Chapter Summaries

Lu Tiantian led a last-ditch experiment to remove the aberrant power afflicting the Insectoid Warriors, using Blood Guai power and their own devouring ability. The surgery on Leviathan continued for nineteen hours, with Lu Xiao waiting for her turn as the team struggled to keep Leviathan alive.

• Lu Tiantian persuaded Lu Yuan and the other researchers to fund one final experiment using the King Insect and Leviathan.
• Lu Yuan agreed to provide Leviathan and Lu Xiao, warning that this was humanity's last attempt before the infected were put into hibernation.
• The researchers brought Leviathan to Coral Island and began surgery, injecting Blood Guai power and soul medicine while guiding it to devour its aberrant power.
• Leviathan's tumors rapidly multiplied, so the surgeons removed malignant growths while Lu Yuan supplied Life Essence and restrained the suffering creature.
• After nineteen hours and more than ten thousand tumors removed, Lu Tiantian continued monitoring Leviathan as it barely breathed, while Lu Xiao waited for surgery.

Lu Yuan set aside the Gear Civilization’s Spirit Engraving technique and restarted Green Field City’s social welfare system while assigning a team to search volcanic land for minerals. As the Treasure Hunting Team prepared to depart, Lu Ling gave Lu Ying a jade pendant before his year-long expedition.

• Rat Gongye explained that Spirit Engraving required more than 30 Spirit Attribute points and described its precision and durability, while Lu Yuan remained below that threshold.
• Lu Yuan praised Green Field City’s craftsmen, announced the return of social benefits, and distributed supplies worth one hundred Spirit Essence to the National Treasury.
• Lu Yuan showed the meeting attendees Rare-grade Earth Vein Crystal Cores and tasked the Treasure Hunting Team with finding similar volcanic minerals.
• Green Field City residents celebrated receiving Extraordinary resources as recruitment began for the large-scale Scavenging Plan.
• Lu Ying told Lu Ling he was leaving for at least a year with the Treasure Hunting Team, and Lu Ling gave him an expensive jade pendant despite his initial refusal.

Lu Yuan and Old Cat assessed a massive black-cloud aberrant phenomenon outside the Ninth Civilization Branch's Safe Zone and identified it as a likely immature Yao. Humanity began discussing how to capture it, but the chapter left them without a practical plan and dependent on the Safe Zone for protection.

• Lu Yuan explained that defeating the Monster had required bombs, Old Cat, Old Wolf, and a drop of the Ghost's blood, and warned that he could not defeat the Ghost.
• Li Chunhong showed Lu Yuan footage of a huge black cloud with eye sockets that had remained outside the Ninth Branch's Safe Zone for a long time.
• Old Cat said aberrant phenomena were drawn to Idealistic Energy and suggested the cloud might be a Yao that could potentially be captured alive.
• Old Cat described the Absolute Abilities of the Demon, Monster, Ghost, and Yao, explaining that the Yao could grow without limit and might still be immature.
• The humans discussed making nuclear bombs, training people with sealing abilities, and coordinating cities to capture the Yao, but concluded that their strength was currently insufficient.

Lu Yuan and Seashell returned from the illusion to find the city-center field incapacitating the wildlife and threatening their group. Seashell urged Lu Yuan to continue the illusion, where he learned that Green Field Civilization planned to create a god by combining the wielder of As One Wishes, the Opium Poppy Tree, and Green Field Paradise.

• Sea Snail Miss pulled Lu Yuan out of the illusion, and he explained what he had learned about As One Wishes to Old Cat.
• Lu Yuan found Chicken Snake and her chicks unconscious; he revived Chicken Snake with Soul Infant Fruit juice and sent her away wearing a Black Iron Mask, but the chicks showed no signs of life.
• As the city-center field intensified and wildlife lay unconscious around them, Seashell asked Lu Yuan to resume the illusion and learn more before they decided whether to stay or retreat.
• Lu Yuan removed his protection and entered the illusion again, where Green Field officials announced that their god-creation plan had a success rate above 99 percent.
• The illusion revealed that the plan would put a young wielder of As One Wishes into the Opium Poppy Tree, load it with Green Field Civilization's God's Skills, and use Green Field Paradise as its mind and control center.

Lu Yuan received the Peaceful Dominator milestone and gained the powerful Domination God's Skill after most of the Shali People agreed to join his civilization. As he prepared to lead them toward Sky City, the villagers gathered support for leaving their home behind.

• Lu Yuan considered whether Sky City could rise again and weighed the Shali People and other resources he had gathered.
• The milestone system awarded Lu Yuan Peaceful Dominator, Domination, and 5,000 milestone points because the Shali People had willingly chosen to join him.
• Lu Yuan tested Domination on One-Eyed Old Wolf and found that a month of accumulated Idealistic Energy could control only one mutated wild wolf.
• Lu Yuan felt his soul nearing solidification, transferred it into the Life Tree, and disguised his human body before returning to the village.
• Shamo and Guo Weiqiang urged the villagers to follow Lu Yuan, and most ordinary villagers accepted the move while a few prominent families remained hesitant.

Lu Yuan fought the cave monsters while a Lize Civilization squad struggled through the second level, facing corruption and dwindling protection. The squad followed an unknown signal and discovered Lu Yuan battling the monsters.

• Lu Yuan used feints and rapid changes in his attacks to kill a monster that tried to evade him with Different Dimension.
• Taduo reported that the Lize squad’s resin was running low, their bodies and minds were deteriorating, and the cave monsters could predict attacks and avoid weapons.
• Lize leaders, including Lord Lyon, failed to find a way to stop the supernatural disaster and urged the squad to gather more information.
• The Lize squad detected a simple electromagnetic signal and followed it through the fog, despite fearing it might be a trap.
• The Eagle Eye warrior spotted Lu Yuan fighting more than ten cave monsters and warned the others that something had changed.

Humanity prepared a heavily equipped diplomatic mission to meet the ratmen, but scouting revealed they were low-intelligence Otherworlders. Meanwhile, Lize Civilization debated whether to open its Safe Zone to the ratmen, and Governor Lyon’s visions warned of sharply different possible outcomes.

• Jin Dongliang was appointed diplomat, and Old Cat joined the mission to help keep the Undying Giant Turtle in check.
• Lu Yuan equipped the delegation with armor, Spirit Speech Rune Paper, and Opium Poppy Tree Flower Buds before they departed on flying dragon insects.
• A scout reported that the nearby Rat Rice Dam Civilization consisted largely of ratmen with low intelligence and weak attributes, prompting Old Cat to explain that some Otherworlders survived Era Disasters by abandoning reason.
• Lize Civilization’s officials debated opening their Safe Zone to the ratmen, who advertised trade in Legendary goods, while a priest’s divination warned of possible danger.
• Governor Lyon foresaw both a bright road and a dark abyss if Lize Civilization traded with the ratmen, leaving him uncertain whether to proceed.

After a week of searching, Lu Yuan found a paper explaining Extraordinary Tinder and learned how it powered cultivation. He realized the Human 18th Civilization had no known Tinder user, leaving him uncertain how he could begin the Extraordinary Path.

• Lu Yuan studied diligently while Old Wolf attracted Mother Wolves with his wealth and licking skills, and the pack brought Lu Yuan game.
• Lu Yuan cooked a pheasant as beggar's chicken and fed the wolves his failed bread, which they eagerly fought over.
• Lu Yuan found Saine Hook's paper, "Origin of Extraordinary," in an archive room.
• The paper explained that rare abilities called Extraordinary Tinder could be cultivated and taught, and that spreading them was essential for a civilization's growth.
• Lu Yuan learned that accumulated Mind Energy nourished a person's Tinder, that aptitude and external resources affected cultivation, and that wild monsters could also possess Extraordinary Tinder.

Xu Pengfei fought a Painted Skin monster whose lies warped his identity and memories, then woke with no recollection of the battle and found warnings he had left for himself. As he tried to make sense of the notes, a city flew to the center of a lake, leaving him stunned.

• A Painted Skin monster called the young man Xu Pengfei and tried to make him believe he should kill himself, but he used Domination and his knife to destroy it.
• Xu Pengfei realized the monster's lies were altering his thoughts, carved warnings into a tree hollow, and dominated himself with the command not to commit suicide before passing out.
• Xu Pengfei woke in the tree hollow with his memories gone and read his notes warning that the Mandala Empire had fallen and Painted Skin monsters were spreading.
• Xu Pengfei questioned the notes and his identity, then climbed a tree when a city flew to the center of a lake.

Yunhai City located and protected thirteen extraordinary plants, including a fast-growing rice plant and a dangerous Big Peach Tree. On Pangu Continent, Lu Yuan spotted a semi-dormant Giant Man-Eating Flower and considered how to take its fruit while enduring the severe winter cold.

• Li Chunhong and Zhang Hui learned Yunhai City ranked 789th for restoring order and education, then organized a search for the thirteen fallen plants.
• The militia found and secured all thirteen plants, and an appraisal user confirmed that the rapidly growing rice could reproduce and offered high yields and nutrition.
• Researchers discovered that a Big Peach Tree had killed a cat with its branches, while an appraisal of the tree failed because the user lacked enough mental energy.
• Zhang Hui ordered the plants prepared for transfer to greenhouses and told soldiers to guard them, especially the Big Peach Tree.
• Lu Yuan studied a semi-dormant Giant Man-Eating Flower in the snowy cold and wondered how to approach it for fruit.
• Lu Yuan called Old Wolf over and reached toward its thick fur to keep warm.

Lu Yuan managed Green Field Civilization’s work and celebrated his forty-first birthday with Seashell. A contaminated dream letter led them to contact his Younger Sister, Lu Qingqing, who appeared in his dream asking him for money.

• Lu Yuan discussed God's Skill succession, the civil service exam, mining bugs, and farm plans with Seashell.
• Seashell surprised Lu Yuan with a birthday greeting, and they went to Green Field Paradise to rest.
• A monster emerged from a dream letter covered in garbled symbols, but the Opium Poppy Tree's Dream Ability destroyed it.
• Seashell offered to restore the letter, and Lu Yuan persuaded her to use the Opium Poppy Tree to find its sender.
• Lu Qingqing appeared in Lu Yuan's dream, asked him for money, and Seashell explained that she was controlling the projection through her subconscious.
• Lu Yuan told Lu Qingqing that she was dreaming and that he had pulled her into the dream.

Lu Yuan received a Life Tree from his milestone reward, giving his soul protection and the possibility of resurrection through Life Fruits. He and Old Cat debated whether God’s rewards and Safe Zones were benevolent or dangerous, leaving Old Cat to investigate what God and the Safe Zone’s protection really were.

• A lightning storm dropped a mysterious seed that entered Lu Yuan’s mind and identified itself as a Life Tree, able to shelter his soul and grant resurrection through Life Fruits.
• Lu Yuan realized the Life Tree needed vitality and Idealistic Energy to grow, and that he would eventually have to choose a safe place to plant it.
• Old Cat urged Lu Yuan to socialize, then learned about the Life Tree and excitedly reacted to its resurrection ability, accidentally knocking a metal leg loose.
• Lu Yuan discovered Old Cat had not heard God’s milestone announcement and explained Pangu Continent’s rules to it.
• Old Cat warned that God’s rewards might be a trap, while Lu Yuan argued that unknown forces might be trying to help civilizations and that the rewards had saved his life.
• Old Cat searched Meida Civilization’s records, found little information about God or the Safe Zone’s light curtain, and concluded that God might only be transporting things.

Lu Yuan showed his allies the growing Qiankun World, where the Yin World’s steady growth and the discovery of ancient spirit plants revealed more about the world’s evolution and past eras. He formally established the Ninth Era’s Ink Sect and assigned its first projects, leaving humanity’s development plans underway.

• Lu Yuan brought his guests into the Qiankun World, where they saw the expanding Yin and Yang worlds and learned that meteorites made the Yin World grow faster.
• The group inspected the world’s young spirit plants, and Turtle Gu Zi explained that the Sha Tang Tree, Undying Tree, and Jian Mu were tied to ancient races that might have hidden from past Era Disasters.
• Lu Yuan showed the guests Turtle Lian Zi’s Turtle Temple, then founded the Ink Sect at its first assembly.
• Lu Yuan explained to Old Cat and Seashell that they had to avoid dangerous information and keep the Ink Sect separate from humanity.
• Lu Yuan assigned the Turtle Civilization and allied demons to spread Field Industrialization, then outlined humanity’s plans for space technology and gravitational-wave research.

Lu Yuan left the Lize Civilization’s Safe Zone and headed toward the First Branch, while Old Cat struggled with worsening malfunctions and memories of being alive. After the Life Tree devoured the monster’s corpse and grew stronger, Lu Yuan tested controlling it, then was stunned when the Bewitching Wolf returned with twelve Mother Wolves.

• Lu Yuan agreed to travel to the Lize Civilization’s First Branch, taught twenty soldiers the Extraordinary Tinder inheritance, and left the Safe Zone using Space Blink.
• Old Cat joined Lu Yuan outside and reflected on its fading memories and lack of senses, while Lu Yuan promised to seek a way to give it a physical body.
• Lu Yuan discovered that the Life Tree had grown to 3.2 meters, produced a Life Fruit, and gained strength after consuming the monster’s corpse.
• Lu Yuan transferred his soul into the Life Tree and demonstrated how it could control the Man-Eating Flower without digesting his human body.
• The Bewitching Wolf emerged from the cave with twelve Mother Wolves, leaving Lu Yuan and Old Cat speechless.

Lu Yuan tried to destroy the alien in the Soul Gem without letting the Gui escape, but the alien released the Gui’s power and forced him into a desperate fight. After Lu Yuan seemingly killed the alien, the Gui began breaking out of its glass vessel, leaving him to face an imminent catastrophe.

• Lu Yuan ordered Sha Kaner and the other soldiers to flee and summon Old Cat to possess him, while he prepared to attack the Soul Gem with a Spirit Speech Rune.
• The alien struck Lu Yuan with a drop of the Gui’s power, causing his left arm to mutate as he unleashed the rune’s Mental Storm against the gem.
• Lu Yuan severed his mutated arm and kept attacking the Soul Gem, then destroyed the arm after it tried to smash the Gui’s glass vessel.
• The Soul Gem’s crystals went dark, and Lu Yuan concluded the alien had been killed, but the Gui pressed against its vessel and began breaking free.
• Lu Yuan considered using Steel’s ability or the Blood Gui’s blood as the vessel shook, while the mangled flesh on the floor began to writhe and emit Gray Mist.

Lu Yuan became trapped in a monster’s Time Cage, where the fog and warped space forced him toward a cave that might be the monster’s lair. He entered with Old Cat and Old Wolf, and the cave sealed behind them as hostile eyes watched from the darkness.

• Lu Yuan burned the infant-like creature’s corpse and suspected its strange abilities had drawn him into a monster’s Different Dimension.
• When thick fog blocked signals and his Life Tree seemed to grow rapidly, Lu Yuan concluded that he was inside a Time Cage.
• Lu Yuan wandered through the fog but kept returning to the same cave, which appeared to lie at the center of the warped space.
• Lu Yuan entered the cave with Old Cat and Old Wolf, and the entrance closed behind them.
• Lu Yuan drew his longsword and descended deeper into the cave as monster shrieks and crimson eyes surrounded them.

Lu Yuan survived the Shadow of Zhao’s attack by relying on a mysterious mechanical sphere, then endured the vault’s inferno and escaped suffocation by chipping a hole in the door. He had found a way to melt the door for an easier escape, while Old Wolf waited outside.

• Lu Yuan fought off the Black Liquid’s attempts to escape and possess him, then severed his left arm after the mechanical sphere buried the Shadow of Zhao’s skullcap under magma.
• The flames forced the Shadow of Zhao into a self-sealed gemstone form, and Lu Yuan remained in the Different Dimension until the vault cooled.
• Lu Yuan tried to break the gemstone and chisel through the vault door, but the thick, welded metal and dwindling oxygen left him struggling to stay conscious.
• Lu Yuan chiseled a small hole for fresh air, but Old Wolf repeatedly blocked it with its tongue.
• Lu Yuan decided to stuff unburned Fire Lizard fuel into the gap and ignite it so the heat would melt the metal door.

After two centuries of development, Lu Yuan and the Human Civilization prepared to leave the Northern Frontier, where their Trading Market had reshaped relations among the local civilizations. They agreed to leave twenty thousand people and work with other powers to preserve order, while encouraging the region to develop its own industry.

• Lu Yuan, Sea Snail Miss, and Old Cat surveyed the expanded Green Field City and decided to wait for the anomaly monster to provide their passage out of the Northern Frontier.
• The Snow Sheep Clan prepared its best wool for its final trade with humanity, while the Night Lang Clan negotiated for authority over a Trading Market branch.
• Constantine blessed Green Field City's departure, and Lu Yuan's diplomats rejected the dwarves' claim that humanity was already a Level Four Civilization.
• Lu Yuan met the dwarven delegation at the Trading Market, warned that the Era Disaster required civilizations to seek higher levels, and gave the outsiders Spring of Eternal Life in exchange for helping maintain regional order.
• At a farewell banquet attended by more than a thousand leaders, Lu Yuan announced that twenty thousand people would remain at the Trading Market and that humanity would continue supporting Artisan University.
• The leaders signed the Civilization Friendship and Cooperation Treaty as humanity prepared to depart.

Lu Yuan spoke with his younger sister Lu Qingqing in a dream, updating her on his discoveries and learning that humanity was preparing to fight an anomaly. After she left, he returned to Green Field Paradise and began addressing his soul condition and the imminent hatching of three king bugs.

• Lu Yuan introduced Lu Qingqing to Seashell Girl, explained how he had found Sky City, and told her he had become a Level 4 Expert.
• Lu Qingqing told Lu Yuan that humanity was preparing to subjugate an anomaly, while Ping An City faced famine and shortages; Lu Yuan also described the Shali Clan's method of passing down Form Skill and Qi Skill.
• Lu Qingqing asked whether Lu Yuan could contact her again through a letter, then left the dream after they said goodbye.
• Seashell teased Lu Yuan about embarrassing things Lu Qingqing had told her, and Lu Yuan stretched her ears in retaliation.
• Lu Yuan asked Seashell to search Green Field Civilization records for a way to resolve his Soul Satiation State, then prepared for three king bugs to hatch after using Domination to control them.

Humanity and the Lize Civilization decoded the first glyphs and began sharing research, while Lu Yuan set off on a long journey with the Undying Giant Turtle. As the Lize Civilization prepared to leave the Safe Zone, humanity debated whether it could safely dismantle its own and how to defeat the anomaly outside Lingbo City.

• Humanity and the Lize Civilization used their combined research to decode glyphs and translate parts of Daedalus's handbook, revealing how rare Lu Yuan's Glyph Insight Talent was.
• Lu Yuan learned that glyphs could support powerful forging and combat techniques, then decided to study mathematics before tackling the handbook in earnest.
• Lu Yuan comforted Lu Qingqing and left the Safe Zone by helicopter with the Undying Giant Turtle and his companions.
• The Lize Civilization urged humanity to leave the Safe Zone, while Diggedit assured its representatives that humanity would defeat the anomaly outside Lingbo City.
• Li Chunhong and Zhang Hui began screening the city for Glyph Readers, and Zhang Hui joined humanity's meeting about when to dismantle the Safe Zone and how to face the anomaly.