Chapter Summaries

Dharma King gathered enough points to challenge Chen Luo for the Dog Leader position and revealed his plan at Rice's birthday gathering. The chapter ended with Chen Luo staring at Dharma King's level-ten crystal after Dharma King demanded the position.

• Dharma King tallied his points and crystals, then secretly planned how to outmaneuver Chen Luo and redeem the Dog Leader position.
• Dharma King learned that Chen Luo was holding a gathering for Rice's birthday and saw it as the perfect chance to make his move publicly.
• Dharma King asked Meng Yin to find out the Deputy Leader price, and she confirmed with Chen Luo that it was still ten thousand points.
• At Rice's birthday gathering, Dharma King presented 346 level-five crystals and claimed they brought his total to five thousand points.
• Dharma King produced a level-ten crystal, claimed it was worth five thousand points, and demanded the Dog Leader position, leaving Chen Luo stunned.

Chen Luo tried to stop Dharma King from becoming Deputy Leader, but Dharma King revealed enough crystals to win the position. At the ceremony that afternoon, a terrifying aura erupted from within the base as the sky turned black.

• Chen Luo secretly switched Dharma King's level ten Fire crystal with Big Strong's partially depleted crystal, but Dharma King brought out a hidden cache of crystals.
• Dharma King proved he had ten thousand points, and Chen Luo admitted defeat and granted him the leadership position.
• Dharma King announced he would pay for everyone's food, and Mi Ling suggested calling him Deputy Dharma to avoid Chen Luo having to call him Dog Leader.
• Chen Luo held a ceremony at five that afternoon, where Dharma King appeared in a black trench coat and sunglasses as Deputy Dharma.
• The sky suddenly turned pitch-black, and a terrifying aura surged from within the base.

Sea Ji broke through to King Rank, unleashing a blast that shook Chen Luo’s base, while Dharma King was promoted to First Deputy Leader. The chapter ended with Dharma King picking up the members’ tab and the base celebrating both milestones.

• Sea Ji reached King Rank and, unable to control the surging energy, rushed outside the base and blasted the ground, creating a huge crater.
• Dharma King grew furious at Sea Ji’s disruption and made reaching King Rank to teach her a lesson his new goal.
• After recovering, Sea Ji hugged Chen Luo and asked him to help her find Ningshuang the next day so she could settle their score.
• Chen Luo held Dharma King’s promotion ceremony, named him First Deputy Leader, and awarded him ten thousand points.
• Chen Luo lowered the price of meat and offered free meals to Dharma King’s sisters-in-law, so Dharma King announced that he would treat everyone.
• Chen Luo brought out ten tons of meat, and the members celebrated Dharma King’s promotion and Sea Ji’s advancement.

Chen Luo and Sea Ji found Ningshuang and challenged her to a fight, which escalated into a brutal magical duel and then a slap fight. Chen Luo broke in to restrain Ningshuang while Sea Ji kept striking her for yelling at him.

• Sea Ji carried Chen Luo to Ningshuang’s cottage, but they found her singing by the coast among a crowd of survivors.
• Sea Ji ordered the survivors to leave, and Chen Luo made sure they cleared out before Ningshuang joined them.
• Sea Ji and Ningshuang exchanged insults and unleashed powerful dark and ice attacks against each other.
• Their abilities exhausted each other, and Sea Ji and Ningshuang began slapping one another instead.
• Chen Luo restrained Ningshuang as Sea Ji slapped her again, saying she deserved it for yelling at her little brother.

Chen Luo stopped Sea Ji and Ningshuang from continuing their fight, then persuaded them to wait a month before confronting Bai Hao so he could grow stronger and help counter the false god’s underlings. As the three left to train together, Sea Ji killed a survivor who insulted Chen Luo, leaving the group’s plans intact but showing that her loyalty could be dangerous.

• Chen Luo blocked Sea Ji’s slap against Ningshuang and pretended to be hurt until the two women stopped fighting.
• Chen Luo introduced Sea Ji as an ally against Bai Hao, and Ningshuang felt lonely when Chen Luo insisted Sea Ji was his only big sister.
• Chen Luo convinced Sea Ji and Ningshuang to wait about a month before fighting Bai Hao, whose body was as hard as metal.
• Chen Luo invited Ningshuang to his place to practice coordinating their abilities, and she agreed after he offered her snacks.
• Sea Ji heard a survivor curse Chen Luo as they left and killed him with Light of Annihilation.

Chen Luo brought Ningshuang to the base, where Mi Li healed her and Sea Ji before Jiang Chuxue tested Time Stop on them. After a week, Chen Luo’s King Rank crystal was depleted, leaving him uncertain about finding another.

• Chen Luo returned to the base with Sea Ji and Ningshuang, introduced Ningshuang to Mi Li and the others, and asked Mi Li to heal the two King Ranks.
• Jiang Chuxue used Time Stop on Sea Ji and froze her for three seconds, surprising everyone with the ability’s effect on a King Rank.
• Ningshuang tried human food for the first time, loved Ma Yu’s Tomato Beef Brisket, and explored the house afterward.
• Chen Luo had Jiang Chuxue test Time Stop on him and found that it also held him for three seconds unless he used his own time ability to break free.
• A week passed, and Chen Luo’s King Rank crystal ran out.

Gu Changfeng found an advanced mutant crystal and planned to use it to challenge Chen Luo, but his trusted subordinates Gu Hang and Tong Lei separately reported the discovery to Dawn City. Gu Hang and Tong Lei met at Chen Guang’s office, where both realized the other had betrayed Gu Changfeng.

• Gu Changfeng found a bloodstained advanced crystal and warned Gu Hang and Tong Lei to keep it secret.
• Gu Hang decided to inform Dawn City, hoping to earn a place there, and traveled to report the crystal to Chen Guang.
• Chen Guang learned that Tong Lei had already reported the same discovery before Gu Hang arrived.
• Chen Guang brought Tong Lei back into the room, and Gu Hang and Tong Lei recognized each other in surprise.

Chen Luo ordered three branch bases established and sent Su Dazhu with Dawn City members to demand Gu Changfeng’s Advanced Crystal. Gu Changfeng’s trusted subordinates Tong Lei and Gu Hang testified against him, and he collapsed after realizing they had both betrayed him.

• Chen Luo chose Jin Yuanjiang, Xu Qing, and Mi Ling to lead branch bases, with Xia Haoran, Wild Thunder, and Xiong Wenhui assigned to support them.
• After learning Gu Changfeng had obtained an Advanced Crystal, Chen Luo sent Big Pillar and two thousand people to demand it, ordering them to kill Gu Changfeng if he refused.
• Su Dazhu surrounded Gu Changfeng’s base and demanded the crystal, while Tong Lei claimed Gu Changfeng had stolen it from him.
• Gu Changfeng denied having the crystal and accused Tong Lei of lying, but Gu Hang then confirmed that Gu Changfeng had obtained it.
• Gu Changfeng realized both trusted subordinates had betrayed him, spat blood, and collapsed.

Gu Changfeng gave up resisting and asked to join Dawn City, then watched Ningshuang and Sea Ji reveal their overwhelming King Rank power. Chen Luo offered him one chance to prove his loyalty, leaving Gu Changfeng’s fate to be decided by a test of his intentions.

• Gu Changfeng’s underlings fought over his crystal, but he stood up and announced that he wanted to join Dawn City.
• Su Dazhu brought Gu Changfeng to Chen Luo, who told him to watch Ningshuang and Sea Ji spar.
• Ningshuang and Sea Ji traded enormous ice and darkness attacks, astonishing Gu Changfeng and the other spectators with their King Rank strength.
• Ningshuang returned to Mi Li and called her big sister, while Sea Ji teased Gu Changfeng before the crowd dispersed.
• Chen Luo explained the gap between ordinary Esper Ability Users and King Rank, then gave Gu Changfeng a chance to prove his loyalty and planned to have Rice sense his intentions.

Chen Luo reached level ten, tested the devastating but exhausting Dimensional Blade, and led Ningshuang and his companions toward the Sea God Palace to confront the Sea God. The group found Bai Hao sunbathing on the beach, and Chen Luo ordered the uninvolved fish to leave.

• Chen Luo reached level ten and learned from Rice that using his spacetime esper ability would leave him in a vegetative state.
• Chen Luo tested Dimensional Blade and split a mountain, but the attack drained nearly all his esper energy, so he resolved to save it for emergencies.
• Three days later, Chen Luo gathered Yuri and his companions and set out with Ningshuang to find the Sea God Palace near Kangaroo Country's east coast.
• Chen Luo sent Yuri to an island and learned through him that Rice predicted everyone would be safe, though she could not predict whether they would succeed.
• Chen Luo's group reached the Sea God Palace and found Bai Hao on the beach, where Chen Luo ordered the uninvolved fish to clear out.

Chen Luo, Sea Ji, and Ningshuang confronted Bai Hao, whose strange armor blocked their attacks and absorbed Sea Ji’s curse. Chen Luo brought Jiang Chuxue to stop time, then undid Bai Hao’s armor and stripped it off him.

• Chen Luo warned Bai Hao’s nearby underlings that three King Ranks were coming, and they backed away.
• Chen Luo recognized Bai Hao’s purple armor and explained that it could generate a shield when attacked.
• Bai Hao charged the group, but his armor absorbed Sea Ji’s curse and blocked Ningshuang’s ice spears.
• Chen Luo used Void Exile to send Bai Hao half a kilometer away, then brought Jiang Chuxue from her ambush to use Time Stop on him.
• While Bai Hao was frozen, Chen Luo undid the armor’s fastening and stripped it off him.

Chen Luo stole Bai Hao's armor and returned to fight him, only to discover that Bai Hao's defense was far beyond what the armor could overcome. After Sea Ji and Ningshuang helped stall Bai Hao, Chen Luo used Void Exile to combine with Sea Ji's Darkness Devour, but Bai Hao survived and Chen Luo escaped with the others.

• Chen Luo rescued Jiang Chuxue, then put on Bai Hao's armor with her help and returned to confront Bai Hao.
• Bai Hao punched Chen Luo through the nose because the armor's energy barrier failed to activate.
• Sea Ji and Ningshuang attacked Bai Hao, but his defenses let him withstand their strikes and chase Sea Ji in his Great White Shark form.
• Sea Ji used Darkness Devour, and Chen Luo used Void Exile to throw Bai Hao into its black hole.
• Bai Hao survived the black hole's grinding force, and Chen Luo used Void Walk to escape with Sea Ji and Ningshuang.

After escaping the False God, Chen Luo reached Kangaroo Country, tested the purple armor’s energy shield, and returned home with his companions. They found Yuri injured after a feud with a little crab, and Yuri hurried to deny that his injuries had harmed his “little buddy.”

• Chen Luo reunited with Jiang Chuxue and traveled with the group to Kangaroo Country, where they rested on shore.
• Chen Luo discovered that the purple armor absorbed esper energy through its ruby and formed a shield around the person who supplied it.
• Chen Luo had Sea Ji and Ningshuang test the armor, but it shielded Sea Ji’s punch and failed to protect Ningshuang from a blow to the face.
• Sea Ji defeated a swarm of black rabbits, and the group rested before returning to Yuri’s island.
• Chen Luo found Yuri bleeding after a little crab summoned other crabs to attack him, and Yuri insisted that his injuries had not harmed his “little buddy.”

Chen Luo secretly killed the ice zombie challenging Big Strong, letting Big Strong claim the victory and strengthen his hold over his underlings. Big Strong offered Chen Luo the zombie’s crystal, but Chen Luo told him to use it himself and then checked whether he had any other crystals.

• Zhao Ziyi told Chen Luo that an ice zombie was challenging Big Strong for control of his gang near the Great Iron Tower.
• Chen Luo arrived and secretly instructed Big Strong to count to three while pretending to kill the ice zombie himself.
• At Big Strong’s count of three, Chen Luo used Space Cutting to kill the ice zombie, and Big Strong claimed credit before his underlings.
• Big Strong’s underlings cheered his apparent victory, and he later offered the ice zombie’s crystal to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo refused the crystal and pulled Big Strong into a hug, then discovered Big Strong had no other crystal.

Chen Luo visited Xu Qing’s new base, delivered supplies, and learned about a powerful local faction that offered services for a price. The faction had killed a seventh-level Esper Ability User, and Chen Luo became interested in finding out more.

• Chen Luo allowed the guards to shoo away mutant mosquitoes and rewarded them with drinks and Huazi.
• Chen Luo left with Yuri to visit Xu Qing’s base, while Ningshuang complained to Mi Li about Chen Luo and Sea Ji bullying her.
• Chen Luo promised Yuri a shorter sentence and a computer, but deferred his other requests until he saw how Yuri performed.
• Chen Luo reached Xu Qing’s base and unloaded supplies for the next month.
• Wild Thunder and Xu Qing told Chen Luo that six seventh-level people were in the area and described a powerful faction that claimed it could do anything for a price.

Chen Luo visited Heaven's Gate Base and challenged its leader, Chen Tianmen, by offering a level ten crystal in exchange for solving an impossible math problem. After Chen Tianmen exposed his trap and threatened them, Chen Luo claimed to be level ten and demanded that Heaven's Gate stop competing with him, leaving Chen Tianmen convinced he was bluffing.

• Chen Luo took Wild Thunder and Xu Qing to Heaven's Gate Base using Void Walk.
• Chen Luo showed Chen Tianmen a drained level ten crystal and presented him with an unsolved Millennium Problem as the price for it.
• Jiang Wei recognized the problem, and Chen Tianmen realized Chen Luo had come to cause trouble.
• Chen Tianmen summoned over a hundred members and claimed to be a level eight flesh-type user, threatening to kill the three visitors.
• Chen Luo claimed to be level ten and ordered Chen Tianmen to stop running his business, but Chen Tianmen dismissed the claim as a bluff.

Chen Luo crippled and killed Chen Tianmen after the base leader challenged his claim to be level ten, then took control of the base and recruited Jiang Wei as a subordinate. He left Xu Qing to build up the branch while he went to check on Old Jin, and gave Yuri the computer Yuri had requested.

• Chen Tianmen dismissed Chen Luo's claim of being level ten and insulted him, so Chen Luo severed all four of Chen Tianmen's limbs.
• Chen Luo killed more than a dozen of Chen Tianmen's underlings with an Energy Pulse after they charged at him.
• Chen Luo told Jiang Wei and Chen Tianmen that one of them had to die, and Jiang Wei beat Chen Tianmen to death before pledging himself to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo ordered Jiang Wei to extract Chen Tianmen's crystal, told Xu Qing to recruit level-six espers and spread word of his business, and assigned Jiang Wei and the others as peripheral members.
• Chen Luo left to check on Old Jin and gave Yuri a computer with the action content Yuri had requested.

Chen Luo learned that Ye Yu led the dominant base in the area and decided to recruit one of Ye Yu’s trusted companions as a spy. He abducted Wan Jiangui, impressed him with his power and a feast of meat, and offered him a job.

• Jin Yuanjiang told Chen Luo that Ye Yu, a level-nine fighter, led the strongest base in the area.
• Xia Haoran gave Chen Luo a level-nine Flesh-type crystal, but Chen Luo told him to keep it and advance to level eight.
• Chen Luo decided to visit Ye Yu’s base and recruit Wan Jiangui as a mole.
• Chen Luo took Wan Jiangui high into the air and then to a place more than fifty kilometers away.
• Chen Luo set out a feast of meat and asked Wan Jiangui to work for him.

Chen Luo recruited Wan Jiangui to spy on Ye Yu, then visited Ye Yu’s base to establish Dawn City’s strength. He left after devastating the athletic field with a single stomp, and Ye Yu ordered his people to avoid conflict with Dawn City.

• Chen Luo fed Wan Jiangui a feast, effortlessly killed a group of zombies, and recruited him to report Ye Yu’s lucky finds in exchange for a level-seven crystal.
• Chen Luo revealed that he was a King Rank fighter, threatened Wan Jiangui into cooperating, and returned him to his room.
• Wan Jiangui encountered Ye Yu and concealed that he had just eaten a feast with Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo flew over Ye Yu’s base, introduced himself as Dawn City’s leader, and asked Ye Yu to keep their groups from clashing.
• Chen Luo shattered the athletic field with a stomp, then vanished; Ye Yu ordered his people to avoid Dawn City, and someone wondered whether Chen Luo was Iron Foot.

Chen Luo visited Mi Ling’s base, rested under her massage, and returned home to learn that Ningshuang’s tears produced pearls that replenished esper power. Rice then plotted to make Chen Luo sleep with her by encouraging Ningshuang to share Mi Li’s bed, and Rice waited confidently for him.

• Chen Luo let Mi Ling manage her base and fell asleep while she massaged his shoulders; before leaving, he gave food to Xiong Wenhui and grapes to Mi Ling.
• At home, Rice and Mi Li discovered that Ningshuang’s ice-blue tear pearls restored depleted esper power, with five pearls fully replenishing Mi Li in three minutes.
• Ningshuang asked Mi Li how she would punish Chen Luo, and Rice advised her to sleep beside Mi Li so Chen Luo would be annoyed.
• Ningshuang slept beside Mi Li, and Mi Li explained the pearls’ power to Chen Luo when he returned.
• Chen Luo decided to sleep with Rice, who stayed awake believing her plan had succeeded.