Chapter Summaries

Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan visited Dark Night, discussed their return to work, and chose new posts. Bai Yaoyao brought the group into her space for one-on-one matches, where A-Dai challenged Monkey and Monkey Fur, while the little Zombie Infant spent time with Peiqi and Chenxuan.

• Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan joined Dark Night for dinner and confirmed that the leadership had asked them to return to work.
• Xie Shannan accepted command of the Authorities' Second Special Ability Team, and Meng Qilin chose to direct Supplies Management.
• Bai Yaoyao transported the group into her space after Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan left.
• A-Dai challenged Monkey and Monkey Fur to a match, and Bai Yaoyao volunteered to referee and prevent fatal injuries.
• Peiqi shared snacks with the little Zombie Infant and Chenxuan, and Bai Yaoyao noticed the zombie's growing attachment to Chenxuan.

Bai Yaoyao watched the team’s sparring matches as A-Cong awakened a speed ability and leveled up, while Fat Brother defeated Dada Juan. The training was interrupted by Chen Yixuan, who arrived with another lead on a human experimentation lab, and Bai Yaoyao questioned why Dark Night should get involved.

• Bai Yaoyao gave the little zombie Haha Wa, and Peiqi showed it how to drink from the bottle with a straw.
• Monkey and Monkey Fur used ice attacks and teamwork to trap A-Dai and A-Cong, but A-Cong shielded A-Dai and broke through Monkey’s ultimate skill, awakening a speed ability.
• A-Dai conceded, and Bai Yaoyao discovered that A-Cong had also reached level six without using a beast core.
• Fat Brother and Little Fatty defeated Dada Juan and Lollipop, forcing Dada Juan to wash Fat Brother’s saved socks and clothes.
• Bai Yaoyao left Lulu and Stone’s match to answer Chen Yixuan’s late-night visit, and he told her they had another lead on a human experimentation lab.

Chen Yixuan told Bai Yaoyao that forty-five monsters had escaped from a newly discovered laboratory, but she refused to take a mission to hunt them down. Back in her space, Bai Yaoyao watched Keke overwhelm Xiaomi in a fight.

• Chen Yixuan reported that a second laboratory had been found in a mountain northeast of the base, but its occupants had escaped before reinforcements arrived.
• Chen Yixuan asked Bai Yaoyao to accept a mission to eliminate the forty-five escaped monsters, offering negotiable rewards and a new Laser Gun.
• Bai Yaoyao refused, saying Dark Night did not need points or the gun and could kill Level Six Zombies with a punch.
• Bai Yaoyao returned to her space, where Lulu and Stone had finished their match in a draw and Keke was fighting Xiaomi.
• Keke used her branches and Qingying to counter Xiaomi's speed, forcing him to admit that he might not be able to beat her.

Keke reached Level 7 after sparring with Bai Yaoyao and used her wood ability to resurrect Qingling. She collapsed from overexertion, while Qingling returned as a tiny leafy sprig wrapped around her wrist.

• Xiao Shiliu sat out the fights to memorize his book, and Xiaomi conceded his match against Keke.
• Bai Yaoyao sparred with Keke and helped her break through to Level 7.
• Keke asked Bai Yaoyao whether she could try resurrecting Qingling, and Bai Yaoyao encouraged her to try.
• Keke channeled her wood ability into Qingling's remains until they gathered into a green sprig, then she passed out from exhaustion.
• Xiaomi caught Keke, Chenxuan continued healing her, and Bai Yaoyao reassured everyone before they celebrated with hot pot.

Keke reunited with Qingling, while Bai Yaoyao’s team trained inside the base and declined a mission to hunt escaped monsters. Monkey went to ask when the gates would reopen, where he clashed with Ouyang Ning over the team’s freedom to leave and the base’s rules.

• Keke woke to find Qingling had returned as a tiny seedling, promised to protect it, and went back to sleep.
• Bai Yaoyao told the team that forty or fifty monsters had escaped from an underground laboratory, but she refused the mission to catch them.
• Bai Yaoyao assigned Monkey to find out when the base gates would reopen, while the team practiced fighting with their wolves and Little Zombie learned moves from Peiqi.
• Monkey failed to get an answer elsewhere and went to Chen Yixuan, where Five Foot Three said the team could leave if they accepted the monster-clearing mission.
• Monkey challenged Five Foot Three’s implication that the team was being threatened, and Chen Yixuan tried to calm the dispute.
• Five Foot Three, revealed as Ouyang Ning, argued with Chen Yixuan and accused him of favoring a civilian team over the Authorities.

Monkey argued with Ouyang Ning over Dark Night’s special treatment and challenged him to a fight, while Chen Yixuan handled the team’s request to leave the base. After hearing Monkey’s version, Bai Yaoyao approved the duel, and Dark Night’s members began competing for the chance to fight Ouyang Ning.

• Monkey met Ouyang Ning while asking Chen Yixuan about leaving the base, and the two traded insults before agreeing to meet at the Dueling Arena that afternoon.
• Chen Yixuan explained that Ouyang Ning had lost comrades to the Human Experimentation Base and was in a bad mood, then went to arrange Dark Night’s departure.
• Monkey told Bai Yaoyao that Ouyang Ning had criticized Dark Night and challenged the team, though he admitted he might have started the challenge himself.
• Bai Yaoyao agreed that Monkey should fight Ouyang Ning so he would not think Dark Night was easy to bully.
• A-Dai and the others argued with Monkey over who would get to face Ouyang Ning and his rare dark ability.

Bai Yaoyao reconsidered whether the Main Base was worth staying in, then accompanied Dark Night to the Dueling Arena after the others insisted. Their generous welcome and gift stickers provoked Ouyang Ning, whose rejection of Great Sage’s sticker ended with Great Sage dramatically collapsing.

• Bai Yaoyao wondered whether coming to the Main Base had been the right choice, and Fat Brother assured her the group would follow wherever she wanted to go.
• After lunch, Monkey and the others persuaded Bai Yaoyao to take them to the Dueling Arena, and she brought Great Sage along to help him find a cooking teacher later.
• People in the queue voluntarily gave Dark Night their places, and Bai Yaoyao thanked them by handing out stickers redeemable for free roasted sweet potatoes.
• Ouyang Ning berated the crowd for letting Dark Night cut in line, but the spectators praised him and offered to let him move forward anyway.
• Great Sage offered Ouyang Ning a Peppa Pig sticker, and after Ouyang Ning slapped his hand away, Great Sage fell back clutching his chest and pretending to be wounded.

Great Sage used a staged fall and the crowd’s support to frustrate Ouyang Ning, who came to challenge Dark Night. As Ouyang Ning chose an opponent, A-Dai offered to fight him and promised to defend without striking back for the first eight minutes.

• Great Sage pretended that Ouyang Ning’s shove had hurt him, won the spectators’ sympathy, and slipped past Ouyang Ning into the Dueling Arena.
• The crowd moved behind Ouyang Ning in line, putting him at the front, and the spectators mocked him for complaining about Dark Night.
• Bai Yaoyao invited Ouyang Ning to choose a Dark Night member to fight, while Peiqi and Chenxuan volunteered their healing and support abilities.
• Ouyang Ning avoided choosing Bai Yaoyao and turned toward the person involved in their earlier dispute, but A-Dai offered to fight him instead.
• Monkey objected that A-Dai was level 7 against Ouyang Ning’s level 6, and A-Dai proposed giving Ouyang Ning an eight-minute head start while he only defended.

Ouyang Ning challenged A-Dai to a duel, hoping to defend his pride and avoid losing the 10,000-point platform fee. A-Dai overwhelmed him, copied his dark-mist techniques, and sent him flying, leaving Ouyang Ning despairing over the points he owed.

• Ouyang Ning and A-Dai agreed to duel on the premium platform, with the loser responsible for its 10,000-point rental fee.
• A-Dai dodged Ouyang Ning's attacks and copied his Colorless Chain technique, filling the platform with black mist.
• Ouyang Ning realized A-Dai was stronger and tried to outlast the ten-minute limit, while A-Dai kept pursuing him to learn more moves.
• Ouyang Ning used black-mist chains to restrain A-Dai's wrist, but A-Dai copied the move and lifted Ouyang Ning into the air with thicker chains.
• A-Dai kicked Ouyang Ning off the platform, and Ouyang Ning despaired over owing 10,000 points.

A-Dai defeated Ouyang Ning, and Monkey then beat him in a second match on the Dueling Platform. Bai Yaoyao’s group left after Ouyang Ning agreed to pay his share of the fee next month, while Bai Yaoyao prepared Monkey for a teaching match that night.

• A-Dai stood victorious after Ouyang Ning landed off the platform, and the crowd cheered.
• Monkey challenged Ouyang Ning to a second match, and Peiqi healed him enough to fight.
• Monkey used ice attacks and close-range pressure to force Ouyang Ning off the platform.
• Ouyang Ning agreed to pay Bai Yaoyao the points from his next salary, and Bai Yaoyao led her group away.
• Chenxuan helped Monkey recover, and Bai Yaoyao told him to prepare for a teaching match that night.

Bai Yaoyao finished training Monkey, then told Chen Yixuan that Dark Night was not angry with Ouyang Ning and could leave the base without filing reports. The group prepared to travel toward Yunbei Mountain Range, while Bai Yaoyao encouraged Xue Yang to seek more experience and improve his ability.

• Bai Yaoyao trained Monkey late into the night, and the next morning she stopped Peiqi from healing his injuries and warned him to learn from them.
• Chen Yixuan told Bai Yaoyao that Dark Night could leave the base whenever it wanted, and Bai Yaoyao said they were not angry with Ouyang Ning.
• Chen Yixuan left, and Bai Yaoyao announced that Dark Night would set out by car toward Little Earthy Yellow's main branch near Yunbei Mountain Range.
• Bai Yaoyao replenished the Dark Night Store before leaving and noticed that Xue Yang's ability was still level 4.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Xue Yang whether he wanted to train outside the store with Murong Xixi and gain more experience.

Bai Yaoyao tried to persuade Xue Yang to focus on training, but he chose to remain at the Dark Night Store out of gratitude and loyalty. Meanwhile, Bai Yaoyao’s departure prompted concern at the base, and the Bai, Meng, Xie, and Murong families pressured the leader over Ouyang Ning’s treatment of Dark Night.

• Bai Yaoyao offered to arrange a place for Xue Yang with the Murong Family, but Xue Yang said he preferred working at the store and did not want a life of fighting.
• Xue Yang admitted he stayed because Bai Yaoyao had helped him, and Bai Yaoyao decided she might later arrange for him to gain experience outside the store.
• Bai Qingqing heard that Bai Yaoyao and the Dark Night Squad had left the base and hurried home to tell her family.
• Old Master Bai complained to the leader about Ouyang Ning and defended Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night, leading the leader to suspect Old Master Bai’s personal ties to her.
• Representatives of the Meng Family, Xie Family, and Murong Family also protested Ouyang Ning’s actions, and the leader summoned him.

Dark Night reached the Yunbei Mountain Range to search for Little Earthy Yellow’s main branch, hoping it could help him grow stronger. They began climbing, but the mountain seemed strangely empty of Mutant Beasts and Mutant Plants.

• Bai Yaoyao took Dark Night into the wild, where they hunted level 7 zombies and studied a captured Stitched Monster.
• The group reached the Yunbei Mountain Range after nearly half a month of travel through extreme temperature swings.
• Little Crook interpreted Little Earthy Yellow’s gestures and explained that his main branch could sense him.
• Bai Yaoyao brought Little Earthy Yellow to the mountain so his main branch might detect him and come closer.
• Dark Night climbed the mountain on their level 6 wolves, and Bai Yaoyao noticed that few Mutant Beasts or Mutant Plants were around.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fled Cloud North Mountain after Xuan Qi sensed an unseen being powerful enough to shatter his defenses. After they escaped, the being revealed itself as a young man with a monstrous second persona, while Xuan Qi accidentally leveled up and released a powerful, foul-smelling burst of gas.

• Bai Yaoyao found a vast field of newborn mutant beast corpses and stopped Dark Night to investigate.
• Xuan Qi sensed a dangerous presence at the summit that he could not see through, so Bai Yaoyao led the group down the mountain.
• After Dark Night left, a young man at the summit opened his eyes, transformed into a sinister zombie-like being, and summoned high-level zombies from across the region.
• As the group traveled away, Xuan Qi accidentally leveled up and released a foul burst of gas, prompting Bai Yaoyao and the others to flee from the stench.

Bai Yaoyao led the Dark Night group to the northern edge of the Yunbei Mountain Range, where the mutant plants welcomed them after Monkey watered them. She befriended a Chestnut Tree and asked the plants whether they had seen others like Little Earthy Yellow.

• Bai Yaoyao persuaded the group to continue north despite the unknown threat they had encountered on the summit.
• The Dark Night group reached a mountain where mutant plants and beasts watched them warily, and the plants opened a path for them.
• Bai Yaoyao noticed the plants reacting to the idea of water, so Monkey released water droplets to refresh them.
• Bai Yaoyao discovered a Treasure Chestnut Tree and had Monkey pretend to collapse from exhaustion, prompting the plants to care for him.
• The Chestnut Tree gave Monkey its two fruits, and Bai Yaoyao asked the surrounding plants whether they had seen others like Little Earthy Yellow.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night helped Little Earthy Yellow confront its powerful main branch, with mutant plants joining the fight. Little Crook stopped the main branch from escaping and brought Little Earthy Yellow over to absorb it.

• Bai Yaoyao followed a procession of mutant plants to find Little Earthy Yellow's main branch, while Monkey kept the plants happy with rain.
• Little Earthy Yellow sensed its main branch approaching and hid around Bai Yaoyao's wrist.
• Little Earthy Yellow's main branch attacked the mutant plants, and the Heaven-Swallowing Man-Eating Flower bit into its vines.
• Bai Yaoyao attacked with a Spatial Blade, the mutant plants joined the fight, and Peiqi healed those they injured.
• Little Earthy Yellow overcame its fear and joined the battle, while Bai Yaoyao sent Little Crook to block the main branch's escape.
• Little Crook seized and slammed the main branch to the ground, then brought Little Earthy Yellow over to absorb it.

Bai Yaoyao recruited the mutant plants into her space after Little Earthy Yellow and Little Red absorbed the remaining main branch. As Dark Night prepared to leave the mountains, eleven level-five and level-six mutant beasts and two level-seven beasts surrounded them, and Bai Yaoyao ordered everyone to watch and defend rather than attack.

• Little Earthy Yellow absorbed less than ten meters of the main branch before needing repeated rests, while Peiqi failed to sense a breakthrough to a level-seven healing ability.
• Chenxuan identified many of the nearby mutant plants, and Bai Yaoyao persuaded the Heaven-Swallowing Man-Eating Flower, the Chestnut Tree, and the other plants to join her space.
• Bai Yaoyao brought the mutant plants into her space, where Little Crook explained the rules and they enjoyed the comfortable environment.
• After Little Earthy Yellow collapsed from exhaustion, Bai Yaoyao had Little Red absorb the remaining main branch, and Little Red also passed out after finishing it.
• Bai Yaoyao detected thirteen mutant beasts following the group, including two at level seven, and the beasts soon surrounded Dark Night.
• Bai Yaoyao stopped A-Dai from charging and told everyone to watch and provide protection because the attackers were level seven.

Bai Yaoyao let Doggie fight a stronger Mutant Weasel, and he won by outsmarting it despite suffering severe injuries. After Peiqi began healing him, Doggie appeared to level up again.

• Bai Yaoyao sent Doggie to fight the level eight weasel while Lulu, Dark Night, and the others defeated the remaining mutant beasts.
• Doggie endured repeated blows and, when the weasel charged head-on, slipped beneath it and tore open its belly.
• Doggie wounded the weasel's eye, then pretended to retreat before turning back and killing it with a slash to the neck.
• Peiqi began healing Doggie, who let out a foul fart, and Monkey exclaimed that he had leveled up.

Bai Yaoyao let A-Dai and Big Meow explore the mountain at night, but they returned with Big Meow injured and Xuan Qi missing. She and A-Dai climbed toward the summit to search for Xuan Qi, then stopped to rest as they neared the top.

• Bai Yaoyao let A-Dai and Big Meow explore the mountain while she rested, and brought Xuan Qi along as a precaution.
• After A-Dai and Big Meow returned at dawn, A-Dai described a mist-covered garden where plants had thrown Big Meow out, but he realized Xuan Qi was missing from his pocket.
• Bai Yaoyao reassured the distressed A-Dai and took him out to search for Xuan Qi while the others stayed in the space.
• A-Dai admitted that he and Big Meow had raced nearly to the summit, and Bai Yaoyao hurried up the mountain with him.
• As the snow deepened near the summit, Bai Yaoyao brought A-Dai into the space so they could rest before continuing their search.

Bai Yaoyao and Keke found a beautiful spring garden on the snowy mountaintop, but Keke sensed it was an illusion. Bai Yaoyao broke through the illusion and was left facing whoever had created it, while still searching for Xuan Qi.

• Bai Yaoyao returned from scouting, rested, then took Keke to investigate the place where A-Dai had seen Big Meow injured.
• Keke could not sense any living plants in the garden and suggested it was an illusion, so Bai Yaoyao sent her back into the space.
• Bai Yaoyao tested the garden with a stone, food, and liquor, then concluded that a powerful illusion Ability User lived inside.
• Bai Yaoyao asked the unseen resident for a lead on Xuan Qi, but the returned liquor bottles had been opened and refilled with water.
• When Bai Yaoyao stepped into the garden, man-eating plants attacked her and the scenery repeated endlessly, trapping her inside.
• Bai Yaoyao found a unique pebble beneath an orange flower and used Mental Piercing on it, shattering the illusion.