Chapter Summaries

The United Legion’s resistance against the Evil Gods grew as the Era Fortress rallied civilizations, while a blood sacrifice on the Western Continent unleashed a terrifying force. The chapter ended with the United Legion’s engineering team under attack, Xing fighting a converted god, and Ancient Insect facing powerful shadow creatures.

• The Era Fortress called the shadow creatures Evil Gods and urged civilizations to resist, prompting more attacks and slowing the massacre.
• A giant-shaped Evil God ordered its forces to head to the Western Continent and harvest Converted Civilizations for its Lord.
• At the Western Continent engineering camp, Ancient Insect prepared the defenders while Xing drank concentrated blood sacrifice essence and took up a giant axe.
• A mass blood sacrifice opened a huge scarlet eye on the moon, briefly incapacitating the engineering team and driving many civilizations into madness.
• Shadow creatures attacked the camp, and Xing fought a Black Stone god while Lu Yuan chose to oversee the evacuation toward the Northern Frontier.
• Ancient Insect faced shadow creatures that mocked the Myth of Yao, then declared it would stand and win as its device blazed.

The antimatter blast erased the Deep Blue Civilization’s city, while fifty thousand survivors remained and the United Legion’s leaders mourned its sacrifice. The injured Subordinate Gods then began attacking Safe Zones across Pangu Continent, overwhelming the scattered defenders as the Era Disaster spread.

• The Deep Blue Civilization’s city was destroyed by the antimatter explosion, and its leader stopped himself from taking his own life after learning that fifty thousand people survived.
• Lu Yuan concluded that the survivors could preserve the Deep Blue Civilization’s culture and considered mixing populations from different civilizations to protect their legacies.
• The wounded Subordinate Gods decided to restore their strength by slaughtering low-level civilizations, and one from the Luang Civilization attacked a Safe Zone.
• A Starry Sky Port struck the city with a Gamma Ray Burst, then deployed five Giant God Soldiers, but a Mother-Child Guai emerged from the destruction.
• Fourteen thousand Subordinate Gods spread across Pangu Continent, killing civilizations hidden in Safe Zones as the United Legion struggled to respond.

Zhang Hui traded information with New York City and Old Delhi after learning that Old Delhi had completed a Civilization Milestone by taming an extraordinary cow. As the other cities discussed their rewards and resources, Lu Yuan cooked an extraordinary corn-and-egg dish and prepared to make honey-glazed char siu pork.

• Professor Edward from New York City and the leader of Old Delhi offered to trade information with Zhang Hui.
• The white-haired old man from Old Delhi revealed that the Third Branch had completed the Taming Extraordinary Life milestone by keeping a mutated temple cow that recognized the monks.
• Di Mo explained that a creature had to be at least Level 1 and tamed, rather than merely caged, to fulfill the milestone; Professor Edward agreed to trade for supernatural research papers.
• Zhang Hui showed a grain of rice with signs of extraordinary interference, and Old Delhi disclosed that it had received mutated plants while Yunhai City had thirteen.
• Professor Edward urged New York City’s consortiums to share resources and stabilize the city after learning it had fallen behind.
• Lu Yuan cooked corn with bird eggs while Old Wolf ate, then took a stored wild piglet from his Storage Space to prepare honey-glazed char siu pork.

Lu Yuan persuaded the civilizations to vote to open every Safe Zone and broadcast the traitors’ movements, giving low-level civilizations a chance to resist the Era Disaster. The newly exposed civilizations received warnings and concealment instructions, while a merfolk city’s evacuation and Hydrogen Bomb attack showed the invaders that scattered resistance could slow them down.

• Lu Yuan proposed opening the Safe Zones and broadcasting enemy locations, and the major civilizations approved the plan through the Aether Spirit-Core Network.
• The Pangu Will opened the Safe Zones, and the Era Fortress announced the disaster, explained the threat, and shared the World Breath Concealment Method.
• The merfolk Prime Minister ordered his people to hide in the ocean, cultivate the concealment method, and detonate a Hydrogen Bomb when the enemy arrived.
• The Hydrogen Bomb destroyed the merfolk city and injured the converted gods, who realized that hunting scattered civilizations would take much longer.
• One black shadow threatened the Era Fortress and vowed that My Lord would destroy it upon awakening.

On the thirtieth anniversary of their arrival, Lu Yuan celebrated Human 18 Civilization’s rapid progress while warning that its people and resources remained limited. He announced that the civilization would set sail after Spring Festival to search for ruins, resources, and a route back to the Mother Civilization.

• Over six years, the Great Academy of Sciences and Great Academy of Engineering grew into competing research institutions, while the Great Production Facility helped bring radios, telephones, and televisions to the public.
• At the thirtieth-year Spring Festival celebration, Lu Yuan reported rising wages and cultivation levels, and described advances including the Spirit Speech Rune Cannon.
• Lu Tiantian urged the civilization to seek resources beyond its barren home, while Jin Dongliang warned that leaving the Safe Zone and facing anomalies carried grave risks.
• Lu Yuan announced that Human 18 Civilization would set sail after Spring Festival to search for Civilization Ruins, gather resources, and return to the Mother Civilization.

Youming recounted the Ghost Race’s history, its split over whether to repair its relationship with the World Will or pursue a new world, and how its warriors died in the Sixth Era. Lu Yuan learned that Youming could restrain the one now called Pangu and activate the Moon’s authority, then spent a year investigating his claims before the Pangu Brain finally contacted him.

• Youming explained that the Ghost Race had hidden under the name Night Race, pursued Infinite Qi and blood-sacrifice energy, and faced the World Will’s awakening and the loss of its ability to reproduce.
• Youming said he had wanted to repair relations with the World Will and resolve the Era Disaster, while his ancient companion pursued a Beautiful New World and drew the Ghost Race away from him.
• Youming revealed that the Ghost Race warriors all died fighting the Hou Tu Civilization in the Sixth Era, while he survived by taking shelter with them, and said his companion’s name had been erased and he was now called Pangu.
• Lu Yuan gave Youming Bolo Le fruit juice, learned that Youming could restrain Pangu and activate the Moon’s authority, and left him with juice and a tablet under the Weaver’s watch.
• Lu Yuan spent the following year checking ancient records, finding indirect evidence of the Ghost Race’s powerful warriors and their disappearance, until the Pangu Brain sent him a message.

Boundless Realm shattered, beginning the Era Disaster’s Second Stage, as the god behind the disaster turned a black hole into a white hole and Beautiful New World appeared. With an interstellar war looming, Lu Yuan proposed an early moon landing to seize the moon before the enemy could claim it.

• The Buzhou Alliance warned that Boundless Realm had shattered and Chaos Wind was approaching, while Conversion Gods attacked settlements across Pangu Continent.
• Beautiful New World appeared, and the Era Fortress launched a Black Hole Bomb against it.
• A blood-red hand seized the black hole and reversed it into a white hole, exposing the god’s command of physical rules and forcing the United Legion to prepare for battle.
• Lu Yuan contacted Iron Key Civilization and Turtle Civilization to propose an elite moon-landing force, arguing that they had no choice but to act before their enemies did.
• The moon suddenly shone like a sun as the prospect of the landing battle drew near.

Lu Yuan learned that God planned to tear apart the Boundless Realm and release traitorous civilizations from the Beautiful New World, so he secretly prepared the United Legion and strengthened its access to God's Skills. In the thirty-sixth year of the Era Disaster, the turtle people returned to Pangu Continent, but the Boundless Realm shattered as the Beautiful New World appeared.

• Pangu Brain warned Lu Yuan that God could destroy the Boundless Realm and unleash powerful traitorous civilizations from the Beautiful New World.
• Lu Yuan secretly supported the Ghost Race Emperor and helped shift United Legion policies, while the Greedy God Temple began selling God's Skills at cost and in limited lots.
• Over five years, the United Legion prepared for the Boundless Realm's collapse as the approaching Beautiful New World was identified as a massive gravitational source.
• In the thirty-sixth year after the Era Disaster began, the turtle people evacuated the Boundless Realm, with just over two hundred survivors returning to Pangu Continent.
• The turtle people reported that twenty-one thousand ghosts had awakened and that sealed ghosts on Pangu Continent should be released.
• The Beautiful New World emerged, and the Boundless Realm cracked under the celestial bodies' gravitational forces before shattering completely.

After twenty-four years of building and tending the campus, Lu Yuan and Seashell toured the thriving community before attending the first graduation ceremony. Sha Sanli began addressing 2,253 graduates as they prepared to enter Human Civilization.

• Lu Yuan hid with Seashell in an alley, kissed her, and tested how much her As One Wishes ability had improved.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell wandered the campus, observing students, farmland tended by the Undying Giant Turtle and Old Wolf, the Gold Devouring Insect, glyph exhibits, cultivation facilities, and extraordinary plants.
• Lu Yuan reflected on the work of raising and educating the children and on the close family bonds their system had fostered.
• A bell called everyone to the graduation ceremony, where Sha Sanli began a speech to the first batch of 2,253 graduates about their role in Human Civilization.

The Underground Alliance discovered humanity’s drone and invited its operators to meet, believing the unknown civilization might be a vulnerable newcomer. Humanity encountered the Alliance’s twelve races and debated whether their friendly welcome concealed a threat, ultimately deciding that contact was necessary.

• A D-12213 Drone found an unknown mechanical construct, prompting the Dark Steel Civilization and the Underground Alliance to arrange a diplomatic meeting at Shi Tong Fortress.
• The Underground Alliance guided humanity’s drone through winding tunnels, and its leaders realized it could maintain control without losing its signal.
• Lu Yuan and the human command center watched the drone enter Shi Tong Fortress and saw representatives of the Alliance’s many races welcome it with food, wine, and attempted conversation.
• Humanity struggled to understand the Alliance’s speech and questioned why so many civilizations were behaving peacefully toward them.
• Lu Yuan warned that the Alliance might be pretending to be inexperienced or could be enslaved, but the humans decided they still needed to make contact.

The Ink Sect sealed itself off as war and blood sacrifice ravaged the world, while Lu Yuan remained trapped in the form and habits of a pet. As Duo Mu grew up, the masters’ efforts to investigate the disaster faltered, and the bloodshed finally reached Kunlun Mountain.

• Turtle Immortal demonstrated that the Pangu Brain could design and forge a Fire Attribute Flying Sword, then the Ink Sect’s masters announced they would seal the mountain and withdraw from worldly affairs.
• Duo Mu mourned the departing disciples and cared for Lu Yuan and the Undying Giant Turtle as the masters researched Infinite Qi and outsiders’ blood sacrifices spread across the land.
• Duo Mu used his Third Eye to discover Dark Matter, while Turtle Immortal continued developing the Pangu Brain and Turtle Clan members visited to urge him to return home.
• Crane Master saw something through the upgraded Billion-Li Mirror, vomited blood, lost part of his memory, and the masters barred further observations of outer space.
• After a village on Kunlun Mountain disappeared, Duo Mu took the Immortal Slaughtering Sword to investigate, while Lu Yuan’s memories again faded and he fought with the Undying Giant Turtle.

Pangu’s Hand killed a God of Conversion and drove off the invading shadowy gods, but the resistance forces learned that it was far weaker than the enormous eye on the moon and prepared for a prolonged war. Thirty years later, the Northern Frontier had become a fortified refuge, though Evil Gods continued to grow stronger and even Advanced Civilizations faced danger.

• The World Will unleashed Pangu’s Hand, which killed the God of Conversion and sent the remaining shadowy gods fleeing.
• General Lu Ying halted the pursuit, assessed the casualties, and ordered construction to continue despite the loss of the obelisk and many robots.
• At a joint meeting, the civilizations learned that Pangu’s Hand held at most one percent of the moon’s enormous eye’s power and agreed to improve weapons, protect industry, and disperse populations.
• Lu Yuan proposed relocating populations and elite scientists to defended regions, and the major civilizations approved the plan.
• During the following thirty years, the Northern Frontier attracted people and resources, while Lu Yuan exposed infiltrators and helped keep its civilizations alive.
• Old Cat warned Lu Yuan that Evil Gods were increasing as blood-sacrifice energy freed more of them, putting even Advanced Civilizations at risk.

Zhang Hui assigned researchers to study Yunhai City’s mutated plants and learned that Lu Yuan had been missing for a week during a brutal winter. As other civilizations treated Lu Yuan’s apparent death as a chance to end Yunhai City’s special standing, the chapter left his fate uncertain but feared.

• Zhang Hui divided research on the mutated peaches, rice, weeds, and trees among the professors.
• A student told Zhang Hui that Lu Yuan had not returned home for days and that his wolfdog had been searching anxiously.
• Zhang Hui and the researchers saw that Lu Yuan had not appeared on the Metal Ball’s camera for a week and feared he had frozen to death.
• Representatives from East Gold City and Old Delhi asked about Lu Yuan and suggested humanity should share exploration information as equals.
• Zhang Hui heard leaders offer condolences for Lu Yuan and recognized that Yunhai City’s political influence might decline if he was dead.

Lu Yuan examined the exceptional-grade tools awarded for humanity’s milestone, finding the dagger useful but the other items beyond his current skills. Meanwhile, Yunhai City faced economic collapse, and Li Chunhong announced emergency policies to protect housing rights.

• Lu Yuan tested Daedalus' Skinning Knife and discovered that Daedalus' Ruler could sense the damaged veins in his leather shield.
• Lu Yuan learned that Daedalus' manual could not be translated without prerequisite knowledge and concluded that the dagger was the only reward he could use for now.
• Lu Yuan spoke to the blinking metal Big Round Ball, claiming the gods had rewarded humanity for creating a supernatural item.
• In Yunhai City, currencies and bank records became worthless as businesses shut down and residents struggled to secure food, medicine, and personal safety.
• Li Chunhong addressed the crowd in the government square and declared that each citizen's first home would remain theirs, while any additional homes would belong to the collective.

Lyon and the Lize Civilization’s leaders debated whether to risk leaving their Safe Zones to trade with the ratmen, then spotted a flying Sky City in the east. Meanwhile, Jin Dongliang’s human delegation met the Rat Rice Dam Civilization, whose representative demanded to know whether they were strong.

• Lyon warned the Lize leaders that their defenses were inadequate but said he sensed a major opportunity—and deadly danger—in the east.
• Governor Moxi showed the leaders a photograph of a flying Sky City, and they debated whether it was connected to Lu Yuan or the ratmen.
• The ratmen formed battle formations while the Lize Civilization decided to stay hidden and watch events unfold.
• Jin Dongliang led thirty soldiers on Flying Dragon Insects toward the ratmen and announced that humanity had come in peace to negotiate and trade.
• A Stone-Bearing Turtle and a Gold-Clad ratman confronted Jin Dongliang, and the turtle declared that its civilization traded with the strong.
• Jin Dongliang introduced himself as a level-six expert and envoy of humanity, then asked what guidance the ratmen had.

Lu Yuan and the Human Alliance prepared for a confrontation over the earthquake-damaged ruins, while Green Field City agreed to offer limited support. As the three civilizations’ forces converged and their battle fortresses advanced, the standoff threatened to turn into war.

• Lu Yuan put Lu Ying in charge of coordinating with the Human Alliance, and Green Field City agreed to fight in a wagered contest but prioritize protecting its own people.
• Lu Yuan arranged for Seashell to move his family to safety if war broke out, then secretly teleported toward the excavation site in a disguised body.
• At the ruins, Lu Yuan watched the Human Alliance and the Red Bull Alliance exchange threats as the Yan Snake Civilization’s vanguard arrived; the humans displayed a hydrogen bomb as a deterrent.
• The three civilizations’ main forces arrived, and their battle fortresses deployed competing interference fields that paralyzed machines across the excavation area.
• Li Jun rallied Human Alliance soldiers and told Green Field City’s troops to withdraw if a large-scale war began, while the Yan Snake leaders identified a genuine mythical item in the fissure and ordered their fortresses closer.
• The Yan Snake Civilization advanced its heavily armored fortresses toward both the humans and the minotaurs, turning the standoff into a game of chicken.

Humanity and the Underground Alliance established diplomatic relations and began negotiating trade, information, and the Gear Inheritance. The talks stalled over humanity’s high prices and a dispute over whether to exploit the alliance or build a fairer relationship, while Da Dao Gang asked to buy the mysterious purple substance that had driven off the insects.

• Humanity and the Underground Alliance formally established diplomatic relations, agreeing to set up communications, trade supplies, and exchange information.
• Human diplomats showed the alliance a catalog of valuable knowledge, including the Spirit Rhyme Value System, Level Six Tinder, and an overview of fields, prompting Da Dao Gang and the alliance council to consider trading for it.
• Lu Tiantian argued for fairer terms and long-term goodwill, while Fu Yi favored extracting as much value as possible; Guo Dafeng proposed voting on the exchange plan.
• The Underground Alliance’s leaders debated humanity’s prices and whether to trade away their rare Gear Inheritance, then paused negotiations to probe each other for information.
• Da Dao Gang asked whether humanity would sell the purple substance that had repelled the Advanced Insect Race, and Fu Yi claimed it had come from an ally and was unavailable.

Lu Yuan survived his first night in the wilderness by using his phone battery to start a fire and eating boiled wild vegetables. The next morning, he began scavenging the civilization ruins for useful supplies, but his first finds were limited.

• Lu Yuan gathered wild vegetables and bugs, sacrificed his Huawei 888 phone to start a fire, and boiled dinner in a rusty sheet of iron.
• Lu Yuan spent a lonely night in a wrecked car, reflecting on his past and struggling to accept his situation.
• After waking to mosquito bites, Lu Yuan resolved to search for treasure and walked along the valley with his Serpent Scale Axe.
• Lu Yuan found a metal can he could use as a cup and a mold-covered notebook whose contents could not be recovered.
• Lu Yuan found something like a toothbrush and considered using charcoal as toothpaste.

Lu Yuan revived the tiny figure from the cube and learned that it was Youming, the First Emperor of the Ghost Race, who claimed he could restrain the white-haired god. After the World Will agreed to support their exchange, Lu Yuan described the Ninth Era’s power and revealed his Innate Mythical aura, leaving Youming stunned.

• Lu Yuan trapped the tiny figure in a spatial cage and fed it cloned Evil Dragon Clan blood essence to wake it.
• The figure introduced itself as Youming, the First Emperor of the Ghost Race, and claimed that only he could restrain the white-haired god.
• Lu Yuan suspected the World Will had guided him to the cube and received its agreement to trade Youming information for blood sacrifice energy.
• Youming asked about the Ninth Era, and Lu Yuan described its many advanced civilizations and Eternal-level idealistic combat power.
• Lu Yuan released his primordial aura and revealed his Innate Mythical power, causing Youming to exclaim over the Profound Yellow Qi.

Lu Yuan convinced Netherworld, the First Era Ghost Race Emperor, that the Ninth Era was thriving and persuaded him to reveal the history of Infinite Qi. Netherworld recounted how he and another Innate Mythical discovered the Concept World and came to disagree over whether to sever Infinite Qi or draw the Yin World closer.

• Netherworld mistook Lu Yuan's Greedy Demon God manifestation for a god's power, then learned Lu Yuan could make it appear and disappear himself.
• Lu Yuan described the Ninth Era's millions of Acquired Mythicals and the World Will's growing intelligence and weapons, then asked Netherworld to share his history.
• Netherworld revealed that the Abyssal Sea's supposed underworld was actually the Concept World, which he and another Innate Mythical had explored as pioneers.
• Netherworld explained that the Ghost Race first cultivated Infinite Qi for power, but the practice spread to other races and grew difficult to control.
• Netherworld said he had wanted to cut off Infinite Qi, while his former ally sought to draw the Yin World closer to fuse its laws and achieve eternity.