Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue removed a time-contaminating Worm from Doberman’s wound, then learned the enemy’s harassment was meant to exhaust the Sky Rail. Convinced the threat involved more than a fight between the eternal gate and shadow sun, he decided to recruit trusted allies for an offensive and began calling in backup.

• Ji Jue used Tai’a, the Big-Eared Screaming Donkey, and the Bone Blade to extract the Worm from Doberman’s wound, and Beagle ate it.
• Saint Bernard took Doberman to recuperate, and the dispatcher warned Ji Jue that the worms were baiting the Sky Rail into exhausting its limited personnel.
• Ji Jue argued that his vision of the Heavenly Pillar before it broke meant the conflict involved more than the eternal gate and shadow sun.
• Ji Jue proposed recruiting outside help and called Little An, Old Tang, and Inayat to join the mission.
• Ji Jue hesitantly called someone he addressed as Master-Grandfather.

Ji Jue called Heavenly Furnace for help with the trouble surrounding the Sky Rail, and Heavenly Furnace warned him not to interfere with the Sky Rail’s protections before agreeing to send support. After Nirvana’s team joined Ji Jue aboard the Doomsday Train, Ji Jue announced that they would lure their hidden enemies out by using bait.

• Ji Jue teased Heavenly Furnace, who recognized his connection to the Sky Rail and warned him against involving others in matters inside it.
• Ji Jue asked for help with a plan outside the Sky Rail, and Heavenly Furnace agreed after recording Ji Jue calling him Master-Grandfather.
• Fan Gan and Lulu arrived through Old Bastard’s Hat, while White Owl could not come because she was wanted by both sides.
• Ji Jue gathered Old Tang, Inayat, Little An, Fan Gan, and Lulu on the Doomsday Train and explained the danger ahead.
• When Lulu asked how they would find the hidden worms, Ji Jue said they would bait the nest and stared at her without revealing what the bait would be.

Ji Jue sold Lulu to Masou Zada, an agent of the Original Vow Lineage, as part of a trap he set to expose the Evil Transformation Cult. His intelligence prompted the Shi Bang Operations Office to raid Zada’s market compound, where the story left the agents confronting a major cult stronghold.

• Ji Jue brought Lulu to Masou Zada and pretended to sell her, then took the dinars and headed to an opium den.
• Masou Zada took Lulu toward her basement, while Ji Jue revealed that he had identified her as the Original Vow Lineage’s local agent.
• Ji Jue sent a message that the net could be drawn in, and Tong Shan passed his intelligence to Secretary Zhou at the Shi Bang Operations Office.
• The Shi Bang Operations Office assembled a team and raided Springwater Market within minutes, setting Zada’s tent ablaze and sealing the area with Celestial Origin’s invisible walls.
• Secretary Zhou watched the raid through a water mirror as residual spirits and fleeing figures emerged from the compound, and he celebrated the prospect of a large-scale den.

Ji Jue’s bait drew Worm called Equality to Lulu, whose golden thread let Ji Jue and the Doomsday Train reach him. Ji Jue’s companions overwhelmed Equality, but he split into afterimages and fled as Parting Sorrow Howl rang out.

• Director Sun used the Water Mirror to crush the resistors, while Zada fled with the girl aboard a Flesh Train as her hideout was destroyed.
• Worm followed the girl’s scent onto the train, drained Zada until she turned to ashes, and swallowed the girl before vanishing.
• Fan Gan noticed the golden thread had tightened and said the bait had worked.
• Equality reached Lulu, but she recognized his intentions and grabbed him, revealing the golden strand that connected him to Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue brought the Doomsday Train through the thread and attacked Equality with Tai'a, Realm of Encirclement, the Metal Wolf, and Asura.
• Equality tore himself apart to escape, scattering his afterimages and specimens as Parting Sorrow Howl sounded.

An Ran, Inayat, Old Tang, and Ji Jue trapped and defeated Equal, whose Worm abilities let him manipulate time and transform into a regenerative Tai Sui. The group sealed him in an ancient oil lamp and gathered to open it, while Lulu eyed Ji Jue’s hair crown.

• An Ran used Xuan Ying and Vermilion Brilliance to freeze Equal’s afterimages and erase his imprints, creating an opening for the others.
• Inayat consumed Equal’s afterimages, and Old Tang repeatedly smashed him while a hidden hand stole time from his body.
• Equal transformed into a Tai Sui Flesh Mountain, but Inayat’s Realm of Encirclement and Ji Jue’s Tai'a suppressed its expansion until it collapsed into an ancient oil lamp.
• Lulu praised how quickly they had captured Worm, then focused on Ji Jue’s hair crown and said she was interested in his family’s child.
• Fan Gan restored the collapsing space with a pea and vines, and the group gathered around the oil lamp to open it.

After the siege, Ji Jue learned how the Wish-Granting Lamp worked and used it to request all of Equality’s memories. As he experienced the Worm’s chaotic perceptions, he pursued a clue about the Sky Rail operation before Shadow Sun appeared to engulf him.

• Fan Gan explained that the Wish-Granting Lamp could grant three requests from anything sealed inside it, and warned Ji Jue about its loopholes.
• Ji Jue drafted a detailed contract and made his first request that Equality reveal every memory connected to itself and the attack on the Sky Rail.
• Fan Gan released Equality’s memories through the lamp, overwhelming Ji Jue with the Worm’s fractured perception of time and its relentless schemes to collect debts.
• Ji Jue searched the memories and glimpsed restricted zones, corrupted believers, Holy Fool’s messenger, and fragments mentioning a station, bad debts, a Spider, and Shadow Sun.
• Ji Jue pursued the image of a white-haired man until a bloodstained hand and a rising black sun appeared in the darkness, and everything abruptly stopped.

Ji Jue uncovered the worms’ plan to restore an abandoned Sky Rail station, then used Red Firmament’s authority to seize Equality’s Cocoon and sever it from shadow sun. Newly transformed into an unaffiliated worm, he borrowed Fan Gan’s oil lamp and disguised himself as Equality to infiltrate the enemy.

• Fan Gan struck Ji Jue awake, and Ji Jue realized the worms were restoring a real abandoned Sky Rail station to breach the Seal of Shadow Sun for Sower.
• Ji Jue used Red Firmament’s authority to force Equality to surrender his Cocoon, despite Lulu warning him there was no turning back.
• Ji Jue put the Cocoon into the Hole in his chest, becoming an unaffiliated worm beyond shadow sun’s reach, but found he had no time to fuel his new power.
• Ji Jue pressured Lulu into handing over some of Equality’s beads, then borrowed Fan Gan’s oil lamp for his final demand.
• Ji Jue transformed into Equality and told Fan Gan he would infiltrate enemy territory, prompting Fan Gan to call him a bastard who wanted to stir up trouble.

Ji Jue arranged for Doberman to pursue him into the worms’ hideout, where the illusion concealing Equality was shattered. The worms watched Equality’s cocoon get devoured, and Shadow Sun finally ordered them to leave.

• Ji Jue summoned Doberman to help him enter the worms’ lair, though Doberman seemed eager to eat him despite knowing it was acting.
• Doberman’s attack shattered the bubble illusion and revealed Equality, who had fled with the Origin Stone.
• The worms cursed Equality for stealing the Origin Stone, then laughed when Doberman began tearing it apart.
• The worms waited for Shadow Sun to order them to rescue Equality, but Shadow Sun watched as Doberman devoured it down to its cracked cocoon.
• Shadow Sun told the worms they could leave.

Ji Jue survived a clash between Doberman and Spider, who rescued Equality and left him burdened with more debt. Disguised as Equality, Ji Jue secretly absorbed the time the other Worms poured into him before spotting the station through the replicated space.

• Ji Jue used himself as bait while Doberman pursued him through the Torrent of Time, and Spider sent a swarm of Worms to intervene.
• Spider altered the past and ensnared Doberman in a web, forcing it to retreat and allowing Spider to rescue Equality.
• Spider inspected Ji Jue's memories, accepted the false traces prepared by dispatcher Old Bastard, and added to Equality's debt before leaving.
• The six Worms poured time into Equality to collect their promised reward, while Ji Jue secretly stored more than two hundred years of it in his [Kong].
• After the Worms left, Ji Jue wiped away his tears and spotted the station through the cracks in the replicated space.

Ji Jue infiltrated the Copycat Station disguised as Equality, but strict security kept him away from its hidden core. He established a link for Sky Rail to locate the stations and mapped their layout through their devices, ending with the discovery of a train timetable.

• Ji Jue sensed three interwoven station spaces surrounding an inaccessible abandoned station and withdrew before the worms noticed his probing.
• Disguised as Equality, Ji Jue wandered through the station, drained an Assistant Priest who blocked his way, and was repeatedly denied access to the deeper levels.
• Ji Jue realized that his presence was already serving as Sky Rail’s beacon, allowing the Central Dispatch Center to lock onto the Copycat Stations.
• Ji Jue spread his perception through the station’s devices and found that many used cheap products and software from New Spring and Coast.
• When the station’s server detected unauthorized access, a corrupted movie-poster figure attacked a believer and searched his phone, forcing Ji Jue to retreat from the probe.
• Ji Jue used the data gathered before the server reacted to map the Triple Station and its personnel, then discovered a train timetable.

Ji Jue discovered that the Spider was building a worldwide network of imitation Sky Rail routes, then sent the train timetable to the Star Core Association, which destroyed a station. The Spider sensed that its web was being disrupted and panicked when another line snapped in the Thousand Isles.

• Ji Jue mapped the station codes and realized the Spider was using the Worms and Flesh Trains to imitate the Sky Rail across the Present World.
• Ji Jue sent instructions and the timetable to Fan Gan through signals transmitted by pulling his hair, and Isis helped relay the message.
• Fan Gan passed the timetable to Lulu, who submitted it to the Star Core Association, prompting the North City Security Bureau to mobilize.
• A Heavenly Being and Federation agents destroyed a Flesh Train station outside North City and captured its frozen believers.
• Ji Jue sensed the Spider's shadow react to the destruction, while the Spider traced the disruption and then felt a line in the Thousand Isles snap.

The Spider's Shadow shut down the Web after sensing danger, leaving Ji Jue to watch the Original Vow Lineage's plans unravel. Beiling investigated the station's believers and uncovered traces of a Golden Bough Branch Secret Rite, ending with his discovery that his own side had hidden a serious threat.

• The Spider's Shadow burned Origin Stones to search the future, then sealed Triple Station and halted all train operations to protect the Web.
• Ji Jue noted that the spider had hidden itself and expected the Original Vow Lineage to panic next.
• Beiling confronted the Spider's Shadow over the shutdown, but it warned that exposed movements and hidden dangers could threaten the operation.
• Beiling ordered an investigation and used his power to extract memories from believers throughout the station.
• Beiling found evidence of theft and misconduct, then discovered scratches resembling a Golden Bough Branch Secret Rite in an Original Vow Lineage warehouse.
• Beiling laughed at the High Priests and called them masters of ultimate moves.

Beiling blamed the Golden Bough Branch’s schemes on Lu Changsheng and forced the Original Vow Lineage’s High Priests to find a mole or die. Meanwhile, the Spider searched all seven Worms for betrayal and asked them how to protect the train, leaving Equality’s suggestion to simply do nothing as the last response.

• Beiling killed three High Priests and gave the rest ten minutes to identify the mole.
• Ji Jue watched the Original Vow Lineage descend into panic and bloodshed, but refrained from interfering because the Spider was watching him.
• The Spider summoned Intrinsic, Relative, Fractal, Inversion, Closed Loop, Manifold, and Equality, then searched each Worm’s memories and possible futures for signs of betrayal.
• Intrinsic asked whether the Spider was concerned about the train’s safety, prompting the Spider to invite suggestions for solving the Station’s problems.
• The Worms proposed various plans, and Equality suggested leaving things alone.

Spider tried to hide and relocate Triple Station after sensing an unexplained danger, but Sky Rail and the Star Core Association had already coordinated an ambush. Doberman’s attack was blocked, yet the Doomsday Train struck the station while Spider was unprepared.

• Spider shut down the train’s operations and buried its web deeper while the Star Core Association searched and attacked its exposed traces.
• Sensing danger, Spider tried to sever the web, but discovered Sky Rail had imitated it and become entangled with the web.
• Doberman emerged from the shadows and attacked Triple Station as Spider ordered the Worms to link together and move the station into the past.
• The Star Core Association’s [Star-Fixing Anchor] fixed Triple Station in place, preventing its transfer.
• Doberman fired the [Light-Annihilation Cannon], but Spider stopped the attack and wondered how Sky Rail had found the station.
• The Doomsday Train rammed into Triple Station while Spider was unprepared.

Ji Jue used the Doomsday Train to smash Spider’s Triple Station, then sealed the Station inside Tai’a and drained Manifold to sustain the domain. The Sky Rail Dispatch Center and Star Core Association supplied Time Sand and took on Spider’s interference, while Spider chose to keep facing its enemies rather than enter Tai’a.

• Under Ji Jue’s guidance, the Doomsday Train rammed into Spider’s Triple Station and shattered its layered spaces.
• Spider attacked Equality across time, but Equality turned to ashes as Ji Jue and the Station vanished into Tai’a’s sealed domain.
• Ji Jue trapped Manifold and drained most of its Spiritual Substance and time to power Tai’a.
• The director at the Sky Rail Dispatch Center sent Time Sand to Ji Jue, while the Star Core Association’s Star-Fixing Anchor absorbed Spider’s external pressure.
• Spider refused to enter Tai’a, recognizing that doing so would leave it trapped, and resolved to keep fighting with time still on its side.

Ji Jue used the station’s destruction to summon the Turning Wheel Saint King and trigger a hidden ritual that stripped away its Reason. The Saint King went berserk, while a station-wide announcement declared a purge of the Original Vow’s supposed traitors.

• Ji Jue split into sixteen copies, sabotaged the station, prepared a Secret Rite, and persuaded Equality to activate it.
• Equality summoned the Turning Wheel Saint King before being destroyed by its attack on the station.
• The Saint King’s strike killed High Priests and engulfed Beiling in Blazing Light, prompting Beiling to plead for a chance to communicate.
• A concealed second ritual activated through Equality’s soul and imposed a ten-minute agreement that stripped the Saint King of its Reason.
• The Saint King recognized Ji Jue beneath Beiling’s face and went berserk as the station loudspeakers announced a purge of the Original Vow’s traitors.

Beiling transformed the station into a living mass of hostile creatures and overwhelmed Tang Qian, who fought his way through the tide while negotiating with Ji Jue. After Ji Jue accepted Tang Qian’s deal, Tang Qian sacrificed himself to his ancestral tablets and awakened the Asura Manifestation Anger Lord Rahu.

• Beiling revealed his true form, sealed the Turning Wheel Saint King, and animated the station’s ruins, corpses, and defenses into an endless wave of enemies.
• Tang Qian found himself separated from The Horde and surrounded by the animated creatures, while Ji Jue encouraged him to keep fighting and offered him a bonus.
• Tang Qian offered to waive payment for the current job and his earlier Central Earth job in exchange for Ji Jue’s help with something, and Ji Jue accepted.
• Tang Qian entered his realm of encirclement, offered a sacrifice to his own spirit tablet, and demanded his power back from his ancestors.
• Tang Qian awakened Anger Lord Rahu, whose power annihilated spirits and objects so thoroughly that they could not be restored.

Tang Qian unleashed Rahu’s destructive power against Beiling’s creatures, while Ji Jue’s team carried out a plan to destroy everything inside the Station. The assault continued as Inayat devoured the Station’s urban legends, with Fan Gan struggling to catch up.

• Tang Qian transformed into the Wrathful Lord and destroyed the Stone Dragon and the flying Worms with scorching bloodfire and freezing radiance.
• Rahu’s sacrificial power grew stronger with each death, and Beiling watched Tang Qian greedily while summoning another tide through the Holy Hymn.
• Ji Jue regretted agreeing to Tang Qian’s request, then ordered the team to kill and destroy everything in the Station while Old Bastard Tan gathered materials.
• Inayat tore through Aberrations, swallowed a vicious woman and her mural, and charged toward more urban legends as Fan Gan called for him to slow down.

Fan Gan and Inayat pursued the strange tales unleashed inside the station and encountered the Myriad Text House, a composite Filth-Taint Spirit that adapted its attacks to its opponents. Fan Gan’s fairy-tale tools kept it from harming him, and after it identified him as a Tan Artisan, he chose an object from beneath his cloak to face it.

• Fan Gan directed Inayat through the station as they smashed their way toward the strange tales, with Fan Gan using his mirror to navigate.
• A hidden entity attacked Inayat, but Fan Gan disguised him with Granny Wolf’s Nightcap and used the Banshee in the Pool to try to restrain it.
• Fan Gan recognized the shifting entity as the Myriad Text House, a composite Filth-Taint Spirit assembled from distorted records.
• Fan Gan mocked the spirit for being made with AI, provoking it into a furious barrage that still failed to reach him.
• The Myriad Text House analyzed Fan Gan and identified him as a Tan Artisan, while his cloak, thread, and hat continued to foil its attacks.
• Fan Gan opened his cloak, picked a half-handle from among the hanging objects, and prepared to fight.

Fan Gan and Inayat exposed and burned the counterfeit Book of the Sky Rail Station, then Inayat attacked the station’s vital heart while Ji Jue restored Turning Wheel’s sanity with a crafted substitute. The chapter left Beiling facing Turning Wheel’s self-destruction and the rising light of Heaven and Earth Live Together.

• Fan Gan baited the Filth-Taint Spirit into becoming a witch, trapped it in the Candy House oven, and destroyed it as the Myriad Text House collapsed.
• Fan Gan and Inayat entered the library of source texts, where Fan Gan revealed the nearly completed counterfeit Book of the Sky Rail Station and hid them from Beiling with a potion.
• Fan Gan lit the books with matches, restoring their original forms as they burned and revealing the station’s heart beneath the deepest layer.
• Fan Gan urged Inayat to eat the heart, and Inayat unfolded Realm of Encirclement and devoured it while Beiling tried to contaminate him.
• Beiling recognized the attack as possible bait but hesitated to strike, while Ji Jue ended the supplementary agreement and compensated Turning Wheel with replacement Sanity and crystallized Spiritual Substance.
• Turning Wheel regained its strength, became consumed by the urge to self-destruct, and shattered into darkness and light before Beiling as Heaven and Earth Live Together rose.