Chapter Summaries

Cang Xuan fought the Light-Erosion Race for two hundred years, only to return to a ruined Dreamweaver civilization and learn that its legacy could survive through spiritual inheritance. After Cang Xuan passed his sword Dao into the illusion, Tu Hu witnessed his life and asked Guide to assess his strength.

• Cang Xuan used his sword momentum to defend the Dreamweaver Tribe, then transformed his sword from protection to slaughter and destruction after seeing the Light-Erosion Race devastate Morning Light.
• Cang Xuan destroyed the Light-Erosion Race's territory, but returned to find Hope City in ruins and learned from a recorder that two hundred years had passed and his civilization was gone.
• Cang Xuan entered the Final Bastion, broke his iron sword, and prepared to die before Shadow revealed the Dreamweaver Tribe had preserved its knowledge as a gift for future civilizations.
• Shadow persuaded Cang Xuan that his way of the sword could become an inheritance, so Cang Xuan forged the Sword of Protection anew and left his sword Dao in the illusion for a successor.
• Cang Xuan peacefully died after entrusting his legacy to the future, and Tu Hu returned from witnessing his life and asked Guide how strong Cang Xuan had been.
• Guide assessed Cang Xuan as False God Realm, with offensive power in the Divine Realm, and Tu Hu praised his strength.

Tu Hu learned that Cang Xuan’s Sword of Protection could be inherited through a life soul, and his teammates helped him raise the 2.5 million sacrificial power needed to seal it. After socketing the new life soul in place of Rending, Tu Hu named it Cost Me 2.5 Million, and the Player Faction received a creation announcement.

• Tu Hu asked Guide how long it would take to comprehend Cang Xuan’s sword momentum and learned that each focused sword swing transferred fragments of the sword’s rules into his will.
• Guide offered a 34.38 million sacrificial power complete reconstruction or a 2.5 million progressive unsealing, and Tu Hu chose the cheaper option.
• Tu Hu asked his teammates to lend him sacrificial power, and they sold equipment and materials while he liquidated his own inventory to reach the required amount.
• Guide transformed Cang Xuan’s Sword of Protection into an unnamed sealed life soul, and Tu Hu dismantled Rending to socket it into his seventh star meridian slot.
• Tu Hu formed a pale golden greatsword, named the new life soul Cost Me 2.5 Million, and received a Player Faction-wide creation announcement.

Tu Hu inherited the Sword of Protection, Slaughter, and Destruction Momentums from Cang Xuan’s shadow and received the Dreamweaver Civilization’s wisdom crystal to deliver to Cang Xuan’s homeworld. After recovering Cang Xuan’s remains from the Trading House and testing his new power against monsters, Tu Hu set out across the wasteland, determined to fulfill his promise.

• Tu Hu convinced Cang Xuan’s shadow to grant him the Slaughter and Destruction Sword Momentums, and the shadow entrusted him with the Dreamweaver Civilization’s wisdom crystal for safekeeping and possible delivery to its homeworld.
• Tu Hu returned to the Dreamweaver Great Hall and learned his teammates had sold Cang Xuan’s remains and heavy sword; he reclaimed the remains and respectfully restored them to their place, though the sword was already gone.
• Tu Hu tested the Sword of Protection Momentum outside the hall, blocking three Blood Hounds and killing them with invisible strikes while gaining comprehension from combat.
• Tu Hu decided to hunt monsters on his way to the teleportation point, then contact the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce about travel to Cang Xuan’s homeworld and carry out his promise to leave the wisdom crystal there.

Tu Hu learned that returning the Dreamweaver civilization’s legacy to its ruined homeland would require a costly teleportation array, so he and his teammates agreed to raise the sacrificial power together. After more than ten days of grinding Adventurer World instances, they saved enough for a high-risk, single-person array and contacted the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to begin construction.

• Tu Hu returned to Di Family Village, dismantled his old shield for sacrificial power, and asked the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to investigate a route to the Dreamweaver World.
• The Chamber reported that the Dreamweaver World had collapsed, had an abnormal time flow, and would require about 1.39 million sacrificial power for a stable array; Tu Hu chose to raise funds for a cheaper, risky single-person array.
• Guide explained that fast time alone could not overcome a world's limits, and Tu Hu discussed the mission with his teammates, who unanimously supported returning the Dreamweaver civilization’s legacy.
• Tu Hu led his team to Adventurer World, where they rapidly cleared guided instances and sold their loot to build up sacrificial power.
• After more than ten days, the team had enough funds for the single-person array, and Tu Hu contacted the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to start construction.

Tu Hu traveled through a dangerous one-way Teleportation Array, but a spatial vortex left him stranded in a primeval jungle with severe injuries and no memories. After awakening an astonishing strength while fighting a beast, he fled into a cave and was on the verge of being devoured by a giant spider when unseen attackers struck it down.

• Tu Hu reached Dream Island, activated the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s unstable Teleportation Array, and was swallowed by a spatial reverse-flow vortex during transit.
• Tu Hu awakened in a jungle with a colorful gemstone in hand, but could not remember his name, identity, or past.
• A huge spiked beast attacked Tu Hu, who fled while badly injured and then knocked it flying with a single punch.
• Tu Hu found a cave, where a giant spider chased him outside and dragged him toward its jaws with webbing.
• As Tu Hu lost consciousness, unseen projectiles struck the giant spider, releasing his ankle from its web.

Tu Hu recovered among the Velvet Spirit Tribe, learned of their struggle against the Ferocious Tribe, and became part of their community. After unlocking the Wisdom Crystal's library, he concluded that he might be a survivor of the Dreamweaver Tribe and resolved to guide the Velvet Spirit Tribe using its knowledge.

• A Lan, A Fen, and A Lü rescued Tu Hu from a giant cave spider, fed him, and asked him to help defend the Velvet Spirit Tribe from the Ferocious Tribe.
• A Lan told Tu Hu how the Ferocious Tribe had driven the Velvet Spirit Tribe from Star Valley and cost many of their people their lives.
• Tu Hu helped the tribe hunt and gather, while A Fen treated his injuries and A Lü taught him how they managed their scarce supplies.
• Tu Hu activated the crystal and discovered an illusory library containing the knowledge of the Dreamweaver Tribe.
• Tu Hu inferred that he might be the Dreamweaver Tribe's last survivor, then resolved to pass its knowledge to the Velvet Spirit Tribe.

Tu Hu used knowledge from the Library to transform the Velvet Spirit Tribe with metalworking, farming, irrigation, defenses, and record-keeping. After the tribe survived a devastating flood and defeated the Ferocious Tribe through traps and guerrilla tactics, Tu Hu and A Lan, A Fen, and A Lü joined hands to welcome a future free of their old enemy.

• Tu Hu taught the Velvet Spirit Tribe to smelt metal, and A Lan's test of their first copper blade convinced the tribe that sharper weapons were possible.
• Tu Hu guided the tribe in cultivating crops, building irrigation and reservoirs, constructing defensive walls and traps, and recording resources and maps with A Lü's help.
• A flood struck Gushing Spring Basin, but the tribe's defenses, waterworks, and maps helped everyone survive while preserving most of their food and weapons.
• The Ferocious Tribe attacked and was repelled by the Velvet Spirit Tribe's traps and metal weapons; A Fen then gave Tu Hu strong fruit wine to ease the pain from his injuries.
• Tu Hu led reconnaissance and guerrilla raids that weakened the Ferocious Tribe, which later launched a final assault and was defeated when A Lan killed its last Chief.
• Tu Hu, A Lan, A Fen, and A Lü joined hands beneath the moonlight and toasted the future of the Velvet Spirit Tribe.

The Velvet Spirit Tribe reclaimed Star Valley, built a prosperous settlement, and strengthened its warriors after a disastrous clash with the Shadowclaw Clan. The Rockarmor Clan then destroyed their home, leaving Tu Hu to lead the surviving young into exile and vow to return for vengeance.

• Tu Hu led the Velvet Spirit Tribe in developing Star Valley with mines, furnaces, irrigation, farms, settlements, and an Archive, while A Lan and A Fen welcomed Lan Xing and A Lü and his mate had Mo Tong.
• The tribe expanded into the Black Thorn Forest, overcame the Stone Howlers, and suffered heavy losses in a surprise attack by the Shadowclaw Clan.
• Tu Hu established coming-of-age hunting trials, annual tournaments, and combat training, and Lan Xing and Mo Tong helped defeat the Shadowclaw Clan.
• The Rockarmor Clan invaded Star Valley, broke through its defenses, and overwhelmed the tribe despite A Lan's desperate resistance and A Fen's sacrifice.
• A Lü died defending the Archive's knowledge, while Tu Hu led Lan Xing, Mo Tong, and the surviving children and youths out of Star Valley.
• Tu Hu gave Lan Xing a broken spear and Mo Tong the surviving records, then vowed that the survivors would reclaim their homeland and avenge their fallen people.

Tu Hu led the Velvet Spirit Tribe through years of migration, helped them establish New Star Valley, and watched them build an energy-powered civilization. As the tribe prospered and generations passed, Lan Xing and Mo Tong died, leaving Tu Hu to remain as its solitary Path Guardian.

• Tu Hu guided the Velvet Spirit Tribe through a dangerous migration, while Lan Xing and Mo Tong grew into leaders and helped the band survive.
• Lan Xing found a fertile, sheltered valley, and Tu Hu declared that the tribe had found a home in New Star Valley.
• Lan Xing and Mo Tong led the tribe's development of the city, energy technologies, transport tracks, and new weapons.
• Lan Xing died of old age after Tu Hu assured him that New Star Valley and the tribe were thriving.
• Mo Tong died peacefully in the Archive, and Tu Hu remained to witness the civilization's generations pass.

After Lan Xing and Mo Tong died, Lie Zhua and Hui Xin led New Star Valley along competing military and biological research paths, developing new weapons, armor, and gene-enhancing potions. Hui Xin’s secret experiment with Shadow Stalker Evil Beast genes caused a fatal outbreak, and Lie Zhua was forced to end her life while Tu Hu mourned the loss of another child he had watched grow up.

• Lie Zhua and Hui Xin led the third generation, and their Sharp Sword project created the Crystal Energy Gun and the short-range Siege Ram.
• Tu Hu approved Lie Zhua’s Thunder Armor Project as a top priority and gave Hui Xin’s Spark Project long-term support.
• Lie Zhua’s team built Thunder Armor Type One, while Hui Xin’s team developed Basic Gene Optimization Potions, and their rivalry drove both projects forward.
• Hui Xin secretly experimented on herself with Shadow Stalker Evil Beast genes, became a monster, and infected nearby researchers.
• Lie Zhua quarantined Hui Xin and the infected researchers, but Tu Hu concluded that the spreading contamination could not be reversed.
• Lie Zhua pressed the button that destroyed Hui Xin, then left to handle the aftermath as Tu Hu grieved alone.

After Hui Xin’s death, Jing Si led the research department down a cautious path of internal evolution while Lie Zhua advanced military technology through successive wars. Generations of hardship and innovation brought New Star Valley closer to reclaiming Star Valley, and Qi Ming’s Spirit Talk network connected the growing territory as Tu Hu received New Year greetings from the people he had guided.

• Lie Zhua stabilized the research department, and Jing Si sealed Hui Xin’s dangerous experiments before developing the Psionic Blood Refinement Method for Furlings.
• Lie Zhua’s forces defeated the Diku Tribe with Barrier Breakers, countered the Winged Beast Tribe with Sky-Binding Nets, and overcame the Marsh Tribe with Purifying Flame Projectors.
• Tu Hu maintained the dangerous coming-of-age trial, where young Furlings hunted alone and received Broken Spear Earrings in memory of A Lan and the first-generation warriors.
• Qi Ming used the Psionic Encoding Technique to develop Spirit Talk communicators, connecting New Star Valley and its satellite settlements through an energy communications network.
• Tu Hu received a custom Spirit Talk for the New Year and read messages from Lie Zhua, Jing Si, Qi Ming, Qinsi, and the Warrior’s Way Nursery.

As New Star Valley prospered, a powerful foreign race crushed the Rongling’s border defenses, forcing Tu Hu to argue that they should become vassals to preserve their people. Lie Zhua accepted negotiations to protect the civilization’s future, and Tu Hu volunteered to meet the enemy himself.

• New Star Valley advanced in technology and strength while Tu Hu watched the Rongling civilization flourish and wrestled with his loneliness.
• A foreign army overwhelmed Lie Zhua’s Thunder Armor Legion, and reconnaissance revealed that the invaders’ forces were slave troops serving a stronger race.
• Tu Hu urged the command to negotiate vassalage, but Lie Zhua, Jing Si, and the other leaders rejected the idea as dishonorable.
• Tu Hu argued that survival mattered more than a glorious death, and Lie Zhua recalled how Tu Hu had once given his last food to the children to keep them alive.
• Lie Zhua ordered the Rongling to preserve their forces and research, then authorized negotiations with the enemy.
• Tu Hu returned and volunteered to negotiate, telling the others that their survival and future mattered more than his own.

Tu Hu negotiated the Velvet Spirit Tribe's submission to the Riftbone Tribe in exchange for a chance to preserve its people and develop its capabilities. After the Riftbone Tribe imposed brutal rule and executed Lie Zhua, Tu Hu accepted the dead leader's charge to protect the tribe and continue its struggle.

• Tu Hu used his ability to learn languages to negotiate with Dage, offering the Velvet Spirit Tribe's technology and research in exchange for protection.
• Dage accepted the Velvet Spirit Tribe as vassals under strict Riftbone administration, and Tu Hu agreed to the loss of their sovereignty.
• Military overseer Suiya entered New Star Valley, disarmed the Velvet Spirit Tribe, conscripted 5,000 people, and ordered an execution platform built.
• Suiya had Lie Zhua taken away and sentenced him to execution, while the Velvet Spirit Tribe's administrators suppressed the resulting unrest.
• Lie Zhua was executed before the gathered tribe, and he silently entrusted its future to Tu Hu.
• Tu Hu endured his grief, resolved to carry on Lie Zhua's charge, and left the square determined that the Rongling Civilization would survive.

Over more than a decade, Tu Hu guided the enslaved Velvet Spirit Tribe into the Riftbone Tribe’s military and communications systems, using their dependence to gather intelligence and prepare a counterattack. The Dark Web connected scattered tribespeople, while hidden safeguards and covert weapons made the Riftbone Tribe’s own strength part of the plan for its eventual ruin.

• Suiya imposed the Riftbone Tribe’s Code on the Velvet Spirit Tribe, conscripting and dispersing its people while relying increasingly on their technological work.
• Tiexin developed Fierce Beast bone armor and Bloodthirsty Blades for the Riftbone Tribe, and the Velvet Spirit Tribe secretly recorded equipment and military information.
• Over ten years, Tiexin’s, Qiming’s, and Jing Si’s teams gathered detailed intelligence on Riftbone troop deployments, communications, resources, and battle preparations.
• Qiming’s team secretly distributed Spirit Link Crystal Cores that created the Dark Web, connecting scattered Velvet Spirits and allowing them to share intelligence and support one another.
• Jing Si’s team introduced the Bloodrage Formula, which secretly left an inert substance in Riftbone warriors that could be activated by a future Neutralizing Agent.
• Tu Hu continued preparing covert operations, including weapon curses, environmental corrosion, and mount betrayals, as the Velvet Spirit Tribe waited for the moment to counterattack.

After thirty-five years of preparation, the Velvet Spirit Tribe exploited the Riftbone Tribe’s war with the Windwall Race to launch a coordinated uprising and destroy the Riftbone dynasty. The chapter ended with the Velvet Spirit Tribe honoring its fallen at the Monument of the Enduring Flame as a new era began.

• The Riftbone Tribe became bogged down in a costly war against the Windwall Race, giving Tu Hu and the Velvet Spirit Tribe their long-awaited chance to strike.
• Qi Ming, Jing Si, and Tiexin sabotaged Riftbone communications, Bloodrage Formula, and weapons, while enslaved races rose in rebellion and Velvet Spirit forces attacked from within.
• Lingyue led the retaking of New Star Valley, and Tu Hu killed Suiya by triggering the explosive bone ornament he wore.
• The Velvet Spirit Tribe launched a sweeping counterattack, captured Riftbone territory, and burned the dynasty’s last royal banner one month later.
• Lingyue led a memorial for the fallen at the Monument of the Enduring Flame, where Tu Hu declared that dawn had finally come.

The Velvet Spirit Tribe rebuilt its civilization, reclaimed Star Valley from the Stone Armor Tribe, and established twin cities that joined its homeland with its new center of progress. With Tu Hu watching over a rapidly advancing civilization, the story of Rongling entered a new chapter.

• Xun Ying advanced the Star Language Network, Jing Si perfected the Life Evolution Method, and Tiexin refitted the Riftbone Tribe’s facilities as the Velvet Spirit Tribe’s population and technology grew.
• Tu Hu and the Supreme Council unanimously approved a homecoming campaign to reclaim Star Valley from the Stone Armor Tribe.
• Three months later, Tiexin led the Velvet Spirit Tribe’s technologically superior forces to defeat the Stone Armor Tribe and reclaim Star Valley in a two-day war.
• The Velvet Spirit Tribe founded the City of Remembrance in Star Valley and developed New Star Valley into Feiyue City, linking them with the Homeward Journey energy track.
• Xun Ying, Tiexin, and Jing Si’s teams developed new resource exploration, mining, communications, and biological mecha technologies as the civilization expanded.
• Tu Hu stepped back from day-to-day leadership and watched over the Velvet Spirit Tribe as its civilization continued to advance.

After a thousand years of progress, the Rongling civilization faced an unexplained force that drained the properties from resources and attacked patrols. Xingtong discovered that the world itself might have awakened a nascent will, leaving Tu Hu and the civilization facing the entire world as their enemy.

• Tu Hu surveyed Feiyue City’s thriving civilization and reflected on the spatial injuries that had left him unchanged by time.
• Xingtong showed Tu Hu evidence that resources across Rongling territory were inexplicably losing their properties and that the gray zone was spreading toward Feiyue City.
• Tu Hu connected the crisis to records of the fallen Heavenly Crystal Tribe, whose civilization had been destroyed by intangible Corrupting Spirits.
• Xingtong reported that patrols had encountered similar white-light creatures and, after searching the Dreamweaver knowledge base, found records of a world will that cleansed civilizations.
• Xingtong explained that their world might have developed a nascent will capable of commanding natural forces and altering physical laws, making the entire world their enemy.

As the World Will’s evolving Corrupting Spirits overwhelmed the Rongling Civilization, Tu Hu led the Velvet Spirit Tribe’s survivors into a final battle. Watching his people fall awakened the Sword of Civilization within him, and he reached the Demigod Realm, leaving the World Will wounded and the battlefield transformed.

• Xingtong proposed severing the World Will’s energy nodes, and the Disconnectors initially disrupted several before the World Will adapted and defeated their tactics.
• The Corrupting Spirits invaded the Rongling heartland, destroyed the defenses, and drove the survivors toward annihilation.
• Tu Hu led Xingtong, Shi Tian, Hun Po, and the surviving warriors in a final charge against the Corrupting Spirits.
• As his comrades fell and Xingtong faced death, Tu Hu’s memories and resolve forged a Golden Greatsword and brought him into the Demigod Realm.
• Tu Hu’s golden sword wave erased the Corrupting Spirits and restored the corrupted land, while the wounded World Will recognized his new power.

Tu Hu severed the world's channels and destroyed its conscious core, ending the calamity and securing the Velvet Spirit Tribe's future, but his body dissolved after he entrusted that future to Xingtong. After the tribe commemorated him and rebuilt, Tu Hu entered a resurrection countdown as his emotional memories began to fade, until a familiar voice interrupted the process.

• Tu Hu cut through the world's attacks and severed its energy channels across the land, stopping the unnatural phenomena and the creation of Corrupting Spirits.
• Tu Hu split the earth open, destroyed the world's conscious golden core with the accumulated will of the Velvet Spirit Tribe, and claimed the neutral world origin.
• Tu Hu gave Xingtong the world origin and entrusted the tribe's future to her before his body dissolved into motes of light.
• Xingtong and the Velvet Spirit Tribe mourned Tu Hu, then honored him with statues and memorial traditions as they rebuilt their civilization.
• After Tu Hu's death, a resurrection countdown began, and an unseen force stripped the feelings from his memories until a familiar voice spoke in his consciousness.

After awakening from more than a thousand years as the Rongling Civilization’s guardian, Tu Hu chose to seal rather than erase the emotions tied to those memories, preserving the chance to develop his self-created rules. He returned to his teammates as the first Demigod Realm player with a self-created Life Soul and found himself at the top of the Life Soul rankings.

• Qi Sheng reviewed how Cang Xuan’s legacy and Tu Hu’s thousand years of protecting the Rongling Civilization had forged Tu Hu’s Sword of Civilization, making him the Player Faction’s first Demigod Realm powerhouse with self-created rules.
• Tu Hu awakened in the Little Black Room and learned from Guide that fully unsealing his memories could overwhelm his original identity, while erasing their emotions would halt his path’s growth.
• Tu Hu chose Guide’s second option, sealing the memories’ emotional core while retaining the ability to access it when activating the Sword of Civilization, and agreed to repay the 35 million sacrificial power cost in installments.
• Tu Hu saw that his Life Soul had become an unnamed Level 503 Demigod Realm Life Soul whose power could make laws bow within its domain.
• Tu Hu’s teammates welcomed him back after 46 days in the Monster World, and he discovered that Hard as Steel ranked first on the Life Soul Overall Level Rankings.