Recaps

Shisui carried out Yuan Yuan’s body reconstruction as part of a trap, using Rc Cells and [Survival in Desperate Situations] to seize control of the prince’s soul. The chapter ended with Yuan Yuan trapped in his new body and stripped of his will.

• Shisui led Yuan Yuan and his party into the Core Research Building and had a researcher explain the body reconstruction procedure.
• Yuan Yuan approved the Sea Demon Species base body and had his guards add rare materials to prepare it.
• Ze Lao rushed into the hall to warn Yuan Yuan, but Shisui struck him down and took his intact brain.
• Yuan Yuan’s soul entered the prepared body, and Shisui poured Rc Cells into the machine to surround him.
• [Survival in Desperate Situations] pinned Yuan Yuan inside the body, and the Rc Cells took control of him.

Shisui completed Yuan Yuan’s transformation and prepared to use him in the Dragon Spirit Species Royal Family’s trial. As the trial drew near, Yuanli judged that the Dragon King had already secured control of the contest, while the Second Prince remained a puppet surrounded by puppet servants.

• Shisui watched Yuan Yuan awaken in a transformed body bearing the Dragon Spirit Species Royal Family’s red vertical pupils.
• Two days before the trial, news of the princes’ contest spread across the Sea Race, and interest in Yuan Rong’s candidacy began to cool.
• Yuanli told Jiang Ning that the Dragon King’s choice of the magma pool as the trial site showed the king had won the current power struggle.
• Yuanli resumed painting, confident that the trial’s victor had been decided from the start.
• At the Second Prince’s Residence, the puppet Second Prince listened without emotion as his puppet servants reported to him.

The three princes began a trial in the Dragon King Hall, where they had to cross a magma pool and retrieve Volcanic Crystal Rock. As they entered the pool, battles and a concealed submarine attack threatened to divert the Sea Race and endanger Chongming City.

• Shisui monitored the live broadcast inside Yuan Yuan's soul and kept an energy link ready to extract [Survival in Desperate Situations] if Yuan Yuan was endangered.
• Yan Fei sensed a signal from Yuanli's servant and told Lu Qianyu that Yuanli had entered the Dragon King Hall.
• The Demon Race's Undying Legion attacked the Sea Race's garrison near Mao City while Guan Xiangming coordinated the defense and sent word to Yuanli.
• A submarine force gathered near the Profound Grand Canyon, waiting to attack Chongming City while the Sea Race focused on the trial and the battlefront.
• Yuan Shun announced that the princes had to cross the shallow magma, reach the deep area's edge, and retrieve one jin of Volcanic Crystal Rock, then the three princes plunged into the pool.

During the Dragon Prince trial, Shisui used Yuan Yuan and [Fire Thief] to sabotage Yuanli’s sacrificial formation and take control of his soul, while Arakawa Jiushu followed a resentful figure to a hidden residential district. The trial continued under public scrutiny, and Arakawa reached the district’s guarded entrance.

• Arakawa Jiushu spotted a hooded figure watching the public broadcast and followed them away from the crowd.
• The three princes transformed into dragons in the magma, and Shisui made Yuan Yuan attack Yuan Rong to begin the trial’s fight.
• Yuanli released a medicine that forced Yuan Rong and Yuan Yuan to consume Psychic Energy as he traced the Sacrificial Formation.
• Shisui used [Fire Thief] to extract [Survival in Desperate Situations] from Yuan Yuan and introduce it into the formation, then used it to invade Yuanli’s soul.
• Arakawa Jiushu followed the hooded figure to a concealed, heavily guarded residential district near Chongming City’s core.

White Owl hunted Dragon Spirit Species royal-blooded residents before leaving after a warning that Human Race submarines had reached the Profound Grand Canyon. Meanwhile, Yuanli became Crown Prince after Yuan Rong and Yuan Yuan were sacrificed, but an explosion struck Chongming City just as the Sea Race celebrated.

• Yuanqing returned to the residential district after Jiang Ning rejected his request for another chance.
• White Owl followed Yuanqing into the district, hunted residents with strong royal blood, and devoured their hearts.
• A Beastfolk caller warned White Owl that Human Race submarines had reached the outskirts of the Profound Grand Canyon, so he left the district.
• Yuanli emerged from the lava pool after Yuan Rong and Yuan Yuan were sacrificed, and Yuan Shun announced the trial results.
• The Dragon King named Yuanli Crown Prince, and the Sea Race celebrated his succession.
• An explosion struck above Chongming City, and Shisui escaped into the Alternate Space, leaving Radiant Feathers behind.

As the Sea Race celebrated Yuanli’s appointment as Crown Prince, Yan Fei and other Human Race agents escaped Chongming City before the Human Race launched a torpedo attack. The Dragon King stopped the attack from sinking the city, but Chongming City was left in chaos, delaying the Sea Race’s ability to reinforce the front.

• Yan Fei reported the submarine volcano cluster’s activity and fled Chongming City with Lu Qianyu and his subordinates as Li Nai'an and Bai Ye led other agents out.
• The Dragon King declared the third prince, Yuanli, the Crown Prince, and the Human Race commander ordered the submarines to fire Low-Yield Chain Torpedoes.
• The torpedoes tore through Chongming City toward the Dragon Palace, killing residents and overwhelming the outer wall’s Heaven Realm defender.
• The Dragon King suppressed the explosions, but buried explosives detonated across the city, making Chongming City begin to collapse.
• Yan Fei monitored the destruction from a military submarine and concluded that the attack had disrupted the Sea Race’s capital and delayed its reinforcements.

After the Human Race commander ordered another salvo at Chongming City, the Dragon King destroyed much of the submarine fleet and drove Yan Fei to flee. The Dragon King sent Yuanli to relocate the city, then rose from the sea to prepare retaliation against the land.

• Yan Fei warned the commander-in-chief that Chongming City was in chaos and recommended withdrawing, but the commander ordered a full salvo at the city.
• The Dragon King stopped the incoming torpedoes with his roar and unleashed magma that engulfed Chongming City’s surroundings.
• The Dragon King blasted through the submarine fleet with Dragon Breath, while Yan Fei escaped in a small submarine and Shisui marked it before leaving through a Wormhole.
• The Dragon King sensed Shisui’s Spatial Energy and decided to relocate Chongming City.
• The Dragon King ordered Yuanli to take Chongming City to the depths of the Pacific Ocean, then rose into the sky to begin retaliating against the land.

The extra recounts Tsukimi Shisui’s abusive childhood as a Ghoul, his escape from his parents, and the survival skills he developed in the sewers. Around age eleven, after evading Dove surveillance, he left the area behind with the name “Shadow Owl.”

• Tsukimi Shisui remembered how his Ghoul parents beat and starved him while he was a child, and how he learned to endure pain and avoid fighting back.
• In the year he turned ten, Tsukimi Shisui killed his parents and ate their Kakuhou to replenish his strength.
• After months of hunting in the sewers, Tsukimi Shisui built up food stores at several hideouts and attracted the attention of the Doves.
• Tsukimi Shisui evaded the Doves by using narrow routes and, around age eleven, left the area, leaving behind the nickname “Shadow Owl.”

Shisui used the Unified Exam Secret Realm’s teleportation anchor to reach Shen City on the Jade Swallow Continent. Meanwhile, the Dragon King attacked the allied army at Mao City, leaving its defenders overwhelmed by his Heaven-Controlling Realm pressure.

• The Dragon King gathered storm clouds and magma over the Tianpiao Ocean as he prepared to retaliate against the land-dwellers.
• Shisui returned to the Unified Exam Secret Realm and used its anchor to teleport toward Shen City.
• The Dragon King’s clouds swept inland toward the Mao City battlefield while the Human Race and Demon Race forces were resting under a temporary ceasefire.
• Crimson lightning struck the Second Allied Army’s camp, destroying buildings and killing many ordinary Profound Realm soldiers.
• The Dragon King summoned magma fire dragons and led Sea Race soldiers in an assault on the allied army.
• The Human Race and Demon Race experts rose to oppose the Dragon King, but his pressure overwhelmed them and left the army in despair.

The Dragon King defied the Planetary Will and drove his storm down on Mao City, destroying the city and sinking part of southern Moonfall Continent before the Planetary Will wounded him. He escaped toward the Tianpiao Ocean, suppressed his anger after finding Sea Race soldiers slaughtered, and turned his attention to Chongming City and the Dragon Palace.

• The Dragon King tried to lower his dark clouds over Mao City, but the Planetary Will held them back and warned him against destroying a vast stretch of land.
• The Dragon King forced the clouds down, crushing Mao City and its inhabitants and causing part of southern Moonfall Continent to sink.
• The Planetary Will bound the Dragon King with blue-gold chains and lightning, injuring his soul and weakening his attack.
• The Dragon King fled toward the Tianpiao Ocean, but a Human Race expert’s Motherly Silk and a figure of light tried to stop him before he drove them off.
• The Dragon King found the Sea Race soldiers in the water reduced to severed limbs, restrained himself from attacking again, and resolved to deal with Chongming City and the Dragon Palace.

An elderly woman issued orders to protect Bound Captives after the confrontation with the Sea Race, while Shisui searched Shen City for clues about the Third Fleet’s chain torpedoes. Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu fled toward Jade Swallow Continent, unaware a Ghoul was waiting there.

• The elderly woman ended her dealings for the day and ordered Bound Captives at Earth Realm and above to travel in groups for protection against the Sea Race.
• Shisui conducted reconnaissance in Shen City’s harbor district, looking for clues about the fleet that had attacked Yin City with Chain Torpedoes.
• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu escaped the Profound Grand Canyon in their damaged submarine and headed toward Jade Swallow Continent to report to the military district.
• Yan Fei and Lu Qianyu hoped to rest after reaching safety, unaware that a Ghoul was lying in wait for them.

Shisui infiltrated a government clerk’s home, turned him into a Human Skin Puppet, and cooked a meal using the family as ingredients. After studying the clerk’s documents, Shisui went to the harbor and planted valuable goods near patrolling soldiers to provoke conflict between merchants and the military.

• Shisui entered the clerk’s apartment, incapacitated him, and injected him with toxin and Rc Cells to create a Human Skin Puppet.
• Shisui killed the clerk’s family and prepared several dishes, then sat down to enjoy his meal.
• Shisui read confidential documents revealing that civilian fleets could no longer use Jade Swallow Continent’s harbors after ten at night.
• Shisui sent Radiant Feathers to the harbor and used space ripples to move valuable goods near patrolling soldiers.

A Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert spoke with an unseen ally and ordered his people to monitor Chongming City's relocation and summon Hu Lingling. In Shen City, Shisui took control of the government building's staff and searched their memories for military secrets and information about the Human Race's factions.

• The Demon Race Heaven-Controlling Realm expert thanked an unseen ally for helping eliminate the Sea Race army and asked about killing the Sea Race Crown Prince, but accepted the ally's refusal.
• The Demon Race expert ordered a servant to continue monitoring Chongming City's relocation and summon Hu Lingling.
• Zhang Tao arrived at his Shen City government office, where Shisui's fog took control of him and turned the clerks into puppets.
• Shisui used [Spirit Dream Recall] and Feather Powder to search the clerks' memories for confidential military documents, serial numbers, and details about Human Race factions.

Shisui investigated Shen City's officials and discovered the balance of power between the government, military, and local sects, along with evidence of Human Race spies wearing gold-threaded chains. After stealing classified records, he planned to plunge the city into chaos and search for the captured Bound Captive.

• Shisui examined Shen City's officials' memories and learned that local sects and the city government had joined forces to limit the military's control and profit from commerce.
• Shisui found Human Race spies wearing gold-threaded chains like those worn by people who had previously injured or captured him, and decided to use the puppet Crown Prince to find the missing Bound Captive.
• Shisui entered the government building, retrieved classified information about military bases, weapons, troop composition, and sect locations, then left without killing anyone.
• Shisui concluded that he needed to draw every faction in Shen City into conflict to obtain the hidden Chain Bombs and harvest Flesh Crystals.
• Zhang Tao woke at his desk with a headache, unaware that a Radiant Feather had settled dormant in his brain.

Yuanli’s consciousness was taken over by [Survival in Desperate Situations], which visited the First Research Institute’s prison so Shisui could use Rc Cells to search a bound captive’s memories remotely. Shisui left Rc Cells in the captive’s brain and ordered the puppet to leave, while Yuanli later woke with no memory of the visit.

• Yuanli’s recurring headaches worsened, and [Survival in Desperate Situations] took control of his body under Shisui’s order.
• The puppet Crown Prince went to the First Research Institute and followed an assistant to the sealed prison holding a Bound Captive from the Earth Realm.
• [Survival in Desperate Situations] injected the captive, grabbed his neck, and sent Rc Cells into his brain to establish contact with Shisui.
• Shisui activated [Spirit Dream Recall] remotely and spent ten minutes gathering fragments of the captive’s memories.
• Shisui blurred the captive’s memory of the encounter, left Rc Cells in his brain, and told the puppet to leave without killing him.
• Yuanli returned to his desk and woke without realizing he had visited the prison.

After goods went missing from Shen City harbor, the Merchants' Association demanded an investigation, but the Maritime Transport Bureau refused a search warrant without evidence and allowed access to surveillance footage instead. Shisui listened in and expected the dispute to remain unresolved, leaving tensions in Shen City ready to flare.

• Harbor workers discovered that goods were missing from the temporary storage area.
• The Shen City Merchants' Association representative confronted the Maritime Transport Bureau director and demanded a warrant to search the harbor.
• The director refused to issue a warrant without evidence, but agreed to let the merchants view nearby official surveillance footage.
• Shisui listened to the meeting through Radiant Feathers and chose not to alter the surveillance footage.
• Shisui concluded that the merchants had tested city hall's position and that tensions among Shen City's factions could soon ignite.

Shisui tracked Yin Xingyue after she left the Shen City Trading Company, where its president arranged to provoke the Jade Swallow Continent's military into a confrontation. As Shisui followed her toward the Yinling Sect, he recognized her powerful control-type talent and began spreading Radiant Feathers across Shen City.

• The trading company president asked Yin Xingyue to report the port dispute to Elder Yin and assured her the Yinling Sect would be involved.
• After Yin Xingyue left, the president ordered workers to patrol the boundary and attract the soldiers' attention, setting a trap for the Jade Swallow Continent's military.
• Shisui watched Yin Xingyue from the plaza through Radiant Feathers hidden among seabirds, and she sensed someone watching before leaving for Yinling Valley.
• Shisui followed Yin Xingyue's carriage and recalled that her Psychic Energy resembled Yin Xingyao's, identifying her as a promising target with a binding-type talent.
• Shisui continued scattering Radiant Feathers across Shen City so he could bring the city under his control before dark.

Shisui engineered a deadly clash at the harbor by using Radiant Feathers and Feather Powder to provoke soldiers into slaughtering merchant patrols. As the fog cleared and other patrol teams witnessed the massacre, Shisui continued removing the evidence of his involvement.

• Zhang Tao was assigned an emergency field mission just before the end of his shift.
• Shisui spread Feather Powder over the sea, creating dense fog that obscured the harbor and stirred anger in those who breathed it.
• A patrol leader confronted a squad of soldiers, and the enraged soldiers killed him before pursuing the fleeing workers.
• The soldiers caught another patrol team and massacred its members, then realized what they had done as the fog began to thin.
• Other patrol teams arrived to witness the bloodshed while Shisui laughed from an Alternate Space and continued withdrawing the fog.

After soldiers massacred civilians under the influence of Feather Powder, the Maritime Transport Bureau and Yin Xingyue moved to interrogate them, while Shisui manipulated events to deepen the conflict. The soldiers suddenly suffocated before military reinforcements arrived, leaving the Bureau and Yin Xingyue facing the military’s accusations.

• The soldiers regained their senses, and their captain ordered them to retreat and report what had happened as patrol squads surrounded them.
• Shisui drew away the remaining fog as the trading company’s head arrived and workers separated the soldiers from the people attacking them.
• Yin Xingyue arrived with Maritime Transport Bureau members, and an official began questioning the soldiers while a clerk recorded their statements.
• Shisui remotely controlled the Feather Powder in the soldiers’ lungs, causing them to suffocate before Yin Xingyue could intervene.
• Military reinforcements arrived and challenged the Maritime Transport Bureau and Yin Xingyue over the soldiers’ deaths, shifting the advantage to the military.

The military accused the Maritime Transport Bureau and Yinling Sect of treason after the harbor clash, while Shisui manipulated events to provoke a confrontation. Yinling Sect killed the pursuing officer, and Shisui waited for the army to arrive.

• A general ordered the arrest of everyone at the harbor, and Yin Xingyue used her Psychic Energy to escape toward Yinling Valley while the Earth Realm officer captured the others.
• Shisui left the harbor, and Zhang Tao and other bureau clerks broke free under the influence of Rc Cells before escaping into the city and spreading reports of the military's actions.
• The Rc Cells exhausted Zhang Tao and the other affected humans, then transferred away through the Radiant Feathers.
• The Earth Realm officer intercepted Yin Xingyue near Yinling Valley, where several Yinling Sect experts blocked his way.
• Shisui planted a Radiant Feather in the officer, and the officer's anger grew as the Yinling Sect refused to surrender Yin Xingyue.
• A Yinling Sect youth killed the officer with a palm strike, while the Bound Captive reported the killing and Shisui waited for the army to attack the sect.

The Human Race’s military prepared to attack the Yinling Sect after its disciples were involved in the death of a military officer. The Yinling leadership concluded that the military would strike before fighting intensified on the front lines and ordered the sect to prepare for war.

• A commander ordered the Psychic Energy Shield around the secret research base raised to maximum power before leading fifty thousand troops toward Shen City.
• Elder Yin learned that Yinling Sect disciples had killed a military officer and brought them before the assembled sect leadership.
• The sect master and elders discussed the military threat and recognized that the officer’s death had given the Human Race a reason to move against them.
• Elder Yin warned that the military would attack the Yinling Sect to prevent unrest in its rear during the coming front-line conflict.
• The sect master called for the Yinling Sect to enter a state of war, and the leadership unanimously agreed to mobilize its disciples.

Shisui located a secret underground base beneath the Jade Swallow Continent’s forest and focused on its Psychic Energy-blocking metal defenses. Meanwhile, the Fifth Army reached Shen City on its march against the Yinling Sect, forcing the city’s leaders and merchants to fall in line.

• Shisui used his Psychic Energy to search the forest, found the base’s shield and refined metal plates beneath a mountain, and recognized them as his target.
• The Fifth Army’s fifty-thousand-strong cavalry emerged near Shen City and sent a reconnaissance squad to announce its mission to suppress the Yinling Sect and request supplies.
• Shen City’s defense force opened the gates and prepared to provide provisions as news of the army’s arrival spread through the city.
• The president of the Shen City Commercial Association canceled his planned newspaper campaign and ordered his staff to move the supplies stockpiled at the harbor to the city gates.

Xie Bin agreed to supply the army’s campaign against the Yinling Sect, despite his surname linking him to one of its elders. At a hidden research base, Shisui learned that the Human Race planned to seize the sect’s research and exploit its researchers, while the sect’s ancestor had once provided the shield template used throughout the base.

• Xie Bin learned that the Jade Swallow Continent Fifth Army expected Shen City to provision its campaign against the Yinling Sect, and he agreed to help the Human Race.
• Shisui passed through the Wormhole into a concealed base and followed researchers to a meeting of the Psychic Energy Shield Research Department.
• The department head proposed petitioning to spare Yinling Sect researchers so they could be kept as Bound Captives.
• Shisui recalled that the Human Race’s Psychic Energy Shields came from a template created by a Yinling Sect genius who had sold it cheaply to the Human Race’s upper echelons.

Shisui realized the Human Race’s upper echelons planned to seize the Yinling Sect’s people and assets, and welcomed the opportunity to profit from the upheaval. Suo Qiaoyun approved the operation, while the grand speaker secretly authorized the military to capture Yinling Sect personnel and send battlefield corpses for processing.

• Shisui concluded that the Human Race would soon dismantle the Yinling Sect and other major powers, giving him chances to exploit the resulting transfers of wealth.
• Researchers at the Jade Swallow Continent research base completed a proposal to capture Yinling Sect researchers as Bound Captives and process front-line corpses into Psychic Energy Crystals.
• The grand speaker reported the proposal to Suo Qiaoyun, who approved it and called for capturing the sect’s mid- and high-end combatants as well.
• After returning to his office, the grand speaker secretly approved the proposal and instructed the Jade Swallow Continent military to cooperate with the Bound Captives in capturing Yinling Sect personnel and collecting corpses.

Shisui infiltrated a Human Race research base, learned how to make Chain Bombs, and stole ammunition before escaping to Yinling Valley. There, the military bombarded the Yinling Sect’s defenses while Shen City’s mayor won favor by donating supplies, angering a trading company president whose grain had been confiscated.

• Shisui used Feather Powder to locate a sealed research room containing Chain Explosion materials and left behind Feather Powder and Radiant Feathers to gather information.
• Shisui memorized the Chain Bomb research and decided not to take the documents or remove all the ammunition, then used Wormholes to steal selected munitions from the storeroom.
• The theft triggered an alarm, but the military arrived to find the research room empty and Shisui already teleported to Yinling Valley.
• The military’s Psychic Energy Cannons bombarded the Yinling Sect’s defensive lines, and soldiers charged into the gaps.
• A second lieutenant thanked Mayor Xie for his support, while a trading company president silently resented the mayor for donating grain confiscated from the harbor.