Chapter Summaries

Li Yuer attended a lesson on mechanical knowledge, then discussed the universe’s conservation laws with the voice in his mind. The voice simplified energy conservation through a coin-trading analogy, teaching him that nothing disappears but only changes form.

• The lecturer found Li Yuer’s notes blank again and dismissed him after urging him to take notes and review the lesson.
• The lecturer reflected on Li Yuer’s unusual habits and his perfect grades as he headed home.
• Li Yuer returned to his dormitory and spoke with the ethereal voice in his mind, exchanging what he had learned for new knowledge.
• The voice explained the Energy Conservation Law, the Momentum Conservation Law, and the Angular Momentum Conservation Law, but Li Yuer could not understand the explanation.
• The voice compared energy to coins that circulate or become inaccessible, explaining to Li Yuer that matter and energy persist by changing forms.

The City Lord investigated people who had used potion reagents, observing unusual traits and collecting samples to assess their usefulness. He headed to the final buyer, Li Yuer, hoping the last bloodline would be more successful.

• A red-haired woman delivered the City Lord lists of potion reagent buyers and people connected to the stolen reagents.
• The City Lord observed a fat man whose swollen stomach contained many tiny lifeforms with nearly identical auras, then took an embryo sample.
• He watched a burly man test his son's hard outer shell, but noted that the boy's joints were vulnerable to parasites and sweat buildup.
• The City Lord checked the final record and learned that Li Zheng had bought the reagent for Li Yuer.

Li Yuer completed his apprenticeship and began designing a combat suit of armor as his first research project. Meanwhile, the black-robed man warned Red Hacker that El Niño Shadow could detect living creatures through their bioelectric fields, making it dangerous to send signals.

• The lecturer told Li Yuer that he had finished teaching him and invited him to join a research team, but Li Yuer refused.
• Li Yuer realized he needed to find a project or join a team within ten days to avoid expulsion, and he chose to research a flying combat suit of armor.
• Li Yuer returned to his dormitory and eagerly began drawing blueprints for layered armor with ventilation and decorative features.
• A gray figure watched Li Yuer from outside his window as he worked on the designs.
• The black-robed man interrupted Red Hacker and warned him not to send signals because El Niño Shadow was nearby.
• The black-robed man explained that El Niño Shadow could sense the bioelectric fields of living creatures, and Red Hacker was stunned by the revelation.

The City Lord weighed the available bloodlines as he searched for a way to extend his life, rejecting every option except the High-Intelligence Bloodline. He recognized that a rising tide within the Human Clan sought to kill him and replace him as the civilization’s summit.

• The City Lord considered fusing with a second bloodline to extend his life, since four centuries had exhausted his potential and brought him close to death.
• He rejected Wind, Fire, and Enhancement abilities as unworthy of him, and considered the Self-Reproduction Bloodline before abandoning it because bearing children offended his dignity.
• The City Lord settled on the High-Intelligence Bloodline as the only remaining possibility, but decided to wait before examining it further.
• The City Lord reflected that a civilization’s limits depended on its strongest individual, and understood that humanity’s rising great tide aimed to defeat and kill him.

The City Lord injected a blue Bloodline Potion that began transforming his brain into crystals, leaving his body collapsing and his consciousness dark. The black-robed man seized the chance to rally an attack on Thunder Marsh City, while the bearded man realized the City Lord was in danger.

• The City Lord injected the blue Bloodline Potion and endured its painful transformation of his brain and body.
• The City Lord lost consciousness as uncontrolled currents and invisible force tore through the training grounds.
• The black-robed man told Red Hacker that the chance to kill the world's strongest man had arrived and set out to spread the news.
• Olf declared an attack on Thunder Marsh City, disowned Elfa, and led a force toward the city.
• The black-robed man warned the bearded man not to interfere, then left after evading his lightning strike.
• The bearded man realized that the attackers were targeting the master in Thunder Marsh City.

A veteran Valkyrie reflected on the decades she had spent fighting magical beasts and regretted the hundred-year agreement that bound her to the battlefield. After returning to the base, she learned that someone had asked the Valkyries not to interfere with a plan to kill the city lord.

• The battle axe girl killed an enormous lizard and recalled how the promised hundred years of service had trapped the Valkyries in a life of endless fighting.
• When a Behemoth attacked her from behind, a golden-haired Valkyrie killed it with a spear and took over the fight without exchanging words with her.
• The battle axe girl returned to the Valkyrie Base and ate with her fellow Valkyries during their brief rest.
• A nearby Valkyrie said someone had sent a letter to the boss announcing plans to kill the city lord and asking them not to interfere.
• The battle axe girl said the Valkyries should let the city lord be killed because their duty was to fight magical beasts.

Olf led his troops toward Thunder Marsh City and encountered Qiersi, whose coalition of city lords was also preparing to attack. At the city gates, Xiao Jun refused the rebel forces entry, and fighting began as defenders wielding lightning-charged blades faced the advancing army.

• Olf marched toward Thunder Marsh City, hoping to exploit the City Lord's coma, and halted when he spotted another force ahead.
• Olf recognized Qiersi of Roland City and told him he had broken ties with Firework City because his son opposed the attack.
• Qiersi said that Roland City, Jianmu City, Shennong City, Nuwa City, and other factions had joined the campaign to overthrow the Thunder Marsh City Lord.
• Olf warned Qiersi that their target was the strongest man in the world, prompting Qiersi to question why he needed funeral arrangements.
• At Thunder Marsh City's gates, Xiao Jun refused the coalition's demand to enter, and the city lords ordered their troops to attack.
• Xiao Jun ordered the defenders to fight to the death, and they charged their blades with blue lightning as enemy commanders prepared to lead the assault.

As enemy forces besieged Thunder Marsh City, the Thunderwalkers chose to defend the City Lord, while the Mechanist Organization withdrew under the secret control of a white-robed bishop. City Lord's Manor troops crushed rebellions and attackers, leaving the outside city lords alarmed by Thunder Marsh City's strength.

• A powerful man killed the Thunderwalkers' cautious elder and persuaded the organization to protect the City Lord in exchange for a map to the Lightning Bloodline's source.
• The Mechanist Organization voted to stay out of the conflict and withdraw from the world.
• A hidden white-robed bishop revealed that he had shaped the Mechanist Organization's leadership and killed a young member who discovered his influence.
• City Lord's Manor troops suppressed rebellious ability organizations, while lightning struck down an invading winged ability user.
• The Shennong Clan's city lord cursed Shadow as the outside forces worried over Thunder Marsh City's powerful defenders.

Jianmu City Lord Li Qing Tian and Spark City Lord Olf killed Thunder Marsh City's soldiers while testing each other's abilities and strength. They remained wary allies as the siege continued, with the battle also determining which Human Clan city would dominate the era.

• Li Qing Tian used vines and a stone warhammer to crush one of Thunder Marsh City's soldiers, whom the others called Black Gourd.
• Olf engulfed another soldier in flames and endured the soldier's lightning until the charred body shattered.
• Li Qing Tian and Olf praised each other's abilities but stepped back, wary that their alliance would end once Thunder Marsh City's lord was dead.
• Li Qing Tian and Olf displayed their strength again while agreeing that they had to press the siege before Thunder Marsh City's lord recovered.
• The chapter described the conflict as a struggle for the Human Clan's resources and the future leadership of the era among its cities.

Xiao Jun held off the enemy city lords at Thunder Marsh City’s gate, killing a wolfman and badly damaging the Four-Armed Giant’s hammer. As Xiao Jun waited for his city lord to awaken, a black-robed old man emerged from the city and declared that he wished to overturn the order.

• Xiao Jun fought several enemy creatures at the gate and killed the red-furred wolfman with a lightning-charged slash.
• Xiao Jun attacked the Four-Armed Giant with his spear and Tang blade, damaging the stone hammer and forcing the enemy to retreat.
• The other city lords rushed to aid the Four-Armed Giant, so Xiao Jun withdrew to the gate and caught his breath.
• The enemy city lords tried to persuade Xiao Jun to join them, but he stood guard and waited for his city lord to awaken.
• A hunched black-robed man emerged from Thunder Marsh City, mocked the city lords, and told Xiao Jun he wished to overturn the order.

Xiao Jun fought the black-robed man but could not stop the enemy city lords from entering Thunder Marsh City. As invaders advanced toward the City Lord's Manor, Xiao Jun hoped the City Lord would wake before the city fell.

• Xiao Jun attacked the black-robed man with his spear and saber, but the man's unnatural flexibility let him evade most of the blows.
• The black-robed man urged the city lords to enter the city before the Thunder Marsh City Lord woke, and they ran for the gates.
• The black-robed man counterattacked with chains and hidden weapons, keeping Xiao Jun occupied as the city lords slipped inside.
• Xiao Jun realized the black-robed man was a Demonic Beast, but the man claimed his abilities came from human technology.
• The invaders advanced toward the City Lord's Manor, while the four-armed giant set his sights on a lavish residence.

The punitive army broke through Thunder Marsh City, while a mysterious bald man drew Bojan away and hunters repeatedly delayed the attackers. The army reached the City Lord’s Manor and found Thunder Marsh City’s City Lord seated on the throne.

• Bojan led the punitive army through the city, but a bald man struck him in the face and destroyed his right eye.
• Bojan charged after the bald man, who lured him away from the army as hunters emerged to delay the attackers.
• The hunters repeatedly harassed the punitive army, then fled once the attackers began killing them.
• The punitive army reached the City Lord’s Manor and smashed open its enormous iron gate.
• The punitive army entered the castle and found Thunder Marsh City’s City Lord lying on the throne.

Light Wright decapitated the Lord of Thunder Marsh City, and the punitive army spread news of his death throughout the city. As Xiao Jun left with his men, the Black-Robed Man came to inspect the severed head and confirm the Lord’s death.

• The White-Browed Elder declined to kill the apparently unconscious Lord, but Light Wright stepped forward and severed his head with a flash of golden light.
• The White-Faced Man ordered the army to announce the Lord’s death and name Light Wright as his slayer, and citizens believed the news when they saw the head being paraded through the streets.
• Machinists discussed the organization’s decision not to join the war, while a middle-aged man left to bring his daughter into the organization.
• After hearing the Lord had died, the Black-Robed Man questioned Xiao Jun, who said he had fulfilled his duty and warned the army not to harm civilians before departing with his men.
• The Black-Robed Man rushed to the procession, recognized the Lord’s head, and asked to inspect it to confirm the death.

Light destroyed the corpse’s head and refused to let the black-robed man claim Thunder Marsh City, prompting the man to reveal his connection to the city’s ancient history. He recounted the chaos after Thunder God El Niño’s descent and Shadow’s rise, then explained that he gained Lightning Bloodline by consuming Lightning Ability users’ flesh and blood.

• Light crushed the head he was holding and insisted that he was protecting the corpse from defilement.
• The black-robed man declared that he would take over Thunder Marsh City, and the punitive army commanders protested until his power silenced them.
• The black-robed man revealed that he had lived since the Divine Descent era and described how newly empowered God Apostles had plunged the Human Clan into chaos.
• The black-robed man recounted how Shadow El Niño led a rebellion, founded Thunder Marsh City, and later returned with Lightning Bloodlines that only the young could endure.
• The black-robed man explained that he obtained Lightning Bloodline by consuming the flesh and blood of Lightning Ability users.

The black-robed man revealed that he had killed and eaten his son to gain a Lightning Bloodline, then used the commanders’ role in the Lord of Thunder Marsh City’s death to condemn them as murderers. He demanded control of Thunder Marsh City, leaving Bone Man and the other commanders unable to answer without ruining their reputations.

• The black-robed man said he had killed and eaten his son Joel to obtain an Extraordinary Bloodline, horrifying Light, Bone Man, and the other commanders.
• He recounted drugging Joel with bean porridge and eating his flesh after Joel returned as a Transcendent.
• The black-robed man explained that he gained an incomplete Lightning Bloodline and had spent over four hundred years accepting himself as a beast with no moral burden.
• He praised the Lord of Thunder Marsh City and accused the punitive army commanders of being even more beastly for murdering him.
• The black-robed man claimed Thunder Marsh City, and Bone Man could not challenge him without risking his own standing as a city lord.

The black-robed man revealed that he had founded the Mechanist Organization and planned to use it to take control of Thunder Marsh City. Light challenged the commanders to honor their earlier agreement that whoever had severed the city lord’s head would become king, and the white-haired elder accepted on their behalf.

• The black-robed man revealed that he had secretly founded and controlled the Mechanist Organization for centuries, and he explained how it could help him seize Thunder Marsh City.
• The Bone Man and another commander condemned the black-robed man, but he argued that the organization’s reputation would recover and that ordinary people would depend on it for Extraordinary resources.
• Light stepped forward and pointed out that killing the black-robed man would end his scheme, prompting the commanders to prepare to attack him.
• Light reminded the commanders that they had agreed whoever severed Thunder Marsh City’s lord’s head would become king.
• The white-haired elder said they would leave the black-robed man to Light and promised him the city if he could defeat him, and Light agreed.

Li Yunfeng fought the man in black after striking down Light, but the opponent unleashed a powerful martial technique and wounded him severely. The chapter ended with Li Yunfeng bleeding from a deep chest wound as the man in black’s attack shattered his bones.

• Light attacked the man in black, while Li Yunfeng joined the fight and sent Light crashing into the valley with a blow from his iron staff.
• Li Yunfeng forced the man in black back with another staff strike, then paused to recover his Mental Power as the opponent retreated.
• Light tried to provoke Li Yunfeng into a wagered fight, but Li Yunfeng refused and confronted the man in black instead.
• Li Yunfeng struck the man in black with the Blood Dragon Spear, but the man transformed his body and knocked Li Yunfeng down with two palm strikes.
• The man in black spread black mist through the tavern and slashed Li Yunfeng across the chest, leaving him gravely wounded.

After becoming Lord of Thunder Marsh City, Light dismissed his followers, but a mysterious youth defeated him, granted him immense power, and made him his subordinate. A month later, the youth prepared to leave the mountain range with Light, giving him new sword teachings and setting his sights on finding Xiao Hei and a worthy opponent.

• Light sent his followers away, saying Thunder Marsh City was too dangerous for them to remain.
• A white-robed youth offered to strengthen Light; after demonstrating his overwhelming power, he forced Light to submit and infused him with power, then gave him two Dragon Crystals.
• The youth mused about finding a Sword Saint to fight and vowed to protect Xiao Hei, whom he had found.
• A month later, the youth finished clearing the mountain range and drew Light's remaining Magic Beasts toward him to use their soul fire to temper Light's body.
• The youth sent sword-arts memories into Light's mind and explained the Sword Formula and its sword forms.

Bai Xiao created a new star system for the Thunder Civilization and installed a servant as its king, while Lin Feng headed to Thunder Star to investigate the civilization’s resources. Bai Xiao discovered his resource depots had been destroyed and blamed Lin Feng, then ordered Li Yong to find Lei Yuyan; Lin Feng continued searching for the Thunder Civilization.

• Bai Xiao built the Thunder Starfield, moved Thunder Civilization residents there, and declared a servant the New Star King.
• Lei Hu told Lin Feng that Bai Xiao had separated from Thunder Star and pointed him toward secret records in its resource zone.
• Lin Feng set out for Thunder Star, and Bai Xiao arrived there to find that the resource depots had been destroyed.
• Bai Xiao blamed Lin Feng for ruining his plan and ordered Li Yong to find Lei Yuyan.
• Lin Feng instructed Li Yong to send experts to search the Thunder Star System for the Thunder Civilization.

Li Lei welcomed his cousin Li Xueqing back from the United States and invited her to stay at his company, while secretly hoping she would accept his pursuit. Elsewhere, Lin Jianming clashed with Jeff over company shares, and Jeff demanded to marry Lin Jianming's daughter, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Li Lei hoped that earning more money would help him win over Li Xueqing, who had rejected his advances before.
• Lin Feng asked Li Lei, Li Long, and Wang Qiang to help produce an expensive television drama, and they agreed to assist him.
• Li Xueqing called Li Lei to say she was returning home, and he picked her up at the airport before inviting her to stay at his company.
• At an entertainment venue, Jeff and Johnson drank and ate dishes that Lin Jianming said his daughter had prepared.
• Jeff argued with Lin Jianming over company shares, then demanded that Lin Jianming let him take his daughter as his fiancée.
• Lin Jianming refused to let Jeff date his daughter if she did not like him.