Chapter Summaries

Human 18 Civilization launched Sky City on its journey to the Mother Civilization and reached Ocean's Edge after nine months. As the city began its ocean voyage, Lu Yuan convened leaders to plan for hazards and regulate scarce Extraordinary resources.

• Lu Yuan announced that Human 18 Civilization had reached 420,000 people and launched Green Field City's Homecoming Plan.
• Sky City rose to twenty thousand meters and set its course toward Yunhai City, while Lize students sent Humanity a farewell message promising they would catch up someday.
• After nine months of flight, Sky City arrived at Ocean's Edge and landed safely on the water.
• Lu Yuan convened a meeting to prepare for ocean hazards as Professor Shamo reported on the city's draft, power use, glyph work, and travel speed.
• Guo Dafeng asked Lu Yuan to help experts obtain domains, and Lu Yuan called for rules governing inspiration bursts and the allocation of strategic resources.

Lu Yuan discovered that Space Blink could reach unseen destinations but risked fatally overlapping his body with matter, and he wondered whether he could use it to breach the Lize Civilization’s Safe Zone. After learning that the sinkhole’s Time Cage would shorten the wait if he died, he considered attempting the dangerous crossing.

• Diggedit promised the Major General that he would use his domination powers against prisoners and corrupt officials, then declared that their city would change as he arrived at the Conference Building.
• Lu Yuan tested Space Blink and discovered that jumping without seeing his destination injured his organs because his body could overlap with matter there.
• Lu Yuan considered breaching the Lize Civilization’s Safe Zone, but his excitement brought on a nosebleed and Old Cat initially tricked him into thinking he was dying.
• Lu Yuan and Old Cat found that time passed much faster outside the sinkhole, which functioned as a small Safe Zone because the Time Cage remained in place.
• Old Cat encouraged Lu Yuan to try breaching the Safe Zone, explaining that the Time Cage would let it and Old Wolf wait only a little over half a month if he died and needed to revive.

The Buzhou Alliance learned of a devastating battle concealed by the Weaver and sent a large investigation team to uncover what happened. As the strange declaration spread, Solomon warned the Demon Alliance that the conflict might involve buried knowledge of a catastrophic threat, while he and others wondered whether the Greedy Demon God was responsible.

• The Lushu Civilization showed representatives footage of a battle whose declaration and immense burst of Idealistic Radiation overwhelmed observers and destroyed the recording equipment.
• The Buzhou Alliance concluded that the brief battle’s peak idealistic intensity exceeded that of the Buzhou War and dispatched a one-hundred-thousand-person investigation team.
• Human civilizations denied involvement and destroyed artworks linked to the Beautiful Civilization as rumors of the battle spread.
• The Haishen Civilization emerged into the Ninth Era inside an ancient shell and set out to investigate what had awakened its Yao Demon and Guai Monster.
• Solomon told the Demon Alliance that eras concealed knowledge of a potentially disastrous enemy, and the demons agreed to investigate the battlefield.
• Solomon and the founding demons wondered whether the Greedy Demon God or the Demon Gate had a role in the battle.

Lu Yuan repaired the blood guai’s seal while the Mirror Demon explained how Steel could counter guai and warned that an Observer Guai might monitor the world through scattered traces. After the Mirror Demon gave him knowledge about blood guai, Old Cat recalled that an ancient civilization had created a demon phenomenon to possess a guai.

• Lu Yuan resisted the blood guai’s Willpower Rule, compared his abilities against it, and began repairing its damaged seal with Seal Resin and inscriptions.
• The Mirror Demon warned Lu Yuan to leave a fissure in the seal, and he followed its advice while carving the Great Gear Seal.
• The Mirror Demon recognized Lu Yuan’s phenomenon as the Greedy Demon God and offered information about blood guai without asking for anything in return.
• The Mirror Demon warned that Observer Guai might monitor the world through traces dispersed throughout it and gave Lu Yuan a golden booklet to translate.
• Old Cat left to pass on the booklet and recalled that its ancient civilization had created a demon phenomenon meant to possess a guai.

After the war, the civilizations agreed on a merit-based distribution of spoils and established the Buzhou Alliance to cooperate against future threats and prepare for the Era Disaster. The alliance announced plans for shared research and development, while Lu Yuan remained unconscious and humanity counted its gains.

• The Turtle Civilization and Lushu Civilization mediated the dispute over spoils, and the civilizations agreed to distribute seventy percent by merit while reserving the rest for the Buzhou Alliance.
• Gui Wu announced the alliance’s founding, warned that the Void Clan had escaped and the Era Disaster remained a greater threat, and representatives signed the founding document.
• The Insect Race Great Emperor said Lu Yuan was alive but severely injured and recovering, while Sea Snail Miss told Old Cat that the Life Tree had consumed the corpses he defeated.
• Old Cat and Sea Snail Miss discussed humanity’s official share and private loot from the war, including ores, high-grade materials, and corpses.
• Gui Wu presented the alliance’s plans to contract out small worlds, expand Space Tunnels, and cooperate on education, military affairs, scientific research, and bloodline technology.

Lu Yuan’s team recovered a living phenomenon egg from the volcanic crater, and humanity celebrated the possibility that it was the reborn Mirage Cloud Dragon. The egg was taken to Green Field Mountain under strict guard, while the jealous Ratfolk Artisans created a treasure-hunting puppet that humanity promptly sought to rent.

• Guo Dafeng reported the enormous, living egg near the magma, and Lu Yuan mobilized the Sky Fortress and Insectoid Warriors to retrieve it.
• The rescue team extracted the egg from the crater and discovered a vast mineral vein; Lu Yuan identified the egg as a high-level phenomenon with a strong chance of hatching.
• Lu Yuan ordered the egg taken to Green Field Mountain and allowed the discovery to be made public, prompting celebrations across humanity and a guarded display in Sky City.
• Lu Yuan dispersed the crowds and sent the egg to Green Field Mountain, explaining that it needed quiet and protection until it hatched.
• Jealous Ratfolk Artisan Shu Bao Gang created a Legendary treasure-hunting puppet, and Old Cat asked to rent it for mining.

Lu Yuan brought Old Cat and the otherworlders to inspect the Guai God Temple, where they assessed its treasures and warned him not to dismantle the palace or rush to use Time Molting. The gathering ended with the Crystal Person explaining how Pangu Continent’s World Will and the Hebrew Civilization’s hidden inheritance were connected, leaving Lu Yuan wary of the ancient history behind his discoveries.

• Old Cat learned that Lu Yuan had found the Fourth Era Guai God Temple and became so jealous that his head fell off when he saw Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan let the otherworlders inspect the temple, and they estimated its materials were worth enormous sums while warning that its formation helped preserve the Guai Mythical corpse.
• The otherworlders examined Time Molting and proposed uses for it, but Lu Yuan rejected reviving the dangerous Demon · Hub of False Delusion to study its time abilities.
• The Crystal Person suggested that Pangu Continent might have cursed the Guai Mythical to death, and explained that the World Will could punish beings closely connected to the continent.
• The Crystal Person accused the Hebrew Civilization of hiding its wealth in the temple while presenting its history as noble, saying the civilization had abandoned the Northern Frontier to escape the World Will.

After surviving the gods’ attack in the Concept World, Lu Yuan and the other targeted leaders formed a covert alliance and planned protections against future summonings. Lu Yuan returned to his body, while Metallurgy awakened with inspiration to create a devastating weapon against civilizations.

• The white shadows agreed that the Neutrino Industrial Union would develop Protection Technology within a year, while Aobo proposed cheap Dream Intelligent Protection against attacks on ordinary citizens.
• Aobo offered to search for dream-protection research in the Observer Civilization, and the survivors formed the Inner World Alliance and urged one another to meet on the Eastern Continent.
• Metallurgy and the others thanked Lu Yuan for helping them survive, while Lu Yuan remained alone with the World Will and said he intended to become an Eternal One.
• The tiny flame could offer Lu Yuan no advice about becoming an Eternal One or information about Summit Civilizations, so he went to rest.
• Metallurgy woke in a hospital after his coma and announced that his inspiration drove him to create a powerful Idealistic Weapon to kill people and destroy civilizations.

As the approaching disaster drove civilizations across the world into rapid mobilization, they began building planetary engines and Starry Sky Ports while sharing technology. Lu Yuan considered how to advance Green Field City and learned that he would travel to the Eastern Continent in six months to investigate the Eighth Era’s legacy.

• Grand Scholar Constantine argued that the Northern Frontier’s leaders were preparing for a real disaster and speculated that beings behind past Peak Civilizations might be responsible.
• The One-Eyed Great Chieftain oversaw construction of the Northern Frontier’s Planetary Engine project, and its first nuclear fusion engine passed an extreme-cold trial run.
• The Neutrino Industrial Union raised the Ninth Era’s first Starry Sky Port, while the Underground Alliance and awakened Eighth Era Otherworlders also began planning their development.
• Seashell discussed future combat objectives with Lu Yuan, who suggested building a Starry Sky Port first and considered using intelligence technology to improve the Greedy Demon God.
• Old Cat told Lu Yuan that the Aether Spirit-Core Network would reach the Northern Frontier next month and that Green Field City was developing protections against gods summoning people.
• Old Cat explained that the Eastern Continent held a Level Six Civilization’s legacy and that the Observer Civilization wanted Lu Yuan to visit in six months; Lu Yuan agreed to go with his Inner World Alliance.

After Ye Jin revealed the threat of a summoning ritual that could turn civilization leaders into deadly traitors, the Buzhou Alliance began preparing for an Era Disaster and debating a war against the Western Continent. The chapter ended with four major alliances forming a comprehensive partnership to share technology and coordinate their economies, politics, and military forces.

• Ye Jin demanded resources and Artisan Masters to forge a Mythical Weapon, then asked the Artisan leaders to report crucial information to the Buzhou Alliance and send his regards to Lu Yuan.
• At an emergency meeting, Ye Jin described the summoning ritual and warned that powerful leaders across civilizations had been targeted; Old Cat confirmed that Lu Yuan remained unconscious.
• Ye Jin urged the alliance to raise its combat power and issue a mandatory mobilization order, while Gui Wu called for a vote on war and leaders debated attacking the Western Continent or landing on the moon.
• The Buzhou Alliance launched public campaigns about the Era Disaster and began preparing for war as leaders considered how to confront the unknown enemy.
• The Buzhou Alliance, Neutrino Industrial Union, Northern Alliance, and Iron Key Alliance established a comprehensive alliance for economic, political, technological, and military cooperation.

Lu Yuan turned the gods’ summoning ritual into an uprising, attacking the traitors to expose the gods’ supposed invincibility as a belief that could be broken. As the gods pinned him down, Metallurgy joined the fight, and the ritual descended into chaos.

• Metallurgy declared that he would follow Lu Yuan, and an unidentified high-status silhouette also sided with him.
• Lu Yuan activated the Extraordinary Tinder and Acquired Mythical power, then killed a traitor who had sensed his attack.
• Lu Yuan urged the onlookers to fight the false gods and slaughtered several more traitors before the gods restrained him with countless arms.
• Even while pinned down, Lu Yuan killed another traitor by spitting out a glowing tooth, throwing the summoning ritual into chaos.
• Metallurgy killed a nearby traitor, and the gods recognized that Lu Yuan’s uprising had made their authority seem challengeable.

Lu Yuan recognized that the gods were using planted traitors to make the gathered leaders surrender, then pretended to embrace their cause so he could disrupt their influence without provoking a direct fight. The chapter ended as Metallurgy realized Lu Yuan was preparing to pull off something big.

• Several white shadows urged the gathered leaders to surrender, and the gods promised they would become an Advanced Civilization.
• Metallurgy resisted the traitors’ pressure, while Lu Yuan suspected they were plants and concluded the gods’ apparent power depended on the leaders’ beliefs.
• Lu Yuan seized the crowd’s attention and claimed he was a leader sent by God, making the gods and Metallurgy wonder if he was surrendering.
• Lu Yuan exaggerated his achievements and declared his choices were always correct, then asked Metallurgy whether he would follow his path.
• Metallurgy realized Lu Yuan’s strange declarations suggested he was preparing to pull off something big.

Lu Yuan and the other captives survived the gods’ summoning ritual by turning on the traitors and breaking the crowd’s reverence, forcing the gods to withdraw. Afterward, the survivors learned that shared consensus had weakened the gods and that they should keep the revelation limited while preparing for future summons and the Era Disaster.

• The World Will secretly protected Ye Jin while a disguised demon killed traitors and rallied the captives to fight back.
• Authorities from across the Pangu Continent joined the battle, and the gods weakened as the crowd lost its reverence and attacked the traitors.
• Aobo of the Observer Civilization welcomed Lu Yuan and praised his Northern Frontier defense project as preparation for the Era Disaster and the Tenth Era.
• The leading Blood-red Divine Giant vanished, the Concept World cleared, and Lu Yuan urged the survivors to spare some traitors for questioning.
• The unnamed demon cursed the surviving traitors so they could be tracked, while Ye Jin proposed using targeted strikes against them.
• Aobo explained that shared consensus had weakened the gods, warned against spreading the knowledge widely, and advised the survivors to seek protection in cities under the World Will.

Lu Yuan struggled to establish reproducing plants in the Qiankun World and learned that bloodlines were essential, while human researchers explored cloning and extraordinary bloodlines. After realizing that humanity’s scientists had mistaken him for a dangerous Ghost, Lu Yuan reconsidered how the world’s first life and bloodlines might have originated.

• Lu Yuan found that most plants and creatures he brought into the Qiankun World could not reproduce, and he kept transporting forests while searching for a way to establish bloodlines.
• Bei Ming and the returning diplomats discussed bloodline research in another civilization and reports of a mysterious entity uprooting and devouring a distant mountain range.
• Lu Yuan discovered that the entity being hunted was himself, then heard that people had identified it as a Ghost and issued warnings to conceal their cities.
• Lu Yuan brought selected weeds to Green Field City, where Bei Ming explained experiments with Vermillion Fox cloning and asexual propagation of extraordinary plants.
• Lu Yuan realized he might not need Mythicals to create bloodlines and began investigating how the world’s first life appeared.
• Lu Yuan found that some documents named the first Innate lifeform Pangu, but gave no reliable details about what it was.

The Human Alliance used a powerful Light Curtain to cripple the Yan Snake Civilization’s battle fortress and deter the Red Bull Alliance, securing a place in negotiations over the newly revealed mythical relic. As both rival civilizations prepared deadly trump cards for a gamble, the battlefield’s temporary calm gave way to the threat of another clash.

• The Yan Snake leader ordered his soldiers to evacuate and sent their battle fortress forward, while the Red Bull Alliance stopped its own fortress short of the Human Alliance.
• The Human Alliance’s Light Curtain melted a million-ton hydrogen bomb and tore through the Yan Snake fortress, which crashed to the ground after the Human fortress narrowly passed it.
• The Red Bull Alliance detected mythical-grade supernatural energy beneath the ruins, but its Council Chairman refused to deploy Ox Ghost and warned that a dangerous presence might remain there.
• Li Jun challenged the rival forces, and the Red Bull Alliance and Yan Snake Civilization demanded shares of the relics, prompting both sides to consider a gamble rather than immediate war.
• The Yan Snake Civilization prepared massive serpent mechs, while the Red Bull Alliance equipped five costly Flesh Armors and ordered them to kill their opponents.

Old Cat led Green Field City's overwhelming forces to defeat the Yan Snake Civilization and Red Bull Alliance, then called for surrender and negotiations. As the battlefield calmed, the Red Bull Alliance revealed Ox Ghost, a ghost-level manifestation, and demanded recognition as an equal.

• Old Cat announced that Green Field City wanted negotiations rather than annihilation, and the Yan Snake leader ordered his forces to surrender after learning their captives were alive.
• The Red Bull Alliance debated deploying Ox Ghost, but its Azure Ox leader rejected an attack and decided to reveal the trump card as leverage.
• Both civilizations withdrew their fields, and Green Field City collected the paralyzed mechs and puppets while its medical personnel treated captives.
• Lawrence noticed the Great Mirage Dragon and a little white dragon together, prompting speculation that essences could reproduce.
• A black ghost-level field spread from a Red Bull spacecraft, and the Azure Ox council chairman introduced Ox Ghost and demanded that the Red Bull Alliance be treated as an equal.

Green Field City confronted the Red Bull Alliance’s ghost-level field and forced the Azure Ox Clan to calm the Ox Ghost and withdraw it. Old Cat then began revising the negotiations to offer both enemy civilizations a path to cooperation, after learning that the Yan Snake Civilization might also be a Second Generation Civilization.

• Green Field City and its allies mobilized for battle when the Red Bull Alliance’s black field triggered alarms, while the Red Bull Alliance’s commanders realized their opponents were prepared to fight ghosts.
• Old Cat activated Green Field City’s Blood Guai field, which harmed the Human Alliance and Haji Civilization but also agitated the Ox Ghost until the Azure Ox Clan’s leaders calmed it with a ritual sacrifice and prayers.
• The Red Bull Alliance withdrew its field, and its diplomats and those of the Yan Snake Civilization arrived to negotiate under Green Field City’s armed pressure.
• Greedy Demon God Lu Yuan praised Old Cat for forcing the enemy to negotiate without a battle, and Old Cat said Green Field City would seek mythical spoils rather than destroy either civilization.
• The great Crystal Person told Old Cat that the Yan Snake Civilization might be a Second Generation Civilization, prompting Old Cat to consider offering both civilizations technology, trade, and peripheral membership in the Northern Alliance.

The Lize leaders watched Lu Yuan escape a room containing two ghosts and tried to understand how he survived. They left with a tentative explanation of his use of blood and his Different Dimension ability, while facing the danger of the ghosts and the collapse of their people’s faith.

• Lyon urged the Lize leaders to distinguish the benevolent Earth Mother Goddess from the ghost they had worshipped and warned that changing public belief would be difficult.
• The leaders feared that the two ghosts imprisoned aboard the First Branch’s spacecraft could escape and devastate the Safe Zone, while Moxi realized Lu Yuan had survived.
• The leaders replayed the recording, and a Seventh Branch scientist proposed that blood was taboo in the mysterious room and that Lu Yuan used it to turn the Earth Mother Goddess’s power against the mirror.
• The scientist theorized that Lu Yuan used his Different Dimension ability to retrieve the blood and keep the ghost’s head from breaking free.
• The meeting ended with the leaders wondering whether their civilization had nearly been wiped out—or already had been.

Lu Yuan investigated the Snake People Palace and discovered that its Spring of Eternal Life granted a long lifespan at the cost of steadily lowering Spirit Attribute. After the old serpentfolk described a dangerous way to escape by balancing the spring water with Mandala Fruit, Lu Yuan’s companions considered that the method might work.

• Lu Yuan used a periscope to glimpse the ghost inside the palace, then nearly succumbed to the Spring of Eternal Life’s alluring power before the Eternal Tinder helped him regain control.
• Lu Yuan learned that drinking the spring water gradually reduced Spirit Attribute and that Mandala Fruit could restore it; he used a bottle and the Different Dimension ability to collect some water.
• Lu Yuan demanded a way out of the city before handing over the spring water, and the old serpentfolk explained that drinking the water and eating Mandala Fruit could help someone perceive a path through the Different Dimensions.
• The old serpentfolk used Memory Library to show Lu Yuan a Great Spirit Essence User who had crawled out of Snake People City, though Lu Yuan doubted the account.
• Lu Tiantian, Hai Zhiyun, Shamo, and the others reasoned that the method might work by borrowing a Gui’s power, but they questioned whether its cost was worthwhile for humans.

Lu Yuan fought the god with Stong Gale, resisting its attempt to weaken and possess him by awakening his ancient bloodline and unleashing a devastating assault. As the Weaver appeared and concealed the battle, Lu Yuan realized that the enemy drew its power from the concept of godhood, though the fight’s outcome remained unknown.

• Lu Yuan resisted the god’s mental and physical assault, and the jade in his mind jolted his soul back into his body as the god tried to possess him.
• Lu Yuan rejected the belief that god was invincible, awakened his ancient bloodline, and attacked with Stong Gale, turning Flame Serpent City into a field of lava and fire.
• The Mist Demon sought help from the Immortal Palace Aberrants, who spotted the Weaver approaching and realized its immense body was concealing Lu Yuan’s battle.
• The Immortal Palace Aberrants withdrew the Void Luo Diagram and concluded they could not support Lu Yuan, while observers across Pangu Continent watched the Weaver feed on temporal radiance.
• Lu Yuan’s power returned as he struck the god repeatedly, recalled the Giant God Soldier’s wound and Weaver’s Mucus, and realized that the gods had gained power by taking over the concept of godhood.