Recaps

Bai Yaoyao learned that Li Ziheng had gone on a Mutant Beast-clearing mission and asked City M Base’s leaders to find the weaponsmith Wei Tianming. After entering the base, her group strolled through its markets, where grateful residents insisted on giving them food and goods for saving the base.

• An injured Ability User told Bai Yaoyao that Li Ziheng’s team had left on a Mutant Beast-clearing mission and had not returned when expected.
• Bai Yaoyao asked City M Base’s leaders to locate Wei Tianming, a weaponsmith, and they promised to search the resident register.
• Bai Yaoyao put the Plants and Beasts into her space and entered City M Base with her group, declining the leaders’ hospitality.
• Monkey admired the Iced Bayberry Wine at a roadside stall, and Bai Yaoyao asked whether the vendor would accept Crystal Cores as payment.
• After recognizing Bai Yaoyao’s group as the people who had killed the Zombie King and Chen Jian'an, the vendor refused payment and offered them wine.
• Nearby shopkeepers brought over shaobing and other goods, and the group struggled to refuse their gifts.

Bai Yaoyao and the Black-Clad Team met Wei Tianming, who had forged Dada Juan’s Cloud-Rising Spear, and discovered that Chen Jian'an’s brother-in-law had stolen it while extorting protection money. After Bai Yaoyao dealt with the thieves, the group left Wei Tianming with payment, supplies, and an offer of work.

• After the Black-Clad Team accepted gifts on Commercial Street, the shopkeepers found fruit and a level four crystal core left in return.
• The base leaders brought Wei Tianming to meet the people seeking a weapon, and Dada Juan reunited with him and learned that his Cloud-Rising Spear was ready.
• Wei Tianming's Wife told the group that Chen Jian'an's Brother-in-Law had taken the spear and other weapons after demanding more protection money.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered Little Crook to lift and kill the protection-money collectors, and Dada Juan reclaimed the Cloud-Rising Spear.
• Wei Tianming gave Dada Juan the spear and sold Bai Yaoyao six Tang Dao and a pair of Twin Blades for three thousand points.
• Bai Yaoyao left Wei Tianming twenty thousand points and practical supplies, while the group promised to arrange him a suitable job.

Bai Yaoyao traded supplies for weapons at City M Base, then set out with her team to kill the traitor Li Ziheng. She found him injured and discovered that the Zombie Emperor’s blood had made him nearly impossible to kill.

• Bai Yaoyao traded her stockpiled supplies for firearms at City M Base and learned where Li Ziheng had gone.
• Bai Yaoyao split her team into four groups to search for Li Ziheng, with Big Sea and Big Gold providing aerial support.
• After the search turned up nothing, Bai Yaoyao sensed a faint sign of life and teleported to an injured man.
• Li Ziheng introduced himself, and Bai Yaoyao attacked him with her Spatial Blade, but his neck barely bled.
• Bai Yaoyao tried further attacks and acid rain, and Li Ziheng revealed that he had consumed the Zombie Emperor’s blood.

Bai Yaoyao killed Li Ziheng and let her mutant plants feed on his blood, earning a level 9 Crystal Core and helping the Plant Army recover and grow stronger. A mysterious figure who had been near Li Ziheng chased her, but she escaped into her space and was left shaken by the danger.

• Bai Yaoyao used Little Crook and Mental Piercing to kill Li Ziheng, then took the level 9 Crystal Core that emerged from his body.
• Little Crook and dozens of Bai Yaoyao’s mutant plants drank Li Ziheng’s blood, and the Plant Army perked up while Qingling also tried some.
• Bai Yaoyao brought Keke and Chenxuan into her space to watch over the plants, stored Li Ziheng’s corpse, and hurried toward the meeting spot.
• A mysterious figure appeared where Li Ziheng had died, replayed the scene, and raced after Bai Yaoyao, reaching her location within seconds.
• Bai Yaoyao sensed lethal danger and pulled everyone into her space just before the figure arrived; unable to find her, the figure destroyed everything nearby in a rage.
• Bai Yaoyao told everyone she had never felt such danger, urged them to keep growing stronger, and lay down to sleep.

After the world outside appeared safe, Bai Yaoyao returned to Dark Night Base and found Bai Qingqing learning to make Spatial Artifacts from Taoist Feng Qing. She revealed how powerful she and her companions had become and pressed Taoist Feng Qing for information about her master’s dangerous plans.

• Bai Yaoyao raised her Spatial Ability to level nine while Dark Night’s members trained until their abilities reached level eight, then she cautiously checked the lifeless-looking outside world.
• Bai Yaoyao traveled back toward Dark Night Base alone, teleporting along multiple routes to avoid leading a powerful enemy to the base, and returned safely the next afternoon.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Sun Weixing whether Elder Chen’s predicted group had arrived, learned they had not, and delivered firearms for the warehouse.
• Bai Yaoyao found Bai Qingqing receiving individual Spatial Artifact instruction from Taoist Feng Qing, then summoned him downstairs with a jar of Great Sage’s new wine.
• Bai Yaoyao told Taoist Feng Qing that she and her companions had reached level eight and nine, brought them out of her space, and argued that they could help with her master’s plan.
• Bai Yaoyao suspected her master had undertaken a nearly impossible mission and questioned why the Authorities seemed to have so few powerful fighters.

Taoist Feng Qing revealed that Bai Yaoyao’s master had led a team to destroy the Ji Family’s human experimentation laboratory in S City, but they had not returned. Bai Yaoyao and her companions decided to rescue them and prepared to leave the next day.

• Taoist Feng Qing told Bai Yaoyao that their eldest fellow disciple, Ji Wujing, was the heir to R Country’s Ji Family and had returned there after learning his origins.
• Taoist Feng Qing explained that Bai Yaoyao’s master had joined the Authorities’ mission against the Ji Family’s laboratory, whose main base was in S City.
• Taoist Feng Qing said the master’s team had not returned, though his divination suggested most of them were still alive.
• Bai Yaoyao and her companions silently agreed to rescue their master, and Bai Yaoyao announced they would leave the next day.
• Peiqi clarified that Bai Yaoyao’s group already had a boat, a submarine, and knowledge of the sea monsters after clearing out a Military Supply Depot.

Bai Yaoyao prepared the Dark Night Base for her upcoming departure and visited the Bai Family laboratory, where she gave Old Master Bai several new serums to investigate. After spending the evening with people at the base, she received a drawing from a little girl.

• Bai Yaoyao and Sun Weixing checked the Dark Night Base’s supplies and replenished anything they lacked.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Old Master Bai materials from City M Base, the Resurrection Serum, and serums from the Ji Family Underground Laboratory Base for research.
• Bai Yaoyao told Old Master Bai to contact Sun Weixing while she was away, and Old Master Bai promised to work on the zombie serum.
• Bai Yaoyao passed Bai Zongyu and Lin Wan'er without stopping, then visited the Dark Night Store, Murong Xixi, and the Ouyang Siblings.
• A little girl gave Bai Yaoyao a drawing of the twelve members of Dark Night and the Beasts.

Bai Yaoyao planned the Dark Night Squad’s route to rescue her master, prioritizing speed and a possible visit to Hope Base. As the squad left Dark Night Base, the residents wished them well, and Taoist Feng Qing’s solemn farewell was disrupted by A-Dai and Zhi Rui.

• Bai Yaoyao studied the map with everyone and chose a fast route that passed P City Base and Hope Base, where she hoped to investigate the leader and their mutant beasts.
• Bai Yaoyao planned to travel with one companion driving while the rest recuperated in the spatial realm, using Big Gold if the roads became impassable.
• Bai Yaoyao overslept, then set out with the Dark Night Squad after residents gathered to wish them safe travels and invite them to share meals when they returned.
• Taoist Feng Qing, Zhi Yi, and the other Taoists waited at the gates to thank Dark Night for going to rescue their master and fellow disciples.
• A-Dai praised Zhi Rui in his Taoist robes, and their banter derailed Taoist Feng Qing’s prepared farewell speech.
• Bai Yaoyao gave the Taoists a crate of black combat uniforms, delighting Zhi Rui and prompting Taoist Feng Qing to scold him.

Bai Yaoyao and her companions traveled through worsening blizzards toward the Ningqing Grand Canal while she worried over the Zombie Emperors, the missing level-nine zombies, and the mutant beasts’ hostility. The chapter ended as they reached the canal, the place she had feared most on the journey.

• Bai Yaoyao filled Taoist Feng Qing’s Wine Gourd, and he offered to teach Great Sage, who Zhi Rui eagerly welcomed as his future Junior Brother.
• Bai Yaoyao left the base and continued traveling, switching between Big Gold, Big Sea, and a vehicle as they tired.
• After fierce winds and blizzards began, Bai Yaoyao brought everyone out of her space, and they struggled against the bitter cold as they resumed their journey.
• Bai Yaoyao suspected the lack of zombies was connected to the Zombie Emperor Li Ziheng had mentioned, and she worried that her companions could not level up without finding level-nine zombies.
• Bai Yaoyao found that mutant beasts were unusually wary and avoided approaching them, then traveled without incident for half a month until the group reached the Ningqing Grand Canal.

Bai Yaoyao and Xuan Qi attempted to cross the frozen Ningqing Grand Canal while the others waited in her space, but a swarm of Mutant Beasts attacked them. Bai Yaoyao and Monkey trapped and captured many of the beasts, while the level-nine Mutant Octopus knocked Xuan Qi tumbling across the river.

• Bai Yaoyao decided Xuan Qi could carry her across the Ningqing Grand Canal while she kept everyone else in her space.
• As they crossed, Bai Yaoyao sensed that Mutant Beasts had surrounded them and brought Monkey out to fight in the water.
• A giant Mutant Octopus attacked, and Monkey's Ice Blade failed to break through its defenses.
• Monkey froze the river and the Mutant Beasts with Ten Thousand Miles of Frozen Land, allowing Bai Yaoyao to capture many of them in her space.
• The level-nine Mutant Octopus struck Xuan Qi with its tentacles, flipping him over and sending him tumbling across the river.

Bai Yaoyao fought and killed the mutant octopus blocking their way, then returned to her space to recover and enjoy a meal made from its tentacles. The group rested after the battle, while the octopus’s pale-green treasure remained somewhere beneath the river.

• Bai Yaoyao attacked the mutant octopus with Spatial Blades and tore off several of its tentacles as Monkey and Xuan Qi helped contain it.
• The mutant octopus tried to lure Bai Yaoyao into the river by offering a pale-green pearl that could hide her body and turn her transparent, but she saw through its act.
• Bai Yaoyao used Spatial Conversion to stop the octopus’s escape, then killed it and took its beast core.
• Bai Yaoyao returned to her space with Xuan Qi and Monkey, bathed, and drank heated Spring Water to recover from the cold and exhaustion.
• Great Sage served grilled octopus skewers, and Bai Yaoyao relaxed with her companions over food and ginger tea.

Bai Yaoyao and her companions took the Submarine to search the riverbed for a treasure that could make them invisible, while Great Sage and Monkey figured out how to operate it. On the way, they met a hungry Veiltail Betta whom Bai Yaoyao tried to recruit, and he responded excitedly.

• Bai Yaoyao agreed to search the riverbed for the invisibility treasure, and Keke volunteered to dive while Monkey took charge of the Submarine.
• Monkey and Great Sage worked out how to operate the Submarine, and Bai Yaoyao woke Xuan Qi before the group set out.
• Great Sage stabilized the Submarine after Monkey nearly lost control, and the group descended until they had to rely on the monitor to see.
• Peiqi sensed that a pink Veiltail Betta wanted food, so Bai Yaoyao fed him mutant beast meat.
• The Veiltail Betta devoured a Mutant Black-Shell Shrimp, and Bai Yaoyao invited him to join them; he spun excitedly in response.

Bai Yaoyao found the Invisibility Pearl with Little Pink, brought the mutant fish into her space, and strengthened both with spirit spring water. After traveling for nearly a month, the group encountered a wounded, pregnant Mutant Antelope that revealed where humans were and begged them to spare it.

• Little Pink found the Invisibility Pearl among gold on the riverbed and briefly turned transparent while carrying it back to the submarine.
• Bai Yaoyao brought Little Pink into her space, where spirit spring water raised its level from 4 to 6, and placed the pearl in a spring-water pool to restore its energy.
• Bai Yaoyao had Little Monkey watch over the pearl, then led the group ashore in the submarine and continued traveling through the snow-covered wilderness.
• After nearly a month, Bai Yaoyao and her companions encountered a badly injured Level 7 Mutant Antelope, which pointed northwest toward humans and pleaded for its unborn baby’s life.
• Bai Yaoyao promised not to kill the Mutant Antelope and offered to remove the bullet and treat its injuries in exchange for the directions.

Peiqi treated a wounded, pregnant mutant antelope, but the group was attacked by the Hurricane Special Ability Team, whose leader wanted to claim and butcher the beast. Bai Yaoyao ordered a fight, and after Dada Juan overwhelmed the leader, City M Base’s leadership decided to set a trap and kill the Hurricane team when it returned.

• The mutant antelope trusted Peiqi, who used her ability to treat its wounds while Bai Yaoyao reflected on why humans and mutant beasts had become enemies.
• The Hurricane Special Ability Team arrived and attacked Peiqi and the antelope, claiming the mutant beast as theirs.
• Monkey drenched most of the attackers with a Water Mist Bomb, and Peiqi confronted them over their earlier attempt to kill her.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered Dada Juan to fight the Hurricane leader, while the rest of the team defeated his companions.
• Dada Juan overpowered the leader, who surrendered, and the leadership of City M Base ordered a trap to kill the Hurricane team when it returned.

Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night away from M City Base, helped a pregnant Mutant Antelope, and continued toward Hope Base. Near the base, they met a friendly patrolman who invited them to meet its Base Chief.

• Bai Yaoyao decided to flee M City Base, while its leaders waited for the Hurricane Special Ability Team and later focused on developing the base.
• Bai Yaoyao invited the Mutant Antelope to join Dark Night; when it refused, she gave it a vat of undiluted Spring Water before leaving.
• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night hurried toward Hope Base, agreeing together to make the visit on their way to rescue her Master.
• Monkey told a dark-faced patrolman that Dark Night came from a private base, and the man warmly invited them to Hope Base.
• Bai Yaoyao enthusiastically agreed with the patrolman’s call for human unity, and he offered to introduce her to his Base Chief.

Bai Yaoyao and her team traveled with Cheng Jinyang to Hope Base, where they discovered its residents were welcoming and its chief offered generous rewards for bringing in powerful recruits. The chapter ended with Lu Chunfeng enthusiastically greeting them, while Bai Yaoyao and the others remained silent.

• Cheng Jinyang shared Hope Fruit with Bai Yaoyao's group, and Bai Yaoyao cautiously collected the fruits while offering them Great Sage's level nine mutant-beast meat.
• Bai Yaoyao buried the Hope Fruits in her space, where Doggie later marked the disturbed ground as his territory.
• Cheng Jinyang escorted Bai Yaoyao and her team to Hope Base, whose friendly residents and mutant-dog guards made a good impression on them.
• Bai Yaoyao registered her level nine space ability and two level eight abilities, shocking Cheng Jinyang, who promised to split the recruitment reward with them.
• Lu Chunfeng arrived to welcome the group with a joke, but Bai Yaoyao and the others gave him no response.

Bai Yaoyao met Hope Base Chief Lu Chunfeng and learned about his ability, Hope Fruit, and efforts to unite humanity against the growing zombie threat. She listened to his proposal for cooperation, leaving the conversation open as Lu Chunfeng asked whether Dark Night Base was her territory.

• Bai Yaoyao introduced the Dark Night Squad to Lu Chunfeng, who welcomed them and explained that he could understand animals and plants and was naturally liked by them.
• Lu Chunfeng served Hope Fruit Juice, then brought out Hope Fruit after the squad found the drink had no noticeable effect; the fruit slightly increased their ability reserves after they ate several each.
• Bai Yaoyao considered exchanging for one of Hope Base’s ten mutated Hope Trees, hoping it might grow more powerful in her spatial realm.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Lu Chunfeng to explain his belief that humanity had to unite to end the apocalypse, and he described worsening zombie sieges and failed attempts to ally with nearby bases.
• Lu Chunfeng said he had settled for alliances with mutant beasts and asked Bai Yaoyao whether Dark Night Base was her territory.

Bai Yaoyao and Lu Chunfeng agreed to unite bases against an anticipated zombie assault and discussed using force to bring reluctant leaders into the alliance. After Lu Chunfeng sampled Bai Yaoyao’s Spring Water, she and Lulu shopped through the Hope Base market, where Lu Chunfeng mistook their bulk purchases for charity.

• Bai Yaoyao warned Lu Chunfeng that zombies were gathering and might launch a major attack, and he promised to reinforce other bases if Hope Base remained safe.
• Bai Yaoyao proposed killing uncooperative leaders and replacing them, and Lu Chunfeng agreed to deal with four private bases and speak with the M City Official Base.
• Bai Yaoyao offered Lu Chunfeng twenty bottles of Spring Water in exchange for two Hope Fruit trees, and he drank a cup before rushing to the restroom as impurities left his body.
• Bai Yaoyao gave the Dark Night members crystal cores to shop at the Hope Base market, then bought entire stalls of dolls and flatbread with Lulu.
• Lu Chunfeng saw Bai Yaoyao and Lulu’s purchases and assumed they were helping struggling households, while Bai Yaoyao was puzzled by his reaction.

Bai Yaoyao used her plants and spring water to make Hope Base’s Hope Trees produce fruit, then took two of them into her space. She also discussed the mutant beast camp and offered Lu Chunfeng a large trade in staple foods.

• Lu Chunfeng brought Bai Yaoyao to the orchard, where she confronted the pampered Hope Trees and made them compete to produce fruit.
• Bai Yaoyao used diluted spring water to level up one Hope Tree, prompting all ten trees to race to bear fruit.
• Bai Yaoyao chose the two trees that had started producing first and put them in her space, while Lu Chunfeng mourned their departure.
• Bai Yaoyao toured Hope Base’s mutant beast camp and warned Lu Chunfeng that keeping the beasts penned up could weaken their combat instincts.
• Bai Yaoyao offered rice and flour in exchange for crystal cores, and Lu Chunfeng ordered five hundred Level-Seven Crystal Cores’ worth.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night stayed at Hope Base to fight an approaching zombie army, bringing their beasts and plants out for battle. The Little Corpse King recognized them, panicked, and ordered its army to retreat before the fight began.

• Bai Yaoyao realized the zombies were attacking Hope Base and decided the Dark Night Squad would stay to help in exchange for the Crystal Cores from zombies they killed.
• Bai Yaoyao released the Beasts Legion, the Plant Army, and two hope trees, while Lu Chunfeng watched in astonishment and the trees protested his doubts about their fighting ability.
• The Little Corpse King recognized the humans from Dark Night Base, whom it had escaped before, and remembered choosing this base to avoid them.
• The Little Corpse King turned and fled as soon as it saw Bai Yaoyao and her companions, ordering its army to retreat and leaving them dumbfounded.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night pursued a fleeing zombie horde, and Bai Yaoyao defeated the level nine Zombie King in a brutal fight. Lu Chunfeng arrived with Hope Base's forces, who watched Dark Night battle while Bai Yaoyao let them join in after securing the level nine crystal core.

• Bai Yaoyao stopped her group when a powerful attack destroyed the level eight Zombie King leading the retreat, then retrieved its crystal core.
• A level nine Zombie King in a yellow floral dress emerged, dismissed Bai Yaoyao over her looks, and tried to recruit Stone, Monkey, and A-Dai.
• Bai Yaoyao attacked the level nine Zombie King, traded blows with her strength ability, then immobilized her with Mental Pressure and smashed her head with a Large Iron Hammer.
• Bai Yaoyao retrieved the level nine crystal core and told Dark Night to join the fight, while the group and mutant plants moved through the zombie horde.
• Lu Chunfeng arrived with Hope Base's forces, told them to study Dark Night's combat techniques, and noticed that the horde had unusually few advanced zombies.

After Dark Night helped Hope Base defeat the zombie horde, Bai Yaoyao led her team onward and strengthened her psychic ability with their crystal cores. They reached the coast and began planning how to cross the sea to S City, where the Ji Family was based.

• Bai Yaoyao stopped Dark Night from killing the remaining zombies and let Lu Chunfeng's people finish the battle.
• Bai Yaoyao suggested Lu Chunfeng might have a mind-related ability, then admitted she had only guessed that Hope Base possessed other trump cards.
• Dark Night agreed to prioritize Bai Yaoyao's psychic ability, and she broke through after three days of cultivation using one level nine and twenty-six level eight crystal cores.
• As the cold worsened, Great Sage made fur hats and scarves, and the team used them to keep warm on the journey.
• Near the coast, Dark Night fought a level nine earth-ability zombie, then let A-Dai kill it so its crystal core could be used for leveling up.
• Bai Yaoyao calculated that S City was about 330 nautical miles away and decided to search for a ship before considering the submarine.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought off a Mutant Squid before meeting a giant Mutant Whale that begged them to remove the barnacles covering its body. The group climbed aboard to help, and Chenxuan revealed that the barnacles were valuable medicine and food.

• Bai Yaoyao killed a level-eight Mutant Squid after it attacked the group, then stored its body for Great Sage to inspect.
• Bai Yaoyao brought the ship and its passengers back out of her space, and a deep-blue Mutant Whale began following them.
• Monkey spoke with the whale, which asked for help because Mutant Barnacles were irritating it and blocking its blowhole.
• Bai Yaoyao agreed to help and brought the group onto the whale's back so they could clean off the barnacles.
• Bai Yaoyao removed a barnacle from the whale's blowhole, and Chenxuan explained that barnacles had medicinal uses and were edible.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night cleared barnacles from a mutant whale, then welcomed a host of other marine creatures into her space so the Plant Army could help them too. After overusing her ability and sleeping to recover, Bai Yaoyao woke to find the plants, animals, and Dark Night members happily mingling.

• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night removed all the barnacles from the mutant whale, while Xiao Shiliu filmed the work and Bai Yaoyao enlisted the Plant Army to speed it up.
• The whale returned with dozens of barnacle-covered sea creatures, and Bai Yaoyao offered to take them to a barnacle-free sea inside her space.
• Bai Yaoyao made room for the creatures and seawater in her space, then brought the ship and everyone aboard inside after nearly exhausting her ability.
• Chenxuan restored some of Bai Yaoyao's ability, and she fell asleep while the plants and sea creatures got acquainted and began playing together.
• Bai Yaoyao woke to find Doggie riding a giant lobster with Little Flower, plants dancing on the whale, and Big King and Little Wolf Cub playing with dolphins.

Bai Yaoyao brought Big Whale to the polluted eastern coastline near the Ji Family’s island and attacked its guards with Big Meow and A-Dai. After they killed all fifty Ability Users, Big Meow revealed that it could speak.

• Bai Yaoyao learned from Big Whale that humans on an eastern island were dumping acidic waste into the sea and agreed to let it take her there.
• Big Whale carried Bai Yaoyao toward the island, and Monkey used seawater from Bai Yaoyao’s space to ease Big Whale’s discomfort.
• Bai Yaoyao detected about fifty Level Six and Level Seven Ability Users guarding the coastline and planned a coordinated attack with Big Meow and A-Dai.
• Bai Yaoyao, Big Meow, and A-Dai killed all fifty guards in a rapid assault.
• Big Meow jumped onto Bai Yaoyao’s shoulder and spoke, surprising her.