Recaps

Chen Fan destroyed the Jiangnan Shui Family, built and upgraded eight bridges, and recruited Zhang Qianming to manage a new Mortal Domain station. He completed the rail route to Medicine King Valley and planned to extend it through Jiangnan before returning to unite the Four Regions of Jiangbei.

• Chen Fan found the Bridge Building Blueprint in the Jiangnan Shui Family estate and built eight max-level bridges, replacing the family’s toll bridges.
• Chen Fan appointed Zhang Qianming as station master, set lower tolls, and established a fortified Mortal Domain station; Zhang recruited ten former guards, who became Mortal Domain members.
• Zhen Ba delivered uniforms, Identity Tokens, supplies, and instructions to Zhang Qianming and his recruits, while explaining their pay and duties.
• Chen Fan continued laying the high-speed rail route through Jiangnan, using Weiwei to tunnel through a mountain and the Mountain-Skeleton Embryo to stabilize it.
• After three days, Chen Fan reached Medicine King Valley, declined Valley Master Qi’s banquet, and said he would extend the rail network to Jiangnan’s major cities before returning.

Chen Fan returned from laying the Jiangbei–Jiangnan High-Speed Rail network, expanded the Mortal Domain’s finances and communications with a Signal Tower, and officially opened Line One for one Eerie Stone per ride. The line immediately drew huge crowds, and the chapter ended with new passengers exploring Mortal City and sampling Zhao Shengping’s braised food.

• Chen Fan returned to the Mortal Domain, learned that its reserves had passed five million Eerie Stones, and decided to keep 2.76 million Eerie Stones from factions seeking rail extensions.
• Chen Fan used a Fortune Bell to open a Yellow Grade Lucky Bag and obtained a Signal Tower blueprint, then built a tower that extended Message Talisman range tenfold.
• Chen Fan ordered Little Qiu to produce 200,000 Message Talismans and completed the rail network’s finishing work, while five Signal Towers connected communications across Jiangbei and Jiangnan.
• Chen Fan launched Mortal Domain Line One, connecting Mortal City, Jiangbei Bridge, Medicine King Valley, and nine Jiangnan cities, and set the fare at one Eerie Stone per passenger.
• Residents crowded onto the trains, while the Medicine King Valley Master charged passengers to pet and photograph the Gold-Swallowing Toad at a stop.
• Passengers arrived in Mortal City, where some headed for the sea and others visited Zhao Shengping’s braised-food shop after learning he was the Mortal Domain’s Artifact Pavilion Master.

Wang Mazi and eleven surviving Commerce Pavilion members returned from a disastrous voyage with news of Hope Island, a Thunderstorm Sea, and a second continent destroyed by a strange tide. Chen Fan learned that the unclaimed eerie stones there could secure the Mortal Domain’s future defenses, while the survivors amended their records to honor the discovery and their fallen companions.

• Zhao Shengping’s braised delicacies attracted a long queue as Mortal Domain High-Speed Rail Line 1 opened and drew visitors across Jiangbei.
• Chen Fan dismissed Crippled Monkey’s concerns about the Silk Road and planned to use the rail network to expand trade and increase eerie-stone production.
• Wang Mazi’s ship discovered Hope Island and a ruined continent, then endured the Thunderstorm Sea and lost most of its crew before returning with eerie stones, a map, and seawater samples.
• Wang Mazi rallied his surviving crew to attempt the return voyage, and they reached Mortal Domain Harbor after traveling along the Thunderstorm Sea for nearly thirty days.
• Chen Fan treated the survivors, heard Wang Mazi’s account of the destroyed continent and its vast eerie-stone reserves, and postponed Mortal Domain Communications to honor the dead.
• Wang Mazi, Zhang Damao, and the other survivors asked the Logistics Pavilion to record their discovery in their files and include their fallen companions in the shared honor.

Chen Fan commemorated the Commerce Pavilion members who died at sea, then began an undersea tunnel project to reach the New Continent and its resources. After Qi Yue returned from severing his former self, Chen Fan confirmed he was the real Qi Yue and went to meet a visiting faction whose Elderly Man was 179 years old.

• Chen Fan honored the dead Commerce Pavilion pioneers at a memorial stele and told the Mortal Domain that exploration would continue until they reclaimed the Eternal Night Continent.
• At the Victory Banquet, Chen Fan rewarded Wang Mazi and the Commerce Pavilion members for finding Hope Island and the New Continent, while Shao Qiu eased Zhang Qianming's nerves with a prank.
• Chen Fan enlisted Weiwei to dig the New Continent Tunnel beneath the seabed, using Copper Pipe and the Mountain-Skeleton Embryo to reinforce it as they worked.
• Qi Yue returned after completing Self-Severing, and Chen Fan left him with Wang Kui and the others while they tried to determine whether he was real; Chen Fan later confirmed Qi Yue's Life Tablet had not shattered.
• Zhou Mo spotted a 179-year-old Elderly Man accompanying a woman in a Brocade Dress in Mortal City and reported them to Chen Fan, who suspected they came from the West Pass Plains.
• Chen Fan approached the woman and her companions with Crippled Monkey and Qi Yue and introduced himself as the Domain Lord of the Mortal Domain.

Chen Fan led the Mortal Domain to Hope Island through the newly completed Undersea Tunnel, where they found abundant Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. When a horde of exotic monkeys attacked Zhou Mo and Wang Mazi, Chen Fan arrived with Weiwei, who drove the monkeys away.

• Chen Fan met a woman in brocade and an elderly man from the Jiangnan He Family, learned why they lived in seclusion, and ordered Shao Qiu to investigate secluded families and keep Weiwei's identity secret.
• Weiwei delivered Braised Delicacies to the Camp to store for his parents, then returned to the Harbor to help Chen Fan dig the Undersea Tunnel.
• Two months later, Chen Fan and Weiwei completed the tunnel's first stage to Hope Island, and Wang Kui reported that the Mortal Domain had amassed 33.98 million Eerie Stones.
• Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain Core members explored Hope Island, where they found Monkey-Head Fruits, a Mountain Embryo, thirteen mature Snow Lotuses, and eleven Sea Embryos.
• Zhou Mo and Wang Mazi encountered hundreds of exotic monkeys and were wounded while fighting them, until Chen Fan arrived with Weiwei.
• Chen Fan told Weiwei it was his turn, and Weiwei charged through the trees until the monkey horde fled.

Chen Fan subdued the monkeys on Hope Island, appointed Weiwei as Beast Pavilion Master, and resumed expanding the Undersea Tunnel while the monkeys harvested Monkey-Head Fruits. Meanwhile, the exhausted defenders of Defense Line Seven faced a worsening Strange Tide and the Eternal Night Hall sent Tianyi to confront factions withholding Eerie Stone.

• Weiwei chased down the Monkey King, beat him into submission, and then recruited the island’s monkeys with Chicken Legs while Chen Fan learned they cultivated Monkey-Head Fruit trees.
• Chen Fan returned to the Mortal Domain, appointed Weiwei as Beast Pavilion Master, built a second Warehouse, and prepared to stay on Hope Island to continue the Undersea Tunnel.
• Chen Fan sent Weiwei and the monkeys to collect Monkey-Head Fruits for the Mortal Domain while he dug toward the Thunderstorm Sea and laid Copper Pipe.
• On Defense Line Seven, a young Builder questioned the purpose of the defenses as the Middle-Aged Man explained the Eternal Night Hall’s failing lines and the danger of the Strange Tide.
• A soldier reported that Fengtian Tower had been deserted, and Tianyi arrived by Flying Boat to lead the defenders against factions refusing to hand over Eerie Stone.

Chen Fan and Weiwei crossed beneath the Thunderstorm Sea and reached the ruined New Continent, where they found seven destroyed defense lines and an enormous field of ghost bones and eerie stones. He began organizing an expedition to explore and salvage the continent, while Crippled Monkey prepared the monkeys on Hope Island to join him.

• Qi Feng and the Medicine King Valley Master discussed the valley’s profits and arranged to deliver its promised share to the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan and Weiwei dug an Undersea Tunnel beneath the Thunderstorm Sea, avoiding numerous Vein Patterns that might have protected the continent.
• Chen Fan and Weiwei emerged on the New Continent, where Chen Fan quickly built a fortified camp and found ghost bones, eerie stones, and seven ruined defense lines.
• Chen Fan concluded that the defenses had fallen to an overwhelming strange tide, then sent orders through the Undersea Tunnel and began expanding the camp into a city.
• Chen Fan planned to explore the continent and collect its resources, while Crippled Monkey assembled the monkeys on Hope Island and prepared to travel with them to the New Continent.

Wang Mazi and the Commerce Pavilion began exploring the ruined New Continent after Chen Fan equipped them with a heavily armed Flying Boat. As they charted ancient battlefields, Chen Fan stayed at New Continent No. 1 Outpost and began preparing vehicles to explore the surrounding islands.

• Wang Mazi arrived at New Continent No. 1 Outpost with all seventy-six Commerce Pavilion members, and Chen Fan ordered them to map the continent’s destroyed defensive lines and Primordial Era battlefields.
• Chen Fan discovered that the monkeys could work without sleeping, then upgraded the Vehicle Workshop and built a Flying Boat armed with seventeen max-level Godslayer Cannons.
• Chen Fan gave the Flying Boat and its supplies to Wang Mazi, who led the Commerce Pavilion out to explore and mark an ancient battlefield on the Ghosthide Map.
• Wang Mazi’s team landed at a ruined defense line near a canyon, recorded its location, and continued their aerial exploration.
• Chen Fan built Giant Turtles and Sea Ships at the outpost, then went to the coast to survey the many islands surrounding the New Continent.

After returning from the New Continent, Chen Fan built a massive defensive wall and upgraded the Mortal Domain’s Main Eerie Fire to level 10 in preparation for the coming rainy season. He left the Mortal Domain enclosed by towering walls, while the Eerie Fire gained the Heavenly Dominion max-level effect.

• Chen Fan returned from the New Continent after laying a second track through the Undersea Tunnel, then slept for a day and night before hearing Wang Kui’s report on the Mortal Domain’s resources and staffing.
• Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to recruit fifty thousand auxiliary personnel and send them to the New Continent to extract resources while they were screened.
• Chen Fan moved and upgraded the walls around the Mortal Domain, creating a 14.8-kilometer Level-5 City Wall with Thorns Counterarmor, Wraith Blood Vein Patterns, Great Wall, and Flight Ban effects.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Main Eerie Fire to level 10, expanding the camp’s diameter to 20,000 meters and gaining the Heavenly Dominion effect, which removed its daily Eerie Stone upkeep.
• Chen Fan’s City Wall enclosed Nameless Mountain, Mortal City, Sunset City, and the Harbor, leaving Young Valley Lord Qi Feng and other onlookers astonished.

Chen Fan mobilized fifty thousand auxiliary personnel to mine the New Continent and used its eerie stones to build the Rainy Season Defense Line, equipping it with cannons and repair Altars. As the rainy season approached, the first workers settled into the New Continent while Chen Fan continued preparing the Mortal Domain for attack.

• Chen Fan reviewed rumors about the Mortal Domain as recruits flocked to Mortal City, where the Logistics Pavilion screened applicants and Uncle Zhang joined as a cook.
• The Logistics Pavilion, Hundred Grains Pavilion, and Heavenly Storehouse Pavilion recruited and transported fifty thousand auxiliary personnel to the New Continent, along with food, livestock, tools, and other supplies.
• Chen Fan told Wang Kui he feared the Eternal Night Front might be collapsing and leave the Mortal Domain to defend the continent alone, then began fortifying the Rainy Season Defense Line.
• Chen Fan installed 740 max-level Godslayer Cannons and 148 max-level Anti-Aircraft Cannons, whose Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers effect spread attacks across wide areas.
• Chen Fan built fifty level-3 Altars and connected them to the defense line with Copper Pipes so they could repair damage.
• The auxiliary personnel finished their first day's work on the New Continent, where they showered and ate meals prepared by cooks including Uncle Zhang.

Chen Fan completed the Mortal Domain’s rainy-season defenses, but a Greater Wraith’s army descended from the sky to attack Jiangbei. The invaders found themselves immobilized above the Rainy Season Defense Line, which had been built with a Full Airspace Ban.

• Chen Fan opened a Lucky Bag, obtained the Rebirth Tower blueprint, and finished the Rainy Season Defense Line with 148 Soul-Devouring Sculptures.
• A middle-aged man trapped on the Eternal Night Continent discussed Little Flowers and warned that a massive undersea Strange Tide would reach Jiangbei in three years.
• A Greater Wraith on the Primordial Continent ordered an army of hundreds of thousands to descend on Nameless Mountain using a Heaven Formation and destroy the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan and Wang Kui confirmed that the Mortal Domain was prepared as the rainy season began, while the rain and lightning struck Jiangbei.
• The Greater Wraith’s army appeared above the Mortal Domain, but a Wraith King realized the Rainy Season Defense Line’s Full Airspace Ban had immobilized them.

Chen Fan’s Rainy Season Defense Line annihilated the Greater Wraith’s army and held back further strange entities, while the Starwatching Platform warned of a Strange Tide and Crippled Monkey spotted an eerie green glow near the Thunderstorm Sea. On the New Continent, Wang Mazi’s expedition reached the edge of the Signal Tower’s range and discussed a vast crater that appeared to have been blasted into the earth.

• Chen Fan’s 740 Godslayer Cannons and 148 Anti-Aircraft Cannons devastated the Greater Wraith’s airborne force, and the Greater Wraith died threatening that they would meet again.
• Chen Fan found that the Rebirth Tower had recorded no enemies permanently eliminated, then watched it prevent 48 Funeral Wraiths from splitting and reviving.
• The Starwatching Platform warned Chen Fan of a Strange Tide, and the Rainy Season Defense Line blocked the Meatworm Wraith Tide and sheltered the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan sent Shao Qiu and Zhou Mo to lead the Shadow Pavilion and War Pavilion in clearing nearby Strange Entities while preserving their corpses.
• Crippled Monkey saw an endless stretch of ghostly green light near the Thunderstorm Sea and reported it to Chen Fan, suspecting a connection to the Jiangbei Rainy Season.
• Wang Mazi and Zhang Damao discussed the New Continent’s ancient battlefields and the enormous crater they had found, which appeared to have been blasted into the ground.

Chen Fan tested the Sky-Piercing Pillar and discovered it launched its lightning-charged core like a long-range missile, then built a large array of upgraded pillars around the Mortal Domain. The chapter ended with him planning to test whether they could pierce the airspace ban.

• Wang Kui presented Chen Fan with a Heavenly Dao Stone and a Tribulation Cloud, and Chen Fan considered using the cloud to charge Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• In the darkness, a middle-aged man refused to reveal another continent’s location to a Strange Entity, then told his two Sky-Swallowing Crocodiles that he had once died by blowing himself up.
• Wang Mazi led an expedition into a vast Deep Pit on the New Continent, and his party returned safely after three days out of contact.
• Chen Fan launched a fully charged Sky-Piercing Pillar and saw its inner cylinder fly more than ten kilometers before striking the ground with immense force.
• Chen Fan upgraded one Sky-Piercing Pillar to Level 10, used the Tribulation Cloud to charge nearby pillars, and built numerous more around the Mortal Domain Harbor.
• Chen Fan wondered whether the Sky-Piercing Pillars could break through the airspace ban and planned to test one above the Mortal Domain.

Chen Fan built a vast line of Sky-Piercing Pillars, renamed them Mortal Domain Cruise Missiles, and traveled to the New Continent after Wang Mazi returned from an expedition terrified. Wang Mazi recounted witnessing the New Continent’s ancient fall and a cataclysmic blast, leaving Chen Fan to consider what the vision meant.

• Chen Fan spent over twenty million eerie stones building fifteen Max-Level and one hundred Level-6 Sky-Piercing Pillars, then named them Mortal Domain Cruise Missiles and planned to test whether an airspace ban could stop them.
• Crippled Monkey told Chen Fan that Wang Mazi had returned from a Deep Pit expedition in a terrified state, so Chen Fan went to the New Continent to hear his report.
• A West Pass Plains merchant sampled Jiangbei Mortal Domain Braised Delicacies and ordered his Subordinate to bring their maker to the Sun-Moon House, while the West Lake Tower Pavilion Master trained his faction to expand its food business.
• Chen Fan arrived at the New Continent, where fifty thousand auxiliary Mortal Domain members were mining the land, and Crippled Monkey led him to Wang Mazi beside a Well.
• Wang Mazi told Chen Fan that he had been pulled into a cave, seen the New Continent’s ancient destruction from the Heavenly Dao’s perspective, and witnessed a Seven-Colored Light annihilate Strange Entities and survivors alike.
• Chen Fan concluded that Wang Mazi had witnessed the New Continent’s final battle rather than become the Heavenly Dao.

Weiwei discovered a huge deposit of earth gold beneath the Deep Pit, and Chen Fan ordered it mined and forged into hoes to speed the work. After the rainy season ended, the Mortal Domain expanded its defenses and rail network, while Hu Zi arrived in Jiangnan, obstructed the High-Speed Rail, and was arrested after attacking a Mortal Domain member.

• Weiwei found abundant earth gold in the Deep Pit, and Wang Mazi reported the discovery to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan limited Weiwei’s digging to thirty days and ordered Zhao Shengping to forge fifty thousand earth-gold hoes, which the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion began producing.
• After the rainy season ended, the Mortal Domain reported mining progress and 189 million eerie stones in reserve, while Chen Fan inspected his Sky-Piercing Pillars and planned a stronger Northbank Defense Line.
• Hu Zi and his subordinates stopped their carriages on the Mortal Domain High-Speed Rail Line near Soaring City, and a passing train smashed the carriages.
• Mortal Domain members issued Hu Zi a fifty-thousand-eerie-stone fine for obstructing the rail line, but Hu Zi attacked them and was defeated by a Martial King member.
• Zhang Qitian requested backup after identifying Hu Zi as a likely visitor from the West Pass Plains.

Chen Fan continued building Mortal Domain’s strength and sent Shao Qiu to investigate the Guandong Plains’ coastal defenses. As Mortal Domain’s reputation spread across the West Pass Plains, Shao Qiu reached Wraith-Suppressing Pass and encountered a local attraction called Strange Combat.

• Chen Fan inspected Mortal Domain’s stores of 189 million Eerie Stones and told Shao Qiu to travel safely as he continued his mission toward the Guandong Plains.
• Big Fish interrogated Hu Zi, learned that the Sun-Moon House would not pay his ransom, and released him; Hu Zi chose to leave his old faction and seek a life of his own.
• Gongyang Yiyue comforted Big Fish about her place in Mortal Domain and suggested she could take a role tending Flowers in the Hundred Grains Pavilion.
• News of Mortal Domain spread through the West Pass Plains, and the Holy Lord of the Slaying Immortal Holy Land worried over its connections to Chen Fan and Shao Qiu.
• Shao Qiu and his companions reached Wraith-Suppressing Pass after a month of travel and were led to a courtyard where two wounded eerie beasts were about to fight for gamblers.

Chen Fan completed the 170-kilometer Northbank Defense Line and planned to strengthen it before the Undersea Strange Tide arrived. Meanwhile, Shao Qiu discovered that Defense Line Seven had nearly fallen during the rainy season, then joined its exhausted defenders to learn more about the threat and their desperate situation.

• Xiao Er told Shao Qiu that daytime-surviving Strange Entities had appeared in the East Guandong Plains, and Shao Qiu feared Defense Line Seven was in danger.
• Chen Fan spent hundreds of millions of eerie stones extending the Rainy Season Defense Line and completed the 170-kilometer Northbank Defense Line, while building a separate Last Line of Defense around the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan told Wang Kui that the Mortal Domain needed to find a faction in the West Pass Plains to defeat as an example, despite the Slaying Immortal Holy Land offering compensation.
• Shao Qiu reached Defense Line Seven and learned that a Strange Tide had overrun much of the East Guandong Plains during the rainy season before the Eternal Night Hall contained it and repaired the wall.
• Shao Qiu and the Shadow Pavilion members enlisted at Defense Line Seven, where a disabled recruitment officer explained that its defenders fought without wages, many seeking revenge for lost family.
• The recruitment officer told Shao Qiu that most West Pass Plains factions had ignored appeals for aid, and warned him that losing conviction at the defense line could make death more agonizing.

Chen Fan led the Mortal Domain’s fleet of a hundred Flying Boats to the West Pass Plains and destroyed Hate Heaven City with 1,700 Godslayer Cannons, establishing the Mortal Domain’s power across the region. After the watching factions fled and the Slaying Immortal Holy Land prepared another apology, Chen Fan returned at night to salvage the city’s remains and planned to extend the Mortal Domain’s infrastructure into the plains.

• The Hate Heaven Sect Master dismissed the Mortal Domain’s proclamation, while the Slaying Immortal Holy Land Sacred Lord brought his people to support the sect and apologized for an old conflict.
• Chen Fan led the Gongyang Clan and the Mortal Domain’s War Pavilion aboard a hundred Flying Boats toward Hate Heaven City.
• The fleet arrived over Hate Heaven City and fired 1,700 Godslayer Cannons, destroying the city and its defenses in a quarter of an hour.
• Chen Fan introduced himself to the terrified gathered factions, then departed as the Slaying Immortal Holy Land Sacred Lord ordered his elders to prepare a sincere apology and compensation.
• After nightfall, Chen Fan brought the fleet back to Hate Heaven City and sent Mortal Domain members into the ruins to recover its remaining valuables.

Chen Fan completed the High-Speed Rail network across the West Pass Plains and Guandong Plains, then returned to the Mortal Domain and began strengthening the Northbank Defense Line. Exhausted after months of work, he decided to rest for a day, while the approaching rainy season and the uncertain fate of Defense Line Seven remained ahead.

• The Slaying Immortal Holy Land accepted the Mortal Domain's reconciliation, and Chen Fan chose the Eerie Fire's Lord Over All Nations blessing so Eerie Fires could be upgraded using only Eerie Stones.
• Chen Fan led the construction of High-Speed Rail Lines and Signal Towers across the West Pass Plains, then continued into the devastated Guandong Plains after learning from Shao Qiu that Defense Line Seven was in danger.
• Chen Fan visited Defense Line Seven but declined to meet its commander or reveal Shao Qiu's identity, then returned toward the Mortal Domain with the Shadow Pavilion members.
• At Defense Line Seven, a young man promised Uncle Liu he would stay and defend the line as the strange tide began another nighttime assault.
• Chen Fan returned home, learned that an unfamiliar Maid had tried to influence him against Wang Kui, and sent Little Qiu to investigate her.
• After Little Qiu reported that the Maid had simply hoped to become Chen Fan's woman, Chen Fan went to the Northbank Defense Line, began installing defensive structures, and returned exhausted, deciding to take a day off.

Chen Fan learned that Defense Line Seven was nearly overwhelmed by shortages and betrayal, so he secretly sent Shao Qiu with a trainload of Soul-Devouring Sculptures to help. Shao Qiu arrived at Defense Line Seven just before nightfall and reunited with Uncle Liu as Elder Seven welcomed the aid.

• Chen Fan dreamed that a Strange Tide destroyed Jiangbei, then woke and resumed strengthening the Northbank Defense Line.
• Shao Qiu told Chen Fan about Defense Line Seven’s costs, its betrayal by human traitors, and its desperate need for support.
• Chen Fan ordered Shao Qiu to deliver a thousand Soul-Devouring Sculptures to Defense Line Seven while concealing the Mortal Domain’s identity.
• Shao Qiu led the sculptures south by high-speed rail and arrived at Defense Line Seven on July 7, where he joyfully reunited with Uncle Liu.
• Elder Seven confirmed that the sculptures would reduce cannon tower ammunition consumption by 40 percent and agreed to install them immediately.

Shao Qiu saw Defense Line Seven benefit from reduced Soul-Devouring Sculpture costs, learned how Night Watchers were turned into living weapons, and left for the Mortal Domain. As the rainy season approached, Chen Fan chose to spend the Mortal Domain’s reserves pursuing the Heavenly Dominion reward, hoping to make it a miracle for the Eternal Night Continent.

• Shao Qiu watched Defense Line Seven’s Soul-Devouring Sculptures cut the towers’ Eerie Stone consumption by forty percent, and Elder Seven explained how Night Watchers could be strengthened through agonizing injections of liquefied Eerie Stones.
• Shao Qiu decided that the Shadow Pavilion would target traitors behind the front lines, then left Defense Line Seven after sharing a meal with Uncle Liu, who stayed behind.
• Chen Fan completed the 170-kilometer Northbank Defense Line, then learned that covering the New Continent in max-level Eerie Fires would cost 3.39 billion Eerie Stones.
• Chen Fan used the Heaven-Questioning Incense, which advised that the Heavenly Dominion reward was worthwhile only if no major crisis came within a year, and asked his core members whether to gamble or develop steadily.
• Wang Kui advised caution, but Qi Yue urged Chen Fan to gamble so the Mortal Domain could become a miracle; Chen Fan followed his heart and chose the opportunity.
• Chen Fan shared a hot pot meal with his companions and asked Crippled Monkey to accompany him to the Guandong Plains to help prepare defenses for the rainy season.

Chen Fan reinforced Defense Line Seven, arranged a trade route for Strange Entity corpses, and returned to the Mortal Domain as the rainy season began. After learning that Jiangbei’s shattered sea node would unleash an undersea tide in two years, the Slaying Immortal Holy Land Sacred Lord wondered why Chen Fan had built the Northbank Defense Line instead of fleeing.

• Chen Fan traveled to Defense Line Seven, installed altars and copper pipes, connected its Cannon Towers to Eerie Fire, and strengthened the wall against the coming rainy season.
• Chen Fan arranged for Defense Line Seven to load Wraith Hides, Ghost Bones, and Strange Entity corpses onto regular High-Speed Rail trains in exchange for Eerie Stones.
• The rainy season began as Chen Fan returned to Nameless Mountain, while the Northbank Defense Line kept the strange tides from reaching Northbank City.
• The Slaying Immortal Holy Land Sacred Lord told the First Elder that Jiangbei’s node had shattered and That One’s protective aura would fade in about two years, allowing the Northbank Undersea Strange Tide to come ashore.
• The Sacred Lord and First Elder discussed how Chen Fan had built a 170-kilometer defense line rather than flee, and concluded that the Mortal Domain might gain support by accepting responsibility for protecting Jiangbei.

Chen Fan expanded the Mortal Domain’s New Continent operations while Defense Line Seven survived the Rainy Season with few casualties. After learning the Eternal Night Hall planned to abandon Jiangbei, Chen Fan told Elder Seven that a 170-kilometer Northbank Defense Line already stood there, leaving Elder Seven stunned by the possibility that Chen Fan had built it.

• The Holy Lord of the Slaying Immortal Holy Land discussed the unknown figure whose lingering aura had suppressed the Northbank Undersea Strange Tide and defended his decision to take the figure’s Snow Lotus Flowers.
• Chen Fan made Eerie Fires for the Blazing Prairie Project as Mortal Domain members surveyed the New Continent, planted banners, established supply stations, and coordinated their work through a Heavenly Derivation Sand Table.
• Elder Seven learned from the Eternal Night Hall that it would abandon Defense Line Seven and the regions west of Yellow Springs Pass Canyon because it lacked resources after losing two fronts; he refused to evacuate and vowed to die defending his people.
• The Rainy Season ended, and Chen Fan traveled to Defense Line Seven to collect its stockpiled Strange Entity corpses, where Elder Seven told him the Eternal Night Hall had abandoned Jiangbei.
• Chen Fan reassured Elder Seven that Jiangbei already had a safe 170-kilometer Northbank Defense Line, prompting Elder Seven to suspect that Chen Fan was responsible.

Chen Fan accepted Elder Seven’s gifts and used the Heavenly Dao Stone to give copper pipes an illusory state, then expanded Mortal Domain’s preparations against the coming Undersea Strange Tide. Elder Seven inspected the Northbank Defense Line and concluded it was more than strong enough, while Chen Fan remained concerned about threats beyond it.

• Chen Fan accepted Elder Seven’s Heavenly Dao Stone and Heaven-Commanding Banner, then returned to Mortal Domain and gave copper pipes the Absolute Illusion blessing.
• Chen Fan discovered that supported copper pipes remained suspended after becoming illusory, experimented with a gondola, and later learned that the Heaven-Commanding Banner could summon storms to charge Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• Chen Fan welcomed Elder Seven to Mortal Domain and showed him the Northbank Defense Line, where Elder Seven found extensive Wraith Blood Patterns and powerful defenses.
• Elder Seven initially suggested improvements to the defense line, then learned the Godslayer Cannons could both clear strange tides and kill greater wraiths.
• Elder Seven judged the Northbank Defense Line more than adequate, while Chen Fan insisted that Mortal Domain still needed to prepare for greater dangers.

Chen Fan discovered that earth gold could withstand the Thunderstorm Sea’s lightning and built an aerial cable lifeline to channel its power into the Mortal Domain’s Sky-Piercing Pillars. After the first Level-6 Sky-Piercing Pillar test obliterated a vast section of the strange tide at Defense Line Seven, Chen Fan offered the line three free shots of Heavenly Punishment.

• Chen Fan failed to move a Sky-Piercing Pillar onto phantom copper pipes, then tested materials at the Thunderstorm Sea and found that an earth gold blade survived its lightning.
• Chen Fan ordered Zhao Shengping to make an earth gold cable, confirmed that it charged a Sky-Piercing Pillar, and directed the Mortal Domain to build an aerial lifeline to the Thunderstorm Sea.
• After two months of construction, Chen Fan connected the lifeline to hundreds of Sky-Piercing Pillars, greatly increasing their charging speed.
• Chen Fan brought the Mortal Domain’s core personnel to Defense Line Seven and launched a fully charged Level-6 Sky-Piercing Pillar into the strange tide.
• The blast cleared a vast area beyond Defense Line Seven, and Chen Fan called the weapon Heavenly Punishment and offered Elder Seven three free Level-Six shots.