Chapter Summaries

Su Luo cultivated the Flamefire Legacy as a source for Heartfire and created eight hundred fire-specialized Xiao Xiao Luos. When Zuo Guxian arrived to negotiate, he traded Su Luo’s mana-energy fundamentals for help and transformed into microscopic observation glasses, which Su Luo placed on a Xiao Xiao Luo.

• Su Luo released the Flamefire Legacy into the Heartfire field, choosing to study and absorb its principles rather than inherit its power directly.
• Using data from Nanmen Shi’s cultivation, Su Luo drew out eight hundred clusters of the Legacy to cultivate fire-specialized Xiao Xiao Luos.
• Xi Ji brought Zuo Guxian, a high-ranking envoy of the [String] civilization, to meet Su Luo.
• Su Luo discovered that Zuo Guxian was a swarm of subatomic robots and learned that the envoy had no observation technology to offer yet.
• Su Luo gave Zuo Guxian foundational mana-energy technology in exchange for future technology after the envoy’s network and database were repaired.
• Zuo Guxian transformed into microscopic observation glasses, and Su Luo put them on a Xiao Xiao Luo.

Su Luo used Little Xiao Luo’s microscopic domain to observe the Fermi Scale, then demonstrated barehanded nuclear fusion to Zuo Guxian. Meanwhile, Ming Yuanwu ignored a disturbance at the Divine Court’s edge, where Heavenly Soul found a blood-baleful humanoid confronting six Fourth-Generation Main Gods.

• Su Luo used Little Xiao Luo’s domain and a powerful light source to observe the chaotic world inside an atomic nucleus, gaining new insights while [Burst of Inspiration] drained the laboratory’s energy.
• After the domain failed, Su Luo spent a day thinking in a dream while Zuo Guxian recovered by drinking electricity.
• Su Luo snapped his fingers and produced a burst of heat and light, astonishing Zuo Guxian with apparent barehanded nuclear fusion.
• Ming Yuanwu felt the Divine Court tremble but returned to bed, resigned to his blocked divine path and continuing to practice Spells through his class panel.
• Heavenly Soul went to investigate and found a humanoid creature made of blood baleful qi facing the six recently awakened Fourth-Generation Main Gods.

Ming Yuanwu inherited the Light Chief God's position, but Clotho's glance unnerved Heavenly Soul, and a golden figure emerged from Ming Yuanwu's consciousness demanding his god-tier booster. Meanwhile, Father Tali Lang watched District 66666's Survivors suffer a horrific transformation and began recalling the arrival of a rotting palace.

• Heavenly Soul saw a blood-red figure trap the Chief Gods inside Blood City and decided to overwrite Ming Yuanwu's consciousness.
• Clotho gave Ming Yuanwu a miniature Light Chief God's divine-position guide, and he inherited the Light Chief God's position as well as the Wisdom Main God's position.
• Clotho glanced at Heavenly Soul as she left, revealing that she could see him.
• Ming Yuanwu considered inheriting more divine positions despite the class panel consuming their Power of Faith, but Heavenly Soul did not answer him.
• A golden figure resembling Ming Yuanwu emerged from his consciousness and demanded that he hand over his god-tier booster.
• Father Tali Lang looked over District 66666's transformed Survivors and began recalling the arrival of a vast, rotting palace.

Tali Lang was transformed after surviving the destruction of an unknown palace and reached out to the flesh that had once been his companions. Meanwhile, Su Luo’s operations continued to grow, and Ye Xu’s rising attributes earned him an exceptionally valuable increase.

• Tali Lang recalled his companions’ deaths and found his body and senses altered after the unknown palace was torn apart in the Land of Darkness.
• After two days, Tali Lang used his contract Talent to ask the motionless lumps of flesh to become his dependents.
• Su Luo reviewed Song Shige’s risky raids on the Divine Court, the Zerg’s growing faith production, and Gao Fu’s progress in mining the Dreamscape.
• Su Luo explained how the Dreamscape let him store most of his true body while keeping an Anchor in reality.
• Ye Xu cleared a Trait Dungeon twice, raised his attributes to 23, and produced 3,000 Legendary Enhancement Stones to win MVP.

Su Luo observed Zuo Guxian’s rare ability to perceive the subatomic world and learned how it had arisen. He then enhanced three Legendary items to (+15), finding the Resonance Chain mostly useful as research material and a potential one-use bomb.

• Su Luo sent Song Shige two hundred Legendary Enhancement Stones and reserved another two hundred for himself.
• Su Luo used Zuo Guxian to observe plutonium fission, but Zuo Guxian collapsed afterward and needed nearly twenty hours to recover.
• Zuo Guxian explained that an experiment had coupled their consciousness to the subatomic level, giving them their unique ability to observe the world directly.
• Su Luo asked to experience Zuo Guxian’s perception next time, then inspected the laboratory and prepared to enhance his items.
• Su Luo enhanced the Command Staff, Spacetime Hourglass, and Resonance Chain to (+15), and judged the Resonance Chain poor aside from its research value and Resonance Burst effect.

Su Luo examined powerful Legendary items, enhanced his equipment, and prepared for the Large Dungeon, but the dungeon opened before he could carry out his plans. Survivors including Ye Fan, Tali Lang, Gai Li, and Jiang Mengrui received the entry prompt, and Su Luo asked how many had qualified.

• Su Luo inspected the Spacetime Hourglass and Command Staff, judging the hourglass exceptionally valuable and the staff mostly redundant for him.
• Su Luo enhanced his old items, spending billions of Survival Coins and using Legendary Enhancement Stones to recover failed upgrades; he ended with two (+16) items, including the Spacetime Hourglass.
• Su Luo reviewed the new effects on his equipment and planned to seek support from the String Civilization, retrieve Power of Faith, and prepare to compete for a spot.
• Six weeks after the third Continued Battle, the survival system announced that the Large Dungeon had opened and invited eligible Survivors to enter.
• Ye Fan said he was ready to go, Su Luo asked how many Survivors had received the prompt, Tali Lang sent a garbled reply, Gai Li reacted with disbelief, and Jiang Mengrui said she was going.

Su Luo entered the large-scale Dungeon, Era, where he was stripped of his powers and given the quest to survive until the world ended. He found himself in a filthy, cramped room, with his body and soul concealed and his consciousness intact.

• Su Luo counted more than five hundred qualified Survivors and learned that 57 people from Survival World No. 9527 had signed up.
• The All Heavens’ devouring entity, Guixu, stirred ahead of its expected cycle and swallowed countless worlds and their inhabitants.
• The Dungeon system announced that 1,627 Survivors would enter Era, with 150 class advancement qualifications available and survival as the main quest.
• Su Luo awoke coughing in a polluted environment and discovered that his supernatural power and physical strength had vanished.
• Su Luo checked the Survival System and found that his body and soul were concealed, his consciousness remained powerful, and the world resisted items from his System Space.
• Su Luo surveyed the dirty, cramped room and saw a worn sofa, an old oil lamp, and something resembling a steam engine.

Su Luo woke in the body of Luosu, a destitute detective in a soot-choked, steam-powered city, and tried to assess his new identity and surroundings. Jerome evicted him for unpaid rent, leaving Su Luo on the street with his belongings and a little money.

• Su Luo examined his shabby room and identified himself as the detective Luosu from the business cards, while concluding that he was in an old, steam-powered society.
• Jerome burst into the room with a shovel and demanded that Luosu pay his rent.
• Su Luo promised to pay by sundown, but Jerome pointed out that he had no clients and took the blank-covered magazine from him.
• Jerome evicted Su Luo, who left with his identification papers, bedding, and other belongings.
• Su Luo surveyed the crowded, soot-covered city and its network of steam pipes and boilers, then found three pence and a shilling hidden among his things.

Su Luo adapted to the Steam Age world by developing a hormone-based training method and gathering information about the Empire, the Church, and Calamity. After rapidly strengthening his body, he began investigating the city and learned that the Church’s Awakened were the Empire’s chief defenders.

• Su Luo manipulated his hormones and organs to create a Scientific Body-Tempering Method, then trained while walking.
• Su Luo bought food and studied public notices, learning that the Empire was ruled by the Church and faced an obscure threat called Calamity.
• Su Luo knocked down several thugs and borrowed their money, introducing himself as a detective.
• Su Luo continued training and eating until his attribute rose from 4.2 to 7.6, then memorized a map of the city.
• Su Luo learned from newspapers and books that the Church’s Awakened wielded Holy Light-given power and fought Calamity.

Su Luo created a noble disguise and investigated the Church to learn about the city’s power structure and supernatural ranks. By nightfall, he had identified the Church’s lower ranks and learned that becoming Awakened required an Awakening Ritual.

• Su Luo outlined his priorities: restoring his essence, investigating the world and its destruction, and finding the other Survivors.
• Su Luo strengthened his body, assembled a noble identity, and dressed in an elaborate outfit using money he had collected in the Rich District.
• Su Luo crossed the checkpoints without showing identification and made his way to the Church by relying on his convincing noble bearing.
• Su Luo watched the Church’s entrance and gathered information about its menials, volunteers, Pre-Apprentice Knights, Apprentice Knights, Knights, Nuns, and higher-ranking officers.
• Su Luo concluded that the Church’s Awakened gained their power through an Awakening Ritual.

Su Luo watched Qi Yuan approach the Church seeking information about the Awakening Ritual, then followed him into the commoner district. A Calamity struck the city, and Su Luo and Qi Yuan observed the Church’s Knight Order assemble to confront it.

• Su Luo saw Qi Yuan, a capable-looking man, get turned away and insulted by Church guards after he asked about the Awakening Ritual.
• Qi Yuan left for the commoner district, and Su Luo followed him while questioning whether he was a Survivor.
• Explosions announced a Calamity, and Qi Yuan and Su Luo fled before finding places to observe it.
• The Calamity advanced through the eastern city, destroying buildings as the Church’s Knight Order arrived from the west.
• More than a hundred suits of blue steam armor formed a line, and Su Luo assessed the crimson, four-meter-tall Calamity approaching them.

Su Luo followed Qi Yuan as Church Knights pursued him through the city, while [Calamity] devoured the Steam Apprentice Knights. After escaping the battle in a damaged Steam Mech, Qi Yuan encountered a mysterious gentleman waiting beneath a black umbrella.

• [Calamity] slaughtered the Steam Apprentice Knights until Church airships and Steam Knights arrived to attack it.
• Qi Yuan fled across the rooftops, and a young man aboard an airship ordered five Knights to pursue him after spotting him.
• The five Knights chased Qi Yuan into an alley and demolished the surrounding buildings as they fought him, while Su Luo watched and chewed beef.
• After the fighting ended, the injured Qi Yuan removed his Steam Mech and headed toward the city’s edge as civilians bowed or prayed.
• Qi Yuan noticed an elegant gentleman beneath a black umbrella watching him from the alley entrance.

Su Luo brought Qi Yuan to an underground bar and met Kundina Odolan, where they compared their efforts to adapt to the world after losing their former strength. They concluded that their next task was to contact the [Awakening Ritual] and try to change the era.

• Su Luo found Qi Yuan, warned him that the Church would investigate the dead knights, and led him away from the crime scene.
• Su Luo and Qi Yuan evaded patrols and entered a hidden underground bar frequented by the city’s powerful and informed.
• Su Luo hinted that he and Qi Yuan were in a different world and noted that Qi Yuan’s name was out of place in the era.
• Su Luo met Kundina Odolan, who recognized his voice, and they confirmed that they were both Survivors.
• Su Luo had an attendant clean up Qi Yuan and provide him with presentable clothes, then told Kundina about his efforts to learn the situation.
• Kundina proposed contacting the [Awakening Ritual] and trying to change the era.

Su Luo and the others questioned Qi Yuan and learned that he believed he had transmigrated through several different worlds. Su Luo concluded that the Dungeon’s world was changing through eras, leaving them to anticipate what power system might come next.

• Su Luo told Kundina that he could advance technology quickly but warned that technology was only a means to gain [World Influence].
• Ye Zizhen and another blind Survivor joined Su Luo and Kundina, saying they had come to seek a powerful ally; Qi Yuan took the only remaining seat, on the table.
• Su Luo asked Qi Yuan to explain his circumstances, and Qi Yuan described transmigrating through several worlds before arriving in the current one.
• Su Luo asked how Qi Yuan understood each world’s language, and Qi Yuan said he learned it automatically whenever he transmigrated.
• Su Luo proposed that Qi Yuan had not traveled between worlds and that the world itself was changing; he identified the Dungeon’s theme as [era], and Ye Zizhen agreed that each era could bring a different power system.

Su Luo and his companions investigated a grotesque tavern show and learned that nobles watched a poor woman give birth as an entertainment. After leaving the tavern, they returned to Su Luo’s room, where Kundina released the captured souls so they could question them.

• Ye Zizhen explained that Timeline Lock-On gave him no information about the world’s future, and the group met Brutus, a powerless Survivor.
• The group watched attendants prepare a pregnant woman for a stage performance called [New Life], which involved having her dissected during childbirth.
• An attendant described the show to Su Luo, and Qi Yuan killed him before Su Luo and the others left the tavern.
• Su Luo brought the group to his room, where Kundina released more than a hundred souls she had captured from the tavern.

Su Luo and the others learned about the Empire, the Church, and the strength of the Awakened while planning to keep a low profile and discover how to gain power. The story then shifted to the frozen front, where Song Shige began his war as an ordinary soldier facing Calamities.

• Su Luo interrogated the souls of a couple who had willingly staged the tavern incident, then devoured them and others to cultivate his soul.
• Su Luo pieced together the Empire's government and the Church's hierarchy, including the power held by Knights, Judgment Knights, Bishops, and cardinals.
• Ye Zizhen proposed that the group develop their strength quietly, and Kundina explained that they could undergo the Church's Awakened Ritual.
• The group looked to Qi Yuan to decide who would become Awakened.
• Song Shige arrived at the Empire's icy front as an ordinary foot soldier and faced artillery fire and powerful Calamities.

Song Shige and Fu Li hid in the frozen wilderness after destroying an army unit, then planned to cross the sea and investigate the Awakening Ritual. Meanwhile, Su Luo brought Qi Yuan into the Church to undergo the ritual, leaving Qi Yuan poised to awaken.

• Song Shige recovered his Martial Will, defeated the unit of land battleships and steam mortars, and escaped with its supplies and equipment.
• Song Shige and Fu Li discussed their weakened bodies, their difficult Dungeon start, and their plan to return to the Empire's interior to investigate the Awakening Ritual.
• Su Luo led Qi Yuan and their companions through the Church's main gates, presenting a miniature token to gain entry.
• A nun escorted the group to a waiting room, where Qi Yuan learned that he would undergo the Awakening Ritual.
• Su Luo told Qi Yuan he had spent everything to secure the awakening opportunity after exploiting the city's chaos and the Church's reduced defenses.

Su Luo forced a priest to conduct the Awakening Ritual for Qi Yuan, then took the priest’s soul and left him to die. Back at the detective agency, Qi Yuan celebrated his new power as Su Luo brought out a notebook to discuss payment for the commission.

• Su Luo used his spiritual power to control a priest and a nun, then directed the priest to awaken Qi Yuan.
• Su Luo watched the Awakening Ritual despite the priest’s pain, and Qi Yuan emerged transformed by Holy Light.
• The priest passed out after completing the ritual, and Su Luo told Qi Yuan he had already taken the priest’s soul.
• Su Luo returned with Qi Yuan to the detective agency, where Qi Yuan praised his new power and Su Luo began discussing the commission fee.

Su Luo dissected Qi Yuan to investigate whether the Awakening Ritual unsealed people’s essence, then proposed that they pursue doctrinal reform and consolidating forces. Meanwhile, Mu Hongyuan rose from a miserable arrival in a slum brothel to minor nobility, but her companion’s latest activity threatened to draw the Church’s attention.

• Qi Yuan agreed to become Su Luo’s teammate and signed a humiliating contract, only to be drugged and rendered unconscious.
• Su Luo dissected Qi Yuan and concluded that the Awakening Ritual might unseal the essence concealed in survivors.
• Su Luo proposed that he pursue doctrinal reform while Qi Yuan consolidated forces, with both paths supporting their efforts to change the world.
• Mu Hongyuan cultivated her way out of her low status, became a minor noble, gathered followers, and qualified to undergo a Church awakening.
• Mu Hongyuan confronted her shabby companion, who said he had eaten something tasty, and warned that the industrial city was closely watched by the Church.

Mu Hongyuan sent [Food] away after his escalating habit of eating prominent people threatened to expose their organization. She then prepared to meet an Empire Academy of Sciences adviser to present technology that could influence the world, while continuing to investigate how the Dungeon and World Influence restored Survivors’ essence.

• [Food] spat out a medal belonging to an esteemed Knight, and Mu Hongyuan rebuked him for eating powerful people and increasing their risk of exposure.
• Mu Hongyuan said she would put [Food] on her organization’s wanted list and told him to flee the city; [Food] decided to head north to the Empire’s front lines to find more food.
• Mu Hongyuan concluded that the [Awakening Ritual] restored part of a Survivor’s essence and that World Influence might determine how much was restored.
• Mu Hongyuan reviewed her plan to build an organization and use its influence to submit advanced technology to the Empire’s central authorities.
• Mu Hongyuan went to the Empire Academy of Sciences’ local liaison office to meet the special adviser sent to verify her technology, and a young nobleman received her.