Chapter Summaries

Chu Sheng’s convoy met a fleet whose five Sequence Adepts debated whether to join them, but Chu Sheng launched a surprise attack and killed all five. An Xi then found the fleet’s survivors kneeling aboard their boats, while the story left their fate unresolved.

• The whip woman and the others decided against merging with Chu Sheng’s convoy, though she became interested in joining after meeting him.
• Captain Hui asked to exchange logs, and the fleet discovered that Zhu Zhu had left most of their notebook blank.
• As Zhu Zhu shrieked and the others confronted her, Chu Sheng signaled An Xi and Zhu Qing to prepare an attack.
• Chu Sheng, An Xi, and Zhu Qing killed the whip woman, Zhu Zhu, Xiao Yan, the honest-looking woman, and the fat man within seconds.
• Xingzi praised Chu Sheng for supposedly hiding his righteous intentions, while An Xi went to check on the survivors kneeling aboard the fleet’s boats.

After the battle, Chu Sheng searched the raiders’ boats for supernatural materials and sacrificial items, killing Brother Long at his request and secretly pocketing two materials. He later killed the young man who had given him the Peace Pendant, claiming the man knew the item’s cost and posed a threat to Sequence Adepts, then left Captain Hui and An Xi to reckon with his actions.

• An Xi tried to reassure the kneeling survivors, but Captain Hui forced them to stand by threatening them.
• Chu Sheng took the Peace Pendant from the young man and searched the whip woman’s cabin, where Brother Long revealed that her collected items were hidden under the bed.
• Chu Sheng killed Brother Long at his request and found a sacrificial item and four supernatural materials beneath the bed, secretly keeping the adapter cable and toy cruiser.
• Chu Sheng presented Captain Hui and An Xi with two sacrificial items and two supernatural materials, claiming he had searched only one boat.
• Chu Sheng killed the young man who had given him the Peace Pendant, arguing that the man knew its cost and had to die to protect Sequence Adepts.
• Chu Sheng declared that he would bear the blame and left for Xingzi, Old Man Li, and the others as Captain Hui and An Xi watched him uneasily.

Chu Sheng claimed the Spirit of Life from the spoils and fused it with his Heavenly Craftsman Sequence, advancing to Sequence 7 and gaining the Authority of Life. After the convoy divided the remaining loot, he examined his new abilities, while An Xi had him upgrade her Black Jade Bone Spear and asked to visit him later that night.

• Chu Sheng returned from the ship after killing a Sequence Adept to silence him and conceal the truth about the young man.
• Captain Hui divided the spoils among Chu Sheng, Zhu Qing, An Xi, and himself, and Chu Sheng chose the Spirit of Life and the detonator.
• Chu Sheng fused the Spirit of Life with his Heavenly Craftsman Sequence, advanced to Sequence 7, and gained the Life ability.
• Zhu Qing took the Power Battery, endured its daily electric shock, and left to ask Chu Sheng to upgrade his car.
• An Xi brought Chu Sheng her Black Jade Bone Spear and the spiked swordfish skull, and Chu Sheng fused them to improve the spear.
• An Xi admired the upgraded spear and told Chu Sheng to stay up later because she would visit him that night.

Chu Sheng fused Zhu Qing’s supernatural materials into an amphibious vehicle and prepared to upgrade his own sacrificial items. He began examining the Butcher, suspecting its unusual origins were tied to his Heavenly Craftsman abilities.

• An Xi paid Chu Sheng with two fish bones for fusions and a previous session, then left.
• Zhu Qing asked Chu Sheng to fuse a fish bone into his Boat Car’s frame and a fish tail into its exhaust, but Chu Sheng pointed out that it could barely steer in water and recommended fusing the tail into its tires instead.
• Chu Sheng fused the materials into the Boat Car, creating the Amphibious Fish Car with strong water-travel and steering abilities, but daily washing and electric shocks became its usage costs.
• Chu Sheng promised Zhu Qing extra water to wash the car, then returned to the Netherworld War Chariot to plan upgrades using a Cruiser toy and a Data Adapter Cable.
• Chu Sheng drew the Butcher and reflected that, after reaching Sequence Eight in the Heavenly Craftsman Sequence, he understood it could fuse sacrificial items but could not create life.

Chu Sheng upgraded the Butcher with supernatural materials and fused his remaining materials into the Netherworld War Chariot, transforming it into a vehicle that could switch among cruiser, truck, and mecha forms. After demonstrating its new abilities, he summoned the Butcher and fell asleep from exhaustion, leaving it to follow the convoy and flee if danger arose.

• Chu Sheng upgraded the Butcher with four supernatural materials and the Detonator, creating the Cat Butcher, whose usage costs did not affect him.
• Chu Sheng fused his remaining supernatural materials into the Netherworld War Chariot, which became the Netherworld Light and gained cruiser, truck, and mecha forms.
• Xingzi worried about Chu Sheng while An Xi felt jealous, and A Xin watched their reactions with interest.
• Chu Sheng transformed the Netherworld Light into a twenty-meter-tall mecha, then into a cruiser on Poyang Lake and back into truck form.
• Chu Sheng summoned the Butcher, ordered it to follow the convoy and flee if it encountered danger, then fell into a deep sleep.

While Chu Sheng slept after exhausting his mental power, the Butcher guarded the Netherworld Light and kept the convoy from approaching him. An Xi and Xingzi clashed over Chu Sheng, and the chapter ended with both leaving while the Butcher remained on watch.

• The Butcher frightened Captain Hui with a cat head, and An Xi, A Xin, and Lu Guan discussed its growing independence and Chu Sheng's abilities.
• Lu Guan described the white bone sequence as a curse, while Zhu Qing agreed to try becoming an undead skeleton if Lu Guan advanced enough.
• Captain Hui and Old Man Li postponed speaking to Chu Sheng, and Old Man Li realized Xiao Chen was hesitating to have his Chili Pepper and Cucumber made into a defensive sacrificial item.
• An Xi and Xingzi argued over their relationship with Chu Sheng, and An Xi tried to approach the Netherworld Light before the Butcher drove her back with an attack.
• Xingzi abandoned her attempt to enter the vehicle, An Xi and Xingzi returned to the others, and Captain Hui called the situation a mess.

Chu Sheng woke after sleeping for more than thirty hours and learned that Captain Hui had divined an opportunity ahead: an immobile rule-based Anomaly that exchanged food or people for supernatural materials and sacrificial items. The convoy decided to retrieve it, and An Xi and Zhu Qing went forward to bring it back.

• Chu Sheng inspected the remodeled Netherworld Light and noticed black aura from an Anomaly ahead.
• Xingzi and A Xin told Chu Sheng he had slept for over thirty hours, and Captain Hui said his divination had located an opportunity.
• Captain Hui explained that the Anomaly could not move and exchanged food for objects, but feeding it people could yield better rewards.
• Chu Sheng explained that the Anomaly could indirectly hunt humans by encouraging people to feed it victims.
• An Xi and Zhu Qing volunteered to retrieve the Anomaly, and Captain Hui warned them to be careful.

An Xi and Zhu Qing found a rule-based vending machine Anomaly whose trades could turn flesh into food, prompting Captain Hui to establish a rule against trading human bodies. Zhu Qing agreed to carry the machine, while Xingzi massaged Chu Sheng and unexpectedly increased his mental power and accelerated his digestion of the Sequence fused with the Spirit of Life.

• An Xi attacked the vending machine Anomaly with Geng Metal Power and confirmed it was a rule-based Anomaly when the power vanished from its wound.
• An Xi and Zhu Qing approached the machine, learned its trading rules, and brought it back to the convoy.
• Captain Hui and the others realized the machine could trade flesh for food, so Captain Hui proposed forbidding survivors from feeding it human bodies in exchange for anything.
• Chu Sheng refused to carry the machine, so Zhu Qing volunteered to secure it to his fish vehicle.
• Xingzi massaged Chu Sheng with her mental power, easing his fatigue while his mental power increased and his fused Sequence digested faster.

Zhu Qing tested the Vending Machine anomaly by feeding it hundreds of jin of his regenerating flesh, but after fifty attempts he received only flour and an ordinary gear. The convoy secured the machine and prepared to rest, while An Xi sent Xingzi away and reminded Chu Sheng that he had duties to fulfill.

• Xingzi refused compensation for massaging Chu Sheng and asked him to fuse a Sacrificial Item for her sometime in exchange for massages.
• Zhu Qing fed his flesh to the Vending Machine, which produced ten jin of flour, while Captain Hui ordered Cheng Xue to supervise all survivor transactions and forbid flesh-for-food exchanges.
• After Captain Hui explained that the machine's supernatural-material odds were uncertain, Zhu Qing fed it fifty chunks of flesh but received only an ordinary gear.
• Zhu Qing gave up after the machine's final attempt produced only a belch, and Captain Hui's group decided not to gamble their food on it.
• The convoy loaded the Vending Machine onto Zhu Qing's fish truck and planned to depart at seven the next morning, while Cheng Xue explained its use to survivors.
• An Xi threw Xingzi off the Netherworld Light and told Chu Sheng it was time to fulfill his duties.

The convoy left the water-mist region and found a peaceful place to stop, where Chu Sheng spotted a Floating Island that could serve as a moving settlement. The group could not reach it because none of them could fly, and Chu Sheng ended by asking An Xi when she would learn to fly.

• Xingzi mistakenly believed An Xi was coercing Chu Sheng and blamed herself while waiting outside the Netherworld Light.
• An Xi returned to the Black-Heart Off-Road Vehicle, where Xingzi resolved to rescue Chu Sheng and An Xi resolved to keep Xingzi from taking him.
• The convoy traveled safely out of the water-mist region and later stopped in an unfamiliar, calm place with sunlight, plants, and a stream.
• Chu Sheng and Old Man Li noticed a Floating Island overhead, and Captain Hui divined that it was safe but already inhabited by people.
• Chu Sheng explained that a Floating Island could drift, support farming, and offer the convoy a good place to settle, but none of them could fly up to it.
• As the Floating Island drifted away, Chu Sheng asked An Xi when she would be able to fly, and she said she did not know.

After the convoy lost sight of the Floating Island, Chu Sheng realized that the Netherworld Light needed a way to fly, while An Xi lamented that her wings could only glide. Zhu Qing gambled more flesh at the Vending Machine as two hungry survivors tried to win his favor, and Li Si watched without getting involved.

• An Xi explained that her Tiger Wings let her glide but could not carry her into flight, and Chu Sheng decided he needed to prepare a flying ability for the Netherworld Light.
• Zhu Qing complained about the Vending Machine’s poor odds and promised to stop gambling if another 250 chunks of flesh failed to yield supernatural material.
• Wu Jie, Wu Meng, and Zhou Dun discussed the Vending Machine’s meager returns while nearby survivors gathered to watch Zhu Qing trade flesh.
• Qiqi offered to help Zhu Qing feed the machine, and he let her keep one chunk of flesh as payment; her sunken-eyed friend then joined in and tried to outdo her.
• Zhu Qing recognized the women’s motives but let them continue, while Li Si watched from beside the Fish Cart and quietly avoided making trouble.

Qiqi’s first attempt at the vending machine produced the blood-red Cat Fiend, and An Xi killed a survivor who tried to steal it. Zhu Qing gave the sacrificial item to Qiqi and the other woman, who immediately fought over it, while Xingzi healed Lu Guan for a supernatural material.

• Zhu Qing gave Qiqi the leftover junk and walked away as she fed the promised piece of flesh into the vending machine.
• The vending machine produced the Cat Fiend, and a crazed young man charged at Qiqi to take it.
• An Xi killed the young man with the Black Jade Bone Spear and warned the convoy not to break its rules.
• Zhu Qing examined the Cat Fiend, then gave it to the woman with sunken eyes on behalf of her and Qiqi.
• Qiqi and the woman with sunken eyes fought over the Cat Fiend as the survivors stayed back.
• Xingzi healed Lu Guan’s injuries in exchange for one supernatural material, then returned to massaging Chu Sheng.

Xingzi agreed to make medicine with Old Man Li’s crops and set prices for her medical supplies as Captain Hui warned the group about an Anomaly Realm ahead. Old Man Li then revealed his hidden Sequence ability: a plant-growing space inside his pickup, whose powers had been weakened by merging yellow sand into it.

• Xingzi agreed to make enhanced cold medicine from Old Man Li’s Chinese woad and honeysuckle and announced prices for bandages, adrenaline, and future medicine.
• Captain Hui told the group that an Anomaly Realm lay ahead, that Anomalies could enter and leave it, and that they could prepare for three days or turn back while seven or eight Anomalies followed them.
• Captain Hui said his fortune reading predicted a scare without real danger, easing Chu Sheng’s concern about entering the realm.
• Old Man Li sent Xiao Chen to deliver his crops and a pea to Xingzi, then ordered him not to disturb him for five hours.
• Old Man Li revealed that the space in his pickup was his Sequence ability, with powers to accelerate plant growth, keep plants alive, fuse materials, and compress storage.
• Old Man Li found that merging yellow sand had turned the space’s soil sandy and reduced its accelerated maturation from one hundred times to fifty.

Old Man Li harvested and replanted his supernatural crops, discovering that the yellow sand had improved his space’s maturation rate. Outside, Xingzi made reinforced cold medicine while An Xi found that combining her Geng Metal Essence with her Eternal Flame strengthened it, leaving her experimenting inside the vehicle as Xingzi hurried to make more pills.

• Old Man Li harvested his supernatural plants, stored his crops, and kept his six Explosive Chili Pepper Trees as his defensive trump card.
• Old Man Li noticed that the yellow sand had grown thicker and increased his space’s maturation reduction to 51-fold.
• Xingzi combined honeysuckle blossoms and isatis leaves to create reinforced cold medicine, recorded the recipe, and began making more pills.
• An Xi examined Xingzi’s medicine, then returned to the Black-Heart Off-Road Vehicle and experimented with her Eternal Flame.
• An Xi merged Geng Metal Essence into her golden Eternal Flame, making it shine brightly, and concealed the vehicle with the Lesser Thunderclap Temple.
• Xingzi ignored the commotion and rolled pills faster, determined to rescue Brother Chu Sheng from An Xi.

An Xi and Xingzi infused their Eternal Flames with their respective powers, while Chu Sheng used his newly gained Authority of Life to create an AI lifeform inside the Netherworld Light. Youming awakened and began explaining its existence to Chu Sheng.

• An Xi spent her mental energy feeding geng metal essence into the Eternal Flame until it became a sharp, dazzling geng metal fire, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• A Xin found An Xi after the Lesser Thunderclap Temple's concealment vanished, and Xingzi learned from An Xi that the Eternal Flame could absorb other powers.
• Xingzi infused healing light into her Eternal Flame until it turned pure blue and felt full of vitality, though she sensed it would take many more days to fill completely.
• Chu Sheng merged a ball of light created with the Authority of Life into the Netherworld Light, transforming the vehicle and awakening Youming, an AI lifeform devoted to him.
• Youming detected Chu Sheng's confusion about its living instincts and offered to explain.

Chu Sheng discovered that the Netherworld Light had become the intelligent life-form Youming, whose birth greatly improved the vehicle and raised its ranking. As the convoy resumed its journey, its passengers worried about danger, while Sister La trusted her blood-red kitten to protect her.

• Youming explained its origins and abilities to Chu Sheng, who told it to call him Master and learned that it could control the Netherworld Light, transform into a mecha, and use its sacrificial items without cost.
• The Netherworld Light's ranking rose from 1,611th to 1,101st, and Chu Sheng's convoy set off again after resting for three days.
• Captain Hui and the others gathered inside Chu Sheng's vehicle, where Youming introduced itself and startled them by confirming it was driving.
• Wu Meng warned Wu Jie to stop speaking carelessly about Sequence Adepts, while Zhou Dun urged Li Ling and Li Qian to flee if danger struck.
• On a bus, Sister La boasted that her blood-red kitten could handle any danger as it licked the wound of Qiqi, the woman who had fought her for it.

Chu Sheng’s group entered an Anomaly Realm and learned that Mechanical City, a machine-built settlement holding tens of thousands of survivors, was under siege by hundreds of Anomalies. As Netherworld Light approached, Mechanical City’s defenders warned them over the radio to turn back.

• A Xin spotted wooden planks along the road, and Chu Sheng saw a vast mass of black energy ahead that signaled an enormous number of Anomalies.
• Captain Hui divined that a convoy-sized settlement called Mechanical City lay ahead, built and controlled by a Mechanical Sequence Adept and sheltering tens of thousands of survivors.
• Chu Sheng agreed to approach after Captain Hui’s divination, and the group heard gunfire from the city several kilometers away.
• Wang Jianguo and the half-mechanical Xiao Zhan discussed dwindling energy and the need to find an iron mine while their city repelled the Anomalies.
• A Mechanical City scout detected Chu Sheng’s approaching convoy, and a young woman reached him by radio to warn that hundreds of Anomalies remained ahead and urge him to detour.

Chu Sheng’s convoy accepted Wolf King’s guidance toward the Mechanical City, while Wang Jianguo and Xiao Zhan let them approach to judge their character. When Anomalies blocked the route, Chu Sheng transformed the Netherworld Light into the Netherworld Mecha and attacked.

• Chu Sheng pretended to be a self-sacrificing patriot over the radio, and Wolf King guided the convoy toward the Mechanical City with a white arrow.
• Wang Jianguo and Xiao Zhan questioned Chu Sheng’s exaggerated righteousness, but Wang Jianguo ordered Wolf King to guide the convoy into the city so he could assess them.
• Captain Hui explained that Chu Sheng’s words were meant to show the authorities their stance, and Chu Sheng said people who maintained a moral façade were more likely to follow rules.
• Chu Sheng approved Youming’s transformation request, turning the Netherworld Light into a towering Netherworld Mecha.
• The Netherworld Mecha charged the Anomalies, smashed one apart with its spiked crowbar, and pinned and shredded another with the weapon’s spinning spikes.

Chu Sheng and Youming’s Netherworld Mecha advanced through the Anomalies attacking Mechanical City, while the city’s defenders fought off powerful threats and Xiao Zhan destroyed two Sequence Seven Anomalies. When a chicken-type Sequence Seven Anomaly approached the mecha, Chu Sheng ordered Youming and Butcher to kill it, and Butcher charged in.

• Youming’s Netherworld Mecha shredded one Anomaly with its crowbar and blasted another with a laser, while Butcher collected the supernatural materials they dropped.
• Wang Jianguo and Xiao Zhan watched the mecha fight, and Wang Jianguo decided not to pressure its operators into sharing how it was built.
• Two squads of Sequence Adepts struggled to hold off a Golden Armored Zombie and a blood-clothed Anomaly as Mechanical City’s artillery attacked the surrounding Anomalies.
• Xiao Zhan used Mechanical City’s power to destroy the blood-clothed Anomaly and a giant Anomaly with two blasts.
• Captain Hui divined that Mechanical City contained over a hundred Sequence Adepts, then Chu Sheng spotted a chicken-type Sequence Seven Anomaly approaching the mecha.
• Youming requested retreat, but Chu Sheng ordered it to support Butcher, who charged the chicken Anomaly with a cat’s head.

Chu Sheng’s Netherworld Mecha and Butcher overwhelmed the Anomalous Chicken as the Mechanical City’s leaders watched and discussed their dwindling energy. Chu Sheng discovered that convincing Butcher an enemy was an Eerie Cat triggered Butcher’s rampage, leaving him eager to explore how the ability could be developed.

• The Anomalous Chicken attacked Butcher from a distance, but Butcher healed and fought back while Chu Sheng’s Netherworld Mecha struck the chicken with its laser.
• The Netherworld Mecha killed an approaching Sequence 8 anomaly, and Wang Jianguo and Xiao Zhan discussed the convoy’s strength and the Mechanical City’s energy shortage.
• Butcher and the Netherworld Mecha gained the upper hand against the Anomalous Chicken, and Chu Sheng ordered Butcher to kill an Eerie Cat.
• After Chu Sheng repeated the order, Butcher believed the Anomalous Chicken was an Eerie Cat, entered a rampage, and weakened his opponent.
• Chu Sheng explained to An Xi that Butcher’s power responded to his perception, and he considered the ability’s potential for further development.