Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi infiltrated the subterranean world and took control of its rulers, ordering them to cooperate with humanity against the Solar System’s Light Lock. On the third day of Desert Island Survival, Laosan fielded questions from the authorities and received his third sign-in reward, though its contents were not revealed.

• Ling Yi teleported to Liwan City, froze it, gathered the subterranean rulers, and brought them under his control.
• Ling Yi ordered the rulers to pursue technological cooperation with humanity to break the Light Lock, then explored the underground world.
• Bai Zhi completed her first cultivation session, and Laosan cautioned her to practice diligently and avoid the island’s main peak.
• Gao Qiang of the Special Preparedness Section asked Laosan about teaching martial arts, their origins, and serving as an instructor; Laosan agreed to teach after Desert Island Survival.
• Laosan warned Bai Zhi to focus on surviving and winning the prize, then waited until midnight to sign in on the third day.
• Laosan successfully signed in, but the chapter ended before the reward was disclosed.

Laosan strengthened his island shelter and gathered animals while Ling Yi split off a synchronized consciousness to watch Lin Huai. Lin Huai prepared for the apocalypse after stockpiling supplies and abilities, and the first outbreak began at his school.

• Laosan stored the Limiter Remover reward and used his animal-control ability to gather wildlife, reinforce his shelter, and build a toilet, reservoir, and wall.
• Ling Yi spent 1,000 points to split his consciousness, creating a synchronized view of Lin Huai's world.
• After seven days of gathering supplies and copying abilities, Lin Huai returned to his school dormitory, where Peng Haipeng questioned him before leaving.
• Lin Huai reviewed his abilities, considered the Demon Lord Organization, and wondered whether Dr. Liu Yun had received his warning email about the apocalypse and the Cradle of Life Project.
• One hour before the outbreak, roars, cries, and screams erupted around Lin Huai's dormitory as the apocalypse began.

Lin Huai watched the apocalypse unfold, explained how zombies would grow stronger, and posted advice about hunting them for their crystal cores. After his advice spread and people began fighting back, three armed students arrived at his dorm and told him they were the only survivors in the building besides him.

• Lin Huai watched the first day of the apocalypse and reviewed how the four stages of the post-apocalyptic world had developed in his previous life.
• Lin Huai watched livestreams of people being attacked by zombies and posted advice that people should hunt zombies, gather supplies, reinforce shelters, and consume crystal cores.
• An attentive viewer tested Lin Huai’s crystal-core advice, grew stronger, and shared the discovery online, prompting people across the Ancient Country to begin hunting zombies.
• Three armed students knocked on Lin Huai’s door and explained that consuming zombie crystal cores made people stronger.
• The students invited Lin Huai to hunt zombies with them and told him that they were the only survivors left in the dorm building besides him.

Lin Huai joined Zhao Hu, Yao Yunhe, and Bai Kailei to gather supplies and fight zombies, while hiding his ability from the Demon Lord Organization. After spotting Lin Xinyun and Zhao Xiaoke fighting near the main teaching building, he charged into a horde and cut down zombies with astonishing speed, leaving his companions to collect the crystal cores.

• Zhao Hu gave Lin Huai two alcohol-soaked crystal cores and explained the group's plans to hunt zombies and prepare for the loss of water and electricity.
• Lin Huai handed Zhao Hu, Yao Yunhe, and Bai Kailei sharpened Tang sabers, and the four headed downstairs to clear zombies.
• The group found that most nearby zombies had been drawn toward the main teaching building, where Lin Xinyun was fighting and Zhao Xiaoke was cheering her on.
• Lin Huai charged outside and rapidly killed the approaching zombies with his Tang saber without using his ability.
• Zhao Hu told Yao Yunhe and Bai Kailei to collect the crystal cores as Lin Huai continued fighting, keeping his power hidden from the Demon Lord Organization.

Lin Huai cleared the zombies near campus, and Zhao Hu killed Zhao Xiaoke after she demanded crystal cores and threatened the group. Lin Xinyun joined Lin Huai’s team, and they gathered the cafeteria’s supplies before returning to the dormitory.

• Lin Huai killed the nearby zombies while Zhao Hu, Yao Yunhe, and Bai Kailei collected more than a thousand crystal cores.
• Lin Huai told Zhao Hu to handle Lin Xinyun’s approaching group, but Lin Xinyun went straight to Lin Huai and asked to join his team.
• Lin Xinyun accepted Lin Huai’s offer to join alone, while Zhao Xiaoke demanded five hundred crystal cores for letting her leave.
• Zhao Hu stabbed Zhao Xiaoke after she glared at the group, then explained that she had locked Lin Xinyun in a classroom with zombies to save herself.
• Lin Xinyun followed Lin Huai’s group to the cafeteria, where they dealt with a few zombies and found limited food but useful equipment and supplies.
• Lin Huai, Lin Xinyun, Zhao Hu, Yao Yunhe, and Bai Kailei carried the cafeteria’s supplies and bulky equipment back to the dormitory by late afternoon.

Lin Huai helped Lin Xinyun awaken her space ability, then proposed that their team leave the city and fight zombies and mutated beasts. The story left Lin Huai wondering how the underground people’s sudden appearance in Dadu would affect humanity.

• Lin Huai told the group that Lin Xinyun was an awakener and urged them to use their crystal cores to help her awaken.
• Lin Xinyun consumed a hundred crystal cores and awakened an S-rank space ability, gaining a vast personal space and the Blade of Space.
• Lin Huai copied Lin Xinyun’s ability and realized he could gain another copy without spending crystal cores on his own level.
• Lin Huai agreed with Zhao Hu’s plan to gather crystal cores and supplies, then proposed that the team leave the city and travel the world to fight zombies and mutated beasts.
• Ling Yi briefly spoke to Lin Huai before turning his attention to news of a flying saucer and the underground lizardmen meeting Ancient Country officials in Dadu.

Ling Yi considered humanity’s future inside the Solar System, then bound a High Martial Arts world and discovered that its first potential protagonist, Gu Geng, was an exceptionally powerful young Taoist. He designed a lying-flat system for Gu Geng, but the system demanded 150,000 Vow Power Points because of the Taoist’s strength.

• Ling Yi learned that a Desolate Tier world could exceed 100,000 strength rating and that humanity’s technological world could reach 990,000.
• Ling Yi ate dinner with his family as they discussed the underground people’s cooperation with the Ancient Country and the changing world order.
• Ling Yi spent 100,000 Vow Power Points to bind a Transcendent Tier High Martial Arts world.
• Ling Yi watched the young Taoist Gu Geng fly off and return with a giant golden python, revealing his extraordinary power.
• Ling Yi created a Lying Flat and Giving Up System for Gu Geng, but the system charged 150,000 Vow Power Points because Gu Geng was too powerful.

Gu Geng’s overwhelming presence drew the attention of the Fenggu Empire and a desperate girl, while Ling Yi gained new abilities and watched Laosan’s island life transform into a thriving settlement. The chapter ended as Laosan sensed a storm approaching across the sea.

• Gu Geng’s sudden display of power alerted Great Emperor Fenggu, who ordered Grand Preceptor Yan to investigate and kill the intruder if necessary.
• Yun Qiao'er, fleeing pursuers and seeking help, headed toward Falling Sunset Mountain despite the danger.
• Ling Yi praised the system’s sprawling novel, then gained strength, new skills, and an altered physique before realizing he was an Awakened with immense power.
• Ling Yi learned that Laosan and Bai Zhi’s story had skipped ahead, and saw that they had built a three-story brick house with monkeys and wild boars helping them.
• Laosan sensed a change in the weather as a vast, dark storm front rose over the sea.

As a violent storm struck the island, Laosan learned that first place in Desert Island Survival included a hundred million in prize money and a hundred years of development rights to the island. When Director Yan asked him to rescue three groups of contestants in danger, Laosan set out into the storm despite Bai Zhi’s concerns.

• Laosan secured the courtyard and brought his summons into his Summoning Space as the storm approached.
• Bai Zhi told Laosan that the show's first-place reward included a hundred million and a hundred years of development rights to the island.
• Director Yan informed Laosan that three groups of contestants needed rescue because a speedboat had broken down and their shelters could not withstand the storm.
• Laosan put on his bamboo hat and straw rain cape, then left to rescue the contestants after telling Bai Zhi to wait for him.

Laosan rescued the stranded contestants and learned that a meteorite had caused monkeys on the island to evolve into an intelligent race. After returning to the shelter, Ling Yi discovered he could bind only three worlds and was told to have Laosan finish his story before searching for another world.

• Laosan followed Ling Yi's directions through the storm and sent two stranded streamers back to the shelter on wild boars.
• Laosan found four contestants trapped by three golden-furred monkey people and rescued them, then learned the meteorite on the island had awakened the monkeys' intelligence.
• The monkey people told Laosan that the authorities had confined their tribe and were studying the meteorite, which had become temporarily ineffective.
• Ling Yi warned Laosan that the meteorite's element could be dangerous to humans, so Laosan abandoned his plan to visit the main peak and returned to the shelter.
• Bai Zhi threw herself onto Laosan when he returned, and he hurriedly pushed her away.
• Ling Yi learned that he could bind only three worlds and that one protagonist had to finish a novel before he could search for another world; the system suggested Laosan wrap up.

Ling Yi learned that he could bind only three worlds at once and discussed ending Laosan’s story. In the apocalypse, Lin Huai told his companions about the Demon Lord Organization, while the organization targeted Lin Xinyun and Lin Huai prepared to seek the Cradle of Life Elixir in Yuan City.

• Ling Yi learned that completed story worlds could be visited with Vow Power Points and considered ending Laosan’s story, whose rewards had become less useful.
• Lin Huai and Lin Xinyun led the group in clearing zombies, gathering crystal cores and helping Zhao Hu, Yao Yunhe and Bai Kailei reach level one.
• Lin Huai revealed that the Demon Lord Organization had deliberately caused the apocalypse and planned to harvest awakened people’s crystal cores.
• Lin Huai explained that the group would eventually fight the Demon Lord Organization, but first they needed to clear zombies before they reached the fifth tier.
• The Demon Lord Organization tracked Lin Xinyun’s spatial ability, while Lin Huai planned to obtain the Cradle of Life Elixir in Yuan City to counter its virus-suppression method.
• After Zhao Hu and the others became level-one evolvers, Lin Huai announced that they would leave for Yuan City.

Lin Huai and his companions encountered a horde of zombie rats in a tunnel and fought them to test Zhao Hu, Bai Kailei, and Yao Yunhe. After they endured the battle without asking for help, Lin Huai told Lin Xinyun to intervene.

• Zhao Hu drove the group out of the city, and Lin Huai explained that the Demon Lord Organization had corrupted genetically modified crops.
• Lin Huai stopped the SUV before a tunnel, where the group discovered zombie rats feeding on zombies.
• Bai Kailei shouted and alerted the rats, prompting Zhao Hu to warn him not to endanger the team again.
• Lin Huai explained the zombie rats' threat and led the fight while Zhao Hu, Bai Kailei, and Yao Yunhe struggled to keep up.
• After the three fought for over half an hour and held on without asking for help, Lin Huai called on Lin Xinyun to act.

Lin Huai and Lin Xinyun confronted six young Demon Lord Organization fighters whose virus suppressed awakened abilities. Lin Xinyun pretended to struggle while killing two of them, leaving four stunned as Ling Yi questioned Lin Huai’s actions and the system’s apparent oversight.

• After the Zombie Rats were defeated, Lin Huai led Lin Xinyun away from the car and pointed out six winged fighters approaching from the sky.
• The newcomers’ Demon Lord Virus suppressed Lin Xinyun’s spatial ability, but Lin Huai restored and strengthened it while asking her to pretend to win with difficulty, kill five, and let one escape.
• The system copied the six fighters’ abilities, including a grade-S Devouring ability, as Lin Huai recognized them as young members of the Demon Lord Organization.
• Lin Xinyun acted frightened and weakened, then killed Sister Tun with a Blade of Space when Sister Tun attacked her.
• Lin Xinyun evaded Shapi’s sand attacks and killed him, leaving the four remaining fighters frozen in confusion.
• After watching the fight, Ling Yi asked the system why Lin Huai seemed useless and whether it had noticed a major bug, but the system said it could not explain what had happened.

Lin Huai and Lin Xinyun used a staged fight with the Demon Lord Organization to mark a fleeing enemy and locate its lair, while Zhao Hu saw through the act. The focus then shifted to Ling Yi, who left home for the Underground World to investigate a reported solar anomaly.

• The four remaining Demon Lord Organization members attacked Lin Xinyun, while Bai Kailei and Yao Yunhe fled and Zhao Hu stayed behind, realizing she was acting.
• Lin Xinyun redirected her Ice Arrows through a Space Gateway, killed three attackers, and let the last one escape with Lin Huai’s spatial mark on him.
• Lin Huai, Lin Xinyun, and Zhao Hu drove away, and Lin Huai used the mark to locate Feng City as their next destination.
• Lin Huai explained to Ling Yi that he had been cautious because he lacked information about the Demon Lord Organization, and Ling Yi confirmed that his rebirth was not into a parallel world.
• Ling Yi left his home, teleported to the Underground World, and asked Motuo about the solar anomaly.

Ling Yi investigated a mysterious sphere near the sun, ordered the subterraneans to cooperate fully with humanity, and watched Laosan’s survival-show story conclude. After unbinding that world, Ling Yi searched for another and successfully bound a Quantitative Tier world.

• Motuo showed Ling Yi photographs and footage of a gigantic black sphere near the sun, whose unexplained attack had destroyed a spacecraft.
• Ling Yi ordered the subterraneans to cooperate with humanity and report any new sightings, then returned home after spotting a joint naval exercise that he suspected was aimed at Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi sent his consciousness into Laosan’s world, where Laosan survived the storm and blizzard, won the Desert Island Survival show, and completed the story.
• Ling Yi unbound Zhang Yunhai and the world’s sign-in system, then learned he could travel there again or bring others for ten times the usual cost.
• Ling Yi spent one million Vow Power Points to search for a new world and successfully bound a Quantitative Tier world.

After Captain Luo'er betrayed his scavenger squad, Xiao Qi fled across Progenitor Planet No. 99 with a mortal wound. Ling Yi bound him to a Technological Ascension System, and Xiao Qi used it to heal himself and secure supplies, then greeted Ling Yi.

• Xiao Qi recalled how Luo'er attacked the squad after they recovered a key, forcing him to escape with a gunshot wound.
• As Xiao Qi weakened in the desert, Ling Yi contacted him and activated the Technological Ascension System.
• Xiao Qi tested the system shop and bought purified water, T4 healing agents, roasted star beast meat, and an antigravity hover motorboat.
• Xiao Qi drank water and injected a T4 agent, which rapidly healed his wound.
• Xiao Qi addressed Ling Yi, and the two introduced themselves.

Ling Yi learned that Xiao Qi’s Blue Star had once been part of a humanity-led eight-dimensional war that ended in mutual destruction, and he considered how that history might relate to his own sealed Solar System. After checking the power scale of Xiao Qi’s world, Ling Yi reviewed his other protagonists’ progress and turned his attention to the apocalypse story, where Lin Huai and his companions headed for a private hospital.

• Xiao Qi told Ling Yi that his world’s Blue Star had once been called Blue Star and that humanity’s ancestors had fought an eight-dimensional civilization in a catastrophic war.
• Xiao Qi explained that humanity survived by spreading across the universe, and that humans now ruled its three great federations.
• Ling Yi considered whether Xiao Qi could help humanity break the blockade around his Solar System, but decided he should proceed cautiously.
• The system estimated that individuals in Xiao Qi’s Quantitative Tier world could reach strength ratings of five to ten million, explaining that power depended on development paths rather than world tier.
• Ling Yi reviewed the progress of Gu Geng, Yun Qiao'er, Laosan, and the apocalypse story, then focused on Lin Huai, Zhao Hu, and Lin Xinyun as they made their way toward a private hospital in Feng City.

Lin Huai, Lin Xinyun, and Zhao Hu attacked a Demon Lord Organization base beneath Dafeng City First Hospital and overcame its suppressors. Lin Huai accessed the organization’s network before the connection was severed, discovering seventy-six bases, including twelve in the Ancient Country.

• Zhao Hu used his level 2 sand control and spatial mist abilities to fight the zombies outside the hospital while Lin Xinyun collected their crystal cores.
• Lin Huai detected two members escaping through an underground tunnel, then annihilated the zombies and confronted the remaining Demon Lord Organization members.
• Lin Huai ordered the base’s members killed after learning they were familiar public figures, while Lin Xinyun and Zhao Hu helped eliminate them.
• Lin Huai connected to the Demon Lord Organization’s server and traced its network before the organization physically cut the connection.
• Lin Huai discovered seventy-six Demon Lord Organization bases, twelve of them in the Ancient Country, as Zhao Hu and Lin Xinyun emerged from the hospital determined to destroy the organization.

Lin Huai destroyed the Demon Lord Organization and completed his apocalypse story, while Ling Yi dealt with the real-world fallout from the technologies revealed in his novels. The system unbound Lin Huai and his world, leaving Ling Yi with four bound worlds and enough Vow Power Points to travel between them.

• Lin Huai sent Zhao Hu and Lin Xinyun to Yuan City to rescue the Cradle of Life Technology Research Institute staff and establish a base, then spent six months destroying Demon Lord Bases around the world.
• Zhao Hu and Lin Xinyun founded Dawn Base, which grew to twenty-five million survivors as Zhao Hu consolidated control and Lin Xinyun cleared cities of zombies, mutant beasts, and criminals.
• Ling Yi reviewed developments across his bound worlds and the real world, where his novels’ leaked technologies had made him famous and drawn media attention to his family.
• The system told Ling Yi it was time to wrap up Lin Huai, and Ling Yi agreed to complete the process without another choice prompt.
• The system completed Lin Huai’s novel, unbound the apocalyptic world and Lin Huai’s protagonist identity, retained his golden finger, and recorded the world’s coordinates for future travel.

Ling Yi postponed his million-point world search after the system warned him about the risks, then investigated the black sphere near the sun with Motuo. He arranged for Motuo to share the Cradle of Life Project with Ancient Country scientists and began traversing to Lin Huai's world.

• Ling Yi argued with the system about search limits, learned that stronger defenses required greater strength, and bound a Transcendent Tier world through a 10,000-point search.
• Motuo showed Ling Yi the black sphere near the sun and explained that its occupants might live inside the sun or on a planet in the Solar System.
• Ling Yi told Motuo to compile possible planetary coordinates and leave the sphere alone until Ling Yi could investigate it himself.
• Motuo asked about the Cradle of Life Project, and Ling Yi promised to provide its data for Motuo and Ancient Country scientists to study and share.
• Ling Yi returned home, uploaded the day's novel text, and began spending 10,000 Vow Power Points to travel to Lin Huai's world.