Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo tried to kill Ye Yu, but a King Rank zombie’s powerful buff briefly made Ye Yu a threat. Chen Luo used Time Acceleration to kill the zombie, remove the buff, and regain control of the fight.

• Chen Luo revealed that he had dual esper abilities and a level advantage, then dragged Ye Yu to a zombie-filled area to see if Ye Yu would summon a miracle under threat of death.
• Chen Luo beat Ye Yu and prepared to kill him with a Void Sword, but a King Rank female zombie appeared and struck Ye Yu with a powerful buff.
• The buff greatly increased Ye Yu’s strength, and he attacked Chen Luo, who dodged and used Time Acceleration on the King Rank zombie.
• Chen Luo accelerated the zombie’s time until she died, stored her corpse in his Ability Space, and used Time Acceleration to make Ye Yu’s buff disappear.
• Chen Luo slapped the weakened Ye Yu and taunted him.

Chen Luo killed Ye Yu after his luck failed to produce another miracle, then headed to Mi Ling’s base with a crystal. There, Mi Ling worried that the base’s growing strength and resources would turn the survivors against them, leaving Chen Luo gravely concerned.

• Ye Yu predicted Chen Luo would become a Great Demon King abandoned by everyone, but Chen Luo killed him and found no King-Rank Crystal from his luck.
• Chen Luo took a Wind-Fire Level Nine Crystal for Mi Ling and decided to keep the King-Rank Light crystal for himself.
• Hundreds of starving survivors begged Mi Ling’s base for food, and Mi Ling threatened them before killing one who refused to leave.
• Xiong Wenhui struggled to drive the survivors away until a group of Zombies attacked and scattered them.
• Mi Ling told Chen Luo that the base’s growing wealth and influence would create an unavoidable conflict with other survivors, and Chen Luo grew grave.

Chen Luo and Mi Ling confronted the possibility that Dawn City’s survivors might attack them over scarce food, while Chen Luo resolved to protect the city’s resources. Bai Hao arrived at Dawn City with a new ally and recognized Sea Ji and Ningshuang, realizing Chen Luo was there too.

• Mi Ling worried that desperate survivors might unite against Dawn City, and Chen Luo concluded he might have to kill them to protect the city’s elite.
• A King Rank killer whale vowed to avenge his younger brother, whom Chen Luo had killed, and Bai Hao recruited him as his Left Protector.
• Bai Hao went ashore, killed two survivors who defended Dawn City, and forced another survivor to guide him there.
• Bai Hao reached Dawn City and saw Sea Ji and Ningshuang return, realizing that he had finally found Chen Luo.

Bai Hao learned that Chen Luo had built Dawn City and decided to gather his forces to wipe out Chen Luo’s followers. Rice warned Chen Luo that a powerful group from the ocean would attack in two days, leaving Chen Luo to prepare to defend Dawn City and consider using his spacetime esper ability.

• Bai Hao overheard Dawn City members praising Chen Luo and decided to kill his followers to force Chen Luo into a fight.
• Bai Hao returned to the ocean to gather his underlings and Killer Whale for an attack.
• Rice foresaw danger from the ocean but kept quiet about Ningshuang’s coming death and revival.
• Chen Luo returned to his courtyard, told Yuri to have Wan Jiangui make himself useful, and heard Rice’s warning about the coming attack.
• Chen Luo considered fleeing but chose to stay and protect Dawn City, while Rice said it was time to use his fusion esper ability.

Chen Luo gave Mi Li a Light King-Rank Crystal while Bai Hao rallied more than fifty level-ten seafood creatures and led them toward Chen Luo’s base. As Bai Hao confronted Chen Luo, Chen Luo activated his spacetime esper ability and discovered that it let him borrow power from his future self, who had reached Emperor Rank.

• Chen Luo gave Mi Li a Light King-Rank Crystal, and she reached level ten the next day.
• Bai Hao gathered his underlings and ordered them to join him in killing Chen Luo, while White Gull joined the expedition.
• Bai Hao, Black Killer Whale, and the seafood creatures flew to Chen Luo’s base under cover of night.
• Chen Luo, Sea Ji, and Ningshuang appeared to face Bai Hao, who demanded the return of his Purple Divine Armor.
• Chen Luo activated his time-space fusion esper ability and saw his future self, realizing that he could borrow power from an Emperor Rank version of himself.

Chen Luo began channeling the power of his past self, leaving him untouchable but unable to intervene for about two minutes as Sea Ji and Ningshuang fought Bai Hao's group. While Sea Ji went berserk and Ningshuang held off their enemies, Dharma King drew Bai Hao away by calling him Little White.

• Chen Luo realized his spacetime ability was borrowing power from his previous-life self, but transferring it would take around two minutes.
• Bai Hao's attack passed through Chen Luo, and Ningshuang and Sea Ji charged at the enemy after falling under White Gull's illusion.
• Ningshuang and Sea Ji broke free of the illusion, but Bai Hao and Black Killer Whale wounded them; Sea Ji retaliated with Darkness Curtain and Dark Eye.
• White Gull drove Sea Ji into a frenzy, causing her Destruction Ray to grow stronger and attack indiscriminately, while Ningshuang sealed herself in ice.
• Bai Hao ordered Black Killer Whale to attack the city, but Dharma King called him Little White and led him on a chase.

Ningshuang used Frostmourne to freeze the seafood attacking Dawn City, but the ability shattered her crystal and killed her. Chen Luo returned to the courtyard as Mi Li began a costly Resurrection Spell to revive Ningshuang.

• Black Killer Whale attacked Chen Luo's courtyard with lightning while Bai Hao and White Gull threatened Mi Li and the others.
• Ningshuang arrived to protect Mi Li, but Bai Hao broke free of her ice and wounded her as Black Killer Whale prepared his ultimate attack.
• Ningshuang unleashed Frostmourne, freezing the seafood across Dawn City, but the ability shattered her crystal and killed her.
• Chen Luo returned after his spacetime esper ability transfer was complete and confirmed that Ningshuang had no signs of life.
• Mi Li formed a ball of light and pressed it into Ningshuang's forehead, growing deathly pale as she began the Resurrection Spell.

Mi Li tried to resurrect Ningshuang while Chen Luo fought Bai Hao and his allies, overwhelming the three seafood survivors with his Emperor Rank strength. Chen Luo left Bai Hao alive for the moment, and Little Red offered him her freshly laid egg.

• Mi Li used the Resurrection Spell on Ningshuang, and Chen Luo gave her Ningshuang's pearls to absorb when Ningshuang showed no reaction.
• Bai Hao mocked Ningshuang's death and threatened Chen Luo, who knocked him back with a slap and stopped his enormous punch with one hand.
• Black Killer Whale attacked Chen Luo with World-Destroying Thunderstorm while White Gull tried to control his mind, but Chen Luo used Bai Hao to block the attack and sent White Gull beside him.
• Chen Luo crushed White Gull's head and dismembered Black Killer Whale with Dimensional Sword, while Bai Hao panicked and Chen Luo kept him alive for now.
• Dharma King and the puppies reacted to Chen Luo's strength, and Little Red revealed the egg she had laid and decided Chen Luo could have it.

Chen Luo checked on Mi Li and Sea Ji, then claimed the sea creatures as his followers by killing Bai Hao with overwhelming Emperor-Rank power. He demonstrated that his Time Acceleration could rapidly raise a sea creature’s strength, and the others swore allegiance to him as the Sea King.

• Mi Li revived Ningshuang with a soft yellow light, and Ma Yu helped them into the house.
• Chen Luo found Sea Ji still rampaging, but she recognized him before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Chen Luo moved the surviving sea creatures to Sea Ji and Ningshuang’s sparring grounds and decided to keep them alive as a future fighting force.
• Chen Luo declared himself the Sea King and killed Bai Hao with a massive Dimensional Blade that split the earth into a vast chasm.
• Chen Luo used Time Acceleration on a fur seal, which rapidly reached Black Killer Whale’s strength and transformed into a female humanlike form.
• The fur seal and the other sea creatures bowed to Chen Luo after he promised to raise them to the same level within a year.

Chen Luo secured the sea creatures’ submission by punishing Jellyfish and demonstrating his power to accelerate time. He left them awaiting a meeting in a month, while planning to strengthen Zhao Ziyi and use the sea creatures’ children to keep their families loyal.

• Chen Luo ordered Sea Dog and the other sea creatures to kill Jellyfish for challenging his authority, then erased the corpse.
• Chen Luo learned that Sea Dog was named Er Gou and considered whether his crystal could help Dharma King reach King Rank.
• Golden Eagle’s eggs hatched, and Chen Luo used Time Acceleration to grow both chicks to their mother’s size.
• Seahorse and more than a dozen other sea creatures asked Chen Luo to accelerate their children’s growth, and he agreed to meet them at the shore in a month.
• Chen Luo planned to use the month to restore his strength, increase Zhao Ziyi’s power, and have her establish Mind Links with the sea creatures.

Chen Luo explored his Time Acceleration ability after borrowing Emperor-Rank power, then returned to the base and checked on Mi Li and Ningshuang, who had exhausted their esper powers reviving others. As Ningshuang recovered and repaid Mi Li’s kindness, Chen Luo ended the chapter by offering to be at Mi Li’s beck and call.

• Chen Luo told the seafood creatures to bring any powerful companions to pay their respects in a month, then used his borrowed Emperor-Rank power to discover that Time Acceleration let him move ten times faster.
• About half an hour later, the power caused sharp pain and left Chen Luo back at level ten with a shattered crystal, so he returned to the base wary of using it again.
• Chen Luo found Mi Li weak with a cracked crystal after she revived Ningshuang, and he promised to have Ma Yu make her hen soup.
• Chen Luo distributed King-Rank Crystals to Rice and Dharma King, keeping Bai Hao’s metal crystal to advance to King Rank in a month.
• Ningshuang woke the next day without esper power and began recovering; she thanked Mi Li, then washed Chen Luo’s feet after he reminded her that he had helped kill Bai Hao.
• After Ningshuang left, Chen Luo slipped under the covers and told Mi Li that he wanted to be at her beck and call too.

Chen Luo discovered enormous rat and ant swarms advancing toward Dawn City and learned that a vengeful Mother Rat had joined forces with Rat Kings and an Ant Queen. As the creatures approached, Chen Luo ordered the base’s members to defend the city without his help.

• Chen Luo and Mi Li spotted a vast rat swarm and then a larger swarm of flying ants while riding Golden Eagle.
• Chen Guang reported that the swarms were fifty li from Dawn City and had already destroyed a nearby base.
• The six Puppies returned in fright, and the story revealed that Mother Rat had tracked them home after they killed her nestmates.
• Mother Rat allied with several Rat Kings and a powerful Ant Queen, and their swarms devoured humans and zombies as they advanced toward Dawn City.
• Chen Luo refused to intervene and ordered the members to hold the defenses, warning that they would lose their stored food if the city fell.

Dawn City’s defenders battled an overwhelming siege by flying ants and mutant rats, with Shu Yun defeating the Ant Queen and Su Dazhu killing the Rat Kings. As Silver Bell’s Space Storm slaughtered thousands of rats, the mother rat decided to unleash a plague.

• Hundreds of millions of flying ants and nearly a million mutant rats surrounded Dawn City and attacked from the air, ground, and underground.
• The Ant Queen led elite flying ants against Shu Yun, whose Ice Arrows broke their shield and froze the Ant Queen solid.
• The five Rat Kings emerged from their tunnels and killed more than a dozen level six members before Su Dazhu and his group killed them.
• Meng Yin ordered the Shooter Legion to fight the rats, but the Pea Shooters were wiped out; Silver Bell then used Space Storm to kill more than two thousand rats.
• The mother rat watched the failed assault and decided to spread a plague.

A rat swarm attacked Dawn City, and the Mother Rat’s death released a plague that weakened most of the survivors. Sea Ji absorbed the black mist and grew stronger, while Chen Luo ordered the rats buried in a massive rift.

• Sea Ji’s King Rank aura kept the rats away from Chen Luo’s courtyard as Dawn City’s members fought the swarm with whatever weapons they had.
• The Mother Rat entered Dawn City and shrieked before the members killed her, releasing black mist that infected much of the city and weakened its survivors.
• Shu Yun gave Chen Luo the Ant Queen’s level eight Psychic Crystal, while the Light members could only suppress the plague temporarily.
• Sea Ji summoned a Dark Eye and absorbed the black mist, saying that its energy would raise her strength within King Rank.
• Chen Luo ordered the members to throw the rat corpses into the Great Rift Valley because the base’s Man-Eating Flowers could not process them all.

Big Strong and Thorn discovered that their underling Li Huo had been hiding a powerful fire crystal and fought him when he tried to conceal it. Li Huo escaped, and Chen Luo recognized him as the first King Rank zombie from his previous life.

• Thorn offered Big Strong a level-nine ice crystal and urged him to grow strong enough to challenge Chen Luo, while Big Strong tried to discourage her.
• Yuri spotted Li Huo absorbing an Advanced Crystal and told Chen Luo, who instructed Little Mantou to inform Big Strong so he could claim it.
• Little Mantou alerted Big Strong, and Big Strong and Thorn confronted Li Huo and searched him for the crystal.
• Li Huo revealed his level-ten strength, blasted Big Strong with fire, and fled when Big Strong's underlings gathered.
• Big Strong contacted Chen Luo for help, but Chen Luo said he was in seclusion and recognized Li Huo as the first King Rank zombie of his previous life.

Chen Luo recalled Li Huo’s rise to King Rank and the grim future he had once brought to humanity, then confronted Nature ability users in Dawn City who could no longer grow crops. He offered them a choice between seeking opportunities outside or transferring to support duties, leaving Zhang Yi in tears as she accused him of having no conscience.

• Chen Luo remembered that Li Huo had escaped with a potentially King-Rank Crystal and vowed to kill him before he could lord over humanity.
• Chen Guang told Chen Luo that level-five Nature ability users had failed to grow vegetables for two seasons, so Chen Luo went to the Planting Area.
• Chen Luo offered the failing Nature ability users a choice between leaving to seek opportunities and transferring to support duties serving Elite Members.
• Most of the Nature ability users accepted the choices, but Zhang Yi broke down and protested that Chen Luo was heartless after she had served him for a year and a half.

Chen Luo expelled Zhang Yi and pressured Meng Yin to develop seeds that ordinary people could grow, while Big Strong realized that Chen Luo had deceived him about the poison. Big Strong ended the chapter furious and ready to confront Chen Luo.

• Chen Luo stopped Sea Ji from tormenting Zhang Yi, confronted Zhang Yi about her claims, and ordered Chen Guang to drag her away.
• Meng Yin pleaded for the nature types but was blamed by Chen Luo for neglecting her research; she began trying to develop seeds ordinary people could grow.
• Chen Luo decided he had to go out to give Big Strong an antidote, though he still had not found the Heart-Eroding Grass.
• Big Strong and Thorn searched their underlings for hidden crystals, and Short Gourd swallowed an Ice Crystal to hide it.
• Big Strong recognized that Short Gourd's pain matched the effects of Chen Luo's supposed poison, tested a crystal himself, and roared that Chen Luo had lied to him.

Chen Luo confronted Big Strong after Big Strong discovered that the poison and antidote were a lie, and their meeting turned into a fight. After letting Big Strong land a punch, Chen Luo claimed he had lied for Big Strong’s own good, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Big Strong realized Chen Luo had lied about poisoning him, but kept his anger to himself and broke through to level ten that night.
• Chen Luo arrived at Big Strong’s location with Sea Ji and asked Big Strong to meet him for his antidote.
• Big Strong revealed that he knew the grime was not an antidote and accused Chen Luo of deceiving and controlling him for a year and a half.
• Chen Luo and Big Strong fought on the rooftop, and Big Strong proved his body was unusually tough.
• Chen Luo let Big Strong strike him, then said he had lied about the poison for Big Strong’s own good.

Chen Luo persuaded Big Strong that his past lies and schemes had helped him, then revealed that he wanted to build strength against an unknown coming danger. Big Strong made peace with him over the betrayal, but was mortified to learn he had eaten dirt pills made from Zhao Ziyi; Chen Luo returned to the base, where he met the level-eight newcomer Fang Feichen.

• Chen Luo reminded Big Strong that he had repeatedly spared and helped him, and Big Strong admitted he would not have survived without his big bro.
• Big Strong asked why Chen Luo had helped him, and Chen Luo said an unknown danger was coming that neither of them could face alone.
• Big Strong accepted Chen Luo's explanation but confessed he was angry about eating dirt pills made from Zhao Ziyi's body.
• Chen Luo suggested Big Strong make a dirt pill of his own to give Zhao Ziyi, and Big Strong agreed.
• Chen Luo returned to the base and heard that the new member, Fang Feichen, was level eight.

Fang Feichen confronted Chen Luo about the possibility of survivors besieging Dawn City and urged him not to kill them, but Chen Luo rejected his plea. After Fang Feichen left, Chen Luo reflected on his plan to move his people to other continents and lamented that he could not protect everyone.

• Fang Feichen, a level eight survivor, asked to meet Chen Luo and was brought to the meeting hall.
• Fang Feichen warned Chen Luo that Dawn City would become everyone's enemy because it had food while others were starving.
• Fang Feichen asked how Chen Luo would respond to a mass siege and pleaded with him to spare the attackers, but Chen Luo refused and ordered him to leave.
• Fang Feichen said he would oppose Chen Luo if he slaughtered the survivors, then left the meeting hall.
• Chen Luo recalled his plan to use seafood creatures to transport Dawn City members to other continents and told Dharma King that he wanted humanity to survive but could not protect everyone.