Recaps

Ji Jue seized control of the Chopra Family’s Family God and helped Minkler become its patriarch, then used the unrest and attacks on Luo Island to draw out the Xu Family. The Blood Feud Trial exposed the Xu Family’s hidden fighters, and Ji Jue forced Saino to his knees.

• Ji Jue crushed the factions gathered at the Chopra estate, then helped Minkler seize the Family God and become the new family head.
• Ji Jue learned the Soekarno Family was cooperating with the Usurper and joined Lou Feng in targeting the Xu Family, while the family invoked a Blood Feud Trial.
• Riots spread across Elephant Isle, and Ji Jue’s forces suppressed them before Lou Yanyue destroyed the source of the agitation.
• Ji Jue unleashed Creation Spirits on Luo Island, causing widespread chaos until the Soekarno Family observed the trial’s rules and the seven-day wait ended.
• At the Blood Feud Trial, Lou Yanyue fought Orban Kzobel, whose hidden powers and puppet body concealed the Xu Family’s intervention.
• Lou Feng exposed the Xu Family’s ghost gods, and Lou Yanyue, Lou Zhaoye, and Lou Yuling confronted the hidden attackers as Minkler challenged Saino.
• Ji Jue stabbed Saino with Pan Ying and demanded that he kneel.

Ji Jue took control of Luo Island and fortified it as the Calamity Wind unleashed disasters across the Seven Cities. As he confronted the Abyss Lord’s approaching merfolk army, the awakened Celestial Constitution cleared the storm above the island.

• Ji Jue defeated the Soekarno Family, took control of Luo Island, and forced its surviving members to work while the Lou and Xu Families settled their conflict.
• Ji Jue prepared for the Calamity Wind after merfolk and disaster beasts began threatening the Endless Sea, then joined Penalosa’s fleet to fight them.
• Ji Jue and Penalosa defeated the Green Flood Dragon’s incarnation, while the awakened calamities and collapsing trade spread across the Seven Cities.
• Ji Jue refused the Seven Cities Council’s offer and used meal vouchers to draw workers and specialists to Luo Island as food shortages worsened elsewhere.
• Ji Jue and Lou Feng tempered the Prosperity during a massive earthquake, and Ji Jue threatened Tooth Gate after it accused him of foreknowledge.
• Ji Jue used his Curtain Mist and Mechanical God Mandara to dismantle the Sea Locust swarm, then sensed the Tower Usurper spreading through Luo Island’s ley lines.
• Ji Jue forged Scarlet Firmament and imposed new factory rules across several cities, while he traced the Usurper’s corruption to a fissure in Luo Island’s water reservoir.
• The Abyss Lord sent twenty-one merfolk tribes in a Black Tide toward Luo Island, and Ji Jue prepared to confront them as the Celestial Constitution cleared the storm.

Ji Jue defeated the Abyss Lord and consolidated the Sea Abyss under Red Firmament, then uncovered conspiracies against Luo Island as disaster and exploitation consumed the Seven Cities. He confronted Fernan during the cities’ fall into the Realm of Zhi Fu, but Fernan revived and regained his powers.

• Ji Jue destroyed the Green Flood Dragon and the Abyss Lord, then used Red Firmament to absorb the Sea Abyss and conceal it beneath the seabed.
• Ji Jue investigated Bustaman’s unusual rise and learned that his ambition and fear had taken shape around a memory of a painting called Theseus.
• Charybdis passed the Seven Cities, leaving devastation and valuable remains that drew desperate crews into a dangerous salvage boom, while Ji Jue kept Luo Island locked down.
• Rotten Ape allied with the Abyss Lord and other conspirators to seize Luo Island, but Xu Chao Xian and Ji Jue’s forces ambushed them, killing the Usurper and defeating Dragon Poison.
• The lighthouse engulfed the Seven Cities in Zhi Fu Flame, exposing visions of exploitation as residents mutated and the cities descended into chaos.
• Ji Jue helped Minkler defend Elephant Isle, then confronted Fernan and accused him of sustaining the Seven Cities’ misery through failed reforms.
• Ji Jue killed Fernan, but Fernan’s body revived as Luo Island and Elephant Isle escaped the lighthouse’s reach, and the corrupted cities restored Fernan’s lost powers.

Ji Jue helped the Seven Cities break free of Fernan’s control, returned authority to its people, and turned his attention to Deepdark. As the Embers-Deepdark Duel began, he defeated a succession of challengers, but Filthy Mire entered the Rift World with a prepared attack.

• Ji Jue spread Isis seeds and recruitment notices across the Seven Cities, helping its people resist Fernan and restore the world’s Celestial Origin.
• Ji Jue relinquished absolute authority over the Seven Cities, defeated Fernan, and helped the city representatives establish new leadership and security.
• Ji Jue confronted Deepdark at Celestial Pivot, joined the Association under Ye Xian’s authority, and learned that the Embers-Deepdark Duel would decide their standing.
• After early matches ended in deaths on both sides, Ji Jue defeated Craftsmen’s Cellar and Darsath, then challenged Deepdark to send more opponents.
• Ji Jue overcame Torch Plague and other challengers, but a Deepdark artisan’s self-detonation badly damaged Dragon Mountain and covered Ji Jue in curses.
• Filthy Mire entered the Rift World after taunting Ji Jue, spread a mire fortress, and launched Purple Electric Black Flame, which vanished before Heavenly Furnace’s lamp.