Chapter Summaries

After winning the Freshman Competition, Feng Qi returned to Star City Academy and entered a new future timeline with plans to investigate the Dawn Army and Mu Yao. He confronted Monk about his hidden identity, and Monk finally agreed to tell him the truth after hearing why Feng Qi kept fighting to save humanity.

• Feng Qi and Combat Class Three received the Freshman Competition championship medals, and Lü Yue rejected recruitment offers from the Domain Battle Squads.
• Feng Qi returned to Star City Academy, reported to Bai Fusheng, and drank Clear Heart Wine to enter a new future timeline.
• Feng Qi planned to investigate the Dawn Army’s massacre and Mu Yao, join the Dawn Army without disrupting its development, and seek enhancement at the Scarlet Institute.
• Feng Qi visited Monk and revealed his repeated journeys through timelines, but Monk initially dismissed his account as an interesting story.
• Feng Qi explained why he believed humanity’s survival was worth fighting for, and Monk called him a pioneer of humanity before agreeing to reveal the truth.

Monk revealed that the Prajna Battle Squad had uncovered the Spirit Race’s search for a stolen Miracle and had investigated Le Ping'an after finding a Death Mark on him. Feng Qi concluded that the faction behind the Technology Research Institute was likely the renegade Spirit Race, that Little Black was made from the stolen Miracle, and that many questions about Miracles remained unanswered.

• Monk explained that the Prajna Battle Squad concealed the truth about Domain Factions to preserve humanity’s hope and described discovering a communication crystal from the Spirit Race.
• Monk told Feng Qi that the Spirit Race shared knowledge through the Holy Spirit and was searching for a traitor who had stolen a powerful divine artifact called a Miracle.
• Feng Qi connected the Spirit Race traitors to the shadow faction behind the Technology Research Institute and suspected that Little Black had been created from their stolen Miracle.
• Monk said the Prajna Battle Squad came to Star City Academy to investigate a special energy detected in a freshman, and Feng Qi recognized the mark in Monk’s image as the Death Mark on Le Ping'an.
• Monk revealed that he had targeted Le Ping'an, then stayed at the academy after Le Ping'an’s death to avoid alerting the renegade Spirit Race faction.
• Feng Qi wondered whether the narrator or his own ability to travel through timelines might be connected to a Miracle, but he still lacked answers about the Domain Factions’ true purpose.

After choosing to focus on joining the Dawn Army, Feng Qi trained for months at the Scarlet Institute to prepare for the Demon Dragon Rune Modification. The modification succeeded, and he dreamed of leading humanity into a decisive battle against the Domain Factions.

• Feng Qi told Monk he would keep a low profile until the Dawn Army was established, then left Star City Academy and went to the Scarlet Institute.
• Feng Qi explained his plans to the Scarlet executives, who embraced the Dawn gesture and declared themselves fellow travelers fighting for the future.
• Wei Wei recommended Demon Dragon as the best Rune Modification for Feng Qi’s plans, and he spent months training until his body could withstand its Rune Crystal.
• Wei Wei and the Gene Department completed the day-long Demon Dragon modification, embedding its Rune Crystal in Feng Qi’s chest.
• Feng Qi returned to his room to rest, then dreamed he led humanity into battle against countless Domain Factions.

Feng Qi left Star City Academy to train at the Scarlet Institute, while Mu Qing graduated and prepared to begin her own path. Their reunion at her graduation gala renewed their promise to build a Domain Battle Squad together, and the chapter ended with Mu Qing leaving the academy to start her new journey.

• Feng Qi discovered that the Demon Dragon Rune Crystal granted him a Rage ability and greatly improved his control over his muscles.
• Feng Qi resigned from Star City Academy, said goodbye to Bai Fusheng and his students, and returned to the Scarlet Institute to train for the Dawn Army's establishment.
• Mu Qing graduated after her friends held a gala for her, where Feng Qi reunited with her and promised to join her future force as Vice Squad Leader.
• Mu Qing's friends saw her off at Star City Academy's gates, and she left to begin her new journey.

After graduating, Mu Qing traveled to the northern Supply Zone and joined the Snow Wolf Warband. She proved her strength to its members and earned the main tank position, though she would first train under Wild Bull.

• Mu Qing arrived at the Supply Zone and registered at the Recruitment Hall, where she was assigned to the Snow Wolf Warband.
• Secretary Ye Yiqian brought Mu Qing to the warband’s council hall, where Captain Tuo Yan and the members asked about her abilities.
• When Tuo Yan assigned Mu Qing to logistics, she challenged the warband to an arm-wrestling match and crushed Wild Bull’s hand onto the table.
• Mu Qing sparred with Wild Bull, easily blocked his attacks, and showed that he could not break through her defense.
• Tuo Yan named Mu Qing the warband’s number one main force and assigned Wild Bull to teach her the main tank role before she took over.

Feng Qi recovered from training and pieced together a theory about when the Mist Lord infiltrated the Tiger Soul Research Institute, while the Scarlet Institute chose to keep the game Dawn unreleased on this timeline. Meanwhile, Mu Qing joined the Snow Wolf Warband’s expedition toward the Silent Domain Field, where the squad prepared to face a dangerous, poorly understood threat.

• Feng Qi reviewed Mu Qing’s battlefield progress and Lin Ran’s growing fame as a spell researcher, then reasoned that the Tiger Soul Research Institute had likely been infiltrated more than ten years later, around the time he neared death on earlier timelines.
• Feng Qi and the Scarlet Institute’s higher-ups decided not to release Dawn on this timeline so they could preserve stability and focus on contacting Mu Yao.
• Commander Tuo Yan led the Snow Wolf Warband and seven other squads toward the Silent Domain Field, the next conquest target after the Blood Thorn Domain Field was dispersed.
• Wild Bull explained frontline duties to Mu Qing as their convoy traveled north, and Mu Qing admitted she felt excited rather than nervous about her first combat mission.
• At night, Mu Qing played the harmonica Feng Qi had given her while the squad listened and reflected on the dangers ahead.

Mu Qing led the Snow Wolf Warband into the Silent Domain Field, where she fought the Mist Lord and destroyed the field while saving her teammates. The defeated Mist Lord survived, abandoned his original plan, and flew south toward a new future that would eventually intersect with Lin Ran’s.

• The Mist Lord killed fleeing warriors outside the Silent Domain Field, and Tuo Yan led the battle squads inside to investigate.
• After a phantom abducted Xiao Ye and the Snow Wolf Warband rescued another squad from wraiths, Mu Qing fought off the Mist Lord’s attacks and helped the teams retreat, though they lost nearly a third of their members.
• Mu Qing returned to the Silent Domain Field in a berserk state, defeated the purple-haired Mist Lord, and shattered the Space Crystal, destroying the field.
• The Mist Lord survived by reshaping his life source to adapt to the world’s laws, then abandoned his plan to expand the Clan Land Domain Field and flew south.

Feng Qi learned that Mu Qing had destroyed the Mist Lord’s Silent Domain Field, revealing how the Mist Lord’s later infiltration and Blood Sacrifice scheme began. After Wild Bull died during the operation, Mu Qing inherited his role in the Snow Wolf Warband and helped it grow into a Grade A squad.

• Feng Qi read reports about Mu Qing dispersing the Silent Domain Field and deduced that the Mist Lord had shifted to covert invasion after she destroyed its domain.
• Feng Qi considered capturing the Mist Lord with Mu Qing but chose to preserve the real-world timeline while Lin Ran and Old Wang pursued other ways to resolve the threat.
• Mu Qing moved into Wild Bull’s former home, gathered his medals and photographs, and placed them before his urn as the Snow Wolf Warband honored its fallen comrades.
• Tuo Yan appointed Mu Qing as the Snow Wolf Warband’s number one core mainstay after the fallen warriors’ urns and honors were sent to their families.
• Mu Qing helped the Snow Wolf Warband grow into a Grade A squad of more than two thousand members, while Tuo Yan taught her the responsibilities of a captain.

Feng Qi reunited with his friends at Star City Academy, recruited Lü Yue to join him, and delayed joining Mu Qing’s newly formed Dawn Battle Squad while he continued training. Five years later, an invisible blue-skinned assassin attacked him at the Scarlet Institute, and Feng Qi fought back using the Demon Dragon Rune Crystal’s Rage ability.

• Feng Qi visited Bai Fusheng at Star City Academy and gave him three doses of Gene Serum and showed him the Outstanding Human Gold Medal.
• Feng Qi reunited with Lin Ran, Mu Qing, and his former classmates at the Graduation Gala, where he promised Mu Qing he would join her after finishing his current task.
• Feng Qi invited Lü Yue to the Scarlet Institute, revealed his secrets, and persuaded him to become his companion again.
• Mu Qing formed the Dawn Battle Squad and repeatedly offered Feng Qi its Vice Squad Leader position, but Feng Qi declined while focusing on his research and training.
• Five years later, Feng Qi’s strength had neared a bottleneck, and he planned to rely on cultivation for further growth.
• A blue-skinned assassin attacked Feng Qi in the Body Tempering Room; Feng Qi escaped its mental attack by activating Rage and savagely counterattacked, though surveillance cameras recorded him fighting empty air.

Feng Qi and Lü Yue captured a Blue-skinned Assassin that had attacked Feng Qi inside Scarlet Base, and Wei Wei’s examination revealed it carried a device that could locate him. The discovery linked the assassin to Feng Qi’s unexplained deaths in earlier timelines, and the group prepared to interrogate it for answers.

• Feng Qi fought the Blue-skinned Assassin while Berserk kept him immune to its mental attacks, until Lü Yue arrived and restrained both the assassin and Feng Qi.
• Feng Qi recovered and told Lü Yue to bring the assassin to Wei Wei for interrogation and research.
• Wei Wei examined the assassin and found an unusual substance that might explain why surveillance cameras could not capture it.
• Wei Wei discovered a pulsing black sphere inside the assassin and found that it formed a faint connection to Feng Qi, suggesting it was a tracking device.
• Feng Qi connected the device to his unexplained deaths and Little Black’s ability to track him, then agreed with Wei Wei to interrogate the assassin and study its remains.

After repeated attacks by blue-skinned Domain Assassins, Feng Qi left the Scarlet Institute to seek Mu Qing’s protection. He arrived at the Dawn Battle Squad’s manor in the Winter Supply Zone and reunited with Mu Qing.

• Wei Wei interrogated the captured Blue-skinned Assassin, but it refused to reveal why its faction was targeting Feng Qi.
• Another assassin attacked Feng Qi, and Lü Yue captured it; later, Lü Yue fought off a stronger attacker, but the assassin died in the battle.
• Feng Qi told the Scarlet Institute’s senior officials he needed to leave for Mu Qing’s protection, and they approved his plan and prepared to continue their research.
• Feng Qi received Mu Qing’s address, packed brain-repair fluid, and left the Scarlet Base with Lü Yue for the Winter Supply Zone.
• Feng Qi and Lü Yue reached the Dawn Battle Squad’s manor, where Mu Qing greeted Feng Qi and the two reunited.

Feng Qi and Lü Yue settled into Dawn Manor, where Mu Qing affirmed Feng Qi as the Dawn Battle Squad’s Vice Squad Leader and introduced him to its members. After the welcome dinner, Feng Qi and Mu Qing shared a quiet moment beneath the snowy, starry sky and renewed their promise to face the future together.

• Mu Qing showed Feng Qi and Lü Yue around Dawn Manor and arranged for them to share a house.
• Mu Qing urged Feng Qi to accept the Vice Squad Leader position, and Feng Qi agreed to take the post and prove himself.
• Mu Qing introduced Feng Qi to thousands of Dawn Battle Squad members at his welcome ceremony, and he gave a brief speech.
• Feng Qi met Dawn Battle Squad’s upper ranks at dinner and learned about its battalions, Mu Qing’s central role, and the comradeship among its members.
• Mu Qing played Feng Qi’s old harmonica from the neighboring balcony, and they recalled meeting nine years earlier and promised to walk into the future together.

As Vice Squad Leader, Feng Qi helped expand the Dawn Battle Squad and learned of Lin Ran’s powerful but dangerous Mental Immortality technique. After three Blue-skinned Assassins attacked him and Mu Qing killed them, Feng Qi resolved to cultivate the technique to defend himself.

• Feng Qi managed missions and resources, witnessed the brutal losses of a frontline battle, and called the families of fallen warriors.
• Feng Qi secured approval to expand Dawn Manor, and the new C and D Residential Areas were completed within half a year.
• Lin Ran told Feng Qi that Mental Immortality offered extreme mental power but could eventually separate the cultivator’s spirit from their body, and Feng Qi urged him not to revise it.
• Three Blue-skinned Assassins attacked Feng Qi and Lü Yue near the residential area, but Mu Qing arrived and destroyed them.
• Feng Qi suspected the assassins were growing stronger, then decided to cultivate Mental Immortality despite its potential costs.

Feng Qi secretly cultivated Mental Immortality while Mu Qing expanded the Dawn Battle Squad, then led a mission to escort a mysterious item from the Old Days City Supply Zone. He discovered the item was a bloodstone that produced Miracle Stones and found that a black sphere linked it to him, raising questions about why the Blue-skinned Assassins had targeted him.

• Feng Qi continued secretly cultivating Mental Immortality, increasing his Spiritual Power and learning to release simple Mental Shockwaves.
• Mu Qing proposed expanding the Dawn Battle Squad, and she and Feng Qi chose the Galaxy Supply Zone for its second base.
• Feng Qi led Teams Three, Six, and Eight to the Old Days City Supply Zone after Mu Qing became unreachable inside a Domain Field.
• Li Duo showed Feng Qi a bloodstone that produced small stones capable of slightly increasing Bloodline Strength potential.
• Li Duo revealed that the bloodstone had been recovered from a Blue-skinned creature, and Feng Qi recognized the specimen as a Blue-skinned Assassin.
• Feng Qi used his Spiritual Power to sense that a black sphere linked the bloodstone to him, leaving him wondering why it had led the assassins to him.

Feng Qi joined twelve battle squads in preparing to escort the Bloodstone to Old Days City, while investigating why the Blue-skinned Assassins could track him. The convoy set out under Wang Yi’s command, and the Dire Wolf Domain Battle Squad joined the escort as Feng Qi suspected enemies and traitors would soon emerge.

• Feng Qi confirmed that the Blue-skinned Assassin’s black sphere could locate the Bloodstone, and Li Duo explained the underground laboratory and outlined the escort mission with twelve battle squads.
• Feng Qi cultivated Mental Immortality despite its weakening effect on his bodily control, and the Scarlet Institute agreed that his connection to another self might explain why the sphere tracked him.
• Feng Qi and Lü Yue met Qin Shi Kong and the other captains, then Wang Yi was appointed commander and assigned Feng Qi’s Dawn Battle Squad to the formation’s left rear.
• Two days later, Wang Yi led the squads out of the Supply Zone with the Bloodstone guarded in the central vehicle, while Feng Qi and Lü Yue watched the convoy’s left rear.
• The Dire Wolf Domain Battle Squad joined the escort, and Feng Qi recognized it as connected to the Wolf Fang Battle Squad and suspected that Domain Factions and traitors would threaten the mission.

Feng Qi and the escort team fought off an ambush on the Supply Bridge, but the attack revealed that several battle squads might be hidden Domain Factions plotting to seize the bloodstone. The convoy resumed its journey with Wang Yi still guarding it, while Feng Qi suspected Qin Shi Kong had also uncovered the conspiracy.

• Feng Qi grew suspicious of Wang Yi and other factions after the Wolf Fang Battle Squad joined the mission without warning.
• Lü Yue used his Mind's Eye to spot an ambush beneath the Supply Bridge, and Feng Qi and the other squads prepared for battle.
• Black-scaled Domain Creatures attacked the convoy, while a black curtain formed from chains targeted the bloodstone; Lü Yue tore open the curtain and returned to find Wang Yi standing beside it.
• A second black curtain snatched the bloodstone, but Qin Shi Kong sliced it apart with compressed air, and Wang Yi caught the falling stone.
• Qin Shi Kong questioned Wang Yi, and nine battle squads argued over who should guard the bloodstone before Qin Shi Kong and Feng Qi backed Wang Yi continuing in the role.
• Feng Qi told Lü Yue he expected rival Domain Factions to fight over the bloodstone, while Qin Shi Kong winked at him and Lü Yue joked that his wife was Jianlan, his sword.

Feng Qi and Lü Yue watched the convoy’s escort factions fight over the Miracle-Bloodstone in a canyon ambush, while keeping the Dawn Battle Squad out of the conflict. After Wang Yi’s mask broke, Feng Qi recognized her as being possessed by the Mist Lord.

• Feng Qi and Lü Yue discussed the factions pursuing the Bloodstone, and Feng Qi decided their squad would withdraw rather than risk fighting over it.
• An ambush opened a hole beneath the Bloodstone truck, but Wang Yi killed the black-winged Domain Creature that tried to seize it before the factions began fighting among themselves.
• Feng Qi ordered the Dawn Battle Squad to stand by and then retreat as Domain Creatures and faction members battled across the canyon.
• Lü Yue struck down a Blue-skinned Assassin targeting Feng Qi, and the squad withdrew farther while Feng Qi and Lü Yue continued watching the fight.
• Wang Yi’s mask broke during battle, revealing a face like the Mist Lord’s, and Feng Qi concluded that the Mist Lord had possessed her and controlled her squad.

Feng Qi watched the factions battle for the bloodstone and realized Wang Yi was the Mist Lord, so he sent Lü Yue to keep her alive. After Qin Shi Kong helped him defeat an assassin, Qin Shi Kong revealed that he could perceive fate lines because he had absorbed a Miracle Item as a child.

• Feng Qi recognized the disguised Wang Yi as the Mist Lord and explained why its survival mattered to his Anti-Consciousness Parasitism plan.
• Feng Qi asked Lü Yue to save Wang Yi if possible, sent the Dawn Battle Squad back to the Supply Zone, and headed toward the canyon.
• Feng Qi and Qin Shi Kong compared how they had detected the escort team's deception, and Qin Shi Kong described his divination of the Domain Factions.
• Qin Shi Kong caught a Blue-skinned Assassin with his Bagua Disk, and Feng Qi killed it with Spiritual Power.
• Qin Shi Kong explained that his childhood encounter with a transcendent Domain Creature had led him to swallow a Miracle Item, giving him the ability to see the world's fate lines.

Feng Qi explained the known Miracle Items to Qin Shi Kong and revealed his timeline-traveling plans, then went with him to watch Lü Yue try to save Wang Yi, the Mist Lord. While Qin Shi Kong prepared a formation, Feng Qi waited for the Mist Lord’s suspected hidden move, hoping to keep him alive for a future plan.

• Feng Qi reviewed the four known Miracle Items and considered whether the narrator or his talent-extraction ability was another miracle attracting the Blue-skinned Assassins.
• Feng Qi told Qin Shi Kong that he traveled through timelines and was trying to save Wang Yi, the Mist Lord, so Lin Ran could later gain his power.
• Qin Shi Kong revealed that he had considered joining Mu Qing and had deduced that she would become the era’s greatest variable.
• Qin Shi Kong ordered Old Fatty to lead his battle group back to the Supply Zone, then accompanied Feng Qi to observe Lü Yue’s fight from outside the canyon.
• Qin Shi Kong began setting up a large formation while Feng Qi watched the Mist Lord, who had been driven from the central battle but still seemed confident of obtaining the Bloodstone.

Feng Qi observed the brutal, ongoing battle over the Bloodstone while his Spiritual Power grew stronger by devouring the dead Domain Creatures’ lingering consciousness. As he and Qin Shi Kong prepared to act, a Super Domain Creature descended and sealed the battlefield beneath a black dome, leaving the rival factions facing a new threat.

• The Domain Factions continued fighting over the Bloodstone through the night, while Li Xingchen’s Technology Research Institute faction withdrew after suffering heavy losses.
• Feng Qi’s Spiritual Power absorbed the consciousness of dead Domain Creatures, increasing his strength but contaminating his Sea of Consciousness and intensifying the pain between his Spiritual Power and body.
• Feng Qi observed the Mist Lord using his Mist Sword and curse abilities to drain enemies’ vital energy and blood, sustaining himself while targeting weaker opponents.
• Qin Shi Kong completed a formation with Feng Qi, and they waited as the battle continued into the morning without a victor.
• A Giant Hand tore through space and spread a black curtain over the battlefield; Qin Shi Kong identified the being as a possible Super Domain Creature, and its black dome sealed the area as the factions stopped fighting and looked up.