Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xuan unleashed his machine gun across the battlefield while Ji Jue scavenged fallen enemies, but Yan Chong and Ling Zhi broke Tong Shan’s defenses by destroying the Burning Star Banner. The Blade of Ruin closed in on Tong Shan, and Ji Jue believed the battle was won.

• Jiang Xuan used mercury to trap the lizard-mutated Chosen One and killed it with his machine gun before spending all his ammunition.
• Ji Jue looted nearby corpses for Matrices, Supreme Goodness Essence, spirit essence, and Alchemical Creations while Lou Feng sheltered nearby.
• A wounded enemy sprang from a corpse to ambush Ji Jue, but Ji Jue’s camera wards exposed him and a Spirit Essence Hand killed him.
• Ji Jue watched Tong Shan hold off Yan Chong and Ling Zhi with his Myriad Defense psychokinesis.
• Yan Chong used his blessings and the [Oath of Blood Contention] to force a clash that shattered Tong Shan’s Burning Star Banner.
• The Burning Star Phenomenon collapsed, and the Blade of Ruin emerged from the shadows behind Tong Shan as Ji Jue concluded that they had won.

Tong Shan revealed his Rebirth Form and used the Disaster Prevention Book to unleash a Collapse Disaster, killing Ling Zhi while Yan Chong escaped grievously wounded. Ji Jue’s group gathered supplies and fled the ruins, leaving explosives behind them.

• Ji Jue realized Tong Shan had never needed the banner to unleash the Burning Star Phenomenon and saw that Tong Shan had lured Yan Chong and Ling Zhi into a trap.
• Tong Shan manifested his Rebirth Form, revealing the Disaster Prevention Book and his goal of preventing disasters.
• Tong Shan activated the Collapse Disaster, creating a lethal gravitational vortex that swallowed Ling Zhi.
• Yan Chong shoved Ling Zhi into the vortex, escaped with grievous injuries, and fled as the remaining Evil Transformation Cult members ran too.
• Ji Jue stopped Lou Feng from chasing the fleeing cultists, then gathered surviving supplies with his teammates.
• Ji Jue’s group drove away from the ruins, and Ji Jue detonated explosives behind them.

After Tong Shan was gravely wounded, Ji Jue stabilized him and treated most of his injuries while the group uncovered signs that the Evil Transformation Cult might be working with the Dragon Offering Society and that the Security Bureau had been compromised. With their escape routes potentially exposed, Ji Jue proposed striking at the Evil Transformation Cult’s weakened defenses instead of trying to fight through its pursuers.

• The explosives and poison concealed the group's trail, and Xu Guan led them to a hidden route where Ji Jue discovered Tong Shan's old back wound and operated on him.
• Ji Jue removed most of Tong Shan's Fiendification Pollution and stabilized his injuries, though he said Tong Shan still needed hospital care for damage to his soul and Matrix.
• Ji Jue showed the team a tattoo linking one of their attackers to the Dragon Offering Society, raising the possibility that it had joined the Evil Transformation Cult's operation.
• Ji Jue warned that a mole had likely compromised the Security Bureau, while Tong Shan said the director could be trusted but their escape routes might not be safe.
• Ji Jue suggested that the group exploit the Evil Transformation Cult's weakened defenses after it sent out so many people to hunt them.

Ji Jue and Tong Shan planned to escape Quancheng by raiding an Evil Transformation Cult branch and capturing someone who knew the cult’s routes. They followed Tong Shan’s markers to a branch and used a corpse-filled decoy vehicle to blow it up, while explosions sounded across Quancheng.

• Ji Jue proposed attacking the Evil Transformation Cult to capture a high-ranking member and learn a route out of Quancheng, and Tong Shan agreed.
• Tong Shan revealed that he had marked the cultists who escaped and used their trail to locate a branch near Quancheng’s edge.
• The group set a plan to raid the branch, and Tong Shan again invited Ji Jue to join the Security Bureau.
• At the branch, a fat insect-eating cultist spotted a battered car entering the area and ordered his subordinates to stop it when it fled.
• The cultists found that the car contained paper disguises and chemical agents rather than real corpses, then the vehicle exploded among them.
• Ji Jue watched the blast and other explosions across Quancheng, calling them an early New Year’s greeting.

Ji Jue and his allies launched a last-ditch raid on an Evil Transformation Cult branch in Quancheng, using Ghost Cars to distract the cult before attacking a mall full of Chosen Ones. The ambush began with Tong Shan confronting [Entropy] and Ji Liu fighting alongside the armored Little Cow and Horse.

• Ji Jue, Xu Guan, and Ji Xue prepared explosive Ghost Cars that drew the Evil Transformation Cult's attention toward the roads near the Security Bureau.
• Xu Guan located eleven Chosen Ones inside a ruined mall, and Tong Shan assigned the team a three-minute limit for the raid.
• Tong Shan, Ji Jue, Lou Feng, Ji Liu, Ji Xue, and Jiang Xuan took their positions, while Tong Shan returned the Mouth of the Ancient One to Ji Jue.
• Tong Shan struck the mall with psychic force, exposed [Entropy], and was engulfed by the Burning Star Phenomenon as the battle began.
• Ji Liu charged into the cultists, and Little Cow and Horse helped him kill a Waste Ruins Chosen One with its Impact Drill and mechanical jaws.

Ji Jue and Lou Feng helped defeat the Fiendified One in the mall, while Tong Shan captured and tortured another attacker for information. As the group searched the mall, Ji Jue and Lou Feng discovered signs of a concealed Workshop, and someone behind the disguise reacted to their discovery.

• Ji Jue used Lou Feng’s specially treated mercury bullets in a sniper rifle imbued with intelligence, helping Ji Xue kill the Waste Ruins Fiendified One inside the mall.
• Tong Shan overwhelmed the lightning-wielding Fiendified One, captured him, and tortured him for the pathway, but the man died without revealing anything.
• Tong Shan ordered the group to search the mall, and Ji Jue found little useful information among the devices and records.
• Lou Feng noticed suspicious traces in a storefront’s floor, and Ji Jue’s investigation led them to suspect that a Workshop was concealed there.
• Someone behind the illusionary disguise audibly swallowed as Ji Jue and Lou Feng recognized the hidden Workshop.

Ji Jue, Lou Feng, and Tong Shan broke into the hidden Workshop beneath the mall and overwhelmed its defenses. They captured Du Deng, and Ji Jue began questioning him.

• Ji Jue and Lou Feng argued over how to divide the Workshop's spoils, then located it beneath their feet.
• Du Deng watched in horror as Ji Jue dismantled the Workshop's outer defenses with Disintegration Art while Lou Feng and Tong Shan assisted.
• Ji Jue stripped away the Workshop's defenses, and Tong Shan punched through its gate with psychic force.
• Tong Shan and the others stormed inside and subdued Du Deng, leaving him badly injured and stripped.
• Ji Jue entered, sat before Du Deng, and asked him his name.

Ji Jue learned that several Nine Evils factions had gathered in Quancheng and found a device that appeared to connect to the Security Bureau’s outpost system. Quancheng then broke through its blockade and began rising into the present world, while Ji Jue judged Du Deng as sin and destroyed him.

• Duden confessed that the Nine Evils factions had gathered in Quancheng to carry out a major plan, and Xu Guan confirmed that he was telling the truth.
• Ji Xue found Du Deng’s Earth Imagery Plate, and Lou Feng showed Ji Jue an unfinished device whose specifications matched those of the Security Bureau’s outpost.
• A tremendous shock struck Quancheng, the unfinished device fell silent, and the city’s black clouds dissipated as pollution poured from the sky and Quancheng rose toward the present world.
• Ji Jue stopped Tong Shan from acting against Du Deng and questioned whether Du Deng was innocent; the traces of Fiendification Pollution emerged from Du Deng’s soul.
• Ji Jue’s awakened flame revealed Du Deng’s corruption, and Ji Jue judged him as sin and reduced his body, soul, and blessing to ashes.

Ye Xian confronted Duan Mu after he unleashed catastrophic corruption at the Association’s construction site, while Duan Mu explained how years of failure and fading ability had driven him to abandon his old path. The chapter ended as Duan Mu transformed into a Celestial Being and a tide of darkness and Mutated Creatures surged toward the outpost.

• The Association’s construction site erupted into a Demon Domain when corrupted dust and pollution spread through the facility, killing and mutating workers.
• Zhou Zhong escaped the flames, accused Ye Xian of causing the disaster, and was knocked unconscious by her.
• Ye Xian met Master Kong, then discovered that Duan Mu had orchestrated the catastrophe and confronted him.
• Duan Mu recounted his lifelong disappointments and admitted he had changed course because his research could no longer move him forward.
• Duan Mu transformed into a four-armed, seven-eyed Celestial Being as darkness and Mutated Creatures surged toward the outpost.

Ye Xian defeated Duan Mu by revealing Matrix Holy Relic · [Gan Jiang], then watched him die after he admitted he could no longer continue. Lü Yingyue arrived at the purified site after fighting through the outpost’s attackers.

• The Heavenly Origin Law opened a breach toward the outpost, unleashing pollution and creatures that overwhelmed its defenses.
• Lü Yingyue discovered that the corridor to the emergency command center was an illusion created by the Heavenly Heart Society and Flawless Temple, and confronted those responsible.
• Lu Changsheng visited the confused Tao Gong in his office as a blazing explosion erupted elsewhere.
• Ye Xian used her perfected Disintegration Art and the Omen Sequence to purify the construction site and pin the incomplete abomination, Duan Mu.
• Ye Xian showed Duan Mu Matrix Holy Relic · [Gan Jiang] and explained how it had surpassed his Aggregation Lineage; Duan Mu gave up and died.
• Lü Yingyue arrived carrying two broken swords and asked Ye Xian whether she had come too late.

Ye Xian and Lü Yingyue reached the outpost as reinforcements arrived, while Tao Gong confronted Lu Changsheng, his secretary and the Evil Transformation Cult’s Sacrificial Master Saint. Lu Changsheng and Tao Gong sealed a pact to decide Quancheng’s fate in five days, as a hidden white piece remained trapped on the chessboard.

• Ye Xian mocked Lü Yingyue for arriving late, and Lü Yingyue admitted she was Celestial Origin while asking whether her broken blades could be repaired.
• Ye Xian and Lü Yingyue headed toward the outpost and identified the powerful groups arriving through the Star Core Association’s Teleportation gates.
• Tao Gong questioned Lu Changsheng about his secretary, and Lu Changsheng revealed he had been the secretary all along and had served Tao Gong for nine years.
• Lu Changsheng urged Tao Gong to abandon Celestial Origin, but Tao Gong defended its ability to unite people despite their flaws and opposing motives.
• Lu Changsheng challenged Tao Gong to settle Quancheng’s fate in a contest between the Security Bureau and the Evil Transformation Cult, and Tao Gong accepted a pact to decide the outcome within five days.
• After Lu Changsheng vanished, a concealed white chess piece appeared beneath a captured black piece, trapped as the coming conflict approached.

Ji Jue worried about the Edge of Transformation’s influence while his companions mistook his conversation with CEO for madness. As Quancheng descended further into chaos, the team hid underground, where Ji Jue unveiled a silver filament forged with a Blessing and silently cut Lou Feng’s hair.

• Ji Jue petted CEO and fretted over his connection to the Edge of Transformation and the dangerous forces tied to his Wristwatch.
• Jiang Xuan, Ji Xue, Ji Liu, Xu Guan, and Lou Feng watched Ji Jue mutter to himself and argued over whether he had gone mad.
• As the Evil Transformation Cult battled the Security Bureau across Quancheng, Tong Zhiwu, Jiang Xuan, Ji Jue, Lou Feng, and Xu Guan concealed the team in a reinforced underground hiding place.
• Ji Jue used Lou Feng’s mobile smelting furnace to finish processing stolen materials while the team gathered to watch the result.
• A nearly invisible silver filament emerged from the furnace, and Ji Jue stopped Lou Feng from moving as it drifted past him.
• The filament vanished, and a strand of Lou Feng’s hair silently snapped in two.

Ji Jue demonstrated how he combined mercury Blessings and taught Lou Feng Chengchuan Aggregation before Tong Shan reported that the Evil Transformation Cult had surrounded Quancheng. The team chose to stay and fight, and Ji Jue agreed to join them, asking Tong Zhiwu whether they could still negotiate payment.

• Ji Jue used Metal and Iron Essence and Ultimate Resilience to make mercury threads and a tough woven sheet, then explained to Lou Feng that he combined two separate semi-finished products.
• Lou Feng recognized Chengchuan Aggregation, and Ji Jue taught him the technique using knowledge he had scavenged from Du Deng Workshop.
• Tong Shan returned with a report that the Evil Transformation Cult and the Security Bureau were fighting across Quancheng, while Fiendification Pollution and blockades made escape dangerous.
• At Tong Shan's team meeting, Lou Feng chose to stay and search for his Aunt, while Jiang Xuan, Ji Liu, Ji Xue, and Xu Guan agreed to remain and fight.
• Tong Shan offered Ji Jue the chance to retreat, but Ji Jue chose to stay against the Evil Transformation Cult and asked whether they could still add money.

Ji Jue and the Security Bureau team targeted the Quancheng Bank, a ritual site supporting the Evil Transformation Cult’s control of Quancheng, and secretly began disrupting its operations. As Sido forced followers onto the altar to summon a higher fiend, a mysterious smiling face appeared through a door in the darkness.

• Ji Jue surveyed Quancheng Bank and identified it as a ritual site with no Transcendent Rank powerhouse guarding it.
• Ji Jue and the team took their positions, and Xu Guan warned them that a truck carrying followers was approaching the bank.
• Ji Jue triggered a nearby building’s collapse as a distraction, then secretly shot a follower with a disintegrating bullet that left a handprint on his clothes.
• In the underground vault, Sido grew furious when the higher fiend failed to answer and ordered more followers sacrificed to force its appearance.
• As followers dissolved on the altar, a battered door appeared in the wall, and a pale, smiling face peered out from behind its curtain.

Hunger House erupted during the Evil Transformation Cult’s ritual, while Tong Shan’s team launched a silent assault on Quancheng Bank. Ji Xue accelerated time for the team as they rushed inside, with Ji Jue following her into the attack.

• Hunger House devoured four officiants and spread black handprints through the ritual site, forcing Sido to destroy a subordinate and leaving the cult in chaos.
• Hunger House’s appearance split the lockdown around Quancheng Bank, while Ji Jue met Tong Shan’s team at their rendezvous point.
• Tong Shan reviewed the assault plan, assigning his team to seize the bank’s controls and eliminate everyone inside.
• Tong Shan unleashed a Tidal Wave that silently devastated the bank as Ji Xue accelerated time and led Ji Jue after the others.
• Ji Liu charged into the bank’s defenders with his Blessing, while Ji Xue maintained tenfold time acceleration near her limit.

Ji Liu broke through the Secret Ritual Central Hub’s defenses, giving Ji Jue the opening to seize control of it and turn its systems against the enemy. As Tong Shan attacked from above, Lou Feng followed Ji Jue’s bizarre instructions and began firing the enchanted sniper rifle.

• Ji Liu shattered the hub’s outer defenses, letting Ji Xue hurl Ji Jue toward its main control unit before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Ji Jue’s [Deus Ex Machina] was rejected, but he used [Disintegration Art] to break through the hub’s defenses and claim control of its systems.
• Ji Jue reversed the light-film defense, opened sealed doors, switched ally and enemy signals, and cut off Spiritual Substance supplies throughout the bank.
• Tong Shan unleashed the Burning Star Phenomenon on the Underground Vault, striking Sido and the others amid the chaos.
• Lou Feng heard the sniper rifle’s music cue, fired its Alchemy Bullets at red outlines, and began spinning and singing along as he emptied magazines.

Ji Jue and his teammates fought to protect the Core, and Ji Jue killed the Deep Artisan before the Evil Transformation Cult could discover the intrusion. When reinforcements arrived, Ji Jue recognized their leader as Old Tang, disguised as Smith.

• Ji Jue used Mercury and the Core’s lockdown to battle the Deep Artisan while keeping the alarm and its functions disabled.
• Ji Xue wounded the Deep Artisan, and Lou Feng’s sniper shot broke through his defenses as he charged toward Ji Jue and the Core.
• Ji Jue used a Spirit Essence Hand and Disintegration Art to kill the Deep Artisan and began harvesting his spirit essence and materials.
• Ji Jue and Ji Xue sensed reinforcements approaching, and a man called Smith burst into the Core after finding the Artisan dead.
• Ji Jue recognized Smith as Old Tang and greeted him after hearing Sido angrily call for Smith from the Underground Vault.

Ji Jue and Ji Xue fought Tang Qian, who had been hired to protect a dead target, until Ji Jue bribed him with Eternal Empire coins and a Perpetual Bank VIP card. Tang Qian abandoned the Evil Transformation Cult, accepted Ji Jue as his foster father, and raced off to kill Sido for ten million.

• Tang Qian arrived to find his employer’s target dead and recognized Ji Jue, then immediately attacked him.
• Tang Qian fought Ji Jue and Ji Xue, breaking through their defenses while Ji Jue used an ancient coin to halt his spear.
• Ji Jue offered Tang Qian Eternal Empire coins, negotiated him down from thirty-five to thirty, and showed him a Perpetual Bank VIP card.
• Tang Qian declared that he would abandon the Evil Transformation Cult, offered to change his surname, and called Ji Jue his foster father.
• Ji Jue ordered Tang Qian to kill Sido for ten million, and Tang Qian rushed toward the Underground Vault.

Tang Qian and Fourth Grand Uncle crushed Sido’s monstrous Rebirth form, but Sido sacrificed the souls in the vault to force the Turning Wheel Saint King into the world. The Saint King recognized Ji Jue and attacked Sido instead, furious that the Evil Transformation Cult had tried to rob it again.

• Tang Qian rushed into the Underground Vault, mistook Sido for a threat to his foster father, and hacked him apart while Sido’s mutations transformed him into a gigantic, regenerating tree of blood and tendrils.
• Tang Qian paid Fourth Grand Uncle with a gold coin, letting him empower the spear and slice through Sido’s monstrous body.
• Ji Jue arrived as Tang Qian continued attacking the barely living Sido, who then sacrificed his remaining life and the souls in the vault to summon the Turning Wheel Saint King.
• The Turning Wheel Saint King recognized Ji Jue and the familiar setup from its previous encounter, realized the cultists meant to rob it again, and blasted Sido with a giant hand.

After the Turning Wheel Saint King killed Sido and damaged Quancheng before departing, Ji Jue’s team destroyed evidence and fled. Ji Jue glimpsed a wrecked Sky Rail engine beneath Quancheng, then chose to stay behind under a rewritten identity as an artisan apprentice, leaving his fate uncertain.

• The Turning Wheel Saint King pulverized Sido, left Sin-Corrupted spirit essence on his remains, and damaged the other Higher Fiends’ pillars before leaving Quancheng.
• Tong Shan ordered the team to destroy evidence and evacuate; Ji Jue took the Central Control Hub Spirit Intelligence and dismantled the altar.
• Ji Jue saw a ruined Sky Rail engine beneath Quancheng and recognized Jianyuan, who had noticed him across the unknown distance.
• Ji Jue decided to remain behind, and Tong Shan used a supernatural fountain pen to rewrite Ji Jue’s identity as a Secluded Artisan Apprentice.
• Tong Shan left after an explosion and the squad vanished into Quancheng’s darkness; searchers later found Ji Jue alive among the ruins and called for artisans to retrieve him.