Arc 11The War and the Heavenly Dao

Chen Fan led the Mortal Domain through a battle against five Night-Opening People Continents and a sudden Strange Tide, then rebuilt and uncovered an Ancient Strange Clan vault. He put captured Heavenly Daos to work as a new operations system as Jiu Wu prepared to return from the War Mire.

  • Chen Fan used Xiangyang’s intelligence to bombard the Wasteland Clan, and Huang died protecting Xiangyang before Xiangyang destroyed the Night Awakeners’ continent and died himself.
  • Chen Fan upgraded the Mortal Domain’s defenses and led a massive strike that destroyed the Heavenward Continent and overwhelmed the other Night-Opening People Continents.
  • The Middle-Aged Man summoned an ancient Strange Entity Clan continent, bringing a sleeping tide to the Mortal Domain, and Chen Fan ordered an evacuation while a vanguard built a teleportation formation.
  • Qi Yue and tens of thousands of others died helping the Mortal Domain destroy the Strange Tide with twenty-four Heavenly Dao Cannons, and Zhou Mo returned from his grave afterward.
  • Chen Fan fused the Heaven-Evading Strange’s Single Eye with the Eye of Heavenly Derivation and the Heaven-Avoiding Wraith’s Claw with the Godslaying Spear, then found an Ancient Strange Clan vault beneath the Huyi Continent.
  • Chen Fan discovered thirty-seven imprisoned Heavenly Daos and the Heaven’s Mandate Token in the vault, then made the Heavenly Daos coordinate the Mortal Domain’s work.
  • Jiu Wu told Chen Fan that the Yanyi Continent had survived in the War Mire for over thirty days and would return in ten days, ending the promotion campaign.
Chapters 256–280 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 256"Nicely done, Keke."

Chen Fan oversaw the Golden Rain and reviewed the Mortal Domain’s expansion before visiting Zhou Mo’s grave and discovering that Keke could store enormous structures in her belly. Keke swallowed 17,209 Sky-Piercing Pillars, giving the Mortal Domain a powerful way to transport weapons for future campaigns.

  • Chen Fan ordered the Golden Rain to fall across the One-Eyed Continent, and the Mortal Domain later reoccupied the Heaven-Slaying Continent and the Dark Star Continent.
  • Wang Kui reported that the Mortal Domain owned twenty-two continents and had accumulated a trillion eerie stones in its Strategic Reserve Warehouse.
  • Chen Fan visited Zhou Mo’s grave on the anniversary of Zhou Mo’s death, left spirit money beside the gravestone, and returned to Jiangbei.
  • Keke showed Chen Fan the toys she had collected, including a Sky-Piercing Pillar, and Chen Fan realized she could store objects far larger than an ordinary Sky-Swallowing Crocodile could hold.
  • Chen Fan brought Keke to the Missile Storage Base, where she swallowed 17,209 Sky-Piercing Pillars and demonstrated that she could transport them for the Mortal Domain.
  • Chen Fan praised Keke, while the Group Leader had his team recount the pillars and reminded them to keep Keke’s ability confidential.

Ch. 257" A great victory!"

Chen Fan tested the Mysterious Heaven Propellers that moved the Huyi Continent, then learned that Zhang Taiping had returned to life on Rugged Island and welcomed him home with a Victory Banquet. As Zhang Taiping returned to the Commerce Pavilion and the Mortal Domain continued expanding, Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord discussed its aggressive growth.

  • Chen Fan and Wang Kui tested the Mysterious Heaven Propellers, finding that eight thousand would move the Eternal Night Continent at the best cost efficiency.
  • Crippled Monkey told Chen Fan that Zhang Taiping had revived on Rugged Island, and Chen Fan went there with Zhang Taiping's wife and child to welcome him home.
  • Zhang Taiping reunited with his family and old Subordinates, then joined the Mortal Domain's Victory Banquet.
  • Wang Kui reassured Little Qiu about his work and told him that the former Qiuhe Wang Family Head had become a leading candidate in the Military Strategy examination.
  • Wang Mazi promoted Zhang Taiping to deputy Group Leader of the Commerce Pavilion Exploration Group, and Zhang Taiping chose to remain in the Commerce Pavilion.
  • Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord read about the Mortal Domain's latest preventive strike and discussed how its rapid growth had changed the surrounding seas.

Ch. 258"In this world, only killing can end war."

Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain’s preparations for its Second Spring Examination and selected Chen Jiutian, a radical young Formation Master, as the Military Strategy Champion. After meeting him, Chen Fan asked why he had chosen Military Strategy over Formation, leaving Chen Jiutian to explain his ambitions.

  • The Mortal Domain completed its trade-route blessing, bringing Chen Fan’s saved dark technology source points to twenty-seven and its Continent Core count to two as it prepared to advance after its protection period ended.
  • Crippled Monkey brought Chen Fan a song written by a young girl who had lived through the war, and Chen Fan had the lyrics framed for his desk.
  • The Second Spring Examination began on April 1, and Chen Fan personally graded the Military Strategy papers, considering proposals about the Mortal Domain’s future after its protection period.
  • Chen Fan chose Chen Jiutian’s paper as the Military Strategy Champion after learning that the twenty-one-year-old orphan had developed a Concealment Formation and proposed ways to overwhelm enemy defenses.
  • Chen Jiutian explained that he had named himself after a storybook protagonist, and Chen Fan teased him before asking why he had taken Military Strategy instead of Formation.

Ch. 259Eye of Heavenly Derivation

Chen Fan explored the Fallen Firmament after Weiwei shattered it as his birthday gift, gaining the Eye of Heavenly Derivation and using it to expand the Mortal Domain’s surveillance. As the protection period neared its end, he discovered the Wasteland Clan and a Night Awakeners force approaching, and prepared for the coming battle.

  • Chen Jiutian said he wanted to join the Strategist Pavilion because he valued peace and hoped to leave his name in history, and Chen Fan approved of his ambition.
  • Weiwei secretly shattered the Fallen Firmament on Chen Fan’s birthday, and Chen Fan thanked Weiwei before entering Beyond Heaven with Crippled Monkey and the others.
  • Chen Fan obtained and built the Eye of Heavenly Derivation, chose its cloud-writing blessing, and declared a yearly holiday on April 18.
  • Chen Fan expanded the Heaven-Watching Project across the sea and used its Eyes to survey distant continents, including the War Mire.
  • Chen Fan discovered that the Wasteland Clan was heading toward Eternal Night Continent and learned that a Night Awakeners force was approaching as well.
  • As the protection period neared its end, Chen Fan prepared defenses and mobilized the Mortal Domain’s stored Eerie Stones for the coming battle.

Ch. 260"Eternal Night Defense Line"

Chen Fan studied the approaching enemies’ weapons and strange entities, while the Mortal Domain hurried to prepare its defenses and sent Xiangyang to infiltrate the Wasteland Clan. With the Eternal Night Continent’s protection period nearly over, the chapter ended as Long Live reviewed the Mortal Domain’s defenses, grimly aware that the coming battle could bring its first major defeat.

  • Chen Fan used the Eye of Heavenly Derivation and Heaven-Questioning Bell to identify the Qi Night-Opening People Continent’s Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons, Capillary Formation, and Peace Sculptures, and learned that his chances against the Wasteland Clan were poor.
  • Weird Emperor Jiu Wu ordered Xiangyang to infiltrate the Wasteland Clan, and Xiangyang agreed to go with a Doppelganger Wraith as his companion.
  • Chen Fan and Crippled Monkey watched as the Mortal Domain completed the level-10 Eternal Night Defense Line, while its departments stockpiled food, spread air defenses, and moved Rugged Island toward Huyi Continent.
  • Xiangyang left Huyi Continent with a Strange Tide, determined to return victorious for Jiu Wu, the first wraith who had treated him as a brother rather than a tool.
  • Long Live checked the Mortal Domain’s defensive preparations and worried that its optimistic residents had underestimated the danger of the approaching battle.

Ch. 261Ascension to a third-level continent

As the Mortal Domain prepared for an invasion, Chen Fan learned that additional enemies might be approaching, but he refused to flee and relied on contingency plans. The Eternal Night Continent ascended to the third level, and when the Night-Opening People Continent attacked, Chen Fan discovered that its leaders underestimated the Mortal Domain and feared it would escape.

  • Long Live warned Chen Fan that enemies beyond the Wasteland Clan and the Night Awakeners might be approaching, but Chen Fan ordered him to follow the original battle plan and described Beyond Heaven as a last refuge.
  • Hao Mao delivered one hundred billion eerie stones from Good Cat Continent and Sahara Continent to support the Mortal Domain.
  • The Eternal Night Continent ascended to the third level, and Chen Fan deployed the Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons as the strange tide surged against its defenses.
  • The Night-Opening People Continent fired Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars at the Eternal Night Continent; Chen Fan let most of them strike, and the continent's defenses and repairs kept losses low.
  • The Night-Opening People Continent launched forty-seven more pillars at the Mysterious Heaven Propellers, clearing much of the strange tide, then fired another seventy-seven after the Mortal Domain began moving the continent.

Ch. 262"What a hothead."

Chen Fan used the Signal Tower Mutation to redirect a Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillar toward the Wasteland Clan, hoping to provoke conflict between his approaching enemies. Meanwhile, Xiangyang infiltrated the Wasteland Clan and met its king, Huang, whose unexpected kindness left Xiangyang loyal to Jiu Wu and wary of Huang.

  • Chen Fan unlocked Signal Tower Mutation and Continental Mutation 2.0, then used the Signal Tower to redirect a Night-Opening People Continent projectile toward the Wasteland Clan.
  • Huang learned that a Sky-Piercing Pillar had been redirected toward his continent and ordered Locust Strange Entities to trace its origin.
  • Xiangyang led his Strange Tide toward the Wasteland Clan, discarded the Ghosthide Map, and pretended to flee when Huang's forces caught up with them.
  • Huang recognized Xiangyang as a Ghost Emperor Meatworm Wraith and invited him to join the Wasteland Clan, promising he would not use Xiangyang as a weapon or sacrifice him.
  • Huang welcomed Xiangyang to his continent and later drank alone with him, lamenting that he refused to live as others expected.

Ch. 263"The King is wise."

Huang and the Qi Night-Opening People Continent pursued the Eternal Night Continent, while the Wasteland Clan slowed its advance and planned to let rival factions fight first. As Chen Fan prepared the Mortal Domain for the approaching forces, Weird Emperor Jiu Wu set out for the War Mire to gather survival time and return if the Domain faced a serious crisis.

  • Huang ordered the Wasteland Clan to speed toward the Eternal Night Continent, while Xiangyang remained undercover among them.
  • The Qi Night-Opening People Continent’s advisers blamed a hidden faction for redirecting their Sky-Piercing Pillar, and the elderly leader ordered them to wait for the other factions to fight.
  • Long Live told Chen Fan that the Wasteland Clan would arrive in four days and the Qi Night-Opening People Continent in seven, and Chen Fan prepared to test the Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon.
  • Logistics Pavilion Members tested Chen Jiutian’s proposal to fire a Heavenly Dao Cannon across a collision between the One-Eyed and Despair Continents, but the experiment failed.
  • Weird Emperor Jiu Wu prepared to take the Huyi Continent to the War Mire and decided to produce a thousand Whale Strange Entities to travel faster.

Ch. 264"D-Domain Lord."

Weird Emperor Jiu Wu cautiously navigated Huyi Continent through the War Mire, while Chen Fan learned that five more Night-Opening People Continents were approaching Eternal Night Continent. Chen Fan launched a massive surprise bombardment that devastated the Wasteland Clan, but Huang escaped, and five new enemies left the Mortal Domain facing an even larger threat.

  • Jiu Wu entered the War Mire and found that most nearby continents fled rather than fight, until one chased Huyi Continent and forced him to retreat.
  • Chen Fan learned that five additional Night-Opening People Continents were approaching and ordered a Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillar launched at Wasteland Clan Continent.
  • Huang intercepted the first Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillar, but a disguised pillar destroyed three of his stored Black Abysses, prompting him to produce more Thorns Strange Entities.
  • Chen Fan used intelligence relayed through Xiangyang to launch nearly ten thousand Sky-Piercing Pillars, including hidden Strategic pillars that nearly wiped out the Wasteland Clan's forces.
  • Huang escaped with his trusted followers and Xiangyang as the bombardment continued, while five Night-Opening People Continents appeared on the Heavenly Derivation Display.

Ch. 265The King of the world

After the Mortal Domain destroyed the Wasteland Clan, Huang and Xiangyang struggled to survive at sea, where Huang faced old enemies and a Heavenly Dao Strange. As eternal night fell, Huang threw Xiangyang to safety and stood against five Ghost Emperors, but one stabbed him from behind.

  • Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to keep bombarding the Wasteland Clan Continent and kill every remaining Strange Entity before the approaching continents arrived.
  • Huang teleported away from a Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillar, then learned the Wasteland Clan had been demoted and his cultivation had fallen from Wraith Saint to Wraith Venerable.
  • Huang encountered a Strange Entity whose continent he had destroyed three years earlier, and he and Xiangyang escaped after Huang killed their pursuers’ leader and Subordinates.
  • Huang killed a Heavenly Dao Strange with a Giant Thorn, then told Xiangyang how humiliation and mistreatment had driven him to seek kingship.
  • As five Ghost Emperors closed in during eternal night, Huang hurled Xiangyang into the sky and urged him to live and become King.
  • One of the Ghost Emperors stabbed Huang through the chest from behind, and Huang taunted his attackers as his life faded.

Ch. 266"I am Seven Emperor, also known as Xiangyang."

After Huang died, Xiangyang sacrificed himself as a Wraith Venerable to destroy a Night Awakener continent, leaving a letter for the Mortal Domain. Chen Fan mourned Xiangyang and prepared for further battles, while Jiu Wu learned he was trapped in the War Mire for twenty-nine more days.

  • Xiangyang returned to the ruined battlefield, learned that Night Awakeners planned to take Huang’s body as a specimen, and wrote a final letter before heading for their continent.
  • Xiangyang absorbed the Night Awakeners’ attacks and activated, nearly destroying the continent; the Mortal Domain then bombarded its remaining landmass with Sky-Piercing Pillars.
  • Chen Fan ordered the recovery of Xiangyang’s letter and the continent’s resources, mourned Xiangyang, and told Crippled Monkey to summon Jiu Wu home.
  • Jiu Wu received word that the Mortal Domain had secured 621 days of War Mire Survival Time, but discovered he had to survive thirty days in the War Mire and still had twenty-nine days left.
  • The Logistics Pavilion recovered resources from the destroyed continent, and Wang Kui delivered Xiangyang’s seawater-soaked letter to Chen Fan.

Ch. 267"I could never become King, nor turn toward the sun."

Seven Emperor recalled how Jiu Wu and Huang shaped his life, and how Huang sacrificed himself to save him. After returning to find Huang dead and hearing others plan to turn him into a specimen, Seven Emperor chose his own path and left to stop them, asking that his death be credited to Jiu Wu.

  • Seven Emperor remembered being swept into the Mortal Domain by Jiu Wu, finding a home with Boss, and resolving to protect them.
  • While infiltrating the Wasteland Clan, Seven Emperor met Huang, who told him that Meatworm Wraiths should have a path of their own.
  • After misfortune left Huang weakened and surrounded by five Ghost Emperors, he gave Seven Emperor his heartblood and threw him to safety.
  • Seven Emperor returned at dawn and found only a Wooden Board and scraps of Huang's flesh, then heard people boast about collecting their corpses.
  • When he learned that people planned to make Huang a specimen, Seven Emperor left a letter and chose his own path to stop them.

Ch. 268Everything was negotiable.

Chen Fan learned that the Mortal Domain had recovered nearly 400 billion eerie stones but faced four approaching Night-Opening People Continents that had stopped moving, possibly to coordinate. He used the pause and 621 days of plundered survival time to upgrade the Mortal Domain’s defenses and chose the Earth Dragon Formation, while preparing to search for structures exclusive to Third-Level Continents.

  • Wang Kui reported that postwar collection on the Qi Night-Opening People Continent had recovered 388.21 billion eerie stones, bringing the Mortal Domain’s available total to about 1.2 trillion.
  • Long Live reported that five Night-Opening People Continents remained hostile, and four approaching continents stopped almost simultaneously, raising the possibility that they had joined forces.
  • Chen Fan said the Mortal Domain would use its 621 days of plundered survival time to upgrade buildings, then upgraded the Formation Hall to Level 27 and selected the Earth Dragon Formation.
  • Chen Fan upgraded key defenses and communications structures to Level 27, including building a Level 27 Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon from ninety-nine Heavenly Dao Cannons.
  • Wang Kui gave Chen Fan three dark technology source points and reported that Keke had brought exotic treasures to the Warehouse while Weiwei searched the ruins for more blueprints.
  • Chen Fan went to the Warehouse to look for structures exclusive to Third-Level Continents as the enemy continents remained still.

Ch. 269"Don't go making trouble."

Qi Yue reflected on his quiet life as War Pavilion Master while the Mortal Domain fought a war too immense for the Pavilion to join. As the chapter ended, Gongyang Yiyue and Big Fish considered risking their remaining years to help, while Chen Fan prepared to use treasures and Building Blueprints exclusive to third-level continents.

  • Qi Yue remembered Zhou Mo’s sacrifice and his own buried strength, then reassured Gongyang Yue that the War Pavilion would stay away from the battlefield.
  • Gongyang Yiyue read about Xiangyang’s self-sacrifice and asked Big Fish to do something grand before they died, but Big Fish told him not to make trouble.
  • Weiwei and Keke searched the sunk Night-Opening People Continent for Secret Chambers, while Weiwei carried his sister and worried about the unborn crocodile inside their mother.
  • Mr. Na watched Big Croc and Little Croc sleeping at the Exotic Beast Breeding House and silently gave them a final blessing.
  • Chen Fan examined exotic treasures and Building Blueprints from the Warehouse, noting that the blueprints were exclusive to third-level continents.

Ch. 270Pure reality called for its own tactics.

Chen Fan discovered that five Night Awakeners' continents had allied to launch a saturation bombardment against the Mortal Domain, so he struck first with his own Sky-Piercing Pillars. The Heaven-Swallowing Continent proved able to distinguish decoys from real attacks and counterattacked, leaving Chen Fan facing a dangerous contest of resources and defenses.

  • Chen Fan built and upgraded a Land-Digging Machine, but Long Live summoned him to the Strategist Pavilion after the five Night Awakeners' continents prepared a joint assault.
  • The Heavenward Continent's elderly leader ordered the alliance to launch a comprehensive saturation strike against the Mortal Domain within two hours.
  • Chen Fan rejected Long Live's proposal to bombard one enemy continent and ordered the Mortal Domain to launch a full strike against all five instead.
  • The Mortal Domain's first Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars struck the Heavenward Continent, while the Heaven-Swallowing Continent intercepted its incoming attacks with an unexpectedly effective defense.
  • Chen Fan identified the Heaven-Swallowing Continent as the key threat and redirected 2,000 Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars toward it, while asking Little Qiu to rush the Wasteland Clan Continent's postwar inventory.
  • The Heaven-Swallowing Continent's Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon destroyed Chen Fan's split Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars, and its forces launched nearly a hundred pillars toward the Mortal Domain.

Ch. 271"All in"

Chen Fan committed the Mortal Domain’s entire stockpile to an all-out bombardment of the five allied third-level continents, while the enemy continents launched their own strategic weapons in response. The Mortal Domain intercepted a salvo of twenty-seven enemy pillars and fired three Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars back at Heavenward Continent, where they multiplied into nine above the target.

  • Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to launch its Sky-Piercing Pillars, Eerie Stones, and other strategic reserves against all five enemy continents at once.
  • Mortal Domain workers mined and transported Eerie Stones to the front as the people of Eternal Night Continent watched the bombardment begin.
  • The allied continents prepared and launched twenty-seven Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars, and Chen Fan’s Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons intercepted every one before they reached Eternal Night Continent.
  • The Rat Kingdom King sent seventy billion Eerie Stones to support the Mortal Domain, while Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord witnessed the scale of the battle.
  • Chen Fan launched three Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars toward Heavenward Continent, and One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones turned them into nine above the continent.

Ch. 272We will meet in hell.

The Mortal Domain destroyed Heavenward Continent after Chen Fan redirected its final Sky-Piercing Pillar, then launched its entire reserve at the four remaining Night-Opening People Continents. The chapter ended with those continents overwhelmed by the bombardment, as their leaders realized the Mortal Domain’s apparent weakness had been a deliberate setup.

  • Heavenward Continent’s elderly ruler used all eleven Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons to intercept the Mortal Domain’s split Sky-Piercing Pillars, but the barrage exhausted its eerie stones and defenses.
  • The elderly ruler launched Heavenward Continent’s final five Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars at the other four Night-Opening People Continents and the Qitian War Mire before the Mortal Domain’s bombardment destroyed his continent.
  • Chen Fan used Signal Tower Mutation to redirect the pillar aimed at the Qitian War Mire back toward Heavenward Continent, delivering the finishing blow.
  • The Heaven-Swallowing Continent leader devised a two-wave interception plan and mistook the Mortal Domain’s sporadic attacks for a sign that Chen Fan was preparing to flee.
  • At noon the next day, Chen Fan launched nearly all of the Mortal Domain’s remaining Sky-Piercing Pillars at the four continents while Wang Mazi and the Rare Islands prepared to support the attack.
  • The four Night-Opening People Continents detected a vast incoming barrage, and their leaders despaired as the Mortal Domain’s final strike overwhelmed their defenses.

Ch. 273Who would lead the charge?

The Mortal Domain’s bombardment devastated the Heaven-Swallowing Continent, but its ruler summoned an ancient Strange Entity Clan continent that threatened to destroy them in turn. With Chen Fan incapacitated and the Great Evacuation Plan underway, Long Live and the others chose to launch a desperate assault, and Qi Yue’s War Pavilion volunteered to lead it.

  • Chen Fan’s four hidden Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons appeared on the approaching rare islands and blasted the already-ruined Heaven-Swallowing Continent.
  • The Middle-Aged Man sacrificed himself to summon an ancient fallen Strange Entity Clan continent, which smashed the rare islands and brought a sleeping tide of powerful strange entities to the Mortal Domain’s doorstep.
  • Chen Fan ordered the Great Evacuation Plan, but the enormous Strange Entity froze him with a glance before sinking back into exhaustion.
  • Long Live proposed using Vanguard Sky-Piercing Pillars to send a first wave across the sea and establish Teleportation Formations before the Strange Tide fully awakened.
  • Crippled Monkey approved the assault alongside the evacuation, and Long Live offered to lead the charge.
  • Wang Mazi, the Formation Pavilion Master, and Qi Yue volunteered their groups for the vanguard, and Qi Yue argued that the War Pavilion should go.

Ch. 274"My Mortal Domain, the greatest of them all."

Qi Yue and the War Pavilion sacrificed themselves to establish a foothold on the Dark Continent, allowing the Mortal Domain to deploy twenty-four Heavenly Dao Cannons and destroy the Strange Tide. After the costly victory, Zhou Mo returned from the dead, giving Chen Fan hope that the fallen might one day come home too.

  • Gongyang Yue saw Qi Yue sever his legs and teleport to the Dark Continent, where he began laying the first stones of a Large Teleportation Formation and died after Zhao Shanhe and other War Pavilion Members continued the work at the cost of their lives.
  • War Pavilion Members drew the Strange Entities away while builders and Logistics Pavilion Members established a city wall and prepared the first Heavenly Dao Cannon; Long Live ordered them to delay firing until all twenty-four cannons were ready.
  • As civilians evacuated, children sang the Mortal Domain’s nursery rhyme, while Big Fish and Gongyang Yiyue repaired the final cannon’s broken copper pipes despite their injuries.
  • The twenty-four Heavenly Dao Cannons fired together and wiped out the Strange Tide; the Mortal Domain won, but Qi Yue, Big Fish, Gongyang Yiyue, and tens of thousands of others died, and Long Live resigned.
  • Chen Fan learned the scale of the losses, read Big Fish’s letter, and decided the Mortal Domain would recuperate before entering the War Mire; Gongyang Yue visited Qi Yue’s grave with a meal.
  • Zhou Mo crawled out of his grave, and Chen Fan welcomed him back and told him he would become the War Pavilion’s third Pavilion Master.

Ch. 275Resource coordinates

After the Mortal Domain won the war, Zhou Mo returned to the War Pavilion and learned what had happened while he was gone, while reconstruction began and survivors mourned the dead. Mr. Na told Chen Fan that the Supreme Heavenly Dao had provided Resource Coordinates, including a cache hidden beneath the ruins of the Huyi Continent, though revealing such coordinates came at a price.

  • Chen Fan welcomed Zhou Mo back, and Zhou Mo learned that the Night Awakeners had been captured and executed after his death.
  • Zhou Mo visited Qi Yue's untouched study, ordered its contents preserved, and asked for copies of the War Pavilion's records.
  • The Mortal Domain began replenishing its supplies by mining seventeen second-level black abysses, while Long Live hid in a village and worked a small farm.
  • The Mortal Domain Daily Report detailed the war, prompting people to hang lanterns facing west for the fallen; Hao Mao learned the full account and returned eerie stones to the Mortal Domain.
  • Chen Fan learned from the Heaven-Questioning Bell about the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's sealing ability and considered the resources and building blueprint obtained from the Dark Continent.
  • Mr. Na told Chen Fan that the Supreme Heavenly Dao had provided Resource Coordinates, including one beneath the underwater ruins of the Huyi Continent, and said revealing them required a price.

Ch. 276Wasteland Supreme Treasure

Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain’s postwar resources and set new recovery and Sky-Piercing Pillar stockpile targets. He appraised two Wasteland Supreme Treasures and discovered that the Godslaying Spear could fuse with both, leaving him stunned by its potential significance.

  • Wang Kui reported that the Mortal Domain had recovered 470 billion Eerie Stones, repaid 420 billion in wartime aid, and had 17.8 billion available after expenses.
  • Chen Fan ordered the Logistics Pavilion to speed up Black Abyss mining and deploy Eyes of Heavenly Derivation within a million kilometers of the Mortal Domain.
  • Chen Fan set ambitious Sky-Piercing Pillar stockpile goals and reviewed the Mortal Domain’s 2,521 days of War Mire survival time.
  • Chen Fan appraised the Heaven-Evading Strange’s Single Eye, a red-grade Wasteland Supreme Treasure that could fuse with several buildings or the Godslaying Spear.
  • Chen Fan discovered that the second Wasteland Supreme Treasure could fuse with the Godslaying Spear at 100% utilization and wondered whether the spear was the Eternal Night Continent’s supreme treasure.

Ch. 277Seeing daylight again

Chen Fan chose to give the Heaven-Avoiding Wraith's Claw to the Godslaying Spear while granting the Mortal Domain the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's sealing ability, then uncovered a hidden Ancient Strange Clan resource vault beneath the seabed. The vault entrance had been found and a Teleportation Formation set up, leaving the Mortal Domain ready to enter.

  • Chen Jiutian advised Chen Fan to fuse the Eerie Eye with the Eye of Heavenly Derivation and reserve the Heaven-Avoiding Wraith's Claw for the Godslaying Spear, arguing that the Mortal Domain needed rare capabilities as its former advantages became common.
  • Chen Jiutian asked to become Strategist Pavilion Master, and Chen Fan offered him a Deputy Pavilion Master position if his Heavenly Thunder Formation project improved the Sky-Piercing Pillars' charging time.
  • Chen Fan fused the Heaven-Evading Strange's Single Eye with the Eye of Heavenly Derivation, giving the Mortal Domain the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's sealing ability.
  • Chen Fan fused the Heaven-Avoiding Wraith's Claw with the Godslaying Spear, removing one layer of its Dust-Covered State and granting the Mortal Domain a slight power increase for its Defensive Structures.
  • Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain's forces located the Ancient Strange Clan's resource vault beneath the seabed, using a modified Deep-Sea Exploration Ship and the Godslaying Spear to enter its hidden chamber.
  • Weiwei entered the vault's vortex with the Godslaying Spear and set up a Teleportation Formation inside, preparing the Mortal Domain to reach the resources.

Ch. 278Heaven's Mandate!

Chen Fan and his companions explored the underwater Secret Chamber and discovered vast stores of Eerie Stones, rare treasures, seeds, and weapons. The Godslaying Spear opened a hidden laboratory containing dozens of imprisoned Heavenly Dao, and Mr. Na arrived to find his kind trapped there.

  • Chen Fan entered the Secret Chamber with Crippled Monkey and the others, then followed a passage into a vast cavern stocked with high-level Eerie Stones.
  • Chen Fan found rare Dark Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, including a Red Grade Dark Earth-Vein Root, and identified a Red Grade Dark Nightwatch Orchid among the seeds.
  • Chen Fan tested the Godslaying Spear on an empty weapon rack, triggering mechanisms that opened a hidden laboratory beyond the cavern.
  • Chen Fan read an inscription naming the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity as Heaven's Mandate and discovered dozens of surviving Heavenly Dao imprisoned in transparent Pillars.
  • Mr. Na arrived after Chen Fan called him and was horrified to sense dozens of his own kind, while Chen Fan concluded that Heaven's Mandate had been collecting Heavenly Dao.

Ch. 279"Underline first when solving a problem."

Chen Fan uncovered a hidden Tea Room inside Heaven's Mandate's Secret Chamber by interpreting the imprisoned Heavenly Daos' gazes, then found a Red Grade treasure and the Heaven's Mandate Token. He claimed the chamber as a secret base, while the Token and the circumstances of Heaven's Mandate's flight left him wary of a greater danger.

  • Chen Fan examined the thirty-seven imprisoned Heavenly Daos, and Mr. Na explained that their consciousnesses had faded after millennia of imprisonment.
  • Chen Fan retraced Heaven's Mandate's imagined route through the chambers and reasoned that the neat displays and empty weapon rack pointed to a missing place to sit and admire the trophies.
  • Chen Fan made the Heavenly Daos' gazes visible with milky liquid, traced their lines to the rock wall, and pressed two hidden switches at once to open a Tea Room.
  • Chen Fan found Heaven's Mandate's Red Grade tooth, which blocked Heavenly Dao surveillance, and a Token beneath the tea table.
  • Chen Fan identified the Token as the Heaven's Mandate Token, ordered the Logistics Pavilion to move the Eerie Stones, and declared the chamber a new secret base.

Ch. 280Celestial Pivot

Chen Fan and Mr. Na turned the thirty-seven unconscious Heavenly Daos into automated operators for the Mortal Domain, including a coordinating hub named Celestial Pivot. After the new systems improved transport and administration across the Eternal Night Continent, Weird Emperor Jiu Wu reported that the Yanyi Continent had survived the War Mire and was returning, bringing the promotion campaign to a close.

  • Chen Fan ordered the Pillars moved to Nameless Mountain and proposed using the unconscious Heavenly Daos to automate Mortal Domain operations.
  • Mr. Na used his access rights to command a Heavenly Dao to replenish a warehouse with Eerie Stones, and Giant Strange Entities carried out the instruction without operators.
  • Chen Fan named one Heavenly Dao Celestial Pivot and assigned it to coordinate the others, then gave additional Heavenly Daos specific duties.
  • Heavenly Dao No. 2 coordinated high-speed rail schedules, while Celestial Pivot began assisting with member information, resource requests, and cross-department coordination.
  • Chen Fan and Mr. Na supplied Celestial Pivot with Mortal Domain records, and the new systems operated for nearly ten days.
  • Weird Emperor Jiu Wu told Chen Fan that the Yanyi Continent had survived in the War Mire for over thirty days and would return in ten days, ending the promotion campaign.
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