Chapter Summaries

Meng Chao and Qin Hu agreed that the Fallen Star Society should serve its members rather than profit from them, and Meng Chao announced a major donation to support its cultivation facilities. As Meng Chao underwent Bureau of Anomalous Beasts training, past-life dreams revealed that he had once learned covert, violent methods, leaving him determined to change Dragon City’s future.

• Qin Hu explained that he wanted to build the Fallen Star Society to gather clues about White Phantom and avenge his fallen Mad Blade Squad brothers.
• Meng Chao insisted that the Fallen Star Society be nonprofit, arguing that earning members’ trust would bring greater opportunities beyond the organization.
• Meng Chao told Qin Hu that a mysterious expert had donated one million Superhuman Coin and one hundred Cultivation Chambers to the society.
• Ye Xiaoxing arranged instructors from the Five School Alliance to train Meng Chao in investigation, anomalous beasts, weapons, and related subjects.
• Meng Chao’s vivid dreams revealed Ghost Brigade training in poisoning, kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and other covert tactics from his past life.
• Meng Chao rapidly absorbed his Bureau training and wondered whether his Ghost Brigade skills could overcome the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts’ defenses.

Meng Chao held back his Ghost Brigade skills during training while helping Lü Siya and the Fallen Star Society advance their plans. With Gu Jianbo and Li Yingzi expanding the society and the Agricultural University Refresher Course Class, the chapter left them building a larger platform for the Limit Stream and Li Yingzi’s ambitions.

• Meng Chao restrained his revealing techniques during Bureau of Anomalous Beasts training, though Lü Siya recognized his rapid progress and sparred with him in destructive combat drills.
• Meng Chao proposed growing the Fallen Star Society, and Gu Jianbo supported him by opening his connections and soliciting sponsorship.
• Gu Jianbo and Meng Chao focused on Fallen Star Superhumans as a neglected market where the Limit Stream could gain support before challenging established martial arts streams.
• Li Yingzi backed the Fallen Star Society and urged Gu Jianbo to expand the Refresher Course Class beyond its three hundred students with more instructors and training options.
• Li Yingzi planned to make the Refresher Course Class a citywide benchmark, strengthening her prospects to succeed Dean Zong or retain control of the class if Jiang Ming prevailed.

Gu Jianbo and Li Yingzi helped Meng Chao establish the Fallen Star Society as a well-funded, low-cost organization for Fallen Star Superhumans to train and recover. Meng Chao sought to strengthen its membership and secure a discounted Thunderbolt Battle Blade deal, arguing that improved fighters would become future customers.

• Gu Jianbo and Li Yingzi agreed that the Fallen Star Society could spread the Limit Stream more quickly than the Agricultural University system, and Gu Jianbo became its Honorary President at the headquarters opening.
• Meng Chao used donations and sponsorships to provide members with affordable food, cultivation chambers, medical care, and expert instruction while insisting the society focus on making friends rather than profits.
• Meng Chao introduced membership fees, distinctive T-shirts, transparent accounting, and plans to earn operating funds by gathering member feedback on cultivation products.
• Meng Chao asked Luo Hai to offer an Exclusive Member Edition of the Thunderbolt Battle Blade at a steep discount, but Luo Hai worried that the price would cause losses and anger distributors.
• Meng Chao showed Luo Hai research indicating that Limit Stream training improved volunteers’ abilities and argued that stronger Fallen Star Superhumans would take more dangerous missions and buy better equipment.

Meng Chao built the Fallen Star Society’s influence through discounted equipment, training, and support for its members while learning about the hardships faced by Dragon City’s ordinary citizens. The chapter ends as hundreds of Fallen Star Superhumans gather to watch two of their members face a stronger competitor in a business dispute.

• Luo Wu accepted Meng Chao’s deal for cheap Thunderbolt Battle Blades and donated twenty Cultivation Chambers to the Fallen Star Society.
• Meng Chao’s first eight thousand Special Edition blades sold out quickly, and he later organized group purchases of affordable cultivation equipment and Gene Serum.
• Meng Chao trained Fallen Star Superhumans and learned about poverty, unemployment, and other tensions affecting ordinary citizens.
• Two Fallen Star Society members complained that a Peak Earth Realm competitor was using a spar to sway a construction project bid.
• More than five hundred Fallen Star Superhumans gathered to watch the scheduled spar.

Meng Chao’s Fallen Star Society grew in membership and influence after the sparring match ended in a favorable deal, while Qin Hu and Lü Siya brought in major donations. Lü Siya invested her fortune in the Society after selling the Red Radiance Jade Mine and asked Meng Chao to support her future bid for power in Qingtian Corporation.

• Meng Chao rewarded the Fallen Star Superhumans who had answered the call with a feast and commemorative shirts, and the Society’s membership surpassed one hundred thousand.
• Qin Hu became chairman of the Society’s council and secured a huge donation from wounded, fallen Transcendents seeking allies and influence.
• Lü Siya offered to fund a move to a larger Central Business District office after selling the Red Radiance Jade Mine to help her father advance within Qingtian Corporation.
• Lü Siya told Meng Chao she was investing her fortune in the Society and asked him to stand behind her when she challenged for Qingtian Corporation’s highest position.
• Meng Chao cautiously agreed that he could stand behind Lü Siya, at least to watch from the sidelines.

Meng Chao received a huge anonymous donation and advanced to the Three-Star Spirit Convergence Realm by exploiting his vast Contribution Points to master a mysterious expert’s demanding techniques. He resolved to keep building his strength and influence so he could take part in the struggle over Dragon City’s future.

• Ye Xiaoxing told Meng Chao that the anonymous donor had given the Fallen Star Society another two million Superhuman Coin and two hundred Cultivation Chambers.
• Meng Chao, Gu Jianbo, and Li Yingzi studied the donor’s cultivation guidance and concluded that its author was among Dragon City’s strongest experts.
• Meng Chao used his growing stockpile of Contribution Points to rapidly improve his cultivation and master the donor’s techniques.
• Before his freshman-year final examinations, Meng Chao advanced from the Two-Star Spirit Transformation Realm to the Three-Star Spirit Convergence Realm, with many of his meridians and organs showing signs of crystallization.
• Meng Chao concealed his strength and accepted the praise for his humble manner, while recognizing that the donor’s investment could eventually bind the Fallen Star Society to their plans.
• Meng Chao decided to keep raising his personal strength, resources, influence, and standing until he could join the fight to determine Dragon City’s future.

Meng Chao reassured his parents about Superstar Resources’ rapid expansion and his dangerous cultivation path, while explaining the support behind the company. He saw that Bai Jiacao’s talent and Witch Bloodline were rapidly awakening as she entered Construction Middle School’s Experimental Class.

• Bai Jiacao deduced that a powerful backer was helping Superstar Resources and using the family to handle matters discreetly.
• Meng Chao recalled that Ye Xiaoxing wanted Superstar Resources to acquire Spirit Creation Biology and cooperate with the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts.
• Meng Yishan worried that the company’s growth and Meng Chao’s rapid advancement would expose his son to danger and Cultivation Deviation.
• Meng Chao reassured his parents that his connections and strength would let him protect the family and keep control of Superstar Resources.
• Meng Chao noticed that Bai Jiacao had grown taller and sharper, earned a place in Construction Middle School’s Experimental Class, and seemed increasingly like the Black Night Witch.

Meng Chao reflected on how his awakened past-life memories had changed him and worried that Bai Jiacao might still become the Black Night Witch. Meanwhile, Dragon City’s campaigns advanced successfully, but increasingly intelligent monsters began infiltrating the city and sabotaging its infrastructure.

• Meng Chao questioned Bai Jiacao about dark or violent impulses, and she said she had not experienced them but noticed that he seemed mysterious and changed.
• Meng Chao recognized that his growing strength and recovering memories had made him dangerous, while Lü Siya warned him that she could sense his terrifying nature.
• After the Fallen Star Society completed its expansion and Meng Chao’s training ended, he realized that more than a month of his sophomore year had passed.
• Dragon City’s forces used new combat techniques and stronger Transcendents to win ground against mutated monsters, boosting the Fallen Star Society’s standing and membership.
• Intelligent anomalous beasts began sneaking through Space Fissures into Dragon City, where they sabotaged pipelines and public facilities, attacked isolated citizens, and evaded hunting teams.

Meng Chao and Lü Siya were deployed to defend the northern Garbage Power Plant during a forecast major mist descent, after a string of suspicious attacks on power stations revealed that intelligent anomalous beasts were targeting Dragon City's defenses. The chapter leaves them facing the threat of a potential attack on a facility whose fuel stores could ignite into a citywide disaster.

• Meng Chao reasoned that Dragon City's rapid expansion would force the hidden enemy to act sooner, exposing the mystery behind the Demon Gods.
• The Bureau of Anomalous Beasts concluded that intelligent anomalous beasts had secretly attacked power plants during past mist descents to trigger blackouts and weaken residential defenses.
• After forecasting the largest mist descent in six months, the Bureau dispersed its elite forces among five power plants across the city.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya were assigned to defend the northern Garbage Power Plant, where nearly a thousand tons of semi-finished fuel could fuel a massive fire.

During a citywide monster invasion, Meng Chao suspected the Garbage Power Plant would be attacked after its defenses weakened. Flame Rats then erupted from underground and set the plant ablaze, but Lü Siya and the defenders contained them.

• Void-Rending Demon Eyes and monster hordes attacked Dragon City as its defenders fought across the city.
• Meng Chao warned that intelligent monsters might wait until before dawn to strike the power plant, and stayed alert as the battle continued.
• The Crimson Dragon Army squad and plant guards left to reinforce a steel group under attack, while Team Leader Ye went to investigate explosions at other power plants.
• Meng Chao and Lü Siya smelled flammable material rising through the pipelines, and thousands of Flame Rats burst from underground, igniting when shot.
• Firefighters and power plant engineers trapped most of the Flame Rats in an icy enclosure, while Lü Siya pinned down those that escaped.

Meng Chao dissected the Flame Rats and concluded that a hidden commander had directed their attack through their Parietal Eyes. He and Lü Siya traced the rats to a Lightning Mutant Python beneath the Cooling Tower, and Meng Chao launched an attack that left him facing its bite.

• Meng Chao examined the Flame Rats and found signs that they had been controlled by an intelligent commander.
• Meng Chao severed a Flame Rat’s neural connection to its Parietal Eye, and the rat fled toward the commander’s nest.
• Lü Siya used her Spirit Magnetic Field to force a Lightning Mutant Python out from beneath the Cooling Tower.
• Meng Chao attacked the python with his chain blades, dodged its plasma by using Spectra Phantom Art, and pursued its vital point.
• The python struck Meng Chao with a Mind Attack and lunged for his throat, but his eyes remained calm and his killing intent persisted.

Meng Chao subdued the Lightning Mutant Python and believed the power plant was secure, but an explosion at the Generator Unit revealed a human saboteur. As possessed guards attacked, Team Leader Fang advanced toward the Generator Unit with grenades.

• Meng Chao used the Demon Subduing Slash and hidden needles to capture the Lightning Mutant Python alive.
• An explosion erupted near the Generator Unit before Meng Chao received any Contribution Points for the fight.
• Meng Chao found a factory guard shot dead and warned that a human saboteur with guns was likely responsible.
• Fire trucks cleared the steam fog, revealing three uniformed guards—including Team Leader Fang—among the bodies and carrying ammunition belts.
• Team Leader Fang and his two subordinates revealed blackened eyes and attacked, while Fang headed for the Generator Unit with grenades.

Meng Chao subdued three power plant guards who had attacked the Generator Unit and discovered Brain-Eating Worms controlling them. He warned everyone to inspect one another and realized the Monster Civilization was still evolving, leaving Dragon City with a chance to act first.

• Meng Chao stopped the guards from shooting, disarmed two frenzied attackers, and trapped them with Lü Siya’s earth spikes.
• Meng Chao defeated Team Leader Fang, who had blasted open the power plant workshop and attacked him.
• Meng Chao found a Brain-Eating Worm attached to the back of Team Leader Fang’s head and discovered one on each of the other two guards.
• Meng Chao explained that Brain-Eating Worms could hijack human nervous systems and ordered emergency brain surgery and buddy inspections.
• Meng Chao concluded that the Monster Civilization’s control methods were still crude and that Dragon City might have time to prepare.

After the Mist Intrusion, Meng Chao returned to harvesting monster corpses and saw the widespread destruction and contamination in Dragon City. Ye Xiaoxing explained that the monsters had grown more coordinated and were targeting key infrastructure and experts, while epidemics, shortages, crime, and psychological damage threatened to follow.

• Meng Chao worked at the Garbage Power Plant and Northern Steel Plant to harvest monster carcasses, then saw damaged homes and residents left displaced by the battle.
• Meng Chao learned from Ye Xiaoxing that monsters had coordinated simultaneous attacks, targeted Dragon City's essential facilities, and attempted to assassinate experts.
• The Bureau of Anomalous Beasts suspected that anomalous beasts and Abnormal Humans had infiltrated Dragon City and were secretly learning and developing their own civilization.
• The aftermath threatened Dragon City with engineered epidemics, contaminated homes, resource shortages, rising crime, and psychological damage among civilians and Transcendents.

Meng Chao saw how scarce resources, rising prices, and unequal living conditions were deepening resentment between ordinary citizens and Transcendents. As debates over Dragon City's future spread through Agricultural University, he realized the city was approaching a major social upheaval.

• Meng Chao reflected that Dragon City had prioritized developing the outskirts and cultivating Transcendents, while ordinary citizens' living conditions and access to cultivation resources worsened.
• Rising housing prices and the danger to Tianfu Garden forced Meng Chao to consider moving his family, but he chose to stay after weighing his sister's wish to defend their home and his neighbors.
• Meng Chao noticed that students at Agricultural University increasingly skipped class to argue online and in public about Dragon City's direction.
• Xie Feng led Meng Chao to student discussions about Transcendent taxes, job quotas, the Nine Super Enterprises, and the accountability of God Realm Experts.
• Meng Chao concluded that Dragon City was nearing a profound transformation as the Monster War entered a new stage.

Meng Chao and Ye Xiaoxing uncovered evidence that Gao Ye and Lin Chuan had repeatedly met at Blue Homeland, a group that had become connected to the Homeland Faction. The chapter left Meng Chao investigating what the organization had become and how it related to the two men’s ties to the demon god.

• Ye Xiaoxing showed Meng Chao surveillance footage identifying Gao Ye at a Blue Homeland gathering point in Tiger Forest District.
• Ye Xiaoxing revealed that Lin Chuan had also visited the same Blue Homeland location, and that his visits coincided with Gao Ye’s monthly hospital trips.
• Meng Chao concluded that Gao Ye and Lin Chuan had likely known each other for a long time and that their shared visits were no coincidence.
• Ye Xiaoxing explained that Blue Homeland began as a group preserving Earth culture before becoming entangled with the Homeland Faction.
• Meng Chao recalled the Homeland Faction’s opposition to unrestricted expansion and its goal of developing transmigration technology to reconnect with Earth.

Ye Xiaoxing explained how Blue Homeland had grown into a powerful, increasingly radical movement and asked Meng Chao to infiltrate it. Meng Chao considered the appeal of returning to Earth as he weighed the request.

• Ye Xiaoxing explained that Blue Homeland had expanded as Dragon City residents increasingly favored peace, defensive fortifications, and the possibility of returning to Earth.
• Ye Xiaoxing said Blue Homeland had adopted demands promoted by Lin Chuan and Gao Ye, including limiting Transcendents’ power and redistributing strategic resources.
• Ye Xiaoxing warned that anomalous beasts might be using Mind Secret Techniques to radicalize Blue Homeland members and asked Meng Chao to investigate the organization.
• Ye Xiaoxing identified Meng Chao as a suitable infiltrator because he was a student, had ties to Lin Chuan and Gao Ye, and led the Fallen Star Society.

Meng Chao learned that Zhao Feixuan, a prominent mechanic and runologist linked to Blue Homeland, had become a notorious Lost One in his previous life. Ye Xiaoxing revealed that Zhao Feixuan was married to Xiao Fanghua, Meng Chao’s acquaintance, making her his route to approach him.

• Ye Xiaoxing told Meng Chao about Zhao Feixuan’s career and his connections to Lin Chuan and Gao Ye through Blue Homeland.
• Meng Chao remembered that Zhao Feixuan had been one of the Adjudication Court’s most wanted Lost Ones, infamous for using traps and defensive systems to kill.
• Meng Chao urged Ye Xiaoxing to arrest Zhao Feixuan, but Ye explained that the Investigation Bureau lacked evidence and grounds to detain him.
• Ye Xiaoxing showed Meng a photograph of Xiao Fanghua, whom Meng recognized as a Fallen Star Society member and a teacher who had recently bought food for people in need.
• Ye Xiaoxing revealed that Xiao Fanghua was Zhao Feixuan’s wife and explained why Meng was the best person to approach her.

Meng Chao agreed to observe Blue Homeland for the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts and received custom Spirit Magnetic Fields from the Anonymous Donor to help protect himself. At a volunteer event in East City, he worked among displaced residents and encountered Blue Homeland volunteers before Xiao Fanghua greeted him.

• Ye Xiaoxing arranged for Meng Chao to meet Xiao Fanghua at a volunteer event and instructed him to observe Blue Homeland without acting rashly.
• Ye Xiaoxing warned Meng Chao that anomalous beasts might try to bewitch him, but Meng Chao refused to back out of the mission.
• Ye Xiaoxing gave Meng Chao a data storage device containing custom-built Spirit Magnetic Fields from the Anonymous Donor.
• Three days later, Meng Chao and Qin Hu distributed food and water and checked residents for wounds at East City's No. 15 Temporary Settlement.
• Meng Chao noticed Blue Homeland volunteers helping residents, and Xiao Fanghua called out to him.

Meng Chao accompanied pregnant teacher Xiao Fanghua to the Study Group she ran for displaced children and learned how the disaster had disrupted their lives and education. The children were studying with determination, but Xiao Fanghua revealed that Li Jue’s father had taken him home and opposed his cultivation.

• Xiao Fanghua told Meng Chao she was three months pregnant and asked whether she could safely resume cultivating the Limit Stream.
• Meng Chao carried Xiao Fanghua’s teaching aids and said he would consult his teachers before advising her about cultivation during pregnancy.
• Xiao Fanghua described the displaced residents’ hardships and explained why the children needed nighttime lessons and cultivation training.
• Meng Chao and Xiao Fanghua reached the Study Group, where dozens of children practiced stances in a tent decorated with a board titled “Our Home.”
• Xiao Fanghua learned from the class monitor that Li Jue’s father had called him home and seemed unwilling to let him cultivate in the Study Group.