Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss traveled through the Northern Frontier, visiting civilizations and gathering inspiration and historical relics. In the northernmost Soaring Leap Clan settlement, Lu Yuan shared his craft knowledge and continued toward perilous Northern Langma, unknowingly inspiring a lasting pilgrimage tradition among craftsmen.

• Lu Yuan glimpsed a Parthenon Civilization wedding ending in a shooting, then learned the civilization’s attempt to unite the Northern Frontier through political marriage had failed.
• Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss traveled through eight civilizations, survived harsh weather, and discussed how balanced conditions might help civilizations become strong.
• The Soaring Leap Clan recognized Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss, welcomed them, and showed them its underground city and busy trading market.
• Lu Yuan offered to help the Soaring Leap Clan expand trade with humanity and spent several days advising its craftsmen, though they struggled to master Field Industrialization.
• Lu Yuan set out for Northern Langma, and his journey inspired the Soaring Leap Clan’s craftsmen to make climbing the harsh mountains a tradition for seeking inspiration.

After the ghost mist disaster ended, Lu Yuan felt powerful Artisan Talent inspiration from the cycle of life and death. He used it to begin transforming the Chaos Essence Stone into a godlike being capable of amplifying humanity’s abilities, though the project threatened to exhaust his resources.

• Lu Yuan celebrated the disaster’s end in Green Field Mountain, reunited Little Mirage Dragon with Mother Hen, and let Old Wolf explore before taking it to Sky City.
• Lu Yuan saw the damage to Sky City and the ruined mutated plants, while workers discussed the war’s spoils and whether to salvage the giant Coral Reef.
• As life returned to the city, Lu Yuan experienced an unprecedented burst of high-grade inspiration centered on life and death.
• Lu Yuan noticed that the Insectoid Warriors were suffering hidden injuries and resolved to treat them, but decided he could not save the mutated hibernators with his current skills.
• Lu Yuan returned to the Life Tree and began reshaping the Chaos Essence Stone, combining its magma and life energy with the Life Tree, his soul, and Steel’s ability.
• Lu Yuan envisioned the God Embryo amplifying human abilities to near-anomaly levels, then called to his wife for help as the project threatened to consume his resources.

Lu Yuan returned to Green Field City as the Snake People Palace’s Guai threat prompted the government to declare a suspected Level S Disaster and begin mass hibernation. He secured the sinkhole and its dangerous occupants, then put the Greedy Demon God and Life Tree into hibernation to guard it as the city prepared for the coming crisis.

• Lu Yuan ordered Green Field City to move near the Blue Roc Civilization and coordinate against the Snake People Palace, while keeping the demon threat secret from ordinary citizens.
• The government broadcast Level S Disaster shelter procedures and warned citizens not to stare at, discuss, or appraise the black snake people shadow.
• Lu Ying led Hai Peng and the other students into the sinkhole’s Hibernation Pods, telling them the older generation would fight while they stayed safe.
• Workers filled the sinkhole with the Quantum Civilization’s Flying Saucer and made room for the shifts needed to suppress the Aberration Guai.
• Lu Yuan stored the two demon remains in a safe and released the Greedy Demon God and Life Tree in hibernation mode to guard the sinkhole.

Guo Dafeng defeated Niu Ba in the first match of the civilization wager, then gave him medicine to heal his soul injuries. The Underground Alliance leaders sought guidance from the wounded Ancient Insect, which confirmed that wagers like this had existed in the Ancient Era.

• Guo Dafeng overcame Niu Ba's attacks and defeated him, while the Underground Alliance watched in silence.
• Guo Dafeng gave Niu Ba expensive soul-healing medicine and suggested they fight again using pure martial strength.
• Niu Ba admitted to his companions that Guo Dafeng had held back, and the Underground Alliance leaders worried about the gap between their civilizations.
• The leaders reviewed the battle footage, recognized the higher quality of Guo Dafeng's Extraordinary Tinder, and decided to consult Lu Lun.
• The leaders went to the Cavern Heaven and asked the wounded Ancient Insect whether civilization wagers had existed in the Ancient Era, and it answered, "Yes."

Lu Yuan agreed to rescue Jin Bote so the Opium Poppy Tree could strengthen the Dream Network and help them escape the monster. He prepared for the dangerous mission with the Ancient Insect’s Sacred Great Horn, then assigned the others tasks to support the plan.

• Hai Zhiyun proposed rescuing Jin Bote and placing him in the Opium Poppy Tree’s Flower Bud so the tree could strengthen the Blue Peng People’s Dream Network against the monster.
• Lu Yuan questioned the plan’s risks, and Hai Zhiyun suggested protecting the exposed tree with Different Dimension while raising the city’s inner ring.
• Lu Yuan bought the Ancient Insect’s Sacred Great Horn for 900 Fortune, and the Ancient Insect sacrificed the horn and sent it through the Immortal Palace.
• Lu Yuan decided to rescue Jin Bote and instructed Hai Zhiyun to raise the city’s inner ring, prepare Light Curtain Spirit Speech, and Seashell to control the Opium Poppy Tree when he returned.
• Lu Yuan insisted they had to gamble on the plan rather than wait to die, despite the others’ fear and Seashell’s hesitation.

Lu Yuan and Governor Lyon exchanged information about civilization milestones, supernatural resources, and the fate of God's Skills. Lyon proposed that God's Skills came from a civilization's accumulated fortune, while Lu Yuan warned that the Safe Zone might last only three or four hundred years.

• Lyon explained that his precognition had revealed milestones including spreading Extraordinary Tinder, dismantling the Safe Zone, building a mobile city, and capturing aberrant phenomena.
• A representative of Humanity's Twelfth Branch revealed that Pandora Crystals could negate gravity, offering a possible way to make a mobile city.
• Lu Yuan questioned whether the Sky City could hold impressive technology after learning it might be built with supernatural materials and propulsion.
• Lyon described a milestone for inheriting God's Skills, and Lu Yuan said the Safe Zone might have only three or four hundred years left before it failed.
• Lyon argued that God's Skills drew on a civilization's history or fortune and might disappear unless civilizations kept growing stronger and evolving.

Lu Yuan used his soul’s perspective and an unusual state of inspiration to study the Undying Giant Turtle’s Myriad Aspects Furnace glyphs, finding a breakthrough that advanced his understanding. After a month of focused contemplation, he announced that he had found a path a thousand years ahead of humanity.

• Lu Yuan used Complete Spiritualization to view the Undying Giant Turtle’s glyphs more clearly, memorized them, and carved memory cues into a piece of turtle shell.
• After the turtle healed, Lu Yuan thanked it and gave it fruit before settling down to recall the glyphs.
• Lu Yuan’s Artisan Talent combined with Glyph Insight Talent, prompting him to study the glyphs instead of making equipment.
• Lu Yuan spent a month in contemplation, with his companions struggling to find water and arguing as they tried not to disturb him.
• The Life Tree announced that Lu Yuan had succeeded and found a path a thousand years ahead of humanity.

Jin Bote’s premonitions of impending death drove him to seek a personal meeting with humanity’s diplomat, and he joined a friendly sparring match between the two civilizations. He met Tiger’s Grace, Seashell, and Lu Yuan, and concluded that humanity’s powerful mind-based technology came from its ancient survivors and their legacy.

• Jin Bote awoke from a vivid vision of his death and grew suspicious of possible plots against him.
• A liaison told Jin Bote that humans had requested a cold-weapon sparring match, and he ordered Blue Roc Civilization’s soldiers to prepare.
• Jin Bote’s premonitions urged him to draw closer to humanity, so he demanded to meet its diplomat personally.
• At the valley, Tiger’s Grace introduced himself to Jin Bote as the chairman of Human 18 Civilization’s council.
• Tiger’s Grace introduced Seashell and Lu Yuan, and the Blue Roc delegation marveled at Seashell’s ornate, radiant clothing.
• Jin Bote inferred that humanity’s mind-based technology was powerful because it had inherited the legacy of ancient civilizations.

As the Snake People City emerged from the Different Dimension, Lu Yuan weighed the dangers and began organizing a joint team to investigate the monster and gather clues. He agreed that Sea Snail Miss would join the expedition, while the rest of the group analyzed the Blue Roc Civilization’s abilities and watched the palace.

• Jin Bote warned Lu Yuan that his Premonition predicted the Blue Roc Civilization might be wiped out, and offered its people and technology in exchange for help.
• Jin Bote listed the Blue Roc Civilization’s useful God's Skills, including Historical Retrospection and an ability to find people from their belongings, and Lu Yuan ordered his strategists to develop a feasible monster-capture plan.
• Sea Snail Miss volunteered to join Lu Yuan and Mr. Cat in the exploration team, and Lu Yuan accepted after considering her abilities and safeguards.
• Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss joked and flirted in the nearly empty city until the Undying Giant Turtle joined them and warned Lu Yuan not to bully his little sister.
• The twenty soldiers observed the Snake People Palace from the Reconnaissance Room while Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss remained on the empty street.

Lu Yuan forged the Qiankun organ by using the Time Molting to create yin and yang worlds, nearly dying until Pangu Continent’s World Will helped him shape them. The newborn world produced rare innate treasures, and Lu Yuan connected it to Different Dimension before collapsing as its first life began to emerge.

• Lu Yuan swallowed the Time Molting and used Chaos Essence Stones to form the Qiankun organ’s protective layer, then cast his self-awareness inside to distort space and time.
• Lu Yuan nearly died trying to create the worlds, but a mysterious force from Pangu Continent helped him summon earth, water, fire, and wind and build two worlds.
• Lu Yuan brought soil and seawater from Pangu Continent into the Qiankun, allowing its laws to resemble the continent’s, and set the yin and yang worlds’ time flow at up to one hundred times faster or slower than outside.
• Lu Yuan discovered that creating heaven and earth had produced a Chaos Essence Stone, Creation Jade Marrow, Profound Yellow Crystal Stone, and other rare innate treasures.
• Lu Yuan invested his remaining minerals in the Qiankun and forged the Starry Sky Gate to connect it to Different Dimension, letting him send enemies directly into the small world.
• Lu Yuan fell asleep from exhaustion as the first shoot emerged in the Qiankun, becoming the world’s first life, the Life Tree.

Lu Yuan and his companions destroyed the black gem containing Shadow of Zhao, ending the demon’s threat and completing a unique milestone. A storm then announced the reward, leaving Lu Yuan to suspect he had achieved a milestone far earlier than intended.

• Lu Yuan trained Mother Bear to smash gems with a hammer, while Old Cat managed the stove and monitored Shadow of Zhao.
• After recovering from his injuries, Lu Yuan faced the gem’s final resistance as it cracked under Mother Bear’s hammering.
• Lu Yuan used his Extraordinary Fire and shattered the gem, while Old Cat confirmed Shadow of Zhao was dead.
• Lu Yuan found that consuming the demon’s remains would grant five God's Skills but chose not to risk being consumed by it.
• A storm erupted and Lu Yuan received a unique milestone reward of 5000 points, prompting him to wonder if killing the demon had completed a milestone meant for a later era.

Han Yue, Lu Qingqing, and Li Lan tried to reach Lu Yuan through a linked dream, but hostile eyes in the dream forced them back into the Safe Zone. As Yunhai City considered cooperation with other cities, the chapter showed how hunger, war, and political paralysis left several human cities in crisis.

• Han Yue guided Lu Qingqing and Li Lan beyond the Safe Zone in a shared dream, but strange presences and countless watching eyes turned it into a nightmare, forcing them to retreat without reaching Lu Yuan.
• Li Lan judged the Pathfinding Plan far beyond their current abilities, and Yunhai City decided to strengthen itself while exploring cooperation with other cities.
• Jenny offered to cooperate with Yunhai City, while Jacob explained that his telepathic ability could not locate Lu Yuan without face-to-face contact.
• In Ka Hailun, a general ordered Lu Yuan's battle with the Donkey-Head Monster circulated to increase panic and lower support for opening the Safe Zone, while food shortages worsened.
• Fighting continued between factions in Ping An City, and East Gold City's researchers argued over whether to open the Safe Zone, hunt for the Extraordinary Tinder, or flee.

Lu Yuan distracted the Mirage Cloud Dragon and secretly infiltrated the Source Fire Civilization’s underground complex with Old Cat. They reached a massive treasury door, where Lu Yuan prepared to enter despite the possibility of an imprisoned anomaly.

• Lu Yuan assigned the group to communicate with the Mirage Cloud Dragon and search for historical information while he secretly hid in the Different Dimension.
• The animal experts fed and treated the Mirage Cloud Dragon, keeping it occupied as Lu Yuan teleported into its nest.
• Lu Yuan explored the nest, collected abandoned technological puppets, and found glyph-enhanced bullets while Old Cat guided him deeper underground.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat descended through the increasingly hot passage until they reached a huge, ornate door leading to the treasury.
• Lu Yuan used the Eternal Tinder to probe the door and prepared to pass through, while Old Cat warned that an anomaly might be inside.

After the World Furnace eruption devastated the ocean, Sky City escaped to high altitude while Lu Yuan remained trapped in the White Jade Palace underground. The god announced that the Ninth Era might have entered its middle phase and opened the Civilization Points exchange, as Lu Yuan faced the palace’s imminent destruction.

• The Mirage Cloud Dragon disappeared, and the returning expedition team reported that Lu Yuan had followed it into the magma; Old Cat took command as Sky City fled upward.
• The Life Tree relayed that Lu Yuan was safe, while Old Cat organized the city’s defenses and evacuation at an altitude of one hundred thousand meters.
• The World Furnace erupted with catastrophic force, evaporating the ocean and melting the exposed seabed.
• The god announced a first major ecological mass extinction event in the Ninth Era, suggested the era had entered its middle phase, and opened the Civilization Points exchange store.
• Trapped inside the tumbling White Jade Palace, Lu Yuan suspected the god had misjudged the disaster’s cause, then watched magma seep through the palace’s growing cracks.

Lu Yuan brought Old Cat and the Otherworlders into his Qiankun Small World, where they discovered it was a growing world with extraordinary treasures and mineral resources. The visitors ended their inspection impressed by its potential, while Lu Yuan remained unsure how to use or develop what he had found.

• Lu Yuan defended spending 370,000 units of ore on the Qiankun Small World and invited Old Cat and the Otherworlders to inspect it.
• Lu Yuan transported the group in an Earth Escape Flying Shuttle through the Chaos Sea and explained that the Qiankun Small World was a separate world with its own rules.
• The group saw the barren Yang and Yin Worlds, and Lu Yuan explained their dangerous conditions, different time rates, and need for a stronger sun.
• Old Cat and the Otherworlders discovered Chaos Essence Stone and Creation Jade Marrow, and Lu Yuan showed them more innate treasures.
• Lu Yuan revealed thirty-six innate treasures and a large supply of growable ores, prompting the group to discuss how to help the small world grow.

Lu Yuan organized a medical team to treat the enormous Ancient Insect, which hid its fear and kept its secrets while pretending to be a benevolent elder. He entered the insect’s dangerous Black Mist with Greedy Demon God and prepared to operate, leaving the team ready to begin surgery.

• Lu Yuan agreed to treat Ancient Insect and gathered medical experts to devise a plan, while Ancient Insect refused to explain its hidden knowledge.
• The experts raised concerns about the insect’s size, medical costs, and lethal Black Mist, so Lu Yuan assigned Greedy Demon God to perform the surgery and had Little Mirage Dragon fetch more medicine.
• Lu Yuan enlarged Greedy Demon God, grew control vines and Flower Buds for the experts, and had them practice operating the vines remotely.
• Lu Yuan entered the Black Mist, where Wither Disease began aging his skin and withering the vines, but Eternal Tinder’s red light resisted it.
• Lu Yuan reached Ancient Insect and told it to roll onto its back so he could cut through its hard shell and begin the operation.

The interstellar war erupted as the enemy forces emerged near Pangu Continent, and the United Legion fought them in space and on the ground. Though [Pangu's Fist] destroyed a fortress, the enemy scattered its fleets and overwhelmed vulnerable settlements, leaving civilians facing slaughter.

• The moon's devices vaporized the Scarlet Eyeball, but [God] had already brought Beautiful New World near Pangu Continent and enemy fleets poured into the region.
• The Iron Key elder recognized fortresses belonging to former traitors and vowed to fight, while a God-devotee mocked the Iron Key and Turtle Civilizations and offered surrender.
• The United Legion prepared its ships for warp combat as old aberrants volunteered to defend Pangu Continent and told younger fighters to carry out the lunar landing battle.
• An old aberrant used [Pangu's Fist] to eject a Silver White fortress from four-dimensional space and destroy its ammunition depot, before enemy runes trapped his ship and killed him.
• Enemy fortresses scattered beyond the strongest reach of [Pangu] weapons, while drones and God-devotees broke through the western continent's defenses and devastated settlements.
• A father cried out to God as enemy forces killed civilians and gathered their vital essence and souls for blood sacrifices.

Lu Yuan explained that Civilization Points were valuable accumulations of historical luck and that the guardians of Advanced Ruins had their own interests. Humanity and the insectoids endured a seven-day battle against aberrant monsters, winning at enormous cost while the ghost fog still surrounded Green Field City and Green Field Mountain.

• Lu Yuan warned people not to revere the guardians of Advanced Ruins and explained that Civilization Points were valuable historical accumulations that could be exchanged without diminishing present luck.
• Humanity withdrew to Green Field Mountain, put vulnerable creatures into Hibernation Pods, and fought the aberrant monsters in the dense ghost fog.
• Leviathan and the cranes hauled the Flying Saucer from the sea, but monsters swarmed toward it; the Life Tree attacked the monsters, brought the saucer ashore, and helped defend the retreat.
• Lu Yuan ordered the human and insectoid forces to regroup around the Life Tree, and the battle continued for seven days until the monsters were wiped out, though the ghost fog remained.
• Old Cat reported severe losses: seventy-eight Insectoid Warriors were lost, hundreds underwent aberration, around one thousand and fifty people died, and more than one hundred and eighty thousand may have undergone aberration.

Lu Yuan struggled to feed the energy-hungry Greedy Demon God, explored the deep sea for ore, and discovered he could separate and use the Life Tree. He completed the first Mythical-grade Artificial Oddity milestone and awaited its reward as a mysterious light appeared.

• Lu Yuan learned that fortune was the Greedy Demon God's best fuel, but refused to take Spirit Rhythm from the Human Civilization National Treasury and ate some Chaos Essence Stone fragments instead.
• He searched the deep sea for ore with the Explorer's Eye, but found too little to support the body's enormous energy needs.
• Lu Yuan tried separating the Life Tree from his body, confirmed it could be used outside him, then pulled it back when its weight threatened to sink the Sky Fortress.
• A storm gathered, and Lu Yuan heard that he had completed the Unique Milestone for being the first to create a Mythical-grade Artificial Oddity, earning 5,000 points.
• Lu Yuan considered how to strengthen a myth and wondered about the milestone's reward as a tiny white light appeared beside him.

After six months of scavenging the Source Fire Civilization’s ruins, Lu Yuan and the zoologists tried to recruit the Mirage Cloud Dragon, but discovered it remained devoted to guarding its former people’s resting place. Lu Yuan called off the recruitment while allowing the humans to keep feeding it, and learned that the dragon had little life left.

• Humans began scavenging the ruins and gradually befriended the Mirage Cloud Dragon by feeding it while zoologists carried out a taming plan.
• The zoologists launched their recruitment plan, but the Mirage Cloud Dragon became furious and injured several soldiers and animal-affinity users.
• Lu Yuan confronted the dragon, and its white mist revealed memories of the Source Fire People entering ice coffins before a disaster destroyed their world.
• Lu Yuan realized the dragon was guarding the grave because it still believed the Source Fire People would awaken, so he chose not to reveal the truth or force it to leave.
• Lu Yuan agreed to continue feeding the dragon, and Seashell told him that suppressing the volcano had likely left it with little time to live.