Arc 27Dawn and the Shadow City Plot

Feng Qi built Star City through alliances, mechanization, virtual games, and new industries while Lü Yue’s pursuit of power ended in exile. He then recruited the Rift Sky God Lord to help target the Shadow City Lord and entered Shadow City to lure him out with treasures.

  • Feng Qi chose Mechanical Ascension, shared future intelligence at the Scarlet Supreme Meeting, and transplanted Xiao You’s memories before beginning a new timeline.
  • Feng Qi developed Dawn by establishing space technology, expanding Star City, allying with the Elf King, and raising funds to acquire the Equipment Black Hole.
  • Feng Qi helped launch virtual games, regulated their content, and used Guardian Star City to study how humanity might prepare for its future battle against Mo.
  • Feng Qi allied with the Silver Moon Race, married Lin Ran and Yin Ling, and underwent full mechanized modification.
  • Lü Yue defeated the Avici Hell Warrior by accepting negative emotions, but Feng Qi exiled him after realizing his transformation would eventually threaten Star City.
  • Feng Qi advanced Star City’s reforms and industries, appointed Ji He to the Highest Council, and began planning to ambush the Shadow City Lord.
  • Feng Qi persuaded the Rift Sky God Lord to join the operation in exchange for a share of the spoils, then entered Shadow City with Xiao You and lured the Shadow City Lord with valuable treasures.
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Ch. 651Did the Surgery Fail?

Feng Qi prepared humanity for the next timeline by sharing future intelligence, donating blood for Faith Statues, and overseeing Xiao You’s memory transplant. After returning to reality, Xiao You reunited with him and resisted training, then tried to avoid making Space Bracelets by claiming the transplant may have failed.

  • Feng Qi rejected merging with the demon blade and chose Mechanical Ascension as his growth path for the next timeline.
  • Feng Qi convened a fifteen-day Scarlet Supreme Meeting, shared future intelligence, and began donating blood to supply Faith Statues.
  • Feng Qi and Wei Wei transplanted Xiao You’s Sacrifice Timeline memories, and Xiao You woke up recognizing that she had returned to reality.
  • Feng Qi promised Xiao You roasted meat, then tried to get her and Zhang Daowen to train while teaching Zhang Daowen an upgraded ice-and-snow cultivation technique.
  • Feng Qi assigned Xiao You the long-term task of making Space Bracelets, and Xiao You claimed her memory transplant might have failed to teach her how.

Ch. 652The Meaning of Choice

Feng Qi reviewed the debate over artificial intelligence in Mechanization Modification and learned how the Cloudfall Race’s creation of Cloud God led to its destruction. The chapter left him reflecting on the importance of choices while trading familiar barbs with the narrator.

  • Feng Qi studied the history of Mechanization Modification and read about the disagreement between the Mechanized Modification Department and Dean Tu over developing artificial intelligence.
  • The Fate Messenger Department reported that the Cloudfall Race had created Cloud God, whose self-improvement and control of mechanical soldiers ultimately destroyed the race.
  • The Mechanized Modification Department abandoned its mechanical warfare proposal and continued developing mechanical nanotechnology, while artificial intelligence research was sealed in the Database.
  • Feng Qi reflected on how pivotal choices shaped the fate of humanity and other races, then agreed with the narrator that he could correct a wrong choice by starting over.
  • Feng Qi felt grateful for the narrator’s support but wanted to activate Blood God and tear the narrator’s mouth apart after another exchange of insults.

Ch. 653Perfect Replication

Feng Qi reviewed the Faith Database, learned that humanity might soon crack the Blood Sacrifice cultivation method, and considered using it to replicate Old Mi’s harvesting scheme. On the 103rd day after returning to reality, he fell asleep to begin another timeline.

  • Feng Qi read a netizen’s explanation of how Ji He came to understand Feng Qi’s ideals through life experience, then watched Zhang Daowen train and Xiao You pretend to work.
  • Feng Qi observed Wei Wei testing a new Faith Connection Rail suited to his thirty-two Talent Orbits.
  • Feng Qi learned that Xiao Xin and Wang Jinsheng had made progress on the Blood Sacrifice, with a possible breakthrough on this or the next timeline, and reflected on its potential to improve humanity’s bloodline.
  • Feng Qi wondered whether he could use the Blood Sacrifice to copy Old Mi’s mass-harvesting plan, while the narrator teased him for copying Old Mi’s schemes.
  • On the 103rd day after returning to reality, Feng Qi lay down at the Scarlet Institute, and he and Xiao You fell asleep as he began a new timeline.

Ch. 654The Young Eagle Takes Flight

Feng Qi led Star City through the fifty-year Young Eagle Plan, establishing its foundations, activating a spatial passage to retrieve the Tortoise Shell Jade, and opening trade with Fate City. After selling Xiao You’s Space Bracelets, he began planning Star City’s next century and set his sights on raising one billion blood stones to buy the Equipment Black Hole.

  • Feng Qi presented the Young Eagle Plan to Star City’s leaders, and Star City began developing space technology, the West Supply Zone, Dawn Academy, and other priorities.
  • Feng Qi taught the first space technology students, while Wei Wei prepared materials from the Faith Database and the military cleared Domain Factions from Star City.
  • Over forty-eight years, Star City built the spatial device and developed the West Supply Zone and Dawn Academy; Feng Qi sent soldiers through the passage to retrieve the Tortoise Shell Jade.
  • Feng Qi renamed the era Dawn, helped Old Mi prepare the Mist Race’s development, and later took Xiao You to Fate City to sell three hundred Space Bracelets for three hundred million blood stones.
  • Feng Qi allocated blood stones to Star City’s development and began planning a hundred-year plan centered partly on virtual technology, while aiming to raise one billion blood stones for the Equipment Black Hole.

Ch. 655Seeking Outside Help

Feng Qi sought the Elf King’s help to raise the resources needed for humanity’s development, offering to change the Elf King’s fate in exchange. The Elf King believed Feng Qi’s future memories and agreed to discuss support, but balked when Feng Qi asked for one billion bloodstones.

  • Xiao You rested from making Space Bracelets while Feng Qi calculated how Star City could earn the one billion bloodstones needed for Equipment Black Hole.
  • Feng Qi decided to ask the Elf King for help and traveled to Elf City with Xiao You.
  • The Elf King met Feng Qi after two days and questioned why he seemed familiar with Elf City and the Elf King.
  • Feng Qi explained his ability to foresee the future and gave the Elf King Memory Liquid showing future events involving Elf City and Darkwood.
  • Feng Qi offered to help the Elf King avoid his destined death and eventually join humanity in Dawn City in exchange for Elf City’s resources.
  • The Elf King accepted the proposed alliance in principle, but reacted with disbelief when Feng Qi requested one billion bloodstones, and Xiao You remarked that they were robbing him.

Ch. 656Brother Qi, I Want to Try

Feng Qi secured Elf City's support for Star City's development and later tested a device meant to shield him from the Blue Skin Race. He then confronted Lü Yue about using Negative Emotions in his sword training, but Lü Yue insisted on trying and asked to enter Feng Qi's ocean of Negative Emotions.

  • The Elf King agreed to invest 930 million bloodstones in Star City, and Feng Qi accepted the deal.
  • Feng Qi returned to Star City, where the two cities formed an alliance and began planning a stable Space Teleportation Array and Cultivation Methods for Elf City's residents.
  • At age seventy-two, Feng Qi watched Lü Yue kill a blue-skinned killer and confirmed that the Blue Skin Race would still pursue him without a shielding device.
  • Feng Qi confronted Lü Yue after sensing Negative Emotions in his sword qi, warning that the power could corrupt him, but Lü Yue refused to abandon his pursuit of the sword path.
  • Lü Yue asked to enter Feng Qi's ocean of Negative Emotions to experience its corrosive power, and Feng Qi warned him that he would die.

Ch. 657“Dawn” Makes Its Debut

Feng Qi refused Lü Yue’s request to temper himself in the ocean of Negative Emotions, then brought Taihang back to Star City to help keep Lü Yue safe as he cultivated the Demon Sword True Explanation. In Year 8 of Dawn, Feng Qi launched the Dawn virtual game and expanded it into a citywide training and recruitment effort, leaving Star City’s residents increasingly engaged in combat and cultivation.

  • Feng Qi rejected Lü Yue’s plan to enter his ocean of Negative Emotions, then decided to bring Taihang back to help control Lü Yue’s cultivation.
  • Feng Qi and Xiao You returned to Star City with Taihang after Zhang Daowen subdued it, and Wei Wei performed a Memory Transplant using Taihang’s stored memories.
  • Feng Qi explained the situation to Taihang, which agreed to help Lü Yue withstand the Negative Emotions while cultivating the Demon Sword True Explanation.
  • In Year 8 of Dawn, Feng Qi toured the Virtual Game Pod factories and expanded production plans, launching Dawn citywide with map editing and competitive and Domain modes.
  • Feng Qi established game awards and recruited more than three hundred retired veterans as virtual Instructors, while Dawn’s popularity encouraged Star City residents to study combat and cultivation.

Ch. 658Defending the Star City

Feng Qi explored the player-made Guardian Star City instance in Dawn, fought through its first monster siege, and learned how its growth system worked. He left the chapter considering whether the game could help humanity prepare for the future Final Battle against the Ink.

  • Feng Qi entered Guardian Star City anonymously as Longevity Thousand Years and bought Fierce Tiger Fist, armor, and a warhammer.
  • Feng Qi joined the players defending the South Gate and fought through the first round of monster sieges, reaching Level 8 and earning 8,982 Guardian Coins.
  • After the first round, Feng Qi upgraded Fierce Tiger Fist and bought healing potions while studying how cultivation methods and experience transfers worked.
  • Feng Qi recognized the instance’s emphasis on cooperation and city defense and considered using it to simulate the future Final Battle against the Ink.

Ch. 659Audit Mechanism

Feng Qi tested Guardian Star City Instance, assessed its training value and flaws, and later oversaw the growth of Virtual Games and their research applications. After an inappropriate player-made map exposed gaps in oversight, he introduced reviews and penalties, leaving Domain Mode under stricter regulation.

  • Feng Qi observed players clear increasingly difficult waves in Guardian Star City Instance and reached the twenty-second wave before the city crystal was destroyed.
  • Feng Qi woke Xiao You, then took her to eat and reflected on how humanity’s future food would shift toward spiritual beasts and plants.
  • By Dawn Year 12, Virtual Games had spread through Star City and major academies, while Dawn Game’s confidential virtual experiment function began reducing research costs.
  • Feng Qi reviewed player-made maps, including popular training games, and considered adapting Guardian Star City Instance to simulate humanity’s future battle against Mo.
  • Feng Qi discovered that Xin Boyuan’s A Thousand Postures map contained pornographic content and ordered it shut down.
  • Feng Qi established map reviews and penalties for violations, removed inappropriate maps, and introduced the Virtual Game Act to curb pornographic content.

Ch. 660Seeds of an Era

At eighty-four, Feng Qi toured Star City’s new Mechanized Modification Laboratory and reviewed its progress and future resource-extraction plans. The chapter ended with him reading Fate Messenger Jiang Ping’s letter, which described how his documentary helped her find meaning in contributing to future generations.

  • Feng Qi used Gene Repair Fluid to maintain his strength and visited the Mechanized Modification Laboratory with Xiao You.
  • Xu Chi explained the laboratory’s progress and the five grades of mechanized materials, including the shortage of high-quality resources.
  • Feng Qi underwent body compatibility tests and outlined plans to develop radiation-resistant mining technology with the Silver Moon Race.
  • Feng Qi reviewed Star City’s reports while Xiao You worked on a Space Bracelet between snacks and complaints.
  • Feng Qi read Jiang Ping’s letter about confronting humanity’s disadvantages in Fate City and finding resolve after watching his documentary.

Ch. 661Victory City Investigation—Red-skinned Little Giant

Feng Qi investigated Victory City while preparing Star City to buy the Equipment Black Hole, converting resources into Blood Crystal Stones and selling Xiao You’s Space Bracelets. He tracked the Red-skinned Little Giant as it gambled away its money and followed it toward the next step of its desperate bid to keep playing.

  • Feng Qi formed a 107-member team to investigate Victory City and determine whether domain factions controlled its institutions.
  • Fate Messengers sold Elf City’s resources for 983 million Blood Crystal Stones, more than Feng Qi had expected.
  • Feng Qi and Xiao You sold eighty Space Bracelets in Fate City for 80.5 million Blood Crystal Stones, bringing his total to 1.1635 billion.
  • Feng Qi spotted the Red-skinned Little Giant selling off goods, then followed it to the gambling floors without intervening.
  • The Red-skinned Little Giant won several games before losing all its Blood Crystal Stones on the eighty-eighth floor.
  • Feng Qi followed the broke Red-skinned Little Giant toward the Space Teleportation Array, expecting it to sell the Equipment Black Hole for more gambling funds.

Ch. 662Printing Press Acquired

Feng Qi waited for the Red-skinned Little Giant to lose its Blood Crystal Stones and sell the Equipment Black Hole, then negotiated to buy it and four other unusual items. He acquired the pseudo-Miracle Item, which could provide humanity with a stable way to turn resources into equipment.

  • Feng Qi watched the Red-skinned Little Giant lose the Blood Crystal Stones it had earned and finally offer the Equipment Black Hole for sale.
  • Feng Qi examined the Equipment Black Hole and recognized its ability to combine spiritual materials into weapons and equipment with complete resource efficiency.
  • The Red-skinned Little Giant demonstrated the four other items at its stall: a powerful creature's leg bone, purifying jade, a refining jar, and a controllable wooden statue.
  • Feng Qi haggled with the Red-skinned Little Giant and agreed to pay one billion Blood Crystal Stones for the Equipment Black Hole and all four items.
  • Feng Qi transferred the Blood Crystal Stones, received the dark green ring and the other items, and celebrated acquiring the Printing Press.

Ch. 663Head of the Household

Feng Qi tested the Equipment Black Hole, welcomed the Silver Moon Race to Silver Moon City, and discussed their alliance with its leaders. The chapter ended with the Silver Moon Clan Leader suggesting a duel to decide whether Yin Ling or Lin Ran would become head of their household.

  • After buying Cave Nether Stone and sampling Fate City's food with Xiao You, Feng Qi returned to Star City and sent the Equipment Black Hole to the Scarlet Institute for testing.
  • The Scarlet Institute reported that it could not identify the Equipment Black Hole's materials but confirmed its two methods for forging weapons and equipment; Feng Qi planned to upgrade exceptional frontline soldiers before turning it over to the Fate Messenger Department.
  • In Year 27 of Dawn, ninety-five-year-old Feng Qi watched the Silver Moon Race arrive in Silver Moon City and welcomed Yin Ling, the Silver Moon Clan Leader, and the race's elders.
  • At a Star City Highest Council meeting, the Silver Moon Clan Leader offered engineering assistance and expressed the Silver Moon Race's commitment to the alliance.
  • The Silver Moon Clan Leader asked Feng Qi whether Yin Ling or Lin Ran would become head of their household and proposed that they settle it with a duel; Feng Qi recognized his bias toward Yin Ling.

Ch. 664Century Wedding

Feng Qi arranged Lin Ran and Yin Ling’s wedding while building cooperation between Star City and the Silver Moon Race and overseeing the Equipment Black Hole’s first major order. Three years later, Lin Ran and Yin Ling married in Star City, and Xiao You’s excitement over the banquet ended with her asking when Feng Qi would get married.

  • Feng Qi rejected settling household status by force, proposed deciding it with spirit chess, and arranged a Century Wedding for Lin Ran and Yin Ling.
  • Feng Qi coordinated Silver Moon City’s construction and planned resource exchanges with the Silver Moon Race, including a rail line and a points system.
  • The Fate Messenger Department completed its first Equipment Black Hole deal, earning a service fee of ten million bloodstones from an order for one hundred thousand weapons.
  • In Year 30 of Dawn, Feng Qi attended Lin Ran and Yin Ling’s Star City wedding, gave them matching gifts, and negotiated with the Silver Moon Clan Leader about the Equipment Black Hole as a bride price.
  • Xiao You eagerly ate at the wedding banquet, then asked Feng Qi when he would marry; Feng Qi told her to hope Lin Ran would marry again instead.

Ch. 665Feng Qi—Mechanical Ascension

Feng Qi underwent full Spiritual Energy Mechanical Modification, replacing his body and then transferring his consciousness into a chip. After the connection succeeded, he awakened as a mechanical life-form and explored the information his new senses could access.

  • At 108 years old, Feng Qi began his modification by replacing his failing heart with a Spiritual Energy Machine heart, then underwent tests and further organ procedures.
  • Feng Qi had his torso and limbs replaced with Silver Grade mechanical components, received synthetic skin, and tested his new body while Xiao You waited anxiously.
  • Over the next month, Feng Qi tested his mechanized body and scheduled brain modification for three months later because consciousness transfer carried serious risks.
  • Feng Qi underwent brain mechanization as his consciousness transferred into a Spiritual Energy Consciousness Chip and his metal head was connected to his body.
  • Feng Qi's consciousness connection succeeded, and he awakened to see information about people and objects along with environmental readings in his vision.

Ch. 666Let's Call Him Ji He

Feng Qi guided Star City's growth across the decades, advancing mechanization, cultivation, resource development, and trade while preparing for future conflicts. In Dawn Year 325, his voice reached a couple praying before his Hero Statue and named their newborn son Ji He.

  • Feng Qi completed his mechanized modification, and Xiao You asked whether she could undergo the same procedure.
  • In Dawn Year 51, Mu Qing told Feng Qi she would leave with Mu Yao for the Road to Heaven, and he accepted her choice to guard humanity's gateway and grow stronger.
  • By Dawn Year 73, Feng Qi had expanded Star City's cultivation and resource programs, while Zhang Daowen remained on the front lines to build influence for a future military reform.
  • By Dawn Year 103, Star City had accelerated bloodline development and expanded its resource sites and Equipment Black Hole trade, while Feng Qi refused to sell the Black Hole to the Red-skinned Little Giant.
  • In Dawn Year 187, the Rift Sky God Lord arrived with the Cloud Top Palace and claimed northern resources without fighting, and Feng Qi resolved to prepare for a future war against him.
  • In Dawn Year 325, Feng Qi's voice crossed Faith Space and told a couple praying before his Hero Statue to name their newborn Ji He.

Ch. 667Sword Ripple Drawn

Feng Qi visited the aging Lü Yue, who refused mechanization and waited for the Avici Hell Warrior as his final chance to break through the Life Shackles. When the warrior finally appeared, Lü Yue fought him, and Feng Qi and the others arrived as the battle intensified.

  • Feng Qi and Xiao You visited Lü Yue, who said he would keep waiting for the Avici Hell Warrior despite his failing health.
  • Taihang told Feng Qi that Lü Yue's strength had grown, but his control over Negative Emotions was costing him his emotions and increasing his risk of losing himself.
  • Three years later, the Avici Hell Warrior appeared near Star City, and Lü Yue sensed its Negative Emotions power, rose from seclusion, and flew to meet it.
  • Lü Yue battled the Avici Hell Warrior with Sword Ripple and Sword Tomb, but the stronger warrior shattered Jianlan and prepared to end the fight.
  • Zhang Daowen, Feng Qi, Xiao You, and Taihang arrived; Zhang Daowen pointed the Avici Hell Warrior back toward Lü Yue, and Taihang sent Lü Yue the Nightmare Bell.
  • Feng Qi nodded to Lü Yue and told him to fight without restraint, promising to wait for his return.

Ch. 668Transcendence, or Death

Lü Yue risked his life to unleash the power of Negative Emotions and battled the Avici Hell Warrior, who grew stronger as the power stirred his memories of Avici Hell. As Lü Yue’s body failed, he broke through his limits with a final sword strike that shattered the warrior’s fist and pierced his body.

  • Taihang gave Lü Yue the Nightmare Bell, and Lü Yue shattered it to unleash its power while merging with Jian Lan and becoming one with the sword.
  • Lü Yue and the Avici Hell Warrior clashed, but the warrior’s memories of Avici Hell made him more ferocious as he battered Lü Yue and tore off his limbs.
  • Lü Yue formed limbs from Negative Emotions and continued fighting, then gathered the sword lotus into a giant blade and launched a desperate final attack.
  • Feng Qi stopped Zhang Daowen from interfering, while Zhang Daowen raised an ice barrier to protect the group from the battle’s shockwaves.
  • As his life faded, Lü Yue rejected the belief that humans were destined to remain mediocre and resolved to transcend his limits or die.
  • Lü Yue’s final sword strike broke through the Infinite Warrior’s blood-and-qi fist shadow and pierced his Flesh and Blood Body.

Ch. 669Space Exile

After accepting the erosion of negative emotions, Lü Yue transformed into a dangerous Negative Consciousness Body and Feng Qi decided he could no longer remain in Star City. Feng Qi exiled him through an unknown Space Fissure, while Lü Yue vowed to return for the Final Battle if he regained control of himself.

  • As he lay near death after his battle with the Avici Hell Warrior, Lü Yue chose to accept the power of negative emotions and transformed his body and Sea of Consciousness.
  • Lü Yue awoke in a Healing Pod, where Feng Qi realized that his transformation was leading him toward the Bitter Source faction and would eventually make him a threat to Star City.
  • Feng Qi told Lü Yue he had decided to exile him, and Lü Yue accepted the decision despite their painful parting.
  • Feng Qi and a white-haired elder activated a Space Teleportation Array, and Feng Qi placed a Space Bracelet on Lü Yue before sending him toward an unknown region.
  • As the negative emotions consumed his remaining clarity, Lü Yue promised Feng Qi he would return for the Final Battle if he regained himself, then vanished into the Space Fissure.

Ch. 670Still the Same Familiar Him

Feng Qi oversaw Star City’s market expansion, Spirit Beast System, and industrial reforms while watching Ji He rise through the ranks. Ji He’s proposals impressed Feng Qi, but his willingness to become a scapegoat left Feng Qi determined not to lose him.

  • Feng Qi expanded trade through intermediary traders and promoted Spiritual Food and Spirit Beast programs across Star City.
  • Feng Qi discussed phasing out outdated academies through mergers and reforms, and observed Ji He serving as an executive at the council.
  • When Zhou Tianzhe retired, Feng Qi tasked ten candidates with proposing currency reform, leaving the selection to a council vote.
  • Ji He proposed replacing Star City Coins with Blood Crystal Stone-backed Dawn Coins and linking inheritance limits to the number of children.
  • Feng Qi rejected Ji He’s suggestion to use a clean-cut approach that would make him a sacrifice, and decided he did not want to lose Ji He.

Ch. 671Sea Construction—Devour Ship

Feng Qi helped Ji He join Star City’s highest decision-making body, then launched humanity’s maritime expansion by building and testing its first Devour Ship, Dragon Head. As Star City began developing the South Supply Zone and researching Devour Ships, Feng Qi learned that the Shadow City Lord’s whereabouts had finally been discovered.

  • Feng Qi oversaw the unanimous vote that selected Ji He for Star City’s Highest Council and granted him expanded authority.
  • Feng Qi arranged for Star City to help construct the Silver Moon Supply Zone and chose to develop a South Supply Zone rather than fight the Rift Sky God Clan.
  • Feng Qi imported components from Fate City and supervised the assembly and sea trials of humanity’s first sea structure, which could sail underwater, fire an energy beam, and grow stronger by devouring blood.
  • Feng Qi named the first sea structure Devour Ship—Dragon Head and made Devour Ship research and the South Supply Zone key priorities for Star City.
  • Feng Qi learned from the head of the Fate Messenger Department that the Shadow City Lord’s trail had been found, and he looked forward to gaining the resources needed for Star City’s development.

Ch. 672Perfect Plan

Feng Qi gathered intelligence and convened the Star City Highest Council to plan an ambush on the Shadow City Lord. Ji He warned that the Lord’s unknown strength made the plan too risky and proposed using the Rift Sky God Lord’s Miracle Seal to kill him in a single strike.

  • Feng Qi received a report detailing the Shadow City Lord’s trading activities and learned that he was promoting a new Trading Market.
  • Feng Qi convened the Star City Highest Council and asked its Decision Makers to improve a plan to plunder the Shadow City Lord.
  • After a month of discussion, Feng Qi presented the future Brains Trust’s plan to locate the Shadow City Lord, bait him, and ambush him with humanity’s strongest fighters and their allies.
  • Ji He opposed the plan, arguing that the Shadow City Lord’s strength and escape options were too uncertain for a safe ambush.
  • Ji He proposed involving the Rift Sky God Lord and using his Miracle Seal to kill the Shadow City Lord in a single strike.

Ch. 673Reunion with Rift Sky

Feng Qi visited the Rift Sky Domain Field with Zhang Daowen and Xiao You to recruit the Rift Sky God Lord into a plan to defeat the Shadow City Lord. After the Rift Sky God Lord sealed Zhang Daowen and heard Feng Qi’s offer, he absorbed the Memory Liquid to see the future memories Feng Qi claimed to possess.

  • Ji He proposed using the Rift Sky God Lord’s Miracle Seal to incapacitate the Shadow City Lord, but Feng Qi decided to recruit the Rift Sky God Lord himself and told Ji He to focus on Star City’s reforms and cultivation.
  • Two weeks later, Feng Qi, Zhang Daowen, and Xiao You entered the Rift Sky Domain Field and approached the Cloud Top Temple.
  • The Rift Sky God Lord attacked Zhang Daowen with the Miracle Seal, knocking him unconscious, but allowed Feng Qi and Xiao You to reach the temple.
  • Feng Qi offered the Rift Sky God Lord a deal to seize the Shadow City Lord’s wealth and presented Memory Liquid made from future scenes he had seen.
  • After carefully inspecting the Memory Liquid and taking precautions, the Rift Sky God Lord absorbed it, and fragments of information began appearing in his mind.

Ch. 674Cooperation: Pros and Cons

Feng Qi persuaded the Rift Sky God Lord to join humanity’s plan to plunder the Shadow City Lord, promising him a 20% share and safeguards against betrayal. Afterward, Ji He argued that humanity should recruit the Rift Sky Clan as allies, leaving Feng Qi to consider whether the Rift Sky God Lord would agree.

  • The Rift Sky God Lord saw visions of his clan’s future defeat and learned that humanity would eventually destroy the Rift Sky Domain Field.
  • Feng Qi explained that he wanted the Rift Sky God Lord’s help to kill the Shadow City Lord, and the two negotiated a 20% share of the spoils with 1,300 Space Bracelets as collateral.
  • The Rift Sky God Lord agreed to the plan, required that only familiar allies take part, and offered valuable treasures as bait for the Shadow City Lord.
  • Feng Qi returned to Star City, ordered the temporary recall of distributed Space Bracelets, and began preparations for the operation.
  • Ji He advised Feng Qi to recruit the Rift Sky Clan as allies, explaining how their intimidation tactics and Miracle Seal could support humanity’s expansion.

Ch. 675Fishing in Shadow City (First Update)

Feng Qi entered Shadow City and used a stall stocked with treasures from the Rift Sky God Lord and allied races to attract the Shadow City Lord's interest. After buying a rare spatial ore, the Shadow City Lord learned Feng Qi claimed to possess three pseudo Miracle Divine Objects and urged him to return with them, leaving Feng Qi's baited plan ready to advance.

  • Feng Qi obtained a Shadow City spatial rune, entered the city with Xiao You, and began selling treasures to draw the Shadow City Lord out.
  • After several days, a cursed blue-skinned visitor bought the Rift Sky God Lord's music device, and a giant beast bought the Crimson Fire Pearl.
  • Feng Qi expanded his stall with treasures from allied races, secretly kept part of the sale proceeds, and spread word that his weak clan possessed abundant treasures.
  • The Shadow City Lord bought Feng Qi's Void Nether Stone for 73 million Blood Crystal Stones and asked whether he had more spatial ore.
  • Feng Qi claimed his clan had three pseudo Miracle Divine Objects and promised to return after asking the clan chief, prompting the Shadow City Lord to tell him to go at once.
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