Chapter Summaries

Jieko Group’s landing fleet attacked Java Country’s coastal defenses outside Ceylon City, using air and naval firepower to clear the way for its troops. After the defenders collapsed in under two hours, Jieko Group secured the beachhead and advanced toward the city.

• Jieko Group sent a landing fleet carrying more than twenty thousand troops to the coast outside Ceylon City on June 5.
• Demon Bird Fighters and the Irawaddy struck Java Country’s defensive positions while the fleet suppressed shore-based fire.
• Troops from Siam, Johor, and Annam landed first and broke through the coastal defenses with support from amphibious vehicles.
• Jieko Group’s Marines, Super Soldiers, and Spider Main Battle Mechs joined the assault, forcing Java Country’s soldiers to flee or surrender.
• Jieko Group conquered the coastal defenses after one hour and forty-seven minutes, then sent part of its army toward Ceylon City.

The Jieko Group seized Ceylon City and imposed a strict blockade as Colonel Peng Gu's forces rescued Gong Guokai and the surviving Chinese detainees from the Customs Administration. After executing Ketut and many Customs personnel accused of abusing Chinese people, Peng Gu led his soldiers toward Ceylon City to continue the purge.

• Jieko Group forces sealed Ceylon City, killed people who tried to flee, and cut communications as they took control of key institutions.
• Jieko Group soldiers rescued Gong Guokai and other Chinese detainees from the Customs Administration, where many prisoners had died from torture.
• Gong Guokai identified Ketut as the man who had led the factory raid, and Peng Gu ordered Ketut's execution by being torn apart by horses.
• The rescued Chinese accused Customs personnel of abusing them, and Peng Gu ordered the accused executed by firing squad.
• Peng Gu told Gong Guokai that the Jieko Group had taken Ceylon City and intended to control all of Java.
• After receiving orders, Peng Gu led his soldiers from the Customs Administration toward Ceylon City to continue the purge.

The Jieko Group imposed martial law in Ceylon City, arrested and executed thousands accused of joining anti-Chinese riots, and drew international condemnation alongside strong support from many Chinese. Meanwhile, its invasion of Java Country advanced rapidly, and by June 28 its ground forces had reached the outskirts of Yakarta.

• The Jieko Group occupied Ceylon City's institutions, investigated the riots, and arrested rioters and police who had allowed the violence to continue.
• Jieko Group soldiers arrested suspects and killed a crowd that tried to block their way, then carried out a weeklong sweep across Ceylon City.
• On June 10, the Jieko Group publicly executed 12,039 people accused of taking part in the riots and published their names, provoking worldwide debate and condemnation.
• The Jieko Group landed 100,000 troops in Java Country and launched an advance supported by Demon Bird Fighters, Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruisers, Steel Battalion genetic warriors, and Spider Main Battle Mechs.
• Java Country's forces repeatedly collapsed or surrendered, and by June 28 the Jieko Group's ground forces had reached the outskirts of Yakarta.

After conquering most of Java Country, the Jieko Group began a purge of wealthy families accused of enriching themselves through past violence against Chinese people. When Java’s elites tried to resist by raising a militia and stirring up unrest, the Jieko Group crushed the militia and continued its arrests, leaving the occupation’s advance unimpeded.

• Beginning on June 15, the Jieko Group sent soldiers to arrest Java Country’s wealthy merchants and powerful families over crimes committed against Chinese people decades earlier.
• A Jieko Group officer confronted Nudensha with a photograph of him looting a Chinese home, then arrested him and his family despite his appeal to Java’s statute of limitations.
• Wealthy figures formed the Self-Defense National Guard, while others tried to flee or encouraged locals to sabotage roads, but the Jieko Group sealed Java Country’s sea and air routes.
• A Jieko Group company commander located more than a thousand militia troops guarding a villa district and called in a Demon Bird Fighter to bomb them.
• Jieko Group ground forces routed the surviving militia, arrested the district’s wealthy residents, and began arresting or killing locals who disrupted transport routes.

Jieko Group launched a devastating assault on Yagada City, gradually breaking Java Country’s defenses with relentless bombardment and Steel Battalion gene warriors. As the city neared capture, Java Country’s officials abandoned President Wayanman and killed him after he refused to surrender and continued to trust in Beautiful Country.

• Jieko Group surrounded Yagada City with 150,000 troops and began its final offensive on July 1, bombarding the city and routing Java Country’s defenders.
• Miao Lun and the Steel Battalion entered Guxi Street after the bombardment, where Miao Lun used his gene-enhanced abilities to hunt down the Java soldiers in a building.
• Jieko Group continued bombing and methodically occupied Yagada’s districts, leaving Java Country’s organized forces shattered by July 19.
• Wayanman rejected calls to surrender and insisted that Beautiful Country’s reinforcements would arrive, though no troops had come.
• Java Country’s officials and guards turned against Wayanman, and one official shot him in the underground command room.

After conquering Java Country, the Jieko Group divided the archipelago by establishing Sumatra Country and empowering rival secret-police forces. Their escalating persecution turned Java and Sumatra against each other, leaving both focused on internal conflict rather than resisting Jieko rule.

• On July 20, the new Java President surrendered unconditionally to the Jieko Group, which then stationed troops across Java and placed the surviving elite under its control.
• The Jieko Group backed rival puppet regimes on Java Island and Sumatra Island, and Sumatra declared independence as Sumatra Country in August.
• Gene warriors established the Western Depot and Eastern Depot, which arrested and tortured people suspected of opposing Jieko rule.
• Sugano's Eastern Depot arrested Finance Minister Putridu, and Police Minister Sidien tried to stop them but was arrested after Jieko soldiers and a Spider Main Battle Mech arrived.
• After the Western Depot fabricated charges against one of Sugano's allies, the two secret-police forces escalated their arrests into firefights, driving Java Country and Sumatra Country into bitter hostility.

After the Jieko Group moved toward Luzon, Beautiful Country decided not to risk a war and withdrew its military forces, leaving Luzon exposed. The chapter ended with Luzon’s wealthy and influential residents fleeing as ordinary people faced an uncertain future.

• After taking control of Java Country, the Jieko Group let several months pass before its Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruiser appeared near Luzon on September 25.
• Judien presented intelligence of Jieko Group troop and transport-ship movements in Johor, while Selim Hamon warned Jesmin that a naval battle carried enormous risks.
• Jesmin ordered Beautiful Country’s military bases in Luzon to close and its troops to withdraw rather than fight the Jieko Group.
• On September 27, Beautiful Country announced the withdrawal publicly, shocking Luzon and countries around the world.
• Beautiful Country’s forces evacuated Luzon, leaving its bases largely empty, while wealthy merchants, powerful figures, and celebrities fled overseas and ordinary people remained behind.

After Beautiful Country abandoned Luzon, Jieko Group invaded and conquered the country in nine days, meeting little resistance. With Southeast Asia under its influence, Jieko Group became a new regional hegemon, and Su Jie came to be known as the King of Southeast Asia.

• After Luzon lifted its ban on Dragon Coins, Jieko Group announced it would invade and punish the country.
• On October 2, Luzon navy officers at Subic Bay staged a coup and surrendered their fleet to Jieko Group.
• On October 4, Jieko Group landed at Sidan Port and advanced toward Manila, where residents declared the city undefended and welcomed its troops.
• Jieko Group occupied Manila and swept across Luzon, which surrendered in nine days at the cost of thirty-four Jieko Group deaths and fifty-one wounded.
• Timor and Brunei invited Jieko Group to establish offices, while the rest of Southeast Asia fell within its sphere of influence.
• After a map showed Jieko Group's vast regional reach, people began calling Su Jie the King of Southeast Asia.

Su Jie completed the eighth layer of the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art and came close to entering the Dao Platform Realm, though he planned to return to the Tianyuan World before attempting the breakthrough. On his birthday, he reviewed the Jieko Group’s immense military forces before an international audience, leaving the group’s power on full display.

• Su Jie completed the eighth layer of the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art, becoming one with the blood sea and gaining greater control over his Chaos Dharma Aspect.
• Su Jie assessed his progress toward the Dao Platform Realm and decided to return to the Tianyuan World before making his breakthrough, while also preparing to address unrest at Tide Watching Pavilion.
• Su Jie and Liu Yingying rode through Mande City as crowds celebrated Su Jie’s birthday and leaders from thirteen countries gathered for the Jieko Group’s ceremony.
• Su Jie inspected the parade, where Jieko Group troops, Spider Main Battle Mechs, Demon Bird Fighters, and forces from Southeast Asian nations marched before the crowds.
• The worldwide broadcast displayed the Jieko Group’s military strength and established it as a power that other nations had to take seriously.

Su Jie established the Southern Alliance, binding Southeast Asian countries under Jieko Group’s political, economic, and military leadership. After Country A sought peace and Beautiful Country withdrew its fleets, Jieko Group used its control of Southeast Asia to pressure Western companies and raise shipping costs.

• Su Jie and Liu Yingying led Southeast Asian officials to approve the Southern Alliance, with Su Jie elected Head of State and Liu Yingying Secretary-General.
• Liu Yingying reported that Country A offered to abandon the Six Eastern States and pay compensation in exchange for a face-saving public statement, and Su Jie accepted the proposal.
• Liu Yingying reported that Beautiful Country had withdrawn three carrier strike groups, leaving two nearby, and Su Jie prepared to depart after spending the night with her.
• The Southern Alliance’s establishment alarmed world powers, while Beautiful Country withdrew its remaining forces from Jieko Group’s sphere of influence.
• Jieko Group raised shipping and canal fees, imposed fines and new requirements on Western companies operating in Southeast Asia, and forced them to pay rather than abandon their factories.

Su Jie returned to Ghost Ridge Palace and inspected the Flying Dharma Vessel that Puppet Hall had spent years repairing. After Zhu Changqi demonstrated its flight and weapons, Su Jie named the vessel Thousand-Hand and prepared to make it his personal ride.

• Chen Yun reviewed Puppet Hall’s expenses and learned that repairs to the Flying Dharma Vessel were nearly complete.
• Su Jie arrived at Puppet Hall on his Seven-Refinement Thousand-Hand Centipede, and Chen Yun and the disciples welcomed him back from secluded cultivation.
• Su Jie asked about the vessel’s progress, and Zhu Changqi reported that it was flight-ready with only minor repairs left.
• Zhu Changqi activated the Flying Dharma Vessel, and Su Jie watched as it flew and demonstrated its powerful formations and firepower.
• Su Jie named the vessel Thousand-Hand in memory of his little Qian.

Su Jie broke through to the First Layer of the Dao Platform Realm, while Han Ruyan advanced to become an Eighth-Rank Fierce Ghost. After they showed off their new powers, Han Ruyan confronted Su Jie about Liu Yingying and his other relationships, but the Thousand-Hand Centipede interrupted their argument.

• Su Jie buried himself underground and endured the tribulation lightning, breaking through to the First Layer of the Dao Platform Realm and condensing three golden cores.
• Su Jie demonstrated his enhanced Heavenly Might and discovered that Han Ruyan was transforming into an Eighth-Rank Fierce Ghost.
• Han Ruyan displayed her strengthened curses and ghostly abilities, including turning the forest into demons and cutting a hill in half.
• Han Ruyan regained more of her emotions and memories, then asked Su Jie about Liu Yingying and Ning Xinyue.
• The Thousand-Hand Centipede challenged Han Ruyan, and Su Jie promised to feed it more Poisonous Insects so it could advance.

Su Jie left Ghost Ridge Palace to lead its first reinforcements toward the Heaven Soul Sect, while orthodox geniuses swept the sect’s outlying territories and debated Su Jie’s strength. The chapter ended with Yuwen Jing approaching a flying dharma boat he mistook for one from his sect and finding Su Jie aboard.

• Zhang Junwei sent Su Jie ahead to scout the Heaven Soul Sect, and Old Daoist Qiu gave him a healing snake gu before Su Jie departed with the Thousand-Hand dharma boat and a large force of disciples.
• Mo Shiyao, Yuwen Jing, He Wenfeng, Jiang Lin, and Zhang Xinming killed a Heaven Soul Sect elder and cleared the ghost creatures he had left behind.
• Yuwen Jing outlined the orthodox alliance’s plans, while Mo Shiyao sought Zhang Xinming’s sword instruction and the group discussed Su Jie’s reputation.
• Zhang Xinming and Jiang Lin declared that they wanted to test themselves against Su Jie, despite Yuwen Jing and Mo Shiyao warning them not to provoke him.
• Over the following days, Yuwen Jing’s group cleared the Heaven Soul Sect’s peripheral territories and repelled a counterattack with help from their protectors.
• Yuwen Jing flew up to greet a dharma boat he believed belonged to Tide Watching Pavilion, then recognized Su Jie on its deck and was terrified.

Su Jie confronted a group of righteous-path geniuses and effortlessly defeated their strongest fighters, while his Gu worm and Wedding Dress Female Ghost dealt with their protectors. He invited the survivors aboard Ghost Ridge Palace’s flying vessel, leaving them trapped between his demonic forces and certain defeat.

• Yuwen Jing recognized Su Jie aboard the flying vessel and fled, but Zhang Xinming, Jiang Lin, He Wenfeng, and Mo Shiyao decided to stay and challenge him.
• The Thousand-Hand Centipede drove Yuwen Jing back, and Su Jie appeared before the group as Zhang Xinming attacked with his Canghai Sword.
• Su Jie seized Zhang Xinming’s sword and suppressed him, then repelled Jiang Lin and He Wenfeng’s attacks without moving from his spot.
• The Thousand-Hand Centipede swallowed and mocked Zhang Xinming’s sword before knocking him down, while the other righteous geniuses realized how badly Su Jie outclassed them.
• The Wedding Dress Female Ghost killed the arriving protectors, and Su Jie invited the remaining geniuses aboard his vessel, where more than a thousand Ghost Ridge Palace demonic cultivators awaited them.

Su Jie captured Yuwen Jing, Mo Shiyao, Jiang Lin, He Wenfeng, and Zhang Xinming, then demanded ransom from their sects. He left them with a choice between writing ransom letters or being handed over to the Heavenly Soul Sect, and his threats forced them to submit.

• Yuwen Jing, Mo Shiyao, Jiang Lin, and He Wenfeng fled in different directions, but Su Jie and his allies captured them while the Thousand-Hand Centipede subdued Zhang Xinming.
• He Wenfeng transformed into a three-headed, six-armed Vajra and attacked Su Jie, but Su Jie wounded him and had Ghost Ridge Palace disciples take him to the flying vessel.
• Han Ruyan broke Jiang Lin’s escape attempt and carried her aboard, while Yuwen Jing surrendered to the approaching Thousand-Hand Centipede and Su Jie dragged Mo Shiyao from a spring.
• Su Jie gathered the five prisoners on the Little Thousand and demanded ransom letters asking their sects to pay ten million spirit stones each, or thirty million for Zhang Xinming.
• Mo Shiyao and Jiang Lin agreed to write after Su Jie threatened to hand them to the Heavenly Soul Sect and sell them to Ten-Thousand Flowers House.
• Su Jie threatened Zhang Xinming with the same fate, and Zhang picked up a brush and began writing.

Su Jie used intelligence from Han Ruyan and the Heavenly Eye satellite to discover that Zixia Sect was understaffed while its forces besieged the Heavenly Soul Sect. He ordered the Little Thousand warship to attack Zixia Sect and destroy the Righteous Dao sect.

• News spread that Su Jie had captured five Righteous Dao prodigies and demanded ransoms for them.
• Su Jie made Mo Shiyao, Jiang Lin, Yuwen Jing, Zhang Xinming, and He Wenfeng serve him aboard the Little Thousand warship.
• Han Ruyan showed Su Jie images of Zixia Sect and reported that many of its forces had left to join the encirclement of the Heavenly Soul Sect.
• Su Jie had Zhu Changqi access Heavenly Eye Three's orbital footage and examined Zixia Sect's headquarters.
• Su Jie revealed his plan to raid and exterminate Zixia Sect while its defenses were weakened.
• Su Jie ordered the Little Thousand warship to advance at full speed toward Zixia Sect's headquarters.

Su Jie led Ghost Ridge Palace in an assault on Zixia Sect while Han Ruyan infiltrated the sect and sabotaged its mountain-protecting formation. With the formation core destroyed, Su Jie ordered his forces to descend and attack.

• Su Jie rallied more than a thousand Ghost Ridge Palace disciples aboard Little Thousand and announced their plan to destroy Zixia Sect.
• Mo Shiyao and Jiang Lin recognized Zixia Sect below and realized Su Jie was preparing to attack it.
• Xiao Guanglian revealed that he had reached the Secret Treasure Realm and boasted that he could defeat Su Jie.
• Su Jie appeared above Zixia Sect and struck its mountain-protecting formation with Little Thousand, but the formation initially held.
• Han Ruyan destroyed the formation core, and Su Jie ordered the Ghost Ridge Palace disciples to charge into Zixia Sect.

Su Jie led the Ghost Ridge Palace in a devastating assault that wiped out the Zixia Sect, slaughtering its disciples and defeating its elders. With the sect under his control, he ordered his forces to collect the spoils and headed for its treasury.

• The Thousand-Hand Centipede, Han Ruyan, and Su Jie killed Zixia Sect elders as Ghost Ridge Palace forces stormed the mountain gate.
• Zhu Changqi used the flying warship, while the Thousand-Hand Centipede, Lantern Ghost, and Ghost Ridge Palace disciples slaughtered the Zixia Sect’s depleted defenders.
• Xiao Guanglian gathered surviving disciples in the main hall, but Su Jie broke its defenses with Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder and killed those inside.
• Su Jie killed Grand Elder Cao Yong, and the four Ghost Ridge Palace elders defeated and killed their Zixia Sect opponents.
• The Zixia Sect fell completely, and Su Jie ordered his disciples to collect the spoils before heading to the treasury.

Su Jie and the Ghost Ridge Palace disciples plundered the Zixia Sect’s thousand-year wealth and uncovered its use of commoners as substitutes for cultivation’s spiritual dangers. They destroyed the sect’s buildings, spiritual vein, and lands before departing, leaving the returning Zixia Sect disciples to find ruins and a devastated wasteland.

• Su Jie broke through the treasury formations with Heavenly Might and seized the Zixia Sect’s vast hoard of treasures, spirit stones, and cultivation texts.
• Ghost Ridge Palace disciples stripped the sect’s grounds, halls, and mountain of anything valuable while Mo Shiyao, Jiang Lin, and He Wenfeng watched in disbelief.
• Su Jie and Chen Yun discovered more than a thousand commoners with damaged souls and learned the Zixia Sect had used them to bear the spiritual pressure of its cultivation method.
• Su Jie ordered Chen Yun and Zhu Changqi to destroy the Zixia Sect’s foundation, and the disciples burned its buildings, blasted its peaks, poisoned its spiritual vein, and cursed its land.
• Su Jie led the jubilant Ghost Ridge Palace disciples away aboard the flying vessel, and the next day returning Zixia Sect disciples found their sect reduced to ruins.

After Su Jie destroyed Zixia Sect’s mountain gate, Qingzhou’s Righteous Dao factions recalled troops to protect their own strongholds, easing the siege of Heaven Soul Sect. Ghost Ridge Palace celebrated Su Jie’s victory, named him its Holy Son, and learned that he was returning aboard the Thousand-Hand flying Dharma ark.

• Liu Guanlin returned to Zixia Sect’s ruined mountain gate and vowed revenge on Su Jie after discovering the slaughtered disciples, lingering curse, and polluted spirit vein.
• Zhong Xinpeng told Liu Guanlin that Tide Watching Pavilion would coordinate with the other sects to hunt Su Jie, while Liu agreed to cooperate.
• Lü Jingshi celebrated Su Jie’s attack after Xue Xin reported that Righteous Dao factions were withdrawing troops from the siege of Heaven Soul Sect.
• Ghost Ridge Palace elders praised Su Jie, and Zhang Junwei proposed naming him Holy Son; the elders largely agreed and confirmed the title.
• A message crow announced that Su Jie was returning with a great victory, and the elders went outside to watch the Thousand-Hand flying Dharma ark emerge from the clouds.