Chapter Summaries

Feng Qi died during the uprising against the Technology Research Institute, then awoke in a changed future where humanity had defeated it but the apocalypse and Little Black still threatened. After learning that some supposed human allies were actually Domain Factions, he reached Star City Shelter to seek out trustworthy survivors.

• Monk and other hidden human forces rose up against the Technology Research Institute, but Feng Qi died under torture as the battle began.
• Feng Qi awoke in the Scarlet Institute and learned from Narrator that the future timeline had changed, though Little Black had still appeared after the Technology Research Institute's defeat.
• He learned that his preserved brain had been returned to the Scarlet Institute after a brutal war in which Monk and many other fighters died, and his story was later celebrated as that of a human hero.
• Narrator warned Feng Qi that the list of forces that opposed the Technology Research Institute included opportunistic Domain Factions, including the Tiger Soul Research Institute.
• Feng Qi resolved to contact the trustworthy forces and ran to Star City Shelter, arriving at its fortified walls.

Feng Qi entered Star City Shelter disguised as a refugee from Victory City and underwent tests to prove he was human. As he explored the shelter, he discovered that its people honored him as the Grand Ancestor who had secured humanity’s continuation.

• Feng Qi disguised himself, approached Star City, and was moved by his statue and the Dawn Banner flying above the city wall.
• A City Defense Warrior named Hammer recognized White Eyes on Feng Qi’s chest and escorted him inside under restraints after the shelter could not verify his identity.
• Feng Qi saw Star City’s extensive defenses and learned that the shelter’s hidden passage could be opened to give outside survivors a chance to enter.
• Director Lu began examining Feng Qi, and Feng Qi was allowed to explore the busy shelter while the test results were prepared.
• Feng Qi watched a history class, where the students identified him as the Grand Ancestor and an eternal beacon of history.

Feng Qi toured the Star City Shelter, learned why the Scarlet Institute had relocated there, and met commander Xia Qian, a descendant of one of his old comrades. Their conversation was interrupted when White Eyes attacked a man leaving the command room, revealing that she had sensed something suspicious.

• Feng Qi learned that the Scarlet Institute had moved to the Star City Shelter because its resources were depleted and it had erased its members’ memories of him for safety.
• Feng Qi and the researcher toured the shelter, and Feng Qi resolved to use the Super Virtual Game to help fund the Scarlet Institute after returning to reality.
• Feng Qi met Xia Qian, learned that Xia Qian descended from Xia Long, and received permission to register as a shelter resident and access its Database.
• White Eyes suddenly attacked a man in a white uniform as he left Xia Qian’s office, smashing him and the iron door through the wall.
• Feng Qi watched the alarm sound as the Narrator warned Xia Qian to ask his Old Ancestor what had happened before acting rashly.

Feng Qi and Sucker helped Xia Qian purge the hidden Domain Creatures from Star City Shelter, then Feng Qi revealed his identity to Xia Qian. The chapter ended with Xia Qian recognizing him as Feng Qi while the narrator boasted that he was still alive.

• Sucker knocked down the Black Armor Man and his squad without harming them, and Xia Qian dismissed the soldiers and staff so he could speak privately with Feng Qi.
• Xia Qian explained that Domain Factions had infiltrated Star City Shelter and that he had reclaimed only partial control by threatening to destroy the base.
• Feng Qi agreed to help eliminate the hidden Domain Creatures, and Xia Qian summoned shelter residents to the plaza under the guise of an emergency evacuation drill.
• Sucker attacked a disguised Domain Creature, prompting Xia Qian to order the soldiers to identify and kill the hidden Domain Creatures; Sucker slaughtered them while protecting the human residents.
• After the purge, Feng Qi asked Xia Qian for Database access, then revealed his identity by using his Bone Vein ability to return to his original appearance.
• Xia Qian recognized Feng Qi, and the narrator declared that he was still alive.

Feng Qi struggled to convince Xia Qian that he was the historical Feng Qi and warned him that the Blood Sacrifice was a trap that could destroy humanity. After sharing the truth about the coming apocalypse, Feng Qi secured Xia Qian’s help and studied a five-star technique; the chapter ended as the Domain Field’s expansion accelerated and Xia Qian announced that the apocalypse seemed imminent.

• Feng Qi failed to prove his identity through historical knowledge, but Xia Qian began believing him after hearing about White Eyes and Feng Qi’s timeline travels.
• Feng Qi warned Xia Qian that the Blood Sacrifice contained a hidden danger planted by the Domain Factions, but Xia Qian initially doubted him because the Tiger Soul Research Institute had verified it.
• Feng Qi told Xia Qian about humanity’s repeated destruction across timelines, and Xia Qian agreed to keep the secret from the shelter’s residents.
• Feng Qi asked Xia Qian to open the Resource Room for White Eyes when the apocalypse was confirmed to be near, then studied the five-star technique Limitless in the Database.
• Xia Qian returned and told Feng Qi that the Domain Field’s expansion had suddenly accelerated, signaling that the apocalypse was coming.

As the Domain Field rapidly consumed the real world, Feng Qi tried to strengthen Sucker with the shelter’s spirit resources while Star City’s warriors prepared to defend humanity’s last refuge. The Domain World launched its final assault, and Heaven’s Mandate Squad charged into battle.

• After Xia Qian reported the Domain Field’s accelerated expansion, Feng Qi followed him to the shelter’s stores, hoping to help Sucker recover before the Mist Lord attacked.
• Feng Qi fed Sucker spirit liquid and tried consuming spirit stones, but learned that his gains from food could not increase his Bloodline Evolution Points or carry across timelines; Sucker’s Rune Crystal healed as she devoured the supplies.
• Outside, the Domain Field distorted the sky and swallowed the real world as hordes of Domain Creatures and the Mist Lord’s fiendish spirits advanced on Star City Shelter.
• Xia Qian activated the city’s War Mode, and the shelter’s drones, weapons, and machines temporarily held back the approaching horde.
• The Black Armor Man rallied Heaven’s Mandate Squad, acknowledged the warriors’ fear, and led them forward with the cry, “Heaven’s Mandate Squad, fight!”

Feng Qi discovered that the golden sphere powering Star City Shelter might be a hidden Space Node, but destroying it would not stop the Domain invasion. As the beast tide devastated the city and the Mist Lord arrived, Sucker broke free and struck its mist-formed face with a powerful punch.

• Sucker devoured the Resource Room’s supplies, repairing much of her Rune Crystal while Feng Qi tried and failed to make her eat spirit stones.
• Feng Qi opened a sealed room and, with the narrator’s help, suspected its golden energy sphere was a Space Node connecting the Domain World and reality.
• Feng Qi carried Sucker toward the surface as the Domain beast tide overwhelmed the human defenders and swept through Star City.
• The Mist Lord descended on the ruined shelter, and its mist-formed face called Feng Qi “Brother Qi.”
• Sucker broke free and punched the Mist Lord’s face, scattering it with a massive phantom fist.

Feng Qi and the suction cup helped Lin Ran fight for control of the Mist Lord’s body while Feng Qi uncovered the Mist Lord’s plan to harvest weak domain factions through Blood Sacrifice. As Feng Qi defended Star City Shelter from a newly arrived, unusually weak domain race, he recognized a crippled figure among them as possibly Little Cripple.

• The suction cup repeatedly struck the Mist Lord whenever it sensed killing intent, giving Lin Ran chances to regain control, while Feng Qi learned Lin Ran needed a Mental Assault Technique to defeat the Mist Lord’s consciousness.
• Feng Qi told Lin Ran about his timeline travel, and Lin Ran joined the suction cup in attacking the Mist Lord while Feng Qi realized the Mist Lord intended to harvest other weak domain factions as well as humanity.
• Feng Qi concluded that the Mist Lord had used Blood Sacrifice to consume weak domain factions over many years, and he resolved to find Lin Ran a powerful spiritual attack technique.
• Spatial vortices opened above Star City Shelter and dropped a group of humanoid Domain Creatures, many of whom seemed dazed by spatial turbulence.
• Feng Qi killed the creatures that approached the shelter’s stone monument and noticed their clan seemed to want something inside; the Narrator then pointed out a familiar-looking crippled member, whom Feng Qi suspected was Little Cripple.

Feng Qi fought Little Cripple, the leader of a weak Domain race, until the Mist Lord’s Blood Sacrifice killed nearly every living being around him. Little Cripple’s memories revealed how its clan’s attempt to build a future in the human world had made them sacrifices, and it rose again as a Living Dead.

• Feng Qi fought Little Cripple and its clansmen, but Little Cripple’s powerful, shape-shifting leg repeatedly knocked him down and forced a stalemate.
• As Feng Qi’s Blood Source Form ended, the Mist Lord appeared and sacrificed the Domain Creatures and Star City Shelter’s survivors, leaving Little Cripple burning but alive.
• Feng Qi approached the dying Little Cripple and saw memories of its clan’s harsh homeland, its chosen warriors’ journey to the human world, and the clan’s plans to migrate and seize the shelter.
• Little Cripple’s memories revealed that the clan had sent resources, cultivation methods, and the Blood Sacrifice trigger across space, unknowingly making its members vulnerable to the Mist Lord.
• Feng Qi realized Little Cripple and its clansmen had become the Living Dead that formed the Land of Buried Bones, then watched Little Cripple rise from the ground and turn toward him.

Feng Qi killed the Living Dead Little Cripple and questioned the Mist Lord about the Pillar Gods and the eastern sky before Little Black arrived and attacked. As Little Black and the Mist Lord fought, Suction Cup joined the battle, but the Mist Lord killed Feng Qi, leaving Little Black and Suction Cup to turn on it.

• Feng Qi crushed Little Cripple's head and realized he could not extract its Talent Ability because it had already become a Living Dead.
• Feng Qi asked the Mist Lord about the Pillar Gods and the events in the east, but the Mist Lord refused to share more and prepared to kill him.
• Little Black arrived from the north and fought the Mist Lord, devouring its gray mist and escaping its spatial cage by breaking apart its body.
• Suction Cup arrived and struck Little Black and the Mist Lord with its Jade-colored Streamer, joining the battle between them.
• The Mist Lord crushed Feng Qi into dust, and Suction Cup lunged at it as Little Black descended over the spot where Feng Qi had died.

Feng Qi organized the intelligence from the Future Dreamland and planned to strengthen the Scarlet Institute by developing the Super Virtual Game. He began drawing Monk and Lin Ran into his plans, leaving the future work of building allies and saving humanity underway.

• Feng Qi recorded intelligence about the Future Research Institute, hidden Domain factions, the Blood Sacrifice, Little Cripple, and forces that wanted to save the world.
• Feng Qi recalled the limits of the Scarlet Institute’s knowledge implantation technology and decided to develop the Super Virtual Game to earn resources and support its research.
• Feng Qi encountered Monk on the way to dinner and hinted that he knew Monk was hiding secrets, but Monk left without revealing anything.
• Feng Qi asked Lin Ran to study mental techniques and described part of the Five-Star Technique, Boundless, to inspire him to develop a matching Mental Assault Technique.
• Feng Qi watched the students study in the library and reflected on how people in every era worked and sacrificed for humanity’s future.

After revealing his timeline memories to Wei Wei and Scarlet Institute’s leadership, Feng Qi worked with them to plan the Super Virtual Game as a broad platform for training, research, and exploration. They settled its six main development directions and continued their all-night planning, leaving the project’s realization ahead.

• Feng Qi visited Scarlet Institute, told Wei Wei about his experiences across future timelines, and explained why the base felt like home.
• Wei Wei brought Feng Qi before Scarlet Institute’s senior executives, where he shared his memories and the leaders thanked him for his efforts to save humanity.
• Feng Qi and the executives discussed establishing an Omnipotent Research Institute and planned six directions for the Super Virtual Game, including matchmaking battles, player-created Domain Instances, and virtual research experiments.
• The group outlined a free-to-play revenue model, arranged for Scarlet Institute to work with Li Xingchen on Virtual Game Pods, and planned to promote the game through major academies.
• Feng Qi and the executives continued discussing testing, access, and the game’s broader role through dinner and an all-night meeting.

Feng Qi arranged for the Scarlet Institute to help develop the Super Virtual Game and planned his next Future Dreamland timeline, choosing to join the Dawn Army and seek Mu Yao. He also learned that Three Tails might have an ability to purify the mental strain caused by memory overlap, making it his next hunting target, and received official certification as a Star City Academy teacher.

• Feng Qi handed the Super Virtual Game's code to the Scarlet Institute and arranged for Fang Zhiyou to coordinate its development with Director Long.
• Feng Qi wrote down six possible future timelines, crossed out the plan to oppose the Tiger Soul Research Institute, and chose the Dawn Army timeline to contact Mu Yao.
• The narrator explained that Three Tails might possess a mind-purifying ability that could counter the Negative Emotions caused by reading future memories, so Feng Qi added hunting it to his plans.
• Feng Qi rested while teaching at Star City Academy, and Bai Fusheng told him the Ministry of Education had granted him an official teaching certificate.
• Feng Qi celebrated his new teaching position with Lin Ran, Mu Qing, and the other students at the Academy Restaurant.

Feng Qi arranged for thirteen test-version Game Pods to be brought into Star City Academy and gathered his classmates to try the newly completed Dawn Game. After entering a pod, he completed the initial setup and chose the player name "Live a Long Life," leaving the group about to begin testing the game.

• Feng Qi learned from Wei Wei that the Dawn Game could run in a preliminary form, and the team was removing techniques that did not exist in the current era.
• Feng Qi secured Bai Fusheng's approval to bring thirteen Game Pods into the academy and promised Star City Academy an early test site and a share of future profits.
• Feng Qi gathered his classmates, led them to the academy gymnasium, and helped them unload and install the Game Pods in Room 1019.
• Feng Qi explained how to use the Game Pods, and he and his classmates entered them wearing specially made game suits.
• Feng Qi entered the Dawn Game, completed his scan and identity verification, and chose "Live a Long Life" as his player name.

Feng Qi introduced Lin Ran and the others to Dawn, a virtual game that let players practice real spells and compete in ranked battles. After demonstrating its training tools and discussing future domain-instance simulations, he planned a practical combat competition to prepare the students for the Freshman Competition in five days.

• Feng Qi added Lin Ran and the others as friends, invited them into his Personal Space, and explained that the Scarlet Institute had helped him develop Dawn.
• Feng Qi led the group to the simulated training room and showed them how to browse spells, equip skills, and practice casting with assistance.
• Feng Qi demonstrated a spell and explained that the game’s simulated spell trajectories could help players improve their real-world casting.
• Lin Ran confirmed that Dawn could reproduce spells from different casting methods and asked whether players could cast spells absent from the library; Feng Qi said they could trace them manually.
• Feng Qi described plans for future domain-instance modes and cautioned that simulations could not guarantee real-world outcomes.
• Feng Qi watched the group continue training and decided to lead them in a practical combat competition before the Freshman Competition.

Feng Qi observed a custom team match in Twisted Forest, where Mu Qing led the blue team to a decisive victory with exceptional combat skill and teamwork. In the post-match waiting space, Monk asked whether they could surrender next time.

• Feng Qi set up a 6v6 custom match with equalized stats, random maps, and three possible victory conditions, then watched from spectator mode.
• Both teams chose to pursue victory through kills and met at the spirit ore mountain, where Mu Qing led the blue team into battle against Lin Ran’s red team.
• Mu Qing coordinated with Cai Guo and outmaneuvered the red team, while Jia Yi secured the first kill by defeating Xia Hu.
• Mu Qing killed Lü Yue, Jia Yi, Lin Ran, Yang Xiaoxin, and Yan Yue in succession, leaving Monk as the final red player.
• Monk stopped resisting and let Xia Bao defeat him, and the battered red team watched the replays in the waiting space.
• Monk asked the others whether the game had a surrender option.

After Dawn’s first competitive match, Feng Qi led the students through dinner and two days of intensive team training, which improved their roles, coordination, and spell control. With the Freshman Competition two days away, they began practicing against 200 AI players, winning two of seven matches and giving Feng Qi confidence in their prospects.

• Mu Qing earned an S-tier rating and the Most Valuable Player title after her team dominated the first match.
• Feng Qi gathered the students in a chat, then led them to dinner, where they discussed Dawn’s training value and enjoyed Chinese mitten crab.
• Feng Qi arranged further competitive training, placing himself, Mu Qing, and Lin Ran against the other ten students to develop their teamwork.
• Over two days, the students settled into combat roles, improved their coordination, and gained greater control over spells through repeated practice in Dawn.
• With two days remaining before the Freshman Competition, Feng Qi had the students fight 200 AI players; they won two of seven matches without Lü Yue using his sword intent.

Feng Qi led Combat Class Three to Victory City for the Freshman Competition, where the teams gathered, drew their first-round matchups, and prepared for the tournament. At Victory Academy, he met Qin Shi Kong, a member of the Dawn Army, who offered to tell his fortune and predicted that Feng Qi would die young.

• Feng Qi and Combat Class Three traveled with Star City Academy’s other teams to Victory City for the Freshman Competition.
• The students arrived at Victory Academy, learned about its history, and attended the competition briefing and class draw.
• Feng Qi drew Group B, pairing Combat Class Three against Combat Class One from Future Academy; Lin Ran said their next matchup could be against Winter Academy’s Combat Class Four.
• Feng Qi spotted Qin Shi Kong on a neighboring balcony and recognized him as a member of the Dawn Army’s Three Sha.
• Qin Shi Kong offered to tell Feng Qi’s fortune, then announced that his divination showed Feng Qi would die young.
• Feng Qi asked Qin Shi Kong to cast another divination.

Feng Qi befriended Qin Shi Kong after a strange, unfinished fortune-telling, then brought Star City Academy’s students to the Freshman Competition. Lü Yue’s overwhelming sword qi forced Future Academy Combat Class One to surrender, giving Star City Academy an emphatic victory.

• Qin Shi Kong joked about Feng Qi’s fortune, discussed fate with him, and revealed he had come to Victory Academy to recruit promising students for his battle squad.
• Feng Qi toured Victory Academy with the students before leading them to the competition arena, where Winter Academy Combat Class Three quickly defeated Old Days Academy Combat Class Three.
• Star City Academy Combat Class Three entered the arena with only ten competitors to face Future Academy Combat Class One.
• Lü Yue’s sword qi pressured the opposing team while Xia Long, Xia Hu, Xia Bao, and Yan Yue fought on the flanks and Cai Guo healed them.
• Lü Yue told Future Academy Combat Class One to surrender, and their supervising teacher conceded after his sword qi wounded the team; Feng Qi praised Lü Yue’s display.

Lü Yue led Star City Academy's Combat Class Three through the Freshman Competition, overpowering opponents and reaching the final. Winter Academy's Combat Class One targeted his teammates in the final, but Lü Yue defeated their fighters and secured a miserable victory for his class.

• Lü Yue overwhelmed Winter Class Three with his sword energy, giving Star City Class Three the win.
• Victory Academy defeated Star City Class Six, and Winter Academy Class One advanced after brutally beating its opponents.
• Feng Qi drew Victory Academy as Star City Class Three's next opponent, and Lü Yue forced its captain to surrender.
• Lü Yue carried Star City Class Three into the final, while livestream viewers voted him the competition's Most Popular contestant.
• Winter Academy Class One attacked Lü Yue's teammates to distract him, and Monk and the others endured a beating while Lü Yue fought through their opponents.
• Lü Yue finished the fight and knocked out the remaining Winter Class One students, winning the final as his battered teammates were carried away on stretchers.