Chapter Summaries

Su Jie’s forces massacred the demonic cultivators trapped inside the Myriad Soul Banner while he confronted the survivors. After killing Yu Wenxian, Di Xiu, and Chu Xuexin, Su Jie ended the battle with his enemies annihilated.

• The Thousand-Hand Centipede swallowed Chu Xuexin and Chang Shiyang, but Chu Xuexin used a Profound Void Spirit Talisman to escape after kicking Chang Shiyang into the acid to die.
• Su Jie’s Thousand-Hand Centipede, the Myriad Soul Banner, and Han Ruyan’s Bride Ghost slaughtered the demonic cultivators across the battlefield as Chu Xuexin tried to flee.
• Su Jie confronted Yu Wenxian, rejected her plea for mercy, and killed her with Human-faced Moths.
• Su Jie and the Thousand-Hand Centipede defeated Di Xiu after his Blood Sea Demonic Art transformed him into a blood cloud.
• Su Jie resisted Chu Xuexin’s charm technique and killed her with the Five Elements Demon Suppressing Great Hand Seal, while her Primordial Spirit was absorbed by the Myriad Soul Banner.

Su Jie studied the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art and discovered that he could use the Blue Star’s huge population to supply the blood needed to cultivate it rapidly. After deciding the technique could strengthen his close-combat ability and survival skills, he planned to return to the Blue Star to begin cultivating it.

• Su Jie examined the spoils from the hunt and found more than ten million spirit stones and Di Xiu’s Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art.
• After a week of study and cultivation, Su Jie condensed a drop of Sacred Blood and demonstrated its power by transforming it into a blood beast and other forms.
• Su Jie learned from Di Xiu’s notes that Blood Demon Cave cultivators relied on other people’s blood to advance, and that the technique’s bloodlust eased once they replaced all their blood with Sacred Blood.
• Su Jie realized the Blue Star’s vast population could supply the blood needed to cultivate the technique and strengthen his body and ability to survive.
• Han Ruyan joined Su Jie, and he told her he would return to Ghost Ridge Palace before going to the Blue Star to cultivate the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art.

Su Jie returned to Ghost Ridge Palace with wraiths and reported that Tide Watching Pavilion was preparing for a major attack on the Heavenly Soul Sect. Zhang Junwei and Old Daoist Qiu decided to discuss aiding the Heavenly Soul Sect, while Su Jie was left with their high hopes for his cultivation.

• Su Jie returned to Ghost Ridge Palace and told Zhang Junwei and Old Daoist Qiu that the Heavenly Soul Sect had agreed to buy rocket launchers from his Puppet Hall.
• Su Jie reported Tide Watching Pavilion's spies and resource stockpiling, then predicted it would attack the Heavenly Soul Sect to restore its standing in Qingzhou.
• Zhang Junwei and Old Daoist Qiu discussed aiding the Heavenly Soul Sect while demanding payment and accounting for Tide Watching Pavilion's rivalry with Fire Cloud Hall.
• Zhang Junwei explained that Tide Watching Pavilion's Purple Mansion Realm sect master might still be alive, then praised Su Jie as Ghost Ridge Palace's hope for reaching that realm.
• Ghost Ridge Palace prepared to consider supporting the Heavenly Soul Sect and stirring conflict across Qingzhou.

Su Jie oversaw Puppet Hall’s rocket tests and inspected the nearly completed Lan Hai Yi Hao, while planning to use both projects to strengthen Jieko Group on Blue Star. He secured sect funding to repair Ghost Ridge Palace’s flying vessel ahead of a possible war with Tide Watching Pavilion, then returned to Blue Star to improve his strength.

• Zhu Changqi launched Puppet Hall’s B3 rocket, which reached the Fourth Heaven before astral winds destroyed it and its satellites.
• Su Jie judged satellite deployment too costly without sect funding and told Zhu Changqi to optimize the rocket and lower its production cost for future use on Blue Star.
• Su Jie tested Lan Hai Yi Hao’s living armor, saw it heal the damage, and learned from Zhu Changqi that construction would finish within a week and two more ships had begun production.
• Su Jie ordered Chen Yun and Zhu Changqi to repair Ghost Ridge Palace’s flying vessel with dedicated sect funding so it could serve as a flagship in a future conflict.
• After making arrangements at Ghost Ridge Palace, Su Jie opened a portal through the ancient mirror and returned to Blue Star to raise his strength.

After returning to Blue Star, Su Jie spent time shopping with Liu Yingying and discussed the international backlash against the Jieko Group’s plan to build the Kra Isthmus Canal. He then secured agreement from Siam, Annam, Laos, and Chenla to launch a paid blood-donation program, which he intended to use for cultivating the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art.

• Su Jie and Liu Yingying went shopping in Mande City while his bodyguards eliminated spies targeting him.
• Liu Yingying explained that Tamasek, Johor, Java, Country A, and Beautiful Country opposed the Kra Isthmus Canal, but Su Jie insisted the Jieko Group would build it.
• Su Jie ordered Liu Yingying to have the Thousand-Hand Centipede help complete the canal and accelerate construction of its supporting infrastructure.
• Su Jie demanded that representatives from Siam, Annam, Laos, and Chenla organize regular blood donations, offering citizens financial and other benefits.
• Su Jie agreed that the Jieko Group would pay for the blood by deducting the cost from the countries’ war reparations, and all four representatives accepted the plan.
• After dismissing the representatives, Su Jie revealed that the collected blood would support his cultivation of the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art.

During Wang Lin’s inspection of Jieko Group’s Kra Isthmus Canal project, a Tamasek freighter rammed the construction dock, prompting Jieko Group to seize the vessel and detain its sailors. As the incident escalated into a regional crisis, Jieko Group deployed a huge force near Tamasek, and Johor offered its territory as a passageway rather than risk opposing it.

• Wang Lin toured the Kra Isthmus Canal site with Baphon and saw protesters driven away and Spider Mechs helping excavate the canal.
• A Tamasek freighter rammed Jieko Group’s temporary dock and refused to move, so Baphon sent gene warriors aboard to remove the sailors and ordered the ship towed away.
• Jieko Group detained the Tamasek sailors, and news reports of the deaths and arrests triggered an international dispute.
• Jieko Group assembled the Fifth Army Group and 134 Spider Main Battle Mechs in Songkhla Province, alarming Tamasek and Johor.
• Johor mobilized its military, then publicly declared neutrality and offered Jieko Group an unobstructed route through its territory to Tamasek.

After Tamasek’s provocation over the Kra Isthmus Canal left it facing Jieko Group without reliable support from the Beautiful Country, President Min Bocheng chose to seek peace with Su Jie. Su Jie accepted Tamasek’s concessions for now, while preparing for a shift in regional power once the canal opened and the Lan Hai Yi Hao was ready.

• Min Bocheng confronted Cui Yanlin and other legislators, explaining that the Beautiful Country would not commit to fighting Jieko Group and urging Tamasek to make peace.
• Tamasek’s legislators voted to pursue appeasement, and Min Bocheng traveled to Chan State to meet Su Jie.
• Min Bocheng apologized for the wharf ramming, offered compensation, and promised investment concessions; Su Jie accepted his visit and called him smart.
• Su Jie told Liu Yingying that one of Min Bocheng’s aides was a CIA agent and that Tamasek’s leader sought profit rather than allegiance.
• Su Jie said Jieko Group would wait until the Kra Isthmus Canal opened and the Lan Hai Yi Hao was repaired before changing the balance of power.

Xu Changming and his students investigated the Jieko Group’s compulsory blood-donation campaign in Siam and discovered that cash, tax cuts, and access to jobs and other benefits had drawn millions of people to donate. The campaign spread across the Indochina Peninsula, with collected blood transported to Mande City in Zen Country as Western media accused the Jieko Group of coercion and genetic experiments.

• Xu Changming and his students found crowds donating blood in Mande City and learned that the policy required citizens across the Indochina Peninsula to donate at least twice a year.
• Lin Lingling questioned donors and discovered that they were motivated by cash payments, tax reductions, lottery prizes, and advantages in jobs, education, loans, and other matters.
• Xu Changming estimated that the campaign would cost at least 150 billion dollars annually and chose it as the group’s research topic.
• Blood-donation stations and buses spread across the Indochina Peninsula, drawing especially large crowds in impoverished regions as donors competed for rewards and benefits.
• The Jieko Group’s blood collection filled refrigerated vehicles that transported blood to Mande City in Zen Country.
• Western media accused the Jieko Group of coercing civilians and conducting genetic experiments, while the Group continued the campaign.

Su Jie used blood donated by five million people to cultivate the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art, refining enough Saint Blood to reach its third layer and greatly strengthen his body. He planned to gather blood from across the Indochina Peninsula to push the art further.

• Su Jie brought thirty-two Sakura Country prisoners of war and more than two thousand tons of donated blood to his underground cultivation ground.
• Su Jie drained one prisoner and tested how stored Blue Star blood compared with freshly drawn blood and blood from the Tianyuan World.
• Su Jie used the Ninth-grade Sacred Lotus to refine the donated blood, rapidly advancing the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art to its second layer as his body transformed.
• After a day of cultivation, Su Jie reached the third layer and used his Primordial Spirit to suppress the blood demons formed from his Saint Blood.
• Su Jie tested his strengthened body with the White Bone Heavenly Sha Sword and resolved to absorb blood from the entire Indochina Peninsula.

Su Jie visited the Chiyang Rocket Launch Site, approved the Kunpeng Rocket’s publicized maiden flight, and reassured its anxious chief designer. Later, he and Liu Yingying watched Boston Dynamics’ flawed combat mech get exposed, while Su Jie remained confident in Jieko Group’s technologies and its rocket.

• Su Jie visited the Chiyang Rocket Launch Site, where Pang Liangzhi showed him the enormous Kunpeng Rocket and reported that assembly had gone smoothly.
• Su Jie approved the rocket’s maiden-flight test for the fifteenth and told Liu Yingying to invite major media outlets to livestream it.
• Liu Yingying showed Su Jie Boston Dynamics’ official mech demonstration and leaked footage revealing the mech’s external power supply and repeated failures.
• Su Jie and Liu Yingying mocked Beautiful Country’s costly mech research, and Su Jie assured her that the Kunpeng Rocket would succeed.
• Su Jie embraced Liu Yingying, and their conversation gave way to intimacy.

The Jieko Group’s Kunpeng Rocket drew worldwide ridicule and concern ahead of its maiden flight, while NASA director Burton Barge persuaded CIA director Judien to portray it as a potential missile threat to secure more funding. As the rocket completed final checks at the Chiyang Rocket Launch Site, October 15 arrived and propellant loading began before a packed audience.

• Netizens, foreign governments, and aerospace experts mocked the Kunpeng Rocket and predicted its maiden flight would fail.
• Burton Barge met with Judien and urged him to help present the rocket as a threat to Beautiful Country and a reason to increase NASA’s budget.
• Judien agreed to coordinate with Burton and brief the president and Congress about the Jieko Group’s potential missile capability.
• The Jieko Group’s engineers and support teams conducted system checks, simulations, and launch-site preparations while tourists gathered near the Chiyang Rocket Launch Site.
• On October 15, media crews and spectators filled the launch site as the Kunpeng Rocket underwent final checks and began receiving propellant.

Jieko Group’s Kunpeng Rocket completed its maiden launch and deployed its upper stage toward orbit, then stunned spectators by returning and landing its first stage. NASA Director Burton and Musk realized Jieko Group had independently developed rocket-recovery technology that surpassed their own.

• CBS reporter Ma Lin questioned visitors at the Chiyang Rocket Launch Site, where most doubted the Kunpeng Rocket would succeed.
• Pang Liangzhi pressed the launch button, and the Kunpeng Rocket lifted off successfully as Su Jie and Liu Yingying watched from the command center.
• Monitoring teams reported normal flight, and the rocket’s first stage separated while the second stage continued toward its planned orbit.
• Viewers saw the first stage fire its engines to control its descent, then deploy support legs and land safely at the launch site.
• Musk and NASA Director Burton watched the recovery livestream and concluded that Jieko Group had independently developed rocket-recovery technology superior to theirs.

Jieko Group’s Kunpeng Rocket completed its maiden flight, deploying more than a hundred biological satellites and recovering both rocket stages. After Beautiful Country threatened sanctions and declared a new space race, Su Jie ordered more launches, new rockets, and Jieko Group’s own space-station plan.

• The Kunpeng Rocket released more than a hundred biological satellites, then returned and landed its second stage at Chiyang Rocket Launch Site, completing its successful maiden flight.
• Musk admitted that Jieko Group had surpassed Space Exploration Technology Company, while Burton urged NASA workers to prepare a report and seek more funding.
• News of the launch spread worldwide, and Beautiful Country’s spokesman dismissed the success as luck, accused Jieko Group of stealing technology, and announced sanctions and plans to return to the moon.
• At the victory banquet, Pang Liangzhi showed Su Jie the spokesman’s speech, and Liu Yingying asked whether Beautiful Country was trying to drain Jieko Group’s resources with a space race.
• Su Jie agreed to compete, telling Pang Liangzhi to accelerate Kunpeng launches and rocket construction and begin Jieko Group’s own space-station plan.

Jieko Group undercut Space Exploration Technology Company in the launch market, then competed with Beautiful Country in a satellite arms race that escalated into deliberate orbital collisions. The chapter ended with both sides’ space clashes halted by dangerous debris and international pressure, while their military exercises fizzled without a direct war.

• Jieko Group offered global satellite launches for $1,999 per kilogram, and its first commercial Kunpeng Rocket launch succeeded, drawing orders and provoking a price war with Space Exploration Technology Company.
• Liu Yingying rejected Musk’s proposed price alliance, while Beautiful Country barred its satellites and components from riding Kunpeng Rockets and Jieko Group expanded its own satellite network.
• Kraler Haig’s NASA monitoring team identified Jieko Group satellites colliding with Beautiful Country satellites, prompting Burton to accuse Jieko Group publicly and demand an apology and compensation.
• Jieko Group and Beautiful Country retaliated with further satellite collisions, destroying satellites and pouring billions into a growing orbital arms race.
• Beautiful Country and Jieko Group staged rival military exercises, but several alliance members withdrew and the carrier group stayed clear of Jieko Group’s hinterland, leaving the exercises to end hastily.
• Jieko Group and Beautiful Country stopped their orbital clashes after the resulting debris threatened their own operations and countries around the world denounced them.

Su Jie prepared Jieko Group for a possible war with Beautiful Country, secured a new source of funding through whitening liquid, and advanced his Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art despite its dangerous heart demons. Jieko Group successfully assembled its enormous space station, where Mu Yanken’s crew began a perilous experiment with a drop of Su Jie’s blood.

• Su Jie told Liu Yingying to prepare for war, expand the military, and buy blood from abroad, while Liu Yingying warned that Jieko Group’s funds were running low.
• Su Jie revealed the successful whitening liquid, and Liu Yingying saw its dramatic effect and began arranging its launch as a source of revenue.
• Su Jie absorbed more than ten thousand tons of blood, transformed into a vast blood sea, devoured tens of thousands of gu-worms, and recognized that growing blood demons threatened his sanity.
• Jieko Group launched four Kunpeng Rockets and assembled the Jieko Space Station, where Mu Yanken introduced the station to a global livestream.
• Mu Yanken and the three astronauts opened a sealed bottle containing a drop of blood that expanded, attacked them, and nearly pierced Mu Yanken’s bone shield before Su Jie’s bell subdued it.

Mu Yanken took Su Jie's corrupted Sacred Blood into space, where Su Jie used the sun to purify its inner demon. The Jieko Space Station later returned purified blood that eased the demons in Su Jie's other Sacred Blood, leaving him ready to pursue the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art and expand his blood supply overseas.

• Mu Yanken carried the Sacred Blood outside the space station and released it near the sun while holding the bell over it.
• Su Jie controlled the blood demon from Mande City and used the Great Sun Heavenly Number Visualization Method to destroy its evil form, leaving purified blood behind.
• Mu Yanken recovered the purified blood and returned safely to the station.
• Over the next three months, the Jieko Space Station grew vegetables, attracted worldwide attention, and rejected other countries' requests to send astronauts aboard.
• After the purified Sacred Blood returned to Blue Star, Su Jie absorbed it and found that it helped cleanse the inner demons in more than a hundred drops of his blood.
• Su Jie decided to cultivate the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art without restraint and open overseas blood-purchasing channels.

CCA Chairman Nova Stout forced Pollack Prison inmates to donate blood and sold it to Cartel, leader of Tijuana Group, for Jieko Group’s blood-purchasing operation. After CIA agents attempted to assassinate Cartel, the transaction continued, and blood collection spread throughout the Beautiful Country.

• At Pollack Prison, Nova Stout ordered guards to force prisoners to give blood, drawing two bags from each selected inmate.
• Nova delivered the refrigerated blood to Cartel, who had doctors test samples and confirmed the shipment was good.
• CIA agents attacked the meeting, but Cartel’s genetic warriors protected him and captured one of the attackers.
• Cartel rejected his secretary’s suggestion to suspend purchases, paid Nova, and told him to recruit more sellers.
• Nova publicized Jieko Group’s high blood prices, and prisons, hospitals, black markets, and lenders across the Beautiful Country began collecting or buying blood.

Jieko Group’s worldwide blood-buying campaign became a lucrative industry, prompting the Beautiful Country’s leaders to debate how to curb it while hoping the expense would bankrupt Jieko Group. Judien then witnessed the effects of Jieko Group’s new Tianyuan Whitening Liquid and realized its success could ruin that plan.

• Poor people around the world flocked to sell blood as Jieko Group’s purchases spawned a vast international Blood Gold Industry.
• Judien, Burton, and Lawrence discussed restricting blood sales, Jieko Group’s spending, and whether to wait for it to exhaust its finances before taking action.
• Judien learned that Paris had bought a bottle of Jieko Group’s Tianyuan Whitening Liquid for 2.99 million dollars.
• Paris applied the whitening liquid, and Judien watched it remove her skin blemishes and make her look about ten years younger.
• Judien hurried back to investigate Tianyuan Whitening Liquid, fearing its popularity would bring Jieko Group enormous profits and defeat the plan to bankrupt it.

Jieko Group launched Tianyuan Whitening Liquid, and Tazik persuaded the disfigured former star Tairui'er Mota to try its National Beauty Series, which restored her face. Her stunning public comeback triggered a global buying frenzy, and three months later Jieko Group reported more than one hundred million bottles sold and $600 billion in revenue, while rival cosmetics companies collapsed.

• Jieko Group launched five grades of Tianyuan Whitening Liquid worldwide at prices ranging from $2,999 to $14.99 million per bottle.
• Tazik offered Tairui'er Mota the National Beauty Series, and she used it to heal her burn scars and regain a youthful, flawless appearance.
• Tairui'er paid Tazik, bought more bottles, and returned to the Oscars red carpet, where she credited Tianyuan Whitening Liquid for her transformation.
• Celebrities, influencers, wealthy people, and ordinary customers rushed to buy Tianyuan Whitening Liquid, with some taking loans or selling possessions to afford it.
• Jieko Group announced that Tianyuan Whitening Liquid had sold more than one hundred million bottles and earned $600 billion, while established cosmetics brands lost ground and some went bankrupt.

The Jieko Group used Tianyuan Whitening Liquid’s profits to expand its space, blood-purchasing, and military programs as tensions with Beautiful Country grew. At the Los Angeles Olympics, Miao Lun escaped an airport security blockade amid a staged emergency and killed the officer who had harassed the delegation.

• Tianyuan Whitening Liquid’s popularity and enormous profits drew envy worldwide, while the Jieko Group invested its wealth in space development, blood purchases, and new mech brigades.
• Beautiful Country continued its space competition and military buildup as both it and the Jieko Group waited for a chance to act.
• On July 6, 2028, Olympic athletes from several Indochina Peninsula countries arrived in Los Angeles, led by Xu Ruohai and accompanied by Miao Lun.
• Airport security officer Andrew refused to let the delegation use an expedited lane and mocked Xu Ruohai, prompting Miao Lun to confront him.
• A tanker truck crashed and caught fire, triggering a panic that allowed the athletes to leave the airport; Miao Lun crushed Andrew’s chest, and the fleeing crowd trampled him.