Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Qin Si demands Lu Xingyuan’s rare Metamorphic Grade zombie serum, but Lu kicks him away. Qin drinks his own golden serum, stopping his transformation and healing his injuries.
• Lu gives serum to Teemo, Rumble, and Bai Luoying. Bai’s transforming arm returns to normal; she is relieved and grateful. Lu refuses to help the other Train Conductors, judging them of no use to him.
• Lei Lingyun’s body regenerates and continues evolving, powered by the blood-red eyes in the sky. He attacks Lu with bone blades, but Lu blocks him easily and discovers the eyes can support Lei but cannot attack directly.
• Lu traps Lei with Spatial Cage, then uses Sudden Rain’s stacked Tide Momentum and Tidal Deluge to cut him in two again.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan shows strategic generosity: he helps Bai because she is talented and could become an ally, not out of general compassion. He also demonstrates how far his training and mastery of Spatial Cage have advanced.
• Bai Luoying becomes more indebted to Lu, though she wonders if his gift signals romantic interest.
• Qin Si is humiliated and furious, but saves himself with his own serum.
• Lei Lingyun briefly gains confidence in his new power, only to realize he remains outmatched by Lu.

Themes

• Pragmatic alliances: Help is given according to a person’s potential value, not simply need.
• Power and its limits: Lei’s apparent transformation is formidable, but its source only supports him; Lu’s skill and preparation prove decisive.
• Survival and self-interest: In a lethal world, characters prioritize their own safety and carefully choose whom to trust or help.

Plot points and events

• Lu Xingyuan attacks Lei Lingyun, but the Blood-red Eyes revive him and make him effectively impossible to kill.
• Lei invites Lu to become a Zombie, while the transformed Train Conductors praise their new state. Lu rejects the offer and points out that Lei’s supposed embrace of Zombiehood hides the fact that he never chose it freely.
• Enraged, Lei turns the Blood-red Eyes on Lu. Their gaze paralyzes Lu and threatens to transform him, but the Golden Blood within him repels the force and cracks both eyes.
• Alice appears, and the Blood-red Eyes back down. They pour all their power into Lei before disappearing, leaving him overwhelmed by the sudden influx.
• Lei undergoes a horrific transformation. His face and body distort, while the Bone Blade in his right arm evolves into a more powerful, curved saber.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan remains defiant, rejects Lei’s attempt to recruit him, and exposes the insecurity beneath Lei’s rhetoric. He also discovers that his Golden Blood can resist the Blood-red Eyes.
• Lei Lingyun masks his lack of choice and loss of humanity with claims that becoming a Zombie is a noble, superior path. Lu’s words wound him, turning his resentment into a desire to make Lu suffer the same fate. As the Eyes empower him, he becomes an increasingly monstrous threat.
• Bai Luoying desperately tries to protect Lu by attacking the Blood-red Eyes, but her attacks fail and her Stringless Bow begins to rot.
• Alice intervenes with a presence powerful enough to deter the Eyes.
• The Blood-red Eyes appear to possess awareness and independent judgment: they attack Lu, recoil from his Golden Blood, hesitate before Alice, and then transfer their power to Lei.

Significant themes

• Choice and self-deception: Lei’s claims of embracing his transformation conceal that he became a Zombie only when driven to desperation.
• Humanity and identity: The scene questions whether survival at the cost of one’s human nature can truly be called a victory.
• Power and its cost: The Blood-red Eyes’ strength is dangerous even to Lei, whose body is nearly overwhelmed by their power.
• Escalating threat: Lu’s resistance and Alice’s arrival unsettle the Eyes, but their power-up transforms Lei into a more dangerous opponent.

Key plot points and events

• Lei Lingyun, transformed into a huge, nearly mindless monster, attacks Lu Xingyuan with overwhelming strength. Lu Xingyuan meets his blows and uses Spatial Power to evade and strike at Lei’s weak points.
• Qin Si initially believes Lei has the advantage, but realizes Lu Xingyuan is deliberately using the battle to practice and refine his spatial abilities. Lu Xingyuan also uses Spatial Transposition to swap Qin into Lei’s path, where Lei’s punch sends him flying; Qin’s defensive Black Jacket saves his life.
• Lei, furious that he cannot hit Lu, turns on the zombified Train Conductors watching nearby and eats them. His mutations advance, giving him a bone short halberd that he can launch and retrieve.
• Lei’s increased strength puts Lu under genuine pressure, and Lu is wounded. He then ends the fight with a powerful blade strike that cuts Lei in two.
• The chapter closes with Lu’s golden eyes and glowing skin patterns revealing that he has entered Golden State.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan is confident and controlled throughout the fight. Rather than treating Lei as an immediate threat, he uses him to improve his Spatial Power, gaining a noticeable increase in control. When Lei becomes too dangerous to serve as practice, Lu kills him without hesitation.
• Lei Lingyun has lost most of his reason to rage and hunger. His frustration at being unable to hurt Lu drives him to eat the Train Conductors, making himself even more powerful—and more dangerous.
• Qin Si shifts from skeptical observer to alarmed witness as he recognizes Lu’s Spatial Power. After Lu transposes him into danger, Qin survives but is injured and furious at Lu.
• Bai Luoying is astonished that Lu can train during a life-or-death fight. She takes his composure as proof that he can handle Lei.

Significant themes

• Growth through combat: Lu sees real fights as more valuable than isolated training and uses danger to sharpen his abilities.
• Control versus loss of reason: Lu’s measured tactics contrast with Lei’s increasingly uncontrolled violence.
• Power and its costs: Lei grows stronger by consuming others, while Lu’s confidence and skill allow him to end the threat—but only after Lei’s mutations make the fight more difficult.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Xingyuan’s first slash seemingly kills Lei Lingyun, but Lei’s body regenerates. Qin Si notices the Blood-red Eyes still lurking within him.
• The Blood-red Eyes seize control of Lei Lingyun, empowering him with crimson energy and attacking Alice. Alice unleashes her abyssal power, but the attack traps her and blasts nearby allies away.
• Lu Xingyuan realizes he must defeat the Blood-red Eyes directly. His powerful strike is blocked by Lei’s Bone Blade, though the clash badly damages the surrounding area.
• Recognizing that Lei is burning through his life in a desperate final attack, Lu Xingyuan uses Absolute Stasis to immobilize him. He then overwhelms the Blood-red Eyes with his weapons and cannons, destroying their crimson presence and freeing Alice.
• Alice embraces Lu Xingyuan, relieved that he is safe, and resolves to counter the Blood-red Eyes’ trapping technique more effectively in the future.

Character developments

• Lu Xingyuan remains composed under pressure and uses a rare, limited-use item when necessary, prioritizing victory over preserving his resources.
• Alice discovers that her immense power does not make her immune to unfamiliar supernatural techniques. She learns from the encounter and becomes confident she can counter the trap next time.
• Lei Lingyun is revealed to have lost control of his body and become a puppet for the Blood-red Eyes, forced into a life-consuming last stand.
• Qin Si is increasingly awed—and regretful—about how far Lu Xingyuan surpasses him.
• Rumble worries for Alice and his damaged mech, but understands she is under attack and does not blame her.

Significant themes

• Power has limits: Even formidable characters can be caught off guard by unfamiliar abilities.
• Resourcefulness and restraint: Lu Xingyuan saves his limited-use item until the crisis makes it necessary.
• Loss of agency: Lei Lingyun’s body and remaining life are commandeered by the Blood-red Eyes.
• Learning through danger: Alice treats the encounter as a lesson and adapts for future threats.

Character interactions

• Lu Xingyuan fights to free Alice, while the Blood-red Eyes use Lei Lingyun as their weapon.
• Alice’s uncontrolled burst of power injures nearby allies, but Rumble responds with concern rather than resentment.
• After the Blood-red Eyes are destroyed, Alice clings to Lu Xingyuan, showing her relief and attachment; he is the person she searches for first.

Key plot points and events

• After Lu Xingyuan defeats Lei Lingyun, he reveals that he has already trapped Qin Si in a Spatial Prison, having watched him throughout the fight.
• Qin Si identifies himself as a member of the Gray Crow Agency, an influential organization that controls valuable platform intelligence. He produces a badge and claims the agency’s head is his brother-in-law, who supplied his powerful items.
• Hoping to escape, Qin Si offers to make peace and promises to connect Lu Xingyuan with his brother-in-law—but only if Lu Xingyuan lends him Alice so he can “play with” and study her.
• Qin Si threatens Lu Xingyuan with the agency’s influence when Lu refuses. Lu instead attacks, crushes Qin Si’s arm, and tears it off at the shoulder.

Character developments

• Lu Xingyuan remains calm but shows how fiercely protective he is of Alice. Her safety matters more to him than maintaining access to the Gray Crow Agency.
• Qin Si reveals himself as entitled and predatory. He assumes his status and connections will shield him, but underestimates Lu Xingyuan’s resolve.
• Bai Luoying is alarmed by Qin Si’s connections and initially hopes Lu will avoid antagonizing the agency. His demand for Alice quickly turns her against him.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and protection: Lu Xingyuan treats Alice as family and will not bargain with her safety.
• Power and arrogance: Qin Si relies on institutional influence and privilege, but discovers that these cannot guarantee his safety.
• The cost of defiance: Lu Xingyuan’s response shows that threats against those he cares about provoke decisive, brutal retaliation.

Character interactions

• Qin Si uses his agency membership and family connection to pressure Lu Xingyuan into sparing him.
• Bai Luoying tries to caution against provoking the Gray Crow Agency, then recognizes that Qin Si has gone too far.
• Lu Xingyuan rejects Qin Si’s offer and threat, answering the insult to Alice with immediate violence.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Xingyuan continues punishing Qin Si, tearing off his limbs. Qin Si threatens revenge but eventually calls for help.
• Ye Ya, head of the Gray Crow Agency and Qin Si’s brother-in-law, appears by projection alongside Qin Si’s sister, Qin San.
• Qin San immediately blames Lu Xingyuan and refuses to hear Bai Luoying’s explanation. Bai steps on Qin Si in defiance.
• Ye Ya recognizes that Qin Si brought the trouble on himself and tries to prevent a conflict. Lu Xingyuan says only death would teach Qin Si a lesson.
• Ye Ya offers Lu Xingyuan ten pieces of free platform information in exchange for sparing Qin Si. Though Qin San objects, Ye Ya orders her to stay quiet because Qin Si’s life is in Lu Xingyuan’s hands.
• The chapter ends with Qin San still furious and insisting that Ye Ya’s offer is far too generous.

Character developments

• Lu Xingyuan remains cold and uncompromising, unwilling to be intimidated by the Gray Crow Agency. He makes clear that its influence has little leverage over him.
• Bai Luoying initially defends Lu Xingyuan, then openly joins his defiance when Qin San dismisses her explanation.
• Ye Ya proves pragmatic and cautious: he understands Qin Si’s flaws and prioritizes avoiding a dangerous confrontation with Lu Xingyuan.
• Qin San is fiercely protective of her brother but impulsive and dismissive of the facts. Her anger gives way to silence when she realizes she cannot control the situation.
• Qin Si is reduced to helplessness, yet continues to rely on threats and family connections rather than show genuine remorse.

Significant themes

• Actions and consequences: Qin Si’s arrogance and repeated provocations lead directly to his brutal punishment.
• Power and leverage: Lu Xingyuan is not dependent on the Gray Crow Agency’s information, limiting Ye Ya’s ability to pressure him.
• Family loyalty versus judgment: Qin San rushes to defend Qin Si, while Ye Ya recognizes that his behavior caused the crisis.
• Pragmatism over pride: Ye Ya chooses negotiation to protect Qin Si, despite Qin San’s outrage.

Character interactions

• Lu Xingyuan and Qin Si’s confrontation shifts from punishment to a life-or-death standoff.
• Qin San confronts Lu Xingyuan and rejects Bai Luoying’s attempt to explain what happened.
• Bai Luoying supports Lu Xingyuan through provocative defiance.
• Ye Ya mediates between Lu Xingyuan and Qin San, offering valuable information to secure Qin Si’s survival.

Key plot points and events

• Qin San and Ye Ya offer Lu Xingyuan ten free platform-intelligence reports, hoping to persuade him to spare Qin Si and build a business relationship with the Gray Crow Agency.
• Lu rejects the offer. He already gets much better intelligence from Gu Wanqing for only one Train Coin, and Ye Ya admits the agency’s reports may reveal less than ten percent of a platform’s information.
• Ye Ya raises the offer to fifteen reports, despite Qin San’s protest that the reports are extremely costly. Bai Luoying sees the offer as tempting and notes that sparing Qin Si might preserve ties with the agency.
• Lu remains unmoved: he wants Qin Si dead. Ye Ya drops the pretense and challenges him, but Lu attacks immediately.
• Before Lu’s blade can hit, Qin Si disappears. Qin San reveals she used a treasured item to save him from a distance, and Qin Si’s train pulls away.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan realizes how unusually well Gu Wanqing has treated him, thinking of himself as a “giant baby” raised by her and resolving to show his gratitude. He remains coldly determined to kill Qin Si, regardless of the rewards or consequences.
• Ye Ya begins with a calculated sales pitch but becomes frustrated when Lu refuses every offer. He ultimately abandons negotiation and confronts Lu directly.
• Qin San is furious at the concessions Ye Ya makes, both because of their cost and because she despises Lu for what he did to her brother. She ultimately uses a precious escape item to save Qin Si.
• Bai Luoying recognizes the strategic value of the agency’s intelligence and the possible benefit of reconciliation, but makes clear she would support Lu’s decision either way.

Significant themes

• Privilege and perspective: Lu only recognizes the exceptional quality of Gu Wanqing’s help after hearing how limited the agency’s intelligence is.
• Loyalty and family: Qin San is willing to spend a prized resource to save her only brother.
• Negotiation versus resolve: Wealthy offers and strategic arguments cannot sway Lu once he has decided what he wants.
• Knowledge as power: Platform intelligence is presented as valuable, costly, and potentially life-saving—though its usefulness depends on its completeness.

Plot points

• Bai Luoying and Lu Xingyuan attack Ye Ya and Qin San’s departing train. Lu Xingyuan’s Silver Wing · Piercer damages it, then Bai uses her powerful Phoenix Cries to the Nine Heavens attack.
• The train explodes—but Lu Xingyuan realizes too late that it was Bai’s own train, used as a decoy. The real target, Qin Si’s train, has already escaped.
• Ye Ya and Qin San taunt Lu Xingyuan before he destroys their projections. With the rivals gone, Lu Xingyuan’s group collects all the Stardust Ore and prepares to leave.
• Bai, now stranded and devastated over losing both her train and her treasured teddy bears, asks to board Lu Xingyuan’s train. He consults his companions before deciding.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Luoying acts rashly, unleashing her ultimate attack without realizing she is targeting her own train. Once stranded, she is humbled and nervously asks Lu Xingyuan for help, offering to pay and promising not to stay indefinitely.
• Lu Xingyuan recognizes that the attack was a diversion, refuses to be provoked by Ye Ya’s mockery, and focuses on collecting the ore. He also makes clear that Bai’s rescue is not his obligation, but consults his crew before accepting her.
• Teemo supports taking Bai aboard, noting that she tried to help and would otherwise be in danger. Rumble is indifferent as long as she causes no trouble. Alice remains suspicious and warns Bai against misconduct.
• Ye Ya and Qin San exploit Bai’s recklessness and mock Lu Xingyuan for failing to stop their escape.

Significant themes

• Deception and misdirected force: The apparent target is a decoy, and Bai’s attack strikes her own train.
• Consequences of impulsiveness: Bai’s eagerness to finish the fight costs her independence and possessions.
• Dependence and responsibility: Stranded Bai must ask to live under someone else’s authority, while Lu Xingyuan weighs compassion, obligation, and his crew’s consent.

Plot points and events

• Bai Luoying boards Lu Xingyuan’s train and accepts the conditions for her protection, including staying in a designated carriage and fulfilling the terms once she rebuilds her train.
• She asks to bathe, but Lu Xingyuan warns her the train is about to accelerate.
• Lu Xingyuan receives Qin Si’s hidden identity number from Wen Zeda. With it, she activates the Orbital Magnet, a World Wonder that forces trains onto the same track, and sets off to hunt Qin Si.
• Qin Si, recovering from his injuries with a Special Potion, rages against Lu Xingyuan. His sister Qin San comforts him and promises that her husband, Ye Ya, is arranging Secret Medicine to restore him.
• Ye Ya succeeds in securing the medicine, but just as he is about to open a trade window, Qin Si’s image begins shaking violently—apparently as Lu Xingyuan’s train closes in.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Luoying accepts her dependence on Lu Xingyuan without protest, trusting his character despite their lack of real familiarity. She is also startled by his Orbital Magnet and his composure during the train’s acceleration.
• Lu Xingyuan remains calm and decisive, using Wen Zeda’s help and the Orbital Magnet to pursue Qin Si. She keeps Bai Luoying at a distance to protect her own secrets.
• Wen Zeda helps Lu Xingyuan despite his business ties to the Gray Crow Agency, partly out of gratitude for her having saved Zhao Nanzhi.
• Qin San and Ye Ya try to protect and support Qin Si, while Qin Si’s bitterness and impatience strain their efforts.

Significant themes

• Trust and obligation: Bai Luoying’s safety depends on accepting Lu Xingyuan’s rules and future terms.
• Loyalty and gratitude: Wen Zeda chooses personal ties over a limited business relationship.
• Revenge and consequences: Qin Si’s desire for vengeance continues even as he depends on others for recovery.
• Power and vulnerability: Lu Xingyuan’s World Wonder turns the hunt in her favor, while Qin Si is physically helpless and exposed.

Key plot points and events

• A violent impact rocks Qin Si’s train carriage. Lu Xingyuan has reached him, smashed through the window, and injured Qin Si with flying glass.
• Lu Xingyuan confronts Qin Si while Ye Ya and Qin San watch over a video call. He says Qin Si must die because he hates being made a fool of—and because Qin Si escaped him once already.
• Qin San kneels and begs Lu Xingyuan to spare her brother, promising to help him in any way. Lu Xingyuan counters that Qin Si is nineteen while he is only eighteen, undercutting her claim that Qin Si is “just a child.”
• Lu Xingyuan kills Qin Si with a single blade strike, then uses the Six Luminary Annihilation Cannons to destroy the body completely, ensuring he cannot return.
• Qin San breaks down in grief and rage. Ye Ya says nothing at first, but recognizes that Lu Xingyuan’s act has made reconciliation impossible.

Character developments

• Lu Xingyuan remains outwardly calm but reveals how absolute his resolve is: once he decides someone must die, pleas and negotiation will not change his mind.
• Qin San abandons her pride and begs desperately for her brother’s life, showing the depth of her devotion. His death leaves her devastated and furious.
• Ye Ya feels relief that he no longer needs to seek Qin Si’s secret medicine, but also jealousy at Qin San’s devotion to her brother. He weighs his business interests against his loyalty to Qin San and decides he will have to oppose Lu Xingyuan.
• Qin Si, cornered and terrified, realizes he is likely to die but cannot escape.

Significant themes

• Family loyalty and sacrifice: Qin San is willing to humble herself and promise anything to save her only brother.
• The limits of bargaining: Lu Xingyuan refuses to be persuaded, making clear that negotiation cannot undo his decision.
• Pride, power, and consequences: Lu Xingyuan’s resentment at being mocked drives a lethal response, while the murder creates a lasting feud.
• The irony of age and maturity: Lu Xingyuan points out that he is younger than Qin Si, exposing the weakness of calling the nineteen-year-old a child.

Character interactions

• Qin San pleads with Lu Xingyuan on Qin Si’s behalf; he answers with a pointed comparison of their ages before carrying out the execution.
• Ye Ya watches the confrontation remotely, troubled both by Qin San’s grief and by the political and personal consequences of Lu Xingyuan’s choice.
• Lu Xingyuan addresses Ye Ya and Qin San calmly, but his composure contrasts sharply with Qin Si’s panic and Qin San’s eventual anguish.

Key plot points and events

• After Lu Xingyuan kills Qin Si, Qin San calls to threaten revenge. Xingyuan remains unmoved, essentially inviting her to come after him herself.
• Qin San vows to avenge her brother at any cost. Ye Ya, her ally, is reluctant to fight Xingyuan directly but agrees to help.
• Qin San chooses a strategy of “killing with a borrowed knife”: she intends to enlist all of Xingyuan’s powerful enemies rather than rely on a single opponent. Ye Ya is startled by the scale of her plan.
• Xingyuan searches Qin Si’s train, claims his Train Coins and valuable Extraordinary Creations, then dismantles the train and returns to his own.
• Bai Luoying witnesses the dismantling. She worries that Xingyuan may hold her past offenses against her, while also resenting Qin Zhirou’s role in their changed relationship.
• Xingyuan discovers a Level Nine Skill Card among Qin Si’s possessions and is delighted by his unexpected prize.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan remains calm and pragmatic, treating Qin San’s threats casually. He profits from Qin Si’s defeat and views the unused Skill Card as a lucky windfall.
• Qin San shifts from grief and rage to calculated vengeance. Though fiercely devoted to her brother, she avoids a direct confrontation and plans to use multiple enemies against Xingyuan.
• Ye Ya recognizes the danger of fighting Xingyuan head-on. He supports Qin San’s plan, despite his lack of personal desire to avenge Qin Si.
• Bai Luoying reflects uneasily on her history with Xingyuan and her complicated feelings about Qin Zhirou, showing that their apparent peace has not erased her resentment.

Significant themes

• Revenge and loyalty: Qin San’s devotion to her brother drives her toward a far-reaching campaign.
• Strategy over brute force: The plan to use others as weapons contrasts with a direct attack and reflects the risks of challenging a powerful opponent.
• Power and spoils: Qin Si’s defeat yields practical wealth and rare items, while his death also creates political opportunities for Xingyuan’s rivals.
• Uneasy reconciliation: Bai Luoying’s thoughts reveal that cooperation or peace between former enemies can coexist with lingering mistrust and hurt.

Plot points and events

• Lu Xingyuan immediately uses his new level 9 skill card, gaining Silent Frostfall, a nearly undetectable blade strike that bypasses sensing and forewarning.
• He considers the skill an ideal addition to his limited single-target attacks, though its level exceeds his own and may be difficult to control.
• Lu Xingyuan tests it in the Myriad Realms Arena against Yun Shu. The attack cuts through her defense before she can identify what happened, but the recoil freezes and injures his arm.
• After practicing until he is more familiar with the skill, he leaves the arena to question the captive Lei Lingyun.
• Lu Xingyuan explains that he has kept Lei alive because he wants Sun Yi’s identity number, which would let him use the Orbital Magnet against Sun Yi as he did against Qin Si.
• Lei refuses, claiming he does not know the number and insisting that revealing it would violate his loyalty to his guild leader. Lu Xingyuan suggests torture, while Lei challenges him to carry it out.

Character developments

• Lu Xingyuan gains a powerful attack but learns firsthand that using a skill above his level carries serious physical risks. His confidence and ambition remain undiminished.
• Yun Shu is shown to be formidable: she senses something unusual and attempts to defend herself, yet Silent Frostfall still wounds her.
• Lei Lingyun remains defiant despite horrific injuries, presenting his refusal as proof of loyalty. Lu Xingyuan’s taunts provoke little more than silence and resentment.

Significant themes

• Power and cost: A stronger ability can exceed its user’s capacity and cause backlash.
• Loyalty and secrecy: Lei treats Sun Yi’s identity number as highly sensitive information and refuses to disclose it.
• Cunning and coercion: Lu Xingyuan’s plans rely on exploiting information and keeping enemies alive long enough to question them.
• Humor amid brutality: Lu Xingyuan’s irreverent teasing contrasts with Lei’s extreme injuries and the grim interrogation.

Character interactions

• Lu Xingyuan and Yun Shu: They resume their arena rivalry. Lu Xingyuan is unusually fixated on defeating her, while his new skill gives him a surprising advantage—at the cost of injuring himself.
• Lu Xingyuan and Lei Lingyun: Lu Xingyuan presses for Sun Yi’s identity number; Lei refuses and dares him to torture him. Their exchange becomes a contest of intimidation, loyalty, and sarcasm.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Xingyuan obtains specialized anti-Zombie electroshock equipment from Saiban and uses it to force the captured Train Conductor Lei Lingyun to reveal Sun Yi’s identity number.
• Lei Lingyun gives an apparently nonsensical string of words. Lu Xingyuan initially assumes he is lying, but Lei explains that Sun Yi used a special item to change his identity number. The Orbital Magnet verifies it as genuine.
• Lu Xingyuan kills Lei Lingyun, burns his body, and scatters the ashes onto the tracks.
• Preparing for a confrontation with Sun Yi, Lu Xingyuan gathers his allies and distributes upgraded medicines, including a level-seven Zombie Serum intended to counter the Blood-red Eyes’ ability to turn people into Zombies.
• Lu Xingyuan accelerates his reinforced train and rams Sun Yi’s train. Teemo and Rumble board the enemy train, while Alice stays behind to guard their position.

Character developments

• Lu Xingyuan proves pragmatic and determined: he uses torture to obtain information, confirms it before acting, and kills Lei once his usefulness is over. He is increasingly focused on stopping Sun Yi, whose plans threaten all Train Conductors.
• Lei Lingyun breaks under the electric shocks and cooperates, though he insists he is telling the truth. His fate is swift once his information is verified.
• Alice recognizes the danger posed by the Blood-red Eyes and volunteers to watch for them. Lu Xingyuan trusts her to act if needed.
• Teemo and Rumble prepare to enter the dangerous confrontation alongside Lu Xingyuan.

Significant themes

• Preparedness against escalating threats: Lu Xingyuan equips his group with specialized medicines and plans for the Blood-red Eyes before engaging Sun Yi.
• Power and identity: Sun Yi’s ability to alter his identity number shows how extraordinary items can undermine systems of verification.
• Moral urgency and survival: Lu Xingyuan’s mission has grown beyond honoring a vow; stopping Sun Yi is necessary to protect himself and other Train Conductors from forced transformation into Zombies.

Character interactions

• Saiban supplies Lu Xingyuan with the torture device, unsettling both him and Alice with its origin and power.
• Lu Xingyuan interrogates Lei Lingyun, challenges his answer, then verifies it with the Orbital Magnet before killing him.
• Lu Xingyuan warns Bai Luoying that the train will accelerate, though she is confused by his pace and activity.
• Lu Xingyuan briefs and equips his team; Alice promises to watch for the Blood-red Eyes, and Teemo and Rumble charge onto Sun Yi’s train at his command.

Plot and events

• Bai Luoying joins Lu Xingyuan’s effort to hunt down Sun Yi, recognizing that he needs all the help he can get.
• Sun Yi’s train is revealed to be made partly of zombified Train Conductors. He claims they may have volunteered, though Bai Luoying is horrified by the possibility that he harmed them.
• Lu Xingyuan attacks Sun Yi with Spatial Power, cutting off his head. Sun Yi recognizes the power as Wang Tianhua’s and realizes Lu Xingyuan obtained the talent he had wanted to steal.
• Sun Yi regenerates and tries to recruit Lu Xingyuan to his Mutual Aid Association, promising him similar powers. Lu Xingyuan reads his offer as evidence that Sun Yi is unusually weakened.
• Lu Xingyuan and Bai Luoying press the attack. Sun Yi retreats into his train, turning its carriages into Zombies to hold them off. Rumble and Teemo join the fight, while Lu Xingyuan defeats a huge Zombie and uses his Six Luminary Annihilation Cannons to clear more attackers.
• Lu Xingyuan pursues Sun Yi to the last intact carriage, but his blade barely marks its reinforced exterior. Sun Yi remains protected inside, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan stays focused and strategic: he detects Sun Yi’s weakness, mocks his recruitment pitch, and pushes through the Zombie assault.
• Bai Luoying openly commits to fighting at Lu’s side and proves observant, quickly noticing Sun Yi’s fatigue. Her horror at the zombified Conductors contrasts with Sun Yi’s callous justification.
• Sun Yi is revealed as ambitious and calculating. He wanted to take Wang Tianhua’s Spatial Power, sees Lu Xingyuan as a potential “perfect creation,” and tries to win him over even while under pressure.
• The chapter also establishes that Lu Xingyuan, Sun Yi, and Wang Tianhua all came from Zone 11 and were exceptionally powerful figures. Bai Luoying reflects that their failure to unite may have left the Myriad Dragons Alliance unchallenged.

Significant themes

• Survival and power: Sun Yi argues that staying alive matters most, using regeneration as both protection and a recruiting tool.
• Exploitation and moral ambiguity: The zombified Conductors raise questions about consent and the human cost of Sun Yi’s experiments.
• Rivalry and missed alliances: Zone 11’s powerful individuals might have changed the balance of power had they worked together.
• Persistence against overwhelming odds: Lu Xingyuan and his allies keep advancing despite Sun Yi’s regeneration and the endless Zombie assault.

Plot points

• Lu Xingyuan uses Spatial Jump to enter Sun Yi’s enormous train carriage, where Sun Yi guards a blood-red coffin.
• Sun Yi admits the being inside is his greatest creation—and warns that, if awakened, she could destroy the world. Lu attacks the coffin, but his blows crack it and begin to awaken its occupant.
• Sun Yi tries to help open the coffin. Lu kicks him away and struggles to shut it, glimpsing a small girl with blood-red eyes inside.
• The girl wakes, calls Lu a “trash fish,” and rejects his playful attempt to pose as her father. She then insults Sun Yi, whom she says is unworthy of being her dad, and shoots a scarlet beam through his heart.
• Sun Yi collapses in disbelief, unable to reconcile his devotion to the girl with her contempt for him.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan recognizes the coffin’s danger and tries to stop the awakening, but his caution gives way to stunned curiosity and dry humor when the “ultimate creation” proves to be a little girl.
• Sun Yi shifts from calm confidence to ecstatic anticipation as the coffin opens, then to devastation when the girl rejects him and attacks him.
• The girl, Weiwei, awakens as a powerful, sharp-toothed being whose childlike appearance contrasts with her icy manner and immense force. She dismisses both men as “trash,” especially rejecting Sun Yi’s claim of fatherhood.
• The scene’s central interaction is a reversal of Sun Yi’s expected creator-and-child bond: despite his belief that he raised her and is her father, Weiwei shows no affection or loyalty.

Significant themes

• Creation versus control: Sun Yi made Weiwei, but cannot command her feelings or allegiance.
• Appearance versus danger: Her delicate, doll-like appearance masks world-threatening power.
• Attachment and rejection: Sun Yi’s parental devotion is answered with contempt, turning his long-awaited success into personal ruin.
• Dark humor: Lu’s brief, unsuccessful attempt to claim fatherhood and his reaction to Sun Yi’s humiliation undercut the scene’s menace.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Xingyuan realizes Sun Yi named the little girl Weiwei after Pan Wei, but sees that she has no loyalty to Sun Yi and decides to kill him while leaving her alone.
• Sun Yi begs Weiwei to save him. When she refuses, he appeals to her ambition, reminding her that she is the Zombie Empress, born to rule all zombies.
• Weiwei accepts the title and tries to stop Lu Xingyuan. He attacks anyway, despite her claim to be an exalted and dangerous being.
• Weiwei blocks his first strike with blood energy, but Lu Xingyuan cuts her neck with Silent Frostfall. She recovers, only for Alice to appear behind her and unleash black flames.
• Lu Xingyuan grabs Weiwei and slaps her until she stops taunting him. Sun Yi watches helplessly, horrified by her humiliation.

Character developments

• Lu Xingyuan acts decisively and ruthlessly, choosing to eliminate Sun Yi rather than risk the threat he might create. He shows no deference to Weiwei’s grand title and quickly recognizes how to control her.
• Sun Yi grows desperate as his supposed creation refuses to protect him. He tries to manipulate Weiwei by invoking her destiny as Zombie Empress.
• Weiwei shifts from dismissive indifference to pride in her identity and hostility toward Lu Xingyuan. Despite her formidable powers, she is surprised by his tactics and intimidated when he physically overpowers her.

Significant themes

• Power versus authority: Weiwei’s title and immense abilities do not guarantee obedience or control.
• Manipulation and ambition: Sun Yi tries to use Weiwei’s desire for greatness to save himself.
• Underestimating opponents: Weiwei assumes Lu Xingyuan will avoid provoking her, but his directness turns the encounter against her.
• The gap between plans and reality: Sun Yi’s grand vision depends on a creation he cannot actually command.

Character interactions

• Sun Yi pleads with Weiwei as his daughter and then appeals to her status, but she initially dismisses him.
• Lu Xingyuan challenges Weiwei openly; she attacks, but he counters with a surprise slash and Alice’s intervention.
• Lu Xingyuan’s blunt physical punishment silences Weiwei, while Sun Yi can only watch in anguish.

Plot points and events

• The zombie girl—Sun Yi’s powerful “ultimate weapon”—unexpectedly offers to join Lu Xingyuan, even proposing that he help her ascend to supreme power.
• She uses her abilities to strip Sun Yi of his zombie power, restoring him to an ordinary human and leaving him vulnerable.
• Lu Xingyuan makes the girl openly admit she wants to join his team, using repeated slaps to break her defiant attitude. She agrees, though privately planning to exploit him and eventually seize his power.
• Sun Yi recognizes that he failed through his own overconfidence: he created the girl but gave himself no way to control her. Lu Xingyuan kills him once his regeneration and immortality are gone.
• Bai Luoying arrives after the fight. The girl briefly turns her into a zombie to demonstrate her power, but Lu Xingyuan orders her to reverse it, and Bai returns to normal.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan establishes clear dominance over the girl, treating her arrogance with blunt force and insisting she acknowledge that she is joining his team. He remains pragmatic, focused on defeating Sun Yi rather than on the girl’s excuses or hidden ambitions.
• The girl shifts from boasting and threatening to outward compliance, but her submission is tactical, not sincere. She resents Lu Xingyuan and secretly intends to use him to gain power.
• Sun Yi is devastated by his creation’s defection and recognizes that his trust and belief in her perfection were fatal mistakes. His defeat ends with his death.
• Bai Luoying arrives too late to help, then witnesses the girl’s extraordinary ability to transform people between human and zombie states. Her admiration is tempered by seeing that Lu Xingyuan can still control the girl.

Significant themes

• Control versus independence: Creating or empowering someone does not guarantee their loyalty; Sun Yi’s inability to restrain the girl leads to his downfall.
• Power and hierarchy: The girl possesses immense abilities, but Lu Xingyuan asserts authority over her through force and command.
• Defeat and self-deception: Sun Yi concludes that he lost not simply to his enemy, but to his own misplaced trust and assumptions.

Key plot points

• Lu Xingyuan has already defeated most of Sun Yi’s forces, but many Zombies remain. Bai Luoying arrives ready to help, only to find the fighting essentially over.
• Weiwei reveals she can command Zombies, stopping them from attacking Teemo and Rumble. She calls herself the “Zombie Queen” and tries to recruit them as the first members of her future empire.
• Lu Xingyuan introduces her as Weiwei, despite her protests that she deserves a grander title. She then absorbs the remaining Zombies into a pocket dimension in her sleeves, where they will grow from ordinary Zombies into much stronger Corrupted Zombies.
• After judging Weiwei’s power, Lu Xingyuan decides to keep her under close watch: useful, but not trustworthy or essential. He collects supplies from Sun Yi’s now-ownerless train, dismantles it, and returns to his own train.
• Bai Luoying returns to her carriage. Weiwei tries to claim Lu Xingyuan’s bed, but discovers Hand Sis sleeping there and is overwhelmed by an instinctive fear of the creature.

Character developments and interactions

• Weiwei shows off formidable Zombie-controlling abilities and an ambitious, rebellious personality. Though frightened by Hand Sis, she refuses to admit it and ultimately seems intrigued by the danger of life aboard Lu Xingyuan’s train.
• Lu Xingyuan remains pragmatic and wary: he recognizes Weiwei’s value but plans to control her and would turn against her if necessary. He teases her and makes clear she must follow his rules.
• Teemo is openly loyal to Lu Xingyuan and rejects Weiwei’s recruitment pitch; he quickly welcomes her once Lu Xingyuan supplies her name. Rumble responds to Weiwei’s attitude with irritation and a threat to fight.
• Bai Luoying stays mindful of her subordinate “tenant” status, leaving for her own carriage without needing instruction.
• Hand Sis, though barely moving in her sleep, terrifies Weiwei, hinting at the power or menace she represents.

Significant themes

• Power and control: Weiwei can command and strengthen Zombies, while Lu Xingyuan weighs how to keep her power useful without letting her become a threat.
• Loyalty and trust: Teemo’s devotion contrasts with Lu Xingyuan’s cautious view of Weiwei.
• Pride masking fear: Weiwei’s grand claims and defiant bravado persist even when she is clearly frightened.
• Unusual companions: The chapter reinforces the strange, unpredictable nature of life on Lu Xingyuan’s train.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Wanqing alerts Lu Xingyuan that the chat channel is buzzing about Sun Yi’s death. A video, posted by Ye Ya, shows Lu boarding Sun Yi’s train and killing him—and also reveals that Weiwei is the Zombie Queen.
• At first, chat members celebrate Sun Yi’s death, but Ye Ya’s apparent supporters redirect the discussion toward Weiwei. They portray Lu as a potential tyrant who might use her to turn Train Conductors into zombies.
• Lu recognizes the attempt to smear him and remains unconcerned. He confirms Weiwei is the Zombie Queen and suspects Sun Yi used the Mist Princess’s flesh and blood in creating her.
• Gu Wanqing offers to “discipline” Weiwei; she and Lu reveal that they both mean beating her, reflecting their shared blunt, rough-edged sense of humor.
• On Ye Ya’s train, Qin San fumes that Sun Yi—whom she had hoped to use against Lu—was killed before he could hurt him. Ye Ya says Sky-Shaking Thunder is reluctant to act as their weapon.
• Sky-Shaking Thunder privately considers how to kill Lu but refuses to rush into another fight after his previous defeat. He resolves to gain more power.
• Lin Xiao, worried about Sky-Shaking Thunder, thinks of the Unknown Ticket she traded to Lu and asks whether he has collected the required materials. Lu replies that he still needs fluorite shards, prompting her to ask whether she can help.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan accepts that others see him as dangerous, with or without the Zombie Queen. He is confident, unbothered by public opinion, and protective of Weiwei despite her rebelliousness.
• Gu Wanqing trusts Lu’s composure and shares his irreverent attitude. Their playful exchange about “disciplining” Weiwei shows their easy rapport.
• Ye Ya and Qin San are frustrated that Sun Yi’s death has strengthened Lu’s position rather than weakened it. Ye Ya attempts to shape public opinion, while Qin San’s anger exposes how heavily she depends on others to challenge Lu.
• Sky-Shaking Thunder wants Lu dead but is cautious after losing to him; his immediate priority is becoming stronger.
• Lin Xiao is emotionally invested in Sky-Shaking Thunder and searches for a way to ease his burden, potentially by helping Lu complete the Unknown Ticket’s requirements.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and public opinion: Ye Ya uses the video not merely to report Sun Yi’s death but to turn the crowd against Lu.
• Power and fear: Weiwei’s identity changes how others view Lu, while Sky-Shaking Thunder’s response underscores the importance of strength—and the risks of acting before one has enough.
• Loyalty and attachment: Lin Xiao’s concern for Sky-Shaking Thunder contrasts with Lu and Gu Wanqing’s unshaken confidence in each other.
• Violence as humor and discipline: Lu and Gu Wanqing treat physical punishment as an amusing solution to Weiwei’s rebelliousness.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Xingyuan discovers that Lin Xiao owns the fluorite shard he needs to activate the Unknown Ticket. Although he suspects a catch, she gives it to him for free, completing the set of five required materials.
• Lin Xiao’s gift is not simple generosity: she wants to help Lu Xingyuan and ultimately send Sky-Shaking Thunder—who is pressuring someone she loves—to his grave.
• With the materials gathered, Lu Xingyuan announces that the group will set out the next day. He makes sure Teemo and Rumble know they are expected to join, while Weiwei enthusiastically declares that she is coming too.
• Cai Cai prepares Lu Xingyuan a special meal to help him face Ye Ya. The food significantly boosts his strength, speed, reflexes, and endurance, suggesting her cooking can rival genetic enhancement potions without their usage limit.
• Weiwei pretends to dislike human food despite eagerly eating it. Teemo teases her, and Lu Xingyuan scolds her; their banter ends with him bonking her on the head.
• At midnight, the mist season officially ends, and the next season is announced to begin in three days. The Catastrophe Subordinate Authorization loses its power. Though many Train Conductors celebrate, others fear the coming season may be more dangerous.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Xingyuan is wary of Lin Xiao’s unexpected gift but accepts it because he wants to reach the platform important to Hand Sis. He also continues preparing his allies for the journey and benefits from Cai Cai’s increasingly powerful cooking.
• Lin Xiao reveals that she has long held the Unknown Ticket and has struggled to find its rare activation materials. Her decision to give Lu Xingyuan the shard is motivated by affection and a desire to help him confront Sky-Shaking Thunder.
• Weiwei insists on joining the expedition and boasts about her status as the Zombie Queen, while her embarrassment over enjoying the food—and her childish reaction to being struck—undercuts her grand claims.
• Alice reacts jealously to Weiwei’s presence, while Gu Wanqing teases Lu Xingyuan about his apparent preference for little girls.
• Cai Cai shows her care for Lu Xingyuan by cooking specifically to strengthen him. Teemo mocks Weiwei’s eating habits, and Rumble silently objects to their crude dinner-table talk.

Significant themes

• Trust and hidden motives: Lin Xiao’s gift helps Lu Xingyuan, but her private intentions reveal that generosity can also serve revenge.
• Loyalty and preparation: Lu Xingyuan gathers his companions and strengthens himself before confronting an enemy.
• Found family and comic friction: The group’s teasing, jealousy, and arguments show their closeness while keeping their relationships lively.
• Uncertainty about change: The end of the mist season offers relief, but the Train Conductors’ caution suggests that a new season may bring fresh dangers.