Chapter Summaries

After drinking a Forbidden Potion, the Lord of Flesh and Blood gained the Meat Mountain ability and Absolute Rot, escaped the Nine-Tailed Fox base, and prepared to find his former companions. Meanwhile, Sequence 009 remained tormented by his memories of Bai Ye and drank a potion he believed might be another trap.

• The Lord of Flesh and Blood tested his evolved Meat Mountain ability, which let him divide his flesh into enduring human, animal, or monster clones.
• The Lord of Flesh and Blood discovered that his Absolute Rot spread through his hands and rapidly decayed whatever he touched.
• The Lord of Flesh and Blood escaped the Nine-Tailed Fox base, collapsed it by rotting a load-bearing wall, and decided to settle scores after finding his former companions.
• Sequence 009 wandered through an African city, muttering about Bai Ye and Nine-Tailed Fox until a girl returned a potion he had dropped.
• Sequence 009 suspected the potion was a scheme by Bai Ye, then drank it anyway because he believed he could not die.

Sequence 009 drank the Forbidden Potion Mortal Transformation to Sage, breaking his Absolute Indestructibility and sublimating his abilities. He rallied Sequences around the world against Bai Ye, who ordered the O5 Council to use Sequence 011 for global memetic brainwashing.

• Bai Ye’s plan to wear down Sequence 009 was disrupted when a vial of Mortal Transformation to Sage fell from the sky and Sequence 009 drank it.
• The potion shattered Sequence 009’s Absolute Indestructibility and sublimated his traits and abilities, restoring and strengthening his splitting ability.
• Sequence 009 used Absolute Hit to broadcast a speech worldwide, urging all Sequences to resist Bai Ye and claim freedom.
• Sequences formed rival groups and the first Sequence alliance, the Anti-Nine-Tailed Fox Alliance, united against the White King.
• Bai Ye ordered the O5 Council to activate Sequence 011 for large-scale memetic brainwashing despite objections from the Fifth Council Chairman.

The Hundred Birds Painting spread worldwide, forcing people into a deadly dream trial that drained memories and Mental Energy. In North Ridge City, Yang Lin remembered the erased six days and discovered that the Soul Devouring Birds strengthened his Mental Power, then found a carving linked to an unseen presence.

• Bai Ye used the Hundred Birds Painting and Forgetfulness Spray to expose people across the world to the Nine-Tailed Fox’s mental contamination.
• The Sequences considered seeking allies from King Bee, Queen Bee’s Black Queen organization, or the Old Ones to oppose Bai Ye.
• In North Ridge City, Jiang Chen helped police recover stolen antiques from a Grave Robber Gang, and Yang Lin asked him to speak privately later.
• Yang Lin realized that everyone else had forgotten six days and that the calendar had reverted, while he still remembered and continued dreaming of Hundred Birds Forest.
• Yang Lin recognized that killing Soul Devouring Birds strengthened his Mental Power, but that losing to them could destroy his soul.
• Yang Lin found a carving of a strange marine creature and pointed out a Mental Power line stretching toward the sky, though Jiang Chen could not see it.

Jiang Chen told Yang Lin that the Nine-Tailed Fox had erased the world’s memories of supernatural events and warned him about its power. After Meng Qing gave Yang Lin a cultivation manual, he recognized a wooden carving linked to the Dream World as a dangerous omen, while threats in the Dream World closed in on Li Yuan.

• Jiang Chen told Yang Lin about his second uncle’s murder after a tomb raid and the possible theft of the He Shi Bi.
• Jiang Chen claimed that the Nine-Tailed Fox had used a supernatural object to wipe memories worldwide and now concealed supernatural events from the public.
• After Jiang Chen left, Meng Qing appeared before Yang Lin, cautioned him about Containment Objects, and gave him a copy of a Nine-Tailed Fox cultivation method.
• Yang Lin showed Meng Qing a wooden carving, and Meng Qing recognized its connection to Number 002, Li Yuan, and the Dream World before vanishing.
• A gigantic octopus-like monster in the Dream World named Chu Yang and Meng Qing, while the Starry Sky Principal and Qin Leng locked onto Li Yuan.

Qin Leng confronted Li Yuan and discovered that Li Yuan’s mental threads were anchoring him to the real world through the belief of worshippers. As Qin Leng and the Starry Sky Principal attacked, Angel Mo awakened and joined the fight against them.

• Qin Leng and the Starry Sky Principal met Li Yuan in the Dream World, where Qin Leng recognized the threads linking Li Yuan to the real world.
• Qin Leng concluded that Li Yuan was using worship and belief to establish anchors that could let him enter reality, and he told the Starry Sky Principal to sever the threads.
• Li Yuan argued that he intended to end conflict by ruling through force, while Qin Leng countered that weapons were not the source of conflict.
• Qin Leng and the Starry Sky Principal attacked Li Yuan, but their battle awakened Angel Mo.
• Angel Mo struck Qin Leng, breaking his cane and exposing his demonic form, then declared his intent to kill him.

As sequences gathered in Antarctica to plan an assault on the Nine-Tailed Fox, Computer discovered that a dragon had destroyed its warship near Earth. Sequence 009 welcomed new allies and asked them to share their plans before he revealed his own.

• The Fifth Council Chairman received images of an unidentified warship being seized and destroyed by an invisible force.
• Computer watched a recording of a dragon destroying its warship and mechanical lifeforms, then considered whether the barrier between worlds had weakened.
• Sequence 009 gathered sequences in Antarctica with Yi Jing, the Lord of Flesh and Blood, and Meng Qing, whose Hand of the Serpent had lost Cain and Abel.
• The Night King arrived with his monsters, and the Black Queen joined the alliance against the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Sequence 009 declared that the sequences should take back what the Nine-Tailed Fox had built from their suffering, then asked the others for their plans.

Night King proposed luring White King away from Nine-Tailed Fox headquarters while the enemy forces prepared alternate ways to draw him out. At headquarters, Bai Ye revealed Taotie had been kept as a stone prison for Sequence 005, then used the Horse Talisman to awaken him.

• Night King explained that his ability could counter White King's conceptual abilities and proposed using a lone decoy to lure him away from headquarters.
• Sequence 009 suggested attacking the Nine-Tailed Fox Containment Zones to force its forces to disperse, and Queen Bee said she had another plan.
• After three days of discussion, the enemy forces settled on a plan.
• Bai Ye told Wu Wei that Taotie's stone form had been intentionally maintained to keep Sequence 005 sealed.
• Bai Ye killed Wu Wei, extracted the Horse Talisman from his spine, and placed it in Taotie's mouth to awaken him.

Bai Ye revived Taotie and promoted him as the Nine-Tailed Fox prepared for a major battle, while Entropy set a plan in motion to make Earth’s people destroy themselves. Chen Ye created a new world instead of intervening, and Sequence 001 received a powerful potion and decided to resume hunting the great serpent.

• Bai Ye freed Taotie from petrification, told him Qin Leng was gone, and promoted him to S-Class personnel.
• Entropy revealed that he had used Chen Ye’s avatar to release evolution potions and intended to provoke Earth into destroying itself.
• Chen Ye awakened, understood Entropy’s scheme, and began creating a world in an empty star system rather than returning to Earth.
• Evolution potions poured into the mortal world, including a fourth-tier potion that landed in Sequence 001’s bowl as she ate noodles.
• Sequence 001 mistook the potion for a reward, then flew off to hunt the great serpent after drinking Perfect Melody (God's Blood).

Sequence 024 Great Serpent enjoyed a brief moment of freedom in Serpent's Paradise, reflecting on how intelligence allowed beings to resist instinct and choose their lives. After Jiang Chen fled from Yang Lin, Yang Lin sat beside the Great Serpent and noticed the book titled Serpent's Dream.

• Sequence 024 Great Serpent fished for pleasure and reflected on the story of a snake that restrained its instincts and became wiser.
• Sequence 024 Great Serpent asked Sequence 001 to take away his books so he could keep experiencing the world for a little longer.
• Jiang Chen ran past the Great Serpent while Yang Lin chased him, suspecting that Jiang Chen had secrets after catching him digging a hole the night before.
• Yang Lin asked the Great Serpent for directions, then sat beside him and questioned the Snake Scale on his face.
• Yang Lin noticed the book titled Serpent's Dream, and the Great Serpent advised him not to read it.

Yang Lin survived the first trials of Serpent's Dream and gained a Snake Scale, but the book bound him to a challenge that could end with the Snake King devouring him. After an urgent recall, he arrived with the police at a containment operation where Chen Position prepared to confront a dangerous Flesh Cube.

• Yang Lin opened Serpent's Dream, defeated the giant serpent in its first dream, and continued reading without suffering harm.
• The great serpent explained that Yang Lin could not leave the book, gave it to him, and revealed that he had gained a protective Snake Scale.
• Yang Lin returned to North Ridge City and followed his master and other officers to an unfinished building under emergency lockdown.
• Chen Position identified the threat inside as a Class B Containment Object called the Flesh Cube and noted that dangerous new Containment Objects had recently appeared around the world.
• Chen Position and two men in black confronted the flesh monster covered in human faces, and Chen Position began the containment operation.

Yang Lin and Chen Position confronted an unexpectedly powerful Flesh Cube, which killed or incapacitated the containment team and collapsed the unfinished building. After Yang Lin’s Snake Scale blocked a laser, Chen Position called for Class A reinforcements and told Yang Lin to retrieve a stone from his back.

• The Flesh Cube used lasers to cut off Chen Position’s arms and drove him to the brink of detonating his energy unit.
• Yang Lin shot the cube’s tentacles with an investigator’s gun, then escaped the collapsing building with Chen Position.
• Chen Position told headquarters that containment had failed and requested Class A personnel, while Yang Lin learned that his master was dead.
• The Flesh Cube rose from the rubble and fired at Yang Lin, but his Snake Scale activated and blocked the laser.
• Chen Position told Yang Lin to retrieve a stone from his back and give it to the arriving reinforcements.

Yang Lin helped Chen Position remove a Dragon Talisman before Chen Position sacrificed himself to destroy the cube, and Yang Lin used the talisman to stop it from healing. Jiang Chen took the cube and brought Yang Lin to the Night Watchers, where he explained that superpowered people had united against Nine-Tailed Fox.

• Yang Lin cut the Dragon Talisman from Chen Position's back, and Chen Position was swallowed by the cube after revealing he belonged to Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Chen Position detonated the energy unit on his back, blasting a smaller cube out of the creature before he died.
• Yang Lin used the Dragon Talisman to blast the healing cube with fire, then picked it up and watched it reassemble after he crushed it.
• Jiang Chen arrived, took the cube, and told Yang Lin he was a Night Watcher; Yang Lin agreed to hear more after discovering Jiang Chen's pistol was unloaded.
• At an underground bar, Jiang Chen warned Yang Lin that Nine-Tailed Fox would pursue him for the Containment Objects and explained that superpowered people had united to bring the organization down.

Queen Bee led a Monster Alliance squad into the Nine-Tailed Fox headquarters to attack Bai Ye, but he overwhelmed them with his black-and-white powers. He left the attackers alive and revealed that he knew they could reform inside the Mother Coffin.

• The Monster Alliance sent Queen Bee and a squad of Sequences to infiltrate the Nine-Tailed Fox headquarters while the organization dispersed its forces around the world.
• Queen Bee's squad entered the Containment Zone and found Bai Ye waiting, prompting the gargoyle to attack him.
• Bai Ye used two phantoms to dismember and shatter the gargoyle, then pinned its head to the floor with a golden spear.
• Queen Bee and the remaining Sequences unleashed their abilities, but Bai Ye countered their attacks, severed Queen Bee's arms, and defeated the squad.
• Bai Ye left the attackers alive and told them he knew they could reform inside the Mother Coffin.

Queen Bee reported that Bai Ye had defeated the ambush and described his black and white energies, while Night King theorized that the Tiger Talisman kept them balanced. Meng Qing left the pavilion and was pulled into Nine-Tailed Fox's Misty Chess Game, where a blurry figure greeted him as Set.

• Queen Bee returned as a clone and told Night King and Meng Qing that Bai Ye had seen through their plan and crushed the ambush.
• Queen Bee assessed Bai Ye's black energy as destructive and his white energy as defensive yet capable of powerful attacks and transformations.
• Night King proposed that Bai Ye had absorbed the other Ten Heavenly Stems and used the Tiger Talisman to balance their powers, suggesting that taking it might collapse his Yin-Yang Two Energies.
• Meng Qing left the pavilion with the Demon Blade as Night King reflected on Meng Qing's unsettling manner and on why powerful Sequences stayed unaffiliated.
• Meng Qing noted that it was October 4th before darkness surrounded him and a white figure greeted him at the Misty Chess Game as Set.

Meng Qing lost a game of Go to Bai Ye, who tried to recruit him, but Meng Qing withheld a stone because the time was not yet right. Meanwhile, Jiang Chen and Yang Lin uncovered a flooded tomb in Shaanxi and found a seal marked with words from the Warring States and Qin Dynasty.

• Meng Qing recognized Bai Ye in the Misty Chess Game and deliberately gave him a one-stone victory, then collapsed and slept until the next dusk.
• After waking, Meng Qing considered Bai Ye's attempt to recruit him and wondered whether Bai Ye had recognized his identity, but he remained unmoved.
• Jiang Chen and Yang Lin dug into a tomb in Shaanxi, and Yang Lin agreed to bear responsibility for helping him investigate the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Jiang Chen and Yang Lin opened the tomb's coffin boards and found the chamber flooded, with burial goods scattered around a corpse.
• Jiang Chen found a seal beside the corpse and read words identifying it with the Warring States and Qin Dynasty.

Yang Lin interrogated Jiang Chen about his powers, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and the Golden Lotus Seeds before leaving the pit. Jiang Chen summoned a powerful undead military general, and Yang Lin faced it with only three Snake Scales remaining.

• Yang Lin restrained Jiang Chen and questioned him about his ability, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and the corpses he refined.
• Jiang Chen said Qin Leng had led the Nine-Tailed Fox and that Bai Ye, also called the White King, had succeeded him.
• Jiang Chen identified Yang Lin’s golden object as a Golden Lotus Seed that temporarily grants limitless learning ability.
• Yang Lin left the pit, but Jiang Chen summoned an armored departed soul that attacked him with a powerful shockwave and weapon strike.
• A Snake Scale shielded Yang Lin from the blow, leaving him with three Snake Scales as he judged the military general more dangerous than the Flesh Cube.

Yang Lin escaped Jiang Chen after attacking him at Bai Qi's tomb, while Meng Qing revealed his control over Jiang Chen and the truth behind Jiang Chen's body swap. Seeking more Snake Scales, Yang Lin read Serpent's Dream and swallowed a Golden Orb, whose effects began to show when his pupils turned gold.

• Jiang Chen summoned Bai Qi, the famed Butcher of Warring States, and explained that the strength of his resurrected souls depended on their fame and legends.
• Yang Lin attacked Jiang Chen with the Dragon Talisman and escaped amid the explosion, while Meng Qing arrived and admitted he had followed Jiang Chen's instructions.
• Meng Qing defeated Jiang Chen and reminded him that he remained a member of the Hand of the Serpent as long as he could not beat him.
• Jiang Chen reflected that Meng Qing had used the Ancient Relic Scales of Justice to swap his consciousness with the Sequence known as the Resurrected Soul, then killed Jiang Chen's original body and ordered him to wait.
• Yang Lin avoided returning home or to work, stayed at an inn, and read Serpent's Dream in hopes of finding more Snake Scales.
• Yang Lin swallowed the Golden Orb, or Golden Lotus Seed, and his pupils turned gold.

Yang Lin defeated Serpent King Yelloh in the final Serpent’s Dream and gained the soul-targeting Spear of Yelloh. Back in Hundred Birds Forest, the spear frightened the Soul Devouring Birds, but a mysterious voice offered to help him escape.

• Yang Lin discovered that Serpent’s Dream had sharpened his vision and given him photographic memory.
• Yang Lin fought and killed Serpent King Yelloh, then pulled the Spear of Yelloh from the book and learned it could attack souls once every twenty-four hours.
• Yang Lin entered Hundred Birds Forest, where stronger Soul Devouring Birds overwhelmed him and shattered his remaining Snake Scales.
• Yang Lin drew the Spear of Yelloh, causing the Soul Devouring Birds to retreat while he rested and considered how to survive the forest.
• A deep, whispering voice asked Yang Lin whether he wanted to escape and offered to help him.

Yang Lin met an unseen prisoner from the old days who offered to help him escape the Dream World in exchange for a deal. Meanwhile, Li Yuan and Angel prepared for Qin Leng and Starry Sky Principal’s return, while True Ancestor sought to analyze the Frost King’s Absolute Trait so he could defeat Li Yuan.

• A powerful Mental Power destroyed Hundred Birds Forest and killed every Soul Devouring Bird, after which Yang Lin heard a voice claiming to be a prisoner exiled to the Dream World.
• The prisoner recognized the octopus carving Yang Lin carried and offered to help him escape the repeating nightmare, but Yang Lin distrusted the offer and chose to consider it.
• In the Dream World, Li Yuan and Angel discussed Qin Leng and Starry Sky Principal’s unusual evolutions and agreed to join forces when the two returned.
• Li Yuan and Angel each secretly kept a bottle of potion while pretending they had found nothing unusual.
• In the Inner World, the Frost King lamented that Absolute Freeze could not bring back the woman he missed, while True Ancestor continued trying to analyze the Frost King’s Absolute Trait so he could challenge Li Yuan.

Ye Long struggled to stop the fourth-tier monsters from returning to the surface world while Nine-Tailed Fox debated how to handle containment crises around the globe. In the Dreamscape, Yang Lin accepted Li Yuan’s deal and saw his terrifying true form.

• The Progenitor relentlessly tried and failed to analyze the Frost King's Absolute Freeze so he could grow stronger and kill Li Yuan.
• Ye Long searched the Solar System for Insects’s hidden true body after Computer’s lunar spacecraft showed that the Inner World could affect the surface world beyond Earth.
• The O5 Council discussed containment failures across Asia, Europe, and Africa, and Bai Ye ordered headquarters to send out all its containment personnel.
• Yang Lin agreed to Li Yuan’s request to know him, and Li Yuan placed an Octopus Mark on Yang Lin to protect him from mental interference.
• Li Yuan showed Yang Lin his enormous octopus-faced form and said their transaction was complete.