Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei fought to help his team escape the mother nest’s encirclement, awakening a heightened state that let him precisely disrupt the insects’ magic. Jiang Shanhai led nine survivors out of the valley, but the survivors remained surrounded and under pursuit as Chu Fei and the others struggled to escape through the sky.

• Chu Fei broke through the mother nest’s first aerial blockade, then used machine-gun fire and rockets to help Hong Yonggang’s group and Jiang Shanhai’s ground team advance.
• Chu Fei chose to protect the others despite the danger, and trust between him and Hong Yonggang triggered a transformation that improved his perception and marksmanship.
• Jiang Shanhai led his team through a weakened section of tentacles, but only nine people escaped the valley as insects and collapsing rocks claimed the rest.
• Chu Fei directed Jiang Shanhai west while he and Hong Yonggang fought off fast-flying insects, but their Level 9.0 allies fell behind and were killed.
• Jiang Shanhai’s motorcycle overturned in a ditch after more than thirty kilometers, leaving him and the remaining riders in danger as the insects closed in.

After a costly retreat, Chu Fei and Jiang Shanhai’s group reached an abandoned bunker with fewer people and supplies than before. With everyone desperate for potions, Chu Fei offered to refine them in exchange for knowledge, but Wang Longyang challenged the proposed payment and raised the prospect of a conflict over the deal.

• Jiang Shanhai ordered the group to salvage the overturned motorcycles, and the survivors repaired enough to break through the bugs’ encirclement.
• The group rode and fought together until they found an abandoned bunker and secured it against the pursuing bugs.
• Jiang Shanhai counted the survivors and supplies, finding that only sixteen of the original twenty-seven remained and that their potions might last less than half an hour.
• Chu Fei offered to refine potions in exchange for knowledge and a share of the crystal cores used.
• Jiang Shanhai offered Chu Fei a Crimson Flame Potion formula, and Chu Fei asked whether it could be exchanged for a thousand Dragon Blood Potions.
• Wang Longyang objected that Chu Fei’s proposed price was far too low, prompting Chu Fei to consider the tension between the two groups and the opportunity to negotiate for more.

Chu Fei traded potion-making services for valuable formulas, cultivation materials, and spells, including the Reflection Spell, then brewed potions for the group. As dawn arrived, the sixteen survivors opened the doors to face what awaited them outside.

• Chu Fei accepted Wang Longyang's potion information in exchange for a future chance to brew a Restoration Potion for the Blood Dragon Adventure Group, and the others negotiated their own offers.
• Chu Fei acquired the Reflection Spell, which could rapidly restore damaged organs but consumed substantial computing power and energy, and recognized that it suited his abilities.
• Chu Fei brewed 120 bottles of Elementary Revival Potion and 440 bottles of Dragon Blood Potion, then distributed them according to the group's agreements.
• The group shared supplies under set prices, and Wang Longxiang explained how clear rules could prevent disputes and betrayal among teammates.
• After taking turns resting, keeping watch, and fighting the insects through the night, the sixteen people opened the doors at dawn and were stunned by what they saw.

Chu Fei and the others tried to break south through a vast swarm of Abnormal Species bugs, but the Motorcycle Riders were gradually overwhelmed and several died. The surviving flyers escaped the pursuit and turned back toward Dawn City.

• Chu Fei realized the mother nest had left the swarm in place to test the group, and Jiang Shanhai ordered everyone to charge south.
• Eight motorcycles led the breakout while Chu Fei and the other strong flyers covered them, but the bugs slowed the riders and forced them to dodge.
• The riders ran out of ammunition, lost speed, and suffered mounting casualties as the swarm closed around them.
• A Sun Moon Stars Team captain fired on his flying comrades, killing two before the remaining rider escaped into the air.
• Chu Fei and the other flyers accelerated south, outran the pursuing bugs, and began detouring back toward Dawn City.

After escaping the mother nest, Chu Fei and the survivors returned to Dawn City, divided the spoils, and helped punish the Sun Moon Stars Team. With Dawn City still besieged and outside rescue uncertain, Chu Fei offered his Blood Raisins in exchange for missile support while quietly preparing to test new potions across the city.

• Chu Fei and eight other survivors returned to Dawn City and confirmed that the insect attack had eased and their teams had survived.
• The survivors divided their spoils, with Chu Fei taking mature Blood Raisins and Abnormal Species Crystal Cores while leaving the seedlings to the others.
• Jiang Shanhai and Hong Yonggang distributed a share of the spoils to the fallen and disbanded the Sun Moon Stars Team, whose assets went toward the city's defense.
• Dawn City's leaders discussed shortages of wing augmentations, ammunition, and food as they continued fighting the insects.
• Wang Longyang said rescue would take time, and Wu Yong questioned why nearby Blazing Sun City had not launched missiles.
• Chu Fei offered all seventy-two of his Blood Raisins for missile support, and Jiang Shanhai said he would try to arrange it.

After outside cities failed to offer timely help, Chu Fei used potion brewing to secure the support of Dawn City’s experts while the siege worsened. He then studied and secretly corrected the Crimson Flame Potion formula, producing a usable batch before deliberately making his work appear flawed.

• Zou Wenke told Titanium Bear that Linjiang City needed two more days to prepare and was still waiting for Blazing Sun City’s permission, while Blazing Sun City sent Zhou Pengyue a vague promise of support.
• Chu Fei offered free potion-brewing services, and Hong Yonggang and the other experts pledged to contribute their strength and supplies.
• As insects and Magic Longhorn Beetles advanced on Dawn City, Chu Fei brewed 1,100 bottles of Elementary Revival Potion from his own level 9.0 Living Corpse Crystal Cores and distributed them to the experts.
• Wu Yong explained that the Restoration Potion could not reverse his severe, long-term mutation, so Chu Fei examined the Crimson Flame Potion formula and identified hidden flaws in Jiang Shanhai’s copy.
• Chu Fei corrected the formula and brewed a level 8.0 Crimson Flame Potion, then deliberately adjusted his process until the potion matched the flawed version Jiang Shanhai had provided.

Chu Fei tested a new Crimson Flame Potion, refined its formula, and spent heavily on cultivation by consuming hundreds of potions. After five days, his body, Life Energy, and processing capacity had improved dramatically, though he had reached his current limit.

• Chu Fei publicly recruited twelve volunteers to test Level 8.0 Crimson Flame Potions and recorded their reactions while they exercised.
• After observing the volunteers, Chu Fei deduced that the Blood Raisin drove cultivation breakthroughs while the Spirit Fruit restored the body and protected its foundation.
• Chu Fei mastered Level 9.0 advanced Crimson Flame Potions, Berserk Potions, and Spirit Essence Potions while fighting intensified outside Dawn City.
• Chu Fei secluded himself and consumed more than two hundred Crimson Flame Potions and over five hundred supplementary potions, enduring severe pain as his body strengthened.
• After five days, Chu Fei assessed his gains: his Life Energy rose from about 9,000 to 35,000 calories, his processing capacity improved, and his combat endurance and reaction speed increased.

Seven days after the Abnormal Species appeared, Chu Fei learned that Dawn City's population had fallen to around three hundred thousand and flew out to hunt insects. He pushed deeper into the forest, discovered the mother nest had spawned Magic Spiders, and reached a group of people after finding how to disrupt the spiders' magic.

• Chu Fei asked Zhou Pengyue about support and learned that Dawn City had about four hundred thousand people left; Jiang Shanhai later estimated the population was closer to three hundred thousand.
• Chu Fei flew out of Dawn City and killed insects with ease, while Jiang Shanhai recognized his strength had grown and took the remaining advanced level 9.0 Crimson Flame Potions.
• Chu Fei headed toward the mother nest and encountered Magic Spiders that attacked with webs, but they fled when he drew a heavy machine gun.
• Chu Fei tested the Magic Spiders' magic, found a mental frequency that disrupted their mobility, and killed them as he advanced through the forest.
• After advancing more than ten kilometers, Chu Fei suddenly heard voices.

Chu Fei, disguised as Xu Liming, discovered that Blazing Sun City’s rescue team had learned about his cultivation technique and attacked them before they could seize it. After killing Guo Mingzhi and another level 10.0 expert, Chu Fei faced the last expert as a shotgun blast engulfed him.

• Chu Fei found three Anomalocaris mascot suits carrying thirty people and learned from Guo Mingzhi that Zhou Pengyue had sold information about Dawn City to Blazing Sun City.
• Guo Mingzhi’s team attacked, but Chu Fei used incendiary bombs, a signal jammer, an autocannon, and an electromagnetic sniper rifle to destroy their suits and pick off members of the squad.
• Guo Mingzhi and two level 10.0 experts pursued Chu Fei, who dodged their gunfire and killed Guo Mingzhi with a whip and saber.
• Chu Fei killed another expert with a shoulder strike and turned toward the last expert, who fired a shotgun at him from just over thirty meters away.

Chu Fei reached the brood nest and learned from Chu Lei’s mother that the mutant invasion was part of a Higher-Dimensional World’s ongoing retaliation. He negotiated with the brood nest for a piece of its Rage Law Fragment and left the encounter knowing its name: Sibiya.

• Chu Fei killed the 10.0 expert and the fleeing Awakened, then gathered their equipment, three Space Capsules, and twenty-three Life Energy Pulse Bombs.
• Chu Fei fought through more than a thousand mutant insects and advanced unopposed to the brood nest’s valley.
• Chu Fei contacted the brood nest through its tentacle and saw an image of an adult Pixiu, who identified herself as Chu Lei’s mother and explained the invasion, the tracking curse, and the danger of accepting copied laws.
• Chu Fei negotiated for a piece of the brood nest’s Rage Law Fragment, offering Living Corpse Crystal Cores and warning that others could kill the weakened nest and bear its curse.
• The brood nest agreed to open its Origin Space, cut off a complete piece of the Rage Law Fragment, and told Chu Fei to call it Sibiya.

Chu Fei cultivated the Law seed he had taken from the brood nest, organized his knowledge and supplies, and returned to Dawn City with a plan to keep his identity hidden. At a conference, he exposed Zhou Pengyue’s suspected collusion with Blazing Sun City and swiftly beheaded him, leaving the gathered experts wary of Chu Fei’s strength.

• Chu Fei learned from Sibiya that his trade would accelerate the brood nest’s Laws dissolving and could let it reach its peak within five days, then listed and organized his knowledge, dangers, resources, and plans.
• Chu Fei assessed the valuable supplies he had taken from the elite squad and kept his identity as Xu Liming concealed to protect the secret of the Star Command Token.
• Chu Fei returned to Dawn City after six hours, pretended to struggle through the insects, and went to the conference hall at Jiang Shanhai’s request.
• Chu Fei played a recording in which Guo Mingzhi implicated Zhou Pengyue in secretly contacting Blazing Sun City, prompting the gathered experts to question Zhou Pengyue.
• As investigators went to check Zhou Pengyue’s movements, Zhou Pengyue tried to act, but Chu Fei cut off his head and destroyed his brain with Nanofluid Metal.
• The experts watched Chu Fei kill Zhou Pengyue in an instant and regarded him with shock and apprehension.

After killing Zhou Pengyue, Chu Fei united Dawn City’s outsider leaders behind a plan to exploit the Broodmother’s incoming dimensional laws and weaken Blazing Sun City. The leaders captured and reorganized the Iron Blood Mercenary Group, spread their accusations and secret intelligence, and learned that Blazing Sun City had summoned its level 10.0 experts.

• Chu Fei displayed Zhou Pengyue’s head, and the gathered leaders joked that he was a City Lord Killer before turning to the crisis in Dawn City.
• Chu Fei proposed attacking Blazing Sun City and explained that the Broodmother’s dimensional laws could be seized before they fully integrated, likely within ten days.
• The leaders agreed to spread the information, provoke Blazing Sun City, draw fighters to the Broodmother, weaken the city, and seize it under the banner of avenging Dawn City’s dead.
• Chu Fei showed footage of himself eliminating Blazing Sun City’s thirty elites, then redirected attention by discussing his Anomalocaris Costume.
• Jiang Shanhai and Hong Yonggang’s subordinates reported that the Iron Blood Mercenary Group’s leaders had been captured; the group’s members were tried, reorganized, and assigned to new teams.
• The leaders sent provocative secret information to Blazing Sun City and relayed it to their own headquarters; within an hour, they learned Blazing Sun City had summoned its level 10.0 experts.

Song Zhenghe tried to preserve his authority after his failed scheme and publicly taught Blazing Sun City’s experts about Laws. As Blazing Sun City attacked the brood nest, Chu Fei analyzed the Rage Law, created a minor spell, and found a scientific method for understanding Laws before Wu Yong summoned him from seclusion.

• Song Zhenghe learned his attempt to use Zhou Pengyue and three level 10.0 experts had failed, then examined the Black Tortoise Law Fragment and its drawbacks.
• Song Zhenghe addressed Blazing Sun City’s experts, explained how Laws could be obtained and used, and threatened anyone who spread his instruction outside the city.
• Chu Fei and the others learned that Blazing Sun City was preparing missiles; they watched the missiles strike the brood nest and discussed relocating Dawn City’s survivors and confronting Song Zhenghe.
• Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrops, Mind Power, and Pixiu’s inheritance to analyze the Rage Law as a logical system and developed a minor spell called “Critical Strike.”
• Chu Fei tested “Critical Strike,” judged that it could greatly improve his combat power, and ended his seclusion after Wu Yong sent him a message.

Wu Yong warned Chu Fei that powerful enemies would soon target him and urged him to leave, explaining the difference between true Enlightenment and the false 10.0 path. Chu Fei departed with Wu Yong after entrusting Abyss Team to the Wind and Thunder Mercenary Group and arranging an alliance with the Blood Dragon Adventure Group.

• Wu Yong advised Chu Fei to flee before experts arrived, explained that most people above 10.0 had taken the wrong cultivation path, and said he would part ways with Chu Fei after they obtained the cultivation method.
• Chu Fei and Wu Yong decided to leave Huang Gang and the others behind, and Chu Fei gave them cultivation methods, research materials, resources, and instructions for finding support among the Wind and Thunder Mercenary Group.
• Chu Fei and Wu Yong rode out of the city, while Huang Gang and the others arranged for Abyss Team to join the Wind and Thunder Mercenary Group as an independent unit under Jiang Shanhai.
• Zhao Hongyue persuaded Jiang Shanhai and Wang Longyang to cooperate, and the Wind and Thunder Mercenary Group and Blood Dragon Adventure Group formed an alliance to share and monopolize Crimson Flame Potion.
• The two groups secretly began producing 10.0-level Crimson Flame Potion, then staged a public argument after Chu Fei's departure became known; by then, Chu Fei was a thousand miles away.

Chu Fei and Wu Yong fled southwest toward Red Pine City, where Wu Yong hoped to use a battle to help them join a merchant group and enter the city. Chu Fei intervened when the Jinhua Merchant Group asked for help, then openly revealed his overwhelming strength, leaving his identity-hiding plan behind.

• Chu Fei and Wu Yong raced 920 kilometers through the wilderness and reached a battlefield near Red Pine City.
• Wu Yong explained that news of Chu Fei’s actions would spread and suggested he use an alias, while Chu Fei chose “Alchemist” and Wu Yong recommended “Apprentice Alchemist.”
• Wu Yong said they should help the weaker side of the battle to integrate with Red Pine City, and Chu Fei flew ahead to investigate the attackers besieging a merchant caravan.
• After the Jinhua Merchant Group asked Chu Fei for help, he shot several robber elites with his Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle and shifted the battle in the caravan’s favor.
• A 10.0 robber charged Chu Fei, but Chu Fei killed him with a single strike and decided to build his reputation openly rather than hide his identity.

Chu Fei helped the Jinhua Merchant Group defeat a bandit attack, then negotiated a place to stay in Red Pine City and work as an alchemist. As the group traveled toward the city, Qin Shuya explained its financial troubles and Red Pine City’s importance, while Chu Fei saw opportunities to settle there.

• Chu Fei killed a 10.0 bandit expert and sniped the attackers, turning the battle in the Jinhua Merchant Group’s favor before allowing most surviving Awakened to escape.
• Chu Fei met Qin Shuya, deputy leader of the Jinhua Merchant Group, and returned with Wu Yong while the group identified the bandits and counted its losses.
• Qin Shuya identified the dead expert as Xu Xing and offered Chu Fei a reward of 140 million, after which Chu Fei asked for lodging and an alchemy workspace.
• Chu Fei told Qin Shuya he could refine specialized potions, and they agreed that the Jinhua Merchant Group would give him 20% of the net profit from his potion work.
• Qin Shuya told Chu Fei about the merchant group’s history, strained finances, and Red Pine City’s population and influence as they traveled toward the city.
• Chu Fei saw a combined caravan on the road and asked why the Jinhua Merchant Group did not travel with other groups, and Qin Shuya explained the trade-offs of doing so.

Chu Fei and Wu Yong settled in Red Pine City, where they planned to use the Jinhua Merchant Group as a foothold for cultivation and research into Hyper-Dimensionality. Chu Fei agreed to supply premium potions through the group, and the chapter ended as he began setting up his new home and workshop.

• Qin Shuya explained Red Pine City's outer settlements, its role as a hub, and the Jinhua Merchant Group's operations as Chu Fei and Wu Yong entered the city.
• Qin Shuya vouched for Chu Fei and Wu Yong so they could obtain identity cards, and she gave Chu Fei a street-facing courtyard in exchange for his 140 million yuan bounty.
• Wu Yong urged Chu Fei to reach the 10.0 cultivation limit, improve his survival skills, study Hyper-Dimensionality, and develop new combat methods; they agreed to use the Jinhua Merchant Group as a foothold for the next two or three years.
• Qin Shuya visited Chu Fei with equipment and information on specialized potions, and he agreed to refine three potions through a premium, clearly priced sales approach.
• Chu Fei and Qin Shuya signed a basic agreement, arranged staff for the courtyard, and received the equipment and renovation crew.

Chu Fei explored Red Pine City, hired Xue Hao and brought his family into his household, then began studying Enlightened Ones with Wu Yong. The chapter ended with Wu Yong staring at Chu Fei after he argued that the differences among levels of awakening came down to human attributes.

• Chu Fei bought communications service and toured Red Pine City, learning about its trade hub, surrounding High Walls, and ties to the Thunderclap Land Carrier and Lu City.
• After three days of guiding Chu Fei, Xue Hao accepted three hundred thousand yuan in exchange for serving him, and Chu Fei brought Xue Hao's family to his courtyard.
• Chu Fei assigned Xue Hao duties overseeing his household and construction, and Xue Dabao later left his mercenary group to join them.
• Wu Yong began teaching Chu Fei about Enlightened Ones and asked him to explain the differences among Semi-Awakened, Half-Step Awakened, and Fully Awakened.
• Chu Fei concluded that their fundamental differences were human attributes, including order, intelligence, goodness, evil, and laziness, and Wu Yong stared at him in silence.

Wu Yong taught Chu Fei how cultivation advanced through attributes, higher-dimensional logic, and order, while Chu Fei’s Wisdom Dewdrop began to change. The lesson ended when Chu Fei received an invitation from Qin Shuya, who planned to seek a 10.0-grade Crimson Flame Potion despite knowing he could only refine 9.0-grade potions.

• Wu Yong explained cultivation through the attributes of iron ore, describing how Awakened and Enlightened cultivators advanced through quantitative and qualitative changes.
• Chu Fei realized that his epiphanies had strengthened his attributes, helping him fight opponents above his level, and Wu Yong explained the mathematical logic behind Awakened cultivation.
• Wu Yong taught Chu Fei how Riemannian Geometry and higher-dimensional thinking related to Enlightened cultivators, and Chu Fei’s Wisdom Dewdrop gained a rosy shimmer.
• Wu Yong explained hierarchical order and revealed that he had used Hyper-Dimensional attributes to control air, but told Chu Fei he would teach him true spellcraft after Chu Fei reached 10.0.
• After studying Wu Yong’s notes for more than two days, Chu Fei received Xue Hao’s invitation announcing that Qin Shuya would come to seek a 10.0-grade Crimson Flame Potion.

Qin Shuya asked Chu Fei to brew a half-step 10.0 Crimson Flame Potion and supplied costly materials, while also considering a campaign in Dawn City. After she left, Chu Fei began studying the unfamiliar ingredients and faced the challenge of choosing how to use them.

• Chu Fei explained that he could not brew a true 10.0 Crimson Flame Potion, and Qin Shuya asked him to attempt an Awakened-grade version instead.
• Qin Shuya appraised Chu Fei’s Spirit Essence Potion, then offered to cover the brewing costs and pay him for each successful Crimson Flame Potion.
• Qin Shuya gave Chu Fei a Space Capsule containing materials worth at least three billion and asked whether Red Pine City should organize a fight in Dawn City.
• Chu Fei warned that the long journey, local forces, and supply shortages could make an expedition to Dawn City difficult, and Qin Shuya left.
• Chu Fei began examining the unfamiliar ingredients and struggled to decide how to test White Jade Ginseng when only three stalks were available.