Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei led Flying Tiger City's Motorcycle Team north to reinforce Hong City, scouting a route and confronting the enormous Living Corpse Tide surrounding it. After reaching the outskirts, Chu Fei arranged a noon breakthrough with Feng Yiming and prepared his team to open a lifeline for Hong City.

• Chu Fei left Flying Tiger City with Huang Gang and more than seventy elite Motorcycle Riders, then raced through Black Iron City and passed Li Guangyu's supply convoy.
• Chu Fei spotted Living Corpses near Black Iron City and led his team across the wilderness toward Hong City.
• At the river south of Hong City, Chu Fei saw a vast Living Corpse Tide and a bridge made from Living Corpses, then found a safer crossing farther downstream.
• Chu Fei led the Motorcycle Riders across two river channels and told them to remember the crossing as a retreat route before they continued toward Hong City.
• Chu Fei and his team saw that the Living Corpse Tide had surrounded Hong City, and Chu Fei urged the Riders to fight for their chance to obtain crystal cores and overcome implant-related suffering.
• Chu Fei contacted Feng Yiming, arranged to break through from the northwest at noon, and prepared to open a route for Black Iron City's reinforcements.

Chu Fei discovered that the living corpses had deliberately left Hong City's northwest gate open and spread roots beneath it, then helped devise a plan to exploit the trap and strike their command. After rallying his seventy-seven Motorcycle Riders with medicine and forming four squads, Chu Fei received Feng Yiming's signal and ordered them to move out.

• Chu Fei circled Hong City, recognized the lone open northwest gate as a trap, and found unusual sonic reflections underground.
• Hong City confirmed that living-corpse roots had spread beneath the northwest gate, so Chu Fei and Feng Yiming decided not to abandon it.
• Chu Fei, Feng Yiming, and the others planned a feint to draw out the living corpses' upper ranks before striking the northwest gate and its command.
• Chu Fei reassured his seventy-seven Motorcycle Riders, explained how to fight living corpses, and offered Dragon Blood Potion and Cocain to volunteers.
• Huang Gang took the first medicine, and the team members followed before Chu Fei, Huang Gang, Li Shaorong, and Long Tengwu divided them into four squads.
• Chu Fei received Feng Yiming's signal and ordered everyone to prepare to move out.

Chu Fei led the Motorcycle Team in a high-speed assault through the western Living Corpse Tide, coordinating with his riders and Feathered Serpent to defeat a powerful Four-legged Giant Corpse. After the commander fell and Hong City's artillery support arrived, Chu Fei spotted an opening to the south and redirected the charge.

• Chu Fei and Huang Gang led more than seventy Motorcycle Riders into the Living Corpse Tide, carving a wide path through its ranks.
• Feathered Serpent intercepted a thrown Crawler while Chu Fei maneuvered past two Giant Corpses and Li Shaorong followed by cutting one down.
• Chu Fei charged through the Four-legged Giant Corpse's protective ring, coordinating with Feathered Serpent to wound it and sever its ankle.
• Huang Gang, Li Shaorong, Long Tengwu, and the other riders cut off the Four-legged Giant Corpse's remaining legs as Chu Fei struck its spine and the team destroyed it with rockets.
• Hong City's artillery support began firing, and Chu Fei spotted an opening to the south and led the Motorcycle Team toward it.

Chu Fei led the Flying Tiger City team through two rapid attacks on the Living Corpse Tide near Hong City, then proposed a strategy of repeated small-scale strikes. After collecting crystal cores, he faced a dispute over their value and the 10.0 core, and laid out options for handling the spoils while explaining how little Hong City’s potion exchange would return.

• Hong Yonggang watched Chu Fei’s seventy-seven riders break through the Living Corpse Tide, kill a Four-legged Giant Corpse, and withdraw under Hong City’s late-arriving artillery cover.
• Chu Fei proposed using repeated attacks from the tide’s outer perimeter, with reinforcements and small-scale aerial support, and led another sortie that secured more crystal cores.
• Chu Fei’s team crossed back over the river, cleaned up, and began dividing their crystal cores through a merit-points system.
• After a warrior questioned the low local valuation of the cores, Chu Fei explained the difference between Inland and Flying Tiger City currencies and why peripheral regions paid inflated prices.
• Chu Fei offered three choices for the cores—exchange them for potions, store them, or wait for his research into direct absorption—and described how Hong City’s extraction process returned only a small share of their value.
• Chu Fei left the crystal cores for the team to choose from, while the group remained silent over the difficult trade-offs.

Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrops, Mind Power, and observations of Feathered Serpent to research how humans could absorb Living Corpse Crystal Cores directly. He developed a first version of a Crystal Core Absorption Program, then chose to iterate it further before sharing it.

• Chu Fei fed Feathered Serpent another Crystal Core and studied how mutant beasts assimilated Crystal Cores.
• Chu Fei reasoned that humans needed a way to connect to a target Crystal Core’s energy channel, and considered virtual cores, specialized Energy Bypass Systems, and implants.
• Chu Fei experimented on his left arm and developed a method for storing energy in specialized cells built around mitochondria.
• Chu Fei used mathematics and Riemannian Geometry to devise a program that could control Shanzhong Acupoint oscillations through the heart and simulate Life Energy waves.
• Chu Fei completed Crystal Core Absorption Program Version 1.0 with an authorization key, then decided to iterate it rather than share it immediately.

Chu Fei developed and tested Dawn 6.7, a program that let people absorb crystal cores directly, then offered it to his camp. He installed it for seventy-six people and shared his cultivation notes, leaving the camp newly equipped with the method.

• Chu Fei iterated his crystal-core absorption program to version 6.7 and named it Dawn.
• He tested Dawn by swallowing a Living Corpse Crystal Core and absorbed about 90% of its energy in 193 seconds.
• Chu Fei prepared a secure installation package and explained Dawn to the camp over breakfast.
• Wang Qianyun volunteered first, received Dawn and Chu Fei's cultivation notes, and helped explain the offer to the others.
• Huang Gang and the other camp members lined up, and all seventy-six received Dawn and activation keys.

Chu Fei improved the Dawn program so his people could absorb Living Corpse Crystal Cores faster, then led them into battle using mobile hit-and-run tactics. After a highly successful raid, the team withdrew with thousands of Crystal Cores while Feng Yiming considered whether Hong City could form a Motorcycle Team of its own.

• Chu Fei watched the group struggle to swallow their Crystal Cores, then rewarded Yang Wei for sharing information about his octopus gene sequence and turned it into an installation package.
• After collecting data from the group, Chu Fei upgraded Dawn 6.7 to Dawn 7.0, which used the body's meridians to increase Crystal Core absorption speed, and announced that access would require merits.
• Chu Fei organized the fighters into four teams and led the Motorcycle Team toward the Living Corpse Tide, using Feng Yiming's drone images and his own Perception of Wind to avoid newly spotted traps.
• Chu Fei led a charge into the outer defenses, withdrew to draw out three Giant Corpses, then returned to cripple them and gather the Crystal Cores scattered during the fight.
• After an hour of hit-and-run attacks, Chu Fei led the seventy-seven fighters away after they killed more than forty thousand Living Corpses and collected over two thousand Crystal Cores.
• Feng Yiming watched the team leave and asked Captain Jia whether Hong City could form a Motorcycle Team, but Captain Jia warned that getting motorcycles outside the city would be difficult.

After returning from battle, Chu Fei set contribution rules and delegated squad administration, then secluded himself to improve his combat abilities. He mastered a faster way to deploy his wings and began cultivating while preparing for the possible return of the Living Corpse Brood Queen.

• Chu Fei announced that Dawn 7.0 would absorb energy through his entire body at a much faster rate and would cost 3,000 contribution points.
• After the team divided its spoils, Chu Fei established a 30% contribution cut, assigned limited management duties to Huang Gang, Li Shaorong, and Long Tengwu, and appointed Wang Qianyun to organize squad affairs.
• Chu Fei secluded himself to improve his 9.0 combat methods and used Cosmic Brain simulations to reduce his wing deployment time from 1.8 seconds to 0.18 seconds.
• Chu Fei planned to advance the third layer of Perception of Wind and his Nanofluid Metal control program because he feared the Living Corpse Brood Queen had survived and might surpass 14.0.
• Chu Fei swallowed a 9.0 Living Corpse Crystal Core to cultivate, while the Feathered Serpent did the same and the team’s gratitude gathered as Mind Power.

Chu Fei completed Dawn 7.0 and helped the Flying Tiger Squad cultivate, while he built a Bypass System to improve his third level of Perception of Wind. The squad began breaking through its limits, and Wang Qianyun felt she might soon repair her Aberration Index and resume cultivation.

• Chu Fei replaced the plugin for the third level of Perception of Wind with a Bypass System while monitoring the camp through the night.
• Huang Gang arranged night watches that let squad members earn enough contribution points, and everyone cultivated with Living Corpse Crystal Cores.
• At dawn, Chu Fei praised Huang Gang and rewarded him with a Psionic Potion for his contribution to the squad.
• Chu Fei released the Dawn 7.0 program, explained confidence and persistent self-improvement, and authorized the squad to install it.
• Wang Qianyun quickly refined a Crystal Core and announced that she had sensed her bottleneck and might repair her Aberration Index within half a month.
• The squad members began absorbing Life Energy rapidly and reported breakthroughs as Chu Fei's guidance and Dawn 7.0 helped them push past their limits.

Long Tengwu broke through his limit and joined Chu Fei’s newly established Blade Edge Team, then received personal cultivation guidance. Chu Fei negotiated supplies and potions from Feng Yiming in exchange for daily raids, and led the Flying Tiger Squad into battle that evening, ending with a plan to hunt another Four-legged Giant Corpse.

• Long Tengwu explained how he had risked entering the competition rather than undergo biological augmentation, and Chu Fei invited him to become the first member of the Blade Edge Team.
• Chu Fei taught Long Tengwu a proud-sun visualization method and gave him personal cultivation guidance, urging him to decide what kind of Awakened he wanted to become.
• Wang Qianyun told Chu Fei that Feng Yiming wanted them to fight, and Chu Fei negotiated a supply of potions and materials in exchange for at least one raid each day.
• Chu Fei led the Flying Tiger Squad, with Long Tengwu and Wang Qianyun beside him, on an evening assault against the Living Corpse Tide.
• After fighting for more than a hundred minutes, Chu Fei announced that they would hunt another Four-legged Giant Corpse that night.

Chu Fei led his riders on a coordinated assault that killed a Four-legged Giant Corpse and earned them a large potion haul. Back at camp, he distributed the rewards and urged his team to confront their shortcomings and use their will to catch up with geniuses.

• Chu Fei coordinated with Feng Yiming for artillery support and led his team into the Living Corpse Tide toward a Four-legged Giant Corpse.
• Chu Fei spotted an underground Octopus Living Corpse, and the artillery strike exposed it before the Feathered Serpent retrieved its crystal core.
• Chu Fei used battlefield calculations and artillery cover to reach and kill the Four-legged Giant Corpse, while Long Tengwu and Wang Qianyun helped bring it down.
• Feng Yiming gave Chu Fei's group the potion package, and Chu Fei led 76 team members through the Living Corpse Tide to escape.
• At camp, Chu Fei distributed potions and told his team to acknowledge their disadvantages, keep improving, and rely on their will to surpass their limits.

Chu Fei detected a pursuing force of fifty thousand Living Corpses and led his team out to strike the advancing tide. After refusing a reckless assault on high-level targets, he guided the squad through the first wave and escaped into the wilderness, leaving the Living Corpse elites behind.

• Chu Fei discovered that three elite waves of Living Corpses were tracking his group and warned the camp while contacting Feng Yiming about weapons support.
• Chu Fei rejected the team's proposal to hunt high-level Living Corpses directly and chose to bypass the advancing force before attacking its rear near Hong City.
• Chu Fei led the seventy-seven-person motorcycle squad across the river and charged into the first wave of Living Corpses under machine-gun fire and flares.
• Chu Fei's team pierced through the first wave in seventeen seconds, then turned into the wilderness and vanished from the pursuing elites.

Chu Fei led the Flying Tiger Squad in repeated high-speed attacks on the Living Corpse Tide around Hong City, then hunted down tens of thousands of elite Living Corpses through the night. After the battle, Chu Fei shot a Black Iron City scavenger who was taking crystal cores, provoking Long Tengwu and the others to charge out.

• Chu Fei’s motorcycle squad swept past the Living Corpse Tide’s outer waves, then joined Hong City’s artillery in repeatedly clearing its western perimeter.
• After Feng Yiming reported that the northwest had thinned, Chu Fei ignored the implied request to open that route and led his squad southwest to keep fighting for supplies and crystal cores.
• Chu Fei returned to target more than fifty thousand elite Living Corpses, and his squad surrounded and slaughtered them through the night with support from Hong City’s missiles.
• At dawn, Chu Fei’s team defeated the last Four-legged Giant Corpse, then he shot a Black Iron City scavenger who was digging out crystal cores.
• Long Tengwu recognized the scavenger as someone from Black Iron City and charged out, followed by others with killing intent.

Chu Fei drove off Li Guangyu and Black Iron City's people after they tried to take Living Corpse Crystal Cores, then distributed the spoils among his fighters. After Feng Yiming pressured him to give Black Iron City ten thousand cores, Chu Fei decided it was time to leave.

• Chu Fei and Long Tengwu led their fighters in pursuing Li Guangyu and more than two hundred people from Black Iron City, who had tried to harvest crystal cores after the battle.
• Chu Fei surrounded Li Guangyu's group and forced them to surrender all their Living Corpse Crystal Cores before they returned across the river.
• Chu Fei's team harvested twenty-nine thousand cores, bringing their total to more than forty-five thousand, and Chu Fei distributed the cores according to merit.
• Chu Fei noticed his fighters were weary and reluctant to keep fighting, and he considered withdrawing despite wanting to explore Black Iron City's Dimensional Space.
• Feng Yiming urged Chu Fei to give Li Guangyu ten thousand cores to preserve relations with Black Iron City, but Chu Fei refused and decided to leave.

Chu Fei concluded that Hong City might turn against his group and decided to flee, but his investigation revealed that the nearly Level 14.0 Living Corpse Brood Queen was hidden beneath the northwest gate. After sensing its terrifying presence, Chu Fei led his team north, and Feng Yiming began to suspect they were escaping.

• Chu Fei decided Hong City might target him and agreed with his senior members to escape under the cover of another attack on the Living Corpse Tide.
• Wang Qianyun's mention of the Living Corpse Brood Queen made Chu Fei realize it might be beneath the northwest gate's outward passage.
• Chu Fei told Feng Yiming that his team would attack again, then learned from the returning Feathered Serpent that Black Iron City's reinforcements were approaching from behind.
• Chu Fei led the seventy-seven Motorcycle Riders toward the northwest gate and used ten portions of Mind Power to sense the Living Corpse Brood Queen's overwhelming presence underground.
• Chu Fei's team swept past the northwest gate, fought northward, then left the battlefield and raced away; Feng Yiming began to suspect they were running away.

Chu Fei led all seventy-seven members of the expedition back to Flying Tiger City alive after they escaped Feng Yiming and crossed the wilderness, where Li Shaorong killed a Level Five mutant beast with one strike. After reporting to Wu Yong, Chu Fei discussed the coming threat, his plans for the Blade Edge Team, and how to protect civilians if Flying Tiger City had to retreat.

• Chu Fei evaded Feng Yiming by taking his group north into the wilderness, then detoured through the mountains toward home.
• Li Shaorong killed a giant Level Five forest lizard with one slash, and Chu Fei explained how their training and transformation had raised the team's strength.
• Chu Fei's group divided and ate the lizard, then crossed the western wilderness and returned to Flying Tiger City with all seventy-seven members unharmed.
• Chu Fei sent the returning members home and arranged for recruits and Long Tengwu to report to the Dawn Team the next day.
• Chu Fei reported the expedition to Wu Yong, who explained Semi-Energization and warned that Hong City's leaders had misjudged the Living Corpse Brood Queen.
• Wu Yong urged Chu Fei to find a way to protect ordinary civilians if Flying Tiger City had to retreat, and Chu Fei said he planned to visit Dawn City again.

Chu Fei established the Abyss Team, recruiting veterans and newcomers into a ranked force centered on cultivation and survival. After receiving welcomes from Dawn City's factions, he prepared to visit the city and planned to remove its Lord's Mansion faction while finding a home for Flying Tiger City's population.

• Chu Fei upgraded Dawn 7.0 into Dawn 7.1, adding a sleep function for adjusting the absorption of crystal cores.
• Long Tengwu arrived with the sixty-five returning fighters and 152 newcomers, and Chu Fei recognized that his status as Young City Lord had made recruitment easy.
• Chu Fei named his new force the Abyss Team, assigned its initial knight ranks, and appointed Long Tengwu a Third-level Knight in benefits.
• Chu Fei and Long Tengwu finalized a team of 232 members, with twelve Second-level Knights, sixty-three First-level Knights, and 157 Intern Knights.
• Chu Fei received welcomes from Dawn City's Iron Blood Mercenary Group and Lord's Mansion, then resolved to settle accounts with the Lord's Mansion and secure a new home for Flying Tiger City's people.

Chu Fei reviewed his rapidly improving cultivation data and decided not to break through to 10.0 yet, since he wanted to preserve his potential for higher levels. He explained that Flying Tiger City could no longer support them and led ten Abyss Team members toward Dawn City, where he intended to confront City Lord Chen Xing.

• Chu Fei tested his abilities and found his combat power had surged, though his flesh-and-blood body was beginning to struggle with his cultivation.
• Chu Fei compared his data with the recommended standards and concluded that breaking through to 10.0 now would limit his future advancement.
• Chu Fei told the Abyss Team that Flying Tiger City had to be abandoned and that the team had been formed to prepare for entering The Inland; members could choose whether to leave.
• Chu Fei selected ten capable members, led by Li Shaorong, and set out by motorcycle for Dawn City.

Chu Fei arranged for Flying Tiger City’s population and assets to move to Dawn City under Zhou Pengyue’s leadership, while planning to purge the Lord’s Mansion faction and unite the cities against the Living Corpse Tide. At the meeting, Chu Fei revealed that the Living Corpse Brood Queen was still alive and announced the relocation, then asked City Lord Chen Xing for his response.

• Chu Fei met Zhou Pengyue outside Dawn City and proposed transferring Flying Tiger City’s people to Dawn City while removing the unreliable Lord’s Mansion faction.
• Chu Fei explained that the Living Corpse Tide threatened the region and Zhou Pengyue agreed to lead Dawn City and integrate the incoming population.
• Chu Fei and Zhou Pengyue discussed turning the banquet into a Feast at Hong Gate to deal with the Lord’s Mansion faction while limiting unrest.
• At a meeting with the Lord’s Mansion, the Iron Blood Mercenary Group, and other officials, Chu Fei revealed that the Living Corpse Brood Queen remained alive and was close to 14.0.
• Chu Fei announced that Flying Tiger City’s remaining people, companies, and assets would relocate to Dawn City under the Iron Blood Mercenary Group, then asked Chen Xing what he thought.

Chu Fei demanded that Dawn City unite under the Iron Blood Mercenary Group to resist the Living Corpse Tide, then attacked Chen Xing when he refused to agree. Their fight exposed Chen Xing’s strength but ended with him retreating from the hall as Julie transformed into a giant to block Chu Fei.

• Chu Fei warned Chen Xing that the Living Corpse Tide could reach Flying Tiger City within two months and proposed that Flying Tiger City and Dawn City merge under the Iron Blood Mercenary Group.
• Julie questioned Chu Fei’s motives, and Chu Fei argued that Dawn City’s Lord’s Mansion should join the plan; Zhou Pengyue mocked Chen Xing for hesitating.
• Chen Xing accused Chu Fei and Zhou Pengyue of plotting against the Lord’s Mansion, so Chu Fei attacked him and their first exchange ended with Chen Xing slightly injured.
• Chu Fei and Chen Xing equipped themselves with Nanofluid Magic Artifacts and fought at high speed, while Chu Fei endured Chen Xing’s spiraling attacks.
• At the 1.9-second mark, Chen Xing retreated through the collapsing hall wall as Julie transformed into a giant and attacked Chu Fei, who lunged at her.