Chapter Summaries

The Ancient Race’s attack on diplomats triggered a war between the Ancient Alliance and civilizations across the Buzhou Ruins. Seashell led Green Field City into space, where it joined forces with the Turtle Civilization and other powers to attack the Ancient Races’ strongholds.

• The Void Luo Diagram cut off contact with the Buzhou Gathering, and recordings of the Ancient Race’s actions spread to the civilizations outside.
• Human Civilization declared war after learning its diplomats were under attack, and the Kunlun defeated the Ancient Alliance’s aircraft without losses.
• Seashell rallied Green Field City, ordered it into space, and launched missiles at five Ancient Race small worlds.
• Void Clan elders began preparing to retreat as Hydrogen Bombs struck their stronghold, while the Abyss Edge Clan and Blood Glutton Clan readied counterattacks.
• The Three Moons Civilization, Chi Civilization, Turtle Civilization, and other powers joined the assault on the Ancient Races.
• Seashell met the Turtle Civilization’s military representative, and their space cities formed an alliance to attack the Ancient Races’ strongholds.

Lu Yuan subdued the Boar Demon after it threatened his civilization, then negotiated with four demons over a plan to replace the Hero Remains and prevent the Bloodline Curse from triggering a disaster. The group agreed that Lu Yuan, Solomon, and the Black Shadow Demon would enter the tower while the Stone Demon and Boar Demon worked from outside to help them escape.

• The Boar Demon threatened Lu Yuan’s civilization, so Lu Yuan attacked, suppressed it, and revealed his Demon Hunter title.
• Solomon proposed that Lu Yuan steal the Hero Remains, and the Boar Demon offered to forge convincing replacements using extraordinary resources.
• Lu Yuan forced the demons to contribute supplies, and the Black Shadow Demon donated a piece of Legendary Level green wood before Lu Yuan added Reverse Entropy Element.
• Solomon outlined a plan in which the Black Shadow Demon would conceal Lu Yuan and help replace the remains, while the Stone Demon cracked the tower’s defenses from outside.
• Lu Yuan insisted Solomon share the risk, and Solomon agreed to enter the tower with Lu Yuan and the Black Shadow Demon while the Stone Demon and Boar Demon stayed outside to help them escape.
• Lu Yuan considered using the Qiankun World as a contingency if the tower sealed his abilities, while recognizing that he might still become trapped there.

Lu Yuan and Seashell trapped Demon of the Ruined Control in Different Dimension and fought to destroy it, while the rescued Jin Bote and the others waited for news. Demon appeared to die, but warned that Gui remained and that Lu Yuan would regret what happened.

• Lu Yuan seized Jin Bote and demanded that Demon let the humans leave, while Seashell prepared to open Different Dimension.
• Demon attacked Seashell to steal her treasure, but her preactivated light curtain burned away half its body and Lu Yuan trapped it inside an enhanced Different Dimension.
• Lu Yuan endured Demon’s time-contamination ability and repeatedly struck it with Eternal Tinder until its mercury-like substance turned to powder.
• Demon warned Lu Yuan that Gui could not be defeated and that they could not escape, then faded away after recognizing him as the New Myth of the era.
• Seashell brought Jin Bote and the others into Different Dimension, where they treated his injuries and waited anxiously for Lu Yuan to return.

Jin Bote awakened as the ghost approached, then drank Rainwater and electrocuted himself unconscious, causing the monster to resume sheltering the eight million Blue Peng People. Lu Yuan ordered a satellite dropped over Quincy City to provoke the ghost, whose attack drove the monster away and devastated the city.

• Reconnaissance Room observers learned that Jin Bote and the other Blue Peng People still had vital signs, though their Spirit Attributes had fallen to around two points.
• Jin Bote awoke, told the Dream Ability Users that the monster had stopped sheltering them, and urged them to drink more Rainwater and return to the dream.
• As the ghost tore through the shelter toward him, Jin Bote drank Rainwater and used an electric shock device to knock himself unconscious, making the Dream Network's core disappear.
• After the ghost left, the monster resumed lowering the Spirit Attributes of the eight million Blue Peng People so it could shelter and eventually devour them.
• Lu Yuan ordered a hovering satellite dropped onto Quincy City to provoke the ghost, which attacked the sky and drove the monster away.
• The ghost's strike created a Category 18 storm and caused widespread destruction across Quincy City, alarming the observers in Green Field City.

Lu Yuan returned to his human body and argued with Old Cat over the vast wealth and rare gifts he brought back from Boundless Realm. In the Immortal Palace, Turtle Gu Zi outlined a plan to strengthen Pangu Continent’s civilizations against the coming disaster.

• Lu Yuan returned to his human body, then gave Old Cat its twenty-percent share of the materials he had collected.
• Lu Yuan revealed that he had received 432 elite Pet Corpses and a Mythical Palace as gifts, causing Old Cat to attack him in a furious fit.
• Lu Yuan explained that much of his wealth had strengthened the Qiankun World and that he planned to make the Shield of Life available to civilizations across Pangu Continent.
• Lu Yuan brought Old Cat and Sea Snail Miss into the Immortal Palace, where Ancient Worm introduced the Underground Alliance’s Great Mushroom Field and proposed donating its horn for a new weapon.
• Jin Bote and Turtle Gu Zi advised Ancient Worm to sell the horn and limit his investments, and Ancient Worm agreed.
• Turtle Gu Zi described plans to expand Field Industrialization, strengthen allied civilizations, build advanced space infrastructure, and prepare for the coming disaster.

Lu Yuan and the Northern Alliance prepared for an accelerating Era Disaster by planning a massive Starry Sky Port, while Old Cat warned that the world-ending threat might arrive within a year if Boundless Realm shattered. Lu Yuan encouraged Rock Fist Shen Lu to believe the Ninth Era could reclaim the moon, then realized that Otherworlders were instinctively terrified of attempting it.

• Old Cat announced that Green Field City would begin bidding for a high-specification Starry Sky Port, which the Northern Frontier would build within ten years to prepare for war and delay the Era Disaster.
• Old Cat described warning signs of the accelerating disaster, including intensifying Chaos Wind, the risk of Boundless Realm shattering, and declining animal intelligence and Spirit Attributes on the Western Continent.
• Rock Fist Shen Lu recalled the Eighth Era's wasted time and worried that the Ninth Era had too little time to succeed.
• Lu Yuan argued that the Ninth Era's wealth and industrial development could make it different, and insisted that the civilizations could reclaim the moon.
• After Rock Fist Shen Lu reacted with fear to the idea, Lu Yuan realized that Otherworlders carried an instinctive Thought Imprint that made them resist reclaiming the moon.

The Mother Bug left Seashell a transformed Life Fruit, Green Field Paradise credentials, and a large insect army before departing with the remaining swarm. Lu Yuan returned to a devastated Sky City and faced pressure from the surviving Shali People to lead them in rebuilding their community.

• Seashell sent her mother a drawing of their family, and the Mother Bug gave Lu Yuan a metal credential for Green Field Paradise before telling Seashell to study hard and live well.
• The Mother Bug returned the Undying Giant Turtle and left Seashell over fifteen hundred insect eggs, including King Bug, Leviathan, and Mammoth eggs.
• Lu Yuan saw the ruined Sky City and spared the dying Opium Poppy Tree, recognizing it as Green Field civilization's legacy and the home of Green Field Paradise.
• The Undying Giant Turtle emerged weakened from its cocoon, while Old Cat and several Shali People climbed out of the sewer and told Lu Yuan they had survived the insect attacks.
• A Shali youth asked Lu Yuan to lead the survivors in rebuilding their village, and Old Cat urged him to accept the role.

Green Field City left the Advanced Ruins and returned to the Different Dimension, while Lu Yuan encouraged humanity to face new challenges and prepare for further development. In the Northern Frontier, the returning artisans discovered that other civilizations had developed a new research field, prompting Lu Yuan to fund their progress and sparking renewed competition.

• Lu Yuan bid farewell to the Octopus People and other Civilization Leaders, then led Green Field City away from the ruins as its citizens reflected on decades of stagnation.
• Colonel Lu Ying tested humanity’s enormous new combat armor, while Lu Yuan reviewed the advanced weapons and ambitious engineering projects developed by the artisan team.
• Lu Yuan learned that spatial turbulence might create an opportunity for Space Shuttle and agreed to shelter Turtle Gu Zi and another Turtle Person in his Qiankun World.
• After six months of travel, Green Field City returned to the Different Dimension, its citizens entered hibernation, and the artisan team went to the Northern Frontier to exchange knowledge with old friends.
• Lu Yuan praised the Northern Frontier’s Dream Spirit Field research, awarded its creators Spiritual Essence, and donated Reverse Entropy Element and insect resources to support further development.
• The human artisans and scientists were surprised that the Northern Frontier had surpassed them in research, and their pride and competitive spirit were stirred.

Lu Yuan announced the Human Eighteen Civilizations Trial Plan, sending citizens out across Pangu Continent to develop their independence and prepare them to become all-rounders. Public debate over the risks of intelligence iteration eased resistance, and registrations began to rise.

• Lu Yuan announced the Pangu Grand Tour Plan and explained that citizens would travel to distant lands to gain experience and build humanity’s influence.
• Lu Yuan revealed that twenty research spaceships were ready to carry two million volunteers in small societies, with limited military strength and a temple for emergency support.
• Lu Yuan said the trial would help humanity develop the willpower and mature mentality needed to become a Level Six Civilization, and that all-rounders were necessary for future intelligence iteration.
• Experts and citizens discussed how broad life experience and strong values could reduce the dangers of intelligence technologies such as photonic neural networks and Parallel Thinking.
• Public resistance to the plan diminished after the debate, and more people began registering for the trials.

Lu Yuan spent New Year’s Eve reflecting on civilization’s development while enjoying a rare day away from work, then celebrated the start of the eighth hundredth year of the Ninth Era. He returned home to find his family asleep and ate handmade dumplings, feeling nostalgic about how much life had changed.

• Lu Yuan reviewed Green Field City’s growth, the Northern Alliance’s industrial plans, and the mature Qiankun World while trying and failing to stop thinking about work.
• He wandered through New Year festivities, spoke with a gifted seven-year-old programmer, and watched children’s robot competitions before running into Old Wolf.
• Lu Yuan played video games at an arcade, lost repeatedly, and joined the crowd in welcoming the New Year at midnight.
• He reflected on how prosperity could create false progress and weaken civilizations, then decided that helping people experience self-sufficient lives and become All-rounders was worthwhile.
• Lu Yuan returned to Green Field Mountain and ate the handmade pork-and-celery dumplings his family had left for him, which reminded him that everything had changed.

Lu Yuan and the leaders considered the threat of the unknowable gods while the Ninth Era’s civilizations continued to develop. At Green Field City’s New Year celebration in Year Eight Hundred, Lu Yuan announced that the Human Eighteen Civilizations were ready to pursue becoming a greater civilization and asked what they were missing.

• The Iron Key Alliance and Turtle Civilization leaders discussed the spreading god-related threat and decided to monitor it while focusing on development.
• Lu Yuan accepted Turtle Gu Zi’s warning not to attack the Western Continent and discussed the need to advance intelligence and civilization levels.
• By Year Eight Hundred, 889 civilizations possessed Acquired Mythicals, and Green Field City had gained widespread spatial transport, auxiliary chips, and other technologies.
• Lu Yuan delivered a New Year’s address, recalling his early discovery of the Era Disaster and urging people to prepare for its arrival.
• Lu Yuan declared that the Human Eighteen Civilizations should pursue becoming a greater civilization and asked what their society was missing.

Lu Yuan clung to the Fire Lizard and used his Different Dimension to survive its attempts to crush him while poison and blood loss weakened the beast. Nearing exhaustion himself, he saw Old Wolf crawling through the bushes and found a reminder to keep fighting.

• The Fire Lizard burned Lu Yuan with its breath, but he escaped into the Different Dimension and realized he had poisoned and blinded it with his spear.
• Lu Yuan climbed onto the Fire Lizard, which leapt and slammed itself into a rock to shake him off.
• The Fire Lizard used Death Rolls to crush Lu Yuan, but he repeatedly escaped into the Different Dimension and clung to its scales.
• Lu Yuan provoked the Fire Lizard into exhausting itself as Spider Venom spread through its nervous system and its blood loss slowed its movements.
• After the rain stopped, Lu Yuan neared his limit and considered giving up, then saw Old Wolf crawling through the bushes with a will to survive.

Lu Yuan taught humanity the Meida Civilization’s Lotus Ignition Method for transmitting Extraordinary Tinder and explained its importance. In Yunhai City, Wang Zhenhao and a programmer struggled to learn it, while the city prepared to spread the fire through them.

• Yunhai City identified Lu Yuan as Extraordinary Tinder and chose to learn about the ability first.
• While waiting for a reply, Lu Yuan read a Meida Civilization report describing Form Skills, Qi Skills, and rare God's Skills.
• Lu Yuan demonstrated the Lotus Ignition Method, explaining how to shape a lotus and pass on a petal of Extraordinary Tinder with little energy loss.
• Lu Yuan warned that God's Skills were limited and that civilizations should protect their bearers, then explained the fire's transmission success rates.
• In Yunhai City, Wang Zhenhao and a programmer struggled to form a complete lotus as their instructors urged them to keep practicing.

Lu Yuan challenged the twelve gods screening traitors and realized their apparent power might rely on the summoned beings’ belief and fear. As the gods threatened the group, some representatives began defecting, leaving Lu Yuan and Ye Jin facing a growing wave of collaborators.

• Lu Yuan accused the twelve gods of masterminding the Era Disaster, prompting Ye Jin and other summoned figures to question them as well.
• The Blood-colored Giant threatened Lu Yuan with unbearable pain, then offered the gathered representatives eternal life and the survival of their civilizations if they joined the gods.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that the gods might be unable to kill him and could be gaining strength from the group’s belief, while one summoned figure was tortured after denouncing them.
• Lu Yuan tried to encourage Ye Jin through telepathy, but the gods cut off their connection and caused him pain.
• A representative from a small Level Three Civilization agreed to join the gods, and Ye Jin angrily rebuked him as more figures began considering defection.

Lu Yuan restarted the Metal Ball and managed to reach Human Civilization while eating Prime Fire Lizard meat, prompting researchers to debate its value and the Safe Zone. Professor Edward asked Zhang Hui how Lu Yuan reached Pangu Continent, but Zhang Hui confirmed only that Lu Yuan was from Yunhai City and left the method classified.

• Zhang Hui received word that Lu Yuan had initiated a communication request and rushed to the communicator.
• Lu Yuan used the Metal Ball to contact Human Civilization, hoping to leverage their help, while researchers across the cities watched him eat Prime Fire Lizard meat.
• Researchers discussed the scientific value of mutated creatures and the risks of abolishing the Safe Zone.
• Professor Edward contacted Zhang Hui and asked whether Lu Yuan was from Yunhai City and how he had reached Pangu Continent.
• Zhang Hui confirmed Lu Yuan's hometown but kept the method classified, and Professor Edward asked whether Yunhai City had a psychic with long-distance communication abilities.

As a supernatural field from Sky City incapacitated the Shali Clan, Lu Yuan rushed toward the city to retrieve his Life Tree and investigate. He let the hallucination reveal the Green Field Civilization’s history, learning that its leaders planned to create a god through Green Field Paradise and the rare God's Skill As One Wishes.

• Lu Yuan found hundreds of Shali villagers unconscious under Field · Confusion and used Soul Infant Fruit juice and ice water to help the survivors resist it.
• Lu Yuan left Sha Kaner and Old Cat to protect the villagers, then rode the Undying Giant Turtle toward Sky City with his companions.
• As the hallucinations worsened, Lu Yuan agreed to let them enter his mind so he could investigate the Green Field Civilization’s extinction.
• Lu Yuan witnessed the High Priest explain that Green Field Paradise was a virtual world created through the Opium Poppy Tree and that the civilization planned to upload its people’s consciousnesses.
• The High Priest proposed combining the civilization’s spirits with the Opium Poppy Tree to create a god and predicted that someone would soon possess the God's Skill As One Wishes.

Lu Yuan rejected a proposal to greatly expand the insect habitat and led Human 18 Civilization on its departure toward the Human Mother Civilization. After Sky City rose into the sky, he met with young representatives to ask how humanity should develop toward Level Four Civilization.

• Lu Yuan rejected the scientists’ plan to expand the Little Grotto-heaven, arguing that the cost and risks outweighed the Insectoid Legion’s increased output.
• Lu Yuan delivered a departure speech, and Human 18 Civilization completed its safety checks before Sky City lifted off on the 75,611th day of the era.
• Sky City rose above the forest and coastline, said farewell to the Underground Alliance, and headed toward the Human Mother Civilization under concealment inscriptions.
• Lu Yuan spoke with the Minotaur through the dream network and gave him the location of a buried jar of Yang Strengthening Wine.
• Lu Yuan met with Hai Zhiyun and other young representatives and asked them what direction humanity should take to become a Level Four Civilization.

Lu Yuan entered Pangu Continent’s Concept World and discovered that the Aether Spirit-Core Network’s hidden host was there. After its flame protected his eyes, twelve gods emerged from Pangu’s burial pit and confronted him, leaving him retreating with no clear way out.

• Lu Yuan considered how his growing influence might help free Eastern Continent Otherworlders from their Thought Imprints and let them join the moon war.
• Lu Yuan was pulled into the Concept World, where most of his abilities failed and movement followed unfamiliar rules.
• Lu Yuan recognized Pangu’s burial mountain and approached a flame that called to him.
• The flame identified Lu Yuan, began allocating him higher permissions, and then vanished as twelve blurry gods emerged from the pit.
• The gods’ appearance threatened to kill Lu Yuan by sight, but the flame protected his eyes, and he cautiously backed away from the figures.

Lu Yuan returned from gathering Spirit Rhythm and learned that humanity’s negotiations with the Underground Alliance had succeeded, while the alliance had brought them a sample of a dangerous new power called Wither Gui. As trade and research continued, Lu Yuan’s reputation spread among the Minotaurs, and his nightly mushroom gathering yielded a Legendary Level mushroom.

• Lu Yuan rejoined the negotiators and learned they had sold the Spirit Rhyme Value System and expected thousands of Spirit Rhythm in knowledge trades.
• Lu Tiantian showed Lu Yuan a decaying piece of flesh infected with Wither Gui, whose power slowly destroyed life force, and Lu Yuan warned her to protect herself.
• Humanity and the Underground Alliance built trust through research, trade, and socializing, while humanity acquired part of the Gear Inheritance.
• Lu Yuan entertained the Minotaurs with exaggerated stories about the Greedy Demon God, causing his name and reputation to spread among them.
• Lu Yuan continued gathering mushrooms with the help of insect traitors and, on the twenty-second day, found a Legendary Level Naked Colorful Cap Mushroom.

Lu Yuan completed Snowflake Tree and Four Squirrels by using his vital blood to create a Legendary Masterpiece with a Shelter Field, then collapsed from the strain. The field impressed the gathered artisans and leaders, while Storm Lie Jiu considered joining Greenfield Market to learn from the humans.

• Lu Yuan used a mouthful of vital blood to restore life and vitality to Snowflake Tree and Four Squirrels, creating its Shelter Field.
• Lu Yuan announced the work was complete, received applause, and went to rest in a Hibernation Pod after Seashell called for medical staff.
• Rock Fist Shen Lu and the artisans recognized that Lu Yuan had changed the artwork’s mood through a novel form of blood sacrifice.
• The crowd tested the Shelter Field and saw its potential to improve plant growth, animal reproduction, and recovery across its 1.5-kilometer radius.
• The humans brought out Farmer No. 1, a giant locust, and the artisans discussed Lu Yuan’s earlier Mushroom Field.
• Storm Lie Jiu concluded that Green Field City was stronger than the dwarves and considered joining it to learn and share in its growth.