Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan explored the Source Fire Civilization’s shelter, found a tomb and evidence of its failed attempt to survive the disaster, and left an inscription before returning to the Mirage Cloud Dragon. After the team uncovered more of the sealing project and learned there were no survivors, they headed home early, leaving the lonely dragon behind.

• Lu Yuan read the Ninth Era inscription, took the dragon statue and several Ice Chests, and left his own message honoring the dead and hoping humanity could find a refuge.
• Lu Yuan returned to the Dragon Nest, distracted the Mirage Cloud Dragon with the team’s help, and used Space Blink to slip away before briefly provoking it.
• Lu Yuan rejoined Seashell’s reconnaissance team, where Jin Dongliang and Guo Weiqiang explained that digging up the volcanic sealing structure could trigger an eruption.
• Lu Yuan told Seashell and her investigators that the shelter was a tomb with no survivors, leaving them shaken by the fate of the Source Fire Civilization.
• Lu Yuan led the teams home early, while the Mirage Cloud Dragon watched their ship depart and remained alone at Ocean’s Edge.

Lu Yuan learned how the Lize Civilization used resin and Sealing Ability Users to inherit God's Skills, then examined the sealed hand of the Earth Mother Goddess and discovered that its ghostly power was beyond his ability to face. Lyon gave him more insight into the Lize people’s history, and Lu Yuan ended the day exploring their customs.

• Lyon explained that God's Skills could be inherited by sealing abilities, and the banquet ended with both civilizations sharing what information they could.
• Lyon showed Lu Yuan a photograph of the Earth Mother Goddess's hand and brought him to the museum to see it sealed in emerald-green resin.
• The Pioneer's Eye warned Lu Yuan that the hand was an immortal ghost slowly breaking through its seal, so he resolved not to touch the resin or let it escape.
• Lyon explained that the resin helped Sealing Ability Users seal God's Skills and revealed that the Lize Civilization had earned the milestone as the sixty-fourth civilization.
• Lu Yuan gave Lyon a pomegranate fruit to help extend his life, then left the museum with the Lize people, relieved to escape the ghost's presence.
• Lu Yuan explored Lize customs and endured an ant bath despite his trypophobia.

Lu Yuan tested the limits of Domination on Painted Skin, discovering that the demon could be restrained only temporarily and consumed most of the energy invested in it. He returned to Green Field Mountain with Seashell, where her Mind Link God's Skill set the stage for a contest that Lu Yuan answered with a mysterious pink mushroom.

• Lu Yuan concluded that God's Skills could be created by forcing them into existence, sacrificing Mythical Equipment, or splitting other God's Skills, and considered questioning the Mirror Demon about their origins.
• Lu Yuan ordered Painted Skin to use Light Curtain Spirit Speech, confirming that Domination could compel the demon but that the command rapidly depleted its binding energy.
• Lu Yuan tested other commands on Painted Skin, found that it could not be ordered to harm itself, and learned from Sea Snail Miss that the demon had consumed most of the energy he invested.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell took the Orbital Train back to Green Field Mountain, where he dismissed the king bugs, Old Wolf, and Little Mirage Dragon before entering the Starry Sky Conch with Seashell.
• Seashell proposed a contest using her Mind Link God's Skill, and Lu Yuan declared he would win by producing a pink mushroom from his Storage Space.

Lu Yuan negotiated with four demons by offering to teach them reproducible Spirit Plant Field technology in exchange for their help escaping the ruins and promoting Field Industrialization. After the demons agreed to meet again in 180 days, Solomon reflected on the possibility that Lu Yuan and the new industrial path could bring hope to Pangu Continent.

• Solomon explained that the leader of the Hou Tu Civilization and his Mythical Equipment, She Shen, had died in the Sixth Era, while Lu Yuan offered information and resources as incentives for the demons to help him.
• Lu Yuan demonstrated that Spirit Plant Fields were Rare-grade and reproducible, then offered their principles for free if the demons would promote Field Industrialization.
• Lu Yuan revealed that his team had developed fifteen reproducible fields, convincing the demons of the technology's value and prompting the Boar Demon to apologize and promise to help.
• Lu Yuan gave the demons an excerpt of glyph research, and they agreed to meet again at the ruins in 180 days before he teleported back to the sewer.
• After Lu Yuan left, Solomon discussed the eras of Pangu Continent and suggested that Lu Yuan's arrival and Field Industrialization might signal a faint hope for the Ninth Era.

Lu Yuan was unmasked at a job fair, where students teased him with questions about his preferences and the possible revival of Green Field People. After escaping with Seashell, he discussed the idea with her and they visited the Opium Poppy Tree, where they talked about flight and decided to take a flying dragon out.

• A mysterious will yanked off Lu Yuan’s mask, and he tried to calm the students by offering them gifts.
• The students asked Lu Yuan about his favorite outfits and his wife, then Hai Zhiyun asked when the Green Field Civilization would be revived.
• Lu Yuan declared that Green Field Girls were his, and he escaped the chaotic job fair by changing clothes and teleporting to the roof.
• Lu Yuan found Seashell waiting with ice cream, and they joked about reviving Green Field People and his attraction to her.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell climbed the Opium Poppy Tree and discussed giving the Greedy Demon God wings before agreeing to ride a flying dragon.

Lu Yuan created a new organ, the Core of Ability, to merge Extraordinary Abilities and help form fields, then fell asleep as it matured. Meanwhile, Ulan City and Mai Luo City raced to claim newly manifested ruins, but news of Moxi City's approaching army turned their standoff into a wider battle for the site.

• Lu Yuan used the Life Tree, Life Fruits, and Spring of Eternal Life to grow the Core of Ability inside the Greedy Demon God, which began adapting and improving his body.
• A scout told Wu Mu that a vast, vine-covered city had appeared as a mirage about 1,600 fei from Ulan City, and the city's people prepared to claim its ruins.
• City Lord Ta Gang led more than two hundred Ulan warriors toward the ruins, while Wu Mu set out with them to fight for his family's future.
• After the city materialized, Ulan's scouts found many powerful glyphs on its walls, suggesting the ruins might be intermediate or advanced.
• Ta Gang's force met Dao Gu and Mai Luo City's warriors in a forest, and the two human cities drew weapons over who would claim the ruins.
• A communication bell warned Mai Luo City that Moxi City had sent an army of flying birds toward the ruins, alarming both sides.

The Underground Alliance successfully test-flew its new Sky City while Ancient Insect worried about Humanity’s fate. After reuniting with Lu Yuan and meeting ancient Otherkin, Ancient Insect learned of Humanity’s achievements and was drawn into a plan to establish a trading foundation that would support civilizations and earn Civilization Points.

• The Underground Alliance lifted Sky City into the air and announced a successful test flight at an altitude of 3,000 meters.
• Ancient Insect questioned the Alliance’s leaders about their plans and learned that they were developing large-scale rune combinations for Level Three Civilization technology.
• Ancient Insect sensed the Immortal Palace tremble and met Lu Yuan and six Otherkin, who said they had found a way to deal with the ghosts and intended to confront the Era Disaster.
• The Crystal Person gave Ancient Insect a Healing Spring and urged it to support Humanity, citing Humanity’s capture of ghosts, demons, and yao.
• The Otherkin proposed that Ancient Insect join them in establishing a foundation to trade supplies for Civilization Points and prepare for the end of the era.

Lu Yuan entered the central room and discovered Gui sealed in emerald resin, along with a demon hiding in a bronze mirror that seized control of his body. As Old Cat tried to burn resin to free him, Lu Yuan struck the cat with his mask, leaving his own escape uncertain.

• After finding no treasure elsewhere, Lu Yuan copied the wall carvings and prepared to enter the central room with a rope tied around his ankle and Old Cat ready to kill him if necessary.
• Lu Yuan opened the door and saw Gui's head trapped in a huge mass of emerald resin; Gui's gaze overwhelmed him until the Extraordinary Tinder helped him recover.
• A bronze mirror called to Lu Yuan and revealed a smiling reflection that controlled his body, while Pioneer's Eye warned him that the mirror was likely a demon among calamities.
• Lu Yuan realized the mirror had fabricated its plea for help, and the rope briefly tripped him before the demon began making him untie it.
• Old Cat lit resin to restore Lu Yuan's senses, but Lu Yuan blew out the flames and hurled his Black Iron Mask at Old Cat, smashing it into the wall.

Lu Yuan and Solomon explored the Boundless Realm, where thought consumed mental strength, and opened a bronze door that released a monster capable of disrupting memory and reason. After Lu Yuan and Solomon defeated it and sheltered inside, they found a message from an imprisoned figure offering an inheritance to whoever would kill him.

• Solomon explained that the Boundless Realm drained mental strength, and Lu Yuan contacted the elders in the Immortal Palace for advice on escaping.
• Lu Yuan found an ancient bronze door, opened it, and encountered a blood-covered figure whose presence clouded his thoughts and memories.
• Lu Yuan resisted the monster with his Steel ability, while Solomon used a Hurricane to batter it with light particles; Lu Yuan then split it apart with a bone spike.
• The monster's blood contaminated the Black Shadow Demon's body, so Lu Yuan and Solomon retreated into a nearby room and transferred the demon's true body onto a skeleton.
• Lu Yuan's thoughts began draining his mental strength, and Solomon warned him to stop thinking and focus on completing the mission.
• Lu Yuan found writing on the shelter's walls in which an unknown figure asked future visitors to kill him and promised them his inheritance.

Lu Yuan exchanged secrets with the six different beings, startling them with his abilities and potential, while the Serpentfolk Nether’s second attack on the city ended sooner than the first. After reporting progress to Seashell, he rested at home as the different beings debated whether humanity could become a Peak Civilization.

• Lu Yuan admitted that he had dismembered the ghost using a one-use weapon from Old Myth, then revealed his age, divinity, and plans to combine Steel with higher-tier abilities, alarming the six different beings.
• The Serpentfolk Nether absorbed the city’s remaining fortune, failed to enter the Mirage Space, and departed after only half an hour of attempts.
• Lu Yuan learned from Seashell that the team had fed the monster 0.1 fortune but still could not track it, while Jin Bote’s self-awareness remained stable.
• Lu Yuan returned home, bathed, and slept with Seashell, while the six different beings settled into their guarded courtyard and explored modern comforts.
• The different beings played mahjong and debated how to regain their standing with Lu Yuan, but the large Crystal Person argued that humanity might have the potential to become a Peak Civilization.

Lu Yuan returned to Yunhai City with Seashell, found inspiration in his childhood memories and regrets, and reunited with Lu Qingqing at his family home. Meanwhile, the Yan Snake Civilization grew alarmed by the Human Alliance’s new visitors and resolved to protect its secret plan, which depended on a mysterious cube and a journey to the moon.

• Lu Yuan wandered through changed Yunhai City with Seashell and drew inspiration from memories of his schooldays and his maternal grandfather.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell ate instant noodles, visited his family home, and traded jokes with Lu Qingqing.
• Yan Snake Civilization leaders discussed the arrival of the Human Compatriot civilization and warned that it could threaten their secret plan.
• The red-scaled Yan Snake leader ordered the outsiders watched and threatened a new war if anything endangered the plan.
• The Yan Snake leader consulted the cube held in the Nine-Headed Giant Snake’s skull, and its artificial intelligence said the cube was key to opening a door and that they needed to reach the moon.

Lu Yuan attempted to use Heaven and Earth Creation to turn the Bixi egg into a living creature that could carry his Vegetable Garden, while the Turtle People examined Solomon’s account of Lu Yuan’s field inventions. Inside the egg’s historical vision, Lu Yuan failed to persuade the frightened hatchling to emerge before it died again.

• Lu Yuan told the Turtle People he would use Heaven and Earth Creation to give the Bixi egg growth potential, and Number 14 discussed the difficulties of forging in the Boundless Realm.
• Solomon showed the Turtle People incomplete records of Field Industrialization, and they were astonished to hear that Lu Yuan’s Focus Field could let people without Artisan Talent produce inspiration.
• Lu Yuan entered the egg’s artistic conception, repaired its shell with carvings, and added Reverse Entropy Elements to fuse the Bixi’s corpse with them.
• In the historical vision, Lu Yuan stopped time and urged the Bixi hatchling to break out, but the frightened turtle stayed inside its shell as the other hatchlings died.
• The Bixi remained hidden through the Era Disaster, then its frail body failed and it died again.

Lu Yuan used the profits from selling God's Skills to invest heavily in the Qiankun World, which began to evolve and produce rare resources and Innate plants. Meanwhile, the Abyss Edge Clan discussed the growing influence of Lu Yuan and the threat posed by the ghosts, but decided to focus on the Bloodline Rule and expanding their tunnels.

• The Three Moons people bought thousands of God's Skills and some Field Industrialization, inspected their purchases, and left the temple with their fleet.
• Lu Yuan and the Ancient Insect shared the profits, and sales at Great Emperor Huangtian's ruin topped fifty thousand Civilization Points in one month.
• Lu Yuan kept thirty thousand Civilization Points and invested nearly seventy thousand in the Qiankun World, where the Life Tree, eight World Trees, and other Innate plants began to grow.
• Lu Yuan considered how slowly the world's resources developed and decided he needed to obtain more bloodlines from outside.
• Resentment Elder recovered through blood sacrifice and urged Emperor Yuan Tie to capture the Insect Mythical, but Yuan Tie ordered him to focus on breeding pure-blood descendants and excavating the Bloodline Rule.
• The Abyss Edge Clan discussed the dangerous ghosts and Lu Yuan's expanding influence, but the elders opposed attacking him for now.

After creating the Mirror Brain, Lu Yuan struggled with its flood of thoughts while a hundred intelligent reflections debated how to develop it. They organized themselves into the Mirror World and took on research and adaptation tasks to strengthen the Greedy Demon God, though Lu Yuan still faced the challenge of controlling their output.

• Lu Yuan sensed the Mirror Brain's uncontrolled stream of associations and considered blocking it off until the reflections explained that it was generating ideas faster than he could process them.
• The reflections agreed to number themselves and, led by Lu Yuan Number 42, proposed a hierarchical management structure for expanding the Mirror World.
• Number 42 identified Lu Yuan's limited bandwidth as the cause of his scattered attention, then volunteered to experiment with improving it.
• Lu Yuan assigned eighty reflections to research an Absolute Ability, while others took on deciphering Pangu's rules and adapting the Mirror Brain's vines and functions to the Greedy Demon God.
• The reflections concluded that Lu Yuan needed better compatibility with the Mirror Brain to limit distractions, and Lu Yuan fell asleep after considering its potential.

Lu Yuan rescued the dying Therandis and learned that an unobservable being called God had targeted the National Treasury, while the Ox Ghost fought it inside the city. As the confrontation shook the city, Lu Yuan fled with Therandis and questioned him about how he had survived seeing God.

• Therandis recorded that he had seen a white, humanlike God and believed that awareness of it caused death, before he began dying from spreading spots and white fuzz.
• Lu Yuan arrived with Shadow Demon and Mist Demon, used his blood and Life Essence to suppress Therandis's contamination, and questioned him about God.
• Lu Yuan and the Immortal Palace debated whether God was the World Will, while Lu Yuan concluded that the Ox Ghost's appearance might be helping them hold the line.
• The National Treasury shook as the Ox Ghost unleashed darkness, and Lu Yuan blinked away with Therandis before a shockwave spread through the city.
• Therandis told Lu Yuan that a blurred image seen through the Abashi Filtering Device had delayed God's backlash for only a few seconds.

After the battle, Sky City struggled to save thousands of unconscious people as an expanding gray mist threatened to trigger mass aberration. With the mist’s monster army closing in and Aberration Guai recovering, the survivors prepared to retrieve the Flying Saucer from the deep sea and seal the Guai inside.

• Jin Dongliang learned that more than twenty thousand people had been implanted with Ant Chips and ordered them placed in Hibernation Pods in the sinkhole.
• A Treasure Hunting Team Captain reported that the gray mist was spreading toward both the mermen’s Coral Reef and Sky City, and Little Mirage Dragon’s soldiers warned that it could turn weaker people into puppets of Aberration Guai.
• Lu Tiantian ordered noncombatants into the sinkhole, while Lu Yuan sent Sea Snail Miss to meet Little Mirage Dragon and head for the seabed.
• Seahell and the helicopter scouts saw aberrant sea creatures gathering in vast numbers and suspected they were trying to rescue Aberration Guai’s main body.
• Sky City’s leaders decided to use Sky Fortress, ropes, and a foundation to haul the Flying Saucer ashore so they could seal the Guai before the monster army overwhelmed them.
• Little Mirage Dragon returned to transport Seahell back to the seabed, exhausted from its repeated journeys, but proudly claimed it had become a genuine Da Jin Dragon.

Lu Yuan led a human expedition toward the Super Mountain to investigate its mist-shrouded fissure and unusually low Extraordinary Background Radiation. The team reached the mountain and considered whether rare Irregular materials or artificial interference explained the anomaly.

• Lu Yuan instructed the King Insects to guard Sky City and gather resources while the humans assembled an Elite Investigation Team.
• Lu Yuan said goodbye to Seashell, who gave him a handmade sachet containing their photo and Spirit Speech Buff Runes, then departed aboard the Sky Fortress.
• After traveling six thousand kilometers, Lu Yuan and the team reached a plain near the Super Mountain and began scouting a route toward its summit.
• The investigators collected environmental samples and discovered that Extraordinary Background Radiation near the mountain was lower than even inside the Safe Zone.
• Professor Lu Tiantian explained the radiation readings, and the team considered a hidden deposit of powerful Irregular materials or artificial interference concealed in the fissure.

Lu Yuan and Ancient Insect established an Insectoid Army in the Buzhou Ruins, where Ancient Insect’s boastful challenge drew the attention of nearby civilizations and the Abyss Edge Clan. The chapter ended as Resentment Elder prepared to fight Ancient Insect with the Immortal-level Divine Bell, Abyss Corrosion.

• Lu Yuan and Green Field City officials chose to invest food and resources in a smaller force of elite Insectoid Warriors, while keeping their support for Ancient Insect discreet.
• Lu Yuan transported food to the Buzhou Ruins, where Ancient Insect used Insect Escape to establish tunnels and build an Insectoid Army.
• Nearby civilizations discovered Ancient Insect and its temple, mistook the temple for a priceless inheritance, and gathered while debating how to capture it.
• Resentment Elder arrived with the Abyss Edge Clan and declared that he would capture Ancient Insect for a blood sacrifice.
• Ancient Insect insulted Resentment Elder and challenged him before the assembled civilizations, forcing him to defend the Ancient Race’s reputation.
• Resentment Elder brought out Abyss Corrosion, an Immortal-level Divine Bell, and enlarged himself as he prepared to battle Ancient Insect.

Lu Yuan emerged from his crystal egg as an Innate Mythical, gaining a powerful true body and enhanced abilities after spending over a hundred units of Profound Yellow Qi. He returned to Green Field City, where he found humanity’s civilization and its younger generation transformed after more than ten years.

• Lu Yuan broke out of his crystal egg, discovered his reborn body’s strength, and tested it against Da Jin Dragon and Little Mirage Dragon.
• Lu Yuan learned that his rebirth had consumed all his Profound Yellow Qi, then forged clothes that could change size and conceal his aura.
• Lu Yuan returned to Green Field City and reunited with Bei Tai and Zhou Sirui, who had grown up while he was away.
• Seashell showed Lu Yuan the city’s Grotto-heaven in a Pot and the space tunnel connecting Buzhou Ruins to Kuxi Desert.
• Lu Yuan met Old Cat in a human-operated small world, where Dragon Grape Rice fields produced five thousand Spiritual Essence each year.

Lu Yuan pushed the Little Mirage Dragon to hunt Deep Sea Ore by offering gold coins, while the young dragon learned, studied, and settled into life in Green Field City. Three years after entering the ocean, the Treasure Hunting Team grew restless for Civilization Ruins, and the Little Mirage Dragon’s new Flame Manipulation ability added requirements to its training.

• Lu Yuan tempted the Little Mirage Dragon into retrieving Idealistic Material ore by offering one gold coin for every hundred pieces, and the dragon finally swam into the ocean.
• Lu Yuan defended his harsh treatment of the dragon, saying it needed education and had to create value like everyone else in Green Field City.
• Over the next three years, the Little Mirage Dragon attended classes, hunted treasure, and clashed with the Ratfolk Artisans while growing fond of the city.
• Major Lu Ying and the Treasure Hunting Team complained that life had become dull and wished they could find another Civilization Ruin.
• The scientists reported that the Little Mirage Dragon had gained Flame Manipulation, so it needed fire-element ores and regular training in a fiery environment.