Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei entered seclusion to break through to the Earth Spirit realm while Gu Longhu argued with A Xing about humanity’s dependence on powerful races and received a tablet of science books. Lin Fei survived a near-death transformation and reached the Earth Spirit realm with a vastly enhanced Arcane Core and rune capacity.

• After beating Gu Longhu, eating and drinking with him, Lin Fei left to attempt a breakthrough to the Earth Spirit realm.
• A Xing told Gu Longhu that Lin Fei was treating humans well because he had taken a fancy to Gu Xiaoyu, and Gu Longhu rejected the idea that humanity should rely on women’s marriages for protection.
• Gu Longhu lamented humanity’s lack of resources, unity, and technological development, and A Xing gave him a tablet of basic science books.
• When Gu Longhu did not know how to use the tablet, A Xing activated its transparent screen for him.
• During the early morning, Lin Fei’s Arcane Core formed a speck of golden light that drained his vitality until a burst of golden patterns restored and transformed his body.
• Lin Fei’s Arcane Core reached a new level of power, and he gained the ability to use 274,514 runes at once.

Lin Fei revealed that he had reached the Earth Spirit Realm just as the battered Xiao Shiyu and Xiao Nanfeng returned to camp after escaping Alexis. Xiao Shiyu blamed Lin Fei for her near-death experience and began treating Xiao Nanfeng with an extravagant supply of precious pills.

• Lin Fei emerged from seclusion at dawn and casually announced that he had broken through to the Earth Spirit Realm, shocking Gu Longhu and the others.
• Two bloodied pegasi carried Xiao Shiyu and Xiao Nanfeng into camp after they fought Alexis, with Xiao Nanfeng badly wounded and the black pegasus near death.
• Xiao Shiyu had used four Earth Spirit magical treasures to injure Alexis and force him to retreat.
• An Arcane Race member identified Xiao Shiyu as the Princess of Southern Ridge, and the camp knelt in greeting while Lin Fei remained standing.
• Xiao Shiyu angrily accused Lin Fei of nearly getting her killed and demanded repayment for four magical artifacts.
• Xiao Shiyu fed Xiao Nanfeng a Pivot of Creation Pill, then poured seven or eight more into his mouth.

Xiao Shiyu revived the injured and demanded that Lin Fei show her respect, then challenged him to a physical fight. Their clash left the onlookers stunned, and Xiao Shiyu grew alarmed and excited when Lin Fei matched her strength.

• Xiao Shiyu fed Cardinal Creation Pills to the injured black horse and Xiao Nanfeng, then used more pills to save herself and her pegasus.
• Xiao Shiyu demanded that Lin Fei kneel and kiss her hand, but Lin Fei told her that her safety and freedom were under his control.
• Xiao Shiyu challenged Lin Fei to a fight without using Arcana, and Lin Fei formed a God Race Psionic Energy light blade to meet her.
• Xiao Shiyu charged Lin Fei on her pegasus and struck with her spear, but he blocked her attack and stood firm.
• Xiao Shiyu dismounted and launched a series of fierce spear attacks, yet Lin Fei parried every blow as their battle shattered the space around them.
• Xiao Shiyu felt pain and numbness in her arm as she fought Lin Fei, then regarded him with shock and excitement.

Lin Fei defeated Xiao Shiyu in their duel, then overpowered her again when she challenged him to a rematch. Xiao Shiyu abandoned her mission to capture him and proposed that he take her on an adventure through the City of Sin and Bug Ridge.

• Lin Fei defeated Xiao Shiyu and teased her about her boast that she would beat him in three moves.
• Xiao Shiyu challenged Lin Fei to fight again, and he quickly subdued her, leaving her begging him to stop.
• Lin Fei urged Xiao Shiyu to return home, but she demanded compensation for the danger she had faced and refused to leave.
• Xiao Shiyu told Lin Fei that capturing him had only been a pretext and asked him to show her the City of Sin and the insect tide in Bug Ridge.
• Xiao Shiyu offered to report Lin Fei dead and protect him from further pursuit if he agreed to take her adventuring.

Lin Fei agreed to accompany Xiao Shiyu to the City of Sin after negotiating a seventy-thirty share of their gains, and he learned about the city's powers while strengthening the camp. As Lin Fei prepared to leave with Xiao Shiyu, Gu Longhu asked to join them, but Lin Fei refused and promised to give him any high-grade energy crystals they found.

• Xiao Shiyu persuaded Lin Fei to travel with her to the City of Sin by offering him seventy percent of their gains, and he accepted.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu reinforced the camp's defenses, while Ru Longhu told Lin Fei about the City of Sin and its four races and neutral center.
• Xiao Shiyu considered auctioning Earth Spirit magical treasures, and Lin Fei warned that she could be killed for them.
• Lin Fei prepared to enter the City of Sin with Xiao Shiyu and told her to conceal her aura.
• Gu Longhu asked to accompany them for a share of the gains, but Lin Fei refused and offered him any high-grade energy crystals they found.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu crossed the Photon Forest toward the City of Sin, where they learned that the Arcane Race enslaved its own people and forced slaves of other races into dangerous labor. At the city gate, they saw outsiders charged a steep entry fee and a human who could not pay sent toward the slave market.

• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu traveled through the wilderness, and Xiao Shiyu demolished two mutant insect nests before they reached a vast red river.
• They encountered Arcane Race slaves hunting mutated aquatic creatures, and the slaves explained that radiation, disease, spacetime rifts, and fear of death kept stronger arcanists from the most dangerous work.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu crossed the river and passed through the Photon Forest to the City of Sin.
• They joined a queue at the city gate and saw Arcane Race members enter freely while people of other races were required to pay a hundred jin of low-grade energy crystals.
• A human who could not afford the fee pleaded for more time, but the gate guard ordered him to stand aside for someone to take him to the slave market.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu entered the City of Sin and saw the brutal treatment of enslaved people. After Xiao Shiyu bought a human woman, she learned the seller had eaten the woman’s child and turned on him with killing intent.

• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu entered the city after proving their identities, while guards sent those unable to pay into forced labor or slavery.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu witnessed arcanists abusing slaves as they walked through the city.
• Xiao Shiyu offered to buy a human woman, paid one hundred jin of mid-grade energy crystals, and drew greedy attention from the crowd.
• Xiao Shiyu asked the woman where her child was, and the woman said the seller had eaten the child.
• Xiao Shiyu erupted with killing intent and fixed her gaze on the seller.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu followed the human woman to a cheap inn in the western slums, where they prepared to confront the arcanists stalking them. The innkeeper leered at Xiao Shiyu as the woman worried that their pursuers had gone to fetch reinforcements.

• Lin Fei stopped Xiao Shiyu from attacking the slave seller, and she took the human woman's hand and left with him.
• Xiao Shiyu chose a dangerous, cheap inn, while Lin Fei ignored the arcanists following them.
• The group reached the western slums, where Xiao Shiyu recoiled from the filth and clung to Lin Fei when she saw a cockroach; Lin Fei killed the insects with wind blades.
• The seller sent several arcanists to find Li Jun and Li Shuai, hoping they would help capture Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu.
• Lin Fei booked three rooms at an inn, and the human woman asked what they would do about their pursuers; Lin Fei said they had probably gone to get reinforcements.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu sheltered a starving human woman and waited for the men who had threatened them. The Li brothers led masked bandits to their room, where they launched a combined wind-and-fire attack at Lin Fei.

• Xiao Shiyu offered the exhausted human woman food, and Lin Fei cooked her a spider leg that she devoured after three months without eating.
• As darkness fell, Xiao Shiyu declared that whoever came to attack them would die, while the woman suspected they were powerful spirits.
• The masked Li brothers questioned the innkeeper, learned that Lin Fei, Xiao Shiyu, and the woman were in Rooms 404, 405, and 406, then hypnotized him.
• The Li brothers and their bandits broke into Room 404 and threatened Lin Fei and the woman.
• The Li brothers combined Wind Tornado and Fire Scours the Plains into a flaming tornado and sent it charging toward Lin Fei.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu survived an ambush by Li Shuai, Li Jun, and their bandits, revealing that Lin Fei was an Earth Spirit and killing the attackers. They concealed the incident from the innkeeper and set out to find a tavern for information.

• Lin Fei let Li Shuai and Li Jun’s wind-and-fire attack engulf him without harm, then revealed his Earth Spirit power after trapping the attackers behind a Telekinetic Barrier.
• Li Jun attacked Wang Kai after realizing the slave trader had led him into a fight with an Earth Spirit, and Lin Fei used Death Grip to crush the bandits’ hearts and Arcane Cores.
• Lin Fei collected the attackers’ core fragments and spatial rings, burned their bodies, and erased the Human Race woman’s memories to protect her from anyone who could read them.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu agreed to visit a tavern for information and placed restrictions on the woman’s room before going downstairs.
• The innkeeper panicked when he saw them alive, but Lin Fei denied seeing the men in black, and the innkeeper agreed that there had been no intruders.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu went to Ma Yuanming’s Yuanming Tavern, where they saw the City of Sin’s violent disorder and attracted the attention of Black Dog. Black Dog threatened them, and Lin Fei gave him one chance to leave.

• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu traveled through the City of Sin, survived an attempted robbery, and split the criminals’ resources.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu entered Yuanming Tavern, where a patron blasted another into dust and tavern fights drew cheers.
• Xiao Shiyu ordered six expensive drinks and made Lin Fei pay for them.
• A middle-aged man fought a young man outside the tavern, then returned covered in blood and bought a drink with his winnings.
• Black Dog approached Xiao Shiyu and threatened Lin Fei, who picked up chopsticks and told him to get lost after counting to three.

Lin Fei killed Black Dog and his men after Black Dog attacked him, then calmly shared wine and food with Xiao Shiyu. The tavern’s proprietor, Ma Yuanming, arrived and treated Lin Fei with deference, leaving the encounter poised to continue.

• Lin Fei’s countdown ended with Black Dog’s lightning attack, which left him unharmed.
• Lin Fei used two chopsticks to kill Black Dog and his men, then collected their Arcane Cores and spatial rings.
• The innkeeper offered Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu wine and a feast, then went upstairs to find Brother Ma.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu tasted the wine and chatted while dishes arrived.
• Ma Yuanming came downstairs, introduced himself, ignored his dead subordinate’s body being removed, and accepted Lin Fei’s invitation to sit.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu stayed at Ma Yuanming’s tavern after Lin Fei decided to seek wealth in the city center. Ma Yuanming brought his powerful uncle Ma Feng back to confront them, and Lin Fei’s defiance pushed Ma Feng to unleash his Arcana energy.

• Lin Fei asked Ma Yuanming how to make money quickly and decided to seek fortune in the city center.
• Lin Fei invented the names Wan Shengtian and Wan Shiyu for himself and Xiao Shiyu, claiming their cultivation levels were upper spirit second layer and middle spirit sixth layer.
• Ma Yuanming invited the pair to stay at his tavern, then went to Ma Feng and complained that Lin Fei had killed Black Dog.
• Ma Feng brought Ma Yuanming back to the tavern and demanded Lin Fei’s resources and a master-servant contract.
• Lin Fei mocked Ma Feng and asked Xiao Shiyu whether she wanted to know a dead man’s name, prompting Ma Feng to unleash his Arcana energy.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu killed Ma Feng and Ma Yuanming in a tavern, then forced its patrons into master-servant contracts. Lin Fei put Fan Shuai in charge of the western slum and left with Xiao Shiyu for the city center.

• Ma Feng's Mind Storm failed to affect Lin Fei, who killed him instantly and took his spatial ring and Arcane Core.
• Ma Yuanming begged for his life and offered to serve Lin Fei, but Xiao Shiyu killed him and took his Arcane Core.
• Lin Fei argued that controlling Ma Yuanming would have been more useful than killing him, while Xiao Shiyu killed an Arcana mage who tried to sneak away.
• Lin Fei gave the tavern patrons a choice between following him and dying, then bound them with a master-servant contract.
• Lin Fei appointed Fan Shuai to take over the western slum and asked him to find work and lodging for a Human Race woman at the Ginkgo Inn.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu headed toward the city center under cover of night.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu visited a stone-gambling yard in the City of Sin, where Xiao Shiyu planned to use her knowledge of energy-bearing stones to win resources. After demon Stanton lost most of his investment, Xiao Shiyu struggled to find anything promising, while another gambler struck it rich.

• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu arrived at the stone-gambling yard, and Xiao Shiyu insisted she could choose winning stones.
• Demon Stanton bought an expensive stone and paid to have it cut open before the gathered crowd.
• Stanton recovered only a small amount of impure mid-grade crystals and became furious over his loss.
• Stanton struck his elf companion when she urged him to stop gambling, then vowed to win back his losses.
• Xiao Shiyu examined nearby stones but could not find anything promising before a nearby gambler cheered at a successful find.

Lin Fei used his sensitivity to energy crystals to find a valuable stone and earn a large profit, then accepted Fred’s challenge to a stone-gambling wager. As onlookers and Xiao Shiyu expected him to lose, the wager was set to begin.

• Xiao Shiyu watched a man profit from a stone she had dismissed, and Lin Fei teased her about her judgment.
• Lin Fei sensed the contents of several stones before finding one with four hundred jin of high-grade crystals and buying it for thirty jin.
• Lin Fei cut open the stone, revealed the crystals, paid the staff member their share, and asked Xiao Shiyu if she regretted refusing her portion.
• Fred, a Many-Eyed Race gambler known for winning, challenged Lin Fei to a wager in which the loser would pay two hundred high-grade crystals.
• Lin Fei accepted the wager, and a God Race staff member was summoned to witness it as the crowd and Xiao Shiyu doubted he could win.

Lin Fei accepted Fred’s bet and paid thirty jin of high-grade crystal stones for an ornamental rock that the crowd believed was worthless. When he shattered it, dazzling light burst from within, leaving everyone astonished.

• Fred selected a white stone and cut out material worth about five hundred jin of high-grade crystal stones.
• Lin Fei chose an ornamental rock from the pond, despite Fred and the crowd insisting it contained nothing.
• The proprietor charged Lin Fei thirty jin of high-grade crystal stones for the rock, and Lin Fei paid without hesitation.
• Lin Fei placed restrictions around the rock after sensing a familiar life-form inside it.
• Lin Fei struck the ornamental rock and revealed a dazzling light that amazed the crowd.

Lin Fei uncovered a Starry Sky Insect Egg inside a decorative rock, provoking the Crystal Clan owner to demand the egg and threaten him with a Storm Battleship. The newly hatched mother bug bonded with Lin Fei, then transformed into human form.

• Lin Fei defeated Fred in the stone-gambling contest and collected two hundred jin of high-grade crystals.
• The Crystal Clan owner demanded a tenth of Lin Fei’s winnings, then valued the Starry Sky Insect Egg at ten thousand earth spirit stones and demanded a thousand or the egg.
• The owner launched a Storm Battleship as Xiao Shiyu prepared to fight, but the egg hatched before battle began.
• The mother bug tried to flee, struck the restrictions, and settled in Lin Fei’s hand after sensing that he was a fellow devourer.
• The owner demanded that Lin Fei hand over the mother bug or die, while Lin Fei criticized her appearance and Xiao Shiyu scolded him.
• The mother bug appeared to understand Lin Fei and transformed into human form.

Lin Fei protected the Starry Sky Mother Bug from the four races and the God Race Storm Battleship, while Xiao Shiyu survived its devastating bombardment. The captain ordered the battleship to fire again and retreat after realizing two Earth Spirits were present.

• The Storm Battleship captain ordered his crew not to fire, while the ground forces' boss sent four Upper Spirits to seize Lin Fei and the mother bug.
• Lin Fei killed the four Upper Spirits with Telekinetic Rend, revealing himself as an Earth Spirit powerhouse.
• The captain ordered the Storm Battleship to bombard Xiao Shiyu, and its blast devastated the area as Lin Fei shielded himself and the mother bug from the shockwave.
• Lin Fei called out Xiao Shiyu, who emerged from the energy storm alive and traded insults with him.
• After Xiao Shiyu's survival revealed a second Earth Spirit, the captain ordered the Storm Battleship to fire and retreat.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu were pursued by the Arcana Heavenly King, who trapped them in his Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Thunder Cage. They broke free, but the enraged king launched his Spear of Ultron Arbitration at them.

• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu left the temple while a Storm Battleship followed at a distance to report their movements.
• The Arcana Heavenly King arrived and used the forbidden art Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Thunder Cage to trap Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu combined their arcana and physical strength to break through the thunder cage, suffering severe injuries.
• Xiao Shiyu taunted the Arcana Heavenly King, and he responded by forming and firing the Spear of Ultron Arbitration.