Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo explored the mountain with six puppies, collecting useful mutant plants and discovering a rare hallucinogenic fruit tree. He uprooted the tree and headed home, unaware that a black female rat watched him with hatred from her nest.

• Chen Luo gathered insect-eating plants and Pea Shooters to bring back to the base, while the sixth puppy fled their attacks.
• Chen Luo tasted sour, mildly toxic fruit for the sake of nostalgia, and the puppies spat it out after trying it.
• Chen Luo found a hallucinogenic fruit tree whose fruit eased pain and accelerated crystal absorption, then uprooted it to transplant at the base.
• Mutated rats emerged from the disturbed soil, and the puppies killed fifty or sixty of them.
• A black female rat hid in the nest and watched Chen Luo leave with bitter hatred.

Chen Luo arranged a Mind Link between Wan Jiangui and Yuri, then secretly took Ye Yu’s level ten Light crystal after learning about Ye Yu’s lucky encounter. Ye Yu discovered the crystal missing and began searching for it, while Chen Luo kept it for Mi Li.

• Chen Luo asked Meng Yin to improve the plants he had brought back, then went to arrange a Mind Link between Wan Jiangui and Yuri.
• Wan Jiangui told Chen Luo that Ye Yu had found and absorbed a large crystal after a Mutant suddenly died.
• Chen Luo fed Wan Jiangui and had Yuri establish a Mind Link with him before sending him back to Ye Yu’s base.
• Chen Luo spotted the crystal in Ye Yu’s pocket, used Void Walk to take it, and discovered it was a level ten Light crystal.
• Ye Yu noticed the crystal was missing and searched his clothes before retracing his route to look for it.

Ye Yu ordered the base sealed after his crystal disappeared, while Chen Luo kept the theft secret. Silver Bell was cornered by two level-seven leaders, but Dharma King killed the mutant zombie threatening her and then recognized her face.

• Ye Yu threatened to execute an entire squad unless the person who took his crystal returned it, while Chen Luo privately resolved to keep the crystal hidden.
• Chen Luo returned home and wondered whether killing the Sea God would be enough to achieve his goal.
• Silver Bell killed a level-six attacker with Space Cutting, then used Space Transfer to redirect Li Liang's Ice Sword Storm and wound Li Liang and Ning Feng.
• A mutant zombie slaughtered Li Liang and Ning Feng's subordinates, trapped Silver Bell, and attacked her after the two leaders fled.
• Dharma King appeared, killed the zombie with three Lightning God Palms, extracted its level-eight crystal, and jolted when he saw Silver Bell's unconscious face.

Dharma King rescued Silver Bell and brought her to Chen Luo’s base, where Chen Luo recognized her as a legendary Space prodigy from his previous life. Chen Luo accepted her as his disciple, but the chapter ended with Rice reporting that Mi Ling was in danger.

• Dharma King remembered how Silver Bell had cared for him after her grandmother saved him, then carried the unconscious Silver Bell back to the base.
• Silver Bell woke up and recognized Dharma King, who invited her to join his group and took her to meet Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo learned that Silver Bell was a level-six Space user and realized she had been a renowned Space prodigy in his previous life.
• Chen Luo demonstrated Void Walk to Silver Bell and asked her to become his disciple, and she accepted.
• Rice rushed in and warned that Mi Ling was in danger.

Chen Luo welcomed Silver Bell as his disciple, arranged for her to recover and settle in, and promised to teach her Void Walk. After telling Mi Li he would go alone to help Mi Ling, he arrived at her location the next morning without revealing himself.

• Rice warned Chen Luo that Mi Ling would be in danger a day later, so he decided there was no need to rush.
• Chen Luo introduced his new disciple, Silver Bell, to everyone, and promised to get even with the people who had hurt her.
• Chen Luo brought Silver Bell to Zhao Ziyi, Meng Yin, and Xiao Yu’s courtyard and gave them fried chicken and roast duck.
• Mi Li asked to accompany Chen Luo to Mi Ling, but he said he would go alone and she agreed.
• The next morning, Chen Luo arrived at Mi Ling’s location in an instant but did not show himself.

Mi Ling defended her base from a two-thousand-person attack, revealing the strength of her elite members and her devastating red lotus flame. Xiong Wenhui returned to help rout the attackers, while Chen Luo suspected that escaped stragglers still posed a danger.

• Mi Ling recruited more than a dozen level six members, many of whom she suspected were spies from other bases.
• Wu Tao and Lü Quan led over two thousand people to surround Mi Ling's base while Xiong Wenhui was away with three hundred members.
• Mi Ling led two hundred defenders in a southern breakout and defeated a force of more than five hundred attackers.
• Wu Tao joined the battle, but Mi Ling killed him instantly with her red lotus flame.
• Xiong Wenhui returned, transformed with Bear Strength, and began slaughtering the remaining attackers.
• Chen Luo watched the fight and wondered whether the escaped stragglers meant danger was still approaching.

After Xiong Wenhui killed Lü Quan, Mi Ling’s power and Dawn City’s strength became known across the region. The news reached Ma Shuai, who recognized Mi Ling from his past and set his army of undead marching to capture her.

• Chen Luo’s members blocked Lü Quan’s escape, and Xiong Wenhui tore him in half after his Ice Spears failed to break through their coordinated defense.
• The attackers’ survivors fled, while Mi Ling absorbed Wu Tao’s flesh crystal and advanced to level eight; Chen Luo remained wary of Rice’s prophecy that she would face danger.
• Word spread that Mi Ling controlled Dawn City and that the city had defeated Wu Tao and Lü Quan’s force with few casualties.
• Ma Shuai recognized Mi Ling in a survivor’s sketch, ordered Jiang Chen to tear apart his subordinate for calling her “her,” and vowed to turn Mi Ling into his puppet.
• Ma Shuai sent more than four hundred undead puppets marching toward Mi Ling.

Ma Shuai led an undead army against Mi Ling’s group, while Chen Luo watched to see how Mi Ling would handle the threat. Mi Ling destroyed Jiang Chen and charged at Ma Shuai, but Jiang Chen’s resurrection left the fight unresolved.

• Ma Shuai arrived with hundreds of undead and ordered Jiang Chen to attack Mi Ling’s group.
• Xiong Wenhui fought Jiang Chen but retreated after Ma Shuai’s undead detonated around her.
• Mi Ling engulfed Jiang Chen in red lotus flames, apparently killing him, but Ma Shuai resurrected him with Corpse Resurrection.
• Mi Ling ordered her people to scatter, killed Jiang Chen again, and charged toward Ma Shuai while he recovered.

Mi Ling unleashed Red Lotus Transformation and defeated Ma Shuai while Chen Luo protected her. She collapsed from the effort, and Chen Luo took her to her room, where she later woke.

• Mi Ling burned what she thought was Ma Shuai, but multiple Dark Puppets appeared and Jiang Chen knocked her down.
• Chen Luo intervened when Ma Shuai tried to step on Mi Ling, then blocked the undead with a Space Barrier.
• Mi Ling insisted on fighting Ma Shuai herself and engulfed herself in Red Lotus Flame to activate Red Lotus Transformation.
• Mi Ling tracked down and killed Ma Shuai’s real body, causing his undead to collapse.
• Mi Ling lost consciousness from exhaustion, and Chen Luo carried her to her room; she woke in the early hours.

Chen Luo dealt with growing dangers and hardships in Dawn City before beginning to teach Silver Bell Void Walk. Silver Bell struggled to understand his explanation of spatial nodes.

• Chen Luo returned to the base and told Mi Li that Mi Ling had reached level eight and learned Red Lotus Transformation.
• Mi Li reported that unaffiliated survivors had killed two Dawn City members, and Chen Luo ordered members to travel in groups of at least ten and offered rice and salt in exchange for level-six crystals.
• Mi Li told Chen Luo that a female member was due to give birth in about half a month, and he arranged extra vegetables and eggs for her.
• Chen Luo found Silver Bell with Meng Yin and took her somewhere secluded to teach her his signature skill, Void Walk.
• Chen Luo explained how Void Walk moved between spatial nodes, but Silver Bell said her Space Transposition only swapped two spaces and could not affect a space containing a living creature.

Chen Luo learned Silver Bell’s spatial abilities almost instantly, adapting Void Walk and Void Exile in the process. He then set out with Silver Bell to punish the people who had bullied her in Ye Yu’s territory.

• Silver Bell demonstrated entering another spatial layer, but Chen Luo knocked her out of it with a powerful punch.
• After Silver Bell explained how to use her ability, Chen Luo vanished into deeper layers of space and reappeared, revealing that his version worked differently.
• Silver Bell demonstrated Space Cutting and Spatial Displacement, and Chen Luo quickly replicated both abilities.
• Silver Bell’s explanation inspired Chen Luo to use Void Exile to place targets in front of him as shields against attacks.
• Chen Luo patted Silver Bell’s head and took her to settle the score with her enemies in Ye Yu’s area.

Chen Luo strengthened Jin Yuanjiang’s branch base and brought Silver Bell to confront Li Liang and Ning Feng. As their banquet guests discussed Silver Bell’s ability and Wang Lei resolved to expose Chen Luo, someone smashed through the base gates.

• Chen Luo gave Jin Yuanjiang a level eight earth crystal and accepted Xia Haoran’s level nine flesh crystal for Big Pillar.
• Chen Luo ordered Jin Yuanjiang to recruit more selectively and move new members to the Divine Capital while transferring established members to the branch base.
• Chen Luo led Silver Bell, Jin Yuanjiang, Xia Haoran, and three hundred members to settle the score with Li Liang and Ning Feng.
• At Li Liang’s birthday banquet, Ning Feng claimed Silver Bell was dead, and Li Liang described her Space Cutting ability as ineffective against level seven fighters.
• Wang Lei recognized the account of Chen Luo’s Eye-Gazing Killings Incident and decided to expose him, believing Chen Luo could not kill level seven fighters.
• Someone kicked apart the base gates with a tremendous crash.

Chen Luo confronted the leaders who had hunted Silver Bell and killed the ringleaders despite Ye Yu’s attempt to plead for them. He left the survivors cowed, while Ye Yu praised the injured Wan Jiangui for standing up for him.

• Chen Luo arrived with Silver Bell and confronted Li Liang, Ning Feng, and their followers over hunting his disciple.
• Wang Lei challenged Chen Luo’s ability, and Chen Luo killed him by slicing him apart with Space Cutting.
• Ye Yu offered a level-seven Space crystal and asked Chen Luo to spare the people who had not known Silver Bell was his disciple; Chen Luo accepted the crystal but refused to spare the ringleaders.
• Li Liang and Ning Feng tried to flee, but Chen Luo killed them and warned the survivors against interfering with Dawn City.
• Wan Jiangui protested that Chen Luo had disrespected Ye Yu, so Chen Luo slapped him away; Ye Yu helped him up and called him his good brother.

Guan Gaohan abandoned his boss role and joined Chen Luo, who organized a new recruitment plan for Dawn City. Silver Bell proposed that recruits travel to the Divine Capital in groups as a test, while Chen Luo explained that he hoped to rebuild civilization and keep humanity from going extinct.

• Guan Gaohan quit being a boss and asked to follow Chen Luo, who told him to register.
• Chen Luo told Jin Yuanjiang to recruit peripheral members and said he would take five hundred recruits to the Divine Capital.
• Silver Bell proposed sending recruits to the Divine Capital in groups of a hundred, making the journey a test of their sincerity and ability.
• Chen Luo accepted Silver Bell's plan, gave her a snack box as a reward, and went with her to check on Xu Qing.
• Silver Bell asked why Chen Luo was recruiting so many people, and he said he wanted to prepare for humanity's future and rebuild order after the apocalypse.
• Silver Bell admired Chen Luo's ambition and became tearful as she watched him walk ahead.

Chen Luo killed a Lightning Mutant and brought its crystal to Xu Qing’s base, where Silver Bell proposed a way to screen applicants. A desperate survivor named Yu Guang challenged the base to fulfill an extravagant food order, insisting that even three items would prove its claims false.

• Chen Luo killed a female Lightning Mutant with Space Cutting, and Silver Bell retrieved its crystal for him to give to Wild Thunder.
• Chen Luo met Xu Qing and Wild Thunder, and Silver Bell explained her idea for identifying applicants with bad intentions.
• A member brought in Yu Guang, who offered a level-nine crystal in exchange for help.
• Yu Guang said he was tired of living and challenged the group to provide any three items from an elaborate barbecue meal order.

Chen Luo fulfilled Yu Guang’s request for a barbecue before sentencing him to death for insulting Dawn City. Yu Guang accepted the sentence and killed himself, while the crowd of survivors witnessed Dawn City’s response.

• Yu Guang demanded a barbecue, and Chen Luo produced the food from his Ability Space and ordered the Cook Squad to prepare it.
• Chen Luo and his companions shared the meal with Yu Guang, who enjoyed the barbecue before Chen Luo announced it was time to kill him.
• Yu Guang led Chen Luo to the apartment block where his companions lived, and Chen Luo killed two men who tried to grope him.
• Chen Luo publicly asked whether Dawn City had fulfilled Yu Guang’s request, and Yu Guang praised Dawn City and admitted his disrespect.
• Chen Luo sentenced Yu Guang to death, and Yu Guang took Long Yu’s dagger and stabbed himself.

Chen Luo returned to the branch base after warning beggars about Dawn City and distributing crystals to help his allies advance. Meanwhile, Mi Li reached level nine and cast a healing light over the base, and Ningshuang ended up sharing her bedroom after Rice mistakenly predicted Chen Luo would stay away.

• A beggar warned Chen Luo about a powerful zombie called the Queen, and he asked Xu Qing and Wild Thunder to watch for her.
• Chen Luo let Yuri join the barbecue, gave Wild Thunder and Xu Qing advancement crystals, and brought Silver Bell to meet Mi Ling, where Silver Bell called her his wife.
• Mi Li advanced to level nine, then released a rain of light that restored the base members' energy and increased their strength.
• Rice predicted Chen Luo probably would not return, so Mi Li let Ningshuang sleep with her; Chen Luo came back late and startled Ningshuang as she left the bathroom.
• Mi Li explained that Rice had made the prediction, and Ningshuang reassured her that she had been seen before.

Ye Yu and his companions encountered a powerful King Rank earth mutant, and Ye Yu survived by persuading it to take them as servants. He planned to keep the mutant’s crystal a secret, unaware that Wan Jiangui had already contacted Yuri about Ye Yu’s opportunity.

• Ye Yu, Wan Jiangui, and Gao Yiheng investigated a meteorite impact and found a King Rank mutant accompanied by four Earth Element Giants.
• Ye Yu refused to leave, hoping to claim the mutant’s crystal, but the mutant sensed the men and sent the giants toward them.
• The mutant pinned Ye Yu and his companions down, and Ye Yu knelt and offered them as servants in exchange for their lives.
• The mutant accepted all three as servants, and Ye Yu told his companions to hide the encounter from Chen Luo.
• Wan Jiangui secretly contacted Yuri, while Ye Yu ordered the group to capture people to feed their new master.
• Gao Yiheng asked Ye Yu to wait while he went to relieve himself.

Jiang Chuxue discovered that the Samoyed was pregnant, and Chen Luo learned from Yuri that Ye Yu had found a King Rank zombie. Chen Luo reached Ye Yu just as the zombie died, then gave Ye Yu ten seconds to retrieve its crystal, but Ye Yu could not break through its skull.

• Jiang Chuxue noticed the Samoyed's swollen belly and realized she was expecting puppies, while Chen Luo concluded they were Dharma King's pups.
• Yuri told Chen Luo that Ye Yu had found a zombie able to summon meteorites and an Earth Element Giant, so Chen Luo set out to see it.
• Chen Luo arrived where Ye Yu and his companions were serving the King Rank zombie, and the zombie attacked him with spikes from the ground.
• The zombie died before Chen Luo could fight it, and Wan Jiangui claimed its crystal for Ye Yu.
• Chen Luo gave Ye Yu ten seconds to dig out the crystal, but Ye Yu's wind blade could only leave a faint mark on the zombie's skull.

Chen Luo claimed the King Rank crystal and corpse, then left Ye Yu to accuse Gao Yiheng of being a mole and beat him nearly to death. After Ye Yu and Wan Jiangui departed, Chen Luo found that Gao Yiheng might still be alive.

• Chen Luo opened the Mutant's skull, took its King Rank crystal, and carried off its corpse after Ye Yu failed to crack it in time.
• Ye Yu accused Gao Yiheng of secretly informing Chen Luo, citing his earlier warnings, absence, and defense of Chen Luo as evidence.
• Ye Yu struck Gao Yiheng until he lay bleeding, then left with Wan Jiangui, who privately admitted Gao had been his scapegoat.
• Chen Luo returned and noticed Gao Yiheng's finger twitch, realizing he might have survived.