Arc 22Chapters 526–550
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After Bai Yaoyao reported the destruction of the zombies at City O Base, she urged the major bases to search for other zombie forces. She and her companions then suspected the Time Zombie Emperor was unable to leave the Yunbei Mountain Range freely and began planning to investigate and wear down its power.
Bai Yaoyao let her Beasts and Mutant Plants spend the day resting while she organized training and supplies. When the Beasts returned with a crowd of powerful Mutant Beasts, Great Sage explained that they had recruited them as employees who would work in exchange for meals.
Bai Yaoyao fed nearly three thousand starving mutant beasts and negotiated an alliance with them, offering food and shelter in return for following orders and fighting when needed. She moved them into her space, where Great Sage organized their living areas and arranged care for the pregnant Little Iron.
After returning everyone to Dark Night Base, Bai Yaoyao slept through a disturbing dream and woke to news of a zombie horde near Future Base. She chose to head directly to Cloud North Mountain, where the Zombie Emperor was believed to be, without waiting for Long Zhan.
Bai Yaoyao traveled to the Yunbei Mountain Range with Dark Night Base’s fighters and located a huge horde of zombies. She chose a defensible canyon for the coming battle and began organizing the troops and mutant beasts for another Grand Military Drill.
Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought a powerful zombie vanguard, defeating several Zombie Emperors as the main horde arrived. After Bai Yaoyao urged Monkey to develop new techniques, he discovered he could control the blood inside zombies.
Bai Yaoyao’s group slaughtered zombies near the Yunbei Mountain Range while Dark Night Base’s strength left Wei Wenyi wondering whether they could challenge the peak. When Chen Yixuan and Xie Shannan called for help against a zombie horde of over four hundred thousand, the gathered reinforcements agreed to join them, angering Li Boyang as they prepared to leave Future Base.
Li Boyang’s refusal to support the gathered forces drove Xie Shannan and the other leaders to leave Future Base and reinforce Bai Yaoyao. After the battle, Bai Yaoyao revealed that the Time Zombie Emperor was trapped in the Yunbei Mountain Range and that hundreds of thousands of zombies awaited them.
Bai Yaoyao took command of the allied forces and set a battlefield to test their strength against the zombie horde. After she lured in forty thousand zombies, Dark Night's fighters led the charge, leaving the other bases to join the battle.
Bai Yaoyao discovered that the horde contained nearly a million zombies, far more than expected, and found no Emperor-Class Zombies among them. After the first battle ended, she met with the other leaders to plan how to destroy the remaining horde using high-tech weapons.
Bai Yaoyao and the allied bases spent a month killing zombies while Dark Night Base sold food to the exhausted Ability Users. Their work was interrupted when Li Boyang sent an emergency distress signal claiming an Emperor-Class Zombie was approaching Future Base, though the others doubted him after his earlier false alarm.
Bai Yaoyao intercepted ten Emperor-Class Zombies, captured their psychic member, and forced him to summon reinforcements. She then reached Future Base, where Li Boyang’s refusal to open the gate prompted her to throw him from the wall.
Bai Yaoyao forced Future Base to face a massive zombie horde, assigning Emperor-Class Zombies to the visiting teams while tormenting Li Boyang. After a grueling battle, the Psychic Zombies Emperor revealed that another Zombie Emperor was asleep, then killed itself against a Spatial Barrier.
After returning to Dark Night Base, Bai Yaoyao and the others planned how to confront the sleeping Time Zombie Emperor. Bai Jin'an proposed that it might not be entirely a zombie, and Murong Xixi agreed to test whether she could copy its time ability despite the risks.
Bai Yaoyao prepared the Dark Night Base for the Time Zombie Emperor and traveled toward Cloud North Mountain with the Dark Night Squad and Murong Xixi. When her companions confronted her about acting distant, she admitted Taoist Feng Qing had seemed to foresee something, and Lulu accused her of planning to face the Zombie Emperor alone.
Bai Yaoyao’s teammates refused to let her face the final battle alone, and the group climbed Yunbei Mountain together to confront the Time Zombie Emperor. Their first attacks seemed to have no effect, leaving the standoff unresolved.
Bai Yaoyao had Murong Xixi copy the Time Zombie Emperor’s ability so they could learn how to counter it. After using the copied power, Murong Xixi collapsed, leaving everyone alarmed until they realized she had fallen asleep.
Murong Xixi’s copied time ability left her trapped in a deep sleep, but she woke and revealed that she had heard everything around her. She fainted again while testing the team’s countermeasures, and Bai Yaoyao went to investigate the Zombie Emperor, finding him motionless by the cliff.
Bai Yaoyao confronted the Time Zombie Emperor and discovered he was conscious and remembered her. Shi Nian explained his connection to her, revealed how he could be defeated, and asked her to kill him if he lost control.
Bai Yaoyao learned that Shi Nian could hold on for about a month and prepared to weaken the Time Zombie Emperor before he went berserk. She organized the group on Cloud North Mountain, helped a clan of mutant wild boars, and brought Taoist Feng Qing back to divine about their plans.
Bai Yaoyao and her companions prepared traps and explosives for the Time Zombie Emperor, then rushed to establish a convincing false Dark Night Base. Bai Yaoyao returned to headquarters and found it crowded with allies and surrounded by mutant beasts.
Bai Yaoyao welcomed reinforcements from other bases as nearly two hundred thousand ability users gathered at Dark Night Base for the coming battle. Nearly ten thousand mutant beasts also arrived to help fight the Zombie King, while Bai Yaoyao recognized an antelope she had once saved.
Bai Qingqing reunited with Xie Shannan at Dark Night Base, but she kept her distance while focusing on teaching the children and preparing for the base’s future. She considered whether her new sound ability could help against the powerful Time-Type Zombie Emperor and decided to think about Shannan only if she survived.
The Time Zombie Emperor awakened and gathered nearly a million zombies to advance on Dark Night Base, where Bai Yaoyao and the defenders prepared for battle. Before the fight, Bai Yaoyao revealed to the leader and Chen Yixuan that she had destroyed Yasukuni Shrine and stolen treasures from museums around the world.
Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night shared a lively supper before the decisive battle against the zombies, joking and celebrating their bonds. After the others went to rest, Long Zhan and Taoist Feng Qing quietly faced the possibility that the older fighters might not survive tomorrow.