Chapter Summaries

After Huang died, Xiangyang sacrificed himself as a Wraith Venerable to destroy a Night Awakener continent, leaving a letter for the Mortal Domain. Chen Fan mourned Xiangyang and prepared for further battles, while Jiu Wu learned he was trapped in the War Mire for twenty-nine more days.

• Xiangyang returned to the ruined battlefield, learned that Night Awakeners planned to take Huang’s body as a specimen, and wrote a final letter before heading for their continent.
• Xiangyang absorbed the Night Awakeners’ attacks and activated, nearly destroying the continent; the Mortal Domain then bombarded its remaining landmass with Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• Chen Fan ordered the recovery of Xiangyang’s letter and the continent’s resources, mourned Xiangyang, and told Crippled Monkey to summon Jiu Wu home.
• Jiu Wu received word that the Mortal Domain had secured 621 days of War Mire Survival Time, but discovered he had to survive thirty days in the War Mire and still had twenty-nine days left.
• The Logistics Pavilion recovered resources from the destroyed continent, and Wang Kui delivered Xiangyang’s seawater-soaked letter to Chen Fan.

Seven Emperor recalled how Jiu Wu and Huang shaped his life, and how Huang sacrificed himself to save him. After returning to find Huang dead and hearing others plan to turn him into a specimen, Seven Emperor chose his own path and left to stop them, asking that his death be credited to Jiu Wu.

• Seven Emperor remembered being swept into the Mortal Domain by Jiu Wu, finding a home with Boss, and resolving to protect them.
• While infiltrating the Wasteland Clan, Seven Emperor met Huang, who told him that Meatworm Wraiths should have a path of their own.
• After misfortune left Huang weakened and surrounded by five Ghost Emperors, he gave Seven Emperor his heartblood and threw him to safety.
• Seven Emperor returned at dawn and found only a Wooden Board and scraps of Huang's flesh, then heard people boast about collecting their corpses.
• When he learned that people planned to make Huang a specimen, Seven Emperor left a letter and chose his own path to stop them.

Chen Fan learned that the Mortal Domain had recovered nearly 400 billion eerie stones but faced four approaching Night-Opening People Continents that had stopped moving, possibly to coordinate. He used the pause and 621 days of plundered survival time to upgrade the Mortal Domain’s defenses and chose the Earth Dragon Formation, while preparing to search for structures exclusive to Third-Level Continents.

• Wang Kui reported that postwar collection on the Qi Night-Opening People Continent had recovered 388.21 billion eerie stones, bringing the Mortal Domain’s available total to about 1.2 trillion.
• Long Live reported that five Night-Opening People Continents remained hostile, and four approaching continents stopped almost simultaneously, raising the possibility that they had joined forces.
• Chen Fan said the Mortal Domain would use its 621 days of plundered survival time to upgrade buildings, then upgraded the Formation Hall to Level 27 and selected the Earth Dragon Formation.
• Chen Fan upgraded key defenses and communications structures to Level 27, including building a Level 27 Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon from ninety-nine Heavenly Dao Cannons.
• Wang Kui gave Chen Fan three dark technology source points and reported that Keke had brought exotic treasures to the Warehouse while Weiwei searched the ruins for more blueprints.
• Chen Fan went to the Warehouse to look for structures exclusive to Third-Level Continents as the enemy continents remained still.

Qi Yue reflected on his quiet life as War Pavilion Master while the Mortal Domain fought a war too immense for the Pavilion to join. As the chapter ended, Gongyang Yiyue and Big Fish considered risking their remaining years to help, while Chen Fan prepared to use treasures and Building Blueprints exclusive to third-level continents.

• Qi Yue remembered Zhou Mo’s sacrifice and his own buried strength, then reassured Gongyang Yue that the War Pavilion would stay away from the battlefield.
• Gongyang Yiyue read about Xiangyang’s self-sacrifice and asked Big Fish to do something grand before they died, but Big Fish told him not to make trouble.
• Weiwei and Keke searched the sunk Night-Opening People Continent for Secret Chambers, while Weiwei carried his sister and worried about the unborn crocodile inside their mother.
• Mr. Na watched Big Croc and Little Croc sleeping at the Exotic Beast Breeding House and silently gave them a final blessing.
• Chen Fan examined exotic treasures and Building Blueprints from the Warehouse, noting that the blueprints were exclusive to third-level continents.

Chen Fan discovered that five Night Awakeners' continents had allied to launch a saturation bombardment against the Mortal Domain, so he struck first with his own Sky-Piercing Pillars. The Heaven-Swallowing Continent proved able to distinguish decoys from real attacks and counterattacked, leaving Chen Fan facing a dangerous contest of resources and defenses.

• Chen Fan built and upgraded a Land-Digging Machine, but Long Live summoned him to the Strategist Pavilion after the five Night Awakeners' continents prepared a joint assault.
• The Heavenward Continent's elderly leader ordered the alliance to launch a comprehensive saturation strike against the Mortal Domain within two hours.
• Chen Fan rejected Long Live's proposal to bombard one enemy continent and ordered the Mortal Domain to launch a full strike against all five instead.
• The Mortal Domain's first Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars struck the Heavenward Continent, while the Heaven-Swallowing Continent intercepted its incoming attacks with an unexpectedly effective defense.
• Chen Fan identified the Heaven-Swallowing Continent as the key threat and redirected 2,000 Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars toward it, while asking Little Qiu to rush the Wasteland Clan Continent's postwar inventory.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Continent's Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon destroyed Chen Fan's split Strategic Sky-Piercing Pillars, and its forces launched nearly a hundred pillars toward the Mortal Domain.

Chen Fan committed the Mortal Domain’s entire stockpile to an all-out bombardment of the five allied third-level continents, while the enemy continents launched their own strategic weapons in response. The Mortal Domain intercepted a salvo of twenty-seven enemy pillars and fired three Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars back at Heavenward Continent, where they multiplied into nine above the target.

• Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to launch its Sky-Piercing Pillars, Eerie Stones, and other strategic reserves against all five enemy continents at once.
• Mortal Domain workers mined and transported Eerie Stones to the front as the people of Eternal Night Continent watched the bombardment begin.
• The allied continents prepared and launched twenty-seven Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars, and Chen Fan’s Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons intercepted every one before they reached Eternal Night Continent.
• The Rat Kingdom King sent seventy billion Eerie Stones to support the Mortal Domain, while Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord witnessed the scale of the battle.
• Chen Fan launched three Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars toward Heavenward Continent, and One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones turned them into nine above the continent.

The Mortal Domain destroyed Heavenward Continent after Chen Fan redirected its final Sky-Piercing Pillar, then launched its entire reserve at the four remaining Night-Opening People Continents. The chapter ended with those continents overwhelmed by the bombardment, as their leaders realized the Mortal Domain’s apparent weakness had been a deliberate setup.

• Heavenward Continent’s elderly ruler used all eleven Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons to intercept the Mortal Domain’s split Sky-Piercing Pillars, but the barrage exhausted its eerie stones and defenses.
• The elderly ruler launched Heavenward Continent’s final five Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars at the other four Night-Opening People Continents and the Qitian War Mire before the Mortal Domain’s bombardment destroyed his continent.
• Chen Fan used Signal Tower Mutation to redirect the pillar aimed at the Qitian War Mire back toward Heavenward Continent, delivering the finishing blow.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Continent leader devised a two-wave interception plan and mistook the Mortal Domain’s sporadic attacks for a sign that Chen Fan was preparing to flee.
• At noon the next day, Chen Fan launched nearly all of the Mortal Domain’s remaining Sky-Piercing Pillars at the four continents while Wang Mazi and the Rare Islands prepared to support the attack.
• The four Night-Opening People Continents detected a vast incoming barrage, and their leaders despaired as the Mortal Domain’s final strike overwhelmed their defenses.

The Mortal Domain’s bombardment devastated the Heaven-Swallowing Continent, but its ruler summoned an ancient Strange Entity Clan continent that threatened to destroy them in turn. With Chen Fan incapacitated and the Great Evacuation Plan underway, Long Live and the others chose to launch a desperate assault, and Qi Yue’s War Pavilion volunteered to lead it.

• Chen Fan’s four hidden Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannons appeared on the approaching rare islands and blasted the already-ruined Heaven-Swallowing Continent.
• The Middle-Aged Man sacrificed himself to summon an ancient fallen Strange Entity Clan continent, which smashed the rare islands and brought a sleeping tide of powerful strange entities to the Mortal Domain’s doorstep.
• Chen Fan ordered the Great Evacuation Plan, but the enormous Strange Entity froze him with a glance before sinking back into exhaustion.
• Long Live proposed using Vanguard Sky-Piercing Pillars to send a first wave across the sea and establish Teleportation Formations before the Strange Tide fully awakened.
• Crippled Monkey approved the assault alongside the evacuation, and Long Live offered to lead the charge.
• Wang Mazi, the Formation Pavilion Master, and Qi Yue volunteered their groups for the vanguard, and Qi Yue argued that the War Pavilion should go.

Qi Yue and the War Pavilion sacrificed themselves to establish a foothold on the Dark Continent, allowing the Mortal Domain to deploy twenty-four Heavenly Dao Cannons and destroy the Strange Tide. After the costly victory, Zhou Mo returned from the dead, giving Chen Fan hope that the fallen might one day come home too.

• Gongyang Yue saw Qi Yue sever his legs and teleport to the Dark Continent, where he began laying the first stones of a Large Teleportation Formation and died after Zhao Shanhe and other War Pavilion Members continued the work at the cost of their lives.
• War Pavilion Members drew the Strange Entities away while builders and Logistics Pavilion Members established a city wall and prepared the first Heavenly Dao Cannon; Long Live ordered them to delay firing until all twenty-four cannons were ready.
• As civilians evacuated, children sang the Mortal Domain’s nursery rhyme, while Big Fish and Gongyang Yiyue repaired the final cannon’s broken copper pipes despite their injuries.
• The twenty-four Heavenly Dao Cannons fired together and wiped out the Strange Tide; the Mortal Domain won, but Qi Yue, Big Fish, Gongyang Yiyue, and tens of thousands of others died, and Long Live resigned.
• Chen Fan learned the scale of the losses, read Big Fish’s letter, and decided the Mortal Domain would recuperate before entering the War Mire; Gongyang Yue visited Qi Yue’s grave with a meal.
• Zhou Mo crawled out of his grave, and Chen Fan welcomed him back and told him he would become the War Pavilion’s third Pavilion Master.

After the Mortal Domain won the war, Zhou Mo returned to the War Pavilion and learned what had happened while he was gone, while reconstruction began and survivors mourned the dead. Mr. Na told Chen Fan that the Supreme Heavenly Dao had provided Resource Coordinates, including a cache hidden beneath the ruins of the Huyi Continent, though revealing such coordinates came at a price.

• Chen Fan welcomed Zhou Mo back, and Zhou Mo learned that the Night Awakeners had been captured and executed after his death.
• Zhou Mo visited Qi Yue's untouched study, ordered its contents preserved, and asked for copies of the War Pavilion's records.
• The Mortal Domain began replenishing its supplies by mining seventeen second-level black abysses, while Long Live hid in a village and worked a small farm.
• The Mortal Domain Daily Report detailed the war, prompting people to hang lanterns facing west for the fallen; Hao Mao learned the full account and returned eerie stones to the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan learned from the Heaven-Questioning Bell about the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's sealing ability and considered the resources and building blueprint obtained from the Dark Continent.
• Mr. Na told Chen Fan that the Supreme Heavenly Dao had provided Resource Coordinates, including one beneath the underwater ruins of the Huyi Continent, and said revealing them required a price.

Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain’s postwar resources and set new recovery and Sky-Piercing Pillar stockpile targets. He appraised two Wasteland Supreme Treasures and discovered that the Godslaying Spear could fuse with both, leaving him stunned by its potential significance.

• Wang Kui reported that the Mortal Domain had recovered 470 billion Eerie Stones, repaid 420 billion in wartime aid, and had 17.8 billion available after expenses.
• Chen Fan ordered the Logistics Pavilion to speed up Black Abyss mining and deploy Eyes of Heavenly Derivation within a million kilometers of the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan set ambitious Sky-Piercing Pillar stockpile goals and reviewed the Mortal Domain’s 2,521 days of War Mire survival time.
• Chen Fan appraised the Heaven-Evading Strange’s Single Eye, a red-grade Wasteland Supreme Treasure that could fuse with several buildings or the Godslaying Spear.
• Chen Fan discovered that the second Wasteland Supreme Treasure could fuse with the Godslaying Spear at 100% utilization and wondered whether the spear was the Eternal Night Continent’s supreme treasure.

Chen Fan chose to give the Heaven-Avoiding Wraith's Claw to the Godslaying Spear while granting the Mortal Domain the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's sealing ability, then uncovered a hidden Ancient Strange Clan resource vault beneath the seabed. The vault entrance had been found and a Teleportation Formation set up, leaving the Mortal Domain ready to enter.

• Chen Jiutian advised Chen Fan to fuse the Eerie Eye with the Eye of Heavenly Derivation and reserve the Heaven-Avoiding Wraith's Claw for the Godslaying Spear, arguing that the Mortal Domain needed rare capabilities as its former advantages became common.
• Chen Jiutian asked to become Strategist Pavilion Master, and Chen Fan offered him a Deputy Pavilion Master position if his Heavenly Thunder Formation project improved the Sky-Piercing Pillars' charging time.
• Chen Fan fused the Heaven-Evading Strange's Single Eye with the Eye of Heavenly Derivation, giving the Mortal Domain the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's sealing ability.
• Chen Fan fused the Heaven-Avoiding Wraith's Claw with the Godslaying Spear, removing one layer of its Dust-Covered State and granting the Mortal Domain a slight power increase for its Defensive Structures.
• Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain's forces located the Ancient Strange Clan's resource vault beneath the seabed, using a modified Deep-Sea Exploration Ship and the Godslaying Spear to enter its hidden chamber.
• Weiwei entered the vault's vortex with the Godslaying Spear and set up a Teleportation Formation inside, preparing the Mortal Domain to reach the resources.

Chen Fan and his companions explored the underwater Secret Chamber and discovered vast stores of Eerie Stones, rare treasures, seeds, and weapons. The Godslaying Spear opened a hidden laboratory containing dozens of imprisoned Heavenly Dao, and Mr. Na arrived to find his kind trapped there.

• Chen Fan entered the Secret Chamber with Crippled Monkey and the others, then followed a passage into a vast cavern stocked with high-level Eerie Stones.
• Chen Fan found rare Dark Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, including a Red Grade Dark Earth-Vein Root, and identified a Red Grade Dark Nightwatch Orchid among the seeds.
• Chen Fan tested the Godslaying Spear on an empty weapon rack, triggering mechanisms that opened a hidden laboratory beyond the cavern.
• Chen Fan read an inscription naming the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity as Heaven's Mandate and discovered dozens of surviving Heavenly Dao imprisoned in transparent Pillars.
• Mr. Na arrived after Chen Fan called him and was horrified to sense dozens of his own kind, while Chen Fan concluded that Heaven's Mandate had been collecting Heavenly Dao.

Chen Fan uncovered a hidden Tea Room inside Heaven's Mandate's Secret Chamber by interpreting the imprisoned Heavenly Daos' gazes, then found a Red Grade treasure and the Heaven's Mandate Token. He claimed the chamber as a secret base, while the Token and the circumstances of Heaven's Mandate's flight left him wary of a greater danger.

• Chen Fan examined the thirty-seven imprisoned Heavenly Daos, and Mr. Na explained that their consciousnesses had faded after millennia of imprisonment.
• Chen Fan retraced Heaven's Mandate's imagined route through the chambers and reasoned that the neat displays and empty weapon rack pointed to a missing place to sit and admire the trophies.
• Chen Fan made the Heavenly Daos' gazes visible with milky liquid, traced their lines to the rock wall, and pressed two hidden switches at once to open a Tea Room.
• Chen Fan found Heaven's Mandate's Red Grade tooth, which blocked Heavenly Dao surveillance, and a Token beneath the tea table.
• Chen Fan identified the Token as the Heaven's Mandate Token, ordered the Logistics Pavilion to move the Eerie Stones, and declared the chamber a new secret base.

Chen Fan and Mr. Na turned the thirty-seven unconscious Heavenly Daos into automated operators for the Mortal Domain, including a coordinating hub named Celestial Pivot. After the new systems improved transport and administration across the Eternal Night Continent, Weird Emperor Jiu Wu reported that the Yanyi Continent had survived the War Mire and was returning, bringing the promotion campaign to a close.

• Chen Fan ordered the Pillars moved to Nameless Mountain and proposed using the unconscious Heavenly Daos to automate Mortal Domain operations.
• Mr. Na used his access rights to command a Heavenly Dao to replenish a warehouse with Eerie Stones, and Giant Strange Entities carried out the instruction without operators.
• Chen Fan named one Heavenly Dao Celestial Pivot and assigned it to coordinate the others, then gave additional Heavenly Daos specific duties.
• Heavenly Dao No. 2 coordinated high-speed rail schedules, while Celestial Pivot began assisting with member information, resource requests, and cross-department coordination.
• Chen Fan and Mr. Na supplied Celestial Pivot with Mortal Domain records, and the new systems operated for nearly ten days.
• Weird Emperor Jiu Wu told Chen Fan that the Yanyi Continent had survived in the War Mire for over thirty days and would return in ten days, ending the promotion campaign.

After returning from the War Mire, Jiu Wu learned that Xiangyang had sacrificed himself to help the Mortal Domain win its battle, and he resolved to fight so he could eventually resurrect him. As the Mortal Domain recovered and prepared for its next campaign, Chen Fan focused on growing strong enough to overwhelm their enemies.

• Jiu Wu returned to the Eternal Night Continent and learned that Xiangyang had infiltrated the Wasteland Clan, helped destroy a Night-Opening People Continent, and died after Huang transferred his heartblood to him.
• Jiu Wu failed to resurrect Xiangyang because Meatworm Wraiths required a higher-level dark authority, then mourned him while reading his letter and the Mortal Domain Daily Report.
• Jiu Wu told Chen Fan he would support the Mortal Domain's war effort to reach the level needed to resurrect Xiangyang, and Chen Fan said they would march into the War Mire in one year.
• Mr. Na explained that he kept working because he feared being helpless again, and Chen Fan let him continue transferring information to the Heavenly Daos.
• Chen Fan planned to stockpile a million Sky-Piercing Pillars and reach Level 30 before taking the Mortal Domain into another battle.

Chen Fan managed the Mortal Domain’s preparations for future wars while investigating the Heaven’s Mandate Token and testing newly extracted Continental Origins. Meanwhile, Chen Jiutian’s team struggled to make the Heavenly Thunder Formation charge Sky-Piercing Pillars, but Chen Jiutian proposed studying its lightning at close range.

• Chen Fan visited Qi Yue’s grave, declined to rush Chen Jiutian’s research, and returned to the Mortal Domain as preparations for the Third Spring Examination continued.
• Jiu Wu and the Military Strategist planned to strengthen their forces with Doppelganger Wraiths for close-quarters combat.
• Chen Fan used the Heaven’s Mandate Token to lock a Wooden Hut and considered the seven other locks, which might protect valuable resources in the War Mire.
• Wang Mazi showed Chen Fan the first Continental Origin extracted by a Land-Digging Machine on the One-Eyed Continent.
• Chen Fan began producing Sky-Piercing Pillars at the Missile Storage Base, while Chen Jiutian and Zhang Qianqiu confirmed that the Heavenly Thunder Formation’s lightning did not charge them.
• Chen Jiutian proposed building a copper-pipe platform into the clouds to investigate how the formation’s lightning formed.

Jiu Wu learned that Xiangyang had died saving the Mortal Domain and failed to resurrect him, but resolved to lead his people into war so he could bring him back. As the Mortal Domain recovered from its costly victory, Chen Fan set a one-year timetable for entering the War Mire and pushed to strengthen their defenses.

• Jiu Wu returned to the Eternal Night Continent and learned that Xiangyang had infiltrated the Wasteland Clan Continent, helped defeat Huang, and sacrificed himself to destroy a Night-Opening People Continent.
• Chen Fan explained that the Mortal Domain had defeated the remaining Night-Opening People Continents and the Dark Continent, but Qi Yue and nearly all the War Pavilion Members had fallen.
• Jiu Wu tried to resurrect Xiangyang but learned that Meatworm Wraiths required a higher species level and new dark authority to be brought back.
• Jiu Wu mourned Xiangyang, then decided to support the Mortal Domain’s future wars so he could eventually resurrect his friend.
• Chen Fan told Jiu Wu that the Mortal Domain would enter the War Mire in one year, and Jiu Wu agreed to bring the Jiu Wu Pavilion along.
• Mr. Na described his fear of helplessly watching disasters unfold and continued transferring information, while Chen Fan resolved to build up the Mortal Domain’s strength before its next battle.

Chen Fan inspected the Heaven's Mandate Token, oversaw the extraction of a continental origin, and continued stockpiling Sky-Piercing Pillars as the Mortal Domain prepared for future wars. Meanwhile, Chen Jiutian and the formation team struggled to make the Heavenly Thunder Formation charge the pillars, and Chen Jiutian proposed studying its lightning up close.

• Chen Fan told Crippled Monkey not to rush Chen Jiutian as the deadline for his Heavenly Thunder Formation project approached.
• Jiu Wu and Military Strategist planned to produce Doppelganger Wraiths for close-quarters combat in the next battle.
• Chen Fan used the Heaven's Mandate Token to lock a Wooden Hut and considered the seven other locks it contained.
• Wang Mazi showed Chen Fan the first continental origin extracted by the Land-Digging Machines on the One-Eyed Continent.
• Chen Fan began adding Sky-Piercing Pillars to the Missile Storage Base, aiming to stockpile over a million.
• Chen Jiutian concluded that the Heavenly Thunder Formation's bolt was not the kind of lightning that could charge Sky-Piercing Pillars and proposed building a copper-pipe platform to study it.

Chen Jiutian discovered that the Heavenly Thunder Formation drew dark lightning from dark energy, then worked with Zhang Qianqiu and Eight Hundred to combine it with normal lightning into Pocket Silver Lightning that could charge Sky-Piercing Pillars. After proving the method, Chen Jiutian proposed a vast tower of staged lightning-fusion chambers to scale up production, while refusing Zhang Qianqiu’s offer to join the Formation Pavilion.

• Chen Jiutian observed the Heavenly Thunder Formation from a Flying Boat and realized it sent energy into clouds to draw out dark lightning rather than normal lightning.
• Chen Jiutian tested the formation on the Dark Continent and then above the Fallen Firmament, where a powerful bolt revealed a vast reserve of dark energy overhead.
• Chen Fan investigated the top of the Fallen Firmament, learned its dark-energy-rich black sludge was residue from ancient strange entities, and reported his findings to Chen Jiutian.
• Chen Jiutian, Zhang Qianqiu, and Eight Hundred discovered that dark lightning and normal lightning fused at a 3.2-to-1 ratio to form Pocket Silver Lightning capable of charging Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• Chen Jiutian proposed building stacked copper-pipe chambers to amplify lightning in stages and generate enough power to charge millions of Sky-Piercing Pillars, then declined Zhang Qianqiu’s offer to become Deputy Pavilion Master.