Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao explored the ruined Capital City and suspected the Ancestor Emperor had engineered the disaster that erased Great Qi. A mysterious Half-God revealed that Great Qi’s people were recurring remnant souls created by the Void Realm, leaving Jiang Qiao with the truth behind the nation’s six-century history.

• Jiang Qiao searched the Capital City, found eight crystal-bone skeletons beneath the imperial palace, and wondered whether Mo Qingying had lured him away before the disaster.
• Jiang Qiao headed toward the Ancestor Emperor’s mausoleum but encountered a middle-aged man who appeared before him without any visible movement.
• The man denied being the Great Qi Great Ancestor and said he had come to investigate the Ancestor Emperor.
• Jiang Qiao told the man he had entered through Tongling Island and asked what had happened to Great Qi.
• The man explained that everyone in Great Qi had died six hundred years earlier and that the Void Realm stored their information as phantoms, returning them as blank slates to live repeated lives until their information expired.

Jiang Qiao met Lu Jingyi, the Half-God of Peach Mound, who explained that the Great Qi Great Ancestor had used the Void Realm to create special Vicious Ghosts. Lu Jingyi revealed that the ghosts had entered the Supernatural World and suggested that Jiang Qiao and the Green Lotus Sect’s old monsters came from the same place as the Great Ancestor.

• Jiang Qiao learned that the man he had met was Lu Jingyi, the renowned Half-God of Peach Mound and a former Daoist priest.
• Jiang Qiao and Lu Jingyi exchanged praise before Jiang Qiao asked about the Great Qi world and the Void Realm’s disappearance.
• Lu Jingyi explained that the Great Qi Great Ancestor had controlled the Void Realm to create Vicious Ghosts with greater information capacity, and that thirty percent had entered the Supernatural World to seek hosts.
• Lu Jingyi said the Great Ancestor’s Return Journey Research Institute had concealed its true purpose and possessed a safe passage to another world in its ruins.
• Lu Jingyi told Jiang Qiao that he and the Green Lotus Sect’s old monsters shared an aura incompatible with this world, suggesting they came from the same place.

Lu Jingyi told Jiang Qiao how the Ancient Village Alliance resisted evil-spirit worship and explained his investigation into Green Lotus Sect experiments. He revealed that other young-aura arrivals from Jiang Qiao’s world had been captured by the Green Lotus Sect.

• Lu Jingyi described the plight of survivor villages and how many had turned to worshiping evil spirits to survive.
• Lu Jingyi explained that the Ancient Village Alliance united villages and had curbed evil spirits, though their believers remained hidden.
• Lu Jingyi told Jiang Qiao that the Alliance had found evil spirits modified by the Green Lotus Sect.
• Lu Jingyi described a safe space shaped by the Great Cataclysm, where the Green Lotus Sect and Return Journey Research Institute had investigated modified vicious ghosts.
• Lu Jingyi revealed that others from Jiang Qiao’s world with unusually young auras had been captured by the Green Lotus Sect.

Jiang Qiao returned to Gray Mist Port and planned to investigate the Nether Sea by visiting Demon Port and contacting Tianyu Ancient Village. He noticed a strange job posting from the Ning Family, but the chapter ended with Sister Hong confronting Wang Mazi over unpaid money.

• Jiang Qiao reflected on Lu Jingyi’s recruitment offer and suspected that the Green Lotus Sect was hunting multiple transmigrators.
• Jiang Qiao decided to visit Demon Port, seek information from Tianyu Ancient Village, and postpone deciding whether to go to Taoqiu.
• Jiang Qiao noticed an announcement seeking a doctor for the Ning Family’s eldest son, who had developed an urge to kill his wives and lovers.
• Onlookers speculated about the Ning Family’s strange problem and joked about outsiders being overcharged at Sister Hong’s place.
• Sister Hong grabbed Wang Mazi and demanded twenty-five copper coins for clothes he had taken, threatening to beat him if he refused.

At a tea stall in Gray Mist Port, three locals discussed strange incidents, rumors about Sister Hong, and the powerful people living on the mountain. Jiang Qiao noticed an outsider tear down a notice and realized the person was a ghost story.

• Brother Ma told the others about Wang Mazi’s feeling of being followed and Sister Hong’s strange past and laundry business.
• Brother Ma described rumors that the people on the mountain abducted outsiders and used suspicious ingredients in their herbal medicine.
• The honest-looking man recalled seeing an unseen figure on a wall and in a spoon’s reflection, and the three men suspected an invisible evil spirit.
• An outsider tore down the notice, and Jiang Qiao recognized that the figure was a ghost story.

Jiang Qiao discovered that Gray Mist Port’s strange tale had killed and revived the Ning Family, leaving them changed, and suspected an old rule-based program was behind the incident. He left for an abandoned station to catch a Supernatural Bus to the underworld, while a battered plank began drifting toward the port.

• Jiang Qiao watched the strange tale vanish into Gray Mist Port and realized it was connected to the port itself.
• The Ning Family young master and everyone in his residence died after the notice was taken down, then revived with auras resembling the strange tale.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the Ning Family had likely triggered a dormant rule during the upheaval and decided not to interfere.
• Jiang Qiao left Gray Mist Port for an abandoned station where a Supernatural Bus could take him to the underworld.
• A battered wooden plank surfaced in Mirror Lake and began moving toward Gray Mist Port.

Jiang Qiao arrived at Demon Port and learned about the dangers and opportunities of the Nether Sea. After confirming his pass was valid, he planned to quietly gather information and explore the safer coastal waters.

• Wu Jia told Old Fu that port guards had found an Insect Egg aboard a ship whose crew had died, and Old Fu said the guards could handle it.
• Jiang Qiao surveyed the Nether Sea and considered how its dangers and hidden treasures drew adventurers to Demon Port.
• Jiang Qiao observed the port’s powerful guards, Ninth Rank Management Committee, and the Taboo Weapon stationed on a nearby volcano.
• Jiang Qiao tested his map pass, confirmed it was valid and ordinary, and decided to seek information and a ship for coastal exploration rather than sail into the open sea.

Jiang Qiao explored Demon Port, learned about its streets and the dangers facing sailors and adventurers, and settled into an inn for a month. Looking out over the docks, he concluded that the Nether Sea and the Red Moon were connected to home.

• Jiang Qiao observed sailors with unstable Supernatural Fluctuations being taken to Port Hospital and learned that some became vagrants after going mad.
• Jiang Qiao compared Demon Port with the docks around Mirror Lake and recalled his safe journey through the Netherworld on the Supernatural Bus.
• Jiang Qiao saw five Survivors leave the bus to investigate the Willow Immortal Grand Hotel and wondered whether its seaside architecture was connected to Demon Port.
• Jiang Qiao checked into an expensive inn for a month and learned how the Management Committee divided the inner district into four streets, including the dangerous Back Street.
• Jiang Qiao looked over the illuminated docks and murmured that the Nether Sea and the Red Moon were connected to home.

Jiang Qiao explored a church in Demon Port and discovered that it worshiped a terrifying being called the God of Longevity. The chapter ended as the priest and believers began their praise, while powerful experts gathered beneath the church.

• Jiang Qiao bought a costly watch from West Street, the reliable timekeeping device used in Demon Port.
• Jiang Qiao entered the church and examined its strange paintings and disturbing statue.
• Jiang Qiao sensed that the being represented by the statue was neither a Half-God nor an ordinary evil spirit, but perhaps an almost divine monster of the Nether Sea.
• A masked priest of peak Eighth Tier entered the hall, while Jiang Qiao detected several Eighth Tier Experts and a Ninth Rank expert in an underground chamber.
• The priest called on the congregation to praise the God of Longevity, and the believers answered in unison.

Jiang Qiao attended a sermon for the Longevity God and learned that its church operated from Year Ring Island, while avoiding the church’s prayers and communion. He overheard the priest confront Captain Wu Jia about a secret voyage, and the chapter ended with the priest hinting that Wu Jia could not escape his loan contract’s curse.

• Jiang Qiao reasoned that the Longevity God was likely a dangerous godlike entity and avoided joining the congregation’s prayers.
• Jiang Qiao learned from the sermon that the church was headquartered on Year Ring Island and that ships traveled between there and Demon Port.
• Jiang Qiao inspected the communion juice and pastry, found them harmless, and pocketed his serving without eating it.
• Jiang Qiao recognized Wu Jia from the docks, placed an Outer Ear talisman in the church, and left with the other believers.
• The priest summoned Wu Jia, who tried to refuse a voyage by citing his damaged ship and dead crew.
• The priest reminded Wu Jia of his debts, repair costs, and crew expenses, then suggested that he could not resist the loan contract’s curse.

Wu Jia recounted how a cursed object found at sea killed his crew and left him burdened with debts and repair costs. A priest offered to fund a new voyage and give him a ship if he helped find something, leaving Wu Jia to consider the mission.

• Wu Jia explained that he had borrowed heavily to buy a ship, but his first voyages brought in no catch and left him unable to repay the Nether Sea Development Bank.
• Wu Jia described how his crew found a written stone rod inside a giant octopus, threw it back into the sea, and then died one by one from a curse.
• Wu Jia survived the voyage back to Demon Port, where the Purification Team cleansed the ship, but the damage and compensation bills left him unable to sail again.
• The priest offered to cover Wu Jia's repairs and crew costs, postpone his bank repayments, and provide a new ship in exchange for help finding something.
• The priest promised Wu Jia that the new ship would be his if he completed the mission.

Wu Jia inspected the Ironclad Scout Ship the Longevity God Church had given him for a dangerous mission and named it the Fearless. He recruited sailors and prepared them for a voyage leaving in two weeks, despite the risks.

• Wu Jia admired the new Ironclad Ship and weighed its strengths and weaknesses against wooden ships.
• Wu Jia decided the priest’s mission was likely dangerous but accepted it because he needed the promised payment to repay his loan.
• Wu Jia named the Scout Ship the Fearless after considering its four 180-millimeter naval guns and eight 88-millimeter secondary guns.
• Wu Jia reviewed the crew’s roles and explained that the ship needed sufficient backups because sailors could die, go insane, or disappear at sea.
• Wu Jia told the sailors to learn the ship over the next two weeks and warned them that the voyage would be dangerous but pay three times the normal rate.

Wu Jia led the Fearless toward a strange region of dangerous waters on an exploration mission for the Longevity God Church, while monitoring the ship and crew for supernatural signs. Three hours before reaching the beacon, everything aboard remained normal, and Wu Jia recorded the latest checks in the Naval Log.

• Wu Jia confirmed that Wupeng was steering steadily and discussed their route to the target waters with him.
• Wupeng questioned the exploration mission, noting that the records described no island in the area and warning Wu Jia about the dangers there.
• After ten uneventful days at sea, the Fearless approached the beacon's position, and Wu Jia ordered the crew to prepare for dangerous waters.
• Wu Jia activated the ship's searchlights and detection systems, inspected the ship, and called roll every six hours as the crew grew tense.
• Wu Jia recorded the crew's condition, ship supplies, and animals' behavior in the Naval Log, finding no unexplained changes or signs of evil entities.

Wu Jia led the Dreadnought to a previously uncharted island and found an abandoned port filled with enormous warships belonging to the Longevity God Church. He invented an explanation for the island and the crew’s mission, while Jiang Qiao recognized that Wu Jia was making everything up.

• Wu Jia and the Dreadnought reached an island that had not appeared in the information about the strange sea region.
• Wu Jia found an abandoned port with dozens of rust-covered ironclad ships and brick houses bearing the Longevity God Church’s insignia.
• Wu Jia identified two abandoned Super Battleships and explained their immense firepower and supernatural weapons to Wupeng and the sailors.
• Wu Jia told the crew that the church had abandoned the port decades earlier and sent them to recover a coffin left behind during a hurried retreat.
• Jiang Qiao listened to Wu Jia’s story and thought that the captain had spent all that time talking nonsense.

Jiang Qiao examined Tianyu Ancient Village’s powerful warships while Wu Jia led a cautious search of the abandoned fleet. The ships appeared to have been evacuated without a struggle, and the crew found only two Naval Logs among more than twenty vessels.

• Jiang Qiao inspected the warships and noted their cannons, cursed decks, sturdy hulls, and lack of Supernatural Spaces.
• Wu Jia finished addressing the crew and reflected on how modern outsiders had become harder to manipulate.
• Wu Jia ordered the crew to search the abandoned warships before approaching the island.
• Two boatswains led sailors through the cabins and reported finding no supplies, bodies, bloodstains, or signs of fighting.
• The crew found two Naval Logs aboard small warships, while the larger vessels held nothing.

Wu Jia examined two Naval Logs from Holy Spirit Island and found that both changed strangely on December 25, with one describing supernatural incidents and the other repeating the same entry before its writer could no longer find anyone or himself. Unsure whether the records were reliable, he kept their clues about the island’s dangers and underground passage, then ordered the crew to circle the coast and watch for activity.

• Wu Jia noticed that one log ended with an impossible December 32 and concluded that supernatural influence had affected it.
• Wu Jia compared the logs and found that both shifted from normal voyage records to diary-like entries on December 25.
• Wu Jia and Wupeng observed that the logs described disappearances and isolation, but questioned why the first log failed to mention the second writer’s fate.
• Wu Jia identified possible clues about evil things, the woods, and a tunnel that might lead to the Saint’s remains, while warning that the logs could be false.
• Wu Jia ordered the crew to circle Holy Spirit Island’s coastline and watch for activity.

Wu Jia sent sailors to investigate the buildings on Holy Spirit Island while keeping the Fearless ready to flee. Jiang Qiao saw that supernatural forces had transformed the dead Awakened inside the sealed buildings, leaving the source of the island’s danger unresolved.

• Wu Jia warned the crew that Holy Spirit Island might conceal danger and ordered them to stay vigilant.
• Jiang Qiao wondered whether other Nether Sea ports, including Cold Crow Ferry, were secretly operating.
• Wu Jia anchored the Fearless about one kilometer from the pier and sent Nuokan, Yasi, and other sailors ashore to inspect the buildings.
• The sailors crossed the tall grass and reached three school-like buildings without incident.
• Jiang Qiao saw dead Awakened inside the concrete-sealed windows, moving as though beckoning to the living.
• Jiang Qiao identified the figures as corpses mutated by supernatural forces and focused on what had killed them and infected their bodies.

Wu Jia tried to reassure the Fearless’s crew after several groups disappeared while exploring the island’s buildings, claiming they had entered Supernatural Spaces. Jiang Qiao recognized that Wu Jia was bluffing and reflected on how the Port Management Committee enforced cursed contracts while leaving room for corruption and loopholes.

• After crews vanished from the middle building and unfamiliar figures lured Buye’s men into the right building, Da Liu returned to the Fearless and warned Wu Jia that something was wrong.
• Wu Jia told the crew that the missing men had likely entered Supernatural Spaces and promised to go ashore to retrieve them, while reminding everyone that their contracts bound them to their duties.
• Jiang Qiao dismissed Wu Jia’s explanation as a lie and described how the Port Management Committee’s cursed contracts linked violators to an unknown power and could lead to punishment through a blacklist.
• Jiang Qiao noted that the committee could manipulate enforcement and interpret rules selectively, while Wu Jia had previously evaded crew compensation but feared the bank’s stricter contracts.

Wu Jia led his crew onto Holy Spirit Island and organized a cautious search after learning that a powerful bishop and other explorers had disappeared. He sent a roped team into the supposedly safe left building, where bizarre murals greeted them, and the chapter left their exploration ongoing.

• Wu Jia brought nearly a hundred crew members ashore, assembled them, and divided them into teams to search the island and secure their retreat route.
• Wu Jia and Wupeng discussed the dangers of the island and whether Wu Jia could offer the Longevity God Church information or compensation instead of finding the coffin.
• Wu Jia's group reached three sealed-window buildings and noted that explorers had returned from the left one, while those who entered the middle and right buildings had vanished.
• Wu Jia sent several crew members into the left building with ropes, bells, and torches, and they found its corridors covered in murals of deformed creatures.

Wu Jia’s crew discovered a hidden underground chamber on Holy Spirit Island and retrieved the golden coffin bearing the Longevity God’s image. Wu Jia ordered the crew to take it to the ship and leave the island, while postponing the search for missing sailors.

• A sailor discovered a concealed staircase beside the second-floor kitchen trash bin, and Zhui Feng reported that the chamber below held Longevity God Church corpses and a golden-yellow coffin.
• Wu Jia sent sailors into the chamber, and they carried the heavy coffin upstairs without incident.
• Wu Jia recognized the coffin’s carving as the Longevity God and ordered the crew to take it to the ship and prepare to leave Holy Spirit Island.
• When Yasi asked about the missing sailors, Wu Jia told him to get the coffin onto the ship first and planned to address the rest later.
• Wu Jia reflected that the mission might have succeeded because the danger had already left, but focused on reaching the safe sea route with the coffin.