Recaps

Flint broke the Realm of Encirclement, letting the old man escape before Lou Zhaoye captured him, while Ji Jue survived the flower catastrophe and concealed most of the King of Flies Project’s losses from Lou Feng. Pang Lu fled into a Secret Rite site, where Lou Yanyue’s pursuit exposed a real Evil Transformation Cult and triggered the Eternal Saint King’s descent.

• Pang Lu realized the flowers had trapped him inside the Realm of Encirclement, while the old man struggled to keep the boundary intact beneath the probing silver threads.
• Flint used Gaia Ring to shatter the blockade, allowing the old man to escape New Spring before Lou Zhaoye caught and sealed him with chains and Heavenly Punishment.
• Coast Technology settled the launch-event panic as Ji Jue recovered, told Lou Feng the King of Flies Project had suffered near-total losses, and admitted he had secretly moved its main body elsewhere.
• Lou Feng and Ji Jue heard a distant blast, while Lou Yanyue pursued Pang Lu through Quancheng with lightning and drove him into an underground chamber.
• Pang Lu crashed into an Evil Transformation Cult ritual site, where the Priest ordered an attack and the Eternal Saint King descended, horrifying Pang Lu, Lou Yanyue, Tong Ting, Chou Sheng, and Xu Chao Xian.

The Evil Transformation Cult’s ritual in New Spring was exposed and its attempt to summon the Eternal Lord was stopped, but the chaos revealed a hidden Taint labyrinth and a Foul Corruption Demon threatening Quancheng. Tong Ting’s Thunder of Innocence had set off a chain of accidents, and Ji Jue heard a familiar voice offer help as the greater danger emerged.

• Lou Yanyue’s accusation and the sudden appearance of the Evil Transformation Cult sent Haizhou into alarm, while Tong Ting and Chou Sheng scrambled to respond.
• Chou Sheng used the Mirror System to make a crimson meteor strike the Eternal Lord, and Lou Yanyue and Lou Suwen followed with Lie Que’s thunderbolt to destroy its projection and break the Secret Rite.
• The cult followers turned to ashes, while Chou Sheng’s Heavenly Eye tracked the fleeing cultists until Tong Ting flooded New Spring with information and exposed a hidden Taint labyrinth.
• Lou Yanyue drew on Lou Feng Workshop’s Spiritual Substance reserves to bombard the labyrinth, revealing a Foul Corruption Demon trying to break into the Rift World that sealed Quancheng’s seed of Natural Disaster.
• Chou Sheng realized Tong Ting’s Thunder of Innocence had caused the events and dragged him into the crisis, while Tong Ting told him he could rest as the danger escalated.
• Ji Jue heard a familiar voice ask whether he needed a hand.

Corruption breached the Rift World gate by twisting the Pilgrim’s Path and summoned Shrike’s phantom to smash through the sealed door. Meanwhile, Ghost Artisan brought Ji Jue to New Spring’s Clock Tower for a correspondence lesson in the ultimate form of Scene Tremor, unleashing Spirit Essence Refinement across the city.

• Corruption distorted the Pilgrim’s Path, making it nearly immune to attacks, and tried to recreate Ji Jue’s past visit to force the Rift World gate open.
• Corruption failed to reconstruct Ji Jue’s history because the Tong Family’s hexagram had sealed it, so it summoned Shrike’s phantom using a bloodstained book and began punching the gate.
• Ghost Artisan appeared before Ji Jue as the Devil-Crafted Ball and offered him a correspondence lesson in the ultimate form of Scene Tremor.
• Ji Jue eagerly accepted, and Ghost Artisan transported him to the top of New Spring’s Clock Tower.
• Ghost Artisan unfolded his Sheath and used Spirit Essence Refinement to turn New Spring’s surroundings into part of the Matrix Holy Relic.

Ji Jue endured the completion of the Scene Tremor Sword, then used it to pierce and devastate the Foul Corruption Demon across the labyrinth. The demon escaped before Lou Suwen could fight it, while Ji Jue returned to his Workshop and collapsed after his automatic swagger program ended.

• With Ghost Artisan's help, Ji Jue completed the nine transformations of Spiritual Substance and joined Gan Jiang and Mo Xie to form the tenth type, the Scene Tremor Sword.
• Ji Jue sent the Scene Tremor Sword through the labyrinth, piercing the Foul Corruption Demon and erasing most of its body.
• The Foul Corruption Demon overloaded and destroyed its labyrinth to block the falling Lie Que, then vanished before Lou Suwen could pursue it.
• Lou Suwen complained that the demon had escaped, but another person warned him that fighting it could have destroyed New Spring.
• Ji Jue returned to his Workshop with a composed smile, then lost consciousness when his automatic swagger program ran out of Spiritual Substance.

Ji Jue remained incapacitated after pushing himself to the limit, leaving Lou Feng to take charge of the Joint Workshop, the Association, and Coast. As Ji Jue studied Scene Tremor and planned his next steps, Lou Feng and their allies launched a coordinated political counteroffensive against East City.

• Isis played Ji Jue’s recorded instructions appointing Lou Feng to manage the Joint Workshop, the Association, Coast, and Ji Jue’s assets if he could no longer fulfill his duties, and Lou Feng left in anger after finding Ji Jue unresponsive.
• Ji Jue recovered his senses in less than half a day but spent the following week analyzing his recorded experience of Scene Tremor and concluded that it transmuted spiritual substance through nine transformations centered on the artisan’s own traits.
• Ji Jue realized Scene Tremor depended on the properties of its matrices, but Ball Bro pointed out that Ji Jue already had two of his own.
• Ji Jue identified Chengying, Gong Bu, and Tai'a as unfinished forms that lacked adequate training, compatible components, or materials, and he added new plans to his schedule.
• Lou Feng, Chen Xingzhou, the Tong and Lou families, Cliff and Tide, the Southeast Chamber of Commerce Alliance, and Central Cities coordinated protests and reports against East City, with Xu Chao Xian pushed forward as their representative.

Retaliation between the Southeast Chamber of Commerce Alliance and the Vast Sea Alliance intensified as Chen Xingzhou used their feud to consolidate his power. At the same time, Yacheng accused East City of colluding with the Evil Transformation Cult, while Lou Feng confronted the Xu Family over the slaughter of the Fly Family and ended by forcing Xu Lingwei into a damaging admission.

• Chen Xingzhou kept fighting Han Hui to strengthen his authority, while their factions traded raids, supply cutoffs, and other attacks.
• Xu Chao Xian accused East City at a Central City meeting of colluding with the Evil Transformation Cult and presented evidence linking it to the East City Bank heist.
• The meeting descended into chaos without a decision, leaving the outcome dependent on Central City, the Security Bureau, Haizhou, and East City.
• Lou Feng rallied Artisans and factions in the Association to formally investigate East City's Xu Family over the slaughter of the Fly Family.
• Lou Feng confronted Xu Lingwei in the Xu Family's main hall and twisted his defense into an apparent admission that the Xu Family had ties to the Evil Transformation Cult.

Lou Feng forced the Xu Family to pay a huge settlement after accusing them of colluding with the Evil Transformation Cult, while Central City retaliated against East City with a tax investigation. Ji Jue’s cryptic letter sent Han Hui into a collapse, and he ended the chapter coughing blood as Zhu Lu called for help.

• Lou Feng confronted Xu Lingwei and demanded the Xu Family answer for the Evil Transformation Cult’s attack, while Lou Suwen negotiated with Xu Youquan under the threat of a Heavenly Being ruling or a fight.
• Xu Youquan agreed to a settlement of Spirit Essence Crystals, Ascension materials, a large order, and sixteen thousand living spirits, and Xu Lingwei signed the Spirit Contract on behalf of the Xu Family.
• Lou Feng declared that anyone targeting the King of Flies belonged to the Evil Transformation Cult and anyone targeting Coast was Lu Changsheng’s lackey, then left with the Lou delegation.
• The Federation sent a tax inspection team to East City over its failure to report Han Hui as a Heavenly Being, and the Governor was sent to a Central City sanatorium.
• Ji Jue sent Han Hui a letter that read “qu” when turned upside down; Han Hui laughed, coughed up blood, and collapsed as Zhu Lu called for help.

Ji Jue and Chen Xingzhou recognized that Han Hui was feigning a grave illness to buy time and rebuild his authority, while agreeing to let their factions exploit the unfolding conflict. As the Coast gained time to develop, the Federation and Empire cracked down on the re-emerging Evil Transformation Cult but remained unable to find Lu Changsheng, whose real plan still seemed to be unfolding.

• Ji Jue told Chen Xingzhou that Han Hui was using his supposed injuries to avoid pressure, make others feel his absence, and regain support.
• Chen Xingzhou admitted he had helped spread the story of Han Hui's collapse, and Ji Jue agreed to stay out of the rest in exchange for a larger share of the market and channels they seized.
• Ji Jue and Chen Xingzhou concluded that Han Hui was trying to reclaim power, while their own sides would pursue their interests in the conflict.
• After Ji Jue set aside his Federation Standard work, he turned his attention to the Evil Transformation Cult as the Federation and Empire launched a sweeping investigation.
• Investigators uncovered the cult's renewed network and suspected its public activity was a distraction, but they found no trace of Lu Changsheng.

Ji Jue learned from Lü Yingyue that the Evil Transformation Cult had stolen several extinguished calamity seeds, which could reignite into new disasters. After promising to protect Quancheng’s seed, he felt uneasy about the spreading danger and wanted to return to Tide Sound.

• Ji Jue read a briefing describing the worldwide search for Lu Changsheng and the intensified investigations into the Evil Transformation Cult.
• Lü Yingyue visited Ji Jue in New Spring, delivered his reward of a top-tier shipping lane permit, and told him Quancheng’s calamity seed remained stable.
• Ji Jue asked whether other calamity seeds had gone missing, and Lü Yingyue confirmed that the seeds of Flame Tide, Sky Rift, Ten Thousand Dissolutions, and Time Difference had disappeared from sealed sites.
• Lü Yingyue explained that calamity seeds could reappear or sprout into new disasters unless they naturally withered away, and warned Ji Jue that New Spring could be targeted again.
• Ji Jue promised to protect the calamity seed in the Quancheng ruins, then watched Lü Yingyue leave as rain fell and decided he wanted to return to Tide Sound.

Ji Jue visited Tide Sound and reunited with Gloria and Ye Chun, but their reunion turned into an all-afternoon takeout feast before Ye Xian returned. Meanwhile, Ye Xian and Ghost Artisan discussed Ji Jue’s rapid progress toward the ultimate realm of Scene Tremor and her struggle to keep him occupied.

• Ji Jue returned to Yacheng and surprised Gloria at Tide Sound, where she said several big sisters had been watching him.
• Ye Chun came downstairs, and she and Ji Jue silently challenged each other to a food-delivery showdown.
• In the Workshop, Ye Xian told Ghost Artisan that Ji Jue had made one percent progress toward the ultimate realm and might surpass her within two or three years.
• Ye Xian realized Ji Jue and Ye Chun had been left alone, then returned to find them surrounded by takeout containers after eating all afternoon.
• Ye Chun and Ji Jue planned to go out for more food, but Ye Xian interrupted them and invited them into the Workshop after they finished eating.

Ji Jue brought his Chengying trial model to Ye Xian for feedback and asked about his Nine Forms studies. After discussing his progress, he noticed that Ye Xian’s work on Gan Jiang and Mo Xie had been made possible by an enhancement to Heavenly Mandate, which she confirmed.

• Ji Jue showed Ye Xian his Chengying trial model, and she judged it not bad for his current level while pointing out its many flaws.
• Ye Xian said Ji Jue could begin studying Gong Bu and Tai'a because his grasp of the Nine Forms was sufficient for Scene Tremor.
• Ye Xian warned Ji Jue not to pursue perfection in every field and cited Jianyuan as a cautionary example.
• Ji Jue asked whether Ye Xian’s ability to simplify the principles behind Gan Jiang and Mo Xie was related to an enhancement of Heavenly Mandate.
• Ye Xian confirmed Ji Jue’s suspicion.

Ye Xian explained that Ji Jue had been chosen by the Path of Revolution and warned him that Heavenly Mandate was a road people chose, not a force that owned them. Ji Jue accepted the path without hesitation, and after leaving Ye Xian’s study, he returned to his routine and planned his next big undertaking.

• Ye Xian demonstrated the Path of Sublimation and explained how its Heavenly Mandate optimized creations by revealing their ideal forms.
• Ye Xian told Ji Jue that Revolution had chosen him, explained its broad empowerment and dangerous demands, and warned that its Edge of Transformation would prevent him from pursuing another Heavenly Mandate.
• Ji Jue wondered whether Revolution had caused his many troubles, but Ye Xian said people—not Heavenly Mandates—were responsible for the paths they walked and the deeds they created.
• When Ye Xian asked whether he would give up everything for Revolution, Ji Jue answered without hesitation, and Ye Xian recalled her teacher’s warning not to treat Heavenly Mandate as something sacred.
• Ji Jue left Ye Xian alone with her memories, met the rice bug in the parking lot, and shared a large meal before returning to his routine and planning to advance the Nine Forms and study Scene Tremor.

Coast’s products and Sirius rapidly expanded across the Federation and beyond, while the Paradise System’s hidden developer features spread through Settlements. As demand strained the system’s Celestial Spirit foundation, Ji Jue considered how to obtain another Celestial Being to support it.

• Coast’s membership network and Sirius’s launch drove sales and helped Coast dominate competitors in the Federation and other regions.
• Sirius and the Paradise System optimized businesses and industrial operations, while cracked versions spread among Garbage Collectors and Settlements.
• Isis warned Ji Jue that rising demand could push the Paradise System to its computational limit within months and urged him to upgrade it.
• Ji Jue realized the system needed more Celestial Spirit capacity and considered capturing a Celestial Being, but the potential candidates were difficult or distasteful to target.
• Ji Jue regretted having made things too thorough after concluding that the obvious candidates were hard to lure out.

Ji Jue investigated signs of a possible Federation- Empire conflict while expanding his covert intelligence-gathering network through commercial goods. The chapter ended with Security Bureau operative An Ran arriving in Nine Mountains Town on a special assignment.

• Ji Jue ordered long-term monitoring of Han Hui, Xu Youquan, and their related factions, then considered what the Leviathan Base debate might signal about a possible war with the Empire.
• Ji Jue learned that the Bedrock City-State Alliance was discussing a ninety-year lease of a large island to the Empire's Lightstone Energy and told Isis to keep monitoring the situation.
• Ji Jue ordered the Paradise System to prepare additional batches of bait and increase their quantity, prompting production changes and a broad distribution of goods.
• Ji Jue's network began tracking spiritual traces left by Great Evils and Secret Rites across regions served by Courier Logistics, with support from the Tong Family.
• An Ran arrived in Nine Mountains Town as a Security Bureau special operation member and entered a fast-food restaurant near Rongxin Mining's warehouse.

Tong Hua warned Li Yuqing that the warehouse hideout might contain an orthodox Evil Transformation Cult inheritance, but the operation began only after the cult detected the agents and triggered mass madness. The strike uncovered a powerful Original Vow sanctuary that trapped the team in illusions, until Tong Hua’s lightning records began burning through the darkness; she said reinforcements were plentiful.

• Tong Hua warned Li Yuqing that Spiritual Substance traces suggested a Great Evil sacrifice and a possible Class A contamination zone, so Li Yuqing suspended the operation and called for reinforcements.
• An Ran sensed the agents had been noticed, and the town’s residents and undercover agents began screaming and attacking one another as he reported an Unending presence and more than eleven Fiendified Ones.
• Li Yuqing froze Seven Mountains Town, severed the controller’s hold over the maddened residents, and sent three teams to assault the warehouse district.
• Zhou Richang charged into the sanctuary and slaughtered what he believed were cultists, then realized he had been trapped in an illusion and had attacked his own teammates.
• The Original Vow’s darkness and illusions overwhelmed the warehouse compound, but Tong Hua’s lightning records ignited the darkness and helped the trapped agents regain their senses.
• Tong Hua told Li Yuqing her records were exhausted, then said there were as many reinforcements as he wanted.

An Ran and the Security Bureau fought the High Priest and an Unending Sin Demon during a Secret Rite, while a mysterious figure intervened. The Sin Demon escaped through a strange fissure, and the Kunwu guardian witnessed Superior Virtue bless the wounded An Ran.

• Tong Hua ordered An Ran to unleash the mechanical beasts hidden in the coal trucks, and they overwhelmed the wax demons and worshippers around the warehouse.
• An Ran followed the pack's spiritual link to the High Priest and attacked with Shenren Chang, while Zhou Richang restrained an Unending Fiendified One and an ascended Chosen One used [Halt].
• A blurred figure disrupted An Ran's sword energy and shattered Li Yuqing's Celestial Origin seal, but An Ran's Lihen pierced and killed the High Priest.
• The Kunwu guardian froze the Security Bureau members and smashed the Unending Sin Demon with a massive fist, but the demon escaped with the sacrificial offerings through a concealed fissure.
• The Kunwu guardian exposed the fissure's traces, then watched Superior Virtue descend and bless the wounded An Ran.

Beiling argued with Residual Worm, which consumed the Kunwu branch’s sacrifices and demanded better offerings as the Evil Transformation Cult stirred up chaos across the Federation. Ji Jue distributed leads to the Security Bureau and his contacts, but the chapter ended with a Level One Alert: Old Third and Youngest had gone missing.

• Beiling confronted Residual Worm over its delay, the destruction of the Kunwu branch, and its demand for more sacrifices.
• Ji Jue gave Tong Hua sixteen Evil Transformation Cult leads and sent additional leads to Tong Shan and Lou Yanyue.
• Ji Jue’s alert network uncovered repeated Evil Transformation Cult disturbances in Kunwu, Huangzhou, and elsewhere, prompting the Security Bureau and Central City to respond.
• Ji Jue received a Level One Alert stating that targets A006 and A007 had gone missing, and recognized them as Old Third and Youngest.

Lu Cai and Lu Xing entered a fog-bound anomaly after finding a warehouse full of melted victims, and Lu Xing vanished while protecting his sister. Ji Jue traced the incident to an unregistered, out-of-control station and set out to pursue it within the two-hour window.

• Lu Cai and Lu Xing went to confront Shao Yucheng’s group, but Lu Xing sensed that everyone in the warehouse had melted and that a Black Shadow was consuming them.
• Lu Xing led Lu Cai through mist that distorted the alleys, then stopped her from walking into a hidden threat as a man approached and taunted them about Lu Xing’s primal stone potential.
• Lu Cai attacked the man with a stun baton and a gun loaded with a hidden explosive round, destroying him with Blood Flame, but Lu Xing pushed her away and was swallowed by the mist.
• Lu Cai reappeared at home and told her mother that Youngest was gone, while Ji Jue and Tong Ting used a map and tortoise-shell divination to trace the incident back to the warehouse.
• Ji Jue reconstructed the past, discovered that Lu Xing had awakened as the Eternal Gate, and learned that Veiled Taint had corrupted the trail before the tortoise shell broke.
• Ji Jue identified an unregistered, out-of-control station through the Doomsday Train’s warning system and began pursuing it, with two hours remaining to find Lu Xing.

Ji Jue infiltrated a blood-soaked train carriage and slaughtered the Original Vow cultists and Fiendified Ones inside. He learned the train was carrying sacrificial materials toward a station and discovered that its engine was made of twisted flesh.

• Ji Jue disguised himself in a black robe and golden mask, then used the Myriad Manifestations Engine to infiltrate the shifting coordinates.
• Ji Jue killed the Human-faced Serpents and a gray-robed Original Vow cultist in the first carriage.
• Ji Jue burned the crying statues, killed the cultists processing them, and confronted the Assistant Priest.
• Ji Jue questioned the Assistant Priest, who revealed that the train was headed for a station as part of the Holy Lords' plan.
• Ji Jue reached the front of the train and found that its engine and power source consisted of twisting strands of flesh.

Ji Jue arrived at the abnormal Ruyue Station and destroyed its multiplying curses with a knockoff of the One Foot Rod. He confronted the Evil Transformation Cult's High Priest and revealed a Deepdark Token, leaving the gathered figures frozen in shock.

• Ji Jue recognized the station's engine as crude Deepdark technology and arrived at Ruyue Station, where the train's curses tried to ensnare him.
• Ji Jue ignored the curses and burned away the head, corpse, and hostile spirits left behind by the train.
• Plastic mannequins multiplied around Ji Jue and drained his Spiritual Substance and lifespan, so he used the One Foot Rod to shred them and the surrounding fog.
• Ji Jue demanded that the Evil Transformation Cult's High Priest appear, and the fog parted to reveal a strange city and an emaciated four-eyed High Priest.
• Ji Jue tossed a coin before the High Priest, revealing a Deepdark Token that froze the surrounding figures in shock.

Ji Jue posed as a Deepdark envoy to confront the Myriad Spirits Society and stalled while his system traced a signal inside their hidden station. He reached the sect’s ritual hall, where the priests tried to seat him at the center of their rite, and demanded to know where Jianyuan’s people were.

• Ji Jue claimed to be Anvil Elder’s direct disciple and accused the Myriad Spirits Society of having its subordinates attack a Deepdark envoy.
• Motu and the other priests invited Ji Jue inside after he demanded that someone with authority speak to him.
• Ji Jue let Motu lead him through the station’s shifting maze while his system analyzed the coordinates and traced a relay signal.
• Motu brought Ji Jue to the station’s core, where hundreds of believers had prepared a Secret Rite before a statue of the Great Evil.
• Motu seated Ji Jue in the ritual’s offering position, but Ji Jue ignored the trap and demanded to know where Jianyuan’s people were.

Ji Jue accused the Myriad Spirits Society's High Priests of stealing Deepdark technology and demanded payment to Anvil Elder, then launched a sudden attack. As he overwhelmed the High Priests, the Society's Secret Rite activated and an Abomination descended, leaving the surviving attackers confused about who had summoned it.

• Ji Jue confronted the three High Priests with the flesh-and-blood engine and accused them of using Deepdark technology without Anvil Elder's authorization.
• Ji Jue demanded that the Society pay Anvil Elder his due, and the High Priests said they could not decide until Holy Lord Beiling returned.
• Ji Jue unleashed Purple Electric Black Flame on the youthful High Priest, then attacked Motu and the old woman with thunder, fire, and chaotic flame.
• The old woman was consumed by the chaotic flame, while the youthful High Priest and Motu suffered severe damage to their mind bodies.
• The surviving High Priests gathered their power as the long-prepared Secret Rite activated, the Vortex resounded, and an Abomination descended.
• The attackers exchanged bewildered glances because each had assumed the other had activated the Secret Rite.

Ji Jue altered the Secret Rite to summon the Turning Wheel Saint King, then used its power to battle the Original Vow Lineage and reach Lu Xing before the ritual could transform him into a subordinate of Shadow Sun. After rescuing Lu Xing and connecting the Sky Rail route, Ji Jue commanded the Saint King to blow itself up.

• Ji Jue secretly rewrote the Secret Rite, making himself its offering and summoning the Turning Wheel Saint King instead of the intended Abominations.
• The Turning Wheel Saint King overwhelmed High Priest Ji Jue with revelations, absorbed him, and followed Ji Jue's commands to attack Motu and the station's believers.
• Motu and the other High Priests returned through Unending's power, while the Saint King's attacks and Black Flame spread destruction across the station.
• Ji Jue slipped away from the battle, followed the Sky Rail's signal, and broke into the Secret Rite where Lu Xing was being prepared as a subordinate of Shadow Sun.
• Ji Jue interrupted the ritual, sealed Lu Xing with Spiritual Substance shackles, and carried him away as the Sky Rail connected its route.
• Ji Jue faced the battling Turning Wheel Saint King and used the True Word on his hand to command it to blow itself up.

Ji Jue escaped the collapsing station with Youngest, but the Residual Difference trapped him in a time-warping maze and began reversing his powers. A mysterious black doglike savior rescued him, though Ji Jue mistook it for CEO before realizing it was a Doberman.

• The Turning Wheel Saint King resisted Ji Jue’s command, triggering the hidden contract with the Tower of the Great Fiend and forcing the Abomination to self-destruct.
• The explosion erased the station, and Ji Jue fled onto the Doomsday Train transport with Youngest before the station reversed time and swallowed him.
• The Residual Difference appeared in a yellow maze and demanded Youngest, whom it called the Primordial Stone, while reversing Ji Jue’s time and draining his powers.
• Ji Jue used his Realm of Encirclement to protect Youngest as the Worm closed in, then spotted a shadow approaching through the maze.
• A mysterious savior tore through the maze and devoured the Worm, and Ji Jue mistook the black Doberman for CEO before it bit him.

Ji Jue and Doberman joined forces with an Eternal Gate Celestial Being and countless Chosen Ones to restrain and destroy the Worm before it could seize Youngest. With the station wreckage sealed and the evacuation route restored, Ji Jue contacted Lu Ma and decided he might have to take a job.

• Doberman attacked the Worm across multiple points in time, while Ji Jue realized its scrambled selves were dropping frames and that Youngest was its true target.
• The Worm split into a third body and nearly reached Youngest, but an Illusory Light Sash appeared and stopped it at the last moment.
• The sash and Doberman restrained the Worm as the Star Core Association's Chosen Ones sealed the station and stripped away the Worm's twisted restoration.
• The Worm's three bodies detonated inside the barrier, and the Celestial Being gathered its severed limbs before thanking Doberman for guiding the rescuers.
• The Doomsday Train reconnected its route, and Ji Jue told the Workshop Spirit to inform Lu Ma that Youngest was safe and to clear his emergency schedule.
• Ji Jue stopped trying to evade Doberman's unspoken expectation and concluded that he might have to go get a job.