Chapter Summaries

Li Mu celebrated his upcoming perfect-score graduation with Zhang Yi, then took the written and practical assessments. During the virtual fleet battle, Li Mu used radar, precise attacks, and evasive maneuvers to destroy nearly a thousand enemy ships while protecting a human planet.

• Zhang Yi gave Li Mu a Spark Network group number for perfect-score graduates, and Li Mu promised to remember the favor.
• Li Mu completed the written exam with a perfect score and entered the virtual practical assessment in a standard Seed Destroyer.
• Li Mu used Hull Fusion to evade the enemy fleet’s opening laser barrage and destroyed a ship by striking its engine fuel compartment.
• Li Mu repeatedly fired the Super Main Cannon and changed position, destroying nearly a hundred enemy ships before the enemy commander reacted.
• The enemy fleet launched photon missiles to illuminate space, but Li Mu used distance and Deep Space Radar to evade its attacks and sink nearly a thousand ships.

Li Mu defeated the fleet in his assessment, handcrafted a destroyer, and graduated with full marks. While searching the Spark dungeon for a Shipboard Spark, he uncovered a mysterious black-quality Spark that the Female Phoenix’s treasure hunt had mistaken for red.

• Li Mu charged into the enemy fleet, used its own weapons against it, and impersonated the fleet commander to sow chaos, eventually sinking the last enemy ship after six hours.
• Li Mu handcrafted a biomimetic destroyer modeled after the three-legged golden crow and earned full marks from Zhang Yi.
• Li Mu chose to seek a Shipboard Spark in the Spark dungeon and used the Phoenix’s treasure-hunting ability to locate dangerous, high-quality wrecks.
• After nine days without finding an orange-quality Spark, Li Mu spent civilization fortune to strengthen the Female Phoenix’s search and sensed a red mark in the distance.
• Li Mu excavated a buried warship and discovered a black-quality Shipboard Spark, an extraordinary find that the treasure hunt had misidentified as red.

Li Mu discovered that the black Shipboard Spark was an Ember Spark and that his Second Origin HuoZhong could absorb it, though it needed a normal red-quality Shipboard Spark to complete its transformation. Unable to qualify for nearby Spark Alliance missions, he decided to apply for a loan so he could seek another spark after stabilizing several Phoenix Empire civilizations.

• Li Mu released the black Shipboard Spark from the First Origin HuoZhong’s suppression, and it fused with the Second Origin HuoZhong as the Phoenix became a huge phoenix egg in the Nirvana Flame.
• Li Mu learned that the black spark was an Ember Spark, a Life Seed that had returned after its Shipboard Spark went out, and realized the Second Origin HuoZhong needed to fuse with a normal red-quality Shipboard Spark to transform.
• Li Mu searched the Spark Alliance’s nearby missions but rejected them because he was not strong enough to defeat the leader-ranked Mist Beasts they involved.
• Li Mu considered ways to earn eligibility for another Shipboard Spark and decided to apply for a Spark Alliance loan rather than take on a dangerous mission.
• Li Mu planned to stabilize the civilization destiny of several Phoenix Empire civilizations before entering a Spark dungeon to search for a red-quality Shipboard Spark.

Li Mu fused an orange Shipboard Spark with the black Ember Spark, creating a genuine black-quality Twin Spark for the Phoenix. He transformed Golden Crow City into a powerful flying Titan Sky City, enhanced its buildings, and left it at LV35.

• Li Mu used the Female Phoenix to locate an orange Shipboard Spark and fused it with the black Ember Spark through the Second Origin HuoZhong.
• After more than half a month, the fusion produced the black-quality Twin Spark, granting the Phoenix doubled basic attributes and three traits.
• Li Mu's treasure-hunting gains increased as the Phoenix searched the territories of LV50 Mist Beasts.
• Li Mu fed a LV60 mixed-blood three-legged Golden Crow heart and rare metals into Golden Crow City's final transformation, turning it into a flying city that could become a giant mechanical Golden Crow.
• Li Mu enhanced the Core Furnace, Core Wormhole, Azkaban, and Quantum Radar Station, raising Golden Crow City to LV35.

Li Mu completed Golden Crow City's transformation and traveled ahead to scout the unclaimed land near Demon Dragon Free City, finding an ocean world already being developed by five Spark Cities. After joining the local city-lord group, he was welcomed as a sixth administrator and received intelligence on the region's Alien Race factions.

• Li Mu finished strengthening Golden Crow City and sent it toward unclaimed land, then piloted Phoenix with Rei Ayanami to scout ahead.
• Li Mu crossed the Sky-Piercing Blood River and discovered that the unclaimed land, named the Vast Sea Realm, was an ocean world.
• Li Mu found five Spark Cities developing the Vast Sea Realm and applied to join their city-lord group.
• Tide City's City Lord verified that Golden Crow City had reached LV30 and welcomed Li Mu, offering intelligence about Alien Race factions.
• The other four administrators promoted Li Mu to the sixth administrator and sent him their own intelligence files.

Li Mu investigated a Sea Urchin Race settlement protected by a gigantic Vast Sea Clam King and discovered that its members and native sea beasts resisted mental control. After infiltrating the settlement in disguise, he returned with Vast Sea Clay and began planning how to wipe out the Sea Urchin Race.

• Li Mu found the Sea Urchin Race, whose members controlled sea beasts and lived inside the Vast Sea Clam King, and discovered their green clay was a valuable resource.
• Li Mu attacked a two-headed beltfish from afar, but its mental pressure resisted his control, so he used the Mist Bee to defeat it and began transforming it into an apostle.
• Li Mu sent the transformed fish into the clam's protected range, where it fell asleep; he used its struggle and a Sea Urchin member's pursuit of Vast Sea Clay to petrify and impersonate that member.
• Li Mu entered the safe zone, copied the Sea Urchin Race's ability to control sea beasts, and helped the group capture the two-headed fish with a net made from Vast Sea Clay.
• Li Mu learned that the Sea Urchin Race raised deep-sea behemoths and lived in family groups inside the Vast Sea Clam King; after receiving Vast Sea Clay, he considered how to eliminate them.

Li Mu learned the uses of Vast Sea Clay and planned to disguise himself as a Sea Urchin folk member to become their king by controlling the Vast Sea Clam King. On hunting day, he watched the tribe lure sea beasts and Mist Beasts into range and send millions of Sea Urchin folk to hunt them.

• Li Mu sent Vast Sea Clay to the Spark Alliance marketplace, received its appraisal, and agreed to prepare some for the appraiser who offered the highest green-quality price.
• Li Mu decided to subdue the Sea Urchin folk rather than kill them and planned to use their mental-link abilities to control the soulless, king-class LV60 Vast Sea Clam King.
• Li Mu followed his extended family out of the Vast Sea Clam King on hunting day, and the creature opened its shell to reveal its Vast Sea Pearl.
• The Vast Sea Pearl attracted sea beasts and Mist Beasts, which fell asleep within a thousand kilometers of the Vast Sea Clam King.
• Sea Urchin folk members returned to the Vast Sea Clam King, which closed its shell to a narrow gap, and millions of hunters rushed to capture the sleeping creatures.

Li Mu tried to control a powerful sea beast, then strengthened his disguised sea urchin clansman identity and obtained the Candle Dragon Visualization Technique. After arranging for a Mist Bee to cultivate it, he sought living sea urchin clansmen to help it grow stronger.

• Li Mu failed to control an ordinary LV50 sea beast and decided to pursue all five paths of sea urchin growth.
• Li Mu controlled a leader-grade Mist Bee, raising his Mental Power to LV40, and received a Vast Sea Pearl containing a cultivation method.
• Li Mu recognized the method’s Candle Dragon visualization and failed to cultivate it because his Golden Crow Visualization Technique suppressed it.
• Li Mu fused the stolen sea urchin clansman with the Mist Bee, then used Sea God Thorns and Mental Contamination to make it visualize a Candle Dragon.
• Li Mu contacted the City Lord of Tide City and others to buy living sea urchin clansmen for the Mist Bee to consume.

Li Mu used Mist Bees strengthened by sea urchin folk and the Nine-Calamity Life-Burying Flower to seize control of a major sea urchin family beneath the Vast Sea Clam King. After taking power, he began linking the clan members’ minds to the Mist Giant Bee to accelerate its cultivation of the Candle Dragon Visualization Technique.

• Li Mu bought more than ten thousand live sea urchin folk, which the Mist Bees devoured, growing to five hundred meters long.
• Li Mu spent his remaining HuoZhong Source Coins on Nine-Calamity Life-Burying Flowers, raising the Mist Bees’ Mental Power and Transcendence Level despite the flowers’ recurring soul pain.
• Li Mu rode a Mist Giant Bee into his major sea urchin family and used its power to defeat the current leader’s summoned sea beast in one strike.
• The sea urchin folk lowered their spines in surrender, and Li Mu took control of the family over the following days.
• Li Mu created spiritual connection mediums from Spear of Destiny rootlets and Azure Sea clay, then linked over a thousand clan members’ minds to the Mist Giant Bee.
• The Mist Giant Bee’s Candle Dragon Visualization Technique advanced rapidly with the aid of the spiritual connections.

Li Mu entered the Clam King Palace, uncovered the Sea Urchin Race’s history and the dangerous origin of its spring, then used the Mist Giant Bee to strengthen his control over the Vast Sea Clam King. After moving the clam to a resource-rich sea and securing a fortune in Vast Sea Clay, he returned to Golden Crow City to prepare for the next stage of land reclamation.

• Li Mu survived merging with the Vast Sea Clam King and was admitted to the sealed Clam King Palace as a potential future chieftain.
• Li Mu read the palace records and learned that the Sea Urchin Race came from the Candle Dragon’s brain and that the spring drained the Vast Sea Clam King’s soul.
• Li Mu tested the spring, detected its harmful effects, and had the Mist Giant Bee absorb its accumulated power, allowing him to control the Vast Sea Clam King’s movements and innate domain.
• Li Mu moved the Vast Sea Clam King to a resource-rich sea, where the tribe’s leaders delivered more than ten thousand pieces of Vast Sea Clay.
• Li Mu returned to Golden Crow City with the first batch of Vast Sea Clay and planned to invest the next batch in strengthening the city.

Li Mu established an automated shipyard in Golden Crow City and began producing elite conventional destroyers. With the first destroyer completed, he planned to arm the Phoenix Apostles before exploring new territory and raising his Transcendence Level.

• Li Mu sold most of his Vast Sea Clay and spent over three million HuoZhong Source Coins on a destroyer production line.
• Li Mu installed the automated shipyard in Golden Crow City and supplied it with resources to begin producing elite destroyers.
• Li Mu browsed Subordinate Modules on the Spark Network and concluded that the Phoenix’s Void Realm Starshatter Cannon was gradually reviving.
• The shipyard completed its first elite destroyer, and Li Mu decided to equip his loyal Phoenix Apostles before offering any surplus ships to Spark Hunter groups.
• Li Mu left the rest of Golden Crow City’s affairs to his Horcrux clone and prepared to explore new territory while raising his Transcendence Level.

Li Mu strengthened Hull Fusion and tested the Phoenix’s power by annihilating a swarm of Mist Beast sea worms, then faced a leader-grade LV50 angler sea beast. The Phoenix’s warship skill let it evade every attack before its counterstrike left the giant beast barely alive.

• Li Mu used Apparition to reach a sea teeming with Mist Beast sea worms and strengthened Hull Fusion Technique to level 12.
• Li Mu ordered the Shipborne Optical Computer to command the Phoenix, whose Void Realm Starshatter Cannon wiped out the sea worms with a spatial shockwave.
• Li Mu’s Origin Spark absorbed the creatures’ Spark Energy, and he stored the few Sparks they dropped in the City Lord’s Mansion treasury.
• A leader-grade LV50 angler sea beast surfaced and attacked the Phoenix with purple plasma spheres, but Phoenix Soars Through Nine Heavens let the ship evade them all.
• After the skill ended, the Phoenix fired an amplified yellow-quality Void Burst Bomb and left the angler sea beast gravely wounded but still alive.

Li Mu killed the Lantern Sea Beast, refined his HuoZhong, and strengthened his Clairvoyance Spark before accepting a request to aid Bull Demon City. He arrived to find the city under siege by a Sea Urchin Race tribe, and the Bull Demon Beast sank into the sea during its attempted breakout.

• Li Mu killed the Lantern Sea Beast with Nirvana Flame, collected its HuoZhong and corpse, and returned to Golden Crow City for a fish feast.
• Li Mu cultivated in the Fel Energy Hall, raising his Transcendence Level from LV20 to LV22 and fusing the Lantern Sea Beast's eye HuoZhong with his Clairvoyance Spark.
• Li Mu accepted the Bull Demon City Lord's request for aid after learning from the Tide City Lord that Bull Demon City was trapped by a Sea Urchin Race tribe.
• Li Mu traveled north aboard the Phoenix, disguised as the Golden Crow, and saw Bull Demon City fighting off the Sea Urchin Race's beasts.
• The Void Realm Starshatter Cannon swept the battlefield with spatial turbulence, and the Bull Demon Beast began a breakout before suddenly sinking into the sea.

Li Mu watched Bull Demon City clash with the Giant Turtle King and learned that the destroyed golden heart was the Sea Urchin Race’s treasured Candle Dragon Fruit. After Bull Demon City escaped the battlefield, Li Mu uncovered the rival tribes’ legend about the nine deep-sea beast kings and the fruit’s role in controlling them.

• Li Mu saw the Titan Bull Demon fight a giant serpent with the Silver Eye, the Tide, and the Seed Cruiser Bull Demon supporting it, until the Giant Turtle King surfaced and forced Bull Demon City to retreat.
• After Bull Demon City reached safety, its secondary cannon shattered the Candle Dragon Fruit, enraging the Giant Turtle King and prompting Bull Demon City and the three Seed Cruisers to fight their way out.
• The Giant Turtle King damaged all three Seed Cruisers with a barrage of gamma rays, and Bull Demon City ordered a retreat from the battlefield.
• Li Mu returned to Golden Crow City and asked Sea Urchin Race leaders about the Giant Turtle King and the heart-like object.
• The leaders told Li Mu that the nine deep-sea beast kings were believed to have awakened the most Candle Dragon bloodline and that devouring one another could produce a Candle Dragon.
• Li Mu learned that the heart-like object was the Giant Turtle King tribe’s Candle Dragon Fruit, which Bull Demon City’s City Lord had likely intended to feed to the Bull Demon Behemoth.

Li Mu upgraded Hyperthymesia Mirror and discovered that its new Replication feature let him reproduce objects he physically touched, including HuoZhongs. He tested its costs and benefits, then focused on converting Vast Sea Pearls into resources for strengthening his Golden Crow Visualization Technique.

• Li Mu spent three Free Attribute Points to raise Hyperthymesia Mirror to level 7 and gained the ability to replicate touched objects.
• Li Mu replicated a yellow-quality Void Burst Bomb and materialized it, realizing he could make a profit by producing replicas.
• Li Mu replicated a purple HuoZhong and a level 15 Philosopher's Stone, but learned that copying enhanced HuoZhongs was costly and consumed enormous Mental Power.
• Li Mu replicated a Vast Sea Pearl for less than thirty percent of its market price and decided the pearls were more valuable for his own cultivation than for resale.
• Li Mu converted thousands of Vast Sea Pearls, bought more from the City Lord of Tide City and the Vast Sea Shellfish Tribe, and had alchemists refine them into potions.
• Li Mu kept his Hyperthymesia Mirror replicas for personal use rather than selling them, while selling genuine Sparks and retaining their replicas.

Li Mu transformed Clam King Palace into an orange-quality Vast Sea Dragon Pearl, then cultivated until his Mental Power became magic intent and his body became a Transcendent physique. After testing his new abilities, he resumed the Golden Crow Visualization Technique, determined to keep going until his Mental Power exceeded 100.

• Li Mu turned the Vast Sea Dragon Pearl into a Spark Artifact that manifested Clam King Palace, strengthened Mental Power, and let him command the Vast Sea Clam King's dragon soul.
• Li Mu had the Phoenix Apostle gather dragon souls, which the Vast Sea Dragon Pearl absorbed to produce Vast Sea Dragon Soul Fluid for his cultivation.
• Li Mu spent a month cultivating under natural sunlight, purifying his Mental Power until it could fuse with HuoZhong Magic Power.
• The Nirvana Flame burned Li Mu into a Phoenix egg, and his Origin HuoZhong fused his Mental Power and HuoZhong Magic Power into magic intent.
• Li Mu fused his physical constitution with Nirvana Flame, gaining a Transcendent physique that healed wounds, resisted fire, and grew stronger by absorbing flames.
• Li Mu tested his new powers and continued the Golden Crow Visualization Technique until his Mental Power reached 100.

Li Mu forced the Vast Sea Shellfish Tribe to accept nominal submission to humanity and made it an affiliate of Golden Crow City. He then traveled to meet the Bull Demon City Lord and other city lords, who had gathered to plan an attack on the Giant Turtle Tribe for its remaining Candle Dragon Fruit.

• Li Mu completed a third Three-Legged Golden Crow Secondary Soul, raising his Mental Power to 102, while the Vast Sea Clam Dragon Soul gained LV50 combat power.
• Li Mu told the Vast Sea Shellfish Tribe leaders to submit to humanity and used the Vast Sea Clam King's innate domain to compel the stubborn dissenters; a dozen leaders who refused committed suicide.
• Li Mu made the Vast Sea Shellfish Tribe an affiliate of Golden Crow City, which began relocating toward the tribe.
• The Bull Demon City Lord invited Li Mu to join an attack on the Giant Turtle Tribe because it still possessed Candle Dragon Fruit.
• Li Mu arrived at the Bull Demon City Lord's gathering, where the Bull Demon City Lord welcomed other city lords warmly but showed Li Mu little courtesy.
• The Tide City Lord and Manta Ray City Lord arrived, while the Earth Dragon City Lord remained absent.

Li Mu retaliated against Bull Demon City Lord’s attempt to humiliate him, then fought the Void City Lord and devastated Bull Demon City. He accepted compensation and left with a cyan Subordinate Module, unaware that Bull Demon City Lord had hidden a trap in the spoils.

• Li Mu used the Vast Sea Dragon Pearl to make the Bull Demon Behemoth attack itself, destroying Bull Demon City Lord’s Mansion and injuring Bull Demon City Lord.
• Li Mu hypnotized Bull Demon City Lord and learned that his hostility stemmed from Sun Shu, but Void City Lord interrupted before Li Mu could learn more.
• Void City Lord attacked Li Mu, who countered with powerful spells and forced their confrontation to escalate.
• Bull Demon City Lord joined the fight, and Li Mu’s massive Super Killing Curse devastated the city and damaged Void City Lord’s Seed Cruiser, prompting Void City Lord, Tide City Lord, and Manta Ray City Lord to flee.
• Bull Demon City Lord surrendered and gave Li Mu resources, a cyan Subordinate Module, and one million HuoZhong Source Coins; Li Mu accepted the haul while Bull Demon City Lord secretly hoped the Seed he had given him would become a trap.

Li Mu learned that the Nightmare Rest Cabin could let crew members train in the dangerous Nightmare Dimension, and he fused with it despite suspecting the City Lord of Bull Demon City had set a trap. Disguised as a Sea Star Beast, he was taken into the Giant Turtle King's hidden water world, where he found a likely source of Candle Dragon Fruit, then planned to seize it first in the Mirror World.

• Li Mu researched the Nightmare Rest Cabin and learned that it could preserve Nightmare Dimension coordinates and transfer mental growth, but death inside the dimension could trap him forever.
• Li Mu suspected the City Lord of Bull Demon City had given him the cabin to send him into a dangerous nightmare ruin, but fused with it anyway.
• Li Mu transformed the Phoenix into a Sea Star Beast and spent two days near the Giant Turtle Tribe, where he encountered the Seed Cruisers Tide and Manta Ray searching for an opportunity.
• Members of the Sea Urchin Race recognized the Sea Star Beast and brought Li Mu into the Giant Turtle King's hidden water world, where they put him to sleep near a dragon-horn-like tree.
• Li Mu sensed the tree might be connected to the Candle Dragon and logged into the Mirror World to try to seize it there before acting in reality.

Li Mu discovered that the Dragon Horn Tree was protected by freezing blue insects and a deadly force that erased souls, making it impossible to steal by ordinary means. He found and refined the Death Sketch Spark Skill, hoping to use it to overcome the danger and take the tree.

• Li Mu observed the Dragon Horn Tree and discovered blue insects in the water, an artificial root, and a lethal force surrounding the broken horn.
• The blue insects froze the Water World when Li Mu used Apparition, and a later attempt to approach the tree killed him without warning.
• Li Mu tested the defenses with puppets, but disturbing the roots summoned a vortex of water blades as the Giant Turtle King purged the Water World.
• Li Mu asked Song Xiaoyu to find a solution within his budget, and she found the Death Sketch Spark Skill.
• Li Mu learned that Death Sketch could kill its user and permanently reduce their Mental Power, but he believed Nirvana and other methods could counter those costs.
• Li Mu refined Death Sketch with his Origin HuoZhong, intending to use it to obtain the Dragon Horn Tree.