Chapter Summaries

Wei Xing recounted Longwind City’s history and achievements to the Great Wall Defense Line’s military leaders, while Tang Lin doubted his account. Guo Chongguang revealed a demonstration of Dawn’s overwhelming power, leaving the leaders stunned by Longwind City’s rune technology and the changes it could bring.

• Wei Xing told the meeting about Longwind City, its origins as Longwind Fortress, and Lincon’s service there as a night-watch guard.
• Tang Lin questioned whether one person could survive near an Abyss Rift for three years and build a city for three hundred thousand people, but Guo Chongguang confirmed Lincon’s identity and defended Wei Xing’s account.
• Guo Chongguang presented research findings on items Wei Xing brought back and showed a holographic video of a modified Dawn being used against Blackscale.
• The weapon pierced Blackscale’s defenses and destroyed it with one shot, though its rank-user wielder collapsed from the strain.
• Li Xingzhou recognized Dawn as Wei Xing’s gun, and Guo Chongguang displayed it while explaining that the Longwind Lord had enhanced it with runes.

Guo Chongguang explained that Dawn was a living Spirit Armament that recognized its master, and defended Longwind City and Lincon against criticism. He then proposed adding Lincon to the Casting Cauldron Plan by replacing one of the five official candidates, leaving the conference room tense as attendees wondered who would give up the position.

• Guo Chongguang said Dawn possessed its own consciousness, drained strength from unrecognized users, and could not be mass-produced.
• Wei Xing explained that Dawn was a Spirit Armament, and Guo Chongguang warned the meeting not to belittle Longwind City or question Lincon.
• Guo Chongguang began the Casting Cauldron Plan discussion and proposed adding Lincon among the five official candidates rather than the inland reserves.
• Guo Chongguang revealed that Lu Guan and the other absent candidates had already agreed to respect his decision.
• The factions at the meeting fell silent, wondering which official candidate would be replaced by Lincon.

Zhou Kang told Tang Lin that Taiyi had chosen Lincon for the Cauldron-Forger position, leaving Tang Lin furious but unable to change the decision. In Longwind City, Lincon ordered Guan Teng to reorganize Jiangzhou’s transportation and set Longwind Academy’s opening for seven days later.

• Zhou Kang refused to replace the chosen candidate, and Tang Lin demanded to know why before Guo Chongguang said Taiyi had made the final decision.
• Tang Lin stormed out of the meeting, while Xu Dong and Guo Chongguang discussed the trouble Lincon might cause when he arrived in Capital Province.
• Lincon assigned Guan Teng to reorganize Jiangzhou’s transportation with Zhou Qing’s help and authorized the Garrison Guard to deal forcefully with anyone who obstructed them.
• Old Jiang reported that Longwind Academy was complete, and Lincon scheduled its opening for seven days later and ordered the student intake to be determined.
• Lincon suggested enrolling Zhang Han and the other children of the Radiant Legion, prompting Zhang Rui to recall how the children had eagerly spread the news about their group.

Lincon recruited Golden Dragon and Xue Ningning into Longwind City’s newly created Sacred Guard after learning about Star Pavilion and offering them paid positions. They accepted the jobs, and Lincon welcomed them as the first Left Guards.

• Guan Teng led Garrison Guard soldiers and city staff out of Longwind City to expand the city’s reach into the wasteland and ruins.
• The Gray Feather Squad watched the force depart, and Bluebird and Shen Xi urged Bai Ge to grow stronger if he wanted to protect Jiang Li.
• Lincon asked Golden Dragon and Xue Ningning about Star Pavilion and proposed recruiting them, while Xue Ningning worried about repaying her debt.
• Jiang Li explained that the Sacred Guard would capture and detain ability users who caused trouble, and Lincon offered the pair base pay and bounties.
• Golden Dragon and Xue Ningning signed employment contracts, joining Longwind City as Left Guards of the Sacred Guard.

Lincon considered Star Pavilion’s interference with the Casting Cauldron Plan and learned that Luo Chiyou’s strength was recovering. He promised to solve Hive Canyon’s food shortage and prepared a Temple trial to choose a second legion commander, leaving the Abyssal races ready to compete in Ironwood Valley.

• Golden Dragon told Lincon about Star Pavilion’s plans to interfere with the Casting Cauldron Plan, and Lincon judged that Longwind City was not yet strong enough to confront Star Pavilion.
• Luo Chiyou woke from her slumber with her wind abilities recovering to about C-Rank, and Lincon offered to find materials to strengthen her soul.
• The Ant Guard reported that the Ant Queen was pregnant with an Ant King and needed more high-energy flesh and blood to survive and produce an A-Rank warrior.
• Lincon acknowledged Hive Canyon’s food shortage and promised to find a solution for the Ant Race, Shadow Race, and Blood Race.
• Lincon told Alashu, Hei Shi, and Bane to fight a powerful human trial-taker in a Temple trial that would determine who was best suited to become Hive Canyon’s second legion commander.
• Lincon led the Abyssal Creatures to Ironwood Valley to familiarize them with the trial venue.

Lincon inspected the Spirit Source Iron Tree’s path to becoming a Gengjin Mother Tree and planned to use it to support Hive Canyon’s future attacks on other Abyss Rifts. He then created a second Trial Temple for ability-user breakthroughs, whose immense domain left the Golden Dragon stunned.

• Lincon visited Ironwood Valley, where the Eight-Headed Snake bowed to him, and examined the Spirit Source Iron Tree’s growth potential and evolution into a Gengjin Mother Tree.
• Lincon decided that Hive Canyon should obtain blood-food by attacking Abyss Rifts in other regions of Blue Star, and considered moving the Gengjin Mother Tree there as a living arsenal.
• Lincon used one Temple Point to create a second Trial Temple designed to train ability users in breaking through their ranks, with a rewind feature to protect them if they chose the wrong path.
• The new Temple’s domain spread a powerful fluctuation across the territory, and the Golden Dragon sensed it while walking with Xue Ningning and froze in awe.

Lincon created a Breakthrough Temple in Ironwood Valley to push Chen Siwei toward a breakthrough, then began unleashing the Spirit Source Iron Tree’s potential. Chen Siwei faced a gauntlet of powerful opponents in the Temple while the tree transformed into a Gengjin Mother Tree.

• Golden Dragon sensed an extraordinary domain near the Sacred Court, then left with Xue Ningning to pursue the troublemaker in Longwind City.
• Lincon brought Alashu and the other Abyssal Creatures into the Breakthrough Temple’s chaotic magnetic domain and ordered them to fight Chen Siwei when she arrived.
• Chen Siwei entered the Temple, where Alashu attacked her; she used magnetic force and a rail-assisted shot to damage him before encountering six B-Rank creatures, including Ant Guards.
• Lincon sent Death Scythe into the Temple to spar with Chen Siwei and display its domain without killing her.
• Lincon used Potential Unleashing on the Spirit Source Iron Tree, causing it to transform into a colossal sword-like Gengjin Mother Tree as golden weapons appeared around it.

Lincon successfully unleashed the Gengjin Mother Tree’s potential, but the effort left him mentally exhausted. After receiving its Iron Tree Hollow Husk and planning to use it in future Abyss Rift campaigns, he returned to the Sacred Court to recover and left Luo Chiyou to handle government affairs.

• Lincon revealed the Gengjin Mother Tree’s true body and abilities, and its Tree Spirit presented him with the Geng Metal Iron Tree Hollow Husk it had shed.
• Lincon had the Gengjin Mother Tree cut the hollow husk into fist-sized pieces and told her to prepare to assist Hive Canyon in invading Abyss Rifts, starting with Lin Province.
• Lincon ordered the Eight-Headed Snake to guard Ironwood Valley’s entrance, then returned to the Sacred Court and drank Life Essence to speed his recovery.
• Luo Chiyou asked what Lincon had evolved, but he went to bed without answering and asked her to handle the Governing Hall’s documents while he slept.
• Luo Chiyou accepted the work after Lincon thanked her and went to the study to review the documents.

Chen Siwei fought Alashu, Hei Shi, and the Ant Guards inside the Temple, where the chaotic magnetic field pushed her toward an A-Rank breakthrough. After she defeated Hei Shi and came close to completing her magnetic circuit, an unknown figure expanded its domain and confronted her.

• Chen Siwei hid in the sandstorm with the Blood Race Lord's head after killing three pursuers, while Alashu prayed to the being he believed was watching over him.
• Alashu found Chen Siwei and attacked with bone spikes, but she escaped inside an iron ball as Hei Shi and the Ant Guards prepared to ambush her.
• Chen Siwei compressed her magnetic field and fired a Magnetic Torrent, piercing two Ant Guards and revealing her growing ability to create magnetic force.
• Alashu attacked Chen Siwei with Bone Hell while Hei Shi searched through the sandstorm, but Chen Siwei used heartbeat detection to locate Hei Shi and kill him with another Magnetic Torrent.
• Chen Siwei sensed that she was close to completing her magnetic circuit, but the wind stopped and a black-misted figure wielding a silver scythe appeared above her after expanding its domain.

Chen Siwei used the Death Domain in the Breakthrough Temple to understand how to form her own Domain and break through to A-Rank. She awakened Magnetic Throne, then battled Death Scythe while exploring her newly expanded magnetic powers.

• Chen Siwei recognized Death Scythe as an A-Rank Weird Calamity and suspected that Lincon had arranged the encounter to help her break through.
• As the Death Domain suppressed her magnetic force, Chen Siwei realized a Domain amplified her will rather than merely strengthening her ability.
• Chen Siwei awakened her Domain, Magnetic Throne, and expanded it to cover a thousand meters, pushing back Death Scythe's Death Domain.
• Chen Siwei and Death Scythe's Domains collided, and she used the Temple's extreme magnetic fields as weapons within her new Domain.
• Chen Siwei unleashed her magnetic power and realized she could control it with far greater precision, calling it the real Magnetic Heaven Attraction.

Chen Siwei emerged from the Breakthrough Temple as an A-Rank ability user and returned to Longwind City, while Lincon recovered from his overexertion. At Origin Hall, Lincon explained that he wanted Longwind City’s strength built on loyal people he had cultivated himself, then began a new discussion.

• Chen Siwei completed her breakthrough in the Breakthrough Temple, where the Gengjin Mother Tree suppressed the disturbance from her Domain.
• Golden Dragon and Zhang Rui learned that Chen Siwei had likely reached A-Rank, and Zhang Rui welcomed her alongside other Longwind City residents as she left Ironwood Valley.
• Golden Dragon encouraged Xue Ningning to trust her talent and maintain her self-awareness as she grew stronger.
• Lincon awoke, learned of Chen Siwei’s success, and reflected with Luo Chiyou on Longwind City’s growing strength and its remaining vulnerabilities.
• At Origin Hall, Chen Siwei thanked Lincon for arranging her trial, and Lincon said he wanted the city’s foundation to consist of people loyal to him and Longwind City.
• Lincon took his seat and announced that they would discuss another matter.

Lincon revealed that he controlled the Abyssal Creatures of Hive Canyon and planned to use them to clear a route toward a B-Rank Abyss Rift in Lin Province while Longwind City claimed resources along the way. Chen Siwei agreed to lead the expedition, leaving with a mission to open the route and mark resource sites.

• Lincon explained that Longwind City needed to secure resources beyond its territory and ordered Chen Siwei to lead Garrison Guard troops toward the B-Rank Abyss Rift in Lin Province.
• Zhang Rui questioned the sudden decision, and Lincon explained that Hive Canyon's Abyssal army would invade other Abyss Rifts while Longwind City followed to gather resources.
• Lincon revealed that he controlled the Abyssal Creatures, shocking Zhang Rui and prompting Chen Siwei to ask whether he could control them hundreds of kilometers from Jiangzhou.
• Lincon assured them that the Abyssal Creatures would remain under his control and explained that humanity had to use the Abyss's own methods to survive.
• Chen Siwei accepted the mission and promised to bring good news back to Longwind City.

Lincon attended the opening ceremony of Longwind Academy as its principal while Chen Siwei led the Garrison Guard out on a secret expedition. Hundreds of children arrived for their first day, including Wang Xiaoyu, who was thrilled to become Lincon’s student.

• Zhang Rui and Chen Siwei secretly prepared for the Hive Canyon expedition without informing the Garrison Guard.
• Chen Siwei silently led the Garrison Guard out of Longwind City on the academy’s opening day.
• Lincon stood with the academy’s teachers to welcome more than three hundred children divided into age groups.
• Zhang Rui watched his son Zhang Han join the new students and reflected on how Longwind Fortress had grown into Longwind City.
• Wang Hainian cautioned Wang Xiaoyu to behave, but she announced that she had enrolled because Lincon was the principal.

Lincon welcomed Longwind Academy’s new students and agreed to let Zhang Han establish the Radiant Legion, provided its members endured their training. The children began academy life under Liang Fengyi’s stern instruction, while the school’s three-year curriculum laid out their path toward future roles in Longwind City.

• Lincon teased Zhang Han about secretly forming the Radiant Legion, then told him its approval depended on the children proving themselves through lessons and training.
• Zhang Han gathered the Legion’s 138 members, and Lincon assigned Liang Fengyi to train them.
• Wang Xiaoyu mocked the children’s ambitions, while her father Wang Hainian hoped the academy would teach her some humility.
• Longwind Academy began enrolling nearly four hundred students in an initial three-year program of general studies, physical training, and later specialized courses.
• The academy planned to place outstanding graduates who met the age requirements in Longwind City’s departments, while younger students would continue studying until adulthood.

Longwind Academy welcomed its first students while the Garrison Guard confronted the Scavenger Camp in Jiangzhou for killing Longwind City's miners and trying to seize the Sunstone Mine. Guan Teng killed the camp's ringleader and challenged the remaining members to attack him.

• Lincon led teachers and students through Longwind Academy as Zhang Rui discussed the city's future development with him.
• The Crystal Ring Mother Tree's tendrils recorded the new students' information.
• Guan Teng confronted the Scavenger Camp's managers and accused them of killing Longwind City's mining team to monopolize Sunstone.
• The camp manager transformed into a Bearman and attacked Guan Teng, but a Wraith made him turn his claws on his own throat.
• Guan Teng addressed the remaining camp members and offered them a chance to attack him.

Guan Teng punished Scavenger Camp for killing Longwind City's resource collection team and offered its survivors a choice between joining Longwind City or working at Sunstone Mine. News of the executions pushed Jiangzhou's transport operators to hand their routes over, and within half a month Longwind City had coordinated the region's transportation network into a new map for Lincon.

• Guan Teng ordered Luo Qian to execute the Scavenger Camp managers and everyone who had taken part in the ambush, killing fifty-seven people in total.
• Guan Teng offered the remaining Scavenger Camp residents the choice of heading north to join Longwind City or staying to mine at Sunstone Mine for payment and supplies.
• After the Scavenger Camp incident became known, Jiangzhou groups that had been delaying negotiations grew afraid of Longwind City's retaliation.
• The Azure Cloud Brothers submitted their northern Jiangzhou transport route to Longwind City and received responsibility for managing it under Longwind City's security, supply, and pay rules.
• Other route operators followed the Azure Cloud Brothers, and within half a month Longwind City had coordinated Jiangzhou's transportation routes into a new map placed on Lincon's desk.

Lincon reviewed the detailed Jiangzhou map and monitored Alashu’s Hive Canyon Expeditionary Army as it advanced toward the Lin Province Abyss Rift. When the army encountered hostile Abyssal Creatures, Lincon set aside the map discussion to focus on the battle.

• Lincon praised Guan Teng and the External Affairs Office for completing the Jiangzhou map, while Guan Teng credited their cooperation and Lincon’s orders.
• Guan Teng reported that the Garrison Guard had met few dark creatures during its route survey, and Lincon inferred that Hive Canyon had been hunting them.
• Lincon checked the expeditionary army’s status panel and saw that its victories were earning him experience and Sunlight.
• The Hive Canyon Expeditionary Army passed Rockwind Pass and approached the Lin Province Abyss Rift.
• The First Abyss Ant Legion’s vanguard encountered hostile Abyssal Creatures, and Lincon dismissed Zhou Qing and Guan Teng so he could watch the battle.

Ant Two’s scouting mission exposed the Insect Race to the Spinel Dragon Lizards, who learned of the threat and prepared to fight. The Dragon Lizard Lord chose to defend its territory, unaware that other Abyssal Races from Hive Canyon stood behind the Insect Race.

• Ant Two encountered a C-Rank Spinel Dragon Lizard scout and killed it and its squad, but the scout’s exploding shoulder spinels alerted its tribe.
• Ant Two retreated with the surviving soldier ant Aberrant Insects after learning the enemy tribe’s identity and strength.
• The Dragon Lizard Priest warned the Dragon Lizard Lord that the Insect Race might threaten their territory and urged it to consider fighting or fleeing.
• The Dragon Lizard Lord refused to retreat, fearing punishment from the absent Earth Dragon Lord, and ordered the tribe to prepare for battle.
• The Dragon Lizard Lord rallied the Spinel Dragon Lizards to avenge their dead and attack the Insect Race.

Hive Canyon’s forces overwhelmed the Spinel Dragon Lizard Tribe, and their leaders refused the Dragon Lizard Lord’s offer to submit. The tribe’s defeat became inevitable as the Abyssal Lords attacked, intent on claiming it as prey for the great Dark Lord.

• The Spinel Dragon Lizard Tribe charged Hive Canyon’s army, but Bone Demons, Blood Demons, Shadow Demons, and Ants worked together to break its advance.
• The Dragon Lizard priest urged the Dragon Lizard Lord to retreat until the Earth Dragon Lord arrived, but Hei Shi killed the priest before he could persuade it.
• Hei Shi escaped the Dragon Lizard Lord’s counterattack, while Bane, Alashu, and an Ant Guard surrounded the Lord.
• The Dragon Lizard Lord knelt and offered to lead the tribe in submitting to the Dark Lord, but the Ant Guard said sparing them would leave Hive Canyon short of prey.
• Alashu and the other Abyssal Lords attacked the Dragon Lizard Lord as Ant Guards blocked the fleeing Dragon Lizards, leaving the tribe trapped between two collapsing fronts.

Chen Siwei kept the Garrison Guard out of the battle at the Lin Province Abyss Rift while Hive Canyon defeated the Spinel Dragon Lizards. Hei Shi brought her a Spinel Crystal that might enable communication despite the world’s interference, and the chapter ended with Hive Canyon clearing the battlefield and setting valuable materials aside for Longwind City.

• Chen Siwei ordered Jian Xiujie and the Garrison Guard to stay put and avoid entering the Abyss Rift, while they organized resource claims and persuaded a nearby human camp to join Longwind City.
• Hei Shi told Chen Siwei that Hive Canyon had defeated the Spinel Dragon Lizards and warned that dangers remained in the rift.
• Hei Shi gave Chen Siwei a Spinel Crystal and explained that the Spinel Dragon Lizards used the crystals to communicate.
• Chen Siwei recognized the crystals’ potential for restoring long-range communication and summoned Jian Xiujie to help collect them.
• Hei Shi returned to the rift, where Hive Canyon’s clans consumed the Spinel Dragon Lizards and set aside their crystals and armor scales for the Garrison Guard.