Chapter Summaries

Su Luo experimented on Aberration Energy, testing its effects on ordinary matter and other energies before producing an unknown pitch-black element. After seeing it alter a mutated puppy’s cells, he named it the Aberrant Element when the puppy’s native Aberration Energy suppressed it.

• Su Luo fed Mana to contained Aberration Energy and recorded its properties and behavior.
• Su Luo tested Aberration Energy on ordinary materials and a dismantled generator, finding that it could not assimilate or transform them.
• Su Luo bombarded the Aberration Energy with different elements and Mana, producing many unstable energy forms.
• Su Luo discovered a stable, unknown pitch-black element that shared Aberration Energy’s malice.
• Su Luo tested the pitch-black element on a mutated puppy, where it altered the puppy’s flesh before the native Aberration Energy suppressed it.
• Su Luo named the unknown element the Aberrant Element.

Di Yubing defended Hudu alone as a vast Mutated Beast tide overwhelmed the city’s defenses. Watching from afar, Dongli Cang learned she had awakened through an ancient Martial Dao system and planned to make her bear the X-rank Legacy Core.

• A veteran dismissed a recruit’s hope of survival, then lay beside explosives with a lit cigarette as the beast tide approached.
• Di Yubing killed an S-rank flying Mutated Beast with wind blades, drawing cheers from the defenders.
• The beast tide broke through Hudu’s first line of defense and battered the city wall as humans fought back.
• Dongli Cang questioned the system about Di Yubing’s power and learned she had awakened through a Martial Dao system from the world’s previous supernatural era.
• The system told Dongli Cang that Di Yubing could eventually bear the sole X-rank Legacy Core, and he imagined rescuing her and making her dependent on him.

Di Yubing let Hudu’s defenses collapse while relying on the World Will to keep her safe until Dongli Cang staged his heroic arrival. Dongli Cang blasted the beast tide for the livestream, which cut off before he could approach Di Yubing, while Su Luo watched and returned to studying the Aberrant Element.

• Di Yubing killed a Bat-Winged Demon Ape, then appeared exhausted as Mutated Beasts swept into Hudu and devoured its people.
• Dongli Cang ordered his system to prevent beasts from harming Di Yubing, and Blood-Beaked Vultures narrowly missed her.
• Su Luo watched the broken monitor and complained that it lacked a computer tower.
• A twisted follower presented a tablet livestream to a colossal being that watched its creator.
• Dongli Cang arrived, struck an SS Rank giant beast with lightning, and unleashed a devastating attack on the beast tide.
• Dongli Cang offered Di Yubing his hand as the livestream cut off, while Su Luo turned back to analyzing the Aberrant Element.

Di Yubing attacked Dongli Cang and exposed that she knew he had used an otherworldly system to engineer the disaster. After Dongli Cang froze the beast tide and threatened the city, he discovered that the suffering of its people could not make the princess yield.

• Di Yubing surprised Dongli Cang with a sword strike empowered by the World Will, piercing his lightning shield and wounding his chest.
• Di Yubing called Dongli Cang a clown and accused him of orchestrating the disaster with an otherworldly system; he admitted she had seen through him.
• Dongli Cang froze the attacking beasts and demanded that Di Yubing surrender, but she warned she could still strike his weak point.
• Dongli Cang resumed the assault on the city, and Di Yubing recovered while its people were slaughtered.
• Di Yubing told Dongli Cang she would not pity people destined to die, leaving him confused by her indifference.

Di Yubing accepted Dongli Cang’s offer of an X-Rank Ability and flew toward the Imperial Capital to kill someone while her awakening began. Elsewhere, Su Luo created a cognitive assessment to monitor changes to his mind and succeeded in appraising the Aberrant Element after spending mana from three Mana Pools.

• Di Yubing agreed to challenge Dongli Cang in seven days, and he implanted an X-Rank Ability that would take four days to awaken.
• Di Yubing refused Dongli Cang’s offer of protection and flew toward the Imperial Capital to kill someone, while he returned to headquarters.
• Su Luo built a Cognitive Assessment System, found his initial score was 79, and reset its standards to treat his own cognition as healthy.
• Su Luo filled his Mana Pool and used his improved meditation and mana-conversion methods to absorb mana at great speed.
• Su Luo cast Appraisal repeatedly, spent mana from three Mana Pools, and identified the Aberrant Element as a newly formed element made from mana and Aberration Energy.

Su Luo struggled to reproduce the Aberrant Element, then advanced his incomplete Spell Permanence Technique into an energy-intensive form of Eternal Permanence that fixed spells onto objects without ongoing Mana costs. After using the new enchantments to kill an Aberration Dragon Beast, he decided to develop defensive spells and continue refining the technique.

• Su Luo failed to reproduce the Aberrant Element despite extensive experiments and reviewing the Mutual Aid Association’s materials, so he set the research aside.
• Su Luo focused on [Spell Permanence Technique (incomplete) (blue)] and [Body Modification (blue)], and developed an incomplete method of permanently enchanting spells by expending huge amounts of Mana and other energy.
• Su Luo restarted the Mana conversion production line and began upgrading his temporary permanent spells into permanent enchantments.
• An SS-rank Aberration Dragon Beast charged the incinerator, and Su Luo restrained it with wind chains before killing it with a spell-filled cylinder.
• Su Luo returned to his work, then decided to create defensive spells in the laboratory and continue exploring Eternal Permanence.

Dongli Cang wondered whether his treatment of Di Yubing meant he had fallen in love, but after the system denied that he had been influenced, he returned to his usual indulgences. Shui Huaimeng confronted him about the women he had collected and challenged his belief that they were all pure and untouched.

• Dongli Cang returned to the Superpower Management Bureau and asked his deputy director what it meant that he had spared a woman and given her a great benefit.
• The deputy director told Dongli Cang he had fallen in love with the Eldest Princess, and Dongli Cang asked the system whether anything had influenced him; it denied it.
• Dongli Cang ordered the deputy director to bring him fifty women and summon Shui Huaimeng, while the deputy director and his subordinates planned to provoke him as part of a mission to save the world.
• Shui Huaimeng arrived, and Dongli Cang tried to draw her close, but she asked how many women from the Great Yong Beauty Ranking he had gathered.
• Dongli Cang claimed all the women he had obtained were pure and untouched, and Shui Huaimeng challenged him to consider whether that was believable.

Shui Huaimeng told Dongli Cang that the Great Yong Beauty Ranking was a list of women used by an otherworldly mage, then showed him photos that the system confirmed were real. Dongli Cang discovered that his mother was among them, but still accepted Shui Huaimeng’s embrace and kiss, and she revealed it had all been her master’s task.

• Shui Huaimeng claimed that an otherworldly mage had created the Great Yong Beauty Ranking as a list of his private playthings.
• Shui Huaimeng showed Dongli Cang photos, and the system confirmed they were real despite the mage’s face being edited into them.
• Dongli Cang found his mother in the final photo and reacted with rage and disbelief.
• Shui Huaimeng asked whether Dongli Cang would still accept her, and he embraced and kissed her.
• Shui Huaimeng revealed that everything had been her master’s task.

After the mage’s scheme wrecked his office and home, Dongli Cang found the otherworldly visitors staging a mass display of green hats to humiliate him. He used the system to locate the mage and flew off in pursuit, wailing that the mage had left him without love.

• Dongli Cang returned to his office and ordered his subordinate to remove the woman who kept offering him chicken soup and provoking him.
• Dongli Cang watched surveillance footage of his villa neighborhood, realized the otherworldly visitors had ruined everything, and unleashed lightning that collapsed the bureau headquarters’ top floor.
• A man led over a thousand people in greeting Bureau Chief Dongli by throwing green hats at him, enraging Dongli Cang further.
• Dongli Cang demanded the system reveal the mage’s location, and the system marked the mage’s coordinates despite its earlier refusal.
• Dongli Cang flew toward the mage’s location, crying that people from other worlds were awful and that the mage had left him without love.

Su Luo, mentally exhausted from his research, took a break outside his laboratory but was attacked by Dongli Cang, who accused him of being a mage and charged with lightning. Su Luo blinded Dongli Cang with a black fireball and retreated to the laboratory, where Dongli Cang found himself facing a vast, terrifying spell array.

• Su Luo stopped his research after realizing his fixation on power had become unhealthy, relaxed on a patch of grass, and returned to a normal assessment score.
• Dongli Cang arrived in a rage and attacked Su Luo with lightning, while Su Luo used layered Flame Walls and retreated toward the laboratory.
• Su Luo formed a towering lava-armored defense to stop Dongli Cang’s thunder serpents, then struck him with a black fireball that melted his corneas and nearly exhausted Su Luo’s Mana.
• Su Luo used the Magic Ring’s remaining reserves to flee into the laboratory while casting spells, and Dongli Cang recovered his vision with the Legacy Core’s energy.
• Dongli Cang rushed to the laboratory entrance, where he stopped before an activated formation filled with thousands of black fireballs and a colossal sphere at its center.

Su Luo used a series of traps and elemental spells to drive Dongli Cang out of the laboratory, then hit him with curses that made him fall unconscious. Dongli Cang awoke amid raging flames, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Dongli Cang discovered that the black spheres surrounding him were fake and smashed through them before breaking into the laboratory.
• The laboratory’s earth-element defenses trapped Dongli Cang in quicksand while Su Luo adjusted the spells and prepared to flee.
• Su Luo unleashed a barrage of elemental spells, then used an Earth Collapse Spell and a hollowed-out mountainside to launch Dongli Cang out of the cave.
• Su Luo cursed Dongli Cang with negative effects and activated Heart Curse, causing him to lose consciousness and fall from the sky.
• Dongli Cang jolted awake surrounded by flames.

Su Luo trapped Dongli Cang in the incinerator and used a concentrated fire attack to destroy his lower body, but Dongli Cang transformed into a lightning cocoon. With his Mana nearly gone and mutated beasts approaching, Su Luo lifted his laboratory into the air and fled while watching for signs that Dongli Cang would emerge.

• Su Luo analyzed the Thunder Armor and struck Dongli Cang repeatedly in the incinerator, then pierced its weaker lower-body defenses with a concentrated line of fire.
• The attack destroyed Dongli Cang's lower body and scattered [Epic Hero—Savior Skin Fragments], but a surge of energy wrapped his remains in a massive lightning cocoon.
• Su Luo retreated to his laboratory as his Mana ran low and the mutated beast horde approached, preparing to flee if Dongli Cang entered a second phase.
• Su Luo activated the laboratory's wind-based flight system, lifting the mountain's thin rock slab and laboratory into the air.
• Su Luo shot down approaching flying mutated beasts with Flame Spears and began considering where to find a new energy supply.

Di Yubing found the Imperial Capital transformed into a grotesque killing ground while Dongli Cang emerged from his lightning cocoon and discovered his body had not been fully repaired. After learning that the mage was heading toward Di Yubing, Dongli prepared to pursue her and ordered the Mutated Beasts to attack.

• Di Yubing surveyed the ruined Imperial Capital, found her targets gone, and sensed the mage’s X-Rank awakening in the distance.
• Dongli Cang emerged from the lightning cocoon and learned from the system that the mage had left and was traveling toward the Imperial Capital.
• Dongli panicked that the mage would target Di Yubing and vowed to protect her, then discovered his manhood was missing.
• Dongli learned the Legacy Core had not repaired the organ and that he could not remove its restrictions because his ability development was unbalanced.
• Dongli decided to redirect his ability development and commanded all Mutated Beasts to attack the target.

Su Luo scavenged power and materials from an abandoned city, rebuilding the Floating Laboratory with larger Mana Pools and an improved flight system. As Dongli Cang drove mutant beasts to attack, Su Luo built a flaming ring formation that burned them and converted their energy into mana, leaving the laboratory flying inside a deadly fireball.

• Su Luo brought the Floating Laboratory to an abandoned city and searched residential complexes for charged battery banks.
• Su Luo assembled a temporary mana-conversion device, then connected nearby batteries and power supplies to recharge his Mana Pool and gather materials.
• Su Luo rebuilt the laboratory with an alloy platform, two large Mana Pools, an improved conversion device, and a more efficient Wind-Type Flight System.
• As mutant beasts attacked in increasing numbers, Su Luo built concentric steel rings of constant fire spells around the laboratory.
• Su Luo activated the Energy-Harvesting Ring of Fire System, burning attacking mutant beasts and converting their energy into mana while Dongli Cang's assault supplied more targets.

Su Luo completed his floating laboratory’s power system and sent it toward the upper atmosphere to avoid the world’s conflicts. Meanwhile, Di Yubing reached SSS Rank, made an exchange with the world’s will, and appeared near Su Luo, whose sudden heavenly mandate led him to flee farther upward.

• Su Luo connected salvaged solar panels to the laboratory’s power network and began ascending through the clouds.
• Di Yubing restarted the abandoned Hudu laboratory’s backup power and absorbed Mana, reaching SSS Rank.
• Di Yubing accepted an exchange with a vast will, and her consciousness sank into darkness.
• Su Luo sensed a sudden heavenly mandate, scanned himself for outside interference, and found Di Yubing hovering near his laboratory.
• Su Luo sent Di Yubing a message asking her to keep her distance, then accelerated upward to test whether the effect was limited by proximity.

Su Luo traded with the World Will for detailed data on Aberration Energy and biological structures, then sent a specially engineered mass of living flesh toward the Imperial Capital. As Su Luo departed for deep space, Di Yubing and the creatures prepared to gather a beast tide and kill the “Creator.”

• Su Luo used a communicator to negotiate with the World Will, which offered a heavenly mandate blessing and lost supernatural knowledge in exchange for a custom Aberrant Beast shell.
• Dongli Cang tried to use his system to bring Di Yubing to him, but the system could not control her and reported that Su Luo was near her.
• Su Luo completed the transaction, sent the living-flesh sample toward the planet, and prepared to leave for deep space with the World Will’s data saved.
• Su Luo learned that someone from another world had set up Dongli Cang, but noted that the emperor of Great Yong was already dead.
• Di Yubing watched the flesh reach the Imperial Capital, where it split into seven creatures, one of which said they would gather a beast tide and kill the “Creator.”

Dongli Cang unlocked the Legacy Core and attacked the Imperial Capital, but Di Yubing and the World Will’s plan ended with his defeat and death. After the World Will tried to recruit Su Luo, it was rejected and set off into space with several other wills and Dongli Cang’s tortured remnant consciousness.

• Dongli Cang reached the Imperial Capital and found Di Yubing beside the disguised mage, who turned the beast tide against him.
• Dongli Cang unleashed his lightning power, but a giant six-fingered hand emerged from beneath the city and crushed him.
• Dongli Cang withdrew the Aberration Energy, stopping the hand and beast tide, but the mage merged with the remains and annihilated him.
• Su Luo saw the aberrant tree and other beings collapse, then confirmed that his strange flesh sample could still regenerate Aberration Energy.
• The World Will formed a tiny body and asked Su Luo to cooperate, but he tested it and rejected its offer to become his vassal.
• The World Will and the other wills departed for a neighboring star system, carrying Dongli Cang’s remnant consciousness as they tortured him.

After completing the trial instance, Su Luo chose the Scholar class rather than the more specialized God of Magic or Truth Wizard. He received two titles, equipped them alongside Lone Flame, and his Learning Gains Talent evolved before he returned to the Land of Darkness.

• Su Luo considered the God of Magic and Truth Wizard classes but rejected both, choosing Scholar for its boost to learning and research.
• The system awarded Su Luo the Fire Purgatory and Observer titles for his dungeon performance.
• Su Luo equipped Fire Purgatory and Observer alongside his Lone Flame title.
• Su Luo's Learning Gains Talent evolved, improving his guaranteed learning benefits, concentration, and research speed.
• The system began teleporting Su Luo back to the Land of Darkness.

After returning from the Class Change Dungeon, Su Luo reviewed his gains and learned how Trait Dungeons worked. Information from Qin Lang revealed that Su Luo’s trial had been unusually difficult, while Ye Fan was the only known class holder to earn a superb evaluation by saving his trial world.

• Su Luo returned to the Land of Darkness and learned from a Mutual Aid Association squad how teams farmed Class Change Certificates.
• Su Luo reviewed his increased attributes, unlocked his Storage Space, and inventoried the knowledge, research materials, and skills he had brought back.
• Su Luo learned from the World Channel that Trait Dungeons offered the only known way to break the 20-point attribute limit, but chose not to enter that day.
• Qin Lang sent Su Luo the Association’s findings about Class Change Dungeons, including their regional sharing, dynamic difficulty, and thirty-day survival quests.
• Su Luo learned that every known trial world ultimately faced destruction and that Ye Fan alone had earned a superb evaluation by saving his world.

Su Luo reviewed the Mutual Aid Association’s intelligence on class changes, class skills, special Sanctuaries, and regional conditions. He agreed to contact Jing Yunxin’s team as they came to clear his Dungeon, and Qin Lang offered to send healing items.

• Su Luo considered whether he could have killed Dongli Cang, then reminded himself that survival was his main quest.
• Su Luo learned that raising attributes beyond 12 required blue attribute Skill Books and that such books might be found in Dangerous Terrain.
• Su Luo read the reported class rankings, growth rates, Stat Reset rules, and benefits of upgrading a level-six Sanctuary.
• Su Luo saw that fewer than fifteen percent of Zone 76’s survivors remained and learned that Qin Lang, Song Shige, Jing Yunxin, and Xi Ji had taken on new roles in the Mutual Aid Association.
• Qin Lang offered to send healing items and asked whether Jing Yunxin’s team should contact Su Luo, and Su Luo agreed.