Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue witnessed the lingering sword mark of the Celestial Origin Sword that had slain the Giant Serpent, while the party endured the Sword Cry and reached the sacrificial temple’s sealed boundary. Worry-Free Duke identified the boundary as a Forbidden Zone and prepared to use a rusted clock, telling the party it was time to fulfill their contract.

• The sacrificial temple’s final bell unleashed a Sword Cry that destroyed the moths and revealed the Giant Serpent’s bones, pierced by a sword mark Ji Jue recognized as the Celestial Origin Sword; the bone bore the inscription “Ye Chen slew the serpent here!”
• Xie Heli reassembled after being crushed by the Tower’s Shadow, alarming the party with his dangerous wolf blood and pathogens.
• Worry-Free Duke led the party up toward the sacrificial temple while its power weakened, but they found no entrance through the immense walls surrounding it.
• Worry-Free Duke touched the wall, confirmed it was a Forbidden Zone made of tangible death, and explained that crossing it required dying.
• Worry-Free Duke took a rusted, damaged clock from his brocade box, which resonated with the boundary, and announced that the party must fulfill their contract.

Worry-Free Duke began the audience ritual to open the Sacrificial Temple, but the final tower flame repeatedly went out and the giant gate punished him. Meanwhile, Ji Jue plundered the Eternal Empire’s treasures and rode a revived Minting Machine toward the station, where he collided with a crowd.

• Worry-Free Duke divided his allies into five teams and sent them to light the Audience Towers before striking the Rusting Bell.
• The giant gate appeared, and Worry-Free Duke presented his blood-marked Jade Talisman as the first four tower flames lit.
• The fifth flame repeatedly went out and reignited, causing the gate’s giant face to crush Worry-Free Duke again and again.
• Ji Jue demolished buildings in the Sacrificial Temple, taking gemstones, materials, curtains, armor, and other treasures.
• Ji Jue found a Minting Machine in a vault, revived it with Deus Ex Machina, and rode it toward the station.
• Ji Jue turned a corner and ran headlong into a large crowd.

Ji Jue, disguised as a fearsome figure, stopped Worry-Free Duke's followers and forced them to surrender their treasures and suffer punishments. The battered group continued toward The Tower with a token for protection, while Ji Jue watched and wondered what they were planning.

• Ji Jue startled the group of sixteen sinners, who mistook him for a terrifying authority and knelt before him.
• The group explained Worry-Free Duke's restorationist cause and offered old objects, so Ji Jue sentenced them to punishments and collected their belongings.
• A White Deer Fiendified One fled but ran into the afterimages and statues Ji Jue had disturbed, then returned as a crying afterimage.
• Ji Jue demanded further sacrifices, and the group surrendered treasured weapons, jewelry, armor, and shoes while forcing one another to comply.
• Ji Jue gave the survivors an iron token and instructions for dealing with similar beings, then they limped toward The Tower to carry out Worry-Free Duke's plan.
• Ji Jue secretly watched the group leave and wondered what they intended to do.

Ji Jue infiltrated Worry-Free Duke's expedition to the Hall of Audience Tower and sabotaged its altar, repeatedly plunging the group into darkness while the Artisan was electrocuted. As Worry-Free Duke rekindled the Flame Tide Disaster, Ji Jue learned about the Sower and killed the White Deer Calamity-bearer, then faced the shocked survivors.

• Ji Jue disguised himself as a defiled member of the group and followed Worry-Free Duke's followers into the Hall of Audience Tower.
• The group reached the altar, where the leader used a talisman token to activate its blazing light.
• Ji Jue secretly disrupted the Spirit Essence Circuit, causing the light to repeatedly go out and the altar's defenses to electrocute the Artisan each time he tried to investigate.
• Worry-Free Duke unleashed the Flame Tide Disaster, and the White Deer Calamity-bearer told Ji Jue that the Sower had sent several disasters into the present world.
• Ji Jue questioned the White Deer Calamity-bearer about the Sower, exposed his identity, and killed him with a poisoned blade and Chun Jun Piercing.
• The White Deer Calamity-bearer tore away part of Ji Jue's mask before dying, and Ji Jue faced the other survivors as they turned toward him in shock.

Ji Jue unleashed the Hall of Audience Tower’s defenses and slaughtered the attackers inside, then confronted Worry-Free Duke as his power inflicted deaths across a distant island. Xie Heli hurried toward the tower, but the distance kept slowing his team.

• Ji Jue activated the tower’s lightning defenses and used the Poison Heart Ring to overwhelm everyone caught in the blast.
• The Flawless Temple monk tried to stop Ji Jue with his soul art, but Ji Jue struck him down with the Wrathful Mother Three-Pronged Wisdom King Vajra.
• Ji Jue evaded the lightning, killed the Nether Frost sinner and other attackers, seized a treasure, and detonated the iron plates on their bodies.
• Ji Jue used Disintegration Art to kill Waste Ruins with a fingertip strike.
• The giant face’s power repeatedly killed Worry-Free Duke, while the deaths manifested among civilians on a distant island and his puppets resisted the attack for him.
• Worry-Free Duke demanded that Xie Heli hurry, and Xie Heli’s team raced toward the Hall of Audience Tower but made little progress.

Xie Heli escaped as the Hall of Audience Tower self-destructed, triggering Night of Cruelty and an attack on Worry-Free Duke. After torturing captives for a name, Ji Jue realized his blood and embraced the truth about his enemies, then asked Isis to prepare a fiery surprise as he set out to find the person important to him.

• Xie Heli found the ruined tower empty of corpses, fled as its self-destruction began, and warned Worry-Free Duke as the explosion and Night of Cruelty erupted.
• The shrine's Forbidden Domain Wall opened, and its furious faces attacked Worry-Free Duke and every nearby living creature.
• Ji Jue questioned chained captives in the Workshop of the Doomsday Train until they gave him the name he sought.
• Ji Jue recognized the blood on his hands as his own, accepted the existence of his enemies, and told Isis he was joyful despite his grief.
• Isis promised to stay by Ji Jue's side, and he asked her to find old items that could bring fire, despair, and surprise to a place in the world.
• Ji Jue waited by the train window, resolved to find the person important to him by any means.

Worry-Free Duke used a living sacrifice and the Blaze of the Burning Tower to break the Sacrificial Temple’s Death Wall, exposing the palace within. As he celebrated the path to the Imperial Jade Seal, Xie Heli stabbed him with a poisoned blade.

• Worry-Free Duke recovered from his injuries and assured the survivors that he had another way to enter the Sacrificial Temple.
• Worry-Free Duke revealed the Mohists’ Blaze of the Burning Tower and fused it with the Flame Tide Seed.
• Worry-Free Duke sacrificed his subordinates and the creatures in his baskets to fuel the black-red flames.
• The flames ravaged the forbidden domain, collapsing the Death Wall and revealing the palace and the ruined shadow tower above it.
• A strange illusion passed through the flames, and Xie Heli stabbed Worry-Free Duke in the heart with a blade laced with Rotten Scale poison.

Worry-Free Duke was betrayed by Xie Heli, Duke Chang Le, and the Sower, but escaped after Duke Chang Le opened a path into the Sacrificial Temple. As Duke Chang Le and Duke An Guo converged on the Imperial Jade Seal, Worry-Free discovered that strange machines and Spirit Essence Circuits had silently spread through the temple and Rift World.

• Xie Heli and Worry-Free Duke’s other allies stabbed him, while Duke Chang Le revealed that he had broken free of the contract’s restraints and helped arrange the betrayal.
• Duke Chang Le’s puppet drove off Worry-Free Duke’s attempt to destroy his body, though Worry-Free escaped and retained the Jade Edict Treasure Radiance.
• Duke Chang Le opened a path into Rift World, allowing notorious sinners and other organizations to enter.
• Duke An Guo arrived with sixteen enormous warships and challenged Duke Chang Le over the Imperial Jade Seal, while Xie Heli explained that the Holy Lord had wanted the Empire’s Three Dukes involved.
• Worry-Free watched the rival dukes confront each other, then discovered a vast metallic network beneath the Sacrificial Temple as strange machines burrowed through the ruins and spread Spirit Essence Circuits across Rift World.

Ji Jue rebuilt the Evil Transformation Cult’s Quancheng setup in the Rift World and anchored it to the Vortex, triggering a worldwide alarm and drawing powerful factions toward the Sacrificial Temple. As rival restorers turned on Xie Heli and the Imperial Jade Seal was exposed, Ji Jue waited for the arriving forces, intending to use the chaos to draw out the Sower.

• Ji Jue used the Swordsmith, the Hand of Imperial Rule, Spirit Essence Circuits, and Deus Ex Machina to restore the Sacrificial Temple’s machinery and complete the Great Evil’s foundation.
• Ji Jue anchored the Rift World to the Vortex, sending a signal that the Federation, Empire, and other factions recognized as the Evil Transformation Cult’s Quancheng setup returning.
• The Security Bureau, Confidentiality Bureau, Taiyi Ring, Star Core Association, Holy Light Cult, Deepdark, Wolf Nest, Heavenly Heart Society, and Flawless Temple rushed toward the Wandering Sea.
• Chang Le, An Guo, and Worry-Free Duke accused Xie Heli of serving the Sower, then turned on him as the Myriad Victory Fleet opened fire and Xie Heli fled into the Sacrificial Temple.
• A wall collapsed deep in the Sacrificial Temple, revealing the location of the Imperial Jade Seal and drawing the factions’ attention.
• Ji Jue ignored the Imperial Jade Seal and waited for the incoming forces, hoping to lure out the Sower and kill everyone who came.

The Evil Transformation Cult’s ritual anchored the Vortex to the Riftworld, while the Imperial Jade Seal’s appearance drew factions into a battle for the Eternal Empire’s authority. As the Riftworld descended into a chaotic carnival of violence and sacrifice, T5 turned to CEO and the Sky Rail for help, and CEO agreed to protect everyone by transferring money.

• The Sealing Committee detected the Evil Transformation Cult’s ritual as the Vortex overlapped with the Riftworld and reached the Fulcrum.
• The Imperial Jade Seal appeared in the Sacrificial Temple, prompting Duke Chang Le and Duke An Guo to ally against outsiders and attack Xie Heli.
• Xie Heli survived their attack through the Plague Seed’s power, unleashed deadly corruption across the Riftworld, and joined forces with Mad Slaughter as more intruders rushed in.
• The intruders fought and looted amid the spreading destruction while Ji Jue watched the ongoing sacrifice and the Vortex drew closer to the Riftworld.
• T5 judged the crisis a threat to reality’s Pillars and asked CEO whether the Sky Rail could hold; CEO saw no danger and promised to protect everyone, then offered to transfer money.

Heavenly Furnace halted the Rift World's plunge into the Vortex and faced the gathered calamity-afflicted, while Ji Jue used the opening to trigger the final change in the Sacrificial Temple. The chapter ended as the Temple transformed into a towering black structure, and its slaughter began.

• Heavenly Furnace held the Rift World steady against the Vortex and confronted the calamity-afflicted gathering in the darkness.
• Heavenly Furnace injured the Foul Corruption Demon, captured one of the time worms, and challenged the remaining enemies to attack together.
• Ji Jue recognized Heavenly Furnace's signal and decided to trigger the ritual's final change.
• Xie Heli broke through the Sacrificial Temple's final protection and rushed toward the Imperial Jade Seal, but black threads seized and battered him.
• Ji Jue drew on the Rift World's deaths and souls to remake the Sacrificial Temple into a black tower, which began its slaughter.

The Dark Tower rampaged through the Rift World, killing intruders as Ji Jue revealed how he had built and deliberately limited it. The survivors united to destroy it and fought over the Imperial Jade Seal, but Worry-Free Duke seized an empty box before Ji Jue struck him from behind.

• The Dark Tower rejected Duke An Guo and Chang Le's claims, crushed their offerings, and attacked the intruders across the Rift World.
• Ji Jue and Pan Ying ambushed Soekarno, while the Dark Tower's growth and attacks forced the surviving intruders to cooperate.
• Xie Heli used his knife to split the Dark Tower's space, allowing the survivors to attack and destroy it.
• The survivors fought over the Imperial Jade Seal as Xie Heli and Duke An Guo repeatedly tried to seize the jade casket from Chang Le.
• Worry-Free Duke stabbed Chang Le, took the jade box, and discovered it was empty.
• Ji Jue appeared behind Worry-Free Duke and crushed his heart.

Ji Jue discovered that Worry-Free Duke had secretly used Disintegration Art on the casket, so he ambushed him and seized the apparently empty box. He revealed the Imperial Jade Seal through Non-Aggression, claimed it for Lu Changsheng and the Evil Transformation Cult, and left Worry-Free Duke forced to kneel before him.

• Ji Jue noticed traces of Disintegration Art on the casket and realized someone had removed its contents before it was opened.
• Ji Jue pierced Worry-Free Duke through the back, crushed his heart, and took the empty jade casket.
• Ji Jue revived the Dark Tower and used its power to suppress Worry-Free Duke, then summoned him back after blasting him through the ruins.
• Ji Jue opened the casket and used Non-Aggression to recreate the Imperial Jade Seal, making its appearance visible to everyone.
• Ji Jue swallowed the seal's phantom light and declared that the Imperial Jade Seal belonged to Lu Changsheng and the Evil Transformation Holy Dynasty.
• The Dark Tower's gravity forced Worry-Free Duke to his knees as Ji Jue demanded that he bow before the supreme sovereign.

Ji Jue defeated Worry-Free Duke with the Fire of Feiming, destroyed the Tiger Seal Seed, and reclaimed the Flame Tide Seed. When he used the Disintegration Art instead of reuniting with it, he disrupted a foretold ending and enraged the hidden figure observing him.

• Ji Jue used the Imperial Jade Seal’s power to suppress Worry-Free Duke and taunted him before the gathered observers.
• Worry-Free Duke unleashed the Flame Tide Disaster, but Ji Jue emerged unharmed and consumed its flames.
• Ji Jue used the Fire of Feiming to burn Worry-Free Duke and destroy the forces bound to him through the Heavenly Origin Law.
• The Tiger Seal Seed broke apart, revealing a strange presence that recognized Ji Jue was not Lu Changsheng and asked who he was.
• Ji Jue crushed the remaining Tiger Seal Seed, reclaimed the Flame Tide Seed, and used the Disintegration Art rather than merging with it.
• A hidden figure raged as Ji Jue’s choice caused a foretold ending to go wrong.

Ji Jue uncovered the truth of the Flame Tide Disaster, accepted the curse of his past self, and completed an independent Abyss Seed after the calamity’s destruction. He led the collapsing Rift World beneath the Vortex, but a furious Rainbow Light reached through the void and seized the Sacrificial Temple as the Heavenly Furnace’s eyes blazed.

• Ji Jue witnessed the past and learned that the Flame Tide Disaster had chosen his mother, who sacrificed herself to cut Great Evil from her child and entrust him to Lü Yingyue.
• Ji Jue met the child left in the ruined carriage, promised to live well, and embraced him as the child passed on his curse.
• The Flame Tide Disaster and its phantoms vanished, while Ji Jue’s own Abyss Seed ignited and regenerated him with a Seven-Horned Black Crown.
• Ji Jue declared his independence from the Vortex and led the collapsing Rift World beneath it, bidding farewell to everyone.
• Rainbow Light surged through the void, tore through the Sacrificial Temple’s defenses, and seized it as the Heavenly Furnace’s eyes blazed in response.

The Heavenly Furnace and Ji Jue revealed their trap as the Sower seized the Sacrificial Temple, then struck back with the Nemesis Sword and the awakened Great Serpent. The Sower was pierced and badly wounded, but another sword cry sounded from inside the Riftworld.

• The Heavenly Furnace held the Rift World above the Vortex until the boundary broke and the Sower seized the Sacrificial Temple.
• The Sower, the Harvester, and the Guide attacked the Heavenly Furnace, while Pang Pei and Ellis intervened to block them.
• The Heavenly Furnace revealed that his apparent collapse and the Rift World were part of a deception, then stabbed the Sower with the Supreme Masterwork [Nemesis].
• Ji Jue ordered the Sacrificial Temple to self-destruct and used its power to awaken the Great Serpent from its remains.
• The Great Serpent coiled around the Sower's arm as the Heavenly Furnace drove the Nemesis Sword through his chest.
• The Sower seized the exhausted Nemesis Sword, and another sword cry sounded from inside the Riftworld.

Ji Jue destroyed the corrupted Giant Serpent, used its sacrifices and a summons across time to call forth Scarlet Firmament’s Shadow, and severed the Sower’s arm. As Ji Jue fell toward the abyss, he and the Sower parted with the promise of meeting again.

• Ji Jue encouraged the Giant Serpent to devour the Sower’s pale blood, then used Disintegration Art to destroy its core as it tried to swallow him.
• Ji Jue redirected the serpent’s hatred and sacrifices into the ancient sword scar, calling on the swordsmiths to lend him their sword.
• The swordsmith in the distant past answered Ji Jue’s summons and sent his sword’s crimson radiance into the scar, allowing Ji Jue to pull out Scarlet Firmament’s Shadow.
• Scarlet Firmament’s Shadow manifested as the true Celestial Origin Sword, and witnesses recognized it as the proof of Lu Changsheng’s imperial inheritance.
• Ji Jue struck the Sower’s arm with Scarlet Firmament’s Shadow and severed it at the elbow.
• As Ji Jue fell toward the abyss, he waved goodbye to the Sower, who roared in pain.

Sower abandoned his body and self-destructed, but Heavenly Furnace, Pang Pei, and Ellis contained the blast and repaired the present world. Ji Jue was left trapped beneath the Vortex, while Ye Chun set out to deal with the aftermath at the Sacrificial Temple.

• Harvester and Guide failed to overcome Pang Pei and Ellis as Sower realized the battle was lost and abandoned his body.
• Sower self-destructed, destroying the Rift World and cracking the Vortex, but Pang Pei froze the blast while Heavenly Furnace repaired the present world and Ellis reduced the damage.
• Pang Pei ordered an investigation of the Evil Transformation Cult, and Heavenly Furnace helped turn the Rift World's remains into a celestial pillar before sealing the final crack.
• Heavenly Furnace left without rescuing Ji Jue, who fell beneath the Vortex and watched it close around him.
• At Tide Sound Workshop, Ye Xian learned that Ji Jue had helped uncover the Sacrificial Temple and prepared to leave, but Ye Chun volunteered to go in her place.
• Ye Xian agreed to let Ye Chun go, and Ye Chun left the workshop as Xiao Jiu Gloria wondered if she had fallen too.

Ye Chun carried the injured Ji Jue away from the Eternal Empire, while news of Lu Changsheng’s return triggered a worldwide purge and a new wave of political violence. A week later, Ji Jue thanked Lü Yingyue on behalf of someone else and fell asleep beneath the afternoon sun.

• Ye Chun carried the dazed Ji Jue away after speaking with the Eternal Empire’s ruler, who teased her about marriage and children.
• Ji Jue mistook Ye Chun for his mother, called her a salted fish, and was beaten before she dragged him onward.
• The High Priest learned that Lu Changsheng had returned, seized the Imperial Jade Seal, and declared plans for an Evil Transformation Holy Dynasty; an intruder destroyed the cult’s estate and captured the High Priest.
• Authorities and rival groups launched a global purge to hunt the Evil Transformation Cult and find Lu Changsheng, while a White Owl assassin shot the Emperor from 6,106 kilometers away.
• One week later, Ji Jue called Lü Yingyue and thanked her on behalf of another person; she thanked him in return, and he fell asleep peacefully in his wheelchair.

After the rainy season, Courier Logistics expanded its deliveries across the Wilderness, bringing new comforts and attracting dangerous ambitions. Feng Yao’s settlement faced Coast’s demand for 160 years of labor to repay its security debt, and the chapter ended when the collector unexpectedly agreed to give him more time.

• Courier Logistics deliverymen carried goods between settlements, while one explained that workers were told to abandon cargo and flee if bandits attacked.
• Uncle Li warned Rat Hui and the other young men not to target Coast’s deliveries, then told Xiao Liu to watch them and said poor people should stay out of the bosses’ affairs.
• Uncle Li ate a Coast meal in his cooled RV and imagined improving life in the settlement, though he feared things were about to get worse.
• Feng Yao confronted Coast’s debt collector over a demand for 160 years of labor to repay the settlement’s rainy-season security support.
• The collector showed Feng Yao recordings and electronic signatures proving the debt, and Feng Yao tearfully asked for more time.
• The collector agreed without hesitation, leaving Feng Yao and his indignant supporters stunned.