Chapter Summaries

Zhang Kuang told Qin Siyang that the apocalypse affected celestial bodies beyond Earth and that a first batch of people awakened sequence abilities on the day it began, secretly preparing to control the Safe Zone. He named Gu Weiyang, Qi Tian, Zhu Haifeng, and Zhong Dingming as possible members of that first batch.

• Zhang Kuang revealed that the apocalypse had affected other celestial bodies as well as Earth.
• Zhang Kuang said some people awakened sequence abilities on January 1, 2000, and later controlled the Safe Zone through their preparations.
• Zhang Kuang told Qin Siyang that the first publicly known sequence ability user had altered memories and later disappeared, likely killed to silence him.
• Zhang Kuang cited the rapid emergence of powerful factions and institutions after the 2005 awakenings as evidence that they had planned ahead.
• Zhang Kuang said Old Li and other familiar figures belonged to the second batch, then identified Gu Weiyang, Qi Tian, Zhu Haifeng, and Zhong Dingming as possible first-batch awakeners.

Qin Siyang discussed the Apocalypse and sequence abilities with Zhang Kuang, who urged him to trust his unique perspective and keep their conversation secret. After returning to the Guesthouse, Qin Siyang found an unknown woman who had claimed to be his girlfriend, surrounded by his friends.

• Qin Siyang decided Zhong Dingming was the most approachable person to investigate and admitted he wanted to settle their grudge and possibly help Old Li.
• Zhang Kuang revealed that Old Li knew the truth about the day the Apocalypse began through his sequence ability, but refused to explain further.
• Zhang Kuang told Qin Siyang that his unaltered, logically consistent memories made him exceptional and could help him change the Apocalypse.
• Qin Siyang left the Miracle Building and headed for the Guesthouse, intending to think over Zhang Kuang's words and ask Li Tianming about his sequence.
• Zhao Sifang told Qin Siyang that a woman claiming to be his girlfriend had collapsed outside the Guesthouse, and he carried her to the Tenth Floor lounge.
• Qin Siyang found the woman surrounded by Chu Baxing, Hu Chan, Gu Yunpeng, Zhao Sifang, Wen Shu, Gu Yunxuan, and Sally, and said he did not know her.

Qin Siyang proved that Qiu Yu was not his girlfriend, and the group discovered she was pretending not to recognize them. Chu Baxing attacked her, while Fu Wanli was left confused by the others’ accusations and apparent willingness to kill her.

• Qin Siyang used the Bird-Shaped Lie Detector to prove he did not know the unconscious girl, and the other outstanding freshmen cleared themselves too.
• Qiu Yu woke up and claimed she was a Southern Glory freshman looking for her boyfriend, but Qin Siyang questioned her with the lie detector.
• Fu Wanli arrived and introduced Qiu Yu as his girlfriend, prompting Hu Chan to point out that she had described her boyfriend as an outstanding student.
• Chu Baxing suddenly cut off Qiu Yu’s arms, and the others explained that she had falsely acted as if she did not recognize them.
• Zhao Sifang suggested killing Qiu Yu and reading her memories, leaving Fu Wanli shocked.

Qin Siyang and the others exposed Qiu Yu as a Reincarnation Church mole, but she died before she could reveal much. Qin Siyang arranged to trace the person she contacted, while Fu Wanli left uncertain whether he had been the Church’s target.

• Qiu Yu admitted she belonged to the Reincarnation Church and offered to lure out her superior in exchange for her life.
• Qiu Yu claimed she was staying at the Guesthouse with Fu Wanli, but the Lie Detector exposed her lie, and her contact hung up.
• Qiu Yu suddenly died, and Zhao Sifang placed her body in the Storage Box so Qin Siyang could check her memories.
• Qin Siyang revealed he had asked Zhao Longfei to trace Qiu Yu’s phone and locate the person who answered.
• Fu Wanli wondered if the Reincarnation Church had targeted him, and Qin Siyang sent him away to rest.
• Qin Siyang told Zhao Sifang that Fu Wanli’s presence had helped Qiu Yu approach them and exposed the Church’s plans.

After Qiu Yu’s death, Wen Shu took the shaken Gu Yunxuan back to Nine Dragons College while Qin Siyang agreed to go hunting gods with Hu Chan. Chu Baxing asked to join, and Qin Siyang used their private conversation to seek the Chu Character Legion’s help building a camp for ten thousand troops.

• Wen Shu led Gu Yunxuan out of the hall after Zhao Sifang called her his sister-in-law and offered to look after her.
• Hu Chan asked Qin Siyang to hunt gods Outside the Safe Zone so he could gather offerings and advance to the path of the believer.
• Qin Siyang agreed to hunt medium gods while Hu Chan hunted small gods, and Chu Baxing asked to accompany them.
• Chu Baxing reasoned that Qin Siyang and Hu Chan were hunting far beyond the safe zone for rare offerings, and Hu Chan demanded something in return for taking him.
• Qin Siyang privately asked Chu Baxing to arrange combat engineers and funding for a military camp for ten thousand people, so Chu Baxing went to consult Commander Chu.

Qin Siyang brought Chu Baxing, Gu Yunpeng, Zhao Sifang, and Hu Chan outside the Safe Zone in the Drill Pod after securing Chu Baxing’s agreement to build a Military Camp. The group learned that Qin Siyang routinely traveled far beyond the Safe Zone to hunt gods.

• Chu Xiaoang agreed to build a Military Camp to Qin Siyang’s specifications after deciding that Qin Siyang had become too influential to slight.
• Chu Baxing agreed to Qin Siyang’s terms, and Qin Siyang said all five of them would travel together in the Drill Pod.
• Qin Siyang let Zhao Sifang and Gu Yunpeng join without payment because of his ties to the Zhao Family and gratitude for Gu Yunpeng’s help.
• Qin Siyang warned Chu Baxing not to cause trouble in the Miracle Building, then took the group to the Drill Pod.
• Chu Baxing claimed the front passenger seat from Hu Chan, and Qin Siyang drove them underground toward a hunting site fifty kilometers away.
• Hu Chan revealed that Qin Siyang usually traveled more than a hundred kilometers beyond the Safe Zone, astonishing Chu Baxing, Zhao Sifang, and Gu Yunpeng.

During the Drill Pod journey, Hu Chan revealed that Qin Siyang had traveled more than two hundred kilometers beyond the Safe Zone on foot, prompting the others to speculate about Qin’s believer path. As their conversation turned to sharing insights, Qin Siyang kept thinking about Zhang Kuang’s research into the Apocalypse’s arrival and wondered whether telling him about the Origin Sequence might help solve the mystery.

• Hu Chan told Gu Yunpeng, Zhao Sifang, and Chu Baxing that Qin Siyang had traveled more than two hundred kilometers beyond the Safe Zone on foot, and Qin confirmed it.
• Gu Yunpeng and Chu Baxing speculated that Qin’s believer path was at least [Dawn Rank], while Hu Chan reasoned that Qin was hiding a still more valuable rank.
• Qin Siyang reflected that Hu Chan had inferred his secret from his reluctance to discuss it and resolved to keep the [Origin Sequence] undiscovered.
• Chu Baxing, Gu Yunpeng, Zhao Sifang, and Hu Chan exchanged insights about offerings for the path of the believer, strengthening their relationships during the ride.
• Qin Siyang reconsidered Zhang Kuang’s investigation into the Apocalypse’s arrival and wondered whether revealing the Origin Sequence could help explain it.

Qin Siyang took his group deep beyond the Safe Zone to hunt Gods, leaving Hu Chan to investigate a Small God nest while he prepared to fight a Shadow-Splitting Giant Python and a Blazing Light Bird. After learning how formidable the pair were, Qin Siyang eagerly focused on the python’s ability to create nine durable shadow bodies.

• Hu Chan located a concentration of Small Gods and three isolated Gods, and Qin Siyang dropped him near the Small Gods before heading toward two likely Medium Gods.
• Qin Siyang and Hu Chan argued over who had been responsible for their previous encounter with the Nightmare Lantern Tree, while Chu Baxing, Gu Yunpeng, and Zhao Sifang realized they had survived fighting a Large God.
• Qin Siyang brought the Drill Pod to the two Gods, which Gu Yunpeng identified as a Shadow-Splitting Giant Python and a Blazing Light Bird.
• Zhao Sifang described the Medium Gods’ dangerous abilities, and Chu Baxing warned Qin Siyang that his status as a level-six Believer would make fighting them harder.
• Qin Siyang left the others in the Drill Pod and studied the python’s abilities with Chang Tianxiang’s God-analysis tool.
• Qin Siyang learned the python could create nine durable shadow bodies and declared that he wanted its skill.

Qin Siyang attacked the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python first, using Feast Kingdom to evade its strikes and pummel its head until he killed its true body. With the python defeated, he turned his attention to the Blazing Light Bird.

• Qin Siyang activated two layers of Origin Violence and charged the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python, then used Feast Kingdom to dodge its sweeping tail and land on its head.
• Qin Siyang cracked the python’s forehead scale with repeated punches, exposing the flesh beneath it.
• The Shadow-Splitting Giant Python split into nine identical bodies, but Qin Siyang kept striking their damaged heads until he found and killed the real one.
• The seven remaining copies vanished, and Qin Siyang looked up at the Blazing Light Bird and prepared to attack it.

Qin Siyang fought the Blazing Light Bird after killing the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python. He endured its attacks until its light arrows weakened it, then broke its wing and killed it with a final blow.

• Qin Siyang left the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python’s corpse and pursued the Blazing Light Bird.
• The Blazing Light Bird teleported around Qin Siyang and attacked him with golden flames, which left corrosive liquid on impact.
• Qin Siyang stopped dodging and used the Heaven-Splitting Halberd to withstand the bird’s volleys of golden light arrows.
• Qin Siyang realized the arrows drained the Blazing Light Bird’s strength and slowed its teleportation.
• Qin Siyang caught the weakened bird, snapped its wing with a punch, and killed it by driving it into the ground.

After killing the Blazing Light Bird and Shadow-Splitting Giant Python, Qin Siyang discovered that his new shadow-splitting skill was limited by the medium god's power ceiling. He rejoined his companions and continued toward the next god-hunting location, leaving them amazed by his strength.

• Qin Siyang absorbed the Blazing Light Bird's ability and found that Shadow Body Splitting let him create only two shadow bodies lasting twelve hours.
• Qin Siyang reasoned that medium god skills had a power ceiling, accepted the limitation, and worried that his Armor had been corroded.
• Qin Siyang returned to the Drill Pod and told Chu Baxing, Gu Yunpeng, and Zhao Sifang that he had already killed both powerful medium gods.
• Qin Siyang and the others waited for Hu Chan, who returned after killing Abyss Hounds and cleaning up the battlefield.
• Hu Chan and the others questioned how Qin Siyang could defeat powerful gods so quickly despite his Dawn Rank path, and Qin Siyang drove toward the next hunting location without explaining.

Qin Siyang took Hu Chan and the others hunting gods, then helped Hu Chan exchange disc carapace for Sequence Potions and money without revealing the Drill Pod. After returning to Nanrong University, the group praised Qin Siyang to their families, while Qin Siyang went to Lu Daoxing's laboratory.

• Qin Siyang led the group to hunt gods and bagged three ordinary medium gods, while Hu Chan found no rare prey.
• Zhao Sifang explained that hunters could exchange disc carapace for school points or turn it in at Safe Zone exits for Sequence Potions and money, and Hu Chan chose the latter.
• Qin Siyang used a Zhao Family warehouse and disguises to bring Hu Chan outside and back through Exit 123 without drawing attention to the Drill Pod.
• Qin Siyang and Hu Chan each turned in dozens of pieces of medium-god disc carapace, earning over three thousand bottles of Sequence Potion, three Gold Coins, and several hundred Silver Coins for Qin Siyang.
• The group returned to Nanrong University, where each member called someone to praise Qin Siyang, and Qin Siyang knocked on Lu Daoxing's laboratory door.

Qin Siyang returned to the Miracle Building to replace his ruined Tier Four Armor and offered God Remains to Professor Lu and Professor Big Chang. After delivering the materials, he left Chang Tianxiang alone with his grief over Chang Tianxiong’s disappearance.

• Qin Siyang showed Lu Daoxing his corroded Tier Four Armor and asked for another set, explaining that he had damaged it while fighting Gods.
• Qin Siyang offered the remains of a Shadow-Splitting Giant Python and a Blazing Light Bird, and Lu Daoxing gave him replacement Armor and requested a share of the materials.
• Lu Daoxing told Qin Siyang that Chang Tianxiong had been missing for so long that he likely had died outside the safe zone, and warned him not to mention it to Chang Tianxiang.
• Qin Siyang delivered the remaining God Remains to Chang Tianxiang, who remembered that Chang Tianxiong had needed the same materials.
• Qin Siyang asked whether Chang Tianxiang’s family needed help, then left him sitting alone in his cluttered laboratory.

After earning points for his recent work, Qin Siyang decided not to chase the rankings and prepared for Professor Lister’s course on sequence abilities. Lister explained how sequence advancement worked and ended by revealing that level six brought no further increase in physical strength.

• Qin Siyang saw that his God-Hunting Points had risen by seventy thousand and decided to earn points only as a side benefit.
• Zhao Longfei told Qin Siyang that Qiu Yu’s body had been recovered and her superior captured.
• Qin Siyang attended Lister’s course, where Lister laid out strict class rules and said there was no confirmed way to ensure an ordinary person awakened a sequence ability.
• Lister explained the rewards for advancing sequence levels and described how physical strength increased through level five.
• Lister stated that advancing from level five to level six brought no increase in physical strength.

Lister taught the freshmen how sequence advancement affected physical strength and surveyed the strength of the [Phantom Assassin] students. After class, Hu Chan revealed his new point lead over Chu Baxing, while Principal Zhao Longfei worried about getting the powerful freshmen to take university missions.

• Lister explained that sequence level six did not immediately increase physical strength, though strength grew faster along the Path of the Believer, and he taught the freshmen about sequence rewards.
• Lister's survey showed that [Phantom Assassins] made up over sixty percent of the top fifty and all but Sally among the top ten.
• After class, Chu Baxing said he would keep eating in the cafeteria until he no longer had to give up his seat, while Fu Wanli objected.
• Hu Chan asked Qin Siyang to move away, displayed his blue Points Badge, and challenged Chu Baxing after claiming a new point lead from the disc carapace inspection.
• Zhao Longfei complained that the talented freshmen avoided university missions and resolved to find a way to make them take some.

Qin Siyang explained Nanrong University’s funding crisis and persuaded his friends to complete university missions. The group then attended combat skills class, where Duan Chongfang announced ranking matches.

• Qin Siyang told Qin Siyang’s friends that Nanrong University was short on funds and Professor Lister had stopped receiving his salary.
• Qin Siyang persuaded the group to help Nanrong by completing university missions, and they agreed.
• Qin Siyang and the others went to the Combat Building for class, taught by Duan Chongfang with assistants Ban Dingyuan and Shi Tao.
• Duan Chongfang announced that the freshmen would begin ranking matches in five minutes.

Qin Siyang and four other top freshmen initially left rather than join Duan Chongfang’s ranking tournament, but returned after he offered a chance to spar with Shi Tao and a direct place in the finals. Once the tournament began, the five left the Combat Building again to pursue their own plans.

• Fu Wanli eagerly embraced the ranking tournament, while Qin Siyang left because he saw little benefit in competing and Hu Chan followed him to hunt outside the Safe Zone.
• Chu Baxing called Chu Xiaoang to move ahead with building a Military Camp for Qin Siyang, while Gu Yunpeng and Zhao Sifang left to work on their plan.
• Duan Chongfang offered the top five a chance to spar with Shi Tao and let them skip the preliminary stage, persuading Qin Siyang and the others to return.
• Duan Chongfang explained the challenge rules and started the tournament as the freshmen crowded around Shi Tao to choose opponents.
• Qin Siyang, Chu Baxing, Hu Chan, Gu Yunpeng, and Zhao Sifang left again, planning to return after six hours, and Duan Chongfang watched them go in disbelief.

Fu Wanli returned to the Combat Building after securing first place in the preliminaries by defeating more than twenty challengers, including many who had falsely claimed to be [Phantom Assassins]. Duan Chongfang announced the finals rules, leaving the preliminary top five with only a conditional chance to challenge Nanrong University's five highest-scoring freshmen.

• Fu Wanli told Qin Siyang and the others that he had fought over twenty consecutive matches and held on to first place using [A Hair's Breadth from Death] and his tier-two God-Hunting Artifact.
• Fu Wanli complained that most of his challengers had lied about their Sequences, while Qin Siyang and the others awkwardly concealed that they had done the same.
• Duan Chongfang announced that Fu Wanli, Sally Warren, Liu Changsheng, Alimon, and Kuai He were the preliminary top five.
• Duan Chongfang ruled that Fu Wanli would challenge Zhao Sifang, Gu Yunpeng, Chu Baxing, Hu Chan, and Qin Siyang first, and the others could challenge only opponents Fu Wanli defeated.
• After a freshman protested, Duan Chongfang said the top five earned privileges because they had more points.

Fu Wanli lost to Zhao Sifang, who admitted he had lied about being a [Phantom Assassin], and the freshmen settled their ranking challenges. Chu Baxing and Hu Chan fought under the tournament rules, and Chu Baxing emerged claiming he was Second Brother again.

• Fu Wanli drank Chu Baxing's potion, but Zhao Sifang defeated him 30-0 in the Combat Arena.
• Fu Wanli confronted Zhao Sifang about lying about his class, and Qin Siyang, Hu Chan, Chu Baxing, and Gu Yunpeng backed Fu Wanli until Zhao Sifang apologized.
• Zhao Sifang and Gu Yunpeng forfeited their challenges and accepted fifth and fourth place, while Chu Baxing challenged Hu Chan to a fight without Armor.
• Qin Siyang kicked Chu Baxing and Hu Chan back and ordered them to follow the usual first-to-30 rules.
• Chu Baxing and Hu Chan emerged from the Combat Arena bloody and wounded, and Chu Baxing told Fu Wanli that he was Second Brother again.

After the freshman rankings ended, the top five sparred with teaching assistant Shi Tao, whose assessment revealed their unusual combat experience and Qin Siyang’s hidden strength. Shi Tao lost to Qin Siyang and concluded that, unlike Chu Baxing and Hu Chan, Qin Siyang enjoyed fighting.

• Chu Baxing declined to challenge Qin Siyang, finalizing the freshman rankings with Chu Baxing in second place.
• Shi Tao guided Zhao Sifang and Gu Yunpeng in the Combat Arena, and both thanked him afterward.
• Hu Chan told Chu Baxing he had scored seven against Shi Tao, and Chu Baxing later said he had scored nine.
• Shi Tao told Duan Chongfang and Ban Dingyuan that Chu Baxing and Hu Chan fought with lethal skill and carried the killing intent of experienced killers.
• Shi Tao admitted he had lost to Qin Siyang and suggested that Qin Siyang had already embarked on the Path of the Believer.
• Shi Tao said Qin Siyang was different from Chu Baxing and Hu Chan because he enjoyed fighting.