Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan worried that Weiwei might have caused Big Fish’s father’s death, then sent the crocodile to help Zhou Mo retrieve strange entity corpses. The chapter ended with Weiwei eager to leave the Camp for the promised Roast Meat.

• A Green-Robed Man rejected a woman’s pleas to stay and set out to seek revenge, agreeing to take her with him.
• Chen Fan had set up five more Stations, leaving the Camp with 1,335 eerie stones.
• Big Fish wondered whether Weiwei had driven the strange entities that led to his father’s death, but Chen Fan argued that they must have reached the Natural Eerie Fire Zone by another route.
• Chen Fan studied the Ghosthide Map and reminded himself to prepare for another attack on the Camp.
• Zhou Mo reported that he was clearing strange entity corpses at an Unmanned Outpost near the canyon.
• Chen Fan offered Weiwei Roast Meat to help Zhou Mo carry the corpses, and the crocodile hurried to the City Wall gate.

After Crippled Monkey and the others returned with Eerie Stones and glowing Lingxi pebbles, Chen Fan examined the exotic treasures from Weiwei Cave. He discovered that he could instantly master the Water-Cutting Saber Art, then considered how rare Martial Techniques were for ordinary cultivators.

• Chen Fan watched Crocodile follow the scent of his saliva into the Canyon and noted that the Meat Strange Parent-Child Fruit let him communicate with Zhou Mo for seven days.
• Crippled Monkey, Wang Mazi, and the others returned with extracted Eerie Stones and Lingxi pebbles they had gathered on the Mountain, and Chen Fan ordered everything moved to the Warehouse.
• Chen Fan examined the Windshield Bead and considered postponing a Bone Boat voyage until after the Rainy Season, while Qi Chong continued roasting the five hundred Strange Entity corpses promised to Weiwei.
• Chen Fan inspected the Warehouse blueprint and the Water-Cutting Saber Art Bamboo Slip, realizing his cultivator status let him learn the Martial Technique.
• Chen Fan read that confirming the technique would grant him grand Perfection immediately but shatter the Bamboo Slip, while placing it in the Training Room would preserve it and accelerate comprehension.

Chen Fan gave Zhou Mo the Green-grade Water-Cutting Saber Art and planned to build a Market and eventually obtain a Training Room. Zhou Mo and Wang Kui discovered that the Bamboo Slip let its holder gain insight into the technique, leaving Wang Kui reflecting on how the Qiuhe Wang Family had denied him that chance for thirteen years.

• Chen Fan considered how Martial Techniques could help him conceal his strength and decided he needed a Market and a Training Room.
• Zhou Mo and Big Fish returned with supplies after clearing the Stations north of the Wasteland.
• Chen Fan gave Zhou Mo the Water-Cutting Saber Art Bamboo Slip and told him to study it without breaking it.
• Zhou Mo pledged to master the technique within five years and swore renewed loyalty to Chen Fan.
• Wang Kui learned that holding the Bamboo Slip while reciting its formula granted insight, and recalled that the Qiuhe Wang Family had never let him study its Gale Blade Art.

Chen Fan's Camp came under a massive attack as strange entities fled through the Sinkhole, and the Level-5 Cannon Towers slaughtered them while he waited for the main force. Nine giant turtle creatures and a horde of sea-born monsters finally entered the Eerie Fire's range, leaving Chen Fan ready for the next fight.

• Zhou Mo received a Green Martial Art from Chen Fan and went to study it, while Wang Kui lamented that the Camp had not kept such a treasure in his Warehouse.
• Chen Fan noticed strange entities falling into the Sinkhole and realized a powerful enemy was driving them through the Canyon.
• Wang Kui began counting the Camp's eerie stones as more creatures fled into the Sinkhole.
• The Level-5 Cannon Towers opened fire, killing the incoming strange entities in a one-sided assault as the Wraith Blood Pattern on the City Wall began glowing scarlet.
• Nine giant turtle creatures and a horde of sea-born strange entities emerged from the Canyon, and Chen Fan joked that he would give the trembling crocodile some seafood.

Chen Fan watched a strange tide attack Eerie Fire Camp, then sealed the Sinkhole and unleashed the Meat Grinder’s cannon towers to destroy the invading forces. The battle ended with the enormous Octopus and the rest of the strange tide dead in the pit.

• Chen Fan observed giant turtles, human-faced wraith crabs, mermaid wraiths, and skeletal sea serpents attack the Level-3 City Wall while its defenses held.
• Chen Fan shut off the Copper Pipes, allowing the sea serpents to disable the ten Level-5 Cannon Towers as the strange tide renewed its assault.
• An enormous Octopus arrived and blasted holes in the wall, so Chen Fan sealed the Canyon-Sinkhole junction with a Level-2 City Wall.
• Chen Fan reconnected the altar and revealed eighteen Level-5 Cannon Towers in the rock face, trapping the strange tide in the Sinkhole.
• Chen Fan activated the Meat Grinder, and twenty-eight cannon towers fired continuously until the strange tide and the Octopus were slaughtered.

After the Meat Grinder wiped out the Strange Entities in the Sinkhole, Chen Fan inspected the battlefield and discovered orders revealing the Wraith King's search for a Mountain-Skeleton Embryo. He obtained two exotic treasures, including Heaven-Questioning Incense, and settled atop the City Wall to use it.

• Chen Fan powered up the Wind Tower, and Monkey One, Zhou Mo, Crippled Monkey, and the others went out to collect Eerie Stones, exotic treasures, and materials from the fallen Strange Entities.
• Crocodile emerged from the Cave, saw that every Strange Entity had been killed, and excitedly rubbed against Chen Fan's legs.
• Chen Fan found two pieces of Wraith Hide on the Octopus corpse and learned that Thousand Lakes had been ordered to search Nameless Mountain for a Mountain-Skeleton Embryo and meet Millennium in the Wasteland.
• Chen Fan collected Heaven-Questioning Incense, which could answer a question in exchange for Eerie Stones, and a White Jade Pendant that reduced construction costs for Builders.
• After bathing and changing clothes, Chen Fan sat in his rocking chair atop the City Wall, ready to light the incense and ask a question.

Chen Fan learned that a Mountain-Skeleton Embryo could guarantee the Training Room upgrade, and discovered that Weiwei knew where to find another one. After the battle, he built a Green Grade Warehouse and explored its powerful storage rooms and unalterable records.

• Chen Fan used Heaven-Questioning Incense to learn that the Training Room appeared as a Rare upgrade when a Level-3 Wooden Hut advanced, then learned that a Mountain-Skeleton Embryo would guarantee the upgrade.
• Chen Fan found the Mountain-Skeleton Embryo inside the Level-5 Eerie Fire and asked Weiwei whether it had smelled one elsewhere; Weiwei nodded, and Chen Fan planned to take the group to find it the next morning.
• Chen Fan ordered Weiwei to dig deeper into the Cave while he connected Copper Pipes to the City Wall and arranged to build a Warehouse.
• Chen Fan spent 300 Eerie Stones to build Warehouse No. 1 in the Cavern Chamber and connected it to the Eerie Fire.
• Chen Fan inspected the Warehouse's Mustard-Seed, Vitality, Concealment, Heavenly Treasures, and Archive Rooms, then found that its bamboo scroll recorded every operation in an unalterable log.

Chen Fan appointed Wang Kui to manage the new Warehouse and let the Camp rest after a hard day, while Crocodile kept digging the Meat Grinder Passage overnight. The next day, Wang Kui reported the Camp’s inventory, and Chen Fan sent Zhou Mo and Big Fish to search the Canyon and Seaside for the eerie stones Thousand Lakes had left behind.

• Chen Fan gave Wang Kui a Token granting him control of the Warehouse and access through the City Walls, then ordered him to move the Camp’s supplies and battlefield spoils.
• Chen Fan named the main tunnel the Meat Grinder Passage and told Crocodile to keep digging, while he and Crippled Monkey discussed a possible visit to Northbank City after the Rainy Season.
• Wang Kui experimented with his new authority, reflected on how his fortunes had changed, and spent the night organizing supplies in the Warehouse.
• The Camp gathered for lunch, where Wang Kui reported 2,922 eerie stones, Strange Entity remains, and two exotic treasures, but no stones from Thousand Lakes’ cache.
• Crippled Monkey and Zhou Mo found no eerie stones in the Canyon, so Chen Fan sent Zhou Mo and Big Fish to search around the Canyon entrance and Seaside.

Chen Fan followed Crocodile and Zhou Mo to the cave Crocodile’s parents had left behind, where he uncovered clues linking an old attack on Big Fish’s village to an unknown Wraith King. Crocodile carried them deep underground, and they reached the enormous chamber at the end of the passage.

• Chen Fan reasoned that the strange tide had hidden eerie stones near the Seaside, and Zhou Mo and Big Fish returned with three chests of stones and one chest of ghost materials.
• Chen Fan rode Crocodile to the mountainside cave and learned that Crocodile’s parents had dug it, then left Crocodile behind; Crocodile had kept others away from the lair.
• Chen Fan connected the strange entities’ attack a year earlier to Big Fish’s village being destroyed and suspected an unknown Wraith King had sought a treasure beneath the Natural Eerie Fire Zone.
• Chen Fan, Zhou Mo, and Crocodile entered the cave, where Chen Fan recognized that Weiwei had copied its parents’ nest and realized Crocodile regarded him as family.
• After traveling deep underground for an hour, Crocodile brought Chen Fan and Zhou Mo to an enormous chamber at the end of the passage.

Chen Fan explored Weiwei’s old underground lair and found a mature Snow Lotus and a valuable Mountain Embryo instead of the Mountain-Skeleton Embryo he needed. Back at Camp, he upgraded a Stone House into a Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, then activated the vast, jade-floored interior.

• Chen Fan found a mature Snow Lotus beneath the lair’s waterfall and learned it needed low-temperature storage within two hours of harvesting.
• Weiwei brought Chen Fan a Yellow Grade Mountain Embryo, which he recognized as the mature form of a Mountain-Skeleton Embryo.
• Chen Fan returned to Camp, handed the Snow Lotus to Wang Kui for storage, and spent eerie stones to upgrade a Stone House.
• Chen Fan selected the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion upgrade path, which created a large structure embedded in the cavern wall.
• Chen Fan connected the pavilion to the Eerie Fire with Copper Pipes, and the interior lit up.

Chen Fan tested the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, then led everyone to search Weiwei's parents' dung pits for eerie stones. After they found six emptied pits and began hauling away fossilized dung, Chen Fan discovered a buried, unexcavated pit containing eerie stones.

• Chen Fan read the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion's panel, cultivated inside it for an hour, and found that it consumed seven eerie stones without producing noticeable progress.
• Chen Fan took Zhou Mo and the others to Nameless Mountain to search Weiwei's parents' dung pits for treasure.
• The group excavated six dung pits but found no eerie stones, so Chen Fan had them collect the fossilized dung instead.
• Chen Fan's spear pierced an eerie stone underground, prompting him to order the crocodile to dig up the area.
• The group uncovered a deep, unexcavated pit filled with eerie stones, including several Ghostly Green pieces.

Chen Fan’s group brought back eerie stones from a pit that Crippled Monkey explained had held only the liquid waste of Weiwei’s parents. Back at Camp, Chen Fan upgraded the Life Workshop, ordered Ghost Nails, and prepared to improve the Warehouse entrance as the Camp continued to develop.

• Chen Fan’s group excavated eerie stones from the Deep Pit, and Chen Fan concluded they could keep them regardless of who had hidden them there.
• On the ride back, Chen Fan revealed that the pit was Weiwei’s parents’ dung pit, and Crippled Monkey explained that they had separated solid and liquid waste.
• Chen Fan returned the stones to Camp, instructed Wang Kui to store them, and told Qi Chong to cook a whole octopus head for Weiwei.
• Crippled Monkey stopped using the Godslaying Spear to pick Weiwei’s teeth after Weiwei objected to its being used to poke waste, and Little Qiu agreed to make him a simple spear.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Life Workshop to level five and ordered Little Qiu to produce Ghost Nails and develop a banner and name for the future faction.
• Little Qiu quickly finished a batch of Ghost Nails, and Chen Fan carried them to the Warehouse entrance to install the Wooden Board.

After the Camp celebrated its victory over Thousand Lakes, Chen Fan reviewed its stockpile and daily eerie stone income and expenses. With sixteen days left in the rainy season, he considered whether to draw Millennium into another fight.

• Chen Fan and Zhou Mo put up signs around the Cave, and the Camp settled in for the night while Zhou Mo carved the rainy-season countdown.
• Wang Mazi entertained the others with stories and promised to treat them to a night out in Northbank City after the rainy season.
• Wang Kui reported that Thousand Lakes’s defeat had yielded 17,000 eerie stones and that the Mountain expedition had brought back 36,726, leaving the Camp with 56,570 in total.
• Chen Fan considered whether Millennium would attack and thought about luring him into the Wasteland to take his eerie stones before the Wraith King arrived.
• Wang Kui reported the Camp’s daily expenses and the Unmanned Outposts’ returns, and Chen Fan learned that the Snow Lotus’s storage consumed ten eerie stones a day.
• Chen Fan thanked Wang Kui and left the warehouse, with sixteen days remaining until the rainy season ended.

Chen Fan expanded his defenses around the Sinkhole and began building a trap through the Canyon, then upgraded the Wind Tower and discovered its new Storm Suction skill. He left the Camp to ride around the Canyon, still waiting for the rain to stop.

• Chen Fan installed twenty cannon towers, bringing the defenses around the Sinkhole to thirty-eight, and ordered Crocodile to dig along the Canyon.
• Chen Fan installed six Level-5 Cannon Towers in the Canyon and built an underground Level-3 Eerie Fire to begin Meat Grinder Phase Two.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Wind Tower with a Windshield Bead and chose a qualitative transformation, unlocking the Storm Suction skill.
• Chen Fan gave the Soybean exotic treasure to Qi Chong and built two more plots of Level-2 Farmland for planting it.
• Chen Fan rode out of the Camp to take a short ride around the Canyon.

Gongyang Gao agreed to let his daughter travel to Jiangbei with the green-robed man, despite the danger of his planned attack on a hostile faction. He arranged for Gongyang Yiyue and the Gongyang Clan caravan to protect her, then received an investigation into the man's past.

• Gongyang Gao offered the green-robed man control of the Gongyang Clan and access to its Training Room if he stayed, but the man refused because he was determined to kill those who had wronged him.
• Gongyang Gao agreed to send his daughter to Jiangbei with the man in half a month, accompanied by Gongyang Yiyue and the Clan Banner, while she waited outside the faction he planned to attack.
• Gongyang Gao gave his daughter the Resurrection Pill the Gongyang Clan had obtained seventeen years earlier, and she embraced him, grateful that he had let her go.
• A masked middle-aged man brought Gongyang Gao a report on the Jiangbei Old Devil and questioned whether he should entrust the Young Lady to someone with such a past.

Gongyang Gao reviewed the Jiangbei Old Devil’s history of indiscriminate massacres while considering the Pill Sect Young Master’s proposal to his daughter. At Nameless Mountain, Chen Fan used the Wind Tower to divert a meatworm wraith tide into his Camp and began sealing the Cave to protect it.

• Gongyang Gao learned that the Jiangbei Old Devil had massacred people across Jiangbei without an apparent common motive, while his subordinate compared him to the Pill Sect Young Master.
• Gongyang Gao dismissed criticism of the Pill Sect Young Master, who planned to propose to Gongyang Gao’s daughter after the rainy season, despite six previous wives having died horrific deaths.
• Chen Fan watched a small meatworm wraith tide approach and used destroyed Unmanned Outposts to work out that the main tide was heading toward Flat City.
• Chen Fan lit the twenty Level-3 Eerie Fires in the Canyon and activated the Wind Tower to pull the meatworm wraith tide into the Sinkhole.
• Chen Fan built a Level-2 City Wall behind the Wind Tower to seal the Cave while allowing the tower’s airflow to draw in the Meatworm Wraiths.

Chen Fan’s Wind Tower’s Storm Suction pulled a large part of the Meatworm Wraith Tide into the canyon, where the wraiths smashed against the rock faces and city wall. After the battle, the Camp collected a huge haul of eerie stones, and Chen Fan used an Eerie Eye to upgrade an Arrow Tower into an Eerie Eye Cannon Tower before preparing to choose its upgrade direction.

• Chen Fan watched Storm Suction funnel Meatworm Wraiths into the canyon, where they battered the rock faces and left dark green pits that he planned to showcase at a future market.
• After the tide passed, the Wraith Blood Vein Patterns absorbed the wraiths’ green fluid, and Chen Fan sent Crippled Monkey, Zhou Mo, and the others to collect the eerie stones.
• Chen Fan considered recruiting workers with room, board, access to the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, and the chance to study martial techniques in exchange for modest wages.
• Crippled Monkey reported that the cleanup had yielded two exotic treasures and many eerie stones, and Chen Fan identified one treasure as a green-grade Eerie Eye.
• Chen Fan spent 2,000 Eerie Stones and the Eerie Eye to upgrade an Arrow Tower into an Eerie Eye Cannon Tower, which offered increased firing speed, increased firepower, or an unknown qualitative transformation.
• Chen Fan decided to pursue the qualitative transformation and went to bathe, change clothes, and burn incense before choosing.

Chen Fan tested the newly transformed Eerie Eye Cannon Tower and learned how merchant associations traded and profited. After Wang Mazi explained the Sky-Pacifying Merchant Association’s role, Chen Fan considered gradually undermining it by securing other trade channels and suppliers.

• Chen Fan transformed the Camp’s Level-5 Cannon Tower into a Level-6 Eerie Eye Cannon Tower, whose continuous beam had immense power but only one meter of range.
• Chen Fan asked Wang Kui about Okra’s preserved Wraith Hide and considered using it to lure a Wraith King close enough for the tower to attack.
• Wang Kui reported that the Camp had accumulated 92,022 eerie stones, and Chen Fan asked Wang Mazi to explain how merchant associations worked.
• Wang Mazi explained the different treasure types and trade-association tiers, describing how small associations sold goods to the Sky-Pacifying Merchant Association and larger associations.
• Chen Fan learned that an association could earn about 100 eerie stones per unopened White Grade Exotic Treasure and asked how strong the Sky-Pacifying Merchant Association was.
• Wang Mazi proposed building trade ties and buying off smaller associations to cut off the Sky-Pacifying Merchant Association’s supply sources over time.

Chen Fan planned to destroy the North River Chen Family and the Sky-Pacifying Merchant Association, then established the Mortal Sect, advanced to Level Two, and strengthened the Camp’s defenses. The chapter ended with the North River Chen Family discussing Northbank City’s survival during the Rainy Season.

• Chen Fan decided he could justify destroying the North River Chen Family and the Sky-Pacifying Merchant Association as revenge for their persecution, and considered enclosing their territory with walls and Cannon Towers.
• Chen Fan and his companions named their faction the Mortal Sect and chose a banner bearing the character “fan.”
• Chen Fan refined ten mature Sunflowers in the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion and broke through to become a Level-Two Cultivator; he urged Zhou Mo to return and use Sunflowers to advance as well.
• Chen Fan installed twenty Level-5 Cannon Towers in the Canyon, bringing his total defenses to eighty-nine Level-5 Cannon Towers and one Level-6 Cannon Tower.
• A North River Chen Family Elder observed that Northbank City had not fallen by the eighteenth day of the Rainy Season and might avoid heavy casualties if no major crisis arose.

The Chen Family learned that Chen Fan had established a camp at Nameless Mountain, while Chen Quan discovered his mother’s secret plan involving the mountain’s Snow Lotus and the Heaven-Imprisoning Array. The chapter ended with Chen Quan questioning whether the Chen Family Head was his biological father, and his mother saying that it did not matter.

• The Chen Family First Grand Elder reported that Chen Fan’s camp remained intact and that many Eerie Fires had appeared at Nameless Mountain during a likely battle, angering Chen Quan when he repeatedly called Chen Fan Young Master.
• Chen Quan stormed out of the Council Hall, and the First Grand Elder remarked that Chen Quan seemed doomed while the rainy season neared its end.
• Chen Quan’s mother told him that the Sky-Pacifying Merchant Association had its own long-term plan and that his position as heir did not matter; she planned to take him away after the rainy season.
• Chen Quan revealed that he had overheard a conversation about Nameless Mountain, and his mother explained that it was That One’s former residence, where a Snow Lotus and Earthheart Fruit were protected by a Heaven-Imprisoning Array.
• A man in white reported that Monkey Chief had redirected a meatworm wraith tide toward Nameless Mountain, but a change in wind direction had kept its Eerie Fire lit; Chen Quan’s mother decided they had to wait for another chance.
• Chen Quan returned and asked whether his biological father was the Chen Family Head or Attendant Liu, and his mother answered that it did not matter.