Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi explored the ruined village with Liu Yuxi and Jiang Hanxue, helping them fight Monsters until a powerful plant creature awakened beneath the village. After sending the women away, he escaped its Vines and continued investigating alone, finding a relatively intact building.

• Lin Yi equipped a Bull Hide Bracer, then took Liu Yuxi and Jiang Hanxue to explore the ruined Novice Village.
• Lin Yi killed a Night Black Panther and had Liu Yuxi finish it off, helping her face her first Monster kill.
• Lin Yi injured a Two-Faced Poison Spider and let Jiang Hanxue kill it, collecting its Green Quality Venom Sac and spider silk.
• Lin Yi sensed immense pressure beneath the village as its plants grew wildly, then ordered Liu Yuxi and Jiang Hanxue to log off.
• Lin Yi fought off the underground creature's enormous Vines, escaped as White Mist, and entered a relatively well-preserved building.

Lin Yi searched Zhang Family Village, found several External Skill manuals, and was ambushed by a powerful underground vine monster. He returned with a plan to burn it out, and the chapter ended with the village center engulfed in flames as giant vines writhed in the fire.

• Lin Yi found a genealogy identifying the ruined settlement as Zhang Family Village and discovered three External Skill manuals in a cellar, including the Blue-quality Dragon Roaming Secret Art.
• A giant vine ambushed Lin Yi as he left the village, forcing him to flee and return to reality; he concluded the monster was buried deep underground and too tough to fight directly.
• Lin Yi brought the manuals to Gu He, who warned him that a powerful Monster had likely destroyed Zhang Family Village, and Lin Yi declined to join the village’s planned Mirage Crow hunt.
• Lin Yi asked Liu Bo to obtain an official flamethrower and had Liu Yuxi transport gasoline cans to Zhang Family Village using her talent.
• The vines investigated the gasoline, and Lin Yi used a flamethrower to ignite them, then hurled more gasoline cans as additional vines erupted from the ground.
• Lin Yi fled as gasoline cans exploded and fire swallowed the village center, where countless giant vines writhed in the flames.

Lin Yi finished exploring Zhang Family Village for the day, tested using Starlight Force to improve Jiang Hanxue’s constitution, and forged a Spiritual Artifact bow. After returning to Ancient Pool Village, he began putting the burned Vine Snake remains to use and helped prepare the village for a Mirage Crow hunt.

• Lin Yi collected the Vine Snake remains after discovering that their buried main body stayed dormant, then returned to the villa and told Jiang Hanxue to register for the Mirage Crow hunt while Liu Yuxi focused on cooking and finding her role in the team.
• Lin Yi used Starlight Force to cultivate Jiang Hanxue, who gained one point of constitution, then forged a Yellow Wood Bow with a Red Tongue bowstring.
• Lin Yi logged into Ancient Pool Village, gave Gu Chenghu chocolate during a late-night patrol, and buried Vine Snake ash beneath the Shaohong Fruit sapling.
• Lin Yi drew the Muscle and Bone Master talent the next morning as Gu Liehai led a group of Newborn, including Jiang Hanxue and Little Monster, out to hunt Mirage Crows.
• Lin Yi checked Qin Changsheng’s shop accounts, reminded him about the business, and then went to Elder Gu Yun’s residence.

Lin Yi explored Zhang Family Village, befriended a newly formed Child Wandering Ghost he named Yuanyuan, and found a hidden Martial Arts Stone Tablet and Azure Water Dragon Essence Blood. After giving Yuanyuan a Death Spirit Stone, he cleansed the dangerous death energy it absorbed with his Fuzhu Spiritual Power, and the two remained companions.

• Lin Yi buried a child's skeleton and watched it become a Child Wandering Ghost, which he named Yuanyuan and allowed to follow him.
• Yuanyuan led Lin Yi to a hidden underground cave, where he found a broken Martial Arts Stone Tablet.
• Lin Yi searched the rest of Zhang Family Village and returned to a cellar, where Yuanyuan helped him uncover a box containing Azure Water Dragon Essence Blood.
• Lin Yi briefly disappeared to retrieve a Death Spirit Stone, then gave it to Yuanyuan when he returned.
• Yuanyuan absorbed the stone's death energy and became aggressive, but Lin Yi used his Fuzhu Spiritual Power to cleanse it and restore it to normal.

Lu Hai and the Hexian Village delegation arrived at Ancient Pool Village, where the villagers prepared a feast while Lin Yi returned from hunting Monsters with Liu Yuxi. Lu Hai and his companions discovered the village shop’s Blood Food and tried to bargain with Qin Changsheng.

• Gu Shan spotted the Hexian Village delegation, and the Village Elders and militia went out to welcome He Huan, He Tianlong, Lu Hai, and the others.
• Lin Yi hunted a Level 10 Flower Tiger Ox Demon with Liu Yuxi, then logged in after finding Lu Hai’s message.
• Ancient Pool Village prepared a banquet for the visitors, and Lin Yi gave Gu Yuan some Flower Tiger Beef to serve to the Village Elders.
• Lin Yi learned that Lu Hai and the Hexian Village Descenders had gone to the shop to buy Blood Food.
• Lu Hai asked Qin Changsheng for a further discount and tried to buy the Blood Food on credit.

Lin Yi hosted Hexian Village’s Born Ones and agreed to help them explore a Dark River rich in resources and rumored to contain Water Divinity. After Gu He explained that the Divinity might aid Lin Yi’s Sequence Bearer advancement, Lin Yi discovered that a Shaohong Fruit sapling treated with Vine Snake Ash had rapidly borne ripe fruit.

• Lu Hai visited Ancient Pool Village’s banquet, where Lin Yi shared Ox-Horned Beef Skewers with him and the Born Ones from Hexian Village.
• At the banquet, Lin Yi assured Zhu Naitian and the other Hexian Village Born Ones that they would be treated as honored guests if they obeyed the rules.
• Gu He told Lin Yi and Gu Chenghu that Hexian Village wanted to trade Aquatic Algae Fruit and its External Technique Manual for Demon King Blood, and proposed a joint expedition to the Dark River for Aquatic Algae Fruit and Netherworld Purple Lotus.
• Gu He privately explained that the Dark River might contain universal Water Divinity, and Lin Yi agreed to join the expedition with Elder Gu Yun as backup.
• Lin Yi found Er Huo guarding the Shaohong Fruit saplings and saw that the tree treated with Vine Snake Ash had produced three fruits that ripened before his eyes.

After a giant sea monster attacked an overseas beach, Lin Yi was summoned to the capital to advise the Official as governments considered revealing Apocalypse World. He arrived at a secret base and met Zhao Yilong, but the urgent matter awaiting them had not yet been disclosed.

• Lin Yi picked three Shaohong Fruits for Er Huo, and the fruit tree withered after the harvest.
• Liu Yuxi alerted Lin Yi to footage of a huge sea creature sweeping tourists into the ocean, and Lin Yi worried about Apocalypse World's effects on reality.
• The Official warned against spreading supernatural information to Born Ones, while Elder Chen summoned Lin Yi to the capital after learning two European countries planned to reveal Apocalypse World.
• Lin Yi flew to Jingcheng Base, where Elder Chen explained the pressure to disclose Apocalypse World and asked him to advise on the base's defenses.
• Lin Yi met Zhao Yilong at the base, and Zhao admitted he had feared the Official had summoned him to move against him.

At a gathering of Newborns, Lin Yi learned that the Official’s Spark Plan may involve people with numbered Activation Codes and formed a preliminary alliance with Zhao Yilong and Consultant Sun. Meanwhile, Lin Caihuan and the wounded Niu Jianjun emerged from a secret realm on Mount Tianzhu, where they debated whether to report it to the Official as Lin Caihuan revealed more about the disastrous future she had returned from.

• Zhao Yilong told Consultant Sun that the Wraith Controller Alliance was hiding in Donghai City and that Chen Chu had ordered him to release a captured member.
• Zhao Yilong guessed that the gathered Newborns possessed numbered Activation Codes, then proposed an alliance; Lin Yi and Consultant Sun agreed to a preliminary one.
• Lin Yi failed to reach Niu Jianjun and contacted Lin Caihuan, who replied using Niu Jianjun’s phone and said he was safe.
• Lin Caihuan helped the injured Niu Jianjun leave the Mount Tianzhu secret realm after they obtained a Spiritual Fruit.
• Lin Caihuan urged Niu Jianjun to keep the secret realm’s resources from the Official for now and explained that she had returned from a future devastated by Apocalypse World’s invasion.
• Niu Jianjun insisted on reporting the secret realm’s location, promised to use future secret realms to strengthen them first, and agreed to keep Lin Caihuan’s rebirth secret.

Elder Chen gathered Lin Yi and other powerful Born Ones to discuss the Apocalypse World threat, national martial training, and regulation of private organizations. The meeting ended with Zhao Yilong challenging the Official’s willingness to work with the Ghost Controller Alliance.

• Bai Xuan reported his observations from secretly watching the conference hall footage, and Elder Chen began the meeting after Chen Chu arrived.
• Elder Chen showed satellite images of a huge Deep Sea Monster and explained why the major powers had not used nuclear weapons against it.
• Elder Chen presented the National Martial Promotion plan, explaining that External Technique training could help people build strength and condense Qi-Blood without activation codes.
• Elder Chen proposed a Born One Organization Management Association and said organization leaders would have to join or face Official crackdowns.
• Zhao Yilong questioned whether the Ghost Controller Alliance should be allowed into the association and warned that accepting its members could lead to future trouble.

Elder Chen warned Lin Yi and the other Descenders that the Great Invasion Event could kill half of Blue Star’s population, and introduced the Spark Plan to resist it. Later, Niu Jianjun learned that Lin Yi’s and Ling Baobao’s Talents might be as powerful as or stronger than Bai Xuan’s Golden Talent.

• Lin Yi supported Zhao Yilong’s objections to accepting the Wraith Controller Alliance, while Elder Chen assured the group that criminals would be purged.
• Elder Chen revealed that Apocalypse World would begin invading Blue Star in June next year, with casualties expected to reach at least half the country’s population, and presented the Spark Plan.
• Lin Yi gave Liu Bo three Water Algae Fruits and urged him to grow stronger before a future crisis.
• Lin Yi practiced Starfall Archery in Ancient Pool Village and discussed the possible merging of the two worlds with Gu He.
• Niu Jianjun reported that the Mount Tianzhu Secret Realm could suddenly disappear and recommended retrieving its resources soon.
• Elder Chen showed Niu Jianjun Bai Xuan’s assessments of the Descenders, and explained that Lin Yi’s and Ling Baobao’s Talents might match or exceed Bai Xuan’s Golden Talent.

Lin Yi and the village leaders traveled to the Dark River, fought Monster Sand Wolves, and prepared to enter the underground waterway. The group reached the river’s edge and began descending toward the area where the Aquatic Algae Fruit grew.

• Lin Yi, Gu Yun, Gu Man, He Huan, and He Tianlong crossed the desert, where He Huan explained why Hexian Village could no longer keep the Dark River secret.
• Monster Sand Wolves attacked the group, and Lin Yi killed one while Gu Man and He Tianlong fought off the rest.
• Lin Yi and the others harvested Sand Wolf hearts and pelts before continuing to their campsite for the night.
• After returning to reality, Lin Yi considered building his own base because his home forging room grew dangerously hot when he used its furnace.
• The group entered the Karst Cave and reached the Dark River, where He Huan described the Silver Sword Demon Fish and a possible Demon King in the depths.
• He Tianlong found the iron chain leading down to a shallow bank and began sliding toward the river below.

Lin Yi and the others entered a dark underground pool to harvest Aquatic Algae Fruits, fighting the Silver Sword Demon Fish that guarded them. Lin Yi gathered more than fifty fruits from eight nests and was still underwater as the others waited on shore.

• Lin Yi led Gu Man down into the darkness, where Gu Man revealed his fear of enclosed, deep-water places.
• Gu Man found an Aquatic Algae Fruit by the pool and drew out a Silver Sword Demon Fish, which Lin Yi killed and harvested for Silver Fish Gelatin.
• Lin Yi and He Huan lured in and killed the nearby Silver Sword Demon Fish, collecting gelatins, scales, and a rare Divinity Stone.
• Lin Yi, He Tianlong, Gu Yun, and He Huan dived into the pool to search the fish nests while Gu Man stayed on guard.
• Lin Yi found Aquatic Algae Fruit vines in the nests and gathered more than fifty fruits, nearly clearing eight nests, while the others surfaced and waited for him.

Lin Yi, He Huan, and Gu Yun fought the Black Catfish Monster King at the Dark River Pool, but it escaped their first assault. Gu Yun lured it back with a witchcraft concoction, and Lin Yi’s Starfall Archery finally killed it.

• Lin Yi encountered the Black Catfish Monster King underwater, and he and He Huan drove it back toward the shore.
• Gu Yun used a Shadow Net to restrain the Black Catfish while Lin Yi and He Huan wounded it, but it escaped into the river.
• Gu Yun prepared a blood-based witchcraft mixture that provoked the wounded Black Catfish into returning to attack him.
• Lin Yi used Seven Stars Unity to blast off part of the Black Catfish’s tail, but the wounded beast emerged again.
• Lin Yi shot the Black Catfish through its mouth with Starfall Archery, killing it in the shallows.

Lin Yi ventured into the Dark River’s depths and encountered a powerful female Ghost Spirit who gave him a rare Spirit Water Body and revealed that she had raised the monsters he killed. She said she had a request for him, leaving him facing an unknown bargain.

• Lin Yi took the Water Divinity Stone from the Black Catfish Monster King’s Drops, then helped collect over two hundred Aquatic Algae Fruit with He Huan.
• When Lin Yi learned He Huan had gone to search the depths for the Netherworld Purple Lotus, he followed him into the dark, freezing waters.
• Lin Yi found the glowing purple lotus, sensed a formidable Ghost Spirit nearby, and used a hooked arrow to pull the plant toward himself.
• A female voice addressed Lin Yi, and a Black Catfish Monster King called Fat Twelve delivered him a Ten Thousand Year Clam Pearl that granted him a Blue Quality Spirit Water Body.
• The Ghost Spirit revealed she was a forgotten deity who had become a Ghost Spirit and had raised Little Fatty and Little Silver, then told Lin Yi she had a request for him.

Lin Yi accepted rare lotus resources from a female eerie spirit trapped beneath the Dark River, then discovered she had sealed his escape and demanded a deal. She revealed that only Newborns could free her remains, and that He Huan Village’s discoveries of valuable plants had been her bait.

• The female eerie spirit offered to help Lin Yi’s antler Psionic Organ grow in exchange for eventually severing the chain binding her remains, and Lin Yi accepted a Spirit Source White Lotus.
• He Huan and Gu Yun searched the Dark River for Lin Yi but found a newly blocked passage and could not locate him.
• Lin Yi ate White Lotus Seeds, raising his Spiritual Power Value to 89, then tried to leave and found a stone wall sealing the way back.
• The female eerie spirit trapped Lin Yi with Black Catfish Monster Kings and led him to a Shaman Array binding a huge skeleton beneath the river.
• The female eerie spirit explained that Newborns could save her and admitted that the Aquatic Algae Fruits and Netherworld Purple Lotuses found by He Huan Village had been bait.

Lin Yi negotiated with the female eerie spirit in the Dark River for a better reward in exchange for rescuing her. He accepted a contract to save her and break the Shaman Array after she gave him the Water Divinity, which began fusing with his antler.

• The female eerie spirit demanded that Lin Yi become a Demigod within ten years and rescue her by breaking the Shaman Array and its iron chains.
• Lin Yi argued that her initial reward was insufficient, then used explosives to demonstrate his leverage and threaten the Dark River.
• The female eerie spirit offered to help Lin Yi become a Professional, but he refused and pressed her for something more valuable.
• The female eerie spirit gave Lin Yi an incomplete Water Divinity, which he fused into his antler.
• Lin Yi accepted the deal, and the female eerie spirit told him to retrieve the contract from the mud beneath the Shaman Array and sign it.

Lin Yi accepted a ten-year commission to destroy the Shaman Array and free the being trapped in the Dark River, and he left with Fat Twelve accompanying him. After returning to Ancient Pool Village, he reported what he had found and learned that Gu Tianci had come out of seclusion.

• Lin Yi signed the commission, and the female eerie spirit assigned Fat Twelve to follow him as a supervisor.
• An elderly man resembling Old Village Chief Gu Tianci emerged from hiding after Lin Yi left and discussed Lin Yi with the female eerie spirit.
• Lin Yi met He Huan and Gu Yun underwater, then told them he had escaped dangerous depths filled with Black Catfish Monster Kings.
• On the journey back, Lin Yi brought out Fat Twelve, and Gu Man joked about raising the catfish to eat it.
• Lin Yi reported the Dark River events to Gu He, while Gu Yuan and Gu Yun tried to trade for the Netherworld Purple Lotus.
• Gu He told Lin Yi to ask the Village Chief about Hexian Village's previous Village Chief, and Lin Yi learned that Gu Tianci had come out of seclusion.

Lin Yi learned more about Hexian Village’s Dark River, gave Gu Tianci a Dragon Saliva Earth Mushroom, and received Divine Water and talismans before preparing for Tianshui City. Back at the pavilion, he subdued Fat Twelve and was ready to advance to professional level.

• Gu Tianci told Lin Yi that Hexian Village had appeared thousands of years ago and that its Dark River secret seemed connected to gods from ten thousand years ago.
• Lin Yi gave Gu Tianci a Dragon Saliva Earth Mushroom, allowing Ancient Pool Village to prepare for its long-delayed Spring Surge Ceremony.
• Gu Tianci gave Lin Yi three Divine Talismans and a supply of Divine Water, and warned him to awaken as a martial artist in Tianshui City without revealing his Sequencer Profession.
• Lin Yi watched Fat Twelve beat Er Huo in a fight, then froze Fat Twelve’s water needles and forced the Monster King to promise not to eat people.
• Lin Yi had Er Huo hold Fat Twelve in his mouth and went upstairs to prepare to advance to professional level.

Lin Yi completed the Mortal, Spiritual, and Divinity advancements to become a Professional-level Sequencer and gained the ability to control water and transform into a Fuzhu. As he considered hiding his antlers and pursuing the other Sequences, the Official Main Force began planning its exploration of the Mount Tianzhu Secret Realm.

• Lin Yi assembled the materials for all three Water Control advancements, using Divine Water, the Spirit Source White Lotus, and the Water Divinity fused into his antlers.
• While Lin Yi advanced in the attic, Er Huo tussled with Fat Twelve in the courtyard, and both reacted to the successive Professional-level auras.
• Lin Yi became a Professional One-star Sequencer, gained stronger water control, and transformed into a white deer resembling Fuzhu.
• Lin Yi tested his Spirit Deer form and decided to seek Divine materials for the other two Sequences, but worried that his antlers would be difficult to hide.
• Bai Xuan briefed Lu Hai, Yang Shu, and other senior Captains on the Mount Tianzhu Secret Realm and began arranging its exploration.

Lu Hai told Lin Yi that Wraith Controller Alliance members had attacked the Official team inside the Mount Tianzhu Secret Realm and sealed its exit, trapping him and a company of soldiers. Lin Yi agreed to lead a rescue, while Elder Chen sent Zhang Baichuan with him and warned that Niu Jianjun might be trapped in a Ghost Domain.

• Bai Xuan explained that the Mount Tianzhu Secret Realm was part of a resource-rich Demon Domain as the Official prepared to explore it.
• A group of Wraith Controller Alliance members decided to seize the Secret Realm’s resources and planned to attack after nightfall.
• Lu Hai told Lin Yi that Ghost Spirits controlled by the Alliance had attacked his squad and sealed the Secret Realm’s exit, so Lin Yi agreed to seek help and rescue them.
• Lu Hai returned to the trapped soldiers and reassured Company Commander Sun that a rescue operation would come.
• Elder Chen told Lin Yi that support was mobilizing and arranged for Zhang Baichuan to accompany him to Mount Tianzhu.
• During the helicopter ride, Lin Yi told Zhang Baichuan that Niu Jianjun was also trapped, startling him.