Chapter Summaries

Weird Emperor Jiu Wu convinced the Heaven-Slaying Clan’s Ghost Emperor to abandon his old worldview and join the Mortal Domain before Chen Fan’s forces annihilated the Heaven-Slaying Clan with Heavenly Dao Cannons. The Mortal Domain began claiming the three conquered continents, while news of its victory alarmed rulers across the region.

• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu secretly brought Mortal Domain forces onto the Dark Star Continent, where they deployed Heavenly Dao Cannons and prepared a surprise attack.
• Jiu Wu persuaded the Heaven-Slaying Clan’s Ghost Emperor to question his clan’s endless wars and consider a life built around farming and community.
• Ghost Emperor Xiangyang dropped his Message Stone, accepted Jiu Wu’s invitation to defect, and knelt before Chen Fan as the Mortal Domain’s forces surrounded them.
• Chen Fan ordered the final strike, and the Heavenly Dao Cannons wiped out the Heaven-Slaying Clan; Xiangyang joined Jiu Wu’s Retirement Clan.
• Chen Fan ordered cleanup and preparations to claim the Heaven-Slaying, Dark Star, and One-Eyed Continents, while the Mortal Domain planned to use their Golden Rain to extend its people’s lives.
• The Mortal Domain publicized its victory, and Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord struggled to understand how Long Live’s plans had enabled the Mortal Domain to destroy three powerful Strange Entity Clans.

After eliminating three near-Third-Level Strange Entity Clans, Chen Fan ordered a campaign against other emerging threats and continued expanding the Mortal Domain’s reach. While Weird Emperor Jiu Wu brought Ghost Emperor Xiangyang into the Mortal Domain’s fold, Keke was forgotten on the One-Eyed Continent, and Chen Fan moved to confront the Dupeng Continent over a newly claimed Rare Island.

• Chen Fan ordered Long Live to prepare a plan to eliminate Strange Entity Clans that needed two more continents to reach Third-Level status, while Wang Kui reported that three cleared continents would soon be ready for occupation.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu returned to the Huyi Continent with Ghost Emperor Xiangyang, explained the Mortal Domain’s continent-rotation strategy, and sent the Coordinates of two Black Abysses to Chen Fan.
• Xiangyang read the Mortal Domain History Book and Daily Report, learned how the faction had risen, and accepted Jiu Wu’s guidance and protection.
• Keke continued hauling a Pick-Up Sculpture alone across the already-cleared One-Eyed Continent, while Weiwei fell into dormancy after consuming a Red Grade Exotic Beast Core.
• Chen Fan received the Coordinates of two Black Abysses and ordered personnel to prepare them for mining.
• Shao Qiu reported that the Dupeng Continent had claimed Plum Blossom Island, so Chen Fan summoned all Second-Level Continents to meet there, prompting Sanqi to agree to cooperate.

Chen Fan named the sea the Heaven-Questioning Sea, secured military funds and dark technology source points from its Continent Lords, and arranged a regional alliance. After returning to the Mortal Domain to activate a new cannon technology, he received news of a disturbing incident at the Despair Continent, where a fleet of Mortal Domain members appeared to have become strange entities.

• Chen Fan gathered twelve Continent Lords, named their sea the Heaven-Questioning Sea, and persuaded them to contribute 120 billion Eerie Stones toward campaigns against Strange Entity Clans.
• Chen Fan collected 27 dark technology source points, set plans for the other continents to complete hidden Heavenly Dao blessings, and agreed to Hao Mao’s proposal for a formal alliance.
• Chen Fan arranged for the Feng Qiya rare Island to be shared for exploration, then returned to the Mortal Domain with 28 dark technology source points and activated the Mutated Heavenly Dao Cannon.
• Wang Kui and Long Live discussed how Chen Fan had obtained the new source points as Mortal Domain forces began building undersea tunnels and scouting deep-sea strange entities.
• King Zhangba boarded a bloodstained Mortal Domain fleet at the Despair Continent and watched its familiar crew turn toward him with eerie smiles before his consciousness faded.

Chen Fan expanded the Mortal Domain’s defenses and unlocked several dark technologies while Mr. Na explained why the Supreme Heavenly Dao had questioned the continent’s rapid spending. After a supply caravan vanished on the Despair Continent, Chen Fan delayed an investigation and considered Long Live’s proposal to test the situation with nuclear-armed Sky-Piercing Pillars.

• On the Despair Continent, King Zhangba’s eerie smile infected hundreds of thousands of people, and Western Region Strange-Suppression Defense Line No. 6 fell.
• Chen Fan built and upgraded a Psionic Cannon, tested it against an Illusory Black Tortoise and Phantom Copper Pipes, and chose a blessing that doubled its damage to illusory Strange Entities.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Heavenly Dao Cannon’s blessing, added a level-20 Dark Watchtower, and unlocked technologies for Mysterious Heaven Propellers and increased continent durability.
• Mr. Na told Chen Fan that the Supreme Heavenly Dao had investigated the Mortal Domain’s unusually large supply of dark technology source points, and Chen Fan kept the source of his access secret.
• Chen Fan and Long Live found no signs of ghosts at the Dark Watchtower sites before Wang Mazi reported that a supply caravan and its contact on the Despair Continent had disappeared.
• Chen Fan stopped Wang Mazi from sending Flying Boats to investigate, and Long Live suggested testing the Despair Continent with nuclear-armed Sky-Piercing Pillars.

Chen Fan investigated the silent Despair Continent and discovered that a Ghost Emperor Heart-Eating Wraith had infected its humans. He sent Weird Emperor Jiu Wu to capture it, where Jiu Wu’s innate dark sacred physique was revealed and a powerful enemy tried to recruit him; Jiu Wu rejected the offer and urged Ghost Emperor Xiangyang to return with him to the Mortal Domain.

• Chen Fan sent a nuclear Sky-Piercing Pillar toward the Despair Continent, received no response, and summoned Weird Emperor Jiu Wu to investigate.
• Jiu Wu pledged loyalty to Chen Fan, who sent a Doppelganger Wraith through a Vanguard Sky-Piercing Pillar; it found eerily smiling humans and died after firing its Pocket Cannon.
• Reports from across the Despair Continent showed the same infected humans, and the Heaven-Questioning Bell identified the culprit as a Ghost Emperor Heart-Eating Wraith whose victims could not be saved.
• Chen Fan ordered Jiu Wu to capture the Heart-Eating Wraith, and Jiu Wu brought Ghost Emperor Xiangyang and his Ghost Emperor subordinates to the Despair Continent.
• The Heart-Eating Wraith, Greed, recognized Jiu Wu’s innate dark sacred physique and offered to make him ruler of the Wasteland Clan, but Jiu Wu captured him and rejected his proposal.
• Xiangyang urged Jiu Wu to abandon the Mortal Domain and conquer the world, but Jiu Wu told him that Chen Fan was his friend and invited him to come home.

Chen Fan welcomed Weird Emperor Jiu Wu back to the Mortal Domain after Jiu Wu captured the Heart-Eating Wraith responsible for destroying the Despair Continent, and promised him a place and resources in the domain. As the Mortal Domain prepared to investigate the threat and deal with the continent’s aftermath, Zhou Mo secured Chen Fan’s help after the Finance Pavilion’s travel limits stranded him.

• Chen Fan discussed cultural development with Crippled Monkey and ordered the Publicity Pavilion to arrange cultural exchanges with the Good Cat Continent once the Undersea Tunnel was complete.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu returned with the captured Heart-Eating Wraith, and Chen Fan ordered Crippled Monkey to interrogate it while welcoming Jiu Wu as a full Mortal Domain member and establishing the Jiu Wu Pavilion.
• Wang Kui explained to Crippled Monkey that Chen Fan feared unstable threats and betrayal, while Ghost Emperor Xiangyang received his new clothes, identity token, and position in Jiu Wu’s pavilion.
• Zhou Mo came to report that the War Pavilion had caught the true mastermind behind the rumors, but the Teleportation Formation’s daily limit left him waiting until he paid to return to the Mortal Domain.
• Zhou Mo pleaded with Chen Fan to let him resign over the travel limit, and Chen Fan took him to Tian Ce, who raised Zhou Mo’s daily allowance to fifty Teleportation Formation uses.

Zhou Mo reported that a suspicious secluded family on the Eternal Night Continent might be a group of wraiths, prompting Chen Fan to order a covert investigation and plan a thorough screening of the population. The Heaven-Questioning Bell revealed that the continent was once called the Cursed Continent, while Chen Fan also approved Long Live’s containment plan for the Heart-Eating Wraith’s outbreak on the Despair Continent.

• Zhou Mo described the strange customs and apparent unnatural longevity of a village near East Wu City, and Chen Fan authorized him to investigate secretly with the Sky-Piercing Pillars ready if needed.
• Chen Fan ordered Wang Mazi to recall ten experienced explorers, then learned from the Heaven-Questioning Bell that the Eternal Night Continent had once been called the Cursed Continent.
• Chen Fan urged Crippled Monkey to hurry his interrogation of the Heart-Eating Wraith and went to the Strategist Pavilion to review the Despair Continent response plan.
• Long Live proposed cordoning off the Despair Continent, warning other continents, and containing the fatal infection; Chen Fan approved the plan and left him in charge.
• Chen Fan asked Long Live about his time in the eastern continent and the Gold Grade rain, then concluded that the secluded family might have avoided the rain by hiding and decided to accelerate the subjugation of the One-Eyed Continent.

Zhou Mo infiltrated the Strange Village’s mining crew, but the villagers exposed him and a chained monster killed him. Chen Fan launched a continent-wide search, while the fleeing villagers were discovered in Black Tortoise City and one of them surrendered.

• Zhou Mo disguised himself as a laborer and discovered that the Strange Village had isolated him from the rest of the mine.
• The middle-aged villager tried to bribe Zhou Mo into concealing the village, then left when a chained monster approached.
• Zhou Mo revealed that he was the War Pavilion’s Pavilion Master and a level 20 martial artist, but the monster defeated him with one blow.
• Chen Fan arrived at Zhou Mo’s corpse, ordered the Eternal Night Continent sealed and searched, and sent Zhou Mo’s body to Rugged Island.
• The middle-aged man and three villagers hid in Black Tortoise City as Mortal Domain Members searched the city, but the searchers found them after the man’s black mist concealed them only briefly.
• The middle-aged man escaped through a wall with two villagers, while the remaining villager dropped to his knees and surrendered.

Chen Fan uncovered the Night Awakeners’ plan to reach Beyond Heaven, captured their leaders, and executed the prisoners in vengeance for Zhou Mo before burying him on Rugged Island. As the Mortal Domain prepared to screen the population and strengthen its defenses, Keke was found unconscious beneath a Pick-Up Sculpture, and Chen Fan asked where Weiwei was.

• A villager told Chen Fan that the Night Awakeners were reincarnating humans with dark power in their Right Wing arms, and that they planned to reactivate the Tower of Babel and establish a nation beyond the firmament.
• The Mortal Domain hunted down the Night Awakeners across Eternal Night Continent, captured Lord Hao, and finally found Lord Jiu hiding in Mortal City through a Positioning Formation concealed in a newspaper.
• Chen Fan executed the captured Night Awakeners, including Lord Hao and Lord Jiu, then placed Zhou Mo’s remains and keepsakes in his coffin and vowed to eliminate every Night Awakener.
• The Mortal Domain buried Zhou Mo on Rugged Island as civilians lit lanterns along the funeral route, while Chen Fan promised at the grave that he would clear the Night Awakeners from the world.
• The Mortal Domain prepared to move Eternal Night Continent’s population through the Undersea Tunnel for Golden Rain screening, and Zhou Mo’s deputy became War Pavilion Master.
• Logistics Pavilion Members found Keke unconscious beneath a Pick-Up Sculpture on the One-Eyed Continent, and Chen Fan asked where Weiwei was.

Chen Fan learned that powerful outsiders were watching the Eternal Night Continent and discussed the Supreme Heavenly Dao’s purpose and the difficulty of breaking the Firmament. Meanwhile, the Retirement Clan occupied the Despair Continent and advanced to a Third-Level Race, making Weird Emperor Jiu Wu its first Wraith Venerable.

• Crippled Monkey reported that the captured Heart-Eating Wraith, Greed, had revealed the War Mire’s role in strengthening third-level factions and warned that outsiders were waiting for the Mortal Domain’s protection period to end.
• Mr. Na gave Chen Fan a Ghosthide Map of five rare islands and explained the Supreme Heavenly Dao’s origins, goals, and limits; Chen Fan decided to wait for Weiwei to evolve before testing whether it could break the Firmament.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu led the Retirement Clan’s strange tide in occupying the Despair Continent and gathering its Exotic Beasts and animals for the Mortal Domain.
• After three days, the Retirement Clan fulfilled the conditions to advance to a Third-Level Race, and Jiu Wu broke through to level 20 as its first Wraith Venerable.
• Jiu Wu celebrated the advancement, said goodbye to the Mortal Domain Members, and set off to swim home with his strange tide.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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