Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo searched for Sea Serpent, checked on Dawn City's forces, and gathered crystals while preparing to advance. After enduring intense pain in an underground chamber, he reached Emperor Rank.

• Chen Luo ordered the Seafood to keep searching for Sea Serpent and the missing Lower Armor.
• Chen Luo visited Wild Thunder on Meizhou Continent, learned he had reached level ten, and promised to help him advance to King Rank within three months.
• Chen Luo raised the Independent Awakeners' food rations and collected 135 level-nine and level-ten crystals from across the continents.
• Chen Luo returned to his base and absorbed crystals until only three King-Rank Crystals remained.
• Chen Luo endured a painful advancement alone in an underground chamber and reached Emperor Rank.

After reaching Emperor Rank, Chen Luo worked to accelerate the Giant Tree’s fruit production and improve his time abilities while planning how to strengthen his allies. At the Fifth Seafood Festival, Yuri reported that they had found the Sea Serpent’s pants, though the serpent itself remained missing.

• Chen Luo celebrated his Emperor Rank breakthrough with his companions and invited Sea Ji to join them.
• Dharma King returned without finding any King-Rank beings, and Chen Luo considered which allies should receive his remaining crystals.
• Chen Luo used Time Acceleration on Long Yu and the Giant Tree, helping the tree produce a fruit roughly every two days.
• Chen Luo improved Time Acceleration’s efficiency and estimated that the Giant Tree could produce at least 120 fruits before the monsters arrived.
• Jiang Chuxue used Time Stop while Chen Luo studied its fluctuations, and the Fifth Seafood Festival began with 166 of 168 invited creatures present.
• Red Lantern reported the festival attendance, Chen Luo worried that the Sea Serpent was still missing, and Yuri messaged that they had found the pants.

John traded the Lower Armor he had buried at his farm, allowing Chen Luo to complete the armor set. Chen Luo planned to help Mi Li reach Emperor Rank and later use the armor in a scheme involving Sea Ji.

• John offered Xu Qing a purple pair of metal pants, and Xu Qing brought three hundred members to escort him to his farm.
• John unearthed the Lower Armor, which adjusted to Xu Qing's body, and Chen Luo arrived to claim it.
• Chen Luo examined the Lower Armor but could not determine what its inner pattern or knee markings did; John received meat for the trade.
• Chen Luo rewarded Xu Qing with a fruit that would advance him to King Rank and ended the search for the Lower Armor.
• Chen Luo assembled the complete armor set, and Rice urged him to help Mi Li reach Emperor Rank.
• Chen Luo decided he would eventually have Sea Ji wear the armor and pretend to be the great villain after he had lost his divine power.

Red Lantern sent the Sea Clan and Seal Special Forces ashore to search for Sea Serpent, but the search party encountered Big Strong’s zombie horde. After Big Strong defeated several King-Rank seafood fighters, Red Lantern arrived with a large force and overwhelmed him, leaving him meekly admitting defeat.

• Red Lantern ordered the Sea Clan and thousands of seals to search for Sea Serpent on land and at sea.
• Two of Big Strong’s zombies killed a seal, prompting hundreds of seals and King-Rank Soy Leopard to attack the zombie horde.
• Big Strong flew up and fought Soy Leopard, whose flames barely hurt the zombies, and soon defeated both Soy Leopard and Giant Sea Cow.
• More seafood gathered after Soy Leopard called for reinforcements, and Red Lantern arrived with dozens of King-Rank fighters.
• Big Strong realized the force was too large to defeat, admitted he was wrong, and let Soy Leopard slap him.

Big Strong and Thorn were surrounded by Red Lantern and the other seafood, so Big Strong called Chen Luo for help. Chen Luo arrived and revealed his authority as the Sea King, ending the dispute and leaving the zombies and seafood stunned by his connection to Big Strong.

• Red Lantern ordered the seafood to kill Big Strong and Thorn, and Big Strong contacted Chen Luo for help.
• Rice suggested using Time Acceleration to help Mi Li advance faster, and Mi Li agreed to accept the possible side effects so she could help Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo learned that Big Strong was in danger and hurried to the Sea King's temple, where the seafood had cornered him.
• The seafood bowed to Chen Luo as Lord Sea King, and Big Strong and Thorn realized that he commanded the king-rank crowd.
• Chen Luo explained that he had shared a history with Big Strong among mortals, heard Red Lantern's account, and ordered the seafood to let the matter rest.
• Soy Leopard offered to let Big Strong hit him back, but Big Strong chose to forgive him and said they were on the same side.

Chen Luo brought Big Strong’s zombies under his command, then sent Dharma King to assassinate powerful local fighters on the Lotus Continent. Dharma King killed Simmons and delivered his corpse to Jin Yuanjiang.

• Chen Luo spared Soy Leopard, revealed his authority over Big Strong and the zombies, and watched nearly all the zombies kneel to him.
• Chen Luo killed a rebellious level-ten Darkness Element zombie and took its crystal for Xiao Yu.
• Chen Luo ordered Big Strong to train the zombies, recruit more, and search for Sea Serpent, then received news of a recovered King-Rank zombie and a local base that had killed his independent awakeners.
• Chen Luo summoned Dharma King and ordered him to assassinate powerful locals, targeting level-ten fighters first.
• Dharma King used a tornado to abduct and kill Simmons at Simmons Base, then gave Simmons’s corpse to Jin Yuanjiang to return to Chen Luo.

Chen Luo created a small area where time flowed faster, then helped Mi Li reach Emperor Rank after more than a month. Mi Li temporarily softened Sea Ji’s violent nature with Light of Purification, but she could not remove its cause, leaving Chen Luo wondering about the meat’s origin.

• Chen Luo fused space with time to create a lasting time zone, but the effort shattered his crystal and left him exhausted.
• Chen Luo tested the time zone and found that twenty minutes inside equaled seven minutes outside, though he could not change the flow of time for someone partly outside it.
• Rice advised Chen Luo to help Mi Li reach Emperor Rank before Sea Ji, and Mi Li spent more than a month training inside the time zone.
• After eating her twenty-fourth fruit, Mi Li broke through to Emperor Rank and went to purify Sea Ji.
• Mi Li’s Light of Purification temporarily softened Sea Ji’s violent demeanor, but Mi Li said the effect would return unless she kept suppressing it.

Chen Luo prepared his level-ten members for an approaching crisis and planned to use the seventh Seafood Festival to advance Sea Ji to Emperor Rank. As Sea Ji began her painful evolution, Chen Luo calmed her by reminding her that he was her little brother.

• Chen Luo deduced that the Armor's Original Owner's death had spread energy across the world and summoned fifty-six level-ten members to headquarters.
• Chen Luo offered to help volunteers advance to King Rank and warned them that a deadly crisis was coming; Mu Hong, Gu Changfeng, Jin Yuanjiang, and the others agreed to fight.
• Red Lantern reported that all 186 qualifying Sea Clan members had arrived for the seventh Seafood Festival and that another 175 Sea Clan members had reached King Rank.
• Chen Luo decided to advance Sea Ji to Emperor Rank before the Seafood Festival and gave her three fruits as she neared the threshold.
• Sea Ji's evolution caused her to lose control and her illusion, but Chen Luo held her hand and calmed her by calling her Big Sister.

Chen Luo staged an attack by Sea Ji to expose which Seafood were loyal to him. As Sea Ji overwhelmed the gathered Seafood, Vertical River Turtle seized Chen Luo and offered to surrender to her.

• Chen Luo summoned the Seafood, claimed a traitor had stolen his divine power, and asked them to hold Sea Ji off while he recovered.
• Sea Ji arrived and survived the Seafood’s combined attack, then struck Chen Luo and trapped everyone inside Darkness Barriers.
• Red Lantern shielded Chen Luo, while many Seafood fought Sea Ji and others hung back or tried to escape.
• Chen Luo watched the Seafood’s choices as Sea Ji continued driving them back with Dark Eyes and sword attacks.
• Beibei tried to escape, and Vertical River Turtle grabbed Chen Luo and announced that he had captured the Sea King alive.

Chen Luo used Red Lantern’s psychic attack to survive Vertical River Turtle’s betrayal while the seafood fought Sea Ji. After Sea Ji killed Soy Leopard, Chen Luo revealed his recovered power, banished her, and resurrected Soy Leopard, leaving the kneeling traitors awaiting judgment.

• Red Lantern controlled Vertical River Turtle long enough for Giant Sea Turtle to crush him, and the seafood later killed Vertical River Turtle by flipping him onto his vulnerable belly.
• Sea Ji released Light of Annihilation through her Holy Sword and killed the wounded Soy Leopard.
• Chen Luo claimed his divine power had recovered, illuminated the sky, and used Void Exile to remove Sea Ji from the battlefield.
• Beibei, Sea Dragon, and the other seafood who had attacked Chen Luo’s barrier knelt and begged him for forgiveness.
• Chen Luo declared that Soy Leopard’s loyalty deserved a reward and resurrected him with divine power.
• Chen Luo announced that believers would revive fully restored after death, and Soy Leopard rose, confused that he had returned to life.

Chen Luo used Mi Li’s Resurrection Spell to win the seafood’s devotion, then purged disloyal followers and planned how to prepare his people for the coming monster invasion. Red Lantern began testing Level Ten members for promotion, but Gu Changfeng’s illusion revealed his desire for Mi Li.

• Chen Luo had Mi Li resurrect Soy Leopard, convincing the seafood that he could bring the dead back to life.
• Chen Luo ordered the seafood to kill Beibei and the other disloyal followers, then had suspected shirkers killed until ninety loyal seafood remained.
• Chen Luo told Dharma King to keep Level Ten natives alive so their deaths after advancing could yield more King-Rank Crystals.
• Chen Luo revealed Mi Li’s Resurrection Spell to his members and urged them to fight for their home, then had Red Lantern assess Level Ten members before distributing crystals.
• During Red Lantern’s illusion, Gu Changfeng celebrated Chen Luo’s death and claimed Mi Li for himself, then emerged insisting he had fought bravely against the monsters.

Chen Luo tested Red Lantern’s illusion on Gu Changfeng and Silver Bell, then investigated the Giant Tree’s stalled growth and planned future advancements. A month passed as Dharma King worked through missions and absorbed lightning crystals.

• Chen Luo had Gu Changfeng absorb a wind crystal under Time Acceleration, then killed him after the crystal’s side effects caused him severe pain and recovered the remaining energy.
• Silver Bell tried Red Lantern’s illusion, spoke suggestively about Chen Luo, and fled after he stopped the test and kicked her away.
• Chen Luo brought Gu Changfeng’s corpse to the Giant Tree and learned that its strength had increased but seemed unable to improve further; it asked to advance ten fruits to test its limits.
• Chen Luo decided to reserve seafood-derived fruits for Dharma King and chose Jiang Chuxue as the next candidate for Emperor Rank, while postponing Mi Ling and Su Dazhu.
• Chen Luo set aside fifteen lightning crystals for Dharma King, transported him between missions, and had him absorb crystals during a month without missions.

Chen Luo made a major breakthrough in Void Walk and traveled to the moon, where he discovered an abandoned astronaut named Jill. Jill’s account of two mysterious beings fighting on the day doomsday began led Chen Luo to suspect the Armor's Original Owner had battled an Ice esper.

• Chen Luo oversaw sparring among the rapidly growing group of King Rank fighters while Mi Li healed them, then continued studying his abilities.
• Chen Luo’s Void Walk advanced, allowing him to travel more than a million li by exhausting his esper energy, and he decided to visit the moon.
• Chen Luo reached the moon, explored its surface, and encountered a human astronaut in a spacesuit.
• The astronaut introduced himself as Jill, a Lighthouse Country astronaut stranded on the moon for two and a half years after losing contact with Blue Star.
• Jill told Chen Luo that black and blue balls of light had collided on the moon before the black one fell toward Blue Star on the day doomsday began.
• Chen Luo suspected the black light was the Armor's Original Owner and the blue light was an Ice esper, left Jill supplies, and returned to Blue Star without him.

Chen Luo returned to the base and suspected Ningshuang might be the blue ball of light that fought the Armor's Original Owner, but her behavior convinced him otherwise. He put her in a time-acceleration zone to help her grow stronger, then persuaded Giant Tree to give him all the fruit he produced for the next three months.

• Chen Luo returned to the base, found Ningshuang playing Gomoku with Rice, and discovered she had reached high-tier king rank.
• Chen Luo gave Ningshuang and Rice soil collected from the moon, then reasoned that Ningshuang might have gained unusual potential from something connected to the blue ball of light.
• Chen Luo created a time-acceleration zone for Ningshuang and sent her inside so she could grow stronger faster.
• Chen Luo learned that Giant Tree could not break through to emperor rank and tried to claim all his fruit, but Giant Tree insisted on their original half-share agreement.
• Chen Luo promised Giant Tree all the fruit he produced over the next three months in exchange for later compensation, and Giant Tree agreed.

As the monsters’ arrival drew near, Chen Luo strengthened Dawn City’s forces, equipped its fighters, and assembled Big Strong’s zombie group for the coming battle. Rice sensed that the crisis would end in both survival and failure, while an untold secret in Antarctica remained beyond their reach.

• Chen Luo screened newly advanced Level-Ten Members, then used the three who failed to obtain a King-Rank Fruit, though a later attempt with a captured native wasted half a King-Rank Crystal.
• Chen Luo prepared Dawn City for battle by training its King-Rank fighters, moving logistics staff and children into an Underground Facility, and distributing weapons and armor.
• Dharma King advanced to Emperor Rank, followed by Ningshuang and Jiang Chuxue, while the other members advanced to King Rank.
• Rice sensed that the coming crisis would bring a dangerous outcome that counted as both survival and failure, and warned that they could not yet investigate Antarctica.
• With ten days until the monsters arrived, Chen Luo summoned Big Strong and counted 152 King-Rank members, alongside thousands of other survivors and Big Strong’s 2,869 zombies.

Chen Luo waited in Meizhou for the monsters’ arrival and watched hundreds of King Rank creatures emerge through a spatial gateway. Their sky-blue leaders recognized something about the world and collapsed in grief, leaving Chen Luo unsure what they had discovered.

• Rice told Chen Luo that the monsters would arrive in a forest in Meizhou at about one the next afternoon, and he confirmed the location with her directions.
• Chen Luo prepared the members for battle, then hid in a deeper layer of space as he waited for the monsters to appear.
• A silver-blue gateway opened in the forest, and around five hundred King Rank monsters came through it.
• Chen Luo recognized one sky-blue monster as the wearer of the armored chest piece he had obtained after killing Bai Hao, while a transparent, one-eyed creature merged into its body.
• The sky-blue leaders examined the world, then fell to their knees and wept as if they had confirmed a grim truth.

Chen Luo watched the monsters divide across the continents and planned to weaken their King Rank forces before confronting the thirteen newly advanced Emperor Ranks. As he moved to attack, the red-eyed monster learned that the dispatched monsters had met resistance and called them bait, while another monster pointed out that they were bait too.

• Thirteen sky-blue monsters absorbed colored crystals and advanced from King Rank to Emperor Rank, while Octopus's host directed the invading monsters to split into four groups.
• Chen Luo realized the thirteen Emperor Ranks might continue growing stronger and decided to target the King Rank monsters before facing them.
• Chen Luo followed one group into Feizhou Continent and sent orders for his allies to eliminate the invading monsters without letting any escape.
• After the monsters entered Kangaroo Continent and encountered Dharma King and the others, Chen Luo made his move.
• Octopus's host learned that the dispatched monsters had met opposition, and a nearby monster remarked that they were bait as well.

The Sky-Blue Monsters’ descendants had sent a first wave to Blue Star as bait, hoping to find the Armor’s remains and assess the killer while watching through the Red-Eyed Monster’s gemstone. On the Kangaroo Continent, Chen Luo’s forces prepared to ambush the monsters, and Dharma King set out to lure them into the trap.

• The Sky-Blue Monsters’ descendants had located the Armor’s Original Owner through the Helmet’s gemstone and sent near-emperor-rank descendants to Blue Star to search for his remains and investigate his killer.
• The Red-Eyed Monster’s gemstone let the distant descendants watch his surroundings and judge the killer’s strength, while the first wave risked being stranded if it found nothing valuable.
• At the Kangaroo Continent base, Dharma King volunteered to lure the monsters into an ambush, and Mi Li gave him boosts to his strength, speed, and healing.
• The monsters landed on the Kangaroo Continent and prepared to split into six teams, intending to find the killer and slaughter any Blue Star natives they encountered.
• Chen Luo planned to keep the monsters together so they could not warn one another and flee, and Dharma King arrived ready to treat them as resources.

Dharma King lured more than a hundred King Rank monsters into an ambush, where Sea Ji, Mi Li, Ningshuang, and their allies surrounded them with overwhelming numbers. Trapped between the natives and the seafood creatures, the monsters fought desperately while Mi Li healed the injured members.

• Mi Li enhanced Dharma King, who attacked the monsters with slaps and Purple Sky Thunder before fleeing to draw them after him.
• Yuri used Telepathic Surveillance to guide the seafood creatures ashore and ordered them to cut off the monsters from behind.
• Sea Ji, Ningshuang, Mi Li, and the other members arrived to block the monsters, revealing three Emperor Ranks among their forces.
• The seafood creatures reached the battlefield from behind, trapping the monsters between two forces with far more King Ranks.
• A plump monster detonated itself and injured three members, but Mi Li healed them before the monsters could press their advantage.

Chen Luo killed twenty-two monsters with his Space Storm, then returned to the base to help Level-Ten Members absorb King-Rank Crystals before the enemy forces arrived. The sky-blue monsters realized he had used Teleportation and identified him as a rare Space-Type Genius.

• Chen Luo trapped a squad of twenty-two monsters in a Space Storm, used Void Exile to return escapees to its range, and killed them all with concentrated spatial attacks.
• Chen Luo stored the monsters' bodies, returned to the base, and handed over their crystals for distribution among the Level-Ten Members.
• Chen Luo used Time Acceleration to help members absorb crystals quickly, hoping to raise more fighters to King Rank before the enemy arrived.
• The sky-blue monsters watched the ambush on the Kangaroo Continent through the red-eyed monster's Octopus and were stunned by the natives' preparedness.
• The red-eyed monster realized Chen Luo had used Teleportation and called him a rare Space-Type Genius.