Chapter Summaries

Little Mirage Dragon drove the Serpentfolk Nether back into the Snake People Palace but collapsed from the effort. As Lu Yuan’s group planned how to protect Green Field Mountain and rescue the Blue Peng People, they learned the monster’s victims faced lasting soul damage and that luring the monster might require offering it fortune.

• Little Mirage Dragon relived its previous life, completed its Nirvana transformation, and forced the Serpentfolk Nether to retreat into the Snake People Palace at dawn.
• Little Mirage Dragon fainted from exhaustion, and zoologists confirmed its mental energy was severely depleted while overlooking a possible increase in its Idealistic Radiation baseline.
• Lu Yuan and his colleagues discussed the Nether’s apparent nocturnal behavior and decided to move Green Field Mountain near the Opium Poppy Tree for protection.
• Professor Shamo proposed expanding the Little Grotto-heaven to shelter both Green Field Mountain and the Opium Poppy Tree, while Lu Yuan warned that the conflict could become prolonged.
• Seashell explained that many Blue Peng People had suffered soul mutations, though Green Field Paradise could preserve their consciousness in dreams, and Lu Yuan urged the group to move the eight million Hibernation Pods quickly.
• Seashell estimated the Blue Peng People held 3,000 to 6,000 fortune, but warned that extracting it would make the monster abandon them and that baiting it might require feeding it fortune.

Lu Yuan helped Guo Dafeng fuse four abilities into a reconnaissance field, demonstrating a method for creating fields through Ability Fusion. After Guo Dafeng awakened the Frost Mist Field, the other Grandmasters asked Lu Yuan to customize fields for them, while he decided to gain more experience before making his own.

• Lu Yuan advised Guo Dafeng to choose a defensive or reconnaissance field and began linking his Cold Manipulation, Sharp Hearing and Sight, Super Speed Reaction, and Extraordinary Tinder abilities.
• Lu Yuan used exceptional-grade wooden hammers and carved glyphs into Guo Dafeng’s body, explaining that fields were prototypes of Ability Fusion and that his work could help humans reach Level 7.
• Guo Dafeng awakened the Frost Mist Field, which spread across three hundred meters and let him detect heartbeats, emotions, Willpower fluctuations, and supernatural disturbances.
• Guo Dafeng tried to inspect the Greedy Demon God, but its Mental Spike knocked him unconscious; he soon woke up and concealed the reason for fainting.
• The Level 6 Grandmasters begged Lu Yuan to customize fields for them, and he told them to consult the Think Tank and submit plans while he accumulated more experience.

Lu Yuan used the hypnotized Undying Giant Turtle to dig for Jin Bote while he tried to lure the Spirit Shrine Eye away from the ruins. When the guai revealed its lethal soul attack and threatened him even inside the Different Dimension, Lu Yuan leaped out and grabbed its neck.

• Lu Yuan hypnotized the Undying Giant Turtle and sent it to dig for Jin Bote while he drew the guai away from the ruins.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat learned from Hai Zhiyun that the guai remained near the turtle, so Lu Yuan returned and waited for it to appear.
• The Spirit Shrine Eye shattered Lu Yuan's Light Curtain Spirit Speech Rune and chased him across ten kilometers, disrupting Old Cat's vocal device.
• The Spirit Shrine Eye attacked Lu Yuan with a terrifying red soul strike that could reach into the Different Dimension.
• Lu Yuan activated Steel, jumped out of the Different Dimension, seized the guai's neck, and twisted its head askew.

Lu Yuan and the others learned that the old Snake Person was one of several Aberrant Great Spirit Essence Users guarding the city, and gave him Spring of Life to restore his strength. The old Snake Person led them to another buried Aberrant, an armored warrior whose memories he restored, while the group continued searching for a way out.

• The old Snake Person revealed that four demons and five Aberrants were guarding the area, and said the demons remained docile without Mandala Fruit.
• Lu Yuan gave the old Snake Person Spring of Life, which restored his body and lifespan but reduced his Spirit Attribute.
• The old Snake Person explained that the group of guards had endured for ages, losing their memories and sanity as the guai returned each night.
• The old Snake Person led Lu Yuan's group to dig up an ancient marble coffin containing an Aberrant in Black Armor.
• The old Snake Person used God's Skill—Memory Library to return some of the armored Aberrant's memories, and the warrior stood and bowed to the group.

As civilizations across Pangu Continent learned that Extraordinary Tinder could grant immense benefits, religious leaders, politicians, and warlords tried to find and attract its holders. East Gold City discovered that its holder had died after being bullied, leaving its Extraordinary Tinder count at zero.

• At Akshardham Temple, the High Priest proclaimed Extraordinary Tinder a gift from Indra, and a sallow child rose as its owner while the temple’s mutated yellow ox helped sustain the crowds.
• In New York City, Professor Edward and the city’s ruler planned to stabilize the city and promote a superhero program to lure out the true holder of Extraordinary Tinder.
• In Rome, the Pope and Cardinals used church services to calm worshippers and described Extraordinary Tinder as God’s gift.
• In Cape Town City, warlords and professors discussed how to find the holder, but admitted that unrest and the lack of a way to identify superpowered people made it difficult.
• In East Gold City, leaders learned that a bullied student had jumped to his death and that the Extraordinary Tinder count had fallen from one to zero.

After waking from a long nap, Lu Yuan cooked chili-stir-fried Fire Lizard meat and amused himself by making Old Wolf and the wolf pups try it. He then turned back to the problem of destroying the still-dangerous black gemstone, settling on heating it and rapidly cooling it in water.

• Lu Yuan woke after sleeping for more than thirty-two hours, treated his burns with mutated aloe and a Blue Pill, and found the black gemstone apparently unchanged.
• Lu Yuan cooked Fire Lizard meat with mutated chili peppers, then persuaded Old Wolf to taste it before serving small portions to the wolf pups.
• Old Wolf pretended to enjoy the painfully spicy meat, while the wolf pups rushed into the water vat to cool their mouths.
• Lu Yuan stored the remaining meat and focused on destroying the black gemstone so the Donkey-Head Monster could not return.
• Lu Yuan considered making a blower to raise the flame temperature, then decided to heat the gemstone to 3,000 degrees Celsius and rapidly cool it in water.

Yao Drizzle appeared outside Yunhai City's Safe Zone, forcing the city into emergency preparations as Li Jun investigated its presence in the Chinese Parasol Tree Dream Realm. Yunhai City tried to send a discreet signal to Lu Yuan in Green Field City for help.

• A high-tech official assured the White-Bearded leader that their preparations were sound, while other allied cities remained in disarray.
• Li Chunhong and Yunhai City officials discussed scarce resources and their fragile alliance when the sky suddenly darkened and Yao Drizzle appeared near the Safe Zone.
• Yunhai City issued an emergency alert, sheltered residents, mobilized its military, and sent Colonel Li Jun to investigate the Yao.
• Li Jun entered the Chinese Parasol Tree Dream Realm and found Yao Drizzle's cloud-like head obscuring the dream's sun as the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree struggled to shield the realm.
• Li Jun ordered everyone to leave the dream realm, then asked the Chinese Parasol Tree to contact Lu Yuan, sending a faint green signal toward Green Field City.

Lu Yuan and the others evacuated as the volcano erupted, and the Mirage Cloud Dragon used its remaining strength to hold the ancient seal and save the city. After the eruption subsided, Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss found the dragon near death, with its organs failing and little chance of recovery.

• Humanity uncovered valuable stores and machinery in the city ruins while the Mirage Cloud Dragon remained aloof from the explorers.
• A violent tremor and smoke from the volcano prompted Lu Yuan to order an immediate evacuation.
• The Mirage Cloud Dragon activated the vast city seal and poured its life force into restraining the eruption as the people fled.
• The volcano quieted, but the damaged seal and the dragon's collapse left the evacuees fearing another eruption.
• Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss returned to the dragon, and Sea Snail Miss said it had overdrawn its life force and was near death.

Jin Bote’s premonition warned him that returning to the Blue Roc Civilization could bring disaster, while staying with the humans offered a chance of survival. He invited the human delegation to the Blue Roc Civilization’s Suspended Arena, where Lu Yuan suspected a demon might reveal itself.

• Jin Bote felt an inexplicable sense of security near the Green Field Princess and a deadly warning when he returned to the birdmen’s territory.
• After his diplomats reported that negotiations had stalled, Jin Bote invited the human leaders to the Suspended Arena under the pretense of proper etiquette.
• Lu Yuan agreed to visit, planning to use a Mental Storm to search for a demon, and assured the human officials that he could escape with Seashell using Space Blink.
• Lu Yuan and Guo Dafeng discussed Jin Bote’s suspicious behavior and considered whether his God’s Skill had prevented a demon from possessing him.
• The human delegation entered the Blue Roc Civilization’s brightly lit, heated arena, which was an unfinished spaceship shell without weapons or equipment.

After the Insectoid war weakened, humanity sent drones into the rift to collect mushrooms and discovered a drone from another civilization doing the same. The encounter revealed the Underground Alliance, twelve races surviving inside Dongtian, a vast hidden dimension that held the Gear Civilization’s legacy.

• Lu Yuan ordered soldiers to capture weak Insectoids alive for experiments and mushroom cultivation, then ordered them exterminated when too many emerged.
• Six months later, humanity had captured one hundred thousand Insectoids and stockpiled more than a million corpses as the war subsided.
• Humanity’s drones returned to the rift to collect mushrooms, where they encountered a gray-black drone collecting fungi with mechanical arms.
• Lu Yuan and the officers watched the drones communicate through gestures and writing, and realized the other drone was inviting humanity to follow it.
• The chapter revealed that the drone belonged to the Underground Alliance, a coalition of twelve underground races that had fled the Insectoids into Dongtian, where they survived and gathered resources between battles.

Lu Yuan unleashed his full strength against the god’s Concept Ability, devastating Flame Serpent City and declaring that gods could bleed. After a final soul-burning punch erased the white fur, Lu Yuan was left exhausted and unsure whether he had truly killed the god.

• Lu Yuan realized the god’s Concept Ability grew stronger through belief and despair, and resolved to break its invincibility by making it bleed.
• Lu Yuan expanded into a ten-thousand-meter giant and unleashed a storm that devastated Flame Serpent City, while the Weaver arrived and consumed the aurora.
• Shadow Demon and Therandis fled with Cloud Mist Demon into a spatial refuge as the storm destroyed the city around them.
• Lu Yuan’s gale winds gradually melted the white fur, and he declared to the world that a god had bled and that he would one day slay one.
• The god claimed to be only a messenger, but Lu Yuan burned his soul and delivered an enormous punch that shattered the city, the cube, and the Nine-Headed Giant Snake’s head.
• Lu Yuan found the white fur completely gone but collapsed from exhaustion, uncertain whether the god had died.

Lu Yuan and Seashell introduced the Green Field Trading Market to the isolated Snow Sheep and Night Lang Clans, leaving gifts that stirred curiosity about the wider world. After winning an artisan contest with a Spirit Plant Field, they continued toward the Parthenon Ruins, where Seashell adopted a Silver Treasure Rat and Lu Yuan discovered historical traces in its mithril find.

• Lu Yuan and Seashell visited the Snow Sheep Clan, accepted goat's milk, and left life-energy-rich leaves and a Crystal Energy Television as gifts.
• The Snow Sheep watched the television through the night, became fascinated by the Trading Market, and wondered whether they could visit it.
• Lu Yuan challenged the Night Lang Clan's Artisan Master Night Myth to a wagered contest and spent two days exploring the clan's city while preparing his work.
• Lu Yuan won the contest by creating a Spirit Plant Field, then departed with Seashell as the Night Lang Clan watched broadcasts about the Trading Market and feared being left behind.
• At the Parthenon Ruins, Seashell tamed a Silver Treasure Rat named Bai Bai, which brought Lu Yuan a piece of mithril containing historical traces.

Lu Yuan’s Future Mirror became a Mythical creation, and after half a month he emerged from it claiming the title of the Ninth Era’s first Acquired Mythical. The claim convinced the civilizations gathered to witness it, while Lu Yuan briefly entered a strange Concept World and saw what he believed were Pangu’s remains.

• The artisans of Green Field City completed the Future Mirror, which drew on Historical Tide Energy and was recognized as Mythical; the artisans received Grandmaster Artisan recognition.
• Lu Yuan defined the mirror’s function: people could elevate their fate by contributing to civilization, though he could not make everyone an Acquired Mythical.
• After half a month, the Future Mirror opened, and Lu Yuan emerged in giant form and announced that he had become an Acquired Mythical.
• Green Field City and the Buzhou Alliance celebrated Lu Yuan’s apparent success, while Mr. Cat, Seashell, and the Immortal Palace Aberrant knew he was an Innate Mythical pretending to be Acquired.
• Lu Yuan entered the Concept World, saw a skull-like structure and an endless abyss, and suspected he was standing on Pangu’s remains before returning to the celebration.

Lu Yuan and Solomon scavenged the Boundless Realm, where the chaos and Lu Yuan’s stories about wealth drove Solomon to a mental breakdown. Lu Yuan continued exploring with the Black Shadow Demon and discovered that the realm could suppress even a powerful ghost, Guai Xing Sha.

• Lu Yuan killed monsters behind several doors and collected valuable materials, persuading Solomon to follow him for a share.
• As chaos eroded their minds, Lu Yuan and Solomon argued about wealth and civilization, and Solomon revealed his grief over past civilizations that had perished.
• Lu Yuan found the remains of the Silva Civilization’s Great Spirit Essence Users and took Civilization Points from their inheritance.
• After receiving a share of the points, Solomon broke down and collapsed; Lu Yuan stored him in a cage and continued searching with the Black Shadow Demon.
• Lu Yuan and the Black Shadow Demon gathered abandoned equipment and materials, then encountered Guai Xing Sha, a ghost sealed inside resin.
• Lu Yuan concluded that the Boundless Realm’s idealistic nature suppressed the ghost because it lacked imagination, and he shut the door without releasing it.

Yan Snake Civilization questioned the Magic Cube’s motives and concluded that Green Field City’s warnings about the moon were credible, while Lu Yuan’s team resumed excavating the ruins. Their finds pointed to the Beautiful Civilization, whose apparent importance despite scarce historical records left the Crystal People alarmed.

• Council Speaker Chi Ran argued that the Magic Cube might be deceiving Yan Snake Civilization and that its failure on Pangu Continent could mean the World Will had suppressed it.
• Lu Yuan planned to take the Yan Snake and Red Bull exchange teams to the Buzhou Ruins and join the Supreme Artisan Competition to strengthen ties between the civilizations.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell felt uneasy about the uniformly blissful statues and strange clothing found in the ruins, so Lu Yuan brought samples to the otherworlders for examination.
• Lu Yuan identified the ruins as belonging to the Beautiful Civilization after finding writing and a book among the debris.
• Great Crystal Person Jing Shi Zi Hui found that the Crystal People had no detailed records of the Beautiful Civilization and warned that its apparent importance suggested a serious problem.

Lu Yuan and the human experts spent a month trying to treat the Underground Alliance’s Ancient Insect, but ordinary methods failed against the powerful Wither Disease. They proposed using a treatment based on ghost power that might give the patient a chance, though its success remained uncertain.

• Rat Gongye defeated Lu Lun in their wager, winning 5 Spiritual Rhymes, and offered to teach him more.
• The Underground Alliance observed Human Civilization’s prosperous education, eager soldiers, and willingness to explore, prompting Lu Lun to reflect on his own civilization’s shortcomings.
• Lu Yuan told Da Dao Gang that the experts could not cure the Ancient Insect with conventional methods because its remaining flesh had no immune system and held immense power.
• Lu Yuan revealed that the patient might be an anomaly insect and that its devouring evolution could potentially overcome the Wither Disease.
• Professor Lu Tiantian said the treatment was effective in principle, but experiments showed it could cause severe tumors, leaving Da Dao Gang uncertain about risking it on the Ancient Insect.

Lu Yuan went into the winter forest to gather resources and found a giant corn plant guarded by a sleeping Pangu Grizzly Bear. He avoided fighting the bear and stole several huge ears of corn, while considering how to find ingredients that could boost his Qi and Spirit.

• Lu Yuan ventured into the snowy forest with Old Wolf while the rest of his wolf pack hibernated.
• Lu Yuan spotted a thousand-year-old giant corn plant and learned that a Pangu Grizzly Bear and her two cubs lived nearby.
• Lu Yuan decided against fighting the Level 1 bear and asked Old Wolf to keep watch while he stole corn.
• Lu Yuan climbed the plant, broke off several enormous ears of corn, and stored them away.

Human 18 Civilization and the Blue Roc Civilization made first contact and tried to establish the terms of cooperation. Their assumptions about each other’s civilizations left both sides confused, and the chapter ended with Old Cat wondering whether the Blue Roc had brought only one city to Pangu Continent.

• Jin Bote ordered the Blue Roc soldiers to lower their weapons and present their civilization as an elegant, confident partner.
• Translators from both sides introduced Human 18 Civilization and the Blue Roc Civilization, while each fleet assessed the other's strength.
• The Blue Roc translator requested cultural classics and electronic products as part of interstellar contact etiquette, so the humans handed over Three-Body Problem and several Eternal Donkey novels.
• The Blue Roc mistook Human 18 Civilization's name and lack of a population figure as signs that humanity was divided and weak, then asked whether it had unified its home planet.
• Old Cat wondered whether the Blue Roc Civilization consisted of a single city transported to Pangu Continent, a possibility the humans had not encountered before.

Lu Yuan and his allies drove the grievously wounded [God] toward the Yin World, where he planned to merge with Pangu Malice and survive the coming collision. Lu Yuan began redirecting the worlds under his control to force a collision that could stop him, and the first impact bought them more time, though Chaos Wind devastated their equipment and shortened lives.

• Lu Yuan’s Pangu Phantom and Crane Immortal struck [God], who fled badly wounded until the Ghost Race Emperor and [Demon]’s army intercepted him.
• Interstellar Fortresses blocked [God]’s escape, while the gathered civilizations’ desire to kill him formed curses that battered him.
• [God] raced toward the Yin World, hoping to survive by merging with Pangu Malice, but Lu Yuan revealed a plan to alter the worlds’ trajectories and prevent his escape.
• When Lu Yuan realized [God] might still succeed, he ordered everyone to help force a collision between the worlds, accepting that he would have to risk his own life.
• The Qiankun World’s Yin World struck the Pangu Continent’s Yin World, slightly shifting its trajectory and extending the predicted time until destruction from twenty-eight days to seventy-nine days.
• Chaos Wind swept over the collision site, destroying much of the equipment and reducing the lifespans of living beings.

Lu Yuan showed Human Alliance leaders the Green Field Knight’s advanced weapons and detection technology, explaining how Green Field City had grown powerful. The visitors tested the combat detector and learned more about the Northern Frontier, leaving with a clearer sense of the gap between their civilizations and new questions about ancient bloodlines.

• Li Jun said the Human Alliance’s citizens would resist relocating to the Northern Frontier unless the benefits outweighed those of their Level Three Civilization relic, and Lu Yuan proposed building support through decades of exchanges and publicity.
• Lu Yuan explained that Aberration Bullets could corrode powerful shields and that Blood Guai Bullets could kill or cripple a creature like Yao Drizzle; he also described Green Field City’s influence in the Northern Alliance and its limited standing in the Buzhou Alliance.
• Lu Yuan showed the visitors a psychic detector and a Green Elf Combat Power Detector, which scanned their abilities and ranked their Threat Levels; the highest score among the soldiers belonged to a man with the Lightning Control God's Skill.
• The detector ranked the Human Alliance’s Powered Armor, with Yunhai City’s armor scoring five points above New York City’s, prompting Moke Hochul to urge a pilot to improve the result.
• King Insect Lu Da invited the visitors to the Queen’s afternoon tea, and chief scientist Lu Tiantian explained that the combat detector used a Biological Eyeball and drew on principles similar to Appraisal Ability.