Recaps

Su Ming discussed the origins and abilities of the Eternal Cataclysm Star Ring, assessed the damage to the Youth Civilization, and proposed using counterfactual communication to send information back to Earth. The chapter ended with Sangzi explaining that quantum entanglement alone could not transmit information as they considered Si Ran’s proposed approach.

• Newman identified the fragments as parts of the Eternal Cataclysm Star Ring, and Su Ming asked him and Zijin to investigate the technology’s origins.
• Newman explained that the second ring reflected damage, which had caused the rocket launch platform and its unfired rockets to explode.
• Su Ming inspected the Youth Civilization’s damage and gave Xiao Cheng a repair-parts list, asking him to prepare the parts within twenty-six hours.
• Su Ming proposed counterfactual communication to Sangzi as a way to send large amounts of information from the other world back to Earth.
• Su Ming said Si Ran had been developing a method to use quantum entanglement to establish the channel, while Sangzi cautioned that entanglement itself could not transmit information.

Su Ming proposed that entangled photons could let him use Order Projection for counterfactual communication, prompting Sangzi to investigate Si Ran’s research and suspicious death. New evidence showed that the Jackal group had infiltrated Earth for five years, though their whereabouts remained unknown.

• Su Ming explained how a photon in the otherworld train might replace photon B and become entangled with photon A on Earth.
• Sangzi ordered a complete search of Si Ran’s research records after learning about her rejected proposal.
• Jin Rongjia told Su Ming that Si Ran’s death appeared suspicious, and Su Ming concluded that Jackal had killed her and later targeted him.
• Sangzi reported that cesium-137 analysis proved Chai Zhan was not from Earth and that he had arrived five years earlier.
• Jin Rongjia said Jackal had left few recent leads and might have fled, but the investigation had changed in nature and scope.

Su Ming learned more about the Earth investigation and the Plundering Clock, then postponed a large-scale transfer experiment so he could rest. Zijin explained why the previous battle had left him with a headache and gave him a massage.

• Jin Rongjia told Su Ming that his team would pursue the Calamity Mark attackers and warned him and Miao Xin to stay out of the investigation.
• Zijin suspected the jackal warrior had once been stronger than a high-rank warrior, and Su Ming learned that the captured prisoners knew nothing about the Plundering Clock's goal.
• Qiluo confirmed that Ruogejin's and Abigai's souls and bodies were safely preserved, while Su Ming and Zijin agreed to investigate the Plundering Clock.
• Miao Xin told Su Ming that the ordered parts were ready, but Su Ming canceled the transfer experiment until the next day because he was still recovering.
• Zijin took Su Ming's White Rabbit milk candy, explained that he had borne magical pressure from both Abigai and Qiluo during the battle, and massaged his temples.

Miao Xin discovered that she could sever unseen energy nodes and caused a power outage around the factory, giving Ling Wen and the researchers hope of countering the Jackal Organization. Meanwhile, Sangzi prepared to use the research site as bait, and aboard the Youth Civilization Su Ming shared caviar with Zijin after Qiluo devoured two tins.

• Ling Wen told Miao Xin that evidence suggested Jackal had killed her with a supernatural lightning strike and that the organization had targeted at least thirty-two people.
• Su Ming suggested Jackal had targeted Miao Xin because of something she would do, and Miao Xin resonated with the Nether Sea and sensed hidden energy strings.
• Miao Xin severed nodes in the void, triggering a power surge that plunged the industrial district into darkness before the factory's emergency generators started.
• Sangzi asked to establish a long-distance communication laboratory at the exposed site and agreed with Jin Rongjia to use it as a trap for Jackal.
• Su Ming offered Zijin caviar, but Qiluo seized two tins and swallowed them before Su Ming and Zijin ate from the last one.

Su Ming repaired the Youth Civilization, arranged its new carriages, and used the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet to absorb Abigai’s soul. When Zijin questioned Ruogejin’s soul, it revealed that a blessing from Lord Jörmungandr let the dead answer one question in exchange for the return of their souls, and the ritual immediately took effect.

• Su Ming completed the factory transfer experiments with Miao Xin and repaired the Youth Civilization’s locomotive using damaged parts as materials.
• Su Ming arranged twelve extra sets of carriage components for the upcoming arrival of Princess Dafulin’s support team, and Newman began shaping extra carriages from bone.
• Ge'enda'er bid Su Ming farewell and left with Silver Mask and Yise to escort the survivors and conceal the group’s tracks.
• Su Ming and his companions uncovered Abigai’s and Ruogejin’s bodies, and the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet absorbed Abigai’s soul, completing its second segment.
• Zijin began interrogating Ruogejin’s soul, which answered that Lord Jörmungandr’s blessing allowed the dead to answer one question in exchange for the return of their souls.
• The ritual took effect as soon as Ruogejin answered Su Ming’s question.

Su Ming and his companions discovered that Plundering Clock members used a ritual to release their souls after answering questions, and that the Divine Favor Scepter destroyed the escaping souls. The Youth Civilization crossed the mountain route toward Lorencia Volcano, where Su Ming prepared an unconventional apology gift for Yise and a new pen for Zijin.

• Ruogejin answered Su Ming's question, triggering the ritual that sent his soul upward until the Divine Favor Scepter struck it apart.
• Su Ming, Zijin, Newman, and Qiluo concluded that the Plundering Clock combined soul escape with reconstruction, and Zijin realized Yexiya had likely undergone the same ritual before the scepter swallowed her soul.
• Qiluo said her mother, the Queen Ghostly Flower, was already dealing with the Jörmungandr threat, while Su Ming and Zijin agreed they would investigate if the Plundering Clock proved connected to the jackals on Earth.
• The Youth Civilization crossed Pagni Canyon, reached the third tier of the ice field, and detoured toward Lorencia Volcano to collect the necromancers and supplies promised by Princess Dafulin.
• Su Ming made knuckle-dusters as a possible apology gift for Yise and a sturdy four-color pen for Zijin; Zijin then used the knuckle-dusters to punch Newman across the carriage.

Su Ming reached Princess Dafulin’s workshop near Lorencia Volcano, secured construction materials, and took charge of the necromancers gathered for the Sacred Mountain operation. The Necromancer Prisoner Labor Corps arrived at the Youth Civilization with 122 members, ready to begin the project.

• Rupert chose to accompany Su Ming to the Sacred Mountain rather than have his recent memories erased.
• Su Ming inspected Dafulin’s cement workshop and arranged to transport 400 tons of building materials for the tunnel project.
• Su Ming recruited Rupert to manage the necromancers, offering him ten gold coins for a month of work.
• Su Ming used his ability to replace the data on an SD card with construction plans and considered the energy limits of his molecular reconstruction.
• Benedict brought 122 necromancers and eight technical officials to the Youth Civilization, then handed the group over to Su Ming.

Su Ming organized the rescued necromancers into the First Construction Regiment and explained their rules, work, and path to freedom. After Bowers revealed himself and helped win the group’s cooperation, Su Ming prepared them for the tunnel project while arranging their food and lodging.

• Rupert introduced military discipline, points, and the regiment’s management rules to the necromancers.
• Su Ming shot number 122 after the troublemaker challenged him, then told the prisoners which groups could earn freedom and that they would support tunnel construction with alchemical machines.
• Su Ming revealed that his force planned to capture Divine Might Prison and rescue its prisoners, while the bearmen began hauling supplies and sorting captured weapons.
• Cadet number 12 transformed into Bowers, who urged the necromancers to cooperate and praised Su Ming’s force.
• Bowers and Newman revealed that they had staged the speech to reassure the crowd, and Bowers agreed to explain the work and advocate for better provisions.
• Su Ming arranged nutritious meals and disease prevention for the prisoners, and told Hansite to give the bearmen only basic coarse-grain rations.

Su Ming organized the tunnel project office in the other world while coordinating construction plans with Earth, and Katharine and Su Ming’s warning prompted the Temple of Light to reinforce Divine Might Prison. After Qiluo accidentally ate a tin of canned herring, its overpowering stench drove her and the others into a miserable ordeal, leaving her recovering the next day.

• Su Ming appointed Newman project manager and assigned staff to the tunnel project’s departments, then coordinated geological data and construction plans with Earth’s engineers.
• Dafulin and Emilio agreed to warn the Temple of Light about the Plundering Clock’s planned attack on Divine Might Prison.
• Pope Augustus and the Council of Cardinals investigated Katharine’s report and ordered Hector the Radiant Chanter to reinforce Divine Might Prison.
• Qiluo stole a tin of canned herring from Su Ming and ate it, then vomited and fled into the snow as the stench drove Su Ming and nearby priests away.
• The following day, Qiluo drank milk from Hansite while recovering, and Su Ming stopped Younier from approaching in case she triggered another stress reaction.

Su Ming and his team established a construction camp at Sheltered Valley and installed systems to support excavation toward Divine Might Prison. After Zijin hinted that she knew a safer, warmer place for Su Ming’s future factory, she dodged his attempt to provoke a training fight.

• Su Ming brought the Youth Civilization to Sheltered Valley, where Newman, Benedict, and the workers began preparing the excavation site.
• Su Ming installed power, communications, surveillance, drone, and security systems while Zijin, Qiluo, Rupert, and Bowers helped build and organize the camp.
• The First Construction Regiment necromancers exchanged their earned points for supplies, and Su Ming brought the camp’s monitoring and warning systems online.
• Zijin admitted she had underestimated the scale of Su Ming’s planned production chain and hinted that she knew a safer place with a better climate, but she refused to reveal it yet.
• Su Ming grabbed Zijin’s ponytail and tried to start a training fight, but Zijin noticed his preparations and refused to fight.

Su Ming and Zijin considered settling their future base in Dragon Valley, where Zijin hoped to negotiate peace with the Dragon Race by abandoning her bone dragon form and claim to the throne. While their construction camp advanced despite illness and resource demands, Su Ming discovered that trainee number fourteen had been caught trying to escape.

• Zijin told Su Ming that Stacy’s plan could let her give up her bone dragon form, regain her affinity for four elements, and negotiate peace with the Dragon Race.
• Su Ming agreed that Dragon Valley would make a suitable base, but Zijin warned that Gelie and Yinfei would need to be brought to the negotiating table; after an awkward moment, she blasted Su Ming through the machine-room window and they prepared to fight.
• Several people in the First Construction Regiment’s camp developed altitude sickness, and Jielusi treated Younier with oxygen before Su Ming obtained acetazolamide for her.
• Su Ming’s team built the construction-site roof, prepared stone and concrete, sent workers to make charcoal, and installed power cables as tunnel construction progressed.
• Rupert reported that trainee number fourteen had escaped, but Su Ming revealed that the trainee had already been caught and ordered him interrogated.

Su Ming dealt with Trainee Number 14’s escape attempt by imposing punishments on his roommates and the entire First Construction Regiment, then used a concert to enforce discipline. Construction advanced with the first concrete pipe sections completed, and Newman reported that the pipe-jacking machine was ready to be transported.

• Rupert interrogated Trainee Number 14, who confessed to his crimes, and Su Ming ordered his public execution.
• Su Ming sentenced Number 14’s four roommates to cold-water punishment and ordered everyone else to run fourteen laps, but Jielusi intervened and Su Ming changed the punishment.
• Hansite, Newman, and Gospel performed a loud concert inside a soundproof barrier, waking the trainees and leaving them unusually obedient the next day.
• Su Ming and the construction crew produced the first ten precast concrete pipe sections, which passed his inspection.
• Newman told Su Ming on the third day that the pipe-jacking machine could be transported.

Su Ming and the other-world team began tunneling through the Dome Mountains with a magically enhanced boring machine, refining their process as they encountered difficult geology. After the tunnel reached 1,800 meters, Su Ming and Zijin shifted their attention to developing the Cloud Arrow 1000.

• Su Ming teleported a pipe-jacking boring machine to the tunnel site, where Newman and the workers installed it and used Transmute Rock to Mud to bore through hard rock.
• The team reorganized workers and equipment for nonstop excavation, and the tunnel reached its first 500-meter mark on the third day.
• Su Ming arranged for Qiluo to ferment wood and other scraps into alcohol, then the team adapted the boring system to pass through coal seams safely.
• By the end of the first week, the tunnel had reached 1,800 meters, where the team made pipe sections from excavated rubble and Zijin developed a spell that shortened concrete curing time.
• Su Ming and Zijin began working on the Cloud Arrow 1000, with ethanol from Qiluo's fermentation planned as the raw material for ethylene oxide fuel.

Su Ming learned to produce ethylene oxide with help from Dodder Group and the First Construction Regiment, while managing an attempted escape and the start of alcohol production. The chapter ended at the Sea of Divine Grace Academy, where Javier secretly arranged to obtain girls for the academy’s powerful young students.

• Su Ming and Zijin struggled to understand the chemical equipment, so Dodder Group set up a production line on site and guided Su Ming through making ethylene oxide.
• No. 28 admitted that he had tried to escape, then turned himself in after his companions refused to join him; Su Ming ordered an investigation into who had coerced him and considered a punishment of cold baths.
• Qiluo produced a first batch of fermented liquid, and Rupert suggested offering sweet potato wine to the First Construction Regiment in exchange for points.
• Zijin organized a local alchemical system to purify ethanol, and Su Ming began producing ethylene oxide using Dodder Group’s partial-oxidation process.
• At the Sea of Divine Grace Academy, Javier grew angry after Ruogejin disappeared and decided to write a secret letter arranging for girls to serve the academy’s privileged students.

Javier sent a letter to Warden Sabina while welcoming Archbishop Stanton, and Su Ming’s group planned how to attack Divine Might Prison by exploiting the Sacred Antelope Horn’s hidden weaknesses. Stanton secretly decoded Javier’s letter and obtained an original map of the prison dungeon, while Su Ming learned that its maze-like design was built to withstand unstable mountain terrain.

• Javier inspected the replacement personnel, including Stanton, then gave Stanton his encrypted letter for Warden Sabina.
• Stanton reached Divine Might Prison, secretly decoded Javier’s letter about potato suppliers, and learned from Yuya that the dungeon’s layout was difficult to navigate.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Newman discussed the Sacred Antelope Horn and learned that simultaneous high-intensity attacks on three weak points could collapse its shield.
• Su Ming explained that their plan prioritized luring Hector the Radiant Chanter to the Sacred Mountain, even though that would make attacking Divine Might Prison harder.
• Newman prepared a small shield for testing explosive attacks and showed Su Ming plans of the prison dungeon’s irregular, multilayered layout.
• Stanton told Yuya he had brought the original designer’s map of the dungeon, while Newman explained that the prison’s unusual structure prevented foundation slippage.

Su Ming worked with Fengshou to plan precision strikes against the Sacred Antelope Horn, then continued learning to pilot fixed-wing drones despite his difficulty adapting to the controls. After he finally landed successfully, the aircraft’s landing gear broke, and he suspected Miao Xin’s growing Calamity Mark had caused it.

• Newman altered the prison blueprint to reveal a hidden chamber beneath the dormitory, while Zijin continued firing at the shield outside.
• Archbishop Stanton arranged for Yuya to stay in the basement and tipped a staff member to keep his own room on the first floor.
• Su Ming and Fengshou calculated that three precision-guided weapons with three-ton TNT yields could strike the Sacred Antelope Horn’s defenses simultaneously.
• Su Ming began fixed-wing drone training, where Miao Xin’s exceptional performance contrasted with his repeated crashes.
• After technicians adjusted the console for Su Ming’s black-and-white vision, he landed a drone successfully, but its landing gear later broke during taxiing.
• Su Ming suspected Miao Xin’s Calamity Mark had caused the failure, but she denied sabotaging his earlier flights.

Su Ming completed basic flight training while the tunnel project and supply runs progressed, then helped Zijin train her mental defenses with his spells and Qiluo’s seduction magic. Princess Dafulin arrived at Sheltered Valley and went straight to the tunnel site to confront Newman.

• Su Ming completed takeoff and landing procedures, and his instructor planned further training on a snowy runway with strong crosswinds.
• The Youth Civilization returned from Lorencia Volcano with supplies, while the tunnel project reached about 3,600 meters and opened a second relay point.
• Zijin asked Su Ming to train her mental resistance, and she improved at countering Grey Thoughts Exhaust the Heart while developing a spell that could attack without relying on her senses.
• Su Ming enlisted Qiluo to cast Moon Goddess: Lust on him and Zijin, allowing them to practice resisting powerful mental intrusion.
• The Youth Civilization brought Princess Dafulin to Sheltered Valley, where she headed to the tunnel site and confronted Newman.

After discovering strange scales on her chest, Zijin asked Su Ming to sequence the Plundering Clock’s DNA and compare it with samples from the First Construction Regiment. As the experiments began, Zijin secretly prepared her own DNA sample, wondering whether she was truly human.

• At the party, Zijin declined to sing, won a charades game, and wiped away a tear during the trainees’ play about a persecuted necromancer.
• After returning to her room, Zijin found four small scales below her collarbone and used Omniscience to check for other changes.
• Zijin asked Su Ming to help sequence the Plundering Clock’s DNA and collect human samples for comparison.
• In the laboratory, Zijin quickly processed the enemy samples and explained her expertise in biological genetics to a surprised Su Ming.
• After Su Ming left, Zijin sequenced samples from the First Construction Regiment, took a sample of her own hair, and wondered whether she was human.

Zijin’s sequencing confirmed that she and the First Construction Regiment shared human origins, while Su Ming prepared missiles for the planned strike on Divine Might Prison. The chapter ended with Yise confronting Su Ming at the camp and the onlookers urging them to fight.

• Zijin received sequencing results showing over 99.97% genetic similarity to the First Construction Regiment and continued testing the Plundering Clock’s samples while wondering about her scales.
• Hector arrived at Divine Might Prison with the Choir, approved using the coal mine as bait for the Plundering Clock, and revealed that he had also come to prepare for the Northern Lands religious purge.
• Javier told Sabina that Aideluzi had come to investigate Bulenleifu’s death, and Sabina agreed to ask him to look into the merchant Ruogejin.
• Su Ming inspected the Red Apricot missiles at Fengshou’s factory and discussed how to launch them without relying on alchemical explosives or wasting magic crystals.
• Katharine’s team arrived near Sheltered Valley, and Su Ming discovered that the woman he had mistaken for Katharine was her daughter, Yise.
• Yise challenged Su Ming over their past encounter, and the gathered trainees pressed them to fight as Su Ming tried to suggest moving somewhere more private.

Su Ming and Katharine finalized plans for an operation after the tunnel breakthrough, then launched a rescue of prisoners from the Dome Mountain coal mine. The rescuers freed prisoners and killed guards as Archbishop Stanton discovered signs of an infiltration and warned Warden Sabina.

• Su Ming sparred with Yise using shape-changing weapons until Katharine stopped the fight, then reviewed the operation and Gospel blueprints with her and Zijin.
• Benedict reported that the tunnel had broken through, and Su Ming declared that the operation had begun.
• Rupert, Hansite, and seven necromancers ambushed guards in the coal mine and guided prisoners through a hidden passage into the newly built tunnel, where Younier checked and supplied them.
• The necromancer squad continued through the mine, killing Divine Prison guards and rescuing prisoner groups under Su Ming's orders, while collars kept the seven offenders under control.
• Stanton told Sabina that he had found traces of infiltrators near the coal mine and suspected they had bypassed its guards and alert barriers.

After the Plundering Clock infiltrated Divine Might Prison, Su Ming launched four Red Apricot One missiles into the coal mine, causing a devastating thermobaric explosion that trapped Hector and the Choir underground. As Hector tried to escape with his surviving followers, Zijin arrived and sealed their spells, leaving them unable to continue digging.

• Sabina learned that most guards and patrols in the coal mine had gone missing, and Hector led the Choir into the tunnels to pursue the infiltrators.
• Rupert sent seven necromancers to delay the pursuers, but Hector’s group killed six and No. 118 died when his alchemical collar exploded.
• Su Ming used the Rainbow One drone to guide four Red Apricot One missiles into the mine, where their air-fuel warheads detonated and collapsed the upper tunnels.
• Hector survived the blast behind his Prismatic Wall Barrier, but at least half the Choir members died, and the survivors began clearing a way out.
• Zijin attacked the Choir members rescuing the trapped group and used Natural Rhythm to disable Hector’s Slumber Breath and Transmute Rock to Mud spells.

Star Sand launched a coordinated assault on the Divine Might Prison while Zijin formally named the refugee faction and rallied its followers. Red Apricot Missiles shattered the prison’s defenses and destroyed its rune-cannon emplacement as Star Sand charged in.

• Sabina and Javier recognized Ailisha at the coal mine, discovered that Northern Refugee Faction members had gathered outside the prison, and learned that all four long-distance communication relay points had been cut off.
• Su Ming launched four Red Apricot Missiles as Katharine led the Star Sand Assault Team against the Divine Might Prison.
• Zijin stayed at the coal mine to keep the Radiant Chanter and Choir from regrouping, then declared the faction’s official name as Star Sand and rallied its followers.
• Sabina and Javier debated whether to send a small force to look for Hector while the defenders continued losing ground at the coal mine.
• Three missiles struck the Sacred Antelope Horn’s defensive curtain, destroying the horn stele and dropping the prison’s shield as Star Sand charged.
• A fourth missile hit the rune-cannon emplacement and detonated, engulfing the area in a massive fireball.

Su Ming’s missile strike devastated Divine Might Prison’s defenses, prompting Katharine and the Star Sand members to launch an assault while avoiding further damage to the dungeon. As the battle spread, Javier discovered his former students were fighting against him, and Jielusi revealed that Yise had not gone to the dungeon alone.

• Su Ming assessed the blast damage and told Katharine to stop bombing because further strikes could destroy the dungeon.
• Katharine signaled the Star Sand members to charge, while Sabina ordered guards to bring out the prisoners and Javier rallied the Divine Grace Knights to defend the prison.
• Katharine and Sabina clashed with magic as the attackers and defenders fought across the prison grounds.
• Ge'enda'er and Silver Mask ambushed Javier, while Jielusi reinforced the Star Sand members and taunted him about his former students.
• Javier threatened the attackers with the prisoners’ lives after seeing Yise race toward the dungeon, but Ge'enda'er and Silver Mask kept attacking him, and Jielusi said someone else had gone there too.

Stanton and Yuya joined Katharine’s infiltrators in breaking prisoners out of Divine Might Prison as the assault escalated and the prison’s defenses collapsed. When Laswage confronted them, Yise appeared and attacked him with Star Radiance.

• Stanton reached Yuya’s room after the Sacred Antelope Horn was destroyed and the prison’s formation lost control of its Magic Power.
• Yuya and the four human infiltrators escaped through a hidden passage, and Stanton and Yuya followed them into the dungeon.
• Stanton and Yuya fought the guards while Stanton freed prisoners, but an explosion shattered the dungeon’s defenses and injured many captives.
• Laswage led armed Divine Prison Guards into the dungeon, forcing Stanton to face a dangerous opponent in close quarters.
• Yise appeared behind Laswage, and he accused her of betraying him before she attacked with Star Radiance.

Su Ming prepared an assault on Divine Might Prison to rescue nearly one thousand imprisoned necromancers, while Shitelike led the Divine Grace Knights toward the prison. Bowers and Hansite organized freed necromancers and Bearfolk warriors to intercept the knights as Su Ming’s forces prepared their weapons for battle.

• Shitelike received Javier’s order to support Divine Might Prison and led the first and second squads of Divine Grace Knights out, but necromancers and Bearfolk warriors blocked their route.
• Bowers, Newman, Gospel, and Hansite rallied the freed necromancers and Bearfolk with jokes and music as the Divine Grace Knights formed ranks below them.
• At Sheltered Valley, Su Ming’s forces mounted the final four Red Apricot Missiles, completing preparations for all twelve missiles.
• Su Ming recalled asking the First Construction Regiment trainees to join the attack, and more than a hundred necromancers stepped forward despite the danger.
• Su Ming told the trainees that they needed greater numbers and new technology, then removed their restraint rings and welcomed them to the Final Bone Mad Machines Guild.