Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Miao Xin survived a space-based strike and an electromagnetic blast, but the latter triggered Miao Xin’s overwhelming vengeful-spirit power. Su Ming restored their bond and guided her toward home to see her family, while the operation team lost track of them and received orders to hand the case over.

• A space-based weapon struck the industrial park, and Miao Xin escaped the blast with Su Ming while Ling Wen was left behind.
• An exploding transformer separated Miao Xin from Little Spiky Head and drove her into a destructive frenzy after she relived her death.
• Su Ming repaired the vengeful spirit mark and reached Miao Xin, then calmed her before she attacked the operation team at the perimeter.
• Miao Xin fled toward the Red River, discarded traceable equipment, and followed Su Ming’s instructions to return to their country and see her family.
• Miao Xin entered a drainage pipe to leave the river, while the command center learned the operation had failed and company headquarters ordered an internal-affairs handover.

Su Ming learned that Miao Hai’s vengeful spirit had been activated by an unknown saboteur, while Ling Wen warned him to stay hidden for a few days. After investigating how vengeful spirits worked, Su Ming chose to lie low and sent Miao Hai to deliver a warning to the Interdimensional Service Department before escaping.

• Miao Xin traveled from Vietnam toward home while Su Ming told Zijin that powerful people on Earth wanted him dead, and he shared his ambition to build a sustainable passage between planes.
• Ling Wen found Su Ming and Miao Xin, explained that the attack in Vietnam had deliberately missed them, and asked Su Ming to stay hidden for a few days before leaving him to think about why he had lost control.
• Su Ming found a tiny tracker on Miao Xin, removed it, and evaded the vehicles searching for Ling Wen before returning to his world and going to sleep.
• Zijin and Saenieka demonstrated how a necromancer could create a vengeful spirit, and Saenieka explained that Miao Hai’s Nether Sea could have been activated by someone who knew how to open her unencrypted seal.
• Su Ming concluded that someone had sabotaged the mission in Vietnam, decided to lie low, and asked Miao Hai to cause a commotion and escape.
• Su Ming called the police as Miao Hai collapsed part of an old factory, and she delivered his warning to the Interdimensional Service Department before fleeing onto the highway.

Su Ming planned the trip to Water Chestnut Island and sought ways to stabilize the White Triangle and defend it from dragons. As Miao Xin traveled toward a factory to obtain equipment, Su Ming and Zijin weighed anti-air weapons and concluded that drones could help without forcing them to kill the dragons.

• Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi discussed the stormy journey to Water Chestnut Island, and Su Ming decided to solve the problem of the ship's constant rocking.
• Su Ming found plans to restore the White Triangle's stabilizer fins and install a gyroscopic stabilizer, which could also provide power for devices with high burst demands.
• Su Ming and Zijin discussed the approaching dragons, ruling out a close-in weapon system because of its ammunition and manufacturing requirements and considering FPV drone swarms instead.
• Su Ming and Zijin concluded that cheap drones could support reconnaissance and harassment, though they would be vulnerable to area spells.
• Miao Xin used disguises and indirect rides to travel toward a factory, avoiding heavily monitored routes while Su Ming promised to find her teaching materials on resentful spirits.

Miao Xin stole a stabilizing gyroscope from an Earth factory, and Su Ming teleported it aboard the White Triangle. The next day, Charles delivered supplies and reported that the first two batches of giant octopuses were dead, leaving three immature sea monsters as the Federation prepared to search for the zombie base.

• Miao Xin infiltrated a marine equipment factory, subdued a guard, and took the stabilizing gyroscope while practicing her Resentment Power with Su Ming's advice.
• Su Ming teleported the several-dozen-ton gyroscope aboard the White Triangle, exhausting himself, and Zijin carried him to bed.
• Charles arrived with summer clothes and blades for Beianqi, while Su Ming sent Xiwo an expensive pair of glasses in a rose-patterned box that onlookers mistook for a marriage proposal to Zijin.
• Charles reported that giant octopus heads numbered two and four had surfaced, leading Su Ming to conclude that the first two batches were dead and only three immature sea monsters remained.
• Charles said the Federation supported Su Ming's proposal to search for the zombie base.

Zijin and Su Ming negotiated the Federation’s payment and a contract to investigate the zombie base, while Zijin inferred that their allies planned to eliminate them after the investigation. After Su Ming confronted Zijin for hiding her ownership of the Blue-Eyed Chamber of Commerce, the two discussed trust, morality, and spiritual power, and Zijin asked him to give her time to learn how to get along with him.

• Charles told Zijin and Su Ming that Yexiya might have escaped to naga territory and that the Federation wanted them to investigate and destroy the zombie base.
• Zijin negotiated the mission settlement to 216,000 gold coins and signed a zombie-base investigation agreement for 130,000 gold coins.
• Zijin kept the Temple of Light’s mysterious letter and inferred from Charles’s hints that the Temple planned to dispose of them and might sabotage their future supplies.
• A ship from the Blue-Eyed Chamber of Commerce delivered their earnings, and Su Ming discovered that Zijin secretly held a seventy percent stake in the company.
• Su Ming told Zijin that her concealment had exhausted and upset him, then went onto the deck to practice with his whip.
• Zijin explained how Su Ming’s strong sense of self helped protect him from mental barriers and asked him to give her time to learn how to get along with him.

Su Ming questioned Saenieka about Miao Xin’s wraith powers, arranged covert supplies and ship upgrades, and contacted Miao Mu through an online card game. The White Triangle reached Water Chestnut Island, where Zijin revealed she had once been assassinated and explained how her Bone Dragon Form could help them fight on land.

• Su Ming learned from Saenieka that Miao Xin’s past could not have created a ranked wraith, and watched Saenieka demonstrate how negative emotions triggered a wraith’s Nether Sea Form.
• Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi arranged for the Mist Veil to secretly deliver supplies and installed a gyroscope, stabilizer fins, and obstacle-avoidance sonar aboard the White Triangle.
• Miao Xin admitted she had contacted her father, Miao Mu, through a small card-game platform, and Su Ming used the same platform to speak with him.
• Miao Mu initially rejected Su Ming’s story, then reconsidered the evidence and told Su Ming that he believed him so Miao Xin’s spirit would remain secret.
• The White Triangle reached Water Chestnut Island and passed the Star Rain fleet before Zijin told Su Ming that she had died there in an assassination attempt and could use Bone Dragon Form during a landing.

The White Triangle captured a battered pirate crew in the Storm Sea and put them to work searching nearby islands for a zombie base. After Su Ming discovered a mysterious rune-locked book, Zijin tested him in a brutal illusion that ended with both of them apparently stabbed.

• The White Triangle weathered the Storm Sea with its new stabilization equipment while Su Ming and Zijin prepared explosives and magical gear to hunt sea monsters.
• On the second day, Beianqi captured a pirate ship whose crew had fled into the Storm Sea after fighting among themselves and being pursued by the Star Rain Fleet.
• Su Ming took the night shift, cared for the prisoners, organized the captured supplies, and proposed using the pirates to search islands while the White Triangle checked the surrounding waters.
• Su Ming found a rune-locked copy of Principles of Economics, then later learned that Zijin had punished pirates who failed their search assignments, leaving him unsettled.
• Zijin attacked Su Ming in a training exercise, using a domain to disable many of his spells and an illusion to make him believe they had stabbed each other.
• Su Ming realized that both apparent attackers were illusions, and Zijin dispelled the scene and eased the pain from her enhanced Pain Spell.

Su Ming and Zijin uncovered an illusion-wielding beastman spy among the captured pirates and suspected he was trying to delay the White Triangle’s search. After learning a message linked Yexiya to Snail Island, they secretly raced there to attack the zombie base, arriving within radar range and preparing for battle.

• Zijin merged her mental power with Su Ming’s so he could use Silent Vision to detect a beastman spy disguised among the pirates.
• Su Ming observed the spy secretly using Suggestion Spell to incite the prisoners and deduced that the sabotage was meant to delay the search of Snail Island.
• A message reported that Yexiya had returned to Water Chestnut Island, and Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi concluded that her zombie base was likely near Snail Island.
• Beianqi sent the pirates to search the Four Coral Islands while the White Triangle secretly turned south and raced toward Snail Island with the remaining prisoners unconscious.
• The White Triangle detected a harbor and a large transport ship near Snail Island, and Beianqi prepared the Mantis with Su Ming’s newly modified, brittle blades.

Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi used depth charges to destroy the three octopus sea monsters, then attacked Snail Island and pursued the fleeing orc transport ship. When they discovered Saint Rank Yexiya was aboard, they decided to exploit her apparent weakness, and their bombardment finally forced her to fly toward the White Triangle.

• Su Ming and Beianqi used sonar to locate the three octopus sea monsters, and the crew sank more than a hundred depth charges that killed them.
• Anrelo's illusion failed to protect him from his explosive collar, and he watched the other pirates explode as the White Triangle attacked Snail Island.
• Beianqi fired incendiary shells at Snail Island, while Su Ming had the White Triangle pursue the escaping orc transport ship and leave zombies behind.
• Yexiya intercepted the White Triangle's shells, and Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi realized she was aboard the transport ship and planned to kill her while she seemed vulnerable.
• The White Triangle closed to ten kilometers and sustained rapid fire until Yexiya flew toward it, separating her from the transport ship.

Su Ming, Zijin, and Beianqi fought Yexiya and her Naga allies after crippling their transport ship with the White Triangle’s cannon. Yexiya and a late-arriving orc mage were defeated, but Su Ming and Beianqi were badly injured and Zijin collapsed after the battle.

• Su Ming ordered Beianqi to keep firing until a shell struck Yexiya’s transport ship, then turned the White Triangle away as Yexiya pursued them.
• Zijin and Beianqi engaged Yexiya with the Divine Favor Scepter and puppets while Su Ming fought Naga warriors who attacked the ship from the sea.
• Su Ming killed the Naga warriors and a fish beast, but suffered severe injuries and lost the Anzio gun when an enemy smashed its case.
• Beianqi used Mantis’s reinforced blades to wound Yexiya, then collapsed after resisting Yexiya’s mental attack.
• Zijin struck Yexiya with Light Execution: Judgment, and Yexiya’s life aura faded as she was defeated.
• An orc mage attacked Su Ming with Meteor Fire Rain, but a bone dragon emerged from the ship, shielded the deck, and killed him; Zijin later returned from the sea to find Su Ming and Beianqi unconscious.

Zijin treated Su Ming’s injuries, recovered Yexiya’s body, and tried to send Yexiya’s soul onward, but the Divine Favor Scepter devoured it instead. After Su Ming woke, he helped Zijin correct the White Triangle’s course through the storm and learned Beianqi’s sister was coming to help her.

• Zijin set Su Ming’s broken shoulder blade and dressed the wound while Beianqi remained unconscious from her mental injury.
• Zijin recovered Yexiya’s corpse, collected her valuable equipment, and learned that the symbols on the sea monster were ordinary numbers.
• Zijin used Holy Rebirth to send Yexiya’s soul onward, but the Divine Favor Scepter transformed its light into a maw and swallowed the soul.
• Su Ming woke aboard the storm-tossed White Triangle, and Zijin treated his shoulder with alchemical bandages.
• Su Ming corrected the ship’s course and speed to stop its synchronous pitching, then explained that Zijin had mistaken which side of the storm was navigable in the southern hemisphere.
• Zijin told Su Ming that Beianqi’s sister was coming to help, and he sent the exhausted girl to sleep before they discussed the corpses aboard the ship.

Su Ming and Zijin reviewed the captured documents and uncovered the Truth Cult of the Plundering Clock’s attacks, a Federation mole, and a second Saint Rank hidden behind the Yexiya ambush. The chapter ended with Su Ming stopping Miao Xin from escalating a robbery on Earth as she carried off stolen cash.

• Su Ming cared for the unconscious Beianqi, inspected the seized cargo, and spent the day sorting documents from the captured ship and Snail Island.
• Over dinner, Su Ming told Zijin that the previous battle had felt strangely familiar and admitted he had adapted to fighting faster than he expected.
• Su Ming and Zijin learned that the Truth Cult of the Plundering Clock had staged sea-monster attacks and that a Federation insider codenamed Hairspring had supplied intelligence against the White Triangle.
• Su Ming and Zijin discovered that the orcs had multiple Saint Ranks, realized Charles had hinted at another expert with flatbread, and vowed to confront him over the misleading clue.
• Miao Xin told Su Ming she had robbed a company section chief and was moving bags of cash; Su Ming made her take only four bags, report the robbery, and leave without injuring the victim.

Su Ming and Zijin investigated records suggesting that the Plundering Clock’s zombie technology came from an unknown plane, while Su Ming also grew suspicious that Zijin had feelings for Beianqi. The chapter ended with Su Ming wondering whether Zijin’s dragon and human nature could be explained by a human-dragon pairing.

• Zijin found that the zombification records described technology with at least three iterations and appeared to be translated from an unknown language; Su Ming confirmed that their dates and script came from neither Earth nor Taya.
• Su Ming learned that Zijin’s Divine Favor Scepter had helped save his life, and Zijin revealed that she had wiped several hours of Saenieka’s memory and left him unfed.
• Su Ming kept Saenieka alive, spent the evening carefully peeling eggs, and made meat and egg buns with Zijin the next morning.
• Su Ming suspected that Zijin had romantic feelings for Beianqi after recalling her unusual attention toward the unconscious mechanic, but Miao Xin could not confirm his theory.
• Su Ming and Zijin studied the Plundering Clock’s records and found a rune component that suppressed octopuses’ mating urges, which could be removed to destabilize their population.
• Su Ming remembered a picture book and wondered whether Zijin’s resemblance to a human woman meant that she was born from a human-dragon pairing.

Su Ming and Zijin sorted the seized Plundering Clock documents and planned to use forged evidence to turn powerful nations and churches against the cult. They then met Qiluomilan, Beianqi’s older sister, whose Natural Affinity left Su Ming overwhelmed, and headed to visit Beianqi.

• Su Ming and Zijin set aside the mysterious-language documents, discussed using a large AI model to translate them, and agreed to alert major powers about the Plundering Clock.
• Zijin proposed fabricating anti-religious doctrines and evidence to make the churches, Star Empire, and Dwarven Kingdom pursue the Plundering Clock, while Su Ming found a record implicating the dwarves in creating the Dread Skeleton.
• Su Ming and Zijin discovered the seized supplies included enough Celestial Gold to build a teleportation array.
• Zijin welcomed Beianqi’s arriving older sister, Qiluomilan, who flew to their ship as a unicorn and transformed into a little girl.
• Su Ming used Silent Vision to check whether Qiluomilan’s powerful Natural Affinity was an illusion, but she mistook his reaction for improper intent and accused him of belonging to the Sorrowful Wind Cult.
• Qiluomilan introduced herself as Beianqi’s older sister, and the group went to visit Beianqi.

Su Ming, Zijin, and Qiluo cared for the recovering Beianqi, then discussed their voyage and the plan to build a planar portal. They decided to head for Brown Gold Island, while Zijin raised the challenge of finding enough experts to construct the portal.

• Qiluo recognized that her rune bandage had caused Su Ming's strange reaction, removed it, and woke Beianqi to confront her about selling the used bandages.
• Beianqi admitted she had sold Qiluo's used bandages for a high price, then fell asleep again after Qiluo tickled her.
• Su Ming cooked dinner, and Qiluo and Zijin traded stories and spells about catching animals for food.
• Qiluo proposed sailing to Brown Gold Island, where she could arrange transport for herself and Beianqi back to the Dwarf Continent.
• Su Ming and Zijin agreed to pursue coal and wait for clearer information about the dragon before deciding their next steps.
• Zijin estimated that a new planar portal would cost five million gold coins and require months of work, then hesitated when Su Ming asked where to find the necessary scholars.

Su Ming and Zijin weighed rescuing fifty-seven imprisoned necromancers to recruit them for the planar magic array, then sought intelligence on the Temple of Light’s defenses. They learned the Temple had secured the Star Empire’s support by giving it effective control of Midsummer Island, leaving Zijin to reconsider how to oppose the Church of Light.

• Zijin showed Su Ming the Plundering Clock’s records of fifty-seven necromancers imprisoned at the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison and proposed rescuing them to help build the planar magic array.
• Su Ming raised the dangers of reaching the prison and transporting the prisoners, then suggested asking Qiluo about the Temple of Light’s condition before deciding what to do.
• Qiluo reported that Katharine was marrying Emperor Xialike and becoming steward of Midsummer Island, while the Temple of Light and Star Empire were negotiating closer ties.
• Qiluo received confirmation that the Star Empire had recognized the Temple of Light and would support it in exchange for effective control of Midsummer Island.
• Beianqi warned that the Temple of Light would eventually target the White Triangle, and Zijin concluded that the Temple’s political deal had undone her hopes of exploiting its crisis.

Su Ming and Zijin negotiated with Fernand, the Star Empire’s foreign minister, and learned that the Temple of Light’s carrier might be transporting dragons. On deck, Zijin revealed how she was born from two mothers and remembered that Xiwo had cared for her as a child, leaving Su Ming newly moved by her past.

• Fernand visited the White Triangle, and Zijin demanded a favor from King Xialike while Su Ming handed over a letter for him.
• Su Ming and Zijin sold Fernand documents about orc plots, including plans to bomb the imperial palace and evidence concerning stolen dwarven corpses.
• Stanton’s message revealed that the Temple of Light’s carrier Jade Sea and Tang Valley had returned to sea with dragon food aboard, so Su Ming and Zijin planned to sink it using an unmanned underwater vehicle.
• Su Ming guessed that Zijin had been born through alchemy-assisted reproduction by Misaila and Atiya, and Zijin confirmed it.
• Su Ming helped Zijin realize that Xiwo had abandoned his search for treasure to care for her, and Zijin recalled leaving Dragon Valley for the human lands where she felt she belonged.

Zijin told Su Ming how she became a free-willed bone dragon and explained why the dragons feared she might become their next king. As the White Triangle prepared to evade the Federation and restocked supplies, Zijin challenged Qiluo to a fight after learning the unicorn had overheard her private messages.

• Zijin revealed that Atiya, Sebastian, and Huo De'er had helped preserve her human bloodline as a phylactery, and that she had become a Six-Winged Magic Dragon with the potential to reach Saint Rank.
• Zijin explained that her rise could threaten the dragon clan's unity as the aging Dragon King Gezelie declined, and Su Ming planned to mislead Katharine with a location chosen by a bone bead.
• Su Ming and Miao Xin arranged to buy an unmanned submersible, while Miao Xin reported that her failed Pulse Stun Spell had developed into a power that made people subconsciously ignore her.
• The White Triangle reached Earthworm Island, loaded supplies, and Su Ming tasked Zijin's Blue-Eyed Chamber of Commerce with pursuing crude oil purchases.
• Zijin accepted Su Ming's explanation for buying her strawberry-flavored children's calcium tablets, then learned Qiluo could hear their private messages and challenged her to spar.
• Zijin transformed into a massive bone dragon and invited Qiluo to fight hand-to-hand in her true form.

Su Ming and his companions arrived at Brown Gold Island to buy coal and discovered that a flooded mine had trapped more than a hundred workers underground. They arranged to pump out the mine in exchange for coal, and Su Ming began organizing the equipment and power supply for the rescue.

• Miao Xin visited a factory to investigate remote-controlled submersibles, but Su Ming abandoned the plan after finding that civilian equipment could not meet his requirements.
• The White Triangle reached Brown Gold Island, where Beianqi explained that the island's coal mines were declining and much of the remaining coal lay beneath the sea.
• Qiluo used Detect Alignment on the group and became fixated on Su Ming's lawful-good reading before Beianqi pulled her away.
• Beianqi told mine owner Fletcher Lores that they could pump the flooded mine quickly in exchange for their requested coal, and he accepted.
• Su Ming ordered preparations at the mine, arranged for Miao Xin to obtain a large pump, and began making cables and studying the pump's power system.

Miao Xin stole a pump, transformer, and pipes, which Su Ming and the others installed to drain the flooded mine and rescue its trapped workers. After the rescue began, eight workers remained missing, and a local mage entered the mine to search for them.

• Miao Xin stole a submersible pump, transformer, pipes, and their connecting supplies from a factory, while Su Ming transferred the equipment to the White Triangle.
• Zijin, Qiluo, Beianqi, Su Ming, and the zombies installed the pump and powered it with the ship’s generator, steadily draining the mine.
• Zijin brought cake to share with Su Ming but turned back after finding him eating crab with Beianqi, then thought sadly about Stacy.
• After sixteen hours, the water fell below the mine passage, and Beianqi stopped the pump when workers began climbing out near the cables.
• Fletcher’s men rescued nearly a hundred workers and brought out another dozen, but eight remained missing, so Fyodor entered the mine to search.