Chapter Summaries

Han Xiao organized the construction of the Third Sanctuary by dividing the work among departments and using players to complete city-building quests. As players began clearing the Gray Iron Ruins, he gathered his four favored players and agreed to train Maple Moon, wondering whether her future would differ from the one he remembered.

• Han Xiao assigned department heads to oversee thirteen areas of sanctuary construction and ordered them to finish the blueprint as quickly as possible.
• Han Xiao insisted that the sanctuary be named Black Phantom's Third Sanctuary, and players accepted repeatable quests to clear the Gray Iron Ruins.
• The players cleared a large area during their first night, impressing the Dark Net engineering team with their speed.
• Han Xiao gave Frenzied Saber, Hao Tian, Maple Moon, and Meat Bun Hits Dog extra quests to help with construction.
• Maple Moon asked Han Xiao to teach her skills, and he opened the interface for her as a potential mechanic apprentice.

Thousands of players gathered at the Third Sanctuary, accelerating construction and drawing attention from Planet Aquamarine’s powers. As Han Xiao’s plan to make it a player hub took shape, a stampede of enormous beasts burst from a drainage passage and demolished the power plant and clock tower.

• More than twenty thousand players arrived at the Third Sanctuary, boosting construction and giving the Dark Net team hope of finishing its framework within a month.
• Huang Yu asked Han Xiao to let him help with construction, and Han Xiao assigned him to organize progress reports.
• The growing player crowd turned the Third Sanctuary into a bustling marketplace, while the Six Nations and Dark Net took notice of Han Xiao’s influence over the Inhumans.
• A five-person party scouting a drainage passage was paralyzed by an Advanced Beast Pressure Aura and killed by a rushing dark shape.
• The enormous beasts charged through the Sanctuary, smashing players, destroying the power plant, and bringing down the clock tower.

After Shadow Predator Vipers destroyed the power plant under construction, Han Xiao discovered their enormous underground nest and organized a counterattack. He lured out and killed a hundred of them, then issued a prize pool mission for the players to clear the nest while investigating its radiation and searching for a beast king.

• Huang Yu reported that the Shadow Predator Vipers had destroyed the power plant, and Han Xiao arrived to investigate their tracks.
• Han Xiao sent spider probes into the drainage channel and discovered a vast nest containing more than a thousand Shadow Predator Vipers.
• Han Xiao arranged guns and turrets outside the channel, where Frenzied Saber threw in a flashbang and more than a hundred vipers charged into a deadly barrage.
• After Hao Tian failed to draw out more vipers, Han Xiao issued a prize pool mission for players to kill them and collect their eggs.
• Han Xiao sent Frenzied Saber and three other players to check radiation levels and search for the beast king, while he considered selling weapons to the players.

Han Xiao learned that radiation crystals in the Shadow Predator Viper nest could be purified into a valuable energy source, and used their distribution to locate the nest’s core. Meanwhile, Sky Domain bought Han Xiao’s equipment and rose to the top of the prize pool rankings as its team fought the vipers.

• Han Xiao rejected the idea of renting out weapons and continued producing machinery while players and Dark Net personnel explored the Shadow Predator Viper nest.
• Azure Sky bought 300,000 worth of Han Xiao’s equipment for Sky Domain’s core team.
• Frenzied Saber and the others brought Han Xiao radiation crystals from the nest, and Han Xiao tested one by making Frenzied Saber swallow it; the crystal inflicted radiation damage.
• Han Xiao concluded that purifying the crystals could produce clean energy and used their increasing density to identify the nest’s core area.
• Sky Domain’s core team fought a Shadow Predator Viper in the nest, and Azure Sky struck it with his heavy mechanical arm.

Han Xiao fought his way into the Shadow Predator Viper nest and confronted its beast king, discovering that it could rapidly heal by eating radioactive waste. He dragged the beast king away from its healing supply, smashing through the nest’s walls until Azure Sky was crushed in their path.

• Azure Sky’s group followed a fast-moving shadow through the nest and found a trail of freshly killed Shadow Predator Vipers, identifying the shadow as Han Xiao.
• Han Xiao reached the nest’s central cavern and fought through the Shadow Predator Vipers and elite monsters surrounding the Shadow Hunting Viper Beast King.
• Han Xiao wounded the beast king with a Gauss rifle shot, then discovered it was restoring its health by eating radioactive waste.
• Han Xiao leapt onto the beast king, cut into its shell, and drove it through the walls to pull it away from the waste barrels.
• Azure Sky realized the players could respawn and tried to farm contribution, but Han Xiao burst through a wall with the beast king and flattened him.

Han Xiao killed the Shadow Hunting Viper Beast King and helped the players clear the collapsed nest, then collected its crystals and carcasses for research. After refining the crystals into energy cubes, he decided to hire a potion maker and thought of a candidate from his memories.

• Han Xiao killed the Shadow Hunting Viper Beast King, and the nest collapsed when he blasted the surviving vipers away with repulsive force.
• The players fought the vipers trapped in the ruins while Han Xiao ordered Huang Yu to recover the carcasses, eggs, and radiation crystals.
• Huang Yu reported that the crystals had formed from waste processed inside the vipers, and the players completed the nest-clearing mission with Azure Sky's team ranked first.
• Han Xiao examined the crystals, built a Basic Energy Cube Refiner, and began processing them into energy cubes.
• Han Xiao decided to hire a potion maker to handle the recovered biological materials and recalled a candidate from his memories.

Han Xiao traded intelligence on Germinal to Gu Hui for the release of One Leaf Green, hoping to prepare the Third Sanctuary for the Mutation Virus. While he weighed the risk of Stardragon uncovering his identity, wanderers arrived at the sanctuary.

• Han Xiao called Gu Hui and offered Germinal intelligence in exchange for One Leaf Green, a captured Pharmacist held on Death Knell Island.
• Gu Hui agreed to the deal and planned to use the handover to investigate Han Xiao's whereabouts.
• Han Xiao sent the Thirteenth Bureau the first batch of intelligence and considered whether to reveal that he was Black Phantom.
• Han Xiao repaired and enhanced a broken crane at the Third Sanctuary, causing it to thrash wildly and send the construction crew scrambling.
• A player spotted a crowd of ragged wanderers approaching the sanctuary, and Han Xiao climbed the scaffolding to look.

Han Xiao recruited wanderers to the Third Sanctuary, crafted his first purple-grade weapon, and refined energy crystals. He personally took custody of One Leaf Green, who had faked being sedated, and flew her toward the Sanctuary while considering how to secure her cooperation.

• Liu Chao reported that 427 wanderers had moved into the Sanctuary, and Han Xiao considered how to attract more residents and important figures.
• Han Xiao crafted a purple Composite Magnetic Chain Split Blade, advancing his class requirement to one of five purple items, and replaced his blue weapon with it.
• Han Xiao refined two tons of crystal ore into basic energy crystals and considered using them to raise Shadow Predator Viper eggs with One Leaf Green's help.
• Feng Jun handed the sedated-looking One Leaf Green over to a masked man, then reported to Gu Hui that Han Xiao appeared to have joined another faction.
• One Leaf Green revealed that she had pretended to sleep and destroyed a listening chip; after sensing Han Xiao's strength, she abandoned her escape attempt.
• Han Xiao unmasked himself, scanned One Leaf Green for listening devices, and took her aboard the helicopter toward the Sanctuary while planning how to keep her working there.

Han Xiao brought One Leaf Green to the Third Sanctuary and hired her to develop medicines from Shadow Predator Viper materials. She settled in, began selling potions and testing them with players, while Han Xiao kept her identity and his surveillance of her secret.

• On the helicopter, One Leaf Green learned how much the world had changed and saw the Third Sanctuary under construction.
• Han Xiao showed One Leaf Green the Shadow Predator Viper materials, and she identified pharmaceutical uses and proposed breeding the creatures.
• Han Xiao hired One Leaf Green as the Sanctuary's pharmacist, and Huang Yu arranged a residence for her.
• One Leaf Green read about the Inhumans and decided the Sanctuary offered safety, time to catch up, and ideal test subjects.
• Han Xiao monitored One Leaf Green through hidden cameras, while Huang Yu misunderstood the surveillance and agreed not to tell anyone.
• One Leaf Green began producing and selling potions to players, who flocked to her workshop, and she grew comfortable in the Sanctuary.

Han Xiao oversaw the Third Sanctuary’s rapid construction and growing player population while considering how to attract more residents. A message then announced that the Six Nations had launched their expedition.

• Han Xiao noted that the Third Sanctuary was on track to finish its initial construction ahead of schedule, with Huang Yu managing the work.
• Han Xiao considered bringing people from settlements such as Lü Cheng and Overmela to the sanctuary and established the sanctuary as a safe zone for players.
• Frenzied Saber sparred with Hao Tian, and Hao Tian praised his potential as a professional competitor.
• Han Xiao discussed the players’ equipment and future prospects, while Meat Bun received credit for promoting the sanctuary with his videos.
• Han Xiao received a message announcing that the Six Nations had embarked on their expedition.

The Six Nations launched a full-scale invasion of Andia and quickly seized control of the surrounding seas, using Han Xiao’s intelligence to target Germinal’s ports and missile bases. As Germinal’s defenses faltered, its leader pinned his hopes on trapping and killing Zero at headquarters.

• The Six Nations’ fleets attacked Andia, and Germinal’s missiles failed to stop their advance.
• Dalost died when his flagship was sunk, and Anses withdrew Germinal’s fleet to defend the continent after losing control of the sea.
• The Six Nations blockaded Andia, landed troops, and advanced toward Germinal’s missile and antimissile bases.
• Germinal’s leader blamed Zero for the enemy’s intelligence advantage and judged that killing him could restore the organization’s chance of winning.
• The leader trusted the Child of Destiny’s prediction that Zero would come to headquarters and prepared a vast encirclement to kill him.

While the war spread fear and instability across Planet Aquamarine, Han Xiao completed the Third Sanctuary’s initial construction and used the opportunity to advance to level 60 as a Magnetic Ring Mechanic. He planned to infiltrate Germinal’s headquarters to rescue Aurora and Hila, pursue his mission, and test himself against powerful enemies.

• War and wilderness violence drove large numbers of wanderers toward the Sanctuaries, while Han Xiao’s Germinal storyline progress increased as the Six Nations used his intelligence.
• Han Xiao completed the Third Sanctuary’s short-term objective early, earning 5.68 million experience, Respect from the Dark Net, and a higher mission rating; Bennett urged him to shelter more people.
• Han Xiao decided to go alone to Germinal’s headquarters to advance his mission and rescue Aurora and Hila while Germinal was occupied by the war.
• After completing his class advancement requirement, Han Xiao became a Magnetic Ring Mechanic and learned new mechanical skills and a talent.
• Han Xiao spent 20 million experience to reach level 60, received the Limit Trial advancement mission, and raised his combat energy grade to C.

After reaching Class C, Han Xiao prepared to rescue Aurora and traveled to Andia through Stardragon’s mercenary program. His arrival stunned the gathered mercenaries, and the chapter ended with Bennett angrily ordering him to return.

• Han Xiao upgraded his equipment and told Huang Yu to manage the Sanctuary while he was away.
• Han Xiao went to Stardragon’s Rockport Base to join the mercenaries heading for Andia.
• The mercenaries fell silent when Black Phantom arrived, and Shattered Shadow took confidence from his presence while Kroll avoided him.
• Han Xiao boarded the transport plane as a Stardragon-approved mercenary and set off for Andia.
• Bennett called Han Xiao and shouted, “Get back here!”

Han Xiao traveled to Andia to join the war against Germinal, ignoring Bennett’s warning and choosing to infiltrate the organization rather than attack its headquarters directly. He disguised himself as a refugee on a battlefield, where Germinal troops began searching the building he was hiding in.

• Han Xiao hung up on Bennett after dismissing his concerns about the Dark Net abandoning neutrality and joining the war against Germinal.
• A Stardragon officer provided Han Xiao with battlefield intelligence, and Han Xiao spotted apparent gaps in Germinal’s defenses that he suspected were traps.
• After landing in Andia, Han Xiao declined Qin Yuan’s request to lead the mercenaries and set off alone.
• Han Xiao chose a battlefield near Miga Town as the place to kill a Germinal member and take his identity so he could infiltrate the organization.
• While Han Xiao watched the fighting in disguise, Germinal troops kicked open the building’s door and began searching it.

Han Xiao infiltrated Germinal forces by changing his appearance and killing anyone who threatened to expose him. After using a battlefield retreat to enter a Germinal camp, he began gathering intelligence and looked for a way toward headquarters.

• Han Xiao killed Germinal players who mistook him for a refugee, then hid elsewhere as the players respawned and wondered who had killed them.
• Han Xiao rescued the wounded Fang Yun by killing two pursuing Germinal Espers, then knocked Fang Yun unconscious, took one corpse’s identity, and joined the retreating Germinal troops.
• Han Xiao reached a battle where Stardragon reinforcements and Thirteenth Bureau agents were using his High Combustion Bullets against Germinal forces.
• When a Germinal soldier called him Kanruisi, Han Xiao fought off a Stardragon agent with his Magnetic Chain Split Blade and then fled in a vehicle, prompting Germinal troops to retreat.
• Han Xiao entered the temporary Germinal camp, avoided suspicion, and began collecting intelligence while seeking troops heading toward headquarters.

Han Xiao infiltrated Germinal's headquarters by repeatedly stealing identities and using players to dispose of evidence, while Fang Yun learned that Kanruisi had apparently survived their battle. Once inside the underground headquarters, Han Xiao prepared to seize Cerberus and access the mainframe so he could rescue Aurora and pursue his other objective.

• Han Xiao disguised himself as a transport driver, used players to dispose of the driver's body, and followed supply shipments toward Germinal headquarters.
• Fang Yun woke in a medical tent, learned his teammates had died, and realized Kanruisi was missing despite having seen him die.
• Germinal's leader waited for Zero to enter the trap he had prepared, unaware that Han Xiao had bypassed his informants and was targeting Aurora.
• Han Xiao stole a guard's identity, entered the aboveground headquarters, then used another identity card to reach the underground facility.
• Han Xiao decided to take Cerberus hostage so he could use the mainframe to disable defenses and carry out his objectives.

Han Xiao infiltrated Germinal's headquarters, using a player to locate Cerberus and force him to reveal that the leader had prepared an ambush based on the Child of Destiny's prediction. Han Xiao learned that troops were waiting for him and decided to finish his objective and escape before they could close in.

• Han Xiao recruited Ilex through anonymous missions to find Cerberus and obtain a map of the headquarters.
• Han Xiao disguised himself as a researcher, entered the laboratory, and threatened Cerberus with a hidden blade.
• Han Xiao forced Cerberus to lead him toward the mainframe while they passed through the headquarters without raising suspicion.
• Cerberus recognized Han Xiao as Zero and revealed that the leader had prepared an ambush after the Child of Destiny predicted his arrival.
• Cerberus explained what he knew about the Child of Destiny and Germinal's preparations, while Han Xiao considered whether the ability could have influenced his thoughts.
• Han Xiao learned that troops were waiting to surround him and resolved to complete his objective quickly before escaping.

Han Xiao infiltrated Germinal headquarters, copied its secrets, and learned the Advanced Knowledge Neural Connection before heading to rescue Aurora. He reached her cell and offered to take her to freedom.

• Han Xiao forced Cerberus to open headquarters' map and confidential databases, then recorded Germinal's intelligence, including details of the Dead Hand System.
• Han Xiao learned Neural Connection and copied other Advanced Knowledge for future use.
• Cerberus suspected Han Xiao was an Inhuman, and Han Xiao misled him before ordering him to disable the defenses and surveillance in Area A-4.
• Han Xiao and Cerberus reached Aurora's cell, where Han Xiao killed the researchers and guard and opened the glass enclosure.
• Han Xiao offered his hand to a stunned Aurora and told her he had come to save her.

Han Xiao rescued Aurora from Germinal and tried to escape through the underground tunnels with Cerberus. The leader discovered the escape attempt and secretly mobilized executives, while Hila sensed Aurora moving and rushed out after her.

• Aurora asked Han Xiao to save her, and he learned from Cerberus that Germinal had brainwashed her to obey certain commands.
• Aurora agreed to leave with Han Xiao, who disguised her in a white coat and hid her in an equipment bag.
• Han Xiao forced Cerberus to guide them toward the underground tunnels, promising he would spare him.
• The leader found Cerberus's unauthorized access to classified files and surveillance footage of him with a stranger, then secretly ordered executives to surround the tunnel entrances.
• Hila sensed that Aurora's life mark had moved, smashed through the lounge door, and raced down the corridor.

Han Xiao’s escape plan was disrupted when Hila attacked him, believing he had taken Aurora, but Aurora convinced her that he had come to rescue her. Hila agreed to escape with Han Xiao as the Germinal leader mobilized headquarters to kill Zero.

• Han Xiao sensed that the base was on alert, and Cerberus denied triggering the alarm as the leader prepared an ambush near the underground tunnel.
• Hila attacked Han Xiao after sensing Aurora in his equipment bag, and he dodged her attack and revealed that he had come to save her sister.
• Aurora told Hila that Han Xiao was Uncle Zero and had rescued her, but Hila remained wary until Aurora asked to escape with her.
• Hila chose to trust Han Xiao enough to flee with Aurora, and they abandoned the route to the underground tunnel.
• The leader ordered headquarters personnel to intercept and kill Zero, and the players received an emergency mission offering experience and a Dungeon Crystal.