Chapter Summaries

After Wu Yong explained that observations of spiritual herbs were incomplete views of their underlying Hyper-Dimensional attributes, Chu Fei realized potion research could advance cultivation research. He went to the Potion Trading Center to seek certification and, after drawing a crowd by defeating 117 arm-wrestling challengers, chose to study independently.

• Chu Fei asked Wu Yong how to research potions, and Wu Yong used a teapot to explain the blind-men-and-the-elephant problem and the limits of observing Hyper-Dimensional attributes.
• Chu Fei realized that potion research could help him study cultivation, then asked Xue Hao for guidance and learned about the Potion Trading Center.
• Chu Fei visited the Potion Trading Center, where Wu Jiajia mistook him for a child and explained the potion master certification requirements.
• Chu Fei wagered Elementary Revival Potions on arm-wrestling matches and defeated 117 challengers, then arranged for the potions to be auctioned among them.
• Wu Jiajia told Chu Fei about the two ways to learn potion-making, and Chu Fei chose independent study.

Chu Fei chose to study at the Potion Trading Center, where he bought access to its foundational courses and became a special consultant after Director Ren Qingyun learned of his deeds. He rapidly studied the Center’s Virtual Space materials, but Wu Jiajia stopped him as he was about to leave on the third day.

• Chu Fei chose the paid learning method, failed the Center’s assessment, and paid for the shortfall in his brewing results.
• Chu Fei decided to buy every course in the booklet and offered Blood Raisins as payment.
• Ren Qingyun met Chu Fei, praised his accomplishments during the Living Corpse Tide and at Dawn City, and invited him to become a special consultant.
• Chu Fei accepted the position, received his badge, and began studying the Center’s foundational courses in Virtual Space.
• Chu Fei studied chemistry and Level 8.0 medicinal ingredients over three days, then Wu Jiajia stopped him as he was about to leave.

Chu Fei learned about the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm and refused to join Wu Jiajia’s expedition, then focused on potion studies. After Ren Qingyun summoned him to discuss the outbreak at the abnormal species nest near Dawn City, they exchanged potion recipes, and Ren Qingyun asked Chu Fei to let Wu Jiajia learn from him; Chu Fei agreed but said he would not be going out to fight.

• Wu Jiajia invited Chu Fei to join her cousins in exploring the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm, but he refused because he knew too little about it and did not want to protect a team.
• Xue Hao warned Chu Fei that the secret realm had a high death rate and explained its VIP and ordinary entrances, restrictions, and rumored access cards; Chu Fei asked him to gather more intelligence.
• Chu Fei continued studying potions, and after a week he had mastered the fundamentals below 8.0, drawing Ren Qingyun’s attention.
• Ren Qingyun asked Chu Fei about the abnormal species nest’s eruption near Dawn City, and Chu Fei explained its situation and the significance of its crystal cores.
• Ren Qingyun traded Chu Fei the Dragon Saliva Potion recipe for the Crimson Flame Potion information, and the two discussed their methods and exchanged guidance.
• Ren Qingyun asked Chu Fei to let Wu Jiajia learn from him; Chu Fei agreed but said he was focused on potion research and had no plans to fight.

Chu Fei studied potion theory, investigated rumors about the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and used his new understanding of spirit herbs to refine high-quality Berserk Potions. He left the chapter ready to sell diluted potions in quantity while continuing his research and keeping cultivation his priority.

• Wu Jiajia gave up on recruiting Chu Fei after Ren Qingyun warned her that his resolve was exceptionally strong.
• Chu Fei completed his study of 9.0-level potion knowledge and used a Wisdom Dewdrop to master the material through intense mental training.
• Xue Hao told Chu Fei that the secretive Heavenly Dragon Sect sought a dragon scale said to grant breakthroughs and was rumored to use human sacrifices.
• Chu Fei reviewed past Dragon Heaven Secret Realm entrants and told Xue Hao to keep gathering information on the Heavenly Dragon Sect without taking risks.
• Chu Fei studied the medicinal properties of White Jade Ginseng and used his deductions to refine a potent 9.0-level Berserk Potion with minimal side effects.
• Chu Fei diluted the potion to lower its quality for public sale and recognized that he had opened the path to becoming a potion master.

Chu Fei refined a high-quality level 10.0 Crimson Flame Potion with unfamiliar ingredients, then agreed to work with Qin Shuya on potion production and sales. He also entrusted Qin Shuya with Zhang Zhaoyang’s brain so the Jinhua Merchant Group could attempt to restore his body.

• Chu Fei refined 1.2 liters of level 10.0 Crimson Flame Potion on his second attempt and reviewed its quality and potential value.
• Qin Shuya inspected the potion, appraised it at 1.2 million per bottle, and paid Chu Fei 75 million under their agreement.
• Qin Shuya explained potion appraisal and the risks of hiring grandmasters to refine high-grade ingredients, while Chu Fei described his successful experiment.
• Chu Fei asked Qin Shuya to help revive Zhang Zhaoyang, and she agreed to use the Jinhua Merchant Group’s augmentation facility.
• Chu Fei and Qin Shuya agreed that he would refine at least one billion worth of potions monthly while she handled sales for a ten-percent commission.

Chu Fei explained why he had chosen to work with the Jinhua Merchant Group and gave Xue Hao potions to heal his hidden injuries, then began researching a way to refine potions without losing the medicinal ingredients’ energy. After a night of experiments, he achieved a preliminary breakthrough and arrived at the dining hall to examine Xue Dabao’s cultivation.

• Chu Fei told Xue Hao that partnering with the Jinhua Merchant Group let him avoid service teams and focus on cultivation, then asked Xue Hao to point out anything he had overlooked.
• Chu Fei gave Xue Hao an Elementary Revival Potion and two Psionic Potions for his hidden injuries, and arranged to assess Xue Dabao’s cultivation at seven the next morning.
• Chu Fei experimented with using Life Energy to prevent medicinal properties from decaying during potion refinement.
• After seven experiments overnight, Chu Fei refined basic Level 10.0 Crimson Flame Potion from ingredients that barely reached Level 10.0, marking a preliminary breakthrough into the second realm of a potion master.
• Chu Fei continued iterating on the formula until after six in the morning, then washed up and went to the dining hall, where Xue Hao and Xue Dabao were waiting.

Chu Fei gave Xue Hao cultivation techniques to study and spread while he advanced his Crimson Flame Potion research. The chapter ended with news that the Living Corpse Brood Queen and Brood-Nest Aberration had reached Level 14.0, prompting Chu Fei to consider returning north to check on Huang Gang and the others.

• Chu Fei praised Xue Dabao's cultivation and gave Xue Hao a Storage Card containing techniques and research records, including methods for implanted armor users to become Fully Awakened.
• Chu Fei told Xue Hao to study the techniques, collect cultivation data, and spread some of them without financial support; Xue Hao was deeply moved by the material.
• Chu Fei iterated on his Crimson Flame Potion experiments, producing 860 milliliters of high-quality potion and later testing batches of different grades.
• Xue Hao reported that he had passed Level Three and Level Four techniques to old friends through a staged gambling story and described how they might spread them through mercenary groups and merchant caravans.
• Xue Hao told Chu Fei that Dawn City and Blazing Sun City had requested help because the Living Corpse Brood Queen and Brood-Nest Aberration had both reached Level 14.0.
• Chu Fei reacted in shock and wondered whether he should return north to see how Huang Gang and the others were doing.

Chu Fei met Red Pine City's Young City Lord, Liu Weichang, and shared what he knew about the revived Living Corpse Brood Queen while negotiating to instruct a new Motorcycle Team. He secured a week of access to the Lord's Mansion library, then sold Qin Shuya several Crimson Flame Potions and agreed to let the Jinhua Merchant Group pay him in a month.

• Qin Shuya invited Chu Fei to meet Liu Weichang, who wanted to learn about the northern crisis and the Living Corpse Brood Queen.
• Qin Shuya explained that two 14.0 Abnormal Species had emerged in the north, and that the Abyss Team had safely withdrawn to Blazing Sun City.
• Chu Fei described the Living Corpse Brood Queen's history and shared his recordings, then advised Liu Weichang that Motorcycle Teams were effective against living corpses.
• Chu Fei agreed to instruct the Lord's Mansion's Motorcycle Team and entrusted negotiations to Qin Shuya, who traded the motorcycle designs for a week of library access.
• Chu Fei showed Qin Shuya five Crimson Flame Potions, and her tests revealed their quality, prices, and the value of lower toxicity.
• Qin Shuya said the merchant group's cash flow was tight, and Chu Fei agreed to accept payment in a month with interest if it was late.

Chu Fei discovered that the Dragon Heaven Totem was changing Jin Shengshui’s spirituality and warned Qin Shuya against using it. He took the totem for research and chose a precise potential detector from the Jinhua Merchant Group’s warehouse.

• Qin Shuya led Chu Fei into the Jinhua Merchant Group’s underground warehouse, where he met Jin Shengshui and learned the Crimson Flame Potion had not helped him.
• Chu Fei told Jin Shengshui that cultivation required the will to survive danger, then sensed a nonhuman aura affecting him.
• Chu Fei examined the Dragon Heaven Totem and concluded its copied, aggressive aura could suppress humanity and alter the spirituality of those who studied it.
• Qin Shuya decided to stop using the totem, and Chu Fei took it for research after reassuring her that Jin Shengshui’s condition seemed reversible.
• Chu Fei selected a portable potential detector that could measure potential to four decimal places and had a maximum limit of 14.0.

Chu Fei studied the Dragon Heaven Totem and used it to develop a new flight technique before meeting Liu Weichang and Liu Gaoyang to discuss forming a Motorcycle Team. The chapter left Chu Fei sizing up Liu Gaoyang after the two tested their strength in a handshake.

• Qin Shuya asked Chu Fei whether the totem could affect Jin Shengshui, and he warned her to avoid totems and people connected to the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
• Qin Shuya offered Chu Fei a Jinhua Merchant Group VIP Card and asked him to help its people in the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm if he could; he agreed and took information about the realm.
• Chu Fei realized the Dragon Heaven Totem could help him decipher laws, then analyzed it in his laboratory and devised the initial Roaming Dragon Movement Technique.
• Chu Fei visited Liu Weichang at the Lord's Mansion and explained how to form a Motorcycle Team, including its strengths and maintenance problems.
• Liu Weichang introduced Chu Fei to Liu Gaoyang, who tested Chu Fei's strength with a handshake before praising his resilience.

Chu Fei finalized plans for the Motorcycle Team, then traded potion and regeneration technologies for access to the Potion Trading Center’s knowledge. He proposed a two-year partnership with Qin Shuya to build a technological foundation for the Jinhua Merchant Group, leaving her astonished by the cultivation technology he provided.

• Chu Fei, Liu Gaoyang, and Liu Weichang finalized a framework for a roughly 150-member Motorcycle Team with open selection, training tests, and rewards.
• Chu Fei submitted potion-refining methods and a modified limb-regeneration spell to the Potion Trading Center in exchange for contribution points.
• Chu Fei offered Qin Shuya technologies for producing energy-storage and Elementary Revival Potions, and she agreed to a two-year deal giving him half the profits.
• Chu Fei proposed using genetically modified walnuts and hydroponic cultivation to supply raw materials for energy-storage potions, and Qin Shuya questioned why he had made the offer so suddenly.

Chu Fei and Qin Shuya agreed to a broad partnership to develop genetically modified walnuts and improved Life Energy Generators, while Chu Fei refined potions and earned a large reward from the Potion Trading Center. After a night of study, he returned to the Lord's Mansion to inspect newly built motorcycles and test one before selecting Motorcycle Riders.

• Qin Shuya agreed to cooperate with Chu Fei on genetically modified walnuts, soilless cultivation, and Life Energy Generator research, and she began planning a twenty-mu cultivation site and purchasing equipment.
• Chu Fei refined three liters of high-quality Crimson Flame Potion from Qin Shuya's materials and received 122 million points from the Potion Trading Center for his formulas and Regeneration Spell.
• Chu Fei hurried to the Potion Trading Center to complete his submissions and claim his points, then spent the night studying in the Virtual Center because he feared the political situation could change.
• The Young City Lord summoned Chu Fei to the Lord's Mansion, where Liu Gaoyang and Liu Weichang showed him newly built motorcycles and asked him to test one for the Motorcycle Team.
• Chu Fei chose a motorcycle, and Liu Gaoyang led the way to select Motorcycle Riders outside the city.

Chu Fei watched Liu Gaoyang and Liu Weichang race motorcycles before observing Red Pine City's elite selection for a new Motorcycle Team. The first events chose 300 finalists, including eighty Semi-Awakened, and the chapter ended as the finalists received examination papers for the knowledge competition.

• Chu Fei overtook Liu Gaoyang in a motorcycle race, while Liu Weichang caught up and revealed that he was an Enlightened at Level 10.4.
• Liu Gaoyang brought Chu Fei to a drill ground and announced fair selection rules for a Motorcycle Team of 120 to 150 members.
• The sniper competition tested contestants at increasing distances, and a Semi-Awakened competitor took first place.
• Liu Gaoyang and his team held several selection events and chose the top 300, including eighty Semi-Awakened.
• Liu Weichang awarded each finalist 100,000 yuan, then the finalists fell silent as examination papers arrived.

After the Motorcycle Rider selection, Chu Fei reflected on the difficulty of obtaining pure Mind Power and learned that Xue Hao had organized a charity initiative around cultivation techniques. The initiative brought Chu Fei a tiny but exceptionally pure trace of faith power, and he saw a way to obtain more.

• Liu Weichang announced that 126 people had made the Motorcycle Team, with 174 others serving as reserves, and named Liu Gaoyang captain and himself reserve captain.
• Chu Fei returned home, considered his reliance on Mind Power, and cultivated through the night while his computing center remained under construction.
• A staff member greeted Chu Fei and unknowingly contributed an unusually pure trace of Mind Power, prompting Chu Fei to question Xue Hao.
• Xue Hao explained that he had shared simple cultivation techniques with trusted friends, who spread them among more than a hundred people.
• The group organized charity work, selling low-cost access to cultivation techniques and using half the proceeds for charitable causes.
• Chu Fei concluded that the charity initiative had completed a karmic cycle and could provide him with further pure Mind Power.

Chu Fei agreed to support Xue Hao’s charitable Self-Salvation Society, which aimed to empower Red Pine City’s grassroots through Cultivation Techniques and self-rescue. He became its spiritual leader and gave Xue Hao funding, then outlined how to organize the movement as it began its dangerous work.

• Xue Hao explained that the grassroots population needed affordable education and Cultivation Techniques, and asked Chu Fei to let them distribute his techniques in exchange for Mind Power.
• Chu Fei agreed that Xue Hao could distribute the techniques and listened as he described the society’s discreet, charity-based plan and its name, the Self-Salvation Society.
• Chu Fei accepted the role of spiritual leader, warned that he would likely leave within a few years, and gave Xue Hao a Storage Capsule containing potions and savings cards taken from Awakened he had killed.
• Chu Fei clarified that he wanted Mind Power rather than worshipful faith, and advised Xue Hao on organizing allies, approaching other social classes, and avoiding negotiations with the powerful before the society was strong.
• Chu Fei listed organizational needs including a base, intelligence network, written principles, an armed branch, medical services, independent accounting, and systems for discipline and oversight; Xue Hao asked him to repeat the advice so he could record it.

Chu Fei accompanied Liu Weichang to Red Pine City’s Trial Tower, where he registered under the codename Abyss Walker and learned about the virtual training facility. The chapter ended as Chu Fei asked how the Trial Tower evaluated a newcomer’s first challenge.

• Chu Fei and Liu Weichang watched the Motorcycle Team demonstrate its speed and combat strength, and Liu Weichang invited Chu Fei to the Trial Tower.
• Chu Fei traveled with Liu Weichang to the bustling manor outside the city, registered as Abyss Walker, and learned the facility’s strict rules for keeping members’ real identities separate.
• Roc and the other members greeted Liu Weichang, and Chu Fei learned that they wanted to bet on how far his newcomer could advance in the Trial Tower.
• Roc and Liu Weichang showed Chu Fei the underground virtual facility and explained its levels, time acceleration, activities, and eight-hour newcomer challenge.
• Chu Fei asked what criteria the Trial Tower used to evaluate challengers.

Chu Fei learned how the Cultivation Accelerator regulated its overclocking and joined a competition at the hidden base, where his Potential Index measured 9.9. After seeing the facility’s immense scale and meeting its privileged young competitors, he prepared to compete and bet on himself.

• Liu Weichang explained the Accelerator’s level-based adaptation limits and reassured Chu Fei that it monitored users for danger.
• Chu Fei heard that Liu Weichang had spent 500,000 points winning over young elites, then followed Roc and the others down to the competition area.
• March Bloom bought Chu Fei’s high-quality potions in exchange for spiritual medicine, and Chu Fei borrowed 20,000 points for the competition.
• Roc showed Chu Fei the enormous Cultivation Accelerator, which required a fusion island and consumed up to 100 kilograms of Helium-3 annually.
• Chu Fei tested at a Potential Index of 9.9, and twenty-two competitors entered the contest before he and Liu Weichang placed bets on him to win.

Chu Fei entered the Cultivation Acceleration virtual competition and discovered that its compressed time sequence could push his Cosmic Brain to its limits. He suspected the aging Virtual Space had exploitable bugs and, while testing his system, opened a widening lead over the other contestants.

• Chu Fei entered the Virtual Space, found that it blocked his Accessory Brain, and confirmed that his Cosmic Brain remained stable.
• He advanced through the early levels, then gathered data by repeatedly entering and leaving the twenty-ninth and thirtieth levels to study the Virtual Space’s behavior.
• Chu Fei stabilized his Energy Control Module at the thirtieth level and began using the increasing acceleration to identify weaknesses in his Cosmic Brain’s algorithms.
• As he advanced, Chu Fei found flaws in his calculations and treated the extreme conditions as a way to test and improve his Cosmic Brain.
• Chu Fei reached the thirty-eighth level while the second-place contestant remained at the thirty-first, establishing a seven-level lead and securing first place in advance.
• March Bloom and Roc discussed speaking with Abyss Walker after the competition, while Liu Weichang declined to explain where he had found Chu Fei.

Chu Fei pushed his Cosmic Brain through increasingly compressed Temporal Sequences in the Virtual Space, uncovering and repairing flaws until he reached his limit at Level 41. He then devoted himself to refining his foundation, while Liu Weichang and March Bloom recognized that he had discovered the space’s true purpose.

• Roc and March Bloom discussed past records, then opened a betting pool on how far Chu Fei would advance.
• At Level 39, Chu Fei discovered that the strain of the compressed Temporal Sequence exposed flaws in his complex Cosmic Brain architecture, and he began repairing and isolating malfunctioning modules.
• Chu Fei reached Level 40, then retreated from Level 41 when several Complex Algorithm modules became unstable.
• After repairing and isolating the dangerous modules, Chu Fei advanced to Level 41 and entered seclusion to inspect and improve his Cosmic Brain.
• While gamblers complained that Chu Fei had stopped advancing, Liu Weichang and March Bloom agreed that he had found the correct way to use the Virtual Space.

Chu Fei won first place in the Trial Tower and secured a fortune in points, then arranged potion trades with Wei Fanghua and Zhang Jiancheng to obtain resources. After brewing high-quality potions and weighing the danger of dealing with powerful clans, he chose to press ahead with the trade and focus on strengthening himself and upgrading the Virtual Center.

• Chu Fei emerged from the Virtual Pod after reaching floor forty-one, learned he had won first place, and received fifty-four thousand points from the bets.
• Chu Fei explained that his one million computing power let overclocking take effect much later, astonishing the others.
• Liu Weichang introduced Wei Fanghua and Zhang Jiancheng to Chu Fei, and Chu Fei negotiated a barter trade for potions and cultivation materials at his residence the next morning.
• Chu Fei returned home, examined his cultivated Blood Raisins, and named the mild new fruit he had produced the Spirit Essence Fruit.
• Chu Fei brewed batches of high-quality 9.0 and 10.0 potions, setting aside some to repay Wei Fanghua and dividing the rest for trade.
• Chu Fei decided he needed to deal with powerful clans to obtain resources, then went to inspect construction of the Virtual Center and prepare for the Cosmic Brain's iteration.