Chapter Summaries

Su Luo explored his new class skills, used Skill Book Inscription to turn the Dual-Cycle Method into a recognized skill, and rapidly raised his attributes with the Survival System. After resting, he met Xi Ji, who delivered supplies and asked for advice about the Class Change Dungeon, before Su Luo noticed a woman whose presence calmed him.

• Su Luo tested [Unity of Knowledge and Action] and [Burst of Inspiration], then inscribed Mutated Beast Body Modification as a Skill Book and raised its level.
• Su Luo inscribed the Dual-Cycle Method and used the Survival System and Stamina Potions to raise it to Level 15, increasing his Spirit and Mana.
• Su Luo sent Qin Lang a list of supplies for Jing Yunxin's team, set up warning and defensive spells, and slept for ten hours.
• Xi Ji introduced himself as the action teams' chief captain, delivered the requested supplies, and told Su Luo they had obtained the third [Class Change Certificate].
• Su Luo advised Xi Ji to prioritize survival in the Class Change Dungeon and offered to work with Chairman Song on a guide for Zone 76.
• Su Luo noticed a woman in Xi Ji's group and felt her presence soothe his mind.

Su Luo tested Jing Yunxin’s healing ability and dissected and modified his own body in his laboratory. Song Shige arrived in a deep gloom after completing his Class Change, unable to understand why he had fought so hard only to watch civilization fall.

• Su Luo sent Xi Ji and the others away, then had Jing Yunxin help him test the limits and effects of her healing ability.
• Su Luo dissected himself while Jing Yunxin followed his instructions, recording how her healing worked at different intensities.
• Su Luo used his findings to devise and carry out a plan to modify his body with biological tissues and sustained spells.
• After seven or eight hours, Su Luo and Jing Yunxin left the laboratory pale and exhausted, and Xi Ji told Su Luo that Song Shige was waiting for him.
• Song Shige told Su Luo that he had upgraded his shelter after his Class Change and had come at Minister Qin’s suggestion for help with his mental state.
• Song Shige remained unable to understand why he had fought to the end in the Dungeon only to watch civilization be destroyed.

Su Luo studied newly acquired blue skills and began translating mathematical knowledge from the Trial Instance world. Meanwhile, Jing Yunxin counseled Song Shige about his traumatic Class Change Dungeon, and Song Shige later visited Su Luo to share his experience.

• Su Luo reviewed the Mutual Aid Association’s blue Skill Books and began learning Flame Domain, Falling Star Burst, and Celestial Phenomenon Attraction.
• Su Luo reasoned that class holders had entered a new stage of global development, with fewer reliable ways to gain Skill Experience.
• Jing Yunxin reassured Song Shige that class holders worldwide had witnessed civilization-ending Trial Instances, helping ease his distress.
• Song Shige urged Jing Yunxin to establish psychological preparation and follow-up services for Class Change candidates.
• Song Shige visited Su Luo’s laboratory, where Su Luo explained he was translating and integrating mathematical systems from two worlds.
• Song Shige began recounting how he had been assigned the identity of a military colonel in his Dungeon.

Song Shige recounted his Dungeon’s collapse and compared notes with Su Luo, who explained that the world’s catastrophe had connections to forces beyond its continent. With no one in Zone 76 ready to change class and their records unlikely to provide an easy advantage, Su Luo agreed to explore with Song Shige and transformed his laboratory into an armed aerial fortress.

• Song Shige told Su Luo how he fought monsters, clashed with Great Yong’s director, lost his allies to a frenzy, and ultimately watched a beast tide consume the world.
• Su Luo described the continent-sized life-forms, Heavenly Dao, and Heavenly Mandate he had encountered, and Song Shige asked whether they could survive in space.
• Song Shige and Su Luo compared their extensive records, speculated about the director’s unknown system, and agreed to seal away their Dungeon information.
• Song Shige told Su Luo that the strongest survivors were farming Class Change Certificates and that Ye Xu had disappeared from the rankings, likely to change class.
• Song Shige invited Su Luo to explore Dangerous Terrain for blue attribute Skill Books, and Su Luo agreed.
• Su Luo spent five or six hours transforming his laboratory into a heavily armed aerial fortress, then took Song Shige aboard and launched into the darkness.

Su Luo’s laboratory pushed deeper into the Land of Darkness, where his modified fire system easily cleared swarms of monsters. Meanwhile, Han Song hid in his Sanctuary’s Wishing Well when explosions approached, only to hear someone politely knocking at his door.

• Jing Yunxin showed her team the learnable blue Skill Book [Dual-Cycle Method] that Su Luo had given her as payment and an investment.
• Su Luo and Song Shige entered the ten-kilometer zone around the Dungeon, and Su Luo’s fireballs illuminated the darkness as the laboratory advanced.
• Monsters attacked the laboratory, but Su Luo’s modified rings of fire swept through them and left his experience bar nearly unchanged.
• Han Song practiced his skill for sixty-eight hours without rest, using rewards from a previous hunt to climb onto the Regional Kill and Level Rankings.
• When explosions and fire sounds neared his Sanctuary, Han Song hid underwater in the Wishing Well, then heard someone knocking at his door.

Su Luo and Song Shige searched for the [Dangerous Terrain] and eventually reached its edge, where violent Mana and mental erosion made the area dangerous to explore. After a Bone Bird attacked the laboratory, Su Luo sent Song Shige ahead to scout while he stayed behind to modify the laboratory.

• Su Luo and Song Shige left a note and a pile of monster corpses for a Sanctuary owner, offering him five percent of their value as payment.
• Han Song emerged from hiding, found Song Shige’s note and the corpses, and realized recycling them could earn him a fortune.
• Su Luo sensed that the terrain’s violent Mana, mental erosion, and living darkness could cause serious mental problems within hours.
• A Level 5 Elite Bone Bird attacked the laboratory, and Su Luo destroyed it with a barrage of fire before collecting its treasure chest.
• Su Luo lowered Song Shige to scout ahead and stayed behind to modify the laboratory so it could function in the violent Mana.

Su Luo and Song Shige killed Level 6 monsters, obtained blue Skill Books, and investigated a recently altered tower that contained an abandoned Level 3 Sanctuary. Song Shige emerged with a living Level 5 monster and said the scene inside was unusual.

• Su Luo killed a Level 6 Madwind Tiger and obtained a Gold Chest containing supplies and a blue Appraisal Skill Book.
• Song Shige returned with two Gold Chests from Level 6 monsters, and Su Luo killed another monster that dropped a blue Gathering Skill Book.
• Song Shige spotted a partly ruined tower, and Su Luo flew the laboratory toward it and used Appraisal to examine its ancient upper section and newer lower floors.
• Song Shige entered the tower while Su Luo stayed in the laboratory and identified its first two floors as an abandoned Level 3 Sanctuary.
• Song Shige came out carrying a struggling Level 5 monster and told Su Luo the unexplained scene inside was unusual.

Su Luo and Song Shige discovered that [Dangerous Terrain] could cover a Sanctuary and cause survivors to succumb to hidden mental erosion. After investigating the ruined mage tower and confirming signs of a wider outbreak, Su Luo warned all survivors and left the area before they were affected.

• Su Luo and Song Shige found the remains of a survivor who had gone mad and eaten his own body, and concluded that [Dangerous Terrain] had caused his mental erosion.
• Su Luo examined the ruined mage tower’s ancient Mana Pool and learned from its construction while searching for ideas to improve his laboratory.
• Song Shige reported that the Sanctuary’s owner had died three days earlier and that regional messages had become less frequent and more incoherent as survivor deaths rose.
• Su Luo and Song Shige concluded that affected survivors often failed to recognize their own mental decline, allowing the erosion to spread unnoticed.
• Su Luo warned survivors through the World Channel that [Dangerous Terrain] could expand over Sanctuaries and cause madness and death, then began moving the laboratory away.

Su Luo and Song Shige fought and defeated a level-six Chaos Walker that appeared near Su Luo’s laboratory. They opened its blue treasure chest and found elemental cores, a skill book, and a single-use Chaos Shield talisman.

• Su Luo and Song Shige sensed a powerful Mana vortex approaching and prepared to face the monster.
• Su Luo appraised the creature as a level-six Chaos Walker with mental and shadow abilities.
• Song Shige charged the Chaos Walker, resisting its Mental Screech and striking it while Su Luo’s fire restraints interrupted its Shadow Traversal.
• The Chaos Walker damaged Song Shige with shadow arrows and raised a Chaos Field, but Su Luo’s twelve fireballs shattered the field.
• Song Shige delivered the final blow, and the Chaos Walker died, leaving ashes and a blue treasure chest.
• Song Shige opened the chest and found high-purity Elemental Cores, a Shadow Affinity skill book, and a single-use Chaos Shield talisman.

Su Luo and Song Shige left the Dangerous Terrain after prolonged monster farming, divided their spoils, and tested the immense power they had gained from their attributes. They finished with a shared meal before Su Luo prepared to head back.

• Song Shige developed worsening delusions from the Dangerous Terrain’s mental erosion, so Su Luo assessed him and moved the laboratory farther away.
• Su Luo and Song Shige divided their loot, including blue Skill Books and attribute-boosting items; Su Luo kept the Anchored Pocket Watch and studied its fluctuating rationality readings.
• Song Shige demonstrated that his strength let him blast a huge crater, run at several times the speed of sound, and leap two hundred meters.
• Su Luo unleashed the laboratory’s weapons, and the two concluded that their abilities could let them survive or evade large-scale missile attacks.
• Su Luo estimated that reaching 20 strength points could produce thousands of tons of force, then told Song Shige their stay was nearly over.
• Song Shige asked for more barbecue, and Su Luo used another Food Voucher of Choice so they could share a final meal.

Han Song traded nearly all his Survival Coins for a token price and then began buying items and plants, while Su Luo studied dismantled magic items to develop a more efficient Mana system. At the Mutual Aid Association headquarters, Song Shige learned that internal conflicts had surfaced and was given evidence ahead of the association’s second meeting.

• Han Song carefully documented the monster-corpse processing, took only his agreed five percent, and traded the rest of his Survival Coins for one wooden plank.
• Han Song decided to take a gamble and began purchasing items and plants on Survivor Plaza.
• Su Luo dismantled a Fine-quality staff and the Magic Ring (Excellent), then used their energy principles to plan improvements to the laboratory’s Mana Pool and energy system.
• Qin Lang told Song Shige that internal conflicts had emerged in the Mutual Aid Association while its strongest squads were away farming Class Change Certificates.
• Qin Lang gave Song Shige a list and evidence for the association’s second meeting, which was scheduled for the next day.

Su Luo flew his laboratory to meet Han Song and hired him to process monster remains and unwanted items. Song Shige purged corrupt members of the Mutual Aid Association and was confirmed as its chairman.

• Su Luo brought his flying laboratory to Han Song and asked him to process monster corpses and sell unwanted materials for the Mutual Aid Association.
• Han Song accepted the work and asked Su Luo for an autograph, which Su Luo gave him with Fire Element infused in it.
• Song Shige killed members of the Mutual Aid Association who defended their corrupt exchanges of favors.
• Number One acknowledged Song Shige, who became chairman of the Mutual Aid Association.

Su Luo experimented with shaping his dreams into a stable environment for learning, but interfering with the dream repeatedly cast his consciousness into a void. After discovering he could summon his dream back through willpower, he developed a method he called Dream Programming and built a starry library as its framework.

• Su Luo erased the chaotic images in his dream and concluded that the Land of Darkness had no Dream Plane he could sense.
• Su Luo tried to format his dream, but his consciousness separated from it and drifted in a void where he could neither sense his body nor wake up.
• Su Luo used his willpower to summon his disconnected dream and return to it.
• Su Luo repeatedly tested how dream interference could eject him, then used a class skill and his lifespan to develop Dream Programming.
• Su Luo created a sparse starry sky around a library whose shelves reflected the knowledge he had mastered.

Su Luo stabilized his dream world, built a simulated planet and safety mechanisms, and created Xiao Luo to maintain the dream. After returning to reality, he learned that the third Monster Tide had begun and surfaced his underground laboratory.

• Su Luo stabilized dream time at twice the normal rate and constructed a limited reality-simulation field, though both required substantial Mana and mental energy.
• Su Luo added safeguards against cognitive anomalies, Mana overload, and confusion between dreams and reality.
• When Su Luo opened access to his subconscious, he was kicked out of the dream; after returning, he suppressed the chaos there and created Xiao Luo to maintain the dream and run checks.
• Su Luo woke in his laboratory, which he had buried a hundred meters underground to avoid attention from Dungeon teams.
• The system announced that the Monster Tide had begun, and Su Luo drove his laboratory back to the surface.

Su Luo examined the harsher Monster Tide rules and warned that survivors would need to save attribute points to meet the rising Class Change requirements. As global estimates suggested that fewer than one hundred million people might qualify within three months, he saw humanity facing near-total annihilation and a future swallowed by darkness.

• Su Luo noticed that the Monster Tide’s basic clearance requirement had risen from three waves to four, and feared the required number would keep increasing.
• Survivors debated the rising difficulty on the World Channel, where Ye Fan said the eleventh wave’s Level 5 boss could not be beaten by non-class holders.
• Su Luo warned that most survivors needed to save at least two Free Attribute Points to have a chance of clearing a Dungeon and obtaining a Class Change Certificate.
• Class holders shared regional data and estimated that fewer than one hundred million survivors could meet Class Change conditions in three months without organized intervention.
• Su Luo considered the additional threats posed by the Trial Instance and Dangerous Terrain, and concluded that humanity’s future was nearly blocked by darkness.

Su Luo alternated between memorizing information in reality and studying it in his dream while Song Shige reflected on humanity’s peril and entered the darkness to face it. As the tenth Monster Tide began, Su Luo watched the forced regional livestream of eleven challengers.

• Su Luo browsed survivor discussions, then memorized information while his dream self studied and his auxiliary consciousness maintained his body.
• Song Shige considered his responsibility for the Mutual Aid Association and humanity’s future, then stepped into the darkness with his Zhanmadao.
• The system forcibly activated Zone 76’s regional livestream for the tenth Monster Tide, and survivors exchanged comments about their chances of survival.
• Su Luo lit the darkness around his laboratory with fireballs, paused his studies, and watched the livestream over tea.
• Su Luo saw that eleven people were challenging the wave, including nine top survivors trained by the Mutual Aid Association and several familiar faces.

Su Luo watched several challengers fight the tenth Monster Tide wave before the system announced the region’s survival results and unlocked the District War System. The region qualified for District War, while exploring outside the zone remained locked behind defeating a powerful Level 6 Boss Monster called the Observer.

• Su Luo watched Gao Fu, whose Dream Master Talent had raised his Attributes, prepare to fight a Level 5 Elite monster through endurance.
• Su Luo switched to Guizishi’s livestream and recognized his Automatic Combat Talent as Guizishi effortlessly controlled a Level 5 Elite monster.
• During the tenth wave, Xi Ji activated Aura and attacked his enemy with his long saber.
• The system announced that Zone 76’s Monster Tide had ended with a 12.64% survival rate and that the next Monster Tide would arrive in seven days.
• The system unlocked the District War System after confirming that the region had killed a Level 6 Elite monster.
• The system made Out-of-Zone Exploration available only after a survivor defeated the Level 6 Boss Monster known as the Observer, and Su Luo judged that he was not yet ready to challenge it.

Su Luo registered for the first district war, becoming one of Zone 76’s first two participants, then returned to studying in his dream and gave Xiao Luo a new task. In a Trial Instance, Ye Xu offered the eldest princess hundreds of pieces of SS-rank armor in exchange for becoming her personal guard, and she accepted.

• Su Luo reviewed the district war rules and registered, joining Song Shige as one of Zone 76’s first two participants.
• Su Luo reflected on how survivors were forming teams while he continued to prefer working alone.
• Su Luo returned to his dream library and told Xiao Luo he had a new task.
• Ye Xu offered the eldest princess several hundred sets of armor with SS-rank defense to help her endangered race.
• Ye Xu asked to become the eldest princess’s personal guard, and she granted his request.

Su Luo revised Xiao Luo’s homework and published 72 forum posts, including mental-health tools and guides to low-Mana skills. Han Song discovered the posts while celebrating a Constitution boost from his cultivated Spirit Pearl Grass, then found the requirements for Su Luo’s blue skill guide daunting.

• Xiao Luo handed his homework to Su Luo, who polished it and rewarded him with a little red flower.
• Su Luo published 72 posts for survivors of Zone 76, including a mental-health self-assessment plan and guides to 69 green class skills.
• Han Song consumed his Fine-quality Spirit Pearl Grass, gained 0.1 Constitution, and hid its porcelain bottle close to his body.
• Han Song read Su Luo’s posts and began selecting low-Mana skills that might help him qualify for an Exemption Stone.
• Han Song opened Su Luo’s Dual-Cycle Method guide and was stunned by its demanding prerequisites, including advanced mathematics.

Su Luo studied Song Shige’s blue mental skill, Boiling Demonic Intent, and adapted its emotional energy principles to his own mental system. He completed a new Emotion Cycle and began developing a Three-Cycle Method.

• Song Shige borrowed Su Luo’s Anchored Pocket Watch for an adventure and sent him the Boiling Demonic Intent skill book he had obtained.
• Su Luo studied the skill and concluded that its emotional power could boost mental output but risked confusion and reduced rationality.
• Su Luo used Burst of Inspiration to redesign his mental world and build a new Emotion Cycle on the Dead Silent Planet.
• Su Luo released his suppressed emotions into the cycle, discovered that most were horny thoughts, and continued refining the model.
• Su Luo put other research aside to focus on the Three-Cycle Method and strengthening his mental attribute.