Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei defeated Chen Sansheng and Zhang Qiyu after their ambush, survived a devastating attack that damaged his Cosmic Brain, and recovered from catastrophic injuries with technological support. He ordered rescue and reconstruction efforts, then learned that Chen Xuanlin, the Spark Mutual Aid Society’s president, was a peak-level Saint Mage whose power could be difficult to overcome.

• Chen Sansheng and Zhang Qiyu attacked Chu Fei, but his defenses blocked their opening strikes, and he counterattacked with his domain, sword, and curses.
• Chu Fei killed Chen Sansheng and Zhang Qiyu after a prolonged battle, while an Evil Path sword cultivator escaped.
• Chu Fei recovered from his injuries in seclusion, returned to the ruins, and ordered Jin Kaiwei to rescue civilians, protect the scene, and release the negotiation footage.
• Chen Xiaoyun explained that the Spark Mutual Aid Society’s leaders fought to protect their wealth and described the ranks of mages, martial artists, and wizards.
• Chu Fei learned that Chen Xuanlin was a peak-level Saint Mage, equivalent to level 14.0, and recognized that defeating him could be difficult.

Chu Fei went to Arctic City to seek the city lord Li Yaofeng’s help against the Spark Mutual Aid Society, presenting his account of their attacks and the devastation in Jiangkou City. After Li Yaofeng hinted at the political stakes surrounding the dead previous city lord, Chu Fei chose to align himself with him and asked for a position at his side.

• Chu Fei ordered compensation for the civilians killed in the battle and, after Wu Yong’s advice, decided to appeal to the Lord of Arctic City.
• Jin Kaiwei arranged a meeting through Zhao Xinghua, and he and Chu Fei traveled to Arctic City to see Li Yaofeng.
• Chu Fei filed a real-name complaint against the Spark Mutual Aid Society and offered recordings as evidence; Li Yaofeng proposed meeting Chen Xuanlin with Chu Fei in seven hours.
• Li Yaofeng showed Chu Fei the plants where the previous city lord had died, signaling that he wanted Chu Fei to choose a side.
• Chu Fei decided to gamble on Li Yaofeng and asked whether he could take a position serving the city lord.

Chu Fei used Li Yaofeng’s intervention to settle a peace treaty with the Spark Mutual Aid Society, winning substantial compensation while preserving the appearance of reconciliation. The meeting then turned to the Gaia Secret Realm, where footage revealed dangerous ghosts that attacked souls and could only be countered by specialized methods and Soul Artifacts.

• Li Yaofeng agreed to consider a position for Chu Fei and brought him to the Spark Mutual Aid Society to discuss Chu Fei’s accusations and the Gaia Secret Realm.
• Chu Fei confronted Chen Xuanlin over the Society’s attacks, and Li Yaofeng used Chu Fei’s evidence to justify investigating the Society’s conduct.
• Li Yaofeng mediated a settlement in which the Spark Mutual Aid Society agreed to pay 18 billion in damages, provide Chu Fei twelve Soul Orbs and materials worth five billion, and receive the bodies of five dead leaders in return.
• Chu Fei and Chen Xuanlin signed a Peaceful Coexistence treaty, with Chu Fei agreeing to put the matter behind them and destroy the video evidence.
• Chen Xuanlin showed Li Yaofeng and Chu Fei footage of the Gaia Secret Realm, revealing a ghostly world entered through a gate in the Great Rift Valley of Death.
• The footage showed translucent, varied ghosts whose attacks bypassed conventional defenses, wounded souls, and allowed them to pull victims’ souls from their bodies.

Chu Fei joined Li Yaofeng’s plans to explore the Gaia Secret Realm and secured a role researching its resources, then moved to Arctic City and began seclusion to pursue the 12.0 realm. As he started iterating in Virtual Space, he considered how to fold his unusual Cosmic Brain into a higher dimension.

• Chen Xuanlin agreed to guide Arctic City’s first Gaia Secret Realm expedition, while Li Yaofeng offered him a share of its gains and invited Spark Mutual Aid Society members to join.
• Chu Fei revealed his origins and cultivation knowledge to Li Yaofeng, demonstrated his Xuanming Demonic Flame, and accepted a research role supporting the Gaia Secret Realm expedition.
• Chu Fei warned Li Yaofeng that the Gaia Secret Realm might be a trap left by an ancient civilization, then arranged to enter seclusion for a month and pursue the 12.0 realm.
• Chu Fei visited Zhao Xinghua and gave Zhao Liangliang diluted Enlightenment Potion to help him strengthen his soul, then moved his household and Rebirth Pharmacy operations to Arctic City.
• Chu Fei settled into a secluded chamber at the Municipal Center and began studying how to use folding to advance his distinctive Cosmic Brain from 11.0 to 12.0.

Chu Fei perfected the folding algorithm for his Cosmic Brain and broke through to 12.0, transforming his body and computational power. After absorbing soul essence and resting, he tested his new ability to manipulate matter waves and concluded that he had entered the True Man Realm.

• Chu Fei realized that his Gravity Core and Klein Bottle core could weld each other, then iterated the new algorithm until it reached 128 decimal places.
• Chu Fei folded the two cores together, expanding his Cosmic Brain and consciousness space, increasing his computational power, and causing the Wisdom Tree Seed to sprout.
• Chu Fei fed his growing soul the witch Zhang Qiyu's remaining essence, Fu Changqing's Soul Orb, and twelve purified Soul Orbs from Chen Xuanlin.
• Chu Fei slept for twenty-four hours, then examined his transformed Cosmic Brain and found that its computational power had reached 460 million.
• Chu Fei used his Cosmic Brain to manipulate the matter waves of steel and ceramics, demonstrating his new physical abilities after reaching 12.0.
• Chu Fei tested his finger in an alcohol-lamp flame and used his Cosmic Brain to neutralize its heat, declaring that he had entered the True Man Realm, impervious to water and fire.

After naming his cultivation method the Metaverse Cultivation Method, Chu Fei spent thirty-two days stabilizing and upgrading his 12.0 abilities before emerging from seclusion. He joined Li Yaofeng’s meeting, where he demonstrated his improved power and gave everyone Recovery Potions.

• Chu Fei named his cultivation method the Metaverse Cultivation Method and derived a technique that could take him from 12.0 to 13.0.
• Chu Fei upgraded his Cosmic Brain, Neural Network, combat skills, perception, and domains, though his computers and supplies of Wisdom Dewdrops and Mind Power were running low.
• Chu Fei completed his 12.0 stabilization, tested his improved abilities, and found that his computational power had risen to 488 million points while his Aberration Index remained stable.
• After thirty-two days in seclusion, Chu Fei emerged and discovered that his domains had expanded; he also intercepted and cracked an encrypted electromagnetic message.
• Chu Fei attended Li Yaofeng’s meeting, where Li announced his breakthrough and Chu handed out Recovery Potions to everyone present.

Chu Fei presented tested methods for fighting the ghosts in the Gaia Secret Realm and agreed to demonstrate them in person after securing extensive supplies. At the secret realm, Arctic City's Great General Wang Bing immediately took Chu Fei with him as a mechanized army set out to test the methods.

• Chu Fei reviewed the meeting minutes and learned that exploration of the Gaia Secret Realm had stalled because casualties rose sharply beyond a range of one hundred fifty kilometers.
• Chu Fei proposed ways to fight ghosts, including extreme heat, electromagnetic fields, airtight defenses, compression into gold boxes, and his Heavenly Net and Earthly Web Ghost-Catching Art.
• Chu Fei agreed to enter the Gaia Secret Realm after Li Yaofeng offered supplies as a reward if his methods proved effective, and he listed the equipment he needed.
• Li Yaofeng and the others traveled with Chu Fei to the secret realm, where they met Arctic City's Great General Wang Bing.
• Wang Bing dragged Chu Fei onto a war vehicle and led a mechanized army toward the Gaia Secret Realm to test Chu Fei's methods.

Chu Fei entered the Gaia Secret Realm with Wang Bing’s army and demonstrated how to fight and capture its Ghostly Apparitions. After advancing about eighty kilometers, they encountered a huge Ghostly Apparition Legion absent from earlier exploration records.

• Chu Fei promised to join the front line, and Wang Bing offered him a favor if his methods helped keep the soldiers safe.
• The convoy crossed into the Gaia Secret Realm, where Chu Fei observed that it formed a shadow world alongside reality and seemed to have slightly higher-dimensional laws.
• Chu Fei used a Laser Cannon and a shell to bring down a Ghostly Apparition and its mount, then trapped the wounded creature by compressing it inside a sealed gold box.
• Chu Fei explained that captured Ghostly Apparitions could be valuable for research, cultivation, and other uses, and Wang Bing decided to continue deeper into the realm.
• After the convoy advanced about eighty kilometers, Wang Bing spotted a vast Ghostly Apparition Legion on the distant hills and noted that it had not appeared in previous exploration data.

Chu Fei and Wang Bing led an armored force against a massive Ghostly Apparition Legion, using technology and Chu Fei’s powers to break through its vanguard. The Legion adapted and inflicted heavy losses, but the army pierced through its ranks as missiles struck, while Chu Fei captured a powerful Ghostly Apparition to interrogate.

• Chu Fei and Wang Bing prepared the armored vehicles and protective gear, and their weapons killed or wounded more than half of the Ghostly Apparition vanguard before it reached them.
• The Ghostly Apparitions adapted to the electromagnetic attacks, but Chu Fei stopped and compressed one that slipped through the blockade, and Wang Bing ordered the army to charge through the remaining vanguard.
• Wang Bing led the army into the main force while Chu Fei fought with the Xuanming Demonic Flame; a five-meter Ghostly Apparition destroyed an armored vehicle, and the Legion began using solid attacks that breached a soldier’s suit and killed him.
• A five-meter Ghostly Apparition invaded Chu Fei’s consciousness space, where the Wisdom Tree Seed bound it; Chu Fei told the seed to keep it alive for interrogation and beckoned other high-level Ghostly Apparitions toward him.
• The army pierced through the Legion, leaving three armored vehicles behind, and Wang Bing ordered a turn as missiles struck the Ghostly Apparitions and tore through their ranks.

Wang Bing led the army out of the Gaia Secret Realm while Chu Fei interrogated a captured Saronian Holy Spirit and learned the history and immense capabilities of the ancient Saron Civilization. Back at the base, Wang Bing briefed the gathered leaders, while Chu Fei considered the threat posed by the Saronians and the intelligence he still lacked.

• Wang Bing held off the pursuing Ghostly Apparitions until they withdrew, then returned to the base with Li Yaofeng and the army.
• Chu Fei interrogated the captured Holy Spirit and learned that the Saron Civilization had survived its star’s expansion by ascending into higher-dimensional Divine Kingdoms.
• The Holy Spirit revealed that the Saronians had observed the Yanhuang Federation for about a thousand years before opening a passage to test it, and the Wisdom Tree Seed devoured the captive and analyzed its structures.
• Wang Bing opened a conference by reporting that Chu Fei’s proposed methods had worked and warning that the Ghostly Apparitions were adapting to human abilities.
• Chu Fei inferred that the Saronians controlled multiple passages and might be acting either from confidence or desperation, and he feared the danger posed by vast numbers of Holy Spirits entering the real world.

After a contentious meeting, Chu Fei focused on studying the Holy Spirits and seeking a larger role in the Gaia Secret Realm exploration so he could reach the Saronians' Core Database. On a flight back to Arctic City, he discussed alchemy and Big Data Cultivation with pharmaceutical executive Ma Weishan, then agreed to a possible business partnership while warning that it would align Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals with City Lord Li Yaofeng.

• Chu Fei left the meeting without sharing the intelligence he had obtained and resolved to develop quietly while pursuing the Saronians' Core Database.
• Chu Fei returned to his room, studied soul structures with the Wisdom Tree Seed, and went back to Arctic City after learning the military base had no spare computers.
• Passengers on Chu Fei's flight discussed his methods for fighting ghosts, and Ma Weishan introduced himself as the general manager of Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceutical.
• Chu Fei described gene programs that could address Ma Weishan's baldness and promised to release tested versions through Rebirth Pharmacy.
• Ma Weishan proposed licensing Rebirth Pharmacy's Recovery Potion formulas, and Chu Fei agreed in principle while warning that the partnership would mean Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals took Li Yaofeng's side.

After returning to Rebirth Pharmacy, Chu Fei decided to build it into a force focused on customized potions and recruited two of his captives while allowing two others to leave under ransom agreements. He launched the pharmacy’s planning meeting with rare potions as rewards and assigned his team to prepare the business for its opening.

• Chu Fei returned to Rebirth Pharmacy and decided to establish a force, seeing the pharmacy as the basis for a club centered on customized potions.
• Chu Fei offered the four captives a choice between leaving after agreeing to repay ten billion each or staying to work for him; the mage and Evil Path cultivator chose to leave.
• Yan Xiyong and Zhang Yulei introduced their skills, accepted Chu Fei’s employment terms, and signed contracts in exchange for restored belongings and annual salaries.
• Chu Fei gave Yan Xiyong, Zhang Yulei, Zhang Yue, and Zhao Fuhai 12.0 Enlightenment Potions as incentives.
• Chu Fei set Rebirth Pharmacy’s direction and assigned the team to research the potion market, design an organizational structure and brand, and prepare within half a month.

Chu Fei studied pill refinement and used Big Data methods to create Essence Cultivation Pills that Zhang Yulei confirmed were potent and free of Pill Toxin. He sent Zhang to secretly have the new pills appraised, while realizing his method could eventually transform pill production.

• Chu Fei set prices for the Rebirth Pharmacy Club's potions, prepared its opening and charity auction, and invited cultivators with the promise of Enlightenment Potions.
• Chu Fei compared potion-making with Immortal Cultivation pill refinement and concluded that True Fire enabled pills to elevate and assemble medicinal properties.
• Chu Fei used Perception of Wind and Electromagnetic Perception to simulate True Fire, then refined twenty-two polyhedral Essence Cultivation Pills after several failed attempts.
• Zhang Yulei tested the pills and confirmed that they were top-tier, had unusually potent medicinal properties, and contained no Pill Toxin.
• Chu Fei gave Zhang Yulei an 11.0 Soul-Burning Potion as a reward and asked him to secretly take the remaining pills to the black market for appraisal.

Chu Fei refined Sacred Spirits into a new pill liquid called Emperor's Flowing Sap and negotiated an agreement with Ma Weishan to give Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals three Recovery Potion formulas in exchange for access to its production-line development. After explaining that he wanted to avoid the risks of controlling a vast potion market and study mass production, Chu Fei received an urgent call from Li Yaofeng about a challenge from Mercury Group.

• Chu Fei used the Xuanming Demonic Flame and pill-refining methods to create Emperor's Flowing Sap from Sacred Spirits, then had Zhao Fuhai prepare its packaging and internal promotional banner.
• Ma Weishan visited Chu Fei to negotiate a buyout of the three Resurrection Potions, but Chu Fei offered the formulas for free in exchange for visiting Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals' production lines and joining their design discussions.
• Chu Fei and Ma Weishan signed the agreement, and Chu Fei gave him the 100% quality Recovery Potion formulas while retaining the 120% versions.
• Chu Fei invited Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals to his upcoming auction and brought Ma Weishan to meet City Lord Li Yaofeng before leaving.
• Chu Fei told Yan Xiyong that he gave away the formulas to avoid attracting dangerous attention, observe the market, and learn how Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals mass-produced potions.
• Li Yaofeng called Chu Fei and told him that Mercury Group had issued a challenge and that everyone was waiting for him.

Chu Fei faced a life-and-death challenge from Mercury Group, which accused him of murdering Wang Wei and sent the heavily modified Wang Hongxue to fight him. Chu Fei defeated Wang Hongxue with little difficulty, but the strange substance inside his opponent and the explosion that destroyed the evidence left Chu Fei suspecting that the challenge concealed a larger purpose.

• Li Yaofeng told Chu Fei that the three major groups had agreed to send a Level Eight challenger, and he explained the different management models used across the stars.
• Chu Fei prepared weapons and equipment in the City Lord's secret chamber, then went to the Municipal Center plaza for the challenge.
• Wang Mingxue accused Chu Fei of the Water Moon Star massacre and introduced Wang Hongxue, a steel-bodied Modified Human from Tiger Star.
• Wang Hongxue attacked with advanced weapons and abilities, but Chu Fei evaded his strikes, cut through his armor, and pierced the place where his brain should have been.
• Wang Hongxue exploded, and Chu Fei noticed that his supposed brain had felt like liquid crystal and that he had found no Source Core.
• The crowd jeered at the anticlimactic fight while Chu Fei wondered what Mercury Group had really wanted and why the evidence had been destroyed.

After becoming Arctic City's official Chief Alchemist, Chu Fei agreed to inspect a military camp where ghosts had killed 126 people, despite guests urging him to stay safely in the rear. The chapter ended with the banquet guests objecting that his departure could endanger both him and the rescue mission.

• Chu Fei and Li Yaofeng discussed Wang Mingxue's dissatisfied expression, and Chu Fei suspected the challenger might be a bionic human being tested by Mercury Group.
• Chu Fei gave Ma Weishan a baldness treatment program and resolved to improve his cultivation and find more computer processing power.
• Rebirth Pharmacy opened with a charity auction, and Li Yaofeng officially appointed Chu Fei Chief Alchemist of the Arctic City-Gaia World Exploration Mobilization Conference.
• Wang Bing arrived at the banquet and showed footage of ghosts killing 126 people at a military camp, including seven staff officers with Cultivation Levels between Level Six and Level Seven.
• Chu Fei agreed to inspect the camp, then offered guests half-price potion coupons before leaving; the guests urged him to remain behind because the ghosts were too dangerous.

Chu Fei went with Wang Bing to investigate the haunted arrivals hall, where he detected and consumed two powerful Saronian Holy Spirits, then traded his detection method to Li Yaofeng for shares in Hengyang Computer Technology Group. He agreed to stay on the front lines briefly while others learned the method, and planned to focus on obtaining computing power and advancing his cultivation.

• Chu Fei revealed what he had learned about the Saronians and Holy Spirits, then left Arctic City with Wang Bing to investigate the Great Rift Valley airport.
• Chu Fei entered the arrivals hall, devised a specialized method to detect Holy Spirits, and captured two that attacked him by drawing them into his consciousness space for the Wisdom Tree Seed and Xuanming Demonic Flame to consume.
• Chu Fei told Wang Bing that he had analyzed the core structures of two Holy Spirits and refused to share the findings without compensation.
• Chu Fei negotiated with Li Yaofeng, trading the detection method for a 12% stake in Hengyang Computer Technology Group and the opportunity to acquire the computer manufacturer.
• Chu Fei agreed to stay at the front lines while others learned his detection method, then planned to pursue computer research and advance his cultivation.

After returning from the Gaia Secret Realm, Chu Fei learned that an alien descent threatened the Evernight Zone, acquired Hengyang Computer Technology Group, and purged and reorganized it. He left with his position on Morning Star secure and planned to cultivate while the group pursued advanced computer research.

• Kong Lisong warned Chu Fei that an alien descent was expected within a month and asked for support to defend the Evernight Zone.
• Chu Fei bought all of Hengyang Computer Technology Group from Li Yaofeng and the other major shareholders for Emperor's Flowing Sap, then urged Li Yaofeng to send unused weapons to the Evernight Zone.
• Chu Fei used black-market intelligence to investigate Hengyang Computer Technology Group, killed corrupt executives and resisting experts, and appointed Wang Shaoying, Zeng Penghui, and Huang Lianying to lead it.
• Chu Fei overhauled the group, recovered losses, addressed unpaid wages, reduced its workforce, and focused its operations on advanced computer research and cultivation for security personnel.
• Chu Fei secured a three-billion computer order from Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals and arranged to move Rebirth Pharmacy to Hengyang Computer Technology Group's campus.

Chu Fei led Huang Lianying, Zhang Bo, and their team to develop and test the first-generation hybrid-architecture computer while supplying potions during Morning Star’s worsening wars. As they began redesigning the chip, an aberrant assault on Yuanquan Water Resources Group cut Chu Fei’s water supply in half.

• Chu Fei inspected the potion facilities and joined Huang Lianying, Zhang Bo, and other researchers in developing a computer combining a Gravity Core and a Klein Bottle Core.
• After the aberrants descended and the front lines requested 120% quality Perfect Recovery Potions, Chu Fei set aside a day to brew supplies, then continued his research and helped Golden Ganoderma Pharmaceuticals learn mass-production techniques.
• Chu Fei’s research team completed and tested a first-generation hybrid-architecture chip, found several bugs, and began designing the second generation.
• Chu Fei continued supplying potions while Zhang Yue, Yan Xiyong, and Zhang Yulei managed his club; Yan Xiyong and Zhang Yulei had both reached the 12.0 realm.
• Aberrants overran Yuanquan Water Resources Group, prompting Arctic City to halve its water supply and reduce Chu Fei’s water allotment.

Chu Fei joined Arctic City’s mobilization against the mutants, but Jin Yang Computer Group attacked his company while his forces were away. He crushed the attackers, seized Jin Yang’s assets, and then departed with the city’s experts for the Evernight Zone, while the mastermind behind the rebellion remained unknown.

• Chu Fei reduced Hengyang Computer Technology Group’s water use, shared four potion formulas with Li Yaofeng, and prepared his experts after receiving the city’s mandatory mobilization order.
• Chu Fei’s group collected military supplies, and Li Yaofeng announced a purge of people and organizations that had defied mobilization.
• Chu Fei learned Jin Yang Computer Group had attacked Hengyang Computer Technology Group, raced back, and killed hundreds of invaders, including the group’s fighters, while capturing three 12.0-level leaders.
• Chu Fei’s allies interrogated the prisoners and discovered an unknown mastermind had supplied Jin Yang Computer Group with advanced computer technology; Chu Fei then stripped Jin Yang’s assets and researchers.
• Li Yaofeng summoned the experts after the purge and ordered them to the Evernight Zone, and Chu Fei boarded a transport hovercar with the others.