Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei sold the Blazing Sun Potion to the Potion Trading Center and then went to the auction houses to prepare for the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm and seek valuable information. The chapter ended with Wang Xueshan agreeing to discuss selling the Rare Treasures Auction House’s accumulated knowledge, but saying he wanted something other than money.

• Chu Fei negotiated with Ren Qingyun to sell the Blazing Sun Potion for thirty million per bottle plus contribution points, with a ten-day order for at least five hundred bottles.
• Ren Qingyun explained to Li Wenhui that the potion’s strategic power and Chu Fei’s research talent made the deal worthwhile, while the Potion Trading Center would sell it for fifty million and control its distribution.
• Chu Fei visited the Lord’s Mansion auction house, registered, left five billion in reserve funds, and reviewed the auction items, including a Mountain-Cleaving Saber he wanted.
• Chu Fei met Wang Xueshan at the Wei Family’s auction house and asked to buy the Rare Treasures Auction House’s accumulated information.
• Wang Xueshan said they could discuss the purchase but that he did not want money.

Chu Fei negotiated with Wang Xueshan to train Wang Shiwen in exchange for Rare Treasures Auction House information, refusing to serve as his bodyguard in the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm. After testing Wang Shiwen, Chu Fei began assessing how to help him break through and planned to use the Wei Family’s martial contest for marriage to spur his progress.

• Wang Xueshan asked Chu Fei to help Wang Shiwen become an Awakened and offered access to Rare Treasures Auction House information in return.
• Chu Fei rejected Wang Xueshan’s request to protect Wang Shiwen in the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm, explaining that he had also refused Ren Qingyun’s invitation.
• Chu Fei offered to train Wang Shiwen before the secret realm opened, with Wang Xueshan paying five percent of the information for every 0.1-point increase in Wang Shiwen’s Potential Index.
• Wang Xueshan accepted Chu Fei’s terms, and Chu Fei tested Wang Shiwen’s Potential Index at 9.7225 before receiving a promise of one TB of secret-realm information.
• After assessing Wang Shiwen’s stable cultivation and conventional technique, Chu Fei decided to change his cultivation method and use the Wei Family’s martial contest for marriage to draw out his potential.

Chu Fei studied Wang Shiwen as a potential subject for research into breaking through 10.0, then used the arena tournament to examine the combat styles of Red Pine City’s young elites. He arranged for Wang Shiwen to face Zhang Yunxiang under fair conditions, and the chapter ended as Chu Fei decided to recruit Zhang Yunxiang as another test subject.

• Chu Fei examined Wang Shiwen and planned to test whether changing his cultivation technique could unlock his progress toward 10.0.
• Chu Fei observed the arena’s young elites and analyzed how they integrated mathematical logic into combat.
• Wang Shiwen won his second challenge, but a skilled fighter using hyperbolas and Rigid Transformation then challenged him.
• Chu Fei advised Wang Xueshan to ensure both fighters were rested and to recruit the challenger, Zhang Yunxiang, without telling Wang Shiwen.
• Wang Shiwen and Zhang Yunxiang began their match, while Chu Fei resolved to recruit Zhang Yunxiang for his research.

Chu Fei arranged for Zhang Yunxiang to become Wang Shiwen’s cultivation companion and began training both young men. Watching Wang Shiwen rise through the losers’ bracket sparked an insight that led Chu Fei to define a new direction for his own Complex Algorithm: a dynamic framework grounded in pure mathematical theory and balanced positive and negative structures.

• Zhang Yunxiang defeated Wang Shiwen, and Chu Fei invited him to serve as Wang Shiwen’s cultivation companion under strict terms backed by Rare Treasures Auction House.
• Zhang Yunxiang accepted the offer, and Chu Fei told him and Wang Shiwen to train as brothers and competitors while protecting each other’s vital areas.
• Chu Fei taught both young men the Reflection Spell and combat techniques, then advised Zhang Yunxiang to strengthen his foundation instead of rushing his cultivation.
• Wang Shiwen entered the losers’ bracket and won two matches in succession, rebuilding his confidence as Chu Fei watched.
• Wang Shiwen’s victory prompted Chu Fei to reconsider the purpose of Big Data Cultivation and conclude that cultivators needed to choose what kind of person they wanted to become.
• Chu Fei resolved to pursue a research-oriented path based on pure mathematical theory and envisioned a dynamic Complex Algorithm with positive and negative structures.

After an epiphany gave Chu Fei a clear path toward developing his own Complex Algorithm, he gathered research data and helped Wang Shiwen prepare for the next stage of the tournament. Wei Weiya then invited Chu Fei to join an academic exchange with Azure Cloud City, and overnight research on a new algorithm made major progress.

• Chu Fei’s epiphany expanded his consciousness space and helped him find a direction for developing his own Complex Algorithm, while Wang Xueshan promised him more computer-related data.
• Wang Shiwen returned after surviving five minutes without a challenger in the loser bracket, and Chu Fei encouraged him and sent him combat videos to study.
• The day’s matches ended with just over forty-one people in the winner bracket, leaving nine places in the top fifty for the loser-bracket contestants to compete for the next morning.
• Lan Wenchuan told Chu Fei that Azure Cloud City would send computer researchers to Red Pine City for an academic exchange, and Wei Weiya offered Chu Fei a place on the team.
• Chu Fei joined Wei Weiya and the researchers in Virtual Space, proposed using Positive and Negative Fluctuation to stabilize the architecture, and helped them complete about half of the new algorithm overnight.

Chu Fei earned the Wei Family’s recognition for his research, then spent 780 million on a low-grade Source Core so he could study its inner workings. After Wang Shiwen fought his way into the tournament’s top nine, Chu Fei brought the Source Core to the research center, where Wei Weiya agreed to provide tools and support for dismantling it.

• Chu Fei’s work on the Complex Algorithm advanced the Wei Family’s research, and Wei Weiya proposed awarding him ten thousand contribution points.
• Chu Fei collected the low-grade Source Core he had bought at auction for 780 million and told Wang Xueshan to use his potion sales to fund future bids.
• Chu Fei advised Wang Shiwen during the tournament, and Wang Shiwen defeated a stronger opponent before securing ninth place among the top nine.
• Watching the tournament helped Chu Fei complete the initial framework of his Complex Algorithm and plan to refine it with knowledge from multiple sources.
• Chu Fei took the Source Core to the Wei Family research center and asked to dismantle it; Wei Weiya offered free tools and technical support.

Chu Fei and the Wei Family dismantled and analyzed his Source Core, discovering it was a biological computer with a vast genetic structure and Semi-Energization technology. As the scan continued, Chu Fei arranged for a mid-grade Source Core to be delivered so the researchers could compare its structure.

• Wei Weiya assembled advanced equipment, and Chu Fei began carefully dismantling his Source Core while the researchers scanned and recorded it.
• Chu Fei identified the Source Core as an artificial super single-celled life-form, then uncovered its complex cell nucleus, chromosomes, genes, and three-dimensional mathematical structures.
• Wei Weiya guided Chu Fei when the analysis exceeded his knowledge, and Chu Fei determined that the Source Core combined computing hardware with biological software that used Life Energy signals and Semi-Energization technology.
• Wei Weiya kept the researchers working through the night, and the group began modeling the Source Core while its full scan was expected to take twenty-four hours.
• Chu Fei called Wang Xueshan, learned that a mid-grade Source Core had been bought at auction for 3.3 billion, and arranged for it to be delivered to the castle.

Chu Fei and Wei Weiya arranged a human experiment for the new Source Core, drawing a huge crowd of applicants before the round-robin matches began. Chu Fei coached Wang Shiwen and Zhang Yunxiang, and both entered their fights using his advice.

• Chu Fei proposed testing the Source Core on a young cultivator near Level 10.0, and Wei Weiya agreed to offer a bounty and cultivation guidance.
• Chu Fei and Wei Weiya made a two-year bet over whether the experiment would attract suitable applicants, then Wei Weiya announced the bounty and more than one hundred people queued to apply.
• Chu Fei gave Wang Shiwen and Zhang Yunxiang private guidance on Big Data Cultivation and adapting their combat tactics to their strengths and weaknesses.
• Wang Shiwen followed Chu Fei's prediction, broke his opponent's hand, and won his match quickly.
• Zhang Yunxiang defended against his opponent until he found a safe opening, then began his counterattack.

Chu Fei chose Jiang Yuanping for the Wei Family’s recruitment and attended the auction, where he outbid Huang Xianwen for the extended Mountain-Cleaving Saber, Wind-Splitter, then made Huang pay the difference after he tried to withdraw. During the intermission, Chu Fei invited Huang to speak outside.

• Zhang Yunxiang defeated his opponent and told Chu Fei he hoped to place in the top twenty or challenge the top ten; Chu Fei advised him to make his attacks flow more naturally.
• After the day’s matches, Chu Fei reviewed seven candidates selected by Wei Weiya and chose Jiang Yuanping, whose lack of cultivation resources had made him fight cautiously.
• Chu Fei went to the evening auction, where Wind-Splitter’s price rose into the billions as Zhao Nanhua and Huang Xianwen competed for it.
• Chu Fei joined the bidding and eventually stopped at 5.01 billion, allowing Huang Xianwen to win at 5.6 billion.
• When Huang Xianwen tried to withdraw his bid, Chu Fei claimed the right to buy Wind-Splitter for 5.01 billion, forcing Huang to pay the 590-million difference.
• During the auction intermission, Chu Fei approached Huang Xianwen and asked him to talk outside.

Chu Fei bought three Source Cores and brought them to the Wei Family to research, while the Blazing Sun Potion sparked a fierce bidding war. After an overnight session in which Chu Fei impressed the Wei Family researchers, Wei Weiya learned that the academic exchange delegation from Azure Cloud City had been ambushed and suffered heavy casualties.

• Chu Fei offered Huang Xianwen a chance for the Huang Family to cooperate with the Wei Family on dismantling magical artifacts, and Huang Xianwen reported the proposal to his family.
• At the Lord's Mansion auction, Huang Xianwen bid on Blazing Sun Potions as the first pair sold for 4.2 billion; Chu Fei regretted selling his supply cheaply but reminded himself that the Potion Trading Center was better equipped to handle it.
• Chu Fei won the advanced Source Core for 7 billion at the Wei Family auction, then brought it and his other purchases to the Wei Family's research center.
• Wei Weiya agreed that the Huang Family could join the research if it contributed valuable resources, and Chu Fei explained that cooperation would strengthen his position and help him avoid making enemies.
• Chu Fei contributed strongly to an overnight Complex Algorithm research session, ranking third among twelve researchers, and agreed to give a cultivation report to the Wei Family members entering the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm.
• Wei Weiya received news that the Azure Cloud City academic exchange delegation had been ambushed, with heavy casualties.

After an attack annihilated Azure Cloud City's academic exchange delegation near Wang Family Town, Chu Fei analyzed who might be behind the violence while continuing to refine potions and develop his Complex Algorithm. By morning, he had completed its core framework and resolved to grow stronger as turmoil in Red Pine City became unavoidable.

• Chu Fei learned that an organized missile bombardment and assault had killed members of Azure Cloud City's delegation, including an 11.0 Enlightened, and discussed the attack's details with Qin Shuya.
• Chu Fei reasoned that the Lord's Mansion and Wei Family were unlikely to have arranged the attack, and decided the Jinhua Merchant Group could stay put while the routes were dangerous.
• Chu Fei instructed Qin Shuya to offer Enlightened experts no more than thirty million for cultivation consultations and began making the 378 bottles needed by the Potion Trading Center.
• Chu Fei developed a method for elevating Blazing Sun Potion's quality and refined batches at 120% and 125±2% quality.
• Chu Fei worked through the night on his cultivation method in Virtual Space, completed the core framework of his Complex Algorithm, and formatted the data after reviewing it.

Chu Fei brought Ren Qingyun improved Blazing Sun Potion and a 120% quality batch, which Ren Qingyun judged to be a Half-step 11.0 Potion. As Red Pine City struggled to meet demand for the potion amid rising war tensions, Ren Qingyun asked Chu Fei what he wanted in exchange.

• Chu Fei secured his unencrypted research data, then spent his earnings on advice from the Jinhua Merchant Group's three 10.0 Awakened and Qin Shuya.
• Chu Fei went to the Potion Trading Center, where Wu Jiajia brought him to Ren Qingyun's residence, and he spent the day reading Ren Qingyun's books.
• Chu Fei presented Ren Qingyun with 3.8 liters of improved Blazing Sun Potion and 1.5 liters of potion at 120% quality; Ren Qingyun valued the latter as a Half-step 11.0 Potion at about 150 million.
• Ren Qingyun explained that he had returned the excess from the auction and that the Potion Trading Center was negotiating how to fulfill demand for 642 bottles without losing control of distribution.
• Ren Qingyun proposed that the Half-step 11.0 Potion could ease the pressure from advanced 10.0 potions, then asked Chu Fei what he wanted to exchange for.

Chu Fei traded the Blazing Sun Potion formula and potions with Ren Qingyun for access to scarce equipment, a large Space Capsule, and valuable guidance and books. After arranging future potion sales, he visited the East City Huang Family to discuss buying their pill-brewing techniques, where he sensed that their person in charge carried the aura of the Dragon Heaven Totem.

• Chu Fei offered Ren Qingyun the Blazing Sun Potion formula in exchange for Atomic Array weapons and equipment, and Ren Qingyun agreed to have them made within twenty days.
• Chu Fei bought a six-cubic-meter Space Capsule, then brewed two batches of Blazing Sun Potion for Ren Qingyun and received 3.8 billion in cash.
• Chu Fei gave Ren Qingyun the weapon blueprints and received guidance and books from Ren Qingyun's study, while Ren Qingyun successfully brewed a 120% quality potion using Chu Fei's method.
• Chu Fei contacted Qin Shuya and Wei Fanghua, confirmed the East City Huang Family was trustworthy, and went to discuss purchasing its pill-brewing techniques.
• Chu Fei met the East City Huang Family's person in charge and sensed demonic energy, the aura of the Dragon Heaven Totem, coming from him.

Chu Fei discovered that Huang Yan and others in the Huang Family carried powerful demonic energy, then discussed whether to warn his allies. After reflecting on the danger, he found the Feathered Serpent had completed its molt and brought it to the Dragon Heaven Totem, where it sensed a chance to break through.

• Chu Fei sensed that Huang Yan and several nearby Huang Family members had fully formed snake-like demonic auras, refused to enter their residence, and negotiated for the family's pill-refining techniques.
• Huang Yan offered six possible conditions for obtaining the techniques, and Chu Fei agreed to try to find a complete Dragon Heaven Scale in the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm.
• Chu Fei returned to the Jinhua Merchant Group, told Qin Shuya about the demonic energy he had sensed, and discussed whether to alert the Wei Family and Ren Qingyun.
• Chu Fei found the Feathered Serpent finishing its molt, gave it supplies that strengthened it to the peak of level six, and learned it had healed its hidden injuries.
• The Feathered Serpent recognized the Dragon Heaven Totem as an opportunity to break through, and Chu Fei explained the risks before letting it cultivate on the totem.

Chu Fei secured a Reading Card and two powerful Advanced Computers as the Huang Family joined its research partnership with the Wei Family. As the families celebrated their cooperation, Chu Fei continued guiding Wang Shiwen and Zhang Yunxiang and gathering knowledge for his research.

• Chu Fei consulted Wu Yong, who advised him to sell intelligence, and then had Qin Shuya discreetly identify two Jinhua Merchant Group employees with demonic auras.
• Chu Fei selected the Hurricane cultivation technique for Wang Shiwen and Zhang Yunxiang before joining negotiations over the Huang Family's entry into the Wei Family research project.
• Chu Fei declined to negotiate directly with the Huang Family, which offered him two Advanced Computers with Complex Algorithms and a seven-day Reading Card in return for his contribution.
• Chu Fei guided Wang Shiwen and Zhang Yunxiang in formatting their cultivation techniques down to 9.0, then studied materials that combined research and identification knowledge.
• Wei Fanghua brought Chu Fei to the celebration banquet, where Huang Zhiwei and Wei Shuheng announced the Huang and Wei families' formal cooperation on Advanced Computers and Complex Algorithms.

Chu Fei studied the low-grade Source Core alongside Wei and Huang Family researchers, then helped oversee Jiang Yuanping’s intermediate-grade Source Core implant. Five days after the Azure Cloud City delegation was attacked, Azure Cloud City demanded access to Red Pine City and major concessions, threatening war.

• At the banquet, Huang Xianwen introduced Chu Fei to his younger sister Huang Liwen and jokingly proposed that Chu Fei pursue her while he pursued Wei Fanghua.
• Chu Fei entered Virtual Space and examined the Wei Family’s atomically detailed model of a low-grade Source Core, memorizing the available research data with Wisdom Dewdrop.
• Wei and Huang Family researchers gathered to study the Source Core, and Chu Fei helped them merge their research and push their work to its limits.
• After two days of study, Chu Fei proposed testing an intermediate-grade Source Core, and Jiang Yuanping received an implant that raised his computing power to the 10.0 Enlightened standard.
• Five days after the attack, an Azure Cloud City envoy demanded either war or permission to investigate Red Pine City, along with five thousand Dragon Heaven Secret Realm slots and one hundred and fifty VIP Card slots.

Chu Fei and Liu Weichang discussed the Flying Frost Squad’s return and the military potential of Motorcycle Teams, but the squad arrived late and badly mauled after an ambush. Liu Gaoyang reported that the enemy had known their route, and the City Lord revealed he had secretly ordered the squad to return after ten days, leaving Red Pine City facing the threat of an insider.

• Chu Fei met Liu Weichang with Wei Fanghua and Huang Xianwen, and they discussed cooperation on Source Core research and the strengths and limits of Motorcycle Teams.
• The Flying Frost Squad missed its announced arrival time, and Chu Fei detected that it was approaching from the southeast rather than the planned northeast.
• Chu Fei heard only seventy-seven motorcycles and noticed that the vehicles and riders were severely damaged when the squad reached the city gates.
• Chu Fei gave Liu Weichang half a bottle of Elementary Revival Potion, which helped stabilize the wounded riders.
• Liu Gaoyang told Liu Weichang that the squad had been ambushed by a prepared enemy using silenced weapons and signal jamming, so he had led a southward retreat while keeping communications silent.
• The City Lord said he had secretly ordered Liu Gaoyang to return after ten days, but had not expected the squad to be attacked.

Chu Fei investigated the ambush on the Flying Frost Squad and concluded that a powerful, well-equipped organization had planned it, though he found no decisive evidence. Back in Red Pine City, he sought advanced computers from the Wei Family, then learned that the City Lord had accepted Azure Cloud City's second condition.

• Liu Weichang recruited Chu Fei to help investigate the ambush site, and Chu Fei detected a faint metallic sound that led the group toward a mountain.
• An explosion collapsed the hilltop before the investigators arrived, destroying any evidence that might have been left there.
• At the battlefield, Chu Fei examined the wreckage and inferred that the ambush required dozens of Awakened attackers, specialized equipment, and substantial storage capacity.
• Wei Fanghua suggested the attackers might be the same covert organization that struck Azure Cloud City, while the group also suspected the Heavenly Dragon Sect without proof.
• Chu Fei asked Wei Fanghua to sell him advanced computers so he could privately expand his computing capacity for studying 10.0 cultivation techniques.
• At the Wei Family, Chu Fei learned that the City Lord had accepted Azure Cloud City's second condition, shocking Red Pine City.

Chu Fei bought sixteen Advanced Computers and led the Wei and Huang Families in dismantling an Advanced Source Core to advance their research. After thirteen hours, he finished analyzing its components and retreated to meditate, reflecting on the structures he had observed.

• Chu Fei bought eight Advanced Computers from the Wei Family and six from the Huang Family, bringing his total to sixteen with the two the Huang Family had gifted him.
• Chu Fei proposed studying the Advanced Source Core first, and the Wei and Huang Families agreed to dismantle it to support their research into Intermediate Source Cores.
• Chu Fei carefully dismantled the Advanced Source Core while the experts watched, and Wei Fanghua and Huang Liwen took turns wiping his sweat as their families competed for his attention.
• After thirteen hours, Chu Fei completed the analysis, thanked Wei Fanghua and Huang Liwen, and hurried away from the laboratory.
• Chu Fei returned to his room, meditated, and used what he had observed in the Advanced Source Core to infer the mathematical logic behind its structures.

Chu Fei refined his Complex Algorithm through a night of intensive calculations on the Wei Family and Huang Family computers, bringing himself close to a powerful 10.0 Enlightened breakthrough. When he headed for the Trial Tower to gather more data, he found Red Pine City preparing to receive a heavily armed delegation from Azure Cloud City.

• Chu Fei visited Wang Xueshan and guided Wang Shiwen and Zhang Yunxiang after learning they had completed their cultivation method replacements.
• At the Jinhua Merchant Group, Chu Fei found malicious programs on the Wei Family and Huang Family computers, removed them, and built a program to divide calculations between the two systems.
• Chu Fei used the computers to create and iterate a new Complex Algorithm seven times, resolving most of the problems he had found in the Trial Tower.
• After exhausting his available data, Chu Fei left for the Trial Tower and found the city gates crowded as the First Legion assembled to receive a delegation from Azure Cloud City.
• Chu Fei watched the delegation approach with tanks, motorcycles, armored vehicles, artillery, missile launch vehicles, and a flying platform.