Chapter Summaries

Feng Qi investigated Victory City while preparing Star City to buy the Equipment Black Hole, converting resources into Blood Crystal Stones and selling Xiao You’s Space Bracelets. He tracked the Red-skinned Little Giant as it gambled away its money and followed it toward the next step of its desperate bid to keep playing.

• Feng Qi formed a 107-member team to investigate Victory City and determine whether domain factions controlled its institutions.
• Fate Messengers sold Elf City’s resources for 983 million Blood Crystal Stones, more than Feng Qi had expected.
• Feng Qi and Xiao You sold eighty Space Bracelets in Fate City for 80.5 million Blood Crystal Stones, bringing his total to 1.1635 billion.
• Feng Qi spotted the Red-skinned Little Giant selling off goods, then followed it to the gambling floors without intervening.
• The Red-skinned Little Giant won several games before losing all its Blood Crystal Stones on the eighty-eighth floor.
• Feng Qi followed the broke Red-skinned Little Giant toward the Space Teleportation Array, expecting it to sell the Equipment Black Hole for more gambling funds.

Feng Qi waited for the Red-skinned Little Giant to lose its Blood Crystal Stones and sell the Equipment Black Hole, then negotiated to buy it and four other unusual items. He acquired the pseudo-Miracle Item, which could provide humanity with a stable way to turn resources into equipment.

• Feng Qi watched the Red-skinned Little Giant lose the Blood Crystal Stones it had earned and finally offer the Equipment Black Hole for sale.
• Feng Qi examined the Equipment Black Hole and recognized its ability to combine spiritual materials into weapons and equipment with complete resource efficiency.
• The Red-skinned Little Giant demonstrated the four other items at its stall: a powerful creature's leg bone, purifying jade, a refining jar, and a controllable wooden statue.
• Feng Qi haggled with the Red-skinned Little Giant and agreed to pay one billion Blood Crystal Stones for the Equipment Black Hole and all four items.
• Feng Qi transferred the Blood Crystal Stones, received the dark green ring and the other items, and celebrated acquiring the Printing Press.

Feng Qi tested the Equipment Black Hole, welcomed the Silver Moon Race to Silver Moon City, and discussed their alliance with its leaders. The chapter ended with the Silver Moon Clan Leader suggesting a duel to decide whether Yin Ling or Lin Ran would become head of their household.

• After buying Cave Nether Stone and sampling Fate City's food with Xiao You, Feng Qi returned to Star City and sent the Equipment Black Hole to the Scarlet Institute for testing.
• The Scarlet Institute reported that it could not identify the Equipment Black Hole's materials but confirmed its two methods for forging weapons and equipment; Feng Qi planned to upgrade exceptional frontline soldiers before turning it over to the Fate Messenger Department.
• In Year 27 of Dawn, ninety-five-year-old Feng Qi watched the Silver Moon Race arrive in Silver Moon City and welcomed Yin Ling, the Silver Moon Clan Leader, and the race's elders.
• At a Star City Highest Council meeting, the Silver Moon Clan Leader offered engineering assistance and expressed the Silver Moon Race's commitment to the alliance.
• The Silver Moon Clan Leader asked Feng Qi whether Yin Ling or Lin Ran would become head of their household and proposed that they settle it with a duel; Feng Qi recognized his bias toward Yin Ling.

Feng Qi arranged Lin Ran and Yin Ling’s wedding while building cooperation between Star City and the Silver Moon Race and overseeing the Equipment Black Hole’s first major order. Three years later, Lin Ran and Yin Ling married in Star City, and Xiao You’s excitement over the banquet ended with her asking when Feng Qi would get married.

• Feng Qi rejected settling household status by force, proposed deciding it with spirit chess, and arranged a Century Wedding for Lin Ran and Yin Ling.
• Feng Qi coordinated Silver Moon City’s construction and planned resource exchanges with the Silver Moon Race, including a rail line and a points system.
• The Fate Messenger Department completed its first Equipment Black Hole deal, earning a service fee of ten million bloodstones from an order for one hundred thousand weapons.
• In Year 30 of Dawn, Feng Qi attended Lin Ran and Yin Ling’s Star City wedding, gave them matching gifts, and negotiated with the Silver Moon Clan Leader about the Equipment Black Hole as a bride price.
• Xiao You eagerly ate at the wedding banquet, then asked Feng Qi when he would marry; Feng Qi told her to hope Lin Ran would marry again instead.

Feng Qi underwent full Spiritual Energy Mechanical Modification, replacing his body and then transferring his consciousness into a chip. After the connection succeeded, he awakened as a mechanical life-form and explored the information his new senses could access.

• At 108 years old, Feng Qi began his modification by replacing his failing heart with a Spiritual Energy Machine heart, then underwent tests and further organ procedures.
• Feng Qi had his torso and limbs replaced with Silver Grade mechanical components, received synthetic skin, and tested his new body while Xiao You waited anxiously.
• Over the next month, Feng Qi tested his mechanized body and scheduled brain modification for three months later because consciousness transfer carried serious risks.
• Feng Qi underwent brain mechanization as his consciousness transferred into a Spiritual Energy Consciousness Chip and his metal head was connected to his body.
• Feng Qi's consciousness connection succeeded, and he awakened to see information about people and objects along with environmental readings in his vision.

Feng Qi guided Star City's growth across the decades, advancing mechanization, cultivation, resource development, and trade while preparing for future conflicts. In Dawn Year 325, his voice reached a couple praying before his Hero Statue and named their newborn son Ji He.

• Feng Qi completed his mechanized modification, and Xiao You asked whether she could undergo the same procedure.
• In Dawn Year 51, Mu Qing told Feng Qi she would leave with Mu Yao for the Road to Heaven, and he accepted her choice to guard humanity's gateway and grow stronger.
• By Dawn Year 73, Feng Qi had expanded Star City's cultivation and resource programs, while Zhang Daowen remained on the front lines to build influence for a future military reform.
• By Dawn Year 103, Star City had accelerated bloodline development and expanded its resource sites and Equipment Black Hole trade, while Feng Qi refused to sell the Black Hole to the Red-skinned Little Giant.
• In Dawn Year 187, the Rift Sky God Lord arrived with the Cloud Top Palace and claimed northern resources without fighting, and Feng Qi resolved to prepare for a future war against him.
• In Dawn Year 325, Feng Qi's voice crossed Faith Space and told a couple praying before his Hero Statue to name their newborn Ji He.

Feng Qi visited the aging Lü Yue, who refused mechanization and waited for the Avici Hell Warrior as his final chance to break through the Life Shackles. When the warrior finally appeared, Lü Yue fought him, and Feng Qi and the others arrived as the battle intensified.

• Feng Qi and Xiao You visited Lü Yue, who said he would keep waiting for the Avici Hell Warrior despite his failing health.
• Taihang told Feng Qi that Lü Yue's strength had grown, but his control over Negative Emotions was costing him his emotions and increasing his risk of losing himself.
• Three years later, the Avici Hell Warrior appeared near Star City, and Lü Yue sensed its Negative Emotions power, rose from seclusion, and flew to meet it.
• Lü Yue battled the Avici Hell Warrior with Sword Ripple and Sword Tomb, but the stronger warrior shattered Jianlan and prepared to end the fight.
• Zhang Daowen, Feng Qi, Xiao You, and Taihang arrived; Zhang Daowen pointed the Avici Hell Warrior back toward Lü Yue, and Taihang sent Lü Yue the Nightmare Bell.
• Feng Qi nodded to Lü Yue and told him to fight without restraint, promising to wait for his return.

Lü Yue risked his life to unleash the power of Negative Emotions and battled the Avici Hell Warrior, who grew stronger as the power stirred his memories of Avici Hell. As Lü Yue’s body failed, he broke through his limits with a final sword strike that shattered the warrior’s fist and pierced his body.

• Taihang gave Lü Yue the Nightmare Bell, and Lü Yue shattered it to unleash its power while merging with Jian Lan and becoming one with the sword.
• Lü Yue and the Avici Hell Warrior clashed, but the warrior’s memories of Avici Hell made him more ferocious as he battered Lü Yue and tore off his limbs.
• Lü Yue formed limbs from Negative Emotions and continued fighting, then gathered the sword lotus into a giant blade and launched a desperate final attack.
• Feng Qi stopped Zhang Daowen from interfering, while Zhang Daowen raised an ice barrier to protect the group from the battle’s shockwaves.
• As his life faded, Lü Yue rejected the belief that humans were destined to remain mediocre and resolved to transcend his limits or die.
• Lü Yue’s final sword strike broke through the Infinite Warrior’s blood-and-qi fist shadow and pierced his Flesh and Blood Body.

After accepting the erosion of negative emotions, Lü Yue transformed into a dangerous Negative Consciousness Body and Feng Qi decided he could no longer remain in Star City. Feng Qi exiled him through an unknown Space Fissure, while Lü Yue vowed to return for the Final Battle if he regained control of himself.

• As he lay near death after his battle with the Avici Hell Warrior, Lü Yue chose to accept the power of negative emotions and transformed his body and Sea of Consciousness.
• Lü Yue awoke in a Healing Pod, where Feng Qi realized that his transformation was leading him toward the Bitter Source faction and would eventually make him a threat to Star City.
• Feng Qi told Lü Yue he had decided to exile him, and Lü Yue accepted the decision despite their painful parting.
• Feng Qi and a white-haired elder activated a Space Teleportation Array, and Feng Qi placed a Space Bracelet on Lü Yue before sending him toward an unknown region.
• As the negative emotions consumed his remaining clarity, Lü Yue promised Feng Qi he would return for the Final Battle if he regained himself, then vanished into the Space Fissure.

Feng Qi oversaw Star City’s market expansion, Spirit Beast System, and industrial reforms while watching Ji He rise through the ranks. Ji He’s proposals impressed Feng Qi, but his willingness to become a scapegoat left Feng Qi determined not to lose him.

• Feng Qi expanded trade through intermediary traders and promoted Spiritual Food and Spirit Beast programs across Star City.
• Feng Qi discussed phasing out outdated academies through mergers and reforms, and observed Ji He serving as an executive at the council.
• When Zhou Tianzhe retired, Feng Qi tasked ten candidates with proposing currency reform, leaving the selection to a council vote.
• Ji He proposed replacing Star City Coins with Blood Crystal Stone-backed Dawn Coins and linking inheritance limits to the number of children.
• Feng Qi rejected Ji He’s suggestion to use a clean-cut approach that would make him a sacrifice, and decided he did not want to lose Ji He.

Feng Qi helped Ji He join Star City’s highest decision-making body, then launched humanity’s maritime expansion by building and testing its first Devour Ship, Dragon Head. As Star City began developing the South Supply Zone and researching Devour Ships, Feng Qi learned that the Shadow City Lord’s whereabouts had finally been discovered.

• Feng Qi oversaw the unanimous vote that selected Ji He for Star City’s Highest Council and granted him expanded authority.
• Feng Qi arranged for Star City to help construct the Silver Moon Supply Zone and chose to develop a South Supply Zone rather than fight the Rift Sky God Clan.
• Feng Qi imported components from Fate City and supervised the assembly and sea trials of humanity’s first sea structure, which could sail underwater, fire an energy beam, and grow stronger by devouring blood.
• Feng Qi named the first sea structure Devour Ship—Dragon Head and made Devour Ship research and the South Supply Zone key priorities for Star City.
• Feng Qi learned from the head of the Fate Messenger Department that the Shadow City Lord’s trail had been found, and he looked forward to gaining the resources needed for Star City’s development.

Feng Qi gathered intelligence and convened the Star City Highest Council to plan an ambush on the Shadow City Lord. Ji He warned that the Lord’s unknown strength made the plan too risky and proposed using the Rift Sky God Lord’s Miracle Seal to kill him in a single strike.

• Feng Qi received a report detailing the Shadow City Lord’s trading activities and learned that he was promoting a new Trading Market.
• Feng Qi convened the Star City Highest Council and asked its Decision Makers to improve a plan to plunder the Shadow City Lord.
• After a month of discussion, Feng Qi presented the future Brains Trust’s plan to locate the Shadow City Lord, bait him, and ambush him with humanity’s strongest fighters and their allies.
• Ji He opposed the plan, arguing that the Shadow City Lord’s strength and escape options were too uncertain for a safe ambush.
• Ji He proposed involving the Rift Sky God Lord and using his Miracle Seal to kill the Shadow City Lord in a single strike.

Feng Qi visited the Rift Sky Domain Field with Zhang Daowen and Xiao You to recruit the Rift Sky God Lord into a plan to defeat the Shadow City Lord. After the Rift Sky God Lord sealed Zhang Daowen and heard Feng Qi’s offer, he absorbed the Memory Liquid to see the future memories Feng Qi claimed to possess.

• Ji He proposed using the Rift Sky God Lord’s Miracle Seal to incapacitate the Shadow City Lord, but Feng Qi decided to recruit the Rift Sky God Lord himself and told Ji He to focus on Star City’s reforms and cultivation.
• Two weeks later, Feng Qi, Zhang Daowen, and Xiao You entered the Rift Sky Domain Field and approached the Cloud Top Temple.
• The Rift Sky God Lord attacked Zhang Daowen with the Miracle Seal, knocking him unconscious, but allowed Feng Qi and Xiao You to reach the temple.
• Feng Qi offered the Rift Sky God Lord a deal to seize the Shadow City Lord’s wealth and presented Memory Liquid made from future scenes he had seen.
• After carefully inspecting the Memory Liquid and taking precautions, the Rift Sky God Lord absorbed it, and fragments of information began appearing in his mind.

Feng Qi persuaded the Rift Sky God Lord to join humanity’s plan to plunder the Shadow City Lord, promising him a 20% share and safeguards against betrayal. Afterward, Ji He argued that humanity should recruit the Rift Sky Clan as allies, leaving Feng Qi to consider whether the Rift Sky God Lord would agree.

• The Rift Sky God Lord saw visions of his clan’s future defeat and learned that humanity would eventually destroy the Rift Sky Domain Field.
• Feng Qi explained that he wanted the Rift Sky God Lord’s help to kill the Shadow City Lord, and the two negotiated a 20% share of the spoils with 1,300 Space Bracelets as collateral.
• The Rift Sky God Lord agreed to the plan, required that only familiar allies take part, and offered valuable treasures as bait for the Shadow City Lord.
• Feng Qi returned to Star City, ordered the temporary recall of distributed Space Bracelets, and began preparations for the operation.
• Ji He advised Feng Qi to recruit the Rift Sky Clan as allies, explaining how their intimidation tactics and Miracle Seal could support humanity’s expansion.

Feng Qi entered Shadow City and used a stall stocked with treasures from the Rift Sky God Lord and allied races to attract the Shadow City Lord's interest. After buying a rare spatial ore, the Shadow City Lord learned Feng Qi claimed to possess three pseudo Miracle Divine Objects and urged him to return with them, leaving Feng Qi's baited plan ready to advance.

• Feng Qi obtained a Shadow City spatial rune, entered the city with Xiao You, and began selling treasures to draw the Shadow City Lord out.
• After several days, a cursed blue-skinned visitor bought the Rift Sky God Lord's music device, and a giant beast bought the Crimson Fire Pearl.
• Feng Qi expanded his stall with treasures from allied races, secretly kept part of the sale proceeds, and spread word that his weak clan possessed abundant treasures.
• The Shadow City Lord bought Feng Qi's Void Nether Stone for 73 million Blood Crystal Stones and asked whether he had more spatial ore.
• Feng Qi claimed his clan had three pseudo Miracle Divine Objects and promised to return after asking the clan chief, prompting the Shadow City Lord to tell him to go at once.

Feng Qi displayed pseudo-Miracle Items to provoke the Shadow City Lord into pursuing him, while he and his allies prepared an ambush. After the Shadow City Lord finally followed Feng Qi away from the Space Passage, he took the bait and walked into the trap.

• Feng Qi described three pseudo-Miracle Items to the Shadow City Lord, whose greed grew until he decided to steal them rather than buy them.
• Xiao You prompted the Shadow City Lord to compensate Feng Qi, and he gave Feng Qi a blood-red crystal.
• Feng Qi spent weeks selling valuable goods in Shadow City and coordinated with the Mist Lord, Zhang Daowen, the Silver Moon Clan Leader, and the Rift Sky God Lord to prepare an ambush.
• On Feng Qi's eighth visit, the Shadow City Lord traced his Space Passage and followed him into the plains north of Star City.
• The Shadow City Lord pursued Feng Qi north and finally revealed himself as Feng Qi roasted meat; Feng Qi announced that he had taken the bait, and the ambush began.

Feng Qi and the Five-Army Alliance killed the Shadow City Lord and launched an assault on Shadow City to seize its treasures and resources. They broke into the Collection Tower’s hidden treasury, but Xiao You became lost in its teleportation array.

• A Golden Curse Seal incapacitated the Shadow City Lord, and the Mist Lord, Zhang Daowen, the Silver Moon Clan Leader, and the Rift Sky God Lord killed him.
• Feng Qi returned to Shadow City, and the human, Mist Race, Rift Sky, Silver Moon, and Elf City armies arrived and attacked its merchants and visitors.
• After the allied armies subdued Shadow City, Feng Qi and the leaders gathered at the Collection Tower and broke its defensive barrier.
• Mist Lord deciphered the tower’s teleportation routes and led Feng Qi and the others into the treasury, where they found a vast store of Blood Crystal Stones.
• Xiao You forgot the route, repeatedly returned to the teleportation array’s starting point, and wailed for Boss when Feng Qi was nowhere to be found.

Feng Qi and his allies plundered the Shadow City Lord’s Collection Tower, filling Space Bracelets with immense stores of blood crystals, weapons, plants, remains, equipment, ores, and machines. They reached the tower’s treasure-packed top floor, where Feng Qi claimed the Eye of Truth for humanity and prepared to take the remaining riches.

• Feng Qi returned to guide the lost Xiao You through the teleportation array, and she eventually arrived at the Collection Tower with him.
• Feng Qi and his allies collected the Blood Crystal Stones and Seven-Colored Jade stairs from the first floor, then gathered weapons, spirit plants, beast remains, and equipment from the floors above.
• The group emptied the Blood Crystal Stone refinery and Blood Pool, then took the valuable spiritual ores from the eighth floor; the Rift Sky God Lord agreed to reduce his share from twenty percent to fifteen percent.
• The Silver Moon Clan Leader activated an engineering war puppet on the ninth floor, and the group packed away the tower’s machines.
• Feng Qi led the group to the top floor, claimed the Eye of Truth for humanity, and surveyed the remaining treasures as Xiao You mistakenly explained the Rift Sky God Lord’s nickname.

After the Five-Army Alliance plundered Shadow City, Feng Qi oversaw the appraisal and distribution of its wealth, bringing resources worth 32.8 billion back to Star City. He then began sorting the haul and merged the Miracle: Eye of Truth, whose emerald light transformed his Mechanical Prosthetic Eye.

• Feng Qi and the others emptied the Collection Tower, dismantled its teleportation array, and stripped Shadow City of resources while protecting the Space Array overhead.
• As the Space Array weakened, the Five-Army Alliance withdrew, and dark matter soon engulfed and destroyed Shadow City.
• Feng Qi organized the appraisal and distribution of the Shadow City Lord's treasures and the resources seized from visitors, with the clans also making optimized trades.
• After three months, Feng Qi returned to Star City with wealth valued at 32.8 billion, while Xiao You woke from her hunger-induced hibernation and devoured food.
• Feng Qi sorted the treasures by their value to humanity, then merged with the Miracle: Eye of Truth, turning his Mechanical Prosthetic Eye emerald-green.

Feng Qi tested the Eye of Truth, then used Star City’s new resources to accelerate Dawn City and other development plans. He later confronted Ji He about neglecting cultivation and imposing harsh reforms, urging him to protect ordinary people as Star City advanced.

• Feng Qi explored the Eye of Truth’s visual modes and used it to analyze Xiao You, nearby objects, and the treasures taken from the Shadow City Lord.
• Feng Qi sent the Eye of Truth to the Fate Messenger and used Star City’s new resources to begin Dawn City’s construction and introduce policies encouraging population growth.
• By Dawn 368, Star City had begun building Dawn City, replaced the West Supply Zone’s warband system with military management, and established a navy in the South Supply Zone.
• Ji He reformed Star City’s currency and institutions, while Feng Qi worried about his exhausting workload and ordered him to cultivate for an hour each day.
• Feng Qi criticized Ji He’s aggressive marriage targets and told him to give ordinary people time to adapt instead of sacrificing them for progress.
• Ji He accepted Feng Qi’s advice, and Feng Qi warned him that he would begin monthly checks of his Bloodline Strength.