Recaps

Ji Jue pulled Ye Chun away from Tower's Shadow as the Emperor's decree disrupted the Tower's control, but the Tower struck back. Sage Mercury's final attack faltered, and a greater Revolution reignited to carry it forward.

• Ji Jue reached into the darkness, kissed Ye Chun, and pulled her toward him as she chose to leave with him.
• The Emperor seized both their hands and issued an Edict of Dominion, forcing the Tower's decrees into conflict and helping separate Ye Chun from the Tower.
• The Tower resisted as Ji Jue tore apart the forming Void Throne, and Sin Demon Fire swallowed Ye Chun while Tower's Shadow surged after them.
• Sage Mercury's shadow wielded Edge of Transformation to cut through the darkness and strip Great Evil of its defenses, but its Sage Form fractured before the final strike landed.
• A greater Revolution ignited from the darkness and took up the attack as Mercury's radiance faded.

Mercury and the two Mohist Sages struck Great Evil with Tian Zhu, triggering a Breakpoint that let Spider complete his Metamorphosis into the Shadow Sun Dragon. As the collapsing world corrected itself, Matrix Child rescued Gloria with a lantern, while Mercury chose to continue the four-hundred-year road she had set for herself.

• Mercury and the two Mohist Sages unleashed Tian Zhu, severing Great Evil’s Shadow and splitting the Dark Tower as Tower’s connected Usurpers suffered its wounds.
• The collapse of the Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar briefly severed past from future, allowing Spider to break free of the Eternal Gate and become the Shadow Sun Dragon.
• The newly formed Breakpoint unleashed a Vortex that dragged the Tower and Ji Jue into the collapsing world, while the Established Law burned out and its Wristwatch fell away.
• Gloria began to disappear under the Breakpoint’s correction, but Matrix Child caught her and gave her a lantern that restored her stability.
• Matrix Child told Gloria to keep walking without looking back, and she followed the lantern-lit path as Mercury watched her go.
• Mercury thanked Matrix Child, then chose to continue her four-hundred-year journey while he remained free to decide where to go.

Spider reached the future Terminal Station, where the dispatcher revealed that Sky Rail’s plan had made the Seal of Shadow Sun depend on a repeating cycle. After Spider and the dispatcher were swallowed by Shadow Sun and time reset, Sky Rail restored the Present World, dissolved, and its president prepared to go home.

• Spider arrived at the future Terminal Station and learned that Sky Rail had sealed Shadow Sun through a plan spanning the past, present, and future.
• The dispatcher explained that Shadow Sun’s confinement had a limited term, and Spider was swallowed by the freed black sun along with the dispatcher and Central Station.
• A broken Wristwatch reversed time by twenty-four hours, restarting the cycle and restoring the Seal of Shadow Sun’s integrity to 100%.
• Heavenly Furnace realized the turmoil had already served the Sower’s objective as Sky Rail’s network crushed the Worms and strengthened the Present World’s stability.
• Sky Rail Group dissolved and gave up its authority to maintain the Seal of Shadow Sun, while its president’s friends celebrated its retirement.
• The president declined the others’ offers and prepared to go home, wearing its rainbow B-effect bell.

Ji Jue completed the Established Law and learned that the Sky Rail’s wardens had chosen eternal exile to seal Shadow Sun, then promised to protect them in the Present World. As the collapsing past vanished, Matrix Child and the Emperor shared a final drink before Matrix Child disappeared and the Emperor returned to his lonely vigil.

• Ji Jue frantically scavenged the collapsing world for foreign materials and loot before speaking with the dispatcher.
• The dispatcher explained that Ji Jue had completed the Established Law, closing the cycle and ensuring the Seal of Shadow Sun would remain hidden.
• Ji Jue realized the Sky Rail’s wardens had sacrificed themselves to preserve the seal, and he promised the dispatcher he would protect them and give them a place to live freely.
• The dispatcher revealed himself as a Creation Spirit, said farewell to Ji Jue, and sent him back to the Dispatch Center with a mysterious gift to collect later.
• At the Tower’s ruins, Matrix Child met the Emperor, shared wine with him, and vanished after they promised to meet again.
• The Emperor drank the remaining wine, remembered the freedom he had briefly shared with Matrix Child, and returned to his vigil in the darkness.

After surviving the false timeline, Ji Jue found that Beagle had multiplied into dozens of energetic dogs, while Ye Chun had become their Dog Emperor. He reunited with a living Gloria, then brought her to Central Earth, where Yan Fei became her senior brother and promptly steered her toward firearms.

• Ji Jue returned to the Central Dispatch Center exhausted and found Beagle near death from the backlash, but the timeline’s corrections had produced dozens of Beagles.
• Ye Chun commanded the dogs into a ceremony and declared herself their emperor while Ji Jue watched in dismay.
• The CEO led Ji Jue and Doberman to the empty portrait, where Gloria emerged alive and free from the Anchor’s interference.
• Ji Jue accepted Gloria as his student and took her to Yan Fei, assigning him to teach her Three-Phase Refinement while warning him to explain his secret activities.
• Ji Jue beat Yan Fei with an alchemical iron staff until Yan Chang refused to help him, then left Yan Fei to teach Gloria.
• Gloria mastered Yan Fei’s lessons with astonishing speed, so he took her to try shooting and promised to show her his World-Destroying Rapid-Fire Cannon.

After Ji Jue and Ye Xian formally severed their master-disciple relationship and transferred the Ye Clan inheritance, rumors spread while both sides stayed busy with their own plans. Ji Jue saw Youngest off to study with Lulu, then discovered Ye Chun was secretly watching him and drove toward Tide Sound Workshop to confront her.

• Ji Jue and Ye Xian completed the public process of ending their relationship, transferring the inheritance, and relocating Tide Sound Workshop, while rumors blamed Ji Jue for seizing control.
• Lu Cai clung to Youngest and cried at the Airship boarding gate as Lu Ma and the family said goodbye to her.
• Ji Jue entrusted Lu Xing to the old woman he called Miss Lulu, who welcomed the child and gave him a pendant despite his already wearing a better one.
• Youngest departed for her studies, and Lu Ma went home planning to break Lu Feng's legs after he teased her.
• Ji Jue discovered that Ye Chun was watching him from behind the Curtain while eating potato chips, then drove toward Tide Sound Workshop to show her the Mohists' ultimate technique.

After the Storm Type 1 Navigation Satellite launched, Ji Jue rejected Heavenly Furnace’s offer to inherit his title and began preparing a lunar operation. The chapter then traced Heavenly Furnace’s memories and revealed how a damaged watch entered circulation fifty-one years earlier.

• The Southeast Chamber of Commerce Alliance celebrated the successful launch of the Storm Type 1 Navigation Satellite, while a fragment from its third-stage assembly headed toward the moon.
• Isis told Ji Jue that the beacon would land on the moon in four hours and that the first batch of modified units was ready; Ji Jue ordered her to proceed with the plan.
• Heavenly Furnace told Ji Jue that Sower’s recent actions were a probe and asked whether Ji Jue wanted to become Heavenly Furnace, but Ji Jue refused.
• Heavenly Furnace recalled his teacher’s final lesson and the day he became Heavenly Furnace, then left Ji Jue with a light step.
• Fifty-one years earlier, Chen Lusheng found a damaged watch at a recycling depot and sold it to the Eternal Clock shopkeeper, who repaired it and displayed it as a supposed family heirloom.

As Courier Logistics expanded across the Wilderness, Uncle Li reflected on how life in his Settlement had improved. Meanwhile, Feng Yao tried to delay paying the Coast for its security services, but the collector unexpectedly agreed to give him more time.

• Courier Logistics deliverymen carried goods and packages between Wilderness Settlements, while one deliveryman explained that company policy told them to abandon cargo and flee from bandits.
• Uncle Li slapped and warned Rat Hui and the other idlers against targeting the Coast’s cargo, then told Xiao Liu that poor people had no reason to worry about the bosses’ business.
• Uncle Li ate food from the Coast and looked forward to planting crops and raising chickens as conditions in his Settlement improved.
• The Coast’s collector confronted Feng Yao over the Settlement’s debt of 160 years of labor for security services provided during the rainy season.
• Feng Yao tearfully asked for more time, and the collector agreed, leaving Feng Yao and his followers stunned.

Coast Industry sold Feng Yao’s debt to Ten Thousand Miles Finance, revealing that the Wild Bazaar would take over collection and leaving the Settlements terrified. As Coast Industry and Courier Logistics prospered, their expanding network helped connect settlements across Haizhou.

• Feng Yao expected Coast Industry’s debt collector to threaten his people, but the collector instead complained about the company’s losses and offered sympathy.
• The collector revealed that Coast Industry was selling its debts and introduced Mr. Zhu of Ten Thousand Miles Finance as the buyer.
• Mr. Zhu completed the debt transfer while Feng Yao tried and failed to stop him, then demanded a repayment plan on behalf of the Wild Bazaar.
• President Gou ignored distressed calls from the Settlements and celebrated the funds Coast Industry recovered by selling its bad debts.
• Courier Logistics expanded its routes across Haizhou, connecting cities, villages, and Settlements as trade and living conditions improved.
• Doctor Xie reviewed Ji Jue’s records and discharged him from Xinxiang Sanatorium.

After recovering from repeated leg injuries, Ji Jue naturally advanced to the Rebirth Rank and was forced out of the sanatorium. He took Lu Ma and the children to Heavenly Gate’s sports meet, where he discovered Coast Industry had sponsored the event with his money.

• Ji Jue’s Wristwatch lit up with a golden [7], marking his breakthrough to the Rebirth Rank after eleven months as a Chosen One.
• Ji Jue settled his hospital bill by threatening Xie Lan, then Professor Ye dismissed him and gave him old Nine Forms research notes.
• With his businesses running smoothly and no urgent work to handle, Ji Jue took Lu Ma, Third Sister, and Youngest to Heavenly Gate to visit Lu Ling.
• Ji Jue carried the children around the lively university grounds and entered the arena with Lu Ma to watch the sports meet.
• Ji Jue saw Coast Industry’s sponsorship banner in the arena and realized that he had funded the event himself.

Ji Jue watched Lu Ling compete at Tianmen University and celebrated her success with Lu Ma and the younger children. At the closing ceremony, an attacker fired at Xu Chao Xian, but Ji Jue recognized Tong Zhiwu’s presence and the chapter ended before the shot’s outcome was revealed.

• Ji Jue worried about Coast’s need for technical staff, then discovered Isis had already begun forming a new research team and had donated a large sum without consulting him.
• Ji Jue discussed the children’s schooling with Lu Ma, who urged him to find a girlfriend and said she hoped the children would grow up honestly; he reassured her and told the younger children to be good.
• Lu Ma and Ji Jue cheered for Lu Ling at Tianmen University’s sports meet, where she won silver in the hundred-meter dash, bronze in pole vault, and first place in hurdles.
• Xu Chao Xian appeared at the closing ceremony, and Ji Jue booed him while recalling the damage he had done to local public services and the family’s benefits.
• A masked cleaner pulled a modified firearm from a trash can and shot at Xu Chao Xian; Ji Jue filmed the attack, then recognized Tong Zhiwu’s presence behind the governor.

Ji Jue and Tong Shan helped stop two attacks on Xu Chao Xian at a sports event, though a Heart Pivot escaped. Tong Shan revealed he was being transferred away from Yacheng, then invited Ji Jue to dinner, where Ji Jue’s liquor was quickly consumed by the North Mountain District group.

• Tong Shan deflected an attacker’s steel spikes, and security guards subdued the scarred assailant as Xu Chao Xian continued his speech.
• Ji Jue decoded messages revealing a second attacker, and Tong Shan immobilized the bomber while Ji Jue disassembled the explosives and disabled the getaway van.
• The Security Bureau arrested most of the conspirators, but one suspected Heart Pivot vanished without anyone identifying them.
• Xu Chao Xian tried to greet Ji Jue, who dismissed him, and Tong Shan later explained that a White State restoration group had planned the attacks.
• Tong Shan told Ji Jue he was leaving the Yacheng Security Bureau, then invited him to an all-you-can-eat dinner.
• Wen Wen and the North Mountain District group rapidly drank Ji Jue’s liquor, leaving him alarmed after Lao Zhang revealed Wen Wen had abstained for seven weeks.

Ji Jue and his companions held a chaotic drinking party to see Tong Shan off as he left for a powerful new post in Central Earth, where Ji Jue gave him a badge linking him to the Homecoming Knights. After the party, Wen Wen tried to resign, but Lü Yingyue challenged her reasons and she found herself back at her old office, uncertain where to go next.

• Ji Jue drank with Wen Wen, then roped in Ji Xue, Ji Liu, Xu Guan, and Tong Shan as each arrived, until the group spent the night drinking instead of eating.
• Ji Jue and Tong Shan discussed Xu Chao Xian's protected position and the burdens of governing Yacheng, then toasted Tong Shan's transfer to Central Earth.
• Tong Shan revealed that he had transcended, and Ji Jue gave him a work badge that could connect him with the Homecoming Knights.
• Tong Shan and Tong Hua departed for Central Earth, while Wen Wen left on her motorcycle and thought about the scenery and her wish to start over.
• Lü Yingyue refused to approve Wen Wen's resignation and questioned whether Wen Wen was trying to return to the path Wen Zheng had set for her.
• Wen Wen rode without direction until her motorcycle ran out of fuel outside the North Mountain District Branch, where a girl in a white dress watched her before leaving.

Ji Jue enjoyed New Spring Town’s sudden prosperity while managing Coast Industry and weighing new business offers. He pursued information about Rotten Scales Xie Heli and the arm master, kept his distance from sensitive affairs, and ended by confronting a new problem: his Blessings.

• Ji Jue ate noodles in New Spring Town and watched the bustling settlement expand as construction continued.
• Ji Jue reviewed work with Isis, declined an Association invitation, and postponed the Red Federation’s request for deeper cooperation in Alchemy.
• Ji Jue examined weak bounty reports about wolf-transformed Sin Corruption victims and sought the elusive Rotten Scales Xie Heli, a Wolf Nest leader tied to the Sower.
• An Neng told Ji Jue that capturing a Wolf alive would be difficult, while Ji Jue continued waiting for news about wolves and the arm master.
• Ji Jue set aside the idea of reviving the Evil Transformation Cult and avoided asking Ye Xian about their recent ordeal.
• Ji Jue looked over his memorandum and faced the new problem of his Blessings: Earth Bearing Sea Containing, Heaven's Movement Strong, and Myriad Things Self-Transformation.

Ji Jue asked Ye Xian how to obtain Myriad Things Self-Transformation, but she urged him to build his fundamentals patiently and finish his Rebirth Form first. After reflecting on his impatience, Ji Jue demonstrated how effortlessly his Rebirth Rank let him refine steel into moving figures and a flying bird, then admitted he did not know how to begin his Rebirth Form.

• Ji Jue asked Ye Xian how to acquire Myriad Things Self-Transformation, and she explained that he would need to perfect and combine his skills across four Alchemical systems.
• Ye Xian refused to speculate about the other Rebirth Blessings and warned Ji Jue to master patience, accumulate his abilities, and complete his Rebirth Form before seeking Blessings.
• Ji Jue asked Isis whether he was impatient, and she joked that a bullet could solve his troubles before firing one at him.
• Ji Jue caught the bullet and used Barehanded Refinement to reshape it into a moving figurine, a flying bird, and finally a steel ingot.
• Ji Jue reflected on his Rebirth Form and admitted he had no idea where to start.

After completing and tempering his work, Ji Jue gained widespread recognition and continued refining Pan Ying while handling workshop duties. The Chongguang Church’s Grand Elder called him urgently with an important matter to entrust, but had not yet explained it.

• Ji Jue imagined his future Rebirth Form, then returned to his workshop routine as news of his Masterwork spread throughout Haizhou.
• Ji Jue declined most new orders and invitations, while taking care of equipment for his friends and continuing research that strained his resources.
• Ji Jue re-tempered Pan Ying, reducing its murderous aura and bringing it closer to becoming Victory Over Evil.
• Isis told Ji Jue that the Chongguang Church’s Grand Elder had called repeatedly with an urgent message.
• Ji Jue answered the Grand Elder, who apologized for the late call and said he had an important matter to entrust to him.

Ji Jue learned that a Spirit Plague was spreading through the Puna Bantu Islands and that a Holy Light Cult medical team, including the Grand Elder’s assistant and his wife, had been seized by a warlord. He located their disabled vessel and enlisted General Minkler to help intercept the destroyer towing it.

• The Grand Elder told Ji Jue that Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading amid civil war in the Puna Bantu Islands and that a warlord had detained the Church’s medical team.
• The Grand Elder revealed that his assistant and the assistant’s wife were among the captives, and Ji Jue agreed to get the team back safely.
• Isis located the medical team’s vessel but could not take control of the obsolete destroyer towing it.
• Ji Jue told Isis to guide the destroyer north and called General Minkler to offer him a chance to capture a Puna Bantu destroyer.
• Minkler eagerly asked Ji Jue to explain the opportunity.

Yu Shu and the surviving crew were held captive aboard a ship by soldiers serving Puna Bantu’s coup leader, Ai Kongzuo. As the captives were lined up to be executed, a gunshot severed the officer’s hand, and dawn broke over the sea.

• Yu Shu failed to save a mortally wounded crewman and ended the man’s suffering by stopping the blood flow to his brain.
• The captain told Yu Shu that Ai Kongzuo’s soldiers were brutal and that the general believed eating enemies would grant him power and longevity.
• Soldiers dragged the captives onto the deck after Ai Kongzuo ordered them killed instead of ransomed, and they shot those who would not pray.
• When an officer aimed his pistol at Yu Shu, a shot severed the officer’s hand before he could kill him.
• Yu Shu looked out to sea as dawn broke, with the corpses he had thought he saw in the water gone.

The Seven Cities Allied Defense Fleet rescued Yu Shu and the medical team from Ai Kongzuo’s destroyer, while Minkler turned the capture into a public victory. Yu Shu confessed that he had killed someone, and Ji Jue later ordered the captured invaders executed.

• Minkler’s fleet surrounded the destroyer, subdued its crew, and rescued Yu Shu and the medical team.
• Minkler staged the rescue for the media and told Yu Shu that Mister Ji had sent him and that Yu Shu’s father was worried about him.
• Nun Leta Yue visited the medical team and reassured them that their Father was safe, then comforted Yu Shu after he revealed his emblem had turned black because he had killed someone.
• Yu Shu briefly saw a distant island and a towering structure through the fog, while Ji Jue’s systems recorded unexplained signal losses and abnormal Spiritual Substance fluctuations.
• After hearing about the crimes committed by Ai Kongzuo’s men, Ji Jue told Minkler to execute the captured invaders as a warning.

Ji Jue profited from Seven Cities’ war with Puna Bantu, whose capital became a Forbidden Zone after the Spirit Plague erupted. At Coast Industry, he hired Yu Shu, and the elder left his son there to find his footing after confessing his own regrets as a father.

• Minkler’s Lineage sent Ji Jue supplies and alchemical equipment through the Libra Conglomerate in exchange for his support as Seven Cities prepared for war.
• Seven Cities declared war on Puna Bantu, and General Ai Kongzuo was killed during a banquet; political chaos followed before Dream Loss Syndrome turned the capital into a Demon Domain.
• The Holy Light Cult elder visited Ji Jue with Yu Shu, who had recovered, and asked him to provide Yu Shu with work.
• Yu Shu told Ji Jue about his medical qualifications, organizational experience, and Echo Vortex Lineage Matrix, and Ji Jue agreed to take him on at Coast Industry.
• The elder explained that Yu Shu had committed murder and could no longer remain in the Church, then urged him to use his time at Coast Industry to decide what he wanted.
• The elder said goodbye to Yu Shu, admitted he regretted not acting sooner to rescue him, and left as Yu Shu turned toward the factory.

Yu Shu became an effective assistant in New Spring, helping resolve operational problems while Ji Jue delegated more work to him. The chapter ended with Yu Shu warning Ji Jue that stowaways from Thousand Isles were bringing serious problems, including the still-spreading Spirit Plague.

• Yu Shu worked across Coastal Area, Courier Logistics, and New Spring, improving procedures and proposing expanded clinic services.
• Old Gou and Yan Craftsman sent Yu Shu to help Ji Jue, and rumors spread that Yu Shu and Isis had taken control of New Spring.
• Yu Shu organized Ji Jue’s work and discussed why his father had guided him toward the Vortex Lineage instead of Ascension.
• Yu Shu warned Ji Jue that increasing numbers of stowaways from Thousand Isles could bring major trouble to the Federation.
• Yu Shu reported that medical teams had confirmed the Spirit Plague was still spreading.

Ji Jue ordered New Spring to prepare for Dream Loss Syndrome after Yu Shu warned that large-scale infection could trigger a dangerous Collapse Effect. As the disease spread across the Federation, an infected stowaway was abandoned aboard a fishing boat, and the chapter ended with the outbreak’s cruel truth reaching the cities despite the Heavenly Overseer's Law.

• Yu Shu told Ji Jue that Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading unusually widely and urged him to arrange vaccinations in New Spring.
• Ji Jue approved vaccine coverage for New Spring’s official employees and residents, then signed off on further preparations after hearing how the disease could cause a large-scale Collapse Effect.
• A fishing boat carrying stowaways reached the Federation’s Coastline, where the sailors discovered a woman who was unresponsive and a child crying beside her.
• The Ship owner ordered the woman thrown overboard and gave no answer when Big Cunt asked what would happen to the child.
• Dream Loss Syndrome spread through Settlements across the Federation, and the assumption that the Heavenly Overseer's Law would keep it out of the cities proved false.

Dream Loss Syndrome spread through North Mountain District and the Wilderness, overwhelming settlements and reaching New Spring despite vaccination efforts. After the first infected person in New Spring died, Ji Jue ordered Isis to prepare a large-scale alchemical project called Worm.

• Wen Wen traced the outbreak to a healing center in North Mountain District, destroyed its infected occupants, and froze the Spiritual Substance worms emerging from their remains.
• Mature Spiritual Substance worms spread through the Wilderness, forcing settlements into lockdown as refugees gathered outside New Spring and guards used water cannons to disperse them.
• Yu Shu told Ji Jue that pharmaceutical companies had stopped supplying vaccines, while Ji Jue memorized the companies and conglomerates he blamed for the shortage.
• The first person in New Spring died from Dream Loss Syndrome, and Ji Jue learned that the exhausted rice-noodle seller had recently lost his wife after years of debt and illness.
• Ji Jue questioned a world where death brought happiness, then ordered Isis to begin a large-scale alchemical project named Worm.

Ji Jue rebuilt the Poison Heart Ring and used Haizhou’s power grid to awaken Isis in a vast mercury-and-lightning creation. As silver rain fell across the Present World, Isis looked upon the devastated world again.

• Ji Jue dismantled the Poison Heart Ring and reshaped its Spirit Essence Circuits and Blessings with the help of his Spirit Essence Hands and Isis.
• Ji Jue dismissed Isis’s warning about the consequences and ordered Project Three to activate.
• Coast Industry cut civilian electricity and gathered power from Haizhou’s wind towers to charge the mercury creation.
• A silver pillar surged from Coast Industry, and Isis opened her eyes within the clouds above the city.
• Gou Er noticed silver light on his fingertips as endless silver rain began falling over the Present World.

Tong Yuan traced Dream Loss Syndrome to a dangerous mystery involving the Lord of Huaxu, the Lord’s Tower, and several hidden forces, then stirred the Spiritual Substance moths into a frenzy. In New Spring, Ji Jue and the newly freed Isis unleashed a silver storm that purified the plague and began sweeping the Wilderness.

• Tong Yuan observed the Spiritual Substance insect and explained that Dream Loss Syndrome came from Hua Xu Jun’s invitation to abandon the mortal world for dreams.
• Tong Yuan used the Ma Family’s Book of Fate to trace the insect’s source and glimpsed a misty island, the Lord’s Tower, and signs of the Abyss, Unending, Black Heaven, and Foul Corruption Demon.
• Tong Yuan yanked a crucial thread, sending Spiritual Substance moths across the Federation’s Coastal Area into chaos and interrupting the plague’s spread.
• In New Spring, Ji Jue watched Isis unleash a silver storm that removed aberrant Spiritual Substance from infected people and sealed the anomalies.
• Ji Jue named Isis’s new power the Crown of Isis, and Isis continued her purification toward the Wilderness, targeting the moths rising from the land.