Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Jiu Wu tests the Gold Grade banquet hall’s durability with a powerful punch, but the damage destroys its internal workings. The Research Pavilion decides to study the building by slowing its construction and dismantling it carefully with mechanical tools.
• Chen Fan spends two hours constructing a second copy in stages, giving the researchers a way to observe how its Heavenly Dao Runes form. Despite this, the team makes no progress for six months, dismantling seventeen halls without discovering how the building forcibly pulls in other Continent Lords.
• While waiting at the Northbank Defense Line, Chen Fan reflects on the difficulty of tracing naturally formed buildings. He also handles routine matters: the Mortal Domain will sell its remaining war-mire survival time, and details of the victorious Bit Battle can be made public.
• Chen Fan visits the Angler statue and learns that the Angler’s use of his secret technique, Returning Rod, nearly destabilized the surrounding Heaven and Earth. The Angler explains that he wants to regain lost memories and recover the other two of his three secret techniques: Reverse Fishing and Eternal Hook.
• The Angler finally reveals the banquet hall’s mechanism: its ceiling patterns form an Artificial Angler from Heavenly Dao Runes, which fishes invited guests to the building. The researchers should peel the ceiling apart in layers and have their continent’s Heavenly Dao preserve the runes.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shifts from seeing the Angler as a shopkeeper to treating him as a valued partner. He listens to the Angler’s unusual, personal ambition and receives the crucial insight that resolves the research team’s stalemate.
• The Angler reveals more of his history and personality. He has little interest in family, race, or Eternal Night; instead, he is driven by pride and a desire to reclaim his memories and prove himself the strongest Angler.
• Qian Xiaoping and the Research Pavilion grow exhausted and discouraged after months of failure. Chen Fan’s explanation gives them a new approach, though it also exposes how narrowly they had interpreted the building’s function.
• Jiu Wu is eager to help and readily follows the researchers’ testing instructions, despite his initial attempt being too destructive to provide useful data.
• Chen Fan and the Angler exchange blunt, teasing remarks. The Angler criticizes Chen Fan’s limited thinking but ultimately helps him and the Mortal Domain; Chen Fan recognizes that the Angler’s harshness may come from having kept the insight to himself for months.

Significant themes

• The limits of conventional thinking: The researchers assume the building must use familiar mechanisms such as teleportation formations, while its true operation depends on an entirely different concept.
• Perseverance and failure: Six months of painstaking work yields no answer until a fresh perspective reframes the problem.
• Ambition and identity: The Angler’s goal is personal mastery and self-recognition rather than service to a people or cause.
• Trust and reciprocity: Chen Fan’s concern for the Angler reflects the Mortal Domain’s willingness to remember kindness and support those who have helped it.

Plot and key events

• The Mortal Domain’s researchers discover that the Banquet Hall’s ceiling contains 77 layers of Heavenly Dao Runes. With Mr. Na transforming into a many-tiered rack, they preserve every layer and reveal that the runes form a three-dimensional Artificial Angler.
• They transplant the runes into their prototype Self-Created Building. Mr. Na submits it for Heavenly Dao Recognition, using a temporary, unwieldy name because the application requires one.
• Recognition succeeds. The building is upgraded from Gold to Pseudo-Pink Grade, raises the continent’s building-level cap to 32, and can forcibly draw an entire continent within one million kilometers into a simulated scene. Its illusion is extremely convincing, though sustaining it consumes escalating amounts of high-level energy.
• Chen Fan constructs the building for 12.8 billion Eerie Stones and discovers that its original Gold Grade version remains available too, giving the Mortal Domain two building options.
• In a test on the Cautious Continent, the building creates a continent-wide rain of valuable resources. Li Kaixin initially suspects an illusion despite the apparently real stones and working Eerie Fire, reasoning that the Mortal Domain would otherwise have responded immediately. Even the Truth-Piercing Towers cannot dispel the scene. Chen Fan eventually reveals himself, and Li Kaixin recognizes the illusion and asks him to stop.
• After reviewing the test’s strengths and limitations, Chen Fan officially names the building Mirage. He sees its potential to deceive enemies and manipulate battles, while also resolving to seek defenses against similar illusion techniques.

Character developments and interactions

• Mr. Na proves indispensable: he uses his Heavenly Dao nature to transform into a specialized rune-holding rack, then handles the recognition application.
• Chen Fan moves from relying on the research team to recognizing Mirage as a strategic trump card. His instinct to plan for countermeasures shows he remains cautious even when celebrating a powerful advantage.
• Qian Xiaoping and the Research Pavilion gain confidence after uncovering the Angler structure, but Qian keeps the team focused until official approval arrives. Their success marks the department’s first Pink-grade creation.
• Li Kaixin is portrayed as wary and perceptive. He rejects seemingly undeniable evidence because it conflicts with his understanding of Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain, correctly identifying the event as an illusion.
• Chen Jiutian and Crippled Monkey discuss the test’s practical limits and joke about Chen Fan’s habit of seeking both powerful weapons and ways to defend against them.

Significant themes

• Innovation through practical experimentation: The researchers uncover a powerful mechanism by carefully dismantling and reusing what already exists.
• Appearance versus truth: Mirage can make fabricated events feel real, while common sense and knowledge of other people may reveal inconsistencies.
• Power brings vulnerability: The building offers a major battlefield advantage, but its limits and the danger of enemy illusion techniques make countermeasures essential.
• Preparedness and ambition: The Mortal Domain treats its new weapon as a step toward the World Battlefield, while continuing to anticipate the threats it may face there.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• After six months of development across the Mortal Domain, the victory banquet resumes. Qian Xiaoping is formally named Research Pavilion Master for helping create the Mirage building.
• Chen Fan discovers that a new Gold-grade building can pull nearby residents into simulated scenes. He constructs and tests it, drawing ten people into a recreation of the bleak Jiangbei station where he once lived. They experience a sudden attack by a Monkey-Head Entity, then safely awaken inside the building.
• Chen Fan names the building the Internet Cafe. Its simulations can support education and entertainment, while historical scenarios could help residents understand the Mortal Domain’s past and strengthen public unity. He gives it the blessing Grand Illusory Realm, making its simulations more realistic.
• Chen Fan tries to bless the Mirage, only to learn that pseudo-pink buildings cannot receive blessings, and pink-grade buildings require 100 Heavenly Dao Stones. He also discovers that the Mirage’s blueprint cannot be sold on the market.
• Unable to sleep, Chen Fan consults the Heaven-Questioning Bell about pink-grade buildings. It cannot explain their purpose and offers little clarity about how to upgrade it.
• The chapter shifts to the Farmer Continent. Its young heir, Jiuer, is punished after mishandling the sale of the Gold-grade Ten Thousand Nations Pay Homage blueprint: he sold it for 300 billion Eerie Stones, bought it back for one trillion, then sold it again for 300 billion.
• Jiuer’s father is less upset about the loss than about his son’s poor arithmetic and lack of maturity. After Jiuer reveals that his usual response to mistakes is to find his father more concubines, the frustrated ruler withdraws to mourn his late wife.
• The Farmer Continent’s ruler tells an aide to offer the Mortal Domain two trillion Eerie Stones if it can decipher the blueprint and report its exact effects. He hopes to make a potential future ally and honor the late Master Zhou.

Character developments

• Chen Fan shows his characteristic curiosity and practicality: he tests the Internet Cafe, considers its civic and educational uses, and chooses a harmless blessing focused on improving users’ experience. His forgetfulness about blessing the Mirage also reveals a comic, impulsive side.
• Qian Xiaoping receives formal recognition but remains modest, believing the Research Pavilion’s success depended heavily on Chen Fan’s insight.
• Jiuer is revealed as an inept, unserious heir who struggles with both business and responsibility, though he insists he wants to do better.
• Jiuer’s father appears stern and exasperated, but his grief for his late wife and concern for his son’s future expose a more vulnerable side. He is also pragmatic and willing to invest in a possible friendship with the Mortal Domain.

Significant themes

• Technology serving society: The Internet Cafe is presented as more than entertainment; it can aid education, preserve history, and build collective identity.
• History and shared memory: Re-enacting past crises lets people experience the courage and sacrifices that shaped the Mortal Domain.
• Leadership and competence: Jiuer’s financial blunders highlight the responsibility involved in ruling and the difficulty of preparing a successor.
• Grief, hope, and solidarity: The Farmer Continent’s ruler feels powerless before the world’s darkness, yet seeks friendship and continuity for his son and realm.

Character interactions

• Chen Jiutian and Crippled Monkey’s group congratulate Qian Xiaoping, while Chen Fan quietly leaves the banquet to test his new building.
• Chen Fan’s first visitors react with fear to the simulation, then greet him respectfully after awakening; he introduces the Internet Cafe and sends them home.
• Chen Fan exchanges dry, comic remarks with the Heaven-Questioning Bell, whose evasive answers frustrate him.
• Jiuer and his father clash over the failed transaction and Jiuer’s immaturity. Afterward, the father privately reflects on his deceased wife and directs his aide to approach the Mortal Domain with an offer.

Key plot points

• The Farmer Continent’s Lord contacts Chen Fan, asking for the effects of the Gold Grade blueprint Ten Thousand Nations Pay Homage and offering two trillion Eerie Stones in thanks for the late Master Zhou. Chen Fan shares the information, claiming an exotic treasure helped him decipher it.
• The Farmer Lord sees through the claim: Chen Fan likely solved the blueprint unaided and concealed his ability to decipher rare time-related buildings. He proposes transferring the payment through a market purchase.
• Chen Fan discovers he cannot list ordinary blueprints yet, but can sell Self-Created Building Blueprints. He lists his Gold Grade Internet Cafe blueprint under the grander name Night Tour, priced at two trillion Eerie Stones.
• Other continents immediately buy the blueprint—ten copies in rapid succession—before Chen Fan has even uploaded its effects. He earns twenty trillion Eerie Stones, then sells five more copies for another ten trillion.
• A sudden “rain” of Eerie Stones at the warehouses alarms Wang Kui, who suspects an illusion. Chen Fan confirms the wealth is real and realizes how readily powerful continents spend on Gold Grade self-created blueprints.
• The Farmer Continent struggles to buy a copy, and its Lord’s son wonders whether buying the blueprint counts as gratitude. Chen Fan offers five more copies, which quickly sell.
• Li Kaixin, previously invited to the Eternal Night Continent, mistakes the real falling Eerie Stones for an illusion based on a past experience. Chen Fan’s cheerful greeting is met with irritation.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shows strategic caution when considering the Farmer Lord’s proposed payment scheme, then discovers that his blueprint can bring in vastly more money than the promised reward. His excitement turns to disbelief as the Mortal Domain’s reserves surge from three trillion to over thirty trillion Eerie Stones. He also keeps his plans for the money practical: upgrading defenses and acquiring rare materials.
• The Farmer Continent’s Lord is shrewd, perceptive, and apparently sincere. He reasons out Chen Fan’s likely ability and seeks a safe way to pay him. His son, Jiuer, is beginning to think more independently, though his questions still frustrate his father.
• Wang Kui reacts urgently to the apparent stonefall, while Chen Fan calmly reassures him that it is real.
• Li Kaixin remains distrustful and withdrawn, interpreting the windfall as another deception. Chen Fan’s friendly approach highlights the contrast between his good mood and Li’s resentment.

Significant themes

• Knowledge as a strategic asset: Chen Fan conceals his blueprint-deciphering talent to avoid attracting danger.
• Unequal economic power: The instant demand for Night Tour reveals the immense resources and buying power of higher-level continents.
• Trust and risk: Chen Fan tests the Farmer Lord’s sincerity but avoids a transaction that would leave him vulnerable.
• Irony and misunderstanding: A real fortune looks like an illusion to Li Kaixin, while a straightforward market sale becomes a windfall far beyond Chen Fan’s expectations.

Plot points and events

• Li Kaixin realizes the raining Eerie Stones are real, not an illusion. Chen Fan reassures him, apologizes for the earlier confusion, and promises him first priority for War Mire survival time.
• The sale of Night Tour, Chen Fan’s Gold Grade building blueprint, brings the Mortal Domain roughly 30 trillion Eerie Stones. Chen Fan decides to spend most of the windfall upgrading the Eternal Night Defense Line to level 30, despite the enormous cost.
• The upgrade transforms the continent’s defenses: the entire encircling wall glows, its power network links together, and its weapons and structures awaken. It gains the ability to host and amplify continent-wide formations, a boost for buildings placed on it, and selectable upgrade paths.
• Chen Fan chooses increased continental hardness several times and receives Otherworld Kingdom, a rare legendary path that greatly weakens illusion effects. He orders Chen Jiutian to test the wall’s durability and the new anti-illusion effect.
• After selling a few more blueprints, Chen Fan receives cautious advice from the Farmer Continent: preserve Night Tour’s scarcity and trade it for high-level materials, especially Level-10 Eerie Stones. Chen Fan rejects this approach because he wants ordinary Eerie Stones quickly and believes the Mortal Domain can develop more blueprints.
• He slashes Night Tour’s price to one trillion Eerie Stones for limited promotions, then repeatedly releases more copies. Fourth-Level Continent Lords rush to buy the affordable Gold Grade blueprint, creating successive buying frenzies.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shifts from delight at becoming wealthy to dismay at the defense-line upgrade bill, then commits to the expense once he understands its strategic value. He remains bold and unconventional, preferring rapid sales and market disruption over preserving Night Tour’s exclusivity.
• Li Kaixin moves from disbelief and fear to accepting the supernatural spectacle; Chen Fan’s apology and promise help settle him.
• Wang Kui and the logistics staff celebrate the sudden wealth and scramble for storage, only to watch the stones vanish into the upgrade. Their renewed bewilderment at the later sales captures how extraordinary the income is.
• The Heaven-Questioning Bell’s Xiaowen gives Chen Fan a practical account of the City Wall’s costs, benefits, and strategic importance, leaving the final decision to him.
• The Farmer Continent’s representative offers sincere, tactful business advice. Chen Fan appreciates the intent but disagrees with the premise that Night Tour must remain rare.
• The Farmer Continent’s middle-aged man and his son watch the sales in bafflement, interpreting Chen Fan’s promotions as reckless waste rather than a deliberate effort to flood the market.

Significant themes

• Abundance versus scarcity: Chen Fan’s sudden wealth is exhilarating, but the City Wall upgrade consumes it almost as quickly as it arrives.
• Infrastructure and strategic security: The massive expense buys a more resilient, continent-wide defense system with powerful long-term benefits.
• Risk-taking and unconventional leadership: Chen Fan rejects standard market wisdom and prioritizes immediate resources and future development over preserving a rare asset.
• Different views of value: Other continents see Night Tour as a scarce strategic bargaining chip; Chen Fan sees it as a means to fund the Mortal Domain and pursue further research.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan’s latest batch of 100 Night Tour blueprints sells out, bringing the Mortal Domain’s reserves to 253 trillion Eerie Stones. He stops selling rather than flooding the market: scarcity will push hesitant buyers to purchase in the next round, when he plans to lower the price again.
• The windfall draws attention across the market. A Farmer Continent lord regrets his son buying a second blueprint, while the Demon God Continent’s king orders a deliberately low-impact gold-grade building to imitate the strategy. Other continents envy the Mortal Domain but hesitate to copy it, partly because they rely on blueprint sales for rare materials.
• The Mortal Domain puts its new wealth to work. It expands lightning-power infrastructure and storage, excavates underground chambers for buildings and equipment, and upgrades public-service buildings. Chen Fan tests a level-30 bridge’s extraordinarily unlikely chance to raise someone’s cultivation to the continent’s maximum; nothing happens, so he considers building more bridges for repeated attempts.
• Wang Mazi delivers 5,000 days of War Mire survival time and one trillion Eerie Stones each to Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord, helping them advance toward fourth-level status. Their assigned roles are a Peace Continent and a Garden Continent, with Hao Mao warned to prevent war.
• After a month of upgrades, Chen Fan turns to the non-self-created blueprint market and buys Peach Blossom Garden, a gold-grade cultivation building, for one trillion Eerie Stones.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shows himself to be a shrewd, time-conscious businessman: he values rapid gains and market timing over squeezing out the largest possible long-term profit. He is also eager to reinvest the windfall in the Mortal Domain’s growth.
• Crippled Monkey is astonished by the blueprint’s price and sales. Former Wang Family Head Wang Qiuhao and former Strategist Pavilion Master Dean Wan watch the Eerie Stone “rain” and reflect on how dramatically the Mortal Domain has changed.
• The Farmer Continent lord’s son admits he bought a second blueprint out of curiosity; his father’s anger gives way to reluctant respect for the scale of the sales. The Demon God king envies the success but refuses to sell his dangerous weapon-like blueprint indiscriminately, feeling responsible for preventing widespread destruction.
• Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord are surprised by the support they receive and take the Domain Lord’s peace-focused instructions seriously. Chen Fan, meanwhile, praises Qian Xiaoping’s research team for starting work without needing to be prompted.

Significant themes

• Wealth as a catalyst for development: The proceeds quickly fund infrastructure, storage, research, and upgrades.
• Business strategy and scarcity: Withdrawing a popular product can create urgency, while pricing must balance profit, time, and future demand.
• Responsibility alongside ambition: The Demon God king recognizes that profit from a powerful weapon could cause catastrophic consequences.
• Transformation and hope: The Eerie Stone shower symbolizes how far the Mortal Domain has come from its earlier scarcity—and how much its people hope that prosperity will last.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan buys nine Gold Grade Building Blueprints, including Peach Blossom Garden, which helps cultivate exotic plants; Unbreakable, a one-use formation that blocks any single attack; Heaven’s Blessing, a long-range defensive barrier; and Peace Dove Cage, which sends invulnerable doves to search for rare islands. He also buys other unusual or situational buildings, planning to use some and study others.
• Two rival fourth-level continents begin targeting the Eternal Night Continent. The Excellence Continent’s lord plans to use his self-created building, Heavenly Retrotrace, to expose scenes from Chen Fan’s past year and undermine his people’s loyalty before attacking.
• Another continent’s lord plans to use Scales, a building that swaps two same-level continents’ Eerie Stone reserves if its Sky-Piercing Pillar hits. He expects Chen Fan’s wealth and relative inexperience with war to make the Eternal Night Continent an easy target.
• Meanwhile, Chen Fan’s spending has left the Mortal Domain with only two trillion Eerie Stone in reserve. Finance Pavilion Master Tian Ce itemizes the vast expenditures: upgrades, bridges, landscaping, weapons, and expensive buildings. Chen Fan believes the spending has built a formidable foundation, but recognizes that the buildings need substantial funds to operate. He plans to resume selling Night Tour and rebuild the reserve.
• Just as Chen Fan prepares to work, Chen Jiutian reports that a fourth-level continent is heading toward their War Mire. Chen Fan is confident in his defenses but wonders whether the approaching enemy knows his location or is merely nearby by chance.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan is pleased by his purchases and treats spending as an investment in the Mortal Domain’s strength. His enthusiasm—especially for building more city-defense cannons—contrasts with his dwindling reserves. Tian Ce’s ledger forces him to confront the scale of his expenditures, though he remains confident in the continent’s underlying power.
• Tian Ce acts as the practical counterweight to Chen Fan, carefully explaining where the money went. Chen Fan cuts off the lengthy accounting once the scale of the costs becomes clear.
• The two enemy lords are introduced as patient, calculating opportunists. One intends to destabilize Chen Fan’s rule through public exposure; the other plans to seize his reserves with Scales. Their aides support their schemes, though one subordinate questions whether the plan is sound.
• Chen Jiutian delivers the urgent warning that brings the chapter’s financial and strategic preparations to an abrupt turning point.

Significant themes

• Strength versus resources: Chen Fan has built formidable defenses and infrastructure, but power requires ongoing funding.
• Strategic deception and information warfare: Heavenly Retrotrace and Scales threaten the Eternal Night Continent in very different ways—one by eroding trust, the other by directly manipulating its wealth.
• Overconfidence and misjudgment: The rival lords assume Chen Fan is inexperienced and vulnerable, while Chen Fan may be underestimating how deliberately he has been targeted.
• Preparation and vulnerability: The continent’s rapid buildup makes it strong, yet its low reserve and enemies’ plans leave it exposed to sudden conflict.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan’s strategist team spots an approaching fourth-level continent, the Falcon Continent, and assumes it may be hostile. Using the new Gold Grade Heaven’s Inquiry building, they identify the effects of its structures—including Scales, which can launch a powerful Balance Sky-Piercing Pillar.
• The Falcon Continent sends a message claiming it is an official “reception” party and will fire a harmless Communication Pillar. Chen Fan suspects the message is a layered deception meant to make them lower their defenses and let a devastating strike through.
• Chen orders the Eternal Night Continent and the empty Bit Continent to leave the War Mire together, intending to turn the enemy’s plan against it.
• The Falcon Continent’s leader, convinced the opportunity is too good to question, orders a Balance Pillar strike. Chen uses Signal Tower Mutation to redirect the projectile toward the Bit Continent. The resulting balance manifestation exchanges the eerie stones of the two continents, showering the Bit Continent with wealth.
• Meanwhile, an elderly leader on the Fool’s Continent studies a chart suggesting that the Eternal Night Continent’s potential is extraordinary—possibly enough to reach the fifth or sixth level unusually quickly—and concludes he should seek an alliance soon.
• Li Kaixin, still stranded with the Mortal Domain, mistakes the shower of eerie stones for an illusion. Chen realizes no one arranged for his return and orders him sent home.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains cautious and strategically sharp, refusing to accept an apparent enemy mistake at face value. He turns the Falcon Continent’s attack into an advantage, though the enemy’s genuine simplicity leaves him baffled.
• Chen Jiutian initially mocks the Falcon leader’s obvious deception, then is chastened by Chen Fan’s warning not to mistake an apparent flaw for stupidity. He later reacts with comic disbelief when the enemy’s plan proves genuinely straightforward.
• Wang Kui and the strategists are relieved by Chen Fan’s insight; Monkey urges a preemptive attack, while Chen orders a controlled response instead.
• The Falcon Continent’s leader is smug and overconfident, interpreting the Eternal Night Continent’s departure from the War Mire as proof his ruse worked. His aide senses danger but is brushed aside.
• The Fool’s Continent’s elderly leader recognizes the Eternal Night Continent’s remarkable growth and considers making contact before its rise puts it out of reach.
• Li Kaixin, isolated and disoriented, doubts reality when eerie stones rain down around him.

Significant themes

• Information and strategic judgment: Intelligence-gathering buildings and dark technologies give Chen a decisive advantage.
• Overconfidence versus caution: Chen warns that obvious mistakes may conceal deeper plans, while the Falcon leader’s confidence blinds him to risk.
• Misreading opponents: The chapter repeatedly toys with whether an enemy is cunning or simply inept; Chen’s sophistication makes the Falcon Continent’s blunt, real attack seem almost insulting.
• Potential and rapid advancement: The chart frames the Eternal Night Continent as an unprecedented power whose growth may soon transform the balance of the world.

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Plot

Falcon Continent has exhausted every eerie stone after the Scales collected them all. Unable to power its defenses or escape, its leaders appear doomed. The Fat Man proposes surrender, but before he can act, Eternal Night Continent launches Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars to destroy Falcon’s remaining high-energy defensive structures.
Chen Fan orders a landing rather than annihilating the continent, hoping to seize the Scales and meet its creator. The War, Exotic Beast, and Jiu Wu Pavilions deploy. Falcon’s Trusted Aide captures the Fat Man and offers him up, then begs to join the victors. The Falcon population surrenders without a fight.
Chen Fan learns that Zhou Sangu deciphered the Scales blueprint, though Falcon’s leadership demoted him to a clerical post. Zhou explains that the building’s central mechanisms exchange the eerie stones of two continents. Chen Fan offers him a place in the Mortal Domain’s Research and Development Department, and Zhou responds with interest. The blueprint itself is held by Falcon’s minister, so Chen orders the continent’s assets confiscated.
At the chapter’s end, Chen hears that the Continent Lord’s mansion contains women from many races, apparently held captive. He visits them and offers to find them a safe new home.

Character developments and interactions

• The Fat Man: Initially tries to preserve his position through surrender and excuses, but his own aide captures him and hands him over. He claims his Protective Jade Seal’s time-slowing ability slipped his mind; Chen remains skeptical. The Fat Man also tries to bargain for his life by appealing to Chen’s supposed “similar tastes,” but Chen rejects him.
• The Trusted Aide: Despite earlier warnings about the danger, he abandons his vow to fight to the death when the Fat Man tries to flee. He captures his boss and surrenders, prioritizing his own survival.
• Chen Fan: Shows strategic restraint by choosing a ground invasion to preserve valuable buildings and recruit talent. He recognizes Zhou’s ability, demonstrates his own building skills to persuade him, and later shifts from conquest to protecting the captive women.
• Zhou Sangu: Revealed as a gifted but disgraced builder. Though initially resigned to death, he becomes intrigued by Chen’s abilities and the Mortal Domain’s research prospects.
• The landing force: Zhou Mo, Weiwei, Keke, Jiu Wu, Sanqi, and the others arrive eager for battle, only to find Falcon already surrendering. Weiwei’s aggressive demeanor surprises Zhou Mo, who remembers its former timidity.

Themes

• Power and vulnerability: Falcon’s advanced defenses are useless once its essential energy source is gone; the conflict is decided by control of resources and infrastructure.
• Pragmatism and self-preservation: The Fat Man’s aide quickly shifts from resistance to surrender when defeat becomes inevitable.
• Talent and recognition: Zhou Sangu’s demotion contrasts with Chen Fan’s willingness to value his expertise and offer him a new opportunity.
• Conquest and responsibility: The Mortal Domain’s victory brings both confiscation and the prospect of protecting people victimized by Falcon’s rulers.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan meets the Falcon Continent’s captive women, who initially fear him because of their abuse. After he explains that he intends to resettle them rather than imprison them, they gradually relax.
• A young woman from the rare White Tiger Clan explains how she was separated from her people after a space rift transported her to the Falcon Continent. She also shares rumors about an elopement between a White Tiger Clan chief’s daughter and a Black Tortoise Clan member.
• Chen Fan recalls an old legend about a white tiger and black tortoise whose deaths supposedly formed the Black Tortoise Plains. He requests a three-foot white whisker found there; the girl confirms it belongs to her clan.
• The White Tiger girl is taken to the Mortal Domain, but a tiger-attracting mountain Chen Fan previously created draws her irresistibly toward it. Chen Fan orders that she be released.
• Chen Fan has the obese former Falcon Continent lord killed and processed in the new Starforge recycling building rather than letting Zhou Mo hack up the body. The Starforge can also recycle buildings and, over forty-nine days, an entire continent.
• Chen Fan assigns Zhou Sangu, an elderly man with talent for a building blueprint, to study at the Mortal Domain’s private school before joining its Research Pavilion. When Chen Fan learns Zhou Sangu bears a painful, permanent Oath Mark, he promises to find a solution.
• A resistant Falcon official, King Yi, is thrown into the Starforge before he can finish offering to talk. Chen Fan orders useful captives to report information, civilians to be sent away, and those who refuse to cooperate to be fed to the furnace.
• The Falcon Continent’s recycling begins: red, vein-like patterns spread through its soil, reconnecting after being disturbed.
• Wang Kui warns Tian Ce not to secretly reserve Eerie Stones. He explains that Chen Fan expects strict control over resources and that Tian Ce’s role is to keep accounts, not make spending decisions.
• The chapter ends with the Mortal Domain’s large-scale salvage operation underway. Workers recover valuable materials—including over a hundred jin of Star Metal—from Falcon Continent storage.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan presents himself as approachable and protective toward the captive women, but is ruthless and practical in dealing with defeated officials. He prioritizes efficiency, order, and control.
• The White Tiger girl moves from fearful captive to tentative ally, trusting Chen Fan and revealing information about her people. Her attraction to the tiger mountain hints that she may remain in the Mortal Domain.
• Zhou Mo demonstrates loyalty but initially handles executions crudely; Chen Fan redirects him toward a more systematic method.
• Zhou Sangu is offered a place in Chen Fan’s administration despite his Oath Mark, showing Chen Fan’s willingness to recruit talent and address its constraints.
• Crippled Monkey is puzzled by Chen Fan’s shifting standards for “professional” conduct. Wang Kui explains that Chen Fan judges professionalism by efficiency, not by appearances.
• Wang Kui and Tian Ce discuss whether to hide reserve Eerie Stones. Wang Kui firmly cautions Tian Ce to respect his role and not interfere with the Domain Lord’s resource decisions.
• The captured Falcon officials shift from defiance to panic after King Yi is thrown into the Starforge, prompting many to abandon their silence.

Significant themes

• Power and governance: Chen Fan’s authority is absolute, and his administration is built around obedience, centralized control, and efficient procedures.
• Mercy alongside ruthlessness: He protects civilians and offers the women a new home, yet treats hostile officials as expendable when they obstruct his aims.
• Efficiency as professionalism: The chapter contrasts orderly administration with improvisation, defining competent governance by results rather than appearance.
• Displacement and belonging: The women, especially the White Tiger girl, have been separated from their homes and must find a place in a new world.
• Resources and expansion: The recycling of the defeated continent and recovery of rare materials turn conquest into economic and territorial growth.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan acquires the Falcon Continent’s Gold Grade Self-Created Building Blueprint, the Scales, and adds it to the Mortal Domain’s arsenal. He also begins producing as many Sky-Piercing Pillars as possible.
• The Mortal Domain sends vast numbers of charged Sky-Piercing Pillars to the Cautious Continent. Since the Retirement Clan is preparing to become King of the War Mire, the weapons will protect it while the Mortal Domain is away. The Mortal Domain publicly warns other continents not to approach the central island.
• The Falcon Continent is finally cleared out. Its inhabitants and most former administrators are relocated, while the Mortal Domain strips its useful buildings and resources before the Starforge is set to refine the continent.
• Li Kaixin offers to take in refugees from future conquered continents. He explains to his aide that accepting them will make the Cautious Continent valuable to the Mortal Domain—and, in turn, help secure protection and resources. Though he theatrically suggests killing the refugees, he plans instead to divide them into groups and sell their labor and skills to other continents. The Domain Lord approves a long-term partnership, and the Formation Pavilion will establish a permanent teleportation formation.
• Chen Fan and Jiu Wu discuss how to bring powerful beings’ corpses out of Yellow Springs after converting them. Jiu Wu proposes either storing them in his Ten-Thousand Souls Banner or killing and resurrecting them in the Mortal Domain’s Black Abyss. Chen Fan chooses the second option and confirms that Level-Four Strange Entities can reach level 40.
• The Falcon Continent’s wealth is tallied: it yielded 44 trillion eerie stones, bringing the Mortal Domain’s reserves to 46 trillion, plus rare materials, six dark technology source points, and records of lucrative economic technologies.
• More than a month later, the Retirement Clan’s advancement to a Level-Four Strange Entity Clan coincides with the opening of the Mortal Domain’s Sixth Spring Examination. Jiu Wu admits he fears the advancement may not let him resurrect the Meatworm Wraith and reunite with Xiangyang. Chen Fan reassures him that he can reach Level Five.

Character development

• Chen Fan continues to combine strategic preparation with practical decision-making: he strengthens the Mortal Domain, chooses an efficient resurrection plan, and reassures Jiu Wu despite the uncertainty.
• Li Kaixin reveals himself as a shrewd political strategist. His willingness to accept refugees is not simple generosity; he intends to make the Cautious Continent indispensable to the Mortal Domain. His dark humor masks a pragmatic plan to redistribute the refugees rather than kill them.
• Jiu Wu remains devoted to his goal of reuniting with Xiangyang. His nervousness exposes the emotional stakes behind his plans, and Chen Fan’s confidence gives him hope.
• The Mortal Domain grows richer and more capable, gaining weapons, rare resources, and potential economic strategies from the conquered continent.

Significant themes

• Power through preparation and alliances: Weapons, teleportation links, and dependable partners are all treated as essential to survival.
• Pragmatism and exploitation: Conquered populations and territories are managed according to their usefulness, while Li Kaixin turns refugee resettlement into political leverage.
• The rewards and risks of wealth: The Falcon Continent’s economic technologies show how prosperity can accumulate—but also how an unprotected, wealthy society becomes a target.
• Hope and loyalty: Jiu Wu’s longing for Xiangyang gives his advancement a personal purpose, while Chen Fan’s reassurance emphasizes trust and resolve.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan and Jiu Wu discuss the practical and ethical costs of transporting resurrected beings; Chen Fan selects Jiu Wu’s Black Abyss method and supplies key information.
• Li Kaixin persuades Qian Duoduo to consider making the Cautious Continent a permanent destination for refugees, presenting the plan as a service to the Mortal Domain.
• Li Kaixin’s aide questions both his refugee policy and his theatrical threat; Li Kaixin explains the real economic and political reasoning behind it.
• Chen Fan reassures Jiu Wu when he fears his clan’s advancement may not bring him closer to Xiangyang.

Plot points and events

• Jiu Wu’s clan advances to level four, granting him the rare dark authority “Heaven Hates Me Not,” which lets him resurrect beings rejected by the Heavenly Dao. He uses it to bring Xiangyang back.
• Xiangyang returns as a small, level-one Doppelganger Wraith. Jiu Wu’s long-suppressed grief erupts, and the two reunite at home, where Jiu Wu shows him preserved newspapers and explains how Xiangyang has been remembered in the Mortal Domain.
• Xiangyang worries that his final letter survived. Jiu Wu reveals the original is displayed in the Mortal Domain’s museum; Xiangyang eats his copy in embarrassment.
• Xiangyang explains that he sacrificed himself after being saved by Huang, a proud enemy king who died protecting him. Jiu Wu agrees to resurrect Huang, hoping to negotiate with him and perhaps enlist his combat experience for training the Strategist Pavilion.
• With Chen Fan’s approval, Jiu Wu resurrects Huang. Huang immediately attacks, repeatedly self-destructing or fighting rather than listening. Jiu Wu kills and revives him over and over, eventually revealing that his own innate dark monarch power is what enables Huang’s repeated returns. He introduces himself as “Jiu Wu, Xiangyang’s King.”
• In a separate scene, Sanqi recounts the Mortal Domain’s recent campaign to classmates. He boasts that he was ready to lead the assault, but the enemy surrendered before he could fight. His teacher reflects that children may glorify battle without understanding its human cost.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiu Wu reveals the depth of his grief for Xiangyang, then shifts into practical leadership—seeking to revive Huang for both negotiation and military training. His repeated clashes with Huang show his patience wearing thin, as well as his formidable strength.
• Xiangyang returns grateful but awkward, confronting the consequences of his sacrifice and his affection for Jiu Wu. He defends Huang’s honorable act while recognizing that Huang’s ambitions conflict with the Mortal Domain’s principles.
• Huang is introduced as fiercely proud and stubborn, refusing to yield even when repeatedly defeated. His resistance turns Jiu Wu’s intended conversation into a prolonged fight.
• Chen Fan welcomes Xiangyang home and trusts Jiu Wu to handle Huang, while setting a clear condition: Huang must not become a threat.
• Sanqi has grown from a shy child into an eager storyteller, admired by his classmates. His teacher offers a quieter, more sober counterpoint to his romantic view of war.

Significant themes

• Grief, reunion, and memory: Jiu Wu’s emotional release and the preserved newspapers and letter show how the living keep the dead present.
• Sacrifice and obligation: Xiangyang’s choice to repay Huang’s kindness is weighed against his loyalty to Jiu Wu and the Mortal Domain.
• Ideals versus personal bonds: Xiangyang can value Huang’s courage while opposing his goal of conquering the world.
• Power, persistence, and stubbornness: Huang’s refusal to submit drives the chapter’s comic, escalating cycle of combat and resurrection.
• The cost of war: Sanqi’s excitement contrasts with his teacher’s reminder that real conflict makes human lives painfully fragile.

Key plot points and events

• Huang realizes his apparent ability to resurrect is not under his control and suspects it is connected to Jiu Wu’s dark sacred physique. He also recognizes that he is back in the War Mire.
• Xiangyang explains that he once used the name Seven Emperor while infiltrating Huang’s Wasteland Clan. After Huang’s defeat, Xiangyang destroyed the continent that had taken Huang’s corpse as a specimen; Jiu Wu later resurrected him as a Doppelganger Wraith.
• Jiu Wu recruits Huang into the Retirement Clan. Huang readily accepts Jiu Wu as his “King,” though the clan’s humorous ambition is to follow the Mortal Domain rather than lead it.
• Jiu Wu introduces Huang to the Mortal Domain’s leaders and departments. At the Museum, Huang reads Xiangyang’s letter and thanks him for protecting his body, despite saying he cares more about what happens while he is alive.
• Huang and strategist Chen Jiutian enthusiastically run ten war simulations, developing a friendly competitive rapport. Huang looks forward to testing himself against the Mortal Domain’s true foundation.
• That night, Jiu Wu, Xiangyang, Huang, and the Military Strategist share a quiet evening in Jiu Wu’s courtyard. The next day, Jiu Wu leaves for Yellow Springs to pursue resources tied to the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity’s coordinates.
• In Yellow Springs, Ming San searches for more black tortoise essence—the substance that extended his life—hoping to use it to prolong Chen Fan’s life and avoid having to serve a future successor.

Character development and interactions

• Huang shifts from suspicious and combative to trusting and committed. He formally joins Jiu Wu’s group, accepts Xiangyang as a brother, and discovers genuine enjoyment in strategic war games.
• Xiangyang is revealed as Huang’s former ally and protector. He is embarrassed by the emotional attention his letter receives, but Huang’s gratitude affirms their bond.
• Jiu Wu balances recruitment and leadership with a deep affection for companionship. His ideal is not glory, but having his friends gathered safely together.
• Chen Jiutian and Huang connect through repeated simulations, respecting each other’s skills and eagerly planning further matches.
• Ming San shows loyalty to Chen Fan, seeking a way to extend his life out of concern for the Mortal Domain’s future.

Significant themes

• Found family and loyalty: Xiangyang’s sacrifice and Huang’s acceptance of him turn shared ideals into brotherhood.
• Peace and belonging: Jiu Wu values quiet companionship more than wealth, status, or conquest.
• Life, death, and legacy: Huang reflects that what matters is how one lives, while Ming San tries to preserve Chen Fan’s life and leadership.
• Cooperation across former divisions: A powerful Strange Entity joins a human-led organization, and friendly competition replaces hostility.

Plot points and events

• Jiu Wu reaches the Yellow Springs after a month-long journey and, with Ming San’s help, begins using the Race-Conversion Formation on the accumulated corpses of powerful beings.
• The first converted creature is a gigantic Strange Dragon. Jiu Wu tests it and discovers its extraordinary speed, close-combat skill, ranged attacks, teleportation, and near-impenetrable defense. It also attempts a Dragon Clan Taboo, but, being only level 40, suffers a backlash.
• Ming San explains that Strange Dragons are immensely powerful and unusually useful because they obey their master and can be resurrected. Jiu Wu learns that five dragons were created, including one made from a level-69 corpse.
• Over seven days, Jiu Wu converts the remaining corpses into Strange Entities, then orders them to dissolve back into the Yellow Springs so he can summon them again later. He hints that he wants four more Strange Dragons.
• Worried by Jiu Wu’s remark, Ming San alerts Chen Fan. Chen Fan reassures him and offers the Yellow Springs Wraiths supplies—but learns the food he sent with Jiu Wu was never delivered.
• When Jiu Wu returns, he says he never knew food was in the Storage Bag and traveled hungry. Chen Fan orders an investigation into the missing shipment. Tiantian quietly slips away as the search is announced.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiu Wu proves capable of understanding and using the complex formation, and becomes increasingly excited by the military potential of his Strange Dragons. His ambition to acquire more raises Ming San’s suspicions.
• Ming San shifts from wary observer to concerned informant: he recognizes the danger of the dragons’ power and reports Jiu Wu’s cryptic comment to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan responds calmly to Ming San’s warning but becomes angry when he discovers the food shipment is missing.
• Jiu Wu and Chen Fan have an awkward reunion: Jiu Wu expects to demonstrate his new forces, while Chen Fan immediately confronts him about the food.
• Tiantian behaves suspiciously by sneaking away just as Chen Fan orders the missing supplies investigated.

Significant themes

• Power and control: The Strange Dragons’ abilities make them potentially decisive weapons, but their strength also raises concerns about how much power Jiu Wu may accumulate.
• Instinct, loyalty, and identity: Converted beings lose their memories and intelligence, yet retain combat instincts and absolute loyalty to the formation’s caster.
• Resourcefulness and responsibility: The dragons can be repeatedly summoned, but doing so depends on resources such as Black Abyss and Eerie Stones.
• Comic contrast: The chapter balances apocalyptic-scale powers and strategic worries with the mundane farce of a forgotten food shipment—and Jiu Wu’s accidental month-long fast.

Key plot points and events

• The Mortal Domain investigates food that vanished from a sealed Storage Bag. Logistics Pavilion records confirm it was packed and watched throughout the handover, raising concerns that something inside the Domain could bypass its safeguards.
• Weiwei and Keke bring the frightened Tiantian to confess. Her ability makes food appear whenever she opens her mouth, drawing nearby food to her from a distance. She had unknowingly eaten the missing supplies; after finding the note meant for Jiu Wu and the Yellow Springs Wraith Clan, she realized something was wrong.
• Chen Fan reassures Tiantian that the theft was unintentional and asks whether she will let the Strategist Pavilion study her power. She agrees after Weiwei encourages her.
• Chen Fan and the leadership inspect Jiu Wu’s five Strange Dragons, whose enormous size and power make them formidable siege weapons. Their upkeep, however, is staggering: 100 million Eerie Stones per dragon each day, additional costs after battle, and one trillion to revive each. Chen Fan increases Jiu Wu’s funding despite the burden.
• Reviewing the Domain’s reserves, Chen Fan worries that the Mortal Domain is still unprepared for the World Battlefield. He believes it needs another breakthrough, especially new buildings to raise its building-level cap. Mr. Na tries to reassure him, but Chen remains focused on becoming stronger.
• Crippled Monkey shows Chen Fan a painting of him enjoying a rain of Eerie Stones. Afterward, Monkey tells the others Chen is simply stressed about the Domain’s strength and expenses, then urges Research Pavilion head Qian Xiaoping to develop new buildings. The leadership leaves to keep working.
• On Huyi Continent, Jiu Wu and Huang discuss the Dragons’ immense cost. Huang points out that ordinary Strange Entity Clans do not have revival expenses, highlighting how unusual the Mortal Domain’s situation is.

Character developments and interactions

• Tiantian moves from timid confusion to owning up to her accidental theft, and agrees to have her unusual ability investigated. Her power seems potentially useful because it can obtain food across distance and barriers, though its broader applications remain unknown.
• Chen Fan shows compassion toward Tiantian but remains intensely anxious about the Domain’s preparedness. His drive to strengthen the Mortal Domain continues despite its already exceptional resources.
• Jiu Wu proudly presents his new army, then admits the Dragons’ upkeep is a serious financial burden. His exchange with Huang underscores both the Dragons’ value and the Domain’s unusual capacity to support them.
• Little Qiu protects himself with meticulous documentation, subtly putting Wang Kui on the defensive when questioned about why he recorded the shipment.
• Crippled Monkey uses teasing pressure to spur Qian Xiaoping. Qian reacts as though deeply stung, rushing off to work, while the other leaders conclude they must also keep pushing.
• Mr. Na tries to comfort Chen Fan, but recognizes that Chen’s expectations for the Domain are difficult to satisfy.

Significant themes

• Power comes at a cost: The Strange Dragons are extraordinarily strong but impose enormous recurring and revival expenses.
• Relentless ambition and insecurity: Even with resources far beyond those of comparable powers, Chen Fan fears the Mortal Domain is not strong enough.
• Responsibility and trust: Tiantian’s confession is met with understanding rather than punishment, and the group seeks to make constructive use of her ability.
• Collective effort under pressure: The leadership responds to the looming World Battlefield by returning to their work, each seeking ways to improve the Domain’s chances.

Key plot points and events

• The Retirement Clan has advanced to a level-four strange entity clan, and the Mortal Domain is preparing to visit resource coordinates left by the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity.
• Wang Kui reports controversy over the Spring Examination’s “Blades and Swords” subject. A candidate unexpectedly rose from level 12 to level 32 by crossing Chen Fan’s Bridge, then easily won first place. Some people—especially bettors—called the result unfair and demanded a retest.
• Chen Fan refuses to hold a retest, arguing that luck is a legitimate part of strength and that the fortunate candidate could benefit the Mortal Domain. He orders the betting operators warned against manipulating public opinion and recommends compensating the level-19 runner-up, whose good attitude impressed him. Chen Fan later crosses the Bridge himself, hoping for a breakthrough, but nothing happens.
• The Research Pavilion unveils Tiantian II, a Gold Grade lottery-like building called Scratch-Off. It uses a Pocket Angler to catch local goods and Mother-Child Otherworld Flowers to mark deposited Eerie Stones, allowing Yellow Springs currents to carry the stones toward the Mortal Domain. The team still needs experiments to confirm how well ordinary stones travel, how long the process takes, and how to provide appealing prizes at distant locations.
• Chen Fan praises project leader Qian Xiaoping and authorizes continued support. He also hears about a more ambitious project: a Gold Grade Sky-Piercing Pillar II that might use vast quantities of Otherworld Flower powder to send an entire continent into the Yellow Springs currents. Though still speculative, Chen urges the team to pursue it.
• Chen Fan names the hoped-for defensive structure Eternal Beyond, envisioning it as a counterpart to the Demon God Continent’s “Ephemeral Bloom.”

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shows pragmatism and confidence in fortune’s role, while also being attentive to fairness and good character. He supports both the exam’s lucky winner and the level-19 candidate who accepts defeat gracefully. His ambition grows when he learns that the Research Pavilion may create a powerful defensive building.
• Qian Xiaoping demonstrates ingenuity and leadership in bringing together several pavilions and specialists to develop Tiantian II. Chen Fan’s direct praise moves him, and he accepts the Heaven’s Mandate Token and responsibility for continuing the work.
• Wang Kui serves as Chen Fan’s trusted reporter, bringing the exam controversy and evidence to him.
• Angler, absent from his usual meeting place, has secretly advised the Tiantian II project and helped refine its fishing runes.
• Tianxin eagerly reveals the Sky-Piercing Pillar project, despite her brother Qian Xiaoping’s warning not to discuss unfinished work.

Significant themes

• Luck as a form of strength: Chen Fan rejects the idea that success must come only from cultivation or effort.
• Fairness and restraint: The examination result stands, but Chen Fan addresses attempts to pressure the Mortal Domain for gamblers’ benefit and rewards the runner-up’s maturity.
• Collective innovation: Tiantian II depends on contributions from multiple pavilions and individuals, showing how cooperation enables breakthroughs.
• Ambition and resourcefulness: The Mortal Domain turns obscure properties of Otherworld Flowers and Yellow Springs currents into economic and potentially strategic advantages.
• Money versus defense: The new lottery building promises wealth, but Chen Fan remains especially eager for an original Gold Grade defensive structure.

Key plot points and events

• With five months before the Mortal Domain’s planned departure for the World Battlefield, Chen Fan learns that a Yellow Springs Wraith can serve as a permanent “location beacon,” allowing Ming San to open a route to the Eternal Night Continent even after it moves.
• Chen Fan tours the Domain’s departments. The Research Pavilion is building large silver-electricity storage pools, testing whether batteries can recharge Strange Dragons, and finishing a new Scratch-Off structure while continuing work on “Eternal Beyond.”
• At the Mortal City Office, Chen Fan encounters a dispute over a contract for eggs. After half the continent’s chickens suddenly die, a farmer refuses to honor the agreed price, while the merchant insists the written contract should stand.
• Chen Fan connects the deaths to the day Jiu Wu returned from Yellow Springs with five Strange Dragons. The Heaven-Questioning Bell confirms an old enmity between dragons and chickens; the dragons’ presence likely frightened half the chickens to death.
• Chen Fan directs the Domain to replace livestock farmers’ losses with hens and broiler chickens from the New Continent, accepting responsibility for the disruption. He also endorses the principle that witnessed trade contracts should be honored, with penalties for either party’s breach.
• On Huyi Continent, researchers prepare to test whether silver electricity can recharge a Strange Dragon. They run a copper pipe nearly ten thousand meters to the dragon, keeping a supposedly safe distance in case the energy explodes.

Character developments

• Chen Fan shifts from taking a rare day off to investigating an unexpected crisis. Though he dislikes minor administrative burdens, he takes responsibility for the harm caused and orders practical relief.
• The Yellow Springs Wraith messengers become noticeably friendlier after the Mortal Domain repeatedly feeds them elaborate meals.
• Jiu Wu is unknowingly implicated in the chicken deaths because of his Strange Dragons, and remains absorbed in their experiment.
• Zhou Mo and Crippled Monkey prove unable to resolve the contract dispute: both see merit in each side’s case, and Crippled Monkey’s powerful spear makes Zhou Mo wary of challenging him.

Significant themes

• Preparedness and patience: The Domain delays its departure until it is properly equipped.
• Responsibility and public welfare: Chen Fan intervenes when an accident threatens farmers and ordinary consumers.
• Contracts amid uncertainty: Natural disasters may be unpredictable, but agreed commercial terms still require clear rules and accountability.
• Unexpected consequences: Jiu Wu’s return with the dragons triggers an unforeseen economic ripple effect, from livestock losses to changing food prices and improved cooking.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan treats the Yellow Springs Wraiths warmly through food, earning their cooperation and affection.
• He listens to Research Pavilion Master Qian Xiaoping’s progress report and checks in on other departments.
• At the Mortal City Office, he quietly studies the dispute rather than immediately imposing a judgment, then investigates the larger cause behind it.
• He consults Mr. Na and the Heaven-Questioning Bell to piece together the chickens’ deaths, then instructs Zhou Mo’s office to compensate those affected.
• Jiu Wu jokes about the researchers’ exceptionally long “fuse,” while they explain the danger of silver electricity and maintain their distance.

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