Arc 23Chapters 551–575
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Bai Yaoyao and the allied forces prepared for the final battle against the Time Zombie Emperor’s enormous zombie army, using traps, Pangu Chariots, firearms, and coordinated attacks to thin the horde. The battle began with humanity’s strongest fighters holding the advancing zombies outside the first defensive line.
After Dark Night's forces killed nearly half a million zombies, Taoist Feng Qing prepared to sacrifice his life to hold back the rest with his ultimate illusion. As Bai Yaoyao and his disciples tried to stop him, Feng Qing stood firm and activated the illusion, leaving his fate tied to its end.
Taoist Feng Qing sacrificed himself to hold the Time Zombie Emperor inside his illusion and give the survivors time to recover. After mourning him, Bai Yaoyao urged Long Zhan to trust them as they prepared to continue the fight.
After Taoist Feng Qing’s sacrifice, Dark Night defeated ten Zombie Emperors in a morale-raising battle, and Xiao Shiliu’s Wind ability mutated as he won his fight. Bai Yaoyao led the survivors into the horde, but when the Time Zombie Emperor immobilized Big Whale, she realized the enemy had finally entered the battle.
Bai Yaoyao and humanity’s forces fought the zombie horde through an exhausting second battle, with humans and mutant beasts holding the line together. When the zombies abruptly retreated, the fighters pursued them and brought the numbers to roughly equal, then collapsed from exhaustion.
Bai Yaoyao prepared the Dark Night Base for a possible worsening of the zombie war after learning that the zombies had begun eating their own kind. The chapter ended with Bai Qingqing revealing that her sound ability had reached level 10.
Bai Qingqing reached Level 10 and revealed that her singing could hypnotize zombies and boost other Ability Users, so Bai Yaoyao let her join the defense. After Dark Night Base cared for and fed the exhausted fighters, Bai Yaoyao sensed the zombies approaching again.
Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night Base into battle against an approaching horde made up entirely of level nine zombies, while Bai Qingqing and a sound ability user bolstered the fighters with music. As dozens of emperor-class zombies joined the attack, Bai Yaoyao held off five of them and killed one, while Peiqi worried that something was wrong with Long Zhan.
Bai Yaoyao and the survivors fought off a wave of Emperor-Class Zombies, but the Time Zombie Emperor arrived and overwhelmed her with his control of time. As Bai Yaoyao struggled to hold him off, Xia Tian decided she could no longer stand by and turned to Sun Weihao.
Bai Yaoyao fought the Time Zombie Emperor while Xia Tian died protecting her, and Bai Qingqing restored her sister’s energy by sacrificing her life. Bai Yaoyao realized she had to kill the Emperor before more people died.
Murong Xixi helped Bai Yaoyao resist the Time Zombie Emperor, but she collapsed after reaching her limit, and Xuan Qi's shield only briefly protected Bai Yaoyao. As Bai Yaoyao remained trapped in a stalemate with the Emperor, the battle dragged on through the night and the defenders suffered devastating losses.
Bai Yaoyao and Long Zhan sacrificed their lives to kill the Time Zombie Emperor, and Dark Night’s people and beasts gave their lives to destroy the remaining zombies. The apocalypse ended, but Dark Night vanished from the world; the author’s note promised a happy ending in the next update.
Shi Nian regained his senses after Bai Yaoyao defeated the Time Zombie Emperor and used his time ability to erase the zombies and revive the fallen Ability Users. Dark Night survived, but Shi Nian collapsed and Bai Yaoyao remained unconscious in her childlike form.
Bai Yaoyao awoke in her childhood body inside a strange mental space and met Qian Duoduo, the system that had given her the powerful storage space. She learned that Qian Duoduo’s debt was keeping her unconscious, and that the system had already absorbed all her Crystal Cores.
After learning that Shi Nian had revived everyone who fought in the final battle, Bai Yaoyao agreed to repay her enormous energy debt in a parallel apocalypse. She discovered that Qian Duoduo had assigned her a hotel shop mission instead of letting her hunt zombies, and the chapter ended with Qian Duoduo admitting its previous two hosts had died.
Bai Yaoyao explored the ruined city and prepared the Dark Night shop, hoping to attract customers and earn money. When six people from the Authorities arrived while chasing a level-five zombie, she killed the zombies with ease, leaving them stunned.
Bai Yaoyao welcomed Zhang Zhihao’s six-person team to her shop, where they bought food and exchanged Crystal Cores for Points Cards. After learning they knew of a Safe Zone but not a base, she asked them to spread the word and arranged lodging for them, leaving the shop with its first customers settled in for the night.
Bai Yaoyao built the Dark Night Store into a famous safe haven, forcing customers to pay and using her extraordinary strength to keep order. After nearly half a month of running the store, she heard a familiar voice greet her: “Long time no see.”
Shi Nian found Bai Yaoyao and explained that his system had sent him to end the apocalypse in ten parallel worlds. Bai Yaoyao hired him as her shop assistant, then left to hunt zombies while Shi Nian took over the shop.
Bai Yaoyao traveled to the North City Safe Zone, introduced the Dark Night Store, and persuaded its leader, Hao Ren, to move the community closer to it. She then found Li Pengliang and the Deep Night Squad trapped by zombies at a university cafeteria and revealed her identity.
Bai Yaoyao reunited with Li Pengliang and the Deep Night Squad, helped them clear a cafeteria full of zombies, and learned they were confused about their changed lives. The chapter ended with Li Pengliang asking what had happened to Bai Yaoyao and Chen Jian asking again where Dog Brother was.
Bai Yaoyao recruited the Deep Night Squad to bring paying customers to her shop so she could earn Crystal Cores. She used her points to expand the shop into a twelve-story hotel, hoping the new rooms would help her get closer to returning to her original world.
Bai Yaoyao upgraded the Dark Night shop into an inn, welcomed the returning workers, and set new room rates. She then persuaded Qian Duoduo to unlock the delivery channel early and headed out with goods to sell.
Bai Yaoyao went to a neighboring city to promote the Dark Night Restaurant and met Commander Yu’s military leadership, whose forces were struggling with a food shortage. After demonstrating the restaurant’s payment system and offering a safe place to stay, she persuaded Commander Yu to move his people to the neighboring city.
Bai Yaoyao expanded her food stalls across nearby cities and returned to the Dark Night Restaurant, where Shi Nian proposed turning it into a larger base. When the Deep Night Squad’s university students arrived, Li Pengliang announced the Student Joint Team’s disbandment, prompting protests from people who depended on him.