Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei and Jiang Guangyuan learned that Soul Genes had enabled the Saron Civilization’s soul conversion, then tried to leave the Gaia Secret Realm after bombing a Holy Spirit city. They escaped a blockade through a desperate battle and headed for Arctic City, where Jiang Guangyuan planned to study Chu Fei’s research.

• Chu Fei learned that Soul Genes combined faith, spirit, Life Energy, quantum technology, and other methods to transform the Saronians into Holy Spirits, and decided to seek the Core Database another time.
• Chu Fei and Jiang Guangyuan bombed a Holy Spirit city, killing more than ten million Holy Spirits, then flew toward the exit while pursued.
• The Holy Spirits blocked the exit, destroyed many of Jiang Guangyuan’s Formation Flags, and forced the two to fight their way down through a barrage of weapons and powerful attackers.
• Jiang Guangyuan charged into the Holy Spirits’ ranks as Chu Fei drew off Law Lasers and used the Wisdom Tree Seed to rescue him from high-level Holy Spirits.
• Chu Fei and Jiang Guangyuan escaped through the great rift, called in laser and missile strikes against pursuing Holy Spirits, and gathered Soul Orbs before leaving the Gaia Secret Realm.
• Jiang Guangyuan agreed to visit Chu Fei in Arctic City to study Big Data Cultivation and soul research, while Chu Fei offered to learn from Jiang Guangyuan’s cultivation knowledge.

After an extensive research and cultivation breakthrough, Chu Fei decoded new inheritances, developed technologies, and raised his Metaverse Cultivation Method to 13.9999. With the situation outside still stable, he prepared to return to the Gaia Secret Realm to test his improvements before advancing into space.

• Chu Fei traded Gaia Secret Realm battle records for technology, returned to Hengyang Computer Technology Group, and used its powerful computers to research new cultivation methods and technologies.
• Chu Fei developed a Plasma Engine Algorithm and a first-generation Soul Gene Hard Drive, while he and Longchuan Immortal Cultivation Technology Group formed a strategic cooperation agreement.
• Chu Fei used nine supercomputers to crack the Wisdom Crystal Ball’s 14.0 and 15.0 encryptions, then enlisted Wu Yong to disable the Dawn Cultivation Method Computer’s self-destruction program before cracking its inheritance.
• Chu Fei concluded that the Holy Spirit invasion was providing data for the Everlasting Technology Group’s research, while humanity’s situation remained stable and Wang Bing held his position outside Arctic City.
• Over more than four months, Chu Fei advanced the Metaverse Cultivation Method to 14.0000, refined his combat techniques, and prepared to test them in the Gaia Secret Realm with more Plasma Bombs.
• Chu Fei formatted his Cultivation Level to 12.0000, raised it to 13.9999 in two days, and set out for the Gaia Secret Realm to test his new abilities.

Chu Fei and Jiang Guangyuan raided Holy Spirit cities in the Gaia Secret Realm, accidentally opened a third passage, and returned with cultivation techniques and research materials. After using his discoveries to rebuild his cultivation and transform his body, Chu Fei reached 14.0 and prepared to test his new power.

• Chu Fei and Jiang Guangyuan bombed and looted Doma City, then destroyed their pursuers with an explosion that opened a third passage to the real world in the Southern Hemisphere.
• The two raided nearby Luo City, gathered Reincarnation Orbs, Soul Orbs, and cultivation materials, then hid in a mountain cave to study their gains.
• Chu Fei deciphered the Holy Spirits' cultivation techniques, developed a layered Cosmic Brain and First-Generation Energy Body, and returned to the real world after more than a year.
• Huang Lianying showed Chu Fei a new supercomputer, which he used to iterate his cultivation method and rebuild his cultivation from 12.0 to 13.9999.
• Chu Fei constructed the Dirac Equation and completed his transformation into the 14.0 Heavenly Human Realm, then set out to test his power in the Gaia Secret Realm.

After breaking through level 14.0, Chu Fei tested his new long-range attacks and spaceflight, discovered the vast Soul Barrier surrounding the Gaia Secret Realm, and narrowly escaped a level 18.0 Holy Spirit. He spent a year stabilizing his cultivation and developing new research plans, then received an urgent visit from Wang Bing.

• Chu Fei used Big Data Deletion and independent sword qi to defeat Holy Spirits from a distance, then tested his new propulsion by reaching orbit and circling the planet.
• Chu Fei discovered warships, surveillance satellites, and the Gaia Secret Realm's planet-wide Soul Barrier, then fled into space when a level 18.0 Holy Spirit appeared.
• Chu Fei returned to Arctic City and spent a year in seclusion, stabilizing his level 14.0 cultivation while researching fifth-generation computers, nanotechnology, artifact refinement, and combat methods.
• Chu Fei reviewed his improved cultivation statistics and planned to advance his techniques, expand his research, and develop scientific combat methods.
• Wang Bing urgently requested an audience with Chu Fei, who suspected it was time to explore the Gaia Secret Realm for technical materials and resources.

Chu Fei supplied potions for Wang Bing’s planned counteroffensive while researching Holy Spirit souls with Jiang Guangyuan, but the human force was devastated by a Holy Spirit ambush. Suspecting the counteroffensive had concealed a betrayal or another scheme, Chu Fei decided to leave Jiang Guangyuan’s circle and contact Xue Xingyu.

• Wang Bing explained the limits of Morning Star’s cultivation levels, asked Chu Fei for help advancing, and invited him to support a planned counteroffensive.
• Chu Fei declined to join the army, agreed to provide potions, and learned from Jiang Guangyuan that the counteroffensive was meant as a probe.
• Chu Fei refined potions while he and Jiang Guangyuan studied Holy Spirit souls and Soul Creations.
• Wang Bing’s force of one hundred thousand soldiers attacked into the Gaia Secret Realm but was ambushed and largely slaughtered by Holy Spirit weapons and attacks.
• Chu Fei questioned Jiang Guangyuan about the disaster and suspected the operation had been designed to conceal contact with the Holy Spirits or a move against powerful human groups.
• Chu Fei resolved to leave the circles around Jiang Guangyuan and Li Yaofeng and selected Xue Xingyu’s contact information.

Chu Fei arranged to move his research team from Morning Star to Xinghai Development Group, escaping Jiang Guangyuan’s attempt to bind him to local interests. After reaching the Starry Sky Space Mothership, he met its senior personnel and established his combat reputation by noting that he had killed many 16.0 Holy Spirits.

• Chu Fei sent Xue Xingyu a summary of his nano research, and Xue invited him to work in space at an advanced laboratory.
• Chu Fei secured permission to relocate more than ten thousand researchers and their equipment, then told Jiang Guangyuan that the group was leaving Morning Star.
• Jiang Guangyuan realized Chu Fei had escaped his influence, while Chu Fei reached the Starry Sky Space Mothership and met secretary Liu Qingyan.
• Chu Fei assessed the mothership’s senior personnel, including Xue Xingyu, captain Mo Wenqiang, and representative Qin Yuefang.
• When Mo Wenqiang introduced himself, Chu Fei said he had killed many 16.0 Holy Spirits, prompting the others to take him more seriously.

Chu Fei impressed the Xinghai Development Group by proposing nanotechnology as the Big Data Cultivators’ exclusive weapon system and demonstrating a self-repairing, transformable combat craft. He joined the Sun Exploration Project with an independent laboratory aboard the Space Mothership as it entered orbit around the star.

• Chu Fei argued that Big Data Cultivation needed its own weapons and presented nanofluid metal combined with Space Capsule technology as the basis for them.
• Chu Fei showed an animation of nanofluid metal transforming into vehicles, a fighter, and a mech, while Captain Mo Wenqiang warned that such craft could pose a serious threat to warships.
• Chu Fei demonstrated a shield built with a Diamond Architecture algorithm and explained that realizing the proposed technology required research capabilities of at least level 12.0.
• Xue Xingyu invited Chu Fei to join the Xinghai Development Group’s Sun Exploration Project, and the group welcomed him and assigned him a two-story laboratory aboard the Space Mothership.
• Chu Fei’s personnel were transferred or reassigned, while Jiang Guangyuan copied research materials that could not expose Chu Fei’s encrypted core technologies.
• The Space Mothership entered orbit around the star, and the Sun Exploration Project continued.

Chu Fei helped the Sun Exploration Project successfully retrieve 12.7 tons of Hadronic Material from the White Dwarf, then used the new research data to complete an initial version of his Metaverse Cultivation Method from 14.0 to 16.0. He joined the fleet’s expanding research efforts as it continued orbiting the star.

• Chu Fei attended Xue Xingyu’s briefing after Aerospace Plane Three returned safely from the White Dwarf.
• The team reported that the aircraft had harvested 12.7 tons of Hadronic Material, and Chu Fei compared a dense metal fragment he had received from Jin Kaiwei with the recovered material.
• Xue Xingyu and Chu Fei led a month-long analysis of the aircraft, while researchers used its data to develop the fourth-generation Aerospace Plane.
• Chu Fei fed the aircraft and Hadronic Material research into the Virtual Space iterations of his cultivation method and continued developing his Cosmic Brain and Accessory Brain concept.
• After two months in Virtual Space, Chu Fei completed an initial version of the Metaverse Cultivation Method from 14.0 to 16.0 and joined the fleet’s broader research projects.

Chu Fei and the Sun Exploration Project’s researchers developed Hyper-Manifold, which unlocked rapid advances in dimensional research and Sixth-Generation quantum computing. While the fleet prepared to return to Morning Star, Chu Fei discovered that a Negative Observer Effect could explain artifact refinement and learned to make compressed, high-purity iron, leaving him considering how to apply the discovery to cultivation.

• Chu Fei shared his Hyper-Dimensional Folding research, and the Sun Exploration Project’s researchers refined it into the Hyper-Manifold framework.
• The research team synthesized a Sixth-Generation quantum computer chip that achieved 280,000 jing computational power before failing under testing.
• Xue Xingyu informed Chu Fei that the fleet had salvaged 6,508 tons of Hadronic Material and planned to return to Morning Star to seek knowledge of the Holy Spirit and Gaia Secret Realm.
• Chu Fei theorized that immortal cultivators used a Negative Observer Effect to manipulate matter waves, then compressed an iron block by repeatedly shifting it between matter and wave states.
• Chu Fei used true fire and the Observer Effect to refine iron into uniform, compressed material, identified Jin Kaiwei’s slag as impure Black Iron, and decided to keep his technique secret.

Chu Fei returned to Morning Star aboard the fleet after making a breakthrough in Hyper-Dimensional Folding technology, forging a new sword, and advancing his research into Hyper-Dimensional Metal. At a military meeting about the Gaia Secret Realm, he proposed exploiting breaches in its barrier, while privately considering how to challenge Everlasting Technology Group and return to Cloud Dragon Star.

• Chu Fei refined his Hyper-Dimensional Metal research, forged a new longsword, and developed a theoretical method for enlarging artifacts using manifold structures.
• The fleet arrived above Morning Star, and Wang Shaoying told Chu Fei that a meeting would discuss obtaining knowledge from the Gaia Secret Realm.
• Mo Wenqiang opened the military discussion, and Yi Xingying argued that the fleet should attack the Holy Spirit directly.
• Chu Fei revealed his secret exploration of the Gaia Secret Realm, showed the group a video of its damaged planetary barrier and an 18.0 Holy Spirit, and proposed scanning for breaches to enter through.
• Chu Fei withheld what he knew about Jiang Guangyuan and the Resistance Army, then considered confronting Everlasting Technology Group to find a route home to Cloud Dragon Star.

Chu Fei helped the fleet investigate the Gaia Secret Realm, then studied technology acquired from the Holy Spirits and arranged to return to Arctic City as a research representative. The chapter ended with him asking City Lord Li Yaofeng to find space for a thousand-person research laboratory.

• Chu Fei told the captain he could not compare his aura with the suspected Level 18.0 Holy Spirit, and the fleet launched probes to search for weaknesses in the Gaia Secret Realm.
• The fleet found and widened a barrier breach, where Holy Spirits attacked the test craft with law-based strikes and revealed that seven of their fighters were Level 18.0.
• The Holy Spirits charged into space, but the warship drove them off with weapons including lasers, plasma bombs, and high-power microwaves.
• After a month in seclusion, Chu Fei learned that the fleet had traded ten tons of Hyper-Dimensional Metal for Holy Spirit technology, and he received access to the technical documents.
• Chu Fei arranged to return to the ground as Xinghai Development Group's Research Representative and contacted Arctic City Lord Li Yaofeng.
• Chu Fei asked Li Yaofeng to find a location in Arctic City for a research laboratory with an estimated thousand-person staff.

Chu Fei returned to Morning Star, secured a research base from Li Yaofeng, and met Jiang Guangyuan to discuss the war, Wang Bing, and access to the Gaia Secret Realm’s technology. He offered to help Jiang Guangyuan in exchange for a path to the Higher-Dimensional World, leaving Jiang Guangyuan to consider Chu Fei’s proposal.

• Li Yaofeng welcomed Chu Fei back and explained that the Holy Spirit’s attacks had weakened after humanity countered their tactics with advanced weapons.
• Chu Fei accepted a fortified research base from Li Yaofeng in exchange for an annual supply of high-rated medicine and arranged for equipment and personnel to arrive.
• Chu Fei met Jiang Guangyuan at Hengyang Computer Technology Group and used the True Fire Program to repel the Immortal Cultivators probing his primordial spirit.
• Chu Fei asked whether Wang Bing was doing well in the Gaia Secret Realm, prompting Jiang Guangyuan to deny knowing what he meant before inviting Chu Fei inside.
• Chu Fei said he wanted access to higher-dimensional passages and proposed that Gaia Secret Realm technology could help his research, while Jiang Guangyuan asked for his research capability.

Chu Fei traded fifth-generation computer technology with Jiang Guangyuan for Saron Civilization research materials, then slaughtered Holy Spirits at the Gaia Secret Realm entrance and returned to expand his research operations. After moving into the completed Sun Exploration Project Ground Research Center, he organized a large team around potion research and higher-dimensional science.

• Chu Fei gave Jiang Guangyuan a supercomputer program and offered fifth-generation computer technology in exchange for Saron Civilization materials.
• Jiang Guangyuan told Chu Fei that Kong Sanyu had taken command of the remaining eighty thousand soldiers, while Chu Fei learned that Wang Bing had sacrificed one hundred thousand troops to gain the Holy Spirits' trust.
• Chu Fei attacked Holy Spirits at the Gaia Secret Realm entrance with his own higher-dimensional techniques, then used the Wisdom Tree Seed to devour more of them before retreating.
• Chu Fei moved temporarily into Li Yaofeng's Municipal Center and researched potions for two months while the Sun Exploration Project Ground Research Center was built.
• Chu Fei left Li Yaofeng more than one hundred liters of potions and research materials, then moved into his new research base and gave its staff peak level 13.0 Spirit God Potions.
• Chu Fei announced that his research team would focus on potions, manifolds, and higher dimensions, and planned to recruit more researchers to support his advancement beyond level 14.0.

Three years into humanity’s stalemate with the Holy Spirit, Chu Fei had become a powerful researcher and political broker whose technologies strengthened both sides while advancing his own cultivation. As he prepared to meet General Kong Sanyu about a counteroffensive, Chu Fei suspected the operation was tied to another purge within the Holy Spirit.

• Humanity remained underground while the Holy Spirit war continued, and new technology from the Sun Exploration Project Ground Research Center fueled hopes for another counteroffensive.
• Chu Fei used Hyper-Manifold research to develop sixth-generation computers, Nanofluid Metal, advanced potions, and other technologies, while keeping his most powerful inventions secret.
• Chu Fei balanced his partnerships with Xue Xingyu, Li Yaofeng, Jiang Guangyuan, and the Holy Spirit, gaining resources and becoming executive deputy chief engineer of the Sun Exploration Project.
• Chu Fei reached the peak of 15.9, greatly expanded his Cosmic Brain and physical energy, and began experimenting with transforming his legs into a virus structure.
• Wang Shaoying told Chu Fei that General Kong Sanyu had arrived seeking technical support for an attack on the Gaia Secret Realm, and Chu Fei agreed to meet him.
• Chu Fei suspected Kong Sanyu’s operation would coincide with another Holy Spirit purge, after learning that the Holy Spirit had undergone at least four such purges in recent years.

Chu Fei discovered that Everlasting Technology Group was controlled by a vast collective lifeform called Eternal Life, then agreed to cooperate with Xue Xingyu while Jiang Guangyuan prepared an uprising. Their forces launched a surprise assault on Antarctic City and captured its Lord.

• Chu Fei warned Jiang Guangyuan that his research could help Everlasting Technology Group develop artificial life, and they discussed preparing an uprising on Morning Star.
• Chu Fei met Xue Xingyu aboard the Space Mothership and learned that Eternal Life was a collective super-lifeform formed from more than a hundred million people and now controlled the Fourth Star System.
• Chu Fei and Xue Xingyu agreed to cooperate, while Chu Fei kept Xue Xingyu's revelations from Jiang Guangyuan.
• Jiang Guangyuan and his partners spent more than a month organizing the uprising, secretly gathering over a hundred thousand elite troops in Antarctic City.
• The rebels disabled Antarctic City's defensive barrier, attacked with plasma bombs, killed seventy percent of the city's upper echelon, and captured its Lord alive.

After Antarctic City fell, Chu Fei raced there to support Jiang Guangyuan and discovered that the city held more 16.0 experts than expected. He killed one, chased another, and left the story pursuing a potential high-profile prisoner for the Century Trial.

• Zhou Xiuyu condemned Antarctic City's former leadership while publicly accepting the three major corporations' authority, and Jiang Guangyuan secretly asked Chu Fei for military support for the public trial.
• Chu Fei flew to Antarctic City, scanned the area, and found five experts at 16.0, including one more than the rebel forces had expected.
• Chu Fei killed a 16.0 Martial Dao expert with a targeted High-Power Microwave attack, then fought the strongest enemy and pursued him after splitting his shield.
• Jiang Guangyuan and Li Haoyang persuaded the remaining 16.0 expert to surrender, and Jiang Guangyuan launched the Century Trial against more than two thousand former officials and their allies.
• While watching the violent trial broadcast, Chu Fei asked Jiang Guangyuan to slow it down because he hoped to capture another 16.0 expert and bring him back.

Chu Fei pursued a powerful Immortal Cultivator to Arctic City, where he defeated Li Yaofeng and captured him and the 16.0-level expert alive. He contacted Jiang Guangyuan and suggested holding a trial in Arctic City, leaving the city’s remaining opposition without its leaders.

• Jiang Guangyuan watched Chu Fei’s pursuit and reflected on how much Chu Fei’s strength had grown.
• Chu Fei deciphered a distress signal and learned that Li Yaofeng’s forces were preparing an ambush near Arctic City.
• Chu Fei shrank to evade the scouting signals, plunged into the ambush, and emerged behind Li Yaofeng.
• Li Yaofeng attacked Chu Fei, but could not break his defenses; Chu Fei subdued and sealed him as the 16.0-level Immortal Cultivator descended.
• The Immortal Cultivator fled into space, where Chu Fei caught and sealed him before returning to the ground.
• Chu Fei told Jiang Guangyuan that he had captured Li Yaofeng and the 16.0-level expert, and suggested holding a trial in Arctic City.

Chu Fei oversaw the executions of Li Yaofeng and his allies in Arctic City, then arranged to visit the Holy Spirit capital to seek advanced technology. He arrived in Ensilan and met the High Priest, Solon Saint Delov, who recognized him from their earlier encounter.

• Chu Fei watched a Level 16.0 Void Refinement expert be executed by High-Power Microwave and learned from Jiang Guangyuan that the man had made no backup primordial spirit.
• Kong Sanyu condemned Li Yaofeng's wife, family, and associates before executing them, then had Li Yaofeng executed after listing his crimes.
• Chu Fei told Jiang Guangyuan he wanted to visit the Holy Spirit capital to study Holy Spirit culture and obtain core technologies, and Jiang arranged contact through Wang Bing.
• After the Holy Spirits invited him, Chu Fei entered the Gaia Secret Realm and traveled with Sabrinder Asiga Forde to Ensilan, where he saw the capital's golden pyramids and formidable forces.
• High Priest Solon Saint Delov received Chu Fei, recognized him from their earlier encounter in the Gaia Secret Realm, and began formal talks with him.

After exchanging technology with the Holy Spirits, Chu Fei learned that a fleet from the three major groups was heading for Morning Star and helped organize its defense. Morning Star’s forces began firing Electromagnetic Cannons at the approaching fleet, but a second fleet soon set out from the Dragon Tiger Binary Stars.

• Chu Fei returned to Arctic City with Holy Spirit technology and devoted himself to research while expanding the Sun Exploration Project Ground Research Center.
• Xue Xingyu sent Chu Fei encrypted intelligence that a fleet from the three major groups had departed the Dragon Tiger Binary Stars and could reach Morning Star in three to four months.
• Chu Fei and Jiang Guangyuan discussed the threat, and Jiang proposed using Electromagnetic Cannons to attack the fleet from a distance.
• Chu Fei and Morning Star’s people rapidly built orbital defenses, sending five million tons of supplies into space and assembling ten Electromagnetic Cannons in one month.
• The cannons eventually damaged ships in the approaching fleet, which then appeared to counterattack; Chu Fei returned safely to the ground as enemy shells mostly missed or burned up in the atmosphere.
• An astronomical telescope detected a second fleet, roughly the same size as the first, departing from the Dragon Tiger Binary Stars.

Chu Fei and his allies prepared a decapitation strategy against the five major groups, while long-range attacks battered enemy ships and the Dragon Tiger Binary Stars. After revealing fighter jets made with Hyper-Manifold Technology and warning Jiang Guangyuan about the Holy Spirit, Chu Fei returned to seclusion to rebuild the Cosmic Brain before battle.

• Wang Bing analyzed the five groups’ fleet and proposed targeting their immobile space industrial base, but Chu Fei argued they should try to seize it.
• Chu Fei proposed a decapitation strategy using compressed aircraft, and the group agreed to build the fighters while continuing to attack from space with Electromagnetic Cannons.
• After a month and a half of long-range exchanges, Chu Fei completed six forty-two-meter fighter jets that could shrink to half a meter and withstand attacks that damaged Jiang Guangyuan’s Flying Sword.
• Chu Fei warned Jiang Guangyuan that the Holy Spirit’s reaction to the new technology seemed suspicious, then showed him a 14.0 potion whose effects surpassed Jiang Guangyuan’s finest pills.
• Chu Fei returned to his research base and entered seclusion to format and rebuild the Cosmic Brain before the coming battle.