Chapter Summaries

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.

• Dark Night argued with Bai Yaoyao until she agreed they would face the final battle together, then their teasing and sparring drained her special ability energy.
• After sleeping and recovering, Bai Yaoyao brought her teammates out of her space and led them toward the summit of Yunbei Mountain.
• At Monkey’s suggestion, Bai Yaoyao collected snow as they climbed, making the mountain less cold while its oppressive pressure remained.
• The group reached the summit and found a student-like figure sitting by the cliff, whom they identified as the Time Zombie Emperor.
• Bai Yaoyao’s Spatial Detonation appeared to have no effect, and Lulu followed with a lightning attack.

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.

• The group’s ranged attacks failed to wake the Time Zombie Emperor, and Monkey joked about using Dog Brother to urinate on its face.
• Bai Yaoyao brought Murong Xixi out and warned her that powerful special abilities could come with painful costs.
• Murong Xixi agreed to copy the Time Zombie Emperor’s ability and took the Small Jade Piece with her.
• Murong Xixi successfully copied the ability and slowed the group’s movements, while Bai Yaoyao found that her teleportation skills were weakened.
• Murong Xixi collapsed after using the ability, and Chenxuan and Peiqi tried unsuccessfully to help her before she began snoring.

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 used a chicken drumstick to rouse Murong Xixi enough to eat, but Murong Xixi stayed asleep while the others discussed ways to counter the Zombie Emperor’s time ability.
• After sleeping for a day and night, Murong Xixi woke, ate a feast, and revealed that she had heard the team’s conversations while unconscious.
• Bai Yaoyao rejected Monkey’s suggestion to negotiate with the Zombie Emperor and took the team out to test their countermeasures using Murong Xixi’s copied ability.
• Murong Xixi swiftly attacked Bai Yaoyao, who discovered she could still use and change the exit point of her space before Murong Xixi fainted again.
• Bai Yaoyao left the space to inspect the Zombie Emperor and found him sitting motionless beside the cliff, surrounded by still air.

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 tried to move, injure, and intimidate the unresponsive Time Zombie Emperor, but none of her attacks worked.
• The Time Zombie Emperor opened his eyes when Bai Yaoyao said she still remembered him, and she used her past help as leverage to negotiate.
• Shi Nian introduced himself and explained that he had saved Bai Yaoyao several times, sent her back ten years, and helped awaken her mental and strength abilities.
• Shi Nian told Bai Yaoyao that combined spatial and mental abilities could counter his time ability, and that she could wait for him to become dormant if she could not kill him.
• Shi Nian promised to self-destruct if he regained consciousness after killing Bai Yaoyao, and she said she still had to kill him.

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 told everyone Shi Nian's condition and decided they would use the month to drain the Time Zombie Emperor's power and prepare to attack him.
• Bai Yaoyao sent the group to spread fire-accelerating powder over Cloud North Mountain, then returned to Dark Night Base to fetch Taoist Feng Qing.
• Bai Yaoyao treated injured mutant wild boars with help from Sun Weixing's healers and welcomed the clan to Dark Night Base with spring water.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered Sun Weixing to build a decoy Dark Night Base ten li away and brought Taoist Feng Qing to Cloud North Mountain.
• Taoist Feng Qing performed divinations about the Time Zombie Emperor and declared that they matched.

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.

• Murong Xixi practiced copying the time ability, while Shi Nian advised Monkey and A-Dai on how their abilities would fare against him.
• After Shi Nian began showing signs of pain, Bai Yaoyao led the group in preparing to leave and asked him to sleep before he entered his berserk state.
• Bai Yaoyao's group surrounded the sleeping Time Zombie Emperor with New-Type Bombs and covered them with waste from Dog Brother and the Beasts Legion.
• Taoist Feng Qing activated an illusion, and Dada Juan and Big King ignited the Fire-Accelerating Powder as the group escaped, setting Cloud North Mountain ablaze.
• Bai Yaoyao reached the newly built replica of Dark Night Base, left Taoist Feng Qing Spring Water, and returned to headquarters.
• Bai Yaoyao found headquarters unusually crowded and saw Xie Shannan, Chen Yixuan, Wang Jingyu, Xiao Yufei, Lu Chunfeng, and other allies gathered there.

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 Yaoyao reunited with Xie Shannan, Chen Yixuan, Lu Chunfeng, and Wang Jingyu, who said City D Base had sent all its ability users to Dark Night Base.
• Xiao Yufei brought seventy-eight thousand ability users from City L Base and thanked Bai Yaoyao for her past help.
• Sun Weixing reported that sixteen bases had arrived and two more were on the way, bringing nearly two hundred thousand reinforcements.
• Bai Yaoyao provided meals for the arriving forces, who were amazed by Dark Night Base's food, shops, and school.
• Nearly ten thousand mutant beasts arrived to help humanity fight the Zombie King, and a mutant antelope reminded Bai Yaoyao that she had once saved her and her son.

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.

• Xie Shannan watched Bai Qingqing teach at Dark Night School, but she sent him away so she could continue the lesson.
• After waiting nearly half a month, Xie Shannan met Bai Qingqing after class and listened as she excitedly told him about her work and her sister, Bai Yaoyao.
• Bai Qingqing hurried home to write the children’s final exams, leaving Xie Shannan to watch her go.
• Bai Jin'an found Xie Shannan outside the school and later encouraged Bai Qingqing to tell him if she still liked him.
• Bai Qingqing reflected on her Level 9 sound ability, her new skill, and the danger posed by the Time-Type Zombie Emperor.

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.

• After the Time Zombie Emperor awakened, Bai Zongyu injected the rioting laboratory zombies with serums and released them to join it, while Dark Night Base went on high alert.
• The Time Zombie Emperor triggered the bombs and Taoist Feng Qing's illusion, then discovered that more than half its zombies were missing and summoned the survivors along with dormant zombies from underground.
• Bai Yaoyao detected the approaching force of nearly a million zombies and learned they were advancing toward Dark Night Base in a long column, giving the defenders a chance to respond.
• Chen Yixuan brought Bai Yaoyao the Communicator, and she calmly discussed the battle preparations with the leader before asking if he remembered the news about Yasukuni Shrine and museum thefts.
• Bai Yaoyao told the stunned leader that she had done it, ended the call, and then invited Chen Yixuan to a feast before the battle.

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.

• Bai Yaoyao arrived with Chen Yixuan and joined the gathering as Ouyang Ning vowed to die fighting, prompting her to scold him until he knocked on the table and said “Ptooey.”
• Taoist Feng Qing reassured everyone about the future, then traded childish insults and rhymes with Long Zhan.
• Bai Yaoyao and the others discussed buying an island for Long Zhan, who joked about finding a wife, before Monkey teased him and got beaten.
• Xiaomi confessed that he wanted Keke to marry him, and Bai Yaoyao promised Dark Night would hold their wedding if he won Keke over after the apocalypse.
• After everyone else went to rest, Long Zhan looked toward the Zombie King's location and reflected that the older fighters might have to face the danger for the younger ones; Taoist Feng Qing joined him.

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.

• Bai Yaoyao led her comrades into the zombie swarm, where they killed tens of thousands before returning to the Dark Night Base to recover.
• As the zombies approached at night, Ouyang Ling ordered the defenses ready, and Bai Yaoyao deployed more than a hundred Pangu Chariots.
• The Pangu Chariots’ laser volleys destroyed nearly 150,000 zombies, after which Ouyang Ling ordered the buried bombs detonated and the snipers opened fire.
• After the bombardment, Bai Yaoyao, Long Zhan, and Dark Night’s strongest fighters charged out in formation and held back tens of thousands of zombies.
• The Dark Night Base’s Ability Users joined the frontal assault while support teams attacked from both flanks, and the differences in the bases’ fighters became clear.

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.

• Bai Yaoyao ordered the exhausted forces to retreat behind the second defensive line after they met their objective of killing nearly five hundred thousand zombies.
• Taoist Feng Qing revealed that his ultimate illusion could kill and trap hundreds of thousands of zombies, but activating it would cost him his life.
• Bai Yaoyao and Taoist Feng Qing's disciples discovered they could not touch him and begged him to abandon his plan.
• Taoist Feng Qing told Zhi Yi to care for his junior brothers and insisted that sacrificing himself to protect Huaguo was his duty.
• Taoist Feng Qing recalled his master's death fighting invaders and declared that a true Taoist upheld the righteous path.

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.

• Taoist Feng Qing sealed the New Dark Night Base inside his illusion, leaving Bai Yaoyao and the others unable to reach him.
• Long Zhan explained that entering the illusion would trigger an indiscriminate attack and hasten Taoist Feng Qing's death.
• The Time Zombie Emperor entered the illusion after seeing Bai Yaoyao's phantom, then realized it was not the real Bai Yaoyao and became enraged.
• Taoist Feng Qing used his remaining life to attack the Time Zombie Emperor, causing a huge explosion that silenced the zombies.
• Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples chanted funeral rites for Taoist Feng Qing while Bai Yaoyao and the others mourned and recovered.
• Bai Yaoyao told Long Zhan they could win and asked him to trust them, and Long Zhan said they were all he had left.

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.

• Dark Night fought ten Zombie Emperors while the surviving Ability Users watched and cheered, and Bai Yaoyao defeated her opponent first.
• Xiao Shiliu refused help, fought a stronger Wind Ability Zombie Emperor alone, and mutated his Wind ability to defeat it.
• Bai Jin'an activated Berserk Serum in sixty Level Nine Zombies, making them attack the surrounding horde and open gaps in its ranks.
• Bai Yaoyao led the fighters into the horde, bombed its rear, and used stored snow, boulders, acid rain, and Big Whale to kill zombies.
• The Time Zombie Emperor immobilized Big Whale, and Bai Yaoyao recognized that it had made its move.

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 checked that Big Whale was unharmed and prepared to strike the Time Zombie Emperor while the exhausted fighters entered the second round of battle.
• Duan Yuwen, Xia Tian, Song Yuxi, the Taoist Squad, and the Dark Night Beasts Legion used their abilities to fight through the zombie swarm.
• Big King reached level 10 and evolved his purple flames to carry lightning, while Lu Chunfeng’s beasts advanced in disciplined formation and the motley beast force joined the fighting.
• Big Gold and Big Sea led the Aerial Rescue Team in carrying casualties to Peiqi and the healing ability users for treatment.
• The zombies suddenly retreated, and the humans pursued them for a kilometer, killing nearly ten thousand more and bringing the opposing forces to roughly equal numbers.
• The fighters collapsed where they stood after disengaging, too exhausted to celebrate.

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 Yaoyao found the shattered pieces of Taoist Feng Qing's Wine Gourd and gave them to Zhi Yi and his senior and junior brothers.
• Bai Yaoyao warned the base leaders that the zombies might be retreating to devour weaker zombies, and ordered all ability users below level 8 to withdraw.
• Lu Chunfeng's Colorful Parrot reported that the zombies were killing and eating their own kind, confirming Bai Yaoyao's suspicion.
• Bai Yaoyao moved supplies, beasts, and plants from her space into the Dark Night Base to protect those unable to fight.
• Bai Qingqing told Bai Yaoyao and the others that her sound special 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 Qingqing told Bai Yaoyao that she had reached Level 10 and could hypnotize zombies with her singing while strengthening nearby Ability Users.
• Sun Weihao confirmed that Bai Qingqing's singing had helped him keep fighting, and Bai Yaoyao agreed to let her fight with them.
• Bai Qingqing led the fighters in a rallying cheer that lifted their spirits and seemed to restore some of their ability energy.
• Xie Shannan promised Bai Yaoyao that he would court Bai Qingqing properly, while Bai Qingqing continued leading the cheering crowd.
• Dark Night Base's logistics workers provided the exhausted fighters with food, hot noodle soup, clean clothes, and places to rest.
• After roughly half a day of rest, Bai Yaoyao sensed the zombies approaching and ordered noncombatants to retreat and everyone else to prepare.

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 ordered level eight ability users to form teams of six and level nine ability users to pair up as the zombie army approached.
• Bai Qingqing and Dark Night Base’s sound ability user played drums and suona to strengthen the fighters, while Dark Night’s members traded boasts before the battle.
• Long Zhan led his disciples in a charge, then praised Chenxuan and Peiqi as they returned to their support roles; Peiqi told Chenxuan that she and Bai Yaoyao suspected something was wrong with their master.
• The fighters faced a horde with dozens of emperor-class zombies, and Dark Night’s strongest members struggled to keep them from reaching the fighters behind them.
• Bai Yaoyao fought three emperor-class zombies at first, killed an invisible one, and used mental confusion to make two powerful enhancement zombies attack each other.
• Bai Yaoyao attacked two more emperor-class zombies nearby and, in less than ten minutes, held off five while killing one.

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 joined Long Zhan to kill the Emperor-Class Zombies, then helped her comrades finish the remaining zombies in the wave.
• Bai Yaoyao saw that casualties were mounting and took over the fight against the Level 9 zombies, but the Time Zombie Emperor appeared and killed two people almost instantly.
• Bai Yaoyao warned everyone to retreat, rescued two people from the Time Zombie Emperor, and fought him despite her depleted energy.
• The Time Zombie Emperor knocked Bai Yaoyao down and nullified her Spatial Blade, forcing her to focus on stalling him while her allies could not reach her.
• As Bai Yaoyao was repeatedly injured, Xia Tian told Sun Weihao she might not get to attend the flag-raising ceremony with him at Tiananmen, and he begged her not to give up.

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.

• Xia Tian attacked the Time Zombie Emperor to give Bai Yaoyao time to recover, but the Emperor killed her and tore out her heart.
• Bai Yaoyao used her mental and spatial powers to wound the Time Zombie Emperor, then caught Xia Tian’s body.
• Bai Qingqing sang to rapidly replenish Bai Yaoyao’s special ability, and Bai Yaoyao resumed preparing to fight.
• Bai Qingqing recalled how Xie Shannan had comforted her as a child and decided she could save everyone by helping her sister.
• Bai Qingqing burned through her life force to transfer all her energy to Bai Yaoyao, then collapsed as Xie Shannan rushed toward her.
• Bai Yaoyao realized Bai Qingqing had died and chose to keep fighting the Time Zombie Emperor so the slaughter would end.