Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn struggled to trade in the Seventh District because Outland Visitors rejected Joint Coin and imposed costly barter terms. He discovered that Spin Force Ore had become the Eastern Kingdom’s hard currency, giving its authorities leverage over foreign merchants.

• Lu PingAn learned that Outland Visitors would not accept Joint Coin and had to exchange it for local specialties before trading.
• Big Cat explained the value of the required resources, and Special Envoy Zhou showed Lu PingAn how official channels sold them for Joint Coin.
• Lu PingAn watched a foreign priest buy goods with Ika Coin while merchants rejected his barter offers, highlighting the disadvantage of Earth’s currency.
• Lu PingAn discovered that Outland Visitors were eager to buy Spin Force Ore, a flagship product controlled by the Eastern Kingdom authorities.
• Lu PingAn traded raw Spin Force Ore for armor that the merchant had previously refused to sell.

Lu PingAn learned that Spin Force Stones were valuable when combined with Divine Bone powder, then traded a batch of goods for equipment and supplies. As his team explored the market, they found an opportunity to travel to the outer realms.

• Lu PingAn asked Special Envoy Zhou about the outsiders buying Spin Force Stones and learned that the formula used them alongside scarce Divine Bone powder as a valuable product.
• Lu PingAn requested the formula and approval to sell some of his own goods, and Special Envoy Zhou welcomed the prospect of attracting more outsiders.
• Lu PingAn sold a batch of goods and bought two lifting pods, twelve sets of Ika Clan power armor, six flying motorcycles, and two troop carriers.
• Fang Wen dismantled two sets of the power armor while studying it, gaining blueprints and inspiration for her own armor.
• Lu PingAn's group surveyed the interstellar market, where biological weapons and war slaves were popular, and the team began shopping independently.
• Lu PingAn's group encountered an opportunity to travel to the outer realms.

Lu PingAn traded with the Hammer People and discovered how their civilization industrialized supernatural abilities and used a Rules Being to power its spacecraft. After absorbing their potions, he gained electrical resistance and a lightning-based ability, and realized even an ordinary Hammer pilot carried formidable combat modules.

• Lu PingAn inspected the Rules Being bound inside a Hammer spacecraft’s engine and learned it supplied energy and Glimmering Electric Fluid.
• Lu PingAn drank the electric fluid, gained traces of electrical, toxin, and radiation resistance, and found he could control the electricity in his body.
• Lu PingAn bought ten Flashbang Enhancement Potions, absorbed them all, and acquired the Fluid Flashbang ability.
• The Hammer Person explained that the potion refined an ability from the Blind Lightning Python and that supernatural traits were common commodities among the Hammer People.
• Lu PingAn sensed that the ordinary Hammer pilot carried several combat modules and realized the Hammer People treated godlike beings as useful tools.

Lu PingAn and his group traveled aboard a Hammer People spacecraft on a mercenary mission, learning about humanity’s growing reputation and the wider interstellar world. As they headed toward a resource zone where the Hammer People’s Nemesis species had been spotted, Lu PingAn began to suspect their hosts were much stronger than they claimed.

• Lu PingAn gazed at the stars from the Hammer People’s space platform while Cat Cat eagerly ate unfamiliar food.
• A Hammer Person explained that humanity’s high screening rate and strong combat potential had attracted attention, while Earth’s powerful Professionals had earned the species a reputation.
• Lu PingAn tried to analyze the spacecraft’s subspace travel but admitted he lacked the knowledge to understand it.
• Lu PingAn’s group learned that the short mission involved traveling to a resource zone, killing a threat, and recovering something in exchange for Hammer People Enhancement Potions.
• The Hammer People said they were traveling merchants responding to sightings of their Nemesis species, and Lu PingAn’s group sparred with them and noticed they were not as weak as they claimed.

Lu PingAn easily defeated a Hammer Person and learned that the Luca People’s metal bodies were prosthetic shells for energy-based Main Bodies. After discussing their civilization and population, he was offered a long-term employment contract, while Lu PingAn recognized Earth’s supernatural growth speed as a valuable advantage.

• A Hammer Person exploded into a barrage of electrified metal limbs, but Lu PingAn evaded the attacks and trapped the fragments in a net of Blood Vines.
• Lu PingAn ignited the vines with Sacred Fire, forcing the Hammer Person to reveal its stone Main Body and life-filled energy connections.
• Lu PingAn identified the Luca People’s energy bodies as their true forms and declined an offer to become one of them.
• The Hammer Person told Lu PingAn that the Luca People had six thousand worlds and welcomed other races willing to transform into their new kin.
• The Hammer Person praised Lu PingAn’s strength and offered him a long-term contract, while Lu PingAn noted that Earth’s supernatural professionals developed unusually quickly.

Lu PingAn's team crossed a toxic mire aboard Guan Xinxian's Land Ark to reach the mining area, where they encountered a giant beast and a creature that preyed on the Hammer People. The survivors identified the attacker as an Energy Devouring Stone Sunflower, the Hammer People's natural enemy.

• Lu PingAn's team landed in a stinking, mud-choked Small World and learned that its valuable Enchanted Metal and mining sites had drawn the Hammer People there.
• Several Hammer People became trapped in the mire, so Guan Xinxian raised his Fusang Tree Ark to carry the group toward the mining area.
• As the Ark crossed the fertile mire, Lu PingAn tested his magical creatures and planted magical plants while the team searched for the reported trouble.
• The team spotted and killed an eyeless giant beast with a Spin Force Stone cannon shell.
• A faceless creature boarded the Ark, tore apart a Hammer Person, and was identified as an Energy Devouring Stone Sunflower, the Hammer People's natural enemy.

Lu PingAn was swallowed by an Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower, then escaped after his Blood Vine destroyed it from within. As the group learned more about the sun-chasing creatures and received a signal from a nearby Safe House, their employers’ captain revealed they had to rescue a newly born royal.

• Lu PingAn let the giant creature swallow him after its energy-devouring ability stopped his attacks, then burst out alive as his Blood Vine killed it from within.
• The group cleared the battlefield and learned that numerous Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers were nearby, while a signal came from their people at a Safe House seventeen kilometers away.
• The Hammer People described the demon sunflowers as roaming, energy-devouring creatures created by the Pure Love Beast to oppose the Lord of Myriad Changes’ energy-based life.
• Lu PingAn considered collecting the creatures, while the employers argued over whether to flee or attempt a rescue.
• The employers’ captain revealed that a newly born royal was at the Safe House and had to be rescued.

Lu PingAn agreed to help the Luca People rescue a royal lineage after negotiating for greater rewards, but he and the others soon encountered an overwhelming swarm of Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers. The group fled as more than a hundred of the monsters pursued them.

• The Luca People explained that the royal lineage represented a precious opportunity for their race to evolve, and their captain pleaded for Lu PingAn's help.
• Lu PingAn hesitated to risk his life, but Captain Xia urged him to try as long as they could stay safe.
• Guan Xinxian negotiated increasingly demanding rewards with the Luca captain, who offered potions, contribution points, research access, and a promise from the royal lineage.
• Lu PingAn agreed to proceed, privately considering kidnapping the royal lineage if its people failed to pay enough.
• Ten minutes later, Lu PingAn's group encountered a swarm of more than a hundred Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers and fled.

Lu PingAn's group escaped an Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower swarm by baiting it with Little Flame, then met to assess the creatures' nearly unstoppable defenses. They left the meeting with no clear way to defeat the swarm, but learned that the demon sunflowers considered the group's energy and abilities food.

• Lu PingAn sent Little Flame with Cat Cat to lure the pursuing swarm away, and the group escaped to their temporary camp.
• Lu PingAn called a meeting after the group rested, while the others complained that the demon sunflowers were too difficult to fight.
• The group reported that the Energy-Devouring Domain drained energy from attacks and that the creatures had exceptionally tough hides.
• Cat Cat revealed that her Spirit Strike passed through the demon sunflowers, suggesting they had no souls.
• The group discussed how the swarm attacked them after sensing their bioenergy, body heat, and special abilities as food.

Lu PingAn’s group found that conventional abilities and plans could not capture or exploit the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers, which shared a collective core and had begun tracking them. After Fang Wen failed to make a mechanical infiltrator retain their abilities, Lu PingAn discovered that the Life Encyclopedia could use a sunflower as life material, leaving him to decide whether its Energy-Devouring Domain was worth a familiar slot.

• Big Cat explained that the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers resisted most abilities and could only be killed reliably through impractical close combat.
• Lu PingAn ruled out Beast Tamer and Gardener abilities after learning the sunflowers were not separate living creatures and could sense energy.
• Lu PingAn abandoned his plan to capture a sunflower for infiltration after Big Cat warned that the collective would remember and hunt the group.
• Fang Wen reported that sunflower skin could serve as material for a bionic lifeform, but it could not retain the energy-devouring ability.
• Lu PingAn used the Life Encyclopedia to define the sunflower as life material and found that it worked.
• The Hammer People captain offered materials from the Rules Being in the engine, prompting Lu PingAn to consider spending a familiar slot on the sunflower.

During the deadly rain on the nameless planet, Big Cat explained how Life-types could use harsh environments to find extreme biological modules and challenged Lu PingAn to choose a path he believed in. Lu PingAn began designing his fourth magical familiar as a purpose-built melee weapon and settled on treants as a promising template.

• Blue, foul-smelling rain and mist killed a mouse, while Big Cat explained that brutal worlds could provide Life-types with extreme biological modules.
• Big Cat described her extremist approach to Life-type work, and Lu PingAn admitted he did not believe in gentler doctrines of life.
• Lu PingAn decided to design a melee familiar around clear demands, drawing on the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower's energy field, constricting body, and limitless growth.
• Lu PingAn reasoned that plant-based biology could support enormous growth and turned to his treants as a mature design template.

Lu PingAn began creating a new treant-like magical pet, using Liu Zibei's Four-Color Ticket Set as its Core of Wisdom and gathering materials for a body capable of limitless growth. The chapter ended with him sending his companions to hunt Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers for the creature's culture medium.

• Lu PingAn decided that Liu Zibei's Four-Color Ticket Set had become obsolete and inserted it into the newborn Core of Wisdom as its first core component.
• Lu PingAn rejected his companions' objections and chose to use the Taboo Item, including Liu Zibei's lingering soul, as material for the pet.
• Lu PingAn chose Redemption and Guan Xinxian's ancient tree growth as materials to give the treant limitless growth.
• The captain gave Lu PingAn the flesh and blood essence of a Rule-level creature, which Lu PingAn stored rather than using for the treant.
• Lu PingAn sent Fang Wen to find precious metals for the treant's skeleton and blood vessels.
• Lu PingAn ordered his companions to hunt Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers and use their flesh and blood as culture medium.

While Lu PingAn hunted Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers and developed a blueprint for a newborn creature, Big Cat questioned whether her own pursuit of survival and evolution had become fear of death. Lu PingAn urged her to trust the path she believed in, and she turned her attention to improving his design before the Hunting Squad returned with more materials.

• Lu PingAn challenged Big Cat's condemnation of Energy Creatures by pointing out that her former Life Mother Tree form would also have been eternal and unable to reproduce, leaving her angry and then silent.
• After more than two hours, Big Cat asked whether she had been wrong to pursue her own continuation after her race went extinct, and Lu PingAn told her that she could not continue a path she no longer believed in.
• Big Cat set aside her doubts and advised Lu PingAn to reorganize the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower materials and use its skin and feeding system as blueprint conduits.
• Big Cat suggested using divine-grade materials to support energy-to-matter conversion, splitting the creature into offspring that could later fuse, and incorporating Hua Xueyi's blood cells and Ability Contract Scroll and Xia Qin's defensive ability.
• Twenty-seven hours later, the Hunting Squad returned with prey, and Lu PingAn had gathered more materials while the newborn's blueprint had grown several times more powerful.

Lu PingAn used the Life Encyclopedia, Big Cat’s guidance, and an enormous supply of materials to create a new creature. The tiny treant appeared to be a failure, but the handbook confirmed that it was a successful Quasi Rule-level creature.

• Chris taught Lu PingAn advanced methods for processing materials and advised him to combine plant and animal traits.
• Lu PingAn and his companions gathered materials while Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers threatened the Luca People's hidden camp.
• Lu PingAn melted the Core of Wisdom and combined its treant template with the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower, metal, scrolls, blood, and a Mount Sumeru Fusang Tree split body.
• A tiny treant emerged from the blood sphere, and Lu PingAn checked the handbook and confirmed it was a successful Quasi Rule-level creature.

Lu PingAn examined Mu Mu’s abilities and learned that the newborn treant had the potential to reach Rule-level. With the planned inheritances confirmed, he prepared to go meet the Prince and continue the rescue mission.

• Lu PingAn named the lively newborn treant Mu Mu and learned that the Life Encyclopedia rated her a Quasi Rule-level creature.
• Lu PingAn examined Mu Mu’s powerful energy-devouring abilities and her capacity to grow stronger by absorbing nutrients and storing excess energy in Crystal Leaves.
• Lu PingAn confirmed that Xia Qin’s ability inheritance had failed, while Chris’s designed abilities had greatly raised Mu Mu’s potential.
• Lu PingAn said the rescue mission could proceed and set out to meet the Prince.

Lu PingAn and Cat Cat traveled underground inside Mu Mu’s Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower-like clone, using its disguise to evade the deadly creatures. They reached the Luca People’s luxurious Underground Palace complex, where their secret treasures were stored.

• Lu PingAn brought Cat Cat underground inside Mu Mu’s poison dragon clone and had her periodically check their direction.
• The group saw that Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers had spread throughout the underground and were rapidly multiplying, leaving the world seemingly beyond saving.
• Mu Mu’s clone passed as a juvenile Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower, allowing them to avoid most of the creatures.
• Lu PingAn’s group navigated dangerous sinkholes and collapsing tunnels dug by the people they were trying to rescue.
• Lu PingAn and his companions arrived at the Luca People’s Underground Palace complex, where their secret treasures were stored.

Kasuola, newly mutated into Luca Royalty, questioned why his people treated his survival as more important than their own while the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers besieged their last refuge. Just as a sunflower broke into the Underground Palace, mercenary Lu PingAn arrived and introduced himself as part of the rescue effort.

• Kasuola learned that his people had less than a month of supplies and that reinforcements could not arrive in time.
• Kasuola realized the Luca People instinctively sacrificed themselves for him and feared that their behavior had been imposed by a higher existence.
• An earthquake revealed that an Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower had broken into the Underground Palace through D Zone.
• The Luca People stood ready to die for Kasuola, while he questioned what Royalty meant and whether he was merely a lab rat.
• Lu PingAn emerged from the sunflower and greeted Kasuola as a mercenary of the Rebirth Merchant Guild, saying the Luca People had wisely chosen his company for aid.

Lu PingAn helped Kasuola evacuate Luca People who had turned themselves into crystals to escape the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers. When Kasuola revealed that saving his kin would give Lu PingAn access to a valuable supply of Somen Steel, Lu PingAn reconsidered rescuing the stranded Luca People.

• Kasuola explained that his Energy Crystallization ability let Luca People become pale yellow crystals, allowing them to evade the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers.
• Lu PingAn collected the crystals and learned that many of Kasuola's kin had crystallized at their original camp and could not awaken without outside help.
• Kasuola insisted on rescuing his stranded kin, while his guards urged him to abandon the doomed world.
• Lu PingAn proposed taking Kasuola to meet the ship's captain before deciding whether to return to the old camp.
• Kasuola revealed that the planet held over thirty kilograms of Somen Steel and promised it to Lu PingAn if he saved his kin.

Lu PingAn accepted Kasuola’s offer to pursue the Luca People’s rare Somen Steel technology and approved a plan to divert the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers. The lures drew the creatures away from the base, allowing Lu PingAn’s elite squad to reach its core.

• Kasuola explained that Somen Steel could assimilate metal defenses, trap Luca People’s energy bodies, and enable other powerful applications, prompting Lu PingAn to request details.
• Lu PingAn agreed to the mission, and his team quickly debated and settled on a battle plan.
• The team triggered explosions around the Luca People’s former base to attract the Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers.
• The team sent magic wolves fitted with torches, lights, and sound devices to lure the Sunflowers away from the base.
• Cat Cat used Command Art to direct a magic wolf toward the southwest, drawing two Sunflowers away as Lu PingAn’s elite squad reached the base’s core.

Lu PingAn’s group searched the underground base for gems and rare ore while racing against the predators outside, then pushed toward Warehouse Number One. They reached the plaza district but found Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers blocking every route to the warehouses.

• Lu PingAn’s operatives split up to search the base, collecting gems and ore while avoiding enemies and returning to the Courtyard when necessary.
• Lu PingAn directed the group toward Warehouse Number One, where Somen Steel was reportedly stored, as their time in the base ran short.
• Mu Mu grew giant and fought an Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflower blocking the passage without triggering its call-to-kind ability, allowing the group to slip past.
• Lu PingAn Shared Mu Mu’s Energy Devourer trait to avoid detection, but the ability drained his energy and caused him severe pain.
• Lu PingAn’s group reached the central plaza and found large numbers of Energy-Devouring Demon Sunflowers surrounding the treasure vaults and blocking their way.