Chapter Summaries

Bai Yaoyao and Zhi Yi agreed to a friendly martial arts spar without special abilities, with mutant beasts included on Bai Yaoyao’s side. Great Sage and Zhi Li drew the first match, and Keke stepped forward to face Zhi Wu.

• Zhi Li used his last potatoes to make Potato Rose Rolls, and Great Sage impressed him with its cooking and knife skills.
• Bai Yaoyao steered a conversation with Zhi Yi toward the Plum Blossom Stakes and proposed a one-on-one sparring session without special abilities.
• Bai Yaoyao chose seven mutant beasts and Little Rabbit to represent her side, while A-Dai said he would fight later.
• Great Sage fought Zhi Li for dozens of moves before they agreed to a draw, and Zhi Li led Great Sage back to the kitchen.
• Zhi Yi sent out Zhi Wu for the second match, and Bai Yaoyao chose Keke to face him.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night sparred with Zhi Yi’s group, exposing their lack of real combat experience. After Bai Yaoyao defeated Zhi Yi, he asked her to guide his group, leaving her to consider whether to bring them over to her side.

• Keke and Xiaomi each defeated Zhi Wu, while the matches between the two groups otherwise ended with wins and losses on both sides.
• Doggie defeated three opponents in a row, so Bai Yaoyao asked Zhi Yi to teach him a lesson; Zhi Yi beat Doggie and sent him off the platform.
• Bai Yaoyao fought Zhi Yi, used feints and unexpected attacks to overwhelm him, and made him concede.
• Bai Yaoyao advised Zhi Yi to gain practical combat experience, and he asked her to guide his group and swore they would not betray her.
• Bai Yaoyao considered whether she could bring Zhi Yi’s group to her side without recruiting them into Dark Night.

Bai Yaoyao agreed to take Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples under Dark Night’s wing temporarily and supply them, in exchange for their promise to help her when needed. The group settled into a lively evening, while A-Dai and Zhi Rui bonded over training on the Plum Blossom Stakes.

• Zhi Yi told Bai Yaoyao that his divination predicted the disciples would die within two years unless they followed her, and offered her their cultivation manual and instruction.
• Bai Yaoyao agreed to bring the disciples along temporarily, provide supplies, and teach them about the apocalypse, in return for their future help when she called on them.
• Zhi Yi and the others called Bai Yaoyao “Boss,” but she asked them to call her Sister Yao instead.
• A-Dai and Zhi Rui practiced on the Plum Blossom Stakes late into the night, with Zhi Rui teaching A-Dai his footwork.
• A-Dai and Zhi Rui camped on the mountaintop, sparred, shared food, watched the stars, and stayed up together.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night joined Zhi Yi's disciples for meditation and traditional training at the Taoist Temple, while the group relaxed through games. Zhi Yi explained that a divination had convinced him to preserve their traditional skills and work with Dark Night until the apocalypse ended.

• A-Dai and Zhi Rui returned from the summit because the cold had kept them from sleeping, and A-Dai and Monkey began fighting playfully.
• Bai Yaoyao meditated with the others at dawn and discovered a new way to sense the world around her.
• Dark Night trained on the Plum Blossom Stakes with Zhi Yi's disciples, then Bai Yaoyao started a chase game with the beasts.
• Zhi Rui asked Zhi Yi why the disciples had to study and practice writing instead of focusing on combat and abilities.
• Zhi Yi said his divination had urged them to preserve their traditional skills, cooperate with Dark Night, and keep faith that the crisis would end.
• Zhi Li asked whether Zhi Yi's repeated divinations would cost him his hair, leaving Zhi Yi exasperated.

Bai Yaoyao left Guining Mountain with Zhi Yi and the others, then followed a Mutant Tiger to her cave. The dying tiger asked Bai Yaoyao to care for her frail cub, leaving the cub’s future in her hands.

• Bai Yaoyao gave Zhi Yi and the others thermal clothing and combat gear before they left the Taoist Temple.
• Bai Yaoyao and her group encountered a Northeast China Mutant Tiger on the mountain path, and Zhi Yi explained that their master was the tiger’s friend.
• The Mutant Tiger led Bai Yaoyao to her cave and revealed that she could speak after evolving.
• The Mutant Tiger showed Bai Yaoyao her surviving cub and asked her to take care of it because she was dying from injuries sustained during childbirth and a fight with a Level-Six Mutant Wolf.

Bai Yaoyao agreed to care for a dying Mutant Tiger’s cub and witnessed the mother leave her beast core as a final gift. She buried the Mutant Tiger and brought the cub back to her companions, then remembered City L Base.

• The Mutant Tiger offered Bai Yaoyao beast cores and a fruit in exchange for caring for her cub, and Bai Yaoyao accepted.
• Bai Yaoyao offered the Mutant Tiger Spring Water, but the mother refused it and asked her to give it to the frail Tiger Cub instead.
• After Bai Yaoyao carried the sleeping Tiger Cub outside, she heard a roar and returned to find that the Mutant Tiger had dug out her own beast core.
• Bai Yaoyao placed the warm beast core against the Tiger Cub, buried the Mutant Tiger, and carried the cub back over the mountain.
• Bai Yaoyao told A-Dai and the others what had happened, and Great Sage took the Tiger Cub into the space, where the other beasts gathered around it.
• Bai Yaoyao took out the car and remembered City L Base.

Bai Yaoyao’s group returned toward City L Base, where Zombies had gathered again, and she prepared everyone for battle. After breaking into the base, she killed two independent team leaders who were pressuring Xiao Yufei for better terms.

• Bai Yaoyao turned back when Zhi Yi and the others admitted they could not drive, and Monkey taught them before the group continued through icy roads.
• Bai Yaoyao comforted Tiger Cub in her space, introduced the cub to the Beasts, and appointed Doggie leader of the Beasts Legion.
• Near City L Base, Bai Yaoyao sensed a dense gathering of Zombies and teased Peiqi that she might have awakened a third special ability by jinxing their return.
• Bai Yaoyao and her group prepared for battle, released the Beasts, and entered the base from a less guarded rear approach.
• Xiao Yufei faced demands from two independent team leaders, but Bai Yaoyao severed their heads and mocked him for letting them cause trouble.

Bai Yaoyao and her allies joined Xiao Yufei’s base in fighting off a zombie horde, and she left the battle to hunt down and kill the mutated zombie boss. She returned with its crystal core after surviving the boss’s attacks and a massive explosion.

• Bai Yaoyao accused Zhen Jian of attacking her and killed him, while Xiao Yufei accepted her claim and then led his people to face the approaching zombies.
• Bai Yaoyao told Xiao Yufei’s forces to follow their usual plan, then led Dark Night, the Beasts Legion, and Zhi Yi’s fellow disciples off the walls to attack the horde.
• Bai Yaoyao used Mental Pressure to disable zombies before leaving the others to search for the hidden zombie boss, with help from Xuan Qi.
• Bai Yaoyao cornered the mutated zombie, dodged its Ice Blade, and threw ordnance at it before taking shelter in her space.
• Bai Yaoyao emerged from the explosion, killed the badly injured zombie boss with Spatial Blade, took its crystal core, and left.

Bai Yaoyao led her team back from the City L Base wall after seeing that most of its ability users were conserving their strength, and ordered her companions to throw the idle users into the zombie horde. She returned to the fight with everyone grouped around her, then criticized Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples for wasting movements and even bowing after kills.

• Bai Yaoyao and her team fought their way back toward each other as she grew angry that few people from City L Base were helping them.
• After noticing exhausted uniformed fighters and rested civilian ability users, Bai Yaoyao ordered Little Crook, Little Red, and the beasts to throw the idle ability users from the wall into the zombies.
• Bai Yaoyao sent Little Crook and Little Red into the base to round up more ability users, while Xiao Yufei resolved to grow stronger and regain his independence.
• Bai Yaoyao checked that her companions were holding up and ordered everyone to stay together as they advanced into the horde.
• Bai Yaoyao praised Doggie's efficient attack, then showed Zhi Yi how his fellow disciples wasted movements and scolded him for fighting less effectively than a level-four healer.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought through the zombie horde outside the base while forcing the base’s Ability Users to join the battle. After the zombies withdrew, the group killed the remaining horde and collapsed from exhaustion.

• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought the zombies while Little Crook and Little Red threw hidden Ability Users into the battlefield and collected Crystal Cores.
• Zhi Rui was scratched by a zombie, and Xiaomi purified his small wound after Bai Yaoyao let the disciples fear the consequences of their carelessness.
• Bai Yaoyao rode Big Sea above the battlefield and saw that most perimeter zombies had withdrawn, leading her to suspect a Little Corpse King was present.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered Dark Night to finish the remaining zombies, while Xiao Yufei kept the base gates closed and sent weapons and soldiers to help the Ability Users outside.
• Dark Night and the Ability Users killed the last zombies, then collapsed from exhaustion.

After Bai Yaoyao and the others returned to City L Base, Zhi Yi’s disciples chose to remain with her, and she decided to leave the base the next day. The base had recovered and reconnected with A City Main Base, and Bai Yaoyao prepared to depart with her companions.

• Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples loudly reaffirmed their duty to uphold justice, earning the amused respect of the members of Dark Night.
• Bai Yaoyao returned to the base, arranged for the exhausted Ability Users to rest, and asked Zhi Yi’s group whether they wanted to leave for City D Base or stay with her; they chose to stay.
• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu met Sister Li, who proudly told them about her daughter’s success and offered them work; Bai Yaoyao declined and said they were leaving the next day.
• Sister Li’s daughter arrived, recognized Bai Yaoyao as a powerful figure, and thanked her for praising her work; Bai Yaoyao gave Sister Li cough medicine before leaving.
• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu saw that City L Base had recovered and established contact with A City Main Base, then decided to leave so Bai Yaoyao could collect the level-five Crystal Core owed by Secretary Wu.
• Xiao Yufei dropped his work and hurried over when he heard Bai Yaoyao was leaving.

Bai Yaoyao and her team prepared to leave City L Base after defending it, while Xiao Yufei gave them a gift and received a warning about another zombie attack. At the entrance, they said goodbye to Sister Li and the former laborers, and Monkey accepted a padded coat from Qin Jun and Du Ningde.

• Bai Yaoyao corrected Xiao Yufei's assumption that she was his boss, accepted sixty level-four crystal cores and one level-five crystal core, and warned him that the zombies might attack again within a month or two.
• Xiao Yufei arranged a hurried farewell at the base entrance as Bai Yaoyao and her team set out to leave.
• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu accepted Sister Li's homemade flatbreads and praised them.
• Qin Jun and Du Ningde apologized for the past misunderstanding and gave Monkey a padded coat bought with points pooled by their group.
• Monkey accepted the coat and handed his jacket to Xiao Shiliu.

Bai Yaoyao gave supplies to Sister Li and Monkey’s coworkers, then remembered an approaching acid-rain disaster and hurried her group toward Proud Sky Base. They arrived before the rain, where they discovered the base had been renamed Dark Night Base and its residents regarded Bai Yaoyao as their base chief.

• Monkey accepted the padded jacket from Qin Jun and Du Ningde, then gave them food and supplies from Bai Yaoyao.
• Bai Yaoyao left Sister Li food and clothing before leaving the base, and Xiao Yufei told his people to look after her.
• Bai Yaoyao recalled that severe acid rain would follow the cold front and directed the convoy to speed toward Proud Sky Base.
• After the cold front passed, temperatures rose sharply, and Bai Yaoyao began collecting snow in her storage space.
• The group reached Proud Sky Base before the acid rain and found that it had been renamed Dark Night Base, with its walls depicting Dark Night’s twelve members.
• Sun Weixing welcomed Bai Yaoyao as the base chief and checked that Stone was unharmed.

Bai Yaoyao returned to Dark Night Base and discovered that Sun Weixing and the residents considered her their base leader. She settled her group into the prepared building and rejected a welcome celebration, while the grateful residents continued to praise her.

• Bai Yaoyao asked Sun Weixing why the base was called Dark Night Base and why she was its leader, but he insisted the residents had stayed because of Dark Night.
• Sun Weixing showed Bai Yaoyao the prepared accommodation and described how the residents had fought off a three-day zombie attack and expanded the base’s greenhouses.
• Bai Yaoyao refused Sun Weixing’s proposal for a welcome bonfire, and Monkey joked that the residents were using gratitude to pressure them into helping.
• Bai Yaoyao and her group furnished their rooms, while Zhi Yi and the others settled on the third floor; Bai Yaoyao sent Xuan Qi out to keep watch.
• Sun Weixing told the eager residents to carry on with their work instead of preparing a celebration, and Zheng Jianshe and others recalled how Bai Yaoyao had saved them.

Bai Yaoyao accepted the base residents’ gifts but rejected Sun Weixing’s attempt to enlist her in inspecting and leading the base. She then took Dark Night out to hunt zombies and assigned Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples to learn about the residents’ lives.

• After a night of rest, Bai Yaoyao found the residents had left food, Crystal Cores, jewelry, and other gifts outside Dark Night’s door, and she put them in her space.
• Sun Weixing invited Bai Yaoyao to tour the base, but she saw through his efforts to keep Dark Night there and told him they would not stay forever.
• Sun Weixing returned to the residents and reassured them that Bai Yaoyao trusted their work, encouraging them to keep working hard.
• Bai Yaoyao clarified to Stone that she was not angry with Sun Weixing, then prepared Dark Night to go zombie hunting.
• Bai Yaoyao told Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples to speak with three strangers each and report what they learned when she returned.

Bai Yaoyao sent Zhi Rui and the other disciples out to spend crystal cores, then took Dark Night and the Beasts Legion to hunt zombies near MZ City. She lured two level five zombies into an ambush and crippled the speed zombie, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Bai Yaoyao gave each disciple a level three crystal core and told them to shop separately, with the worst bargain earning night watch.
• Bai Yaoyao learned from a returning Special Ability Team that MZ City had many zombies, including two level five zombies, and led Dark Night there.
• Great Sage drove a pickup truck for the beasts while Bai Yaoyao stayed back to use her mental power to locate the level five zombies.
• Bai Yaoyao drew the enhancement-type and speed-type zombies toward her, planted a bomb, and retreated into her space before the blast.
• Big Sea cleared the smoke, and Bai Yaoyao returned to use Mental Pressure and attack the speed zombie with Spatial Cut.
• Bai Yaoyao and Big Sea severed parts of the speed zombie's legs, and Bai Yaoyao used Position Swap to make the enhancement zombie's punch hit its companion.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought a horde of zombies in the city, using coordinated tactics to kill them efficiently. When a large group of ability users appeared and charged into the remaining zombies, Bai Yaoyao recognized them as people from Dark Night Base and was baffled by their reckless behavior.

• Doggie knocked a strength-type zombie down, but Big Meow took its crystal core and brought it to Bai Yaoyao.
• Bai Yaoyao and her beasts defeated another strength-type zombie as the bomb drew a zombie horde around them.
• Dark Night joined the battle, and its members coordinated their abilities to divide the horde and target stronger zombies.
• After four hours of fighting, Bai Yaoyao sensed seventy or eighty ability users approaching and warned Dark Night to stay alert.
• The newcomers rushed into the zombie horde with frantic, seemingly reckless attacks, drawing most of the zombies away from Dark Night.
• Bai Yaoyao recognized Sun Weixing, Sun Weihao, the Guard Team, and the Special Ability Squad among the newcomers and wondered if they had lost their minds.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night finished clearing the zombie horde after City D Base Ability Users rushed in to rescue them, only to discover they were not in danger. After the battle, Peiqi told Bai Yaoyao that her special ability had mutated, leaving Bai Yaoyao eager to hear more.

• City D Base Ability Users fought their way toward Dark Night, believing the team was surrounded and in need of rescue.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered Dark Night and the Beasts to save the struggling Ability Users, and they quickly overwhelmed the remaining zombies.
• Sun Weixing explained that the group had come after hearing reports of a Special Ability Team surrounded by zombies and then learning the Hurricane Squad had sent Dark Night there.
• Bai Yaoyao told Little Crook and Little Red to collect the Crystal Cores, while the Ability Users declined to claim any of the ones they had helped kill.
• Peiqi quietly told Bai Yaoyao that her special ability seemed to have mutated, and Bai Yaoyao sent Little Crook and Little Red to collect more Crystal Cores as the others stared in shock.

After a battle, Bai Yaoyao returned to the base with Dark Night and realized the strange sky might signal the coming acid rain. She tried to keep the other ability users indoors the next day, but Sun Weixing mistakenly announced that she would teach them a class.

• The group collected the crystal cores, and Bai Yaoyao accepted them while resolving to repay the others in other ways.
• A strange purplish flash lit the sky, followed by thunder, and Bai Yaoyao asked Sun Weixing to keep everyone inside the base the next day.
• Sun Weixing misunderstood Bai Yaoyao and announced that she would teach a combat class, exciting the ability users.
• Bai Yaoyao gave up trying to correct Sun Weixing and told Dark Night that each of them would have to teach a class too.
• A-Dai, Xiao Shiliu, and Dada Juan debated whether Zhi Rui would spend the most on food and drinks.

Bai Yaoyao confronted Dark Night’s members about their wasteful purchases, while A-Dai and Xiaomi found Zhi Rui working at a restaurant after he caused trouble over a flatbread. Zhi Rui explained how his attempt to get free food had gone wrong, and Bai Yaoyao was left to deal with the group’s foolish choices.

• Monkey threatened Xiao Shiliu to keep him quiet about getting scratched by a zombie, and Bai Yaoyao teased Monkey before heading inside.
• A-Dai went to look for Zhi Rui, and Dada Juan persuaded Xiaomi to go with him; they found Zhi Rui scrubbing dishes at a restaurant.
• Zhi Rui broke another plate when he saw A-Dai and asked him for a Crystal Core to pay the restaurant owner, but Xiaomi paid the couple with two Level Three Crystal Cores instead.
• Bai Yaoyao scolded Zhi Shiyi, Zhi Li, and Zhi Yi for spending points on a lighter, a cookbook, and a love letter.
• Zhi Rui explained that he had refused to pay for a flatbread he disliked, then gave his Crystal Core to a hungry boy because he thought the food would be free anyway.