Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan put the Life Tree’s growth and a newly assembled tricycle to use while exploring a saltwater lake for valuable materials. He returned with a haul of ores, only to discover that the last mouse had disappeared beneath the Man-Eating Flower.

• Lu Yuan fed the Life Tree anomalous flesh, then watched his companions mishandle the mice in their cages.
• Lu Yuan soaked empty gasoline drums to reuse as water buckets, discussed fuel with Orange Cat Cat, and assembled a large tricycle.
• The Undying Giant Turtle led Lu Yuan to treasures on the lakebed, where he found twenty-two ores, including Ten Thousand Year Amber.
• While Lu Yuan was underwater, Orange Cat Cat burned a mouse and asked Old Wolf to dispose of its body.
• Lu Yuan returned to find Orange Cat Cat trembling beside a tree and discovered the last mouse missing from its cage beneath the Man-Eating Flower.

Lu Yuan joined the Buzhou Alliance’s effort to claim an Eighth Era Level Six Civilization legacy, while the participating civilizations agreed to share its starry sky port. He entered the inheritance trial and passed two ancient tests, then continued toward a cluster of familiar red flames.

• Lu Yuan said Green Field City would contribute the starry sky port to the Buzhou Alliance if it obtained the legacy, and the civilizations agreed to share the port.
• Aobo explained that earlier eras’ legacies had existed but remained undiscovered, and the civilizations of the Inner World Alliance also agreed to share.
• The inheritance entrance appeared beside the lake, and Lu Yuan entered the spiritual space created by [Yao Peak].
• Lu Yuan broke the bronze door’s [Luck Lock] with his powerful luck and passed the [Mirror of Self-Reflection] by relying on his accomplishments.
• Lu Yuan walked deeper into the dark corridor and found a cluster of familiar red flames.

Lu Yuan learned from the Weaver about powerful lifeforms in the Chaos Sea, including a naturally formed Boltzmann Brain, and realized the Immeasurable Colored Pearl might be one. The Weaver’s memories revealed a vast range of cosmic beings, leaving Lu Yuan eager to learn more about the Chaos Sea.

• Old Cat told Lu Yuan that awakened Level Five Civilizations in the Eastern Continent resented the Buzhou Alliance and might make trouble for him when he went there to inherit a legacy.
• Lu Yuan returned to the Qiankun World with Seashell and inspected its mature innate plants and treasures, including the mysterious Immeasurable Colored Pearl.
• The Weaver showed Lu Yuan an image of a vast Light Sphere and explained that it was a naturally born lifeform, which Lu Yuan identified as a possible Boltzmann Brain.
• Lu Yuan compared the Light and Shadow Stone’s data to the Immeasurable Colored Pearl and suspected the pearl was a Boltzmann Brain that could become an auxiliary brain.
• The Weaver shared memories of other Chaos Sea lifeforms, including a colossal gravity-wielding sphere, a plague-spreading being, neutron-star creatures, the Extreme Cold Ice Soul Race, and Lucifer.

As [God] overwhelmed the defenders and the Yin World's Chaos Wind began mutating life across Pangu Continent, Lu Yuan lay helpless and considered whether to retreat into the Qiankun World. Seashell rallied the Northern Alliance to alter the continent’s orbit and resist, while the United Legion and the Dark Legion launched their own campaigns against the approaching enemies.

• [God] drove back the [Weaver], battered the Ghost Race Emperor and [Ghost Mythical], and threatened to destroy the world as the [Weaver] protected the Era Fortress and Lu Yuan's head.
• Civilization Leaders received reports of devastating invasions, mass casualties, fleeing forces, and the Chaos Wind’s arrival, which mutated creatures and brought the Yin and Yang Worlds closer to collision.
• Lu Yuan, unable to move, heard the [Mirror Brain] weigh deducing [Undefeated] against sending the Northern Frontier into the Qiankun World, while he remained unwilling to accept defeat.
• Seashell urged the Northern Alliance to fight and activate its Planetary Engines to alter Pangu Continent’s orbit, and tens of thousands of engines began pulling the world.
• The United Legion called on the civilizations to resist the Chaos Wind and attack their enemies, while the Pangu Brain led the Dark Legion in a campaign of revenge using seized [Gods] bodies.

Lu Yuan visited Turtle City as the new leader of the Demon Sect and demonstrated his combat strength and engineering insight to the turtle people. He proposed using fortune to guide spatially traveling antimatter weapons, leaving the scientists impressed but unable to understand his methods.

• Lu Yuan defeated and bound three demons, then explained that he had used about a tenth of his offensive strength but defended himself fully.
• Gui Wu led Lu Yuan through Turtle City and introduced the elite artisans, Glyph Readers, and other specialists who had joined the Demon Sect.
• Lu Yuan introduced himself to Turtle City's scientists and artisans, describing his work in Field Industrialization and other engineering achievements.
• A turtle scientist challenged Lu Yuan to improve the city's antimatter weapon, and Lu Yuan explained its limits and proposed sending antimatter through higher dimensions.
• Lu Yuan demonstrated a leaf that tracked Gui Wu by fortune and showed sunglasses that revealed Space Tunnels, leaving the turtle artisans baffled and too proud to ask questions.

After Lu Yuan defeated Painted Skin, he brought the Mandala Empire’s surviving people to Sky City and put them under its laws. The city began rebuilding after the war while Old Cat organized care for more than fifty thousand rescued babies and restoration efforts.

• Lu Yuan asked the Mandala Empire’s survivors about their plans, and more than a hundred people pledged to join Sky City.
• Lu Yuan led the survivors and the Life Tree back to Sky City, where Sha Sanli welcomed them and introduced them to the city’s way of life.
• Sha Sanli explained that survivors would need to pass a language examination before taking jobs, while meritorious survivors could receive better housing and an allowance.
• Old Cat arranged food and shelter for more than fifty thousand babies, ordered dairy cows brought in, and sent Leviathan and Mammoth to graze outside the city.
• Sky City residents resumed cleanup and repairs, and the casualty report recorded thirty-eight dead, one hundred eighty-nine lightly injured, and around seventy-two seriously injured.

Lu Yuan and his companions settled in the Turtle Temple while Green Field City spent thirty years developing its technology and military. At a council meeting about the city’s next destination, Old Cat proposed returning to the Different Dimension to await spatial turbulence and a random teleport to Pangu Continent, and the council agreed.

• Lu Yuan subdued Mother Bear and Little Mirage Dragon with the Greedy Demon God, then made his companions the Turtle Temple’s first permanent residents and hid Little Mirage Dragon’s absence from Green Field City by saying it had traveled to the Northern Frontier.
• Thirty years passed as Lu Yuan transformed the Qiankun World and Green Field City developed bloodline technology and a powerful fleet, including the flagship Kunlun Mountain.
• Lu Yuan attended Green Field City’s council meeting, where members debated whether to settle near the Level Five ruins or continue wandering after the city’s thirty-year protection ended.
• Lu Yuan suggested that citizens seeking a settled life could return to the Northern Frontier through the temple while others continued traveling, unsettling the councilors.
• Old Cat proposed returning to the Different Dimension because the Blue Roc Civilization expected spatial turbulence within a few years, which could teleport Green Field City to a random location on Pangu Continent.
• The council agreed to continue wandering and make the Different Dimension Green Field City’s next stop.

Lu Yuan studied intelligence technology and developed Parallel Thinking while preparing to create an external brain for the Greedy Demon God. He traveled to the Eastern Continent for a competition over an Eighth Era legacy, where his allies urged him to lead their alliance, but he cautioned them against giving it too much political weight.

• Lu Yuan decided to study intelligence and biology before attempting to merge the Immeasurable Colored Pearl with the Greedy Demon God as an external brain.
• Professor Lu Tiantian explained intelligence research, including neural connections, memory enhancement, and Parallel Thinking.
• Lu Yuan learned Parallel Thinking and created Thought-forms, but found they were limited to material tasks and could not learn knowledge.
• After a year, Lu Yuan traveled with Ye Jin to the Eastern Continent and reached the Observer Civilization’s Yao Peak, where a legacy from the Eighth Era was to be contested.
• Members of the Inner World Alliance recommended Lu Yuan as their leader, but he said the alliance should remain an informal name and that civilizations must still consider their own interests.

Fifty-five Level Five Civilizations from the Eighth Era arrived, exposing tensions with the Ninth Era as representatives gathered to hear about the Era Civilization’s legacy. Aobo warned that the Ninth Era might have fewer than five hundred years left, then opened the legacy ceremony with a recording explaining why the Era Civilization had abandoned Pangu Continent.

• Fifty-five Level Five Civilizations from the Eighth Era arrived at Yao Peak, where Lu Yuan and other Ninth Era leaders assessed their technology and strength.
• Redebart, chairman of the Crimson Civilization, asked Lu Yuan to make a Future Mirror, but Metallurgy challenged his disrespect and identified himself as a Grandmaster Artisan.
• Gui Wu defended the Buzhou Alliance’s unity when an Eighth Era representative questioned whether its many civilizations could resolve conflicts of interest.
• Aobo announced that the Ninth Era was already in its late stage and likely had no more than five hundred years before the Era Disaster, attributing the shortened era to rapid development, advanced cognition, and fewer ghost-level anomalies.
• Aobo praised the Ninth Era’s innovations and opened the Eighth Era legacy early, then played a recording in which the Era Civilization explained that it had fled toward the Chaos Sea because it could not stop the disaster.

Lu Yuan left Shi Tong Fortress in his Greedy Demon God form to search for mushrooms in the insect territory. After reaching a mushroom forest with the Scout Sickles, he confronted a powerful but timid Bei Hei Sky Aphid and discovered it had a rare, foul-smelling mushroom.

• Lu Yuan told the humans to show the other visitors Farmer No. 1 and reveal their shared Gear Inheritance, then rested in a secured room at Shi Tong Fortress.
• Lu Yuan transferred his soul into the Greedy Demon God, transformed into a Valley Locust, and used Space Blink to leave the fortress for the mushroom forest.
• Lu Yuan met the Scout Sickles, transformed into a counterfeit King Insect, and led them through the insect ecosystem toward a mushroom forest.
• Lu Yuan considered taking a Female Mite Spider Mantis but decided to seek a Mother Bug instead.
• Lu Yuan confronted a Level 6 Bei Hei Sky Aphid that had been secretly eating mushrooms and beat it back with punches.
• Bei Hei Sky Aphid begged for mercy and spat out a Bei Hei Stinky Mushroom, which Lu Yuan recognized as a rare Natural Oddity containing Spiritual Resonance.

Lu Yuan resisted the gods’ attempt to possess him, fought their phantoms, and discovered that his opponent was Pangu Brain, an ancient infiltrator claiming to be an ally and the examiner of the trial. Pangu Brain explained the trial’s inheritance and warned Lu Yuan that a powerful true god remained asleep amid the Era Disaster.

• Lu Yuan threatened to kill himself rather than let the gods possess him, then broke free of their influence and attacked them with the Eternal Tinder.
• Lu Yuan resisted the giant god’s time ability with Stong Gale, causing the other gods’ phantoms to vanish and returning the confrontation to the trial room.
• The remaining giant god revealed that it was Pangu Brain and claimed that it had simulated the other gods as part of the trial.
• Pangu Brain told Lu Yuan it had possessed a god, survived nine eras, and sought a successor to help resolve the Era Disaster.
• Pangu Brain explained that candidates who killed themselves at the trial’s final moment would receive the inheritance, while those who surrendered would leave with their memories erased.
• Pangu Brain warned Lu Yuan that the active gods were minor underlings and that a more powerful true god was still asleep, then took Turtle Immortal’s form.

Lu Yuan questioned Pangu Brain’s motives before seeing the Era Fortress, a Level Six Civilization city that he qualified to inherit. After discussing the inheritance with his allies, he proposed that Old Cat take charge, but Old Cat insisted Lu Yuan should inherit it for the sake of the Buzhou Alliance.

• Lu Yuan questioned Pangu Brain about its plan during the gods’ summoning, and Pangu Brain explained that it would have secretly killed some leaders and allowed a few weaker gods to descend.
• Pangu Brain led Lu Yuan into the Era Civilization ruin and showed him its advanced technology and the vast Era Fortress.
• Pangu Brain explained that Lu Yuan could inherit the fortress, and the fortress’s artificial intelligence, Time Sprite, invited him to complete the process.
• Lu Yuan contacted his allies and told them he had passed the assessment, while keeping Pangu Brain’s identity and the details of the trial vague.
• Lu Yuan proposed that Old Cat inherit the fortress because its management would be demanding, but Old Cat refused and argued that Lu Yuan’s authority would help unite the Buzhou Alliance.

Lu Yuan celebrated the New Year with Sea Snail, whose soul reached satiation and returned to her physical body. After her abilities strengthened, she challenged Lu Yuan to a bet about whether he could keep his vow until sunrise, leaving their playful contest underway.

• Lu Yuan welcomed the Ocean Fleet soldiers’ New Year celebrations, then prepared a holiday meal while thinking about his distant family in Yunhai City.
• Lu Yuan arranged for staff to take over Sea Snail’s duties in Green Field Paradise and helped her transfer her soul into her long-dormant body.
• Sea Snail reached Soul Satiation, improving her As One Wishes ability, and used Charm on Lu Yuan after teasing him.
• Lu Yuan carried Sea Snail away from the Aberration Guai, which raged at their affection, and they shared a New Year’s dinner with the three King Insects.
• Sea Snail bet that Lu Yuan would break his vow before sunrise, while Lu Yuan wagered that he would hold back and boasted that he would become her slave if he lost.

Lu Yuan witnessed the Sixth Era’s defeat, learned that the Hou Tu Civilization had trapped a god on the moon, and uncovered the god’s identity as an Innate Mythical of the You Clan. The stone man Yu preserved this information for future generations, leaving Lu Yuan to realize why records of the Sixth Era had vanished.

• The Light Sphere urged the civilizations to seal the Blood Sacrifice Rule, preserve their legacies, and pass hope between eras.
• Lu Yuan visited the Sixth Era’s lunar city and heard the Hou Tu Civilization’s leaders debate whether to fight the unknown enemy before advancing to Level Eight.
• The Sixth Era ended in defeat when gods and traitorous civilizations overwhelmed the Hou Tu Civilization, though the Hou Tu Civilization trapped a god on the moon.
• Yu used Fleeting Moment as he died to tell future generations that Hou Tu survivors remained on the moon and had discovered the god’s You Clan identity.
• Lu Yuan learned that the god had killed its own kin to conceal its origins and that this identity could be used as a philosophical weapon against it.

Lu Yuan learned that God was likely the hidden manipulator behind the Era Disasters, growing stronger by using blood sacrifices to steal Pangu’s Nirvana. In the Fifth Era, the fading Summit Civilization prepared to leave Pangu Continent while its leaders debated sealing the Blood Sacrifice Rule.

• Duo Mu ordered the Ink Sect to create three thousand demon gods to control ghosts and force the surviving races to cooperate.
• Duo Mu and the Pangu Brain discussed whether the Yin and Yang Worlds’ collision could enable Pangu’s Nirvana and whether a hidden being had devised the process.
• Lu Yuan concluded that God was the source behind the hidden manipulation and had likely reached the Eternal level through repeated era-wide blood sacrifices.
• The historical illusion showed the Fifth Era, where the Summit Civilization’s Light Sphere had weakened and only one sphere remained.
• The Summit Civilization’s arrival brought material knowledge, factories, and Floating Fortresses, while its leaders prepared to leave the world.
• The civilizations’ leaders debated sealing the Blood Sacrifice Rule, and the Turtle Civilization’s chieftain condemned it as the cause of the Era Wars.

Lu Yuan’s return to Yunhai City exposed the vast gap between Green Field City and the Human Alliance, prompting debate over whether the Alliance should migrate to the Northern Frontier. He then toured Yunhai City and introduced his wife Seashell to the public, leaving the city buzzing about his family and Green Field City.

• Professor Edward asked to see a King Insect’s numbers, and Lu Da’s threat level measured 178213, shocking the Human Alliance delegation.
• After touring Green Field City, the delegation debated its development and the proposal to move to the Northern Frontier; Li Chunhong said Yunhai City would go, while other cities wanted more exchanges and time.
• Lu Yuan visited the Human Alliance’s Military City and discussed labor, retirement, and artisan systems with Li Chunhong.
• In Yunhai City, Li Chunhong praised Lu Yuan’s achievements during a public welcome, and the broadcast sparked speculation about how he had founded a civilization.
• Lu Yuan introduced Seashell as his wife and an outsider from the Previous Era, prompting excitement and curiosity among reporters and residents.

Lu Yuan studied how Seashell’s “As One Wishes” worked and prepared to raise more than fifty thousand dormant infants, while planning a government for Sky City. As the city announced the coming child-rearing program and civil service examination, Jin Dongliang and his brothers read the news and trusted Lu Yuan to care for the children.

• Lu Yuan reviewed the Green Field Civilization’s child-rearing materials and concluded that Seashell’s “As One Wishes” depended on her cognitive level, Spirit Attribute, happiness, and other factors.
• Six months passed as Sky City repaired its damaged districts, replenished its water supply, harvested crops, and prepared to establish the Green Field Town government and begin raising the infants.
• Lu Yuan chose to model the government on the Green Field Civilization’s Upper Council system, retaining a lifelong Grand Elder post with mandatory veto power while delegating routine decisions to elected Council Members.
• Jin Dongliang continued feeding pigs because he had not passed the language examination and lacked other useful job skills, while enjoying the city’s relaxed atmosphere and equality.
• Jin Dongliang’s brothers brought him the Green Field Daily, and the five brothers discussed the planned education of the infants they had rescued and expressed confidence in Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan received the Pioneer's Eye as a milestone reward and used it to assess his surroundings, but a giant python forced him to escape into the Different Dimension. After making a crude axe and testing the river water, he failed to earn another milestone and found humor in the Eye’s self-important description of itself.

• A beam struck Lu Yuan’s right eye, giving him the Pioneer's Eye and a flood of information about the weeds and his own hands.
• Lu Yuan guessed that his arrival ahead of the other humans might have been an accident, then vowed to find milestones and eventually return to Earth.
• A giant python attacked Lu Yuan, who escaped by using Different Dimension until the snake gave up and left.
• Lu Yuan fashioned an axe by fastening a sharp snake scale to a branch, then checked the river water and drank some.
• Lu Yuan failed to earn a milestone for drinking from the river and laughed at the Pioneer's Eye’s grand description of itself.

Lu Yuan inherited control of the Era Fortress after learning how earlier eras’ civilizations shaped the world and why the Ninth Era had been prepared through generations of inheritance. Pangu Brain departed, leaving Lu Yuan in charge as he began exploring the fortress and its treasury.

• Lu Yuan agreed to hand management rights for the inheritance to the Buzhou Alliance, the Northern Alliance, and others, while Pangu Brain showed him the other leaders’ trials and explained that most lacked the luck to pass.
• Pangu Brain showed Lu Yuan the Civilization Encyclopedia, whose records traced earlier civilizations’ inventions, destructions, and discoveries about the gods, and explained how their inherited foundations aided later eras.
• Pangu Brain said the Sixth Era’s failure to flee and pass on its foundations had squandered its efforts, while the Ninth Era had produced unexpected miracles; he refused to give the inheritance to leaders he deemed inadequate.
• Lu Yuan entered the test chamber and received the Era Fortress’s highest authority after a scan that lasted over half an hour.
• Pangu Brain departed after telling Lu Yuan that information about the Era Disaster was stored in the artificial intelligence and that his turtle shell was in the National Treasury.
• Lu Yuan explored the illuminated Era Fortress, admired its districts and sculptures, and decided to check the National Treasury for useful items.

Lu Yuan secured the Starry Sky Port inheritance and showed the Immortal Palace Aberrants its black hole and Civilization Encyclopedia, stirring grief over their lost civilizations. He learned the port's treasury held dangerous matter rather than the knowledge he sought, and the story left him preparing to enter it as a Thought-form while the city urgently needed repairs and matter to stabilize its black hole.

• Lu Yuan demonstrated how matter falling into the black hole produced a Gamma Ray Burst, and the Aberrants admired the technology of a Level Six Civilization.
• Lu Yuan read the Civilization Encyclopedia's history of the Crystal Concrete Civilization, and the three surviving Crystal People mourned their lost companions.
• The other Aberrants refused to learn what had become of their former civilizations, while Lu Yuan secretly decided to give them reassuring accounts if they later asked.
• Lu Yuan reflected on Concept Ability and Pangu, then sealed away his sudden insight when he sensed that the truth was concealed.
• Lu Yuan learned that the Central National Treasury stored vast quantities of exotic matter, but the artificial intelligence could not reveal whether it contained knowledge about the Era Disaster.
• Lu Yuan ordered the trapped leaders released after one day and learned the black hole needed more matter and the damaged city machinery required repairs.