Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan led a Green Field City diplomatic mission through the Space Tunnel to the Kuxi Great Desert, where the Human Alliance had settled. After reaching the region, he contacted Yunhai City and prepared for a cautious first meeting.

• King Insect Lu Da reported that the settlement held humans and traces of several other civilizations, so Lu Yuan arranged a diplomatic expedition aboard the Green Field Knight.
• Lu Yuan and the delegation passed through the Buzhou Alliance’s Sky Shield and Space Tunnel, where he examined the tunnel’s workings and considered how to build one himself.
• The Green Field Knight crossed the Kuxi Great Desert for more than forty days, while Lu Yuan surveyed promising mineral regions and sent the data to Old Cat.
• The ship stopped about 500 kilometers from the settlement, and Lu Yuan ordered it into stealth mode before sending reconnaissance drones.
• Lu Yuan contacted Yunhai City through the Twin Chinese Parasol Tree Dream Realm, and Colonel Li Jun welcomed the news while Lu Yuan asked both sides to follow security procedures and avoid a grand spectacle.

Lu Yuan continued searching the desert for Sky City when a Level 3 Desert Spiral Worm attacked and stole his water. As Lu Yuan and his companions fought it, a swarm of extraordinary insects appeared, leaving them surrounded by a far greater threat.

• Lu Yuan insisted he would find Sky City and was ambushed by a concealed Desert Spiral Worm while digging in the sand.
• The worm drained Lu Yuan’s waterskin, and Old Cat identified it as a Level 3 creature with acid spray and concealment abilities.
• The worm charged Old Cat and then attacked the Undying Giant Turtle, which fought back while Lu Yuan and Old Cat joined the battle.
• Lu Yuan struck one of the worm’s vulnerable organs with a ballista bolt, but the worm sprayed acid that corroded the turtle’s shell.
• A sandstorm revealed hundreds of Desert Spiral Worms and other extraordinary insects approaching the group.

Lu Yuan killed the white god and escaped to the Qiankun World, where the Weaver followed and settled in its Yin World. The survivors began dealing with the destruction, while the Buzhou Alliance gathered civilizations to investigate the Weaver’s appearance and the battle.

• Ox Ghost reformed after the battle and attacked Lu Yuan, convincing him that the white god was dead; Lu Yuan thanked the fleeing Weaver and escaped to the Qiankun World.
• A giant eye opened on the moon and gazed toward Pangu Continent, but the World Will resisted it until it closed and returned to slumber.
• The Weaver followed Lu Yuan into the Qiankun World, and Lu Yuan directed it to settle in the Yin World before reporting his victory and falling asleep.
• Two demons and Therandis escaped Ox Ghost, and Therandis contacted his civilization while the Red Bull Alliance prepared to retrieve its ancestor.
• Old Cat discussed alliance terms with the Red Bull Alliance and advised the ruined Yan Snake Civilization to seek work in the Northern Frontier.
• Gui Wu convened the Ten Thousand Races Conference to report the Weaver’s appearance and organize an investigation into the battle.

Lu Yuan entered the Era Civilization’s central National Treasury and found a fragment of Creation Jade Marrow containing the First Era’s history. In the vision, Turtle Immortal revealed that the Ink Sect’s deaths would preserve Pangu Continent and linked the spread of Infinite Qi to Pangu’s Malice, leaving Lu Yuan to question what that force was and how it related to the gods.

• Lu Yuan entered the central National Treasury as a thought-form and found a Creation Jade Marrow fragment that preserved the Era Civilization’s final information.
• Lu Yuan witnessed Duo Mu meet with Turtle Immortal, who warned that the Ink Sect faced a bloody calamity and that he and Crane Immortal were fated to die to preserve Pangu Continent.
• Turtle Immortal told Duo Mu that Infinite Qi had first appeared on the western continent and might be connected to Pangu’s Malice.
• Turtle Immortal concluded that Pangu’s Malice was driven by the desire not to die and urged Duo Mu to investigate the western continent.
• After the vision ended, Lu Yuan wondered whether Pangu’s Malice was still alive, whether it was connected to the gods, and whether current events were part of Nirvana.

Lu Yuan showed the Aberrants how the Qiankun World had transformed after years of growth and discussed the value of its Profound Yellow Qi and innate treasures. He left them touring the world, whose resources and evolving life promised great potential but remained difficult to develop.

• Lu Yuan asked whether Ancient Insect could bear the war's karmic burden, and the Aberrants said it was willing to accept the attention and could be protected by controlling its finances.
• Lu Yuan and the Aberrants discussed the mysterious Fallen Ones civilization and why Peak Civilizations had left, then decided to investigate its clues later.
• Lu Yuan brought the Aberrants into the Qiankun World, where they saw its vast forests, oceans, deserts, and growing range of life.
• Lu Yuan explained that the world's evolution had yielded 120 units of Profound Yellow Qi, which could potentially create Innate Mythicals, but the Aberrants declined to use it on themselves.
• Lu Yuan showed them growing innate spiritual treasures, Creation Jade Marrow, World Trees, and naturally forming sites that might produce Innate Mythicals.
• Lu Yuan and the Aberrants encountered the Queen Insect while touring the small world where his Insectoid Legion was breeding.

Lu Yuan negotiated a trade between Humanity and the Lize Civilization, securing a large order of technological equipment in exchange for Spirit Rhythm and agreeing to ask the Rat Rice Dam Civilization about the value of Seal Resin. After discussing the Lizardmen’s sealed ghost, Old Cat tempted Lu Yuan to take its most dangerous head for the valuable resin, leaving him wavering between greed and caution.

• Sha Kaner told reporters that Green Field City was considering the Mountain Moving Plan and named the Man-Eating Flower the Meta Tree.
• Lu Yuan gathered the Lize Civilization’s leaders in Meta Paradise, gave them Spirit Treasure Appraisal and Research, and offered to arrange trades with the Rat Rice Dam Civilization.
• Lu Yuan and the Lizardmen agreed on a trade worth more than ten billion for technological products, including industrial equipment needed by Sky City.
• The Lize Civilization asked Lu Yuan to find out how much Seal Resin was worth, and Lord Lyon left to prepare pieces from the Seventh Branch.
• Moxi told Lu Yuan that the Lizardmen planned to abandon their ghost-haunted spaceship, and Lu Yuan advised them to scatter the ships to slow the ghost’s revival.
• Old Cat urged Lu Yuan to take the spaceship containing the ghost’s most dangerous head into the sinkhole for its Seal Resin, and Lu Yuan considered the risky opportunity.

Lu Yuan explained Mythical Industrialization and the Future Mirror to leaders from many civilizations, presenting Acquired Mythicals as producers and researchers who could transform society. The chapter ended with civilizations considering mass-producing Advanced Bloodline Adepts as a more accessible alternative to Acquired Mythicals.

• Lu Yuan argued that Acquired Mythicals should work as producers and researchers rather than form a ruling class, and described how their Bloodline Power and Idealistic Materials could support a self-sustaining industrial cycle.
• Yan Ri offered the Neutrino Industrial Union’s support, including the core structural equations of the Aether Spirit-Core Network, in exchange for help producing its first Acquired Mythical.
• Lu Yuan explained that the Future Mirror drew on Historical Tide Energy and that its use depended on a civilization’s fortunes and a candidate’s importance to its history.
• Gui Wu welcomed the mirror’s ability to expose ineffective leaders, and Lu Yuan warned that history’s judgment could prevent unworthy candidates from advancing.
• A leader asked whether the mirror could produce Advanced Bloodline Adepts instead, and Lu Yuan estimated that one Acquired Mythical might consume enough energy to create roughly 1,000 to 2,400 Advanced Bloodline Adepts.

Jin Bote prepared the Blue Roc Civilization to meet humanity while privately fearing that a stronger rival could threaten his power. Humanity’s representatives agreed to meet the Blue Roc delegation, and both sides arrived armed at the appointed site.

• Blue Roc nobles praised their centralized political system, and Jin Bote reminded them that they needed information about Pangu Continent before deciding their future.
• Jin Bote’s Premonition ability stirred his fears about an approaching catastrophe, and he secretly assigned Bai Diao to lead the diplomatic exchange so he could claim credit or shift blame.
• Humanity’s leaders discussed the risks of war, and Old Cat urged them to focus on gathering intelligence and building friendly relations.
• Humanity learned that the Blue Roc Civilization was willing to negotiate but would not let them approach its city, and the Floating Fortress traveled to the agreed meeting point.
• The Blue Roc Civilization’s concrete spacecraft arrived, its soldiers and drones took positions, and Old Cat ordered the human delegation to head out.

The Ancient Races sealed White Jade Plaza with the Void Luo Diagram and attacked the gathered civilizations to force the Blood Sacrifice Rule into effect. Lu Yuan, Ancient Insect, and the other civilizations fought back, but the battle left Lu Yuan facing a vastly stronger enemy force and searching for a way to win.

• The Evil Dragon Emperor decided to massacre the gathered civilizations, and the Void Clan's emperor trapped White Jade Plaza inside the Void Luo Diagram, cutting off escape and outside contact.
• Lu Yuan challenged the Ancient Races, but the Evil Dragon Emperor shattered the Powered Armor's right arm before Ancient Insect intervened and protected him.
• Ancient Insect, Lu Yuan, the humans, the Turtle Civilization, and other civilizations resisted as the Ancient Races and their Infinite Qi powerhouses launched a brutal counterattack.
• The Greedy Demon God grew to five hundred meters, and Lu Yuan joined Ancient Insect to confront the Infinite Qi users while diplomats destroyed their Blood Bricks rather than surrender them.
• A Blood Glutton Clan Innate Mythical attacked a centaur leader, but a black shadow shattered his Heavenly Manifestation with one punch and forced him to retreat behind his camp.
• Lu Yuan assessed the enemy's five Innate Mythicals, sixteen Infinite Qi users, and other powerful fighters, and concluded that he needed to use the gale winds ability to win.

The Turtle Civilization settled in the Northern Frontier while Lu Yuan prepared Human Civilization’s military delegation for the dangerous Buzhou Gathering. As humanity’s fleet set out on a show of force, other civilizations mobilized too, and an ancient being threatened to make humanity the first target.

• Lu Yuan helped the Turtle Civilization relocate most of its population to the Northern Frontier, where Gui Wu began preparing a city and a trading-market mission.
• Taduo briefed Lu Yuan on the gathering’s factions, including the Chi Civilization, the Giant Stone Civilization, and the Three Moons Civilization, while humanity continued preparing weapons and allies.
• Colonel Lu Ying reported that the diplomatic force was ready, and Lu Yuan signed an agreement authorizing the release of the Aberration Guai if an overwhelming threat appeared.
• Lu Yuan led the Kunlun Mountain and its carrier fleet out under the Thunderstrike military exercise, warning other aerial units to stay clear of Human 18 Civilization’s airspace.
• The Three Moons Civilization, other Level Four Civilizations, and Second Generation Civilizations also mobilized, while Ancient Insect set out for the gathering and an ancient being vowed to strike humanity first.

Lu Yuan discovered that the fleshy ball in the Myriad Gods Temple had emptied, suggesting its contents had escaped to the surface, while Old Cat ordered an evacuation. The Ox Ghost broke free and headed for the Yan Snake city, where an unknown entity struck the National Treasury and left the city’s leaders facing two simultaneous disasters.

• Lu Yuan found the twenty-meter fleshy ball empty and suspected its occupant had reached the surface, so Old Cat ordered excavation teams and nearby forces to retreat.
• The Ox Ghost escaped its bronze coffin, destroyed the Red Bull Alliance Ancestral Hall, and charged toward the Yan Snake Civilization.
• Yan Snake leaders received warnings and evacuated personnel, but a dark mass approached Dragon Bone City as the Ox Ghost arrived.
• Therandis sensed an unknown entity near the National Treasury; it caused people nearby to become demented and decay, while he survived by shutting off his senses.
• Therandis reported the deaths to his commander and confirmed that an unknown entity and the Ox Ghost had entered the city, leaving the leaders in the Serpent Bone Tower in panic.

Lu Yuan received a Level Two emergency alert and connected with Yunhai City, where the anomaly Yao Drizzle was attacking the Safe Zone. The barrier repelled its breach, but its blood rained over the city and contaminated civilians.

• After sensing a growing foreboding, Lu Yuan read a crisis notification from Yunhai City and woke Seashell.
• Lu Yuan and Seashell used the Opium Poppy Tree to contact Yunhai City and saw Yao Drizzle surrounding the Chinese Parasol Tree Dream Realm.
• Seashell determined that the dream-world shadow reflected damage in reality and could not be stopped without interfering with the real world.
• Li Chunhong mobilized Yunhai City's forces as Yao Drizzle approached the Safe Zone and temperatures plunged.
• Yao Drizzle struck the barrier, which burned away part of its mass and repelled the breach.
• Yao Drizzle's blood fell across the city, and officials ordered contaminated civilians found, washed, and quarantined.

As news of the dead Extraordinary Tinder drove cities to plan fortresses and flee their Safe Zones, Lu Yuan's group continued across the wasteland. They landed beside a salty lake to refill their supplies, and Lu Yuan ended the chapter by proposing a mouse-raising test for his companions.

• Diggedit considered using an enormous number of human souls to dominate the demon in the sky.
• Dongjin City's leaders announced the Super Fortress Project, while some considered using it to transport people or wage war on weaker cities.
• Sydney City's prime minister urged residents to build a floating platform and flee to New York City when its Safe Zone opened.
• Lu Yuan's helicopter landed beside a lake during a storm, and Old Cat warned that its water was salty and possibly contaminated with copper.
• The Undying Giant Turtle and Old Wolf searched for fresh water as the rain revived plants and animals around the lake.
• Lu Yuan used the Eternal Tinder to put mice in a cage and challenged his companions to raise them without letting them die.

Lu Yuan introduced mandatory schooling and showed the holders of God's Skill an automated greenhouse to demonstrate how technology could transform Green Field Civilization. The visitors were inspired to study and work toward raising Sky City, while most civilians remained unsure whether the new currency would hold its value.

• Lu Yuan left the Flower Buds’ harsh teacher-training course in place and assigned Sha Sanli to make all school-age children attend, allowing force against those who resisted.
• Lu Yuan gathered more than three hundred holders of God's Skill and managers to tour a greenhouse Seashell and he had repaired and automated.
• Lu Yuan explained that the farm used inscriptions, programming, and soilless cultivation to produce food at a scale comparable to six thousand farmers, while also growing medicinal plants and fruit.
• Lu Yuan urged the visitors to study and help create the miracles needed to raise Sky City, and explained that higher-paying jobs would let them buy the farm’s produce.
• The 382 holders of God's Skill became eager students and workers, while civilians took notice of wages but remained wary of the currency’s promised purchasing power.

Lu Yuan saved Therandis, investigated the contagious white fur spreading through Ox Ghost’s domain, and prepared to face the godlike enemy despite warnings to retreat. The recording failed to reveal the white shadow, so Lu Yuan entered the domain himself with protective measures in place.

• Lu Yuan fed the dying Therandis a Heavenly Silkworm Immortal Bean, restoring his life, then teleported into Ox Ghost’s domain to retrieve equipment.
• White fur parasitized Lu Yuan and resisted his abilities; he tested ways to counter it, eventually using nuclear fuel to slow its growth and Stong Gale to gain a slight advantage.
• Lu Yuan and Therandis watched a damaged recording that went black just before the white shadow appeared, and Lu Yuan decided to investigate the domain directly.
• Lu Yuan ordered Shadow [Demon] to protect Therandis and Mist to cover the area with the Void Luo Diagram and gray mist.
• Lu Yuan transformed into the Greedy Demon God and entered Ox Ghost’s domain, declaring that he was setting off.

Lu Yuan and Seashell helped Jin Bote survive a demon attack, and Lu Yuan explained the Four Great Calamities before leaving with the X-Class Powered Armor. Jin Bote ordered Quincy City to prepare for mass hibernation as the Snake People Palace threatened the world.

• Lu Yuan accepted Jin Bote’s X-Class Powered Armor and explained the dangers posed by ghosts, demons, yaos, and guais.
• The survivors woke, and Jin Bote told his troops that humans were allies and blamed Bai Diao for the coup and attempted war.
• Lu Yuan declined Jin Bote’s request to search the city for more demons and said he had to return to Green Field City because the Snake People Palace was transforming.
• Lu Yuan urged Jin Bote to put as many of Quincy City’s eight million people into hibernation as possible, warning that ghosts could not be killed.
• After Lu Yuan’s spacecraft departed, Jin Bote ordered the citizens to prepare for hibernation and told the nobles that humanity was their guide against the threat on the horizon.

Lu Yuan fought the Undying Giant Turtle in the sealed prison, then discovered it could speak and was desperate to escape. He used the turtle’s pride and fear of being left behind to consider taking it with him, while Old Cat helped him assess the creature.

• Lu Yuan avoided killing the Undying Giant Turtle because spilled blood might draw the nearby ghost, and the turtle tore Old Cat’s mechanical body apart before Lu Yuan drove it back with a hammer.
• Lu Yuan offered the hungry turtle dried meat, and Old Cat used an ancient universal language and its translator to help the two communicate.
• The turtle begged Lu Yuan to take it out of the prison, promising to agree to anything, but admitted it might have planned to break its promise once free.
• Lu Yuan said he would risk Space Blink only for a true brother, then called himself an unworthy servant to make the proud turtle reconsider its position.
• Old Cat and Lu Yuan exchanged boasts about killing a demon, and the turtle listened in shock, doubting that Lu Yuan had really defeated one.

Ancient Insect and Old Cat opened a trading connection between the Buzhou Ruins and the Northern Frontier, introducing the civilizations on each side to the other’s goods and opportunities. The chapter ended with the Northern Frontier’s newly expanded market filling with visitors and product listings.

• Ancient Insect announced a larger trading market for Buzhou Ruins civilizations and opened a huge temple exhibition hall stocked with Northern Frontier goods.
• Old Cat returned to the Northern Frontier and heard the Snow Sheep chief describe the clan’s new textile products, while warning the Yak Clan that selling raw materials alone would leave it behind.
• Old Cat explained that a trading tunnel would connect the markets, with goods inspected by a rear team and no direct contact between buyers and sellers.
• Ancient Insect arrived through the Earth Escape Flying Shuttle and opened the trading tunnel amid the Northern Frontier civilizations’ celebration.
• Old Cat encouraged the Dwarf Civilization to visit the Buzhou Ruins and revealed plans for a Planetary Engine project that could help protect the Northern Frontier from the Era Disaster.
• Visitors entered the expanded Northern Frontier market as hundreds of product listings appeared on its central screen.

Lu Yuan enlisted Turtle Civilization and several demons to spread Field Industrialization and the Greedy God Temple, while Turtle Gu Zi outlined a plan to preserve part of Pangu Continent through Northern Frontier. Lu Yuan also explained that his Qiankun World needed diverse lifeforms to advance its evolution and generate fortune.

• Turtle Gu Zi persuaded five demons to leave their hiding place and help spread Field Industrialization and revive the Ink Sect.
• Lu Yuan introduced Old Cat and Seashell to the turtle people, then brought them to the Different Dimension, where the demons agreed to manage Greedy God Temples and trade resources and information.
• Turtle Gu Zi revealed that Boundless Realm delayed the collision between Yang World and Yin World, but warned that disasters were accelerating and proposed using a Planetary Engine in Northern Frontier to preserve part of Pangu Continent.
• Turtle Gu Zi offered to send turtle people to Northern Frontier to assess and support its development, while urging Lu Yuan to expand Green Field City's population.
• Lu Yuan told the group that his Qiankun World needed anomalous bloodlines to develop life and that he had begun sensing fortune within it.

Lu Yuan discovered that the fleshy ball in the Myriad Gods Temple had emptied, suggesting its occupant had escaped to the surface, and Old Cat ordered an evacuation. In Yan Snake City, the Red Bull Alliance’s [Ox Ghost] and an unknown entity reached the National Treasury, leaving Therandis as one of the few survivors to report the catastrophe.

• Lu Yuan found only a fresh layer of skin inside the fleshy ball and suspected its occupant had escaped to the surface, so Old Cat ordered the excavation team and nearby forces to retreat.
• Old Cat warned the Red Bull Alliance and Yan Snake Civilization that a [Demon] had entered the city, but the Red Bull Alliance dismissed the threat until it learned the [Ox Ghost] had broken free.
• The [Ox Ghost] killed the soldiers guarding its ancestral hall and charged toward Yan Snake City, while an unknown entity approached the city’s National Treasury and caused people nearby to become dazed and rot.
• Therandis resisted the unknown entity by shutting off his perceptions, then reported that the National Treasury area had been struck by an entity distinct from the [Ox Ghost].
• Therandis told his commander he would try to observe the [Ox Ghost], as the [Ox Ghost] arrived and communications failed.