Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi discovered that He Butan had multiple Sequence Pathways, including the dangerous [Monster] Sequence, and suspected he had joined the Ice Age Convoy for a hidden purpose. He Butan’s three voices disagreed over whether to leave, but the gentlest one wanted to approach Lin Yi, who bore the Desire Mother Tree’s mark.

• Lin Yi tested He Butan’s ability, grew suspicious, and inspected his ordinary motorcycle before returning to the Bus with a jin of flour.
• Blind Cheng confirmed that He Butan’s “Presence Dilution” ability did not belong to the [Daoist] pathway, and Cheng Rong used the [Book of Answers] to identify it as Sequence Six of the [Monster] pathway, [Inhuman Walker].
• Lin Yi concluded that He Butan had at least two pathways and might be hiding another, while the group wondered why he had joined the convoy and sent Dread Woman to attack people.
• In his tent, He Butan’s three voices argued about the attacks, Dread Woman’s imminent advancement, and whether they should leave the convoy.
• The gentle voice revealed that Lin Yi bore the Desire Mother Tree’s mark and said it wanted to get to know him, while the other voices urged caution or immediate departure.

Lin Yi’s convoy prepared to trade with the approaching Forest Convoy, while Bai Le and Cheng Rong asked him to look for Awakening Potions so they could become Transcendents. During a supply search in a small town, Lin Yi killed a Painted Skin, but more Painted Skins attacked the townspeople as the chapter ended.

• Meng Jie told Lin Yi that the Forest Convoy would likely meet them that day and that its supplies could be traded.
• Bai Le and Cheng Rong asked Lin Yi to look for Awakening Potions so they could become sequence Transcendents, and Lin Yi agreed.
• Meng Jie led the convoy to a small town where its members searched for supplies and fuel.
• Lin Yi entered a pharmacy, stored its shelving units in his Rolex, and killed a Tier Two Painted Skin that grabbed his wrist.
• Painted Skins attacked people across the town, and several victims were possessed and transformed into sheets of skin.

Lin Yi slaughtered Painted Skins while gathering supplies, then warned the Ice Age Convoy about a Level Four Painted Skin and used his strength to deter He Butan. The convoy reached the Forest Convoy’s protected trading ground, where Lin Yi and his companions began browsing the stalls.

• Lin Yi charged into the Painted Skins, killed several—including a Tier Three Painted Skin—and shocked Meng Jie, Ren Zhu, He Butan, and the others with his strength.
• Lin Yi fled back to the gas station, warned the group that a Level Four Painted Skin was coming, and led the convoy out of town.
• Lin Yi told Blind Cheng that he had drawn the Painted Skins’ nest while collecting only two Curio materials, and explained that his display was meant to warn He Butan.
• The Ice Age Convoy traveled to the Forest Convoy’s glass-dome shelter, where Meng Jie greeted its captain, Yu Wanhai.
• Lin Yi stayed with his group while Meng Jie and Guo Hui went to discuss matters, then took Wan Ying, Cheng Rong, and Bai Le to browse the trading stalls.
• Cheng Rong paused at a woman’s stall, and the woman offered her unexpired cosmetics and face masks for a liter of clean water or other supplies.

Lin Yi and his companions browsed the Forest Convoy’s stalls, negotiating for potions and inspecting Curios and materials. He agreed to buy one Promotion Potion and two Awakening Potions, then tried to bargain for a level-five Floating Elephant bone.

• Lin Yi agreed to buy the cosmetics Cheng Rong wanted, while a Forest Convoy Transcendent enforced the convoy’s supply rules with the seller.
• A Sequence Seven Soul Potion Adept offered an Awakening Potion and a Promotion Potion; Lin Yi accepted her prices for one Promotion Potion and two Awakening Potions, paying with Curios and drinking water.
• Lin Yi examined an Artificer’s Curios, found them useless, and moved on without buying anything.
• A stall owner showed Lin Yi a three-meter bone from a level-five Floating Elephant and demanded three Curios numbered below ten thousand plus ten liters of water.
• Lin Yi counteroffered two Curios numbered below ten thousand and ten liters of water for the bone.

Lin Yi completed trades with Liu Qian and Ouyang Kui, then gave Curios and potions to his companions and revealed that he was a Dual-Sequence Transcendent. Meanwhile, Meng Jie warned Yu Wanhai about the dangerous dead city ahead and told him the Ice Age Convoy included powerful people traveling in a Curio Vehicle.

• Lin Yi traded a speed-enhancing pair of sneakers and water to Liu Qian, and gave Ouyang Kui two storage Curios in exchange for Curio materials.
• Lin Yi gave Awakening Potions to Bai Le and Cheng Rong, a Promotion Potion to Wang Meng, and a storage watch to Blind Cheng.
• Lin Yi told his companions that he was a Dual-Sequence Transcendent and asked them to keep his other sequence secret.
• Yu Wanhai warned Meng Jie that a dead city lay ahead and contained troublesome aberration creatures.
• Meng Jie told Yu Wanhai that the Ice Age Convoy had a Curio Vehicle and two sequence six experts, and warned him not to make trouble with them.

After reuniting with the Forest Convoy, Lin Yi’s group set out again and reached the city where the Survival Rules Convoy had nearly been wiped out. Lin Yi warned everyone away, but another convoy stirred the zombies, forcing both groups to flee as a massive swarm emerged.

• The two convoys shared a celebratory meal, and Lin Yi’s group spent the evening eating, drinking, and socializing inside the Bus.
• The next morning, the Ice Age Convoy departed after Yu Wanhai warned them not to enter the city ahead.
• Lin Yi recognized the city where a zombie tide had nearly destroyed the Survival Rules Convoy and warned Meng Jie that more than a million zombies had once chased them there.
• Meng Jie agreed to skirt the city, but the zombies roared and poured out after another convoy disturbed them.
• Lin Yi and Meng Jie led the Ice Age Convoy in a desperate escape, while the convoy fleeing the city chased after them and begged for help.

Lin Yi and the Ice Age Convoy escaped a zombie tide after Blind Cheng split apart the convoy that had drawn it toward them. After stopping to rest, the survivors recalled the losses that had shaped Lin Yi and the original Survival Rules Convoy, while Lin Yi reflected on Jiang Ya.

• Lin Yi woke Blind Cheng and sent him onto the Bus’s roof to attack the convoy leading the zombie tide toward them.
• Blind Cheng unleashed a forty-meter saber slash that split several vehicles, and the zombies engulfed the remaining convoy instead of pursuing the Ice Age Convoy.
• Meng Jie praised Lin Yi’s group after the convoy escaped, and Lin Yi warned him that they would have to escape on their own if this happened again.
• Lin Yi recalled Jiang Ya and wondered whether the changing terrain meant he could no longer find her body.
• Wang Meng told Blind Cheng, Bai Le, and Cheng Rong how the earlier zombie tide killed Jiang Ya, Wang Xiaolong, Ji Qingcang, and Shen Qingqing, and changed the surviving members of the Survival Rules Convoy.
• Wang Meng reassured Cheng Rong that Lin Yi would recover, explaining that Lin Yi wanted the people who followed him to survive.

Lin Yi and the Convoy’s Transcendents discussed their abilities and prepared to cultivate new crops before the Zombie King caught up and attacked. The Zombie King proved to be a level five aberration, and the chapter left Lin Yi and Blind Cheng charging at it while Meng Jie held it frozen in ice.

• Wang Meng described his [Earth Walker] ability, Bai Le revealed his [Mechanic] pathway, and Cheng Rong explained her [Planter] ability.
• Lin Yi gave Cheng Rong seeds developed by the Northern Settlement and told Bai Le to find materials to make a Culture Dish.
• The Zombie King arrived without the zombie tide and charged into the Convoy, killing Ren Zhu and Guo Hui along with other people.
• Blind Cheng restrained the Zombie King with Iron Chains while Meng Jie, Lin Yi, and Blind Cheng attacked; Lin Yi and Blind Cheng wounded it, but it healed by absorbing blood.
• Wang Meng struck the Zombie King with a car, and Meng Jie froze it; Lin Yi and Blind Cheng charged in to attack again.

Lin Yi and his companions killed the Zombie King after it slaughtered the Ice Age Convoy, but the battle left Blind Cheng exhausted and Wan Ying as the convoy’s apparent sole survivor. They fled the area and stopped at noon to rest, with food and supplies still running low.

• The Zombie King broke free of the Void Chains, killed everyone in the Ice Age Convoy except Meng Jie and He Butan, and healed by absorbing their blood.
• Meng Jie used his last-resort Curio to twist himself and the Zombie King into flesh cubes, but He Butan seized the fallen Curio and escaped on his Motorcycle.
• Blind Cheng used his Heaven-Splitting Draw to tear the Zombie King into pieces, and Lin Yi trapped the flesh in Blood Prison before destroying it with the Soul-Devouring Saw.
• Lin Yi checked on the drained Blind Cheng, and Wang Meng carried him back to the Bus while the group prepared to leave the ruined convoy behind.
• Cheng Rong drove the Bus away as Lin Yi warned that the zombie tide might be approaching; Wan Ying cared for Blind Cheng during the silent journey.
• At noon, the group stopped in the wilderness to rest and eat, and Lin Yi noted that their cigarettes and food supplies were running low.

Lin Yi and the Survival Rules Convoy encountered Night Cat Convoy survivors at New Prosperity Town and learned that the Northern Settlement had fallen. Liu Chuan had escaped, while Lü Xiangyang had betrayed the defenders and helped the new ruler seize control.

• Cheng Rong drove the Bus to New Prosperity Town, where Night Cat Convoy members emerged after the moving town transported them to the Wilderness and their captain disappeared.
• Lin Yi and Blind Cheng explained New Prosperity Town’s danger, and the stranded survivors asked the Survival Rules Convoy to take them in.
• A former member of the Survival Rules Convoy recognized Wang Meng and told Lin Yi that Aberration Creatures had appeared underground in the Northern Settlement, where a woman killed the senior leaders and took over.
• The survivor said Liu Chuan escaped with a group while others were captured or fled, and Lin Yi felt relieved to hear Liu Chuan had survived.
• The survivor accused Lü Xiangyang of betraying the Northern Settlement, killing Azure Dragon Division fighters, and capturing the rest.

After learning that Cao Yuan had seized the Northern Settlement and Lü Xiangyang had betrayed their comrades, Lin Yi set out to find Liu Chuan and the others before confronting the traitors. The convoy prepared to leave New Prosperity Town, and Lin Yi learned that Lü Xiangyang had turned into a bull-headed monster during the killings.

• Blind Cheng and Lin Yi vowed to kill Cao Yuan and Lü Xiangyang, and Lin Yi asked Cheng Rong to use the [Book of Answers] to locate Liu Chuan, Li Han, and Aru's group.
• Cheng Rong located the group at eleven o'clock from the convoy, and Lin Yi explained that Cao Yuan had taken the Northern Settlement and restarted experiments with aberration creature symbiotes.
• Blind Cheng arranged for the convoy's new arrivals to rest and prepare to leave, while Zhao Qiang reported that 131 people had joined and agreed to manage them.
• Lin Yi told the convoy to leave in an hour, then gave Zhao Qiang cola and asked what he knew about Lü Xiangyang and Lü Chaoyang.
• Zhao Qiang said Lü Xiangyang had turned into a bull-headed monster while killing Azure Dragon Division warriors, but he knew nothing about Lü Chaoyang.

Lin Yi learned that Cao Yuan and Lü Xiangyang had taken control of the Northern Settlement and set out to find Liu Chuan before attacking them. Meanwhile, Liu Chuan’s group remained trapped in a cave with dwindling supplies, facing pressure from Zhang Dong as Liu Chuan insisted Lin Yi would come.

• Zhao Qiang told Lin Yi that Lü Xiangyang had transformed into an aberration and that aberration creatures had attacked the Northern Settlement.
• Lin Yi decided Cao Yuan and Lü Xiangyang were likely still at the Northern Settlement, then resumed the convoy’s journey to find Liu Chuan.
• In a cave, Liu Chuan reassured Aru that Lin Yi would come, though his group had little food and no water.
• Zhang Dong threatened Liu Chuan and the women, but Liu Chuan warned that Zhang Dong’s power depended on his followers.
• Xiaoxuan offered to approach Zhang Dong for supplies, but Liu Chuan refused to let him prey on the group.
• Zhou Wentao urged Liu Chuan to release him, arguing that the group had no way out, but Liu Chuan suspected he would turn against them.

Lin Yi and Blind Cheng found Liu Chuan’s group trapped in a mountain cave and cleared the cars blocking its entrance. Lin Yi reunited the starving survivors with the Convoy and supplied them with food and water, while Zhang Dong’s plans to use them against an assumed creature attack fell apart.

• Cheng Rong used the [Book of Answers] to locate Liu Chuan’s group fourteen hundred meters away, and Blind Cheng sensed their cave near the mountain.
• Lin Yi left Wang Meng to guard the Convoy and joined Blind Cheng, who found cars sealing the cave entrance.
• Inside the cave, Zhang Dong urged Liu Chuan to help fight what he thought were Aberration Creatures, but Zhou Wentao recognized Lin Yi and Blind Cheng outside.
• Liu Chuan and the others approached the entrance as Lin Yi and Blind Cheng moved the cars, and the two groups reunited.
• Lin Yi gave the starving survivors food and water, then kicked away a man who tried to steal the supplies and warned the crowd not to try.

Lin Yi and Blind Cheng slaughtered the people who tried to seize their supplies, then reunited with Liu Chuan and his companions and returned to the Convoy. Liu Chuan resumed command as the group prepared to locate the Northern Settlement and confront Cao Yuan and Lü Xiangyang.

• A woman rallied the hungry crowd to demand Lin Yi share his supplies, and Lin Yi ordered Blind Cheng to leave no one alive.
• Blind Cheng killed the crowd, including Zhang Dong and the other sequence transcendents who tried to attack Liu Chuan’s group.
• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi that Cao Yuan had taken over the Northern Settlement and that Lü Xiangyang had betrayed them; Lin Yi said they still had a trump card.
• Lin Yi and Liu Chuan reached the Convoy, where Wang Meng welcomed Liu Chuan back and vowed to attack the Northern Settlement.
• Lin Yi handed Aru to Li Han and said Liu Chuan should be captain again, then introduced Wan Ying to Liu Chuan as a new member of the Convoy.

Lin Yi’s Curio Bus reached enhancement +2 and gained a hundred-square-meter built-in space, giving the convoy room for its growing group. The group prepared to travel to the Northern Settlement, where Liu Chuan laid out a plan to confront Cao Yuan and the Lü Family Brothers.

• Lin Yi discovered that the Bus’s new built-in space could accommodate the entire group and some supplies.
• Zhao Qiang shared a generous bowl of instant noodles with the two women in his vehicle.
• Liu Chuan moved the group’s sleeping arrangements into the Bus, and everyone was astonished by its new spacious interior.
• Cheng Rong used the [Book of Answers] to find the Northern Settlement’s direction, and the group agreed to head toward four o’clock.
• Liu Chuan planned for Mengzi to draw enemy fire while Lin Yi and Brother Cheng broke into the settlement to target Cao Yuan and the Lü Family Brothers.

The Survival Rules Convoy reached the Northern Settlement, where they discovered the powerful Marauder Convoy had arrived ahead of them. After learning the visitors’ strength and hearing Bai Le predict their delegation had no Sequence Five, Lin Yi decided to charge in with his group.

• Liu Chuan urged Lin Yi to seize the chance to advance to Sequence Five by causing mayhem in the Northern Settlement, and Lin Yi said he would decide for himself.
• Wang Meng collected supplies from the cave, and the Survival Rules Convoy traveled for two days toward the Northern Settlement.
• Liu Chuan spotted a convoy flying a revolver flag entering through the settlement’s opened gate and asked Wan Ying to identify it.
• Wan Ying recognized the Marauder Convoy, and Cheng Rong learned from the [Book of Answers] that it had 3,100 Sequence Transcendents, including a Sequence Four leader.
• Liu Chuan estimated that only about a hundred Marauder Convoy members were present, and Bai Le predicted they had no Sequence Five among them.
• Lin Yi trusted Bai Le’s luck and led the group toward the Northern Settlement to attack the Marauder Convoy delegation.

Cao Yuan tried to secure a deal with the Marauder Convoy for people and Aberration Creature corpses, but Lin Yi arrived and exposed her and Lü Xiangyang as Aberration Symbiotes. As the Marauder Convoy began to doubt Cao Yuan, she ordered her people to kill its members and blame Lin Yi.

• Cao Yuan welcomed the Marauder Convoy and proposed trading supplies for people and Aberration Creature corpses.
• The blue-haired punk agreed in principle but demanded a detailed proposal and raised concerns about the Eternal Alchemy Church discovering the deal.
• Lin Yi attacked the Northern Settlement's gate and publicly accused Cao Yuan and Lü Xiangyang of betraying humanity and becoming Aberration Symbiotes.
• The Marauder Convoy questioned Cao Yuan's claims after learning Lin Yi's group included three Sequence Sixes.
• Cao Yuan abandoned the deal and ordered her people to kill the Marauder Convoy, then blame Lin Yi and his companions.

Lin Yi, Blind Cheng, and Wang Meng entered the Northern Settlement’s underground fortress and fought Lü Xiangyang’s aberration symbiotes. Lin Yi gained the upper hand against Lü Xiangyang and Lü Chaoyang, but Lü Xiangyang transformed into the Blood Kui Python as the battle continued.

• Lin Yi reached the fortress with Blind Cheng and Wang Meng while soldiers hesitated to stop them after hearing that Lü Xiangyang had become an aberration symbiote.
• Lin Yi killed a triangular-headed aberration symbiote and confronted Lü Xiangyang and Lü Chaoyang, who blamed him for Elder Zhang’s death and urged the soldiers to attack.
• Lin Yi assigned Blind Cheng to fight Cao Yuan and Wang Meng to clear the surrounding aberration symbiotes; Wang Meng killed many before Li Yao attacked him.
• Lin Yi used Zhou Wentao’s ability to create nine copies of himself and sent them against Lü Xiangyang and Lü Chaoyang, wounding both through coordinated attacks.
• Lü Xiangyang, furious at losing ground, transformed into his Blood Kui Python form and blamed Lin Yi for destroying his future as the Northern Settlement’s guardian.

Blind Cheng fought Cao Yuan while Lin Yi faced Lü Chaoyang and Lü Xiangyang as they transformed into level five aberration symbiotes. As the symbiotes threatened the Northern Settlement, its soldiers and the surviving Marauder Convoy members joined forces to protect civilians.

• Cao Yuan revealed her plan to turn humanity into aberration symbiotes and became a heavily armored creature, but Blind Cheng challenged her reasoning and their fight reached a stalemate.
• Lin Yi dismissed his duplicates after Lü Xiangyang became a level five aberration, then dodged attacks from Lü Chaoyang’s enormous transformed head.
• Lü Chaoyang and Lü Xiangyang believed Lin Yi could no longer transform and ordered the aberration symbiotes to devour the settlement’s people.
• Xiao Liu led young soldiers to evacuate civilians while older soldiers from the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, and Black Tortoise Divisions held the line.
• Ali and the surviving Marauder Convoy members, moved by the soldiers’ sacrifice, joined the battle against the aberration symbiotes.

Lin Yi transformed into an Aberrant Man-Dragon and delayed Lü Xiangyang and Lü Chaoyang while Blind Cheng killed Cao Yuan. Blind Cheng advanced to sequence five, becoming a [Heavenly Divination Judge], as Lü Xiangyang attacked him in a rage.

• Lin Yi transformed into an Aberrant Man-Dragon and blocked Lü Xiangyang and Lü Chaoyang from reaching Cao Yuan.
• Lin Yi deliberately took Lü Chaoyang's ray attack, then Wang Meng's stone spikes struck Lin Yi as he re-formed at tier two.
• Lü Xiangyang tried to flee, but Blind Cheng attacked him while Cao Yuan's body shattered from repeated strikes to the same spot.
• Blind Cheng killed Cao Yuan and advanced from sequence six to sequence five, becoming a [Heavenly Divination Judge].
• Lü Xiangyang charged at Blind Cheng, furious that Blind Cheng had reached sequence five before him.