Recaps

Ji Jue advanced his alchemy and created a blessed ring while helping Chen Yu Bo win a dangerous race and survive attacks tied to Yacheng’s underworld conflict. After Chen Yu Bo inherited Chen Xingzhou’s fortune and became a target, Ji Jue agreed to protect him, then reconsidered when the violence escalated.

• Professor Ye defeated Ji Jue after he pushed his body into Metamorphosis, then helped him recover and assigned him further training.
• Ji Jue made Little An a lightweight prosthetic, paid off his student loans, and advanced his Disintegration Art practice.
• Ji Jue helped Chen Yu Bo race against Mu Jiang, overcame Cheng Shuang’s illusion attack, and won before a sniper and gunmen attacked them.
• Ji Jue and the others survived the attackers, and Wen Wen learned that the escalating conflict between Chen Xingzhou and Lei Yaoxing’s sides threatened to plunge Yacheng into chaos.
• Ji Jue dismantled a flawed pendant and crafted a blessed ring, while Wen Wen confronted Lei Yaoxing’s people and began investigating a massacre.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua tracked mercenaries to their hideout, where Herbert aberrated and killed his companions before Ji Jue, Little An, and the others brought him down.
• Lei Yaoxing shot Chen Xingzhou at a banquet, and Ji Jue sheltered Chen Yu Bo after learning that Chen Xingzhou’s will had left him the fortune.
• Wen Wen arranged protection for Chen Yu Bo and gave Ji Jue Minerva’s blessing and sword, but Ji Jue reconsidered risking his life as Lei Yaoxing ordered his side into war.

Ji Jue helped Chen Xingzhou survive the assault on Yacheng and reclaim control of the Wild Bazaar, then received a Superior Virtue blessing and resumed his training under Professor Ye. The story left Ji Jue visiting Lu Feng’s family as an armored convoy approached Yacheng through the storm.

• Ji Jue protected Chen Yu Bo at the villa as rival factions and Aether Chosen Ones converged, then repelled a major assault with Little An, Old Tang, and the villa’s defenses.
• Ji Jue and his allies defeated the attackers, while Minerva’s power destroyed Jin Wujiu and his forces, and Ji Jue later discovered that An Ning had impersonated Little An.
• Chen Xingzhou returned alive to Lei Wuye’s funeral, revealed his plan to take control of the Wild Bazaar, and gained An Ning’s support as the White Deer Hunter.
• An Ning killed Lei Yaoxing, and Chen Xingzhou won the gathered factions’ support to become Spokesperson of the Wild Bazaar for ten years.
• Ji Jue declined Chen Xingzhou’s offer to join the Wild Bazaar, accepted the Badge of Supreme Goodness, and awakened [Ascension] when Superior Virtue Summoning manifested.
• Professor Ye helped Ji Jue develop his control of Spiritual Substance, returned the Soul Calling Bell, and taught him to shape small spiritual creatures.
• Ji Jue met Lu Ling and Youngest at the market, brought them home in Little Cow and Horse, and spoke with Lu Feng about his past and his Powered Armor.
• Lu Feng reflected on his regret over the wars and killings he had taken part in, as an armored convoy arrived on the highway beyond Yacheng.

Ji Jue and Tong Hua entered a drifting Time Ruins where a grotesque hospital was treating the Undying Disease, and Ji Jue turned its rules and resources against the Evil Transformation Cult. After defeating Lian Cheng and curing Patient No. 1, Ji Jue returned to a peaceful family outing and learned Hope Hospital wanted to recruit him.

• A drifting Time Ruins pulled Ji Jue into a bloodied hospital, where Director Qian assigned him to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department and warned him to obey the Hospital Rules.
• Ji Jue reunited with Tong Hua, fought off the cultists who ambushed them, and learned the Evil Transformation Cult planned to obtain an Undying Disease specimen and trigger an explosion in Yacheng.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua investigated the hospital’s records, and Ji Jue led a dangerous delivery that fused two ghost fetuses into one newborn.
• After discovering that High Priest Lian Cheng had entered the inpatient building, Ji Jue built a bomb that devastated the office and killed or injured the Chosen Ones there.
• Ji Jue challenged Lian Cheng’s treatment of the Undying Disease, survived its implantation, and injected Lian Cheng with Mad Slaughter Poison.
• Lian Cheng unleashed the disease and awakened the hospital’s monsters, but Ji Jue detonated bombs throughout the hospital and summoned Sage Mercury’s remnant to restrain the Bone Wheel.
• The patients’ and doctors’ lingering spirits killed Lian Cheng, and Director Qian forced Ji Jue to strike down the grieving doctor before Ji Jue used the doctor’s remains to cure Patient No. 1.
• Ji Jue spent time with Tong Hua and his family at the beach, then learned Professor Ye had declined Hope Hospital’s recruitment offer and examined the Bone Blade he made in the Time Ruins.

Ji Jue honed his spirit essence techniques, clashed with the Taiyi Ring’s craftsmen, and joined Tong Shan’s team on an expedition into Quancheng. The team uncovered a cultist ambush at the outpost and fought back as Tong Shan broke the illusion and Ji Jue armed Jiang Xuan.

• Ji Jue demonstrated his new mercury armor and spirit essence manipulation to Ye Xian, who taught him to contain spirits with mercury and appointed him deputy director of Coast Automobile Factory.
• Ji Jue traveled with Ye Xian to Quancheng, survived a disaster beast encounter, and joined a Taiyi Ring meeting where he fought the apprentices who insulted his teacher and Tide Sound Workshop.
• Ji Jue processed contaminated equipment, sealed a mutated creature during a Workshop emergency, and repaired Tong Shan’s team’s gear before agreeing to join their expedition to Quancheng with Lou Feng.
• Tong Shan led the team through Quancheng’s ruins, where they avoided a shadow creature, escaped ghostly apparitions, and Ji Jue extracted and refined a spirit’s remains after it stopped their vehicle.
• At the exploration base, Ji Jue discovered messages about a planned ambush, and Tong Shan exposed the illusion and destroyed the Secret Rite prison cage.
• Yan Chong, Ling Zhi, and more than twenty cultists attacked Tong Shan’s team, so Ji Liu ordered a retreat and Jiang Xuan raised an iron wall to protect them.
• Ji Jue fired a homemade rocket cluster launcher that killed more than half the attackers, then handed Jiang Xuan a heavy machine gun as the surviving cultists charged.