Chapter Summaries

Cao Fengqi attended Tianbei’s final exchange, ignored several powerful weapons while waiting for a Formation-Breaking Talisman, and won level 10 Heavenly Seal Jade-Horned Beast essence blood for two tons of Radiant Obsidian Gold. The purchase was set to help his Black-Gold Bloodthirsty Gu become his eighth level 9 battle pet, further strengthening his position in Tianbei Base City.

• The Spark Guild’s higher-ups welcomed Cao Fengqi as the final auction began, and the first item, a Perfect-grade level 9 Heaven-Drinking Frenzied Blade, sold for nineteen level 8 souls.
• Xia Yang asked Cao Fengqi whether he could forge a level 9 dagger, and Cao Fengqi said he could if Xia Yang supplied the metal and souls.
• Cao Fengqi passed on the early auction items while waiting for the level 10 Formation-Breaking Talisman he needed to enter the Fate Witch Grand Church’s witch formation domain.
• Cao Fengqi bid two tons of Radiant Obsidian Gold and won the level 10 Heavenly Seal Jade-Horned Beast essence blood, which he expected would advance his Black-Gold Bloodthirsty Gu to level 9.
• Cao Fengqi reflected that he would soon have eight level 9 battle pets and had risen to the forefront of Tianbei Base City’s factions.

Cao Fengqi used his abundant level 8 metal to win several auction items, including the level 10 Formation-Breaking Talisman he had come for. When a level 9 Heavenly Awakening Pill appeared, he decided to bid for protection against the poisonous miasma around the witch formation.

• Cao Fengqi bid on the Escape Talisman but lost, then won a level 9 Metal Light Pearl and ten jin of level 10 hard metal.
• Cao Fengqi raised his bid for the level 10 Formation-Breaking Talisman and won it, drawing attention for spending tons of level 8 metal.
• Cao Fengqi revealed that he owned a mine, and the bidders recognized him as Lieutenant General Cao and Tianbei's foremost Artifact Refiner.
• General Chen and General Song discussed Cao Fengqi's strength and speculated that he had received a powerful inheritance from the Lost Land.
• Cao Fengqi saw the level 9 Heavenly Awakening Pill, considered its protection useful against the witch formation's poisonous miasma, and placed a bid.

Cao Fengqi acquired 900 jin of level 9 metal at the Tianbei Base City exchange and watched several level 10 treasures go to other bidders. When the final level 11 treasure, a hundred-jin set of ruined armor, appeared, he bid sixty tons of level 8 metal for it.

• Cao Fengqi dismissed the cost of level 8 metal and acquired another level 9 antidote pill.
• Cao Fengqi bid fifty jin of level 8 metal per jin and won 900 jin of the 1,020 jin of level 9 metal offered.
• A powerhouse from the Arcane Mysteries Group won the level 10 inheritance key, while other bidders competed for the remaining level 10 treasures.
• The auctioneer presented a hundred-jin set of ruined level 11 armor from the Tianbei Transcendent Research Institute.
• Xia Liehuo suggested Cao Fengqi bid low, and Cao Fengqi offered sixty tons of level 8 metal for the armor.

Cao Fengqi made a deal with the Tianbei Transcendent Research Institute to forge level 9 equipment in exchange for level 11 metal, then returned to the Lost Land with the resources he had won at the exchange meeting. He began preparing to upgrade his battle pets and the Transcendent Shelter as Tianbei Base City’s migration approached.

• Cao Fengqi agreed to forge level 9 weapons and equipment for the Tianbei Transcendent Research Institute in exchange for its hundred-jin piece of ruined level 11 armor, with the institute supplying the souls.
• Xu Zhenjiang won the level 11 memory fragment, while the final level 11 Arcane Mage tome drew fierce competition from the factions.
• Cao Fengqi left the exchange meeting with a haul of metal and other treasures and planned to improve his battle pets, forge equipment, inspect the Fate Witch Grand Church, and attend his decoration ceremony.
• Cao Fengqi returned to the Lost Land, counted his Radiant Mystic Gold and metal, and planned to gather level 8 metal to upgrade the Transcendent Shelter.
• Cao Fengqi left the mine, where the Sky-Howling Hound and the others would continue mining, and set off to improve the Black-Gold Bloodthirsty Gu and his other battle pets.

Cao Fengqi learned that his Gu-Fusing Altar could not fuse level 10 or level 11 metal, so he planned to enter the Ten Thousand Gu Pool after the award ceremony to seek a stronger way to fuse combat pets. At the ceremony, he received his lieutenant general award as his family and allies joined him, while the factions prepared to discuss migration ahead of eternal night.

• Cao Fengqi discovered that his Gu-Fusing Altar could not melt level 10 or level 11 metal and decided to enter the area around the Fate Witch Grand Church after the ceremony.
• Cao Fengqi's family dressed up for his award ceremony, and Xia Liehuo, Feng Yuntian, and Vice President Guo arrived to escort them aboard Spark No. 1.
• Feng Yuntian warned Cao Fengqi that the coming eternal night would make the Fifth Land of Shelter crucial and said he hoped his daughter could stay with the Cao Family.
• Cao Fengqi told Xia Liehuo that he would install the level 9 animal pen in two days, after gathering more metal and modifying his Transcendent Shelter.
• Cao Fengqi attended a public award ceremony attended by the authorities' generals, while Xu Fenghua explained that television stations across Tianbei would broadcast it.

Cao Fengqi attended his lieutenant general decoration ceremony and received a powerful custom cloak. In Tianbei’s New District 78, the Liu Family and other former Liangmin County residents watched the broadcast and learned that Cao Fengqi had become Great Xia’s youngest lieutenant general.

• Xu Fenghua teased Cao Fengqi about moving in with her, then left when the Wang sisters arrived.
• Xu Zhenjiang, General Chen, General Song, and the others presented Cao Fengqi with a level 9 lieutenant general’s cloak.
• Cao Fengqi learned that the government had several powerful Worldweavers who could make equipment like his cloak.
• Liu Fengshan, Liu Qiang, and their family discussed their difficult lives in New District 78 as other Liangmin residents weighed their prospects.
• The screening room fell silent when the television announced Cao Fengqi’s promotion to lieutenant general, leaving the Liu Family stunned.

After Cao Fengqi’s promotion to lieutenant general was broadcast, the Liu Family realized their former marriage ties could give them access to his influence and rushed to seek help. District Chief Zhang reported their claim to his superiors, and information about the family came back down the chain.

• Viewers in Liangmin County watched Cao Fengqi receive his lieutenant general insignia and recognized him as the former local youth.
• The Liu Family saw Liu Chunying with Cao Fengqi’s family and regretted losing their ties to the Cao Family.
• Liu Fengshan hurried his wife and son out of the screening room to pursue help through their relationship with the Cao Family.
• District Chief Zhang questioned the Liu Family about their marriage ties to Lieutenant General Cao and sent the claim to his superiors.
• District Chief Zhang received information about the Liu Family less than ten minutes later.

The Liu Family tried to use their ties to Cao Chunying to reach Lieutenant General Cao, but District Chief Zhang told them they were not qualified to see him. Meanwhile, Cao Fengqi entered the Lost Land and broke through a dangerous shamanic formation, leaving the poisonous miasma ahead unharmed.

• Liu Qiang, Liu Fengshan, and Wei Chunchun hoped the Cao Family would help them rise in status.
• District Chief Zhang confirmed the Liu Family’s connection to Lieutenant General Cao but refused to arrange a meeting or reveal his residence.
• District Chief Zhang told the Liu Family that they had to accept the consequences of their past choices, and they left the office in despair.
• Cao Fengqi scanned the Lost Land, found more high-level resources and seventy-three evil beasts, and summoned his nine level 9 battle pets.
• Cao Fengqi used a level 10 Formation-Breaking Talisman to open a doorway through the shamanic formation and entered with his battle pets.

Cao Fengqi entered the witch formation’s domain, where the Formation-Breaking Talisman’s gate quickly closed behind him. He gathered abundant Heaven-Nurturing Stones and captured a level 7 Shadow Pistil Flower, but remained trapped inside the strange domain.

• Cao Fengqi entered the witch domain and discovered that the Formation-Breaking Talisman’s gate had closed, leaving him without an easy escape.
• Cao Fengqi sent the Dream-Eyed Butterfly ahead with Nightmare Domain while his battle pets guarded him.
• The Dream-Eyed Butterfly collected fourteen level 5, ten level 6, eight level 7, and one level 8 Heaven-Nurturing Stone.
• Cao Fengqi had the Dream-Eyed Butterfly uproot and restrain a strange demonic flower.
• Cao Fengqi used the Evil Herding Art and identified the flower as a level 7 Shadow Pistil Flower with powerful mental skills and limited mobility.

Cao Fengqi explored the witch formation’s resources with the Dream-Eyed Butterfly and discovered the Witch Sea, a special item containing a vast, self-contained space. After claiming it, he sensed that powerful evil beasts inside stood between him and its treasures.

• Cao Fengqi used the Dream-Eyed Butterfly’s Nightmare Domain to collect Heaven-Nurturing Stones from areas guarded by stationary Nether Pistil Flowers.
• The Dream-Eyed Butterfly revealed sixteen level 9 resources, a special item, and twenty evil beasts inside a blue-and-white formation, so Cao Fengqi rode the Abyssal Bone Warhorse toward it.
• A scan detected two enormous level 11 resources five kilometers away, but Cao Fengqi continued toward the nearby formation first.
• Cao Fengqi identified the formation as the Witch Sea, a special item containing a four-kilometer space, and learned its owner was dead and it could accept a new master.
• Cao Fengqi made the Transcendent Source Soil acknowledge him and sensed twenty level 8 evil beasts and two powerful level 9 evil beasts within the Witch Sea.

Cao Fengqi drained the Witch Sea to weaken its evil beasts, then entered its dry interior and isolated one of the two powerful level 9 beasts in the Prison Eye. He deployed nearly all his battle pets against it, but the fight was still underway when the beast shredded the Bloody Scarecrows’ straw attack with its spikes.

• Cao Fengqi analyzed the two level 9 aquatic evil beasts and learned that draining the Witch Sea would weaken them and that he should fight them separately.
• Cao Fengqi drained the seawater from the Witch Sea, then opened a gate and entered with his battle pets to confront the twenty-two trapped evil beasts.
• Cao Fengqi used the Prison Eye to isolate one level 9 evil beast and summoned all his battle pets except the five Mirage Rats.
• The Dream-Eyed Butterfly cast its Nightmare Domain, while the Gray Feather Moths fused and trapped the evil beast in a Thousand Feather Cage.
• Cao Fengqi ordered his pets to attack, but the level 9 beast fired spikes that pierced and shredded the Bloody Scarecrows’ straw forms.

Cao Fengqi’s battle pets overwhelmed a Vicious-Spined Witch Fish on land, and he chose to contract it rather than kill it. After reviewing its powerful water-based skills, he set out to subdue the other level 9 Witch Fish.

• The Bloody Scarecrow regenerated and split into ten clones while Cao Fengqi’s other battle pets attacked the Witch Fish.
• The Witch Fish broke the Thousand Feather Cage with its enlarged spiked tail, but the pets’ combined attacks badly wounded it.
• Cao Fengqi decided to contract the two level 9 Witch Fish and kill the rest, then ordered his pets to stop attacking.
• Cao Fengqi used Evil Herding Art to contract the injured Vicious-Spined Witch Fish and examined its attributes and skills.
• Cao Fengqi told his group to go subdue the other level 9 Vicious-Spined Witch Fish.

Cao Fengqi explored the Fate Witch Grand Church's witch formation and collected valuable treasures, including teleportation disks and an Insect Nest Ten Thousand Gu Pool. He found the formation's core array disk and ended with the pool, which could fuse creatures up to level 11.

• Cao Fengqi subdued a second level 9 Vicious-Spined Witch Fish and planned to take the Witch Sea back to reality.
• Cao Fengqi used the Dream-Eyed Butterfly's Nightmare Domain to locate treasures and found two level 10 teleportation array disks, which he collected.
• Cao Fengqi's scan reached beyond the witch formation and detected moving Blade Angels, while revealing no other level 11 treasures ahead.
• Cao Fengqi had the ghost mole cricket dig up the Star Witch Grand Formation Array Disk, the core of the area's formation, but left it in place.
• Cao Fengqi uncovered the Insect Nest Ten Thousand Gu Pool and celebrated its ability to fuse creatures below level 11.

After defeating the witch formation, Cao Fengqi assessed his spoils and planned how to strengthen his battle pets and shelter. He dismantled a Gu-Fusing Altar for its valuable metal, then upgraded the Nation-Protecting Flood Dragon Sky Crossbow to level 9 as he considered confronting the Blade Angels.

• Cao Fengqi counted his Heaven-Nurturing Stones, Vicious-Spined Witch Fish, and Shadow Pistil Flowers, and planned to use the flowers to cultivate and fuse battle pets.
• Cao Fengqi decided to return to the mine for metal and placed a level 10 teleportation array disk beside the level 9 Gu-Fusing Altar.
• Cao Fengqi dug up the Gu-Fusing Altar and discovered it contained a level 9 Star Ruins Space Stone and 3,000 jin of level 9 heavenly silver metal.
• Cao Fengqi considered using the metal to upgrade battle pets before choosing to strengthen the Nation-Protecting Flood Dragon Sky Crossbow instead.
• Cao Fengqi fed the heavenly silver metal to the crossbow, raising it to level 9 and gaining powerful penetrating and shockwave attacks.

Cao Fengqi used his recovered level 9 Vicious-Spined Witch Fish to mine Radiant Mystic Gold and then transformed the Cao Family home into a massive level 8 Transcendent Shelter. As Xia Liehuo and his companions arrived, they were shocked by the shelter’s size and grandeur.

• Cao Fengqi inspected the Nation-Protecting Flood Dragon Sky Crossbow and decided to focus on preparing his Transcendent Shelter instead of hunting Blade Angels.
• Cao Fengqi found that the Heaven-Nurturing Stone had healed the two Vicious-Spined Witch Fish, and they rapidly mined several tons of Radiant Obsidian Gold.
• Cao Fengqi’s combat pets mined more than eighty tons of Radiant Mystic Gold overnight, bringing his total to over 150 tons.
• Cao Fengqi used the Radiant Mystic Gold and Transcendent Source Metal to enlarge and upgrade the Cao Family home, planning rooms and recreation areas for his family.
• Cao Fengqi completed a 3,000-square-meter shelter with twenty-meter-high walls, and Xia Liehuo and his companions arrived and marveled at it.

Cao Fengqi completed his enormous level 8 Transcendent Shelter and had Spark Guild install a level 9 beast pen that strengthened battle pets. After discussing defensive and offensive formations, he welcomed nearby relatives to tour the shelter, where they marveled at its size and materials.

• Cao Fengqi showed Xia Liehuo and Spark's senior members his three-thousand-square-meter shelter and asked them to install a beast pen.
• Feng Yuntian joked with Cao Jiancheng and Cao Fengqi about arranging a marriage between their families, and Cao Fengqi left the matter to fate.
• Xia Liehuo and the others installed a level 9 beast pen that boosted battle pets' attributes and attack range.
• Xia Liehuo and Feng Yuntian advised Cao Fengqi to add defensive and offensive formations, arcane towers, or a wizard tower, but he decided his battle pets and equipment were enough for now.
• After Xia Liehuo and the others left, Xiao Youxiu, Xiao Youya, Zhao Chentian, and their relatives visited the shelter, and Xiao Cunzhi praised Cao Fengqi for obtaining so much level 8 metal.

Cao Fengqi promised the Xiao Family a hundred tons of level-eight Radiant Mystic Gold to upgrade their shelter, revealing that he owned a mine in the Lost Land. The Xiao Family eagerly encouraged his relationship with Xiao Youya, and Cao Fengqi also offered metal to Uncle Zhang and the others before agreeing to upgrade their Transcendent Shelter.

• Cao Fengqi asked whether the Xiao Family shelter had fused with Transcendent Source Metal, and Xiao Cunzhi said the Spark Guild had given a piece to Xiao Youya.
• Cao Fengqi offered to provide the Xiao Family with a hundred tons of level-eight Radiant Mystic Gold, stunning Xiao Cunzhi, Xiao Youxiu, and Xiao Youya.
• Cao Fengqi revealed that the metal came from his own level-eight mine in the Lost Land, and Xiao Cunzhi accepted the offer as a betrothal gift.
• The Xiao Family urged Xiao Youya to marry Cao Fengqi, while Liu Xiuxiu took the embarrassed Xiao Youya aside.
• Cao Fengqi offered level-eight metal to Uncle Zhang, Chen Feng, and Zhao Chentian, then agreed to upgrade their Transcendent Shelter.

Cao Fengqi completed his Transcendent Shelter renovations and prepared to create his first level 10 battle pet. After choosing the Fangelanya Demon to counter the Blade Angel, he sent it into the Insect Nest Ten Thousand Gu Pool for twelve hours of nurturing.

• Cao Fengqi installed the Witch Sea and Nation-Protecting Flood Dragon Sky Crossbow in his shelter and reviewed its defenses.
• Cao Fengqi waited as the Insect Nest Ten Thousand Gu Pool strengthened his battle pets while his family arranged the home.
• The Mirage Rats and Three-Eyed Crows reached the limit of level 8, and three Shadow Pistil Flowers advanced to level 9 with new surveillance and prison skills.
• Cao Fengqi planted the Shadow Pistil Flowers at the beast pen entrance and chose the Fangelanya Demon as his first level 10 battle pet.
• Cao Fengqi put his level 10 and level 11 metal into the Insect Nest Ten Thousand Gu Pool and ordered the Fangelanya Demon to begin its twelve-hour nurturing.

Cao Fengqi saw that the Fangelanya Demon had reached level 10 after its fusion and tested its immense strength in the mine. He then took his battle pets through the teleportation array toward the Blade Angels at the Fate Witch Grand Church.

• Cao Fengqi entered the Witch Sea and found that the Fangelanya Demon had grown to ten meters tall and gained powerful level 10 stats and skills.
• Cao Fengqi summoned the Fangelanya Demon in the mine and watched it quickly dig up a ton of Radiant Mystic Gold.
• Cao Fengqi considered hunting the level 10 evil beasts in the mine but chose to pursue the Blade Angels and harvest resources at the Fate Witch Grand Church first.
• Cao Fengqi used the teleportation array to reach the Fate Witch Grand Church, where his scan detected nineteen level 9 resources from five Blade Angels.
• Cao Fengqi led his battle pets toward the Blade Angels and ordered the Dream-Eyed Butterfly to cover them with its domain.

Cao Fengqi’s battle pets overwhelmed 18 Blade Angels inside the Fate Witch Grand Church, with the level 10 Fangelanya Demon brutally defeating the level 9 leaders. He ordered the angels captured and began contracting them, planning to fill his remaining battle-pet slots with flying Blade Angels.

• Cao Fengqi spotted 18 Blade Angels charging through the Nightmare Domain and assessed their weapons and flying ability.
• The Fangelanya Demon charged into the airborne Blade Angels, pierced the lead angel, and smashed it into a crater.
• The Fangelanya Demon hurled its horns through two more level 9 Blade Angels while the Gray-Feathered Moth and Dream-Eyed Butterfly restrained the rest.
• Cao Fengqi ordered his battle pets to subdue the Blade Angels and decided to fill his remaining slots with them.
• The Fangelanya Demon subdued the level 9 Blade Angels, the Dream-Eyed Butterfly captured the level 8 ones, and Cao Fengqi began contracting the 18 captives with the Evil Herding Art.