Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi cornered Ye Feng at the Ruidu Commercial Building and extorted a strange stone from him, which gave Ling Yi the National Martial Arts skill. The apocalypse drill had narrowed to Ye Feng and Ling Yi, and Ling Yi ended the chapter eager to extort other protagonists for more abilities.

• Fang Bian ran outside and died under the ultraviolet rays after running out of supplies.
• Cheng Min killed herself during a rebellion at her survival base, leaving only Ye Feng and Ling Yi in the drill.
• Ye Feng reached the Ruidu Commercial Building, where Ling Yi confronted him with a mechanical centipede armed with eight AKs.
• Ling Yi demanded something valuable from Ye Feng, guessed that he had a reputation-exchange ability, and accepted a stone Ye Feng left behind.
• Ling Yi's mechanical spider retrieved the stone, and touching it added National Martial Arts to his skills.
• Ling Yi spent 12 skill points to raise National Martial Arts to lv5 and decided to extort protagonists for more abilities.

Ling Yi discovered ways to increase his system’s daily skill points and reclaimed Fighting for a large refund, then learned that solar panels stored in the Ruidu Commercial Building could solve their dwindling power supply. He and Sariminglan found a safe indoor installation site on the fourth floor, but Ling Yi would need to handle the delicate work himself, and the building might hold other useful supplies.

• Ling Yi learned the system’s skill-level milestones for increasing daily skill points and that deleting a skill refunded half its cost without removing its attribute bonuses.
• Ling Yi deleted Fighting lv10 and received 384 skill points, then considered which skills to raise next as he continued investigating how the system recorded skills.
• Sariminglan told Ling Yi that their storage batteries would last only a little over two months and remembered that solar panels were stored on the sixth floor of the Ruidu Commercial Building.
• Ling Yi remotely sent the mechanical centipede to inspect the crates and found five sets of engineering-grade photovoltaic panels, which it could not install by itself.
• Sariminglan suggested placing the panels inside the former exhibition hall on the fourth floor, where sunlight reached the floor-to-ceiling windows, and Ling Yi confirmed the site could meet their power needs.
• Ling Yi decided he would have to install the panels himself and asked Sariminglan about other useful items left in the building after its tenants failed to move out.

Ling Yi searched the Ruidu Commercial Building, installed solar panels to power the underground shelter, and upgraded the mechanical centipede. After discovering that he could improve [Electricity Control] by charging himself, he began testing whether he could develop other elemental-control skills.

• Ling Yi searched all eight floors of the Ruidu Commercial Building and identified the sixth floor's electronic equipment as useful for upgrading the mechanical centipede.
• Ling Yi left the shelter at night, carried five sets of solar panels to the fourth floor, assembled them, and connected their circuits to the shelter.
• Ling Yi spent hours modifying the mechanical centipede, increasing its legs from sixteen to twenty-four while worsening its power consumption.
• Ling Yi returned to the shelter and adjusted its circuits; the solar panels began working, and he told Sariminglan that the shelter would have a steady supply of electricity.
• Ling Yi used a battery to charge himself and explained that [Electricity Control] had reached lv1, improving his senses and letting him generate electricity by expending stamina.
• Ling Yi tried to activate Fire Control by holding his hands over an alcohol-lamp flame, but the experiment failed.

Ling Yi’s skills grew stronger as the heat disaster gave way to an even deadlier cold, and he planned an underground farm to survive. When a desperate Ye Feng returned to the shelter, Ling Yi offered to train him in exchange for Skill Stones, leaving Ye Feng wary of the deal.

• Ling Yi raised Extreme Speed and Electricity Control to lv5 and National Martial Arts to lv8, gaining immense speed, electrical power, and Gang Jin abilities.
• As temperatures recovered, Ling Yi warned Sariminglan that the disaster was unlikely to be over, and the world plunged into extreme cold days later.
• With communications cut off and Sariminglan fearing they would starve, Ling Yi proposed growing crops indoors and planned to expand the basement into an ecological garden.
• Five days into the digging work, Ye Feng returned to the shopping mall and asked Ling Yi to take him in.
• Ling Yi learned Ye Feng had reached only An Jin, demonstrated his own Gang Jin, and offered to train Ye Feng in exchange for Skill Stones.
• Ye Feng refused to trade his scarce stones, but Ling Yi reminded him that he would have to pay rent for shelter.

Ling Yi and Ye Feng finished a crude underground ecological garden as the apocalypse drill neared its hundred-day end, then watched the world freeze and were returned to their glass capsules. After meeting military leaders and Dawei Technology president Teng Ren, they began learning what the drill had been.

• Ling Yi’s Meditation skill reached level five, boosting his mental power and Gang Jin range and granting him Telekinesis.
• Ye Feng explained how his reputation-based system and costly constant-temperature pendant had nearly killed him, then said he needed to save reputation for an immortal cultivation technique.
• Ling Yi and Ye Feng built an ecological garden, planted potatoes, and saw them sprout nineteen days later, giving Sariminglan a potential source of food.
• A countdown appeared as the world froze around Ling Yi and Ye Feng, and their livestreams shut down before the two vanished.
• Ling Yi and Ye Feng woke in open glass capsules, followed a lab-coated figure out of the underground base, and met Yu Sheng, Zheng Hu, Feng Zhenqing, and Teng Ren.
• When Ye Feng asked whether the drill world had been real or virtual, Teng Ren answered that it had been the Quantum Realm.

Ling Yi and Ye Feng entered the second Doomsday Drill after the producers publicized their cheats and recruited eight celebrity contestants. Ling Yi began investigating the new world with his newly acquired mental abilities and an AI assistant he had created, Xiao Ling.

• Ling Yi and Ye Feng left Dalan Satellite TV, agreed to keep participating, and learned that Feng Zhenqing and the others were counting on them to save the world.
• Dawei Technology and the Doomsday Drill team announced that Ling Yi and Ye Feng had received exclusive virtual cheats, then revealed that eight celebrities would join the next installment.
• Teng Ren explained that the show needed popularity to raise M3's energy reading, and Ling Yi entered the upgraded underground base for the second drill.
• Lan Bing introduced the returning contestants, Ling Yi and Ye Feng, along with Bai Mengyan, Song Qi, Yang Jinli, Song Tie, Liu Yan, Ni Xueqin, Sha Shan, and Yu Lian.
• Ling Yi arrived on Binjiang Road in a new Quantum Realm, hypnotized an inn receptionist with [Meditation lv8], and used a USB drive to activate Xiao Ling, the AI program he had written.

Ling Yi learned that Wansheng Biology Technology’s serum was causing catastrophic human mutations and sought Goku, the only one who knew the inhibitor formula. As the outbreak neared, Xiao Ling located the monkey in Meishan, and Ling Yi set out to stop the crisis before it began.

• Xiao Ling showed Ling Yi evidence that Wansheng Serum caused failed evolutions to become zombie-like monsters and successful evolutions to gain deadly powers, with an outbreak expected within five days.
• Ling Yi learned that Wansheng Biology Technology’s leadership alone had access to an inhibitor and that Goku was the only one who knew its formula.
• Viewers discussed the serum, Xiao Ling, and the contestants’ doubles, while Wansheng’s people captured Bai Mengyan, Song Qi, and the other celebrities; Ling Yi told Xiao Ling to monitor them.
• Xiao Ling infiltrated Wansheng Biology Technology’s main server and obtained administrator privileges.
• After Xiao Ling found Goku in Meishan, Ling Yi booked a flight there to seek the inhibitor formula and try to prevent the biohazard crisis.

Ye Feng was forced by Ling Yi to rescue Yang Jinli from Wansheng Biotech, while Ling Yi seized the mutant monkey Goku and confronted the head of a Meishan branch to secure help producing inhibitor. The woman agreed to help spread the inhibitor if Ling Yi killed Li Heng, the initiator of the Heavenly Court Project.

• Ye Feng learned of the coming apocalypse and planned to hide, but Ling Yi threatened to reveal his location unless he rescued the captured contestants.
• Ye Feng used magical treasures to infiltrate Wansheng Biotech and extract Yang Jinli without triggering the alarm.
• Ling Yi found Wansheng Biotech agents capturing Meishan's monkeys, identified Goku by its unusual mental power, and controlled it with his mind ability.
• Ling Yi took Goku to a Wansheng Biotech branch in Meishan and controlled the receptionist to reach the person in charge.
• The woman in charge resisted Ling Yi's mind ability with her fire power, but he restrained her with Gang Jin and demanded help producing inhibitor.
• The woman offered to produce and distribute the inhibitor if Ling Yi killed Li Heng, the head of Wansheng Biotech in the Ancient Country and initiator of the Heavenly Court Project.

Ling Yi and Lin Yan prepared to spread an inhibitor against Wansheng Serum while exposing Li Heng’s Heavenly Court Project, and Ling Yi learned why Lin Yan wanted Li Heng dead. Lin Yan revealed that Li Heng had turned her younger sister Lin Wen into an experimental subject, leaving her anguished over having trusted him.

• Lin Yan told Ling Yi that ten tons of inhibitor could be spread across the Ancient Country by plane, and Ling Yi promised to prevent Li Heng from issuing orders.
• Ling Yi ordered Xiao Ling to expose Wansheng Biotech’s Heavenly Court Project across media platforms, while Zeng Rou reported that celebrity duplicates had been captured at the base.
• Ling Yi asked Lin Yan for Wansheng Serum and inhibitor to study, then learned that Zeng Rou had uncovered Li Heng’s secret project and Lin Wen’s fate.
• Lin Yan recounted how she had joined Wansheng Serum experiments to earn money for Lin Wen’s treatment, awakened a level 7 fire ability, and trusted Li Heng to help her sister.
• Lin Yan revealed that Li Heng had turned Lin Wen into an experimental subject three years earlier and lamented that she had delivered her sister into his hands.

Ling Yi learned more about Li Heng and prepared to use Wansheng Serum, while Ni Xueqin questioned whether the Doomsday Drill took place in a real world. After the serum offered him a choice of eighty-one skills, Ling Yi gained Time and tested its limits.

• Lin Yan told Ling Yi that Li Heng had a level 9 spatial ability and an unknown second ability, then gave him a case of Wansheng Serum and arranged a private room.
• Zeng Rou delivered suppressants to Ling Yi, and Bai Mengyan and Ni Xueqin came to stay in his room after he had saved them.
• Ni Xueqin asked Ling Yi whether the apocalyptic world was real, and he confirmed her suspicion while advising her to return to normal life after the show.
• Ling Yi drank Wansheng Serum, and the system offered him eighty-one skills; he selected Time and upgraded it to lv3.
• Ling Yi used a Time Domain to accelerate time throughout the room, then canceled it after spending a third of his mental power; Ni Xueqin asked how he had done it.

Ling Yi used Wansheng Serum to gain skill points and helped Bai Mengyan and Ni Xueqin awaken superpowers. Bai Mengyan gained powerful light abilities, while Ni Xueqin awakened an unfamiliar destructive power that rapidly reached level 9.

• Ling Yi drank more Wansheng Serum, gained skill points, and upgraded five skills to level 10.
• Bai Mengyan drank Wansheng Serum and a suppressant, awakening a level 5 light-type superpower with golden wings.
• Ni Xueqin asked Ling Yi whether superpowers could enter the real world, and Ling Yi confirmed they could.
• After weighing her choice, Ni Xueqin drank Wansheng Serum and a suppressant to awaken her own power.
• Ni Xueqin's unfamiliar, destructive power surged to level 9, leaving Ling Yi unable to identify it.

Ling Yi copied Ni Xueqin’s Black Flame and set their plan to distribute an inhibitor while he attacked Wansheng Biotech branches. At a Shusan City warehouse, he discovered diluted Wansheng Serum still granted skill points, raised Space to lv15, and gained a Personal Space before leaving with the serum.

• Ling Yi copied Ni Xueqin’s Black Flame, and Ni Xueqin agreed to master her new power while Bai Mengyan learned about their plan to save the Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi left Meishan City for Shusan City to seize Wansheng Serum stocks and draw Wansheng Biotech’s attention away from the inhibitor distribution.
• Ling Yi used his psychic power to control the Shusan City branch staff and tested the diluted serum, learning that each effective hundredfold dilution still yielded a skill point.
• Ling Yi drank over twelve thousand portions of diluted serum and raised Space to lv15, gaining a Personal Space and increasing his daily skill points to 32.
• Ling Yi stored the warehouse’s serum in his new Personal Space and vanished.

Ling Yi had suppressant deployed across the Ancient Country, triggering widespread ability awakenings, but the apocalypse began as transcendent zombies and mutant beasts attacked. The chapter ended with Ye Feng reporting that flying monkeys had surrounded Meishan City and asking Ling Yi for help.

• Ling Yi reassured Ni Xueqin that he could erase other contestants’ abilities before they returned to the real world, and told Lin Yan to proceed with deploying the suppressant.
• More than a hundred planes sprayed suppressant across the Ancient Country, allowing most people who had taken Wansheng Serum to awaken abilities.
• Xiao Ling discovered that Li Heng had secretly dumped Wansheng Serum into rivers and oceans, while Goku escaped back to Meishan City.
• Explosions, zombies, and mutant beasts erupted in Dafeng City; Ling Yi saw transcendent zombies overwhelm newly awakened ability users with their speed and strength.
• Ye Feng contacted Ling Yi and reported that flying monkey mutant beasts had surrounded Meishan City and could see through invisibility.

Ling Yi discovered that the monkeys attacking Wansheng Biotech were led by Goku, whose Divine Eye had incapacitated the strongest defenders. He uncovered Li Heng’s Soul Transfer ability, then confronted Goku and learned the monkey wanted Wansheng serum because humans and monkeys responded differently to it.

• Ling Yi used surveillance feeds to see Goku and a horde of monkeys attacking Wansheng Biotech while Lin Yan, Ye Feng, Zeng Rou, and Ni Xueqin held back.
• Ling Yi copied Goku’s Clone and Divine Eye abilities, upgraded them, and realized Divine Might was keeping the strongest defenders from acting.
• Ling Yi sensed a hidden child nearby and copied Soul Transfer, recognizing the child as Li Heng, who had escaped by moving his soul into another body.
• Ling Yi appeared beside Goku, immobilized him, and asked why he was attacking the branch office.
• Goku said he needed Wansheng serum and explained that humans could take only one equivalent dose, while monkeys were different.

Ling Yi recruited the monkey and its troop by promising them Wansheng Serum, then they withdrew from the battle. Ye Feng and several others traveled to Dafeng City, where Ling Yi helped Ye Feng reach the Foundation Establishment Stage and explained why Lin Yan could not safely confront Li Heng yet.

• Ling Yi showed the monkey his stockpile of Wansheng Serum, stripped away its power briefly to test its resolve, and recruited it to lead its troop to Dafeng City for a monthly salary of one hundred doses.
• The monkey ordered its troop to retreat, and Ye Feng, Ni Xueqin, Lin Yan, and Zeng Rou decided to head to Dafeng City; Bai Mengyan later flew after them.
• Ye Feng offered Ling Yi three cultivation Skill Stones in exchange for help reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, and Ling Yi raised Ye Feng's Qi Refining Art to level ten, advancing his cultivation.
• Lin Yan asked Ling Yi to strengthen her so she could take revenge on Li Heng, but Ling Yi warned that Li Heng's Soul Transfer ability could kill her and steal her ability.

Ling Yi formed the Doomsday Survival Squad to prepare for a possible apocalypse, recruited Ni Xueqin and Bai Mengyan, and obtained Ye Feng’s [Beast Taming] skill. The chapter ended with Houzi arriving in Dafeng City and the squad holding its first meeting.

• Ling Yi told Lin Yan and Ni Xueqin that he could deal with Li Heng if Li Heng appeared, then proposed clearing zombies and controlling or driving out mutant beasts.
• Ling Yi welcomed Ni Xueqin into the newly founded Doomsday Survival Squad and told Ye Feng that he was already a member.
• Ni Xueqin explained the possible real-world apocalypse to Bai Mengyan, who decided to join the squad despite Ling Yi’s doubts.
• Ling Yi persuaded Ye Feng to hand over a Skill Stone, learned [Beast Taming], and raised it to level 15.
• Houzi arrived in Dafeng City with his troop of monkeys, and the Doomsday Squad held its first meeting with Ling Yi and Ye Feng as core members and several temporary members.

Ling Yi reassured the group that he could prevent chaos and revealed the scale of his abilities, then assigned them to eliminate Transcendent zombies while he handled mutant beasts. He began strengthening the team, leaving Ye Feng to spend his skill stones on Meditation.

• Ling Yi explained that Transcendent zombies and mutant beasts threatened humanity, and the group discussed how to confront them.
• Lin Yan urged them to find and kill Li Heng, while Zeng Rou warned that a world without external threats could turn its Transcendents against one another.
• Ling Yi promised to raise their mental power and revealed his clones, space travel, copied abilities, time control, and beast control to demonstrate his strength.
• Ling Yi used Erasure to temporarily remove the group's abilities, then rejected Bai Mengyan's suggestion to erase everyone's Transcendent powers.
• Ling Yi assigned the group to clear Transcendent zombies in the Ancient Country and said he would deal with mutant beasts.
• Ling Yi told Ye Feng to practice Meditation, and Ye Feng redeemed four Meditation Skill Stones.

Ling Yi empowered his allies, built up his skills and forces, and tracked down Li Heng with Lin Wen. Lin Wen devoured Li Heng, and Ling Yi brought her to Dafeng City to reunite with her sister and help end the disaster.

• Ling Yi raised his allies' abilities and Meditation to lv10, then left them to clear the Transcendent zombies while his clones tamed Mutant Beasts, copied skills, and drank Wansheng Serum.
• One month later, Ling Yi had eliminated every Transcendent zombie in the Ancient Country, controlled ten million Mutant Beasts, and accumulated more than six million skill points.
• Xiao Ling found Li Heng and Lin Wen over the ocean, and Ling Yi caught up with them using Extreme Speed and stopped their flight with Time Domain.
• Ling Yi recognized Lin Wen and learned that Li Heng had failed to gain the Reversal ability after transferring his soul into its former user's body.
• Lin Wen swallowed Li Heng with her Devouring ability, and Ling Yi teleported her to Wansheng's Dafeng City branch to see her sister and help end the disaster.

Lin Yan asked Ling Yi to eliminate Lin Wen’s Devouring ability after Lin Wen threatened to erase all ability users and Mutant Beasts. As Lin Wen reconciled with her sister, Teng Ren warned that Ling Yi’s actions might trigger M3 and bring the disasters from the Doomsday Drill into the real world.

• Lin Wen argued that all ability users and Mutant Beasts had to be erased, and Lin Yan called her insane.
• Lin Yan asked Ling Yi to remove Lin Wen’s ability, and Ling Yi eliminated it with [Eliminate lv15].
• Lin Wen urged Ling Yi to eliminate everyone’s abilities, but Ling Yi argued that danger was inevitable and that evolution could help humanity survive.
• Lin Wen regained her composure, apologized to Lin Yan, and embraced her sister.
• Feng Zhenqing confirmed that a drug incident on Kuku Island had caused violent, self-healing test subjects, and that the last dose reportedly ended up in Amai Chou.
• Teng Ren warned that Ling Yi’s actions might trigger M3 and expose the real world to disasters from the Doomsday Drill, but said Ling Yi and Ye Feng might be the only ones able to save it.

After the second Doomsday Drill ended, Ling Yi discovered that the black sphere was likely M3’s main body and used his upgraded [Space] skill to expand production of Wansheng Serum. Seven days later, the third drill began, and he set out to identify its apocalypse.

• Ni Xueqin and Bai Mengyan joined Ling Yi’s Doomsday Survival Squad, and he warned them not to expose or misuse their abilities.
• When the drill ended, Ling Yi’s clone observed the black sphere that erased everyone’s memories of him, then vanished before it could discover him.
• Ling Yi told Elder Teng, Elder Feng, and the others that M3’s main body had an energy level above 50, and they decided not to approach or communicate with it.
• Ling Yi used Xiao Ling and a USB drive to gather data, secretly purchase serum ingredients, and produce Wansheng Serum in his expanded Personal Space.
• After seven days of collecting ingredients and making serum, Ling Yi entered the third Doomsday Drill in Dafeng City and released Xiao Ling to investigate the apocalypse.