Arc 18Chapters 426–450
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Chen Luo brought Big Strong’s zombies under his command, then sent Dharma King to assassinate powerful local fighters on the Lotus Continent. Dharma King killed Simmons and delivered his corpse to Jin Yuanjiang.
Chen Luo created a small area where time flowed faster, then helped Mi Li reach Emperor Rank after more than a month. Mi Li temporarily softened Sea Ji’s violent nature with Light of Purification, but she could not remove its cause, leaving Chen Luo wondering about the meat’s origin.
Chen Luo prepared his level-ten members for an approaching crisis and planned to use the seventh Seafood Festival to advance Sea Ji to Emperor Rank. As Sea Ji began her painful evolution, Chen Luo calmed her by reminding her that he was her little brother.
Chen Luo staged an attack by Sea Ji to expose which Seafood were loyal to him. As Sea Ji overwhelmed the gathered Seafood, Vertical River Turtle seized Chen Luo and offered to surrender to her.
Chen Luo used Red Lantern’s psychic attack to survive Vertical River Turtle’s betrayal while the seafood fought Sea Ji. After Sea Ji killed Soy Leopard, Chen Luo revealed his recovered power, banished her, and resurrected Soy Leopard, leaving the kneeling traitors awaiting judgment.
Chen Luo used Mi Li’s Resurrection Spell to win the seafood’s devotion, then purged disloyal followers and planned how to prepare his people for the coming monster invasion. Red Lantern began testing Level Ten members for promotion, but Gu Changfeng’s illusion revealed his desire for Mi Li.
Chen Luo tested Red Lantern’s illusion on Gu Changfeng and Silver Bell, then investigated the Giant Tree’s stalled growth and planned future advancements. A month passed as Dharma King worked through missions and absorbed lightning crystals.
Chen Luo made a major breakthrough in Void Walk and traveled to the moon, where he discovered an abandoned astronaut named Jill. Jill’s account of two mysterious beings fighting on the day doomsday began led Chen Luo to suspect the Armor's Original Owner had battled an Ice esper.
Chen Luo returned to the base and suspected Ningshuang might be the blue ball of light that fought the Armor's Original Owner, but her behavior convinced him otherwise. He put her in a time-acceleration zone to help her grow stronger, then persuaded Giant Tree to give him all the fruit he produced for the next three months.
As the monsters’ arrival drew near, Chen Luo strengthened Dawn City’s forces, equipped its fighters, and assembled Big Strong’s zombie group for the coming battle. Rice sensed that the crisis would end in both survival and failure, while an untold secret in Antarctica remained beyond their reach.
Chen Luo waited in Meizhou for the monsters’ arrival and watched hundreds of King Rank creatures emerge through a spatial gateway. Their sky-blue leaders recognized something about the world and collapsed in grief, leaving Chen Luo unsure what they had discovered.
Chen Luo watched the monsters divide across the continents and planned to weaken their King Rank forces before confronting the thirteen newly advanced Emperor Ranks. As he moved to attack, the red-eyed monster learned that the dispatched monsters had met resistance and called them bait, while another monster pointed out that they were bait too.
The Sky-Blue Monsters’ descendants had sent a first wave to Blue Star as bait, hoping to find the Armor’s remains and assess the killer while watching through the Red-Eyed Monster’s gemstone. On the Kangaroo Continent, Chen Luo’s forces prepared to ambush the monsters, and Dharma King set out to lure them into the trap.
Dharma King lured more than a hundred King Rank monsters into an ambush, where Sea Ji, Mi Li, Ningshuang, and their allies surrounded them with overwhelming numbers. Trapped between the natives and the seafood creatures, the monsters fought desperately while Mi Li healed the injured members.
Chen Luo killed twenty-two monsters with his Space Storm, then returned to the base to help Level-Ten Members absorb King-Rank Crystals before the enemy forces arrived. The sky-blue monsters realized he had used Teleportation and identified him as a rare Space-Type Genius.
Chen Luo prepared Dawn City for the monsters’ arrival, using monster crystals to raise 145 more members to King Rank. When the enemy force reached the base, the zombies charged as Chen Luo’s side went to meet them, and the battle began with a zombie discovering that the danger was real.
Chen Luo’s side fought the Sky-Blue Monsters as Mi Li dispelled Poison Cloud’s poison and Sea Ji drew the Emperor Rank monsters away with the armor. The monsters returned to the battlefield, where Chen Luo used Void Exile to turn their attacks against their own forces, and the Red-Eyed Monster launched a Dimensional Blade at Mi Li.
Chen Luo and Sea Ji trapped and weakened the Emperor Rank monsters while Dawn City's fighters battled their forces, but the monsters' growing losses drove one Emperor Rank to unleash a mysterious transformation. The chapter ended with the transformed monster emerging as a slender figure made of darkness, seemingly beyond Emperor Rank and unaffected by Sea Ji's attacks.
Chen Luo brought Jiang Chuxue to the battlefield and had her use Time Stop to freeze the Black Monster as it tried to strip Sea Ji’s armor. The Red-Eyed Monster recognized the ability as “Za Warudo,” leaving the enemy monsters staring at Jiang Chuxue.
Chen Luo and his allies fought the Black Monster while Jiang Chuxue repeatedly froze him with Time Stop. After conventional attacks failed, Chen Luo opened a void rift and exiled the immobilized Black Monster into it, leaving his fate unresolved.
Chen Luo’s forces defeated the monsters at great cost and captured two emperor-rank survivors for interrogation. He began questioning the cooperative Red-Eyed Monster, identified as Bodo, and tried to remove one of his gemstone-like eyes.
Chen Luo interrogated Bodo about the coming demigod, the invaders’ motives, and the realms of power, then learned that his mastery of Teleportation might let him reach God Rank quickly. Bodo’s strongest family member was expected to arrive within three days, leaving Chen Luo facing an urgent threat.
Bodo tried to recruit Chen Luo to help kill a wounded ice-type God Rank hiding on Blue Star, promising resources in exchange. Chen Luo pretended to consider the offer, took Bodo’s possessions, and imprisoned him while planning to grow strong enough to handle the threat himself.
Chen Luo questioned the surviving Sky-Blue Monster and learned that a God Rank might be on Blue Star, while Mi Li resurrected the fallen defenders. Rice warned Chen Luo that an injured God Rank would come to them the day after tomorrow and that he was their only hope of killing it.
Chen Luo realized that his spacetime abilities might let him defeat the Ice God Rank by reverting the enemy to the moment of his worst injuries. He suspected he had accidentally used Spacetime Reversal to cause his own rebirth, but he doubted he could control the ability well enough to turn back the God Rank’s time by two and a half years; a vast mass of spacetime energy was due to arrive in three days.