Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei used the Trial Tower to push his Cosmic Brain past its limits, discovering a way to integrate Banach Space Logic and planning to add Riemannian Geometry. After eight hours, he was forced out and found the Trial Tower’s hall filled with Lord’s Mansion officials and Azure Cloud City soldiers waiting for something.

• Chu Fei entered the Trial Tower, advanced to the eighty-first floor, and repaired or isolated malfunctioning Cosmic Brain modules as Temporal Sequence compression intensified.
• Chu Fei retreated to the eightieth floor when his isolated modules began disrupting his calculations, then used the trial to refine his Cosmic Brain and cultivation foundations.
• Chu Fei realized Banach Space and Hilbert Space Logic suited his Cosmic Brain’s yin-yang-fish framework and began embedding Banach Space Logic as a step toward solving the Wei Family’s Complex Algorithm problem.
• Chu Fei preliminarily integrated Banach Space Logic, tested and refined the framework, and continued working until the Trial Tower ejected him after eight hours.
• Chu Fei emerged to find Liu Weichang, Lord’s Mansion officials, and Azure Cloud City Legion officers gathered solemnly in the hall, where the leading officer said eight hours had passed and asked if that was enough.

Chu Fei learned that Red Pine City and Azure Cloud City had exchanged control of their cultivation facilities, and he suspected the arrangement was part of a joint effort against entrenched families and the Heavenly Dragon Sect. After developing a new Cosmic Brain framework and preparing supplies, he began seclusion to cultivate it.

• Chen Dingshan announced that Azure Cloud City would manage Red Pine City's Trial Tower for five years, while Liu Hongli revealed that Red Pine City would take over Azure Cloud City's Mirror Space in return.
• Chu Fei suspected the cities were joining forces to reclaim resources from the families and investigate threats, and Qin Shuya warned that conflict might still erupt between the Lord's Mansions and the families.
• Chu Fei tested his Potential Index at 9.9999 and used his Virtual Space to deduce a new Cosmic Brain framework combining Hilbert Space and Banach Space.
• Chu Fei decided to cultivate the new method, informed Wei Fanghua, Huang Xianwen, Qin Shuya, and Wu Yong that he was entering seclusion, and refined several high-grade potions for himself.
• Chu Fei reviewed his energy supplies, removed crystal cores from his cultivation resources, and began the upgrade by commanding, "Lower frequency!"

Chu Fei rebuilt his Cosmic Brain into a structure that exceeded the 10.0 realm, then restored his spells and combat abilities while keeping his public benchmark score near one million. He still needed to test his Aberration Index, but could not safely use Red Pine City’s public testing services.

• Chu Fei formatted his Cosmic Brain down to its 8.0 framework and used Wisdom Dewdrop to keep his body stable as his awakened genes and energy threatened to run out of control.
• Chu Fei developed and activated the Mirror Algorithm, creating a symmetrical Cosmic Brain structure that he rebuilt over roughly sixty hours.
• Chu Fei completed a four-layer Cosmic Brain with a benchmark score of 2.76 million points, then adjusted it to produce a stable score of 1.08 million.
• Chu Fei rebuilt his Divine Ability spells and combat techniques, restoring most of his combat power.
• Chu Fei decided he needed to test his Aberration Index but found that neither Flying Tiger City nor his contacts had suitable equipment, while Red Pine City’s public services were too risky to use.

Chu Fei sought a confidential test of his Aberration Index and chose Ren Qingyun, who let him use a private testing machine. The results revealed a low Aberration Index but also a mismatch between Chu Fei’s exceptional Cosmic Brain power and weaker physical energy, and Ren Qingyun advised him to improve his Life Energy Purity before advancing to level 10.0.

• Chu Fei decided to ask Ren Qingyun for confidential testing rather than trust the Wei Family or public testing facilities.
• On the way to the Potion Trading Center, Chu Fei learned that Azure Cloud City had established itself in Trial Tower Manor, taken control of Red Pine City’s Mirror Space with its cooperation, and planned to open the Trial Tower.
• Wu Jiajia escorted Chu Fei to Ren Qingyun, who offered to make him his disciple; Chu Fei explained he had to follow Wu Yong into The Inland to seek the next stages of his cultivation technique before turning twenty.
• Ren Qingyun described the deadly history of expeditions for incomplete advanced techniques, but Chu Fei insisted he wanted to pursue his own technique.
• Ren Qingyun tested Chu Fei privately and found an Aberration Index of 0.21‰, Cosmic Brain computing power above one million, low Life Energy, and 83% Life Energy Purity.
• Ren Qingyun recommended raising Chu Fei’s Life Energy Purity above 90%, ideally above 95%, prompting Chu Fei to ask how it could exceed 100%.

Chu Fei learned from Ren Qingyun that pure Life Energy could transform into True Essence, then received a roster of Ren's juniors qualified for the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm. At the Wei Family, Chu Fei studied stalled Source Core research and proposed that the Wei Family consider cooperating with the Lord's Mansion; Wei Fanghua agreed to raise the idea with the Huang Family as well.

• Ren Qingyun explained that hyper-dimensional changes could turn True Qi into True Essence, and gave Chu Fei a Storage Card listing over a hundred qualified juniors.
• Chu Fei went to the Wei Family, where he found Advanced Source Core research stalled and learned that researchers were waiting for data from Jiang Yuanping's Mid-Level Source Core.
• Wei Fanghua told Chu Fei that the Lord's Mansion had canceled previous Dragon Heaven Secret Realm allocations and would reclaim VIP Cards before redistributing entry through open competition.
• Chu Fei suggested that the Wei Family join forces with the Lord's Mansion, arguing that its Young City Lord might genuinely want to cooperate on research.
• Wei Fanghua said Chu Fei's proposal made sense, then went to discuss possible research cooperation with Huang Liwen.

Chu Fei arranged cooperation between the Wei Family and the Lord's Mansion, then used advanced computers to decompress his level 10.0 cultivation technique. He uncovered its Nebula Structure and began calculating how to integrate it into his own technique, while planning an upgrade for his Accessory Brain.

• Wei Fanghua told Huang Liwen that the Wei Family would invite the Lord's Mansion to collaborate on Advanced Source Core research.
• Chu Fei met Liu Weichang, discussed competing for first place in the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm trials and brokering research cooperation, and negotiated a discount on advanced computers.
• Chu Fei decompressed the Wei Family's cultivation techniques and found that even their best Octal techniques lacked the Star Ring Structure of his own technique.
• Chu Fei spent a day using advanced computers, Wisdom Dewdrops, and Mind Power to decompress his level 10.0 cultivation technique, revealing its Nebula Structure.
• Chu Fei began calculating how to integrate the technique's core framework into his own and decided to upgrade the algorithms of his Accessory Brain.

Chu Fei completed and abstracted an Accessory Brain from his liver, then used its computing power to back up his spinal cord and improve his abilities. After finishing several upgrades, he turned to strengthening his physical fitness, which lagged behind his Cosmic Brain, and considered seeking advice.

• Chu Fei developed his liver into an Accessory Brain with 112,000 mini-cores, then abstracted it using the Energy Bypass System, raising its computing power to 15.02 million points.
• Chu Fei failed to give the Accessory Brain a dynamic Tai Chi Diagram because its many mini-cores defeated the Reflection Spell, and he accepted that it could only provide simple computing power for now.
• Chu Fei used the Accessory Brain to create a Reflection backup of his spinal cord, but gave up backing up his brain because the required complex computing power was too high.
• Chu Fei advanced Perception of Wind to its fourth level and optimized his flight, energy system, protection, combat methods, and Dawnlight Program 7.3.
• Chu Fei recognized that his physical capacity of about 20,000 calories was low compared with his Cosmic Brain's computing power and considered using Blazing Sun Potions or seeking advice to strengthen his body.

After consolidating his cultivation, Chu Fei inspected the Jinhua Merchant Group’s rapidly growing walnut orchard and asked about ways to temper his body. He learned about the dangers and benefits of the Lava Grotto and contacted Lan Haitao, while the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm approached.

• Chu Fei left secluded cultivation, asked Qin Shuya about body-tempering methods, and learned that he had nearly reached the limit of 9.0.
• Qin Shuya showed Chu Fei the greenhouse’s energy equipment and walnut trees, which he inspected and found healthy despite their rapid growth.
• Chu Fei offered Wei Weiya the Mountain-Cleaving Saber to study, but Wei Weiya returned it because he was focused on the Advanced Source Core research.
• Chu Fei asked Lan Wenchuan about the Lava Grotto, and Lan Wenchuan explained its effects on Energy Level, the need for Revival Potions, and the risk of Baleful Qi and violence.
• Chu Fei added Lan Haitao, one of the Lava Grotto’s managers, through Lan Wenchuan.

Chu Fei prepared to travel to Black Mountain City as bait, tested his Cosmic Brain in the Trial Tower, and confirmed that people were watching him. After refining the Cosmic Brain overnight, he set out with Wang Hai as his guide, leaving the story on the road to Black Mountain City.

• Chu Fei told Xue Hao to find him a guide to Black Mountain City and spread word of his trip.
• Chu Fei traded Crimson Flame Potions to Chen Dingshan for a VIP Card loaded with points for the Trial Tower.
• Chu Fei reached the ninety-eighth floor of the Trial Tower, identified flaws in his Cosmic Brain, and repaired most of them.
• Chu Fei sensed at least five people taking turns monitoring him and returned to the Jinhua Merchant Group without confronting them.
• Chu Fei worked through the night in Virtual Space and raised his Cosmic Brain benchmark from 2.76 million to 2.84 million.
• Xue Hao introduced Wang Hai as Chu Fei's guide, and Chu Fei agreed to leave for Black Mountain City at once.

Chu Fei and Wang Hai traveled toward Black Mountain City as Chu Fei learned more about the dangers and hardships outside Red Pine City. Two powerful pursuers followed them, and Chu Fei launched a prepared ambush against the first, but their close-quarters fight ended with the enemy’s blade cutting through his defenses.

• Wang Hai explained the dangers along the route and the harsh resource struggles shaping life outside Red Pine City.
• Chu Fei and Wang Hai left Red Pine City and passed slave convoys on their way south toward Black Mountain City.
• Chu Fei sensed two pursuers behind them and prepared his motorcycle’s weapons without alerting Wang Hai.
• The first pursuer attacked, and Chu Fei fired rockets and autocannon rounds that damaged the man’s wings but failed to penetrate his defenses.
• Chu Fei charged the pursuer, whose magic artifact broke Chu Fei’s blade and then cut through his Protective Aura, leaving him bleeding across the face, neck, and chest.

Chu Fei defeated two assassins sent after him, despite suffering severe wounds and facing Enlightened opponents with powerful Divine Abilities. After killing the second assassin with a calculated counterattack, he revealed that his heart wound had healed and said, “Just kidding.”

• Chu Fei used a concentrated blunt-force attack with his broken blade to shatter the first assassin’s pelvis, then killed him after he tried to escape.
• The dying assassin said he had been hired through a bounty, suspected Azure Cloud City was behind it, and revealed a password for information in his Space Capsule.
• A second assassin arrived, and Chu Fei blinded both of them with an explosion disguised as medicine before gaining the advantage in their sword clash.
• The second assassin used Divine Abilities and close-range attacks to wear Chu Fei down, but Chu Fei relied on calculations and traded injuries for openings.
• After the assassin pierced Chu Fei’s heart, Chu Fei used Nanofluid Metal to trap the sword and tore out the assassin’s spine with a vibrating punch.
• Chu Fei pulled the sword from his heart, rapidly healed his wounds, and told the stunned assassin, “Just kidding.”

Chu Fei survived an assassination attempt, discovered that one attacker was a death warrior, and used a hidden explosive to destroy the underground clinic where the bodies were taken. He identified the expert behind the clinic as Zhao Family elder Zhao Guangyi, leaving him to wonder whether the Zhao Family had allied with Azure Cloud City.

• Chu Fei defeated the assassin in close combat, then questioned the second attacker, who appeared to die by poison before Chu Fei discovered his modified skull concealed a still-living brain.
• Chu Fei disabled the death warrior, secretly revived him to disguise the skull damage, then destroyed his brain and planted a remote explosive in his abdomen.
• Chu Fei followed the corpse collectors to an underground clinic and detonated the explosive after sensing an 11.0 Enlightened expert inside.
• The expert abandoned and destroyed the clinic, while Chu Fei sent photographs of him to Qin Shuya and Xue Hao.
• Xue Hao and Qin Shuya identified the expert as Zhao Guangyi, prompting Chu Fei to suspect that the Zhao Family had pledged allegiance to Azure Cloud City.

Chu Fei’s leaked information about Azure Cloud City and the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm set off a wave of assassinations across Red Pine City, and he realized the attempt on his life may have been part of a plan to spark the chaos. After reaching Black Mountain City and entering Lava Grotto to cultivate, he used his inherited knowledge and the Lan Family’s research to discover a new approach to strengthening the body through energy conversion.

• Chu Fei spread edited footage revealing Azure Cloud City’s interest in something inside the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm, prompting factions to target potential competitors and rivals.
• After learning that corpses had filled Red Pine City, Chu Fei suspected the assassination attempt he had escaped was meant to draw attention and trigger the killings, but he continued on to Little Black Mountain City.
• Chu Fei surveyed Little Black Mountain City, found no one pursuing him, and then traveled with Wang Hai to Black Mountain City.
• Chu Fei contacted Lan Haitao, who brought him to the Lan Family’s Lava Grotto Estate and arranged a protected cultivation room for him.
• While cultivating in Lava Grotto, Chu Fei combined the Lan Family’s records with his Life Energy inheritance and concluded that strengthening the body began with bodily energy conversion.

Chu Fei developed a scientific method for bodily energization and achieved an initial resonance between his flesh and Life Energy, greatly improving his reaction speed but placing a heavy strain on his body. After returning to Red Pine City ahead of the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm selection, he witnessed a sniper kill an elite at the city gate.

• Chu Fei used the Lava Grotto's extreme heat, careful research, and potions to strengthen his body, organize his energy, and prepare for same-frequency resonance.
• Chu Fei reached the seventh level and made his flesh-and-blood body resonate with his Life Energy, entering the rudiments of bodily energization and cutting his reaction time from eighteen milliseconds to nine.
• Chu Fei ended his energized state when its immense energy costs and damage threatened his body, then continued cultivating underground for seven days.
• Chu Fei received word from Qin Shuya, Wei Fanghua, Wang Hai, Lan Haitao, and others that the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm selection would begin the next day, so he rested and rode back to Red Pine City with Wang Hai.
• Chu Fei noticed Red Pine City had grown grim and desolate, then saw a sniper blow apart the head of an elite waiting at the city gate.

Chu Fei returned to a Red Pine City destabilized by assassinations and learned the rules for the deadly competition to enter the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm. After assessing his rapidly improved strength and expanding his Portable Space, he collected custom weapons and armor from Ren Qingyun and prepared to register the next morning.

• Chu Fei entered Red Pine City, detected a sniper targeting him, and killed the attacker with his motorcycle's autocannon.
• Qin Shuya told Chu Fei that assassinations had thrown the city into chaos and that Azure Cloud City had lost many of its experts; she also explained the competition rules and VIP Card contest.
• Chu Fei assessed his cultivation, found major gains in his physical abilities and computing power, and unlocked the full 150 cubic meters of his Portable Space.
• Chu Fei visited Ren Qingyun and inspected the custom weapons and armor prepared for his entry into the Dimensional Space.
• Ren Qingyun told Chu Fei to register the next morning, while Wu Jiajia began meditating after Ren Qingyun urged her to work harder.

Chu Fei won first place in the VIP Card competition by turning the machine-gun challenge into a slaughter of Azure Cloud City’s elites and gunners. He then entered the Trial Tower, where his flawless Cosmic Brain let him pass floor after floor without pressure until he reached the five-hundredth floor, one step from its ultimate reward.

• Chu Fei joined the VIP Card competition and used his blade and redirected bullets to kill Azure Cloud City contestants as the challenge devolved into a chaotic battle.
• Chu Fei and other elites killed Azure Cloud City’s machine gunners after Chu Fei accused them of disrupting the competition, forcing the referee to change the rules.
• Chu Fei claimed first place without a challenge and received three Soul-Burning Potions from Liu Weichang.
• Chu Fei went to the Trial Tower, handed over the agreed-upon potions, and entered Virtual Space to test his recent upgrade.
• Chu Fei passed the hundredth floor without pressure and advanced to the five-hundredth floor, where he stood one step from the Trial Tower’s ultimate reward.

Chu Fei entered the Trial Tower’s core, passed its hidden test, and studied its advanced algorithms before preparing for the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm. As violence escalated outside, a rocket attack struck Chu Fei and Qin Shuya on their way to inspect the first walnut harvest, and Chu Fei flew after the attackers.

• Chu Fei discovered that the Trial Tower’s final floor contained a supercomputing core, answered its Yanhuang Civilization test, and entered the core to study its structure for more than four hours while protecting his Cosmic Brain with Wisdom Dewdrops and Mind Power.
• Chu Fei left the Trial Tower with the core’s framework recorded in the Wisdom Tree Seed, recovered, and returned to the Jinhua Merchant Group without fear of Azure Cloud City.
• Chu Fei spent two days studying algorithms, strengthening his combat readiness, preparing equipment and supplies, and training the Feathered Serpent as assassinations and attacks escalated outside.
• Qin Shuya told Chu Fei that the first batch of walnuts was ready, and he went with her to inspect their quality.
• Chu Fei pulled Qin Shuya clear of a Nitrogen-5 Explosive rocket, then saw her badly injured and barely conscious; after she urged him to pursue the attackers, he flew after them.

After surviving an assassination attempt, Chu Fei traced the assassin to the Huang Family, then pretended to be seriously injured and helped pin the attack on Azure Cloud City while he cultivated in seclusion. Three days later, he emerged to find Red Pine City engulfed in deadly violence and sensed a trace of exceptionally pure Mind Power.

• Chu Fei followed the assassin to the Huang Family and overheard Huang Yan and the assassin discuss the failed attempt and the earlier attack at the Wei Family's entrance.
• Chu Fei decided to feign serious injuries, redirect suspicion toward Azure Cloud City, and postpone seeking revenge on the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
• With help from Qin Shuya, Xue Hao, and others, Chu Fei spread the claim that Azure Cloud City had attacked him, then used thirty advanced computers to study the Trial Tower's core and refine his Cosmic Brain.
• Three days into seclusion, Chu Fei sensed a trace of pure Mind Power and went to Qin Shuya for news.
• Qin Shuya told Chu Fei that more than 3,000 Semi-Awakened and stronger people had been found dead as violence overwhelmed Red Pine City.

Chu Fei used rumors of his injuries to conceal his condition while killing an Azure Cloud City fighter and gauging Red Pine City's worsening unrest. He headed to the Potion Trading Center, where Liu Gaoyang asked whether he could still enter the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm.

• Chu Fei watched explosions rise over Red Pine City and reflected on how quickly its prosperity and order were collapsing amid conflict between its ruling powers.
• Chu Fei pretended to be badly injured as he left home, despite Xue Dabao warning him that unfamiliar people were watching.
• When a 10.6-level Awakened drew a blade against him, Chu Fei crossed the distance in an instant, killed the man with one punch, and claimed he did not know who he was.
• Onlookers paid to view a wristband recording of Chu Fei's movement, while Chu Fei continued toward the Potion Trading Center and observed the city's growing disorder and armed patrols.
• Liu Gaoyang stopped Chu Fei on his motorcycle, joked about the rumor that Chu Fei's brain had been blown up, and asked whether he could still enter the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm.

Chu Fei bought nearly four billion yuan in potion ingredients and intelligence before visiting the Wei Family, where he pretended to be seriously ill and in need of Dragon Saliva Potion to break through. As the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm neared its opening, Lan Wenchuan urged him to become Enlightened inside it.

• Chu Fei assured Liu Gaoyang that he could enter the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm despite having only half his strength, then bought a large supply of potion ingredients and recent intelligence at the Potion Trading Center.
• Chu Fei watched wealthy cultivators pay billions for high-quality Blazing Sun Potions as prices climbed ahead of the secret realm's opening.
• Chu Fei told Wei Fanghua he wanted Dragon Saliva Grass and Dragon Gallbladder Fruit to brew Dragon Saliva Potion and secure a breakthrough to Grade 10.0.
• Wei Fanghua grew cooler after Chu Fei presented himself as seriously injured, and he went to the Advanced Computer Research Center to check on the Advanced Source Core research.
• Lan Wenchuan expressed concern for Chu Fei and told him he had to break through and become Enlightened in the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm.