Chapter Summaries

Old Man Lu arranged for Ye Yu to spar with Li Yao, hoping the fight would help Ye Yu break through. Li Yao overwhelmed Ye Yu despite holding back, surprising the gathered Phoenix Legion fighters and leaving Old Man Lu urging Ye Yu to keep fighting.

• Chen Xi defended Li Yao when Old Man Lu warned that she was spoiling him.
• Old Man Lu summoned Ye Yu from the Training Field and ordered him to spar with Li Yao to aid his breakthrough.
• Li Yao unleashed Spring Rain sword qi, and Ye Yu fought back with his own sword aura.
• Phoenix Legion fighters, Big Sis Feng Li, Old He, and Shuisheng Ge arrived and watched as Li Yao suppressed Ye Yu.
• Li Yao used three Transmutation Faction spells to boost his senses, speed, and defense, making the fight harder for Ye Yu.
• Old Man Lu realized Li Yao still had strength in reserve and urged Ye Yu to continue because he was there to protect him.

Li Yao used his Spring Rain Sword Qi to overwhelm Ye Yu with layered elemental attacks and a compressed fire strike during their spar. As the scarlet flames collapsed around Ye Yu, Old Man Lu watched closely and a withered gray spot appeared at their center.

• Ye Yu drew his sword and attacked Li Yao with gray sword qi, while Li Yao answered with a dark cloud of Spring Rain Sword Qi.
• Old Man Lu explained to Chen Xi how Li Yao had adapted Spring Rain Swordplay and compressed fire-element sword qi to strengthen it.
• Li Yao launched a tracking orange-red fireball at Ye Yu, who was weakened by the surrounding sword qi and trapped in Li Yao's field.
• The fireball erupted into a blood-red Manjusaka of flames, and Old Man Lu chose to let the spar continue despite Chen Xi's concern.
• Li Yao made the flames collapse inward around Ye Yu, and a withered gray spot appeared at the center of the blaze.

After Li Yao survived Ye Yu’s sudden attack, Old Man Lu asked him to help with an upcoming Inspection Delegation. Li Yao learned that he had been nominated as an officer in the Technology Research and Logistics Support Division and would serve as a main receptionist for the delegation.

• Ye Yu’s sword strike nearly hit Li Yao, but Old Man Lu caught the blade and forced Ye Yu out of his possessed state.
• Ye Yu collapsed, and Big Sis Feng Li carried him away to rest.
• Li Yao relaxed under the sunshade with Chen Xi and shared his chilled Vitality Potion while Old Man Lu tried to praise his swordsmanship.
• Old Man Lu told Li Yao not to visit Bagua Continent or travel around because the organization needed his help.
• Old Man Lu explained that the Wallfacer Organization had joined the International Esper Unified Administration’s seven-member Standing Council and that Li Yao would help receive an upcoming Inspection Delegation.

Li Yao learned that he and Chen Xi had to host an inspection delegation because his projects held strategic secrets, while Old Man Lu reflected on how much the Phoenix Legion and Earth had advanced. After arranging training for his allies from Bagua Continent, Li Yao compared Earth’s superhuman ranks with the Main World’s more developed mage system.

• Old Man Lu explained that the Unified Administration Bureau had chosen the Phoenix Legion as the inspection delegation’s first stop because Li Yao’s projects had strategic value and contained secrets.
• Old Man Lu recalled how Earth had once visited other worlds to learn from them, then fell asleep peacefully beside the busy Phoenix Legion camp as Li Yao and Chen Xi left him to rest.
• Li Yao and Chen Xi moved into adjoining guesthouse rooms, and Li Yao arranged for Selma, Xisen, and Garrett to join the camp’s training under Feng Li’s supervision.
• Li Yao rested after his fight with Ye Yu and reflected on the effort the battle had taken, including the compressed Flame Cannon he had used.
• Li Yao compared Earth’s cultivation system with the Main World’s mage ranks and concluded that the Main World had a more complete, detailed guide to mastering power.

Li Yao received a dangerous sample from Lin Xiaowei and read the Magic Association’s research report on its bizarre, contagious properties. The report revealed that the green substance could corrupt matter, living beings, and even Spirit Bodies and souls, leaving Li Yao to face the sample’s testing with caution.

• Li Yao reflected on how Earth’s metahumans had to explore higher realms without established guidance, then rested and meditated until his mana recovered.
• Li Yao read Lin Xiaowei’s messages and prepared a Summoning Altar and a barrier to receive the sample safely.
• Lin Xiaowei sent Li Yao an iron box fitted with a high-purity magic stone crystal and a research report, explaining that the spatial equipment was needed to restrain the sample.
• Li Yao learned from the report that the sample had been found aboard a pirate ship in the Storm Sea and was mutated flesh from a murdered Dwarf, corrupted by a miserable green substance.
• Li Yao read that the substance could infect living beings and inorganic objects, and that its purified form could contaminate Spirit Bodies and souls and drive a goblin into a frenzy.

Li Yao read the Mage Association’s report on the dangerous substance officially named Filth Light and learned about its Abyssal connection, effects, and containment measures. After Lin Xiaowei asked him to find ways to kill infected creatures and contain the substance, Li Yao summoned Maeve and Han Xiaosang to Phoenix Camp.

• The report described goblins infected with the substance growing stronger, becoming violently aggressive, and showing traits resembling orcs, while the Association concluded that the substance was likely connected to the Abyss.
• The Association’s council named the substance Filth Light, issued warnings across its planes, and restricted its handling to High-Rank Mages.
• Li Yao learned that Lin Xiaowei had been quarantined and that she had sent him a protected sample of the substance.
• Lin Xiaowei told Li Yao that the Association’s experiments had not found an effective solution, though saturation bombardment with her Pure Physical Attack Cannon had achieved some results.
• Li Yao agreed to find ways to kill infected creatures and deal with the substance, then asked Maeve and Han Xiaosang to come to Phoenix Camp for an urgent discussion.

Li Yao gathered the camp’s leaders to plan how to receive the Inspection Delegations while protecting their core technologies. He proposed using the dangerous substance called “Filth Light” as a joint research subject, leaving the group preparing to enlist their foreign visitors in studying it.

• Big Sis Feng Li sent Fu Qinghua, Guo Changshi, Gu Xinting, Yang Tong, and others to help receive the Inspection Delegation, and Li Yao summoned them to the administration building.
• Fu Qinghua, Guo Changshi, and Yang Tong discussed how to handle the visitors and what technologies they could safely share.
• Li Yao placed an Advanced Space Device on the conference table, and the scholars struggled to understand its intricate runes.
• Li Yao explained that the device contained a highly contaminating substance described in Lin Xiaowei’s report, making the group uneasy.
• Li Yao proposed letting the Inspection Delegations help research Filth Light while keeping their core technologies secret.

Li Yao brought Maeve and Han Xiaosang into an Advanced Space Device that unfolded into an enormous elemental Demi-Plane, where Filth Light was secured. After Han Xiaosang sensed the danger, Li Yao led them toward the center to test ways to destroy it.

• Li Yao assigned Maeve and Han Xiaosang to the reception team and explained the Advanced Space Device and the plan to find a way to destroy Verdant Matter.
• The scholars debated how to handle the substance, while Li Yao left to inspect its samples himself with Maeve and Han Xiaosang.
• Li Yao obtained an empty site in the R&D building, activated the Advanced Space Device, and opened its entrance.
• Li Yao, Maeve, and Han Xiaosang entered the device and discovered it contained an expansive elemental Demi-Plane.
• Han Xiaosang sensed a threatening aura from Filth Light, and Li Yao learned it was isolated at the Demi-Plane’s center before leading them toward it.

Li Yao examined the Filth Light contained in Kavelin's Solidification Prison and planned a controlled experiment using goblins bred in subspace. After returning, he warned Lin Xiaowei about the risks of experimenting on the Mother Empress and resumed preparing for his third specialization.

• Li Yao explained how Kavelin's Solidification Prison confined Filth Light by trapping the space around it, then took control of the seal and isolated a portion of the contamination.
• Li Yao asked Maeve to prepare goblins that had reproduced for a generation in subspace as test subjects, avoiding creatures mentally connected to her.
• Li Yao left the Demi-Plane with Maeve and Han Xiaosang after confirming the experiment would not cause a contamination leak.
• Li Yao messaged Lin Xiaowei to warn that Filth Light might infect the Mother Empress through mental links, then studied the Evocation Faction imprint.
• Li Yao woke the next morning to hear the soldiers beginning their synchronized drills.

Li Yao visited the superhuman training field, then met with scholars to plan how to remove the sickly green filth before the Inspection Delegations arrived. Their first proposed solution involved using Containment Items, including a piece of rubber and a bar of soap.

• Li Yao watched Phoenix Legion soldiers drill and found Chen Xi training her enforcers, including Wei Dadong, at the superhuman field.
• Chen Xi told Li Yao that the First Special Dispatch Team had joined the camp’s defenses ahead of the Inspection Delegations.
• Li Yao learned from Old Man Lu that the delegations would arrive in two weeks and set a five-day target for finding a way to eliminate the sickly green filth.
• Fu Qinghua presented the scholars’ first proposal: using Containment Items, including two domestic items identified as a piece of rubber and a bar of soap.

Li Yao reviewed reports on two Containment Items and considered ways to damage a mysterious substance resistant to psionic energy. He chose to begin testing with neutron radiation, then brought his researchers into the Elemental Demi-Plane, where Guo Changshi was astonished by the crystal pillars.

• Li Yao read the files on the Record-Text Erasing Rubber and Decomposition Soap and asked when they could reach the Phoenix Legion camp.
• Fu Qinghua explained that requisitioning the items would take at least three days and proposed high-powered electricity or neutron radiation as alternatives.
• Li Yao chose to begin preparing for the test and led Fu Qinghua, Guo Changshi, and the others to the Research and Development Building grounds.
• Li Yao brought the researchers into the Elemental Demi-Plane, where Guo Changshi recognized the crystal pillars as extraordinary spiritual equipment and asked where they came from.
• Li Yao joked that he had obtained them through the Qingyun Sect.

Li Yao and the testing team tried several methods and Containment Items to eliminate the Filth Light, but none worked well. After reconsidering how the force of a neutron stream affected it, Li Yao developed a new testing approach, and the team finally found the right “hammer.”

• Li Yao and the testing team found that high-voltage current destroyed infected bodies but not the Filth Light, while neutron bombs had little effect on either.
• Li Yao used the crystal pillar cluster to retrieve a test subject infected in the Elemental Demi-Plane, and an administrator explained that the test subjects were death-row inmates.
• The team tested Containment Items S-0091 and S-0056-01, but neither provided a practical way to eliminate large amounts of Filth Light.
• Lin Xiaowei suggested that momentum, rather than destructive power, might be the key, and Li Yao compared the Filth Light to water that needed to be smashed apart by many small hammers.
• Li Yao and the testing team tested elements with different atomic numbers and finally found a suitable “hammer.”

Li Yao and Fu Qinghua tested a modified particle accelerator against Filth Light-infected creatures inside the Crystal Pillar Space containment zone. The accelerator killed the infected bodies, and Fu Qinghua demonstrated that a tiny launcher could break their petrified remains apart.

• Li Yao coordinated the fifth particle bombardment test while Fu Qinghua made the final adjustments and approved the experiment.
• The energy team charged the Cyclic Accelerator, and Li Yao removed the crystal barrier before jumping away from the device.
• Fu Qinghua ordered the accelerator to fire as infected creatures rushed toward it, and its white beam turned them gray and motionless.
• Fu Qinghua confirmed that the infected bodies’ life readings had fallen to zero, though radiation made it unsafe to enter the containment area.
• Fu Qinghua launched a BB pellet that shattered a petrified infected goblin, then asked Li Yao if he had seen it.

Li Yao and Fu Qinghua confirmed that the Particle Acceleration Weapon could kill Filth Light, and Li Yao planned to sell Filth Light to organizations seeking weapons against abnormal beings. He shared the experiment with Lin Xiaowei, who teased him about naming the weapon and privately recorded a threat after he mocked her praise.

• Fu Qinghua explained how the Particle Acceleration Weapon turned the test monsters into petrified forms and said it could help save the world.
• Li Yao told Fu Qinghua he planned to sell the sources of infection, using the weapon to control Filth Light and the antidote to keep buyers dependent.
• Li Yao sent Lin Xiaowei a video of the successful test and explained the weapon's development and experiments.
• Lin Xiaowei praised Li Yao, then wrote a threat in her Black History Notebook after he joked about her compliment and sent her a meme.
• Lin Xiaowei changed the subject by asking Li Yao to give the completed weapon an imposing name.

Li Yao celebrated the successful accelerator experiment by giving the researchers a day off, bonuses, and a share of future revenue, then obtained the blueprints for his best friend. After learning that a complete accelerator would cost more than nine billion, he sent the designs with a message lamenting how poor he was.

• Li Yao praised the proposed names for the weapon and returned to the Elemental Demi-Plane to get the blueprints.
• Li Yao announced a day off, a celebration banquet, bonuses, and a one-percent share of the project's future revenue for the researchers.
• Fu Qinghua gave Li Yao a copy of the Circular Particle Accelerator blueprints and explained that a complete unit would cost more than nine billion.
• Li Yao joined the researchers at the Main Canteen and arranged for Maeve Manufacturing to reimburse the celebration expenses.
• Li Yao sent the blueprints to his best friend and messaged, "Daddy, I'm so poor!"

Lin Xiaowei and Li Yao traded teasing insults while discussing the costly Particle Accelerator blueprint, and Lin Xiaowei began copying it for the Magic Association to study. Back at the Phoenix Legion camp, Li Yao told Fu Qinghua he had a new idea after they agreed selling the accelerator was impractical.

• Lin Xiaowei resisted calling Li Yao “Daddy” and joked that she was smarter and richer, while Li Yao explained that building the Particle Accelerator would cost over nine billion.
• Li Yao told Lin Xiaowei to investigate whether mage technology could make the accelerator and said he would try to send her a set of components.
• Lin Xiaowei decided to seek Magic Association reimbursement and help from High-Rank Mages, then returned home to copy the blueprint.
• Lin Xiaowei struggled with the complicated technical diagrams but used her spiritual power to control magical quills and copy them onto recording paper.
• Li Yao returned to the Phoenix Legion camp, where Fu Qinghua joined him and said selling the Particle Accelerator was unrealistic.
• Li Yao told Fu Qinghua he had come up with a new idea.

Li Yao and Fu Qinghua agreed to charge three billion dollars for a one-stop service clearing dangerous subspaces, then Li Yao resumed his camp routine. His day ended with Lin Xiaoxi calling to confront him for blocking her contact information.

• Li Yao proposed a subspace-clearing business that bundled the infection source, Particle Accelerator, and labor fees, and Fu Qinghua agreed it was feasible.
• Fu Qinghua estimated a subspace cleanup should cost 2.5 billion dollars, but Li Yao set the price at three billion.
• Li Yao celebrated with Fu Qinghua, returned to his apartment, and spent the evening interpreting magical knowledge before meditating.
• The next morning, Li Yao trained at the Training Field and relaxed afterward with an enhanced Vitality Potion.
• Lin Xiaoxi called Li Yao from an unfamiliar number and demanded to know why he had blocked her contact information.

After Lin Xiaoxi used pendulum divination to locate Chen Xi, she tracked Li Yao to a guarded military camp and startled its defenses. Li Yao brought her inside and scolded her, leaving her silent as he continued smacking her head.

• Lin Xiaoxi got Li Yao to unblock her, then asked whether Chen Xi had returned; Li Yao hung up and blocked her again.
• Lin Xiaoxi used garnet-pendulum divination to determine Chen Xi’s direction and narrowed her location to Purple Mountain.
• Li Yao continued working with Fu Qinghua on the Particle Acceleration Weapon and the subspace anomalous entity cleanup business.
• Lin Xiaoxi found the military camp’s guard post, where soldiers, sniper teams, and automated weapons locked onto her.
• Li Yao arrived, signaled the camp’s defenses to stand down, and scolded Lin Xiaoxi for coming; she let him smack her head without protesting.

Lin Xiaoxi found Li Yao at the Phoenix Legion camp and asked to borrow money, then revealed she wanted 300 million to build a housing development in Shaqiao Village. Li Yao was stunned by the size of the loan and her plan.

• Li Yao registered Lin Xiaoxi as a visitor and brought her into the Phoenix Legion camp.
• Lin Xiaoxi guessed Li Yao was at the camp because Chen Xi was there, and asked whether the camp had anything to do with him.
• Li Yao told Lin Xiaoxi to call him Dad if she wanted to borrow money, and she did so before demanding a loan.
• Lin Xiaoxi asked for 300 million to secure a plot and build housing in Shaqiao Village, where redevelopment was about to begin.
• Li Yao questioned why she needed so much money after hearing her plan.

Li Yao backed Lin Xiaoxi’s plan to invest in Shaqiao Village real estate, but advised her to secure land and sell quickly to speculators. They arrived at Chen Xi’s defensive drill, where Chen Xi paused to greet Lin Xiaoxi as movement stirred in the woods.

• The authorities used superhumans under Wallfacer supervision to guide residents of Bagua Continent toward reasonable relocation agreements.
• Lin Xiaoxi told Li Yao that her mysticism society’s wealthy members and Cao had encouraged her to invest in real estate.
• Li Yao offered to invest in Lin Xiaoxi’s venture and told her to sell the properties quickly to speculators after securing the land.
• Li Yao and Lin Xiaoxi arrived where Chen Xi was conducting a defensive drill.
• Chen Xi recognized Lin Xiaoxi, then asked her to wait while swift, threatening movements sounded in the woods.