Chapter Summaries

Zijin and her allies fought Abigai and Ruogejin as Aiwanbei'er led the bearfolk toward the Youth Civilization. Abigai trapped Zijin with her domain, while Ruogejin's exhausted stone form continued to hold off Ge'enda'er, Jielusi, and Silver Mask.

• Ruogejin transformed into a stone giant and attacked Ge'enda'er, while Silver Mask struck at his armor and Jielusi healed Ge'enda'er.
• Jielusi noticed Aiwanbei'er fleeing toward the Youth Civilization with more than sixty bearfolk, and urged her allies to defeat Ruogejin quickly.
• Abigai battered Zijin with elemental spells, then revealed that she had used her domain, Silk Shame Prison, to bind Zijin's consciousness and invade her mind.
• Yise rushed in to attack Abigai, but Abigai blocked her strike and drove her back while continuing to overpower Zijin mentally.
• Silver Mask stabbed Ruogejin through a crack in his armor as Ge'enda'er pressed the attack, but Ruogejin repaired his armor and prepared to keep fighting despite losing nearly half his magic.

The Doomsday Locomotive detached from the Youth Civilization and charged through the Bearfolk Clan’s forces, then headed toward Ruogejin’s rock giant. Meanwhile, Su Ming confronted Abigai, who controlled Zijin’s body, and Yise continued attacking Abigai’s true body.

• Younier disabled the locomotive’s safety restrictions while Newman disconnected the carriages, and the crew activated Doomsday Mode.
• Qiluo shielded the Doomsday Locomotive as Aiwanbei'er struck it, and it drove into the bearfolk ranks before Gospel helped it drift through them.
• The locomotive swept through bearfolk warriors, then turned toward Ruogejin’s rock giant after Qiluo pointed it out.
• Su Ming reached Zijin and realized Abigai was controlling her; he accused Abigai of using girls as puppets and vowed not to let her or the Sea of Divine Grace escape.
• Abigai forced Zijin to form a Sigh of Eternal Winter spell and sent ice spikes at Yise, who survived the attack in her Mithril Wing Armor.

Su Ming and Zijin turned the battle against Abigai, freeing Zijin and separating Abigai from her staff while Yise kept attacking. At the White Bone Train, Hansite and Newman prepared a heavy-metal assault on the charging bearfolk as Aiwanbei'er realized the danger and ordered them to run.

• Su Ming revealed that he controlled Zijin through the White Bone Mark, then transferred her silk cocoon onto himself so she could break free and dispel Abigai's spell.
• Zijin and the badly injured Yise attacked Abigai from both sides, and Yise's Blade of the Scales bound Abigai's Frost Sky Staff and carried it away.
• Ruogejin ordered Aiwanbei'er to attack the White Bone Train's abandoned cars, and Hansite turned Gospel back to protect them.
• Newman and Hansite connected their instruments to Gospel's runes and magic array while Younier put on a silencing helmet.
• Aiwanbei'er spread out the bearfolk to evade Gospel and destroy the cars, but the locomotive unleashed a powerful heavy-metal sound that made him roar for everyone to run.

Su Ming’s death metal music turned the bearfolk into a frenzied fighting force, but Newman defeated their chief Aiwanbei'er with a hidden cannon and raised him as an undead gunner. The Doomsday Locomotive headed toward Ruogejin, whom Silver Mask stopped from escaping with a relic-grade chain.

• Su Ming realized the music was death metal, and the amplified performance sent the bearfolk into a battle frenzy.
• Aiwanbei'er’s music-enhanced charge damaged the Doomsday Locomotive’s shield, but Newman trapped him with a spike plate and fired eight cannon rounds, killing him.
• Newman raised Aiwanbei'er as a skeletal bear and armed him with the locomotive’s cannon while the Doomsday Locomotive turned toward Jielusi’s group and Ruogejin.
• Ruogejin shed his rock armor and tried to flee with a Levitation Spell, but Silver Mask caught his ankle with Fenrir's Whiskers.

Abigai infiltrated Su Ming’s mind to control the White Bone Mark, but its password lock thwarted her before she turned to the QBA221 weapon. Meanwhile, Qiluo’s speeding train crushed Ruogejin, leaving the battle’s other fighters to discover his remains beneath its tracks.

• Jielusi distracted Ruogejin with Forbidden Fruit Pact while Ge'enda'er struck him down, and Silver Mask and Jielusi joined the fight against him.
• Abigai used the puppet threads to seize control of Su Ming, while Zijin exploited Abigai’s divided attention to batter her Water Curtain.
• Abigai tried to activate the White Bone Mark but encountered a password dialog, then took control of Su Ming’s body and aimed QBA221 at Yise.
• Ruogejin swelled with unstable magic power and threatened to take everyone with him as Qiluo’s train rushed toward the fight.
• Qiluo and Gospel stopped the train, and Qiluo found Ruogejin crushed beneath its tracks and complained that the others had finished him off before she could act.

Su Ming and his allies weakened Abigai and broke her control over him, while Adjudicator Squad members rescued the imprisoned girls at Him Cavern. Abigai fled after deciding the battle had turned against her, leaving Su Ming’s forces to intercept her before she escaped.

• Adjudicator Squad members attacked the guards at Him Cavern, freed Zephlin and Rupert, and fought alongside them to defeat the bearmen.
• Yise pinned Su Ming while Abigai controlled his body, and Zijin struck Abigai with a Negative Energy Torrent as Su Ming kept her distracted; Abigai severed her connection to him.
• Su Ming explained that he had learned of Thread Puppet Prison through Leoni’s report and had planned the battle to wear Abigai down; Katharine warned that they had to prevent her escape and asked Su Ming to severely wound her.
• Abigai recognized that the battle was turning against her, forced Zijin back with Sigh of Eternal Winter, and fled at full speed while Zijin failed to catch her.

Zijin trapped Abigai with a forbidden spell that drained the water from her body, but the spell’s backlash left Zijin helpless. Su Ming and the others tried to press their advantage, yet Abigai fought back fiercely, and Yise fell under the control of puppet threads.

• Zijin tricked Abigai with a false Chaos Annihilation and trapped her inside Abidajier · Horrifying Withering Spell, which drove away the water in her defenses and body.
• Zijin collapsed from mana exhaustion and backlash, and Su Ming caught her; Qiluo said she could heal Zijin in two or three days but needed them to escape the puppet-thread owner first.
• Abigai began countering the Withering Spell and fleeing, but Silver Mask bound her with Fenrir's Whiskers while Ge'enda'er and Jielusi attacked.
• Jielusi's Forbidden Fruit Pact spread across the chain and afflicted Abigai, who retaliated by striking Ge'enda'er and then sending Jielusi crashing into a mountainside.
• Yise charged at Abigai but was seized by puppet threads and began losing control of her body.

Su Ming and the battered allies defeated Abigai after Yise broke free of her mind control, though Yise was left mortified when Su Ming disintegrated her armor and revealed her baby pajamas. After the battle, Su Ming fled with Zijin to avoid being seen using Divine Favor: Soul Devouring on Abigai’s corpse.

• Su Ming restrained Yise, but Abigai broke the cuffs and controlled her into attacking him and Silver Mask.
• Qiluo empowered Su Ming as he held Yise back, while Silver Mask and the others endured Abigai’s attacks and kept her bound with Fenrir’s Whiskers.
• Abigai tried to activate Yise’s Mithril Wing Armor, but Su Ming disintegrated it and exposed Yise’s baby pajamas, causing Yise to break Abigai’s control in shame and fury.
• Yise, Su Ming, Jielusi, and Ge'enda'er overwhelmed Abigai, and Yise landed the final blow that killed her.
• Jielusi covered the embarrassed Yise, while Su Ming took the awakened Zijin and hurried away before anyone could witness his planned use of Divine Favor: Soul Devouring.

Su Ming and Zijin reviewed the battle and identified flaws in their weapons production, while Zijin recovered from the backlash of the law. Su Ming visited the cavern shelter, where the rescued girls and wounded were being treated and fed.

• Su Ming criticized Zijin’s performance while Abigai controlled her, then asked about Yise’s weapon, Stars · Cease Hostilities, and learned it could seal an opponent’s weapon temporarily.
• Su Ming and Zijin traced the rocket malfunctions to rushed production and inconsistent explosives, and agreed to establish standardized manufacturing with Newman’s help.
• Zijin stayed behind to rest while Su Ming left the locomotive to check on the cavern shelter.
• Su Ming encountered Yise, who avoided speaking to him, and learned that Jielusi had been cursed by Abigai’s final attack.
• The less seriously injured girls prepared food and melted snow for water in the cavern’s outer chamber.

Su Ming secured the captured bearmen as laborers for the Sacred Mountain plan and gave Rupert gold as he settled in Dawn Territory. He then found Younier learning natural alchemy from Newman and discussed using her knowledge to connect local technology with his developing production system.

• Hansite forced the captured bearmen to denounce Jörmungandr, and Su Ming decided they would serve as heavy laborers for the Sacred Mountain plan.
• Su Ming apologized to Rupert for involving him in the trouble at Shafeng'er Town and gave him a bag of gold coins.
• Newman praised Younier's aptitude for natural alchemy and agreed to teach her its basics.
• Younier learned that Su Ming had made the White Bone Train through alchemy and was shocked by his skill.
• Su Ming told Newman that Younier could help bridge local technology with the production system he planned to develop.

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.