Chapter Summaries

Tang Zhixue discovered that Clear Spirit Trees could resist the erosion of eldritch beings and evil entities, then killed a rotten humanoid monster that appeared in the Silent White Fog. The monster dropped a Supply Card promising fifty kilograms of rice, but Tang Zhixue hesitated to open it because he did not know whether it came with a container.

• Tang Zhixue examined a Clear Spirit Tree and found that its trunk, branches, and leaves all had descriptions saying they could resist eldritch and evil erosion.
• Tang Zhixue ate White Melons and worried that his dwindling supply would not last beyond the night, so he planned to find a way to grow more.
• A rotten humanoid monster approached Tang Zhixue through the Silent White Fog and dodged his first attack before lunging at him.
• Tang Zhixue dodged and split the monster in two with his iron axe, then finished it by driving a wooden stick into its head.
• Tang Zhixue found a Supply Card above the monster's corpse that offered fifty kilograms of edible rice, but paused before opening it because he lacked a container.

Tang Zhixue killed another rotting monster and discovered that Supply Cards produced their goods in bamboo baskets, then spent the day gathering Clear Spirit Wood for his shelter. He learned that upgrading Blazing Sun required fifty Clear Spirit Wood, leaving him about three and a half days of work away from meeting the requirement.

• Tang Zhixue left the shelter to chop a Clear Spirit Tree and killed a rotting monster that attacked him, obtaining a Supply Card for one hundred jin of premium charcoal.
• Tang Zhixue tore the charcoal and rice Supply Cards, which produced baskets holding the charcoal and rice.
• Tang Zhixue cleared the monster corpses, finished felling the Clear Spirit Tree, and chopped six more trees through the afternoon.
• Tang Zhixue discovered that the shelter could absorb the tree trunks he intended to use as upgrade materials.
• Tang Zhixue checked Blazing Sun's panel and saw that he had seven of the fifty Clear Spirit Wood required for an upgrade.

Tang Zhixue cooked rice in his Shelter and discussed monster drops with Fang Yunxi after adding her as a friend. He traded ten pieces of charcoal for Fang Yunxi’s first-tier Planting Box.

• Tang Zhixue cooked rice and told the regional chat that he had received a Supply Card by killing a monster, while Fang Yunxi said her kill had yielded none.
• Tang Zhixue added Fang Yunxi as a friend, and they compared the humanoid Rotting Living Corpse and first-tier Nether Hound they had encountered.
• Fang Yunxi offered to trade Tang Zhixue a first-tier Planting Box with twelve square meters of planting space and self-renewing soil for a hundred White Melons.
• Tang Zhixue proposed ten pieces of charcoal instead, and Fang Yunxi accepted the trade.

Tang Zhixue mastered the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra, extending its purification effect to six hours, then fell asleep to test his talent’s dream-space function. He awoke in a vast white space and recognized it as the dream space.

• Tang Zhixue traded ten pieces of premium charcoal to Fang Yunxi for a planting box and inspected its mysterious patterns.
• Eerie sounds outside startled Tang Zhixue, who used the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra to drive them away.
• Tang Zhixue practiced the mantra until he mastered it, and its purification effect increased to six hours.
• Tang Zhixue reread the Blazing Fire Sect Forging Basics but gained no new skill, then went to sleep to test his dream-space talent.
• Tang Zhixue awoke in a vast white space and realized he had entered the dream space.

Tang Zhixue used the Dream Space to improve his Blazing Tiger Fist and Linked Pearl Archery, then discovered his training had strengthened him in reality. After clearing nearby trees and extending the area purified by his mantra, he realized he could use his Vitality Absorption talent to help with the work.

• Tang Zhixue practiced Blazing Tiger Fist in the Dream Space until it reached Proficient and shaped the space into an archery range.
• Tang Zhixue trained with a Wooden Bow until Linked Pearl Archery reached Master, then woke with all his energy exhausted.
• Tang Zhixue renewed the Shelter's purification effect and noticed the Silent White Fog had retreated farther than before.
• Tang Zhixue chopped down four Clear Spirit Trees in an hour and cleared the trees from the fog-free area.
• Tang Zhixue returned to the Shelter for his bow and arrows, then remembered that his Planting Box and Vitality Absorption talent could help him chop trees.

Tang Zhixue used his innate ability to fell Clear Spirit Trees and gather enough materials to upgrade Blazing Sun Shelter to level 2. After exploring its expanded interior and new protections, he tended his mutated plants and prepared to compare naturally formed Plant Vitality Crystals with those he produced.

• Tang Zhixue repeatedly drained the vitality from a Clear Spirit Tree until it fell, then brought it and its remaining vitality into the shelter.
• Tang Zhixue used plant vitality to help his transplanted mutated plants take root and grow, gathering enough materials to upgrade the shelter by noon.
• Blazing Sun Shelter upgraded to level 2, gaining a larger structure, regional trading, a Martial Arts Space, and the Clear Spirit Evil-Repelling effect.
• Tang Zhixue inspected the shelter's three rooms and main hall, noted that it lacked a toilet, and entered the planting room.
• Tang Zhixue found ten Jade Flowers, five Water-Gathering Grass plants, five White Melon Vines, and 134 White Melons, then used divided portions of plant vitality to test whether the Jade Flowers would form crystals.
• Tang Zhixue ate a White Melon and grimaced because he had grown nauseated from eating too many.

Tang Zhixue made a crude vine back basket so he could carry resources while hunting monsters beyond the Shelter. He killed five Rotting Living Corpses and found two Supply Cards, then set out to hunt more.

• Tang Zhixue decided to make a basket before searching the woods for useful resources.
• He gathered vines and wove a crude back basket, which an information panel identified as a First Tier item.
• Tang Zhixue equipped himself with his Iron Axe, Wooden Bow, and arrows, then left the Shelter with the basket.
• About a hundred meters beyond the Shelter's range, Tang Zhixue killed five Rotting Living Corpses with five arrows.
• He collected two Supply Cards containing fresh water and potatoes, and realized the monsters did not always drop cards.

Tang Zhixue watched a Sharp-Horned Tiger and a mud-covered boar fight over an Orange-Yellow Fruit plant, then intervened with his bow to kill them both. Afterward, he noticed a card floating above each corpse.

• Tang Zhixue found a clearing in the Silent White Fog where a Sharp-Horned Tiger and a boar faced off beside a plant bearing Orange-Yellow Fruit.
• The boar charged the tiger, and the two beasts injured each other in a struggle among the trees.
• Tang Zhixue prepared his bow and shot the tiger and boar in the eyes while they fought.
• Tang Zhixue fired more arrows into their open mouths, killing both beasts.
• Tang Zhixue noticed a card floating above each corpse.

Tang Zhixue brought the two mutant beast carcasses back to Shelter and used a Building Card to convert the Planting Box room into a Planting Cottage. He learned how Knowledge Cards worked and gained the recipe for forging spirit-pattern iron.

• Tang Zhixue collected a Building Card from the Sharp-Horned Tiger and a Knowledge Card from the Mud Boar, then devised a pole platform to haul both carcasses back to Shelter.
• Tang Zhixue discovered that the frost-ash grass was a second-tier mutated plant that could dispel the silent white fog and improve resistance to it.
• Tang Zhixue tore the Building Card in the Planting Box room, converting it into a Planting Cottage that could replenish soil fertility.
• Tang Zhixue planted the frost-ash grass in the new cottage and returned to the main hall.
• Tang Zhixue tore the Knowledge Card and learned that spirit-pattern iron was forged by combining ordinary iron with powdered metal-aspect energy crystals.

Tang Zhixue dealt with the practical challenges of processing his mutated beast carcasses, then traded Jade Flower seeds to other survivors. He hoped their environments might yield platinum or other metal-attribute energy crystals, and ended the chapter with a haul of valuable goods.

• Tang Zhixue decided to search for fresh water to process his mutated beast carcasses and looked in the trading box for a knife, but found no useful listings.
• Tang Zhixue used a Supply Card to obtain potatoes, baked one, and stored half of the sack so the potatoes could sprout.
• Tang Zhixue joined the regional chat, where survivors discussed cultivation manuals and the difficulty of obtaining energy for their Shelters.
• Tang Zhixue offered ten Jade Flower seeds, explaining that the flowers could condense energy crystals used by Shelters.
• Tang Zhixue traded the seeds to several survivors and gained valuable items while hoping to learn whether their environments could produce platinum or other metal-attribute crystals.

Tang Zhixue learned new crafting knowledge, expanded his Shelter with a new room, and prepared to train his game-processing skills. He ended the evening enjoying his first baked potato.

• Tang Zhixue traded for a hunting knife, books on game processing and bows and arrows, and a Room Expansion Card.
• After reading the books, Tang Zhixue’s panel recorded bow and arrow crafting and game processing as uninitiated crafts.
• Tang Zhixue used the Room Expansion Card to create a fifty-to-sixty-square-meter room, then placed a forge, firecloud stones, and rusty weapons inside.
• Tang Zhixue moved his bed closer to the fireplace and dug a cooked potato from the ashes.
• Tang Zhixue tasted the baked potato and quickly ate the whole thing.

Tang Zhixue learned that the Beginning of Spring event would bring the dangerous Junweng anomaly and a Biting Spring Granny who might reward him for leaving her homemade food. He ventured toward the Silent White Fog to butcher two beasts for a meal, only to find Junweng waiting nearby.

• Tang Zhixue practiced processing the Thorn-Horned Mutant Tiger and Mud-Armored Boar in the Dream Space, raising Prey Processing to Proficient.
• Tang Zhixue saw the event notice warning that Junweng would appear in the Silent White Fog and target perceived imbalances.
• Tang Zhixue learned that Biting Spring Granny would visit each night and might leave a reward in exchange for food he had cooked and eaten that day.
• Tang Zhixue took his hunting gear and an unused Supply Card outside so he could butcher the beasts and prepare food for Biting Spring Granny.
• Tang Zhixue recited the mantra to disperse the fog, then spotted Junweng standing nearby and cautiously backed toward the Shelter.

Tang Zhixue discovered that Junweng could not enter the Shelter’s area but could deflect and return his arrows, so he sought a way to attack it. After discussing the anomaly with others, he agreed to try Luo Hongcai’s Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Incantation and Ritual Altar instructions.

• Tang Zhixue fired three arrows at Junweng, which it corrected and sent back at him, and he dodged them.
• Tang Zhixue returned to the Shelter and learned in the chat that others were also blocked by Junweng anomalies.
• Tang Zhixue asked the others for ideas, and they discussed finding a nonphysical way to attack Junweng.
• Luo Hongcai shared the Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Incantation and explained how to set up its Ritual Altar and form the hand seal.
• Tang Zhixue said he would try the incantation while the others waited for news.

Tang Zhixue used the Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Incantation to destroy the Junweng apparition, then found a Supply Card that gave him a Balanced Pocket Watch. The watch could suppress stronger beings within ten meters, but only up to the second tier, leaving Tang Zhixue wishing its limit were higher.

• Tang Zhixue arranged bamboo tubes as a makeshift Ritual Altar and recited the Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Incantation toward Junweng.
• On his ninth recitation, Tang Zhixue’s altar lit up, and its power struck Junweng, whose piercing scream confirmed the attack had worked.
• Tang Zhixue received a notice that Junweng had been slain but that his chance of encountering the apparition again that day had only been reduced.
• Tang Zhixue found a glowing Supply Card where Junweng had stood and retreated into the Shelter before examining it.
• Tang Zhixue opened the card and obtained a Balanced Pocket Watch that suppressed stronger beings within ten meters to his strength, provided they were no stronger than second tier.

Tang Zhixue tested the stream he found in the woods, confirmed its water was ordinary but needed filtering and boiling, and butchered the Thorn-Horned Mutant Tiger and Mud-Armored Boar beside it. He preserved the hides with salt and carried the meat and bones back to the Shelter.

• Tang Zhixue shared in the chat that he had obtained a second-tier item, while Fang Yunxi asked about using Mutated Beast fat to make oil lamps.
• Tang Zhixue took his Balanced Pocket Watch into the woods and found a stream after dispersing the Silent White Fog with the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra.
• Tang Zhixue brought stream water back to the Shelter and checked its information, which identified it as ordinary water that needed filtering and boiling before drinking.
• Tang Zhixue hauled the Thorn-Horned Mutant Tiger and Mud-Armored Boar carcasses to the stream and drained their blood.
• Tang Zhixue removed and salted the hides, separated and washed the meat and bones, kept the hearts, and discarded the other organs in the stream.
• Tang Zhixue carried the processed hides, meat, and bones back to the Shelter.

Tang Zhixue learned that 26 more people had died despite the Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Method, then tested the Martial Arts Space’s time acceleration. His Blazing Tiger Fist improved dramatically, but he discovered that his energy points had disappeared.

• Tang Zhixue returned to the Shelter, checked the hides, meat, and bones, then grilled Mud-Armored Boar meat and cooked rice.
• Tang Zhixue saw that the regional population had fallen to 212, and Yuan Lexian explained that people had killed Junweng outside their Shelters only to encounter new ones when they ventured out again.
• Tang Zhixue ate the energy-rich boar meat and decided to practice in the Martial Arts Space instead of going outside.
• Tang Zhixue activated the Space’s only time-flow option, 6:1, and practiced Blazing Tiger Fist with the Thorn-Horned Mutant Tiger in mind, rapidly increasing his proficiency.
• Tang Zhixue left after an hour had passed, realized he had practiced for six hours, and found that his hundred energy points were gone.

Tang Zhixue advanced his Blazing Tiger Fist and began forging golden-pattern iron ore, but became so absorbed that he failed to renew his Shelter’s purification effect. When he discovered the Shelter was undergoing weird erosion, he recited the Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Incantation as a waterlogged monster approached.

• Tang Zhixue saw that his energy had run out after an hour in the Martial Arts Space and noted that Blazing Tiger Fist had reached expert level.
• Tang Zhixue cultivated plants in the Planting Cottage and produced ten Plant Vitality Crystals.
• Tang Zhixue used Blazing Tiger Fist’s force-generating technique to forge golden-pattern iron ore in the forge room.
• A waterlogged monster approached the Shelter as white fog began to engulf it, while Tang Zhixue remained unaware inside.
• Tang Zhixue smelled a fishy odor, checked the Shelter panel, and discovered that weird erosion had begun after the purification effect expired.
• Tang Zhixue began reciting the Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Incantation to repel the foul energy.

Tang Zhixue discovered that reciting the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra while forging had imbued Golden-Pattern Iron with purification power. He used the resulting ingot to destroy the bloated-corpse creature attacking the Shelter, then inspected what it left behind.

• Tang Zhixue recited the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra, but the Shelter remained under supernatural erosion as the creature outside howled.
• While he continued reciting, the cooling iron ingot gained white patterns, and he identified it as Purification Golden-Pattern Iron.
• Tang Zhixue opened the door and struck the bloated-corpse creature with his hammer, then hurled the ingot at it while reciting the mantra.
• The ingot’s white light engulfed and burned the creature until it vanished, leaving a patterned iron ingot and black ashes.
• Tang Zhixue confirmed that the Shelter’s supernatural erosion had ended and its energy had risen from 0 to 10, then examined the ingot and ashes.

Tang Zhixue tried to secure the damaged Blazing Sun Shelter and grew three mutated trees from Clear Spirit Tree branches. He cultivated a Martial Arts Tree and a Spirit Clarity Tree, and the Martial Arts Tree produced ripe fruits that could create hostile clones.

• Tang Zhixue found that the ash left by the weird entity had no special effect and worried about the hole it had left in his Shelter door.
• A giant snake emerged from the stream and sent four bloated-corpse weird entities into the fog, avoiding the direction of Tang Zhixue's Shelter.
• Tang Zhixue brought back logs to block the hole and planted Clear Spirit Tree branches beside the Shelter.
• Tang Zhixue used Plant Vitality to grow a Mist Spirit Tree, a Martial Arts Tree, and a Spirit Clarity Tree, then moved the Martial Arts Tree into the Planting Cottage.
• Tang Zhixue nourished the Martial Arts Tree and Spirit Clarity Tree until the Martial Arts Tree bore ripe fruits that could become hostile Martial Arts Clones.

Tang Zhixue activated the Martial Arts Fruit and discovered that his martial arts clone would attack him without stopping. After the clone overwhelmed him with a bow and arrows that caused pain but left no wounds, Tang Zhixue prepared to fight it again.

• Tang Zhixue used his blood to activate the Martial Arts Fruit in the martial arts space, creating a pitch-black martial arts clone.
• The clone attacked Tang Zhixue, who countered with Blazing Tiger Fist and landed several punches before the clone blocked one of his blows.
• The clone retreated, produced a pitch-black bow, and fired energy arrows at Tang Zhixue, striking him repeatedly.
• Tang Zhixue realized the arrows caused intense pain but left no actual wounds, while the clone watched him in silence.
• The clone's bow vanished and it charged again, so Tang Zhixue took up Blazing Tiger Fist's opening stance to continue fighting.