Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao consolidated control of the Dark Night Group, learned about its resources and experiments on Transmigrators, and reached the Dark Night Empress’s core. He transferred her into his Equipment Slot and connected her computing power to his own, leaving him able to use Night Harbor’s network and link across worlds.

• Lin Hao moved into Dark Night Tower’s presidential suite, while E Little Adam and Old Adam warned that other factions might probe the Dark Night Group after Black Sledgehammer’s death.
• Lin Hao ordered the Dark Night Group to provide survival supplies and work to scavengers, then directed the group to finish opening the Dark Night Empress’s core hatch.
• Lin Hao learned that the Dark Night Group held a large nuclear arsenal and was conducting experiments on 178 Transmigrators, so he ordered the experiments stopped and the subjects settled.
• Lin Hao entered the core chamber and discovered the Dark Night Empress’s biological brain, then connected a Leviathan Type 1 Brain-Computer Interface to a [Communication Bug] brought by Cattiss.
• Lin Hao transferred the Dark Night Empress into his Equipment Slot, restored Night Harbor’s network through the [Communication Bug], and connected her computing matrix to the [Brain Bug] across worlds.

Lin Hao used his new information-processing abilities and the Computing Power Matrix to improve communications, plan major equipment upgrades, and investigate the Transmigrators held in Dark Night Tower. After questioning them, he moved the human subjects into temporary quarters while leaving the lizardmen in the laboratory.

• Lin Hao connected through the [Brain Bug] to contact Li Yanbing and planned to build cross-world information networks and bring school personnel to Night Harbor.
• Lin Hao ordered more Computing Power Matrices and commissioned new weapons, armor, and [Armory] equipment based on designs optimized for him.
• Lin Hao visited Dr. Pym's laboratory and learned that it held 178 Transmigrator test subjects from human, lizardman, and dwarf settlements.
• Lin Hao questioned the lizardmen and human Transmigrators about their settlements and past worlds, learning that Zheng Chuan's group came from a zombie wasteland and lived in a desert.
• Lin Hao left the lizardmen with Dr. Pym and moved Zheng Chuan and the other human subjects into restricted living quarters in Dark Night Tower, where they welcomed their reprieve from testing.

Lin Hao accepted a Heroes Association mission to confront an S-Rank monster near Fishing Harbor City, while Josiah and his allies prepared to seize control of the Dark Night Group during his absence. The monster neutralized the city’s nuclear shells with a neutron flux and charged toward the defenders as Lin Hao approached.

• Josiah and two allies agreed to work with outside forces and exploit Lin Hao’s departure to take control of the city.
• Lin Hao completed his preparations, became the S-Rank hero Homelander, and accepted a mission to assist Fishing Harbor City.
• Lin Hao told Old Adam and Little Adam to hold the group and use the crisis to remove their opponents, then flew toward the harbor.
• Josiah revealed that his allies would use an EMP bomb and other forces against the Adams while Homelander was away.
• Monster 774 reached Fishing Harbor City during a severe storm, and its neutron flux prematurely activated the nuclear shells, irradiating the defenders.
• Fisherman watched Monster 774 charge toward the city’s forces after the failed attack.

Lin Hao, as Homelander, killed Monster 774 after it devastated Fishing Harbor City's defenses, then found signs that the monster had been artificially engineered. As Steel Bone tended the wounded, Lin Hao suspected Sea King was involved, and Sea King appeared from the sea.

• Monster 774's neutron stream and EMP disabled much of Fishing Harbor City's defenses, while its radiation and attacks overwhelmed the Heroes and soldiers.
• Fisherman repeatedly attacked Monster 774 to delay it, and Steel Bone watched as the monster destroyed more defenses and intercepted the city's hypersonic missiles.
• Lin Hao arrived, used Leviathan X to evade Monster 774's gamma-ray breath, cut off its legs, and severed its head.
• Lin Hao's God-Eater Insects collected samples, and his analysis indicated Monster 774 had been artificially assembled from edited genetic material.
• Steel Bone explained how the monster had defeated the city's nuclear defenses, while Lin Hao assessed the radiation injuries and Fisherman's sacrifice.
• Lin Hao pretended to collapse and suspected a backup plan was underway before Sea King emerged from the sea with the Trident of the Sea God.

Lin Hao killed Sea King after exposing Monster Group’s role in creating monsters, then allied with Fishing Harbor City to hold the company accountable. Meanwhile, a blackout plunged Night Harbor into chaos, drawing Dark Night Tower’s forces into the streets and giving Josiah and Mr. X a chance to strike.

• Sea King admitted that Monster Group had created monsters and attacked Lin Hao, but Lin Hao trapped him in a fused domain and killed him with twelve flying swords.
• Lin Hao collected Sea King’s equipment and samples, while Fisherman pledged Fishing Harbor City’s support and agreed to use Lin Hao’s recordings to accuse Monster Company.
• In Night Harbor, Iron Skull Gang prepared to sabotage a power plant, and attacks on core substations plunged much of the city into darkness.
• Cattiss ordered Dark Night Tower’s forces to impose a curfew and suppress the violence, but the citywide unrest caused losses among its troops.
• Josiah revealed that he had used the gangs and blackout to draw out Dark Night Tower’s elites, then asked Mr. X, an S-Rank hero from Rand Group, to attack.

Lin Hao returned to Night Harbor City, defeated the attackers who had crippled Dark Night Square, and exposed the Monster Group’s role in the assault. The Heroes Association agreed to investigate for a month before discussing the incident, giving Lin Hao time to finish his equipment upgrades.

• A coordinated Rand Group attack disabled most of Dark Night Group’s guards with powerful EMP blasts, while Mr. X challenged Old Adam from the square.
• Lin Hao arrived with Sea King’s corpse, then killed Mr. X and his rebel squad as Cattiss, Ru Yu'er, Old Adam, and Little Adam went to help quell the unrest.
• Lin Hao recovered three flagship Rand Group weapons and planned to add them to his [Armory], while resolving to pressure the Monster Group and later retaliate against the Rand Group.
• Fishing Harbor City filed a complaint against the Monster Group and publicized evidence of the attack; Lin Hao added videos of Sea King’s and Mr. X’s corpses and threatened to use Dark Night Group’s nuclear stockpile without an explanation.
• Crimson Queen and the Giant Strength Group supported an investigation, and the Vought Group set a Heroes Association Security Council meeting for one month later.
• Lin Hao accepted the delay so Dark Night Tower could finish assembling his equipment, though he still expected to return to the Third World and face tribulation lightning.

After more than twenty days, Lin Hao equipped himself with advanced technological weapons and a newly modified Vibranium Furnace Armor, then traveled to the Third World to complete its tribulation tempering. He returned to Earth after discovering that a New World had appeared and ordered Li Yanbing to organize cautious scouting missions.

• Lin Hao tested the RI-Type Electromagnetic Nuclear Detonation Sword, the L-Type Gamma-Ray Gun, and enhanced flying swords, finding that his combat power had risen dramatically.
• Lin Hao inspected the completed Vibranium Furnace Armor and began adapting to its Energy Furnace affix through Swarm Adaptation.
• Lin Hao left Night Harbor under Cattiss's and Big and Little Adam's care, telling Old Adam to attend the Heroes Association's Security Council meeting.
• The Earth Will informed Lin Hao that a New World had appeared, and he asked Li Yanbing to recruit pioneering teams to investigate it safely.
• Lin Hao returned to the Third World and urged its World Will to temper his modified Saintly Weapons and armor with Tribulation Lightning and yin wind.

Lin Hao learned that the Fifth World’s mortal kingdoms held an Ascension Ceremony every thirty years and resolved to gather intelligence while preparing to bring the Fourth World under his control. At a Security Council meeting, the Monster and Rand Groups blamed the Dark Night Group for their crimes until Lin Hao arrived and declared himself justice.

• Lin Hao received reports that the Fifth World’s martial arts flourished and that Immortal Masters recruited Immortal Seeds through a ceremony held every thirty years.
• Lin Hao decided to proceed cautiously in the Fifth World, then planned to bring the Fourth World into the fold and use its corporations to expand the [Armory].
• Sentinel and the Seven discussed Homelander’s absence and the threat posed by nuclear weapons before heading to the Heroes Association Security Council meeting.
• Monster No. 9, Monster No. 8, and Dr. Rand accused the Dark Night Group of staging the Fishing Harbor City attack, while Old Adam and Crimson challenged their claims.
• As support for the Monster and Rand Groups grew, Old Adam sensed Lin Hao’s arrival, and Lin Hao crashed through the venue’s skylight and declared, “I am justice.”

Lin Hao violently interrupted the Heroes Association Security Council meeting, killed Monster No. 8, and defeated Sentinel while trapping the attendees in his Gold-Red domain. He left Sentinel sealed and captured, while the assembled representatives unanimously backed Lin Hao’s proposal to punish the Monster Group and the Rand Group.

• Lin Hao entered the Security Council through the skylight and openly declared that he had no regard for anyone there.
• Monster No. 8 transformed and attacked Lin Hao, who impaled and killed him with a spear.
• Sentinel attacked Lin Hao with heat rays, but Lin Hao’s particle shields held while weapons from his dimensional ripples forced Sentinel to defend himself.
• Lin Hao fused [Sun Domain] and [Blood Moon Domain] to trap the meeting attendees, then used chains and a mental weakness to seal Sentinel inside a cocoon.
• Crimson and the other representatives claimed they had been discussing how to deal with the Monster Group and the Rand Group, then unanimously supported taking over both groups’ assets and launching a corporate war against them.

Lin Hao secured the representatives’ submission, then moved against the Rand Group before the other corporations could coordinate. He killed Light Shield Warrior, seized his advanced technology, and left the Rand Group largely subdued under the Heroes Association Security Council’s resolution.

• Lin Hao killed Dr. Rand and Monster No. 9, then accepted the Vought Group’s surrender after Mr. Brain offered its cooperation.
• Lin Hao had the representatives fitted with monitored miniature bombs and stripped of useful equipment, then ordered them to target the Monster Group and Rand Group.
• At the Rand Group’s headquarters in Superpower City, Light Shield Warrior prepared countermeasures against Lin Hao while believing the corporations remained secure.
• Lin Hao appeared over Superpower City with a vast array of weapons and used Dr. Rand’s prosthetic limbs to broadcast the Security Council’s resolution.
• Lin Hao broke through Light Shield Warrior’s GN Energy Force Field System, killed him, and took his reactor and defensive system.
• Lin Hao announced that the Rand Group’s ringleader was dead and subdued the remaining resistance, sparing those who surrendered.

Lin Hao took control of the major corporations and ordered their forces in the Abyss to stop attacking nearby settlements. He arranged for the imprisoned transmigrators to return to their settlements, where they learned that Lin Hao had conquered the world and brought their communities under his protection.

• Crimson reported that Vought and Skynet had occupied several Abyss settlements, and she revealed that her scouting team had attacked a distant settlement whose people captured them in retaliation.
• Lin Hao learned that the settlement's people used flying swords and that a radio signal from a school had drawn their attention; he ordered Crimson to halt hostile actions and stay within her territory.
• Lin Hao overpowered Crimson and considered bringing her into line so he could make use of her abilities.
• Wang Zhen told the transmigrators held in Night Harbor that their settlements' problems had been resolved and they could return.
• Wang Zhen explained that Lin Hao had captured Sentinel, subdued the Rand Group, and absorbed the other corporations, leaving their settlements under Lin Hao's control.

After two months of reorganizing the surrendered corporations and advancing his cultivation, Lin Hao traveled to a desert Settlement and arranged a negotiation with a nearby cultivation Settlement. Xiang Zhiguo decided to attend the meeting himself, preparing his people for the possibility that he would be captured or killed.

• Lin Hao used the world's computing resources, monster research, and Swarm organisms to develop new technologies and weapons, while reaching the middle stage of Human Immortal and integrating his abilities with Wish Power.
• Lin Hao learned that Vought Corporation's exploration team had rendezvoused with the school's team about eight thousand kilometers away, then set out toward the desert Settlement aboard a [Shuttle Bug].
• The Settlement's residents welcomed Lin Hao with an elaborate ceremony, and he dismissed the display before asking "Crimson" about the neighboring cultivation Settlement.
• Lin Hao instructed "Crimson" to invite the neighboring Settlement's leaders to negotiate, hoping to discuss their situation and possibly learn their cultivation methods.
• Xiang Zhiguo and the leaders of the Xiangnan Construction Corps debated the invitation, weighing the danger of the other Settlement's nuclear weapons against the risk of a trap.
• Xiang Zhiguo announced that he would go alone to the meeting and told the others to prepare shelters, move civilians toward safety, and resist if negotiations failed.

Lin Hao met Xiang Zhiguo, a leader of a settlement founded by transmigrators from a military district, and discussed their cultivation world, their respective strengths, and ways to cooperate. Xiang agreed to visit Lin Hao’s University Town, and they began considering an exchange of cultivation knowledge, technology, and weapons.

• Lin Hao met Xiang Zhiguo at an oasis and demonstrated his flying-sword control, convincing Xiang of his formidable cultivation.
• Xiang Zhiguo revealed that his settlement came from a military district and had spent more than fifty years building influence within the Green Grain Sect.
• Lin Hao and Xiang compared cultivation paths and learned that transmigrators faced hostility, while Xiang’s group had gained a foothold through pill refining and cooperation with the sect.
• Lin Hao invited Xiang to visit University Town, and Xiang contacted his settlement to explain that he was going willingly.
• On the ride to University Town, Xiang explained cultivation realms and offered to lend Lin Hao the Green Grain Sect’s inheritance; Lin Hao proposed sharing brain-computer technology and nuclear bombs in return.

Lin Hao visited Xiang Zhiguo's Settlement, received the Green Grain Art, and revealed his ability to cultivate all five elements. After using the method to complete his cultivation system and reach late Core Formation, he planned to gather more resources and cultivation knowledge before visiting the Ancient Capital of the Former Dynasty and the Dragon-Tiger Holy Land.

• Xiang Zhiguo brought Lin Hao to his Settlement, where Huang Nianxiang and the Green Grain Sect's leaders welcomed him and Qingyang Zhenren gave him the Green Grain Art.
• Lin Hao's Spirit-Testing Stone test showed intense lights for all five elements, and Qingyang Zhenren warned that a Nascent Soul True Monarch might try to seize him if he revealed this ability.
• Lin Hao shared the Five Elements Spirit-Returning Formula, and Qingyang Zhenren considered how its method of balancing five elements might let ordinary people cultivate.
• Lin Hao analyzed the Green Grain Art, developed four complementary methods, and used vast wish power to reach late Core Formation with a pure golden core.
• After emerging from seclusion, Lin Hao reunited with Li Yanbing, who reported progress on Foundation Establishment Gene Potions and alchemy combined with biotechnology.
• Lin Hao planned to visit the Ancient Capital of the Former Dynasty and the Dragon-Tiger Holy Land after collecting supplies.

Lin Hao and Qingyang Zhenren traveled to the former dynasty’s ancient capital to investigate the dangerous gray fog and its sealed threats. Lin Hao sent God-Eater Insects inside to scout, and the chapter ended as he opened a projection of what they had found.

• Lin Hao completed his Armory, expanded his God-Eater Insect swarm, and reviewed the mobile-city preparations in the settlement.
• Lin Hao visited the Third World, where Zong Tianqing briefed him on new uranium deposits and efforts to secure basic necessities.
• Lin Hao met Qingyang Zhenren and invited him to investigate the ancient capital before visiting the Dragon-Tiger Holy Land.
• Lin Hao warned Qingyang that the Zerg could be far more dangerous than cultivation-world rumors suggested, and told him to avoid other swarms.
• Lin Hao sent God-Eater Insects into the ancient capital’s gray fog and used their network to project the scene inside.

Lin Hao uncovered that the Ancient Capital of the Former Dynasty replayed the National Preceptor’s sacrifice of its inhabitants, then confronted the corrupted National Preceptor inside the ghost domain. Lin Hao trapped him in a lightning dragon formed from sword formations and divine thunder, and the battle of attrition began to turn in Lin Hao’s favor.

• Lin Hao used the [God-Eater Insects] to explore the ancient capital and discovered that its streets replayed the day the National Preceptor sacrificed the emperor and the city’s people to seal a breach.
• Lin Hao and Qingyang Zhenren entered the capital, found they could escape its formation, and then encountered the National Preceptor in the ruined ghost domain.
• Lin Hao reminded the National Preceptor of his original purpose, briefly stirring his memories, but Qingyang Zhenren’s warning about demonic corruption enraged him and brought the attack down on them.
• Lin Hao restrained Qingyang Zhenren and unleashed dozens of Flying Swords, the [Sun Domain], and Five Elements Divine Thunder against the National Preceptor and the vengeful souls.
• Lin Hao’s lightning dragon swallowed the National Preceptor, and its sustained assault gradually weakened the black energy as Qingyang Zhenren offered Lin Hao a pill.

Lin Hao briefly restored the National Preceptor’s awareness, received his formation compendium, and watched him sacrifice himself to seal the ancient capital’s spatial fissures. Lin Hao then captured the resulting grand formation and entered the Dragon-Tiger Holy Land with Qingyang Zhenren, where the year-end trial began with a meeting with the old boatman.

• Lin Hao used the thunder dragon formation to clear the National Preceptor’s mind, and the National Preceptor explained that corruption had overtaken him and something evil remained outside the world.
• The National Preceptor gave Lin Hao his formation compendium and then merged the three formations with his life force to eliminate the ancient capital’s spatial fissures.
• Lin Hao sealed and claimed the composite Weird Array, while Qingyang Zhenren learned that Lin Hao intended to visit the Dragon-Tiger Holy Land.
• Lin Hao and Qingyang Zhenren examined the Holy Land’s yin energy and discussed its River of Forgetfulness and Netherworld cycle before the year-end trial began.
• Lin Hao and Qingyang Zhenren entered the trial’s Bamboo Grove, where the old boatman greeted Lin Hao.

Lin Hao thanked the Dragon-Tiger Holy Land's boatman, then sealed the entire holy land into his Saintly Weapon as a new secret realm. After preparing to enter the cultivation world in search of Nascent Soul methods and resources, he received a lead on a Luoxia Sect elder and planned to investigate both cultivation worlds.

• Lin Hao told the boatman that the holy land's teachings had benefited him, and the boatman learned that Lin Hao had helped the National Preceptor close the rift before the National Preceptor dissolved into the Dao.
• Lin Hao offered to preserve the boatman's consciousness, but the boatman declined, satisfied that the holy land's inheritance had been passed on.
• Lin Hao sealed the entire Dragon-Tiger Holy Land into his Saintly Weapon using his five yang divine thunders, and the boatman died as the River of Forgetfulness carried away his remaining light.
• Lin Hao examined the new [Five Elements Secret Realm], added plans to refine his abilities, and told Qingyang Zhenren that he intended to enter the cultivation world to seek a Nascent Soul method and resources.
• Lin Hao asked Qingyangzi to gather intelligence through the Green Grain Sect while he investigated his own side, and Yi Feng reported a lead on a Luoxia Sect elder returning to the mortal world.

Lin Hao arrived in the Zhou Dynasty and questioned Elder Han about the surrounding cultivation world and its sects. After learning that the region belonged to Hehuan Sect territory, Lin Hao flew toward the Luoxia Sect to inspect its cultivation methods.

• Lin Hao, Ru Yu'er, Crimson, and Yi Feng appeared in a mountain forest, and Yi Feng explained that the Zhou Dynasty's capital lay nearby.
• Elder Han prepared to settle down in the capital and choose a wife and concubines, while he turned down Han Fan's request for a recommendation to the Luoxia Sect.
• Lin Hao appeared beside Elder Han and demanded information about nearby sects and the cultivation world.
• Elder Han explained that the Luoxia Sect, Kumu Sect, and Luoshui Sect belonged to the Sunu Sect, a branch of the Hehuan Sect, and gave Lin Hao a map Jade Slip.
• Lin Hao demanded cultivation methods from Elder Han, then flew toward the Luoxia Sect to investigate its teachings.

Lin Hao sent Crimson to gather information in the cultivation world, then flew toward the Luoxia Sect and seized a Hundred-Year Wood Lingzhi after killing the cultivators fighting over it. He reached the sect and began breaking through its mountain-protecting formation, leaving the cultivators inside wondering why the mountains were shaking.

• Lin Hao told Yi Feng and the other students to remain at the inn, while Crimson and Ru Yu'er were assigned to gather general information in Qingfeng Market.
• Lin Hao flew toward the Luoxia Sect and spotted a group of Qi Refinement cultivators attacking Yan Nanfeng and his wife over a Hundred-Year Wood Lingzhi.
• Lin Hao killed the attackers with lightning, took the Wood Lingzhi as payment, and let Yan Nanfeng and his wife keep the attackers' belongings.
• Lin Hao examined the Luoxia Sect's mountain-protecting formation and decided to enter by breaking it with technique rather than brute force.
• Lin Hao raced through the formation, shattered its azure runes, and caused the mountains beneath the Luoxia Sect to tremble.