There were no surprises.
Once the Rift Heaven Divine Lord was devoured by Little Black, the golden-armored warriors instantly fell into disarray.
The Rift Heaven Divine Clan, which had stood tall for over 1,500 years—perhaps even longer—vanished from the stage of history.
When the Cloud Temple collapsed, the remaining golden-armored warriors completely lost the will to resist Little Black. The few surviving clansmen scattered and fled in all directions.
From that point on, the Rift Heaven Clan would be reduced to a wandering force in the New World, with no fixed home.
Maybe, someday in the future, one of their descendants might rise up again through great effort, but more likely, in the face of increasingly brutal competition, their civilization would reach its final end.
Feng Qi was also swallowed up by the approaching Little Black after the collapse of the Cloud Temple.
His vision plunged into endless darkness.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself lying in a room at the Crimson Research Institute.
Everything had returned to where it all began—back to the moment before he entered the future dream.
Night had fallen outside the window, and a cool breeze drifted in through the half-open window, making everything feel like a lifetime ago.
The last time he'd entered the future dream, he couldn't fall asleep because of the intense effects of negative emotions.
In the end, he had relied on a sedative concocted by Wei Wei to fall asleep quickly.
Even now, an empty glass bottle from that sedative still sat on his nightstand, along with a pre-prepared dose of the mental soothing agent.
His thoughts remained hazy for a long while before he fully came back to himself.
He picked up the mental soothing agent, twisted off the cap, and downed a large gulp.
Every time he returned from the future dream, the influence of negative emotions would intensify.
Fortunately, the Eighteen Trials had helped elevate his mental state again, so this time, the aftereffects weren't as severe.
He extended his right hand.
Black lines had already spread across his palm, reaching the very edges. They resembled a spiderweb—or like black tendrils slowly stretching outward.
After a long silence, he stood up and decided to make a trip back to Star City Academy.
His intelligence notebook was still stored in his dorm room there.
He planned to bring it back to the Crimson Research Institute and no longer leave it at the academy.
Originally, he had chosen to stay at Star City Academy because he had hoped to follow in Old Wang's footsteps—to change the fate of humanity through teaching and nurturing students, supporting human civilization's progress and development by copying knowledge from 1,500 years in the future.
But with the amount of intelligence he now possessed…
Feng Qi realized that simply plagiarizing the future wouldn't be enough to help humanity rise.
In this path of growth, future techniques could only do so much. Most of humanity's challenges came from threats both internal and external.
Often, civilization didn't even have enough time to develop before facing destruction.
He made a call and arranged for a vehicle to pick him up, then rushed back to Star City Academy.
When the guards saw the Crimson Research Institute's official vehicle, they didn't stop it at all—they just waved it through.
Star City had three institutions with top-level authority.
The first was the Military Department, which held the city's highest nominal authority—overseeing enforcement, warfare, and partial legislative voting rights.
The other two were Tiger Soul and the Crimson Research Institute. These two were completely independent, only protected by the Military Department but otherwise autonomous.
So when security saw a Crimson Research Institute vehicle, they had no reason to interfere.
Without Feng Qi needing to show his face, the vehicle was allowed through.
Back at his dorm, Feng Qi grabbed his intelligence notebook and went downstairs to ride back to the Crimson Research Institute.
Once he returned to his room, he sat at his desk and flipped through the old entries in his notebook.
After all, for him, over a century had already passed.
Many memories weren't as clear as they once were.
After spending several hours reviewing it all, he picked up his pen and began recording the intelligence and insights gained from this Sacrifice Line.
First, intelligence gains from the Sacrifice Line.
Intelligence Gain One: Old Mist and the Mist Tribe have joined our side and established an alliance. It's been proven that cooperation between humans and domain races is possible.
Note: The foundation of cooperation lies in a lack of conflicting interests. So even if we work together, each party must have its own territory and space. Only that way can mutual aid and resource exchange lead to greater benefits.
Intelligence Gain Two: The little guy—Zhang Daowen.
It's been proven that nurturing the little guy brings significant gains to humanity.
In the standard timeline, he took the path of scientific research, developing many technologies that accelerated human progress. But in comparison, the combat route clearly suits him better. What humanity lacks most is top-tier combat power.
Note: In the future, the techniques developed by the little guy can be treated as a legacy from the Sacrifice Line and handed over to the version of him in a brand-new timeline. This will help him continually refine the technique and unlock even greater potential for power and growth.
At this point, Feng Qi paused.
In this Sacrifice Line, the little guy's potential had already been proven.
In fact, his full potential hadn't even been fully developed yet.
The reason was simple—humanity itself had held him back.
Faced with foreign invasions and all kinds of problems, the little guy had been constantly rushing around.
He'd gone through countless battles—big and small—to protect humanity, placing immense strain on his body.
Otherwise, his natural lifespan should've reached well over a thousand years. With cultivation techniques nourishing his body, his life would have only gotten longer.
But the fact that he only lived to just over a thousand was proof—he'd been dragged down by humanity.
The same was true for the Mist Tribe.
With a sigh, Feng Qi continued writing the next entry.
Intelligence Gain Three: Utilizing the Silver Moon Clan.
Initially, the plan had been to use the Silver Moon Clan as a precision strike weapon against external enemies.
By sending false spatial coordinates, we could manipulate the Silver Moon Clan into opening teleportation channels that dropped them directly into enemy territory.
However, in comparison, Old Mist's idea of using a Blood Refinement Formation to convert the Silver Moon Clan into a foundational development resource for Star City proved more effective—and more profitable.
Intelligence Gain Four: Successfully met Mu Yan and unraveled many of the doubts in his heart.
1. Mo's true body is the Domain World's Mo Yue. Mo, as a split consciousness, roams between the two worlds. While not particularly strong in terms of power, Mo possesses vast knowledge and a powerful ability for research and creation. This entity is deeply tied to the origin of Little Black.
2. It was discovered that within the Void World, there exists a ruin island left behind by the Pillar Gods—one that holds many secrets from the previous era.
The crimson rune crystal embedded in Mu Qing's arm came from a temple located on that very ruin island.
According to Mu Yan, when Mo created Little Black, some of the materials used likely came from that ruin island. After falling out with Mu Yan, Mo most likely went there alone, as Mo also had access to its coordinates.
3. Through Mu Yan's explanation, it became clear that the Miracles she seeks are actually humans who have already awakened part of their latent powers. She doesn't grant them these powers—they already existed within.
Known examples include: Wei Wei, Ye Huang, Tian Shu, the first Crimson Dean, and others.
4. The truth behind the Path of Ascension.
According to Mu Yan, the purpose of the Path of Ascension is to delay the Domain World's invasion of the human world for as long as possible. Once the path falls, the speed of the invasion will accelerate dramatically, leading to the collapse of all the human systems that were painstakingly built.
This proves that humanity and Mu Yan share a deeply bound fate—they rise and fall together.
If Mu Yan falls, the cultivation system that took humanity over one thousand years to develop will collapse, and humanity's strength will plummet off a cliff.
Therefore, finding a way to help Mu Yan defeat Mo Yue is one of the most critical tasks in the future timeline.
Note: Killing Mo won't affect Mo Yue, since Mo is merely a fragment of Mo Yue. Even if Mo dies, it can be reborn from Mo Yue's core.
5. The truth of humanity?
According to Mu Yan, humanity may very well be the continuation of the Pillar Gods—this could be the reason why some humans possess latent special powers.
Whether this theory is true or not remains unknown, but a line found by Mu Yan and Mo Yue on the ruin island may point toward humanity:
"Our legacy will rise again in a different form and challenge the great force that once brought us down."
Mu Yan and Mo's interpretation is that the Pillar Gods' power was passed on to humanity, and in time, humanity would rise up to challenge the great power that once defeated the Pillar Gods.
6. The truth behind Winterfell.
Based on the intel gathered along this line, Winterfell is already under the control of the Sword Clan. Jian Ji is the true figure pulling strings behind the scenes.
The establishment of the Dawn Army was likely due to Mu Yan discovering the truth about Winterfell, realizing she couldn't defeat Jian Ji alone. So she sought out Mu Qing for help, and thus the Dawn Army was born.
In the historical records, the Dawn Army pushed forward the rune modification project. Based on all known intel, this was probably because Mu Qing realized that humanity's cultivation system would eventually collapse, and so she prepared an alternate growth framework in advance.
When that day comes—when human civilization collapses—the rune modification system will become the only remaining cultivation system sustaining the race's survival.
As for the rumors that the Dawn Army committed mass slaughter—those are clearly fake news spread by Winterfell.
If this Sacrifice Line hadn't voiced opposition externally, there's a high chance the five major cities would've formed a joint army to suppress Mu Qing and the Dawn Battle Regiment.
The only failure in this Sacrifice Line… was that Mu Qing acted decades too early.
She hadn't fully grown yet and confronted Jian Ji head-on. Her power fell far short and thus she exited the stage of history prematurely.
…
At this point, Feng Qi's pen paused.
A scene surfaced in his mind—Mu Qing's pierced body, hanging from the top of the Dawn Battle Regiment's flag, her limbs limp and lifeless.
Jian Ji used this method to declare his victory—and to mock all potential enemies.
Thinking of this, anger flared within Feng Qi like a raging fire.
This had touched his bottom line.
Across all these timelines, he had faced many enemies.
The Shadow Faction, the Night Shadow Clan, the Silver Moon Clan, the Psionic Race from both Hei Xuan's faction and their own ancestral land, the Mist Lord, and more…
These enemies were all decisive and brutal, but none of them mocked death like Jian Ji and the Sword Clan.
The urge to wipe out the Sword Clan surged fiercely in Feng Qi's mind.
…
After spending hours listing and reviewing every piece of intel, Feng Qi double-checked everything to make sure nothing was missed or incorrect. Only then did he put down the pen.
This Sacrifice Line had yielded an enormous amount of intel.
The greatest gain—Star City's internal threats had all been eliminated.
From now on, he could extend Star City's influence to other cities, taking another big step toward the goal of unifying the five great cities into one vast human territory.
But there were also obvious problems.
Star City's development would still face many potential challenges.
In this Sacrifice Line, he had resolved humanity's resource shortages, education gaps, and energy infrastructure issues.
In theory, humanity should have developed far beyond what it did in other timelines.
And that did happen—for a while.
But soon after came new external threats.
The Sword Clan launched a full-scale invasion against Star City, heavily impacting its growth and forcing humanity to abandon their plans and build Breaking Dawn City instead—tightening their defensive lines.
That move undid most of the advantages Star City had built in the early stages, including severing the fully developed supply routes in the western logistics zone.
Another devastating blow to Star City's development was Mu Yan's failure to defeat Mo Yue.
The cultivation system crumbled in an instant, just as Zhang Daowen was leading humanity into a rapid rise. Everything plunged into darkness.
As for how to help Mu Yan defeat Mo Yue—he hadn't thought of a good solution yet.
Right now, Feng Qi believed the top priority was to resolve the crisis in Winterfell and unify humanity's fighting strength—only then could civilization grow stably.
Once Winterfell and Star City were united, humanity's development potential would skyrocket.
In his vision—
Once all five cities had purged their internal threats and built interconnected, resource-sharing, and talent-exchanging teleportation arrays, a stable foundation for mutual development would be in place.
That would be the true beginning of humanity's golden age.
And only then could the human race become a powerful ally for Mu Yan—helping her face off against Mo Yue and all the terrifying races of the Domain World.
Right now, humanity was still far too weak—completely incapable of standing against the powerful races backing Mo Yue.
Thoughts whirled in Feng Qi's mind as he continued refining his ideas.
The next morning, warm sunlight streamed in through the window.
Feng Qi got up, then headed to the cafeteria for a hearty breakfast.
After more than one hundred years without eating, he once again felt the joy of food.
Back in his room, he called Wei Wei.
By noon that day, the Crimson Research Institute convened its highest-level internal meeting.
During the meeting, Feng Qi gave a detailed report of this Sacrifice Line—its experiences and the intel gathered.
After listening, representatives of each division at Crimson shared their views and gave suggestions.
Among them, Li Qianfeng from the Strategic Division proposed a future plan worth referencing.
He pointed out that while the current number of talent skills in the Faith Skill Library was far from enough to meet the needs of all humanity—or even just Star City—it was time to start laying the groundwork.
For this, they could collaborate with the Virtual Department to create a dedicated talent skill template library.
In the future, his talent skills could be linked to virtual games, allowing people to adapt to them in advance through virtual environments.
Every time a new talent was acquired, it could be uploaded into the game.
Compared to jumping straight into combat tests, the virtual game would be the best transitional tool for adaptation.
After careful consideration, Feng Qi nodded in agreement.
Li Qianfeng was undeniably brilliant.
The earlier plan involving the Silver Moon Clan—designing them into a precision strike weapon—was his doing. The success of that Sacrifice Line couldn't have happened without his refined strategy.
Once the meeting ended, Feng Qi immediately went to the Virtual Department.
After discussions with the department head, the blueprint for the virtual Faith Skill Library was drafted.
The plan itself wasn't overly complicated.
The main idea was that future believers would have access to a personalized skill selection interface within the virtual game. They could pre-select talent abilities suited to them in the game. Once the real-world faith link was established, they could directly start using the abilities with high proficiency.
The entire process involved just three steps:
1. He acquires a new talent skill in the future dream.
2. That talent is added into the virtual game, becoming part of the exclusive skill library.
3. The skill library is then opened for external access.
The advantage of this approach was clear—players could familiarize themselves with and choose their preferred abilities before officially forming a faith bond with him.
With the plan decided, Feng Qi went to find Wei Wei.
After every return, he had to update his physical data under Wei Wei's care.
This time was no different.
The medical checkup took several hours.
After it was over, Feng Qi explained the concept of the "Believer Virtual Talent Skill Library" in detail.
Based on his requirements, Wei Wei began drafting a detailed data acquisition plan.
Since the plan involved building a personalized virtual talent library for believers, uploading accurate skills was absolutely critical.
But the process of recording a skill was complex.
It required collecting vast amounts of data—like casting trajectories, strength levels, and other parameters. Only when all conditions were met could a skill be considered ready for inclusion in the game.
The virtual skill needed to match reality as closely as possible for effective training.
But Feng Qi's talent abilities were different.
His talents didn't have fixed casting patterns like normal spells. So only secondary parameters could be used to simulate them for now.
To ensure the data collection went smoothly, Wei Wei first extracted information from his memory.
This knowledge would take a lot of time to digest.
It included a vast amount of tech data inherited from Crimson's own technology division.
That department quickly entered a knowledge assimilation phase and became busy around the clock.
Meanwhile, Wei Wei contacted the Institute of Technological Research in Future City and ordered custom equipment for motion capture and virtual modeling.
At this point, the Technology Institute was still under the control of the Shadow Faction, but that didn't prevent cooperation with the Crimson Research Institute—after all, there were no real-world conflicts of interest just yet.
As for Feng Qi, he spent the next few days recuperating.
The memory layering effect had only slowed—it hadn't vanished completely. Both the narrator and Wei Wei hoped he would rest for a while before diving into another future timeline.
Jumping into the next future line right after returning to reality was unwise—and a serious strain on his body.
Feng Qi took their advice and chose to rest.
But he didn't sit idle. During those days, he soaked in the library, constantly reading to expand his knowledge base.
After a little more than ten days, the Institute of Technological Research's efficiency showed. A batch of newly customized equipment was air-shipped to the Crimson Research Institute base.
It came along with "greetings" from the Shadow Faction.
After the handoff, Crimson's tech team spent an entire day inspecting the devices thoroughly to ensure nothing was tampered with. Only after confirming everything was safe did they send the equipment to the training room for installation.
Once everything was set up, Feng Qi entered the training room with Wei Wei and the department head at his side.
They began using the new equipment to track the body's physiological changes during talent activation, collecting the data to build virtual versions of his skills.
This process was dull and complicated.
Unlike spells, talents didn't follow visible casting paths, so the system had to rely entirely on captured data to create accurate skill templates.
The first talent they worked on was [Blood God].
It took three full days just to gather the data and build a preliminary skill template.
Once it was done, Feng Qi logged into the virtual game to test how the skill played out—and then compared it against the real-world version to offer feedback.
The process was undeniably tedious and inefficient.
He had to log in over ten times just to test Blood God, and even then, he still wasn't satisfied. The gap between the virtual and real performance was obvious.
Now that the data was in hand, the only issue left was the performance gap during actual use.
To solve this, Feng Qi thought of Lin Ran.
When it came to talent-based spellcraft, Lin Ran was the strongest specialist of this era.
If Lin Ran could join the talent skill replication project, maybe that problem could finally be resolved.
Without hesitation, Feng Qi returned to Star City Academy and found Lin Ran.
After explaining everything in detail, Lin Ran didn't hesitate either. He immediately agreed to join the talent skill library project. After informing Bai Fusheng of the situation, he followed Feng Qi back to the Crimson Research Institute.
After a few days of careful thought, Lin Ran offered a solution for building the replicated templates of talent skills.
He proposed developing a specialized spell designed to trace and mimic bodily parameters, using it to more accurately replicate talent skills.
Combined with data captured by tech instruments, this approach could even solve the problem of recording passive abilities that couldn't be directly entered into the virtual game.
For instance, the passive talent [Regeneration].
They could first use scientific equipment to collect relevant data, then apply the mimic spell to simulate the effects when the ability was active. Using that layered data, they could finally replicate the ability and add it to the Faith Skill Library in the virtual game.
Once the preliminary plan was set, Lin Ran began development immediately.
During this time, Feng Qi contacted the Tiger Soul Research Institute and arranged for Lin Ran to be transferred there.
There, the strongest spell development team under Tiger Soul would assist him, providing comprehensive support for his research.
Just one month later, Lin Ran brought back a surprise.
He had successfully developed a new spell: "Mirror Image."
The principle behind the spell was simple, but the results were excellent.
With Mirror Image assisting the process, Feng Qi conducted another replication test.
This time, they chose the [Regeneration] ability. With Lin Ran's spell and the tech data from the instruments, the replication process went smoothly.
[Regeneration] was quickly completed and successfully added to the virtual Faith Skill Library.
Feng Qi personally tested the final result and gave it a seven out of ten rating.
The test data showed higher than actual in-game performance, which meant they had to tune the effect down.
After just three calibration adjustments, [Regeneration] reached a level almost identical to the real thing.
With that, the first skill in the Faith Skill Library was officially born.
This marked the first real step forward for the Faith Skill Library plan—a new safeguard for the future of humanity.
But not all problems could be solved, even with Lin Ran's involvement.
Some of Feng Qi's abilities tied to Miracle items couldn't be replicated at all.
For example, the function of the Evolution Token—he couldn't use it even in the Sacrifice Line, so naturally, other believers couldn't access that ability either.
Then there were talents like Nightmare (Memory Reading) and Divine Body.
Nightmare was one of his more unique talents. It didn't activate based on his own state but rather on the condition of the target. So far, the confirmed trigger was that the target must be near death. As long as he approached within a certain range, he could extract memory fragments from them.
If the target was himself, the resonance was perfect, allowing him to retrieve a complete memory.
He still had no idea how the ability worked exactly, and it obviously couldn't be turned into a virtual skill for the Faith Skill Library.
Divine Body, on the other hand, was a talent he created using faith energy. It granted perfect elemental affinity.
That effect was also impossible to replicate.
Human understanding of elemental affinity was still very limited, and there was no way to express such traits accurately in a virtual format.
As for this problem, Feng Qi decided not to force a solution.
Instead, he chose to collect all of his talent ability data first, prioritizing those that could be digitized and reproduced.
At the same time, Lin Ran's Mirror Image spell would need upgrades and refinements.
When dealing with complex talents like Blood God, which combined multiple abilities, Mirror Image couldn't fully capture the data or replicate all effects. Many details were lost in the process.
Over the next few days, the Crimson Research Institute launched a new round of discussions around the talent skill project.
This time, they decided that the Faith Skill Library would start with an internal testing phase.
"Internal testing" meant deploying it on a small group of selected players.
These test players would join regular game content like ranked matches and dungeon runs with everyone else.
The only difference was, they could only select skills from the Faith Skill Library—they wouldn't be able to use anything from the original virtual skill set.
This approach had one major benefit: it would prevent believers from confusing the original skill system with the Faith-based one.
That way, when they transitioned to using skills in reality, the shift would be smoother.
If both systems were merged, problems were bound to occur.
For instance, players used to freely switching between virtual and Faith-based skills might, during a real-world Domain battle, instinctively try to use a virtual skill—but in reality, only Faith skills were available. That kind of reflex error could easily lead to death.
So after discussions, the Crimson Research Institute proposed building two distinct skill libraries:
One would correspond to the traditional cultivation and spell system.
The other—the internal test skill library—would reflect the Faith-based growth system. The two would remain separate.
Both would eventually become essential frameworks for human growth—mutually reinforcing.
When facing threats from Mo Yue, the Faith system would be critical.
If Mu Yan failed, the Faith system would replace the cultivation system as humanity's core progression path.
But if they could weather Mo Yue's invasion, then both systems would remain, forming the dual foundations of humanity's development.
Feng Qi had already weighed the pros and cons of both.
In the Sacrifice Line, when borrowing talent abilities, the effectiveness of the ability depended heavily on the user's own constitution.
So the cultivation system couldn't be abandoned.
The stronger the cultivator, the greater the impact when they used a borrowed talent ability.
But if Mu Yan failed, then the faith-based skill system could at least help stabilize the situation, providing a temporary advantage.
Still, the faith cultivation system—despite seeming stable—had its own problems.
For example, the Blood God Form. Once activated, it drained all the blood in the body to convert it into power. A regular person using this ability would have to replenish a massive amount of blood and energy afterward.
That kind of resource consumption was astronomical.
Imagine a large-scale war where all Star City soldiers activated the Blood God Form.
One hundred thousand Blood God Forms. One million Blood God Forms. Or even more…
No doubt, the combat power unleashed by Star City would be overwhelming. For a short time, it might even rival some powerful races.
But the cost would be terrifying.
Once the Blood God state ended, Star City simply wouldn't have the reserves needed to replenish their warriors' blood and energy.
In the end, it still came down to a shortage of resources.
That was one of the biggest reasons why the Faith Skill Library needed to be built.
Borrowing talent skills came with a price. After using them, you needed a huge amount of resources to recover.
Some skills even forced users to burn through their own life force, causing severe aftereffects.
If there wasn't a virtual Faith Skill Library available for training, the real-world consequences would be dire.
At the meeting, Feng Qi gave an example of the dangers that could arise without a virtual Faith Skill Library.
In the main timeline, when he seized a talent ability, he could instantly understand how to use it and quickly master it.
But believers borrowing powers weren't the same. They needed time to learn and train.
And all borrowed abilities came at a cost.
Whether that meant bodily damage or energy depletion, it was a toll that had to be paid.
If there was no virtual training, the process of learning how to use Faith Skills would be an unbearable burden—not just for Star City but for all of humanity.
Only a virtual game environment could solve that perfectly.
The challenges in building a faith-based growth system went far beyond just skills.
To summarize—it all stemmed from a lack of resources.
A stable and vast resource supply chain was essential for human development.
That's why Feng Qi wanted to unite the five major cities and build a complete, complementary resource network. This would improve interconnectivity and strengthen resource sharing.
It would also speed up the expansion of supply zones, enhancing overall resource acquisition efficiency.
Feng Qi laid out all these points during the highest-level meeting at the Crimson Research Institute.
He had developed the habit of thinking carefully before acting—something he picked up while navigating the Sacrifice Line.
Back then, he used to act on pure passion, and it led to a lot of stupid and reckless mistakes.
Like when he discovered that Le Ping'an was a werewolf, and he moved in too early to eliminate the threat. Now, looking back, he realized just how risky that move was. If the Black Shadow faction had a backup plan he hadn't noticed, he could've been killed instantly.
Or when he posted the idea of a super virtual dungeon on a forum...
It got picked up by a weak Domain tribe, who then took a contract to assassinate the him from the Sacrifice Line.
That version of him, while reviewing Star City's database in the future dream, found that he'd lived only 13 more minutes after the post.
At the time, he almost thought he was doomed.
It was only thanks to the main timeline's unique physique and a new talent gained in the future dream—Purple Soul—that he managed to turn the crisis into an opportunity.
There were plenty of other minor mistakes too.
Looking back now, he could clearly see how immature and naive those decisions were.
Starting from the timeline where he followed the Mist Lord, he learned a lot. Through the Mist Lord's guidance, he truly understood the importance of steady progress.
As the Mist Lord once said, war between races wasn't a game.
Every step needed caution. Every decision had to weigh all the variables, analyzing the pros and cons, and predicting how it might affect the future.
In the last Sacrifice Line, when he became Star City's leader from the shadows, he learned even more through self-study and hands-on experience.
And that growth didn't stop when he returned to the real timeline.
During this most recent high-level meeting at Crimson, he was no longer just a silent observer—he took the lead.
Even Wei Wei said he had changed too much.
He now radiated a leader's presence. During the meeting, he quickly took control of the flow, guiding the discussion around the topics he raised and getting everyone involved.
He even began assigning tasks instinctively.
When he rewatched the meeting footage later, even Feng Qi himself was shocked at the change.
In the video, right after the meeting ended, he stood up without thinking and started giving instructions to each department head based on their responsibilities.
And the department heads—without hesitation—all nodded in agreement.
That sense of authority and presence was one of the strengths he'd accumulated on the Sacrifice Line.
Reading the Sacrifice Line didn't just bring him emotional trauma—it also layered on all the positive traits and experiences.
These changes ran deep.
During the meeting, he didn't even realize how much he'd transformed.
After the meeting, Wei Wei told him he'd truly grown up—that he now had the awareness of a real human leader.
To that, Feng Qi accepted it calmly. He didn't deny it or act humble.
Because in his view, if he didn't even have the courage to shoulder that kind of responsibility, then how could he lead humanity to rise and reach the future he dreamed of?