Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue watched Lu Ling compete at Tianmen University and celebrated her success with Lu Ma and the younger children. At the closing ceremony, an attacker fired at Xu Chao Xian, but Ji Jue recognized Tong Zhiwu’s presence and the chapter ended before the shot’s outcome was revealed.

• Ji Jue worried about Coast’s need for technical staff, then discovered Isis had already begun forming a new research team and had donated a large sum without consulting him.
• Ji Jue discussed the children’s schooling with Lu Ma, who urged him to find a girlfriend and said she hoped the children would grow up honestly; he reassured her and told the younger children to be good.
• Lu Ma and Ji Jue cheered for Lu Ling at Tianmen University’s sports meet, where she won silver in the hundred-meter dash, bronze in pole vault, and first place in hurdles.
• Xu Chao Xian appeared at the closing ceremony, and Ji Jue booed him while recalling the damage he had done to local public services and the family’s benefits.
• A masked cleaner pulled a modified firearm from a trash can and shot at Xu Chao Xian; Ji Jue filmed the attack, then recognized Tong Zhiwu’s presence behind the governor.

Ji Jue and Tong Shan helped stop two attacks on Xu Chao Xian at a sports event, though a Heart Pivot escaped. Tong Shan revealed he was being transferred away from Yacheng, then invited Ji Jue to dinner, where Ji Jue’s liquor was quickly consumed by the North Mountain District group.

• Tong Shan deflected an attacker’s steel spikes, and security guards subdued the scarred assailant as Xu Chao Xian continued his speech.
• Ji Jue decoded messages revealing a second attacker, and Tong Shan immobilized the bomber while Ji Jue disassembled the explosives and disabled the getaway van.
• The Security Bureau arrested most of the conspirators, but one suspected Heart Pivot vanished without anyone identifying them.
• Xu Chao Xian tried to greet Ji Jue, who dismissed him, and Tong Shan later explained that a White State restoration group had planned the attacks.
• Tong Shan told Ji Jue he was leaving the Yacheng Security Bureau, then invited him to an all-you-can-eat dinner.
• Wen Wen and the North Mountain District group rapidly drank Ji Jue’s liquor, leaving him alarmed after Lao Zhang revealed Wen Wen had abstained for seven weeks.

Ji Jue and his companions held a chaotic drinking party to see Tong Shan off as he left for a powerful new post in Central Earth, where Ji Jue gave him a badge linking him to the Homecoming Knights. After the party, Wen Wen tried to resign, but Lü Yingyue challenged her reasons and she found herself back at her old office, uncertain where to go next.

• Ji Jue drank with Wen Wen, then roped in Ji Xue, Ji Liu, Xu Guan, and Tong Shan as each arrived, until the group spent the night drinking instead of eating.
• Ji Jue and Tong Shan discussed Xu Chao Xian's protected position and the burdens of governing Yacheng, then toasted Tong Shan's transfer to Central Earth.
• Tong Shan revealed that he had transcended, and Ji Jue gave him a work badge that could connect him with the Homecoming Knights.
• Tong Shan and Tong Hua departed for Central Earth, while Wen Wen left on her motorcycle and thought about the scenery and her wish to start over.
• Lü Yingyue refused to approve Wen Wen's resignation and questioned whether Wen Wen was trying to return to the path Wen Zheng had set for her.
• Wen Wen rode without direction until her motorcycle ran out of fuel outside the North Mountain District Branch, where a girl in a white dress watched her before leaving.

Ji Jue enjoyed New Spring Town’s sudden prosperity while managing Coast Industry and weighing new business offers. He pursued information about Rotten Scales Xie Heli and the arm master, kept his distance from sensitive affairs, and ended by confronting a new problem: his Blessings.

• Ji Jue ate noodles in New Spring Town and watched the bustling settlement expand as construction continued.
• Ji Jue reviewed work with Isis, declined an Association invitation, and postponed the Red Federation’s request for deeper cooperation in Alchemy.
• Ji Jue examined weak bounty reports about wolf-transformed Sin Corruption victims and sought the elusive Rotten Scales Xie Heli, a Wolf Nest leader tied to the Sower.
• An Neng told Ji Jue that capturing a Wolf alive would be difficult, while Ji Jue continued waiting for news about wolves and the arm master.
• Ji Jue set aside the idea of reviving the Evil Transformation Cult and avoided asking Ye Xian about their recent ordeal.
• Ji Jue looked over his memorandum and faced the new problem of his Blessings: Earth Bearing Sea Containing, Heaven's Movement Strong, and Myriad Things Self-Transformation.

Ji Jue asked Ye Xian how to obtain Myriad Things Self-Transformation, but she urged him to build his fundamentals patiently and finish his Rebirth Form first. After reflecting on his impatience, Ji Jue demonstrated how effortlessly his Rebirth Rank let him refine steel into moving figures and a flying bird, then admitted he did not know how to begin his Rebirth Form.

• Ji Jue asked Ye Xian how to acquire Myriad Things Self-Transformation, and she explained that he would need to perfect and combine his skills across four Alchemical systems.
• Ye Xian refused to speculate about the other Rebirth Blessings and warned Ji Jue to master patience, accumulate his abilities, and complete his Rebirth Form before seeking Blessings.
• Ji Jue asked Isis whether he was impatient, and she joked that a bullet could solve his troubles before firing one at him.
• Ji Jue caught the bullet and used Barehanded Refinement to reshape it into a moving figurine, a flying bird, and finally a steel ingot.
• Ji Jue reflected on his Rebirth Form and admitted he had no idea where to start.

After completing and tempering his work, Ji Jue gained widespread recognition and continued refining Pan Ying while handling workshop duties. The Chongguang Church’s Grand Elder called him urgently with an important matter to entrust, but had not yet explained it.

• Ji Jue imagined his future Rebirth Form, then returned to his workshop routine as news of his Masterwork spread throughout Haizhou.
• Ji Jue declined most new orders and invitations, while taking care of equipment for his friends and continuing research that strained his resources.
• Ji Jue re-tempered Pan Ying, reducing its murderous aura and bringing it closer to becoming Victory Over Evil.
• Isis told Ji Jue that the Chongguang Church’s Grand Elder had called repeatedly with an urgent message.
• Ji Jue answered the Grand Elder, who apologized for the late call and said he had an important matter to entrust to him.

Ji Jue learned that a Spirit Plague was spreading through the Puna Bantu Islands and that a Holy Light Cult medical team, including the Grand Elder’s assistant and his wife, had been seized by a warlord. He located their disabled vessel and enlisted General Minkler to help intercept the destroyer towing it.

• The Grand Elder told Ji Jue that Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading amid civil war in the Puna Bantu Islands and that a warlord had detained the Church’s medical team.
• The Grand Elder revealed that his assistant and the assistant’s wife were among the captives, and Ji Jue agreed to get the team back safely.
• Isis located the medical team’s vessel but could not take control of the obsolete destroyer towing it.
• Ji Jue told Isis to guide the destroyer north and called General Minkler to offer him a chance to capture a Puna Bantu destroyer.
• Minkler eagerly asked Ji Jue to explain the opportunity.

Yu Shu and the surviving crew were held captive aboard a ship by soldiers serving Puna Bantu’s coup leader, Ai Kongzuo. As the captives were lined up to be executed, a gunshot severed the officer’s hand, and dawn broke over the sea.

• Yu Shu failed to save a mortally wounded crewman and ended the man’s suffering by stopping the blood flow to his brain.
• The captain told Yu Shu that Ai Kongzuo’s soldiers were brutal and that the general believed eating enemies would grant him power and longevity.
• Soldiers dragged the captives onto the deck after Ai Kongzuo ordered them killed instead of ransomed, and they shot those who would not pray.
• When an officer aimed his pistol at Yu Shu, a shot severed the officer’s hand before he could kill him.
• Yu Shu looked out to sea as dawn broke, with the corpses he had thought he saw in the water gone.

The Seven Cities Allied Defense Fleet rescued Yu Shu and the medical team from Ai Kongzuo’s destroyer, while Minkler turned the capture into a public victory. Yu Shu confessed that he had killed someone, and Ji Jue later ordered the captured invaders executed.

• Minkler’s fleet surrounded the destroyer, subdued its crew, and rescued Yu Shu and the medical team.
• Minkler staged the rescue for the media and told Yu Shu that Mister Ji had sent him and that Yu Shu’s father was worried about him.
• Nun Leta Yue visited the medical team and reassured them that their Father was safe, then comforted Yu Shu after he revealed his emblem had turned black because he had killed someone.
• Yu Shu briefly saw a distant island and a towering structure through the fog, while Ji Jue’s systems recorded unexplained signal losses and abnormal Spiritual Substance fluctuations.
• After hearing about the crimes committed by Ai Kongzuo’s men, Ji Jue told Minkler to execute the captured invaders as a warning.

Ji Jue profited from Seven Cities’ war with Puna Bantu, whose capital became a Forbidden Zone after the Spirit Plague erupted. At Coast Industry, he hired Yu Shu, and the elder left his son there to find his footing after confessing his own regrets as a father.

• Minkler’s Lineage sent Ji Jue supplies and alchemical equipment through the Libra Conglomerate in exchange for his support as Seven Cities prepared for war.
• Seven Cities declared war on Puna Bantu, and General Ai Kongzuo was killed during a banquet; political chaos followed before Dream Loss Syndrome turned the capital into a Demon Domain.
• The Holy Light Cult elder visited Ji Jue with Yu Shu, who had recovered, and asked him to provide Yu Shu with work.
• Yu Shu told Ji Jue about his medical qualifications, organizational experience, and Echo Vortex Lineage Matrix, and Ji Jue agreed to take him on at Coast Industry.
• The elder explained that Yu Shu had committed murder and could no longer remain in the Church, then urged him to use his time at Coast Industry to decide what he wanted.
• The elder said goodbye to Yu Shu, admitted he regretted not acting sooner to rescue him, and left as Yu Shu turned toward the factory.

Yu Shu became an effective assistant in New Spring, helping resolve operational problems while Ji Jue delegated more work to him. The chapter ended with Yu Shu warning Ji Jue that stowaways from Thousand Isles were bringing serious problems, including the still-spreading Spirit Plague.

• Yu Shu worked across Coastal Area, Courier Logistics, and New Spring, improving procedures and proposing expanded clinic services.
• Old Gou and Yan Craftsman sent Yu Shu to help Ji Jue, and rumors spread that Yu Shu and Isis had taken control of New Spring.
• Yu Shu organized Ji Jue’s work and discussed why his father had guided him toward the Vortex Lineage instead of Ascension.
• Yu Shu warned Ji Jue that increasing numbers of stowaways from Thousand Isles could bring major trouble to the Federation.
• Yu Shu reported that medical teams had confirmed the Spirit Plague was still spreading.

Ji Jue ordered New Spring to prepare for Dream Loss Syndrome after Yu Shu warned that large-scale infection could trigger a dangerous Collapse Effect. As the disease spread across the Federation, an infected stowaway was abandoned aboard a fishing boat, and the chapter ended with the outbreak’s cruel truth reaching the cities despite the Heavenly Overseer's Law.

• Yu Shu told Ji Jue that Dream Loss Syndrome was spreading unusually widely and urged him to arrange vaccinations in New Spring.
• Ji Jue approved vaccine coverage for New Spring’s official employees and residents, then signed off on further preparations after hearing how the disease could cause a large-scale Collapse Effect.
• A fishing boat carrying stowaways reached the Federation’s Coastline, where the sailors discovered a woman who was unresponsive and a child crying beside her.
• The Ship owner ordered the woman thrown overboard and gave no answer when Big Cunt asked what would happen to the child.
• Dream Loss Syndrome spread through Settlements across the Federation, and the assumption that the Heavenly Overseer's Law would keep it out of the cities proved false.

Dream Loss Syndrome spread through North Mountain District and the Wilderness, overwhelming settlements and reaching New Spring despite vaccination efforts. After the first infected person in New Spring died, Ji Jue ordered Isis to prepare a large-scale alchemical project called Worm.

• Wen Wen traced the outbreak to a healing center in North Mountain District, destroyed its infected occupants, and froze the Spiritual Substance worms emerging from their remains.
• Mature Spiritual Substance worms spread through the Wilderness, forcing settlements into lockdown as refugees gathered outside New Spring and guards used water cannons to disperse them.
• Yu Shu told Ji Jue that pharmaceutical companies had stopped supplying vaccines, while Ji Jue memorized the companies and conglomerates he blamed for the shortage.
• The first person in New Spring died from Dream Loss Syndrome, and Ji Jue learned that the exhausted rice-noodle seller had recently lost his wife after years of debt and illness.
• Ji Jue questioned a world where death brought happiness, then ordered Isis to begin a large-scale alchemical project named Worm.

Ji Jue rebuilt the Poison Heart Ring and used Haizhou’s power grid to awaken Isis in a vast mercury-and-lightning creation. As silver rain fell across the Present World, Isis looked upon the devastated world again.

• Ji Jue dismantled the Poison Heart Ring and reshaped its Spirit Essence Circuits and Blessings with the help of his Spirit Essence Hands and Isis.
• Ji Jue dismissed Isis’s warning about the consequences and ordered Project Three to activate.
• Coast Industry cut civilian electricity and gathered power from Haizhou’s wind towers to charge the mercury creation.
• A silver pillar surged from Coast Industry, and Isis opened her eyes within the clouds above the city.
• Gou Er noticed silver light on his fingertips as endless silver rain began falling over the Present World.

Tong Yuan traced Dream Loss Syndrome to a dangerous mystery involving the Lord of Huaxu, the Lord’s Tower, and several hidden forces, then stirred the Spiritual Substance moths into a frenzy. In New Spring, Ji Jue and the newly freed Isis unleashed a silver storm that purified the plague and began sweeping the Wilderness.

• Tong Yuan observed the Spiritual Substance insect and explained that Dream Loss Syndrome came from Hua Xu Jun’s invitation to abandon the mortal world for dreams.
• Tong Yuan used the Ma Family’s Book of Fate to trace the insect’s source and glimpsed a misty island, the Lord’s Tower, and signs of the Abyss, Unending, Black Heaven, and Foul Corruption Demon.
• Tong Yuan yanked a crucial thread, sending Spiritual Substance moths across the Federation’s Coastal Area into chaos and interrupting the plague’s spread.
• In New Spring, Ji Jue watched Isis unleash a silver storm that removed aberrant Spiritual Substance from infected people and sealed the anomalies.
• Ji Jue named Isis’s new power the Crown of Isis, and Isis continued her purification toward the Wilderness, targeting the moths rising from the land.

Ji Jue used the Crown of Isis to sweep Haizhou with a silver storm that annihilated Spiritual Substance moths and a Disaster beast, while the Security Bureau dismissed the devastation as routine extermination. As the Sky Overseer ignored the storm, a young woman in a white dress appeared behind Ji Jue and addressed him.

• Isis’s Crown drained Spiritual Substance from the land, destroying swarms of moths and sending a storm across Haizhou’s settlements.
• The silver storm devastated a swamp-dwelling Disaster beast, and Ji Jue recognized that Isis had built a weapon structure similar to Pan Ying.
• Ji Jue praised Isis’s design and began sketching ideas for future materials while the storm swept across nearly half of Haizhou.
• The Security Bureau issued Lü Garrison Chief’s notice calling the destruction routine extermination, while the Sky Overseer ignored the storm and appeared to loosen its restrictions.
• A young woman in a white dress appeared behind Ji Jue in the workshop and began speaking to him.

Wen Wen traced the Spirit Plague to the abandoned Songxiang Waterworks and found her sister Wen Su behind the vast underground mutation. After destroying the infected facility, Wen Wen confronted Wen Su, who welcomed her fury and embraced her.

• Wen Wen arrived at Songxiang Waterworks after Tong Hua pieced together the clues, while Little An stayed behind to protect Hua Hua and Lao Zhang.
• Wen Wen stormed the waterworks, using her Crystal Spear and Realm of Encirclement to annihilate the swarms of moths and mutated creatures.
• Wen Wen entered the underground purification facility and found a huge gathering of Dream Loss Syndrome victims and Spiritual Substance mutations.
• Wen Su appeared as a phantom over the reservoir, greeted Wen Wen, and described the suffering and humiliation she believed her sister had endured.
• Wen Su revealed that the horrors were her gift to Wen Wen, and Wen Wen destroyed them before seizing Wen Su by the throat.
• Wen Su reappeared, embraced Wen Wen, and delighted in seeing her express her anger.

Wen Wen rejected Wen Su’s plea to return home, while Ji Jue violently attacked Wen Su’s spirit projection after it entered his workshop. Ji Jue trapped the projection and continued assaulting it, leaving Wen Su’s fate unresolved.

• Wen Wen refused Wen Su’s request to come home and warned her not to threaten the people Wen Wen cared about.
• Wen Su threatened to kill Ji Jue, and Wen Wen’s reaction left Wen Su vomiting blood.
• Ji Jue attacked Wen Su’s spirit projection with Chun Jun swords and used Scene Tremor to damage her main consciousness through their Spiritual Substance link.
• Wen Su tried to influence Ji Jue’s emotions, but Ji Jue had mechanized his body and shielded his soul with Chunjun’s Shadow.
• Ji Jue sealed New Spring against Wen Su’s interference, restrained her split spirit with the Feigong Matrix, and repeatedly slapped her while disrupting her resistance.

Ji Jue captured Wen Su’s divided spirit and used a sacrifice to infuse it with Abyss’s power, creating an opening for Wen Wen to strike. As Wen Wen confronted her, Wen Su laughed, leaving their encounter unresolved.

• Ji Jue sealed Heart Pivot’s divided spirit inside his workshop after Little Cow and Horse helped him destroy its projections and cut off its escape routes.
• Ji Jue trapped the spirit and prepared a sacrificial ground with sixteen iron boxes, then summoned Great Evil’s Shadow and forced its blessing into the captive.
• The Abyssal power began flowing through the divided spirit’s connection to its main body, and Wen Su staggered as darkness poured from her face.
• Wen Wen seized the opening and pierced Wen Su’s spirit with Minerva’s Spear, telling her that their conflict ended there.
• Wen Su called Wen Wen “Sister,” then twisted with delight and burst into laughter.

Wen Su revealed that Wen Sheng had been released and that Wen Wen had already been chosen in the bloodline struggle. Ji Jue defeated Wen Sheng’s serpent incarnation in New Spring, while Wen Wen broke free of her restraints and struck back; the wounded serpent then advanced its plan to bring the Huabei Kingdom into the world.

• Wen Su told Wen Wen that Wen Sheng’s soul had been suffering in dreams and that he had been released, before the serpent’s power swallowed the waterworks and appeared over New Spring.
• Wen Sheng’s serpent incarnation attacked Ji Jue, but Ji Jue escaped its beam and used the workshop and Crown of Isis to restrain it and force it to consume a volatile Spiritual Substance mixture.
• Wen Wen’s Minerva strike disrupted Wen Sheng’s incarnation, and Wen Wen pinned the dream in place with the Realm of Encirclement before tearing off her wristband and challenging him to settle their old rivalry.
• Wen Wen’s attack wounded the serpent on its island, leaving the Legacy of Huabei close to losing control.
• The serpent ordered its believers to prepare for the coming Revelation, and swarms of moths spread among the islands as the Huabei Kingdom’s outline appeared in the Dreamland.