Chapter Summaries

Chen Chuan warned his allies to avoid trouble as Central City’s coming split threatened to unleash chaos, while preparing to strengthen his second self through difficult battles. Meanwhile, Che Gaoyi mobilized Lianwei Heavy Drive’s resources for the upheaval, and Astrid received orders to prepare for the next phase of her company’s plan.

• Chen Chuan told Wu Han, Wei Dong, Lu Fang, Lu Ke, Wei Changan, and the others to stay cautious and postpone their visit to Central City, then considered how powerful enemies might help his second self reach the third limit.
• Che Gaoyi arrived at Lianwei Heavy Drive’s Shen Wei District headquarters and ordered the activation of inactive consciousness entities for the coming crisis.
• Che Gaoyi rejected an offer of support from Canglong Company and Far Ocean Development Group, ordered weapons sent to the Elephant Gang, and directed Giant Star to find other gangs to support.
• Che Gaoyi ordered Giant Star to erase all files concerning Zhao Qian’s death, then arranged business contacts and entry into Central City for mercenary teams.
• Astrid received a message at Xihui Opera House that her performance assignment was complete and that she should prepare for the next phase of the plan; she requested equipment, weapons, and medicine.

Chen Chuan trained while Central City prepared for Fu Mu’s splitting and the breach in the World Ring, and he learned that Zhao Ming was still months away from being ready for combat. As foreign Fighters gathered in the city and the barrier grew unstable, Chen Chuan anticipated a chaotic Heavenly Gate opening and looked forward to facing the incoming opponents.

• Chen Chuan trained his mind and body, sensing a barrier near the human limit and wondering whether reaching it might let his Second Self merge with him again.
• Assistant Ling coordinated Wuyi Academy’s cooperation with the Central City government while privately advancing a separate plan and reviewing notable teachers and students.
• Manager Zhuang told Chen Chuan that Zhao Ming’s Mutated Tissue was developing steadily but needed two to three more months of observation, so Chen Chuan left it in the company’s care.
• Chen Chuan observed that black spots on the barrier around Central City were increasing and the barrier was becoming unstable as Fu Mu’s splitting period approached.
• Chen Chuan read Edge Channel discussions about foreign Fighters Delacroix and Zomali and suspected powerful outsiders were being used to divert the government’s attention before the Heavenly Gate opened.

Su Wei met Chen Chuan in an abandoned building, where Chen Chuan tested his fighting ability and saw his combat experience and adaptability. Chen Chuan warned that trouble might soon arise in Central City and said the team could be sent on a mission at any time.

• Su Wei left his training hall and met Chen Chuan at an abandoned construction site after Chen Chuan summoned him.
• Chen Chuan explained that surveillance of Fighters in Central City had tightened and asked to assess Su Wei’s abilities.
• Su Wei attacked Chen Chuan unarmed, but Chen Chuan effortlessly blocked and redirected his strikes.
• Su Wei used a dagger and deceptive attacks, then combined a stomp, thrown daggers, and a kick, but Chen Chuan dodged and pulled him back from falling through the damaged floors.
• Chen Chuan assessed Su Wei’s combat skills and asked for his assistance when a mission arose in Central City, and Su Wei saluted and agreed.

Chen Chuan gathered Su Wei, Qin Qingque, and Yuan Qiuyuan in Central City to prepare for the dangers expected when Fu Mu split and the World Ring breach destabilized. As the team planned for the crisis, Miyaei Nagahide arrived outside the city, and a team leader warned that the gentle-looking Fighter’s true nature was far more frightening.

• Chen Chuan brought Su Wei to a station, where they met Qin Qingque and Yuan Qiuyuan, whom he had summoned from the Convergence Zone to join his team.
• Chen Chuan explained that Fu Mu’s splitting could draw the two worlds closer and create Rifts, and he told the team to prioritize their safety while preparing for unknown threats.
• The four discussed possible responses, and Qin Qingque proposed renting Domain Field-disrupting and communication organisms from the Defense Department for Chen Chuan’s residence and car.
• Guan Shang Jing welcomed Miyaei Nagahide and a young Fighter arriving by Airship outside Central City.
• After employees remarked on Miyaei Nagahide’s polite demeanor, the team leader warned them that the Fighter, also known as Ghost Palace Ying, was nothing like his true face.

Miyaei Nagahide sent Hui Shilang to deliver a Challenge Letter to Chen Chuan and demonstrate Wind Forest Pavilion’s Imprint Blade. San Cheng Huang intervened and defeated Hui Shilang, then warned Chen Chuan that Miyaei Nagahide himself was in Central City and declared his support for Chen.

• Miyaei Nagahide told Guan Shang Jing that he had already arranged for Hui Shilang to deliver his Challenge Letter and demonstrate his blade techniques to Chen Chuan.
• Hui Shilang reached Mystic Palace Building and waited for Chen Chuan after politely complying with City Patrol’s inspections.
• San Cheng Huang challenged Hui Shilang, and their brief clash ended with Hui Shilang dead and San Cheng Huang narrowly escaping the Imprint Blade.
• Chen Chuan arrived and learned from San Cheng Huang that the technique had carried Miyaei Nagahide’s blade art and was meant to test him.
• San Cheng Huang warned Chen Chuan that Miyaei Nagahide had arrived in Central City and declared that standing with Chen was the right choice.

Chen Chuan learned that Miyaei Nagahide had arrived with the Wind Forest Pavilion and declined San Cheng Huang’s offer to deliver his response, while preparing for their eventual clash. Meanwhile, Central City’s authorities reviewed defenses for Fu Mu’s division, but Specialist Liang Guanghai recognized the limits of their preparations as a proposed city lockdown was rejected.

• San Cheng Huang explained why he had left the Wave Pavilion and offered to carry Chen Chuan’s reply to Miyaei Nagahide, but Chen Chuan said he wanted to face him himself.
• San Cheng Huang waited beside Hui Shilang’s corpse for City Patrol personnel, while Chen Chuan received Gu Haiting’s report that Miyaei Nagahide had arrived in Great Shun with Wind Forest Pavilion disciples and recruited Fighters.
• Chen Chuan contacted Qin Qingque and sent her a list of supplies he needed for the coming unrest.
• A female assistant briefed Specialist Liang Guanghai on plans to contain offshoots and rifts during Fu Mu’s division, including emergency teams, reserve consciousness entities, and a Sky Joint Defense System.
• Specialist Liang considered the government’s uneven defensive deployments and learned that a proposal to lock down Central City before Fu Mu’s division had been formally rejected.

Specialist Liang prepared Central City for Fu Mu’s impending division while the Resistance Organization planned to steal one of its split sub-entities. The chapter left Zhen Ping and Guan Xiaohui committed to carrying the captured entity out of the city.

• Specialist Liang reviewed suspicious companies and the threat of a hidden active consciousness entity, then ordered Captain Chen’s assignment priority raised.
• Specialist Liang learned that Chen Bitong remained in Central City amid disagreements over whether to transfer him away.
• Team Leader Yu told Guan Xiaohui and Zhen Ping that Fu Mu would divide in a few days and assigned them to transport one of its split sub-entities through the Underground District.
• Zhen Ping and Guan Xiaohui accepted the dangerous mission, and Team Leader Yu arranged final Implant Surgery and accelerated training for them.

As signs of the coming Rift appeared across Central City, Chen Chuan’s squad fortified their mansion and prepared their communications while the city government blamed the first wave of strange insects on an invasive-species incident. The chapter left Wei Yuji convinced the authorities were hiding something and intent on acting beyond the rules.

• The Canglong Company delivered weapons, vehicles, and supplies, and Chen Chuan’s squad spent two days fortifying the mansion and setting up communications equipment.
• Qin Qingque established a dedicated frequency band and explained how the squad could contact and locate one another if they were separated.
• Chen Chuan returned to Wu Yi Academy, where he found a hard-bodied insect on his dormitory ledge and concluded that tiny gaps between worlds had begun to form.
• Strange insects spread throughout Central City, prompting City Patrol and airships to spray chemicals while public broadcasts blamed the invasion on biological experiments by the Linax Federation.
• Lao Qi and Wu Han heard the official explanation and Lao Qi grew concerned, while Sun Rao and Wei Yuji debated whether the government was concealing the real reason for its preparations.
• Wei Yuji mocked Sun Rao for following orders and declared that rules could not bind people who rose above the crowd.

A vast insect swarm spread across Central City as strange phenomena appeared in several regions. Chen Chuan recognized flashes in the sky as signs that the worlds were colliding, suggesting Fu Mu was becoming unstable and the Ferris Wheel Company's future would soon be tested.

• The Skull Gang lured insects into nests with glowing fragments, and blue-red cocoons began forming around them.
• Cao Guiqi learned that insects had reached Mo Tie Mountain but dismissed concerns and refused to meet visitors seeking him.
• Lu Ke and Yu Gang noticed swarming insects and migrating rats in the Underground District, and Yu Gang urged Lu Ke to ask Senior Apprentice Sister Nan about unusual activity.
• Miyaei Nagahide killed exactly three thousand insects with Wind Whisper Slash and bestowed its Imprint Blade on a disciple.
• Guan Shang Jing told Miyaei Nagahide that San Cheng Huang had intercepted his challenge to the Mystic Palace Building, while a brief world-rift flash suggested Fu Mu was growing unstable.
• Chen Chuan saw flashes in the sky and recognized that the collision of worlds was near.

As Fu Mu began dividing, Central City’s defenses went on alert and the Heaven Gate opened a crack, bringing the Convergence Zone’s influence into the city. Watchtower reported the first seven sub-entities and detected widespread surveillance of government deployments as response teams mobilized.

• Specialist Liang prepared the Defense Department’s command hall for Fu Mu’s division while anticipating interference from the major companies and a greater enemy.
• Chen Chuan returned to his mansion, confirmed its defenses with Qin Qingque and the other team members, and received Counselor Pei’s guidance for maintaining communications.
• Watchtower took control of domain field communications, and Chen Chuan armed himself and waited as Fu Mu’s power weakened.
• Chen Chuan sensed the division begin at midnight as the city lights dimmed, the sky brightened, and a red crack appeared on the horizon.
• Watchtower reported seven split sub-entities across Central City and dispatched response teams, then detected extensive resonance surveillance of their deployments.

As Fu Mu’s third division opened the Heaven Gate and spread rifts across Central City, Chen Chuan began absorbing essence while planning to strengthen himself and his second self through battle. The government’s recovery efforts faltered as armed groups interfered, and a rift in Jiyang District revealed the Old Imperial Household’s Armored Cavalry Army.

• Specialist Liang refused the Government Affairs Hall’s request for more inactive consciousness entities and prepared for Fu Mu’s increasingly difficult waves of division.
• Central City recovered Fu Mu’s first and second waves of split sub-entities, while Specialist Liang warned that the third wave would bring turbulence and expose threats in the cracks.
• Miyaei Nagahide arrived in Yinglu District to pursue a duel, while Astrid and Sigrid prepared to work together for Bolun Company.
• Fu Mu’s third division widened the sky rift and opened the Heaven Gate, allowing Chen Chuan to absorb essence while using his second self to bear its contamination.
• Emergency Force units met armed resistance, and Watchtower reported expanding rifts in Jiyang District’s coastal waters.
• Specialist Liang watched footage of armored cavalry emerging from the rift and recognized them as the Old Imperial Household’s Armored Cavalry Army.

Specialist Liang’s forces faced a Zheng Country cavalry advance and a powerful Heaven’s Wrath Gang fighter guarding a rift, prompting him to send Chen Chuan’s squad to eliminate the threat. As Chen Chuan set out, Miyaei Nagahide arrived and challenged him.

• A towering Zheng Country General crossed the rift, but Xue Shou arrived to confront him and halted his advance.
• Watchtower reported that most split sub-entities were being recovered, but Chang Kuanghai had routed a Response Force and was guarding a rift.
• Specialist Liang identified Chang Kuanghai as a Heaven’s Wrath Gang disciple and ordered Chen Chuan’s nearby squad to eliminate him.
• Chen Chuan sent Qin Qingque to drive the armored vehicle and led his squad out of the mansion.
• Miyaei Nagahide approached Chen Chuan with four fighters and announced that he had come to challenge him.

Chen Chuan fought Miyaei Nagahide of the Wind Forest Pavilion as unstable Rifts and swarms of insects erupted around them. After Miyaei’s techniques failed to injure him, Chen Chuan unleashed his mutated tissue and vanished into a sudden attack, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Specialist Liang sent three emergency response teams to help Chen Chuan’s squad and recover the split-off entity after learning Miyaei Nagahide had blocked their route.
• Miyaei Nagahide trapped Chen Chuan’s squad, but San Cheng Huang arrived and joined Chen Chuan’s side, balancing the numbers between the two groups.
• Chen Chuan and Miyaei began their duel as unstable Rifts appeared and released powerful winds and swarms of insects.
• Miyaei used Wind-Singing Blade Force, the Swallow Blade, and Startling Wind Slash, but Chen Chuan blocked his attacks and slammed him into the ground.
• A Rift released more insects, which covered Chen Chuan before sliding off and revealing him unharmed.
• Chen Chuan unleashed his mutated tissue, vanished, and appeared to launch a sudden attack on Miyaei.

Chen Chuan defeated Miyaei Nagahide after the Wind Forest Pavilion fighter unleashed Ghost Heaven Force, but a rift dragged away Miyaei’s corpse. Chen Chuan realized the battle had strengthened his mind, then faced four Wind Forest Pavilion Fighters who advanced to fight.

• Miyaei Nagahide intensified his assault on Chen Chuan, then unleashed the Wind Forest Pavilion’s Ghost Heaven Force as Chen Chuan answered with his own rising power.
• Chen Chuan took control of the duel, broke through Miyaei’s defenses, and killed him with the Snow Monarch Blade.
• Qin Qingque shot and killed a distant gunman who had fired at Chen Chuan, while Chen Chuan deflected the bullet.
• A tentacle emerging from a rift seized Miyaei’s body and head, and Chen Chuan kept Liu Ruoqie from being taken with them.
• Chen Chuan found that the battle had raised his mind and increased the essence he could draw in, then saw four Wind Forest Pavilion Fighters approach with swords drawn.

Chen Chuan broke through Astrid’s Rift-based ambush and reached the expanding Rift before the response teams arrived. There, he found Chang Kuanghai waiting amid slain security personnel and creatures.

• Chen Chuan left Yuan Qiuyuan and the others to handle four pursuers and hurried toward the troubled Rift.
• Specialist Liang learned that Chen Chuan had killed Miyaei Nagahide and watched footage of the fight.
• Astrid ambushed Chen Chuan with Rift-traversal tactics, but he crushed her empty armor and continued onward.
• Sigrid emerged after Chen Chuan escaped and worried that Astrid might be lost inside a Rift.
• Chen Chuan reached the snow-spewing Rift, where Chang Kuanghai stood among the bodies and greeted him.

Astrid escaped through a Rift while Miyaei Nagahide revived as a ghost body and began tracking Liu Ruoqie. Chen Chuan faced Chang Kuanghai near the largest Rift, where their first clash showed that Chang welcomed a direct contest of strength.

• Astrid sensed an awakening force behind her, found a familiar signal through a Rift, and leaped toward it.
• Miyaei Nagahide's ghost body revived him, restoring his severed head and greatly increasing his power.
• Miyaei Nagahide emerged from a Rift, took up his Ghost Dance cross spear, and followed a flying insect toward Liu Ruoqie.
• Specialist Liang's team warned Chen Chuan about Chang Kuanghai, who explained that he had sought a worthy opponent after his teacher predicted Chen would become strong enough to fight him.
• Chen Chuan and Chang Kuanghai exchanged opening blows, and Chen blocked Chang's axe without giving ground.

Chen Chuan and Chang Kuanghai fought to a stalemate beside the Rift, testing each other’s strength and defenses as creatures poured through. The Rift expanded and flooded the area with essence, leaving both men poised to fight over the new advantage.

• Chen Chuan and Chang Kuanghai traded powerful axe and saber blows, then Chen Chuan used technique and increased strength to seize the initiative at close range.
• Chang Kuanghai blocked Chen Chuan’s rapid slashes with his arms and dispersed their force without yielding ground.
• A swarm of Tough-Beaked Birds burst from the Rift, but the fighters continued battling as their attacks killed the birds around them.
• Chen Chuan pierced Chang Kuanghai’s collarbone and fist, but Chang Kuanghai’s hardened body resisted the deeper strike and healed the wounds.
• The Rift expanded to roughly twice its size, and Chen Chuan and Chang Kuanghai sensed that essence was flowing through it in greater quantities.
• Chen Chuan and Chang Kuanghai recognized the benefit of the incoming essence and turned their attention toward each other.

Chen Chuan abandoned the Snow Monarch Blade and unleashed his full power against Chang Kuanghai after sword strikes and grappling failed to overcome his hardened body. His consecutive punches forced Chang Kuanghai to one knee, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Chen Chuan used the Snow Monarch Blade’s reach and speed to repeatedly wound Chang Kuanghai, who healed quickly but could not counterattack.
• Chang Kuanghai used Heaven’s Wrath Fist’s Elephant Bull Thrust to charge Chen Chuan and drive him backward, then attacked with Shocking Void Hammer.
• Chen Chuan seized Chang Kuanghai’s arm and tried to grapple him, but Chang Kuanghai countered with Heaven and Earth Pluck, shifting between softness and hardness to break free.
• Chen Chuan retrieved the Snow Monarch Blade, then planted it in the ground and released the restraints on his mutated tissue to power the Furnace Breathing Method.
• Chen Chuan struck Chang Kuanghai with two powerful punches, forcing him to drop onto one knee.

Chen Chuan defeated Chang Kuanghai, but Miyaei Nagahide returned through a Wind Forest Pavilion secret art, and Astrid appeared as another threat near the Rift. With Chang Kuanghai healing and Yuan Qiuyuan's team still minutes away, Chen Chuan prepared to face all three opponents alone.

• Chen Chuan overwhelmed Chang Kuanghai with a relentless barrage, but an unseen attack disrupted his final blow.
• Miyaei Nagahide appeared alive, and the Defense Department recognized his return as the result of a Wind Forest Pavilion secret art.
• Chen Chuan learned Yuan Qiuyuan and the others were delayed by Rifts and hostile factions, while Miyaei Nagahide declared his intent to fight again.
• Astrid revealed herself and discussed with Sigrid their mission to retrieve the Rift's split sub-entity.
• Chang Kuanghai rapidly healed and rose, leaving Chen Chuan surrounded by three formidable opponents as his teammates remained minutes away.
• Chen Chuan merged with his second self and heated his body as the Rift expanded behind him.

Chen Chuan repelled Chang Kuanghai, Miyaei Nagahide, and Astrid, then used his speed and strength to defeat them when they attacked together. He left all three down and crushed Miyaei Nagahide’s head as the others lay motionless.

• Miyaei Nagahide opened the fight with a spiritual attack and spear thrust, but Chen Chuan blocked him and cut a deep wound through his body.
• Chang Kuanghai struck Chen Chuan from behind while Astrid attacked his shoulder, but Chen Chuan repelled all three without moving from his spot.
• Astrid injected herself with a drug, and the three launched a coordinated attack from different directions.
• Chen Chuan vanished from their sight, reappeared behind Miyaei Nagahide, and cut him in two before breaking Chang Kuanghai’s axe and driving him into the ground.
• Chen Chuan seized Astrid and slammed her into the ground, then crushed Miyaei Nagahide’s head as the three lay defeated.