Chapter Summaries

Chu Fei traveled with the Dawn Team into the wilderness to hunt a Two-headed Wolf and learned more about the dangers beyond Flying Tiger City. At a rest stop, the team met the Greedy Wolf Team, whose members would join them despite Ye Wenfen's hostility toward Chu Fei.

• Chu Fei rode with the Dawn Team, reviewed his survival handbook, and listened as Zhang Longhui warned him not to run toward the team during a fight.
• Zhao Hongyue explained that more than two million people in an eastern city had become Living Corpses, and that Giant Corpses had helped bring down the city.
• The convoy passed a vast pile of Living Corpses and traveled about thirty kilometers to a Flying Tiger City outpost.
• Ye Wenfen of the Greedy Wolf Team disparaged Chu Fei and threatened to take him out if he caused trouble.
• Zhao Hongyue told Chu Fei that the Dawn Team and Greedy Wolf Team would work together because traveling as two teams was safer and Greedy Wolf had experience hunting Two-headed Wolves.

Chu Fei trained Perception of Wind during the teams’ journey into the wilderness, eventually learning to use echoes to map objects and greatly increasing his scanning speed. The chapter ended when a veteran spotted two-headed wolves earlier than expected, prompting Zhao Hongyue to question the sighting.

• The Dawn Team and Greedy Wolf Team joined forces, divided their personnel, and traveled through the wilderness while keeping a distance of about five hundred meters between them.
• Chu Fei ignored the Greedy Wolf Team members’ resentment and used Wisdom Dewdrops to inscribe the Perception of Wind model into his Thought Model.
• Chu Fei practiced echo scanning with a plastic clasp and successfully calculated the position and shape of an ammunition crate.
• Chu Fei raised his scanning refresh rate to about 250 Hz while overclocked, then found it fell to around 25 Hz as the Wisdom Dewdrop’s effects faded.
• A veteran spotted two-headed wolves, and Zhao Hongyue questioned how they could have appeared before the team had fully entered the wilderness.

Chu Fei and the teams advanced into the wilderness, where they discovered that Two-headed Wolves were hunting humans. At Green Spring Mountain, the teams found the remains of an ambush and realized the wolves had already surrounded them.

• Zhang Longhui warned Chu Fei that mutant beasts sometimes hunted humans and recounted how a Three-headed King Cobra had ambushed his team.
• Zhao Hongyue led Dawn Team toward Green Spring Mountain, where they arrived alongside Greedy Wolf Team.
• Zhao Hongyue ordered Old Xia to send up a drone, which revealed corpses and motorcycles on the mountaintop.
• A Two-headed Wolf destroyed the drone, and Chu Fei identified its long-necked shadow as the team recognized the wolves’ unusual two-headed form.
• Zhang Longhui concluded that a wolf had scouted ahead and the wolves had prepared an ambush, while Old Xia pointed out that they were already surrounded.

As night fell, Chu Fei convinced Zhao Hongyue and Ye Wenfen to camp on the mountain rather than risk a return journey or hunt in the dark. He later detected a wolf pack driving a massive herd of Mutated Mountain Goats toward the camp, prompting Zhao Hongyue to order the teams to prepare for an attack.

• Zhao Hongyue and Ye Wenfen held a vote over whether to retreat, but the result was tied, so they asked Chu Fei to decide.
• Chu Fei warned that the route back could be dangerous and urged the teams to set up camp and use infrared equipment to guard against an attack; Zhao Hongyue ordered everyone up the mountain.
• Chu Fei and Zhao Hongyue inspected the massacre site, where they found that the Two-headed Wolves had destroyed equipment and learned how powerful the wolves' bites, teeth, and defenses were.
• During the latter half of the night, Chu Fei used his Perception of Wind to detect wolf howls and sheep bleating northwest of camp, about four kilometers away.
• Chu Fei realized that the Two-headed Wolves were driving a herd of Mutated Mountain Goats toward the camp, and Zhao Hongyue ordered the Dawn Team to hold the western high ground against at least twenty wolves.

Chu Fei helped the Dawn Team survive a flock-driven attack by Two-headed Wolves, then used his new ability to detect another ambush near camp. When the Greedy Wolf Team’s liaison loudly raised the alarm, the camp erupted into chaos and gunfire struck its own people.

• Zhao Hongyue moved the Dawn Team to high ground, where Chu Fei guided a drone to reveal twenty-six Two-headed Wolves driving a flock toward the camp.
• Chu Fei advised the teams to keep arguing while secretly preparing their weapons, and grenade rounds scattered the flock as the wolves retreated.
• Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrops to build an Infrasound Computational Model and filtered the flood of newly audible sounds.
• Chu Fei detected five Two-headed Wolves crawling within about one hundred and thirty meters and more than a dozen figures farther away, then quietly alerted Zhao Hongyue.
• The Greedy Wolf Team’s liaison shouted that the wolves were attacking, triggering camp-wide chaos as the first five wolves charged and gunfire began hitting teammates.

The Dawn Team fought off an ambush by Two-headed Wolves while Chu Fei used his enhanced perception to track the surrounding pack. The chapter ended when they discovered seven more Two-headed Wolves were fleeing a swarm of fist-sized Mutated Killer Bees headed straight for the camp.

• Zhao Hongyue ordered flares, and the Dawn Team killed five Two-headed Wolves that charged the camp.
• Chu Fei warned that more wolves were nearby, and the team prepared infrared equipment as the Greedy Wolf Team counted its dead and wounded.
• After Zhao Hongyue promised him a Two-headed Wolf as a reward, Chu Fei mapped fourteen wolves patrolling around them, leaving seven of the original twenty-six unaccounted for.
• Chu Fei detected an approaching swarm and directed Zhao Hongyue to send a drone south to investigate.
• Zhao Hongyue fired a flare, revealing seven Two-headed Wolves fleeing a dense swarm of Mutated Killer Bees toward the camp.

Chu Fei left the camp alone to ambush the Two-headed Wolves with a Dark Cobra Sniper Rifle as Mutated Killer Bees closed in. He killed several wolves from a distance, including three of the seven leading the attack, while the rest of the team prepared to defend the shelters.

• Zhao Hongyue ordered everyone into the shelters and prepared high-explosive shells and snipers as the killer bees and Two-headed Wolves approached.
• Chu Fei asked for an electromagnetic sniper rifle, then left the camp to attack the wolves on his own.
• Chu Fei used Perception of Wind and infrared equipment to reach a firing position and killed two Two-headed Wolves with carefully calculated shots.
• Chu Fei spotted the seven wolves guiding the bees toward the camp and killed three of them with a single high-powered shot.
• The four surviving lead wolves were left dumbfounded as Chu Fei continued his ambush.

Chu Fei defended the camp by killing seven Two-headed Wolves, then guided Zhao Hongyue to a group of young wolves. Zhao Hongyue ordered him to take out five adults guarding the cubs.

• Chu Fei used Perception of Wind to anticipate the Two-headed Wolves’ attacks and helped the team repel the wolves and Killer Bees.
• Chu Fei killed the remaining attackers, discovering that a Two-headed Wolf could survive with one head destroyed, and received support from a drone.
• Zhao Hongyue arrived by motorcycle, and Chu Fei told her where five Two-headed Wolves were fleeing.
• Chu Fei guided Zhao Hongyue to a hillside, where they found more than a dozen young Two-headed Wolves.
• Zhao Hongyue said the cubs were especially valuable and ordered Chu Fei to kill the five adult Two-headed Wolves.

Chu Fei received a large share of the Dawn Team’s rewards after helping defeat the Two-headed Wolves and secure valuable spoils. When the Greedy Wolf Team failed to claim the Mutated Killer Bee hive, Zhao Hongyue helped them without taking a share, earning their friendship and teaching Chu Fei the value of restraint.

• The Dawn Team captured seventeen Two-headed Wolf pups, and Zhang Longhui presented Chu Fei with a merit ledger awarding him 12.45% of the team’s proceeds, a third of the rewards for the wolves he killed, and one additional Two-headed Wolf from Zhao Hongyue.
• Zhao Hongyue explained that the Dawn Team’s gains were offset by heavy risks, injuries, and more than a million yuan in supplies, while the Greedy Wolf Team had suffered major losses.
• Chu Fei suggested searching for the Mutated Killer Bees’ main hive, but Zhao Hongyue let the Greedy Wolf Team pursue it instead.
• The Greedy Wolf Team found the hive but could not defeat the remaining bees, so they called the Dawn Team for help and handed over the opportunity.
• Zhao Hongyue sent support and then withdrew without taking any of the hive’s spoils, explaining to Chu Fei that restraint would earn the Greedy Wolf Team’s friendship and avoid inviting trouble.

After the Dawn Team returned from the hunt with a huge haul, Chu Fei learned he had earned several million and received an unusually large share of wolf blood and brain marrow for cultivation. With his team rewards and supplies secured, he looked forward to studying and cultivating in peace as he aimed for the Second Limit.

• The Dawn Team and Greedy Wolf Team returned to the outpost with mutant beast corpses, and the Dawn Team began processing the haul with Captain Huang Gang’s help.
• Zhao Hongyue estimated the sale proceeds at 25 to 30 million and Chu Fei’s total earnings at 3.4 to 4.8 million, then hinted that the team had set aside wolf blood and brain marrow for him.
• The Dawn Team returned to Dawn Academy, where Chu Fei received 100 liters of blood and 30 liters of brain marrow, more than half of the recovered supply.
• Chu Fei thanked the team and stored the supplies at the cafeteria, calculating they would sustain his cultivation until his earnings arrived.
• Chu Fei planned to use his money and study resources to cultivate toward the Second Limit.

After returning from an expedition, Chu Fei used abundant Two-headed Wolf Meat Porridge to strengthen his body through the Second Update Period. With his body and cultivation resources prepared, he resolved to pursue the Second Limit by expanding his Thought Model.

• Chu Fei turned down Sun Xiangqing's implied request for money, explaining that his recent gains had come at the risk of his life.
• Chu Fei checked the ingredients in two buckets of Meat Porridge and found they contained Two-headed Wolf blood and brain matter, making them far more potent than ordinary porridge.
• Chu Fei drank the porridge and spent the night using his Body Rebalancing Ability to recover and absorb the gains from his expedition.
• Chu Fei woke refreshed, noticed his eyes faintly glowing, and practiced Chu's Tai Chi Quan as the porridge's energy strengthened his circulating energy.
• Chu Fei decided to sprint toward the Second Limit by refining his Thought Model into a three-dimensional matrix requiring four Computational Units and sixteen Crystal Cells.

After Cao Liwen explained the danger of unchecked thinking errors, Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrop to scrutinize his lessons and plan his cultivation. He decided that his main priority was digitizing Tai Chi Quan to improve his energy supply, and began researching it immediately.

• Chu Fei misunderstood a saying about the last ten miles of a hundred-mile journey, and Cao Liwen corrected him while teaching him about thought errors and error-correction habits.
• Back in his dormitory, Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrop to review Cao Liwen's lessons and found scattered problems, some of which Cao Liwen might not have noticed.
• Chu Fei collected two buckets of Meat Porridge from the cafeteria and returned to his dormitory to plan his cultivation.
• Chu Fei wrote that computing power and energy had to advance alternately, then identified Tai Chi Quan and energy circulation patterns as his main focus.
• Chu Fei drank half a bucket of Meat Porridge, used Wisdom Dewdrop, and began intensive thought training to develop a digitized model of Tai Chi Quan.

Chu Fei discovered how to make Tai Chi Quan’s energy circulation run automatically, then tested and refined the pattern through overnight cultivation. By sunrise, he had completed the energy system and turned his attention to building the Thought Model as the next step toward the Second Limit.

• Chu Fei compared Tai Chi Quan’s circulation with the twenty-four patterns he had mastered and identified the heart as the force that could make it self-starting.
• Chu Fei constructed a Tai Chi Quan energy circulation pattern, tested it while practicing, and confirmed that the energy flowed without errors.
• Cao Liwen and Liu Tingyun approached Chu Fei at the square, and he hurried back to his dorm to avoid interrupting them.
• Chu Fei activated the pattern in bed and confirmed that it circulated spontaneously, switching among its small models in time with his body’s rhythms.
• Chu Fei cultivated through the night, accumulated about 20 calories of energy, and concluded that four hours at a time could reach his limit.
• At sunrise, Chu Fei declared the energy system complete and resolved to focus on constructing the Thought Model.

Chu Fei sought advice about breaking through the Second Limit and learned how the Observer Effect could influence his development as a Semi-Awakened. Huang Gang gave him career-statistics guidance, but Chu Fei still felt something essential was missing as he prepared to choose his path.

• Chu Fei visited the Dawn Team after failing to find Cao Liwen, and Zhang Longhui explained how breaking through 7.8 had greatly increased his abilities and survival chances.
• Zhang Longhui directed Chu Fei to Captain Huang, who revealed that Cao Liwen had already told him about Chu Fei nearing the Second Limit.
• Huang Gang explained that a person's deepest aspirations could guide which Life's Locks opened through the Observer Effect.
• Huang Gang wrote out reference stat requirements for several Semi-Awakened career paths and explained that a person could develop secondary professions while keeping one primary direction.
• Chu Fei asked about data for Awakened and learned he would need to ask Liu Tingyun, then left the conversation with a better understanding of cultivation but still felt something was missing.

Chu Fei sought occupational parameters to help him approach the Second Limit, then learned and revised Tai Chi Quan alongside Liu Tingyun. Liu Tingyun offered her Awakened parameters, but Chu Fei asked what conditions she wanted, and his growling stomach interrupted their negotiation.

• Chu Fei asked Cao Liwen about occupational parameters for Awakened, but Cao dismissed the idea and told him to focus on cultivation.
• Chu Fei ran into Sun Xiangqing on his way to see Liu Tingyun and reflected on how their relationship had cooled after refusals involving a mission and a loan.
• Chu Fei watched Liu Tingyun practice Tai Chi Quan and recognized that she had refined his version; they practiced together, and he used Wisdom Dewdrop to revise the form for his own body.
• Liu Tingyun praised Chu Fei's computational ability and guessed that he was nearing the Second Limit.
• Chu Fei asked Liu Tingyun for Awakened occupational parameters, and she offered them while asking what conditions he thought she should set.
• Chu Fei began to answer, but his stomach rumbled and left him embarrassed.

Chu Fei traded a share of the Spirit Fruit mission’s potential rewards for Liu Tingyun’s knowledge about Awakened occupations and a promised Magic Artifact. Her advice helped him recognize that he was trapped by assumptions about cultivation scores and foundation-building, and he left with a clearer approach to advancing.

• After Tai Chi Quan consumed the free energy in his body, Chu Fei realized he was hungry and told Liu Tingyun about Cao Liwen’s request for five mature, twenty-year Spirit Fruits.
• Liu Tingyun asked for one Spirit Fruit in exchange for a Magic Artifact, and Chu Fei agreed to the trade.
• Liu Tingyun demonstrated her Nanofluid Metal Magic Artifact and gave Chu Fei a handwritten notebook detailing Semi-Awakened and Awakened occupational parameters.
• Seeing Awakened scores exceed the supposed maximum of ten, Chu Fei learned from Liu Tingyun that he had fallen into a Thought Trap about perfect scores.
• After testing Chu Fei’s cultivation knowledge, Liu Tingyun advised him to break through first and refine his foundation afterward, and Chu Fei thanked her and left.

Chu Fei chose scientific research as the direction for his Big Data Cultivation and spent three days resting before rebuilding his Thought Model. After creating four improved Computational Units, he began trying to combine them into an advanced unit to break through the Second Limit.

• Chu Fei calculated that his cultivation efficiency and access to Meat Porridge let him accumulate energy far faster than Sun Xiangqing and asked the cafeteria cook to prepare four thermoses a day.
• Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrops and Meat Porridge to construct four pure Computational Units, which increased his computing power and began strengthening his body.
• After a dream inspired him to pursue scientific research, Chu Fei decided to become a doctor of Big Data Cultivation and rested for three days before starting again.
• Chu Fei rebuilt his knowledge structure, then formatted his Thought Model and reconstructed four improved Computational Units with greater computing power.
• Chu Fei began using a Wisdom Dewdrop to combine the four basic units through Vector Matrix logic and attempt a breakthrough to the Second Limit.

Chu Fei paused his attempt to upgrade his Crystal Cells after realizing he needed a separate module to manage energy, then began constructing a temporary Crystal Cell for that purpose. He went to Cao Liwen’s office to ask why Dawn Academy’s reference models had no bypass systems.

• Chu Fei’s Wisdom Dewdrop overclocked his calculations for an hour, but insufficient energy left the first Crystal Cell only 40% updated.
• Chu Fei devised an Energy Management Module as a bypass system, then decided to ask Cao Liwen or Liu Tingyun why no reference model used one.
• After sleeping until noon, Chu Fei met Guo Xuan, who said Liu Tingyun had been promoting Chu Fei to Dawnbreak Team leaders.
• Chu Fei collected four stored containers of Meat Porridge and returned to his dormitory.
• Chu Fei cultivated Tai Chi Quan’s energy model for four hours, built a temporary Crystal Cell to control its 108 circulation modes, and headed to Cao Liwen’s office.

Chu Fei visited Liu Tingyun and explained his idea for building an Energy Bypass System. Liu Tingyun revealed that she was trying to construct one too, leaving Chu Fei to consider what knowledge he might offer her.

• Chu Fei found Liu Tingyun practicing Tai Chi Quan and openly joined her, while Sun Xiangqing watched in confusion.
• Sun Xiangqing asked Liu Tingyun to let him join the Greedy Wolf Team's wilderness hunts after hearing about Chu Fei's earnings.
• Liu Tingyun warned Sun Xiangqing about the hunts' dangers and said she would ask someone else to arrange it, then told him Chu Fei would pass along any news.
• After Sun Xiangqing left, Chu Fei explained his Energy Bypass System idea, and Liu Tingyun said few people at Dawn Academy had the abilities needed to develop one.
• Liu Tingyun told Chu Fei she was also constructing a Bypass System but did not know where to begin, and Chu Fei replied that knowledge was not free.

Chu Fei sought Liu Tingyun’s guidance on breaking through to become a Semi-Awakened and refined his cultivation path through intensive training. After completing a Vector Matrix and bringing his Thought Model and energy to their peak, he prepared to break through.

• Chu Fei asked Liu Tingyun for her experience with breakthroughs and cultivation, and she discussed the Bypass System with him through the night.
• Liu Tingyun told Chu Fei that Sun Xiangqing had been accepted onto the team, and Chu Fei passed along the registration instructions.
• Chu Fei upgraded his Crystal Cells, cultivated with the Tai Chi Quan energy pattern, and trained his body until his senses and physical abilities greatly improved.
• Over the next fourteen days, Chu Fei updated all sixteen Crystal Cells, repeatedly trained his body, and built a complete Vector Matrix.
• Chu Fei formatted and rebuilt his Vector Matrix through repeated tests, then reached the peak of his Thought Model and energy and resolved to break through.