Chapter Summaries

Su Ming broke through to a new realm and used Dawn and Dusk’s Eternal Frost Deposition to freeze Aideluzi, capturing him alive. Meanwhile, Katharine disarmed and cornered Sabina at Divine Might Prison, demanding her surrender.

• Su Ming stabilized after his breakthrough, then activated Dawn and Dusk’s first segment, Eternal Frost Deposition, against Aideluzi and the pursuing Azure Sky Battle Puppets.
• The frost domain overwhelmed Aideluzi, freezing him in a block of ice, while the weaker battle puppets fell from the sky.
• Su Ming landed beside the trapped Aideluzi, whose capture Qiluo celebrated, and joked that he had gained another prisoner for the Divine Might Prison pool.
• At Divine Might Prison, Katharine severed Sabina’s arm and condemned her use of human modification as the warden defended her desperate attempt to gain power.
• Katharine disarmed Sabina and held a blade to her throat, ordering her to surrender.

Yise and her companions overpowered the guards in Divine Might Prison while Su Ming coordinated the other battlefields. As the enemy forces gathered at the Sea of Divine Grace, Su Ming launched missiles and ordered the Human Bone Machine Band to change its music.

• Yise and her companions killed Laswage and the remaining guards and jailers, intimidating the freed Temple of Light captives into surrendering.
• Katharine reported that Divine Might Prison was suppressed, Zijin reported two enemies remaining at the coal mine, and Dafulin confirmed the Azure Sky Battle Puppets had been wiped out.
• Newman reported that the Sea of Divine Grace luring mission was complete as Divine Grace Knights and other reinforcements converged on the battlefield.
• Su Ming launched two missiles toward the gathered enemy forces and ordered the Final Bone Mad Machines to disengage.
• Hansite began playing "Unforgettable Tonight," and the charging forces stopped while the undead continued pursuing them.

Su Ming’s forces defeated the Sea of Divine Grace army, captured the Fate Manipulator, and broke the Everwatching Obelisk’s shield before storming the academy. After ordering the attack to continue against the surrendering defenders, Su Ming reflected on the deaths, while Zijin reunited with Stacy and began telling her about her new master.

• Bowers raised a barrier as two thermobaric bombs struck the Sea of Divine Grace army, and Su Ming ordered the Iron Crown Imperial Guard to finish off the survivors.
• Su Ming followed Zijin’s instructions to disable and capture the Fate Manipulator, while Zijin collected Hector the Radiant Chanter’s soul after he died underground.
• The Final Bone Mad Machines and Iron Crown Imperial Guard surrounded the Sea of Divine Grace Academy, while Star Sand tended to the wounded and Rupert announced battlefield rules.
• Newman and Princess Dafulin calculated the Everwatching Obelisk’s shield distortion point, and Su Ming’s missiles shattered the shield so the forces could charge inside.
• Su Ming ordered the attack to continue despite the defenders’ surrender, and Zijin praised him for the victory as he acknowledged that future battles would bring more deaths.
• Zijin sat with Stacy outside the academy, and Stacy asked her to recount how she met the new master of the White Bone Mark.

After the battle, Su Ming’s group salvaged the academy while Katharine learned that the Temple of Light’s pope had ordered her birth family killed and taken her as an infant. As Su Ming and Katharine discussed her revenge and her commitment to Star Sand, Zijin joined them to decide what they would do next.

• Su Ming inspected the dismantling of the Everwatching Obelisk, but Newman estimated the work would take three days and wanted more time to salvage the academy.
• Katharine questioned Dainkesi, who recalled that the pope, Augustus, had ordered him to take a blonde newborn named Kalila after killing her family; Katharine left him frozen in the dungeon.
• Su Ming told Katharine that the alchemist he hoped to recruit had died, and she explained how she discovered her origins and began plotting against the Temple of Light.
• Katharine said she no longer wanted Star Sand’s members to become sacrifices for her revenge, and she and Su Ming restored the ransacked warden’s office and made tea.
• Zijin joined Su Ming and Katharine in the office, where Su Ming said they needed to decide on their plans going forward.

Su Ming, Katharine, and Zijin debated whether to prioritize an ambush or prepare to dismantle and rebuild the Temple of Light, then confronted who would control Star Sand. Katharine offered to recognize Zijin as its supreme leader in exchange for a duel with Su Ming, but Zijin refused to let Katharine fight him.

• Katharine proposed ambushing the Divine Covenant Faction and seizing the Temple of Light, while Su Ming argued they should strengthen their base and destroy the church before rebuilding it.
• Zijin understood that attacking the church before securing its spoils could leave Star Sand vulnerable to the surrounding factions.
• Su Ming warned that Katharine could use her identity as the true Pale New Words to take control of Star Sand, and Katharine said she wanted revenge on the pope and protection for her followers.
• Katharine teased that she might arrange a marriage between her daughter Yise and Su Ming, prompting Yise to throw a greatsword through the window and fly away in embarrassment.
• Katharine offered to recognize Zijin as Star Sand's saintess and supreme leader regardless of the outcome of a duel with Su Ming, but Zijin refused to let Katharine fight him.

Su Ming and Dafulin discussed the retreat, their plan to mislead the Temple of Light, and the Cold Mountain Kingdom’s need for tunnels. The kingdom agreed to wait for Su Ming to provide a simpler steam-powered tunneling design in a year, while his team prepared to withdraw and continue its operation.

• Dafulin reported that the decoy team had reached Grodno, but the Temple of Light’s fleet was gathering nearby and could expose their false trail.
• Su Ming planned to leave Newman and a work team behind to dismantle the site while the others withdrew aboard the White Bone Train.
• Katharine and Dafulin agreed to blame the Plundering Clock for the operation and use the Temple of Light’s losses to buy at least three months.
• Dafulin asked Su Ming to help the Cold Mountain Kingdom dig tunnels, but he offered to design steam-powered tunneling equipment instead of providing his own machinery.
• Su Ming proposed delivering the design in a year with additional cooperation conditions, and Dafulin accepted.

Su Ming learned that claiming Eternal Night Town required him to accept a marriage contract, while Zijin promised she had prepared a trap for Cold Mountain’s king. After lunch, Su Ming met Archbishop Stanton and watched Yuya release the wounded, captive Sabina near the watchtower.

• Dafulin explained that Su Ming could inherit Eternal Night Town by marrying the supposedly deceased Viscount Gennazio, and Katharine clarified that his spouse had to be a recognized noble.
• Su Ming contacted Zijin, who told him to accept the contract and said a name on it would make Cold Mountain’s king regret the arrangement.
• Su Ming ate in the Sea of Divine Grace’s public dining hall, where workers treated him warily because of his recent battlefield feats.
• Su Ming found the leaders’ dining room filled with torture devices, left, and ate on a watchtower overlooking the mountains.
• Archbishop Stanton explained that Feather Race members disguised their features to observe etiquette in human high society.
• Yuya released the badly wounded Sabina, the former warden of Divine Might Prison, who staggered away through the snow.

Su Ming learned how Katharine planned to frame the Plundering Clock for the Sacred Mountain prison break by manipulating evidence and Sabina’s memories. As supplies flowed back to Sheltered Valley, Katharine’s promised future gift for the Divine Covenant Faction remained pending.

• Stanton told Su Ming that Yuya had erased and rewritten Sabina’s memories according to Katharine’s instructions.
• Katharine explained that matching Sabina’s new memories to the real events would make the Divine Covenant Faction suspect a clumsy frame-up, while planted evidence and fabricated supplier identities would implicate the Plundering Clock.
• Katharine predicted that the Divine Covenant Faction would blame the prison break on Sabina and Javier, then focus its anger on the Plundering Clock for months.
• Su Ming thanked Stanton for his help, and Stanton affirmed the Feather Race’s loyalty to Zijin.
• Supplies, equipment, and over a thousand tons of coal were transported through the tunnel to the Sheltered Valley base.

Su Ming organized the base’s preparations and ordered the group to depart the next night, despite concerns about the wounded and unfinished supplies. He also recruited Rupert to manage another trainee group and visited Stacy’s infirmary, where she continued coordinating care for the injured.

• Su Ming’s team finished organizing the new necromancers into training camps while the managers and instructors explained the rules.
• Su Ming announced that they would leave at sunset the next day, and Younier confirmed the preparations could be completed in time.
• Su Ming paid Rupert for managing the First Construction Regiment and asked him to take charge of one more trainee group, which Rupert accepted.
• Su Ming visited the infirmary and found Stacy directing the medical team as she treated the wounded.

Su Ming visited the prison hospital, where he learned that Jielusi’s unstable magic stemmed from contact with a law and that Ruixiuli was tasked with investigating it. Katharine assigned Jielusi to serve as a liaison for the Final Bone Mad Machines while the doctors worked to help her regain control.

• Su Ming discussed medical supplies with Stacy, who said a skin disease affected nearly ninety percent of the trainees and gave him herbal formulas to gather.
• Stacy showed Su Ming that Jielusi had developed an uncontrollable inner personality after practicing the Mirror Soul Technique, and Ruixiuli revealed that her condition might involve contact with a law.
• Su Ming offered Ruixiuli special treatment in the training camp, and Ruixiuli accepted his fall to third place on the necromancer wanted list.
• Ruixiuli agreed to identify and seal the law affecting Jielusi, while Stacy told him to keep watching her as he recovered.
• Katharine apologized to Jielusi for sealing her power without understanding it and assigned her to accompany the Final Bone Mad Machines as their liaison.
• Katharine asked Stacy and the others to care for Jielusi, and Stacy promised they would seek a solution.

Su Ming arranged for Jielusi to leave Star Sand and gave Katharine and Yise covert listening equipment, along with eye-care supplies for Silver Mask. As the group moved people and resources to Sheltered Valley, Su Ming learned that trainee 0426 had located herbs for treating skin conditions.

• Katharine told Su Ming that Jielusi could no longer remain with Star Sand, and Su Ming agreed to take care of her.
• Su Ming gave Katharine and Yise solar-powered listening devices and asked Katharine to deploy them.
• Su Ming gave Katharine contact lenses and eye drops for Silver Mask before she and Yise departed.
• The next morning, Younier organized supplies and books for transport from the Sea of Divine Grace to Sheltered Valley, while trainees directed tunnel traffic.
• Trainee 0426 reported that teams had found gentian and wolf's bane, along with supporting herbs for treating skin conditions.

Su Ming oversaw the dismantling of the Sheltered Valley base and the construction of twenty-five train cars as everyone prepared to depart. After Zijin returned with supplies, Qiluo drank the medicinal soup Younier had brewed and raced away vomiting.

• Su Ming inspected bitter medicinal ingredients and poisonous wolfbane, then approved their external use.
• A transport team brought six tons of strong liquor found by Rupert in the Sea of Divine Grace.
• Su Ming modified a necromancy formula so trainees could assemble bone train cars, and the crew completed twenty-five cars before sunset.
• Su Ming told Zijin the Dawn and Dusk Bracelet had rejected the Radiant Chanter's corpse, and Zijin planned to make a Nether Choir from the Choir members.
• Zijin returned exhausted with collected materials, ate with Su Ming, and learned that Qiluo had taken a second bucket of meat soup.
• Younier asked Zijin to find her missing medicinal soup, as Qiluo raced past them vomiting after drinking it.

Su Ming prepared the Doomsday Locomotive to depart while coordinating Earth’s aviation and engineering projects with Miao Xin. After loading an upgraded control program in the otherworld, he learned that his latest transfer had produced unprecedented spatial readings, suggesting his new Magister realm had changed how Summoning of All Things affected space.

• Su Ming told Younier to label her cooking pots after Qiluo drank her bitter medicinal mixture, then had Hansite find a trainee who knew how to pump a horse’s stomach and pursued Qiluo.
• The Youth Civilization prepared to depart aboard the expanded Doomsday Locomotive, whose control system had been upgraded with software developed by engineers on Earth.
• Miao Xin told Su Ming that she had flown a fighter jet and was preparing for training on a massive aircraft, while Fengshou Technology worked on an intelligent piloting system.
• Su Ming considered the aircraft’s fuel and computing-power requirements, then transferred the upgraded control program to the otherworld.
• Xiao Cheng told Su Ming that the latest transfer caused spatial distortion to surge more than tenfold and ripple density to reach a record high.
• Su Ming recognized that his breakthrough into the Magister realm had qualitatively changed how deeply Summoning of All Things interfered with space.

Su Ming’s upgraded transmission magic sent an SD card intact, while the Youth Civilization’s first fully loaded journey exposed a navigation error that sent it over dangerous terrain. After the route was corrected, Su Ming visited Sangzi on Earth and learned that his magic’s upgrade had caused the SD card anomaly.

• Su Ming learned that transmitting a tiny SD card with abundant magic power had triggered a higher level of order, then confirmed that the card worked after the industrial control system update.
• The Youth Civilization, weighing 6,200 tons, became stuck in the snow until Bowers’s wind mages used Levitation Spell to help it move.
• Gospel accelerated the train downhill toward a steep climb, jolting the passengers and waking Zijin before the train cleared the slope.
• Su Ming and Hansite discovered that a negative bumpiness coefficient made the upgraded navigation system choose extreme terrain, and Su Ming corrected the setting with technical support.
• Su Ming switched to Earth and spoke with Sangzi, who explained that the SD card anomaly had resulted from his upgraded spell.

Sangzi explained that Su Ming’s more precise teleportation transmitted quantum-state information, causing a rare risk of errors in copied data, and confirmed that he could not yet teleport entangled photon pairs. Su Ming urged Earth’s researchers to advance cross-plane communication and then briefed Jin Rongjia and Silk Thread on the fighting at the Sacred Mountain.

• Sangzi explained that Su Ming’s teleportation now carried quantum-state information, which could cause rare bit errors when reconstructing floating-gate memory cells.
• A staff member brought Su Ming a replacement SD card with parameter verification, and Sangzi said he could adjust teleportation precision to suit each target.
• Sangzi told Su Ming that his ability could not yet transmit entangled photon pairs, while Earth’s researchers were also exploring entangled electron pairs.
• Su Ming asked Sangzi’s team to accelerate cross-plane communication so Earth could analyze the otherworld’s magical texts and Gospel Material data.
• Jin Rongjia and Silk Thread joined Su Ming, who briefed them on the battle at the Sacred Mountain and explained that the Temple of Light’s fighters had been weakened by corruption and unorthodox power boosts.

Su Ming, Dodder, and Jin Rongjia debated how to handle the Temple of Light and revealed the discovery of a promising superconducting material, prompting a shift toward seizing the enemy’s research data. Meanwhile, Su Ming’s train pressed on through a blizzard, and he prioritized organizing intelligence and studying a new hull design.

• Su Ming, Dodder, and Jin Rongjia reviewed the Sacred Mountain battle, including Katharine’s sabotage of the Temple of Light’s battlefield commander, and discussed a cautious strategy against the Temple.
• Su Ming explained the other world’s Golden Crow myth, and Dodder emphasized the value of establishing two-way communications with Earth.
• Su Ming told Dodder and Jin Rongjia about a machinable superconductor that worked at 141 K under normal atmospheric pressure, and they ordered the discovery kept secret.
• Jin Rongjia abandoned appeasement and insisted they seize the Temple of Light’s Gospel material research data, offering Su Ming whatever resources and support he needed.
• Su Ming ordered the Youth Civilization to slow down and rotate pairs on watch as a blizzard reduced visibility and disrupted radar during the return journey.
• Su Ming had Younier organize the Sacred Mountain intelligence and focused on the newly received design for a new hull.

Su Ming and Zijin examined the three-form ship design they named Pansy while Zijin began DNA research into her body and the backlash she suffered from touching the Law of Life. The chapter left Zijin quietly considering her feelings for Su Ming as the group prepared for an impending naval confrontation and continued their work aboard the train.

• Su Ming explained that the three ship models were variable forms of one new vessel, and Zijin named it Pansy.
• Stacy helped Zijin begin DNA testing, and Zijin revealed that contact with the origin-level Law of Life had left her unable to receive light-element healing.
• Stacy accidentally prompted a dangerous surge of Zijin's unstable domain, but Zijin regained control and explained why she was investigating her condition through technology.
• Zijin admitted that she liked Su Ming but did not intend to confess, while Stacy urged her to consider what might happen if he chose someone else.
• Younier reported that coal reserves might not last the journey, and Su Ming addressed camp fights by distributing playing cards and a game.
• Katharine's intelligence confirmed that the Jade Sea and Tang Valley carried actual dragons and that the Temple of Light's fleet was joining the attack; Zijin later proposed building a genetic database for the Taya Plane.

Su Ming and Yise climbed Silent Whisper Peak to install an unmanned outpost, then took shelter from an approaching storm in a cave where they discovered three girls who had died fleeing the Sea of Divine Grace. Days later, Su Ming’s forces launched their final assault on the academy, and the girls’ reanimated corpses joined the attack as Yise watched.

• Su Ming prepared a hydrogen balloon to carry the heavy outpost up Silent Whisper Peak after learning that the mountain’s detection field would prevent the use of magic and Dou Qi near Divine Might Prison.
• Su Ming, Yise, and three bearfolk hauled the outpost to the summit, where Su Ming established a working communications link with base camp.
• On their descent, Su Ming noticed falling air pressure, and Yise led the group into a buried cave to shelter from the coming storm.
• Yise found three frozen girls and a Sea of Divine Grace student badge in the cave, while Su Ming sensed no surviving souls and used necromantic magic to awaken their corpses.
• During the final assault on the Sea of Divine Grace, Su Ming’s necromancers raised the academy’s secretly buried dead, including the three girls, while his forces sealed the dormitory and trapped its defenders.

Su Ming examined Si Ran’s belongings and spoke with Miao Xin about his old confession and another possible romantic illusion. Six days after leaving Sheltered Valley, he reached Jishou Tidal Flats with the Youth Civilization train and met Beianqi aboard the supply ship Ale, where he began coordinating the supplies for the Pansy’s construction.

• Su Ming took control of Little Spiky Head after seeing Si Ran’s belongings, then left the storage room to grieve and talk with Miao Xin on a rooftop.
• Su Ming told Miao Xin how he had fallen for Si Ran, been rejected, and eventually accepted her feelings and returned to being ordinary friends.
• Miao Xin realized Su Ming had hinted at another person who might have given him a romantic illusion, but Su Ming postponed discussing it until after his busy stretch.
• The Youth Civilization train arrived at Jishou Tidal Flats, where Su Ming organized the unloading and preparations to build the Pansy’s bone hull.
• Su Ming and Qiluo found Beianqi and the dwarven cargo ship Ale after Beianqi had mistaken a nearby bay for the landing point.
• Beianqi sailed the Ale toward the correct bay and gave Su Ming a list of three thousand tons of supplies, while the food shipment aboard Bronzebeard was still a week away.

Su Ming learned that Beianqi’s damaged Spinal Hub could only be repaired by the Fate Manipulator, whom Qiluo had captured and whose custody Su Ming’s group had secured. After the Ale reached the construction site, the group prepared to begin installing the Pansy’s power equipment.

• Beianqi told Su Ming that the Spinal Hub remained stable but that no alchemy master could safely repair it, and she explained that her teacher Howard had designed it.
• Beianqi named Bulenleifu and the Fate Manipulator as the only possible experts, and Qiluo admitted she had accidentally killed Bulenleifu while Su Ming revealed that the Fate Manipulator was in their custody.
• Beianqi celebrated Qiluo’s capture by serving her red-braised pork, which Qiluo ate despite the diet restrictions imposed by Su Ming and Zijin.
• The Ale reached the bay, where Younier reported that the Pansy’s hull and lower hold were ready and its power-system materials were being assembled.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi entered the lower hold to begin work on the power equipment, finding three installation pits prepared with piles of metal components.