Chapter Summaries

Feng Qi searched the future Database after discovering that his private mailbox had been wiped, learning about the Dawn Army’s leaders and the mysterious Mu Yao. A video of a Domain Field invasion led him to suspect that the Road to Heaven was a secret front line against the source of the invasions, and he ended the chapter determined to find it.

• Feng Qi found no messages in his private mailbox and searched the Database for information about Mu Qing and the Dawn Army.
• Feng Qi learned that the Dawn Army’s twelve core members were known as One Demon, Three Sha, Eight Heavenly Kings, and that Mu Yao had succeeded Mu Qing before mysteriously disappearing.
• Feng Qi found no reliable information about Mu Yao and considered whether she had come from the Road to Heaven.
• Feng Qi watched footage of humans fighting Domain Creatures during an invasion and wondered whether some of the humans emerging from pillars of light had come from the Road to Heaven.
• Feng Qi and the narrator considered whether the Road to Heaven was a secret front line against Domain invasions, and Feng Qi resolved to search for it.

Feng Qi studied cultivation knowledge, then traveled east through the ruined world and fought a powerful gorilla-like Domain Creature. After defeating it with his Blood Source ability, he gained Brute Strength and questioned whether the narrator also existed in reality, prompting the narrator to deny it three times.

• Feng Qi studied a three-star Spirit Cultivation Method and the expanded technique research course, then left the Underground Shelter with a Wolf Tooth Club.
• Feng Qi traveled east through the wasteland, collected spiritual plants, and entered an expanded city ruin.
• Feng Qi fought a white-furred gorilla-like Domain Creature, activated Blood Source after it grabbed him, and overwhelmed it with his strength.
• Feng Qi killed the creature with the Wolf Tooth Club and gained the Brute Strength ability.
• Feng Qi asked whether the narrator existed in reality, and the narrator gave a triple denial.

Feng Qi reunited with Sucker at the Abandoned Hospital and used her strength to break into the Scarlet Institute's underground base. There he found evidence that human evolution could produce Rune Crystals, while Domain Creatures evolved toward the opposite endpoint, deepening the mystery of their origins.

• Feng Qi traveled cautiously to the Abandoned Hospital, avoiding Domain Creatures, and reunited with Sucker, who attached herself to his chest.
• Feng Qi found the hidden metal door, but his attempts to open it and get Sucker to punch it failed until he provoked her combat mode with a blood-red insect.
• Sucker crushed the insect and struck the door with such force that the surrounding structure collapsed, revealing a passage into the underground base.
• Feng Qi explored the base's plaza and laboratories, finding dead juvenile Domain Creatures in nutrient tanks and preserved paper documents.
• Feng Qi read a file suggesting humans could form Rune Crystals as they evolved, while Domain Creatures' Rune Crystals dissolved at their evolutionary endpoint.
• Feng Qi wondered whether Domain Creatures came from an unexplored dark world that was the source of humanity's disasters.

Feng Qi searched the Scarlet Institute’s underground base, learned that Little Black might have been created, and escaped when it attacked Sucker. On his way back, he encountered a Blood-colored Eye weakened by a flaming figure and considered killing it to gain telekinesis.

• Feng Qi found a Scarlet Institute report describing Little Black as a created life form with no known weaknesses, and he wondered who had made it and why it pursued him.
• When Little Black approached, Feng Qi threw Sucker into its path; she fought the black mist while he failed to enter the institute’s locked second underground level and fled.
• Feng Qi returned through the Metal Passage to the Abandoned Hospital and found a Blood-colored Eye feeding on the corpse of the ape-like Domain Creature he had killed.
• A flaming humanoid attacked the Blood-colored Eye, which restrained and tore it apart with telekinesis, but the scattered flames then ambushed and scorched the eye.
• The Blood-colored Eye destroyed the remaining flames and entered a weakened, hibernation-like state, and Feng Qi asked the narrator whether he could take it down.

Feng Qi killed the Blood-colored Eye and absorbed golden mist that improved his mental strength and unlocked telekinesis. After testing his new powers and suffering a fall when his spiritual power ran out, he reached the shelter and resumed studying with improved memory.

• Feng Qi smashed the sleeping Blood-colored Eye's Rune Crystal and then burst its eye, killing it and absorbing the golden mist it released.
• Feng Qi checked his status panel and realized that killing Domain Creatures could increase his Bloodline Evolution Points without the limits of the Slaughter Milestone.
• Feng Qi used telekinesis to clean himself and learned to hover and fly, but his spiritual power ran out and he fell, breaking three ribs.
• The narrator explained that golden mist from Domain Creatures could improve Feng Qi's spiritual power and that it recovered automatically after exhaustion.
• Feng Qi reached Star City Shelter and studied at the Database console, finding that his improved mental strength helped him learn and remember material more quickly.

Feng Qi studied Biological Science to prepare for infiltrating the Scarlet Institute and discovered that the Destiny Association had still been founded by three children. As Black Mist arrived to kill him at the end of the Future Dreamland, Feng Qi tried to fight back and asked what Talent Ability he would gain by killing the narrator.

• Feng Qi studied Biological Science and found a document describing a way to cure hair loss, which he considered a possible research achievement at the Scarlet Institute.
• Feng Qi learned that the three children had secretly formed the Destiny Association at a suburban Star City teahouse, and resolved to teach them a harsher lesson next time.
• Feng Qi read about Xiao Xin's cultivation research, confirmed that she grew stronger under pressure, and decided to keep giving her a reason to catch up with him.
• As his time in the Future Dreamland ended, Feng Qi saw Black Mist approach and used telekinetic force against it, but Black Mist swallowed the force.
• Feng Qi prepared to strike Black Mist with Fierce Tiger Fist and asked what Talent Ability he would receive if he killed the narrator; the narrator answered that he would gain the Talent Title Unfilial Son and the ability to summon a Blue Knight Sword.

After returning from the Future Dreamland, Feng Qi recorded his gains, ate to satisfy his enhanced hunger, and checked the Academy forum and his class group chat. He saw Lü Yue defeat an instructor and confirmed his students were preparing for the Tiger Soul Concept Competition, then tried to summon the Narrator.

• Feng Qi used telekinesis to record his improved strength and five findings from the Future Dreamland, including details about Mu Qing, Xiao Xin, Black Mist, and Bloodline Evolution Points.
• Feng Qi ate food from his dormitory refrigerator to ease the intense hunger caused by his improved constitution, then opened his balcony door to air out the room.
• Feng Qi watched a forum video of Lü Yue defeating Teacher Xue in a challenge and recognized Lü Yue's formidable combat strength.
• Feng Qi checked the Cultivation Method Class One group chat and saw students reviewing Human Body Seed God material for the Tiger Soul Concept Competition.
• Feng Qi called for the Narrator several times, insulted it as its father, and received the Narrator's indignant reply.

Feng Qi’s Human Body Seed God concept won overwhelming support during the Tiger Soul Concept Competition preliminary round, putting Star City Academy in first place and drawing attention from research institutes. Bai Fusheng turned down an offer for Feng Qi to join another institute and looked forward to his future at Star City Academy.

• Feng Qi watched other academy classes present their concepts, including Gale Academy’s poorly received Cell Regeneration and Galaxy Academy’s promising Pupil Technique.
• Star City Academy’s Cultivation Method Class presented Feng Qi’s Human Body Seed God concept during its livestream slot.
• The concept earned an average score of 9 out of 10, placing Star City Academy seven points ahead of Galaxy Academy.
• Feng Qi and the concept became widely discussed online as Star City Academy emerged as a likely championship contender.
• Bai Fusheng declined an old friend’s invitation for Feng Qi to work at Skyfall Research Institute after graduation.

After the Human Body Seed God concept advanced through the Tiger Soul Concept Competition, Feng Qi welcomed new students to Combat Class Three and heard their views on humanity’s future. Lü Yue revealed that he expected humanity’s chances of victory to be slim, while Feng Qi and the others ended the discussion holding onto hope.

• The Human Body Seed God concept entered the qualifiers, and Feng Qi left the rest of the competition to the students of Cultivation Method Class One.
• Feng Qi brought Lin Ran and Mu Qing to Combat Class Three, where the students introduced themselves and shared their backgrounds.
• Mu Qing nervously introduced herself as a Scavenger, and Xia Long and Yan Fu reassured her that Scavengers deserved respect.
• Feng Qi asked the students to discuss the future, and Lü Yue said humanity’s chances of winning were extremely slim.
• Lü Yue asked whether Feng Qi would keep struggling if defeat were inevitable, and Feng Qi said he would persevere until the end or a miracle appeared.
• Lin Ran declared that he would develop a world-shaking Super Cultivation Method, while Feng Qi recalled that it would later hinder humanity and cause millions of deaths.

Feng Qi learned to brew Clear Heart Wine with Le Ping'an, using money advanced by Bai Fusheng to buy the ingredients, and discovered it replenished his energy more efficiently than Rune Crystals. After preparing to enter Future Dreamland and investigate the Scarlet Institute, he fell asleep with the narrator protesting.

• Feng Qi asked Le Ping'an to make a potion like Merit Wine, and Le Ping'an sent him a materials list for Clear Heart Wine.
• Feng Qi persuaded Bai Fusheng to advance three million from his Tiger Soul Concept Competition prize money, and bought the ingredients for Clear Heart Wine.
• Feng Qi brought the ingredients to Le Ping'an's dormitory, where Le Ping'an taught him how to brew Clear Heart Wine.
• Feng Qi drank the Clear Heart Wine and replenished 175% of his energy, then considered buying equipment to brew it himself.
• Feng Qi prepared to enter Future Dreamland to investigate the Scarlet Institute, but the narrator protested when he told it to get to work.

Feng Qi read his future self’s emails and learned that Wei Wei had revealed the Scarlet Institute’s secret Counter-Infiltration Plan: Rune Modifiers were humans transformed to infiltrate the world’s dark side and find the source of calamities. The revelations cleared his doubts about the institute, but he continued searching for answers about vanished powerhouses and the hidden enemy.

• Feng Qi checked his profile and discovered that history remembered him as a celebrated genius who died at twenty-nine in a Rune Crystal research accident.
• Feng Qi read his emails describing his work at the Scarlet Institute, his growing trust with Wei Wei, and his suspicions about the institute’s secret projects.
• Feng Qi learned that Wei Wei was trying to replicate Mu Qing, and that repeated cloning failures led her to test other Rune Crystals.
• Feng Qi read that Wei Wei had explained how Rune Modifiers could disguise themselves as Domain Creatures and use Space Crystals to enter the world’s dark side.
• Feng Qi concluded that the Scarlet Institute served humanity and had secretly protected young geniuses from assassins, but he still wondered where vanished powerhouses had gone and who the hidden enemy was.

Feng Qi read his future self’s mailbox and learned that the Scarlet Institute secretly protected humanity and planned to destroy the links between the Dark World and the real world. The final entries revealed that the Dark Forces attacked his future self’s branch base, where he chose to fight rather than surrender and left Feng Qi a message to keep going.

• Feng Qi read that the Scarlet Institute had recruited his future self into its core salvation plan and was secretly creating Rune Modifiers to search for and destroy the worlds’ teleportation points.
• Wei Wei told his future self that the Scarlet Institute had captured Dark Forces infiltrators, but they died by implanted poison before they could be questioned.
• After the Mu Lin City base was destroyed, Wei Wei grieved for a student she had valued, then later turned her anger into resolve and joked about cloning ten thousand Mu Qings to attack the Dark Forces.
• Wei Wei revealed that a mysterious woman had given the Scarlet Institute’s first director Mu Qing’s Rune Crystal and had given Wei Wei youth.
• His future self became director of a new branch base, which the Dark Forces attacked repeatedly; as the base fell, he destroyed sensitive materials and joined the fight.
• His future self left Feng Qi a final message saying that their lives had light and urging him to keep carrying the burden forward.

After learning the Scarlet Institute's secrets, Feng Qi decided it might be an ally and headed east to investigate a mysterious trace of life. He reunited with Little Suction Cup and prepared to use a nearby Domain Creature to delay Little Black as they continued their journey.

• Feng Qi read the Scarlet Institute's emails and concluded that it might cooperate with him, potentially helping with Mo Fei's Brain in a Vat plan and obtaining an Authority Account.
• The narrator revealed that it sensed a faint trace of life east of Feng Qi, so Feng Qi left the shelter and ran toward the City Ruins using telekinetic thrust.
• Feng Qi avoided Domain Creatures and gathered spiritual plants as he traveled east, then found Little Suction Cup at the Abandoned Hospital and fed her all four plants.
• Feng Qi chose to keep exploring east instead of returning to Star City Shelter or investigating the Scarlet Institute's Underground Second Floor Laboratory.
• Feng Qi located Little Black and found a dangerous electric elemental life form to delay it, then jumped down from a building and landed safely with telekinesis.

Feng Qi crossed the City Ruins and entered the Plains Area, relying on Sucker to defeat Domain Creatures along the way. When Little Black caught up, Feng Qi threw Sucker toward it and continued onward alone.

• Feng Qi threw Sucker at a Red Scale Snake, and she burst out of its belly with a punch that killed it.
• Feng Qi crossed the ruined city under corrosive blood rain, then entered a flower-covered plain and learned from the Narrator about spirit plants.
• A scarecrow Domain Creature used mind control on Feng Qi, but Sucker resisted its attack and destroyed it with her fist wind.
• The Narrator warned Feng Qi that Little Black had caught up, and Feng Qi threw Sucker toward it before running onward.

Feng Qi reached a Sky Pit and found a glowing statue of a spear-wielding woman, whose touch triggered fragmented memories of her helping people across history. The visions ended as Mu Qing appeared, leaving Feng Qi to discover what the statue’s life fluctuation meant.

• Feng Qi avoided a powerful Stone Mountain Domain Creature after the narrator warned that its defenses countered his abilities.
• Feng Qi followed the narrator’s directions to a Sky Pit and found a jade-glowing statue of a spear-wielding woman at its bottom.
• When Feng Qi touched the statue, his Nightmare ability showed the woman saving the young Ye Huang and offering him power for revenge.
• Feng Qi saw the woman encourage a researcher to continue the Rune Modifier Project and help establish the Scarlet Laboratory.
• Feng Qi witnessed the woman persuade the Girl Doll to devote herself to humanity’s rise, then give the dying Wei Wei a golden bead in exchange for her continued work.
• The fifth memory began with Mu Qing appearing.

Feng Qi witnessed Mu Yao’s memories and learned how she had sought out people and forces that could help humanity, including recruiting Mu Qing to build the Scavenger Army. The memories ended with Mu Yao fighting alone as the world fell to domains, leaving Feng Qi with a deeper understanding of her lonely, unwavering struggle.

• Mu Yao approached Mu Qing and urged her to establish a Scavenger Army by uniting the Scavenger factions, promising to help her.
• Feng Qi recognized the Mysterious Girl as Mu Yao and confirmed that she was the miracle Lü Yue had described, though the forces she helped had eventually been destroyed.
• Mu Yao visited Wei Wei’s Scarlet Institute, affectionately encouraged Sucker to grow into someone who would serve humanity, and teased her about her hair.
• Feng Qi saw memories of Mu Yao repeatedly searching for and nurturing people she believed could become miracles for humanity.
• Mu Yao fought a vast army of Domain Creatures as the world was consumed, unleashed a devastating attack, and froze into a statue after lamenting that no one stood with her at dusk.

Feng Qi learned that Mu Yao’s lingering imprint might reveal more about the Dark Forces once his bloodline and sea of consciousness grew stronger, then turned to hunting while Sucker bought him time. He killed a Domain Creature and gained the seemingly useless Tough Teeth ability.

• Feng Qi reviewed fragments of Mu Yao’s memories, and the narrator explained that his weak sea of consciousness limited how much he could process.
• Feng Qi considered the mysteries of Mu Yao, the Dark Forces, Wang Jinsheng, Lin Ran, and Little Black, deciding to investigate them gradually.
• The narrator reminded Feng Qi to help Sucker, so Feng Qi searched for a nearby Domain Creature he could defeat.
• Feng Qi used Blood Source and telekinesis to overpower and kill an elk-like Domain Creature.
• Feng Qi gained the Tough Teeth evolvable prefix title, complained that it was useless, and traded insults with the narrator.

Feng Qi learned how Talent Abilities and Domain Creatures were ranked, then fought and killed a masked muscular Domain Creature with the narrator’s advice. Before he could check what Talent Ability he had gained, a group of similar creatures rushed toward him, and he fled.

• Feng Qi asked the narrator about Eye of Truth and learned that Talent Abilities had ranks, while Domain Creatures were measured by both strength and calamity rating.
• The narrator located a muscular Domain Creature nearby, and Feng Qi charged at the masked spear-wielder.
• After the creature dodged his first attack and threw him back, Feng Qi used telekinesis to bind it and landed a punch on its White Bone Mask.
• The Domain Creature grappled Feng Qi and nearly strangled him, but he bit through its arm, dislocated its jaw, and beat it to death.
• Blood energy entered Feng Qi, but before he could check his new Talent Ability, a group of masked creatures approached, and he ran.

Feng Qi escaped the White Bone Mask creatures and learned that his new ability could develop into a Fusion-Type Prefix Title by taking dormant talents from their kin. He returned to the plains to hunt for useful abilities, but Little Black arrived and defeated the Sky Behemoth before turning its attention to Feng Qi.

• Feng Qi fled the humanoid Domain Creatures into the Sky Pit and checked his status panel, discovering the New Moon Curse Seal and a new ability without a Prefix Title.
• The narrator explained that Feng Qi could complete the ability by hunting kin with the same dormant bloodline talent, and Feng Qi vowed to kill them once he was strong enough.
• Unable to reach the Energy Nodes, Feng Qi returned to the plains to search for Domain Creatures whose abilities might be useful to him.
• A Sky Behemoth flew over Feng Qi and attacked Little Black with a compressed energy sphere, but Little Black absorbed the blast and returned its energy as a beam.
• The Sky Behemoth fled after Little Black blasted it, and Little Black turned toward Feng Qi, who challenged it with a middle finger and a Fierce Tiger Fist stance.

Feng Qi recorded the strength and intelligence he gained from the Future Dreamland and weighed three possible paths for his next timeline. He chose to join the Scarlet Institute and focus on uncovering the Dark Forces, but the narrator’s final answer was blocked by an expired subscription notice.

• Feng Qi wrote down his new abilities, Bloodline Evolution Points, and intelligence about the Scarlet Institute, Mu Yao, and Little Black.
• He considered joining the Scarlet Institute, helping Mu Qing establish the Dawn Army, or becoming Blackened to approach the Dark Organization.
• Feng Qi rejected the Blackened path because of its uncertainty and the suffering it could bring his future self.
• After discussing the risks with the narrator, Feng Qi chose the Scarlet Institute timeline and planned to investigate the Dark Forces.
• Feng Qi argued that rooting out the Dark Forces and advancing human civilization mattered more than focusing only on personal strength.
• The narrator’s expired subscription notice prevented it from answering Feng Qi’s question, and he cursed the system.