Chapter Summaries

Hua Xueyi and Cat Cat formed bloodline connections with their wolf kings, Little Lu and Little Meow, awakening useful shared abilities. With their Beast Tamer talents confirmed, the group prepared to cultivate elite beasts and mass-produce soldiers.

• Lu PingAn’s group finished selecting more than fifty knight-tier wolves and over three hundred soldier-tier beasts, then chose Little Lu and Little Meow as wolf kings.
• Hua Xueyi and Cat Cat completed Bloodline Connection with their wolves to test their ability sharing.
• Little Lu gained Partial Metallization and Blade Transformation, while Little Meow showed a shadow-like ability that let it disappear into Cat Cat’s shadow.
• The Beast Tamer masters praised Hua Xueyi’s strong ability sharing and assessed Cat Cat’s lower but promising potential for sharing high-level abilities.
• The group planned to mass-produce battle beasts using Hua Xueyi’s Adamantine Wolf, cultivate the knights and kings with magic potions, and have Big Cat guide Cat Cat.

Lu PingAn’s team raised and refined its growing beast packs while researching how to complete the Life Illustrated Handbook. The report proposed that Lu PingAn feed the book to help it evolve and develop a distorted Rider path centered on wielding living weapons.

• Hua Xueyi reported that two Adamantine Wolves had mutated, and Lu PingAn judged their Poison Blood mutation harmful and ordered them used as cannon fodder.
• Lu PingAn expanded the wolf packs, sent wolves with Professor Wen to gather materials, and increased investment in their growth and evolution.
• The Beast Tamer team studied how inherited abilities such as Metalization strengthened later generations of Wolf Beasts, while Lu PingAn compared the effect to his Life Illustrated Handbook.
• The team’s report explained that the Handbook was incomplete because its core material was a Sophist, and that feeding it souls and flesh could nourish it externally.
• The report proposed that Lu PingAn take up a distorted Rider path focused on living weapons, using Breathing of All Things to connect his path to the Handbook’s missing potential.

The Aus attacked the Eastern Kingdom camp, destroying its supplies and killing most of its researchers, while the survivors vowed to answer the massacre with blood. Dali learned that the assault had succeeded and the Spin Force Ore was secured, then attended a demonstration of Hord Energy Company's advanced technology in its underground city, where Marvin Hord dismissed the Eastern Kingdom People as no threat.

• The Aus launched a surprise attack on the four cities' official camps, devastating the Eastern Kingdom camp and killing more than five hundred people, including most of its researchers.
• The returning Explorers surveyed the wreckage, recognized that their hopes of staying out of the war had failed, and spoke of repaying the blood debt with blood.
• Dali learned that the attack had succeeded and all the Spin Force Ore had been recovered, then killed his tortured prisoner and added the man's tongue to his necklace.
• Dali entered the Aus underground city, where Hord Energy Company operated a major industrial center that outsiders had mistaken for a small base.
• Marvin Hord showed a headquarters envoy a Spin Force Stone-powered spacecraft and other products, then said the Eastern Kingdom People would soon cease to be a problem.

After the Aus attacked scattered Eastern Kingdom camps, Lu PingAn prepared his team to rebuild communications and protect their territory. He decided to strike nearby Aus outposts, leaving the chapter with his team preparing for retaliation.

• The Aus attacked isolated Eastern Kingdom travelers and camps after the Telecom Tower fell, and Lu PingAn received news of the casualties.
• Lu PingAn sent a messenger toward another camp and assigned Cat Cat to check on Wang Xi'er and gather intelligence.
• Lu PingAn ordered his team to expand the Adamantine Wolf pack and asked Chris and Fang Wen to rebuild a Telecom Tower.
• Big Cat reported that Chris could build and demonize a supernatural Telecom Tower, and Lu PingAn arranged for labor and materials.
• Lu PingAn ordered tighter patrols, then decided to visit nearby Aus outposts himself and repay their attacks in blood.

Lu PingAn’s group overwhelmed an Aus. Horde Company outpost with Xiao An’s wolf pack and learned that the mercenaries had taken military honors from Red Star Republic visitors. Evidence showed the Red Star team had arrived about a month and a half earlier through normal Explorer channels, leaving Lu PingAn concerned that more Red Star forces or survivors might be nearby.

• Xiao An led the golden wolf pack in an assault that overran the outpost and killed its defenders, while Lu PingAn ordered his group to keep one officer alive for questioning.
• Zhi Xi shared coffee she had taken from the mercenaries’ camp, and Lu PingAn examined their captured spoils.
• Lu PingAn learned that the mercenaries had taken Red Star Republic medals, uniforms, and sabers from an earlier group of visitors.
• The interrogation revealed that the Red Star visitors had arrived about a month and a half earlier using Explorer’s Ship Tickets.
• Lu PingAn considered the possibility that Red Star reinforcements were coming or survivors were still on the planet, and warned against assuming anyone was an ally.

Lu PingAn’s forces began purging Horde Company’s scattered mercenaries while he focused on strengthening the base and negotiating an agreement with Fang Wen. The discovery that Wang Xi’er’s camp had been devastated led to news of a hidden Aus mining area.

• Lu PingAn learned that the mercenaries in his territory were mostly discarded outer-ring forces with few Professionals, and left his soldiers and wolf packs to hunt them.
• Lu PingAn agreed to let Fang Wen out when he reached Tier 6 in exchange for her service for ten more years, though they would need a High-Level Pactbearer to formalize their agreement.
• Lu PingAn had Fang Wen work on the Radio Tower’s core components at the base.
• Cat Cat reported that Wang Xi’er’s camp had been attacked and that Wang Xi’er had lost an eye and an arm.
• Baoyu told Lu PingAn that the Aus’ hidden mining area had been found.

Lu PingAn found Wang Xi'er’s camp and agreed to help the Phosphorus People attack the nearby mining area in exchange for machinery and metal. He also offered to rebuild their radio network with his Law Decree-level craftsman, leaving Wang Xi'er’s group with a possible way to reconnect their scattered forces.

• Lu PingAn found Wang Xi'er injured at a ruined camp and used Deferred Payment to help heal her.
• Wang Xi'er told Lu PingAn that the camp had suffered few casualties because Li Zhenhuan and other powerful Phosphorus People had defeated the attackers.
• Lu PingAn realized a Fate Diviner’s guidance had led the Phosphorus People to the mining area, which lay less than three kilometers from the enemy’s main base.
• Wang Xi'er asked Lu PingAn to honor their agreement and support an attack on the mining area, and he accepted in exchange for machinery and metal.
• Lu PingAn offered to rebuild the radio network with help from his Law Decree-level craftsman, while making clear that the other forces would need to provide materials.

Lu PingAn and Wang Xi'er assessed a fortified mining district whose guards had lost much of their armed force, while Lu PingAn recognized that divided teams and the loss of radio support threatened everyone. As the groups hesitated to attack, Lu PingAn charged ahead, deciding that helping Wang Xi'er was necessary for his own survival too.

• Lu PingAn used the War Eagle to survey the mining district and spotted heavy mining vehicles, few people, and defenses aimed more heavily inward than outward.
• Wang Xi'er explained that the mining district's armed force had been badly weakened, one ore truck had been stopped, and another was being followed after tracking devices were planted in the ore.
• Lu PingAn considered how the Explorers' self-interested teams compared with the Aus' unified forces and concluded that the Radio Tower and contact with the military could determine their survival.
• Wang Xi'er struggled to organize the adventure groups into an assault, and only her direct teams agreed to serve as the vanguard.
• Lu PingAn charged ahead as Wang Xi'er gave the order to attack, urging the others to fight rather than hesitate.

Lu PingAn led the assault on the Aus defensive line, enduring concentrated gunfire with his heavily fortified armor and clearing a path for the Professionals behind him. He broke through the trenches and tower bunker, routing the defenders and winning the battle.

• Lu PingAn charged into the Aus guns’ concentrated fire and held his ground even after his wooden shield shattered.
• He advanced under a barrage, using his armor as cover while other assault troops followed behind him.
• The Professionals reached the defensive line, neutralized its range advantage, and forced the Aus defenders into close combat.
• Lu PingAn tore down the wall, entered the trench, and killed an Aus gunner who fired at him.
• Lu PingAn smashed through the firing tower bunker, bringing down the city wall and deciding the battle.

Lu PingAn’s heavy-armored assault secured the mining camp with almost no casualties, and Wang Xi'er proposed building the Radio Tower there with her group responsible for guarding it. When pale yellow monsters emerged from the mine and were easily defeated, Lu PingAn discovered that their bodies contained living crude ore with high-level life energy.

• Lu PingAn’s War Machine broke through the enemy defenses, and his combat platform survived the battle with only physical damage.
• Wang Xi'er showed Lu PingAn the mining camp’s facilities and suggested building the Radio Tower there; Lu PingAn agreed, and she accepted responsibility for guarding it.
• Pale yellow monsters covered in Stone Pillars poured out of the mine tunnels and attacked the explorers.
• Lu PingAn and the others quickly defeated the monsters, but Lu PingAn noticed that the dead Rock Monsters’ stone shells cracked open to reveal orange-yellow crude ore.
• Lu PingAn sensed high-level life energy inside the crude ore and realized the ore was alive.

Lu PingAn and his group discovered that Horde Company’s mining operation revolved around a gigantic bone that the stone monsters could gradually break down and turn into Spin Force Ore. After seeing the harvesting mechanism, Lu PingAn sensed that its design was familiar and demanded all the information about its origins.

• A captured Horde Company executive revealed how the company took control of the region after Spin Force Ore was discovered.
• Lu PingAn entered the brightly lit mine and learned that the lights drove away stone monsters that feared fire.
• The group reached a cavern where a gigantic bone, mistaken for ore, filled most of the mining area.
• The manager used nutrient liquid to draw stone monsters to the bone, where they fused with it and broke it down.
• The lights herded the monsters into a cage, and Lu PingAn realized they were the mine’s true miners.
• Lu PingAn asked for every detail about how the harvesting mechanism had first been designed.

Lu PingAn learned how Horde Company mined Spin Force Ore from the nearly indestructible remains of a giant beast and discovered that the company’s local branch was struggling to make the venture profitable. He and the others considered how Horde might respond if they seized the site, then decided to report the company’s illegal exploration and attacks to the Eastern Kingdom authorities.

• Lu PingAn examined the giant beast’s bone and learned that Rule-level Healers and Beast Tamers had developed Mining Slimes to extract Spin Force Ore from it.
• Lu PingAn found that the bone scraps rapidly lost their life force after separating from the Mining Slimes and could not be processed by his Life Illustrated Handbook.
• Lu PingAn learned that Horde Company’s elite forces had left the world and that the local branch had operated at a major deficit because its materials weakened after being taken home.
• Lu PingAn and the others concluded that Horde might not send reinforcements if they took the site, but agreed to report the company’s illegal exploration and attacks to the Eastern Kingdom authorities.

Lu PingAn secured control of the mining slimes and strengthened his team’s position by presenting them as essential researchers and logisticians. Big Cat explained that slimes might wield the power of the Ancient God Bone, offering a way to use it that even powerful fighters could not manage directly.

• Lu PingAn requested management rights over the mine and slimes, then asked the group to help gather scrap metal for the Radio Tower.
• Lu PingAn’s team took the slimes for centralized research, gaining influence and protection from the armed forces as a valuable logistics unit.
• Big Cat explained that most slimes were artificial single-cell organisms and said her team could build on the previous researchers’ work.
• Lu PingAn’s Little Flame and Zhi Xi showed an instinctive desire for the Ancient God Bone, but neither could damage or consume it.
• Big Cat said slimes could extract cells from the god bone, but proposed using slimes as a medium to wield its power instead.

Lu PingAn learned that Red Star Republic survivors were being hunted after their expedition lost most of its people and equipment. He agreed to rescue some of them and headed out, hoping to hunt along the way.

• Big Cat offered to upgrade Hua Xueyi's Metal Slime and help create better equipment, and Lu PingAn agreed to seek local designs and manuals.
• Wang Xi'er's team learned Lu PingAn's group might mass-produce firearms and raised their estimate of the group's capabilities.
• Lu PingAn's group heard that Red Star Republic troops had arrived over a month earlier to acquire weapons usable in the Other World.
• The Aus reported that surviving Red Star troops had fled into remote mountains and forests while mercenary groups hunted them.
• Lu PingAn decided to rescue some of the Red Star survivors and went personally.

Anfiya’s battered medic squad chose to stop fleeing and seek supplies from the Aus, while Lu PingAn followed mercenary scents through the mountains with his wolf pack. He arrived in the middle of a battle while eating grilled meat, leaving both sides stunned.

• Anfiya learned that her six surviving soldiers had little food or medicine left and no realistic hope of timely reinforcements.
• After an Earth Dragon passed nearby, Anfiya decided the squad had to stop running and take supplies, medicine, and vehicles from the Aus.
• Lu PingAn used items left by mercenaries and his trained wolf pack to track the men hunting the Red Star People.
• Lu PingAn traveled with his companions while eating unpolluted grilled meat that slightly improved his physique.
• Lu PingAn was carried into the middle of a battlefield, where both sides stopped fighting to stare at him as he choked on his food and asked for water.

Lu PingAn arrived in the middle of a battle and rescued the wounded Red Star People by driving back the Aus with fire, Zhi Xi, and his wolf pack. After the Aus leader charged him with a bomb, the wolves ambushed and killed him, leaving Lu PingAn facing the remaining enemies.

• Lu PingAn appeared and had Zhi Xi shield him and the wounded soldiers from the Aus gunfire.
• Lu PingAn introduced himself as an ally and used Fire Rings and walls of flame to force the Aus to retreat and protect the Red Star People.
• Lu PingAn released his wolf pack, which attacked the Aus while Zhi Xi blocked their escape route.
• The Aus leader broke through the wolves and charged Lu PingAn with a bomb at his waist.
• The wolf king's pack ambushed the leader from several directions, seized the bomb, and killed him.
• Lu PingAn turned toward the surviving Aus and taunted them.

Lu PingAn’s wolf pack swiftly defeated Aus mercenary squads while he rescued scattered Red Star survivors and gathered intelligence. After feeding the dead Professionals to his beasts, he watched one wolf become demonized and held a captured Tier 3 Element Driver for questioning.

• Lu PingAn’s wolves overwhelmed the first Aus combat group after Zhi Xi neutralized its rotary firearms, and he invited the rescued Red Star group to his camp.
• Lu PingAn agreed to search for other scattered Red Star companions, including wounded survivors who had endured with help from a Tier 2 Gardener.
• Lu PingAn’s forces surrounded another Aus squad, killed its members, and captured its Tier 3 Element Driver alive.
• After the wolves ate the dead Professionals, one wolf rapidly became a powerful demonized beast, and Big Cat praised its evolution.
• Lu PingAn refused Big Cat’s request to feed the captive to the beasts because he still needed the Element Driver’s intelligence.

Lu PingAn’s team bred a pack of mutated wolves, accepting heavy losses in exchange for stronger beasts and future breeding stock. Lu PingAn led the wolves into the forest to test their abilities, while people from Red Star Country mistook his actions for a selfless effort to rescue and avenge their compatriots.

• A Wolf Beast became the first in the pack to complete Demonic Mutation while remaining obedient, and Big Cat ordered it tested in combat.
• Seventeen Wolf Beasts evolved, but ten died or lost their sanity; the four Beast Kings remained unchanged.
• Big Cat decided to keep the Beast Kings for pack stability and use the seven surviving mutated wolves as fighters and breeding stock.
• Big Cat urged Lu PingAn to advance his Rider integration so he could control the pack and approach the fourth rank.
• Lu PingAn drove the wolf pack into feeding and slaughter in the forest, remaining calm as valuable wolves died in battle.
• People from Red Star Country praised Lu PingAn, believing he was risking himself to rescue their compatriots and avenge them.

Lu PingAn sought a path to reach Law Decree-level without making the Sophist’s path his own, and Big Cat suggested that he study ordinary elementary school textbooks. Reading them, he realized that his understanding of the world might be fundamentally out of place.

• Lu PingAn decided he needed to reach Law Decree-level quickly to protect himself and his team from Rule-level threats.
• Big Cat suggested that Lu PingAn’s emerging path could encompass the Sophist’s path as a subordinate concept rather than rely on it entirely.
• Big Cat outlined two approaches to forging a path: fighting and killing, or studying broadly; Lu PingAn rejected fighting and chose study.
• Big Cat told Lu PingAn to begin with ordinary elementary school textbooks, and he borrowed Zhi Xi’s books.
• After reading just two textbooks, Lu PingAn suspected that the books—and perhaps the world or his own understanding—were wrong.

Lu PingAn used physics knowledge from his Homeworld to investigate how the laws of his current world differed, and his reasoning produced Forbidden Knowledge and overwhelming pollution. After naming a truth that threatened the Life Courtyard, he collapsed, while his System recorded his advancement to Taboo Scholar.

• Lu PingAn read that atoms were indivisible and realized the fundamental physics of his current world differed from his Homeworld.
• Lu PingAn filled notebooks with theories about physics, consciousness, souls, and pollution as Black Mist and pressure spread around him.
• Lu PingAn bled and mutated while his Writing (Pollution) profession rapidly gained experience.
• Lu PingAn named the truth as “Eternal Motion Ten Thousand Spirits,” causing the Life Courtyard to begin collapsing.
• Big Cat ordered Hua Xueyi to wake Lu PingAn, but he fainted before Hua Xueyi could strike him.
• Lu PingAn’s System announced that he had advanced to the third-tier Scholar special advancement, Taboo Scholar.