Recaps

Lin Guyuan completed his studies of Spiritual Energy Technology and Art Method Studies, but could not obtain the materials to craft his weapon before graduation. After reporting to the Falcon Reconnaissance Regiment, he led the new recruits through a punishing welcome course and hurried them back out before they could finish dinner.

• Lin Guyuan mastered the Spiritual Energy Technology system and studied Art Method Studies, convinced he could combine them into a new kind of weapon.
• Unable to buy the high-quality spiritual materials he wanted, Lin Guyuan postponed crafting his Spiritual Energy Spell Weapon until he reached the front lines.
• Lin Guyuan reported to the Falcon Reconnaissance Regiment, where commander Zuo Lie welcomed the recruits and sent them toward the cafeteria.
• Lin Guyuan crossed a gravity zone, swam through a spirit-beast habitat, and resisted spiritual erosion before turning back to help the other recruits through.
• Lin Guyuan led the recruits over a dangerous, gravity-enhanced wire fence to reach dinner, then rushed them back out after a Silver Eagle Badge soldier warned them to return for assembly.

Lin Guyuan designed and built a Spell Sniper Rifle that automatically cast spells, then led the recruits on a border mission to investigate a migrating faction. After confirming the faction posed little threat, he used the new weapon to kill its members from long range and ordered the recruits to seize their resources.

• Lin Guyuan commissioned weapon components and a spiritual-energy sight, then had arrays inscribed to create an automated spellcasting system.
• After assembling the Spell Sniper Rifle, Lin Guyuan received a mission to investigate a Migratory Faction near Star City's northeastern border and was appointed commander of the recruit team.
• Lin Guyuan and the recruits reached the border and observed a wounded, cyan-scaled group carrying metal crates through a swamp.
• Lin Guyuan tested the rifle by shooting members of the migrating group with fire-element bullets, killing them from a distance.
• The migrating group fled, and Lin Guyuan ordered the recruits to block its path and seize its resources while he continued sniping.

After recovering valuable resources and technical records from the Migratory Faction, Lin Guyuan focused on improving his Spell Sniper Rifle to counter the Thunder Race’s long-range attacks. Three months later, he investigated a destroyed border station and missing patrol squad, then reported evidence that the Upstream Race was exploiting humanity’s war crisis; he feared a new northeastern front might open.

• Lin Guyuan returned twenty-three sealed boxes to base, where experts opened them and sent the resources and technical information to Star City and Dawn Academy.
• Lin Guyuan identified the Spell Sniper Rifle’s weaknesses in range, trajectory, and target locking, and planned upgrades using consciousness perception and guided bullets.
• Lin Guyuan declined Dean Hu’s offer to work at the Spiritual Energy Research Institute and pursued weapon development with the Tianxuan Forge Room and Spiritual Energy Processing Plant.
• Three months later, Lin Guyuan led a rookie squad to investigate a destroyed northeastern signal station and locate a missing patrol squad.
• Lin Guyuan found the station in ruins, gathered the fallen warriors’ belongings, and concluded that the Upstream Race had attacked while humanity was occupied fighting the Thunder Race.
• Lin Guyuan returned to base and reported the suspected Upstream Race threat, worrying that humanity might face a new battlefield in the northeast.

Lin Guyuan joined the war against the Upstream Race, where his new Spell Sniper Rifle helped save the Howling Tiger Reconnaissance Squad during a dangerous mission. After he collapsed from exhausting his Spiritual Power, Qin Wu arrived at the frontline medical room and told him he was being transferred to the North District Frontline Tactical Command Department.

• After the Upstream Race expanded into human resource sites, Star City's upper ranks opened a new front and sent forces from the West Supply Zone to fight them.
• Lin Guyuan and his rookie team entered the Reversed Water Domain Field to gather intelligence, and the Vice Squad Leader ordered Lin to avoid alerting the enemy.
• When the team received a distress signal, Lin and the others went to help the outnumbered Howling Tiger Reconnaissance Squad, while Lin stayed back to watch for reinforcements.
• Lin tested his second-generation Spell Sniper Rifle, killing 148 Upstream Race warriors and covering the Howling Tiger soldiers as they escaped.
• After the Upstream Race withdrew, Lin collapsed from Spiritual Power depletion and later woke in a frontline medical room, where Qin Wu told him he was transferring to the North District Frontline Tactical Command Department.

After joining the Tactical Command Department, Lin Guyuan developed the spell sniper rifle into a battlefield weapon and created a spell healing cannon that succeeded in live testing. Inspired by its success, he decided to develop a spell enhancement cannon to strengthen human soldiers in battle.

• Tan Wu transferred Lin Guyuan to the Tactical Command Department, where Lin Guyuan accepted the chance to pursue a future as a God of Tactics.
• Lin Guyuan gained approval to equip the Falcon Reconnaissance Regiment with third-version spell sniper rifles, which performed well during months of testing against the Upstream Race.
• After the Spiritual Energy Research Institute failed to produce healing powder effective only on humans, Lin Guyuan designed a spell healing cannon powered by detachable spiritual energy crystals.
• Lin Guyuan's spell healing cannon passed its first live combat test, healing wounds and restoring stamina among human soldiers fighting the Upstream Race.
• After Tan Wu praised the successful test, Lin Guyuan decided to develop a spell enhancement cannon that could strengthen human troops across a wide area.

Lin Guyuan helped humanity defeat the Upstream Race with new spell weapons, then searched for a way to counter the Thunder Race’s Spellcasters Corps. After months of failed proposals, he devised Space Assassin, a plan using elemental explosions and Fate City’s Tortoise Shell Jade to let soldiers escape.

• Lin Guyuan developed spell totems, and humanity established Spell Sniper, Spell Healing, and Spell Amplification Corps as the Upstream Race suffered repeated defeats.
• In the Upstream War’s ninth year, the military shattered the Reversed Water Domain Field’s Space Crystal and won the war, while the Thunder Race’s advance remained a threat.
• Lin Guyuan found that fourth-generation spell sniper rifles could not pierce the Thunder Spellcasters Corps’ shields and began searching the Database for another solution.
• Lin Guyuan considered teleporting Spirit Energy Nuclear Bombs and soldiers carrying concentrated elemental liquids, but Dean Hu and the Space Technology Department explained why both approaches were too dangerous.
• After developing and abandoning eight plans, Lin Guyuan devised Space Assassin: assassination soldiers would stealthily deploy Elemental Explosions and use the Tortoise Shell Jade to escape through a Space Fissure to Fate City.

Lin Guyuan’s Space Assassination Tactics were tested against the Thunder Race, using Element Fusion Devices and Tortoise Shell Jade to strike the Thunder Spellcasters Corps and evade interception. Repeated attacks disrupted the Thunder Race’s defenses, leaving the Thunder Guards unable to predict where or when the assassins would return.

• Lin Guyuan and the Tactical Command Department watched the human army struggle against the Thunder Race’s thunderstorm offensive as an assassination squad approached the Thunder Spellcasters Corps.
• The first assassin used an Element Fusion Device before teleporting away, and the explosion devastated the Thunder Guards; Tan Wu then learned the Fate Messenger had received the soldier safely.
• A second assassin struck while the guards were disorganized, and a third used Fate City to escape interception, reappear beyond the Thunder Warriors, and launch another explosion.
• The assassins continued attacking in successive waves, sometimes striking from several directions and using Fate City to evade the Thunder Guards.
• The assassination captain coordinated with Star City’s Fate Messenger Department through drones and communicators, allowing the team to avoid ambushes and keep the Thunder Guards off balance for half a day.

Lin Guyuan’s tactics helped humanity turn the war against the Thunder Race and earned him the title God of Tactics. At eighty-three, he learned that the Thunder Race was preparing to migrate, and he ordered humanity to advance before it could take more resources.

• Lin Guyuan’s Space Assassination Tactics and Spell Sniper Rifles disrupted the Thunder Spellcasters Corps, while Zhang Daowen fought the Thunder Race’s leaders for half a month before both sides retreated.
• Over the next three years, Lin Guyuan developed new battlefield systems, and humanity drove the Thunder Race into a defensive tug-of-war; Tan Wu stepped down and yielded him the Tactical Command Department’s top position.
• In Dawn 1067, the Star City Highest Council selected Lin Guyuan as one of the Ten Gods of War, and Zhang Daowen awarded him the medal.
• Lin Guyuan continued creating tactical systems for twenty years, expanding the battlefield potential of existing technologies and abilities.
• At eighty-three, Lin Guyuan received reliable reports that the Thunder Race was preparing to migrate, and he ordered a full-scale advance to seize its remaining resources.

Lin Guyuan led humanity through the Red Sand and Damp Demon wars, becoming its revered God of Tactics while devoting his life to the front lines. At 186, he accepted his discharge, said a tearful farewell to Feng Qi’s statue, and left the battlefield for retirement.

• Lin Guyuan studied the Red Sand Race and devised tactics that helped humanity win the twenty-eight-year war.
• After the Red Sand Battle, Lin Guyuan postponed retirement and continued directing humanity’s campaigns, including the war against the Damp Demon Race.
• In Dawn Year 1196, the Star City Highest Council issued Lin Guyuan his discharge certificate, and he accepted that it was time to leave the front lines.
• Lin Guyuan packed his honors and memories, then walked through the snowy Supply Zone to Feng Qi’s statue.
• Lin Guyuan saluted Feng Qi’s statue and formally announced his retirement before departing.

As his consciousness failed, Feng Qi left Faith Space to spend his final hours with Xiao You in Star City, then vanished while promising to return. He awoke on a barren land beneath a bright sun as his Universe Invincible Overlord Rise System activated.

• Feng Qi completed the Faith Connection Rail and Faith Database, preserving routes into Faith Space and humanity's accumulated knowledge for future generations.
• Feng Qi reviewed how he had helped shape humanity's development, including arranging Lin Guyuan's birth and cultivating figures such as Zuo Tianxuan.
• Feng Qi emerged from the largest statue in Star City's Central Park and reunited with Xiao You, spending the night sharing snacks and listening to her stories.
• As dawn came, Feng Qi comforted the grieving Xiao You and promised to return before his consciousness dissipated.
• Feng Qi awoke on barren land beneath a bright sun, and his Universe Invincible Overlord Rise System began activating.

Feng Qi awoke in a future where the Domain World was consuming the human world and traveled west to find Dawn City. Recognized by his believers as humanity’s Old Ancestor, he entered the city and reunited with Xiao You.

• Feng Qi absorbed more than a thousand years of memories and learned that Mu Yao remained alive while the Domain World continued to encroach on humanity.
• Feng Qi decided to travel west toward Dawn City, then encountered Silver Moon City and avoided its defenses after its guards attacked him.
• Feng Qi reached Dawn City and was recognized by a loyal believer among the city guards, who offered to notify Old Zhang.
• Feng Qi entered Dawn City after the guards verified his identity, and Xiao You rushed to greet him at the gate.

Feng Qi reunited with Xiao You and toured Dawn City, learning how its districts, transportation, and cultivation systems had developed. The city’s prosperity moved him, but the narrator reminded him that Mo Yue’s invasion and the Final Battle still lay ahead.

• Xiao You greeted Feng Qi tearfully, and he asked her about her growth before entering Dawn City with her.
• Feng Qi saw new gaze-tracking information displays and learned from a city guard how Dawn City’s five districts had adapted to the different human groups and their circumstances.
• The city guard showed Feng Qi Dawn City’s Guardian Gods, Weather Towers, Element Aggregation buildings, and Energy Railcars.
• Feng Qi arrived in the Central District and saw a bustling city where spirit beasts, cultivators, and energy-powered infrastructure were part of everyday life.
• Feng Qi felt moved by the thriving city, but the narrator warned him that Mo Yue’s invasion and the Final Battle still awaited, and Feng Qi told Xiao You he had been bitten by a dog.

Feng Qi reunited with Zhang Daowen in Dawn City and learned about humanity’s strength, threats, and alliances a thousand years after their separation. Zhang Daowen described the unresolved conflicts facing the Mist Race and the approaching struggle against the Black Moon, while Mu Qing and Mu Yao remained away on the Road to Heaven.

• Feng Qi reflected on how Dawn City’s districts and residents were gradually uniting under a shared human identity.
• Feng Qi visited Zhang Daowen, who welcomed him and reported that Dawn City had 1.238 billion residents and faced threats from the Hidden Dragon Race and the Chimera Demon.
• Zhang Daowen told Feng Qi that Mu Qing and Mu Yao had not returned from the Road to Heaven, though Mu Qing’s journey had slowed the world’s collapse.
• Zhang Daowen explained that humanity and the Silver Moon Race maintained a strong alliance, while the Mist Race had fought the Netherfire Race for eighty-seven years.
• Feng Qi considered the Mist Race’s uncertain prospects as Xiao You fell asleep in his arms.

Zhang Daowen explained how the New World judged strength, the uncertain status of the eight great royal races, and Fate City's hidden influence to Feng Qi. Feng Qi learned that many forces planned to plunder the Shadow City Lord, began considering how humanity could profit first, and then went with Zhang Daowen to collect prepared Talent Abilities.

• Zhang Daowen explained why the New World had no universal combat ranking and described humanity's system of 100 levels followed by War General, War King, and War God.
• Zhang Daowen described hidden powers in the New World and explained that the eight great royal races were only a temporary designation for influential forces.
• Zhang Daowen told Feng Qi that Fate City held vast resources and had a deep foundation, while nearly a hundred forces were considering attacking the Shadow City Lord.
• Feng Qi considered using a future timeline to plunder Shadow City before other forces could, then asked Zhang Daowen whether Star City was still in use.
• Zhang Daowen said Star City had been abandoned and invited Feng Qi to collect the Talent Abilities stored beneath Dawn City's southern district.

Feng Qi harvested the imprisoned Domain Creatures, Domain Beasts, and spirit beasts in Dawn City’s Southern District, pushing his Bloodline Evolution Points past 100,000 and advancing to Half Ancestor Human. As his body and Talent Sequence framework transformed, he discovered that his Source Talent Ability had changed from Three Forms to Return to One, though its new function remained unknown.

• Feng Qi followed Zhang Daowen to an underground facility in Dawn City’s Southern District, where humanity kept Domain Creatures, Domain Beasts, and spirit beasts imprisoned.
• Zhang Daowen used Extreme Cold Power to freeze the creatures, and Feng Qi killed them with telekinesis and absorbed their energy and Talent Abilities.
• Feng Qi’s Bloodline Evolution Points passed 100,000, and his body underwent a major transformation as his blood and bones grew stronger.
• Feng Qi gained thousands of Talent Abilities and several incomplete fusion-type abilities, which he chose not to pursue.
• Feng Qi’s core Prefix Title changed from Advanced Human to Half Ancestor Human, and his sixteen Talent Sequence Orbits split into thirty-two.
• Feng Qi discovered that his Source Talent Ability had changed from Three Forms to Return to One, but he postponed testing it until his evolution was complete.

Feng Qi advanced his bloodline, harvested more Talent Abilities at a second Talent Farm, and completed three more Heart Refining Platform challenges before his mental endurance ran out. He learned that Xiao You had ignored her first challenge and slept through it, and she returned without gaining any insights.

• Feng Qi completed his bloodline advancement, gaining the ability to switch between spiritual power and vitality in human form while greatly strengthening his body.
• Zhang Daowen took Feng Qi to Talent Farm No. 2, where Feng Qi harvested more Talent Abilities and raised his Bloodline Evolution Points to 129821/1000000.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen traveled to the Blood Soul Clan's territory, paid to use the Heart Refining Platform, and began its trials.
• Feng Qi passed the Immovability, Ignorance, and Omniscience Difficulties, experiencing the burdens of eternal observation and all-encompassing knowledge before withdrawing from the challenge.
• Feng Qi asked Xiao You about her trials, and Xiao You explained that she had refused to walk the distance required by the Difficulty of Travel and had slept until the platform sent her back.

After completing the Heart Forging Challenge, Feng Qi returned to Dawn City and learned how generations of humanity had built it. Zhang Daowen revealed a plan to use the Dawn Sword to measure and match Little Black’s growth, potentially delaying its arrival by 487 years, though the first attempt would only gather data for the next timeline.

• Feng Qi saw that Xiao You had abandoned the first mental trial, while his own state of mind improved and the effects of overlapping memories faded.
• Zhang Daowen brought Feng Qi and Xiao You back to Dawn City, where Feng Qi learned that spatial interference devices prevented unauthorized spatial arrivals inside the city.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed Dawn City’s unfinished cultivation buildings and the generations of descendants who had developed the city from his original plans.
• Feng Qi asked whether the narrator had sensed Little Black, and Zhang Daowen said humanity had devised a plan to delay its arrival.
• At Dawn City’s central square, Zhang Daowen explained that the Dawn Sword would measure Little Black’s power and match its growth, potentially buying 487 years; the first attempt would gather data for the next timeline.

Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed whether the Faith Database could keep gathering information after Little Black killed Feng Qi, and debated the unresolved nature of time rewind and time diversion. They considered plans for the next timeline, visited the graves of Feng Qi’s fallen friends, and returned to the courtyard as Little Black approached.

• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed how the Dawn Sword’s delay tactic might work and whether the Faith Database could continue operating after Feng Qi’s death.
• Zhang Daowen explained the two possible outcomes after Feng Qi died: time might continue in a separate timeline, or it might rewind to the real timeline.
• Feng Qi concluded that his Faith Database would remain with him across time changes and could preserve humanity’s knowledge without requiring him to memorize it all.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed developing virtual technology and addressing the resource shortages that would limit progress in the next timeline.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen visited Heroes Cemetery and honored their departed friends, whose identities and contributions Feng Qi chose to keep secret for humanity’s safety.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen returned to the courtyard, and the narrator warned Feng Qi that Little Black was approaching with a 40-Meter Greatsword.

Feng Qi watched Dawn City activate its Dawn Sword to intercept Little Black, hoping the weapon could stop it. The battle simulation’s projected duration kept dropping, leaving Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen doubtful as Little Black mocked the Dawn Sword.

• Zhang Daowen took Feng Qi to the Mechanized Modification Core Department, where Xiao Chen confirmed the Dawn Sword was ready to activate.
• Xiao Chen explained the Dawn Sword’s history and limited production as Dawn City’s surveillance system entered War Mode and located Little Black.
• The Dawn Sword left its statue, flew toward Little Black, and transformed into mist to engage it.
• The battle system projected a fight lasting centuries, but its estimate rapidly fell, and Zhang Daowen warned Feng Qi that the simulation was not reliable.
• Little Black mocked the Dawn Sword and challenged its makers to upgrade it further.

Feng Qi arranged for Xiao You to enter the Consciousness Hibernation Plan before traveling to the Hidden Dragon Race’s territory to gain Talent Abilities. When a human investigation squad was overwhelmed by Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers, Feng Qi arrived and demonstrated the full power of Blood God.

• Feng Qi realized the Dawn Sword’s prediction limited his time in the future to about four days and decided to visit the western front to gain Talent Abilities.
• Zhang Daowen explained the Consciousness Hibernation Plan, and Xiao You chose to have her memories backed up before Zhang Daowen froze her in an Ice Coffin.
• Feng Qi traveled with Zhang Daowen to the Hidden Dragon Race’s territory, where a human investigation squad was ambushed by more than fifty Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers.
• The investigation squad activated Blood God to fight back, but Feng Qi arrived and stopped them from borrowing the Talent Ability.
• Feng Qi transformed into a towering Blood God giant and launched a Blood-colored Raging Dragon at the Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers.

Feng Qi attacked the Hidden Dragon Domain Field, slaughtering its forces and gaining new abilities as the Hidden Dragon Race’s elites gathered to confront him. Meanwhile, Zhang Daowen explained to the human army’s commander that Feng Qi’s assault was creating an opening for humanity’s war, and compared the Hidden Dragon elites’ predicament to his own past encounter with a fighter who feared no death.

• Feng Qi killed more than fifty Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers with one punch, gained the Life Curse ability, and sent the investigation team on its way before flying deeper into the domain.
• Feng Qi destroyed a Hidden Dragon settlement, killed its War Dragons and warriors, and gained the Flesh Warcry ability from a defeated War Dragon.
• Feng Qi demolished a second outpost and killed the Hidden Dragon elites who tried to stop him before hundreds of Space Fissures opened and surrounded him.
• Feng Qi entered an overloaded state as the Hidden Dragon Race’s top combatants converged on him.
• At the Star City West Supply Zone, the human army advanced toward the Hidden Dragon Domain Field while Xiao Li questioned Zhang Daowen about the war.
• Zhang Daowen told Xiao Li that Feng Qi had returned to create an opportunity for humanity, and recognized that the Hidden Dragon elites were suffering as he once had against a fearless opponent.

Feng Qi fought the Hidden Dragon Race’s top combatants, but their coordinated Life Curses and barriers kept him from gaining ground. He revealed his God Body, took control of the elements, and began gathering a vast elemental force as the human army arrived and mistook the scene for an impending Elemental Explosion.

• Feng Qi tore apart the Hidden Dragon Race’s energy altar, but their Life Curse runes chained and weakened him until Purple Soul helped him break free.
• Feng Qi used Flash Step to kill a Hidden Dragon Race top combatant, then absorbed its life essence and resisted the curses cast by the remaining warriors.
• The Hidden Dragon Race’s coordinated barriers blocked Feng Qi’s attacks and prevented him from reaching more targets, so he activated his golden God Body.
• Feng Qi dispersed the Life Curse runes by controlling their elemental particles and began gathering and compressing elements across the sky.
• The human army entered the Hidden Dragon Domain Field, saw Feng Qi surrounded by gathering elements, and retreated in fear of an Elemental Explosion.

Feng Qi unleashed an Elemental Calamity against the Hidden Dragon Race, whose elders sacrificed themselves and used a time-stopping relic to weaken the blast. He harvested the lives lost in the disaster, but Xiao Hei arrived and began devouring him before he could finish collecting Bloodline Evolution Points.

• Feng Qi activated the God Body State and fused Heaven and Earth Elements into a massive Elemental Calamity, forcing the Hidden Dragon Race to choose between fleeing and defending their people.
• The younger Hidden Dragon Race members fled while more than two hundred elders formed a barrier and prepared to sacrifice themselves to protect their race.
• An elder used a time-stopping crystal to freeze the Elemental Explosion, and the Hidden Dragon Race members spent more than twenty hours dismantling and releasing the fused elements.
• The time-stop ended, and the weakened Elemental Torrent destroyed the outpost city and killed the Hidden Dragon Race members who remained, while Feng Qi absorbed the resulting Bloodline Evolution Points.
• The narrator told Feng Qi that Zhang Daowen had delayed Xiao Hei, but Xiao Hei arrived, pinned Feng Qi to the ground, and began devouring him.

After Little Black overwhelmed Feng Qi in the Sacrifice Timeline, he returned to reality and confirmed that the Faith Database had survived, though his connection to the future believers was gone. He began studying the database and the plans humanity’s descendants had prepared for developing future timelines.

• Feng Qi activated his Blood God Body and fought Little Black, but Little Black devoured his power, defeated him, and left him unconscious.
• Feng Qi awoke in his room at the Scarlet Institute and drank an enhanced Mental Soothing Potion to suppress the Negative Emotions.
• Feng Qi entered his Sea of Consciousness and found that the Faith Database remained, but no believers from the previous Sacrifice Timeline were present.
• Feng Qi examined the database and found its records ended when Little Black killed him, leaving the cause of his lost connection to the future uncertain.
• Feng Qi studied the Brains Trust’s guidance, including plans to prioritize fields such as Domain Studies, spatial studies, and Dawn Academy during humanity’s early development.

Feng Qi reviewed the Future Brains Trust’s plans for securing humanity’s startup resources, developing virtual technology, and keeping him alive on the next Sacrifice Timeline. The chapter left him with a detailed plan to ambush the Shadow City Lord and a proposed mechanized body that could let him accompany humanity for more than a thousand years.

• Feng Qi read the Brains Trust’s resource strategies, including prioritizing Space Technology and Domain Studies, trading in Fate City, and drawing resources from other cities.
• The Brains Trust proposed locating the Shadow City Lord, tempting him with valuable goods, and ambushing him with Mu Qing, Old Mi, and the Silver Moon Race.
• Feng Qi reviewed the case for investing in virtual technology despite its high initial cost and slow returns.
• The Brains Trust proposed that Feng Qi undergo Mechanization Modification so he could survive for more than a thousand years and remain with humanity.
• Feng Qi agreed that the Database and the Brains Trust’s plans could guide future timelines more effectively than his own notes.