Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei strengthened his body, energy, and soul, then mastered the Basic Spirit Nurturing Potion and produced a large stock of it. After deciding to seek cooperation with Ren Qingyun, he learned that Lan Haitao had arrived.

• Chu Fei precisely awakened several genes, endured the tenth level of the Lava Grotto for half an hour, and returned to the Lan Family.
• Wang Yujing told Chu Fei that prisoner-exchange talks were ongoing, and he suspected the Dragon People were stalling while preparing a major move.
• Chu Fei devoured two Eerie Spirits, improved his soul, and updated his combat methods through Virtual Space training.
• Chu Fei discovered he lacked suitable Level 11.0 potions, studied the Basic Spirit Nurturing Potion formula, and refined potions worth billions of yuan.
• Chu Fei decided to seek cooperation with Ren Qingyun, but Wang Yujing soon reported that Lan Haitao had arrived.

Chu Fei agreed to oversee the prisoner exchange between the Dragon People and the Justice Faction, then prepared for the possibility of an attack. After assessing his growing strength, he entered a meditative state and made his longsword float before him.

• Lan Haitao asked Chu Fei to oversee the exchange of 153,777 Dragon People prisoners for 31,376 Justice Faction prisoners, and Chu Fei agreed.
• Lan Haitao reported that the exchange would take place at noon the next day outside Little Black Mountain City, with the Dragon People bringing many transport vehicles.
• Chu Fei sensed that trouble would occur during the exchange but probably would not threaten his life, so he checked his equipment and prepared.
• Chu Fei assessed improvements in his computing power, reaction speed, explosive strength, Life Energy, and Cosmic Brain influence range.
• Chu Fei meditated with his longsword, and the sword rose until it hovered level with his brow.

Chu Fei refined his cultivation, created a slow, short-range Flying Sword, and traveled with the Lan Family to Little Black Mountain City. There he saw nearly two hundred thousand prisoners gathered for a grim exchange that was scheduled to take three days.

• Chu Fei used his Cosmic Brain and True Essence to turn a longsword into a Flying Sword, then assessed his strengthened body and continued studying the Ultraviolet Catastrophe.
• After emerging from the cultivation chamber, Chu Fei learned that Wang Yujing was trading low-grade resources for scarce high-grade resources while prices favored the exchange.
• Chu Fei joined the Lan Family party traveling to Little Black Mountain City, where a dozen people carried supplies for the prisoner exchange.
• Chu Fei flew northeast and found more than thirty thousand Justice Faction prisoners and 150,000 prisoners held by the Dragon People, many suffering from cold, hunger, and injuries.
• Chu Fei observed that the Dragon People's unusually new, reinforced vehicles seemed suspicious, while both factions kept their prisoners in harsh conditions.
• The exchange plan called for the Dragon People to release 500 prisoners and the Justice Faction to release 100 at a time, stretching the process across three days.

Chu Fei realized the Dragon People were stalling the prisoner exchange, then survived their surprise neutron-bomb attack with severe radiation damage. As the Dragon People charged the Justice Faction and Zheng Chengan called for resistance, Chu Fei found that his usual healing methods could not reliably repair his body.

• Chu Fei warned Zheng Chengan that the Dragon People were deliberately delaying the prisoner exchange, but the exchanges continued through the night.
• During a half-hour break, Chu Fei sensed danger and dived behind the High Wall as a fighter jet dropped five neutron bombs over the battlefield.
• Chu Fei endured intense neutron radiation, found that many of his cells were damaged, and discovered that his healing methods could not effectively restore his body.
• Zheng Chengan called on the survivors to fight after warning that the Dragon People planned to slaughter them.
• The Dragon People charged the Justice Faction while its forces fell into chaos.

After surviving the neutron radiation attack, Chu Fei went on a rampage against the Dragon People camp, killing waves of experts before a massive host of Eerie Spirits appeared. The battle was left unresolved as the spirits gathered near him.

• Chu Fei sent Wu Yong and the others warnings to prepare for retreat, then put away his wristband and went out of contact.
• Zheng Chengan and Yan Xiaolong blamed each other for the neutron bomb as the prisoners suffered and the two factions began fighting.
• Chu Fei infiltrated the Dragon People camp amid the chaos and silently killed mid- and high-ranking targets while collecting their Storage Capsules.
• When more than a hundred Dragon People experts surrounded him, Chu Fei wounded their half-step 12.0 leader and used curses and sword qi to slaughter most of the level 10.0 attackers.
• Chu Fei killed another level 11.0 expert despite the others' heavy weapons, leaving three facing him before a tornado of dark clouds brought forth massive numbers of Eerie Spirits.

Chu Fei fought off three Dragon People experts while Eerie Spirits appeared over Red Pine City, and he discovered that radiation and combat were renewing and strengthening his body. The battle remained fierce as his body began adapting to the damage.

• Chu Fei realized the Dragon People had summoned many Eerie Spirits through mass death and negative emotions, while three 11.0 experts closed in on him.
• Chu Fei used magic infused with Ultraviolet Catastrophe to bind the three experts briefly, then killed two and took the shield from a Heavenly Soldier Class Star Battle Suit.
• A half-step 12.0 expert revealed he had feigned injury and pressured Chu Fei with relentless attacks until Chu Fei rolled behind an armored vehicle to escape.
• Two more Dragon People experts joined the half-step 12.0 expert, and the three surrounded Chu Fei; their sniper fire disrupted his attempt to curse the leader.
• Chu Fei fought the three experts head-on, replenished his stamina with an Energy Crystal, and found that radiation-damaged cells were being replaced as his body grew stronger.

Chu Fei completed energy transformation while fighting three Dragon People experts, then defeated and captured their half-step 12.0 leader. He concealed himself near the arriving Eerie Spirits to hunt them, but their appearance caused the Justice Faction’s battle line to collapse as the spirits attacked.

• Chu Fei used the three Dragon People experts’ attempts to capture him alive to complete energy transformation and become a miniature 12.0 expert.
• Chu Fei lured the three enemies away from the battlefield, killed the two ordinary 11.0 experts, and used the curse of Big Data Deletion to bring down their half-step 12.0 leader.
• Chu Fei shattered the leader’s protective barrier, severed his spine, and captured him alive for research into Dragon People physiology.
• Chu Fei reviewed the preparations that had enabled his transformation, then abandoned the Dragon People corpses’ Space Capsules and headed toward the descending Eerie Spirits.
• Chu Fei disguised himself and approached the Eerie Spirits’ vortex, where the Wisdom Tree Seed negotiated to split the spirits with him.
• The vortex touched down and vanished, the Justice Faction’s fighters began collapsing, and Chu Fei charged at an Eerie Spirit that attacked him.

Chu Fei hunted Eerie Spirits on the battlefield, discovered how to compress and seal them in gold, and withdrew as the Justice Faction retreated after its defeat. He returned to Black Mountain City and left with the Lan Family’s migration convoy as the city descended into panic.

• Chu Fei sensed more than eight hundred Eerie Spirits and captured thirty-four before the Wisdom Tree Seed and his consciousness space reached their limits.
• Chu Fei used gold, True Essence, and his computational power to compress Eerie Spirits and seal them inside small welded containers.
• Chu Fei swept the battlefield, captured more than a hundred Eerie Spirits, ambushed Dragon People, and collected storage equipment before withdrawing as the Justice Faction retreated to Little Black Mountain City.
• Chu Fei returned to the Lan Family estate, greeted Wang Yujing, packed his advanced computers, and prepared to relocate with the family to Green Stone City.
• Chu Fei departed Black Mountain City with Lan Wenjiang, Lan Haitao, and the Lan Family convoy as residents fled the city in chaos.

As the Lan Family and other refugees fled toward Green Stone City, Eerie Spirits attacked the convoy, and Chu Fei fought them while concealing how easily he could capture them. The group reached Little Black Mountain City to find the Dragon People had withdrawn, but Eerie Spirits were spreading across a much wider area, forcing further evacuations and worsening the Justice Faction’s position.

• Lan Wenjiang asked Chu Fei why the Dragon People had suffered heavy casualties, and Chu Fei confirmed that he had killed more than a hundred 10.0 experts and a half-step 12.0 expert.
• Eerie Spirits attacked the convoy, and Chu Fei fought two of them publicly before they fled and harassed other groups; Lan Wenjiang gave him forty-seven kilograms of Xuan Iron and its research materials in thanks.
• The convoy reached Little Black Mountain City and found the Dragon People had retreated; Zheng Chengan told Chu Fei that his performance had caused their withdrawal.
• Chu Fei and the convoy continued toward Green Stone City, where reports said Eerie Spirits had also appeared and people were already evacuating toward the Azure Cloud City Cluster.
• Chu Fei estimated that around seven hundred Eerie Spirits remained after he had captured and devoured roughly 150, while their range had expanded to 150 kilometers beyond Little Black Mountain City.

After reaching Green Stone City, Chu Fei parted ways with the Lan Family and joined Ren Qingyun at the Potion Research Center. He gave Ren Qingyun a rare Eagle Flower that might restore Wu Jiajia’s arm, then asked to learn Ren Qingyun’s lucrative Customized Potion techniques.

• The Lan Family convoy reached Green Stone City after losing 75 people to Eerie Spirits, and Chu Fei urged Lan Wenjiang to enter the city and rest.
• Chu Fei assured Lan Wenjiang that the Thunderclap Land Carrier would keep Green Stone City safe, then left with Wu Yong and Wang Yujing, ending his ties with the Lan Family.
• Chu Fei, Wu Yong, and Wang Yujing met Wu Jiayu at the Potion Research Center, where Chu Fei saw its limited stock and steep barter-only prices.
• Chu Fei met Ren Qingyun and noticed that Wu Jiajia had lost her right arm and suffered a decline in Cultivation Level.
• Chu Fei gave Ren Qingyun an Eagle Flower with regenerative properties, which Ren Qingyun recognized as potentially useful for repairing Wu Jiajia’s injuries.
• Ren Qingyun explained that the center specialized in Customized Potions, and Chu Fei bowed and asked to learn from him.

Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun joined forces to develop a powerful Rebirth Potion while planning the Potion Trading Center’s focus on high-end customized potions. Ren Qingyun prepared to make the 460 bottles the centerpiece of the center’s reopening, pricing each at 2.2 billion.

• Ren Qingyun agreed to teach Chu Fei potion brewing in exchange for learning about Chu Fei’s cultivation methods, and they discussed rebuilding the Potion Trading Center around cultivators above 10.0.
• Chu Fei explained that the Eagle Flower’s primary medicinal property was Rebirth, and he and Ren Qingyun developed a brewing plan while Wu Jiayu and Wu Jiajia observed.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun successfully brewed a potion from inferior Eagle Flowers, and Ren Qingyun gave two bottles to Wu Jiajia after warning that overly potent restoration potions could raise the risk of aberration.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun brewed the complete Eagle Flowers into 460 bottles of a half-step 12.0 Rebirth Potion, which Ren Qingyun chose as the Potion Trading Center’s reopening centerpiece.
• Ren Qingyun priced each bottle of Rebirth Potion at 2.2 billion.

Chu Fei restored Wu Jiajia, helped relaunch the Potion Trading Center, and killed an Eerie Spirit in public. At a meeting about the war and the Eerie Spirit crisis, Zheng Chengan asked Chu Fei to share his methods for dealing with the spirits.

• Ren Qingyun explained the Rebirth Potion's value, then restored Wu Jiajia's severed limb while Chu Fei studied his materials.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun reopened the Potion Trading Center, whose high-priced Rebirth Potion quickly drew attention and angry customers.
• An Eerie Spirit attacked passersby, and Chu Fei trapped and destroyed it with his domain, choosing not to reveal that he could seal such spirits.
• Chu Fei decided to share his method of killing Eerie Spirits at a meeting in Green Stone City's Lord's Mansion.
• Zheng Chengan announced that their side had lost the war, reported roughly 870 to 880 Eerie Spirits, and outlined a defensive strategy and contribution-point rewards.
• After Zheng Chengan asked for ways to fight Eerie Spirits, the attendees turned toward Chu Fei, and Zheng Chengan asked him to share his experience.

Chu Fei traded his knowledge of hunting Eerie Spirits for the Blazing Sun Cultivation Method and revealed that consuming Eerie Spirits could strengthen the soul. The experts developed his simplified barrier into a new technique and concluded their meeting with agreements and plans, while Chu Fei resolved to build his cultivation foundation carefully rather than rush toward 12.0.

• Chu Fei negotiated with Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun, submitted his methods for hunting Eerie Spirits, and received approval for the Blazing Sun Cultivation Method.
• Zheng Chengan assessed Chu Fei as close to the 12.0 realm, though Chu Fei knew his actual cultivation foundation was around 10.5 and his apparent level was simulated.
• Chu Fei's recording explained how to detect, trap, kill, and consume Eerie Spirits, including his claim that eating them had increased his soul strength by about fifty percent.
• Cheng Buyun displayed Chu Fei's simplified Basic Barrier, and the gathered experts refined it into Heavenly Net and Earthly Web, a technique designed to trap Eerie Spirits.
• Cheng Buyun and Zheng Chengan organized a mutual protection agreement and discussed the balance between the Justice Faction and the Dragon People; the meeting ended after the Thunderclap Land Carrier pledged to remain in Green Stone City.
• Chu Fei announced plans to rebuild the Potion Trading Center, received mission rewards from Zheng Chengan, and privately decided not to rush his progress toward 12.0.

Chu Fei reflected on how individuals could change the course of an era and helped establish a development plan that made the Potion Trading Center part of the Self-Salvation Society. After five hectic days, he entered seclusion to consolidate his cultivation and prepare for his genes to awaken.

• Chu Fei told Ren Qingyun that sharing the method of eating Eerie Spirits had helped the Justice Faction counter the Dragon People, and Ren Qingyun described heroes and their era as mutually shaping each other.
• At a meeting, Chu Fei was appointed deputy director of the Potion Trading Center and proposed training young recruits while cooperating with the Self-Salvation Society.
• Ren Qingyun signed the development charter, making the Potion Trading Center a member of the Self-Salvation Society.
• Chu Fei spent the next several days organizing supplies, sharing advice on hunting Eerie Spirits, and improving potions and equipment with Ren Qingyun and the others.
• After the Blazing Sun Cultivation Method arrived, Chu Fei entered seclusion to repair damage, consolidate his energy transformation, absorb his battle insights, and review his cultivation before his genes awakened.

Chu Fei repaired the flaws left by his rushed breakthrough, improved his cultivation method, and tested his new ability to levitate. He then began upgrading Perception of Wind and awakened Compound Ear, leaving him able to hear two sound waves simultaneously.

• Chu Fei restored his body’s structure and incorporated the energy-control algorithms of the Blazing Sun Cultivation Method into the Spring Thunder Cultivation Method, increasing his combat strength by about twenty percent.
• Chu Fei reviewed the abilities he still needed to develop, tested using manifold techniques to float, and rose half a meter before finding the energy cost too high for practical flight.
• Chu Fei weighed the benefits of Perception of Wind and began working toward its fifth layer, which required hearing multiple sound waves at once.
• Chu Fei used computer simulations and True Essence to awaken Compound Ear, giving his ears two auditory systems that could hear two sound waves simultaneously.

Chu Fei advanced his Perception of Wind and Metamorphosis Spell, then perfected a new Swift Transformation capable of laying the foundation for supersonic flight. After the Rebirth Potion became a huge success, he and Ren Qingyun arranged to sell its formula, and Chu Fei brought Ren Qingyun to the secret chamber to reveal a mysterious surprise.

• Chu Fei developed Compound Ears and studied the third level of the Metamorphosis Spell, using it to refine his Swift Transformation into stronger, lighter wings.
• Chu Fei left seclusion after three days and encountered Wu Jiajia, whose delight at advancing faded when she sensed how much stronger he had become.
• Ren Qingyun told Chu Fei that more than three hundred Rebirth Potions had sold for 2.2 billion each, earning hundreds of billions in cash and cultivation resources.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun decided to sell the Rebirth Potion formula, split the proceeds, and leave the remaining potions for auction.
• Chu Fei brought Ren Qingyun into the secret chamber and revealed a blood-covered transformed Dragon Person, leaving Ren Qingyun bewildered.

Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun examined and dissected a captured Dragon Person to study its transformation, discovering extraordinary physical enhancements and clues linking its control logic to the Heavenly Dragon. Their research also led Ren Qingyun to glimpse how will could affect the body.

• Chu Fei told Ren Qingyun how he had captured the transformed Dragon Person and entered the True Essence realm during the nuclear crisis.
• Ren Qingyun examined the captive, then took him to an underground laboratory where they tested his body and energy.
• Ren Qingyun found that the Dragon Person’s cellular activity and energy frequency far exceeded those of a human 11.0, and proposed that its transformation supplied new control logic borrowed from the Heavenly Dragon.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun sedated and dissected the Dragon Person over three days, giving Chu Fei useful references for the third level of the Metamorphosis Spell.
• Ren Qingyun said the research had helped him discover the effect of will on the body.

Chu Fei learned from Ren Qingyun about willpower, Dragon People, and True Essence, then asked Wu Yong why Heavenly Dragon Avatars could still be summoned after the Heavenly Dragon’s death. Wu Yong explained the Rebirth Realm and revealed that Dawn Academy was founded to select talent under the guidance of Lin Baiyu, leaving Chu Fei suspicious that Lin Baiyu might be connected to the Overseers.

• Ren Qingyun explained how Heavenly Dragon will altered Dragon People and proposed constructing a powerful superego to guide cultivation.
• Chu Fei described how Dragon People’s transformations depended on energy continuity and how Heavenly Dragon souls had overwritten human souls, then shared research data that impressed Ren Qingyun.
• Chu Fei studied Ren Qingyun’s potion research notes while considering why Dragon People could still summon Heavenly Dragon Avatars.
• Wu Yong explained that experts above level 16.0 could enter the Rebirth Realm by storing an Avatar, though revival was uncertain and could produce flawed beings.
• Wu Yong said an expert named Lin Baiyu had guided him to the High Wall and revealed that Dawn Academy had been founded to select talent.
• Chu Fei wondered whether Lin Baiyu could calculate his transmigration and might be connected to the Overseers.

Zheng Chengan told Chu Fei that Lord of Thunderclap had rewarded him for his recent contributions and invited him to join the next Fortune Contest in the Dragon Gate Secret Realm. After learning how fortune, the secret realm, and its dangerous trials worked, Chu Fei asked for a day to decide.

• Chu Fei reflected on his growing knowledge of cultivation while the wider region stabilized as cultivators hunted Eerie Spirits and the Rebirth Potion drew experts to Green Stone City.
• Zheng Chengan told Chu Fei that Lord of Thunderclap had awarded him 3.6 million contribution points and Inspector-level exchange privileges for his achievements.
• Zheng Chengan explained that Lord of Thunderclap wanted Chu Fei to join the Fortune Contest, where teams would enter the Dragon Gate Secret Realm and fight for fortune.
• Zheng Chengan described fortune as the vitality of people and organizations, and explained how cultivators gathered it to attempt Dragon Gates and survive the transformation phases.
• Chu Fei summarized the contest's risks and rules, then asked Zheng Chengan for until the next day to decide whether to accept the invitation.

Chu Fei learned that the Dragon Gate Secret Realm might be a trap that consumed cultivators, yet he accepted a role in its expedition and discovered the Lord of Thunderclap’s cultivation method contained Trojan Programs. He resolved to escape if possible and prepare for the worst if he could not.

• Wu Yong warned Chu Fei that the Dragon Gate Secret Realm could lock cultivators onto a dangerous path, and Chu Fei decided not to jump through the Dragon Gate himself.
• Chu Fei accepted the Lord of Thunderclap’s invitation to join next year’s expedition and became Deputy City Lord of Green Stone City, responsible for potions and logistics.
• Zheng Chengan explained the secret realm’s history and dangers, including the possibility that the Lord of Thunderclap planned to use Chu Fei as consumable material carrying fortune.
• Chu Fei unpacked the Essence Absorption Method and found Trojan Programs that could give another party control of his Cosmic Brain.
• Chu Fei realized the Lord of Thunderclap likely intended to exploit him and decided to leave as soon as possible while preparing for the worst.