Chapter Summaries

Da Dao Gang and the Underground Alliance debated whether to pay humanity to treat the Ancient Insect, eventually agreeing to send a decaying piece of its flesh as a test. The alliance also learned about Floating Cities and recognized how much basic knowledge it lacked, leaving the meeting resolved to learn from humanity and organize an expeditionary team.

• Da Dao Gang’s experts rejected humanity’s medicines as inadequate for the Ancient Insect, so Lu Tiantian offered customized treatment and the alliance debated the cost and risks.
• The Minotaur Chieftain rebuked the alliance for hesitating to save the Ancient Insect, and an elder argued that it should be treated as the alliance’s spiritual pillar.
• The alliance agreed to cap treatment expenses at the value of one Legendary Equipment item and sent humanity a piece of the Ancient Insect’s rotting flesh to test its treatment capabilities.
• During later trade discussions, Fu Yi explained that civilizations used Pandora Crystals to power Floating Cities and move across oceans.
• The Underground Alliance realized its grotto-heaven way of life had left it ignorant of basic knowledge, then agreed to learn from humanity and form an expeditionary team.

After the Source Fire Civilization’s tragic end was revealed to the public, Lu Yuan defended the decision and called on Humanity to face the Era Disaster as a great shared goal. The chapter ended with Green Field City’s people beginning to turn their grief and fear into renewed determination.

• The Upper Council aired a lengthy News Broadcast explaining the Source Fire Civilization’s extinction and the Era Disaster, leaving Green Field City’s citizens grieving and afraid.
• Old Cat worried that revealing the truth might crush Humanity’s will, but Lu Yuan insisted that people needed to understand the danger and remain unyielding.
• Lu Yuan declared that Humanity’s goals were to reunite with its Mother Civilization, survive in the long term, and overcome the Era Disaster.
• Lu Tiantian and the others visited Rat Gongye to seek knowledge, while Rat Gongye and the rat people wondered whether Humanity would lose its fighting spirit.
• A young man’s forum post about finding purpose in travel and striving to protect future generations helped other citizens understand the Era Disaster as a goal worth confronting.

Lu Yuan’s delegation proposed a 100-unit spiritual essence wager to assess the Underground Alliance’s strength, and the alliance accepted. After entering Shi Tong Fortress, the humans exchanged limited information with the alliance and learned it had twelve races and a hidden Grotto-Heaven, whose nature they could only speculate about.

• Lu Yuan reminded the humans to use the wager to assess their opponents, stay cautious, and pay if they lost.
• The human translator proposed a 100-unit spiritual essence wager, and Da Dao Gang accepted on behalf of the Underground Alliance.
• Lu Yuan led thirty humans into Shi Tong Fortress, where they observed its defenses, machinery, and armed soldiers.
• Da Dao Gang invited the humans to wash and change before negotiations, and the humans used their own supplies and facilities.
• Da Dao Gang revealed that the Underground Alliance consisted of twelve races living in a Grotto-Heaven, leaving the humans unsure what the term meant.

Lu Yuan and the expedition team investigated Snake People City, where they discovered the serpentfolk had degenerated and could no longer sustain the Nether that raised them. They concluded that the monster might die during the Ninth Era, which could be the last era unless their generation built a powerful civilization.

• Seashell proposed using the Spirit Network to influence the monster into eventually teleporting humanity away, and the meeting approved expanding the Little Grotto-heaven.
• Lu Yuan organized an investigation team led by Duke Magmette and set out for Snake People City while another spacecraft went to Quincy City for Hibernation Pods.
• The team discussed the difficulty of sealing a Nether and deployed drones to survey the ruined city, where a serpentfolk destroyed one of the drones.
• Lu Yuan used Pioneer's Eye to learn that the serpentfolk had extremely low Spirit and might no longer count as intelligent life.
• Old Cat deduced that the monster could no longer gain Spirit Essence from the degenerated serpentfolk, while Magmette explained why the Blue Peng People would also deteriorate if raised without their usual selection.
• Lu Yuan concluded that the monster might run out of energy and die with the Nether during the Ninth Era, and warned that Pangu Continent might have no later era without an exceptionally powerful civilization.

Lu Yuan found evidence that Domination could enslave monsters before the murals of an ancient civilization ended, while in Lingbo City Captain Diggedit secretly used the ability to engineer a rise to power. After executing prisoners to harvest their spirit, Diggedit believed he had enough to stir up the city.

• Lu Yuan learned that the Ninth Era might still have Domination, but found no more murals and left the ruins with only fragments of information.
• Lingbo City's soldiers complained about the failing government, hunger, and the anomaly surrounding their Safe Zone as Diggedit quietly encouraged public anger.
• Diggedit revealed that he had dominated the Major General and planned to use him as the first leader while building support for his own rule.
• Diggedit said he would dominate key figures at the council meeting and claimed he could eventually control the anomaly and conquer Pangu Continent.
• Diggedit executed prisoners in the city jail to collect their spirit, then judged that he had enough to stir up Lingbo City.

Lu Yuan prepared Sky City to cross the ocean in floating mode, then visited the Lize Civilization and returned to the sealed spacecraft to question the Mirror Demon. The demon hinted that mythology was another realm, and Lu Yuan revealed his Artisan Master title to ask what realm he had reached.

• Shamo explained Sky City's nuclear and Idealistic Energy reserves and the benefits of floating mode, and the group approved the plan to cross the sea.
• Guo Weiqiang pledged to finish drawing Drifting Glyphs on Sky City's walls within three months.
• Lu Yuan traded goods with Moxi and the Lize people, who were still building a Floating Fortress and had not yet opened their Safe Zone.
• Lu Yuan teleported into the Da Lai Empire spacecraft and found that the Mirror Demon remained sealed.
• Lu Yuan asked the Mirror Demon about Mythical Equipment, and it said mythology was another realm.
• Lu Yuan displayed his Artisan Master title and asked the Mirror Demon what realm he was in.

Lu Yuan and Seashell decided that exposing Seashell to the Blue Roc Civilization might draw out the demon suspected of hiding among them, so they traveled to the diplomatic front line. Old Cat concealed the danger while presenting their arrival as a diplomatic courtesy, and Lu Yuan proposed settling communication through a contest.

• Lu Yuan ordered the King Insects to excavate the lakeside and search for more demon corpses.
• Seashell argued that displaying herself could tempt the demon to observe or attack, allowing them to identify it with a Mental Storm.
• Lu Yuan chose to risk provoking the Blue Roc Civilization rather than leave the suspected demon unchecked and warned Old Cat that demon corpses had been found and the Snake People Palace might contain ghosts.
• Old Cat inferred that the demon could be hiding among the Blue Roc Civilization and told the diplomats that Lu Yuan and Seashell would arrive as a show of respect and military deterrence.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell reached the diplomatic front line, and Lu Yuan told the diplomats to invite the Blue Roc Civilization to a contest the next day.

Lu Yuan retrieved the metal sphere from the Fire Lizard’s cave and gathered edible plants while hoping to contact humans. In Yunhai City, leaders confirmed that the person seen through the device was Lu Yuan and debated whether to reveal his identity to other civilizations.

• Lu Yuan cleared lizard meat from his Storage Space, told Old Wolf to guard the house, and returned to Fire Lizard Canyon, where only the Fire Lizard’s skeleton remained.
• Lu Yuan stored the Big Round Ball, searched unsuccessfully for medical supplies, and collected mushrooms, medicinal herbs, and a chili-like plant before heading home to try the sphere again.
• At the Supernatural Research Center, leaders discussed theories about the person who had appeared through the device and decided to preserve the Civilization Management Devices in case they enabled future contact.
• Professor Zhang Hui reported that facial recognition identified the young man as Lu Yuan from Yunhai City.
• Li Chunhong argued that Yunhai City should publicize Lu Yuan’s identity as a political bargaining chip, and the elderly leader acknowledged the strategic value of doing so.

Sha Sanli and Lu Da’s party reached the Mandala Empire’s ruined capital and learned that a coup had plunged it into chaos. Elsewhere, an amnesiac young man found a warning claiming the Empire had been destroyed by parasitic monsters, remembered his Domination ability, and was approached by a beautiful woman.

• Old Cat gave Sha Sanli a telegraph machine, and the group set out for the Empire with Lu Da.
• At the ruined capital, Sha Sanli reunited with an old acquaintance who described the coup and the disorder that followed.
• An amnesiac young man woke beneath a tree, found a diary warning that the Mandala Empire had been destroyed, and remembered his Domination ability.
• The young man read that he had killed members of his family and feared what he had done.
• A beautiful woman approached the young man and asked why he was alone.

Little Mirage Dragon and Seashell reached the flying saucer, where Seashell took over suppressing the Aberration Gui while Lu Yuan defended the control room from hordes of mutated monsters. As Little Mirage Dragon weakened and the monsters broke through the ice, the Undying Giant Turtle and a human submarine combat team arrived to help.

• Little Mirage Dragon carried Seashell into the flying saucer, where the backup defenses warned that the Aberration Gui could soon escape.
• Seashell entered the Soul Gem to operate the suppression system, and Lu Yuan left the control room to defend her from incoming mutants.
• Lu Yuan fought the monsters with a cannon, his sword, and the Eternal Tinder, while Little Mirage Dragon froze the breach to hold them back.
• Seashell struggled to suppress the Gui as it revived, and Little Mirage Dragon grew exhausted while the monsters chipped through the ice.
• The Undying Giant Turtle arrived to fight the monsters, and three submarines from the Human 18 Civilization Elite Combat Team reached the operational area.

After Xing succumbed to a blood sacrifice, Lu Yuan learned the tragic history behind Xing’s hatred of blood sacrifice and Infinite Qi. With Xing defeated, the Evil Dragon Emperor pushed the gathered civilizations to submit, but one voice refused.

• Xing regained control after the Evil Dragon Emperor forced him to drink blood, but he collapsed in remorse as the sacrifice’s comforting power stirred his instincts.
• Xing’s past revealed that he had rejected blood sacrifice to protect his Changshan Tribe, then used Infinite Qi to defend them as war spread across Pangu Continent.
• When the Abyssal Sea passed the continent, Xing lost control and later found his tribesmen dead in a blood-sacrifice pattern, believing he had killed them during his breakdown.
• Xing became a wandering enemy of blood sacrificers and Infinite Qi users, but after accepting a blood sacrifice in the present, he lost his will to fight.
• The Evil Dragon Emperor rallied the sixteen other Infinite Qi holders and demanded that the civilizations offer their Blood Bricks, while the Level Four Civilizations wavered under pressure.
• An unidentified speaker at the center of the plaza firmly declared, “I refuse!”

Jin Bote’s ominous premonition faded when he moved near the Green Field Princess, while Lu Yuan stayed alert for the hidden demon at the diplomatic meeting. The encounter ended with Jin Bote presenting the Seashell Princess and Lu Yuan gifts, leaving both civilizations to continue negotiating over the Snake People Palace.

• Jin Bote admired the Seashell Princess’s formal attire and wondered whether his premonition was warning him to seek help, while the Blue Roc birdmen mistook Lu Yuan for a male concubine.
• Lu Yuan watched the Blue Roc delegation and held back from using his Mental Storm Rune, suspecting the Greedy Demon God might be scouting the gathering.
• Old Cat negotiated for Human Civilization to lead the Snake People Palace exploration, and Bai Diao revealed that the Blue Roc Civilization possessed X-class combat mechs from a powerful civilization.
• Jin Bote noticed his fear recede when he approached the Green Field Princess, then presented her with two carbyne rings as a first-meeting gift.
• The Seashell Princess returned a gift by having Lu Yuan give Jin Bote a rune short sword inlaid with green fluorite.

Lu Yuan defeated the Greedy Demon God and helped the survivors prepare to escape the rampaging Snake People Palace. Jin Bote gave Lu Yuan an X-Class Powered Armor in gratitude, and Lu Yuan turned to treat the unconscious Blue Peng People.

• Lu Yuan reflected on the advantages that had let him defeat the Greedy Demon God, then shrank its body and transferred his soul back into his human body.
• Sea Snail Miss praised Lu Yuan, and he credited her Light Curtain Spirit Speech with helping him capture the Demon.
• Lu Yuan told Jin Dongliang and Guo Dafeng that the Demon was dead and ordered them to revive the unconscious people and flee to Sky City.
• Lu Yuan warned Jin Bote that humanity had not known who the Demon possessed and urged him to postpone any conflict until they survived the crisis; Jin Bote agreed.
• Jin Bote offered Lu Yuan an X-Class Powered Armor as a gift and asked him to use medicine to save the Blue Peng People.
• Lu Yuan accepted the gift and began treating the unconscious Blue Peng People with the finest medicine.

Lu Yuan rescued Seashell, an amnesiac Unknown Aberrant living within a Starry Sky Conch, and discovered she had collected a trove of insect remains and rare materials. He found that she guarded Epic-grade Demon Spirit Essence, but chose not to take it because it might sustain her soul.

• Lu Yuan crawled through the insect swarm, hooked Seashell with a crossbow, and hauled her safely back to his tricycle.
• Seashell revealed her Sea Soul Grass vine and Soul Gem, and Lu Yuan learned she had awakened inside the conch after insects swallowed her.
• Seashell offered Lu Yuan piles of corroded insect scraps, then gave him an Opium Poppy Tree branch and Legendary-grade heartwood.
• Lu Yuan sent a Life Tree vine into the conch and discovered Epic-grade Demon Spirit Essence hidden inside.
• Lu Yuan suspected the essence was connected to a demon or civilization, but decided not to take it because Seashell might need it to replenish her soul energy.

Lu Yuan introduced Green Field City’s technology and goods to the leaders of Ulan City and Mai Luo City, leaving them eager to consider a trade deal. After they departed, he shared a discovery about the underlying imprints of Extraordinary Abilities, and the Ratfolk Artisans warned him that studying them could be taboo.

• Lu Yuan questioned the Ulan Clan about nearby civilizations and learned that the Dwarf Clan was the strongest, supported by surviving ancestors and several anomalies.
• Dao Gu presented Mai Luo City’s frost-infused artifacts, and Lu Yuan agreed that its Ice Jade Pendants could be valuable trade goods.
• Ta Gang and Dao Gu examined Green Field City’s cannons, Floating Fortress, solar panels, generators, and smelting furnace, but found many of the prices beyond their means.
• Ta Gang asked for time to discuss purchases with his delegation, and Lu Yuan arranged rooms for them without revealing his interest in Civilization Points.
• After the visitors left, Lu Yuan defended fair trade and friendship before explaining his research into the idealistic imprints underlying Extraordinary Abilities.
• Rat Gongye praised Lu Yuan’s discovery but warned that studying the essence of Extraordinary Abilities carried taboos.

Lu Yuan killed Tuo Zhengzang after a fierce fight, apparently ending the threat to Sky City, but discovered that the demon Painted Skin was reviving inside the corpse. He fled the tomb with Old Cat as a far more powerful domain emerged, leaving them to decide whether they could fight it.

• Lu Yuan fought Tuo Zhengzang inside the Underground Tomb, resisting its Spirit Speech while Old Cat helped him finish it with a sword.
• Old Cat contacted Sky City and reported that the monsters there had fallen unconscious, while the Jin Family Five Brothers and other survivors learned that Lu Yuan had won.
• Lu Yuan identified the corpse as Tuo Zhengzang, the First Emperor of the Mandala Empire, and took his Nine-Eyed Bead Necklace.
• Lu Yuan discovered Painted Skin was reviving inside the corpse and narrowly escaped its attack by blinking away.
• A powerful domain spread through the tomb, so Lu Yuan grabbed Old Cat and fled while Old Cat prepared its Depleted Uranium Bomb.

Lu Yuan reassured Yunhai City that he could send another Light Curtain Spirit Speech in an emergency, while warning that the city needed to recover the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree and strengthen itself. After discussing the attack and humanity’s preparations, he advised Yunhai City to share lessons about weapon vulnerabilities without revealing all the details, leaving the city with a plan to raise weapon standards and keep some advantages in reserve.

• Li Chunhong asked whether Lu Yuan could repeat his aid if Yao Drizzle returned, and Lu Yuan promised emergency help while urging Yunhai City to restore the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree.
• Professor Zhang Hui and Lu Yuan concluded that Yao Drizzle had reacted to the steady Idealistic Energy from scheduled dream communications, so Lu Yuan said they should pause routine contact.
• Lu Yuan told Li Chunhong that ghosts remained beyond even a Level Three Civilization’s ability to fight, while Yunhai City’s Safe Zone might not open for several years because it lacked materials and Idealistic protection for its weapons.
• Lu Qingqing joined the gathering and chatted with Seashell, while Lu Yuan reflected on the importance of repairing the Immortal Palace so distant friends could reconnect.
• Li Chunhong asked whether to inform other Human Cities about Yunhai City’s attack, and Lu Yuan advised sharing the weapons’ vulnerability to Idealistic interference without disclosing the full details of what happened.
• Li Chunhong agreed that Yunhai City should persuade the other cities to raise their weapon standards while keeping some of its own advantages in reserve.

After Great Green Mountain manifested, the Lize Civilization found 278 unconscious heroes who had brought the Extraordinary Tinder back to the Safe Zone. Lu Yuan confirmed that the monster was dead and requested permission to enter the Safe Zone, leaving Lyon to consider his reply.

• Lyon ordered the military to explore Great Green Mountain, where the teams found mutated, unconscious Lize people, including Eagle Eye, carrying the Extraordinary Tinder.
• The explorers rescued 278 ability users and found no monster corpse or safe route out of the Safe Zone.
• The Lize Civilization received Lu Yuan’s message confirming that he and the Lize heroes had defeated the monster and asking to visit the survivors.
• Lyon recognized Lu Yuan’s ability to breach the Safe Zone as an opportunity and decided to send him a reply.
• Lu Yuan waited nervously for the Lize Civilization’s response while Old Cat offered to accompany him into the Safe Zone.

Over thirty-nine years, Lu Yuan and humanity endured the ghost fog while a high-risk laboratory studied the blood guai and the Exhaust Fan gradually purified the air. The fog finally fell to a survivable level, but Lu Yuan delayed fully awakening the population and continued waiting for the Coral Island researchers and a possible way to save the 180,000 aberrated people.

• Lu Yuan approved experiments on Coral Island inside an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, and Lu Linshu joined the project to help make Peng Zi and Ran Mei better.
• In the sixth year after the war, Lu Yuan established the High-Risk Biological Laboratory with twelve professors on Coral Island and a large support team in Green Field City.
• Lu Yuan studied inscription knowledge, refused to awaken more workers while the ghost fog remained, and failed to obtain help from the Mirror Demon in the tenth year.
• In the eighteenth year, the Chaos Essence Stone neared maturity, but Lu Yuan concluded it still lacked the divine charm needed to reach the mythical tier.
• In the thirty-second year, Lu Yuan reached 30 Spirit and became a Great Spirit Essence User, then slowed his progress near his apparent limit.
• In the thirty-ninth year, algae, fungi, and other organisms survived outside protection as the ghost fog declined, and the Exhaust Fan trapped a drop of black blood; Lu Yuan kept the fan running and limited awakenings while the Coral Island professors continued their work.

As the Calamity of the Era worsened, villages vanished, the Ink Sect’s disciples were killed or fled, and Duo Mu lost hope while Lu Yuan suspected he was trapped in a historical illusion. The chapter left Lu Yuan facing a mountain of purple substance after his hunger-stricken companion found it, just as he remembered what it was.

• Duo Mu returned from his failed efforts to stop the blood sacrifices, and Turtle Immortal announced that Kunlun Mountain would relocate its villagers after they accused the Ink Sect of failing to protect them.
• The Pangu Brain identified several possible places for the villagers to settle, and the villagers were sent down the mountain while Duo Mu and Lu Yuan remained behind.
• Duo Mu reported that Ink Sect disciples were disappearing through blood sacrifice, but he and the other disciples could not find the culprit.
• After four more people disappeared, the remaining disciples argued over whether to stay or flee, and Duo Mu became too despondent to feed his pets.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that he was inside a historical illusion that he could not meaningfully alter, while the disciples eventually fled and left Kunlun Mountain nearly empty.
• The Undying Giant Turtle found and ate a heap of purple substance from a giant worm, then called Lu Yuan over, who recognized what it was.