Chapter Summaries

Li Jun reacted to the appearance of a black island near the fog boundary while Jiang Mian watched Ye Chenyang finish crafting a pair of glasses through the Core she had given him. She then sensed activity beneath the sea and wondered whether he had found something.

• Li Jun reviewed Lin Guan's report about Qin Xiao's encounter and considered Doom's motives, the missing Calamity Cores, and the danger of provoking the World-Overturning Torrent.
• A special communication reported a new development, and Li Jun rushed to the deck, where he saw a sizable black island near the fog boundary.
• Jiang Mian lay awake thinking about her growing relationship with Ye Chenyang and resolved to focus on reaching the sixth rank.
• Jiang Mian used the Core's shared senses to watch Ye Chenyang work on gold-framed glasses, then withdrew her awareness when he noticed the Core.
• Jiang Mian sensed movement beneath the sea and wondered whether Ye Chenyang had found it.

Jiang Mian met the injured Xuanhuang and began planning how to contact it and Torrent before authorities tightened security around the coast. The next morning, after Ye Chenyang gave her custom glasses with a map and compass, she led him toward her room to ask him for something.

• Torrent reported that its clones had found Xuanhuang in the southern sea and brought it to the Save Point.
• Xuanhuang told Jiang Mian that a [Void Realm Walker] had injured it while it was following an unusual call toward the coast.
• Jiang Mian examined Xuanhuang's wounds and found lingering Spatial Power that was preventing them from healing.
• Jiang Mian decided to contact Xuanhuang and Torrent quickly before the authorities increased coastal surveillance.
• Ye Chenyang gave Jiang Mian delicate gold-framed glasses equipped with a map and compass.
• Jiang Mian took Ye Chenyang's hand and led him toward her room, saying she wanted to ask him for something.

Jiang Mian received a huge Radiance crystal blade from Ye Chenyang and walked with him to the boundary between the inner and outer seas. She asked him how to reach the sea beyond, and he said he knew.

• Ye Chenyang conjured an enormous blade of pure Radiance crystals for Jiang Mian, who stored it in her space.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang left the hotel and walked to a secluded path where the inner and outer seas met.
• Jiang Mian noticed the reinforced Everbright boundary and passed Lin Guan and A Jun without drawing attention.
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang she wanted to see the sea beyond and asked how to get there.
• Ye Chenyang brushed Jiang Mian's hair and told her he knew how.

Jiang Mian learned how to cross Everbright’s reinforced boundary and decided to leave for the outer sea immediately. Before vanishing in an invisibility coat, she hugged Ye Chenyang and promised to return soon.

• Ye Chenyang explained that a Void Realm Walker had reinforced Everbright’s boundary, causing anyone who crossed it to be marked.
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian she could force her way through the boundary or travel around it through the Void Realm, and Jiang Mian chose to use Eternal Day to get out quickly.
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang that people were waiting for her and set off toward the outer sea with him.
• Jiang Mian returned to hug Ye Chenyang, promised she would come back safely, then put on her transparent coat and disappeared.

Li Jun and Yang Xin faced Xuanhuang’s assault on the offshore defense line while Jiang Mian secretly escaped beyond the Everbright boundary. Jiang Mian reached the mist safely and headed deeper into the sea as the battle at Base City No. 7 began.

• Li Jun watched the [World-Overturning Torrent] spread its domain and grew wary as Calamities gathered near the boundary.
• Xuanhuang rose from the sea and rammed the golden barrier, prompting Li Jun to order the defenses to open fire.
• Yang Xin joined Li Jun and searched the barrier, noticing that the gathered Calamities were beginning to explode.
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang she had escaped by digging through the boundary while clones and Calamities created a distraction.
• Jiang Mian released her aura, leapt into the air, and flew into the depths of the mist.

Jiang Mian used the mist to conceal her movements and headed into the sea to gather Calamity cores while the battle distracted the authorities. Meanwhile, Yan Yan reported the clash to his teacher, [Oblivion River], who ordered him to wait and then awakened [Formless].

• Jiang Mian surveyed the distant battle, used her glasses to keep her bearings, and dove toward the densest concentration of Calamities to collect cores.
• Yan Yan received a field report confirming that [World-Overturning Torrent] and [Profound Yellow Overturn] had begun fighting.
• Yan Yan crossed a black river and a red flower field to deliver the report to his teacher, [Oblivion River].
• [Oblivion River] told Yan Yan not to make any rash moves because the time was not right to pursue the human pinnacles.
• [Oblivion River] absorbed a red flower into a black glass bead and discovered that [Formless] had awakened.

Oblivion River revived Formless and agreed to help it recover in exchange for its soul-fusion trait, then realized Formless’s remains might be with Doom. Meanwhile, Jiang Mian returned with valuable spoils and dominated Torrent, causing her Tide trait to upgrade.

• Oblivion River explained that it had rescued Formless’s remnant soul and suppressed Eternal Day’s lingering power with a death curse.
• Formless agreed to cooperate with Oblivion River and explained that it could regrow from even a tiny piece of its original flesh.
• Oblivion River realized that Jiang Mian had taken Formless’s remains and considered what it could offer Doom to get them back.
• Jiang Mian checked her spoils outside Base City No. 7 and planned to use them to advance and repay Ye Chenyang.
• Jiang Mian touched Torrent and selected Yes when the domination prompt appeared, upgrading Tide into Abyssal Sea Eye and gaining the trait Delay.

Jiang Mian discovered that her upgraded Abyssal Sea Eye could nearly stop everything around her for three seconds, while World-Overturning Torrent began transforming into a creature able to control water and lightning. After Jiang Mian recalled Xuanhuang from the outer sea defense, Yang Xin and Yu Xi realized the Calamities had withdrawn into the Mist.

• Jiang Mian tested Abyssal Sea Eye and found that it slowed everything in range for three seconds, consuming her mental strength.
• World-Overturning Torrent told Jiang Mian it needed one final step to complete its transformation, then entered the Mist as its body changed and its horn fell off.
• Jiang Mian took the Torrent's discarded horn, decided it no longer needed to guard the outer sea, and sent Xuanhuang a message to pull back.
• Jiang Mian found a reef near a strange island and waited while the Torrent transformed, then shifted her attention to Xuanhuang.
• Yu Xi told Yang Xin that World-Overturning Torrent had disappeared, and they watched the enormous island recede into the Mist.

Jiang Mian met Xuanhuang in the Mist and used a Radiance longsword made from Eternal Day’s power to draw the Spatial Power out of its wounds. After discovering she could control the power, she began treating Xuanhuang’s injuries.

• Jiang Mian watched Xuanhuang approach and considered how it could move swiftly through water and even magma by using its Absorption skill.
• Jiang Mian noticed a large group of low-tier Sound Followers on an isolated island and wondered how they had survived there.
• Jiang Mian landed on Xuanhuang and promised to treat its injury before it metamorphosed.
• Jiang Mian drew a golden longsword and found that its Eternal Day power could pull the Spatial Power from Xuanhuang’s wounds.
• Jiang Mian used void-infused wind to corrode and cast the extracted Spatial Power into the sea, then repeated the process on Xuanhuang’s other wounds.

Jiang Mian finished treating Xuanhuang’s wounds and upgraded her Crystal Rock skill, gaining the trait Resonance. After Xuanhuang left to complete its transformation at its lair, Torrent offered to provide powerful clones for her return to shore, and Jiang Mian headed to a nearby island to test her new skill.

• Jiang Mian completed her cleanup and healing work on Xuanhuang, whose wounds had healed and whose strength had risen after breaking its shackles.
• Jiang Mian upgraded Crystal Rock to Heaven and Earth Annihilation and gained the new trait Resonance.
• Jiang Mian asked whether Xuanhuang needed to return to its lair to complete its transformation, and it nodded before leaving for the Mist.
• Torrent told Jiang Mian that it could create up to eight clones able to use delay, and Jiang Mian agreed to store them for protection.
• Torrent absorbed the stored black dragon clone and learned that Eternal Day was one of Jiang Mian’s people, while Jiang Mian told it to keep that secret.
• Jiang Mian went to a nearby island to wait for Torrent and test her new earth-attribute skill.

Jiang Mian tested [Heaven and Earth Annihilation] by crystallizing an island and destroying it from within, then returned her attention to her clone in the city. There, she found Ye Chenyang dealing with a Public Security Bureau sweep, and he asked when she would come back.

• Jiang Mian used [Heaven and Earth Annihilation] to crystallize an island and its surrounding waters, trapping the Sound Followers.
• Jiang Mian activated the skill's resonance effect and destroyed the island and part of the surrounding sea in a single strike.
• Torrent approached Jiang Mian, praised her power, and reported that its first clone was complete.
• Jiang Mian sensed a stir from the core she had given Ye Chenyang and awakened her clone in the hotel.
• Jiang Mian filled out a registration form for Public Security Bureau officers, then learned from Ye Chenyang that Base City No. 7 remained under lockdown.
• Ye Chenyang asked Jiang Mian when she was coming back.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang headed through the checkpoint toward the Outer Sea base, but an unseen attacker ambushed them with a mental attack and a floating weapon. Ye Chenyang suspected the attacker was a Nightmare-path Calamity without a physical body.

• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang that her work was finished, and he invited her to accompany him to collect resources approved by Yang Xin.
• Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian used his special-grade pass to enter the checkpoint and cross the buffer zones toward the dock.
• Jiang Mian asked whether Ye Chenyang could fly, and he said he could use Spatial Power but had chosen not to draw attention.
• A streak of silver light attacked them, and Ye Chenyang pulled Jiang Mian out of its path.
• Jiang Mian searched for the attacker but found no one, while Ye Chenyang recognized a mental attack and suspected a bodiless Nightmare-path Calamity was controlling the floating weapon.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang survived an attack by a spiritual-body calamity, which escaped through a domain door into [Other Shore]. They boarded a yacht to continue their journey, but Jiang Mian later woke up somewhere unfamiliar with Torrent.

• Jiang Mian warned Ye Chenyang that two attackers were approaching, and he shielded them from their flying daggers with [Holy Radiance].
• Ye Chenyang used a shock wave and [Condense Light] to expose and shoot at one attacker, but the other escaped through a door into [Other Shore].
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian the attacker was at least five-star and explained that [Oblivion River] could open a door to [Other Shore].
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang passed through the secondary buffer zone and boarded an enclosed yacht at the pier.
• Jiang Mian rested in the yacht, then woke somewhere unfamiliar and asked Torrent where it had brought her.

Jiang Mian stayed near the barrier while her clone accompanied Ye Chenyang through a Sea Defense base, and Oblivion River planned to target Eternal Day through Jiang Mian. After Ye Chenyang sailed around the base, Jiang Mian returned to the yacht and greeted him.

• Torrent told Jiang Mian they were close to the barrier, and she decided to wait until Ye Chenyang finished his business before returning.
• Oblivion River learned that its attack on Eternal Day had failed and ordered a subordinate to watch him, considering Jiang Mian a possible weakness.
• Jiang Mian's clone waited aboard Ye Chenyang's yacht while he entered the Sea Defense base, where Awakened discussed the lull in missions and upcoming leave.
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian he would take the yacht around the base's north side because Senior Yang was inspecting the southern barrier.
• After Ye Chenyang sailed for half an hour, Jiang Mian appeared at the yacht's stern and greeted him.

Jiang Mian returned from the Mist and reunited with Ye Chenyang, who was relieved to see her cheerful and well. She teased him by changing clothes in the cabin while asking him to turn around, then suggested they return to town for a late-night snack.

• Ye Chenyang asked Jiang Mian about her trip, and she said the Mist had been boring.
• Ye Chenyang decided he should take the initiative with Jiang Mian, while she considered teasing him again.
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang she was going to change clothes and asked him to turn around, saying she trusted him.
• Jiang Mian changed, dismissed her clone, and packed away her worn clothes while Ye Chenyang tried not to sense her movements.
• Jiang Mian hid her amusement, sat beside Ye Chenyang, and asked him to take her into town for a late-night snack.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang shared a meal after the crisis, and Ye Chenyang decided to confess his feelings at their usual spot. He asked to become closer to her, leaving Jiang Mian poised to answer.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang walked to the night market, where she ate and talked about her haul of resources.
• Ye Chenyang tested Jiang Mian’s reaction by putting an arm around her and leaning close, and she realized he seemed to be acting differently.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang held hands and walked to the rise where he had given her the Sun Mark.
• Ye Chenyang took Jiang Mian’s hand, asked if they were still friends, and told her he wanted to be closer to her.

Jiang Mian accepted Ye Chenyang’s confession, and the two became a couple as they shared an embrace and a kiss. Yang Xin sensed a burst of [Radiance] and discovered the pair flirting, noticing traces of [Eternal Day]’s protection around Jiang Mian.

• Ye Chenyang gently comforted Jiang Mian, and she tearfully agreed to be with him.
• Jiang Mian let Ye Chenyang call her “Mian Mian” and teased him as they embraced.
• Jiang Mian kissed Ye Chenyang on the cheek and declared that he was hers, causing his [Eternal Day] power to flare in golden light.
• Ye Chenyang took Jiang Mian’s hand, and they walked back together with their fingers intertwined.
• Yang Xin sensed the burst of [Radiance], used a golden mirror to see Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian, and noticed traces of [Eternal Day]’s protection around her.

Ye Chenyang gave Jiang Mian a necklace containing a hidden storage space, and she wore it the next day as they settled into being an official couple. Meanwhile, Yang Xin reflected on the importance of [Eternal Day] and planned to ask about its imprint.

• Yang Xin considered how Ye Chenyang had passed his [Eternal Day] power to Jiang Mian instead of leaving an imprint, and reviewed his past and family circumstances.
• Jiang Mian opened Ye Chenyang's gift and found a warm necklace with a pendant that activated a storage space.
• Jiang Mian decided to wear the necklace openly and went to sleep after thinking about her upcoming move to Base City Number One.
• Jiang Mian chose a blue dress the next morning and joined Ye Chenyang, who admired the necklace on her.
• Jiang Mian teased Ye Chenyang by asking how beautiful she looked, then patted his head when he struggled to answer.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang grew closer as they discussed finding a home together and turning their Calamity spoils into resources. Jiang Mian showed Ye Chenyang an eighth-rank Calamity’s dragon horn, but he realized he was not strong enough to process it yet.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang rested in each other’s arms while Ye Chenyang considered how her ability might have changed her body.
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian he planned to trade items from a King of Cysts colony for a house in Base City Number One so they could live together.
• Jiang Mian considered selling premium Calamity Cores through a retailer as a supplier.
• Jiang Mian brought out the tip of World-Overturning Torrent’s dragon horn, causing the room’s electrical appliances to shut off, then quickly put it away.
• Ye Chenyang recognized the horn as an organ from an eighth-rank Calamity and admitted he lacked the strength to process it.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang set aside the question of turning the dragon horn into a weapon and went out to celebrate with a stroll and a barbecue meal. At the restaurant, Ye Chenyang received a message suggesting Yang Xin had realized something about Jiang Mian and the Sun Mark, but he reassured her that nobody would openly cause trouble.

• Jiang Mian accepted Ye Chenyang's decision not to make a weapon from the Eighth-tier dragon horn, and Ye Chenyang invited her to celebrate with a walk.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang strolled through the lively district hand in hand, shared a candied hawthorn, and entered a barbecue restaurant.
• Ye Chenyang received a message from Senior Yang and told Jiang Mian that Yang Xin seemed to have figured something out.
• Jiang Mian worried that others might object to Ye Chenyang giving her the Sun Mark, but Ye Chenyang said they would only gossip and would not cause trouble openly.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang raised their cola glasses in a toast.