hunts, while powerful Awakeners remained in the Inner City under heightened alert.
• A Second-Order Ice Awakener worried that something might happen to Dragon An as he watched the area outside the city.
• A white blur streaked through the ground outside with a sonic boom and rushed into the city.

Lin An returned to Dragon An Base, learned that a spreading White Fog had devastated the Huan Jiang Military Region, and chose to postpone investigating it until after the trial. He upgraded the base and unlocked the Trial Tower, but the Cataclysm began immediately as the sun vanished worldwide, leaving Lin An fearing he had triggered something.

• An Xia rushed into the Inner City and embraced Lin An, while Bear Dunce mistakenly announced that Lin An should retaliate against whoever had caused trouble for Dragon Security.
• An JingTian described the expanding White Fog near the Huan Jiang Military Region, where people's senses failed and a hundred-man squad had been wiped out except for one survivor who went insane.
• Lin An decided to investigate the White Fog after the trial and led the group to the Base Core to upgrade Dragon An Base.
• Lin An activated the base upgrade, making Dragon An Base the world's first D-Level Safe Zone and unlocking the Trial Tower and Tier 3 advancement.
• A hostile voice announced that the Cataclysm had officially begun, and darkness swallowed the sun worldwide as Lin An wondered whether his actions had caused it.

A Survivor gang led by an Awakener known as the boss searched Fengming Road after a terrifying world-shaking event and entered a teahouse looking for a Black Star Pistol and possible treasures. A Space Channel swallowed the gang, and something with pale hands began forcing its way out of the Black Hole.

• The boss and his underlings hid beneath a bar counter until the wailing and darkness ended, then discussed the newly unlocked Third Order advancement and whether to join Dragon Security.
• The boss refused to leave Linjiang City, led his gang to search the bars on Fengming Road, and killed a one-legged zombie near the teahouse.
• The boss recognized a tattoo resembling Biao Zi’s and led the gang through a broken window into the cold, foul-smelling teahouse, where he believed the Black Star Pistol was hidden beneath the floor.
• A Space Channel opened in the room and sucked in one underling before expanding to swallow the boss and the rest of the gang.
• Pale hands inside the Black Hole pried it open as something began to emerge.