Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue exploited the endless Dreamland reboots to spread Paradise through the Sea of Suffering, creating the King of Flies and forcing Wen Sheng to repeatedly reboot the world to preserve it. The chapter ended with Ji Jue taunting Wen Sheng for becoming Dreamland’s savior and asking him to say thank you.

• Ji Jue repeatedly fought Wen Sheng while studying and testing techniques, provoking him through nonstop mockery as Wen Wen joined the battle.
• Wen Sheng unleashed a Tidal Wave of darkness, but Wen Wen’s counterattack triggered another reboot and returned them to the starting point.
• Ji Jue revealed that Paradise was parasitizing the Sea of Suffering, turning souls’ dreams into identical industrial landscapes and producing creation spirits.
• The creation spirits merged through Chun Jun’s linkage into the King of Flies, which spread through Dreamland and grew stronger with every reboot.
• After forty-one cycles, the King of Flies could destabilize Dreamland in eleven minutes and thirty-one seconds, forcing the Holy God to reboot repeatedly to protect it.
• Ji Jue called Wen Sheng a savior for preserving Dreamland and asked why he would not thank him.

Ji Jue used the Stagnant Rot created through Wen Sheng’s repeated cycles to kindle the Edge of Transformation and destroy Wen Sheng’s Dreamland. Just as Ji Jue moved to finish him, a Black Cat stopped time and declared that Wen Sheng had broken the rules, while Myriad Transformation Paradise arrived in Huaxu Nation.

• Wen Sheng repeatedly restarted the cycle, but Ji Jue revealed that the repetitions had helped create Stagnant Rot throughout the Dreamland.
• A Silver Radiance took root in the absolute darkness, and the Edge of Transformation ignited, burned away Sin Corruption, and returned to Ji Jue’s hand.
• Ji Jue wielded the Edge of Transformation to destroy the Holy God, the Great Serpent, and Wen Sheng’s Dreamland, then pierced Wen Sheng’s remaining soul.
• Wen Sheng tried to destroy the Dreamland with the jewel in his hand, but his attempt failed and Ji Jue’s victory appeared certain.
• A Black Cat froze the collapsing Dreamland and told Wen Sheng that his plan had failed because he broke the rules.
• Outside the Dreamland, the world fell silent as Myriad Transformation Paradise arrived in Huaxu Nation.

Tong Yuan revealed to Tong Ting that the Lord of Yellow Millet had returned and hinted that other Chaos Era kings still endured. As Myriad Transformation Paradise reopened before Ji Jue, Wen Sheng’s dream collapsed and he died reaching for its illusions, leaving the Black Cat to address Ji Jue.

• Tong Yuan told Tong Ting that the Lord of Yellow Millet had survived and hinted that a king remained inside the Immortal Fish.
• Myriad Transformation Paradise reappeared, drawing the fragments and dreams back into its original realm while the Black Cat judged Wen Sheng for denying his dream.
• The Black Cat revealed that Wen Sheng’s repeated attempts at Ascension had served someone else’s plan, and Wen Sheng broke down after learning he had been expendable material.
• The Black Cat opened the way to Myriad Transformation Paradise, and Wen Sheng died reaching toward its visions as his remaining spirit burned away.
• The Black Cat turned to Ji Jue and offered to introduce itself after recognizing that he had won the struggle.

Ji Jue met Hua Xu Jun in Myriad Transformation Paradise and asked him to give the trapped souls beautiful dreams, help a sleeping girl reconcile her consciousness and nature, and let her dream of an ordinary, loving family. After refusing Hua Xu Jun’s invitation to remain in Paradise, Ji Jue faced the arrival of Supreme Goodness · Ascension, only for Waste Ruins to smash it aside and descend after him.

• Ji Jue realized Hua Xu Jun had drawn him into the dream and learned that Non-Aggression and his other inherited powers made him the Mohist eligible to fulfill an ancient contract.
• Hua Xu Jun offered Ji Jue a reward, and Ji Jue asked him to give the souls trapped in Paradise beautiful dreams and let them return if they chose to wake.
• Ji Jue asked Hua Xu Jun to resolve the sleeping girl’s Discord through a dream of growing up in a loving, ordinary family.
• Hua Xu Jun offered to make the girl into whatever Ji Jue wanted, but Ji Jue declined the invitation to remain in Paradise and chose to accept the world as it was.
• Supreme Goodness · Ascension descended into Paradise, but Waste Ruins smashed it apart and followed Ji Jue inside.

Ji Jue received Waste Ruins’ Blessing, discovered its power could turn matter into a life-draining Sin Corruption artifact, and heard Hua Xu Jun explain the hidden cost of Supreme Goodness. Ji Jue rejected the offer to turn back and left Myriad Transformation Paradise, which vanished again as Hua Xu Jun remained behind to watch the dreams of the world.

• Hua Xu Jun released Waste Ruins’ Blessing, Earth Bearing Sea Containing, into Ji Jue’s soul after teasing him about the corruption he had absorbed from the Vortex.
• Ji Jue tested the Blessing and found that reinforcing matter made it consume surrounding matter, Spiritual Substance, and life, while Hua Xu Jun said Ji Jue’s own actions had shaped it into a corrupted version.
• Hua Xu Jun returned Ji Jue’s King of Flies and warned him that Supreme Goodness could hide the ruin and evil created by its achievements, separating them from the world until its lock failed.
• Hua Xu Jun offered Ji Jue the chance to turn back, but Ji Jue chose to continue despite the risk of falling into the hell he helped create.
• Ji Jue asked Hua Xu Jun about his desires, thanked him, and left through the gate as Myriad Transformation Paradise collapsed and vanished.
• Hua Xu Jun watched the departed Ji Jue and returned to the depths of Dreamland while Wen Zheng looked down from above.

Wen Zheng stopped his attempt to seize Myriad Transformation Paradise after Tian Yi warned him off, then revealed that he had invented the prophecy he had spent his life defying. Meanwhile, Wen Wen dreamed of finding the lonely dragon she had once been and chose to stay beside it.

• Tian Yi warned Wen Zheng that acting further could draw the attention of other Locksmiths, and Wen Zheng abandoned his attempt to take Myriad Transformation Paradise.
• Pang Pei told Tian Yi that Wen Zheng’s claims were likely true and that the Guide aimed to draw the Federation and Empire into Central Earth; Tian Yi agreed to escalate the situation.
• Wen Zheng told the Harvester that he had added the prophecy’s final half himself and would oppose fate rather than let it dictate his enemies’ lives.
• Wen Zheng said he loved the children he had raised while accepting their hatred of him, then left, wondering whether the third seed would fulfill his prophecy.
• Wen Wen dreamed of her noisy family life and traveled until she found a dragon buried in a rift valley, recognizing it as the self she had abandoned.
• Wen Wen shared her blanket with the dragon, and they fell asleep together in the darkness.

After awakening from the Yellow Millet Dream, Ji Jue and Wen Wen remembered their feelings for each other and shared a kiss before Wen Wen left to reclaim her money and accept Lü Yingyue’s invitation to receive the Transmission of Mountain Light. Ji Jue gave Isis the King of Flies and began telling her about the dream.

• Ji Jue woke up hungover and trapped in Wen Wen’s sleep embrace, while Isis revealed how much alcohol he had ordered and spent.
• Wen Wen woke, realized she had groped Ji Jue while half-asleep, and learned that their recent life together had been a dream.
• After Wen Wen first kissed Ji Jue, she admitted she was not ready to name her feelings, then kissed him again and called it his reward.
• Wen Wen left for the Auto Repair Shop, reclaimed her money, and called Lü Yingyue to accept the Transmission of Mountain Light.
• Ji Jue gave Isis the King of Flies and started recounting the dream, while Isis threatened him with a blade.

Yan Fei brought his younger brother to New Spring, where Mister Ji had arranged shelter, supplies, and a medical consultation for them. Meanwhile, Ji Jue oversaw construction at Puna Bantu, revealed his Rebirth Form, and flew into the open sky.

• Yan Fei persuaded the captain to take him and his unconscious younger brother close to shore, then accepted a gun and headed toward New Spring.
• Yan Fei arrived at New Spring, collected the provisions and textbooks Mister Ji had prepared, and was directed to find Doctor Xie for his brother’s care.
• Yan Fei’s younger brother said that people in New Spring seemed to be smiling and believed Mister Ji was not as fierce as Yan Fei had described.
• Ji Jue managed construction at Puna Bantu with Isis and the creation spirits, while Little Cow and Horse played among them.
• Ji Jue transformed into his Rebirth Form and used steel wings and vector engines to soar above the clouds and hover between the sea and sky.

Lou Feng and Lou Yanyue reached New Spring, where Lou Feng saw how dramatically Ji Jue’s projects had transformed the Wilderness. Ji Jue brought them underground and unveiled a vast sea of Creation Spirits, introducing his work as the Super-Giant Intelligent Composite, [King of Flies].

• Lou Feng and Lou Yanyue drove through the Wilderness, where crows attacked their SUV and traffic jammed around a truck stuck in the mud.
• Lou Feng saw the growing towns, factories, and courier infrastructure on the way to New Spring.
• Lou Feng examined New Spring’s electric, cat-eared machines and realized they were Alchemical Creations with unusually mature Creation Spirits.
• Lou Yanyue teased Ji Jue about dating, then befriended him while Lou Feng grumbled at their rapport.
• Ji Jue led Lou Feng and Lou Yanyue underground and revealed thousands of Spirit Essence Crystals releasing an ocean of Creation Spirits.
• Ji Jue introduced the creation formed from those spirits as the Super-Giant Intelligent Composite, [King of Flies].

Ji Jue invited Lou Feng to join a Joint Workshop to develop the King of Flies, and after a tense negotiation Lou Feng accepted the proposal. Lou Yanyue then turned his lingering resentment into a challenge against Ji Jue, drawing both families and their allies into preparations for a duel.

• Lou Feng analyzed the King of Flies colony and realized Ji Jue wanted the Lou Clan to fund and help develop it.
• Ji Jue offered Lou Feng twenty percent of a new company and proposed a Joint Workshop, while Lou Feng argued over the terms and learned Ji Jue had secured key patents.
• Ji Jue appealed to Lou Feng as an equal and handed him a proposal; Lou Feng accepted it, then regretted agreeing to drink Ji Jue's terrible tea.
• Lou Yanyue found Lou Feng brooding and urged him to fight Ji Jue if he was unhappy, then invoked her authority to challenge Ji Jue to a duel on the Lou Family's behalf.
• Lou Xian, Lou Guan, Master Kong, Ye Xian, and Tong Ting arrived in New Spring as preparations gathered momentum, leaving Ji Jue and Lou Feng wondering whether they could still avoid a fight.

Ji Jue and Lou Feng prepared to duel after their teachers questioned their choices and warned them about the stakes. As the two students faced each other, Ye Xian and Kong Qingyan traded cutting pleasantries, leaving Ji Jue and Lou Feng terrified of the consequences of losing.

• At the lounge, Tong Ting was appointed referee as spectators gathered to watch Ji Jue and Lou Feng's duel.
• Kong Qingyan challenged Lou Feng to explain why he had risked his artisan independence and future, and Lou Feng admitted the decision was his before she gave him permission to fight.
• Ye Xian warned Ji Jue that Lou Feng had studied him closely, but told him to make his own decision and face the duel.
• Ji Jue and Lou Feng met again and realized their wager put their legs at risk as well as their futures and standing in the association.
• Ye Xian and Kong Qingyan exchanged barbed pleasantries while Ji Jue and Lou Feng backed away, too frightened to call off the duel.

Ji Jue and Lou Feng began their long-awaited duel in a conjured arena, trading traps and overwhelming attacks that Ji Jue endured with his Armored Dragon Mountain. The fight turned when Ji Jue appeared behind Lou Feng and stabbed him through with the Chun Jun sword.

• Kong Qingyan and Ye Xian expanded the lounge into a vast arena and sent Ji Jue and Lou Feng in with their respective preparations.
• Ji Jue and Lou Feng launched simultaneous surprise attacks, then countered each other's techniques without taking damage.
• Lou Feng unleashed a transformed Blazing Light torrent and parasitic void jellyfish, but Ji Jue weathered the assault in his Armored Dragon Mountain.
• Ji Jue told Lou Feng he had never considered him an opponent, then stabbed him from behind with the Chun Jun sword.

Ji Jue defeated Lou Feng in their battle after surviving Lou Feng’s spirit constructs, a Spirit Essence explosion, and the hidden Han Guang Sword. Lou Feng admitted defeat before collapsing, while Ji Jue pretended he had praised him and promised to follow him as a foster father.

• Ji Jue ambushed Lou Feng with Scene Tremor, but Lou Feng neutralized most of the attack and revealed his fused Spirit Body Outer Armor.
• Lou Feng trapped Ji Jue and unleashed thirteen spirit limbs, including a Flowing Light Dagger; Ji Jue disintegrated the limbs, severed his own arm to escape, and retreated.
• Lou Feng released his Spirit Essence Colossi, and Ji Jue absorbed the Dragon Mountain Armor with Assimilation before destroying the constructs as he advanced.
• Lou Feng transformed his remaining Spirit Essence into a bomb and completed his Ascension, drawing the hidden Han Guang Sword to strike Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue endured the explosion, trapped and broke the Han Guang Sword with Dragon Mountain, and stopped Pan Ying just short of Lou Feng.
• Lou Feng acknowledged Ji Jue’s skill, then collapsed from exhaustion as Ji Jue claimed he had praised him and agreed to become his foster son.

After defeating Lou Feng, Ji Jue learned that his Rebirth Form risked Embers-style materialization and received Ye Xian’s warning to modify himself cautiously. He then expanded production of the King of Flies and secretly spread its fragments through goods shipped across Haizhou and beyond, where they could detect traces of wolves.

• Lou Feng lost his independence as an Artisan, his Workshop, and his accumulated spirit essence after Ji Jue defeated him, while Ji Jue looked forward to making him a partner.
• Ye Xian criticized Ji Jue’s Rebirth Form as dangerously empty and warned that its extensive materialization could lead to Sin Corruption.
• Ye Xian told Ji Jue to merge only with Alchemical Creations he made himself using his own body as the primary material, and Ji Jue resolved to turn his Rebirth Form into a Masterwork of his own.
• Ji Jue instructed Isis to increase King of Flies production, using failed intelligence fragments to infect cheap goods and parts with a hidden, harmless Plague.
• The infected goods entered Coast Industry’s supply routes, spreading across Haizhou and toward the Federation, the Thousand Isles, the Empire, and Central Earth, where the fragments could wither upon sensing wolves and leave traces for the King of Flies.

Lou Feng signed a five-year agreement to partner with Ji Jue and fund the King of Flies project. After Ji Jue demonstrated the Type I Riot Guard Cat’s capabilities, Lou Feng recognized its commercial potential but raised the obstacle of the Association’s controls on alchemical items.

• Lou Feng signed the Workshop Joint Agreement, making him Ji Jue’s partner and the King of Flies project’s resource supplier.
• Lou Feng rejected Ji Jue’s extravagant proposals before negotiating the budget and committing most of his assets to the project.
• Ji Jue took Lou Feng aboard the Prosperity and demonstrated the Type I Riot Guard Cat by subjecting it to gunfire, autocannon fire, explosions, and flames while Lou Feng was inside it.
• Lou Feng assessed the damaged machine’s commercial value and realized that its lack of weapons made it useful as a protective support device rather than a threat.
• Lou Feng asked how they would handle Association controls on alchemical items, and Ji Jue challenged him to identify the product’s alchemical component.

Ji Jue explained his new Gaseous Alchemy to Lou Feng and offered to teach him in exchange for resources and a five-year commitment. Lou Feng accepted the deal, mortgaged part of his family shares to secure the materials, and ended the chapter by attacking Ji Jue after being ordered back to work.

• Lou Feng examined the motherboard and realized its Creation Spirit had naturally merged with its carrier through a technique Ji Jue had developed.
• Ji Jue gave Lou Feng notes on Fluid Alchemy, Solid Alchemy, and related theories, and Lou Feng grasped how the method could cultivate spiritual-material structures.
• Ji Jue named the new discipline Gaseous Alchemy, completing the three phases and opening a path toward the Masters' domains.
• Ji Jue asked for Ascension Grease and a Foundation of Equilibrium as payment, and Lou Feng agreed to provide them after calling his family and mortgaging half his shares.
• Lou Feng returned to work after Ji Jue berated him for resting, then rolled up his sleeves and attacked his business partner.

Wen Wen prepared to leave Yacheng for a six-month rotation at the Void Abyss, entrusting North Mountain District to Ji Jue before they shared an intimate farewell. Back in New Spring, Ji Jue and Lou Feng finalized a cheaper King of Flies motherboard, and Ji Jue devised a business model for the product as Lou Feng asked how they would sell it.

• Wen Wen celebrated with Ji Jue, Tong Hua, Little An, and Lao Zhang before leaving for her Void Abyss assignment, while Tong Hua tearfully protested her departure.
• Wen Wen asked Ji Jue to look after North Mountain District, accepted his cat-shaped tracker as a farewell gift, and teased him before he caught her as she tried to leave.
• Ji Jue returned to New Spring and found that Lou Feng had finished an upgraded motherboard that reduced costs and processing difficulty.
• Ji Jue proposed cycling mature Creation Spirits into newer products, alongside memberships, rentals, and security services, while Lou Feng questioned how they would reach customers.
• Ji Jue smiled without answering when Lou Feng asked how they would sell the product.

Ji Jue planned to promote Coast Technology by staging an assassination attempt on Xu Chao Xian, but the plan was abandoned after Xu Chao Xian learned of it and pleaded with Lü Yingyue. Lü Yingyue then presented Ji Jue with a lucrative Tide Sound Military Industry contract as a surge in Central Earth security spending drew competitors to his door, and she asked what he thought of Central Earth.

• Ji Jue proposed staging an attack on Xu Chao Xian and having Riot Control Guard rescue him to publicize Coast Technology, choosing the White Banner Restoration Front as the supposed attackers.
• Lü Yingyue told Ji Jue that Xu Chao Xian had spent nearly two hours crying to her, so Ji Jue scrapped his assassination plan and went to the guardian's office.
• Lü Yingyue showed Ji Jue Tide Sound Military Industry's contract to develop and produce 2,400 security and riot-control robots, with a large design fee and ongoing production orders.
• Lü Yingyue explained that a new Aether Fuel Supply Security Act would spur Central Earth investment and military procurement, causing industry figures to call Ji Jue about his design.
• Ji Jue signed Tide Sound Military Industry's contract, posted a photo from Lü Yingyue's office to signal his choice, and heard her ask what he thought of Central Earth.

Ji Jue learned that the Federation was preparing for a potentially uncontrollable war and accepted a military-industry assignment in Central Earth, where the Leviathan base’s location was still at stake. Before leaving, he began Isis’s transformation into a Matrix Holy Relic by implanting her into an earth vein and sacrificing a fragment of his own spirit essence.

• Lü Yingyue explained that Central Earth was on the brink of upheaval and hinted that the Federation was preparing for a larger conflict, while Ji Jue realized Haizhou needed time to secure the Leviathan maintenance base.
• Lü Yingyue appointed Ji Jue deputy director of Tide Sound Military Industry’s R&D Department and gave him the nominal rank of major so he could travel to Central Earth as a military-industry representative.
• Ji Jue told Ye Xian and Lu Feng about his plans; Ye Xian let him go, while Lu Feng warned him of the dangers and agreed to watch over his house.
• Ji Jue prepared the Secret Rite of the Spirit-Setting Fugue deep beneath Puna Bantu, using the Aether Crystal from Mercury’s Workshop as its central vessel.
• Ji Jue split off a fragment of his Matrix containing the essence of Non-Aggression and joined it with Isis’s radiance, beginning her metamorphosis into a Matrix Holy Relic.
• Ji Jue sealed Isis into the earth vein, and she went to sleep anticipating their reunion.

Ji Jue sailed the Prosperity from Seven Cities toward Central Earth after securing lucrative Riot Cat and exoskeleton deals with Minkler, while avoiding political scrutiny and threats. Near Taiwo, a sudden storm engulfed the ship as the Central Earth Security Bureau detected a gathering of Sea Locusts and lost track of the Prosperity.

• Ji Jue bid farewell to Minkler, who secured future Riot Cat deliveries and offered to pay five times the price for industrial exoskeletons.
• Ji Jue left Seven Cities with the Prosperity loaded with goods, while Coast faced surging demand, intense competition, and repeated Central City inspections.
• Ji Jue avoided leaving the ship and took an unpredictable route toward Taiwo, wary of Central Earth's dangers and his rising Wild Bazaar bounty.
• Ji Jue noticed an unexpected storm forming despite a clear forecast, and the Prosperity's alarms warned that unidentified objects were approaching.
• Tong Shan learned that a sudden air mass and a suspected Sea Locust swarm were gathering around the Prosperity, which then vanished from the bureau's tracking screen.