Vol. 2Vortices and the Sin Sea

Wen Xishu faced the Great Devourment’s dangers, uncovered the truth behind several anomalous missions, and helped change the fates of people trapped by misfortune. After earning new resources for the Bunker, he entered the Strange Tower’s Sin Sea Voyage and began searching for the truth about his altered identity with Horn.

  • Wen Xishu cleared the Museum and hospital, climbed the Slaughter Tower with Xun Hui, and survived the Doomsday Game while changing John’s fate in Wind City.
  • Wen Xishu warned Albert about the Great Devourment, learned the Wen family had helped cause a Slaughter Tower massacre, and began a Forty-Second Floor mission in Deer Island City.
  • Wen Xishu uncovered the Ruinbringer’s influence on Deer Island, defeated Shoe Woman in an orange vortex, and helped organize the Bunker’s response to the Great Devourment.
  • Wen Xishu entered the Maze Train with his companions, then followed an Invitation Letter to an Old Burma Compound and freed its trafficked workers.
  • Wen Xishu cleared the Storytelling Club and Desire Tower, where a simulation of Wen Chaohua warned him about Sinland and the person who could shoot down causality.
  • Wen Xishu entered the merged vortex and explored Human-Hole Village, winning pain-based relics before entering Yoshida Daibu’s grandson’s Human Hole.
  • Wen Xishu escaped the Human Holes and helped Akiyama Xing and Morita Tong defeat Morita Yu, earning a new academy and training archive for the Bunker.
  • Wen Xishu defeated Miyamoto Yoshiki and entered the Sin Sea Voyage, where he woke in a false life as Xiao Mian’s partner and left to meet Horn.
Chapters 102–202 Read from Ch. 102

Arc 5The Great Devourment Approaches

Wen Xishu cleared the Slaughter Tower with Xun Hui, then survived a deadly Doomsday Game and changed John’s fate in Wind City. After warning Albert that the Great Devourment was near, Wen Xishu began another climb on the Forty-Second Floor.

  • Wen Xishu fused the Phoenix Heart into his glove, cleared the Museum’s final stages with Zheng Zai, and escaped the hospital with Zheng Zai and Wang Ying.
  • Wen Xishu formed a Slaughter Tower party with Xiao Jin, Yue Yun, and Nissen, then joined Xun Hui on a climb to Floor 52.
  • Wen Xishu helped Xun Hui defeat the Ghost Bride by sealing her coffin, and the group later returned to the Bunker with new rewards and a Level Six facility for the Academy.
  • Wen Xishu entered the Doomsday Game, survived its zombie world, and killed Charles Yang after winning his trust in the Golden Tower.
  • Wen Xishu changed John’s mind about bringing on the apocalypse, then found Catherine and helped her understand John’s final gift.
  • Wen Xishu left Wind City as its new lord, chose a Level Six Library for the Bunker, and warned Albert that the Great Devourment was coming.
  • Albert revealed Wen Xishu’s identity at the Academy assembly, while Liu Jinsen told him that Wen Chaohua and the Wen family had helped cause a massacre in the Slaughter Tower.
  • Wen Xishu entered the Forty-Second Floor, advised Wang Ying’s team, and began a new mission in Deer Island City where Visitors could imitate humans.
Chapters 102–12625 summaries Read

Arc 6Deer Island and the Vortices

Wen Xishu uncovered the truth behind Deer Island, survived the Great Devourment’s vortices, and entered the Maze Train. After fighting through its anomalous carriages, he followed a clue from the orphanage game into a mission at an Old Burma Compound, where he freed trafficked workers.

  • Wen Xishu survived the house’s monsters, visited the Desire Tower Rest Area, then returned to Deer Island and learned from Master Lingqing how the Ruinbringer had reshaped its people and events.
  • Wen Xishu killed the seven powerful figures tied to the Ruinbringer, then completed the changed Forty-Second Floor mission by finding a human refuge before the strong moon period.
  • Wen Xishu and Albert organized the Bunker’s forces against the Great Devourment, and Wen Xishu led a team into the orange Evil Artifact Sealing Chamber vortex.
  • Wen Xishu guided the trapped group through the jar challenge, exposed Shoe Woman’s servants and powers, restored the parchment, and defeated Shoe Woman by absorbing her relics.
  • Wen Xishu returned to the Bunker, gained Arnold’s Energy Conservation Power rune, then entered the Maze Train with Yue Yun, Nissen, Xiao Jin, A Miao, and Zheng Zai.
  • Wen Xishu advanced through the train’s anomalous carriages, shared information with his companions, and faced the Brat, the Female Influencer, and the Female Attendant while learning about the human trafficker.
  • Wen Xishu gave the little girl an Evil card and received an Invitation Letter, then entered the next mission and killed the armed militants at an Old Burma Compound, freeing its trafficked workers.
Chapters 127–15225 summaries Read

Arc 7The Human-Hole Village

Wen Xishu cleared the Storytelling Club and the Desire Tower, where he reunited with a simulation of Wen Chaohua and learned more about his brother’s fate. As the Great Devourment neared its end, he entered a merged vortex and began exploring the dangerous Human-Hole Village.

  • Wen Xishu defeated Jiang Qing at the Orphanage, learned the apocalypse was coming, and cleared the restarted Chosen Train with his companions refusing Wei Ping'an’s sacrifice ritual.
  • Wen Xishu entered the Ancient Castle Storytelling vortex, survived its deadly story rounds, and used the incidents to investigate the Castle Lord and the town’s twisted residents.
  • Jessica helped Wen Xishu expose Priest, whose purification ritual summoned a simulated Wen Renjing and then Wen Chaohua, and Wen Chaohua destroyed Priest and warned Wen Xishu about Sinland and the person who could shoot down causality.
  • Wen Xishu defeated Priest’s Obsession, took three of Priest’s Sequences, and collapsed the third Orange Vortex as Albert and Evelyn said the Great Devourment was nearing its end.
  • Wen Xishu learned that two Orange Vortices had merged, entered the dangerous vortex alone, and arrived in Human-Hole Village, where Void 04 explained the pain-based economy and the black-veined holes.
  • Wen Xishu won the Pain Crystal Gem Necklace and Agony Umbilical Cord at the auction, then entered Yoshida Daibu’s grandson’s Human Hole despite warnings.
  • Wen Xishu met the Human Hole Guide, a boy in a white kimono who warned that no one had escaped alive.
Chapters 153–17725 summaries Read

Arc 8Misfortune and the Sin Sea

Wen Xishu escaped the Human Holes, helped Morita Tong and Akiyama Xing overturn Morita Yu’s control, and earned a new academy and training archive. After defeating Miyamoto Yoshiki, he entered the Strange Tower’s Sin Sea Voyage mission, where an island altered his identity and left him searching for the truth with Horn.

  • Wen Xishu escaped Yoshida Xiaohui’s false happy life, then returned to Hujiang and dismantled the Human Hole in Human-Hole Village with the Curator’s help.
  • Wen Xishu and Wen Renjing discovered that Morita Tong had absorbed the misfortune behind Morita Yu’s miracles and that Akiyama Xing was being held captive by Sakai Shinichi.
  • Wen Xishu and Wen Renjing rescued Akiyama Xing and set out to free Morita Tong, while Capricorn revealed Xing’s powerful Eerie Sequence.
  • Wen Xishu killed Morita Yu as the Ghost Groom, while Akiyama Xing reached Morita Tong and awakened powers that spread golden radiance across Hujiang.
  • Akiyama Xing and Morita Tong changed people’s fates and completed the mission, earning Wen Xishu the Three Towers Memory Archive and improving his standing in the Bunker.
  • Wen Xishu opened the Tower of Deception Academy and defeated Miyamoto Yoshiki, then used the Madman’s Dice and began the Strange Tower’s Sin Sea Voyage mission.
  • Wen Xishu landed on an island with seven others, woke in a false life as Xiao Mian’s partner, and realized he had lost an important concept.
  • Wen Xishu’s calls to Judy and Mia eased the island’s dissonance, and he left Xiao Mian to meet Horn while Judy and Mia heard something crawling outside.
Chapters 178–20225 summaries Read
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