Chapter Summaries

Dragons gathered to witness Zijin’s trials, and she demonstrated her strength before teaching Su Ming how to fight a larger opponent. At the Land of Ancestral Spirits, the bloodline ritual began: Zijin’s elemental power was suppressed, and Su Ming was prepared to receive the Whispers of the Stars origin.

• Mo Yuan explained that dragons had gathered to see Zijin, and she defeated a Blue Dragon and a Red Dragon by using her domain and Wing Cross-Joint Binding Technique.
• Zijin appointed Su Ming to fight a young Green Dragon in her place, and he defeated the dragon by dispelling his flight magic and disrupting his perception, though the dragon’s breath blasted him into the woods.
• Stacy led Su Ming and Mo Yuan to the altar and explained how the Dragon Race used its array to purify bloodlines; Zijin then stopped Stacy from stripping Su Ming under the pretext of a medical examination.
• Stacy and the elders activated the array, suppressed Zijin’s elemental power, and used its runes to remove the purple scales from her chest.
• Zijin leaned her forehead against Su Ming’s, and Grand Elder Zhimeng restarted the array while Stacy suppressed Su Ming’s mental domain to prepare him for the Whispers of the Stars origin implantation.

Su Ming chose Sapphire Bay as the site for Final Bone Mad Machines’ new port and began construction with the help of the Dragon Race and Zijin’s terrain magic. As the work got underway, Su Ming’s mental seal faded, revealing the constant information streams of his newly fused Whispers of the Stars.

• Su Ming woke to find Zijin trimming his hair with a knife, and she explained that Stacy’s seal still prevented them from using their powers.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Stacy cooked field mice after growing tired of fruit, then Mo Yuan took Su Ming and Zijin to survey Dragon Gorge Port and nearby Sapphire Bay.
• Su Ming selected Sapphire Bay for the new port, confirmed the site with Dodder’s engineers, and arranged to lease the surrounding coast and bay.
• The Pansy arrived in Sapphire Bay with more than a thousand members of Final Bone Mad Machines, and Su Ming assigned teams to begin building Sapphire Port.
• Zijin used terrain magic to raise piers and level the shore while undead laborers began construction, and Su Ming’s seal dissipated, exposing him to the mental pressure of Whispers of the Stars.
• Zijin gave Su Ming Spirit Wall Crystal Barrier accessories to filter the whispers and advised him to adapt gradually.

Su Ming completed the initial setup at Sapphire Port, coordinated Zijin’s Dragon Race reforms, and used aerial surveys to select Red Ridge as the site of Ruby Base. After organizing construction and discovering dragons’ reluctance to do hard labor, he began devising ways to create demand for their work and spending, ending with plans for a dragon-focused restaurant and entertainment chain called Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe.

• Su Ming installed power, lighting, communications, and security systems at Sapphire Port while Zijin studied a proposal for reorganizing Dragon Race administration.
• Zijin departed for the Dragon Court with Mo Yuan, while Sangzi told Su Ming that photon-transfer testing was scheduled and presented Earth’s analysis of the Dragon Race’s EHD flight technique.
• A Black Dragon delivered Dragon Valley’s meteorological records, and Su Ming used the Rainbow No. 5 to survey the region after dragons had destroyed the Rainbow No. 4.
• Su Ming identified Red Ridge as the site for Ruby Base, confirmed its sulfur deposits, and secured an agreement for forty-five Blue Dragons led by Lan Mao to relocate in exchange for gold.
• Su Ming organized the move to Ruby Base and learned from Yin'er that hiring dragons for physical labor was expensive, prompting him to plan ways to create consumer demand among them.
• Su Ming assigned the Dodder Group custom dragon products, including nail clippers and a flight posture corrector, while his trainees planned a food-and-entertainment chain called Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe.

Su Ming's port guards captured a Temple of Light assassination team after the Sapphire Lighthouse accidentally led their ship to port, and Ruixiuli was poisoned while stopping a Master Rank assassin. After learning that he was an intended target, Su Ming strengthened security and continued expanding the dragon internet cafe, where he ordered the game made easier for its dragon players.

• Ships gathered at Sapphire Port after its powerful lighthouse beam drew vessels away from Dragon Gorge Port, and Su Ming arranged for the beacon's signal to be distinguished more clearly.
• Ruixiuli, Jielusi, and Magelaili inspected the goblin ship Gold Coin Coachman and discovered armed infiltrators hiding among its passengers.
• Ruixiuli fought off a Master Rank assassin but was poisoned, while Jielusi and Magelaili helped defeat the attackers; Su Ming arrived with Elder Yin'er and used a sniper rifle to end the resistance.
• Bowers reported that the infiltrators belonged to the Temple of Light's Dark Side team and had orders to kill Su Ming if the opportunity arose; Su Ming warned Zijin and ordered further investigation and stronger protection.
• Su Ming opened the dragon gaming venue, contained a crowd drawn by a false egg-reward rumor with Elder Yin'er's potato sign, and ordered Dodder's team to lower the game's difficulty further.

Su Ming expanded Ruby Base’s workforce and infrastructure plans, recruiting dragons to work off their internet-cafe debts while arranging mining and communications support. During a rainy break aboard the Pansy, he proposed a hydroelectric dam on the White River to supply power and improve transport, then started a co-op game with Zijin.

• Su Ming contracted Shiquan’s dwarven team to mine sulfur in the Red Ridge Mountains and planned to lease them electric mining equipment after Ruby Base’s power system became operational.
• Zijin sent indebted dragons to work at Ruby Base, and Su Ming established a dragon labor department to assign jobs and pay wages across construction sites.
• Elder Yin’er caught the Blue Dragon who had spread the free-trial rumor, and Su Ming offered to settle his punishment if he recruited fifty new paying customers.
• Su Ming reviewed drone survey data with Zijin and explained that limited rare materials meant only ten Dandelion base stations would be deployed for now, as they prioritized confronting the Divine Covenant Faction.
• After Zijin gave Su Ming scanned texts from the Dragon Race’s library, he proposed building a White River hydroelectric dam that would also create a reservoir and improve inland shipping.
• Su Ming and Zijin set aside work during the storm and began playing It Takes Two together aboard the Pansy.

Su Ming and Newman began building the Celestite Hydropower Station with dragon laborers, while Gelie agreed to fund roads and the dam for the Dragon Race. Su Ming then uncovered evidence that the Gray Ridge goblins had cheated Dragon Valley out of roughly 100,000 square kilometers, leaving Gelie furious but temporarily restrained by trade concerns.

• Bowers followed a mindless ghost made from the shattered soul of the Master Rank assassin after implanting the thoughts “mission accomplished” and “return immediately.”
• After the Bronzebeard reached Sapphire Port, Su Ming showed Newman the hydroelectric dam plans, and Newman estimated that dragons could finish the first two construction stages in about ten days.
• Zijin opened a second Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe branch at Ruby Base, introduced a points-based membership system, and used force to suppress dragons who protested its rules.
• Su Ming and Newman started the Celestite Hydropower Station with hundreds of dragon workers, while Su Ming promoted the project and Gelie agreed to give it a 500,000-gold subsidy in exchange for ownership of the dam.
• Su Ming showed Gelie survey data indicating that the Gray Ridge goblins had manipulated the old border maps and deprived Dragon Valley of about 100,000 square kilometers; Gelie agreed to delay retaliation until the busy trading period ended.
• Qiluo joined the agricultural and forestry chemical department to produce ethanol, while the paper mill and other industrial production lines entered construction and commissioning.

Su Ming expanded Ruby Base’s industrial capacity, completed the first major teleportations for the Celestite Hydropower Station, and helped close its dam, bringing the turbines online. As the base’s production and logistics grew, he also faced bounty hunters and investigated an anomalous deposit of low-grade Magic Power crystals.

• Zijin explained that Whispers of the Stars had enlarged Su Ming’s mental-power reserves faster than it increased his recovery rate, and warned him to let his power settle.
• Su Ming established electrical safety rules, strengthened Ruby Base’s defenses, reorganized the Final Bone Mad Machines, and sent Rupert to Dragon Gorge Port to build an intelligence network amid Zijin’s crackdown on corrupt port traders.
• Su Ming teleported a massive turbine and its generator into the Celestite Hydropower Station, while researchers on Earth recorded the information disturbances produced by the process.
• Su Ming learned that bounty hunters targeting his Temple of Light reward had infiltrated the base, and he told Ruixiuli that he would not explain the security gaps he had deliberately left open.
• Su Ming and the Gold Dragon elder uncovered a low-grade Magic Power crystal vein and arranged for ore samples to be sent to the Pansy; meanwhile, Ruby Base produced its first lead-acid batteries.
• Dragon King Gelie and nearly fifteen hundred dragons helped close the Celestite Hydropower Station’s preliminary dam, and rising water soon drove the turbines, supplying electricity to Ruby Base’s production lines.

Su Ming expanded Ruby Base’s industrial and logistical capacity, welcomed 1,400 necromancers and their families, and promised the base’s members that they would be free to reunite with their families after a future counterattack. Zijin agreed to consider moving the Dragon Court’s administrative center closer to Ruby Base, while Su Ming’s team prepared a photon-information experiment with Earth using a synchrotron radiation light source.

• Su Ming began training the Electricity-Swallowing Beast on the other world’s common language and received 1,400 necromancers and their families from Captain Hake at Sapphire Port, enrolling them as trainees and arranging schooling and apprenticeships for the children.
• Su Ming started nitric acid production using the power-intensive electric arc method, while Magelaili reported that most arrivals had agreed to stay and the remaining holdouts were being sent home.
• Zijin established plans for a Dragon Court-led Public Employment Association and later visited Su Ming, who admitted he was homesick and revealed that his promised six-month counterattack timetable was meant for the enemy to hear.
• Zijin agreed to consider moving the Dragon Court’s administrative center near Ruby Base, and the new rail line between Ruby Base and Sapphire Port opened, cutting the trip to a little over an hour.
• Su Ming joined Sangzi’s team for a photon-information transmission experiment at a new research center and discovered that its main equipment was a synchrotron radiation light source.

Su Ming and Sangzi confirmed that electron entanglement information could cross between Earth and Taya, opening a path toward interworld communication. As Su Ming advanced reforms, propaganda, and industrial projects, Bowers found a suspected Temple of Light outpost in goblin territory, and Su Ming assembled a team to raid it that night.

• Sangzi and Su Ming found that photon information could not be transferred, but an electron experiment later successfully carried entanglement correlations across worlds for one microsecond.
• Su Ming printed collected papers for Zijin, Stacy, and other scholars, then arranged artbooks and worker-focused stories to support reforms in Dragon Kingdom.
• Zijin and the dragon leadership expanded centralized administration, while dragons suppressed organizers behind widespread strikes and Su Ming’s stories spread among workers.
• Bowers tracked an assassin’s remnant ghost to a guarded manor in goblin territory and sent Su Ming an encrypted report identifying a suspected Temple of Light outpost.
• Su Ming inspected new smokeless-powder production and mining work, then invited Zijin, Jielusi, Ruixiuli, and Grand Elder Zhimeng to join a raid on the outpost.
• Zhimeng agreed to join the raid in exchange for a verdant-cyan, herb-scented version of Su Ming’s dragon scale-care wax.

Su Ming and his allies infiltrated Berit Manor to raid a Temple of Light stronghold, defeated its agents, and rescued a captive researcher. They escaped with documents as the manor burned, but an assassin’s attempt on Su Ming confirmed that he remained the enemy’s target.

• Mo Yuan and Zhimeng disguised their border crossing by first pretending to hunt, then concealed themselves and carried Su Ming’s group into Gray Ridge.
• After meeting Bowers at Berit Manor, Su Ming stayed outside to coordinate the raid while Zhimeng put the outer guards to sleep and Su Ming used radar to map the building.
• Ruixiuli, Bowers, Jielusi, and Zijin attacked the manor, while Su Ming supported them with grenade fire; most Temple of Light agents killed themselves rather than be captured.
• Zijin used an illusion and a trapped mango to catch an assassin who attacked Su Ming, but the assassin died by activating a magical brand before he could be questioned.
• The group recovered documents and rescued a researcher called Hechun, burned Berit Manor, and fled by dragon as goblins approached.
• As they escaped, Zijin pranked Jielusi and Ruixiuli with sour mangoes, while Su Ming received a sweet one.

Su Ming dealt with Quail’s uncertain identity, planned the Pansy’s magic-crystal defenses, and expanded Ruby Base’s translation, commercial, and mining operations. The chapter ended with Rupert coercing accountant Xiyabeite into supplying information about the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce.

• Su Ming learned that Quail was Devila, Blue Peacock’s reclusive alchemist brother, and Zijin went to see whether Stacy could get information from him.
• Su Ming and his scholars found that the Pansy’s defensive refit required far more magic crystals than the market could supply, while Su Ming advanced translation projects and Zijin accepted the plan to identify Weiaoyasi as Pale New Words.
• Lan Mao spent his remaining savings on games at the Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe before a goblin offered him free food and a work subsidy at the Unexpected Treasure.
• Su Ming visited the mine after workers discovered a mafic intrusion and learned from Shiquan that they could keep digging for richer platinum-group-metal deposits.
• Rupert confronted accountant Xiyabeite with evidence of embezzlement and offered him five gold coins each month for information about the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce.

Rupert uncovered evidence that the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce had smuggled goblin rockets into Dragon Valley, prompting Su Ming to prepare Ruby Base against an attack. Zijin planned to use airtight evidence to raid the chamber’s headquarters in Gray Ridge, while Su Ming and Zijin ended the night sharing a quiet moment before encountering Stacy and her wary Newfoundland.

• Xiyabeite showed Rupert an unloading-fee voucher whose unusual amount indicated that eight overweight crates had been taken directly from a ship, and agreed to help investigate the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce for ten times his initial payment.
• Rupert reported that the crates likely contained goblin alchemical rockets, and Su Ming, Zijin, and Newman discussed the threat they posed to Ruby Base’s chemical supplies.
• Su Ming made 14.5-millimeter ammunition and a sniper rifle, assigned Newman to improve the smokeless powder, and left him to test the bullets.
• Zijin planned to trace the smugglers and strengthen Dragon Gorge Port Customs, then raid the Shrewd Gear Chamber of Commerce’s headquarters in Gray Ridge once the evidence was conclusive.
• Su Ming and Zijin spoke about the possible war with the goblins and shared a brief, interrupted chance to walk together before they met Stacy struggling to lead a Newfoundland.

Zijin and Su Ming led a sweeping inspection for goblin weapons, but the search found only smuggled goods while Botuni’s team continued toward its planned ambush. As the dragons stood down for the evening, Hongyao spotted goblins in the woods and went to investigate.

• Zijin, Su Ming, and Bowers sent dragons and necromancers to inspect vehicles, cargo, and storage sites for illegally imported goblin weapons.
• Zijin fined smugglers and stopped a Blue Dragon from deliberately injuring offenders, while the inspection teams found no weapons and collected forty thousand gold coins in taxes and fines.
• A dragon team discovered humans and goblins soaking goods to inflate their weight, and Botuni’s men used the chaos to drown the caravan leaders who knew part of the operation’s secrets.
• Botuni led his soldiers toward the ambush site, where they planned to meet the weapons and technicians who had entered Dragon Valley by separate routes.
• Zijin ordered Black Dragons to patrol overnight, then flew toward the Central Court with Misaila and spoke with her about Zisu and Hyacinth.
• Hongyao spotted goblins in the woodland, led young dragons down to investigate, and told Zijin he might be late for the evening meeting.

Zijin and Misaila rushed to help Elder Hongyao fight goblins, only to discover that the ambush targeted the Dragon Race’s new ruler with Dragon-Breaking Cones. Zijin saved Misaila from a fatal strike, captured the goblin commander’s soul, and left the injured dragons alive but facing the threat of war with Gray Ridge.

• Misaila told Zijin she was likely to become the next elder of the Faerie Dragons, then they flew to help Hongyao when a battle erupted below.
• Zijin and Misaila exposed the goblins’ buried weapons, and the Dragon-Breaking Cones launched and split into smaller components that attacked Zijin, Misaila, Hongyao, and the young dragons.
• Zijin realized the goblins had mistaken Misaila for the new ruler, then intercepted the cones and knocked one out of Misaila’s body before it could kill her.
• The attack killed one young dragon and severed Hongyao’s claw, while Zijin froze his wound and forced goblin commander Botuni to reveal Gray Ridge’s plans.
• Zijin captured Botuni’s soul after he tried to kill himself, and she told Hongyao that Misaila would survive.
• Misaila begged Zijin not to tell Zisu about her injuries, but Zijin promised to send word as soon as she returned.

After the goblin attack injured Zijin and Misaila, Su Ming and the dragon elders prepared for war while learning that the Gray Ridge Kingdom had allied with the Star Empire. The chapter ended with a restaurant owner secretly reporting port activity over a radio, including the arrival of a suspicious ship.

• Jielusi treated Zijin's injuries, and Su Ming told her that the escaped goblins had been captured and that Newman had recovered the failed Dragon-Breaking Cone.
• Zijin and Su Ming visited Misaila, who had survived the attack but needed ongoing treatment, while Little Zisu rushed to her mother's side and Qiluo distracted her with a dog.
• Gelie convened the dragon elders, who confirmed that Gray Ridge had ordered the attack and discussed the Dragon-Breaking Cone's capabilities and plans to target its factories and stockpiles.
• King Nilunke met Grand Princess Janet and General Babaluo, unaware that Janet and Babaluo were agents of the Temple of the God of Light seeking to draw the dragons and Final Bone Mad Machines into war.
• A restaurant owner near Green Thorn Port used a toy-dog radio to report ship traffic and other observations to a distant liaison, noting the arrival of a special ship and a veiled passenger.

Su Ming uncovered evidence that the goblins had concealed the scale of their Dragon-Breaking Cone arsenal and received major outside support, then persuaded the dragons to prepare carefully instead of launching an immediate counterattack. He later confronted the Dwarf Kingdom over espionage, negotiated a wager and strategic exchange, and returned to Ruby Base to check on Beianqi’s progress repairing her Spinal Hub.

• Su Ming showed the dragon council reconnaissance revealing more than four thousand Dragon-Breaking Cone launch pits and sharply increased shipping through Green Thorn Port, warning that the goblins’ allies likely included the Temple of Light and possibly the Star Empire.
• Gelie called for the Dragon Race to attack within three days, but Zhimeng, Mo Yuan, the Red Dragon elder, and Zijin backed a measured strategy, and Gelie asked Su Ming and Zijin to present their plan.
• Zijin proposed spending a month preparing a campaign against the Gray Ridge Kingdom, while Gelie urged Zhimeng to take on greater responsibilities in the future.
• Su Ming flew to the Dwarf Kingdom’s new customs post and confronted Speaker Panshi’s delegation for trying to steal Ruby Base’s technical information, using a hidden ability to control four dwarf workers.
• Prince Shanyan apologized and offered a million-gold-coin quota for magic crystals; Su Ming also demanded access to the dwarves’ intelligence network in Gray Ridge and wagered that they could not build a nonmagical steam locomotive exceeding three kilometers per hour in three months.
• Back at Ruby Base, Beianqi thanked Su Ming for shielding her from pressure by the dwarves and said Aideluzi was helping her gain control of the Spinal Hub implants.

Su Ming oversaw the start of dragon military training in Silver Moon Forest while the dwarven intelligence network identified Eldest Princess Janet at Woden Plantation. A memory of Zijin helping disguise the infant Janet raised doubts about the princess’s identity, and Su Ming suspected Katharine was not the real eldest princess as he and Zijin headed to Ruby Base to question Ailuzi.

• Can Xin delivered fifty tons of baking soda to Silver Moon Forest, where Su Ming arranged for the dragons to train in secrecy and began collecting combat data.
• Janet ordered McIntyre to provoke an open conflict between the goblins and dragons, with Babaluo prepared to stage an accidental border clash if needed.
• Dwarven agents traced Janet to Woden Plantation through her purchase of luxury bedding, and their report led Su Ming and Zijin to identify her as the likely Star Empire princess.
• Zijin's shared dream recalled how she had disguised infant Janet for a baptism, while Su Ming noticed that Samanya's handling of the baby’s ragged swaddling did not fit the story that Janet had been bought from the slums.
• Zijin revealed that she had once entrusted the real baby Katharine to Sebastian, but Su Ming concluded that Katharine might not be the true eldest princess either.
• Su Ming and Zijin flew to Ruby Base to interrogate Fate Manipulator Ailuzi about the princesses' identities.

Su Ming uncovered how Imperial Consort Samanya and Pope Augustus had used Aideluzi to conceal Janet’s parentage and deceive Zijin, then arranged genetic analysis to investigate the children’s biological father. As the Final Bone Mad Machines prepared for war with the goblins, Su Ming secured oil and produced TNT, while Zijin set out with war dragons for the goblin negotiations.

• Su Ming and Zijin questioned Aideluzi, who confessed that Samanya had ordered him to make Janet’s bloodline-deception spell permanent and that Pope Augustus had arranged his work.
• Aideluzi revealed that he did not know Janet’s biological father, and Su Ming and Zijin concluded that Katharine had been selected and given false heart symptoms as part of the deception.
• Su Ming summoned Magelaili, delayed foreign envoys including the Star Empire’s representative, and sent Stacy samples from Katharine, little Tuanzi, and Yise for DNA analysis to identify their father.
• Su Ming received five thousand tons of crude oil from the Naga Clan and oversaw the production of TNT at Ruby Base.
• Su Ming assigned selected necromancers to work as observers alongside dragons and ordered them to assemble for deployment.
• Zijin prepared more than a hundred war dragons for the goblin negotiations and arranged to meet Su Ming’s team in the wilds.

At the border negotiations, the dragons exposed the goblins’ provocations before witnesses while Su Ming mobilized forces for a planned offensive in fifteen days. On Earth, Su Ming learned that a rocket explosion had destroyed Sangzi Group satellites, and Jin Rongjia revealed the launch was bait to investigate the Jackal Organization’s attacks.

• An elderly Forest Dragon disrupted King Nilunke’s attempt to provoke the dragons and invited diplomats from other nations to witness the negotiations.
• Su Ming ordered the Second Bone Mechanized Combat Battalion and Dragon Court Guard toward the border, set a fifteen-day deadline for the offensive, and directed the elders to eliminate spy networks in Dragon Valley.
• Su Ming reviewed the DCS World combat training system and learned its dragon-themed skins had already recovered much of its development costs.
• Jin Rongjia told Su Ming that a Lighthouse rocket had exploded while carrying Sangzi Group satellites, including equipment intended to study the universe from a new perspective.
• Jin Rongjia explained that Sangzi Group had arranged the launch as bait to test whether the Jackal Organization’s Calamity Mark caused the accident, and planned further launches backed by insurance.

Rupert cracked down on an underground gathering while Su Ming prepared Dragon Court for war and learned that the goblins were about to attack. The chapter ended as Su Ming left the game to face the goblin force mobilizing at the East of the Ridge front.

• Rupert used the red dragon to arrest the organizers of an illegal gathering, fined the attendees, exposed the goblin informer, and sent the dragon after the mastermind.
• Xiyabeite gave Rupert evidence that four farms had concealed grain, and Rupert rewarded him before tempting him with a VIP trial card for the Chicken Dinner Internet Cafe.
• Newman inspected the Dwarf Kingdom's alchemical explosives, then Qingye brought Katharine and Silver Mask to the Dragon Court, where Katharine briefed Su Ming on the Divine Covenant Faction and the Plundering Clock.
• Grand Princess Janet and Archbishop McIntyre pressured King Nilunke to honor their war agreement; Nilunke had Babaluo killed and agreed to launch a cross-border attack at midnight.
• Su Ming and Zijin tested the updated combat simulation, where Zijin was repeatedly targeted by more disciplined dragon players.
• Su Ming noticed goblin troops moving supplies at the East of the Ridge front and told Zijin he could not play another round because a major operation was beginning.