Chapter Summaries

Ma Yu discovered that Black Leaf made shark meat taste better to her, despite making it smell worse to the puppies, and went with Su Dazhu to find more. As they examined a large patch of Black Leaf outside Dawn City, a zombie approached.

• Chen Luo set out with Sea Ji to collect Advanced Crystals from Xia Haoran's base and distribute them to core members.
• After the puppies complained about the shark meat, Ma Yu tasted it and realized Black Leaf had improved its flavor.
• Ma Yu posted a mission for more Black Leaf, and Su Dazhu offered to show her where it grew.
• Rice divined that Su Dazhu's trip with Ma Yu would bring a scare but no real harm and two good things, then stayed silent.
• Su Dazhu took Ma Yu and two teams of members to a mountain, where Ma Yu found a large patch of Black Leaf.
• As Ma Yu examined the plants, a member warned that a zombie was approaching.

Su Dazhu and his group encountered a level-ten zombie on Five Cloud Mountain, and Su Dazhu stayed behind to protect Ma Yu while Ningshuang rushed to rescue them. Ningshuang lost her way, and Su Dazhu was left clinging to the zombie as it stomped on him.

• Su Dazhu's group attacked a burly zombie, but it emerged unharmed and knocked Su Dazhu into a tree with one punch.
• Su Dazhu realized the zombie was level ten, called Zhao Ziyi to summon Ningshuang, and ordered the group to scatter.
• Su Dazhu took Ma Yu and fled, then enlarged himself and stayed behind to hold off the pursuing zombie while Ma Yu climbed onto a boulder.
• Ningshuang set out to rescue Ma Yu but got lost before a returning member agreed to guide her to Five Cloud Mountain.
• After the zombie battered Su Dazhu and threatened to eat him and Ma Yu, Su Dazhu grabbed its leg and held on as it stomped on his head.

Su Dazhu survived a level-ten zombie’s brutal assault after his Flesh crystal awakened a healing ability, and the zombie suddenly died while he held its weak spot. Back at the base, Chen Luo learned what had happened and recognized Su Dazhu’s new power; the next morning, Ma Yu unusually did not get up to make breakfast.

• Ma Yu rushed to help Su Dazhu, whose injuries healed as energy from his brain crystal restored his vitality.
• Su Dazhu repeatedly recovered from the zombie’s attacks while clinging to its weak spot, and the returning survivors joined the fight.
• Ningshuang arrived, but the zombie clutched its head and died before she needed to act.
• Ma Yu gathered the Black Leaf, and the group returned to the base celebrating Su Dazhu’s survival.
• Chen Luo learned of the encounter, hurried back after Zhao Ziyi’s warning, and heard Su Dazhu describe his new healing ability.
• Ma Yu did not get up to make breakfast the next morning.

Chen Luo helped care for Dharma King's newborn puppies and teased Ningshuang before time passed. Meanwhile, Li Huo emerged from its underground cavern after breaking past level ten and set out to test its new strength, leaving Dawn City and Big Strong in its plans.

• Chen Luo tried cooking Bai Hao's shark meat for the puppies, but its terrible stench forced him to have Dharma King take over.
• Samoyed gave birth to five puppies, four black males and one white female, and Dharma King celebrated having a daughter.
• Chen Luo stopped Ningshuang from asking Ma Yu to cook on her day off, then tricked Ningshuang into going without Tomato Beef Brisket.
• After ten days passed, Li Huo finished absorbing the Fiery Red Crystal and gained a great increase in strength by breaking past level ten.
• Li Huo decided to test its strength before attempting to subdue Big Strong and attack Dawn City, then flew off and found a densely populated base.

The Dharma King left his base to find more crystals, killing survivors who cursed Chen Luo before discovering Li Huo attacking a massive survivor base. As Li Huo’s fireballs devastated the fleeing survivors, the Dharma King vowed to protect humanity.

• A week after his children were born, the Dharma King left the base to seek more energy and killed six hungry survivors who cursed Chen Luo and tried to eat him.
• After three days of hearing survivors blame Chen Luo, the Dharma King recalled Chen Luo’s helplessness and began to understand that his master had reasons he could not explain.
• Li Huo attacked Fang Feichen’s base of over ten thousand survivors, destroying hundreds with massive fireballs.
• Fang Feichen ordered the survivors to run, but panic caused a stampede, and a fireball killed A Kui as he tried to maintain order.
• The Dharma King saw Li Huo’s assault and vowed to protect humanity.

Dharma King challenged Li Huo to protect the survivors and tried to wear down the King Rank zombie by dodging his attacks. Li Huo turned to Fang Feichen as a hostage, and Fang Feichen died refusing to reveal Dawn City's local branch base.

• Dharma King confronted Li Huo and evaded his Meteor Fire Rain to drain his esper energy.
• Li Huo trapped Dharma King in a Fire Dragon Formation and struck him with a flame eruption, but Dharma King escaped and resumed dodging.
• Li Huo realized Dharma King was trying to exhaust him and seized Fang Feichen to force him to reveal Dawn City's local branch base.
• Fang Feichen refused to cooperate, so Li Huo detonated the flame energy inside him and killed him.

The Dharma King fought Li Huo to a standstill, then revealed that his tail could attack as a third hand and used it to defeat him. Li Huo died, while Wild Thunder kept other survivors from interfering as the exhausted Dharma King stood victorious.

• The Dharma King and Li Huo traded killing moves until both were nearly out of ability energy, then continued fighting hand to hand.
• Wild Thunder arrived, saw the fight, and contacted Yuri; Chen Luo ran toward the battle after hearing what was happening.
• The Dharma King used his tail as a concealed third hand, striking Li Huo with Thunderous Tail Sweep and repeatedly lashing him.
• Wild Thunder offered to help, but the Dharma King rejected him; Wild Thunder then drove off survivors who had come to claim Li Huo's Crystal.
• The Dharma King battered Li Huo until he died, then grinned despite his own wounds and exhaustion.

Dharma King killed Li Huo and rescued Fang Feichen’s friends, while Chen Luo reflected on how fate had changed and welcomed the two survivors into Dawn City. Back at the base, Chen Luo rewarded Dharma King with Li Huo’s fire crystal and ended the chapter by taking a robe meant for Ningshuang and putting it in Rice’s room.

• Wild Thunder arrived with Dawn City’s teams, and Dharma King drove off the survivors who had gathered around him after he killed Li Huo.
• Dharma King stopped survivors from attacking Fang Feichen’s two friends, Lü Chen and Zhang Yang, and told Chen Luo that Fang Feichen had died protecting Dawn City.
• Chen Luo offered Lü Chen and Zhang Yang places in Dawn City, arranged Fang Feichen’s burial, and gave them Fang Feichen’s crystal at their request.
• Chen Luo collected Li Huo’s remains and gave Dharma King the fire crystal, encouraging him to reach King Rank.
• At the base, Ningshuang asked Ma Yu about her past illness, then Mi Li gave Ningshuang a white robe; Rice asked for one too, and Chen Luo put the robe in Rice’s room.

Shi Gaoyang agreed to spy for Big Strong and plotted to enlist a Zombie Emperor against Dawn City, unaware that Wan Jiangui reported his plan to Chen Luo. Meanwhile, Rice reached level ten and transformed into a white-skinned, blue-eyed girl, though her ears and tail remained unchanged.

• Big Strong captured Shi Gaoyang, tricked him into believing he was poisoned, and ordered him to gather information about humans.
• Shi Gaoyang returned to his base and decided to recruit allies and ask the Zombie Emperor to attack Dawn City.
• Shi Gaoyang approached Wan Jiangui, who pretended to hate Dawn City and then reported the plan to Yuri.
• Chen Luo told Wan Jiangui to let Shi Gaoyang recruit more people so he could identify and catch everyone plotting against him.
• Rice absorbed the King Rank Psychic Crystal until reaching level ten, then transformed into a girl while retaining her ears and tail.

Rice transformed into a human while retaining her ears and tail, but she remained shy and kept many of her kitten habits. She struggled to use chopsticks and play video games, then went to sleep curled up as usual after agreeing to sleep by herself.

• Rice changed into a human and shyly revealed herself to Mi Li, who welcomed her to dinner.
• Ningshuang recognized Rice's aura and realized she had reached King Rank, while Mi Li and Ma Yu reacted with surprise to Rice's transformation.
• At dinner, Chen Luo fed Rice fish, and she struggled with chopsticks before Ma Yu gave her a spoon.
• Rice asked Chen Luo to play video games, but she kept dying early and failed to get past the second level.
• That night, Chen Luo urged Rice to sleep alone, and she curled up on the bed in her old kitten sleeping position.

He Yi and his companions found a corpse that seemed impossible to damage and decided to take it to Dawn City in hopes of gaining admission. Chen Guang recognized the story as another case of an indestructible corpse, but the chapter ended before he examined it.

• He Yi and his companions discovered a figure that had appeared suddenly and found they could not damage its corpse.
• He Yi persuaded the group to bring the corpse to Dawn City and seek entry rather than give it to their base leader.
• He Yi and his companions disguised the corpse as a grievously wounded man and carried it toward Dawn City.
• He Yi presented the corpse as a treasure to Chen Guang, who was stunned by the report of another indestructible corpse.

Chen Luo received a mysterious space-type King-Rank Crystal and decided to give his metal-type King-Rank Crystal to Long Yu so he could advance and improve Dawn City's weapons. Long Yu revealed that he had identified the eight elemental metals in the Divine Armor but had failed to reproduce the lightning-type metal.

• He Yi and five companions delivered an indestructible corpse to Dawn City, and Chen Guang welcomed all six into the city.
• Rice predicted that something good would happen, and Chen Luo soon learned that another indestructible corpse had arrived.
• Chen Luo found a transparent space-type King-Rank Crystal inside the corpse and considered how it had mysteriously appeared.
• Chen Luo decided to give Long Yu Bai Hao's metal-type King-Rank Crystal because Long Yu's weapon research could help Dawn City survive.
• Long Yu told Chen Luo that the Divine Armor contained eight elemental metals and that he had failed to reproduce its lightning-type metal.

After reaching King Rank, Chen Luo decided to help his talented companions advance instead of keeping King-Rank Crystals for himself. On his way to the coast, he ran into Xu Kun, a man from his previous life who had once stolen his ham sausage, and claimed the seafood as his own.

• Long Yu received Ningshuang's Pearls to help him advance, and Chen Luo made Ningshuang cry by telling her there would be no Tomato Beef Brisket for a week.
• After his crystal recovered, Chen Luo absorbed a King-Rank Space Crystal and reached King Rank, with his physique advancing to mid King Rank.
• Chen Luo decided to reserve future King-Rank Crystals for his companions and gave the remaining Space Crystal to Silver Bell.
• Chen Luo took Zhao Ziyi on Golden Eagle to the coast, where he spotted Xu Kun and remembered their ham sausage fight from his previous life.
• Chen Luo offered Xu Kun a ham sausage to join him, learned that Xu Kun was headed to catch seafood, and declared that the seafood belonged to him.

Chen Luo took Xu Kun toward the coast to prove that the ocean belonged to him, where they encountered Er Gou rampaging against survivors. Chen Luo subdued Er Gou and left Xu Kun stunned, while considering whether to use Er Gou’s crystal for Mi Ling.

• Chen Luo challenged Xu Kun to follow him to the coast and prove that the ocean belonged to him.
• Survivors fled from a terrifying monster, and Xu Kun’s Psychic companion urged the group to retreat.
• Er Gou appeared in a storm of lightning and slaughtered survivors, ignoring Chen Luo’s command to stop.
• Chen Luo used Void Exile to bring Er Gou before him, and Er Gou recognized him as the Sea King and knelt.
• Chen Luo kicked Er Gou for disobeying him, and Er Gou apologized by beating himself while Chen Luo considered using his crystal for Mi Ling.

Chen Luo gathered the sea creatures, asserted his authority as Sea King, and had Er Gou killed for offending him. As Zhao Ziyi began linking with the gathered creatures, another Mermaid appeared and mocked Chen Luo.

• Chen Luo led Xu Kun and the others to the shore, where eighty-five sea creatures gathered and greeted him as Sea King.
• Chen Luo declared that the sea and its creatures belonged to him and warned Xu Kun not to eat his underlings.
• The Giant Toad and the other sea creatures presented gifts, but Er Gou had lost his offering.
• Chen Luo asked the sea creatures to judge Er Gou, then sent him into their crowd with Void Exile, where they killed him.
• Chen Luo collected Er Gou's corpse and told Zhao Ziyi to use Mind Link on the sea creatures.
• A mocking voice called Chen Luo an unimpressive Sea King, and he turned to see another Mermaid.

Feng Yue challenged Chen Luo and was captured after he used his spatial ability to bring her back. Chen Luo took her purple shoes, discovered they increased speed, and let Zhao Ziyi try them; she briefly flew before falling and hurting her nose.

• Feng Yue mocked Chen Luo’s Sea King title, and the Giant Toad led the Seafood in a charge against her.
• Feng Yue transformed her tail into legs and outran the Seafood, revealing purple metal shoes that matched Chen Luo’s Divine Armor.
• Chen Luo pulled Feng Yue to his side with his spatial ability and ordered the Seafood to remove her shoes.
• Feng Yue resisted by cutting off an octopus’s tentacle with a Wind Blade, but Chen Luo threatened her with a Dimensional Blade, and she took off the shoes herself.
• Chen Luo tried on the shoes and found they greatly increased his speed, then Zhao Ziyi wore them and reached a speed near the peak of level ten.
• Zhao Ziyi rose into the air but fell, crying after hurting her nose.

Chen Luo learned that a sea turtle had seen a round object matching the scent of the missing armor piece on a distant continent, then returned to the Courtyard with Zhao Ziyi and Feng Yue. Rice divined that Chen Luo was about to reach a turning point of fate.

• Feng Yue told Chen Luo she had found the shoe on the seabed, and a seal detected four scents on it.
• The seal and other seafood offered to track the shoe's scent, and a sea turtle remembered seeing a round object being kicked around on a distant continent.
• Chen Luo left the seafood behind and used Void Walk to bring Zhao Ziyi and Feng Yue back to the Courtyard.
• Chen Luo asked Sea Ji to keep watch over Feng Yue, then woke Rice and asked whether he would find the Helmet.
• Rice sensed Chen Luo's fate and told him he was about to reach a turning point.

Chen Luo decided to search for the Helmet despite Rice warning that his actions could have a tremendous impact, though she confirmed he would face no danger within the next month. He reached the beach where the Giant Sea Turtle had found the armor piece and began searching, but the turtles had found nothing after two hours.

• Rice warned Chen Luo that his plans would have a tremendous impact, but she could not say whether it would be good or bad and assured him he would not face danger within the next month.
• Chen Luo decided not to wait for Rice to reach King Rank and traveled west with the Giant Sea Turtle using Void Walk.
• Chen Luo watched a rust-covered ship get dragged underwater by seaweed as he and the turtle continued toward the shore.
• The Giant Sea Turtle admitted it had forgotten the Helmet's exact location, so Chen Luo ordered it and nearby Little Sea Turtles to search the beach.
• Chen Luo cleared the area of nearby survivors, but after two hours neither the Little Sea Turtles nor the Giant Sea Turtle had found anything.

Chen Luo found a damaged purple helmet with a gemstone that spoke in the monsters’ language, and he feared activating it had brought their arrival closer. Rice foresaw a disaster in about a year, and Chen Luo resolved to prepare and face the monsters rather than flee.

• Chen Luo ordered the sea turtles to dig and found a purple helmet buried beneath the sand.
• Chen Luo examined the helmet’s damaged top and gemstones, then activated its black gemstone and heard a voice speaking the monsters’ language.
• Rice sensed that a disaster would descend in the not-too-distant future and later told Chen Luo it would arrive in about a year.
• Chen Luo returned to his base, learned Rice’s prediction, and declared that he would never run away from the coming monsters.

Chen Luo punished Feng Yue after she mistreated Ningshuang, then learned that Ningshuang’s unusual growth came from a mysterious bead and that she had lived in the sea long before doomsday. The chapter left Chen Luo preparing to travel across other continents to gather crystals and grow stronger.

• Feng Yue knocked Ningshuang’s food to the floor and insulted her, so Sea Ji slapped her and Chen Luo punched her.
• Chen Luo discovered Feng Yue could not produce pearl tears, and Sea Ji subdued her wind attack and used Torment of Pain on her.
• Chen Luo asked Sea Ji to investigate how Feng Yue reached King Rank and what else she knew.
• Chen Luo comforted Ningshuang and learned she had eaten a cold, soft bead that resembled a bubble-tea pearl.
• Ningshuang told Chen Luo she had lived deep in the sea for over a decade, and he concluded that she had not arrived with doomsday.
• Chen Luo decided to travel to other continents to collect crystals and strengthen himself and his core members.