Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan returned to the Seventh Branch to collect a tricycle and say goodbye before setting out toward Sky City. He left the Lize Civilization as a rear base, carrying Taduo’s telepathic eyeball and gifts while the inscriptions’ decipherment remained an open question.

• Old Cat chose a dry mountain cave for the space teleporter, and Lu Yuan powered it with a Fire Red Spirit Crystal and secured the cave as a fallback point.
• Lu Yuan returned to the Seventh Branch, where Governor Lyon gave him a sturdy tricycle, spare parts, and desert tires.
• Lu Yuan visited the recovering Taduo, who had awakened with improved powers but remained mentally muddled by his mutated eyes.
• Lu Yuan donated two Soul Infant Fruits to help the unconscious comrades and received a Biological Eyeball that let Taduo communicate telepathically with him.
• Lu Yuan said goodbye to the Lize people and explained that the teleportation device would let him return to the Seventh Branch as a rear base.
• The Lize people asked Lu Yuan whether the knowledge of the inscriptions had been initially deciphered.

A hundred days after the Third World War ended, Lu Yuan finally received the Mother Civilization’s distress signal and learned that humanity had survived the war and formed the Human Alliance. Through the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree, he reviewed the battle and began restoring it, while the Alliance faced the long recovery ahead.

• Yunhai City’s forces stopped the fighting in Lingbo City, and the surviving cities agreed to guard the sealed Domination ability together.
• A week later, humanity counted nearly a hundred million dead, eleven destroyed cities, and began organizing an alliance centered on Yunhai City.
• After a hundred days of missed calls, Lu Yuan contacted the Mother Civilization and discovered that the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree had secretly sent the distress signal.
• The Twin Chinese Parasol Tree showed Lu Yuan its record of the battle against Yao Drizzle, and Lu Yuan began creating a Spirit Plant Field to help restore it.
• Lu Yuan watched the Human Alliance’s founding announcement, which established a six-city alliance and set plans to build three connected Sky Cities.

Lu Yuan awoke after three months and returned to Green Field City, having survived the creation of Qiankun, a pair of small worlds that imprisoned Gui and improved his strength. After revealing the new demonic divine organ to Old Cat, he agreed to report it to the old aliens at the Immortal Palace.

• Lu Yuan awoke on the sea, realized his attributes and strength had increased, and moved the seabirds nesting on him to a protected mound before leaving with the Sky Fortress.
• Lu Yuan returned to Green Field Mountain, defeated Little Mirage Dragon in a spar, and discovered that the Life Tree had changed after taking root in Qiankun.
• Lu Yuan told Old Cat that Qiankun could imprison Gui and that its rotating worlds improved his energy use, but admitted creating it had nearly killed him and cost 373,000 Spirit Rhyme worth of ore.
• Old Cat reacted angrily to the expense, then asked whether Lu Yuan would tell the old aliens about the new demonic divine organ.
• Lu Yuan decided to reveal Qiankun and agreed to go with Old Cat to the Immortal Palace.

Lu Yuan pressed the elders for help sealing the Aberration Guai, and they supplied rare Weaver's Mucus that could preserve materials and improve Steel blood’s sealing effect. He learned that Steel’s superior ability carried serious risks, then asked whether the Great Spirit Essence Users could influence creatures enough to send his city outside.

• Lu Yuan showed the elders the Aberration Guai battering its enclosure and asked for a low-cost way to preserve Steel Ability User blood.
• The elders questioned Lu Yuan about his myth’s Luck, then explained that sealing a guai generally required a Level Five civilization with spatial technology.
• The large Crystal Person identified Weaver's Mucus in Lu Yuan’s Seal Resin and explained that it could preserve objects and conceal Steel blood’s properties.
• Old Armor reluctantly gave Lu Yuan a bottle of Weaver's Mucus, and Lu Yuan accepted it after confirming its rarity and value.
• The old snake person warned Lu Yuan that Steel’s superior ability was dangerous and advised him not to use it casually.
• Lu Yuan asked the elders whether Great Spirit Essence Users could influence creatures and send his city outside.

After Green Field City emerged from the Little Grotto-heaven into a frozen world, Lu Yuan organized the city's landing and began planning its recovery while the people celebrated their return outside. As humanity settled into a cautious new routine, Lu Yuan's long-awaited Artisan Talent inspiration erupted while he watched the children play.

• Lu Yuan guided Green Field City to an emergency landing in the blizzard, and the government approved a holiday for the citizens.
• Lu Yuan asked the aliens whether the nearby Different Dimension could provide an escape route, and they said it might allow a random transfer after several centuries.
• Lu Yuan and the government planned supplies and production, deciding to wait two years before waking the remaining population.
• The Insectoid Army awakened, while Lu Yuan rode Leviathan and watched the Undying Giant Turtle play with the children in the snow.
• Lu Yuan felt his Artisan Talent inspiration erupt as he watched the cheerful scene.

Lu Yuan’s team recovered a recording of a girl crying “Mom” as an Era Disaster destroyed a more advanced civilization, leaving them shaken. They then discussed how the Mirage Dragon might have survived the disaster and decided to investigate it while caring for it.

• Lu Li explained that the ancient civilization combined idealistic and materialistic technology and had roughly three times humanity’s per-capita productivity.
• Sea Snail Miss used Information Retrospection on an old phone, revealing a girl’s final attempt to call her mother as an Era Disaster struck.
• The translators identified the girl’s last word as “Mom” and the terrifying sound as likely the end of her civilization; Lu Yuan comforted Sea Snail Miss.
• Lu Yuan’s group wondered how the Mirage Dragon had survived an Era Disaster, and the Ratfolk Artisan said powerful civilizations needed extensive defenses and countermeasures.
• Lu Yuan ordered the team to keep researching the dragon, build rapport with it, and feed it fish mixed with Fungus Blanket Insect secretions.

After humanity celebrated its victory, Lu Yuan agreed to help officers develop fields and discussed gathering extraordinary sea life for Coral Island’s cultivation base. He urged the experts to focus on rebuilding and biotechnology, leaving humanity poised to begin a new era of biological development.

• Jin Dongliang listened to the soldiers’ final recordings at the memorial, then heard survivors laughing together about having defeated Gui.
• At the victory banquet, Lu Yuan promised to customize fields for officers who submitted their abilities, body data, and preferences.
• Professor Shamo persuaded Lu Yuan to consider using his War Puppet to collect deep-sea organisms and ores for Coral Island’s cultivation base.
• Scientists and officials debated whether biotechnology, fusion, or semiconductor technology should guide humanity’s development as its fortune rose.
• Lu Yuan urged humanity to restore its strength, evaluate candidates for more than four hundred God's Skills, resume weapons production, and expand the population through biotechnology.

Lu Yuan traded with Governor Moxi for a Soul Infant Fruit, a fresh branch, and Awakening blood, then inspected the Lize Civilization’s Prehistoric Civilization spaceship wreckage. After finding no surviving technology inside, he followed Moxi to investigate a possible hidden space.

• Lu Yuan learned that the Soul Infant Fruit could heal and strengthen souls and raise the Spirit Attribute limit, and he examined the fruit tree that grew poorly for lack of nourishment from souls.
• Lu Yuan and Governor Moxi agreed to exchange one Soul Infant Fruit, a fresh branch, and Awakening blood for Lu Yuan’s goods and 20 opportunities to receive Extraordinary Tinder; the Lize people also gave Old Cat weapons.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat visited the enormous spaceship wreckage, where Moxi explained that its equipment had been removed and its runes had lost their effects.
• Old Cat questioned whether the wreckage could have carried enough people to escape the ancient catastrophe, and Moxi suggested it might contain a hidden space.
• Moxi led Lu Yuan toward the spot where the Lize scientists believed the hidden space might be, hoping his Space Blink ability could reach it.

Lu Yuan defeated the Crocodile Warrior by burning the anomaly-linked tentacle with Eternal Tinder, winning humanity 100 Spiritual Resonance. After debating the risks of dealing with the South Island Civilization, humanity chose to trade cautiously, and both sides exchanged lists of goods that surprised the humans.

• The Crocodile Warrior used shadows and a life-draining Octopus Tentacle to trap Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan poured Eternal Tinder into the tentacle and beat him down.
• The fishfolk leaders accepted defeat and paid humanity 100 Spiritual Resonance in spiritual crystals.
• Lu Yuan and the experts debated whether to deal with the South Island Civilization, then agreed to trade while concealing humanity's information and gathering intelligence.
• Humanity selected surplus volcanic and coffin materials and low-grade equipment to offer, hoping to obtain useful materials in return.
• The South Island Civilization delivered the spiritual crystals, and both civilizations exchanged goods lists whose contents astonished the humans.

The outsiders urged the Turtle People to invest in Lu Yuan, citing his wealth, potential, and possession of Profound Yellow Qi, and Number 12 arranged to test him by sending him after the Hero Remains. After learning the mission’s cognitive dangers, Lu Yuan agreed to go into the Boundless Realm, leaving the others moved by his resolve.

• The outsiders debated the Ninth Era’s prospects and argued that Lu Yuan deserved greater support because Pangu Continent had invested heavily in him and he possessed Profound Yellow Qi.
• Number 12 decided to test Lu Yuan’s strength and character by sending him to the center of the Boundless Realm to retrieve the Hero Remains.
• Lu Yuan woke, visited Little Bixi’s shell, and gave the Turtle Person craftsmen books on Field Industrialization, seeds, and permission to use the small world for their vegetable garden.
• Number 12 told Lu Yuan that the Hero Remains were near the Era Disaster and warned that learning forbidden truths could drive him insane or expose him to greater danger.
• Lu Yuan considered the risks and agreed to undertake the mission, saying he could not back down at the final step.

Lu Yuan prepared a meal of honey-glazed pork and ate a mysterious crystal-shelled fruit whose potent vitality pushed his Extraordinary Tinder toward a breakthrough. The chapter ended with life force building inside him as he ate only a fifth of the fruit.

• Lu Yuan roasted honey-glazed pork, shared several pieces with Old Wolf, and grew stronger as his Extraordinary Tinder showed signs of a breakthrough.
• Researchers in Yunhai City watched Lu Yuan’s meal and discussed the extraordinary mist, while Professor Zhang Hui argued that humanity could not yet revoke the Safe Zone.
• Lu Yuan took out a hard-shelled Mysterious Fruit and saw Old Wolf nearly break its teeth trying to bite it.
• Lu Yuan cut open the fruit and found ruby-like pomegranate seeds inside, then ate one and felt its rich vitality.
• Old Wolf ate two seeds and could barely move, while Lu Yuan became full after eating a fifth of the fruit and felt life force gather inside him.

Lu Yuan celebrated the Spirit Plant Field’s success and reunited with Seashell Girl before the Dwarf Clan’s delegation arrived to begin a wagered contest with Human 18 Civilization. The chapter ended as the dwarves proposed a cold-weapon battle for the first round.

• Lu Yuan reviewed the Spirit Plant Field tests, encouraged the craftsmen’s research, and sent them home to rest.
• Lu Yuan returned home, read reports on humanity’s awakening and the Dwarf Clan’s visit, then played with children climbing on Little Mirage Dragon.
• Lu Yuan shared a candlelit dinner with Seashell Girl, and the two went to the bedroom while Old Wolf had household robots wash the dishes.
• Storm Lie Jiu led the Dwarf Clan’s delegation to the Trading Market, where Lu Yuan welcomed them on behalf of Human 18 Civilization.
• Storm Lie Jiu described the Dwarf Clan’s artisans and called for cooperation, but a red-bearded elder interrupted and proposed a cold-weapon battle as the wager’s first round.

Lu Yuan showed six alien elders the hidden Immortal Palace, where they discovered a truth-enforcing device and identified it as a damaged remnant of the ancient Heavenly Court Myth. They learned that the myth once promised unity and protection across civilizations, but the chapter left its deeper history unknown.

• The aliens urged Lu Yuan to reconsider the name and nature of his Strengthening Amplification ability, but he refused to weaken his power.
• Jin Bote declined to enter the little dark room, explaining that he sensed Gui might misinterpret his entry as an escape, and he discussed his growing connection to Gui with Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan led the six aliens into the Immortal Palace, where they found a huge round table and a device that punished anyone who lied.
• The old snake man and the bat person tested the device and then traded insults, while the others learned that it judged truth through each person's subconscious and memories.
• The Crystal People recognized the palace as the Heavenly Court Myth, and the Artisan Master explained that its cracked, unrepaired state left it at Immortal Level rather than myth level.
• A Crystal Person recounted that the Heavenly Court Myth once aimed to unite civilizations and protect the world, but the alliance collapsed and its fall coincided with the end of its era.

Lu Yuan finished tanning Fire Lizard leather, but his crude handmade process downgraded every piece to Inferior Grade. He used the leather and materials from Hell Demon Spiders and the Man-Eating Flower to sew a sleeping bag, which remained an ordinary item with no activated supernatural effect.

• Lu Yuan completed the two-day tanning process and found that every piece of Fire Lizard leather had been downgraded to Inferior Grade.
• Lu Yuan accepted the poor results and prepared Hell Demon Spider legs as needles and Man-Eating Flower vine bark as thread.
• Lu Yuan sewed a large sleeping bag from the softest Fire Lizard belly skin while Old Wolf and the wolf pups played on it.
• Lu Yuan inspected the finished sleeping bag and learned that it was warm and comfortable but had no activated supernatural effect and was too crudely made to count as an artificial extraordinary item.

Lu Yuan and his companions explored the deserted city center, where thousands of mysterious Flower Buds covered the streets, buildings, and reservoir. Their synchronized pulses triggered a powerful mental attack that urged Lu Yuan to join an Ascension Ceremony, and he decided to break open an isolated bud to investigate.

• Lu Yuan used the Life Tree to grow corn and scattered kernels for the birds near their base.
• Lu Yuan, Old Cat, Old Turtle, and Sea Snail Miss traveled by tricycle toward the city center and examined the Green Field Civilization's ruined buildings.
• Lu Yuan discovered countless Flower Buds carpeting the central district and found that their synchronized beats resonated with his heartbeat.
• Lu Yuan circled the Flower Buds but reached a reservoir containing more of them, where a seductive voice urged him to join the Ascension Ceremony.
• Lu Yuan resisted the mental attack and proposed smashing open an isolated Flower Bud to study it.

Humanity’s biological sciences advanced as Lu Ying and Lu Ling celebrated his return and Lu Tiantian stepped back from public work. Reviewing proposed S-rank benefits, Lu Tiantian urged Old Cat to keep the Life Fruit and Green Field Paradise secret until humanity was mature enough to withstand them.

• Humanity invested heavily in biology, developing lifespan drugs and insectoid enhancements while experts warned that insectoid changes were limited and irreversible.
• Lu Ying and Lu Ling strolled together as Lu Ying boasted about his heroism and Lu Ling was grateful that he had survived.
• Lu Tiantian announced that his injuries and declining health would lead him to resign from some positions and train doctoral students.
• Lu Tiantian reviewed proposed S-rank benefits and discovered that they included access to the Life Fruit and residence in Green Field Paradise.
• Lu Tiantian told Old Cat that both options could destabilize society and should remain secret until humanity became a much stronger civilization.

Lu Yuan found valuable materials in the abandoned territories of the migrating scorpions and King Snake, then read Meida Civilization reports about idealistic monsters and the dangers beyond the Safe Zone. He remained unsure whether to flee or fight the Donkey-Head Monster, and ended the chapter reflecting on his fear of death.

• Lu Yuan found Black Iron Ore in the scorpions' abandoned nest and learned that the scorpions and King Snake had fled, likely because of the Donkey-Head Monster.
• Lu Yuan collected the King Snake's shed skin and a venomous fang, then saw that Mother Bear had stayed while the bees were agitated and attacking.
• Lu Yuan read an investigation report by Guang Cha Gou describing idealistic lifeforms that hunted civilizations and could be weakened or killed through physical destruction.
• Lu Yuan studied reports of civilizations fighting one another and concluded that the outside world was dangerous, though he thought the Donkey-Head Monster might still be vulnerable.
• Lu Yuan weighed escaping against fighting the Donkey-Head Monster and told Old Wolf that he was beginning to fear death.

Lu Yuan and the Aka Steel Civilization followed rumors of valuable inheritance to the Advanced Civilization Ruins, an enormous ancient industrial complex with a broken space elevator. Green Field City settled nearby, but Lu Yuan and Old Cat sensed ghosts sealed in the tower and grew increasingly uneasy.

• Solomon told Lu Yuan that civilizations had gained technology and supplies from the ruins, and that rumors claimed they were seeking a qualified inheritor.
• Lu Yuan and Solomon's teams traded goods and knowledge, then agreed to travel together to the Advanced Civilization Ruins.
• After more than six months, the cities reached the ruins and found a vast industrial basin centered on a shattered pillar that reached the Gale Layer.
• A guide drone explained the ruins' Value Points system, offered free water and geothermal energy, and limited cities' stays to thirty years while banning thermal weapons and damage to structures.
• Green Field City and the Aka Steel Civilization's city stopped in the ruins' eastern open area, and Lu Yuan and Old Cat sensed ghosts sealed atop the tower.

Lu Yuan returned from the Underground Alliance with the Immortal Palace and a Little Grotto-heaven after curing Ancient Insect, while learning the Immortal Palace’s costly functions and considering how to strengthen the insectoids. At Green Field City, he reported the cure and the grotto-heaven trade to Human Civilization’s leaders, who reacted with astonishment and excitement.

• Lu Yuan learned that the Immortal Palace could slow time, phase, and establish temples, then agreed to pay Ancient Insect for help breeding insectoids while avoiding the Mother Bugs.
• Lu Yuan and the delegation returned to Sky City with three hundred spiritual essence earned and a Little Grotto-heaven, while Lu Yuan realized he still owed Human Civilization three hundred spiritual essence.
• Seashell welcomed Lu Yuan at the airport, and he handed over a Legendary Level axe for appraisal before returning to Green Field City.
• Lu Yuan convened a high-level meeting, reported the cure for Wither Gui, and classified the remaining insect flesh as an S-grade high-risk item.
• Lu Yuan announced that the Underground Alliance had traded a Little Grotto-heaven to Human Civilization in exchange for knowledge, astonishing the leaders and Old Cat.

The Upper Council debated whether to explore a colossal mountain and abyss that might have been created by an unknown civilization, then approved a cautious scouting expedition. Lu Yuan prepared to lead the mission himself, leaving the story with the selected Insectoids boarding Sky Fortress.

• Lu Yuan presented the scouting report on the enormous mountain and fissure, and the Upper Council discussed the risks of approaching them and the unknown civilization nearby.
• Jin Dongliang and most Council Members supported exploring the abyss for possible civilization ruins, while Lu Yuan warned that such ruins could bring disaster.
• The Upper Council ordered Sky City's camouflage system activated and approved an elite force of about a thousand scouts and one hundred Source Fire Mechas, with Lu Yuan joining the expedition.
• Lu Yuan summoned the Insectoid Warriors, rejected the largest creatures for scouting, and chose more than a hundred small, mobile Insectoids to board Sky Fortress.