Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his battle, Lu Yuan began cultivating the Extraordinary Tinder and used a Fiery Red Spirit Crystal to raise all three of his attributes. He then worried that he would lose track of time in isolation and decided to retrieve a damaged metal sphere whose timer still worked.

• Lu Yuan stayed in bed for six days, recovering with help from the Extraordinary Tinder and Fire Lizard meat.
• On the seventh day, Lu Yuan meditated for the first time and studied how the Extraordinary Tinder strengthened body, qi, and spirit.
• Lu Yuan used the Fiery Red Spirit Crystal to cultivate, raising Body from 5.5 to 5.6, Qi from 4.6 to 4.7, and Spirit from 5.2 to 5.3.
• Lu Yuan lost track of whether it was day 105 or 106 and decided to move the metal sphere with a working timer closer.

Lu Yuan spent days transforming a dead Valley Locust into a practical mushroom-farming puppet, while Lu Lun watched in puzzlement and sensed luck arise from nothing. The finished puppet, named Farmer No. 1, gained a new destiny tied to the Insectoid Legion.

• The humans appraised Lu Lun’s Black Steel Head as Rare-grade +++, while Lu Lun rested for three days and dreamed of his life forging weapons for the Underground Alliance.
• Lu Yuan continued crafting a lifelike Valley Locust, but its early appraisal was only that of an ordinary insect specimen, leaving Lu Lun unable to sense any civilization fortune.
• Lu Yuan decided to turn the locust’s mushroom-growing Willpower Rules into a field that would improve the work of living locusts, and used Life Tree heartwood needles to inscribe its shell.
• Lu Yuan drew out and shaped the scattered rules until he completed the puppet, then named it Farmer No. 1.
• The Insectoid Legion’s luck descended on Farmer No. 1, giving the dead puppet a new name, history, and destiny.

Lu Yuan fought Guai of the Spirit Shrine Eye, using Spirit Speech Runes and his Steel ability to damage the Nether while discovering that its regeneration and attacks were beyond ordinary limits. As the pursuit continued, he found a Blood Eye Mark in his soul and used Pioneer's Eye to identify it as the reason the Nether could always track him.

• Lu Yuan severed the Nether's reaching hand with the Billion Flash Cutting Technique, but Guai of the Spirit Shrine Eye regenerated its arm and restored its ruined body.
• Guai attacked Lu Yuan with corrosive blood, and Lu Yuan countered with God's Power and a punch that sent the Nether flying.
• Ancient Insect warned Lu Yuan as Guai unleashed its red-light attack, but Lu Yuan used Space Blink to knock it off target and avoid the worst of the blast.
• Lu Yuan concluded that he could not defeat the immortal Nether and tried to escape, but Guai pursued him no matter where he blinked.
• Lu Yuan enhanced Steel with Luck, discovered a Blood Eye Mark in his soul, and used Pioneer's Eye to learn that it let the Nether track him and guide its attacks.

Lu Yuan resisted the Sakura Yu Tree’s bewitching voice while fighting the Undying Giant Turtle and another creature emerging from a Flower Bud. He bound the turtle alive, but the voice revealed that the Green Field Civilization’s Holy Child had enabled them to create a god.

• Lu Yuan resisted the joyful illusion, attacked the Flower Bud, and revealed the purple, zombielike Undying Giant Turtle inside.
• The turtle charged Lu Yuan, who fended off its attacks while Old Cat prepared a net launcher and Lu Yuan fought the Tree’s influence.
• The turtle knocked Lu Yuan into another Flower Bud, where a purple-skinned humanoid creature began to awaken.
• Lu Yuan killed the humanoid creature with a thrown dagger, then used a rope and a corpse to trap the turtle and bind it tightly.
• The mysterious voice called someone the Holy Child and said her existence had allowed the Green Field Civilization to create a god.

Lu Yuan settled into Shali village as its people prospered under his protection, while the growing madness and disappearances signaled trouble in Sky City. After deciphering how to advance his Eternal Tinder by opening his meridians, he began a painful breakthrough toward Level Four with Old Cat’s help.

• Lu Yuan spent three months living among the Shali Clan and helping them draw water, earning the title Lu Great Warrior as the village improved.
• Old Cat observed that more Shali People were disappearing and going mad, possibly because something had changed at Sky City’s center, while Lu Yuan’s visions and the Ascension Ceremony’s call intensified.
• Seashell and the other companions deciphered that a Level Three cultivator could expand the Lower Qiankun’s capacity by opening meridians, a safer alternative to opening the Middle Qiankun.
• Old Cat volunteered to perform the acupuncture guidance needed for Lu Yuan’s breakthrough, and Lu Yuan entered the Vigorous and Soul Satiation States before beginning.
• Old Cat guided Lu Yuan through the procedure, and Lu Yuan forced the Eternal Tinder’s energy through the first blocked meridian as he endured the pain.

After Lu Yuan used the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree to repel Yao Drizzle from Yunhai City, Li Chunhong and the others met him in the Chinese Parasol Tree Dream Realm and learned how the defense worked. The city was safe for the moment, but the tree was exhausted, Yao Drizzle might return, and the people exposed to its rain could still mutate.

• A soldier reported that the monster had vanished from the area, and another reported that the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree had emitted intense light and wilted.
• Li Chunhong ordered the military to remain alert, capture mutated humans when possible, maintain the shelters, clear the snow, and contain the fallen flesh.
• Li Jun told Li Chunhong and the researchers that Lu Yuan had imprinted something on the tree in the dreamscape, causing its burst of light.
• Li Chunhong, Li Jun, Zhang Hui, and several experts entered the Chinese Parasol Tree Dream Realm and thanked Lu Yuan for saving Yunhai City.
• Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss explained that they had transmitted Light Curtain Spirit Speech through the dream tree, using its energy to repel Yao Drizzle.
• Lu Yuan warned that he could not destroy Yao Drizzle remotely and that the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree was too depleted to be used again soon.

Humanity spent decades developing Green Field City, deciphering dream abilities, and preparing the Blue Peng People to survive independently. After the monster relocated, Lu Yuan and humanity left its Different Dimension, emerging into a snowy world and new challenges.

• Humanity advanced its technology, completing a fusion reactor, a high-end chip factory, and a robot assembly line while remaining a Level Three Civilization.
• Ancient Insect encountered and enlightened thirty-six snake people civilizations, while humanity built a city and prepared supplies and machinery for the Blue Peng People.
• Kosi created an Epic Level Dream Spirit Crystal that accelerated the cultivation of Extraordinary Tinder.
• Lu Chengke published a paper linking dreams, brain waves, and consciousness, and humanity used the resulting advances to establish cooperation between the Blue Peng People's Spirit Network and the monster.
• Jin Bote became a Great Spirit Essence User, and the Different Dimension grew unstable after the monster relocated, giving humanity a chance to leave.
• Lu Yuan and humanity bid farewell to the Blue Peng People and their nonhuman allies, then Sky City was rejected from the Different Dimension into a world of boundless snow.

After completing an Excellent-grade longsword, Lu Yuan slept for three days while Old Cat negotiated to bring 31 ratfolk artisans to humanity. He woke to news that investigators had found a collapsed Different Dimension and evidence that the mountain around it had been built by giant humanoids.

• Lu Yuan forged an Excellent-grade longsword and offered it to Rat Great God at a discount on the condition that the ratfolk not resell it to other civilizations.
• Exhausted, Lu Yuan went to sleep, while Old Cat and Rat Gongye negotiated the artisans’ departure for a deposit and an agreement that their first inspired creations would belong to the Rat Rice Dam Civilization.
• Shu Huangfeng agreed to consider letting the 31 artisans leave and told the ratfolk to negotiate a deposit with humanity.
• Lu Yuan slept for three days, then resumed overseeing Human 18 Civilization’s affairs in Green Field Paradise.
• Sha Kaner and the investigation team reported that the sinkhole concealed a collapsed Different Dimension, and that the mountain was artificial and contained complex DNA traces and murals of giant humanoids building it through bloody rituals.

After the battle, Lu Yuan and the Upper Council planned how Human 18 Civilization could survive the encircling Ghost Mist, restore its damaged infrastructure, and save the wounded. As the Opium Poppy Tree recovered and Lu Tiantian took charge of researching cures, Lu Yuan visited Seashell, who remained on guard over Guai inside the Flying Saucer.

• Lu Yuan briefed the diminished Upper Council on the Ghost Mist, the damage to the Opium Poppy Tree, and the civilization’s heavy casualties.
• Lu Tiantian argued that the city should remain in place while the Ghost Mist weakened, and proposed filtering and sealing Guai’s power with a massive Exhaust Fan.
• Lu Tiantian proposed activating the Highest Level Green Field Paradise so workers could use Source Fire Puppets remotely, and Lu Yuan agreed to feed the alien soul to the Opium Poppy Tree to restore it.
• Lu Tiantian volunteered to research ways to save aberrated humans, while the soldiers salvaged supplies and weapons from South Island Civilization.
• The Opium Poppy Tree began recovering, and Lu Yuan visited Seashell at Guai’s room, where he complained about the anomalies gathered around Human 18 Civilization.

Lu Yuan showed the aliens the Ancient Worm Horn and the Greedy Demon God, revealing that his creation could amplify Extraordinary Abilities. The aliens warned that amplification alone might not overcome a ghost’s Absolute Ability, leaving Lu Yuan questioning whether the Greedy Demon God could defeat the Undying.

• Lu Yuan brought Jin Bote and the aliens to inspect an Immortal Level Ancient Worm Horn, which they valued at more than a thousand fortune.
• Lu Yuan revealed the Greedy Demon God, and the aliens explained that his anomaly followed the path of anomalies and might be perfected by creating all its organs.
• Lu Yuan said the Greedy Demon God could amplify existing Extraordinary Abilities, elevating human-level abilities to anomaly-level abilities.
• The armored warrior and Jin Bote judged that Strengthening Amplification alone could not defeat a ghost’s power of Undying.
• The old Serpentfolk Nether urged Lu Yuan to accept that his Greedy Demon God might not be strong enough to overcome Absolute Ability: Undying.

Lu Yuan received the mutants’ appraisal of his Qiankun World and a rare gift of Breathing Soil, while learning about the ancient Summit and Hou Tu Civilizations and the dangers surrounding the Moon. After returning to Green Field City, he studied a new forging method before Colonel Lu Ying reported that humanity had encountered another civilization.

• The mutants estimated Lu Yuan’s world’s ores and advised him on expanding it, protecting its young life, and keeping outsiders away until it matured.
• Lao Yao gave Lu Yuan Breathing Soil from the Hou Tu Civilization, which Lu Yuan divided between the Life Tree and the Yin World.
• The large Crystal Person warned Lu Yuan not to speak the Hou Tu Civilization’s name and urged him to obtain the Moon, explaining that the Summit Civilization had once transformed it into a planetary fortress.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat returned to Gui’s Different Dimension, and the mutants discussed the threat of the coming Era Disaster while Ancient Insect reported that the Underground Alliance was finally leaving its fissure.
• Back in Green Field City, Lu Yuan explored the Great Nature Forging Method as Old Cat prepared the city to move toward the coastline.
• Colonel Lu Ying told Lu Yuan that Human 18 Civilization had discovered a Sky City disguised as a cloud, twelve thousand kilometers away.

Lu Qingqing and the others faced the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree’s growing hostility, but an outside force invaded its dream before they could escape. Lu Yuan arrived with the Opium Poppy Tree, and the Chinese Parasol Tree surrendered, leaving the trapped group in its branches.

• Li Jun challenged the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree, which attacked him and forced him out of the dream; Lu Qingqing calmed it before it could harm anyone else.
• The researchers warned that the tree might become uncontrollable, and Li Jun returned to the dream in a weakened state.
• A powerful presence attacked from outside the dream, trapping the group as Mental Storms battered them.
• Lu Yuan entered the dream with the Opium Poppy Tree, and the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree surrendered to its overwhelming power.
• Li Ran led the group in a cautious retreat, but the Chinese Parasol Tree trapped them and lifted them onto its branches.

Lu Yuan watched Sha Sanli welcome the Mandala Empire’s emperor and prepared defenses against the unexpected visit. He remained wary of the empire’s strange behavior as its procession approached Sky City.

• Sha Sanli praised the Grand Commander’s respect for suggestions and agreed to welcome the Mandala Empire’s emperor to Sky City.
• The emperor sent carriages and elite Level 3 soldiers to collect Sha Sanli and his people, while Lu Yuan grew suspicious of the unusual visit.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat discussed Seashell’s fluctuating As One Wishes ability and agreed that her power would stabilize as she matured.
• Lu Yuan ordered his soldiers to carry firearms and prepare Fuel Bombs, then readied the Insectoid Warriors for a possible battle.
• The excited Queen Bugs offered to wipe out the visitors, but Lu Yuan ordered them not to attack without his command.

Lu Yuan led a growing band of insect traitors through the rifts, looting mushroom forests and collecting valuable resources. When the insects sensed the Mother Bug’s anger in the deeper layers, he ended the expedition and ordered the group to return, planning to raid another Mother Bug’s territory the next day.

• Lu Yuan Dominated the Bei Hei Sky Aphid and used it to guide him to mushroom forests, where he collected and consumed valuable fungi.
• At seventy thousand meters underground, Lu Yuan found an Excellent-grade Bewitching Red Mushroom and took it from a level-eight beetle, leaving the beetle some mushrooms as food.
• The beetle joined Lu Yuan’s group after he fed it, and Lu Yuan realized the insects could eat mushrooms harvested by others without breaking their taboo against eating their own crops.
• Lu Yuan’s insect followers multiplied as they led him to more mushroom forests, and his gains exceeded Two Hundred Spirit Rhythm in a day.
• The Bei Hei Sky Aphid and the other insects grew afraid of the Mother Bug’s anger in the deeper layers, so Lu Yuan halted the expedition and sent everyone back.

As the [Gods] ravaged Pangu Continent, Lu Yuan led the Northern Frontier’s elite forces toward the Iron Key Alliance to begin the lunar war. Before they departed, more than twenty thousand [Ghosts] returned to the continent, and 108 Wisdoms [Ghosts] paid respects to Lu Yuan as the Lord of the Ink Sect.

• Converts of the [God] attacked civilizations across Pangu Continent, devastating the Western and Central Continents while the Northern Frontier remained untouched.
• Lu Yuan said farewell to his family and friends, then led the 2,291-strong Northern Frontier Legion through a Space Tunnel to the Iron Key Alliance.
• Lu Yuan joined 32,000 elite warriors preparing to travel to the moon with an Era Fortress.
• Blood Rain fell as the [Ghosts] returned to Pangu Continent under the World Will’s guidance.
• The 108 Wisdoms [Ghosts] bowed to Lu Yuan and declared that they had come to fulfill their purpose.

Lu Yuan encountered the Shali Clan in the ruins and used Seashell to establish communication, offering them water and fruit. Elder Sha Sanjia and his people accepted the gifts cautiously, and Sha Sanjia wondered whether they had encountered an opportunity.

• Lu Yuan and his companions met the Shali Clan, whose members were wary of the powerful turtle and the purple-skinned traveler.
• Seashell translated between Lu Yuan and Elder Sha Sanjia, allowing them to introduce themselves and discuss the meeting.
• Lu Yuan offered the Shali Clan water and fruit as a peaceful gesture, while Sha Sanjia inspected the strange vehicle and its occupants.
• Shamo struggled to open the water bucket, then tasted an orange and broke down crying as he remembered his mother.
• Sha Sanjia recalled tasting fruit at an imperial banquet and wondered if the Shali Clan had encountered an opportunity.

Shu Huangfeng explained how Spirit Essence was valued, produced, and used, while Lu Yuan and Lu Tiantian questioned him about its sources and the Rat Rice Dam Civilization’s methods for collecting it. The humans left with crucial information to consider as they planned how their civilization would gather and spend Idealistic Energy.

• Shu Huangfeng described the prices of God's Skills and talents, then explained that 18 Spirit points of soul value equaled one Spirit Essence and that 30 Spirit points equaled one Great Spirit Essence.
• Lu Tiantian asked whether Spirit Essence could only be obtained by killing people, and Shu Huangfeng said civilizations could also gain it through peaceful methods for a fee.
• Shu Huangfeng explained how Dream Realm Energy and Fire Seed Energy could be converted into Spirit Essence, and offered a Nightmare eyeball that collected Dream Realm Energy.
• Lu Yuan inspected an Empty Spirit Crystal that could store Idealistic Energy but declined to buy it, while Shu Huangfeng described using stored crystals to collect fortune.
• Shu Huangfeng listed other sources of Spirit Essence, including extraordinary materials and equipment crafting, and explained that it supported cultivation, forging, and civilization-scale projects.
• The human scientists fell silent, considering how their civilization would gather and use Spirit Essence.

Lu Yuan fought Demon: Painted Skin with the Life Tree, while Seashell offered to sacrifice her Spirit Attribute to empower him. With Old Cat and the Guo Brothers helping by using Smoke Bombs to weaken Spirit Speech, Lu Yuan gained the upper hand, but his growing strength and frenzy left Old Cat wondering whether he had drained Seashell.

• Lu Yuan admitted his feelings to Seashell, who offered to surrender her 34 points of Spirit Attribute and As One Wishes if it would help him kill Painted Skin.
• Painted Skin recovered from its wounds and pinned the Guo Brothers with Spirit Speech, but Old Cat used a Smoke Bomb to free them.
• Lu Yuan sent the Life Tree back into battle, binding Painted Skin and biting into its head while the Guo Brothers fled with Old Cat.
• The Guo Brothers recovered and threw Smoke Bombs at Painted Skin, weakening its Spirit Speech and letting the Life Tree fight it at close range.
• Lu Yuan grew the Life Tree to 120 meters and repeatedly smashed Painted Skin into the ground, gaining the advantage as he devoured its life force.
• Old Cat watched Lu Yuan grow larger and more violent, then feared that he had eaten Seashell.

Lu Yuan used the energy from the Opium Poppy Tree to accelerate the Life Tree’s growth while Seashell helped him absorb it safely. Meanwhile, the Shali Clan struggled with the aftermath of the disaster, and Old Cat and a small group rode out to find Lu Yuan.

• Lu Yuan discovered the Opium Poppy Tree’s tainted spirit energy could nourish the Life Tree, and Seashell guided it onto his vines so the tree would not attack.
• Lu Yuan began absorbing the energy, which was estimated at more than fifty thousand units of Life Essence, and teased Seashell while pretending to study mathematics.
• The Life Tree grew about a meter each day as the Opium Poppy Tree’s energy fueled it.
• Survivors from other Shali Clan villages descended into violence, and a crowd of refugees threatened Xia Sha Village for its food and water.
• Sha Sanli ordered the village to hand over supplies while secretly noting which outsiders showed conscience, following Old Cat’s instructions.
• Old Cat and four young Shali Clan men, led by Sha Li, raced across the desert on a tricycle to seek Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan returned to the Shali Clan's village after clearing Sky City and found its people starving and divided. He offered them food and a chance to leave with him, and the chapter ended with many villagers eager to follow as the elders feared losing their authority.

• Lu Yuan found the Chicken Snake in the desert, rescued its eggs, and brought the starving creature with him to the Shali Clan's village.
• Lu Yuan returned to find Old Wolf and the villagers weakened after three months of fighting between the insect swarm and the Opium Poppy Tree, with food shortages and disorder gripping the village.
• Lu Yuan announced that Sky City's monster and the insects were gone, then offered villagers a choice between staying or joining his journey toward Human Civilization.
• Old Cat revealed that some villagers had hoarded food, and Sha Sanli and other elders reluctantly began cooking rice while helping enforce Ancestral Law against captured criminals.
• Lu Yuan and the villagers shared rice and chicken soup, and many villagers decided they wanted to leave with him, unsettling Sha Sanli and the other elders.