Recaps

The Eternal Night Continent condensed its Heavenly Dao and was approved to advance to a second-level continent, granting Chen Fan access to new building upgrades. Six months after the great battle, the Mortal Domain sent its Commerce Pavilion members to explore beyond their shores as Chen Fan wished them a safe return.

• After the continent’s prosperity exceeded three million, Chen Fan’s old companion Mr. Na returned as its Heavenly Dao and reported that the Eternal Night Continent met the requirements for advancement.
• The Heavenly Dao recorded the continent’s history and declared it “Approved for Ascension,” advancing it to a second-level continent and unlocking new capabilities for the Sky-Piercing Pillar and other buildings.
• Chen Fan examined the new upgrade costs and concluded that the second-level continent’s purpose was exploration, so the Mortal Domain should develop during its three-year protection period and seek other Human Faction continents.
• Six months after the great battle, Wang Mazi led the Commerce Pavilion’s departure from the New Continent, and Chen Fan encouraged the explorers to carry the Mortal Domain’s name beyond its shores and return safely.
• The Commerce Pavilion’s Flying Boats set out in different directions, while Chen Fan returned toward the Mortal Domain and noted that another hidden Heavenly Dao’s blessing was nearing completion.

Chen Fan oversaw the Mortal Domain’s development, including its new Private Schools and the rewards for advancing Eternal Night Continent, while preparing for future threats from other continents and the Thunderstorm Sea. After his people found heavenly calamity wood, Mr. Na explained that some buildings could only be fully upgraded by obtaining rare materials from other continents, and Chen Fan ended the chapter looking out over the sea.

• Wang Kui reported that 9,982 Private Schools had been built, and Chen Fan explained how their education and Grand Examination would develop future talent.
• Chen Fan examined the Mortal Domain Jade Seal, whose powers protected him, authenticated his orders, bound oaths, and bolstered public morale.
• Chen Fan learned why newborn numbers remained low and explained that he was training the Shadow Pavilion to detect foreign efforts to undermine public support.
• Wang Kui informed Chen Fan that his people had found heavenly calamity wood, a rare material produced when wood survived the Thunderstorm Sea’s Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Thunder.
• Mr. Na confirmed that a first-level continent could upgrade a Vehicle Workshop to Level 10 but might lack the materials, and he explained that the Heavenly Dao could consult an employee handbook beneath the continent.

Chen Fan expanded the Mortal Domain’s vehicle and communication infrastructure, while Mr. Na explained the value of fusing the Primordial Continent Fragment and reassured him about the continent’s defenses. Far beyond the New Continent, Jiu Wu spotted a Mortal Domain Flying Boat, chased it down, and begged its crew to recognize him before they detonated the ship.

• Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop to level 10, crafted an Earth-Digging Puppet, and chose a Heavenly Dao blessing that doubled the speed of all vehicles.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Signal Tower to level 20, secured communications, and began intercepting transmissions containing selected keywords to gather intelligence about other continents and the Black Abyss.
• Mr. Na told Chen Fan that the Primordial Continent Fragment’s fusion would take about half a year and grant the Eternal Night Continent orthodoxy, then reassured him that the continent’s defenses would be protected by a grand array.
• Thirty days later, Jiu Wu spotted a Mortal Domain Flying Boat near his deserted island and raced after it as its crew prepared to detonate the vessel.
• The boat’s captain, King Ke, reported a suspected Ghost Emperor and ordered the crew to prepare for self-destruction, but Jiu Wu stopped the Flying Boat and pleaded with them to spare him, reminding them that he had helped the Mortal Domain before.

Chen Fan negotiated with Weird Emperor Jiu Wu, who explained his resurrection and asked the Mortal Domain to leave his Retirement Clan alone. Chen Fan agreed to a truce while allowing the Mortal Domain to explore the island, and the chapter ended with the expedition underway and his companions debating how far Chen Fan might go to secure peace.

• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu stopped Flying Boat No. 372, mistook its Mortal Domain Banner for a threat, and asked its crew to contact Chen Fan.
• Jiu Wu explained that he had revived himself and his subordinates, founded the Retirement Clan on a deserted island, and wanted to live in peace; Chen Fan agreed to mutual nonaggression while reserving the right for the Mortal Domain to explore the island.
• Mr. Na identified the island as a fragment of the Eyi Continent and explained that killing Jiu Wu within the Rebirth Tower Range might prevent another resurrection.
• Seven days later, Chen Fan sailed with Qi Yue, Mr. Na, Crippled Monkey, Big Croc, and Little Croc toward the island, where Jiu Wu welcomed them and his followers knelt.
• Chen Fan and Jiu Wu affirmed their peace, and Jiu Wu swore an oath not to harm the Mortal Domain or violate its defense line.
• Mr. Na and Crippled Monkey discussed Jiu Wu's lack of ambition and speculated that Chen Fan would eventually seek to eliminate every nearby threat to the Mortal Domain.

Chen Fan discovered that a level-nineteen Heavenly Dao Strange was draining the fortune of the sunken Eyi Continent and preventing exploration of its seabed. He used the Mortal Domain’s Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon to destroy it, leaving Jiu Wu visibly terrified.

• Chen Fan’s Submersible Ship encountered a Deep-Sea Giant Mountain Strange Entity near Eyi Continent, so he ordered the ship to surface.
• Pu Lang reported that a glowing giant strange entity had driven other creatures away from the seabed and that the sunken landmass lay beyond the Submersible Ships’ depth limit.
• The Heaven-Questioning Bell identified the giant as a Heavenly Dao Strange, and the Watchtower detected it at level nineteen and 2,300 meters deep.
• Chen Fan fused four upgraded Divine Cannons into a Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon and assigned King Ke to fire it from a Flying Boat before escaping through a Teleportation Formation.
• King Ke fired the cannon, destroying the Heavenly Dao Strange and triggering a massive underwater blast; Jiu Wu watched in fear as Chen Fan remarked that the Mortal Domain loved peace.

Chen Fan learned that a Continent Core could help Eternal Night Continent advance to the third level after the Mortal Domain killed a Heavenly Dao Strange and retrieved its drops. Wang Mazi revealed that he had unknowingly eaten several Heavenly Fortune fruits long ago, and Chen Fan concluded that Wang Mazi’s luck had helped the Mortal Domain discover the New Continent.

• Chen Fan learned from the Heaven-Questioning Bell that ninety-nine Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannons could combine into a Red Grade continent-class weapon, while Mr. Na explained that a second-level continent could not obtain one yet.
• Chen Fan learned that the Pick-Up Sculpture had collected three drops from the slain Heavenly Dao Strange, including a Purple Grade Individual Armory blueprint and a Continent Core that could shorten Eternal Night Continent’s advancement timeline by ten years.
• Mr. Na explained that the Continent Core was a rare requirement for advancing to a third-level continent and that the Heavenly Fortune fruit could grant its consumer a burst of luck.
• Wang Mazi told Chen Fan that he had eaten four or five similar fruits years earlier while stationed at North River Chen Family Station 47.
• Mr. Na realized that Wang Mazi’s heavenly fortune had likely helped him cross the Thunderstorm Sea twice, and Chen Fan said that Wang Mazi’s past actions had helped the Mortal Domain discover the New Continent.

Chen Fan returned toward the Eternal Night Continent while the Mortal Domain organized a new undersea tunnel and a search of the submerged Eyi Continent. Meanwhile, Flying Boat 222 had been captured by an unknown faction, and its crew endured interrogation without revealing their home; the chapter left the Sacred Lord hoping Chen Fan would find them soon.

• Chen Fan left the Eyi Continent by Flying Boat and ordered Earth-Digging Puppets to widen the existing tunnel, dig a new one, and explore the submerged ruins.
• Wang Mazi told Crippled Monkey that Flying Boat 222 had been missing for twelve hours, though its crew's Life Tablets remained intact.
• An unknown faction tortured Zi Xian, the Slaying Immortal Holy Land's Sacred Lord, and the First Elder for information about their continent and its location.
• The captured crew members refused to confess, and one disciple demanded that his interrogator endure as many beatings as he had before he would talk.
• Zi Xian silently hoped Chen Fan would arrive before the torture killed him.

Chen Fan investigated the disappearance of several exploration boats and discovered an invisible continent belonging to the Feng Qiya Continent, whose leaders had captured the Mortal Domain’s people and hoped to negotiate peacefully. He prepared to greet the hidden continent with a Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon.

• Chen Fan tested the new Pocket Cannon from the Individual Armory, chose a strategic-building Heavenly Dao blessing, and reviewed the Mortal Domain’s development and completed continental blessings with Wang Kui.
• Wang Mazi reported that Flying Boat No. 222 and three rescue boats had vanished northwest of the New Continent, so Chen Fan ordered nearby boats to gather and teleported to Wang Mazi’s Flying Boat.
• The Feng Qiya Continent’s leaders learned that the Mortal Domain came from the Eternal Night Continent and decided to return their captives peacefully, while preparing to sacrifice the Middle-Aged Man if negotiations failed.
• Chen Fan used a Level-Ten Eerie Fire and a Level-Twenty Watchtower to reveal a vast invisible continent, where Wang Mazi spotted buildings, Cannon Towers, and people who had captured the missing boats.
• Chen Fan ordered the fleet to greet the hidden continent, and a Flying Boat brought its Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon forward and aimed it at the concealed land.

Chen Fan threatened the Feng Qiya Continent with war and rescued the captured Mortal Domain members, then demanded compensation and secured five billion Eerie Stones and a Purple Grade Exotic Treasure. As the Flying Boats returned, Chen Fan learned what the captives had endured, while news of his rescue strengthened the Mortal Domain’s cohesion.

• The Counselors' Pavilion urged the Feng Qiya Continent to seek peace, but Chen Fan fired a Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon into the sea and demanded his people be returned within ten breaths.
• Chen Fan told the Feng Qiya Continent’s Lord that the Mortal Domain would spare no expense to protect its members, and the Slaying Immortal Holy Land Sacred Lord and his disciples took heart from his words.
• The Feng Qiya Continent’s Lord offered the captured members and an interrogator as a scapegoat, but Chen Fan demanded five billion Eerie Stones and a Purple Grade Building Blueprint or he would go to war.
• The Feng Qiya Continent’s Lord accepted the five-billion-Eerie-Stone demand and offered an unidentified Purple Grade Exotic Treasure instead, and Chen Fan agreed.
• On the return journey, Chen Fan praised the Slaying Immortal Holy Land group for resisting interrogation and asked the other captives to report what they had revealed to Shao Qiu.
• The Shadow Pavilion spread the story of Chen Fan’s rescue across the Mortal Domain, raising its cohesion, while Weird Emperor Jiu Wu read about the event in the Mortal Domain Daily.

Chen Fan turned Feng Qiya Continent’s deliberately inconvenient payment of five billion eerie stones into leverage, then questioned a captured official whose faith in his own continent had collapsed. The official revealed Feng Qiya Continent’s resources and neighbors before the chapter ended with Chen Fan discovering that its supposedly worthless Purple Grade treasure was valuable to him.

• Zou Huang Jiuwu celebrated Mortal City’s victory in the Mortal City Daily while Old Strange Entity wished their peaceful life would last.
• Feng Qiya Continent’s Lord urged his subordinates to turn their humiliation into motivation to advance to a third-level continent and defeat the Mortal Domain.
• After Feng Qiya Continent paid five billion low-grade eerie stones, Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to leave them there, using the pile as a pretext to return and a potential justification for war.
• Feng Qiya Continent’s Lord learned that his payment orders had been altered and ordered the stones guarded while he investigated his officials.
• Chen Fan questioned a captured Feng Qiya Continent official, who renounced his loyalty, disclosed intelligence about the continent, and asked for a quick death.
• The Slaying Immortal Holy Land Sacred Lord delivered Feng Qiya Continent’s unidentified Purple Grade treasure, and Chen Fan recognized that his panel could reveal its value.

Chen Fan installed the Purple Grade Heavenly Lion on the Eternal Night Continent, then expanded the Mortal Domain’s weapons and reviewed its rapid development and expenses. As he sought a dependable source of Eerie Stones, a visitor from another continent arrived to propose trade and presented a Purple Grade Insight Token as a gift.

• Chen Fan had the Slaying Immortal Holy Land Sacred Lord end the Middle-Aged Man’s life after the Oath Mark continued to punish him despite attempts to remove it.
• Chen Fan activated Heavenly Lion on the Jiangbei Wasteland, anchoring the Eternal Night Continent’s fortune and protecting it from theft.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Individual Armory to levels 12 and 13, unlocking the Soul Thunder and Soul-Summoning Banner, then returned to his Wooden Hut.
• Wang Kui reported the Mortal Domain’s year-end finances and development, while Chen Fan concluded that he needed a stable, high-yield source of Eerie Stones.
• Crippled Monkey informed Chen Fan that a visitor had arrived from another continent seeking trade, and Chen Fan accepted the Purple Grade Insight Token and invited the visitor to tea.

Chen Fan welcomed a visitor from the Dark Eerie Continent and negotiated trade deals with him, discovering that their trade used far more valuable Level-3 Eerie Stones than he had assumed. The visitor left with 10,000 Faction Banners, while plans for further trade remained open.

• Chen Fan hosted the Dark Eerie Continent’s elderly envoy, who explained his continent’s peaceful intentions and proposed trade relations with the Eternal Night Continent.
• The envoy described the Dark Eerie Continent’s goods, including Monkey-Head Fruit, Installment Tokens, and Ghost-Stone Storage Bags, while Chen Fan demonstrated an Earth-Digging Puppet.
• Chen Fan agreed to sell 100 Earth-Digging Puppets for 10,000 Eerie Stones each, then realized the payment consisted of Level-3 Eerie Stones worth far more than he expected.
• Chen Fan and the envoy agreed to exchange Earth-Digging Puppets for Ghost-Stone Storage Bags and arranged a separate sale of 10,000 Yellow Grade Faction Banners.
• The envoy departed with the banners, and Chen Fan watched his Flying Boat leave while praising the Dark Eerie Continent.

Chen Fan made the Mortal Domain High-Speed Rail blueprints open-source and received a level 1 Black Abyss and a dark technology source point. He unlocked the first dark technology and learned from Mr. Na that source points were rare but usually useful only in specific circumstances.

• Chen Fan reflected on the Dark Eerie Continent's trade and routes, then considered the Shadow Pavilion's intelligence mission on the Feng Qiya Continent.
• Mortal Domain Shadow Pavilion members openly inspected five billion eerie stones and scattered through a Feng Qiya city to gather intelligence and undermine local loyalty.
• Chen Fan made the Mortal Domain High-Speed Rail blueprints available to the world, triggering a reward that formed a level 1 Black Abyss near Jiangbei and granted one dark technology source point.
• Chen Fan used the source point to unlock Resource Generation, which increased the chance of Eerie Ore mines forming naturally in his faction's territory by 10 percent.
• Chen Fan examined the Dark Technology Tree and asked Mr. Na about its source points; Mr. Na said they were extremely rare, usually useful only in specific circumstances, and that Chen Fan would receive another when the Primordial Continent fragment was fully devoured.

Chen Fan learned more about Dark Technology Source Points, discovered that the Dark Eerie Continent was secretly ruled by Giant Black Rats, and watched the Mortal Domain deepen its trade with them. The Feng Qiya Continent abandoned covert schemes to focus on reaching the third level, while the Dark Eerie Continent’s representative bought an Exotic Beast Breeding House to test whether it could solve the rats’ reproduction problem.

• Mr. Na explained that Dark Technology Source Points could be spent at rare Islands with a Dark Technology Tree, and Chen Fan reviewed the Insight Token’s reward condition for the Mortal Domain’s newborn population.
• After thirty days, Chen Fan and Little Qiu realized the Dark Eerie Continent had sold them Ghost-Stone Storage Bags that their level-17 Life Workshop could produce, while the upgraded Workshop made production cheaper.
• Chen Fan and Mr. Na visited a Black Abyss, where Mortal Domain members began mining its fixed supply of ten billion pieces of Eerie Ore.
• The Dark Eerie Continent’s skeletal trader recognized that the Mortal Domain was developing quickly, defended the fairness of their trade, and discussed selling Earth-Digging Puppets to the Ratmost Continent.
• The skeletal trader’s true form was revealed as a Giant Black Rat, and the Feng Qiya Continent’s lord ordered his people to stop covert actions against the Mortal Domain and focus on reaching the third level.
• A Dark Eerie Continent representative purchased an Exotic Beast Breeding House from the New Continent’s Commerce Pavilion to see whether it could help the Giant Black Rats reproduce.

After the Eternal Night Continent devoured a Primordial Continent Fragment, Chen Fan activated accelerated crop growth and arranged to trade century spirit rice for two dark technology source points from the Rat Kingdom. Half a month later, he activated ammunition consumption and uncovered the Dark Technology Tree’s three branches, where the first military technology was revealed as an upgrade for the Sky-Piercing Pillar.

• Mr. Na reported that the Eternal Night Continent had devoured the Primordial Continent Fragment, and Chen Fan received a dark technology source point.
• Chen Fan activated Accelerated Growth and realized dark technology source points could be traded to factions that could not use them.
• Chen Fan used intercepted Signal Tower communications to learn that the Rat Kingdom possessed two source points and offered century spirit rice in exchange.
• The Rat Kingdom’s representative revealed his true form as a rat, and Chen Fan agreed to deliver three tons of century spirit rice in a year for the two source points.
• Half a month later, Chen Fan received the two source points, activated Ammunition Consumption, and discovered that the first military branch technology enhanced the Sky-Piercing Pillar.

Chen Fan unlocked a range boost for the Sky-Piercing Pillar and discovered the military technology Mushroom Cloud, which could turn the pillar into a long-range weapon by storing cannon damage. He then inspected the Mortal Domain’s sky-pillar project and installed a Level-20 Signal Tower at ten thousand kilometers above the ground, preparing to use the height for future attacks.

• Chen Fan spent his last dark technology source point on Sky-Piercing Pillar Range Boost and saw that Mushroom Cloud could store half the damage of a Defensive Structure’s full-power strike for later release.
• Chen Fan realized the technology could make the Sky-Piercing Pillar a long-range missile platform, but he had no source points left to activate Mushroom Cloud.
• An elderly man from the Dark Eerie Continent agreed to seek more silver orbs for the Mortal Domain after learning they wanted to buy them.
• Chen Fan observed the Black Tortoise Sky Pillar and its peaceful crowds before inspecting the structure’s extension to fourteen thousand kilometers.
• Chen Fan rode the Gondola to ten thousand kilometers, built a Level-20 Signal Tower beside a lit Eerie Fire, and noted that Signal Tower communication failed above that altitude without another tower.

Chen Fan discovered that the Fallen Firmament formed an impenetrable boundary twenty thousand kilometers above the Eternal Night Continent, then learned from the Heaven-Questioning Bell that breaking it could release primordial spiritual energy and form Black Abysses. He unlocked the Mushroom Cloud technology and began testing whether it could destroy a Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar.

• Chen Fan inspected the Eternal Night Continent, then returned to the Black Tortoise Sky Pillar after Black Tortoise City reported that structures above twenty thousand kilometers turned to ash.
• Chen Fan fired a Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon and revealed a pale Gold Grade light curtain overhead; the Lord Panel identified it as the Fallen Firmament.
• Chen Fan used his dark technology source point to unlock Mushroom Cloud, though he resolved to prioritize economic technologies with future points.
• Chen Fan asked the Heaven-Questioning Bell about the Fallen Firmament and learned that breaking it could let primordial spiritual energy spill through and form Black Abysses.
• Chen Fan formed a Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar and fired a Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannon at it to test the effect of Mushroom Cloud.

Chen Fan answered the Feng Qiya Continent’s mistreatment of Mortal Domain agents with a deadline for an explanation, while the continent’s ruler mistook his restraint for fear and prepared to invade. When the deadline passed, a blazing Sky-Piercing Pillar raced toward the Feng Qiya Continent, revealing Chen Fan’s response.

• Chen Fan tested two fully charged Sky-Piercing Pillars and ordered the Feng Qiya Continent to explain why it had whipped Mortal Domain agents within one Incense Stick.
• The Lord of the Feng Qiya Continent decided the Mortal Domain’s measured letter showed fear and ordered preparations to seize its New Continent and obtain its Continent Core.
• Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba admitted they had let themselves be arrested in hopes of provoking a war, and their group leader told them the Mortal Domain had no plans to fight.
• After the deadline passed without an explanation, a blazing Sky-Piercing Pillar hurtled toward the Feng Qiya Continent, and the Shadow Pavilion group leader urged his people to prepare for battle.

Chen Fan tested two Sky-Piercing Pillars against the Feng Qiya Continent, destroying its secret workshops and a granary while the Continent Lord sought peace. Meanwhile, Weiwei was urged to use his Formation Break talent to open the Fallen Firmament before the Mortal Domain attacked it.

• A Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillar destroyed two Vehicle Workshops and the Flying Boats being built there, prompting the Feng Qiya Continent's Lord to order communications security and seek peace.
• Chen Fan launched a Level-20 Sky-Piercing Pillar toward the Feng Qiya Continent and approved its request for peace and War Reparations while warning that another attack was imminent.
• The attack destroyed the Western Granary, and the Continent Lord ordered further peace efforts and an investigation into how to defend against the weapon.
• Chen Fan concluded that the Level-20 Sky-Piercing Pillar's max-level effects strengthened its concentrated attack, though the strike had only destroyed a granary at great cost.
• On the Black Tortoise Sky Pillar, Weiwei's father urged him to use his Formation Break talent to break the Fallen Firmament and earn an achievement for the Mortal Domain.

Chen Fan learned that the Mortal Domain had earned a hidden Heavenly Dao blessing through a popular folk Storybook and prepared to pursue the remaining blessings as the Spring Examination approached. In Mortal City, examinees and spectators gathered for the first examination, while Chen Fan watched the growing excitement in disguise.

• Weiwei repeatedly struck the Fallen Firmament barrier with his claws, and Chen Fan let him continue testing its strength.
• Wang Kui told Chen Fan that the Mortal Domain’s First Spring Examination would begin in three days, and Chen Fan ordered top performers to receive important posts.
• Chen Fan read the widely circulated Storybook "Golden Plum" and unexpectedly received the hidden Heavenly Dao blessing for cultural birth.
• Mr. Na explained the five hidden blessings for a second-level continent, including an Imperial Examination, trade routes, world exploration, and surviving the protection period.
• Zhang Qianqiu encouraged his son to compete fairly in the Spring Examination, while crowds in Mortal City debated the nine subjects and their possible rewards.
• Chen Fan, disguised and accompanied by Crippled Monkey, watched the crowds gathered around the examination notices.

A Commerce Pavilion exploration team became trapped in a mysterious sea region and landed on an unknown island, where a strange entity attacked them in the darkness. The boat captain killed the entity with his hand cannon, but he warned his surviving subordinates that more might be nearby.

• Chen Fan heard from Crippled Monkey that the Mortal Domain Spring Examination had drawn eager candidates and that the Logistics Pavilion had identified likely top performers.
• A Commerce Pavilion boat captain and his crew found their Flying Boat trapped in a Void Marsh, lost communications, and discovered an unknown island beyond the New Continent.
• The captain led three subordinates into the island's dead forest while Xun Ba stayed aboard, but the group noticed a sound, found their Eerie Fire missing, and one subordinate, Lao Yao, fled.
• As Eternal Night fell, the captain kept two subordinates beside him and endured repeated attacks from an unseen entity without moving.
• When the entity made physical contact, the captain grabbed it and fired his hand cannon until it went limp, then drank Altar Water and warned his subordinates that more entities might remain.

Zhang Taiping's team occupied Rugged Island, earning the Mortal Domain a rare island and completing a Heavenly Dao blessing, while the Thunderstorm Sea collapsed and unleashed a Strange Tide against the Eternal Night Continent. As the continent braced for the threat, the Lord of the Feng Qiya Continent launched a secret attack on the New Continent, and Zhang Taiping's returning boat was intercepted by the invading fleet.

• Zhang Taiping's team killed the octopus-like Strange Entity on Rugged Island, and the island was occupied by the Mortal Domain of the Eternal Night Continent.
• Chen Fan learned that Rugged Island could rarely resurrect the dead and received a Dark Technology Source Point and five billion Eerie Stones for completing World Exploration.
• Shao Qiu warned Chen Fan that rumors accusing him of murdering his parents were spreading in the eastern Eternal Night Continent.
• The Thunderstorm Sea collapsed after the Eternal Night Continent's protection was lifted, and a powerful Strange Tide surrounded the continent.
• The Lord of the Feng Qiya Continent sent three thousand Flying Boats to seize the New Continent while Chen Fan focused on the Strange Tide.
• Zhang Taiping spotted an unidentified fleet near his returning Flying Boat, and dozens of its ships veered toward him.

After Zhang Taiping sacrificed himself to warn the Mortal Domain of a massive fleet approaching New Continent, Chen Fan prepared for war against the suspected Feng Qiya Continent. The chapter ended as the Mortal Domain’s disguised Flying Boats fired first at the invading fleet.

• Zhang Taiping cut off his legs and had his companions cast him into the sea so he could escape the enemy’s signal-jamming range and warn the Mortal Domain, but a strange entity swallowed him after he sent the warning.
• Chen Fan learned of Zhang Taiping’s death and the approaching fleet, mobilized the Mortal Domain for war, and ordered an attack on Feng Qiya Continent while preparing to defend New Continent.
• Mr. Na told Chen Fan privately that Zhang Taiping could be guaranteed resurrection if thirty percent of his remains were recovered and buried on Rugged Island with the Exotic Treasure Heavenly Fortune.
• Chen Fan armed new Flying Boats with Level-20 Heavenly Dao Cannons and disguised them as Dark Eerie Continent merchant vessels, while Dark Eerie Continent’s ruler refused to warn the Mortal Domain about the invasion.
• The Feng Qiya fleet mistook the disguised boats for merchants until its commander realized they were heading the wrong way, but the Mortal Domain’s cannons had already begun charging.
• The Mortal Domain’s Flying Boats fired a volley of Heavenly Dao Cannon beams at the thousands of incoming enemy boats.

Chen Fan launched a counterattack against the Feng Qiya Continent after its invasion force was destroyed, while Shadow Pavilion members chose death rather than become bargaining chips. As the Mortal Domain’s fleet headed for the enemy continent, the First Spring Examination began, and Zhang Qianqiu noticed an unusually bold candidate attempting to make a Formation Disc.

• More than a dozen disguised Flying Boats fired Heavenly Dao Cannons and destroyed the Feng Qiya Continent’s three thousand invading Flying Boats; Chen Fan ordered the counterattack and dispatched Sky-Piercing Pillars toward the Feng Qiya Continent.
• Shadow Pavilion members led by a sharp-featured man, including Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba, killed themselves rather than be captured, and Shao Qiu reported their deaths to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan presented a plan to bombard the Feng Qiya Continent, land on its northern coast, build a city wall, and use Heavenly Dao Cannons to destroy the continent; he rejected its offer of thirty billion eerie stones in reparations.
• The Rat Kingdom King learned that the invasion force had been wiped out and set out for the Feng Qiya Continent to observe the Mortal Domain’s response.
• Chen Fan ordered the First Spring Examination’s Military Strategy question changed to ask whether the Mortal Domain should retaliate, while more than a thousand Flying Boats carried troops and supplies toward the Feng Qiya Continent.
• Candidates began the Formations examination by studying an Acceleration Formation Disc, and Zhang Qianqiu noticed one candidate trying to make a Formation Disc almost immediately.

A young candidate named Eight Hundred deciphered and reproduced the Acceleration Formation Disc, earning Zhang Qianqiu’s praise and Chen Fan’s attention. Chen Fan then met the military-strategy candidate Long Live, who challenged his plan to warn civilians before invading the Feng Qiya Continent and urged a swift, decisive annihilation; Chen Fan left the conversation laughing, with the invasion plan intact.

• Eight Hundred explained how the Acceleration Formation Disc worked, and Zhang Qianqiu gave him and his group extra time to reproduce it.
• Eight Hundred and Zhang Qianqiu’s son successfully reproduced the disc, prompting Zhang Qianqiu to report the breakthrough to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan realized the disc would greatly increase the Mortal Domain’s flying-boat speed and celebrated the talent emerging from the First Spring Examination.
• Crippled Monkey showed Chen Fan a military-strategy paper by Long Live, who advocated an immediate all-out invasion of the Feng Qiya Continent.
• Chen Fan summoned Long Live, who warned that declaring war and calling for civilian evacuation would expose the battle plan and create a weakness.
• Long Live urged Chen Fan to prioritize victory over appearances of virtue, and Chen Fan laughed without changing course.