Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan prepared to face the spatially adept Mirage Dragon and entered the foggy sea with the Undying Giant Turtle to investigate it. After attempts to calm the creature failed and it attacked with ice, Lu Yuan waited for it to reveal itself from its Different Dimension.

• Shu Tongtie and the other rat people lent Lu Yuan rare items that concealed his aura and improved his resistance to cold.
• Lu Yuan set out with the Undying Giant Turtle, while Seashell Girl and the Life Tree stayed hidden in his mind and scouts monitored him from above.
• A giant shadow approached through the fog, and Seashell Girl tried to communicate with it, but it grew angry and demanded they leave.
• The shadow attacked with heavy ice arrows, and Lu Yuan took cover while the Undying Giant Turtle charged at what proved to be a phantom.
• The Mirage Dragon unleashed a freezing attack that encased the Undying Giant Turtle in ice, and Lu Yuan watched as the creature began to emerge from its Different Dimension.

Lu Yuan consulted his old allies about the scar afflicting the Immortal King and learned that a concept-erasing ability had anchored its title. He used Spring of Eternal Life to suppress the scar temporarily, leaving the dwarves hopeful but without a permanent cure.

• Lu Yuan asked the Crystal People and other allies how to treat the Immortal King's scar, and they explained that concept erasure could be countered by dismantling and renaming it, using a substitute, or trying the Spring of Eternal Life.
• Lu Yuan updated his allies on the Northern Frontier's development, and Jin Bote approved genetic assistance and communal child-rearing for the Blue Peng People.
• Lu Yuan told Rock Fist Shen Lu and the dwarf aliens about the proposed treatments, but they rejected dismantling the Immortal King and feared the risks of abandoning its title.
• Lu Yuan offered a bottle of Spring of Eternal Life preserved with Weaver slime and applied several drops to the scar.
• The spring water reacted with the scar, producing green smoke and temporarily reducing its obstruction of the Immortal King, though Rock Fist Shen Lu said the underlying affliction remained.

Lu Yuan discussed the dangers and possible redesign of the Heavenly Court Myth with the ancient aliens in the Immortal Palace, then agreed to hear a secret from their past. A memory shown by the old Serpentfolk left him watching a thriving ancient city ruled by the Serpentfolk Nether, Guai of the Spirit Shrine Eye.

• The Crystal People explained that the Heavenly Court Myth came from the Third Era and that the Gear Civilization had scattered treasures across Pangu Continent using its spatial ability.
• Lu Yuan entered the Immortal Palace, learned that the Gear Civilization would not return, and discussed modifying the Heavenly Court Myth to teleport through dreams without attracting forbidden beings.
• The old aliens asked whether Lu Yuan would accept greater responsibility as humanity advanced, and he said humanity would help where it could but would flee an overwhelmingly powerful enemy.
• The old Serpentfolk used God's Skill—Memory Library to show Lu Yuan a blurry vision of a prosperous ancient Serpentfolk city on a naturally floating mountain.
• Lu Yuan followed an envoy into the palace and recognized the ruler on the throne as the Serpentfolk Nether, Guai of the Spirit Shrine Eye.

Lu Yuan grew suspicious of the Level Five ruins and secretly infiltrated them to investigate the sealed mass of flesh. He reached the tower unseen and watched the creature’s disturbing forms, leaving its nature unknown.

• The Octopus Aberrant demonstrated that historical artifacts could suppress the flesh mass, but the effect was slight, and Solomon left to discuss the ruins with his civilization.
• Lu Yuan’s group returned to Green Field City, debated the risks of the ruins, and agreed to investigate cautiously while Lu Yuan resolved to visit them at night.
• Solomon privately confirmed his suspicions with shadowy figures and declared that the ruins had to be destroyed, then promised he could summon powerful beings to do it.
• Lu Yuan transferred his soul into the Greedy Demon God, disguised himself as a bird, and let the ruin’s robots carry him to a garbage dump after a drone shot him down.
• Lu Yuan controlled a swarm of insects to guide him through the sewers, passed a metal gate, and teleported into an abandoned warehouse near the tower.
• Lu Yuan watched the sealed flesh mass at night as it pulsed and formed grotesque faces and creatures, while the metahumans tried to identify it.

Lu Yuan defeated Demon of the Ruined Control, but the battle stirred the Gui in the Snake People Palace and triggered a crisis across both civilizations. The Gui’s shadow loomed over the grasslands as Green Field City and Quincy City prepared for disaster, while Lu Yuan secured the demon’s remains and faced the threat ahead.

• The Gui in the Snake People Palace showed signs of awakening, and Old Cat warned Jin Bote and the others that Lu Yuan might only withstand it briefly.
• Green Field City declared an emergency, began shelter and military measures, and considered activating the Hibernation Act as reports of the Gui’s growing activity arrived.
• Quincy City descended into panic over its missing leader and the looming disaster, while people mysteriously fell unconscious under the Demon of the Ruined Control’s influence.
• Lu Yuan reappeared in the arena after defeating the demon, then sensed the awakening Gui and judged that even his strongest abilities might only let him contend with it briefly.
• Lu Yuan stored the Demon of the Ruined Control’s remains in a sealed bottle after learning that consuming them would grant five powerful skills at the cost of lifelong mental corruption.

Lu Yuan met an armed squad from the Lize Civilization and warned them that their green resin flame contained a drop of Gui blood. After they extinguished it, he led them toward the tent, leaving humanity's first contact with an intelligent alien civilization underway.

• Eagle Eye's squad encountered Lu Yuan as he charged toward them, and they recognized his donkey-head mask before he greeted them as human.
• Lu Yuan identified the squad as Lize people and realized the green flame they carried sealed a drop of Gui blood that could kill them all if released.
• Lu Yuan borrowed Old Cat's Translation Device and warned the soldiers to extinguish the flame so they could survive and talk.
• Taduo reported the encounter to his squad, and the Lize soldiers extinguished the resin flame before switching on their unstable electric lights.
• Lu Yuan led the Lize squad toward the tent while struggling to find words for humanity's first contact with intelligent aliens.

Lu Yuan exhausted himself defeating the Fire Lizard and earned the Cross-Realm Hunter milestone, then crawled toward the Extraordinary Tinder from its corpse. Meanwhile, the seventeen Human Cities arrived in the Pangu Continent’s Safe Zone, throwing society into chaos.

• Lu Yuan kept attacking the poisoned, bloodied Fire Lizard with his spear until it tried to flee, then chased it and wore it down through the night.
• At dawn, the Fire Lizard collapsed, and Lu Yuan received the unique Cross-Realm Hunter milestone for hunting an extraordinary life form across five Extraordinary Levels.
• Lu Yuan heard that his reward was an Eternal Body, but was too exhausted to take it in and crawled toward the Extraordinary Tinder escaping from the Fire Lizard’s corpse.
• In the Safe Zone, the seventeen Human Cities landed on the Pangu Continent after Earth vanished and they traveled through space.
• As power, water, and internet failed, people panicked, looted, and rushed to register marriages, while a Civil Affairs Bureau worker issued certificates and recorded names by hand.

Lu Yuan forged a dead Bixi into an Immortal Level++ living artifact, then collapsed from exhaustion as the Turtle People panicked. Through a communicator, the aberrants reassured Turtle Civilization and revealed Human Civilization’s growing strength in the Northern Frontier, leaving the turtles eager to meet Lu Yuan and learn more.

• Lu Yuan used the Heaven-Opening Forging Method to hatch a Bixi whose final moment was stretched into eternity, creating a small world suited for growing vegetables.
• After the Bixi emerged, Lu Yuan carried half its eggshell onto its back and collapsed from mental exhaustion, prompting the Turtle People to fear he had died.
• The Crystal Person contacted the Turtle People through a communicator and explained that Lu Yuan was resting safely with the aberrants.
• Number 12 Turtle Person invited the aberrants to leave with Turtle Civilization if Pangu Continent could not be saved, while the Crystal Person described Human Civilization’s progress.
• The Crystal Person revealed that Human Civilization had gained about 14,000 Civilization Points and substantial ore through the Northern Frontier, astonishing the Turtle People.
• The Crystal Person offered to share information about Field Industrialization once Lu Yuan woke, and the Turtle artisans eagerly anticipated it.

Lu Yuan prepared to breach the Safe Zone and contact Lize Civilization while waiting for the Life Tree to grow. A phantom mountain then appeared over Lize Civilization, leaving its people unsure whether the monster had died or was preparing to attack.

• Lu Yuan agreed with Old Cat that contacting Lize Civilization was worth the risk and asked it to notify them before he arrived.
• Lu Yuan replanted the Life Tree outside the sinkhole with spirit crystals and the monster's corpse, planning to wait for its next fruit before setting off.
• Lize Civilization's Seventh Branch reported that a phantom Great Mountain had crossed the Safe Zone and overlapped with farmland and homes.
• Cabane concluded that the monster might have died and predicted the mountain would return to reality in about ten days, while Governor Lyon warned that it could instead signal an attack.
• Lyon ordered an evacuation, preparations for war, and five elite investigation teams to search the caves once the mountain manifested.
• Leaders from other Lize cities called Lyon asking whether the monster and Lu Yuan were alive, but he said the situation remained unclear.

Lu Yuan gave gifts to the Underground Alliance’s representatives and the Ancient Insect before humanity prepared to leave Green Field City. At a final meeting, Guo Weiqiang reported that humanity had ample ordinary supplies and energy but dwindling extraordinary materials and slowly declining Civilization Points.

• Lu Yuan gave the twelve racial representatives Flower Pots containing Opium Poppy Tree branches so they could communicate through dreams, and the representatives accepted them eagerly.
• Lu Yuan presented the Ancient Insect with a golden temple sculpture that enabled long-term communication, and urged it to encourage the civilizations to venture beyond the Underground Alliance’s lands.
• Lu Yuan and the others shared a drunken farewell, then spent the final month holding a Mathematics Competition, completing project summaries, and exchanging letters, Time Capsules, and gifts.
• Green Field City withdrew its military work teams and transferred forts to the Underground Alliance while recovering or selling equipment it could not take along.
• At Green Field City’s upper-level meeting, Guo Weiqiang reported that humanity had abundant coal, food, timber, metals, and energy but only about 400 spiritual essence of ordinary extraordinary materials and 3,533.93 Civilization Points.

Lu Yuan rushed to the Lize Civilization’s Seventh Branch to obtain weapons, then returned to prepare Sky City for an impending attack. After gathering his officers, he questioned Xu Pengfei, a survivor who revealed that disguised Painted Skin monsters had infiltrated the Mandala Empire.

• Lu Yuan teleported to the Lize Civilization’s Safe Zone and hurriedly traded Sky City artifacts and fruits for weapons, ammunition, generators, and depleted uranium bombs.
• Taduo learned that Lu Yuan had visited, praised the soldiers for helping him, and ordered supplies moved to a warehouse where Lu Yuan could collect them easily.
• Lu Yuan returned with mortars, Machine Guns, and other supplies, which the soldiers inspected and prepared for battle.
• King Insect Lu Da reported that the captured Xu Pengfei was human and possessed seven Extraordinary Abilities, so Lu Yuan ordered him released from the virtual prison for questioning.
• Lu Yuan gathered the officers and elders, discussed their defenses and the missing people, and questioned Xu Pengfei about the Mandala Empire.
• Xu Pengfei explained that Painted Skin monsters could consume people’s memories and disguise themselves as ordinary people, and Lu Yuan urged him to answer calmly.

After recovering from his death and discovering that more than ten years had passed, Lu Yuan returned to the karst cave to salvage the spoils from the battle with LingYan Zhi Cheng. He gathered equipment and strange treasures, found his own corpse, and inspected the monster’s remains.

• Lu Yuan tested Space Blink, teleported a hundred meters, and collapsed from mental exhaustion.
• Old Cat recounted how the bomb and Old Wolf had helped kill the monster, and Lu Yuan divided the credit among himself, Old Cat, the Lize people, and Old Wolf.
• Lu Yuan learned that it was day 4232 of the Ninth Era and that the cave battle and his resurrection had taken more than ten days.
• Lu Yuan returned to the cave and recovered his equipment, the Knocking Beast Horn, and the Ice Kirin Core Crystal; Old Cat said the Lize people it had moved had disappeared when the Different Dimension entered reality.
• Lu Yuan found his buried corpse and examined the remains of LingYan Zhi Cheng, whose listed abilities included Multiple Different Dimensions, Mental Spike, Domination, and Pollution Assimilation.

Lu Yuan explained Extraordinary Tinder, Civilization Milestones, and Meida Civilization’s technological records to Humanity, urging them to weigh the risks of leaving the Safe Zone. Yunhai City’s leaders began searching for tinder holders and debating how to develop and spread the ability, while unrest and distrust made finding them difficult elsewhere.

• Lu Yuan demonstrated how Extraordinary Tinder strengthened his body and explained its potential to spread, then discussed Civilization Milestones and the consequences of remaining in the Safe Zone.
• Lu Yuan offered Humanity a choice among four topics, including Meida Civilization’s technological records, and awaited their response.
• In Yunhai City, Li Chunhong and other experts recognized the importance of Extraordinary Tinder, and a colonel revealed that a Seventh Company soldier had awakened a similar ability.
• Li Chunhong ordered the soldier protected and called for other tinder holders to be found, while Zhang Hui and the colonel questioned whether scarce resources could help cultivate the soldier’s tinder.
• Leaders in other cities also discussed finding tinder holders, but unrest, secrecy, and distrust made identifying them difficult.

Lu Yuan encountered a terrifying Monster that projected an eyeball onto the full moon and marked him as prey, so he prepared a resurrection point and moved deeper into the forest. The chapter then revealed that the Lize Civilization’s Seventh Branch had also been affected by the lunar anomaly, while its leader Lyon struggled to protect the settlement with his life-draining Precognition.

• Lu Yuan and Old Cat tried to communicate with the Lize Civilization while camping in the forest.
• A bloodshot eyeball appeared over the full moon, and Old Cat warned Lu Yuan that a Monster had caught him by its gaze.
• Lu Yuan considered the threat, learned what Old Cat knew about Monsters, and moved his Life Tree to a concealed hollow as a resurrection point.
• Lu Yuan packed up and headed deeper into the forest with Old Wolf, hoping to avoid dying.
• The chapter revealed that the Lize Civilization’s Seventh Branch had stabilized under Governor Lyon, whose Precognition drained his life force.
• Lyon had foreseen the civilization’s impending death and feared a powerful monster beyond the Safe Zone, while the branch had also lost its Extraordinary Tinder.

Lu Yuan and his companions found the Flying Saucer’s core, where a Soul Gem containing an Otherworlder controlled the vessel and imprisoned a severed Gui tentacle. Unable to attack without risking the Gui’s release, Lu Yuan forced a standoff, and the Otherworlder offered to make the army retreat.

• Lu Yuan used smoke bombs and spatial blinks to get past the laser defenses and enter the Flying Saucer.
• Lu Yuan and the others searched the vessel, found no bodies, and reached its central chamber.
• They discovered a Gui tentacle sealed inside a Super-Electronic Protective Dish and identified a nearby Soul Gem as the Flying Saucer’s control core.
• Lu Yuan realized the Soul Gem matched the gem Lu Ying had seen and that destroying it could free the Gui.
• After red lightning destroyed a Life Tree avatar, Lu Yuan used a bomb to demonstrate his willingness to damage the chamber, making the Otherworlder stop attacking.
• The Otherworlder communicated through Lu Yuan’s next leaf avatar and offered to make the army retreat.

At the first graduation ceremony for Human 18 Civilization’s hibernation-raised children, Lu Yuan urged the new graduates to prepare for a dangerous future and help their weak civilization grow. He met with the top students afterward, where Lu Tiantian proposed continuing the infant-rearing project because the young people valued their close-knit family units over marriage and children.

• Sha Sanli delivered an impassioned speech about the dangers facing Human 18 Civilization and the graduates’ responsibility to build its future.
• The graduates received honor student medals, and the government gave each one an eight-hundred-yuan allowance as they entered the workforce.
• Lu Yuan summoned more than thirty outstanding students and reminded them that their civilization would need to leave Green Field Paradise in six years and eventually return to the Mother Civilization.
• Lu Tiantian suggested that the young people might not marry or have children because they wanted to remain with their siblings, and he proposed continuing the infant-rearing project.
• Lu Yuan realized that the children’s family-centered beliefs reflected a broader social trend he could not control.

The Dwarf Civilization courted other races in Ulan City with gifts and combat challenges while humanity assessed its armor, fighters, and hidden reserves. Lu Yuan returned from a year of seclusion with 112 artisans trained to produce Spirit Plant Fields, and Old Cat planned to challenge the dwarves with an artisan wager.

• Storm Lie Jiu presented Fire Scale Noble Clothing to the gathered races, and the One-Eyed Great Chieftain tried to sell his gift before Ta Gang rebuked him.
• The Dwarf council chairman announced rewards for defeating their Level Seven warriors or the Level Thirteen Liang Yan Beast, and the dwarves went on to defeat challengers in Ulan City's arena.
• Old Cat and human officers reviewed reports on the dwarves' Gear Inheritance, powered armor, arena victories, and a powerful energy source inside their Flying Fortress.
• The officers discussed using human armor and anomalies against the dwarves, including the Level Seventeen Mirage Cloud Dragon, while deciding to gather more information.
• Lu Yuan returned from seclusion and revealed that 112 artisans had learned to produce Spirit Plant Fields with the Reverse Entropy Element.
• Old Cat planned to propose an artisan-level wager against the Dwarf Civilization and told Lu Yuan to prepare for their challenge.

Lu Yuan dreamed of Sky City’s Ascension Ceremony, where its people planned to sacrifice their treasures and the Sakura Yu Tree to create a god, before a terrifying Opium Poppy Tree attacked him. Seashell woke him from the dream, and Lu Yuan told his companions what he had seen, still upset that the ceremony would destroy so much valuable trash.

• In his dream, Lu Yuan was invited by a girl in green to join Sky City’s ceremony to create a god, and he learned that the city’s treasures and Sakura Yu Tree would be sacrificed.
• Lu Yuan realized he was dreaming and protested that the treasures should belong to him for his trash-picking enterprise, causing the crowd to freeze and vanish into darkness.
• Lu Yuan ran through the darkness as memories returned, then found himself beneath an Opium Poppy Tree whose enormous rotten face approached him.
• Seashell used an emerald-green light to pull Lu Yuan out of the nightmare, and he woke in his room beside his sleeping companions.
• Lu Yuan gathered his companions and described the dream, while Old Cat criticized his greed and Lu Yuan lamented the loss of his imagined trash.

Lu Yuan’s people established new policies and continued Sky City’s journey from the desert toward the coast, where they discovered a large city resembling the former Imperial Capital. The chapter left them preparing to investigate a neighboring feudal civilization whose streets showed signs of unrest.

• Lu Yuan announced a paid one-day rest policy and discussed organizing Green Field Town’s government, changing clan laws, and persuading Shali Clan families not to leave.
• Sky City officially took flight, leaving behind the ruined desert villages and carrying its people south.
• Over the following months, Sha Kaner advanced to Level 3, and Sky City’s patrol team celebrated as the city reached the coast.
• Lu Yuan and the others spotted a walled city, farmland, and scattered people, then used the Farsight Cornea to inspect the apparent feudal settlement.
• Lu Xiao said she had not found the city during her earlier investigation, and Lu Yuan surmised that its Safe Zone had opened recently.
• The group debated the Mandala Great Empire’s strength and the possibility of recruiting its Glyph Readers, while Guo Weiqiang pledged to learn to inscribe a Sturdy Glyph.

Lu Yuan died after diving into magma to plunder treasures, then resurrected as the Life Tree amid a volcanic disaster. He sheltered birds on Green Field Mountain and began examining the Chaos Essence Stone and other artifacts he had salvaged from the Earth's core.

• Lu Yuan used Space Blink to find Chaos Essence Stones in the magma, filled his Storage Space with them and magma, and burned to ash.
• Lu Yuan resurrected on the Life Tree and learned from King Insect Lu Da that Green Field City was coping with poisonous gas and severe food losses.
• Lu Yuan spread the Life Tree's canopy to shelter hundreds of thousands of birds and purify the nearby air.
• Sea Snail Miss returned to the Life Tree, mourned Lu Yuan's death, and helped Mother Bear move the Tungsten Iron Cauldron beside it.
• Lu Yuan placed the Chaos Essence Stone and Earth Vein Crystals in the cauldron and explained that the Mirage Cloud Dragon had found a Gear Civilization building in the magma.