Chapter Summaries

The Final Bone Mad Machines harvested whale bones to build the Calamity Suppression while Su Ming pressed ahead with the Dandelion Operation, warning that Jörmungandr was beyond their understanding. He secured Queen Ghostly Flower’s agreement to take the captive Naga Queen and learned that she was certain Qiluo was not the Painter of Fate.

• The necromancers raised a hundred whale skeletons from a graveyard, and the crew transported their bones to Sapphire Port for the Calamity Suppression’s construction.
• Su Ming told his support team that Jörmungandr was godlike and urged them to stop Eden’s Plane Gate plan without delaying the Water Chestnut Island campaign; Chloe and the Earth team affirmed their commitment to the Other Shore research.
• Su Ming apologized to Queen Ghostly Flower for the Naga casualties, and she accepted his efforts to spare their homeland before asking him to hand over the captive Naga Queen; he agreed.
• Su Ming told Ghostly Flower about the Children of Calamity and asked her to protect Qiluo, whom he suspected was the Painter of Fate.
• Ghostly Flower insisted that Qiluo had no fate-related abilities and told Su Ming to let her go wherever she wanted.

A week after arriving at the rift research center near Diamond Base, Su Ming learned that Chloe planned to use a replica of the Plundering Clock’s crystal to intercept Eden’s supply shipments. Chloe pointed out Water Chestnut Island as she began explaining the problems with the plan.

• Su Ming arrived at the rift research center with Qiluo, who chased Zhifo through the air and caused a commotion in the camp.
• Su Ming told Chloe that Qiluo had followed him after Ghostly Flower refused to take her back, and Chloe joked that he had become a babysitter.
• Chloe showed Su Ming a replica of the serpentine crystal, explaining that the original was needed for continued research.
• Chloe said they planned to use the replica to intercept Eden’s supplies and pointed to Water Chestnut Island on a map.

Su Ming selected his available fighters and tested a new squad of Magic Mechanical Hounds, assessing their combat capabilities and how their shared learning system could improve them. The hounds proved effective, and Su Ming pointed out that they could retain experience even after being destroyed.

• Su Ming decided that Zijin and the Executioner Zhapulai would accompany him to the Immortal Spirit Peninsula, while Ruixiuli went to visit Shadu and pursue a combat breakthrough.
• Newman introduced twelve mechanical guards covered in Super Crystal Dragon materials, and Su Ming named them Magic Mechanical Hounds.
• Newman complained that Su Ming had destroyed Miasma Throat's Dust Serpent Heavy Armor, but Su Ming defended the tactic as necessary for survival.
• Su Ming sparred with six Magic Mechanical Hounds and saw them coordinate attacks, evade his whip, and adapt to his fighting habits.
• Su Ming identified the hounds' strong defenses and improving ability to resist tricks, then suggested that newly built hounds could inherit the memories of destroyed ones.

General Price’s forces rescued Leoni from a Bearfolk Clan camp, and Leoni revealed that Yexiya had attacked Atiya at Destiny Level. Leoni said Atiya had left Zijin something he could show her in person, so Su Ming arranged for Yise to bring him to the Immortal Spirit Peninsula.

• General Price’s troops stormed the Bearfolk Clan encampment, killed the Plundering Clock’s Minute Hand, and found the badly injured Leoni imprisoned in a cage.
• Leoni woke in a nearby town, learned that nearly a year had passed, and struggled to believe Price’s account of Su Ming and Bay Owl’s recent exploits.
• Su Ming and Zijin learned that Leoni had been found and spoke with him over a video call.
• Leoni told Zijin that Yexiya had led the attack on Atiya and had been at Destiny Level when she grievously wounded him.
• Leoni explained that Atiya had left Zijin something he could reveal only in person, and Su Ming arranged for Yise to fly him to the Immortal Spirit Peninsula.

Su Ming gave Zijin replacement Purple Energy Crystal bracelets, and she cried as she remembered that Atiya had made her old one. The group landed on the Immortal Spirit Peninsula and began setting up camp with the Fairy Spirit Tribe, but Jielusi revealed a troubling power still lingering within her.

• Su Ming gave Zijin two Purple Energy Crystal bracelets he had carved, and Zijin tested them before thanking him and crying over her memories of Atiya.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and the accompanying personnel parachuted onto the Immortal Spirit Peninsula, where they met the Fairy Spirit Tribe's queen, Taiye.
• The personnel gathered supplies and built a temporary camp and Interception Array worksite beside the lake while Zhifo joined the array masters.
• Taiye welcomed Su Ming and Zijin with nectar and berries, and Jielusi arrived with a durian after confirming that the Thought-Dwelling Tribe member inside her could no longer threaten her without its main body.
• Jielusi showed Su Ming the remaining trouble by letting her emotions recede and projecting a cold, gloomy power that frightened the fairies and made Taiye raise a shield.

Jielusi explained that Hairspring had made her soul-devouring power difficult to control, while Su Ming learned how the Fairy Spirit Tribe had adapted and defended itself. Taiye revealed that the fairies protected their home through their willingness to sacrifice themselves, as the coming battle for Water Chestnut Island approached.

• Jielusi told Su Ming that Hairspring had intensified her Soul Erosion and Spirit Devouring, leaving her vulnerable to an overwhelming urge to consume souls.
• Zijin took Jielusi to the lakeside to study her soul power, while Su Ming stayed with Queen Taiye and asked about the fairies.
• Taiye explained that the Fairy Spirit Tribe had degenerated from beings originating in Eden, with elemental fairies sacrificing intelligence for easier survival and forest fairies retaining their elemental cycle.
• Taiye told Su Ming that fairies risked losing control of their bodies and magicules in battle, and could self-destruct to defeat enemies.
• Taiye recounted how the former queen and captured fairies destroyed a fairy-catching invasion more than three hundred years earlier, establishing the tribe's resolve to defend its freedom.

Su Ming and Zijin explained that Jörmungandr had invaded Eden and now sought to devour Taya, prompting Taiye to pledge the Fairy Clan’s support. At Cloud Fang Fort, Death Knell recovered through sparring with Hairspring and revealed that Qingming’s letter described Jörmungandr as Eden’s conqueror, leaving Hairspring rejecting her account.

• Su Ming discussed Jörmungandr’s plan to devour Taya, and Zijin recounted Chloe’s research showing that Jörmungandr had invaded Eden fifteen thousand years earlier and defeated the Golden Crow Clan.
• Zijin explained that Jörmungandr had replaced Eden’s Plane Will and that the Plundering Clock served as his infiltrators; Taiye pledged the Fairy Clan’s support in the war.
• At Cloud Fang Fort, Death Knell sparred with Hairspring to rebuild her coordination after recovering from poison, and her thoughts of Qingming briefly distracted her.
• Death Knell told Hairspring that Qingming had left her a letter to read if she ever left Eden, and that it blamed Jörmungandr for Eden’s devastation.
• Hairspring dismissed Qingming’s claims, while Death Knell said Jörmungandr had let Eden’s population grow so he could raise infiltrators and armies for his planned invasions of Taya and Earth.

Hairspring and Death Knell contacted Jörmungandr after the Bone King's spatial rift continued to grow, and received orders to bring in powerful reinforcements for an attack on Su Ming. Meanwhile, the array masters and fairies on the Immortal Spirit Peninsula hurried to build an Interception Array as the enemy's plans advanced.

• The clock priest reported that the Bone King's spatial rift had grown again, prompting Hairspring to order a Divine Prayer to contact the main god.
• Jörmungandr appeared over Cloud Fang City and ordered the Plundering Clock to spend forty tons of rock core expanding the rift for the arrival of reinforcements.
• Hairspring and Death Knell concluded that the incoming group would include Abidaqi and another powerful Clock Hand, and planned to attack Su Ming before he could respond.
• The Plundering Clock began recalculating its reception array and preparing to start the teleportation a day and a half earlier.
• On the Immortal Spirit Peninsula, Zhifo and the array masters worked with the fairies to build the Interception Array, aiming to finish within a day.

Su Ming and Zijin visited the giant banyan where Rongjing had undergone Tree Merging, and Jinxiu discovered that Su Ming’s soul had once been shattered. After Qiluo revealed she had treated him, Jinxiu explained that his soul’s recovery remained a mystery and offered to heal its lingering cracks for ten moon-dew flowers.

• Su Ming and Zijin hired a forest fairy to guide them to Rongjing’s banyan and learned that Tree Merging had made the Saint Rank fairy’s host tree flourish.
• Su Ming and Zijin found Qiluo disrupting a Spirit Chess game and Jielusi being taught by Jinxiu beneath the banyan.
• Jinxiu examined Su Ming and determined that his soul had been torn apart, while Su Ming and Zijin recalled his encounter with the Archlich on Brown Gold Island.
• Qiluo admitted she had treated Su Ming after finding his shattered soul, and Jinxiu confirmed that her timely care had saved his life but could not explain how his soul reassembled.
• Jinxiu taught Su Ming and Zijin about the Mirror Soul Technique and revealed that Jielusi had mistakenly cultivated the Split Personality Technique instead.
• Jinxiu found small cracks remaining in Su Ming’s soul and offered to heal them for ten moon-dew flowers, which Su Ming accepted.

Su Ming’s enhanced spatial perception alerted him that Eden had sent eleven arrivals through the unstable passage, far more than expected. With Zhifo’s calculations, he pushed the Interception Array to its limit and redirected four targets toward the Immortal Spirit Peninsula.

• Su Ming and Zijin used fairies to clear mosquitoes from their lakeside camp in exchange for moon-dew flowers.
• Aboard the C929, Leoni discussed sword techniques with Ruixiuli and Zhapulai and revealed that his former adventure party included Atiya and the late gnome mage Bobofeizi.
• Yise teased Jielusi about Ruixiuli and encouraged her to act on her feelings.
• The Plundering Clock opened its modified array, but dozens of Legendary-level arrivals followed the Mage King Abidaqi and the Immortal Spirit Prism Shadow; most of the Legendary signatures vanished in the unstable passage.
• After Jinxiu treated Su Ming, he sensed the rift near Water Chestnut Island and activated the Interception Array when he realized eleven targets were descending.
• Zhifo calculated that the array could intercept only four targets, and Su Ming redirected those four toward the Immortal Spirit Peninsula.

Su Ming and Zhifo redirected five arrivals from the Plundering Clock toward the Eastern Continent, only to discover that they were living enemies whose planar drop had left them injured. Su Ming’s forces split up to intercept them, while Leoni and Yise headed toward Prism Shadow, the strongest target.

• Zhifo squeezed enough power from the array for Su Ming to divert a fifth target, while the Plundering Clock’s array masters failed to stop five arrivals from being pulled east.
• Su Ming learned the arrivals were living beings and ordered the dispatch center, guards, and C929 crew to intercept them before they could regroup.
• Zhifo estimated that the impact had badly injured the targets, and Taiye agreed to fight the fallen fairy spirit because it was an invader.
• Ruixiuli and Zhapulai prepared to attack two assigned targets, while Yise and Leoni chose to head toward Prism Shadow’s landing site.
• Ruixiuli and Zhapulai leaped from C929 toward their targets, followed by Yise and Leoni as they descended toward Prism Shadow.

Su Ming, Zijin, Taiye, and the Fairy Guard fought Prism Shadow, whose illusion and power-draining abilities countered the fairies and forced them to rely on a collective sealing domain. As Su Ming and his allies closed in, Prism Shadow unleashed her Mirror Flower · Reflection domain, trapping them amid distorted reflections.

• Su Ming and the Fairy Guard searched the forest for Prism Shadow, who appeared as an illusion before revealing herself and freezing the fairies’ attacks while siphoning their power.
• Su Ming and Zijin joined the battle, but Prism Shadow avoided their attacks and continued draining energy from the fairies.
• Qiluo used her alignment sight to expose Prism Shadow’s evil aura, while Taiye organized the fairies into a Punishment Sealing Domain that restricted Prism Shadow’s movement and absorption.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Qiluo pursued the weakened Prism Shadow, who warned that she had been conserving her Destiny Level power before activating her domain.
• Prism Shadow filled the forest with mirrored reflections, and Su Ming, Qiluo, and Zijin found themselves standing on a shimmering surface that reflected them in distorted forms.

Yise, Leoni, and Jielusi entered the Punishment Sealing Domain and fought reflections of their strongest selves, while Su Ming, Zijin, and Qiluo faced their own. Immortal Spirit Prism Shadow fainted after her domain drained her, leaving the reflections without their commander as the group prepared to defeat them and reach her.

• Yise, Leoni, and Jielusi entered the mirror domain and discovered reflections shaped by their pasts, including Yise in a little monster snowsuit.
• Leoni altered his past traces to make his reflection a badly injured version of himself, then shot it down before Prism Shadow restored it.
• Prism Shadow summoned the strongest reflections of Su Ming, Zijin, and Qiluo, but the mirror domain drained her until she fainted.
• Yise noticed that the reflections had lost their commander and withdrew beyond their limited pursuit range; Jielusi and Leoni also broke away from their shadows.
• Leoni confirmed no new shadow had appeared and helped lure Yise's reflection away so she could fight it separately.

Su Ming, Zijin, and Qiluo attacked the Moon Prayer shadow unicorn, but its wind magic overwhelmed their restraints. The shadow unicorn’s Wind Sequence sent Su Ming and Zijin flying, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Su Ming and Zijin chose to draw out and attack the Moon Prayer shadow unicorn first.
• The shadow unicorn charged between Su Ming and Zijin, scattering wind blades that struck their shields and left Qiluo dizzy.
• Qiluo supported Su Ming and Zijin with enhancement spells as Zijin and Su Ming combined their attacks to restrain the shadow unicorn.
• Su Ming used Deathly Word: Elemental Fading to disrupt the shadow unicorn’s wind magic, but it activated Wind Sequence and restored control of the surrounding elements.
• The shadow unicorn expanded its cyan domain and sent Su Ming and Zijin flying.

Su Ming, Zijin, and their allies defeated the shadow unicorn, while Yise and Jielusi suppressed shadow Jielusi after Yise erased its awakened Abyssal power. The group then faced Zijin’s unexpected reflection in the form of an Archlich, whose negative-energy and mind spells left them under strain.

• Su Ming froze the shadow unicorn and drew its attention while Qiluo dodged its attacks, Leoni bound it with Binding Arrow, and Zijin destroyed it with Six-Pointed Star: Divine Edict.
• Yise used Raven · Memory Seal to erase the memories sustaining shadow Jielusi’s Abyssal power, then joined Jielusi in suppressing the weakened reflection.
• Leoni’s arrow vanished and reappeared in shadow Zijin’s forehead, prompting the reflection to attack the group.
• Su Ming recognized shadow Zijin’s form as the Archlich he had seen on Brown Gold Island.
• The Archlich used Negative Energy Surge and Mind Void, weighing down the group and suppressing their magic as Leoni praised its power.

Su Ming and his allies defeated the Archlich shadow by combining their powers, then drew Su Ming’s shadow away from Prism Shadow and suspected she had awakened and was waiting to ambush them. Leoni revealed he had come to learn Atiya’s Life-Shattering Sword, and used Trace Shadows of All Things on Zijin’s Divine Favor Scepter to recall her strike.

• The Archlich shadow attacked with deadly spells, but Zijin, Su Ming, Leoni, Qiluo, and Jinxiu survived and counterattacked.
• Jinxiu joined Su Ming through the Faerie Dragon scale, while Lingmo joined Zijin, allowing Zijin to cast Veil of Eternal Winter and strip the Archlich of its ice immunity with Su Ming’s Pale domain.
• Jielusi and Yise joined the fight, and Jielusi shattered the frozen Archlich shadow with an Abyssal strike.
• The group tested Su Ming’s remaining shadow, then noticed it stopped pursuing them and returned to protect Prism Shadow.
• Su Ming’s allies suspected Prism Shadow was awake and planning an ambush, but Zijin judged that they could not defeat her in a single strike.
• Leoni asked Zijin to let him study Atiya’s Life-Shattering Sword, and activated Trace Shadows of All Things on her Divine Favor Scepter.

Zijin and Su Ming watched Trace Shadows of All Things reveal Atiya and Leoni’s past, including their discovery of the Plundering Clock and their confrontation with Yexiya. The vision ended with Yexiya overpowering Atiya and hurling her away.

• The Divine Favor Scepter became the Unyielding Blade, and Zijin watched Atiya and Leoni attend Bobofeizi’s funeral.
• Atiya warned Cortes about the Plundering Clock, but he refused to involve the Temple of Light; afterward, Atiya and Leoni planned to pit the Temple against the organization.
• Atiya and Leoni sensed a strange spatial anomaly and encountered Yexiya, who attacked them with Destiny Level power.
• Atiya activated Unyielding and fought alongside Leoni, wounding Yexiya but taking several injuries herself.
• Yexiya increased her speed, stabbed Atiya in the ribs, and sent her flying with a heavy strike.

Atiya and Leoni fought Yexiya in the frozen battlefield, but Yexiya overwhelmed them with her Destiny Level sword technique. Watching the illusion, Leoni urged Zijin to commit to a path, while Atiya learned to perceive Yexiya’s connection to the world and launched a final counterattack.

• Atiya and Leoni attacked Yexiya together, but she unleashed Eternal Frost · Shattered Jade, gravely wounding them and killing Leoni’s dire silver wolf.
• Leoni explained to Zijin that she had repeatedly changed cultivation paths and challenged her to consider whether she would follow the path of life to its end.
• Atiya rose again and struck Yexiya, using her Unyielding domain to learn the origins of Yexiya’s sword techniques as they fought.
• Atiya recognized the gap between Yexiya and the world, then used Chasing Light · Beyond Daybreak to counter her attack.

Atiya shattered Yexiya’s frost domain with her final strike but died from the wound, and Cortes arrived to heal Leoni and drive the Plundering Clock agents to suicide. After blessing Atiya, Cortes received her Divine Favor weapon and left, while Leoni knelt beside Atiya and the silver wolf, mourning.

• Atiya pierced Yexiya’s power source with her sword, breaking the Eternal Frost Deposition domain, but Yexiya’s followers used Zuyi’s Blessing to heal and evacuate her.
• Cortes arrived and used his Sin-Cleansing Silence domain to prevent the Quarter Hand and two Minute Hands from attacking while he healed Leoni; the three agents killed themselves after Cortes mocked their faith.
• Cortes found Atiya dead, spoke over her body, and performed a blessing rite while Leoni accused him of standing aside during the battle.
• Atiya’s Unyielding Blade disintegrated and its Divine Favor chose Cortes, who planned to claim publicly that Augustus had received it.
• Cortes departed with the Divine Favor weapon, and Leoni laid the silver wolf beside Atiya before kneeling to mourn her.

Su Ming, Zijin, and their allies attacked Prism Shadow inside the Mirror Domain while Zhapulai and Ruixiuli’s forces defeated one of the Plundering Clock’s Pseudo-Saint Rank mages outside the sealing domain. Prism Shadow counterattacked with her Unfallen Garland, and Zhapulai headed toward the ongoing fight as Ruixiuli led the remaining guards after the last enemy.

• Su Ming used Silent Vision to disrupt the shadow Su Ming’s spatial blades, while Zijin dodged them and discovered they had a limited range.
• Qiluo blessed the group, and Yise, Jielusi, and Leoni attacked Prism Shadow, who awakened and used the Unfallen Garland to evade and deflect their strikes.
• Prism Shadow wounded Jielusi, but Yise used Zuyi’s Blessing to catch and heal her before Leoni’s arrows were redirected by the garland’s petals.
• Zhapulai and Ruixiuli joined the guards and Magic Mechanical Hounds in defeating the Pseudo-Saint Rank mage, target number one.
• Zhapulai headed toward Prism Shadow’s battle while Ruixiuli led the remaining guards and Magic Mechanical Hounds toward the last Plundering Clock Quarter Hand.