Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his repeatedly broken leg, Ji Jue reached Rebirth Rank and was discharged from the sanatorium. He took Lu Ma and the children to Heavenly Gate’s university sports meet, where he discovered that Coast Industry had sponsored the event with his money.

• Ji Jue reached Rebirth Rank after spending more than half a month recovering at the sanatorium, and Professor Ye gave him research notes on the Nine Forms before sending him away.
• Ji Jue left the sanatorium after arguing over his hospital bill with Xie Lan and threatening to involve the Security Bureau.
• With his businesses running without much need for his attention, Ji Jue took Lu Ma, Third Sister, and Youngest to visit Lu Ling at Heavenly Gate.
• Ji Jue carried the children around the campus and joined them in watching the Southeast University Alliance Autumn Games.
• Ji Jue saw a prominent Coast Industry sponsorship banner and realized that his own company had paid for the lavish sports meet.

Ji Jue spent time with Lu Ma and his siblings, then watched Lu Ling compete at Tianmen University’s sports meet. When Governor Xu Chao Xian appeared, a masked cleaner tried to shoot him, but Ji Jue recognized Tong Zhiwu’s presence and realized the attack would fail.

• Ji Jue realized Coast needed more technical staff and discovered that Isis had already started forming a research and development team; he praised her after she contacted him.
• Ji Jue promised Lu Ma he would help Youngest and Third Sister with their schooling, and Lu Ma urged him to find a girlfriend and start a family.
• Lu Ling competed in track and field at Tianmen University, winning silver in the 100 meters, bronze in pole vault, and first place in hurdles while Lu Ma filmed her.
• Xu Chao Xian attended the closing ceremony, and Ji Jue booed him while recalling the damage his policies had caused to his family and the poor.
• A masked cleaner pulled a weapon from a trash can and fired at Xu Chao Xian; Ji Jue filmed the attack and sensed Tong Zhiwu nearby, realizing the bullet would not succeed.

Ji Jue and Tong Shan helped stop an attack on Xu Chao Xian and exposed a larger plot, though one infiltrator escaped. Tong Shan revealed that he was leaving Yacheng, then invited Ji Jue to dinner, where Wen Wen and the others immediately drank the liquor Ji Jue brought.

• Tong Shan deflected an attacker's steel nails, and security subdued the gunman before he could reach Xu Chao Xian.
• Ji Jue intercepted messages about a second attacker, and Tong Shan froze the bomber while Ji Jue disabled the explosives and helped uncover the conspirators' leads.
• The Security Bureau arrested most of the attackers, but a Heart Pivot escaped without being identified.
• Ji Jue rebuffed Xu Chao Xian, then learned from Tong Shan that the attackers belonged to a White State restoration group and that the first attacker was a victim driven to violence by tragedy.
• Tong Shan told Ji Jue he was leaving the Yacheng Security Bureau and invited him to dinner; Wen Wen and the others drank the liquor Ji Jue brought before Tong Zhiwu could have any.

Ji Jue and his friends held a drunken farewell for Tong Shan, who revealed he had reached Transcendence before leaving for Central Earth with Tong Hua. Afterward, Wen Wen tried to resign, but Lü Yingyue refused, warning that she was acting out of anger over Wen Zheng; Wen Wen ended up back at the North Mountain District Branch Office.

• Ji Jue and Wen Wen started a drinking contest, then Ji Xue, Ji Liu, Xu Guan, and Tong Shan joined the chaotic party.
• Ji Jue and Tong Shan discussed Xu Chao Xian, Yacheng’s political situation, and Tong Shan’s upcoming transfer to Central Earth.
• Tong Shan revealed that he had reached Transcendence and accepted a Coast Industry Central Earth Branch acting supervisor badge from Ji Jue.
• Tong Shan and Tong Hua departed for Central Earth, and Wen Wen later rode away after saying goodbye to the group.
• Lü Yingyue rejected Wen Wen’s resignation and challenged her to consider whether she was trying to confront Wen Zheng out of anger.
• Wen Wen rode until her motorcycle ran out of fuel outside the North Mountain District Branch Office, where she silently watched the building as a girl in a white dress left.

Ji Jue managed New Spring’s expanding prosperity and Workshop affairs while weighing a cautious offer of deeper alchemical cooperation. He continued seeking wolf-fiendified subjects and information about Rotten Scales Xie Heli, the Sower, and the Imperial Jade Seal, then faced a new challenge as his advancement through Rebirth brought blessings into view.

• Ji Jue ate noodles in New Spring’s bustling market and reflected on the town’s rapid growth and uncertain future.
• Ji Jue checked the transplanted Workshop modules, declined an Association invitation, and postponed a deeper alchemical deal with the Red Federation while leaving room to negotiate over Wild Bazaar bounties.
• Ji Jue reviewed costly, inconclusive intelligence gathered for his bounty on wolf-fiendified people and his search for Rotten Scales Xie Heli.
• An Neng warned Ji Jue that finding living wolves, especially elusive lone wolves, would be difficult, while Ji Jue continued waiting for information about the usurper and Imperial Jade Seal.
• Ji Jue chose not to revive the Evil Transformation Cult or question Ye Xian about the Sacrificial Temple incident, and considered the blessings presented after his smooth advancement through Rebirth.

Ji Jue asked Ye Xian how to obtain Myriad Things Self-Transformation, but she urged him to build his mastery patiently before pursuing Rebirth Blessings. After reflecting on his impatience, Ji Jue demonstrated how effortlessly he could use Barehanded Refinement at the Rebirth Rank, though he still did not know how to complete his Rebirth Form.

• Ji Jue learned that Myriad Things Self-Transformation required mastering and combining the Four Systems of Elevation, Purification, Extraction-Transformation, and integration.
• Ye Xian told Ji Jue to develop his abilities gradually and warned him against rushing toward Blessings before completing his Rebirth Form.
• Ji Jue asked Isis whether he was impatient, and Isis joked that a bullet could resolve his troubles.
• Isis fired a bullet at Ji Jue, who caught and refined it into a figurine, then a flying bird, and finally a steel ingot.
• Ji Jue reflected on his Rebirth Form and admitted he had no idea where to begin.

After his Masterwork brought him fame and a flood of offers, Ji Jue kept his focus on study and workshop work, then successfully tempered Pan Ying toward becoming Victory Over Evil. The Chongguang Church’s Grand Elder called him urgently with an important matter to entrust, leaving Ji Jue ready to hear the details.

• Ji Jue imagined his future Rebirth Form and returned to work after Isis dismissed his daydreaming.
• The Association publicized Ji Jue’s Masterwork, granting him Three Golden Insignias and drawing widespread attention, orders, and invitations.
• Ji Jue screened business offers with Tide Sound’s help and took on equipment work for his old friends and allies.
• Ji Jue reheated Pan Ying, subdued some of its bloodthirsty aura, and saw a faint scarlet emerge as it moved toward becoming Victory Over Evil.
• Isis told Ji Jue that the Chongguang Church’s Grand Elder had called repeatedly, and Ji Jue answered the urgent third call.
• The Grand Elder apologized for calling late and told Ji Jue that he had an important matter to entrust to him.

Ji Jue learned that the Holy Light Cult’s medical team had been detained in the Puna Bantu Islands, where Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading amid civil war. He agreed to rescue the team and located their vessel, then called General Minkler to enlist help intercepting the pursuing destroyer.

• The Grand Elder explained that Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading in the Puna Bantu Islands and that a warlord had detained the Holy Light Cult’s medical team, including the elder’s assistant and his wife.
• Ji Jue promised to do everything he could to bring the medical team back safely and received the vessel’s registration number.
• Isis used Federation satellite signals to locate the medical team’s vessel and identified the old destroyer towing it.
• Ji Jue asked Isis to take over the destroyer’s navigation and steer it north, then called General Minkler about the chance to earn military merit.
• Minkler eagerly asked Ji Jue to tell him more about the Puna Bantu destroyer.

Yu Shu and the other captives faced execution aboard a ship after their captors abandoned the ransom plan. Just as an officer prepared to shoot Yu Shu, an unseen attacker wounded him, and dawn broke over the empty sea.

• Yu Shu failed to save a wounded crewman, then ended the man's suffering himself and broke down in grief.
• The captain told the prisoners that General Ai Kongzuo had ordered them killed rather than ransomed.
• Soldiers forced the captives onto the deck and began shooting those who refused to pray to the general.
• Yu Shu defied the officer, saying there was no heaven and that the officer and his general would go to hell.
• An unseen gunshot shattered the officer's arm before he could shoot Yu Shu, and dawn broke.

The Seven Cities Allied Defense fleet rescued Yu Shu and the medical team from Ai Kongzuo’s destroyer, while Minkler turned the rescue into a public victory. Yu Shu reunited with Nun Leta Yue and grieved over killing someone, as Ji Jue learned more about the attackers and ordered their swift execution.

• Minkler’s fleet surrounded Ai Kongzuo’s destroyer, subdued its crew, and rescued Yu Shu and the medical team.
• Minkler told Yu Shu that Ji Jue had sent him and that Yu Shu’s father had been thinking of him.
• Nun Leta Yue arrived, assured the medical team that Father was safe, and comforted Yu Shu after he confessed he had killed someone.
• Yu Shu glimpsed a mysterious island and The Tower in the mist before they vanished.
• Isis reported brief signal losses and abnormal Spiritual Substance fluctuations to Ji Jue, who ordered continued analysis if they happened again.
• After hearing about the crimes committed by Ai Kongzuo’s men, Ji Jue told Minkler to execute them swiftly.

Seven Cities backed Minkler as the conflict with Puna Bantu escalated, and the city-state collapsed after Ai Kongzuo’s assassination and a devastating Dream Loss Syndrome outbreak. At Coast Industry, Ji Jue hired Yu Shu, while Yu Shu’s father explained that his son had left the Holy Light Cult after committing murder and urged him to find his own path.

• Minkler and Ji Jue agreed to cooperate, and Seven Cities transferred supplies and alchemical equipment to Coast Industry.
• Ai Kongzuo was killed at a banquet, and Puna Bantu descended into political chaos before Dream Loss Syndrome turned its capital into a Demon Domain.
• The Holy Light Cult elder visited Ji Jue with Yu Shu, and Ji Jue hired Yu Shu after learning about his medical, administrative, and summoning skills.
• The elder told Ji Jue that Yu Shu had committed murder and could no longer remain in the cult, and Ji Jue agreed to provide him a place at Coast Industry.
• The elder explained to Yu Shu that he needed time to confront his doubts, then left him to begin his new life at Coast Industry.

Yu Shu proved highly capable at improving New Spring Town’s operations and became Ji Jue’s trusted assistant. He warned Ji Jue that illegal immigration was bringing serious risks to the region, including the continuing spread of the Spirit Plague.

• Ji Jue arranged for Isis to keep an eye on Yu Shu, who adapted to work across Coast, Courier Logistics, and New Spring Town and introduced reforms that earned widespread respect.
• Old Gou and Yan Craftsman sent Yu Shu to Ji Jue’s office, where he took charge of organizing reports, proposals, and daily work.
• Ji Jue learned that Yu Shu had chosen the Vortex Lineage after his father advised him that it was safer and more enduring than Ascension.
• Yu Shu told Ji Jue that illegal immigration from Thousand Isles had become increasingly serious and was bringing illicit goods and other dangers into New Spring.
• Yu Shu reported that a medical team in Seven Cities had confirmed the Spirit Plague was still spreading.

Ji Jue approved an urgent vaccination effort for New Spring after Yu Shu warned that Dream Loss Syndrome could cause catastrophic spiritual effects if it spread unchecked. As the Spirit Plague reached settlements across the Federation, a stowaway woman fell unconscious aboard a fishing boat, and the chapter ended with the threat confronting the cities despite their confidence in Heavenly Overseer's Law.

• Yu Shu warned Ji Jue that Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading unusually widely and urged him to personally support vaccination efforts.
• Ji Jue approved buying vaccines for the full-time staff and New Spring, then signed Yu Shu’s application to address the outbreak seriously.
• Yu Shu explained that large-scale Dream Loss Syndrome could cause a Collapse Effect through the loss of consciousness and selfhood, leaking Spiritual Substance and creating fertile ground for other dangers.
• A fishing boat carrying stowaways reached the Federation coast, where a sailor named Big Cunt discovered a woman unconscious in the hold and her child crying beside her.
• The ship owner ordered the woman thrown overboard and gave no answer when Big Cunt asked what would happen to the child.
• Dream Loss Syndrome spread through wilderness settlements across the Federation while cities relied on superficial precautions and Heavenly Overseer's Law to reassure themselves.

Wen Wen discovered that Dream Loss Syndrome had spread through a cult’s victims and unleashed Spiritual Substance worms across the Wilderness. After the first infected person died in New Spring, Ji Jue began preparing a large-scale alchemical operation called Worm.

• Wen Wen found a building full of transformed victims, destroyed them, and froze the emerging Spiritual Substance worms with her Stasis Field.
• Spiritual Substance worms spread through the Wilderness, forcing Settlements to seal themselves off as refugees crowded New Spring’s checkpoints.
• Lu Feng ordered guards to disperse the crowd, while Yu Shu reported that vaccine suppliers had stopped fulfilling orders and returned their payments.
• Ji Jue learned that the first person in New Spring had died after falling asleep, and heard that the man had been impoverished and recently lost his wife.
• Ji Jue ordered Isis to prepare mercury, mobilize Spiritual Substance reserves, and begin the large-scale alchemical operation named Worm.

Ji Jue rebuilt the Poison Heart Ring into a vast new Spirit Essence creation, then powered it with Haizhou’s electricity to awaken Isis. The activation sent an Iron Curtain across the sky as silver rain began to fall over the city.

• Ji Jue stopped the mercury eruption with the Matrix of Non-Aggression and began dismantling the Poison Heart Ring’s Spirit Essence structure.
• Ji Jue used his Soul Shadow and Chun Jun to remake the ring, correcting its three Blessings and merging its structure with mercury.
• Ji Jue dismissed Isis’s warning about the creation’s impact and ordered Project Three to begin.
• Coast Industry cut civilian power and drew electricity from Haizhou’s wind turbines to activate the mercury creation.
• Isis opened her eyes as a pillar of silver light rose from Coast Industry and pierced the clouds.
• An Iron Curtain spread across the sky, and silver rain fell over Haizhou as Gou Er watched in confusion.

Tong Yuan traced Dream Loss Syndrome to Hua Xu Jun’s vanished dream world and triggered the dormant Spiritual Substance moths across the Federation Coastal Area. In New Spring, Ji Jue and Isis unleashed a silver storm that purified the Spirit Plague, while the Crown of Isis advanced into the wilderness to destroy more moths.

• Tong Yuan identified Dream Loss Syndrome as Hua Xu Jun’s lingering invitation to leave the mortal world for an eternal dream, then traced its source to an island marked by Tyrant’s Tower and several powerful forces.
• Tong Yuan used the Ma Family’s Fate Observation to find a crucial thread and drive the dormant Spiritual Substance moths across the Federation Coastal Area into a frenzy.
• Ji Jue watched Isis take form in the silver clouds above New Spring and use Isis’s Hand to remove infected Spiritual Substance from people and seal away the plague’s remnants.
• Ji Jue named Isis’s heavenly vessel the Crown of Isis after Isis threatened to tear off his mouth for proposing a cruder name.
• Isis moved the Crown of Isis toward the wilderness and began destroying the swarms of moths rising from its polluted landscapes.

Ji Jue used the Crown of Isis to unleash a vast Spiritual Substance-cleansing storm across Haizhou, destroying swarms of moths and a disaster beast while leaving settlements and their people largely unharmed. As the storm continued under the Heavenly Overseer’s apparent noninterference, a girl in a white dress appeared in Ji Jue’s Workshop and addressed him with mocking curiosity.

• Isis’s Crown of Isis drained Spiritual Substance from the air and annihilated swarms of moths as its storm swept across Haizhou.
• The silver storm passed through settlements, terrifying their inhabitants but leaving them and their possessions unharmed.
• A rotting disaster beast rose from a swamp and attacked the Crown of Isis, so Isis turned the rain crimson and ground the creature and its parasites apart.
• Ji Jue recognized that Isis had devised a weapon structure resembling Pan Ying’s and praised her before returning to his design work.
• The Security Bureau issued Lü Garrison Chief’s notice calling the devastation routine disinfection, while the Heavenly Overseer did not intervene and seemed to ease its restrictions.
• A girl in a white dress appeared behind Ji Jue in the Workshop and remarked that she had not expected someone like him to exist.

Wen Wen traced the Spirit Plague to the abandoned Songxiang Waterworks and found Wen Su behind the underground horrors. After destroying Wen Su’s grotesque “gift,” Wen Wen seized her sister’s illusion, but Wen Su appeared again to embrace her.

• Wen Wen arrived at the abandoned Songxiang Waterworks, identified it as the source of the Spirit Plague, and sent Little An to protect Tong Hua while Lao Zhang stayed behind.
• Wen Wen stormed the waterworks and unleashed her Realm of Encirclement, crystalizing the compound and wiping out the swarming creatures.
• Wen Wen entered the underground purification plant and discovered a vast Domain filled with distorted victims reliving their dreams.
• Wen Wen recognized Wen Su as the mastermind and confronted her over the horrors she had created.
• Wen Su taunted Wen Wen about her suffering and called the horrors a gift, so Wen Wen annihilated the Domain and seized Wen Su’s illusion.
• Wen Su reappeared, embraced Wen Wen, and told her to show her emotions freely.

Wen Wen rejected Wen Su’s pleas to return home, while Ji Jue attacked Wen Su’s spirit projection inside Embers' Workshop. He left the projection pinned and battered, with its connection to the outside world suppressed.

• Wen Wen refused to go back with Wen Su and warned her that she might not survive the encounter.
• Wen Su threatened to kill Tong, An, Zhang, and Ji Jue, provoking Wen Wen’s contempt and causing Wen Su to vomit blood.
• Ji Jue ambushed Wen Su’s projection with Spirit Essence Swords and used Scene Tremor to inflict pain through its link to her real self.
• Wen Su tried to manipulate Ji Jue’s emotions, but he had mechanized his body and shielded his consciousness with Chunjun’s shadow.
• Ji Jue used contaminated Spirit Essence Crystals, New Spring, and the Feigong Matrix to sever Wen Su’s options and restrain her projection.
• Ji Jue pinned the projection with Chun Jun and repeatedly slapped it, disrupting its spirit essence and thoughts.

Ji Jue captured Heart Pivot’s split spirit and used a Great Evil sacrifice to send Abyssal power through its connection to the main body. Wen Wen struck Wen Su as the spirit’s corruption reached her, but Wen Su laughed after calling her “Big sister.”

• Ji Jue sealed Heart Pivot’s split spirit inside the Workshop, cutting off its anchors and escape routes with help from Little Cow and Horse.
• Ji Jue told the captive he would destroy Heart Pivot completely, then arranged sixteen bloodstained iron cases around a sacrificial ground.
• Ji Jue summoned the Great Evil Abyss and forced its immense, corrupting power into the captive spirit, sending the overflow through its connection to Heart Pivot’s main body.
• Wen Su’s blank-faced body began leaking darkness as the corruption reached her, and she tried to sever the connection.
• Wen Wen attacked Wen Su with Minerva’s Spear, declaring that their conflict ended there.
• Wen Su called Wen Wen “Big sister,” then laughed with delight despite her pain.