Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue and An Ning reached Earth Well after crossing the snowfields, where Ji Jue learned that two Sky City contestants had been declared missing. At the event camp, Yue Chen confronted Ji Jue and demanded he withdraw from the race, but Ji Jue refused just as a piercing sound erupted.

• Ji Jue and An Ning traveled south through the changing terrain and arrived at Kunwu Relay Station, Earth Well.
• An Ning joked with Ji Jue during the drive, and Ji Jue completed Route S1 in fourth place.
• Organizers told Ji Jue that the search team had been unable to find the missing Sky City contestants and had officially declared them missing.
• Ji Jue entered the event camp carrying a briefcase that drew wary attention, then encountered Yue Chen drinking nearby.
• Yue Chen offered Ji Jue a drink and demanded that he withdraw from the competition, but Ji Jue refused and said there were always other roads to take.
• A piercing sound suddenly rang out across the silent camp.

Ji Jue broke through Waste Ruins’ Stasis Field and left, then spent the night salvaging Maya’s Blessings and forging equipment to protect his consciousness. The next day, he set out for the S2 Kunwu stage with a new ring on his hand.

• Ji Jue used the lingering insight of the Edge of Transformation to cut through the Stasis Field, then left with An Ning.
• Ji Jue sealed the room and prepared to repair his lack of protection against mental attacks while An Ning urged him to join the An Family.
• Ji Jue opened the case and resisted the Heart Pivot heart’s influence, which stirred violent desires and emotions within him.
• Ji Jue dismantled Maya’s Matrix and preserved three Blessings: Eternal Oath Never Forgotten, Hidden Wrath and Accumulated Grievances, and Desire Fire Burns the Body.
• Ji Jue forged through the night, then appeared refreshed the next morning as the S2 vehicles departed, wearing a new ring.

As Ji Jue and An Ning traveled through storm-ravaged Kunwu, they encountered a colossal disaster beast and discussed Ji Jue’s limited equipment. Ji Jue explained that his ring, Toxic Heart, defended against spiritual attacks and stored pollution, but remained an unfinished failure.

• Ji Jue’s third drone crashed in the storm, and he saw a colossal bony disaster beast pass through the mountains.
• Ji Jue judged the creature to be at least Harm Grade and possibly Absolute Class, then reflected on the danger of the mountains.
• An Ning asked why Ji Jue owned so little equipment despite being an Artisan, and Ji Jue explained the time, effort, and burden involved in creating Blessed Creations.
• Ji Jue revealed that his ring, Toxic Heart, was designed to resist Ascension and Heart Pivot attacks while containing negative emotions and Fiendification Pollution.
• Ji Jue admitted that Toxic Heart had not reached his intended goal and was still an unfinished, failed product.

Ji Jue failed to master pure Spirit Essence Refinement, then guided Little Cow and Horse through the storm toward a group of attackers waiting to ambush them. He revealed that he had arranged and profited from the bounty on himself, and unleashed a terrifying artificial evil spirit at the assembled crowd.

• Ji Jue lamented that he could not begin pure Spirit Essence Refinement and continued through the flooded riverbed with An Ning in Little Cow and Horse.
• A group led by a bearded man waited in the storm for the Coast contestants, relying on Old Huang’s information and a scout’s report that they were approaching.
• Little Cow and Horse appeared above the ambushers on mechanical legs, and Ji Jue explained to An Ning that he had hired people along the route and put a bounty on himself to control the attacks and acquire materials.
• Ji Jue told An Ning to leave the attackers mostly intact for his future Workshop, and she leapt onto the vehicle’s hood to prepare for battle.
• Ji Jue gathered the polluted and purified spirit essence in his ring, summoned a phantom rotting corpse, and unleashed a torrent of wailing toward the crowd.

Ji Jue and An Ning survived a devastating ambush, but An Ning sensed a hidden wolf and the pair came under attack from a flying Vortex Lineage Chosen One. Ji Jue discovered that an unseen enemy was controlling the rain, and Little Cow and Horse struck its position in the flood.

• Ji Jue unleashed the Poison Heart Ring’s Spirit Essence Tidal Wave, killing or maddening the ambushers as his machines began clearing the battlefield.
• A corrupted leader devoured his subordinates before An Ning killed him with Flying Light, then sensed a lurking wolf nearby.
• An Ning tripped Ji Jue and dragged him clear as a Northern Frontier Vortex Lineage Chosen One attacked them from the storm with poisonous finger bullets.
• Ji Jue used Containing Form Mirror to discover that someone was controlling the rain and freezing the area around them.
• Little Cow and Horse charged into the flood, and Pan Ying pierced the Turbid Flow, breaking the trap and drawing a scream from the hidden enemy.

Ji Jue and An Ning escaped a coordinated attack by the Northern Frontier and New Era forces, then used a hidden counterattack to kill Envoy Zhou Lun. The enemy survivors were left facing the consequences of underestimating Ji Jue’s preparations.

• Ji Jue wounded the camouflaged Giant Beast with Pan Ying, and Little Cow and Horse broke through its attacks and split it apart.
• A New Era vehicle rescued the injured driver, but Ji Jue recognized the arriving Eternal Gate Chosen Ones and escaped with An Ning amid a missile barrage.
• Yue Chen hurled ultra-dense matter across the battlefield, but Ji Jue and Little Cow and Horse had already fled beyond the strike zone.
• An Ning launched Flying Light at the injured Entropy-Type Chosen One, and Zhou Lun used [Turn] to deflect the attack.
• Ji Jue’s hidden sniper rifle fired a crystal bullet guided by An Ning’s lingering light, killing Zhou Lun with a Pan Ying blade fragment.

After Zhou Lun was killed by a carefully prepared sniper trap, Gao Cheng and Lu Yang revealed that their factions had brought hidden bait and agreed to settle the conflict in Kunwu. Meanwhile, Tong Shan faced hired corpse sacrificers in the wilderness, and Lou Yanyue appeared with a storm of lightning spears poised to strike.

• Lu Yang reacted to Zhou Lun's death by unleashing bone spears, but the shooter escaped and left behind traps that killed the pursuing insects.
• Gao Cheng arrived and explained that Zhou Lun's defenses had been pierced by a single shot, while the team learned that reinforcements were missing and the fighting had spread along the Wild Sea coastline.
• Lu Yang admitted he had brought a set of fish bait, and Gao Cheng revealed a mysterious glass-bottle object before both men agreed to fight on in Kunwu.
• Tong Shan encountered three corpse sacrificers from Shi Bang, who offered to change sides for payment and mocked his exhaustion after three battles.
• Tong Shan called for help, and Lou Yanyue appeared above the corpse sacrificers with countless lightning spears and declared that they would die.

Lou Yanyue destroyed the attackers with Matrix·[Ying Yuan] while she and Tong Shan discussed unrest across the Federation. Lü Yingyue’s Airship vanished in a fiery explosion, and Ji Jue sensed Kunwu Darkness emerging as Fiendification Pollution spread through the mountains.

• Lou Yanyue unleashed Matrix·[Ying Yuan] and obliterated the phantoms, then spoke with Tong Shan about unrest in Long Yuan and Yacheng and Lü Yingyue’s expected return.
• Lü Yingyue discussed Central City with her secretary aboard Airship D7660, which later exploded; the Air Traffic Control Bureau reported it missing, and a video showed its burning wreckage falling from a storm.
• A blackout struck Yacheng after flames engulfed the power station, while Little Cow and Horse remained hidden in a mountain cave.
• Ji Jue repaired his firearm and warned An Ning away from its parts before sensing a strange sound and recognizing Fiendification Pollution.
• A fissure opened and released an immense black storm, wailing cries, and Kunwu Darkness across the mountains.

Ji Jue resisted the Rain Blood Disaster and prepared to confront the attackers, while Lu Yang used a fish scale to transform into the Ba Serpent. The chapter ended with Ji Jue shooting Lu Yang in the head from behind.

• Ji Jue identified the blood rain as part of the Rain Blood Disaster and used Melting Furnace Blood to resist its corruption.
• Ji Jue revealed a powerful fiendish aura, then gave An Ning a bracelet to protect her from contamination.
• Lu Yang crushed the black box and offered its grotesque flesh bait to the White Hall Fiend, which swallowed the bait and left behind a fish scale.
• The fish scale transformed Lu Yang into the Ba Serpent, which devoured a Giant Serpent and struggled against the scale's assimilation.
• Gao Cheng sensed a place where the blood rain could not reach, then turned to find Ji Jue behind him.
• Ji Jue shot Lu Yang in the head and dismissed the colors of the spreading blood.

Ji Jue endured the attackers’ combined assault and was transported into their encirclement, where an enormous armored monster appeared and stopped Yue Chen’s Earth Vein Fist. The monster wounded Lu Yang and faced the group, challenging them to explain what they had expected.

• Ji Jue burned away Lu Yang’s venomous insect swarm and mocked the strength of Yue Chen’s team.
• Yue Chen called Gao Cheng to his side, then led a combined attack that Ji Jue resisted while Little Cow and Horse protected him.
• An Ning’s Flying Light attack was foiled by the jade axe, and Gao Cheng used the blood rain to locate Ji Jue and activate the White Carriage’s Transport.
• The group teleported Ji Jue into their midst and launched coordinated attacks, but an armored monster blocked Yue Chen’s fist and nearly cut Lu Yang in half.
• The armored monster stood against the attackers and demanded to know what they had expected.

Ji Jue revealed Dragon Mountain, a war machine built from Little Cow and Horse, and fought Yue Chen while its armor and his body repeatedly repaired themselves. As Dragon Mountain unleashed a blazing bombardment, Gao Cheng ordered Lu Yang to release all of the fish’s blessings so the Entropy Chosen One could prepare a final attack.

• Ji Jue activated Deus Ex Machina and merged with Little Cow and Horse, transforming it into the humanoid war machine Dragon Mountain.
• Dragon Mountain clashed with Yue Chen, using its weapons while Non-Aggression’s Alchemy repaired its armor and Ji Jue used medicine and Alchemy to recover from his injuries.
• Ji Jue named the completed machine Waste Ruins Armor: Dragon Mountain and activated hidden launchers, setting the battlefield ablaze with fuel bombs and Fiendification Pollution.
• Dragon Mountain fought Yue Chen and Ba Serpent while firing at Gao Cheng and the Entropy Chosen One, forcing them to flee across the battlefield.
• Gao Cheng demanded that the Entropy Chosen One prepare Raging Snow Frost Burst of the Abyss Stream, then ordered Lu Yang to release all of the fish’s blessings.

Ji Jue’s team sprang a trap during the battle, killing Gao Cheng and helping defeat Ba Serpent, while An Ning used Ji Jue’s warning to turn the Wolf Fiend’s ambush against him. The chapter revealed that An Ning had knowingly acted as bait, and she caught the hidden enemy at last.

• Ji Jue noticed that Yue Chen’s navigator had never appeared and warned An Ning that a Wolf Fiend might be hiding among their enemies.
• An Ning agreed to act as bait, while Ji Jue prepared to test whether an unseen enemy would reveal itself.
• Ji Jue hijacked Gao Cheng’s White Carriage teleportation, sending himself away and leaving Ba Serpent exposed to Yue Chen’s Frost Flow and ultra-dense matter.
• Dragon Mountain and Pan Ying killed Gao Cheng, while An Ning struck down the Entropy Chosen One, only for the Wolf Fiend hiding in his blood to trap her.
• An Ning revealed that her mercury bracelet had become hidden armor, restrained the Wolf Fiend, and declared that she had caught him.

An Ning and Ji Jue were gravely wounded by Wolf Fiend, who joined Yue Chen and unleashed Ba Serpent after destroying Lu Yang’s remaining consciousness. As Yue Chen prepared another annihilating attack, An Ning revealed she had brought a Bitter Day and was about to show Ji Jue the ultimate realm of Projection.

• An Ning’s Flying Light struck Wolf Fiend, but his poison erupted through her heart and collapsed her Spiritual Substance.
• Ji Jue rescued An Ning and burned Wolf Fiend’s poison from his arm, losing sensation in his right hand.
• Wolf Fiend reunited with Yue Chen and used Ba Serpent’s spreading flesh to destroy Lu Yang’s soul and unleash the nine-headed monster.
• Ji Jue attacked Ba Serpent, but its cursed vitality healed its wounds while Yue Chen prepared another ultracompact matter strike.
• An Ning told Ji Jue she had brought a Bitter Day and prepared to reveal the ultimate realm of Projection.

An Ning survived Ji Jue’s desperate treatment after Bitter Day devastated the Ba Serpent, but Ji Jue left her behind and faced the pursuing enemies alone. As the Wild Gathering Twin Fingers confronted the old man beyond Kunwu, Ji Jue prepared for the Ba Serpent, Wolf Fiend, and Yue Chen with a Soul Calling Bell and strange new power.

• An Ning’s Bitter Day severed the Ba Serpent’s heads and damaged the Wolf Fiend, allowing Ji Jue and the others to escape while their enemies began recovering.
• Ji Jue repaired An Ning’s shattered heart, challenged her claims of affection, and told her not to die before leaving her in the armor’s cockpit.
• An De and An Neng stopped the old man from striking Ji Jue, joking that they wanted to claim An Ning’s wolf if she died.
• Ji Jue stopped running and waited in the blood rain as the Ba Serpent, Wolf Fiend, and Yue Chen approached.
• Ji Jue’s Spirit Essence absorbed the blood rain’s contamination and manifested great fiend emblems as he rang the Soul Calling Bell.

Ji Jue used the Soul Calling Bell and the Rain Blood Disaster to complete the Unextinguished Tinder and create the Nether Sea Worm. The calamity returned and overwhelmed Ba Serpent, whose fate remained uncertain as Ji Jue drove an iron nail into one of its heads.

• Ji Jue rang the Soul Calling Bell to awaken the lingering spirits across the Rain Blood Disaster and activate the Great Fiends’ Insignias.
• Yue Chen launched a compressed spear of matter at Ji Jue while Ba Serpent tried to devour the ritual’s spirit essence and pollution.
• Ji Jue completed the Unextinguished Tinder, shattered Yue Chen’s spear, and dissipated Ba Serpent’s breath.
• Ji Jue created the Nether Sea Worm from the Rain Blood Disaster, restoring the calamity that had created the Calamity of No Light.
• The Nether Sea Worm struck Ba Serpent and pinned its heads and tails with enormous hands as Ji Jue formed an iron nail and drove it into one of its heads.

Ji Jue used the reconstructed Nether Sea Worm to battle Ba Serpent while Yue Chen unleashed a devastating attack and Wolf Fiend ambushed him. An Ning revealed she had deceived Wolf Fiend, killed him with Bitter Day and her White Deer Rebirth Form, and ended the long hunt.

• Ji Jue controlled the Nether Sea Worm, using Ba Serpent’s life force to forge Pan Ying Swords as Ba Serpent repeatedly regenerated and split into mutants.
• Yue Chen emerged in his Rebirth Form and fired a spear of Blazing Light that overwhelmed Ji Jue’s attempts to suppress it.
• Wolf Fiend used the Blood Rain to slip behind Ji Jue and attack, but the awakened Hunter struck him with Bitter Day.
• Wolf Fiend used Ba Serpent’s heart to withstand Bitter Day, causing the heart and its cracked scale to break and the aberrations to wither.
• An Ning revealed herself as the surviving White Deer and killed Wolf Fiend with Jade Horn Shadow and Flying Light.
• An Ning offered Wolf Fiend’s canine tooth to the White Deer, and the long hunt ended.

Lü Yingyue returned to Yacheng, dealt with the aftermath of the failed coup, and arranged new posts for Tong Shan and the Tong Family. She then revived the disgraced Xu Chao Xian and recruited him to use his old connections, while Magu escaped Tong Yuan’s reach in East City.

• Lü Yingyue learned that Zhao Chengping and several others had been implicated in the turmoil, while Yu Hanguang had stood firm and defended the Southern Power Plant.
• Lü Yingyue urged Tong Shan to accept an external posting, then decided to send him to Central Earth.
• Tong Yuan forced Magu to leave Yacheng and sever her Fate Observation Sect lines, but Magu returned to her safe house in East City and evaded his attempt to end her fate.
• A meteorite fragment altered the path of a refrigerator, which crashed into the home of Old Grandpa of the An Family.
• Lü Yingyue shot Xu Chao Xian, whose body restored itself, then offered him a chance to regain standing by contacting his old friends and helping her.

After flash floods and mudslides left several rival teams missing or injured, Ji Jue and An Ning resumed the rally’s S3 Stage across Long Yuan’s scorching deserts. Though Ji Jue realized he had no practical reason to continue, he chose to keep racing for Coast Automobile Factory and to enjoy the journey.

• Flash floods and mudslides left racers from Echo, New Era, and Northern Frontier missing, while Ji Jue gave an emotional interview and refused to withdraw despite his injuries.
• Horizon Investment announced that Sea Tide Industry would take over Cloud Province Skysupport Industry’s military-industrial assets, as public attention shifted from the disaster to the rally’s remaining teams.
• The race resumed with the S3 Stage across Long Yuan, and Ji Jue drove through the desert while An Ning recovered and teased him.
• An Ning questioned why Ji Jue was still competing, prompting him to realize he would previously have quit once the race stopped offering him value.
• Ji Jue decided to continue for Coast Automobile Factory and its supporters, then drove across the desert listening to music and enjoying the journey.

Ji Jue crafted Rupert's Drops for An Ning and spent the night processing materials and tempering Pan Ying while they traveled through Long Yuan. He tried to rest in his sleeping bag, only to discover a mouse already inside and call out to An Ning in outrage.

• An Ning sulked at Ji Jue until he made her a box of Rupert's Drops, which she happily accepted and began testing.
• After traveling through Long Yuan without meeting opponents, Ji Jue camped for the night while An Ning dragged a giant wolf around on a homemade sled.
• Ji Jue exchanged messages with Isis, reviewed the materials and blessings he had obtained, and considered the costs of upgrading Little Cow and Horse and completing Pan Ying.
• Ji Jue tempered Pan Ying beneath the moonlight while An Ning photographed him, and he let her keep the blurry picture.
• Ji Jue crawled into his sleeping bag and found a little mouse already inside, then shouted An Ning's name.

Ji Jue and An Ning completed the rally after witnessing a colossal beast battle and crossing the Wilderness in a peaceful, cheering Haizhou. At the finish, An Ning confessed that she liked Ji Jue, kissed him, and left with An Neng and An De, while Ji Jue was left stunned.

• An Ning photographed a living oasis that turned out to be a colossal land tortoise, then she and Ji Jue watched it battle a storm beast during a sandstorm.
• Ji Jue and An Ning reached the Haizhou checkpoint ahead of the other teams and later crossed the finish line in Tide City to a jubilant crowd.
• An Ning urged Ji Jue to stop constantly chasing tasks and results, and told him he could rest and be happy sometimes.
• An Ning embraced Ji Jue and comforted him before An Neng and An De appeared at the garage entrance.
• Ji Jue gave An Ning a stack of textbooks and exam papers and told her to study, angering her.
• An Ning confessed that she liked Ji Jue, kissed him, saved her contact details in his phone, and left with An Neng and An De.