Chapter Summaries

Meng Chao woke from dreams that linked his life to the Abyss Demon Eye and discovered that he had broken through to the Heaven Realm. He then read the rewards for defeating the Abyss Demon Eye and restoring Gao Ye, learning that his progress in the Mystery of the Demon Gods mission had advanced.

• Meng Chao dreamed of the Void-Rending Demon Eye's rise and of Dragon City's doomed war, with both dreams ending at the mysterious X Eye Pattern.
• Li Yingzi caught Meng Chao as he lost consciousness, and he later woke in a Medical Chamber filled with Gene Serum and High-Energy Nutrient Solution.
• Meng Chao discovered that he had reached the Heaven Realm and gained dramatically heightened perception, computational ability, and control over his body.
• Meng Chao tested his new ability to influence objects from afar by controlling the brightness of a ceiling lamp.
• Meng Chao checked his Strange Fire settlement and learned that killing the Abyss Demon Eye earned 55,000 Contribution Points, restoring Gao Ye earned 50,000, and the Mystery of the Demon Gods mission reached 46% progress.

After learning that the Mystery of the Demon Gods mission had surged forward, Meng Chao connected the X Eye Pattern in Abyss Demon Eye’s implanted memories to his mother’s past and Bai Jiacao’s Night Demon Bloodline. He suspected that a Dragon City group had created both Demon Gods and his sister’s power, and worried that his fame and Bai Jiacao’s early awakening had exposed his family to danger.

• Meng Chao saw that reading Abyss Demon Eye’s memories had advanced the Mystery of the Demon Gods mission by 21%, and linked the X Eye Pattern in those memories to his mother’s old notes and Bai Jiacao’s hand.
• Meng Chao realized the operating-room scene in Abyss Demon Eye’s memories showed a human patient and an X-marked scalpel, suggesting the memory had been implanted during the Demon God’s modification.
• Meng Chao recalled that Bai Jiacao had secretly acquired valuable materials in his previous life, argued with him, moved out, and drawn visits from men who resembled Investigation Bureau agents or Adjudication Court adjudicators.
• Meng Chao reasoned that people in Dragon City may have researched Otherworldly powers decades earlier, producing both the Demon Gods and Bai Jiacao’s Black Night Witch abilities, though he could not explain their motives.
• Meng Chao worried that his growing fame and Bai Jiacao’s early awakening, boosted by his cultivation resources, might lead intelligent anomalous beasts to uncover his family’s connection to the X Eye Pattern.

After breaking through to the Heaven Realm, Meng Chao gained the Abyss Demon Eye’s Fear Bomb skill and accidentally used it to frighten Lü Siya. She explained how Qingtian Corporation had treated his injuries, and Meng Chao recognized how bravely she had fought beside him.

• Meng Chao gained the Fear Bomb skill after defeating the Abyss Demon Eye and learned that it magnified a target’s deepest fears.
• Meng Chao tried to improve the mental attack, but the strain caused severe pain in his brain.
• As Meng Chao studied the skill, he absorbed a vat of medicinal solution and frightened Lü Siya with his aura.
• Lü Siya told Meng Chao that Qingtian Corporation had brought him to its private hospital and treated the damage from his breakthrough.
• Meng Chao thanked Lü Siya for helping him fight the Abyss Demon Eye and realized she had faced danger at the front alongside him.

After recovering in the hospital, Meng Chao learned that humanity had defeated the alien beasts’ attack and asked about Gao Ye’s fate. Gao Ye’s Super Sandworm body remained alive but showed no sign of human consciousness, leaving Meng Chao hoping that future technology might restore him.

• Lü Siya warned Meng Chao that his unusually rapid cultivation could cause hidden injuries, then told him he had been unconscious for three days.
• Lü Siya explained that the Imperial Grand Hotel plot had failed, key Transmigration Project figures had been rescued, and humanity had won the citywide battle despite heavy casualties.
• Meng Chao asked whether the alien beast main brain had survived, and Lü Siya confirmed that his Spirit Flame had burned it completely.
• Meng Chao asked about Gao Ye, and Lü Siya said his Super Sandworm body was alive but showed no evidence of human consciousness or intelligence.
• Lü Siya said the Monster Research Institute was keeping Gao Ye in a secure breeding area and would study him alive; Meng Chao hoped future technology might awaken him.

Lü Siya told Meng Chao how his role in defeating the anomalous beasts had improved the Investigation Bureau’s standing and earned him gratitude from powerful allies and his university. Meng Chao welcomed the benefits but resisted becoming a public hero, fearing the attention could put his family at risk.

• Lü Siya explained that the Investigation Bureau had gained support, budget prospects, and equal standing with the Adjudication Court after Meng Chao helped foil the anomalous beasts’ scheme.
• Lü Siya said Dr. Lu Tianxing and the investors in Controllable Transmigration Technology wanted to thank Meng Chao for saving them.
• Lü Siya described how Gu Jianbo, Li Yingzi, and Dean Zong Yue had supported Meng Chao’s recovery and praised his performance.
• Lü Siya said officials planned to promote Meng Chao as an Exemplary Superhuman to strengthen unity in Dragon City.
• Meng Chao worried that public acclaim could make him a target and endanger his little sister, so he modestly shared the credit and asked for any honor to be converted into compensation.

After recovering from the battle with the Demon God, Meng Chao negotiated for resources and suggested that Lü Siya use the battle’s recognition to strengthen her position instead of making him an Exemplary Superhuman. His calls to family, mentors, and allies confirmed his safety and new Heaven Realm status, and the chapter ended with Lü Fanghui proposing a partnership with Superstar Resources.

• Meng Chao asked Lü Siya to negotiate for cultivation resources, replacement weapons, and training, and proposed that she take the public credit for their victory.
• Lü Siya left Meng Chao to rest after arranging a medical examination, and Meng Chao contacted his relieved parents and promised to visit soon.
• Meng Chao told Ye Xiaoxing he did not want to monopolize the battle’s fame, and Ye Xiaoxing agreed to seek support for his requests while protecting him from attention and assassination attempts.
• Meng Chao contacted his teachers, friends, and allies, who congratulated him on reaching the Heaven Realm and expressed interest in working with him and Superstar Resources.
• Lü Fanghui visited Meng Chao, thanked him for helping Lin Chuan, and asked about a possible partnership between Qingtian Mining and Superstar Resources.

Meng Chao learned that Lü Fanghui wanted Qingtian Mining to cooperate with Superstar Resources on Giant Sandworm projects and possible Consciousness Transfer research. He and Lü Siya also uncovered how profit motives and false claims of Nine Great Families’ support had drawn many people into the attack on Project 101, while the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts continued hunting those involved.

• Lü Fanghui offered Superstar Resources work supplying Giant Sandworms for Qingtian Mining’s crystal projects and proposed future joint research into Consciousness Transfer Technology.
• Lü Fanghui explained that Zhou Tianshui’s secret stake in Kunpeng Power gave him a financial motive to attack Project 101 and the Homeland Faction.
• Lü Siya revealed that the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts had arrested more than a hundred people connected to the infiltration and expected more suspects to emerge.
• Lü Siya explained that Zhou Tianshui and others had used the Nine Great Families as a pretext to recruit Colonization Faction members who wanted resources redirected toward offensive projects.
• Meng Chao realized that, if the attack had succeeded, the Homeland Faction might have blamed the Nine Great Families for the deaths of its leaders and transmigration experts.

Meng Chao realized the abnormal beasts had meant to use the Imperial Grand Hotel raid to deepen Dragon City's factional divisions, and he cooperated with Lü Fanghui to protect the Lü family’s reputation. He told Lü Fanghui he hoped to balance expansion with ordinary citizens’ welfare, and Lü Fanghui urged him to use his opportunities to help shape Dragon City’s future.

• Meng Chao deduced that the abnormal beasts had planned to frame the Colonization Faction and drive surviving Homeland Faction members toward violent revenge.
• Lü Fanghui offered Meng Chao a share in Northern New City Development, and they agreed to present Lü Siya’s rescue of the Transmigration Experts as part of a plan made in advance.
• Meng Chao told Lü Fanghui that Dragon City needed to reduce inequality and improve ordinary citizens’ lives while continuing to fight its way into the Otherworld.
• Meng Chao said he belonged to neither the Homeland Faction nor the Colonization Faction, but wanted a balance between their priorities.
• Lü Fanghui said he supported many of Meng Chao’s ideals and urged him to seize opportunities, preserve his original aspirations, and help create Dragon City’s future.

After Lü Siya explained Lü Fanghui’s support and Qingtian Mining’s political interests, she gave Meng Chao a rare bundle of Red Radiance Jade crystal marrow to forge into a weapon. The two agreed to work together, while Meng Chao quietly pursued a lead about the mysterious X Eye Pattern.

• Lü Siya explained that Lü Fanghui appreciated Meng Chao for exposing corruption tied to Kunpeng Power and Zhou Tianshui’s anomalous-beast case.
• Lü Siya presented Meng Chao with a rare bundle of Red Radiance Jade crystal marrow, and he eagerly accepted it for a future weapon.
• Lü Siya proposed that Meng Chao and she build their influence together, and they reached a verbal strategic partnership.
• Lü Siya told Meng Chao that Ye Xiaoxing would bring Bureau officials to visit them the next morning and share the latest Demon God investigation news.
• Meng Chao asked about Qingtian Corporation’s hospital while privately searching for a connection between medical institutions and the X Eye Pattern.

Meng Chao received a visit from Bureau of Anomalous Beasts leaders who praised his achievements and offered him a formal position, but he chose to remain an external investigator. He then raised concerns about his health after reaching the Heaven Realm and sought further treatment, leaving Nie Chenglong and Ye Xiaoxing concerned.

• Nie Chenglong and Ye Xiaoxing visited Meng Chao in the hospital and praised his role in defeating the anomalous beasts.
• Nie Chenglong offered Meng Chao a formal Bureau position with cultivation support and the option to continue studying at Agricultural University.
• Meng Chao declined to join officially, citing his other responsibilities, but pledged to remain an external investigator.
• Ye Xiaoxing asked what reward Meng Chao wanted, and Meng Chao described unexplained discomfort since reaching the Heaven Realm.
• Nie Chenglong and Ye Xiaoxing grew concerned about possible cultivation-related dangers after hearing Meng Chao’s symptoms.

Meng Chao accepted Nie Chenglong and Ye Xiaoxing’s advice to undergo a medical examination and focus on consolidating his breakthrough rather than pursuing the tangled investigation for now. He also raised concerns about his family’s safety, and Nie Chenglong offered him a discounted purchase quota in the Bureau’s secure cooperative housing complex.

• Nie Chenglong and Ye Xiaoxing urged Meng Chao to get a comprehensive medical examination and warned him against advancing too recklessly.
• Meng Chao accepted their advice, privately decided to investigate the X Eye Pattern before sharing the clue, and asked to keep following the Gao Ye, Lin Chuan, and White Phantom case.
• Ye Xiaoxing explained that the investigation had reached dead ends and was tangled in political and jurisdictional disputes, so Meng Chao agreed to focus on cultivation and his organizations while remaining available to the Ninth Team.
• Meng Chao asked how he could protect his family from precise monster attacks, and Nie Chenglong offered him a purchase quota for a secure cooperative housing unit.

Meng Chao accepted a discounted home in the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts’ cooperative housing and agreed to visit Dr. Lu Tianxing for thanks and a medical examination. Ye Xiaoxing encouraged him to stay involved with Blue Homeland, while Zhao Feixuan warmly thanked him for saving his family.

• Meng Chao accepted Nie Chenglong and Ye Xiaoxing’s offer of a home in the Bureau of Anomalous Beasts’ cooperative housing to help keep his family safe.
• Ye Xiaoxing urged Meng Chao to maintain ties with Blue Homeland and said he personally supported Meng Chao becoming one of its committee members.
• Meng Chao agreed to visit the awakened Dr. Lu Tianxing and undergo a comprehensive examination at Medical University Affiliated Hospital.
• Meng Chao learned that Dr. Lu’s mental battle with the Abyss Demon Eye had helped weaken it, allowing Meng Chao to save him and other victims.
• Zhao Feixuan embraced Meng Chao and thanked him for saving Zhao’s wife and children, who were recovering in the hospital’s Neonatology Department.

Meng Chao reunited with Zhao Feixuan, agreed to meet Blue Homeland leaders, and learned that its defense-line proposal was a negotiating tactic. Dr. Lu Tianxing discovered that Meng Chao’s soul was badly damaged and offered to teach him a mental cultivation technique during his hospital recovery.

• Zhao Feixuan embraced Meng Chao and asked about the Imperial Grand Hotel raid, and Meng Chao urged Blue Homeland not to act rashly while the investigation continued.
• Zhao Feixuan invited Meng Chao to meet Homeland Faction leaders and join Blue Homeland as its thirteenth committee member, and Meng Chao agreed to discuss it that weekend.
• Meng Chao questioned Blue Homeland’s Super Defense Line Plan, and Zhao Feixuan explained that the proposal was meant to make practical projects seem more reasonable.
• Zhao Feixuan took Meng Chao to meet Dr. Lu Tianxing, who examined him and found severe damage to his soul.
• Dr. Lu Tianxing soothed Meng Chao’s unrest with a mental technique and invited him to visit daily to study mental cultivation while he recovered.

Lu Tianxing taught Meng Chao the Star Spirit Visualization Technique, then explained why Dragon City could not safely rush to open a passage to Earth. He revealed that Project 101 aimed to develop controllable transmigration technology, which might enable travel beyond Earth.

• Lu Tianxing explained how the Star Spirit Visualization Technique built a Spiritual Energy virtual brain, and Meng Chao cultivated it until his temperament changed.
• Meng Chao thanked Lu Tianxing for the guidance, then asked whether Project 101 meant Dragon City could soon return to Earth.
• Lu Tianxing warned that opening a passage without understanding the Otherworld could unleash its pathogens, monsters, and other dangers upon Earth.
• Lu Tianxing clarified that Project 101 was about controllable transmigration, not simply returning to Earth, and suggested the technology could reach other destinations.

Lu Tianxing explained that the Primordial Civilization may have modified many planets and left a Hyperspace Engine beneath Dragon City, which could let the city travel through the stars. Meng Chao embraced Project 101’s vision and considered its potential to give Dragon City another way to face the apocalypse, while Zhao Feixuan sought his help in raising funds.

• Lu Tianxing argued that the Primordial Civilization had altered Earth and the Otherworld and might have transformed other planets as well.
• Lu Tianxing described the possible Hyperspace Engine beneath Dragon City and urged the Homeland Faction to preserve Earth’s moral inheritance and the hope of returning.
• After leaving Lu Tianxing’s hospital room, Meng Chao discussed the speech with Zhao Feixuan, who asked him to connect the Fallen Star Society with Blue Homeland and help fund Project 101.
• Meng Chao reflected that Project 101 could offer Dragon City an alternative to fighting the Otherworldly Gods and Devils by restoring its ability to transmigrate.

Meng Chao agreed to help Zhao Feixuan connect the Fallen Star Society with Project 101 in exchange for Blue Homeland supporting the Limit Stream, while arranging a live test of Tianfu Garden’s upgraded defenses. The test drew city officials and military representatives, and Meng Chao also resolved to uncover why Earthlings could not return to Earth.

• Meng Chao decided that the Otherworld should remain humanity’s second home and that he would support Project 101 while investigating Dr. Lu Tianxing’s knowledge of the Hyperspace Engine and Earth.
• Meng Chao and Zhao Feixuan reached an agreement for the Fallen Star Society to consider Project 101 and for Blue Homeland to help promote and sponsor the Limit Stream.
• Meng Chao agreed to obtain modified monsters from the Monster Research Institute for a live test of Tianfu Garden’s community defense system.
• Homeland Faction council members approved the live test as Dragon City faced mounting displacement and disease risks from damaged communities and temporary settlements.
• Tiger Forest District officials, entrepreneurs, experts, and Crimson Dragon Army representatives gathered at Tianfu Garden to observe the test and consider expanding the defense upgrades.

Meng Chao and Zhao Feixuan tested Tianfu Garden’s upgraded defenses against waves of monsters, showing how traps and abundant firepower could stop even heavily armored beasts. When three Nightmare Beasts arrived as bosses, Bai Jiacao and the residents unleashed a barrage of Rocket Propelled Grenades, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Meng Chao arranged a live-combat test at Tianfu Garden, where residents prepared to defend their homes against monsters.
• The community’s traps captured a swarm of Black Beetles with superglue, preserving them for materials.
• Anti-Monster Mines and hidden defensive weapons crippled and slaughtered a Beast Tide of Sword Halberd Demon Pigs and Ironclad Rhinoceroses.
• Three Nightmare Beasts flew toward the community, and Meng Chao wondered whether the residents could protect themselves without Transcendents.
• Bai Jiacao fired a Rocket Propelled Grenade at a Nightmare Beast as residents launched hundreds more from their windows.

Tianfu Garden’s upgraded defenses destroyed the Nightmare Beast and the other monsters, and the residents celebrated while bidding farewell to the Meng family. Lü Siya then visited Meng Chao in a deliberately humble new guise, explaining that her father wanted her to build a public image as a City Hero.

• Tianfu Garden’s Crystal Magnetic Cannons slowed the Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetle, and Rocket Propelled Grenades killed it.
• Meng Yishan’s harvesting team collected the monster materials while Meng Chao salvaged valuable parts from the three Nightmare Beasts.
• Tianfu Garden’s residents held a Hundred Family Banquet to celebrate the defense system and bid farewell to the Meng family.
• News coverage promoted Zhao Feixuan’s company and Superstar Resources, and Lü Siya approached Meng Chao to discuss sponsorship for defense upgrades in nearby communities.
• Meng Chao questioned Lü Siya’s muddy clothes and battered van, and she explained that her father had made her sell her sports car, donate the money, and reshape her image to become a City Hero.

Lü Siya told Meng Chao that the Zhou Tianshui scandal had pushed Dragon City’s leaders to investigate Transcendents and reform the Nine Great Families. As Qingtian Mining and Lü Siya took on a public-service role, her growing fame boosted Meng Chao’s reputation and the popularity of Limit Stream.

• Lü Siya explained that evidence linking Zhou Tianshui to crimes among the Nine Great Families had convinced the leaders to review Transcendents’ misconduct and strengthen their education.
• Lü Siya reassured Meng Chao that she and her father were safe from the purge, and said Qingtian Mining would take the lead in supporting social responsibility projects.
• Meng Chao helped arrange a tripartite agreement for Qingtian Mining to fund renovations in aging neighborhoods, earning praise for Lü Fanghui and Qingtian Mining.
• Lü Siya became a public model for Transcendents, and she answered criticism of her past by saying Meng Chao had helped her understand the lives of ordinary citizens.
• Lü Siya’s interview drew public attention, while Meng Chao and Lü Siya’s combined popularity helped the Fallen Star Society surpass two hundred thousand members and filled Limit Stream centers.

Meng Chao settled into Good Luck Home, stayed busy as Dragon City recovered from the south-of-the-city battle, and received a Level Two Star Badge with Lü Siya. At the memorial ceremony, he learned how an ordinary bus driver earned a Blood Badge by keeping his infected body at the wheel until every passenger was safe.

• Meng Chao moved his family into Good Luck Home, a heavily fortified residence with spirit-energy access and secure school buses.
• Meng Chao spent a busy month working with investigators, researchers, weapon-makers, and the Fallen Star Society while Dragon City dealt with the battle’s aftermath.
• Dragon City reported 7,741 dead or fallen, developed treatments and combat regulations for the new infections, and held a memorial ceremony at Citizens' Square.
• The Ninth Special Investigation Team received a collective second-class merit award, while Meng Chao and Lü Siya received Level Two Star Badges for charging into the Imperial Grand Hotel.
• Meng Chao heard how a bus driver infected by the Zombie Virus kept driving through the danger and stopped only after reaching safety and evacuating every passenger.