Chapter Summaries

Fang Long learned from Liu Zhenjie that Cao Xing was a former driver and ordered the Three Heroes Association to search for Cao Xing's camp. Cao Xing sold another 5,000 portions of bear meat, gained valuable resources, and returned to the Lord's Hut, where Liu Muxue warned him about Fang Long.

• Ji Jun told Fang Long that Cao Xing had refused and insulted their group and urged him to find a way to obtain bear meat.
• Liu Zhenjie told Fang Long about Cao Xing and Liu Muxue, and Fang Long rewarded him with beast meat before ordering the Three Heroes Association to locate Cao Xing's camp.
• Cao Xing sold all 5,000 portions of bear meat he had listed and told survivors he would trade his remaining meat for blueprints, equipment, and skill books.
• Cao Xing gained large amounts of resources, crystals, Mithril, equipment, and skill books, then returned to the Lord's Hut before nightfall.
• Liu Muxue warned Cao Xing that Fang Long was treacherous and ruthless.

As the temperature dropped to -28°C, Cao Xing shared a bearskin and a bed with Liu Muxue, and the two became intimate. Liu Muxue feared Cao Xing might leave her, but he reassured her that they would face life in the new world together.

• Liu Muxue worried about Fang Long's threat, and Cao Xing reassured her that his camp was safe.
• When the room grew bitterly cold, Cao Xing covered Liu Muxue with a bearskin, and she invited him to share it.
• Cao Xing joined the beds beneath the bearskin, and later Liu Muxue asked him to hold her; they became intimate.
• Afterward, Liu Muxue told Cao Xing she feared he would leave her, and he promised they would live in the new world together.

Cao Xing welcomed three refugees from Icepeak City into his territory after Asam rescued them from Snowfield Hunters. With Liu Muxue and the Polar Folk, he planned the territory’s work and reviewed new skills and equipment as he prepared to survive in the frozen world.

• Cao Xing woke to Liu Muxue making breakfast, and they promised to survive together.
• Cao Xing assigned the eight Polar Folk to build and upgrade structures while noting that he needed more workers.
• Cao Xing reviewed two skill books, Black Iron Plate Armor for Liu Muxue, and a soldier longsword blueprint.
• Asam returned from surveying the area with three women he had rescued after Icepeak City fell to a Wraith army.
• Cao Xing recruited Jasmine, Tulip, and Sapphire, assigning them to cook and help gather resources and build the territory.

Cao Xing learned that Hunters were holding many people captive and decided to rescue them, while recruiting a powerful Icefield Druid to strengthen his forces. The chapter ended with Guardian Andrew arriving and pledging his service.

• Cao Xing renamed the three newly recruited women Big Flower, Second Flower, and Third Flower, then told them to cook and eat.
• Big Flower told Cao Xing that roughly twenty to thirty Hunters were holding many of her companions captive and asked him to rescue them.
• Cao Xing assessed the Hunters’ strength, agreed to lead a rescue mission with Liu Muxue, and learned the camp was about seven kilometers away.
• Cao Xing gave Liu Muxue black iron armor and the Aurora Blessing skill book, and she equipped the armor and learned the skill.
• Cao Xing learned Ice Spike and used the Icefield Druid Recruitment Scroll to summon Guardian Andrew, who pledged his service.

Cao Xing strengthened Andrew with several blessings, raising the Druid’s loyalty and awe before the Level Leaderboard opened. The survivors learned its rewards, and Cao Xing was especially struck by the prizes for first place.

• Cao Xing inspected Andrew’s powerful attributes and noticed the Druid’s low loyalty and dismissive attitude toward him.
• Cao Xing had Ilena cast Scale Armor and Snakefolk Frenzy, then granted Andrew Ice Healing and Ice Armor, raising his loyalty from 63 to 74.
• Cao Xing asked Liu Muxue to cast Aurora Blessing on Andrew, who reacted with further amazement at the buffs.
• The system announced that the Level Leaderboard had opened for the first 100 survivors in each region to reach Level 10.
• Survivors discussed the leaderboard rewards, and Cao Xing was stunned by the first-place prizes, including a Tier Two Boss Creature Recruitment Ticket.

Cao Xing set out with Liu Muxue, Asam, and Andrew to attack a Hunter Camp and gain experience for the Level Leaderboard. After the Hunters spotted them, Asam and Andrew charged into the camp and began slaughtering its defenders.

• Cao Xing learned the Level Leaderboard’s first-place reward was a Chieftain-tier Recruitment Scroll and decided to compete for it.
• Fang Long rallied the Three Heroes Association and named Wu Xinghu and Zhou Bo as potential rivals, while dismissing Cao Xing.
• Cao Xing left Ilena to guard his territory and led Liu Muxue, Asam, and Andrew toward the Hunter Camp.
• Cao Xing’s group reached the camp, which the system marked as extremely dangerous, but he ordered Asam and Andrew to attack.
• A Hunter spotted the group and raised the alarm, bringing defenders out of their tents.
• Asam and Andrew charged the Hunters, and Andrew killed a Hunter in a single attack.

Cao Xing and Liu Muxue gained experience by empowering their followers as Asam and Andrew wiped out a Hunter Camp. After Cao Xing received a blue Phantom Assassin Recruitment Scroll, he and Liu Muxue began looting the camp.

• Cao Xing realized that he and Liu Muxue gained experience by buffing followers who fought in battle.
• Asam and Andrew slaughtered the Hunters while Cao Xing and Liu Muxue watched and gained experience.
• Andrew caught and killed the fleeing Hunter Captain, and Cao Xing leveled up to Lv. 4.
• Cao Xing’s territory destroyed the Hunter Camp and received reputation and a blue Phantom Assassin Recruitment Scroll as rewards.
• Cao Xing and Liu Muxue entered the camp to loot it, and Cao Xing found a Hunter Mask, a Tier One Soldier Training Manual, and 15 coins.

Cao Xing looted the Hunters’ camp, found a key to a Goblin Treasury, and discovered seven surviving captives, including Tong Chuchu, a child from Blue Star. Tong Chuchu told Liu Muxue that the Hunters had taken her father away, leaving his fate unknown.

• Cao Xing collected supplies, coins, and nine Tier One Soldier Training Manuals from the camp, while he and Liu Muxue saw the Hunters’ grisly ritual remains.
• Andrew gave Cao Xing a Goblin Treasury Key that pointed to coordinates about 40 kilometers away and warned of special dangers.
• Asam found seven captives tied up in a tent, and Cao Xing recognized Tong Chuchu as a human survivor from Blue Star.
• Liu Muxue comforted Tong Chuchu, who explained that Hunters had captured her and her father after attacking them with arrows, then taken her father away.

Cao Xing rescued Tong Chuchu and six captives, recruited the captives into his territory, and found supplies and wheat seeds in the Hunters’ chest. He agreed to visit Tong Chuchu’s camp to see whether her mother wanted to join, and discovered that farming might provide a steady food supply if he could prepare protected farmland.

• Tong Chuchu asked Cao Xing and Liu Muxue to take her to her mother, and Cao Xing agreed to visit their camp five kilometers away.
• Cao Xing learned that he could recruit survivors as residents with limited permissions, then invited six native captives to join his territory.
• The six captives joined, and Cao Xing renamed them Cao Yi, Cao Er, Cao San, Fourth Flower, Fifth Flower, and Sixth Flower.
• Cao Xing opened the Hunters’ Storage Chest and obtained bread, wheat seeds, milk, copper, and a Church Letter.
• Cao Xing realized he could farm the wheat seeds but would need cultivated land and shelter to protect them from blizzards.

Cao Xing discovered a letter revealing the Church of Light’s plan to massacre Doren Lake City, then rescued Tong Chuchu and brought her back to her mother, Xia Yanni. The mother and daughter joined his territory, and the relic box’s meager supplies strengthened his resolve to develop his territory quickly.

• Cao Xing read a Church of Light letter announcing a planned blood sacrifice at Doren Lake City and noted that its base was over two hundred kilometers away.
• Cao Xing ordered Asam and Andrew to burn the Hunters’ bodies, then followed Tong Chuchu to her camp.
• Cao Xing waited outside the territory until Xia Yanni came out, and he offered her and Tong Chuchu safety and supplies in exchange for joining his faction.
• Xia Yanni and Tong Chuchu joined Cao Xing’s territory, and he claimed their now-unclaimed camp.
• Cao Xing opened the relic box belonging to the former lord, Tong Guangrong, and resolved to develop his territory so his own supplies would not become a relic box.

Cao Xing returned to the territory with the survivors and organized its growing workforce as the Campfire reached Level 5. He assigned construction, resource gathering, and farming tasks, leaving the refugees fed and loyal as night approached.

• Cao Xing led the group back to the territory, where Big Flower and the others welcomed them and Dazhuang reported the Campfire upgrade.
• Cao Xing ordered the Polar Folk to gather resources and build shelters, a Cafeteria, and a Lesser Elemental Arrow Tower before nightfall.
• Cao Xing had Liu Muxue distribute bread to the new residents, raising their Loyalty, and gave food to Xia Yanni and Tong Chuchu.
• Cao Xing put Cao Yi in charge of his group and tasked them with upgrading the Campfire and gathering resources.
• Cao Xing gave Big Flower wheat seeds and ordered her to prepare farmland and plant them.

Cao Xing assigned Xia Yanni to make clothes from wolf pelts and spent the night with Liu Muxue while survivors across the world hunted to gain levels. As the Level Leaderboard finished updating, Fang Long, Zhou Bo, and Wu Xinghu’s factions each claimed their leader would rank first.

• Cao Xing gave Xia Yanni his and Liu Muxue’s wolf pelts to sew into clothes, hats, or gloves by the next day.
• Cao Xing and Liu Muxue went to the Lord’s Hut and slept together after Liu Muxue refused to sleep separately.
• Fang Long reached level 3 after killing a wild boar and expected to claim first place on the leaderboard.
• Zhou Bo killed a roe deer with his family and planned to join two nearby members of the Heavenly Blade Association to level faster.
• Survivors discussed their hunts and argued over whether Wu Xinghu, Zhou Bo, or Fang Long would top the leaderboard.
• The system announced that the Level Leaderboard had finished updating.

Cao Xing reached first place on Region 174’s Level Leaderboard while Fang Long vowed to catch up and Zhou Bo investigated him. The next morning, Cao Xing and Liu Muxue gained health from bear bile soup as a new arrow tower strengthened the territory’s defenses.

• The updated leaderboard placed Cao Xing first at Level 4, ahead of Wu Xinghu, Zhou Bo, Ren Yixu, and Fang Long, and survivors praised Cao Xing for sharing bear meat.
• Fang Long resolved to catch up before the Newbie Protection Period ended, while Zhou Bo asked someone to investigate Cao Xing’s origins.
• Cao Xing and Liu Muxue celebrated his ranking and spent the night together.
• Cao Xing saw that the Small Shelter and Lesser Elemental Arrow Tower were complete, and he noted that the tower could attack enemies within six hundred meters.
• Cao Xing ate bear meat and bear bile soup, gaining strength and constitution and then 200 maximum health; Liu Muxue ate the remaining soup and gained 200 maximum health as well.
• The system announced that the survivors had made it through the third night, with two days and twenty-two hours of protection remaining and a forecast of light snowfall and temperatures as low as -70°C.

Cao Xing organized the territory’s work, received a rough map revealing a Moleman-occupied mine, and summoned the powerful Phantom Assassin Sarah Blade Dance. He prepared to explore the mine with his companions and left the chapter with Sarah reporting for duty.

• Cao Xing assigned the residents to gather resources and accepted wolf-fur clothing made by Xia Yanni and Tong Chuchu, then gave them bear meat and Milk for Tong Chuchu.
• Asam gave Cao Xing an unfinished map of the surrounding area and identified a nearby mine occupied by Molemen.
• Cao Xing decided to explore the Moleman Mine with Liu Muxue and his companions to gain experience.
• Cao Xing used a Phantom Assassin Recruitment Scroll and summoned Sarah Blade Dance, who reported in.

Cao Xing welcomed Sarah Blade Dance, then strengthened her with five permanent buffs, earning her loyalty. He led the group into the extremely dangerous Moleman Mine, where they began exploring by collecting its mana torches.

• Cao Xing checked Sarah Blade Dance’s powerful attributes and asked whether she would accept his blessings.
• Ilena and Cao Xing, with Liu Muxue’s help, applied five permanent buffs to Sarah, who pledged her loyalty to Cao Xing.
• Cao Xing set out with Liu Muxue, Asam, Andrew, and Sarah for the Moleman Mine, following the location on Asam’s map.
• The group entered the mine, where Sarah vanished into the darkness and Liu Muxue guarded Cao Xing.
• Cao Xing asked Asam to remove the blue-flamed mana stone torches, and they obtained one.

Cao Xing salvaged mana stone torches, minecarts, and rails before leading his group deeper into the mine, where they fought a band of Molemen. Liu Muxue leveled up and entered combat herself, leaving the battle underway.

• Cao Xing had Asam and Andrew collect 17 Mana Stone Torches, then gathered three Abandoned Minecarts and 15 sections of Rail.
• Cao Xing's group encountered Molemen Miners and a Molemen Foreman, who sent the miners rushing at them.
• Asam, Andrew, Frost Wolf Winter, and Sarah Blade Dance overwhelmed the Molemen, while Cao Xing and Liu Muxue watched from behind.
• Liu Muxue reached level 3 and told Cao Xing she had made the Leaderboard's top twenty; Cao Xing remained in first place at level 4.
• Cao Xing let Liu Muxue fight, and she charged a Molemen Miner with her shield and longsword as Ice Healing restored the small amounts of damage she took.

Cao Xing and his companions cleared a mine of Molemen, and he discovered that his Eternal Power talent made the movement-speed buff from a special whip permanent. He tested it on himself and then asked Asam to let him try it on him.

• Liu Muxue fought the Molemen Miners while Cao Xing attacked them with ice spikes.
• Sarah killed the fleeing Molemen Foreman with a dagger strike, and Cao Xing praised her.
• Cao Xing and his companions looted the mine, finding three Weak Books of Chaos and the Molemen Overseer's Whip.
• Cao Xing whipped himself and discovered that Eternal Power had made the whip's movement-speed effect permanent.
• Cao Xing asked Asam to let him whip him, and Asam agreed.

Cao Xing used his whip to grant Asam, Andrew, Sarah, and Liu Muxue a movement-speed boost before leading them deeper into the Moleman Mine to gather rails and valuable ores. They entered a restricted tunnel after Sarah sensed a dangerous presence, and the group reached a web-filled passage where a powerful evil aura confronted them.

• Cao Xing explained the whip’s one-time effect and whipped Asam, Andrew, Sarah, and Liu Muxue to grant them a movement-speed boost.
• Cao Xing collected hundreds of meters of rails before the group found a fork and Andrew smashed through the planks blocking the right-hand tunnel.
• Sarah scouted the tunnel and reported that a Tier 2 monster’s lair lay inside, so Cao Xing led the group in after she said they could defeat it together.
• Cao Xing and Liu Muxue gathered abandoned minecarts, rails, and valuable ores, including Mithril Ore and Mana Stones.
• Cao Xing lit the dark passage with a Mana Stone Torch as the group encountered increasingly dense cobwebs and a powerful evil aura.

Cao Xing and his followers entered the Cave Spider Nest, where they found dangerous Demon Spider Eggs and were attacked by a giant Cave Spider. They surrounded the spider after Sarah wounded it and Cao Xing froze it, but the battle continued as it poisoned Andrew.

• Sarah cut through the webs blocking the passage, and Cao Xing led the group deeper into the mine.
• Sarah scouted a cavern that the group entered, where Cao Xing found dozens of Demon Spider Eggs.
• A giant Cave Spider emerged and immobilized Andrew with webbing, but Andrew transformed into Giant Bear Form and tore free.
• Sarah struck the Cave Spider with a Hindering Dagger, and Cao Xing's Ice Spikes froze it and knocked it to the ground.
• Andrew, Asam, and Winter surrounded the Cave Spider, which bit Andrew and inflicted poison.

Cao Xing and his summoned creatures fought the Cave Spider while clearing its nearby eggs, rapidly earning experience. The battle ended with Cao Xing shooting the weakened spider as it leaped toward him.

• Andrew weakened the Cave Spider with Wild Mark, and Sarah, Asam, and Frost Wolf attacked under Cao Xing's orders.
• Cao Xing ordered Asam and Frost Wolf to destroy the Demon Spider Eggs while Andrew and Sarah held the Cave Spider back.
• Asam and Cao Xing killed the Lesser Demon Spiders emerging from the eggs, and Cao Xing's experience rose quickly.
• Survivors discussed the Level Leaderboard and rival groups until Cao Xing's experience surged from 32% to 40%.
• Cao Xing stopped Sarah from finishing the Cave Spider and shot it with his Barrett as it leaped into the air.