[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-158":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wasteland's Only King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1595040,2061,"Chapter 158 - 138: The Descent of the Divine! Yu Jin Returns! Purifying Light! (3\u002F3)","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-158",158,"\u003Cp>Izhou Survivor Base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom boom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Fang’s figure flickered, shuttling through the mutant beast tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her whole body was wrapped in silver metal armor, wielding a two-meter-long giant spatula.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had zero experience in fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But cooking? She’d done it for decades!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flip, stir, fry!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mix, slap, scrape!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After her thirty-meter diameter super-sized frying pan, this was her new ability test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier Two Metal Attribute Ability: Steel Body]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Active Effect: Metalizes body surface, greatly increases defense]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier Three Metal Attribute Ability: Liquid Metal]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Active Effect: Liquefies and shapes metal; can form weapons or armor]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now, Cao Fang had only used her Tier One ability ’Metal Manipulation’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two abilities were ones she’d just mastered after her recent ’power-up’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The effect...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Fang infused her twenty years restaurant experience and forty years of stir-frying into combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to her old ’remote slapping’, she was in total control now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every flip, mutant beasts flew everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some mutant beasts attacked her, biting and clawing, but couldn’t even scratch her Steel Body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mutant dog chomped down hard on her arm, but Cao Fang was fine—its teeth shattered instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Fang moved fast and smooth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar, all you saw was a silver flash weaving through the beast tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She soon was no longer satisfied with just ’stir-frying’ beasts. She charged right toward the infected bodies trailing black mist behind the tide!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to mutant beasts, infected bodies had far higher intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This tide was set off exactly by them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uuuu—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this terrifying biped charging in, the infected bodies whimpered in fright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Fang brought down her spatula, slapping one from 1.8 meters tall down to just 1.8 centimeters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other infected body moved fast, already fleeing in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t you run!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Fang shouted, pushed off with her foot, and landed right in its path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This spatula, forty years of power behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a Tier Three infected body was cut clean in half, right at the waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uuu...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The infected body’s eyes went wide, glaring fiercely at Cao Fang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With its last gasp before dying, it let out one final whimper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izhou Survivor Base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tens of thousands watched, brains blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy sh—...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Steel Mom + Mother of Magnetism?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time slowly passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Fang was still fighting in the beast tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her energy and stamina were limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after expending herself to smash those black-handed infected bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside Izhou Base, tens of thousands of mutant beasts lost control and went berserk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"ROAR—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They roared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some swarmed around the exhausted Cao Fang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest charged the gates of Izhou Base!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could smell—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thick scent of human flesh coming from inside the base!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eat the humans, gain more energy, a chance to level up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is bad!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Zhen watched it all, finally snapping out of shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hold them off!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She rallied her team and the Survivor Base Organization’s guards, gripping iron rods and pipes, rushing to the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what, the base couldn’t fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or else—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tens of thousands of ordinary people would be slaughtered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right at this critical moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An invisible wave spread out, suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not from inside the base, and not from Cao Fang surrounded by the beast tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside Gunzhou University, a deserted alley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the alley, a figure appeared out of thin air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one else—it was Yu Jin, just returned from A3 Planet via Coordinate Imprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Naiya’s prophecy messed up the Langlang Mountain coordinate, teleportation landed Yu Jin at his old Gunzhou imprint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just returned when he sensed the heavy presence of mutant beasts nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Fourteen perception allowed him to instantly see everything clearly, even without Light Touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin activated Spatial Imprisonment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved, shooting up to the celestial vault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking down from the sky, he saw Gunzhou University surrounded totally by the mutant tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gate Ah Zhen’s team saw was only the tip of the iceberg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsewhere on campus, mutant beasts were already breaking through the barricades, charging toward unsuspecting survivors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks like Blue Star’s situation is even worse than I thought,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin sighed, reaching out and tapping lightly ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sesame-sized black hole appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Fifth-tier Spatial Attribute Ability: Space Black Hole Lv9]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Active Effect: Dismantle space in area, generate black hole, absorb and annihilate all material and energy within]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Full-Level Effect: Can designate black hole absorption targets]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black hole expanded to fist-size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could grow larger, but even with chosen targets, its attraction was always present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s thought shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Horrific gravity poured out, blanketing tens of thousands of mutant beasts and infected bodies below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutant beasts were lifted uncontrollably, one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn’t scream, couldn’t fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All they could do was watch as they drew closer and closer to the black hole...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until, inches from its maw, they were ripped apart into bloody mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood mist barely lasted, too quick to see, instantly devoured wholly by the black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process sounded complex, but really all took place in barely a second or two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yu Jin released Spatial Imprisonment, things returned to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Zhen and tens of thousands in the base watched—the huge tide of mutant beasts was now gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And up in the sky—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure standing on air just waved his hand casually, the annihilating black hole gone, and disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin stepped down from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just a small step, yet he appeared right in front of Cao Fang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin said quietly, pulling Cao Fang, whose eyes instantly reddened, into a tight embrace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Izhou Survivor Base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t linger for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, the system panel displayed a clear countdown timer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ten minutes, he’d be forcibly teleported back to A3 Planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in those ten minutes, there was so much Yu Jin needed to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After assuring Cao Fang and telling her Old Yu and his brother Yu Chen were safe—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin left behind heaps of crystals and mutated beast meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These crystals were enough for every person in the base to become an evolver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the lowest Tier Three mutant beast meat, packed with energy, was immensely valuable in this resource-starved apocalypse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin soared upward, straight to the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This return trip—he had one true goal: to purify Blue Star!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining 11% pollution from Oumuamua had kept spreading after landing on Blue Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To this day—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin could even sense—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue Star’s current pollution was nearly more than half of A3 Planet’s!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant the pollution wasn’t static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it descended, it increased in ways Yu Jin couldn’t yet fathom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An extremely dangerous finding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Know this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On A3 Planet, without Refuge City’s shelter, even a few hours outside turned people into infected bodies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Yu Jin hadn’t rushed back to Blue Star to purify the remaining pollution—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With time passing, even Oumuamua’s purified 89% would’ve meant the leftover 11% could eventually turn Blue Star into a Wasteland Planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to purify all pollution in just ten minutes, there was only one way—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s Light Wings unfolded behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like before crossing over, he went all out, shooting toward space!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was about to hit Blue Star with a blast of Purifying Light!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a bold plan, no doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But also the best method Yu Jin could think of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Back on Blue Star, Value gets suppressed by 99%...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roaring through the sky, Yu Jin felt the change in himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His original Value was thirty million, suppressed to fifteen and a half million on A3 Planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back on Blue Star—it gets cut down by 99% from thirty million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s current real Value: exactly three hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tier Nine Evolver Value range: between one hundred thousand and one million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin, even with a 99% suppression, still matched a full Tier Nine Evolver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t what Yu Jin focused on now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Eureka’s memory, in Level II Civilization Celsa, even in beta where everyone was Tier Nine, no one could bring a Tier Nine ability back to Celsa Star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue Star’s suppression on evolvers is 99%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Celsa Star’s method is not suppression—it’s really ’sealing’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Oumuamua arrived, Blue Star’s beta testers were also ’sealed’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Extraordinary power comes from pollution itself?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This conclusion made Yu Jin frown deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only exception was himself, with the bound system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Purifying pollution means Blue Star’s evolvers will lose their powers in reality?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This idea flashed in Yu Jin’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he quickly reinforced his determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Powers or not—they only mattered for fighting beasts and infected bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Purifying Light itself could wipe beasts and infected bodies out fundamentally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hit Blue Star with Purifying Light, and not only clean Oumuamua’s lingering pollution, but also wipe out infected bodies\u002Fmutant beasts globally!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin thought of Yu Fei’s old two predictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pollution cannot be stopped.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blue Star will eventually perish.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s figure shot away from Blue Star, into space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gazed down at Blue Star, turned to look at the now utterly blackened moon, and the sun in the distance, far dimmer than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is pollution truly unstoppable?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t know the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gut told him purifying the planet might not be so simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Man makes fate, not Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin pushed all the energy in himself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Woom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three hundred thousand Value lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to his past self, now Yu Jin was not just purifying a Tier Ten Oumuamua split, but the whole Blue Star!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin took one last deep look at the gray planet below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stretched out his hand, pointing from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light burst from his fingertip, roaring toward Blue Star!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three hundred thousand Value, Level 8 Purifying Light!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gesture—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted this planet to become blue again, just like before!\u003C\u002Fp>",1689,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","e220adffa21b528b026d5afc338f7885195ad40121d7c8ea362a843a46e66dc2","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-159","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-157",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]