Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei uncovered the Young City Lord’s spider form and ordered Flying Tiger City’s forces to seal the underground caverns, but the Young City Lord and six augmented doubles attacked. After struggling against the Young City Lord’s speed, Chu Fei lured him toward the underground entrance and challenged him to follow.

• Chu Fei saw multiple Young City Lords, including one in a spider form, then retreated from the underground base as rockets struck nearby.
• Chu Fei ordered Tu Hu to gather the forces and seal every cavern entrance while machinery and weapons were brought to the site.
• Seven Spider-Men emerged, and Chu Fei identified the real Young City Lord among them before the two fought at close range.
• The six augmented doubles drove Tu Hu and the others back while the real Young City Lord’s speed kept Chu Fei from landing an attack.
• Chu Fei told Tu Hu’s group to retreat, then threw a grenade and dove into the underground entrance to lure the Young City Lord after him.

The Young City Lord pursued Chu Fei into the Underground World, where Chu Fei used traps, flashbangs, and close-quarters attacks to disable the Spider Persons and fight back. After revealing that the Lord's Mansion targeted Chu Fei because it feared his talent, the Young City Lord transformed into a beastlike form and pounced on him.

• The Young City Lord left one Spider Person to guard the entrance and led five others into the tunnel after Chu Fei, while the remaining Spider Person chased Tu Hu and his companions.
• A tripwire mine detonated beside the Young City Lord, damaging two Spider Persons, and Chu Fei used the blast's confusion to destroy three more.
• Chu Fei blinded the Young City Lord and the last Spider Person with flashbangs, then killed the remaining machine-enhanced fighters with his whip and Ultrasonic Blade.
• The Young City Lord fired a shotgun at Chu Fei, but Chu Fei's Protective Aura, nano Magic Artifact, and armor deflected the pellets as he demanded to know why the Lord's Mansion wanted him dead.
• The Young City Lord admitted the Lord's Mansion feared Chu Fei's talent, then transformed into a beastlike form and pounced on him.

Chu Fei used Perception of Wind and mental training to identify the Beastified Young City Lord’s attack patterns, then overwhelmed him with his whip. The Young City Lord fled into the underground base, but Chu Fei blasted his way after him and reached a newly closed steel door.

• Chu Fei closed his eyes and used Perception of Wind to track the faster Young City Lord, then shifted to conserving computing power while defending and gathering data.
• Chu Fei identified the Young City Lord’s limited movement and attack patterns and lured him onto loose rubble near the hall.
• Chu Fei struck the Young City Lord with his whip, battered his exoskeleton, and shattered his right shoulder before the Young City Lord escaped into the hall.
• Chu Fei stopped outside the unbombed hall, took shells from his Storage Space, and blasted his way inside.
• The Young City Lord chose to retreat and seal the passages to buy time for the Old City Lord, but Chu Fei pursued him and reached a steel door that had just closed.

Chu Fei blasted his way through the underground base and discovered that the Old City Lord was draining children beneath a domed structure. The Young City Lord arrived exhausted, and the Old City Lord turned four limbs on children and ten on his own son.

• Chu Fei used shells to destroy the passage’s defenses, then cut and blasted through the thick metal door with an Atomic Array saber and bombs.
• Chu Fei found a buried vessel-like structure and survived its autocannon defenses by retreating, firing rockets, and repairing his damaged wing with his Magic Artifact.
• Chu Fei entered a domed underground chamber and saw the Old City Lord draining thirty-two children while more children were bound nearby and corpses littered the floor.
• The Young City Lord entered the chamber, and the Old City Lord abandoned fourteen children, redirecting four limbs into screaming children and ten into his son.

Chu Fei discovered that the Old City Lord had been feeding on children to heal his fatal injuries, and he fought back by breaching the protective barrier and bombarding him with artillery shells. The Old City Lord survived and pursued Chu Fei to Dawn Academy, where Chu Fei sought help from Gao Haifeng and Wu Feng.

• The Old City Lord attacked the Young City Lord and drained him and the other children through his jointed limbs, while Chu Fei set explosives around the protective barrier.
• Chu Fei overloaded the barrier’s Energy Shield with artillery shells, then broke through and stuffed more shells inside to injure the Old City Lord.
• The Old City Lord escaped the explosions and chased Chu Fei out of the flooded Underground World, while Chu Fei warned Tu Hu and the others to flee.
• Chu Fei fired at the Old City Lord but missed, then flew toward Dawn Academy with the Old City Lord close behind.
• Chu Fei reached the mountaintop and messaged Second Senior Brother Gao Haifeng and Wu Feng to help intercept the Old City Lord.

Chu Fei and the Dawn Academy forces faced the Old City Lord, but Wu Feng suddenly betrayed them and attacked Chu Fei. Wu Feng revealed that Wu Yong had planted a Dragon Threadworm in his body, while Wu Yong remained calm and demanded an explanation.

• Chu Fei urged Wu Feng and Gao Haifeng to attack the approaching Old City Lord, but Wu Feng struck Chu Fei with the Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle and broke his arm.
• Chu Fei retreated, recognized Wu Feng as a traitor, and realized that Wu Feng had stayed inactive throughout the Beast Tide battles.
• Wu Feng joined the Old City Lord as Gao Haifeng fled, and Wu Yong emerged from the basement uninjured to confront Wu Feng.
• Wu Feng accused Wu Yong of planting a mutated Dragon Threadworm in his body and showed a video of its painful removal, which had taken forty-two hours.
• Wu Yong said Wu Feng had begged him for help, leaving the onlookers questioning Wu Feng's account.

Chu Fei learned that Wu Yong had used a parasite to drain Wu Feng’s mental power, while Wu Yong claimed the treatment had also stabilized Wu Feng’s cultivation. After revealing that Wu Feng was really Tian Feng and had sought revenge for his slaughtered adventure group, Wu Yong triggered Tian Feng’s mutation and challenged City Lord Zhang.

• Chu Fei sensed the darkness in Wu Yong’s mental world and heard Wu Feng explain that Wu Yong had fed on his fear and hatred for decades.
• Wu Yong argued that lowering Wu Feng’s Cultivation Level had stabilized his body through Frequency Reduction Compatibility, though he admitted to having selfish motives.
• Wu Yong deduced that Wu Feng was really Tian Feng, who had staged the cannibalism incident and sought revenge for Wu Yong killing his adventure group.
• Wu Yong revealed that he had killed the group while defending himself from their attempt to rob him, then used a strange incantation to awaken Tian Feng’s mutation.
• Tian Feng’s body transformed grotesquely as Wu Yong restored his old mutation, then challenged Old City Lord, whom he called City Lord Zhang.
• Chu Fei sensed the twisted face from Wu Yong’s mental world merge with Wu Yong’s body as the sun set and Tian Feng screamed.

Tian Feng died after revealing that Wu Yong had imprisoned thousands of Dawn Academy students to extract their fear and hatred, and Wu Yong defended his actions while accusing Old City Lord Zhang Qiming of abducting children as well. Their tense confrontation erupted into a saber duel, and both transformed into monstrous forms as the battle continued.

• Tian Feng revealed that Dawn Academy had imprisoned thousands of youths in its basement, then died as his body collapsed from mutation.
• Wu Yong defended using the students as resources and said he had recovered by drawing on thousands of living food sources.
• Wu Yong and Old City Lord Zhang Qiming accused each other of abducting and consuming children while the others retreated from their psychological standoff.
• Tian Feng's corpse exploded, letting Zhang Qiming launch a surprise attack that Wu Yong blocked before the two fought at high speed.
• Their sabers broke after a clash, leaving both wounded but rapidly healing.
• Zhang Qiming grew four pairs of jointed limbs as Wu Yong transformed into a horned, three-meter-tall demon.

Wu Yong and Old City Lord Zhang Qiming fought a desperate battle, each revealing powerful abilities and Magic Artifacts. After both were gravely wounded, Wu Yong looked to Chu Fei, who aimed his Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle at the retreating Old City Lord to prevent him from escaping and killing him.

• Wu Yong and Zhang Qiming drew weapons from Folding Space and faced off as Chu Fei watched for combat data.
• Wu Yong used a whirlwind to disrupt Zhang Qiming’s flight, then struck first and forced him into close combat.
• Zhang Qiming and Wu Yong traded devastating attacks, using jointed limbs, ripples of light, and Magic Artifacts to wound and restrain each other.
• After eleven seconds, both men separated with severe wounds, and Zhang Qiming prepared to flee down the mountain.
• Wu Yong looked at Chu Fei, who raised his Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle and aimed at Zhang Qiming, fearing the Old City Lord would kill him if he escaped.

Chu Fei pursued the badly injured Old City Lord in a desperate aerial battle, using Wisdom Dewdrop, a potion, and a rocket to keep him from reaching Dawn City. The rocket knocked the Old City Lord out of the sky, leaving his fate unresolved as Chu Fei dove after him.

• Chu Fei chased the fleeing Old City Lord away from Flying Tiger City, steadily closing the distance despite the Old City Lord's rapid recovery.
• The Old City Lord dropped his potion when Chu Fei fired an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle, then used a sudden dive to make Chu Fei overshoot and gain distance.
• Chu Fei burned a Wisdom Dewdrop, intercepted the Old City Lord, and learned that his injuries had weakened his attacks and reaction time.
• Chu Fei and the Old City Lord fought through a long aerial pursuit toward Dawn City, trading attacks until both were exhausted.
• Chu Fei used Portable Space to drink a potion during the fight, while the Old City Lord's signal howl revealed that communications around Dawn City were jammed.
• Chu Fei dived after the Old City Lord and launched a rocket that exploded behind him, sending him falling toward the mountains and forest.

Chu Fei risked a deadly high-speed crash to kill the Old City Lord, then began recovering and analyzing the battle. He remained hidden while communications were down, reflecting on his combat weaknesses and gains.

• Chu Fei caught up to the badly wounded Old City Lord in a steep dive, and they exchanged hidden attacks as they plummeted toward the ground.
• The Old City Lord pierced Chu Fei’s wings and tried to force them to crash together, but Chu Fei adjusted his wings at the last moment and landed on top of him.
• Chu Fei survived with broken limbs, destroyed the Old City Lord’s remaining head with a Nitrogen-3 Charge and Nanofluid Metal, and confirmed his death.
• Chu Fei drank Spring of Life, used an Energy Crystal to repair himself, and searched the Old City Lord’s belongings, finding two Folding Space “Glasses Cases” that could not fit in his Storage Space.
• With communications still down, Chu Fei hid and reviewed the fight, recognizing that he needed to improve his flight and rely less heavily on Big Data combat.

Chu Fei returned to Flying Tiger City and confronted Wu Yong about his brutality and mutation. Wu Yong explained that he had used extreme methods to find a disciple who could fulfill the requirements of an inheritance that might save him, leaving Chu Fei to consider his master’s confession.

• Chu Fei scanned the area, found no sign of Wu Yong, and flew toward Dawn City to loot supplies, but turned back after seeing the city under attack by a Beast Tide.
• Chu Fei returned to Flying Tiger City, where the people celebrated Wu Yong’s takeover and the end of the civil war, but he refused to absorb their hopeful Mind Power.
• Chu Fei found Wu Yong at Dawn Academy, learned Zhang Qiming was dead, and asked to see the basement; Wu Yong refused and said he had done what he did to live.
• Wu Yong revealed a grotesque second face on his chest and privately told Chu Fei through a numerical cipher about his mutation and the inheritance he hoped to unlock.
• Wu Yong explained that he had recruited and harshly trained students to find one who could reach 9.0 by age twenty using a specific technique, and admitted he had less than thirty years left to live.

Wu Yong revealed the risks of the legacy and ordered Chu Fei to kill Gao Haifeng for deserting and knowing too much about Chu Fei’s cultivation technique. Chu Fei pursued Gao Haifeng through the night, wounded him in midair, and realized that his own strength had suddenly increased.

• Wu Yong warned Chu Fei about evil hunters and the uncertain legacy, then explained that Chu Fei would need to explore it to cultivate beyond 10.0.
• Wu Yong arranged a simple celebration, ordered Huang Quansheng to remove the signal jamming, and told Chu Fei to kill Gao Haifeng after Gao Haifeng fled the mountain.
• Chu Fei pursued Gao Haifeng at high speed, while Gao Haifeng used a Berserk Potion to accelerate and later begged Chu Fei to spare him in exchange for his hidden wealth.
• Gao Haifeng fired shotgun shells at Chu Fei, but Chu Fei blocked them with a shield and slashed one of Gao Haifeng’s wings, sending him falling.
• Chu Fei noticed that Gao Haifeng seemed far weaker than expected and realized that he himself had become stronger.

After the civil war, Chu Fei helped Wu Yong secure control of Flying Tiger City and discovered that defeating the Old City Lord had greatly increased his abilities. He tested his new strength through the night and ended by continuing his cultivation while keeping his ambitions in check.

• Chu Fei returned Gao Haifeng to Wu Yong, who took him away and announced his plans to assume office as Flying Tiger City's new City Lord and negotiate with the Old City Lord Faction.
• Wu Yong explained that Chu Fei's increased combat strength was a reward for fighting above his level, then assigned Cao Liwen to supervise negotiations with him representing Dawn Academy.
• Chu Fei found his research laboratory destroyed, told Zhao Hongyue to salvage the hard drives, and joined Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue for a meal.
• Chu Fei agreed to derive new cultivation methods for Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue, then tested his own abilities and found his Cosmic Brain score, reaction speed, wing deployment, explosive output, and energy reserves had all improved.
• Chu Fei estimated that his energy reserves exceeded 5,000 calories, reminded himself to stay cautious, and resumed cultivation before dawn.

After Wu Yong explained how defeating a stronger opponent could yield Mind Power, he named Chu Fei the Young City Lord and planned to use Flying Tiger City's remaining resources before taking him to The Inland. The chapter ended with Wu Yong becoming City Lord and Chu Fei officially taking his new position at a brief celebration.

• Chu Fei reviewed his battle with the Old City Lord and resumed developing Storage Technology to preserve the vast amount of combat data.
• Wu Yong explained that Chu Fei's fifty-percent increase in combat strength came from harvesting the Old City Lord's Mind Power and urged him to keep striving while balancing the risks of battle.
• Wu Yong announced his plan to make Chu Fei Young City Lord, use Flying Tiger City's remaining resources to advance his cultivation, and later take him to The Inland.
• Wu Yong ordered Zhang Haoyuan killed despite his claim that he knew the location of the Lord's Mansion treasury, then ordered the remaining former mansion members hunted down.
• Chu Fei and Wu Yong explored the Underground World, where they found a protected laboratory and computer information center.
• At a brief celebration, Wu Yong became City Lord, Chu Fei became Young City Lord, and Huang Quansheng became chief steward.

After helping settle Flying Tiger City’s transfer of power, Chu Fei used the Virtual Center to refine his storage technology and plan which genes to activate next. He began simulating the gene activation needed for the third level of Perception of Wind, and his Potential Index rose as his Aberration Index fell.

• Chu Fei used Dawn Academy’s Virtual Center to recalculate his data and iterated his Storage Technology, greatly increasing its information density.
• Chu Fei and Cao Liwen led negotiations in which the defeated families agreed to donate 600 million yuan in war supplies, while battle teams agreed to fight on the front lines.
• The negotiations concluded Flying Tiger City’s transfer of power to Wu Yong, and Chu Fei returned to the Virtual Center to cultivate.
• Chu Fei ranked skin hearing as his first gene-activation goal, followed by infrared vision and Eagle Eye, shark scales, and enhanced smell and taste.
• Chu Fei simulated activating skin hearing with help from the Metamorphosis Spell; the next morning, his Potential Index increased and his Aberration Index decreased.

Chu Fei successfully activated infrared perception and Eagle Eye abilities, then learned that Dawn City was in danger from a Beast Tide. He was ordered to leave immediately and asked whether they should support the Lord's Mansion or the Iron Blood Mercenary Group after the crisis was resolved.

• Chu Fei activated auditory genes in seven areas of his skin to advance his Perception of Wind cultivation.
• Chu Fei used research and virtual training to activate infrared perception between his brows, then confirmed that his Aberration Index had risen only slightly.
• Chu Fei activated his Eagle Eye genes and spent three days training his new abilities through cultivation and simulations.
• Third Senior Brother told Chu Fei that Master had ordered him to go to Dawn City, which had sent out a plea for help against a Beast Tide.
• Chu Fei asked whether they should support the Lord's Mansion or the Iron Blood Mercenary Group after saving Dawn City.

Chu Fei decided Dawn Academy should lean toward Dawn City's Lord's Mansion, then flew to the besieged city to investigate and hunt the Feathered Serpent. He wounded the beast with an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle, but it turned on him.

• Wu Yong asked Chu Fei which side Dawn Academy should support, and Chu Fei argued for joining the Lord's Mansion against the Iron Blood Mercenary Group.
• Wu Yong agreed that Dawn Academy should favor the Lord's Mansion unless it proved too weak or made foolish moves.
• Chu Fei flew to Dawn City with supplies, observed the Beast Tide, and concluded that the Feathered Serpent might be injured or undergoing a transformation.
• Chu Fei followed a red flare to the Feathered Serpent and watched it break through the defensive line to devour Awakened people's heads.
• Chu Fei used the Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle to shoot the Feathered Serpent's tail, severely damaging it.
• The wounded Feathered Serpent raised its body and attacked Chu Fei with its tongue and fangs.

Chu Fei defeated and captured the transforming level-six Feathered Serpent, then brought it to a meeting with Dawn City’s leaders. He demanded half the gains from the coming hunt, prompting City Lord Chen Xing to call his demand outrageous.

• Chu Fei used wire, his whip, and precise attacks to cripple the Feathered Serpent and capture it alive.
• Chu Fei contacted Julie and flew to the Lord’s Mansion, where he met Zhou Pengyue and City Lord Chen Xing.
• Chen Xing’s dismissive greeting made Chu Fei abandon his plan to support the Old City Lord against the Iron Blood Mercenary Group.
• Chu Fei revealed the captured Feathered Serpent at the meeting and said Dawn City’s crisis should be mostly resolved.
• Chu Fei demanded half the gains from the hunt after the Beast Tide withdrew, and Chen Xing slammed the table and called the demand outrageous.

Chu Fei subdued the Feathered Serpent and refused to help Dawn City until its leaders addressed his demands, then used the serpent to rout the Beast Tide. He secretly proposed to Zhou Pengyue that they divide Dawn City and bring the Iron Blood Mercenary Group into open rule, leaving Zhou Pengyue tempted but wary of answering.

• Chu Fei removed the wire from the Feathered Serpent, beat and restrained it, named it She Yu, and persuaded it to submit with the promise of better resources.
• When a soldier reported that Dawn City's defenses were collapsing, Chu Fei kept resting until Chen Xing tried to take the bag holding She Yu, then pinned Chen Xing down with his blade.
• Zhou Pengyue admitted that Dawn City's internal conflicts kept its experts from fighting freely and asked Chu Fei for aid in exchange for half the exotic beasts killed or captured.
• Chu Fei announced that reinforcements were coming, flew outside with She Yu, and made the high-level exotic beasts flee, causing the Beast Tide to collapse.
• Chu Fei returned to the conference room and secretly proposed to Zhou Pengyue that they divide Dawn City into eastern and western cities and bring the Iron Blood Mercenary Group into open rule.