Chapter Summaries

Huang Tian killed Gru and a second Alpha-Class Cyborg, then returned home to Bai Zhiyi without revealing his role in the attacks. After Zhou Hongyu told Bai Zhiyi that the city feared an unknown powerhouse called the Troll, Bai Zhiyi resolved to train until she could protect her brother and control her own fate.

• Huang Tian caught Gru's flaming punch, endured the woman's gunfire, and threw them both into a streetlamp.
• Huang Tian withstood Gru's flames and the woman's lightning, killed Gru, and then killed the woman when she tried to bargain for her life.
• Huang Tian left the scene before Security Bureau officers arrived and identified the dead cyborgs.
• Huang Tian welcomed Bai Zhiyi home, and she told him that police had guarded her school after explosions in the city.
• Bai Zhiyi messaged Zhou Hongyu, who explained that the Troll had killed five level-three powerhouses, including two Alpha-Class Cyborgs.
• Bai Zhiyi decided to train hard so she could protect Huang Tian, surpass the Troll, and control her own future.

Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals sent Luo Ning to investigate the deaths at its Yuxin branch, while the Security Bureau suspected Huang Tian but chose not to approach him until Qin Shaocheng returned. After several peaceful days at the martial arts hall, Huang Tian and Ding Xueyi were pulled into a Dead Realm, where they learned it had trapped survivors for at least ninety years.

• Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals' deputy director ordered Luo Ning to investigate Zhou Longqi's death, capture Huang Tian, and distrust the local Security Bureau and Dream Night.
• Song Qu told Qin Shaocheng that Huang Tian was the strongest suspect in the branch killings, and Qin instructed him to wait until his return before contacting or investigating Huang Tian.
• Qin Shaocheng explained that he was stuck investigating Blackwater Court and would return to Yuxin in half a month to a month.
• Huang Tian continued training at the White Ape Martial Arts Hall, where Gao Zhong and Lu Kecheng broke through their limits and Dong You improved his spear technique.
• The Dead Realm descended during class, separating Huang Tian and Ding Xueyi from Dong You and transporting the two of them to a deserted county town.
• A disheveled woman told Huang Tian and Ding Xueyi that the Dead Realm had lasted at least ninety years and that no one had ever escaped.

Ding Xueyi and Huang Tian learned about the relatively safe but prisonlike Dead Realm and made their way to the Ancient Gang with Dolly, reuniting with Dong You along the way. When Gu Tong’s gang tried to rob and exploit them, Huang Tian used his power to bring them down, leaving Gu Tong pleading on the ground.

• Dolly told Ding Xueyi that the Dead Realm held about two hundred and seventy people in six gangs, and that poisonous fog blocked escape.
• Huang Tian located Dong You in Guorui Supermarket, then led Ding Xueyi and Dolly toward the Ancient Gang.
• Dolly collected dog droppings for food, and Ding Xueyi killed a Beauty Demon with gunfire and a grenade.
• Huang Tian and Ding Xueyi reunited with Dong You and met Gu Tong, whose gang demanded their belongings and threatened them.
• Ding Xueyi shot the buzz-cut man and the woman in pink, while the young man in black released a scented substance.
• Huang Tian’s heartbeat caused Gu Tong and the others to collapse in agony, and he approached Gu Tong as he pleaded for mercy.

Huang Tian and his companions reached the guarded church at the center of the Dead Realm, where he defeated its black-robed monsters and the awakened Daoist. He entered the church carrying a mysterious jade token and heard a voice welcome him to the Church of Wisdom.

• Gu Tong told Dong You and Ding Xueyi that the church in the central square might provide a way out, and Dolly chose to die rather than defend the gang that had exploited her.
• Huang Tian killed Gu Tong and the others, took their stash of potions, and allowed Dolly to join the group.
• Huang Tian led Ding Xueyi, Dong You, and Dolly to the square, where he destroyed more than a hundred black-robed monsters with a stomp and a punch.
• A stone Daoist statue awakened, spoke of the Black Sea, and attacked Huang Tian with a rain of ten thousand swords, but Huang Tian killed him with one punch.
• Huang Tian took the jade token left behind by the Daoist and entered the church, where the token enveloped him and a voice welcomed him to the Church of Wisdom.

Huang Tian passed the Church of Wisdom’s chess tests by smashing the final opponent with a stone table, earning treasures and triggering a one-hour chance for people to leave the Dead Realm. He returned to Noan Star with Dong You, Ding Xueyi, Dolly, and others, strengthened himself with Life Essence, and the chapter ended with Luo Ning investigating Troll outside Hongzhen Pharmaceutical Tower.

• Huang Tian questioned the Church of Wisdom’s artifact spirit, then won its beginner, intermediate, and advanced chess tests to claim pills, mushrooms, and a saber.
• Huang Tian broke the master-level test’s cheating stalemate by smashing the faceless opponent with the stone table, earning three bottles of Life Essence.
• The Church of Wisdom opened a light curtain that offered everyone in the Dead Realm one hour to leave, and Dolly chose to go despite her fear of entering another Dead Realm.
• Huang Tian shared the test’s lesser treasures with Dong You and Ding Xueyi, consumed a sip of Life Essence, and returned to Noan Star with the others before the curtain vanished.
• Back at White Ape Martial Arts Hall, Huang Tian gave pills to Dong You, Ding Xueyi, Qin, Gao, and Lu, then continued cultivating with Life Essence.
• Luo Ning arrived outside Hongzhen Pharmaceutical Tower and wondered who Troll was.

Luo Ning investigated the Troll’s attack on Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals while Qin Shaocheng received and deleted a Blackwater Court recruitment message. At the White Ape Martial Arts Hall, Huang Tian reached the Fourth Stage and noticed Luo Ning arriving to see him.

• Luo Ning inspected the abandoned Hongzhen Pharmaceutical Tower and ordered her people to discreetly seek information from Ren Nong.
• Qin Shaocheng received a Blackwater Court invitation, deleted the messages without replying, and drove back to Yuxin.
• Qin Bowen sparred with Lu Kecheng at the White Ape Martial Arts Hall while the students discussed Huang Tian’s rapid progress.
• Huang Tian broke through his limits for the third time, reached the Fourth Stage, and sensed that someone had come looking for him.
• Luo Ning arrived at the martial arts hall for a trial lesson, saw Huang Tian emerge, and met his gaze as he smiled at her.

Luo Ning visited White Ape Martial Arts Hall, where she watched Huang Tian help his students advance and judged the Martial Path’s prospects. After she left, Huang Tian ambushed her, revealed her suspicion that he was Troll to be correct, and killed her.

• Luo Ning asked Instructor Liang about Huang Tian and watched Huang Tian advance Ding Zhuoyu, Ding Xueyi, Zhao Mo, and other students.
• Luo Ning toured the hall but left without taking a trial lesson or signing up.
• A figure attacked Luo Ning’s car, and Huang Tian seized her as she tried to escape.
• Luo Ning recognized Huang Tian as Troll and realized he had targeted Zhou Longqi because Zhou Longqi had been ordered to capture him.
• Luo Ning’s weapons and mental attack failed to harm Huang Tian, who tore out her black crystal and crushed her head.

Security Bureau investigators confirmed that Huang Tian, operating as Troll, killed Luo Ning and several other Modified Humans, while Song Qu and Qin Shaocheng suspected Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals had targeted Huang Tian for experiments. Bai Zhiyi then accepted her first protection assignment and trained with her flying sword, determined to grow strong enough to preserve her peaceful life.

• Ren Nong identified the dead Beta-Class Cyborg as Luo Ning and reported her murder to Song Qu.
• Investigators confirmed Troll had killed Luo Ning, her four subordinates, and three other Alpha-Class Cyborgs, while Song Qu inferred that Luo Ning had sought Huang Tian as an experimental subject.
• Song Qu told Qin Shaocheng about the deaths, and Qin grew nearly certain Huang Tian was Troll before deciding to meet him at the White Ape Martial Arts Hall.
• Huang Tian returned home to Bai Zhiyi, and they talked about the murders and their wish for ordinary, peaceful days.
• Bai Zhiyi asked Zhou Hongyu for work, accepted a protection assignment accompanying researchers to Woodwillow Mountain, and practiced controlling her flying sword.

Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals prepared to retaliate against the Troll, while Qin Shaocheng warned Huang Tian that the company would investigate Yuxin City and offered the Troll protection. Meanwhile, Bai Zhiyi left on her first assignment, and Yang Susu’s team learned that an apocalypse would destroy Noan Star and its moon, making Bai Zhiyi their key to survival.

• Word spread through Yuxin City that the Troll had killed Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals specialist Luo Ning, and Xue Pei resolved to make the company’s other factions help retaliate.
• Bai Zhiyi prepared for her first assignment and left her residential complex in a car sent by Zhou Hongyu.
• Huang Tian observed his students training before meeting Qin Shaocheng, who offered the Troll Security Bureau protection and warned that Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals would investigate the city.
• Qin Shaocheng left after Huang Tian declined to commit to joining the Security Bureau, and Huang Tian returned to the training hall.
• Yang Susu told her team that a Time Fragment had shown two beams of divine light destroying Noan Star and its moon, with Bai Zhiyi the only survivor.
• Yang Susu directed her team to find and befriend Bai Zhiyi while she was on an assignment in the Willowwood Mountains.

Bai Zhiyi found a white jade that entered her sea of consciousness and strengthened her body during a mountain mission. Meanwhile, Huang Tian, Dong You, and Ding Xueyi entered the Dead Realm, where Huang Tian opened a temple door to face the evil spirits outside.

• Bai Zhiyi investigated a grove, touched a glowing white jade, and absorbed its power as it enhanced her body and psychic abilities.
• Bai Zhiyi rejoined Engineer Han and his group, then welcomed Yang Susu and her four hiking companions to rest with them.
• Huang Tian, Dong You, and Ding Xueyi were transported to the Dead Realm and found a mountain temple occupied by a family, guards, and servants.
• The temple group shut the doors and placed rune-engraved bluestones behind them to keep the evil spirits out as night fell.
• Huang Tian walked to the temple doors and opened them, confronting the evil spirits outside.

Huang Tian destroyed the monsters attacking the temple and learned that black mist had plagued the realm for more than a century, with bluestone only holding the threat at bay. He took Song Duanping, Dong You, and Ding Xueyi to the capital, where he demanded that the emperor come out and see him.

• Huang Tian opened the temple door and used a breath like a white dragon to destroy the ghosts and stone monsters outside.
• Song Duanping recounted how the black mist had appeared after Great Qi was founded and how bluestone carved with candles protected people from its monsters.
• Huang Tian asked Song Duanping to accompany him to the capital and left the rest of the travelers behind in the temple.
• Huang Tian formed protective vortices around Song Duanping, Dong You, and Ding Xueyi and flew east as a scarlet rainbow.
• Huang Tian reached the capital and called for the emperor to come out and see him.

Huang Tian questioned Zhao Yun and Wuchen about the origin of the black fog, then flew with them and his companions to Crown Dragon City. He destroyed the city’s fog with a colossal flaming palm, but the Gray Stone Giant guarding an altar awakened and challenged him.

• Zhao Yun told Huang Tian that the black fog first appeared in Crown Dragon City, and Wuchen offered to guide him there.
• Huang Tian carried Wuchen, Dong You, Ding Xueyi, Zhao Yun, and Song Duanping through the sky to Crown Dragon City.
• Huang Tian struck Crown Dragon City with a vast palm of scarlet flame, crushing evil spirits and dispersing the black fog.
• Huang Tian spotted a rune-covered altar and a motionless Gray Stone Giant at the city’s northern end.
• The Gray Stone Giant awoke after the fog vanished, roared at Huang Tian, and clashed its hammers together as a challenge.

God Huang Tian defeated the Gray Stone Giant repeatedly until the altar drew in all the black mist, then destroyed both the giant and the altar. With Crown Dragon City freed from the mist, he left the realm with Dong You and Ding Xueyi, while Zhao Yun and the others resolved to remember his deeds.

• Song Duanping and the others fled Crown Dragon City as God Huang Tian fought and destroyed the Gray Stone Giant with two attacks.
• The altar revived the Gray Stone Giant again and again, and God Huang Tian let it draw in the black mist until the mist had nearly vanished.
• God Huang Tian killed the giant for the ninth time, clearing the sky and destroying the altar, where he found pills and extraordinary creature's blood.
• Zhao Yun thanked God Huang Tian and offered a feast, but God Huang Tian said it was time to leave and departed with Dong You and Ding Xueyi.
• Zhao Yun resolved to build God Huang Tian a temple, True Person Wuchen planned to spread his name, and Song Duanping recorded the events in Crown Dragon City.

Huang Tian learned that Fang Yuanzhou and Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals had arrived in Yuxin to hunt for the Troll, but he showed no sign of fleeing or seeking the Security Bureau’s protection. While Bai Zhiyi camped with Yang Susu’s team, a video of a spreading, zombie-like outbreak revealed a new crisis.

• Ding Xueyi and Dong You concluded that Huang Tian was likely the Troll and warned each other to keep their suspicions secret while watching Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals.
• Qin Shaocheng told Huang Tian that Fang Yuanzhou had arrived with the Sea-Listening Ship and warned that his subordinates would investigate Yuxin for the Troll.
• Huang Tian thanked Qin Shaocheng but neither agreed to join the Security Bureau nor said he would leave Yuxin.
• Yang Susu helped Bai Zhiyi tell Huang Tian she would spend the night away, then discussed visions of humanity’s destruction and assigned Old Xiang to watch over Huang Tian.
• Old Xiang showed Yang Susu a video of infected people transforming into snarling attackers and biting others, prompting her to suspect another team had unleashed a zombie virus.

Yang Susu's team discussed a deliberately released zombie virus while the authorities contained the outbreak and began investigating its source. After returning from the mountains, Bai Zhiyi went home, and Huang Tian's martial arts hall was eventually ordered to cooperate with Fang Yuanzhou's search for Troll.

• Yang Susu, Old Xiang, and the buzz-cut young man watched the zombie video and concluded the virus was a test of the world's response as well as a possible mission tactic.
• The Beijiang Security Bureau director learned that more than sixteen thousand people in Ding'an District had been infected and ordered his subordinates to investigate unfamiliar outsiders.
• Bai Zhiyi's group finished their mountain assignment, and Yang Susu told Old Xiang to learn about and protect Bai Zhiyi's brother while the others sought ways to join local supernatural teams.
• Bai Zhiyi returned home to Huang Tian, then left for school the next morning while Huang Tian went to the White Ape Martial Arts Hall.
• Ding Xueyi and Dong You warned Huang Tian that Fang Yuanzhou's people were searching Yuxin for Troll, but Huang Tian chose to wait and face them if they came.
• Two men entered the White Ape Martial Arts Hall and ordered Ding Luotang to summon all instructors, especially Huang Tian, to cooperate with their investigation.

Ding Luotang tried to keep Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals’ men from disturbing Huang Tian, who was cultivating in seclusion, but Qin Bowen fought Lu Zhong when the men demanded Huang appear. After Qin Bowen and Lu Zhong injured each other and both sides called for reinforcements, a blue-armored figure arrived and challenged the martial arts hall.

• Ding Luotang told the instructors that Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals had come to identify Troll, and urged them to cooperate because the company’s men were too powerful to offend.
• Qin Bowen refused to let Lu Zhong disturb Huang Tian’s cultivation and challenged him to a fight.
• Qin Bowen and Lu Zhong exchanged sword strikes, gunfire, and blows until both were injured and forced apart.
• Lu Kecheng and other limit-breaking martial artists stood with Qin Bowen when the white-haired man moved to continue the confrontation.
• Lu Zhong and the white-haired man requested reinforcements from Kong Xiancao, while Ding Luotang watched anxiously for Huang Tian to emerge.
• A blue-armored figure with mechanical wings landed at the martial arts hall and demanded to know who was refusing to obey the company’s orders.

Kong Xiancao attacked the White Ape Martial Arts Hall to challenge Huang Tian, but Huang Tian broke through to the Fifth Stage and killed him. The chapter ended with Kong Xiancao’s subordinates kneeling and begging Huang Tian to spare them.

• Security Bureau officers learned Kong Xiancao was flying to the White Ape Martial Arts Hall, and Qin Shaocheng raced there to contain the situation.
• Kong Xiancao confronted Qin Bowen and the martial arts students, then charged toward the building where Huang Tian was staying.
• Huang Tian’s breakthrough filled half the sky over Yuxin City with scarlet light, alarming Qin Shaocheng and Fang Yuanzhou.
• Huang Tian emerged at the Fifth Stage and confronted Kong Xiancao, who tried to flee.
• Huang Tian caught Kong Xiancao in midair and killed him with two blows.
• Lu Zhong and the burly white-haired man dropped to their knees and begged Huang Tian to spare them.

Huang Tian killed Kong Xiancao and his two subordinates, then confronted Fang Yuanzhou at the Sea-Listening Ship and revealed that he was the Troll. After defeating Fang Yuanzhou’s strongest attacks and killing him aboard the ship, Huang Tian asked Qin Shaocheng whether his people could repair it.

• Huang Tian killed Lu Zhong and the white-haired man with a snort, then flew southwest as Qin Shaocheng arrived and recognized Kong Xiancao’s corpse.
• Qin Shaocheng realized Huang Tian was heading for the Sea-Listening Ship, while Yuxin’s factions identified Huang Tian as the Troll and watched the confrontation unfold.
• Fang Yuanzhou ordered the Sea-Listening Ship to fire on Huang Tian, but Huang Tian endured the barrage and blocked Fang Yuanzhou’s psychic sword attack with his arm.
• Fang Yuanzhou unleashed Thousand Swords Annihilation, but Huang Tian emerged with only superficial wounds and revealed that he was the Troll.
• Fang Yuanzhou tried to flee aboard the Sea-Listening Ship, but Huang Tian shattered its force field, tore into the cabin, and killed him.
• Huang Tian told Qin Shaocheng that Fang Yuanzhou was dead and asked whether Qin’s people could repair the damaged Sea-Listening Ship.

After Huang Tian revealed overwhelming Sixth Level strength, Old Xiang and the Sacred Sea Starlight team abandoned their plan to protect him and decided to use their connection with Bai Zhiyi to get closer to him. Bai Zhiyi received an offer to have her Flight Apparatus upgraded, while Huang Tian helped Qin Bowen achieve a second breakthrough into the Limit-Breaking Realm.

• Old Xiang watched Huang Tian survive the Sea-Listening Ship's full-power attack and realized he was a Sixth Level powerhouse, then reported the news to Yang Susu and the team.
• Yang Susu recalled Old Xiang from protecting Huang Tian, but the team agreed to keep in touch with Bai Zhiyi in hopes of building a connection with Huang Tian.
• City powers debated Huang Tian's strength and speculated about how Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals would respond to their conflict.
• Bai Zhiyi received a message from Zhou Hongyu offering a free custom Flight Apparatus or an upgrade to her existing one, and chose the upgrade.
• Huang Tian returned to the White Ape Martial Arts Hall, praised his students, and healed and strengthened Qin Bowen.
• Qin Bowen broke through into the Limit-Breaking Realm for the second time after Huang Tian reshaped his Root Bone and strengthened his blood and vitality.

After defeating Fang Yuanzhou, Huang Tian rejected Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals’ attempt to scapegoat Xue Pei and refused offers to join the Security Bureau and Blackwater Court. The next morning, as the Dead Realm descended again, he heard a voice announce the Destiny Game.

• Huang Tian helped Qin Bowen break through, then promised to assist the other White Ape Martial Arts Hall students once their training was ready.
• Xue Pei learned that Huang Tian had killed Fang Yuanzhou and feared Hongzhen Pharmaceuticals would abandon him, while the company later declared him a fugitive and denied responsibility for his crimes.
• Qin Shaocheng warned Huang Tian that the Federation possessed a costly weapon capable of killing Sixth Level powerhouses and urged him to join the Security Bureau; Huang Tian refused.
• Han Kun, a deputy captain in the Security Bureau’s Third Battalion, invited Huang Tian to join Blackwater Court, but Huang Tian declined and asserted that the Martial Path could achieve immortality.
• Bai Zhiyi returned home cheerful and recited a prophecy, then left early for school the next morning.
• After training at the White Ape Martial Arts Hall, Huang Tian felt the Dead Realm descend and heard a voice welcome him to the Destiny Game.