Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan’s forces defeated Falcon Continent after its Scales drained away its eerie stones, and its people surrendered before the Mortal Domain could begin a landing battle. Chen Fan took control of the continent, identified the builder who deciphered Scales, and found captive women whose relocation could help him develop the Sahara Continent into a Garden Continent.

• The Fat Man ordered a puppet bird to deliver resources and coordinates to Eternal Night Continent, while Chen Fan ordered strikes that destroyed Falcon Continent’s remaining defensive buildings.
• Zhou Mo, Jiu Wu, Weiwei, and the Mortal Domain forces landed on Falcon Continent, where the Trusted Aide captured the fleeing Fat Man and surrendered the gathered population.
• Chen Fan questioned the Fat Man, learned that Zhou Sangu had deciphered the Scales blueprint, and summoned him to discuss his work and possible recruitment.
• Zhou Sangu explained that Scales used two hook mechanisms to exchange eerie stones between continents, and Chen Fan ordered the continent’s assets confiscated.
• A Logistics Pavilion member reported women of various races held in the Continent Lord’s Mansion, and Chen Fan went to meet them and offered them a new home.

Chen Fan arranged the relocation of the Falcon Continent’s captive women, including a White Tiger Clan girl drawn toward a mountain in the Mortal Domain, then began recycling the conquered continent and extracting its resources. The chapter left Wang Kui and the Logistics Pavilion harvesting the continent’s Eerie Stones and materials while the remaining captives were pressured to reveal useful information.

• Chen Fan learned that the White Tiger Clan girl had been taken from her homeland, recognized a whisker from the Black Tortoise Plains, and ordered the women sent to Nameless Mountain before arranging for the girl to be released from its pull.
• Chen Fan killed the obese former Continent Lord, corrected Zhou Mo for chopping up the corpse by having him use the Starforge, and assigned Zhou Sangu to study before joining the Research Pavilion.
• Chen Fan discovered Zhou Sangu’s permanent Oath Mark, ordered King Yi thrown into the Starforge for refusing to talk, and instructed his forces to recruit useful captives, release civilians, and dispose of holdouts.
• Wang Kui warned Tian Ce not to conceal Eerie Stones or interfere with Chen Fan’s spending, then took him to the Bit Continent to begin harvesting.
• Weiwei broke open a Secret Chamber, where a Falcon Continent guide revealed more than a hundred jin of Star Metal and said King Yi’s Construction Department had stored other high-grade materials elsewhere.

Chen Fan completed the Mortal Domain’s cleanup of the Falcon Continent, gaining its resources and economic technologies while arranging for the Cautious Continent to take in refugees. As the Mortal Domain prepared to leave the War Mire, the Retirement Clan reached the day of its advancement to a Level-Four Strange Entity Clan, and Jiu Wu worried that he might never reunite with Xiangyang.

• Chen Fan crushed the Scales blueprint and began producing more Sky-Piercing Pillars for the Mortal Domain.
• Li Kaixin accepted batches of Falcon Continent refugees and offered the Cautious Continent as a long-term destination, hoping to secure the Mortal Domain’s support.
• The Mortal Domain finished stripping the Falcon Continent of valuables and prepared to have the Starforge refine it.
• Jiu Wu proposed resurrecting converted powerful beings in the Mortal Domain’s Black Abyss to bring them out of Yellow Springs, and Chen Fan approved the plan and told him the Level-Four Strange Entity Clan’s level cap was 40.
• Wang Kui reported the Falcon Continent’s enormous haul, including 44 trillion eerie stones, six dark technology source points, and rare materials.
• On April 1, year 06, Jiu Wu nervously awaited the Retirement Clan’s advancement, fearing he would not be able to resurrect the Meatworm Wraith and reunite with Xiangyang, while Chen Fan reassured him.

Jiu Wu used his new dark authority to resurrect Xiangyang, reunited with him, and received permission to resurrect Huang for military exercises. After repeatedly fighting Huang, Jiu Wu revealed that he was an innate Dark Monarch; the chapter ended with Sanqi recounting the Falcon Continent campaign to his classmates.

• The Retirement Clan advanced to level four, granting Jiu Wu the special dark authority needed to resurrect Xiangyang, who returned as a Doppelganger Wraith.
• Jiu Wu brought Xiangyang home, showed him the Mortal Domain Daily and his preserved letter, and heard how Huang had sacrificed himself to save Xiangyang.
• Jiu Wu asked Chen Fan for permission to resurrect Huang so he could train the Strategist Pavilion, and Chen Fan approved the plan.
• Jiu Wu resurrected Huang, who repeatedly attacked and self-destructed, so Jiu Wu kept defeating and reviving him until Huang noticed Jiu Wu's innate dark sacred physique.
• Jiu Wu introduced himself to Huang as Xiangyang's King, while Sanqi later told his classmates how the Falcon Subcontinent surrendered before he could fight.

Huang was resurrected, learned how Xiangyang had saved him, and joined Jiu Wu’s Retirement Clan before bonding with Chen Jiutian over war simulations. The chapter ended with Jiu Wu departing for Yellow Springs to retrieve resources while Ming San searched for black tortoise essence to extend Chen Fan’s life.

• Jiu Wu explained that Xiangyang had once been Seven Emperor, had destroyed a Night-Opening People Continent to protect Huang’s corpse, and had become a Doppelganger Wraith after Jiu Wu resurrected him.
• Jiu Wu convinced Huang to join the Retirement Clan, and Huang accepted him as boss before meeting the Mortal Domain’s people.
• Huang read Xiangyang’s letter in the Museum, thanked him, and then played ten war simulations against Chen Jiutian, eager to continue the next day.
• Jiu Wu, Xiangyang, Huang, and the Military Strategist spent the night together in Jiu Wu’s courtyard, where Huang finally accepted Xiangyang as his brother.
• Chen Fan sent Jiu Wu along the Yellow Springs Road with Ghost-Stone Storage Bags and the Heaven’s Mandate Token to meet Ming San and retrieve resources.
• Ming San searched Yellow Springs for black tortoise essence so he could extend Chen Fan’s life and avoid an uncertain successor to the Mortal Domain.

Jiu Wu converted the Yellow Springs’ accumulated corpses into Strange Entities and tested a powerful Strange Dragon before returning to the Mortal Domain. Chen Fan learned Jiu Wu had not delivered the food meant for the Yellow Springs Wraiths and ordered an investigation into the missing shipment.

• Jiu Wu laid out the Race-Conversion Formation in the Lower Yellow Springs and created a formidable Strange Dragon from a dragon corpse.
• Jiu Wu tested the Strange Dragon’s speed, attacks, defense, and failed Dragon Clan Taboo, while Ming San explained the backlash it suffered.
• Jiu Wu converted the remaining corpses into Strange Entities, then ordered them to return to the Yellow Springs so he could resurrect them later.
• Ming San warned Chen Fan that Jiu Wu had muttered about obtaining four more Strange Dragons, and Chen Fan told him he understood and asked about the shipment of food.
• Jiu Wu returned to the Mortal Domain without having delivered the food or eaten any during the journey, and Chen Fan ordered Crippled Monkey and the others to find the missing supplies.

Chen Fan discovered that Tiantian had unknowingly been stealing food through her ability, then inspected Jiu Wu’s five powerful but costly Strange Dragons. Despite the Mortal Domain’s vast resources, Chen Fan still worried it was not ready for the World Battlefield, while his staff pushed to develop new buildings and strengthen the continent.

• Little Qiu showed records proving the food had been packed and monitored, but Weiwei revealed that Tiantian had unknowingly taken it with her food-summoning ability.
• Chen Fan reassured Tiantian and agreed to let the Strategist Pavilion study her ability.
• Jiu Wu demonstrated five Strange Dragons at the Northbank Defense Line and explained that their upkeep, combat costs, and revival fees were enormous.
• Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain’s reserves and told Mr. Na that the domain remained too weak for the World Battlefield, then focused on raising its building level cap.
• Crippled Monkey urged Qian Xiaoping to develop new buildings, and the gathered staff left to continue strengthening the Mortal Domain.
• Jiu Wu and Huang discussed the Strange Dragons’ staggering upkeep, and Huang noted that ordinary Strange Entity Clans did not have revival costs.

Chen Fan heard how a candidate unexpectedly reached level 32 by crossing a Bridge and refused calls for a Spring Examination retest, then learned that the Research Pavilion had completed the Gold Grade lottery building Tiantian II. The Pavilion also proposed a Sky-Piercing Pillar that might carry an entire continent into the Yellow Springs currents, which Chen Fan named Eternal Beyond, though the project remained in its early stages.

• Wang Kui reported that a Spring Examination candidate had risen from level 12 to level 32 on Chen Fan’s Bridge and won the Blades and Swords subject, prompting public complaints and demands for a retest.
• Chen Fan rejected a retest, ordered the War Pavilion to warn those manipulating public opinion through betting pools, and told Wang Kui to reward and nurture the level-19 runner-up.
• Chen Fan visited the Research Pavilion, where Qian Xiaoping presented Tiantian II, a Gold Grade draw building designed to send Eerie Stones through the Yellow Springs currents and provide prizes through a Pocket Angler and other features.
• Qian Xiaoping explained the building’s unresolved questions, and Chen Fan praised his work and instructed him to finish refining Scratch-Off and conduct Yellow Springs experiments.
• Tianxin revealed a proposed Gold Grade strategic Sky-Piercing Pillar that could use Otherworld Flower powder to draw an entire continent into the Yellow Springs currents, and Chen Fan urged Qian Xiaoping to pursue it.
• Chen Fan named the proposed defensive building Eternal Beyond and left the project in development while the Mortal Domain remained in place.

Chen Fan investigated a dispute caused by a mass die-off of chickens, discovered that Jiu Wu’s Strange Dragons had frightened them to death, and ordered compensation for affected farmers. Meanwhile, Research Pavilion members on Huyi Continent prepared to test whether Silver Electricity could recharge Strange Dragons, keeping nearly ten thousand meters away in case it exploded.

• A Yellow Springs Wraith told Chen Fan that one of its kind could serve as a location beacon, allowing Ming San to open the Yellow Springs Road to the Eternal Night Continent from anywhere.
• Chen Fan learned that the Research Pavilion was developing Energy Storage Pools and testing Silver Electricity Batteries on Strange Dragons, then found Zhou Mo and Crippled Monkey struggling to settle a contract dispute over eggs.
• Chen Fan traced the sudden death of half the continent’s chickens to the day Jiu Wu returned with five Strange Dragons, and the Heaven-Questioning Bell confirmed an old hidden hatred between dragons and chickens.
• Chen Fan ruled that signed trade agreements should be honored and ordered the Mortal Domain to replace farmers’ lost chickens with birds from the New Continent.
• On Huyi Continent, a Research Pavilion member prepared to send Silver Electricity through a copper pipe into a Strange Dragon while Jiu Wu approved the test from a distance of nearly ten thousand meters.

Silver electricity greatly enhanced the Strange Dragon’s speed and Dragon Breath, while Jiu Wu survived absorbing it and Huang was instantly killed by it. The Mortal Domain’s tests exposed the threat enhanced Strange Dragons posed, as Chen Fan prepared for the World Battlefield and planned to advance the Good Cat and Sahara Continents.

• The Strange Dragon absorbed silver electricity, gaining vastly increased speed and a more powerful Dragon Breath before the energy ran out.
• Jiu Wu absorbed silver electricity and survived, discovering that his dark sacred physique and kingly authority enhanced his strength, while Huang exploded when he tried the same experiment.
• The Strange Dragon also gained power from a Level-10 Eerie Stone, and Chen Fan learned that high-level energy enhanced different aspects of the Dragon Clan’s combat abilities.
• Chen Jiutian’s simulations showed that an enhanced Strange Dragon could breach a Level-30 City Wall, though five Strange Dragons attacking from close range could endanger the Mortal Domain.
• As the Mortal Domain prepared to leave the War Mire, Chen Fan unlocked Vehicle Workshop Mutation and asked Xiaowen for advice about the World Battlefield.
• Chen Fan reviewed his plans to advance the Good Cat Continent as a peace continent and the Sahara Continent as a garden continent, while wondering whether all three continental paths could be combined.

Chen Fan unlocked the War Dividend dark technology and learned that formally defeated continents could become affiliated territories, increasing the Mortal Domain’s defensive power. After bringing the Good Cat Continent and Huyi Continent under the Eternal Night Continent, he realized that capturing a rival continent’s affiliates could build his strength even faster.

• Wang Kui oversaw the Continent Lords’ trade of items for the Mortal Domain’s remaining War Mire survival time, and Chen Fan acquired 21 dark technology source points along with various treasures.
• Chen Fan unlocked the seven-colored War Dividend dark technology, which increased the power of the Mortal Domain’s defensive structures each time it defeated a continent of the same level.
• After the Good Cat Continent advanced to the fourth level, Chen Fan learned the rules for defeat treaties, and Hao Mao formally surrendered with Heaven and Earth as witnesses, making the Good Cat Continent an affiliate and granting one War Dividend stack.
• Chen Fan gave Continent Cores to the second-level Continent Lords who had previously lent him dark technology source points, then traveled to the Huyi Continent.
• Jiu Wu formally surrendered the Huyi Continent, giving the Mortal Domain a second affiliate and raising War Dividend to two stacks.
• Chen Fan learned that defeating a continent with its own affiliates would transfer those affiliates to him, and that they would add further War Dividend stacks.

Eternal Night Continent neared the World Battlefield and set its Safe Distance at 30,000 kilometers. When Excellence Continent refused to move away from the resource coordinates despite a polite warning, Chen Fan ordered preparations for war.

• Chen Fan departed the War Mire with Eternal Night Continent as the Mortal Domain completed its preparations and headed toward the resource coordinates.
• Chen Fan set Eternal Night Continent’s Safe Distance at 30,000 kilometers after Farmer Continent said its own was 60,000 kilometers.
• The Mortal Domain discovered that Excellence Continent was occupying the resource coordinates and would have to be approached to reach them.
• Chen Fan’s polite request for Excellence Continent to move aside was rejected by the Middle-Aged Man, who hoped Eternal Night Continent would attack first.
• Chen Fan asked the gathered officials whether they agreed to fight, received unanimous approval, and ordered Mirage shots fired in preparation for war.

The Excellence Continent launched a massive Sky-Piercing Pillar attack and used Heavenly Retrotrace to expose Chen Fan’s private life, hoping to undermine support for the Eternal Night Continent. Instead, Chen Fan’s daily routine and diary revealed his relentless focus on building Sky-Piercing Pillars, leaving the Excellence Continent’s psychological attack turned against its own ruler.

• Chen Fan ordered a small opening volley toward the Excellence Continent to test its War Dividend strength, and the enemy answered with 300,000 Sky-Piercing Pillars, including a hidden Heavenly Retrotrace.
• Chen Fan directed the Eternal Night Continent’s defenses to intercept the incoming pillars and redirect one projectile into the sea, where its ordinary power raised questions about the enemy’s affiliated continents.
• Heavenly Retrotrace activated within range and projected scenes of Chen Fan’s daily work across the Eternal Night Continent, then revealed his private diary entries about building more Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• The Middle-Aged Man ordered Heavenly Retrotrace to expose Chen Fan’s private writings, but the entries showed his constant worry for the Mortal Domain and devotion to strengthening it.
• The Middle-Aged Man erupted in frustration as the attack failed to discredit Chen Fan, while the Elderly Man remained silent.

Chen Fan retaliated against the Excellence Continent after its Heavenly Retrotrace exposed his private life, and the Mortal Domain destroyed the unprepared fourth-level continent. As the Eternal Night Continent approached the World Battlefield, Chen Fan learned more about the powerful Heaven's Mandate Bestowed building and prepared for future battles.

• The Hearts That Embrace the World spread footage of Chen Fan’s humble home and tireless work, causing popular will and the Mortal Domain’s cohesion to surge.
• Chen Fan ordered the full assault on the Excellence Continent, rejecting its Continent Lord’s apology and offer to yield the Shipping Route.
• The Mirage’s illusions frightened the Excellence Continent into failing to defend itself, and the Mortal Domain’s Sky-Piercing Pillars destroyed its ruling faction and defeated the continent.
• Chen Fan ordered another strike against the Excellence Continent’s Mysterious Heaven Propellers, then sent Jiu Wu and the Strange Tide ashore to seize control and collect spoils.
• The Eternal Night Continent advanced toward the World Battlefield, while Chen Fan inspected the pink-grade Heaven’s Mandate Bestowed and its three remaining activations.
• Chen Fan asked Crippled Monkey to have dumplings sent over as the Eternal Night Continent prepared for what lay ahead.

After the Excellence Campaign, Chen Fan’s forces finished plundering and refining the Excellence Continent while searching for a resource site linked to the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity. They tracked the site to a gigantic Black Tortoise, whose fury erupted when Chen Fan showed it the Heaven’s Mandate Token.

• Chen Fan ordered the Excellence Continent’s innocent population transferred to the Cautious Continent, and the Mortal Domain later completed its postwar cleanup and began refining the continent with the Starforge.
• Chen Fan and his companions searched the resource Coordinates, but the Heaven’s Mandate Token initially showed no sign of a nearby sealed space.
• As the Flying Boat departed, the token lit up and revealed a colossal, fast-moving Sea Turtle; Chen Fan ordered Chen Jiutian to track it and Jiu Wu to intercept it with five Strange Dragons.
• Jiu Wu and the Strange Dragons caught up with the Sea Turtle, and Chen Fan arrived by Teleportation Formation after cooling the overheated Dragon’s back.
• Chen Fan recognized the Sea Turtle as an ancient Black Tortoise and showed it the Heaven’s Mandate Token; the Black Tortoise roared with sudden fury and hatred.

Chen Fan freed the Black Tortoise and recovered a sealed box containing a mysterious Note that the Angler said could impose rules on Heaven and Earth, though its origins and practical use remained uncertain. After locating the hidden Resource Coordinates on four remote Islands, Chen Fan prepared to investigate what the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's Mandate had left behind.

• Chen Fan used the Heaven's Mandate Token to open the Black Tortoise's Life Abyss, recovered an ancient black box, and received a Pearl promising the Black Tortoise's aid.
• The Black Tortoise explained that the lock on its Life Abyss had been placed by a terrifying former owner of the Heaven's Mandate Token, not by the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity.
• The Angler recognized the box as a Starry Box and identified its handwritten Note as the Seventh Sheet, which could supposedly make anything written on it a rule of Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Fan's brush melted when he tried writing on the Note, and he put it away after the Angler and Xiaowen could not confirm how to use it.
• Chen Jiutian traced the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's Resource Coordinates to remote Islands, and Wang Mazi's team found four Islands where the Heaven's Mandate Token confirmed a sealed space.
• Chen Fan set out to investigate the newly discovered Resource Coordinates and see what the Heaven-Evading Strange Entity's Mandate had left behind.

Chen Fan found the third set of Resource Coordinates in a coffin on a Blue Grade Primordial Continent ore island and discovered a note revealing Heaven-Evading Strange Entity’s past and a prophecy of a final war. The Heaven-Questioning Bell explained that Strange Tree bark could reveal more of the note with advanced wraith blood, then announced its upgrade to Gold Grade and its new paid proactive reminders.

• Chen Fan landed on the Primordial Continent ore island and learned that mining its 12,000 jin reserve required star-metal tools and a Smelting Factory.
• Crippled Monkey dug up a bronze coffin, and damaging it triggered Heaven’s Mandate Token, confirming it held the third set of Resource Coordinates.
• Chen Fan read Heaven-Evading Strange Entity’s note, which described a prophecy about a Human King and a Dark Monarch and the entity’s discovery of Heaven’s Mandate Token, the Godslaying Spear, and the Heavenly Dao Scroll on an ordinary-looking continent.
• Chen Fan connected the Godslaying Spear and the other treasures to Eternal Night Continent and considered whether the continent had been a seclusion site or an early investment in a future Human King.
• The Heaven-Questioning Bell explained that Oracle Island’s prophecy could shape the future and that advanced wraith blood could reveal more writing on the note.
• The Heaven-Questioning Bell revealed that it had upgraded from Red Grade to Gold Grade, with answers costing fifty million Eerie Stones and proactive reminders costing one hundred million.

Chen Fan prepared the Mortal Domain to enter the World Battlefield and planned to use an Under-Heaven Edict to make a name for himself through a major faction-wide duel. Upon entering, he found that Didi Continent and Herbal Continent had already accepted such a challenge, and he bought admission to observe their battle.

• Jiu Wu used his wraith blood to reveal a slip containing a method for creating Heaven, and Chen Fan ordered Xiaowen to calculate the cost of the required fishing net.
• Chen Fan sold copies of the Daily Draw blueprint for hundreds of trillions of eerie stones and listed more at a higher price.
• After the Excellence Continent was fully refined, Chen Fan decided to use Heavenly Retrotrace to investigate his future opponents and announced that the Mortal Domain would enter the World Battlefield the next day.
• Chen Fan revealed his plan to use the Under-Heaven Edict to provoke a major battle and attract factions whose support he could exploit.
• The Mortal Domain entered the World Battlefield, where Chen Fan saw that Didi Continent had challenged Herbal Continent with an Under-Heaven Edict and had accepted the duel.
• Chen Fan bought admission to watch the duel and saw the Continent Lords' Chat and Audience Chat panels suspended above the two continents.

Chen Fan watched Didi Continent and Herbal Continent prepare for an Under-Heaven Edict battle, then learned that the contest was actually the Ultimate Calamity: Blood Arena, binding every supporter to a faction and putting its reserves at risk. After the Strange Shadow Clan’s Hell Cavalry broke through Herbal Continent’s wall, Chen Fan held back his resources and waited for a chance to turn the battle around.

• Thunder Serpent Continent backed Herbal Continent with Sky-Piercing Pillars, while the Strange Shadow Clan backed Didi Continent with Meatworm Wraiths and Thorns Strange Entities.
• Chen Fan contributed one batch of Sky-Piercing Pillars to Herbal Continent, and Eternal Night Continent was automatically bound to its faction when the Blood Arena calamity began.
• Chen Fan discovered that the losing faction’s supporters would lose their reserves, then unsuccessfully tried to sell Daily Draw blueprints to gather more Eerie Stones.
• Both factions poured troops and resources into the battle, and Chen Fan sent the Retirement Clan to reinforce Herbal Continent with Meatworm Wraiths.
• The Strange Shadow Clan deployed twenty thousand Hell Cavalry, which breached Herbal Continent’s Level-20 Coast City Wall.
• Chen Fan held back his reserves while Jiu Wu quietly anticipated sending the Retirement Clan’s five units of Strange Dragons into the fight.

Chen Fan waited as the Didi Continent coalition unleashed five million Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities and overwhelmed Herbal Continent’s defenses. Just as the defenders seemed defeated, he declared that the Mortal Domain would take over the battle.

• Chen Fan learned that the Strange Shadow Clan had unlocked a Hell Cavalry blueprint, while Thunder Serpent Continent reinforced Herbal Continent with Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• The Outlaw Clan deployed nearly a million Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities, and allied clans sent more strange tides, forcing Thunder Serpent Continent to shield Herbal Continent with a continent-wide protection formation.
• Chen Fan told Chen Jiutian that the Mortal Domain had stockpiled 278 groups of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars and would wait for the enemy’s next counterattack before acting.
• The Eastern Clan’s King killed the last Elderly Man who opposed abandoning their ancestral instructions, then declared that the clan would join the war with its vast reserves and four Strange Dragons.
• The Didi Continent coalition countered the defenders’ volley with millions more Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities, leaving Herbal Continent’s supporters near despair.
• Chen Fan finished his tea and announced that the Mortal Domain was officially taking over the battle as the sky filled with lines of glowing text.