Chapter Summaries

After Black Iron City fell and the Three-Headed Python vanished, Chu Fei helped prepare Flying Tiger City for battle while investigating the meaning of Mind Power and Big Data Cultivation. He developed a theory that cultivation raised the Cosmic Brain’s dimensional level and entered a new state of cultivation, as the Beast Tide crisis continued.

• Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming left to confront the Three-Headed Python, while Chu Fei stayed behind as the celebration continued.
• Wu Yong reported that the Three-Headed Python had swallowed Song Tieyun and disappeared, Black Iron City had fallen, and fewer than a hundred thousand people remained; Chu Fei and the others ordered Flying Tiger City to prepare for battle.
• Chu Fei uploaded edited recordings about the response to Black Iron City’s crisis, and the bonfire celebration descended into chaos before he handed out Dawn Academy’s rewards.
• In his laboratory, Chu Fei theorized that wisdom and Mind Power had Hyper-Dimensional attributes and that Big Data Cultivation elevated the Cosmic Brain’s dimensional level.
• Chu Fei compared Hilbert Space calculations with Calabi-Yau Manifold values and concluded that Euclidean Space limited ordinary Awakened, while Hilbert Space enabled Fully Awakened to transcend three dimensions.
• Chu Fei combined combat data with his new cultivation approach and sensed an unseen strengthening as he entered deep cultivation.

Chu Fei emerged from an intense mental-training breakthrough to learn that Hong Qingxin had taken control of a Level Six Three-Headed Python and overrun Black Iron City. As Flying Tiger City prepared for his revenge, Hong Qingxin’s offer of lenient surrender split public opinion, and a proposal to relocate to Dawn City offered a possible way out.

• Chu Fei expanded his consciousness through virtual-space mental training and realized that dimensional ascension unified his knowledge.
• Chu Fei read Zhao Hongyue’s message and learned that Hong Qingxin had parasitized the Three-Headed Python, reached Level Six, and seized control of Black Iron City’s beasts and people.
• Chu Fei replenished his energy and reflected on the risks of using Mind Power before leaving the research laboratory.
• Chu Fei learned that Hong Qingxin had promised to spare most people who surrendered, while Flying Tiger City prepared for war amid growing resentment toward the Lord’s Mansion.
• Wu Yong argued online against trusting Hong Qingxin, but a popular post urged residents to flee to Dawn City, an option Chu Fei found tempting.

As Flying Tiger City’s people began planning to flee, Chu Fei saw how badly the city had been weakened and joined Dawn Academy’s leaders to discuss Hong Qingxin’s warning that a Living Corpse Tide was approaching. The group decided Chu Fei would fly north to investigate after resting and gathering supplies.

• Chu Fei visited Dragon's Den Bar, where Li Longhua said too many people wanted to leave and Flying Tiger City’s food supplies had reached the warning line.
• Chu Fei considered the city’s failing prospects, then learned Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming’s attack on Hong Qingxin’s Three-Headed Python had failed because it wore combat armor.
• Wu Yong summoned Chu Fei and Dawn Academy’s leaders, who watched Hong Qingxin’s message warning that living corpses had appeared eighty kilometers north of Black Iron City and could move south soon.
• Second Senior Brother proposed that Chu Fei fly north to verify the threat, and Chu Fei agreed to leave after an hour of rest and preparation.
• Cao Liwen suggested sending small drones with Chu Fei, but the group discovered only three remained after Second Senior Brother had borrowed forty; Wu Yong gave Chu Fei an Energy Crystal and told him to prepare.

Chu Fei replenished his supplies, tested and improved his flight ability, and flew north to survey the mountain range. There, he encountered an Awakened riding the albatross with a mechanical claw, who recognized him and said the King had sent patrols to catch intruders.

• Chu Fei returned to his dormitory, greeted Zhang Xuan and other old acquaintances, and learned that Sun Xiangqing and other older students had gone to battle, where some had died.
• Chu Fei listed the weapons, ammunition, medicine, food, and drones he needed, checked his Storage Space and Zhang Zhaoyang’s brain, then replenished supplies at the warehouse.
• Chu Fei flew into the mountains and tested his flight, recording improved speed, energy efficiency, and altitude after incorporating Negative Pressure Flight.
• Chu Fei flew north while surveying the terrain and gradually made Negative Pressure Flight an instinct, raising his long-distance speed to 210 kilometers per hour.
• Chu Fei spotted the albatross with a mechanical claw and approached its human rider, who recognized him and said the King had sent patrols to catch intruders.

Chu Fei followed an Albatross and its rider north, studying the mutated bird’s flight while they searched for living corpses. He returned to Dawn Academy with evidence that the Living Corpse Tide had arrived and reported that Hong Qingxin had sent an unarmed guide, leaving Wu Yong considering negotiations.

• Chu Fei accepted the rider’s offer to guide him north and wagered a Dragon Blood Potion against the Albatross’s Demon Core in a flight-speed contest.
• Chu Fei observed and recorded the Albatross’s aerial techniques, deliberately provoking it so he could learn from its responses.
• The Albatross led Chu Fei to five locations where they found thirty-two living corpses, including older ones that moved quickly and were unaffected by sunlight.
• Chu Fei gave the Albatross another Dragon Blood Potion before returning to the rendezvous and flying back to Dawn Academy.
• Chu Fei showed Wu Yong videos of the living corpses and reported that Hong Qingxin’s guide had come unarmed, prompting Wu Yong to consider meeting with him.

As Flying Tiger City residents fled after the Young City Lord publicized the Living Corpse Tide, Chu Fei let Dawn Team members leave while he tested his potential and improved his equipment. He then coached Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue through advanced Cosmic Brain designs, and received Wu Yong’s message that cooperation with Black Iron City had been finalized in principle.

• Chu Fei realized the Young City Lord had publicized the Living Corpse Tide to divert attention and possibly rid himself of the karmic ties of faith, then allowed Dawn Team members to leave under strict rules.
• After sixteen hours of seclusion, Chu Fei learned that nearly half of Dawn Team had departed and its combat strength had fallen by around thirty percent.
• Zhao Hongyue told Chu Fei she was ready to break through to become an Awakened, and he asked her to simulate the process in Virtual Space while he tested his Potential Index.
• Chu Fei tested at a Potential Index of 8.893395, decided to focus on strengthening his Cosmic Brain, and redesigned his battle saber and Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle.
• Chu Fei guided Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue through constructing advanced Cosmic Brains in Virtual Space over several days.
• Wu Yong told Chu Fei that cooperation with Black Iron City had been finalized, with the details still pending.

Chu Fei negotiated cooperation between Flying Tiger City and Black Iron City while preparing Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue to become Awakened ahead of the Living Corpse Tide. After the agreement was made public and the countdown reached twelve days, Chu Fei began incorporating his latest flight simulations into an updated Cosmic Brain.

• Chu Fei reviewed the proposed cooperation terms and insisted that Flying Tiger City could work with Black Iron City without recognizing its legitimacy or accepting its enslavement of humans.
• Chu Fei proposed that Black Iron City help open and transport goods along a trade route before receiving material supplies, with wheat and Supernatural Potions serving as pricing standards.
• Chu Fei spread warnings about the approaching Living Corpse Tide and urged Flying Tiger City's people to prepare to fight alongside Black Iron City.
• Chu Fei guided Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue through three successful Cosmic Brain simulations, then told them they could begin preparing to become Fully Awakened.
• Chu Fei iterated his own Cosmic Brain, strengthening its flight model and related abilities, while Flying Tiger City and Black Iron City finalized their cooperation agreement.
• Chu Fei saw that the Living Corpse Tide countdown stood at twelve days, locked himself away, and began updating his Cosmic Brain with the simulated results.

After completing his first Cosmic Brain iteration, Chu Fei learned about developments between Flying Tiger City, Black Iron City, and Dawn City, then was appointed envoy to Dawn City. He secured authority to challenge its young cultivators, but proposed making the matches life-and-death contests.

• Chu Fei finished reconstructing his Cosmic Brain, reviewed two days of reports, and rewarded the young man guarding his door with cultivation guidance.
• Chu Fei tested his new Cosmic Brain and found that its computing power had reached 243,964 operations per second, nearly ten times the level of most Awakened below 9.0.
• Wu Yong told Chu Fei that he had been chosen as Flying Tiger City's envoy to Dawn City, with Zhou Haiyi serving as deputy.
• Chu Fei agreed to go only if he had complete authority, and Wu Yong accepted that he could challenge Dawn City's youths as long as he avoided causing deaths.
• Chu Fei said he planned to make the challengers sign Life-and-Death Contracts, leaving Wu Yong speechless.

Chu Fei traveled to Dawn City for cooperation talks, but an assassin disguised as a Flying Tiger City refugee tried to kill him at the gate. Chu Fei responded by announcing a life-and-death youth challenge tournament, and the chapter ended as the first challenger stepped forward.

• Wu Yong agreed to send Chu Fei to Dawn City, and Chu Fei departed with Zhang Liyu, Zhou Haiyi, and Chen Kang after a meal with city representatives.
• On the road, Chen Kang tried to provoke Chu Fei into a motorcycle race, but Chu Fei ignored him and the group continued to Dawn City.
• At Dawn City's gate, a man claiming to be a Flying Tiger City refugee begged Chu Fei for help, then revealed an implanted Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle and tried to shoot him.
• Chu Fei killed the would-be assassin and announced a youth challenge tournament, signing a Life-and-Death Contract and offering a five-thousand-calorie Energy Crystal to anyone who could defeat him.
• Chen Kang added a Dragon Blood Potion as a reward for lasting one minute against Chu Fei, and the first challenger wagered a Psionic Potion and chose firearms.

Chu Fei fought Dawn City challengers under Life-and-Death Contracts, killing a rocket-wielding gunman, an augmented fighter, and both Flower Snake Brothers. After Chen Kang accused him of provoking Dawn City, Chu Fei declared that he had seen no sincerity in their cooperation.

• A ranged challenger fired a rocket at Chu Fei, but Chu Fei killed him with his Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle.
• An augmented fighter attacked Chu Fei with a bomb concealed in his shield, but Chu Fei dodged the blast and shot him at close range.
• When Dawn City’s crowd hesitated, Chu Fei offered two Energy Crystals and invited pairs to challenge him; Chen Kang arranged a drawing of lots.
• The younger Flower Snake Brother attacked Chu Fei with hidden ceramic blades while his brother provided sniper support, but Chu Fei broke the younger man’s arms and killed him.
• The surviving Flower Snake Brother fired a rocket and submachine gun at Chu Fei, then surrendered when he ran out of ammunition; Chu Fei shot him anyway, citing the Life-and-Death Contract.
• Chen Kang accused Chu Fei of provoking Dawn City, and Chu Fei replied that he had felt no sincerity from the city.

At Dawn City’s welcoming ceremony, Chu Fei’s assassination attempt exposed a tangled conflict involving Chen Kang, Zhou Pengyue, and the missing Long Haitao. When Chen Kang revealed a strange device, it disrupted everyone’s energy systems and triggered sniper fire, leaving Zhou Pengyue wounded.

• Chen Kang offered to investigate the assassination and postpone Chu Fei’s challenge, but Zhou Pengyue arrived claiming the assassin was Long Haitao and presented a bound man as a gift.
• Chen Kang identified the supposed assassin as bounty hunter Xue Tao, and Zhou Pengyue exposed a transformed head that resembled Long Yunfei before a captive begged Chen Kang to save him.
• Chen Kang retrieved a long, grenade-like device from his motorcycle, and Chu Fei sensed its danger and quietly moved behind Zhang Liyu.
• The device exploded and sent shockwaves that disrupted nearby energy systems, but Chu Fei forced his powers and Cosmic Brain back into operation.
• Sniper shots rang out as Chu Fei dodged, and blood burst from the right side of Zhou Pengyue’s head, destroying his ear.

Chu Fei and Zhou Haiyi fought to escape after Dawn City’s Lord’s Mansion ambushed the diplomatic mission, using artillery and snipers to attack them. Chu Fei joined forces with the Iron Blood Mercenary Group, eliminated a sniper team, and seized an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle, but a tank aimed its cannon at him.

• Chu Fei dodged sniper fire, dragged Zhou Haiyi to safety, and killed Chen Kang and Zhang Liyu with a Nitrogen-5 grenade and follow-up shots.
• Zhou Haiyi identified the attack that had disrupted them as a Life Energy Pulse Bomb, and Chu Fei decided they had to break through with the Iron Blood Mercenary Group.
• Chu Fei evaded snipers and artillery, then used Morse code gestures to direct an Iron Blood Mercenary Group member to destroy a sniper position with a rocket.
• Chu Fei flew through the gap left by the destroyed sniper team, killed two snipers in their cover, and took their Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle.
• Chu Fei used the rifle to shoot two Dawn City Lord's Mansion elites, but a tank turned its cannon toward him.

Chu Fei tore through Dawn City’s forces before retreating from the battle when City Lord Chen Xing appeared. As the Lord’s Mansion and the Iron Blood Mercenary Group fought openly, Long Haitao’s prerecorded message began broadcasting across the city, promising to reveal the cause of his death.

• Chu Fei killed enemies across the battlefield, including two of three Fully Awakened who tried to intercept him, while reinforcements and autocannon fire shifted the battle in the Iron Blood Mercenary Group’s favor.
• Chu Fei met the injured Zhou Pengyue, sniped several enemies, then hid behind him when Zhou announced that an expert had arrived.
• City Lord Chen Xing called out to Chu Fei, who sensed danger and fled, then signaled Zhou Haiyi to leave as well.
• Half an hour after Long Haitao’s assassination, his prerecorded message activated at dozens of sites across Dawn City and identified him as Bounty Hunter Xue Tao.

Chu Fei learned that Long Haitao had helped Chen Xing orchestrate a plot against Flying Tiger City and Zhou Pengyue, then allied with mutated beasts to unleash a Beast Tide. As Chu Fei fled toward Flying Tiger City to warn them, he discovered that city was also engulfed in battle.

• Chu Fei seized Long Haitao's projection device, and Long Haitao revealed that Chen Xing had recruited him to avenge Long Yunfei and destabilize Flying Tiger City.
• Long Haitao described the plans to lure Zhou Pengyue into a trap, assassinate Chu Fei, and use a marriage alliance to absorb Flying Tiger City, then confessed he had arranged a strategy with mutated beasts.
• Chu Fei realized a Beast Tide was approaching Dawn City, escaped the battlefield, and warned Zhou Haiyi as he flew toward Flying Tiger City.
• Chu Fei could not contact Flying Tiger City because of signal interference, and he sped toward it after hearing distant artillery and explosions.
• Chu Fei reached within thirty kilometers of Flying Tiger City and realized that both cities were fighting internally as the Beast Tide threat loomed.

Chu Fei returned to Flying Tiger City amid a civil war between the Lord's Mansion and Dawn Academy, where the two sides' soldiers largely avoided hitting one another. Seeing dead students and the wounded at Dawn Academy enraged him, and he learned that Guo Xuan's energy channels had been damaged before discovering that Wu Feng feared the severely injured Principal might take a long time to recover.

• Chu Fei flew into Flying Tiger City, killed those who attacked him, and found Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue's defenders firing into empty ground.
• Huang Gang told Chu Fei that the city lord had attacked the Principal during a meeting about the upcoming Living Corpse Tide, triggering the city's fighting and communication blackout.
• Chu Fei crossed Dawn Academy's ruined grounds, became enraged by the dead students, and descended into the underground shelter.
• Chu Fei learned that Zhang Haoyuan had destroyed the energy channels at Guo Xuan's acupoints, then offered to share his Energy Bypass System materials.
• Chu Fei found Wu Feng underground and learned that the Principal was severely injured and might need a long time to recover.

After Wu Yong and City Lord Zhang Qiming were both gravely injured in a brief clash, Chu Fei learned that he was now the strongest fighter left in Flying Tiger City. Armed with new equipment and intelligence, he prepared to attack the Lord's Mansion, his resolve hardening as he remembered the dead at Dawn Academy.

• Wu Feng explained how Zhang Qiming's ambush at the Feast at Hong Gate turned into a battle, with Wu Yong and the City Lord both badly wounded and their forces beginning to clash.
• Chu Fei suspected that Dawn City had supplied the City Lord's directed energy weapon and told Wu Feng about the Life Energy Pulse Bomb he had encountered there.
• Wu Feng relayed Wu Yong's message that Chu Fei was the strongest fighter remaining and nodded when Chu Fei asked whether he was meant to wipe out the City Lord's family.
• Chu Fei equipped himself with Atomic Array-edged battle sabers, Nitrogen-5 grenades, a Nitrogen-3 firearm, and other gear, then reviewed intelligence on the Lord's Mansion.
• After Wu Feng warned that leaving survivors could invite revenge, Chu Fei recalled the young corpses at Dawn Academy and hardened his resolve.

Chu Fei attacked the Lord's Mansion, broke into its underground stronghold, and seized supplies before blowing it up. He escaped the blast, recovered with potions, killed Li Longhua, and broke through the experts' attempted encirclement.

• Chu Fei flew from Dawn Academy to the bombarded Lord's Mansion and destroyed exposed strongholds while making his way to its command center.
• He evaded autocannon fire, broke into the command center, killed its defenders, and forced survivors to reveal information about the underground base.
• Chu Fei looted the base, planted explosives, and escaped just before the stronghold detonated, injuring him with the blast.
• He used Spring of Life and a Dragon Blood Potion to recover, then killed Li Longhua with a single sword strike.
• Chu Fei dodged the remaining experts and broke through their encirclement.

Chu Fei fought through the Flying Tiger City Awakened, killing several before clashing with Young City Lord Zhang Han. Their first exchange wounded both men, and Chu Fei charged back into the battle as the fight continued.

• Chu Fei used Nitrogen-5 grenades and rapid attacks to break the encirclement, killing four Awakened and shooting down another who fled.
• Zhang Han arrived with a heavy machine gun, then transformed and charged Chu Fei into a blade duel.
• Chu Fei and Zhang Han exchanged multiple blows at high speed, and Chu Fei fired Nitrogen-3 bullets at Zhang Han after they passed each other.
• Chu Fei took a deep neck wound from Zhang Han, but his Nanofluid Metal armor limited the damage and the Metamorphosis Spell began healing him.
• Chu Fei analyzed their clash, then rushed from cover and attacked another Awakened amid the ongoing barrage.

Chu Fei overwhelmed the Young City Lord and scattered the Lord's Mansion's Awakened, but a premonition made him suspect the Young City Lord still had a plan. He ordered Tu Hu and the others to spread out and prioritize their own safety.

• Chu Fei raced through the Lord's Mansion, cut down guards, and forced the injured Young City Lord to flee.
• The Young City Lord's retreat broke the remaining Awakened's morale, and they scattered after Chu Fei promised not to pursue those who discarded their weapons and equipment.
• Tu Hu and the Dawn Academy Awakened intercepted three fleeing enemies and killed them, while six others escaped the Lord's Mansion.
• Chu Fei felt uneasy about the Young City Lord's disappearance and reasoned that Zhang Han was not someone who gave up easily.
• Chu Fei told Tu Hu's group to spread out, support one another, and prioritize protecting themselves, warning that the Lord's Mansion's rule had not lasted over a century on loyalty alone.

Chu Fei used artillery and Perception of Wind to break through the Lord's Mansion's defenses and press into Flying Tiger City's underground base. He found a vast chamber filled with towering Spider-Men, all bearing the Young City Lord's face.

• Chu Fei retreated from the Lord's Mansion, then used an artillery barrage to draw out and pursue the Young City Lord and three Diamond Men.
• Chu Fei disabled one Diamond Man by severing cables beneath its chin, and Tu Hu and the other Awakened shot down the remaining two.
• Chu Fei destroyed the Diamond Men, bombarded the underground entrance, and entered the tunnels with two artillery shells.
• Chu Fei blasted his way through the underground passages while Tu Hu and the others withdrew to support the surface battle.
• Chu Fei reached a huge underground chamber and sent in a drone, which revealed towering Spider-Men with the Young City Lord's face.