Chapter Summaries

The White King freed Inverse Scale, then completed his transformation into the Corpse Bell Wolf and charged into the heavenly battle above the Forest Kingdom. As the Federation’s wounded observers watched the chaos, the Lord of War arrived at the frontline and headed openly toward the kingdom.

• Xie Heli blamed the White King for the White State’s ruin, but the White King ordered him to release Inverse Scale and pulled the sword from his own chest.
• The White King thanked Inayat for keeping his promise, freed him, and continued toward his transformation while Inverse Scale cried out behind him.
• The White King lamented that the White State and Central Earth had no choices left, then became the Corpse Bell Wolf and charged into the heavens.
• At the Federation’s frontline base, An De and An Neng watched the battle and worried about A Ning, who had not returned.
• The Lord of War approached the Forest Kingdom on a sickly old horse, dragging his battered spear as the two men watched in fear.

As the Wolf of the Forest neared completion, Ji Jue abandoned his hesitation and returned to the Forest Kingdom, where he confronted Xie Heli. Ji Jue and Inverse Scale vanished, leaving behind a Fusion Bomb that detonated beneath the converging wolves.

• The Master of Arms found Tang Qian hiding by the roadside, told him to come soon, and rode away.
• The Corpse Bell Wolf devoured the wounded Rotten Wind's Fiend Demon as factions across White State waited for the third wolf to be born.
• Ji Jue rejected his excuses for staying out of the conflict, awakened [Heaven's Movement Strong], and returned to the Forest Kingdom.
• Xie Heli summoned the Transformed Wolves and attacked Ji Jue, but Ji Jue and Inverse Scale vanished, leaving a scratch on a strange steel creation.
• Xie Heli recognized the danger and tried to flee, but [Deus Ex Machina] activated the strategic Fusion Bomb, which erupted in a blinding blast.

A Fusion Bomb detonated in the Forest Kingdom, triggering the Lock and devastating the combatants while the Hunters tried to kill the emerging Corpse Wolf. Ji Jue rescued Inverse Scale before the blast and returned toward its center as the third wolf was born.

• A Fusion Bomb exploded in the Forest Kingdom, and the Lock contained its destruction within a sixteen-kilometer radius.
• Mountain Wolf shielded the others from the blast, allowing An Ding to kill Dharma King Jile, while Cave Horn's Sun-Reflecting Arrow struck at the Corpse Wolf.
• Gap Eye reversed time near the Corpse Wolf, and Mountain Wolf intercepted the arrow, giving the wolf time to emerge from its weakness and absorb the battlefield's deaths.
• Mountain Wolf let the Corpse Wolf tear out and consume his incarnation's heart as the Great Evil Manifestation appeared to witness the third wolf's birth.
• Ji Jue rescued Inverse Scale from the Forest Kingdom and burned away its contamination, then returned toward the explosion's center using the Doomsday Train's Myriad Manifestations Engine.

Ji Jue defeated Xie Heli and took control of the Forest Kingdom after Shangri-La abandoned Xie Heli. Refusing to become the true Forest Wolf, Ji Jue prepared to end the conflict by striking at the Corpse Wolf.

• Ji Jue found that Xie Heli had survived the flames and deduced that he had fused with the Forest Kingdom as part of Sower’s plan.
• Xie Heli crawled toward Shangri-La’s altar, recalling how the White King, his teacher, and Sower had each judged him incapable of becoming a ruler.
• Xie Heli tried to use Shangri-La’s power against Ji Jue, but it rejected him, and Ji Jue told him he did not deserve it.
• Ji Jue killed Xie Heli with black flames, causing Shangri-La to collapse and the Forest Kingdom to fall under his control.
• Ji Jue rejected the chance to become the true Forest Wolf and raised the Wolf Blood Sword toward the Corpse Wolf.

Ji Jue emerged from the burning Forest Kingdom and used the Wolf Blood Sword to redirect the wolf-making ritual, summoning the White Deer Kingdom. His move reversed the battle as former enemies attacked one another and the wolves’ hunt fell into chaos.

• The White Deer Celestial Being tried to kill the Sacrificial King, but Heart Wolf’s Scapegoat took the blow while the third wolf’s birth remained imminent.
• The Forest Kingdom began collapsing, and Ji Jue walked out of the flames to face the Sacrificial King as the surrounding forces attacked him.
• Ji Jue activated Sacrifice and offered up the White Deer, redirecting the hunting ritual and summoning Supreme Goodness, the King's Advent and the White Deer Kingdom.
• Doletonville ordered an attack, but Flying Light severed the Sacrificial Master’s reaching hand, while An Ding and the Cave Horn master unleashed their attacks.
• Celestial Origin turned against the Sacrificial King, the White Deer protected White King, and Mountain Wolf and Heart Wolf went mad as the battle’s sides reversed again.

The Imperial Jade Seal shielded Lu Changsheng from the Sky Overseer, while White Owl and the leader of Nirvana wounded Heavenly Furnace. As Mountain Wolf revealed its true body and attacked White Deer, an unseen Sage cut it in half, leaving everyone wondering whether the strike came from Fierce Sword · Absolute Light.

• White Deer’s White Rainbow sword broke the fiends’ attacks and freed the Sacrificial King, but Fan Yun was injured as he invoked the Sky Overseer against him.
• A voice decreed Ji Jue’s appointment and called for the seal, and the Imperial Jade Seal appeared, dispelling the Sky Overseer and protecting Lu Changsheng.
• The Lord of Arms refused to intervene, and White Owl shot Heavenly Furnace while the current leader of Nirvana used [Non-Aggression] to make the bullet wound him.
• Mountain Wolf revealed that its true body had secretly entered the present world and attacked White Deer, trying to devour the Old Capital’s ruins.
• Time skipped back one second, and Mountain Wolf was found cut in half; the watching factions suspected that a Sage wielding Fierce Sword · Absolute Light had struck.

The White King sacrificed himself to the White Deer, unleashing a force that transformed the White State and awakened countless people. Ji Jue received the Forest Wolf’s Plunder from the departing White Deer, then watched Shangri-La vanish and Tower City burn.

• The Corpse Wolf endured White Deer’s punishment, reached Ji Jue, and offered his life as a sacrifice before the White Deer beheaded him.
• The White King’s death unleashed a wave across Central Earth that destroyed countless Living Corpses and Fiendified Ones and granted people across the White State the White Deer’s summoning.
• The White Deer returned its Phantom Light Sword to Ji Jue, restoring his Wolf Blood Oath and granting him the Forest Wolf’s Plunder before leaving.
• King Ciji discussed his lifelong search for the Answer to Everything with Ji Jue, then vanished as Shangri-La was annihilated.
• Ji Jue mocked the watching Celestials and Fiend Demons before disappearing into darkness, while Fan Yun watched Tower City burn.

Tower City burned amid rebellion as Fan Yun learned that the Sower had deceived the Federation and Empire, with the Fourth Void Abyss opened at sea. Seven days earlier, the Sand State remnants suffered deadly mutations on their voyage, and the Sower appeared to Salahuddin, placing a casket of ashes in his hands.

• Tower City burned for seven days as riots and rebellions spread through White State and beyond, while the Provisional Government fell and its fleeing president was killed.
• Fan Yun met Lin Shouyi, who told him that the Sand State remnants had offered the Gray King's legacy to Vortex and joined the Sower at sea, while Central Earth's leaders had been misled.
• Lin Shouyi left the restaurant and encountered Ji Jue, pausing to pat him on the shoulder before departing.
• Seven days earlier, the Sand State remnants crossed the sea in patched ships as disasters and mutations killed many and left the survivors pleading to return home.
• Salahuddin called for the Sower, who appeared and explained that he had been with the remnants all along, then placed a casket of gathered ashes in Salahuddin's hands.

The Sower freed Salahuddin and the Sand State survivors from the former king’s curse, then promised them a future in exchange for their last inheritance and Salahuddin’s life. Meanwhile, White State descended into upheaval, and Ji Jue watched the city’s fortunes shift as An Ning left after warning him not to turn into a wolf again.

• The Sower revived the Iron Stone Heart, lifting the curse from Salahuddin and the Sand State survivors, and promised to create them a future.
• Salahuddin offered his life and the Sand State’s last inheritance to the Sower, opening the fourth Void Abyss to hell.
• White State fell into chaos as officials died, foreign forces withdrew, and locals began to feel newly free; Shaban, Wild Bazaar, and Ji Jue’s Coast Industry benefited from the upheaval.
• Ji Jue waited in the Workshop for Sower while Tower City burned, and An Ning left with her family without saying goodbye.
• An Ning sent Ji Jue a warning that she would kill him within three days if he turned into a wolf again.

Ji Jue visited Liang Mo at the Federation base and helped arrange security jobs for him and his comrades, including the Riot Cat. He then confronted Fan Yun, mocked him over the failure in White State, and watched as an airship arrived to take the departing general away.

• Liang Mo told Ji Jue that he and his comrades planned to retire, and Ji Jue offered them security jobs at Coast Technology.
• Liang Mo asked whether the Riot Cat could come with them, and it agreed before punching him for calling it a dog.
• Ji Jue met Fan Yun at a restaurant and said he had come to see him off because they would never meet again.
• Ji Jue accused Fan Yun of helping escalate the White State operation and losing Central City's confidence by pursuing credit.
• Fan Yun threatened Ji Jue, but Ji Jue dismissed him as a clown and wished him a safe journey as an airship descended into the base.

Fan Yun was ambushed aboard the airship carrying him to Central City and captured by Ji Jue and his allies. Ji Jue dismantled Fan Yun’s Celestial Being powers and sent his suffering soul into the abyss, leaving a grisly message for Central City’s agents.

• Fan Yun reflected on his impending transfer and suspected that the Fourth Void Abyss might give him a chance to regain power.
• His secretary reported that Rotten Scale had appeared in Central City and failed to assassinate the president, with a Fusion Bomb from the Garrison Base found at the scene.
• Inverse Scale and his allies attacked Fan Yun aboard the airship, using Phantom Cut, Pan Ying’s bloodfire, and Feiming to overpower him.
• Ji Jue dissected Fan Yun, destroyed his connection to his Time Wedge, and separated his life and Superior Virtue with Old Geezer Qitan’s help.
• Ji Jue offered Fan Yun to Tower's Shadow, sending his soul into the abyss.
• The agents found Fan Yun’s mutilated corpse posed with a wolf’s head, alongside a blood-written question asking what barely distinguishes man from beast.

Ji Jue followed Fan Gan into Nirvana’s Rift World and discovered that the leader he expected to meet was Heavenly Furnace. Elsewhere, the Sower received Xie Heli’s final offering, a broken stele whose message faded to ash as he declared that the old cycle had to be destroyed for a new world to begin.

• Ji Jue joked with Inverse Scale about taking further revenge on Fan Yun, then told him to stop calling him Wolf Lord.
• Fan Gan persuaded Ji Jue to meet Nirvana’s leader, and brought him with Inverse Scale through a Rabbit Hole to Nirvana’s headquarters in a Rift World.
• Ji Jue entered the meeting hall and recognized that the leader’s rough, cheerful appearance was a disguise.
• Nirvana’s leader removed his disguise, revealing himself as Heavenly Furnace, and Ji Jue screamed in shock.
• A traveler delivered Xie Heli’s iron chest to the Sower, who read the King of Compassionate Benevolence’s final words on a broken stele.
• The stele crumbled to ash as the Sower condemned the old cycle of Superior Virtue and Great Evil and called for the old world’s destruction.

Ji Jue struggled to accept that the Heavenly Furnace was the Matrix Child and that he had become deeply entangled with Nirvana, so Ye Xian took him into the workshop for a lesson. Their sparring revealed how much Ji Jue had improved, and he ended the chapter challenging her Scene Tremor with one of his own.

• Ji Jue lamented his ties to the Mohist legacy and Nirvana while Ye Chun and Ye Xian watched him wallow.
• Ji Jue asked Ye Xian whether she had known about the Heavenly Furnace, and she told him to stop complaining and spar with her.
• Ye Xian battered Ji Jue in the underground workshop, then observed his improved speed, Non-Aggression, and combat instincts.
• Ye Xian transformed the workshop into a Wilderness-like setting and loosened the restrictions for their training.
• Ji Jue attacked Ye Xian with Rebirth Form and Zhanlu, but she deflected his Scene Tremor strike and countered toward his heart engine.
• Ji Jue revealed a hidden dagger and answered Ye Xian's counter with a stronger Scene Tremor, determined to test the difference between their techniques.

Ye Xian overwhelmed Ji Jue in their training fight, demonstrating how her mastery of Scene Tremor and Mo Xie countered his techniques and Rebirth Form. Ji Jue kept adapting and revealed his hidden Third Spirit Essence Hand, but Ye Xian struck him down before the outcome of his attack was shown.

• Ye Xian crushed Ji Jue’s fingers and arm with Scene Tremor, then challenged him to practice more as his teacher.
• Ye Xian used Mo Xie to attack Ji Jue’s Rebirth Form, and he endured the strike by reverting to his flesh-and-blood body.
• Ji Jue asked Isis to take control and fought at greater speed, but Ye Xian continued countering his attacks while explaining the weaknesses of barehanded transmutation.
• Ji Jue detached his hand to escape Ye Xian’s hold, then used Iron Mountain Lean and revealed his hidden Third Spirit Essence Hand.
• Ji Jue unleashed Soul Reflection’s chaotic flames at Ye Xian, but his vision went black before the result was revealed.

Ji Jue analyzed how Ye Xian defeated him with a demonstration of Scene Tremor, discovering that she had made her body a Matrix Holy Relic with Gan Jiang and Mo Xie. After the spar, she brought him to the machining center to help with a massive suit of military armor that was nearing completion.

• Ji Jue repaired his badly damaged body and replayed his defeat, recognizing that Ye Xian had countered his black flame with layered matrices.
• Ji Jue realized Ye Xian's soul housed Mo Xie while her flesh forged Gan Jiang, and that their combined matrices had produced Scene Tremor.
• Ji Jue understood the principles behind Ye Xian's technique and began considering how to combine Superior Virtue and Great Evil to create a new effect.
• Ye Xian told Ji Jue to work out the remaining problems himself, then asked him to fulfill his duties as her student.
• Ye Xian took Ji Jue to the second-basement machining center, where he saw a nearly finished, four-meter-tall suit of military armor.

Ji Jue optimized Ye Xian’s Powered Armor design with Deus Ex Machina and discussed the possibility of Engineering Alchemy. Ye Xian warned him that his King of Flies project could overturn the artisans’ place in society, but Ji Jue left unconvinced.

• Ye Xian entrusted Ji Jue with optimizing a reconnaissance-focused Powered Armor prototype, and he used Deus Ex Machina to inspect its systems.
• Ji Jue challenged the transmission system’s excess redundancy, while Ye Xian argued that the design needed room for varied equipment and imperfect maintenance.
• After working through the afternoon, Ji Jue reflected that Deus Ex Machina could support Engineering Alchemy, and Ye Xian questioned whether a theory only he could use could become a true legacy.
• Ji Jue suggested that engineering itself could become the main body, with artisans serving its creations, and Ye Xian recognized that he was already pursuing this possibility through King of Flies.
• Ye Xian warned Ji Jue not to rush his work in New Spring and reminded him that tools must remain tools; Ji Jue agreed before leaving the Workshop.

Ji Jue spent his days optimizing a Powered Armor prototype and binging food and videos with Ye Chun, until Ye Xian caught them and assigned them work. After leaving through the Doomsday Train for Puna Bantu, Ji Jue emerged into a volcanic disaster and wondered where he had been sent.

• Ji Jue worked daily in Ye Xian's Workshop, juggling the Powered Armor optimization and several other projects while gaining access to Nirvana's intelligence.
• Ji Jue and Ye Chun repeatedly ordered food, watched videos, and fought over the remote until Ye Xian caught them amid the delivery boxes and assigned them papers and work.
• Ji Jue and Ye Chun blamed each other for their mess, and Ji Jue triggered a delivery notification on Ye Chun's phone before Ye Xian kicked him out of the Workshop.
• Ji Jue escaped with his bucket and took the Doomsday Train toward Puna Bantu, hoping to avoid Ye Chun's messages and assignments.
• Ji Jue opened the train door and found himself facing a fractured, fire-lit mountain ridge and a pitch-black sea.

Ji Jue returned to Puna Bantu and discovered that Isis had transformed it into a toxic industrial park powered by Paradise and the souls of its workers. As Ji Jue explained his plan to use Non-Aggression’s Blessings to make Deus Ex Machina creations into lasting life, Isis questioned what would happen if those creations outgrew humanity, and Ji Jue joked that she should take him in as her foreman.

• Ji Jue confronted Isis about the transformed Puna Bantu and the missing employees, and Isis revealed that she had rebuilt the industrial park around her Creation Spirits.
• Isis showed Ji Jue that she had turned the gold mine tunnels into Paradise, using Fan Yun’s celestial soul as its central hub and repurposing former employees as Spirit Essence Batteries while preserving their consciousness and skills.
• Ji Jue surveyed the automated Blessing Community and explained how [Earth Bearing Sea Containing], [Heaven's Movement Strong], and [Myriad Things Self-Transformation] could let Deus Ex Machina creations grow and retain their abilities permanently.
• Isis asked whether Ji Jue was willing to create independent life without restrictions and what he would do if the creations surpassed humanity.
• Ji Jue said he would welcome the change and asked Isis to make him her Foreman, leaving Isis weary at the thought of ruling humanity.

Ji Jue oversaw the Prosperity’s Dragon Bone reinforcement and began Juque Engineering, a major upgrade for Little Cow and Horse. After Isis warned him about the project’s costs, Lou Feng called and demanded he come deal with their company’s new product.

• Isis reported that the Prosperity’s Dragon Bone reinforcement was about ninety-seven percent complete and would take another week.
• Ji Jue planned to transfer Little Cow and Horse’s Dragon Blood and Blessing Chain into the reforged Prosperity as part of Juque Engineering.
• Ji Jue explained that he wanted Juque Engineering to be a powerful foundation that could keep growing and changing, rather than a perfectly finished, unalterable design.
• Ji Jue worked overtime in Puna Bantu while Isis helped him advance the project and urged him to find more materials and increase the park’s income.
• Ji Jue considered ways to fund the park, then answered Lou Feng’s call and learned that their company’s new product was finished and Lou Feng wanted him there within half an hour.

Ji Jue arrived at Lou Feng’s Workshop with a valuable Light Crystal and found Lou Feng had completed the watch he had commissioned. The prototype could display a Chosen One’s rank and Fiendification Index, though Ji Jue’s testing broke its spirituality and left Lou Feng furious.

• Ji Jue teleported from Puna Bantu to New Spring’s residence and reflected on the burdens and tangled responsibilities he had accumulated.
• Ji Jue surprised Lou Feng in his Workshop, stopped him from shouting, and gave him a Light Crystal filled with concentrated resentment.
• Lou Feng accepted the Light Crystal and showed Ji Jue the finished Wristwatch he had designed.
• Ji Jue revealed that his own Wristwatch’s [9] was more than half filled and explained that the new watch used the King of Flies to display a Chosen One’s rank and Fiendification Index.
• Ji Jue tested the prototype until its incomplete spirituality collapsed, prompting Lou Feng to fly into a rage.