Chapter Summaries

After returning to Wei Family Castle, Chu Fei arranged for a public auction to strengthen the Rare Treasures Auction House’s role as a neutral intermediary, then reviewed his gains and developed a deeper understanding of Enlightened cultivation. His study was interrupted when Wei Fanghua summoned him to meet the Inspector, who was waiting with Wei Fanghua’s father and Ren Qingyun.

• Chu Fei told Wei Fanghua he wanted the Rare Treasures Auction House to serve as an intermediary, and she agreed he could coordinate with Wang Xueshan to hold a public auction.
• Chu Fei returned to his room, sent the proposal to Qin Shuya and Wang Xueshan, and reviewed his Dragon Heaven Secret Realm gains and insights into the Awakened and Enlightened stages.
• Chu Fei assessed his newly acquired combat techniques and research materials, recognizing how vast the differences among Enlightened cultivators could be.
• Chu Fei began using Wisdom Dewdrop and Mind Power to organize his knowledge, but Wei Fanghua interrupted him to say the Inspector wanted to see him.
• Wei Fanghua led Chu Fei upstairs, where her father, the Inspector, and Ren Qingyun were waiting.

Chu Fei met Inspector Zheng Chengan and revealed his ability to transform into Zhang Bing, then recounted what he had experienced in the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm. Zheng Chengan rewarded him for saving people and exposing the Dragon People’s conspiracy, leaving Chu Fei with the Inspector’s cultivation experience.

• Chu Fei transformed into Zhang Bing in front of Zheng Chengan, Wei Shuheng, and Ren Qingyun, explaining that the painful process raised his Aberration Index if repeated too soon.
• Zheng Chengan and Wei Shuheng gave Chu Fei valuable potions, and Chu Fei used two Intermediate Revival Potions to return to his original appearance.
• Chu Fei explained how he entered the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm, rescued Duan Minghui and others, fought the Dragon People, and confronted the Heavenly Dragon, showing Zheng Chengan an unedited video of the battle.
• Chu Fei described how a Law Contract had let the Heavenly Dragon trust him and suggested the Dragon People might be aberrant species working with human traitors.
• Chu Fei gave Zheng Chengan his account of the Music Box, Resurrection Disc, Limb Regeneration Spell, and the looting of the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm; Ren Qingyun let Zheng Chengan copy the spell.
• Zheng Chengan gave Chu Fei a Storage Card containing cultivation experience as a reward from the Thunderclap Land Carrier for saving many people and exposing the century-old conspiracy.

At a banquet, Chu Fei detected an attack on the Jinhua Merchant Group and realized the attackers were drawing him into an ambush. Instead of rushing to its defense, he struck back against Zhang Family merchant groups and waited near another target to continue hunting.

• Chu Fei heard fighting near the Jinhua Merchant Group and used multiple forms of perception to locate the attackers and identify their trap.
• Chu Fei slipped into a Zhang Family-affiliated merchant group, disabled its auxiliary power system, then destroyed its main power system and backup generators.
• Chu Fei killed an Enlightened and one Awakened, slaughtered many other members carrying demonic aura, and blew up the group's weapons and ammunition before escaping.
• Chu Fei hid near the merchant group, killed a Zhang Family expert who passed close by, and fled when the others noticed the attack.
• Chu Fei reached another Zhang Family-affiliated merchant group, found its patrols too alert to approach, and waited for an opening.

Yuan Kailong weighed the danger posed by Chu Fei while Chu Fei waited outside the Kerry Merchant Group and launched a surprise attack. Chu Fei killed Yuan Kailong, but a powerful figure rushed toward him, forcing him to flee.

• Yuan Kailong learned that the Wei Family had sent two 10.0 Enlightened to aid the Jinhua Merchant Group and decided to inspect the Yuan Family's defenses.
• Chu Fei waited outside the Kerry Merchant Group until Yuan Kailong began patrolling, then charged over the wall and killed three Awakened guards.
• Yuan Kailong fought Chu Fei with a shield and tried to escape, but Chu Fei beheaded him and took his Space Capsule.
• Chu Fei sensed a powerful figure approaching and ran away.

Chu Fei raced toward the Wei Family while a half-step 11.0 expert pursued him, fighting through a blockade of three 10.0 Enlightened experts. He reached the Wei Family's protection, where Wei Weiya turned back the pursuer, and returned to Castle to speak with Wei Fanghua.

• Chu Fei used his Dragonfly Wings and catapult jumps to flee toward the Wei Family as a half-step 11.0 expert pursued him.
• Three 10.0 Enlightened experts blocked Chu Fei, but he charged through them, killing one, injuring another, and escaping with a fractured left hand.
• Chu Fei entered the Wei Family's defensive perimeter, where Wei Weiya confronted the pursuer, Zhang Shengye, and forced him to leave.
• Chu Fei returned to Wei Family Castle and told Wei Fanghua that he had defeated three low-level Enlightened opponents but could not overcome an intermediate-level one.
• Wei Fanghua remarked that Chu Fei's Cultivation Level was nearly equal to hers, while Chu Fei reflected that he still needed to practice the 10.0 cultivation method.

After surviving a difficult fight, Chu Fei considered the strange luck surrounding his victory, suspected the apocalypse was part of a hidden plan, and reviewed his combat and cultivation flaws. While he rested under the Wei Family’s protection, the Dragon People’s attacks set Red Pine City ablaze, and Chu Fei sensed an extraordinary surge of pure Mind Power.

• Chu Fei reflected on his three fights, concluded that several advantages and a flashlight mishap had helped him survive the mid-level 10.0 Enlightened, and suspected strange fortune had protected him.
• Chu Fei connected anomalies from past inheritances and disasters, decided that someone was monitoring events, and inferred that the Yanhuang Federation had deliberately shaped the apocalypse to prepare people to fight the Higher-Dimensional World.
• Chu Fei thanked the Wisdom Tree Seed for preventing the Dragon Heaven Avatar from possessing him, then recognized that his combat skills remained too deliberate and studied how Riemannian flow could improve his Cosmic Brain framework.
• As Chu Fei cultivated at the Wei Family residence, the Dragon People and their allies launched attacks across Red Pine City, and widespread fires and looting engulfed the city.
• Chu Fei watched the burning city with Wei Longyu, learned that the strongest attackers so far were 10.0 Awakened, and felt helpless as civilians suffered.
• Chu Fei suddenly sensed an extremely pure portion of Mind Power appear in his consciousness space.

Chu Fei received pure Mind Power from the Self-Salvation Society’s growth during Red Pine City’s crisis, then investigated his cultivation method and discovered he needed to rebuild it around the more efficient 10.0 framework. As the city burned and the Lord of Thunderclap’s power loomed, Chu Fei and Wu Yong quietly left Red Pine City.

• Chu Fei sensed Mind Power formed from the Self-Salvation Society’s rescue work and its doctrine of self-salvation, and realized the crisis had accelerated the group’s growth.
• Chu Fei learned from Wei Longyu that the Dragon People’s actions might provoke the Lord of Thunderclap, rumored to be at Cultivation Level 14.0.
• Chu Fei visited Qin Shuya, confirmed the Jinhua Merchant Group’s losses, and gave her cultivation methods, potions, and valuables to support the group and the Self-Salvation Society.
• Chu Fei secluded himself at the underground base and used his advanced computer array, Wisdom Dewdrops, and Mind Power to analyze and revise his 10.0 cultivation method.
• Chu Fei discovered that his Tai Chi Diagram Cosmic Brain architecture was inefficient and decided to rebuild it using the 10.0 cultivation method as its core framework.
• Chu Fei stored the computers in his Portable Space and left Red Pine City amid the chaos; Wu Yong left with him.

Dragon People leaders in Red Pine City agreed to provoke an aberrant-species disaster and mark the panicked population as Dragon People to evade detection. While they made plans to survive the crisis, Chu Fei and Wu Yong left Red Pine City for the Lan Family.

• Yin Yunlong and the city leaders debated why they could no longer contact the Heavenly Dragon, and most accepted that it was recovering after the Dragon Pearl was destroyed.
• Zhang Shengtao warned that the Inspector might secretly move against the Dragon People, and Liu Weichang argued they needed time to prepare and demanded that Chu Fei be included in negotiations so he could be killed.
• Yin Yunlong proposed the Fish-Eye Mixing Plan: summon aberrant species to create panic, then implant Dragon Marks in the population so the Dragon Heaven Soul Mirror could no longer distinguish Dragon People.
• The Dragon People approved the plan and agreed to claim that the Heavenly Dragon was recovering and would eventually break free of its seal.
• Chu Fei packed the advanced computers and left Red Pine City with Wu Yong, flying south toward the Lan Family.

After fleeing Red Pine City, Chu Fei reached Black Mountain City and negotiated a cooperation agreement with the Lan Family. He then received intelligence about Red Pine City, including the Jinhua Merchant Group, the Rare Treasures Auction House, and the Self-Salvation Society.

• Chu Fei and Wu Yong arrived in Black Mountain City, where Lan Haiming arranged lodging for them but kept Chu Fei outside the Lan Family itself.
• Chu Fei read Zheng Chengan's cultivation experience and discovered it contained a confidential offer to join Thunderclap Land Carrier as a Level Three Inspector.
• Lan Haiming and Wang Qiyun negotiated with Chu Fei, and the Lan Family accepted his terms after agreeing on potion prices and providing a laboratory.
• Wang Qiyun explained that the Lan Family had accepted quickly because Red Pine City's impending chaos would make experts and potions more valuable.
• Lan Haiming brought Chu Fei intelligence on Red Pine City, including information about the Jinhua Merchant Group, the Rare Treasures Auction House, and the Self-Salvation Society.

As Red Pine City’s chaos worsened, the Heavenly Dragon Sect gained support by claiming Dragon Scars could protect people from aberrants, while Chu Fei and Lan Haiming struggled to counter its propaganda. After studying numerous cultivation techniques in the Virtual Space, Chu Fei completed a breakthrough in his own technique and prepared to become a 10.0 Enlightened.

• Chu Fei learned that the Heavenly Dragon Sect was spreading the claim that Dragon Scars could protect people from aberrants and was holding gatherings across Red Pine City.
• Chu Fei and Lan Haiming suspected the Dragon People planned to summon aberrants, and Chu Fei proposed using the Self-Salvation Society to warn Semi-Awakened people and above.
• Chu Fei sent his analysis to Xue Hao and Qin Shuya, then borrowed Lan Family members to assemble a supercomputer and entered the Virtual Space.
• Chu Fei compared ordinary Enlightened techniques with his own and realized that his technique used far more advanced algorithms and logic.
• After more than twenty hours of calculations, Chu Fei integrated the Tai Chi Diagram framework into the technique named dawn and announced that he would update his cultivation foundation and become a 10.0 Enlightened.

After leaving seclusion, Chu Fei learned that the Dragon People were demanding his life and began weighing the Lan Family’s offer of support against its honey trap. He released the strengthened Feathered Serpent and began rebuilding his Cosmic Brain with the Dawn Cultivation Method’s algorithms, using his Accessory Brain to preserve his cultivation.

• Chu Fei gave Wang Yujing twenty Space Capsules to distribute, reserving the more valuable supplies for the Lan Family and warning her that the Dragon People’s belongings must stay within the family.
• Wang Yujing told Chu Fei that the Dragon People were negotiating with the inspectors for him to be handed over, while the Justice Faction was refusing to yield and the Lan Family was keeping his presence secret.
• Chu Fei recognized Wang Yujing’s role as a honey trap but decided to pursue a mutually beneficial partnership with the Lan Family for now.
• Chu Fei released the Feathered Serpent, noticed its aura had grown close to that of a first-generation level-six mutant beast, and had it guard the chamber.
• Chu Fei benchmarked his abilities, then used the Accessory Brain to take over his body while formatting the Cosmic Brain and rebuilding it with a Tai Chi Diagram framework based on the Dawn Cultivation Method.

After iterating his Cosmic Brain, Chu Fei officially entered the 10.0 Enlightened realm and developed a long-range curse technique by combining several laws and abilities. He tested his new powers in seclusion and discovered his Potential Index had risen to 10.5012, while remaining focused on mastering combat methods before leaving.

• Chu Fei completed his Cosmic Brain iteration, raising its benchmark score from 3.07 million to 6.11 million and gaining insight into integrating laws into the Cosmic Brain.
• Chu Fei began studying the law inheritances and combat abilities he had collected, then devised a curse technique that could remotely attack a target's Life Energy.
• Chu Fei used a solid-state storage chip formed from his finger to provide the curse with a fulcrum, allowing him to destroy a medicinal herb from more than ten meters away.
• Chu Fei tested the curse on different materials and established its limits, including its need for a target with Life Energy and its risk of backlash against hard targets.
• Chu Fei reviewed his abilities and used a potential-testing helmet, which measured his Potential Index at 10.5012.

Chu Fei learned more about curses while studying the cultivation exam materials, then discovered that aberrants had arrived and Red Pine City was nearing collapse. He considered how to respond and what he could gain, and Lan Haiming offered the Lan Family’s resources in exchange for Chu Fei’s help.

• Chu Fei calmed Wang Yujing with a curse, then studied the cultivation exam materials and analyzed the Cosmic Brain Cultivation Technique’s Source Code.
• Wang Yujing gave Chu Fei reports detailing Red Pine City’s collapse, the rise of the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and the arrival of increasingly powerful aberrants.
• Chu Fei learned that the Heavenly Dragon Sect had gained influence as aberrants targeted non-Dragon People and Red Pine City split into opposing camps.
• Chu Fei asked Wang Yujing to contact Lan Haiming and said he had officially entered the 10.0 realm.
• Lan Haiming described the Lan Family’s needs, including cultivation lectures, computer access, medicine, and Complex Algorithms, then offered Chu Fei Hyper-Dimensional Metal called Red Copper.

Chu Fei traded the Blazing Sun Potion formula to the Lan Family for 7.5 kilograms of Red Copper, then negotiated a second deal to teach them his brewing techniques. The Lan Family agreed to provide another eight kilograms of Red Copper, and Chu Fei headed to the Alchemy Center to train their alchemists that night.

• Chu Fei learned that Red Copper was a rank 100 Lan Family resource made from Hyper-Dimensional Metal, then offered the Blazing Sun Potion formula in exchange for it.
• Chu Fei and Lan Haiming haggled over the formula and settled on 7.5 kilograms of Red Copper; Lan Haiming took the formula to have it tested.
• After Lan Haiming returned with the Red Copper, he explained that the Lan Family's alchemists could not quickly master the difficult formula and asked Chu Fei to teach them.
• Chu Fei treated teaching his broader potion-brewing methods as a separate deal, and Lan Haiming agreed to provide eight more kilograms of Red Copper for instruction that night.
• Chu Fei accepted and went with Lan Haiming to the Alchemy Center, joking that the double sale made their cooperation win-win.

Chu Fei taught the Lan Family potion makers about vibration calculations, then spent the night preparing potions for the coming chaos. Wang Yujing brought news that Eerie Spirits had appeared in Red Pine City, and Lan Haiming invited Chu Fei to discuss the crisis.

• Chu Fei explained potion-refining calculations to the Lan Family’s potion makers and demonstrated data extraction, wasting materials before finishing the lesson.
• Chu Fei reviewed the Lan Family’s Hyper-Dimensional Metal research, then refined potions through the night to prepare for coming unrest.
• Wang Yujing delivered a report and blurry surveillance footage showing Eerie Spirits appearing outside Red Pine City and nearby people collapsing.
• Chu Fei identified the figures as Eerie Spirits and recalled their abilities, dangers, and possible ways to detect or fight them.
• Wang Yujing told Chu Fei that Lan Haiming had invited him to the Lan Family’s conference hall to discuss the Eerie Spirit crisis.

Chu Fei warned the Lan Family that the newly appearing Eerie Spirits posed a severe threat, then helped organize secret preparations and information-sharing. As the crisis spread around Red Pine City, a fresh report showed that an Eerie Spirit had begun targeting powerful cultivators.

• Chu Fei told Lan Wenjiang and the Lan Family elders that only powerful cultivators had a chance against real Eerie Spirits, and advised limiting disclosure while people prepared.
• Chu Fei recorded an explanation of Eerie Spirits, and the Lan Family arranged for encrypted copies to be carried to the Self-Salvation Society and the Jinhua Merchant Group.
• Lan Haiming contacted survivors from the Dragon Heaven Secret Realm, who arranged a meeting in Little Black Mountain City to coordinate defenses and share combat knowledge.
• Representatives discussed joint plans for defense, evacuations, and support, while Chu Fei doubted that their proposals could overcome the families' distrust and divided territories.
• Lan Wenjiang learned that aberrations had appeared around Black Mountain City, and later Chu Fei received news that an Eerie Spirit had wiped out a small merchant group in Red Pine City.
• Chu Fei noticed that nearly all the victims had been Level 8.0 or higher and concluded that the Eerie Spirit had begun selecting its prey.

After the Eerie Spirits threatened Red Pine City, Qin Shuya and Zheng Chengan organized preparations while Zheng Chengan failed to kill one of the creatures. Chu Fei agreed to return and seek appointment as an Inspector, ending the chapter as Zheng Chengan summoned him to the south gate.

• Qin Shuya gathered the Jinhua Merchant Group and Self-Salvation Society, arranged surveillance and safe rooms, and began preparing to evacuate Red Pine City after learning an Eerie Spirit had killed 182 cultivators.
• Zheng Chengan reassured the Wei Family and Huang Family, ordered preparations, and searched Red Pine City for Eerie Spirits.
• Zheng Chengan encountered an Eerie Spirit attacking cultivators, but his blade passed through it and the creature escaped by slipping between shadows.
• Chu Fei contacted Zheng Chengan from Black Mountain City and applied to become an Inspector, offering to help deal with the Eerie Spirits.
• Chu Fei returned to Red Pine City within half an hour, and Zheng Chengan told him to meet at the south gate.

Chu Fei and Zheng Chengan hunted an Eerie Spirit trapped in a Dragon People family estate, but it escaped after someone sacrificed their soul to summon it away. Chu Fei realized the Eerie Spirits might be organizing Human Traitors, leaving their growing threat unresolved.

• Chu Fei arrived at the south gate and found Zheng Chengan containing an Eerie Spirit inside a family estate where Dragon People were being killed.
• Chu Fei located one Eerie Spirit, descended to fight it, and told the survivors to scatter so it could not move between their shadows.
• The Eerie Spirit bounced off Chu Fei’s prepared shadow, then dodged his attacks and repeatedly escaped his attempts to corner it.
• Zheng Chengan ordered Chu Fei to kill the remaining Dragon People, but the Eerie Spirit suddenly devoured more than a dozen souls and vanished.
• Chu Fei recalled that an Eerie Spirit could relocate when someone within range spoke its true name or remembered its appearance, and suspected its companions were gathering Human Traitors into an organization.

Chu Fei joined Zheng Chengan in briefing Wei Family and Lord's Mansion leaders about the Eerie Spirits, and the factions agreed to cooperate against them. When three Eerie Spirits attacked a mercenary group, Chu Fei went with Wei Shuheng to fight one, but his opening strike failed to stop it from disappearing.

• Zheng Chengan rewarded Chu Fei, confirmed him as a Thunderclap Land Carrier inspector, and introduced him to the Wei Family as his assistant on the Eerie Spirit matter.
• Chu Fei explained that Eerie Spirits had grown smarter, could cooperate, and might use coerced people to reveal their true names or images.
• Liu Jinhui agreed to form emergency teams with the Wei Family, and the leaders signed an agreement tying Red Pine City's future to how many Eerie Spirits the Lord's Mansion killed.
• The Wei Family received a distress call from a mercenary group, and Wei Shuheng carried Chu Fei to the scene, where Chu Fei detected three Eerie Spirits.
• Wei Shuheng contained one Eerie Spirit and offered Chu Fei a billion in credit to kill it; Chu Fei attacked, but the Eerie Spirit began to vanish despite his strike.

After an Eerie Spirit fled Chu Fei and Wei Shuheng, Red Pine City’s leaders struggled to understand how to fight the ghosts as panic and violence spread. Zheng Chengan and Chu Fei set out to intercept another group, suspecting the Eerie Spirits had been deliberately deployed as a test.

• An Eerie Spirit escaped despite Chu Fei and Wei Shuheng’s attempt to stop it, and Wei Shuheng arranged compensation and support for the surviving mercenaries.
• At a meeting with Zheng Chengan and the family heads, Chu Fei proposed making information about Eerie Spirits public, and the leaders agreed to disclose what they knew.
• After news spread, families began fleeing Red Pine City, people fought over detection equipment, and panic, looting, and armed conflict worsened across the city.
• Zheng Chengan asked Chu Fei to join him in hunting Eerie Spirits, while Liu Jinhui accepted rewards for killing them and sharing his methods.
• Chu Fei gave Zheng Chengan parameters for detecting Eerie Spirits, and the fighter jet found traces at two locations within fifty kilometers.
• Zheng Chengan and Chu Fei headed to intercept one group, and Chu Fei suggested the Eerie Spirits might have been deployed to disrupt the Dragon People’s plans and serve as a test.