Chapter Summaries

A month after evolving Ashan and Feng Cheng into Prophets, Su Hao helped Ashan build an assembly line and resume mass-producing spiritual medicine, allowing the three men to cultivate to the Golden Core Realm. They then received their second Anomaly Disaster mission, Infectious Disease, and Su Hao prepared to locate the dangerous Source Beast and test a plan to kill it.

• Su Hao evolved Ashan and Feng Cheng into Prophets, then assigned Feng Cheng to manage the base and took Ashan to work with Old Ying at Evergreen Factory.
• Over the next half year, Ashan impressed Evergreen Factory with his mechanical genius, helped design a bestselling car, and completed the assembly-line machinery.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng brought the machinery to the base, where it began producing the three men's spiritual medicine; another half year later, all three had reached the Golden Core Realm.
• Su Hao received the second Anomaly Disaster mission and traveled with A Xing and A Wang to deserted Fire Zero Town, where they learned about the Infectious Disease Source Beast.
• A Xing explained that a giant porcupine drove people mad within three thousand meters, while infected people spread the effect within one thousand meters; Su Hao offered to sense and attack it from a distance but said he wanted to run experiments first.

Su Hao discovered that the porcupine’s Anomaly turned people and animals into pigs by replacing their Consciousness Information, then killed it with Little Cannon. Two hours later, the affected people recovered, though they remembered their time as pigs.

• Su Hao found the porcupine in a dense forest and used small animals to test its Anomaly while A Xing and A Wang assisted.
• Su Hao saw the animals’ Consciousness Information change into pig patterns and realized the Anomaly infected them with a pig’s consciousness.
• Su Hao killed one transformed mouse and confirmed that its Consciousness Information reverted after death, easing his fear that the transformation would be permanent.
• Su Hao killed the porcupine with Little Cannon, then tested small animals to check whether its Anomaly had stopped.
• Two hours later, A Wang spotted the affected people recovering, filthy and injured, with their memories of being pigs apparently intact.

After the Hairy Squad claimed credit for killing the Anomaly Source Beast, Su Hao rescued A Xing and A Wang from Blacksmith’s attack and urged them to use poison against their opponents. A Wang began preparing poison formulas while the Hairy Squad took the beast’s transformed remains and left.

• Su Hao declined to descend to the disaster site and sent small animals to watch after A Xing and A Wang confronted the Hairy Squad over the Anomaly Source Beast’s Source Pearl.
• Blacksmith attacked A Xing, who fought back, while A Wang used pellets to create an earthen wall and smoke for their escape.
• Blacksmith unleashed a forest of spears, but Su Hao grabbed A Xing and A Wang and flew them to safety.
• Su Hao told A Xing to poison the Hairy Squad instead of confronting them directly and gave A Wang several lethal poison gas formulas to reproduce.
• Blacksmith struck the Anomaly Source Beast’s pig head, which transformed into a large saber, then the Hairy Squad left to claim the mission reward.

A Xing, A Wang, and Su Hao used poisonous gas to kill the Hairy Squad, then returned to Fire Zero Town to find that the squad had been credited with resolving the Anomaly Disaster. A Xing and A Wang laughed at the absurdity, while Su Hao stayed silent.

• A Xing and A Wang laid a poisonous gas trap along the Hairy Squad's path, but the squad took Danzi's supposedly universal antidote pills and continued onward.
• The Hairy Squad succumbed to the poison, and Blacksmith led the weakened group toward A Xing and A Wang while they kept retreating and surrounding them with gas.
• The Hairy Squad tried to deceive their pursuers by pretending to be dead, but A Xing continued poisoning them until they died by nightfall.
• A Xing severed the three corpses' heads, and the group buried them before returning to Fire Zero Town to report their mission.
• A Xing and A Wang discovered the Hairy Squad had been credited with resolving the Anomaly Disaster, then laughed together while Su Hao wondered why they were laughing.

After the Sun Hope Star squad turned in the Anomaly Source Beast’s head, Su Hao learned that an Anomaly Disaster had devastated his base and destroyed the Elixir Assembly Line. He rescued Ashan and Feng Cheng, then planned to investigate the disaster’s trigger mechanism with small animals before resolving it.

• The Sun Hope Star squad submitted the Anomaly Source Beast’s head, leaving the auditorium’s mages to realize the Hairy Squad had not completed the mission.
• Ashan messaged Su Hao that the base had been destroyed and that he and Feng Cheng were badly injured, so Su Hao left A Xing and A Wang to help them.
• At the base, Su Hao’s defenses failed when he tried to move, and Ashan and Feng Cheng explained that movement—and eventually even stillness—triggered attacks.
• Su Hao used Flash Step and Teleportation to take Feng Cheng away while Ashan Teleported out, and the Anomaly Disaster then shattered the base and its Elixir Assembly Line.
• Su Hao decided to resolve the disaster by learning its trigger mechanism and tasked Ashan and Feng Cheng with catching small animals to use as probes.

Su Hao used small animals to investigate the Anomaly Disaster at the base, discovering that its hazards alternated according to whether the Processing Machine was running or stopped. After destroying the machine and collecting its Source Pearls and Source Artifact, he had Ashan and Feng Cheng prepare to leave and bury the base.

• Su Hao sent batches of small animals into the Anomaly Disaster to test how movement affected their survival.
• Su Hao determined that movement and stillness triggered alternating hazards, and that the machine's operation controlled which hazard was active.
• Su Hao and Ashan found the intact Processing Machine inside a hollow mountain after Su Hao blasted the hill away.
• Su Hao identified the machine's Flywheel as its Source and destroyed the machine, causing the Flywheel to become Source Pearls and its blade shaft to become a Source Artifact.
• Su Hao confirmed the disaster had ended, collected the Source Pearls, and told Feng Cheng to wrap the Processing Blade in sand and Ashan to gather Spirit Herb fragments before burying the base.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng completed their tasks, and Su Hao led them away.

Su Hao established a new experiment base on Gourd Island and tested the Source Artifact Processing Blade. He discovered that Blood Qi could faintly activate it, leading him to suspect that Blood Qi might transform into Source.

• Su Hao and Feng Cheng relocated overseas, where they chose an uninhabited island and named it Gourd Island.
• Feng Cheng began constructing the new base while Su Hao prepared to investigate the Processing Blade.
• Su Hao used a Dummy and Transformation Armor to test the blade, learning that it reproduced Motion Calamity within a fifty-meter range but lacked Stillness Calamity.
• Su Hao injected Blood Qi into the Processing Blade and noticed its faint glow strengthen as more Blood Qi entered it.
• Su Hao examined the Blood Qi in Marble Space and found that a tiny portion had vanished, prompting him to suspect it had transformed into Source.

Su Hao discovered that spiritual power could activate a Source Artifact and speculated that Source might let him transform matter and energy into anything he needed. When Evergreen Factory’s new owners blocked his plans, he decided to solve the problem by moving the entire factory.

• Su Hao tested whether spiritual power could activate the Processing Blade and found that it worked, with some spiritual power disappearing just as Blood Qi had.
• Su Hao experimented with storing the Source Artifact in different materials and imagined Source’s potential for transforming matter, energy, and even enabling powerful rebirths.
• Ashan told Su Hao that Evergreen Factory’s management had been replaced and that the new owners would not provide machinery or a production line.
• Su Hao brought Feng Cheng to Evergreen Factory with Ashan, and the three concealed themselves above the factory as Life Children.
• Ashan suggested attacking the Source Mage Association, but Su Hao proposed moving the entire Evergreen Factory instead, surprising Ashan and Feng Cheng.

Su Hao and Ashan staged an Anomaly Disaster to move Evergreen Factory to Gourd Island while Feng Cheng attacked the Source Mage Association building. After rescuing Feng Cheng from a Trick Source Mage, Su Hao ordered the factory restored and set plans for their next research and cultivation goals.

• Su Hao and Ashan turned Evergreen Factory's grounds into Diamond Armor to drive everyone out, while Feng Cheng went to blow up the Source Mage Association building in Lakechang City.
• Su Hao and Ashan teleported the entire factory complex to Gourd Island as a huge explosion erupted in Lakechang City.
• Feng Cheng called for help after a Trick Source Mage scrambled his sense of direction, and Su Hao teleported him back to Gourd Island.
• Su Hao told Ashan and Feng Cheng to restore the production line within two months and pursue breakthroughs to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Su Hao planned to collect Source Artifacts and visit New Era City.

Ashan’s attack left the Lakechang City Source Mage Association auditorium in ruins, while the people responsible escaped and Evergreen Factory vanished. Two years later, Su Hao reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and regained Divine Intent, giving him the ability to observe Source directly.

• President Shiceng discovered the destroyed auditorium, learned the attackers had escaped, and found Evergreen Factory emptied before putting the attackers’ armor on wanted lists.
• Su Hao heard A Xing and A Wang joke about the wanted name “Land Scraping Armor” as their squad headed to a mission.
• Su Hao continued gathering information, studying Source, and training his Spiritual Power while remaining in the Yang Star Gazing Squad.
• Two years later, seventeen-year-old Su Hao reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and regained Divine Intent with a perception radius of two hundred thousand meters.
• Su Hao realized he could use Divine Intent to observe Source and prepared to investigate it.

Su Hao used Divine Intent to study Source Pearls and discovered that Source was continuous and gapless, unlike ordinary matter. He observed Source splitting into smaller portions and releasing energy during an explosive spell, leaving him with a new understanding of what Source was.

• Su Hao entered a low-quality Source Pearl with Divine Intent and found its Source was pure white and had no gaps.
• Su Hao compared low- and high-quality Source Pearls and perceived that the higher-quality pearl contained more Source in the same space.
• Su Hao used Divine Intent to observe Source changing as he prepared an explosive spell above the waters near the Islet.
• Su Hao saw the Source divide repeatedly through fission, releasing energy until it erupted in an explosion.
• Su Hao reflected on the nature of Source and said he seemed to understand what it was.

Su Hao investigated Source as a stable boundary between matter and energy and prepared to begin systematic research after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm. He discovered that Blood Qi exposed to a Source Artifact lost its recordable information without visibly changing, then brought Ashan and Feng Cheng to President Guyin to awaken as Source Mages.

• Su Hao concluded that Source might exist at the critical boundary between matter and energy and committed himself to uncovering its secrets.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng described their cultivation progress, and Feng Cheng demonstrated Teleport with an awkward fall; Su Hao said he had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and planned to have them awaken as Source Mages.
• Su Hao used the Processing Blade to test whether Blood Qi transformed into Source, but found that the small portion that slipped from his control remained in place and could no longer be recorded by Marble Space.
• Su Hao decided that finding existing Source in disasters would be faster than producing enough by converting his Blood Qi.
• Su Hao took Ashan and Feng Cheng to President Guyin and asked her to awaken them, presenting Source Pearls as gifts and having them cut steel bars with kitchen knives.

Su Hao arranged for Ashan and Feng Cheng to awaken as Source Mages, then helped them join A Xing and A Wang's squad. The newly expanded team celebrated under its new name, the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad.

• Guyin awakened Ashan as a Quality Strange Source Mage and Feng Cheng as a Fantasy System Divine Source Mage.
• Feng Cheng described how his thoughts could affect matter within his Perception range, and Ashan compared the ability to a Superpower.
• Su Hao asked Guyin to let Ashan and Feng Cheng join the Yang Star Gazing Squad, and she reluctantly agreed.
• A Xing and A Wang accepted the two new teammates after Su Hao persuaded them that a five-man squad could become famous.
• A Xing renamed Ashan and Feng Cheng A Shan and A Feng, and the squad registered as the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad.
• A Wang asked A Shan and A Feng about their fair complexions, and A Shan offered him secret whitening formulas.

Su Hao investigated source and searched for disasters to learn how destroying their cores produced Source Pearls. After experimenting with a corrosive Acid Mist disaster, he watched its deadwood core transform into Source Pearls and began to understand the process.

• Su Hao summarized several properties of source and set out to find disasters whose cores could reveal how Source Pearls formed.
• Su Hao discovered a mountain hollow filled with corrosive Acid Mist and tested it with a Yellow Rat, which died within minutes.
• Su Hao entered the Mist under Crispy Defense and found a Hollow Broken Wood emitting Acid Mist from three rotten bird eggs.
• Su Hao concluded that the deadwood was source and the bird eggs acted as guides that emitted a Source Field.
• Su Hao experimented with the disaster core until it was ruined, then watched the Hollow Broken Wood turn into a small pile of Source Pearls.

Su Hao spent a year studying and clearing disasters, gathering data and Source Artifacts before returning to his Experiment Base. Meanwhile, Source Squads struggled to find missions, unaware that Su Hao had been resolving the disasters himself.

• Su Hao studied how Hollow Broken Wood became Source Pearls, collected the pearls, and flew off to search for more disasters.
• Captain Nalin and her squad searched the Acid Mist Disaster but found no Core before the mist dispersed, then mistakenly credited themselves with solving it.
• Nalin’s squad failed to find the Core of a Wildfire Disaster before it died out, and Big Lan again praised the captain for supposedly solving it.
• Su Hao used Little Light and his Disaster Identification function to locate and clear disasters efficiently, gathering data over the course of a year.
• As the Mage Association issued fewer missions, Source Mages struggled for work and dismissed rumors that one squad was clearing disasters across multiple regions.
• Su Hao returned to the Experiment Base and arranged his collected Source Artifacts on the Test Bench, including one with the ability 'I Hit You.'

Su Hao reflected on Source and resolved to study its secrets through further experiments, then returned to Huai Shui Town to reunite with Big Dog and the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad. At the squad’s celebratory meal, A Xing and A Wang lamented how Ashan and Feng Cheng’s abilities had left them feeling useless, and Feng Cheng’s apology only made things worse.

• Su Hao reasoned that Source could transform matter into energy and other forms of matter, and decided to investigate Source Artifacts and recruit Feng Cheng for experiments.
• Su Hao returned to Huai Shui Town, where Big Dog eagerly greeted him, and waited for the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad to come back from its mission.
• Su Hao joined the squad at Huai En Tavern and heard A Xing complain that Ashan and Feng Cheng had overshadowed him and A Wang during missions.
• Su Hao chastised Ashan and Feng Cheng in their group chat for discouraging A Xing and A Wang.
• Feng Cheng apologized for being a genius, leaving A Xing and A Wang feeling even more hurt.

A Xing split the squad so he and A Wang could pursue their own trials, while Su Hao studied Feng Cheng’s Fantasy System ability and developed a defense against anomalous effects. The new Anomaly Barrier protected its wearer’s body and mind, though Su Hao’s explanation for how it worked remained simply “Projection.”

• A Xing decided that he and A Wang would take missions separately from Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng, and Su Hao gave him a Location Stone for emergencies.
• Feng Cheng demonstrated his Mind Wish ability at the Island Experiment Base while Su Hao used Divine Intent to study how it worked.
• Su Hao concluded that Fantasy System Source Abilities arose when Spiritual Power affected Source, and speculated that humanity’s spiritual world might be connected to Anomaly Disasters.
• Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng spent three months testing defenses against Fantasy System abilities, with Feng Cheng acting as a humanoid Source Artifact.
• Su Hao developed the Anomaly Barrier, which isolated anomalous effects from the wearer’s body and mind, and settled on Projection as the means of defense.

Su Hao developed Second-Level Space, a spatial state that made him visible but impossible to locate or attack, while Ashan and Feng Cheng remained unable to master it. Later, A Xing gathered Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng to discuss an important matter as Prince Luo’s convoy approached Huai Shui Town to recruit their squad.

• Su Hao tested Second-Level Space against Ashan, Feng Cheng, and several Source Artifacts, which could not hit him.
• Su Hao concluded that Ashan and Feng Cheng would need more time to master advanced spatial techniques because their understanding of space differed from his.
• Prince Luo and his servant Little Hezi traveled toward Huai Shui Town in a lavish compact car, with Prince Luo boasting that the Lucky Star Squad would join him.
• Little Hezi warned that Prince Luo mistreated people who displeased him and hoped the Lucky Star Squad would avoid provoking him.
• Su Hao found A Xing’s invitation to meet, and the next morning he, Ashan, and Feng Cheng joined A Xing, A Wang, and Yi Zhu at their usual meeting place.
• A Xing led Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng away to discuss the important matter.

A Xing told Su Hao and the others that Prince Luo had invited their squad to join his mansion, but the squad declined the offer and discussed whether the Royal Family possessed secret Source materials. A Wang pointed Su Hao toward the Hengxuan Imperial Palace in Yixuan City, leaving Su Hao eager to uncover the world's secrets.

• A Xing explained that the Lucky Star Squad had earned a reputation across Hengxuan District and that Prince Luo had personally invited them to join his mansion.
• A Xing and A Wang said they had decided to refuse the invitation because they wanted to become powerful Source Mages and resolve Anomaly Disasters.
• Su Hao said he had no interest in joining the Royal Family, though he was open to cooperating with them and wanted access to secret Source materials.
• A Wang said the Imperial Palace in Yixuan City likely held top-secret materials, while Prince Luo's mansion probably did not.
• A Wang described his past curiosity about the Imperial Clan and the Source Mage Association, and Su Hao said he intended to pursue the world's secrets.

Su Hao rejected Prince Luo’s invitation and defied his threats, ending the meeting in hostility. As A Xing and A Wang feared the consequences for Huai Shui Town, Ashan suggested striking first.

• A Xing and A Wang agreed with Su Hao that the squad should decline Prince Luo’s offer, but they attended the meeting to show courtesy.
• At the auditorium, Little Hezi demanded that Su Hao and his companions pay their respects to Prince Luo, but Su Hao refused and asked him to speak properly.
• Prince Luo invited the squad to join his manor, and Su Hao bluntly rejected the offer.
• Prince Luo threatened Su Hao, who left the meeting with Ashan and Feng Cheng after declaring the gathering over.
• A Xing and A Wang followed Su Hao out and worried that Prince Luo would retaliate against Huai Shui Town.
• Ashan told A Xing and A Wang that they should strike first if they had angered the nobles, then denied that he had suggested anything.