Arc 18Chapters 426–450
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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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.