Chapter Summaries

Zhongsun Wen attended a banquet in the skull of a Sea King-level sea monster and learned that Vice General Cheng had donated rare ingredients to honor the soldiers. As Cheng dealt with a new sea-monster threat using the Crimson Eagle Legion, Zhongsun Wen came to admire his strategy of raising soldiers’ status.

• Zhongsun Wen and other Outer War Zone Mystic Masters entered the Sea King Hall and discovered it was built inside a gigantic Sea King skull.
• At the banquet, a Round-Faced Mystic Master complained that the soldiers sat in the center and that the food portions were small.
• Sima Nanshan announced that Vice General Cheng had donated Sea King ingredients for the feast, silencing the Round-Faced Mystic Master’s complaints.
• Sima Nanshan said Cheng could not attend because a group of sea monsters had appeared north of the war zone, and Cheng planned to send the newly arrived Crimson Eagle Legion to fight them.
• Soldiers volunteered eagerly for battle, and Zhongsun Wen admired Cheng’s efforts to recognize their service and improve their standing.
• Zhongsun Wen and the other Mystic Masters stayed to eat before going to watch the Flame Eagle fight.

Cheng Han and Lan Jiayao identified a Black Scale Race tribe approaching the Eastern Li War Zone and prepared to disrupt its likely fog-based assault. Cheng Han appointed Lan Jiayao Commander of the Warhawk Legion and began putting an unconfirmed counterplan into motion.

• Lan Jiayao explained that Scout Hawks had found underwater traces indicating the Black Scale Race was moving unusually close to the war zone, and Cheng Han confirmed the identification through Deduction.
• Cheng Han promoted Lan Jiayao to Commander of the Warhawk Legion and promised it priority access to the next batch of Flame Eagles.
• Lan Jiayao described the Black Scale Race's fog and Mist Wraith tactics, and she and Cheng Han agreed that more tribes might gather for an attack on the war zone.
• Cheng Han ordered two Aircraft Carrier Formations to test the Black Scale Race and directed the Warhawk and Cloud Eagle Legions to patrol and attack any trace of the enemy without waiting for approval.
• Lan Jiayao deduced that Cheng Han intended to buy time for a larger plan, and he summoned the Cloud Sea Research Institute while admitting he was not completely confident in the plan.

Zhongsun Wen and the other mystic masters watched the Crimson Eagle Legion face the Black Scale Race as Profound Warrior Liu dismissed the Flame Eagles’ agility. The Flame Eagles dodged a massive volley of Water Arrows with a sudden vertical climb, leaving Liu embarrassed and the observers impressed.

• Zhongsun Wen watched the Crimson Eagle Legion’s Flame Eagles form a precise Wild Goose Formation while Profound Warrior Liu argued that their agility would not help against the Black Scale Race.
• In the Celestial God Star Sea, a formation of Bird Hunter Eagles agilely wove through Floating Plants, impressing mystic masters who expected them to survive attacks from the Winged People.
• Profound Warrior Liu claimed that agility was less important than detecting enemies and predicted the Flame Eagles would struggle against the Black Scale Race.
• As the Flame Eagles approached the Black Scale Race, the first squad dived at high speed and reached Mach 2.6 before the sea erupted with thousands of Water Arrows.
• The Flame Eagles sharply tilted their wings, slowed, and climbed vertically, dodging the entire volley and earning praise from Zhongsun Wen while Profound Warrior Liu fell silent in embarrassment.

Cheng Han’s upgraded Flame Eagles and new Mystic weapons struck the Black Scale Race with a coordinated attack that astonished the observers. The Lotus Profound Weapons’ underwater cutting streams proved the Eastern Li War Zone had prepared powerful new tools for the campaign.

• Cheng Han explained that the latest Flame Eagles used Variable Wings and the Aerial Body Technique’s Carefree Roam to perform the Spirit Serpent Maneuver, while upgraded Control Helmets let pilots guide multiple Mystic weapons along separate paths.
• The Flame Eagles launched more than seven hundred Mystic weapons toward the Black Scale Race, and observers at Eastern Mausoleum War Fortress were impressed by their range and ability to turn.
• The Black Scale Race sent a weaker volley of Water Arrows, but the Mystic weapons split into three apiece and shifted course to evade interception.
• The split weapons struck the sea and produced long, high-speed water streams that cut underwater targets, creating an apparent fireworks display.
• Cheng Han identified the new weapon as the Lotus Profound Weapon and said he had prepared to earn merit and advance to Mystic Master; Lan Jiayao admired his innovations.

Cheng Han used the first Lotus Profound Weapon attack to assess the Black Scale Sea Demons and ordered surveillance and further attacks, while preparing a new way to counter their mist. Profound Warrior Liu dismissed the Flame Eagle’s effectiveness and sent a critical report to the Heaven Lake War Zone.

• Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to see that the Lotus Profound Weapons had injured and killed Black Scale Sea Demons, including juveniles, and ordered attacks whenever the enemy was spotted unless it hid itself in mist.
• Cheng Han deployed Osprey units to monitor ocean currents that the Black Scale Race might use to infiltrate the war zone.
• Cheng Han presented the Cloud Sea Research Institute’s Master Artisans with a plan to counter dense fog using the Lofty Stone Profound Imprint, and they began developing it.
• Profound Warrior Liu found that Commander Zhongsun and the other commanders had gone to inspect the new Sea Hawks without him, then watched Flame Eagles and War Hawks fly southwest on an attack mission.
• Profound Warrior Liu concluded that the Flame Eagle could not fundamentally improve the war zone’s situation and sent his critical report to the Heaven Lake War Zone.

Zhongsun Wen and other Outer War Zone Mystic Masters tested the Eastern Li War Zone’s Ospreys while patrolling the Sixth Current Zone, discussing Cheng Han’s weapons and the war zone’s internal power struggle. Their patrol was abruptly attacked when two Sea Hawks at the front of the formation were destroyed.

• Zhongsun Wen and the other Mystic Masters praised the Osprey’s capacity, firepower, and maneuverability as they piloted it toward the Sixth Current Zone.
• The formation received orders to begin patrol operations and prepare to attack any Sea Monsters they encountered.
• Zhongsun Wen and the others discussed the Central Court dispute over whether to patrol Current Zones or guard against Black Scale Sea Demons, speculating that rivals wanted to limit Cheng Han’s influence.
• The Mystic Masters sensed a hidden fluctuation, and an attack shattered the two Sea Hawks at the front of the formation.
• The Communication Mystic Array sounded an urgent enemy attack warning.

Zhongsun Wen and the patrol force discovered a Mystic Master-level Black Scale Sea Demon and launched their weapons against it, while Cheng Han revealed the power he had gained by advancing his Divine Object fusion to the third stage. After confirming the demon had taken the bait, Cheng Han hurled a Withered Long Spear from high above toward the sea.

• Zhongsun Wen used an investigative technique to identify a giant Black Scale Sea Demon attacking Warriors in the Sixth Current Zone, and the patrol force fired more than a hundred Guided Profound Weapons at it.
• Cheng Han told Lan Jiayao and Sima Nanshan that his strength had improved after he fused another Myriad Mysteries Spirit Banyan Pistil and advanced the sprout's fusion to the Withering stage.
• Cheng Han demonstrated how he could turn illusion into reality and briefly drain vitality from Lan Jiayao and Sima Nanshan through a withered flower.
• Cheng Han ordered his subordinates to keep monitoring the current zones and disregard pressure from the Central Court, then saw that the Black Scale Sea Demon had appeared as he intended.
• Cheng Han summoned a Withered Long Spear and sent it flashing high into the sky before it plunged toward the sea.

Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience and his Star Lock Method to launch a Mystic Supervisor-level attack at a Black Scale Sea Demon threatening the Sea Hawks and Ospreys. The Withered Vine Spear struck the demon after it teleported, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Cheng Han extracted the Sea Hawks’ and Ospreys’ correlation and used the Star Lock Method to send the Withered Vine Spear after the Black Scale Sea Demon.
• Lan Jiayao asked Cheng Han what he had caught, and he identified it as a likely Mystic Master-level Black Scale Sea Demon.
• Sword Wanli recognized the strike as a Mystic Supervisor-level attack, while Feng Guangjun regretted trying to take Sea Hawks and Ospreys from Cheng Han.
• Zhongsun Wen and the Sea Hawks and Ospreys attacked the Giant Water Puppet, but their Lotus Profound Weapons barely damaged it.
• The Black Scale Sea Demon teleported away from the incoming attack, but the Withered Vine Spear appeared beside it and struck the center of its forehead.

Cheng Han used the Withered Gun to kill Cai Kun and discovered from its memories that the Will of the Sea made native creatures instinctively reject outsiders. The Sixth Current Zone’s patrol survived, and the stunned Mystic Masters brought Cai Kun’s corpse back to the dock.

• The Withered Gun forced Cai Kun to relive its life, draining its life force through visions of its ambition and slaughter until it died wishing to go home.
• Cheng Han recognized that Cai Kun’s memories revealed why the Flower Nacre Clan had attacked Netherworld and the Divine Fire Dragon, then ordered Squadron Sixteen to rescue the wounded and retrieve the Sea Monster’s corpse.
• Lan Jiayao and Sima Nanshan praised Cheng Han’s judgment after he killed the Mystic Master-level Sea Monster, and Cheng Han reminded them not to speak ill of the other Vice Generals.
• Squadron Sixteen received word that Cheng Han had struck down the enemy, and Zhongsun Wen saw Cai Kun’s enormous corpse being hauled toward the surface.
• The Mystic Masters from the Outer War Zone marveled at Cheng Han’s power as Zhongsun Wen looked toward Lotus Island in awe.

After the Sea Hawk Legion returned from an encounter with the Mystic Master-level Black Scale Sea Demon Cai Kun, the Eastern Li War Zone celebrated Vice General Cheng’s victory while mourning the Warriors lost in battle. Reports from the observers praised the Legion and its Medal System, though Profound Warrior Liu argued that Mystic Adepts remained decisive, leaving the war zone’s debate over military strategy unresolved.

• Squadron Sixteen returned to the Eighth Deep Dive Pier with damaged craft and wounded Warriors, and Zhongsun Wen learned that the Sea Hawk Legion had suffered more than six thousand deaths since its founding.
• The Warriors recovered four fallen comrades, honored them with a salute, and prepared to cremate their remains and scatter them into the deep sea.
• Ospreys towed Cai Kun’s enormous corpse into the pier, shocking the onlookers and confirming that Vice General Cheng had killed a Mystic Master-level Sea Monster from afar.
• News of the victory spread across the Eastern Li War Zone, and Feng Guangjun regretted opposing Vice General Cheng’s underwater patrol strategy before the upcoming Central Court Meeting.
• Zhongsun Wen praised the Sea Hawk Legion’s courage and recommended adopting the Medal System in his report, while Profound Warrior Liu wrote that Mystic Adepts determined the course of war.

Cheng Han devised the Traitor Plan to weaken the Abyssal Mist Realm’s hostility by winning over sea races and reshaping the World Will from within. He extracted Cai Kun’s Brand of the Will of the Sea and prepared to merge it into the Divine Fire Dragon so it could infiltrate the realm.

• Cheng Han concluded that making the Abyssal Mist Realm safer required changing its World Will, not merely subduing the Flower Nacre Clan.
• Cheng Han planned to use the Divine Fire Dragon as an undercover agent, win over sea races to split the Will of the Sea, and replace the Three Great Sea Races with allied powers.
• Cheng Han named his grassroots strategy the Traitor Plan and used Deduction to develop a technique for extracting a Brand of the Will of the Sea from Cai Kun’s horn.
• Cheng Han drew the Brand from the Sea Demon Horn and used Radiant Flame of Fire to erase Cai Kun’s lingering aura.
• Cheng Han summoned an illusion of the Divine Fire Dragon and prepared to integrate the Brand into its soul.

Cheng Han used the Brand of the Will of the Sea to help his Divine Fire Dragon blend into the Abyssal Mist Realm and approach the Flower Nacre. After the dragon saved three Flower Nacre from a Ghost Face Blade Crab and impressed them, Cheng Han considered how to communicate with them and resolved to teach them to wear clothes.

• Cheng Han transmitted the Brand of the Will of the Sea through the Secret Puppet String, allowing the Divine Fire Dragon to overcome the world's rejection.
• The Divine Fire Dragon traveled through the deep sea and reached three Flower Nacre hunting a Ghost Face Blade Crab.
• When the Ghost Face Blade Crab attacked the Flower Nacre with Water Knives, the Divine Fire Dragon burned the crab's soul with Radiant Flame of Fire and killed it.
• The Flower Nacre showed no hostility and tried to communicate with the dragon, which used Radiant Leap to leave after making a favorable impression.
• Cheng Han deduced that he could alter the Flower Nacre's bodies but rejected the idea as perverse and decided to find a way to teach them to wear clothes.

At the Central Court Meeting, Cheng Han proposed giving the Central Courtyard control of two parts of the Deep Dive Legion, easing tensions with the other vice generals. His military influence was evident when the leaders turned to him for guidance on how to deal with the surrounding Sea Demons.

• Cheng Han arrived at the meeting after handling the Divine Fire Dragon's second contact with Flower Nacre, and Sword Wanli accepted his apology.
• Lan Jiayao and Qi Tingming reported that Black Scale Tribes had retreated, and Luo Tianguang linked their movement to Cheng Han's killing of a powerful Black Scale Sea Demon.
• Cheng Han proposed splitting the Deep Dive Legion into three, keeping one legion and handing the other two to the Central Courtyard; Sword Wanli agreed.
• Feng Guangjun and Zhang Hanting felt relieved when Cheng Han did not confront them over their earlier attempt to claim his forces.
• Sword Wanli asked whether the War Zone should attack the surrounding Sea Demons or respond passively, and the leaders looked to Cheng Han for direction.

Cheng Han proposed targeting the Black Scale Sea King's pride to disrupt its control over its servant races and gain an advantage in the war. He won broad support for a plan to make an airship from a sea demon's hide and fly it around the War Zone to humiliate the Black Scale Race.

• Cheng Han presented two strategies for the war and recommended eliminating the Sea King, Lagudala, rather than fighting a costly war of attrition.
• Cheng Han argued that humiliating the proud Black Scale Race in front of its servant races could weaken their loyalty and provoke a reaction.
• Feng Guangjun and Zhang Hanting endorsed Cheng Han's plan to skin a captured lord-class sea demon, fill its hide with ultralight gas, and turn it into an airship.
• More than sixty percent of the attendees supported the proposal, and Sword Wanli approved Cheng Han's task of making the Sea Monster Airship.

Cheng Han launched a grotesque Sea Monster Airship to provoke the Black Scale Race while the Divine Fire Dragon opened talks with the Flower Nacre Clan. The Flower Nacre leader heard that war was spreading and that the Black Scale Race might force her people into it, but she had not yet chosen a path.

• Cheng Han approved Wu Dalang’s humiliating Sea Monster Airship designs and sent the airship on a circuit escorted by the Crimson Eagle Legion.
• Cheng Han saw the Divine Fire Dragon use Leap of Radiance to reach the Flower Nacre Clan and begin communicating in Flower Language.
• The Divine Fire Dragon warned the Flower Nacre leader that a vast war would engulf the world and asked which path her clan would choose.
• The Flower Nacre leader questioned the dragon’s motives, and it warned her that the Black Scale Race intended to force her people into the war as cannon fodder.

Cheng Han used the Divine Fire Dragon to capture the Flower Nacre Leader and carry her through the Turbulent Storm Sea Area to the Radiant Sea. Seeing the land where her ancestors once lived, she became excited, while Cheng Han planned to turn the Flower Nacre Clan against the Three Great Sea Races and recruit them to the Myriad Radiance People.

• Cheng Han warned the Divine Fire Dragon that the Flower Nacre were preparing to attack, and the dragon told their leader it was not a Black Scale Race spy.
• When the Flower Nacre Leader prepared to attack anyway, the Divine Fire Dragon trapped her with Ten Directions Flame God Prison and escaped the other Flower Nacre’s assault by taking her away.
• The Divine Fire Dragon carried the leader across the ocean with repeated Flash Teleports, astounding her with the distance it could travel.
• The leader recognized the Turbulent Storm Sea Area and learned that the Radiant Sea, where her ancestors had lived, lay beyond it.
• Cheng Han revealed that he had brought the leader to the Radiant Sea to stir the Flower Nacre Clan’s ambitions and encourage them to join the Myriad Radiance People in resisting the Three Great Sea Races.

Cheng Han used ancestral illusions and evidence about the Myriad Radiance People to persuade the Flower Nacre Leader to investigate them and consider joining their side. As the plan moved forward, a Black Scale Sea Demon reacted furiously to the Sea Monster Airships patrolling nearby.

• The Divine Fire Dragon brought the Flower Nacre Leader to the ocean surface, where she saw the sky and witnessed illusions of her ancestors celebrating the first winter storm.
• Cheng Han revealed that the Flower Nacre ancestors had been driven into the Sea of Dim Light after their deity fell, then urged the leader to return to the land of light.
• The leader questioned the Divine Fire Dragon about the World Extinction War, and it showed her evidence that the Myriad Radiance People sought Green Rice Shrimp to produce High-Efficiency Kinetic Essence rather than destroy the world.
• The Flower Nacre Leader agreed to observe the Myriad Radiance People for herself, while Cheng Han planned to arrange a chance meeting and recruit her clan.
• A huge water column erupted near the Sea Monster Airships, and Cheng Han and Lan Jiayao concluded that the Black Scale Race had been provoked by the images on the airships.

The Divine Fire Dragon guided the Flower Nacre Leader to witness the Myriad Radiance People's power and the looming battle at the Eastern Li War Zone, encouraging her to consider seeking their protection. Cheng Han believed the leader was beginning to favor the Myriad Heavens Race and expected victory to secure her support.

• The Flower Nacre Leader sensed a Sea Domain Lord's attack and learned from the Divine Fire Dragon that the Black Scale Race had gathered over three hundred thousand Sea Demons to attack the Eastern Li War Zone.
• The Divine Fire Dragon showed the leader the sea breeze and tides, and she felt that she belonged beneath the open sky rather than in the Sea of Dim Light.
• The Divine Fire Dragon showed her the Sea Monster Airship made from a slain Black Scale Sea Domain Lord and explained that the Myriad Radiance People could overpower the world's sea races.
• The leader watched the airship evade a Black Scale attack and then saw a formation of Flame Eagles approaching as the great battle neared.
• Cheng Han realized that the leader's question about the Eastern Li War Zone signaled growing interest in the Myriad Heavens Race, and he expected victory to win her over.

Cheng Han used Warhawks and repeated Guided Profound Weapon strikes to convince the Black Scale Sea Demons that their Mist Art could counter the aircraft, while a Flower Nacre Leader watched the display and came to believe the Black Scale Race feared the Myriad Radiance People. The probing attack left the Eastern Li War Zone’s larger deception underway, though an Outer War Zone mystic master dismissed its strategy.

• The Divine Fire Dragon told the Flower Nacre Leader that the Myriad Radiance People’s Warhawks could kill far stronger sea monsters, and the leader watched the Black Scale Race cover the sea with Mist Art.
• Cheng Han reviewed the Eye of Omniscience’s predicted Black Scale attack and explained that the Sea Demon Airships made from Cai Kun’s hide had disrupted its plans.
• Cheng Han ordered Lan Jiayao to begin a probing attack when the Warhawks reached their designated location.
• The Warhawks launched more than ten thousand Guided Profound Weapons into the fog, adding to a deception that had already consumed nearly eighty thousand weapons.
• Profound Warrior Liu criticized the attack as ineffective, while Zhongsun Wen privately trusted Cheng Han’s judgment and the Warhawk Legions’ strength.

Cheng Han predicted that the Black Scale Sea King would receive help from the An Bei Sea God and attack a lotus island, then warned the Central Court and prepared the Flower Nacre Leader for the danger. The God General Zhu Rong confirmed the Sea God’s involvement, while Cheng Han used the warning to build trust and secure goodwill.

• The Flower Nacre Leader sensed that the Black Scale Sea Demons were moving toward the Eastern Li War Zone, and Cheng Han chose to wait before launching an attack.
• Cheng Han’s War Simulation predicted a ninety-eight percent chance that the Sea King would attack a lotus island with a Sea God’s help, so he ordered Lan Jiayao to warn the Central Court.
• Sword Wanli relayed Cheng Han’s warning to the God General Zhu Rong, who confirmed that the An Bei Sea God had intervened and praised Cheng Han’s judgment.
• The Divine Fire Dragon warned the Flower Nacre Leader of an extremely powerful force and led her farther from the war zone.
• Cheng Han used the warning to earn the God General’s goodwill, strengthen the Flower Nacre Leader’s trust, and establish his authority among his subordinates.