Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei won the Wisdom Crystal Ball after a fierce auction against representatives of rival scholarly factions, then used his reputation as Demonic Pharmacist to sell potion-improvement opportunities and share the Ball’s decrypted data. As Chu Fei entered seclusion, an assassination bounty appeared and Zhu Shasha arrived on behalf of the Changhong Scholarly Faction to coordinate the response.

• Chu Fei directed Bai Jie to bid freely, and she raised the Wisdom Crystal Ball price to 20 trillion while Zhang Huiming of the Qingyun Academic Group and Hu Bugui of the Seven Stars City Academic Group joined the contest.
• Chu Fei invoked the Changhong City Academic Group’s backing, bought Zhang Huiming’s Star Battle Suit for 20 trillion, and auctioned a chance to improve two potions; Hu Bugui won that opportunity for 29 trillion.
• Chu Fei outbid Zhang Huiming for the Wisdom Crystal Ball at 46 trillion, let Hu Bugui and the others copy its decrypted data, and gave Hu Bugui formulas for the Basic Spirit Nurturing Potion and Berserk Potion.
• After returning to the Adventure Hall, Chu Fei ordered the release of the Crystal Ball’s material below 10.0 and entered seclusion, while an assassination bounty for Demonic Pharmacist appeared and the Changhong Academic Group prepared to send personnel.
• Zhu Shasha arrived at the Adventure Hall as a Changhong Scholarly Faction representative, and Jiang Longyu told her Chu Fei was in seclusion and described the plan to publicize the Crystal Ball’s data.

While Chu Fei remained in seclusion, the release of Wisdom Crystal Ball knowledge and falling potion prices threw Liangshan Pass into chaos. After emerging, he refined potions, considered new ways to build his reputation and fortune, investigated assassination bounties, and prepared to expand Adventure Hall’s potion production as the Star Secret Realm’s arrival drew near.

• Adventure Hall released the Wisdom Crystal Ball’s contents, and public pressure forced the Wang Family to reveal the deleted material and open its archives.
• Knowledge-sharing and potion-price turmoil destabilized Liangshan Pass, prompting Long Qingqing and several organizations to arrange protected areas and restore basic supplies for some ordinary people.
• Chu Fei refined his Star Battle Suit during seclusion, then emerged to fulfill his potion commissions and agreed to explore new formulas with Wang Dahu’s group if their ingredients came from clean sources.
• Chu Fei reviewed suspected assassination sponsors, including the Hu Family of Yaoguang City, and discussed mass-producing potions and placing bounties with Jiang Longyu.
• Chu Fei left with Qian Yufeng as the Star Secret Realm’s vortex grew enormous overhead.

Chu Fei disguised himself to enter the black market, where he joined Cross Star and other organizations to place potion-backed bounties on his enemies and their families. After refining his combat abilities and entering the 12.0 realm through a Cosmic Brain Virtual Machine, he reviewed the assassinations, agreed to withdraw the bounties only if the ones against him were also removed, and discussed potion production and Star Secret Realm plans.

• Qian Yufeng disguised himself and Chu Fei, explained the black market's rules, and led him through an auction house into its underground market.
• Chu Fei registered with Cross Star under the codename Star Radiance Apostle and offered potions as payment for bounties on Hu Bugui and others, including their families.
• Chu Fei spread overlapping but distinct bounty lists among more than a dozen black-market organizations, while the approaching Star Secret Realm and rising potion prices kept the Adventure Hall busy.
• During seclusion, Chu Fei improved his Cosmic Brain, built a Cosmic Brain Virtual Machine, refined the Rage Law, and officially entered the 12.0 realm.
• Chu Fei reviewed the assassination records and learned that nearly a thousand 8.0- and 9.0-level targets had been killed; he agreed to withdraw his bounties if the bounties against him were removed as well.
• Chu Fei advised Jiang Longyu to develop large-scale medicinal-ingredient cultivation before attempting assembly-line potion production, then finalized Star Secret Realm arrangements with Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng.

Chu Fei learned about the Star Secret Realm and confronted Zhu Shasha over the assassination bounty and the Changhong Academic Group’s offers. As the realm’s opening approached, strange living-looking clouds raised concern, and Chu Fei prepared high-quality potions before quietly heading out with the three vice chairpersons.

• Qian Yufeng explained the Star Secret Realm’s uncertain duration and revealed that people left inside it vanished into Dimensional Space and the Four Ghost Realms.
• Zhu Shasha asked Chu Fei to withdraw his retaliatory bounty and join the Changhong Academic Group, but Chu Fei insisted the bounty be canceled first and delayed answering the offer.
• Chu Fei noticed that the clouds above the Star Secret Realm churned unlike those in past appearances, and Yin Shihao confirmed that something unusual was happening and requested high-quality potions.
• Chu Fei refined Intermediate Spirit Nurturing Potion and Heavenly Water Potion above 120% quality, sold them to Yin Shihao, and produced three bottles of 100% quality Basic Immortality Potion.
• After confirming Zhu Shasha had canceled the bounty, Chu Fei posted a conditional bounty of his own and left the Magic Medicine Hall in disguise with Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng.

Chu Fei visited the abnormal Star Secret Realm but chose to leave, then learned from Wu Yong that Lin Baiyu’s arrival might connect him to Cloud Dragon Academy’s lost Dawn Cultivation Method. Wu Yong revealed the academy’s history and its trials, leaving Chu Fei to meet Lin Baiyu the next morning and consider a path to the inheritance.

• Chu Fei met Yin Shihao at the Star Secret Realm, delivered 2.4 liters of Basic Immortality Potion, and turned back rather than enter the abnormal realm.
• Lin Baiyu projected his image into Chu Fei’s consciousness and summoned him to Cross Star beneath the auction house the next morning.
• Chu Fei told Wu Yong about Lin Baiyu, and Wu Yong explained how Lin Baiyu had once guided him to establish Dawn Academy.
• Wu Yong revealed that the four ancient academies had each possessed a cultivation method and divine sword, and that Cloud Dragon Academy’s ruins had become the Demonic Remains.
• Wu Yong explained that the Dawn Cultivation Method’s later stages required trials in the Heart Demon Secret Realm, now controlled by the Three Great Academic Factions.
• Wu Yong described how the Overseers forced cultivators at 16.0 out of the world, answered Chu Fei’s questions about the trials and his own survival, and urged him to ask Lin Baiyu about his identity.

Chu Fei watched the Star Secret Realm appear and then met Lin Baiyu, who revealed that he belonged to a secret group preserving historical records and seeking to correct Yanhuang Civilization’s course by supporting influential people. Lin Baiyu offered Chu Fei extensive knowledge in exchange for his research materials, and Chu Fei left Cross Star with new resources and a bounty intended to protect him for a year.

• Chu Fei and Jiang Shumin watched the Star Secret Realm appear, saw passengers inside, and observed armed forces clearing an entrance with weapons and missiles.
• Chu Fei spent the night reflecting on Wu Yong, Lin Baiyu, and his own cultivation before meeting Lin Baiyu at Cross Star.
• Lin Baiyu explained the Mandela Effect through Collective Consciousness and memes, then described an alternate history in which the Yanhuang Federation freed prisoners from Higher-Dimensional World prisons and received Big Data Cultivation knowledge.
• Lin Baiyu revealed that he and others preserved unaltered historical records and sought to counter the Three Great Academic Factions by supporting people such as Chu Fei with knowledge and resources.
• Chu Fei agreed to provide his potion research materials in exchange for knowledge, received sixty Storage Cards, and activated a bounty meant to protect him if he was hunted, killed, or disappeared.

Chu Fei discussed cultivation limits with Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng, concluding that their stalled progress might stem from pursuing levels at the expense of cultivation’s purpose. After reviewing Lin Baiyu’s archive, he found a theory dividing cultivation methods into human, earth, and heaven realms, which made him question his own method and resolve to seek the Dawn Cultivation Method.

• Chu Fei returned home and learned that Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng wanted to enter the Star Secret Realm to consume soul-like lifeforms and strengthen their souls.
• Chu Fei argued that the three guardians’ cultivation had stalled because their competitive training had prioritized levels over evolution, and they considered how academy practices could contribute to flawed foundations.
• Chu Fei shared his Abyss Team report, prompting Jiang Shumin and Wei Hang to conclude that their problems had become irreversible after they broke through 12.0.
• Chu Fei asked Wu Yong whether he needed to obtain the latter half of the Dawn Cultivation Method before reaching 12.0, but Wu Yong could not explain how the trial measured that threshold.
• Chu Fei reviewed Lin Baiyu’s archived knowledge and found an article dividing cultivation methods into human, earth, and heaven realms, leading him to question whether his own method was too narrow and whether he needed the Dawn Cultivation Method.

After reassessing cultivation methods and the risks of a weak foundation, Chu Fei resolved to build his influence through potion research while seeking a high-level cultivation method. He negotiated with Zhu Shasha for a partnership with the Changhong Academic Group and left her twenty-four hours to secure access to Moon in the Clouds before he approached its rivals.

• Chu Fei compared the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method and the Cold Plum Cultivation Method with the Dawn Cultivation Method, then reflected on why Jiang Shumin and the others could not safely reset their cultivation.
• After reviewing Lin Baiyu’s extensive materials and finding no cultivation methods among them, Chu Fei calmed himself and planned to strengthen the Demonic Pharmacist’s reputation, study potion research, and gather allies.
• Chu Fei emerged from seclusion the next morning and met Zhu Shasha, who praised his potions and asked him to join the Changhong Academic Group as a potion researcher.
• Chu Fei proposed an independent Potion Research Center affiliated with the Changhong Academic Group, focused on studying medicinal ingredients and making potions affordable.
• Chu Fei demanded the Moon in the Clouds Cultivation Method in exchange for cooperating and gave Zhu Shasha twenty-four hours to get an answer before he contacted the Seven Stars Academic Group or the Azure Cloud Academic Group.

Chu Fei negotiated with Zhu Shasha to launch affordable potions with the Zhu Family and the Golden Dragon Family, hoping to build influence and obtain the Dawn Cultivation Method. After arranging formulas and cooperation, he slept, but screams about ghosts woke him in the night as a possible Void Ghost attack began.

• Chu Fei rejected Zhu Shasha’s request for advanced potions unless she offered valuable cultivation methods, then challenged the Changhong Academic Group’s hoarding of knowledge.
• Chu Fei proposed that the Zhu Family partner with him, criticized its role under the Ximen Family, and persuaded Zhu Shasha to cooperate in exchange for potion profits and a path to greater influence.
• Chu Fei and Zhu Shasha agreed on provisional terms, including a 5% share of sales revenue for ten years, and he gave her formulas for four potions.
• Zhu Shasha visited Jin Shanshan, who received Chu Fei’s Golden Dragon Azure Blood Potion and formula after he completed the research far sooner than expected.
• After Jin Shanshan left, Chu Fei went to sleep, but screams about a ghost woke him, and he rushed out while suspecting Void Ghosts had appeared.

After cultists summoned Void Ghosts to wreak havoc in Liangshan Pass, Chu Fei discovered that people could strengthen their souls by devouring them with high-quality Spirit Nurturing Potions. He demonstrated a different method by compressing and analyzing a Void Ghost, then withdrew to prepare techniques as Wei Hang cultivated and experts gathered outside.

• Jiang Longyu reported that the Holy Soul Cult had summoned Void Ghosts from the Four Ghost Realms, and Chu Fei shared information about the creatures with Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng.
• Jiang Shumin killed a cultist and a Void Ghost, then devoured part of the creature and used Advanced Spirit Nurturing Potions to stabilize her soul; she reported that her soul strength had increased by about one-tenth.
• After Jiang Shumin warned that Void Ghosts contained impurities and negative emotions, Wei Hang went out to try devouring one while Chu Fei observed the chaos in Liangshan Pass.
• Chu Fei announced that devouring Void Ghosts with high-quality Spirit Nurturing Potions could strengthen the soul, then killed a cultist, compressed a Void Ghost, and had the Wisdom Tree Seed absorb and analyze it.
• Chu Fei entered the secret chamber to organize the techniques he had derived, while Wei Hang cultivated after devouring half a Void Ghost and Jiang Shumin guarded the room as experts gathered outside.

Chu Fei launched the United We Stand Communication Group, sharing Void Ghost research, cultivation methods, and the level 14.0 Qinghong Cultivation Method to build influence and reshape access to knowledge. As the group spread rapidly, the Three Great Academic Factions debated how to respond, while Chu Fei began planning to cut potion prices and Zhu Shasha prepared to warn him about their plans.

• Jiang Shumin explained how cultivators could safely devour Void Ghosts, and Chu Fei later gave her and the others his research techniques.
• Chu Fei launched the United We Stand Communication Group, shared its public source code and research, and released the Qinghong Cultivation Method, which could reach level 14.0.
• The group and cultivation method spread rapidly, prompting cultivators to celebrate, small organizations to collapse, and the Three Great Academic Factions to debate how to respond.
• The faction leaders agreed to promote public exchanges and a pharmacist event that could challenge Chu Fei, while Zhu Shasha warned Ximen Yunlong against singling him out.
• Chu Fei told Jiang Shumin and the others he would refine and publish standardized potions at low prices, then began researching them.
• Ximen Yunlong approved Zhu Shasha sharing the meeting records with Chu Fei, and Zhu Shasha saw that the group had already surpassed 100,000 members and the Qinghong Cultivation Method had over 100,000 downloads.

Chu Fei built the United We Stand Communication Group into a major platform while preparing for upheaval across the Inland. When the Holy Soul Cult surged at Liangshan Pass, Chu Fei weighed retreat against using the few remaining experts to seize an opportunity.

• Long Qingqing visited Chu Fei, warned him not to draw Azure Rainbow Land Carrier City into his plans, and relayed Shangguan Qinghong's message of thanks and caution.
• Chu Fei gave Zhu Shasha an improved Blazing Sun Potion formula and said he would challenge any potion competition on his own terms rather than enter under its rules.
• Chu Fei announced potion agreements and plans to devote part of the proceeds to the United We Stand Communication Group, prompting the Hu Family to face scrutiny and cultivators to use the group for aid and information.
• Chu Fei studied cultivation and potions until Bai Jie interrupted him with news that Holy Emissaries and powerful Void Ghosts had destabilized the Star Secret Realm and Liangshan Pass.
• As the Adventure Hall prepared to retreat, Chu Fei proposed that its three 13.0 vice chairmen use their strength to turn the crisis into an opportunity, and Jiang Longyu asked what they thought.

The Adventure Hall organized Liangshan Pass’s evacuation while Chu Fei captured a fused Saint, extracted a Void Ghost, and developed a program that disrupted Void Ghost movement and helped turn some Cultists against their cause. The evacuation succeeded despite casualties, but the chapter ended with Holy Emissaries breaking through a Star Secret Realm checkpoint with an insider’s help and escaping into the clouds.

• Jiang Longyu announced that the Adventure Hall would protect the public, while Chu Fei urged people to counterattack and supplied potions to fighters.
• Chu Fei ordered the crowd to gather at the Adventure Hall, then organized a retreat west after cultists converged on the area.
• Chu Fei captured an elusive Saint, separated its Void Ghost, and used the Wisdom Tree Seed to analyze it.
• Chu Fei released the Void Ghost Motion Interference Program, which spread through the communication group, aided the evacuation, and helped Cultists suppress their fused Void Ghosts.
• The Seven Stars Academic Group exposed Hu Bugui’s plot against Chu Fei, expelled him, and renamed him Hidden Dragon, while declining to send help to Liangshan Pass.
• Holy Emissaries broke through the Three Great Academic Groups’ checkpoint, escaped into the clouds, and left Pang Wenrui suspecting an insider had aided them.

Hu Bugui used the United We Stand Communication Program to determine that the escaped experts from a century ago had been body-snatched, while Chu Fei entered the Star Secret Realm to protect himself and established a potion business there. He publicly released improved potion formulas, invited people to supply obscure ingredients, and left Jin Shanshan dissatisfied after refusing to accelerate his research on Dragon Blood Bodhi.

• Hidden Dragon escaped with the century-old experts, exchanged contact information with them, and concluded they had been body-snatched because they could not use Cosmic Brain programs.
• Chu Fei and the migrating cultivators reached the Star Secret Realm, where Yin Shihao warned him about assassination threats; Chu Fei decided to enter the realm and refine potions under the Adventure Hall's protection.
• Chu Fei arrived at the Star Secret Realm with Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng, set up a potion trading site, and gave Wang Dahu half of the enhanced Intermediate Spirit Nurturing Potion and Heavenly Water Potion.
• Wang Dahu chose to entrust Chu Fei with 165 obscure medicinal ingredients for experimental potion research, and Chu Fei publicly released the improved formulas and opened a dedicated potion section in the United We Stand Communication Group.
• Chu Fei announced that he would challenge the planned potion competition by researching obscure ingredients and publishing his formulas, prompting people to offer ingredients and seek his help.
• Jin Shanshan asked Chu Fei about his Dragon Blood Bodhi research, but Chu Fei insisted on their agreed one-year timeline and had Jiang Shumin see her out.

Chu Fei left the Adventure Hall for the Azure Cloud Academic Group, bringing Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng with him, and began developing new potions while building influence in his new position. With the Star Secret Realm battles driving potion prices upward, Pang Wenrui proposed smashing the advanced potion market just as the realm neared its end.

• Chu Fei pushed Jin Shanshan to lower the Golden Dragon Family’s potion prices and gave Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng his edited cultivation records.
• After Yin Shihao rebuffed Chu Fei’s proposal to lower potion prices, Chu Fei negotiated with the Azure Cloud and Qinghong Academic Groups and chose to join the Azure Cloud Academic Group.
• Chu Fei secured permission for his Magic Medicine Hall partners and subordinates to transfer, offering Ximen Yunlong the mass-production formula for the Intermediate Spirit Nurturing Potion in return.
• Chu Fei moved into the Azure Cloud Academic Group’s Star Secret Realm territory, gave Zhang Huiming an improved potion simulation program, and began working toward the Purple Cloud Divine Thunder Cultivation Method.
• Chu Fei identified ten obscure medicinal herbs, developed and publicly released ten new potion formulas, and accumulated Mind Power and Wisdom Dewdrops as the Star Secret Realm battles intensified.
• With fewer than one hundred hours left in the Star Secret Realm and potion prices surging, Pang Wenrui proposed that they smash the advanced potion market.

Chu Fei negotiated with Pang Wenrui for a chance to inherit the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Cultivation Method in exchange for publicly releasing his potion formulas, then joined the Azure Cloud Academic Group and prepared to upend the potion market. After releasing more than forty formulas, including several for grade 12.0 and below, he left the market in chaos and saw a clearer path toward obtaining the Dawn Cultivation Method.

• Chu Fei told Pang Wenrui that Mind Power fueled his cultivation and negotiated one chance at the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Cultivation Method in exchange for releasing his mass-production potion formulas.
• Pang Wenrui revealed that Chu Fei had disrupted the Seven Stars Academic Group’s plan to assemble cultivators into an army, and Chu Fei agreed to join the Azure Cloud Academic Group.
• Chu Fei reassured Zhu Shasha that her family’s formulas were superior, gave her two upgraded formulas and Spring Rain Incense, then negotiated with Jin Shanshan to publish three Dragon Blood Bodhi formulas and sell one-tenth of the family’s annual supply.
• Chu Fei released more than forty mass-production potion formulas, including several grade 12.0 formulas, causing the potion market across The Inland to erupt into chaos.
• Chu Fei concluded that disrupting the market had advanced Lin Baiyu’s correction plan, strengthened his ties and reputation, gathered Mind Power, and brought him closer to obtaining the Dawn Cultivation Method.

Chu Fei promoted his potion research, then helped the Azure Cloud Academic Group prepare for a possible major-general-class Star Battle Suit by rapidly refining high-level potions. After the suit appeared in Wenchang Hall, he handed over the potions and fled the Star Secret Realm with his followers toward Wolf Fang City.

• Chu Fei announced that he would release one hundred potion formulas and challenge a future potion competition, while continuing to research unfamiliar herbs and recipes.
• A disguised client brought Chu Fei a translated Nine-Nine Transformation Pill recipe, and Chu Fei agreed to study it and share his findings within a year.
• Pang Wenrui asked Chu Fei to refine Advanced Spirit Nurturing Potions and Basic Immortality Potions because a major-general-class Star Battle Suit might appear; Chu Fei and his assistants produced twelve liters of each, then made Storm Potions reaching 127% quality.
• Jiang Shumin alerted Chu Fei that Wenchang Hall in the Purplestar District had opened and a suspected major-general-class Star Battle Suit had appeared.
• Chu Fei handed his potions to Pang Wenrui, left the Star Secret Realm with his followers, and headed west toward Wolf Fang City instead of returning to the Azure Cloud Academic Group base.

Chu Fei’s convoy reached Wolf Fang City after he withdrew from the Star Secret Realm’s battle over a major-general-grade Star Battle Suit. As his group prepared to travel onward, four Saints ambushed him, and one sliced open his head before fleeing with his Space Capsules; Jiang Shumin and the others heard Chu Fei urge them to retrieve his corpse.

• Chu Fei led his group away from the Star Secret Realm and traveled toward Wolf Fang City, while 14.0 experts began fighting over the Star Battle Suit.
• After reaching Wolf Fang City, Chu Fei rented a courtyard, bought several maps, and planned a safer route toward the Azure Cloud Academic Group’s territory.
• As Chu Fei’s group queued to leave the city, he sensed Void Ghosts nearby and warned his companions that they might be targeting him.
• Four Saints attacked the convoy, and Jiang Shumin and the other three 13.0 experts formed a defense that protected Chu Fei’s group from the initial strike.
• Chu Fei followed the plan and ran from the barrier; a Holy Emissary sliced across his head, took his two Space Capsules, and kicked his body against the city wall.
• After the Saints escaped, Jiang Shumin and the others stared at Chu Fei’s apparently fatal injuries, then heard him telepathically urge them to retrieve his corpse.

Chu Fei revived after his apparent death by restoring a backup brain, then shared parts of his life-saving methods with Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng. He activated a bounty targeting the Seven Stars Academic Group, and the group set out for Flying General City under new identities as the Hundred Herbs Hall merchant caravan.

• Jiang Shumin had Bai Jie use increasingly powerful potions to restore Chu Fei’s brain and body after he communicated with them from his backup brain.
• Chu Fei explained his neural stem-cell backup and Reflection Spell methods to Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng, while withholding the role of his Perfect Lover Model.
• Chu Fei ordered Bai Jie to announce that the Seven Stars Academic Group had assassinated him and to activate his black-market bounties against its members and affiliated forces at cultivation levels of 8.0 or above.
• The announcement triggered a surge of assassinations and fighting around the Star Secret Realm as bounty hunters targeted the Seven Stars Academic Group.
• Chu Fei chose to travel to Flying General City to seek the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method and urged the three protectors to consolidate their cultivation foundations.
• Chu Fei and the others created the Hundred Herbs Hall caravan, with Bai Jie posing as a young master’s widow and the group taking on concealed identities and roles.

Chu Fei and his companions captured a population of Crimson Essence Snakes and set off toward their destination. When they encountered the Purple Gold Mountain Mercenary Group attacking a caravan, Chu Fei initially watched as the attackers killed the caravan’s survivors, then confronted their captain, Zhao Jinliang.

• The Feathered Serpent brought Chu Fei a Crimson Essence Snake, and Chu Fei’s group discovered and captured thirty-six snakes to use as merchandise for Hundred Herbs Hall.
• Qian Yufeng prepared the snake as food, and Bai Jie carefully fed some diluted meat porridge to her son.
• The group heard fighting ahead, captured a sentry named Wang Qiwei, and learned that the Purple Gold Mountain Mercenary Group was intercepting a caravan.
• Chu Fei and Jiang Shumin reached the battle, where the caravan’s survivors identified the attackers and appealed for help; Chu Fei chose to watch as the three survivors were killed.
• Zhao Jinliang began gathering his mercenaries, and Chu Fei announced that he would uphold justice against him.