Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei challenged Liu Tingyun over the Greedy Wolf Team’s investment and rejected its cultivation guidance, arguing that the hardest method best fit Big Data Cultivation’s focus on the Cosmic Brain. Liu Tingyun approved the investment without interfering in his cultivation, but left Chu Fei with an implied warning to prove he was truly a genius.

• Chu Fei confronted Liu Tingyun at the Academic Affairs Office, insisting the investment agreement did not let the Greedy Wolf Team control his cultivation or supplies.
• Chu Fei criticized the team’s past guidance and argued that the third cultivation method, though hardest, best developed the Cosmic Brain.
• Zhou Haiyi acknowledged Chu Fei’s argument and asked what he intended to do.
• Liu Tingyun granted Chu Fei the Greedy Wolf Team’s investment, placed its funds under Zhou Haiyi’s administration and Cao Liwen’s supervision, and promised not to interfere in his cultivation.
• Liu Tingyun warned Chu Fei that the world was tolerant of geniuses, then flew away on white wings.
• Chu Fei reaffirmed that he would choose the third cultivation method, and Cao Liwen said she and Zhou Haiyi would discuss it.

Chu Fei learned about investments, material prices, and the uses of mutated beast flesh and blood from Sun Xiangqing, then gave him a Superbrain Potion to secure his help. Back in his dormitory, Chu Fei meditated and fed a Wisdom Dewdrop to the dormant Wisdom Tree Seed, which began to respond.

• Chu Fei asked Sun Xiangqing about investments and material prices, and Sun Xiangqing explained how teams supplied goods and charged for market-bought items.
• Sun Xiangqing explained how mutated beast flesh and blood supplied energy and could be used for medicine, implants, battle pets, and Superbrain Potions.
• Chu Fei gave Sun Xiangqing a Superbrain Potion and decided to rely on him to handle daily affairs and serve as a link to Liu Tingyun.
• Chu Fei returned to the dormitory, meditated on his cultivation bottleneck, and decided to use his accumulated Wisdom Dewdrops.
• Chu Fei used a Wisdom Dewdrop to nourish the Wisdom Tree Seed, which absorbed it and sent strange information circling through his mind.

After using the Wisdom Tree Seed to identify the causes of his cultivation bottleneck, Chu Fei planned to balance physical and thought training. He then received a resource exchange list from Zhou Haiyi and asked Sun Xiangqing for advice on choosing supplies.

• Chu Fei used a Wisdom Dewdrop on the Wisdom Tree Seed and learned that his bottleneck came from insufficient energy for his brain and inefficient thought processes.
• Chu Fei decided to strengthen his physical training, continue thought training, and get proper rest before resuming cultivation.
• Chu Fei wandered around Dawn Academy and saw students and instructors studying, training, and relaxing before Sun Xiangqing told him Zhou Haiyi wanted to see him.
• Zhou Haiyi gave Chu Fei a Greedy Wolf Team exchange list allowing him to obtain supplies worth 242,100 yuan, including discounted Superbrain and Supernatural Potions.
• Chu Fei asked Sun Xiangqing for recommendations, and Sun advised him to favor low-level exotic beast meat and use potions sparingly because of drug resistance.

After learning about Cao Liwen’s struggles, Chu Fei refined his cultivation plan and began nourishing his body with exotic beast flesh. The meal strengthened the effects of his Wisdom Dewdrop, helping him improve his Thought Model and launch a sprint toward the First Limit.

• Sun Xiangqing told Chu Fei that Cao Liwen had borrowed money to cultivate, with Captain Liu guaranteeing the loans, and might have to join a combat team if he failed to break through.
• Chu Fei meditated and realized that his Thought Model was limited by an incomplete knowledge base and insufficiently organized learning.
• On Monday, Chu Fei stopped training with the others and went to the Academic Affairs Office to discuss supplies with Zhou Haiyi.
• Chu Fei collected three kilograms of low-level exotic beast flesh, cooked it into porridge, and ate a kilogram in his dormitory.
• With his body replenished, Chu Fei used a Wisdom Dewdrop to add vector calculation to his Thought Model and decided to sprint toward the First Limit.

Chu Fei intensified his training and studies while using the resources bought by Greedy Wolf Team, bringing his body close to the human physical limit. After two weeks, he learned that an Awakened’s breakthrough involved wisdom and spirit as well as the body, and asked Cao Liwen what breaking the First Limit felt like.

• Chu Fei followed a demanding daily routine of training, classes, review, Meat Porridge, and meditation, while his physique grew leaner and stronger than his classmates’.
• Chu Fei recognized that he needed to break through soon to survive the resentment caused by killing Huang Dapeng and Tang Zhengang and confronting Liu Tingyun.
• Two weeks later, Li Honggang and the others saw Chu Fei run uphill with a heavy load at a speed that brought him close to the human physical limit.
• Cao Liwen gave Chu Fei the principal’s note explaining that cultivation used scientific wisdom to guide both material and spiritual evolution.
• Cao Liwen told Chu Fei that most people had to prioritize breaking through by any means, while only a few geniuses could choose a better method.
• Chu Fei asked what it felt like to break through the First Limit, and Cao Liwen answered, “Above heaven and below earth, I alone am supreme.”

Chu Fei refined his Thought Model and pursued a breakthrough through the First Limit without relying on external aids. After weeks of study and training, he began another final attempt as his classmates faced the third physical examination.

• Chu Fei realized that breaking through the Limits required choosing a guiding direction and resolved to follow what he believed was the correct Path of Cultivation.
• Chu Fei spent the night trying to add the Finite State Mechanism to his Thought Model, but failed to break through despite using four Wisdom Dewdrops and five kilograms of Meat Porridge.
• Chu Fei rejected high-grade exotic beast flesh and Supernatural Potions, deciding instead to improve his flawed Thought Model through further study, training, and advice from teachers and classmates.
• As the third examination approached, Chu Fei learned that Zhang Xuan had received investment from the Dawnbreak Team, joining the other three students backed by battle teams.
• Chu Fei skipped the weekly examination, continued meditating through the night, and began a final attempt to break through the First Limit.

Chu Fei successfully made his Thought Model autonomous and broke through the First Limit, gaining sharper senses. Sun Xiangqing explained that the breakthrough had started an intense month-long bodily update, leaving Chu Fei ravenously hungry and needing rest before a year-long gradual stage.

• Chu Fei completed his Thought Model, tested its computing power until it crashed, and discovered that his senses had become exceptionally sharp.
• Chu Fei went to the cafeteria and told Sun Xiangqing that he was still hungry after eating, prompting Sun Xiangqing to explain the First Limit’s bodily update and its nutritional demands.
• Sun Xiangqing told Chu Fei to rest and eat during the intense month-long stage, then train and aim for the Second Limit during the following gradual stage.
• Chu Fei ordered two more servings of Meat Porridge and headed to Cao Liwen’s office.

After breaking through the First Limit, Chu Fei received recovery advice from Cao Liwen and explained his approach to cultivation. He rested through a difficult month of bodily renewal, then underwent the third physical examination as the other students faced the coming eliminations.

• Cao Liwen was shocked by how quickly Chu Fei had broken through and gave him advice and a medicinal diet plan.
• Chu Fei told Cao Liwen that confidence, willpower, self-examination, and staying true to one's path had helped him progress, and he urged Cao Liwen to confront obstacles to his own path.
• Chu Fei returned to the dormitory, spent his recovery period eating, sleeping, and repeatedly using the restroom, and complained that his intended life of Lying Flat was exhausting.
• Cao Liwen examined Chu Fei first at the third physical examination, recording an increase from 7.6876 to 7.7113.
• Li Honggang, Lu Hong, and Zhang Xuan also underwent examinations; Zhang Xuan made the largest gain, while Li Honggang grew uneasy as Lu Hong caught up.

After the examination, Chu Fei and Zhang Xuan received additional investment for their breakthroughs and performance, while Li Honggang and Lu Hong received nothing from the Flying Cloud Battle Team. The chapter left Chu Fei heading to lunch with Sun Xiangqing, who planned to introduce him to the Academy Mission System.

• Li Honggang placed first in the test, Zhang Xuan placed second, and Lu Hong placed third, while seven of the seventeen students were eliminated.
• Cao Liwen summoned Chu Fei, Li Honggang, Lu Hong, and Zhang Xuan to hear investment offers from representatives of three teams.
• Liu Tingyun awarded Chu Fei 26,800 yuan in additional investment for his academic standing and First Limit breakthrough.
• Wang Gui awarded Zhang Xuan 11,600 yuan in additional investment, and Guo Xuan became her cultivation guide.
• Feng Yuan announced that the Flying Cloud Battle Team would make no additional investment in Li Honggang or Lu Hong, leaving them worried they would be abandoned.
• Sun Xiangqing invited Chu Fei to tour the Academy Mission System that afternoon.

Sun Xiangqing explained Dawn Academy’s mission system and how students relied on missions, team investments, and academy supplies to fund cultivation. Chu Fei calculated that his resources could support a month of rest, so he spent the day lying beneath a tree until Cao Liwen appeared over him at sunset.

• Sun Xiangqing explained that Dawn Academy used missions to fund students’ cultivation and give them practical experience, while missions remained technically optional.
• Chu Fei worked out that his Greedy Wolf Team investments could cover his needs if his Potential Index increased enough, though Sun Xiangqing doubted he could reach the Second Limit so quickly.
• Chu Fei calculated that his current funds and academy supplies could support him through the First Renewal Period.
• Chu Fei removed his dormitory bedboard, lay beneath a tree, and fell asleep after deciding he had several reasons to rest.
• Chu Fei woke to eat and returned to lying down until Cao Liwen appeared above him at sunset.

Cao Liwen told Chu Fei about a Dimensional Space that would open on the Winter Solstice and offered him a chance to find powerful Spirit Fruits there. Chu Fei was intrigued but asked to learn the full risks and why Cao Liwen had chosen him before agreeing.

• Cao Liwen offered Chu Fei an opportunity to improve his chances of becoming an Awakened, and Chu Fei asked what it involved.
• Cao Liwen explained that a Dimensional Space beneath Flying Tiger City opened every two or three years and allowed entry only to people eighteen or younger without cybernetic augmentation.
• Cao Liwen said a Spirit Mother Tree inside the Dimensional Space produced Spirit Fruits that could promote advancement, and recalled giving Liu Tingyun a fruit he had found there twenty years earlier.
• Cao Liwen revealed that he had hidden a root cutting and believed Chu Fei could find at least five twenty-year-old Spirit Fruits, offering one to Cao Liwen and the rest to Chu Fei.
• Chu Fei asked for details about the dangers and Spirit Fruits, and questioned why Cao Liwen had chosen him.

Chu Fei learned why Cao Liwen had chosen him for a trade involving Spirit Fruit and special instruction, but delayed giving his answer until the next evening. After studying a book about planetary energy systems, Chu Fei understood more about the dangerous Underground World beneath Flying Tiger City and headed to the Dawn Team.

• Chu Fei questioned Cao Liwen's motives, so Cao Liwen gave him handwritten papers explaining the risks of the Dimensional Space, Spirit Fruit, and why he trusted Chu Fei.
• Chu Fei read the papers and learned that a mature Spirit Fruit could provide enough resources for his breakthrough, while Cao Liwen promised him special instruction if he accepted the trade.
• Chu Fei burned the papers and agreed to give Cao Liwen his answer the next evening.
• Chu Fei borrowed and studied Shallow Analysis of Planetary Energy Systems, learning that Flying Tiger City stood above an underground energy lake filled with dangerous creatures, old facilities, and the Dimensional Space.
• Chu Fei finished the book late at night and went to the Dawn Team early the next morning.

Chu Fei accepted Cao Liwen’s dangerous mission to seek Spirit Fruit, despite Huang Gang’s warning that Liu Tingyun might be waiting to act against them. The chapter left Chu Fei beginning private cultivation lessons with Cao Liwen, whose insights into evolution and genetic mutation could help him prepare.

• Chu Fei told Huang Gang about Cao Liwen’s mission, and Huang Gang warned him to be wary of Liu Tingyun and the risks of pursuing the Spirit Fruit.
• Huang Gang explained that Cao Liwen’s decades of research and experience teaching students made him an invaluable guide to early cultivation.
• Chu Fei decided to accept Cao Liwen’s mission, believing that refusing to take risks would leave him without resources or control over his fate.
• That night, Chu Fei told Cao Liwen he would try the mission, and Cao Liwen began giving him private lessons in his laboratory.
• Cao Liwen introduced questions about evolution, genetic mutation, will, and Big Data Cultivation, and Chu Fei recognized the value of his knowledge.

Cao Liwen explained to Chu Fei how the Observer Effect, through self-observation and practices such as visualization and meditation, could direct evolution and underpin Big Data Cultivation. He then challenged Chu Fei to find a scientific basis for will, leaving Chu Fei stumped and waiting for the answer.

• Cao Liwen described how survivorship bias made the flaws in the Theory of Evolution difficult to study and introduced the Observer Effect and Quantum Collapse.
• Chu Fei realized Cao Liwen meant that people observed themselves by admiring others and imagining who they might become.
• Cao Liwen explained that the Observer Effect could direct evolution, while visualization and meditation strengthened it to accelerate cultivation.
• Cao Liwen asked Chu Fei to explain will scientifically, but Chu Fei could not answer and decided to wait for Cao Liwen to explain.

Chu Fei used the Wisdom Tree Seed to uncover concealed flaws in Cao Liwen’s lesson, then spent two drops of Wisdom Dew stabilizing his body during the Intense Update Period. He realized that Wisdom Dew might help make the first update more complete, and that lectures could be an efficient way to obtain it.

• Cao Liwen ended his lesson early and warned Chu Fei that the place would lock soon, so Chu Fei hurried out for a late-night snack.
• Chu Fei reconsidered Cao Liwen’s motives and decided to stay alert rather than accept his teachings blindly.
• Chu Fei reviewed the lesson with the Wisdom Tree Seed, which revealed repeated deceptions and flaws in key areas of Cao Liwen’s knowledge.
• After correcting what he could, Chu Fei’s intense thinking disrupted his body’s update, so he used two drops of Wisdom Dew to stabilize his brain and body.
• Chu Fei sensed that Wisdom Dew made his physical changes proceed more smoothly and realized it might help perfect the First Renewal Period.
• Chu Fei concluded that reading, studying, and especially listening to lectures could help him obtain the Wisdom Dew he needed.

Chu Fei struggled to feed his accelerated bodily renewal and sought financial support from Dawn Academy. He spent the day studying to gather Wisdom Dewdrops and looked forward to his private lesson at Cao Liwen's laboratory.

• Chu Fei woke ravenous, ate a large breakfast, and charged the cafeteria for the day's allotted mutant beast meat to make more Meat Porridge.
• Chu Fei asked Sun Xiangqing about team investment and Academy supplies, learning that first-month supplies were worth only five thousand yuan.
• Zhou Haiyi told Chu Fei that the Academy was discussing his situation and would have a result in another two days.
• Chu Fei studied popular science books to accumulate Wisdom Dewdrops, but consumed ten pounds of Meat Porridge before noon as his renewal continued.
• Chu Fei used another Wisdom Dewdrop to support his renewal and anticipated his private lesson at Cao Liwen's laboratory after gaining only half a drop from studying.

Cao Liwen taught Chu Fei that Big Data Cultivation used science and technology to drive life’s active evolution, transforming people into technology-intensive life forms. He then began a lesson on will, claiming humans had no will and writing “Greed” on the screen before sending Chu Fei to eat.

• Chu Fei told Cao Liwen that he had realized cultivation was individual evolution accelerated by science and technology.
• Cao Liwen explained how natural evolution and Martial Arts had limits, while scientific tools could alter core genes and guide further human evolution.
• Chu Fei summarized cultivation as using science and technology to drive life’s active advancement and surpass nature.
• Cao Liwen defined cultivation as compressing scientific achievements into oneself to become a technology-intensive life form.
• Cao Liwen asked Chu Fei about will, declared that humans had no will, wrote “Greed” on the screen, and called a fifteen-minute break.

Cao Liwen used an experiment with paramecia to teach Chu Fei that life’s basic drive was greed for food and survival, while human will was a rational, goal-oriented form of that instinct. Chu Fei began to understand that cultivation required intelligence and wisdom to control instinct and pursue ambitious goals, then Cao Liwen asked him to connect the lesson to the cultivation keywords from the previous day.

• Chu Fei returned to Cao Liwen’s temporary classroom after drinking Meat Porridge and struggled to understand Cao Liwen’s claim that humans had no will and were driven by greed.
• Cao Liwen showed Chu Fei an experiment in which paramecia moved toward beef broth and away from saltwater, explaining that their movement reflected greed for food and survival.
• Chu Fei challenged Cao Liwen’s dismissal of will, morality, and integrity, but Cao Liwen argued that natural science prioritized material survival, especially in the apocalypse.
• Cao Liwen distinguished basic greed from insatiable greed and explained that human will was rational, goal-oriented greed that intelligence could control and turn into motivation.
• Chu Fei recalled Huang Gang’s words about fighting to survive and began to grasp Cao Liwen’s lesson that wisdom and effort could overcome instinct.
• Cao Liwen asked Chu Fei to connect evolution, mutation, randomness, Survivorship Bias, will, Observer Effect, and Quantum Collapse into his own cultivation philosophy.

Chu Fei reflected on Cao Liwen’s lessons and questioned what he had left unexplained about the Cosmic Brain. Using Wisdom Dewdrop and a rebuilt Thought Model, Chu Fei developed his own theory that mathematical order and abstract thought were central to Big Data Cultivation, with genes serving only as its starting data carriers.

• Chu Fei organized Cao Liwen’s teachings into theories about evolution, the Observer Effect, human intelligence, and the link between cultivation and research.
• Chu Fei questioned Cao Liwen’s account of will and greed and suspected that Cao Liwen had withheld key information about the Cosmic Brain.
• Chu Fei returned to his dormitory, studied his books, and decided to conduct his own research rather than rely on others.
• Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrop to rebuild his Thought Model and accelerate his thinking.
• Chu Fei concluded that mathematical order organized abstract thought and that Big Data Cultivation would replace genes as hereditary-information carriers with the Cosmic Brain.

Chu Fei used Cao Liwen’s ideas to refine his understanding of Big Data Cultivation and began using mathematical thought and Liu Tingyun as a reference for gene activation. After constructing a Perfect Human Model, he headed to the cafeteria hungry after a night of cultivation.

• Chu Fei concluded that Big Data Cultivation used mathematical thought and a Thought Model to strengthen the Observer Effect and guide gene activation.
• Chu Fei chose Awakened Liu Tingyun as his reference target and used her as the basis for visualizing a Perfect Human Model.
• Chu Fei considered whether the Wisdom Tree Seed could be a Pure Data Lifeform, then set the idea aside as beyond his current cultivation.
• Chu Fei used Human Mechanics and Human Engineering to abstract a Perfect Human Model from Liu Tingyun’s bodily data.
• Chu Fei finished washing up after midnight, took his empty thermos to the cafeteria, and woke the cafeteria master to ask for porridge.