Recaps

Lin Chenxing led the Third Exploration Team through the Bamboo Forest’s escalating attacks, but the forest transformed its remaining stalks and launched specialized leaves that pierced the team’s damaged shields. The team braced for the new assault as the battle remained unresolved.

• Lin Chenxing drew the Bamboo Roots’ attacks while the team rearranged its formation and used axes to sever the roots.
• The team advanced as the forest pulled back severed roots, and Lin Chenxing rested before rejoining the attack.
• The team reached the remaining forest, where most bamboo stalks withered and seventeen stalks grew sharper leaves.
• The bamboo stalks swept at the team and rained leaves, forcing members to defend with shields while Lin Chenxing and others attacked.
• Seven of the sixteen remaining stalks withered as the others changed, and the team split between blocking attacks and chopping stalks and roots.
• A stalk silently shed specialized leaves that darted toward the team, and members raised a shield wall as the sharp leaves pierced their damaged shields.

The Exploration Team cleared the transformed bamboo forest, but an explosion left Lin Chenxing unconscious, one member dead, and many others injured. Gao Zheng and the senior staff then established the Xingyan Group base’s Warrior Cultivation Plan and reorganized its teams.

• Lin Chenxing led the Exploration Team against the bamboo, whose last stalks grew more dangerous as they absorbed nutrients and changed.
• The team severed the jade-like central stalk’s roots, then Lin Chenxing struck a glimmering spot near its base and triggered an explosion that knocked him and the others unconscious or injured.
• The team returned to base, where doctors examined the injured and Gao Zheng reprimanded Lin Chenxing for handling the mission alone.
• Gao Zheng left Lin Chenxing in Doctor Mao’s care and met with senior staff to create the Warrior Cultivation Plan for the Xingyan Group base.
• The plan required daily exercise and work, combat training and cultivation for qualified members, new housing, and a reorganization of the Exploration Teams, including Guo Qichang’s appointment to lead the Law Enforcement Team.

Lin Chenxing remained unconscious in a world of souls and consciousness, where he pieced together clues about the wolves near the base and discovered that drifting wisps held memories. After absorbing memories connected to the Bamboo Forest, he encountered a small white mist that he suspected was the Bamboo Forest’s soul and decided to test something.

• Lin Chenxing reviewed what had happened and reasoned that the wolves who attacked the base might have been the pack they had encountered earlier, with some wolves still roaming outside.
• Lin Chenxing touched a drifting wisp of smoke and recovered a memory from his previous life, realizing the wisps contained memories he had forgotten.
• Lin Chenxing tried to wake himself, then began moving through the strange space and absorbing more gray wisps to recover his past-life memories.
• Lin Chenxing absorbed pale wisps that showed grass and a withered bamboo stalk, and suspected the images were memories of the Bamboo Forest destroyed by the Third Exploration Team.
• Lin Chenxing encountered a small white mist that absorbed passing wisps and suspected it was the Bamboo Forest’s soul, then decided to try something.

Lin Chenxing relived the Bamboo Forest’s growth and evolution, from its first mutation by the R Virus to its struggle against stronger animals and its eventual attack on the food brought by his team. After the forest’s memories merged with his own, Lin Chenxing sensed the outside air and began to awaken.

• A bamboo plant spread its roots and grew a forest of shoots, but wild boars repeatedly ate them.
• A shoot absorbed blood carrying the R Virus, causing the Bamboo Forest to mutate and use its falling leaves to kill animals.
• After animals killed the plant that could attack them, the Bamboo Forest absorbed more blood carrying the RR Virus and gained the same abilities across its roots.
• The Bamboo Forest expanded its attacks, but a mutated brown bear damaged it and forced it to provide food every ten days.
• When Lin Chenxing and his team arrived, the Bamboo Forest eventually attacked their repeatedly appearing food, completing the merger of its memories with Lin Chenxing’s.
• Lin Chenxing sensed air moving outside and finally saw green light again.

Lin Chenxing discovered that his consciousness had been carried into a bamboo shoot, where he grew strong enough to return through a mysterious link to his original body. After waking from a long coma, he found Xi Qing at his bedside and realized the world had changed while he was unconscious.

• Lin Chenxing learned that the Bamboo Forest's consciousness had merged with part of his own and brought him to a shoot outside the destroyed forest.
• Lin Chenxing followed a faint line through his Consciousness Sea and concluded it led back to his body, but he lacked the strength to break through.
• Lin Chenxing controlled his bamboo leaves and roots to kill small animals and steal nutrients from nearby plants, growing tall enough to condense his consciousness and break through the barrier.
• Lin Chenxing was pulled along the line and heard Xi Qing tell a nurse to keep his recovery secret from people on the other side.
• Lin Chenxing gradually woke, heard reports of changes in the world, and finally opened his eyes to see Xi Qing standing beside him.

While Lin Chenxing remained unconscious, conflict over Martial Artists’ privileges divided the Xingyan Group, prompting Gao Zheng to strengthen his standing and become the first Battle General. The chapter ends with Gao Zheng and He Qishun leading teams together to rescue survivors in monster-filled Chuilong Town.

• Xi Qing told Lin Chenxing what had happened during his three-month unconsciousness, including a Rescue Team member’s assault on a couple and his arrest by the Law Enforcement Team.
• He Qishun challenged the arrest and pushed for better treatment and lighter punishments for Martial Artists, triggering protests and a meeting where Martial Artist representatives passed measures favoring their rights.
• Gao Zheng formed the Emergency Support team and joined missions on the front lines, becoming the group’s first Battle General; He Qishun and the other directors soon followed.
• An Exploration Team reported survivors in dangerous Chuilong Town, so He Qishun and Gao Zheng set out with their teams to rescue them.

Gao Zheng and his team encountered the Black Leopard while drawing monsters away from Chuilong Town’s survivors, and Su Mo was forced to face the beast that had killed her father. With Yue Qi and Xi Qing joining the fight, Gao Zheng killed the newly advanced Intermediate Beast General.

• Gao Zheng and He Qishun led their teams toward the hospital gathering point, clearing monsters so survivors could escape.
• Su Mo recognized the residential complex where the Black Leopard had killed her father, and Xi Qing urged her to overcome her fear and seek revenge.
• The Black Leopard attacked Gao Zheng, who fought it with his spear while the others held off nearby monsters.
• Gao Zheng recognized the Black Leopard as a newly advanced Intermediate Beast General and called Yue Qi and Xi Qing to help.
• Gao Zheng, Yue Qi, and Xi Qing overwhelmed the Black Leopard, and Gao Zheng killed it with his spear.

Gao Zheng’s injury and the base’s conflict between the Law Enforcement Team and Rescue Team escalated as he and He Qishun let the dispute grow, hoping to settle who would hold power. After Rescue Team members threatened Lin Chenxing, Gao Zheng sent Xi Qing to guard his room.

• Doctors discovered toxins from the Black Leopard’s saber teeth were causing Gao Zheng’s wound to ulcerate, and he insisted they scrape away the affected flesh.
• With Gao Zheng recovering and Xi Qing unable to lead an expedition, the base shifted its exploration plans toward Hehe County while avoiding the monster-infested Ming Township.
• A boy trained for half a month after being bullied by a Martial Artist’s family member, then beat the man at the Underground Training Ground before the man’s Intermediate Warrior brother knocked him unconscious.
• The boy’s father and his Exploration Team fought the other team at the base, and the Law Enforcement Team took both sides into custody.
• Rescue Team members intervened on their comrade’s behalf, reigniting tensions with the Law Enforcement Team, while Gao Zheng and He Qishun let the conflict escalate as Gao Zheng’s wound worsened.
• After Rescue Team members threatened Lin Chenxing during a clash, Gao Zheng sent Xi Qing to guard Lin Chenxing’s room.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Chenxing began cultivating the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Cultivation Method and absorbed cosmic energy, triggering a major evolution in both his human body and bamboo body. He emerged more than twice as strong and prepared to surprise the others.

• Lin Chenxing studied his bamboo body's abilities, including Transference, and planned to develop its traits once he regained strength and authority over the base.
• Lin Chenxing secretly recovered under Xi Qing's care, then began sparring with her and practicing the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Cultivation Method.
• Lin Chenxing sensed cosmic energy after about two and a half hours and absorbed it for three and a half hours, evolving his body at the cellular level.
• Cosmic energy also transformed Lin Chenxing's bamboo body, turning it jade-like and upgrading Transference into Directed Evolution.
• Lin Chenxing told Xi Qing he felt more than twice as strong and said he was ready to go out and surprise the others.

After waking from a months-long coma, Lin Chenxing visited the training ground and learned that the base had grown stronger under the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Cultivation Method. He discovered that the Rescue Team and Law Enforcement Team were being drawn into a power struggle, and Gao Zheng and He Qishun explained that factions were trying to replace them.

• Xi Qing brought Lin Chenxing to the training ground, where he greeted the Martial Artists and asked one of the strongest to demonstrate his abilities.
• Lin Chenxing asked the Martial Artists about their training problems, then headed toward the office building to find Gao Zheng.
• Xi Qing learned that the Rescue Team and Law Enforcement Team were fighting, and Lin Chenxing chose to observe how Gao Zheng and He Qishun handled the dispute.
• Lin Chenxing entered his own office instead of the Chairman's Office, where Gao Zheng and the other directors eventually found him.
• Gao Zheng and He Qishun admitted they had staged the confrontation to test Lin Chenxing and show the factions stirring conflict where he stood.
• He Qishun warned that some people were preparing to replace him and Gao Zheng, leaving Lin Chenxing concerned about the base's future.

Lin Chenxing, Gao Zheng, He Qishun, and Xi Qing devised plans to expose a suspected alliance within the base and draw its members into the open. Xi Qing agreed to join a social mixer, while the threat behind the word "Mask" remained uncertain.

• Li Yueqi told Lin Chenxing that the base had nine Primary Battle Generals and thirty-eight Advanced Warriors, including eight Exploration Team leaders.
• Lin Chenxing proposed creating a new team and holding a competition for its leadership to draw people away from the suspected alliance.
• He Qishun explained how he had uncovered suspicious meetings and heard members discuss the "Mask" and taking over the base, leading him and Gao Zheng to plan an operation around clearing routes to the county seat.
• Lin Chenxing questioned whether the "Mask" had originated with the alliance, but He Qishun said they lacked enough contact with the outside world to know.
• Xi Qing proposed a social mixer to encourage stability among the base's Martial Artists, and Gao Zheng asked her and Lin Chenxing to take part.
• Xi Qing agreed to join the mixer after Gao Zheng asked her directly.

The base held a Martial Arts Tournament and a Social Mixer, while Gao Zheng and He Qishun monitored the squad captains for signs of a conspiracy. Their surveillance revealed references to masks and an organization called the “Jester,” leaving Lin Chenxing and the others preparing a final plan to take their opponents down.

• The Martial Arts Tournament named Ren Tingchen captain of the new Security Team after he won the combined competitions.
• Lin Chenxing and Xi Qing attended Li Yueqi’s Social Mixer, where the guests took part in mask, praise, and gift-exchange activities.
• Lin Chenxing swapped gifts with Xi Qing after noticing she looked awkward with hers.
• Ren Tingchen invited members of the other squads to join the Security Team, prompting the squad captains to complain to the directors.
• Gao Zheng and He Qishun monitored the captains’ conversations and identified “Jester” as a likely name for their organization.

Ma Tianxing led a team along the Ning River toward Hehe County, where river monsters attacked and killed one of their members. Despite the escalating danger, the captains persuaded Ma Tianxing to continue, and the county seat came into view as he remained wary of the route behind them.

• Ma Tianxing led the Trade Team and three Exploration Team captains along a wooded path, where they found the Ning River and followed it downstream toward Hehe County.
• Tian Ming spotted a ripple and warned the group away from the bank, but a river monster dragged a nearby team member into the water and killed him.
• A giant toad and a swarm of large frogs attacked the team, which defeated them and recovered their dead teammate from inside the toad.
• Ma Tianxing wanted to abandon the river route and return to base, but the three captains persuaded him to continue after he set conditions for keeping his team back from the bank and retreating if necessary.
• The river monsters attacked repeatedly and grew more dangerous; after three kilometers, the team faced three Junior Beast General-level monsters and saw Hehe County ahead, while Ma Tianxing kept looking back along their route.

Ma Tianxing’s exploration team returned from the river route and met Gao Zheng’s force, which had secretly planned to surround them. When the three captains were confronted, they revealed that they belonged to the Jester organization as Black and White Clowns.

• Gao Zheng ordered the Emergency, Security, and Law Enforcement Teams to move out after the planned timing changed.
• Ma Tianxing’s team encountered increasingly powerful river monsters and retreated after fighting an Intermediate Beast General.
• Gao Zheng and He Qishun met Ma Tianxing’s party, and He Qishun warned that the county seat had fallen.
• Gao Zheng’s Martial Artists surrounded Ma Tianxing’s team, and Captain Lai asked when they had been exposed.
• Captain Lai and the other two captains donned masks and introduced themselves as Black and White Clowns No. 37, No. 41, and No. 42.

Gao Zheng’s group exposed their hidden fighters and defeated the Black and White Clowns at the Xingyan Group base, though the battle cost the base many high-level fighters. Interrogating captured Clowns revealed their plan to seize the base, while the directors also obtained a new cultivation technique for study.

• Black and White Clown No. 37 summoned No. 16, Nos. 29 and 40, and other masked fighters, prompting Gao Zheng’s group to reveal nine hidden fighters, including Zhang Xiaoyang, Li Xu, Xi Qing, and Lin Chenxing.
• Both groups charged into battle, and Lin Chenxing used a Jade Bamboo Leaf guided by his consciousness to cut an opponent’s neck as the Clowns came under mounting pressure.
• No. 16 ordered a retreat, but the fighters captured seven Clowns; No. 16 escaped into the woods after threatening the directors.
• During interrogation, No. 41 revealed that Captain Lai had recruited him into the Black and White Clowns and that their missions were to sow discord and take control of the base.
• The interrogation revealed that the Clowns had been practicing the Guiding Technique, which was sent to the research institute and placed on the directors’ desks.

After the base recaptured Chuilong Town and continued strengthening its fighters, twelve-year-old Peng Tianwen emerged as its first Advanced Battle General and first known Esper. His debut demonstration of mind-controlled combat impressed the crowd and raised morale.

• The base cultivated its bamboo grove, prepared for the wolf pack’s possible return, and trained as its fighters grew stronger.
• After firearms proved ineffective against Beast General-level monsters, the base paused expansion and then sent its teams to clear Chuilong Town.
• Lin Chenxing advanced to Intermediate Battle General, and Peng Tianwen became the base’s first Advanced Battle General.
• Gao Zheng arranged Peng Tianwen’s public debut, where he used a sword controlled by his mind to kill an Advanced Beast Soldier-level monster.

After months without a Beast Tide, Xingyan Base faced a horde led by the powerful Blood Demon Wolf. Peng Tianwen and the base’s Warriors fought back, and the chapter ended as Gao Zheng rushed to stop the wolf from attacking He Qishun.

• Lin Chenxing, Gao Zheng, and He Qishun reached new levels of strength, while the base’s leaders warned that a Beast Tide might be unusually large.
• Three days later, nearly a thousand monsters attacked Xingyan Base, led by six Advanced Beast Generals and a giant wolf close to Lord-level strength.
• Peng Tianwen used his ability to kill the charging monsters until he collapsed, while the base’s fighters intercepted the Advanced Beast Generals.
• The giant wolf made the monsters’ eyes glow red, then attacked Guo Qichang before retreating and charging toward He Qishun.
• Gao Zheng leaped in to defend Guo Qichang and named the giant wolf the Blood Demon Wolf.

Lin Chenxing and the others fought to contain the monsters as the Blood Demon Wolf repeatedly disrupted the battlefield. After waking on the wall and remembering his father’s words, Peng Tianwen sent a Jade Bamboo Leaf after the fleeing wolf.

• Lin Chenxing killed the cat-like monster, then drove off a masked woman who tried to stab Zhang Xiaoyang from behind.
• Lin Chenxing helped Xi Qing’s squad kill the mastiff-like monster, while the masked woman stayed out of sight.
• The Blood Demon Wolf charged at Guo Qichang, who awakened his speed and struck it with a whip kick before withdrawing.
• Gao Zheng and Lin Chenxing took on the Blood Demon Wolf and the Adamantine Bristle Boar, while He Qishun blocked the wolf’s path after killing his own opponent.
• The Blood Demon Wolf turned toward the forest, and Peng Tianwen woke, recalled his father’s advice, and launched a Jade Bamboo Leaf at it.

After the Beast Tide ended, Black and White Clown Number Sixteen and Number Five confronted the survivors and demanded that the Martial Artists abandon the base for the Taihang Mountains. Number Five trapped He Qishun and Gao Zheng in illusions, then targeted Lin Chenxing when he hesitated to answer her demand.

• The Blood Demon Wolf was injured by bamboo leaves and fled, prompting many monsters to withdraw from the base.
• Black and White Clown Number Sixteen and Number Five approached Gao Zheng’s group after the Beast Tide, and Number Sixteen introduced Number Five as an Advanced Battle General and Psychic Master.
• Number Five recognized Lin Chenxing’s knowledge of Illusionists and offered Gao Zheng a deal, demanding that all Martial Artists leave for the Taihang Mountains in exchange for releasing He Qishun.
• Number Five trapped He Qishun in an illusion, then did the same to Gao Zheng when he questioned her demand.
• Number Five ordered Lin Chenxing to decide whether the Martial Artists would leave, but when he hesitated, she sent an illusion after him.

Lin Chenxing killed Number Five after her illusions failed, ending the battle and rescuing Gao Zheng and He Qishun. As the base recovered, Ma Tianxing found a document about the surviving governments, growing monster threat, and Psychic Masters.

• Number Five's illusion failed to affect Lin Chenxing, who attacked her while the base's Martial Artists overwhelmed Number Sixteen.
• Number Sixteen was killed, and Lin Chenxing killed Number Five before she could kill Gao Zheng and He Qishun in the illusion.
• Lin Chenxing caught Gao Zheng and He Qishun as they fell and sent them to the infirmary, then discussed post-battle duties with Ma Tianxing and Guo Qichang.
• Ma Tianxing and Guo Qichang divided their plans to search for routes, contact other bases, and explore Hehe County while Lin Chenxing rested.
• Ma Tianxing found a document recovered from the Jesters describing the surviving governments, the danger posed by growing numbers of Lord-level Monsters, and the types of Psychic Masters.

Lin Chenxing and Ma Tianxing assessed the damage from the Beast Tide and planned to strengthen the base before the Black and White Clown attacked again. Reading documents from the Black and White Clown awakened Lin Chenxing’s memories of Swallowed Star, and he set a goal of reaching Planetary Level as soon as possible.

• Ma Tianxing told Lin Chenxing that the Black and White Clown’s leader was likely a War God preparing to establish his own forces, so they needed to finish the base’s defenses.
• Lin Chenxing proposed growing a Bamboo Forest outside the walls, and he estimated that it could spread three to four meters wide within a month if they supplied enough nutrients.
• Ma Tianxing reported the base’s casualties, monster materials, and potential breakthroughs, and he praised Tianwen for helping defeat the Beast Soldiers.
• Lin Chenxing read the Black and White Clown’s cultivation documents and recognized the names Thunder God and Hong, triggering a severe headache and recovering memories.
• Lin Chenxing realized he was in the world of Swallowed Star and resolved to survive the Great Nirvana Period and reach Planetary Level as soon as possible.

Lin Chenxing gave Peng Tianwen a Spiritual Force training method and designed a new program to strengthen Xingyan Base. The base leaders unanimously approved it, setting Xingyan Base on a path of rapid growth.

• Lin Chenxing told Ma Tianxing that he planned to study the Guidance Technique and create a method suited to himself.
• After Peng Tianwen recovered, Lin Chenxing gave him notes on Psychic Masters, Bamboo Leaves, and instructions for training his Spiritual Force.
• Lin Chenxing designed the Xingyan Martial Artist Training Program using combat and challenge chambers, rankings, rewards, and instruction.
• Lin Chenxing convened a Base High-Level Meeting, where the program passed unanimously.

Lin Chenxing oversaw Xingyan’s base as its Martial Artists grew stronger, he became a War God, and Gao Zheng and He Qishun awoke. The team entered Hehe County, found detailed monster records and a damaged satellite communications device, then withdrew to try to restore contact with the outside world.

• Gao Mingyuan became the first Martial Artist to kill a monster above his level, while Peng Tianwen improved his control of the Bamboo Leaves and threads.
• Lin Chenxing’s bamboo forest expanded and evolved, breaking his bottleneck and making him a War God.
• Gao Zheng and He Qishun awoke after escaping the abyss they had experienced in their shared mental ordeal.
• Lin Chenxing and Peng Tianwen led the base’s team into Hehe County, where Xi Qing grieved over the destruction of the safe zone and the loss of hope of seeing her mother again.
• The team found detailed monster records and a mostly intact satellite communications device in the county seat.
• The team withdrew from Hehe County to repair the device and restore communication with the outside world.

A team from Qimen City reached Xingyan Base seeking an evacuation route, and Ma Tianxing brought them in to meet Lin Chenxing and the base leaders. Their report revealed that the Black and White Clown team had attacked them near a town, giving Xingyan Base a possible lead on the organization’s hideout.

• Xu Jiaqi’s Exploration Team encountered the Sky Blade team near the base, and the visitors agreed to wait for Xingyan Base’s people.
• Ma Tianxing led a strong team to meet them, and the Sky Blade members learned that Xingyan Base had substantial strength.
• Captain Zhang Tiemin explained that Qimen City’s settlement faced Lord Monsters and had sent teams to find a safe evacuation route.
• Zhang Tiemin described how masked attackers had ambushed Sky Blade near a town, and the base members identified the black-and-white masks as belonging to the Black and White Clown team.
• Lin Chenxing concluded that the attack could help Xingyan Base locate the organization and prepare to join forces with Qimen City against it.

Lin Chenxing prepared Xingyan Base to take in the ninety thousand people from Qimen City while leading a team to support their evacuation. On the journey, he experimented with using bamboo nodes to improve his force, achieving a modest increase in punching power but losing speed.

• Zhang Tiemin sent word to Xingyan Base, and Lin Chenxing and Gao Zheng's group agreed to wait half a month before sending most of their people to Qimen City.
• Zhang Tiemin left one person behind as a guide and returned with his squad to help the Qimen City settlement withstand the Beast Tide.
• Xingyan Base expanded its walls and began building residential foundations intended to accommodate the incoming people.
• Lin Chenxing and He Qishun led a team toward Qimen City, avoiding the town where the Sky Blade Squad had been ambushed.
• Lin Chenxing experimented with bamboo nodes as a way to amplify force and managed to make a punch about 1.2 times stronger, though it took longer to throw.