Recaps

Li Wei watched the Arctic Alliance’s counterattack stall against the Abyssal monsters and asked Ma Baoguo to seek permission for her to break the deadlock. She was ordered to wait, and the chapter ended as she realized Li Jiaqi might have captured her candid remarks on camera.

• The Arctic Alliance bombarded the occupied zone and launched a ground assault, but its forces advanced less than a kilometer and suffered heavy casualties.
• Li Wei called Ma Baoguo and asked to attack alone, but he told her to wait for General Lebedev’s permission and not act on her own.
• After more than an hour, Ma Baoguo relayed Lebedev’s order for Li Wei to stand by, and she complained about the stalled offensive and the soldiers’ losses.
• At noon, Li Wei criticized Lebedev as she watched more retreating troops, then met reporter Li Jiaqi in the trench.
• Li Jiaqi was surprised to see Li Wei’s major general rank and asked why she had come to the front; Li Wei began praising the Abyssal monsters before spotting the camera and asking whether it was livestreaming or recorded.

Li Wei’s staged battlefield broadcast was interrupted when a massive shock wave tore through the basin, wrecking equipment and scattering both human forces and Abyssal Monsters. As the Arctic Alliance’s line came under renewed attack, Li Wei charged toward the left wing, while Ma Baoguo’s delayed orders assigned the support corps to defensive positions and said Major General Jiang Xue must remain at her post.

• Li Wei asked Li Jiaqi to reshoot the prerecorded broadcast and posed for the camera until a huge shock wave erupted from the basin.
• Li Wei pulled Li Jiaqi into the trench as the shock wave struck, then confirmed the support corps had suffered no injuries but its electronic equipment was broken.
• Li Wei saw the Arctic Alliance’s formations in disarray and black tides of Abyssal Monsters advancing, while Li Jiaqi refused to leave until two Military Martial Artists carried her away.
• After watching the front line deteriorate, Li Wei ordered the battalion commanders to hold the position and charged toward the dangerous left wing alone.
• Yan Hua received Ma Baoguo’s orders assigning the battalions to fortress clusters and reserve duties, with Major General Jiang Xue instructed not to leave her post.

As the Spatial Tremor disabled the Arctic Alliance’s communications and equipment, General Lebedev organized a retreat while Ma Baoguo’s forces faced defeat. A golden-armored figure appeared on the front line, cutting through the Abyssal Monsters and reaching the soldiers who had been preparing to die.

• After the Spatial Tremor crippled the command center, Lebedev ordered the 5th Guards Army Group to hold its position and the other forces to withdraw toward Dragon Tooth Bunker.
• Lebedev thanked Ma Baoguo for his decisions and warned him to keep Major General Jiang under control because of her value.
• Warrant Officer Maxim ran out of ammunition while fighting Abyssal Monsters, but a golden-armored figure arrived and destroyed the Sea Urchin attacking his bunker.
• Commander Dmitri and his crew prepared to detonate their damaged mecha, then heard the fighting outside fall silent.
• Dmitri opened the hatch and saw the golden-armored figure charging through the Abyssal Monsters, leaving heaps of dead Sea Urchins behind.

Li Wei slaughtered Abyssal monsters and drew their growing horde toward herself, while the 5th Guards Army received orders to hold its position. The chapter ended with the Lieutenant General choosing to remain with his troops as he prepared for a likely final defense.

• Li Wei found that her Diamond Body could withstand the Abyssal monsters, then switched to wielding two battle-axes to kill them more efficiently.
• After half an hour of fighting, Li Wei cleared the area around her and realized the Abyssal army was charging toward her instead of Dragon Tooth Bunker.
• The Lieutenant General arrived at the 5th Guards Army’s forward command post and learned that the 17th Division Commander, Andrei, had been killed.
• The Lieutenant General delivered General Lebedev’s order for the 5th Guards Army to hold its position without retreating, then told the two Division Commanders he would stay with them.
• The Lieutenant General surveyed the damaged fronts from atop an Xiangqi-M and told a lieutenant that nowhere was safe anymore.

At the abyssal passage, Beiku explained to Eternal Night that he was letting humanity’s prodigy grow because humanity could help them face the coming Final. Beiku agreed to serve under Eternal Night, while warning her that the Great Dream planned to seize the Kunlun Mirror fragment on Blue Star.

• Eternal Night confronted Beiku over his attacks on humanity, and Beiku said humanity was currently useful against the coming Final.
• Beiku revealed that he had deliberately allowed humanity’s prodigy to grow and suspected she gained energy or strength by killing monsters.
• Eternal Night admitted she had less than a ten percent chance of surviving the Final, and Beiku said he had similar odds and hoped stronger humans would shift the balance.
• Beiku agreed to join under Eternal Night’s command but asked her to send more ninth-rankers to keep humanity from reclaiming the passage.
• Beiku warned Eternal Night that the Great Dream was plotting to seize the Kunlun Mirror fragment and might use it to break through the ninth rank.

After the Spatial Tremor, General Lebedev learned that the Abyssal monsters had turned away from the Fifth Group Army and discovered Li Wei killing them inside a four-colored domain. With Yun Heng promising to protect her, Li Wei headed deeper into the gray fog, leaving Ma Baoguo anxiously watching her go.

• General Lebedev contacted Lieutenant General "Plan One" and learned that the monsters had withdrawn from the Fifth Group Army's position but gathered near the gray fog.
• Lebedev launched the "Ling Falcon," whose footage showed countless Abyssal monsters melting inside Li Wei's four-colored domain as she sat on her damaged mech eating sunflower seeds.
• Li Wei saw that she had accumulated 10.79 million Abyss Essence but decided to strengthen her foundation instead of spending it all to attempt an immediate breakthrough.
• Yun Heng told Li Wei to go deeper into the basin and promised to protect her from danger.
• Li Wei dismissed her domain and plunged into the thick gray fog while Ma Baoguo watched in alarm.

Li Wei fought through the gray fog zone, slaughtering Abyssal monsters while Yun Heng guided her. After she cleared the northern occupied zone, Western Frontier forces began an armed parade and senior commanders considered reclaiming the passage lost thirty years earlier.

• Li Wei advanced through the gray fog, where stronger monsters and poor visibility made Yun Heng’s guidance essential.
• Yun Heng, Zhang Luye, and Li Guitang watched Li Wei’s fighting and discussed her potential to surpass Yun Sheng and perhaps reach beyond the ninth order.
• Yun Heng sent Alesheni to tell Lebedev to reclaim Dragon Tooth Bunker and asked Li Guitang to request support from Li Huaiyuan’s troops.
• Yun Heng told Zhang Luye he would take him to meet Li Wei and clarified that Zhang Yansheng, not Zhang Luye, had schemed against Gu Jinzhi.
• The three northern sectors of the Western Frontier launched a general assault, but the Abyssal monsters had vanished, turning the operation into an armed parade.

Li Wei fought through the monsters in the Northern Sector before Yun Heng brought her to a pavilion above the clouds and introduced her to Zhang Luye. After Li Wei reconsidered her grudge against the Zhang family, Yun Heng told her he planned to retake the passage they had lost thirty years earlier and asked whether she supported him.

• Li Wei advanced through the trench zone, ignored Yun Heng's warning about the minefield, and mistook an old metal plate for a land mine.
• An invisible force carried Li Wei out of the gray mist and into a white Octagonal Cloud Pavilion above the clouds, where Yun Heng and Zhang Luye waited.
• Yun Heng introduced Zhang Luye as Li Wei's Big Brother Zhang, and Li Wei realized he was a Zhang family Martial Immortal who had given her the Diamond Body.
• Zhang Luye claimed a younger relative had acted on his own against Old Gu and offered to bring him to Li Wei; Yun Heng reminded her that Zhang family Grandmasters had also helped her at the arena.
• Li Wei thanked Zhang Luye and said the Zhang family had more good people than bad, and Yun Heng asked whether she supported retaking the passage lost thirty years earlier.

Li Wei learned that Yun Heng planned to reclaim the passage and asked him about the strength and cultivation stages above her rank. Yun Heng warned her against rushing her advancement and explained that Martial Immortals were judged by “No-Self,” leaving Li Wei with a clearer picture of the path ahead.

• Li Wei questioned Yun Heng about the risk that the Abyss would break its agreement if humanity pushed too far, and he assured her that the Abyss could not afford to lose mid-tier combat power.
• Li Wei agreed to support Yun Heng’s plan and accepted his Cloud Mist Tea, which sharpened her thoughts.
• Li Wei asked Yun Heng to compare the energy strength of sixth-rank fighters, Grandmasters, and Great Grandmasters, and he described the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top and Five Qi Returning to Origin stages.
• Yun Heng warned Li Wei not to rush her advancement, explaining that Gu Litong’s hurried rise to Great Grandmaster had caused hidden injuries.
• Li Wei asked how a Martial Immortal’s strength was measured, and Yun Heng answered that it was judged by “No-Self.”

Yun Heng explained that Martial Immortals grew stronger by lowering their “I” progress, and Li Wei realized her own progress was already at 10%, the level associated with a Ninth-Order Supreme Powerhouse. After Yun Heng sent her plummeting through the clouds, Li Wei returned to the Northern Alliance fortress in a blazing, sunlike descent and was greeted as a hero.

• Yun Heng explained that a Martial Immortal’s strength increased as their “I” progress fell, with 10% marking the Ninth-Order Supreme Powerhouse level.
• Li Wei checked her panel and discovered her “I” progress was already 10%, then asked Yun Heng how powerful that level was.
• Li Wei asked how many deer Yun Heng was, and Yun Heng sent her plunging through the clouds.
• At the southern observation post, Li Jiaqi pressed a Northern Alliance lieutenant colonel about searching for Li Wei until Ma Baoguo assured her that Major General Jiang would return soon.
• Li Wei descended like a golden sun near the fortress, and General Lebedev led the Northern Alliance soldiers in cheering for her.
• Li Jiaqi told the cameraman to use the recorded broadcast and make clear that the footage had been filmed at night.

After receiving honors from the Arctic Alliance and the defense army, Li Wei used the jade token Ma Baoguo gave her to enter the dream again. There, Ma Baoguo revealed that the Heavenly Ruins was an organization and invited her to join, though Li Wei pressed him to explain the conditions.

• General Lebedev awarded Li Wei the Arctic Alliance Hero Medal and made her an Honorary Major General.
• Li Wei's support legion disbanded, and she returned to Pebble Fortress for another award ceremony before reporting to the 19th Army garrison as acting legion commander.
• Li Wei speculated that Ma Baoguo, Huang Lei, and the Queen Mother belonged to a secret organization, and she hoped the jade token would bring her another dream.
• The jade token surrounded Li Wei with cyan light, and she entered the same sea of clouds as before.
• Ma Baoguo appeared as Erlang Shen, identified the place as the gateway of the Heavenly Ruins, and invited Li Wei to join the organization.
• Li Wei asked whether the invitation came with conditions, but Ma Baoguo insisted there were none.

Li Wei entered the Heavenly Ruins with Ma Baoguo, questioning its rules and the purpose of her mask as they crossed the Cloud Bridge. At the ruined Lingxiao Hall, she mocked the Jade Emperor’s title, prompting Ma Baoguo to warn her that disrespecting high divine seats could bring divine retribution.

• Li Wei learned that her White Jade Mask concealed her identity, voice, and aura, and Ma Baoguo demonstrated its effect.
• Ma Baoguo urged Li Wei to enter the ruins, and she complained about the danger, work-injury coverage, and salary before crossing the Cloud Bridge with him.
• Li Wei asked about entering in spirit and acquiring an inheritance, while Ma Baoguo explained that the Heavenly Ruins formed her temporary body and put off answering about inheritances.
• Li Wei and Ma Baoguo reached the ruined Lingxiao Hall, where Ma Baoguo wondered why the Jade Emperor’s divine seat seemed to have someone despite the Jade Emperor being male.
• Li Wei misheard the title as “Bathing Emperor” and laughed, so Ma Baoguo warned that disrespecting high divine seats could damage her divine soul or destroy it; Li Wei offered a perfunctory bow.

Li Wei followed Ma Baoguo through the immortal palace ruins to receive a divine-position inheritance, but rejected the powerful Doumu Yuanjun position because its bonuses did not suit her. Ma Baoguo was left stunned by her ability to return the inheritance as she asked whether he had anything better.

• Ma Baoguo led Li Wei through the ruins of Ling Xiao Palace after learning she had not sensed an inheritance calling to her.
• Ma Baoguo brought Li Wei to a jeweled crown, which immediately entered her body and granted her the incomplete divine position of Doumu Yuanjun.
• Li Wei inspected the position’s temporary stellar powers and lack of an inheritance or magic treasure, then decided its benefits were unsuitable for her.
• Li Wei removed the jeweled crown and returned it to its place, leaving Ma Baoguo shocked that a divine position could be rejected after inheritance.

Li Wei searched the Heavenly Palace ruins for a divine position whose bonuses suited her, rejecting many options before finding Immortal Heng'e in the Moon Palace. She equipped it and realized its Great Yin Attribute bonus could greatly increase her power as she leveled it up.

• Li Wei tried numerous divine positions in the first ruins, but rejected them because their bonuses were unsuitable and they had no inheritances or Magic Treasures.
• Ma Baoguo told Li Wei that the vacant Doumu Yuanjun position was the only lower-ranked option, but she remained unimpressed and continued searching.
• After several more locations, Li Wei asked whether the Immortal Palace had a Moon Palace, prompting Ma Baoguo to lead her to the ruined Guanghan Palace.
• Li Wei entered the main hall and equipped the incomplete Immortal Heng'e divine position, which had 100% compatibility and boosted Great Yin Attribute cultivation methods and Combat Methods.
• Li Wei saw that Immortal Heng'e increased her maximum qi and blood and gleefully imagined how powerful the bonus could become when fully developed.

Li Wei became a probationary member of the Heavenly Ruins as Immortal Heng'e and learned she would attend the Peach Banquet. Elsewhere, Yun Sheng told Shen Yaochi that the Jade Emperor was the true leader and the hope of the era, then gave her an ancient scroll to deliver to him.

• Ma Baoguo explained how Li Wei could enter the Heavenly Ruins and contact him, while warning her not to investigate or reveal members' identities.
• Ma Baoguo told Li Wei the organization would hold a Peach Banquet for the newly appointed Jade Emperor, and she left as Immortal Heng'e.
• Yun Sheng told Shen Yaochi he would send someone to investigate the matter in the Western Border and gave her a scroll for the Jade Emperor.
• Yun Sheng revealed that the Jade Emperor was the true leader of the Heavenly Ruins and the hope of the era.
• Shen Yaochi asked why Yun Sheng would not present the scroll at the Peach Banquet, and he teased her about her relationship with the Jade Emperor.

Yun Sheng left Shen Yaochi to guide the new Jade Emperor and prepare for the Peach Banquet, while Li Wei completed the Immortal Heng'e godhood and endured its massive enhancement. Her awakening restored part of the Moon Palace and stirred Eternal Night, which sensed an old acquaintance had awakened.

• Yun Sheng told Shen Yaochi he would miss the Peach Banquet, gave her a scroll for the Jade Emperor, and departed after instructing her to explain the Heavenly Ruins and its factions.
• Li Wei returned to her room, confirmed her godhood had advanced, and tested how its enhancement affected her sword intent.
• Li Wei completed the Immortal Heng'e godhood, raising the effect of her Great Yin techniques to 1000% and her vitality to 100,000, then endured intense pain.
• A ruined side hall and its osmanthus trees in the Moon Palace began to restore themselves as Li Wei completed her godhood.
• Eternal Night awakened and sensed an old acquaintance, while Master Beiku questioned whether it meant Nyx or the Great Yin Star Lord.

After gaining the divine position’s qi-and-blood bonus, Li Wei upgraded her four Lotus Swords and tested the stronger Four Seasons Sword Array. She returned to base to find that Commander Li wanted her at Pebble Fortress immediately.

• Li Wei discovered that the divine position had let her body hold ten times more qi and blood without visibly changing her acupoints or meridians.
• Li Wei spent 400,000 essence points upgrading the four Lotus Swords to the Growth stage and gained deeper knowledge of the Four Seasons Sword Array.
• Li Wei tested the upgraded array in a secluded valley, finding that its range could reach nearly one thousand meters but that its qi-and-blood consumption became enormous.
• Li Wei tested the array’s Sword Qi on boulders, then recalled the swords and replenished the qi and blood she had spent.
• Qin Lan told Li Wei that Commander Li wanted her to report to Pebble Fortress immediately.

Li Wei endured a morning of theoretical training and learned that her role in Operation: Channel Reclamation was to protect construction of Dragon Tooth Bunkers and installation of Resonance Devices. At the abyss channel, Yun Heng and Master Beiku debated the odds of war before Beiku abruptly vanished, leaving Yun Heng stunned.

• Chen Jianwen led Li Wei through lessons on abyssal distortion, Resonance Devices, bunker layouts, and decades of frontier tactics.
• Chen Jianwen told Li Wei her task in the operation was to cover the construction of Dragon Tooth Bunkers and installation of Resonance Devices.
• Yun Heng and Master Beiku played chess above the abyss channel while discussing the forces humanity could assemble and the enemy’s advantage among Seventh and Eighth Order fighters.
• Master Beiku shattered the chessboard, disappeared, and accused Yun Heng of having a black heart.
• Yun Heng rose and stared toward the channel and the abyss, looking faintly stunned.

Yongye and Beiku discussed Yun Heng’s possible schemes and Yongye agreed to seek a Supreme’s attention. Meanwhile, Li Wei toured Dragon Tooth Bunker, then used the Yun Token to open a passage to the Heavenly Ruins, leaving her consciousness about to enter.

• Beiku told Yongye that Yun Heng might be testing humanity, forcing Hua Nation into a desperate situation, and using unfamiliar experts to kill through another’s hand.
• Beiku persuaded Yongye to visit a Supreme for help, and Yongye departed after telling Beiku to keep tormenting Great Dream.
• Li Wei toured Dragon Tooth Bunker, seeing its costly Resonance Device, underground transport tunnels, and troop-transport facilities.
• Back at the 19th Army’s station, Li Wei read Teacher Ma’s instructions on using the Yun Token and prepared to visit the Heavenly Ruins marketplace.
• Li Wei placed the Yun Token against her forehead, established a connection in her sea of consciousness, and opened the azure-lit passage.

Li Wei reached the Heavenly Ruins Marketplace, where Earth Virtue Star Lord Tude tried to sell her an information tablet. The encounter revealed that her guide was supposed to give her start-up Incense Money, but Li Wei had arrived without any.

• Li Wei saw the Jade Emperor, Queen Mother, and two other immortals cross Cloud Bridge, but they ignored her questions about how to use it.
• Li Wei walked to the Marketplace and found its rows of empty, humble stalls jarringly different from the surrounding immortal palaces.
• Tude introduced himself as the Earth Virtue Star Lord and offered Li Wei an information tablet for thirty Incense Money.
• Li Wei admitted she did not know what Incense Money was or have any, and Tude accused her guide of failing to provide her start-up funds.

Earth Virtue Star Lord explained Incense Money and the minor worlds of the Celestial River to Li Wei, then taught her how to control the Cloud Path. Li Wei flew without triggering the forbidden-flight punishment, while Earth Virtue was struck by lightning when he tried to fly himself.

• Earth Virtue Star Lord used his Cloud Token to store his stall goods and took Li Wei to a pavilion to explain Incense Money and the minor worlds in the Celestial River.
• Earth Virtue offered Li Wei a stone slab for twenty Incense Money, but she declined and asked him about the Heaven Ruins organization instead.
• Li Wei asked Earth Virtue to teach her how to control the Cloud Path, and he showed her a set of hand seals and a sensing method.
• Li Wei practiced and rose into the air on a cloud without triggering the expected thunder punishment.
• Earth Virtue tried to fly using his Grandmaster-level cultivation, but lightning struck him and sent him crashing to the ground.

At Yaochi, Gu Jinzhi and Shen Yaochi tried to negotiate Mazu’s support, but Ma Sirui challenged their authority and a mysterious woman repeatedly flew overhead on a noisy auspicious cloud. Ma Sirui tried to attack the woman and was overwhelmed by a deadly premonition, collapsing as her sword fell.

• Shen Yaochi asked Mazu to spread the Jade Emperor’s orthodoxy, but Ma Sirui mocked the request and questioned the Jade Emperor’s authority.
• Mazu asked whether Shen Yaochi’s proposal was Gu Jinzhi’s intention, and Gu Jinzhi prepared to answer.
• A woman on an auspicious cloud roared over the group twice, leaving a fixed letter S in the sky and startling the deities.
• Mazu offered to consider the proposal if Gu Jinzhi and Shen Yaochi could provide benefits, but the woman flew past again and left a letter B beside the S.
• Ma Sirui drew her sword toward the woman, felt certain she would die, and collapsed as her sword clattered onto the jade platform.

Li Wei learned about Heavenly Ruins’ factions and the closed Marketplace while asking Earth Virtue Star Lord about her cloud token. Before she left, he offered her a way to earn five thousand Incense Money.

• Li Wei discovered that her cloud token held a small storage space, and Earth Virtue Star Lord admitted that the stone tablet he had tried to sell her was useless.
• Earth Virtue Star Lord explained that Heavenly Ruins’ members were divided among aristocratic families, the Reconstruction Faction, and a neutral faction that included the Seafood Faction.
• Earth Virtue Star Lord told Li Wei that the aristocratic families faction had closed the Marketplace after failing to seize the Jade Emperor divine position.
• As Li Wei prepared to leave, Earth Virtue Star Lord noticed her white cloud token and asked about her strength, then offered her a chance to earn five thousand Incense Money.

Li Wei left the Heavenly Ruins and was jolted into action by a midnight assembly horn. Meanwhile, Zhang Queling helped her friend Yao Zhixue abandon a hopeless rescue attempt and resolve to escape the city and seek revenge.

• Li Wei celebrated her rewards from the Heavenly Ruins, then hurried into her combat uniform when an assembly horn sounded and demanded to know where Little Sea Urchin was.
• Zhang Queling urged Yao Zhixue to stop crying over a city massacre after three failed attempts to save its civilians.
• Zhang Queling showed Yao Zhixue a map of the city and offered to lead a breakout using the intelligence gathered from earlier attempts.
• Yao Zhixue admitted no one could save the civilians, but said she did not want to give up on the world and wanted revenge.
• Zhang Queling agreed to help Yao Zhixue escape the encirclement and target the killers through gradual assassinations.

Zhang Queling entered Yao Zhixue’s hidden safehouse beneath a dry well, endured the surge of her friend’s emotions, and found a group of rescued civilians in danger of being discovered. After promising to draw the enemy away, she sealed the safehouse and climbed out of the well alone.

• Zhang Queling regained control after Yao Zhixue’s emotions overwhelmed her and found herself in a stone chamber beneath a dry well.
• Yao Zhixue told Zhang Queling that the safehouse held civilians rescued from the city and that enemies might discover them within hours.
• Uncle Dan and the civilians urged Zhang Queling to escape Yangzhou, but she ordered them to stay quiet and protect one another.
• Zhang Queling promised to lure the enemy away, sealed the stone entrance, concealed it, and climbed toward the wellhead.