Chapter Summaries

Feng Qi advanced his bloodline, harvested more Talent Abilities at a second Talent Farm, and completed three more Heart Refining Platform challenges before his mental endurance ran out. He learned that Xiao You had ignored her first challenge and slept through it, and she returned without gaining any insights.

• Feng Qi completed his bloodline advancement, gaining the ability to switch between spiritual power and vitality in human form while greatly strengthening his body.
• Zhang Daowen took Feng Qi to Talent Farm No. 2, where Feng Qi harvested more Talent Abilities and raised his Bloodline Evolution Points to 129821/1000000.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen traveled to the Blood Soul Clan's territory, paid to use the Heart Refining Platform, and began its trials.
• Feng Qi passed the Immovability, Ignorance, and Omniscience Difficulties, experiencing the burdens of eternal observation and all-encompassing knowledge before withdrawing from the challenge.
• Feng Qi asked Xiao You about her trials, and Xiao You explained that she had refused to walk the distance required by the Difficulty of Travel and had slept until the platform sent her back.

After completing the Heart Forging Challenge, Feng Qi returned to Dawn City and learned how generations of humanity had built it. Zhang Daowen revealed a plan to use the Dawn Sword to measure and match Little Black’s growth, potentially delaying its arrival by 487 years, though the first attempt would only gather data for the next timeline.

• Feng Qi saw that Xiao You had abandoned the first mental trial, while his own state of mind improved and the effects of overlapping memories faded.
• Zhang Daowen brought Feng Qi and Xiao You back to Dawn City, where Feng Qi learned that spatial interference devices prevented unauthorized spatial arrivals inside the city.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed Dawn City’s unfinished cultivation buildings and the generations of descendants who had developed the city from his original plans.
• Feng Qi asked whether the narrator had sensed Little Black, and Zhang Daowen said humanity had devised a plan to delay its arrival.
• At Dawn City’s central square, Zhang Daowen explained that the Dawn Sword would measure Little Black’s power and match its growth, potentially buying 487 years; the first attempt would gather data for the next timeline.

Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed whether the Faith Database could keep gathering information after Little Black killed Feng Qi, and debated the unresolved nature of time rewind and time diversion. They considered plans for the next timeline, visited the graves of Feng Qi’s fallen friends, and returned to the courtyard as Little Black approached.

• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed how the Dawn Sword’s delay tactic might work and whether the Faith Database could continue operating after Feng Qi’s death.
• Zhang Daowen explained the two possible outcomes after Feng Qi died: time might continue in a separate timeline, or it might rewind to the real timeline.
• Feng Qi concluded that his Faith Database would remain with him across time changes and could preserve humanity’s knowledge without requiring him to memorize it all.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen discussed developing virtual technology and addressing the resource shortages that would limit progress in the next timeline.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen visited Heroes Cemetery and honored their departed friends, whose identities and contributions Feng Qi chose to keep secret for humanity’s safety.
• Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen returned to the courtyard, and the narrator warned Feng Qi that Little Black was approaching with a 40-Meter Greatsword.

Feng Qi watched Dawn City activate its Dawn Sword to intercept Little Black, hoping the weapon could stop it. The battle simulation’s projected duration kept dropping, leaving Feng Qi and Zhang Daowen doubtful as Little Black mocked the Dawn Sword.

• Zhang Daowen took Feng Qi to the Mechanized Modification Core Department, where Xiao Chen confirmed the Dawn Sword was ready to activate.
• Xiao Chen explained the Dawn Sword’s history and limited production as Dawn City’s surveillance system entered War Mode and located Little Black.
• The Dawn Sword left its statue, flew toward Little Black, and transformed into mist to engage it.
• The battle system projected a fight lasting centuries, but its estimate rapidly fell, and Zhang Daowen warned Feng Qi that the simulation was not reliable.
• Little Black mocked the Dawn Sword and challenged its makers to upgrade it further.

Feng Qi arranged for Xiao You to enter the Consciousness Hibernation Plan before traveling to the Hidden Dragon Race’s territory to gain Talent Abilities. When a human investigation squad was overwhelmed by Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers, Feng Qi arrived and demonstrated the full power of Blood God.

• Feng Qi realized the Dawn Sword’s prediction limited his time in the future to about four days and decided to visit the western front to gain Talent Abilities.
• Zhang Daowen explained the Consciousness Hibernation Plan, and Xiao You chose to have her memories backed up before Zhang Daowen froze her in an Ice Coffin.
• Feng Qi traveled with Zhang Daowen to the Hidden Dragon Race’s territory, where a human investigation squad was ambushed by more than fifty Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers.
• The investigation squad activated Blood God to fight back, but Feng Qi arrived and stopped them from borrowing the Talent Ability.
• Feng Qi transformed into a towering Blood God giant and launched a Blood-colored Raging Dragon at the Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers.

Feng Qi attacked the Hidden Dragon Domain Field, slaughtering its forces and gaining new abilities as the Hidden Dragon Race’s elites gathered to confront him. Meanwhile, Zhang Daowen explained to the human army’s commander that Feng Qi’s assault was creating an opening for humanity’s war, and compared the Hidden Dragon elites’ predicament to his own past encounter with a fighter who feared no death.

• Feng Qi killed more than fifty Hidden Dragon Curse Weavers with one punch, gained the Life Curse ability, and sent the investigation team on its way before flying deeper into the domain.
• Feng Qi destroyed a Hidden Dragon settlement, killed its War Dragons and warriors, and gained the Flesh Warcry ability from a defeated War Dragon.
• Feng Qi demolished a second outpost and killed the Hidden Dragon elites who tried to stop him before hundreds of Space Fissures opened and surrounded him.
• Feng Qi entered an overloaded state as the Hidden Dragon Race’s top combatants converged on him.
• At the Star City West Supply Zone, the human army advanced toward the Hidden Dragon Domain Field while Xiao Li questioned Zhang Daowen about the war.
• Zhang Daowen told Xiao Li that Feng Qi had returned to create an opportunity for humanity, and recognized that the Hidden Dragon elites were suffering as he once had against a fearless opponent.

Feng Qi fought the Hidden Dragon Race’s top combatants, but their coordinated Life Curses and barriers kept him from gaining ground. He revealed his God Body, took control of the elements, and began gathering a vast elemental force as the human army arrived and mistook the scene for an impending Elemental Explosion.

• Feng Qi tore apart the Hidden Dragon Race’s energy altar, but their Life Curse runes chained and weakened him until Purple Soul helped him break free.
• Feng Qi used Flash Step to kill a Hidden Dragon Race top combatant, then absorbed its life essence and resisted the curses cast by the remaining warriors.
• The Hidden Dragon Race’s coordinated barriers blocked Feng Qi’s attacks and prevented him from reaching more targets, so he activated his golden God Body.
• Feng Qi dispersed the Life Curse runes by controlling their elemental particles and began gathering and compressing elements across the sky.
• The human army entered the Hidden Dragon Domain Field, saw Feng Qi surrounded by gathering elements, and retreated in fear of an Elemental Explosion.

Feng Qi unleashed an Elemental Calamity against the Hidden Dragon Race, whose elders sacrificed themselves and used a time-stopping relic to weaken the blast. He harvested the lives lost in the disaster, but Xiao Hei arrived and began devouring him before he could finish collecting Bloodline Evolution Points.

• Feng Qi activated the God Body State and fused Heaven and Earth Elements into a massive Elemental Calamity, forcing the Hidden Dragon Race to choose between fleeing and defending their people.
• The younger Hidden Dragon Race members fled while more than two hundred elders formed a barrier and prepared to sacrifice themselves to protect their race.
• An elder used a time-stopping crystal to freeze the Elemental Explosion, and the Hidden Dragon Race members spent more than twenty hours dismantling and releasing the fused elements.
• The time-stop ended, and the weakened Elemental Torrent destroyed the outpost city and killed the Hidden Dragon Race members who remained, while Feng Qi absorbed the resulting Bloodline Evolution Points.
• The narrator told Feng Qi that Zhang Daowen had delayed Xiao Hei, but Xiao Hei arrived, pinned Feng Qi to the ground, and began devouring him.

After Little Black overwhelmed Feng Qi in the Sacrifice Timeline, he returned to reality and confirmed that the Faith Database had survived, though his connection to the future believers was gone. He began studying the database and the plans humanity’s descendants had prepared for developing future timelines.

• Feng Qi activated his Blood God Body and fought Little Black, but Little Black devoured his power, defeated him, and left him unconscious.
• Feng Qi awoke in his room at the Scarlet Institute and drank an enhanced Mental Soothing Potion to suppress the Negative Emotions.
• Feng Qi entered his Sea of Consciousness and found that the Faith Database remained, but no believers from the previous Sacrifice Timeline were present.
• Feng Qi examined the database and found its records ended when Little Black killed him, leaving the cause of his lost connection to the future uncertain.
• Feng Qi studied the Brains Trust’s guidance, including plans to prioritize fields such as Domain Studies, spatial studies, and Dawn Academy during humanity’s early development.

Feng Qi reviewed the Future Brains Trust’s plans for securing humanity’s startup resources, developing virtual technology, and keeping him alive on the next Sacrifice Timeline. The chapter left him with a detailed plan to ambush the Shadow City Lord and a proposed mechanized body that could let him accompany humanity for more than a thousand years.

• Feng Qi read the Brains Trust’s resource strategies, including prioritizing Space Technology and Domain Studies, trading in Fate City, and drawing resources from other cities.
• The Brains Trust proposed locating the Shadow City Lord, tempting him with valuable goods, and ambushing him with Mu Qing, Old Mi, and the Silver Moon Race.
• Feng Qi reviewed the case for investing in virtual technology despite its high initial cost and slow returns.
• The Brains Trust proposed that Feng Qi undergo Mechanization Modification so he could survive for more than a thousand years and remain with humanity.
• Feng Qi agreed that the Database and the Brains Trust’s plans could guide future timelines more effectively than his own notes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.