Recaps

Ji Jue received Chen Haiqiu, an envoy from Lü Yingyue’s department, who exchanged a severed limb for valuable forging materials and a rare Blessing. Chen Haiqiu also asked Ji Jue to play an ordinary-looking disc around New Spring, then requested a tour of Quancheng before leaving.

• Ji Jue welcomed Chen Haiqiu and described the Thousand Isles pirates’ raid, then handed over the preserved severed limb for examination.
• Chen Haiqiu confirmed the specimen but noticed its Sin Corruption Spiritual Substance had faded, while Ji Jue claimed not to know why.
• Chen Haiqiu gave Ji Jue cases containing the materials he needed and the rare Blessing [Dragon Strides Leopard Changes], bringing Chun Jun’s Blessing Chain close to completion.
• Chen Haiqiu asked Ji Jue to play a disc of ordinary piano snippets and machine sounds regularly in New Spring and nearby Settlements.
• Chen Haiqiu asked Ji Jue to guide him around Quancheng, and Ji Jue agreed.

Ji Jue learned that the Security Bureau had hidden a Rift World beneath Quancheng to contain a dying remnant of the Abyss Seed, and Chen Haiqiu recruited him to watch the site. After Chen Haiqiu confirmed Ji Jue was not a latent Sin Demon, a separate operation ended with the Mermaid tribe’s extermination, though Tong Shan suspected the creatures had been fleeing something.

• Ji Jue realized Chen Haiqiu and Paquiao had been drawn to Quancheng, and he drove Chen Haiqiu there through the ruins.
• Chen Haiqiu revealed the concealed security site and opened an Eternal Gate to a small Rift World containing a remnant of the scar Lu Changsheng had left on the Present World.
• Chen Haiqiu explained that Sin Demons might seek the Abyss Seed, but Tao Gong had extinguished it; he asked Ji Jue to watch the site and report any Fiendified Ones to the Security Bureau.
• Chen Haiqiu later reported that Ji Jue had shown no reaction to the Abyss Seed and was not a latent Sin Demon, while the Locksmiths chose to observe him before approaching him about recruitment.
• Tong Shan and Wen Wen celebrated the extermination of the invading Mermaid tribe, but Tong Shan questioned why the Mermaids had seemed to be fleeing for their lives.

While Ji Jue stayed home as Coast Industry and its allies carried out a brutal campaign across Haizhou, Lu Feng fought a mutated Chosen One at Coiled Mountain Stronghold and helped capture him alive. The next day, Ji Jue received a box of grotesque material instead of the new employee he had ordered.

• Ji Jue relaxed at home while Isis managed New Spring’s overloaded workshops and operations during the storm.
• Coast Industry and Slan’s Homecoming Knights swept across Haizhou, destroying settlements and killing or capturing those tied to the Water Ghosts and human trafficking.
• Lu Feng grew bored during the assault on Coiled Mountain Stronghold until a drug-enhanced Vortex Lineage Chosen One broke out of a secret room.
• Lu Feng used his Powered Armor to attack the giant ape-like Chosen One, and his soldiers pinned it down and began suppressing it alive.
• Ji Jue received a delivery the next day, found it contained a grotesque heap of material, and wondered where the new employee he had ordered was.

Ji Jue expanded Coast Industry’s reach through new jobs, construction, and logistics while securing the final Blessing needed for Chun Jun. After using See Simplicity Embrace Purity to reflect on his actions, he rushed to meet Ye Xian, who had just finished a month of research and was stunned by the trouble he had caused.

• Ji Jue used scraps to make a living Spirit Essence Battery and accepted the loss of another employee, while New Spring’s growing workforce continued expanding the underground park and rebuilding the settlement.
• A Water Ghost raid stole Coast Industry’s first shipment of civilian exoskeletons bound for Thousand Isles, and Ji Jue promised to send a doubled replacement batch.
• Ji Jue approved Gou Er’s Courier Logistics project, which began offering deliveries and online shopping across Wilderness settlements and planned intercity routes.
• Lu Feng received news that a young general might join the Seven Cities Allied Defense fleet, and the Tong Family later gave Ji Jue the final missing Blessing for Chun Jun, See Simplicity Embrace Purity.
• Ji Jue examined the Blessing’s power and the dangers of Aether distortion, then regretted not sacrificing the dead Water Ghosts and discarded materials for more resources.
• Ji Jue rushed to Tide Sound to question Ye Xian after she finished her research, leaving her silently astonished at how much trouble he had caused in a month.

Ye Xian explained the hidden parts of the Ye Family’s Nine Types inheritance and warned Ji Jue that studying it could draw the attention of Eternal Empire loyalists. After ordering him not to pursue the Ye Clan’s restoration, she examined his discs and asked whether he knew about the Barrier of Knowledge and Perception.

• Ye Xian activated a Blessing relic to shield the study before discussing the Ye Family’s concealed inheritance with Ji Jue.
• Ye Xian explained hidden principles of the Nine Type Change, including the key to Chun Jun, and identified the Horde inheritance as a remnant of the Eternal Empire.
• Ye Xian warned Ji Jue that the Nine Types could entangle him with Empire loyalists and told him to leave the Ye Family’s affairs behind.
• Ji Jue promised to heed Ye Xian, but she threatened to expel him if he used the inheritance to advocate reviving the Ye Clan.
• Ye Xian assured Ji Jue that the discs posed no danger, cautioned him about Lü Yingyue, and asked whether he knew about the Barrier of Knowledge and Perception.

Ye Xian explained that the Barrier of Knowledge and Perception concealed Superior Virtue and Great Evils to protect the world, then challenged Ji Jue’s assumptions about history and familiar reality. When Ji Jue wondered aloud about the Lock, a glimpse of its vast presence nearly destroyed the Silence Hourglass, and Ye Xian realized the old bastard had secretly set a trap for him.

• Ye Xian told Ji Jue that the Barrier of Knowledge and Perception had been spread throughout the world and used the disc to strengthen its effect.
• Ye Xian explained that the barrier’s true purpose was to keep people from perceiving Superior Virtue and Great Evils, and argued that Superior Virtue had caused calamities of its own.
• Ye Xian described how the deaths of the Fire Thief and the Web Weaver had changed fire and seawater, then urged Ji Jue to travel beyond the Workshop and question what he took for granted.
• Ji Jue wondered whether the barrier was part of the Lock, and his words briefly connected his awareness to a colossal entity.
• Ye Xian suppressed the resulting disturbance before it destroyed the Silence Hourglass, then realized the old bastard had used Ji Jue to force open a path and angrily vowed to deal with him.

Ye Xian explained Sin Demons, Chosen Ones, and Ji Jue’s possible connection to the Great Evil, then urged him to forge the Masterwork Chun Jun on his own. Ji Jue left for his workshop, unaware that the nineteen-year-old Masterwork record he hoped to match belonged to Heavenly Furnace, not Jianyuan.

• Ye Xian warned Ji Jue to avoid Heavenly Furnace, keep quiet about the lock, and treat Sin Demons as dangerous agents of the Great Evil.
• The Silence Hourglass ran out, and Ye Xian gave it to Ji Jue, who disintegrated it for Deus Ex Machina and gained only 0.1 percent progress.
• Ye Xian explained that Ji Jue could earn Embers' recognition by building Coast Industry or New Spring into something much greater, while Ji Jue focused instead on forging Chun Jun as a Masterwork.
• Ye Xian approved Ji Jue's plan and told him to prepare for a week before beginning, but refused to guide him through the forging.
• Ye Xian provoked Ji Jue by comparing him to Jianyuan, so he left for his workshop determined to forge Chun Jun.
• Ye Chun wondered why Ji Jue had left without showing off, while Ye Xian recalled that Heavenly Furnace—not Jianyuan—had forged a Masterwork in his second year at school.

After seven days of fasting and preparation, Ji Jue forged Chun Jun and awakened its five Blessings, but the completed blade’s call drove him to strike it again. A crack appeared in Chun Jun, and the Heaven-Granted Spirit progress surged as Ji Jue raised the hammer for another blow.

• Ji Jue woke from a recurring nightmare, confirmed it had drawn closer, and continued his fasting and mental preparation for forging Chun Jun.
• After bathing and changing into white clothes, Ji Jue began forging Chun Jun alone, drawing the Sword Blank from the furnace and hammering it while feeding it his blood and spirit essence.
• Chun Jun’s sword cry reached New Spring, and Ji Jue’s hammer blows awakened [Transcendent Vision], [sudden inspiration], [Ascension to Truth], [See Simplicity Embrace Purity], and [Dragon Strides Leopard Changes].
• The five Blessings merged into Chun Jun, but the blade continued urging Ji Jue onward after its forging appeared complete.
• Ji Jue struck again, causing a crack to appear on Chun Jun, and the progress of the Heaven-Granted Spirit rapidly increased as he prepared another blow.

Ji Jue completed Chunjun by forging his memories and soul into an invisible sword, then used it to enter the Flame Tide imprisoned beneath the sea. After promising the suffering dead he would end their torment, he struck, and the Flame Tide erupted through its restraints.

• At six thirty, Ji Jue’s hammer shattered Chunjun, and his memories formed the sword’s spirit as the invisible blade emerged from its fragments.
• Ji Jue explained that Chunjun could only be perceived by its swordsmith, then turned its formless edge on himself and merged with it.
• The Heavenly Furnace Manifestation appeared above New Spring as Ji Jue’s soul absorbed Chunjun, discovered the fissure called [Kong], and joined his reflection as one.
• Following the call through [Kong], Ji Jue’s soul crossed the storm and descended into the Flame Tide imprisoned in the deep sea.
• Ji Jue manifested Chunjun among the tormented dead and promised to end their suffering before striking with the blade.
• The Flame Tide erupted, broke through its seals, and surged toward the surface, illuminating the sea for ten thousand miles.

Ji Jue entered the Flame Tide as a wandering spirit and slaughtered its trapped remnants, causing the sealed disaster to erupt toward the sky. Aboard the strange giant ship, Worry-Free Duke blamed his allies for losing control and ordered four thousand more living sacrifices to force open the sacrificial shrine.

• Ji Jue used Chun Jun to destroy the pleading souls inside the Flame Tide, strengthening his spirit essence with the Nine Forms and Pan Ying.
• Ji Jue pressed deeper into the Flame Tide as it swelled and broke through the Heavenly Origin Law chains sealing it beneath the sea.
• The overseer reported the disaster to Worry-Free Duke, who crushed him after he blamed Sower for the failure.
• Xie Heli defended his master, Sower, and urged Worry-Free Duke to increase the living sacrifices.
• Worry-Free Duke ordered four thousand more living sacrifices to force open the sacrificial shrine before the ship's mirage attracted attention.

Ji Jue rampaged through the Flame Tide, using Chunjun’s Soul Shadow and blessings to annihilate its wailing remnants and grotesque mud giants. As Worry-Free Duke’s attempt to suppress the Disaster faltered, he sacrificed his Celestial Being Realm power to unleash his Abyss Seed, only to find two minutes later that it could not control the Flame Tide.

• Worry-Free Duke used blood and living sacrifices to suppress the Flame Tide while Ji Jue slaughtered remnants in its spirit realm, growing stronger without corrupting his own soul.
• Ji Jue used Chunjun’s Soul Shadow and blessings to evade ambushes, then destroyed waves of grotesque mud giants that he suspected were invaders.
• Ji Jue unleashed Chunjun’s full power and tore through the scorched earth, seemingly becoming one with the Flame Tide Disaster as the realm began to collapse.
• Worry-Free Duke realized the Flame Tide was rapidly weakening and accused the Sower of giving him a fake, while Xie Heli denied that his lord had betrayed him.
• Worry-Free Duke released his long-nurtured Abyss Seed, sacrificing his Celestial Being Realm status in an attempt to control the Flame Tide.
• Two minutes later, Worry-Free Duke discovered that the Abyss Seed could not control the Flame Tide.

Ji Jue’s rampage through the Flame Tide Disaster severed Worry-Free Duke’s shadow chains, and Worry-Free Duke detonated the disaster to open a rift into the Rift World. Ji Jue woke in the Workshop after the battle, only to realize he had no idea where Chun Jun was.

• Ji Jue unleashed a transformed strike that severed the Shadow chains and began tearing apart the Tower's Shadow.
• Worry-Free Duke blamed Sower for the failed disasters and poured his Abyss Seed’s reserves into the Flame Tide Disaster, forcing it to explode.
• The explosion opened a gate to the Rift World, and Worry-Free Duke sailed his damaged giant ship through it while his two seeds were left badly depleted.
• The artisan and Heavenly Furnace watched the rift open and speculated about the many forces involved in the events.
• Ji Jue woke on an operating table in the Workshop, pulled out his IV needles, and realized he could not find Chun Jun.

Ji Jue completed Chunjun as a Masterwork, but awakening its spirit transformed him into a Sin Corruption while granting him the final Metamorphosis Blessing and a powerful new Matrix chain. After discovering a new route to the Primordial Shrine, he prepared to depart aboard the Doomsday Train.

• Ji Jue awakened Chunjun's spirit and became engulfed in bloodfire and Sin Corruption, though Embers confirmed his creation counted as a Masterwork.
• He received the Heaven-Granted Spirit Blessing, completed the three Metamorphosis Blessings, and activated the Matrix's Metamorphosis chain.
• Ji Jue used the new chain on Little Cow and Horse, transforming it before Isis punished it for damaging the Workshop.
• Ji Jue muted the flood of congratulations, avoided discussing Chunjun's abnormal transformation, and privately worried that the Flame Tide Disaster was reviving.
• Sky Rail revealed a new teleport point at the Present World Pivot - Primordial Shrine, and Ji Jue looked toward the ready Doomsday Train with a grin.

Worry-Free Duke led Xie Heli and the outsiders through the dangerous Riftworld toward the sacrificial temple, where he hoped to find the Imperial Jade Seal and restore the Empire. When hostile shadows awakened, he used an imperial ceremonial staff to make them kneel and led the group onward, while Ji Jue remained unaware nearby.

• Worry-Free Duke guided the ship through the Riftworld’s ghostly fires, deadly hazards, and ruins by following an ancient imperial document.
• Worry-Free Duke led the group into the ruined temple city, where a Fiendified One died after looking at its eerie inhabitants.
• Worry-Free Duke warned the outsiders to obey the temple’s rules as they crossed streets warped by distorted space and time.
• Worry-Free Duke explained that the temple concealed the Imperial Jade Seal, which could let its wielder command the Heavenly Origin Law and revive the Empire.
• When the shadows awakened and seized a fleeing old man, Worry-Free Duke used a broken ceremonial staff to make them kneel, then ordered everyone to follow him on foot.
• Ji Jue grilled skewers in a hall and chatted to unresponsive shadows, who rushed away after hearing the screams.

Ji Jue entered the Primordial Shrine, where the Wristwatch and Containing Form Mirror’s authorization made the ancient temple treat him as one of its own. While he began looting the Imperial Cemetery, Worry-Free Duke’s party endured a catastrophic disturbance in the Riftworld, and Ji Jue spotted a gigantic snake in the abyss.

• Ji Jue reached the Primordial Shrine almost instantly aboard the Doomsday Train and entered its ancient hall.
• Non-Aggression awakened with murderous hatred for the Eternal Empire, but the shrine’s defenses knelt before Ji Jue after his Wristwatch and Containing Form Mirror verified his authorization.
• Ji Jue tested the shrine’s indifference, pried up a gold-inlaid floor tile, and left with a cart to begin looting the Imperial Cemetery.
• A monk in Worry-Free Duke’s group triggered a taboo by looking at the emperor’s portrait and dissolved into paint that merged into the image.
• Worry-Free Duke led his group toward the sacrificial temple, where a bell and upheaval forced everyone to bow as the Riftworld shook.
• Ji Jue looked over the cliff and saw an enormous snake in the abyss.

Ji Jue witnessed the lingering sword mark of the Celestial Origin Sword that had slain the Giant Serpent, while the party endured the Sword Cry and reached the sacrificial temple’s sealed boundary. Worry-Free Duke identified the boundary as a Forbidden Zone and prepared to use a rusted clock, telling the party it was time to fulfill their contract.

• The sacrificial temple’s final bell unleashed a Sword Cry that destroyed the moths and revealed the Giant Serpent’s bones, pierced by a sword mark Ji Jue recognized as the Celestial Origin Sword; the bone bore the inscription “Ye Chen slew the serpent here!”
• Xie Heli reassembled after being crushed by the Tower’s Shadow, alarming the party with his dangerous wolf blood and pathogens.
• Worry-Free Duke led the party up toward the sacrificial temple while its power weakened, but they found no entrance through the immense walls surrounding it.
• Worry-Free Duke touched the wall, confirmed it was a Forbidden Zone made of tangible death, and explained that crossing it required dying.
• Worry-Free Duke took a rusted, damaged clock from his brocade box, which resonated with the boundary, and announced that the party must fulfill their contract.

Worry-Free Duke began the audience ritual to open the Sacrificial Temple, but the final tower flame repeatedly went out and the giant gate punished him. Meanwhile, Ji Jue plundered the Eternal Empire’s treasures and rode a revived Minting Machine toward the station, where he collided with a crowd.

• Worry-Free Duke divided his allies into five teams and sent them to light the Audience Towers before striking the Rusting Bell.
• The giant gate appeared, and Worry-Free Duke presented his blood-marked Jade Talisman as the first four tower flames lit.
• The fifth flame repeatedly went out and reignited, causing the gate’s giant face to crush Worry-Free Duke again and again.
• Ji Jue demolished buildings in the Sacrificial Temple, taking gemstones, materials, curtains, armor, and other treasures.
• Ji Jue found a Minting Machine in a vault, revived it with Deus Ex Machina, and rode it toward the station.
• Ji Jue turned a corner and ran headlong into a large crowd.

Ji Jue, disguised as a fearsome figure, stopped Worry-Free Duke's followers and forced them to surrender their treasures and suffer punishments. The battered group continued toward The Tower with a token for protection, while Ji Jue watched and wondered what they were planning.

• Ji Jue startled the group of sixteen sinners, who mistook him for a terrifying authority and knelt before him.
• The group explained Worry-Free Duke's restorationist cause and offered old objects, so Ji Jue sentenced them to punishments and collected their belongings.
• A White Deer Fiendified One fled but ran into the afterimages and statues Ji Jue had disturbed, then returned as a crying afterimage.
• Ji Jue demanded further sacrifices, and the group surrendered treasured weapons, jewelry, armor, and shoes while forcing one another to comply.
• Ji Jue gave the survivors an iron token and instructions for dealing with similar beings, then they limped toward The Tower to carry out Worry-Free Duke's plan.
• Ji Jue secretly watched the group leave and wondered what they intended to do.

Ji Jue infiltrated Worry-Free Duke's expedition to the Hall of Audience Tower and sabotaged its altar, repeatedly plunging the group into darkness while the Artisan was electrocuted. As Worry-Free Duke rekindled the Flame Tide Disaster, Ji Jue learned about the Sower and killed the White Deer Calamity-bearer, then faced the shocked survivors.

• Ji Jue disguised himself as a defiled member of the group and followed Worry-Free Duke's followers into the Hall of Audience Tower.
• The group reached the altar, where the leader used a talisman token to activate its blazing light.
• Ji Jue secretly disrupted the Spirit Essence Circuit, causing the light to repeatedly go out and the altar's defenses to electrocute the Artisan each time he tried to investigate.
• Worry-Free Duke unleashed the Flame Tide Disaster, and the White Deer Calamity-bearer told Ji Jue that the Sower had sent several disasters into the present world.
• Ji Jue questioned the White Deer Calamity-bearer about the Sower, exposed his identity, and killed him with a poisoned blade and Chun Jun Piercing.
• The White Deer Calamity-bearer tore away part of Ji Jue's mask before dying, and Ji Jue faced the other survivors as they turned toward him in shock.

Ji Jue unleashed the Hall of Audience Tower’s defenses and slaughtered the attackers inside, then confronted Worry-Free Duke as his power inflicted deaths across a distant island. Xie Heli hurried toward the tower, but the distance kept slowing his team.

• Ji Jue activated the tower’s lightning defenses and used the Poison Heart Ring to overwhelm everyone caught in the blast.
• The Flawless Temple monk tried to stop Ji Jue with his soul art, but Ji Jue struck him down with the Wrathful Mother Three-Pronged Wisdom King Vajra.
• Ji Jue evaded the lightning, killed the Nether Frost sinner and other attackers, seized a treasure, and detonated the iron plates on their bodies.
• Ji Jue used Disintegration Art to kill Waste Ruins with a fingertip strike.
• The giant face’s power repeatedly killed Worry-Free Duke, while the deaths manifested among civilians on a distant island and his puppets resisted the attack for him.
• Worry-Free Duke demanded that Xie Heli hurry, and Xie Heli’s team raced toward the Hall of Audience Tower but made little progress.

Xie Heli escaped as the Hall of Audience Tower self-destructed, triggering Night of Cruelty and an attack on Worry-Free Duke. After torturing captives for a name, Ji Jue realized his blood and embraced the truth about his enemies, then asked Isis to prepare a fiery surprise as he set out to find the person important to him.

• Xie Heli found the ruined tower empty of corpses, fled as its self-destruction began, and warned Worry-Free Duke as the explosion and Night of Cruelty erupted.
• The shrine's Forbidden Domain Wall opened, and its furious faces attacked Worry-Free Duke and every nearby living creature.
• Ji Jue questioned chained captives in the Workshop of the Doomsday Train until they gave him the name he sought.
• Ji Jue recognized the blood on his hands as his own, accepted the existence of his enemies, and told Isis he was joyful despite his grief.
• Isis promised to stay by Ji Jue's side, and he asked her to find old items that could bring fire, despair, and surprise to a place in the world.
• Ji Jue waited by the train window, resolved to find the person important to him by any means.

Worry-Free Duke used a living sacrifice and the Blaze of the Burning Tower to break the Sacrificial Temple’s Death Wall, exposing the palace within. As he celebrated the path to the Imperial Jade Seal, Xie Heli stabbed him with a poisoned blade.

• Worry-Free Duke recovered from his injuries and assured the survivors that he had another way to enter the Sacrificial Temple.
• Worry-Free Duke revealed the Mohists’ Blaze of the Burning Tower and fused it with the Flame Tide Seed.
• Worry-Free Duke sacrificed his subordinates and the creatures in his baskets to fuel the black-red flames.
• The flames ravaged the forbidden domain, collapsing the Death Wall and revealing the palace and the ruined shadow tower above it.
• A strange illusion passed through the flames, and Xie Heli stabbed Worry-Free Duke in the heart with a blade laced with Rotten Scale poison.

Worry-Free Duke was betrayed by Xie Heli, Duke Chang Le, and the Sower, but escaped after Duke Chang Le opened a path into the Sacrificial Temple. As Duke Chang Le and Duke An Guo converged on the Imperial Jade Seal, Worry-Free discovered that strange machines and Spirit Essence Circuits had silently spread through the temple and Rift World.

• Xie Heli and Worry-Free Duke’s other allies stabbed him, while Duke Chang Le revealed that he had broken free of the contract’s restraints and helped arrange the betrayal.
• Duke Chang Le’s puppet drove off Worry-Free Duke’s attempt to destroy his body, though Worry-Free escaped and retained the Jade Edict Treasure Radiance.
• Duke Chang Le opened a path into Rift World, allowing notorious sinners and other organizations to enter.
• Duke An Guo arrived with sixteen enormous warships and challenged Duke Chang Le over the Imperial Jade Seal, while Xie Heli explained that the Holy Lord had wanted the Empire’s Three Dukes involved.
• Worry-Free watched the rival dukes confront each other, then discovered a vast metallic network beneath the Sacrificial Temple as strange machines burrowed through the ruins and spread Spirit Essence Circuits across Rift World.

Ji Jue rebuilt the Evil Transformation Cult’s Quancheng setup in the Rift World and anchored it to the Vortex, triggering a worldwide alarm and drawing powerful factions toward the Sacrificial Temple. As rival restorers turned on Xie Heli and the Imperial Jade Seal was exposed, Ji Jue waited for the arriving forces, intending to use the chaos to draw out the Sower.

• Ji Jue used the Swordsmith, the Hand of Imperial Rule, Spirit Essence Circuits, and Deus Ex Machina to restore the Sacrificial Temple’s machinery and complete the Great Evil’s foundation.
• Ji Jue anchored the Rift World to the Vortex, sending a signal that the Federation, Empire, and other factions recognized as the Evil Transformation Cult’s Quancheng setup returning.
• The Security Bureau, Confidentiality Bureau, Taiyi Ring, Star Core Association, Holy Light Cult, Deepdark, Wolf Nest, Heavenly Heart Society, and Flawless Temple rushed toward the Wandering Sea.
• Chang Le, An Guo, and Worry-Free Duke accused Xie Heli of serving the Sower, then turned on him as the Myriad Victory Fleet opened fire and Xie Heli fled into the Sacrificial Temple.
• A wall collapsed deep in the Sacrificial Temple, revealing the location of the Imperial Jade Seal and drawing the factions’ attention.
• Ji Jue ignored the Imperial Jade Seal and waited for the incoming forces, hoping to lure out the Sower and kill everyone who came.

The Evil Transformation Cult’s ritual anchored the Vortex to the Riftworld, while the Imperial Jade Seal’s appearance drew factions into a battle for the Eternal Empire’s authority. As the Riftworld descended into a chaotic carnival of violence and sacrifice, T5 turned to CEO and the Sky Rail for help, and CEO agreed to protect everyone by transferring money.

• The Sealing Committee detected the Evil Transformation Cult’s ritual as the Vortex overlapped with the Riftworld and reached the Fulcrum.
• The Imperial Jade Seal appeared in the Sacrificial Temple, prompting Duke Chang Le and Duke An Guo to ally against outsiders and attack Xie Heli.
• Xie Heli survived their attack through the Plague Seed’s power, unleashed deadly corruption across the Riftworld, and joined forces with Mad Slaughter as more intruders rushed in.
• The intruders fought and looted amid the spreading destruction while Ji Jue watched the ongoing sacrifice and the Vortex drew closer to the Riftworld.
• T5 judged the crisis a threat to reality’s Pillars and asked CEO whether the Sky Rail could hold; CEO saw no danger and promised to protect everyone, then offered to transfer money.