Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue’s unleashed Creation Spirits devastated Luo Island while the Soekarno Family endured the losses under the rules of the Blood Feud Trial. Saino learned that his family’s hidden allies wanted them to capture the Lou Family’s household god, and after seven days the trial began in Pu City.

• Ji Jue’s Creation Spirits caused widespread disasters across Luo Island, resisting the Soekarno Family’s attacks and disrupting ships, records, and commerce.
• Elkana urged Saino to go to war, but Saino rebuked him and insisted the Soekarno Family obey the Blood Feud Trial’s rules.
• Explosions killed or injured Soekarno relatives, and a phone exploded in Elkana’s face.
• Saino visited the hidden Xu Family and was warned not to interfere before the trial or until Lou Yanyue died.
• The Xu Family revealed that the Soekarno Family could earn a great reward by helping capture the Lou Family’s household god, the King of Flies.
• After seven days passed, the Blood Feud Trial began in Pu City.

In Pu City, the Chopra and Soekarno families began a Blood Feud Trial as the Seven Cities divided into opposing blocs and Ji Jue anticipated interference from the Xu Family. The first clash began when Orban Kzobel attacked Lou Yanyue, who answered with a burst of radiance from her fingertip.

• Minkler and Saino traded insults before Fernan witnessed their families’ settlement by trial, and Lou Yanyue and Orban Kzobel signed on as combatants.
• The representatives of Ma City and Xi Island sided with the Chopra Family, while Devour City and Tooth Gate sat with the Soekarno Family and Pu City remained neutral.
• Ji Jue and Lou Yanyue suspected the Xu Family had secretly come to investigate the King of Flies and prepared for its intervention.
• At the horn, Kzobel transformed into a massive Two-Headed Giant and attacked Lou Yanyue with a lava-filled hammer, trapping her in his Stasis Field.
• Lou Yanyue ignored the restraints, raised one finger toward the hammer, and unleashed a radiance brighter than the sun.

Lou Yanyue overwhelmed Kzobel with precisely controlled Entropy attacks, but his Realm of Encirclement suppressed her power and pushed her into her Rebirth Form. The chapter ended with her manifesting the Lou Clan Inheritance, Bi Fang, as the arena and island faced destruction.

• Lou Yanyue blocked Kzobel’s hammer strike by converting her Entropy power into physical force, then mocked him and unleashed Shine Like the Sun and Stars.
• Lou Yanyue refracted her Blazing Light around Kzobel’s defenses and bombarded him with beams, but his Waste Ruins durability let him endure the assault.
• Lou Yanyue recalled being bullied by Wen Wen and, enraged by Kzobel’s defensive tactics, summoned vast storm clouds and a devastating lightning strike.
• Ji Jue activated his Realm of Encirclement, weakening Lou Yanyue’s attacks by slowing and suppressing changes in Spiritual Substance.
• Lou Yanyue’s body burned away as she transformed into the blue-green-winged Bi Fang, her Rebirth Form from the Lou Clan Inheritance.

Lou Yanyue unleashed her perfected Rebirth Form and overwhelmed Kzobel, who revealed that he had fused the Waste Ruins with The Horde and taken up the path of Calamity of War. As Lou Yanyue summoned Five Buildings Twelve Cities and brought down Absolute Punishment lightning, the Two-Headed Giant grinned as though the attack had arrived just as planned.

• Lou Yanyue transformed into Bi Fang, using her volatile Spirit Essence Shaping to bombard the Realm of Encirclement and tear apart the arena.
• Kzobel shattered his hammer to reveal a blade, then transformed the Realm of Encirclement into Shi Shan and revealed The Horde’s Calamity of War.
• Kzobel combined the Waste Ruins’ defense with The Horde’s power and pushed Lou Yanyue onto the defensive, while Ji Jue suspected something was wrong and prompted Minkler to challenge the trial.
• Minkler demanded that the Blood Feud Trial be stopped, but Fernan ruled that the Seven Cities’ rules could not be broken once the trial had begun.
• Lou Yanyue summoned Five Buildings Twelve Cities and called down Absolute Punishment lightning on the pinned Two-Headed Giant, whose two faces grinned in anticipation.

Lou Yanyue survived the Fang Xiang Curse when a mysterious celestial power transformed her into protective crystals, while Lou Feng’s Star of Bethlehem exposed the hidden Realm of Encirclement and its ghost-god controllers. As Lou Yanyue and the Lou elders attacked the revealed Xu Family ghost gods, Ji Jue confronted Saino after the schemes behind the duel came to light.

• A ghost-god summoned Lou Yanyue’s spirit, but her body crystallized and shattered the Fang Xiang Curse before it could consume her.
• Lou Feng unleashed Mirroring - Star of Bethlehem, piercing Knobel and exposing the hidden Realm of Encirclement and the three-headed ghost god.
• Lou Yanyue identified Xu Lingshou, Xu Lingwei, and Xu Lingyue as the concealed enemies, and Lou Zhaoye and Lou Yuling blocked their escape.
• Lou Yanyue, Lou Zhaoye, Lou Yuling, and Lou Feng attacked the ghost gods as the duel’s spectators realized the Two-Headed Giant had been a puppet.
• Minkler demanded an explanation from Saino, whose attempted escape failed when his attendant teleported him back to the arena.
• Ji Jue stabbed Saino with Pan Ying and demanded that he kneel.

Ji Jue exposed Saino’s role in the plot against Lou Yanyue and captured him as the Lou Family fought the Xu Family Three Brothers. Ji Jue’s allies began converting the ghost gods with a Mandala, prompting the brothers to launch a desperate counterattack.

• Ji Jue slaughtered Saino’s attendants, captured Saino, and exposed the Soekarno Family’s scheme, prompting Tooth Gate and Devour City to denounce their former ally.
• Saino warned that the outcome was not decided, as Bi Fang’s attack filled the sky with spirit essence blood and wraiths.
• Lou Zhaoye trapped the Xu Family Three Brothers in his Realm of Encirclement while Lou Yanyue attacked and Lou Feng supplied their allies with mana.
• Ji Jue joined the fight by manifesting a Mandala built from the Spirit of the King of Flies, which drained the ghost god and began converting its spirits.
• The Xu Family Three Brothers resisted the conversion, revealed their shared Fangxiang forms, and prepared to fight back together.

The Xu Family Three Brothers unleashed the Five Emperors Great Demon Lords, but Ji Jue’s improvised mandala and Lou Yanyue’s lightning shattered their gateway and nearly killed them. Their grandfather intervened and transported everyone into an immense Iron Enclosure, where the chapter ended with the enclosure’s flaw, Lie Que, identified.

• The Xu Family Three Brothers summoned the Five Emperors Great Demon Lords, whose auras broke through the surrounding restraints and overwhelmed their opponents.
• Lou Zhaoye restrained the emerging demon lords with Heavenly Shackles while Lou Yuling obscured their senses, but Xu Lingwei tried to free them with the Bone Sword.
• Ji Jue used a makeshift mandala and a counterfeit True Word to target the Realm of Encirclement, forcing the demon lords back toward their gateway.
• Lou Yanyue summoned Five Buildings Twelve Cities and struck with concentrated lightning, shattering the Realm of Encirclement and vaporizing half of the three brothers’ bodies.
• Xu Lingwei called for his grandfather, who intervened and transported everyone into the darkness of Iron Enclosure, where Lie Que was revealed as its flaw.

Lou Suwen confronted Xu Youquan in the collapsing Iron Enclosure after Xu Youquan rescued only part of Xu Lingwei. Earlier, Ji Jue forced Saino to pledge allegiance to the Lou Family and extracted the Xu Family’s Spirit Contract, which Lou Suwen used to create a puppet and attack Xu Youquan.

• Lou Suwen revealed himself to Xu Youquan, who had rescued only part of Xu Lingwei and was badly wounded after Lou Suwen held back.
• Ji Jue offered Saino a chance to live as the Lou Family’s subordinate, and Saino agreed to sign a contract witnessed by Celestial Origin.
• Ji Jue carved the Xu Family’s Spirit Contract out of Saino’s soul and took the crystal containing it.
• Lou Suwen used a remnant of a descendant’s soul and blood taken beneath Lie Que to complete a straw doll puppet tied to Xu Youquan.
• Xu Youquan tried to stop Lou Suwen, but Lou Suwen crushed the puppet, shattered the Iron Enclosure, and sent Lie Que striking at him.

Lou Suwen chased Xu Youquan into a fierce fight before Pang Pei stopped them and called a meeting. After Ji Jue won control of Luo Island through the Seven Cities ruling, he took over the island and its assets; Lou Yanyue arrived to tell him the Federation meeting had reached a result.

• Xu Youquan retreated as Lou Suwen pursued and battered him across the Endless Sea, until Pang Pei intervened and summoned them to a meeting.
• Ji Jue declared the Blood Feud Trial decided, and Fernan ruled that the Soekarno Family had cheated and lost to the Chopra Family.
• Ji Jue presented the contract transferring Luo Island to him, and Fernan accepted its validity and agreed to negotiate the Soekarno Family's obligations.
• Ji Jue took control of Luo Island, arrested and punished its criminal operators, and collected the Soekarno Family's assets from Saino.
• Ji Jue demanded that Saino surrender any remaining family assets, then asked Lou Yanyue whether the Federation meeting had produced a result.

After the Lou and Xu Families settled their conflict, Ji Jue received the Lou Family’s support and took control of Luo Island. He outmaneuvered Saino and the Soekarno Family with their contract, leaving them trapped in jobs at his workshop as he secured the island for himself.

• Lou Suwen and Xu Youquan ended their conflict with a settlement that forced the Xu Family to surrender businesses and restricted its members from leaving East City for thirty years.
• Lou Yanyue gave Ji Jue additional Tide Sound Military Industry shares and promised that the Lou Family would cover the Spiritual Substance costs of his Fly-something project.
• Lou Yanyue relayed Lou Suwen’s warning that Ji Jue should not spread himself too thin, prompting Ji Jue to wonder whether a larger conflict was approaching.
• After Lou Yanyue, Lou Zhaoye, and Lou Yuling departed, Ji Jue began taking over Luo Island and had Liang Mo kill Soekarno Family members who resisted the handover.
• Ji Jue persuaded the remaining Soekarno Family members to choose between authority and wealth, then assigned them production-line jobs at the Coast Industry Luo Island No. 1 Workshop.
• When Saino invoked their contract against Ji Jue, Ji Jue argued that he had kept its terms, and the contract burned away as guards dragged Saino off to work.

After Ji Jue seized Luo Island, he used the Paradise System, violence, and lavish incentives to restore public services and reshape its government while placing Ling Shuo and Gold Hair Boy in charge of underworld affairs. As the city began to stabilize, damaged boats and giant Ship Lice signaled that the Calamity Wind had reached the Endless Sea.

• Ji Jue seized control of Luo Island and purged its criminal and corrupt leadership, then used Paradise to keep the city running and overhaul its public administration.
• Luo Island's workers accepted promotions and generous subsidies, while former enemies were put to work in Coast Industry's new factories.
• Ji Jue assigned Ling Shuo and Gold Hair Boy to manage Luo Island's underworld business and told them to keep their disputes out of public view.
• Ji Jue left most daily administration to Paradise and local professionals so he could focus on upgrading Juque Engineering.
• A fishing boat returned from Widow's Reef riddled with holes and giant Ship Lice, while other vessels showed damage from an enormous creature.
• Ji Jue received a Federal Maritime Bureau warning about biological disasters in the southern Endless Sea and recognized that the Calamity Wind had begun.

As the Calamity Wind approached the Seven Cities, Ji Jue prepared Luo Island and Elephant Isle while the Seven Cities' leaders focused on profits and political maneuvering. A fishing fleet was devastated by merfolk attacks, revealing that the danger had reached the eastern Endless Sea earlier than expected.

• The Seven Cities Council dismissed Ji Jue's concerns and discussed limiting costs, profiting from disaster-beast materials, and ranking their forces during the Calamity Wind.
• Fernan stayed behind with the ignored defense contingency plan, while Ji Jue left the meeting and arranged extensive preparations for Luo Island and Elephant Isle.
• Tourism and shipping on Luo Island declined as martial-law preparations began, while fishing companies rushed to exploit the last safe window at sea.
• A fishing fleet that sailed north for king crabs was almost entirely sunk by merfolk, and its Captain returned in shock.
• Reports revealed that merfolk attacks had already begun across the eastern Endless Sea, with large groups following currents toward the Seven Cities.

Ji Jue joined Dan City's campaign against the approaching merfolk, intending to study and hunt them. He sailed the upgraded Prosperity into the migration route and captured a merfolk scout, leaving it alive on his operating table.

• News of merfolk migrating toward the Seven Cities spread, and investigators traced the influx to fish populations swelling after the Federation wiped out nearby tribes.
• Dan City Federation announced it would drive off the merfolk, and Ji Jue agreed to join its expedition after speaking with Minkler.
• Ji Jue sailed the heavily reinforced, floating Prosperity out to sea and used flesh from the Fish of Great Evil as bait.
• A merfolk scout swallowed the bait, which transformed inside its mouth and paralyzed it with Scene Tremor.
• Ji Jue hauled the merfolk aboard, caught its attempt to attack him, and examined it while joking that it would live only until that day.

Ji Jue dissected a mermaid and rebuilt it as a stable steel creation, then considered whether his radical transformations could be part of Myriad Things Self-Transformation. He embraced the uncertain path ahead and set out to catch another mermaid.

• Ji Jue finished dissecting the mermaid and used Isis's analysis to confirm his engineering-based transformation was feasible.
• Ji Jue replaced the mermaid's body parts and soul with mechanical components and the Spirit of the King of Flies, then reassembled it with Deus Ex Machina.
• Ji Jue tested the obedient steel mermaid and found it more stable and controllable than his earlier creations.
• Ji Jue questioned whether replacing the mermaid's nature could count as Myriad Things Self-Transformation, then reasoned that his own creations might also be part of nature.
• Ji Jue accepted the risks of his chosen path and picked up his fishing rod to catch another mermaid.

Penarosa welcomed Ji Jue aboard and made clear that the Sacred Tree Family would help defend Seven Cities but would not support its attempt to fight Ji Jue. As they bonded over a lavish banquet, the ravenous merfolk arrived, and the men prepared to face them.

• Penarosa told Hamming that the Sacred Tree Family would support Seven Cities against the Calamity Wind but would not interfere in its dispute with Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue arrived at Penarosa’s warship, and the two greeted each other warmly while Hamming watched and served them.
• Penarosa and Ji Jue spent the banquet exchanging compliments and drinking Devour City’s wine, leaving Hamming anxious about the approaching threat.
• Penarosa took a battle axe halberd and promised Ji Jue they would drink together after dealing with the beasts.
• The ravenous merfolk surged toward the fleet as enormous waves rose and their cries echoed across the sea.

The Devour City fleet repelled a piranha herd with depth charges, but the merfolk answered by sending mist and airborne fish against the ships. Ji Jue saw Penalosa’s Path of Conquest empower the fleet as the merfolk drew near, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• A piranha herd attacked the Devour City warship, gnawing through its hull and killing sailors on deck.
• The captain ordered depth charges, which slaughtered the piranhas and drove the surviving herd back.
• Merfolk horns summoned thick mist and lifted more mutated fish into the air, prompting the fleet to open fire.
• Penalosa’s Spiritual Substance united and strengthened the fleet, while Ji Jue recognized the Sacred Tree Family’s Path of Conquest.
• Penalosa greeted Ji Jue as enormous merfolk emerged from the mist within a hundred meters of the fleet.

Penalosa and the fleet destroyed the first merfolk force, only to discover that hundreds more tribes had arrived. He ordered the fleet to open fire and used an unusual scope to guide its weapons into precise attacks, leaving Ji Jue eager to inspect it.

• Penalosa dispelled the blood mist, exposed the aged merman priest, and killed him with his Battle Axe Halberd.
• The merfolk and piranhas lost coordination, and Penalosa’s Horde slaughtered the remaining attackers.
• More merfolk tribes appeared across the sea, revealing that the first group had been only an advance force and leaving Hamming struggling to explain Devour City’s faulty intelligence.
• Penalosa excused himself to direct the defense as storms and lightning gathered over the fleet.
• Penalosa ordered the fleet to open fire, and its weapons curved across the sky to strike the distant merfolk with deadly precision.
• Ji Jue recognized the glowing object in Penalosa’s hand as a scope and wanted to touch it.

Penalosa used the fleet’s Heavenly Origin Path sight to devastate the merfolk and their Herd, then transformed into a Titan to fight them in the sea. The Green Flood Dragon awakened and tried to swallow him, but the falling Prosperity crashed into its mouth.

• Penalosa guided the fleet’s fire toward the merfolk, who dove beneath the sea and summoned a storm.
• Penalosa seized the lightning, formed a Spear of Thunder, and became a Titan, then struck the sea and killed or wounded many merfolk and Herd.
• Giant Serpents emerged from the sea and restrained Penalosa while the Green Flood Dragon awakened from the corpses and attacked.
• The Green Flood Dragon opened its vast mouth and swallowed the storm before snapping its jaws around Penalosa.
• The Prosperity fell from tens of thousands of meters above and smashed into the Green Flood Dragon’s mouth.

Penalosa and Ji Jue destroyed the Green Flood Dragon’s incarnation, but the disaster beast escaped as a vengeful spirit. As the fleet prepared to leave, reports revealed disaster beasts awakening and migrating across the seas, signaling that a vast calamity had begun.

• Penalosa used the Prosperity to ram the Green Flood Dragon’s incarnation, and the impact destroyed it and killed the linked merfolk clans.
• The Green Flood Dragon’s spirit escaped after memorizing Penalosa and the Prosperity, while Ji Jue secretly secured a fragment of its residual spirit.
• Penalosa refused to let Ji Jue handle his scope but agreed to explain the Path of Conquest’s applications.
• A huge tide of Sea Locusts and other disaster beasts surged across the sea, prompting Ji Jue to order the fleet home.
• On November 3 and 4, reports described the Green Flood Dragon’s premature awakening and rising activity from the Lord of the White River and Leviathan.
• Further earthquakes, disaster beast awakenings, a coastal vortex, and a beast tide on the Kunwu Plateau confirmed that a massive calamity had begun.

As the Calamity Wind threw the Endless Sea into chaos, Ji Jue publicly executed forty-one officials for corruption, dereliction of duty, and trafficking supplies. A Seven Cities Council envoy then sought Luo Island’s help with the shortages caused by soaring grain prices, but Ji Jue demanded official authorization to intervene and left the envoy fearing what that would mean for the Seven Cities’ leaders.

• The Calamity Wind devastated Freedom City, disrupted transport across the Endless Sea, and left Luo Island plagued by rotting fish and Sea Locusts.
• Ji Jue watched forty-one officials convicted of corruption, dereliction of duty, and trafficking supplies get hanged in a public broadcast.
• Ji Jue told the Seven Cities Council envoy that Luo Island could eliminate the Seven Cities’ future troubles if Speaker Fernan issued an official order.
• The envoy declined Ji Jue’s offer, fearing he would target the Seven Cities’ upper echelons.
• Grain prices surged as transport and trade faltered, while officials across the Seven Cities—including Aquilino’s descendants—profited from hoarding and speculation.