Recaps

Ji Jue arrived in Huangzhou for the Wasteland Sea Rally Race, explored the crowded competitors’ camp, and met his navigator. The chapter left him bewildered as he tried to determine whether the smiling Little An was really Little An.

• Ji Jue flew to Huangzhou aboard a chartered airship and unlocked several central Federation teleportation points during the trip.
• Ji Jue reached Black River, learned about the region’s harsh winters and phlogiston heating, and drove to the rally camp.
• Ji Jue met Shi Ran, who showed him around the camp and introduced him to competitors while pointing out the hostile camps of Echo, Sky City, New Era, and Northern Frontier.
• Ji Jue returned to Coast Automobile’s site and discovered that Lü Yingyue had sent Little An to serve as his navigator.
• Ji Jue joyfully lifted and spun Little An, then became alarmed by a strange feeling and could not tell whether the person before him was truly Little An.

Ji Jue exposed An Ning’s disguise and discovered that Little An was safe at the Security Bureau, then registered with An Ning as his navigator for the Coast Team race. They passed vehicle inspection, leaving them ready to compete despite the strange, heavily modified Little Cow and Horse.

• Ji Jue recognized that the supposed Little An was An Ning in disguise and confronted her with the Containing Form Mirror.
• An Ning revealed her real appearance, confirmed Little An was at the Security Bureau, and tried to take an intimate photo with Ji Jue, but he deleted it before she could send it to A Ran.
• Ji Jue and An Ning registered for the competition as the Coast Team in Class 2000CC+, with Ji Jue driving and An Ning navigating.
• An Ning explained that she could enter the competition under her own name despite her Wild Bazaar position, and Ji Jue dismissed her suggestion that she kill Xu Chao Xian.
• The inspectors approved Little Cow and Horse, though the Artisan noted that its unusual modifications and sealed system made it far from an ordinary vehicle.

Ji Jue and An Ning passed inspection for the Wasteland Sea Rally as a bounty drew killers from across the route and the committee refused to delay the race despite a severe weather alert. Meanwhile, Tong Ting learned that the chaos surrounding the Aether Path was deliberate, and the old Heavenly Hearing urged him to act while no one could see the full picture.

• The Artisan approved Ji Jue's vehicle and gave him a sealed GPS device that would record checkpoints along the route.
• An Ning warned Ji Jue that someone wanted to kill him, and Ji Jue admitted he wanted the same for his enemies.
• A broker told a tattooed killer that the bounty targeted Ji Jue and others, had attracted many hunters, and paid extra for their heads.
• The rally committee rejected a postponement despite an approaching cold front and approved driver and navigator replacements for seven teams.
• Tong Ting and the old Heavenly Hearing discussed how Chosen Ones of the Mirror System had disrupted observation and thrown the Aether Path into chaos.
• The old man told Tong Ting that no one had confidence left and hinted that more people might die on the dangerous route.

Ji Jue arrived at the Wasteland Sea Rally Race, where he encountered a powerful rival and a navigator who tried to probe him. After the Hundred Dragons Racing Team crashed, Ji Jue used the opening ceremony to humiliate them and raced away toward the snowy plains.

• Ji Jue discussed the worsening climate with his host before attending the rally’s opening ceremony.
• Ji Jue advertised Coast Automobile Factory’s vehicles during an interview and resisted a covert mental intrusion from Sky City’s navigator.
• Ji Jue drew fourteenth starting position and noticed the navigator react to An Ning, while he watched a distant Battleship-Class Volcano Engine.
• The Reignite Racing Team, Echo, and other competitors departed before the Hundred Dragons Racing Team set off and its tire blew, sending it crashing into a snowbank.
• Ji Jue launched Little Cow and Horse down the track, spun toward the stranded Hundred Dragons vehicle, stopped just short, and splashed its occupants with mud and snow.
• Ji Jue flicked his cigarette onto the Hundred Dragons vehicle, mocked its crew, and accelerated toward the snowy plains.

Ji Jue and An Ning crossed the frozen wilderness, exchanging information about their abilities and White Deer’s lineages as they traveled. An Ning sensed danger and guided Ji Jue off their route just before a massive storm swept over the mountains toward them.

• Ji Jue drove Little Cow and Horse across the snowfield while An Ning teased him and tested his ability to hide the signs of his movements.
• An Ning revealed that she was a Rank 8 Rebirth of White Deer’s [Flying Light] lineage and explained her hunting role and the scarcity of worthy prey.
• An Ning urged Ji Jue to help her find wolves to hunt, then sensed danger approaching from the west.
• Ji Jue followed An Ning’s warning and drove Little Cow and Horse down a steep slope as the ridge collapsed and an earthquake shook the wilderness.
• A vast storm rose beyond the mountains, swallowing the landscape as it advanced toward Ji Jue and An Ning.

Ji Jue and An Ning survived a sudden blizzard by sheltering beside an ice cliff, while Ji Jue discovered that his prosthetic-limb project was generating an unexpected flow of tinder. After the storm eased, a rescue convoy arrived, and An Ning suggested they make a move.

• Ji Jue drove Little Cow and Horse through the blizzard while An Ning climbed onto its roof and guided them to shelter beside an ice cliff.
• An Ning returned to the cabin unharmed and warmed her icy hands by holding Ji Jue's, teasing him as he endured it.
• Ji Jue sensed that the Prosthetic Limb Assistance System was generating more tinder than Coast Automobile Factory's vehicles, and realized its social impact was driving the change.
• As the storm eased, An Ning played in the snow and made a huge snowball with a crude portrait of Ji Jue.
• A rescue convoy arrived searching for survivors, and An Ning asked Ji Jue whether they should make a move.

An Ning destroyed the convoy sent to locate Ji Jue, but a missile strike followed and detonated far from them. Ji Jue revealed that the attack was not over, as a hidden camp’s own missiles launched uncontrollably and destroyed the camp.

• Ji Jue sent An Ning to confront the approaching convoy while he stayed behind with tea.
• An Ning disabled the convoy’s vehicles, evaded their gunfire, and killed the attackers with her hair clip and an ice blade.
• A cluster-bomb missile struck twenty kilometers away, and Ji Jue explained that Deus Ex Machina had not caused it to miss.
• At a concealed camp, Isis appeared on the control screens as the missile launchers activated without orders.
• The launched missiles turned back toward the camp and destroyed it in a massive explosion.

Ji Jue and An Ning used satellite interference and missiles to throw the Northern Frontier into chaos, while several racing teams withdrew from the Wasteland Sea Rally Race. After An Ning killed an escaping Chosen One with Pan Ying, Ji Jue executed a surviving enemy and set out with her to kill the rest.

• Ji Jue’s earlier detection of a satellite locator let Isis’s Hand feed false targeting data to the missiles, which struck across the snowfield and plunged the race venue into chaos.
• Shi Ran received orders to withdraw the Reignite Racing Team after learning that the Northern Frontier’s leaders had made a desperate wager, and several other teams soon withdrew as well.
• An Ning regretted that an Entropy Lineage Chosen One escaped, but Ji Jue gave her Pan Ying, which she threw through the clouds to kill him.
• Ji Jue crushed a surviving Vortex Lineage Chosen One after confronting him with the cruelty he had inflicted on others.
• Ji Jue and An Ning left on Little Cow and Horse, vowing to hunt down every remaining enemy.

Ji Jue and Sky City's Maya attacked each other with their supernatural abilities as their cars converged in a blizzard, but Ji Jue broke Maya's mental assault and disabled Sky City's vehicle. He then revealed that Coast's apparent retreat was a feint, killed Sky City's manta ray disaster beast, and charged at their car.

• The race's popularity surged after footage of Ji Jue's clash with Hundred Dragons spread online, while dangerous weather and wreckage left many rally enthusiasts dead in the wilderness.
• Satellite footage showed the rival teams' defenses against Ji Jue's missiles, while Ji Jue kept driving Little Cow and Horse and harvesting materials from roadside threats.
• On the second day, Coast's car and Sky City's car converged at a mountain pass as a Red Tag blizzard approached, and both accelerated into the storm.
• Maya used a combined Ascension and Heart Pivot attack to overwhelm Ji Jue, but he released Pan Ying and flooded their mental connection with killing intent, forcing Maya to sever it.
• Ji Jue used Deus Ex Machina to disrupt Sky City's vehicle, then turned Little Cow and Horse around inside the storm and split Maya's manta ray disaster beast in two.
• Ji Jue leapt from the beast's wreckage toward Sky City's car and struck at it with Pan Ying.

Ji Jue and his companions ambushed Sky City's vehicle in the mountain pass, killing Maya and the Heavenly Origin driver before escaping the blizzard. Their vehicle emerged from the storm and continued toward the Kunwu Plateau, with Ji Jue marking Sky City as their first target.

• Pan Ying's prepared strike shattered Sky City's defenses, while An Ning's glimmer weakened the driver's telekinetic barrier and Little Cow and Horse rammed the vehicle.
• Maya released her calamity beast and used Revision Veto to erase Ji Jue's bullet, but An Ning's Flying Light pierced Maya's heart and annihilated her soul.
• Ji Jue captured Maya's freed calamity beast with mercury threads, and Pan Ying's blade broke through the driver's barrier and killed him.
• Little Cow and Horse erased the remaining evidence, retrieved Maya's corpse, and returned to vehicle form as it sped onward.
• The vehicle emerged from the blizzard to cheers and headed toward the Kunwu Plateau, while Ji Jue marked Sky City as the first target in his notebook.

Ji Jue and An Ning reached Earth Well after crossing the snowfields, where Ji Jue learned that two Sky City contestants had been declared missing. At the event camp, Yue Chen confronted Ji Jue and demanded he withdraw from the race, but Ji Jue refused just as a piercing sound erupted.

• Ji Jue and An Ning traveled south through the changing terrain and arrived at Kunwu Relay Station, Earth Well.
• An Ning joked with Ji Jue during the drive, and Ji Jue completed Route S1 in fourth place.
• Organizers told Ji Jue that the search team had been unable to find the missing Sky City contestants and had officially declared them missing.
• Ji Jue entered the event camp carrying a briefcase that drew wary attention, then encountered Yue Chen drinking nearby.
• Yue Chen offered Ji Jue a drink and demanded that he withdraw from the competition, but Ji Jue refused and said there were always other roads to take.
• A piercing sound suddenly rang out across the silent camp.

Ji Jue broke through Waste Ruins’ Stasis Field and left, then spent the night salvaging Maya’s Blessings and forging equipment to protect his consciousness. The next day, he set out for the S2 Kunwu stage with a new ring on his hand.

• Ji Jue used the lingering insight of the Edge of Transformation to cut through the Stasis Field, then left with An Ning.
• Ji Jue sealed the room and prepared to repair his lack of protection against mental attacks while An Ning urged him to join the An Family.
• Ji Jue opened the case and resisted the Heart Pivot heart’s influence, which stirred violent desires and emotions within him.
• Ji Jue dismantled Maya’s Matrix and preserved three Blessings: Eternal Oath Never Forgotten, Hidden Wrath and Accumulated Grievances, and Desire Fire Burns the Body.
• Ji Jue forged through the night, then appeared refreshed the next morning as the S2 vehicles departed, wearing a new ring.

As Ji Jue and An Ning traveled through storm-ravaged Kunwu, they encountered a colossal disaster beast and discussed Ji Jue’s limited equipment. Ji Jue explained that his ring, Toxic Heart, defended against spiritual attacks and stored pollution, but remained an unfinished failure.

• Ji Jue’s third drone crashed in the storm, and he saw a colossal bony disaster beast pass through the mountains.
• Ji Jue judged the creature to be at least Harm Grade and possibly Absolute Class, then reflected on the danger of the mountains.
• An Ning asked why Ji Jue owned so little equipment despite being an Artisan, and Ji Jue explained the time, effort, and burden involved in creating Blessed Creations.
• Ji Jue revealed that his ring, Toxic Heart, was designed to resist Ascension and Heart Pivot attacks while containing negative emotions and Fiendification Pollution.
• Ji Jue admitted that Toxic Heart had not reached his intended goal and was still an unfinished, failed product.

Ji Jue failed to master pure Spirit Essence Refinement, then guided Little Cow and Horse through the storm toward a group of attackers waiting to ambush them. He revealed that he had arranged and profited from the bounty on himself, and unleashed a terrifying artificial evil spirit at the assembled crowd.

• Ji Jue lamented that he could not begin pure Spirit Essence Refinement and continued through the flooded riverbed with An Ning in Little Cow and Horse.
• A group led by a bearded man waited in the storm for the Coast contestants, relying on Old Huang’s information and a scout’s report that they were approaching.
• Little Cow and Horse appeared above the ambushers on mechanical legs, and Ji Jue explained to An Ning that he had hired people along the route and put a bounty on himself to control the attacks and acquire materials.
• Ji Jue told An Ning to leave the attackers mostly intact for his future Workshop, and she leapt onto the vehicle’s hood to prepare for battle.
• Ji Jue gathered the polluted and purified spirit essence in his ring, summoned a phantom rotting corpse, and unleashed a torrent of wailing toward the crowd.

Ji Jue and An Ning survived a devastating ambush, but An Ning sensed a hidden wolf and the pair came under attack from a flying Vortex Lineage Chosen One. Ji Jue discovered that an unseen enemy was controlling the rain, and Little Cow and Horse struck its position in the flood.

• Ji Jue unleashed the Poison Heart Ring’s Spirit Essence Tidal Wave, killing or maddening the ambushers as his machines began clearing the battlefield.
• A corrupted leader devoured his subordinates before An Ning killed him with Flying Light, then sensed a lurking wolf nearby.
• An Ning tripped Ji Jue and dragged him clear as a Northern Frontier Vortex Lineage Chosen One attacked them from the storm with poisonous finger bullets.
• Ji Jue used Containing Form Mirror to discover that someone was controlling the rain and freezing the area around them.
• Little Cow and Horse charged into the flood, and Pan Ying pierced the Turbid Flow, breaking the trap and drawing a scream from the hidden enemy.

Ji Jue and An Ning escaped a coordinated attack by the Northern Frontier and New Era forces, then used a hidden counterattack to kill Envoy Zhou Lun. The enemy survivors were left facing the consequences of underestimating Ji Jue’s preparations.

• Ji Jue wounded the camouflaged Giant Beast with Pan Ying, and Little Cow and Horse broke through its attacks and split it apart.
• A New Era vehicle rescued the injured driver, but Ji Jue recognized the arriving Eternal Gate Chosen Ones and escaped with An Ning amid a missile barrage.
• Yue Chen hurled ultra-dense matter across the battlefield, but Ji Jue and Little Cow and Horse had already fled beyond the strike zone.
• An Ning launched Flying Light at the injured Entropy-Type Chosen One, and Zhou Lun used [Turn] to deflect the attack.
• Ji Jue’s hidden sniper rifle fired a crystal bullet guided by An Ning’s lingering light, killing Zhou Lun with a Pan Ying blade fragment.

After Zhou Lun was killed by a carefully prepared sniper trap, Gao Cheng and Lu Yang revealed that their factions had brought hidden bait and agreed to settle the conflict in Kunwu. Meanwhile, Tong Shan faced hired corpse sacrificers in the wilderness, and Lou Yanyue appeared with a storm of lightning spears poised to strike.

• Lu Yang reacted to Zhou Lun's death by unleashing bone spears, but the shooter escaped and left behind traps that killed the pursuing insects.
• Gao Cheng arrived and explained that Zhou Lun's defenses had been pierced by a single shot, while the team learned that reinforcements were missing and the fighting had spread along the Wild Sea coastline.
• Lu Yang admitted he had brought a set of fish bait, and Gao Cheng revealed a mysterious glass-bottle object before both men agreed to fight on in Kunwu.
• Tong Shan encountered three corpse sacrificers from Shi Bang, who offered to change sides for payment and mocked his exhaustion after three battles.
• Tong Shan called for help, and Lou Yanyue appeared above the corpse sacrificers with countless lightning spears and declared that they would die.

Lou Yanyue destroyed the attackers with Matrix·[Ying Yuan] while she and Tong Shan discussed unrest across the Federation. Lü Yingyue’s Airship vanished in a fiery explosion, and Ji Jue sensed Kunwu Darkness emerging as Fiendification Pollution spread through the mountains.

• Lou Yanyue unleashed Matrix·[Ying Yuan] and obliterated the phantoms, then spoke with Tong Shan about unrest in Long Yuan and Yacheng and Lü Yingyue’s expected return.
• Lü Yingyue discussed Central City with her secretary aboard Airship D7660, which later exploded; the Air Traffic Control Bureau reported it missing, and a video showed its burning wreckage falling from a storm.
• A blackout struck Yacheng after flames engulfed the power station, while Little Cow and Horse remained hidden in a mountain cave.
• Ji Jue repaired his firearm and warned An Ning away from its parts before sensing a strange sound and recognizing Fiendification Pollution.
• A fissure opened and released an immense black storm, wailing cries, and Kunwu Darkness across the mountains.

Ji Jue resisted the Rain Blood Disaster and prepared to confront the attackers, while Lu Yang used a fish scale to transform into the Ba Serpent. The chapter ended with Ji Jue shooting Lu Yang in the head from behind.

• Ji Jue identified the blood rain as part of the Rain Blood Disaster and used Melting Furnace Blood to resist its corruption.
• Ji Jue revealed a powerful fiendish aura, then gave An Ning a bracelet to protect her from contamination.
• Lu Yang crushed the black box and offered its grotesque flesh bait to the White Hall Fiend, which swallowed the bait and left behind a fish scale.
• The fish scale transformed Lu Yang into the Ba Serpent, which devoured a Giant Serpent and struggled against the scale's assimilation.
• Gao Cheng sensed a place where the blood rain could not reach, then turned to find Ji Jue behind him.
• Ji Jue shot Lu Yang in the head and dismissed the colors of the spreading blood.

Ji Jue endured the attackers’ combined assault and was transported into their encirclement, where an enormous armored monster appeared and stopped Yue Chen’s Earth Vein Fist. The monster wounded Lu Yang and faced the group, challenging them to explain what they had expected.

• Ji Jue burned away Lu Yang’s venomous insect swarm and mocked the strength of Yue Chen’s team.
• Yue Chen called Gao Cheng to his side, then led a combined attack that Ji Jue resisted while Little Cow and Horse protected him.
• An Ning’s Flying Light attack was foiled by the jade axe, and Gao Cheng used the blood rain to locate Ji Jue and activate the White Carriage’s Transport.
• The group teleported Ji Jue into their midst and launched coordinated attacks, but an armored monster blocked Yue Chen’s fist and nearly cut Lu Yang in half.
• The armored monster stood against the attackers and demanded to know what they had expected.

Ji Jue revealed Dragon Mountain, a war machine built from Little Cow and Horse, and fought Yue Chen while its armor and his body repeatedly repaired themselves. As Dragon Mountain unleashed a blazing bombardment, Gao Cheng ordered Lu Yang to release all of the fish’s blessings so the Entropy Chosen One could prepare a final attack.

• Ji Jue activated Deus Ex Machina and merged with Little Cow and Horse, transforming it into the humanoid war machine Dragon Mountain.
• Dragon Mountain clashed with Yue Chen, using its weapons while Non-Aggression’s Alchemy repaired its armor and Ji Jue used medicine and Alchemy to recover from his injuries.
• Ji Jue named the completed machine Waste Ruins Armor: Dragon Mountain and activated hidden launchers, setting the battlefield ablaze with fuel bombs and Fiendification Pollution.
• Dragon Mountain fought Yue Chen and Ba Serpent while firing at Gao Cheng and the Entropy Chosen One, forcing them to flee across the battlefield.
• Gao Cheng demanded that the Entropy Chosen One prepare Raging Snow Frost Burst of the Abyss Stream, then ordered Lu Yang to release all of the fish’s blessings.

Ji Jue’s team sprang a trap during the battle, killing Gao Cheng and helping defeat Ba Serpent, while An Ning used Ji Jue’s warning to turn the Wolf Fiend’s ambush against him. The chapter revealed that An Ning had knowingly acted as bait, and she caught the hidden enemy at last.

• Ji Jue noticed that Yue Chen’s navigator had never appeared and warned An Ning that a Wolf Fiend might be hiding among their enemies.
• An Ning agreed to act as bait, while Ji Jue prepared to test whether an unseen enemy would reveal itself.
• Ji Jue hijacked Gao Cheng’s White Carriage teleportation, sending himself away and leaving Ba Serpent exposed to Yue Chen’s Frost Flow and ultra-dense matter.
• Dragon Mountain and Pan Ying killed Gao Cheng, while An Ning struck down the Entropy Chosen One, only for the Wolf Fiend hiding in his blood to trap her.
• An Ning revealed that her mercury bracelet had become hidden armor, restrained the Wolf Fiend, and declared that she had caught him.

An Ning and Ji Jue were gravely wounded by Wolf Fiend, who joined Yue Chen and unleashed Ba Serpent after destroying Lu Yang’s remaining consciousness. As Yue Chen prepared another annihilating attack, An Ning revealed she had brought a Bitter Day and was about to show Ji Jue the ultimate realm of Projection.

• An Ning’s Flying Light struck Wolf Fiend, but his poison erupted through her heart and collapsed her Spiritual Substance.
• Ji Jue rescued An Ning and burned Wolf Fiend’s poison from his arm, losing sensation in his right hand.
• Wolf Fiend reunited with Yue Chen and used Ba Serpent’s spreading flesh to destroy Lu Yang’s soul and unleash the nine-headed monster.
• Ji Jue attacked Ba Serpent, but its cursed vitality healed its wounds while Yue Chen prepared another ultracompact matter strike.
• An Ning told Ji Jue she had brought a Bitter Day and prepared to reveal the ultimate realm of Projection.

An Ning survived Ji Jue’s desperate treatment after Bitter Day devastated the Ba Serpent, but Ji Jue left her behind and faced the pursuing enemies alone. As the Wild Gathering Twin Fingers confronted the old man beyond Kunwu, Ji Jue prepared for the Ba Serpent, Wolf Fiend, and Yue Chen with a Soul Calling Bell and strange new power.

• An Ning’s Bitter Day severed the Ba Serpent’s heads and damaged the Wolf Fiend, allowing Ji Jue and the others to escape while their enemies began recovering.
• Ji Jue repaired An Ning’s shattered heart, challenged her claims of affection, and told her not to die before leaving her in the armor’s cockpit.
• An De and An Neng stopped the old man from striking Ji Jue, joking that they wanted to claim An Ning’s wolf if she died.
• Ji Jue stopped running and waited in the blood rain as the Ba Serpent, Wolf Fiend, and Yue Chen approached.
• Ji Jue’s Spirit Essence absorbed the blood rain’s contamination and manifested great fiend emblems as he rang the Soul Calling Bell.

Ji Jue used the Soul Calling Bell and the Rain Blood Disaster to complete the Unextinguished Tinder and create the Nether Sea Worm. The calamity returned and overwhelmed Ba Serpent, whose fate remained uncertain as Ji Jue drove an iron nail into one of its heads.

• Ji Jue rang the Soul Calling Bell to awaken the lingering spirits across the Rain Blood Disaster and activate the Great Fiends’ Insignias.
• Yue Chen launched a compressed spear of matter at Ji Jue while Ba Serpent tried to devour the ritual’s spirit essence and pollution.
• Ji Jue completed the Unextinguished Tinder, shattered Yue Chen’s spear, and dissipated Ba Serpent’s breath.
• Ji Jue created the Nether Sea Worm from the Rain Blood Disaster, restoring the calamity that had created the Calamity of No Light.
• The Nether Sea Worm struck Ba Serpent and pinned its heads and tails with enormous hands as Ji Jue formed an iron nail and drove it into one of its heads.