Chapter Summaries

The Spirit Wind Knights faced protests in Binhai as the Wang family publicly confessed to its member’s conspiracy and investigated itself. Su Shijie completed his Illusionist cultivation, but when two Fallen Transcendents contacted Lan Mei for help, he decided to stall until he grew strong enough to confront them.

• Yu Yi and Yan Ni watched protesters denounce the Spirit Wind Knights outside their Binhai office, then went inside to discuss dinner.
• Wang Teng’s confession spread through the Wang family’s official channels, and the family executed him and launched an investigation; Su Shijie judged that their public admission had limited the damage.
• As reconstruction and subsidies progressed, Binhai’s public resentment toward the Spirit Wind Knights gradually quieted, while Su Shijie continued cultivating.
• After ten months and roughly eight hundred Spirit Crystals, Su Shijie mastered Illusionist and learned he could conceal the aura of Sanctification with illusions.
• Two Fallen Transcendents contacted Lan Mei to ask how she had survived Sanctification, and Su Shijie told her to stall them while gathering information about their progress.

Su Shijie learned that Yan Fei and Charlie planned to revive the Spirit Wind Knights and contaminate the Earth Federation, leaving him with no safe way to stop them. As he struggled to focus on strengthening himself, Wang Lang called with news that Huang Yixuan’s group had been exposed after contaminated goods reached the stars.

• Lan Mei told Su Shijie that Yan Fei and Charlie intended to contaminate the Earth Federation and recruit Ling Qin to their plan.
• Su Shijie learned that the Spirit Emperor’s remains had partially revived and were guarding the Super Contamination Source, making outside intervention too dangerous.
• Su Shijie abandoned the idea of seeking help from the Skyfeather Civilization and concluded he had to increase his own strength.
• Su Shijie struggled to compile Sword Immortal Level One while the pressure of saving the Earth Federation weighed on him.
• Wang Lang called Su Shijie and said Huang Yixuan’s group had gotten into trouble after selling evil god fanatics whose contamination ruined a large batch of goods.

Su Shijie discussed Huang Yixuan’s disgrace with Huang Jiangyong, then attended the discreet opening ceremony of the second Binhai Cup as Sea Tribe representatives arrived uninvited. The Queen of Blades also appeared through a powerful bug avatar, while the Binhai Alliance prepared for the unexpected visitors.

• Su Shijie attended a gathering with Wang Lang and spoke with Huang Jiangyong, who asked about his feud with Huang Yixuan.
• Su Shijie said he knew little about Huang Yixuan’s affairs but suspected he had ties to Evil God Cultists.
• By the second Binhai Cup’s opening ceremony, Su Shijie had reached early Sword Immortal Level Three.
• Sea Tribe representatives arrived without invitation, including a regional manager of the Half-Seat Transport Group, forcing the Binhai Alliance to receive them formally.
• The Queen of Blades sent a chubby bug avatar to the ceremony, and Su Shijie recognized its extraordinary power and ability to serve as her resurrection vessel.

At the second tournament’s opening ceremony, the Sea Tribe representative tried to pressure Binhai City by blaming it for Evil God Cultists and demanding access to Spirit Wind Knights. Wang Dao resisted his demands, while Su Shijie recognized that the Sea Tribe was using its investigation as a pretext to seize the knights.

• A high-level Sea Tribe representative arrived at the tournament, but restrained his intimidating aura when he saw the Queen of Blades.
• The Queen of Blades attended the opening ceremony, and Su Shijie announced that he would stop competing to research new styles.
• After the ceremony, the Sea Tribe representative told Wang Dao that his people wanted to investigate Binhai City for its supposed high proportion of Evil God Cultists.
• Wang Dao asked whether the demand came from the Sea Tribe or its company, and the representative claimed the company had enough influence to affect Federation policy.
• The representative demanded expanded investigations that would include at least ten Spiritwind Knights, and Su Shijie realized the Sea Tribe wanted to take them as merchandise.
• Su Shijie felt no regret for his role in the events and concluded that Binhai’s weakness was the real problem.

After the Sea Tribe representative failed to pressure the Queen of Blades, she took Su Shijie aside and urged him to become stronger. Su Shijie returned to cultivation, but after eight months his Spirit Crystals ran low, leaving him to reconsider how to improve his bloodline and prepare to restock.

• The Sea Tribe representative left Earth after the Queen of Blades rejected his pressure and exchanged greetings with the Sea King.
• The Queen of Blades invited Su Shijie for a walk, offered him candy, and told him to grow strong enough to carry her because she could not defeat the Sea King.
• Su Shijie abandoned interest in the Binhai Cup and resumed cultivating the Sword Immortal profession while planning to deal with the two Fallen Transcendences and the Super Contamination Source.
• After eight months, Su Shijie reached early level eight in Sword Immortal, but his Spirit Crystals were nearly exhausted and the gains from adding another profession had diminished.
• Su Shijie decided to seek more high-grade Contamination Sources and prepare to leave to restock, while considering which identity to use instead of Abyss.

Su Jie used his growing fortune to plan a southern expedition with Lan Mei and Ling Qin, hoping to find advanced Contamination Sources and buy Spirit Crystals. The three prepared to leave Binhai while Su Jie’s church consolidation and the looming Sea Tribe threat continued in the background.

• Su Jie reviewed his 7.2 billion Credit Points and chose a route toward Indonesia’s No. 1 Space Elevator to search for two suspected advanced Contamination Sources.
• Su Jie decided to travel by cruise liner or cargo vessel with Lan Mei and Ling Qin, then visit Moon Free Trade City to buy Spirit Crystals.
• Su Jie sent messages to his family and friends, instructed Hu Zhi, and continued consolidating the Chaos, Dawn, and Destruction churches under Dawn.
• Lan Mei and Ling Qin adopted their former public identities at the Spirit Wind Knights’ Binhai office as the three prepared to head south.
• Su Jie kept his true level of strength secret from Dawn, his family, and others so the Prometheans would struggle to learn his capabilities.

Su Shijie traveled aboard the Glory to investigate a mysterious Contamination Source in a coral reef, searching with Ling Qin and the Spirit Wind Knights captain. After finding that the reef was largely made of dead coral, he realized its unusual recovery might reveal the source’s secret.

• Su Shijie boarded the Glory under the assumed identity Nan Jing, accompanied by Ling Qin and Lan Mei, and spent the five-day voyage cultivating and earning Spirit Crystals.
• Ling Qin explained that the Contamination Source seemed to permeate the entire coral reef, making it impossible to locate.
• When the Glory passed the edge of the contaminated waters, Su Shijie, Ling Qin, and the Spirit Wind Knights captain split up to search underwater.
• The three regrouped after two hours without finding the source, and Ling Qin said the reef had previously been leveled without revealing anything unusual.
• Su Shijie realized that most of the coral was dead and wondered how the reef had recovered so extensively, then said he understood something.

Su Shijie uncovered and killed a hidden Transcendence Contaminated Beast, revealing an Advanced Contamination Source in the coral reef. He used it to reach Bloodline Level 23 and gain Electromagnetic Induction before preparing to return to the ship.

• Su Shijie detected that the coral polyps were dead and used Earth Empowerment and Vibration to expose a lurking Transcendence Contaminated Beast.
• Su Shijie, Ling Qin, and Lan Mei pursued the creature as it fled through the seabed, and Su Shijie forced it into the open with Spacetime Fluctuation.
• Su Shijie killed the creature and revealed an Advanced Contamination Source, while Ling Qin and Lan Mei hunted down its remaining half.
• Su Shijie used the source to complete a Bloodline Transformation, reaching Level 23 and gaining Electromagnetic Induction, which he enhanced to +24.
• Su Shijie discussed the rarity of Advanced Contamination Sources with Ling Qin, then said they would return to the ship.

Su Shijie and his companions avoided detection after a disturbance at sea, then continued earning Spirit Crystals aboard the ship. As they prepared to enter the next Contamination Zone, Wang Tong arrived with the captain, and Su Shijie greeted him under his Nan Ying identity.

• Su Shijie used an illusion to hide himself, Lan Mei, and Ling Qin from the Evolutionary Tier expert probing the ship.
• Two crewmen asked Su Shijie to join a security team, but he rebuffed them and Lan Mei suspected the visit was a probe.
• Su Shijie earned another hundred Spirit Crystals over seven days with Lan Mei and Ling Qin's help.
• Wang Tong and the captain visited Su Shijie as he and his companions prepared to leave for the next Contamination Zone.
• Su Shijie recognized Wang Tong as an elder of the Wang family and addressed him with guarded sarcasm.

Su Shijie negotiated with Liu Cheng of the Liu Family, agreeing to try to secure a Strong Spirit Potion in exchange for Spirit Crystals and access to the family's ore. He then investigated the Contamination Zone and discovered that contaminated jellyfish were hiding in curvature space, leaving him to face them alone.

• Liu Cheng asked Su Shijie to use the Nan Family's connections to help the Liu Family obtain a Strong Spirit Potion.
• Su Shijie agreed to try in exchange for two hundred Spirit Crystals upfront and the right to buy eight billion Credit Points' worth of the Liu Family's Spirit Crystal Ore at market price.
• Su Shijie told Liu Cheng to leave him undisturbed for the rest of the journey, then continued searching the water with Lan Mei and Ling Qin.
• Su Shijie traced the strongest Contamination Source to the middle region and learned that the area had once been a Jellyfish Zone whose jellyfish had vanished overnight.
• Su Shijie realized the contaminated jellyfish could remain in curvature space, and decided he would have to investigate them alone.

Su Shijie encountered a contaminated jellyfish swarm and negotiated with its unusually sane leader, obtaining a Contamination Source in exchange for leaving the swarm unharmed. After absorbing it, he planned to gather more sources and return stronger, while considering the jellyfish as a future ally and protector.

• Su Shijie detected a contaminated jellyfish swarm in a distorted curvature and confronted its enormous leader.
• The jellyfish leader explained that it wanted to preserve its sanity and offered its wife's corpse, which carried a Contamination Source, if Su Shijie promised not to harm the swarm.
• Su Shijie accepted the Contamination Source, ordered the jellyfish to restrain its followers and stay put, and withdrew with Lan Mei and Ling Qin.
• Su Shijie found the source insufficient for another Bloodline Transformation but enough to raise all his traits to +25.
• Su Shijie planned to search for more high-level Contamination Sources after returning from Free Trade City and later recruit the jellyfish to protect his family near Binhai.

Su Shijie arrived in Crescent Port and accepted the Jiangbei City Liu Family’s request to help them obtain Strong Spirit Potion through the Nan Family. After learning that the potion was needed to save their Third Young Master, he reflected on how dependence on outside suppliers left families—and the Earth Federation—vulnerable.

• Su Shijie received the Spirit Crystal Ore promised by the Liu Family and Dawn, enough to raise his Sword Immortal profession to level nine.
• At Crescent Port, Liu Tao paid Su Shijie two hundred refined Spirit Crystals and arranged Space Elevator tickets for him, Lan Mei, and Ling Qin.
• Su Shijie said he would introduce Liu Tao to the right people and travel with Nan Family members from Orbital City.
• In the Hovercar, Liu Tao explained that the Liu Family’s Third Young Master had damaged his genetic foundation during cultivation and needed Strong Spirit Potion to break through.
• Liu Tao revealed that the Third Young Master had perfectly inherited the family ancestor’s bloodline, prompting Su Shijie to consider the danger of relying on others for scarce technology and medicine.

Su Shijie traveled from Earth to Moon Free Trade City with the Liu Family, hoping to help them find Strong Spirit Potions in exchange for access to Spirit Crystal Ore at standard prices. He arrived on the Moon after cultivating during the journey and learned that Dawn enforced a strict no-combat rule in the city.

• Su Shijie and the Liu Family's purchasing staff rode the Space Elevator to Earth-Orbit Orbital City.
• Nan Qian met the group and agreed to help find a seller of Strong Spirit Potions in Moon Free Trade City.
• Su Shijie and the others boarded a small spacecraft and began the journey to the Moon.
• Su Shijie cultivated during the flight and missed the chance to see Moon Free Trade City from above.
• Su Shijie arrived in Moon Free Trade City, where Dawn announced that combat was forbidden because her true body lay beneath the Moon.

Su Shijie and Liu Tao searched Moon Free Trade City for a seller of Strong Spirit Potion, learning that the Sand Tribe was their likeliest source. After Liu Tao and Nan Qian headed to meet Sand Tribe suppliers, Su Shijie went to inspect the Cloud Tribe’s goods and their prices.

• Su Shijie, Liu Tao, and Nan Qian arrived in Moon Free Trade City and saw visitors from many civilizations trading alongside humans.
• Nan Qian found four registered sellers of Strong Spirit Potion: one from the Sky Feather Race, one from the Cloud Tribe, and two from the Sand Tribe.
• Liu Tao chose to approach the Sand Tribe sellers because they might accept Spirit Crystal Ore, while Su Shijie offered to ask the Cloud Tribe about buying the potion.
• Liu Tao followed Nan Qian toward the Sand Tribe district, and Su Shijie went to a Cloud Tribe shop in a floating whale-shaped building.
• Su Shijie saw interstellar visitors reacting to the Cloud Tribe’s prices and suspected their goods were beyond most humans’ means.

Su Shijie explored the Cloud Tribe exhibition hall and tried to find a way to exchange Spirit Crystal Ore for Strong Spirit Potion. He performed for the Cloud Tribe’s contribution program, and his illusions captivated everyone present.

• Su Shijie examined the Cloud Tribe’s goods, payment options, and migrant recruitment while considering the risks of trading people for profit.
• Su Shijie asked the guidance terminal whether the store would exchange Spirit Crystal Ore for Strong Spirit Potion, and learned that Nan Mingxi could receive a discount or earn contributions through artistic missions.
• Su Shijie decided to perform as a singer, and Lan Mei laughed at his claim.
• Su Shijie used his vibration trait and illusions to sing Yun Jing’s Binhai Cup song, enchanting everyone in the exhibition hall.

Su Shijie used his musical talent to impress Yun Xi, the Cloud Tribe official in charge of the exhibition hall, and received a Strong Spirit Potion and a Multi-functional Autonomous Sphere from her. After spending a day discussing music with Yun Xi, he left with a new contact and an invitation to visit Venus.

• Su Shijie sang Yun Jing's song so beautifully that the visitors applauded and Yun Xi came out to meet him.
• Yun Xi gave Su Shijie a bottle of Strong Spirit Potion for his injured friend and a Multi-functional Autonomous Sphere as a personal gift.
• Yun Xi invited Su Shijie, Ling Qin, and Lan Mei to her office, where she praised his musical talent and discussed recording his song.
• Yun Xi patiently explained music to Su Shijie despite his lack of artistic knowledge, and the group spent the night and following day talking.
• Yun Xi topped up Su Shijie's communication fees, asked him to keep in touch, and saw him off after playfully hooking his palm.

Su Shijie traded for Spirit Crystals, discovered they accelerated his infusion, and rapidly completed his Sword Immortal infusion. He then joined Ling Qin and Lan Mei in the Atlantic Ocean to hunt an elusive Evolutionary Tier octopus guarding a Contamination Source.

• Liu Tao told Su Shijie that the sellers demanded one million units of Spirit Crystal Ore, and Su Shijie accepted Liu Tao's offer of one hundred thousand units.
• Su Shijie completed the trade for Compressed Spirit Crystals and secured the promised right to purchase four thousand standard units of Spirit Crystal on Earth.
• Su Shijie found that Spirit Crystals sped up his absorption and infusion, then completed the Sword Immortal's infusion at a high-level Contamination Zone in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Ling Qin explained that an Evolutionary Tier octopus guarding the Contamination Source could imitate its aura and evade hunters, and Su Shijie prepared to search for it with Ling Qin and Lan Mei.

Su Shijie, Ling Qin, and Lan Mei traveled to the Tidal Clan to investigate a nearby high-grade Contamination Source after deciding not to approach the Prometheans. The Tidal Clan leader shared what she knew, and Su Shijie realized the situation was more complicated than he had expected.

• Su Shijie captured an Evolutionary Tier Nine octopus and saved the high-grade Contamination Source it yielded toward a future bloodline evolution.
• Ling Qin explained that the two remaining high-grade Contamination Sources were near the Tidal Clan and the Prometheans, and advised asking the Tidal Clan for information.
• Su Shijie decided to visit the Tidal Clan in Spirit Wind Knight attire while avoiding the Prometheans to keep Lan Mei and Ling Qin's survival after Sanctification secret.
• Su Shijie, Ling Qin, and Lan Mei reached the Tidal Clan's territory and found no signs that the clan itself had been contaminated.
• Lan Mei met the Tidal Clan leader and asked about the nearby Contamination Sources, and the leader reported increased Contaminated Beast activity before sharing her information.

Su Shijie and Lan Mei traced the Contamination Source toward North America's East Coast and sought out the nearby Lust Church. They found its leader, whose aura matched the source, but the chapter ended before they learned whether she possessed it.

• Su Shijie sensed that the Contamination Source had likely left the sea and was heading toward the East Coast.
• Lan Mei identified the Lust, Greed, and Venom Churches as active on the East Coast, and Su Shijie chose to visit them.
• Su Shijie and his companions crossed the devastated East Coast and met a frail Lust Church follower at a red cliff.
• The Lust Church leader appeared and challenged Su Shijie's reputation after he injured her follower.
• Su Shijie detected a fresh Contamination Source aura on the leader that matched the trace from the seabed.

Su Shijie visited the Lust sect after sensing that a high-grade Sacred Source was being stirred there and discovered that its High Priest had already deployed it in Puma City. He considered taking control of the church and planned to investigate the ritual before it reached its climax the next day.

• A leather-clad woman led Su Shijie and his companions to the Lust sect’s cave, where he found that the high-grade Contamination Source was no longer present.
• The High Priest met Su Shijie and revealed that the sect had deployed the high-grade Sacred Source two days earlier and expected to harvest its effects the next day.
• The High Priest offered Su Shijie the chance to take part in the ritual and break through into the Transcendent.
• The High Priest explained that the ritual would take place in Puma City, where her disciples had already tamed the city’s two Evolutionary Tier experts.
• Su Shijie decided to assess the ritual, while considering how to bring the sect under his control and test a way to command believers who were not Spirit Callers.