Chapter Summaries

Cheng Han demonstrated an advanced image-transmission technique to impress the Profound Palace and reveal his preparations to command the Warhawk Legion. The display reached Azure Ripple Marsh just as the Warhawks arrived and a Flying Sword Shark Swarm rose to meet them, leaving the experiment poised to begin.

• Cheng Han asked Palace Master Yun for permission to demonstrate an experiment, then filled Xuan Ce Hall with images and sounds from a remote test site.
• Cheng Han showed Azure Ripple Marsh and explained that the experiment simulated conditions on the Otherworld Battlefield during the rainy season.
• Lan Jiayao revealed that Cheng Han wanted command of the Warhawk Legion and declared him the most suitable candidate, while Kou Zhizhong struggled to object.
• Cheng Han showed more than five thousand Warhawks approaching the marsh in formation.
• Tens of thousands of Flying Sword Sharks leaped from the water, revealing that the experiment would simulate a battle against their swarm.

Cheng Han demonstrated how War Hawks and a new Profound Weapon could destroy a swarm of three hundred thousand Flying Sword Sharks without Mystic Adepts, winning support for his command. He named the weapon the Qing Han Profound Weapon, leaving Kou Zhizhong defeated and Cheng Han’s position effectively unchallenged.

• A simulated battle showed Flying Sword Sharks evading decoy Profound Weapons before War Hawks attacked with a faster second wave.
• The second wave’s unusual Stone Spirit effect petrified the sharks across a wide area, ending the trial without deploying Mystic Adepts.
• Cheng Han explained how he combined insights from several Profound Arts to create a weapon that used vitality and souls to petrify Flying Sword Sharks.
• Palace Master Yun praised Cheng Han’s invention, and he named it the Qing Han Profound Weapon.
• Kou Zhizhong recognized that Cheng Han’s achievements and the weapon’s name had secured broad support for Cheng Han as commander.

Cheng Han secured command of the Warhawk Legion, became the first Hall Master of the newly established Red Armor Hall, and led the legion through the God Gate toward the Otherworld Battlefield. The chapter ended as the expedition set out, with the otherworld war about to begin.

• Lan Jiayao supported Cheng Han as commander, and Palace Master Yun awarded him the Heaven Profound War Token to lead the Warhawk Legion for an initial term of one year.
• Cheng Han proposed elevating the Red Armor Army into the Red Armor Hall, and Palace Master Yun approved the change after Kou Zhizhong offered no objection.
• Cheng Han requested and received appointment as the Red Armor Hall's first Hall Master, adding the role to his other major positions.
• Over the next half month, Cheng Han prepared sixty thousand warhawks, two hundred and fifty aircraft carriers, and eighty-six thousand five hundred personnel for the expedition.
• Palace Master Yun opened the God Gate with the Divine City's authorization, and Cheng Han ordered the Warhawk Legion to set out for the Otherworld Battlefield.

Cheng Han and the expeditionary fleet crossed into the Abyssal Mist Realm through the Banyan Realm Gate, while Cheng Han gained insight into space-time and the Divine Banyan. As the fleet approached its destination, it received warning that a Flying Sword Shark Swarm was attacking, and Cheng Han ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

• Cheng Han observed Warhawk Formations enter the Green Light Screen and gained a space-time-type Profound Method Trait.
• Fang Han prepared to join the expedition as a mechanical Maintenance Technician, swallowed a Spirit Cleansing Vine seed, and watched the fleet pass through visions of the Banyan Realm Gate and the Raging Sea.
• Cheng Han recognized the Banyan Realm Gate and Heaven Banyan Light Shuttle, gained knowledge that improved his Spirit Vast Myriad Forest Profound Imprint, and learned of an emergency after the fleet entered the battlefield.
• Cheng Han ordered the expedition to be ready for battle, and Fang Han heard that a Flying Sword Shark Swarm was attacking their arrival area.

Fang Han prepared for combat as the Warhawk Legion’s aircraft carriers entered Abyssal Mist Realm. Cheng Han rejected advice to wait, ordered the fleet to descend as bait outside the Heaven Leaf Lotus area, and the Han Number Eighteen Aircraft Carrier crashed into the sea.

• Fang Han evacuated the deck, put on Half-Soft Armor, and prepared for combat with the crew.
• Liu Lang and Wen Zhongyue warned Cheng Han that Flying Sword Sharks were attacking the Eastern Li War Zone and advised him to delay the fleet’s descent.
• Cheng Han used Deduction and War Simulation to assess the battle, then decided to send the aircraft carrier fleet into the fight.
• Cheng Han ordered the fleet to descend outside the Heaven Leaf Lotus area as bait and told the Eastern Li War Zone to avoid mistakenly attacking them.
• Fang Han watched the Han Number Eighteen Aircraft Carrier descend away from the harbor and crash into the sea.

Cheng Han kept the Warhawk Legion outside the harbor to face a vast Flying Sword Shark attack, while the fleet used underwater Detonation Mystic Weapons against the creatures beneath the sea. When the weapons ran low and something began striking the aircraft carrier, Fang Han and the others prepared to fight.

• Xu Peng warned Cheng Han that at least five hundred thousand Flying Sword Sharks were gathering in the clouds and that the fleet was likely their target.
• Cheng Han rejected the safer harbor plan, declared that the Warhawk Legion would not retreat, and ordered every ship to prepare for battle.
• Fang Han heard that enemies had appeared beneath the sea and learned that the fleet was attacking them with Detonation Mystic Weapons.
• The underwater blasts killed many strange sea creatures, but the fleet's limited supply of weapons was soon depleted.
• A huge creature struck the aircraft carrier's hull, and the Warrior rallied the crew to fight to the death as Fang Han overcame his fear and joined them.

Fang Han and the Warrior faced a Sea Monster assault aboard an Aircraft Carrier as the fleet came under attack. Commander Cheng’s War Hawks then appeared above the Flying Sword Shark Swarm, leaving Liu Lang and Wen Zhongyue to realize that the fleet had been used as bait.

• Sea Spiders and Ink Black Sea Pythons attacked the Aircraft Carrier, and its Nimble Profound Array repelled them for seven rounds before the creatures broke aboard.
• Fang Han and the Warrior realized the squad above them had been wiped out and prepared to fight as the ship began to tilt.
• Liu Lang and Wen Zhongyue watched Sea Monsters overwhelm the Aircraft Carrier fleet and saw a swarm of at least eight hundred thousand Flying Sword Sharks descend.
• The Flying Sword Shark Swarm split, with most of it targeting the fleet and the rest moving toward Heaven Leaf Lotus to prevent a rescue.
• Tens of thousands of War Hawks appeared above the Flying Sword Sharks, and Liu Lang concluded that Commander Cheng had used the fleet as bait for an attack.

The Warhawk Legion drove the Flying Sword Sharks into the sea, where underwater weapons annihilated hundreds of thousands of them. As the battle turned into a glorious victory, Fang Han and the surviving crew prepared to join the counterattack using Sea Hawks.

• The War Hawks fired Wind Crossbow Profound Weapons that disrupted the Flying Sword Sharks' flight and forced them to dive into the sea.
• The Warhawk fleet launched Stone Spirit Bloodline weapons, while Fang Han watched a tentacled Sea Monster drag away the squad's Warrior leader.
• The Sea Monsters retreated as the Warhawk Legion arrived, and the broadcast ordered ships to deploy Sea Hawk units and destroy the remaining enemies.
• Fang Han volunteered to co-pilot a Sea Hawk with the Middle-aged Repairman after they learned much of their ship's crew had died.
• Hundreds of thousands of Qing Han Profound Weapons detonated underwater, killing at least four hundred thousand Flying Sword Sharks and leaving Liu Lang and Wen Zhongyue to witness the victory.

The Eastern Li War Zone’s commanders praised the Warhawk Legion’s victory and agreed to support Commander Cheng’s plans. Meanwhile, Fang Han and Bai Qiang recovered two Sea Hawks from the flooded aircraft carrier and joined a squadron hunting Sea Pythons.

• Sword Wanli called for more Warhawks, and the Mystic Supervisor said the war zone also needed talents like Commander Cheng.
• Sword Wanli ordered his forces to cooperate with the Warhawk Legion and give the battle a strong conclusion.
• Fang Han and Bai Qiang swam through the flooded carrier to the launch bay, where they found only two surviving Sea Hawks.
• Fang Han activated the communications system and heard orders to prioritize hunting Sea Pythons and retrieve their corpses.
• Fang Han and Bai Qiang launched their Sea Hawk and joined a formation pursuing more than a thousand Sea Pythons.

Cheng Han identified the Sea Pythons as likely creations of Madam Snake and ordered repairs and salvage while Fang Han’s Sea Hawk Squadron attacked them. Cheng Han then revealed that he had also sent the Sea Hawks to lure out the enemy commander, leaving him troubled by the cost of war.

• Cheng Han recognized clues linking the petrified Sea Python corpse to Madam Snake and ordered Lan Jiayao to repair the damaged aircraft carriers.
• Cheng Han ordered the fleet to salvage Sea Monster corpses for processing into fertilizer.
• Fang Han’s Sea Hawk Squadron fired high-speed Mystic Weapons at Sea Pythons and scored a reported direct hit.
• A huge shadow lurked near the Outer Sea after hearing the explosions and smelling blood.
• Cheng Han told Lan Jiayao that he had used the Sea Hawks as bait to draw out the enemy commander, and she said the Myriad Heavens Race had to win the war.

Cheng Han used Sea Hawks as bait to draw out the hidden Giant Sea Spider, while Fang Han’s squadron approached the monster’s location to salvage Sea Python corpses. Fang Han sensed danger and ordered an escape, but a powerful current seized the Sea Hawk and knocked him unconscious.

• Cheng Han explained that the Sea Monsters’ defeat and curiosity about the new Sea Hawks might lure the Giant Sea Spider into the Central Courtyard’s reach.
• Cheng Han watched a squadron of Sea Hawks approach the spider’s location, while Lan Jiayao said the Central Courtyard was monitoring their positions.
• Bai Qiang piloted Fang Han’s Sea Hawk toward two drifting Sea Python corpses and told Fang Han to fire the Fishing Net.
• Fang Han sensed danger and ordered Bai Qiang to surface, so Bai Qiang pulled the Sea Hawk sharply upward.
• A powerful turbulence swept the Sea Hawk into the darkness, spinning it violently and causing Fang Han to lose consciousness.

Fang Han disrupted a giant Sea Spider’s attempt to recover its protective barrier by firing two Mystic Weapons into its mouth, allowing the war zone’s Mystic Array to kill it. Cheng Han ordered Fang Han’s rescue and secretly placed a Profound Imprint on a Sea Spider that escaped.

• The Central Courtyard detected a Sea Monster’s attack and struck it with the Thousand Feather Soul Edict Profound Array, but the creature survived and descended deeper into the sea.
• Fang Han regained consciousness inside the Sea Hawk, saw the giant Sea Monster, and fired his two remaining Mystic Weapons into its mouth before passing out again.
• The Mystic Array detected that the Sea Monster’s protective barrier was recovering too slowly and launched a second attack.
• Cheng Han realized Fang Han’s Mystic Weapons had injured the Sea Monster and disrupted its recovery, allowing the second strike to kill it.
• Cheng Han confirmed Fang Han was alive but badly injured, then ordered his subordinates to rescue him.
• Cheng Han secretly planted a Profound Imprint in the soul of a Sea Spider that had escaped, creating the first Netherworld creature of the Otherworld.

After Cheng Han’s plan helped the Eastern Li War Zone kill a powerful Sea Monster, he held a memorial ceremony for the fallen Warriors, using Azure Sky Flowers to send their aspirations across the sea. Sword Wanli watched the spectacle and recognized Cheng Han as a once-in-a-millennium genius.

• The Central Court confirmed the Sea Monster’s death, linked it to an earlier ambush that had killed many Mystic Adepts, and ordered its corpse recovered.
• Sword Wanli learned that Cheng Han was holding a funeral for the fallen Warriors and had elevated the Red Armor Army into the Red Armor Hall to raise Warriors’ status.
• Cheng Han led a memorial ceremony for more than eighteen hundred fallen Warriors as the War Hawk Fleet flew overhead.
• Azure Sky Flowers covered the coffins and released stamens that streamed across the sea, prompting the recovering Fang Han to vow to become an Azure Sky Flower and scatter across the world.
• Sword Wanli watched the spectacle and praised Cheng Han’s Mystic ability, acknowledging him as Qing Han Profound Palace’s genius seen once in a millennium.

Cheng Han received substantial rewards from General Commander Sword Wanli for the Warhawk Legion’s victories, including Source Profound Crystals and Banyan Spirit Soul Secret Medicine. Sword Wanli then asked Cheng Han to build a Warhawk Legion for the Eastern Li War Zone, and Cheng Han agreed.

• Sword Wanli praised Cheng Han for the Warhawks’ victory over hundreds of thousands of Flying Sword Sharks and for arranging the defeat of a Mystic Master-level giant Sea Spider.
• Sword Wanli awarded Cheng Han eight hundred and fifty Source Profound Crystals, while Lan Jiayao received two hundred.
• Sword Wanli gave Cheng Han a dose of Banyan Spirit Soul Secret Medicine to help him advance toward an Intermediate Profound Warrior.
• Cheng Han told Sword Wanli that he expected to undergo a Break Domain Breakthrough within one to four years.
• Sword Wanli asked Cheng Han to build a Warhawk Legion for the Eastern Li War Zone, and Cheng Han agreed.

Cheng Han secured better living conditions and generous allowances for the Warhawk Legion and its researchers while taking charge of building the Warhawk Factory. Meanwhile, his enhanced Netherworld Spider explored the deep sea, where it encountered a Flower Nacre.

• Cheng Han asked Sword Wanli to improve the warriors’ housing, meals, and recreation, arguing that their sacrifices made their welfare his duty.
• Sword Wanli appointed Cheng Han Senior War Service Envoy and raised his annual allowance to 150 Source Profound Crystals after Cheng Han proposed developing improved Sea Hawks and underwater Mystic Weapons.
• Cheng Han also requested rewards for the Artificers and apprentices involved in research, and Sword Wanli agreed.
• Cheng Han’s Second-Grade Spirit Control Profound Imprint rapidly enhanced the Netherworld Spider, increasing its swimming speed to 300 kilometers per hour.
• The Netherworld Spider slaughtered the spiders and devoured the eggs in a Spider Nest, then traveled deep into the ocean and encountered a Flower Nacre.
• Through the Netherworld Spider’s vision, Cheng Han identified the creature as a member of the all-female Flower Nacre Clan, whose members could all bear offspring.

Cheng Han considered how to contact the Flower Nacre Clan after observing one of them attack the Netherworld Spider, while the rainstorm disrupted the Warhawk Legion. He also learned that the Cloud Eagle Legion was training in the storm and continued weighing how to expose a suspected Mole in the Central Courtyard.

• Lan Jiayao reported that the superstorm had impaired the Warhawk Engines and caused the Warhawk Legion to miss several attack opportunities, while Cheng Han said a design to address the rain would take at least half a month to prototype.
• Cheng Han decided to make contact with the Flower Nacre Clan, whose member attacked the Netherworld Spider with Water Blades before the spider easily dispelled the whirlpool and escaped.
• Cheng Han concluded that the Flower Nacre Clan was cautious and might be approached, but decided the Netherworld Spider needed a beauty treatment first and considered how to introduce clothes to the clan.
• Lan Jiayao told Cheng Han that the Central Courtyard had not found evidence of a Mole suspected of causing the Flying Sword Shark attack, and Cheng Han resolved to help expose the culprit.
• Cheng Han heard a Warhawk Engine through the rain and learned from Lan Jiayao that the Warhawk Legion was training the Cloud Eagle Legion.

Cheng Han inspected conditions aboard Pingbo No. 12, where Sea Hawks rescued the vessel from Wolf Fang Fish, and designed an improved mystic weapon to deal with small creatures. General Commander Sword Wanli learned that the design would normally take a team at least a year, leaving him astonished by Cheng Han’s speed.

• Cheng Han heard workers complain that the Warhawk Legion’s benefits had reduced their Long Sunflower Rice quota, while Lan Jiayao defended the legion.
• A school of Wolf Fang Fish attacked Pingbo No. 12, and Cheng Han helped calm the workers by having the crew announce that Sea Hawks were on their way.
• The Eighth Sea Hawk Escort Squad arrived, drove off the fish with nets, and earned the workers’ appreciation for the Warhawk Legion’s protection.
• Cheng Han considered recruiting the Flower Nacre Clan and then designed an improved Qing Han Profound Weapon that could kill small creatures within a five-hundred-meter radius.
• Sword Wanli learned from a subordinate that such a weapon would normally take a team at least a year to improve, and realized Cheng Han had designed it in about a minute.

Cheng Han traveled incognito toward Tai Rui Lotus Island and witnessed how dangerous the port was for ordinary people. After a maid saved a crewman from a giant fish, War Officer Zhang Shiqing took Cheng Han and Lan Jiayao to a War Fortress, where Cheng Han insisted that simply stationing Warriors at ports would not solve the danger.

• Cheng Han and Lan Jiayao arrived near Zelin Port and ignored the crewman's request to wear protective gear after Lan Jiayao used her ability to make everyone overlook it.
• As the Driftwood Boat docked, a giant fish leaped from the water toward a crewman, and one of the Female Mystic Master's maids killed it with an iron ball.
• War Officer Zhang Shiqing arrived aboard a Mystic Boat to receive Cheng Han and Lan Jiayao and take them to a War Fortress.
• Cheng Han said the Central Courtyard needed to ensure the safety of port crewmen, but rejected Zhang Shiqing's proposal to station Warriors at the ports as insufficient.

Cheng Han arranged for Spirit Oak Demons to protect the ports from fish attacks and began raising Green Rice Shrimp, while Zhang Shiqing witnessed the results and heard others criticize the commander. Cheng Han explained to Lan Jiayao that he had spread news of his activities to draw out a suspected mole connected to Madam Snake.

• Cheng Han greeted the Spirit Oak Demons at their factory and persuaded them to guard the ports, promising to teach them the Water Control Tree Imprint.
• Zhang Shiqing reported Cheng Han’s proposal to the Central Court, and the Warhawk Legion airlifted five hundred Spirit Oak Demons to twelve ports.
• Zhang Shiqing saw the Tree Spirits protect a Driftwood Boat and tear apart fish attacking the dock.
• News spread that Cheng Han planned to raise Green Rice Shrimp on Tai Rui Lotus Island, and a Supervisor General reprimanded Mystic Adepts for criticizing his approved projects.
• Cheng Han praised Crucian Carp for learning a Variant Tree Imprint and told Lan Jiayao that he had stirred up activity to lure out a mole he suspected was connected to Madam Snake.

Guo Wen and Liang Xiangjie patrolled Northern Shrimp Lake aboard a Falcon Speedboat and raced to rescue a Warhawk pilot after the aircraft crashed into the Inner Sea. They reached the wreck before it sank, but the cause of the crash remained unknown.

• Guo Wen and Liang Xiangjie discussed the Falcon Speedboat’s speed, its growing production, and the Warhawk Legion’s fuel shortage as they patrolled Northern Shrimp Lake.
• A damaged Warhawk plunged out of a cloud and crashed into the Inner Sea, prompting Guo Wen and Liang Xiangjie to rush to its aid.
• Liang Xiangjie pushed the engine to maximum power while Guo Wen steered the speedboat toward the lake’s edge.
• Liang Xiangjie activated the boat’s wind-controlling falcon artifact, letting it leap over the embankment and race down a river channel at over two hundred kilometers per hour.
• Guo Wen and Liang Xiangjie reached the crash site while the Warhawk’s tail fin still floated above the water.