Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan was trapped in the Concept World with twelve gods and dozens of other summoned beings, where the gods offered them a choice: join their ranks or die. Lu Yuan challenged their authority and learned that they wanted to recruit powerful figures, but he remained vastly outmatched and wondered whether he could stop the ritual.

• Lu Yuan reasoned that the gods might have mistaken him for another summoned person and pretended to be confused while more than fifty figures appeared around him.
• The lead blood-red god called itself a god, forcing the gathered figures to speak the title and planting Thought Imprints in their minds.
• The gods offered the summoned figures the chance to become gods or die, and Lu Yuan connected the ritual to the mysterious deaths of exceptional people during the End of Era.
• Lu Yuan challenged the gods as possible culprits behind the Era Disasters and declared that he was Lu Yuan, a Grandmaster Artisan who helped create Mythical Industrialization.
• The blood-red god acknowledged Lu Yuan's merit and offered him the chance to become a stronger god, while Lu Yuan considered how to destroy the selection ritual despite being no match for the twelve gods.

Lu Yuan showed the turtlefolk his advanced technologies and self-consistent forged weapons, then persuaded them to support his opposition to the Blood Sacrifice Rule and his plans for a cross-border Trading Market. The turtlefolk agreed to divide their people between the Northern Frontier and the Buzhou Ruins, beginning the transfer before the Buzhou Gathering.

• Lu Yuan toured the turtlefolk’s antimatter reactor, fusion facilities, and Omnipotent Factories while learning about energy and self-consistent items in the Chaos Sea.
• Lu Yuan showed the turtlefolk his Heaven-Opening Forging Method practice swords, convincing the artisans that the weapons were ideally self-consistent.
• Lu Yuan met the other races and declared that Human Civilization would oppose reopening the Blood Sacrifice Rule at the Buzhou Gathering, even if that meant war.
• Lu Yuan proposed sending one group to develop the Northern Frontier and keeping another in the Buzhou Ruins to help win the conflict and manage a future Trading Market.
• Gui Wu accepted the plan, and the gathered people began preparing to transfer before the Buzhou Gathering.

Lu Yuan learned that the High Priest had been a demon who sought to possess a newborn god, and that Seashell’s parents had fought him to protect their daughter and civilization. The Field · Illusion vanished and life revived around Lu Yuan, leaving him alarmed and wondering what had happened to Seashell.

• The High Priest revealed that he had spent five thousand years pursuing godhood and demanded that Seashell’s parents hand over the Soul Gem.
• Di admitted that he and Hui had considered sacrificing civilization to save Seashell, and Hui used a space dagger to teleport to the Opium Poppy Tree and merge her soul with it.
• Hui’s takeover let her attack the High Priest and destroy Sky City, but she lost herself, took Seashell, severed the tree’s trunk, and fled as Di left his final message in Green Field Paradise.
• Lu Yuan learned that the ruined Opium Poppy Tree’s lingering power sustained the Ascension Ceremony illusion and threatened the Shali Clan, his pets, and Sky City.
• The Field · Illusion abruptly disappeared, and birds and other animals revived; Lu Yuan then realized Seashell might be involved.

Lu Yuan claimed the Gear Civilization inheritance and took the Yang Attribute Chaos Essence Stone just as the World Furnace volcano began erupting. The Mirage Cloud Dragon fought to hold back the disaster, then vanished into the magma after urging the humans to escape.

• Lu Yuan explored the White Jade Palace, solved the Great Compendium of Gears assessment, and accepted the inheritance despite its warning about Gui-Mechanoids.
• Lu Yuan identified the Chaos Essence Stone as a rare Yang Attribute substance that could evolve into higher-grade ore, then stored it as the earth vein and volcano erupted.
• The exhausted Mirage Cloud Dragon returned to the surface and renewed its efforts to seal the volcano while the Sky Fortress watched from afar.
• The eruption blasted magma and shockwaves across the sea, striking Sky Fortress until Seashell raised a protective barrier and Jin Dongliang urged it higher.
• The Mirage Cloud Dragon repeatedly rose from the magma to seal the spreading volcano, then used its final cries to tell the humans to leave and that it had no regrets before disappearing.

Guo Dafeng won the first duel against Sea King Ma, and Lu Yuan's side suspected the fishmen had gained power from advanced ruins. A dangerous crocodile warrior challenged Lu Yuan in the second match, and Lu Yuan dodged his opening barrage by entering the Different Dimension before identifying the weakness of Shadow Manipulation.

• Guo Dafeng used Cold Manipulation and a Shield Strike to defeat Sea King Ma, then knocked him down with his sword hilt.
• Lu Yuan and his advisors speculated that the fishmen had spent Civilization Points to develop unevenly using the Ruins of Advanced Civilization.
• Major Lu Ying noticed the fishmen showed no visible reaction to their loss, and a helicopter delivered a menacing crocodile man with a pale octopus tentacle growing from his back.
• Lu Yuan accepted the second unarmed duel against the crocodile man, who called himself Ding Ou and attacked with a mental roar, Shadow Manipulation, and his tentacles.
• Lu Yuan escaped the attacks by entering the Different Dimension and recognized Shadow Manipulation from his earlier fight with the first Demon Shadow of Zhao, recalling that light weakened it.

As a horde of Painted Skins gathered to attack Sky City, Lu Yuan prepared the city’s defenses and learned that the monsters might be soulless clones. He ordered Sky City to take off as a deception to provoke a decisive assault, while powerful Mandala Empire survivors noticed the commotion and headed toward the lake.

• The King Insects reported that over a hundred thousand monsters were gathering and would attack Sky City after nightfall, while Lu Yuan used the Life Tree and Life Essence to hasten the hatching of 1,450 Insect Eggs and dominated them.
• Old Cat questioned how every Painted Skin could possess a God's Skill, and investigators reported that the captured monster appeared to have no soul, leading Lu Yuan to suspect the Painted Skins were clones.
• Sha Sanli admitted he had revealed Human 18 Civilization’s population and combat strength, and Lu Yuan concluded the enemy had underestimated the city while remaining unaware of the Insect Eggs.
• Shamo urged Lu Yuan to make Sky City take off to trick the enemy into launching an all-out attack, and Lu Yuan ordered an emergency ascent despite the cost to the Opium Poppy Tree.
• Sky City rose from the lake as its propellers thundered, drawing the attention of the Ma Family Two Brothers and other Mandala Empire survivors, who began heading toward the lake.

Lu Yuan defended traditional craftsmanship and called for investment in Mythical Industrialization, becoming famous across the Buzhou Ruins. After months of quiet life, the Buzhou Alliance announced that its Space Shield Tunneling Machine was ready, allowing excavation of the Space Tunnel to resume.

• Lu Yuan argued that artisans should pursue new myths as well as industrialized creations, and urged civilizations to invest in research and development.
• Lu Yuan’s speech spread across the Buzhou Ruins, and the judges discussed whether he might become the first Mythical Grandmaster.
• Lu Yuan told Old Cat he intended to pursue Mythical Industrialization, but postponed contacting the Iron Key Clan while the postwar situation remained uncertain.
• Lu Yuan returned to teaching and encouraged his students to study hard, then spent the following months receiving visiting artisans and tempering the children’s confidence.
• In Lu Yuan’s third year after awakening, Gui Wu announced that the Buzhou Alliance had completed its Space Shield Tunneling Machine and could resume excavating the Space Tunnel.

Lu Yuan showed the Human Alliance the Green Field Knight’s advanced technology and invited its representatives to settle in the Northern Frontier. The chapter ended with them stunned by the proposal and unsure what benefits the distant, frozen region offered.

• Lu Yuan explained that Green Field City was not yet a Level Five Civilization, despite its spatial technology, and Sea Snail Miss welcomed his family aboard the Green Field Knight.
• Li Jun and Moke Hochul arranged a spar between Steve’s Powered Armor and a Scout Sickle, which won by damaging the armor’s sensors and circuits.
• Lu Yuan gave the Human Alliance teams more than five hundred insect eggs and showed them the Green Field Knight’s shield and Light Curtain Spirit Speech defenses.
• Lu Yuan invited the Human Alliance representatives to join the Northern Frontier, describing it as a cold but relatively peaceful region where they could develop and find greater safety from the coming Era Disaster.

Lu Yuan visited the Northern Alliance with his family and attended its New Year political conference, where leaders discussed defense preparations, industrial development, and the use of a former civilization’s buried legacy. The alliance agreed on how to allocate the Heavenly Pillars as it continued building toward a Northern defense system and Planetary Engines.

• Lu Yuan spent New Year’s Eve with Lu Qingqing, gave her a red envelope, and invited her to visit the Human Alliance with him.
• Lu Yuan brought government officials, friends, and family to the Northern Alliance, where he toured its expanding cities and industrial infrastructure.
• At the Northern Alliance conference, Lu Yuan and Old Cat discussed the alliance’s defense project, including plans for Space Tunnels and the challenges of developing short-distance teleportation.
• A scientist from the Dwarf Civilization reported that Void Transformation Insects could supply cheaper spatial materials, with the first Space Shield Tunneling Machine expected in six months.
• The Giant Armor Civilization reported finding twenty-two Hebrew Civilization Heavenly Pillars, with fourteen more believed to remain underground.
• Lu Yuan and the Civilization Leaders agreed to dismantle one-third of the Heavenly Pillars for Planetary Engine funding, reserve one-third for future defense, and sell the rest to allied organizations for operating funds.

Lu Yuan investigated the Beautiful Civilization’s ruins after the Evolved Ones sensed deadly information tied to the civilization and its strange escape from Pangu Continent. He uncovered a damaged Mythical palace beneath the ruins, then found a threatening Fleshy Ball inside and prepared to confront it.

• Turtle Gu Zi’s divination and the old Bat Person’s memories suggested the Beautiful Civilization was connected to hidden dangers and had not fled Pangu Continent through the known warp point.
• Lu Yuan called the Shadow Demon and Mist Demon to conceal him, then sent Drill Worms to excavate the ruins while the Evolved Ones shared clues over a live feed.
• Chaotic Idealistic Radiation contaminated the Drill Worms, forcing Lu Yuan to cut off their infected horns and send them back to the surface.
• Lu Yuan dug through a metal wall and entered a buried temple whose Mythical-grade function was to remove reproductive isolation barriers between species.
• Lu Yuan explored the damaged palace and spotted a threatening Fleshy Ball obscured by Black Mist, then declared that he would confront it.

Lu Yuan and Old Wolf lured the poisoned Fire Lizard into a trap, but it survived and knocked Old Wolf aside. With no other way to stop it, Lu Yuan leapt into the pit and stabbed its eye, triggering its Fire Breath.

• Lu Yuan ran from the Fire Lizard while trying to draw it toward the trap, and Old Wolf watched anxiously from a distance.
• Old Wolf and the mother wolves distracted the Fire Lizard with their howls, letting Lu Yuan activate the Different Dimension and hide.
• Old Wolf led the Fire Lizard to the trap, where it was struck by falling rocks and pierced by spears, but it began recovering from its wounds.
• The Fire Lizard knocked Old Wolf into the bushes, and Lu Yuan, out of options, jumped into the pit and drove his spear into its eye.
• The enraged Fire Lizard unleashed its Fire Breath, and the trap collapsed around Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan and artisans from Green Field City and allied civilizations began forging the enormous Future Mirror, recording their peoples’ histories and gathering civilization fortune into an epoch masterpiece. As observers debated whether the project could succeed, Artisan Guo explained that epoch masterpieces could rival or surpass works made by individual Great Grandmasters.

• Lu Yuan reassured the artisans, lit Li Datie’s incense, and organized the collective forging of the seventy-two-meter Future Mirror.
• Lu Yuan began carving Green Field City’s history and its mother tree, while Li Datie and artisans from the Rat Rice Dam and Blue Roc Civilizations depicted their own eras.
• Robomite carved the Blue Roc Civilization’s past, and Prince Jin Bote watched with tears, hoping Mythical Industrialization could give his people a chance to rise again.
• Observers across the Kuxi Great Desert debated the project’s prospects, while artisans gathered at New Century Fortress to study Green Field City’s work and its visible surge of fortune.
• Artisan Guo identified the work as an epoch masterpiece and explained that such creations could unite a civilization’s and Pangu Continent’s fortune, often surpassing individual mythical works.

Lu Yuan absorbed most of the hatched Mirage Cloud Dragon’s leftover Life Essence into the Life Tree and saved it to strengthen the Chaos Essence Stone, while humans used the remaining essence to feed extraordinary creatures. Little Mirage Dragon became a public sensation as humanity prepared to depart aboard the expanding Sky City, and it quietly contemplated its past life among the History Museum’s relics.

• Lu Yuan had the Life Tree absorb the remaining Life Essence, stored it for the Chaos Essence Stone, and decided to place the Legendary eggshell in the National Treasury.
• Lu Yuan gave King Insect Lu Da some Life Essence, while scientists collected the remainder and fed it to extraordinary creatures and a thousand young chickens before freezing a sample for research.
• Reporters and young women crowded around Little Mirage Dragon, while the rejuvenated Old Wolf challenged Lu Yuan and got beaten.
• Humanity announced that the Sky City departure plan had passed and began expanding the city as people voted to name Little Mirage Dragon Big Gold.
• Little Mirage Dragon visited the History Museum and reflected on its former life and the cycles of decline and prosperity.

Lu Yuan told his family about Green Field City's strength and discussed the Human Alliance's precarious position among rival civilizations. Meanwhile, Green Field City and the Human Alliance began diplomatic talks, agreed to present themselves as separate human branches, and cautiously explored cooperation and trade.

• Lu Yuan reassured his family that Green Field City was far stronger than the Human Alliance, then learned about the Human Alliance's alliance with Haji Civilization and its tensions with the Yan Snake Civilization and Red Bull Alliance.
• Lu Yuan considered letting the Human Alliance finish excavating its ruins before moving them to the Northern Frontier, while deciding that he could not solve all their problems for them.
• Sea Snail, the Insectoid Legion, and Green Field City's delegation arrived to meet the Human Alliance leaders, who were impressed by the display of power and learned about the Green Field Empress and Blue Roc Civilization.
• Li Chunhong verified through the Human Alliance's emotion sensor that the delegation was genuine and lifted the highest security alert, while Green Field City withdrew its weapons-launch authorization.
• Lu Yu proposed presenting Green Field City and the Human Alliance as separate branches of the Humanoid Race, and both sides discussed research exchanges, cultural differences, and the challenges of setting trade terms.

Lu Yuan examined the Immortal King and learned about its anomaly-derived abilities and the Borderless dimension imprisoning Guai. When he inspected its persistent wounds, he recognized their energy as resembling the First Era’s infinite-energy well, leaving him wondering what force had attacked the giant.

• Erwin piloted the Immortal King, and Rock Fist Shen Lu explained its five abilities and how Borderless sealed away Guai.
• Lu Yuan learned that Borderless might collapse, but the Outsiders lacked the key to retrieve anyone who entered it.
• Lu Yuan inspected the Immortal King and discussed its construction with Rock Fist Shen Lu and the Outsiders.
• Lu Yuan examined the giant’s unhealable wounds and recognized their eerie energy from the infinite-energy well of the First Era.
• Rock Fist Shen Lu revealed that replacing the scarred metal had not worked because the wound had appeared on the replacement, and Lu Yuan paused to think.

Lu Yuan persuaded the diplomats that the humans and Blue Roc Civilization should hold a friendly sparring match to compare their soldiers’ combat strength. As Blue Roc experts examined human gifts and Bai Diao assessed their ideology, Jin Bote’s premonition of doom intensified and showed him a vision of being dissolved in a dark, viscous abyss.

• Lu Yuan reassured the diplomats that the sparring match would have no consequences and would help prepare them to explore the Snake People Palace.
• Jin Bote and Blue Roc researchers examined human technology, noting its brainwave interaction and the contrast between Idealistic Technology and their own approach.
• Bai Diao analyzed Three-Body Problem and other human works, then concluded that Human Civilization resembled the Qia Xi Tribe and was unlikely to be warlike.
• Jin Bote agreed with Bai Diao’s assessment but felt his impending doom draw closer.
• Jin Bote experienced a vision of himself trapped in a dark, viscous place where his body and soul rapidly melted away.

Lu Yuan began his 17,000-kilometer journey east across Pangu Continent with Old Cat and Old Wolf, documenting their travels in a diary. He expected the trek to take at least 350 days, while Old Wolf spent much of the journey pursuing female wolves of increasingly unusual colors.

• Lu Yuan set out east through dangerous forests, wearing protective gear and making Old Wolf wear bite-proof boots.
• After several days, Lu Yuan climbed a peak and saw vast mountain ranges, but he decided against detouring for distant treasures.
• Lu Yuan, Old Cat, and Old Wolf rested and traveled by day, with Lu Yuan estimating they could cover about fifty kilometers of mountain paths daily.
• Lu Yuan started a diary called "My Leisurely Journey Across Pangu Continent" to record the journey and its memorable incidents.
• Lu Yuan's diary entries described Old Wolf flirting with many female wolves, including mutated and extraordinary ones, while Lu Yuan teased him about it.

After hearing a response from Human Civilization through the Metal Ball, Lu Yuan tried to send word to his family and began sharing what he knew about Pangu Continent. He revealed that the Meida Civilization had documented terrifying supernatural phenomena, while the newly awakened demon near him remained an unresolved danger.

• Lu Yuan heard the Metal Ball make a coin-eating sound and realized Human Civilization could receive his signals, though he could not see their replies.
• Lu Yuan asked the people listening to tell his Parents that he was alive and safe, and hoped the government would look after his family.
• Lu Yuan moved the Metal Ball to a larger room, cleaned himself up, changed clothes, and sat before its camera to share information.
• Lu Yuan explained that he was in the ruins of the Meida Civilization, which had studied Pangu Continent and recorded strange supernatural phenomena and incomprehensible monsters.
• Lu Yuan warned that encounters with those dangers could wipe out everyone and admitted he still did not know how to deal with the newly awakened demon.

Lu Yuan presented his personal plans and resources to the nonhuman leaders, then humanity launched a broad program of diplomacy, industrial cooperation, education, and population growth. The chapter ended with humanity adopting a policy of presenting Green Field City as a Level Three Civilization while continuing to prepare for greater threats.

• Lu Yuan planned to open the Greedy God Temple to trade God's Skills, valuable materials, and minerals, and the nonhuman leaders agreed to sell their goods there.
• Lu Yuan outlined plans for his Immortal Items, and an armored nonhuman offered to help connect the Immortal Palace to Pangu Will for earth-escape teleportation.
• The nonhuman leaders agreed to notify Lu Yuan when Gui became unstable enough to make a spatial jump from the Northern Frontier possible.
• Humanity sent diplomatic teams across the Northern Frontier and began organizing industrial partnerships, joint universities, and long-term population expansion.
• Professor Lu Tiantian proposed that humanity keep a low profile by presenting itself as a Level Three Civilization, and Lu Yuan and Old Cat supported the proposal.
• Humanity approved the Keep a Low Profile strategy, and Green Field News announced that Green Field City would remain at the Level Three Civilization stage for a long time.

Professor Edward proposed a vibration channel for contacting the damaged communicator, and Zhang Hui considered cooperating with New York City. On Pangu Continent, Lu Yuan doted on the wolf cubs before the Big Round Ball vibrated and beeped, leaving him afraid it might explode.

• Professor Edward told Zhang Hui that the communicator's core still worked and proposed using its vibration function to contact Lu Yuan.
• Professor Edward demonstrated the vibration channel and asked Zhang Hui to initiate it in exchange for future cooperation.
• Lu Yuan fed the wolf cubs dried fish, then told Old Wolf to lead them hunting and resolved to reduce their food rations.
• The Big Round Ball vibrated and beeped, delighting Lu Yuan at first before he worried that it might explode.