Recaps

Ji Jue exposed Saino’s role in the plot against Lou Yanyue and captured him as the Lou Family fought the Xu Family Three Brothers. Ji Jue’s allies began converting the ghost gods with a Mandala, prompting the brothers to launch a desperate counterattack.

• Ji Jue slaughtered Saino’s attendants, captured Saino, and exposed the Soekarno Family’s scheme, prompting Tooth Gate and Devour City to denounce their former ally.
• Saino warned that the outcome was not decided, as Bi Fang’s attack filled the sky with spirit essence blood and wraiths.
• Lou Zhaoye trapped the Xu Family Three Brothers in his Realm of Encirclement while Lou Yanyue attacked and Lou Feng supplied their allies with mana.
• Ji Jue joined the fight by manifesting a Mandala built from the Spirit of the King of Flies, which drained the ghost god and began converting its spirits.
• The Xu Family Three Brothers resisted the conversion, revealed their shared Fangxiang forms, and prepared to fight back together.

The Xu Family Three Brothers unleashed the Five Emperors Great Demon Lords, but Ji Jue’s improvised mandala and Lou Yanyue’s lightning shattered their gateway and nearly killed them. Their grandfather intervened and transported everyone into an immense Iron Enclosure, where the chapter ended with the enclosure’s flaw, Lie Que, identified.

• The Xu Family Three Brothers summoned the Five Emperors Great Demon Lords, whose auras broke through the surrounding restraints and overwhelmed their opponents.
• Lou Zhaoye restrained the emerging demon lords with Heavenly Shackles while Lou Yuling obscured their senses, but Xu Lingwei tried to free them with the Bone Sword.
• Ji Jue used a makeshift mandala and a counterfeit True Word to target the Realm of Encirclement, forcing the demon lords back toward their gateway.
• Lou Yanyue summoned Five Buildings Twelve Cities and struck with concentrated lightning, shattering the Realm of Encirclement and vaporizing half of the three brothers’ bodies.
• Xu Lingwei called for his grandfather, who intervened and transported everyone into the darkness of Iron Enclosure, where Lie Que was revealed as its flaw.

Lou Suwen confronted Xu Youquan in the collapsing Iron Enclosure after Xu Youquan rescued only part of Xu Lingwei. Earlier, Ji Jue forced Saino to pledge allegiance to the Lou Family and extracted the Xu Family’s Spirit Contract, which Lou Suwen used to create a puppet and attack Xu Youquan.

• Lou Suwen revealed himself to Xu Youquan, who had rescued only part of Xu Lingwei and was badly wounded after Lou Suwen held back.
• Ji Jue offered Saino a chance to live as the Lou Family’s subordinate, and Saino agreed to sign a contract witnessed by Celestial Origin.
• Ji Jue carved the Xu Family’s Spirit Contract out of Saino’s soul and took the crystal containing it.
• Lou Suwen used a remnant of a descendant’s soul and blood taken beneath Lie Que to complete a straw doll puppet tied to Xu Youquan.
• Xu Youquan tried to stop Lou Suwen, but Lou Suwen crushed the puppet, shattered the Iron Enclosure, and sent Lie Que striking at him.

Lou Suwen chased Xu Youquan into a fierce fight before Pang Pei stopped them and called a meeting. After Ji Jue won control of Luo Island through the Seven Cities ruling, he took over the island and its assets; Lou Yanyue arrived to tell him the Federation meeting had reached a result.

• Xu Youquan retreated as Lou Suwen pursued and battered him across the Endless Sea, until Pang Pei intervened and summoned them to a meeting.
• Ji Jue declared the Blood Feud Trial decided, and Fernan ruled that the Soekarno Family had cheated and lost to the Chopra Family.
• Ji Jue presented the contract transferring Luo Island to him, and Fernan accepted its validity and agreed to negotiate the Soekarno Family's obligations.
• Ji Jue took control of Luo Island, arrested and punished its criminal operators, and collected the Soekarno Family's assets from Saino.
• Ji Jue demanded that Saino surrender any remaining family assets, then asked Lou Yanyue whether the Federation meeting had produced a result.

After the Lou and Xu Families settled their conflict, Ji Jue received the Lou Family’s support and took control of Luo Island. He outmaneuvered Saino and the Soekarno Family with their contract, leaving them trapped in jobs at his workshop as he secured the island for himself.

• Lou Suwen and Xu Youquan ended their conflict with a settlement that forced the Xu Family to surrender businesses and restricted its members from leaving East City for thirty years.
• Lou Yanyue gave Ji Jue additional Tide Sound Military Industry shares and promised that the Lou Family would cover the Spiritual Substance costs of his Fly-something project.
• Lou Yanyue relayed Lou Suwen’s warning that Ji Jue should not spread himself too thin, prompting Ji Jue to wonder whether a larger conflict was approaching.
• After Lou Yanyue, Lou Zhaoye, and Lou Yuling departed, Ji Jue began taking over Luo Island and had Liang Mo kill Soekarno Family members who resisted the handover.
• Ji Jue persuaded the remaining Soekarno Family members to choose between authority and wealth, then assigned them production-line jobs at the Coast Industry Luo Island No. 1 Workshop.
• When Saino invoked their contract against Ji Jue, Ji Jue argued that he had kept its terms, and the contract burned away as guards dragged Saino off to work.

After Ji Jue seized Luo Island, he used the Paradise System, violence, and lavish incentives to restore public services and reshape its government while placing Ling Shuo and Gold Hair Boy in charge of underworld affairs. As the city began to stabilize, damaged boats and giant Ship Lice signaled that the Calamity Wind had reached the Endless Sea.

• Ji Jue seized control of Luo Island and purged its criminal and corrupt leadership, then used Paradise to keep the city running and overhaul its public administration.
• Luo Island's workers accepted promotions and generous subsidies, while former enemies were put to work in Coast Industry's new factories.
• Ji Jue assigned Ling Shuo and Gold Hair Boy to manage Luo Island's underworld business and told them to keep their disputes out of public view.
• Ji Jue left most daily administration to Paradise and local professionals so he could focus on upgrading Juque Engineering.
• A fishing boat returned from Widow's Reef riddled with holes and giant Ship Lice, while other vessels showed damage from an enormous creature.
• Ji Jue received a Federal Maritime Bureau warning about biological disasters in the southern Endless Sea and recognized that the Calamity Wind had begun.

As the Calamity Wind approached the Seven Cities, Ji Jue prepared Luo Island and Elephant Isle while the Seven Cities' leaders focused on profits and political maneuvering. A fishing fleet was devastated by merfolk attacks, revealing that the danger had reached the eastern Endless Sea earlier than expected.

• The Seven Cities Council dismissed Ji Jue's concerns and discussed limiting costs, profiting from disaster-beast materials, and ranking their forces during the Calamity Wind.
• Fernan stayed behind with the ignored defense contingency plan, while Ji Jue left the meeting and arranged extensive preparations for Luo Island and Elephant Isle.
• Tourism and shipping on Luo Island declined as martial-law preparations began, while fishing companies rushed to exploit the last safe window at sea.
• A fishing fleet that sailed north for king crabs was almost entirely sunk by merfolk, and its Captain returned in shock.
• Reports revealed that merfolk attacks had already begun across the eastern Endless Sea, with large groups following currents toward the Seven Cities.

Ji Jue joined Dan City's campaign against the approaching merfolk, intending to study and hunt them. He sailed the upgraded Prosperity into the migration route and captured a merfolk scout, leaving it alive on his operating table.

• News of merfolk migrating toward the Seven Cities spread, and investigators traced the influx to fish populations swelling after the Federation wiped out nearby tribes.
• Dan City Federation announced it would drive off the merfolk, and Ji Jue agreed to join its expedition after speaking with Minkler.
• Ji Jue sailed the heavily reinforced, floating Prosperity out to sea and used flesh from the Fish of Great Evil as bait.
• A merfolk scout swallowed the bait, which transformed inside its mouth and paralyzed it with Scene Tremor.
• Ji Jue hauled the merfolk aboard, caught its attempt to attack him, and examined it while joking that it would live only until that day.

Ji Jue dissected a mermaid and rebuilt it as a stable steel creation, then considered whether his radical transformations could be part of Myriad Things Self-Transformation. He embraced the uncertain path ahead and set out to catch another mermaid.

• Ji Jue finished dissecting the mermaid and used Isis's analysis to confirm his engineering-based transformation was feasible.
• Ji Jue replaced the mermaid's body parts and soul with mechanical components and the Spirit of the King of Flies, then reassembled it with Deus Ex Machina.
• Ji Jue tested the obedient steel mermaid and found it more stable and controllable than his earlier creations.
• Ji Jue questioned whether replacing the mermaid's nature could count as Myriad Things Self-Transformation, then reasoned that his own creations might also be part of nature.
• Ji Jue accepted the risks of his chosen path and picked up his fishing rod to catch another mermaid.

Penarosa welcomed Ji Jue aboard and made clear that the Sacred Tree Family would help defend Seven Cities but would not support its attempt to fight Ji Jue. As they bonded over a lavish banquet, the ravenous merfolk arrived, and the men prepared to face them.

• Penarosa told Hamming that the Sacred Tree Family would support Seven Cities against the Calamity Wind but would not interfere in its dispute with Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue arrived at Penarosa’s warship, and the two greeted each other warmly while Hamming watched and served them.
• Penarosa and Ji Jue spent the banquet exchanging compliments and drinking Devour City’s wine, leaving Hamming anxious about the approaching threat.
• Penarosa took a battle axe halberd and promised Ji Jue they would drink together after dealing with the beasts.
• The ravenous merfolk surged toward the fleet as enormous waves rose and their cries echoed across the sea.

The Devour City fleet repelled a piranha herd with depth charges, but the merfolk answered by sending mist and airborne fish against the ships. Ji Jue saw Penalosa’s Path of Conquest empower the fleet as the merfolk drew near, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• A piranha herd attacked the Devour City warship, gnawing through its hull and killing sailors on deck.
• The captain ordered depth charges, which slaughtered the piranhas and drove the surviving herd back.
• Merfolk horns summoned thick mist and lifted more mutated fish into the air, prompting the fleet to open fire.
• Penalosa’s Spiritual Substance united and strengthened the fleet, while Ji Jue recognized the Sacred Tree Family’s Path of Conquest.
• Penalosa greeted Ji Jue as enormous merfolk emerged from the mist within a hundred meters of the fleet.

Penalosa and the fleet destroyed the first merfolk force, only to discover that hundreds more tribes had arrived. He ordered the fleet to open fire and used an unusual scope to guide its weapons into precise attacks, leaving Ji Jue eager to inspect it.

• Penalosa dispelled the blood mist, exposed the aged merman priest, and killed him with his Battle Axe Halberd.
• The merfolk and piranhas lost coordination, and Penalosa’s Horde slaughtered the remaining attackers.
• More merfolk tribes appeared across the sea, revealing that the first group had been only an advance force and leaving Hamming struggling to explain Devour City’s faulty intelligence.
• Penalosa excused himself to direct the defense as storms and lightning gathered over the fleet.
• Penalosa ordered the fleet to open fire, and its weapons curved across the sky to strike the distant merfolk with deadly precision.
• Ji Jue recognized the glowing object in Penalosa’s hand as a scope and wanted to touch it.

Penalosa used the fleet’s Heavenly Origin Path sight to devastate the merfolk and their Herd, then transformed into a Titan to fight them in the sea. The Green Flood Dragon awakened and tried to swallow him, but the falling Prosperity crashed into its mouth.

• Penalosa guided the fleet’s fire toward the merfolk, who dove beneath the sea and summoned a storm.
• Penalosa seized the lightning, formed a Spear of Thunder, and became a Titan, then struck the sea and killed or wounded many merfolk and Herd.
• Giant Serpents emerged from the sea and restrained Penalosa while the Green Flood Dragon awakened from the corpses and attacked.
• The Green Flood Dragon opened its vast mouth and swallowed the storm before snapping its jaws around Penalosa.
• The Prosperity fell from tens of thousands of meters above and smashed into the Green Flood Dragon’s mouth.

Penalosa and Ji Jue destroyed the Green Flood Dragon’s incarnation, but the disaster beast escaped as a vengeful spirit. As the fleet prepared to leave, reports revealed disaster beasts awakening and migrating across the seas, signaling that a vast calamity had begun.

• Penalosa used the Prosperity to ram the Green Flood Dragon’s incarnation, and the impact destroyed it and killed the linked merfolk clans.
• The Green Flood Dragon’s spirit escaped after memorizing Penalosa and the Prosperity, while Ji Jue secretly secured a fragment of its residual spirit.
• Penalosa refused to let Ji Jue handle his scope but agreed to explain the Path of Conquest’s applications.
• A huge tide of Sea Locusts and other disaster beasts surged across the sea, prompting Ji Jue to order the fleet home.
• On November 3 and 4, reports described the Green Flood Dragon’s premature awakening and rising activity from the Lord of the White River and Leviathan.
• Further earthquakes, disaster beast awakenings, a coastal vortex, and a beast tide on the Kunwu Plateau confirmed that a massive calamity had begun.

As the Calamity Wind threw the Endless Sea into chaos, Ji Jue publicly executed forty-one officials for corruption, dereliction of duty, and trafficking supplies. A Seven Cities Council envoy then sought Luo Island’s help with the shortages caused by soaring grain prices, but Ji Jue demanded official authorization to intervene and left the envoy fearing what that would mean for the Seven Cities’ leaders.

• The Calamity Wind devastated Freedom City, disrupted transport across the Endless Sea, and left Luo Island plagued by rotting fish and Sea Locusts.
• Ji Jue watched forty-one officials convicted of corruption, dereliction of duty, and trafficking supplies get hanged in a public broadcast.
• Ji Jue told the Seven Cities Council envoy that Luo Island could eliminate the Seven Cities’ future troubles if Speaker Fernan issued an official order.
• The envoy declined Ji Jue’s offer, fearing he would target the Seven Cities’ upper echelons.
• Grain prices surged as transport and trade faltered, while officials across the Seven Cities—including Aquilino’s descendants—profited from hoarding and speculation.

Ji Jue refused to send Seven Cities food directly and instead offered meal vouchers for refugees willing to work on Luo Island, while Coast Industry continued expanding. He then visited Lou Feng, who was rapidly integrating the Green Flood Dragon’s remnant spirit into the Prosperity, and learned the ship would provoke nearby merfolk once it went to sea.

• Ji Jue offered Seven Cities three thousand tons of food in the form of meal vouchers redeemable by people who came to Luo Island and worked.
• Ji Jue escorted the envoy away after the envoy could neither accept nor object to his conditions.
• Ji Jue’s assistant confirmed that people and technical specialists were already smuggling themselves from Seven Cities to Luo Island for jobs and food.
• Ji Jue visited the underground Workshop, where Lou Feng was using Prisms and crystals to oversee the Green Flood Dragon’s integration into Juque and the Prosperity.
• Lou Feng warned Ji Jue that the Green Flood Dragon’s grudge would drive nearby merfolk into a frenzy whenever the Prosperity went to sea.

Ji Jue pushed Lou Feng to upgrade Juque, and Lou Feng completed a major part of the work despite his growing frustration and envy. As Ji Jue struggled to make progress on his own final step, Juque sensed a massive earthquake erupting far away.

• Lou Feng endured Ji Jue's demands and used Star of Bethlehem to etch thirty-two layers of Spirit Essence Circuits into Juque, allowing the Green Flood Dragon's Dragon Blood to spread across the hull.
• Lou Feng felt that his work merely revealed the potential Ji Jue had already designed, but he agreed to keep working after Ji Jue praised him and introduced another idea.
• Ji Jue continued refining blades, but Heaven's Movement Strong brought him little growth and he remained short of the milestone achievement [Myriad Things Self-Transformation].
• Ji Jue sensed through Juque that a huge earthquake had erupted thousands of kilometers away, as though a dragon in the earth veins had awakened and struggled to break free.

Ji Jue and Lou Feng turned Luo Island into a vast tuned mass damper to withstand a catastrophic earthquake, using the Prosperity as a pendulum to absorb the force. When the tremors stabilized, they seized the earthquake’s power as a forging opportunity and began transforming Juque.

• Ji Jue activated the Prosperity and Paradise System, while Isis took control of Luo Island’s infrastructure and spread mercury networks throughout the city.
• Mercury’s Chains and three Giant Pillars linked Luo Island to the suspended Prosperity, which Lou Feng recognized as a tuned mass damper.
• A massive earthquake struck, but the Prosperity absorbed its force and kept the seismic intensity near level four as Lou Feng’s Spiritual Substance reserves rapidly drained.
• Ji Jue and Lou Feng decided to use the earthquake as a forge, striking the Prosperity with an Invisible Hammer while Lou Feng extracted the Azure Flood Dragon Remnant Spirit and carved new Spirit Essence Circuits into Juque.

Ji Jue and Lou Feng finished tempering the Prosperity with the earthquake, while Luo Island and Elephant Isle weathered the disaster with limited damage. After the Seven Cities Council accused them of withholding warnings, Ji Jue threatened Tooth Gate and challenged the council to find a solution to the crisis.

• Ji Jue and Lou Feng completed the Prosperity’s tempering, and Lou Feng struck it with the Spirit Essence Hammer to shed its cracked outer layer.
• Ji Jue concealed the Prosperity’s brilliant appearance and celebrated the completed Spirit Essence Circuit with Lou Feng, who ordered him out of the Workshop.
• Luo Island repaired essential services after the earthquake, while Elephant Isle used its family god and Riot Cats to protect its people; Ji Jue saw reports of worsening conditions elsewhere.
• Tooth Gate accused Luo Island and Elephant Isle of knowing about the earthquake in advance, and Ji Jue threatened to erase Tooth Gate within three days.
• Ji Jue rebuked Garisto, the Old Woman from Ma City, Xi Island, and Fernan when they tried to calm him, then said the council would not dare use his proposed solution.

After the Seven Cities Council isolated Ji Jue, Calamity Wind brought a vast swarm of mutated Sea Locust toward Luo Island, threatening to overwhelm it. Ji Jue kept the island’s employees at work as a white Curtain enveloped Luo Island, separating it from the swarm.

• Ji Jue rejected the Seven Cities Council’s demands, ended the meeting, and focused on preparing for the storm and tsunami.
• Days of torrential rain brought worsening mutations, dead fish, and a shower of rotting fish that drew Sea Locust toward Luo Island.
• Ji Jue recognized the approaching Sea Locust swarm as a catastrophe and decided to deal with it himself rather than sound the alarm.
• Ji Jue ordered his frightened employees back to work, increased their allowances, and ensured overtime pay and food supplies.
• A white Curtain spread around Luo Island, concealing it from the Sea Locust swarm.

Ji Jue used the Curtain Mist to trap and dismantle the Sea Locusts swarming toward Luo Island, turning their material and spirits into fuel for his Mandala. As the mist protected the island and fed his reserves, a Mechanical Sea Locust emerged outside a fisherman's shack and began attacking its former kind.

• The Seven Cities Council watched the Sea Locusts disappear into the Curtain and recognized it as far beyond the Venom Fleet's old barrier, alarming Garisto about Ji Jue's threat to Tooth Gate.
• Ji Jue revealed that his Curtain Mist was an artificial Realm of Encirclement, where the Non-Attack Hand separated and dismantled Sea Locusts while their spirits strengthened the Mandala.
• Lou Feng saw the Spiritual Substance reserves rise as Three-Phase Alchemy recycled the locusts, and Ji Jue directed Isis to send processed remains to his furnaces and branch factories.
• A fisherman and his wife stayed inside their shack during the government lockdown notice and discussed applying to Coast Industry for work and housing.
• Outside the shack, the mist dismantled Sea Locusts while a Mechanical Sea Locust fought and killed another locust, then raised its head and screeched, “Meow!”

Ji Jue used the Mechanical God Mandara to mass-produce Mechanical Sea Locusts and conceal his strength while turning back the swarm attacking Luo Island. As the other forces believed he was running out of resources, Ji Jue sensed the Tower Usurper secretly invading through the ley lines and realized his old enemy had returned.

• Ji Jue's Mechanical God Mandara transformed Sea Locusts into Mechanical Sea Locusts, which hunted the swarm across Luo Island.
• The Curtain appeared to weaken under the swarm's assault, leading the forces gathered in Pu City to believe Ji Jue was nearly defeated.
• Ji Jue unleashed fire and lightning, then lured the Sea Locusts away with a fleet of ships carrying rotting food.
• Ji Jue told Lou Feng that their Spirit Essence was nearly spent and ordered him to request more supplies, though their reserves were actually full.
• Ji Jue sensed the Tower Usurper spreading through Luo Island's ley lines and recognized the presence of his long-lost enemy.

Ji Jue received three Heavenly Origin Blessings from the Lou Family and forged Scarlet Firmament into his own spine, barely surviving its weight. He began Scarlet Firmament’s Secret Rite by imposing a new system on three factory zones, but the workers’ grateful celebrations left him increasingly dizzy and convinced they needed stricter quotas.

• The Lou Family fleet turned back after its speedboat was destroyed, while Ji Jue’s three Heavenly Origin Blessings were delivered to the Doomsday Train.
• Ji Jue combined the Blessings with the Nine Types inheritance rite to forge Scarlet Firmament, then implanted it into his Rebirth Form as a replacement spine and passed out from the strain.
• Ji Jue recovered and asked Isis to begin Scarlet Firmament’s Secret Rite by issuing new rules and management systems across the factory zones in Haizhou, Luo Island, and Central Earth.
• Old Gou and Yu Shu carried out Ji Jue’s directives as the factory zones introduced strict safety rules, working hours, performance targets, and improved employee benefits.
• Ji Jue mistook the workers’ tearful gratitude and celebrations for mockery, so he ordered Isis to increase quotas and launch mandatory night-school training.

Coast’s rising wages and expansion drew people toward New Spring, while Ji Jue’s Red Firmament Foundation progressed and Luo Island stabilized. He discovered the Usurper’s corruption was entering through a fissure beneath the island’s reservoir, but the Abyss Lord hesitated to act even as its forces prepared to strike.

• Gou Er concluded that Ji Jue intended to build New Spring City and urged Yu Shu to help lay its foundations without spreading the guess.
• Ji Jue learned from Isis that employees supported his regulations, felt the Red Firmament Foundation’s pressure lifting, and observed Luo Island settling into routine.
• A Sea Locust hatched in the Ya Men Islands’ Slums, attacked a child, and was killed by desperate refugees, who shared its flesh as authorities dispersed a protest.
• Ji Jue identified a reservoir fissure as the source of the Usurper’s spreading corruption and realized Luo Island’s drinking water might have carried the Usurper’s influence for centuries.
• Ji Jue waited for the Usurper to commit to an attack, while a voice in the abyss urged the Abyss Lord to seize the prepared opportunity on Luo Island.

The Abyss Lord coordinated a vast merfolk Black Tide against Luo Island while Ji Jue refused outside assistance and began awakening the Heavenly Origin Law. Ji Jue stopped the Sea Locusts’ torrential rain, but a towering wave surged toward the island as he raised his hand to face it.

• The Abyss Lord rejected Old Monkey’s pressure to act immediately, then resolved to keep testing his opponents while he waited for conditions to improve.
• The Abyss Lord coordinated twenty-one merfolk tribes into a Black Tide and sent it toward Luo Island to reclaim the Holy Spirit of the Sleeping Lord.
• Ji Jue declined Penalosa’s offer of support, while Luo Island’s residents evacuated in an orderly manner under the Paradise System.
• As the crisis unfolded, Ji Jue sensed the people’s shared wishes, and the awakened Celestial Constitution halted the rain and opened a clear space in the storm.
• A vast wall of black water surged toward Luo Island, and Ji Jue raised his hand to confront it.