Chapter Summaries

After researching Big Data Overwrite and refining several Cosmic Brain models, Chu Fei learned that Flying Tiger City was preparing a large nighttime raid called Operation Sunglasses. As the factions prepared to compete in the attack, Gao Haifeng and the Young City Lord wagered a Mind Power research notebook against a Limb Regeneration Spell and twenty-five Energy Crystals, and Gao Haifeng declared the decisive battle underway.

• Chu Fei finished examining four exotic beasts, reviewed his control experiments, and recognized that future Cosmic Brain iterations would require many small patches.
• Chu Fei questioned whether a thousand-rider raid could succeed, but Gao Haifeng defended the plan and invited him to join; Chu Fei chose to ride with Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue.
• Gao Haifeng and the Young City Lord each selected five hundred Motorcycle Riders, and the Young City Lord challenged Gao Haifeng to compete during Operation Sunglasses.
• Gao Haifeng proposed Master Wu Yong's unpublished Mind Power research notebook as the prize, while the Young City Lord offered a Limb Regeneration Spell and bargained up to twenty-five Energy Crystals.
• Gao Haifeng accepted the wager and announced that the decisive battle had begun.

Chu Fei led a high-speed charge that broke through the mutant beasts’ ambush and helped the Dawn Academy faction escape, while the Young City Lord rejected his rescue. He then roamed the defensive line with Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue, sniping powerful beasts until the Vajra Giant Ape appeared.

• Chu Fei, Huang Gang, and Zhao Hongyue rode toward the mutant beasts’ camp as artillery and flashbangs triggered swarms of insects and mutated vines that threw the Motorcycle Riders into disarray.
• Chu Fei used Dragonfly Wings to repel the insects, cut through the vines, and lead a charge that opened a path for Second Senior Brother and the Dawn Academy faction to break through.
• Chu Fei turned back to help the Young City Lord, but the Young City Lord shouted that he had not asked for help, so Chu Fei returned to the Dawn Academy faction with more than seventy riders, including many from the City Lord faction.
• The Young City Lord’s group was trapped by renewed insect swarms and mutated vines, while Second Senior Brother continued the offensive without helping them.
• Chu Fei, Huang Gang, and Zhao Hongyue left the main force and hunted powerful mutant beasts along the defensive line; Chu Fei killed a diving hawk with a thrown blade.
• As Chu Fei continued sniping mutant beasts at high speed, the Vajra Giant Ape appeared.

Chu Fei turned the retreat into an opportunity to hunt, then rescued Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming from the Vajra Giant Ape and eight Mutated Golden Eagles. After Chu Fei shot down two golden eagles, the rest fled, leaving the wounded Vajra Giant Ape exposed to the two city leaders.

• Chu Fei led Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue away from the Vajra Giant Ape, while Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming struck it with high-energy weapons and pursued it into an ambush.
• Chu Fei returned to the chaotic defensive line and hunted powerful exotic beasts with Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue until Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming issued an urgent retreat order.
• Chu Fei sent Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue back to Flying Tiger City with Second Senior Brother's team, then rode alone toward the battle.
• Chu Fei located Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming under attack by the Vajra Giant Ape and eight Mutated Golden Eagles, and used his Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle to kill two of the eagles.
• The remaining golden eagles fled, and Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming prepared to confront the wounded Vajra Giant Ape as Zhang Qiming called Chu Fei an extraordinary young man.

Chu Fei returned to Flying Tiger City with four Level Five Mutated Golden Eagles and helped Second Senior Brother resolve his standoff with the Young City Lord. As Chu Fei considered the corrupting effects of Mind Power, an urgent distress call arrived from Black Iron City, which was under attack by two Level Six mutated beasts, including the Vajra Giant Ape.

• Chu Fei brought back four Mutated Golden Eagle corpses as Flying Tiger City began recovering from the Beast Tide, though the city still faced heavy losses and serious threats.
• Chu Fei found Second Senior Brother and the Young City Lord confronting each other over Motorcycle Riders who had switched sides, and he gave the Young City Lord all four Golden Eagle corpses.
• The Young City Lord agreed to let the riders and their families leave freely and promised Second Senior Brother twenty-five Energy Crystals and the limb-regeneration spell before noon.
• Chu Fei reflected that Mind Power and the Power of Faith could corrupt people through their desires, and he considered studying the Young City Lord's decline.
• Black Iron City sent an urgent distress signal after two Level Six mutated beasts, including the Vajra Giant Ape, attacked it.

After Flying Tiger City debated whether to aid Black Iron City, Chu Fei and Zhang Liyu were chosen to investigate the crisis. Chu Fei adapted the Young City Lord’s limb-regeneration spell into his Metamorphosis Spell and successfully tested it before Huang Gang arrived.

• Flying Tiger City’s Awakened argued over the risks and benefits of answering Black Iron City’s distress call.
• The Young City Lord nominated Chu Fei as a representative, and Chu Fei secured Zhang Liyu’s selection as a second representative; they were scheduled to depart at 13:00.
• The Young City Lord made his Limb Regeneration Spell public, and Wu Yong revised and annotated it before Chu Fei received it.
• Chu Fei incorporated parts of the spell into his Metamorphosis Spell, simulated the changes, and regenerated his severed left little finger without mutation risk.
• Chu Fei continued verifying the modified spell until Huang Gang knocked on the laboratory door.

Chu Fei and Zhang Liyu rode toward Black Iron City, with Chu Fei scouting the wilderness and taking the lead through dangerous terrain and mutated beasts. After breaking through a beast encirclement at high speed, they reached the outskirts of the battered city and spotted a large convoy heading west.

• Chu Fei and Zhang Liyu left the base on motorcycles, and Chu Fei set a steady pace while scouting ahead with Perception of Wind.
• Chu Fei jumped his motorcycle across a muddy riverbank, while Zhang Liyu's leap landed in mud and forced her to follow his route afterward.
• Chu Fei and Zhang Liyu followed a beast trail through the mountains, where Chu Fei slashed a charging black bear and Zhang Liyu severed its left arm.
• Chu Fei warned that large mutated beasts had noticed them and led Zhang Liyu at higher speed toward the forest's edge.
• The pair charged through a beast encirclement, evading tigers and leopards while falcons dived at them from above.
• Chu Fei and Zhang Liyu reached the outskirts of Black Iron City and saw a vast convoy struggling westward.

Chu Fei and Zhang Liyu reached Black Iron City and learned that two level-six mutated beasts had shattered its defenses, leaving the survivors divided over whether to flee or hold out. After they entered the improvised defensive line, Deputy City Lord Guo Mingyu revealed that Black Iron City's City Lord was near death from his injuries.

• Chu Fei questioned Li Guangyu, captain of Black Iron City's Victory Squad, who described the attacks by the Vajra Giant Ape and Three-Headed Python and said the city had been breached.
• Chu Fei sensed a Beast Tide ahead, warned Li Guangyu to scout with drones, and then rode toward Black Iron City with Zhang Liyu.
• Chu Fei and Zhang Liyu surveyed Black Iron City's devastated defenses, and Zhang Liyu explained how Chu Fei had helped Flying Tiger City survive its own siege.
• Zhang Liyu identified herself as a descendant of Flying Tiger City's City Lord, and Deputy City Lord Guo Mingyu welcomed her and Chu Fei into Black Iron City's defensive line.
• Zhang Liyu introduced Chu Fei as a fifteen-year-old Fully Awakened who had killed many powerful mutated beasts, prompting Guo Mingyu to reveal that Black Iron City's City Lord was barely alive after being injured by the Vajra Giant Ape.

Chu Fei learned that Black Iron City’s City Lord, Song Tieyun, was near death and that two Level Six Beast Kings could attack again within two and a half days. Song Lihua asked Chu Fei to retrieve a body-restoration program from the top of a Trial Pyramid, and he agreed after negotiating for Black Iron City’s technology.

• Chu Fei visited Song Tieyun and learned that the City Lord had lost his lower body while fighting the Three-Headed Python and the Vajra Giant Ape.
• Guo Mingyu explained that living dead had driven the Beast Kings south, while other High Walls faced evacuations and destruction.
• Song Lihua revealed that the Trial Pyramid’s summit held a disc containing a Cosmic Brain program that could restore Song Tieyun’s damaged body.
• Song Lihua asked Chu Fei to enter Black Iron City’s Dimensional Space, and he agreed in exchange for the disc and copies of the city’s technology.
• Chu Fei kept the original Storage Cards, gave copies to Zhang Liyu, and asked Song Lihua to prepare supplies before leading him to the Dimensional Space.

Chu Fei entered Black Iron City's Trial Pyramid to obtain the disc that could save Song Tieyun, then used his knowledge to overcome its escalating trials. After reaching the seventh level and discovering a model for a new flight method, he prepared to use the Wisdom Dewdrop to learn it faster.

• Song Lihua brought Chu Fei to Black Iron City's Dimensional Space, and Zhang Liyu left to deliver technology to Flying Tiger City.
• Chu Fei entered the Trial Pyramid and flew past the first six levels by analyzing their increasingly difficult wind trials.
• Chu Fei struggled with the realistic turbulence on the seventh level, then used segmented calculations to reach it and set a record.
• After the trial's hint directed him toward creating tools, Chu Fei devised a spinning flight method and bored into the eighth level, but failed to advance further.
• Chu Fei studied the seventh level's sculptures, discovered a flight model based on creating negative pressure, and used the Wisdom Dewdrop to accelerate his learning.

Chu Fei completed the eighth-level trial by developing Negative Pressure Flight, then received a lesson on the importance of precision and the pursuit of solutions. After gaining a new insight into how Awakened should be defined, he collected the reward and left the Dimensional Space, where he found Song Lihua anxiously waiting.

• Chu Fei developed and mastered Negative Pressure Flight, then used it to rise through the eighth level’s increasingly difficult conditions.
• At the final checkpoint, Chu Fei could not solve the bonus problem and gave up, earning a five-star evaluation with deductions for imprecise methods and overlooked details.
• Chu Fei reflected on the trial in the ninth-level pavilion, and the trial identified seeking a solution as the purpose behind study, research, and combat.
• Chu Fei realized that the nature of Awakened people needed a clear definition, then accepted a Storage Card containing the inheritance.
• Chu Fei collected the disc, left the Dimensional Space, and found Song Lihua pacing anxiously outside.

Chu Fei brought the Resurrection Disc to Black Iron City and helped Song Lihua arrange for its joint use with Flying Tiger City to restore Song Tieyun. While Song Tieyun began recovering, Chu Fei studied his inheritance and gained a new understanding of Big Data Cultivation before Song Lihua warned that the Vajra Giant Ape would arrive in seventy minutes.

• Chu Fei returned from the Dimensional Space with the Resurrection Disc and told Song Lihua that Flying Tiger City and Black Iron City had to share control of it.
• Song Lihua, Guo Mingyu, and Song Tieyun recorded statements confirming the agreement, and Chu Fei provided the photographed instructions for the disc.
• Doctors activated the Resurrection Disc and began restoring Song Tieyun, while Song Lihua and Chu Fei exchanged accusations about their earlier dealings.
• Chu Fei examined his Storage Card, discovered that his Dimensional Space key had unlimited uses, and read an inheritance about redefining Big Data Cultivation and using technology to recover bodily data.
• Song Lihua told Chu Fei that the Vajra Giant Ape had accelerated the Beast Tide and was expected to arrive in seventy minutes.

Chu Fei studied the inheritance and created the Rigid Transformation spell, which sharply improved his reaction time and close-combat ability. As the Vajra Giant Ape approached Black Iron City, he armed himself and rode beyond the defensive line to join the fight.

• Chu Fei gained more than a thousand Wisdom Dewdrops by studying the inheritance and used its new concepts to construct the Rigid Transformation spell.
• Chu Fei tested the spell and discovered it could control his body with a 0.0275-second reaction time and greatly improve his movement and combat potential.
• After sensing explosions and the approaching Vajra Giant Ape, Chu Fei received a message and decided to head to the front line.
• Song Lihua supplied Chu Fei with 20-millimeter ammunition, food, and access to the local communications system while reporting that Song Tieyun still needed two hours to recover.
• Chu Fei replenished his supplies, then rode past Guo Mingyu and the defensive line toward the wilderness.

Chu Fei fought through the Beast Tide and deliberately drew the Vajra Giant Ape away from Black Iron City to create an opening for Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming. After failing to catch him, the Vajra Giant Ape turned back toward the city, and Chu Fei prepared to pursue it.

• Chu Fei called in artillery support, then charged into the Beast Tide and killed mutated beasts with his autocannon and blade while Black Iron City's command watched his fighting.
• Chu Fei refined his sword-drawing technique by combining Rigid Transformation with Inch Force, then spotted the Vajra Giant Ape and drew its attention.
• The Vajra Giant Ape recognized Chu Fei and chased him, while Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming waited nearby for an ambush opportunity.
• Chu Fei used difficult terrain to slow the Vajra Giant Ape's pursuit and shared motorcycle-fighting guidance that helped Black Iron City's riders improve.
• The Vajra Giant Ape gave up chasing Chu Fei and charged toward Black Iron City, so Chu Fei stopped and aimed his Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle at it.

Chu Fei lured the Vajra Giant Ape away from Black Iron City and harried it with his weapons, but it survived the attacks and turned its assault on the city. As the city’s defenses began to collapse and Guo Mingyu was injured, Chu Fei prepared to intervene while the City Lord still needed over an hour to recover.

• Chu Fei provoked the Vajra Giant Ape into chasing him, allowing Black Iron City to target it with missiles while he attacked it with his Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle.
• Chu Fei evaded the pursuing beasts and kept the Vajra Giant Ape focused on him, but missiles and a Thermobaric Bomb failed to inflict lethal damage.
• Wu Yong told Chu Fei that the Vajra Giant Ape’s Protective Aura required prolonged attrition or a superweapon to break, and advised him to let Black Iron City fight first.
• The Vajra Giant Ape abandoned its pursuit of Chu Fei and charged Black Iron City as the Beast Tide overran the city’s defenses.
• The Vajra Giant Ape smashed through the temporary defensive wall and knocked Guo Mingyu aside, leaving Chu Fei to ready his rifle as the City Lord remained far from recovery.

Chu Fei killed Hong Qingxin and crippled the level-six Vajra Giant Ape after discovering how to break through its Protective Aura. The Vajra Giant Ape lay helpless on the battlefield as Zhang Qiming suggested implanting a chip and Wu Yong left the decision to Chu Fei.

• The Vajra Giant Ape attacked Chu Fei with a cannon, but Chu Fei dodged and recognized the beast's Protective Aura.
• Hong Qingxin rode a Boar King into battle and fired a rocket at Chu Fei, who split it with his blade and alerted Black Iron City to use a Thermobaric Bomb.
• Chu Fei shot Hong Qingxin in the head, but Hong Qingxin's body continued struggling, so Chu Fei fled from the berserk Vajra Giant Ape.
• Chu Fei cut the Vajra Giant Ape's right ankle, then launched rockets and used Dragonfly Wings and his Ultrasonic Blade to sever its wrist, wound its side, and cut its spinal cord.
• The Vajra Giant Ape collapsed, and Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming arrived; Zhang Qiming proposed implanting a chip in it, while Wu Yong said Chu Fei could decide.

After Chu Fei and Wu Yong subdued the Vajra Giant Ape and Mutant Boar King, they secured Black Iron City’s cooperation and set off for Flying Tiger City with the beasts alive. Song Tieyun revealed that Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming had waited for his recovery because they distrusted each other, while Chu Fei planned to kill the beasts publicly to gain Mind Power.

• Chu Fei rejected controlling the Vajra Giant Ape and agreed with Zhang Qiming and Wu Yong to take it back to Flying Tiger City as food; Wu Yong sedated it and destroyed its spinal cord.
• Wu Yong captured and sedated the Mutant Boar King, and Chu Fei introduced Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming to Guo Mingyu before arranging to load both beasts onto a truck.
• Guo Mingyu asked Chu Fei to have the experts clear more mutant beasts, but Chu Fei countered by asking him to merge Black Iron City into Flying Tiger City, which Guo Mingyu refused.
• Song Tieyun recovered and negotiated with Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming, agreeing that Flying Tiger City would control the Resurrection Disc while Black Iron City retained one-third ownership and all three parties set passwords.
• Song Tieyun thanked Chu Fei and the others as they departed with the live beasts; afterward, Song Tieyun told Guo Mingyu that the experts had waited because they distrusted each other, and Guo Mingyu resolved to exploit their future conflict.
• Chu Fei drove the truck toward Flying Tiger City, where crowds gathered after the Vajra Giant Ape’s aura stirred the city.

After defeating the Vajra Giant Ape, Chu Fei divided its remains among Flying Tiger City’s residents and gained a vast amount of pure Mind Power from their gratitude. At the feast, the crowd turned its demands toward the Young City Lord, and Chu Fei sensed the resulting Mind Power was causing a faith backlash.

• Chu Fei butchered the Vajra Giant Ape, reserved its brain and Energy Crystal for himself, and helped distribute its meat and blood according to the groups’ contributions.
• As residents thanked Chu Fei for defending Flying Tiger City, he absorbed Mind Power equivalent to two thousand Purple Clouds and considered testing its effects in cultivation.
• Chu Fei declined the City Lord’s invitation to socialize with Zhang Liyu and returned to Wu Yong, choosing to focus on his cultivation.
• People at the feast began demanding that the Young City Lord match Chu Fei’s generosity by sharing level-five exotic beasts.
• Chu Fei sensed Mind Power gathering around the Young City Lord, and Wu Yong identified the phenomenon as “Faith Backlash!”

Chu Fei watched the Young City Lord suffer backlash from the Power of Faith as the Old City Lord redirected the crowd’s anger toward Liu Tingyun. Liu Tingyun exposed the Lord’s Mansion’s secrets, escaped the Young City Lord’s pursuit with insecticide, and flew away amid the chaos.

• Chu Fei realized that disappointed followers could turn their faith into hostile Mind Power, while the Young City Lord stayed silent as complaints spread through the banquet.
• Lord Zhang Qiming stirred the crowd into demanding that Liu Tingyun dance, and the Old City Lord urged her to perform.
• As the crowd escalated its demands, Liu Tingyun rose into the air and revealed that the Young City Lord was a eunuch, accused the Lord’s family and Flying Tiger Team of corruption, and fled.
• The Young City Lord chased Liu Tingyun, but Wu Yong warned the Old City Lord that pursuing her might confirm her accusations.
• Liu Tingyun scattered insecticide that weakened the Young City Lord when he activated his Second Form, then attacked him and escaped as Flying Tiger Team experts intervened.

After the Young City Lord’s collapse, Chu Fei organized a team combat challenge at Flying Tiger City’s banquet and used the gratitude he received to advance his cultivation. As the tournament reached its most intense stage, Wu Yong announced that Black Iron City had sent a distress signal because the Three-Headed Python was about to attack.

• Chu Fei explained that the Young City Lord’s downfall stemmed from his obsessive pursuit of the Power of Faith, then absorbed the pure Mind Power generated by the banquet.
• Chu Fei announced a team combat challenge for the Vajra Giant Ape’s treasure, and Wu Yong and the Old City Lord added an Energy Crystal and a cybernetic augmentation discount as prizes.
• Chu Fei quietly advised Huang Gang to withdraw if his squad reached the championship match, and Huang Gang agreed.
• The challenge began with 347 squads, while Chu Fei cultivated and studied the battles; his squad’s experienced fighters advanced through the matches.
• Chu Fei gained new insight into his path toward breaking through 9.0, and the tournament narrowed to ten squads for a round-robin stage.
• After Li Shaorong was knocked out in the opening round-robin match, Wu Yong and the Old City Lord rose, and Wu Yong announced that the Three-Headed Python was about to attack Black Iron City.

Chu Fei watched the Lord's Mansion and Dawn Academy edge toward open conflict while the Young City Lord debated whether to confront the Three-Headed Python. The Young City Lord eventually departed with an armed escort, but Black Iron City fell before he could arrive.

• Chu Fei's suggestion that the Young City Lord try fighting the Three-Headed Python prompted Zhang Haoyu to encourage him, while Zhang Qiming warned that the attempt could cost him his life.
• Wu Yong challenged Zhang Qiming's remarks about Chu Fei's rise, and Second Senior Brother urged the Young City Lord to hurry to Black Iron City because Hong Qingxin and the surviving mutated beasts threatened the city.
• Zhang Qiming delayed sending help, and Chu Fei decided to use the remaining weeks before the Beast Tide ended to cultivate toward a breakthrough to 9.0.
• Huang Gang withdrew from the Reincarnation Challenge with Tu Hu, and the Flying Tiger Team elites followed, allowing lower-ranked teams to advance and earning Chu Fei further praise.
• The Young City Lord left with more than ten armed Flying Tiger Team elites to face the Three-Headed Python.
• Deputy City Lord Guo Mingyu informed Wu Yong that Song Tieyun had been eaten by the Three-Headed Python and Black Iron City had fallen.