Chapter Summaries

Katharine persuaded Dafulin to support the planned attack on Divine Might Prison and the Sea of Divine Grace, while telling her that Newman’s soul had been preserved. Dafulin agreed to seek permission to deploy the Iron Crown Imperial Guard and travel to the tunnel excavation site.

• Su Ming watched moonlight and Jielusi’s Light Rain Spell help restore the forest around the train.
• Dafulin arrived secretly at Silent Dawn Cathedral and discussed the Green Bridge plans and the operation against Divine Might Prison with Katharine.
• Katharine told Dafulin that Newman had authorized Jimite to preserve his soul in a Deep Soul Cocoon, and Dafulin broke down upon learning it was her former teacher.
• Katharine explained that the plan had expanded to include the Sea of Divine Grace, and Dafulin agreed to ask the royal family to send the Iron Crown Imperial Guard from the south.
• Dafulin agreed to visit the tunnel excavation site under the pretext of inspecting the territory, then left to contact the royal capital.

Yise’s team raided a trading house, killed the traffickers, rescued the surviving girls, and set out to pursue the mysterious buyers. Meanwhile, Newman and Zijin opened a hot charcoal kiln, and Qiluo used Ring of Vacuum to smother the flames, prompting Su Ming to question why it had failed to stop a fire in Lisi City.

• Yise and the priests stormed the trading house and discovered a dungeon where mercenaries held dozens of injured girls.
• Yise’s team killed the mercenaries, interrogated the merchants, and learned that the buyers had already left without revealing their destination.
• Yise ordered the trading house’s evidence destroyed, arranged for the rescued girls to be taken somewhere safe, and followed the buyers’ route west on a map.
• Silver Mask explained that the buyers’ westward journey from Moon Bay Port was unusual, and Yise vowed to pursue them toward the Dome Mountains, the Sacred Mountain, and the Sea of Divine Grace.
• On the third morning, Zijin opened a hot charcoal kiln, causing the charcoal to ignite, and Qiluo used Ring of Vacuum to stop the fire.
• Su Ming wondered why Qiluo’s Ring of Vacuum had not completely extinguished the fire at the Asitake family’s place in Lisi City.

Jielusi helped Su Ming’s group finish making and loading charcoal, then the story shifted to Leoni agreeing to investigate Princess Dafulin’s kidnapping. As the White Bone Train began its first full maintenance, Zijin explained how Galio had teleported the White Bone Fortress to the Plain of Despair.

• Jielusi learned that Katharine had tricked her into bringing only ornate dresses, borrowed work clothes from Younier, and asked Su Ming for a copy of a picture of Katharine and young Yise.
• Jielusi helped the crew empty the final charcoal kiln, sent the charcoal makers home with gold, and erased their memories before the Youth Civilization departed.
• Jiefuleike told Leoni that Princess Dafulin would settle with his territory if one-sixth of it came under royal supervision and Leoni investigated the scene of her kidnapping in Lisi City; Leoni agreed.
• Su Ming’s crew began servicing the White Bone Train at Hard Rock Canyon, while Zijin told him that Galio had used a large-scale teleportation to bring the White Bone Fortress from the Plain of Despair.

Su Ming and Zijin recovered bone fragments from the frozen Kela River and repaired the bone dragon, but their attempt at a deeper mental connection proved dangerous. Zijin then began training Su Ming in flight, and they started gathering the remaining bones from the riverbed.

• Zijin identified the frozen river as the place where the White Bone Fortress had lost bone material, and Hansite and Newman blasted open the ice.
• Zijin used the bone dragon to retrieve rib fragments, but Su Ming had to reassemble the mismatched bones and repair their cracks.
• While repairing the ribs, Su Ming entered Zijin’s spiritual sea and was forced out when she resisted; Zijin warned him not to try again until they were both ready.
• Zijin knocked Su Ming into the snow and began flight training by carrying him high above the canyon and diving with him into it.
• Su Ming ordered the Youth Civilization’s systems shut down and its personnel to leave, then he and Zijin used the White Bone Mark to gather bone fragments from beneath the river ice.

Su Ming reinforced the White Bone Train, prepared it for the journey to the Sacred Mountain, and watched the train’s band take shape. Meanwhile, Zephlin and Rupert investigated the disappearance of Rosalia in Kalaning Village, while Su Ming discovered Newman had rearranged the locomotive’s searchlights.

• Su Ming and Zijin recovered the White Bone Fortress’s scattered bones, reinforcing the White Bone Train and strengthening the White Bone Mark.
• Hansite fried potato strips, and Younier confronted him after he and the unicorn ate the red tubers she had bought for dye.
• Hansite told Su Ming that Gospel would play drums for their band, and Su Ming upgraded the controls before Gospel set off with the heavier train.
• Zephlin and Rupert learned that Rosalia had been taken from Kalaning Village by an unknown party, so they set out to investigate.
• Su Ming checked the train’s fuel calculations and learned Newman had shifted the searchlights, adding fake housings to disguise the change.

Su Ming and Miao Xin prepared a spirit decoy and attended a meeting with Earth’s technical and support teams, where the team requested permission to scan Little Spiky Head. The request left Su Ming recalling Miao Mu’s advice on handling the powerful organization interested in him.

• Miao Xin transformed a hippo’s spirit into Little He, bound it to a pendant, and made it a decoy carrying fluctuations like Nether Sea.
• Miao Xin arrived at the mountain meeting site disguised as Miss Qiu, where Ling Wen introduced her to the participants.
• Jin Rongjia set a thirty-minute limit for the meeting, and Silk Thread outlined her team’s plans to coordinate support and seek firsthand information.
• Jisu thanked Su Ming for helping crack the White Bone Mark, then asked to perform noninvasive scans and tests on Little Spiky Head.
• Su Ming handed control of Little Spiky Head to Miao Xin and recalled Miao Mu advising him that his great value would attract competing interests and require finesse.

Miao Xin agreed to limited experiments on Little Spiky Head, while Su Ming set firm terms and halted negotiations when Jisu pushed for more. He then imposed new safeguards on Sangzi Group’s research into the transfer, leaving Sangzi to respond to his demand for independent oversight.

• Miao Xin agreed to experiments only if plans were submitted a week in advance, any warning signs ended them immediately, and each session lasted no more than two hours with seven days between sessions.
• Miao Mu advised Su Ming to cooperate with research while protecting Miao Xin, and Su Ming said she accepted research on Little Spiky Head but not frequent tests.
• When Jisu urged more frequent experiments, Su Ming abruptly cancelled the plan, making clear that Miao Xin and he would set the terms.
• Sangzi showed footage and analysis of Little Spiky Head transferring machinery, then asked to conduct further observation and research into the process.
• Miao Mu warned Su Ming that the physicists might take dangerous risks for spatial research and advised him to set rules, create competing oversight, and give them other work.
• Su Ming asked Sangzi to submit experiment plans for review, accept specific safety limits, and allow another research group to supervise; Sangzi objected that her group already followed careful review and supervision.

Su Ming arranged oversight for Sangzi’s research and agreed to work with the Harvest Machinery Factory, while he and Miao Mu discussed how mutual interests could protect their cooperation. Meanwhile, Miao Xin’s helicopter crashed after a powerful Resentment Mark appeared, and Diodos forced Broken Wing’s spirit to explode.

• Su Ming required an oversight group for Sangzi’s experiments and destroyed her paper report, then accepted the Harvest Machinery Factory’s aircraft proposal.
• Miao Mu explained that cooperation and mutual benefits could protect Su Ming, and Su Ming said Jin Rongjia wanted to go fishing too.
• Ling Wen sent Miao Xin by helicopter, but Miao Xin detected a powerful Resentment Mark surrounding the aircraft.
• The helicopter lost lift and crashed into a forest, while Alituo ordered Diodos to detonate Miao Xin.
• Diodos poured negative energy into the wreckage until Broken Wing’s spirit burst apart and expanded into a monstrous form.

Diodos realized the helicopter pilots’ souls were missing and fled, while Miao Xin’s team revealed that the apparent helicopter attack had been a decoy in a planned operation to catch him. Su Ming recognized that the enemy was using a Calamity Mark that could disrupt technology through causality, so he urged the command center to attack Diodos immediately as the pursuit began.

• Diodos spotted a floating hippo soul above the helicopter and realized the pilots’ souls were missing, then drove away from the scene.
• The helicopter’s figures were revealed to be robots, and Miao Xin identified Diodos from a concealed command post five kilometers away.
• The command center launched a large-scale interception, deploying helicopters, drones, armored vehicles, soldiers, and SWAT officers while closing the highway and cutting communications.
• Su Ming and Zijin identified the enemy’s power as a Calamity Mark that could interfere with objective causality and cripple technological systems.
• Su Ming concluded that the attackers likely came from the magic world and demanded that the forces attack Diodos immediately, warning that he might not be human.

Jin Rongjia’s forces killed Diodos with a coordinated missile strike after he evaded rockets and damaged a helicopter. The team then discovered a second suspect had fled into the forest, leaving his whereabouts unknown.

• Jin Rongjia ordered an attack on Diodos, who escaped his burning vehicle and dodged helicopter-launched rockets while striking one helicopter with a ranged attack.
• Su Ming revised Diodos’s threat level to high-rank, and the command center launched sixteen missiles in a coordinated strike that stopped him.
• Miao Xin discussed possible ways to evade similar missile attacks, while Su Ming questioned Jin Rongjia about the operation’s “Zhong Kui” plan.
• Drones and a robotic dog confirmed Diodos was dead, and authorities began securing the scene against approaching onlookers.
• An analyst identified Target 2, who had observed Miss Qiu’s crash and may have communicated with Diodos; Jin Rongjia ordered a blanket search after the suspect abandoned his car and disappeared into the forest.

Su Ming realized that testing Diodos’s hair for cesium-137 could reveal whether he had lived on Earth, while the Youth Civilization prepared to cross the Upper Ridge Mountains. In the laboratory car, Su Ming and Zijin began analyzing materials from Galio’s stronghold.

• Jin Rongjia’s team searched for Target 2 but failed to find the enemy, while Su Ming reasoned that Diodos and his accomplice had likely come from beyond Earth.
• Su Ming asked Sangzi whether it could detect cesium-137 in individual hair segments, then persuaded Jin Rongjia to test Diodos’s hair for evidence of his time on Earth.
• The Youth Civilization stopped at the Upper Ridge Mountains to prepare for the passage through Pagni Canyon, and Younier helped Jielusi sort clothes.
• Qiluo examined Jielusi’s sealed soul and identified her technique as the Mirror Soul Technique, offering to ask a fairy expert about it.
• Su Ming and Zijin set up a Raman spectrometer in the laboratory car and prepared to analyze the mineral samples they had collected.

Su Ming and Zijin used a Raman spectrometer to identify rare elements in otherworldly materials while discussing how Earth might detect visitors from beyond the realm. Testing Rock Core caused a blinding flash that injured Zijin and Qiluo, and Su Ming reported the apparent laboratory accident after discovering the sample had changed color.

• Su Ming explained to Zijin how cesium-137 in a warrior’s hair could reveal whether and when he had arrived on Earth, and Zijin worried that Earth might detect her too.
• Su Ming and Zijin completed a materials table matching rare elements to otherworldly minerals while Qiluo tried to push past the electric fence into the laboratory.
• Zijin tested the overlooked Rock Core sample, and a sudden flash filled the laboratory, injuring her and Qiluo’s eyes.
• Jielusi treated both patients and diagnosed retinal damage, prescribing Reshaping treatments for Zijin and stabilizing both injuries.
• Su Ming inspected the Rock Core, found it had turned dull gray, and reported the incident and equipment records to people on Earth.

After an experiment injured Zijin, Su Ming’s crew received a mysterious gold coin through an Animal Messenger squirrel. They discovered that the coin held a nature-related memory and asked Younier to interpret it, but its message remained unclear.

• Su Ming learned that the Rock Core experiment had emitted light at an unexpected frequency, burning the instruments and injuring Zijin’s eyes.
• A squirrel brought Su Ming a bloodstained gold coin, and Hansite recognized the delivery as an Animal Messenger spell.
• Su Ming marked the squirrel with Dark Beacon, while Zijin and the radar searched the area but found no sender.
• Qiluo identified the coin’s aura as belonging to Obad-Hai, and Zijin sensed that it contained an image-like memory.
• Younier revealed that she followed the God of Nature and explained how such messages could be passed between followers.
• Zijin guided Younier to consider gold panning natural, and the coin began to glow as Younier concentrated on it.

After a provocative letter led Su Ming’s group to Him Cavern, drones revealed Bearfolk and humans assembling a powerful magitech weapon called the Ring of Winter. Meanwhile, Leoni investigated the ruins of the Asitake family home and uncovered a mysterious captive who had tried to destroy the evidence.

• Qiluo projected Younier’s vision of dead young women into the carriage, and Su Ming traced the squirrel’s route toward Him Cavern.
• Su Ming moved the Youth Civilization to improve its view and sent drones toward the cavern, where they spotted a Bearfolk emerging from the entrance.
• Leoni used Trace Shadows of All Things at the Asitake family ruins and reconstructed the events surrounding Dafulin’s capture and the Bone King’s intervention.
• Leoni found a fifth captive encased in a strange cocoon, standing among explosives with a detonator, and watched her crush it before a priest’s paralysis spell could stop her.
• Su Ming’s drone footage showed Bearfolk and humans preparing the Ring of Winter beside a group of mammoths, prompting the team to plan a closer look.

Su Ming and his allies discovered that abducted girls were being held in a cavern, where Abigai was preparing them for a mysterious operation powered by the Eternal Cataclysm Star Orbit. Katharine warned that the old woman accompanying the traffickers might be a Saint Rank, but Su Ming doubted it because she was unknown.

• Su Ming identified Rupert and Father Zephlin in the footage, while Qiluo recognized a middle-aged man connected to the abductors; Su Ming sent Ge'enda'er to alert Katharine.
• In Him Cavern, Abigai carved runes into a captive girl and learned that Aiwanbei'er had arrived late because the Whitaker Family's Magic Crystal Cores were delayed.
• Aiwanbei'er revealed that he had abducted Immanuel, the Whitaker supplier's son, and brought the crystal cores; Ruogejin began installing them in the Eternal Cataclysm Star Orbit.
• Ge'enda'er contacted Katharine through the church network and reported the cavern and its captives; Katharine reasoned that the suspects were powerful because Qiluo had sensed no malice.
• Katharine said the old woman might be a Saint Rank, but Su Ming doubted it because no record of her existed.

Su Ming weighed whether to attack the Plundering Clock’s force as the group discovered that its leaders were assembling a dangerous weapon and that the old woman was a Saint Rank expert. After Katharine confirmed the threat, Su Ming ordered an immediate assault.

• Katharine warned Su Ming that the mysterious faction might have Saint Rank strength and said Yise and Silver Mask’s squad were coming to support him.
• Leoni used Trace Shadows of All Things to trace the threads controlling the girl to Abigai, confirmed she was a Saint Rank expert, and watched her arrange the destruction of evidence at the traffickers’ house.
• Younier counted ninety-seven bearmen in the drone footage, while Su Ming and Zijin discussed the risks of attacking Ruogejin’s group and the unknown old woman.
• Newman identified the device the bearmen were assembling as the offensive Winter Core, and Zijin urged Su Ming to strike before the Plundering Clock became a greater threat.
• Ge'enda'er delivered Katharine’s urgent message confirming the old woman was Saint Rank, and Su Ming ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

Ruogejin assembled the Eternal Cataclysm Star Orbit with Magic Crystal Cores secretly replaced by counterfeits, while Immanuel feared the weapon’s full test would expose the fraud. As an approaching swarm of rockets attacked Him Cavern, Abigai activated the weapon, and Zephlin stopped Rupert from fleeing.

• Ruogejin finished installing the cores and activated the Star Wall, then Abigai ordered him to assemble the Star Core for a full test.
• Immanuel recalled that the Whitaker Family had substituted counterfeit cores after Bennyfinn’s shipment vanished and feared the test would expose the scheme.
• Rupert and Zephlin carried a chest to the worksite, and Rupert proposed approaching Immanuel to seek a chance to escape.
• Abigai spotted incoming rockets, activated the Eternal Cataclysm Star Orbit, and destroyed three drones with wind blades.
• Immanuel urged the guards to flee, while Rupert tried to escape and Zephlin held him back.

Su Ming and Zijin attacked Abigai with rockets while Zijin prepared super-tier magic, but Abigai’s Starlight ring reflected an explosion back at the Youth Civilization and damaged the train. The rockets continued their assault despite the train’s destruction, leaving Abigai engulfed in another blast as the chapter ended.

• Su Ming watched the rockets lose their guidance links, while Zijin judged Abigai to be a veteran Saint Rank with a powerful flying ring.
• Su Ming explained that the rockets could use inertial navigation and pursue the largest target, and they swarmed Abigai as she defended herself with the Star Wall.
• Zijin began preparing super-tier magic while asking Su Ming about the difference between a rocket and a missile.
• Abigai’s Star Wall crystal cores shattered, revealing them to be fake, so she activated Starlight’s damage-reflection ability.
• Abigai reflected rocket explosions toward the Youth Civilization, destroying its launch platform and splitting the train, but the remaining rockets kept attacking her.
• Su Ming assessed the train’s damage and confirmed that its auxiliary power systems and fire-extinguishing projectile weapon were disabled, with no personnel casualties.

Su Ming and Zijin fought Abigai after destroying the Ring of Winter, while Su Ming defended the mountaintop from a bearman assault. Outside Him Cavern, Ruogejin noticed the unexpected appearance of another Saint Rank and hesitated over whether to join the fight.

• Zijin struck Abigai with the Divine Edict and a hidden underground attack, badly wounding her and destroying her protective equipment.
• Abigai ordered Ruogejin to deal with the White Bone Train, then engaged Zijin in an aerial battle and countered her magic with Natural Rhythm.
• Su Ming killed several attacking bearmen with the QBA221, slowed the survivors with a spell, and switched to his Thorn Long Whip when the recoil numbed his shoulder.
• Ruogejin found Immanuel dead near a rocket blast and spared the two human captives hiding beside Him Cavern.
• Ruogejin sensed an unfamiliar Saint Rank nearby and debated whether to intervene.

Su Ming and Yise fought off a group of Bearfolk in the snow, while Ruogejin, Ge'enda'er, Silver Mask, and Aiwanbei'er clashed elsewhere. As more Bearfolk arrived, Su Ming and Yise prepared to keep fighting, and Ge'enda'er drew Aiwanbei'er back into the stone-pillar battlefield.

• Ruogejin was attacked by Silver Mask, while Aiwanbei'er charged him and Ge'enda'er intervened to hold the Bearfolk back with Jielusi's healing support.
• Su Ming tested bone spears against the Bearfolk, then concluded that firearms were more effective because the creatures could anticipate magic attacks.
• Yise arrived and killed a Bearfolk with the Sword of the Scales before greeting Su Ming, who had been fighting without a disguise.
• Su Ming shot one Bearfolk while Yise killed another, and she explained that the Truth Cult of the Plundering Clock had persuaded the Bearfolk to seek a glorious death.
• Ruogejin trapped Ge'enda'er among stone pillars, but Silver Mask's attack was interrupted when Aiwanbei'er knocked him into the snow.
• Ge'enda'er leaped back into the fight and dragged Aiwanbei'er among the stone pillars, challenging him to continue their battle.