Chapter Summaries

On the fifth day of the Haizhou Tech Expo, Coast’s preparations were overwhelmed by record crowds as the company showcased its Paradise interface through a boxing match featuring disabled fighters. As Ji Jue began Coast Group’s product launch, Huang Ming’s covert team continued spreading Seeds of Mind through the venue and reported that Ji Jue had appeared.

• New Spring’s roads and expo grounds filled with tens of thousands of visitors, while Coast Industry opened its cafeteria and factory grounds to support the crowds.
• Lu Ling arrived with Lu Ma and the children, and an infiltrator named Li Yong slipped away after warning Huang Ming that New Spring’s security had tightened.
• Huang Ming trusted that his team remained concealed because their diamond rings showed no disturbance, received orders to proceed, and spread Seeds of Mind into the crowd.
• Coast’s light exoskeleton boxing demonstration showed disabled fighters using Paradise interfaces to react and fight at remarkable speed, and one boxer won before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Ji Jue entered the arena early to begin Coast Group’s product launch, and a hidden observer reported his appearance.

Ji Jue opened Coast's product launch by announcing generous membership benefits, a free Sundial Wristwatch upgrade, and new wilderness motorcycles, then shifted to discuss his plans for cybernetic prosthetics. The chapter left off as a reporter shouted an objection before Ji Jue could explain further.

• Ji Jue appeared at Coast's launch to cheers from the audience and New Spring residents, while Shi Long recognized the scale of his influence.
• Ji Jue announced Coast Premium Membership tiers with extensive repair, replacement, maintenance, and rental benefits.
• Ji Jue revealed a new Sundial Wristwatch and offered existing owners a free upgrade, driving a surge in preorders.
• Ji Jue introduced a motorcycle suited to wilderness roads and the upgraded Coast Explorer, stunning the audience with its capabilities and price.
• Ji Jue set aside his cue cards and introduced his interest in cybernetic prosthetics, prompting a reporter to rise and shout an objection.

Ji Jue unveiled Coast’s affordable Paradise Interface and defended its work for disabled people against a reporter’s accusation of exploitation. As Coast’s popularity and related investments surged, Zhu Lu ordered his forces to begin their attack.

• A reporter accused Ji Jue of turning disabled people’s suffering into entertainment, and he answered by describing Coast’s charitable work and affirming their right to reclaim their lives.
• Ji Jue introduced the Paradise Interface, credited Lou Feng, Elder Deng, and the contestants, and announced its 5,116 Federal Currency price with free Coast maintenance and upgrades.
• Demonstrations showed disabled users controlling industrial equipment and conducting dangerous rescue work through the interface, driving a surge in Coast memberships and investment in related companies.
• In East City, Zhu Lu received confirmation that his personnel, Tian Shan, and Berninger were ready, then wrote the order to begin.

Zhu Lu and Huang Ming prepared a coordinated attack on Ji Jue’s press conference, using poison, agitation, and planted bombs. The bombs were stopped at the last moment when Xu Chao Xian appeared on the livestream, leaving the attackers stunned.

• Zhu Lu crushed a glass bead and sent the order to New Spring to begin the attack.
• Huang Ming used the Seed of Mind to inspect the venue and prepared six bombs and spiritual toxins while his agents took their positions.
• A poisoning at the Coast factory disabled staff and Exoskeleton pilots as agitation and violence spread through the expo grounds.
• Lu Feng learned the central venue might contain explosives and raced toward it while Ji Jue announced Coast’s charity fund.
• Xu Chao Xian appeared onstage just before the countdown ended, and Zhu Lu’s shout made Huang Ming stop the detonation at the last moment.

Ji Jue used Xu Chao Xian’s status as Governor to deter an attack at the Haizhou Tech Expo while preparing a mass security response. An explosion and staged chaos exposed the infiltrators, and the chapter ended as Huang Ming ordered the compromised operatives to move.

• Ji Jue held Xu Chao Xian’s hand and used the Governor’s presence to make an attack on the venue politically dangerous.
• Ji Jue waited for the attackers to strike, then an explosion rocked a warehouse district on the southeastern side of the Haizhou Tech Expo.
• Armed men posing as members of the Evil Transformation Cult fired blanks and shouted threats as thousands of exoskeleton units sealed off the grounds and began evacuating visitors.
• The Paradise System analyzed targets and reduced its suspect list, while the Defense and Security Department deployed armor and surveillance teams.
• The Tong Family’s calibration narrowed the suspects to fifty, and Huang Ming and the other infiltrators’ diamond rings turned black, revealing them.
• Huang Ming warned the operatives over the telepathic channel that they were ambushed and ordered them to move.

Lu Feng’s forces stopped Heart Pivot’s assault on the park, subdued the disaster beasts, and captured Tian Shan and Huang Ming. Lu Feng prepared a brutal punishment for Huang Ming as Isis deployed a Spiritual Substance lockdown around them.

• Lu Feng killed Huang Ming’s apparent body, but it released a swarm of moths that spread panic and infected the park’s visitors.
• Heart Pivot’s moth swarm and the unleashed disaster beasts attacked the park while Tian Shan fled and Berninger rained flames on the crowd.
• A silver Mechanical God Mandala appeared and used the Great Momentum of Three Thousand Worlds to destroy the moths and beasts, purge the consciousness seeds from visitors, and overpower Berninger.
• An Ran intercepted Tian Shan in New Spring, while Huang Ming escaped in a spare body and made his way out of the sealed area.
• Lu Feng lured Huang Ming to a designated location, where Isis completed a Spiritual Substance lockdown and delivered weapons and a preservation vessel for Heart Pivot-type consciousnesses.
• Lu Feng confronted Huang Ming over planting the bomb and offered him a choice of weapons for his punishment.

Ji Jue turned the terrorist attack at the Haizhou Tech Expo into a showcase for Coast’s new Sirius system and its connected ecosystem. As the exhibitors coordinated a sweeping hunt for the attackers, Xu Chao Xian learned that a workshop had come under attack, and Ji Jue gave no explanation.

• Ji Jue used the lockdown to suppress the attackers, while Li Yong escaped through an alley and disguised himself.
• A smoking man received Shi Long’s order to kill the fugitives and killed Li Yong with a flicked cigarette ash.
• The exhibitors reviewed evidence of the bomb plot and ordered their Chosen Ones and security forces to hunt down the attackers.
• Ji Jue unveiled Coast Smart Driving and Sirius, demonstrating how Sirius coordinated services across the expo and delivered him a cappuccino.
• A Security Bureau agent whispered to Xu Chao Xian that the workshop was under attack, and Xu Chao Xian looked toward Ji Jue as the warning appeared on his alert.

Tong Ting realized the Qiu Family had concealed its real objective beneath layers of distraction as sabotage erupted at the Haizhou Tech Expo. Meanwhile, Flint and Pang Lu breached the Workshop, disabled its defenses, and discovered a vast multitude of creation spirits, where an unexpected man identified their target as the King of Flies.

• Tong Ting and Qiu Sheng probed each other’s plans through a seemingly casual phone conversation and a contest over public bets.
• Tong Ting spotted the Qiu Family’s hidden maneuver, but an explosion at Coast Industry’s factory began the sabotage while Ji Jue’s forces were occupied at the expo.
• A Hemp Robe Sect elder isolated Coast Technology’s headquarters from the outside world, and Flint used his mass-increasing ability to bore through the Workshop’s defenses.
• Pang Lu transformed into spirit essence and brought Flint inside the Workshop, where Flint’s black-iron pestle resonated through the structure and paralyzed it.
• Flint and Pang Lu opened a massive door and found a cavern filled with countless awakened creation spirits.
• A man beside them recognized that the intruders’ true objective was the King of Flies.

Ji Jue’s backup vessels revived under Isis’s control and attacked Flint and Pang Lu with prototype Nine Forms swords. Pang Lu fled from an Overloaded wolf-like puppet as Ji Jue urged it to keep fighting.

• Flint immobilized matter around Ji Jue, and Pang Lu cut apart what appeared to be his body, revealing it was a mechanical backup vessel.
• The damaged head called on Isis, who used the Creation Spirits and Mercury threads to reassemble Ji Jue and create nine and a half puppet versions of him.
• Flint compressed the cavern’s matter around the puppets, but the Ji Jues counterattacked with prototype Nine Forms swords controlled by Isis.
• Ji Jue’s puppets overwhelmed the attackers with varied creations, while Pang Lu fled from a fast, wolf-like puppet operating in Overload.
• Ji Jue explained that the wolf-like puppet was a flawed Fish Intestine prototype that would eventually break down, then encouraged it to keep pursuing Pang Lu.

Pang Lu and Flint unleashed a devastating attack while secretly completing their plan to destroy the Swarm of the King of Flies, only to discover Ji Jue had already moved the swarm elsewhere. Their actions awakened the true threat beneath the cavern: Isis, an unrestrained Transcendent Workshop Spirit.

• Pang Lu and Flint coordinated a massive explosion that destroyed most of Ji Jue's puppets and shattered the cavern.
• Pang Lu's concealment Realm hid his actions as the Ascension Poison spread through the Creation Spirits and turned them to ashes.
• Pang Lu revealed that he and his allies had targeted the King of Flies' breeding base, but Ji Jue explained he had secretly relocated the swarm and emptied the facility.
• Ji Jue realized the Spirit Essence and materials had been used for a Three-Phase Flow Secret Rite connected to Quancheng's ley lines.
• White flowers bloomed throughout the cavern as Isis awakened, and Ji Jue announced the intruders would face the Transcendent Extinction Calamity.

Flint broke the Realm of Encirclement, letting the old man escape before Lou Zhaoye captured him, while Ji Jue survived the flower catastrophe and concealed most of the King of Flies Project’s losses from Lou Feng. Pang Lu fled into a Secret Rite site, where Lou Yanyue’s pursuit exposed a real Evil Transformation Cult and triggered the Eternal Saint King’s descent.

• Pang Lu realized the flowers had trapped him inside the Realm of Encirclement, while the old man struggled to keep the boundary intact beneath the probing silver threads.
• Flint used Gaia Ring to shatter the blockade, allowing the old man to escape New Spring before Lou Zhaoye caught and sealed him with chains and Heavenly Punishment.
• Coast Technology settled the launch-event panic as Ji Jue recovered, told Lou Feng the King of Flies Project had suffered near-total losses, and admitted he had secretly moved its main body elsewhere.
• Lou Feng and Ji Jue heard a distant blast, while Lou Yanyue pursued Pang Lu through Quancheng with lightning and drove him into an underground chamber.
• Pang Lu crashed into an Evil Transformation Cult ritual site, where the Priest ordered an attack and the Eternal Saint King descended, horrifying Pang Lu, Lou Yanyue, Tong Ting, Chou Sheng, and Xu Chao Xian.

The Evil Transformation Cult’s ritual in New Spring was exposed and its attempt to summon the Eternal Lord was stopped, but the chaos revealed a hidden Taint labyrinth and a Foul Corruption Demon threatening Quancheng. Tong Ting’s Thunder of Innocence had set off a chain of accidents, and Ji Jue heard a familiar voice offer help as the greater danger emerged.

• Lou Yanyue’s accusation and the sudden appearance of the Evil Transformation Cult sent Haizhou into alarm, while Tong Ting and Chou Sheng scrambled to respond.
• Chou Sheng used the Mirror System to make a crimson meteor strike the Eternal Lord, and Lou Yanyue and Lou Suwen followed with Lie Que’s thunderbolt to destroy its projection and break the Secret Rite.
• The cult followers turned to ashes, while Chou Sheng’s Heavenly Eye tracked the fleeing cultists until Tong Ting flooded New Spring with information and exposed a hidden Taint labyrinth.
• Lou Yanyue drew on Lou Feng Workshop’s Spiritual Substance reserves to bombard the labyrinth, revealing a Foul Corruption Demon trying to break into the Rift World that sealed Quancheng’s seed of Natural Disaster.
• Chou Sheng realized Tong Ting’s Thunder of Innocence had caused the events and dragged him into the crisis, while Tong Ting told him he could rest as the danger escalated.
• Ji Jue heard a familiar voice ask whether he needed a hand.

Corruption breached the Rift World gate by twisting the Pilgrim’s Path and summoned Shrike’s phantom to smash through the sealed door. Meanwhile, Ghost Artisan brought Ji Jue to New Spring’s Clock Tower for a correspondence lesson in the ultimate form of Scene Tremor, unleashing Spirit Essence Refinement across the city.

• Corruption distorted the Pilgrim’s Path, making it nearly immune to attacks, and tried to recreate Ji Jue’s past visit to force the Rift World gate open.
• Corruption failed to reconstruct Ji Jue’s history because the Tong Family’s hexagram had sealed it, so it summoned Shrike’s phantom using a bloodstained book and began punching the gate.
• Ghost Artisan appeared before Ji Jue as the Devil-Crafted Ball and offered him a correspondence lesson in the ultimate form of Scene Tremor.
• Ji Jue eagerly accepted, and Ghost Artisan transported him to the top of New Spring’s Clock Tower.
• Ghost Artisan unfolded his Sheath and used Spirit Essence Refinement to turn New Spring’s surroundings into part of the Matrix Holy Relic.

Ji Jue endured the completion of the Scene Tremor Sword, then used it to pierce and devastate the Foul Corruption Demon across the labyrinth. The demon escaped before Lou Suwen could fight it, while Ji Jue returned to his Workshop and collapsed after his automatic swagger program ended.

• With Ghost Artisan's help, Ji Jue completed the nine transformations of Spiritual Substance and joined Gan Jiang and Mo Xie to form the tenth type, the Scene Tremor Sword.
• Ji Jue sent the Scene Tremor Sword through the labyrinth, piercing the Foul Corruption Demon and erasing most of its body.
• The Foul Corruption Demon overloaded and destroyed its labyrinth to block the falling Lie Que, then vanished before Lou Suwen could pursue it.
• Lou Suwen complained that the demon had escaped, but another person warned him that fighting it could have destroyed New Spring.
• Ji Jue returned to his Workshop with a composed smile, then lost consciousness when his automatic swagger program ran out of Spiritual Substance.

Ji Jue remained incapacitated after pushing himself to the limit, leaving Lou Feng to take charge of the Joint Workshop, the Association, and Coast. As Ji Jue studied Scene Tremor and planned his next steps, Lou Feng and their allies launched a coordinated political counteroffensive against East City.

• Isis played Ji Jue’s recorded instructions appointing Lou Feng to manage the Joint Workshop, the Association, Coast, and Ji Jue’s assets if he could no longer fulfill his duties, and Lou Feng left in anger after finding Ji Jue unresponsive.
• Ji Jue recovered his senses in less than half a day but spent the following week analyzing his recorded experience of Scene Tremor and concluded that it transmuted spiritual substance through nine transformations centered on the artisan’s own traits.
• Ji Jue realized Scene Tremor depended on the properties of its matrices, but Ball Bro pointed out that Ji Jue already had two of his own.
• Ji Jue identified Chengying, Gong Bu, and Tai'a as unfinished forms that lacked adequate training, compatible components, or materials, and he added new plans to his schedule.
• Lou Feng, Chen Xingzhou, the Tong and Lou families, Cliff and Tide, the Southeast Chamber of Commerce Alliance, and Central Cities coordinated protests and reports against East City, with Xu Chao Xian pushed forward as their representative.

Retaliation between the Southeast Chamber of Commerce Alliance and the Vast Sea Alliance intensified as Chen Xingzhou used their feud to consolidate his power. At the same time, Yacheng accused East City of colluding with the Evil Transformation Cult, while Lou Feng confronted the Xu Family over the slaughter of the Fly Family and ended by forcing Xu Lingwei into a damaging admission.

• Chen Xingzhou kept fighting Han Hui to strengthen his authority, while their factions traded raids, supply cutoffs, and other attacks.
• Xu Chao Xian accused East City at a Central City meeting of colluding with the Evil Transformation Cult and presented evidence linking it to the East City Bank heist.
• The meeting descended into chaos without a decision, leaving the outcome dependent on Central City, the Security Bureau, Haizhou, and East City.
• Lou Feng rallied Artisans and factions in the Association to formally investigate East City's Xu Family over the slaughter of the Fly Family.
• Lou Feng confronted Xu Lingwei in the Xu Family's main hall and twisted his defense into an apparent admission that the Xu Family had ties to the Evil Transformation Cult.

Lou Feng forced the Xu Family to pay a huge settlement after accusing them of colluding with the Evil Transformation Cult, while Central City retaliated against East City with a tax investigation. Ji Jue’s cryptic letter sent Han Hui into a collapse, and he ended the chapter coughing blood as Zhu Lu called for help.

• Lou Feng confronted Xu Lingwei and demanded the Xu Family answer for the Evil Transformation Cult’s attack, while Lou Suwen negotiated with Xu Youquan under the threat of a Heavenly Being ruling or a fight.
• Xu Youquan agreed to a settlement of Spirit Essence Crystals, Ascension materials, a large order, and sixteen thousand living spirits, and Xu Lingwei signed the Spirit Contract on behalf of the Xu Family.
• Lou Feng declared that anyone targeting the King of Flies belonged to the Evil Transformation Cult and anyone targeting Coast was Lu Changsheng’s lackey, then left with the Lou delegation.
• The Federation sent a tax inspection team to East City over its failure to report Han Hui as a Heavenly Being, and the Governor was sent to a Central City sanatorium.
• Ji Jue sent Han Hui a letter that read “qu” when turned upside down; Han Hui laughed, coughed up blood, and collapsed as Zhu Lu called for help.

Ji Jue and Chen Xingzhou recognized that Han Hui was feigning a grave illness to buy time and rebuild his authority, while agreeing to let their factions exploit the unfolding conflict. As the Coast gained time to develop, the Federation and Empire cracked down on the re-emerging Evil Transformation Cult but remained unable to find Lu Changsheng, whose real plan still seemed to be unfolding.

• Ji Jue told Chen Xingzhou that Han Hui was using his supposed injuries to avoid pressure, make others feel his absence, and regain support.
• Chen Xingzhou admitted he had helped spread the story of Han Hui's collapse, and Ji Jue agreed to stay out of the rest in exchange for a larger share of the market and channels they seized.
• Ji Jue and Chen Xingzhou concluded that Han Hui was trying to reclaim power, while their own sides would pursue their interests in the conflict.
• After Ji Jue set aside his Federation Standard work, he turned his attention to the Evil Transformation Cult as the Federation and Empire launched a sweeping investigation.
• Investigators uncovered the cult's renewed network and suspected its public activity was a distraction, but they found no trace of Lu Changsheng.

Ji Jue learned from Lü Yingyue that the Evil Transformation Cult had stolen several extinguished calamity seeds, which could reignite into new disasters. After promising to protect Quancheng’s seed, he felt uneasy about the spreading danger and wanted to return to Tide Sound.

• Ji Jue read a briefing describing the worldwide search for Lu Changsheng and the intensified investigations into the Evil Transformation Cult.
• Lü Yingyue visited Ji Jue in New Spring, delivered his reward of a top-tier shipping lane permit, and told him Quancheng’s calamity seed remained stable.
• Ji Jue asked whether other calamity seeds had gone missing, and Lü Yingyue confirmed that the seeds of Flame Tide, Sky Rift, Ten Thousand Dissolutions, and Time Difference had disappeared from sealed sites.
• Lü Yingyue explained that calamity seeds could reappear or sprout into new disasters unless they naturally withered away, and warned Ji Jue that New Spring could be targeted again.
• Ji Jue promised to protect the calamity seed in the Quancheng ruins, then watched Lü Yingyue leave as rain fell and decided he wanted to return to Tide Sound.

Ji Jue visited Tide Sound and reunited with Gloria and Ye Chun, but their reunion turned into an all-afternoon takeout feast before Ye Xian returned. Meanwhile, Ye Xian and Ghost Artisan discussed Ji Jue’s rapid progress toward the ultimate realm of Scene Tremor and her struggle to keep him occupied.

• Ji Jue returned to Yacheng and surprised Gloria at Tide Sound, where she said several big sisters had been watching him.
• Ye Chun came downstairs, and she and Ji Jue silently challenged each other to a food-delivery showdown.
• In the Workshop, Ye Xian told Ghost Artisan that Ji Jue had made one percent progress toward the ultimate realm and might surpass her within two or three years.
• Ye Xian realized Ji Jue and Ye Chun had been left alone, then returned to find them surrounded by takeout containers after eating all afternoon.
• Ye Chun and Ji Jue planned to go out for more food, but Ye Xian interrupted them and invited them into the Workshop after they finished eating.