Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi single-handedly slaughtered the Aberration Creatures attacking the Chosen Principality, saving its defenders while they were trapped by the Time-Stopping Drift Bottle. The King returned after defeating Phantom Dream and learned what Lin Yi had done, leaving him stunned that Lin Yi had resisted a time stop that even he could not escape.

• The Silver-Haired Woman and the other Sequence Fours saw a flaming figure massacring the Aberration Creatures and ordered their people to join the fight.
• Lin Yi used the Soul-Devouring Saw, his [Sacrificer] ability, the Duel King's Bandages, and the Thorns Strip to kill the creatures and drive the survivors into flight.
• The Silver-Haired Woman recognized Lin Yi and asked whether he had killed the level seven Aberration Creatures; Lin Yi confirmed it, left the remaining cleanup to them, and departed.
• The King returned, announced that Phantom Dream was no longer a threat, and praised the defenders for saving the Chosen Principality.
• The Silver-Haired Woman told the King that Lin Yi had fought alone and resisted the time stop, leaving the King questioning how a Sequence Four had escaped an effect that had trapped even him.

Lin Yi returned after secretly fighting off the Aberration Creatures that had attacked the Chosen Principality’s Gathering Place. The King visited to thank him with two pots of seven-color flowers, while Lin Yi prepared to leave with Zhu Cheng to search for Weird Domains and potion ingredients.

• Zhu Cheng, Shangguan Bei, and Zhang Haitao realized Lin Yi had vanished, then learned the attack on the Gathering Place had been stopped.
• Lin Yi returned covered in Aberration Creature blood and told Zhu Cheng and the others that he had gone outside the city to kill the creatures.
• Zhu Cheng told the King and the Sequence Four Transcendents that she and Lin Yi planned to leave and search for Weird Domains and potion ingredients, while Shangguan Bei and Zhang Haitao would stay.
• Lin Yi emerged from his shower and confronted the visitors, thinking they had come to block his door.
• The King explained that he had come to thank Lin Yi and gave him two pots of seven-color flowers.

Lin Yi accepted the King of the Chosen Principality’s seven-color flowers and agreed to travel with his people to a known Weird Domain. Meanwhile, Liu Chuan learned that Lin Yi was alive and had reached Sequence Four, giving the search party its first solid lead.

• Lin Yi accepted two pots of seven-color flowers from the King, who offered to take him to a Weird Domain once his people finished their duties.
• Lin Yi warned Zhu Cheng to stay close in the Weird Domain or hide if they were separated, then rested while resolving to free himself from the Desire Mother Tree’s control.
• In the Heavy Rain Zone, Kong Buyu told Liu Chuan that Lin Yi was alive, had advanced to Sequence Four, and had saved him and Fang in a Weird Domain.
• Kong Buyu mentioned that Lin Yi’s sister-in-law had received five Promotion Potions and still owed them a seven-color flower, leaving Liu Chuan confused.
• Liu Chuan hurried off to share the news about Lin Yi and the Weird Domain with Blind Cheng and the others.

Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng entered a new Weird Domain with four people from the Chosen Principality and explored a silent forest. They found a cluster of lantern-lit houses, where Zhu Cheng used Life Perception to detect no Aberration Creatures and only sparse, nonhuman life points.

• The King told Lin Yi he would lead a group to the Weird Domain, and Lin Yi agreed to join them.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng met the King’s group at the valley entrance, where the King wished them luck before they entered.
• Lin Yi, Zhu Cheng, and four people from the Chosen Principality passed through the stone tablet’s vortex into a forest beneath a blood-red moon.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng walked through the silent forest and found a cluster of houses lit by blood-red lanterns.
• Zhu Cheng told Lin Yi that her Life Perception detected no Aberration Creatures in the houses and only sparse, nonhuman life points.

Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng entered an empty village house with a table of freshly cooked food and waited inside as a smoke-covered Aberration Creature knocked outside. The creature moved between their room and a distant room, then returned to their door, while Lin Yi began scrutinizing the food that remained hot after several hours.

• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng entered a house and found steaming food laid out on the table, though no one was inside.
• Lin Yi told Zhu Cheng not to touch the food, and they stayed inside as an Aberration Creature knocked repeatedly at the door.
• Zhu Cheng saw the creature leave and described it as a person covered in black smoke; Lin Yi concluded that it could not enter unless they opened the door.
• Zhu Cheng spotted the creature knocking at a distant room, and Lin Yi reasoned that the four people from the Chosen Principality were likely inside and that the domain was not a battle royale.
• The creature stopped knocking at the distant room, returned to Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng’s door, and resumed knocking while Lin Yi stared at the food that was still hot after several hours.

Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng left the house area and entered a deeper forest to search for potion ingredients. After Lin Yi recovered two pots of blue Seven-Color Flowers, they hurried back toward the woods where they had first arrived, wary of the domain’s unknown dangers.

• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng watched as the humanoid Aberration Creature killed one of the people from the Chosen Principality and pursued the others after they opened their door.
• When the blood moon remained unchanged and it seemed daylight would never come, Lin Yi decided they should leave the houses and search deeper for potion ingredients.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng hid as a fleeing man from the Chosen Principality ran past carrying a pot of blue Seven-Color Flowers, followed by the humanoid Aberration Creature.
• Lin Yi sent the Duel King's Bandages across a pitch-black lake to retrieve the two remaining pots of blue Seven-Color Flowers from a mound.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng fled back through the house area and toward their original patch of woods, choosing not to risk further exploration.

Lin Yi, Zhu Cheng, and a Chosen Principality member fled the weird domain after Zhu Cheng spotted a terrifying black figure that Lin Yi recognized as a deity. Once safely outside, Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng continued down the road to find shelter before nightfall, and he gave her her share of the blue seven-color flowers.

• A Chosen Principality member asked Lin Yi whether he had seen his companions, and Lin Yi said the weird domain was dangerous and they should leave.
• Zhu Cheng spotted a terrifying black figure emerging from a lake, and Lin Yi recognized it as a deity and hurried her through the vortex passage.
• The Chosen Principality member followed them out, while Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng escaped in their vehicles and drove away from the weird domain.
• After the pain in his arm stopped, Lin Yi parked and told Zhu Cheng they would follow the road and seek a convoy or continue alone.
• Zhu Cheng said her car's leaking fuel tank was empty, so Lin Yi had her pack her belongings into a Storage Curio and ride with him.
• Lin Yi resumed driving toward shelter before dark and gave Zhu Cheng one pot of blue seven-color flowers as her share.

Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng stopped for the night in a village occupied by the Starlight Convoy, where they assessed its people and leadership. Lin Yi recognized the convoy’s white-haired enforcer as someone who resembled his former self, and explained the [Criminal] Sequence Pathway’s physical cost to Zhu Cheng.

• Lin Yi drove into a village where the Starlight Convoy was waiting for its missing captain to return.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng parked among the convoy’s vehicles, and Zhu Cheng asked whether they should travel with the group.
• A white-haired man and a tall woman arrived with supply backpacks and went toward a room at the back of the village.
• Lin Yi suspected the white-haired man belonged to the [Criminal] Sequence Pathway and that the woman was the convoy’s captain.
• Lin Yi told Zhu Cheng that people on the [Criminal] Sequence Pathway lost a kidney but remained formidable fighters.

Lin Yi told Zhu Cheng that he had three sequence pathways and enhanced her so she could become a Dual-Sequence Transcendent in about a week. The next morning, Lin Yi watched the Starlight Convoy prepare a shared breakfast and heard that they planned to search Yunhe County Town for supplies, leaving him doubtful about traveling with them.

• Lin Yi admitted to Zhu Cheng that his sequence pathways were [Enhancement], [Criminal], and [Sacrificer], and asked her to keep [Enhancement] secret.
• Lin Yi enhanced Zhu Cheng and said she would become a Dual-Sequence Transcendent in about a week, though a mystery-type pathway was unlikely.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng took turns keeping watch overnight and saw that five Sequence Transcendents and a lookout guarded the convoy.
• After sunrise, Lin Yi saw the Starlight Convoy prepare breakfast using shared supplies and grew wary of its supply-sharing practices.
• A convoy member announced that they would head to Yunhe County Town and search supermarkets, wholesale markets, and grain storage depots.

Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng joined the Convoy's breakfast line before Lin Yi crippled Liu Fei for harassing Zhu Cheng. Liu Fei's sister attacked them in revenge, but Lin Yi seized her by the throat and told her he was responsible.

• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng joined the long line for breakfast before the Convoy's planned search of Yunhe County Town.
• Liu Fei propositioned Lin Yi for Zhu Cheng, and Lin Yi tore off Liu Fei's arm with a kick.
• A man healed Liu Fei's life-threatening injuries, though his severed arm could not be restored.
• Liu Fei's sister blamed Zhu Cheng, threatened to punish her, and transformed her arm into a tiger-like claw.
• Lin Yi grabbed Liu Fei's sister by the throat and told her that he had crippled Liu Fei.

Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng fought off members of the Starlight Convoy, then Lin Yi overwhelmed them with his own Blood Prison. After releasing everyone, he praised the white-haired young man's ability, leaving their rivalry unresolved.

• Lin Yi tore off a woman's arm, and Zhu Cheng knocked Qiang aside when he tried to help her.
• As Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng approached their Hummer, the white-haired young man attacked Lin Yi and trapped both of them in his Blood Prison.
• Zhu Cheng shattered the white-haired young man's cage with one slash, then urged Lin Yi to demonstrate his strength.
• Lin Yi spread his Blood Prison across much of the village and trapped the Starlight Convoy's members, including the white-haired young man and their captain.
• Lin Yi dismissed his Blood Prison, and he told the white-haired young man that his ability was impressive.

Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng confronted the white-haired Zhu Yuan after he challenged them, then joined Zhang Yumin’s Starlight Convoy for breakfast. Zhang Yumin accepted Lin Yi’s explanation of the Liu siblings’ injuries and warned that two Level Five Aberration Creatures awaited in Yunhe County Town.

• Zhu Yuan threatened to use his sequence-six ability, but Lin Yi revealed his Fire Lending and Sharing trump card and said it would not help him win.
• Zhu Yuan challenged Zhu Cheng, and she used her stealth and a roundhouse kick to send him flying; Zhang Yumin caught him and identified Zhu Cheng as sequence five.
• Zhu Cheng explained that Lin Yi had punished Liu Fei and Liu Qian after they provoked them, and Zhang Yumin apologized for what had happened in her convoy.
• Zhang Yumin agreed that the Liu siblings had brought their injuries on themselves, then invited Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng to eat before the convoy headed for Yunhe County Town.
• Zhang Yumin ordered Qiangzi to treat Liu Qian without reattaching her arm, while Liu Qian begged him to restore it because she was on the [Beastman: Tiger] sequence.

During breakfast, Lin Yi explained to Zhu Yuan how the [Criminal] sequence pathway advanced and warned him that higher ranks required scarce resources and dangerous expeditions into weird domains. Zhu Yuan was left doubting whether he could progress beyond Sequence Five.

• Zhu Yuan asked Lin Yi how he had advanced so quickly on the [Criminal] sequence pathway.
• Lin Yi explained that Promotion Potions, killing people on the opposing [Blade-for-Hire] pathway, and committing crimes could all help a [Criminal] advance.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng warned Zhu Yuan that advancement beyond Sequence Five was extremely difficult because resources were scarce and later ranks required potion ingredients from weird domains.
• Lin Yi told Zhu Yuan that entering a weird domain without a Curio, a Storage Curio, and a trump card would amount to suicide.
• Zhu Yuan lost his appetite and wondered whether Sequence Five would be the limit of his progress.

The Starlight Convoy entered Yunhe County Town to gather supplies while Zhu Cheng prepared to challenge the Shadow Man, one of two Level Five Aberration Creatures. As Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng headed toward it, Zhang Yumin’s companion grew suspicious of them and warned that they might be plotting against the convoy.

• Lin Yi dismissed Zhu Yuan’s disappointment and said Sequence Five was likely the best outcome for him, then washed his dishes with scarce bottled water.
• Zhu Cheng asked to fight a Level Five Aberration Creature, and Lin Yi agreed she could challenge one while he searched for supplies and the weird domain.
• Zhang Yumin led the Starlight Convoy into Yunhe County Town, where a Flesh-Ball Aberration and a Shadow Man watched from rooftops.
• Zhu Cheng chose to challenge the Shadow Man, and Lin Yi drove her toward it while Zhang Yumin directed her own team toward the Flesh-Ball Aberration.
• Zhang Yumin’s driver warned that Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng could not be trusted and suggested they might have turned Zhu Yuan against the convoy.

Zhang Yumin rejected Sister Na’s attempt to turn her against Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng, while Lin Yi looted a small supermarket as Zhu Cheng went to confront the Level Five Aberration Creature. The chapter left Zhu Cheng inside the building and Lin Yi preparing to share supplies with the Starlight Convoy.

• Sister Na tried to persuade Zhang Yumin that Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng were dangerous, but Zhang Yumin ordered her to keep driving toward the building.
• Sister Na drove on, then worried that she was losing control over Zhang Yumin and feared the consequences of losing her standing in the convoy.
• Zhu Cheng asked Lin Yi to wait at a nearby supermarket before entering the building alone to deal with the Level Five Aberration Creature.
• Lin Yi entered the supermarket, killed several mutated flies, and used his Curio Flashlight to search the shelves and stockroom.
• Lin Yi stored snacks, necessities, and other supplies, carried rice, flour, grain, and cooking oil out for the convoy, and took a case of beer for Zhang Yumin.

Zhu Cheng killed the Level Five shadow aberration but collapsed from her injuries, and Lin Yi treated her before driving to help Zhang Yumin’s group. He found Sister Na blocking his way as the group struggled against a flesh-ball aberration, and learned she was preventing them from getting help.

• Zhu Cheng emerged from the building after killing the Level Five shadow aberration, then fainted in Lin Yi’s arms.
• Lin Yi treated Zhu Cheng’s wounds at a pharmacy and told Convoy members they could safely scavenge where the shadow aberration had been defeated.
• Lin Yi drove toward Zhang Yumin’s group and saw them being overwhelmed by the flesh-ball aberration, with Zhang Yumin using her abilities to support the others.
• Sister Na blocked Lin Yi’s car and refused to let him reach Zhang Yumin’s group.
• A Sequence Transcendent shouted that Sister Na was stopping Lin Yi from helping them and was trying to get them killed.

Zhang Yumin killed Sister Na for obstructing Lin Yi, then pleaded with him to save her convoy from the Flesh-Ball Aberration. Lin Yi agreed and killed the Level Five Aberration Creature almost instantly, leaving Zhu Yuan and the others amazed by his strength and Curio.

• The sequence transcendents stopped fighting and demanded Zhang Yumin explain why Sister Na had kept Lin Yi from helping them.
• Zhang Yumin ran to Lin Yi's car, grabbed Sister Na by the throat, and snapped her neck after learning she had caused more deaths.
• Zhang Yumin saw Zhu Cheng unconscious but treated, then bowed and begged Lin Yi to kill the Flesh-Ball Aberration.
• Lin Yi agreed, told Zhang Yumin to pull everyone back, and used the Duel King's Bandages to draw himself toward the Aberration.
• Lin Yi struck the Flesh-Ball Aberration with the Soul-Devouring Saw and killed it almost instantly, impressing Zhang Yumin and the convoy members while Zhu Yuan coveted the Curio.

After Lin Yi killed the Flesh-Ball Aberration, Zhang Yumin’s convoy treated its wounded and Zhu Cheng recovered from her injuries. Lin Yi agreed to share the supplies he had found, while secretly keeping most of them in his Wristwatch.

• Lin Yi emerged from the Flesh-Ball Aberration’s corpse and left Zhang Yumin to organize the wounded and search for supplies.
• Zhang Yumin told the survivors that Zhu Cheng had killed the other Level Five Aberration, then went to check on the unconscious girl.
• Zhang Yumin healed Zhu Cheng, who woke up and announced that she felt ready to fight again.
• Lin Yi told Zhang Yumin that he and Zhu Cheng would travel with the Starlight Convoy and offered to hand over the supplies in his car.
• After Zhang Yumin left, Lin Yi reassured Zhu Cheng that he had already stored most of their supplies in his Wristwatch.

After the Starlight Convoy escaped Yunhe County Town and settled in a nearby town, Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng joined their bonfire gathering. As the group asked about their Sequence Pathways, Lin Yi’s answers revealed that several of them had already been overtaken by Transcendents farther along their paths.

• Zhang Yumin led the Starlight Convoy out of Yunhe County Town and settled in a nearby town after the group dealt with its Aberration Creatures.
• Lin Yi and Zhu Cheng followed the convoy’s rules by handing over their supplies, then watched the convoy celebrate around a bonfire.
• Qiangzi asked about Lin Yi’s Sequence, and Zhu Yuan explained the advancement bottleneck, prompting the gathered Transcendents to wail and even beat him in frustration.
• Zhang Yumin asked whether anyone had advanced beyond Sequence Five on the [Spirit Mage] Sequence Pathway, and Lin Yi said she might progress if she found potion ingredients in a Weird Domain.
• A [Druid] Sequence Transcendent learned that Zhu Cheng was already Sequence Five, while a [Blade-for-Hire] Transcendent learned Lin Yi knew a blind man who had reached Sequence Five.
• The others asked Lin Yi about their own Sequence Pathways, and his answers left several of them feeling crushed and helpless.

Lin Yi's convoy reached the Seed Convoy, where survivors traded goods to get by. While looking through the stalls, Lin Yi found the green seven-color flower he needed and traded ten jin of rice for it.

• After breakfast, Zhang Yumin arranged for the Starlight Convoy to set out, and Zhu Yuan led it through attacks from Aberration Creatures.
• The convoy arrived at a settlement formed by the Seed Convoy, and Zhang Yumin told everyone to trade peacefully.
• Zhu Cheng asked Lin Yi for supplies to buy women's necessities, and he let her trade for what she wanted.
• Lin Yi spotted a green seven-color flower at a stall and learned the vendor had taken it from a corpse.
• Lin Yi gave the vendor ten jin of rice and stored the seven-color flower in his Storage Curio.