Chapter Summaries

Reborn one month before the apocalypse, Chen Luo used his still-functioning storage space to stockpile cooked meals and arrange enormous orders of meat. After paying for the first pork shipment, he received an angry call from his uncle over selling shares for far below their value.

• Chen Luo loaded fried chicken, roast ducks, and hundreds of restaurant meals into his time-stopping storage space.
• He recalled his lonely life as the Void Monarch in the apocalypse and resolved to stockpile food before the outbreak in twenty-seven days.
• Chen Luo ordered ten thousand tonnes of pork and large quantities of other meats, then went to the cold storage facility to inspect the first two-thousand-tonne shipment.
• He hired Old Zhang and Old Li to check the pork, paid for the shipment, and left the facility with Manager Wang.
• Chen Luo's uncle called and angrily confronted him for selling shares worth over three billion yuan for one billion without consulting him.

Chen Luo sold his shares in the Chen Group for a fraction of their value to secure money before the apocalypse, then learned that a search team had found the black dog who would become the top lightning ability user. He set out to bring Thunder Dharma King home.

• Chen Luo reflected on how his uncle, Chen Jian'an, had stolen value from his inheritance and sold his 17 percent stake in the Chen Group for one billion to a powerful young man.
• Chen Jian'an summoned Chen Luo and tried to buy back the shares, but Chen Luo said the contract was already signed and joked about using the money to stockpile pork.
• Chen Luo received a call from a search team reporting a possible sighting of the black Chinese Rural Dog with one missing ear.
• Chen Luo recognized the dog in the photo as Thunder Dharma King, the future top lightning user whom he had eaten in his previous life.
• Chen Luo decided to rescue the dog and hoped to make him his companion.

Chen Luo went to a dog meat restaurant and rescued the Thunder Dharma King by claiming the restaurant had stolen his dog and threatening to call the police. The dog followed Chen Luo as he took him home, leaving Chen Luo hopeful that he had gained a powerful future ally.

• Chen Jian'an and Chen Fei discussed Chen Luo’s supply purchases and rejected the idea of killing him for his inheritance.
• Chen Luo met private detective Wang Ming, who led him to a dog meat restaurant where the Thunder Dharma King was caged.
• Chen Luo accused the restaurant owner, Bai Er, of stealing his dog and threatened to report the restaurant to the police.
• Bai Er released the Thunder Dharma King and let Chen Luo take him without charge.
• Chen Luo called the dog Little Black, and the Thunder Dharma King obediently followed him.

Chen Luo brought King home and renewed his resolve to save Su Dazhu, his friend who had died protecting him in the apocalypse. As Chen Luo planned to build a settlement and stockpile clean water and other supplies, King settled into his new home.

• Chen Luo paid Wang Ming one million for finding King, then took the dog to a pet store for bathing supplies.
• Chen Luo visited his villa and saw Su Dazhu, remembering how Dazhu had died protecting him after the apocalypse; he promised himself to keep his friend alive this time.
• Chen Luo brought King home, bathed him, and considered recruiting future ability users and expanding his stockpile, especially of clean water.
• Chen Luo fed King sweet-and-sour ribs from his ability space, and King copied him by spitting out the bones, prompting Chen Luo to realize his joke had insulted himself.

Chen Luo spent most of his money stockpiling food, equipment, and supplies for the apocalypse, while arranging to train in cooking. With preparations nearly complete, he planned to rely on grain depots and supermarkets for more supplies after the apocalypse.

• Chen Luo tested Dharma King's attachment to him, then took the dog along as he searched for warehouses and suppliers.
• Chen Luo spent most of his funds on meat, vegetables, water, fruit, snacks, storage, and prepared food, but left rice and flour for a later raid on grain depots.
• Chen Luo ordered stun batons, alloy armor, phones loaded with offline entertainment and study materials, generators, solar panels, fuel, walkie-talkies, household goods, and basic medicine.
• Chen Luo hired Ma Yu as a cooking instructor and began learning to make sweet-and-sour ribs, though his first attempts were far worse than her cooking.

With the apocalypse five days away, Chen Luo prepared weapons and armor while gathering information about Mi Ling and Mi Li. On the morning the apocalypse was due to begin, he arranged to meet his uncle Chen Jian'an, whom he had promised to kill that day.

• Chen Luo watched Mi Ling and Mi Li leave their residential complex, then hired Wang Ming to learn their preferences so he could recruit both sisters.
• Wang Ming reported that Mi Ling liked Sichuan cuisine and grapes, while Mi Li liked fish, braised pig's trotters, and watermelon.
• Chen Luo received two suits of armor and fifty stun batons, practiced wearing the armor, and parked a heavy truck near his cold-storage warehouse.
• On June 2, Chen Luo moved his remaining supplies into his ability space and spent a restless night awaiting the apocalypse.
• On the morning the apocalypse was due to begin, Chen Luo called Chen Jian'an and proposed borrowing five hundred million yuan against his supplies, promising to repay six hundred million within a month.
• Chen Luo arranged to visit Chen Jian'an and Fei, then resolved to kill Chen Jian'an that day.

Chen Luo waited for the apocalypse to begin before attacking Chen Jian'an and Chen Fei at Chen Jian'an’s home. After the maid turned into a zombie, Chen Luo stunned Chen Fei and let the zombie maul him.

• Chen Luo warned Su Dazhu to be careful after nine, then delayed his arrival at Chen Jian'an’s house until 9:05.
• Chen Jian'an and Chen Fei discussed Chen Luo’s cryptocurrency deal while Chen Luo arrived and ate breakfast.
• At 9:15, the maid howled and transformed into a zombie, then lunged at Chen Fei.
• Chen Luo stopped Chen Fei from shutting the door and shocked him unconscious with a Stun Baton.
• Chen Luo held Chen Fei upright as the zombie maid tore flesh from his face and wondered why it tasted tingly.

Chen Luo killed Chen Jian'an and Chen Fei as revenge for their betrayal and his parents’ murder, then dealt with the Maid Zombie. He extracted the zombie’s pale white crystal and explained how crystals reflected abilities.

• Chen Jian'an attacked Chen Luo, who shocked him and knocked him unconscious while the Maid Zombie ate Chen Fei.
• Chen Luo revived Chen Jian'an and kept him pinned down with the stun baton as Chen Fei pleaded for help and was mauled.
• Chen Jian'an admitted he had secretly cheated Chen Luo out of shares and confessed his resentment toward Chen Luo’s father, but Chen Luo stabbed him to death.
• After Chen Fei was bitten to death, the Maid Zombie lunged at Chen Luo, who shocked her, then killed her by driving his dagger between her eyebrows.
• Chen Luo searched the Maid Zombie’s brain for her pale white crystal and described how crystal colors and sizes varied with abilities.

Chen Luo waited for his ability to awaken while collecting crystals and watching Dharma King awaken as a Lightning user. Chen Luo awakened his Spatial ability, tested its power, and began absorbing crystals to advance.

• Chen Luo extracted crystals from the Maid Zombie and a teenage girl zombie, then searched Chen Jian'an's home for supplies while waiting for his awakening.
• Dharma King shocked Chen Luo when purple electricity flashed across his fur, then endured the pain of awakening his Lightning ability.
• Chen Luo experienced intense pain as his Spatial ability awakened and used it to crack the wall with a sphere of spatial power.
• Chen Luo absorbed the two crystals and sensed that his inner crystal had grown about one-fifth toward a Level Two advancement.

Chen Luo tested Dharma King’s new lightning ability, looted a supermarket, and collected zombie crystals before driving toward a cold-storage warehouse. He refused a stranger’s offer to team up, continuing alone with Dharma King.

• Chen Luo taught Dharma King to fire lightning, and Dharma King shattered a television with his first bolt.
• Chen Luo and Dharma King drove through the villa complex, where Chen Luo stopped to loot the supermarket and put on his armor before approaching it.
• Chen Luo electrocuted zombies while Dharma King distracted others, then cleared the supermarket’s shelves and storage room into his ability space.
• Chen Luo collected six zombie crystals, praised Dharma King for helping, and drove away toward the cold-storage warehouse by a quieter route.
• A young driver asked Chen Luo what was happening and proposed that they travel together, but Chen Luo called it the apocalypse and refused.

Chen Luo cleared the road to a cold storage facility and used a heavy truck to destroy the Zombies inside. After collecting their crystals, he searched for survivors, determined to keep the facility’s supplies and his ability space secret.

• Chen Luo rejected the idea of recruiting ordinary survivors and drove toward the cold storage facility with Dharma King.
• Chen Luo used Stun Batons and his armor to kill the Zombies blocking the road, then moved their crashed van aside.
• Chen Luo drove a heavy truck through the facility’s electronic gate and ran down the Zombies inside while Dharma King barked excitedly.
• After the facility fell silent, Chen Luo extracted crystals and searched for survivors before collecting supplies, fearing they might expose his ability space.

Chen Luo encountered three survivors at the cold storage facility, who tried to ambush him and take his truck. He killed them and drove away with supplies, leaving their bodies behind.

• Gu Tao, Tong Yuanhang, and Zhang Meng watched Chen Luo kill zombies and decided to take his truck and armor.
• The three approached Chen Luo pretending to thank him, then grabbed him from either side.
• Chen Luo pulled out two Stun Batons and incapacitated Gu Tao and Tong Yuanhang.
• Zhang Meng tried to flee, but Dharma King tackled her, and Chen Luo killed her.
• Chen Luo drove his truck to the facility, turned around, and ran over the three bodies as he left.

Chen Luo collected the cold-storage facility’s vast supplies and headed home in a heavy truck, then killed a blond survivor who threatened him. The chapter left Dharma King having gained experience killing a human under Chen Luo’s orders.

• Chen Luo collected his meat and the cold-storage facility’s garlic, ginger, meats, seafood, tea, frozen treats, fruits, and vegetables into his Ability Space.
• Chen Luo drove home in a heavy truck, planning to check on Su Dazhu before visiting the grain depot.
• A blond survivor ran into the road and asked Chen Luo for a ride, but Chen Luo drove past without stopping.
• The blond cursed Chen Luo and threatened him, so Chen Luo stopped the truck and told Dharma King that the man wanted to eat dog meat.
• Dharma King struck the blond with lightning, then killed him by tearing open his throat after Chen Luo ordered him to finish the man without using his ability.

Chen Luo returned to his villa complex and searched for Su Dazhu, finding him hiding with Chen Jing. He invited Su Dazhu and Chen Jing to stay with him, while privately recognizing Chen Jing as the manipulative woman who had harmed them in his previous life.

• Chen Luo drove through blocked roads to reach his neighborhood and had Dharma King lure zombies away to guard the truck.
• Chen Luo searched the villa complex for Su Dazhu, worried that the apocalypse might have turned him into a zombie.
• Chen Luo shouted for Su Dazhu, drawing a zombie over and killing it with his stun baton as Su Dazhu and Chen Jing watched.
• Su Dazhu recognized Chen Luo and called out to him, while Chen Luo remembered Chen Jing's deceitful behavior from his previous life.
• Chen Luo invited Su Dazhu to stay at his place, and Su Dazhu and Chen Jing both agreed.

Chen Luo tried to make Chen Jing take risks to obtain food and test the tap water, while hiding food from her and tormenting her with bread rubbed on Dharma King. The chapter ended with Dharma King exposing Chen Jing’s hidden backpack, revealing her stash of snacks and drinks.

• Chen Luo killed two zombies with the Stun Baton and brought Chen Jing and Su Dazhu to his villa.
• Chen Luo secretly stored the food in his refrigerator and gave Chen Jing and Su Dazhu bread, rubbing one portion against Dharma King before serving it.
• Chen Luo proposed that Chen Jing lure zombies away from the supermarket, then suggested she test the tap water when she refused to help.
• Chen Jing suggested using Dharma King to test the water, prompting the dog to attack her backpack.
• Chen Luo opened Chen Jing’s backpack and found beef bites, chocolate, chips, jelly cups, and two bottles of Wahaha.

Chen Luo exposed Chen Jing’s hidden snacks and devised a test to reveal her selfishness to Su Dazhu. When zombies approached, Chen Jing took the garlic juice meant for Su Dazhu, and Chen Luo left her actions exposed.

• Chen Luo took Chen Jing’s snacks and gave most of them to Su Dazhu, who turned hostile toward her for hiding food after he had risked himself to save her.
• Chen Jing apologized and invented a story about her childhood, while Chen Luo planned to use a crisis to show Su Dazhu her true nature.
• Chen Luo sent Dharma King to lure zombies toward the villa, then prepared garlic juice and told Su Dazhu it could repel them.
• As zombies reached the villa, Chen Luo poured garlic juice over himself and urged Su Dazhu to use the other bowl.
• Chen Jing seized the remaining garlic juice and poured it over herself, and Chen Luo told Su Dazhu not to trust everyone after the Apocalypse.
• Chen Jing realized Chen Luo had set her up and confronted him.

Chen Luo killed Chen Jing and the zombies that attacked the villa, then explained his supposed Space ability to Su Dazhu. After assigning Dharma King to clean up, Chen Luo invited Su Dazhu upstairs to eat and drink.

• Chen Luo revealed that garlic attracted zombies, then kicked Chen Jing into the horde and killed the remaining zombies with his electric ability.
• Chen Luo and Su Dazhu carried the zombie corpses outside, and Chen Luo made Dharma King mop the bloodied floor.
• Chen Luo declined to go to the supermarket and served Su Dazhu a large meal from his stored supplies.
• Chen Luo told Su Dazhu that he had awakened a Space ability before the apocalypse and had stocked up because he sensed disaster was coming.
• Su Dazhu accepted Chen Luo's explanation and sat down to eat with him.

Chen Luo reunited with Su Dazhu, gave him food and zombie crystals, and helped him begin strengthening himself. Chen Luo absorbed crystals rapidly, reached Level Two, and managed to form the Void Sword before exhaustion forced him to collapse.

• Chen Luo celebrated reuniting with Su Dazhu by feeding him until he was full, then gave Dharma King braised pork.
• Chen Luo gave Su Dazhu zombie crystals to absorb and asked him to call him big brother.
• Chen Luo explained how crystals strengthened ability users, then gave Dharma King crystals to eat one at a time.
• Chen Luo absorbed crystals and discovered he could take in far more power than expected, reaching Level Two after the twenty-first crystal.
• Chen Luo absorbed forty-two crystals in total, then concentrated his power into a pale white Void Sword and collapsed from exhaustion.

Chen Luo took Su Dazhu and Dharma King to collect grain from a depot, but found signs of mutated creatures in its basement. When a rat swarm squeaked nearby, Chen Luo grabbed Su Dazhu and fled.

• Chen Luo learned that Su Dazhu had absorbed seven crystals and Dharma King nine, then prepared to bring Su Dazhu on the grain run.
• Chen Luo equipped Su Dazhu with armor and Stun Batons, and Dharma King lured zombies away from their truck.
• Chen Luo drove a detour to the grain depot, where he killed nearly all the zombies with the truck.
• Chen Luo found a human skeleton near the open basement passage and realized mutated creatures might be inside.
• Chen Luo heard a rat swarm and immediately grabbed Su Dazhu to run.

Chen Luo and Su Dazhu fled the grain depot’s basement as a swarm of mutated rats pursued them, but the mutant Rat King brought them down and attacked. The Dharma King returned to draw rats away, while Su Dazhu’s Stun Baton barely hurt the Rat King and its bite split his armor.

• Chen Luo grabbed Su Dazhu and ran for the heavy truck as the rats poured out of the basement, while the Dharma King ran down a separate corridor to lure some away.
• The Rat King chased Chen Luo and Su Dazhu, leaped onto Chen Luo near the office building’s exit, and knocked him to the ground.
• Hundreds of rats swarmed over both men, but Chen Luo used his Stun Baton to kill the ordinary rats while realizing the Rat King was a mutant.
• The Dharma King broke through a corridor window, returned, and barked to draw most of the rats away from Chen Luo and Su Dazhu.
• The Rat King attacked Su Dazhu, resisted the Stun Baton, and bit a deep split into his armor.