Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei realized his cultivation method was holding back his progress and began planning how to create an improved version of the Dawn Cultivation Method. After he ran short of computing power and went to Azure Cloud City's Lord's Mansion, he learned that Demon Spirits had appeared at Iron Fan Pass.

• Chu Fei told Wu Jiajia to send the six Wang Xiaolongs to the school when it opened and waive their tuition.
• Chu Fei warned Wei Shuheng that the Dragon People's Demon Spirits seemed able to pursue them far beyond their previously known range, possibly as far as Iron Fan Pass.
• Chu Fei concluded that he needed to improve the Dawn Cultivation Method and reasoned through how manifolds could be assembled and joined to form a Klein Bottle.
• Chu Fei discovered his thirty-six advanced computers were occupied with processing accumulated knowledge, so he contacted Zhou Delin about buying more computers.
• Chu Fei flew to the Lord's Mansion, where he saw Zheng Chengan and Azure Cloud City's experts gathered with the puppet City Lord.
• Wei Shuheng told Chu Fei that they had found traces of Demon Spirits at Iron Fan Pass.

Chu Fei accepted Lord of Thunderclap’s appointment as City Lord of Azure Cloud City and explained what he knew about the Heavenly Dragon’s revival. After learning that the Dragon People had sacrificed a million residents of Yaohe City, Chu Fei advised on how to reveal the atrocity and defend against an attack, while planning to use his short time in office to gather resources.

• Chu Fei chose to become City Lord rather than an inspector, citing the benefits, Lord of Thunderclap’s preference, his experience with Demon Spirits, and the danger of inspecting at his cultivation level.
• Chu Fei explained that the Heavenly Dragon had been sealed at 16.0, could revive through a split soul, and had returned at around 14.0; he showed Zheng Chengan its Inverted Scale.
• Zheng Chengan formally appointed Chu Fei City Lord of Azure Cloud City and demoted Zhang Weiming to Deputy City Lord, while Chu Fei told Zhang that his treatment would remain unchanged.
• Zheng Chengan revealed that the Dragon People had sacrificed one million residents of Yaohe City, and Chu Fei proposed spreading rumors before allowing the public to obtain the footage secretly.
• Chu Fei recommended evacuating people below 10.0 from Iron Fan Pass and using the terrain and stronger experts to delay the Dragon People’s advance.

After a Demon Spirit appeared in Azure Cloud City, Chu Fei used his new position as City Lord and the resources of the Lord's Mansion to gather vast computational power, devise a way to kill Demon Spirits, and accelerate his research. He created a powerful continuation of the Dawn Cultivation Method and began rapidly cultivating it in the Lord's Mansion's secret chamber while turmoil continued outside.

• Wei Shuheng announced that a Demon Spirit had appeared in Azure Cloud City, and Zheng Chengan sent two Level 12.0 experts to kill it.
• Chu Fei proposed luring aberrations to Iron Fan Pass to buy time, then asked the families to supply advanced computers for his research.
• Zhou Xuyang and Qian Guangyuan delivered computers, and Chu Fei used the expanded computational power to discover how to disrupt the intermediate state that let Demon Spirits resurrect.
• Chu Fei sent Zheng Chengan, Wei Shuheng, and the others formulas for killing Demon Spirits, and experts began hunting them successfully.
• Chu Fei used his computers to study, completed a continuation of the Dawn Cultivation Method, and found it substantially more effective than the Blazing Sun Cultivation Method.
• Chu Fei began cultivating his new technique in the secret chamber, rapidly advancing his Cosmic Brain while the city remained in turmoil.

While Zheng Chengan’s forces struggled to contain the Dragon People, scattered Demon Spirits, and a descending Broodmother, Chu Fei completed a major cultivation breakthrough in seclusion. His upgraded Cosmic Brain and newly awakened abilities greatly increased his combat strength, though he still needed to strengthen his physical foundation before breaking through to 12.0.

• Zheng Chengan gathered the experts at Iron Fan Pass and persuaded more than seventy of them to guide alien species down so they could hunt the weakened arrivals.
• A Broodmother descended at Iron Fan Pass, forcing the forces to retreat, while Demon Spirits continued spreading through the Azure Cloud City Cluster.
• Zheng Chengan offered one thousand Thunderclap Land Carrier contribution points for each Demon Spirit killed, motivating the experts to hunt them.
• Chu Fei transformed his Cosmic Brain into a refined Star Ring Structure, nearly doubling its computing power, and used the increase to awaken his eyes, ears, neural system, and a developing second brain.
• Chu Fei tested his improved abilities and found that his Life Energy had reached 97,000 calories and his Cosmic Brain’s influence radius had expanded to fourteen meters.
• Chu Fei judged that his breakthrough had raised his combat power close to 12.0, but his physical foundation remained insufficient for a 12.0 breakthrough.

Chu Fei found a hidden Demon Spirit in the Lord's Mansion, asserted control over the city administration, and tracked seven Demon Spirits to the Cloud Dragon Garden Hotel. After capturing them and arranging compensation for their victims, he returned to the Lord's Mansion to hear Zhang Xiaobo's investigation results.

• Chu Fei discovered a resting Demon Spirit beneath a pavilion, then assigned routine administrative work to Deputy City Lord Zhang Weiming while focusing on Demon Spirits and weapons.
• Chu Fei killed Zhao Guanglong for obstructing the warehouse and finance work, appointed Zhang Xiaobo to oversee both departments, and ordered him to investigate the missing supplies.
• Chu Fei followed the Demon Spirit from the Lord's Mansion and tracked it to the Cloud Dragon Garden Hotel, where he captured seven Demon Spirits and saved the surviving guests from the last two.
• Chu Fei auctioned the final two Demon Spirits to hotel guests, and Zhou Xuyang and Qian Guangyuan bought and consumed them under his supervision.
• Chu Fei distributed the auction proceeds among thirteen victims' families and arranged for some relatives to relocate to Chuanliu Distribution Base.
• Chu Fei returned to the Lord's Mansion, where Zhang Xiaobo was waiting with the investigation results.

Chu Fei reorganized his knowledge, improved his abilities, and developed a theory that poisons could be used as a source of cultivation. He began preparing a poison banquet to target the Lord of Thunderclap, then rejected an attempt to let the warehouse embezzlers pay money instead of restoring the missing supplies.

• Chu Fei ordered Zhang Xiaobo to give everyone implicated in the missing 150 billion in warehouse supplies forty days to replace them, threatening executions and forbidding anyone from fleeing.
• Chu Fei released the Feathered Serpent, instructed it, and returned to seclusion to study and refine his combat techniques and knowledge of poisons.
• After three days of intensive study and further training, Chu Fei improved many abilities, discovered that Nanofluid Metal could be controlled through manifolds, and completed Medicinal Manifolds for ten thousand ingredients.
• Chu Fei concluded that deliciousness reflected a higher-dimensional attribute and planned to poison the Lord of Thunderclap through an openly poisonous banquet.
• Chu Fei emerged from seclusion and found Zhang Weiming waiting with the Feathered Serpent; Zhang asked whether the people responsible for the warehouse deficit could pay money instead of supplying the goods.
• Chu Fei rejected Zhang Weiming's request and told him that those who failed to use their forty days would face the consequences.

Chu Fei negotiated magical artifact production with Thunderclap Land Carrier’s leaders, then upgraded his Accessory Brain and investigated how to raise his physical capacity. He began testing a new method for accumulating Life Energy with a pure Energy Crystal.

• Chu Fei distributed completed Treasured Blades and Treasured Swords, and Zhou Delong explained that the large brood nest could delay the Dragon People but carried a curse that made killing it dangerous.
• Chu Fei agreed to increase magical artifact production, set limits and installment plans, and rebuffed a proposal to reveal his forging methods without safeguards.
• Chu Fei took more than thirty reservations for magical artifacts, returned to the Lord's Mansion, and continued research on poisons, pharmaceuticals, and the Accessory Brain.
• Chu Fei rebuilt the Accessory Brain with a new architecture, enabling it to control Void Traversal and handle nearly ninety percent of the Cosmic Brain's computational logic.
• Chu Fei recognized that his physical capacity was far below the 12.0 standard and reasoned that he could increase it by synchronizing his soul, computing power, body, and energy while drawing on pure Life Energy.
• Chu Fei absorbed a pure Energy Crystal and began circulating its energy to test his new method for accumulating Life Energy.

Chu Fei improved his energy absorption, prepared Azure Cloud City for his absence, and set out to obtain more resources before the Spring Festival. He reached Red Pine City and offered the Heavenly Dragon a way into the Dragon Gate Secret Realm in exchange for cooperation.

• Chu Fei found that Living Corpse Crystal Cores let him absorb energy far more efficiently and decided to travel east for more.
• Chu Fei ordered the Potion Research Center to release low-level potion information, introduced Poisonous Medicinal Cuisine, and offered a high price for 5-nanometer Nanofluid Metal.
• Zhou Xuyang and Qian Wenhai delivered Nanofluid Metal, and Chu Fei learned that developing its higher-dimensional control logic required research capabilities rare in Azure Cloud City.
• Chu Fei replaced the Nanofluid Metal in his body, destroyed the old material, researched Aerosol Poison, and left Zhang Weiming and Zheng Chengan in charge while he traveled east.
• Chu Fei flew past Iron Fan Pass and reached Red Pine City, where he told the Heavenly Dragon he could bring it into the Dragon Gate Secret Realm.
• The Heavenly Dragon stopped threatening Chu Fei and asked what he wanted in return.

Chu Fei negotiated with Heavenly Dragon to help him enter the Dragon Gate Secret Realm, then flew to Jinling City and rescued its High Wall from a massive assault by aberrant beasts. He reunited with Wang Longyang and arrived to fulfill his promise to help Wang Longxiang, just as the City Lord came to meet him.

• Chu Fei proposed smuggling Heavenly Dragon into the Dragon Gate Secret Realm inside a sealed Storage Space, but Heavenly Dragon demanded a Law Contract, so Chu Fei left after staging a fight by killing an 11.0 Dragon Person.
• As he flew toward Jinling City, Chu Fei resolved to create his own cultivation method if necessary, and his consciousness space expanded.
• Chu Fei reached Jinling City and found it besieged by organized tiger-type aberrant beasts, then killed three attacking Flying Tigers and drew the attention of the city's defenders.
• Chu Fei defeated five Level Seven Flying Tigers and stopped a snow ferret as he approached the High Wall.
• Chu Fei reunited with Wang Longyang and said he had returned to fulfill his promise to help Wang Longxiang, while Wang Longyang introduced the arriving City Lord, Zhao Kailong.

Chu Fei helped Zhao Kailong repel a tiger-beast tide, then learned that Zhao had summoned the beasts to obtain a Law Fragment and was considering Law Stripping to break through to 12.0. After Chu Fei discovered the method involved torturing and consuming alien creatures, Zhao recognized the captured peak Flying Tiger as a valuable opportunity.

• Chu Fei and Zhao Kailong used an Electromagnetic Cannon to wound a giant tiger, then pursued it until a Black Storm erupted; Chu Fei rescued Zhao and escaped its reach.
• Zhao Kailong showed Chu Fei the Thunder God Supercannon and explained Law Stripping, a method for taking Laws from alien species to break through to 12.0.
• Zhao admitted that he had deliberately summoned tiger-type alien beasts using a black-market method, and Chu Fei discovered that the Law Stripping instructions included torturing or consuming creatures that refused to surrender their Laws.
• Zhao identified the giant tiger's Black Storm as the effect of an Exotic Treasure and suggested it might be worth a fortune.
• Chu Fei released a still-living level-seven peak Flying Tiger, and Zhao recognized its value before falling silent when Chu Fei asked what it was worth.

Chu Fei traded the living Flying Tiger to Zhao Kailong for Hyper-Dimensional Metal and prepared to watch him strip away its laws. He reunited with old companions, shared resources and cultivation knowledge, helped Wang Longxiang suppress his mutation, and left the Blood Dragon and Thunderclap groups allied before entering a secret chamber to observe Zhao Kailong.

• Chu Fei accepted Zhao Kailong's Hyper-Dimensional Metal and refined gold in exchange for the Flying Tiger, and Zhao Kailong postponed extracting its laws until the next afternoon.
• Chu Fei welcomed Huang Gang, Zhao Hongyue, Jiang Shanhai, and Feng Xihai, then gave the Wind and Thunder Mercenary Group and Abyss Team potions, cultivation methods, and other supplies.
• Chu Fei told Huang Gang and Zhao Hongyue he might face danger the following year, gave them emergency potions, and learned about what had happened after he left.
• Wang Longxiang described his cultivation troubles, and Chu Fei gave him a targeted poison to suppress his mutation and cultivation methods to help him reach 11.0.
• Chu Fei arranged an alliance between the Blood Dragon Adventure Group and the Thunderclap Adventure Group, then entered a secret chamber to watch Zhao Kailong strip the Flying Tiger's laws.

Chu Fei helped Zhao Kailong devour a Flying Tiger’s soul, allowing Zhao to prepare for a breakthrough to 12.0, then left Jinling City and encountered the injured giant Black Tiger. As Chu Fei prepared to hunt the weakened beast, it began communicating with him through spiritual power.

• Chu Fei discovered that Zhao Kailong’s method for devouring an Eerie Spirit’s law contained a Trojan Program linked to the Essence Absorption Method, but removing it would collapse the method’s logic.
• Zhao Kailong used a virtual environment to weaken the Flying Tiger, then devoured its soul with Chu Fei’s support and survived the dangerous process.
• Chu Fei discussed laws and breakthroughs with Zhao Kailong, then left Jinling City after settling his obligations to Huang Gang and the others.
• While flying toward Blazing Sun City, Chu Fei sensed the injured giant Black Tiger and concluded that its wounds and adaptation to this world had left it vulnerable.
• Chu Fei approached the Black Tiger and its mutant beast army with an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle, but the Black Tiger sent him a spiritual message.

Chu Fei negotiated with a wounded Tiger Clan group, gaining rare materials and intelligence about the Outer Realm Battlefield in exchange for letting them escape and directing them away from humans. He then flew to Blazing Sun City, where Song Zhenghe welcomed him to discuss his search for resources.

• A giant tiger offered Chu Fei information in exchange for the Tiger Clan group's lives, and Chu Fei negotiated for metals, herbs, and intact crystal cores.
• Chu Fei demanded intelligence on the Outer Realm Battlefield and the reason for the Tiger Clan's descent, then directed the group toward routes through the wilderness and warned them not to kill humans.
• The giant tiger revealed that the Tiger Clan had fled internal strife and described the fragmented Outer Realm Battlefield, though it knew little beyond rumors.
• Chu Fei assessed his haul of metals, herbs, and inheritance crystal cores as valuable resources for his equipment, potions, and study of Laws.
• Chu Fei arrived at Blazing Sun City, where Song Zhenghe welcomed him and invited him to a banquet.

Chu Fei returned to Flying Tiger City after surveying the Living Corpse Brood Queen’s nest and detonating explosives inside it to harvest Living Corpse Crystal Cores. He hired the Titanium Alloy Adventurer Group to help research Two-headed Wolves, and the group quickly acquired ten for him.

• At Song Zhenghe’s banquet, Chu Fei declined to meet Liu Tingyun, collected more than five hundred explosive packs, and flew east; Song Zhenghe then ordered his subordinates to release Liu Tingyun.
• Chu Fei passed Dawn City and Flying Tiger City, then reached Hong City, where he identified the Living Corpse Brood Queen’s enormous nest and survived a powerful energy-beam attack.
• Chu Fei used Big Data Overwrite to send more than three hundred explosive-laden Flying Living Corpses back into the nest, detonated them, and harvested Living Corpse Crystal Cores from the wreckage before escaping.
• Chu Fei returned to Flying Tiger City and reunited with Titanium Bear, then hired the Titanium Alloy Adventurer Group and supplied potions, research equipment, and cultivation advice.
• Chu Fei commissioned the group to capture ten Two-headed Wolves, offering potions as payment, and they obtained all ten in less than an hour.

Chu Fei completed a biological backup of his brain, refined his cultivation, and returned to Red Pine City to secure cooperation with the Heavenly Dragon in entering the Dragon Gate Secret Realm. He returned to Azure Cloud City, concealed the true arrangement from Zheng Chengan, and prepared a public account of his actions while warning that the Dragon People would not wage war before the Spring Festival.

• Chu Fei activated a second brain in his chest and transferred 0.1% of his consciousness into it, then absorbed Living Corpse Crystal Cores and improved his energy refinement and the Dawn program.
• After replenishing his explosive packs, Chu Fei raided the Living Corpse nest near Hong City again and took another large batch of Crystal Cores.
• Chu Fei returned to Red Pine City, offered the Dragon Pearl to the Heavenly Dragon as a survival trump card, and agreed to enter the Dragon Gate Secret Realm together; he also obtained copied materials from Liu Jinhui.
• After Liu Jinhui escorted him away from Red Pine City, Chu Fei destroyed Wang Family Town's power distribution station with an explosive pack and flew to Azure Cloud City.
• Chu Fei told Zheng Chengan that he had scouted the Dragon People and predicted they would not attack before the new year, while keeping his deal with the Heavenly Dragon secret.
• Chu Fei reviewed the Lord's Mansion's affairs, then ordered his staff to make a video about his Red Pine City visit and announce that the Dragon People could not organize a war before the Spring Festival.

Chu Fei launched a massive economic stimulus and reform plan to gather fortune and Mind Power while preparing Azure Cloud City against the Dragon People. After exposing officials who tried to divert the funds, he left the city energized by public support and resumed cultivating, though he knew his policies would cause trouble later.

• Chu Fei planned to gather fortune and Mind Power by injecting 200 billion into civilian livelihoods and military industry, while advancing his research and cultivation.
• At a meeting, Chu Fei ordered officials to develop the stimulus plan, then investigated twenty-two officials, including five who proposed spending the funds on outside potions.
• Chu Fei introduced a position-based responsibility and bonus system, and Deputy City Lord Zhang Weiming accepted the task of drafting its rules.
• The Lord's Mansion announced the stimulus, anti-corruption measures, and a free alchemist training program that required graduates to serve the Lord's Mansion for three years.
• Chu Fei received a torrent of positive Mind Power from ordinary people and resolved to use it for cultivation, despite knowing his policies would create future problems.

Chu Fei used Mind Power to study the Rage Law, learned how laws worked, and upgraded the Wind and Cloud Cultivation Method. He then designed and refined a concealed poison called Purple Frost Bloom, whose potency exceeded his testing equipment’s limit, and prepared to take it to the Potion Research Center for further testing.

• Chu Fei burned Mind Power to raise his thinking ability to half a step into 13.0 and examined the Rage Law, identifying Penrose Stairs as its core logic.
• Chu Fei used his insights into laws to optimize the Wind and Cloud Cultivation Method and concluded that the Dawn Cultivation Method remained exceptionally precise.
• Chu Fei designed Purple Frost Bloom around the Penrose Stairs logic, using Purple Dragon Bone to create a poison that began as gentle medicine before turning deadly.
• Chu Fei simulated the refining process in Virtual Space, then produced a liter of Purple Frost Bloom in his alchemy room.
• Chu Fei tested a drop of the poison, but his device reported that it exceeded its testing limit; he decided to seek further testing at the Potion Research Center.

Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun developed three new poisons, then Chu Fei began increasing his physical capacity and questioned the recommended standards for reaching 12.0. His research led him to conclude that 12.0 was meant to transform life beyond the flesh-and-blood body, a process he understood as becoming a Transcender.

• Chu Fei showed Ren Qingyun how Purple Frost Bloom turned into a lethal poison when exposed to hemoglobin, and Ren Qingyun advised him to design multiple catalysts and pursue a 14.0 poison.
• Chu Fei and Ren Qingyun designed the Soul Ascension Potion, Calming Incense, and Third Watch Drum, then Ren Qingyun agreed to put the poisons on the black market for testing.
• Chu Fei returned to the Lord's Mansion, used a Living Corpse Crystal Core to raise his physical capacity, and considered why the recommended 12.0 standards were so high.
• Chu Fei searched his collected knowledge and found an unofficial theory that life advanced through the stages of Awakened, Enlightened, and Transcender.
• Chu Fei concluded that 12.0 was not merely a level-up but a life transformation that cultivated an energy body capable of existing beyond flesh and blood.

Chu Fei energyized most of his body, then increased his computing power through a new cultivation method and a second Cosmic Brain Virtual Machine. He left seclusion with more than fifty million points of total computing power, destroyed the secret-chamber computers, and called a meeting in Azure Cloud City before the story moved on from the city.

• Chu Fei used Fractal Geometry and Biological Storage Technology to develop a way to store Life Energy throughout his body.
• Chu Fei completed his body's initial energyization, storing about 530,000 calories of energy, but found that his computing power was too low to control it effectively.
• Chu Fei upgraded the Dawn Cultivation Method and constructed a second Cosmic Brain Virtual Machine, bringing his total computing power above fifty million points.
• Chu Fei began refining the Rage Law in the second Cosmic Brain Virtual Machine, with the process expected to make him a half-step 12.0 expert within seven days.
• Chu Fei erased and destroyed the secret-chamber computers, gave Zhang Xiaobo medicines to replace them, and ordered a meeting about Azure Cloud City's development.

After emerging from seclusion, Chu Fei rejected Zhang Weiming’s attempt to soften the corruption investigation and used the crackdown to curry favor with the Lord of Thunderclap. He completed Spring Rain, a potent poison disguised as cultivation incense, and began preparing supplies for his trip to Thunderclap Land Carrier.

• Chu Fei told Zhang Weiming that officials involved in corruption would be punished without mercy, then persuaded him that the warehouse thefts amounted to collusion with the enemy.
• Zheng Chengan confronted Chu Fei about his approach, but Chu Fei revealed that his actions had earned him about forty-two units of fate, exceeding the Lord of Thunderclap’s target of twenty.
• Chu Fei reviewed the Potion Research Center’s sales with Ren Qingyun, learning that the addictive Soul Ascension Potion and other poisons had generated 90 billion in profit in under half a month.
• Chu Fei arranged for Wu Yong to wait at Crouching Tiger City while he traveled to Thunderclap Land Carrier, and told him he already had a way to protect himself.
• Chu Fei designed and tested Spring Rain, a 13.0 peak-grade aerosol poison that appeared beneficial until activated by the Tiger Clan’s Flower of Heroic Spirits.
• Chu Fei began mass-producing Spring Rain incense and ordered the Lord's Mansion and Ren Qingyun to purchase Sun and Moon Conjoined Lotus.