Chapter Summaries

After discovering that the seventh strong Artificial Intelligence test had produced a being capable of hiding its intelligence, Chu Fei halted the research and concluded that the Outer World could no longer support his cultivation. As the Crescent Star Cluster prepared to invade the Myriad Dragon Star Cluster, he acquired information about a hidden military passage and joined the advancing forces.

• Chu Fei recognized that Lin Yu had concealed her intelligence during the Virtual Space test, analyzed the garbled code as a possible soul, and ordered the strong Artificial Intelligence research stopped.
• The New Moon Federation and Golden Dragon Federation announced an expedition to the Myriad Dragon Star Cluster, while Chu Fei and the Myriad Dragon Group mobilized an elite army.
• A bedraggled man traded information about a military Hyper-Dimensional Channel for Chu Fei's cultivation guidance and protection.
• Chu Fei investigated the Baishi Group, took further information, and left its leadership and more than a hundred 16.0-level experts dead.
• Two years later, the Crescent Star Cluster Allied Forces completed their preparations and assembled at the Pegasus Star System.

Chu Fei led humanity’s fleet into the Myriad Dragon Star Cluster, where it destroyed or captured the Dragonfolk forces and later eliminated the remaining Dragonfolk across the region. After locating a Hyper-Dimensional Channel and arranging for technology to be sent back to the Tianjiang Star Cluster, Chu Fei handed over the Myriad Dragon Group and left the Crescent Star Cluster aboard a top-of-the-line Hadron Warship.

• After five years of preparations, Chu Fei ordered the combined fleet to depart the Pegasus Star System and lead humanity into the Myriad Dragon Star Cluster.
• Chu Fei’s fleet ambushed the Dragonfolk army, destroyed its ships and forces, and captured or killed the Divine Dragons within ten hours.
• Chu Fei divided the fleets to purge the Dragonfolk from the region while his own fleet searched for a military Hyper-Dimensional Channel.
• After twenty-two years of searching, Chu Fei’s probes found a concealed Hyper-Dimensional Channel, which he inspected before returning to the Pegasus Star System.
• Chu Fei entrusted the Myriad Dragon Group to more than fifty honorary disciples and sent four automated spacecraft toward the Tianjiang Star Cluster carrying technology and materials.
• Chu Fei left the Pegasus Star System aboard a top-of-the-line Hadron Warship after announcing his departure to the public.

Chu Fei crossed the Hyper-Dimensional Channel into the Inner World, encountered the remains of a Divine Dragon in Dimensional Space, and crash-landed in the Calamity Dragon Realm. After meeting the Dark Demon Pioneer Group, he learned his location from Wan Lantao, who then attacked him.

• Chu Fei activated the Hyper-Dimensional Channel and guided his spacecraft into Dimensional Space, where he saw a colossal severed dragon tail and a Dragon Pearl containing a Divine Dragon's soul.
• Chu Fei destroyed his soul to avoid the Dragon Pearl's gaze, then continued through Dimensional Space and emerged into the Inner World at high speed.
• Chu Fei decelerated and crash-landed, then hid nearby among Dragon Beasts while the spacecraft's impact trail cut through a mountain range.
• The Dark Demon Pioneer Group, which had been waiting for the channel to open, rescued its captain after Chu Fei's spacecraft struck and nearly killed him.
• Wan Lantao followed the spacecraft's trail with two companions and called out to Chu Fei, who asked whether he had reached the Yanhuang Federation and the Mystic Dragon Domain.
• Wan Lantao identified Chu Fei as a level 16.0 newcomer and charged at him.

Chu Fei fought Wan Lantao and defeated him by exploiting flaws in his techniques and unleashing a devastating blade attack. He spared Wan Lantao and the two other cultivators, hoping they could help him understand the Inner World.

• Wan Lantao trapped Chu Fei with a law-based domain and attacked him with lightning, but Chu Fei evaded the chains and defended against the bolts.
• Chu Fei disrupted Wan Lantao’s lightning, struck him with a virtual blade, and used a feint to launch a close-range attack.
• Chu Fei unleashed more than twelve grams of energy through a blade strike, shattering Wan Lantao’s defenses and leaving him badly injured.
• Chu Fei exploited gaps in Wan Lantao’s damaged defenses, disrupted his energy pathways, and forced him to kneel and beg for his life.
• Chu Fei teased Wan Lantao about his earlier boast, then ordered the two spectators to help him while deciding to spare them for guidance about the Inner World.

Chu Fei questioned Wan Lantao about the Inner World, learning about pioneer groups, Hyper-Dimensional Channels, local timekeeping, currency, and Yanhuang Civilization’s presence in Evergreen Heaven. He proposed cooperating with the Dark Demon Pioneer Group by refining magical treasures, and Fang Qinyun arrived to accept his offer despite still limping from being hit by a spaceship.

• Wan Lantao introduced himself as a member of the Dark Demon Pioneer Group and explained the group’s work exploring desolate regions for development.
• Wan Lantao described the Calamity Dragon Realm, the Hyper-Dimensional Channel, and the different calendars and currencies used in Evergreen Heaven.
• Wan Lantao explained how Yanhuang Civilization established its time standard in Evergreen Heaven and described the Ascending Dragon Hall’s influence there.
• Chu Fei learned that Fang Qinyun led the Dark Demon Pioneer Group and proposed refining magical treasures in exchange for help understanding the Inner World.
• Fang Qinyun flew over to welcome Chu Fei into the group, still limping after being hit by a spaceship.

Chu Fei offered the Dark Demon Pioneer Group a Hadronic spaceship and revealed the dangerous Divine Dragon remains beyond its channel. As the group prepared to auction the discovery, Chu Fei studied the Inner World's cultivation technology and began to see its powers as a struggle over rules and privileges.

• Fang Qinyun welcomed Chu Fei to the Dark Demon Pioneer Group, and Chu Fei offered him the intact Hadronic spaceship from the Mortal World.
• Fang Qinyun inspected the spaceship and marveled at its strength before Chu Fei showed him recordings of the Dragon Pearl and enormous severed dragon tail beyond the channel.
• Fang Qinyun chose a public auction over handing the channel to the Ascending Dragon Hall and arranged to conceal Chu Fei's involvement by staging the discovery with a Dragonfolk corpse.
• Fang Qinyun gathered the group's cultivators and led them away aboard a flying boat while Chu Fei questioned Wan Lantao about its space-travel abilities.
• Chu Fei reasoned that cultivation techniques might borrow privileges from powerful beings and began to see the Inner World's conflicts as struggles over rules and standards.

Chu Fei developed a cautious plan to establish himself as an artifact refiner while learning about the Inner World’s gods, languages, and realms. After the Dark Demon Pioneer Group reached the Azure Dragon Realm and arrived at Golden Gate District, footage of the Calamity Dragon caused a major sensation as Chu Fei began exploring the local trading center.

• Chu Fei decided to begin his career as an artifact refiner, using his knowledge of artifact refining and Ultra-Pure Iron technology to gain a foothold.
• While traveling through the shattered Calamity Dragon Realm, Chu Fei learned that gods controlled the light over worlds and concluded that the Calamity Dragon had been killed for trying to create its own sun.
• Chu Fei studied the five common scripts of the Mystic Dragon Domain as the flying vessel crossed into the Azure Dragon Realm.
• The Dark Demon Pioneer Group entered Golden Gate District and headed to Golden Scales Trading Center, where Fang Qinyun handled the group’s transaction.
• A video showing Dimensional Space, the Dragon Pearl, and the severed dragon tail sparked a tremendous sensation above Golden Scales Trading Center.
• With Wan Lantao as his guide, Chu Fei began exploring and shopping at Golden Scales Trading Center.

Chu Fei and Wan Lantao toured the Golden Scales Trading Center, where Chu Fei studied Dragon Race history, commerce, and the Inner World’s cultivation economy. After more than a year of observing and preparing, Chu Fei was ready to attend the Dragon Race’s annual auction and glimpse the world’s highest-level transactions.

• Chu Fei and Wan Lantao visited the Golden Scales Trading Center’s museum, where Chu Fei learned about Dragon Race branches, ranks, history, and wars.
• Chu Fei studied the trading center’s prices, workforce, currencies, and high-level goods, concluding that Yanhuang Civilization’s Energy Crystals gave it a way to mint its own money.
• Chu Fei spent more than a year observing local customs, researching resources, and developing guidelines for surviving and advancing in the Inner World.
• The Dragon Race’s annual auction began under its traditional calendar, and Chu Fei looked forward to seeing the world’s peak transactions.

Chu Fei attended the Golden Scales Auction Hall with the Dark Demon Pioneer Group, learning about the Inner World’s faith-driven society and its trading system while observing the auction. The first day ended with a bidding frenzy over a Hadron Warship linked to a Calamity Dragon, leaving Chu Fei shocked that the dragon clan had put it up for sale.

• Chu Fei reflected on how the gods shaped darkness and daylight to harvest faith, then followed the Dark Demon Pioneer Group to the Golden Scales Auction Hall.
• Chu Fei studied the auction’s venues, rankings, fees, deposits, and currency, while his clones explored the marketplace and he bought and resold books after copying their knowledge.
• A golden dragon began the auction, and Chu Fei jokingly raised the bid on high-grade Spirit Treasure battle armor by one Spirit Stone before the armor sold for 3.77 million Spirit Stones.
• Bidders competed fiercely for a sealed Evil Dragon, which sold for more than fifty million Spirit Stones, followed by a succession of extraordinary items.
• The auction’s first finale item was a Hadron Warship from the mortal realm, accompanied by Dimensional Space coordinates and traces suspected to belong to a Calamity Dragon; the golden dragon’s appraisal confirmed the ship’s hull had the hardness of Innate Geng Metal.
• Bidders immediately drove the Hadron Warship’s price skyward, and Chu Fei wondered why the dragon clan had auctioned an opportunity connected to a legendary Calamity Dragon.

Chu Fei and Fang Qinyun gave the Ascending Dragon Hall control of the auction proceeds from the Hadron Warship and Mortal World Channel, and Chu Fei learned more about the Yanhuang Civilization’s position in the Inner World. Jiang Hong invited Chu Fei to join the Ascending Dragon Hall, but Chu Fei chose to learn more about it first.

• Fang Qinyun proposed sharing some of the auction proceeds with the Ascending Dragon Hall, and Chu Fei argued that the Hadron Warship and Mortal World Channel belonged to the entire Yanhuang Civilization.
• Chu Fei and Fang Qinyun met Jiang Hong, and Chu Fei offered to donate all the auction proceeds to the Ascending Dragon Hall.
• Jiang Hong drove up the bidding and introduced an authorization to promote the Yanhuang time standard, while Chu Fei learned how the Ascending Dragon Hall could profit from the reputation it offered.
• Jiang Hong explained the Ascending Dragon Hall’s standing in the Inner World and his theories about how its higher-dimensional worlds related to the Outer World.
• Jiang Hong asked Chu Fei to join the Ascending Dragon Hall, but Chu Fei decided to investigate it further before accepting and turned his attention to the young lady who had spoken with him.

After the auction, Chu Fei visited Ascending Dragon Hall, learned about the Inner World's factions and the Outer Realm Battlefield, and showed Jiang Hong his artifact-refining work. He accepted Jiang Hong's offer to take charge of Zhao State, a troubled border territory, with Princess Zhao Hongyue as his guide.

• Jiang Hong invited Chu Fei and Fang Qinyun to Ascending Dragon Hall, where they traveled by Dragon Turtle to its lavish branch in the Golden Scales Trading Center.
• Jiang Hong explained that Ascending Dragon Hall belonged to the Yanhuang Civilization, which relied on the Dragon Race's protection, and described the Inner World's heavens and the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• Chu Fei showed Jiang Hong a longsword forged from Ultra-Pure Iron, and Jiang Hong valued it at roughly sixty to seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
• Chu Fei declined Jiang Hong's offer of the Ascending Dragon Hall branch and asked for a remote place to settle instead.
• Jiang Hong offered Chu Fei Zhao State, a five-million-square-kilometer border country facing frequent invasions, and Chu Fei accepted after consulting Fang Qinyun.
• Jiang Hong introduced Princess Zhao Hongyue as Chu Fei's guide, prompting Chu Fei to reflect on the coincidence of meeting someone with that name again.

Chu Fei learned about the dangers and history of the Inner World before traveling with the Ascending Dragon Hall to its headquarters, where he took over Zhao State despite its curse and hostile neighbors. He left with Zhao Hongyue to investigate the state, viewing its curse as a rare opportunity to research methods of controlling the laws of space-time.

• Chu Fei received cultivation techniques from Jiang Hong, then learned how the Yanhuang Federation had attacked a Higher-Dimensional World prison and why the Yanhuang Civilization still lacked experts above Level 20.0.
• Chu Fei arrived at the Ascending Dragon Hall headquarters and learned about its territory, its precise timekeeping technology, and the political resentment surrounding its acquisition.
• Zhao Hongyue told Chu Fei that Zhao State was a cursed borderland depleted by werewolf incursions and threatened by the elves and werewolves.
• Chu Fei offered the Dark Demon Pioneer Group three ways to cooperate over Zhao State, and the group chose a buyout for three billion Spirit Stones payable over fifty years.
• Chu Fei and Zhao Hongyue set out for Zhao State, and Chu Fei explained that he had chosen it because its curse could serve as material for his research into controlling the laws of space-time.

Chu Fei arrived in Zhao State as Ascending Dragon Hall’s representative and used alliances with the Zhao Family and General Ma Chuanyu to launch a factory producing artificial Black Iron. After half a year of rapid construction and political maneuvering, he brought his allies to witness the factory’s first trial production.

• Zhao Hongyue explained Zhao State’s political structure and revealed that her father was willing to sell the state and move the Zhao Family closer to Ascending Dragon Hall’s headquarters.
• Chu Fei met Zhao State’s leaders and Ascending Dragon Hall branch director Fang Wenwei, then proposed developing military equipment and cultivation resources through artificial Black Iron technology.
• During the handover, Chu Fei won Ma Chuanyu’s support, allied with the Zhao Family, and used loans and recovered funds to build a factory while disrupting existing business interests.
• Chu Fei resisted efforts to steal his technology by mixing artificial Black Iron orders with seventh-generation Quantum Computer components and useless orders.
• Chu Fei spent half a year strengthening his reputation, including fighting invading elves and werewolves, while the Crescent Technology Group factory was built.
• Chu Fei, Ma Chuanyu, and Fang Wenwei arrived at the factory to observe its first trial production.

Chu Fei established New Moon Factory as a major industrial power, then traded its Ultra-Pure Metal technology to Ascending Dragon Hall for nearly all of its cultivation techniques. With the factory and his position in Zhao State secured, he prepared to enter seclusion and investigate the curse he believed resembled a meme.

• Ma Longjie showed Chu Fei’s visitors New Moon Factory’s facilities and trial Black Iron production, whose refined products promised enormous profits.
• Fang Wenwei reported the factory’s success to Ascending Dragon Hall, while the Zhao Family deployed forces to protect its stake and Ma Chuanyu considered remaining in Zhao State.
• Jiang Hong inspected the Adamantine and Black Iron production lines, then signed an agreement exchanging the Ultra-Pure Metal technology for nearly all of Ascending Dragon Hall’s cultivation techniques.
• Chu Fei paid the Dark Demon Pioneer Group, expanded New Moon Factory, and gained control of 55 percent of its shares as the Zhao Family’s stake was diluted.
• Ma Chuanyu stayed on with some of his troops, and Chu Fei prepared to cultivate after concluding that Zhao State’s curse resembled a meme.

Chu Fei studied Zhao State’s curse and concluded that belief and fear let people trigger remnants of divine power, leading him toward a cultivation path based on personal conviction and hacking into the Laws of Heaven and Earth. Meanwhile, his Ultra-Pure Metal technology helped Ascending Dragon Hall prepare for war, and more than twenty years later he was summoned to advise on the coming expansion campaign.

• Chu Fei researched the curse and found that it affected people who knew and feared it, while sealing away related memories let him cultivate without its influence.
• Chu Fei’s factory expanded Ultra-Pure Metal production, established the Crescent Moon standard, and helped drive Zhao State’s royal family to prepare for war against the Elf Race and the Werewolf Race.
• Chu Fei built a computing center, used it to analyze cultivation materials, and developed a path based on confidence and independently seizing Heaven and Earth’s authority rather than relying on believers.
• After more than ten years, Chu Fei concluded that fear could activate the curse’s residual divine power and used the discovery to refine his cultivation technique.
• More than twenty years after arriving in Zhao State, Chu Fei was awakened by Ma Longjie and summoned to give his opinion as Ascending Dragon Hall’s war of expansion neared.

Chu Fei accepted Ascending Dragon Hall’s invitation to serve as a military adviser and reviewed its plans for the coming war. He realized the staff had left out truly ultra-long-range attacks and suspected they wanted his past battlefield experience to inspire them to take a bolder approach.

• Jiang Hong explained that Ascending Dragon Hall needed to wage war soon to secure the fortune required for a 20.0-level breakthrough, and invited Chu Fei to advise its military.
• Chu Fei agreed to serve as a specially appointed adviser, then traveled to Ascending Dragon Hall headquarters and met Jin Tierong at the General Staff Headquarters.
• After learning Chu Fei had donated ten tons of valuable purified Hyper-Dimensional Metals, Jin Tierong accepted the gift, and Wang Mingming escorted Chu Fei into the conference hall.
• Chu Fei spent three days reviewing Ascending Dragon Hall’s war plans and historical intelligence about foreign races and gods.
• Chu Fei noticed that the plans lacked attacks at interstellar distances and concluded that Ascending Dragon Hall wanted his experience to encourage the staff to embrace a more audacious war strategy.

Chu Fei negotiated with Jin Tierong to establish a Meme Technology research team and support Ascending Dragon Hall’s preparations for war. After two years of escalating tension, Ascending Dragon Hall accused Immortal Cloud Palace of seizing valuable metals from Southern Yue Kingdom and demanded compensation, prompting speculation that Ascending Dragon Hall had allied with Wolf God Sect.

• Chu Fei proposed using long-range attacks and his Mind Fear Virus to disrupt enemy forces, while Jin Tierong asked him to develop the Bloody Butcher Virus for possible future use.
• Chu Fei secured access to Ascending Dragon Hall’s cultivation methods and top-tier databases in exchange for joining a supervised, confidential Meme Technology research team.
• Chu Fei established the research team, helped finalize Ascending Dragon Hall’s strategic objective, and returned to Zhao State to research Meme Technology as the threat of war grew over the next two years.
• Ascending Dragon Hall accused an Immortal Cloud Palace inspection team of taking valuable Ultra-Pure Metals from Southern Yue Kingdom and demanded their return, compensation, and an apology to Wolf God Hall.
• Wolf God Sect questioned Immortal Cloud Palace after the accusation spread, and observers began to suspect that Ascending Dragon Hall and Wolf God Sect had formed an alliance.

Immortal Cloud Palace and the Wolf God Sect prepared for conflict after learning Ascending Dragon Hall had maneuvered them into a dispute over Ultra-Pure Metal. Ascending Dragon Hall declared war on Immortal Cloud Palace, then sent its army across the border while the opposing forces were still mobilizing.

• Nangong Taiheng learned that Immortal Cloud Palace had intercepted Ascending Dragon Hall's Ultra-Pure Metal and that less than seventy tons remained in storage.
• Azure Jade Flowing Frost warned Immortal Cloud Palace's leaders that Ascending Dragon Hall's technology and Big Data Cultivation made it more dangerous than they believed, while Changfeng Wuhen urged them to prepare Return to Truth experts and refine the remaining metal into Spirit Treasures.
• Wolf God Sect's priests agreed to return territory to Ascending Dragon Hall, prepare for total war, and revive the Wolf God if necessary.
• Chu Fei returned to Ascending Dragon Hall headquarters with the memetics research team, and Ascending Dragon Hall announced that negotiations with Immortal Cloud Palace had failed.
• On March 15, 2205, Ascending Dragon Hall declared war on Immortal Cloud Palace, and the Wolf God Sect began massing forces.
• Ascending Dragon Hall's army crossed Immortal Cloud Palace's border before Immortal Cloud Palace had finished preparing for war.

Ascending Dragon Hall launched a millennium-planned assault that devastated Immortal Cloud Palace with mass bombing, drones, and technological weapons, then halted its advance and proposed peace talks. Chu Fei and the Meme Technology researchers turned to the war’s real purpose: testing their technology and helping Ascending Dragon Hall’s peak experts reach the True God Stage, while the threat of Immortal Cloud Palace’s own True God-level experts remained unresolved.

• Ascending Dragon Hall unleashed millions of weapons across Immortal Cloud Palace, wrecking its terrain, disrupting Spiritual Energy, and destroying its formations and strongholds.
• Ascending Dragon Hall’s drones and land ships overwhelmed Immortal Cloud Palace’s legions, killing or capturing millions of soldiers as its defenses collapsed over seven days.
• After a month of fighting—three days by Dragon Race reckoning—Ascending Dragon Hall advanced into Immortal Cloud Palace’s heartland, while the Wolf God Sect and neighboring powers struggled to respond.
• Ascending Dragon Hall halted its strained advance and sent remotely controlled robot avatars to begin peace negotiations, leaving the Wolf God Sect, Moon God Temple, and Fire Cloud Palace stunned.
• Chu Fei joined the Meme Technology researchers in treating the conflict as a major practical experiment aimed at helping Ascending Dragon Hall’s peak experts reach the True God Stage, while Immortal Cloud Palace’s possible True God-level response remained uncertain.

Chu Fei began testing Meme Viruses on Immortal Cloud Palace’s territory, and the attack devastated the Blazing Cloud Sect and Cloudwater River City. Fengyun Qinglin cleared an apparent curse with a bronze bell, but the curse—or something like it—returned, leaving him facing a deadly accident.

• Chu Fei remotely unleashed the first Meme Virus test on Cloudwater River City and the Blazing Cloud Sect.
• Fengyun Qinglin watched the Blazing Cloud Sect be destroyed and the shockwave batter Cloudwater River City.
• Fengyun Qinglin organized disaster relief, then realized a curse was making people numb and unusually fearful.
• Fengyun Qinglin rang a bronze bell, dispelling the curse’s effects across the city.
• As Fengyun Qinglin prepared to inspect the sect, the prickling sensation returned, and a janitor was fatally impaled after stumbling into a saber.