Chapter Summaries

Diggedit drove Yao Drizzle to destroy more Human Cities, but repeated attempts to dominate it failed and the surviving cities prepared to resist. As Yao Drizzle approached Yunhai City, Li Chunhong organized a nuclear ambush while Diggedit ordered the creature to shield itself and protect him.

• A Hydrogen Bomb exploded inside Paris City, destroying it, and Diggedit realized that exposed domination had sparked a coup among the city's ranks.
• Diggedit destroyed three more cities, bringing the total to seven, but still failed to fully dominate Yao Drizzle; he promised it half the spiritual essence if it attacked Yunhai City.
• Li Chunhong and Professor Zhang Hui planned an ambush, while New York City's officers prepared missile trucks and East Gold City's Super Fortress turned toward Lingbo City for revenge.
• Yao Drizzle resisted attacking Yunhai City until Diggedit promised it more spiritual essence, then accelerated toward the city.
• Li Chunhong ordered Yunhai City to prepare its missiles and deployed the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree as part of the defense, while Lu Qingqing was moved to a deep shelter.
• With Yao Drizzle only three hundred kilometers away, Diggedit ordered it to raise a shield and protect him, and the creature formed a vast barrier of floating ice crystals.

Lu Yuan announced compulsory education and a new currency-based economic system for Green Field Town, explaining that education and paid work would help the town develop and survive. He introduced the Flower Bud classrooms, where Shamo and other townspeople began their first lesson.

• Lu Yuan reminded the crowd that Green Field Town stood on land gifted by the Green Field Civilization and announced compulsory education for all minors.
• Lu Yuan declared that Green Coins would be issued, established their value, and explained that people could earn them through skilled jobs and private trade.
• Lu Yuan said food distribution would continue until the next harvest, after which the town would collect a ten percent agricultural tax and residents would buy eggs and other goods themselves.
• Lu Yuan brought several hundred Flower Buds to the square as classrooms and told the townspeople that every child had to attend school.
• Shamo entered a Flower Bud classroom with other townspeople, where a burly teacher began a lesson on the meaning of education.

Li Chunhong struggled to manage the collapsing economy and shortages while the Supernatural Laboratory reviewed footage from Lu Yuan. The footage revealed that Lu Yuan had received a Milestone Reward of supernatural items, leaving the researchers stunned as he claimed humanity had gained an early lead.

• Li Chunhong authorized priority medical care for pregnant women and children while ordering officials to develop a sustainable plan for medicine shortages.
• Professor Zhang Hui told Li Chunhong that Lu Yuan was alive and had sent back important information.
• Researchers watched Lu Yuan's footage of tanning leather, sewing clothes, raising wolf cubs, and making a shield from the Spider Back Pattern.
• A flash of lightning struck Lu Yuan, and a Brown Box appeared, from which he took scissors, a dagger, and other tools.
• Researchers detected macroscopic supernatural interference around the scissors and dagger and realized the tools were powerful supernatural items.
• Lu Yuan called the items a Milestone Reward from the gods for humanity being the first civilization to create an extraordinary item.

Lu Yuan explored the Turtle Temple, received its mythical benefits and the turtle people’s investment, then left the Boundless Realm with Solomon and the Shadow Demon after the Bloodline Curse opened a way out. Back at the ruined Tower of Heaven, he shared wealth with Solomon, made cautious plans for future cooperation, and departed after completing the mission.

• Lu Yuan inspected the Turtle Temple’s Shield of Life and other functions, and Turtle Lian Zi and the turtle people gave the temple and more than four hundred turtle corpses to him.
• After three years in the Boundless Realm, Solomon warned Lu Yuan that a civilization would perform a blood sacrifice, creating a chance to escape.
• Lu Yuan, Solomon, and the Shadow Demon used the opening in the Borderless Gate to leave the Boundless Realm and return to the ruined Tower of Heaven.
• Lu Yuan gave Solomon fifteen percent of the recovered wealth and arranged for them to maintain cautious contact and trade for strange phenomenon bloodlines.
• The Boar Demon and Stone Demon met Lu Yuan’s group, and Lu Yuan gave them Field Industrialization materials, temples, and an offer to trade for God's Skills.
• Lu Yuan flew away into the night, followed by the Black Shadow Demon.

Yuan Tie tried to contain the Insect Mythical by recruiting it, but Lu Yuan negotiated a trade that recognized it as the Insect Race Great Emperor instead. As the Buzhou Gathering approached, Green Field City prepared new weapons and Lu Yuan learned more about the Weaver’s nest and the civilizations gathering in the ruins.

• Yuan Tie ordered the Ancient Race to recruit the Insect Mythical and revealed that it planned to revive beings sealed with Infinite Qi as a deterrent.
• Lu Yuan advised Ancient Insect to reject the subordinate title of Insect Race General and demand recognition as the Insect Race Great Emperor in exchange for trade.
• The Ancient Race traded high-grade materials for God's Skills, while Lu Yuan secretly put some of the materials into the Qiankun World and accelerated its transformation.
• Green Field City developed Blood Guai Bullets that harmed living targets and Aberration Bullets that could corrupt equipment, and Lu Yuan approved limited sales of weaker export versions.
• Taduo reported that the Weaver's nest had preserved beings with Infinite Qi, more than twenty thousand civilizations had gathered in the Buzhou Ruins, and conflicts had fallen as the Buzhou Gathering approached.
• Lu Yuan learned that the Turtle Civilization still had not appeared, or might be hiding after arriving.

Ancient races planned to manipulate civilizations and capture calamities to restore the Blood Sacrifice Rule, while Lu Yuan oversaw Green Field City's new Bloodline Laboratory. The chapter ended with Lu Tiantian explaining that humanity's shared form and bloodline stemmed from idealistic interference and powerful mythical ancestors.

• The Evil Dragon Race, Abyss Edge Clan, Blood Gluttony Race, and Fiend Soul Clan leaders agreed to seek puppet civilizations and use calamities as offerings to restore blood sacrifice.
• The Fiend Soul Clan proposed opening Trading Markets in divined feng shui treasure lands to attract civilizations and identify controllable allies.
• Lu Yuan continued overseeing the Qiankun World's gradual transformation and Green Field City's projects as the Bloodline Laboratory officially opened.
• Lu Tiantian explained that bloodlines included both genetic lineage and idealistic racial concepts, and that human sacrifices were especially effective.
• Lu Tiantian presented evidence that human races shared a human form through convergent evolution shaped by Willpower Rules, and linked humanity's prominence to Innate Mythical ancestors.

Lu Yuan tested whether the Little Mirage Dragon could protect a refuge with Mirage Space and chose Green Field Mountain to shelter people and vital facilities from the looming threat. After the barrier went up, Lu Tiantian’s experiment revealed that the rain had significantly reduced the Spirit Attributes of exposed soldiers.

• Lu Yuan rejected asking the Mirror Demon or Ancient Insect for advice and had the Little Mirage Dragon test Mirage Space on a building, discovering that it could not enclose the building’s foundation.
• Lu Yuan considered protecting the Grotto-heaven, then chose Green Field Mountain because it could be lifted and fully enclosed while the sinkhole held vital spacecraft and hibernating people.
• As the rain stopped and the night grew colder, Lu Yuan moved 2,500 Advanced Insect Race members and over 5,000 selected low-level insects to Green Field Mountain, while the rest entered deep hibernation.
• The Little Mirage Dragon enclosed Green Field Mountain in Mirage Space, which Seashell said could last most of a day with equipment and medicine restoring its mental energy.
• Lu Yuan asked Hai Zhiyun about the satellite surveillance, then learned from Lu Tiantian that the rain had considerably reduced the Spirit Attributes of exposed soldiers.

Lu Yuan recovered and decided to share the demon’s knowledge with the Lize Civilization while keeping his mirror-trading rights secret. He teleported out of the hidden space carrying the Undying Giant Turtle, but collapsed from the strain as the Lize soldiers mistook the turtle for a ghost.

• The Lize leaders worried about their Spaceship Wreckage and proposed doubling Lu Yuan’s pay, while Moxi promised to give him whatever he wanted.
• Lu Yuan told Old Cat he would compensate the Lize people by sharing the knowledge from the demon, but would keep the mirror deal secret and under his control.
• Lu Yuan prepared to leave with the Undying Giant Turtle, tied the turtle to himself, and carried it on his back.
• Lu Yuan used Space Blink to escape the hidden space with the turtle, despite the immense strain on his mental power.
• The Lize soldiers mistook the returning turtle for an escaped ghost, and Lu Yuan fainted after his mental power ran out.

After two years of customizing domains for Great Grandmasters, Lu Yuan learned that Sky City had reached a coastline across the ocean. The Upper Council prepared to inspect the land and arrange the city’s eventual landing, while civilians eagerly volunteered for the expedition.

• Over two years, Lu Yuan customized domains for more than a hundred level-seven Great Grandmasters, who increasingly chose functional and defensive abilities.
• The Reconnaissance Team reported a coastline about 1,000 kilometers ahead and sent Lu Yuan photographs of its beaches, rainforest, and extraordinary plants and animals.
• Lu Yuan ordered a reconnaissance squad to inspect the coast and convened the Upper Council to discuss landing preparations.
• Professor Shamo pointed out that the Coral Island Cultivation Center, submarines, and Ocean Fleet had to be secured before Sky City could land, and the council estimated the work would take a month.
• The Upper Council dispatched fifty teams of Great Grandmasters and more than a thousand Insectoid Warriors to investigate the surrounding land.
• Civilians flooded the government with applications to join the expedition, hoping to conduct research and enjoy a break on land.

Lu Yuan and Lu Lun clashed over whether forging should draw on personal growth or merge the self into civilization, then began a forging contest to settle their dispute. Lu Lun used the Underground Alliance’s Sacrificial Dao to forge a powerful Slaughter Tool, while Lu Yuan watched and considered the method’s limits.

• Lu Yuan and Lu Lun argued over whether a person should cultivate the self first or devote themselves wholly to civilization, revealing their opposing philosophies of forging.
• Lu Yuan declared, “I am civilization,” and challenged Lu Lun to let their hands decide the truth.
• Lu Lun began forging a Slaughter Tool, entering memories of a past war as the Underground Alliance’s fortune guided his hammer.
• Lu Lun’s work transformed low-quality materials into the beginnings of an axe that could reach rare grade, while his tragic memories drove him to wish he could have made his people stronger.
• Lu Yuan explained the Sacrificial Dao to the human diplomatic team and noted that, despite its benefits, the method could not readily produce Mythical Equipment.
• The human spectators joked with Lu Yuan about the contest as they watched Lu Lun’s remarkable forging performance.

Humanity sold the Underground Alliance a Spirit Rhyme Value System and began discussing further trades after revealing the high value of Legendary Equipment. The alliance then asked about medical knowledge, hoping to find a treatment for the Ancient Insect, as negotiations turned to biological medicines and research.

• Fu Yi offered the Underground Alliance the Spirit Rhyme Value System for fifty Spirit Rhyme after humanity rejected its maximum-exploitation plan.
• Humanity assessed a Legendary Earth Splitting Axe at roughly 2,300 to 2,500 Spirit Rhyme, shocking Da Dao Gang and the alliance leadership.
• The Underground Alliance approved the book purchase, and Da Dao Gang traded baskets of dried mushrooms for the Spirit Rhyme Value System.
• The alliance leadership instructed Da Dao Gang to ask whether humanity could help treat the Ancient Insect.
• Lu Tiantian presented biological research and the D-Omega and Z-Dolan potions, offering their principles and machinery for hundreds of Spirit Rhyme.

After humanity’s Lunar New Year celebration, Lu Yuan reflected on the resources and time separating his settled life in the Safe Zone from his distant family. In Yunhai City, Li Jun became the first person to reach Extraordinary Level 3, demonstrating the power of an evolved Extraordinary Tinder.

• Lu Yuan resolved to set out after young people’s enthusiasm for exploring distant lands stirred him, then celebrated Lunar New Year with humanity.
• Lu Yuan encouraged Sha Sanli and other retirees, reflecting that abundant resources drove civilization’s development and helped conceal social problems.
• Lu Yuan felt homesick for his family, and Seashell comforted him while they wondered about the people beyond the horizon.
• In Yunhai City, Li Jun reached Extraordinary Level 3, becoming humanity’s First Branch’s strongest person and opening his Lower Qiankun.
• Zhang Hui and the researchers tested Li Jun, whose strength and physical performance surpassed records and defeated a Level 2 Great Strength ability user.

Lu Yuan and Old Cat analyzed the monster’s servants, hive intelligence, and possible weaknesses, but found no reliable way to kill it. Lu Yuan chose to wait for help while keeping several dangerous options in reserve.

• Old Cat explained that monsters sought powerful servants and suggested that killing their servants could weaken them, though Lu Yuan and the Lize people said a war of attrition was impractical.
• Old Cat speculated that a monster could be captured and explained that its intelligence might grow over centuries or millennia.
• Taduo proposed that the monster’s intelligence came either from consuming intelligent life or from a hive network of servants and body-grown eyes, and the Think Tank relayed the analysis.
• Lu Yuan considered becoming the demon Shadow of Zhao, releasing the ghost’s blood, or using High-Explosive Bombs, but found no guaranteed way to kill the monster.
• Old Cat urged Lu Yuan to hold out because time passed 100 times faster there than on Pangu Continent, and Lu Yuan agreed to wait.

Lu Yuan accompanied the Shali Clan to their drought-stricken village, where he shared their scarce food and learned about the dangers and failed expeditions in Sky City. He left the villagers with fruit and knowledge of a giant Mother Bug controlling the city’s contaminated sewer water, while the turtle remained insane.

• Lu Yuan defeated Sha Kaner in a brief fight, then accepted the elder’s invitation to visit the Shali Clan’s village.
• The returning Shali expedition brought water, and the villagers celebrated while Lu Yuan inspected their dry well and teased Seashell about feeding the people with the regenerating turtle.
• The Shali Clan welcomed Lu Yuan by roasting a camel, and he secretly gave fruit to the village children.
• Elder Sha Sanli told Lu Yuan that a huge Mother Bug occupied Sky City’s sewers and poisoned some of the water, while a past effort to claim the water had collapsed amid danger and disputes between villages.

Humanity completed months of trade negotiations with the South Island Civilization, acquiring advanced biological equipment and knowledge while seeking information about Advanced Ruins. The chapter ended with fishman experts traveling to Sky City to calibrate the machines under strict security measures.

• Humanity translated the South Island Civilization's offer and spent thirty-two days negotiating a first trade, earning a small profit by exchanging fire-attributed materials for water- and life-attributed materials.
• Humanity negotiated down the price of medical knowledge and sold basic inscription knowledge at a premium, while Lu Yuan urged the officials not to buy equipment they could not maintain.
• The South Island Civilization withheld the locations of Advanced Civilization ruins, though it hinted that it knew where some were.
• After ninety-two days, humanity traded knowledge and equipment for a Biochemical Reactor, a Micro-Molecular Observation Device, and biological theory.
• Lu Yuan and the experts agreed to let South Island fishmen enter a sealed cargo hold so they could calibrate the machines, and the Transport Ship carried them toward Sky City.

Li Chunhong and Yunhai City’s leaders assessed how unprepared the human cities were to leave the Safe Zone and fight, citing shortages, failed projects, and internal conflicts. The chapter ended with Yunhai City’s Floating Fortress nearing completion but still lacking the Pandora Crystals needed to make it fly.

• Professor Guo estimated that opening the Safe Zone could cause around fifty thousand epidemic-related deaths, while raising the population’s average Extraordinary level would take years.
• Li Chunhong learned that most friendly cities were behind schedule, and that Yin Sanren’s missile tests had killed soldiers while Ping An City had fallen out of contact.
• After the meeting, Li Chunhong reflected on the city’s hardships and drew encouragement from Lu Yuan’s success as Yunhai City’s Chinese Parasol Tree continued to grow and support its people.
• Yunhai City’s Floating Fortress took shape, but Li Chunhong realized they still needed Pandora Crystals to make it float.

Lu Yuan risked provoking Gui to retrieve valuable resin and forced the Mirror Demon to reveal ways to evolve Extraordinary Tinder into Eternal Tinder. He left with several possible routes to investigate, while the Mirror Demon remained a dangerous source of knowledge.

• Lu Yuan used a mechanical arm and an iron-sheet reflection to retrieve a large piece of resin while Gui pressed against its seal.
• The Mirror Demon explained that Eternal Tinder could be reached by nurturing Extraordinary Tinder with Eternal Body, devouring spirits, or combining Three Section Fire, Sky Azure Fire, and Eight Defeats Fire.
• Lu Yuan learned that he possessed Eternal Body and considered how the Mirror Demon's methods might apply to his other abilities.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat privately weighed the information and speculated that abilities could be split, fused, and evolved.
• Lu Yuan considered investigating Sky City for more information rather than relying too heavily on the Mirror Demon.

Lu Yuan and the officials debated how to manage the population and scarce resources, then approved using the True Dream technology to ease life in the cramped Little Grotto-heaven. Meanwhile, escaping the grassland depended on building a Dream Network around Jin Bote, which would require spending Blue Roc Civilization’s Civilization Points to raise him into a Great Spirit Essence User.

• Lu Yuan and the officials considered population limits, hibernation rotations, and emergency austerity, but Professor Lu Tiantian proposed awakening everyone and rotating more than half the population through the Dream Network.
• After a week of debate, Lu Yuan officially unsealed True Dream, while scientists planned to connect it to Blue Roc Civilization’s physical supercomputers to reduce Spirit Essence consumption.
• Sea Snail Miss explained that Jin Bote and the other Dream Ability Users could wake within a month, but their awakening alone would not let the network influence the monster.
• Sea Snail Miss said Jin Bote needed to reach 30 Spirit Attribute and become a Great Spirit Essence User, potentially by spending Blue Roc Civilization’s Civilization Points.
• Sea Snail Miss warned that the points belonged to the monster and Jin Bote, and taking them through Space-Time Tide Harmonization Conversion could make the monster abandon the eight million Blue Peng People and trap humanity in the grassland.

Lu Yuan traded a small bowl of porridge to the mirror demon for introductory inscription knowledge and discovered that the golden bowl it sent back could transmit objects over any distance. He remained wary of the demon’s attempt to establish an ongoing trade, but considered the risks and kept the reward.

• The Undying Giant Turtle entered Gui’s room, adapted to its red-light attack, and swept out about forty kilograms of pure emerald-green resin.
• Lu Yuan learned that the turtle knew little about the mirror demon, then decided to trade a thin bowl of porridge for basic inscription knowledge.
• The turtle delivered the porridge to the mirror, which swallowed it and returned a partly filled Gold Foil sheet covered in elementary inscriptions.
• The mirror also sent out a golden Yin Yang Bowl, which Lu Yuan identified as one of a pair capable of transmitting objects over any distance.
• Lu Yuan examined the bowl’s restrictions and weighed the danger of the mirror’s offer to answer further questions in exchange for more trades.

Lu Yuan explored the ruins of Sky City, made a delayed telepathic call to Taduo, and settled in for his first night there. He awoke to a mysterious girl announcing that the Ascension Ceremony was about to begin.

• Lu Yuan found a humanlike mummy and ancient murals depicting a radiant great tree, while Seashell said she remembered nothing about the city and did not want to be revived.
• Lu Yuan made a temporary base in a dry room, then explored Sky City and collected relics, animals, and other salvage.
• Lu Yuan used Taduo’s telepathic eyeball to learn that four comrades had awakened and that humans and the Lize people were working on Sturdy Glyphs.
• Lu Yuan chatted with Taduo for hours, then returned to the room and fell into a deep sleep.
• A beautiful girl entered Lu Yuan’s room and woke him, saying the Ascension Ceremony was about to begin.