Chapter Summaries

The Divine Heavenly Emperor ordered the protection of Long Aotian despite the deaths caused in the Wolf Warrior world, warning the Fire Demon King not to interfere. Xu Long then joined his surviving classmates on a solemn trip from Minghu Middle School to the fallen zone.

• The Divine Heavenly Emperor designated Long Aotian an S-rank reserve talent and ordered anyone threatening him to be eliminated, while the Xuanming Emperor warned the Fire Demon King to obey.
• The Fire Demon King learned that one of his juniors had died in Long Aotian's slaughter but decided against making a call.
• Xu Long arrived at school and saw that fewer than half of his class had survived the mission worlds; Sun Yameng ignored him.
• The homeroom teacher struggled to say farewell before the school's students and staff silently watched the seniors board coaches for the fallen zone.
• Xu Long exchanged messages with his older sister Xu Jiao, then looked up pictures of the Flame Hell Beasts as the coach traveled through the settlement.

Xu Long traveled with a group of students to the southern fallen zone as robot production improved humanity’s fight against the Flame Hell Beasts. After reaching the hot battle region, he reflected that its dangers were still less severe than the zombies in Resident Evil.

• Xu Long read about Flame Hell Beasts’ lethal heat and poison, then reviewed the Red Queen’s report on mass-produced robots helping humanity.
• Xu Long learned that the Buddhist sect had sent its people to the fallen zones and might soon return a liquid-metal robot to his side.
• A soldier told Xu Long and the students that they were heading to the southern fallen zone, where several districts planned to clear Southeast Asia before considering the Sixth District.
• Xu Long pieced together humanity’s plan to use robots to eliminate weaker Flame Hell Beasts before sending experts underground to attack their lair.
• After traveling by coach and plane, Xu Long arrived in the southern fallen zone and told a soldier that conditions there were better than in Resident Evil.

Xu Long reunited with his older sister Xu Jiao, commander-in-chief of the Southern Theater's Ninth Army Group, and joined a heavily guarded campaign against Flame Hell Beasts. He used his sniper rifle to kill the beasts while Zhang San and the others watched and cheered.

• Xu Jiao revealed that she was Xu Long's biological older sister and invited him to stay at her camp.
• Xu Jiao said she had maxed out her three attributes but avoided the assessment because she feared failing it.
• Xu Jiao gave Xu Long a Flame Light Machine Gun and assigned him ten tanks, twenty armored vehicles, and two thousand robot guards.
• Xu Jiao explained that robots would clear Southeast Asia before the army advanced on the Sixth District in Australasia.
• Xu Long shot Flame Hell Beasts with a sniper rifle as Zhang San and the others cheered him on.

Xu Long rushed to rescue Xu Jiao after ten C-rank Flame Hell Beasts surrounded her. He helped her escape, but she returned to the armored vehicle with a venomous wound on her leg.

• The Red Queen alerted Xu Long that Xu Jiao was in trouble five kilometers away, and he set out to reach her.
• Xu Jiao fought the Flame Hell Beasts but was surrounded by ten of them and saw no way to escape.
• Xu Long shot one beast in the brain, giving Xu Jiao a chance to flee toward his armored vehicle.
• Xu Jiao jumped into the vehicle and struck Xu Long, while he continued firing at the beasts until the soldiers ran out of ammunition.
• Xu Jiao ordered the group to return to camp after the beasts fled, and Xu Long discovered a small, venomous wound on her calf.

Xu Long tried to save his sister Xu Jiao from the Flame Hell Beast toxin by injecting her with his T-virus-enhanced blood. He prepared serum in case the risky treatment caused her to transform, and revealed how he had obtained his bloodline.

• Xu Jiao told Xu Long that the toxin would eventually cause organ failure, though medicine could suppress it and end her combat career.
• The Red Queen explained that injecting Xu Long's blood might cure Xu Jiao and grant her immunity, but the chance of success was only about five percent.
• Xu Jiao agreed to take the risk rather than retire to a settlement, and Xu Long injected her with his blood while preparing serum and arranging for more to be brought in.
• Xu Jiao recognized the T-virus Serum, and Xu Long explained that he had found T-virus and serum in his first world, Resident Evil, then gained the T-Virus Enhanced Bloodline by injecting himself.

Xu Long helped Xu Jiao survive a successful T-virus fusion, then learned from the Red Queen that they were not biological siblings. Xu Jiao resigned and planned to retire, while Xu Long realized she might have known the truth and harbored feelings for him.

• Xu Long injected Xu Jiao with serum and repeated doses of his blood while she endured the T-virus fusion.
• Zhang San arrived with medicine, misunderstood the scene, and spread rumors that Xu Long and Xu Jiao were romantically involved.
• The Red Queen reported that Xu Jiao had successfully fused with the T-virus and that Xu Long and Xu Jiao were not biological siblings.
• Xu Long warned Xu Jiao that her bodily fluids were poisonous and gave her the remaining serum doses.
• Xu Jiao said she had resigned and wanted to retire, then spoke of watching Xu Long fall in love and start a family.
• Xu Long tested Xu Jiao's reaction by touching her, and realized she seemed to welcome his advances.

Xu Long entered the Mr. Vampire world as Qiu Sheng to undertake an assessment mission while trying to survive for thirty days. After receiving a guide to talisman arts, he began studying under Uncle Nine and set out to buy supplies.

• Rice Bucket reunited with Xu Long and complained about Xu Jiao's relentless petting, long walks, and singeing his fur.
• Xu Long chose the assessment mission in Mr. Vampire and was assigned to kill Master Ren after he became a zombie.
• Xu Long arrived as Qiu Sheng, learned Wen Cai had falsely blamed Rice Bucket for stealing a chicken, and received Qiu Sheng's memories.
• Xu Long obtained a Comprehensive Guide to Talisman Arts and began studying, while Rice Bucket became the leader of a local pack of dogs.
• Xu Long asked Wen Cai about supplies, then borrowed money from Uncle Nine and rode to the market to buy cinnabar.

Xu Long discovered that Li Si’s family was plagued by nightmares and joined Uncle Nine to investigate the missing body of Li Si’s older brother. On the way to Li Family Village, Xu Long killed a resentful soul and suspected the mass grave hid a larger mission.

• Xu Long used an Eye-Opening Talisman to identify Li Si’s severe exhaustion and agreed to investigate his home that night.
• Xu Long learned that Li Si’s older brother had died and his body had never been found, then prepared more than two hundred talismans with Uncle Nine.
• Uncle Nine and Xu Long left for Li Family Village, passing a mass grave where Uncle Nine warned Xu Long not to look back.
• A resentful soul attacked Xu Long, who burned it with a Blazing Fire Talisman and received five points.
• Uncle Nine explained that a plague had killed people in nearby villages more than thirty years earlier, leaving unclean things in the mass grave.

Xu Long and Uncle Nine investigated the haunting at Li Family Village and destroyed a blood-red ghost in the banana grove, but Uncle Nine suspected it was only a tiger's ghost servant. They left to prepare for a return, expecting Li Si to come asking for help again.

• Xu Long and Uncle Nine arrived at Li Family Village and saw resentment hanging over Li Si's worried wife.
• Uncle Nine used an Eye-Opening Talisman to spot yin energy and blood-red light in the banana grove, then hurried there with Xu Long.
• Xu Long and Uncle Nine attacked a blood-red shadow with Blazing Fire Talismans, a peach wood sword, and an ink line, burning it to ashes.
• Xu Long demanded ten silver dollars from Li Si, but Li Si and his wife paid only one, which Xu Long accepted while vowing to make them pay more later.
• Uncle Nine told Xu Long that the ghost they killed was likely a tiger's ghost servant and that a yao might be hiding in the grove, so they would prepare before returning.

Xu Long forced Li Si to pay two thousand silver dollars for help after a monster killed Li Si’s household. Xu Long and Uncle Nine found the monster hiding in Li Si’s banana plantation, but it fled before they could confront it, so they planned to lure it out.

• Li Si begged Xu Long to save him, but Xu Long refused and used Rice Bucket to drive him away.
• Li Si returned and agreed to pay Xu Long two thousand silver dollars after Xu Long raised his price.
• Xu Long and Uncle Nine went to Li Si’s banana plantation and used an Eye-Opening Talisman to reveal wandering gray figures and a woman in a tree.
• The female monster fled deeper into the plantation when Xu Long charged at it.
• Xu Long and Uncle Nine returned and decided to find a way to lure the female monster out.

Xu Long trapped and killed the banana tree demoness with talismans while Wen Cai served as bait. Uncle Nine rushed in after eliminating the chang ghosts and found the fight already over.

• Xu Long persuaded Uncle Nine to use Wen Cai as the groom bait, and Wen Cai agreed in hopes of earning pocket money.
• Xu Long and Uncle Nine prepared the room, and the banana tree demoness arrived and began draining Wen Cai’s yang energy.
• Xu Long sprang the trap, striking the demoness with a talisman and stopping her escape with an ink-marker line.
• Xu Long burned the banana tree demoness with Blazing Fire Talismans and earned 1,500 points for completing the hidden mission.
• Uncle Nine eliminated the chang ghosts and rushed into the room, where he found Xu Long had already won.

Xu Long destroyed the mass grave with a machine gun and talismans, earning 2,000 points, while a vampire named Yuehan emerged from his ruined hiding place. Yuehan headed toward Ren Family Town, hoping to earn points by hunting a jiangshi despite fearing its strength.

• Xu Long handed Uncle Nine a banana peel and revealed that Wen Cai had been drained of yang energy by the banana demoness.
• Xu Long asked Uncle Nine to take Wen Cai home while he investigated the mass grave.
• Xu Long used a Vulcan Machine Gun to destroy thirty undecayed corpses and Blazing Fire Talismans to burn the attacking resentful spirits.
• Xu Long completed the hidden mission to clear out the mass grave and earned 2,000 points.
• Yuehan, a vampire viscount whose lair beneath the mass grave had been wrecked, emerged and decided to seek points by hunting a jiangshi in Ren Family Town.

After recovering from the loss of his yang energy, Xu Long accompanied Uncle Nine to Ren Family Town for Master Ren’s grave relocation. There he met Yuehan, a baron-ranked vampire who recognized him and asked to follow him.

• Xu Long ate and drew talismans while Uncle Nine prepared to take Qiu Sheng to Ren Family Town for a job.
• Xu Long and Uncle Nine met Master Ren and Ren Tingting to discuss relocating Master Ren’s father’s grave.
• Xu Long spotted the vampire Yuehan, who had come to Ren Family Town after his mass grave was dug up.
• Yuehan told Xu Long that the Western European District’s marquis had ordered his people not to make an enemy of Xu Long.
• Yuehan said he had no plans and asked Xu Long if he could follow him.

Xu Long brought Yuehan to a hidden grave and killed the female ghost there, earning Yuehan 1,000 points from a hidden quest. Afterward, Xu Long examined the surrounding energies with an Eye-Opening Talisman while Yuehan admired eastern magic but realized it was incompatible with vampires.

• Xu Long agreed to bring Yuehan along and introduced him to Uncle Nine before the group set out to relocate the Ren family's grave.
• Xu Long led Yuehan away from the group to a lonely grave, intending to find the female ghost hidden there.
• Yuehan blasted the grave with blood magic, but Xu Long had to open the ground with a powerful punch to expose the coffin and remains.
• Yuehan attacked the exposed ghost, and Xu Long used a talisman to destroy her, completing a hidden quest and earning 1,000 points.
• Xu Long used an Eye-Opening Talisman to see the energies around them, while Yuehan admired eastern magic but recognized that vampire attributes made it dangerous for him to use.

Xu Long and Yuehan searched graves for ghosts and learned that Master Ren’s father’s corpse was close to becoming a jiangshi. That night, Japanese reincarnation-world participants arrived at the mortuary, intending to feed a ghoul more corpses so it could advance.

• Xu Long and Yuehan opened graves, killed nine ghosts, and earned seven thousand points.
• Uncle Nine noticed black qi around Master Ren’s father’s corpse and, after Master Ren refused cremation, left it in the mortuary to be reburied later.
• Xu Long told Yuehan that the corpse would become a jiangshi and seek its closest blood relatives, and Yuehan realized Xu Long was waiting to gain points from the incident.
• Gangban and Richuan arrived at the mortuary, where Richuan said many corpses were stored and warned of a powerful Chinese man inside.
• Gangban explained that he had taken over a C-rank ghoul’s body after its shikigami backlash and now needed to devour corpses to grow stronger.
• Confident his ghoul body could withstand attacks, Gangban sent Richuan into the mortuary to clear the way.

Xu Long and Yuehan fought off a group of Japanese intruders, with Xu Long targeting their leader, Gangban. After the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms failed to stop Gangban, Xu Long opened fire with his Vulcan Machine Gun, only to discover Gangban's body was as hard as steel.

• Xu Long sensed the intruders, killed Richuan with a palm strike, and identified the group as Japanese.
• Xu Long attacked Gangban with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms while Yuehan cleared out the other Japanese fighters.
• A Japanese ninja recognized Yuehan as the Blood Ghost Emperor's grandson, and Yuehan killed him.
• Gangban dodged Xu Long's palm strikes and asked why Xu Long was attacking him, so Xu Long pulled out his Vulcan Machine Gun.
• Gangban tried to flee, but Xu Long's bullets struck him and revealed his ghoul body, which was hard enough to throw sparks.

Xu Long killed Gangban with the Vulcan Machine Gun, then traveled with Uncle Nine and Yuehan to Ren Family Town, where Master Ren’s father turned into a zombie and killed Master Ren. After the guard captain threatened Xu Long over his explanation of the death, Xu Long killed him and brought out the Red Queen.

• Xu Long fired the Vulcan Machine Gun until Gangban was dead, then discussed selling the weapon to Yuehan.
• Uncle Nine checked Master Ren’s father’s coffin the next morning and took Xu Long and Yuehan to Ren Family Town, where Xu Long studied feng shui under him.
• Master Ren’s father turned into a zombie overnight, followed their bloodline to Ren Family Town, and killed Master Ren.
• Uncle Nine examined Master Ren’s body and confirmed he had been bitten by a zombie, while Wen Cai went to check the funeral home.
• Xu Long lured the guard captain aside, snapped his neck, burned his corpse, and brought out the Red Queen.

Xu Long and Uncle Nine prepared the Ren residence for Master Ren’s father, a powerful zombie, but their defenses failed to stop his approach. The zombie broke through the gate and fixed on Ren Tingting inside the house.

• Xu Long told Uncle Nine that the guard captain would cooperate, while Uncle Nine finished preparing the Ren residence with glutinous rice, talismans, and inked lines.
• Master Ren’s father prepared a ritual with five slaughtered animals and vowed to settle his thirty-year-old grudge with Old Nine.
• As a storm and terrifying evil aura spread, Xu Long reassured Uncle Nine and prepared more than a thousand talismans for the fight.
• Xu Long ordered the others to retreat inside and tested Master Ren’s father with ten Blazing Fire Talismans, but the rain and the zombie’s strength quickly extinguished them.
• Uncle Nine withdrew as Master Ren’s father smashed through the gate, broke the inked defenses, and locked onto Ren Tingting inside.

Xu Long and Uncle Nine nearly burned Master Ren's father to ashes, while Master Ren broke free and drank Ren Tingting's blood. After the hidden mission confirmed Master Ren's father was dead, Xu Long realized the assessment target was the newly risen Master Ren, who transformed into a corpse demon.

• Uncle Nine explained that the corpse-nurturing ground had made Master Ren's father far stronger than an ordinary zombie.
• Xu Long and Uncle Nine attacked Master Ren's father with Blazing Fire Talismans and blood-coated peachwood swords, gradually weakening him.
• Master Ren escaped his restraints and bit Ren Tingting's neck, draining her blood and gaining strength.
• Yuehan tried to stop Master Ren but was slapped away, while Xu Long kept attacking Master Ren's father to finish the mission.
• Xu Long received a notification that killing Master Ren's father completed a hidden mission and realized he had mistaken the assessment's target.
• Master Ren growled that they would all die, and Xu Long and Uncle Nine recognized that he had become a corpse demon.

Xu Long pursued Master Ren, a corpse fiend, and cornered him in a cave after using reconnaissance robots to scout it. He left Master Ren badly wounded and continued attacking him, but the chapter ended before the fight was resolved.

• Master Ren knocked away Uncle Nine's peachwood sword, and Xu Long rushed in to protect his master and broke Master Ren's shoulder with a forceful punch.
• Master Ren fled into the rain, so Xu Long pursued him with Blazing Fire Talismans while Yuehan followed behind.
• Master Ren hid in a cave, and Xu Long sent miniature reconnaissance robots inside before entering with Yuehan.
• Xu Long threw Yuehan onto a dying gorilla, killing it and completing a hidden mission that awarded them 1,000 points.
• Xu Long attacked Master Ren with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms and several other techniques, leaving the corpse fiend battered and bleeding.