Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan found the god suppressing the Ox Ghost and trying to take the Rubik’s Cube from the Nine-Headed Giant Snake’s skull, then attacked it with Gale Wind. The god re-formed after his devastating blow and began weakening Lu Yuan with despair and an offer to become a Child of God.

• Lu Yuan discovered the dismembered Ox Ghost, followed its head to the plaza, and saw white fur suppressing its remains.
• Lu Yuan reached the National Treasury ruins and found a white figure attacking the Nine-Headed Giant Snake’s skull to seize the Rubik’s Cube.
• The god’s presence and temptation nearly made Lu Yuan kneel, but he resisted and struck the figure with Gale Wind.
• Lu Yuan’s punch destroyed the white figure and devastated half the city, while Therandis, the Shadow Demon, and the Mist Demon were caught in the aftermath.
• The white figure re-formed, told Lu Yuan he could not kill it, and weakened his next Gale Wind strike with despair and an offer to submit.

The Buzhou Ruins-Northern Frontier Trading Market opened, creating new opportunities for civilizations and strengthening Human Civilization’s influence. Old Cat outlined humanity’s long-term plans after the war, including economic development, research into Space Tunnels, and population growth.

• The first trade between the Buzhou Ruins and Northern Frontier began, and first-day transactions exceeded 300,000 Spiritual Essence.
• The Snow Sheep Clan sold its hides and ropes quickly while the Yak Clan’s raw materials struggled to attract buyers, revealing how unique products brought greater profits.
• Humanity expanded its academic, artisan, and diplomatic exchanges as Old Cat took on greater responsibilities while Lu Yuan remained unconscious.
• Old Cat held a press conference, honored the war dead, and warned that humanity needed to keep developing to survive the coming Era Disaster.
• Old Cat announced plans to lease a small world, fund Space Tunnel research using both Void bloodline and physical methods, and expand the population by 50 to 70 percent.

Scientists from different civilizations compared how their cities were coping with worldwide chaos and discussed possible civilization milestones. Li Chunhong concluded that education was essential to civilization’s inheritance and urgently ordered Yunhai City’s schools to reopen.

• Professors described how conglomerates, an emperor, religious leaders, or chaos had shaped order in their cities, while Zhang Hui said Yunhai City was also facing unrest.
• The scientists discussed possible milestones, including stabilizing a city, developing supernatural theories, and cultivating experts.
• Li Chunhong asked why Yunhai City had not earned the stability milestone, and the scientists debated what stability required.
• A doctoral student argued that civilization depended on inheritance, leading Li Chunhong to identify education as essential to producing a next generation.
• Li Chunhong called officials and ordered teachers brought back so children could return to school as soon as possible.

Lu Yuan arranged for Blue Roc Civilization’s survivors to join humanity as citizens, while humanity took in their people and technological legacy. Months later, as rescue and recovery progressed, Lu Yuan’s council considered waking more hibernating people to provide the labor needed to use the new machines and support the rapidly growing Little Mirage Dragon.

• Lu Yuan offered the Blue Peng survivors equal citizen treatment, personal wealth, and support for their own research institutes and companies, and Duke Magmette encouraged them to preserve their materialist technology and learn idealist technology.
• Lu Yuan sent the Insectoid Army to slowly dig for the Ancient Insect’s horn in the deep pit where the Greedy Demon God and Guai of the Spirit Shrine Eye had fought.
• Over four months, humanity rescued eight million Blue Peng People and acquired Blue Roc Civilization’s machines, electric cars, and Controllable Nuclear Fusion Unit, which experts began adapting for use with the Omnipotent Factory.
• In the sixth month, humanity honored the Blue Roc Civilization and its Royal Guard at Sky City’s History Museum, and the Blue Peng survivors visited the memorial.
• In the ninth month, Lu Yuan proposed awakening more hibernating people because humanity lacked workers to use Blue Roc Civilization’s machinery, while Little Mirage Dragon’s Spiritual Charm consumption had risen to one every two days.

Lu Yuan and humanity prepared contingencies as a terrifying ghost emerged from the Snake People Palace. The Blue Roc Civilization arrived seeking refuge, while the ghost killed a demon and dragged it into a strange spring, leaving Lu Yuan to wonder what awaited them.

• Lu Yuan proposed using the Greedy Demon God's Different Dimension as a backup shelter, with Rainwater and Hibernation Pods as another contingency if spatial protection failed.
• Reconnaissance reported that the ghost had emerged from the Snake People Palace, and Lu Yuan felt overwhelmed by its power.
• The Blue Roc Civilization's experts arrived, and Lu Yuan arranged Hibernation Pods for most of them while greeting their leader, Duke Megmitt.
• The ghost seized a sleeping snake person and dragged it to a strange spring, where the captive fused into the pool.
• Lu Yuan realized the captive had likely been a demon whose attempt to take the ghost's body had failed, then turned his attention back to humanity's survival.

Lu Yuan questioned the Ancient Aliens about their former civilizations while Old Cat investigated the Spring of Eternal Life. As Lu Yuan prepared to leave, the Old Geezers learned that he had killed the Demon of the Ruined Control and began reassessing humanity’s potential.

• The Ancient Aliens boasted that they had belonged to Level Four and Level Five Civilizations, then demanded favors in exchange for information about civilization levels and history.
• Old Cat reported that the spring produced about a hundred tons of water daily, but it came from an unknown Different Dimension and lost its immortalizing effect within a day of leaving the pool.
• Lu Yuan decided to leave before the ghost emerged, and the Old Geezers panicked and tried to persuade him to stay.
• When the large Crystal Person mentioned a missing demon, Lu Yuan revealed that his group had killed and sealed the Demon of the Ruined Control.
• The Ancient Aliens confirmed the demon’s death and wondered how a Level Three Civilization had defeated it, prompting them to reassess humanity’s potential.

Lu Yuan recovered after being knocked unconscious by the Soul Infant Fruit and learned that the Lize people were planning how to handle the anomalies sealed in their spaceship. The civilization planned to revoke its Safe Zones and build mobile cities, while Lu Yuan accepted a teleportation device and promised to return when he could help.

• Lu Yuan woke after nearly five hours unconscious, and the Undying Giant Turtle thanked him for bringing it back to safety.
• Old Cat explained that the Lize people had discussed ways to deal with the ghost and demon, including waiting for other branches to act or relying on Lu Yuan to throw an anomaly outside the Safe Zone.
• Governor Moxi gave Lu Yuan a silver teleportation ring and asked him to return when possible to check whether the ghost had escaped.
• The Lize experts reported that four spaceship wreckages contained hidden spaces likely sealing parts of the ghost, and identified the First Branch's head and the Seventh Branch's arm as especially dangerous.
• The Lize civilization planned to revoke Safe Zones within three to ten years and build Sky Cities, giving Lu Yuan roughly five hundred to one thousand years to grow.

Civilizations flocked to the Ancient Insect’s temple to trade for supplies and the new Field Industrialization legacy, while Lu Yuan promoted the promise of future commerce between temples. The Three Moons Civilization arrived to buy thousands of God's Skills, and Lu Yuan and the Ancient Insect watched in astonishment as it began spending enormous sums.

• The Ancient Insect gave visiting civilization leaders the Field Industrialization legacy and told them to bring Civilization Points for future trades.
• Civilizations discovered that the temple sold God's Skills and Artisan Legacies, and they spread word that Field Industrialization could greatly increase extraordinary resource production.
• Lu Yuan claimed that another Mythical of Greed operated a second palace and suggested that the temples might eventually connect through a Trading Tunnel, prompting civilizations to prepare for expanded trade.
• The Three Moons Civilization arrived with a huge fleet and asked to reserve the temple so it could purchase thousands of God's Skills.
• Lu Yuan let the Three Moons Civilization arrange for the other visitors to leave temporarily, and its representatives invited them to an Artisan Convention.
• The Three Moons Civilization bought God's Skills in vast quantities, leaving Lu Yuan and the Ancient Insect stunned by the flood of Civilization Points.

Lu Yuan returned to the Lize people with medical supplies, then prepared to explore the hidden space inside their stone spaceship. He blinked into the black vortex formed by the room’s engraved patterns, leaving his destination unknown.

• Lu Yuan chose to deliver medical supplies before risking entry into the room’s hidden space.
• On the river, Lu Yuan found Old Wolf with his remaining six Mother Wolves, revived him with fruit and horn powder, and left him behind as he fled from the wolves.
• After completing the delivery, Lu Yuan returned to the First Branch of the Lize Civilization and agreed to split any treasure or technological materials with them.
• Lu Yuan wore a Cat’s Eye Stone so the Lize people could observe his exploration, then used Leoric’s Mask and the Farsight Cornea to perceive the room’s black vortex.
• Lu Yuan found the vortex’s rotational pattern, imagined the hidden space, and blinked away.

Lu Yuan encountered a talkative creature trapped inside a giant caterpillar and cautiously considered whether it might guide him to Sky City. After an insect tide injured the Undying Giant Turtle, Lu Yuan returned to question the creature and began preparing to test it with a cannon.

• Lu Yuan and Old Cat heard a voice pleading for rescue, but they suspected a demon and initially rode away from the Big Caterpillar.
• The voice revealed it had learned their language by listening and claimed it could help find Sky City, prompting Lu Yuan to ask where it was trapped.
• Lu Yuan ignored the creature’s pleas to be rescued immediately, and the Undying Giant Turtle traded insults with it until the noise roused an insect tide.
• A sandworm attacked the Undying Giant Turtle, which turned to stone, while Lu Yuan and Old Cat hid in the Different Dimension.
• After the insect tide passed, Lu Yuan returned to question the creature about Sky City and aimed a Little High Cannon at it as a test.
• Old Cat criticized Lu Yuan for setting up and using the cannon improperly before he fired.

Lu Yuan learned how the Shali Clan inherited Martial Skills through purified ancestral souls and how mastering too many skills led to becoming an Innate Great Grandmaster. Sha Kaner then gave him an ancient booklet containing methods for advancing Extraordinary Tinder, including a breakthrough from Level Three to Level Four, and Lu Yuan promised the Shali Clan a favor in exchange for borrowing it.

• Sha Kaner explained that spirits enabled people to learn Martial Skills, and purified souls of ancestors could be reused to pass skills down.
• Sha Kaner described the limits of learning Martial Skills and said that some could be simulated through the Basic Body Refining Technique.
• Seashell watched the Militia Captain demonstrate the Harden Form Skill and offered to draw Lu Yuan a diagram of its qi flow.
• Sha Kaner told Lu Yuan about the Mavira Great Empire and presented an ancient booklet he had won at a beast-fighting arena.
• Lu Yuan recognized the booklet's methods for developing Extraordinary Tinder and breaking through from Level Three to Level Four.
• Lu Yuan asked to borrow the booklet and promised Sha Kaner and the Shali Clan a favor.

Lu Yuan’s expedition subdued and relocated the level-nine Man-Eating Flower from the Meida ruins, bringing its valuable fruit back to Sky City. The tree was assigned a new site near the sinkhole mountain, while Sha Kaner announced the expedition’s harvest to reporters.

• Lu Yuan used Domination to make the Man-Eating Flower docile, then secretly ordered it to keep pretending to resist while the Insectoid Warriors dug out its roots.
• After more than four months, the expedition unearthed the Man-Eating Flower, and Lu Yuan grafted ten branches onto the Life Tree to grow saplings before bidding farewell to the Meida Civilization.
• Sky Fortress hauled the damaged Man-Eating Flower back to Sky City, where the people welcomed the expedition and Lu Yuan promised the exhausted fortress a reward.
• The team counted more than five hundred Rare-grade fruits and over eight hundred smaller fruits, and Lu Yuan ordered Sha Kaner to plant the tree near the sinkhole mountain.
• Sha Kaner told reporters that the expedition’s plants and animals were worth nearly two thousand Spiritual Charm, including the Man-Eating Flower’s 1,300-Spiritual-Charm value.

Lu Yuan reunited with his family through the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree, then discussed the Human Mother Civilization’s progress and his plans with Old Cat. At the Immortal Palace, Lu Yuan and Old Cat reviewed their wealth, technology, and talent; Green Field City’s rapid development left even the old aliens with little to advise.

• Li Chunhong told Lu Yuan that the Human Alliance’s cities held about 6,500 Civilization Points, and Lu Yuan urged the leaders to safeguard them and develop their own technologies.
• Lu Yuan reunited with his parents and Lu Qingqing in the dream, shared an emotional farewell, and promised to visit again with Seashell.
• Lu Yuan told Old Cat that the Human Mother Civilization had left the Safe Zone, and Old Cat agreed to help prepare Level Three Civilization materials for it.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat inventoried their assets at the Immortal Palace, revealing that Lu Yuan held 82,000 Civilization Points and 549,000 Spiritual Essence while humanity held 10,082.8 Civilization Points and 102,000 Spiritual Rhyme.
• Old Cat reported Green Field City’s growth in technology and Spirit Attribute talent, including four independently developed Level Four Technologies, and Prince Jin Bote marveled at its rapid progress.

The Yan Snake Civilization and the Red Bull Alliance pursued their own plans around the ruins as Ox Ghost reacted to an unknown nearby threat. After an earthquake exposed a high-grade extraordinary item between the human and Minotaur excavation zones, the Minotaurs rushed to claim it.

• The Yan Snake Civilization discovered records of the Beautiful Civilization and believed its ruins might contain Mythical Equipment, but chose not to accelerate excavation and alert the Red Bull Alliance.
• The Red Bull Alliance dismissed the Human Alliance as weak while the Azure Ox Chairman warned that Ox Ghost had sensed a powerful nearby enemy and asked the Minotaurs to contribute bloodline power.
• The Minotaurs discussed the risks of driving out the humans and cooperating with the Yan Snake Civilization, deciding that the humans helped share the pressure.
• An earthquake struck the area between the Human Alliance's excavation zone and the Red Bull Alliance's zone, causing little damage to the Minotaur city.
• The Red Bull Alliance received word that five-colored auspicious light and a suspected high-grade extraordinary item had appeared at the earthquake site, and its Minotaurs hurried there by spacecraft.

Seashell joined Lu Yuan and the others, then explored Green Field Paradise and discovered that its major functions were damaged or inaccessible. Using the coin her mother left her, she activated the Green Field Civilization inheritance system, setting up her inheritance of its highest authority while Lu Yuan reassured the city.

• Seashell emerged in a green dress and was teased by Lu Yuan, Old Cat, and the Undying Giant Turtle, then received a Soul Infant Fruit and a pomegranate as a birth gift.
• Seashell entered Green Field Paradise through the Opium Poppy Tree and found that Carefree Paradise was missing and Green Field Heart required administrator permissions.
• Seashell explored the available modules and found free educational materials, while Battle Paradise and Technology Paradise could not run because the Opium Poppy Tree lacked energy.
• Seashell used her mother's coin to activate the Green Field Civilization inheritance system, which began a countdown for her to inherit the highest authority.
• The Opium Poppy Tree's alarm frightened Lu Yuan and Old Cat, but Seashell told them what had happened, and Lu Yuan sent the Undying Giant Turtle to calm the residents.

Lu Yuan studied how to reactivate the supernatural properties of natural materials, then set aside his failed sleeping bag and practiced his craftsmanship by making a Fire Lizard Set. After improving his sewing skills, he prepared to use the Juvenile Hell Demon Spider Back Pattern for a transcendent item.

• Lu Yuan learned that supernatural effects could be activated through physical, catalytic, or spiritual harmonization, and realized he could not easily use the first two methods.
• Lu Yuan considered using the naturally active Juvenile Hell Demon Spider Back Pattern, but hesitated because it was his only Outstanding Grade Natural Oddity.
• Lu Yuan made an animal bed for Old Wolf, then practiced by sewing a fur coat, leather jacket, leather pants, and a complete Fire Lizard Set.
• Lu Yuan worked through day and night, thinking about how he would live differently if he could redo his life, and became a skilled weaver.

After a nightmare reminded Lu Yuan of the people waiting for him, he decided to leave the Meida Civilization’s ruins and head toward home. He and Old Cat prepared to depart with Old Wolf, and Lu Yuan sorted his food, equipment, and salvage into his limited Storage Space.

• Lu Yuan awoke from a nightmare, remembered the letter from home, and resolved to find his way back.
• Lu Yuan estimated that his homeland lay southeast and decided to leave the next day with Old Cat and Old Wolf, while Mother Bear stayed behind.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat agreed that bringing the pregnant Mother Bear would be too risky and burdensome.
• Lu Yuan counted and packed his Man-Eating Flower fruits, food, seeds, tools, and extraordinary equipment, including his Black Iron Set.
• Lu Yuan began loading his metal salvage into his Storage Space, choosing alloys and useful machine parts while lamenting that he could not take everything.

Yunhai City’s attempt to contact Lu Yuan failed, while humanity’s cities began their coordinated plan to leave their Safe Zones and attack Yao Drizzle. As Lingbo City prepared to open its Safe Zone, Diggedit used mass executions to power a Mind Amplification Beacon, and Sydney City’s opening marked the start of the operation.

• Lu Qingqing and Li Jun entered the Wutong Dreamscape, but Li Jun’s Opium Poppy Tree branch could not reach Lu Yuan because Green Field City had moved too far away.
• Zhang Hui and the other city representatives finalized a plan to open the Safe Zones, deliver Pandora Crystals and cold-resistant inscription plates, activate Floating Fortresses, and attack Yao Drizzle.
• Diggedit inspected Lingbo City’s defenses as Yao Drizzle watched from a dark cloud, then ordered the execution of about 50,000 prisoners to charge the Mind Amplification Beacon.
• Diggedit addressed Lingbo City’s citizens and called for a vote to open the Safe Zone at 12:03.
• A communications officer reported that Sydney City had opened its Safe Zone early and dispatched aircraft carrying Pandora Crystals.

Lu Yuan set a one-to-fifty exchange rate for Civilization Points and welcomed a new group of Lizardmen to Green Field City. The Ulan Clan and Lizardmen both considered buying weapons and supplies, while the Lizardmen remained cautious about trading their Luck.

• Lu Yuan consulted the Secretary Office about Luck’s value and set a one-to-fifty exchange rate for trade with weaker civilizations.
• Lu Yuan ordered the King Insects to escort the arriving Lizardmen to Green Field City’s reception area.
• The Lizardmen and the Ulan Clan recognized each other as old rivals but avoided fighting under Green Field City’s watch.
• Lu Yuan met with the Lizardmen, who left with tablet computers and began discussing what goods to buy.
• The Lizardmen decided they wanted cannons and other supplies, but worried about their lack of money and considered whether their Civilization Points could be traded.

Jin Bote learned that the Snake People Palace was protected by a dangerous anomaly and ordered death-row prisoners to investigate it without destroying the structure. When another civilization’s stone spacecraft approached, he prepared for contact while planning to control the escape effort and claim the palace.

• A report revealed that only the Blue Roc Civilization’s rarest reconnaissance craft could approach the Snake People Palace, while Royal Guard warriors experienced overwhelming fear near it.
• Bai Diao warned that the palace might contain valuable spatial technology or imprison an anomaly, so Jin Bote rejected destroying it and ordered death-row prisoners to investigate.
• A military officer informed Jin Bote that a stone fortress was flying toward them after sending an electromagnetic message, and Jin Bote recognized the encounter as the Blue Roc Civilization’s first face-to-face contact with another civilization.
• Jin Bote ordered his forces to avoid acting rashly and prepare the Cement Mobile Platform, while insisting that the Blue Roc Civilization control the operation and take the Snake People Palace.
• Blue Roc nobles discussed forming an alliance or accepting a vassal civilization to expand their workforce and encourage population growth.