Chapter Summaries

After Green Field Mountain’s tourism operation opened, Lu Yuan mourned Sha Sanli and considered how to balance population growth with cultivating stronger citizens. With the Mountain Moving Plan complete, humanity prepared to move on toward the Human Mother Civilization and retrieve the Lize Civilization spaceship.

• Lu Yuan opened Green Field Mountain to tourists, where visitors could see its dangerous creatures, managed wildlife, and extraordinary plants.
• Sha Sanli died after seeing the Mountain Moving Plan completed, and Lu Yuan read his eulogy before the old man was cremated.
• Lu Yuan, Seashell, and Old Cat debated whether humanity should prioritize population growth or cultivation quality, then agreed to keep the population below one million and plan for about two thousand births each year.
• Lu Yuan arranged to use the Life Tree to teleport away the Lize Civilization spaceship containing the ghost head, fulfilling his promise in the technology trade.
• After test flights carrying the mountain revealed minor technical problems, Lu Yuan told the leaders to finish maintenance and prepare to search for ruins and minerals while heading toward the Human Mother Civilization.

Lu Yuan planned to raise Sky City’s inner ring and warned that the settlement’s water supply could run out in a few years. After a month of recovery and growing food production, he announced Green Field Town as humanity’s new homeland.

• Old Cat warned Lu Yuan and Seashell that drought could exhaust the reservoir within three or four years, while Lu Yuan explained that Sky City’s inner ring could be raised on its own.
• Lu Yuan said reviving the Opium Poppy Tree was essential to powering Sky City and Green Field Paradise.
• The villagers’ cactus harvest eased the food crisis, but many resisted studying, prompting Shamo to warn that the collective would soon undergo reforms.
• Lu Yuan gathered more than ten thousand people beneath the Opium Poppy Tree and announced that Green Field Town was officially established.

Lu Yuan and Green Field City's soldiers fought to hold back the mutated monsters inside the Flying Saucer while preparing to lift it ashore. As Green Field City faced the Gray Mist and another wave of attacks, Lu Yuan explained the war's origins and the likely role of a Spirit Devouring alien.

• Three submarines reached the Flying Saucer, and Guo Dafeng led Green Field City's Elite Combat Team inside to help Lu Yuan fight the monsters.
• Lu Yuan organized the soldiers into shifts and assigned Lu Fengying to tie ropes around the Flying Saucer so it could be lifted to Sky City.
• Jin Dongliang ordered the defenders to protect Green Field Mountain's power plant, anti-gravity units, and ammunition depot as civilians sheltered from the Gray Mist.
• The Insectoid Warriors resisted the Gray Mist and became the main force fighting the mutated monsters while the Opium Poppy Tree remained out of action.
• Lu Yuan told the troops that the Quantum Civilization had built the Flying Saucer to suppress a ghost and that its Great Spirit Essence User may have become a Spirit Devourer.
• Lu Yuan explained that the alien had likely exterminated the South Island Civilization, devoured the fishmen's souls, and created Ant Chips containing fragments of its split soul.

Lu Yuan and Seashell opened Green Field Supermarket to introduce abundant goods and money to the people of Sky City. The crowd discovered its affordable food and tools, and Sha Sanli reconsidered spending all his new wages on food.

• Lu Yuan reassured Seashell that the supermarket could change people’s thinking and explained how a supermarket visit had shaken Soviet leader Yeltsin’s faith in his country.
• Lu Yuan opened Green Field Supermarket, where Undying Giant Turtle and two Domination-controlled bugs kept the crowd orderly.
• Sha Sanli entered the supermarket intending to spend his 200 yuan payment on food.
• Guo Cuicui and Guo Pingping showed Sha Sanli the plentiful corn, flour, potatoes, and breadfruit, with a daily purchase limit of one hundred pounds per person.
• Sha Sanli decided not to rush into buying food and continued browsing, finding metal tools such as knives, scissors, and washbasins.

Lu Yuan lured the Donkey-Head Monster away from its hostages and toward the vault, but its spatial ability let it ambush him. He fought back with his dagger, a kick, and a shield strike, yet the monster seized his throat and weapon again.

• Lu Yuan entered the Donkey-Head Monster’s Attribute Absorption field and found Mother Bear and the wolf pack too weakened to stand.
• Lu Yuan built a crude ballista at the cave entrance while he and the Donkey-Head Monster waited each other out.
• Lu Yuan pretended to flee toward the vault, and the Donkey-Head Monster vanished from beside the Fire Lizard’s corpse to attack him from behind.
• Lu Yuan cut the monster and kicked it into an oil lamp’s flames, but the monster extinguished the fire with darkness.
• Lu Yuan struck the Donkey-Head Monster’s forehead with his shield, breaking its spine and knocking off its head, but its hands seized his throat and dagger hand again.

Lu Yuan calculated Humanity's annual Spirit Rhyme income and realized the civilization was far poorer than its leaders had thought. After Shu Huangfeng described ways to earn more and offered a detailed appraisal book, Lu Yuan bought one copy and left Lu Tiantian and other scientists to continue the trade.

• Lu Yuan estimated the Spirit Rhyme produced by Humanity, its trees, experts, scavenging, and other sources, and concluded that the Opium Poppy Tree had been consuming far more energy than expected.
• Humanity's diplomatic teams calculated their visible annual income at only about 20 Spirit Rhymes without Cube-Level Energy, much of it from scavenging.
• Shu Huangfeng explained that special spacetime nodes and creating extraordinary equipment could generate Spirit Rhymes, then offered the Rat Rice Dam Civilization's Spirit Treasure Appraisal and Research.
• Lu Yuan examined the book's detailed evaluation of Chain Purple-Gold Armor, confirmed the appraisal system was missing from Green Field Civilization, and bought one copy.
• Lu Yuan declined to buy the offered forging recordings and left Lu Tiantian and more than ten volunteer scientists to negotiate trades and find buyers for Humanity's specialties.

Lu Yuan rested in the prison after securing the golden bowl, then befriended the Undying Giant Turtle and collected valuable materials and a Space Teleportation Array. The turtle warned that the ghost might escape in about a century, while Lu Yuan considered how a matching array could connect him to the Lize Civilization.

• Lu Yuan sealed the golden bowl in Seal Resin and stored it, then rested while feeding flour dumplings to the Undying Giant Turtle.
• The Undying Giant Turtle told Old Cat that it had outlasted its captors and other imprisoned aberrant phenomena, then explained that severe injuries could turn it to stone.
• Lu Yuan found precious metals mixed into the turtle's undigested waste and collected them, then learned that the turtle expected the ghost to escape in about a hundred years.
• The Undying Giant Turtle gave Lu Yuan a resin-coated Space Teleportation Array that could transport objects up to around 200,000 kilometers if paired with another array and supplied with spirit crystals.
• Lu Yuan considered using a matching array to establish a connection with the Lize Civilization, then lay down to recover.

Lu Yuan explored the hidden Da Lai Empire laboratory and heard a trapped researcher plead for rescue from a Hibernation Pod in the central room. After learning that a sealed Gui lurked there and that its power was awakening, Lu Yuan hesitated over whether to risk entering, leaving the researcher’s fate uncertain.

• The Lize people watched Lu Yuan enter the hidden space and celebrated the possibility of discovering their ancestors’ wealth and knowledge.
• Lu Yuan explored a dark corridor, installed Old Cat’s core in a mechanical body, and heard a Da Lai Empire Researcher calling for help.
• The researcher said he had survived the disaster in a Hibernation Pod, identified himself as a Seventh Era inscription specialist, and offered to teach Lu Yuan if rescued.
• The researcher revealed that a sealed Gui occupied the central room and that the laboratory had suffered a riot after the spaceship crashed.
• The researcher’s voice fell silent after warning Lu Yuan not to bleed, and Lu Yuan discussed the danger with Old Cat while inspecting nearby rooms and recording evidence for the Lize people.

The Ancient Insect defeated the Abyss Edge Clan’s Resentment Elder and helped Lu Yuan obtain ancient bloodline for the Qiankun World. Lu Yuan presented the Ancient Insect as a bearer of Great Emperor Huangtian’s legacy, drawing civilizations to the Buzhou Ruins and prompting humanity to plan trade while avoiding a premature war.

• The Ancient Insect pierced the Resentment Elder with its horn, then tore his body in half while Lu Yuan warned it not to provoke the Ancient Races further.
• The Greedy Demon God swallowed half of the Resentment Elder’s body, and Lu Yuan used the remains to strengthen the bloodline in his Qiankun World.
• Lu Yuan announced that the Ancient Insect was an Insect Mythical and a general of Great Emperor Huangtian, inviting civilizations to exchange for inheritances at the divine temple.
• Old Cat and humanity’s leaders discussed selling goods through the temple and a possible Northern Frontier–Buzhou Ruins trade platform, but Lu Yuan advised waiting until after the Buzhou Gathering.
• Civilizations flocked to the supposed relic, while Lu Yuan reflected on the slow progress of Level Three Civilizations and resolved that each civilization had to help save itself.

Lu Yuan opened a beach for public tourism while reviewing reports from the scouts, who had discovered a vast rainforest and a towering mountain beside a deep fissure. The scouts found signs of an unknown technological civilization near the fissure, but had not located its settlement.

• Lu Yuan brought civilians to a surveyed beach after the Investigation Team and Insectoid Legion confirmed the surrounding area was safe for tourism.
• Lu Yuan relaxed on the beach while Maid Miss served him and he read the scouting reports.
• The scouts reported a rainforest roughly 16 million square kilometers in area, with few resources and no discovered Civilization Ruins.
• The scouts found an enormous plain and a likely artificial Super Mountain 100,000 meters tall, with a vast, deep Earth Crack between two such mountains.
• The scouts discovered dug-up Extraordinary Plants and campfires containing plastic waste near the mountain, suggesting an advanced civilization was active nearby.
• The scouts reported that they had not found the civilization's settlement and could not rule out that its people lived in the fissure or had concealed themselves.

Lu Yuan harvested honey from the mutated bees, then began digging a snow tunnel toward the Man-Eating Flower to steal its fruit before winter ended. Pollen poisoning nearly overwhelmed him, but he recovered and continued the slow, dangerous excavation as Old Wolf howled from a distant slope.

• Lu Yuan collected honey from the mutated bees, sealed the hive, and decided to steal fruit from the Man-Eating Flower.
• Lu Yuan sent Old Wolf back to its den and began digging a kilometer-long tunnel through the snow toward a fruit-laden branch.
• While digging at night, Lu Yuan reflected on his determination to return to humanity's homeland and became overwhelmed by distracting thoughts.
• Lu Yuan realized that pollen from the Man-Eating Flower had poisoned him, activated the Different Dimension, and relied on his Extraordinary Tinder to clear the toxins.
• After recovering, Lu Yuan resumed digging with greater caution, resting and clearing pollen as he worked through several days.
• Old Wolf howled from atop a distant slope beneath the moonlight.

Lu Yuan overheard four demons debating whether to summon Gui to destroy a ruin that might contain the remains of a forgotten Sixth Era hero. He revealed himself as the Ninth Era’s Primal Myth and claimed he could destroy the ruin himself, leaving the demons wary while the Evolved Ones warned him that doing so could provoke the hidden mastermind.

• Solomon proposed summoning Gui to destroy the ruin, but the other demons resisted because the summoning could get them killed and endanger their civilizations.
• The Crystal Person told Lu Yuan that the ruin might conceal a hero from the Sixth Era whose remains had been cursed and forgotten.
• Lu Yuan and the Evolved Ones discussed the Era Disaster, the mysterious mastermind, and the danger facing the Ninth Era.
• Lu Yuan emerged from the Different Dimension, introduced himself as the Primal Myth of the Ninth Era, and revealed his title as Grandmaster Artisan.
• Lu Yuan threatened to destroy the ruin and rescue the hero’s remains, while the Evolved Ones warned that the mastermind might retaliate if he acted directly.

Lize Civilization agreed to contact humanity while New York City struggled to stabilize amid crime and scarce Extraordinary Tinders. The city forcibly transferred a dying woman’s tinder to a special operations captain, creating the New York Captain, just as an alien civilization initiated contact with humanity.

• Lyon warned the Lize leaders that civilizations from earlier eras had vanished, and they agreed to request Human Civilization’s code and contact it privately.
• In New York City, Professor Edward’s institute tried to recruit Extraordinary Tinder holders for its City Hero Project, but Floyd resisted learning how to spread the tinder and the drug-addicted woman could not understand the lesson.
• Edward received instructions to persuade Floyd to cooperate and to force the woman’s tinder transfer, despite the risk that she would die; he confirmed a reliable special operations captain as the recipient.
• The woman died during the transfer, and the captain gained her tinder, becoming the New York Captain and leading a team of superpowered city heroes.
• A young doctor told Edward that another alien civilization had initiated contact with humanity.

After escaping the Fire Lizard Mountain Cave, Lu Yuan recovered some strength, found Leoric’s damaged Legendary Level mask, and set out with Old Wolf and the surviving animals. Mother Bear’s rescue triggered a Civilization Milestone, earning Human Civilization’s 18th branch a reward of four random Low-Grade Extraordinary Plants and 500 points.

• Lu Yuan crawled out of the burning vault with Old Wolf and discovered that his left arm was gone, though his burns could heal.
• Lu Yuan found Leoric’s Mask, a damaged Legendary Level artifact, and tested its heightened perception and impaired rear vision.
• Old Wolf brought Lu Yuan food, and Lu Yuan packed the living Soul Gem and befriended the metal sphere that had helped him in battle.
• Lu Yuan fed pomegranate fruit and other food to Mother Bear and the wolves, helping the weakened animals recover.
• God announced that Mother Bear’s taming earned a Civilization Milestone, ranking Human Civilization’s 18th branch 66,189th and granting four Low-Grade Extraordinary Plants and 500 milestone points.

Lu Yuan introduced a merit-based reward system and led his people to discover a warehouse filled with metals and a sealed factory. The factory revealed the Green Field Civilization’s vine-powered automated production machines, leaving the group stunned.

• Lu Yuan offered pomegranate seeds and promised Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Materials to people who made contributions, while Guo Weiqiang raised the lack of glyph teachers.
• Lu Yuan inspected a newly discovered warehouse and found millions of tons of metals, including dangerous radioactive materials, which he ordered counted and secured as collective property.
• Lu Yuan used the Eternal Tinder to teleport through a reinforced Titanium Alloy door and open it from inside.
• Lu Yuan and the others entered a huge factory packed with strange machines and dried vines, including biological robots made from vines.

After gaining Glyph Insight Talent, Lu Yuan discovered that his soul had reached its limit of nine innate abilities and was beginning to solidify. He used a Soul Infant Fruit to delay the process, then set out with Old Cat for a way to keep gaining abilities.

• Lu Yuan received Glyph Insight Talent and began perceiving intricate patterns throughout Pangu Continent.
• Lu Yuan discovered the Soul Satiation State and learned that his soul would solidify after reaching its capacity of nine innate abilities.
• Lu Yuan ate a Soul Infant Fruit, which temporarily strengthened his soul and delayed solidification.
• Old Cat proposed returning to the Lize Civilization for a sealing technique or changing races by becoming a Life Tree; Lu Yuan rejected sealing and chose the second method.
• As the Soul Infant Fruit's effect faded and Lu Yuan grew too exhausted to move, Old Cat drove the speedboat onward while the Undying Giant Turtle followed through the river.

Lu Yuan explored Sky City with Bewitching Wolf and the Brown Woolly Sheep Wolves, mapping the ruins and gathering salvage. He returned to camp with books, electronic junk, and food, leaving the city's reservoirs and central district unexplored.

• Lu Yuan set out from the Life Tree with Bewitching Wolf and three Brown Woolly Sheep Wolves, then used Wo Wo Tou buns to help the wolves submit to Bewitching Wolf.
• Lu Yuan explored Sky City, noting its drainage channels, reservoirs, collapsed sections, and dangerous central district, which the wolves refused to approach.
• Lu Yuan found ruined dragonfly-like aircraft made of stone, killed a desert venomous snake, gathered electronic junk and hundreds of books, and found a city map.
• Lu Yuan returned at sunset and gave Sea Snail Miss the books and Old Cat the electronic junk to examine and use for a wireless communicator.
• Lu Yuan cooked aged Fire Lizard meat, a Chicken Snake egg, snake soup, and rice for a meal that reminded him of home.

Lu Yuan and Human Civilization faced the South Island Civilization and arranged a three-match gambling duel to avert war. The first cold-weapon battle began between Guo Dafeng and Sea King Ma, whose hidden attributes raised suspicions about the fishfolk’s capabilities.

• Lu Yuan rejected fleeing Sky City and prepared Human Civilization’s defenses as reconnaissance revealed the South Island Civilization’s armed fleet and Coral Reef settlement.
• The South Island Civilization accepted a gambling duel, and both sides agreed to cold-weapon combat, unarmed combat, and ocean combat.
• Lu Yuan chose Guo Dafeng and Jin Dongliang for the land matches and volunteered to handle the underwater battle.
• The South Island Civilization’s fleet arrived, and both civilizations exchanged formal declarations before the first duel.
• Guo Dafeng faced Sea King Ma in a cold-weapon battle, and Sea King Ma’s opening trident strike narrowly passed Guo Dafeng and scorched the deck.

Lu Yuan traded food to the stranded Turtle Civilization for valuable minerals and then tried to discover how to grow vegetables despite the Boundless Realm’s Chaos Wind. He left the Turtle People searching for the Hero Remains while he began forging a way to improve their conditions.

• Number 286 Turtle Person introduced Lu Yuan to the other surviving Turtle People, and Lu Yuan sold them tens of thousands of Extraordinary Consumables for minerals.
• Lu Yuan gave Number 286 Turtle Person extra supplies and learned that the Turtle People knew nothing about the Hero Remains, though they agreed to help search after Solomon explained what they looked like.
• Lu Yuan tried growing a seed in a Spirit Plant Field, but the Chaos Wind killed it even after he added Life Essence and Reverse Entropy Element.
• Lu Yuan resolved to forge a Vegetable Garden from the materials he had received, while the Turtle People mocked him, placed bets on his success, and told him their civilization’s ruins might trigger a bloodline reaction in a piece of Turtle Shell.

Lu Yuan dominated Painted Skin in Green Field Paradise and triggered a vision revealing that an ancient Mythical being created Domination to control its corpse during a catastrophe. He realized Mythical items might be sacrificed to create new divine abilities, then ended the visit playfully with Seashell.

• Lu Yuan and Seashell entered Green Field Paradise and went to the dream world where Painted Skin was imprisoned.
• Lu Yuan used Domination on Painted Skin, spending just over 400 Spiritual Charm to take control of it.
• Lu Yuan received a vision of an ancient calamity in which a powerful being sacrificed a Magic Treasure to create Domination and leave a contingency for survivors.
• Lu Yuan concluded that Domination was an ancestral backdoor against demons and that sacrificing Mythical items could create God's Skills.
• Lu Yuan proposed building the Greedy Demon God by creating and incorporating more abilities, while Seashell teased him about owing her money.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell frolicked in the dream world, and Seashell eventually let him catch her.