Recaps

Feng Qi awoke in the Scarlet Institute 1,500 years after his apparent death and learned from Wei Wei’s messages how the little guy had rescued his brain and brought him to Star City. The messages described Star City’s growth and its conflict with Winter City, while Mu Qing and Mu Yao’s fate remained unknown.

• Feng Qi drank Wei Wei’s concentrated Mental Soothing Potion and asked the narrator what had happened in the future.
• Feng Qi read Wei Wei’s messages and learned that the little guy had used a dangerous targeted teleportation array to reach Winter City and bring his brain back to Star City.
• Wei Wei’s messages recounted Star City’s development, including a documentary honoring Feng Qi, expanding virtual technology, and cooperation with the Mist Lord.
• Wei Wei reported that Winter City remained under Sword Clan control, Mu Qing and Mu Yao’s fate was unknown, and Star City could not yet risk open war.
• Wei Wei said the little guy had joined the Star City Military Department and was pursuing the commander-in-chief position while remaining determined to avenge Feng Qi.

Feng Qi read years of mailbox messages describing Star City’s growth and learned that Mu Yao had returned with news of Mu Qing’s death, the Scarlet Rune Crystal, and a possible path to helping Tian Shu. As the Sword Clan began expanding toward Star City, the Scarlet Institute prepared to retreat into its secret base, while Xiao Yang urged Feng Qi to eliminate the Sword Clan on a future timeline.

• Feng Qi learned that the Scarlet Institute had preserved his brain, then read messages about Star City’s advancing ranks, education, military resources, and technology.
• Mu Yao returned to the Scarlet Institute and reported that Jian Ji had killed Mu Qing after using the Shield Armor Clan to strengthen his Sword Spirit Array; Mu Qing had enabled Mu Yao to escape with the Scarlet Rune Crystal.
• Mu Yao gave the Scarlet Rune Crystal to the Scarlet Institute and explained that Tian Shu would need Infinite Memory to withstand the Pillar God power fused into his body before she left for the Road to Heaven.
• The little guy went to Winter City to attack the injured Jian Ji, but Jian Ji defeated him, and Old Mi and the Mist Race Elder Faction brought him safely back to Star City.
• The Mist Race and Star City continued exchanging resources, while Star City expanded Blood Refinement training and began equipping elite soldiers with Living Armor.
• After learning that Jian Ji and the Sword Clan were advancing toward Star City, the Scarlet Institute prepared for partial seclusion, and Xiao Yang urged Feng Qi to remove the Sword Clan as a threat on a future timeline.

Feng Qi read Wei Wei’s messages about Star City’s long struggle against Jian Ji and awakened Little Suction Cup from cryogenic storage. After learning that Jian Ji feared his connection to the Demon Blade, Feng Qi considered joining with the blade to kill him.

• Feng Qi read Wei Wei’s messages describing Star City’s defense against the Sword Clan, the destruction of Future City, and Wei Wei’s plan to retire.
• Feng Qi found Little Suction Cup frozen in the laboratory and revived her; she recognized him and clung to him.
• Feng Qi saw the cracks in Little Suction Cup’s Scarlet Rune Crystal and resolved to kill Jian Ji to free Winter City and improve Mu Qing’s future.
• The narrator suggested that Jian Ji feared the Demon Blade would choose Feng Qi as its host, and Feng Qi considered teaming up with the blade to defeat Jian Ji.

Feng Qi crossed the ruined Star City toward the Star City Shelter, mourning Wei Wei and planning a Faith Skill Repository to help humanity survive the Black Moon’s rule. After Sucker engaged Blackie, Feng Qi reached the human city of Ice Crystal City, where its guards attacked him despite his claim that he was Feng Qi from fifteen hundred years ago.

• Feng Qi left the Scarlet Institute’s secret base, confirmed Blackie had not appeared nearby, and headed west through the ruined Star City toward the Star City Shelter.
• Feng Qi visited Wei Wei’s grave, left wildflowers, and resolved to preserve her legacy as he considered combining humanity’s cultivation system with a repository of borrowed Talent Abilities.
• Feng Qi killed Domain Creatures along the way to collect Talent Abilities, then threw Sucker at Blackie to buy himself time and flew toward the shelter.
• Feng Qi found Ice Crystal City beneath the blood moon and recognized the Dawn Banner on its walls as proof that humans had survived for fifteen hundred years.
• Feng Qi told three guards that he was Feng Qi from fifteen hundred years ago, but their leader ordered them to seize him.

Feng Qi escaped Dawn City's ice prison and fought its defenders to force the human Old Ancestor to appear. The Old Ancestor turned out to be the little guy, who recognized Feng Qi as Uncle Qi.

• Feng Qi learned from a neighboring Domain Creature that Dawn City's guards imprisoned anyone impersonating Feng Qi, then killed the prisoner after questioning him.
• Feng Qi broke out of the ice prison and restrained the guards without killing them as he forced his way outside.
• Hundreds of Dawn warriors attacked Feng Qi, and he used his Blood Source Form to break through their ice formations and fight the growing crowd.
• Feng Qi held back to avoid killing the warriors, but their numbers and accumulating cold began to wear him down.
• The Dawn warriors summoned their Old Ancestor, and Feng Qi recognized the white-haired figure as the little guy before greeting him as Uncle Qi.

Feng Qi reunited with Zhang Daowen, who recounted humanity’s struggles over the past 1,500 years and admitted that age and injuries had left him unable to lead them much longer. After Feng Qi revealed that Negative Emotions were consuming him, Zhang Daowen took him through a Space Passage toward the Blood Soul Clan for another Heart Forging Challenge.

• Zhang Daowen recognized Feng Qi as Uncle Qi, dismissed the others, and reunited with him after 1,500 years apart.
• Zhang Daowen described the war against Jian Ji, the Mist Lord’s sacrifice, humanity’s move to Dawn City, and the collapse of civilization beneath the black moon.
• Zhang Daowen told Feng Qi that his accumulated injuries and fading strength left him unable to continue guiding humanity, and Feng Qi acknowledged his burden.
• Feng Qi showed Zhang Daowen the black marks spreading across his arm as the cumulative effects of Negative Emotions manifested.
• Zhang Daowen offered to take Feng Qi to the Blood Soul Clan for a Heart Forging Challenge to delay the effects, then opened a Space Passage and led him through.

Feng Qi underwent the Difficulty of Intent, where he lived an entire ordinary life believing his memories of saving humanity had been a dream. At the end of his life, he let go of his regret, passed the challenge, and awoke with the influence of Negative Emotions suppressed.

• Feng Qi entered the Heart Forging Challenge and began the Difficulty of Intent, losing his memories of the trials and waking in his old classroom.
• Feng Qi searched for people and evidence from his memories, but Star City Academy, the Scarlet Institute, and other sources showed that they did not exist.
• Feng Qi spent a lifetime pursuing cultivation research, building a family, and longing for the memories he believed were only a dream.
• At the end of his life, Feng Qi accepted reality and let go of his regret, completing the challenge as his heart stopped.
• Feng Qi awoke in darkness, remembered the Heart Forging Challenge, and saw the third statue's gem dim as the Negative Emotions receded.

Feng Qi completed the fourth Eighteen Difficulties trial and returned to Dawn City, where Zhang Daowen taught him the Ice God Cultivation Method. Zhang Daowen then gave Feng Qi his remaining vitality and faced the Dark God, leaving Feng Qi to witness his final battle.

• Feng Qi endured the Hunger and Disease Difficulty, mastering his hunger and remaining clear through eighty-one illnesses.
• Feng Qi returned to Dawn City with Zhang Daowen and memorized the three stages of the Ice God Cultivation Method for the next timeline.
• Zhang Daowen urged Feng Qi to activate his Blood Source Form and poured his vitality into him, rapidly aging in the process.
• The Dark God arrived to reclaim its lost power, so Zhang Daowen sent Feng Qi away and confronted it.
• Zhang Daowen unleashed his Ice-Snow Domain Field and Extreme Cold Ice Blade, while Feng Qi heard him say, "See you in the next timeline..."

Zhang Daowen used his final strength to freeze and destroy the Dark God, and Feng Qi killed it after the narrator explained that doing so would not alter history before the real timeline. Zhang Daowen then succumbed to the cost of the battle, dying while mourning humanity’s uncertain future and gazing toward Dawn City.

• Zhang Daowen’s Ice-Snow God Body froze the Dark God, whose blood core shattered as it tried to resist.
• Feng Qi questioned whether killing the ancient Dark God would change history, and the narrator argued that his erasure ability could not affect events before the real timeline.
• Feng Qi smashed the Dark God’s frozen body and absorbed a small amount of its blood and vitality as its remains scattered.
• Zhang Daowen’s Ice-Snow God Body collapsed, and his life force rapidly faded as nearby Domain Factions watched Dawn City.
• The golden figure at the Rift Sky God Temple ordered preparations to claim new territory after Zhang Daowen’s death, while Feng Qi tried to sustain him with blood and vitality.
• Zhang Daowen mourned that he could not lead humanity to rise, recalled the Dawn Banner and Star City, and died standing as he faced Dawn City.

After Zhang Daowen’s death, Feng Qi watched Dawn’s descendants leave their city and gained the Dark God’s fused Blood God talent. As the Rift Sky God Clan attacked, Feng Qi unleashed his new powers, turned its warriors into Goat-Head Demons, and struck the God Lord with a slap.

• Feng Qi advised Xie Yu and Dawn’s descendants to migrate east toward the Mist Lord, and watched 320,000 people depart with the Dawn Banner.
• Feng Qi examined the Blood God talent he had plundered from the Dark God and confirmed that its six blood-core abilities had fused into one talent.
• Feng Qi waited beside Zhang Daowen’s grave, hoping nearby factions would arrive before Little Black so he could vent his anger.
• The Rift Sky God Clan descended on Dawn City, and Feng Qi used Annihilation Source to transform twelve Golden Armor Warriors into Goat-Head Demons.
• Feng Qi fought the Rift Sky God Clan within his Flame Hell Domain, turning its fallen warriors into more Goat-Head Demons and absorbing their power.
• Feng Qi teleported to the Rift Sky God Lord and slapped him aside, leaving the God Lord shocked that he could not track Feng Qi’s movement.

Feng Qi used Flash Step to overwhelm the Rift Sky God Lord, but God Lord eventually struck him with the Miracle Seal and captured his consciousness. Little Black arrived, devoured God Lord, and freed Feng Qi from the threat of torture.

• Feng Qi used Flash Step and a relentless barrage of attacks to keep the Rift Sky God Lord from activating his Miracle Seal.
• God Lord recovered, clashed domains with Feng Qi, and eventually covered him in golden characters that deactivated his Blood God Form and sealed his consciousness.
• God Lord reduced Feng Qi's body to a pulsing brain and tried to force him to reveal the location of his Miracle Divine Object.
• Little Black arrived, devoured Feng Qi's remains, and pursued God Lord to Cloud Top Temple.
• Little Black adapted to the Miracle Seal, devoured God Lord, and left Feng Qi expecting to be freed.

After returning from the Sacrifice Timeline, Feng Qi recorded its intelligence, planned to address Winter City and unite the Five Great Cities, and helped launch a Virtual Talent Skill Repository for Faith Users. He left the chapter rested and prepared to lead humanity’s next steps, while the repository project and its unresolved limitations remained in development.

• Feng Qi returned to the Scarlet Institute, retrieved his intelligence notebook, and recorded what he had learned about the Mist Race, Zhang Daowen, Mu Yao, Mo Moon, Winter City, and the Sword Clan.
• Feng Qi concluded that resolving Winter City’s crisis and uniting humanity’s combat power were essential, then led a Scarlet Institute meeting where Li Qianfeng proposed a Virtual Talent Skill Repository.
• Feng Qi and the Virtual Department planned the repository, while Wei Wei organized data collection and Lin Ran developed the Mirror Image spell to help replicate Talent Abilities.
• Feng Qi, Wei Wei, and Lin Ran tested the repository, successfully virtualized Regeneration, and identified abilities such as Nightmare and God Body that could not yet be reproduced.
• Scarlet Institute chose to keep the Faith User Skill Repository separate from the ordinary Virtual Skill Repository and began an Internal Beta, while Feng Qi emphasized the resource costs and risks of borrowed abilities.
• Feng Qi took a more active leadership role at the Scarlet Institute meeting, assigning tasks and accepting the responsibility of guiding humanity.

Feng Qi struggled to obtain enough Main Timeline blood to create Faith Statues and discussed a Star City blood donation campaign with Old Mi. After outlining several possible future routes, he chose the Feed Himself to the Blade Timeline, aiming to defeat Jian Ji and bring Winter City into his territory.

• Feng Qi explained that insufficient Main Timeline blood was preventing the creation of Faith Statues, then visited Old Mi at the Tiger Soul Research Institute for advice.
• Old Mi proposed a citywide blood donation campaign, warning Feng Qi to screen donors carefully so that absorbing blood from someone near death would not risk erasing them from the timeline.
• Feng Qi and Old Mi discussed humanity's potential, their cooperation across timelines, and whether sacrifice timelines continued to exist after Feng Qi died.
• Feng Qi returned to the Scarlet Institute, used Mental Soothing Potion, and listed possible future plans, including entering the Domain World, investigating Ruins Island, developing a faith-based growth route, and cooperating with the demonic blade.
• Feng Qi chose the Feed Himself to the Blade Timeline, determined to defeat Jian Ji and remove the threat he posed to Winter City and humanity.

Feng Qi organized Star City's development on the new Sacrifice Timeline, arranged to raise the young Zhang Daowen, and waited for space technology to become ready. The chapter ended with the Space Technology Department reporting that practical testing could begin.

• Feng Qi finalized a citywide blood donation campaign with the military department and worked with Old Mi to process the collected blood into resources for Faith Statues.
• After entering the Sacrifice Timeline, Feng Qi convened the Star City Highest Council and set five priorities, including space technology, Faith Statues, Blood Refinement Warriors, rune modification, and city construction.
• Feng Qi purged Yin Ling and the other Silver Moon Race members from the Energy Organization, while Star City's space technology advanced to simulation testing.
• A year later, Feng Qi visited baby Zhang Daowen and arranged for Wei Wei to raise him and teach him rune modification and cultivation.
• The head of the Space Technology Department told Feng Qi that simulation testing had concluded and practical testing could begin.

Feng Qi activated the cross-space teleportation array in Star City, hoping to bring the injured demon blade to the human world. The demon blade spotted the passage from the former Mist Race territory and charged toward it, while Feng Qi prepared for its arrival.

• Feng Qi visited the Space Technology Department, reviewed its successful simulation, and ordered small-scale practical tests and preparations to open the Space Passage.
• Feng Qi discussed supporting the Mist Race's reconstruction with Old Mi, who agreed to accept Star City's resources and repay Star City later.
• Six months later, Feng Qi ordered the cross-space teleportation array activated, and its expanding passage began reaching toward the Mist Race territory.
• The injured demon blade waited in the abandoned Mist Race territory, then spotted the passage and flew toward it with its true form in hand.
• Mist Lord warned Feng Qi that the demon blade had arrived, and Feng Qi braced himself as its silhouette plunged through the passage.

Feng Qi shut down the Space Teleportation Array, then persuaded the demonic blade Chao Tian to accept him as its Blade Wielder. After their minds fused and their bodies began to merge, Feng Qi’s Blade Demon Body formed, but the blade’s final shape had not yet been decided.

• Feng Qi cut off Star City’s energy supply, collapsing the Space Passage and causing the Blade Slave to be destroyed by the world’s laws.
• Feng Qi approached Chao Tian and convinced it to let him become its Blade Wielder by revealing their shared goal of killing Jian Ji.
• Feng Qi endured Chao Tian’s memories and murderous aura while Chao Tian experienced Feng Qi’s Negative Emotions and memories of his companions.
• Feng Qi completed the fusion of their consciousnesses, and Chao Tian agreed to wield its power alongside him.
• Chao Tian melted across Feng Qi’s body, forming his Blade Demon Body and black armor as their physical fusion neared completion.
• Chao Tian began shaping itself into a blade suited to Feng Qi, but its final form had not yet appeared.

Feng Qi left Star City to train with the demonic blade in the Lamp Fire Domain Field, gradually adapting to its weight through battles against the Lamp Fire Race. After breaking the first seal, he returned to face the Lamp Fire King and sent the giant creature crashing down with a powerful strike.

• Feng Qi discovered that the demonic blade's completed form was too heavy for him to wield, so it placed five seals on itself and explained that its form reflected his fighting nature.
• Feng Qi returned to Star City, spent a month refining its development plan, then bid farewell and set out alone with the demonic blade.
• Feng Qi entered the Lamp Fire Domain Field, hunted creatures for food, and fought giant tree lifeforms and Lamp Fire Race creatures to strengthen himself.
• Feng Qi trained beside a lake for a month, then released the demonic blade's first seal and endured its increased weight through intensive physical training.
• Feng Qi confronted the Lamp Fire King again and shattered its stone pillar with the demonic blade before striking it beneath the chin and sending it flying.

Feng Qi killed the Lamp Fire King, survived the remaining Lantern Fire Lifeforms, and left the Lamp Fire Domain Field. After months of travel and training, he learned eight self-created blade forms and continued west, exploring Domain Fields beyond the Eastern District in search of signs of humanity.

• Feng Qi killed the Lamp Fire King with the demonic blade, absorbed its life force, and defeated the Lantern Fire Lifeforms that surrounded him.
• Feng Qi cooked and ate the Lamp Fire King's flesh, then left the Lamp Fire Domain Field and crossed two more Domain Fields over the next three months.
• The demonic blade told Feng Qi to learn blade techniques, and it trained him to create eight basic forms suited to his weapon and fighting style.
• Feng Qi left the third Domain Field and traveled west, fighting powerful creatures, fleeing an overwhelming Domain Field, and witnessing the varied landscapes and lifeforms of many worlds.
• Feng Qi continued his journey beyond the Eastern District, hoping to discover whether human forces still survived outside it.

Feng Qi trained for a month in the wilderness and created his first advanced blade technique, which he named Dump Truck Collision. He then entered a gray Domain Field, witnessed an invasion between two races, and was swallowed by the spreading Domain World line.

• Feng Qi studied the demonic blade’s stellar nodes and trained to create advanced blade techniques suited to himself.
• After a month, Feng Qi used his first advanced technique to smash the ground and named it Advanced Blade Technique, First Form, Dump Truck Collision.
• Feng Qi left the wilderness and entered a gray Domain Field filled with ghostlike creatures and ruined buildings.
• Feng Qi spotted Earth-Yellow Battle Armor Domain Creatures fighting the ghostlike invaders as a Domain World line devoured their territory.
• The demonic blade discussed the Mist Lord and Jian Ji with Feng Qi, then the spreading Domain World line swallowed Feng Qi.

Feng Qi watched the ghostly lifeforms defeat and enslave the Earth-Yellow-armored Domain Creatures, prompting him to consider how humanity might use other races as laborers and eventually become a strong race. As he continued through the merging Domain Fields, the Demon Blade suggested he build a faction to support him against Jian Ji and the Sword Clan.

• The ghostly lifeforms' Domain Field overwhelmed the opposing field after they destroyed its Space Crystal, and Feng Qi saw the Earth-Yellow-armored Domain Creatures surrender and get marched away in chains.
• Feng Qi considered whether humanity could raise weak Domain factions to work in spiritual plant cultivation and dangerous underground mines.
• The Demon Blade agreed that strong races relied on laborers from weaker races, and Feng Qi reflected on how that differed from humanity's current development.
• Feng Qi decided that using other races as laborers could eventually help humanity advance, though he recognized that humanity first needed more resources.
• The Demon Blade asked Feng Qi whether he had considered building a faction to help him fight Jian Ji and the Sword Clan.

Feng Qi followed the demon blade’s lead to find a promising child and fought through the Nether Spirit Clan’s defenses. He discovered the girl was being drained as a sacrifice and launched an attack on the floating pavilion as her life weakened.

• Feng Qi decided to seek out promising companions from other races and form an elite faction, and the demon blade sensed a child with strong potential nearby.
• Feng Qi charged through the ghost warriors guarding the Energy Barrier, defeated them, and entered the territory beyond the vortex.
• In the Life and Death Garden, the gray-haired girl collected petals and brought them to a skeleton before submitting to an altar ritual that drained her energy.
• The ghost figures received word of Feng Qi’s approach and ordered the girl’s final sacrifice to begin early.
• The demon blade warned Feng Qi that the girl was near death, so he hurried to the floating pavilion and struck it with Dump Truck Collision.

Feng Qi rescued a gray-haired girl from the collapsing energy structure and named her Xiao You, then spent months raising and training her. Xiao You’s inherited knowledge awakened, revealing her ability to weave powerful objects from energy, and Feng Qi stayed to help her develop it.

• Feng Qi destroyed the energy structure and the three ghostly figures, then rescued the little girl and retrieved her straw hat.
• Feng Qi left the Domain Field with the girl and, over the next half year, taught her human speech and called her Xiao You.
• Feng Qi trained beneath a waterfall while Xiao You learned basic cultivation, but she struggled to study and could not use the Mist Lord’s Blood Refinement Cultivation Method.
• Xiao You’s inherited memories began awakening, teaching her to control her dark-green energy and weave objects with special abilities.
• Xiao You crafted protective clothing and shoes, then used a new mask to fly; Feng Qi decided she should keep developing before helping him.

Feng Qi and Xiao You traveled through Domain Fields as Xiao You developed her Energy Weaving abilities and learned about Energy Warriors. In a mineral-rich Domain Field, the demonic blade led Feng Qi to a promising young lifeform trapped in a mine, and Feng Qi decided to rescue and train it.

• Feng Qi learned that Xiao You's people used Energy Warriors, constructed from energy entities, as their second-stage combat technique.
• Over nearly three years of travel, Feng Qi and Xiao You survived dangerous Domain Fields, including an extreme cold storm and a maze where they nearly starved.
• Feng Qi and Xiao You entered a Domain Field filled with mined spiritual ore, and the demonic blade sensed a promising lifeform nearby.
• Feng Qi found gaunt figures mining under the watch of two crimson-skinned guards and concluded that the promising lifeform was trapped below.
• Xiao You offered to attack the guards, but Feng Qi pulled her back and questioned her confidence.

Feng Qi broke the Demon Blade’s second seal and fought his way through the underground mine, defeating guards as he searched for the person the blade had sensed. He found a mistreated young boy and offered him the strength to pursue revenge, and the boy agreed to go with him.

• Feng Qi used the Demon Blade’s second-stage release to defeat the two guards outside the mine and entered the tunnels with Xiao You.
• Feng Qi killed a guard in the first mining area and fought his way toward the deeper sections as reinforcements converged on him.
• A young boy underground endured having his food stolen and remembered how a guard had killed his father after energy radiation left him unable to work.
• Feng Qi reached the boy, offered to give him the strength to take revenge, and watched him strike back at the miner who had stolen his food.
• The boy agreed to leave with Feng Qi and Xiao You.

Feng Qi trained with the demonic blade and learned the Blade Control Art while teaching Po Jia and traveling with Xiao You. As Po Jia tried to recruit Xiao You to escape Feng Qi’s control, she refused and admitted she was happy to be used by Boss.

• Feng Qi taught Cultivation Studies to Xiao You and Po Jia in a cave during the Domain Field’s extreme heat.
• Po Jia’s history revealed that the Red Python Clan had destroyed the Po Gong Clan and enslaved him before Feng Qi rescued him; he studied intensely to gain revenge.
• Feng Qi completed one hundred swings of the demonic blade, then learned the Body Control Art, which let him control the blade for aerial movement.
• The demonic blade restored Feng Qi’s exhausted body, and Feng Qi began practicing Blade Control Art but repeatedly crashed to the ground.
• Xiao You returned to the cave and tried to cultivate, while Po Jia asked how she met Feng Qi and urged her to work with him to escape Boss’s control.
• Xiao You rejected Po Jia’s plan, saying she liked being used by Boss and would even eat a huge mouthful of shit if he told her to.