Recaps

Chen Fan confronted the Feng Qiya Continent over its attack on the New Continent, rejected mediation, and threatened both the Feng Qiya and Good Cat Continents. While negotiations stalled over reparations, he secretly deployed Heavenly Dao Cannons along the Feng Qiya Continent’s Northern Region Coast, preparing to attack.

• Chen Fan arrived with nearly a thousand Flying Boats and demanded that the Feng Qiya Continent’s lord meet him to discuss reparations, or face all-out war.
• The Feng Qiya Continent’s lord claimed his forces had not attacked the New Continent and demanded compensation for the Mortal Domain’s destruction of his Flying Boats.
• Chen Fan ordered a bombardment of the Feng Qiya Continent, then threatened the Good Cat Continent after its lord challenged him; he also demanded reparations from both continents.
• The Good Cat Continent’s lord withdrew after Chen Fan fired Blazing Pillars toward his territory, while the Feng Qiya Continent’s lord offered at most fifty billion Eerie Stones.
• As Chen Fan continued negotiating, Crippled Monkey told him the preparations were complete, and Chen Fan secretly teleported to the Feng Qiya Continent’s Northern Region Coast to build walls for Heavenly Dao Cannons.

Chen Fan declared war on the Feng Qiya Continent and erased it with thirty-five Heavenly Dao Cannons, renaming it the Provocateur Continent and claiming it for the Mortal Domain. After discovering the operation had drained the Mortal Domain’s reserves, he planned to hunt nearby strange entity clans, while Weiwei brought Gold-Swallowing Toads to collect the remaining eerie stones.

• Chen Fan rejected the Feng Qiya Continent Lord’s offer of fifty billion Eerie Stones and declared war, citing the deaths of Zhang Taiping and the Mortal Domain Shadow Pavilion members.
• Chen Fan ordered the eradication of the Feng Qiya Continent, and thirty-five Heavenly Dao Cannons reduced it to a flat wasteland in a few dozen breaths.
• The Feng Qiya Continent Lord lost his mind, his granddaughter collapsed, and Chen Fan claimed the territory as the Provocateur Continent; the Sahara Continent Lord offered friendship, while the Rat Kingdom King gave Chen Fan a dark technology source point.
• Wang Kui reported that the campaign had cost 69.97 billion eerie stones and left the Mortal Domain with only 29.7 billion in reserve, so Chen Fan planned to attack nearby strange entity clans for resources.
• Chen Fan learned that Pick-Up Sculptures could not collect the eerie stones left on the Provocateur Continent, but Weiwei brought Gold-Swallowing Toads that could swallow and gather them.

After the Mortal Domain destroyed the Feng Qiya Continent, Chen Fan announced the victory and the Spring Examination results in Mortal City, establishing new pavilions and rewarding the top candidates. Eight Hundred used his moment in the spotlight to call for his missing sister, while Chen Fan resolved to help separated families reunite.

• Wang Kui explained that the Mortal Domain had only 29.7 billion eerie stones available for ordinary use because its 700-billion-stone Strategic Reserve Base was being preserved for emergencies.
• The Good Cat Continent’s lord, fearing the Mortal Domain’s power, decided to bring 20 billion eerie stones as reparations, apologize publicly, and share the requirements for advancing to a third-level continent.
• Chen Fan reviewed the third-level advancement requirements and went to Mortal City to announce the Spring Examination results and reveal that the Mortal Domain had annihilated the Feng Qiya Continent in retaliation for Zhang Taiping’s death.
• Chen Fan appointed Long Live as the Strategist Pavilion’s first master and awarded him the Fame Gu for winning the Military Strategy examination.
• Chen Fan named Eight Hundred deputy master of the Formation Pavilion and gave him the Myriad-Mile Landscape Scroll; Eight Hundred called out publicly to his missing younger sister, and Chen Fan decided to organize efforts to reunite families separated during the Great Retreat.
• Chen Fan announced the remaining examination champions, including Tian Ce as Finance Pavilion master and Skyward Chili as deputy master of the Logistics Pavilion, concluding the Mortal Domain’s first Spring Examination.

After the Spring Examination ended, Chen Fan established new departments and received congratulations from other continents, while the newly formed Strategist Pavilion began advising on defense and dark technology. The chapter ended with Chen Fan challenging Long Live to justify the pavilion’s proposal to spend every dark technology source point on the military.

• Chen Fan reassured Mr. Na that he would strengthen the Eternal Night Continent to protect it, despite the risks of war and eventual advancement to the War Mire.
• Wang Kui showed Tian Ce the Mortal Domain’s warehouses and explained the Finance Pavilion’s duties, then briefed Long Live and the Strategist Pavilion on confidential information and three strategic questions.
• Wang Kui warned Chen Fan that the Strategist Pavilion consisted entirely of Pro-War candidates, but Chen Fan and Crippled Monkey claimed they were Conservative and would restrain its recommendations.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu captured a Sahara Continent exploration boat near Huyi Continent and took its crew to Chen Fan, while visitors from other continents later arrived to congratulate the Mortal Domain and pay reparations.
• Long Live proposed using the Eternal Night Land Deed and Eerie Fire to prevent enemies from placing Heavenly Dao Cannons on the Eternal Night Continent, then recommended putting all available dark technology source points into military research.
• Chen Fan told Long Live that the Mortal Domain had gained a fourth source point and pressed him to explain why the Strategist Pavilion wanted to allocate every point to the military.

Long Live recommended that Chen Fan focus the Mortal Domain’s dark technology research on the military branch, while Chen Fan collected gifts and reparations from visiting continent lords and showed them the Mortal Domain’s expanding reach. The visitors left wary of the Mortal Domain’s strength, and Chen Fan returned to Eternal Night Continent expecting a peaceful two years of development before its advancement to a third-level continent.

• Long Live explained the dark technology tree and advised Chen Fan to pursue the military branch exclusively to preserve the Mortal Domain’s technological advantage.
• Chen Fan received congratulatory gifts from eight continent lords and accepted ten billion eerie stones in reparations from the Good Cat Continent, while warning its lord not to provoke him.
• Chen Fan revealed that the Mortal Domain controlled Huyi Continent and let the visiting lords tour New Continent, where their attendants secretly bought copies of the Mortal Domain Daily Report.
• After reading the Daily Report, the continent lords learned of Long Live’s role in the attack on Feng Qiya Continent and the Mortal Domain’s other capabilities, including its connection to Huyi Continent.
• Chen Fan returned to Eternal Night Continent and told Mr. Na that the Mortal Domain should have two years to develop before advancing to a third-level continent.

Chen Fan upgraded the Mortal Domain’s defenses and uncovered why the Feng Qiya Continent had attacked the New Continent. As a nuclear Sky-Piercing Pillar approached the Heavenly Dao Strange worshipped as Feng Qiya, he realized its death might have prevented the Mortal Domain’s destruction.

• Chen Fan activated Anti-Aircraft Cannon Enhancement and City Wall Mutation, then saved his remaining dark technology source point while seeking more points for Watchtower Mutation.
• At Nameless Mountain, Wang Kui explained the reserve-storage process to Tian Ce and said Chen Fan had few personal expenses because he focused on the Mortal Domain’s security.
• On a Logistics Pavilion patrol, Zhang Tianmu asked to transfer to the Commerce Pavilion, and his middle-aged superior agreed to recommend him after warning him about the dangers of exploration.
• The patrol’s Watchtower detected a suspected Heavenly Dao Strange beneath the Provocateur Continent, and Chen Fan arrived as a nuclear Sky-Piercing Pillar was launched toward it.
• Wang Mazi gave Chen Fan vellum recovered from Feng Qiya ruins, and Chen Fan realized the continent had worshipped the Heavenly Dao Strange as Feng Qiya and attacked the New Continent seeking a Continent Core.

Chen Fan mourned fallen Mortal Domain members, strengthened survivor benefits, and learned that Heavenly Fortune could not guarantee Zhang Taiping’s resurrection. After the Mortal Domain discovered a First-Level Continent south of Eternal Night, Mr. Na warned that strange entity clans might target the New Continent and Provocateur Continent to advance.

• Chen Fan watched the Sky-Piercing Pillar destroy a Heavenly Dao Strange and learned that ninety-nine Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannons could combine into the continent-level Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon.
• Chen Fan and Mortal Domain leaders held a funeral for Zhang Taiping and fallen Shadow Pavilion members, and Chen Fan called for continued exploration and development.
• Chen Fan tried using Heavenly Fortune to resurrect Zhang Taiping, learned from Mr. Na that its resurrection claim had only been speculation, and ordered increased survivor benefits for the fallen members’ families.
• Weiwei’s pregnant mother asked to return to the Mortal Domain, while Weiwei worried about feeding another little sister on his current allowance.
• Qian Duoduo’s Commerce Pavilion crew discovered a First-Level Continent 1,829 kilometers south of Eternal Night and reported its Level-6 coastal defense line.
• Mr. Na explained that strange entity clans advanced by occupying continents and warned Chen Fan that clans might attack the lightly defended New Continent and Provocateur Continent.

Chen Fan gathered intelligence on nearby Strange Entity Clans, then hosted a hot-pot reunion with his old subordinates and listened to how their lives had changed. The gathering ended with Weiwei and his newly named sister Keke joining the drinking and feasting.

• Chen Fan ordered Crippled Monkey to seek coordinates of nearby Strange Entity Clans and sent a Commerce Pavilion squadron to investigate a first-level continent.
• Chen Fan visited the warehouses at Behind Nameless Mountain, planned to add three hundred billion eerie stones to the Strategic Reserve, and invited his old subordinates to reunite.
• At the hot-pot gathering, Zhou Mo, Qi Chong, A Le, Wang Mazi, and Little Qiu shared updates about their work and recalled their years during the Jiangbei rainy season.
• Big Fish explained that he had joined the Logistics Pavilion to comfort bereaved families, and Shao Qiu described how Gongyang Yiyue had become his age-matched partner.
• Chen Fan reassured Zhou Mo that he remembered his service and valued him, easing Zhou Mo's worries about his place in the Mortal Domain.
• Weiwei arrived with his little sister, and Chen Fan named her Keke before the group drank and ate together.

Chen Fan’s Mortal Domain expanded trade with a newly discovered continent while preparing to eliminate three Strange Entity Clans nearing advancement. He recruited Weird Emperor Jiu Wu to lead a false surrender operation, securing his agreement with a promise of support and protection.

• After a night of drinking, Weiwei, Crippled Monkey, and the others passed out, and Chen Fan had them taken inside to sleep.
• Zhang Damao negotiated with Wen Tian of the Heaven-Seeking Tower on the Despair Continent, offering Mortal Domain goods, services, and credit.
• Long Live briefed Chen Fan on plans to develop first-level continents through trade and destroy the Heaven-Slaying Clan, Dark Star Clan, and One-Eyed Clan before they advanced.
• Chen Fan proposed using Weird Emperor Jiu Wu’s false surrender to establish a foothold inside an enemy territory and deploy city walls and Heavenly Dao Cannons.
• After traveling by high-speed rail to Huyi Continent, Chen Fan asked Weird Emperor Jiu Wu to lead the operation and promised resurrection support for his subordinates and lifelong protection for his Retirement Clan.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu agreed to help, and Chen Fan congratulated him on the news that he was having a child.

The One-Eyed Wraith King considered how the Mortal Domain’s victory over the Feng Qiya Continent could upset the balance among the Strange Entity Clans, while Weird Emperor Jiu Wu sought refuge with the One-Eyed Clan under Chen Fan’s instructions. Meanwhile, Hao Mao told the Sahara Continent Lord that the Mortal Domain already had a Continent Core and could become a third-level continent in two years.

• The One-Eyed Wraith King learned of the Mortal Domain’s conquest of the Feng Qiya Continent and worried that the Heaven-Slaying Clan might also act.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu arrived with his Strange Tide and claimed he wanted to join the One-Eyed Clan after a Flying Boat attack forced him to abandon his island.
• Chen Fan accelerated the Mortal Domain’s war preparations, confirming that its cannons and logistics were ready to deploy along a coastline within the time it took an Incense Stick to burn.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu asked for territory in the One-Eyed Continent’s Core Area, but the One-Eyed Wraith King instead offered him land in the west, and Jiu Wu accepted.
• Hao Mao explained to the Sahara Continent Lord that his Gold-Seeking Compass had detected the Mortal Domain’s contact with a Continent Core, suggesting it could advance to a third-level continent after its protection period ended.

Weird Emperor Jiu Wu transmitted the One-Eyed Wraith King's location to the Mortal Domain, enabling a surprise assault that killed the King and cleared the Northern Region for an invasion. The Mortal Domain deployed Heavenly Dao Cannons to devastate One-Eyed Continent, while its Logistics Pavilion prepared a new contingency to keep the Provocateur Continent from being occupied.

• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu settled his forces in the Western Region of One-Eyed Continent, then attended the One-Eyed Wraith King's welcome banquet and secretly transmitted the Palace's coordinates to the Mortal Domain.
• The One-Eyed Wraith King and his commanders discussed their plans with Weird Emperor Jiu Wu, who left the Palace and ordered his forces to advance toward the Northern Region Coast.
• The Mortal Domain's Sky-Piercing Pillars struck the Palace and the Northern Region, killing the One-Eyed Wraith King and clearing a landing area for Weird Emperor Jiu Wu's army.
• Chen Fan and the Logistics Pavilion used a Vanguard Sky-Piercing Pillar to teleport personnel and supplies to One-Eyed Continent, then deployed thirty Heavenly Dao Cannons along the Coast.
• The thirty Heavenly Dao Cannons fired together, flattening One-Eyed Continent and destroying the advancing Strange Entities; Chen Fan then stopped Keke from wasting Eerie Stones on repeated trips through the teleportation formation.
• Logistics Pavilion Members carried out the third Battle Plan on the Provocateur Continent by building a suspended house twenty thousand kilometers above the ground to shelter Living Beings from the Strange Entity Clan.

Chen Fan inspected the Mortal Domain’s new prison and burial project while preparing to secure dark technology source points from the Provocateur Continent’s spoils. After learning the inventory was complete, he postponed the report so he could return to Nameless Mountain and welcome the expected five source points.

• Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain’s forces to leave the cleared One-Eyed Continent and strike the Dark Star Clan before it learned of the attack.
• Chen Fan inspected the high-altitude prison on the Provocateur Continent, where Crippled Monkey explained the crimes of several prisoners and their assigned labor.
• Chen Fan visited Rugged Island, reviewed the Ten-Thousand Graves Project, approved its memorial grave for himself, and ordered a city wall built around the island.
• Chen Fan learned that Zhang Taiping’s body gave off Yellow Grade Golden Light Spots but had not revived, and ordered the group to keep observing him.
• Chen Fan considered unlocking Watchtower Mutation and discussed supporting first-level continents in exchange for their dark technology source points.
• Wang Kui reported that the Provocateur Continent’s spoils had been inventoried, but Chen Fan told him to deliver the report at Nameless Mountain after he had prepared to receive five source points.

Chen Fan tallied the Mortal Domain’s spoils and built the Purple Grade Heavenly Derivation Formation, a central control system that connected and displayed the faction’s structures. He entrusted the Strategist Pavilion with using it while ordering safeguards against leaks, and its first test demonstrated real-time tracking and limited course adjustment of a Sky-Piercing Pillar.

• Wang Kui reported that the Mortal Domain had 161.8 billion eerie stones remaining and that the spoils included three Purple Grade exotic treasures, among them a Heavenly Derivation Formation blueprint.
• Chen Fan built the Heavenly Derivation Formation in the Strategist Pavilion, upgraded it to Level 20, and chose to reserve its third heavenly dao blessing effect for activating the Heavenly Derivation Set.
• The Heavenly Derivation Formation connected 470,000 structures and displayed the Mortal Domain’s buildings, transportation routes, and Weird Emperor Jiu Wu in real time.
• Chen Fan gave Long Live’s Strategist Pavilion access to the new system, then ordered Crippled Monkey to investigate its members and have the Shadow Pavilion monitor them because the display exposed sensitive information.
• Long Live requested permission to test a Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar, and Chen Fan approved the launch as he asked Wang Kui to bring him the findings on the Fallen Firmament.
• The Strategist Pavilion watched the Sky-Piercing Pillar’s trajectory appear on the display and discovered that they could make limited course adjustments while it was in flight.

Chen Fan unlocked new military dark technologies and discovered that mutated Black Tortoise Cannons created durable physical carriers for defensive structures. As the Strategist Pavilion planned its assault on the oddly shaped Heaven-Slaying Continent, Weird Emperor Jiu Wu landed on the Dark Star Continent.

• Long Live urged Chen Fan to test a level-20 Sky-Piercing Pillar’s maximum range, but Chen Fan rejected the experiment to avoid attracting a third-level continent’s attention.
• Wang Kui reported the Mortal Domain’s gains from the Provocateur Continent, including three Purple Grade exotic treasures and four dark technology source points.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Exotic Beast Breeding Houses to level 20 and used two source points each to unlock Watchtower Mutation and Black Tortoise Mutation.
• Chen Fan found that mutated Black Tortoise Cannons produced physical, highly durable Black Tortoises that could carry defensive structures, while another technology could reduce Heavenly Dao Cannon costs.
• Long Live and the Strategist Pavilion debated how to defeat the Heaven-Slaying Clan on its sea-urchin-shaped continent, and Long Live left to report their emerging plan to Chen Fan.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu landed on the Dark Star Continent and stood there bewildered.

Weird Emperor Jiu Wu sought refuge with the Heaven-Slaying Clan after finding them victorious over the Dark Star Clan, then secretly coordinated with the Mortal Domain. As the Heaven-Slaying Clan prepared to attack the One-Eyed Clan, Jiu Wu began securing the Northern Region Coast for the Mortal Domain’s Heavenly Dao Cannon deployment.

• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu arrived on the Dark Star Continent, recognized the Heaven-Slaying Clan, and persuaded its Wraith Venerable to spare him and accept his allegiance.
• The Wraith Venerable explained that the Heaven-Slaying Clan had destroyed the Dark Star Clan to claim the Feng Qiya Continent and restore its status as a third-level race, then ordered Jiu Wu to wait at the Northern Region Coast.
• Chen Fan chose the Strategist Pavilion’s first battle plan for the Heaven-Slaying Continent, then received Jiu Wu’s report that the Heaven-Slaying Clan would soon head to the Feng Qiya Continent.
• Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to mobilize and prepare Heavenly Dao Cannons at the Northern Region Coast while aiming to preserve its record of zero casualties.
• Jiu Wu built a Teleportation Formation and received a Mortal Domain Logistics Pavilion member, who ordered him to clear and secure the coast and cover the cannon deployment.

Weird Emperor Jiu Wu convinced the Heaven-Slaying Clan’s Ghost Emperor to abandon his old worldview and join the Mortal Domain before Chen Fan’s forces annihilated the Heaven-Slaying Clan with Heavenly Dao Cannons. The Mortal Domain began claiming the three conquered continents, while news of its victory alarmed rulers across the region.

• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu secretly brought Mortal Domain forces onto the Dark Star Continent, where they deployed Heavenly Dao Cannons and prepared a surprise attack.
• Jiu Wu persuaded the Heaven-Slaying Clan’s Ghost Emperor to question his clan’s endless wars and consider a life built around farming and community.
• Ghost Emperor Xiangyang dropped his Message Stone, accepted Jiu Wu’s invitation to defect, and knelt before Chen Fan as the Mortal Domain’s forces surrounded them.
• Chen Fan ordered the final strike, and the Heavenly Dao Cannons wiped out the Heaven-Slaying Clan; Xiangyang joined Jiu Wu’s Retirement Clan.
• Chen Fan ordered cleanup and preparations to claim the Heaven-Slaying, Dark Star, and One-Eyed Continents, while the Mortal Domain planned to use their Golden Rain to extend its people’s lives.
• The Mortal Domain publicized its victory, and Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord struggled to understand how Long Live’s plans had enabled the Mortal Domain to destroy three powerful Strange Entity Clans.

After eliminating three near-Third-Level Strange Entity Clans, Chen Fan ordered a campaign against other emerging threats and continued expanding the Mortal Domain’s reach. While Weird Emperor Jiu Wu brought Ghost Emperor Xiangyang into the Mortal Domain’s fold, Keke was forgotten on the One-Eyed Continent, and Chen Fan moved to confront the Dupeng Continent over a newly claimed Rare Island.

• Chen Fan ordered Long Live to prepare a plan to eliminate Strange Entity Clans that needed two more continents to reach Third-Level status, while Wang Kui reported that three cleared continents would soon be ready for occupation.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu returned to the Huyi Continent with Ghost Emperor Xiangyang, explained the Mortal Domain’s continent-rotation strategy, and sent the Coordinates of two Black Abysses to Chen Fan.
• Xiangyang read the Mortal Domain History Book and Daily Report, learned how the faction had risen, and accepted Jiu Wu’s guidance and protection.
• Keke continued hauling a Pick-Up Sculpture alone across the already-cleared One-Eyed Continent, while Weiwei fell into dormancy after consuming a Red Grade Exotic Beast Core.
• Chen Fan received the Coordinates of two Black Abysses and ordered personnel to prepare them for mining.
• Shao Qiu reported that the Dupeng Continent had claimed Plum Blossom Island, so Chen Fan summoned all Second-Level Continents to meet there, prompting Sanqi to agree to cooperate.

Chen Fan named the sea the Heaven-Questioning Sea, secured military funds and dark technology source points from its Continent Lords, and arranged a regional alliance. After returning to the Mortal Domain to activate a new cannon technology, he received news of a disturbing incident at the Despair Continent, where a fleet of Mortal Domain members appeared to have become strange entities.

• Chen Fan gathered twelve Continent Lords, named their sea the Heaven-Questioning Sea, and persuaded them to contribute 120 billion Eerie Stones toward campaigns against Strange Entity Clans.
• Chen Fan collected 27 dark technology source points, set plans for the other continents to complete hidden Heavenly Dao blessings, and agreed to Hao Mao’s proposal for a formal alliance.
• Chen Fan arranged for the Feng Qiya rare Island to be shared for exploration, then returned to the Mortal Domain with 28 dark technology source points and activated the Mutated Heavenly Dao Cannon.
• Wang Kui and Long Live discussed how Chen Fan had obtained the new source points as Mortal Domain forces began building undersea tunnels and scouting deep-sea strange entities.
• King Zhangba boarded a bloodstained Mortal Domain fleet at the Despair Continent and watched its familiar crew turn toward him with eerie smiles before his consciousness faded.

Chen Fan expanded the Mortal Domain’s defenses and unlocked several dark technologies while Mr. Na explained why the Supreme Heavenly Dao had questioned the continent’s rapid spending. After a supply caravan vanished on the Despair Continent, Chen Fan delayed an investigation and considered Long Live’s proposal to test the situation with nuclear-armed Sky-Piercing Pillars.

• On the Despair Continent, King Zhangba’s eerie smile infected hundreds of thousands of people, and Western Region Strange-Suppression Defense Line No. 6 fell.
• Chen Fan built and upgraded a Psionic Cannon, tested it against an Illusory Black Tortoise and Phantom Copper Pipes, and chose a blessing that doubled its damage to illusory Strange Entities.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Heavenly Dao Cannon’s blessing, added a level-20 Dark Watchtower, and unlocked technologies for Mysterious Heaven Propellers and increased continent durability.
• Mr. Na told Chen Fan that the Supreme Heavenly Dao had investigated the Mortal Domain’s unusually large supply of dark technology source points, and Chen Fan kept the source of his access secret.
• Chen Fan and Long Live found no signs of ghosts at the Dark Watchtower sites before Wang Mazi reported that a supply caravan and its contact on the Despair Continent had disappeared.
• Chen Fan stopped Wang Mazi from sending Flying Boats to investigate, and Long Live suggested testing the Despair Continent with nuclear-armed Sky-Piercing Pillars.

Chen Fan investigated the silent Despair Continent and discovered that a Ghost Emperor Heart-Eating Wraith had infected its humans. He sent Weird Emperor Jiu Wu to capture it, where Jiu Wu’s innate dark sacred physique was revealed and a powerful enemy tried to recruit him; Jiu Wu rejected the offer and urged Ghost Emperor Xiangyang to return with him to the Mortal Domain.

• Chen Fan sent a nuclear Sky-Piercing Pillar toward the Despair Continent, received no response, and summoned Weird Emperor Jiu Wu to investigate.
• Jiu Wu pledged loyalty to Chen Fan, who sent a Doppelganger Wraith through a Vanguard Sky-Piercing Pillar; it found eerily smiling humans and died after firing its Pocket Cannon.
• Reports from across the Despair Continent showed the same infected humans, and the Heaven-Questioning Bell identified the culprit as a Ghost Emperor Heart-Eating Wraith whose victims could not be saved.
• Chen Fan ordered Jiu Wu to capture the Heart-Eating Wraith, and Jiu Wu brought Ghost Emperor Xiangyang and his Ghost Emperor subordinates to the Despair Continent.
• The Heart-Eating Wraith, Greed, recognized Jiu Wu’s innate dark sacred physique and offered to make him ruler of the Wasteland Clan, but Jiu Wu captured him and rejected his proposal.
• Xiangyang urged Jiu Wu to abandon the Mortal Domain and conquer the world, but Jiu Wu told him that Chen Fan was his friend and invited him to come home.

Chen Fan welcomed Weird Emperor Jiu Wu back to the Mortal Domain after Jiu Wu captured the Heart-Eating Wraith responsible for destroying the Despair Continent, and promised him a place and resources in the domain. As the Mortal Domain prepared to investigate the threat and deal with the continent’s aftermath, Zhou Mo secured Chen Fan’s help after the Finance Pavilion’s travel limits stranded him.

• Chen Fan discussed cultural development with Crippled Monkey and ordered the Publicity Pavilion to arrange cultural exchanges with the Good Cat Continent once the Undersea Tunnel was complete.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu returned with the captured Heart-Eating Wraith, and Chen Fan ordered Crippled Monkey to interrogate it while welcoming Jiu Wu as a full Mortal Domain member and establishing the Jiu Wu Pavilion.
• Wang Kui explained to Crippled Monkey that Chen Fan feared unstable threats and betrayal, while Ghost Emperor Xiangyang received his new clothes, identity token, and position in Jiu Wu’s pavilion.
• Zhou Mo came to report that the War Pavilion had caught the true mastermind behind the rumors, but the Teleportation Formation’s daily limit left him waiting until he paid to return to the Mortal Domain.
• Zhou Mo pleaded with Chen Fan to let him resign over the travel limit, and Chen Fan took him to Tian Ce, who raised Zhou Mo’s daily allowance to fifty Teleportation Formation uses.

Zhou Mo reported that a suspicious secluded family on the Eternal Night Continent might be a group of wraiths, prompting Chen Fan to order a covert investigation and plan a thorough screening of the population. The Heaven-Questioning Bell revealed that the continent was once called the Cursed Continent, while Chen Fan also approved Long Live’s containment plan for the Heart-Eating Wraith’s outbreak on the Despair Continent.

• Zhou Mo described the strange customs and apparent unnatural longevity of a village near East Wu City, and Chen Fan authorized him to investigate secretly with the Sky-Piercing Pillars ready if needed.
• Chen Fan ordered Wang Mazi to recall ten experienced explorers, then learned from the Heaven-Questioning Bell that the Eternal Night Continent had once been called the Cursed Continent.
• Chen Fan urged Crippled Monkey to hurry his interrogation of the Heart-Eating Wraith and went to the Strategist Pavilion to review the Despair Continent response plan.
• Long Live proposed cordoning off the Despair Continent, warning other continents, and containing the fatal infection; Chen Fan approved the plan and left him in charge.
• Chen Fan asked Long Live about his time in the eastern continent and the Gold Grade rain, then concluded that the secluded family might have avoided the rain by hiding and decided to accelerate the subjugation of the One-Eyed Continent.

Zhou Mo infiltrated the Strange Village’s mining crew, but the villagers exposed him and a chained monster killed him. Chen Fan launched a continent-wide search, while the fleeing villagers were discovered in Black Tortoise City and one of them surrendered.

• Zhou Mo disguised himself as a laborer and discovered that the Strange Village had isolated him from the rest of the mine.
• The middle-aged villager tried to bribe Zhou Mo into concealing the village, then left when a chained monster approached.
• Zhou Mo revealed that he was the War Pavilion’s Pavilion Master and a level 20 martial artist, but the monster defeated him with one blow.
• Chen Fan arrived at Zhou Mo’s corpse, ordered the Eternal Night Continent sealed and searched, and sent Zhou Mo’s body to Rugged Island.
• The middle-aged man and three villagers hid in Black Tortoise City as Mortal Domain Members searched the city, but the searchers found them after the man’s black mist concealed them only briefly.
• The middle-aged man escaped through a wall with two villagers, while the remaining villager dropped to his knees and surrendered.

Chen Fan uncovered the Night Awakeners’ plan to reach Beyond Heaven, captured their leaders, and executed the prisoners in vengeance for Zhou Mo before burying him on Rugged Island. As the Mortal Domain prepared to screen the population and strengthen its defenses, Keke was found unconscious beneath a Pick-Up Sculpture, and Chen Fan asked where Weiwei was.

• A villager told Chen Fan that the Night Awakeners were reincarnating humans with dark power in their Right Wing arms, and that they planned to reactivate the Tower of Babel and establish a nation beyond the firmament.
• The Mortal Domain hunted down the Night Awakeners across Eternal Night Continent, captured Lord Hao, and finally found Lord Jiu hiding in Mortal City through a Positioning Formation concealed in a newspaper.
• Chen Fan executed the captured Night Awakeners, including Lord Hao and Lord Jiu, then placed Zhou Mo’s remains and keepsakes in his coffin and vowed to eliminate every Night Awakener.
• The Mortal Domain buried Zhou Mo on Rugged Island as civilians lit lanterns along the funeral route, while Chen Fan promised at the grave that he would clear the Night Awakeners from the world.
• The Mortal Domain prepared to move Eternal Night Continent’s population through the Undersea Tunnel for Golden Rain screening, and Zhou Mo’s deputy became War Pavilion Master.
• Logistics Pavilion Members found Keke unconscious beneath a Pick-Up Sculpture on the One-Eyed Continent, and Chen Fan asked where Weiwei was.

Chen Fan learned that powerful outsiders were watching the Eternal Night Continent and discussed the Supreme Heavenly Dao’s purpose and the difficulty of breaking the Firmament. Meanwhile, the Retirement Clan occupied the Despair Continent and advanced to a Third-Level Race, making Weird Emperor Jiu Wu its first Wraith Venerable.

• Crippled Monkey reported that the captured Heart-Eating Wraith, Greed, had revealed the War Mire’s role in strengthening third-level factions and warned that outsiders were waiting for the Mortal Domain’s protection period to end.
• Mr. Na gave Chen Fan a Ghosthide Map of five rare islands and explained the Supreme Heavenly Dao’s origins, goals, and limits; Chen Fan decided to wait for Weiwei to evolve before testing whether it could break the Firmament.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu led the Retirement Clan’s strange tide in occupying the Despair Continent and gathering its Exotic Beasts and animals for the Mortal Domain.
• After three days, the Retirement Clan fulfilled the conditions to advance to a Third-Level Race, and Jiu Wu broke through to level 20 as its first Wraith Venerable.
• Jiu Wu celebrated the advancement, said goodbye to the Mortal Domain Members, and set off to swim home with his strange tide.