Chapter Summaries

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.

Bai Yaoyao learned that the Ji Family had nearly perfected its experimental serum and was holding Long Zhan and his followers captive. She gathered Dark Night to attack the Ji Family before dawn.

• Long Zhan grieved as another captive died, then rejected Ji Wujing’s attempt to justify betraying him; Ji Wujing ordered two prisoners taken as test subjects.
• Bai Yaoyao captured a Level 8 ability user in S City and questioned him inside her space.
• The captive revealed that the Ji Family’s headquarters was in the underwater park, its members lived in mountain villas, and Long Zhan’s group was imprisoned in a dungeon.
• Peiqi learned that the Ji Family had completed its serum and was preparing for mass production, so A-Dai killed the captive.
• Bai Yaoyao decided that Dark Night would join her in destroying the Ji Family before dawn.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night infiltrated Undersea Park and reached the Dungeon, where they rescued Long Zhan from Ji Wujing’s attempt to inject him. Long Zhan realized his disciples had discovered that he was alive and knew Bai Yaoyao was furious with him.

• Bai Yaoyao and her companions used a stolen vehicle and Stone’s voice imitation to pass the checkpoint, then used Mental Control and Peiqi’s ability to learn how to enter Undersea Park.
• Bai Yaoyao led the group through the Aquarium Tank with Little Pink’s help, avoided its monsters, and brought her companions into the facility.
• The group ambushed people escorting two Taoists, who revealed that Long Zhan was nearby and in danger from Ji Wujing.
• Bai Yaoyao teleported to Long Zhan and snatched away Ji Wujing’s syringe before kicking him aside, while A-Dai killed the attackers.
• Dark Night gathered behind Bai Yaoyao and stared angrily at Long Zhan, who realized his disciples had discovered his faked death.

Bai Yaoyao reunited with Long Zhan and the other prisoners, then prepared to lead them out of the Ji Family Headquarters. After learning her team was powerful enough to face the Ji Family, the group began recovering their strength while Bai Yaoyao quietly investigated two suspicious prisoners.

• Long Zhan apologized to Bai Yaoyao, and she rebuked him for coming alone and putting himself in danger.
• Long Zhan’s companions offered to stay behind, but Bai Yaoyao promised to bring everyone home and destroy the Ji Family.
• Bai Yaoyao’s team revealed that they were all level eight, while Bai Yaoyao had two level-nine systems, surprising Long Zhan.
• Bai Yaoyao decided to fight their way out rather than reveal her space, and Peiqi distributed water and food to the prisoners.
• Bai Yaoyao secretly gave two prisoners different bottled water to test them, while the recovering captives noticed her suspicions and stayed silent.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night prepared to leave the prison with Long Zhan, then fought through Ji Family guards after learning what they needed from them. They continued onward, and their companions recognized Dark Night’s strength as their chance to survive.

• Bai Yaoyao confirmed the group had recovered enough energy, and everyone pretended to still be weak as they prepared to leave.
• Stone dragged Ji Wujing along while Long Zhan promised to help manage and train troops at their base once they returned.
• Bai Yaoyao led the group out, and Long Zhan explained that a weakening serum and the Ji Family’s control of S City had kept him imprisoned.
• Bai Yaoyao questioned the guards about the Ji Family’s laboratory and remaining members, then ordered Dark Night to attack when reinforcements arrived.
• A-Dai, Xiaomi, Lulu, and the others quickly killed the guards, while Bai Yaoyao never had to fight.

Bai Yaoyao and her allies faced Ji Chongshan and the Ji Family’s forces outside Undersea Animal World. After her group recovered their abilities, Bai Yaoyao killed Ji Chongshan, and Dark Night eliminated the level eight experts, leaving the Ji Family Direct Line and their Trusted Aides still fighting.

• Long Zhan killed two traitors who attacked him, while Peiqi confirmed that everyone else was trustworthy.
• Bai Yaoyao found Ji Chongshan surrounding Undersea Animal World with more than ten thousand people and stalled for time as her allies recovered.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Ji Chongshan about Experiment Subject Zero and the bracelet, learning that the bracelet could absorb special ability energy and become a one-use bomb.
• Once her group had recovered, Bai Yaoyao pierced Ji Chongshan’s invisibility with Mental Piercing and killed him despite his protective abilities.
• Dark Night killed the level eight experts, and most of the remaining fighters surrendered or fled, leaving the Ji Family Direct Line and their Trusted Aides fighting.