Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei and Zhou Pengyue assessed the desperate situation after Hong Qingxin’s betrayal and decided that killing Hong Qingxin offered the best chance to save the remaining elites. Chu Fei set out with Hong Yonggang to search for him, knowing they would have to fight through the battlefield to find their target.

• Chu Fei rescued Zhou Pengyue from three Mutated Beast Knights and learned that Zhou’s concealed relay network had let him anticipate Hong Qingxin’s betrayal and counterattack.
• Zhou Pengyue explained that Hong City and Dawn City had abandoned ordinary people and were left with about thirty thousand Semi-Awakened elites, whom Chu Fei resolved to bring back.
• Chu Fei and Zhou Pengyue agreed that Hong Qingxin posed the greatest immediate threat and needed to be killed to break the deadlock.
• Zhao Liang offered to accompany Chu Fei, but Chu Fei doubted he could endure the battle; Hong Yonggang then volunteered and revealed his carbon-fiber wings.
• Chu Fei warned that killing Hong Qingxin’s human body might not destroy its true main body, then joined Hong Yonggang in searching for it by fighting through the Living Corpse Tide.

Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang ambushed Hong Qingxin’s forces, but a hidden Bullet Nest shredded Chu Fei’s wings and forced him to fight on the ground. As Hong Qingxin retreated and tried to stall him with controlled beasts, Chu Fei’s Feathered Serpent bit and restrained him.

• Chu Fei spotted Hong Qingxin beside a Three-Headed Python, and Hong Yonggang shot down a Two-Headed Living Corpse and a Fierce Tiger with an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle.
• Hong Qingxin’s forces fired on Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang, who evaded the attacks and cut through the surrounding Living Corpses as they charged toward him.
• Hong Qingxin fired a hidden Bullet Nest at close range, and its bullets shredded half of Chu Fei’s wings and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Chu Fei hurled his shield at the Fierce Tiger carrying the Bullet Nest, then used a sudden curved sprint to evade Hong Qingxin’s forces and reach the Three-Headed Python.
• Hong Qingxin retreated while ordering his controlled beasts to attack Chu Fei, but the Feathered Serpent bit Hong Qingxin’s knee and coiled around him.

Chu Fei killed the Brain Beast-controlled shell of Hong Qingxin, then rescued the wounded Hong Yonggang and fought his way back to the fleeing force. With the Living Corpse Tide close behind, the survivors rested briefly and began discussing their next strategy.

• The Brain Beast-controlled Hong Qingxin used tentacles and weapons to attack the Feathered Serpent, but Chu Fei broke through the chaos and split him in two; his final words, “I'll be back,” convinced Chu Fei that the Brain Beast Broodmother remained alive elsewhere.
• After Hong Qingxin's death disrupted the Brain Beast's control, several people regained awareness, passed Storage Cards to Chu Fei, and killed themselves; Chu Fei then rescued Hong Yonggang and gave him potions.
• Chu Fei carried Hong Yonggang through the Living Corpse Tide, using Perception of Wind to find a route while Hong Yonggang recovered and covered him with gunfire.
• After thirteen minutes, Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang rejoined the fleeing force, which continued southeast and eventually rested on high ground.
• Chu Fei asked Zhou Pengyue why Hong Qingxin had betrayed them; Zhou speculated that Hong Qingxin had allied with the Living Corpses for survival, and the group agreed the negotiating tide was especially dangerous.
• Feng Yiming urged the group to discuss a strategy, warning that the Living Corpse Tide would catch up within three minutes.

Chu Fei left the retreating elites with a plan to fight from the hills and flew back to Flying Tiger City to prepare potions and supplies. He returned to find the group holding its ground against the Living Corpse Tide and then took more crystal cores to continue gathering aid.

• Chu Fei proposed that the exhausted survivors retreat while fighting and later use the hills for mobile warfare, while he carried their crystal cores back to produce potions.
• After the experts agreed on a strategy, Chu Fei flew to Flying Tiger City instead of Dawn City and designed a process to make potions from the cores.
• Chu Fei instructed Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue to build the equipment, borrowed Wu Yong's Space Capsule, and loaded potions, ammunition, medicine, salt, and other supplies.
• Chu Fei returned to Zhou Pengyue's group after an hour and saw that the elites had established a foothold in the hills and were intercepting the Living Corpse Tide.
• Chu Fei emptied the Space Capsules, took more than two thousand Living Corpse Crystal Cores, and flew off again.

After learning that Living Corpses and Mutated Beast Knights threatened the Flying Tiger City–Black Iron City trade route, Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang set out to help defend it. Halfway there, Chu Fei detected an autocannon ambush, and Hong Yonggang prepared to lead them into it.

• After a night of fighting, Chu Fei received seven Space Capsules and assessed the humans’ success in killing nearly a million Living Corpses.
• Zhou Pengyue told Chu Fei that Living Corpses and Mutated Beast Knights had attacked the trade route checkpoint, putting it in imminent danger.
• Chu Fei proposed that he and Hong Yonggang carry out a high-level decapitation strike, while explaining that Wu Yong’s mutation could turn him into a monster that attacked everyone nearby.
• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang flew toward the checkpoint, but Chu Fei detected unnatural sound waves and identified an ambush using large-caliber autocannons.
• Hong Yonggang volunteered to fly ahead, confident that he knew how to deal with autocannons.

Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang detected and destroyed a series of ambushes, but then uncovered a larger attack by Flying Mutated Beasts and riders led by a Brain Beast wearing Hong Qingxin’s face. The chapter ended with Hong Yonggang knocked out of formation and Chu Fei trapped in a swarm as Hong Qingxin aimed an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle at him.

• Chu Fei used Perception of Wind to locate six ambush positions, and he and Hong Yonggang split up to attack before the enemies could fire.
• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang destroyed twenty-four exposed ambush points, with Chu Fei taking thirteen and Hong Yonggang taking eleven.
• Chu Fei noticed a silent hill and fired a rocket toward it, revealing a hidden force of Flying Mutated Beasts and armed riders.
• Chu Fei suspected that the Hong Qingxin among the riders was a Brain Beast using Hong Qingxin’s face, and Hong Yonggang charged toward the enemy.
• Mutated Falcons struck Hong Yonggang and disrupted his flight while Flying Mutated Beasts and riders surrounded Chu Fei.
• Hong Qingxin aimed an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle at Chu Fei as the swarm left him with little room to maneuver.

Chu Fei escaped the aerial ambush and turned the fight around, while discovering that the Brain Beast Broodmother was assimilating Black Iron City’s people and beasts into disposable bodies. After Hong Yonggang killed the Broodmother’s latest incarnation, the search for its true body remained unresolved.

• Chu Fei used his shield, calculated flight maneuvers, and grenades to escape the encirclement and evade Hong Qingxin’s sniper fire.
• Chu Fei shot down the attackers and observed signs that Huang Yuwen and the mutated Albatross had been assimilated by the Brain Beast Broodmother.
• Chu Fei concluded that the Brain Beast Broodmother was devouring Black Iron City’s people and beasts, reproducing them as incarnations, and suspected his connection to it was a karmic entanglement.
• Chu Fei killed the vulture beneath Hong Qingxin, but Hong Qingxin grew bat wings and declared that Chu Fei would never find his true body.
• Hong Yonggang cut down Hong Qingxin and searched the corpse, but found no crystal core, confirming that the body was only a temporary shell.

Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang helped Flying Tiger City repel the attack on its last checkpoint by striking the enemy formation from within. Chu Fei killed Li Guangyu, but the Brain Beast Broodmother had already adapted, as subordinate leaders took control and prevented the enemy forces from collapsing into chaos.

• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang reached Flying Tiger City's final checkpoint and found it threatened by living corpses, mutated beasts, and Li Guangyu's forces.
• Hong Yonggang proposed targeting the enemy's strongest fighters and the Brain Beast Broodmother, while Chu Fei planned to resupply and attack Black Iron City from behind.
• Li Guangyu's forces opened fire on the checkpoint, and Chu Fei destroyed a White Phosphorus Incendiary Bomb depot before charging through the enemy formation.
• Chu Fei used a calculated slaughter model to cut through the enemy ranks as Hong Yonggang joined him and the checkpoint's artillery supported their assault.
• Chu Fei killed Li Guangyu and the Twin-Winged Black Tiger, but subordinate leaders took control of the enemy forces and stabilized the battlefield.

Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang survived Black Iron City's autocannon fire and helped clear the checkpoint, where Zhou Haiyi organized defenses against the scattered enemies. They then visited Wu Yong, who explained that Intermediate Revival Potion contained the Power of Order, and Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang waited to hear what that meant.

• Black Iron City's autocannons slaughtered the enemy forces and their own troops, allowing Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang to escape and kill more enemies.
• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang met Zhou Haiyi at the checkpoint, where she described plans to intercept the fleeing enemies with machine-gun positions.
• Chu Fei reflected that he had become too focused on elite fighters and had neglected ordinary soldiers, then flew with Hong Yonggang toward Dawn Academy.
• Chu Fei arranged to visit Wu Yong and consider having him share his knowledge with Hong Yonggang, while also hoping to test Wu Yong's intentions.
• Hong Yonggang gave Wu Yong a bottle of Intermediate Revival Potion, and Wu Yong explained that it contained a trace of the Power of Order, which could suppress mutation and slightly restore the body.

Wu Yong explained to Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang that Big Data Cultivation pursued Negative Entropy, or the Power of Order, and described how it appeared in life, planets, and cultivation. After identifying signs that the Living Corpse Tide had not recovered its strength and warning that the Brain Beast Broodmother posed the greater threat, they went to analyze Chu Fei’s Storage Cards.

• Wu Yong explained that restorative forces were manifestations of Negative Entropy and that Big Data Cultivation pursued the Power of Order.
• Chu Fei connected Negative Entropy to medicinal ingredients, life structures, and cultivation, while Wu Yong said he could not explain consciousness, Mind Power, or the Power of Faith.
• Hong Yonggang thanked Wu Yong and offered him an Intermediate Revival Potion as tuition.
• Wu Yong examined Chu Fei’s Living Corpse Crystal Core, judged it artificially ripened, and inferred that the Living Corpse Tide had not yet recovered from its losses.
• Wu Yong warned that the Brain Beast Broodmother was more dangerous than the Living Corpse Broodmother because it could assimilate humans and use technology and industry.
• Chu Fei took out two Storage Cards, and the group went to the Virtual Center to analyze them.

At the Virtual Center, Wu Yong, Chu Fei, Hong Yonggang, and Abyss Team used decoded intelligence to plan a raid on Black Iron City, prioritizing its industrial base, Brain Beast incubation facilities, and access to the Underground World. As Chu Fei prepared for the attack, he used meditation and the Perfect Lover model to accelerate his body's recovery and refinement.

• The Virtual Center restored a covert video showing Brain Beast larvae and decoded maps of Black Iron City's facilities, including the Lord's Mansion and cultivation room.
• Wu Yong advised Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang to raid Black Iron City rather than divert to rescue the thirty thousand elites, arguing that the city's industry posed the greater threat.
• After debating the fate of the ordinary people trapped in Black Iron City, Chu Fei accepted the decision to proceed with the raid.
• Chu Fei, Hong Yonggang, Wu Yong, and Abyss Team planned to destroy Black Iron City's industrial foundations, poison juvenile Brain Beasts, and demolish the elevators to the Underground World.
• Chu Fei ordered Dawn City to begin producing explosives and poison for an operation planned for the following night, then rested through seated meditation while refining his genes with the Perfect Lover model.

Chu Fei refined his cultivation through Tai Chi Quan, shared his insights with Abyss Team, and prepared with Hong Yonggang for a surprise raid on Black Iron City. The two infiltrated the city from high altitude and began a devastating attack, leaving Chu Fei at a chemical factory as Black Iron City raised the alarm.

• Chu Fei practiced Tai Chi Quan at dawn and underwent a philosophical transformation that produced Wisdom Dewdrops and Mind Power.
• After awakening from his five-and-a-half-hour meditation, Chu Fei discussed his insights with Abyss Team, and they helped prepare supplies for the raid.
• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang traveled east to deliver medicine, collected Living Corpse Crystal Cores, and then flew high above Black Iron City to conceal their approach.
• When they were detected above Black Iron City, Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang dove into the city, with Hong Yonggang landing on a Mutated Falcon and beginning to fight.
• Chu Fei swept through Black Iron City at high speed, killed more than three thousand people, and changed course toward a chemical factory as the city sounded its alarm.

Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang launched a planned sabotage operation that devastated Black Iron City's chemical and industrial districts, destroying equipment, data, and technical personnel while fighting through the city's forces. As they approached the Underground World entrance, they turned toward the Lord's Mansion to find the Brain Beast Broodmother and its incubation base.

• Chu Fei broke into the chemical plant, destroying its power systems, pipelines, chemical tanks, technical center, and personnel.
• Chu Fei found Hong Yonggang and the two fought through Brain Beast-controlled forces toward the industrial district.
• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang broke into the bearing factory and destroyed its machine tools, data center, and technical staff shelter.
• The pair continued sabotaging Black Iron City's industrial facilities as pursuing forces caused further destruction across the city.
• After an hour of fighting, Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang reached the Underground World entrance, then turned toward the Lord's Mansion to locate the Brain Beast Broodmother.

Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang attacked Black Iron City, using poison gas and explosives to cripple the Brain Beast Broodmother’s forces and destroy much of the Underground World passage. As the Living Corpse Brood Queen arrived and smashed through the city’s northern wall, Chu Fei realized it might be targeting the Brain Beast Broodmother to replace its missing head and shoulder.

• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang broke into the Lord’s Mansion, where Chu Fei released cyanide gas and they bombed the Brain Beast larva cultivation base with mixed poison gas and explosives.
• Chu Fei feinted toward the training base, then circled back with Hong Yonggang and used four explosive packs to devastate the Underground World entrance and its defenders.
• Chu Fei returned to the elevator shafts and severed supports and cables before escaping with Hong Yonggang and destroying two armored vehicles.
• Chu Fei sensed the Living Corpse Brood Queen’s arrival and fled southwest with Hong Yonggang, but stopped when it headed north and demolished Black Iron City’s high wall.
• Hong Qingxin confronted the Living Corpse Brood Queen, which sent the message, “This Empress wants to borrow your head!”
• Chu Fei realized the Living Corpse Brood Queen might have allied with Hong Qingxin’s Brain Beast Broodmother because it intended to use the Broodmother to replace its missing head and shoulder.

Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang destroyed Black Iron City's Underground World while the Living Corpse Brood Queen overwhelmed the Brain Beast Broodmother, and Chu Fei feared it would absorb the Brain Beast and surpass 14.0. The Living Corpse Brood Queen, which named itself Kui, unexpectedly proposed peace; Chu Fei agreed, and the Living Corpse Tide withdrew from the eastern battlefield as negotiations remained uncertain.

• The Living Corpse Brood Queen advanced through Hong Qingxin's barrage, endured the Bullet Nests and autocannons, and attacked the underground base with Avian Living Corpses and Giant Corpses.
• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang destroyed Black Iron City's Underground World, then saw the Brain Beast Broodmother losing ground as Living Corpses overwhelmed its forces.
• Chu Fei warned Hong Yonggang that the Living Corpse Brood Queen might absorb the Brain Beast Broodmother, revive itself, and break through 14.0, so they prepared to retreat.
• The Living Corpse Brood Queen sent Chu Fei an information wave proposing peace, and Chu Fei adjusted his energy signals until they could communicate.
• The Living Corpse Brood Queen called itself Kui and explained it feared another attack like the one that had killed it before; Chu Fei agreed to negotiate in exchange for a halt to the eastern battle.
• Kui sent two Avian Living Corpses away, and Zhou Pengyue later reported that the Living Corpse Tide had retreated.

Chu Fei watched the Living Corpse Brood Queen defeat and refine the Brain Beast Broodmother, then negotiated a ceasefire that divided the region at the mountain range between Black Iron City and Flying Tiger City. The Living Corpse Brood Queen demanded biological knowledge in exchange for 250,000 surviving humans, and Chu Fei returned to Flying Tiger City to discuss the offer.

• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang watched as the Living Corpse Brood Queen’s forces dragged the Brain Beast Broodmother from its underground chamber and subdued it.
• The Living Corpse Brood Queen used energy and mental force to overwrite the Brain Beast Broodmother, then spent half an hour refining it into its own head and arms.
• The transformed Living Corpse Brood Queen, which Chu Fei sensed as an overwhelming danger, proposed a boundary at the mountain range and an end to hostilities.
• The Living Corpse Brood Queen offered to release about 250,000 surviving humans in exchange for biological knowledge and technology, and Chu Fei asked to consult with others before agreeing.
• Chu Fei and Hong Yonggang returned to Flying Tiger City as the battle ended, and the gathered representatives turned to Chu Fei for news.

Chu Fei argued that humanity should rescue Black Iron City’s 250,000 people without giving the Living Corpse Brood Queen any biological knowledge, then left negotiations to cultivate and design an improved Cosmic Brain. After a month of intensive work, his new design exceeded 800,000 computing points, and he prepared to see what had happened outside.

• Chu Fei warned that the restored Living Corpse Brood Queen was seeking to reach Level 14.0 and urged humanity to rescue the people in Black Iron City without trading away scientific knowledge.
• Hong Yonggang supported Chu Fei, and Dawn City’s leaders agreed to negotiate slowly, rescue as many people as possible, seek help from the High Wall in The Inland, and prepare to abandon Dawn City.
• Chu Fei returned to his research base and spent half a month using Big Data Cultivation to process his battle experience and accumulated knowledge.
• Chu Fei planned a CPU-and-GPU-like cultivation path, strengthening his Main Brain before developing a 128-core Accessory Brain.
• Chu Fei spent another half month simulating a new Cosmic Brain design, raising its projected computing power from over 700,000 to over 800,000 points.
• Chu Fei decided not to cultivate the new design immediately and went outside after a month of isolation.

Chu Fei reflected on his growing distance from Flying Tiger City, interpreting it as breaking through the social bonds that had once constrained him, then completed a new Hyper-Dimensional Cosmic Brain architecture. He began using Frequency Reduction Compatibility to safely replace his Cosmic Brain, but after thirty-six hours his Potential Index had fallen to around 9.0 and the structure had become unstable.

• Chu Fei walked through Flying Tiger City and realized that, despite its people's respect and gratitude, he felt separated from their ordinary lives.
• Chu Fei concluded that he was breaking free of a dimensional cocoon by surpassing his former limits, and he returned to the research base to begin a second iteration of his Cultivation Technique.
• Chu Fei completed a Star Ring Cosmic Brain architecture by decompressing the Cultivation Technique Wu Yong had given him with an inverse Fourier Transform.
• Chu Fei prepared to update his Cosmic Brain using Frequency Reduction Compatibility because his energy and altered body made a sudden reset dangerous.
• Chu Fei gradually reduced his Cosmic Brain's frequency for thirty-six hours, lowering his Potential Index to around 9.0 before the structure became unstable.

Chu Fei discovered that Frequency Reduction Compatibility had to proceed gradually and required auxiliary computing power, so he developed and successfully activated an Accessory Brain in his liver. His first model worked but provided far too little computational power to support his whole body, leaving him ready to keep improving it.

• Chu Fei spent three days reviewing his research but could not find the cause of the instability in Frequency Reduction Compatibility.
• After seeing Jiang Ziyun trip, Chu Fei realized he had been lowering his Cultivation Level too quickly and concluded he needed an Accessory Brain to provide auxiliary computing power.
• Chu Fei gave Jiang Ziyun's father motorcycle designs, and the man announced that everyone could copy them for free.
• Chu Fei developed a 128-core Accessory Brain architecture that provided 7,228 points of computational power in Virtual Space tests.
• Chu Fei used the Observer Effect, the Metamorphosis Spell, and Big Data Overwrite to activate an Accessory Brain in his liver.
• Chu Fei confirmed the Accessory Brain worked, but found its computational power too low to refresh his body's data quickly, so he resolved to keep iterating.

After two months of cultivation, Chu Fei rebuilt his Cosmic Brain, greatly increased his Potential Index, and prepared the Abyss Team to migrate into The Inland. He shared cultivation advice with the team and left the cities on the verge of departure.

• Chu Fei completed his Accessory Brain and downgraded his Cosmic Brain before rebuilding it with the Dawn 7.1 program, achieving a score of around 1.08 million.
• Chu Fei tested his Potential Index, which had risen to 9.855645, and assessed the costs and effects of his cultivation.
• Chu Fei announced that the Abyss Team would leave for The Inland and invited its members to gather at his research center.
• At dinner, Chu Fei heard about the Living Corpse Brood Queen, the arrival of more than twenty-five thousand people from Hong City, and Dawn City's new council system.
• Chu Fei exchanged his compensation for Super Motorcycles, then discussed cultivation with the Abyss Team through the night and promised to design a new cultivation method.
• News spread through Dawn City and Flying Tiger City that Chu Fei was leaving.