Recaps

Ji Jue rejected the Blood Cleansing Fleet and led New Spring through a devastating Water Ghost assault, defeating Paquiao with help from his allies. As New Spring began rebuilding, Ji Jue gained a new sacred relic and learned that he needed the seals of six ancient Sacrificial Masters.

• Ji Jue exposed the Water Ghost infiltration, rejected Tu Sihai’s offer, and sent a warning to the Blood Cleansing Fleet by killing Tu Sihai and attacking its concealed ship.
• Ji Jue strengthened New Spring’s defenses, allied with the Homecoming Knights, and prepared for Paquiao’s fleet as a typhoon and floods battered Haizhou.
• Paquiao’s fleet attacked New Spring, but Ji Jue’s awakened exoskeletons and Isis’s sabotage blunted the assault while Slan and the Homecoming Knights fought through the town.
• Ji Jue’s allies joined the battle against Paquiao as Lu Feng seized Pan Ying, the Dragon Bone Fleet burned Harlot Town, and New Spring’s forces trapped the Water Ghost fleet.
• Lord of Heavenly Slaughter took control of Tang Qian, tempered Pan Ying into Victory Over Evil, and savagely defeated Paquiao before vanishing.
• Ji Jue negotiated Paquiao’s transfer to the Seven Cities Navy, divided the spoils with Yellow Beard, and put surviving Water Ghosts to work as New Spring began rebuilding.
• Ji Jue attended the victims’ funeral, received a Broken Iron Crown badge, and learned from Lord of Heavenly Slaughter that Victory Over Evil required seals tied to six ancient Sacrificial Masters.
• Ji Jue identified a recovered fiendish arm as resembling Lu Changsheng’s aura and hurried to New Spring’s entrance to meet Lü Yingyue’s people.

Ji Jue forged Chun Jun into a Masterwork, descended into the Flame Tide, and followed the Doomsday Train to the Primordial Shrine. As he restored the Sacrificial Temple’s machinery and anchored its Rift World to the Vortex, rival factions converged and the Sower’s forces unleashed spreading corruption.

• Chen Haiqiu gave Ji Jue the materials and final Blessing he needed, showed him a Rift World scar linked to Lu Changsheng, and asked him to watch for Fiendified Ones.
• Ye Xian explained the Nine Type Change and the Barrier of Knowledge and Perception, while Ji Jue’s awareness briefly connected to a colossal entity.
• Ji Jue forged Chun Jun, shattered it to form its spirit, and followed a fissure called [Kong] into the Flame Tide, where he destroyed tormented souls and weakened the disaster.
• Ji Jue awakened Chun Jun’s spirit in the Workshop, completed the Metamorphosis Blessings, and took the Doomsday Train to the Primordial Shrine.
• Worry-Free Duke led his followers through the Rift World in search of the Imperial Jade Seal while Ji Jue looted the shrine and disrupted their attempt to open the Sacrificial Temple.
• Ji Jue infiltrated Worry-Free Duke’s followers, killed the White Deer Calamity-bearer and other attackers, then questioned captives and resolved to find someone important to him.
• Worry-Free Duke burned through the Forbidden Domain Wall, but Xie Heli and the other allies betrayed him as Duke Chang Le opened the Rift World to rival factions.
• Ji Jue restored the Sacrificial Temple’s machinery and anchored the Rift World to the Vortex, drawing in factions as Xie Heli and Mad Slaughter unleashed corruption and the Vortex approached.

After the Rift World’s destruction, Ji Jue returned to ordinary life, expanded Coast Industry, and took Yu Shu into his service. Dream Loss Syndrome spread into a crisis across the Federation, leaving Ji Jue preparing a large-scale alchemical operation called Worm.

• Ji Jue used the Imperial Jade Seal and the Dark Tower to defeat Worry-Free Duke, then learned of his mother’s sacrifice and escaped the collapsing Rift World with the Abyss Seed awakened.
• Heavenly Furnace and his allies defeated the Sower’s forces, while Ji Jue summoned Scarlet Firmament’s Shadow and severed the Sower’s arm before falling beneath the Vortex.
• Ye Chun carried Ji Jue to safety, the authorities hunted the Evil Transformation Cult, and Ji Jue later left the sanatorium to return to his businesses and family.
• Ji Jue expanded Coast Industry and Courier Logistics, helped stop an attack on Xu Chao Xian, and saw Tong Shan depart for Central Earth as Wen Wen faced her unresolved conflict with Wen Zheng.
• Ji Jue studied the Four Systems of Elevation and refined Pan Ying while the Association publicized his Masterwork, then agreed to rescue the Holy Light Cult’s medical team from Puna Bantu.
• Minkler’s fleet rescued Yu Shu and the medical team, and Ji Jue hired Yu Shu after Ai Kongzuo’s death and Puna Bantu’s collapse into a Demon Domain.
• Yu Shu organized Ji Jue’s businesses and warned him that Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading, prompting Ji Jue to fund vaccination efforts and approve action against the outbreak.
• Wen Wen found transformed victims as Spiritual Substance worms spread through the Wilderness, vaccine supplies stopped, and Ji Jue ordered Isis to prepare the large-scale alchemical operation Worm.

Ji Jue tracked Wen Wen to Puna Bantu, where Wen Zheng’s dream entrapment drew him into a false world. After escaping the dream and reuniting with Wen Wen, Ji Jue helped the rebels fight the Angels and flee through Bao Dacai’s Rabbit Hole.

• Ji Jue stopped the mercury eruption, remade the Poison Heart Ring into the Crown of Isis, and used it to purge the Spirit Plague from Haizhou.
• Wen Wen confronted Wen Su at the Songxiang Waterworks, while Ji Jue restrained Wen Su’s projection and Wen Sheng’s Great Serpent incarnation attacked New Spring.
• Ji Jue learned Wen Wen had gone to Puna Bantu, gathered allies and fleets, and led an assault into the dark Forbidden Zone.
• Ji Jue’s Nether Sea Worm disrupted the Millet Dream Remnants, but Wen Zheng trapped him in a dream where he realized the apparent victory was false and escaped by killing himself within the illusion.
• Ji Jue awakened in a ruined dream world with a young Wen Wen, recovered his memories through Chun Jun, and helped Lina destroy an Angel.
• Ji Jue built himself a steel body in the rebels’ refuge, then crushed Lu Ting after Lu mutated and attacked him.
• Ji Jue and Wen Wen fought the Angels, and Wen Wen captured the wheel Angel while Bao Dacai discovered that Ji Jue’s weapon conveyed an insight into Death.
• As Angels poured through the weakening Prism, Bao Dacai opened the Rabbit Hole and the survivors escaped into another Wilderness while the dream rift collapsed.