Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun handled requests from Lin Beauty, organized Natural Village residency applications, and resumed his work at Liba Beach after recuperating. He then considered helping the Golden Crow Sect fighters recover, but Qingji explained that they preferred to return to their sect, leaving Feng Jun unwilling to arrange separate transport.

• Lin Beauty asked Feng Jun about advanced drug production lines and his plans, but he refused her experts' advice and told her to follow his overall plan.
• Liang Siyu processed Natural Village applications, reported pressure from Chaori County to Lin Beauty, and the county official responsible was replaced within a day.
• After three days of rest, Feng Jun returned to Liba Beach, performed Divination for more than eighty people, and explored treasure sites in the Void with Hanhai True Venerable.
• Feng Jun spent a month recuperating, then summoned Qingji to ask whether the Golden Crow Sect fighters needed a break from the front lines.
• Qingji said the fighters would benefit from resting at their sect, but Feng Jun declined to arrange transport through Blazing Flame and the Heavenly Zither passage.

Feng Jun tried to contact He Runxian while planning to produce medicine for Kun Hao, but the military monitored his radio signal and debated how to approach him. He left without contacting them, and his next visit was delayed by a dispute over naming Luo Hua’s new village.

• Yi Jue told Feng Jun the cultivators were holding off the Insect Race and said the battles might help her solidify her Void Nascent Soul and attempt Soul Emergence.
• Feng Jun told Yi Jue he planned to produce medicine for Kun Hao, and she warned him that the Insect Race might have Soul Emergence members.
• Feng Jun switched on his radio near Hesheng, while He Runxian and Minister Shen’s team detected his signal and argued over whether to contact him.
• Feng Jun waited nearly an hour without receiving a call, switched off the radio, and went to Liba Beach; the military chose not to actively track him.
• Feng Jun returned on the third day, briefly left his radio on, then left again after getting caught up in a debate over names for Luo Hua’s new village.

Feng Jun cut off Hesheng’s request to transport Ancestral Star workers, then investigated after the Big Shot sensed that He Runxian had been detained by military personnel. He learned that the military was expanding supply deliveries from Left Capital and wondered why it was antagonizing the man who controlled their transport channel.

• Feng Wenhui and Zhang Junyi debated names for their son’s village, and Feng Jun settled on Ask Immortal Manor after rejecting the proposed Gathering Worthies Village.
• He Runxian asked Feng Jun to transport workers from the Ancestral Star, but Feng Jun shut off the radio and ended their cooperation.
• The short military officer confronted He Runxian after Feng Jun cut the transmission, and He Runxian refused to help him recover the opportunity.
• Feng Jun put the radio in his Storage Pouch and moved closer to Hesheng at the Big Shot’s request.
• The Big Shot sensed that military personnel had detained He Runxian underground and discovered that a Wu Grade combat unit was helping transport supplies to Left Capital and other cities.
• Feng Jun questioned why the military was pressuring He Runxian despite relying on his transportation channel.

Feng Jun learned why the Federation was pressuring Hesheng and infiltrated its base to copy materials and process archives. He left planning to target Military Headquarters for weapons information and possibly military supplies.

• Feng Jun learned that Minister Shen believed the mysterious Human Race force could threaten the Federation and that the military wanted to establish contact and control it.
• Feng Jun gave up on contacting He Runxian and asked the Big Shot to find a safe way into Hesheng's production base.
• The Big Shot found a brief weakness in the base's protective field and discovered a way to access its archives.
• Feng Jun entered Hesheng after nightfall, copied its materials and processes archives, and teleported out.
• Feng Jun proposed going to Military Headquarters to obtain weapons information and possibly steal supplies, and the Big Shot agreed.

Feng Jun infiltrated besieged Lower Dragon City through a hidden tunnel and took the identity of a youth hiding with his family. After passing a patrol check, he headed out at dawn, posing as a teenager eager to hunt Insect Race bugs.

• Feng Jun found a concealed tunnel leading into a vacant villa in Lower Dragon City and used it to enter the city.
• He discovered a youth hiding in a basement whose siblings had died in the war, then knocked him unconscious and replicated his appearance, brainwaves, and identity credentials.
• Feng Jun placed the youth in his Spirit Beast Bag and left the villa wearing his identity.
• A patrol stopped Feng Jun and questioned him about his missing status information, but he claimed he did not know why it was absent.
• Feng Jun told the patrol officers he was meeting classmates to compete at killing Insect Race bugs, and they let him continue.

Feng Jun wandered near the military headquarters and visited a nearly deserted mall, where a woman mistook him for a grieving civilian and offered him a Crystal Racer model in memory of his brother. As the mall’s defenses weakened, an alarm sounded to announce that the bugs had arrived.

• Feng Jun passed two inspections while riding a government tricycle near the military headquarters, then left the area for a large shopping mall.
• A mall employee told Feng Jun that the defenses were close to failing because Energy Blocks were running low and requisitioning was expected.
• Feng Jun claimed he wanted a Crystal Racer model to remember his brother, who had died after killing two bugs.
• The woman offered Feng Jun the smallest Crystal Racer Three Model for free and then offered to let him take it on credit, but he refused both offers.
• Feng Jun stayed at the mall, and a piercing alarm sounded as the woman announced that the bugs had arrived.

Feng Jun joined the mall’s defenders during an Insect Race assault and studied the insects’ tactics while waiting for a clear threat. When a later attack posed danger, he fired an Electromagnetic Gun alongside the squad.

• Feng Jun persuaded the mall owner’s wife to let him defend the building with a Personal Plasma Cannon.
• Feng Jun took a position with four security personnel in the mezzanine and learned that the mall was protecting itself while conserving ammunition and Energy Stones.
• Feng Jun observed the Insect Race’s attacks and recognized that their seemingly random strikes were a deliberate tactic to pressure Human Race defenses.
• The insects launched successive attacks on the mall, and Feng Jun’s squad held fire until a more dangerous wave arrived.
• Feng Jun picked up an Electromagnetic Gun and fired two shots as the gray-haired old man opened fire with the Gauss Machine Gun.

Feng Jun saved Little Wu from a Stinger Bee and impressed the border defenders with his marksmanship and restraint. He refused a reward and a combat academy recommendation, and the team prepared for another Insect Race attack.

• Feng Jun switched from the Plasma Cannon to an Electromagnetic Gun and shot down a Stinger Bee, saving Little Wu from its stinger.
• The surveillance room confirmed that Feng Jun's two shots had hit the Stinger Bee before Little Wu's Gauss Machine Gun finished it off, and Little Wu praised Feng Jun's shooting.
• Feng Jun explained that he had avoided the Plasma Cannon to conceal the team's firepower and conserve ammunition.
• The older sister offered Feng Jun a Crystal Racing Car Model, but he refused the reward and asked that his parents not be told he had snuck out.
• Old Wang offered Feng Jun a place in a Federation combat academy, but Feng Jun declined, and Old Wa warned that the bugs were about to attack again.

Feng Jun helped defend the mall from a School-Grade Swarm, killing three insects and severely wounding another. He declined battlefield merit points in exchange for two Crystal Racing Car Models and asked Big Sister to keep his actions from his parents as he left for his brother’s birthday.

• Feng Jun and the others waited through scattered insect attacks before a powerful School-Grade Swarm swept toward the mall.
• Feng Jun used the Personal Plasma Cannon to kill two School-Grade insects with one shot, then killed another and severely wounded a fourth as the swarm retreated.
• After the all-clear, Big Sister praised Feng Jun’s performance and offered him a military academy recommendation and battlefield merit points.
• Feng Jun asked for the smallest Type One and Type Three Crystal Racing Car Models, refused the merit points, and asked Big Sister not to tell his parents.
• Big Sister gave Feng Jun the models, and Old Wa said that if Feng Jun survived, he would become one of the Federation’s future star generals.

Feng Jun met Brother Jiu of the Chen Clan Kinship Association and offered to supply the group with medicine and food, while probing what they could provide in return. He later arranged for Brother Jiu to collect a large cache of supplies, leaving the group to discover and retrieve it.

• Feng Jun disguised himself after leaving the mall, then spoke with Brother Jiu, who offered to trade insect corpses for food and medical supplies.
• Feng Jun asked whether Brother Jiu could obtain weapons and warships, then offered to send medicine and food when the association could not provide what he wanted.
• Feng Jun vanished, and nearly two hours later a one-armed man gave Brother Jiu a house-number plaque and warned him not to follow.
• Brother Jiu and two men found a cache of crates hidden in a ruined villa and called San San to bring another vehicle.
• Brother Jiu decided not to inspect the crates first and admitted that Feng Jun had been right to call them small people.

After discovering the valuable medical equipment and supplies they had received, Brother Jiu and the Chen Family debated how to repay the mysterious giver and decided to explore what the Clan Kinship Association could offer. San San delivered the goods to the mall, where the owner's wife refused to arrange a military main warship but offered the Chen Family a favor if they explained who sent the supplies.

• Brother Jiu and the Chen Family found medical equipment, medicine, food, and Energy Blocks among the crates, with notes instructing them to split the supplies with the mall.
• Brother Jiu explained his failed negotiations, and San San and the others proposed compiling a list of possible goods and connections the Chen Family could offer.
• Brother Jiu sent San San to deliver the mall's share and took the medical supplies home for Fifth Uncle, while Xiao Mao prepared the list.
• San San showed the supplies to the mall owner's wife, who accepted them after he said they were free.
• San San asked whether the mall could obtain a military main warship, and the owner's wife refused but offered the Chen Family a favor if they identified the sender.

Feng Jun investigated the Chen Family’s offerings and tried to find a way into the military headquarters, where he discovered numerous infiltrators and hostile factions. He left planning to investigate the headquarters’ personnel further.

• Feng Jun learned that the Chen Family offered pharmaceutical production lines, treatments, and limited grain-yield technology, but lacked diabetes medicine.
• Feng Jun failed to approach the military headquarters safely and began using Divination to search for a possible route inside.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot pointed out a woman near a Plum Blossom Bunker, and Feng Jun identified her as Sanaya, a spy for the Xiongmang Empire.
• Feng Jun used his phone to sort people nearby by faction and found many faction members among the military personnel, including an Insect God Cult member.
• Feng Jun remarked that some people did not want to be human, and the Yin Soul Big Shot replied that betraying one’s own race was not rare.

Feng Jun weighed how to exploit suspicious military personnel and considered working with Salina, then spent the day hiding in the city and organizing materials. He met Brother Jiu to discuss a possible exchange of medicine for warships, but grew suspicious when Brother Jiu offered the Chen Family’s help with an outside supply source.

• Feng Jun and the Big Shot discussed killing or exploiting a suspicious corporal, and Feng Jun decided Salina might be a useful ally.
• Feng Jun left at dawn, hid among the city’s ruins, and spent the day tracking the fighting and organizing materials for digitization and translation.
• After the Insect Race retreated, Feng Jun met Brother Jiu, who had brought him a detailed list of goods the Chen Family could offer.
• Brother Jiu worried that Feng Jun lacked medicine, and Feng Jun explained that he could obtain more but needed time and a better offer.
• Brother Jiu said the Chen Family could arrange a medicine supply source if Feng Jun could bring goods in from outside the star system.
• Feng Jun asked whether Brother Jiu was trying to set him up, pointing out that the Military Headquarters was investigating smuggling routes.

Feng Jun and Brother Jiu negotiated a way to deliver medicine to the Chen Clan Kinship Association despite the dangers of breaking the Insect Race blockade. Their discussion shifted to buying pharmaceutical production lines, with Brother Jiu offering a steep discount if Feng Jun paid in Energy Blocks.

• Brother Jiu explained that the Chen Clan Kinship Association had learned Left Capital might be receiving abundant supplies, and he said the military would struggle to suppress the association without widespread noncooperation.
• Feng Jun told Brother Jiu to wait while he prepared the goods, but agreed to arrange medicine transport after Brother Jiu pleaded that members were dying every day.
• Feng Jun proposed taking half the medicine as a shipping fee, and Brother Jiu countered with seventy percent, suggesting that payment and deliveries proceed in installments and batches.
• Feng Jun argued that they should build mutual trust through several successful collaborations, then asked Brother Jiu to provide pharmaceutical production lines from Xingzheng Star for him to buy.
• Brother Jiu said Feng Jun could pay for the production lines with Energy Blocks and offered them at seventy percent off.

Feng Jun paid Brother Jiu a large advance in Energy Stones for an immune-medicine production line and raw materials, but the Chen Family could not supply enough materials. Brother Jiu sought another supplier and contacted Sister Qin, who asked what materials he needed.

• Feng Jun negotiated with Brother Jiu to exchange Energy Stones for the Chen Family's immune-medicine production line and raw materials.
• Brother Jiu showed Feng Jun the underground warehouse, and Feng Jun arranged for more than one hundred twenty thousand tons of high-grade Energy Stones to be delivered.
• Brother Jiu secured the production line, but his clansmen could provide only a fraction of the promised raw materials.
• Brother Jiu began converting Energy Stones into Energy Blocks and considered how to make up the shortfall without returning the stones.
• Brother Jiu called Sister Qin to ask about purchasing raw materials in bulk, and she asked what stock he needed.

The proprietress and Brother Jiu negotiated a partnership to buy Energy Blocks, medicine, and other supplies from a powerful unnamed supplier. After agreeing on the terms, they left the underground warehouse, where her brother-in-law raised concerns about a recent dispute between Pioneer Bank and the military.

• The proprietress sent her brother-in-law to Brother Jiu's scrap purchasing station, and he urged her to come after dark to discuss a worthwhile partnership.
• The proprietress met Brother Jiu underground, removed her wrist communicator, and learned that he wanted her family to fund purchases of Energy Blocks from a powerful Party A.
• After inspecting the Energy Stones and production operation, the proprietress proposed buying thirty thousand tons first and said she needed at least five hundred thousand tons overall, along with medical supplies and food.
• The proprietress and Brother Jiu negotiated a deal in which the mall would fund pharmaceutical production lines outside the star system while Brother Jiu acted as intermediary and obtained some goods on credit.
• After the proprietress returned to her armored vehicle, her brother-in-law warned that the arrangement felt strange and mentioned Pioneer Bank's recent dispute with the military.

Feng Jun infiltrated the Military Headquarters by impersonating Salina and accessed military equipment records, then returned to Left Capital and heard He Runxian’s scripted request for Energy Stones. He left He Runxian’s plea unresolved after questioning whether the military would seize any more stones he provided.

• The proprietress warned her brother-in-law not to ask about Pioneer Bank, while Feng Jun waited for an opening to enter the Military Headquarters.
• With the Big Shot’s help, Feng Jun put Salina to sleep, entered her room, and obtained her identification, fingerprints, and iris data.
• Feng Jun disguised himself as Salina, logged into the military network, and read maintenance records for military equipment before leaving without downloading them.
• Feng Jun went to Left Capital, ignored He Runxian’s first call, and later heard him offer discounted mining equipment in a meeting request.
• He Runxian asked Feng Jun to bring Energy Stones because the military had requisitioned much of their supply, and Feng Jun questioned whether any new stones would be safe from seizure.

Feng Jun was lured to a satellite warehouse under the pretense of buying C-Grade military equipment, while Minister Shen secretly arranged a trap and impersonated He Runxian to secure his arrival. Feng Jun detected the surveillance, disabled the defenses, and began destroying the monitoring points as a hidden fleet responded.

• Feng Jun refused to pay for the equipment in advance, and He Runxian argued with Minister Shen before the military blocked the Quantum Handset signal.
• Minister Shen used a military voice changer to impersonate He Runxian and persuaded Feng Jun to inspect the equipment on a satellite in the Dumbbell Galaxy.
• Feng Jun used Divination to discover covert surveillance and spatial monitors above the warehouse, then entered using Footprint.
• Feng Jun marked the defensive systems, armored himself, and destroyed their weapons and control links before teleporting away from their counterattack.
• A hidden fleet dispatched miniature surveillance satellites, but the defense system shut down after it could no longer detect Feng Jun as a threat.
• Feng Jun returned in a different suit of military armor and destroyed six surveillance points with little reaction from the defenses.

Feng Jun stole the fleet’s weapons and equipment from a sealed warehouse, leaving the Dumbbell Galaxy military unable to explain how they vanished. Minister Shen tried to shift responsibility onto Hesheng, while Feng Jun continued secretly downloading military maintenance materials using Salina’s identity.

• Feng Jun destroyed the warehouse cameras, took the warships and equipment, and escaped before the fleet arrived.
• The Dumbbell Galaxy military learned that the supplies had been retrieved and blamed Minister Shen for the failed operation.
• Minister Shen tried to make Hesheng responsible for the losses, but He Runxian refused and warned that Hesheng would cut off its support.
• Feng Jun returned to Lower Capital as the battle and Energy Block conversion continued.
• Feng Jun entered Salina’s room, disguised himself as her, and began downloading equipment maintenance materials from her terminal.
• A captain questioned Salina about the late-night download, but Feng Jun dismissed the questions and left the materials downloading.

Feng Jun exported military data from Salina’s terminal in the Blue Star Realm and agreed to share Li Shishi’s translation database with Lin Beauty’s people. He assigned Li Shishi to oversee the translation work, but she soon complained that the collaboration was consuming too much of her time.

• Salina warned the captain to stop harassing her, and Feng Jun learned from the Big Shot that the captain was unlikely to suspect him.
• Feng Jun brought Salina’s terminal to the Blue Star Realm and began exporting its military files using external batteries and a hard drive.
• Yang Yuxin told Feng Jun that Li Shishi’s translation database was nearly complete and that Lin Beauty’s people had helped build it.
• Feng Jun scolded Li Shishi, then assigned her to coordinate with Team Leader Lin and oversee translation work at Pump One.
• Feng Jun’s data export took fifteen hours, and Li Shishi later complained that Lin Beauty’s people had taken twelve hours of her time while setting up a shared network with the quantum computers.