Chapter Summaries

The convoy encountered Qingqing, a cheerful azure dragon and True Dragon Sequence Adept, who invited them to talk at a nearby hill. Chu Sheng sensed that Qingqing was a Sequence Seven whose mental power matched or exceeded his, and the story left both groups preparing to meet cautiously.

• Zhu Qing explained that a childhood experience had left him seasick, then jumped into the water and transformed into a giant to swim alongside the convoy.
• Youming stopped the convoy when Chu Sheng spotted a dragon ahead, and the abrupt halt injured several passengers before they recovered or were helped.
• Qingqing spotted the convoy and told Fang Hong, who ordered Wang Meng and her disciples to stay cautious while Qingqing approached to greet them.
• Chu Sheng identified Qingqing as a Sequence Seven and sensed that her mental power was as strong as or slightly stronger than his.
• Qingqing introduced herself as a True Dragon Sequence Adept and invited the convoy to a nearby hill to talk.

Chu Sheng's convoy followed the Azure Dragon Girl to a hilltop, where they met her companions and learned that her Sequence's price gave her a child's mentality. The group prepared to talk while braving the rain, and Captain Hui revealed a new Eight Trigrams ability.

• The Azure Dragon Girl led Chu Sheng's convoy through the flooded area, and Chu Sheng decided to follow her while keeping the others on alert.
• The Azure Dragon Girl reached a partly submerged hilltop, changed back into a girl named Qingqing, and nearly collapsed from spending too much Mental Power.
• Fang Hong and Wang Meng helped Qingqing back onto the bus and explained that her Sequence's price gave her a child's mentality.
• Chu Sheng and Captain Hui learned about Qingqing's condition through Youming's scan, then Chu Sheng emerged in his upgraded Dark-Gold Battle Armor set.
• Captain Hui stepped into the rain and used the Kan Trigram ability, while Xingzi ordered Youming to close the doors and Zhu Qing complained about the others' protective displays.

Chu Sheng's convoy met Fang Hong's convoy in the extreme downpour and exchanged records while their members got acquainted. As the groups settled in together, Lu Guan meditated and recited teachings that hinted at a breakthrough.

• Chu Sheng, Yang Hui, An Xi, and Zhu Qing met Fang Hong and Wang Meng at the bus and introduced themselves and their sequences.
• Fang Hong explained that Qingqing had reached Sequence Seven and could fully transform into an azure dragon.
• Yang Hui and Fang Hong arranged for the convoys to exchange logs, and Youming brought the Netherworld Light alongside the bus.
• Zhu Qing sparred with Wang Meng while An Xi and Chu Sheng watched and talked about their sequences.
• Lu Guan meditated on the Fish Cart as A Xin and Old Man Li watched, then he recited verses about forms and sentient beings through mental power.

Lu Guan advanced to sequence seven, and Fang Hong explained how sequence ranks related to merging with a sequence. After learning that he could only remove his skeletal form by transcending his sequence, Lu Guan gave up on regaining his flesh and declared his goal of building and tending a cemetery for everyone and everything he had encountered.

• Fang Hong explained that sequence seven marked the beginning of becoming part of a sequence, and that every three ranks brought a major improvement.
• Fang Hong told An Xi that Wang Meng's red glow was blood and qi power, which survivors could learn to use against Anomalies.
• Captain Hui told Chu Sheng that he had exchanged records with Fang Hong's convoy and secured her promise to answer questions honestly.
• Lu Guan completed his advancement to sequence seven, coating his bones with the dissolved skull and gaining a mental-power projection that made him appear human.
• Fang Hong told Lu Guan he could remove his skeletal form only after transcending his sequence, and he decided to build a cemetery and become its keeper.

After Lu Guan advanced to Sequence Seven, Captain Hui learned that Fang Hong’s convoy had spent four months in the storm without encountering Anomalies, possibly because Fate guided their route. The next day, Chu Sheng and Zhu Qing armed themselves as a dark shape approached the Barrier.

• Lu Guan advanced to Sequence Seven, and the others left without asking about his new abilities.
• Captain Hui asked Fang Hong which Anomalies were common in the storm, and she revealed that her convoy had encountered none in four months.
• Fang Hong explained that her Heavenly Mandate Sequence let her communicate with Fate, which might have guided the convoy around Anomalies.
• Fang Hong told Captain Hui that her convoy had discarded most of its supplies and had little to trade.
• The next day, Chu Sheng saw a dark shape approaching the Barrier and summoned his armor, Butcher, and Netherworld Mecha.
• Zhu Qing woke, grew over thirty meters tall, and readied his extended steel baton as the shape drew near.

Qingqing returned to the convoy with a large catch of fish, and the group learned that Wang Meng’s blood and qi seeds let survivors fight Anomalies but tied them to him. Wang Meng explained that the seeds’ range depended on his sequence, leaving Chu Sheng to consider the limits of the ability.

• An Xi, Zhu Qing, and Chu Sheng prepared to confront the approaching silhouette until Fang Hong, Wang Meng, and Captain Hui identified it as Qingqing.
• Youming projected the Azure Dragon, and Qingqing transformed into a horned girl and announced that she had brought food.
• Qingqing admired the Netherworld Mecha and asked Chu Sheng if she could have it, then fled when Fang Hong scolded her.
• Wang Meng offered Qingqing’s fish and shrimp to the hungry survivors, and Captain Hui arranged for people to prepare the food.
• Wang Meng told Captain Hui that his blood and qi seeds let others fight Anomalies but weakened with distance, and that their range had grown as he advanced from Sequence Nine to Sequence Eight.

Chu Sheng suspected Wang Meng’s blood and qi seeds could be reclaimed after survivors used them to grow stronger, while Wang Meng’s followers encouraged the convoy to learn martial arts. Xingzi healed Qiqi, but after a girl spoke carelessly about Chu Sheng, a black flame appeared on her body.

• Chu Sheng stayed wary as Wang Meng explained blood and qi cultivation, and he suspected Wang Meng could reclaim the seeds he gave survivors.
• Wang Meng’s followers told Wu Jie and the others that blood and qi power could hurt Anomalies and that Wang Meng was willing to teach martial arts, but Wu Meng stopped Wu Jie from approaching him.
• Qiqi, desperate to escape her approaching death, considered seeking help from Chu Sheng, but his gaze terrified her; Xingzi healed her wounds and restored some warmth.
• A girl praised Chu Sheng while trying to curry favor with Wang Meng’s followers, and Zhou Dun and the others moved away from her.
• Chu Sheng turned his gaze toward the girl, the surroundings fell silent, and a small black flame appeared on her body.

Chu Sheng killed a survivor who revealed information about him, prompting An Xi and Cheng Xue to warn the others against speaking carelessly. On the bus, Fang Hong suspected that the benefit foretold by her Sequence would come from Wang Meng disappearing, while Qingqing agreed to wait until they could leave his convoy.

• Chu Sheng burned a woman to ashes after she revealed information about him, and An Xi warned four other survivors with a display of psychic power.
• Cheng Xue told Wu Meng and the survivors that Captain Hui had ordered her to warn everyone not to say things that could get people killed.
• Fang Hong explained to Qingqing that they should tolerate Wang Meng until they left the area, then part ways.
• Fang Hong revealed that her Sequence had foretold a coming benefit and privately suspected it would involve Wang Meng's disappearance.

Fang Hong reflected on Wang Meng’s dangerous blood-and-qi ability while the convoys finished copying their records and prepared to depart. As Captain Hui and Chu Sheng discussed their plans and the approaching one-year mark of the apocalypse, Captain Hui revealed his growing suspicion that the apocalypse had not truly begun.

• Fang Hong recognized that Wang Meng’s sequence consumed blood and qi and feared he would eventually target her, Qingqing, and the other Sequence Adepts.
• The convoys spent several days copying each other’s logs and diaries behind A Xin’s barrier, then decided to leave at nine the following morning.
• Captain Hui told Chu Sheng that he hoped to find the City of Dawn but would settle on the Floating Island if they encountered it first.
• Captain Hui recalled Elder Wang’s account of Chen Shi sealing anomalies for a year and noted that only twenty-eight days remained until a full year had passed.
• Captain Hui told Chu Sheng that his growing intuition was that the apocalypse had not truly begun.

Chu Sheng and Captain Hui discussed Captain Hui’s intuition that the Apocalypse had not truly begun, while An Xi confronted Wang Meng for scheming to recruit survivors into his blood-and-qi martial arts. An Xi burned and wounded Wang Meng, then pierced through his blood-and-qi shield as her attack continued.

• Captain Hui told Chu Sheng that his intuition and thoughts were real, leading him to believe the Apocalypse had not truly begun, but Chu Sheng urged him to wait and see.
• Chu Sheng and Captain Hui agreed that Wang Meng was plotting to exploit the convoy’s survivors, while An Xi, A Xin, and Xingzi discussed the survivors’ willingness to risk his scheme for power.
• An Xi attacked Wang Meng with her Black Jade Bone Spear, knocked him down, and set his back ablaze with Eternal Flame.
• Wang Meng tried to suppress the flames with his blood-and-qi power, but the fire consumed it and intensified, leaving him in agony.
• An Xi attacked again, and her spear pierced Wang Meng’s blood-and-qi shield as he struggled to dodge.

An Xi defeated Wang Meng after his Blood Qi Soul Banner drained the blood and qi from his followers and other survivors. Wang Meng died beneath the Winged White Tiger, and Chu Sheng reached the Soul Banner before An Xi.

• An Xi's Black Jade Bone Spear pierced Wang Meng, and its Geng Metal Fire drove him into agony as his Blood and Qi Power erupted.
• Wang Meng formed a Blood Qi Soul Banner and used it to drain blood-red seeds from his disciples and nearby survivors, killing two old men and withering many others.
• An Xi transformed into a humanoid white tiger and attacked Wang Meng with her Geng Metal Spear, while a Winged White Tiger phantom tore at his mind and pounced on him.
• An Xi's spear pierced Wang Meng again as the Winged White Tiger tore off his arm and knocked him down.
• An Xi ordered the Winged White Tiger to crush Wang Meng's head, killing him before the tiger dissipated into Geng Metal Power.
• An Xi turned toward the Blood Qi Soul Banner, but Chu Sheng reached it first.

After Wang Meng's death, An Xi traded the fading Blood-colored Soul Banner to Lu Guan for an enchantment on her Black Jade Bone Spear. Lu Guan then asked Chu Sheng to fuse the banner, offering him a supernatural White Bone creation as payment.

• Chu Sheng explained that the Blood-colored Soul Banner held Wang Meng's blood essence and will, which were steadily dissipating.
• Lu Guan claimed the banner and offered to enchant An Xi's Black Jade Bone Spear in exchange; An Xi accepted.
• Lu Guan enchanted the spear, and Chu Sheng discovered it had gained the hidden ability to attack the souls of white bone anomalies.
• Lu Guan asked Chu Sheng to fuse the Soul Banner and offered him two supernatural bones, leaving Chu Sheng astonished by the White Bone creation's summoning ability.

Chu Sheng fused Lu Guan’s bone with the Soul Banner, creating a powerful sacrificial item that Lu Guan promptly renamed the Human Emperor Banner. The chapter ended with An Xi and Captain Hui warning him not to show it off to other convoys.

• Lu Guan claimed the title White Bone Sovereign, and Chu Sheng offered him a choice of concepts and traits for fusing his bone with the Soul Banner.
• Lu Guan chose Soul Summoning, and Chu Sheng fused the items before Lu Guan could reconsider Zhu Qing’s suggestion to choose flesh and blood.
• The fusion created the White Bone Banner, which could summon and house souls, nourish and strengthen them, and summon mindless skeletons.
• Lu Guan renamed the White Bone Banner the Human Emperor Banner, prompting An Xi, A Xin, Xingzi, and Captain Hui to tell him not to display it to other convoys.

Lu Guan used the White Bone Banner to collect nonhuman souls while refusing to take human souls, and Chu Sheng read the Book of Time for news about the world. The group settled in for the night as the book recorded their convoy’s encounter and several major events across distant regions.

• Lu Guan summoned nearby souls with the White Bone Banner, then released the human souls and collected waves of nonhuman ones.
• Captain Hui explained that souls without will or mental power were much weaker, then told everyone to rest and take turns keeping watch.
• Chu Sheng said Youming would alert them to danger, and the group returned to their vehicles for the night.
• Xingzi followed Chu Sheng into the Netherworld Light and went to shower while he opened the Book of Time.
• The Book of Time recorded Kun’s discovery, the encounter between two convoys in the Southern Wasteland, a White Bone Sequence user’s advancement, and other major events around the world.

Chu Sheng considered ominous Book of Time updates before An Xi joined him and Xingzi aboard the Netherworld Light. Meanwhile, Fang Hong and Qingqing asked to join Captain Hui’s convoy, and he agreed subject to approval from its members.

• Chu Sheng read updates about the heavenly emperor sequence, a top-hundred Sacrificial Item, and the possibility of Floating Islands falling, which made him worry about the convoy’s safety.
• An Xi left A Xin and boarded the Netherworld Light, where she climbed under the blanket with Xingzi and Chu Sheng joined them.
• Fang Hong and Qingqing told Captain Hui they wanted to join his convoy because traveling alone would be too dangerous.
• Captain Hui agreed to consider them but said every sequence-powered member had to approve, and Fang Hong explained that her ability would not conflict with the convoy’s.

Fang Hong and Qingqing joined Chu Sheng’s convoy after signing its contract, and they introduced their Heavenly Mandate and True Dragon Sequences. Chu Sheng converted their coach into a Fish Cart, and Captain Hui began to announce another matter.

• Captain Hui explained how Fang Hong’s Heavenly Mandate Sequence and Captain Hui’s Eight Trigrams Sequence could guide the convoy, though neither was as suited to the role as Li Feifei’s Wind Whisper Sequence.
• Captain Hui asked Chu Sheng to approve Fang Hong and Qingqing joining the convoy, and Chu Sheng brought out a contract for them to sign.
• Fang Hong explained that her Heavenly Mandate Sequence could communicate with fate, sense good or bad fortune, and slightly alter ordinary people’s destined lots.
• Qingqing introduced her True Dragon Sequence, which let her summon clouds and rain, change size, and transform into a dragon.
• Captain Hui gave Fang Hong and Qingqing a Sequence Nine supernatural material, and Chu Sheng used it to turn their coach into a Fish Cart.
• Captain Hui began to tell the convoy about another matter he had discussed with Chu Sheng the previous day.

Captain Hui warned the convoy that the Apocalypse might arrive in more than twenty days, then detected a swarm of Anomalies surrounding them and collapsed from overusing his divination. As the convoy fled across the floodwaters to reach Fang Hong for guidance, Qingqing fell into the water.

• Captain Hui told the group he feared the Apocalypse had not truly arrived and urged them to prepare before the one-year mark.
• Chu Sheng and Captain Hui realized the floodwaters had risen around the hill despite A Xin leaving her barrier unchanged.
• Captain Hui divined that Anomalies surrounded the convoy, including more than a dozen Sequence Seven Anomalies to the southeast, then passed out.
• Chu Sheng warned the convoy to prepare for battle and sent An Xi to bring Fang Hong to the Netherworld Ship for guidance.
• As the convoy sped over the floodwaters, Qingqing lost her footing on the swaying Iron Chain and fell into the water.

Fang Hong guided the convoy toward an escape route while Chu Sheng used the Netherworld Ship to accelerate and attack pursuing anomalies. She warned that the convoy would suffer losses, and the chapter ended as Chu Sheng called on An Xi to fight three anomalies ahead.

• Fang Hong and Qingqing boarded the Netherworld Ship after An Xi warned that the convoy would accelerate beyond Qingqing's ability to keep up underwater.
• Chu Sheng activated the Netherworld Ship's Rampage ability, raising the convoy's speed to 507 kilometers per hour, and the ship devoured a sequence eight anomaly.
• Fang Hong prayed for a safe route and warned that fast anomalies were pursuing the convoy and that people would be lost.
• Xingzi extracted pathogens from An Xi with her syringe, then gave Fang Hong and Qingqing reinforced cold medicine pills.
• Chu Sheng ordered a laser strike on an anomaly ahead and told An Xi to handle the three anomalies approaching the convoy.

An Xi and Butcher killed two Anomalies aboard the Netherworld Ship, while Chu Sheng stored their Supernatural Materials and continued the journey. The black vapor from several defeated Anomalies gathered into a new Sequence Seven Anomaly, and a distant convoy discussed Chu Sheng’s Eternal Flame and his role as its creator.

• An Xi used the Black Jade Bone Spear to kill a Sequence Nine Anomaly underwater, then brought a waterweed-headed Sequence Eight Anomaly onto the deck for Butcher to fight.
• Butcher and An Xi defeated the Sequence Eight Anomaly, and An Xi collected its scalp and waterweed Supernatural Materials.
• An Xi offered to trade her share for ten Sequence Nine Supernatural Materials, and Chu Sheng agreed before Youming stored both materials.
• The Netherworld Ship traveled 777 kilometers without encountering Anomalies as black vapor from three defeated Anomalies gathered and formed a Sequence Seven creature that headed away from the ship.
• Five thousand kilometers away, Wei Haoran and Zhou Qi discussed Chu Sheng’s Eternal Flame, and Li Feifei said he had obtained it because he was its creator.

Li Feifei’s convoy followed Chu Sheng’s group for safety and information while remaining wary of their strength. Wei Haoran tested his improved barrier ability against a Sequence Nine anomaly, killing it but using too much energy for the tactic to be practical.

• Li Feifei explained that her convoy followed Chu Sheng’s route by reading traces in the wind and used their radio calls to learn about upcoming extreme weather.
• Li Feifei detected a Sequence Nine anomaly ahead, and Wei Haoran prepared to test his newly advanced barrier ability while Zhou Qi watched over him.
• Wei Haoran trapped the brick anomaly in a shrinking barrier and used moving grinding wheels to cut it apart as Zhou Qi charged his cannon in case he needed to intervene.
• Wei Haoran killed the anomaly after about two minutes, spending roughly a fifth of his energy, and Zhou Qi advised him not to use the ability that way again.