Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei found a way to use customized aerosol poison against the Lord of Thunderclap while preparing to take office as Green Stone City’s Deputy City Lord. He rallied the Potion Trading Center around reforms and directed Qin Shuya to restart the Transgenic Tree of Life seed business, leaving her with little choice but to comply.

• Chu Fei abandoned thoughts of fleeing and planned to develop an aerosol poison for the Lord of Thunderclap using his Heavenly Dragon research and scales.
• Chu Fei safely ran the Essence Absorption Method inside the Cosmic Brain Virtual Machine, then resolved to play along with Thunderclap Land Carrier while guarding himself.
• Zheng Chengan announced that Chu Fei would become Deputy City Lord in charge of medicinal herbs, potions, and related finances.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun's group planned to lower potion prices, train apprentice alchemists, establish a barter trading platform, and hold a Rebirth Potion auction.
• Chu Fei told Qin Shuya to produce Genetically Modified Walnut seeds overnight, use the remaining sixty-seven trees as display specimens, and divide the sales among the Self-Salvation Society, the Potion Trading Center, and others.

Qin Shuya received one-use walnut-seed modification technology from Chu Fei, while Wang Yujing was appointed chief of staff for the Deputy City Lord’s office. After analyzing Green Stone City’s Mind Power and meeting Zheng Chengan to receive a Space Capsule, Chu Fei gave his inauguration speech and announced plans to stabilize potion prices, train Primary Alchemists, and create a potion trading platform.

• Chu Fei gave Qin Shuya a self-destructing Storage Card containing technology for producing Genetically Modified Walnut seeds and explained that the safeguards protected the Jinhua Merchant Group.
• Chu Fei appointed Wang Yujing chief of staff and assigned her to organize his inauguration materials before he entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Chu Fei sensed Green Stone City's Mind Power and used residents’ hopes for plentiful, affordable potions to adjust his plans and speech.
• Zheng Chengan gave Chu Fei a sealed ten-cubic-meter Space Capsule, and Chu Fei decided to deliver an inauguration speech instead of holding a ceremony.
• Chu Fei announced an Advanced Potion auction, purchase limits tied to military service, and efforts to bring in and cultivate medicinal ingredients, including cooperation with the Jinhua Merchant Group.
• Chu Fei announced free training for Primary Alchemists under a production agreement and plans to develop the Potion Trading Center into a fair market for potions and medicinal ingredients.

Chu Fei secured Lord of Thunderclap’s support for Green Stone City and began studying poisons under Ren Qingyun, who revealed that he was a Poison Master. Ren Qingyun’s theory that poisons were ultra-concentrated tonics gave Chu Fei new insight and strengthened his plan to poison the City Lord.

• Cheng Buyun told Chu Fei that Lord of Thunderclap would provide five billion worth of low-grade medicinal materials, and Chu Fei arranged for Thunderclap Land Carrier to bid on the Rebirth Potion while offering its formula.
• Chu Fei announced the promised medicinal-material support, then appointed Wang Yujing to handle the Deputy City Lord’s office while he returned to the Potion Trading Center.
• Chu Fei gave the Potion Trading Center his remaining low-grade supplies and asked Ren Qingyun to teach him about poisons.
• Ren Qingyun revealed that he was a Poison Master and asked Chu Fei to promise not to use poisons to slaughter innocents.
• Chu Fei explained his theory of poison as a force that destroys life’s structure, and Ren Qingyun praised his research into medicinal properties.
• Ren Qingyun proposed that poisons were tonics concentrated thousands of times over, and Chu Fei left with new insight and greater confidence in his plan to poison the City Lord.

Chu Fei hosted a successful potion auction and launched a training program, then studied Ren Qingyun’s extensive medicinal and poison research to advance his understanding of higher-level potions. After two days of research, he discovered that public gratitude had increased his pure Mind Power to more than twenty thousand portions.

• Chu Fei discussed Ren Qingyun’s theory that poison was concentrated tonic and reconsidered his plan to poison Lord of Thunderclap.
• Chu Fei opened the auction with a call to control potion prices, and Wang Xueshan announced barter-focused bidding rules.
• The auction sold all 122 Rebirth Potions and gathered low-grade medicinal ingredients worth one hundred billion, strengthening Chu Fei’s reputation and the Potion Trading Center.
• The Potion Trading Center began a Potion Master Training Program, while Chu Fei returned to his secret chamber to research poisons using Ren Qingyun’s inheritance.
• Chu Fei spent two days studying medicinal properties and manifolds, gaining new insight into potion development beyond 11.0.
• Chu Fei emerged from the Virtual Pod and found that his pure Mind Power had risen from fewer than three thousand portions to more than twenty thousand, largely from people’s gratitude over falling potion prices and a child becoming Awakened.

Chu Fei investigated Green Stone City's potion-market abuses and confronted the Triumphant Merchant Group to establish his authority and draw closer to the Lord of Thunderclap. After accusing the group publicly, he faced an attack from one of its 11.0 experts and several subordinates.

• Chu Fei discussed his theories about Mind Power and considered how they might help him understand the fortune-gathering method given by the Lord of Thunderclap.
• Wu Jiajia told Chu Fei that low-priced potions were being resold at inflated prices and that fake and inferior herbs were spreading through the market.
• Chu Fei scanned Green Stone City with Perception of Wind and identified groups involved in crimes, including the Triumphant Merchant Group.
• Chu Fei kicked open the Triumphant Merchant Group's gate and accused it before a crowd of exploiting potion sales and dealing in counterfeit and inferior herbs.
• A Triumphant Merchant Group expert challenged Chu Fei, then attacked him and called several subordinates, including another 11.0 expert, to join in.

Chu Fei used his Flying Sword to kill a Triumphant Merchant Group expert, threatened the group into returning its illegal profits, and then traded knowledge of his sword control with Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun. He handled Green Stone City's requests as Deputy City Lord and urged Wang Yujing to delegate her work and advance her cultivation.

• Chu Fei killed an attacking expert with his Flying Sword, warned Huang Youwei to control the Triumphant Merchant Group, and ordered monopolists to return their illegal gains by sunset.
• Chu Fei announced his authority as Green Stone City's Deputy City Lord and declared that those who obstructed the fight against the Dragon People would be treated as traitors.
• Zheng Chengan warned Chu Fei that the Triumphant Merchant Group was backed by Qi Hongbin, then he and Cheng Buyun exchanged their cultivation experiences for Chu Fei's account of his Energy Control logic.
• Chu Fei approved loans for aspiring alchemists with guarantor requirements, set conditions for a potion and herb market trial, rejected an alchemy support request, and granted the Potion Trading Center conditional tax relief.
• Chu Fei instructed Wang Yujing to handle future paperwork similarly, hire assistants, and make time to break through 11.0.

Chu Fei studied the Essence Absorption Method, discovered how Mind Power could overclock his Cosmic Brain, and used the resulting boost to accelerate his research. He began investigating the classic Eclipse Potion, but immediately encountered unexpected complexities.

• Chu Fei gave Ren Qingyun and the others a Storage Card containing his Flying Sword control logic, then returned to secluded cultivation.
• Chu Fei ran the Essence Absorption Method in his Cosmic Brain Virtual Machine and watched its Trojan Program infiltrate and replicate within the simulated Cosmic Brain.
• Chu Fei discovered that Mind Power activated the Essence Absorption Method, and that combining it with Wisdom Dewdrop could briefly multiply his computational power a hundredfold.
• Chu Fei used his enhanced thinking to organize his potion and poison knowledge, then went to his laboratory after midnight.
• Chu Fei began researching the Level 8.0 Eclipse Potion and found that its apparently simple formula concealed difficult problems.

Chu Fei developed a new theory of poison and used it to create a 120%-quality, 11.0-grade Petrification Potion from 10.0-grade ingredients. After emerging from seclusion, he learned that the Dragon People had launched attacks and that a huge bounty on his life had drawn suspected assassins to the Potion Trading Center.

• Chu Fei studied Eclipse Potion formulas, inferred that poison arose from pushing a single medicinal property beyond its natural limits, and experimentally created a new 10.0-grade Eclipse Potion.
• Chu Fei designed and tested bone-strengthening poisons, refining a Petrification Potion that eventually reached 11.0 grade and 120% quality.
• After seven days of research, Chu Fei left his secret chamber and asked Wu Jiajia what had happened.
• Wu Jiajia reported renewed chaos in the potion market, attacks by the Dragon People, and a bounty offering potions worth ten billion plus a 14.0 cultivation technique for Chu Fei's head.
• Wu Jiajia showed Chu Fei a flyer listing his secrets and resources, and warned that suspected assassins, possibly from The Inland, had appeared around the Potion Trading Center.

Chu Fei investigated the bounty against him, then prepared to confront those disrupting the potion trade while gathering fortune through the Essence Absorption Method. After improving his Observer Effect and preparing for battle, he left seclusion and contacted Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun to hunt enemy experts.

• Chu Fei examined the bounty flyer and concluded that the Dragon People likely learned about his storage space through the Lord of Thunderclap or someone around him.
• Wu Jiajia warned Chu Fei that the bounty could attract 12.0 Enlightened and that the Dragon People might exploit the chaos.
• At the Potion Trading Center, Chu Fei reviewed the trade reports, learned of suspected saboteurs, and told Ren Qingyun he would openly hunt them with help from Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun.
• Chu Fei used the Essence Absorption Method to gather and sort fortune, storing positive fortune in his Portable Space and negative fortune in the Lord of Thunderclap's Storage Space.
• Chu Fei trained and prepared poison before leaving seclusion, then contacted Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun to prepare to hunt enemy experts.

Chu Fei fought off a series of assassins at the Potion Trading Center, but their bomb attack devastated the surrounding area and killed thousands of civilians. When Old City Lord Liu Jinhui personally attacked him, Chu Fei wounded him with a powerful fireball and then slapped him twice, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Chu Fei used his enhanced perception to identify numerous Level 11.0 experts watching him and killed two attackers who sprang at him near the Potion Trading Center.
• An enhanced electromagnetic sniper rifle fired at Chu Fei, while two transformed suicide attackers approached with bombs; Chu Fei cursed them into detonating the bombs, causing massive destruction and civilian casualties.
• Chu Fei emerged from the blast and killed a Level 11.0 peak attacker who used a Cloning Technique against him.
• Chu Fei sensed danger, prepared with Energy Crystals, and used layered Slow Spells to delay Liu Jinhui's sudden attack.
• Chu Fei's violet-blue fireball pierced Liu Jinhui's defense and left a hole in his chest, but Liu Jinhui continued fighting.
• Chu Fei and Liu Jinhui clashed at close range, and Chu Fei slapped Liu Jinhui across both cheeks, enraging the Old City Lord.

Chu Fei fought Liu Jinhui, a level 12.0 expert, and survived long enough for Zhou Delin to intervene, though the battle left him gravely wounded and cost him his Treasured Sword. As Chu Fei lay helpless, three level 11.0 men rushed in, but they turned on one another instead of attacking him.

• Chu Fei used spells, fireballs, and curses against Liu Jinhui, but Liu Jinhui struck him down and pursued him through the ruins.
• Chu Fei fired his Energy Gun and cut off Liu Jinhui's thumb with the Treasured Sword, but Liu Jinhui charged again and pierced Chu Fei with a devastating blow.
• Chu Fei fired the Energy Gun at Liu Jinhui as they collided, and Zhou Delin arrived and chased Liu Jinhui away.
• Chu Fei realized how far he was from a true level 12.0 expert and accepted that he had lost the Treasured Sword, which contained a backdoor he could use to disrupt or destroy it.
• Three level 11.0 men surrounded the wounded Chu Fei, then attacked one another.

Chu Fei survived Liu Jinhui’s attack, recovered enough to fight off an ambush, and helped turn the battle for Green Stone City in his favor. The chapter left him enraged as Wang Yujing, wounded by sniper fire, was pursued by several attackers.

• Three 11.0-level experts fought over Chu Fei, and after one killed the other two, Chu Fei shot him and took their spoils.
• Chu Fei used potions and stored resources to heal, then killed a cultivator who charged him and fought off a larger group of assassins.
• Chu Fei killed four attackers and scattered the rest, while civilians joined the fight and the Potion Trading Center came under attack.
• Ren Qingyun fought a masked man as experts clashed around the city, revealing that the assault targeted Green Stone City as well as Chu Fei.
• Wang Yujing arrived with bullet holes in her Dragonfly Wings and a wounded shoulder, pursued by several figures, and Chu Fei became furious.

Chu Fei watched Wang Yujing die in an assassination targeting him and the Potion Trading Center, then concealed his anger while identifying the attackers and reasoning that insiders had helped them. He left with Wang Yujing’s body after promising her grandfather that he would avenge her and everyone harmed in the attack.

• Chu Fei failed to stop a sniper from killing Wang Yujing, and he carried her corpse while using a heightened Reconnaissance Domain to identify suspicious people around the attack.
• Chu Fei let 116 fleeing suspects escape so he could track them to the people behind the assassination, while gunfire injured him and killed bystanders.
• Zhou Delin returned and took Chu Fei and Wang Yujing to the damaged Potion Trading Center, where Chu Fei suspected the attack had involved both Dragon People and internal traitors.
• After recovering, Chu Fei brought Wang Yujing’s body to the Lan Family residence and told Wang Qiyun that he would kill everyone responsible, even 12.0 experts.

After a targeted attack killed three senior alchemists, Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun shut down the Potion Trading Center, planned to publish low-grade potion methods, and prepared for Green Stone City’s collapse. Chu Fei warned allies to flee, and their families withdrew with valuable potion research and soldiers, prompting Zheng Chengan to realize he had been deceived.

• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun concluded that the Dragon People’s attack had likely been aided by traitors and decided to reopen as the Potion Research Center, publish low-grade potion techniques, and raise Advanced Potion prices.
• Chu Fei learned that Wang Yujing and two clerks had died, warned the remaining office staff to leave Green Stone City, and posted bounties for equipment to forge a new magical longsword.
• Chu Fei installed the equipment in a secret chamber as Ren Qingyun and the Potion Research Center abandoned the trading business.
• Wei Shuheng sent Wei Fanghua and Wei Longyu away with the family’s elite and a Storage Card containing research on more than a thousand potions; the Lan Family, Jinhua Merchant Group, Huang Family, and others also evacuated with help from the Self-Salvation Society.
• After the group had traveled fifty kilometers, Wei Shuheng and Huang Zhiwei received a message and left a discussion with Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun; Zheng then learned that the families had taken two thousand soldiers and angrily realized he had been misled.

Chu Fei announced the Potion Research Center’s withdrawal plans and released battle footage and extensive alchemy materials to the public. He then returned to his secret chamber to develop a better Treasured Sword by combining Red Copper and Black Iron.

• At a meeting, Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun agreed to withdraw toward Yumen City and publicly release potion research below 10.0 before leaving.
• Chu Fei screened processed footage of his two-second battle with Liu Jinhui, revealing Liu Jinhui’s Dragon Person identity and Chu Fei’s use of magic.
• Chu Fei announced the center’s renaming, the sale and copying of materials for more than three hundred potions, and a fifty-percent price increase for its remaining orders.
• After staff began distributing the Storage Cards and copying materials, Chu Fei left and returned to his secret chamber to forge a better Treasured Sword.
• Chu Fei determined that Red Copper could serve as the sword’s array lines and Black Iron as its foundation, then considered ultrasonic or nitrogen-shielded cold welding to join them.

Chu Fei developed a new Treasured Sword by combining Black Iron and Red Copper, designing precise cold-welding equipment and refining the blade’s layered formations. After completing the sword, he prepared to seek revenge for the assassination attempt.

• Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun watched Chu Fei’s fight with Liu Jinhui and discussed the power and origin of Chu Fei’s stolen Treasured Sword.
• Chu Fei rejected ultrasonic welding, obtained cold-welding technologies and equipment through a bounty, and worked with technicians to build a precise cold-welding machine.
• Chu Fei redesigned the sword’s manufacturing process and decided to simplify its formations while improving its True Essence transmission.
• Five days after the assassination attempt, Chu Fei refined Black Iron and used the cold-welding equipment to forge a new Treasured Sword from Black Iron and Red Copper.
• Chu Fei completed the lighter, tougher sword, whose energy transmission and architecture greatly surpassed those of his previous blade, and resolved to repay his enemies in blood.

Chu Fei began hunting the people who had attacked him, targeting those stationed outside Green Stone City first. After killing several members of the Triumphant Merchant Group with an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle, he drew its hidden half-step 12.0 expert into the wilderness and brought him crashing down with a curse.

• Chu Fei slipped over Green Stone City's western wall and decided to target his enemies outside the city before those within it or the Dragon People.
• Chu Fei found an expert hiding his true strength at the Triumphant Merchant Group's warehouse, then used an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle to kill a minor leader.
• After the Triumphant Merchant Group raised the alarm, Chu Fei killed more targets from changing positions and escaped its searchlights.
• Chu Fei continued sniping until the hidden half-step 12.0 expert revealed himself, so Chu Fei used himself as bait and fled into the wilderness.
• Chu Fei stopped, unleashed waves of curses at his pursuer, and sent the expert plunging into the ground at supersonic speed.

Chu Fei secretly killed a half-step 12.0 expert and wiped out the Triumphant Merchant Group’s warehouse base outside Green Stone City, then returned to cultivate while the city erupted in speculation and outrage. As Huang Youwei struggled to lead the weakened group, Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun discussed Chu Fei’s likely role and prepared for Green Stone City’s retreat.

• Chu Fei used stacked Big Data Deletion curses to strip a half-step 12.0 expert of his Protective Aura, then killed him and collected his spoils.
• Chu Fei stormed the Triumphant Merchant Group’s warehouse base, killed its remaining high-level fighters, and escaped with its valuable supplies; scavengers later killed the staged wounded and took the corpses.
• Chu Fei tested his new Black Iron longsword, discovered that new Mind Power carried a God of War-like combat attribute, and began refining his flight and combat techniques.
• News spread that the Triumphant Merchant Group had lost most of its Green Stone City strength, while Chu Fei suspected Lord of Thunderclap was using the Essence Absorption Method to exploit him and continued investigating it.
• Huang Youwei took charge of the diminished Triumphant Merchant Group, found a survivor, and went to investigate amid public accusations that Chu Fei had caused the massacre.
• Zheng Chengan suspected Chu Fei was responsible, while Cheng Buyun said he wanted to strike the same way and warned that Green Stone City should prepare to retreat from the Dragon People.

Chu Fei tested his new, supersonic Flying Sword and realized that deeper study of the Manifold System had given his cultivation a clearer direction. At a meeting with Green Stone City's leaders, he revealed that he had forged the artifact-grade sword and could refine artifact weapons.

• Chu Fei controlled his hiltless Flying Sword, which could exceed the speed of sound, and reflected on the Manifold System and his cultivation path.
• After studying for hours, Chu Fei learned that the inspectors had called a meeting, then asked Wu Yong about artifact weapon prices and the profits from custom forging.
• Chu Fei went to the Lord's Mansion, where Zheng Chengan described the destruction of the Triumphant Merchant Group's base and the attendees suspected Chu Fei had carried it out.
• Chu Fei warned the gathering about the treasured sword Liu Jinhui had taken and detailed its materials, construction, and capabilities.
• Chu Fei made his own treasured sword fly around the room and admitted to Zheng Chengan, Cheng Buyun, and the others that he could refine artifacts.

Liu Jinhui planned to summon powerful Demon Spirits, while Chu Fei demonstrated his artifact-forging skills to Green Stone City's experts. The chapter ended with Zheng Chengan agreeing to commission a Treasured Sword at Cheng Buyun's price.

• Liu Jinhui announced plans to summon Demon Spirits and offered front-row access to anyone who provided the head of a Red Pine City cultivator rated 10.0.
• Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun examined Chu Fei's Treasured Sword and learned about its sharpness, limitations, and forging costs.
• Chu Fei reflected that artifact forging should begin with a guiding core and resolved to forge a genuine Treasured Sword for the Dragon Gate Secret Realm.
• Zheng Chengan proposed commissioning a horse-chopping saber, and Chu Fei countered with a price of twenty billion in resources plus materials.
• Cheng Buyun commissioned a Treasured Blade and received Chu Fei's guarantee of success, while Wei Shuheng ordered a horse-chopping saber and agreed to exchange Red Copper for Black Iron at Chu Fei's rate.
• Zheng Chengan softened his stance and agreed to match Cheng Buyun's price for his commission.