Arc 18Chapters 426–450

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Chapters 426–450 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 426Poor Xiao Shiliu

Bai Yaoyao sent Xiao Shiliu to clear Yong County, then secretly arranged for Dark Night members to test him with staged encounters and zombies. After Xiao Shiliu bonded with his assigned team and defeated a Level 7 zombie, Bai Yaoyao encountered a herd of mutant wild boars and proposed a paid partnership.

  • Bai Yaoyao assigned Xiao Shiliu and Xiao Shiba to clear Yong County with sixty people, then revealed her plan to put Xiao Shiliu through a difficult test.
  • Dark Night members went ahead to set obstacles, while Xiao Shiliu met his team of actors and grew close to Da Yueyue on the way to Yong County.
  • Xiao Shiliu defeated a Level 7 zombie and accepted his teammates' praise, while Da Yueyue reflected on his lost fellow apprentices.
  • Bai Yaoyao failed to find more Level 7 zombies, spotted a herd of mutant wild boars, and offered their leader payment to work together.

Ch. 427Growth

Bai Yaoyao hired a wild boar herd to stage a nonlethal ambush and set up a difficult zombie fight for Xiao Shiliu’s team. Xiao Shiliu defeated the horde and began to understand the weight of leading others, but a powerful rumbling began as he was left barely able to stand.

  • Bai Yaoyao paid the boar leader with diluted Spring Water and told him to ambush humans without killing them.
  • Bai Yaoyao led the wild boars to the county town, where they drove zombies toward the entrance and prepared an ambush.
  • Da Yueyue and the others gave Xiao Shiliu their rations before his team entered the town to fight more than a hundred zombies.
  • Da Yueyue and the other actors pretended to sacrifice themselves, pushing Xiao Shiliu to fight harder and kill the entire zombie horde.
  • Xiao Shiliu felt proud of his victory and resolved to bring his team home, but a powerful rumbling shook the ground while he could barely stand.

Ch. 428The price of growing up

Bai Yaoyao staged a wild boar attack to push Xiao Shiliu and his team into a desperate fight, where Xiao Shiliu leveled up but exhausted his ability before she rescued him. After Xiao Shiliu passed out, Bai Yaoyao revealed the casualties were mostly actors and paid the boars for their work.

  • Bai Yaoyao directed the wild boar herd to attack Xiao Shiliu and his team, prompting the group to flee and then sacrifice themselves to protect their captain.
  • Xiao Shiliu unleashed his wind blades, leveled up, and briefly wounded the boar leader before his special ability ran out.
  • The boars knocked Xiao Shiliu down, and Xiao Shiba fell while trying to shield him.
  • Bai Yaoyao arrived, defeated the boar leader, and took the unconscious Xiao Shiliu and Peiqi into her space.
  • Bai Yaoyao thanked the actors, treated the injured, and paid the boars with diluted Spring Water.

Ch. 429A world of change

After Xiao Shiliu recovered, Bai Yaoyao helped him confront the deaths caused by his weakness. Over the next three months, she transformed Dark Night Base with affordable shops, a contribution points system, and expanded training, leaving the base stronger and better organized.

  • Bai Yaoyao and her companions returned to their spatial dimension, where Xiao Shiliu woke and blamed himself for the deaths; Bai Yaoyao told him that weakness meant death in the apocalypse, and he said he understood.
  • Over three months, Bai Yaoyao reopened the Dark Night Store and established practical shops run by Qian Ming and Qian Dou, Cheng Xiaomeng and her father, Wang Fugui and Wang Yuanbao, and Zhang Yabing and his brothers.
  • Bai Yaoyao introduced a contribution points system under Chen Jing, letting base members earn valuable supplies and fruits for special contributions.
  • Bai Yaoyao sent Xue Yang to train with Ouyang Ning, and Ouyang Ling later took him on for military leadership training.
  • Dark Night members selected people for intensive training, and the base's ability users grew stronger, with most leveling up and a few advancing two levels.

Ch. 430Trying to Make One

Dark Night strengthened its defenses and prepared for the coming zombie siege as Bai Zongyu’s team developed a simplified Body Evolution Serum. Bai Yaoyao then began learning to make Spatial Containers, but her first attempt destroyed a piece of jade.

  • Dark Night trained its fighters, improved its defenses, and organized base residents to prepare for the zombie siege.
  • Bai Jin'an’s training helped Xiao Shiliu improve until his sparring results against Monkey and Dada Juan were mixed.
  • Bai Zongyu told Bai Yaoyao that the Research Team had developed a Simplified Body Evolution Serum and could produce about two thousand doses before needing more materials.
  • Bai Yaoyao rewarded the twelve researchers with tea and store points after they requested Body Evolution Serum for their work.
  • Bai Yaoyao asked Taoist Feng Qing to teach her to make a Spatial Container, and he explained how to compress space and embed it in jade.
  • Bai Yaoyao tried to put a half-cubic-meter space into a Peace Buckle, but it exploded, and Taoist Feng Qing hurried away.

Ch. 431A little ugly

Bai Yaoyao successfully compressed space into four pieces of jade, creating ugly but functional Spatial Artifacts for the base. With the predicted zombie siege seven days away, she ordered the base to stop sending people outside and prepare defenses, including planting explosives northeast of the city.

  • Bai Yaoyao tried fusing space into several pieces of jade, then asked Sun Weixing to find jade appraisers after the first attempts failed.
  • Bai Yaoyao used high-quality imperial green jade to create Spatial Jade that held one cubic meter but could not store living things or preserve freshness.
  • Bai Yaoyao gave Taoist Feng Qing a piece of Spatial Jade, then showed the four pieces she had made to Dark Night, Sun Weixing, A-Dai, and the others.
  • A-Dai, Xiaomi, Fat Brother, and Lulu claimed the four pieces, while Monkey joked that he would wait for a prettier one and drew A-Dai's ridicule.
  • Bai Yaoyao learned that the predicted zombie siege was seven days away and ordered the base to stop sending people outside starting the next day.
  • Sun Weixing said the zombies were predicted to come from the northeast, and the firearms team planned to plant landmines and bombs there as the base completed its preparations.

Ch. 432It finally arrived

Bai Yaoyao and her companions defeated a Level Eight Darkness Ability Zombie before she discovered an enormous horde approaching Dark Night Base. She returned to find the defenders assembled and the White Colt Brigade moving into position as the siege began.

  • Bai Yaoyao sensed danger outside the base, evaded the Darkness Ability Zombie by entering her space, and prepared lamps to fight it in the dark.
  • Bai Yaoyao summoned Wolf Mom, Doggie, Big Meow, Little Crook, Little Flower, and Xuan Qi, then led them in a coordinated attack that killed the Level Eight zombie and recovered its Crystal Core.
  • Bai Yaoyao burned the zombie's corpse to prevent it from reviving, then found a vast horde surrounding the area and wondered why so many zombies had gathered at Dark Night Base.
  • Bai Yaoyao returned to find Dark Night's defenders and about a thousand Ability Users assembled behind the front line.
  • Bai Yaoyao ordered the White Colt Brigade to flank the horde, and Lin Yongjian led all two hundred members into the night using their Speed abilities.

Ch. 433The Battle Began

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night Base prepared for a massive zombie assault, then joined the battle alongside Ouyang Ning’s brigades, the beasts, and the Taoist disciples. As the fighting continued, Bai Yaoyao spotted another zombie infant and sent Little Zombie and Little Second Zombie to bring it back.

  • Bai Yaoyao left Spring Water and roasted sweet potatoes for the base, prepared medical tents with Peiqi, and gave Ouyang Ling command of the special ability brigades.
  • The zombie vanguard reached the base, where planted bombs and Ouyang Ling’s four Pangu vehicles devastated the horde while a sound special ability user’s Red War Drum rallied the fighters.
  • Bai Yaoyao suspected the Ji Family had made an agreement with the zombies, then led Dark Night into battle with the beasts, including the mutant wolf legion.
  • Bai Yaoyao watched the Wolf Brothers, Ouyang Ning’s troops, and Zhi Yi’s disciples fight effectively, and Taoist Feng Qing noticed the disciples’ attacks resembled Old Dragon Head’s style.
  • Bai Yaoyao heard a zombie infant crying in the horde and sent Little Zombie and Little Second Zombie to retrieve it; she fed it cake before the two little zombies led it away.

Ch. 434A desperate situation

Dark Night Base endured a devastating siege until the children’s singing renewed the fighters’ resolve, but five level-eight zombies appeared just as the battle ended. Bai Yaoyao ordered a retreat, sheltered the remaining mutant wolves in her space, and prepared to face the new threat with Xuan Qi, who began leveling up.

  • Bai Yaoyao and the exhausted defenders fought through mounting casualties as the battle raged from before dawn into the night.
  • The children, including Bai Qingqing, sang from the base wall and gave the fighters hope for one final charge.
  • Bai Yaoyao held back to recover while monitoring the battlefield and waiting for the Zombie King to appear.
  • After A-Dai killed the last figure on the battlefield, Bai Yaoyao sensed five powerful level-eight zombies and ordered everyone to retreat.
  • Xuan Qi warned that his barrier could only hold the five zombies for half an hour, then began leveling up as Bai Yaoyao brought the remaining mutant wolves into her space.

Ch. 435A turning point

Bai Yaoyao confronted five level eight Zombies led by a spatial Zombie King, who demanded that she join the Zombie Emperor and return the Zombie Infant. As the Zombies attacked, Taoist Feng Qing trapped them in an Illusionary Realm, giving Dark Night Base a chance to survive.

  • Bai Yaoyao sent her exhausted Mutant Beasts and plants back into her space and told her allies she would stall the five incoming level eight Zombies.
  • The spatial Zombie King offered Bai Yaoyao power if she joined the Zombie Emperor, and she learned that the Emperor could travel to the past and see the future.
  • A zombie demanded that Bai Yaoyao return the Zombie Infant, and the five Zombies charged after she refused.
  • Taoist Feng Qing revealed that his Illusionary Realm had trapped the Zombies, and Bai Yaoyao gave him Spring Water so he could reinforce it with more Illusions.
  • Taoist Feng Qing explained that the Zombies would remain trapped unless they found the way out or reached level nine, then scolded Zhi Rui for swearing.

Ch. 436Level Eight

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night Base survived the attack by five level-five zombies after Taoist Feng Qing trapped them in an illusion. Bai Yaoyao reached level eight and approved a plan to poison and burn the zombies, but she returned to find the base’s ability users severely wounded.

  • Taoist Feng Qing calmed down after Bai Yaoyao offered him Monkey Wine, and the group stayed to recover while the five zombies remained trapped in his illusion.
  • Bai Yaoyao absorbed the level-eight Crystal Core and advanced her spatial ability, gaining stronger attacks and continuous teleportation.
  • Monkey proposed surrounding the zombies with an earth wall, poisoning them, and setting the enclosure on fire, and Bai Yaoyao approved the plan.
  • Fat Brother and Stone began building the wall while Bai Yaoyao and Chenxuan returned to Dark Night Base to check on it.
  • Bai Yaoyao found the base littered with severely wounded ability users, and someone called out to her as Base Chief.

Ch. 437Awakening in the Truest Sense

After the siege, Bai Yaoyao organized food, Spring Water, and support for the wounded and exhausted survivors. She discovered that an elderly woman had died beside her son, and the sight left Bai Yaoyao overwhelmed by the losses.

  • Peiqi continued healing the wounded while Chenxuan boosted her ability, and Sun Weixing reported that five Level 8 zombies remained trapped outside.
  • Bai Yaoyao asked the survivors to rest before recruiting earth and poison ability users to reinforce the walls and contain the zombies.
  • Bai Yaoyao gave Sun Weixing roasted sweet potatoes, Chestnut Fruit, and diluted Spring Water to distribute among the injured, then checked on the people who had manned the wall.
  • Bai Yaoyao tried to comfort an elderly woman mourning her dead son, but the woman soon died with the cup of Spring Water untouched beside her.
  • Bai Yaoyao recognized the bodies of a couple and remembered the father of the first baby born in Dark Night Base, then looked across the dead and recalled those who had called her Base Chief.

Ch. 438Vulnerability and Conviction

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night recognized that the Base was a place worth protecting and resolved to grow stronger after witnessing the battlefield’s losses. After burning the battlefield and weakening five Level Eight zombies, they killed four and questioned the surviving Zombie King, learning that the Ji Family had agreed to cooperate with the zombies and was at sea.

  • Bai Yaoyao recalled her master's convictions and urged Dark Night to see the Base as peace they needed to protect.
  • Dark Night mourned the dead Ability Users, then resumed fortifying the Base and poisoning the earthen enclosure holding five Level Eight zombies.
  • Little Crook led the recovery of Crystal Cores, and Big King and the fire Ability Users burned the battlefield for seven days and nights.
  • When Dark Night attacked the weakened zombies inside the enclosure, four died before emerging, while the Level Eight Zombie King escaped using Teleportation.
  • Bai Yaoyao questioned the Zombie King as Peiqi sensed his thoughts, learning that the Ji Family had agreed to cooperate with the zombies and that they were at sea.

Ch. 439Battle results

Bai Yaoyao and her allies killed the five level eight zombies and discussed their next plans, including a trip to M City for Dada Juan’s weapon and a lead on Li Ziheng. The chapter ended with Sun Weixing reporting Dark Night Base’s siege casualties and Bai Jin'an comparing them favorably with losses at other bases.

  • Bai Yaoyao destroyed the weakened Spatial Zombie King, took its crystal core, and joined the others in burning all five zombie corpses.
  • Bai Yaoyao told Sun Weixing to gather the management staff at the White Building so they could review casualties and rewards.
  • Dada Juan asked Bai Yaoyao to help him retrieve his Cloud-Rising Spear from M City, and she agreed to visit the M City Official Base as well.
  • Bai Yaoyao recalled that Li Ziheng had smuggled a level eight Blue-Dot Zombie into the City M Base and decided to look for him during the trip.
  • Sun Weixing reported that the siege had killed 373 ability user combat team members, seventeen White Colt Brigade members, and 435 ordinary people, while Bai Jin'an said Dark Night Base’s losses were far below those at the Main Base.

Ch. 440Preparing to head out again

Bai Yaoyao rewarded the battle survivors and prepared to leave the base with her team to hunt for Crystal Cores and raise their levels. After Ouyang Ning drank her Spring Water, he recovered from old injuries and awakened a water ability, while Elder Chen began foreseeing whether danger threatened the base.

  • Bai Yaoyao promised everyone who fought in the battle a 300-Point Dark Night Store Shopping Card, and Sun Weixing persuaded her to exclude special-offer goods.
  • Bai Yaoyao said she planned to take the team out and congratulated Ouyang Ning on reaching Level 7, then gave him Spring Water that healed his injuries and awakened his water ability.
  • Bai Yaoyao gave Level Eight Crystal Cores to Lulu, A-Dai, Stone, and Fat Brother, took them into her space to level up, and planned to upgrade her mind ability with the remaining core.
  • Bai Yaoyao and Sun Weixing found Elder Chen working with the Bamboo Weaving Team and asked him to foresee whether anything bad would happen at the base.
  • Elder Chen held Bai Yaoyao's Small Jade Piece and used his ability for about half an hour before slowly opening his eyes.

Ch. 441Precognition

Elder Chen used his precognition to warn Bai Yaoyao that three people would sneak into the base in three months and target Ouyang Ling and her bracelet. Bai Yaoyao uncovered the Ji family's likely scheme and prepared the base for the threat before leaving on a mission.

  • Elder Chen told Bai Yaoyao that three people would infiltrate the base around day ninety-one, search Ouyang Ling and her room, and then speak with a boy who followed Hao.
  • Bai Yaoyao comforted Elder Chen and learned from Ouyang Ling and Ouyang Ning that Ouyang Ling's fiancé had been Ji Jingkai, whose family was behind the human experimentation lab.
  • Bai Jin'an concluded that the Ji family had arranged Ouyang Ling's engagement to obtain her energy-absorbing bracelet, and Bai Yaoyao warned the others to prepare for the intruders.
  • Bai Yaoyao gave Bai Jin'an, Ouyang Ling, and Ouyang Ning spatial artifacts, then prepared supplies and left the jade pendants with Chen Jing.
  • Bai Yaoyao finished her preparations and went into her space to rest before departing early the next morning.

Ch. 442Love like fire

Bai Yaoyao recovered, advanced her psychic ability to Level Eight, and discovered she could control Stone long enough to make him dance. Meanwhile, Li Hai Feng agreed to poison Dark Night Base’s water supply in exchange for a promise that he could see his captured parents.

  • Bai Yaoyao slept while the Beasts in her space quietly watched over her, and Little Zombie silenced the cartoon and shared snacks with Little Zombie Two and Little Zombie Three.
  • After waking, Bai Yaoyao began cultivating with a Level Eight Crystal Core while Fat Brother and the others continued their cultivation.
  • A man in black threatened Li Hai Feng with his captured parents, and Li Hai Feng agreed to pour a foul-smelling substance into Dark Night Base’s main water supply.
  • Bai Yaoyao advanced her psychic ability to Level Eight, while A-Dai resumed cultivating with Level Seven Crystal Cores after realizing they could help him break through.
  • Bai Yaoyao used her new ability to control Stone and make him dance and sing as Fat Brother recorded him and Lulu laughed.

Ch. 443Li Hai Feng

Bai Yaoyao’s group discovered Li Hai Feng had tried to poison Dark Night Base’s water supply and confronted him at the water storage area. Li Hai Feng blamed threats against his parents, but after Sun Weihao rejected his plea and he attacked, the group subdued him.

  • After breakfast, Bai Yaoyao said they would investigate Li Hai Feng and kill him if he showed malicious intent.
  • Bai Yaoyao used Li Hai Feng’s jacket to have Doggie track him to the water storage area.
  • Xia Tian found traces of black in the water supply and stopped the collection line before anyone took contaminated water.
  • Li Hai Feng begged Bai Yaoyao for mercy, claiming his parents had been captured and he had been forced to betray them.
  • Sun Weihao refused to defend Li Hai Feng, who sprang up and punched him before Sun Weihao kicked him toward a wall.
  • Xia Tian used Mental Pressure to stop Li Hai Feng from speaking further.

Ch. 444Setting out for M City

Bai Yaoyao set out from Dark Night Base toward M City, searching for level-eight zombies and Dada Juan’s weapon. After defeating a level-eight zombie horde, she changed the travel plan so her companions could join the fighting more often.

  • Li Hai Feng revealed his hostility toward Dark Night and then burst into a cloud of blood mist after Xia Tian explained that he had tried to poison the base’s water supply with zombie blood.
  • Bai Yaoyao gave the Earth Bears Spring Water and departed with her group after Elder Chen warned that her first destination would yield nothing and that she would find the person she sought at a populated base.
  • Bai Yaoyao traveled toward City M, putting her companions into her space between fights while Big Gold and Big Sea carried her.
  • Big Gold spotted a horde led by a level-eight zombie, and Bai Yaoyao brought her companions out of her space to attack.
  • Bai Yaoyao and A-Dai killed the level-eight zombie and took its crystal core as the group wiped out the horde.
  • A-Dai asked to stay outside, and Bai Yaoyao changed the travel plan to create more opportunities for her companions to fight.

Ch. 445The Joy of Being a Warrior

Bai Yaoyao trained her strength ability with her enlarged Large Iron Hammer, then learned that zombies were gathering to besiege a city near their destination. She raced there with Big Gold and Big Sea, recovered before the battle, and brought out her team while keeping the Langlang legion concealed.

  • Bai Yaoyao used an enlarged, heavy Large Iron Hammer to fight zombies and bring her strength ability close to level eight.
  • Monkey asked why Bai Yaoyao used the hammer instead of her psychic or spatial abilities, and she said she had discovered the joy of being a warrior.
  • Bai Yaoyao checked the map, and the group realized the dwindling number of zombies might mean a city was under siege.
  • Bai Yaoyao decided to travel ahead on Big Gold with the team stored in her space, switching to Big Sea when Big Gold tired.
  • Bai Yaoyao scolded and thrashed Big Sea for its noisy cries, then rested and recovered her ability energy near the dense zombie gathering.
  • Bai Yaoyao brought out the humans and beasts for the coming fight but left the Langlang legion in her space.

Ch. 446M City Official Base

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought through the zombie horde attacking City M Base, killing three level 8 zombies before withdrawing to rest. The team discussed City M’s weak Ability Users while the base authorities grew resentful of their behavior.

  • Monkey taunted the Zombie King, and Bai Yaoyao knocked down his palanquin to provoke him into a fight.
  • Bai Yaoyao fought the level 8 Zombie King to study his strength ability, then killed him with Mental Pressure and Spatial Detonation.
  • A-Dai located two more level 8 zombies, and Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night deeper into the horde to kill them.
  • Dark Night withdrew to eat and rest, while City M Base authorities complained that the team had stopped fighting and collected the crystal cores.
  • Dark Night members remarked that City M Base had few strong Ability Users but plenty of weapons and landmines.

Ch. 447Wanting a Share of Dark Night's Spoils

Bai Yaoyao's group reached City M Base and found its people hostile despite having helped defeat the zombie horde. When Bai Yaoyao cornered the cowardly Zombie King and bargained for his crystal cores, City M's ability users tried to interfere, and the chapter ended with A-Dai and Xiaomi pursuing the fleeing king.

  • Bai Yaoyao sensed hostility from City M Base's walls and told her companions they would keep their visit brief if the authorities proved unfriendly.
  • Bai Yaoyao sensed the Zombie King and used Teleportations to catch up with him, while A-Dai and Xiaomi followed.
  • The Zombie King offered crystal cores in exchange for being allowed to leave, and Bai Yaoyao negotiated until he agreed to hand over eight.
  • City M Base's ability users arrived and accused Bai Yaoyao of betraying humanity, then scattered when the Zombie King pretended to charge.
  • The Zombie King dropped eight crystal cores and fled, so A-Dai and Xiaomi ran after him despite Bai Yaoyao's promise not to attack.

Ch. 448Time to start killing

Xiaomi and A-Dai killed a level eight Zombie King after Xiaomi tricked him into lowering his guard, then the group ate lunch while a messenger from City M Base failed to summon them. Chen Jian'an decided to visit in person and demand crystal cores, and Stone recognized him as an old acquaintance.

  • Xiaomi demanded crystal cores from the Zombie King, and A-Dai killed him and took his core for Bai Yaoyao.
  • Bai Yaoyao counted the group’s haul of high-level crystal cores, then served lunch made by Great Sage.
  • A messenger from City M Base found Dark Night eating and returned to report that they had ignored him.
  • Chen Jian'an considered how to profit from the powerful newcomers and decided to demand crystal cores in person.
  • Xiao Shiliu spotted Chen Jian'an approaching, and Stone recognized him as an old acquaintance.

Ch. 449Reunion with an Old Acquaintance

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night confronted Chen Jian'an, whom Stone recognized as the official who had once put him on a wanted list after he killed those responsible for embezzling orphanage donations. Chen Jian'an and his men were captured, and a stronger force of reinforcements arrived as Bai Yaoyao waited to face them.

  • Stone reminded Bai Yaoyao that Chen Jian'an had protected the embezzlers and submitted the request for his wanted notice.
  • Chen Jian'an failed to recognize Stone and invited Dark Night to join City M Base, intending to divide and control the group.
  • Bai Yaoyao demanded that Chen Jian'an summon his followers, but a mutant plant tripped him and bound him upside down.
  • The Black-Clad Team's mutant plants captured Chen Jian'an and all twenty people who had accompanied him.
  • Chen Jian'an's reinforcements arrived from the base: eighty to a hundred energetic Ability Users who were stronger than those who had joined the earlier siege.

Ch. 450The problem solved itself

Bai Yaoyao defeated Chen Jian'an’s forces and helped City M Base’s management remove his corrupt rule. After Stone killed Chen Jian'an and Little Crook killed his trusted followers, Bai Yaoyao asked the base leaders about Li Ziheng.

  • Bai Yaoyao used Mental Pressure and Mental Piercing to incapacitate Chen Jian'an’s ninety-nine guards, but Peiqi explained that they were coerced through threats against their loved ones.
  • City M Base’s elderly management offered to abandon Chen Jian'an, and Bai Yaoyao agreed to kill him rather than demand compensation.
  • Chen Jian'an revealed he had a serum said to revive the dead, and Monkey retrieved it from his pocket.
  • Stone killed Chen Jian'an, then Little Crook killed the followers identified by the base’s management.
  • Bai Yaoyao asked the management who Li Ziheng was.
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