Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi reunited with Liu Chuan and the Survival Rules Convoy in the Northern Settlement, where he learned his aunt had stayed behind to wait for him. Meanwhile, Elder Zhang’s group discussed the settlement’s plans as a major upheaval approached.

• Elder Zhang brought Lin Yi and his companions to the Survival Rules Convoy’s villa in the Northern Settlement.
• Wang Meng welcomed Lin Yi, who reunited with Liu Chuan, Aru, Wu Yuan, and Xiuxiu and introduced his new companions.
• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi that his aunt had remained upstairs waiting for him, while Wang Mengran had been taken to the Research Area.
• Liu Chuan explained that the Northern Settlement was protected by an anomalous object that had repelled aberrant creatures.
• Elder Zhang told the conference that two powerful outsiders had arrived and the group agreed not to provoke them.
• Elder Zhang warned that the withdrawal of nearby level five aberrations signaled an approaching upheaval, and the group agreed to keep the Northern Settlement as their center.

Lin Yi learned that the Northern Settlement was built with Anomalous Object No. 111, Dream Sandbox, and faced hidden dangers despite its appearance of safety. After Elder Zhang summoned Lin Yi and Blind Cheng to a meeting, they encountered hostility from a military captain in the elevator.

• Liu Chuan explained that seven leaders governed the Northern Settlement, that Dream Sandbox had created it, and that the settlement faced internal strain and three recently departed Level Five Aberration creatures.
• Lin Yi learned that Promotion Potions could only raise people to Sequence Seven and that the settlement allowed people to enter but not leave, prompting Blind Cheng to condemn its leaders.
• Li Han arrived and was relieved to hear that Lin Yi's parents were safe, while Liu Chuan noticed the blood-red rose mark on Lin Yi's hand.
• Lin Yi told Blind Cheng that the Desire Mother Tree's mark worried him more than the settlement's dangers, and Zhang Xu relayed Elder Zhang's request for them to attend a meeting.
• Lin Yi and Blind Cheng met Lin Hai at the elevator and joined a group of military captains, where a burly captain mocked Lin Hai for welcoming the two outsiders.

Lin Yi and Blind Cheng confronted the Northern Settlement’s arrogant captains before meeting its strongest fighter, Lü Xiangyang. Lü challenged Blind Cheng to a spar, and Blind Cheng began overwhelming him without using his Horizontal Saber.

• Li Yao dismissed Lin Yi and Blind Cheng, who criticized the Northern Settlement’s captains for lacking real combat experience.
• Lin Yi revealed that he had killed a Tier One Aberration before awakening, while Blind Cheng said he had hunted a Level Four Aberration at Sequence Seven.
• Lü Xiangyang arrived, praised Lin Yi’s strength, and argued that his [Blade-for-Hire] path made him superior to Blind Cheng.
• Blind Cheng and Lü agreed to spar without their Anomalous Objects, and Blind Cheng planted his Bamboo Cane in the elevator floor.
• Blind Cheng dodged Lü’s attacks and landed a kick, then continued to beat him back as Lü’s sunglasses’ analysis failed to keep up.

Blind Cheng decisively defeated Lü Xiangyang in an unarmed fight, and Lin Yi worried about the damage to Lü Xiangyang’s confidence. After Lin Yi and Blind Cheng reached the Northern Settlement’s conference room, hundreds of Sequence Sevens gathered for an unexplained meeting, where Liu Nian introduced himself to Lin Yi.

• Blind Cheng defeated Lü Xiangyang with a spinning back kick, leaving Lü silent and shaken.
• Blind Cheng said Lü had been too protected and that recovering from the defeat might strengthen him, while Lin Yi worried the settlement would blame their group.
• Lin Yi saw the Northern Settlement researching aberrant creatures and feared its efforts could not prepare humanity for threats like the Desire Mother Tree.
• Lin Yi and Blind Cheng entered a vast conference room, where settlement leaders and residents gathered for a meeting.
• Liu Chuan and Wang Meng joined Lin Yi and Blind Cheng, and Liu Chuan wondered whether the meeting concerned level five aberrant creatures leaving.
• Liu Nian introduced himself to Lin Yi as captain of the New World Convoy.

At a Northern Settlement meeting, Xu Weiguo and Lü Chaoyang confirmed that the aberration world had fully merged with Blue Star and revealed that the sun had changed. When the gray sun appeared in the Dream Sandbox, it entranced the room, but Lin Yi resisted and alerted Lü Xiangyang, who helped stop the display; Elder Zhang then asked Lin Yi to explain what he had seen.

• Lin Yi heard Liu Nian suggest that world phantom fusion was complete and feared that unsealed Old Gods would threaten humanity.
• Xu Weiguo confirmed that the fusion had finished half an hour earlier and that the level five aberrations had left because of it.
• Lü Chaoyang used the Dream Sandbox to show the aberration world's phantom merging with Blue Star, then revealed that the sun was gray as well.
• Lin Yi saw the gray sun as an eerie eyeball and shouted for Lü Chaoyang to return the view to Blue Star while the others stood entranced.
• Lü Xiangyang slapped Lü Chaoyang awake, and Lü Chaoyang removed the gray sun from view, freeing the meeting attendees.
• Elder Zhang asked Lin Yi why he had resisted the sun's influence and what had happened.

After the worlds merged, Lü Chaoyang announced that a gray shadow covered Blue Star, while the gray sun at the meeting affected nearly everyone who saw it. Lin Yi revealed to his companions that an Old God was watching through the sun, leaving them uncertain how to prepare as Liu Nian arrived to discuss the convoys’ plans.

• At the meeting, Lü Chaoyang explained that the worlds had merged and asked everyone to help protect the Northern Settlement, while the gray sun left the attendees shaken.
• Lin Yi returned to Villa No. 12 with Blind Cheng and his companions, secured the rooms, and revealed that the Desire Mother Tree’s mark had snapped him out of his daze.
• Lin Yi explained the Old Gods, the Desire Mother Tree, and his belief that the gray sun was an Old God’s eyeball spying on Blue Star.
• Liu Chuan said his Sequence Seven knowledge contained no records of deities, leaving the group unable to learn more without the costly Book of Answers.
• Liu Nian arrived with five people and asked Liu Chuan what the Survival Rules Convoy planned to do, saying the convoys should share information because they faced the same danger.

Liu Nian warned Lin Yi and Liu Chuan that divination pointed to migration as their only hope, prompting the group to decide whether to leave the Northern Settlement. The chapter ended with some choosing to stay and others preparing to travel onward with Lin Yi.

• Liu Nian told Liu Chuan and Lin Yi that his convoy's Diviner had foretold disaster in the Northern Settlement and a sliver of hope on the road of migration.
• Lin Yi and Liu Chuan recalled Gao Yue Xi's earlier warning and concluded that leaving might be the right choice.
• Blind Cheng and Bai Le chose to leave with Lin Yi, while Zhang Xu decided to stay behind.
• Wu Yuan chose to stay with Xiuxiu, and Liu Chuan decided to remain in the Northern Settlement with Aru.
• Wang Meng chose to join Lin Yi, and Cheng Rong decided to leave while Xiaoxuan and the other girls stayed.

After Liu Chuan handed leadership of the Survival Rules Convoy to Lin Yi, Lin Yi prepared to leave the Northern Settlement with his companions. The elders agreed to let them go and activate the Bunker Plan, while Lin Yi warned them that aberration research could turn people into threats to humanity.

• Liu Chuan gave Lin Yi the anomalous Bus and returned his weapons, urging him to stay alive as they parted.
• Elder Zhang and the other leaders agreed to begin the Bunker Plan and let people leave, though Lü Chaoyang wanted to stop Lin Yi and use him to create a sequence five transcendent.
• Elder Zhang and Xu Weiguo visited Lin Yi as he packed to leave, and Elder Zhang warned him that Lü Chaoyang wanted to keep him in the settlement.
• Lin Yi told Elder Zhang and Xu Weiguo that aberration research had created symbiotes who lost their sanity and preyed on humans, citing Cao Yuan as a level five example.
• Elder Zhang promised to halt the research, and Lin Yi said he and his companions would leave and survive.

Lin Yi’s group left the Northern Settlement aboard Anomalous Object Number 1111 as the merging worlds reshaped the land and brought new dangers. While they rested in a village, other survivors and factions arrived in the new world and began preparing to survive and pursue their own goals.

• Elder Zhang and Xu Weiguo hurried to the laboratory while Lin Yi’s group packed and boarded the anomalous bus Liu Chuan had given him.
• Lin Yi drove through a teleportation passage and sped ahead of the other convoys, then stopped in a silent village so the group could rest overnight.
• The worlds fully merged, multiplying the landscape and causing Anomalous Objects to appear across cities, while the Northern Settlement activated the Bunker Plan and sank underground.
• A red-haired man and a refined young man arrived with their convoy, and the red-haired man vowed to reach sequence zero and end the apocalypse.
• The leader of the Spiritual Cultivation Society ordered his followers to gather supplies and prepare the Godhood Ritual, claiming the Great Omniscient Truth had revealed where hope lay.
• A convoy following the [Tyrant] sequence pathway celebrated surviving and vowed to confront the Eternal Alchemy Church at daybreak.

Lin Yi and his companions awoke to find their village replaced by a transformed wilderness where a giant aberrant creature carried off a mountain. They found a convoy outside a town, where the people’s unfamiliar vehicles and claims of fleeing for a year suggested they might have come from the aberrant world.

• Lin Yi and the others discovered that the village and highway had vanished, leaving a barren landscape with impossibly tall mountains.
• Lin Yi and Bai Le witnessed a giant ape-like aberrant creature uproot a mountain and carry it away, while Blind Cheng confirmed they had not changed locations.
• Lin Yi concluded that Blue Star had undergone a true apocalypse and led the group to seek a convoy for information.
• Lin Yi followed Bai Le’s suggestion to travel east, enhanced the anomalous Bus, and found a town surrounded by a large convoy.
• Exhausted people begged Lin Yi to let them aboard and claimed they had been fleeing for a year, while Wang Meng recognized three people from the White Moonlight Convoy among them.
• Cheng Rong suggested that the unfamiliar convoy members and vehicles might have come from the aberrant world.

Lin Yi questioned Wan Ying, a woman from the Ice Age Convoy, and learned that her world had also been invaded by the world of Aberrations before merging into Blue Star. He decided the convoy was not a threat and planned to travel with it for now as people emerged near the town entrance.

• Lin Yi brought Wan Ying aboard while Wang Meng held back the crowd, then warned her to answer honestly.
• Wan Ying said the Ice Age Convoy was led by Meng Jie, a Sequence Seven [Ice Mage], and described its other Transcendents and new arrivals.
• Wan Ying explained that her world had endured two mergers before this final one, and that factions from the world of Aberrations included the Spiritual Cultivation Society, the Eternal Alchemy Church, the Blade Society, and the Chosen Principality.
• Wan Ying told Lin Yi that she had been running on foot because the convoy vehicles were full and no longer carried people like her.
• Wan Ying said the Spiritual Cultivation Society's leader was a Sequence Three, and that Meng Jie maintained contact with another convoy leader using a wondrous item.
• Lin Yi saw people carrying supplies emerge near the town entrance and said they would assess the situation before traveling with the Ice Age Convoy if possible.

Lin Yi and the anomalous object Bus traveled with Meng Jie’s Convoy, which fled a pack of aberration creatures after leaving a town. The Convoy stopped to rest, and Wan Ying discovered how abundant and casually used the bus’s food and water supplies were.

• Meng Jie and the others joined the Convoy’s departure, while people without vehicles were left to follow on foot.
• A pack of purple, goat-headed aberration creatures chased the Convoy out of the town, and a motorcyclist turned back to fight them alone.
• Blind Cheng sensed that the motorcyclist was killing the aberration creatures quickly and judged him to be unusually powerful.
• The Convoy stopped on a broken highway, where Meng Jie learned that many people still had not caught up and would have to be abandoned.
• Lin Yi told everyone to prepare food and stay on the bus, while Wan Ying watched them use clean mineral water for instant noodles.
• Cheng Rong led Wan Ying to wash at the All-Purpose Faucet, leaving her astonished by the bus’s plentiful water.

Wan Ying ate a nourishing meal aboard the Anomalous Object Bus while the Ice Age Convoy learned that the vehicle belonged to the powerful Survival Rules Convoy. Meng Jie considered approaching them to trade, but Wang Xiaoqi warned that ordinary supplies would not be enough.

• Wan Ying tearfully devoured the noodles Cheng Rong served her, while Blind Cheng urged her to eat and the food’s aroma drew hungry onlookers outside the Bus.
• Meng Jie and the woman counting heads discussed whether to approach the Bus, and Meng Jie chose to learn more before anyone acted.
• Meng Jie questioned Wang Xiaoqi, who identified the Bus as belonging to the Survival Rules Convoy and said it had a Sequence Seven and ties to someone at sequence six.
• Wang Xiaoqi explained that the Survival Rules Convoy ranked first and had helped over ten thousand people reach the Northern Settlement.
• Wang Xiaoqi advised Meng Jie that he might speak with the convoy as a Sequence Seven and suggested offering Anomalous Objects or wondrous item materials for a trade.

Lin Yi welcomed Meng Jie and Guo Hui aboard the Survival Rules Convoy’s Bus and traded food and clean water for information and a Curio. The conversation revealed that direction-finding had failed, the [Data] Sequence was controlled by someone, and Curio rankings had shifted; the chapter ended with news that someone had suddenly died.

• Meng Jie brought Guo Hui to negotiate with Lin Yi, who invited them to eat and asked about the North, technology, and Curios.
• Meng Jie explained that navigation methods had failed, staring at the sun caused contamination, and technological progress had stalled.
• Meng Jie said the [Data] Sequence was under someone’s control and offered a top-ten-thousand Curio in exchange for food and clean water.
• Lin Yi agreed to give Meng Jie one case of instant noodles and ten liters of water for the Curio.
• Blind Cheng complained that his blade had fallen to rank 511, while Cheng Rong said her Curio’s ranking had improved.
• Someone outside announced that a person had suddenly died and called for Captain Meng.

An invisible presence killed Convoy members by making them see a terrifying woman, though Old Zhang could not sense any Aberration. After the Convoy fled and more people died, Lin Yi kept everyone aboard the Bus and discovered its [Enhancement] had added a new trait, hinting at the Sequence’s growing power.

• Meng Jie and Lin Yi investigated several Convoy members who had died of fright after seeing a beautiful woman that nobody else could see.
• A man described the woman turning into a monster before dying, and Lin Yi ordered the Convoy to leave the area.
• After the Convoy drove for about an hour and a half, another person died, so Lin Yi told everyone to stay aboard the Bus.
• Lin Yi revealed that the Bus’s +1 enhancement had granted it [Temperature Sensing] and raised its ranking from 4,898 to 4,157.
• Lin Yi realized that [Enhancement] might grant Curios new traits and began to recognize the Sequence’s potential.

Lin Yi enhanced all his Curios after discovering that enhancement times now matched their levels, then focused on the Convoy’s mysterious deaths. Old Zhang and Ren Zhu manipulated frightened passengers into surrounding Lin Yi’s Bus, while the Dread Woman continued hunting nearby.

• Lin Yi enhanced every Curio he owned and found that each enhancement now took a number of days matching its level, then planned to enhance the Bus.
• Old Zhang suggested that the killings might be caused by a Curio, while Meng Jie and Guo Hui suspected Old Zhang was hiding information and acting with Ren Zhu.
• As the invisible female Aberration kept killing passengers, Old Zhang urged them to blame Lin Yi’s group, and dozens of people surrounded the Bus.
• Old Zhang told Ren Zhu over a communicator that their plan was working and expected the mob to leave Lin Yi’s supplies exposed.
• Old Zhang said the level-four Dread Woman was near Meng Jie and expected the crowd to overturn the Bus, allowing him and Ren Zhu to take the supplies and escape.

Lin Yi and his group faced a mob after Old Zhang convinced the Convoy they were responsible for the Aberration Creature’s deaths. Old Zhang tried to use the accusation to force an inspection of their supplies, but Lin Yi shot him, leaving Meng Jie to respond.

• A crowd surrounded Lin Yi’s Bus and accused his group of killing people, but Meng Jie stopped them and declared that the Dread Woman was responsible.
• Old Zhang denied framing Lin Yi’s group, while Meng Jie warned the Convoy that anyone marked by the Aberration Creature would have to escape on their own.
• Wang Meng attacked Old Zhang, but Ren Zhu intervened, prompting Meng Jie to question Ren Zhu’s strength and whether he had helped conceal the creature.
• Old Zhang urged the Convoy to inspect Lin Yi’s supplies, hoping the crowd would seize them, but Lin Yi shot him from the Bus.
• Lin Yi admitted killing Old Zhang and offered Meng Jie a pack of instant noodles in exchange for his life.

After Lin Yi killed Old Zhang for trying to incite trouble, the convoy turned its attention to the Aberration Creature hunting its members. Cheng Rong used the [Book of Answers] to identify it as a Dread Woman, and the chapter left Lin Yi discovering that several of his companions feared him.

• Lin Yi shot and killed Old Zhang, and Meng Jie accepted the death as Old Zhang's own fault while Ren Zhu denied knowing about the concealed Aberration Creature.
• Meng Jie and Guo Hui told Ren Zhu that an Aberration Creature was hiding in the convoy, while Lin Yi and his companions discussed their supplies and the danger it posed.
• Lin Yi suggested asking Cheng Rong's [Book of Answers] about the creature, and Cheng Rong identified it as a level four Dread Woman that marked men and killed them by transforming into what they feared.
• Lin Yi explained that fear strengthened the Dread Woman and considered how it might exploit his connection to the Desire Mother Tree.
• Blind Cheng, Cheng Rong, Bai Le, and Wang Meng each described what they feared, and Wan Ying finally stared at Lin Yi as she named her own fear.

Lin Yi traded supplies for the Dream Snow House Snow Globe and left a village after its Giant Willow Tree Aberration attacked the convoy. The convoy escaped, but the Dread Woman still threatened its members, and Blind Cheng warned that fear would keep getting them killed.

• Wan Ying feared Lin Yi might abandon her, while Bai Le, Blind Cheng, and Cheng Rong admitted they had once feared him, prompting Lin Yi to withhold drinks for three days.
• Meng Jie led the convoy to a village to seek supplies, where Lin Yi recognized a towering willow tree as an Aberration Creature.
• Guo Hui traded Meng Jie's Dream Snow House Snow Globe to Lin Yi for instant noodles and clean water.
• The Giant Willow Tree killed villagers by wrapping them in its branches, and Lin Yi refused to enter the village for supplies.
• Meng Jie and the others fled as willow branches pursued them, and Lin Yi accelerated the convoy out of danger.
• Blind Cheng warned that the Level Four Dread Woman would continue killing the convoy's people if they stayed afraid.

Lin Yi warned Meng Jie that a Dread Woman was hiding in the convoy and feeding on fear, while he and his companions suspected the motorcycle rider had brought her and was targeting their Bus. After Meng Jie introduced the rider as He Butan, Lin Yi borrowed his Presence Dilution ability and realized He Butan’s power did not match his stated [Daoist] Sequence.

• Meng Jie traded flour for Lin Yi’s information that the convoy’s killer was a Level Four Dread Woman that grew stronger by consuming fear.
• Meng Jie and Ren Zhu warned the convoy that fear enabled the Aberration to kill, then tried to recruit the motorcycle rider.
• Lin Yi, Cheng Rong, and Blind Cheng suspected the rider had worked with Old Zhang, brought Dread Woman to the convoy, and wanted the Bus.
• Meng Jie introduced the rider as He Butan, a Sequence Eight [Talisman Master] of the [Daoist] Sequence, and He Butan reacted to the mark on Lin Yi’s hand.
• Lin Yi borrowed He Butan’s Presence Dilution ability and suspected He Butan’s actual Sequence Pathway was concealed.