Recaps

Ji Jue uncovered a Blood Thirst Syndrome operation and joined Wen Wen in stopping Lawrence’s attempt to transform him into a vessel. After completing his Chosen Ceremony and surviving the battle, Ji Jue returned home, where the Dragon Blood’s effects appeared in the transformed Little Lamb.

• Ji Jue used his machine-commanding Talent to track Lu Ma’s kidnappers, then joined Lu Feng in raiding their hidden nightclub base and fighting Zhu Hong’s gang.
• Ji Jue destroyed Zhu Hong with a truck, and Wen Wen brought him and Lu Feng into the Security Bureau’s investigation of the Blood Thirst Syndrome outbreak.
• Wen Wen’s team traced the outbreak to illegal blood supplies and the Dragon Offering Society, while Ji Jue recognized a suspicious hospital doctor and was captured by Lawrence.
• Lawrence used the Giant Tree and Vortex Implantation Technique to pour Aberrant Spirit Essence into Ji Jue, but Wen Wen broke into the hospital and contained the expanding threat in a crystal Realm of Encirclement.
• Ji Jue faced memories of the Tidal Flame Disaster, made a contract with the dead, and completed his Chosen Ceremony after Embers granted him its Blessing.
• Ji Jue commanded machines to attack Lawrence, and Wen Wen killed him with Dragon’s Breath before Ji Jue used his Wristwatch to reverse his Sin Corruption.
• Wen Wen concealed Ji Jue’s Chosen Ceremony and warned him about the Dragon Blood’s possible effects, while Ji Jue recovered and returned to his routine at home.
• The Dragon Blood transformed the Little Lamb, which crashed into Ji Jue’s home for his chicken, as an old woman in the Wilderness recognized the nine Supreme Goodnesses’ arrival as a Mandate of Heaven Summoning.

Ji Jue began training under Professor Ye, discovered new ways to absorb Spiritual Substance, and survived a nightmare attack while uncovering a threat to his family. After he and Lu Feng fought Jiang Jin’s men, Wen Wen recruited Ji Jue as an informant, and Professor Ye examined his bizarre animated motorcycle before Ji Jue headed to the Security Bureau.

• Ji Jue met Professor Ye, who criticized his paper and revealed that he was already the apprentice her workshop had chosen.
• Professor Ye brought Ji Jue into her workshop, where he demonstrated his ability to interact with machinery and began his alchemy training under Ye Chun.
• After repeated failures with scrap copper, Ji Jue discovered he could absorb Spiritual Substance and Essence, then used what he had learned to engrave Ascension and the Horde Totems.
• The Nightmare Demon entered Ji Jue’s dream, but Ji Jue reclaimed control and the Natural Disaster consumed the intruder.
• Men abducted Lu Ling, but the Little Lamb transformed and attacked them, after which Ji Jue and Lu Feng confronted the captors and set the survivors dangling over a cliff.
• Ji Jue and Lu Feng attacked Jiang Jin’s men, and Wen Wen intervened when Yu Hanguang retaliated, then recruited Ji Jue as her informant.
• Professor Ye identified Little Cow and Horse as an abnormal Abomination fused with a Masterwork and warned Ji Jue to hide its origins.
• Ji Jue went with An Ran to the North Mountain District Security Bureau, where screams sounded in the lobby as Tong Hua began recording.

Ji Jue trained with Lao Zhang, clashed with Lou Feng, and entered Mercury’s Rift World in search of Non-Aggression. After surviving its dangers and inheriting Fluid Alchemy, he reached a settlement of mutated people and agreed to inspect its equipment while remaining wary of the Prophet.

• Lao Zhang taught Ji Jue to reinforce his body with Spirit Essence and evade danger, then tested him in a surprise attack that Ji Jue passed with the White Deer Emblem.
• Ji Jue fought Lou Feng at the Workshop, outmaneuvered him with Little Cow and Horse and a sewage truck, and learned that Professor Ye wanted him to retrieve Non-Aggression from a Rift World.
• Ji Jue entered the Rift World with An Ran, survived its monsters and ambushers, and discovered that the ruined world was Mercury’s Workshop.
• Ji Jue and Little An entered the clock tower, witnessed Mercury’s memory of the Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar, and awakened the Melting furnace, which transformed Little Cow and Horse before collapsing.
• Ji Jue consumed essence fragments and gained Fluid Alchemy, then learned from a mutated man that the Prophet knew where Non-Aggression was.
• Ji Jue and Little An met the Prophet, rejected his offer to show them Non-Aggression’s traces, and stayed at the camp while Ji Jue volunteered to inspect its equipment.

Ji Jue entered Mercury’s Workshop, claimed Non-Aggression, and ended the cycle consuming the Rift World. He returned with Gloria and a trove of materials, then began training with Professor Ye as tensions between White State and Red Banner escalated.

• Ji Jue used Fluid Alchemy to save 32, then learned from the Prophet that the Rift World’s inhabitants were trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth.
• Ji Jue and the Prophet reached the Workshop Core, where he merged with the Workshop and followed Mercury’s remnants into memories of her lost family and ruined hometown.
• Ji Jue awakened Matrix Feigong as the Workshop rose, then defeated Lou Feng’s group with Little An and forced the surviving Homecoming Knights to retreat.
• Mercury repeatedly rewound the Rift World in a futile attempt to recover her child, until the Prophet and the creations stopped her and asked Ji Jue to free them.
• Ji Jue took command of the Workshop and used the Edge of Transformation to sever the cycle, then gave Mercury a final glimpse of her daughter before the Prophet died.
• Ji Jue escaped the collapsing Rift World and returned to the real world, where Xiao Jiu revealed that Prophet had once called her Gloria.
• As war tensions rose between White State and Red Banner, Ji Jue rejected a summons and returned to the Lu family before bringing his discoveries and materials to Professor Ye.
• Ji Jue demonstrated Fluid Alchemy and sparred with Professor Ye, who showed him that Non-Aggression kept his Spiritual Substance from reaching her body.