Chapter Summaries

The Mirage Cloud Dragon defeated the Yin Lin Beast in the second betting match, giving humanity a victory and pushing the Dwarf Clan to the artisan contest. The seven-day contest began with both sides forging items for sale, while the dwarves drew a crowd by starting a legendary piece.

• The Mirage Cloud Dragon pinned down and battered the Yin Lin Beast until the dwarven leader surrendered, then vanished as the spectators celebrated humanity’s win.
• The Dwarf Clan proposed an artisan contest in which up to one hundred artisans per side would forge goods and compete by the total value of their sales, and Lu Yuan accepted.
• Lu Yuan rallied Green Field City’s human and Blue Peng artisans, who prepared to showcase Field Industrialization while keeping him in reserve.
• Storm Lie Jiu authorized the dwarven artisans to use legendary materials to forge a showcase masterpiece, and two hundred dwarves began work alongside humanity’s artisans.
• Lu Yuan observed the dwarves’ different forging methods and learned that an ordinary Fire Scale Dress sold well as a luxury good among Northern Frontier nobles.
• A large crowd gathered to watch a dwarven artisan use the Tinder Engraving Method to forge a legendary item, alarming Ta Gang about the competition.

Lu Yuan visited the Da Lai Empire’s sealed chamber to test his newly forged power against the Blood Ghost and inspect its seal. He withstood the ghost’s pressure with ease, then repelled the Mirror Demon’s attempt to control him, leaving the demon unable to understand his strength.

• Old Cat suggested that Lu Yuan visit the Da Lai Empire’s sealed chamber to test his equipment and check the Blood Ghost’s seal, and Lu Yuan agreed.
• Lu Yuan handled his duties, spoke with Seashell about crafting equipment for her mother, then rested before returning to the spacecraft with Old Cat.
• Lu Yuan opened the Blood Ghost’s chamber and used the Red Light of his mythic power to collapse the spreading darkness without retreating.
• Old Cat recalled fragments of past civilizations creating weapons to fight ghosts and was shocked that Lu Yuan could withstand the Blood Ghost so easily.
• The Mirror Demon attacked Lu Yuan with Body Manipulation, but it failed to control his wooden puppet body, and Lu Yuan warned it to stop plotting.

Lu Yuan learned about the monsters and dwindling water sources in Sky City from Sha Sanli, then asked the Shali Clan to teach him their Basic Body Refining Technique and Martial Skills. He discovered that Martial Skills came from consuming the lingering qi of dead monsters, while the Undying Giant Turtle recovered from its dreamlike frenzy.

• Sha Sanli described the Red Strange Bird, Ghost Fog, flying Fire Lizards, and other monsters that threatened the Shali Clan, then showed Lu Yuan a detailed map of Sky City and its water sources.
• Old Cat copied the clan's map, and Lu Yuan spent the night in the village cleaning the purple pigment from his skin.
• The Undying Giant Turtle woke from its frenzy and said it had dreamed of food and felt an obsession with becoming a god, while the creatures in the flower buds had truly died and lost their souls.
• Lu Yuan asked Sha Sanli to teach him Martial Skills and share the materials the Shali Clan had found in Sky City.
• Sha Kaner explained that the Basic Body Refining Technique had been passed down since before written records, and that Martial Skills were learned by consuming the lingering qi of monsters and sensing its movement.

Lu Yuan funded bloodline and spatial-technology research while warning Hai Zhiyun about the dangers of studying the Era Disaster. He then brought the King Insects into his primordial Qiankun World to test whether its ancient environment could awaken their bloodlines.

• Lu Yuan approved funding for Lu Tiantian's bloodline laboratory and directed her specimens to the Insectoid Legion.
• Hai Zhiyun explained the Illusion Laboratory's research into spatial technology and gravitational traces, and Lu Yuan granted it two hundred spirit essence while cautioning her about the Era Disaster.
• Lu Yuan moved the three King Insects into his Qiankun World, where he ordered them to monitor their bloodlines and keep the world secret.
• Lu Yuan instructed the King Insects to water the Life Tree with their blood and considered moving reproductive insects into the world once he solved its food problem.

Lu Yuan told Li Jun’s group that glyph study and scientific development mattered more than raising combat levels, then offered cultivation textbooks and asked them to find advanced technology blueprints. He revealed that the Opium Poppy Tree had made the Chinese Parasol Tree obedient, leaving Yunhai City with greatly expanded cultivation resources and a branch that could command the tree in the dream.

• Lu Yuan learned Li Jun had nearly 13 Spirit and urged him to study glyphs and mathematics, then described the powerful talents in the Mandala Empire.
• Lu Yuan gave the soldiers cultivation textbooks and asked them to obtain blueprints for advanced electronics, weapons, and medical devices, along with software.
• Lu Yuan explained that anomalies could be persuaded or subdued and credited Seashell with helping him survive, presenting her as the Opium Poppy Tree’s master.
• Lu Qingqing told Lu Yuan that the Chinese Parasol Tree had recently attacked people, and he explained that the Opium Poppy Tree’s greater Dream Ability had restrained it.
• The Chinese Parasol Tree let Lu Qingqing climb onto it, and Lu Yuan warned that sharing its Idealistic Energy would slow its growth.
• Lu Yuan gave Li Jun a modified Opium Poppy Tree branch that could command the Chinese Parasol Tree within the dream.

Lu Yuan and Rat Gongye debated the value of legendary weapons as the dwarves and humans competed to sell their forged goods. The Dwarves surpassed two hundred spiritual charms by mass-producing cheap items, while the human artisans prepared an ambitious creation that was finally revealed as an ornate green Flower Pot.

• Lu Yuan watched a dwarf forge a legendary longsword, while Rat Gongye argued that productive creations such as lithography machines mattered more than extravagant weapons.
• Rat Gongye challenged the dwarf Ancient Aliens and defended his civilization's standing before Lu Yuan pulled him away from the escalating argument.
• The Dwarves sold their Fire Scale Dresses quickly, but Earth Vein Compasses and rune armor drew fewer buyers than expected.
• Storm Lie Jiu adopted a strategy of mass-producing cheap goods, and more than five hundred Dwarf craftsmen sold over fifteen hundred items for roughly 220 spiritual charms.
• On the sixth day, human leaders worried that their artisans' expensive creations might not sell, but a human craftsman completed an elaborate green Flower Pot topped with a carved tree.

Twenty years after the Era War, Lu Yuan taught children, honored the fallen, and attended the founding of the Pangu Alliance before setting out to explore the Chaos Sea. The Alliance made contact with the Summit Civilization, which revealed that it had explored the Chaos Sea for two hundred million years and was still only a mid-tier civilization.

• Lu Yuan taught children about the war and reminded them that Pangu Continent's people had to protect themselves rather than rely on a hero.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat discussed civilization's recovery and future, then Lu Yuan visited the People's Heroes Memorial Hall to honor those who had died.
• Lu Yuan and Sea Snail Miss joined the diplomatic teams at the Buzhou Ruins, where Lu Yuan announced his plans to travel to the Chaos Sea and the Pangu Alliance was formally established.
• Lu Yuan delivered a speech warning that the vanished Yin World had left Pangu Continent exposed, then the Alliance began selecting people to join the expedition.
• The Hou Tu Remnant Tribe guided Lu Yuan and other Meritorious Officials to the void, where they contacted the Summit Civilization.
• The Summit Civilization described the Chaos Sea, disclosed that it had explored for two hundred million years, and said it ranked as a mid-tier civilization despite approaching Level Ten by Pangu Continent's standards.

Lu Yuan discovered that the Donkey-Head Monster was a newly awakening demon whose presence drained life and filled him with terror. He chose to stay near his camp for now, planning to study the Meida Civilization’s records and prepare to fight if the monster’s territory expanded.

• Lu Yuan used the Pioneer's Eye and learned that the Donkey-Head Monster was a corrupted fallen creature, possibly a demon, with unknown attributes.
• The Donkey-Head Monster noticed Lu Yuan, and its gaze and smile filled him with supernatural terror until his Extraordinary Fire suppressed it.
• Lu Yuan saw that the monster was draining life from the surrounding valley and retreated after marking the edge of the danger zone to track its spread.
• On his way back to camp, Lu Yuan weighed relocating against the dangers of migration and decided he was not ready to leave.
• Lu Yuan considered how the Fire Lizard might have countered the monster and resolved to study the Meida Civilization’s records and prepare for a possible fight.

Lu Yuan ended his investigation into “God” and focused on cultivating the Life Tree, crafting equipment, and giving Old Cat a new body. After three years on the Pangu Continent, his Extraordinary Tinder neared Level 3, the Life Tree began growing a fruit, and he wondered what had happened to his family during the fifteen days that had passed in the Safe Zone.

• Lu Yuan chose to make the Life Tree one of his core abilities and fed it extraordinary food and Fire Red Spirit Crystals.
• Lu Yuan decided that Old Cat could not be resurrected, so he ordered his Palu army to help build it a new body and began preparing tools and weapons.
• Over the next three years, Lu Yuan built Old Cat a lifelike Big Yellow Cat body from animal fur, Cat's Eye Stones, rubber, and communicator parts.
• Lu Yuan provoked a Mutated Little Bee, suffered a severe sting, and spent several months recovering.
• Lu Yuan's Extraordinary Tinder neared a breakthrough to Level 3, while his nearly one-meter-tall Life Tree began growing a golden fruit.
• Lu Yuan reflected that his 1,500 days on the Pangu Continent had amounted to only fifteen days in the Safe Zone and wondered how his family was doing.

Lu Yuan relived the deaths of a family of squirrels in a blizzard and created the Legendary Masterpiece Snowflake Tree and Four Squirrels, which produced an Ice Field. Dissatisfied with its lifelessness, he altered the sculpture to shelter the squirrels, causing the field to vanish as a new artistic conception began to form.

• Lu Yuan became immersed in a historical vision in which he and four squirrels froze to death beneath a tree, then returned to reality beside his Legendary Masterpiece, Snowflake Tree and Four Squirrels, and its Ice Field.
• Rock Fist Shen Lu admitted defeat, and the dwarves agreed to pay humanity the unused wager materials while the spectators discussed Lu Yuan’s creation.
• Lu Yuan re-entered the vision and used the Eternal Tinder to warm the tree, letting the squirrels eat their stored nuts and sleep while he froze to death again.
• Lu Yuan returned to reality and carved nuts, straw, and other details into the sculpture, making it feel more alive and weakening the Ice Field until it disappeared.
• Rock Fist Shen Lu explained that Lu Yuan had destroyed the original artistic conception because he was dissatisfied with it, while Rat Gongye urged craftsmen to observe the emergence of fortune.
• The craftsmen sensed that fortune had appeared as Lu Yuan continued working on the sculpture.

Lu Yuan and his team investigated the Source Fire Civilization’s ruins, learning that its technology centered on offline Large Puppets powered by Fire Source Stone and that a sealed treasury might lie beneath the volcano. With the volcano close to erupting, Lu Yuan led an expedition to the island and faced the still-wary Mirage Cloud Dragon.

• Old Cat reported finding technological relics in the Mirage Cloud Dragon’s nest and a sealed gate about ten thousand meters underground that might lead to a National Treasury.
• Lu Yuan organized the search for a nuclear fusion factory, the underground treasury, and more information about the ruins, while researchers identified the vanished civilization as the Source Fire Civilization.
• Humanity learned that the Source Fire Civilization had built Large Puppets powered by Fire Source Stone, and the Mirage Cloud Dragon tolerated salvage work after becoming addicted to the Fungus Blanket Insects’ purple secretion.
• Lu Yuan told an expedition meeting that the city had been a 1,587-square-kilometer Sky City built around a volcano containing Fire Source Stone, which was at risk of erupting.
• Lu Yuan’s ship reached the island, where the Mirage Cloud Dragon watched the arriving team with more warmth toward the zoologists than toward the rest of the humans.

Lu Yuan and the Blue Roc Civilization faced a choice between the ghost and the monster, whose rain lowered Spirit Attribute and might protect people from ghost attacks. Jin Bote asked Human Civilization to shelter the Blue Roc elites while his people attempted a risky plan to influence the monster, leaving both civilizations preparing for an uncertain battle.

• Lu Tiantian explained that the monster's Rainwater sharply lowered the Blue Roc People's Spirit Attribute, possibly protecting them from the ghost by suppressing their spirit.
• Jin Bote decided to send the Blue Roc Civilization's elites to Human Civilization for shelter and offered access to their experimental data.
• Lu Yuan accepted Jin Bote's request but warned that Human Civilization might not survive either.
• Jin Bote proposed that the Motivator unite the wills of eight million Blue Roc people to influence the monster, while Mandala Fruit might help victims awaken again.
• Lu Yuan agreed to cooperate, offered mental-strength potions, and suggested using Opium Poppy Tree branches to establish a Dream Network.
• The Blue Roc Civilization prepared to evacuate its elites, attack with modern weapons, and have eight million people drink the monster's Rainwater simultaneously.

Lu Yuan enjoyed a peaceful life with his wolf pack until Old Wolf found a strange, ominous haze in the former Fire Lizard Canyon. He investigated and discovered a rotting humanoid creature standing among the Fire Lizard's remains.

• Lu Yuan reflected on his comfortable life and recalled his unusual blind dates while relaxing with the wolf pups.
• Old Wolf urgently led Lu Yuan to a slope overlooking the former Fire Lizard Canyon, where a gray haze filled the valley.
• Lu Yuan sensed danger and decay in the haze and suspected the Donkey-Head Monster had entered the Fire Lizard's territory.
• Lu Yuan climbed a tree to survey the silent canyon and saw a rotting humanoid creature beside the Fire Lizard's skeletal remains.

Humanity’s cities debated joining Lingbo City’s plan to fight the anomaly Frosty Drizzle, but most refused to commit. After the meeting, Diggedit decided to use Domination to force other cities’ leaders into action and ordered prisoners executed to prepare for his plan.

• Diggedit proposed that humanity jointly open the Safe Zone in five years and attack Frosty Drizzle, with Lingbo City volunteering to lead.
• Li Chunhong said Yunhai City supported the operation if preparations went smoothly, and Dongjin City also voiced support, but most cities stayed silent or refused to commit.
• The meeting ended without a joint promise, and Li Chunhong urged Yunhai City to preserve its industry, talent, and technological progress rather than depend on other cities.
• Back in Lingbo City, Diggedit called the other cities cowards and traitors, then resolved to Dominate their leaders and make them strong.
• Professor Heinrich said research into transmitting supernatural abilities through communicators was progressing, and Diggedit ordered more death-row prisoners before instructing staff to execute rapists when none remained.

Lu Yuan rampaged through the Boundless Realm under his greedy subconscious, then entered an ancient memory in which he hatched as a Greedy Demon God and was raised by Duo Mu at the Ink Sect. The memory ended with the sect disbanding and its masters revealing their search for the source of Infinite Qi and their plans to defend Pangu Continent.

• Lu Yuan’s subconscious slaughtered monsters, defeated Blood Filth, and advanced into the Boundless Realm before the communicator signal vanished, worrying Turtle Gu Zi because Lu Yuan sought the qualification to become Jade.
• Lu Yuan awoke from an egg as a stone-skinned creature, learned Crane Immortal had named him Greedy Demon God Lu Yuan, and was assigned to Duo Mu when no disciple chose him.
• The Ink Sect disbanded amid war, and Duo Mu stayed on Kunlun Mountain with Lu Yuan and the Undying Giant Turtle after the disciples drank from the White Jade River.
• Duo Mu fed Lu Yuan Evolution Grass, while Crane Immortal said he had traced Infinite Qi to the Chaos Sea and intended to find a way to stop it.
• Turtle Immortal revealed the Pangu Brain, a mythic creation with computing power equal to a billion people, as the masters prepared for the dangers facing Pangu Continent.

Lu Yuan fed Spider Viscera to a sick Old Wolf, built a fishing trap, and created a portable Storage Space for his supplies. The next morning, he found a backpack, scrap, and an expired bottle of Blue Pills that could treat bacterial infections.

• Lu Yuan gave Spider Viscera to the starving Old Wolf, then returned to his shelter and sank a baited fishing trap into the river.
• That evening, Lu Yuan created a one-cubic-meter Storage Space and stored his remaining spider meat inside.
• At first light, Lu Yuan headed for the fishing trap and collected cans, bottles, broken devices, and a usable backpack from a car.
• Lu Yuan unearthed an iron box containing a sealed Glass Bottle of Blue Pills that could help treat bacterial infections.

Lu Yuan returned to the Meida Civilization ruins with Seashell and a team of soldiers, revisited his old home, and began harvesting its extraordinary resources and creatures. After capturing several powerful animals, he prepared to approach the enormous Man-Eating Flower with the Life Tree.

• Lu Yuan carved figures of Sky City and the people of the ruins, then left two advanced textbooks beneath the golden statue as a gift for future visitors.
• Old Wolf returned with several Mother Wolves, and Lu Yuan laughed at his antics as the soldiers reported the ruins' valuable resources.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell discussed the children's wilderness training before Lu Yuan told the soldiers to wait for the rain to stop and avoid damaging the Data Center.
• After the rain cleared, Lu Yuan subdued the Mother Bear, whose level had risen to 2, and ordered the team to leave her and the corn tree in place for now.
• Lu Yuan's team assessed and captured selected bees, snakes, and scorpions, using Seashell's Spirit Speech while leaving some creatures behind.
• Lu Yuan brought the Life Tree toward the three-hundred-meter-tall Man-Eating Flower after ordinary hypnosis proved ineffective.

Human leaders debated whether to keep the Metal Ball after learning that some citizens wanted to revoke the Safe Zone, then received a contact request from the Meida Civilization. When they accepted, a bloodied human appeared on the screen, asking to contact humanity and speaking Chinese.

• Professor Zhang Hui explained that the Metal Ball's origins and the fate of earlier eras were unknown, while city leaders saw population and civilization statistics on its screen.
• The leaders learned that 9.87% of Yunhai City's population and 29.4% of New York City's population had voted to revoke their Safe Zones.
• Li Chunhong and other officials agreed to keep the Metal Ball for now rather than destroy it.
• The Metal Ball announced that the Eighth Era's Meida Civilization had requested contact, and the officials agreed to accept.
• A bloodied human appeared on the screen, demanded contact with human civilization numbers 7812HSKKJ-1 through 7812HSKKJ-17, and spoke Chinese while complaining about Fire Lizards.

Lu Yuan and Seashell discovered that the Chaos Essence Stone had once been considered for the Green Field Civilization’s plan to create an omnipotent god, and Lu Yuan decided to try transforming it into a Life Fruit so he could reincarnate into it himself. After Seashell helped him begin the process, the stone absorbed life energy and started changing, leaving Lu Yuan facing a long and costly effort.

• Seashell recalled that the Green Field Civilization had considered using a Chaos Essence Stone in its Ascension Ceremony to create an omnipotent god.
• Lu Yuan proposed becoming the stone himself, and Seashell reasoned that the Life Tree and Life Fruit might make the idea possible.
• Lu Yuan teased Seashell with the Life Tree’s vines, and Old Wolf joined in rather than rescuing her.
• Seashell studied the Green Field records and advised Lu Yuan as he used a Life Fruit to infuse the Chaos Essence Stone with life energy.
• The stone absorbed the energy and grew a small green-leaf pattern, beginning a slow transformation that would consume more Life Fruits.
• Seashell offered the Opium Poppy Tree’s hidden savings to support the effort, and Lu Yuan concealed the cauldron in the Life Tree’s canopy.

Lu Yuan oversaw five years of mining and technological development before preparing Sky City to set out for new regions. A treasury report revealed that the Insectoid Army may have eaten more ore than humanity had stored.

• Lu Yuan allowed Chicken Snake, Mother Bear, and Old Wolf to stay near the anomalous egg while the Life Tree monitored it.
• Humanity developed Source Fire weapons, Black Obsidian Computers, and more than one hundred thousand humanoid puppets as mining fueled rapid growth.
• By the fifth year, the nearby mineral sources were exhausted, and Lu Yuan’s departments reported that Sky City was ready to depart.
• Lu Yuan reviewed plans for expanding the city, producing hibernation pods, and storing a century’s worth of food in the sinkhole.
• The mining haul brought the treasury to a surplus of 18,300 Spirit Rhyme, but a director reported that the Insectoid Army may have secretly eaten more ore than remained in storage.