Chapter Summaries

Long Yu brought his level-four group to Chen Luo’s base and asked to join, and Chen Luo welcomed them. Long Yu and his companions sampled the base’s abundant beef-broth noodles and met Dharma King.

• Long Yu’s group decided that its level-three members would seek admission to Chen Luo’s base while Long Yu stayed behind to help the four level-two members advance.
• Long Yu arrived at the base with his group the next morning and asked Chen Luo to accept everyone, including those who had not reached level three.
• Chen Luo recognized Long Yu as a promising recruit and welcomed the group, inviting them to breakfast.
• Long Yu and his companions ate bowls of beef-broth noodles, and Chen Guang encouraged Long Yu to go back for more.
• Long Yu greeted Dharma King as the dog left the base to earn points.

Chen Luo tested Long Yu’s metal abilities and showed him how he could forge weapons and armor for the survivors. Their plans were interrupted when Zhao Hai and Song Ling reported that a powerful, fast zombie had slaughtered dozens of people and might be heading their way.

• Chen Luo asked Long Yu why he had joined, then tested his metal body and knocked him back with a punch.
• Chen Luo helped Long Yu discover he could transform metal into gold and suggested he use his abilities to make weapons and armor for the survivors.
• Long Yu realized how valuable his crafting ability could be and went to his room to experiment with metal.
• Zhao Hai and Song Ling warned Chen Luo that a powerful zombie had killed dozens of people with Wind Blades and might arrive soon.
• Rice told Chen Luo that he was done for.

Chen Luo faced a powerful Wind Zombie that slaughtered the guards and nearly killed Mi Li, but his crystal suddenly awakened Time Acceleration and caused the zombie to collapse. Chen Luo also collapsed after the ability drained his esper energy.

• Rice warned Chen Luo that he would nearly die within half an hour, though an incredible benefit awaited him.
• The Wind Zombie rushed into the Villa District and killed the guards as Mi Ling, Mi Li, and Su Dazhu returned.
• Chen Luo attacked the Wind Zombie with his Void Sword, but the blade barely wounded it, and the zombie broke his arm with a slap.
• Chen Luo tried to use Void Walk to rescue Mi Ling, Mi Li, and Su Dazhu, but he escaped alone and then shielded Mi Li from the Wind Zombie.
• Chen Luo's crystal changed as he desperately wished the Wind Zombie would die, triggering Time Acceleration that made it collapse and left Chen Luo unconscious.

After collapsing from using Time Acceleration, Chen Luo woke three days later and discovered that he had gained a Time ability alongside Space. He realized his dual abilities had greatly improved his crystal, but its shattered state meant it would take three months to recover.

• Chen Luo collapsed after using Time Acceleration to make the Mutant die in an instant, and Mi Ling ordered the base sealed while everyone kept watch over him.
• Rice reassured the worried group that Chen Luo would survive and gain something from what happened.
• Chen Luo woke on the afternoon of the third day and sensed Time energy inside his crystal, confirming that he had awakened a second esper ability.
• Chen Luo recalled meeting Jiang Chuxue, whose Time Stop had once immobilized him, and remembered how she and humanity later died to monsters in the apocalypse.
• Chen Luo realized that his Space and Time abilities had raised his crystal's quality to level eight, but his shattered crystal would take three months to recover.

After awakening a Time ability, Chen Luo recovered from nearly shattering his crystal and began distributing crystals to strengthen his core members. Meanwhile, elephant keeper An Chen raided a neighboring base with his powerful elephant, then heard a dying man boast that a dog was stronger than it.

• Chen Luo learned that his crystal would keep him from using abilities or absorbing crystals for a month, then decided to use the recovered level-eight crystal to strengthen his core members.
• Mi Li, Dharma King, Mi Ling, Su Dazhu, and others welcomed Chen Luo after he woke, and he rewarded the base with three days of beef and lamb.
• Chen Luo gave Dharma King a level-eight crystal, and Dharma King reached level five that night before choosing to stay and protect his weakened master.
• Chen Luo assigned Fire and Ice crystals to Mi Ling and Shu Yun, then planned for the remaining core members to absorb crystals in turn.
• An Chen led a raid on a neighboring base with his level-four elephant, which rampaged through the defenders and killed several people.
• A dying defender taunted An Chen that his elephant was weaker than a dog, and An Chen angrily rejected the claim.

Chen Luo assigned Jiang Feng to build an intelligence network while An Chen arrived at the base with his elephant, seeking to challenge the dog he had heard was powerful. The chapter ended with An Chen taunting the golden retriever as it stepped forward to face him.

• After recognizing the need for intelligence about nearby bases, Chen Luo put Jiang Feng in charge of recruiting forty covert scouts.
• Jiang Feng accepted the assignment after Chen Luo offered generous rewards and the possibility of becoming an elder.
• An Chen brought his elephant toward Chen Luo's base, while two wolves watched him leave with hatred for killing their companions.
• The base's sentries spotted An Chen's group, and Chen Luo recognized him as the Elephant Tamer from his previous life.
• Chen Luo went outside with Dharma King as An Chen arrived and leered at Mi Ling, asking her to join him.
• The golden retriever pushed to the front, and An Chen pointed at it and asked if it was really so badass.

Mi Ling fought An Chen’s level four elephant and killed it with a concentrated flame attack, Red Lotus Burst. An Chen ordered his men to attack, while Chen Luo’s group prepared to meet them.

• An Chen challenged the golden retriever, then demanded that Mi Ling either fight his elephant or provide meat.
• Mi Ling volunteered to face the elephant, and Chen Luo let her fight without Mi Li’s buffs.
• Dharma King became angry when An Chen’s men mocked his Dog Elder title, but Chen Luo restrained him.
• Mi Ling gathered the flames covering her body into a red lotus and burned away the elephant’s trunk and head, killing it in one strike.
• An Chen ordered his men to attack, and Su Dazhu, Xia Haoran, and the others charged to meet them.

After An Chen fled the battlefield, Dharma King chased him down and killed him while Silver Wolf and Gray Wolf attacked. Dharma King tried to win Silver Wolf over with Little Red, but Chen Luo rescued the hen and took the wolves back to base, where he advised Dharma King to use force.

• An Chen fled, but Silver Wolf and Gray Wolf ambushed him, and Dharma King arrived and killed him with a single blow.
• Dharma King pinned Silver Wolf while Gray Wolf stayed behind to protect its companion, and the group gathered around the wolves.
• Dharma King brought Little Red to Silver Wolf as food, but Little Red laid several eggs, so Chen Luo rescued it and handed it to Su Dazhu.
• Chen Luo carried Silver Wolf and Gray Wolf back to base after they attacked him with their abilities, then locked them in a small truck.
• Chen Luo scolded Dharma King for acting like a simp and told it to make the wolves submit through strength.

Chen Luo took more than four hundred people to Li Village to clear zombies and prepare a new base before the zombies evolved further. When a powerful Big-Head Zombie attacked a team, Chen Luo arrived to face it.

• Chen Luo set a daily quota of three level-three zombie kills and began planning a base outside the city ahead of the coming level-four evolution.
• Chen Luo led sixteen trucks of members to Li Village and warned them to guard against mutated insects as they cleared the area.
• Chen Luo checked the river water while Rice rode on his shoulders, and he smashed a giant butterfly with Iron Claw's claw.
• A Big-Head Zombie hiding behind a door killed two members and chased the rest outside.
• Chen Luo arrived as the survivors regrouped, and the Big-Head Zombie called itself Iron Head and challenged him to hit its iron-tough head.
• Chen Luo kicked the Big-Head Zombie in the crotch twice after it admitted that only its head was tough.

Chen Luo subdued Iron Head, a level-five zombie known to villagers as the Great Demon King, and decided to keep him as a training partner. After Li Cheng identified Iron Head, Chen Luo deliberately let him try to escape and beat him until he returned to the truck.

• Chen Luo repeatedly kicked and slapped Iron Head until the zombie stopped resisting and agreed to stay in the truck.
• Chen Luo’s members brought the survivor Li Cheng to him, and Li Cheng warned that a huge-headed zombie had terrorized the village and eaten many people.
• Chen Luo showed Li Cheng that the feared Great Demon King was Iron Head, whom Chen Luo controlled with ease.
• Iron Head seized a chance to flee while Chen Luo pretended not to watch, but Chen Luo caught him and beat him for running away.
• Chen Luo ordered Iron Head back into the truck, and the battered zombie limped there while Li Cheng wondered whether Chen Luo was the real Great Demon King.

Chen Luo recruited workers and began preparing to build a fortified village base while Meng Yin sought his support for her improved potato seeds. Meanwhile, mutated sea creatures devastated coastal survivors, prompting Feng Zhengqing to lead his people toward the Divine Capital.

• Chen Luo left Xia Haoran and a hundred people to hold the cleared village, then recruited five hundred Earth Ability users to build its walls and accepted more qualified members into his base.
• Meng Yin showed Chen Luo a sprouted potato she had improved with her Nature ability, but he told her to reach level four before testing it and reminded her that she owed a thousand points.
• Tens of thousands of mutated crabs and larger sea creatures attacked survivors along the coast, while an enormous creature raised a tide that flooded a base and swept people away.
• Feng Zhengqing decided his coastal base could no longer remain in Cloud City and set out for the Divine Capital with more than a thousand people and only a few days' food.

Chen Luo resumed absorbing crystals and learned that Dharma King’s mate, Silver Wolf, was pregnant. The next day, Lei Hao arrived with a rooster and proposed teaming up to raid a warehouse district for supplies, and Chen Luo agreed.

• Chen Luo absorbed more than sixty level-three crystals, found they barely helped him, and resumed using his abilities after his crystal had recovered enough.
• Dharma King asked Chen Luo for meat, revealing that Silver Wolf was pregnant, and Chen Luo gave him extra food for her.
• Chen Luo imagined raising a pack of powerful wolfdog offspring, while Rice wondered if Gray Wolf was the father.
• Leng Chen told Chen Luo that Lei Hao had arrived with gifts, including a rooster that could help Little Red’s eggs hatch.
• Lei Hao described a nearby grain, cooking oil, and seed market with abundant supplies but many zombies, then asked Chen Luo to join the raid.
• Chen Luo agreed to team up with Lei Hao to gather supplies.

Chen Luo agreed to split supplies with Lei Hao, but Lei Hao joined Feng Zhengqing’s operation instead and forgot to tell Chen Luo. When Chen Luo arrived to find the supplies gone, Leng Chen seized Lei Hao by the neck.

• Chen Luo agreed to give Lei Hao thirty percent of the supplies from a joint expedition and left Little Red with the rooster Lei Hao had brought him.
• Lei Hao encountered Feng Zhengqing, who offered him twenty percent to guide Feng Zhengqing’s group to the supplies without fighting.
• Feng Zhengqing’s group killed a mutant and gave Lei Hao his promised share, leading Lei Hao to forget his agreement with Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo set out with forty trucks the next morning, but Lei Hao’s people did not arrive and the supplies had already been taken.
• Leng Chen grabbed Lei Hao by the neck when Chen Luo confronted him about betraying their agreement.

Chen Luo met Feng Zhengqing, a powerful newcomer who offered him supplies and hosted him for lunch. Feng revealed that Ouyang Lu, a Nature Esper Ability User, had grown the rare fresh vegetables served at the meal, while Chen Luo considered whether he could recruit Feng.

• Lei Hao apologized to Chen Luo for breaking their agreement and offered him rice and oil, but Feng Zhengqing arrived before they settled matters.
• Feng Zhengqing offered Chen Luo three hundred tons of supplies as compensation and invited him to lunch; Chen accepted and went with a small group.
• Feng Zhengqing ordered his subordinates to serve their best food, including fresh vegetables that surprised Chen Luo.
• Feng Zhengqing introduced Ouyang Lu and her Grass-Type Sprite, explaining that her Nature ability helped her grow crops.
• As the meal was served, Feng Zhengqing asked whether Chen Luo often got to eat fresh vegetables, and Chen privately acknowledged that he did not.

Feng Zhengqing proposed sharing Chen Luo’s base and forming an alliance, but Chen Luo refused to accept anyone who would not follow his lead. Feng Zhengqing challenged him to a three-on-three duel to decide which group would lead, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Chen Luo criticized the meal Feng Zhengqing served and asked why he had invited him over.
• Feng Zhengqing described the danger posed by mutated sea creatures and proposed joining forces with Chen Luo.
• Feng Zhengqing asked for part of Chen Luo’s base, offering to share the vegetables Ouyang Lu grew in return.
• Chen Luo refused to let Feng Zhengqing’s people into the base and said Feng Zhengqing would have to follow his lead for an alliance.
• Feng Zhengqing claimed he could wear Chen Luo’s people down and challenged him to a three-on-three duel, with the losing side joining the winner.

Chen Luo and Feng Zhengqing agreed to settle their rivalry through a three-round duel, while both secretly planned to kill the other. Their groups gathered for the contest, and the first fight began with Su Dazhu charging at Sun Yu, whose earth pillars trapped him.

• Chen Luo accepted Feng Zhengqing's proposal for a best-of-three duel, and both men privately considered killing the other during the contest.
• Feng Zhengqing fed his Zombie the cook and server who had prepared his meal, then persuaded Lei Hao to join his group by claiming Chen Luo meant to take revenge on him.
• Feng Zhengqing demonstrated his power to Lei Hao's people and brought both groups to the agreed dueling ground.
• Chen Luo and Feng Zhengqing announced the rules, and Chen Luo chose Su Dazhu to fight first while Feng Zhengqing sent out Sun Yu.
• Sun Yu raised four earthen pillars around the charging Su Dazhu, who realized he was too heavy to squeeze between them.

Su Dazhu defeated Sun Yu, and Feng Zhengqing sent a fire-type zombie to fight Iron Head. Iron Head won the duel but grabbed Ouyang Lu, and when Chen Luo stopped it, Iron Head began mutating.

• Sun Yu trapped Su Dazhu with Swamp Spell and attacked with Earth Spikes, but Su Dazhu broke free and forced him to concede.
• Feng Zhengqing released a fire-type zombie for the second round, and Chen Luo sent Iron Head to fight it.
• Iron Head endured the zombie's Flame Explosion and chased it out of the dueling circle, securing a loss for Feng Zhengqing's side.
• Iron Head seized Ouyang Lu as she fled, but Chen Luo rushed over and pulled Iron Head away before it could eat her.
• Iron Head threatened Chen Luo and began rapidly growing larger, prompting Chen Luo to watch as it mutated.

Chen Luo let Iron Head mutate into a level-eight giant, then fought him as Iron Head’s body became tougher and his former weakness disappeared. As Chen Luo began cutting through space to attack Iron Head, Feng Zhengqing sent a weak tornado at him while pretending to help.

• Chen Luo ordered everyone else to flee while he waited for Iron Head to finish mutating, expecting Rice’s silence to mean there was no danger.
• Iron Head grew to enormous size and stomped at Chen Luo, while Sun Yu briefly trapped him with earthen pillars so Chen Luo could attack.
• Iron Head revealed that his head had become his strongest point, then returned to normal size and charged Chen Luo repeatedly.
• Chen Luo discovered he could create a thin spatial fissure at Iron Head’s waist, and the two struggled as Iron Head resisted the cut.
• Feng Zhengqing launched a tornado toward Chen Luo, intending to redirect it and kill him, but Chen Luo stood firm against its weak wind.

Chen Luo defeated Feng Zhengqing’s mutant zombie and forced Feng Zhengqing’s people to join him, then sent Feng Zhengqing running by promising no one would attack him. Dharma King caught and killed Feng Zhengqing, leaving Chen Luo’s group to absorb the survivors.

• Feng Zhengqing’s tornado failed to hurt Chen Luo, who cut Iron Head in half and killed it to obtain its level-eight crystal.
• Feng Zhengqing accepted defeat and recognized Chen Luo as the Alliance Leader, while Ouyang Lu and Sun Yu agreed to join Chen Luo’s side.
• Chen Luo ordered Ouyang Lu to identify talented people in Feng Zhengqing’s team, and Feng Zhengqing offered to disband his group in exchange for being spared.
• Chen Luo promised that neither he nor his people would lay a hand on Feng Zhengqing, so Feng Zhengqing disbanded his group and fled.
• Dharma King chased Feng Zhengqing, paralyzed him with lightning, and electrocuted him to death.

Chen Luo recruited Feng Zhengqing’s former subordinates, put Lei Hao to work with Long Yu, and settled Dharma King’s reward against his wife’s meat expenses. At the new base, Chen Luo stopped Xia Haoran from killing a stinkbug that had burrowed inside.

• Chen Luo offered Feng Zhengqing’s former subordinates a chance to join after passing a crystal-gathering test, while Lei Hao’s two Level Four followers chose to leave him and Lei Hao joined Chen Luo’s group.
• Long Yu tested a heat-resistant metal pot with Ma Yu’s flames, and Chen Luo assigned Lei Hao to help produce and shape the material.
• Dharma King handed Chen Luo Feng Zhengqing’s Level Five Wind Crystal and received five hundred points, but Chen Luo calculated that Dharma King still owed him five hundred points for his wife’s meat.
• Chen Luo took Ouyang Lu and others to inspect the new base, where Xia Haoran was fighting a giant stinkbug and its smaller companions.
• Chen Luo arrived just as Xia Haoran was about to finish off the stinkbug and told him not to kill it.