Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn struggled with Phoenix City's extreme heat, silent locals, and unfamiliar customs before falling asleep and waking in the Elemental Energy Plane as a being made of flames. A flame person told him that the situation had worsened and people could now be dragged into the plane even during the day.

• Lu PingAn used Mind Prediction to communicate with a local restaurant clerk and learned that the humans usually stayed inside during the day because of Phoenix City's heat.
• Lu PingAn paid for a room at an inn and rested in its air-conditioned room, which was still over forty degrees Celsius.
• Lu PingAn heard a buzzing sound, opened his eyes, and found himself in a chilly, black landscape lit by scattered red flames.
• A flame person greeted Lu PingAn in Eastern Kingdom speech and explained that people could now be dragged into the Elemental Energy Plane even during the day.

Lu PingAn discovered that the Elemental Plane was an entangled form of the material world where combat depended on control, leaving low-level Martial God Church fighters at a severe disadvantage. After demonstrating his Rule-level strength, he decided to kill several hundred enemies and gather materials to develop a way for the fighters to battle effectively.

• Lu PingAn sensed that the Elemental Plane was embedded within the material world at a much higher vibrational frequency, and learned that death there was real.
• Lu PingAn watched the fighters struggle after their bodies became quasi-elemental, leaving their familiar martial techniques ineffective.
• Lu PingAn killed a charging Blue-skinned Fire Person with a snap and recognized that control, rather than size or strength, determined victory.
• Lu PingAn concluded that low-level fighters needed a new path or equipment to fight in the Elemental Plane and considered using lifeforms like Lamp Flower as weapons.
• Lu PingAn stopped watching the Eastern Kingdom soldiers die and decided to kill several hundred enemies to gather experimental materials.

Lu PingAn arrived at a border town in the Thousand Layer World, defeated an invading force, and learned how the ongoing war was changing and harming the people there. The story left him considering the dangers and opportunities of exploring the deeper layers.

• Lu PingAn wiped out more than a hundred attackers and introduced himself to the town’s Earth-born defenders as a newly arrived reinforcement.
• Lu PingAn received temporary residency and intelligence support in exchange for his help, then reviewed medical records showing that battles in the enemy world caused lasting physical harm.
• The town chief explained that Elemental creatures had learned to pull battlefields into their own world, where human warriors struggled to fight effectively.
• Lu PingAn learned that the Thousand Layer World grew more dangerous and developed with depth, and that the Martial Combat Church’s forces and enemies were concentrated in deeper layers.
• Lu PingAn heard reports of rare materials, Taboo Items, and accelerated ability training on higher layers.

Martial God Church leaders assessed Lu PingAn’s extraordinary value as a military and logistical asset, then learned how rapidly he had advanced and how he was connected to the Balance Calamity Beast. The chapter left them confronting the startling claim that he had enslaved her, earning him an ominous title in Wanjing.

• Martial God Church officials debated whether Lu PingAn could turn the war by creating Professionals from local lifeforms and supplying adaptive military resources, while worrying about the risks of empowering them.
• Senior Martial God figures reviewed Lu PingAn’s file and learned that he had reached Tier 7, prompting Gan Qianyun to identify him as the Martial Arts Festival champion and a former recipient of My Lord’s blessing.
• Gan Qianyun revealed that Lu PingAn had advanced from around Tier 4 or Tier 5 to Divine Gold in one year and had been the disciple of the Balance Calamity Beast.
• A visitor from Wanjing corrected the account, claiming Lu PingAn had enslaved the Balance Calamity Beast in front of witnesses.
• The visitor cited Lu PingAn’s secret Wanjing title: “The man who rides a tiger, All the way Peace.”

Lu PingAn studied the hostile world's heat, water scarcity, elemental life, and crystal-like Elemental Grass Roots, then used Investment to cultivate a crystal vein in his estate. As he began to grasp the world's underlying logic, the local Landlord's envoy finally found him.

• Lu PingAn stayed on the lower levels to gather basic data and adapt his courtyard's people and production to the harsh environment.
• He bought Water Melon Tree Seeds and established test fields to study which magical plants could survive the heat and water scarcity.
• Lu PingAn observed Elemental People being born from local elements and investigated how they developed and evolved without reproduction.
• He found Elemental Grass Roots that seemed to generate elemental life, and compared them with similar crystals at higher levels.
• Lu PingAn successfully cultivated a large crystal vein with Investment and began to understand the world's underlying logic.
• The local Landlord's envoy found Lu PingAn, who had been digging holes and capturing local creatures.

Lu PingAn negotiated with the Martial God Church to train Fire Drivers and help its people become Professionals, then learned the Church wanted him to provide research and logistics support. The Church offered him a permanent city on the 211th floor as a logistics base, and the chapter ended with them preparing to discuss the costly commission.

• Lu PingAn explained that his ability required willing Traders with their own needs, and Gan Qianyun agreed to negotiate on the Martial God Church’s behalf.
• Gan Qianyun asked Lu PingAn to train high-rank individuals as Fire Drivers and help honorary East Country People become Professionals; Lu PingAn accepted both requests.
• Gan Qianyun offered Lu PingAn a city on the 211th floor as a permanent logistics base, separate from the transactions.
• Lu PingAn gave Gan Qianyun research materials collected from over a hundred species, including more than twenty papers.
• Gan Qianyun asked Lu PingAn to provide comprehensive research and logistics support, and Lu PingAn agreed to discuss the expensive commission.

Lu PingAn accepted Tyrannical Three-Faced Church’s commission to develop regional data and resources, signing a contract that gave him a city as a logistics base while restricting him from spreading ideas. He began his new post with valuable materials and a group of assistants, including his first student, Su Yuanyuan.

• Lu PingAn learned that Tyrannical Three-Faced Church needed help gathering and developing information across its vast world, and agreed to use its accumulated data.
• Tyrannical Three-Faced Church evaluated Lu PingAn’s achievements and sought to hire him as logistical support and an independent research base, while worrying about his political influence.
• Lu PingAn reviewed and signed the contract, which granted him a city as a logistics base and barred him from writing books or spreading ideas.
• Lu PingAn started his new post and received data, specimens, materials, and assistants, including Su Yuanyuan, a Law Decree-level expert who introduced herself as his new student.

Lu PingAn established a base on the 200th layer, where the harsh environment slowed his staff’s adaptation but steadily strengthened his life force. He arranged support for those unable to adapt and prepared to recruit local intelligent races to address the settlement’s labor shortage.

• Lu PingAn found that climbing higher in the world increased his Life Points and strengthened his life force, while Big Cat suggested the world was enhancing something beyond his essence.
• Su Yuanyuan reported that most researchers and staff needed much longer to adapt than the combatants, and Lu PingAn offered them the option to return to the Courtyard.
• Lu PingAn announced subsidies and interest-free Life Point loans to encourage long-serving staff to become Riders, Runners, or Fighters.
• Lu PingAn reviewed the settlement’s resources and learned that local intelligent races had left because of conflicts with the previous City Lord.
• Lu PingAn decided to meet the local races and try to persuade them to return, while Su Yuanyuan warned him against using violence or letting them discover any captured samples.

Lu PingAn negotiated with the Mimetic Energy Creatures by offering music that fulfilled their need for knowledge and emotion, securing their service for half a year. After explaining how they fed and evolved, he discussed the possibility of creating humanoid mimetic lifeforms, leaving Su Yuanyuan determined to keep a close watch on him.

• Lu PingAn met the vehicle-like creatures and laughed at their appearance before offering them a collection of over a hundred songs in exchange for half a year of work.
• The tribe's leader, Rampage Tune, accepted the offer, and the creatures grew stronger as they listened to the music.
• Lu PingAn explained to Su Yuanyuan that the creatures needed emotional and cultural knowledge to stabilize themselves, and that each one could only benefit from a song once.
• Lu PingAn speculated that dolls might produce mimetic lifeforms, and Su Yuanyuan revealed that the church had intercepted contraband dolls that created mannequin-like beings.
• Lu PingAn suggested making fully humanoid dolls with organs and nervous systems, prompting Su Yuanyuan to panic before he claimed he was joking.

Lu PingAn studied the plane’s energy-based life forms and concluded that their human and animal shapes were imitations lacking genuine instincts and emotions. His research advanced his Forbidden Knowledge to level forty and led him to plan a true Homo sapiens race suited to the plane.

• Lu PingAn dismissed the team’s attempt to use dolls and figures to create life, explaining that they could imitate appearances but not reliably produce stable creatures.
• Lu PingAn analyzed local creatures and determined that they formed by copying stable structures with drifting particles, producing bodies without intelligence or genuine emotions.
• Lu PingAn concluded that the creatures were energy-based imitations rather than real people or beasts, and connected their nature to his belief that All Spirits and Perpetual Motion were two sides of the same coin.
• Lu PingAn recorded his findings as Forbidden Knowledge and advanced to level forty.
• Lu PingAn decided that he could create a true Homo sapiens race of Energy Creatures suited to the plane.

Lu PingAn proposed creating an intelligent, self-reproducing species of local Mixed-bloods to address the shortage of adaptable manpower in Phoenix City. He sought funding and researchers from Tyrannical Three-Faced, leaving the project approved in principle despite its enormous costs and uncertain timeline.

• Lu PingAn explained that local New Humans were poor replacements for human troops and that outsiders struggled to adapt to the demanding environment.
• Lu PingAn proposed creating true Mixed-bloods who could reproduce, feel genuine emotions, and evolve as local inhabitants.
• Lu PingAn presented an assessment certified by the Balance Calamity Beast to support the proposal’s feasibility.
• Lu PingAn visited Tyrannical Three-Faced’s headquarters and requested major funding and a large research team for the project.
• Lu PingAn warned that success could take months or years, but said the resulting species could grow stronger without an upper limit.
• Tyrannical Three-Faced considered the costly, uncertain proposal, while Lu PingAn saw the project as a chance to test his World’s Logic using their resources.

Lu PingAn began planning a biological-modules research project and assigned Su Yuanyuan to gather specimens and materials. He learned that Little Flame and Cat Cat had ventured to the 1,200th floor and apparently provoked a quasi-divine creature.

• Su Yuanyuan told Lu PingAn that the Martial God Church had assigned her to learn from him, and he gave her documents for a project he expected to complete in half a year.
• Lu PingAn ordered Su Yuanyuan to obtain biological specimens from across the floors and sent her a list of nearly a thousand biological and magical plant materials.
• Lu PingAn explained that he planned to break down living creatures into biological modules to support his work on creating Mixed-bloods.
• Little Flame revealed that she and Cat Cat had gathered knitting materials during their trips, and Lu PingAn realized the materials came from far above the two-hundredth floor.
• Little Flame said they had gone to the 1,200th floor, and Lu PingAn connected their trip to a report of a berserk bald-tailed quasi-divine creature.

Lu PingAn experimented with giving the world’s particle-based lifeforms desires and emotions, but his attempts repeatedly failed and destroyed them. He then examined a quasi-divine beast’s tail fur and considered Big Cat’s suggestion to give it life and Name it.

• Lu PingAn concluded that the world’s inhabitants lacked survival desires and that changing them would require working from their basic particles.
• With supplies and help from the Autobots, Lu PingAn studied the lifeforms and found that absorbed music imitated a soul without giving them an inner drive.
• Lu PingAn tried granting the lifeforms wishes and the factor of gluttony, but they lacked initiative and one gluttonous creature grew into a giant ball before collapsing.
• Lu PingAn continued his experiments as his Knowledge Level rose, and Phoenix City Biological Knowledge reached Level 4.
• Lu PingAn analyzed Xi Long Suo Er Da’s Tail Tip and found it was ordinary, uncontaminated material with a stable, dense particle structure.
• Big Cat suggested that Lu PingAn give the tail tip life and try Naming it.

Lu PingAn tested ways to adapt Earth life to the local environment, but his animal experiments repeatedly failed. He turned to demonized plants as a possible foundation for a transitional ecosystem and produced the first batch of samples.

• Lu PingAn ordered more apes and Demon Apes, then tested whether granting animals greater intelligence and humanity would help them survive, but the subjects died within hours.
• Lu PingAn used Investment to fuse foreign biological parts onto animals, but the mismatched parts caused fatal injuries and conflicts.
• Lu PingAn concluded that Earth animals could not adapt through his current methods and considered waiting for culture medium and shifting focus to plants.
• Lu PingAn proposed using adaptable demonized plants to create a transitional ecosystem, noting that plants might be combined with animals beyond Earth's usual boundaries.
• The Martial God's hired experts praised the project's speed, and Lu PingAn produced the First Batch of samples after numerous tests.

Lu PingAn hosted the Red Ghost King, Cui Na, who tested him in her duel domain and agreed to stay in Newborn Woodland. After Lu PingAn asked her for training, she pulled him into another duel.

• Cui Na visited Lu PingAn in Newborn Woodland, where he learned that Big Cat had once studied fighting under her.
• Cui Na teased Lu PingAn about being Chris’s lover, then dragged him into her duel domain and beat him repeatedly to test his strength.
• Lu PingAn thanked Cui Na for the fight and recognized her mastery of Mimicry Boxing and her ability to compress her power into her body.
• Cui Na said she had come independently to help hold the front lines and was also taking a vacation in Newborn Woodland.
• Lu PingAn asked Cui Na to give him pointers for pay, and she immediately pulled him into the duel domain again.

Lu PingAn’s experiments created a Crystal Forest that extended the survival of local animals, and he began combining organisms with energy crystals to overcome the Wasteland’s fatal conditions. He ultimately succeeded in creating a Demon Ape born from a Crystal big tree, prompting a warning to keep the result from Lady Lin.

• Lu PingAn built a Crystal Forest from local crystals and Grafted Demonic Plants, then tested Demon Apes living and feeding within it.
• Lu PingAn found that the animals adapted somewhat and survived three times longer, but radiation sickness still threatened them.
• Lu PingAn discovered that crystallized blood could carry energy, and experimented with replacing animals’ circulation and organs with crystals.
• Lu PingAn’s attempts to link crystal tendrils to animals and create stable Rebirths failed, while a senior suggested making Demonic Plants give birth to animals that became plants as they aged.
• Lu PingAn used Treant Factor, Demonic Plant catalysis, Sacred Fire, Beast God's Blood, and Investment to create a Demon Ape born from a Crystal big tree.
• A reminder warned Lu PingAn not to let Lady Lin discover the creation, since she pursued harmony between plants and animals.

Lu PingAn drove recklessly across the wasteland, then traveled with Cui Na’s group to the front lines above the four-hundredth level to study battlefield needs and gather materials. They reached a neutral nest on level 422, where Cui Na explained that its Beast King had established unusually tolerant rules.

• Lu PingAn wrecked nine vehicles on the first day of driving, then agreed to limit himself to three the next day after the mechanics protested.
• Lu PingAn drove carefully the following day, but all three vehicles still wore out before the group reached their campsite.
• Cui Na led the group into the high-intensity battlefront above level 400, explaining that they were not entering a war zone controlled by either side.
• Lu PingAn said he had come to gather specimens and determine what weapons and equipment the front line needed.
• Cui Na explained that the group was approaching a neutral nest on level 422, a Beast King’s territory where outsiders were usually treated as food or wealth.
• Cui Na said some Beast Kings created more tolerant rules, turning their territories into gathering places and trading zones.

Lu PingAn and his group reached Skull Mountains, the Beast King Wine Stream’s territory, where Lu PingAn gained a new ability to interfere with space. They discovered the human outpost’s members hanging as corpses, and Cui Na led the group to attack those responsible.

• While traveling across the 422nd layer, Lu PingAn improved his Space Perception and gained Truth's Space Interference.
• Lu PingAn recognized the sandstorms around Skull Mountains as compressed spaces and saw the immense, spatially overlapping Beast King Wine Stream.
• The group offered high-proof liquor at the nest’s entrance, and Wine Stream swept the goods up into the sky.
• Cui Na led the group to find their human outpost, but Lu PingAn spotted its members hanging from the giant lion skull’s fangs.
• Cui Na pretended to be outraged and urged the group to slaughter the people responsible.

Lu PingAn and his companions fought the hostile elemental inhabitants, while he practiced a new way to counter their attacks. After the battle, he examined how the creatures could regenerate and worried that his plans for humanity would not be strong enough, then spotted fleeing opponents they might capture.

• Lu PingAn discovered that snapping his fingers could send out ripples that erased lightning, though he failed to stop later waves from striking him.
• Lu PingAn, Cui Na, Cat Cat, Chris, and Eve joined the battle, where Eve summoned crystal warriors and the group defeated their opponents.
• Lu Mouren and his companions learned that the local elemental lifeforms had killed the earlier sentries simply because they disliked them, then retaliated by tearing apart the murderers.
• Lu PingAn destroyed an elemental lifeform at the level of its basic particles, but the surrounding inhabitants continued fighting and showed no concern for death.
• Lu PingAn worried that his hybrid-creation project could not match the seemingly endless elemental opponents, then suggested capturing the ones fleeing the battle.

Lu PingAn adapted to the Beast Nest’s brutal environment and studied the elemental creatures and their cores. His experiments revealed that vibrational martial arts could interfere with them, and he proposed another trip to gather more materials.

• Lu PingAn admitted that he struggled to accept the Beast Nest’s pointless slaughter, and Big Cat pointed out that he himself had killed eagerly.
• Senior Cui Na gave Lu PingAn a lantern that disguised the group as gaseous energy demons, and they settled in a quieter area to study their samples.
• Lu PingAn examined Phoenix Tear Stones and found that a black gemstone carrying fear energized him when he absorbed it.
• Lu PingAn discovered that his vibrational martial arts could disrupt elemental creatures and considered using Phoenix Tear Stones to embed emotions in them.
• Lu PingAn asked Senior Cui Na and Chris to go out again without disguises so he could collect more materials.