Recaps

Su Ming questioned Saenieka about Miao Xin’s wraith powers, arranged covert supplies and ship upgrades, and contacted Miao Mu through an online card game. The White Triangle reached Water Chestnut Island, where Zijin revealed she had once been assassinated and explained how her Bone Dragon Form could help them fight on land.

• Su Ming learned from Saenieka that Miao Xin’s past could not have created a ranked wraith, and watched Saenieka demonstrate how negative emotions triggered a wraith’s Nether Sea Form.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi arranged for the Mist Veil to secretly deliver supplies and installed a gyroscope, stabilizer fins, and obstacle-avoidance sonar aboard the White Triangle.
• Miao Xin admitted she had contacted her father, Miao Mu, through a small card-game platform, and Su Ming used the same platform to speak with him.
• Miao Mu initially rejected Su Ming’s story, then reconsidered the evidence and told Su Ming that he believed him so Miao Xin’s spirit would remain secret.
• The White Triangle reached Water Chestnut Island and passed the Star Rain fleet before Zijin told Su Ming that she had died there in an assassination attempt and could use Bone Dragon Form during a landing.

The White Triangle captured a battered pirate crew in the Storm Sea and put them to work searching nearby islands for a zombie base. After Su Ming discovered a mysterious rune-locked book, Zijin tested him in a brutal illusion that ended with both of them apparently stabbed.

• The White Triangle weathered the Storm Sea with its new stabilization equipment while Su Ming and Zijin prepared explosives and magical gear to hunt sea monsters.
• On the second day, Beianqi captured a pirate ship whose crew had fled into the Storm Sea after fighting among themselves and being pursued by the Star Rain Fleet.
• Su Ming took the night shift, cared for the prisoners, organized the captured supplies, and proposed using the pirates to search islands while the White Triangle checked the surrounding waters.
• Su Ming found a rune-locked copy of Principles of Economics, then later learned that Zijin had punished pirates who failed their search assignments, leaving him unsettled.
• Zijin attacked Su Ming in a training exercise, using a domain to disable many of his spells and an illusion to make him believe they had stabbed each other.
• Su Ming realized that both apparent attackers were illusions, and Zijin dispelled the scene and eased the pain from her enhanced Pain Spell.

Su Ming and Zijin uncovered an illusion-wielding beastman spy among the captured pirates and suspected he was trying to delay the White Triangle’s search. After learning a message linked Yexiya to Snail Island, they secretly raced there to attack the zombie base, arriving within radar range and preparing for battle.

• Zijin merged her mental power with Su Ming’s so he could use Silent Vision to detect a beastman spy disguised among the pirates.
• Su Ming observed the spy secretly using Suggestion Spell to incite the prisoners and deduced that the sabotage was meant to delay the search of Snail Island.
• A message reported that Yexiya had returned to Water Chestnut Island, and Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi concluded that her zombie base was likely near Snail Island.
• Beianqi sent the pirates to search the Four Coral Islands while the White Triangle secretly turned south and raced toward Snail Island with the remaining prisoners unconscious.
• The White Triangle detected a harbor and a large transport ship near Snail Island, and Beianqi prepared the Mantis with Su Ming’s newly modified, brittle blades.

Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi used depth charges to destroy the three octopus sea monsters, then attacked Snail Island and pursued the fleeing orc transport ship. When they discovered Saint Rank Yexiya was aboard, they decided to exploit her apparent weakness, and their bombardment finally forced her to fly toward the White Triangle.

• Su Ming and Beianqi used sonar to locate the three octopus sea monsters, and the crew sank more than a hundred depth charges that killed them.
• Anrelo's illusion failed to protect him from his explosive collar, and he watched the other pirates explode as the White Triangle attacked Snail Island.
• Beianqi fired incendiary shells at Snail Island, while Su Ming had the White Triangle pursue the escaping orc transport ship and leave zombies behind.
• Yexiya intercepted the White Triangle's shells, and Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi realized she was aboard the transport ship and planned to kill her while she seemed vulnerable.
• The White Triangle closed to ten kilometers and sustained rapid fire until Yexiya flew toward it, separating her from the transport ship.

Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi fought Yexiya and her Naga allies after crippling their transport ship with the White Triangle’s cannon. Yexiya and a late-arriving orc mage were defeated, but Su Ming and Beianqi were badly injured and Zijin collapsed after the battle.

• Su Ming ordered Beianqi to keep firing until a shell struck Yexiya’s transport ship, then turned the White Triangle away as Yexiya pursued them.
• Zijin and Beianqi engaged Yexiya with the Divine Favor Scepter and puppets while Su Ming fought Naga warriors who attacked the ship from the sea.
• Su Ming killed the Naga warriors and a fish beast, but suffered severe injuries and lost the Anzio gun when an enemy smashed its case.
• Beianqi used Mantis’s reinforced blades to wound Yexiya, then collapsed after resisting Yexiya’s mental attack.
• Zijin struck Yexiya with Light Execution: Judgment, and Yexiya’s life aura faded as she was defeated.
• An orc mage attacked Su Ming with Meteor Fire Rain, but a bone dragon emerged from the ship, shielded the deck, and killed him; Zijin later returned from the sea to find Su Ming and Beianqi unconscious.

Zijin treated Su Ming’s injuries, recovered Yexiya’s body, and tried to send Yexiya’s soul onward, but the Divine Favor Scepter devoured it instead. After Su Ming woke, he helped Zijin correct the White Triangle’s course through the storm and learned Beianqi’s sister was coming to help her.

• Zijin set Su Ming’s broken shoulder blade and dressed the wound while Beianqi remained unconscious from her mental injury.
• Zijin recovered Yexiya’s corpse, collected her valuable equipment, and learned that the symbols on the sea monster were ordinary numbers.
• Zijin used Holy Rebirth to send Yexiya’s soul onward, but the Divine Favor Scepter transformed its light into a maw and swallowed the soul.
• Su Ming woke aboard the storm-tossed White Triangle, and Zijin treated his shoulder with alchemical bandages.
• Su Ming corrected the ship’s course and speed to stop its synchronous pitching, then explained that Zijin had mistaken which side of the storm was navigable in the southern hemisphere.
• Zijin told Su Ming that Beianqi’s sister was coming to help, and he sent the exhausted girl to sleep before they discussed the corpses aboard the ship.

Su Ming and Zijin reviewed the captured documents and uncovered the Truth Cult of the Plundering Clock’s attacks, a Federation mole, and a second Saint Rank hidden behind the Yexiya ambush. The chapter ended with Su Ming stopping Miao Xin from escalating a robbery on Earth as she carried off stolen cash.

• Su Ming cared for the unconscious Beianqi, inspected the seized cargo, and spent the day sorting documents from the captured ship and Snail Island.
• Over dinner, Su Ming told Zijin that the previous battle had felt strangely familiar and admitted he had adapted to fighting faster than he expected.
• Su Ming and Zijin learned that the Truth Cult of the Plundering Clock had staged sea-monster attacks and that a Federation insider codenamed Hairspring had supplied intelligence against the White Triangle.
• Su Ming and Zijin discovered that the orcs had multiple Saint Ranks, realized Charles had hinted at another expert with flatbread, and vowed to confront him over the misleading clue.
• Miao Xin told Su Ming she had robbed a company section chief and was moving bags of cash; Su Ming made her take only four bags, report the robbery, and leave without injuring the victim.

Su Ming and Zijin investigated records suggesting that the Plundering Clock’s zombie technology came from an unknown plane, while Su Ming also grew suspicious that Zijin had feelings for Beianqi. The chapter ended with Su Ming wondering whether Zijin’s dragon and human nature could be explained by a human-dragon pairing.

• Zijin found that the zombification records described technology with at least three iterations and appeared to be translated from an unknown language; Su Ming confirmed that their dates and script came from neither Earth nor Taya.
• Su Ming learned that Zijin’s Divine Favor Scepter had helped save his life, and Zijin revealed that she had wiped several hours of Saenieka’s memory and left him unfed.
• Su Ming kept Saenieka alive, spent the evening carefully peeling eggs, and made meat and egg buns with Zijin the next morning.
• Su Ming suspected that Zijin had romantic feelings for Beianqi after recalling her unusual attention toward the unconscious mechanic, but Miao Xin could not confirm his theory.
• Su Ming and Zijin studied the Plundering Clock’s records and found a rune component that suppressed octopuses’ mating urges, which could be removed to destabilize their population.
• Su Ming remembered a picture book and wondered whether Zijin’s resemblance to a human woman meant that she was born from a human-dragon pairing.

Su Ming and Zijin sorted the seized Plundering Clock documents and planned to use forged evidence to turn powerful nations and churches against the cult. They then met Qiluomilan, Beianqi’s older sister, whose Natural Affinity left Su Ming overwhelmed, and headed to visit Beianqi.

• Su Ming and Zijin set aside the mysterious-language documents, discussed using a large AI model to translate them, and agreed to alert major powers about the Plundering Clock.
• Zijin proposed fabricating anti-religious doctrines and evidence to make the churches, Star Empire, and Dwarven Kingdom pursue the Plundering Clock, while Su Ming found a record implicating the dwarves in creating the Dread Skeleton.
• Su Ming and Zijin discovered the seized supplies included enough Celestial Gold to build a teleportation array.
• Zijin welcomed Beianqi’s arriving older sister, Qiluomilan, who flew to their ship as a unicorn and transformed into a little girl.
• Su Ming used Silent Vision to check whether Qiluomilan’s powerful Natural Affinity was an illusion, but she mistook his reaction for improper intent and accused him of belonging to the Sorrowful Wind Cult.
• Qiluomilan introduced herself as Beianqi’s older sister, and the group went to visit Beianqi.

Su Ming, Zijin, and Qiluo cared for the recovering Beianqi, then discussed their voyage and the plan to build a planar portal. They decided to head for Brown Gold Island, while Zijin raised the challenge of finding enough experts to construct the portal.

• Qiluo recognized that her rune bandage had caused Su Ming's strange reaction, removed it, and woke Beianqi to confront her about selling the used bandages.
• Beianqi admitted she had sold Qiluo's used bandages for a high price, then fell asleep again after Qiluo tickled her.
• Su Ming cooked dinner, and Qiluo and Zijin traded stories and spells about catching animals for food.
• Qiluo proposed sailing to Brown Gold Island, where she could arrange transport for herself and Beianqi back to the Dwarf Continent.
• Su Ming and Zijin agreed to pursue coal and wait for clearer information about the dragon before deciding their next steps.
• Zijin estimated that a new planar portal would cost five million gold coins and require months of work, then hesitated when Su Ming asked where to find the necessary scholars.

Su Ming and Zijin weighed rescuing fifty-seven imprisoned necromancers to recruit them for the planar magic array, then sought intelligence on the Temple of Light’s defenses. They learned the Temple had secured the Star Empire’s support by giving it effective control of Midsummer Island, leaving Zijin to reconsider how to oppose the Church of Light.

• Zijin showed Su Ming the Plundering Clock’s records of fifty-seven necromancers imprisoned at the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison and proposed rescuing them to help build the planar magic array.
• Su Ming raised the dangers of reaching the prison and transporting the prisoners, then suggested asking Qiluo about the Temple of Light’s condition before deciding what to do.
• Qiluo reported that Katharine was marrying Emperor Xialike and becoming steward of Midsummer Island, while the Temple of Light and Star Empire were negotiating closer ties.
• Qiluo received confirmation that the Star Empire had recognized the Temple of Light and would support it in exchange for effective control of Midsummer Island.
• Beianqi warned that the Temple of Light would eventually target the White Triangle, and Zijin concluded that the Temple’s political deal had undone her hopes of exploiting its crisis.

Su Ming and Zijin negotiated with Fernand, the Star Empire’s foreign minister, and learned that the Temple of Light’s carrier might be transporting dragons. On deck, Zijin revealed how she was born from two mothers and remembered that Xiwo had cared for her as a child, leaving Su Ming newly moved by her past.

• Fernand visited the White Triangle, and Zijin demanded a favor from King Xialike while Su Ming handed over a letter for him.
• Su Ming and Zijin sold Fernand documents about orc plots, including plans to bomb the imperial palace and evidence concerning stolen dwarven corpses.
• Stanton’s message revealed that the Temple of Light’s carrier Jade Sea and Tang Valley had returned to sea with dragon food aboard, so Su Ming and Zijin planned to sink it using an unmanned underwater vehicle.
• Su Ming guessed that Zijin had been born through alchemy-assisted reproduction by Misaila and Atiya, and Zijin confirmed it.
• Su Ming helped Zijin realize that Xiwo had abandoned his search for treasure to care for her, and Zijin recalled leaving Dragon Valley for the human lands where she felt she belonged.

Zijin told Su Ming how she became a free-willed bone dragon and explained why the dragons feared she might become their next king. As the White Triangle prepared to evade the Federation and restocked supplies, Zijin challenged Qiluo to a fight after learning the unicorn had overheard her private messages.

• Zijin revealed that Atiya, Sebastian, and Huo De'er had helped preserve her human bloodline as a phylactery, and that she had become a Six-Winged Magic Dragon with the potential to reach Saint Rank.
• Zijin explained that her rise could threaten the dragon clan's unity as the aging Dragon King Gezelie declined, and Su Ming planned to mislead Katharine with a location chosen by a bone bead.
• Su Ming and Miao Xin arranged to buy an unmanned submersible, while Miao Xin reported that her failed Pulse Stun Spell had developed into a power that made people subconsciously ignore her.
• The White Triangle reached Earthworm Island, loaded supplies, and Su Ming tasked Zijin's Blue-Eyed Chamber of Commerce with pursuing crude oil purchases.
• Zijin accepted Su Ming's explanation for buying her strawberry-flavored children's calcium tablets, then learned Qiluo could hear their private messages and challenged her to spar.
• Zijin transformed into a massive bone dragon and invited Qiluo to fight hand-to-hand in her true form.

Su Ming and his companions arrived at Brown Gold Island to buy coal and discovered that a flooded mine had trapped more than a hundred workers underground. They arranged to pump out the mine in exchange for coal, and Su Ming began organizing the equipment and power supply for the rescue.

• Miao Xin visited a factory to investigate remote-controlled submersibles, but Su Ming abandoned the plan after finding that civilian equipment could not meet his requirements.
• The White Triangle reached Brown Gold Island, where Beianqi explained that the island's coal mines were declining and much of the remaining coal lay beneath the sea.
• Qiluo used Detect Alignment on the group and became fixated on Su Ming's lawful-good reading before Beianqi pulled her away.
• Beianqi told mine owner Fletcher Lores that they could pump the flooded mine quickly in exchange for their requested coal, and he accepted.
• Su Ming ordered preparations at the mine, arranged for Miao Xin to obtain a large pump, and began making cables and studying the pump's power system.

Miao Xin stole a pump, transformer, and pipes, which Su Ming and the others installed to drain the flooded mine and rescue its trapped workers. After the rescue began, eight workers remained missing, and a local mage entered the mine to search for them.

• Miao Xin stole a submersible pump, transformer, pipes, and their connecting supplies from a factory, while Su Ming transferred the equipment to the White Triangle.
• Zijin, Qiluo, Beianqi, Su Ming, and the zombies installed the pump and powered it with the ship’s generator, steadily draining the mine.
• Zijin brought cake to share with Su Ming but turned back after finding him eating crab with Beianqi, then thought sadly about Stacy.
• After sixteen hours, the water fell below the mine passage, and Beianqi stopped the pump when workers began climbing out near the cables.
• Fletcher’s men rescued nearly a hundred workers and brought out another dozen, but eight remained missing, so Fyodor entered the mine to search.

Su Ming and his companions finished the mine rescue and prepared to remove the pumps, but Fyodor attacked Beianqi and Zijin killed him. Later, Zijin found impure amethyst that could reduce undead fluctuations when used in a thick barrier, giving the group a possible way to conceal the White Bone Fortress.

• Su Ming read the dull novel Colorful Words, then learned that three miners had died and the rest had been rescued.
• Qiluo offered to watch overnight, and Su Ming rested before waking aboard the White Triangle at dawn.
• Fletcher tried to persuade Beianqi to leave the pumps in place, but she explained their enormous operating cost and he backed down.
• Fyodor demanded to inspect the equipment and attacked Beianqi with an ice blade; Zijin killed him when he continued casting.
• Zijin and Beianqi examined Fletcher's mineral collection and found amethyst that could absorb undead fluctuations, prompting Su Ming to consider building a shielding barrier.

Su Ming and Zijin planned to gain control of Brown Gold Island without triggering the goblin creditors, while Su Ming pursued new industrial resources and technologies. Their search ended at an abandoned mine in the island’s residential area, where Su Ming felt the persistent pull that had brought them inland.

• Su Ming and Zijin decided Fletcher should remain the island’s public owner while the Blue-Eyed Chamber of Commerce secretly took control and covered payments on Brown Gold Island’s debts.
• Younier Lores explained that goblin loans and compounding penalties had left the island owing 200,000 gold coins, and reported that coal production had resumed.
• Su Ming and Zijin agreed to spare Fletcher and discussed upgrading the island’s infrastructure before openly taking it over; Zijin proposed naming their new company the Sea King Su Ming Chamber of Commerce.
• Su Ming found sphalerite among Fletcher’s mineral specimens and confirmed it contained gallium and germanium, then gave Beianqi a hot-dip galvanizing process to help develop a zinc industry that could supply those byproducts.
• Su Ming and Zijin explored inland under Qiluo’s Ignore Spell and reached an abandoned mine beneath the miners’ residential area, where Su Ming sensed something drawing him inside.

Su Ming and Zijin followed powerful spatial and death fluctuations into an abandoned mine, where an archlich offered Su Ming the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet. Su Ming used a powerful summoning spell to bring it across a spatial divide, but the backlash knocked him unconscious.

• Qiluo joined Su Ming and Zijin in the mine, and Zijin explained how necromancers had been drawn into the Ghost incident through the Spirit Cloud project.
• Su Ming sensed unusually active space while Zijin sensed manifested death, and the two continued deeper into the mine without Qiluo.
• Zijin guided Su Ming through the mine and became angry when she learned he had read her private Mouse Diary, but they reconciled as he praised her early research and understood her lonely past.
• Space folded around Su Ming, revealing an archlich girl who offered him a bone bracelet engraved with the words dawn and dusk.
• Su Ming cast Infinite Form · Summoning of All Things to draw the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet across the spatial divide, then collapsed from magical backlash.

Su Ming recovered from severe magic backlash after encountering a possible Archlich, but the bracelet he remembered receiving had vanished. As he investigated the Archlich and weighed rescuing prisoners from the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison, Qiluo rushed him into making maltose.

• Zijin cared for Su Ming as he recovered, and he learned that Qiluo had helped save him from the backlash.
• Su Ming told Zijin he had met an Archlich and received a bracelet, but Zijin said no bracelet had been found with him.
• After recovering for several days, Su Ming rewarded the workers at the dock and found that Qiluo had rapidly sprouted the barley for his maltose recipe.
• Su Ming researched Archliches and discovered a childhood inscription from Stacey Green in a book connected to Zijin.
• Su Ming studied the dangers and potential rewards of rescuing the scholars held at the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison, and reconsidered his earlier decision to avoid the mission.
• Qiluo accelerated the malt fermentation and helped Su Ming strain and boil the mixture into maltose.

Su Ming and Qiluo distributed deworming candy to the children in the mining district, where they met Hansite, a former coal-mine foreman. Hansite revealed that the mine lay beneath the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison and offered to help Su Ming plan a rescue, leaving Su Ming with a potential ally and a route to the prison.

• Su Ming made malt candy mixed with deworming medicine, and Qiluo dressed as a wealthy young lady to help distribute it to the mining district's children.
• An old miner named Hansite tried to stop the children from eating the candy, but Qiluo threw him down and Su Ming explained the medicine; Hansite apologized and promised to keep their actions secret.
• Su Ming learned that Hansite had worked as a blaster at the Dome Coal Mine, bought his detailed mine maps and records, and discovered that Hansite had been trapped in the mine before Su Ming rescued him.
• When Su Ming tried to erase Hansite's memory, Hansite dodged the spell and begged to join them, revealing that the Temple of Light now operated the mine with prisoners from the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison.
• Hansite explained that the prison stood about seven hundred meters above the mine and offered his expertise to help Su Ming; Qiluo confirmed that Hansite was honest and good-hearted.

Su Ming and Zijin prepared to turn Yexiya’s corpse into a Dread Skeleton, but the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet suddenly consumed her body, soul, and nearby alchemical materials to reconstruct itself. After Su Ming collapsed, Zijin and Qiluo confronted each other over the inexplicable event, and Qiluo’s power revealed changes in everyone’s auras.

• Su Ming questioned Hansite about sources of better anthracite, then learned from Qiluo that the Taisi and Black Shadow coal mines produced it.
• Su Ming explored the White Bone Mark’s hidden rune system and found Zijin and Beianqi preparing to use Yexiya’s corpse to create a Dread Skeleton.
• Su Ming’s Dawn and Dusk Bracelet activated, pulled his hand to Yexiya, and began consuming her body to assemble itself.
• The Divine Favor Scepter released Yexiya’s soul, which the bracelet also absorbed, along with the alchemical materials, leaving Su Ming unconscious.
• Qiluo entered the cabin and confronted Zijin, who admitted she could not explain the bracelet or analyze it with Natural Rhythm.
• Qiluo released her true power, revealing purer white light around Su Ming and a golden hint around Zijin.

After recovering from his injuries, Su Ming prepared a key tool for the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison plan and discussed the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet and a mysterious sermon with Zijin. Beianqi departed to seek help with the dangerous alchemical construct implanted in her body, while Zijin planned to make Su Ming stronger with new consumable magic items.

• Su Ming confirmed that deep-sea manganese nodules supplied the materials needed to summon a large disc cutter for the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison plan.
• Su Ming encouraged Miao Xin as she studied for the mission, then learned Zijin had given up her copy of Principles of Economics.
• Su Ming and Zijin examined the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet, whose first segment had formed after it absorbed Yexiya's corpse, soul, and Zijin's materials.
• Su Ming discovered a sermon signed Pale New Words in Katharine's magic book, and Zijin agreed to ask Stanton to investigate it.
• Beianqi left with Qiluo after Zijin gave her Zuyi's Blessing and advice about the unfinished alchemical construct in her back.
• Zijin revealed that Beianqi's construct was deteriorating after Yexiya injured her and planned to turn seized crystals into Burning Stars for Su Ming.

Su Ming set sail aboard the White Triangle with Hansite and Younier, revealing plans to reach the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison by crossing the northern icefield. As Qiluo joined the expedition and Su Ming promised to bring the White Bone Fortress ashore, Miao Xin began awakening a steam locomotive in a Shenyang exhibition hall.

• Su Ming departed the harbor aboard the White Triangle, welcomed Hansite, and learned that the old man already knew of him and Ailisha.
• Zijin explained that Younier had joined the crew as a clerk, and Su Ming assigned her to check the ship’s supplies.
• Su Ming told Zijin and Hansite that the crew would travel north to the Giant Horn Peninsula, modify the White Bone Fortress, and cross the Tingbulike Icefield toward the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison.
• Qiluo chose to join the expedition despite Beianqi’s objections, and Su Ming said he planned to take the White Bone Fortress across the icefield.
• Miao Xin entered the Shenyang Train Exhibition Hall and used Tranquility: Trace the Past to awaken the Qianjin Class locomotive QJ6368.

Miao Xin surveyed the Da'an North locomotive storage base and gathered plans and parts for rebuilding two Qianjin Class engines while Su Ming prepared the White Triangle’s trip to the ice field. The chapter ended with Su Ming reviewing the old locomotives’ specifications and wondering what Miao Mu’s replacement boilers would achieve.

• Miao Xin used a drone to map the Da'an North Base, then reported that its stored locomotives were in better condition than the display engines but had badly corroded boilers.
• Miao Xin planned to combine QJ7167 and QJ7173 with usable parts from other locomotives to build two complete engines, while Su Ming arranged for new boiler systems.
• Su Ming gave Zijin a diagram for concealing her bone dragon form in the hull, then accidentally connected with the dragon using Magic Power and was kicked by Zijin.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Younier ordered cold-weather supplies for the ice-field expedition, and Qiluo agreed to intercept the shipment in exchange for smoked meat.
• Miao Xin retrieved Qianjin Class manuals and digital data from the storage base, and Su Ming examined the locomotive specifications while awaiting Miao Mu’s new boilers.

Su Ming summoned two steam locomotives aboard the White Triangle, and Zijin discovered that Divine Favor was the plane’s instinctive will, which had resisted the arrival of technology capable of changing the era. After Qiluo learned that Yexiya’s actions had been ordered by the Truth Cult of the Plundering Clock, she left to redirect a cargo ship carrying supplies to a new pickup point at sea.

• Qiluo used Moon's Offering to share the strain as Su Ming summoned locomotive parts from Earth and assembled two steam locomotives on the White Triangle.
• Zijin steadied the summoning with her Divine Favor Scepter and explained that the plane’s will had resisted the locomotives; she and Su Ming connected its behavior to Yexiya’s death.
• Su Ming told Qiluo that the seized documents showed Yexiya had acted for the Truth Cult of the Plundering Clock, then took her to inspect the evidence.
• Su Ming and Zijin planned magical modifications for the locomotives, named Youth Civilization, and Su Ming dried Zijin’s hair as she fell asleep.
• Qiluo left the White Triangle and boarded the Flounder, where she paid the crew to change course and deliver its cargo at sea.