Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan and Old Cat fought Gui’s true body in the deepest sinkhole, using Gui’s sealed blood, a hidden ballista, and bombs to destroy the monster after Lu Yuan was killed. Lu Yuan revived outside the Different Dimension, while Old Cat and Old Wolf remained in the sinkhole amid the wreckage.

• Lu Yuan embedded the resin containing Gui’s blood in his shoulder and pushed through the cave’s deeper levels as the monster’s power overwhelmed him.
• Old Cat ignited the resin to awaken Lu Yuan, but Gui’s true body paralyzed him and its Rize servants attacked him and seized his equipment.
• Old Cat discovered Lu Yuan had hidden a finger in his Storage Space to operate a ballista, then used its Adhesion skill to trigger the poisoned bolt against Gui.
• Old Cat and Old Wolf repeatedly detonated bombs beside Gui until the monster died, while Lu Yuan was blown apart in the explosion.
• The Life Tree outside the Different Dimension nurtured a new body, and Lu Yuan revived.

The humans sent the Undying Giant Turtle to stall the Rat Rice Dam Civilization’s second warrior while they waited for Lu Yuan. The turtle withstood Purple Brocade Fur’s attacks and nearly bit him in half, but his Field ability let him escape, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Rat Rice Dam Civilization sent Purple Brocade Fur, armed with exceptional-grade equipment, to fight after its leaders agreed to honor the first loss.
• Old Cat sent the Undying Giant Turtle into the second battle to buy time for Lu Yuan to arrive.
• Purple Brocade Fur burrowed underground and struck the turtle, but the turtle activated its defensive inscriptions and resisted his attacks.
• The turtle bit down on Purple Brocade Fur, who used Field - Grafting Flowers and Connecting Trees to swap places with a stone and escape.
• Purple Brocade Fur retreated, shaken, while the Undying Giant Turtle remained protected and waited for him to approach again.

After Lu Yuan dreamed of Sky City’s past, Old Cat suspected the dream reflected real history, leaving the group to decide to investigate despite the risks. As dawn arrived, Seashell shared her loneliness and uncertainty about her origins, and Lu Yuan comforted her before they resolved to continue exploring Sky City.

• Lu Yuan regretted missing the chance to collect Godly Equipment in his dream, while Old Cat suspected the dream revealed Sky City's real past.
• Seashell denied knowing what her ability was and wondered who she was, why she had survived, and what had happened to her civilization.
• Lu Yuan told Seashell she could remain with them and gave her a Soul Infant Fruit to nourish her soul.
• The Undying Giant Turtle demanded a treat and received a pomegranate fruit, while Seashell enjoyed her first taste of food and asked for more.
• After waiting until dawn, Lu Yuan, Old Cat, Seashell, and the Undying Giant Turtle resolved to continue investigating Sky City.

Lu Yuan visited the Lize Civilization to check on his recovering comrades and received Seal Resin, then brought it to the Rat Rice Dam Civilization for appraisal. The Rat People identified it as material made from a Steel Ability User’s blood and warned that possessing it could attract ghost-level anomalies.

• Lu Yuan visited Taduo and the other injured Lize comrades, gave them Soul Infant Fruit and mental-energy medicine, and discussed their recovery with Governor Lyon.
• Lyon gave Lu Yuan two pieces of Seal Resin, and Lu Yuan left an Opium Poppy Tree branch for the Lize Civilization to use in Dream Conferences.
• Lu Yuan brought the Seal Resin to Shu Huangfeng and asked the Rat People to appraise it.
• Shu Huangfeng tested the resin against his God Shining Mirror and found it blocked even the mirror’s strongest supernatural attack.
• The Old Scholar Rat Person told Lu Yuan that Seal Resin was likely made from a Steel Ability User’s blood and warned that it could provoke attacks from ghost-level anomalies.

Lu Yuan discovered that the Donkey-Head Monster had terrified Mother Bear and was rebuilding its body with the Fire Lizard’s bones. He concluded the monster might be intelligent and could threaten him once restored, leaving him determined to kill it quickly.

• Lu Yuan found the two frightened bear cubs alone, fed them pomegranates, and brought them back to camp after failing to find Mother Bear in her cave.
• Lu Yuan detected the Donkey-Head Monster’s rotten smell near the cave and went toward Fire Lizard Valley with Old Wolf to investigate.
• Lu Yuan watched from a hidden vantage and saw Mother Bear paralyzed with fear while the Donkey-Head Monster slowly forced Fire Lizard bones into its body.
• Lu Yuan realized the monster might be rebuilding itself, recognized that his Extraordinary Tinder urged him to kill it before it recovered, and suspected it possessed intelligence.
• Lu Yuan raised the monster’s threat level and decided he had to kill it as soon as possible.

Lu Yuan fought Di’s possessed corpse and tried to rescue Seashell before the Opium Poppy Tree’s vast obsession awakened. He moved Seashell’s soul into the Life Tree and escaped into the Different Dimension as the tree and its monsters went into a frenzy searching for her.

• Lu Yuan found Di’s corpse on White Jade Plaza and learned that the Ascension Ceremony’s obsession had animated it.
• Lu Yuan scolded Seashell for planning to sacrifice herself, then fought and defeated the obsession possessing Di without destroying his body.
• The Opium Poppy Tree began awakening, and Lu Yuan hurried to move Seashell’s soul into the Life Tree after her original body and a Life Fruit proved unsuitable.
• The tree’s faces attacked Lu Yuan’s senses, but he ordered Seashell into the Life Tree and activated the Different Dimension.
• The Opium Poppy Tree and its monsters erupted into a frenzy searching for Seashell while Lu Yuan watched from the Different Dimension.

Lu Yuan returned to Sky City with a Spirit Rhyme Value System book and learned how valuable artisan-made equipment could be. A sudden insight into civilization's fortune improved his creations, while he warned the Lize Civilization that the Eighth Era's brutal rules were likely to spread.

• Tian Tian stayed behind to negotiate with the Rat Rice Dam Civilization as Lu Yuan returned to Sky City with Spirit Treasure Appraisal and Research.
• Sky City's scientists studied the Spirit Rhyme Value System, and Lu Yuan warned them not to sell his Legendary Level gloves unless they were desperate.
• Lu Yuan carved an Ice Jade Marrow pendant depicting the Undying Giant Turtle, and his first piece advanced to Ordinary Level with several abilities.
• After a more polished second pendant received a weaker evaluation, Lu Yuan concluded that civilization's fortune, a work's story, and an artisan's title affected its value.
• Lu Yuan spent the following days creating while Sky City's scientists searched for a landing site.
• Lu Yuan told the Lize Civilization that the Eighth Era's rules of conflict and Idealistic Energy were likely to spread and urged them to prepare.

Rat Gongye created a Legendary pair of mirrors that linked the Rat Rice Dam Civilization with the humans, while humanity spent two decades building industry and preparing to move Green Field Mountain. The Mountain Moving Plan was completed, establishing Human 18 Civilization as a Level Two Civilization on Pangu Continent.

• Rat Gongye forged two Legendary mirrors that could communicate and transmit small objects or living beings, and gave one to the Rat Rice Dam Civilization.
• One year later, the Rat Rice Dam Civilization departed westward in search of fortune, while humanity focused on the Mountain Moving Plan.
• Lu Yuan helped rebuild human heavy industry, and humanity discovered uranium and Black Jade mines to support its plans.
• In the sixteenth year, Jin Dongliang awakened the Body Settling Field and became humanity’s first Level Seven expert.
• In the nineteenth year, Shu Tongtie forged the Legendary Beacon Fire Greatsword, which Lu Yuan borrowed after the ratfolk had departed.
• In the twenty-first year, humanity completed the Mountain Moving Plan, embedding Green Field Mountain beside Sky City and celebrating its new industrial strength.

Lu Yuan fought the Donkey-Head Monster in a sealed vault, using fire and molten steel to counter its abilities while relying on the mysterious warning sound. After enduring a brutal close-quarters battle, he used Different Dimension to vanish and leave the monster trapped in the flames.

• Old Wolf charged the Donkey-Head Monster with a Fire Bowl, weakening its shadow arms and giving Lu Yuan a chance to escape its restraints.
• Lu Yuan reached the vault and shut the Alloy Gate, but the monster teleported inside as the warning sound rang out.
• Lu Yuan splashed Molten Steel and torches at the monster, turning the vault into a blazing trap that restricted its darkness-based abilities.
• Lu Yuan and the monster fought hand-to-hand in the inferno; Lu Yuan damaged its bones while suffering burns and failing equipment.
• Lu Yuan kicked through the monster's spine, then used God's Skill: Different Dimension to disappear, leaving the monster burning alone in the vault.

After volcanic ash and extreme cold plunged Sky City into a devastating Ice Age, Lu Yuan and humanity struggled to survive while concealing his return. A gamma-ray burst from the east alarmed nearby civilizations, and a joint meeting ended with urgent questions about a powerful civilization and the danger it faced.

• Sky City settled beside a lake after escaping the volcanic ash, but the eruption and minus-fifty-degree winter killed livestock and people and threatened future harvests.
• Lu Yuan told Old Cat to keep his return secret and said he would remain outside the city while cultivating the Chaos Essence Stone.
• Lu Tiantian recorded humanity’s survival measures, including rationing resources for children, reducing heating for experts, and slaughtering animals for warm clothing.
• Lu Tiantian received news of a gamma-ray burst detected to the east, alarming the adults while the children continued feeding birds.
• Old Cat, Lu Tiantian, Seashell, Shamo, and others told the Lize Civilization and Human Mother Civilization that the volcano may have erupted in the wrong era after another civilization delayed it.
• The civilizations debated what had caused the gamma-ray burst and feared that a powerful civilization had left its Safe Zone and encountered danger.

Guo Dafeng lost a duel to Bai Diao’s X-Class Armor, but Lu Yuan used the celebration to identify Bai Diao as a demon who was secretly enslaving Jin Bote. Lu Yuan struck inside Jin Bote’s mental world and beheaded Bai Diao, leaving the demon’s fate uncertain.

• Guo Dafeng fought Bai Diao and was decisively defeated by the superior speed and strength of the X-Class Armor.
• Old Cat learned that Bai Diao was a Level 4 pilot with the God's Skill Bullet Time, while Guo Dafeng was a Level 7 Grandmaster.
• As the Blue Roc Civilization celebrated its victory, Lu Yuan quietly took out a Mental Storm Spirit Speech Rune.
• Bai Diao revealed that his God's Skill Telepathic Control had trapped Jin Bote in his mental world and was enslaving him.
• Lu Yuan entered Jin Bote’s mental world, used Space Blink, and cut off Bai Diao’s head while declaring, “I found you, demon!”

Civilizations across Pangu Continent reacted in different ways to the news that the Ninth Era had reached its middle, while Green Field City endured years of volcanic winter. In the fifth month of the sixth year, Sky City found Lu Yuan near the ruins of the Source Fire Civilization.

• Li Chunhong proposed a knowledge-sharing alliance with Old Cat and Tian Tian, and Tian Tian supported agreeing to the plan.
• An advanced Octopus Form civilization debated the era’s changes and whether to decipher or destroy its unknown metal communicator, while other civilizations chose whether to leave their Safe Zones.
• Lu Yuan continued cultivating the Chaos Essence Stone and studying documents as Green Field City adapted to blizzards and volcanic ash.
• Green Field City recreated a Large Puppet, a powered armor that let a Level Three soldier contend with a Level Five warrior.
• Lu Yuan’s human body was nurtured, and the first sunlight broke through the volcanic clouds.
• At Seashell’s suggestion, Sky City searched for Lu Yuan and found him beside the ruins of the former Source Fire Civilization in the fifth month of the sixth year.

Lu Yuan learned more about the Lize Civilization and agreed to teach its warriors about Extraordinary Tinder in exchange for a rare sealing resin. He overcame his hesitation to contact Human Civilization, spoke with his younger sister Lu Qingqing, and gave her guidance and a Dream Visualization Chart.

• Lu Yuan bathed among young ants, received custom clothing, and learned that the Lize Civilization descended from survivors whose advanced civilization had regressed after a spacecraft crash.
• Lyon asked Lu Yuan to train Lize warriors in Extraordinary Tinder, offering him rare resin from a sealed anomaly; Lu Yuan accepted and warned the Lize people about the Earth Mother Goddess.
• Lu Yuan was given a private room and communicator, then hesitated before connecting to Human Civilization because he feared contact might weaken his resolve to continue his journey.
• Lu Yuan reunited with Lu Qingqing over video, teased her with his mental deterrence ability, and advised her to strengthen her Extraordinary Tinder before exploring her Dream Induction God's Skill.
• Lu Yuan gave Lu Qingqing a Dream Visualization Chart containing guidance for Dream Ability Users.

Lu Yuan outlined Green Field Civilization’s plans for True Dream, a civilization trading market, and the expansion of Green Field City as it traveled toward its new settlement. As the leadership weighed the risks of selling God's Skills, Sea Snail Miss proposed trading them through a hidden temple under the Greedy Demon God’s name.

• Lu Yuan announced limits on dream entertainment, plans to train diplomats and expand industry, and a proposal to sell equipped cities to other civilizations.
• At the Big Rice Bucket Cafeteria, Lu Ying questioned the risks of empowering future rivals, while Professor Hai Zhiyun and a Blue Peng scientist argued that competition and automated production could support the plan.
• Green Field City took flight toward the Ulan Clan’s gifted mine, and Lu Yuan’s officials began planning robot production, resource use, population growth, and trade goods.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell joked together after a long day of meetings, then Green Field City neared its destination beside a vast frozen lake and secured an initial five-Civilization-Point order from Ulan City.
• Lu Yuan refused to sell God's Skills openly because of internal disputes, political risks, and the cost in luck, but Sea Snail Miss suggested trading them through a hidden temple as the Greedy Demon God.

Green Field City’s Spirit Plant Fields sparked a scramble among civilizations, while the dwarves studied their purchase and worried over their wager with Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan’s craftsmen struggled to devise a way to create fields without Reverse Entropy Elements, and the chapter ended with Lu Yuan and Seashell looking toward humanity’s ambition to become a Level Four Civilization.

• Green Field City announced that each civilization could purchase one Spirit Plant Field, triggering fierce competition and a lottery for priority among the cheapest fields.
• The dwarves bought a 250 Spirit Rhyme Spirit Plant Field and examined its construction, while Council Chairman Storm Lie Jiu worried that Rock Fist Shen Lu had endangered the clan by wagering against Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan and more than two hundred craftsmen considered alternatives to Reverse Entropy Elements, but rejected tiny Wine Element fields and costly fields made from legendary materials.
• Rat Gongye proposed using fields as forging tools, and Lu Yuan left the discussion to seek inspiration while the craftsmen tried to develop plans.
• Lu Yuan met Seashell at the Opium Poppy Tree, where they watched Green Field City expand and spoke of humanity becoming a Level Four Civilization.

Lu Yuan’s team learned from a pod of orcas about a mirage dragon guarding a volcanic region, then discovered artificial buildings near the volcano. The find sparked excitement across Human 18 Civilization as reconnaissance teams brought back photographs and supplies, and the story left them preparing to explore a possible prehistoric ruin.

• Seashell translated the orcas’ warning that they were approaching the mirage dragon’s territory, and Lu Yuan stopped Sky City and sent out scouts.
• Lu Ying reported that the Flying Brigade had found an active volcano 142 kilometers southeast and artificial structures buried near it.
• The discovery of the possible Civilization Ruins astonished Lu Yuan’s team, who realized the orcas had led them to it.
• News of the discovery spread to Human 18 Civilization’s leaders, who gathered excitedly to discuss the opportunity.
• Reconnaissance teams sent further photographs and details, while Water Flea Insects recovered supplies from underwater buildings.

Lu Yuan descended to the second underground level, where strange eyes threatened to grow across his body, and prepared to fight Gui’s monsters without being touched. Surrounded by at least twelve attackers, he unleashed the Extraordinary Tinder’s power as the battle escalated.

• Lu Yuan reached the second level, shut his eyes to stop the strange information, and asked Old Cat to contact any surviving Alien Race members by radio.
• He set up camp, watched the darkness through the Donkey Head Mask’s third eye, and realized that more eyes let him see deeper levels of the cave.
• A shadow attacked and vanished using Different Dimension, but Lu Yuan learned from Old Cat that the ability lasted only one second.
• Lu Yuan fought off the shadows with his shield, sword, throwing knives, and kicks while avoiding injury that might cause more eyes to grow.
• Old Cat warned Lu Yuan that at least twelve enemies were attacking, and Lu Yuan’s dagger released a powerful red Long Rainbow that burned the monsters and drew their cries.

Lu Yuan and Old Cat discovered that the insect swarm had arisen from a demon’s corpse, and watched it produce seven rapidly evolving King Insect Candidates. After the swarm settled, Lu Yuan found the Starry Sky Conch he had come to rescue and stealthily approached it, while a dangerous, still-unintelligent Mother Bug remained high in the tree.

• Lu Yuan fired the Little High Cannon at a giant flesh worm, triggering a violent battle among the insects.
• A golden insect emerged from a bloated insect’s body, evolved to Level One, and was recognized as a King Insect Candidate; seven candidates appeared in total.
• Old Cat explained that intelligent insect swarms and their evolving Mother Bugs were major threats to civilization.
• Lu Yuan found a large Starry Sky Conch sheltering its occupant and learned that the rare life-form contained about thirty cubic meters of space.
• Lu Yuan concealed himself and crept toward the conch, spotting king insect pupae and a high-level Mother Bug in the tree.

Lu Yuan completed Farmer No. 1, a puppet robot that became a Legendary-Level artificial wonder, astonishing the watching artisans and demonstrating that it could create a field that boosted mushroom growth. After reflecting on how difficult such original works were to reproduce, Lu Yuan introduced Farmer No. 1 to everyone and left the contest exhausted but satisfied.

• Lu Lun sensed fortune in the locust puppet and realized Lu Yuan’s craftsmanship far surpassed his own.
• Lu Yuan finished Farmer No. 1, whose living willpower activated a weak field and whose movements preserved traces of its former life.
• Lu Yuan completed the puppet with a spirit crystal and confirmed that it could understand simple commands and search for mushroom spores.
• The finished Farmer No. 1 was identified as a Legendary-Level artificial wonder, leaving the humans unsure whether they had won until Lu Yuan confirmed they probably had.
• Lu Yuan concluded that Legendary works could not be mass-produced because copies lacked the originality and willpower of the first creation.
• Lu Yuan, exhausted and satisfied, ordered Farmer No. 1 to greet everyone, and it obeyed with a loud cry.

Lu Yuan used the Civilization Points earned through his own past achievements to give the Chaos Essence Stone a fate, creating a living body that matured over ten months. He emerged as the Greedy Demon God, a powerful artificial aberrant phenomenon, though its appraisal showed that it still lacked a heart and needed further development.

• Lu Yuan isolated the Chaos Essence Stone from Human Civilization and infused it with the fortune tied to his own past milestones, leaving the fortune earned by others untouched.
• The stone became a living thing and began gestating; Lu Yuan fell asleep inside it as his soul potential broke past its former limit.
• After ten months, the Chaos Essence Stone hatched, and Lu Yuan emerged in a massive, twelve-ton humanoid body.
• Lu Yuan tested the new body's magma, vine, intangibility, transformation, and steel abilities, finding that many had reached the aberrant phenomenon level.
• The Pioneer's Eye identified the body as the Greedy Demon God, a likely mythical-grade artificial oddity whose missing heart left its full strength unrealized.