Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei accepted Wu Yong’s offer to become Dawn Academy’s fourth disciple and discussed securing funds and resources for his research lab. After his new status was announced at the cafeteria, he returned to the dormitory and learned that Teacher Cao Liwen wanted to see him.

• Chu Fei accepted Wu Yong’s invitation, brewed him tea using his Perception of Wind skill, and became Wu Yong’s fourth disciple, Dawn Academy’s Fourth Senior Brother.
• Wu Yong granted Chu Fei access to the Virtual Center and agreed to buy his Spirit Fruits, crystal cores, and Spring of Life for eighty million; Chu Fei also received a cultivation technique and discussed whether to practice it before his breakthrough.
• Chu Fei gave his senior brothers bottles of Spring of Life, discussed the cultivation technique and research lab plans with them, and received an offer of thirty million plus academy procurement support for the lab.
• Second Senior Brother announced Chu Fei’s new status at the cafeteria, surprising his former classmates and prompting students to greet him as Fourth Senior Brother.
• After dinner, Chu Fei returned to the dormitory, where Sun Xiangqing told him that Teacher Cao Liwen was waiting for him in his office.

Chu Fei confronted Cao Liwen about the flawed lessons Cao had given him, but accepted his apology and learned that Cao planned to teach him firearm combat techniques and reveal a wilderness trial site. After returning to the dormitory, Chu Fei accepted gifts from four teammates and repaid them with Psionic Potions before settling down to cultivate.

• Chu Fei told Cao Liwen that he had discovered and corrected the errors in Cao's lessons, then accepted Cao's tea and heard his apology.
• Cao Liwen gave Chu Fei a Storage Card containing corrected knowledge and a map to a trial site, and offered to teach him firearm combat techniques after attempting a breakthrough.
• Cao Liwen explained that the trial site lay in the wilderness outside Flying Tiger City, had multiple stages, and required ample food and water.
• Chu Fei returned to his dormitory, where Sun Xiangqing, Zhou Jing, Jiang Xuesong, and Geng Wenhao gave him gifts of Supernatural Potions.
• Chu Fei replaced their gifts with Psionic Potions, offered them cultivation guidance, and then began cultivating after they left.

Chu Fei gathered resources, prepared an upgraded laboratory, and gave Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue Spirit Fruits to strengthen them ahead of the approaching Beast Tide. After a day of cultivation, the two emerged transformed, leaving Chu Fei confident that their combat power had greatly improved.

• Chu Fei searched Liu Tingyun's office, found nearly four kilograms of twelfth-generation Magic Artifacts and their Storage Card, and began studying psychology among her books.
• Chu Fei met Huang Gang, who explained that a Level Five Beast King could lead a Beast Tide and that Flying Tiger City's losses and isolation made the coming battle dangerous.
• Chu Fei returned to the Dawn Team and arranged for Zhao Hongyue to oversee a customized laboratory costing at least ten million yuan.
• Chu Fei gave Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue a ten-year Spirit Fruit each, then guarded the office while they cultivated in seclusion.
• After roughly a day, Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue emerged with their bodies and combat potential greatly improved.

Chu Fei confronted Young City Lord Zhang Han at the exhibition hall over the Dimensional Space disaster, using video evidence to challenge Flying Tiger City’s explanations. Zhang Han addressed some accusations but ended by demanding to know why Chu Fei had destroyed the Dimensional Space.

• Gao Haifeng assured Chu Fei that the videos of Zhao Yuanhao’s threat and the Flying Tiger Team members disrupting the evacuation cleared Chu Fei of responsibility, and Chu Fei showed him footage of Zhang Haoyuan agreeing to pay fifty million yuan.
• Chu Fei and Gao Haifeng arrived at the crowded exhibition hall, where Zhang Han appeared with Zhang Haoyu and Zhang Haoyuan to give a public explanation.
• Zhang Han claimed two injured men had agreed to jump into the passage together and accepted responsibility on Flying Tiger City’s behalf, then accused Chu Fei of throwing corpses into the passage.
• Chu Fei explained that blocking the passage had prevented deadly conflict among the groups, and Zhang Han set aside the accusation after Chu Fei offered video evidence.
• Zhang Han denied that the Lord’s Mansion had contacted Zhao Yuanhao and said Zhao Yuanhao’s family had died in custody; Chu Fei then played the footage of Zhang Haoyuan’s attempted attack and secured Zhang Han’s promise to transfer the fifty million yuan.
• Zhang Han demanded that Chu Fei explain why he had destroyed the Dimensional Space.

Chu Fei prepared for the coming Beast Tide while resolving his ties to Shihe Village and gathering resources for his own breakthrough. Cao Liwen emerged from seclusion as a Perfect Awakened and announced he would begin teaching Chu Fei thermal-weapon combat techniques.

• Zhang Han redirected the meeting toward evacuating villages ahead of the Beast Tide, while Chu Fei left determined to become stronger and awaken.
• Chu Fei asked Zhao Hongyue to release Chu Lei outside the city, and she later told him she had let it go near Shihe Village.
• Chu Fei arranged for Shihe Village to receive priority consideration for three to five cleaning jobs on the Dawn Team, then agreed with Zhao Hongyue to consider their past dealings settled.
• Chu Fei received the fifty million yuan compensation, acquired a new laboratory, a costly whip, and supplies, and absorbed Liu Tingyun’s Nanoparticles into his body.
• Cao Liwen emerged from seclusion as a Perfect Awakened and told Chu Fei that he would start teaching him thermal-weapon combat techniques the next morning.

Chu Fei gained confidence in his path toward becoming an Awakened and learned firearm combat from Cao Liwen. When red alerts signaled that a Beast Tide threatened Flying Tiger City, Wu Yong ordered Chu Fei to stay out of the battle and focus on breaking through.

• While guiding Sun Xiangqing and the others in Tai Chi Quan, Chu Fei watched the sunrise and realized he was ready to pursue becoming an Awakened.
• Cao Liwen taught Chu Fei and the Dawn Team about choosing, handling, and maintaining firearms, and Chu Fei hit a target eight hundred meters away with a modified sniper rifle.
• After dinner, Chu Fei saw red alert beams rise from the outposts, and Zhao Hongyue identified the crisis as a Beast Tide while Huang Gang and she hurried to organize the team.
• Chu Fei contacted Second Senior Brother and met Wu Yong, Gao Haifeng, Liang Shaohua, and Huang Quansheng at the small courtyard.
• Wu Yong ordered Chu Fei not to join the coming battle and to focus entirely on breaking through to become an Awakened.

While Flying Tiger City fought the Beast Tide, Chu Fei analyzed Wu Yong’s perfect cultivation method and learned from Second Senior Brother how to use a simplified version. After realizing the city’s defenses were deteriorating, Chu Fei spent his reserves to reconstruct his Thought Model and begin a breakthrough.

• Chu Fei studied four cultivation methods in Virtual Space and discovered Wu Yong’s method used a 4×2 base system and interlocking Fourier formula sets.
• Chu Fei called Second Senior Brother, who explained how he had simplified the method by removing half its framework and selecting two formula sets.
• Chu Fei verified the complete method and devoted himself to analyzing it while Flying Tiger City fought the Beast Tide.
• After completing his analysis, Chu Fei learned that the battle had shifted to defending the city walls and suspected the situation was worsening.
• Chu Fei returned to the laboratory, gathered Spirit Fruits, Spring of Life, and Psionic Potions, then used a Spirit Fruit and Wisdom Dewdrop to reconstruct his Thought Model.

Chu Fei paused just short of becoming Awakened after learning that Zhao Hongyue had returned gravely wounded and Huang Gang was missing, apparently caught in a trap aimed at him. He entered a guarded basement to complete his breakthrough, and the newly formed Cosmic Brain took direct control of his body.

• After reconstructing his Thought Model in under eight hours, Chu Fei stopped before embedding the Fourier Transform formulas and went out to reconsider his breakthrough.
• Chu Fei learned that Zhao Hongyue was being treated at Dawn Academy, found her gravely wounded, and gave her the Spring of Life.
• Chu Fei deduced that enemies had deliberately sent Zhao Hongyue back to lure him into a trap while Huang Gang remained in their hands, so he refused to rush out and rescue him.
• Zhao Hongyue revealed that Huang Gang had supported Chu Fei because he reminded him of his younger self, and Chu Fei then contacted Wu Yong and entered a guarded basement to cultivate.
• Chu Fei consumed a Spirit Fruit and Wisdom Dewdrop and embedded the Fourier Transform formulas into his Thought Model, transforming it into a Cosmic Brain.
• After completing the transformation, Chu Fei moved at extraordinary speed as the Cosmic Brain bypassed his brain and directly controlled his body.

Chu Fei discovered that his Thought Model had become a Cosmic Brain and decided to hunt down the enemies threatening those around him. After Wu Yong approved the plan, Chu Fei and Zhao Hongyue armed themselves and rode out of Flying Tiger City into the dangerous night.

• Chu Fei tested his Cosmic Brain, realized its benchmark score could not be compared directly with his old Thought Model, and assessed the many upgrades and training he still needed.
• Chu Fei spoke with Liang Shaohua, kept his breakthrough secret, and learned that Zhao Hongyue had left the infirmary and that the Dawn Team was debating how to rescue Huang Gang.
• Second Senior Brother reported that Lyu Yanchang had left the Lord's Mansion and the Lyu Family, vowed revenge on Chu Fei, and threatened everyone around him.
• Chu Fei told Second Senior Brother that he and Zhao Hongyue would strike out alone, and Wu Yong approved the mission and urged Chu Fei to take the initiative and show no mercy.
• Zhao Hongyue and Chu Fei collected weapons and supplies, mounted a heavily equipped motorcycle, and left Flying Tiger City as battles and explosions sounded outside its walls.

Chu Fei and Zhao Hongyue traveled separately through the wilderness to avoid detection, but Chu Fei discovered an enemy ambush waiting for them. After coordinating a rocket strike with Zhao Hongyue, he charged the camp and wiped out the attackers with the autocannon.

• Chu Fei left Zhao Hongyue’s motorcycle and crossed the wilderness on foot while they stayed in contact and kept within range of his Perception of Wind.
• Chu Fei detected an artillery transport vehicle and twelve armed enemies preparing to ambush him and Zhao Hongyue near the main road.
• Chu Fei asked Zhao Hongyue to fire an electromagnetic-pulse rocket at designated coordinates while he prepared to attack.
• Zhao Hongyue launched the rocket, and Chu Fei used the explosion and ensuing confusion to sprint toward the enemy camp.
• Chu Fei killed the two snipers and a rocket launcher operator before seizing the 25mm autocannon and killing the remaining attackers.

After boosting his energy and letting the Cosmic Brain reshape his rescue plan, Chu Fei decided to isolate and attack the forces surrounding Huang Gang rather than rush into their trap. He ambushed a Lyu Family supply convoy outside Flying Tiger City under a false identity, and both the city and Lyu Yanchang’s camp began discussing the man carrying an autocannon.

• Chu Fei collected weapons and supplies from the battlefield, drank twenty-two Psionic Potions, and raised the active energy in his body to roughly 2,500 calories.
• The Cosmic Brain advised Chu Fei to kill enemies outside the encirclement instead of charging in to rescue Huang Gang, and Chu Fei told Zhao Hongyue to circle the outskirts and help tie down enemy forces.
• Chu Fei cut off communications and retreated to disrupt the supply lines between Lyu Yanchang’s forces and Flying Tiger City.
• Using the Perception of Wind, Chu Fei detected Lyu Family members transporting supplies through the city gate and prepared an ambush with a 25mm autocannon.
• Chu Fei, disguised as Long Yunfei, killed the twenty-five people in the convoy, looted its supplies, and destroyed the scene.
• The Lyu Family headquarters and Lyu Yanchang’s forces began discussing the man carrying an autocannon.

Chu Fei survived Lyu Yanchang’s artillery ambush, captured a Flying Tiger Team squad leader, and used the man’s secrets to provoke the force surrounding Huang Gang. He left the enemy camp shaken and called on its soldiers to abandon Lyu Yanchang.

• Chu Fei sent Cao Liwen a message to pass news to Zhao Hongyue, then continued toward Huang Gang’s encirclement.
• Chu Fei detected steel and realized Lyu Yanchang had formed an outer ring of artillery defenses, but he survived a barrage by taking cover and using his abilities and equipment.
• Chu Fei faked being badly wounded, killed two soldiers who approached, disabled the other four, and interrogated them for information about the Flying Tiger Team and Huang Gang.
• Chu Fei killed three captives, crippled the squad leader, and rode toward the camp while broadcasting a warning that the Flying Tiger Team was surrounded.
• Chu Fei played recordings of the squad leader’s revelations about corruption, provoking Lyu Yanchang to bombard a decoy while Chu Fei announced that the soldiers could surrender and turn toward the light.

Chu Fei used psychological warfare, heavy weapons, and traps to devastate Lyu Yanchang’s forces while coordinating with Zhao Hongyue. After Lyu Yanchang split his troops and led a small pursuit, Chu Fei kept fleeing and attacking, leaving the chase still underway.

• Chu Fei exploited an explosion from Zhao Hongyue’s attack to undermine the Flying Tiger Team’s morale, accusing Lyu Yanchang’s forces of corruption and telling them Zhang Ye had vanished after discovering an Angel Cat.
• Chu Fei identified Zhao Hongyue by her motorcycle and heartbeat, passed her a hidden package of twelve rockets, and continued provoking Lyu Yanchang as his troops’ ammunition ran low.
• Chu Fei used a sniper rifle and an autocannon to inflict heavy damage on Lyu Yanchang’s camp, then Zhao Hongyue’s rockets struck the position as Chu Fei resumed firing from another location.
• Lyu Yanchang canceled the mission, ordered most of his troops to retreat, and led nine fast riders after Chu Fei while a drone tracked him.
• Chu Fei contacted Zhao Hongyue, shot down the drone, killed one pursuer with a sniper rifle, and used his autocannon to tear apart five more riders.
• Lyu Yanchang and the remaining pursuers continued after Chu Fei despite a tripwire explosion, while Chu Fei kept fleeing and preparing to turn the pursuit to his advantage.

Chu Fei learned that Living Corpses had returned and were driving a new Beast Tide, then discovered that Lyu Yanchang had summoned a powerful pursuer. The pursuer revealed himself as Super Mechanical Warrior Zhang Zhaoyang, and Chu Fei decided to flee and wear him down.

• Chu Fei changed course toward the Super Soldier inheritance while Lyu Yanchang and two soldiers tracked him from a distance and waited for their expert.
• Zhao Hongyue contacted Chu Fei, showed him that Huang Gang was alive with Chu Lei, and Chu Fei learned that Living Corpses had caused the Beast Tide and could infect mutant beasts.
• Huang Gang explained that he had made a verbal agreement with the mutated felines to avoid human settlements unless attacked.
• Chu Fei noticed Lyu Yanchang apparently relaying his location to an approaching expert, warned Huang Gang, and cut off communications.
• A huge steel-tracked motorcycle raced toward Chu Fei, and its rider identified himself as Zhang Zhaoyang, the Super Mechanical Warrior Chu Fei had nearly killed.
• Chu Fei chose to escape and wear Zhang Zhaoyang down using the advantages of his Storage Space.

Chu Fei outmaneuvered Zhang Zhaoyang in a motorcycle chase and discovered that Zhang was a brain trapped inside a mechanical body, still resisting the Lord's Mansion’s control. After Zhang begged him for help, Chu Fei dismantled the machine and preserved his brain, then set his sights on the Super Soldier Legacy.

• Chu Fei used Perception of Wind and the rugged terrain to evade Zhang Zhaoyang’s attacks during their long motorcycle pursuit.
• When his battery ran low, Chu Fei replaced it while shooting down Zhang’s rockets, and the chase continued until both were far beyond Flying Tiger City’s signal range.
• Chu Fei realized Zhang was driving him away from the city, and Zhang wrote that he did not want to be a dog.
• Zhang explained that the Lord's Mansion had removed his brain and tortured him in a Virtual Space for ten years, and he asked Chu Fei to destroy his brain or try to preserve it.
• Chu Fei chose to preserve Zhang’s brain, dismantled his mechanical body, and placed the brain in Storage Space with life-support supplies.
• Chu Fei stored Zhang’s combat memories and knowledge, then looked toward the Super Soldier Legacy.

Chu Fei reached the buried Super Soldier Legacy base and learned that its inheritance aimed to create warriors who mastered science and technology as well as combat. He activated the sealed trial, leaving himself safe from outside interference but facing an intensive course of study.

• Huang Gang returned to Flying Tiger City with Chu Lei and secured Wu Yong's agreement that the city and the mutated felines would not attack each other.
• Chu Fei continued through the wilderness, using his sniper rifle to kill mutated beasts before defeating a Level Three pangolin with his whip and saber.
• Chu Fei ran to the valley, located the buried base, and dug through the collapsed soil to reach its entrance.
• Chu Fei entered the base, sealed the entrance with explosives, and activated its console to read the Super Soldier Legacy notice.
• Chu Fei learned that the inheritance sought to cultivate knowledge and technology-intensive warriors, then agreed to begin the trial and wondered whether to format his Thought Model.

After sealing himself inside the Super Soldier Legacy, Chu Fei formatted his Cosmic Brain and rebuilt his Thought Model, then spent half a month reviewing cultivation knowledge and devising a plan to become a stronger Awakened. He began the Legacy’s simulated combat test, failed immediately after being poisoned, and prepared to study Zhang Zhaoyang’s stored experience.

• Lyu Yanchang gave up waiting for Chu Fei and Zhang Zhaoyang and returned with his subordinates.
• Chu Fei decided to rebuild his Thought Model before his body entered its Intense Update Period, using the knowledge and methods offered by his Legacies.
• Chu Fei formatted his Cosmic Brain, returned to the peak of Semi-Awakened, and gained a new understanding of cultivation and humanity’s unseen limits.
• Chu Fei spent half a month studying his past knowledge and the College Entrance Exam Simulation, then asked the Virtual Pod’s AI to derive a cultivation method from Wu Yong’s Dawn method.
• Chu Fei started the Legacy’s simulated combat test but received a score of zero after five seconds because he was poisoned.
• Chu Fei suspended the test and took out the two Storage Cards Zhang Zhaoyang had given him, intending to learn from Zhang Zhaoyang’s virtual-world experience.

Chu Fei began a new trial in a poisoned war zone and used his Perception of Wind to study and fight the invading life-structured weapons. After defeating a metal-and-flesh lizard, he faced increasingly powerful creatures and realized he had been poisoned.

• Chu Fei completed his review of Zhang Zhaoyang's experience and earlier inheritances, accumulating more than five thousand Wisdom Dewdrops before starting the trial again.
• Chu Fei read a mission briefing about a Dimensional Space invasion and learned that he had to carry data and samples from the isolated front line to a rear research institute.
• Chu Fei detected and defeated a fast, half-metal lizard by studying its movements and exploiting the vibrations that separated its flesh from its metal structure.
• Chu Fei encountered more life-structured weapons, including a titanium-armored centaur armed with an autocannon and a rocket launcher.
• Chu Fei dodged the centaur's gunfire until he suddenly felt dizzy and realized he had been poisoned.

Chu Fei fought through the Virtual Space by studying the Life Weapons and eventually discovered that their brains were human minds trapped in virtual worlds. He devised a way to disrupt their virtual modules with microwave radiation, then left the test with renewed confidence in scientific research.

• Chu Fei expelled poison, escaped the Titanium-Alloy Centaur’s attacks, and lured it into a muddy riverbank before disabling and dissecting it.
• Chu Fei used the centaur’s weapons to establish a temporary defense and fought advancing Life Weapons, but a giant Mechanical Spider ended his run at 22 points.
• Chu Fei restarted the test, defeated a stronger centaur, and discovered electrodes and a virtual module connected to its human-like brain.
• Chu Fei realized the Life Weapons used living brains anesthetized by virtual worlds and identified those modules as a potential weakness.
• Chu Fei assembled a Microwave Radiation device and found a frequency that made titanium alloy emit interference waves, crashing the virtual module.

After earning a perfect score in the first trial, Chu Fei reflected on his shortcomings and learned that a Super Soldier needed both humility and practical technical skill. He completed the City of Sin trial as its king and declared his desire to fight as a hero, while remaining mindful of his methods.

• Chu Fei earned 100 points, concluded that the Super Soldier Legacy required unceasing self-improvement, and learned that the seniors had defeated the enemy with simple microwave heating technology.
• Chu Fei recognized his arrogance and weak grasp of foundational knowledge, then defined a Super Soldier as someone who first transformed their spirit and then developed technical ability.
• Chu Fei entered the City of Sin trial, where the system tempered his resolve with battles and stories of people who protected their civilization.
• Chu Fei fought through the city's gangs using varied weapons, tactics, and strategies until the Virtual Space announced perfect completion.
• Chu Fei stood above the ruined city as its king, declared that he wanted to be a hero, and resolved to pay attention to his methods.