Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei secured custom magical-weapon orders from Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun while probing their connection to Lord of Thunderclap, then discussed Green Stone City's worsening war with the Dragon People. The meeting ended with news that the Dragon People planned to summon a new Eerie Spirit called a Demon Spirit.

• Chu Fei negotiated deposits, materials, and Cosmic Brain data from Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun for their custom magical treasures, while Wei Shuheng and the others postponed their own orders.
• Zheng Chengan explained that the Dragon People had escalated the war with expert assassins, augmented Motorcycle Riders, and bounties backed partly by Blazing Sun Land City.
• Chu Fei suggested that the Lord's Mansion order Customized Potions from the Potion Research Center to help Green Stone City fight back.
• A messenger told the Lord that the Dragon People were preparing to summon a new Eerie Spirit they called a Demon Spirit.

Chu Fei helped arrange food relief for Green Stone City's refugees while preparing to exploit the coming Demon Spirit crisis. That night, he attacked the Elite Valor Adventure Group, killing its members from a distance before charging into its base.

• Zheng Chengan reported that the Dragon People planned to summon Demon Spirits and offer them as rewards, and the meeting discussed placing counter-bounties.
• Chu Fei arranged for the Potion Research Center to exchange Customized Potions for food to feed roughly thirty thousand refugees, with the Lord's Mansion paying upfront.
• Chu Fei left Green Stone City to target adventure groups whose members had participated in an attempt on his life.
• After finding the neighboring Elite Valor Adventure Group's main members at home, Chu Fei sniped its level 9.0 cultivators, killing several minor leaders and throwing the group into panic.
• Chu Fei stopped sniping, raced toward the compound, and charged over its courtyard wall as screams erupted inside.

Chu Fei retaliated against the Triumphant Merchant Group and hunted people involved in the assassination attempt during a major raid on Green Stone City. The Dragon People and masked attackers withdrew, and Chu Fei left Zheng Chengan with a promise to prepare weapons before the Demon Spirits were summoned.

• Huang Youwei learned that an assassin had destroyed the Elite Valor Adventure Group and the Golden Peak Adventurer Group, then realized the Triumphant Merchant Group was likely next.
• Chu Fei attacked the Triumphant Merchant Group, killed Huang Youwei with curses and a Flying Sword, and left as the compound burned.
• Chu Fei killed three Dragon People near Green Stone City, then hunted masked attackers and Green Stone City conspirators, including a defending general, during the fighting.
• Chu Fei revealed himself on the city walls and killed a masked opponent as the Dragon People and other attackers began to retreat.
• Chu Fei returned to the High Wall with a bounty hunter's corpse, and Zheng Chengan questioned him about the many deaths before Chu Fei promised to prepare weapons for the coming Demon Spirits.

Chu Fei forged custom Treasured Blades for Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun, then withdrew into secluded cultivation to reorganize his knowledge and refine his methods. After discovering that a volunteer named Wang Xiaolong had generated powerful Mind Power, he asked Wu Jiajia to find him and emerged from two days of study to meet six people with that name.

• Chu Fei forged two custom Treasured Blades, profited from the materials, and decided to delay delivering them until both could be handed over at once.
• Chu Fei reflected on how the situation in Green Stone City had been dragging him along and resolved to prioritize cultivation, poison research, and rebuilding his methods.
• Chu Fei used the Wisdom Tree Seed and the Essence Absorption Method to study a volunteer's Mind Power, sensed that its owner was Wang Xiaolong, and asked Wu Jiajia to locate him.
• Chu Fei spent two days in secluded cultivation reorganizing his knowledge and concluded that his Topological Structure and compatibility-mode methods needed major revisions.
• Wu Jiajia reported that she had found six people named Wang Xiaolong, and Chu Fei went to meet them, wondering what cultivation was for.

Chu Fei reflected on why he cultivated and found his purpose in hope, then took a stroll through Green Stone City and learned that the Dragon People planned to summon Demon Spirits that night. He arranged aid for a starving family and withheld the timing from Zheng Chengan, realizing the delay would make his own help more valuable.

• Chu Fei decided that hope—his desire to witness the future of Yanhuang Civilization and reach the stars—was the purpose behind his cultivation.
• Chu Fei met six youths named Wang Xiaolong, agreed to teach them, and left Wu Jiajia to guide them using Wang Yujing's cultivation method and records.
• Chu Fei walked through Green Stone City, reflected on the success of his revenge, and saw the hardship faced by people in the slums.
• A starving man told Chu Fei that the Dragon People planned to perform a Demon Spirit descent ritual that night, and Chu Fei arranged food and work for the man's family.
• Chu Fei sent the intelligence to Zheng Chengan but realized the weapons would not be ready in time, leaving Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun unable to use their magical treasures during the summoning.

Chu Fei arranged a food-for-potions deal with Guan Qingyun while learning that the Dragon People were preparing to summon Demon Spirits. The summoning succeeded, but the Bounty Hunters’ capture methods failed, and the Demon Spirits began attacking them.

• Chu Fei issued a bounty offering potions for food, and Guan Qingyun brought two hundred tons of food in exchange for Eerie Spirit capture techniques.
• Zheng Chengan told Chu Fei that Bounty Hunters with impressive records had gone to the Dragon People’s territory to hunt Demon Spirits as they descended.
• Liu Jinhui and Yan Xiaolong realized a mysterious killer had helped complete the summoning requirements early and suspected Chu Fei was responsible.
• Yin Yunlong completed the ritual, and more than a thousand Demon Spirits emerged from the passage and scattered.
• The Bounty Hunters found that their methods for capturing Eerie Spirits did not work, and a Demon Spirit dragged a human figure from an expert’s body.

Liu Jinhui’s Dragon People summoned more than a thousand Demon Spirits, which attacked the bounty hunters and flew toward Green Stone City after negotiating for independent command. As Yan Xiaolong learned of the Dragon People’s mass sacrifices and plans to restore the Heavenly Dragon, he turned against Liu Jinhui, but their fight ended with Liu Jinhui’s Red Copper Treasured Sword striking at Yan Xiaolong’s captured arm.

• Liu Jinhui explained that the Dragon People had killed around three hundred thousand healthy people to communicate with the Higher-Dimensional World and summon Demon Spirits.
• Yin Yunlong reported that the Demon Spirits could negotiate and demanded autonomous command, then led them toward Green Stone City after Liu Jinhui agreed they would spare people with Dragon Heaven Aura.
• Liu Jinhui and the other Dragon People discussed whether the Dragon Pearl’s destruction could let the Heavenly Dragon recover, and Liu Jinhui revealed they planned a Ten Thousand People Sacrifice on a million-person scale.
• Yan Xiaolong condemned Liu Jinhui’s path and attacked him, but Liu Jinhui used a shield as a feint, seized Yan Xiaolong’s right arm with a dragon claw, and swung his Red Copper Treasured Sword at it.

Liu Jinhui and the Dragon People ambushed Yan Xiaolong and Chen Yilong, forcing them to flee, while the Dragon People planned a Ten Thousand People Sacrifice to summon the Heavenly Dragon. In Green Stone City, more than a thousand powerful Demon Spirits overwhelmed the defenders, and a huge Demon Spirit sped toward Chu Fei.

• Liu Jinhui severed Yan Xiaolong's right hand with his Treasured Sword, and Zhang Shengtao and Yin Yunlong joined him in attacking.
• Zhao Kaiquan and Chao Jianmin ambushed Chen Yilong, while Liu Jinhui transformed and helped cut off Yan Xiaolong's left arm and part of his shoulder.
• Electromagnetic Cannons struck down Yan Xiaolong's fighter jets, but Chen Yilong rescued him and fled southeast as the five Dragon People pursued.
• Liu Jinhui told the Dragon People to prepare a Ten Thousand People Sacrifice and attempt to summon the Heavenly Dragon without revealing the night's events.
• More than a thousand Demon Spirits ravaged Green Stone City, killing people with methods that defeated the defenses once used against Eerie Spirits.
• A massive Demon Spirit rushed toward Chu Fei as Ren Qingyun and the others watched in alarm.

Chu Fei tested ways to kill and capture the Demon Spirits ravaging Green Stone City while the Dragon People summoned the Heavenly Dragon in Yaohe City. The Heavenly Dragon appeared, demanded that Liu Jinhui kneel, and revealed that it had already died once.

• Chu Fei killed Demon Spirits with curses, conviction, and his Treasured Sword, then tested how their revival worked and concluded that several kinds of logic could disrupt it.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun fought Demon Spirits near the Potion Trading Center, and Chu Fei captured hundreds while collecting supplies from the dead.
• Zheng Chengan saw that Chu Fei's Treasured Sword worked well against Demon Spirits and sent him back to finish the custom Treasured Blade for himself and Cheng Buyun.
• The Dragon People evacuated their leaders from Yaohe City, filled the city's air-defense facilities, and used the population and altar to summon the Heavenly Dragon.
• The Heavenly Dragon appeared as Osei, demanded that Liu Jinhui and the others kneel, then told them it had already died once.

After resurrecting as a divided spirit, Heavenly Dragon enslaved Liu Jinhui and the other Dragon People and ordered them to prepare sacrifices and conquer Thunderclap Land Carrier. Meanwhile, Green Stone City struggled to recover from the Demon Spirit massacre until Heavenly Dragon arrived and demanded to know where Chu Fei was.

• Heavenly Dragon explained that he was a divided spirit and forced Liu Jinhui to kneel, marking his soul as a slave.
• The other Dragon People accepted Heavenly Dragon's slave marks, and Liu Jinhui told him what had happened since they first discovered him and Chu Fei entered the story.
• Heavenly Dragon ordered the Dragon People to kill the inspectors, prepare a million sacrifices, and help him seize Thunderclap Land Carrier.
• Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun assessed Green Stone City's devastation, learned Chu Fei's Treasured Blades would soon be ready, and struggled to control the panicked city as its people and leaders fled.
• Heavenly Dragon appeared over Green Stone City with Liu Jinhui and the other Dragon People, damaged the city with his roar, and demanded to know where Chu Fei was.

Chu Fei negotiated with the Dragon Heaven Avatar to let Green Stone City’s people evacuate, then led the migration west while protecting the group from Demon Spirits. The survivors reached the road beyond Wang Family Town, but many people fell behind or died as the Heavenly Dragon’s presence continued to loom over them.

• Chu Fei completed his transactions with Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun, then used the Dragon Pearl to negotiate an evacuation window with the Dragon Heaven Avatar.
• Chu Fei organized the Potion Research Center’s hurried departure, and the convoy left Green Stone City with other groups and a vast crowd of civilians following behind.
• At Wang Family Town, Chu Fei fought off Demon Spirits while the migrants continued west; Demon Spirits attacked the town and later formed deadly checkpoints along the route.
• As the group accelerated, many civilians were captured, killed, or left behind, and Chu Fei watched the remaining Demon Spirits devour those who had fallen back.
• Wei Shuheng asked how Chu Fei had persuaded the Heavenly Dragon to let them go, but Chu Fei signaled him to keep quiet, leaving Wei Shuheng to invent his own explanation.

Chu Fei negotiated with Zheng Chengan over a method to counter the Essence Absorption Method, concealing how much he already knew about it. Zheng Chengan agreed to trade the method in stages for Chu Fei’s weapon-forging work, and Chu Fei left with its first part.

• Chu Fei halted the exhausted migration convoy for a two-hour rest and distributed supplies while volunteers were offered rides.
• Zheng Chengan praised Chu Fei’s custom Treasured Blade and privately asked whether he had cultivated the Essence Absorption Method.
• Chu Fei revealed that he knew the method contained a Trojan Program, while Zheng Chengan claimed he had a way to block it and proposed cooperation.
• Chu Fei demanded clear terms and offered three weapon-forging slots in exchange for the countermeasure, asking for time to assess the group.
• Zheng Chengan divided the countermeasure into four parts, offering the first three for three forging opportunities and the final part after full cooperation.
• Chu Fei accepted the deal, handed over the fees for Zheng Chengan and Cheng Buyun’s blades, and received the first part of the method on a Storage Card.

Chu Fei led the survivors from Red Pine City into Azure Cloud City and proposed that Ren Qingyun rebuild the Potion Research Center through cooperation with the Self-Salvation Society. At Azure Cloud City’s boundary, the locals signaled they did not want the refugees to stay, so Chu Fei appealed to his old acquaintance Zhou Xuyang for help.

• Chu Fei studied the half-complete Essence Disintegration Method and recognized its advanced knowledge as a valuable, dangerous opportunity.
• After reaching Iron Fan Pass, Chu Fei and the leaders entered Azure Cloud City territory while most civilians stopped to rest and enlist.
• Chu Fei offered Ren Qingyun two Eagle Flowers and urged him to unite the Potion Trading Center with the Self-Salvation Society; Ren Qingyun agreed to ask the other factions.
• A group bearing a banner that welcomed the refugees only as visitors blocked their way near Azure Cloud City.
• Chu Fei greeted Zhou Xuyang, Qian Guangyuan, and Wang Wenbao, then reminded Zhou Xuyang of his promise to help; Zhou Xuyang looked to the Zhou Family elders for a decision.

After arriving in Azure Cloud City, Chu Fei helped the migrants secure Rongtai Estate and a distribution base, while powerful families sought his weapon-forging services. Three days later, the Self-Salvation Society had formed and established a foothold, and Chu Fei turned his attention to advancing his Cultivation Level and resuming poison research.

• Zhou Delin and Qian Lifeng offered family properties to the Potion Research Center, prompting other Azure Cloud City factions to compete for its favor.
• Ren Qingyun and Chu Fei arranged to purchase Rongtai Estate and the Qian Family's distribution base, while the Zhou and Qian Families offered the properties free in exchange for custom weapons.
• Wei Shuheng and Huang Zhiwei agreed to join the Self-Salvation Society, and Chu Fei offered to forge weapons for them after requesting materials and designs.
• The migrants settled at Rongtai Estate, where Chu Fei slept for three days and awoke to find the Self-Salvation Society established with him as a chairperson.
• Chu Fei received invitations and weapon-forging requests from Zheng Chengan, Wei Shuheng, and Huang Zhiwei, then resolved to improve his Cultivation Level and resume poison research.

Chu Fei visited Azure Cloud City's Mirror Space to test his combat ability before advancing his cultivation. After his 70%-strength mirror defeated him with ease, Chu Fei recognized his growing complacency, fought more ruthlessly, and finally killed the mirror.

• Chu Fei decided to iterate his cultivation before researching poisons and contacted Zhou Xuyang about the Mirror Space.
• Zhou Xuyang explained how the Zhou Family had accumulated Hyper-Dimensional metals and offered refined gold and Mithril, but Chu Fei declined the exchange rates.
• Chu Fei entered the Mirror Space and began a trial against a mirror set to 70% of his abilities.
• The mirror killed Chu Fei within a few exchanges, prompting him to reflect on how his caution and ruthlessness had faded.
• Chu Fei pursued the mirror through the wilderness, survived its brutal counterattacks, and killed it by trapping its Treasured Sword in his chest and smashing its skull.

Chu Fei fought increasingly powerful mirror images in the Mirror Space, refining his combat algorithms and developing a way to disrupt True Essence Domains. After nearly bringing down his custom-built 11.0 mirror image, he resolved to push himself further by summoning two mirror images.

• Chu Fei defeated a 105% mirror image through traps, ambushes, and cautious hit-and-run tactics, then discovered that the 110% image was easier because its abilities had been amplified without improving its algorithms.
• Chu Fei built a custom mirror image from his own template and 11.0 combat data, but it overwhelmed him with speed and power as he repeatedly fought and lost to it.
• Under pressure, Chu Fei improved his manifold calculations and Ghostly Shadow Tracking Steps, eventually dodging the mirror image and identifying its True Essence Domain as a major obstacle.
• Chu Fei designed Scalpel 1.0 to disrupt the continuity of True Essence control, collapsed the mirror image’s domain, and nearly killed it before it split his brain apart.
• After reviving, Chu Fei recognized how much he had improved and decided to summon two mirror images.

Chu Fei repeatedly fought two mirror images while using Complex Manifold and phase-change logic to raise his combat power, then set out to face five. After struggling against the five mirror images’ coordinated defenses, he combined phase-change logic with the Scalpel spell to split their formation and kill one, breaking their five-person group.

• Chu Fei recognized that Complex Manifold could improve his combat ability and focused on phase changes as a practical way to strengthen his body, control True Essence, and move through the air.
• After hours of repeated defeats, Chu Fei froze his True Essence domain, drove back two mirror images, walked into the sky, and achieved supersonic flight before killing them.
• Chu Fei challenged five mirror images, but their coordinated attacks and defenses kept him from making progress as he tried to kite and engage them.
• Chu Fei realized he needed advanced algorithms to counter their manifold-based coordination and transformed his True Essence domain into a giant Scalpel.
• Chu Fei split the five mirror images’ formation, froze their domain long enough to strike, and pierced one mirror image’s head with Ultraviolet Catastrophe.

Chu Fei used the Mirror Space to refine his combat methods against increasingly powerful versions of himself, eventually defeating a mirror at the theoretical limit. Convinced that only a real fight could test his progress, he summoned data on 12.0 experts and selected the weakest 12.0 Transcender.

• Chu Fei created new mirrors with the Scalpel and Phase Change Logic, then repeatedly fought and studied their superior combat methods.
• Chu Fei adapted his tactics, broke through a mirror's True Essence domain with a saber, and defeated it in close combat.
• Chu Fei continued fighting stronger mirrors until he defeated one at the theoretical limit, though he was badly wounded.
• Chu Fei paused to assess his progress and decided to test his abilities in actual combat against a 12.0 expert.
• Chu Fei summoned the available 12.0 expert data, skipped the 12.0 Enlightened, and selected the lowest-ranked 12.0 Transcender.

Chu Fei tested his strength against 12.0 mirror images, then turned to managing the Self-Salvation Society and researching cultivation, Demon Spirits, and poisons. He confirmed that his combat power had reached at least the middle stage of 12.0 and ended the chapter preparing to develop a more advanced poison.

• Chu Fei defeated a weak 12.0 mirror image in seconds, then fought a 12.4 opponent for more than ten minutes and confirmed his own strength had reached the middle stage of 12.0.
• Chu Fei left Mirror Space, returned to Zhou Xuyang, and advised him to customize a weapon that could accommodate his future growth.
• Chu Fei discussed the Self-Salvation Society with Qin Shuya, and they agreed to offer low-level potionist training semi-publicly to members while building local supply channels.
• Chu Fei visited the Potion Research Center, then sent his accumulated cultivation data to his computer to analyze over the next three days.
• Chu Fei studied a Demon Spirit's revival and found it used phase-change logic that might help him develop a fourth level of the Metamorphosis Spell.
• Chu Fei began researching a poison that could selectively sever a specific kind of logic within a cultivator's body.

Chu Fei developed a plan to research hyper-dimensional potions by translating herbs’ medicinal properties into manifolds, beginning with mint. He also used automated methods to forge weapons for several families, then left his secret chamber for a walk in the sunlight.

• Chu Fei concluded that creating a poison powerful enough to affect the Lord of Thunderclap required a Level 13.0 hyper-dimensional potion and a more advanced approach than stimulating laws in existing potions.
• Chu Fei decided to study and model medicinal properties as manifolds, prioritizing fragrant herbs for an aerosol poison, and constructed an initial Mint Manifold.
• Chu Fei revised the Mint Manifold by replacing its tiny-blade structure with an ice-water mixture and Phase Change Logic.
• After meditating, Chu Fei used automated equipment to forge Treasured Blades and heat-treated them to address thermal stress.
• Chu Fei prepared weapon deliveries for the Zhou Family, Qian Family, Wei Family, Huang Family, and Wei Qingyun, then left the secret chamber for a walk.