Chapter Summaries

Liang Shaohua told Chu Fei that he suspected Wu Yong was using Dawn Academy students as tools to open an inheritance, and that he had seen Wu Yong eating youths while aberrated. Chu Fei chose to stay at Dawn Academy while preparing to test his suspicions, then planned a night assault on the City Lord’s faction to seize the Spirit Fruits.

• Liang Shaohua told Chu Fei that Wu Yong had a face on his chest that ate the brain matter of eighteen-year-old youths, and explained his suspicions about the Principal’s research and cultivation method.
• Chu Fei considered Liang Shaohua’s warning, decided to remain at Dawn Academy for now, and resolved to learn magic and test Wu Yong’s intentions.
• Yuan Mingyuan told Chu Fei that Demonic Spirits guarded the real Spring of Life, while Liang Shaohua argued that the opposing fighters would be reluctant to risk their lives in the darkness.
• Chu Fei proposed targeting the Dawn City Youth Group to pressure Flying Tiger City’s City Lord’s faction into handing over the Spirit Fruits, and the group formed a battle plan.
• When darkness fell, Chu Fei drank two bottles of Supernatural Potion, asked Liang Shaohua to watch Zhang Haoyuan, and drew his treasured blade to begin the assault.

Chu Fei infiltrated the Dawn City Youth Group’s camp and slaughtered its members to pressure Lyu Qinghua into surrendering the Spirit Fruits. After Lyu Qinghua admitted she had only obtained three fruits, Chu Fei urged the other Flying Tiger City groups to kill the Dawn City Youth Group and cover up the massacre, leaving Long Yunfei’s people surrounded and desperate to escape.

• Chu Fei slipped past the hidden watch posts while his allies threatened the Lyu Family over the Spirit Fruits and mutant beast cubs.
• When Lyu Qinghua ordered flares fired, Chu Fei used the shifting shadows to attack the Dawn City Youth Group and kill its members.
• Chu Fei evaded Zhang Liyu, threatened to keep killing until he received eight Spirit Fruits, and learned that Zhang Haoyuan had begun assassinating Chu Fei’s allies.
• Lyu Qinghua admitted she had obtained only three Spirit Fruits, and Chu Fei demanded two while proposing that the Dawn City Youth Group pay for the remaining losses.
• The surrounding groups agreed to target the Dawn City Youth Group, and Chu Fei urged them to eliminate the witnesses and blame the group for sabotaging the Dimensional Space.
• Long Yunfei realized his people were surrounded and screamed for them to run rather than leave the Dimensional Space.

Chu Fei prepared to remain in the Dimensional Space after Zhang Haoyuan and Zhang Haoyu arranged to trap him there, while Liang Shaohua warned him about the dangers and lack of knowledge. When the passage was sabotaged, Chu Fei realized Zhang Haoyu had engineered the survivors’ situation, and Zhang Haoyu began probing his plans.

• Chu Fei gave Liang Shaohua a Spirit Fruit and explained that Zhang Haoyuan and Zhang Haoyu planned to keep him trapped in the Dimensional Space.
• Liang Shaohua warned Chu Fei about the mutant beasts, Demonic Spirits, and shortage of knowledge, then copied his stored materials to Chu Fei’s wristband.
• As the safe passage opened, Zhang Haoyuan arranged for the injured, women, and lower-potential people to leave first, leaving stronger people behind.
• Chu Fei insisted Zhang Haoyu stay to cover the rear, and Zhang Haoyu recruited three volunteers to remain with him.
• Two half-dead people from the Lord’s Mansion faction jumped into the passage together, destroying it and trapping more than eighty people inside.
• Chu Fei suspected Zhang Haoyu had orchestrated the sabotage, and Zhang Haoyu asked where Chu Fei planned to go during the next two years, threatening that he knew Liang Shaohua’s hiding place.

Chu Fei forced Zhang Haoyu to reveal information about the Dimensional Space, collapsed the passage, and set out to eliminate the Dawn City Youth Group while making it appear Zhang Haoyu was responsible. After reuniting with Chu Lei, he brought the little one to the Spirit Mother Tree and returned to the research hut to begin studying magic.

• Chu Fei threatened to hold Zhang Haoyu responsible for missing people and made him explain the Dimensional Space’s layout and dangers.
• Chu Fei distributed information wristbands, ordered corpses thrown into the passage until it collapsed, and left as the others departed for Liang Shaohua’s hiding place.
• Chu Fei attacked the exhausted Dawn City Youth Group, disguised himself to resemble Zhang Haoyu, and let several survivors escape believing Zhang Haoyu had attacked them.
• Chu Fei gathered supplies, evaded dangerous strange beasts, and returned to the underground cavern to find Chu Lei.
• Chu Fei took Chu Lei to the Spirit Mother Tree, told the little one to wait there, and returned to the research hut to continue researching magic.

Chu Fei entered a hidden research laboratory and learned that he had to supply the missing data for its magic research project before he could receive the Magic Inheritance and leave. After discovering that incompatible equipment technologies had corrupted the data-screening process, he began studying every device from the ground up.

• Chu Fei chose the first option, followed a passage into a sealed laboratory, and passed a verification using the Virtual Helmet.
• Chu Fei experienced Gu Yun’s history of the research project and learned that he had to organize missing data and complete its final calibration.
• Chu Fei simulated the laboratory’s experiments for a day, then found a Life Energy Supply System containing five Energy Crystals.
• Chu Fei tried extracting data from his own blood, realized the results were unsuitable, and restarted with a Demonic Spirit specimen.
• Chu Fei repeatedly analyzed the machine’s screening logic and discovered that technologies from different equipment were incompatible.
• Chu Fei decided to study the technical materials for every piece of equipment from scratch.

Chu Fei studied the research base’s vast database, corrected the Demonic Spirit data, and finally completed the magic research after more than two hundred days. Gu Yun’s recorded message revealed that the inheritance was part of the Human Evolution Project and urged Chu Fei to keep it secret, become stronger, and pursue wisdom through Big Data Cultivation.

• Chu Fei extracted and combined data from seven Demonic Spirit samples, but his first attempt to verify the array failed.
• Chu Fei realized the database was the true inheritance and spent ninety-five days learning its contents with the help of Wisdom Dewdrops and life-support equipment.
• Chu Fei revised his Thought Model, rebuilt it, and raised its benchmark score from 82,115 to 91,314.
• Chu Fei reviewed the research records, found the marked problems, recalibrated the equipment, and filtered the Demonic Spirit data again.
• Chu Fei's magic research passed verification, and the system declared the Human Evolution Project's Psionic Research Center research successful.
• Gu Yun's recording explained that the inheritance was part of the Human Evolution Project, warned Chu Fei to keep it secret, and described Big Data Cultivation as humanity's path of wisdom.

Chu Fei completed the magic inheritance, learning that magic was a mathematical method of controlling Life Energy, and discovered that the research had taken place in Virtual Space. After collecting the Space Capsule reward and destroying the inheritance equipment, he saw the sealed room open just as the surrounding space was set to self-destruct.

• Chu Fei received the research findings and learned that spells and magical patterns could be analyzed as mathematical structures governing energy.
• Chu Fei studied the inheritance in accelerated Virtual Space, gaining knowledge of magic and Life Energy control through Bio-Gene Chips.
• Chu Fei left the Virtual Space, found the real equipment and Energy Crystals, and prepared to cultivate before a warning announced the inheritance space would self-destruct.
• Chu Fei claimed the Space Capsule, bound it to himself, and used the Metamorphosis Spell to implant it against his frontal skull bone.
• Chu Fei collected the remaining Energy Crystals and destroyed the virtual equipment before waiting for the chamber to melt under a miniature antimatter bomb.
• Chu Fei wondered whether the bomb might detonate prematurely if someone entered, and the previously sealed room suddenly opened behind him.

Chu Fei organized his knowledge and discovered that his Semi-Awakened limit came from an imbalance between his Thought Model and the body's Energy Control system. He built a new model that balanced the two and prepared to break through before leaving the Dimensional Space.

• Chu Fei reunited with Chu Lei and planned to absorb his inheritance, explore the Spring of Life, loot the Dimensional Space, and confront Zhang Haoyu and the others.
• Chu Fei reached the Demonic Spirit's basement and found the Spring of Life raw liquid, twelve hundred bottles of Spring of Life, and twelve Spirit Fruits.
• Chu Lei drank all the raw liquid and ate the Spirit Mother Tree's roots while Chu Fei spent seventy-two hours organizing his knowledge and cultivating.
• Chu Fei realized that his Thought Model lacked an Energy Control system equal to its computational cores, and that the imbalance had caused his Semi-Awakened limit.
• Chu Fei used his magic inheritance and research knowledge to construct an Energy Model that matched his Thought Model in a 4×2 structure.
• After his new Thought Model passed a simulation test, Chu Fei declared that he would break through the limit.

Chu Fei consumed a Spirit Fruit, rebuilt his Thought Model, and used Tai Chi Quan to channel its energy into a dramatic transformation that greatly increased his strength and computing power. After opening a Storage Space, he set out to find Liang Shaohua’s former hiding place, but a Fierce Tiger mutant beast confronted him at the foot of the mountain.

• Chu Fei swallowed a Spirit Fruit and rebuilt his Thought Model using a new “4×2” numeral system, reaching a benchmark score of 10,311 with one Advanced Computational Unit.
• Chu Fei practiced Chu’s Tai Chi Quan for ten hours, directing the Spirit Fruit’s energy through his body and strengthening himself.
• Chu Fei tested his transformed strength on a stone wall with his bare fist, Magic Artifact gauntlet, and Atomic Array combat saber, then recorded a new Thought Model benchmark score of 122,774.
• Chu Fei assessed his improved abilities and decided he would become a true Awakened after consolidating his gains, while noting that researching practical magic would have to wait.
• Chu Fei opened a 10-cubic-meter Storage Space, packed up with Chu Lei, and headed out to look for Liang Shaohua’s former hiding place.
• Chu Fei encountered the Fierce Tiger mutant beast at the foot of the mountain, where it pinned a struggling rabbit-shaped Demonic Spirit beneath one paw.

Chu Fei defeated a massive fierce tiger, took its Demon Core, and continued through the Dimensional Space in search of the Spring of Life. He reached the map’s destination and found a Spirit Tree nursery guarded by a family of fierce tigers.

• Chu Fei fought a fierce tiger barehanded, then used metal-coated fists and ultrasonic techniques to bring it down and recover its Demon Core.
• Chu Fei reviewed his battle, recognized that he still needed combat practice, and traveled onward through the mountains.
• Chu Fei contacted Guo Xuan, learned his group was sheltering at Great Snow Mountain, and said he would meet them in a month.
• Chu Fei followed Yuan Mingyuan’s map to a basin filled with densely planted Spirit Trees and unusually strong Life Energy.
• Chu Fei saw more than a dozen fierce tigers guarding the basin and announced that he would fight them.

Chu Fei explored the genetically modified Spirit Tree research base, collected its gene-compilation technology, and found fruits that could reduce the Aberration Index. After destroying the base’s data, he settled in to cultivate, sensing that this might be his last peaceful respite before leaving the Dimensional Space.

• Chu Fei entered the mist, discovered the abandoned research base, and learned that its dense Life Energy had drawn powerful aberrant beasts.
• Chu Fei used the surrounding beasts to uncover the underground facility and traded Supernatural Potions with the squirrels for genetically modified fruits.
• Chu Fei found that the fruits contained pure Life Energy and could help children and Semi-Awakened with high Aberration Indices.
• Chu Fei entered the facility with Gu Yun’s account and collected research on compiling Spirit Tree genes into walnut trees.
• Chu Fei destroyed the research data but spared the orchard, then began cultivating in the base with abundant Life Energy and more than a thousand Wisdom Dewdrops.

After twenty-two days of cultivation, Chu Fei strengthened his body and Thought Model before searching the research base for the Spring of Life. He found ways to store Life Energy instead, then prepared for the Dimensional Space to collapse and packed the promised Spirit Fruits as he waited to return.

• Chu Fei assessed his gains from twenty-two days of cultivation, while Chu Lei had grown strong enough to hunt ordinary Level Three mutant beasts.
• Chu Fei searched the research base for the Spring of Life but found only ruined equipment and storage experiments, including two methods that preserved Life Energy.
• Chu Fei copied the Crystalline Water storage technology and searched the rest of the base, finding nothing else valuable.
• Chu Fei waited for the Dimensional Space to collapse and received a warning that objects under 2,000 kilograms would be expelled near its entrance.
• Guo Xuan asked Chu Fei whether he had caused the collapse, and Chu Fei sarcastically claimed he had split the earth with his blade.
• Chu Fei packed a backpack with the two Spirit Fruits he had promised Cao Liwen and Liu Tingyun.

After escaping the collapsing Dimensional Space, Chu Fei reached the Underground World and learned that chaos and a Beast Tide threatened Flying Tiger City. He concealed his location while contacting his acquaintances, then waited as Liu Tingyun and Cao Liwen approached.

• Chu Fei and Chu Lei were swept out of the collapsing Dimensional Space and escaped through tunnels as exotic beasts flooded the Underground World.
• Chu Fei found a dying soldier named Zhang Biao and used Psionic Potion to save him before asking about events in Flying Tiger City.
• Chu Fei read messages from Cao Liwen, Liu Tingyun, Gao Haifeng, and Liang Shaohua, then replied without revealing where he was.
• Chu Fei questioned Zhang Biao about the fallout from the Dimensional Space and the approaching Beast Tide while secretly waiting for someone.
• Chu Fei sensed Liu Tingyun approaching, then detected Cao Liwen following her.

Chu Fei staged a meeting with Liu Tingyun, but she attacked him to seize the Spirit Fruit before Cao Liwen intervened and shot her. Chu Fei returned to Dawn Academy with Cao Liwen, carrying his secrets and remaining wary of Liu Tingyun.

• Chu Fei pretended to be injured so Zhang Biao would witness his meeting with Liu Tingyun, then explained how he had been stranded when the Dimensional Space collapsed.
• Chu Fei gave Liu Tingyun one Spirit Fruit and refused to let her inspect the other, which he had saved for Cao Liwen.
• Liu Tingyun revealed that a Magic Artifact had let her track Chu Fei and used a metal collar to attack him, but Cao Liwen arrived and shot her in the shoulder.
• Liu Tingyun left after telling Cao Liwen where to find her Magic Artifacts and the key to her belongings, and Cao Liwen returned the key to Chu Fei in exchange for the Spirit Fruit.
• Chu Fei reached Dawn Academy with Cao Liwen and Zhang Biao, then recounted his time in the Dimensional Space while withholding the Magic Inheritance.
• Chu Fei planned to shut down the Trojan Program after returning to the academy, but kept it active while Liu Tingyun's whereabouts remained unknown.

After returning to the Underground World, Chu Fei learned that the Dimensional Space’s collapse had flooded the tunnels with Life Energy and unleashed Demonic Spirits and mutant beasts. As the Dawn Special Forces abandoned their base and reached the elevator entrance, they found Dawn Academy experts blocking a crowd that feared their departure would doom everyone.

• Chu Fei learned that the unstable Dimensional Space was about to collapse and could scatter its remaining contents into Flying Tiger City, so he burned a Wisdom Dewdrop to cultivate.
• Chu Fei watched Demonic Spirits use newly empowered magic to drive back the Golden Dragon Battle Team and take hostages, then saw Tu Hu agree to Tang Jinlong’s rescue terms.
• The Demonic Spirits withdrew with the hostages, and Tu Hu ordered the Dawn Special Forces to abandon their base and protect the elevator entrance.
• Chu Fei and the others reached the elevators and found Dawn Academy experts confronting people who wanted to leave.
• More than fifty people surrounded Tu Hu, Chu Fei, and the Dawn Special Forces after someone urged the crowd to stop them from departing.

Chu Fei helped maintain order as people evacuated the collapsing Underground World, but Dawn City Youth Group attackers detonated Demon Cores and blasted a hole in the wall. The tunnel remained standing, yet groundwater began pouring through the cracks, leaving everyone facing a new danger.

• Tu Hu organized the evacuation by pairing Dawn Academy members with other people and Demonic Spirits, while Chu Fei chose to stay behind and help.
• The elevators carried thousands of people to safety, and Chu Fei remained beside Tu Hu as the situation gradually stabilized.
• Dawn City Youth Group attackers launched suicide bombings and opened fire with a machine gun, killing people and forcing the defenders into chaos.
• Chu Fei realized the attackers were using more than a hundred Demon Cores and warned everyone to stop them, but a concentrated blast erupted before they could intervene.
• The explosion cracked and partly collapsed the wall, and Chu Fei found Tu Hu and others injured by the shockwave as groundwater seeped into the tunnel.

After a collapse and a burst underground dam threw the Underground World into chaos, Chu Fei and the other teams fought the rampaging beasts and Demonic Spirits to keep the elevators from becoming an escape route for some at everyone else’s expense. As Chu Fei battled toward the fox-headed commander, mutated bugs appeared and the defenders faced another threat.

• Tu Hu reported the collapse to the surface and organized an evacuation, but Chu Fei realized an underground dam had burst after hearing the earth through his Perception of Wind.
• Beasts and Demonic Spirits attacked the panicking crowd, and Tu Hu and Li Longhua ordered their teams to hold the elevators until the attackers were eliminated.
• Chu Fei protected Tu Hu from three fireballs, then joined him in close combat against the charging beasts and Demonic Spirits.
• Tu Hu fell back after being wounded, while Chu Fei cut down several attackers and identified the fox-headed Demonic Spirit as their commander.
• Chu Fei looked for comrades to help him reach the commander, but cries rang out that huge numbers of mutated bugs had entered the fight.

As the crowd descended into deadly chaos around the elevators, Chu Fei led Li Longhua and Long Tengwu through the mutant beasts and Demonic Spirits to kill their fox-headed commander. With the commander dead, the Demonic Spirits lost control and the beasts scattered, while Chu Fei led the two fighters back toward the survivors.

• The Lyu Family started its overloaded elevator as people fought for places, and the elevator teams nearby came under attack amid the chaos.
• Chu Fei told Tu Hu to take Dawn Academy up the stairs and have its forces cover the retreat, while Tu Hu led more than a hundred people to defend the stairway.
• Chu Fei called for two experts to help kill the Demonic Spirits' commander, and Li Longhua and Long Tengwu joined him as he charged toward the enemy core.
• Chu Fei broke through the Demonic Spirits' defenses, adapted his attacks to their magic, and killed the fox-headed commander with a single strike.
• The Demonic Spirits lost control and the mutant beasts scattered, while Li Longhua and Long Tengwu covered Chu Fei as the three retreated from the core area.

Chu Fei led Tu Hu and the others up the stairwells after the elevators failed, and they escaped the collapsing Underground World to reach the hall above. There, after the Young City Lord stopped a blood-soaked elevator and ordered the shafts sealed, Chu Fei accused the Flying Tiger Team of causing the Dimensional Space collapse.

• Chu Fei brought Tu Hu, Li Longhua, and Long Tengwu to the stairwells, and the rival factions split up to climb through separate routes.
• Chu Fei and Tu Hu led their group through dust, insects, blockages, and exhaustion as more elevators collapsed below them.
• Chu Fei's group emerged into the hall, where Gao Haifeng and Zhang Han were watching the chaos and captured mutant beasts and Demonic Spirits were held in cages.
• Zhang Han ordered machine guns to fire on the bloodied survivors of an elevator, then halted all elevators and restricted entry to those using the stairwells.
• Zhang Han demanded that Chu Fei explain the Dimensional Space collapse, and Chu Fei played a recording that showed two wounded Flying Tiger Team members jumping into the passage together.
• Chu Fei accused the Flying Tiger Team of sending the two youths on a mission, and everyone turned to look at Zhang Han.

After exposing evidence that implicated the City Lord’s faction in the Dimensional Space disaster, Chu Fei returned to Dawn Academy and met its principal, Wu Yong. Impressed by Chu Fei’s account and extraordinary Thought Model score, Wu Yong offered to take him as his fourth disciple.

• The Young City Lord promised to investigate Zhao Yuanhao’s betrayal and give Chu Fei an explanation within three days after Chu Fei released footage and a recording implicating the City Lord’s side.
• Gao Haifeng led Chu Fei and the others back through a city devastated by debris and creatures from the collapsed Dimensional Space, where Chu Fei invited an equipment supplier to help upgrade his gear.
• Gao Haifeng brought Chu Fei to meet Wu Yong, who asked him to recount what had happened in the Dimensional Space.
• Chu Fei explained his Metamorphosis ability and claimed his Thought Model score was 91,314 points, astonishing Wu Yong and the two senior brothers.
• Wu Yong asked whether Chu Fei was preparing to become Awakened, then offered to take him as his fourth disciple.