Chapter Summaries

After leaving the psychiatric hospital, Qin Ze and his clones fought an S-rank exotic beast and accidentally stuffed it to death, taking its soul bead. Enforcer Number Three discovered the beast’s death and pursued Qin Ze to recover the missing bead.

• Qin Ze left the psychiatric hospital and encountered a monstrous exotic beast on the road home.
• Qin Ze combined his clones’ strength and struck the beast, while other clones distracted it and helped him escape its suction.
• Qin Ze’s remaining clones kept the beast eating until it vomited and died, then found a black soul bead in its corpse.
• Enforcer Number Three reported that the escaped S-rank beast was dead, its soul bead missing, and the α reagent was suspected as the cause.
• After receiving orders to find the soul bead, Enforcer Number Three followed Qin Ze’s trail.

After Qin Ze returned from the hospital to an empty home, he learned his family was supposedly on a secret mission, then used a black bead to gain the Devouring ability through his clones. As his clones disposed of the resulting bodies, a young man in uniform arrived at the door.

• Qin Ze called Qin Yu after finding no one home, and she claimed that she and their parents were away on a classified mission before their mother interrupted to ask for help bargaining.
• Qin Ze made a clone swallow the black bead, and the clone gained the exotic beast's Devouring ability.
• Brother Devour consumed two clones, while Qin Ze used Devouring himself and gained an enhanced ability and some qi and blood.
• Qin Ze ordered his clones to dispose of the three bodies, and they began chopping them up in the bathroom.
• Auntie Wang knocked and questioned the noise, so Qin Ze told her they were making dumplings.
• After another knock, Qin Ze opened the door to find a young man in a blue-and-white uniform standing in the flickering hallway light.

After hiding his connection to an S-rank exotic beast from a law enforcement officer, Qin Ze decided to cultivate and take the martial arts exam. He persuaded Lin Zhiyuan to join him, and the two planned to start training the next day before a girl's cry interrupted them.

• A law enforcement officer questioned Qin Ze about his whereabouts near the mountain, but Qin Ze resisted the golden badge's truth-forcing aura through his clones and denied knowing anything suspicious.
• The officer left without searching Qin Ze's apartment, then reported to his superior that Qin Ze had passed the badge's test and lacked the strength to kill an S-rank exotic beast.
• After several hours of cleanup, Qin Ze met Lin Zhiyuan at an open-air food stall and declared he would cultivate hard and take the martial arts exam.
• Qin Ze warned Lin Zhiyuan that he would struggle to inherit his family's company if he remained an ordinary person, and Lin Zhiyuan agreed to train with him.
• A girl at the next table cried out, "Let go of me!"

Qin Ze intervened when He Guang assaulted a server and attacked the stall owner, defeating He Guang and his two companions after they threatened him. The chapter ended with Qin Ze sitting down to hide his trembling legs and taunting He Guang.

• He Guang harassed a server, assaulted the stall owner, and defied two police officers who arrived at the food stall.
• Qin Ze threw beer bottles at He Guang to stop him, then faced him despite the fatty's warning about the He Family.
• He Guang demanded Qin Ze crawl and bark like a dog, but Qin Ze punched him and knocked him down.
• Qin Ze kicked He Guang's two companions onto him and struck all three with beer bottles.
• Qin Ze sat down and asked He Guang if he couldn't accept defeat.

Qin Ze beat He Guang at a food stall, where a law enforcement officer used a golden law token to force the crowd to confess their secrets. The officer arrested He Guang for falsely claiming military merits, then grew suspicious of Qin Ze before warning him about unpurified soul beads; the chapter ended with a girl thanking Qin Ze, who wondered how she knew his name.

• Qin Ze repeatedly smashed beer bottles over He Guang’s head until law enforcement arrived.
• The officer activated a golden law token, making people at the stall confess their hidden thoughts and deeds; Fatty admitted he wanted to marry Qin Ze’s sister.
• He Guang confessed to stealing someone else’s identity and falsely claiming military merits, so the officer arrested him and his two companions.
• The officer questioned Qin Ze about resisting the token, warned him that unpurified soul beads could damage his brain and turn his body into an exotic beast, and left him under suspicion.
• The girl thanked Qin Ze, who asked how she knew his name.

After confronting He Guang and learning about martial artist sequences, Qin Ze sent Brother Devour out to cultivate and heard that an alternate realm had appeared near Jiang City. The next morning, he returned to school, where his teacher began guiding him through breathing meditation.

• Ma Yan recognized Qin Ze from college and exchanged contact information with him before leaving her job at the food stall.
• Fatty warned Qin Ze that He Guang might seek revenge because his brother He Fei was a formal-sequence martial artist, and Qin Ze said he would register for the martial exam.
• Brother Devour revealed that devouring living creatures accelerated his mutation, so Qin Ze sent him out to cultivate with five clones accompanying him.
• Qin Ze read that an alternate realm had appeared southeast of Jiang City and that the Defense Bureau and martial arts families were clearing it.
• Fatty told Qin Ze that his ex-girlfriend wanted to reunite while his current girlfriend was still with him, and Qin Ze encountered the hostile He Bi at school.
• Qin Ze returned to class, and his homeroom teacher called him to the front to guide his breathing meditation.

Qin Ze learned the Lotus Visualization Breathing Technique and surprised his teacher by meditating for nearly an hour, while his classmates doubted his claim that he had completed all ten petals. After Fatty offered him qi-gathering pills and the class moved to body-forging practice, a new teacher took charge.

• Qin Ze accidentally farted while trying to gather qi, and the class laughed at him.
• The homeroom teacher taught Qin Ze the Lotus Visualization Breathing Technique, and Qin Ze completed all ten petals while his clones chattered in his mind.
• Qin Ze told the class he had drawn ten petals, but his classmates refused to believe him; the teacher felt his large qi sea and encouraged him to prepare for the martial arts entrance exam.
• Fatty offered Qin Ze two qi-gathering pills, but Qin Ze told him to keep both because he expected his qi and blood to meet the exam requirement without them.
• The class assembled for body-forging practice, where a tall female teacher announced she would take over for the sick Teacher Wang.

Qin Ze astonished his classmates by breaking through eighty acupoints and reaching the first layer of the Fate Reversal Technique, then knocked He Bi unconscious in a spar. After school, he headed to Four Seas Martial Arts Gym to test his qi and blood value.

• Teacher Yao inspected the students’ cultivation, and Fatty failed to break through ten acupoints because his qi sea leaked energy.
• Qin Ze broke through eighty acupoints at once, sending a wave of qi through the classroom and impressing Teacher Yao.
• Qin Ze chose He Bi as his sparring opponent and knocked him unconscious with a single blow.
• Teacher Yao warned the class to keep training for the martial arts exam, and Qin Ze meditated until the school bell rang.
• Qin Ze went to Four Seas Martial Arts Gym to test his qi and blood value.

Qin Ze tested his qi and blood at a martial arts gym, where his strength rose above the level-one threshold after he gathered his clones’ attributes and received feedback from Brother Devour. After his family refused to send money and he spent the next few days cultivating, Fatty announced that he had awakened a talent ability.

• Qin Ze rented a training room and tested his qi and blood at 513, then reached 801 after using the Fate Reversal Technique and 1,269 by gathering his clones’ attributes.
• Brother Devour broke through while farming in the wild, sending Qin Ze feedback that raised his qi and blood to 835.
• Qin Ze called Qin Yu for money, but she made excuses and hung up, while his parents’ numbers were unreachable.
• Qin Ze watched the Jiang City news report on a rift, exotic beasts, the stabilized Jiangcheng Secret Realm, and the upcoming martial arts exam registration.
• Qin Ze cultivated over the next few days, while He Bi avoided him, and Fatty excitedly told him that he had awakened a talent ability.

Qin Ze’s friend awakened a five-centimeter teleportation ability and gained direct admission to a martial arts university, while Qin Ze used a Qi-Gathering Pill to raise his qi and blood. That night, Qin Ze’s masked vigilante persona, the Dark Night Lion King, rescued a woman from an attacker, but Enforcer Number Three caught up with him.

• Brother Devour revealed that his innate ability let him teleport five centimeters, and Qin Ze learned he had been admitted directly to a martial arts university.
• Brother Devour gave Qin Ze two Qi-Gathering Pills, and Qin Ze used one to bring his qi and blood close to a thousand.
• Qin Ze decided not to have his devouring ability tested because it could expose his secret and draw Enforcer Number Three’s attention.
• The Dark Night Lion King drained the qi and blood from a man attacking a woman and told her to avoid walking alone at night.
• Enforcer Number Three confronted the Dark Night Lion King in a dark street.

No. 3 tried to arrest the cloaked man he identified as the Dark Night Lion King, but the Hater Circus’s clones sacrificed themselves to help him escape. The next morning, Qin Ze learned what happened, sent more clones to support Brother Devour, and ran into No. 3 at the school gates.

• No. 3 used his golden law plaque to restrain the cloaked man, but the man broke free and escaped.
• A monkey mask, an elephant mask, and a rooster mask blocked No. 3 and identified themselves as the Hater Circus.
• The three masked figures self-destructed in succession, injuring No. 3 and allowing the cloaked man to get away.
• Qin Ze heard that three clones had sacrificed themselves to help Brother Devour and ordered five more clones sent over.
• Qin Ze summoned two more clones, drained their qi and blood, and headed to school, where No. 3 greeted him at the gates.

Qin Ze was cleared as a suspect, passed the martial exam’s vitality test, and was assigned to Teacher Yao’s group for a trial in the otherworld the next day. The chapter ended with Ma Yan calling Qin Ze as he worried about his dwindling food money.

• Number Three told Qin Ze that he was no longer a suspect in the psychiatric hospital beast investigation and warned him about a serial killer.
• Qin Ze learned that He Guang had been released, then reassured the fatty that martial exam registration would protect him from He Guang.
• Qin Ze scored 327 on the vitality test, while He Bi scored 690 and Fang Songhua scored 741.
• The homeroom teacher announced that the students who passed would enter the otherworld for a trial the next day, and Qin Ze was assigned to Teacher Yao’s group.
• Teacher Yao told Qin Ze that he needed to raise his vitality to progress further in the Fate Reversal Technique.
• Qin Ze worried that he could barely afford food, and Ma Yan called him.

Qin Ze visited Ma Yan, learned how her mother had been crippled by a martial artist, and promised to take first place in the martial arts exam. He then joined his school’s otherworld trial team, while He Guang secretly sent He Bi to cripple him and Number Three watched for the Circus through the night.

• Qin Ze ate dinner at Ma Yan’s home, heard about her mother’s injury and He Guang’s release, and promised Ma Yan he would take first place in the martial arts exam.
• After leaving Ma Yan’s home, Qin Ze placed a clone nearby because he felt uneasy in the shantytown.
• He Guang gave He Bi a martial weapon and told him to cripple Qin Ze during the otherworld trial, despite He Bi doubting Qin Ze was strong enough to pose a threat.
• Qin Ze went home and slept as Number Three watched the city in heavy rain for signs of the Circus, then left without finding it.
• The next morning, Qin Ze traveled with the students to a guarded temporary base outside the city and saw the glowing rift into the otherworld.

Qin Ze’s group explored the otherworld’s maze for their trial, while Qin Ze secretly sent out clones to investigate its many passages. He Bi encountered several weaker Qin Ze clones, attacked them, and fled after realizing something strange was happening.

• Teacher Yao led Qin Ze and four students into the otherworld to map its passages and kill low-level exotic beasts.
• Qin Ze decapitated a humanoid beast before it could attack a frightened girl, and the group continued fighting more beasts as their map neared completion.
• Qin Ze pretended to use the bathroom, summoned five clones, and sent them to explore the maze.
• He Bi found and attacked several weaker Qin Ze clones, severing their legs, then suspected he was caught in an illusion and tried to leave.
• A fourth Qin Ze appeared in He Bi’s path, and He Bi demanded to know who he was.

After his squad finished exploring its assigned area, Qin Ze fled into a poisonous tunnel to escape a D-rank exotic beast and discovered a hidden shelter. The shelter’s AI identified him as a person who had died in 2050 and welcomed him inside Shelter No. 10.

• Qin Ze’s clones admitted they had sought out He Bi to tease him, and Teacher Yao reported that the squad had completed its assigned exploration.
• Qin Ze noticed a dark hole just as a D-rank exotic beast attacked, and Teacher Yao stayed behind to hold it off while the students fled.
• Qin Ze entered the hole to seek reinforcements, used clones to endure its poisonous gas, and punched through an iron plate into a different passage.
• The shelter’s AI scanned Qin Ze, identified him as a deceased graduate of Jiangcheng No. 2 High School from 2050, and accepted his student ID.
• Qin Ze disarmed himself, and the gate opened as the AI welcomed him to Shelter No. 10.

Qin Ze found the dead administrator of Shelter No. 10 and read his diary, learning how the shelter fell to the aberrants and its residents died. The diary ended with the administrator questioning whether humanity’s destruction had been inevitable.

• Qin Ze followed the floor arrows through the empty Shelter No. 10 to the administrator’s office, where he found a skeleton beside a pistol.
• Qin Ze read the administrator’s diary and learned that the shelter residents had grown restless while other shelters fell to the aberrants.
• The administrator recorded that aberrants broke into Shelter No. 10 after he tried to contact Sky Island, killing thousands before the survivors were sealed inside.
• The shelter lost its rainwater collection and food systems, and the residents voted for collective euthanasia.
• The administrator released sleeping gas on January 24, 2054, then wondered whether developing the Alpha Reagent had caused humanity’s end.

After becoming the new administrator of Shelter No. 10, Qin Ze explored its abandoned armory, found a Dragon Might Improved Hand Cannon, and ventured into the ruined Jiang City. He witnessed a mysterious aircraft bomb the city and crash nearby, and went to investigate.

• Qin Ze used a Pip-Boy to verify his identity and inherited administrator authority from Professor Lin Siyao, but found the information about the Alpha Reagent sealed.
• Qin Ze discovered that the shelter's armory had been emptied, then found a Dragon Might Improved Hand Cannon in a remaining equipment case.
• Qin Ze opened Shelter No. 10's back door and stepped into a barren, desertified landscape.
• Qin Ze reached the ruins of Jiang City and saw a giant aircraft drop bombs on the city center.
• The aircraft's tail exploded as it left the city, and Qin Ze headed toward the crash site a few hundred meters away.

Qin Ze encountered BT-21 and a group of humanoid combat weapons after finding a crashed bomber in an aberrant nest. He accepted an S-rank Soul Orb and agreed to go to Sky Island, but the valkyries’ radars sounded an alarm as they prepared to leave.

• Qin Ze found a long-dead pilot inside the battered bomber and discovered that a speaking young aberrant and more than a dozen others had surrounded him.
• An unseen attack blasted the aberrants into bloody mist, and BT-21 arrived to report that all eleven low-level aberrants outside Jiang City had been eliminated.
• BT-21 introduced herself as a humanoid combat weapon and offered to escort Qin Ze to Sky Island, where he learned that the museum held more Soul Orbs.
• Qin Ze accepted BT-21’s S-rank Soul Orb and agreed to travel to Sky Island when more mecha-armored combat weapons arrived.
• The arriving valkyries crowded around Qin Ze, and their detection radars suddenly sounded an alarm.

Qin Ze traveled with BT and the humanoid combat weapons to an abandoned airport after they destroyed a horde of aberrants. There, BT explained that Sky Island was in space, but her knowledge of humanity and the shelters raised new questions as they searched for a spaceship.

• BT ordered the humanoid combat weapons to attack, and they wiped out nearly two hundred aberrants without suffering casualties.
• BT carried Qin Ze to an abandoned airport, flying there with the other weapons guarding them.
• BT said she could not take Qin Ze straight to Sky Island because he could not breathe in space.
• Qin Ze claimed he had come from Sky Island on a secret mission, but BT did not know what a shelter was.
• BT said she was manufactured in 2051, had never seen humans besides Qin Ze, and was made to eliminate aberrants.
• Qin Ze asked whether BT's database contained information about the Alpha Reagent.

Qin Ze and BT flew toward Sky Island, but mutated attacked their aircraft and a high-level mutated disabled its engines. BT escaped with Qin Ze as the aircraft fell, leaving them airborne and in danger.

• BT told Qin Ze that information about the Alpha Reagent was classified and recounted Sky Island’s history as they headed to the hangar.
• BT inspected a black flying-wing aircraft, then piloted Qin Ze toward Sky Island while humanoid combat weapons escorted them.
• Mutated attacked as the aircraft took off, and the escorting weapons fought them off.
• A high-level mutated attacked the aircraft, killing one humanoid combat weapon before BT flew past it.
• Another high-level mutated ambushed the aircraft above the clouds, destroying its engines, and BT carried Qin Ze to safety after the escape system ejected the cockpit canopy.