Chapter Summaries

After earning a fortune killing Mutated Lizards, Chu Fei learned about the Underground World’s dangerous frontline and chose to prove himself at a Mutated Ant mine. Lai Wenchao brought him to the mine and introduced him to squad leader Bai Xuesong, whom Chu Fei quietly paid.

• Chu Fei told Lai Wenchao and Ma Dalong that Mutated Lizards were too weak to provide the training he needed, after killing nine of them in eight hours and earning about forty thousand.
• Lai Wenchao explained the Underground World’s ruins, energy networks, riches, dangers, and rampant betrayal, then advised Chu Fei to build his record before trying to join the Dawn Special Forces’ frontline squad.
• Lai Wenchao described three mining sites, and Chu Fei chose the Mutated Ant mine to gain experience against creatures that could hide in the dark.
• Lai Wenchao escorted Chu Fei deep underground and handed him over to squad leader Bai Xuesong at the hot, distant mine.
• Chu Fei shook Bai Xuesong’s hand and slipped him a roll of banknotes, which Bai accepted.

Chu Fei joined Bai Xuesong’s mine crew and faced a swarm of Adamant and Flame Ants after they cut the lights. He revealed his extraordinary whip skills while fighting in darkness, leaving Bai Xuesong convinced he had learned the correct way to boost performance.

• Bai Xuesong introduced himself to Chu Fei and showed him around the hot, sprawling mine.
• An alarm sent Bai Xuesong and Chu Fei rushing to fight a medium swarm of Adamant Ants in the eastern shaft.
• The ants bit through the electrical wires, plunging the shaft into darkness as Flame Ants joined the attack.
• Bai Xuesong helped rescue a surrounded miner and ordered the team to retreat toward the entrance.
• Chu Fei stayed behind and, with his eyes closed, precisely whipped apart the ants around him.
• Bai Xuesong directed lights toward Chu Fei and watched him clear the swarm before praising his performance.

Chu Fei earned the Dawn Special Forces’ respect by using Perception of Wind and his whip technique to fight the ants, then left the mine with new rewards and contribution points. Lai Wenchao brought him to meet the commander, Tu Hu, and Chu Fei froze when he saw him.

• Chu Fei explained how Perception of Wind helped him locate and attack the ants, and Bai Xuesong gave him a Supernatural Potion as a battle reward.
• Chu Fei agreed to teach the team his whip technique, and they recorded his instructions and gave him Supernatural Potions.
• After two days of fighting, Chu Fei received twenty Supernatural Potions and gained enough contribution points to bring his total to 107.
• Chu Fei gave Lai Wenchao a Storage Card recording his performance, and Lai Wenchao took him to meet the captain.
• Lai Wenchao introduced the heavily modified Meng Long and the commander Tu Hu, and Chu Fei froze at the sight of Tu Hu.

Chu Fei impressed Tu Hu and his team by defeating Zhang Qiaoqiao with a whip, then went with Lai Wenchao to buy combat gear. At the market, he declined Guo Xuan’s invitation to join a mission, and Lai Wenchao hinted that Chu Fei would soon be seen with the Main Battle Team.

• Tu Hu explained why he had reduced his height to 1.5 meters to improve his combat efficiency, then asked to see Chu Fei’s assessment.
• Tu Hu introduced Zhang Qiaoqiao, and Chu Fei used a whip to exploit her mistake and bring her down in a brief fight.
• Tu Hu praised Chu Fei’s tactical deception and sent Lai Wenchao to help him buy combat supplies with the team’s money.
• Lai Wenchao explained that their small team bought supplies from the market and carefully chose lightweight armor to improve Chu Fei’s reaction speed.
• Chu Fei encountered Guo Xuan and two other Dawnbreak Team elites, declined their invitation to join an advanced mission, and listened as Guo Xuan described the Underground World’s front lines.
• Lai Wenchao brought Chu Fei Newtonian-fluid armor and remarked that Guo Xuan would be surprised to see him with the Main Battle Team in a few days.

Chu Fei learned the Underground World's rules and dangers, boosted his Potential Index through intensive study, and prepared with the Dawn Special Forces for an expedition to Research Center No. 114. He learned that Energy Crystals stored enormous amounts of Life Energy just as the team set out on the mission.

• Lai Wenchao outfitted Chu Fei with underground gear and explained how the battle team handled equipment costs and ownership.
• Zhang Qiaoqiao taught Chu Fei the battle team's accumulated knowledge, and his Potential Index rose to a peak benchmark score of 6,117 times per second.
• After resting, Chu Fei watched an interstellar-war film and discussed its lessons about concealment, knowledge, vigilance, and the danger of trusting teammates.
• Chu Fei watched a documentary about the Underground World's construction and learned how Dimensional Spaces could store and regulate Life Energy.
• Tu Hu briefed the twelve-member Dawn Special Forces on their mission to explore Research Center No. 114, warning that Energy Crystal-enhanced exotic beasts might be present.
• Zhang Qiaoqiao explained that Energy Crystals held vast quantities of Life Energy, and Chu Fei realized that even a low-grade crystal could power his ordinary needs for years.

Chu Fei joined the Dawn Special Forces on a joint underground expedition with the Dawnbreak Team and Golden Dragon Battle Team, where he killed Li Jinyou after the man threatened him. The three teams reached a pitch-black tunnel filled with mutated creatures and bones, leaving Qian Shaohua demanding to know where they came from.

• Tu Hu introduced Chu Fei to Long Tengwu, and the three teams gathered before setting out on their joint expedition.
• Li Jinyou confronted Chu Fei over their past conflict, and Chu Fei killed him with a whip strike.
• Tu Hu and Long Tengwu pressed Qian Shaohua to take responsibility, so Qian Shaohua decapitated Li Jinyou's corpse and the teams continued together.
• The teams traveled into a dark tunnel, where Chu Fei learned that underground creatures repeatedly destroyed the old lights.
• After passing mutated animals, the teams found a cave crowded with mutated creatures and strewn with bones, and Qian Shaohua demanded to know where the bones had come from.

Chu Fei used Perception of Wind to locate hidden survivors and reveal that fourteen Mutated Brain Beasts were controlling the Mutated Insectoid Beasts in the mine. After identifying the threat, the captains decided to stay and plan an attack rather than retreat for reinforcements.

• Chu Fei and the teams attacked the Mutated Insectoid Beasts after hearing a survivor call for help, then Chu Fei used sound to locate a group of hidden survivors.
• Tu Hu and Long Tengwu realized Chu Fei had a new long-range sensing ability, and Chu Fei demonstrated Perception of Wind by identifying objects hidden behind Long Tengwu.
• Chu Fei mapped fourteen two-headed figures among unusually strong Mutated Insectoid Beasts, and Tu Hu identified them as Mutated Brain Beasts parasitizing human hosts.
• Zhang Qiaoqiao explained how Brain Beasts awakened by parasitizing humans and gradually assimilated their hosts while retaining a two-headed form.
• Tu Hu argued that the teams should attack the exposed Brain Beasts for the money and to prevent a larger crisis, and Qian Shaohua and Long Tengwu agreed to plan the assault.

Chu Fei helped the three teams trap the Mutated Brain Beasts and earned a share of the reward, but their insecticide ran low as the battle turned against them. When the fighters reached the junction, Chu Fei disrupted the attacking insects with a whistle, revealing he could interfere with the Brain Beasts’ sound-wave control.

• Tu Hu and Long Tengwu negotiated two Brain Beasts as a reward for Chu Fei’s discovery, and the teams began holding the side passage while reinforcements were summoned.
• The fighters used insecticide and rotating battle lines to repel waves of Mutated Insectoid Beasts, but the supply dwindled and the insects recovered their strength.
• A Human-faced Spider broke through and killed one of Qian Shaohua’s team members as the fighters retreated toward the junction.
• Chu Fei proposed letting some insects through, then removed his mask and whistled, disrupting their attack.
• Chu Fei explained that he had cracked part of the Mutated Brain Beasts’ sound-wave commands, and Long Tengwu, Tu Hu, and Qian Shaohua ordered everyone to retreat three meters.

Chu Fei helped the teams break the Mutated Insectoid Beasts’ coordinated attack, then declined recruitment offers from the Dawnbreak Team and Golden Dragon Battle Team while pursuing his goal of becoming an Awakened. As the battle ended, he noticed the teams secretly sabotaging one another, and fourteen Mutated Brain Beasts appeared before them.

• Chu Fei disrupted the Mutated Insectoid Beasts’ control signals, allowing Tu Hu and the others to rout their vanguard until the main force arrived.
• Chu Fei questioned the miners about Underground World work practices, while Long Tengwu and Qian Shaohua offered to recruit him into their teams.
• Chu Fei said he would keep trying to become an Awakened, and Tu Hu positioned him behind himself as Meng Long and Zhang Qiaoqiao formed a protective formation.
• Chu Fei studied the teams’ combat techniques and spotted Golden Dragon Battle Team members secretly interfering with Dawn Special Forces fighters.
• Chu Fei used directed ultrasonic waves to disrupt the beasts’ attacks, and Tu Hu’s team widened its distance from the other groups as the fighting turned into covert competition.
• After the Mutated Insectoid Beasts were nearly eliminated, fourteen Two-Headed Humans appeared before the teams.

Chu Fei and the teams captured seventeen Mutated Brain Beasts at Research Center No. 114, but they discovered that a Flying Tiger Team captain was trapped inside and continued cautiously toward the facility. When Chu Fei sensed flexible material beneath the tunnel walls, Long Tengwu cut into the surface, revealing blood as the entire tunnel began to writhe.

• Chu Fei saw fourteen people parasitized by Mutated Brain Beasts and learned that their insignias identified them as members of the Flying Tiger Team.
• The teams defeated the remaining mutated beasts, but three Human-faced Spiders revealed Mutated Brain Beasts fused to their backs and killed several Golden Dragon Battle Team members.
• The teams subdued all seventeen brain beasts, and one dying parasitized man urged them to save the captain inside Research Center No. 114.
• The three captains decided to report the discovery to Flying Tiger City while the rest of the group continued toward the research center.
• Chu Fei sensed flexible material beneath the tunnel walls, and Long Tengwu slashed the surface, releasing blood as the tunnel began to writhe.

Chu Fei’s Perception of Wind helped the teams escape a brood nest and uncover a path to Research Center No. 114, where Captain Li Longhua led a cautious clearing operation. As Chu Fei and Li Longhua investigated the unexplained deaths and missing captain, they heard a voice and found a man fused into the ground, holding a Mechanical Arm with a wristband.

• Chu Fei warned the others about the living wall, and the group escaped its tentacles before retreating to the fork to wait for the Flying Tiger Team.
• Qian Shaohua recommended Chu Fei to Captain Huang, who drafted him; Chu Fei then pressured Qian Shaohua to stay and fight while Tu Hu and Long Tengwu withdrew with their teams and the gathered prey.
• Chu Fei demonstrated Perception of Wind to Captain Huang, and the Flying Tiger Team discovered that insecticide necrotized the brood nest’s flesh wall.
• Li Longhua arrived with two Flying Tiger Team units, and the team cleared a passage to Research Center No. 114, revealing a vast forest of flesh and blood that Li identified as a mutated brood nest.
• After Chu Fei raised concerns about the Mutated Brain Beast and dead Flying Tiger Team members, he and Li Longhua heard a faint voice and found a man fused into the ground, holding up a Mechanical Arm with a wristband.

Chu Fei and Li Longhua’s team retrieved the Mechanical Arm and recovered a Storage Card containing footage that revealed a newly opened Dimensional Space. As the team prepared to explore it, Chu Fei suspected that dangerous creatures had escaped from the sealed space while even more threats remained inside.

• Chu Fei detected a Golden Dragon Battle Team member being dragged into a hidden wall, and Li Longhua ordered the team to kill him after they found him cocooned in living branches.
• Li Longhua led the team through the dangerous mutated growth and pulled the Mechanical Arm free, then ordered an orderly retreat.
• The Flying Tiger Team cleaned the Mechanical Arm and played the Storage Card’s recording, which revealed that the lost squad had discovered a Dimensional Space.
• Qian Shaohua asked to leave, but Li Longhua permitted the Golden Dragon Battle Team to join the exploration as a reward for its efforts.
• Chu Fei studied the recording and concluded that creatures had likely escaped from the thousand-year-sealed Dimensional Space, while greater dangers might still remain inside.

Chu Fei decided to enter the newly discovered Dimensional Space with the Flying Tiger Team, despite the danger, and prepared by studying the available records and gathering supplies. The group reached the entrance and learned that the research center had investigated a new approach to awakening, leaving Li Longhua wondering whether the Dimensional Space could improve Awakened.

• Chu Fei used Wisdom Dewdrop to reason that the aberration had developed within seventy-two hours and that the isolated Dimensional Space might contain valuable resources and technology, then decided to take the risk of exploring it.
• Li Longhua ordered the group to rest before entering the Dimensional Space, while Chu Fei kept close to him and asked for guidance; Chu Fei also encountered Guo Xuan, who declined to join the expedition.
• The Flying Tiger Team reached its development site, rested, and prepared equipment for entering the one-way Dimensional Space.
• Chu Fei read documents describing research into a liquid chrysalis stage that might let Awakened transform more quickly and recover from severe injuries.
• Li Longhua finished reviewing the research materials and wondered whether the Dimensional Space could make awakening more perfect.

Chu Fei searched the research base’s records and identified its thousand-year AI training program for a liquefaction cultivation technique as the expedition’s true prize. After the team entered the Dimensional Space, they encountered a giant silkworm that rapidly transformed into a butterfly, and Li Longhua ordered them to hunt it and assess the local creatures.

• Chu Fei read the base’s research materials, reflected on the importance of strong foundations, and decided to pursue the AI-generated Liquefaction Program rather than visible wealth.
• Chu Fei memorized an inspection log, then joined the team as its seventh member to enter the Dimensional Space.
• Chu Fei detected a human-sized silkworm approaching and watched it develop reflective scales before transforming into a flying butterfly.
• Li Longhua ordered everyone to extinguish their lights and switch to infrared equipment after warning that light could attract predators.
• Chu Fei tracked the butterfly with Perception of Wind, and Li Longhua ordered him to lead the team forward to hunt it.

Chu Fei and Li Longhua’s squad fought through mutated insects in the research base and used Chu Fei’s sound-based perception to choose a route. Chu Fei discovered an inspection route that could lead to the Main Control Room, then secretly weighed whether to tell Li Longhua.

• Li Longhua’s squad killed a giant butterfly by targeting its brain, and Chu Fei examined its extraordinary healing and armor-like scales.
• Chu Fei detected approaching creatures and recommended breaking through the larger insects, but the squad changed course after he identified a swarm of giant Human-faced Spiders.
• The squad encountered mutated mole crickets, drew them away with a light-and-sound drone, and passed through while the insects chased it.
• Chu Fei found a transformer inspection route by following the emergency passage and identified the Main Control Room as the likely destination.
• Chu Fei used a Wisdom Dewdrop to consider whether to share his discovery with Li Longhua.

Chu Fei led the team away from a Mutated Brain Beast brood nest while hiding his own aims, but a juvenile’s death alerted the mature Brain Beasts and triggered a pursuit. The team fought off some dragonfly hosts, then found the remaining flyers intercepting their route.

• Chu Fei’s team discovered a Hatching Chamber filled with juvenile and mature Mutated Brain Beasts, but chose to keep moving toward the Main Control Room.
• A soldier accidentally stepped on a juvenile Brain Beast, and Li Longhua ordered it killed before the team hurried away.
• Mature Brain Beasts tracked the team using rat hosts, and Chu Fei warned Li Longhua that fighting the pursuing swarm was unwise.
• Seventeen dragonfly hosts caught up, and Li Longhua’s teams shot down the first five by destroying their hosts’ brains.
• The remaining dragonflies circled overhead, and Li Longhua led the team forward through a passageway.
• The dragonflies began actively intercepting the team after it had advanced only a dozen meters.

Chu Fei and the Flying Tiger Team fought through swarms of hosts parasitized by Mutated Brain Beasts and escaped to a safer passage. After climbing another staircase, Chu Fei spotted faint light ahead.

• Li Longhua led the Flying Tiger Team in cutting down the dragonflies and then ordered everyone to retreat as more Mutated Brain Beast hosts pursued them.
• Chu Fei used his Perception of Wind to guide Li Longhua toward a broad staircase, where the team made a stand against the pursuing horde.
• Chu Fei and Li Longhua fought side by side on the stairs, helping repel the attackers, though several warriors died.
• After resting, the team found an emergency passage and followed it for about a kilometer, avoiding most Mutated Insectoid Beasts.
• Chu Fei and the team climbed another staircase, where he saw faint light ahead.

Chu Fei and Li Longhua’s group emerged from the underground passage into a strange surface ecosystem, discovered a research base map, and rested before deciding to return underground. On the way back, they chose a familiar route, and Chu Fei detected a spider nest ahead as the group entered another passage.

• Chu Fei and Li Longhua reached a bright savanna filled with enormous insects and discovered that the grass was a flesh-like fungal-plant life-form.
• Chu Fei spotted giant insect bags hanging from a towering tree, and the group found a research base diagram showing several underground levels and a Main Control Room at the deepest level.
• The Flying Tiger Team rested at the passage exit, where Chu Fei warned them of a Mutated Mantis that killed a giant caterpillar but flew away before Li Longhua could catch it.
• Li Longhua decided the group should return by their familiar route, and they passed the Mutated Brain Beasts without provoking them.
• At the underground entrance, Chu Fei used Perception of Wind to detect a spider nest about 170 meters inside and planned to make the others work harder without putting them in serious danger.

Chu Fei and Li Longhua led their teams through a dangerous underground stairway, fought their way past mutated insects, and reached a Safe Room. Inside, Chu Fei passed an examination and entered a virtual tour of the facility, where a recorded scientist revealed the purpose of its research and entrusted its legacy to future generations.

• Chu Fei warned Li Longhua's team about the unstable stairs and detected Mutated Black Widows, prompting Li Longhua to promise rewards and have everyone write wills.
• The team fought through Black Widow spiders, other insects, and Mutated Brain Beasts as they descended to the -70-meter level, exhausted but without further casualties.
• Li Longhua led the team to a Safe Room, where they entered using the Hundred Family Surnames password and passed individual genetic tests.
• Chu Fei powered up the virtual devices and scored a perfect mark on the scientific knowledge examination, qualifying to enter the Virtual Space.
• A recorded scientist told Chu Fei about the dangerous research and asked him to bring its data back to advance the Yanhuang Federation's evolutionary research.
• Chu Fei followed the scientist's recording through the facility, used a Wisdom Dewdrop to maximize his learning, and vowed that Yanhuang Civilization would flourish forever.

Chu Fei studied the decades-long research behind the Liquidization spell in a virtual simulation and gained a Bio-Gene Chip containing the research knowledge. After waking in the base, he realized a Flying Tiger Team member might be planning to silence him, so he concealed what he had learned and prepared for a coming confrontation.

• Chu Fei inspected the research base and learned how scientists developed the Liquidization spell by studying insect genes, testing transplants, and building Big Data models.
• Chu Fei learned that Fully Awakened could alter genetic expression through an infinite Hilbert Space model, unlike ordinary Awakened, and that the Liquidization spell required this level of ability.
• The old man fell critically ill before the spell's testing was complete, and the project continued automatically for centuries before the base's equipment failed.
• An emergency protocol imprinted the research into Chu Fei's brain through a Bio-Gene Chip, then the virtual system ejected him.
• Chu Fei woke after only 3 minutes and 17 seconds and noticed a Flying Tiger Team member's suspicious gaze while Li Longhua and other Awakened occupied nearby virtual devices.
• Chu Fei told the Flying Tiger Team member that he had failed the base's test, then watched as the man took over his vacated virtual device.