Recaps

Ji Jue secretly expanded his surveillance network through the Workshop and used mechanical spiders to see the devastated world outside. He remained trapped inside, only a few hundred meters from the chaos beyond the containment walls.

• Ji Jue sensed the Lou Family positioning device, then hid with the bald woman as Jianyuan and his disciples carried a large box into the material storage room.
• Jianyuan noticed Ji Jue, but Cun Ling identified him as an apprentice, and Jianyuan dismissed him before leaving the warehouse.
• Back in the garbage collection area, Ji Jue used hardened mercury beads to create Mercury Spiders that spread camera threads through the Workshop's outer levels.
• Ji Jue sent three mechanical spiders through a ventilation duct and onto a truck leaving the Workshop.
• Through the spiders, Ji Jue saw the ruined landscape, containment walls, enormous chains, and spiritual tides battering the Workshop from only a few hundred meters away.

Ji Jue received weapons and intelligence from Tong Zhiwu, then used three buried mechanical spiders to redirect Tong Shan’s attack toward the workshop at Quancheng. The resulting chaos gave Ji Jue a chance to discard his disguise and slip into the crowd.

• Ji Jue sent the CEO to deliver a letter and retrieve a reply from Tong Zhiwu, who sent back two Delusional Hands, a page of the Correction Book, and two Gleaming Blades.
• Tong Shan and the others discussed Ji Jue’s rapid infiltration of Deepdark, while Ji Liu tore up an order from the forward station and Tong Shan prepared the group to act.
• Tong Shan repaired his flag, left the hiding place, and raised it at the appointed time to unleash a powerful attack toward Quancheng.
• The three mechanical spiders Ji Jue had buried around the workshop activated and summoned the Blazing Light toward the site, where it struck the defenses and triggered alarms and chaos.
• Ji Jue discarded his disguised cane and blended into the fleeing crowd.

Ji Jue used a disguised identity and a vicious Blessed Creation to infiltrate the Workshop, kill Lian Yun, and steal his access. As the Workshop tightened security, Ji Jue appeared to reach the precious-material storeroom in Lian Yun’s guise, where the bald warehouse manager noticed his damaged face.

• The Workshop erupted into panic after an alarm sounded, but Lian Yun forced the apprentices and artisans back to their stations.
• Ji Jue used the [Gleaming Blade] to disable and kill Lian Yun, then took his amulets and Workshop identification access.
• Cun Ling ordered the Workshop to investigate hidden dangers and seize anyone missing from their post or acting strangely.
• Sun Ci checked on his scar-faced assistant and relaxed after the assistant denied causing trouble, unaware that a mercury puppet was behind the door.
• Disguised as Lian Yun, Ji Jue accompanied the bald warehouse manager into the precious-material storeroom.
• The bald woman noticed the false face slipping on the supposed Lian Yun, who picked it up, put it back crookedly, and asked what was wrong with his face.

Ji Jue found Lou Yanyue sealed in Deadlock, freed her with the help of Lou Feng’s stored instructions, and prepared an explosive escape from Jianyuan’s facility. The explosions began as he carried her out in a box and fled among the panicked crowd.

• Ji Jue repaired his disguise and explored the Precious Material Storage Room before finding Lou Yanyue sealed inside Spirit Essence Crystal.
• Ji Jue used Lou Feng’s Spirit Essence Crystal to unseal Lou Yanyue and explained that he was her grandnephew’s friend.
• Ji Jue sabotaged the alarm system and arranged bombs while Lou Yanyue recovered inside the dissolving Deadlock.
• Ji Jue put Lou Yanyue in a box and sprinted away as explosions tore through the facility.
• More explosions struck the entrance, and unmanned trucks crashed through the gates and fled in different directions.

Jianyuan punished Cun Ling by triggering a terrifying, incomplete Sin Corruption, then revealed that he had been waiting for Ji Jue. As Jianyuan confronted Ji Jue, the Workshop discovered that the missing explosives were hidden in the sewers and about to detonate.

• Jianyuan froze the explosives in the storage room and questioned Cun Ling about the mocking poem left on the wall.
• Jianyuan condemned Cun Ling for his incompetence and subjected him to a half-formed Sin Corruption that left him bound to a dangerous puppet-like creation.
• Jianyuan gathered the Workshop's supervisors and department heads, then revealed that he knew Ji Jue had stayed behind after rescuing his companions.
• Jianyuan confronted Ji Jue, who realized that the Master Artisan had been lying in wait for him, while Sun Ci fainted in terror.
• Workshop search teams found the trucks and crates empty, then discovered Mercury Spiders carrying explosives in the sewers beneath the Recycling Department.
• The explosives beneath the Workshop detonated.

Ji Jue’s elaborate escape plan saved Lou Yanyue, but Jianyuan exposed his deception and captured him. After inspecting Ji Jue and discovering the many marks and influences bound to him, Jianyuan concluded that Ye Xian was his teacher.

• Ji Jue’s decoys and a disguised missile hid Lou Yanyue from Jianyuan’s search, while Jianyuan spotted discrepancies in the Workshop’s records and understood the scheme.
• The missile crashed beyond Quancheng, and Lou Feng and Tong Shan freed Lou Yanyue from the damaged Deadlock Crystal; she thanked Tong Shan and learned that Ji Jue was likely in danger.
• Tong Shan carried Lou Yanyue away, leaving behind Ji Jue, whom Jianyuan took into his private workshop after dismissing everyone else.
• Jianyuan explained that he had recognized Ji Jue as valuable material and praised his ingenuity, then restrained him and searched his body and soul.
• Jianyuan identified the many evils, virtues, and other forces connected to Ji Jue, then deduced that Ye Xian was his teacher.

After Jianyuan exposed Ji Jue as an undercover agent, he shackled him and forced him to process materials in his Workshop, where Ji Jue began learning Fiendification Alchemy. Jianyuan revealed his horrific, hollowed-out form before renewing Ji Jue’s deadline, leaving him to finish the work under threat of losing a finger.

• Jianyuan restrained Ji Jue with a Rune chain and ordered him to process a pile of materials, threatening him when he refused.
• Ji Jue pretended to submit, then explored Jianyuan’s Workshop and made himself a wheelchair with Non-Aggression and Miraculous Hands.
• Ji Jue questioned the materials’ specifications, and Jianyuan’s afterimage supplied instructions, textbooks, and a four-hour deadline.
• Ji Jue studied Fiendification Alchemy and processed the materials, but Jianyuan rejected most of his work and gave him half an hour to redo it or lose a finger.
• Ji Jue challenged Jianyuan about his ambitions, and Jianyuan peeled off his face to reveal his damaged skull and tormented soul before warning that Ji Jue had twenty-five minutes left.

Ye Xian learned that Ji Jue had been captured by Jianyuan but refused to rescue him until she finished confronting her Martial Uncle. Meanwhile, the families agreed that a decisive battle with the Evil Transformation Cult was imminent, as Tao Gong’s final days appeared to be approaching.

• Lü Yingyue told Ye Xian that Ji Jue had been captured alive by Jianyuan, but Ye Xian said she would leave him to face the consequences until she dealt with her own affairs.
• Ye Xian explained that Jianyuan would exploit Ji Jue’s capture to challenge her and her teacher, and she planned to bring Ji Jue back after her confrontation with her Martial Uncle.
• At the outpost meeting, Tong Ting and Madam Lou discussed the families’ response, and Tong Ting confirmed that the distinction between good and evil karma meant they would have to fight.
• Tong Ting warned Madam Lou that Tao Gong’s strength and clarity suggested his remaining time was short and that a clash would likely come within days.
• Madam Lou recalled Tao Gong’s declaration that he would sacrifice himself for the sake of all under heaven.

Ji Jue endured Jianyuan’s brutal training, mastered Fiendification Alchemy, and used his new control over Cun Ling’s puppet to punish him. He then brought Jianyuan a newly forged creation disguised as a back scratcher.

• Ji Jue reflected on his exhausting studies and rapid progress in Stagnant Rot techniques and Fiendification Alchemy, while black marks from resisting his restraints covered his body.
• Ji Jue suppressed a blood-red creation that burst from the Furnace and concluded that Jianyuan’s Fiendification Alchemy made powerful but dangerously uncontrollable creations.
• Ji Jue confronted Cun Ling in the corridor, and Cun Ling attacked him before the puppet fused to Cun Ling turned on its host.
• Ji Jue let Cun Ling suffer until he begged, then briefly eased the puppet’s grip and rolled away as the puppet watched him leave.
• Ji Jue entered Jianyuan’s workshop and presented his new Sin Corruption creation as a back scratcher that made its user itch more the longer it scratched.

Jianyuan tested Ji Jue with the Stagnant Decay Furnace Core, forcing him to face a hellish vision of the mortal world and the temptation of the Heavenly Mandate Craft. Ji Jue rejected that path and returned from the furnace, while Jianyuan declared that his next lesson would continue tomorrow.

• Ji Jue’s Fiendification Alchemy produced another comically ineffective creation, and Jianyuan decided he was ready to move beyond the basics.
• Jianyuan brought Ji Jue to his abandoned workshop and used the accumulated furnace ash to reignite its furnace and reveal the Stagnant Decay Furnace Core.
• The furnace engulfed Ji Jue in visions of endless cycles of suffering, showed him Feigong’s Sin, and tempted him with the path to the Heavenly Mandate Craft.
• Ji Jue remembered a distant song and the woman watching him, rejected the vision’s invitation to hate and destroy, and turned toward the emptiness instead.
• Ji Jue emerged from the furnace and thanked Jianyuan, who congratulated him on learning to control Sin Corruption through hatred and malice and said they would continue the next day.

Ji Jue’s fiendification forging advanced rapidly as his Blessing transformed, but the process left visible signs of erosion and risk. After forging a dagger and a secretly distorted Blessed Creation, he revealed that the creation exposed its holder’s unspoken thoughts, and Jianyuan turned it on Ji Jue.

• Ji Jue’s [Primacy of Spirit] underwent Metamorphosis, letting his Spiritual Substance interfere with fiendification while the Secret Rite left his body increasingly scarred and altered.
• Ji Jue forged a shrieking dagger, but it shattered when Jianyuan tested it against his own aura and Matrix.
• Ji Jue presented Jianyuan with a crimson skull containing a concealed, distorted Heart Pivot blessing.
• The skull exposed Jianyuan’s true thoughts by speaking them aloud, revealing that its [Two Hearts Know] blessing voiced thoughts that differed from spoken words.
• Jianyuan drew Ji Jue’s Spiritual Substance into the skull, which grinned and threatened him.

Jianyuan showed Ji Jue the battle consuming Quancheng, where Tao Gong and the city’s forces fought the Evil Transformation Cult and Lu Changsheng. As the Workshop transformed into a towering machine, Ji Jue recognized the Sin Corruption-eroded engine in the Riftworld ruins calling to him.

• Jianyuan explained that he had come to exhaust the Path of Embers Zhi Fu, then removed the barrier around the Workshop so Ji Jue could witness the battle outside.
• Jianyuan identified the forces fighting across Quancheng, including the Lou Clan, Yu Clan, Tong Family, Lü Yingyue, Flawless Temple, and Heavenly Heart Society.
• Tao Gong used his Celestial power to hold back the Higher Fiends and attack Lu Changsheng, while Jianyuan warned that the power was consuming Tao Gong’s remaining humanity.
• Lu Changsheng challenged Tao Gong, and the battle intensified as fighting spread through Quancheng.
• Jianyuan declared that they could begin, and the Workshop expanded into a Giant Pillar as its Spirit Essence Circuits and furnaces activated.
• Ji Jue saw the black engine in the Riftworld ruins shake and call to him.

Jianyuan activated the rebuilt Sky Rail and unleashed the Vortex’s accumulated Sin Corruption across Haizhou, while he tried to convince Ji Jue that Ji Jue did not truly care about anyone. Ji Jue rejected him, and Lu Changsheng transformed into a Higher Fiend and claimed Quancheng before Tao Cheng sacrificed himself.

• Jianyuan used the engine to rebuild the Sky Rail, awaken the Vortex, and summon Haizhou’s accumulated sins toward Quancheng.
• As the black cascade threatened Haizhou, Ji Jue witnessed echoes of the dead and told Jianyuan that he cared despite Jianyuan’s accusations.
• Lu Changsheng gathered the evil abominations, transformed into a Higher Fiend, and made Quancheng the Vortex’s extension in the human world.
• Lu Changsheng challenged Tao Cheng to honor their wager, but Tao Cheng condemned his choices and declared that evil remained evil.
• Tao Cheng raised his hand to his neck and sacrificed himself for righteousness.

Tao Cheng sacrificed himself to fuse Superior Virtue into Sin-Corrupted Quancheng, reversing the battle and forcing Lu Changsheng to bear the weight of Celestial Origin’s power. As Haizhou’s forces reclaimed the city at terrible cost, Tong Shan destroyed Evil Folly’s cathedral and raised the Celestial Origin Flag over the collapsing battlefield.

• Tao Cheng recalled choosing to become a vessel for Celestial Origin and fell into Quancheng, where his final soul burned away and fused Superior Virtue into the city.
• Celestial Origin’s assimilation swept through Quancheng, suppressed Sin Corruption, and pressed down on Lu Changsheng as the Existing Fiend struggled to hold it back.
• Lü Yingyue invoked Tao Gong’s command, took control of Haizhou’s forces, and ordered them to advance while Lou Yanyue restored her limbs and eyes and searched the ruins for Jianyuan and Ji Jue.
• Jiang Xuan stayed behind to hold off Fiendified Ones, while Tong Shan entrusted Da Liu and A Xue to Tang Qian and entered the sanctuary to confront the Higher Fiends.
• Tong Shan fought through Evil Folly’s cathedral and killed its last High Priest as the Higher Fiend’s power collapsed and Sin Corruption rained over Quancheng.
• Tong Shan climbed the ruins and planted the tattered Celestial Origin Flag atop the broken sacred statue as the city sank beneath the Vortex.

The T5 Alliance approved a plan to erase Quancheng with Dust, but CEO vetoed it and secured three minutes of special operating authority for Sky Rail Transit. As Ji Jue faced Jianyuan, he died activating the engine’s hidden power, which revived the Sky Rail and turned it against Jianyuan.

• The T5 Alliance voted on deploying Dust to erase Quancheng, but CEO vetoed the proposal and won three minutes of special operating authority for Sky Rail Transit.
• Jianyuan explained that he pursued Sin Corruption and knowledge without regard for the poison and destruction they might leave behind, while Ji Jue challenged his indifference to the consequences.
• Ji Jue broke free of Jianyuan’s restraints, attacked with hidden weapons and the Heart Poison Arrow, and finally stabbed himself with the Bone Blade to send his blood onto the engine.
• Ji Jue’s blood awakened [Deus Ex Machina], and the engine shattered its chains, rejected Jianyuan’s control, and began rebuilding the Sky Rail.
• The revived engine summoned parts from the warehouse and regenerated as Ji Jue, dying, declared himself Jianyuan’s enemy.

Ji Jue activated the Doomsday Train’s Full-Domain Circulation Control, escaped Jianyuan’s attack, and began destroying the network Jianyuan had built. As the Association’s blockade and Ye Xian’s challenge forced Jianyuan to face opponents on multiple fronts, Ye Xian revealed the paired Matrix Holy Relics Gan Jiang and Mo Xie and prepared to duel him.

• Jianyuan unleashed a barrage of Masterworks against Ji Jue, but Ji Jue completed the Doomsday Train’s restart and gained Full-Domain Circulation Control.
• Ji Jue redirected the attack’s destruction, launched the Doomsday Train into the sky as an Airship, and began tearing apart the artificial Sky Rail nodes and the vortex network.
• The Association completed its blockade around Quancheng, with Kong Qingyan and masters across North and South supporting a reverse invasion of Jianyuan’s structure.
• Ye Xian entered Jianyuan’s Workshop, thanked him for looking after her student, and challenged him to a duel.
• Ye Xian activated the Usurpation Sequence and revealed the paired Matrix Holy Relics Gan Jiang and Mo Xie before asking Jianyuan to enlighten her.

Ji Jue awakened the hatred and power of Quancheng’s dead, turning ruined machines into an overwhelming tide that attacked the Evil Transformation Cult and Lu Changsheng. As the Existing Fiend’s hold weakened, Ji Jue forged a bullet from the gathered resentment and aimed his gun at Lu Changsheng, declaring their feud would end only with one of their deaths.

• Ji Jue used the Sky Rail to silence the heavens briefly and reached out to the dead souls of Quancheng, telling them he was there.
• Ji Jue activated Deus Ex Machina, and the dead souls’ anguish awakened ruined machines across Quancheng as monstrous steel Abominations.
• The steel tide overwhelmed the Evil Transformation Cult’s sanctuaries and attacked the Fiendified One, while the Existing Fiend struggled to maintain its power.
• Ji Jue diverted Lu Changsheng’s attacks into Jianyuan’s nodes and repeatedly assembled colossal monsters to fight Lu Changsheng.
• Ji Jue gathered the resentment of Quancheng into a crystal bullet, aimed at Lu Changsheng, and declared their enmity would end only when one of them died.

Ji Jue and Ye Xian helped break Jianyuan’s hold over Quancheng, but Lu Changsheng’s defeat led to his destruction by the Sky Overseer. As Quancheng’s monsters crumbled and the miracle ended, Ji Jue used the Sky Rail to illuminate the ruined city one last time.

• Ji Jue’s attack and the Wedge of the Present World disrupted Lu Changsheng’s defenses, while Ye Xian destroyed her Mo Xie sword to cripple Jianyuan’s workshop.
• Jianyuan admitted defeat, returned two pieces of mercury, and vanished with his workshop; Ye Xian watched the collapsing city and worried about her student, Ji Jue.
• Lu Changsheng released the Present World’s restraints, allowing Tao Gong’s law to cleanse Quancheng, then transformed and challenged the Heavenly Beings who had gathered to kill him.
• The Sky Overseer descended Absolute Punishment, annihilating Lu Changsheng as the Heavenly Beings departed.
• Quancheng’s monsters looked upon the stars as the miracle faded and their bodies crumbled; Ji Jue used the Sky Rail to light the ruined streets and mourned the beautiful world he had created.

Tong Shan woke after Quancheng’s crisis and learned that Ji Jue had been found but remained gravely injured. Ji Jue imagined a farewell with his mother at Yacheng’s terminal station, then opened his eyes as he prepared to move forward.

• Tong Shan woke in the outpost and joked with Ji Liu before Lü Yingyue visited him.
• Lü Yingyue told Tong Shan that Quancheng had begun recovering, but the Federation remained divided and Yacheng faced more trouble after Lu Changsheng’s death.
• Lü Yingyue told Tong Shan that Ji Jue had been found alive but was still unconscious and badly injured.
• Ji Jue recounted an exaggerated version of his escape and battle to his mother, who listened affectionately.
• At Yacheng’s terminal station, Ji Jue’s mother encouraged him to rest when needed and keep traveling, and he said goodbye before opening his eyes.

Ji Jue recovered from the Quancheng disaster, gained the Celestial Origin Blessing: Axis of Domination, and reunited with the CEO, who gave him a mysterious key before leaving. When Ji Jue pressed the newly restored button on his Wristwatch, he found himself inside the Doomsday Train again.

• Ji Jue awoke in the hospital, where Ye Xian told him that his actions had earned widespread gratitude and warned him that Jianyuan might still pursue him.
• Ji Jue discovered that Celestial Origin had given him Axis of Domination, and the three Blessings had combined as he advanced into the Metamorphosis Stage.
• After returning to Yacheng, Ji Jue worried that the Sky Rail had gone silent and that he might have become its legal representative.
• The CEO returned, apologized for its mistakes with voice buttons, and gave Ji Jue a box before announcing it had to leave.
• Ji Jue invited the CEO to visit again and gave it a new bell, then opened the box and found a strange key that entered his Wristwatch.
• Ji Jue pressed the Wristwatch's new blank button and was transported into the Doomsday Train.

An Ran raided Yue Ting’s warehouse, where smugglers were holding a calamity beast cub, while Ji Jue waited at the secret passage’s exit. An Ran fought through the gang and the unleashed creature, and Yue Ting fled only to surrender when Ji Jue trapped him.

• Ji Jue relaxed outside the warehouse while An Ran confronted Li Yong and learned that more than sixteen people were inside.
• An Ran attacked the smugglers with the iron shard Ji Jue had given him, killing or incapacitating several and narrowly missing Yue Ting.
• Yue Ting ordered his subordinate to release the calamity beast cub, but the cage had already been cut open and the creature devoured the subordinate.
• Yue Ting escaped through a secret passage, leaving the warehouse battle behind him.
• Ji Jue stopped Yue Ting at the passage exit and transformed his armored vehicle into a towering mechanical weapon.
• Yue Ting dropped his knife, put on the handcuffs, and begged Ji Jue to spare him.

Ji Jue helped the Security Bureau uncover a smuggling operation involving illegal enhancements and Shoushan Copper, then secretly kept an ingot for himself. He returned to his new workshop and opened a hidden space containing an ancient train, bringing the copper inside as an offering.

• Ji Jue captured Yue Ting and discovered that smugglers were transporting artificial organs, enhanced limbs, and a disaster beast cub.
• Ji Jue identified Shoushan Copper hidden in two crates, and Tong Zhiwu arranged for the operation and its evidence to disappear from official records.
• Ji Jue secretly pocketed a Shoushan Copper ingot while the trucks carried away the crates, then joked with Lao Zhang about his new workshop.
• Ji Jue dropped Little An at the arcade and went to his seaside workshop, where he opened a hidden space that transformed the basement into a ruined platform with an ancient train.
• Ji Jue carried the Shoushan Copper ingots aboard the train and cheerfully announced that it was mealtime.

Ji Jue assessed the badly damaged Doomsday Train and the immense costs of repairing and fueling it after the CEO gave him ownership. He used his recent earnings and recovered materials to prepare fuel and repair the engine, but the train remained in docking mode, leaving him to save for the resources needed to restore it.

• Ji Jue reviewed the Doomsday Train’s alerts and found that its integrity was only 41%, its fuel tank was empty, and most systems were damaged or disabled.
• Ji Jue confirmed that the train had detached from Sky Rail and entered docking mode, with him as its sole conductor and owner.
• Ji Jue calculated the enormous cost of fueling the train and activating its conductor functions, including the Return Command.
• Ji Jue used money from Yue Ting’s stolen funds and the auction of Tong Hua’s antiques to buy materials and make about ninety liters of fuel.
• Ji Jue decided that the train could not yet run, but hoped to carry it as a Workshop once he reached Rebirth Rank.

Ji Jue repaired the Myriad Manifestations Engine enough to restart the Doomsday Train, then saw memories revealing Sky Rail Transit’s mission to drag a devouring dark star into a rift. The next morning, Professor Ye summoned him to the Workshop.

• Ji Jue opened the Myriad Manifestations Engine and began repairing its four damaged reactors with new materials and Shoushan Copper.
• The engine restarted successfully, though its spirit remained weak and needed time to recover.
• Ji Jue asked about Sky Rail Transit, and the engine shared memories of the train’s collapse more than two hundred years earlier.
• The memories showed Sky Rail trains dragging a dark star toward a rift until it was trapped, after which the exhausted Doomsday Train fell into the Riftworld.
• The next morning, Professor Ye called Ji Jue and told him to come to the Workshop.

Ji Jue visited Professor Ye and learned that Haizhou’s worsening troubles could draw Yacheng into turmoil, though his recent actions had earned Lü Yingyue’s favor. He demonstrated the Second Transformation of Deus Ex Machina, turning a grandfather clock into a living Brass Leopard, while Ye Xian began considering how blessings could combine into powerful chains.

• Ji Jue met acting Warden Lü Yingyue at Professor Ye’s Workshop, and she praised him before leaving.
• Professor Ye explained that Haizhou’s growing troubles threatened to pull Yacheng into turmoil and said Ji Jue’s actions had earned her another favor from Lü Yingyue.
• Ji Jue told Professor Ye that his injuries had mostly healed, though his legs remained weak, and described how Axis of Domination linked him to everything he controlled.
• Ji Jue used Deus Ex Machina and his blessings to transform a grandfather clock into a living Brass Leopard.
• Ye Xian recognized that Ji Jue’s blessings had produced a major transformation and reflected on how blessing combinations formed powerful chains.