Chapter Summaries

Feng Qi woke from the Sacrifice Timeline’s memories, learned more about the Black Shadow faction, and prepared to investigate its Domain Field while the sucker fought Black Mist. He then tested his evolved strength by attacking a Blood Leopard outside the Scarlet Secret Base.

• Feng Qi destroyed the brain that had preserved his memories, then agreed with the narrator not to read the Sacrifice Timeline’s memories again unless necessary.
• Feng Qi reviewed Scarlet Institute records about the Black Shadow and concluded that finding its Domain Field could provide a way to weaken the faction.
• Feng Qi sent the sucker to fight the arriving Black Mist, then decided to return to the Star City Shelter and search for the Black Shadow’s Domain Field.
• Feng Qi left the Abandoned Hospital, transformed into his Bone Warrior form, and attacked a sleeping Blood Leopard.
• Feng Qi fought the Blood Leopard while drawing on combat instincts from the Sacrifice Timeline’s memories.

Feng Qi gained the Bone Marrow Talent Ability after defeating a bone-controlling Domain Creature, then returned to Star City Shelter to research the future and search for the Black Shadow faction’s Domain Field. He found a promising lead in the Secret Shadow Domain Field database entry.

• Feng Qi killed the Blood Leopard and gained the Swiftness Talent Ability before heading toward Star City Shelter.
• Feng Qi activated Blood Source, defeated a humanoid Domain Creature that controlled and reshaped bones, and gained the Bone Marrow Talent Ability.
• Feng Qi spared the kneeling Goat-Head Demons, considering them potential allies against Little Black, and ran to Star City Shelter.
• Feng Qi reviewed records about Old Wang and the Technology Research Institute and Tiger Soul Research Institute in the underground database.
• Feng Qi searched the Domain Field Database for the Black Shadow faction and opened the Secret Shadow Domain Field profile.

Feng Qi researched the Secret Shadow Domain Field and the Future Research Institute, concluding that the institute likely supported humanity and deciding to investigate it on a future timeline. He began memorizing the New World game code so he could bring the Super Virtual Game into existence early, but the vast code left him struggling to retain it.

• Feng Qi found that the Demon Shadow in the Secret Shadow Domain Field resembled the black shadow and decided to hire a Domain Battle Squad to investigate it on the next timeline.
• Feng Qi searched for the Savior game, learned that it had become New World, and discovered the Future Research Institute’s role in developing the game’s Virtual Game Pods.
• Feng Qi reviewed the Future Research Institute’s conflict with the Technology Research Institute and reasoned that the institute likely helped humanity while keeping its actions hidden.
• Feng Qi decided to investigate the Future Research Institute on a future timeline and began memorizing New World’s code to develop the Super Virtual Game ahead of schedule.
• Feng Qi struggled to memorize the code, asked the narrator for help, and continued studying after their verbal sparring.

Feng Qi abandoned memorizing the Super Virtual Game code, learned the Dragon Grasping Technique, and studied future Domain Battle Squad configurations before heading to the Mist Zone to test whether Lin Ran had awakened inside the Mist Lord. The Mist Lord’s struggle suggested Lin Ran was fighting for control, while Black Mist tore through the zone; Feng Qi then encountered a mist-formed face that recognized him as Brother Qi.

• Feng Qi gave up memorizing the game code and decided he would learn programming after returning to reality.
• Feng Qi memorized the Dragon Grasping Technique and studied Domain Battle Squad sizes, rankings, roles, and future professions.
• Feng Qi watched technique research tutorials until the narrator warned him that Black Mist was approaching, then he ran to the Mist Zone.
• Feng Qi entered the mist and called for Lin Ran, causing the Mist Lord to recognize his name and convulse as its restraints shattered.
• Black Mist arrived and fought through the mist while Feng Qi fled deeper into the zone, and the narrator noted that Black Mist had grown stronger.
• A mist-formed face blocked Feng Qi and asked whether he was really Brother Qi and had survived.

Feng Qi returned from the Future Dreamland with a plan to help Lin Ran resist the Mist Lord and began pursuing his Super Virtual Game idea, which drew the Scarlet Institute’s interest. In a new future timeline, he discovered that he was destined to be assassinated on the day he returned to reality, leaving him only about thirteen minutes to survive.

• Lin Ran told Feng Qi that his attempt to reverse-parasitize the Mist Lord had failed, but urged him to develop a method to protect his consciousness from erosion; the Mist Lord then killed Feng Qi.
• Back in reality, Feng Qi recorded his gains and intelligence, told Lin Ran to pursue both Anti-Consciousness Parasitism and a method to protect consciousness, and studied programming for his Super Virtual Game project.
• Feng Qi posted his game concept on the Black Box Forum, where users debated its feasibility and offered development suggestions; the Scarlet Institute’s Wei Wei later invited him to build the project there, but he declined.
• After choosing to investigate the Future Research Institute, Feng Qi entered Future Dreamland and checked the historical database, which said he had been assassinated at Star City Academy on September 18, 2022.
• Feng Qi realized September 18 was the day he entered Future Dreamland and that only about thirteen minutes remained before his predicted death.

Feng Qi realized an assassin would kill him shortly after he returned from the Future Dreamland, so he set out to grow stronger and prepare to hunt a magic-immune statue. He recruited twenty-eight Goat-Head Demons to help him sweep the City Ruins, while the taunting Three Tails followed him.

• Feng Qi concluded that a hidden faction had arranged his assassination and decided to strengthen himself before waking, since he could not rely on the Scarlet Institute or Lin Ran for help.
• Feng Qi learned that his death report was restricted, suspected a spiritually focused faction was responsible, and chose to hunt the Magic Immunity Statue after building up his strength.
• Feng Qi searched the City Ruins, failed to catch the agile Three Tails, and confirmed that Nightmare had vanished after he took its ability.
• Feng Qi entered the Goat-Head Demons' lair and discovered that the flesh statue had no life after its power was stripped away.
• Twenty-eight Goat-Head Demons recognized Feng Qi's power and worshipped him, so he led them out to hunt Domain Creatures while waiting for Little Black.

Feng Qi hunted Domain Creatures in the City Ruins, gained new abilities, and defeated the Stone Statue Domain Creature with the Goat-Head Demons’ sacrifice, earning the Purple Soul enhancement. When Black Mist attacked him after he woke, Purple Soul blocked its control and Feng Qi transformed to seize the attacker.

• Feng Qi gained Tough Hide by killing a Crocodile-like Domain Creature, then avoided a powerful Fire Elemental and continued hunting near the Abandoned Hospital.
• Feng Qi defeated a giant Domain Creature in Blood Source Form and gained Giant Strength, then tried and failed to catch the taunting Three Tails.
• Feng Qi sent Little Suction Cup to fight Black Mist, then traveled to the plains and gained Ambush by killing another Domain Creature.
• Feng Qi battled the Stone Statue, and the Goat-Head Demons sacrificed themselves to replenish his vitality and empower him to destroy it.
• Feng Qi crushed the Stone Statue’s true body and gained Purple Soul, but the battle left his bones shattered; Three Tails mocked him until Little Black arrived and killed him.
• After waking, Feng Qi discovered Black Mist’s attack was stopped by Purple Soul, transformed into a blood giant, and seized the Domain Transcendent Creature.

Feng Qi bluffed a Domain assassin into believing he belonged to a powerful Domain faction, gaining two Miracle Stones and a contact in the alliance. After the assassin left, Feng Qi remained trapped in skeletal form without blood and qi, and the chapter ended with him examining the stones and wondering how to use them.

• Feng Qi spared the Domain assassin and convinced it that he belonged to a Domain faction, learning that it served an alliance of weak races that targeted talented young humans.
• Feng Qi pressured the assassin into promising two Miracle Stones and planted a fake Death Mark inside it before letting it leave.
• Feng Qi tried rubbing Merit Wine on his bones to restore his blood and qi, but it had no effect, so he planned to hunt animals in the academy's back mountain after dark.
• Feng Qi refused Lin Ran's invitation to dinner because he could not leave his dormitory in skeletal form.
• The Domain assassin returned at night with two Miracle Stones, and Feng Qi removed the fake mark and obtained its contact information.
• Feng Qi added the assassin, whose account name was Black Night Walker, on a messaging app and examined the Miracle Stones without knowing how to use them.

Feng Qi hunted animals on Star City Academy’s back mountain to restore his vital energy, then learned that Miracle Stones could strengthen bloodlines but offered him little benefit. After saving one stone and planning for the future, he joined Lin Ran, Lü Yue, and Mu Qing at the academy’s Mid-Autumn Festival gala, which ended with students releasing blessing lanterns beneath a cleared sky.

• Feng Qi used the Narrator’s help to hunt wild animals on the back mountain until his vital energy recovered enough for him to return to his original appearance.
• Feng Qi ate most of a Miracle Stone and gained 52 Bloodline Evolution Points, then stored the other stone in a metal box for a possible exchange with the Domain Assassin.
• Feng Qi spent the next two days studying and planning before Lin Ran called him to the Mid-Autumn Festival gala.
• Feng Qi joined Lin Ran, Lü Yue, and Mu Qing at the gala, where a mysterious expert parted the clouds to reveal the full moon.
• Feng Qi wrote that he wished to live a long life, then released his blessing Kongming Lantern with the other students as midnight arrived.

Feng Qi reconsidered his future plans after changes to the real-world timeline made undercover work riskier, then entered Future Dreamland to investigate the Future Research Institute and learn what had changed. He arrived in the familiar dream world and approached Little Cripple, but the narrator stopped him to watch it do the splits.

• Feng Qi and Lin Ran criticized Star City Academy for tying Cultivation System Framework study to credits and evaluations, and Feng Qi decided to look into changing the rule in a future timeline.
• Feng Qi tutored Lin Ran in cultivation method research at the Academy Library and hoped they could face the future together.
• Feng Qi revised his plans, choosing to cultivate students to enter the Future Research Institute, work with the Scarlet Research Institute, and seek intelligence through the Black Shadow Assassin.
• Feng Qi decided not to contact the Technology Research Institute or Tiger Soul Research Institute and avoided reading the Sacrifice Timeline's memories.
• Feng Qi drank Merit Wine until his energy was full, entered Future Dreamland, and headed toward the Star City Shelter to investigate the Future Research Institute.
• Little Cripple roared at Feng Qi, but the narrator interrupted him and asked to see Little Cripple do the splits.

Feng Qi searched the Star City Shelter and read messages from his future self and Wei Wei, learning that his future self had died mysteriously at twenty-five and that the Future Research Institute might be tied to the Technology Research Institute. The messages also revealed possible research paths for his next timeline, and Feng Qi decided to visit the Scarlet Secret Base to learn what became of Old Wang and Lin Ran.

• Feng Qi found the shelter’s Data Console and discovered that he had died mysteriously at age twenty-five on this future timeline.
• Feng Qi read his future self’s messages about investigating the Future Research Institute, which appeared to cooperate with the Technology Research Institute but later opposed it.
• Feng Qi learned that Jia Yi had found a lethal drug at the Future Research Institute and that its director was Li Xingchen, deepening suspicions about the institute’s role in his death.
• Feng Qi read Wei Wei’s messages about knowledge implantation, possible Rune Modification for his future self, and the Scarlet Institute’s move to its secret base.
• Feng Qi decided to visit the Scarlet Secret Base to check whether Old Wang had deciphered “Blood Sacrifice” and whether Lin Ran had succeeded.

Feng Qi found Little Suction Cup at the Abandoned Hospital and entered the Scarlet Institute’s secret base, where he read Wei Wei’s records about the Knowledge Implantation Project and the people who had supported it. Wei Wei’s final message said she had left the base to enjoy one last meal, while the completed project’s materials were stored in the Database.

• Feng Qi crossed the City Ruins, avoided the Fire Elemental Lifeform, and found Little Suction Cup in the Abandoned Hospital.
• Feng Qi used Wei Wei’s password to enter the Scarlet Institute’s secret base with Little Suction Cup.
• Feng Qi read Wei Wei’s records about the institute’s research, the Dawn Organization, Jia Yi’s intelligence, and two proposed Rune Modification plans.
• Wei Wei recorded that the Knowledge Implantation Project had succeeded and that the Memory Liquid’s success rate had reached nearly 99%.
• Wei Wei left a final message saying she had stepped down, would leave the base to eat a good meal, and had stored the project materials in the Database.

Feng Qi returned from a future timeline with Scarlet Institute materials and planned a new timeline focused on investigating the Future Research Institute while opposing the Technology Research Institute. He disclosed his time-traveling ability to Wei Wei and Scarlet’s senior staff, secured their cooperation, and began arranging rune modification.

• Feng Qi memorized the Scarlet Institute’s knowledge implantation, rune modification, and Blood Sacrifice materials before Little Black killed him and sent him back to reality.
• Feng Qi chose to investigate the Future Research Institute more aggressively, oppose the Technology Research Institute, activate the Brain in a Vat Project, and strengthen the Dawn Army.
• Feng Qi woke without entering Future Dreamland, accepted that he was on a Sacrifice Timeline, and planned to seek rune modification at the Scarlet Institute.
• Feng Qi tricked Wei Wei into arranging his visit, then explained his timeline ability and the intelligence he had gathered from other futures.
• The Scarlet Institute’s senior staff agreed to cooperate with Feng Qi, and he gave Wei Wei the rune modification plan from a previous timeline.
• Wei Wei asked Feng Qi whether he would choose Demon Dragon or Dire Shadow rune modification.

Feng Qi underwent Gene Serum treatment and a month of intensive training at the Scarlet Institute before completing the Dire Shadow Rune Modification in a single session. Afterward, he planned to investigate the Future Research Institute and build his own force, while Wei Wei teased him about the ordeal.

• Feng Qi chose the Dire Shadow modification and agreed to remain at the Scarlet Institute for three months while preparing his body.
• Feng Qi obtained Bai Fusheng's approval for leave by claiming he was researching the Human Body Seed God concept, then received Gene Serum and began intensive training.
• Feng Qi reviewed Scarlet Institute records and suspected that Future Research Institute president Li Xingchen was a puppet backed by the Technology Research Institute and Domain Factions.
• Feng Qi visited Old Wang, passed on a message from the previous future timeline, and learned that Old Wang would continue deciphering Blood Sacrifice before reporting to the Scarlet Institute.
• After a month of training, Feng Qi began the Rune Modification and endured its extreme pain until he completed the procedure in one attempt, breaking the Scarlet Institute's record.
• Wei Wei praised Feng Qi's willpower and jokingly offered a castration procedure as compensation.

After leaving the Scarlet Institute, Feng Qi founded the Dawn Organization with students who believed his account of humanity’s doomed future and led them in secret operations against the Technology Research Institute. During a reconnaissance mission at Warehouse No. 2, Feng Qi was captured, but Li Xingchen unexpectedly turned on the garrison and helped him escape.

• Feng Qi spent two months adapting to the Dire Shadow Rune Crystal, reached the Bronze Lower Stage, and left the Scarlet Institute to return to Star City Academy.
• Feng Qi told Lü Yue, Xia Long, Yan Fu, and the other students about his timeline travels and humanity’s future, and they agreed to help him establish the Dawn Organization.
• Over the next three years, the Dawn Organization grew to 103 members, then Feng Qi led more than three hundred members into Future City and raided Warehouse No. 1 of the Technology Research Institute.
• The Future Research Institute learned that Feng Qi led the Dawn Organization and began hunting its members, who continued fighting despite mounting casualties.
• Feng Qi infiltrated Warehouse No. 2 to scout its defenses, but the garrison detected him, trapped him, and captured him after a fight.
• Li Xingchen arrived, killed the garrison soldier holding Feng Qi, and ordered his subordinates to attack the warehouse garrison while pretending over the communicator that the Dawn Organization had burned down Warehouse No. 2.

Feng Qi convinced Li Xingchen that he had traveled through timelines and revealed that Li Xingchen’s plans would fail, then persuaded him to cooperate with Dawn. With Li Xingchen’s intelligence, troops, and resources, Dawn began expanding its fight against the Technology Research Institute while Feng Qi hoped other hidden human factions would join them.

• Li Xingchen rescued Feng Qi from the burning warehouse, and Lü Yue helped them escape to a remote location.
• Feng Qi learned that Li Xingchen had infiltrated the Technology Research Institute’s network, controlled much of the Future Research Institute, and had killed his former teacher to prove his loyalty to the Domain Factions.
• Feng Qi recounted his experiences across timelines and predicted the Technology Research Institute’s imminent release of the Spiritual Energy Forbidden Zone, convincing Li Xingchen that his account was credible.
• Li Xingchen agreed to cooperate with Feng Qi, gave him a secure communicator, and ordered his troops to pretend to hunt Feng Qi.
• After Feng Qi recovered, Li Xingchen shared intelligence, sabotaged the Technology Research Institute with his soldiers, and provided Dawn with seized resources and a recruitment list.

Feng Qi learned that Li Xingchen had been arrested and executed as a supposed Human Traitor, then discovered that Li Xingchen had used his death to prepare a trusted successor within the Future Research Institute. The successor contacted Feng Qi, and the resistance gained a new companion.

• Li Xingchen warned Feng Qi that the Domain Faction behind the Technology Research Institute planned to attack the Dawn Organization and might expose him during an internal purge.
• Three months later, Feng Qi learned that Li Xingchen and more than ten Future Research Institute members had been arrested and sentenced to execution, so he investigated their charges and disappearance.
• Feng Qi watched as Li Xingchen was publicly executed, while Li Xingchen remembered his adoptive mentor and died believing his sacrifice had value.
• One month later, Feng Qi visited Li Xingchen's cenotaph, where the new director of the Future Research Institute identified himself as Li Xingchen's successor and offered to join Feng Qi.

After learning how Li Xingchen had sacrificed himself, Feng Qi arranged for Scarlet Institute to obtain Spirit Energy Technology and began building the Dawn Organization. Two years later, facing a choice between staying underground and exposing the Technology Research Institute, he decided to reveal the truth to the world.

• Feng Qi learned from Jia Hui that Li Xingchen had let his successor betray him to the Domain Faction as an act of loyalty, sacrificing himself to protect the plan.
• Feng Qi asked Wei Wei to retrieve Spirit Energy Technology data from a sewer so Scarlet Institute could publish it and develop into an Omnipotent Research Institute.
• Feng Qi and Lü Yue recruited talented people from Li Xingchen’s list and secretly expanded the Dawn Organization across Future City.
• Over two years, Jia Hui helped the Dawn Organization build a broad intelligence network, but its secrecy left it unable to gather a fighting force or contact other hidden human factions.
• Feng Qi weighed keeping the organization hidden against exposing the Technology Research Institute’s control by a Domain Faction, then chose to reveal the truth to the public.

Feng Qi seized Future City Central Television Station and broadcast the truth about the Technology Research Institute, hoping to plant doubt and inspire people to resist. As his message began reaching the public, Lü Yue died defending the station, and Feng Qi faced the forces breaking in, knowing his timeline was nearing its end.

• Feng Qi and Lü Yue went to the television station to expose the truth, while Feng Qi told Lü Yue to hold off the attackers for ten minutes and escape.
• Lü Yue fought through the station's guards and combat personnel as Feng Qi reached the control room and entered the live news studio.
• Feng Qi revealed the truth on air, and members of the Dawn Organization spoke out online, prompting some viewers to doubt the official story.
• Lü Yue stayed outside the station and fought wave after wave of reinforcements, eventually dying after delivering a final sword strike; Jianlan shattered beside him.
• Seeing doubt spread among the viewers, Feng Qi called on people to fight for humanity's survival, then rose to face the black-uniformed forces breaking into the control room.

Feng Qi faced execution after the Technology Research Institute suppressed his attempt to reveal its plans, believing the Dawn Organization’s allies had failed to appear. Just as the execution was about to begin, the Monk and hidden companions from several forces rallied to save him.

• In the underground water prison, the black figure questioned Feng Qi about his motives and plans, but refused to reveal the Domain Faction’s intentions.
• Three days later, Feng Qi was paraded through the streets and brought to the Spirit Execution Chair, where he reflected on Lü Yue, the Dawn Organization, and the regrets he would leave behind.
• As execution officers prepared to kill Feng Qi, the Monk arrived on the platform and challenged the City Defense Army.
• The Monk called forth hundreds of warriors from the Prajna Domain Battle Squad, and a burly fighter summoned the Victory Battle Squad.
• Jia Hui appeared with the Future Research Institute as more hidden companions answered the call, and the Monk revealed that he had kept his involvement secret.