Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo extracted a King Rank crystal, then used a dung beetle hidden in potatoes to track Yuri to his hideout. He confronted Yuri, who was terrified and tried to stall with a guessing game.

• Chen Luo gave Zhao Jing rice and potatoes in exchange for his King Rank crystal, then cut open the corpse and began absorbing the crystal.
• Yuri sent a giant bird to request more potatoes, and Chen Luo hid a dung beetle inside the sack to track it back to Yuri.
• Chen Luo summoned Elder Dung and followed its directions with Meng Yin to an old residential area where Yuri was hiding.
• Chen Luo used Void Walk to appear before Yuri as he finished roasting and eating the potatoes.
• Yuri recognized Chen Luo, denied being Sixth-rate Yuri, and asked, “Guess whether I'll guess.”

Chen Luo captured Yuri for contaminating the base and brought him before Rice to face judgment. Rice punished Yuri by ordering him to swim ten laps in the Swimming Pool after Elder Dung added something extra to it.

• Chen Luo pinned Yuri down after finding the tracker that exposed him, and Yuri offered information about a Zombie alliance to save himself.
• Yuri revealed that Big Strong led a growing Zombie group, while Big Strong killed Steel Head in a fight and recruited the rival Zombies.
• Chen Luo decided to keep Yuri alive for Rice to judge, then mobilized more than fifteen hundred members to bring him back to the base.
• The members paraded Yuri through the streets and pelted him with stones before Chen Luo brought him to Rice.
• Rice slapped Yuri with the Meow-Meow Fist, had Elder Dung add something to the Swimming Pool, and ordered Yuri to swim ten laps.

Chen Luo punished Yuri for defiling the Swimming Pool and forced him to serve the base with his psychic abilities. He then rewarded Wild Thunder with a level-seven lightning crystal, leaving Wild Thunder eager to grow stronger and defeat the Thunder Dharma King.

• Yuri swam over a hundred laps in the Swimming Pool and pretended to choke, but Rice left his punishment to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo had Wild Thunder whip Yuri a hundred times, then offered him a choice between more lashes and death.
• Yuri chose to live and agreed to work for Chen Luo for three years, using his Mind Communication and Mind Control abilities to expand the intelligence network.
• Chen Luo warned Yuri not to tamper with intelligence and had him locked up so others could establish Mind Links with him.
• Wild Thunder asked to trade points for a level-seven crystal, and Chen Luo offered him a level-seven lightning crystal for fifteen hundred points, letting him owe the last five hundred.

Lu Tianzhu defeated local thugs, Gu Changfeng’s group seized a base and learned about Dawn City, and Ling Weiwei decided to visit Dawn City’s gathering. Meanwhile, Dharma King hid a crystal and planned to save enough points to become Dog Leader in one stroke.

• Lu Tianzhu transformed into a firebird and then a Thunder Wolf to kill the thugs and their level-six leader before searching for a place to stay.
• Gu Changfeng threatened a base’s residents, then ordered his group to kill them after they agreed to surrender; a dying survivor warned them about Dawn City, prompting Gu Changfeng to investigate.
• Ling Weiwei heard about Dawn City’s improved seeds and strength, remembered harming a stray puppy in Divine Capital, and decided to attend Dawn City’s gathering.
• Dharma King took the Puppies’ level-five crystal and hid it instead of giving it to Chen Luo, then planned to save up supplies and points to become Dog Leader.

Chen Luo's gathering showcased Dawn City's strength and generosity as it executed Yi Siying for impersonating one of its members and publicized how it protected Zhao Jing. Chen Guang demanded that the people who robbed Zhao Jing step forward, leaving the crowd to face Dawn City's call for justice.

• Chen Luo held a larger gathering at South Stadium while Gu Changfeng brooded over Dawn City's strength and hoped to catch up to Chen Luo.
• Lu Tianzhu admired Dawn City's food and potato-seed offer, while Ling Weiwei decided she wanted to join.
• Chen Guang ordered Yi Siying executed for impersonating a Dawn City elder, and Chen Luo killed her with Space Cutting.
• Zhao Jing told the crowd that Dawn City had protected him and provided food after he surrendered a valuable crystal to Chen Luo.
• Chen Guang demanded that whoever had robbed Zhao Jing step forward.

Chen Luo’s Dawn City meeting ended with new promises, potato-seed rules, and recruitment limited to level-six Esper Ability Users, bringing Ling Weiwei into the base. The Dharma King recognized Ling Weiwei as the woman who had stabbed him when he was a puppy, and turned on her in anger.

• Chen Luo had a bald man and Scarface kowtow to Zhao Jing, then Chen Guang promised Zhao Jing Dawn City’s protection for life.
• Chen Guang announced that Dawn City would provide potato seeds in exchange for twenty percent of the extra yield and would recruit only level-six Esper Ability Users.
• Ling Weiwei left her companions, introduced herself as a level-six nature Esper Ability User who could improve seed yields, and joined Dawn City.
• Chen Luo personally welcomed Ling Weiwei and escorted her through the base toward Meng Yin.
• The Dharma King heard Ling Weiwei’s voice, remembered how she had stabbed him as a puppy, and recognized her with a savage snarl.

Dharma King recognized Ling Weiwei as the person who had abused him when he was a puppy, and Chen Luo let him confront her. As Dharma King struck, Ling Weiwei awakened a dual esper ability and gained a level-eight physique.

• Dharma King approached Ling Weiwei with hatred, and Rice identified her as the person who had cut off Dharma King's ears and stabbed him.
• Chen Luo confronted Ling Weiwei, who denied it at first but eventually admitted what she had done and begged for forgiveness.
• Chen Luo refused to protect Ling Weiwei and let Dharma King decide her fate; Dharma King advanced while she pleaded for him to stop.
• Ling Weiwei underwent an extreme emotional upheaval and awakened a dual esper ability, rapidly gaining a physique equivalent to level eight.
• Dharma King struck Ling Weiwei's calf, but she remained able to move, and Chen Luo realized she had likely awakened her ability.

After Ling Weiwei awakened nature and darkness abilities, she transformed into a massive black monster and fought Dharma King. Dharma King unleashed purple lightning to destroy her, then collapsed from exhaustion while warning Chen Luo not to charge him too many points.

• Dharma King attacked Ling Weiwei, and the beating helped her awaken her abilities and transform into a giant black monster.
• Chen Luo used Void Exile to move Ling Weiwei outside the base and brought Dharma King after her with Void Walk.
• Ling Weiwei's passive curse weakened Dharma King whenever he attacked, while her strength and speed increased.
• Ling Weiwei taunted Dharma King and called him a worthless mutt, driving him into a rage.
• Dharma King awakened purple lightning and blasted Ling Weiwei into pieces with Taste a dog's fury.
• Dharma King collapsed from exhaustion and told Chen Luo not to charge him more than a thousand points.

After Dharma King killed Ling Weiwei, Chen Luo discovered that Dharma King had awakened wind alongside his lightning ability. Dharma King outran Chen Luo in a race, but Chen Luo used Void Exile to send him back to the starting point and claimed victory.

• Chen Luo let Dharma King keep the points for killing Ling Weiwei and examined the crystal left behind by her fused nature and darkness transformation.
• Dharma King demonstrated that he could generate powerful gusts and a tornado, revealing his newly awakened wind esper ability alongside lightning.
• Chen Luo theorized that awakening dual esper abilities earlier could make their fusion more powerful, and suspected Dharma King had reached Pseudo-Level Ten strength.
• Chen Luo challenged Dharma King to race five kilometers to the base for a hundred points, and Dharma King surged ahead using wind and lightning.
• As Dharma King neared the base, Chen Luo used Void Exile to return him to the starting point, then declared himself the winner.

Yuri told Chen Luo that Big Strong had found a valuable Advanced Crystal, so Chen Luo lured Big Strong away and stole the crystals he had hidden. Big Strong discovered the theft after meeting Chen Luo and was left wailing over his loss.

• Yuri reported that Big Strong had acquired a crystal that Chen Luo suspected was at least level nine.
• Big Strong defeated a level-seven mutant Zombie with help from his underlings and found a large fiery-red crystal, while Little Mantou witnessed everything for Yuri.
• Chen Luo arranged to meet Big Strong under the pretense of giving him the antidote, and Big Strong buried both crystals in a flower bed before going to the meeting.
• Chen Luo watched Big Strong hide the crystals, dug them up, and found a level-ten fire crystal and a level-seven flesh crystal.
• Chen Luo gave Big Strong the prepared pill and left, while Big Strong returned to the flower bed and found the crystals gone.
• Big Strong frantically searched the flower bed, then collapsed and howled in grief.

After reaching level nine, Chen Luo learned from Rice that fusing his time and space abilities would kill him, so he abandoned the experiment. He helped Ma Yu gather mutant plants for research and gave Dharma King the privilege of issuing points missions, while Sea Ji’s cultivation continued to accelerate.

• Rice showed Chen Luo a poisonous mutant flower, which Ma Yu pulled up to test as a possible way to neutralize ribbonfish stench.
• Chen Luo absorbed crystals and reached level nine, greatly increasing his physical strength and Void Walk range.
• Chen Luo asked Rice to predict what would happen if he fused his time and space abilities, and Rice saw Chen Luo die, so Chen Luo decided not to try.
• Chen Luo found that his new level let him accelerate Sea Ji’s cultivation for longer and hoped she might reach king rank within a month.
• Chen Luo gave Ma Yu permission to issue points missions for mutant-plant research, then granted Dharma King the same privilege after Dharma King complained.

Ningshuang drove away survivors who tried to cut open the whale she considered a friend, killing Ji Yuan with a glance. Mo Ziyou led Chen Luo to her, but Ningshuang fled as soon as she saw him, leaving Chen Luo and Mo Ziyou stunned.

• Mo Ziyou and Ji Yuan argued over how to divide the whale's remains until Ningshuang ordered them not to touch it.
• Ji Yuan approached Ningshuang, and she froze and shattered him before warning the survivors to leave.
• Mo Ziyou reported Ningshuang to Chen Guang, who relayed the news to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo recognized Ningshuang from Mo Ziyou's description and had him lead the way to the coast.
• Ningshuang saw Chen Luo and immediately ran away, while Chen Luo wondered if he had scared off a King Rank just by appearing.

Chen Luo chased Ningshuang across the sea, fought to keep her from escaping, and learned that the Sea God had captured her friend Little Dolphin. Ningshuang asked Chen Luo for help, and he eagerly agreed.

• Chen Luo pursued Ningshuang and grabbed her, but she froze him in ice and fled again.
• Ningshuang revealed her mermaid form and attacked Chen Luo with pursuing Ice Arrows as he used Void Walk to evade her.
• When Ningshuang tried to escape underwater, Chen Luo teleported beside her and held her, and she bit his neck.
• Green Jellyfish arrived and told Ningshuang that the Sea God wanted her to come and that Little Dolphin had been captured.
• Ningshuang agreed to go and asked Chen Luo for help, and he gladly accepted.

Chen Luo agreed to help Ningshuang rescue Little Dolphin from the Sea God, while weighing the danger of facing a powerful enemy and his subordinates. At the Sea God Palace, Bai Hao learned that Little Dolphin had killed herself and prepared to eat her.

• Ningshuang asked Chen Luo to help rescue Little Dolphin, and he agreed despite worrying that the Sea God could overwhelm them.
• Chen Luo asked Ningshuang why she did not share other sea creatures’ urge to kill, and she said she had grown strong after eating something icy cold.
• Ningshuang, Chen Luo, and the green jellyfish headed toward the Sea God Palace, but Little Dolphin did not respond to Ningshuang’s attempt to contact her.
• Bai Hao learned that his followers had captured Little Dolphin to lure Ningshuang to the island, denied ordering the plan, and warned them not to repeat it.
• Little Dolphin realized she was being used as bait and killed herself, so Bai Hao ordered that she be eaten.

After Little Dolphin died, Ningshuang set out to avenge it by attacking the Sea God, but Chen Luo repeatedly stopped her and promised to help kill the Sea God within a year. Ningshuang agreed to stay on land with Chen Luo, binding him to the promise with a pinky swear.

• Little Dolphin sent Ningshuang a telepathic farewell before dying, and Ningshuang grieved and vowed to avenge it by killing the Sea God.
• Chen Luo killed Green Jellyfish, then used Void Walk to catch Ningshuang whenever she flew off toward the Sea God.
• After Ningshuang broke down crying on an island, Chen Luo proposed that they join forces against the Sea God and promised to help her within a year.
• Ningshuang doubted Chen Luo could defeat the Sea God but agreed to wait, provided he helped her avenge Little Dolphin.
• Ningshuang refused to go to Chen Luo's home but agreed to stay somewhere on land and pinky-swore to wait one year before acting on her own.

Chen Luo returned from rescuing Ningshuang, while Dharma King secured his crystals and dealt with an unexpected puppy-shaped intruder. The chapter ended with Dharma King speaking human words for the first time, leaving Chen Luo astonished and excited.

• Chen Luo brought Ningshuang ashore, gave her a lollipop, and handed Mo Ziyou the level-six crystal from Great Whale’s corpse before taking him back to the Divine Capital.
• Chen Luo returned to Mi Li and Rice, who noticed the bite mark on his neck, and he claimed a fish had bitten him.
• Dharma King entrusted his crystals to Silver Wolf, then discovered that Meng Yin had disguised herself as a puppy and kicked her out of the Doghouse.
• Dharma King asked Chen Luo how many points level-seven through level-ten crystals were worth, speaking human words for the first time.
• Chen Luo rushed inside to announce that Dharma King could talk.

Chen Luo raised Dharma King’s meat prices and reviewed Zhao Hai’s intelligence report on the bases in the Divine Capital. He decided to recruit Lu Tianzhu personally and considered expanding to other survivor regions after reaching level ten.

• Chen Luo told Dharma King that crystals were worth fewer points and raised the price of meat, leaving Dharma King worried about feeding his family.
• Zhao Hai gave Chen Luo a detailed notebook about the bases that had recently arrived in the Divine Capital, and Chen Luo rewarded Zhao Hai and Song Ling with a meal.
• Chen Luo focused on Lu Tianzhu, a powerful nature ability user with over six hundred followers, and decided to visit her to recruit her.
• Chen Luo identified Gu Changfeng as another future King Rank but chose to wait before approaching him.
• Chen Luo planned to establish branch bases and recruit survivors elsewhere once he reached level ten, when Void Walk would let him respond quickly to danger.

Big Strong led his zombie horde in an attack on Lu Tianzhu's base, where Gu Changfeng and Lu Tianzhu failed to stop him. When Chen Luo arrived, Big Strong withdrew at the warning that Dawn City was coming, and Chen Luo went after him while Big Strong realized his big bro wanted to contact him.

• Big Strong suspected Chen Luo had stolen his buried crystals and led more than a hundred and twenty zombies to attack Lu Tianzhu's base.
• Gu Changfeng offered to merge bases with Lu Tianzhu, but she declined and said she wanted to persuade Chen Luo to take in her people.
• Gu Changfeng and Lu Tianzhu fought Big Strong, but he overwhelmed them, knocked Lu Tianzhu out of her firebird form, and sent the survivors fleeing.
• A zombie warned Big Strong that people from Dawn City were approaching, so Big Strong promptly withdrew with his group.
• Chen Luo arrived, contacted Zhao Ziyi to reach Big Strong, and pursued the zombies; Big Strong told his subordinates to run ahead while he stayed behind, thinking of himself as Chen Luo's mole.

Chen Luo used an emotional performance to convince Big Strong that he had not stolen his crystals, then recruited Lu Tianzhu and offered her companions places in Dawn City’s auxiliary organization. As Chen Luo left with Lu Tianzhu, Gu Changfeng vowed to surpass him.

• Big Strong confronted Chen Luo about the stolen crystals, but Chen Luo denied it and explained away his suspicious behavior.
• Chen Luo gave Big Strong Green Jellyfish’s level eight crystal, and Big Strong apologized for doubting him.
• Lu Tianzhu asked to join Chen Luo, and he accepted her while offering her companions places in Dawn City’s auxiliary organization.
• Chen Luo warned Gu Changfeng not to cross him, then left with Lu Tianzhu as Gu Changfeng vowed to surpass him.

Chen Da and his brothers encountered a powerful fire zombie, but Chen Liu distracted it with animal imitations until it laughed itself to death. The puppies brought its level-ten crystal back to Silver Wolf, leaving Dharma King one step closer to becoming the Dog Leader and setting up another clash with Chen Luo.

• Chen Da led the six puppies out to hunt zombies and earn points near N City.
• The puppies tried to fight a fire zombie, but its speed and strength forced them to flee after it caught Chen Wu.
• Chen Liu stalled the fire zombie by imitating a cat and then Meng Yin's little duck until it laughed itself to death.
• The puppies found a level-ten crystal and decided to give it to their father to help cover the cost of their food.
• The puppies returned to the base and gave the crystal to Silver Wolf, who realized it could help Dharma King become the Dog Leader.