Chapter Summaries

Sun Sen fled after Rising Sun warned him that the Sun Family had discovered his Evil God Cult ties, but Su Shijie killed him and took his Taotie identity. The Sun Family was punished for colluding with Evil God Cultists and interstellar forces, while Su Shijie arranged to buy Spirit Crystal Ore and prepared to cultivate for greater strength.

• Rising Sun warned Sun Sen that Sun Family members were waiting for him, and Sun Sen escaped into the sea after finding his armor locked.
• Sun Mu and Sun Lin returned to the Floating City, discovered Sun Sen had fled, and feared they would be suspected of warning him.
• Sun Sen reached Golden Ao Island, where Su Shijie killed him, drained his spirit body, and took his gel mask and Personal Terminal.
• The Federation stripped the Sun Family of its parliamentary seat and privileges, confiscated its assets, and expelled it from the Binhai Alliance, but allowed it to retain its Floating City and guard the Shattered Islands.
• Su Shijie used Taotie's account to plan more Spirit Crystal Ore purchases and decided he needed to strengthen himself urgently.
• Su Shijie hired Qian Cheng to buy Spirit Crystal Ore, and Captain Henry accepted the arrangement after learning Su Shijie was behind it.

Su Shijie investigated the ominous activity beneath the Great Concave Valley despite Dawn’s warning and discovered a spatial anomaly. He identified it as a rare natural Psionic Wormhole, though its destination and what lay beyond it remained unknown.

• Su Shijie interrupted his cultivation after sensing an unusual, unpleasant presence and asked Dawn whether anyone had investigated the earlier seabed explosion.
• Dawn told Su Shijie that Mr. Blue Moon had found no clues, though the explosion was likely connected to the Prometheans, and advised him to leave the area.
• Su Shijie refused to leave, saying he intended to hunt the Evil God Cultists, then dove into the sea.
• As Su Shijie searched the seabed, he sensed a spatial vibration through his Spacetime Affinity and realized a natural Psionic Wormhole had appeared in the Great Concave Valley.

Su Shijie discovered a concealed Psionic Wormhole and traced the high-level Contamination Source to an undersea volcanic crater guarded by Promethean Evolutionary Tiers. After confirming there were no Transcendents present, he prepared to attack the guards and seize the opportunity, while weighing how to deal with their strongest member.

• Su Shijie reasoned that the Prometheans had hidden the Psionic Wormhole and that the other side was likely an unclaimed zone containing a high-level Contamination Source.
• Su Shijie copied the Prometheans' concealment technique and followed his Spacetime Affinity through the sea, confirming the Contamination Source's aura came from beyond the wormhole.
• Su Shijie approached an undersea volcanic crater and observed a Promethean Evolutionary Tier disguised as Volcanic Rock beside a volcanic fissure.
• Su Shijie assessed the crater's defenders as three Evolutionary Tier Level 5s and a stronger combatant, and confirmed that no Transcendents were guarding the site.
• Su Shijie considered ambushing the guards but recognized that the strongest Promethean and their potential weapons and self-destruction posed a serious threat.

Su Shijie killed a Volcanic Rock and discovered a natural Psionic Wormhole connected to a high-level Contamination Source. He began consuming the source but chose not to cross the unstable passage, while Elder Tali returned to the volcanic crater.

• Elder Tali sensed blood, but Su Shijie ambushed and killed one of the Volcanic Rocks with a silent palm strike.
• Elder Tali pursued Su Shijie with advanced armor and attacked him with a High-Frequency Vibrating Wrist Blade, but Su Shijie vanished in a burst of foam.
• Su Shijie threw the two remaining Volcanic Rock corpses out of the crater and detected a spatial vibration at the bottom of the fissure.
• Su Shijie exposed a natural Psionic Wormhole and sensed a high-level Contamination Source made of bone fragments at its entrance.
• Su Shijie drove his tendrils into the Contamination Source and began consuming it, but decided not to cross the unstable wormhole.

Su Shijie absorbed the high-level Contamination Source and evolved to bloodline level twenty-two, gaining Spacetime Fluctuation. After Elder Tali offered cooperation and revealed details about his armor, Su Shijie killed him and consumed his spirit body.

• Su Shijie used the high-level Contamination Source to reach bloodline level twenty-two and gained the Spacetime Fluctuation trait.
• Elder Tali returned to the crater, recognized Su Shijie's spacetime traits, and offered to join his church in exchange for cooperation.
• Su Shijie questioned Elder Tali about communications and made him submit to contamination to prove his sincerity.
• Su Shijie demanded Elder Tali's armor and its operating details, then exposed his attempt to conceal the tracking system and forced him to reveal it.
• Su Shijie crushed Elder Tali with a spatial fluctuation and swallowed his spirit body.

Su Shijie examined the powerful Promethean armor he had taken and told Dawn how he had acquired it. Dawn agreed to manage the political fallout and warned him to keep the armor secret, but said she could offer few Spirit Crystals for it.

• Su Shijie familiarized himself with Promethean Elder Tali's Armor and learned about its power, defenses, and space-combat functions.
• Su Shijie removed the armor from three Volcanic Rock corpses and planned to trade the sets and information about the Psionic Wormhole to Dawn.
• After returning to the surface, Su Shijie contacted Dawn, who suspected his account but agreed to take responsibility for the matter with Nangong Ye.
• Dawn told Su Shijie to hide his involvement and the armor, then warned that she could not pay him many Spirit Crystals for the three sets.

Su Shijie arranged to buy more Spirit Crystal Ore while keeping his connection to the Prometheus matter discreet, then spent two months cultivating at sea. He reached the early stage of Transformation Tier level eight, finished compiling his new genes, and prepared to head out after the Prosperity stopped.

• Su Shijie sent Qian Cheng to purchase another hundred million worth of Spirit Crystal Ore and told Captain Henry he would later buy more from Penglai Island.
• Su Shijie reflected on the Earth Federation's loss of the Sun's Spirit Crystal Ore income and estimated how much ore he still needed to cultivate.
• Two peaceful months passed, and Su Shijie used his remaining Spirit Crystals to reach the early stage of Transformation Tier level eight and complete his new-gene compilation.
• Dawn's staged bonuses began arriving, while the Prosperity left the Great Concave Valley and tracked migrating commercial fish schools.
• Su Shijie finalized a deal with Inoue Kojiro for one hundred standard units of Spirit Crystal Ore at four million Credit Points per unit.

Su Shijie, using his Abyss identity, was approached by Sha Luo with an offer to team up and obtain Spirit Crystal Ore from a seabed deposit guarded by Spirit Beasts. After Dawn investigated her, he realized she had recruited several independent Transformation Tier hunters and decided to hear out the deal.

• Su Shijie reflected on how much stronger he had become and watched the hunters enjoying themselves on the ship’s deck.
• Sha Luo approached Su Shijie, recognized him as Lord Abyss, and offered to cooperate on a deal involving Spirit Crystal Ore.
• Su Shijie accepted the offer in principle, and Sha Luo gave him a key card for Room A78 at midnight.
• Dawn investigated Sha Luo and reported that she was a Transformation Tier hunter known as Demon Bee.
• Dawn discovered that Sha Luo had invited several independent Transformation Tier hunters to help claim a Spirit Beast-guarded seabed mineral deposit, and Su Shijie decided to take part.

Su Shijie learned of a promising mine and then intervened when a stronger team tried to seize an Awakened Rank Golden Fin Tuna from its rightful hunters. He sold the fish for ten million, but Sha Luo teased him about kissing her room keycard.

• Su Shijie smiled after Dawn analyzed a mine jointly developed by Transformation Tiers and decided he would offer to buy their shares.
• Su Shijie watched an argument erupt over an Awakened Rank Golden Fin Tuna, as an anchor-tattooed man and Brother Sa backed an attempt to take it from the Awakened Rank hunters.
• Su Shijie offered the hunters ten million for the fish and used Henry's private contact on his Personal Terminal to make Brother Sa and the anchor-tattooed man withdraw.
• Su Shijie warned the hunters not to go underwater, then carried the Golden Fin Tuna to sell it.
• Sha Luo praised Su Shijie's unexpected kindness and teased him for kissing her room keycard, prompting him to retch and leaving her stunned.

Su Shijie met Sha Luo to discuss cooperation, then revealed his overwhelming strength to the five-person team assembled for a trip to the Jellyfish Zone. The group agreed that he would buy all their Spirit Crystal Ore at a premium, and they settled on a price before the expedition began.

• Sha Luo asked Su Shijie to work more closely with her, and he agreed to step in when he saw trouble he could not ignore.
• Sha Luo gathered Su Shijie, Lisa, K, and Jili to prepare for mining in the Jellyfish Zone.
• Su Shijie introduced himself as Shen Yuan, an early Transformation Tier Level Eight, and demonstrated enough power to convince the others he was telling the truth.
• Su Shijie asked for the right to buy everyone's Spirit Crystal Ore without taking a share of the proceeds.
• The group agreed that Su Shijie would buy all the ore for two million Credit Points per unit, with the others splitting the payment equally.

Su Shijie and Sha Luo led their group through the Jellyfish Zone toward a rich underwater mining area, while Su Shijie realized they were being followed. He exposed the pursuers, and Jili silently shifted his hostility toward them.

• Sha Luo told the group that she had discovered the secluded mining site while fleeing a Spirit Beast and that no one else knew about it.
• The five entered the Jellyfish Zone, where Su Shijie recognized the jellyfish's spatial abilities and the danger posed by their swarms and venom.
• Sha Luo estimated that the mining area contained about one thousand standard units, exciting the group with the prospect of a large payout.
• The group slowed down and cautiously navigated volcanic caves to avoid the jellyfish, while one member was stung several times.
• Su Shijie sensed people following them within a few hundred meters and called for the group to stop, prompting Jili to abandon his brief thoughts of attacking Su Shijie and turn his killing intent toward the pursuers.

Su Shijie and the group confronted their pursuers, and Su Shijie instantly killed the Johnny Three Brothers, leaving the others shaken by his strength. Jili tried to frame K and Lisa as the traitor, but Su Shijie killed Jili instead.

• Su Shijie learned from the group that three Transformation Tier Level 6 fighters, the Johnny Three Brothers, were pursuing them.
• Sha Luo warned the group that there might be an insider, while Jili urged them to focus on the pursuers and assign roles.
• Su Shijie used twisting currents to tear the Johnny Three Brothers apart before they could fight back.
• Jili proposed giving Su Shijie half the harvest, then accused K and Lisa of being the traitor and asked Su Shijie to execute them.
• Su Shijie agreed, then struck Jili and blasted his head apart.

Su Shijie secured a vast haul of Spirit Crystal Ore after killing Jili and negotiating his way past the jellyfish guarding the ore mountain. He paid the surviving hunters their shares, then returned to the Prosperity, intending to complete his Spirit Caller compilation before continuing his search for information about the Super Contamination Source.

• Lisa and K panicked after Su Shijie crushed Jili, but Sha Luo stayed calm as Su Shijie warned the group about the jellyfish ahead.
• Su Shijie sensed an Evolutionary Tier jellyfish leader watching them, and the jellyfish let the group pass without attacking.
• Su Shijie and the others found an unguarded meteorite containing at least two thousand units of Spirit Crystal Ore.
• After leaving the Jellyfish Zone, Su Shijie paid Sha Luo, Lisa, and K five hundred million each and sent them back.
• Su Shijie refined the meteorite into Spirit Crystals, placed them in his Storage Bag, and headed toward the Prosperity to complete his Spirit Caller compilation.

After completing the Spirit Caller profession, Su Shijie tested the power of his twelve Sanctified Virtual Organs and unexpectedly formed a Domain Field, reaching the Transcendent level ahead of schedule. When he withdrew the enhancement, he discovered that a weakened Domain Field remained, leaving him wondering whether he had permanently become Transcendent.

• Su Shijie completed the Spirit Caller compilation and reached Late Level 9 of the Transformation Tier after ten months of cultivation.
• Su Shijie left the Prosperity and traveled away from the busy hunting grounds to test his limits underwater.
• Su Shijie used his twelve Virtual Organs and spacetime traits to create a Domain Field that isolated the surrounding seawater.
• Su Shijie withdrew his Virtual Organs and suppressed his chaotic aura, then resolved to continue compiling professions before facing the Super Contamination Source beneath the Abyssal Trench.
• Su Shijie noticed that a weakened Domain Field remained after the enhancement ended and wondered if he had permanently become Transcendent.

After becoming Transcendent, Su Shijie explored the Prosperity, indulged in food and soda, and considered how his new senses changed his view of the hunters around him. As he looked toward the sea, he sensed the aftermath of a clash between top-tier Evolutionary Tier fighters.

• Su Shijie noticed that his Transcendent senses automatically revealed his surroundings as Lisa approached and flirted with him.
• Su Shijie accepted Lisa’s offer of thanks and had her pay for an extravagant meal, then asked what she and Sha Luo would have done if they had not known his strength.
• Lisa revealed that Sha Luo was her older half-sister and said she expected to reach the Evolutionary Tier, while Su Shijie dismissed her and left.
• Su Shijie lost Credit Points at the casino and arena, then criticized the ship’s gambling establishments.
• Su Shijie sensed a shockwave from the sea and judged that top-tier Evolutionary Tier fighters were clashing nearby.

Su Shijie learned why Dawn was letting two Evolutionary Tier fighters from the Lin and Ye Families fight, then discussed the mindset needed to reach Transcendence. He chose Illusionist as his next profession to help suppress the abnormality caused by his Sanctification.

• The Prosperity sounded an emergency warning and prepared to leave the waters after the clash between the Lin and Ye Families.
• Dawn told Su Shijie that the fighters had removed their chips and were outside the city, so she would not intervene.
• Dawn explained that reaching Transcendence required overcoming oneself and warned Su Shijie that his lax personality could hold him back.
• Su Shijie compared the Sword Immortal, Empowerer, and Illusionist professions while playing a shooting game in a Virtual Organs pod.
• Su Shijie chose Illusionist because he hoped it would conceal the hostility-provoking effects of his Sanctification.

Su Shijie realized two Evolutionary Tier fighters were deliberately approaching the Prosperity, possibly as a Promethean test targeting his identity as Dawn's Special Commissioner. He confronted them alongside Captain Henry, but the fighters considered whether to attack him and test his strength.

• Su Shijie sensed that two Evolutionary Tier fighters were closing in on the Prosperity and suspected their battle was staged by the Prometheans.
• Dawn confirmed that both fighters' families had business dealings with the Prometheans, and she advised Su Shijie not to draw attention to himself.
• Su Shijie realized the fighters were likely targeting him as Dawn's Special Commissioner, whose appearance in Penglai had become public.
• Su Shijie contacted Captain Henry, then went with him to the stern to warn the fighters not to involve the ship.
• Su Shijie identified himself as Dawn's Special Commissioner and threatened to report the incident, prompting the fighters to pause and consider attacking him as a test.

Su Shijie used the appearance of psionic throwing knives to make two hostile Evolutionary Tiers back down, as they believed he was tied to Nangong Ye. After taking compensation from Henry, he headed underwater and planned to let the Evil God Cultists and Prometheans deal with the Ye Family and Lin Family.

• Su Shijie sensed that the Ye Family and Lin Family’s Evolutionary Tiers intended to test or intimidate him, and he revealed psionic throwing knives while invoking his elders.
• Henry recognized the knives as a sign of a Sword Immortal connection to Nangong Ye, and the two Evolutionary Tiers apologized before leaving in opposite directions.
• Henry warned Su Shijie that the men might have been probing him over Inoue Kojiro or Great Concave Valley, then asked not to be involved.
• Su Shijie demanded Spirit Crystal Ore from Henry, who arranged to give him a hundred units before Su Shijie left the ship.
• Underwater, Su Shijie considered extorting more from Inoue Kojiro and planned to let the Evil God Cultists and Prometheans confront the Ye Family and Lin Family.

Su Shijie killed two Federation family elders while posing as a Fallen Transcendence, then used the attack to muddy the waters around the Prometheans. He blamed them for the High Priest of Destruction’s death, setting the Church of Destruction on a path to retaliation.

• The Ye Family and Lin Family elders discussed their cooperation with the Prometheans and worried about the threat they posed to the Federation.
• Su Shijie attacked from beneath the sea and killed both elders, making hunters believe a Fallen Transcendence had struck.
• Su Shijie returned to Penglai Island and reasoned that the killings would deepen suspicion and conflict between the Prometheans and other factions.
• Inoue Kojiro gave Su Shijie two hundred units of Spirit Crystal Ore as compensation for his failure to help.
• Su Shijie met Koizumi Yuta and Yu Yi as Taotie, claimed the Prometheans had killed the High Priest of Destruction, and prompted Koizumi Yuta to vow retaliation.

Su Shijie returned to Binhai with Yu Yi and began compiling the first stage of his Illusionist profession at home. He realized that his Domain Field let him multi-class beyond the usual limit, leaving him with far greater potential than ordinary bloodlines.

• Su Shijie brought Yu Yi to Binhai and told her to contact Yan Ni and seek his help if the Spirit Wind Knights faced contamination problems.
• Su Shijie gave Yu Yi money to find her own place, then returned home after making sure Nan Mingxi was not around.
• Su Shijie began compiling the Illusionist profession and reviewed how bloodlines, traits, and multi-classing affected his strength.
• Su Shijie realized that his Domain Field allowed him to multi-class without the usual three-profession limit.
• Su Shijie completed the Illusionist profession's early first stage and gained a boost roughly equal to an early Level 1 Illusionist.