Recaps

Ji Jue demonstrated his ability to remake rune steel into hundreds of flawless weapons at North Wind Workshop, then helped expose an attempted assassination by an Evil Transformation Cult survivor. After the Northern Frontier launched a cleanup operation, Ji Jue tried to provoke Yellow Beard into sparring, but Yellow Beard resisted as the chapter ended with his cup cracking in his grip.

• Ji Jue halted and repeatedly reconstructed molten steel, producing 741 flawless weapons with twenty-two layers of Rune enhancement.
• Yellow Beard inspected one of the blades and told his subordinates to collect the weapons as Ji Jue's tuition fee.
• North Wind craftsmen captured the apprentice who had tried to sabotage Ji Jue, and interrogation revealed he was Moino, the last survivor of Tower City's Evil Transformation Cult branch.
• Ji Jue learned that Moino had acted out of personal revenge, and Yellow Beard reported the incident to the Northern Frontier's leaders.
• Frozen Rock City began a major cleanup against the Evil Transformation Cult, while North Wind kept Ji Jue occupied with hospitality.
• Ji Jue suggested a sparring match, then cheerfully dropped the idea when Yellow Beard refused, leaving Yellow Beard to crack his horn cup in frustration.

Ji Jue and Yellow Beard began a blood-oath duel in North Wind’s arena, where Yellow Beard unleashed his full arsenal of rune-forged weapons. Ji Jue finally revealed his own power, shattering forty-one layers of defenses and leaving Yellow Beard facing a devastating strike.

• Yellow Beard transformed North Wind’s Workshop into a dueling arena after Ji Jue asked to spar again, drawing a crowd of Artisans and apprentices.
• Yellow Beard explained the Northern Territory’s rule that strength commanded respect, then attacked Ji Jue with his Flame Shaped Sword.
• Ji Jue caught the sword barehanded, and Yellow Beard revealed the weapon’s Rebirth Form and Realm of Encirclement, unleashing a storm of rune blades.
• Ji Jue deflected the barrage with silver mist, while Yellow Beard pierced through it with a blade combining Mist Shadow, Penetration, and Immovability.
• Yellow Beard demanded that Ji Jue stop holding back, and Ji Jue shattered forty-one layers of defenses with a finger strike, leaving Yellow Beard’s vision blackened as blood-red light flared before him.

Ji Jue and Yellow Beard traded devastating blows in a battle of raw strength until Yellow Beard summoned the heroes of the Northern Frontier. Ji Jue faced the full force of the King of Heroes’ legacy as the summoned legion’s attack swallowed him.

• Ji Jue accelerated into Yellow Beard with Pan Ying, but Yellow Beard met his charge with the Cliff Edge Shield and stood firm.
• Yellow Beard revealed his Horde strength, and he and Ji Jue exchanged a relentless series of blows that cracked the arena.
• Both fighters were driven apart, and Ji Jue’s Rebirth Form began repairing its damage while Yellow Beard assessed his strength.
• Ji Jue struck the Fireworks Cauldron with a heavy weapon, summoning a legion of Northern Frontier heroes from beneath the earth.
• Yellow Beard invoked the King of Heroes’ blessing and unleashed his entire force against Ji Jue, whose Heaven and Earth Shattered torrent was overwhelmed.

Ji Jue fought Yellow Beard and the endlessly reborn heroes inside the Realm of Encirclement, matching their escalating strength with his own transformations. The battle turned when a wound he inflicted on a reborn hero failed to heal, leaving Yellow Beard’s immortality challenged.

• Ji Jue survived the heroes’ initial assault as the Realm of Encirclement redirected their attacks back at them.
• Yellow Beard used the Fireworks Cauldron to revive fallen heroes and empower them, while North Wind’s legacy made their weapons grow deadlier as the battle continued.
• Ji Jue unleashed Rebirth Form: Nine Forms and Realm of Encirclement: Non-Aggression, growing into a Giant and attacking the heroes head-on.
• Ji Jue clashed with Yellow Beard’s heroes, destroying Herenniel, Fabuti, and Surtr while the Fireworks Cauldron repeatedly brought them back.
• After Ji Jue tore out and crushed the flame Giant’s heart, the hero returned with the fatal wound still open.

Ji Jue used Disintegration Art to exploit flaws in Yellow Beard’s heroes and dragged the battle into a war of attrition. He then revealed a power that carved unhealing scars into the Cauldron of Smoke and Fire’s Circle Realm, leaving Yellow Beard in agonizing pain.

• Ji Jue repeatedly damaged Surtr and Hrungnir, while Yellow Beard realized his heroes’ rushed repairs left them vulnerable to Disintegration Art.
• Ash Hyena Simara ambushed Ji Jue by switching into Surtr’s form and burning half his head, but he crushed her head before she withdrew to attack from a distance.
• Yellow Beard’s heroes changed tactics and circled Ji Jue, while he taunted Yellow Beard about the Cauldron’s limits and the dwindling Seeds of Heroes.
• Ji Jue decapitated Bergelmir, then tore open the Circle Realm with his fingers and left a black scar that could not be repaired.
• Ji Jue thanked Yellow Beard for helping him master his strange power, then opened a larger rupture that damaged the Circle Realm’s essence and caused Yellow Beard severe pain.

Ji Jue used Power of Life and Death to damage Yellow Beard’s Realm of Encirclement, but Yellow Beard transformed into a Primordial Hero and overwhelmed him with the Golden Sword. As the duel escalated toward a fatal finish, Ji Jue unleashed Scene Tremor as his final counter.

• Ji Jue used Power of Life and Death to damage the foundation of Yellow Beard’s Realm of Encirclement and urged him to surrender.
• Yellow Beard refused, sacrificed his Rebirth Form in the Fireworks Cauldron, and emerged as a Primordial Hero wielding the Golden Sword.
• Yellow Beard overpowered Ji Jue in their clash, and Ji Jue triggered Thunder Pool and Zhanlu in a desperate blast.
• Yellow Beard withstood the blast and attacked Ji Jue again with the Golden Sword, refusing to show mercy.
• Ji Jue raised a finger and unleashed Scene Tremor as Yellow Beard’s sword fell.

Ji Jue won a perilous draw against Yellow Beard by disrupting his Blessings and Realm of Encirclement, then negotiated for North Wind’s mineral waste to feed Dragon Mountain. He left the Northern Frontier with a warning about corruption and invitations to the Haizhou Technology Exposition.

• Ji Jue used [Fa Shan] to interfere with Yellow Beard’s Blessings, freezing his Primeval Hero incarnation, then ended the duel before either of them was badly hurt.
• Ji Jue recovered from his exhaustion and reflected that his techniques consumed too much strength, while Yellow Beard regretted losing to Ye Xian’s disciple just as he had lost to Ye Xian years earlier.
• Ji Jue persuaded Yellow Beard to let Dragon Mountain consume North Wind’s mineral scraps, and Yellow Beard agreed to feed it as much as it could eat.
• As Ji Jue left Frozen Rock City, he questioned why people with promising lives turned to Great Evil, and Yellow Beard answered that greed, hatred, and other desires drove them.
• Ji Jue boarded a ship with Northern Frontier gifts and a Rune stone from Yellow Beard, then gave him invitations to the Haizhou Technology Exposition before departing.

Ji Jue returned to New Spring just before the Haizhou Tech Expo, which had grown from his small sports-meet idea into a major regional event, and thanked the exhausted Yu Shu while adding more work to his plate. He then pressed Lou Feng for the second-generation brain-machine interface while giving him technical notes, leaving the prototype deadline unresolved.

• The Coast disabled sports meet expanded into the Haizhou Tech Expo as Yacheng, Tide City, and the Southeast Business Alliance joined, leaving Yu Shu overwhelmed with organizing it.
• Ji Jue praised Yu Shu, gave him gifts, and assigned him the church's waste-removal profits and a new Chongguang Church pavilion in Hall A4.
• After Ji Jue left, Yu Shu realized he had been manipulated into accepting more tasks and asked for extra opening-ceremony tickets.
• Ji Jue asked Lou Feng whether the second-generation brain-machine interface could be completed for the expo, despite Lou Feng's exhausted team still preparing its test version.
• Ji Jue handed Lou Feng technical manuscripts, including notes on Northern Territory Runes, and thanked him before asking him to speed up the prototype.

The Haizhou Technology Expo opened to enormous crowds and booming sales, while Shi Ran arrived with Shi Long and toured New Spring. Shi Ran saw the town’s advanced security robots and construction exoskeletons, leaving both brothers stunned by Coast’s capabilities.

• The Haizhou Technology Expo opened, drawing tens of thousands of visitors and a surge of buyers to the Wild Bazaar sales channels.
• Shi Ran arrived by airship and reunited with Shi Long, then received VIP access and permission to test-drive a new model.
• Shi Ran and Shi Long crossed the skybridge, where Shi Ran admired New Spring’s infrastructure and questioned how the crowded expo could be kept safe.
• A Riot Cat leapt into action and caught a pickpocket, demonstrating the robots’ role in New Spring’s security.
• A squad of massive machines resembling Powered Armor marched past, and Shi Long identified them as Heavy Engineering Exoskeleton Auxiliary Systems for Construction.

Shi Long took Shi Ran to Coast’s pavilion and then to the Haizhou Disabled Games Marathon, where prosthetic-equipped contestants raced at extreme speeds. The race left Shi Ran exhilarated and in awe of the engineering on display.

• Shi Long explained how Coast’s firefighting team handled equipment work that Tide Sound could not conveniently take on.
• Shi Long showed Shi Ran how life in the Wilderness had transformed in just over a year and toured Coast’s expansive exhibition pavilion with him.
• Shi Ran judged Coast’s light reconnaissance vehicle more refined than Renewed Glory’s Rhinoceros, despite their different purposes.
• Shi Long brought Shi Ran to watch the Haizhou Disabled Games Marathon, where contestants from wilderness settlements competed using prosthetics built by their teams.
• The starting gun sent the contestants charging around the track at tremendous speeds, and Shi Ran watched as one racer crashed after his prosthetic leg snapped.
• Shi Ran gripped the handrail and embraced the race’s ruthless pursuit of speed and victory.

Shi Ran watched a brutal prosthetic racing competition and recognized the old woman’s extreme weight reduction and determination as her greatest advantage. After she lost her chance to overtake the leader, Shi Ran realized the man in first place had likely spent too much battery to finish, but then noticed something was wrong.

• Shi Ran identified the old woman as the competitor most determined to win and predicted she would accelerate in the final third of the race.
• The old woman surged forward using an exceptionally lightweight prosthetic setup, while the leader blocked her attempts to pass.
• She overtook the leader on the outside of a turn, but he collided with her and knocked her off balance, leaving her in third place.
• Shi Ran calculated that the leader’s all-out pace had likely drained too much battery for him to reach the finish.
• Shi Ran’s eyelid twitched as he sensed that something was wrong.

Mu Mao won the prosthetics race after his battery failed and he discarded the powered equipment to sprint across the finish line. Watching the event convinced Shi Long that Coast Industry’s Paradise technology had a formidable advantage, and he offered Shi Ran leadership of a new company to cooperate with Coast Industry.

• Mu Mao’s battery pack ran out near the finish, so he tore away the failed mechanisms and raced on his prosthetic limbs, beating Su Su across the line.
• Shi Long and Shi Ran discussed Coast Industry’s Paradise interface, its commercial advantage, and the Creation Spirit, Paradise System, and patents that formed its technological moat.
• A promotional video announced that Paradise System V1.2 had launched, and Shi Long explained its capabilities and why other companies would hesitate to share their core data with it.
• Shi Long told Shi Ran he planned to spin off Renewed Glory operations and form a company to work with Coast Industry on prosthetics, offering Shi Ran the role of legal representative.
• Shi Ran eagerly accepted the offer, while Shi Long celebrated his plan until a volunteer reminded him that smoking was prohibited.

Coast Technology’s Paradise System drew companies into negotiations and investment in New Spring, strengthening the Southeast Chamber of Commerce Alliance. That night, armed mercenaries infiltrated the industrial park to sabotage the expo, only to stumble upon the Security Department gambling in a warehouse.

• Renewed Glory announced a major restructuring and joined Coast Technology to invest in New Spring and establish Light Spring.
• Ji Jue’s invitation prompted companies to bargain over cooperation, while Old Gou negotiated with them and New Spring began planning a new development zone.
• Di Tong Technology and Torchlight Group announced deep cooperation with Coast Technology, and Shengyu revealed related plans as the expo’s momentum and share prices rose.
• Mercenaries infiltrated New Spring’s industrial park with explosives and began preparing to attack the venue.
• A warehouse caretaker spotted the infiltrators, and the mercenaries followed him into a warehouse where Security Department members were gambling illegally.

Ji Jue dismissed the search for the mercenaries behind the attack and asked Tong Ting to fire a missile for cleanup. A hired killer named Leech Snake boarded a plane bound for Tide City and discovered that many passengers, including his old rival Flame Boa, were connected to New Spring contracts just as a missile approached.

• Coast punished E003 Squad for gambling but rewarded them with promotions and bonuses for stopping an attack, while its security crackdown drove criminals out of the area.
• Isis reported that the eleven mercenaries who attacked Coast had no known ties to it, and Ji Jue chose not to investigate further before suspecting Han Hui's camp.
• Ji Jue answered Tong Ting's call and agreed to fire a missile for cleanup.
• Leech Snake boarded a cheap Airship under a false identity and recognized Flame Boa, while sensing that several other passengers were dangerous.
• Leech Snake asked whether the passengers had taken New Spring's contract, and the cabin fell silent as a missile's crimson light closed in.
• Bee Snake watched the missile approach and realized the plane was doomed before it exploded.

Ji Jue and Tong Ting discussed the suspiciously normal events surrounding New Spring and suspected the Qiu Family was using Heavenly Eye to conceal a scheme. Ji Jue concluded that Han Hui might target the Haizhou Tech Expo and asked Isis to prepare a list of possible operatives, though he had not yet identified the threat.

• Ji Jue detonated a Thunder Pool missile, destroying an airship carrying forty-seven passengers and six crew members, whom Tong Ting claimed all deserved to die.
• Tong Ting warned Ji Jue that New Spring’s unusually smooth sequence of events suggested an Ether was hiding something, and he suspected the Qiu Family’s Heavenly Eye.
• Ji Jue considered that Han Hui might seek revenge by targeting the Haizhou Tech Expo, then rejected increasingly extreme attack scenarios with Isis’s help.
• Ji Jue realized that the true operatives might already be inside New Spring or Coast Industry and asked Isis to compile a list of suspects.

On the fifth day of the Haizhou Tech Expo, Coast’s preparations were overwhelmed by record crowds as the company showcased its Paradise interface through a boxing match featuring disabled fighters. As Ji Jue began Coast Group’s product launch, Huang Ming’s covert team continued spreading Seeds of Mind through the venue and reported that Ji Jue had appeared.

• New Spring’s roads and expo grounds filled with tens of thousands of visitors, while Coast Industry opened its cafeteria and factory grounds to support the crowds.
• Lu Ling arrived with Lu Ma and the children, and an infiltrator named Li Yong slipped away after warning Huang Ming that New Spring’s security had tightened.
• Huang Ming trusted that his team remained concealed because their diamond rings showed no disturbance, received orders to proceed, and spread Seeds of Mind into the crowd.
• Coast’s light exoskeleton boxing demonstration showed disabled fighters using Paradise interfaces to react and fight at remarkable speed, and one boxer won before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Ji Jue entered the arena early to begin Coast Group’s product launch, and a hidden observer reported his appearance.

Ji Jue opened Coast's product launch by announcing generous membership benefits, a free Sundial Wristwatch upgrade, and new wilderness motorcycles, then shifted to discuss his plans for cybernetic prosthetics. The chapter left off as a reporter shouted an objection before Ji Jue could explain further.

• Ji Jue appeared at Coast's launch to cheers from the audience and New Spring residents, while Shi Long recognized the scale of his influence.
• Ji Jue announced Coast Premium Membership tiers with extensive repair, replacement, maintenance, and rental benefits.
• Ji Jue revealed a new Sundial Wristwatch and offered existing owners a free upgrade, driving a surge in preorders.
• Ji Jue introduced a motorcycle suited to wilderness roads and the upgraded Coast Explorer, stunning the audience with its capabilities and price.
• Ji Jue set aside his cue cards and introduced his interest in cybernetic prosthetics, prompting a reporter to rise and shout an objection.

Ji Jue unveiled Coast’s affordable Paradise Interface and defended its work for disabled people against a reporter’s accusation of exploitation. As Coast’s popularity and related investments surged, Zhu Lu ordered his forces to begin their attack.

• A reporter accused Ji Jue of turning disabled people’s suffering into entertainment, and he answered by describing Coast’s charitable work and affirming their right to reclaim their lives.
• Ji Jue introduced the Paradise Interface, credited Lou Feng, Elder Deng, and the contestants, and announced its 5,116 Federal Currency price with free Coast maintenance and upgrades.
• Demonstrations showed disabled users controlling industrial equipment and conducting dangerous rescue work through the interface, driving a surge in Coast memberships and investment in related companies.
• In East City, Zhu Lu received confirmation that his personnel, Tian Shan, and Berninger were ready, then wrote the order to begin.

Zhu Lu and Huang Ming prepared a coordinated attack on Ji Jue’s press conference, using poison, agitation, and planted bombs. The bombs were stopped at the last moment when Xu Chao Xian appeared on the livestream, leaving the attackers stunned.

• Zhu Lu crushed a glass bead and sent the order to New Spring to begin the attack.
• Huang Ming used the Seed of Mind to inspect the venue and prepared six bombs and spiritual toxins while his agents took their positions.
• A poisoning at the Coast factory disabled staff and Exoskeleton pilots as agitation and violence spread through the expo grounds.
• Lu Feng learned the central venue might contain explosives and raced toward it while Ji Jue announced Coast’s charity fund.
• Xu Chao Xian appeared onstage just before the countdown ended, and Zhu Lu’s shout made Huang Ming stop the detonation at the last moment.

Ji Jue used Xu Chao Xian’s status as Governor to deter an attack at the Haizhou Tech Expo while preparing a mass security response. An explosion and staged chaos exposed the infiltrators, and the chapter ended as Huang Ming ordered the compromised operatives to move.

• Ji Jue held Xu Chao Xian’s hand and used the Governor’s presence to make an attack on the venue politically dangerous.
• Ji Jue waited for the attackers to strike, then an explosion rocked a warehouse district on the southeastern side of the Haizhou Tech Expo.
• Armed men posing as members of the Evil Transformation Cult fired blanks and shouted threats as thousands of exoskeleton units sealed off the grounds and began evacuating visitors.
• The Paradise System analyzed targets and reduced its suspect list, while the Defense and Security Department deployed armor and surveillance teams.
• The Tong Family’s calibration narrowed the suspects to fifty, and Huang Ming and the other infiltrators’ diamond rings turned black, revealing them.
• Huang Ming warned the operatives over the telepathic channel that they were ambushed and ordered them to move.

Lu Feng’s forces stopped Heart Pivot’s assault on the park, subdued the disaster beasts, and captured Tian Shan and Huang Ming. Lu Feng prepared a brutal punishment for Huang Ming as Isis deployed a Spiritual Substance lockdown around them.

• Lu Feng killed Huang Ming’s apparent body, but it released a swarm of moths that spread panic and infected the park’s visitors.
• Heart Pivot’s moth swarm and the unleashed disaster beasts attacked the park while Tian Shan fled and Berninger rained flames on the crowd.
• A silver Mechanical God Mandala appeared and used the Great Momentum of Three Thousand Worlds to destroy the moths and beasts, purge the consciousness seeds from visitors, and overpower Berninger.
• An Ran intercepted Tian Shan in New Spring, while Huang Ming escaped in a spare body and made his way out of the sealed area.
• Lu Feng lured Huang Ming to a designated location, where Isis completed a Spiritual Substance lockdown and delivered weapons and a preservation vessel for Heart Pivot-type consciousnesses.
• Lu Feng confronted Huang Ming over planting the bomb and offered him a choice of weapons for his punishment.

Ji Jue turned the terrorist attack at the Haizhou Tech Expo into a showcase for Coast’s new Sirius system and its connected ecosystem. As the exhibitors coordinated a sweeping hunt for the attackers, Xu Chao Xian learned that a workshop had come under attack, and Ji Jue gave no explanation.

• Ji Jue used the lockdown to suppress the attackers, while Li Yong escaped through an alley and disguised himself.
• A smoking man received Shi Long’s order to kill the fugitives and killed Li Yong with a flicked cigarette ash.
• The exhibitors reviewed evidence of the bomb plot and ordered their Chosen Ones and security forces to hunt down the attackers.
• Ji Jue unveiled Coast Smart Driving and Sirius, demonstrating how Sirius coordinated services across the expo and delivered him a cappuccino.
• A Security Bureau agent whispered to Xu Chao Xian that the workshop was under attack, and Xu Chao Xian looked toward Ji Jue as the warning appeared on his alert.

Tong Ting realized the Qiu Family had concealed its real objective beneath layers of distraction as sabotage erupted at the Haizhou Tech Expo. Meanwhile, Flint and Pang Lu breached the Workshop, disabled its defenses, and discovered a vast multitude of creation spirits, where an unexpected man identified their target as the King of Flies.

• Tong Ting and Qiu Sheng probed each other’s plans through a seemingly casual phone conversation and a contest over public bets.
• Tong Ting spotted the Qiu Family’s hidden maneuver, but an explosion at Coast Industry’s factory began the sabotage while Ji Jue’s forces were occupied at the expo.
• A Hemp Robe Sect elder isolated Coast Technology’s headquarters from the outside world, and Flint used his mass-increasing ability to bore through the Workshop’s defenses.
• Pang Lu transformed into spirit essence and brought Flint inside the Workshop, where Flint’s black-iron pestle resonated through the structure and paralyzed it.
• Flint and Pang Lu opened a massive door and found a cavern filled with countless awakened creation spirits.
• A man beside them recognized that the intruders’ true objective was the King of Flies.

Ji Jue’s backup vessels revived under Isis’s control and attacked Flint and Pang Lu with prototype Nine Forms swords. Pang Lu fled from an Overloaded wolf-like puppet as Ji Jue urged it to keep fighting.

• Flint immobilized matter around Ji Jue, and Pang Lu cut apart what appeared to be his body, revealing it was a mechanical backup vessel.
• The damaged head called on Isis, who used the Creation Spirits and Mercury threads to reassemble Ji Jue and create nine and a half puppet versions of him.
• Flint compressed the cavern’s matter around the puppets, but the Ji Jues counterattacked with prototype Nine Forms swords controlled by Isis.
• Ji Jue’s puppets overwhelmed the attackers with varied creations, while Pang Lu fled from a fast, wolf-like puppet operating in Overload.
• Ji Jue explained that the wolf-like puppet was a flawed Fish Intestine prototype that would eventually break down, then encouraged it to keep pursuing Pang Lu.

Pang Lu and Flint unleashed a devastating attack while secretly completing their plan to destroy the Swarm of the King of Flies, only to discover Ji Jue had already moved the swarm elsewhere. Their actions awakened the true threat beneath the cavern: Isis, an unrestrained Transcendent Workshop Spirit.

• Pang Lu and Flint coordinated a massive explosion that destroyed most of Ji Jue's puppets and shattered the cavern.
• Pang Lu's concealment Realm hid his actions as the Ascension Poison spread through the Creation Spirits and turned them to ashes.
• Pang Lu revealed that he and his allies had targeted the King of Flies' breeding base, but Ji Jue explained he had secretly relocated the swarm and emptied the facility.
• Ji Jue realized the Spirit Essence and materials had been used for a Three-Phase Flow Secret Rite connected to Quancheng's ley lines.
• White flowers bloomed throughout the cavern as Isis awakened, and Ji Jue announced the intruders would face the Transcendent Extinction Calamity.