Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue activated the Doomsday Train’s Full-Domain Circulation Control, escaped Jianyuan’s attack, and began destroying the network Jianyuan had built. As the Association’s blockade and Ye Xian’s challenge forced Jianyuan to face opponents on multiple fronts, Ye Xian revealed the paired Matrix Holy Relics Gan Jiang and Mo Xie and prepared to duel him.

• Jianyuan unleashed a barrage of Masterworks against Ji Jue, but Ji Jue completed the Doomsday Train’s restart and gained Full-Domain Circulation Control.
• Ji Jue redirected the attack’s destruction, launched the Doomsday Train into the sky as an Airship, and began tearing apart the artificial Sky Rail nodes and the vortex network.
• The Association completed its blockade around Quancheng, with Kong Qingyan and masters across North and South supporting a reverse invasion of Jianyuan’s structure.
• Ye Xian entered Jianyuan’s Workshop, thanked him for looking after her student, and challenged him to a duel.
• Ye Xian activated the Usurpation Sequence and revealed the paired Matrix Holy Relics Gan Jiang and Mo Xie before asking Jianyuan to enlighten her.

Ji Jue awakened the hatred and power of Quancheng’s dead, turning ruined machines into an overwhelming tide that attacked the Evil Transformation Cult and Lu Changsheng. As the Existing Fiend’s hold weakened, Ji Jue forged a bullet from the gathered resentment and aimed his gun at Lu Changsheng, declaring their feud would end only with one of their deaths.

• Ji Jue used the Sky Rail to silence the heavens briefly and reached out to the dead souls of Quancheng, telling them he was there.
• Ji Jue activated Deus Ex Machina, and the dead souls’ anguish awakened ruined machines across Quancheng as monstrous steel Abominations.
• The steel tide overwhelmed the Evil Transformation Cult’s sanctuaries and attacked the Fiendified One, while the Existing Fiend struggled to maintain its power.
• Ji Jue diverted Lu Changsheng’s attacks into Jianyuan’s nodes and repeatedly assembled colossal monsters to fight Lu Changsheng.
• Ji Jue gathered the resentment of Quancheng into a crystal bullet, aimed at Lu Changsheng, and declared their enmity would end only when one of them died.

Ji Jue and Ye Xian helped break Jianyuan’s hold over Quancheng, but Lu Changsheng’s defeat led to his destruction by the Sky Overseer. As Quancheng’s monsters crumbled and the miracle ended, Ji Jue used the Sky Rail to illuminate the ruined city one last time.

• Ji Jue’s attack and the Wedge of the Present World disrupted Lu Changsheng’s defenses, while Ye Xian destroyed her Mo Xie sword to cripple Jianyuan’s workshop.
• Jianyuan admitted defeat, returned two pieces of mercury, and vanished with his workshop; Ye Xian watched the collapsing city and worried about her student, Ji Jue.
• Lu Changsheng released the Present World’s restraints, allowing Tao Gong’s law to cleanse Quancheng, then transformed and challenged the Heavenly Beings who had gathered to kill him.
• The Sky Overseer descended Absolute Punishment, annihilating Lu Changsheng as the Heavenly Beings departed.
• Quancheng’s monsters looked upon the stars as the miracle faded and their bodies crumbled; Ji Jue used the Sky Rail to light the ruined streets and mourned the beautiful world he had created.

Tong Shan woke after Quancheng’s crisis and learned that Ji Jue had been found but remained gravely injured. Ji Jue imagined a farewell with his mother at Yacheng’s terminal station, then opened his eyes as he prepared to move forward.

• Tong Shan woke in the outpost and joked with Ji Liu before Lü Yingyue visited him.
• Lü Yingyue told Tong Shan that Quancheng had begun recovering, but the Federation remained divided and Yacheng faced more trouble after Lu Changsheng’s death.
• Lü Yingyue told Tong Shan that Ji Jue had been found alive but was still unconscious and badly injured.
• Ji Jue recounted an exaggerated version of his escape and battle to his mother, who listened affectionately.
• At Yacheng’s terminal station, Ji Jue’s mother encouraged him to rest when needed and keep traveling, and he said goodbye before opening his eyes.

Ji Jue recovered from the Quancheng disaster, gained the Celestial Origin Blessing: Axis of Domination, and reunited with the CEO, who gave him a mysterious key before leaving. When Ji Jue pressed the newly restored button on his Wristwatch, he found himself inside the Doomsday Train again.

• Ji Jue awoke in the hospital, where Ye Xian told him that his actions had earned widespread gratitude and warned him that Jianyuan might still pursue him.
• Ji Jue discovered that Celestial Origin had given him Axis of Domination, and the three Blessings had combined as he advanced into the Metamorphosis Stage.
• After returning to Yacheng, Ji Jue worried that the Sky Rail had gone silent and that he might have become its legal representative.
• The CEO returned, apologized for its mistakes with voice buttons, and gave Ji Jue a box before announcing it had to leave.
• Ji Jue invited the CEO to visit again and gave it a new bell, then opened the box and found a strange key that entered his Wristwatch.
• Ji Jue pressed the Wristwatch's new blank button and was transported into the Doomsday Train.

An Ran raided Yue Ting’s warehouse, where smugglers were holding a calamity beast cub, while Ji Jue waited at the secret passage’s exit. An Ran fought through the gang and the unleashed creature, and Yue Ting fled only to surrender when Ji Jue trapped him.

• Ji Jue relaxed outside the warehouse while An Ran confronted Li Yong and learned that more than sixteen people were inside.
• An Ran attacked the smugglers with the iron shard Ji Jue had given him, killing or incapacitating several and narrowly missing Yue Ting.
• Yue Ting ordered his subordinate to release the calamity beast cub, but the cage had already been cut open and the creature devoured the subordinate.
• Yue Ting escaped through a secret passage, leaving the warehouse battle behind him.
• Ji Jue stopped Yue Ting at the passage exit and transformed his armored vehicle into a towering mechanical weapon.
• Yue Ting dropped his knife, put on the handcuffs, and begged Ji Jue to spare him.

Ji Jue helped the Security Bureau uncover a smuggling operation involving illegal enhancements and Shoushan Copper, then secretly kept an ingot for himself. He returned to his new workshop and opened a hidden space containing an ancient train, bringing the copper inside as an offering.

• Ji Jue captured Yue Ting and discovered that smugglers were transporting artificial organs, enhanced limbs, and a disaster beast cub.
• Ji Jue identified Shoushan Copper hidden in two crates, and Tong Zhiwu arranged for the operation and its evidence to disappear from official records.
• Ji Jue secretly pocketed a Shoushan Copper ingot while the trucks carried away the crates, then joked with Lao Zhang about his new workshop.
• Ji Jue dropped Little An at the arcade and went to his seaside workshop, where he opened a hidden space that transformed the basement into a ruined platform with an ancient train.
• Ji Jue carried the Shoushan Copper ingots aboard the train and cheerfully announced that it was mealtime.

Ji Jue assessed the badly damaged Doomsday Train and the immense costs of repairing and fueling it after the CEO gave him ownership. He used his recent earnings and recovered materials to prepare fuel and repair the engine, but the train remained in docking mode, leaving him to save for the resources needed to restore it.

• Ji Jue reviewed the Doomsday Train’s alerts and found that its integrity was only 41%, its fuel tank was empty, and most systems were damaged or disabled.
• Ji Jue confirmed that the train had detached from Sky Rail and entered docking mode, with him as its sole conductor and owner.
• Ji Jue calculated the enormous cost of fueling the train and activating its conductor functions, including the Return Command.
• Ji Jue used money from Yue Ting’s stolen funds and the auction of Tong Hua’s antiques to buy materials and make about ninety liters of fuel.
• Ji Jue decided that the train could not yet run, but hoped to carry it as a Workshop once he reached Rebirth Rank.

Ji Jue repaired the Myriad Manifestations Engine enough to restart the Doomsday Train, then saw memories revealing Sky Rail Transit’s mission to drag a devouring dark star into a rift. The next morning, Professor Ye summoned him to the Workshop.

• Ji Jue opened the Myriad Manifestations Engine and began repairing its four damaged reactors with new materials and Shoushan Copper.
• The engine restarted successfully, though its spirit remained weak and needed time to recover.
• Ji Jue asked about Sky Rail Transit, and the engine shared memories of the train’s collapse more than two hundred years earlier.
• The memories showed Sky Rail trains dragging a dark star toward a rift until it was trapped, after which the exhausted Doomsday Train fell into the Riftworld.
• The next morning, Professor Ye called Ji Jue and told him to come to the Workshop.

Ji Jue visited Professor Ye and learned that Haizhou’s worsening troubles could draw Yacheng into turmoil, though his recent actions had earned Lü Yingyue’s favor. He demonstrated the Second Transformation of Deus Ex Machina, turning a grandfather clock into a living Brass Leopard, while Ye Xian began considering how blessings could combine into powerful chains.

• Ji Jue met acting Warden Lü Yingyue at Professor Ye’s Workshop, and she praised him before leaving.
• Professor Ye explained that Haizhou’s growing troubles threatened to pull Yacheng into turmoil and said Ji Jue’s actions had earned her another favor from Lü Yingyue.
• Ji Jue told Professor Ye that his injuries had mostly healed, though his legs remained weak, and described how Axis of Domination linked him to everything he controlled.
• Ji Jue used Deus Ex Machina and his blessings to transform a grandfather clock into a living Brass Leopard.
• Ye Xian recognized that Ji Jue’s blessings had produced a major transformation and reflected on how blessing combinations formed powerful chains.

Ji Jue completed the Summoning Chain of Non-Aggression and learned that the next stage required three difficult Metamorphosis blessings. Ye Xian asked him to consider helping her with a consequential matter, then ordered him to obtain an Artisan License before the year's final registration deadline.

• Ji Jue used the Summoning Chain to reshape the Brass Leopard, and Ye Xian reminded him that it had sold for twenty-one million at auction.
• Ye Xian explained that Non-Aggression's Metamorphosis stage required Melting Furnace Blood, Unextinguished Tinder, and Heaven-Granted Spirit, each representing a difficult transformation.
• Ye Xian cautioned Ji Jue that she wanted his help with a matter that could irreversibly affect his life, but withheld the details until he considered her request.
• Ji Jue guessed that Ye Xian might want him to return to Jianyuan or help confront Xu Chao Xian, and she stopped him from speculating further.
• After learning Ji Jue had been at the Workshop for four months, Ye Xian told him to get an Artisan License before the year's final registration batch.

Ye Xian pushed Ji Jue to register for the Taiyi Ring Artisan examination, hoping a license would support a cover story that he had awakened as a Chosen One a year earlier. Ji Jue submitted his application in Yacheng, but the association official rejected it.

• Ji Jue protested that he had studied alchemy for less than four months, but Ye Xian told him his skills were enough to attempt the Artisan examination.
• Ye Xian explained that Lü Yingyue had asked whether Ji Jue was the Chosen Summoner from Yacheng, and warned that others might investigate him too.
• Ye Xian proposed that passing the examination would make the Taiyi Ring recognize Ji Jue as an apprentice for nearly a year, distancing him from the later appearance of the Chosen Summoner.
• Ji Jue learned that the record for the fastest Artisan qualification belonged to Heavenly Furnace, who had passed after only a month of study.
• At Ye Xian's urging, Ji Jue submitted his application at the Yacheng association office, where the official said the rules would not allow it.

Ji Jue learned that the Association barred him from the Artisan exam because he had studied for only one year and lacked three Artisan guarantors. He called Lou Feng for help, while Lou Feng's family overheard him losing his temper on the phone.

• Ji Jue asked Li Yun why the Association would not let him take the Artisan exam, and she explained that apprentices generally needed three years of study or three Artisan guarantors.
• Li Yun described how past crash-course candidates had led the Association to impose stricter rules on apprentices applying early.
• Ji Jue accepted that he needed three signatures and left the Association, realizing he did not know any living Artisans who could provide them.
• Ji Jue called Lou Feng and teased him about their friendship until Lou Feng cursed at him during a family meal.
• Lou Feng's family heard his outburst, and he fled the dining room in embarrassment.

Ji Jue visited the Tong Family estate to seek a signature and learned Tong Zhiwu was at Zhao's Workshop. There he ran into Zhou Cheng, the apprentice whose leg he had broken, and Zhou reluctantly led him inside to meet his grandfather.

• Ji Jue asked Lou Feng to contact his teacher for a signature, and Lou Feng arranged to have it delivered that day.
• Ji Jue compared Professor Ye's address with Tong Zhiwu's and found it led to the Tong Family estate, then asked Tong Hua to show him the way.
• Ji Jue arrived at the estate, chatted with the gatekeeper, and discovered from Tong Hua that the casually dressed old man was her great-grandfather, the Tong Family's old patriarch.
• Tong Hua told Ji Jue that Tong Zhiwu was at Zhao's Workshop, where his equipment was being remade.
• Ji Jue enthusiastically greeted Zhou Cheng at the Workshop entrance, then remembered he had broken Zhou Cheng's leg at Quancheng Outpost.
• Zhou Cheng restrained his anger and led Ji Jue inside, saying his grandfather had been waiting for him.

Ji Jue joined Zhou Zhong’s Workshop to help forge a sword for Tong Shan, discovering that Zhou Zhong’s Cosmos Framework was combining fourfold Blessings through a carefully controlled process. Ji Jue fed record books into the furnace as catalysts, and the forging continued under Zhou Zhong’s command.

• Ji Jue met Zhou Zhong in the Workshop and agreed to take over the work beside the Melting furnace.
• Zhou Zhong explained that he was forging a sword for Tong Shan and defended his own design against Ji Jue’s doubts.
• Ji Jue entered the furnace’s intense heat as exhausted apprentices were replaced and the Cosmos Framework operated around him.
• Ji Jue fed record books into the furnace, where their phenomena helped the fourfold Blessings begin merging into one.
• Zhou Zhong ordered Ji Jue to feed more materials, and Ji Jue used the Matrix of Non-Aggression to replenish the phenomena inside the furnace.

Ji Jue helped Zhou Zhong forge a ceremonial longsword by feeding disaster records into the furnace, and the surging power nearly caused an explosion. The weapon was completed after Zhou Zhong used Ji Jue as a crucial stabilizing node, leaving Ji Jue healed but eager to inspect the sword.

• Ji Jue fed the Tong Family's disaster records into the furnace and catalyzed their phenomena as Zhou Zhong directed the forging.
• Ji Jue adapted to the process and took on a central role, while Zhou Zhong secretly added more pressure to him.
• The furnace's power overwhelmed its safeguards, injured an apprentice, and threatened to explode as Zhou Zhong struggled to stabilize the cycle.
• Zhou Zhong used Ji Jue and nearby hub nodes to restore the cycle, and the finished longsword emerged from the furnace.
• Ji Jue explained that he had refused to let go because Tong Zhiwu was loyal to him, then used Zhou Zhong's medicine to heal his hands.
• Zhou Zhong took back the medicine bottle, and Ji Jue eagerly sidled over to look at the new longsword.

Ji Jue examined Zhou Zhong’s newly forged sword, quickly understood its Blessing Chain, and obtained Zhou Zhong’s signature backing his Artisan examination application. Zhou Zhong then warned Zhou Cheng that this year’s examination would be unusually severe, while examinees across the Federation, Empire, Central Earth, and Thousand Isles prepared for the coming trial.

• Zhou Zhong showed Ji Jue the longsword and its new Blessing Chain, which Ji Jue activated and analyzed almost immediately.
• Ji Jue proposed the names “Heaven and Earth are Ruthless” for the Blessing Chain and “Wielding Brush” for the sword, but Zhou Zhong claimed both names and handed him a signed application form.
• Zhou Zhong realized that Ji Jue’s handling of the furnace showed deep knowledge of Chengchuan Aggregation and feared that Ji Jue might build a school of his own.
• Zhou Cheng questioned Zhou Zhong’s decision to support Ji Jue, and Zhou Zhong challenged his grandson’s responsibility and decisiveness.
• Zhou Zhong explained that Gustav Schmidt was rumored to host this year’s Taiyi Ring Artisan examination and would enforce harsh standards, then told Zhou Cheng to learn from his setback.
• Across the Federation, Empire, Central Earth, and Thousand Isles, people prepared for the approaching examination beneath the night sky.

Jiang Tongguang visited Director Gustav, who had been assigned to oversee the Artisan examination, and learned Gustav planned to restart the costly Myriad Transformations Tower. Jiang Tongguang left expecting the examination to cause a commotion.

• Jiang Tongguang brought whiskey to Director Gustav’s Workshop and learned he had been assigned to assist Gustav with the upcoming Artisan examination.
• Jiang Tongguang explained that the Council had sent him because it feared Gustav would handle the examination too aggressively.
• Gustav showed Jiang Tongguang the dubious applications and recommendations flooding the examination and condemned candidates who lacked practical skill.
• Gustav announced he planned to reboot the Myriad Transformations Tower despite the nearly thousand applicants and the expense.
• Jiang Tongguang left Gustav’s Workshop in good spirits, anticipating that events on Dubhe Island would soon become lively.

Ji Jue registered for the Artisan exam and learned that its practical focus suited his strengths, but Ye Xian forced him through a week of intensive theory drills. After declaring him ready to pass, she promised to teach him the Elephant Sword Chapter, while setting first place as the only acceptable exam ranking.

• Li Yun registered Ji Jue for the exam, took his 410,000 fee, and warned him that Gustav would oversee a tougher, more practical exam.
• Ye Chun told Ji Jue that Gustav had a grudge against Ye Xian and might target him, but Ye Xian dismissed the concern and assigned him a huge book of past exam questions.
• Ye Xian sent Ji Jue to the basement for a week of relentless study, and Ye Chun eventually dragged him out in a dazed state.
• Ye Xian judged Ji Jue ready to pass the exam and promised to teach him the Elephant Sword Chapter afterward.
• Ye Xian told Ye Chun that Ji Jue would pass if he worked harder, then declared that any ranking below first place would be too low.

Ji Jue arrived at Celestial Pivot for the Association examination, traded insults with fellow candidates, and reunited with Lou Feng. Above the venue, Jiang Tongguang and Gustav reviewed the applicants and noted that the exam had drawn apprentices from nearly every major Workshop.

• Ji Jue was teleported from Yacheng to Celestial Pivot, which the Doomsday Train recorded as a new Present World Anchor Point.
• Ji Jue provoked two apprentices who mocked him, and security intervened before the argument turned into a fight.
• Ji Jue toured the city, sent his friends a video, and ran into Lou Feng, who had come to take the examination on his own.
• Jiang Tongguang and Gustav watched the candidates from the damaged Tower and discussed Ji Jue's record, background, and Tide Sound affiliation.
• Jiang Tongguang observed that nearly every major Workshop had sent apprentices, making the examination a gathering of prominent candidates.