Chapter Summaries

Shisui prepared the Spirit Resonance River and the southern coast for the Sea Race invasion as Yuan Yuan's fleet advanced toward Yin City. When the Sea Race's first wave reached shore, Shisui welcomed the battle while 90,000 Human Race soldiers waited in ambush.

• Shisui spread Radiant Feathers along the Spirit Resonance River and gathered energy crystals from its Psychic Energy-rich waters.
• Yuan Yuan learned that the Human Race and Beastfolk had stopped fighting along the river, but ordered the Sea Race army to keep its attack focused on Yin City.
• Shisui waited in the mangroves on the southern coast and sensed the Sea Race fleet approaching.
• Shisui saw that 90,000 Human Race soldiers were hidden nearby, then rose into the sky and shrouded the coastal tidal flats in mist.
• The Sea Race's first wave of giant sea beasts surged ashore and smashed through the trees.

The Sea Race launched attacks on the Human Race along the Canglang Ocean coast and up the Spirit Resonance River, turning both fronts into bloody battles. Shisui gathered the battlefield’s energy and began advancing inside a concealed biological cocoon, away from the Sea Race’s Earth Realm experts.

• The Sea Race’s giant beasts smashed through the coastal mangroves, and the Human Race’s Third Legion opened fire while the First and Second Legions charged.
• The Sea Race fleet surfaced offshore and exchanged cannon fire with the Human Race as their soldiers and sea beasts clashed in the mangroves.
• The Sea Race’s ships crawled ashore over a path of corpses, beginning a more brutal battle along the tidal flats.
• Sea beasts came ashore at the Spirit Resonance River, where Shisui’s mist and Feather Powder caused thousands to explode before the Beastfolk changed tactics and attacked them.
• Shisui withdrew from the command ship’s Earth Realm experts and formed a concealed biological cocoon to advance toward the Earth Realm Fourth Realm.

Sea beasts attacked both banks of the Spirit Resonance River, pressing the Human Race’s defenses and threatening to destroy the Beastfolk’s rainforest. Hua Guangqi ordered the Insect Race’s broodmother to send Hive-Nest Species to the front and eliminate witnesses, while ordering his guards to keep her in check.

• Sea crabs cleared and reshaped the riverbanks as waves of sea beasts charged the Human Race and Beastfolk; Psychic Energy Cannons halted the attack near Meifeng County.
• A scout reported explosions and falling trees across the river, and a Human Race staff officer ordered his forces to maintain their fire and warned intelligence officers not to act rashly.
• Beastfolk staff officers told Chief of Staff Hua Guangqi that the sea beasts were destroying the rainforest and forcing hidden troops into the open.
• Hua Guangqi summoned the Insect Race’s broodmother and ordered her to send twenty Hive-Nest Species to the front and eliminate every witness.
• The broodmother hurried off, eager to lead the Insect Race’s debut, while Hua Guangqi ordered his guards to watch her and prevent unnecessary moves.

Shisui discovered Leafcutter Ants multiplying among the sea beasts and began killing them, disrupting the Insect Race’s plans. The insect mother requested permission to deploy fifty more nests, then claimed that with a hundred nests she could seal off the river and raze Yin City.

• Shisui spotted Leafcutter Ants hunting sea beasts and dragging their corpses underground, and stopped his Metamorphosis to investigate.
• Shisui captured a Leafcutter Ant, but Spirit Dream Recall could not penetrate its soul, so he crushed it and began hunting the ants himself.
• The insect mother learned that Leafcutter Ants were dying rapidly and asked Hua Guangqi for permission to deploy fifty more insect nests.
• Hua Guangqi asked whether the insect mother could block both ends of the river without weakening the main battlefield, and she said that a hundred nests would let her do so and raze Yin City.

Shisui slaughtered the Insect Race as its numbers grew, while the Insect Mother prepared new hives and the Beastfolk and insects formed a trap around the Spirit Resonance River. On the southern coast, the Human Race struggled to hold off the Sea Race, and its commander learned reinforcements would take at least two hours to arrive.

• Shisui noticed Leafcutter Ants becoming more numerous and blasted a gathering of insects with his Radiant Feathers.
• The Insect Mother completed a new hive and sent it outside with a Leafcutter Ant.
• The Insect Race waited among the Beastfolk near the Spirit Resonance River as the Beastfolk controlled its upper reaches and prepared to trap the sea beasts and Human defenders.
• The Sea Race advanced onto the southern shore of the Kaiyang Continent while Human soldiers suffered heavy losses under its bombardment.
• A front-line commander learned that the fleet would need at least two more hours to reach the Canglang Ocean and prayed his forces could hold out.

The Sea Race captured Kaiyang Continent’s southern shore while a prisoner fleet raced toward the Arctic Ocean. As the Insect Race unleashed its Leafcutter Ants, Shisui annihilated the swarm around him and followed the threads leading to the Insect Race’s Central Brains.

• The Sea Race fleet carrying prisoners crossed the Canglang Ocean toward the Azure Nether Ocean while a Human Race fleet pursued it.
• Yuan Yuan’s forces overwhelmed the Human Race defenders on Kaiyang Continent’s southern shore, and the Sea Race raised its banners there.
• Shisui detected the released insect nests as a vast swarm of Leafcutter Ants swept through the rainforest and consumed sea beasts and war remains.
• When the ants attacked him, Shisui unleashed his Psychic Energy, destroying the swarm and cracking the Psychic Energy Suppressor by his ear.
• Shisui identified the blood-red threads linking the insects to their command source and flew toward the Insect Race’s Central Brains.

Shisui destroyed an Insect Race hive nest and followed a living red thread deeper into Beastfolk territory as the Insect Race overwhelmed the sea beasts. Meanwhile, the Sea Race rushed to attack Yin City before human reinforcements could arrive, and its army reached the gates ahead of them.

• Shisui found the Insect Race’s underground hive nest through its red threads and crushed the nest and the Leafcutter Ants defending it.
• Shisui followed a struggling red thread deeper into the rainforest while sensing the Insect Race spreading along the Spirit Resonance River and the Sea Race slaughtering its coastal opponents.
• After learning that three aircraft carriers and more than twenty human warships were approaching, Yuan Yuan ordered his troops to march on Yin City and begin the siege immediately.
• The mayor of Yin City learned that reinforcements would arrive within an hour and a half and felt relieved.
• An explosion struck Yin City’s southern gate before the reinforcements arrived, as the Sea Race’s army began its attack.

The Sea Race attacked Yin City while the Insect Race assaulted Meifeng County, leaving the defenders overwhelmed. Shisui found an Insect Race underground palace and entered after killing the Leafcutter Ants guarding it.

• The Sea Race bombarded Yin City's south gate and activated a blood-fed formation that absorbed battlefield remains, unaware that Radiant Feathers beneath the soil were absorbing energy too.
• The Insect Race crossed the Spirit Resonance River on sea-beast corpses and split its Leafcutter Ants to attack Meifeng County and dig tunnels around it.
• Leafcutter Ants emerged beneath Meifeng County's drafted fighters, killing them as the county fell into despair without reinforcements.
• Shisui tracked Psychic Energy to an Insect Race underground palace near the front lines in the Spirit Resonance Rainforest.
• Shisui blanketed the palace entrance in fog, killed the nearby Leafcutter Ants with a Psychic Energy wave, and entered the bone-lined tunnels.

Shisui killed the Insect Mother, collapsed her underground palace, and wiped out the forces gathered in the fog before discovering that the Sea Race had unleashed a colossal tsunami against Yin City. The chapter ends as the first wave approaches the city walls.

• Shisui broke through the Insect Mother's underground palace, killed her and the guards, and took her brain and the Flesh Crystals.
• After Shisui left, the damaged underground palace collapsed, burying the Beastfolk soldiers who had arrived to investigate.
• Shisui used poisonous Feather Powder to kill everyone on the battlefield near Meifeng County and collected the resulting Flesh Crystals.
• Shisui heard a roar from the coast and realized the Sea Race had caused the tsunami that struck Mao City.
• The Sea Race activated the Water-Gathering Formation, and its members reported that the first wave would reach Yin City's walls in five minutes.

Shisui considered how to use Psychic Energy Cannons as the Sea Race attacked Yin City and broke through its defenses. A tsunami flooded the city while the Human Race reinforcements arrived too late and hurried toward Yin City to rescue survivors.

• Shisui watched the battle from above the clouds and considered combining his abilities with Psychic Energy Cannons.
• Human Earth Realm experts fought the Sea Race as its warships fired Psychic Energy Cannons and shattered Yin City's protection network.
• The Sea Race withdrew to higher ground, revealing a tsunami, while its Earth Realm fighters held the human experts back.
• Repair workers failed to restore the protection network before the tsunami broke through Yin City's walls and flooded the city.
• The Human Race reinforcement fleet reached Kaiyang Continent's southern coast, and its commander ordered the fleet to submerge and race toward Yin City.

As Yin City’s defenses failed under the Sea Race assault, its mayor and soldiers worked to evacuate civilians and hold back the flood until reinforcements arrived. The Human Race’s Third Fleet launched a saturation strike and a banned low-yield chain-detonation torpedo, devastating the Sea Race army as Shisui watched from above.

• Successive waves breached Yin City’s southern gate, and seawater flooded the southern district.
• The mayor ordered the last civilians evacuated, then headed to the southern district to stand with the defenders.
• Sea beasts drained and shattered the defenders’ Psychic Energy Protection Networks, breaking the defensive line.
• The Third Fleet of Jade Swallow Continent arrived and announced a saturation strike against the Sea Race invaders.
• Shisui sensed the torpedo’s immense Psychic Energy as the fleet launched a low-yield chain-detonation torpedo underwater.
• The torpedo triggered six explosions that devastated the submerged battlefield, and the fleet ordered its forces to stop the chain reaction and prepare to clean up.

Shisui used the Human Race’s attack on Yin City to locate the wounded Second Prince Yuan Yuan and sent [Survival in Desperate Situations] to parasitize him and find the Sea Race First Research Institute. Yuan Yuan survived the bombardment but was trapped inside Yin City, where the talent began speaking to him.

• The Human Race’s Third Fleet of Jade Swallow Continent launched a saturation strike on the Sea Race forces occupying Yin City, using Low-Yield Chain Torpedoes that destroyed most of the fleet.
• Shisui spotted the wounded Yuan Yuan among the survivors in the flagship’s core section and sent [Survival in Desperate Situations] to attach itself to him.
• [Survival in Desperate Situations] parasitized Yuan Yuan while he escaped through the shallow seawater, unaware that it had entered his mind.
• Yuan Yuan reached the south gate but found Human Race soldiers patrolling the way out, and his last personal guard offered to hold them off.
• A voice in Yuan Yuan’s mind offered advice that could help him escape without sacrificing his last card.

Yuan Yuan accepted advice from the parasitic [Survival in Desperate Situations] and followed its hidden route toward the remaining Sea Race forces. Shisui watched him evade pursuit while laying a Feather Powder trap around the Sea Race army.

• [Survival in Desperate Situations] offered Yuan Yuan advice, but he initially rejected it and focused on escaping.
• Shisui confirmed that the talent had parasitized Yuan Yuan, then traveled to the southern coast of Kaiyang Continent and traced the formation’s energy to a remaining Sea Race force.
• Shisui instructed [Survival in Desperate Situations] to guide Yuan Yuan to the Sea Race forces.
• [Survival in Desperate Situations] weakened Yuan Yuan’s fortune and showed him a concealed route, which he followed to shake off the Human Race pursuers.
• Shisui spread Feather Powder through the seawater and formed a vast net around the Sea Race army, waiting for Yuan Yuan to arrive.

Badly injured Yuan Yuan reached the Sea Race’s remaining troops and boarded their warship, but Shisui ambushed them as they retreated toward Ringwater Continent. Shisui trapped the fleeing group and began cutting down their guards while pursuing Yuan Yuan and the black-robed researchers.

• Yuan Yuan struggled through the submerged forest, conserving his dwindling Psychic Energy as he made his way toward the Sea Race’s troops.
• The troops received Yuan Yuan at their temporary camp, where researchers restored his skin but warned that his internal injuries required a new body.
• The Sea Race troops boarded a small warship and began retreating toward Ringwater Continent with Yuan Yuan and the researchers.
• As the ship passed a seabed cliff, Shisui sealed the surrounding space and used his Bikaku to wrap and cut open the vessel.
• Shisui slaughtered the Sea Race soldiers who attacked him, then pursued Yuan Yuan and the researchers as Feather Powder hemmed in their escape.

Shisui used Yuan Yuan’s desperation to teleport him to Chongming City, then slaughtered the Sea Race soldiers and preserved the researchers’ brains. When Shisui went to check the Radiant Feathers aboard the Sea Race fleet, their signals had vanished, and he cautiously approached the ships to investigate.

• Shisui stalked the fleeing Sea Race troops while [Survival in Desperate Situations] persuaded Yuan Yuan to accept a teleportation deal in exchange for some of his fortune.
• Shisui opened a wormhole to an anchor outside the Chancellor’s Residence, sending Yuan Yuan there before attacking the troops.
• Shisui restrained the researchers, killed the remaining Sea Race soldiers, and preserved their brains in a Koukaku box.
• Shisui noticed that the signals from his monitored Radiant Feathers had gone silent, gathered the Feather Powder, and left through a wormhole.
• Shisui arrived near the Sea Race fleet entering the Azure Nether Ocean and found that the Radiant Feathers aboard the remaining surface ships no longer responded.
• Shisui entered Alternate Space and cautiously approached the fleet to investigate the missing signals.

Shisui followed the protected fleet toward the Sea Race Second Research Institute, suspecting it served the Dragon King directly. Meanwhile, Yuan Yuan emerged near death from a Space Wormhole and was rescued by the Imperial Guards and royal physicians, who transferred his soul to a temporary vessel.

• Shisui spotted the fleet’s advanced psychic energy shield and followed it from the Alternate Space because he could not monitor it remotely.
• Yuan Yuan fell unconscious in a deserted street outside Guan Xiangming’s residence after Spatial Turbulence worsened his injuries.
• [Survival in Desperate Situations] reassured Yuan Yuan that someone would find him, and a city defense soldier discovered his dragon horns and called the Dragon Palace Imperial Guards.
• The Imperial Guards sealed off the area, and royal physicians recognized Yuan Yuan as the Second Prince and asked whether his soul could be transferred.
• Yuan Yuan agreed to the transfer, and the physicians moved his soul into a temporary vessel before taking his lifeless body to the Dragon Palace.

Yuan Shun learned that the Dragon King would not delay the succession trials despite the Second Prince’s injuries, and a fellow official explained that the Dragon King had already chosen Yuanli. Meanwhile, Shisui followed a transport convoy into a hidden cluster of buildings beneath the Azure Nether Ocean.

• Yuan Shun reported that the Second Prince had survived but would need to cultivate again, and the Dragon King ordered him sent to the Second Research Institute after his soul recovered.
• Yuan Shun asked whether the clan trial and public vote would be postponed, but the Dragon King said they would proceed as planned.
• A neutral-faction official told Yuan Shun that the research institutes’ alliances showed the Dragon King favored Yuanli, while the Second Prince’s faction hoped to use popular opinion to pressure the throne.
• Shisui followed the convoy into a seaweed forest and discovered closely packed buildings concealed within it.

Shisui infiltrated a deep-sea Sea Race research base and discovered that its seagrass drew energy from Psychic Energy bubbles, while the base itself suppressed Psychic Energy. In Chongming City, Yan Fei tasked Lu Qianyu with retrieving surveillance records about an injured prince outside the Dragon Palace.

• Shisui investigated the deep-sea seagrass forest and found that its bubbles carried Psychic Energy.
• Shisui followed the Sea Race fleet to the Third Research Institute’s base and entered past its archway, where his Psychic Energy was suppressed.
• Shisui used his Rc Cells to reactivate his Psychic Energy and approached the base’s Administration Building, the Radiant Splendor Building.
• At the Reed Pavilion, Yan Fei asked Lu Qianyu to investigate what had happened near the former Chancellor’s Residence outside the Dragon Palace.
• Lu Qianyu hacked into nearby glazed streetlights to retrieve images or video before the Sea Race authorities destroyed their recordings.

Cheng Yimu overheard that Sea Race researchers collecting data on Kaiyang Continent had died, while a lurking hunter gathered information at the research base. At the Dragon Palace, injured Second Prince Yuan Yuan tried to salvage his bid for the throne, ignoring the likelihood that Yuanli had already secured the Second Research Institute’s support.

• Cheng Yimu and her senior sister discussed the researchers who had died after collecting data on Kaiyang Continent’s southern coast.
• Cheng Yimu sensed a disturbance in the seagrass, and a lurking hunter left for the research base’s north district after obtaining information.
• Yuan Yuan realized his ruined body would keep him from the clan’s final trial and jeopardize his campaign for the throne.
• Yuan Yuan summoned his attendant and ordered him to bring the princess consort, intending to contact the Second Research Institute and secure a replacement body.
• Yuan Yuan considered his dwindling support but ignored the possibility that Yuanli had connections to the Second Research Institute through the First.

Guan Baozhu secretly met Yuan Yuan at the Imperial Medical Academy, where he asked her to contact the Guan Family about rebuilding his body through the Second Research Institute. Meanwhile, Shisui investigated the Third Research Institute’s base and learned how the Sea Race’s Psychic Energy technology differed from humanity’s.

• Guan Baozhu arrived at the Imperial Medical Academy and used inherited Guan Family formations to block surveillance and eavesdropping in Yuan Yuan’s room.
• Yuan Yuan asked Guan Baozhu to tell her father that he needed to contact the Second Research Institute to reconstruct his body, and gave her further instructions.
• Third Research Institute researchers detected Psychic Energy fluctuations near Yuan Yuan’s residence and dismissed them as emissions from the Guan Family’s formations.
• Researchers analyzed data from the Water-Gathering Formation while Shisui secretly spread Radiant Feathers and Feather Powder through their research base.
• Shisui overheard that the Sea Race’s Psychic Energy technology relied on innate gifts, formations, and totems, unlike humanity’s machinery-focused technology.