Chapter Summaries

Chen Jiutian’s plan to amplify lightning for the Mortal Domain’s Sky-Piercing Pillars stalled because humans could not synchronize the many stages of the Nine Heavens Lightning-Inducing Tower. Chen Fan assigned the Heavenly Dao Thundercaller to coordinate it, and the Mortal Domain rapidly built the hundred-level tower while preparing a new activation method and discharge pipes.

• Wang Kui told Chen Fan that Chen Jiutian had produced Pocket Silver Lightning but was seeking a more efficient way to charge Sky-Piercing Pillars using the Fallen Firmament’s dark lightning.
• Chen Jiutian and Zhang Qianqiu’s seventh test of the Nine Heavens Lightning-Inducing Tower failed when a Formation Pavilion member mistimed a stage, causing an explosion and exposing the impossible demands of human synchronization.
• Chen Jiutian visited Chen Fan, who explained that the Mortal Domain’s departments and resources should work together, then introduced him to Number-15 Heavenly Dao and named her Thundercaller to control the tower’s formations.
• The Logistics Pavilion built all one hundred Cuboid Spaces on the Black Tortoise Plains in a day, while Chen Fan proposed using a skin-triggered muscle response to activate the Exotic Treasures without relying on human reaction time.
• Chen Jiutian warned that the tower still needed discharge piping to the Missile Storage Base, and Chen Fan ordered the Logistics Pavilion to install overhead copper pipes according to Chen Jiutian’s blueprint.

Chen Fan’s Nine Heavens Lightning-Inducing Tower passed its first test, charging Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillars in two hours and dramatically accelerating the Mortal Domain’s weapons production. As the team celebrated, a War Mire leader read a report about Chen Jiutian and considered recruiting him.

• Chen Fan activated the Nine Heavens Lightning-Inducing Tower, and Thundercaller coordinated lightning through its hundred chambers and across the sky to Nameless Mountain.
• Silver lightning flowed into the Missile Storage Base and charged Level-1 Sky-Piercing Pillars in two hours, while a Level-10 pillar was projected to take thirty days instead of three years.
• Chen Fan announced the test’s success, and the project team celebrated as Chen Jiutian fainted from exhaustion.
• Chen Fan explained to Crippled Monkey that the tower depended on an opening in the Fallen Firmament, so the Mortal Domain would need to stockpile ammunition and use a less efficient simplified version if the continent moved.
• A War Mire leader read a report crediting Chen Jiutian with concealing the Sky-Piercing Pillars’ power from Peace Sculptures and considered poaching him.

Chen Fan learned that the Eternal Night Continent had to enter the War Mire to gain enough survival time and pursue the “war machine” blessing, while the Mortal Domain prepared for its campaign. After receiving a suspicious threat and reviewing his forces, he continued stockpiling Sky-Piercing Pillars for the coming war.

• The Middle-Aged Man ordered Black Knight to make cautious contact with Chen Jiutian and try to recruit him without exposing their identity.
• Mr. Na explained the three third-level continent blessings and their corresponding fourth-level continent types; Chen Fan concluded that the Eternal Night Continent would need to complete “war machine.”
• Chen Fan visited Weiwei’s newborn sister, named her Tiantian, and watched Little Croc flee after giving birth.
• Shao Qiu reported that War Mire factions had sent spies to the Mortal Domain, and Chen Fan received a letter threatening, “Enter the War Mire, and you die,” signed in the Seven-Star Continent’s name.
• Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain’s campaign plans and his stockpile of Sky-Piercing Pillars, then chose to keep them visible and continued manufacturing more.

Chen Fan discovered an abandoned outpost and footage showing a powerful fourth-level continent capturing an entire continent with a massive self-created building. After upgrading the Heaven-Questioning Bell, he learned about self-created buildings and began considering how the Mortal Domain could prepare for its own fourth-level advancement.

• Chen Fan arrived at ruins on the Fallen Firmament and found an abandoned outpost with a Level-30 Mailbox.
• Chen Fan and Chen Jiutian examined a letter and Image Recording Stone, which showed a giant building using a Steel Grappling Claw to seize and carry away a protected continent.
• Chen Fan ordered the Eyes of Heavenly Derivation deployment paused and asked the Heaven-Questioning Bell about the building.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Heaven-Questioning Bell, which identified the building as the self-created Xixi Yi Xixi, sold by the fifth-level Giggly Continent.
• Chen Fan learned that fourth-level continents could create and sell their own building blueprints, and that the Nine Heavens Lightning-Inducing Tower could become a self-created building.
• Chen Fan named the upgraded bell Xiaowen and decided to gather construction experts in preparation for the Mortal Domain's future advancement.

After Qian Xiaoping analyzed the Giggly Continent’s continent-lifting building, Chen Fan gave him a Builder Token and appointed him acting head of the newly established Research Pavilion. The chapter leaves Chen Fan questioning Xiaowen about the Building Compendium after realizing the Heaven-Questioning Bell had used a term that should have been exclusive to his Eternal Night Lord panel.

• Chen Fan asked Wang Kui to gather candidate files and heard Crippled Monkey propose exploring sideways to learn why the Giggly Continent had stopped advancing toward their sea.
• Qian Duoduo introduced Qian Xiaoping, a Logistics Pavilion member who had failed the builder screening, and Chen Fan asked him to analyze the Giggly Continent’s Claw Machine.
• Qian Xiaoping deduced that the Claw Machine stored Pocket Silver Lightning in a structure resembling a Sky-Piercing Pillar and used extending strands to secure an entire continent; he suggested Dark Earth-Vein Roots could help the Mortal Domain do the same.
• Chen Fan awarded Qian Xiaoping a Builder Token, established the Research Pavilion, and appointed him its acting pavilion master to develop buildings and research Pocket Silver Lightning storage.
• Chen Fan founded the Research Pavilion behind Nameless Mountain, then realized the Heaven-Questioning Bell had mentioned the Building Compendium and asked Xiaowen how she knew about it.

Chen Fan prepared Mortal Domain for its final campaign before entering the War Mire, rewarding two allied continent lords with Continent Cores and advice. As the Research Pavilion pursued a breakthrough in silver-electricity storage, Chen Fan began turning Rugged Island into a Floating Island so it could accompany Mortal Domain.

• The Heaven-Questioning Bell explained that Architectural Atlas Island recorded the world's buildings and granted rewards based on a faction's unlocked max-level buildings.
• Tian Ce reported that Mortal Domain had 2.423 trillion eerie stones available for the coming War Mire campaign.
• Chen Fan gave Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord two Continent Cores, offered each continent two hundred days of War Mire survival time, and urged them to advance along the Peace Continent and Garden Continent paths.
• Chen Fan reassured Qian Xiaoping about the Research Pavilion's stalled silver-electricity research, and Qian Xiaoping realized the energy needed to build up before being released.
• Qian Xiaoping requested a fully charged Level-28 Sky-Piercing Pillar for testing in a distant desert.
• Chen Fan and Chen Jiutian prepared to install Mysterious Heaven Propellers and use Flying Boats to lift Rugged Island into the air and bring it along to the War Mire.

Chen Fan oversaw Rugged Island’s successful relocation to Jiangnan Lake, then learned that Qian Xiaoping’s Research Pavilion had made an initial breakthrough in using silver electricity. The chapter ended with Chen Fan reviewing a newly unlocked Eerie Stone Synthesis technology and recognizing its steep resource cost.

• Chen Fan activated the Mysterious Heaven Propellers and coordinated six hundred Flying Boats to lift Rugged Island and transport it to the center of Jiangnan Lake, where it settled intact.
• An explosion in the North Jiangbei Desert alarmed Chen Fan’s group, but Celestial Pivot reported that it came from a Research Pavilion experiment and that no one had been injured.
• Qian Xiaoping explained that silver electricity could be released safely through a large opening but required a sufficiently powerful structure to absorb it; the experiment exploded because the energy had nowhere to go.
• Chen Fan told Crippled Monkey that the Research Pavilion’s findings could benefit the Mortal Domain later, then reviewed a Painter’s depiction of Rugged Island’s flight and clarified that Xiangyang and Qi Yue belonged to separate campaigns.
• Chen Fan checked the Mortal Domain’s newly unlocked Eerie Stone Synthesis technology and calculated that its repeated thirty-percent losses could make producing high-level Eerie Stones prohibitively expensive.

In the final month before the War Mire campaign, Chen Fan arranged support for neighboring continents, launched a sea-wide talent selection, and visited the retired Long Live. The chapter left Long Live resolved not to return as Strategist Pavilion Master while recruitment continued across the Good Cat Continent.

• Chen Fan transferred 200 days of survival time each to Hao Mao and the Sahara Continent Lord, assigned them objectives, and learned that the Whole-Sea Talent Selection was underway.
• Chen Fan visited Long Live in the countryside and asked him to return as Strategist Pavilion Master, but Long Live said he could no longer make the ruthless decisions the role required.
• Chen Fan gave Long Live a letter from Gongyang Yue bearing signatures from ten thousand families of fallen War Pavilion members, and Long Live read their appeal for him to return.
• At the talent selection on the Good Cat Continent, Qian Xiaoping questioned applicants while Chen Jiutian and other departments assessed candidates for their own needs.
• Chen Fan watched the applicants tackle the difficult department exams and felt relieved that he was the Domain Lord rather than an examinee.

Chen Fan welcomed Qian Xiaoping’s unusually talented recruits to the Mortal Domain’s Research Pavilion, including Baobao and his sister Tianxin, whose Word-Following Power activated a Sky-Piercing Pillar. As the Mortal Domain held farewell banquets before departing for the War Mire, Chen Fan went to the Missile Storage Base to prepare the stockpiled pillars for the coming battle.

• Wang Kui reported that the Whole-Sea Talent Selection had recruited 73,892 people, while Qian Xiaoping introduced the Research Pavilion’s small group of exceptional recruits to Chen Fan.
• Qian Xiaoping revealed that Tianxin could command buildings with Access Rights, and she activated a Sky-Piercing Pillar by saying, “Activate!”
• Chen Fan welcomed the new researchers, and Crippled Monkey reminded Wang Kui that the original team’s practical contributions had been vital to the Mortal Domain’s early success.
• Qian Xiaoping visited Qian Duoduo to thank him for recommending him and brought him Zhao Shengping’s Braised Delicacies, which Qian Duoduo politely praised.
• Mr. Na gave Long Live a 10,924-question examination paper at the Domain Lord’s request and told him to complete it carefully.
• While the Mortal Domain held welcome banquets, Chen Fan went alone to the Missile Storage Base and prepared to unleash the stockpiled Sky-Piercing Pillars.

Shadow Pavilion completed its background checks on the Mortal Domain’s 73,892 new members, finding eight with secret ties to War Mire continents, while Chen Fan ordered them watched rather than eliminated. As the Mortal Domain sailed toward the War Mire, its established factions debated whether to unite against it, but the meeting began to break apart without a clear consensus.

• Shao Qiu reported that Baobao and Tianxin had clean backgrounds, but eight other recruits had families receiving unexplained Eerie Stone and were secretly communicating with War Mire continents.
• Chen Fan rejected Shao Qiu’s suggestion to eliminate the eight recruits and ordered their supervisors to create opportunities for isolation while Shadow Pavilion monitored them around the clock.
• On February 1, the Eternal Night Continent and Huyi Continent set sail for the War Mire, and Shao Qiu showed Chen Fan recordings of the recruits’ concealed communication methods.
• Thirteen powerful War Mire factions gathered to discuss the difficulty of reaching fourth-level status and proposed joining forces to destroy the approaching Mortal Domain.
• The Yellow Springs Clan and the Cautious Continent withdrew from the meeting, while the remaining factions were left in silence and the Cautious Continent Lord hurried away after realizing he had forgotten his Jade Seal.

The Core Area factions agreed to invade the Mortal Domain and divide the Eternal Night Continent, but Chen Fan used Long Live’s simulated counsel and leaked intelligence to sow doubt among them. As the Mortal Domain approached the War Mire, Chen Fan prepared to complete its advancement requirements by warning the factions to surrender before bombarding them, while secretly aiming to secure the King of the War Mire position for Jiu Wu.

• The Core Area factions agreed to destroy the Mortal Domain, with the Other Shore Clan claiming the Eternal Night Continent’s Eastern Region and the Bit Continent choosing a frontal assault on Western Wasteland Island.
• Chen Fan canceled the plan to plunder weaker continents after seeing the factions had stopped fighting, and Long Live’s simulated voice advised him to undermine their alliance by revealing that the Mortal Domain already possessed orthodoxy.
• Chen Fan ordered Chen Jiutian to spread exaggerated but believable reports about the Mortal Domain’s thirty trillion eerie stones and immense stockpile of Sky-Piercing Pillars, prompting the factions to delay their attack and watch how the Mortal Domain behaved.
• Chen Fan told Chen Jiutian that the Mortal Domain still had to complete its War Machine task and would warn the factions to surrender before bombarding those who refused.
• Chen Fan planned to use the Eye of Heavenly Derivation to broadcast the warning and revealed that he wanted Jiu Wu to become King of the War Mire.

Chen Fan brought the Mortal Domain into the War Mire and demanded survival time from its inhabitants, threatening those who refused. The Mortal Domain began a massive missile campaign against the War Mire, and the Cautious Continent realized Chen Fan’s proclaimed courtesy came with overwhelming force.

• Chen Fan announced that continents could surrender War Mire survival time and live, or refuse and face the Mortal Domain’s armies.
• The leaders gathered on Island decided to wait for the Mortal Domain’s next move, while the Holy Lord of the Cautious Continent also chose not to surrender time yet.
• Mr. Na offered Long Live the position of Minister of Education, and Long Live accepted after Chen Fan’s appointment gave him a role in the Mortal Domain.
• The Eternal Night Continent entered the War Mire, where Chen Jiutian ordered saturation strikes against third-level continents and Heritage Continents, including the eleven meeting on Island.
• The Cautious Continent intercepted incoming Sky-Piercing Pillars and discovered the Mortal Domain was targeting continents across the War Mire, prompting its Lord to curse Chen Fan’s supposed courtesy.

Chen Fan used overwhelming Sky-Piercing Pillar strikes to make the War Mire’s continents submit to the Mortal Domain, destroying the Other Shore Clan and securing half of the Cautious Continent’s War Mire Survival Time. After Li Kaixin surrendered and arrived at the Mortal Domain, he identified the Bit Continent as the force organizing resistance, and Chen Fan chose it as his next target.

• Chen Fan explained that the Mortal Domain’s indiscriminate strikes would keep the other continents from uniting against it, then targeted the Other Shore Clan and demanded half its War Mire Survival Time.
• When the Other Shore Clan’s King refused to surrender, the Mortal Domain launched more than three hundred thousand Sky-Piercing Pillars and destroyed the clan.
• Chen Fan demanded half of the Cautious Continent’s War Mire Survival Time, and Li Kaixin chose to surrender rather than risk his continent’s destruction.
• Chen Fan arranged for Li Kaixin to travel to the Mortal Domain by teleportation formation, where Li transferred 1,209 days of War Mire Survival Time.
• Li Kaixin told Chen Fan that the Bit Continent had organized an alliance against the Mortal Domain, and Chen Fan selected it as his next target.

Chen Fan destroyed the Bit Continent after its Lord spent War Mire survival time on a shield, teleportation, and a hardness boost to ram the Eternal Night Continent. The Mortal Domain survived the collision without damage, but Chen Fan received only one day of survival time, and most other continents surrendered before he could attack them.

• Chen Fan learned from Li Kaixin how continents spent War Mire survival time and gained 1,001 days after destroying the Other Shore Clan.
• Chen Fan gave the Bit Continent ten breaths to surrender, then ordered the Mortal Domain to bombard it when it failed to respond in time.
• The Bit Continent Lord bought a Heaven-Shielding Formation and teleportation, moved his continent beside the Eternal Night Continent, and charged at it with boosted hardness.
• Chen Fan drove the Eternal Night Continent into a head-on collision, then battered the Bit Continent until its Lord was killed and its ruling power collapsed.
• Chen Fan received just one day of survival time from the Bit Continent and considered transferring its people to the Cautious Continent.
• Chen Jiutian reported that many other continents had surrendered, leaving Chen Fan frustrated that he could not use his remaining Sky-Piercing Pillars to complete his campaign.

Chen Fan’s Mortal Domain crushed the Bit Continent and began annihilating fringe Strange Entity Clans, while the Yellow Springs Clan’s leaders launched a desperate attack on the Eternal Night Continent. After the Toad Clan’s ambush was stopped by the continent-wide airspace ban, the aged King of the Yellow Springs Clan tried to lead his clan home, but Chen Fan’s power trapped him before they could escape.

• Chen Fan rejected surrender from the Strange Entity Clans and sent Sky-Piercing Pillars to attack the weaker clans while collecting enough War Mire survival time to meet fourth-level advancement requirements.
• The King of the Yellow Springs Clan persuaded the Core Area leaders to attack the Eternal Night Continent, sending the Toad Clan King ahead with its Strange Tide using Swallow Heaven and Earth.
• The Eternal Night Continent’s airspace ban immobilized the Toad Clan’s Strange Tide, and Chen Fan’s cannons slaughtered it while the surrendering Continent Lords watched.
• The King of the Yellow Springs Clan revealed his plan to return to Yellow Springs and opened the Yellow Springs Road for his clansmen.
• Chen Fan’s power trapped the King before he could leave, and the Yellow Springs Wraiths abandoned their luggage and stood together to protect him.

Chen Fan learned about the Yellow Springs Wraiths and arranged to question their King, while Jiu Wu used the Research Pavilion’s new portable cannon to destroy two approaching Level-3 Strange Entity Clans. After investigating the War Mire Angler and considering how to gain more survival time, Chen Fan met the awakened Yellow Springs King and asked him about Yellow Springs.

• Chen Fan arrived on the Yellow Springs Continent, immobilized the Yellow Springs Wraiths’ King for three days, and persuaded the clan to avoid conflict while he waited.
• Jiu Wu intercepted Jiu Tianlang’s Mantis Clan and used his portable Heaven-Deriving Orbital Cannon, Xiangyang, to annihilate its strange tide, then destroyed a second Level-3 Strange Entity Clan with another shot.
• Chen Fan found the War Mire Angler shop on the Bit Continent, learned its goods cost War Mire survival time, and annoyed the Elderly Man until he shut the shop.
• Chen Fan stopped plans to launch more Sky-Piercing Pillars and considered delaying the Mortal Domain’s advancement so he could gather survival time and buy the Angler’s rare goods.
• The surrendered Continent Lords worried that Chen Fan would demand more of their resources, while Li Kaixin tried to reassure them.
• The Yellow Springs King awakened, assumed Chen Fan wanted the Resource Coordinates, and said he could not open them; Chen Fan clarified that he wanted to learn about Yellow Springs and proposed a conversation.

Chen Fan learned about the ancient World Battlefield and Heaven's Mandate from Ming San, the Yellow Springs Wraith, after the Yellow Springs Clan surrendered and gave the Mortal Domain its vast store of War Mire survival time. The chapter ended with Chen Fan agreeing to let the clan return home and asking to visit Yellow Springs, though Ming San did not know how to bring a human there.

• Chen Fan explained why he sought to strengthen the Mortal Domain, and Ming San agreed to answer his questions in exchange for his clansmen's safety.
• Jiu Wu reported that both attacking Strange Entity Clans had been wiped out, and Ming San discovered that Jiu Wu possessed an innate dark sacred physique.
• Ming San revealed that he had served Heaven's Mandate for thousands of years, and the Yellow Springs Clan transferred 2.6 million days of War Mire survival time to the Mortal Domain.
• During a banquet, Ming San described the World Battlefield, a Ghost Dragon, converted Hell Cavalry, and Heaven's Mandate's search for an acquired dark sacred physique; he also recognized Heaven's Mandate's Godslaying Spear.
• Ming San advised Chen Fan that Garden Continents could attract useful races, and Chen Fan promised to let the Yellow Springs Clan return home.
• Ming San asked to inspect the Resource Coordinates before leaving, and Chen Fan asked to visit Yellow Springs, but Ming San said he could not bring humans along the Yellow Springs Road.

Chen Fan used the Heaven's Mandate Token to enter and lock Ming San's fully activated Yellow Springs Road, then traveled with the Yellow Springs Wraiths to open one of Heaven's Mandate's Resource Coordinates. Inside, he found nearly a hundred Level-10 Eerie Stones and a Stone Stele meant to help Heaven's Mandate recover his memories after resurrection.

• Ming San explained that a fully activated Yellow Springs Road was an invisible, untouchable Sealed Space that only Yellow Springs Wraiths could ordinarily enter.
• Chen Fan used the Heaven's Mandate Token to lock Ming San's Yellow Springs Road and traveled through it to the Eternal Night Continent in one breath.
• Chen Fan returned to the Yellow Springs Continent, where Ming San discovered he could no longer enter his own locked road, and Chen Fan agreed to visit Yellow Springs with him.
• Chen Fan used the Token to open an island Resource Coordinate, revealing its bronze doors and a vast interior beneath the sea.
• Chen Fan and the others entered the Resource Coordinate, where they found nearly a hundred Red Grade Level-10 Eerie Stones and a Stone Stele explaining that the site was meant to help Heaven's Mandate regain lost memories after resurrection.

Chen Fan explored Heaven's Mandate's hidden resources, learned about the Race-Conversion Formation and the Yellow Springs Wraiths, then led them toward Yellow Springs to build an army. As they traveled, he deduced that Yellow Springs was a vast force that crossed continents and cleansed the world, and realized how immense Heaven and Earth were.

• Chen Fan found Heaven's Mandate's notes about the Race-Conversion Formation, and Jiu Wu learned its patterns at a glance.
• Chen Fan discovered Heaven's Mandate's supplies and learned from Ming San that Yellow Springs held rare bodies and had extended Ming San's lifespan through black tortoise essence.
• Chen Fan agreed to follow the Yellow Springs Wraiths home and use the Level-10 Eerie Stones and formation to build forces.
• Chen Fan left Chen Jiutian in charge of the Mortal Domain and traveled west along Yellow Springs Road with Ming San and the Yellow Springs Wraiths.
• Yellow Springs Road passed through a fifth-level continent without being harmed, and Chen Fan deduced that it was an immense system that processed corpses and crossed the world.
• Chen Fan watched the vast world pass by and realized the Mortal Domain still had far to go to become powerful.

Chen Fan discovered that the corpses in Yellow Springs could give the Retirement Clan powerful generals, but he left most of them there and returned to Mortal Domain. After resuming control of the War Mire negotiations, he offered the gathered Continent Lords the chance to buy War Mire Survival Time.

• Chen Fan and Ming San found the pool clogged with corpses, and Xiaowen identified among them Dragon Clan, Black Tortoise Clan, and Thousand-Legged Clan remains powerful enough to become generals for the Retirement Clan.
• Ming San warned Chen Fan about the risks of empowering Jiu Wu and asked him to spare peaceful strange entities; Chen Fan said he would not betray Jiu Wu before Jiu Wu betrayed Mortal Domain and agreed to take one corpse for testing.
• Chen Fan took two Yellow Springs Wraiths back with him, while Ming San worried that the corpses could bring Mortal Domain both power and danger; the test corpse decayed into ash outside Yellow Springs.
• Chen Fan returned to Eternal Night Continent, learned that Jiu Wu was occupying the Central Island and nearing completion, and went to meet the Continent Lords who had waited in the Tea Room.
• Chen Fan apologized for keeping the Continent Lords waiting and proposed selling War Mire Survival Time in exchange for eerie stones, resources, Building Blueprints, or other useful goods.