Chapter Summaries

Feng Qi persuaded Bai Fusheng to let him establish a Virtual Reality Technology studio at Star City Academy, with three months to show results. He then found Fang Zhiyou on a bridge contemplating suicide after a breakup and convinced him to climb down, offering to help him become outstanding.

• Feng Qi proposed a Virtual Reality Technology major and studio to Bai Fusheng, promising the academy 30% of future profits.
• Bai Fusheng agreed to prepare a venue and dormitories if Feng Qi produced results within three months, and Feng Qi accepted the condition.
• Feng Qi went to Star City East District and found Fang Zhiyou sitting on a bridge after being dumped and considering suicide.
• Feng Qi told Fang Zhiyou that becoming outstanding would be a better way to answer his rivals than dying for love.
• Fang Zhiyou climbed down from the bridge and agreed to buy Feng Qi a late-night meal in exchange for his advice.

Feng Qi recruited Fang Zhiyou to improve his Future Virtual Engine and help create the highly realistic game "Savior," promising to fund the work and establish their studio at Star City Academy. Fang Zhiyou remained doubtful until Feng Qi revealed his credentials and award.

• Fang Zhiyou explained that the Technology Research Institute had rejected his funding application for the Future Virtual Engine, and Feng Qi offered to finance its improvement.
• Feng Qi described how the engine could power "Savior," a game intended to improve students’ combat training and support scientific and military research.
• Fang Zhiyou worried that building the game would require extensive spell testing, and Feng Qi told him to focus on refining the engine and training artists.
• Fang Zhiyou admitted he disliked cultivation method research and doubted his parents would let him pursue the project, so Feng Qi said their studio would be based inside Star City Academy.
• Fang Zhiyou questioned why the academy had agreed, and Feng Qi showed him his Star City Academy Teacher Work Permit and Silver Medal for Outstanding Contribution.

Feng Qi convinced Fang Zhiyou to develop virtual games with him and arranged for Bai Fusheng to persuade Fang Zhiyou’s parents. After reading about the upcoming student martial arts competition and its prize money, Feng Qi considered leading Combat Class Three to victory and earning funds for his plans.

• Feng Qi showed Fang Zhiyou his teaching certificate and silver medal, convincing him to work on virtual games despite his worries about his parents’ approval.
• Feng Qi paid for their meal after the food stall owner offered a discount in recognition of the silver medal.
• Feng Qi read a forum post about the upcoming New Student Group Martial Arts Competition and became interested in its prize money.
• Feng Qi judged Combat Class Three capable of competing for the championship, even without Lin Ran and Mu Qing.
• Feng Qi asked Bai Fusheng to persuade Fang Zhiyou’s parents to let him pursue virtual technology, and Bai Fusheng agreed to contact them the next day.

Feng Qi secured approval to research virtual technology at Star City Academy and arranged for Mu Qing to help train Combat Class Three. After Lü Yue defeated Lin Ran in a spar, Feng Qi called on Mu Qing to test Lü Yue’s strength.

• Bai Fusheng told Feng Qi that the Ministry of Education had approved his virtual technology research at Star City Academy, and said he would meet Fang Zhiyou’s parents about the research project.
• Feng Qi asked Mu Qing to help humble Combat Class Three before its Freshmen Team Martial Arts Competition, while Lin Ran described the unfinished Devour spell he had been researching.
• At Refinement Field No. 3, Feng Qi had the freshmen report their strength ratings and asked Lin Ran to spar with Lü Yue.
• Lin Ran unleashed a series of spells, but Lü Yue broke through his attacks with sword energy and forced him to surrender.
• Feng Qi then asked Mu Qing to test Lü Yue, and told Lin Ran to watch as Mu Qing demonstrated what it meant to be outclassed.

Feng Qi tested Lü Yue against Mu Qing, whose overwhelming strength shattered Lü Yue’s sword technique and left the arena damaged. After class, Feng Qi planned to learn how to brew Clear Heart Wine before his next journey into Future Dreamland.

• Feng Qi told Lü Yue to give his fight against Mu Qing everything, and Mu Qing destroyed Lü Yue’s sword qi with a punch.
• Lü Yue unleashed Skybreaker, but Mu Qing’s Great Strength Fist shattered all thirty-two energy swords and wrecked the arena; Lü Yue admitted defeat.
• Feng Qi reassured Lü Yue that Mu Qing’s strength was a blessing for humanity, then apologized to the stadium manager for the damage.
• Back in class, Feng Qi taught Fierce Tiger Fist and considered how to build a coordinated team for the upcoming New Student Group Martial Arts Competition.
• After lunch, Feng Qi bought materials for Clear Heart Wine and planned to visit Le Ping'an to learn how to brew it.

Feng Qi learned to brew Clear Heart Wine and prepared for another Future Dreamland journey, planning to hunt the werewolf while building an organization against the Dark Forces. Before entering the dreamland, he learned that Fang Zhiyou’s parents had agreed to send him to Star City Academy to work on virtual technology.

• Feng Qi spent several days learning Clear Heart Wine brewing from Le Ping'an and successfully made a bottle with his help.
• Feng Qi reviewed his plans for creating Savior and drank half a bottle of Clear Heart Wine, raising his energy to 163%.
• Feng Qi recorded clues about the werewolf and decided to build an organization while cooperating with the Scarlet Institute to investigate potential suspects.
• Bai Fusheng told Feng Qi that Fang Zhiyou's parents had agreed to let him leave school and join the virtual technology research project at Star City Academy.
• Feng Qi lay down to enter Future Dreamland and begin the Catch the Wolf Operation.

Feng Qi searched the shelter’s database and discovered that his future self had died young at the Scarlet Institute, then read his emails about cooperating with the institute to catch a werewolf among the students. The emails revealed that Le Ping'an had implanted a Listening Chip in him, identifying the werewolf.

• Feng Qi found the shelter’s black metal stele, opened the passage, and accessed the database.
• Feng Qi read his future profile, which described his achievements, restored honors, and mysterious death at age twenty-eight.
• Feng Qi searched the mailbox and read how his future self had convinced Wei Wei and the Scarlet Institute to cooperate in catching the werewolf.
• Feng Qi learned that the plan involved building the Dawn faction and getting the werewolf to implant a Listening Chip in him.
• Feng Qi read that after he was found with a chip, his future self identified Le Ping'an as the werewolf.

Feng Qi read the mailbox and watched evidence that Le Ping'an had implanted a Listening Chip in him, confirming Le Ping'an was a werewolf and prompting a long account of the Scarlet Institute’s investigation into the Technology Research Institute. The Institute launched a public Cellular Regeneration proposal as bait, and Feng Qi waited for the Dark Forces to take the hook.

• Feng Qi watched a recording of Le Ping'an implanting a Listening Chip in him and concluded that Le Ping'an was a werewolf.
• Feng Qi read that the Scarlet Institute investigated the Technology Research Institute, suspected it was tied to the Dark Forces, and found evidence that it had rejected artificial intelligence research before the proposer died and his work was destroyed.
• Feng Qi handed his organization over to Lü Yue, joined the Scarlet Institute, and later had the Listening Chip removed while continuing to assist the investigation.
• Feng Qi learned that the Scarlet Institute planned to bait the Technology Research Institute with Cellular Regeneration technology and volunteered to be the public proposer.
• The Scarlet Institute published a sixty-five-page report claiming Cellular Regeneration could be realized, drawing public attention to Feng Qi as watchers monitored the Technology Research Institute for a reaction.

Feng Qi read future messages from himself and Wei Wei, confirming that the Technology Research Institute was the Dark Forces and learning how the Scarlet Institute was driven underground. He set out for the Scarlet Institute’s secret base to seek the Star City Shelter Authority Account and information about Little Black.

• Feng Qi read his future messages describing the Technology Research Institute’s attacks on the Scarlet Institute and its infiltration by Domain Creatures.
• Feng Qi learned from Wei Wei that his unexplained death had led Mu Qing to claim his body, and that the Scarlet Institute had publicly abandoned its nonexistent Cellular Regeneration research.
• Wei Wei reported that the Scarlet Institute had a secret experimental base that could serve as a shelter and preserve information about Little Black and the Authority Account.
• Wei Wei described the Scarlet Institute’s growing conflict with the Technology Research Institute, Mu Qing’s rise and death, and Mu Yao’s leadership of the Dawn Army against the Dark Forces.
• Wei Wei’s final messages said the Scarlet Institute would relocate to its underground base after public accusations and the Technology Research Institute’s growing advantage.
• Feng Qi decided to go to the Scarlet Institute’s secret base for answers about the Authority Account and Little Black.

Feng Qi left Star City Shelter for the Scarlet Secret Base but encountered a camp of Goat-Head Demons and was chased north into a deadly field of creatures hatched from eggs. The Goat-Head Demons rescued him from the creatures, then inexplicably knelt and bowed to him.

• Feng Qi headed east toward the Scarlet Secret Base after leaving Star City Shelter, but detoured around a camp of humanoid Domain Creatures.
• A living-looking building detected Feng Qi, and more than twenty Goat-Head Demons chased him as he fled north.
• Feng Qi activated Blood Source to outrun the Goat-Head Demons, then found the road blocked by eggs that hatched creatures which fused and grew stronger when killed.
• The Narrator explained that the eggs were fragments of a Super Lifeform growing through a process of mutual slaughter, so Feng Qi turned back.
• The Goat-Head Demons blasted apart a powerful twisted creature and escorted Feng Qi out of the Super Lifeform's territory.
• The Goat-Head Demons knelt and bowed to Feng Qi, while the Narrator speculated that their behavior might relate to the statue Feng Qi had previously smashed and absorbed.

Feng Qi reached the Scarlet Secret Base with the Goat-Head Demons and unlocked its underground laboratory, where he found research suggesting Little Black was made of nano-worms. The chapter left him wondering whether Little Black was a spiritual energy super soldier created by the Technology Research Institute.

• Feng Qi realized the Goat-Head Demons mistook him for the statue’s lifeform and followed him as bodyguards, though he failed to communicate with them or use them to hunt.
• Feng Qi traveled through the City Ruins toward the Abandoned Hospital and noticed that Domain Creatures he had personally killed did not reappear.
• Feng Qi reunited with the sucker, entered the Abandoned Hospital, and opened the hidden door to the Scarlet Secret Base using his blood.
• Feng Qi accessed the base’s lower level, searched the database for Little Black, and watched a video explaining that Black Mist consisted of nano-worms.
• Feng Qi connected the nano-worm research to Mo Fei’s account of Spiritual Energy Nano-worms and wondered if Little Black was a super soldier created by the Technology Research Institute.

Feng Qi learned more about Little Black’s overwhelming abilities and mysterious origins, then watched messages from Zhu Bai Chang and Wei Wei reveal the Scarlet Institute’s research and Wei Wei’s final plans. Wei Wei had prepared the giant rune-modified lobster Mala in Room 203 for Feng Qi to kill, while her farewell urged him to carry humanity’s dreams forward.

• Feng Qi watched a Scarlet Institute video explaining that Spiritual Energy Nano-worms absorbed enormous amounts of energy and resisted physical, mental, and electronic attacks, while their materials might have come from the Road to Heaven.
• Zhu Bai Chang told Feng Qi that the Scarlet Institute had developed a brain-preservation container, that Little Black was a new life-form with an unactivated third form, and that Wei Wei had left him a gift in Room 203.
• Feng Qi searched the database for the missing Scarlet Institute personnel, then opened Wei Wei’s messages and watched a video of her lively Rune Crystal-powered Little Mu Qing consuming Nutrient Solution.
• Wei Wei’s records described creating the growing lobster Spicy, implanting it with a Great Strength Python Rune Crystal, and moving it to Laboratory 203 as it became a Domain Creature.
• Wei Wei wrote that Little Mu Qing had escaped after repelling the Silver Moon Domain Field, and that she had prepared Mala in Room 203 with energy sources so Feng Qi could kill it and possibly gain an immortality-like Talent Ability.
• Wei Wei left Feng Qi a farewell message urging him to carry their dreams forward, then added that her room held seasoning packets for eating Mala.

After reading Wei Wei’s message, Feng Qi faced Little Black and then sought out the centuries-old Spicy Lobster she had left behind. He weakened the lobster with Wei Wei’s hidden preparations and entered its enclosure as it neared death, ready to strike.

• Feng Qi learned that Little Black was approaching, moved to the underground base’s first level, and threw Sucker at it when it arrived.
• Sucker fought Little Black while the Goat-Head Demons refused to help, so Feng Qi returned to the second level and entered Room 203.
• Feng Qi found the 638-year-old Spicy Lobster and provoked it into fighting the Goat-Head Demons, who all died in the battle.
• Feng Qi found Wei Wei’s instructions and seasoning packets, loaded the seasoning into Room 208’s sprinkler system, and activated Room 203’s high-temperature heating.
• Feng Qi scanned the lobster, confirmed it was near death, entered its enclosure, and raised his fist toward it.

After killing Spicy Lobster in the Future Dreamland, Feng Qi gained Cell Regeneration and considered using rune-modified creatures to develop his abilities. He ate the lobster, then studied the Scarlet Institute’s proposals for humanity’s future before the Narrator urged him back to work.

• Feng Qi killed Spicy Lobster, gained 273 Blood Energy Points, and acquired the Cell Regeneration Talent Ability.
• Feng Qi and the Narrator discussed how rune-modified creatures might provide new abilities and help him grow stronger.
• Feng Qi cooked and ate Spicy Lobster, fulfilling Wei Wei’s wish for it to be seasoned spicy.
• Feng Qi searched the Database for his name and reviewed Scarlet Institute plans involving Cultivation Studies, technology, and biotechnology.
• Feng Qi considered the promise and dangers of creating Chimeric Lifeforms, then the Narrator interrupted his daydream about humanity’s future.

Feng Qi read Zhu Bai Chang’s final messages and renewed his resolve to save humanity, then left the Scarlet Institute’s underground base for Star City Shelter. He planned to study cultivation records and later move against the Technology Research Institute, while Suction Cup continued battling Little Black behind him.

• Feng Qi searched Zhu Bai Chang’s mailbox and read messages describing the Scarlet Institute’s history, its faith in him, and Zhu Bai Chang’s final decision to leave the base.
• Feng Qi reflected on the sacrifices of those who had come before him and resolved to keep pursuing humanity’s survival.
• Feng Qi left Suction Cup fighting Little Black and exited the underground base through the Metal Passage.
• Feng Qi chose not to travel east toward the Space Node and instead headed for Star City Shelter, intending to study cultivation records and strengthen himself.
• Feng Qi ran toward the shelter, drawing strength from the hopes and convictions of his predecessors.

Feng Qi fled a spreading mist in the Land of Buried Bones, fought off an Evil Spirit, and reached the Underground Shelter to learn a new combat technique. Little Black devoured the mist and spirits before arriving, and Feng Qi prepared to fight it and return to reality, where he planned to deal with the Technology Research Institute’s wolfman.

• Feng Qi encountered Lantern Lifeforms being attacked by Evil Spirits as a dangerous mist spread across the Land of Buried Bones.
• Feng Qi used his Blood Source ability to destroy an Evil Spirit, then fled the growing horde and reached the Underground Shelter before the mist caught him.
• Feng Qi learned the two-star Star Shattering Palm and reviewed research lessons while waiting for Little Black.
• Little Black devoured the Evil Spirits and mist, forcing the mist’s hidden lifeform to retreat before heading toward Star City Shelter.
• Feng Qi refused the narrator’s request, assumed Star Shattering Palm’s opening stance, and was swallowed by Little Black as he prepared to return to reality and remove the wolfman near him.

Feng Qi lured Le Ping'an to the academy’s back mountain and confronted him about serving the Domain Creatures. As Le Ping'an died, Feng Qi learned that his parents had accepted a deal with a Domain Creature to save his life, and he reaffirmed his resolve to fight for humanity as dawn broke over Star City Academy.

• Feng Qi organized what he had learned in the Future Dreamland, confirmed Le Ping'an as a werewolf, and planned to kill him without exposing himself.
• Feng Qi visited Le Ping'an, arranged to meet him at the back mountain, and spent the next day studying the academy’s camera coverage.
• Feng Qi confronted Le Ping'an at the back mountain, but Le Ping'an began dying by a method used by members of the Dark Forces to avoid capture.
• Feng Qi’s Nightmare ability revealed that Le Ping'an’s parents had accepted a Domain Creature’s bargain to save their terminally ill son, binding him to serve it.
• Le Ping'an died in Feng Qi’s arms after questioning what he would choose in his parents’ position, and his body dispersed into points of light.
• Feng Qi rejected Le Ping'an’s reasoning and renewed his determination to fight for humanity as the sun rose.

After Le Ping'an’s disappearance was ruled an unsolved case, Feng Qi chose to oppose the Technology Research Institute in his next future path and tried brewing Clear Heart Wine himself, but failed. He entered Future Dreamland and saw a world split between the blood moon and the sun, suggesting the future had changed.

• Law enforcement investigated Le Ping'an’s disappearance, found his shattered phone and sole footprints on the summit, and left the case unsolved.
• Feng Qi discussed the freshman team battle tournament with Lin Ran and Mu Qing, then chose a future path to build a force against the Technology Research Institute.
• Feng Qi received his alchemy equipment and botched his first attempt at brewing Clear Heart Wine by adding too much stabilizing agent.
• Feng Qi drank the remaining Clear Heart Wine and entered Future Dreamland.
• Feng Qi opened his eyes to a world divided between a blood moon in the west and a blazing sun in the east.

Feng Qi arrived in a future where humanity had survived longer and a statue honored his past efforts, but Star City Garrison soldiers mistook his Living Dead form for a Domain Creature and drove him into the Domain World. Injured by their attack, he began recovering while planning to gather Bloodline Evolution Points and find a way to look human again.

• Feng Qi found Star City Shelter fortified behind a steel wall and discovered that a statue made from Rune Crystals depicted him as a great man.
• When Feng Qi approached the shelter, Star City Garrison soldiers mistook him for a Domain Creature and rejected his claim that he was the Feng Qi from fifteen hundred years earlier.
• The garrison soldiers attacked Feng Qi, and he activated Blood Source to fight off their assault before fleeing toward the Domain World.
• Combat drones fired missiles at Feng Qi as he crossed into the Domain Field, leaving him badly injured after an explosion.
• Feng Qi decided to recover and hunt Domain Creatures for Bloodline Evolution Points, while his regeneration slowly repaired his bones.

Feng Qi recovered from his injuries, ventured west, and killed a hedgehog-like Domain Creature using telekinesis and hit-and-run tactics, gaining the Thorns ability. As he planned to keep hunting, the boundary between the worlds began to twist and the blood moon seemed to push the sun away, leaving him fearing the end of the world.

• Feng Qi considered why no one in this timeline knew he would return 1,500 years later and weighed abandoning the future timeline against evolving after reaching 1,000 Bloodline Evolution Points.
• Feng Qi traveled west and asked the Narrator to find him a weak Domain Creature to hunt.
• Feng Qi fought an oversized hedgehog-like Domain Creature with telekinesis and heavy punches, then wore it down by kiting it until he killed it.
• Feng Qi absorbed the creature's blood mist, gained the Thorns ability, and found that he still needed 110 Bloodline Evolution Points to evolve.
• Feng Qi saw the boundary between the worlds twist, the blood moon press the sun downward, and a massive aircraft rise from the Star City Shelter.