Recaps

Su Ming prepared the Pansy for war, struck the Light Fleet with torpedoes and missiles, and fought through a blizzard that ended with Zijin destroying the Scourge of Absolution. As the Silver Dragon Guard reconsidered its allegiance, Saxon the Trickster arrived with Temple of Light clergy and Sea Eagle Beasts.

• Su Ming organized the ship’s workers and teleported its boilers, turbines, and generators aboard the Pansy, while Zijin noted that the plane’s will had not resisted the spell.
• Su Ming learned the Light Fleet was gathering near the Giant Horn Peninsula and suspected it had a Silver Dragon, while Tai'ao'duo discovered Yinfei was absent and canceled his landing plan.
• Su Ming and Dodder prepared long-range wire-guided torpedoes, and Beianqi launched them at the fleet, sinking the Water Nest despite Naga magic destroying one torpedo.
• Su Ming completed the Pansy’s propulsion system and took the ship out of the bay, while the crew installed radar, a naval gun, and other combat equipment.
• Su Ming launched Rainbow Two and two Hawk Chicken missiles at the Jade Sea and Tang Valley, but Silver Dragons destroyed the aircraft and one missile before the other sank the carrier.
• As Tai'ao'duo’s fleet attacked through a severe blizzard, Jisu's team detected its ships with VHF radar and Zijin used the Star Core and her spells to destroy the Scourge of Absolution.
• Stacy admitted that she had infected the Silver Dragon Guard with psoriasis, then explained Su Ming and Bay Owl’s partnership, and Yin'er held the dragons back from the battle while Stacy began treating them.
• The blizzard eased and the Pansy’s crew cleared its deck as Saxon the Trickster arrived with about fifty Sea Eagle Beasts and high-ranking Temple of Light clergy.

Su Ming’s fleet captured Temple of Light ships and secured Shining Island while Zijin confronted questions about her origins and the dragons’ future. At Northern Ice Island, Lanmo survived Yinfei’s betrayal and ancient ruins revealed the Rift Tribe’s lost teleportation array, which Chloe began studying as Su Ming and Zijin continued toward Dragon Valley.

• Zijin helped defeat the clerics and Naga assault, but the Naga Queen escaped underwater despite Su Ming’s pursuit.
• Su Ming’s fleet captured the Thorns of Atonement and other enemy ships, then returned to repair the Scourge of Absolution.
• Stacy brought the Silver Dragons to the Pansy, where Zijin challenged Yin’er and gained his support as a possible new king.
• Rupert, Jielusi, Ruixiuli, and Beianqi captured Temple of Light vessels and took General Tai'ao'duo alive, completing Su Ming’s naval objectives.
• Yinfei attacked Lanmo on Northern Ice Island and tried to frame Zijin, but Lanmo used Old Humanity’s teachings to drive her off before discovering an ancient chamber and enormous dragon skeleton.
• Zijin told Su Ming that Dragon Valley’s Land of Ancestral Spirits might correct her incomplete form, while refusing a Dragon Soul Contract that could damage his spatial power.
• Zijin used the Radiant Chanter’s soul to uncover the Temple of Light’s secrets about Cortes and its forces, then killed him after thwarting the cathedral’s attempts to reclaim him.
• Chloe explained that the Rift Tribe’s ancient array had teleported food to the island, and she agreed to study how to restore it while Su Ming and Zijin headed for Dragon Valley.

Su Ming surveyed the Feather Race’s frozen territory, uncovered the Rift Tribe’s connection to the dangerous Eden Realm, and helped rebuild the Pansy for its next voyage. After Atiya’s murder left Zijin grieving, the crew held a sports meet, while new suspicions about Yexiya and a trip to Green Thorn Port left the story poised for what comes next.

• Su Ming mapped the ice and dangerous crevasses beneath Northern Ice Island, helping the Feather Race locate the remains of lost miners and identify useful mineral deposits.
• Zijin negotiated an agreement with the Feather Race that included materials and access to Eternal Night Territory, while Chloe received a new identity as Katharine and began treatment for her heart condition.
• Chloe and Zijin deciphered the Rift Tribe’s records, and Su Ming’s spell restored a mural that showed the dragon’s attack and an overwhelming eye from the higher-energy Eden Realm.
• Zijin used the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet and Divine Favor Scepter to shield Su Ming from the mural’s energy, then guided him through a mental connection that revealed presences aboard the Pansy and its captured supply ship.
• Su Ming learned that Atiya had been murdered and Leoni had disappeared, and Zijin grieved for Atiya while Su Ming stayed beside her.
• Su Ming rebuilt the Pansy as a wide trimaran and organized the Ice Sea Athletic Tournament, which ended with the prisoner-of-war camp winning the football championship.
• Katharine discovered that Yexiya’s signature did not match the real Yexiya’s handwriting and sent Su Ming the evidence, while Zijin concealed a forehead scale and went shopping with him in Green Thorn Port.

Su Ming and Zijin developed Dragon Valley’s ports, industry, and administration while investigating threats from the Temple of Light and goblin smugglers. As the goblins prepared to attack and Su Ming set a deadline for a counteroffensive, Katharine brought intelligence about the Divine Covenant Faction and the Plundering Clock.

• Zijin and Su Ming pursued Saxon through Green Thorn Port, where the Silver Dragons eventually trapped and badly injured him.
• Stacy and Ruixiuli investigated the lizardmen’s mating disorder, and Shadu exposed Leonite as the culprit and defeated her with a sandstorm.
• Zijin and Su Ming underwent the Dragon Race’s bloodline-purification ritual, and Su Ming later selected Sapphire Bay for a new port and raised Sapphire Port with Zijin’s help.
• Su Ming organized Ruby Base, recruited dragon laborers, and began industrial projects, including a hydroelectric dam that supplied power to the base.
• Zijin and the dragon leadership expanded centralized administration as Su Ming’s worker-focused stories circulated, and Su Ming’s team raided a suspected Temple of Light outpost in Gray Ridge and rescued Hechun.
• Rupert uncovered evidence that the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce was smuggling goblin rockets, and Zijin strengthened customs inspections while the smugglers prepared an ambush.
• Su Ming and Zijin learned from Aideluzi that Samanya and Pope Augustus had arranged the bloodline deception involving Janet, then sent samples for DNA analysis while preparing for war.
• Su Ming ordered troops toward the border and set a fifteen-day deadline for an offensive, while Katharine briefed him on the Divine Covenant Faction and the Plundering Clock as goblin forces began moving supplies for an attack.