Recaps

Jiu Wu converted the Yellow Springs’ accumulated corpses into Strange Entities and tested a powerful Strange Dragon before returning to the Mortal Domain. Chen Fan learned Jiu Wu had not delivered the food meant for the Yellow Springs Wraiths and ordered an investigation into the missing shipment.

• Jiu Wu laid out the Race-Conversion Formation in the Lower Yellow Springs and created a formidable Strange Dragon from a dragon corpse.
• Jiu Wu tested the Strange Dragon’s speed, attacks, defense, and failed Dragon Clan Taboo, while Ming San explained the backlash it suffered.
• Jiu Wu converted the remaining corpses into Strange Entities, then ordered them to return to the Yellow Springs so he could resurrect them later.
• Ming San warned Chen Fan that Jiu Wu had muttered about obtaining four more Strange Dragons, and Chen Fan told him he understood and asked about the shipment of food.
• Jiu Wu returned to the Mortal Domain without having delivered the food or eaten any during the journey, and Chen Fan ordered Crippled Monkey and the others to find the missing supplies.

Chen Fan discovered that Tiantian had unknowingly been stealing food through her ability, then inspected Jiu Wu’s five powerful but costly Strange Dragons. Despite the Mortal Domain’s vast resources, Chen Fan still worried it was not ready for the World Battlefield, while his staff pushed to develop new buildings and strengthen the continent.

• Little Qiu showed records proving the food had been packed and monitored, but Weiwei revealed that Tiantian had unknowingly taken it with her food-summoning ability.
• Chen Fan reassured Tiantian and agreed to let the Strategist Pavilion study her ability.
• Jiu Wu demonstrated five Strange Dragons at the Northbank Defense Line and explained that their upkeep, combat costs, and revival fees were enormous.
• Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain’s reserves and told Mr. Na that the domain remained too weak for the World Battlefield, then focused on raising its building level cap.
• Crippled Monkey urged Qian Xiaoping to develop new buildings, and the gathered staff left to continue strengthening the Mortal Domain.
• Jiu Wu and Huang discussed the Strange Dragons’ staggering upkeep, and Huang noted that ordinary Strange Entity Clans did not have revival costs.

Chen Fan heard how a candidate unexpectedly reached level 32 by crossing a Bridge and refused calls for a Spring Examination retest, then learned that the Research Pavilion had completed the Gold Grade lottery building Tiantian II. The Pavilion also proposed a Sky-Piercing Pillar that might carry an entire continent into the Yellow Springs currents, which Chen Fan named Eternal Beyond, though the project remained in its early stages.

• Wang Kui reported that a Spring Examination candidate had risen from level 12 to level 32 on Chen Fan’s Bridge and won the Blades and Swords subject, prompting public complaints and demands for a retest.
• Chen Fan rejected a retest, ordered the War Pavilion to warn those manipulating public opinion through betting pools, and told Wang Kui to reward and nurture the level-19 runner-up.
• Chen Fan visited the Research Pavilion, where Qian Xiaoping presented Tiantian II, a Gold Grade draw building designed to send Eerie Stones through the Yellow Springs currents and provide prizes through a Pocket Angler and other features.
• Qian Xiaoping explained the building’s unresolved questions, and Chen Fan praised his work and instructed him to finish refining Scratch-Off and conduct Yellow Springs experiments.
• Tianxin revealed a proposed Gold Grade strategic Sky-Piercing Pillar that could use Otherworld Flower powder to draw an entire continent into the Yellow Springs currents, and Chen Fan urged Qian Xiaoping to pursue it.
• Chen Fan named the proposed defensive building Eternal Beyond and left the project in development while the Mortal Domain remained in place.

Chen Fan investigated a dispute caused by a mass die-off of chickens, discovered that Jiu Wu’s Strange Dragons had frightened them to death, and ordered compensation for affected farmers. Meanwhile, Research Pavilion members on Huyi Continent prepared to test whether Silver Electricity could recharge Strange Dragons, keeping nearly ten thousand meters away in case it exploded.

• A Yellow Springs Wraith told Chen Fan that one of its kind could serve as a location beacon, allowing Ming San to open the Yellow Springs Road to the Eternal Night Continent from anywhere.
• Chen Fan learned that the Research Pavilion was developing Energy Storage Pools and testing Silver Electricity Batteries on Strange Dragons, then found Zhou Mo and Crippled Monkey struggling to settle a contract dispute over eggs.
• Chen Fan traced the sudden death of half the continent’s chickens to the day Jiu Wu returned with five Strange Dragons, and the Heaven-Questioning Bell confirmed an old hidden hatred between dragons and chickens.
• Chen Fan ruled that signed trade agreements should be honored and ordered the Mortal Domain to replace farmers’ lost chickens with birds from the New Continent.
• On Huyi Continent, a Research Pavilion member prepared to send Silver Electricity through a copper pipe into a Strange Dragon while Jiu Wu approved the test from a distance of nearly ten thousand meters.

Silver electricity greatly enhanced the Strange Dragon’s speed and Dragon Breath, while Jiu Wu survived absorbing it and Huang was instantly killed by it. The Mortal Domain’s tests exposed the threat enhanced Strange Dragons posed, as Chen Fan prepared for the World Battlefield and planned to advance the Good Cat and Sahara Continents.

• The Strange Dragon absorbed silver electricity, gaining vastly increased speed and a more powerful Dragon Breath before the energy ran out.
• Jiu Wu absorbed silver electricity and survived, discovering that his dark sacred physique and kingly authority enhanced his strength, while Huang exploded when he tried the same experiment.
• The Strange Dragon also gained power from a Level-10 Eerie Stone, and Chen Fan learned that high-level energy enhanced different aspects of the Dragon Clan’s combat abilities.
• Chen Jiutian’s simulations showed that an enhanced Strange Dragon could breach a Level-30 City Wall, though five Strange Dragons attacking from close range could endanger the Mortal Domain.
• As the Mortal Domain prepared to leave the War Mire, Chen Fan unlocked Vehicle Workshop Mutation and asked Xiaowen for advice about the World Battlefield.
• Chen Fan reviewed his plans to advance the Good Cat Continent as a peace continent and the Sahara Continent as a garden continent, while wondering whether all three continental paths could be combined.

Chen Fan unlocked the War Dividend dark technology and learned that formally defeated continents could become affiliated territories, increasing the Mortal Domain’s defensive power. After bringing the Good Cat Continent and Huyi Continent under the Eternal Night Continent, he realized that capturing a rival continent’s affiliates could build his strength even faster.

• Wang Kui oversaw the Continent Lords’ trade of items for the Mortal Domain’s remaining War Mire survival time, and Chen Fan acquired 21 dark technology source points along with various treasures.
• Chen Fan unlocked the seven-colored War Dividend dark technology, which increased the power of the Mortal Domain’s defensive structures each time it defeated a continent of the same level.
• After the Good Cat Continent advanced to the fourth level, Chen Fan learned the rules for defeat treaties, and Hao Mao formally surrendered with Heaven and Earth as witnesses, making the Good Cat Continent an affiliate and granting one War Dividend stack.
• Chen Fan gave Continent Cores to the second-level Continent Lords who had previously lent him dark technology source points, then traveled to the Huyi Continent.
• Jiu Wu formally surrendered the Huyi Continent, giving the Mortal Domain a second affiliate and raising War Dividend to two stacks.
• Chen Fan learned that defeating a continent with its own affiliates would transfer those affiliates to him, and that they would add further War Dividend stacks.

Eternal Night Continent neared the World Battlefield and set its Safe Distance at 30,000 kilometers. When Excellence Continent refused to move away from the resource coordinates despite a polite warning, Chen Fan ordered preparations for war.

• Chen Fan departed the War Mire with Eternal Night Continent as the Mortal Domain completed its preparations and headed toward the resource coordinates.
• Chen Fan set Eternal Night Continent’s Safe Distance at 30,000 kilometers after Farmer Continent said its own was 60,000 kilometers.
• The Mortal Domain discovered that Excellence Continent was occupying the resource coordinates and would have to be approached to reach them.
• Chen Fan’s polite request for Excellence Continent to move aside was rejected by the Middle-Aged Man, who hoped Eternal Night Continent would attack first.
• Chen Fan asked the gathered officials whether they agreed to fight, received unanimous approval, and ordered Mirage shots fired in preparation for war.

The Excellence Continent launched a massive Sky-Piercing Pillar attack and used Heavenly Retrotrace to expose Chen Fan’s private life, hoping to undermine support for the Eternal Night Continent. Instead, Chen Fan’s daily routine and diary revealed his relentless focus on building Sky-Piercing Pillars, leaving the Excellence Continent’s psychological attack turned against its own ruler.

• Chen Fan ordered a small opening volley toward the Excellence Continent to test its War Dividend strength, and the enemy answered with 300,000 Sky-Piercing Pillars, including a hidden Heavenly Retrotrace.
• Chen Fan directed the Eternal Night Continent’s defenses to intercept the incoming pillars and redirect one projectile into the sea, where its ordinary power raised questions about the enemy’s affiliated continents.
• Heavenly Retrotrace activated within range and projected scenes of Chen Fan’s daily work across the Eternal Night Continent, then revealed his private diary entries about building more Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• The Middle-Aged Man ordered Heavenly Retrotrace to expose Chen Fan’s private writings, but the entries showed his constant worry for the Mortal Domain and devotion to strengthening it.
• The Middle-Aged Man erupted in frustration as the attack failed to discredit Chen Fan, while the Elderly Man remained silent.

Chen Fan retaliated against the Excellence Continent after its Heavenly Retrotrace exposed his private life, and the Mortal Domain destroyed the unprepared fourth-level continent. As the Eternal Night Continent approached the World Battlefield, Chen Fan learned more about the powerful Heaven's Mandate Bestowed building and prepared for future battles.

• The Hearts That Embrace the World spread footage of Chen Fan’s humble home and tireless work, causing popular will and the Mortal Domain’s cohesion to surge.
• Chen Fan ordered the full assault on the Excellence Continent, rejecting its Continent Lord’s apology and offer to yield the Shipping Route.
• The Mirage’s illusions frightened the Excellence Continent into failing to defend itself, and the Mortal Domain’s Sky-Piercing Pillars destroyed its ruling faction and defeated the continent.
• Chen Fan ordered another strike against the Excellence Continent’s Mysterious Heaven Propellers, then sent Jiu Wu and the Strange Tide ashore to seize control and collect spoils.
• The Eternal Night Continent advanced toward the World Battlefield, while Chen Fan inspected the pink-grade Heaven’s Mandate Bestowed and its three remaining activations.
• Chen Fan asked Crippled Monkey to have dumplings sent over as the Eternal Night Continent prepared for what lay ahead.

After the Excellence Campaign, Chen Fan’s forces finished plundering and refining the Excellence Continent while searching for a resource site linked to the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity. They tracked the site to a gigantic Black Tortoise, whose fury erupted when Chen Fan showed it the Heaven’s Mandate Token.

• Chen Fan ordered the Excellence Continent’s innocent population transferred to the Cautious Continent, and the Mortal Domain later completed its postwar cleanup and began refining the continent with the Starforge.
• Chen Fan and his companions searched the resource Coordinates, but the Heaven’s Mandate Token initially showed no sign of a nearby sealed space.
• As the Flying Boat departed, the token lit up and revealed a colossal, fast-moving Sea Turtle; Chen Fan ordered Chen Jiutian to track it and Jiu Wu to intercept it with five Strange Dragons.
• Jiu Wu and the Strange Dragons caught up with the Sea Turtle, and Chen Fan arrived by Teleportation Formation after cooling the overheated Dragon’s back.
• Chen Fan recognized the Sea Turtle as an ancient Black Tortoise and showed it the Heaven’s Mandate Token; the Black Tortoise roared with sudden fury and hatred.

Chen Fan freed the Black Tortoise and recovered a sealed box containing a mysterious Note that the Angler said could impose rules on Heaven and Earth, though its origins and practical use remained uncertain. After locating the hidden Resource Coordinates on four remote Islands, Chen Fan prepared to investigate what the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's Mandate had left behind.

• Chen Fan used the Heaven's Mandate Token to open the Black Tortoise's Life Abyss, recovered an ancient black box, and received a Pearl promising the Black Tortoise's aid.
• The Black Tortoise explained that the lock on its Life Abyss had been placed by a terrifying former owner of the Heaven's Mandate Token, not by the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity.
• The Angler recognized the box as a Starry Box and identified its handwritten Note as the Seventh Sheet, which could supposedly make anything written on it a rule of Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Fan's brush melted when he tried writing on the Note, and he put it away after the Angler and Xiaowen could not confirm how to use it.
• Chen Jiutian traced the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's Resource Coordinates to remote Islands, and Wang Mazi's team found four Islands where the Heaven's Mandate Token confirmed a sealed space.
• Chen Fan set out to investigate the newly discovered Resource Coordinates and see what the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's Mandate had left behind.

Chen Fan found the third set of Resource Coordinates in a coffin on a Blue Grade Primordial Continent ore island and discovered a note revealing Heaven-Evading Strange Entity’s past and a prophecy of a final war. The Heaven-Questioning Bell explained that Strange Tree bark could reveal more of the note with advanced wraith blood, then announced its upgrade to Gold Grade and its new paid proactive reminders.

• Chen Fan landed on the Primordial Continent ore island and learned that mining its 12,000 jin reserve required star-metal tools and a Smelting Factory.
• Crippled Monkey dug up a bronze coffin, and damaging it triggered Heaven’s Mandate Token, confirming it held the third set of Resource Coordinates.
• Chen Fan read Heaven-Evading Strange Entity’s note, which described a prophecy about a Human King and a Dark Monarch and the entity’s discovery of Heaven’s Mandate Token, the Godslaying Spear, and the Heavenly Dao Scroll on an ordinary-looking continent.
• Chen Fan connected the Godslaying Spear and the other treasures to Eternal Night Continent and considered whether the continent had been a seclusion site or an early investment in a future Human King.
• The Heaven-Questioning Bell explained that Oracle Island’s prophecy could shape the future and that advanced wraith blood could reveal more writing on the note.
• The Heaven-Questioning Bell revealed that it had upgraded from Red Grade to Gold Grade, with answers costing fifty million Eerie Stones and proactive reminders costing one hundred million.

Chen Fan prepared the Mortal Domain to enter the World Battlefield and planned to use an Under-Heaven Edict to make a name for himself through a major faction-wide duel. Upon entering, he found that Didi Continent and Herbal Continent had already accepted such a challenge, and he bought admission to observe their battle.

• Jiu Wu used his wraith blood to reveal a slip containing a method for creating Heaven, and Chen Fan ordered Xiaowen to calculate the cost of the required fishing net.
• Chen Fan sold copies of the Daily Draw blueprint for hundreds of trillions of eerie stones and listed more at a higher price.
• After the Excellence Continent was fully refined, Chen Fan decided to use Heavenly Retrotrace to investigate his future opponents and announced that the Mortal Domain would enter the World Battlefield the next day.
• Chen Fan revealed his plan to use the Under-Heaven Edict to provoke a major battle and attract factions whose support he could exploit.
• The Mortal Domain entered the World Battlefield, where Chen Fan saw that Didi Continent had challenged Herbal Continent with an Under-Heaven Edict and had accepted the duel.
• Chen Fan bought admission to watch the duel and saw the Continent Lords' Chat and Audience Chat panels suspended above the two continents.

Chen Fan watched Didi Continent and Herbal Continent prepare for an Under-Heaven Edict battle, then learned that the contest was actually the Ultimate Calamity: Blood Arena, binding every supporter to a faction and putting its reserves at risk. After the Strange Shadow Clan’s Hell Cavalry broke through Herbal Continent’s wall, Chen Fan held back his resources and waited for a chance to turn the battle around.

• Thunder Serpent Continent backed Herbal Continent with Sky-Piercing Pillars, while the Strange Shadow Clan backed Didi Continent with Meatworm Wraiths and Thorns Strange Entities.
• Chen Fan contributed one batch of Sky-Piercing Pillars to Herbal Continent, and Eternal Night Continent was automatically bound to its faction when the Blood Arena calamity began.
• Chen Fan discovered that the losing faction’s supporters would lose their reserves, then unsuccessfully tried to sell Daily Draw blueprints to gather more Eerie Stones.
• Both factions poured troops and resources into the battle, and Chen Fan sent the Retirement Clan to reinforce Herbal Continent with Meatworm Wraiths.
• The Strange Shadow Clan deployed twenty thousand Hell Cavalry, which breached Herbal Continent’s Level-20 Coast City Wall.
• Chen Fan held back his reserves while Jiu Wu quietly anticipated sending the Retirement Clan’s five units of Strange Dragons into the fight.

Chen Fan waited as the Didi Continent coalition unleashed five million Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities and overwhelmed Herbal Continent’s defenses. Just as the defenders seemed defeated, he declared that the Mortal Domain would take over the battle.

• Chen Fan learned that the Strange Shadow Clan had unlocked a Hell Cavalry blueprint, while Thunder Serpent Continent reinforced Herbal Continent with Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• The Outlaw Clan deployed nearly a million Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities, and allied clans sent more strange tides, forcing Thunder Serpent Continent to shield Herbal Continent with a continent-wide protection formation.
• Chen Fan told Chen Jiutian that the Mortal Domain had stockpiled 278 groups of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars and would wait for the enemy’s next counterattack before acting.
• The Eastern Clan’s King killed the last Elderly Man who opposed abandoning their ancestral instructions, then declared that the clan would join the war with its vast reserves and four Strange Dragons.
• The Didi Continent coalition countered the defenders’ volley with millions more Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities, leaving Herbal Continent’s supporters near despair.
• Chen Fan finished his tea and announced that the Mortal Domain was officially taking over the battle as the sky filled with lines of glowing text.

Chen Fan’s massive reserve deployment briefly turned the Blood Arena battle in Herbal Continent’s favor, but the Eastern Clan answered with overwhelming forces and pushed the fight toward defeat. With the Mortal Domain nearly depleted and Jiu Wu’s forces repeatedly resurrecting against impossible odds, Chen Fan activated his final-final plan and left spectator mode to face the battle himself.

• The Mortal Domain supplied Herbal Continent with protection formations and vast numbers of Sky-Piercing Pillars, letting the allied factions destroy Didi Continent’s first strange tide and level much of its defenses.
• The Eastern Clan revealed enormous reserves, including Strange Dragons, Sky-Covering Black Tortoises, and millions of strange entities, reversing the battle and forcing the allies to pool their remaining resources for another counterattack.
• The Eastern Clan sent further reinforcements under Wind Erosion, while Chen Fan authorized Jiu Wu and the Retirement Clan to enter the battle with strange entities that could repeatedly resurrect using eerie stones.
• Wind Erosion killed Jiu Wu once but learned that Jiu Wu possessed an innate dark sacred physique; Jiu Wu revived, while the Eastern Clan’s Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities overwhelmed the Retirement Clan’s Strange Dragons.
• The Mortal Domain ran nearly out of supplies as the Retirement Clan continued reviving and attacking the strange tide, and Chen Fan ordered the final-final plan.
• Chen Fan exited spectator mode, walked onto the Northbank Defense Line, and looked to the lights of homes behind him as the rain fell.

The Mortal Domain turned the tide in the Blood Arena by supplying the Herbal Continent with twenty thousand volleys of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars, destroying the Eastern Clan and earning the title Blood Arena God-King. The battle ended with the Eastern Clan wiped out, while the Hexagram Heaven Continent's elderly diviner failed to learn what force had destroyed it.

• Across the Eternal Night Continent, people prayed as Chen Fan used the Mortal Domain's popular will to build and charge its remaining Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• Jiu Wu awakened the power of his innate dark sacred physique and unleashed a devastating slash, but the million hands of Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities remained standing.
• The Eternal Night Continent supplied the Herbal Continent with 9,999 volleys of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars, wiping out the million hands and turning the battle around.
• The Eternal Night Continent supplied another 9,999 volleys, destroying the Eastern Clan and winning the Blood Arena with 99% faction contribution; Jiu Wu celebrated the victory.
• After the Blood Arena ended, human continents sought ties with the Mortal Domain while Strange Entity Clan continents fled the World Battlefield.
• On the Hexagram Heaven Continent, the elderly diviner learned the Eastern Clan had been annihilated, but the Divination-Heaven Bell refused to reveal who had destroyed it.

After the Eternal Night Continent won the Blood Arena, Chen Fan received the Blood Arena God-King title, its scepter, and an opportunity to pursue the Uncrowned King title. The victory banquet revealed Jiu Wu’s new powers, and Jiu Wu later began planning a Nine-Five Dragon Chariot for Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan received the Blood Arena God-King title and customized its scepter to resemble his Jadeite Staff, then chose the opportunity to unlock the Uncrowned King title over the other compensation options.
• Chen Fan learned that the Uncrowned King’s first mission required every continent and race in the World Battlefield to submit to the Eternal Night Continent in exchange for faster, more reliable building construction.
• At the victory banquet, Xiaowen explained that Jiu Wu’s crimson blade attack was a Dark Strange Art, and Jiu Wu revealed that he could create and control a powerful crimson longblade.
• Chen Fan told Jiu Wu to keep exploring his abilities and rejected Crippled Monkey’s suggestion that he find a wife, then left the banquet to walk off his meal.
• Sanqi brought his classmates to the victory banquet, while Chen Fan returned to crafting Sky-Piercing Pillars as the battlefield resource settlement continued.
• Jiu Wu discovered that he could resurrect certain high-ranking war machines, collected fragments of four Strange Dragons, and approved Qian Xiaoping’s first design for a Nine-Five Dragon Chariot.

After the Mortal Domain received its share of the defeated factions’ assets, Chen Fan set plans to build strength and pursue affiliations across the World Battlefield without constant warfare. The Mortal Domain invited continent lords to an exchange conference, and one envoy’s dramatic attempt to die rather than be detained made a hostile invitation delivery end in an apology and a promise to attend.

• Chen Fan kept the rare Islands, Strange Entity Blueprints, dark technology points, affiliated races, and blank heavenly daos awarded to the Mortal Domain, greatly boosting its defenses through War Dividend.
• At a strategy meeting, Chen Fan assigned the Mortal Domain to stockpile assets, study the World Battlefield, and seek peaceful affiliations; the officials debated insurance and deterrence, and Chen Fan approved building Jiu Wu’s Nine-Five Dragon Chariot.
• The Mortal Domain sent messengers to invite continent lords to its First World Battlefield Exchange Conference, and the Thunder Serpent Continent’s lord accepted the invitation.
• At the Black Orchid Continent, Zhou Li refused to be intimidated and threatened to die rather than be held; its Continent Lord stopped him and promised the Black Orchid Continent would attend the conference.

Chen Fan received seventeen rare Islands delivered through space rifts, including a pink Divine Strange Island that could generate another Strange Entity Blueprint, then failed to buy the Ephemeral Bloom blueprint from the Gods and Devils Continent. As the Mortal Domain prepared to host the First World Battlefield Exchange Conference, Chen Fan arranged the first collection of Slot Machine earnings and welcomed two Yellow Springs Wraiths into the Mortal Domain.

• Chen Fan retreated from expanding space rifts, which dropped seventeen rare Islands into the sea; he identified six Strategic Islands, two Interference Islands, and a pink Divine Strange Island with one Strange Entity Blueprint use remaining.
• Chen Fan decided to save the Divine Strange Island's remaining use while considering which High-Ranking Strange Entity to reproduce, then tried to buy the Ephemeral Bloom blueprint from the Gods and Devils Continent, whose seller refused and raised its price.
• Little Qiu and Qi Chong oversaw preparations for the First World Battlefield Exchange Conference, while Jiu Wu struggled to comprehend a second Dark Strange Art and led the Huyi Continent's strange tide on a morning run.
• Two Yellow Springs Wraiths told Chen Fan that eerie stones had flowed into Yellow Springs, and he arranged for the Mortal Domain to collect them as Slot Machine proceeds.
• Chen Fan registered the Yellow Springs Wraiths as Mortal Domain Members, arranged for Mr. Na to share White-Cut Chicken and take them on food trips, while Ming San wondered why they kept postponing their return to Yellow Springs.

Chen Fan investigated the Eastern Clan’s continent and learned that its Wind-Eroded Stones could help protect the Mortal Domain from the deadly winds at the world’s eastern edge. As the First World Battlefield Exchange Conference began, wary Continent Lords arrived in Jiangbei and watched Chen Fan’s nine-Strange-Dragon chariot approach the city gates.

• Chen Fan sent Weiwei, Keke, and Tiantian to collect Wind-Eroded Stones, while the Heaven-Questioning Bell explained their use and the Wind-Eroded Land’s role in driving Yellow Springs westward.
• Reconnaissance teams told visiting Continent Lords that the Mortal Domain had bombarded every continent in the War Mire as a greeting and had destroyed seven third-level forces after advancing to a third-level continent.
• On June 7, Year 07, the Continent Lords gathered outside the Eternal Night Continent, uncertain whether they dared to skip the conference despite fearing a trap.
• Wang Mazi welcomed the Continent Lords at Jiangbei Wharf, and they noticed thousands of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars before reaching the closed city gates.
• Nine Strange Dragons brought Chen Fan’s Dragon Chariot to the gates, where Wang Mazi announced that all the attending Continent Lords had arrived.

Chen Fan hosted the World Battlefield Continent Lords at a lavish banquet, then proposed that every continent become affiliated with Mortal Domain or leave the battlefield for thirty days and return after three months. The Continent Lords questioned what his plan to “clear the area” meant, and the Black Orchid Continent became the first to accept Mortal Domain’s five-year continental insurance.

• Chen Fan welcomed the Continent Lords into Mortal City and treated them to a feast of rare dishes that Angler Senior had fished from Food-Heaven Continent.
• The Continent Lords and Mortal Domain’s members enjoyed the banquet while Food-Heaven Continent’s leaders discovered their prepared feast had vanished and decided to secretly make a replacement with some ingredients deliberately prepared poorly.
• Chen Fan told the Continent Lords that Mortal Domain wanted every continent to become affiliated, offering five years of protection for a ten-percent share, while asking those who refused to leave the battlefield within thirty days and return after three months.
• The Continent Lords asked whether Mortal Domain would force them out or attack them later, and Chen Fan assured them it would not attack those who refused but would intervene in conflicts involving insured continents.
• The Black Orchid Continent’s lord announced that his continent would purchase five years of Mortal Domain’s continental insurance.

Chen Fan completed the Mortal Domain’s preparations for fifth-level advancement as Fifth-Level Continents and Strange Entity Clans converged on the World Battlefield over Jiu Wu’s Innate Dark Sacred Physique. The human continents demanded that Chen Fan execute Jiu Wu, while the Strange Entity Clans declared their support for him, leaving the Mortal Domain facing a mounting crisis.

• Chen Fan secured insurance agreements from 68 Continent Lords, completed the first phase of the Uncrowned King quest, and gained the ability to build ten Sky-Piercing Pillars at once.
• Over the following months, the Mortal Domain expanded its defenses, trade, and research, and Chen Fan set a goal of reaching fifth-level status and leaving the World Battlefield within three years.
• On January 1, year 08, Celestial Pivot detected Fifth-Level Continents and a Level-Five Strange Entity Clan approaching the World Battlefield, prompting Chen Fan to order combat readiness.
• The Lords of the Heavenfall Continent, Fly Continent, and Toshiba Continent demanded that Chen Fan hand over or execute Jiu Wu, warning that the Mortal Domain would be destroyed if it refused.
• Chen Fan used Ten Thousand Nations Pay Homage to summon four nearby Fifth-Level Continent Lords, but they rejected his doubts about the prophecy and insisted that Jiu Wu must die.
• The Coffin-Tipping Strange Entity Clan and other Strange Entity Clan members arrived and proclaimed their willingness to protect Jiu Wu, intensifying the turmoil around the World Battlefield.

During Ten Thousand Nations Pay Homage, Chen Fan refused to surrender Jiu Wu and warned that the Mortal Domain would attack any unauthorized fourth-level continent entering its World Battlefield. As powerful forces gathered outside and debated the Dark Monarch’s identity, a Ninth-Level Strange Entity Clan King revealed he had anticipated the upheaval and was waiting for the destined Dark Monarch to enter the Boundary Battlefield.

• At the banquet, Chen Fan challenged the Fly Continent’s claims of serving humanity, refused to hand over Jiu Wu, and threatened indiscriminate firepower strikes against unauthorized fourth-level continents.
• After the banquet ended, Chen Fan reassured Jiu Wu that the Mortal Domain would remain in the World Battlefield and told Qian Xiaoping to investigate whether they could escape through the Fallen Firmament.
• On the Hexagram Heaven Continent, its leader suspected Jiu Wu might be bait, failed to divine information about the Eternal Night Continent, and warned other forces not to leave their territories.
• On the Gods and Devils Continent, an ordinary-looking man considered how Jiu Wu might become the Dark Monarch if the Mortal Domain betrayed him, then decided to meet Chen Fan and Jiu Wu.
• Chen Fan drafted a ten-year development plan and went to sleep while Crippled Monkey and Wang Kui noted his calmness amid the surrounding forces.
• In the Boundary Battlefield, a Doppelganger Wraith King said he had sensed the Dark Monarch’s emergence months earlier and awaited his arrival, while the Food-Heaven Continent’s owner remained baffled by the wealth paid for 178 banquet sets.

Hu Wan confronted the Anti-Fan Alliance over its plan to attack the Mortal Domain, then met Chen Fan to discuss Jiu Wu and Ephemeral Bloom. After seeing Jiu Wu, Hu Wan doubted that he looked like a future Dark Monarch.

• The lord of Heavenfall Continent revealed that his continent had survived the Time Ruins and gained the Ultimate Continent Title Lord of the Time Ruins, which he believed could defeat the Nine Strange Dragons.
• Hu Wan arrived at the Anti-Fan Alliance meeting, criticized its plan to attack the Mortal Domain, and accused its members of wanting to seize the domain's resources and Blood Arena God-King title.
• Hu Wan failed to contact Chen Fan through the usual channel, used an exotic treasure to meet him, and had to address their dispute over the listed price of Ephemeral Bloom before Chen Fan would listen.
• Hu Wan explained his concerns about Jiu Wu and the Mortal Domain, and Chen Fan summoned Jiu Wu to meet him.
• Hu Wan studied Jiu Wu and found no sign of brutality or ambition in his eyes, leaving him doubtful that Jiu Wu was the destined Dark Monarch.