Chapter Summaries

Su Shijie ambushed and killed Yang Yuanjia, then fought Yan Fen while extracting Soul Power from the Contamination Source. After transforming into an Emperor Tier Bloodline and strengthening his Strong Bones trait, he kept pressuring Yan Fen but had not defeated her when the fight continued.

• Su Shijie ambushed Yang Yuanjia with liquid metal and killed him before he could retaliate.
• Su Shijie attacked Yan Fen with his Psionic Energy Longsword, but she blocked his strikes and countered his attacks.
• Su Shijie reached the Contamination Source and began extracting souls while evading Yan Fen.
• Su Shijie transformed into an Emperor Tier Bloodline, gained Strong Bones, and raised the trait to level ten using Soul Power.
• Su Shijie and Metal Slime attacked Yan Fen together, damaging her weapon and leaving a gash across her face, but Yan Fen remained standing.

Su Shijie defeated Yan Fen, recovered information from the hidden chamber, and left to contact the Dawn Goddess. He revealed that he had awakened the Earth Federation’s only Imperial Bloodline and began reporting information he said concerned the Federation’s future.

• Su Shijie used his Imperial Bloodline and coordinated attacks with the Metal Slime to kill Yan Fen, then upgraded his traits with the Soul Power he had gained.
• Yan Fen’s lingering spirit asked Su Shijie to deliver a storage chip to the Federation, but its contents praised the Evil God; Su Shijie also treated the injured Fang Ren and left the hidden chamber.
• Black-market peace officers discovered a damaged crack leading to the hidden chamber as Su Shijie bound a new Personal Terminal and left the market.
• Su Shijie connected the Multi-functional Autonomous Sphere to his Personal Terminal and requested a confidential conversation with the Dawn Goddess.
• Su Shijie identified himself to the Dawn Goddess and stated that he had awakened the Imperial Bloodline.

Su Shijie proved his Imperial Bloodline to the Dawn Goddess, who warned him to keep his rank secret and promised support while protecting him from political threats. The chapter left him asking her to address the Runan Marquisate’s alleged collusion with Evil God Cultists.

• Su Shijie demonstrated his telekinetic strength and passed the Dawn Goddess’s tests, including solving a twelve-sided Rubik’s Cube.
• The Dawn Goddess identified the Prometheus Civilization as the likeliest culprit behind the assassinations of the Mad Emperor and the Spirit Emperor.
• Su Shijie agreed to conceal his bloodline rank, and the Dawn Goddess offered him a Spirit Sifter position, Gene Formula access, equipment, and information on Evil God Cultists.
• The Dawn Goddess urged Su Shijie to leave descendants and showed him portraits of potential partners, but he refused.
• Su Shijie told the Dawn Goddess that the Runan Marquisate had colluded with Evil God Cultists against Earl of Prosperous Manor and asked for help with his circumstantial evidence.

Su Shijie sought Dawn Goddess’s help to intervene in the conflict between the Runan Marquisate and the Earl of Prosperous Manor, learning that Prosperous City might crash into Runan City. Dawn Goddess sent him to Runan Floating City with weapons and equipment, leaving him prepared to face the brewing crisis.

• Su Shijie argued that the Federation’s larger interests did not excuse the Runan Marquisate’s treatment of the Earl of Prosperous Manor’s descendants, and Dawn Goddess offered him weapons access and monitoring permissions.
• Dawn Goddess revealed an 87% probability that Prosperous City would collide with Runan City, and said she would otherwise destroy Prosperous City and freeze Runan City’s accounts.
• Dawn Goddess arranged a disguised industrial aircraft to carry Su Shijie to Runan Floating City.
• Su Shijie collected weapon components, attack drone controllers, rifles, reconnaissance drones, machine guns, an exoskeleton, and Machinist guides from storage boxes.
• Dawn Goddess wished Su Shijie a smooth journey through a projection of the elven queen.

Su Shijie prepared for the coming conflict while the Runan Marquisate’s leaders staged an engagement ceremony to seize control of Prosperous City. The ceremony erupted into battle, and Chuan Yayii revealed that the Prosperous family had embraced corruption rather than submit.

• Su Shijie equipped an exoskeleton with weapons and linked systems, then flew into the sky as Dawn disabled the city’s security measures.
• Chuan Yayii and Zhou Xuan appeared to agree to their engagement while the Runan elders prepared to begin the ceremony.
• Chuan Mingde revealed his corruption and summoned a massive Earth Puppet, while Chuan Chenghua also showed increased strength and blocked the Runan attackers.
• Chuan Yayii killed Zhou Xuan and declared that the Earl of Prosperous line would die standing rather than live on its knees.

Su Shijie used his arsenal and abilities to annihilate Gres and the Evil God Cultists attempting to invade Prosperous Sky City, then discussed his risky tactics with the Dawn Goddess. He decided to eliminate the Runan Marquisate’s ground forces before looking for a chance to join the Evolutionary Tier battle.

• Su Shijie located Gres and the Evil God Cultists preparing to attack Prosperous Sky City and blame the Runan Marquisate.
• Su Shijie ambushed the cultists with a barrage of empowered weapons, killing nearly all of them as Gres escaped through the streets.
• Gres attacked Su Shijie from a shattered window, but Su Shijie evaded the slash and finished him with anti-materiel rifle fire and tentacles.
• The Dawn Goddess reproached Su Shijie for taking risks, and he explained his Spacetime Affinity and promised to seek her help only when necessary.
• Su Shijie chose to target the Runan Marquisate’s ground troops while the Evolutionary Tier fighters continued battling.

Su Shijie wiped out Runan’s elite squads as Chuan Yayii continued taking control of the Floating City and prepared to fight Su Rou. Watching them face off, Su Shijie cursed the Runan Marquisate, unable to stop the tragedy unfolding.

• A Runan spearhead squad tried to destroy a guard station, but Su Shijie killed its members with target-locked firepower.
• Su Shijie followed his drones’ locations and hunted down more Runan squads while the Dawn Goddess prevented Runan’s drones from taking off.
• Chuan Chenghua and Chuan Mingde fought Zhou Yang and Zhou Tong amid the wreckage of Manor Front Plaza, while Chuan Yayii used her authority to lift restrictions on the Floating City.
• Su Rou drew her sword and urged Chuan Yayii to stop, warning that the city’s people should not have to pay for the conflict.
• Chuan Yayii challenged Su Rou to defeat her as her gown transformed into bloodstained ribbons through Earth Empowerment.
• Su Shijie watched the two women face off, blamed the Runan Marquisate for forcing Chuan Yayii into this choice, and vowed to blow them to hell.

Su Shijie and the Chuan Family confronted the Zhou Family elders as Hummingbird 740s dropped nuclear and conventional bombs on the battlefield and the Runan Marquisate. The Zhou elders and the Chuan elders died, leaving Su Shijie to reflect on Chuan Chenghua’s final, unyielding stand.

• Four Hummingbird 740s opened their bomb bays, and the Three Zhou Elders panicked as nuclear weapons threatened the battlefield.
• Su Shijie attacked Zhou He while Chuan Mingde struck him down, killing one of the Zhou elders.
• The bombardment destroyed the Runan Marquisate’s gathered noncombatant direct-line members and battered the surviving fighters.
• Chuan Chenghua killed the dying Zhou Tong, then pierced Chuan Mingde’s chest and declared that the Runan Marquisate had brought the disaster upon itself.
• Chuan Chenghua died from genetic collapse after his forced breakthrough, and Su Shijie remembered their earlier meetings.

Su Shijie and Su Rou defeated the contaminated Chuan Yayii, who died after admitting defeat and saying farewell to Su Shijie. The Earth Federation passed the “Imperial Blood” resolution against the Runan Marquisate, while Su Shijie reflected on his unprecedented strength and the chapter ended Volume Two.

• Chuan Yayii, mortally wounded by Su Rou, complained that she should have practiced Mindless Style and admitted Su Rou had saved Prosperous City.
• Su Shijie came to say goodbye to Chuan Yayii, told her she was beautiful, and closed her eyes after she died.
• The Dawn Goddess presented a resolution stripping the Earl of Prosperous and Marquis Runan of their privileges, placing Prosperous Sky City and Runan Floating City under Federation management, and confiscating Runan assets.
• The Earth Federation council passed Temporary Resolution No. 170268 by an almost unanimous vote and named it “Imperial Blood.”
• Su Shijie considered his greatly increased bloodline traits and remaining Soul Power, then accepted that his next transformation would take considerable time.

Su Shijie spoke with Yun Jing and Su Rou after the Dawn Goddess’s ruling, then prepared to hunt contamination sources on the road to Binhai City. He left with a plan to seek work as a Spirit Sifter and grow stronger by fighting Evil God Cultists and their contaminants.

• Su Shijie told Yun Jing about the outcome, and Yun Jing praised the Dawn Goddess’s fairness and invited him to visit the Cloud Tribe.
• Su Rou chose to remain in Prosperous City with her students, asked Su Shijie to help carry on the Mindless Style, and told him he had graduated.
• Su Shijie rejected the Dawn Goddess’s matchmaking suggestions and asked her for Credit Points, but she refused because transfers were traceable.
• Su Shijie reviewed contamination reports and found three suspicious locations along the route from Prosperous City to Binhai City.
• Su Shijie decided to travel to Binhai City, arrange a Spirit Sifter job, and eliminate contamination sources along the way.

Su Shijie bought a heavily equipped Mustang VI pickup, loaded his gear, and set out alone from Prosperous City. He struggled to drive across the roadless Gobi, then deployed his drones and observed the stark boundary between the wasteland and rainforest.

• Su Shijie bought and registered a Mustang VI pickup with exoskeleton seat frames, then loaded it with his Mark-V exoskeleton and other equipment.
• Su Shijie rode a lift platform out of Prosperous City and passed the convoys gathering at the ground-level market without joining one.
• Su Shijie drove alone across the Gobi at a slow pace and complained about the lack of roads.
• Su Shijie launched the Bee X Reconnaissance Drone, Multi-functional Autonomous Sphere, and ten M-7s while keeping his more valuable weapons secured.
• Su Shijie looked down from the drone's view at the sharp divide between the Gobi and the rainforest.

Su Shijie arrived at S-171 Outpost, where he investigated a long-running search for a nearby Contamination Source and decided to follow a veteran's expedition rather than join it. The next morning, he found the hotel area crowded with people pretending to loiter, while the team he had planned to tail had already slipped away.

• Su Shijie reached S-171 Outpost and learned about the bounty for clues to the nearby Contamination Source and the Groundhog colonies in the canyon.
• Su Shijie used his telekinesis to assess the outpost and reviewed reports about recently contaminated Groundhogs and newly grown Ghost Mushrooms.
• Su Shijie found a recruitment post for a veteran-led expedition, decided not to join, and went to the hotel to identify its organizer so he could follow the team.
• After spending the night cultivating in his car, Su Shijie found a crowd posing as passersby near the hotel and realized the veteran team had already departed.

Su Shijie tracked a team of adventurers who had uncovered a dangerous clue and followed them to the great rift canyon. After the group stopped near the canyon, he prepared his weapons to enter the underground maze behind them.

• Su Shijie realized the team had left the outpost and deduced they had found a clue involving a Transformation Tier danger.
• Su Shijie sprinted across the Gobi and caught up with the team's two off-road vehicles.
• Su Shijie followed the vehicles toward the great rift canyon and recalled that Transcendents had created it in battle.
• Su Shijie watched the team park between two boulders and brought them back within his telekinesis range.
• Su Shijie recalled his Bee X drones and assembled weapons on his exoskeleton before the underground maze entry.

Su Shijie followed Zhu Xiude’s team into a hidden cave, where he learned the Groundhogs had concealed the Contamination Source. After the team planted mines at the entrance and went deeper inside, Su Shijie disarmed the traps and took them.

• Zhu Xiude led six teammates down the canyon wall during a gale and stopped at a concealed cave entrance.
• Zhu Xiude revealed that the Contamination Source belonged to a Groundhog rather than an Evil God Cultist, and Su Shijie overheard him while hovering nearby.
• Zi Ling planted a chain of Infantry Mines at the entrance as the seven team members headed deeper into the cave.
• Su Shijie used telekinesis to remove and disable the mines, taking them as loot and learning how the team had arranged them.

Su Shijie followed Zhu Xiude's Phantom God Squad deeper into the labyrinth, draining the unusually abundant souls of contaminated Groundhogs as he uncovered signs of an organized infestation. He discovered that dozens of powerful Contaminated Groundhogs were preparing an ambush ahead of the squad.

• Zhu Xiude's seven-person group harvested Groundhog kidneys while Su Shijie followed and siphoned souls from Groundhogs throughout the tunnels.
• Su Shijie noticed that the Groundhogs grew stronger and yielded more soul energy deeper in the labyrinth, while some began showing signs of contamination.
• Su Shijie realized the labyrinth held hundreds of Groundhogs within his reach and suspected an intelligent creature was directing them and evading hunters.
• Su Shijie used telekinesis to discover at least thirty Awakened Rank Groundhogs, including several above Level Seven, waiting to ambush the Phantom God Squad.

Zhu Xiude’s team was ambushed by a swarm of Contaminated Groundhogs in the tunnels, but Su Shijie rescued them with his heavy weapons. The team gave Su Shijie their tracker and promised not to report the information, leaving him to continue investigating the Contamination Source.

• Zhu Xiude sensed danger, and Xiang Feiguang used a listening device to discover that Groundhogs surrounded the team.
• Contaminated Groundhogs broke through the tunnel walls and attacked from all sides, forcing the team to retreat into a lower cavern.
• Zhu Xiude, Xin Juncai, and Zeng Ziling defended their companions as the team fought off the Groundhogs, but more enemies broke through from above.
• Su Shijie told the team not to jump, then used a Gauss Anti-materiel Rifle and rotary machine gun to destroy the attacking Groundhogs.
• Zhu Xiude gave Su Shijie the tracker, and the team promised to return without reporting the information.

Su Shijie pursued the Contamination Source through the underground maze and discovered that sentient mushrooms were spying on him. Meanwhile, the black-clad man and a giant Groundhog prepared to face him, while the Phantom God Squad hung unconscious in their lair.

• Zhu Xiude, Xin Juncai, and Xiang Feiguang agreed to join the same team, but a black-clad man appeared and attacked them as they tried to leave.
• Su Shijie followed a tracker deeper into the maze, where he found that the Contaminated Groundhogs had fled and gathered more than three hundred portions of Soul Power.
• Su Shijie discovered that the mushrooms could spy on him and absorb soul power, and he decided to continue pursuing the Contamination Source and the Groundhogs.
• The black-clad man revealed that he had wiped out the Phantom God Squad and hung them unconscious in a cave.
• A giant Groundhog warned the black-clad man that Su Shijie would find them soon, and said it had summoned the other Groundhogs, betting Su Shijie would run out of bullets.

Su Shijie endured a seemingly endless Groundhog swarm by using Earth Empowerment and telekinesis to turn the tunnels into a killing ground and absorb the beasts. After hours of fighting, the cultists behind the attack finally approached, and Su Shijie sensed a powerful hunched Groundhog with a red mushroom on its head.

• Su Shijie realized the Groundhogs were trying to wear down his ammunition, crushed nearby fungi to prevent surveillance, and shaped the earth into a spiked defensive sphere.
• Su Shijie used Soul Tendrils, telekinesis, and Earth Empowerment to kill and absorb the Groundhogs while reshaping the tunnels to keep the swarm flowing toward him.
• After hours of losses, the black-clad man and the hunched Groundhog with a red mushroom decided to approach and assess Su Shijie.
• Su Shijie sensed both figures and recognized that the red mushroom carried immense power, so he prepared to escape through curvature if necessary.
• The black-clad man mistook Su Shijie for a powerful Mechanist from the Earl of Prosperous Manor and concluded that his ammunition and spiritual energy were nearly exhausted.

Su Shijie defeated the black-clad cultist and the Groundhog leader, learning that Evil God Cultists had engineered the rat swarm and its fungal spores to spread corruption and chaos. After the nearby Groundhogs swarmed toward him, he sealed himself inside his sphere and sent out the Metal Slime to hunt alongside him.

• The man in black charged Su Shijie's shell, but Su Shijie emerged and killed him with a sudden attack.
• The Groundhog leader surrendered and revealed that Evil God Cultists had cultivated it to spread spores that could amplify darkness and cause parasitic infections.
• The Groundhog leader revealed that one of its contacts was behind Su Shijie, but Su Shijie killed the transforming Evil Spirit before it could attack him.
• Su Shijie destroyed the Groundhog leader and its crimson mushroom with a barrage of weapons.
• Groundhogs surged toward Su Shijie, so he sealed himself inside his sphere and sent the Metal Slime out to devour weapons and hunt.

After slaughtering the contaminated Groundhogs, Su Shijie destroyed the Contamination Source and rescued seven captives from the underground maze. The Dawn Goddess gave him two new identities, adding more layers to his growing collection of secrets.

• After three days of fighting, Su Shijie wiped out the Groundhog horde and realized his bloodline and traits had advanced dramatically.
• Su Shijie found a Contamination Source in a cavern and rescued seven people who had been trapped in fungal threads, several of whom showed signs of contamination.
• Su Shijie dug his way out of the maze with the rescued captives and encountered an Awakened Rank squad, who recognized the Phantom God Squad among the unconscious figures.
• Su Shijie told the Dawn Goddess about the Contamination Source and the captives, and she arranged for them to be taken to the outpost.
• The Dawn Goddess gave Su Shijie identities as a Federal Heavy Industry weapons calibration technician and a Dawn Goddess Special Commissioner, adding new layers to his cover identities.