Chapter Summaries

Li Hai learned that Divine Pharmaceuticals secretly controlled the Greenblood Gang and that it worked with 95 Metastructure on other projects, while both corporations were headquartered in Relic City. After leaving Bai E’s office, he was told to board a Boat Gang ship the next day, then woke to poison gas entering his hotel room.

• Bai E revealed that Divine Pharmaceuticals made Treasure Rhyme Tea Drink and ran the Greenblood Gang as a biochemical experiment.
• Bai E explained that 95 Metastructure partnered with Divine Pharmaceuticals on the Gear Gang project, and that both companies were based in Relic City.
• Li Hai asked whether King Chixiao might know how to reach Relic City, and Bai E said he might.
• Bai E told Li Hai that Boat Gang members would contact him the next day because their speedboats were being used in a gang war.
• Li Hai thanked Little Iron Nail for guarding his armor, gave her ten bottle caps, and left.
• That night, Li Hai sensed poisonous smoke entering his hotel room and used Phenomenon Fiction to see through the wall around the air vent.

Li Hai survived a Mountain Cultist’s poison-gas attack, killed him, and learned from Bai E that the cult’s headquarters was in Bannan Town. Bai E then took Li Hai to the Boat Gang’s vessel, where he prepared to leave Scrap City as she watched his Red Skull Armor with unease.

• Li Hai used his Gauss pistol to shoot the Mountain Cultist through the wall, then crippled and interrogated him about who had sent him.
• Li Hai poured concentrated sulfuric acid into the cultist’s mouth and nose, left him to suffer overnight, and crushed his neck the next morning.
• Bai E warned Li Hai that the Mountain Cult and the cannibal Ma Family would seek revenge, then told him their headquarters was in Bannan Town.
• Bai E told Li Hai that the Boat Gang’s luxury liner had arrived and escorted him to the dock.
• Li Hai boarded the battered nuclear-powered cargo ship in his Red Skull Armor while Bai E silently worried about the powerful armor attracting attention.

Li Hai inexplicably advanced his Psionic Power after a blood-red dream, gaining Divination and Biological disciplines, then used his abilities to evolve into a Warhead-class berserk corpse. His roar drew nearly a hundred berserk corpses after the Turbine Rose, and he discovered he could command them.

• Li Hai saw that his Psionic Power had risen from LV3 to LV4 and gained the Divination and Biological branches after dreaming of blood.
• Li Hai suspected the blood-red dreams were connected to the Red Skull Armor and decided to stop sleeping so he would not keep leveling up.
• Li Hai raised Phenomenon Fiction to Level 2 and used Chaotic Vitality to evolve into a Raging Corpse Warlord, becoming much stronger and more durable.
• Li Hai's roar shook the Turbine Rose and awakened nearly a hundred berserk corpses along the riverbanks, which chased the ship before gradually returning to the forest.
• Li Hai felt his control over the berserk corpses fading and realized he could regain it by roaring at them again through Corpse Horde Command.

Li Hai evolved into a Mist Demon Scorpion and, aboard the Turbine Rose, pretended to die after eating poisoned food to lure an attacker into the open. He recognized the gray-robed man's Nurgle allegiance and effortlessly overwhelmed him, leaving the wounded man demanding to know what Li Hai was.

• Li Hai upgraded his berserk corpse system and evolved his Demon Scorpion form into a Mist Demon Scorpion.
• As a violent storm battered the Turbine Rose, a waiter delivered Li Hai's fried mutated centipede-chicken feast.
• Li Hai ate several poisoned chicken legs and collapsed, apparently dead, prompting a gray-robed man to enter his cabin.
• Li Hai transformed into a berserk corpse and punched the intruder, then identified him as a follower of Nurgle and the Mountain Cult.
• The gray-robed man transformed his body into a giant fist, but Li Hai smashed it through the cabin wall with a backhand punch.
• Wounded and surrounded by wreckage, the gray-robed man cried out that the intelligence was wrong and questioned whether Li Hai was human or a mad corpse.

Li Hai tortured a gray-robed Mountain Cultist into revealing the history and powers of the Mountain Cult. He learned how the cult grew after the war and what its Fungal Plant Apostles could become.

• Li Hai poured salt onto the gray-robed man's wounds until he agreed to answer questions.
• Li Hai bribed the ship's guards, then kicked the cultist's corpse into the river.
• Li Hai learned that Ma Jianhong founded the Mountain Cult after receiving a divine revelation before the war, and that the Ma Family gained power after the war under Ma Yuanshu.
• Li Hai learned that God-Given Mushrooms caused intense pleasure and addiction, while rare mutant mushrooms could transform eaters into Fungal Plant Apostles.
• The gray-robed man explained the Apostles' four ranks and said the highest rank could summon divine emissaries and help followers ascend to the Heaven Kingdom.

Li Hai discovered that his Psionic Power was close to advancing and raced toward the Green Blood Gang and Mountain Cult to claim their fragments before it did. Using Instant Augmentation, he boosted his strength enough to run at supersonic speed and charged toward the Green Blood Gang’s headquarters at the ruined dam.

• Li Hai learned that the Mountain Cult had seven Metamorphosis Rank apostles and at least seven Stronger Fragments, and planned to visit the Luminous Mountains after dealing with the Green Blood Gang.
• As his Psionic Power began to stir toward Level 3, Li Hai left his boat, put on the Red Skull Armor, and hurried toward shore.
• Li Hai used Instant Augmentation, multiplying his physical abilities and reaching strength close to Thousand-Army Rank.
• Li Hai sprinted along the Bayong River at supersonic speed, smashing through a bandit camp and killing the bandits inside.
• At the Green Blood Gang’s headquarters in the ruins of a pre-war dam, a lookout spotted Li Hai charging toward the stronghold.

Li Hai charged into the Green Blood Gang’s hideout and confronted King Chixiao, whose strange drug-and-workout cultivation system appeared in Li Hai’s interface. The chapter ended with Li Hai learning that King Chixiao had reached the Heavenly Martial Arts realm.

• A watchtower bandit sounded the alarm after spotting Li Hai racing toward the hideout, and the Green Blood Gang’s bandits mobilized to defend it.
• King Chixiao trained by lifting trucks, receiving drug injections, and enduring electric whips while demanding that his followers hit him harder.
• Li Hai smashed through the gang’s barricades under heavy gunfire, killing dozens of bandits in his path.
• King Chixiao emerged from his training plaza and faced Li Hai as Li Hai stopped before him.
• Li Hai’s interface identified King Chixiao as a Super Pointy-Head Man and revealed his drug-based Heavenly Martial Arts system.

Li Hai learned Chixiao Ya’s Heaven Martial Way skills, defeated him, and confronted the Green Blood Gang’s leaders over the destruction of his clan. The leaders admitted they could not beat Li Hai, but the Southern Underworld Martial Saint warned that Li Hai could not simply kill them all.

• Li Hai learned all of Chixiao Ya’s skills and identified him as King Chixiao, but Chixiao pretended to be a cook.
• Li Hai grabbed Chixiao Ya by the head and plowed him across the concrete, leaving him gravely wounded and unconscious.
• Li Hai taunted the frightened bandits and recognized the Southern Underworld Martial Saint and the Undying Old Geezer as the Green Blood Gang’s leaders.
• Li Hai told the leaders that Chixiao Ya had wiped out his clan in Shelter 616 ten years earlier.
• The Southern Underworld Martial Saint offered Chixiao Ya, two hundred bandits, bottle caps, and slaves as compensation, while the Undying Old Geezer explained they had already judged Li Hai too strong to fight.
• Li Hai said he would rather kill them all and take everything, but the Southern Underworld Martial Saint replied that he could not.

Li Hai defeated Undying Old Geezer and learned that Ren's superior, Divine Pharmaceuticals, was in Relic City, which orbited the planet in synchronous orbit. After killing the old man, Li Hai was struck by a beam from the dam and beheaded.

• Li Hai shot the Southern Underworld Martial Saint and split him open with his broken blade, then beat Undying Old Geezer despite his threat to detonate a bomb.
• Li Hai forced Undying Old Geezer to kneel and call him Grandpa, then demanded information about Divine Pharmaceuticals and Relic City.
• Undying Old Geezer revealed that Relic City was in synchronous orbit but said he did not know its location or how to reach it.
• Li Hai shot the Northern Underworld Martial Saint and Red Firmament, then beheaded Undying Old Geezer.
• A thin beam shot from inside the dam and cut off Li Hai's head.

Z-9 repeatedly attacked Li Hai and tried to capture him after discovering his regeneration and transformation abilities. Li Hai escaped his armor, slaughtered Green Blood Gang bandits while invisible, and was finally immobilized by a gel weapon.

• Z-9 reported that Li Hai had regenerated after being decapitated, and headquarters ordered him to decapitate Li Hai again.
• After Li Hai regenerated a second time, he shed the Red Skull Armor, transformed into a scorpion-like mutant, and vanished from Z-9's sensors.
• Headquarters sent Z-9 a reconnaissance device and gel containment gun, and he went after Li Hai.
• While invisible, Li Hai used his Gauss rifle to kill bandits as he searched for the attacker who had severed his head.
• Z-9 struck Li Hai with brown gel that immobilized him and made him drowsy, so Li Hai repeatedly used [Instant Surge] to resist falling asleep.

Li Hai outmaneuvered and defeated the invisible attacker Z-9 by exploiting Resurrection, species switching, precognition, and Phenomenon Fiction. After pulling Z-9 from the wreckage, Li Hai inspected his interface and discovered the attacker followed a powerful Cyber Martial Arts system.

• Li Hai resurrected after Z-9 blasted his body apart, then used Instant Surge to evade another adhesive attack and rush toward Z-9.
• Li Hai used his precognitive ability and a severed arm to swap positions with Z-9, then jammed Z-9's miniature missiles with Phenomenon Fiction and kicked him into the dam.
• Li Hai emerged unharmed from the collapsed concrete and dug Z-9 out, finding his head badly mangled.
• Li Hai inspected Z-9's interface and learned that the attacker was a Mobile Squad Captain who used Cyber Martial Arts and extensive mechanical modifications.

Li Hai discovered that Z-9 was brain-dead, then opened his chest to retrieve his three hyperfusion RAM crystal cores. He learned how the Seven Crystals Eight Channels system created powerful cyber warriors, but also saw the severe risks and resources required to advance through its ranks.

• Li Hai found that Z-9's consciousness had collapsed and that he could not be interrogated.
• Li Hai transformed into a cyber warrior and used a thermal dissolution beam to open Z-9's chest and abdomen.
• Li Hai spotted three hyperfusion RAM crystal cores embedded among Z-9's flesh and machinery.
• Li Hai learned that cyber warriors advanced by installing crystal cores linked through superconducting channels to create a Hypermutation Resonance Field.
• Li Hai learned that advancing through the cyber martial arts system required complex surgeries and mental support, and could cause madness, cognitive collapse, or death.

Li Hai survived a bomb that Heavenly God Corporation teleported to the dam, then escaped the crater and slept in a ruined settlement. At dawn, a pillar of light struck him as he slept.

• Li Hai destroyed Z-9's implants, killing him and raising his Stronger Fragment count to 580.
• A bomb inside the spacetime teleporter exploded, triggering the dam's Supercrystal Phase-Change Bomb and annihilating the surrounding area.
• Li Hai resurrected repeatedly as a Cyber Warrior, blamed Heavenly God Corporation, and vowed to kill them.
• Li Hai self-destructed and resurrected in berserker form, then fled the crater and rested in a ruined settlement.
• Li Hai switched to human form and fell asleep, planning to deal with the Mountain Cult the next day.
• At dawn, a blazing pillar of light struck Li Hai as he slept.

After Heavenly God Corporation repeatedly blasted Li Hai from orbit, he abandoned fragment hunting and upgraded his corpse and demon scorpion forms beyond their normal limits. He survived another laser strike and began upgrading his other systems, while discovering that something prevented him from entering the Warp.

• Heavenly God Corporation killed Li Hai repeatedly with laser beams from orbit, even when he tried to flee while invisible.
• Li Hai upgraded his Berserk Corpse form to Level 4 Berserk Corpse Emperor, gaining powerful new abilities, then evolved his Mist Demon Scorpion into a Level 4 Hell Demon Scorpion.
• Li Hai survived a direct laser strike unharmed, but found that his Walking Between Two Worlds skill could not carry him into the Warp because an unknown barrier blocked the realms.
• Li Hai raised Phenomenon Fiction from level 2 to level 4 and used two Stronger Fragments to advance his cyber warrior system to the seven-core V-Zhentian rank.

Li Hai transformed into a vastly stronger Cyber Warrior, upgraded his Psionic Powers and Perk skills, and used his new abilities to locate his enemies. He then activated Quicksilver Mode and flew into the sky, following a red thread toward Relic City.

• Li Hai grew to 2.8 meters tall, reached Seven-Core V-Zhentian level, and gained advanced cybernetic implants and enhanced materials.
• Li Hai raised his Psionic Power to the peak of Level 4, transforming his biology-type abilities and allowing him to see red threads leading toward his enemies.
• Li Hai sensed unfamiliar Psionic Power associated with the Red Skull Armor and received a fragmentary, confusing message.
• Li Hai spent twelve Stronger Fragments to upgrade four Perk skills into Opportunist, Mysterious Legion, Adversity Expert, and Quicksilver Mode.
• Li Hai activated Quicksilver Mode and flew into the sky at dozens of times the speed of sound.

Li Hai activated Quicksilver Mode and shot toward space as a strange gateway opened in Bannan Town. Yellow-Hat Child emerged from it and transformed the Mountain Cult followers with his evil light.

• Li Hai activated Quicksilver Mode and flew into the sky at thousands of Mach.
• In Bannan Town, the Mountain Cult prayed around a giant egg as cracks spread across it.
• The egg shattered and revealed a gateway that opened onto a child in a school uniform and yellow hat.
• Yellow-Hat Child thanked the cultists for opening the gateway and promised to grant them freedom.
• Yellow-Hat Child's evil light made the cultists swell and mutate into grotesque forms.

The Yellow-Hat Child transformed the Deep Mountain cultists into shapeless chaos, and Bai E sensed the Chaos Demon’s arrival and fled Scrap City. Li Hai blasted into space with Quicksilver Mode, repeatedly repairing his damaged body before finding an ancient battlefield littered with wreckage and corpses.

• The Yellow-Hat Child left the square after freeing the cultists’ cells from their normal limits, leaving them as endlessly changing organic heaps.
• Bai E sensed the Chaos Demon’s arrival, warned Little Iron Nail to hide with her sister, and ran toward Scrap City’s exit.
• Li Hai launched from a cave in a scarred spacecraft, reached space, and used the Nano Hive to repair the damage caused by his first burst of Quicksilver Mode.
• Li Hai pushed Quicksilver Mode to its limit, flying twelve thousand kilometers at a time and repeatedly repairing his nearly destroyed body.
• After exhausting the Nano Hive’s spare materials, Li Hai searched the surrounding debris for supplies and found old machines, blue power armor, and dried corpses from a forgotten battle.

Li Hai destroyed the makeshift base powering a mysterious laser cannon and continued toward Relic City. He discovered that the red line of Causality led to a battered Human Empire battleship, and suspected that Heavenly God Corporation and Relic City had been built on the wreck.

• A laser cannon hidden in a river of space junk struck Li Hai, but he absorbed its energy and flew over to inspect it.
• Li Hai realized the cannon barrel had been attached to a weaker base and was firing at only a fraction of its power.
• He Li Hai melted the turret base with his own thermal-melting beam, leaving the advanced cannon barrel intact.
• Li Hai gathered spare materials, traveled toward Relic City, and then saw a colossal wrecked Human Empire battleship at the end of the red line of Causality.
• Li Hai suspected that Heavenly God Corporation and Relic City were built on the battleship and considered that the Wasteland civilization had known about alien wrecks for centuries.

Li Hai infiltrated the enormous Imperial Battleship to investigate Relic City, discovering its two-kilometer-thick armor and the desperate people living in its sewer systems. He reached a functioning urban district, where his neural matrix connected to the local quantum network and was flooded with messages.

• Li Hai wondered whether corporations had concealed discoveries of Human Empire warships and chose to infiltrate the battleship quietly.
• Li Hai tested the battleship's hull with thermal rays, found it unharmed, and used Phenomenon Fiction to pass through two kilometers of armor.
• Li Hai entered a foul sewer and destroyed a patrol drone that tried to sterilize him.
• Li Hai rose through the battleship's sewer network and saw humans surviving in filthy tunnels without disturbing them.
• Li Hai reached a neon-lit urban district and connected his neural matrix to the local quantum network, where countless GG messages overwhelmed him.

Li Hai cleared the advertisements from his visual field and surveyed Crow Coop, a crowded, lawless district of Relic City. After learning about its impoverished residents and gang rule, he flew toward the upper districts to look for something more valuable.

• Li Hai hacked into Crow Coop's regional network and created a fake personal ID, but could not alter the credit-point system.
• Li Hai cleared the AR ads obstructing his vision and saw that the streets, buildings, and sky were covered in holographic advertisements.
• Li Hai observed that the residents had haphazard cybernetic modifications, and he found no standardized cyber warriors among them.
• Li Hai learned that Crow Coop covered about fifty square kilometers, rose roughly ten thousand meters, held 120 million people, and was ruled by gangs that paid a security company.
• Li Hai kept his invisibility field active and flew toward the sky screen to inspect the higher-level districts.