Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan learned how the Fifth and Sixth Eras shaped the World Will’s relationship with civilizations, then gave the Ancient Insect technologies to support its allies and the Lize Civilization. He and Old Cat planned humanity’s gradual development around Level Four technology, the Trading Market, and independent research, as the chapter ended with the story about to jump forward several hundred years.

• The Crystal Person explained that powerful materialist civilizations entered the Idealistic World in the Fifth Era, while the Sixth Era developed Gale Wind before its defeat left later civilizations struggling to survive.
• The Crystal Person described the benefits of deepening one’s connection with the World Will, including access to rare materials, Level Four technology, and strategic support.
• Lu Yuan gave the Ancient Insect a Spirit Plant Field, Field Industrialization, and Reverse Entropy Element, then asked it to pass knowledge and supplies to the Lize Civilization.
• The Ancient Insect accepted Lu Yuan’s gifts, planned to use them with the Underground Alliance, and sent king insects to carry the Lize Civilization’s share across the sea.
• Lu Yuan presented humanity’s century-scale development plan, including Gold Bronze Civilization technologies for antigravity, deep mining, and hardened materials, while Old Cat insisted that humanity prioritize independent research.
• Old Cat estimated that the Trading Market could generate ten thousand to twenty thousand Civilization Points and two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand spiritual essence within two hundred years.

Lu Yuan used the memories held in an insect wing to find inspiration for an insect puppet, while Lu Lun completed an astonishingly powerful axe. The chapter ended with Lu Lun inspecting Lu Yuan’s creation and questioning whether it leaned too far toward the material realm.

• Lu Yuan struggled to find suitable materials and began studying the Underground Alliance’s insect parts.
• By sensing a Valley Locust’s joyful memory of eating a mushroom, Lu Yuan decided to create an insect puppet for Green Field Mountain.
• Lu Yuan assembled the locust’s parts with gears and an internal skeleton, then tried to keep its nutrient-secreting gland alive without using unfairly superior materials.
• Human experts worried that Lu Yuan’s complicated puppet would receive a poor appraisal, while Lu Lun finished forging his axe after more than two days.
• Lu Lun’s Black Steel Axe earned rare-grade+++ quality and increased Form Attribute by 11.9% when resonating with Extraordinary Tinder.
• Lu Lun learned that Lu Yuan was making a locust puppet and wondered whether it relied too much on the material realm.

Lu Yuan returned to Human 18 Civilization after the cold disaster and restored public confidence while catching up on the city’s affairs. He approved plans to turn the Da Lai Empire spaceship into an Ultimate Shelter and shared artifacts from a Gear Civilization ruin for scientists to study.

• Lu Yuan reunited with Shamo, Sha Kaner, Lu Tiantian, and the others, then told the public a fabricated story of surviving alone for six years and studying Source Fire Civilization techniques.
• Lu Yuan attended public celebrations and a government banquet before reviewing years of backlogged documents with Sea Snail Miss.
• Sea Snail Miss explained the city’s recovery and described the proposed Ultimate Shelter, where residents and animals could hibernate in pods inside the Da Lai Empire spaceship.
• Lu Yuan approved the shelter project after Professor Shamo estimated its cost and explained how the spaceship could be converted into a Sky Fortress.
• Lu Yuan told officials how the Mirage Cloud Dragon had survived the Era Disaster and presented gears and a white jade wall bearing intricate inscriptions from the Gear Civilization.

After the war, Lu Yuan organized the livestock brought to Sky City while Shamo devised a new business for two former militiamen: Human 18 Civilization’s first newspaper. With Lu Yuan’s support, Green Field Daily began selling widely, giving the people a new source of news and entertainment.

• Lu Yuan assigned space and grain for more than three hundred thousand animals and ordered the villagers to find a clean way to handle their waste.
• Shamo’s team proposed a treatment chain using Dung Beetles, Nima Grass, an oil-eating creature, and Leviathan, whose fertilizer could improve crop yields.
• Fang Dazhuang and another former militiaman asked Shamo how they could contribute despite their limited education, and he urged them to start a newspaper.
• The two men produced the handwritten first issue of Green Field Daily, and Lu Yuan offered them the Opium Tree Printer and permission to sell through Green Field Supermarket, provided he reviewed the news.
• Green Field Daily sold for 0.1 yuan a copy and moved over a thousand copies in one day, with gossip and stories about Leviathan drawing readers.

At the Supernatural Research Institute, Professor Zhang Hui and the experts struggled to send Lu Yuan a message through the alarm channel after he disconnected. On Pangu Continent, Lu Yuan appraised his extraordinary items, suspected that crafting one could set a new milestone, and prepared to tan lizard skin while trying to contact humanity again.

• Professor Zhang Hui realized Lu Yuan had disconnected after misunderstanding the vibration signal, and experts began experimenting with the alarm’s waveforms to transmit a clearer message.
• God announced that extraordinary items would have eight grades, and Lu Yuan heard the update while cultivating on Pangu Continent.
• Lu Yuan appraised his three extraordinary items and found that the Hell Demon Spider Back Pattern was Excellent Grade, the Fiery Red Crystal Stone was Fine Grade, and the Fire Lizard Leather was Common Grade.
• Lu Yuan suspected that artificially creating an extraordinary item was a new milestone and hurried to begin tanning the lizard skin.
• Lu Yuan turned the metal ball back on and called out to humanity, saying he would demonstrate the legendary milestone once.

Humanity responded to the Era Disaster with renewed purpose, and Rat Gongye recognized its potential while reporting his observations to Shu Huangfeng. Lu Yuan then organized the excavation and evacuation plans for the ruins before the volcano erupted, leaving the teams ready to act.

• Rat Gongye saw that humans had embraced a grand goal of learning and preparing for future generations, and he told Shu Huangfeng that humanity could rise to a mid-level civilization.
• Shu Huangfeng learned that Gongye had lost a bet and demanded that he repay the money, while Gongye asked for money or knowledge in return.
• Lu Yuan identified the need to move Sky City farther from the volcano, rescue the Mirage Cloud Dragon, and excavate the ruins before an eruption.
• Professor Shamo assessed the ruins' valuable sites, including the fusion plant, puppet factory, volcano seal, and ice coffins guarded by the Mirage Cloud Dragon.
• Lu Yuan agreed to help retrieve the ice coffins and ordered the teams to preserve cultural relics and artworks for a museum commemorating Source Fire Civilization.

Lu Yuan transferred Explorer's Eye to his Life Tree to make room in his soul, with Seashell Girl helping him remove it. After waking from her hypnosis and teasing, he received King Insect Lu Da's map showing the desert's boundary lay about sixteen thousand kilometers north.

• Lu Yuan considered asking the Mirror Demon about Complete Spiritualization and merging Gangwind, but decided to wait until he returned to the Lize Civilization.
• Lu Yuan chose to move Explorer's Eye onto his Life Tree, and Seashell Girl used the Opium Poppy Tree's hypnosis and a sealing ability to remove it from his soul.
• Lu Yuan transferred Explorer's Eye to his Life Tree and learned that Seashell Girl had written “Big Idiot” on his face while he slept.
• King Insect Lu Da returned exhausted and presented Lu Yuan with a map showing that he had traveled roughly sixteen thousand kilometers north to reach the desert's edge.

Lu Yuan scavenged an enormous air raid shelter, finding mountains of useless metal and gold, strange ores, and a damaged Civilization Assistance Management Device. He tried to use it to contact humans, but it failed to respond, leaving him with a valuable discovery but no way to reach civilization.

• Lu Yuan explored the filthy air raid shelter and found a heavy metal door, contaminated fabric, and vast quantities of gold and scrap metal collected by Fire Lizards.
• Lu Yuan examined glowing ores, recognized autunite as dangerously radioactive, and moved away from it.
• Lu Yuan discovered a damaged Civilization Assistance Management Device with critically low energy that could be charged by solar power.
• Lu Yuan entered a human civilization designation into the device and tried to contact humans, but its screen flickered and it did not respond.
• Lu Yuan failed to move the machine outside to charge it, then accepted that he could not yet reach human civilization.

As Green Field City’s Trading Market threatened the Dwarf Clan’s business and reputation, the Dwarf chairman rejected an immediate war and planned a public artisan wager instead. He persuaded Rock Fist Shen Lu and the other Ancient Aliens to set out with the Dwarves, with the contest at Green Field Trading Market scheduled for three years later.

• Races across the Northern Frontier began traveling toward Green Field City to investigate its 1:50 exchange rate, while the Dwarf Clan’s vassals grew restless.
• The Dwarf chairman argued against attacking Green Field City and proposed a wager match to restore the Dwarf Clan’s standing by demonstrating its overall strength, especially its artisans.
• The chairman visited Furnace Palace and asked Rock Fist Shen Lu and the other Ancient Aliens to join the journey and support the contest.
• Rock Fist Shen Lu and the Ancient Aliens discussed their unfinished Immortal King, then agreed to travel and see what the Ninth Era’s civilizations could teach them.
• The Dwarf Clan planned to send a Floating Fortress to Green Field City, keeping the Immortal King hidden and holding the wager match three years later.

Lu Yuan fought the Ancient Races while his abilities fused under pressure, and the civilizations outside the fog battled to survive their assault. The Turtle and Lushu Civilizations supplied hidden weapons, leaving the defenders with a chance to strike back.

• Lu Yuan saved a dying Centaur diplomat, who recorded the Ancient Races’ true faces and sent the evidence outside before he died.
• Lu Yuan fought the Evil Dragon Emperor and other Ancient Race experts, destroying the blood-sacrifice pool as the Ancient Insect and other allies joined the battle.
• Lu Yuan called on the Mist Demon to hide the battle in fog while Human Civilization and its allies resisted the Ancient Races’ flying ships and ground forces.
• Colonel Lu Ying ordered the humans to conserve ammunition and defend weaker civilizations as the Three Moons Civilization launched a Hydrogen Bomb that the Ancient Races’ light-curtain defenses blunted.
• The Turtle Civilization offered thousands of Hydrogen Bombs and protective shields, while the Lushu Civilization and other civilizations contributed weapons to the counterattack.

Lu Yuan organized Human 18 Civilization’s new government and set its goals, then outlined a development plan focused on acquiring industrial equipment and advancing its idealistic technologies. The chapter ended with the officials agreeing to prioritize engravings as they began rebuilding their technological foundations.

• Lu Yuan warned the new officials against abusing their power and established the Green Field Law under Old Cat’s oversight.
• Lu Yuan set the civilization’s goals of returning to humanity, surviving on Pangu Continent, and eventually surpassing Green Field Civilization.
• Lu Yuan proposed developing for thirty years and purchasing large-scale machinery from Lize Civilization rather than trying to build a broad industrial base themselves.
• Zhang Wen explained how the Mandala Empire had developed Spirit Speech Technology, including talisman papers for breeding supernatural creatures and explosive effects.
• Lu Yuan said Painted Skin’s Spirit Speech could be borrowed for simple production, while Seashell could try to simulate it, and the officials decided to focus on engravings first.

After the Guai died, its Different Dimension descended into reality, and Human Civilization received a milestone reward that gave Lu Yuan the Space Blink ability. Years later, the Life Tree resurrected Lu Yuan, who woke to learn the Guai was dead and discovered his new ability.

• The Guai's death caused its mountain and Different Dimension to begin merging with reality, while Human Civilization earned the Guai Hunter milestone and received Space Blink for Lu Yuan.
• Old Cat directed Old Wolf to carry the unconscious Lize people toward a cave that might overlap with the Safe Zone, but the cave vanished when the mountain fully returned.
• Years later, Old Wolf found Lu Yuan sleeping inside the Life Tree's fruit and Old Cat's mental attack woke him.
• Lu Yuan learned that the Guai was dead and that he had been resurrected as Lu Yuan Unit Two, while Old Wolf had undergone a high mutation.
• Lu Yuan checked his attributes and discovered that his new Space Blink ability let him leap to distant locations at a cost to his mental power.

Lu Yuan and the researchers developed a way to give Insectoid Warriors resistance to aberration, then debated how to protect humans from it. After seven years of organ transplants, the day when everyone awakened finally arrived.

• At the thirty-third hour, Lu Tiantian identified a beneficial organ growing in Leviathan and directed the researchers to feed it Life Essence and draw out the Blood Ghoul's power.
• A week later, Leviathan had recovered and gained an organ that absorbed negative Idealistic Energies, and King Insect Lu Xiao successfully grew one as well.
• Over the next six months, the researchers treated the insectoid race and refined the procedure so it could quickly give Insectoid Warriors the new organ.
• Lu Tiantian presented human treatment options: gene modification using insectoid traits or transplantation of the new organ; Lu Yuan chose transplantation and kept gene modification as a reserve.
• After seven years of surgeries, the day when everyone awakened arrived.

Lu Yuan and the scientists discovered that the rift’s wild insects weakened when they left it, suggesting the mountains formed an artificial prison. They began cautiously exploring the abyss for survivors, specimens, and the Mother Bug while preparing defenses and reinforcements.

• Scout Flying Sickles brought a locust to the camp, where it weakened and nearly died after leaving the rift, then recovered when returned.
• Guo Dafeng sensed that a mountain suppressed the locust’s Willpower Rule, leading the group to suspect the mountains and rift were an artificial prison.
• Lu Yuan agreed to send Scout Sickles to scout the abyss, while warning them to prioritize their lives and stopping the Sky Fortress from joining them.
• Lu Yuan assigned twenty-two level-seven Great Grandmasters to lead teams in capturing specimens and searching the surface layers, while he stayed at camp and contacted the rear base for support.
• Old Cat dispatched engineers and the Insectoid Army, and the Sky Fortress transported supplies to build a concrete reconnaissance stronghold between the mountains.

Lu Yuan’s forces prepared to meet the Underground Alliance, hoping to assess the underground civilizations and trade for resources while avoiding a fight. As humanity’s delegation set out, the alliance debated whether humanity’s technology was advanced enough to be worth joining.

• Professor Lu Tiantian argued that the humans could use the insect swarm as leverage, seek trade for fungal spores, and assess the underground civilizations through cautious contact.
• Lu Yuan ordered a contest with the underground alliance to gauge its strength and development, and selected a delegation of no more than thirty people.
• Lu Yuan concealed the Greedy Demon God in his Middle Qiankun, left a fake puppet in his room, and prepared to join the expedition.
• The human delegation equipped itself and departed for Shi Tong Fortress to meet the Underground Alliance.
• The Dark Steel Civilization and its allies examined humanity’s drone and discussed whether its glyphs and communication technology indicated that it possessed Idealistic Technology.

Lu Yuan oversaw plans to expand the Trading Market, establish an artisan university, and test AI management while humanity celebrated his creation of the Shelter Field. He then met with the dwarf leaders, who prepared to discuss the Giant God Soldier Immortal King.

• News of Lu Yuan creating the Legendary Masterpiece spread through the Trading Market, and Human 18 Civilization celebrated his achievement.
• Lu Yuan and his colleagues planned to place the Shelter Field in the market, trade higher-grade fields for Luck, and trial AI management with Green Elf No. 1.
• Lu Yuan announced the establishment of Northern Territory Artisan University, with Li Datie as its first president and 531 students from 165 races in its first intake.
• Lu Yuan left a scheduled meeting to visit the dwarves and traveled with their diplomats to their floating fortress in Ulan City.
• Storm Lie Jiu welcomed Lu Yuan and raised the prospect of closer ties, while Rock Fist Shen Lu cleared the room so they could discuss the Immortal King.

Humanity faced the Rat King’s civilization in a three-battle wager for one hundred Spiritual Rhyme, and Jin Dongliang won the opening duel against Blue Brocade Rat at great cost. The rat people considered whether to continue fighting or pursue trade, leaving the remaining matches undecided.

• The Stone-Bearing Giant Turtle’s envoy demanded three life-or-death battles, with the loser paying one hundred Spiritual Rhyme, and sent Level Six Blue Brocade Rat to fight first.
• Lu Yuan prepared to join the confrontation while Jin Dongliang agreed to duel and Old Cat urged him to win and stall for time.
• Jin Dongliang fought Blue Brocade Rat, endured a severe wound and a severed arm, then defeated him with a close-range struggle and Lion’s Roar Skill.
• Jin Dongliang returned with the unconscious Blue Brocade Rat, and humanity’s medics treated his injuries while Old Cat arranged care for the captive.
• The Rat King and his advisers debated whether to send a stronger warrior or stop fighting and seek trade, recognizing humanity’s potential and the cost of war.

Lu Yuan prepared for a confrontation with the Donkey-Head Monster and traveled through an old subway system to the Air Raid Shelter near Fire Lizard Canyon. He found a sealed vault that could serve as a trap, but still needed a way to lure the monster inside.

• Lu Yuan studied old city maps, prepared long-burning torches and molten steel, and set out with Old Wolf and the Metal Ball to record the battle.
• Lu Yuan entered a subway station, found a statue of the Meida Civilization, and wrote a message thanking it for helping him survive.
• Lu Yuan followed the subway tracks to the Air Raid Shelter and saw the Donkey-Head Monster's dark domain ahead.
• Lu Yuan found a sturdy vault with a heavy metal door and realized it could serve as a fire trap, but he had not yet figured out how to lure the Donkey-Head Monster inside.

Lu Yuan explained his plans to develop and eventually publicize Spirit Plant Field industrialization, while the Green Field Trading Market continued to grow. The Dwarf Clan arrived with four Floating Fortresses and powerful ancient craftsmen, leaving Ulan City’s leaders fearing a major contest with Green Field City.

• Lu Yuan persuaded the aliens to help gather Spring of Life and said he would make a cheaper Spirit Plant Field method public if he discovered one.
• Ancient Insect lamented that the Underground Alliance had not found a path to become a Peak Civilization, while the Blue Peng Prince urged it not to interfere blindly.
• By the third year’s sixth month, the Green Field Trading Market had grown to a permanent population of two hundred thousand and a floating population of about four hundred thousand.
• Ta Gang learned that the Dwarf Clan had arrived with four Floating Fortresses and tens of thousands of soldiers, then ordered Ulan City to receive them.
• Ta Gang greeted Storm Lie Jiu and learned that the Dwarf Clan had brought Ancient Aliens, including the master craftsman Rock Fist Shen Lu.

Green Field Civilization approved a plan to sacrifice Di and Hui’s unborn daughter, Seashell, to create a god that could save their civilization from extinction. As Lu Yuan and Seashell watched the illusion of her parents’ past, Di and Hui grew attached to their child, and Hui finally asked Di to flee with her.

• The High Priest persuaded Green Field Civilization’s elders to approve the Green Field God Plan, naming Di’s unborn daughter as the child to be sacrificed.
• Di learned that his daughter would be the final child born in the civilization and the chosen vessel for its god.
• Lu Yuan helped Seashell leave the illusion, comforted her, and promised to treat her as his Younger Sister.
• After recovering, Lu Yuan and the others re-entered the illusion and watched Di and Hui cherish their unborn daughter while the public anticipated the plan.
• Hui told Di that she wanted to save their child and asked him to run away with her.