Chapter Summaries

While waiting for the Space Passage, Zuo Tianxuan learned about Dawn Sword and the history of Forging Studies. He traveled with Zhang Daowen and Xiao You to a volcanic Domain Field, where he risked his life to absorb a Fire Elemental Lifeform as his natal fire seed, succeeded, and then fainted.

• Zuo Tianxuan read that Forging Studies talents had aided Dawn Sword Mo Yu's mechanized modifications, while Star City continued adding Mechanical Nanobots to Dawn Sword after abandoning attempts to replicate the technology.
• Zhang Daowen arrived after the Space Teleportation Array was completed, and Zuo Tianxuan traveled through it with Zhang Daowen and Xiao You to a desolate battlefield.
• Zhang Daowen and Xiao You searched for half a month before finding the volcanic Domain Field, where Zhang Daowen protected the group from the heat with his Extreme Cold Power.
• Zhang Daowen captured a palm-sized Fire Elemental Lifeform, and Zuo Tianxuan used the Flame Absorption Art to draw its fire into his heart despite nearing death from the heat.
• Zuo Tianxuan completed the fire seed's implantation and summoned purple flames, then fainted as Xiao You joked that he was cooked.

After mastering the Flame Absorption Art, Zuo Tianxuan traveled to Fate City for a forging competition and began crafting elemental-resistant exoskeleton armor for the Thorn Race. The competition was underway, and he was hammering the fused spirit ores into his planned armor.

• Zuo Tianxuan left the hospital, tested his purple flame seed, and used it to forge a short sword of improved quality.
• In 729 Dawn, Feng Qi sent Zuo Tianxuan to Fate City with Xiao You, where Fate Messenger Luo Yu guided them through the city and explained its trading market.
• Luo Yu told Zuo Tianxuan that the Thorn Race was holding a forging competition to find a Forgemaster for a divine artifact made with Doomstone.
• Zuo Tianxuan studied the diverse forging methods in Fate City and, after three months, joined the competition among hundreds of forging factions.
• After learning that the Thorn Race needed exoskeleton armor, Zuo Tianxuan chose Stormstone and eleven other spirit ores to make lightweight armor with elemental resistance.
• Zuo Tianxuan fused the twelve spirit ores and began hammering the glowing metal into shape with his purple energy hammer.

Zuo Tianxuan turned his forging talent into a lifelong contribution to humanity, developing new techniques, forging twelve divine artifacts, and training successors. After completing his book, Future Forging Studies, he died with Xiao You beside him, and Star City honored his legacy.

• Zuo Tianxuan forged a white exoskeleton for the Thorn Clan, whose elder tested it and offered him a cooperation deal in exchange for his equipment and expertise.
• Over the following decades, Zuo Tianxuan forged equipment for the Thorn Clan, married Luo Yu, and helped them defeat the Infinite Race before returning to Star City to establish a Forging Studies major.
• Zuo Tianxuan forged a divine Forging Hammer and rune engraving knife, then completed the Ten Divine Artifacts, including life-bound weapons for humanity's Gods of War.
• At the age of 147, Zuo Tianxuan finished Future Forging Studies and was hospitalized after years of overwork; he stopped receiving Gene Serum injections and died with Xiao You beside him.
• Star City held a grand funeral for Zuo Tianxuan, and his book and twelve divine artifacts continued as part of humanity's forging legacy.

Lin Guyuan struggled with the gap between his combat aptitude and his ambition to join the military’s top teams, despite receiving recruitment offers from three research institutions. At the library, he prayed to Feng Qi to protect Lin Gutian on the front line.

• Lin Guyuan compared his modest combat potential with He Zonglian’s achievements and lamented that his military application had been rejected despite early offers from three research institutions.
• Lin Guyuan resolved to keep training so he could become an outstanding front-line soldier.
• Lin Guyuan went to the library the next morning but found himself distracted by thoughts of his childhood.
• Lin Guyuan looked at a photo of Feng Qi and prayed for Lin Gutian’s safety on the front line.

Lin Guyuan received recruitment calls from three research institutions but remained determined to pursue frontline strength. After learning that humanity planned to retreat from the Thunder Race because it could not counter their spellcasters, he came up with an idea for a weapon combining Spiritual Energy Technology and Art Methods, then began considering how to prove it could work.

• Dean Wang and Dean Shi invited Lin Guyuan to join their research institutes, but he politely declined because he wanted to become a frontline warrior.
• Lin Guyuan trained in the gravity Body Tempering Room and later attended Teacher Hu's Art Method Studies class.
• After reading about the Thunder Race's advance and humanity's planned retreat, Lin Guyuan researched long-range weapons and learned that existing Spiritual Energy Technology and Art Methods each had critical limitations.
• Lin Guyuan conceived a Spiritual Energy Spell Weapon that might combine the range of Spiritual Energy Technology with the power of Art Methods.
• Netizens mocked Lin Guyuan's forum post and challenged him to build the weapon, reigniting his determination to try.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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