Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong faced ridicule for choosing Xiao Yan in the Battle Through the Heavens secret realm instead of supporting Tang San, but he borrowed money and mortgaged his property to buy enhancers before entering the realm. The chapter left him stepping into Battle Through the Heavens, committed to his choice despite the risks.

• Instructor Yuan Bubu urged Class One to support Tang San and mocked Lin Dong for choosing Xiao Yan as his chosen one.
• Lin Dong applied for a Stamina Enhancer, and Yuan Bubu directed him to collect it from the Academic Affairs Office.
• After hearing that Ye had spent eight million on a Soul Bone for Tang San, Lin Dong obtained the Stamina Enhancer and mortgaged his property to buy a Strength Enhancer.
• Students and staff mocked Lin Dong for borrowing money, assuming he would fail his exams and be burdened with debt.
• Lin Dong entered the Battle Through the Heavens World through the secret realm.

After Xiao Yan was mocked for his weak cultivation, Lin Dong defended him and challenged Xiao Ning, then was struck down by an enraged Xiao clan elder. Xiao Yan broke down in tears when Lin Dong, despite his injuries, worried first about the body-strengthening potions he had brought for him.

• Xiao Yan tested at Third Stage dou qi and endured jeers from the Xiao Clan.
• Lin Dong returned, defended Xiao Yan, and confronted Xiao Pohu and Xiao Ning for mocking him.
• Lin Dong urged Xiao Yan to bring his father and demanded that Xiao Ning apologize, then charged at Xiao Ning with a dagger.
• A furious Xiao clan elder stopped Lin Dong and blasted him, leaving him badly injured.
• Lin Dong checked that the potions he had brought for Xiao Yan were intact and offered them to help his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan wept at Lin Dong's concern, and Xiao Yan's affection increased by 100%.

Lin Dong reached 100% favorability with Xiao Yan, gaining exclusive access to the Battle Through the Heavens secret realm for 24 hours, and earned Xiao Zhan’s protection before leaving the Xiao Clan. As Lin Dong departed, a beautiful young woman in blue stopped him and invited him inside for a chat.

• Xiao Yan’s favorability reached 100%, making Lin Dong the sole Awakener in the secret realm and extending his permitted stay to 24 hours.
• Xiao Yan offered Lin Dong the stamina potion, but Lin Dong returned it and apologized for failing to defeat Xiao Ning.
• Xiao Yan challenged Xiao Ning to apologize within six months, wagering that he would leave the Xiao Clan if he lost.
• Xiao Zhan gave Lin Dong a Blood-Stasis-Clearing Pill and promised to fight anyone who bullied him in Wutan City.
• Lin Dong left the inner residence, pleased that Xiao Yan’s favorability was 100% and Xiao Zhan’s was 90%.
• A beautiful young girl in blue invited Lin Dong inside for a chat.

Xiao Xun'er thanked Lin Dong for defending Xiao Yan and gave him a fourth-grade Tiger Demon Strength Pill and the Breath Concealment Art. After Lin Dong hurried away, the secret realm exploration system revealed additional rewards, including three second-rank wind-type magic cores.

• Xiao Xun'er approached Lin Dong and thanked him for speaking up for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xun'er gave Lin Dong a fourth-grade Tiger Demon Strength Pill and the Breath Concealment Art, explaining their properties and warning him about dangerous places rich in blood and baleful energy.
• Lin Dong joked that Xiao Xun'er was his future sister-in-law, and she blushed but accepted the teasing.
• Lin Dong abruptly left, and Xiao Xun'er asked Elder Ling whether he minded that she had given away the Breath Concealment Art.
• The secret realm exploration system offered Lin Dong the Breath Concealment Art, Tiger Demon Strength Pill, Blood-Stasis-Clearing Pill, and three second-rank wind-type magic cores, startling him.

Lin Dong used his learning points to master the advanced Shadow Concealment stage of the Breath Concealment Art, then watched Ye Haonan show off a crude Silent Sleeve Arrow from Tang San. At the Academic Affairs Office, Lin Dong learned that one of Xiao Zhan’s tier-two magic cores was worth two million.

• Lin Dong examined the three tier-two magic cores Xiao Zhan had hidden in his gift and decided to use them to improve himself instead of rushing to repay his loan.
• Lin Dong spent all three learning points to raise the Breath Concealment Art to advanced Shadow Concealment, which made him invisible to the naked eye and surveillance cameras.
• Lin Dong left his room concealed and heard Ye Haonan boast that Tang San had given him a Silent Sleeve Arrow, while the students mocked Lin Dong and Xiao Yan.
• Lin Dong judged Ye Haonan’s oversized weapon to be a crude version and left without anyone noticing him.
• An employee appraised one of Lin Dong’s wind-attribute magic cores at two million, shocking Lin Dong.

Lin Dong exchanged three level 2 magic cores for strength-boosting potions and learned that he had 1.5 million left to spend. Before he could choose more supplies, First High School called all its students to assemble over a dungeon crisis.

• Lin Dong discovered that each level 2 magic core was worth two million and chose to exchange his earnings for supplies rather than cash.
• Lin Dong bought Stamina, Strength, and Speed Potions, then revealed two more magic cores and exchanged all three cores for six million.
• Lin Dong left 1.5 million of his exchange balance unspent and hurried to the sports field when the school alarm summoned everyone.
• Lin Dong heard rumors that a dungeon was manifesting and realized this was the third such crisis he knew about.

Principal Wang announced that the Federation was recruiting students below level 5 to investigate a mutated dungeon, offering exam privileges and a Devil Fruit as rewards. Lin Dong recognized the displayed prize as the Azure Dragon fruit and reconsidered volunteering, while the students crowded the principal’s office to hear which dungeon had mutated.

• Wang Jianshe told the students that the Federation wanted volunteers below level 5 to investigate a dangerous mutated dungeon, promising a stamina potion and a chance to skip the preliminary martial exam to anyone who survived.
• A man accompanying Wang Jianshe announced that the client had added a Devil Fruit to the rewards, and Lin Dong became interested in joining.
• The icy-faced man displayed an image of the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Form, which Lin Dong had long coveted.
• Lin Dong found the hallway to the principal’s office packed with students eager to volunteer.
• Wang Jianshe called for quiet as a student urged everyone to listen for the name of the mutated dungeon.

Wang Jianshe selected three students for a dangerous, mutated instance and revealed that it was Train to Busan. The chapter ended with Zhou Gong asking what had gone wrong inside the instance.

• Wang Jianshe dismissed students whose stamina, strength, and speed had not improved, leaving five candidates.
• Wang Jianshe selected Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue, then rejected two more students.
• Lin Dong drank three potions, raising his stamina, strength, and speed by eight points each, and qualified for the selection.
• Wang Jianshe warned Lin Dong, Zhou Gong, and Bai Ruoxue to keep the secret before identifying the mutated instance as Train to Busan.
• Zhou Gong asked Wang Jianshe what had happened in Train to Busan.

Wang Jianshe explained that the Train to Busan instance had unexpectedly changed its clearance requirements, prompting a secret recruitment mission. Lin Dong, Zhou Gong, and Bai Ruoxue accepted, and Lin Dong chose the Storm-Pear Blossom Needles in exchange for agreeing to a request from their alumna donor.

• Wang Jianshe told Lin Dong and Zhou Gong that Train to Busan had reopened with its level requirement lowered to five and its required zombie count raised to 20.
• Wang Jianshe warned the recruits they could back out and be quarantined, and explained that obtaining the Fish-Fish Fruit required a separate mission.
• Zhou Gong, Bai Ruoxue, and Lin Dong agreed to join the mission after learning they would skip the martial exam preliminary round.
• Wang Jianshe offered each student one school supply, and Lin Dong selected the Storm-Pear Blossom Needles after agreeing to fulfill one request from their alumna donor.
• Lin Dong asked Wang Jianshe to exchange his 1.5 million at the supply office for a Silent Sleeve Arrow, a Red Wolf level-six backpack, and as many arrows as would fit.

Lin Dong, Zhou Gong, and Bai Ruoxue boarded a supernatural bus that carried them to a subway platform and revealed a blood-soaked Train to Busan instance. They learned that international contestants were gathering on nearby platforms before the instance began.

• Lin Dong, Zhou Gong, and Bai Ruoxue followed Chen Kai to a battered bus that only they could see and boarded it.
• Lin Dong noticed that the bus's passenger count read nine despite only four people being aboard.
• Chen Kai led the group off the bus at a subway platform, and the Ghost Bus vanished after they exited.
• Lin Dong saw a blood-covered train filled with rampaging zombies and stopped Zhou Gong from boarding until Chen Kai pointed out contestants waiting on nearby platforms.
• Chen Kai told the three to find the Korean contestants for their Devil Fruit mission and to investigate the mutations inside Train to Busan.
• A scarlet warning appeared before Lin Dong, asking him to confirm entry into the instance.

Lin Dong entered the Train to Busan instance with Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue, where they agreed to work as a team under his command. He led them into carriage 15 to clear the zombies, and the chapter ended with him reaching level 2.

• Lin Dong entered the Train to Busan instance with Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue and read the mission requirements to survive until Busan and kill twenty zombies.
• Lin Dong persuaded Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue to appoint him captain and require them to follow his orders.
• Lin Dong assigned Bai Ruoxue to guard the middle and Zhou Gong to cover the rear while he led the attack with his Silent Sleeve Arrow.
• The trio opened the door to carriage 15 and fought through the zombies, with Lin Dong killing them for experience.
• Lin Dong reached level 2 as the squad advanced through the carriage.

After clearing carriage 15, Lin Dong found signs of a sinister presence on the train and led Bai Ruoxue and Zhou Gong onward to complete the instance objective. In carriage 14, they encountered an unusually fast, heavily armored zombie that spoke a defensive technique as Lin Dong fired at it.

• Lin Dong allocated two attribute points to vitality and two to speed, then ordered Bai Ruoxue to search carriage 15 and Zhou Gong to examine the zombies.
• Zhou Gong found a severed heart still beating and crawling toward the front of the train, and he crushed it.
• Bai Ruoxue showed Lin Dong the blood-written word "Kill" on a window, and Lin Dong decided they should keep moving to complete the instance objective.
• In carriage 14, Lin Dong's Silent Sleeve Arrow bolt bounced off a mutated zombie whose hard gray skin, crimson eyes, and speed set it apart from ordinary zombies.
• Lin Dong fired another bolt at the mutated zombie, which roared "Iron Block!" as the bolt neared.

Lin Dong trapped an infected awakener whose Iron Block skill made him immune to arrows, using an upgraded Breath Concealment Art and a special binding rope. After piercing the zombie’s eyes, Lin Dong called for Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue, but Carriage 15 remained silent.

• Lin Dong recognized the Mutant Zombie as an infected awakener and sent Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue back to Carriage 15 while he faced it alone.
• Lin Dong upgraded Breath Concealment Art to Qi Concealment Beginner, hiding his scent and presence from the zombie.
• Lin Dong used Special High-Strength Demon-Binding Rope to bind the Mutant Zombie, then pierced both its eyes with refined-steel arrows.
• Lin Dong called for Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue, but neither answered from Carriage 15.

Lin Dong investigated the blood-written warning on Carriage 15, killed the mutated zombie, and found a Fake Soul Bone on its body. As he struggled to remove it, someone burst through the door from Carriage 14 and cried that “he” was coming.

• Lin Dong noticed that Carriage 15's spotless door had resisted his arrow, then watched blood form the word “Kill” across it.
• Lin Dong chose to kill the mutated zombie before investigating Carriage 15 and repeatedly stabbed its eye until it died.
• Lin Dong pinned the zombie's limbs to the floor and discovered its body was covered in scratches, bites, and teeth marks.
• Lin Dong found a Soul Bone Finger Skill in the zombie's pocket and recognized it as a valuable Fake Soul Bone.
• Lin Dong failed to pull the biting skull free, then heard someone open the door from Carriage 14 and shout, “Run! He's here!”

Lin Dong discovered that the train had been altered by a mutated invader, and that Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue were missing from Car 15. After killing the creature and leveling up, he accepted a new opportunity to investigate the mutants.

• Lin Dong concealed himself as a Korean Awakener fled from a huge mutated zombie toward Car 15.
• Lin Dong saw that Zhou Gong and Bai Ruoxue were missing, then watched the zombie pass through a door that turned into water.
• Lin Dong pulled the Soul Bone Skill Finger from the zombie, killing it and earning enough experience to reach level 4.
• Lin Dong put all four attribute points into Spirit, sharpening his senses.
• The system offered Lin Dong the Heavenly Dao quest “Eliminate the Mutants.”

Lin Dong accepted a quest to eliminate thirteen infiltrators and discovered that the black-robed Guides were carrying out a project called Universal Salvation. As Number Seven found Number Eight’s iron bone missing, Lin Dong’s blade struck one of the Guides.

• Lin Dong accepted the quest after inferring that thirteen intruders had caused the mutation, and gained temporary access to train management and a map marking their locations.
• Lin Dong overheard Number Three and Number Seven discuss recovering Number Eight’s iron bone and saw Number Three give Number Seven a Hundred-Soul Affinity Pill made for raising Tang San’s affinity.
• Number Three and Number Seven agreed to hurry their Universal Salvation project before the Heavenly Dao intervened.
• Number Seven found Number Eight’s iron bone missing, and Number Three suspected the Korean passenger had taken it.
• A blade pierced flesh, and blood sprayed as the two Guides searched for the missing bone.

Lin Dong used his upgraded Breath Concealment Art to ambush and kill Number Three and Number Seven, but their attack drew him into a zombie trap. Surrounded and hidden among the horde, he faced the risk of being exposed when the zombies began tearing each other apart.

• Lin Dong spent his learning points to raise Breath Concealment Art, gaining powerful concealment that let him move unseen and unheard.
• Lin Dong shot Number Three with an Armor-Piercing Arrow, and Number Seven turned toward the apparent source of the attack.
• Lin Dong moved while concealed and riddled Number Seven with arrows, but Number Seven revealed himself as a Russian and called for others to grab Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong saw the intruders closing in and found his escape routes blocked by a Tyrant Zombie and a wall of zombies.
• Hundreds of zombies flooded the car, and the Tyrant's roar made them attack one another, threatening to expose Lin Dong with splattered blood.

Lin Dong used the Storm-Pear Blossom Needles to kill more than a hundred zombies, including the Tyrant Zombie, and gained three levels. Number Thirteen then confronted him with several hundred more zombies, so Lin Dong activated Steel Bone’s Iron Block skill and secretly took out a red pill.

• Lin Dong fired all 9,999 Storm-Pear Blossom Needles, killing the zombies surrounding him and the Tyrant Zombie.
• Lin Dong gained enough experience to rise from level 4 to level 7.
• Number Thirteen appeared at the entrance to Carriage 14 and sent several hundred zombies to attack Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong activated Steel Bone and gained the level 15 Iron Block skill.
• Lin Dong watched Number Thirteen while secretly taking a red pill from his backpack.

Lin Dong discovered that the Demon-Worshipping Cult planned to bring Train to Busan into the real world and had trapped challengers in a blood ritual. With the route to Carriage 15 ambushed and Bai Ruoxue incapacitated, he swallowed the Tiger Demon Strength Pill and shielded her from the zombie horde.

• Bai Ruoxue appeared and used her commanding voice to destroy zombies, while Zhou Gong warned Lin Dong that the cultists had turned the challengers into sacrifices.
• Number Thirteen sent more zombies into Carriage 14, and Lin Dong used the Train Map to realize cultists were waiting in Carriage 16 beyond Carriage 15.
• Lin Dong ordered Zhou Gong to hold the doorway and attacked the zombies, but Bai Ruoxue collapsed from the backlash of using her Curse Words.
• Lin Dong placed Bai Ruoxue beneath an overturned train seat and swallowed the Tiger Demon Strength Pill before blocking the opening with his body.
• The zombies buried Lin Dong and Zhou Gong beneath separate mounds as they held back the horde.

Bai Ruoxue used Curse Words to destroy the zombies surrounding Lin Dong, suffering a devastating backlash. Lin Dong absorbed their blood energy and awakened the Bloodland Red-Strength Tiger sealed in his pill, then rose with greatly increased strength.

• As the zombies gnawed at Lin Dong, he absorbed blood energy and baleful energy from the corpses, causing his muscles to grow.
• When the blood energy ran out, Bai Ruoxue bit her finger, used her blood to soothe her throat, and shouted, "Go! And! Die!"
• Bai Ruoxue's command made the zombies surrounding Lin Dong burst apart, and she collapsed after vomiting blood from the backlash.
• Lin Dong absorbed the blood energy released by the exploding zombies and awakened the Bloodland Red-Strength Tiger's remnant soul.
• The system increased Lin Dong's strength by another forty points as the tiger's demonic power surged through him, and he stood ready to fight.