Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei defeated Zhao Jinliang after uncovering the cultist’s Blood Demon techniques, then joined Jiang Shumin in taking control of the surviving mercenaries and forming a Hundred Herbs Hall caravan. The group continued toward a town, where Chu Fei and Jiang Shumin decided not to recruit followers and moved on without stopping.

• Chu Fei pursued Zhao Jinliang, countered his Blood Demon transformation, and killed him with two Dark Stars.
• Jiang Shumin tested her lightning attacks on the remaining mercenaries, killing most of them and sparing those who escaped her final strike.
• Chu Fei had the survivors inventory the goods and divide the loot, while Bai Jie persuaded captives to join the newly established Hundred Herbs Hall merchant group.
• Wu Yong explained how cultist methods strengthened energy control, and Jiang Shumin described how she used electromagnetic principles to make her lightning spheres track targets.
• The group traveled more than twenty kilometers and passed a wary town; Chu Fei and Jiang Shumin chose not to recruit its residents or the mercenaries as followers.

Chu Fei toured Yishan City, learning about its markets, the slave trade, and the dangers of exploring ancient ruins. After seeing the city’s tangled order and disorder, he returned to his group and suggested starting an adventure group.

• The convoy reached Yishan City, where Bai Jie introduced its population, industries, and city lord, Liang Junshan.
• Chu Fei and Jiang Shumin toured Yishan City with Xing Yunfei, visiting its slave market and buying a hundred ordinary slaves and a 10.3 cultivator, whom Chu Fei named Number One.
• Chu Fei gave Number One the Blood Demon Art and reflected on strengthening his foundations rather than pursuing cultivation levels alone.
• At the gambling stone market, Xing Yunfei explained Ancient Yishan City and the limits on exploring its unstable ruins.
• After touring Yishan City’s gambling, prohibited medicine, and beast markets, Chu Fei returned to the group and proposed starting an adventure group.

Chu Fei planned to build an adventure-group network to explore the Underground Ancient City and studied powerful combat techniques with his companions. After Bai Jie spent trillions of Soaring Cloud Coins gathering herbs, equipment, vehicles, and recruits, the convoy departed Yishan City as mercenaries and city guards prepared to attack it.

• Chu Fei proposed hiring adventurers to explore the Underground Ancient City and instructed Qian Yufeng to replenish the black-market bounties targeting the Seven Stars Academic Group.
• Chu Fei and the three seniors studied Lion's Roar, then discovered a Storage Card containing six Level 8 combat skills and discussed integrating their techniques into Chu Fei's combat platform.
• Bai Jie presented a plan for two small adventure groups, and Chu Fei put her in charge, gave her five percent of the profits, and authorized unlimited purchases of bulk herbs and prescriptions.
• Bai Jie spent several trillion Soaring Cloud Coins in Yishan City, bought supplies and vehicles, and recruited more than two hundred workers for the Hundred Herbs Hall Caravan.
• Chu Fei reviewed Bai Jie's spending and told Xing Yunfei to have her spend several trillion more, but Bai Jie said she had already bought everything suitable, so the convoy departed the next day.
• Mercenary groups and some Yishan City city guards secretly mobilized as the convoy set out.

The Seven Stars Academic Group struggled with the failed Star Battle Suit operation, the collapsing medicine market, and escalating assassinations while Chu Fei escorted a convoy toward Flying General City. After he rescued the badly injured Wei Qingyu, she recognized him as the supposedly dead Demonic Pharmacist, and he asked her to teach Jiang Shumin and the others about advancing from 13.0 to 14.0.

• Cui Yanfang described how an unknown 14.0 powerhouse ambushed her, took her Storage Capsule containing the Star Battle Suit, and left her gravely injured, while Cui Renchang ordered surveillance of rival factions and retaliatory bounties.
• Chu Fei learned from Jiang Shumin that resource shortages and competition made outward expansion in The Inland difficult, then continued toward Flying General City with his convoy.
• Chu Fei and Jiang Shumin used Lion's Roar to defeat and capture more than a hundred pursuing cultivators, including 12.0 powerhouses from mercenary groups and city guards.
• Chu Fei used his True Essence Domain to shield and propel the convoy through a torrential downpour, then caught an unconscious, gravely injured woman falling toward them.
• Chu Fei treated the woman with medicine and identified her as Wei Qingyu, who was disguised as Zhang Meixue and had likely taken the Star Battle Suit.
• Chu Fei asked Wei Qingyu to repay him by guiding Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng in cultivation from 13.0 to 14.0, then revealed himself as the Demonic Pharmacist, whom she had believed dead.

Chu Fei brought Hundred Herbs Hall to Flying General City, negotiated terms with its lord, and launched a recruitment tournament to build adventure groups for exploring Ancient General City. As the tournament drew hundreds of cultivators and sparked citywide debate, Chu Fei used the fights to refine his cultivation and began considering further competitions.

• Chu Fei recognized Wei Qingyu through her energy fluctuations, supplied her with Spring Rain Incense and potions, and learned that she hoped to use the Star Battle Suit to give Treasure Pavilion a chance to survive.
• The group reached Flying General City, where Xing Yunfei arranged a base and Bai Jie handled local factions; Jiang Shumin later secured tax concessions, permission to explore Ancient General City, and a future chance to enter a secret realm for the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method.
• Bai Jie promoted a Hundred Herbs Hall tournament to recruit cultivators for two adventure groups, and more than two thousand applicants signed up as over thirty thousand tickets sold.
• The tournament’s elimination rounds selected 254 winners, while Chu Fei studied the contestants’ fighting and considered holding more competitions to learn from cultivators.
• Chu Fei offered the contestants Psionic Potions and a feast before leaving the venue, and Flying General City spent the night discussing Hundred Herbs Hall’s plans.

After gaining inspiration from the day’s battles, Chu Fei improved his Cosmic Brain and devised a plan to use competitions to gather insights and recruit talent for exploring Ancient General City. As the exhausting team tournament continued, he negotiated the Lord’s Mansion’s support, refined the rules for future events, and expanded his testing capacity with three Cosmic Brain Virtual Machines.

• Chu Fei analyzed combat data overnight, improved one Cosmic Brain architecture by 2.7%, and decided to organize continuous competitions for inspiration.
• Chu Fei sent Jiang Shumin to negotiate with the Lord’s Mansion, then watched the team tournament and developed a preliminary electric-motor simulation architecture.
• Chu Fei explained his approach to learning from competitors, and Wei Hang began studying their techniques as the grueling round robin continued.
• Jiang Shumin reported that the Lord’s Mansion would provide limited support and tax exemptions, while Chu Fei and Bai Jie planned revised rules for the next competition.
• Chu Fei built three Cosmic Brain Virtual Machines overnight, and Bai Jie announced that the next competition would begin seven days after the current one ended.

Chu Fei turned the competition into a recruitment drive for Hundred Herbs Hall, offering generous terms and selecting fifty members for two adventure teams. After the event ended, he returned to his residence and found Wei Qingyu preparing to leave.

• Chu Fei added victory-based and audience-vote rewards, then encouraged strong contestants with guidance and Psionic Potions.
• At the end of the competition, Chu Fei distributed rewards and dealt with groups that could not agree on how to divide their prizes.
• Chu Fei introduced himself as Zhou Haifei and announced Hundred Herbs Hall's plans to recruit two adventure teams with generous pay, profit shares, and family protections.
• Chu Fei recruited fifty people after screening competition winners and announced that new members had three days to settle their affairs.
• Chu Fei returned to his residence, where Wei Qingyu told him she was preparing to leave.

Wei Qingyu left to trade the Star Battle Suits and divert suspicion toward the cultists, while Chu Fei expanded Hundred Herbs Hall and built up its adventurer groups. After completing a major Cosmic Brain upgrade, Chu Fei dispersed his cultivation and rebuilt it; he emerged stronger just before the secret realm opened, then resumed preparing for the exploration.

• Wei Qingyu took antidote from Chu Fei, asked for more bottles, and left to trade the Star Battle Suits while shifting the resulting trouble toward the cultists.
• Chu Fei expanded Hundred Herbs Hall's staff and adventurer groups, whose expeditions returned with equipment and profits that strengthened the hall's reputation and supplied his research.
• Chu Fei completed Cosmic Brain 2.0, but found that his Accessory Brain could not safely control his full energy while he formatted and rebuilt his cultivation.
• Chu Fei dispersed his energy under Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng's watch, then spent eighty-three hours rebuilding his Cosmic Brain and cultivation.
• Chu Fei emerged with a stronger foundation and a Cosmic Brain whose computing power had risen by 76%, while the secret realm had still not opened.
• Chu Fei canceled the next competition so people could focus on the secret realm, then began restoring and optimizing his body as large crowds gathered for the exploration.

Chu Fei oversaw Hundred Herbs Hall’s cruel experiments with evil cultivation methods, then studied the upheaval in The Inland before disguising himself as Jiang Shumin’s great-grandson to enter Flying General City’s secret realm. The chapter ended as he learned the secret realm held the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method and judged its dangers manageable for him.

• Chu Fei inspected the underground chambers, where Wu Yong cultivated through slaves’ fear and resentment and Slave Number One used the Blood Demon Art on slaves to investigate physical improvements.
• Chu Fei reviewed reports of assassinations, medicine-market turmoil, and new academic exchange groups, then prepared to seek the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method in Flying General City’s secret realm.
• Chu Fei lowered his apparent Cultivation Level, took the name Jiang Hao, and joined Jiang Shumin at the Lord’s Mansion, where City Lord Ximen Zhiwen explained the secret realm’s entry rules.
• Chu Fei entered the secret realm’s screening hall and watched a presentation describing its floating landmasses, dangers, and the locations of the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method.
• Chu Fei learned that the portions above 10.0 lay on the central landmass, surrounded by Level Six aberrant creatures, and concluded that he could handle the dangers.

Chu Fei traveled through the secret realm to reach the Ren Xiaoyao Research Base and obtain the cultivation method beyond 10.0. After defeating the base’s defenses and passing its inheritance test, he learned that the comprehensive inheritance required another 180 million credits.

• Chu Fei flew through the secret realm, harvested medicinal herbs, and killed a group of robbers who ambushed him.
• Chu Fei reached the central floating landmass, drove away the level-seven venomous snake guarding the entrance, and cut through the base’s gates.
• The base’s AI explained that the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method inheritance required payment, so Chu Fei had his possessions appraised and exchanged items for the tuition.
• Chu Fei chose the test instead of proving he had cultivated the method, completed the eight-hour examination with a perfect score, and passed.
• Chu Fei selected the comprehensive inheritance, then learned it required an additional 180 million credits.

Chu Fei entered a virtual inheritance and spent forty-seven years witnessing the creation of the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method, learning its research process and core principles. He emerged after only two days in reality, newly confident and ready to begin updating Cosmic Brain to version 3.0.

• Chu Fei released Feathered Serpent to guard him, checked the Wisdom Tree Seed, and entered the Virtual Pod to receive the inheritance.
• Ren Xiaoyao and other researchers debated the True Intent of Big Data Cultivation and settled on using technology to command nature while coexisting with it.
• The researchers chose the Li-Yang Algorithm for the cultivation method’s Klein Bottle core, and Ren Xiaoyao revealed that the Yanhuang Federation could withstand the Higher-Dimensional World for only sixty more years.
• Chu Fei watched the researchers develop the method over forty-seven years and learned its True Intent, requirements, mental state, and 16.9999 upper limit.
• Chu Fei woke after two days in reality, felt transformed by the inheritance, and decided Cosmic Brain could begin its version 3.0 update.

After obtaining the complete Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method, Chu Fei moved Hundred Herbs Hall from Flying General City to Yichun City and spent five months refining the Cosmic Brain Cultivation Technique. He uncovered how cult methods increased physical energy, chose to strengthen his existing energy system, and discovered that Tai Chi Quan could improve his foundation.

• Chu Fei plundered the Secret Realm, gave Jiang Shumin and the other two seniors the Ren Xiaoyao Cultivation Method, and agreed to pay two trillion in compensation before relocating Hundred Herbs Hall to Yichun City.
• Jiang Xueying welcomed Hundred Herbs Hall, and Chu Fei began secluded cultivation while the hall established itself and expanded its Adventure Groups.
• Over five months, Chu Fei iterated the Cosmic Brain to version 3.0 and learned that cult methods used the cardiovascular system to create a second energy-circulation system.
• Chu Fei released Slave No. 1, but Jiang Shumin killed him, then agreed to protect Chu Fei while he rebuilt his cultivation method.
• Chu Fei chose Inner-Frequency Overclocking over creating a second energy system, practiced Tai Chi Quan, and found that it increased his physical energy.

Chu Fei upgraded his Cosmic Brain to version 3.0, revived the Demonic Pharmacist identity, and exposed the Seven Stars Academic Group while seeking cultivation methods. After gathering allies and preparing advanced weapons, he led a trade mission into The Inland that turned into a battle with a 13.0-limit expert and several others, ending as the wounded leader began to self-destruct.

• Chu Fei completed his Cosmic Brain upgrade, reaching a stable benchmark score of 87.75 million and experiencing Dimension Elevation.
• Chu Fei transferred the Hundred Herbs Hall to Jiang Xueying, let Bai Jie stay with her, and announced the Demonic Pharmacist's return on the United We Stand Communication Group.
• Chu Fei revealed his suspicions about the Seven Stars Academic Group and offered a bounty for internal martial arts and other cultivation methods, drawing offers from Azure Cloud Academic Group members.
• Chu Fei, Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng traveled to Hejian City to trade for a cultivation method, but Chu Fei's radar detected an incoming 13.0-limit expert.
• Chu Fei and his companions ambushed the attackers with an electromagnetic sniper rifle and coordinated attacks, killing the 12.0 opponents and battling the 13.0-limit expert.
• Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng overwhelmed the remaining expert, but Chu Fei realized the badly wounded man was swelling with energy and preparing to self-destruct.

After escaping the massacre in Hejian City, Chu Fei’s group traveled toward Azure Cloud City and encountered the onset of a World-Ending Heavenly Tribulation triggered amid a battle between 14.0-level experts. As they fled the expanding descent passage, they found a badly injured Wei Qingyu ahead of them.

• Chu Fei’s group killed more than eight hundred Lord’s Mansion cultivators in Hejian City, then publicly showed evidence that the city lord had tried to ambush him before leaving the city to fall into chaos.
• Chu Fei’s group traveled toward Azure Cloud City, witnessed the Inland’s violence, and chose to pass through Red River City after Qian Yufeng described its resources and defenses.
• Chu Fei’s group detected a battle between 14.0-level experts and saw a distant mountain collapse before a vast vortex opened in the sky.
• Jiang Shumin recognized the expanding vortex as a World-Ending Heavenly Tribulation, and Chu Fei’s group raced toward Red River City while Wei Hang explained the devastation caused by the previous one.
• Chu Fei’s group spotted a severely injured figure fleeing ahead and considered attacking, but Qian Yufeng identified her as Wei Qingyu.

Chu Fei’s group reached Red River City just as a World-Ending Heavenly Tribulation began, and Pang Xinliang explained the threat posed by the mass descent of aberrations. As nuclear missiles headed toward the horde, Chu Fei agreed to help produce potions and called on humanity’s factions to unite.

• Chu Fei’s group arrived at Red River City, where Du Qingyu welcomed Chu Fei and Pang Xinliang introduced the city’s leaders.
• Pang Xinliang explained the World-Ending Heavenly Tribulation and discussed possible reasons for the timing and limits of aberration descents.
• The aberrations began pouring from the sky toward Red River City, and the city launched five neutron or hydrogen bombs at the horde.
• Pang Xinliang asked Chu Fei to establish a mass-production line for potions, and Chu Fei agreed to help defend humanity.
• Chu Fei urged the factions in the United We Stand Communication Group to stop fighting and unite against the crisis.
• The five missiles executed a Qian Xuesen Trajectory around the incoming aberrations and flew toward the rear of the horde.

Chu Fei defended Red River City against the second wave of mutants, using his curse to help wipe them out while the city prepared for a third attack. Afterward, Wei Qingyu revealed that she had taken a Cultivation Method from a family whose 14.0-level ancestor had nearly killed her, and gave the method to Chu Fei.

• Five nuclear missiles devastated the first mutant wave but failed to affect the spacetime passage, and flying mutants reached Red River City.
• Chu Fei sent Jiang Shumin away with Wu Yong, then stayed with Wei Hang, Qian Yufeng, and Wei Qingyu as the second wave gathered.
• Pang Xinliang rallied the defenders while Chu Fei told his companions to save their strength and flee if the battle became impossible.
• As roughly thirty thousand mutants attacked, Chu Fei unleashed his curse across a 1.5-kilometer area and helped Red River City defeat the second wave, though the city suffered heavy casualties.
• A third wave began forming before the defenders could recover, and Wei Qingyu told Chu Fei that she had taken a Cultivation Method from a family with a 14.0-level ancestor.
• Wei Qingyu handed Chu Fei a Space Capsule containing the Cultivation Method and said Treasure Pavilion could use the crisis to portray the family as hoarding it.

After Red River City was devastated by the reinforcements’ nuclear strikes, Chu Fei led his companions and about a thousand civilians to safety in Dragon Mountain City, then traveled to Azure Cloud City. He negotiated with Pang Wenrui for an advanced cultivation method in exchange for potion formulas, leaving Pang Wenrui troubled because the promised Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Cultivation Method had been lost.

• Wei Qingyu recounted how she escaped the Zhang Family’s ambush and exchanged its research materials with Chu Fei for more cultivation methods.
• Nuclear strikes destroyed Red River City’s defenses, so Chu Fei’s group withdrew and rescued around a thousand civilians on the way to Dragon Mountain City.
• Chu Fei, Wei Qingyu, Jiang Shumin, and their companions traveled to Azure Cloud City, where Chu Fei advised Wei Qingyu to have Treasure Pavilion lie low while she focused on cultivating.
• Chu Fei contacted Pang Wenrui, met him at Azure Cloud Palace, and offered fifty-four 11.0 potion formulas and eleven 12.0 formulas for an advanced cultivation method.
• Pang Wenrui realized the Azure Cloud Academic Group had lost the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Cultivation Method and worried about how to handle Chu Fei’s valuable offer.

Chu Fei settled into Azure Cloud City, recruited Zhuang Bifan as his steward, and planned for his group to improve their cultivation while he studied the Yin-Yang Heaven Refining Art. The Azure Cloud Academic Group imposed a two-year wait for a top-tier Cultivation Technique, but Chu Fei chose to be patient and continued his research.

• Chu Fei bought and reinforced a villa in Clear Lotus Estate, then hired sales manager Zhuang Bifan with a promise of a million in annual pay and a breakthrough to 9.0.
• Chu Fei, Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, Qian Yufeng, and Wei Qingyu discussed their plans to upgrade their Cultivation Methods, including the risks Wei Qingyu faced in formatting her 14.0 foundation.
• Jiang Shumin explained the Accessory Brain research and the group's plan to help one another through formatting and recultivation, while Chu Fei advised Wei Qingyu to study the new method and wait.
• Chu Fei studied the Yin-Yang Heaven Refining Art and more than twenty internal martial arts methods, reasoning that their energy-based cultivation theories could be adapted to Big Data Cultivation.
• Pang Juan told Chu Fei that his contribution points qualified him for a top-tier Cultivation Technique but that he had to wait two years; Chu Fei accepted the delay and continued researching.
• Zhuang Bifan reported that the reconstruction of a second villa was complete and ready for occupancy.

Chu Fei built advanced server arrays for himself and Wei Qingyu, then used them to develop Cultivation Energy Control Logic Version 1.0. After two months of research, he emerged from his cultivation chamber to find Pang Juan waiting for him again and asked Zhuang Bifan about the situation outside.

• Chu Fei inspected the villa, rewarded Zhuang Bifan with an Elementary Revival Potion, and assigned him to move their belongings and renovate the old villa into a potion research and sales space.
• Chu Fei and Wei Qingyu bought Golden Crow Trade’s servers and equipment, then Chu Fei assembled and reprogrammed servers for Wei Qingyu’s cultivation chamber.
• Wei Qingyu studied Chu Fei’s programming materials and decided to format her Cosmic Brain down to 12.0000 as part of improving her cultivation.
• Chu Fei spent two months using computers to iterate the Cultivation Method ten billion times and completed Cultivation Energy Control Logic Version 1.0.
• Zhuang Bifan told Chu Fei that Pang Juan had visited for four consecutive days, and Chu Fei asked for news about the World-Ending Heavenly Tribulation.

After surveying the worsening war and humanity’s internal divisions, Chu Fei delayed Azure Cloud Academic Group’s request for potion research and focused on cultivation. He helped Zhuang Bifan reformat his Cosmic Brain, then learned that Seven Stars Academic Group had agreed to open the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Cultivation Method inheritance.

• Zhuang Bifan briefed Chu Fei on the retreating defensive lines, mass deaths caused by human collaborators, and the expanding invasion by aberrant creatures.
• Chu Fei told the United We Stand Communication Group that Azure Cloud Academic Group had restricted the formulas he submitted, prompting members to condemn the group.
• Pang Juan asked Chu Fei to resume mass-produced potion research, but he claimed the assassination had destroyed his research data and said rebuilding his database could take up to a year.
• Chu Fei promised Zhuang Bifan and the villa staff support for cultivation, then guided Zhuang Bifan through formatting and rebuilding his Cosmic Brain to the peak of 8.0.
• Pang Juan returned and told Chu Fei that Seven Stars Academic Group had agreed to open the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Cultivation Method inheritance, and Chu Fei frowned at the news.