Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan learned about the Supreme Artisan Competition and decided to prepare for it, hoping to restore humanity’s reputation through a spectacular showing. After reviewing the previous winners’ industrial creations, he realized that his own invention would need to be both practical and reproducible to stand out.

• Old Cat explained that Green Field City’s Dragon Grape Rice needed a scarce Bloodline Activation Factor, and Seashell suggested storing Bloodline Power in Blood-red Stone Garlic.
• Lu Yuan discussed his strength as an Innate Mythical with Old Cat and Seashell, then learned that the Supreme Artisan Competition would be held in three years.
• Lu Yuan studied the competition’s scoring system, rewards, and judging panel, and learned that Turtle Civilization held about 35% of the Buzhou Alliance’s upper-level seats.
• Seashell urged Lu Yuan to study past competitions rather than rely on closed-door development, and he reviewed the Three Moons Civilization’s automated glyph-weapon machine and humanity’s Bloodline Inverse Entropy Conversion Field.
• Lu Yuan recognized that the winning creations combined idealistic and materialistic technology and prioritized functionality and reproducibility, while Seashell warned that he would need to overwhelm the competition.

Humanity's leaders debated the ghost's attack on the Blue Roc Civilization and feared the monster would soon target them. Lu Tiantian proposed turning Jin Bote into a demon to influence the monster, leaving the group weighing a desperate plan that Lu Yuan did not want to pursue.

• Lu Yuan and the others learned that the ghost had spared the hibernators, then reasoned that Jin Bote's feigned unconsciousness had allowed the monster to act and provoked the ghost's retaliation.
• Hai Zhiyun reported that the ghost was absorbing the Blue Roc Civilization's remaining fortune and growing stronger, while Lu Yuan warned that the monster could devour the unconscious Blue Peng People once the ghost left.
• Lu Yuan's group feared that the monster would eventually threaten humanity and the Mirage Space, and Megmitt asked what they could do.
• Lu Tiantian proposed turning Jin Bote into a demon to influence the monster, and Old Cat considered the idea a possible chance of victory.
• Hai Zhiyun objected that Jin Bote might lose control, while Lu Tiantian argued they had to escape the immediate danger; Lu Yuan recognized the demon's time abilities could help it survive but dreaded making Jin Bote an enemy.

Lu Yuan watched two First Era memories that showed the Serpentfolk facing pressure to use a powerful spring whose cost grew as more races used it, then tried to deduce the nature of the Era Disaster. He left the mystery unresolved but agreed to trade human Level Three Civilization knowledge with the Ancient Worm through the Immortal Palace.

• Black Gauze-Clothed Envoys offered the Serpentfolk Emperor a combat-enhancing method in exchange for ten million people, and the emperor’s warriors lost a test battle against theirs.
• The Serpentfolk discovered a spring of immense power, but their emperor hesitated after a diviner warned that its cost would rise as more races used it.
• Lu Yuan inferred that the spring might have transformed myth-level beings into ghosts and speculated that the Era Disaster could be a powerful being or the First Era’s sun.
• The Crystal Person proposed establishing a foundation to attract Civilization Points by having the Ancient Worm act as a Civilization Ruin.
• Lu Yuan agreed to trade human Level Three Civilization knowledge for 500 Fortune.

Lu Yuan met with researchers and soldiers from Yunhai City to discuss investing in the Chinese Parasol Tree and the Mother Civilization’s plan to unite several cities against Yao Drizzle. After testing an anomaly’s perception and estimating Yao Drizzle’s detection range, he left the visitors with cautious optimism about their plan.

• Li Jun asked whether Yunhai City should invest in present needs or future growth, and Lu Yuan asked Seashell to assess the Chinese Parasol Tree’s potential.
• Lu Yuan introduced Shamo, Lu Tiantian, and the Super-Thinkers to the Mother Civilization delegation, then asked about Yunhai City’s industry and its plans to fight Yao Drizzle.
• Li Jun explained that several cities planned to combine their Floating Fortresses, weapons, and supplies, while Lu Yuan questioned the risks of removing their Safe Zones.
• Lu Yuan tested Painted Skin’s perception and found that the weakened demon could sense him from about thirty kilometers away.
• Lu Yuan estimated that Yao Drizzle could detect targets one or two thousand kilometers away, and the group became more hopeful that the joint campaign could succeed.

Li Ran and Zhang Hui sent a Chinese parasol tree leaf as a dream beacon so Yunhai City could reconnect with Lu Yuan, while the city continued trying to tame the tree. Thirty years later, Lu Yuan cared for the aging Old Wolf and tended his Life Tree, unaware that the beacon was on its way.

• Zhang Hui agreed to give Li Ran two Chinese parasol tree leaves to use as dream beacons for contacting Lu Yuan.
• Li Ran and Lu Qingqing watched experts fail to approach the Chinese parasol tree in the dream world, then gathered Dream Ability Users to write on a leaf and send it as a paper airplane.
• Lu Yuan worried that Old Wolf was aging and rejected casually uploading his consciousness into Green Field Paradise.
• Lu Yuan described how his Life Tree had grown to one hundred meters and produced more leaves after he covered it with Painted Skin leather.
• Lu Yuan used a vine to carry Seashell onto a branch, where she ate a Soul Infant Fruit.

Gui Zheng and the Turtle Civilization secretly spread Lu Yuan’s Field Industrialization through disguised ruins and blind-box trades, helping weaker civilizations discover the new craft theory. The chapter ended as a powerful guardian opened an Ink Sect trading palace to a snakefolk clan, whose leaders emerged eager to trade and pledged loyalty.

• Turtle Gu Zi explained Field Industrialization to Gui Zheng and requested ten thousand elite turtlefolk and five million spiritual essence to establish a base connected to the Tenth Era.
• Gui Zheng gathered veteran turtlefolk, who agreed to break the theory into lower-level techniques and hide copies in ruins so weak civilizations could find them without exposing its creator.
• An industrial civilization discovered a ruin containing Field Industrialization and used its knowledge to create its first Spirit Plant Field after ten years of study.
• At an interstellar Trading Market, the Turtle Civilization repurchased a Field Industrialization book from a high-tier blind box and announced that it would share the knowledge with all civilizations.
• An Ink Sect guardian opened a palace that had appeared in a swamp and intimidated the local snakefolk into entering; they emerged excited by its wares and asked to serve the Ink Sect.
• The guardian refused the Great Chieftain’s request to meet his master, then decided to invite other races to trade at a discount.

After Lu Yuan sent advice about training craftsmen, the letter’s revelation of war’s enormous rewards terrified humanity and the Lize Civilization. Zhang Hui proposed that the early era might remain relatively safe while civilizations learned to measure spiritual essence, and the chapter left both sides planning to delay opening their Safe Zones and rely on themselves.

• Lu Yuan sent a letter urging serious investment in craftsmen and then returned to forging in hopes of creating Legendary Equipment.
• The letter spread through the Safe Zone, and Governor Lyon and the Lize Civilization feared that removing their Safe Zone could expose them to extermination by stronger civilizations.
• Human and Lize leaders worried that the communicator might reveal their coordinates or serve as bait, and they discussed finding another way to communicate.
• At Yunhai City's Supernatural Laboratory, Zhang Hui argued that early civilizations would be less likely to wage war because most did not yet understand the value of spiritual essence and supernatural resources.
• Zhang Hui proposed that humanity wait to remove its Safe Zone until after the weakest and strongest civilizations acted, so it could observe any major wars first.
• The group agreed that they should not rely on God's limited goodwill and that their safety ultimately depended on themselves.

Humanity completed the Northern City Wall but struggled to obtain enough earth-attribute materials for the Central Array, making the opening of the Greedy God Temple urgent. In Era 413, the Crystal Giant Turtle’s temple finally opened before the gathered civilizations, announcing that visitors could exchange fortune for treasures.

• Lu Yuan learned that the Thought Jade Pendant could gradually raise Spirit Attributes, but removed it to avoid being recognized by the World Will.
• A shortage of earth-attribute materials stalled plans for the Central Array, and Old Cat urged Lu Yuan to open the Greedy God Temple.
• A centaur scout spotted the Crystal Giant Turtle, drawing the centaur chief, the Tiger Roar Clan, the Scorpion Lion Clan, and human diplomats to the valley.
• Lu Yi persuaded the rival clans to avoid taming the turtle and used the prospect of a human Trading Market branch to push them toward a truce.
• The centaurs and other visitors fed the turtle, which rewarded them with crystal pearls before its temple opened and announced that treasures could be exchanged for fortune.

Lu Yuan warned Yunhai City's leaders that the God's Skill Domination could enslave people and threaten civilization, then revealed that Sealing Ability Users could suppress other God's Skills. The meeting ended with Yunhai City agreeing to investigate and publish a list of God's Skills, while Lu Yuan reflected on how difficult it was to protect humanity from its own powers.

• Yunhai City's experts reported on the city's recovery and reaffirmed its plan to advance toward the Pangu Continent.
• Lu Yuan described the Domination God's Skill from the sinkhole murals, and the leaders discussed how it could enable coercion and dictatorship.
• The meeting considered whether Domination might be connected to the turmoil in the Ninth Human Branch and decided to disable supernatural-ability transmission to that branch.
• Lu Yuan explained that Sealing Ability Users could seal others' God's Skills with sufficient Extraordinary Level or auxiliary materials, and Old Cat warned that such abilities could cause dispossession and plunder.
• Li Chunhong promised there would be no internal dispossession of abilities while the current leaders lived, and Yunhai City's experts agreed to compile a list of God's Skills.

Lu Yuan underwent a memory-sealing procedure with Nightmare · Gui so his subconscious could guide him through the Boundless Realm to find the Hero Remains. As he traveled, his greed broke through the hypnotic conditioning, and he began attacking monsters to collect valuable materials.

• Turtle Gu Zi introduced Lu Yuan to Nightmare · Gui, which agreed to help after Lu Yuan tore it apart in a fight.
• Lu Yuan copied his memories into the Life Tree avatar, then entered a nightmare where the demon possessing Nightmare · Gui attacked him.
• Nightmare · Gui released Lu Yuan with his surface consciousness erased, and Turtle Gu Zi attached a tracking shell before sending him into the Boundless Realm.
• Lu Yuan’s subconscious enlarged his body and propelled him rapidly through the Boundless Realm using Spiritual Rhyme.
• Lu Yuan smashed a Bronze Door and killed the monster inside, then searched its remains for a rare mineral and secretly pocketed it.

Lu Yuan explored a shelter of the Gold Bronze Civilization in the Northern Ocean and uncovered records of its rise and destruction. A forbidden relic inside revealed a possible threat that was not a Gui, but the evidence burned away before he could learn more.

• Lu Yuan reached the Northern Ocean with the Crystal Giant Turtle and decided to use it to carry the Greedy Temple while keeping his Domination ability secret.
• Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss found the Gold Bronze Civilization Shelter beneath a glacier and opened it with the cube key gifted by the Otherworlders.
• Lu Yuan explored murals, a silent army of Giant God Soldiers, and preserved books and technology, deciding to leave the finds for humanity and the dwarves.
• Lu Yuan entered a sealed room through its Legendary Level Mithril Gate and found a living piece of dark-red flesh inside a crystal coffin.
• The flesh crawled toward Lu Yuan as forbidden whispers filled his mind, but a hidden flame burned it and its rune-carved image to ash.
• Lu Yuan concluded that the Gold Bronze Civilization had warned him of a widespread enemy that might have destroyed the world, rather than Gui.

Lu Yuan learned that the Northern Frontier had been severed from Pangu Continent and mastered the Mythical Eyeball’s spatial abilities. He expanded the Immortal Palace and moved the Guai God Temple inside, then collapsed from exhaustion as the Crystal Giant Turtle carried him away.

• Lu Yuan concluded that the Northern Frontier could only be left by heading south and learned that the Time Molting had preserved the Mythical Eyeball’s power.
• Lu Yuan endured the Eyeball’s chaotic will for a day and night, gained control of it, and tested its dimensional prison and other abilities on the Crystal Giant Turtle.
• Lu Yuan paid Civilization Points and Spirit Essence to expand the Immortal Palace, then used the Mythical Eyeball’s spatial cutting to enclose and transfer the Guai God Temple into it.
• Lu Yuan lost consciousness after drawing the Immortal Palace into his body, and the Crystal Giant Turtle carried him toward the island through the tsunami caused by the temple’s disappearance.
• Ancient Insect and the Blue Peng Prince discussed their civilization-support work inside the Immortal Palace, where Ancient Insect announced that the Underground Alliance had reached Level Three Civilization.

After the supermarket opened, its goods and wages pushed Green Field Town’s people to study and build new industries, while Lu Yuan oversaw the early separation of Sky City’s inner ring. As the city’s development accelerated, Lu Yuan concluded that God's Skills tended to go to suitable people and planned to intercept and manage the next Milestone Reward.

• Sha Sanli saw the supermarket’s goods, became determined to buy a tricycle, and left to study for a higher-ranking civil service examination.
• The supermarket’s opening drove more people to use Flower Buds for studying, and Green Field Town established enterprises that helped workers gain skills and experience.
• Comrade Shamo became a technical backbone, while Guo Weiqiang learned to read glyphs and help assess and repair simple glyph damage.
• Lu Yuan began the plan to separate Sky City’s inner ring with a heavy-duty cutting machine, then visited Guo Daqiang and another injured worker in the hospital after an accident.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that God's Skills favored people suited to them and resolved to intercept the next Milestone Reward and centrally manage God's Skills.

Scientists and military officers struggled to find a way to contact Lu Yuan after he stopped using the Metal Ball, while Lu Yuan spent spring with the wolves and continued growing stronger. The chapter ended with young scientists claiming they had found a way to reach him.

• Scientists and officers discussed Lu Yuan's strength and concluded that contacting him was their most urgent task, but they feared that another alarm might make him disable communication entirely.
• Several young PhDs excitedly announced that they had found a good way to contact Lu Yuan.
• After winter passed at the Meida Civilization Ruins, Lu Yuan welcomed the awakened wolf pack and shared small portions of his stored food with the young wolves.
• Lu Yuan reflected sadly that he would eventually leave the wolves, then focused on training and noted his improved attributes and plentiful extraordinary food.

Lu Yuan and the human delegation arrived at the Buzhou Ruins, where they learned that the Ancient Races had brought civilizations there and that leaving might be impossible. Lu Yuan unexpectedly reunited with Taduo of the Lize Civilization and invited the isolated Lizardmen to become neighbors with humanity.

• Cang Min explained that the Ancient Races were reopening Space Tunnels and brought the delegation to the Buzhou Ruins, where the Buzhou Gathering would begin in a year.
• Lu Yuan heard rumors that a powerful Level Four Civilization had crossed the ocean and vanished, while humans realized they could not readily return to their Different Dimension or Northern Frontier.
• Lu Yuan recognized Taduo among the Lize Civilization's Lizardmen and learned they had been stranded at the gathering for ten years after traveling through a Space Tunnel.
• Taduo told Lu Yuan that the Ancient Races treated other civilizations as inferior and that a formidable civilization had clashed with them before leaving across the ocean.
• Lu Yuan invited the Lize Civilization's delegation to build its embassy beside humanity's, and the two groups celebrated their reunion together.
• Taduo revealed that he had left an eye behind in the Lize Civilization to send messages home, and Lu Yuan invited him to visit the human city.

Lu Yuan and Seashell planned ways to increase food production, hatch and control the bugs, and use Green Field Paradise to educate the village. The chapter ended with Lu Yuan proposing a makeshift history curriculum that named the city after the Green Field Princess, provoking Seashell as they shared a meal.

• Old Cat warned Lu Yuan that food shortages, low farm yields, and the incoming bugs would strain the village’s resources.
• Seashell proposed an automated farm using repaired greenhouses, generators, inorganic salts, and the Opium Poppy Tree’s programmed vines.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell discussed hatching only a few bugs, using Domination to control them, and spending Life Essence and Demon Spirit Essence to help the Opium Poppy Tree recover.
• Lu Yuan cooked egg fried rice and Tomato and Egg Soup while Seashell explained that Green Field Paradise could support scientific research and virtual education.
• Lu Yuan chose bilingual lessons and decided to request humanity’s educational materials later, while proposing that the village’s history lessons call the city the Green Field Princess’s; Seashell tugged his hair with vines in protest.

Lu Yuan publicly opposed the Ancient Races’ attempt to reopen the Blood Sacrifice Rule, arguing it would doom weaker civilizations and provoke another era of chaos. As the Evil Dragon Emperor gathered Blood Bricks through promises and intimidation, Ancient Insect finally stepped forward to oppose him, invoking the will of the Great Emperor Huangtian.

• Lu Yuan condemned the Ancient Races and Infinite Qi experts, and Human Civilization’s cannons wounded a three-headed giant after he attacked Lu Yuan.
• The Turtle Civilization and other inheritors confirmed that Infinite Qi shortened an era’s lifespan, while Lu Yuan urged the gathered civilizations to resist the Ancient Races.
• The Evil Dragon Emperor called for a vote, and the Dragonfish Civilization and many Converted Civilizations offered Blood Bricks to reopen the Blood Sacrifice Rule.
• The Evil Dragon Emperor pressured weaker civilizations to join, while Lu Yuan realized that threats and rewards could sway the undecided representatives.
• Ancient Insect confronted the Evil Dragon Emperor, declared that the Great Emperor Huangtian had ordered the Blood Sacrifice Rule buried, and announced its opposition.

Lu Yuan returned to Green Field City, explained the demons and the sealed ruin to Old Cat and Sea Snail Miss, and prepared them for the possibility that he might be trapped when he explored it. After spending three days with Sea Snail Miss, he transformed into the Greedy Demon God and headed to the Da Lai Empire's spaceship to inspect Mirror Demon and Blood Ghost.

• Lu Yuan told Old Cat and Sea Snail Miss that the ruin might contain the Sixth Era's Hero Remains and that destroying them could bring the Era Disaster early.
• Lu Yuan and his companions discussed the demons' roles in past civilizations and agreed that he would still help Sea Snail Miss confront the Grand Elder if they found him.
• Lu Yuan arranged for Old Cat and Sea Snail Miss to protect Green Field City, conceal his connection to humanity, and carry on if he became trapped in the ruin.
• Lu Yuan spent three days with Sea Snail Miss, who made Spirit Speech Runes for him using the Civilization Points he gave her.
• Lu Yuan transformed into the Greedy Demon God and entered the Da Lai Empire's spaceship to check on Mirror Demon and Blood Ghost.

Lu Yuan endured the Shali Clan’s painful meridian-opening method and reached Extraordinary Level 4, greatly improving his attributes and abilities. As he tested his new strength, Seashell felt an increasingly powerful pull toward the ruined Sky City and wondered who she had been.

• Lu Yuan teased Seashell while Old Cat opened his meridians, and Seashell threatened to take his inheritance when he died.
• Old Cat explained that Lu Yuan could continue growing beyond the usual Spirit Attribute limit, then said he believed in himself rather than gods or saviors.
• Seashell sensed Sky City calling to her and wondered whether she had once lived there and what had happened in her forgotten past.
• After more than half a month of treatment, Lu Yuan opened all his meridians and advanced to Extraordinary Level 4, raising his attributes and enhancing his abilities.
• Lu Yuan blocked the Undying Giant Turtle’s claw and let himself be struck into a wall, prompting the turtle to admit he had weakened and run off to train.
• Lu Yuan tested his improved abilities, including a 200-meter Space Blink and a 125-cubic-meter Storage Space, and found that opening his meridians had improved his cultivation aptitude.

Lu Yuan used his Artisan Master title to pressure the Mirror Demon for information about Mythical Equipment and the weakening seal on the ghost. The demon proposed ways to stabilize the seal, but Lu Yuan remained wary as he considered whether his Life Tree could resist the ghost’s blood-controlling power.

• The Mirror Demon offered Lu Yuan knowledge and a contract in exchange for his release, explaining that Mythical Equipment had been called Magic Treasures in the Ancient Era.
• Lu Yuan rejected the demon’s offer as superficial and displayed several pieces of equipment to show that he expected more valuable information.
• The Mirror Demon offered Immortal Equipment forging knowledge from the Gear Civilization in exchange for blood, but Lu Yuan refused to accept conditions.
• Lu Yuan opened the ghost’s room and saw that its Seal Resin had shed twelve beads and developed more cracks; the ghost’s red gaze nearly overwhelmed him before he used the Different Dimension to protect himself.
• The Mirror Demon suggested calming the ghost, inscribing sealing runes, and using a powerful demon, a rule loophole, robots, or the Undying Giant Turtle to repair the seal.
• Lu Yuan considered using his Life Tree against the ghost’s blood-control rule but recognized that testing the idea could be dangerous.