Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan praised Zhao Shengping’s Flowers Beggar’s Chicken and encouraged him to keep cooking, then learned that Shao Qiu and the Shadow Pavilion had destroyed the Wind and Rain Tower. The chapter left Chen Fan astonished by the Mortal Domain’s strength as he postponed the Auction to await their return.

• Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain members tasted Zhao Shengping’s Flowers Beggar’s Chicken, and Chen Fan told him that his cooking was an impressive skill rather than a trivial pursuit.
• Chen Fan asked Zhao Shengping to prepare Braised Delicacies for the factions attending the next day’s Auction, and Zhao Shengping vowed to keep cooking for the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan visited Sunset City, where Qi Chong explained how its farmland and livestock pens would support the Mortal Domain’s agricultural needs.
• Chen Fan asked Qi Chong whether the Braised Delicacies could become a Mortal Domain product, and Qi Chong cited their limited shelf life, low production capacity, and low profits.
• Shao Qiu reported that the Shadow Pavilion had destroyed the Wind and Rain Tower and taken its treasures, including a Sea Embryo.
• Chen Fan postponed the Auction until nightfall and wondered at the Shadow Pavilion’s unexpected strength.

As Mortal Domain factions gathered for the First Auction, Chen Fan learned that Qi Yue planned to face a deadly inner demon in twenty days. The Shadow Pavilion then publicly reported wiping out the Wind and Rain Tower’s leadership and core members, leaving the auction crowd stunned.

• Faction leaders discussed the Mortal Domain’s Shadow Pavilion and its destruction of Wind and Rain Tower outposts, while warning that the Tower might strike during the crowded auction.
• Qi Yue told Chen Fan that his cultivation manual would soon manifest his negative emotions as an equally strong inner demon, and that he planned to settle his grudges before facing it in twenty days.
• Chen Fan agreed to protect Gongyang Yue and keep her away from Qi Yue’s duel, though he could offer no way to improve his chances of winning.
• As the auction crowd gathered in the market at dusk, Shao Qiu arrived with hidden riders and reported that all seventy-eight Wind and Rain Tower core members had been killed.
• Shao Qiu presented the heads of the Tower’s three Pavilion Masters and young master, then vanished with his riders, leaving the gathered factions horrified.

After the Mortal Domain’s auction, Chen Fan upgraded a Godslayer Cannon to its maximum level and became the first player on the Eternal Night Continent to obtain a max-level building. A lucky mutation turned the camp’s connected city walls into a movable dragon, leaving Chen Fan eager to develop the defense line and Shao Qiu wondering whether he should become a Builder.

• Chen Fan returned to the camp with the Sea Embryo and planned upgrades, while Shao Qiu learned that Qi Yue had achieved perfect body tempering and resolved to attempt the dangerous method himself.
• Wang Kui hosted the Mortal Domain’s auction, where factions bid heavily for construction-related treasures and the King Clan won the Builder Token for 170,000 Eerie Stones and an Enhancement Stone.
• Chen Fan used Eerie Stones to upgrade a Godslayer Cannon to level 10, unlocking a max-level building reward and the achievement for being the first player on the Eternal Night Continent to max out a building.
• Chen Fan tested the cannon by blasting a deep crater into rock and destroying a level-3 city wall, then used a Fortune Whistle and Enhancement Stone to give a city wall a Legendary mutation that let connected walls move through the camp.
• Chen Fan tested the moving wall by trapping Qi Yue inside its enclosure and ordered guards to protect the mutation’s source; Shao Qiu and the others witnessed the cannon’s power and discussed how Builders served as humanity’s defense against Strange Entities.

Chen Fan began developing the Great Wall defense line while a strange-entity leader planned to destroy Mortal Domain during the next rainy season. After a Doppelganger Wraith infiltrated Mortal City, Chen Fan found an ancient page warning that the Undersea Strange Tide would reach Jiangbei in four years and suspected the warning had been forged.

• Shao Qiu asked Qi Yue about assassination and perfect body tempering, and Qi Yue warned that Shao Qiu needed stronger conviction and pain tolerance.
• The shadow on the Throne ordered preparations to destroy Mortal Domain next rainy season, while That One worried his aura would fade within four years and discussed his crocodile family and captivity.
• Chen Fan upgraded a section of City Wall to Level 6, calculated the enormous cost of building the Northbank Defense Line, and practiced controlling the wall around Camp.
• Chen Fan enjoyed dumplings with Weiwei until Zhou Mo reported that a Doppelganger Wraith had entered Mortal City and killed a Trade Association member before being stopped.
• Chen Fan spared the gate guard responsible for the inspection error, assigning him three months' pay in lost wages and requiring him to explain the mistake to the other guards.
• Zhou Mo showed Chen Fan an ancient-book page predicting the Undersea Strange Tide would land in Jiangbei in four years, and Chen Fan suspected someone had fabricated it.

Chen Fan upgraded the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, Life Workshop, Ground Spikes, and Farmland to maximum level, unlocking a Heavenly Dao Stone after lighting up five buildings in the Building Compendium. He used the stone on the Godslayer Cannon and chose a blessing that let its excess damage carry over to nearby enemies, while Shao Qiu was risking his life to break through to Martial King.

• Chen Fan concluded that Strange Entities had forged the vellum warning to drive him from Jiangbei, then told Zhou Mo to compensate the Jiangxi Trade Association for a member killed by the Doppelganger Wraith.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion and Life Workshop to level 10, giving cultivators faster cultivation and a chance for finished items to gain special effects.
• Chen Fan maxed out the Ground Spikes and one plot of Farmland, bringing the Building Compendium to five max-level buildings and earning a Yellow Grade Heavenly Dao Stone.
• Chen Fan learned that Shao Qiu was undergoing Ten Thousand Poisons Devouring the Body to reach perfect body tempering, though the max-level Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion could grant it automatically to cultivators who broke through with ninety-nine percent body tempering.
• Chen Fan used the Heavenly Dao Stone on the Godslayer Cannon and chose Sweep a Thousand Armies, which carried excess damage from a kill over to nearby enemies.

Chen Fan learned that Shao Qiu had achieved perfect body tempering through a grueling ordeal, then discovered the Shadow Pavilion's raid on the Wind and Rain Tower had brought back a large haul and a yellow-grade dagger. He agreed to host the Architects' Exchange Conference in Mortal City, where Tianqi confirmed that builders believed one plus one equaled four hundred and forty-four.

• Shao Qiu survived six hours of poison body tempering and achieved perfect body tempering, then learned the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion could have advanced him automatically; he decided his own achievement was purer.
• Zhao Shengping showed Shao Qiu the Shadow Pavilion's new earth-gold equipment, including a dagger that had risen to yellow grade, and Chen Fan later approved Shao Qiu collecting it.
• Wang Kui reported on Mortal City's trade and relay stations, and Shao Qiu told Chen Fan he had destroyed the Wind and Rain Tower's base and recovered 470,000 eerie stones.
• Chen Fan warned Shao Qiu to stop sacrificing his lifespan and instructed him to report future mission gains and casualties directly.
• Tianqi invited Chen Fan to the Architects' Exchange Conference and requested Mortal City as its venue; Chen Fan agreed to host it.
• Chen Fan asked Tianqi what one plus one equaled, and Tianqi answered that it equaled four hundred and forty-four.

Chen Fan hosted the Architects' Exchange Conference in Mortal City to learn how other Builders worked, but he found their shared teachings riddled with strange folk wisdom. After several encounters revealed his skill and sparked misunderstandings, the conference attendees asked him to share his own insights.

• Chen Fan approved Tianqi's request to hold the Builder Conference in Mortal City, then rewarded the Shadow Pavilion members and celebrated Qi Yue and Shao Qiu becoming Martial Kings at a Victory Banquet.
• Three days later, Builders from many factions arrived in Mortal City, where Chen Fan watched a young woman fail to construct an Arrow Tower and demonstrated how to build one instantly.
• Chen Fan learned that Builders treated the saying that one plus one equaled 444 as a call to exchange ideas, then confused a group of young Builders by claiming it also equaled 666 and 888.
• Chen Fan listened as Builders shared dubious advice about sincere hearts, cutting off their worldly desires, construction milestones, and Spirit Drawing, and recognized that their teachings were largely unverified folk remedies.
• An elderly Builder invited Chen Fan to share his insights, and the assembled Builders turned expectantly toward him.

Chen Fan invited builders to bring him blueprints he could comprehend in exchange for constructing the buildings in their territories, and the Under-Heaven Pavilion Master became the first to accept. Chen Fan acquired six blueprints, maxed out the Soul-Devouring Sculpture to reduce offensive buildings’ Eerie Stone costs, and unlocked a sea ship that might let him explore the far side of the Dead Sea.

• Chen Fan proposed that factions lend him difficult Building Blueprints so he could comprehend them and build the corresponding structures in return.
• The Under-Heaven Pavilion Master handed Chen Fan a Yellow Grade Soul-Devouring Sculpture blueprint, and news of the exchange prompted other builders to bring their own blueprints.
• Chen Fan accepted six blueprints, including a Gondola and an Automatic Sprinkler, while rejecting duplicates and designs he already possessed.
• Chen Fan built and maxed out the Soul-Devouring Sculpture, choosing upgrades that reduced nearby offensive buildings’ Eerie Stone consumption by 40%.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop to Level 6 and unlocked a sea ship, considering whether to explore beyond the Dead Sea.

Chen Fan built a Harbor and sent Wang Mazi to lead a dangerous sea expedition, then discovered that Max-Level Gondolas running along Copper Pipes could form a High-Speed Rail. After demonstrating the line between Mortal City and Northbank City, he left the Four Regions of Jiangbei's factions scrambling to secure stations as the Mortal Domain began reshaping regional trade and travel.

• Chen Fan completed a Harbor, brought a Sea Ship there with the Giant Turtle's help, and assigned Wang Mazi to lead the New Continent expedition with three ships.
• Chen Fan upgraded a Gondola to level 10 and discovered it could travel at high speed along Copper Pipes, creating a High-Speed Rail.
• Chen Fan built a ten-car High-Speed Rail between Mortal City and Northbank City, and Workshop Master Li completed the seventy-kilometer journey in 360 breaths.
• Chen Fan demonstrated the High-Speed Rail to Builders and faction leaders, who witnessed its speed and recognized its potential to transform travel and trade.
• Chen Fan announced plans to extend the network across the Four Regions of Jiangbei within half a year, prompting factions to resolve to secure stations and adapt to the coming changes.

Chen Fan expanded the Mortal Domain’s High-Speed Rail plans, accepted Medicine King Valley’s proposal to fund a route, and sent Wang Mazi’s expedition out to sea. When the Jiangnan Shui Family demanded five Eerie Stones per rail passenger to cross its bridge, Chen Fan walked away and Shao Qiu killed the Family Head and his entourage, leaving the bridge doomed to collapse.

• Chen Fan tested the Max-Level Gondola, confirmed that it could smash through ordinary obstacles but could not cross a broken Copper Pipe, and warned that factions sabotaging the rail network would be wiped out.
• Medicine King Valley’s Master proposed using the High-Speed Rail to dominate the Four Regions of Jiangbei’s Pill market, and Qi Feng offered 150,000 eerie stones plus fifteen percent of three years’ net profits for a route to Medicine King Valley; Chen Fan accepted.
• Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain members saw Wang Mazi and his Commerce Pavilion Subordinates depart on three Sea Ships to carry out the New Continent plan.
• Chen Fan began laying the route toward Medicine King Valley, traveling across Jiangbei and reaching a bridge owned by the Jiangnan Shui Family.
• The Jiangnan Shui Family’s Family Head demanded five Eerie Stones from every High-Speed Rail passenger crossing the bridge and refused Chen Fan’s offer of a lump-sum payment or a one-stone toll.
• Chen Fan left the negotiation, and Shao Qiu killed the Family Head and his entourage; the bridge cracked, while the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot flew across the river toward the Jiangnan Shui Family’s territory.

Chen Fan destroyed the Jiangnan Shui Family, built and upgraded eight bridges, and recruited Zhang Qianming to manage a new Mortal Domain station. He completed the rail route to Medicine King Valley and planned to extend it through Jiangnan before returning to unite the Four Regions of Jiangbei.

• Chen Fan found the Bridge Building Blueprint in the Jiangnan Shui Family estate and built eight max-level bridges, replacing the family’s toll bridges.
• Chen Fan appointed Zhang Qianming as station master, set lower tolls, and established a fortified Mortal Domain station; Zhang recruited ten former guards, who became Mortal Domain members.
• Zhen Ba delivered uniforms, Identity Tokens, supplies, and instructions to Zhang Qianming and his recruits, while explaining their pay and duties.
• Chen Fan continued laying the high-speed rail route through Jiangnan, using Weiwei to tunnel through a mountain and the Mountain-Skeleton Embryo to stabilize it.
• After three days, Chen Fan reached Medicine King Valley, declined Valley Master Qi’s banquet, and said he would extend the rail network to Jiangnan’s major cities before returning.

Chen Fan returned from laying the Jiangbei–Jiangnan High-Speed Rail network, expanded the Mortal Domain’s finances and communications with a Signal Tower, and officially opened Line One for one Eerie Stone per ride. The line immediately drew huge crowds, and the chapter ended with new passengers exploring Mortal City and sampling Zhao Shengping’s braised food.

• Chen Fan returned to the Mortal Domain, learned that its reserves had passed five million Eerie Stones, and decided to keep 2.76 million Eerie Stones from factions seeking rail extensions.
• Chen Fan used a Fortune Bell to open a Yellow Grade Lucky Bag and obtained a Signal Tower blueprint, then built a tower that extended Message Talisman range tenfold.
• Chen Fan ordered Little Qiu to produce 200,000 Message Talismans and completed the rail network’s finishing work, while five Signal Towers connected communications across Jiangbei and Jiangnan.
• Chen Fan launched Mortal Domain Line One, connecting Mortal City, Jiangbei Bridge, Medicine King Valley, and nine Jiangnan cities, and set the fare at one Eerie Stone per passenger.
• Residents crowded onto the trains, while the Medicine King Valley Master charged passengers to pet and photograph the Gold-Swallowing Toad at a stop.
• Passengers arrived in Mortal City, where some headed for the sea and others visited Zhao Shengping’s braised-food shop after learning he was the Mortal Domain’s Artifact Pavilion Master.

Wang Mazi and eleven surviving Commerce Pavilion members returned from a disastrous voyage with news of Hope Island, a Thunderstorm Sea, and a second continent destroyed by a strange tide. Chen Fan learned that the unclaimed eerie stones there could secure the Mortal Domain’s future defenses, while the survivors amended their records to honor the discovery and their fallen companions.

• Zhao Shengping’s braised delicacies attracted a long queue as Mortal Domain High-Speed Rail Line 1 opened and drew visitors across Jiangbei.
• Chen Fan dismissed Crippled Monkey’s concerns about the Silk Road and planned to use the rail network to expand trade and increase eerie-stone production.
• Wang Mazi’s ship discovered Hope Island and a ruined continent, then endured the Thunderstorm Sea and lost most of its crew before returning with eerie stones, a map, and seawater samples.
• Wang Mazi rallied his surviving crew to attempt the return voyage, and they reached Mortal Domain Harbor after traveling along the Thunderstorm Sea for nearly thirty days.
• Chen Fan treated the survivors, heard Wang Mazi’s account of the destroyed continent and its vast eerie-stone reserves, and postponed Mortal Domain Communications to honor the dead.
• Wang Mazi, Zhang Damao, and the other survivors asked the Logistics Pavilion to record their discovery in their files and include their fallen companions in the shared honor.

Chen Fan commemorated the Commerce Pavilion members who died at sea, then began an undersea tunnel project to reach the New Continent and its resources. After Qi Yue returned from severing his former self, Chen Fan confirmed he was the real Qi Yue and went to meet a visiting faction whose Elderly Man was 179 years old.

• Chen Fan honored the dead Commerce Pavilion pioneers at a memorial stele and told the Mortal Domain that exploration would continue until they reclaimed the Eternal Night Continent.
• At the Victory Banquet, Chen Fan rewarded Wang Mazi and the Commerce Pavilion members for finding Hope Island and the New Continent, while Shao Qiu eased Zhang Qianming's nerves with a prank.
• Chen Fan enlisted Weiwei to dig the New Continent Tunnel beneath the seabed, using Copper Pipe and the Mountain-Skeleton Embryo to reinforce it as they worked.
• Qi Yue returned after completing Self-Severing, and Chen Fan left him with Wang Kui and the others while they tried to determine whether he was real; Chen Fan later confirmed Qi Yue's Life Tablet had not shattered.
• Zhou Mo spotted a 179-year-old Elderly Man accompanying a woman in a Brocade Dress in Mortal City and reported them to Chen Fan, who suspected they came from the West Pass Plains.
• Chen Fan approached the woman and her companions with Crippled Monkey and Qi Yue and introduced himself as the Domain Lord of the Mortal Domain.

Chen Fan led the Mortal Domain to Hope Island through the newly completed Undersea Tunnel, where they found abundant Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. When a horde of exotic monkeys attacked Zhou Mo and Wang Mazi, Chen Fan arrived with Weiwei, who drove the monkeys away.

• Chen Fan met a woman in brocade and an elderly man from the Jiangnan He Family, learned why they lived in seclusion, and ordered Shao Qiu to investigate secluded families and keep Weiwei's identity secret.
• Weiwei delivered Braised Delicacies to the Camp to store for his parents, then returned to the Harbor to help Chen Fan dig the Undersea Tunnel.
• Two months later, Chen Fan and Weiwei completed the tunnel's first stage to Hope Island, and Wang Kui reported that the Mortal Domain had amassed 33.98 million Eerie Stones.
• Chen Fan and the Mortal Domain Core members explored Hope Island, where they found Monkey-Head Fruits, a Mountain Embryo, thirteen mature Snow Lotuses, and eleven Sea Embryos.
• Zhou Mo and Wang Mazi encountered hundreds of exotic monkeys and were wounded while fighting them, until Chen Fan arrived with Weiwei.
• Chen Fan told Weiwei it was his turn, and Weiwei charged through the trees until the monkey horde fled.

Chen Fan subdued the monkeys on Hope Island, appointed Weiwei as Beast Pavilion Master, and resumed expanding the Undersea Tunnel while the monkeys harvested Monkey-Head Fruits. Meanwhile, the exhausted defenders of Defense Line Seven faced a worsening Strange Tide and the Eternal Night Hall sent Tianyi to confront factions withholding Eerie Stone.

• Weiwei chased down the Monkey King, beat him into submission, and then recruited the island’s monkeys with Chicken Legs while Chen Fan learned they cultivated Monkey-Head Fruit trees.
• Chen Fan returned to the Mortal Domain, appointed Weiwei as Beast Pavilion Master, built a second Warehouse, and prepared to stay on Hope Island to continue the Undersea Tunnel.
• Chen Fan sent Weiwei and the monkeys to collect Monkey-Head Fruits for the Mortal Domain while he dug toward the Thunderstorm Sea and laid Copper Pipe.
• On Defense Line Seven, a young Builder questioned the purpose of the defenses as the Middle-Aged Man explained the Eternal Night Hall’s failing lines and the danger of the Strange Tide.
• A soldier reported that Fengtian Tower had been deserted, and Tianyi arrived by Flying Boat to lead the defenders against factions refusing to hand over Eerie Stone.

Chen Fan and Weiwei crossed beneath the Thunderstorm Sea and reached the ruined New Continent, where they found seven destroyed defense lines and an enormous field of ghost bones and eerie stones. He began organizing an expedition to explore and salvage the continent, while Crippled Monkey prepared the monkeys on Hope Island to join him.

• Qi Feng and the Medicine King Valley Master discussed the valley’s profits and arranged to deliver its promised share to the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan and Weiwei dug an Undersea Tunnel beneath the Thunderstorm Sea, avoiding numerous Vein Patterns that might have protected the continent.
• Chen Fan and Weiwei emerged on the New Continent, where Chen Fan quickly built a fortified camp and found ghost bones, eerie stones, and seven ruined defense lines.
• Chen Fan concluded that the defenses had fallen to an overwhelming strange tide, then sent orders through the Undersea Tunnel and began expanding the camp into a city.
• Chen Fan planned to explore the continent and collect its resources, while Crippled Monkey assembled the monkeys on Hope Island and prepared to travel with them to the New Continent.

Wang Mazi and the Commerce Pavilion began exploring the ruined New Continent after Chen Fan equipped them with a heavily armed Flying Boat. As they charted ancient battlefields, Chen Fan stayed at New Continent No. 1 Outpost and began preparing vehicles to explore the surrounding islands.

• Wang Mazi arrived at New Continent No. 1 Outpost with all seventy-six Commerce Pavilion members, and Chen Fan ordered them to map the continent’s destroyed defensive lines and Primordial Era battlefields.
• Chen Fan discovered that the monkeys could work without sleeping, then upgraded the Vehicle Workshop and built a Flying Boat armed with seventeen max-level Godslayer Cannons.
• Chen Fan gave the Flying Boat and its supplies to Wang Mazi, who led the Commerce Pavilion out to explore and mark an ancient battlefield on the Ghosthide Map.
• Wang Mazi’s team landed at a ruined defense line near a canyon, recorded its location, and continued their aerial exploration.
• Chen Fan built Giant Turtles and Sea Ships at the outpost, then went to the coast to survey the many islands surrounding the New Continent.

After returning from the New Continent, Chen Fan built a massive defensive wall and upgraded the Mortal Domain’s Main Eerie Fire to level 10 in preparation for the coming rainy season. He left the Mortal Domain enclosed by towering walls, while the Eerie Fire gained the Heavenly Dominion max-level effect.

• Chen Fan returned from the New Continent after laying a second track through the Undersea Tunnel, then slept for a day and night before hearing Wang Kui’s report on the Mortal Domain’s resources and staffing.
• Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to recruit fifty thousand auxiliary personnel and send them to the New Continent to extract resources while they were screened.
• Chen Fan moved and upgraded the walls around the Mortal Domain, creating a 14.8-kilometer Level-5 City Wall with Thorns Counterarmor, Wraith Blood Vein Patterns, Great Wall, and Flight Ban effects.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Main Eerie Fire to level 10, expanding the camp’s diameter to 20,000 meters and gaining the Heavenly Dominion effect, which removed its daily Eerie Stone upkeep.
• Chen Fan’s City Wall enclosed Nameless Mountain, Mortal City, Sunset City, and the Harbor, leaving Young Valley Lord Qi Feng and other onlookers astonished.

Chen Fan mobilized fifty thousand auxiliary personnel to mine the New Continent and used its eerie stones to build the Rainy Season Defense Line, equipping it with cannons and repair Altars. As the rainy season approached, the first workers settled into the New Continent while Chen Fan continued preparing the Mortal Domain for attack.

• Chen Fan reviewed rumors about the Mortal Domain as recruits flocked to Mortal City, where the Logistics Pavilion screened applicants and Uncle Zhang joined as a cook.
• The Logistics Pavilion, Hundred Grains Pavilion, and Heavenly Storehouse Pavilion recruited and transported fifty thousand auxiliary personnel to the New Continent, along with food, livestock, tools, and other supplies.
• Chen Fan told Wang Kui he feared the Eternal Night Front might be collapsing and leave the Mortal Domain to defend the continent alone, then began fortifying the Rainy Season Defense Line.
• Chen Fan installed 740 max-level Godslayer Cannons and 148 max-level Anti-Aircraft Cannons, whose Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers effect spread attacks across wide areas.
• Chen Fan built fifty level-3 Altars and connected them to the defense line with Copper Pipes so they could repair damage.
• The auxiliary personnel finished their first day's work on the New Continent, where they showered and ate meals prepared by cooks including Uncle Zhang.