Recaps

Medicine King Valley and other factions took advantage of the Mortal Domain’s credit program to buy Skeleton Horses, while Chen Fan expanded the market and explained how it would build the Mortal Domain’s influence. As factions rushed to qualify as Trusted Factions, Chen Fan discovered a valuable Builder Token that could become the auction’s grand finale.

• Elder Chen gave Valley Master Qi a Level One Trusted Faction Token, and Qi used its credit to reserve sixty-six Skeleton Horses and received upgraded inn rooms.
• Wang Kui recorded a surge of faction purchases and approved the One Sword Sect’s application for Trusted Faction status.
• Chen Fan explained to Crippled Monkey that generous credit and profits would build the Mortal Domain’s reputation and create allies, while nonpayers would face the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot.
• A merchant from East River sold his goods to the Mortal Domain so he could buy Skeleton Horses and secure one of the remaining Trusted Faction slots.
• Chen Fan identified a Green Grade Builder Token among the merchant’s goods, bought the shipment, and prepared to feature the Token as the auction’s grand finale.

The Mortal Domain’s Skeleton Horse sales drew factions into a booming trade, while the announced Builder Token stirred a rush toward its upcoming Auction. As rival businesses considered how to adapt and the Mortal Domain counted its earnings, Chen Fan explained his plan to defend Jiangbei and rewarded his people.

• A King Clan representative reached a Mortal Domain station, confirmed the clan’s Level One Trusted Faction status, and told its family head that the Auction would offer a Builder Token, prompting the clan to resolve to bid for it.
• The West Lake Tower Pavilion Master learned that the Mortal Domain’s cheap Skeleton Horses threatened his business, then proposed buying horses in bulk and selling them through West Pass Plains trade routes.
• Crippled Monkey reported that the Mortal Domain had sold 1,509 Skeleton Horses and other goods on its first day, bringing in 500,000 eerie stones upfront and more than two million in credit sales.
• Chen Fan explained that the Mortal Domain’s trade would bring in wealth from many regions and announced bonuses for its workers, while outlining his reasons for defending Jiangbei for four years.
• Crippled Monkey and the others accepted Chen Fan’s explanation and went with Wang Kui to collect their bonuses.

Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop, built a Giant Turtle, and followed Weiwei to a cavern full of strange entity bones. There, Weiwei accidentally revealed and opened an Ancient Ruins inheritance, leaving Chen Fan to explore it before its announced trial could begin.

• Chen Fan reflected on his goals of extending his lifespan and making Jiangbei an impregnable fortress, then saw Shao Qiu's trainees reach level three.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop to level five, chose faster manufacturing, and built a Giant Turtle for the market.
• After Wang Kui reported that strange entity bones were running low, Weiwei led Chen Fan to a cavern beneath the Seaside.
• A light pillar announced an Inheritance Trial beginning in three days, but Weiwei slapped it down and swallowed its message before it could reach the sky.
• Weiwei shattered the Light Barrier and took Chen Fan into the Ancient Ruins, where he considered what kind of inheritance and dangers awaited them.

Chen Fan and Weiwei bypassed the trials in the Undying Celestial Master’s Ancient Ruins and collected builder treasures, including two green-grade defensive blueprints. A Jade Slip revealed Jiangbei’s defeat eight thousand years earlier and the Celestial Master’s regrets, leaving Chen Fan confident that his Northbank Defense Line could withstand the future strange tide.

• Chen Fan found that Weiwei could shatter the Light Curtains, letting them bypass the builder trials and collect eerie stones and builder-related exotic treasures.
• Weiwei broke through the third trial, and Chen Fan took the Air-Defense Cannon Tower and Divine Cannon blueprints.
• Weiwei opened the final trial’s reward chamber, where Chen Fan found a Jade Slip, a Yellow Grade Building Blueprint, and a ring.
• Chen Fan watched the Jade Slip’s recording of the failed defense of Jiangbei, then considered how his own City Wall and Copper Pipes could prevent a similar defeat.
• Chen Fan learned that the Undying Celestial Master had failed to understand the Yellow Grade blueprint and had once built a Blue Grade building, and he realized his panel could decipher the blueprint at a glance.

Chen Fan built the Sky-Piercing Pillar and discovered it could store lightning, then investigated a group caught trying to construct buildings in Mortal City. Suspecting the prisoners were bait for a hidden plot, he secretly diverted them to Nameless Mountain’s Back Mountain and sent Shao Qiu to watch them.

• Chen Fan used 5,000 Eerie Stones to build the Sky-Piercing Pillar, climbed to its summit, and learned it could attract and store lightning for later use.
• Zhou Mo reported that a group of strangers had tried to construct Eerie Fire and Arrow Towers in Mortal City, and Chen Fan ordered Crippled Monkey to interrogate them.
• Chen Fan publicly announced that the prisoners would be taken back for questioning, then privately ordered Crippled Monkey to divert them to Nameless Mountain’s Back Mountain and told Shao Qiu to follow.
• Two observers in North River Market saw the apparent plan succeed and silently reported, “The fish has taken the bait.”
• Shao Qiu met Crippled Monkey at the Back Mountain, verified his identity with their Tokens, and watched the gagged prisoners from a tree.

Qi Yue and Shao Qiu discovered that a carriage full of people had been marked with the Nine-Heavens God-Devil Pattern and exploded, while Chen Fan’s enemies set a trap for him in the canyon. Chen Fan survived the ambush inside his Nine-Five Dragon Chariot, and Shao Qiu captured the enemy leader for questioning.

• Qi Yue and Shao Qiu found the carriage’s unconscious passengers covered in Nine-Heavens God-Devil Patterns, then escaped when the passengers exploded and left a crater.
• Chen Fan learned that enemies had infiltrated the canyon and ordered his people to capture them alive if possible.
• Dozens of Wind and Rain Tower operatives hid along the canyon walls, planning to kill Chen Fan after disabling the Mortal Domain’s defenses.
• The operatives ambushed Chen Fan’s Nine-Five Dragon Chariot with steel cables, poisoned bolts, and a rush through its windows, but Qi Yue posed as the driver and killed several attackers while Arrow Towers inside the carriage killed others.
• Shao Qiu caught the concealed leader on the cliff, held a Dagger to his neck, and offered him a pill in exchange for information.

Chen Fan interrogated a captured assassin and sent Shao Qiu’s Shadow Pavilion after the Wind and Rain Tower, then introduced Qi Yue to a dangerous sword-insight bamboo slip. Qi Yue survived repeated attempts to study it, joined the Mortal Domain, and created a powerful sword technique, but he ended by asking Chen Fan where the slip came from.

• Chen Fan questioned a captured Wind and Rain Tower assassin, who revealed that the organization’s young master and Pavilion Master had ordered the attack after members learned Chen Fan had left Mortal City.
• Heart-Devouring Gu killed the captured assassins, so Chen Fan ordered Shao Qiu to uproot the Wind and Rain Tower’s city shops and locate its headquarters island.
• Chen Fan showed Qi Yue the sword-insight bamboo slip, and Qi Yue was hurled away after touching it, suffering shattered bones and severe injuries.
• Qi Yue asked to join the Mortal Domain so he could study the slip and pursue a breakthrough; Chen Fan accepted him, and Qi Yue repeatedly endured the slip’s destructive backlash to gain insight.
• Qi Yue demonstrated a self-created sword technique that carved Chen Fan’s name into a rock face with force comparable to a Level-5 Cannon Tower, then asked where Chen Fan had obtained the bamboo slip.

Chen Fan returned to Mortal City, checked on the Mortal Domain’s affairs, and opened a blind-box exotic treasure at the market. He sold the worthless Blank Couplet for 10,000 Eerie Stones after the Zhao Family’s elder revealed he wanted Chen Fan to inscribe it as a sign of protection.

• Chen Fan named Qi Yue’s first sword move “Diary,” told him to rename the mountainside inscription “Mortal Domain,” and left the Canyon.
• Shao Qiu received specially made Tokens from Little Qiu and led the Shadow Pavilion on its first mission.
• Chen Fan returned to Mortal City, learned Wang Kui had considered Gongyang Yue for the bookkeeping job, and browsed the market’s trading street.
• Chen Fan bought a Blank Couplet for 1,600 pieces of eerie stone and had an Appraiser publicly reveal that its words would never fade.
• A Zhao Family elder offered Chen Fan 10,000 Eerie Stones for the Blank Couplet, then asked him to inscribe a couplet for the family.

Chen Fan recruited the Jiangdong Furnace Master, a renowned Level-9 Artifact Refiner, after meeting him at Mortal City's gate. The chapter left Chen Fan with a potential master craftsman for the Mortal Domain and its plans to strengthen Jiangbei's defenses.

• Chen Fan bought a Green Grade Fortune Whistle from a street vendor and learned it could slightly increase luck for three breaths.
• Chen Fan spoke with a former Qiuhe Wang Family Station Master, who described the Mortal Domain's generous pay, respect, and safety.
• Chen Fan considered using the Fortune Whistle while upgrading the Camp's City Wall and planned to connect it to Jiangbei's defense line.
• Crippled Monkey told Chen Fan that a ragged old man who appeared to be an Artifact Refiner was waiting outside Mortal City's gate.
• Chen Fan met the old man, who called himself the Jiangdong Furnace Master and agreed to hear a private offer to join the Mortal Domain.
• The Jiangdong Furnace Master told Chen Fan he was a Level-9 Artifact Refiner.

Chen Fan recruited Zhao Shengping, a Level-9 Artifact Refiner whose real passion was making braised food, and learned about his history in the West Pass Plains. He built a Heavenly Artifact Pavilion for Zhao and his apprentices, leaving Zhao ready to take charge of the Mortal Domain’s new workshop and braised-food room.

• Chen Fan forced the Jiangdong Furnace Master to kneel and join the Mortal Domain, then discovered that Zhao Shengping had staged his shabby appearance and arranged for his disciples to praise him.
• Zhao Shengping explained that he wanted to join the Mortal Domain, asked for modest pay, brought his artifact-refining disciples along, and requested a Braised-Food Room.
• Chen Fan contacted Shao Qiu, who identified Zhao Shengping as the Western Pass Braised-Food Master and recounted how the sect had expelled him for neglecting Artifact Refining to make braised delicacies.
• Chen Fan returned to camp and used the Fortune Whistle while upgrading a workshop, creating a Level-4 Heavenly Artifact Pavilion with a chance to improve crafted Spirit Treasures.
• Chen Fan gave Zhao Shengping the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion, living quarters for him and his apprentices, and a separate Braised-Food Room.

Chen Fan established the Artifact Pavilion under Zhao Shengping and introduced him to the Mortal Domain’s abundant resources and core members. As Zhao Shengping learned about Qi Yue’s past, Qi Yue began the perilous Ten Thousand Swords Tempering the Heart to break through to Martial King.

• Chen Fan appointed Zhao Shengping as the Artifact Pavilion’s provisional Pavilion Master and tasked him with making thirteen sets of Daggers and Night Garments for the Shadow Pavilion.
• Chen Fan asked Zhao Shengping to prepare Beggar’s Chicken, and Zhao Shengping eagerly promised to make it.
• Crippled Monkey introduced Zhao Shengping to the Mortal Domain’s core members, and Wang Kui revealed a vast supply of earth gold for the requested equipment.
• Zhao Shengping recognized Qi Yue as the Jiangbei Old Devil and recounted his killings in East River.
• Qi Yue began Ten Thousand Swords Tempering the Heart, and Zhao Shengping warned that the dangerous Demonic Cultivation method could help Qi Yue break through to Martial King but might drive him mad or kill him.

Qi Yue endured six hours of the demonic cultivators’ Ten Thousand Swords Tempering the Heart to achieve perfect body tempering, despite the risk of death and permanent phantom pain. He survived, reunited with Gongyang Yue, and thanked Chen Fan for giving him the chance to grow stronger.

• Chen Fan watched as sword energy repeatedly pierced Qi Yue, while Zhao Shengping explained that the tempering could remove every impurity but carried severe risks.
• Gongyang Yiyue and Gongyang Yue arrived at the Mortal Domain in a damaged carriage after Gongyang Yue insisted on seeing Qi Yue.
• After two hours, Gongyang Yiyue revealed that Qi Yue had reached ninety-nine-percent body tempering but was continuing to pursue perfection.
• Gongyang Yiyue explained that perfect body tempering could let Qi Yue face a Wraith King without being at a disadvantage, though he could die or suffer lasting consequences.
• Four more hours later, Qi Yue completed the tempering and opened his eyes to find Gongyang Yue waiting for him.
• Qi Yue embraced Gongyang Yue, then knelt before Chen Fan and promised to follow his orders after taking revenge.

Qi Yue survived and joined the Mortal Domain, while Shao Qiu’s Shadow Pavilion began striking at the Wind and Rain Tower. As Mortal City prepared for its auction, Zhao Shengping was knocked unconscious after mistaking Weiwei’s response to his request for permission to pry off its scales.

• Qi Yue told Gongyang Yue and Gongyang Yiyue that he had joined the Mortal Domain after achieving perfect body tempering, and he consolidated his new Martial King breakthrough.
• Shao Qiu led the Shadow Pavilion in wiping out a Wind and Rain Tower pawnshop in Water City, then found intelligence that the Tower was transporting a Sea Embryo to its headquarters.
• Shao Qiu’s team left a Shadow Pavilion insignia and death warrant at the pawnshop before withdrawing to continue their hunt for the Wind and Rain Tower’s headquarters.
• Wang Kui reported to Chen Fan that seven factions had reached their credit limits and that Mortal Domain stations now reached Water City and beyond Flat City; Chen Fan said he believed Shao Qiu had not defected.
• Little Qiu told Chen Fan that Weiwei had struck Zhao Shengping unconscious, and Zhao Shengping’s disciple explained that Zhao had tried to pry off the Sky-Swallowing Crocodile’s scales after it appeared to nod.
• Chen Fan asked the Sky-Swallowing Crocodile whether it had agreed, and it shook its head, nodded, then shook its head again.

Chen Fan learned that Weiwei would soon shed its armor and realized its unusual ability to destroy formations was a special trait. Meanwhile, the Wind and Rain Tower planned to stake everything on killing Chen Fan at an Ancient Ruin, as Shao Qiu prepared to infiltrate its headquarters.

• Chen Fan understood that Weiwei had only agreed to lend Zhao Shengping scales after shedding its armor, and arranged for Qi Yue to hunt strange entities to feed it.
• Zhao Shengping explained that Sky-Swallowing Crocodiles were normally combat-type beasts, leading Chen Fan to suspect Weiwei had gained its formation-destroying ability through a mutation that the Snow Lotus had cured.
• Chen Fan visited Mortal City and reflected on Qi Yue's Martial King strength while wishing someone would attempt to assassinate him.
• At the Wind and Rain Tower's headquarters, the three Pavilion Masters argued over losses caused by Chen Fan's retaliation and the chief Pavilion Master proposed an all-out strike at builder-related Ancient Ruins.
• Shao Qiu waited beneath Rock Island, having traced the Wind and Rain Tower's headquarters and preparing to act after nightfall.

Shao Qiu infiltrated the Wind and Rain Tower during Eternal Night and killed its members, while the Gongyang Family Head planned to bring his clan into the Mortal Domain so Gongyang Qi Yue could become its successor. The chapter ended with Chen Fan and the others opening Zhao Shengping’s Beggar’s Chicken in camp.

• Shao Qiu used Heaven-Hiding to enter the Wind and Rain Tower and silently killed its members throughout the night.
• At dawn, Shao Qiu declared that he had wiped out the Wind and Rain Tower, then waited for Shadow Pavilion members to arrive and collect the spoils.
• The Gongyang Family Head scolded Gongyang Yue and Gongyang Yiyue for entering the Mortal Domain’s territory during Eternal Night with a Night Watcher.
• The Gongyang Family Head said he wanted the Gongyang Clan to join the Mortal Domain so Gongyang Qi Yue could inherit leadership and protect the clan.
• Zhao Shengping cracked open the clay shell around his Beggar’s Chicken, filling the camp with its aroma.

Chen Fan praised Zhao Shengping’s Flowers Beggar’s Chicken and encouraged him to keep cooking, then learned that Shao Qiu and the Shadow Pavilion had destroyed the Wind and Rain Tower. The chapter left Chen Fan astonished by the Mortal Domain’s strength as he postponed the Auction to await their return.

• Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain members tasted Zhao Shengping’s Flowers Beggar’s Chicken, and Chen Fan told him that his cooking was an impressive skill rather than a trivial pursuit.
• Chen Fan asked Zhao Shengping to prepare Braised Delicacies for the factions attending the next day’s Auction, and Zhao Shengping vowed to keep cooking for the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan visited Sunset City, where Qi Chong explained how its farmland and livestock pens would support the Mortal Domain’s agricultural needs.
• Chen Fan asked Qi Chong whether the Braised Delicacies could become a Mortal Domain product, and Qi Chong cited their limited shelf life, low production capacity, and low profits.
• Shao Qiu reported that the Shadow Pavilion had destroyed the Wind and Rain Tower and taken its treasures, including a Sea Embryo.
• Chen Fan postponed the Auction until nightfall and wondered at the Shadow Pavilion’s unexpected strength.

As Mortal Domain factions gathered for the First Auction, Chen Fan learned that Qi Yue planned to face a deadly inner demon in twenty days. The Shadow Pavilion then publicly reported wiping out the Wind and Rain Tower’s leadership and core members, leaving the auction crowd stunned.

• Faction leaders discussed the Mortal Domain’s Shadow Pavilion and its destruction of Wind and Rain Tower outposts, while warning that the Tower might strike during the crowded auction.
• Qi Yue told Chen Fan that his cultivation manual would soon manifest his negative emotions as an equally strong inner demon, and that he planned to settle his grudges before facing it in twenty days.
• Chen Fan agreed to protect Gongyang Yue and keep her away from Qi Yue’s duel, though he could offer no way to improve his chances of winning.
• As the auction crowd gathered in the market at dusk, Shao Qiu arrived with hidden riders and reported that all seventy-eight Wind and Rain Tower core members had been killed.
• Shao Qiu presented the heads of the Tower’s three Pavilion Masters and young master, then vanished with his riders, leaving the gathered factions horrified.

After the Mortal Domain’s auction, Chen Fan upgraded a Godslayer Cannon to its maximum level and became the first player on the Eternal Night Continent to obtain a max-level building. A lucky mutation turned the camp’s connected city walls into a movable dragon, leaving Chen Fan eager to develop the defense line and Shao Qiu wondering whether he should become a Builder.

• Chen Fan returned to the camp with the Sea Embryo and planned upgrades, while Shao Qiu learned that Qi Yue had achieved perfect body tempering and resolved to attempt the dangerous method himself.
• Wang Kui hosted the Mortal Domain’s auction, where factions bid heavily for construction-related treasures and the King Clan won the Builder Token for 170,000 Eerie Stones and an Enhancement Stone.
• Chen Fan used Eerie Stones to upgrade a Godslayer Cannon to level 10, unlocking a max-level building reward and the achievement for being the first player on the Eternal Night Continent to max out a building.
• Chen Fan tested the cannon by blasting a deep crater into rock and destroying a level-3 city wall, then used a Fortune Whistle and Enhancement Stone to give a city wall a Legendary mutation that let connected walls move through the camp.
• Chen Fan tested the moving wall by trapping Qi Yue inside its enclosure and ordered guards to protect the mutation’s source; Shao Qiu and the others witnessed the cannon’s power and discussed how Builders served as humanity’s defense against Strange Entities.

Chen Fan began developing the Great Wall defense line while a strange-entity leader planned to destroy Mortal Domain during the next rainy season. After a Doppelganger Wraith infiltrated Mortal City, Chen Fan found an ancient page warning that the Undersea Strange Tide would reach Jiangbei in four years and suspected the warning had been forged.

• Shao Qiu asked Qi Yue about assassination and perfect body tempering, and Qi Yue warned that Shao Qiu needed stronger conviction and pain tolerance.
• The shadow on the Throne ordered preparations to destroy Mortal Domain next rainy season, while That One worried his aura would fade within four years and discussed his crocodile family and captivity.
• Chen Fan upgraded a section of City Wall to Level 6, calculated the enormous cost of building the Northbank Defense Line, and practiced controlling the wall around Camp.
• Chen Fan enjoyed dumplings with Weiwei until Zhou Mo reported that a Doppelganger Wraith had entered Mortal City and killed a Trade Association member before being stopped.
• Chen Fan spared the gate guard responsible for the inspection error, assigning him three months' pay in lost wages and requiring him to explain the mistake to the other guards.
• Zhou Mo showed Chen Fan an ancient-book page predicting the Undersea Strange Tide would land in Jiangbei in four years, and Chen Fan suspected someone had fabricated it.

Chen Fan upgraded the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, Life Workshop, Ground Spikes, and Farmland to maximum level, unlocking a Heavenly Dao Stone after lighting up five buildings in the Building Compendium. He used the stone on the Godslayer Cannon and chose a blessing that let its excess damage carry over to nearby enemies, while Shao Qiu was risking his life to break through to Martial King.

• Chen Fan concluded that Strange Entities had forged the vellum warning to drive him from Jiangbei, then told Zhou Mo to compensate the Jiangxi Trade Association for a member killed by the Doppelganger Wraith.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion and Life Workshop to level 10, giving cultivators faster cultivation and a chance for finished items to gain special effects.
• Chen Fan maxed out the Ground Spikes and one plot of Farmland, bringing the Building Compendium to five max-level buildings and earning a Yellow Grade Heavenly Dao Stone.
• Chen Fan learned that Shao Qiu was undergoing Ten Thousand Poisons Devouring the Body to reach perfect body tempering, though the max-level Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion could grant it automatically to cultivators who broke through with ninety-nine percent body tempering.
• Chen Fan used the Heavenly Dao Stone on the Godslayer Cannon and chose Sweep a Thousand Armies, which carried excess damage from a kill over to nearby enemies.

Chen Fan learned that Shao Qiu had achieved perfect body tempering through a grueling ordeal, then discovered the Shadow Pavilion's raid on the Wind and Rain Tower had brought back a large haul and a yellow-grade dagger. He agreed to host the Architects' Exchange Conference in Mortal City, where Tianqi confirmed that builders believed one plus one equaled four hundred and forty-four.

• Shao Qiu survived six hours of poison body tempering and achieved perfect body tempering, then learned the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion could have advanced him automatically; he decided his own achievement was purer.
• Zhao Shengping showed Shao Qiu the Shadow Pavilion's new earth-gold equipment, including a dagger that had risen to yellow grade, and Chen Fan later approved Shao Qiu collecting it.
• Wang Kui reported on Mortal City's trade and relay stations, and Shao Qiu told Chen Fan he had destroyed the Wind and Rain Tower's base and recovered 470,000 eerie stones.
• Chen Fan warned Shao Qiu to stop sacrificing his lifespan and instructed him to report future mission gains and casualties directly.
• Tianqi invited Chen Fan to the Architects' Exchange Conference and requested Mortal City as its venue; Chen Fan agreed to host it.
• Chen Fan asked Tianqi what one plus one equaled, and Tianqi answered that it equaled four hundred and forty-four.

Chen Fan hosted the Architects' Exchange Conference in Mortal City to learn how other Builders worked, but he found their shared teachings riddled with strange folk wisdom. After several encounters revealed his skill and sparked misunderstandings, the conference attendees asked him to share his own insights.

• Chen Fan approved Tianqi's request to hold the Builder Conference in Mortal City, then rewarded the Shadow Pavilion members and celebrated Qi Yue and Shao Qiu becoming Martial Kings at a Victory Banquet.
• Three days later, Builders from many factions arrived in Mortal City, where Chen Fan watched a young woman fail to construct an Arrow Tower and demonstrated how to build one instantly.
• Chen Fan learned that Builders treated the saying that one plus one equaled 444 as a call to exchange ideas, then confused a group of young Builders by claiming it also equaled 666 and 888.
• Chen Fan listened as Builders shared dubious advice about sincere hearts, cutting off their worldly desires, construction milestones, and Spirit Drawing, and recognized that their teachings were largely unverified folk remedies.
• An elderly Builder invited Chen Fan to share his insights, and the assembled Builders turned expectantly toward him.

Chen Fan invited builders to bring him blueprints he could comprehend in exchange for constructing the buildings in their territories, and the Under-Heaven Pavilion Master became the first to accept. Chen Fan acquired six blueprints, maxed out the Soul-Devouring Sculpture to reduce offensive buildings’ Eerie Stone costs, and unlocked a sea ship that might let him explore the far side of the Dead Sea.

• Chen Fan proposed that factions lend him difficult Building Blueprints so he could comprehend them and build the corresponding structures in return.
• The Under-Heaven Pavilion Master handed Chen Fan a Yellow Grade Soul-Devouring Sculpture blueprint, and news of the exchange prompted other builders to bring their own blueprints.
• Chen Fan accepted six blueprints, including a Gondola and an Automatic Sprinkler, while rejecting duplicates and designs he already possessed.
• Chen Fan built and maxed out the Soul-Devouring Sculpture, choosing upgrades that reduced nearby offensive buildings’ Eerie Stone consumption by 40%.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop to Level 6 and unlocked a sea ship, considering whether to explore beyond the Dead Sea.

Chen Fan built a Harbor and sent Wang Mazi to lead a dangerous sea expedition, then discovered that Max-Level Gondolas running along Copper Pipes could form a High-Speed Rail. After demonstrating the line between Mortal City and Northbank City, he left the Four Regions of Jiangbei's factions scrambling to secure stations as the Mortal Domain began reshaping regional trade and travel.

• Chen Fan completed a Harbor, brought a Sea Ship there with the Giant Turtle's help, and assigned Wang Mazi to lead the New Continent expedition with three ships.
• Chen Fan upgraded a Gondola to level 10 and discovered it could travel at high speed along Copper Pipes, creating a High-Speed Rail.
• Chen Fan built a ten-car High-Speed Rail between Mortal City and Northbank City, and Workshop Master Li completed the seventy-kilometer journey in 360 breaths.
• Chen Fan demonstrated the High-Speed Rail to Builders and faction leaders, who witnessed its speed and recognized its potential to transform travel and trade.
• Chen Fan announced plans to extend the network across the Four Regions of Jiangbei within half a year, prompting factions to resolve to secure stations and adapt to the coming changes.

Chen Fan expanded the Mortal Domain’s High-Speed Rail plans, accepted Medicine King Valley’s proposal to fund a route, and sent Wang Mazi’s expedition out to sea. When the Jiangnan Shui Family demanded five Eerie Stones per rail passenger to cross its bridge, Chen Fan walked away and Shao Qiu killed the Family Head and his entourage, leaving the bridge doomed to collapse.

• Chen Fan tested the Max-Level Gondola, confirmed that it could smash through ordinary obstacles but could not cross a broken Copper Pipe, and warned that factions sabotaging the rail network would be wiped out.
• Medicine King Valley’s Master proposed using the High-Speed Rail to dominate the Four Regions of Jiangbei’s Pill market, and Qi Feng offered 150,000 eerie stones plus fifteen percent of three years’ net profits for a route to Medicine King Valley; Chen Fan accepted.
• Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain members saw Wang Mazi and his Commerce Pavilion Subordinates depart on three Sea Ships to carry out the New Continent plan.
• Chen Fan began laying the route toward Medicine King Valley, traveling across Jiangbei and reaching a bridge owned by the Jiangnan Shui Family.
• The Jiangnan Shui Family’s Family Head demanded five Eerie Stones from every High-Speed Rail passenger crossing the bridge and refused Chen Fan’s offer of a lump-sum payment or a one-stone toll.
• Chen Fan left the negotiation, and Shao Qiu killed the Family Head and his entourage; the bridge cracked, while the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot flew across the river toward the Jiangnan Shui Family’s territory.