Chapter Summaries

Lin Ran and Yin Ling fled Feng Qi through the Bitter Winter Northern Territory and into an unclaimed Domain Field, where Feng Qi caught up and gravely wounded Yin Ling. Yin Ling gave Lin Ran the Silver Moon Race’s secrets before dying beside him after their final game of spirit chess.

• Lin Ran carried the unconscious Yin Ling north through the blizzard, but exhaustion and cold caused them to be buried in snow until Yin Ling woke and revived him with spiritual medicine.
• Yin Ling carried Lin Ran into a lush Domain Field, leaving a puppet at the entrance to watch for Feng Qi, and they continued toward a towering mountain and lake.
• Feng Qi entered the Domain Field, recognized the immortal palace in the distance, and pursued Yin Ling and Lin Ran as Yin Ling fled with Lin Ran on her back.
• Feng Qi caught Yin Ling and defeated her despite her spatial abilities, but his enhanced form ended and he reverted to Bone Man Form before leaving.
• Yin Ling gave Lin Ran the Silver Moon Race’s coordinates and communication methods, then played spirit chess with him as her life faded away.
• Yin Ling died after placing the final chess piece, and Lin Ran held her body and wept.

After Yin Ling’s death, Lin Ran chose to preserve his memories of her and devoted himself to a dream of creating an orderly path for all races. Feng Qi arranged for Wei Wei to help with memory extraction while continuing his studies at the Tiger Soul Research Institute.

• Feng Qi comforted Lin Ran as they carried Yin Ling through the snow, and Lin Ran shared the Silver Moon Race’s coordinates and contact method.
• Feng Qi explained why races competed for resources, and Lin Ran decided to pursue a world governed by order.
• Lin Ran asked Feng Qi to preserve his memories of Yin Ling, and Feng Qi agreed to seek help from the Scarlet Institute’s Memory Extraction Technology.
• Feng Qi and Lin Ran returned to the Tiger Soul Research Institute, where Yin Ling was cremated and Lin Ran took her ashes.
• Wei Wei told Feng Qi that the technology could preserve Lin Ran’s memories either as a viewing experience or, after further research, as immersive memories.
• Feng Qi studied Domain Studies in his top-floor Training Room and prepared for his next visit to Old Days Academy.

Feng Qi passed the first round of Old Days Academy’s entrance examination and returned to Star City Academy to ask Mu Qing for help with his plan to approach the Spirit Race through Mist Lord. Mu Qing agreed to attack Mist Lord after Feng Qi entered the academy, leaving Feng Qi to prepare for the next examination and their plan.

• Feng Qi spent months studying Domain Studies while Star City’s leaders planned to develop the city quietly and prepare for future threats.
• Feng Qi completed Old Days Academy’s online basic examination and passed its first round.
• Feng Qi decided he needed Mu Qing’s help to make contact with the Spirit Race by tying himself to Mist Lord.
• Feng Qi returned to Star City Academy, reunited with Mu Qing and his friends, and discussed his plan with Mu Qing after lunch.
• Mu Qing agreed to help Feng Qi by injuring Mist Lord, though she warned she might accidentally beat him to death.

After being admitted to Old Days Academy, Feng Qi traveled with Mu Qing to the Winter Supply Zone, planning to reach the Mist Domain Field and bring the Mist Lord with him. They arrived safely and prepared to set out after learning they would have to cross the Wave Domain Field first.

• Feng Qi received his Old Days Academy admission notice, informed the Tiger Soul Dean and Mu Qing, and packed the supplies he needed for the Sacrifice Timeline.
• Feng Qi and Mu Qing flew to the Winter Supply Zone, where he explained that they would need to cross the Wave Domain Field to reach the Mist Domain Field.
• Feng Qi and Mu Qing arrived at the Winter Supply Zone, registered at a hotel, and saw the frontline city’s busy supply operations and returning warriors.
• Feng Qi and Mu Qing ate Domain Beast Meat at the hotel restaurant, then returned their luggage to their room.
• Feng Qi and Mu Qing left the hotel to rent equipment and buy supplies for their journey to the Mist Domain Field.

Feng Qi and Mu Qing entered the Wave Domain Field, where Mu Qing effortlessly defeated hostile Elemental Lifeforms. They encountered a Domain Battle Squad fighting the Wave Clan, and Mu Qing intervened, absorbing the clan’s concentrated mental assault and growing stronger.

• Feng Qi rented a snow vehicle and purchased supplies using his Tiger Soul Research Institute credentials, then drove with Mu Qing toward the Wave Domain Field.
• Feng Qi and Mu Qing entered the Wave Domain Field and fought through aggressive Elemental Lifeforms, which Mu Qing defeated with her fists.
• Mu Qing detected a battle ahead, and Feng Qi found a Domain Battle Squad fighting the Wave Clan with Mental Armor.
• Feng Qi sent Mu Qing to aid the squad, and she rapidly killed Wave Clan members with jade-colored fist shadows.
• The Wave Clan focused its Mental Shockwaves on Mu Qing, but she absorbed and refined the Spiritual Power, opened her eyes with renewed clarity, and grew stronger.

Feng Qi and Mu Qing crossed the Wave Domain Field, then Mu Qing fought the Mist Lord and shattered his Domain Field. Feng Qi pursued the defeated Mist Lord and later confirmed that he had saved him after his origin core mysteriously recovered.

• Mu Qing destroyed the Wave Clan attackers, and Ying Kaisha thanked her and Feng Qi before explaining the Flying Sand Battle Squad's research mission.
• Feng Qi and Mu Qing continued through the Wave Domain Field, reached its edge after four days, and rested while Mu Qing ate their food supplies.
• Feng Qi and Mu Qing entered the Mist Domain Field, where Mu Qing fought the Mist Lord as Feng Qi waited outside.
• Mu Qing's Scarlet Force awakened during the battle, and she shattered the Mist Domain Field, sending the Mist Lord flying into the distance.
• Feng Qi pursued the Mist Lord, who awoke three days later with his origin core restored but his strength depleted, and Feng Qi admitted that he had saved him.

Feng Qi brought Mist Lord from Winter City to Old Days City, where he enrolled at Old Days Academy and explored its history and research facilities. Mist Lord left to find work and prepare for the entrance exam, while Feng Qi began his new academy life and promised they would reunite.

• Feng Qi carried the injured Mist Lord through the snow to Winter City, where he arranged for Mist Lord to possess a death-row inmate and gain an identity.
• Feng Qi and Mist Lord worked at a slaughterhouse, and Feng Qi persuaded Mist Lord to study and enroll at Old Days Academy with him.
• Feng Qi and Mist Lord flew to Old Days City, and Feng Qi registered at Old Days Academy with Mist Lord as his family member.
• Feng Qi and Mist Lord toured the academy, learning about its founding history and viewing its Domain Creature specimens.
• Mist Lord told Feng Qi he would find work and study for the entrance exam, and Feng Qi asked him to return to Old Days Academy in a year.

Three months into his studies at Old Days Academy, Feng Qi arranged a special admission exam so the Mist Lord could join him sooner. The Mist Lord completed the exam and claimed it was easy, leaving Feng Qi confident but unsure how the proctor had judged his performance.

• Feng Qi studied Domain Studies and learned that Old Days Academy's program demanded relentless memorization and frequent exams.
• Feng Qi's teacher told him that Old Days Academy allowed special admissions through a difficult exam, so Feng Qi called the Mist Lord and offered to arrange one.
• The Mist Lord studied while working at Slaughterhouse No. 3, and Feng Qi helped him cram during nightly video calls over the following month.
• Feng Qi used his Human Outstanding Medal status to recommend the Mist Lord for a special admission exam, then led him into Old Days Academy to take it.
• After finishing the exam in two hours, the Mist Lord said it had been easier than tightening screws and politely apologized to the displeased proctor.

Feng Qi pushed Mist Lord to compete at Old Days Academy so the Spirit Race would notice him, and Mist Lord won contests, earned healing funds, and became famous. Five months later, a new transfer student named Hei Xuan arrived in Feng Qi’s class and looked toward Mist Lord.

• Mist Lord joined Old Days Academy as Feng Qi’s transfer student and moved into the dorm room next door.
• Feng Qi persuaded Mist Lord to compete for prizes, and Mist Lord decisively won the Domain Studies Strongest Brain competition.
• Mist Lord defeated Combat Class freshmen and won other academy events, gaining fame and using his prize money to buy healing materials.
• Mist Lord beat a girl who confessed to him, bringing negative attention and prompting him to consider changing identities.
• Five months later, Hei Xuan transferred into Feng Qi’s class and fixed his gaze on Mist Lord.

At the Old Day Academy, Feng Qi and the Lord of Mist met Xuan Hei, who revealed that he belonged to the Spirit Energy Clan and tried to recruit the Lord of Mist with promises of power, resources, and a binding contract. The Lord of Mist agreed to inspect the contract scroll but remained wary, while Feng Qi learned more about the Clan’s plans and followed them to its hidden base.

• Feng Qi and the Lord of Mist discussed the Lord of Mist’s studies and whether they should leave the academy, before Xuan Hei approached them and asked to speak privately.
• Xuan Hei identified the Lord of Mist as a Lost Mist and revealed that the Spirit Energy Clan had known of him since shortly after his arrival; the Lord of Mist agreed to follow and hear his offer.
• Xuan Hei offered the Lord of Mist resources, the chance to rebuild his clan, and support in exchange for serving the Spirit Energy Clan, while explaining that a contract scroll would enforce their agreement.
• The Lord of Mist questioned Xuan Hei’s motives and examined the ancient scroll, trying to analyze it with his gray mist before stopping.
• Xuan Hei transported the Lord of Mist and Feng Qi to a vast Spirit Energy Clan plaza, where he explained the Clan’s spatial transmission and introduced the mysterious entity Mo.

Hei Xuan returned Feng Qi and the Mist Lord to Old Days Academy after discussing the Spirit Race’s offer and theories about the Pillar Gods. As Feng Qi considered whether their world was virtual and what Mo was planning, he wondered whether exposing Mo’s location could prevent Little Black’s creation.

• Hei Xuan speculated that the Pillar Gods might have fallen during a previous Great Era Advent and invited the Mist Lord to join the Spirit Race, but the Mist Lord refused to commit without better terms.
• Hei Xuan sent Feng Qi and the Mist Lord back to the Training Field, where the Mist Lord explained that the Spirit Race was investing in him and that escaping its control would be their first goal.
• Feng Qi considered whether the Blue Skin Race, Miracle Items, and other systems were evidence that the world was a game, but concluded that the clues did not prove it.
• Feng Qi wondered who Mo was and realized Mo’s investment offer might have required a mission contract, while Mo remained connected to Little Black’s creation.
• Feng Qi considered revealing Mo’s location to the Spirit Race so they might stop Little Black from being born, then abandoned the thought and went to bed.

Feng Qi and Mist Lord agreed to serve the Spirit Race in exchange for resources, and Feng Qi proved his strength in a fight with Hei Xuan. After Hei Xuan prepared a contract and linked them to the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository, Feng Qi found himself before a monumental stone bearing a defiant message.

• Feng Qi and Mist Lord bought blood food for Mist Lord's recovery and waited a week for Hei Xuan to return.
• Hei Xuan offered Mist Lord a pool of blood to restore his strength, and Mist Lord agreed to serve the Spirit Race on the condition that Feng Qi join him.
• Feng Qi transformed and fought Hei Xuan, breaking his barriers and chains before Hei Xuan ended the test and granted him access to support resources.
• Hei Xuan prepared a contract, implanted language knowledge in Feng Qi and Mist Lord, and began linking them to the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository.
• Feng Qi traveled through a field of stars and saw a rust-covered stone monument inscribed, “I can spend the rest of my life in suffering, but my people cannot!”

Feng Qi and the Mist Lord touched a stele in the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository and witnessed Ling Zhan’s memories, from his rise as a Mist Race Auxiliary Warrior to his abandonment on the battlefield. As a natural disaster storm closed in, a golden leaf imprint appeared on Ling Zhan, and Mo emerged from a spatial vortex offering a deal.

• Hei Xuan explained that the stele held the history of his race, and Feng Qi and the Mist Lord touched it to receive its memories.
• Ling Zhan trained from childhood, survived the Mist Race’s brutal selection, and became a reserve warrior and then an Auxiliary Warrior.
• Over years of battle, Ling Zhan grew devoted to the Mist Race, but the city lord and other Mist Race members abandoned him when he was surrounded and gravely wounded.
• As Ling Zhan lay dying, he realized the Spirit Race was his true home, and a golden leaf imprint appeared on his forehead during the approaching natural disaster.
• Mo stepped through a spatial vortex beside Ling Zhan and said he had come to discuss a deal.

After Mo rescued Ling Zhan and restored his body through a contract, Ling Zhan used knowledge from the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository to return to the Spirit Race and lead its transformation. When the Mist Race’s new policies threatened the Spirit Race’s secret development, Ling Zhan turned to a dangerous forbidden project that might change his people into new lifeforms.

• Mo explained the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository, offered Ling Zhan a contract, and restored his body after Ling Zhan agreed.
• Ling Zhan hid his recovery, returned to the Mist Race, and eventually made his way back to the Spirit Race homeland.
• Ling Zhan reformed the Spirit Race by educating its youth, rebuilding its history, overthrowing the old order, and developing their strength.
• Mi Yun became the Mist Race’s new chieftain and introduced inspections that restricted the Spirit Race’s resources and growth.
• Ling Zhan found the forbidden Sacred Spirit Body Lifeform project and decided to risk himself to pursue it.

Ling Zhan transformed the Spirit Race into a rapidly developing, half-elemental people and led them through a Space Passage toward the human world to escape the Mist Race. He stayed behind to confront the Mist Race investigation legion, intending his death to free the Spirit Race from a dangerous contract.

• Ling Zhan secretly guided the Spirit Race’s new generation, encouraged it to cultivate and fight for its future, and seized resources from nearby factions.
• Ling Zhan completed the first stage of elemental modification, becoming a damaged half-elemental lifeform, and began testing art methods as the Spirit Race undertook its own transformations.
• After learning the Mist Race planned to conscript foreign warriors, Ling Zhan decided to take the Spirit Race to the human world using the Tian Duo Race’s coordinates.
• The Spirit Race built a Space Teleportation Array and began evacuating as the Mist Race investigation legion approached.
• Ling Zhan handed the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository’s primary authority to Black Wing and revealed that his death would prevent a contract from endangering the Spirit Race.
• Ling Zhan charged at the Mist Race investigation legion as the Space Passage closed, and black light swallowed his body.

Feng Qi learned how Ling Zhan helped lay the foundations for the Spirit Race’s rise and discovered that the Spirit Race had split into rival factions. He realized Black Shadow and Mo were part of Hei Xuan’s faction’s plan to challenge the stronger homeland faction, but many questions about the conflict remained.

• Feng Qi and the Mist Lord discussed Ling Zhan’s memories, and the Mist Lord admitted he had once overlooked the Spirit Race.
• Hei Xuan explained that his faction had captured Mo’s avatar in a trap meant to secure the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Repository.
• Hei Xuan revealed that the Spirit Race had split between a faction hiding in human society and a stronger homeland faction fighting for control of the Repository.
• Hei Xuan said his faction needed powerful allies to fight their own people, despite being weaker than the homeland faction.
• Feng Qi connected the clues and concluded that Black Shadow belonged to Hei Xuan’s faction, which had used him to take Mo and a treasure from the homeland faction’s Infinity Laboratory.

Hei Xuan brought Feng Qi and the Mist Lord to the Training Space, a Miracle Item that strengthened physical bodies through specialized exercises, and had them train there to prepare for covertly opposing the Spirit Race homeland faction. After discovering the training’s cost in physical energy, Feng Qi and the Mist Lord returned to their bodies exhausted and malnourished, while Hei Xuan admitted he had forgotten to warn them.

• Hei Xuan explained that Feng Qi and the Mist Lord would secretly disrupt the homeland faction’s plans and introduced the Training Space, which could strengthen them through exercises.
• Feng Qi discovered that lifting a stone pedestal increased his strength, while the Mist Lord learned that the cauldron improved resistance and defense against fire.
• The Mist Lord reasoned that the homeland faction trusted Hei Xuan’s faction, revealing that Hei Xuan’s side—not the homeland faction—had been pursuing annexation and deceiving them.
• Feng Qi and the Mist Lord trained with the Wooden Dummy Array and other equipment, gaining physical attributes before leaving because of mental exhaustion.
• Their bodies suffered severe energy depletion when the training effects transferred back, and Hei Xuan admitted he had forgotten to warn them about the need for nutritional replenishment.

Feng Qi and the Mist Lord used the Training Space to grow stronger while Hei Xuan supplied them with resources, and Feng Qi learned that Hei Xuan was gathering factions with demigod bloodlines. The chapter ended with Feng Qi listing several legendary ancestors to Lie Ren, who stared at him in disbelief.

• Feng Qi recovered from the Training Space’s draining effects by eating spiritual plants and Spiritual Beast Meat and using Lin Ran’s Devour Art.
• Hei Xuan ordered Feng Qi and the Mist Lord to remain in Old Days City and train, while the Mist Lord framed their resource consumption as harvesting Hei Xuan in reverse.
• Feng Qi and the Mist Lord trained repeatedly, and Masked Man appeared in the Training Space as a wary preliminary candidate for Hei Xuan’s support.
• Lie Ren joined them and explained that Hei Xuan planned to cultivate five external factions and assigned missions against the ancestral land Spirit Race.
• Lie Ren revealed that the factions Hei Xuan selected had demigod bloodlines, prompting Feng Qi to suspect Hei Xuan had a hidden purpose.
• When Lie Ren asked about Feng Qi’s ancestors, Feng Qi listed Nüwa, Pangu, and Kua Fu, leaving Lie Ren stunned.

Three years after entering Hei Xuan’s faction, Feng Qi and the Mist Lord led a mission to intercept Spirit Race resources, defeated the guards, and returned with the spoils. Hei Xuan then sent them to retrieve a damaged Blood Stone, and Feng Qi realized the mission could bring the deadly black Giant Hand that he and the Mist Lord could not defeat.

• Feng Qi and the Mist Lord left their training space and met Lie Ren and Cyclone outside Old Days City for Hei Xuan’s resource-stealing mission.
• Feng Qi and his companions ambushed three Spirit Race members from the clan grounds, defeated them, and seized their resources.
• Hei Xuan took most of the spoils, rewarded Feng Qi with a larger share, and encouraged the group to keep training and prove their value.
• Three months later, Hei Xuan sent Feng Qi and the Mist Lord to retrieve a damaged Blood Stone from the Old Eastern Supply Zone.
• Feng Qi recalled the black Giant Hand that had appeared during the Blood Stone fight and feared that no one on this timeline could stop it.

Feng Qi and the Mist Lord joined Hei Xuan’s Bloodstone escort mission, but the Giant Hand appeared and threatened to crush the gathered factions. To fight back, Feng Qi absorbed Spiritual Power from nearby Domain Creatures and transformed into an unstable multicolored Divine Body.

• Feng Qi worried that he would die during the escort mission without recovering his brain or bringing his intelligence back to Scarlet, then discussed humanity and the Spirit Race’s future with Hei Xuan and the Mist Lord.
• Feng Qi returned to Old Days Academy, wrote letters for the Mist Lord, and brought Brain Active Needles before traveling with the Mist Lord to the Old Eastern Supply Zone.
• Feng Qi and the Mist Lord escorted the Bloodstone convoy through a canyon as rival factions attacked and the battle escalated into a vast melee.
• The Giant Hand descended at dawn and shattered the factions’ formation; Feng Qi rescued Qin Shi Kong and several teammates before returning to the fight.
• As the Giant Hand crushed the battlefield, Feng Qi absorbed Spiritual Power from the dead and nearby Domain Creatures, then used Divine Body to become a multicolored elemental being.
• Feng Qi formed an enormous Elemental Hand and sent it, along with thousands of Elemental Arrays, crashing toward the Giant Hand.