Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ziliu discovered that Azurite Rock Man A Kun could speak after evolving into a six-star gold-rank Earth Titan. He examined A Kun’s upgraded bloodline and abilities, then released the life feedback from A Kun’s advancement to strengthen himself.

• Jiang Ziliu returned to his base and entered the Demigod Artifact’s small world to check on A Kun.
• A Kun spoke to Jiang Ziliu for the first time and learned to control his immense weight.
• Jiang Ziliu inspected A Kun’s information panel and found that he had reached six-star gold rank and gained a 10.3% Earth Titan bloodline.
• Jiang Ziliu saw that A Kun’s abilities had grown stronger and that Intelligent Spirituality had enabled him to speak and think like an intelligent life-form.
• Jiang Ziliu released the life feedback he had been suppressing and welcomed its enhancement to his own life.

Jiang Ziliu’s strength rose to five-star Gold Rank as he prepared to evolve his tamed beasts. Lady White chose the dragon transformation path, leaving Jiang Ziliu to seek the flood dragon blood essence needed for her evolution.

• Life feedback from Jiang Ziliu’s tamed beasts raised his strength to five-star Gold Rank, bringing his combat ability close to that of a low-level Diamond Rank expert.
• After the Azurite Rock Man completed its evolution, Jiang Ziliu considered evolution paths for Lady White and Thousand Faces.
• Jiang Ziliu offered Lady White a choice between growing into a giant serpent and transforming from a snake into a dragon.
• Lady White chose the dragon transformation path because she wanted to travel freely and see more of the world in a smaller body.
• Jiang Ziliu began preparing her evolution potion and determined that he needed to hunt a flood dragon to obtain its blood essence.

After A Kun’s Gold Rank advancement exposed the Undead Race’s hidden preparations, the Undead Race launched an early, incomplete invasion against the human base city. Jiang Ziliu surveyed the enormous Undead Scourge and recognized that the coming battle would depend on humanity’s response.

• Gold Rank experts investigating A Kun’s celestial phenomenon uncovered the Undead Race’s plan to create an S Grade dungeon and unleash an Undead Scourge.
• The Undead Race launched its invasion ahead of schedule, and a citywide alarm brought Jiang Ziliu outside.
• Jiang Ziliu used Earth Space Evasion to reach a mountain and saw vast numbers of skeletons, ghosts, Yin Corpses, and other undead advancing on the base.
• Jiang Ziliu sensed that the Scourge had few Silver Rank and Gold Rank combatants, including fewer than six Gold Rank undead, but its overwhelming numbers still threatened the hundreds of thousands of people in the base.
• Jiang Ziliu realized a major battle between the undead and the human base was about to begin.

Jiang Ziliu observed a human base defending itself from the Undead Scourge with mass-produced weapons and specialized defenses against skeletons, ghosts, and yin corpses. The undead commanders held back their stronger forces, and the chapter ended with humanity facing the threat of being overwhelmed by the horde’s numbers.

• The human base launched repeated rocket volleys that killed at least twenty million skeletons and slowed their advance.
• Human forces used antiaircraft shells carrying dust of light and a Sun Holy Crystal to damage and repel ghosts.
• The base relied on flame-lined underground defenses to counter the approaching yin corpses.
• Silver Rank and Gold Rank undead commanders sent low-level undead forward while preserving their stronger forces.
• Humanity prepared to counter the undead strategy, but its limited numbers and supplies risked being overcome by the growing horde.

Humanity used successive waves of technology to destroy most of the undead calamity, but the remaining five hundred million skeletons forced its beast tamers to leave the base and fight. The defenders did not know that undead powerhouses were waiting to strike while bases across the region were under attack.

• Humanity’s rocket launchers fought the undead tide for three days, destroying sixty percent of the low-level undead before steel shortages silenced the launchers.
• The undead reached the base, where humanity used fuel and fire, mechanical blades, lasers, and underground defenses to destroy most of the advancing forces.
• Humanity launched specialized missiles that destroyed nearly two hundred million skeletons and fifty million ghosts, leaving fewer than fifteen percent of the original skeletons.
• Five hundred million skeletons remained, so human beast tamers left the base to fight while trying to protect the energy barrier until reinforcements arrived.
• Undead powerhouses waited for a decisive moment as bases throughout the region faced simultaneous invasions.

Humanity’s beast tamers and their beasts fought the undead scourge until exhaustion forced them to rely on a failing energy barrier. Jiang Ziliu learned that undead forces had intercepted the missing reinforcements and located the three Gold Rank commanders behind the invasion, leaving him to consider whether to intervene.

• Humanity’s tamed beasts initially overwhelmed the undead, but the endless fighting depleted their strength and supplies until they were driven back behind the base’s energy barrier.
• The undead piled skeletons against the barrier, while humanity’s Gold Rank experts held back because Gold Rank undead were watching them.
• Jiang Ziliu noticed that the expected reinforcements had not arrived, and the barrier’s power began to run low.
• Jiang Ziliu used Electromagnetic Induction to locate three Gold Rank Undead Race commanders, then asked Ailande why the reinforcements were absent.
• Ailande revealed that Diamond Rank, Gold Rank, and Supreme Rank undead had intercepted the rescue forces, and Jiang Ziliu began weighing whether to intervene.

Jiang Ziliu learned from the Forging Throne that his actions had changed humanity’s fate and that saving the people in the base could bring him great fortune. After Probability Judgment confirmed the choice was unlikely to disrupt his low-profile plans, he decided to act as the battle between the human and undead Gold Rank lifeforms began.

• The Forging Throne awakened and addressed Jiang Ziliu as its master, explaining that his actions had altered humanity’s fate and saved tens of millions of people.
• The Forging Throne told Jiang Ziliu that humanity’s fortune now favored him and urged him to save the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in the base.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment and learned there was a 98.6% chance that saving everyone was the best choice offered by fate.
• Jiang Ziliu checked the risk to his low-profile development and received a 0.07% chance of negative impact.
• Jiang Ziliu decided to act as the battle between human and undead Gold Rank lifeforms erupted.

As the human defenders struggled to hold off the Undead Clan’s Gold Rank assault, Jiang Ziliu prepared a covert counterattack. He sent A Kun to ambush one hidden enemy and poisoned two others, waiting for the poison to take effect before A Kun struck.

• The humans attacked low- and mid-tier undead, then their Gold Rank and Silver Rank fighters returned to battle when the undead elites charged during a shift change.
• Jiang Ziliu watched the human high-level forces become increasingly suppressed as Gold Rank battles devastated the surrounding land.
• Jiang Ziliu gave A Kun an S Grade treasured saber and sent him to ambush one of the hidden Undead Race members.
• Jiang Ziliu used Earth Space Evasion and birds' droppings to secretly place poison beside two other hidden enemies.
• Jiang Ziliu waited for the poison to be discovered, knowing that would be the moment A Kun attacked.

Jiang Ziliu and A Kun killed the Undead Race members controlling the Undead Scourge, causing the undead army to collapse and saving the base. The surviving beast tamers celebrated their victory, while the Gold Rank and Silver Rank fighters realized someone had eliminated the hidden enemy.

• Jiang Ziliu poisoned and killed several Gold Rank members of the Undead Race after his Electromagnetic Cannons disrupted their contracted undead.
• Azurite Rock ambushed another Undead Race member, and A Kun crushed him and his Gold Rank undead with gravity.
• The deaths of the Undead Race members ended their control, and the undead army across the battlefield collapsed within minutes.
• The base's beast tamers cheered and wept as they realized the Undead Scourge had ended, though many people and contracted beasts had died.
• The Gold Rank and Silver Rank beast tamers recognized that someone had found and killed the hidden Undead Race controllers.

Jiang Ziliu escaped the Undead Race’s retaliation when Lightning Spear Supreme intervened, then left the area around Chang'an Base. He headed east toward the Million-Li Great Severed Ridge and an inland sea where the Mutated Lightning Snake could transform into a dragon.

• Jiang Ziliu concealed himself as a powerful Undead Race member appeared and threatened the base.
• Lightning Spear Supreme shattered the Undead Race powerhouse’s projection and confronted him.
• Jiang Ziliu escaped without taking the Undead Race members’ spatial items, while Lightning Spear Supreme erased traces of his presence.
• Jiang Ziliu reached another safe human territory and sent his eldest brother a letter explaining his departure, along with resources and treasures.
• Jiang Ziliu set out for the wilderness east of Chang'an Base, heading toward the inland sea where the Mutated Lightning Snake’s opportunity awaited.

Jiang Ziliu learned that leaves from Broken Ridge Academy’s Tree of Life could help his contracted beast Thousand Faces evolve, so he traveled to the academy to seek them. He gathered intelligence on the dean through multiple black markets, but his inquiries alerted the academy and the forces behind her.

• Jiang Ziliu analyzed Thousand Faces’ evolution and found that Tree of Life leaves could give it a strong chance of gaining a higher-grade Little Life Fairy bloodline.
• Jiang Ziliu added Broken Ridge Academy to his journey east, hoping to persuade its dean to give him leaves from the Tree of Life.
• Jiang Ziliu sent an earthen avatar made by A Kun to buy information about the dean at a local black market.
• The broker sold word of the inquiry to the dean’s allies, and Broken Ridge Academy’s Gold Rank scouts began watching the avatar.
• Jiang Ziliu had the Azurite Rock Man relay the purchased intelligence before collapsing the avatar, then repeated the operation at nearly ten black markets.
• Jiang Ziliu obtained detailed information about the dean, but his inquiries stirred secret activity among the academy’s leaders and her family forces.

Jiang Ziliu studied information about Broken Ridge Academy’s dean, Nangong Qingliu, and learned that she had devoted herself to protecting her cousin, who remained in a vegetative state inside the Tree of Life. He saw a chance to obtain the Tree of Life’s leaves by waking her cousin, but chose to wait until the Forging Throne’s main consciousness awakened.

• Jiang Ziliu paid for semi-public information about Nangong Qingliu and spent nearly three months studying beast evolution and her background.
• Jiang Ziliu learned that Nangong Qingliu was a peerless Diamond Rank expert who rarely left Broken Ridge Academy because she guarded her cousin in the Tree of Life.
• Jiang Ziliu discovered that Nangong Qingliu had promised to marry anyone who revived her cousin, making her many admirers wary of anyone attempting it.
• Jiang Ziliu realized that the King of Origin could help awaken Nangong Qingliu’s cousin and create an opportunity to obtain leaves from the Tree of Life.
• Jiang Ziliu decided to lie low until the Forging Throne’s main consciousness awakened.

Jiang Ziliu learned that the Forging Throne could easily repair the soul of the person sleeping inside Broken Ridge Academy’s Tree of Life, and he prepared a remedy to trade for its leaves. He arranged a cautious, anonymous way to contact Nangong Qingliu, and a paper airplane reached her courtyard.

• Jiang Ziliu told the awakened Forging Throne about the injured soul and learned the sleeper was inside Broken Ridge Academy and could be healed, though some memories would be lost.
• The Forging Throne gave Jiang Ziliu a remedy formula, and he gathered ingredients and prepared three doses.
• Jiang Ziliu confirmed that each dose had a 96.7% chance of repairing the soul and awakening the sleeper.
• Jiang Ziliu decided to send an avatar to trade with Nangong Qingliu while keeping his true identity concealed.
• Jiang Ziliu typed an unsigned message, folded it into a paper airplane while wearing gloves, and had the Forging Throne deliver it to Nangong Qingliu.
• The paper airplane reached Nangong Qingliu as she read in a bamboo grove beside the Tree of Life.

Jiang Ziliu secretly offered Nangong Qingliu a potion that could heal her cousin’s soul injury in exchange for leaves from the Tree of Life. After cautiously completing the trade, Nangong Qingliu left with the medicine and became curious about the mysterious person behind the Rock and Earth Avatar.

• Nangong Qingliu received a hidden letter from Jiang Ziliu offering a soul-restoration potion for ten leaves from the Tree of Life.
• Nangong Qingliu had the Soul-Summoning Banshee test the sample, and it confirmed the potion would heal her cousin’s soul injury.
• Nangong Qingliu secretly left Broken Ridge Academy and followed the seller’s instructions to a new meeting place in a commoners’ district.
• Nangong Qingliu gave the Rock and Earth Avatar the Tree of Life leaves, and Jiang Ziliu checked that she had left no tracking measures.
• Twenty minutes later, the avatar returned the box with two vials of potion, which the Soul-Summoning Banshee confirmed were genuine.
• Nangong Qingliu offered to honor her vow to marry whoever saved her cousin, but the avatar refused and disappeared, leaving her intrigued by Jiang Ziliu.

Nangong Qingliu used the potion Jiang Ziliu provided to awaken her cousin from a two-hundred-year sleep, freeing herself from the obsession that had blocked her advancement. Her heart demon vanished and she broke through to supreme rank, while Jiang Ziliu secretly witnessed the breakthrough and gained insight into the next stages of evolution.

• Nangong Qingliu returned to Broken Ridge Academy with the potion and gave it to her sleeping cousin under the Tree of Life's guard.
• After nearly four days, Nangong Qingliu's cousin awoke, and she realized that her attachment to him had faded over the two centuries.
• Nangong Qingliu's heart demon dispersed, allowing her to break through to supreme rank and unleash her soul pressure across the land.
• Jiang Ziliu lay flat with the other living beings to avoid drawing attention while Nangong Qingliu's soul swept over him.
• Jiang Ziliu kept the Tree of Life's leaves hidden in his Demigod Artifact and used the Forging Throne's vision to understand the evolution from diamond rank to supreme rank.

Jiang Ziliu evolved Thousand Faces, the Green-Skinned Shapeshifting Spirit, to Gold Rank in the depths of Great Broken Ridge, then fled the area. Nangong Qingliu tracked his residual energy but stopped searching after the Lightning Spear Supreme warned her to protect Jiang Ziliu’s identity, while Jiang Ziliu remained unaware that he had been discovered.

• Jiang Ziliu prepared an evolution potion with Tree of Life leaves and used it to evolve Thousand Faces in Great Broken Ridge.
• Thousand Faces transformed into a Gold Rank life-form, creating a vast celestial phenomenon, and Jiang Ziliu placed it in his Beast-Taming Space before fleeing.
• Nangong Qingliu sensed the evolution and extracted a trace of Jiang Ziliu’s residual dark energy.
• The Lightning Spear Supreme ordered Nangong Qingliu to stop investigating Jiang Ziliu and warned her not to reveal his identity.
• Nangong Qingliu destroyed Jiang Ziliu’s residual energy and left, while the Forging Throne kept the encounter from him.
• Jiang Ziliu moved nearly three thousand li away and began examining Thousand Faces’s evolved status.

Thousand Faces evolved into a five-star Gold Rank Little Life Fairy, gaining three chances to revive, powerful healing abilities, and the ability to transform into Gold Rank plants and animals. After she devoured a huge amount of food to replenish the reserves spent on her evolution, Jiang Ziliu prepared to leave the Broken Ridge Region and deal with Lady White.

• Thousand Faces evolved into a five-star Gold Rank Little Life Fairy with three pairs of Holy Wings of Life, each able to revive her once.
• Thousand Faces gained Hymn of Life for area healing and stronger transformation abilities that let her fight as plants or animals up to three-star Gold Rank.
• Thousand Faces spoke to Jiang Ziliu for the first time and asked for food, then ate hundreds of jin of fruit and snacks without getting full.
• Jiang Ziliu gave Thousand Faces nearly a hundred Beast Cores, and she ate them with chili sauce before her hunger finally eased.
• Jiang Ziliu realized Thousand Faces' evolution had consumed extra reserves to produce her three lives, then prepared to leave the Broken Ridge Region and turn his attention to the Mutated Lightning Snake, Lady White.

Jiang Ziliu traveled alone across the Great Broken Ridge, fighting off repeated exotic beast attacks while seeking a way to help Lady White advance. He met a Half-Dragon who claimed to be a void merchant, verified the merchant’s Star Oath Stele, and agreed to consider trading with him.

• Jiang Ziliu killed a Nine-Star Bronze Rank Brute Force Tiger after enduring 135 exotic beast attacks in three days of travel.
• Jiang Ziliu encountered a hooded Half-Dragon accompanied by a golden-furred squirrel, who introduced himself as a merchant from the Starry Sky White Orchid Chamber of Commerce.
• The Forging Throne advised Jiang Ziliu to demand the merchant’s Star Oath Stele to verify his identity and trading oath.
• The Half-Dragon produced his Star Oath Stele, and the Forging Throne confirmed it was genuine.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment, received a 96.3% chance that trading would have no adverse consequences, and decided to trade with the merchant.

Jiang Ziliu traded with a half-dragon void merchant, exchanging excess resources for Ancient Tree of Wisdom bark, true dragon blood, and elemental crystals. With Forging Throne offering to remove the blood’s Dragon Death Baleful Intent, Jiang Ziliu prepared to evolve Lady White.

• Jiang Ziliu examined the half-dragon’s wares and agreed to trade for the Ancient Tree of Wisdom bark after Forging Throne warned it concerned his fifth contracted beast.
• Jiang Ziliu exchanged part of his resource hoard for the bark, then found true dragon blood tainted with Dragon Death Baleful Intent among the merchant’s goods.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment and learned that evolving Lady White with the blood had an 85.9% chance of success.
• Forging Throne offered to remove the Dragon Death Baleful Intent, and Jiang Ziliu bought the true dragon blood along with several kinds of SSS Grade Elemental Crystals.
• The half-dragon and Jiang Ziliu completed their profitable trade, and the merchant gave Jiang Ziliu a void crystal card for future trades on Earth.
• Jiang Ziliu began preparing to dragonify the Mutated Lightning Snake Lady White.

Jiang Ziliu and the Forging Throne removed Dragon Death Baleful Intent from the true dragon blood and searched for a material to weaken its power for a potion. Jiang Ziliu found a promising ingredient but could not figure out how to process it, leaving him bewildered.

• The Forging Throne hammered Dragon Death Baleful Intent out of the true dragon blood, sealed it in a crystal, and kept it for later disposal.
• The Forging Throne explained that a bloodline-degrading material was needed to turn the true dragon blood into a usable dragonification potion.
• Jiang Ziliu used Probability Judgment and found that pot heaven black abyss mud had only a 25.3% chance of degrading the blood.
• Jiang Ziliu identified Star-Eroding Rock Worm stomach lining as a better material, with an 87.6% chance of working.
• Jiang Ziliu realized the stomach lining was too tough to cut or damage and spent a day and night considering methods, but found no solution.