Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi killed Wen Wan after she tried to rally the convoy against him, then ended shared access to his supplies. The convoy prepared to travel again, with Lin Yi still intending to head north despite believing the settlement there was not humanity’s hope.

• Wen Wan accused Lin Yi of killing convoy members unjustly and tried to persuade Liu Chuan and Wang Meng to oppose him, but both declared their support for Lin Yi or refused to help.
• Lin Yi revealed that he had been watching to see who would join Wen Wan, then killed her with the Soul-Devouring Saw after warning her that the northern settlement was dangerous.
• Sandworms devoured Wen Wan’s body, while Zhang Wei and Li Kun discussed her death.
• Lin Yi gave Zhang Wei the Huolala truck’s spare key and assigned him, the other three men, and Jiang Ya to collect supplies and cook.
• Lin Yi declared the truck’s supplies his personal property and ended the practice of everyone sharing food, while Liu Chuan told the convoy to rest before setting out.

Liu Chuan explained the unique [Enhancement] and [Ascension] Sequences to Lin Yi before the Survival Rules Convoy set out to meet the Kunlun Convoy. As the convoy traveled, Shen Qingqing resolved to grow strong enough to kill Lin Yi if he turned into an Aberration.

• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi that the convoy would meet Sun Kunlun's five-hundred-person Kunlun Convoy and explained how [Enhancement] and [Ascension] differed.
• Lin Yi learned that mystery-type Sequences were unique and decided that [Enhancement] had no other holder.
• Liu Chuan warned Lin Yi that awakening a second Sequence could bring a dangerous or incompatible power, then ordered the convoy to prepare for the meeting and trade.
• The Survival Rules Convoy regrouped and set off toward the Kunlun Convoy.
• Shen Qingqing told Shen Chuchu she was preparing to kill Lin Yi if he became an Aberration, and insisted she needed to advance quickly.

The Kunlun Convoy, led by Sun Kunlun, sheltered in Liu City behind a Protective Shield while trading supplies with passing convoys. When Liu Chuan and Lin Yi’s much larger Survival Rules Convoy arrived, Sun Kunlun welcomed them inside to trade.

• The Kunlun Convoy’s four Sequence Transcendents joked about Sun Kunlun’s sunbathing and checked their preparations beneath A-Feng’s Protective Shield.
• The Kunlun Convoy spotted a large incoming convoy and began preparing supplies to trade, while Sun Kunlun warned them not to sell his cola or Anomalous Object materials.
• Liu Chuan and Lin Yi examined the shield, and Liu Chuan explained that it concealed those inside from Aberrations.
• Sun Kunlun greeted Liu Chuan, and the two captains exchanged pleasantries as their members assessed one another.
• Sun Kunlun invited the Survival Rules Convoy into the shield to inspect supplies and trade, then asked A-Feng to expand its coverage.

The Survival Rules Convoy visited Sun Kunlun's Kunlun Convoy, where Lin Yi learned that Sun Kunlun had anomalous object materials for trade. Sun Kunlun offered a blood-eyed unicorn horn for fifty kilos of grain, and Lin Yi was interested because he could enhance the material himself.

• A-Feng expanded the protective dome to enclose the Survival Rules Convoy after it arrived at the Kunlun Convoy.
• Sun Kunlun led Liu Chuan and the others past ordinary members selling goods and into the supermarket to show them supplies.
• Liu Chuan said his convoy already had enough cigarettes, liquor, sugar, and tea, prompting Sun Kunlun to reveal boxes of anomalous object materials.
• Sun Kunlun showed Liu Chuan a blood-eyed unicorn horn he had traded for with the Seed Convoy, and Lin Yi realized he could enhance it directly.
• Sun Kunlun offered the horn to Lin Yi for fifty kilos of grain.

Lin Yi and Liu Chuan suspected that the Kunlun Convoy’s aggressive trading concealed a trap and decided not to make a deal. Sun Kunlun’s group revealed that someone from Lin Yi’s convoy had already traded, and they planned to use the transaction to keep the convoy from escaping.

• Sun Kunlun offered anomalous object materials at high prices, but Lin Yi and Liu Chuan doubted they were worth spending scarce food supplies on.
• Lin Yi suggested robbing the Kunlun Convoy, while Liu Chuan agreed that its abundance of supplies and welcoming behavior raised suspicions.
• Lin Yi, Liu Chuan, Ji Qingcang, Wang Meng, and the Shen Sisters decided to look around without trading.
• A-Feng asked whether Lin Yi’s group had noticed the trap, and the twin-ponytailed girl said someone in their convoy had already made a deal.
• Sun Kunlun asked Sister Na about her preparations, and she said that once the deal went through, she would take control and prevent the convoy from escaping.
• The twin-ponytailed girl said she wanted the anomalous saw on Lin Yi’s back, while Sun Kunlun called the convoy a valuable catch and said they needed it to reach Ba-Shu safely.

As Lin Yi’s group took turns keeping watch in Liu City, Liu Chuan used his Passive Gourd to spy on the Kunlun Convoy and learned that Sun Kunlun’s people planned to sacrifice and attack them. Lin Yi alerted Ji Qingcang to prepare the convoy, leaving the group bracing for a fight that night.

• Lin Yi’s group returned to their convoy for the night, ate their own food, and began taking turns on watch.
• Liu Chuan showed Lin Yi and Ji Qingcang an image of Sun Kunlun’s group discussing Lin Yi’s supplies and their plans for the convoy.
• Sister Na revealed that her [Great Landlord] ability marked people who had traded with her, letting her redirect damage, while her [Priest] ability could strengthen Little Youyou through sacrifices.
• Lin Yi recognized the twin-ponytailed girl as a threat and told Ji Qingcang to warn the others that trouble was coming.
• Liu Chuan warned Lin Yi that Sister Na might be a [Blood Priest] and that their daytime transaction could have hidden consequences.

Lin Yi and his companions confronted Li Youyou, a Sequence Eight Fury Fistmaster, while a deadly, unexplained danger began striking the Survival Rules Convoy. The fight continued as Lin Yi discovered that Li Youyou’s White Bandages could stop his Soul-Devouring Saw.

• Shen Qingqing confronted Liu Chuan about secretly watching the group, while Lin Yi assigned the others to fight Li Youyou and three members of her team.
• Li Youyou introduced herself as a Sequence Eight Fury Fistmaster sent by her captain to kill them, and Shen Qingqing, Shen Chuchu, Wang Meng, and Liu Chuan joined the battle.
• Lin Yi kicked Li Youyou before she transformed and activated a blood-red formation, then attacked her with the Soul-Devouring Saw.
• People in the Survival Rules Convoy woke at the sound of the saw, but two of them suddenly screamed and collapsed with fatal wounds.
• Li Youyou blocked Lin Yi’s Soul-Devouring Saw with her White Bandages, and Lin Yi recognized them as a powerful Anomalous Object and wanted to take them.

The Shen Sisters discovered that Zhou Na's apparent invulnerability came from an ability tied to the people she had marked, while Liu Chuan and Wang Meng battled Sun Kunlun's group at the supermarket. Sun Kunlun revealed the deadly conditions on both routes north, and Wang Meng killed Twin-Tailed Loli as the fight continued.

• Shen Qingqing and Shen Chuchu attacked Zhou Na, but she healed instantly and revealed that killing her would also kill more than a thousand people she had marked.
• At the supermarket, Liu Chuan accused Sun Kunlun of murdering other convoys while pretending to trade.
• Sun Kunlun explained that the road through Hunan Province faced temperatures above a hundred degrees and that Ba-Shu had become an icy wasteland, so his convoy had stayed to prepare for the journey.
• Liu Chuan ordered Wang Meng to defeat Sun Kunlun's group and return to help Lin.
• A-Feng shoved Twin-Tailed Loli away from the Protective Shield, and Wang Meng's attack killed her.

Lin Yi transformed into an Aberrant Man-Dragon after Li Youyou nearly killed him, then devoured her and headed toward the Shen Sisters. The Man-Dragon appeared inside the Protective Shield, leaving Sun Kunlun and the others facing a deadly threat with no clear escape.

• Li Youyou overwhelmed Lin Yi and tried to hang him from a tree, while Liu Man warned Ji Qingcang that Lin Yi was in danger.
• Ji Qingcang found Lin Yi transformed into an Aberrant Man-Dragon, and it killed and absorbed Li Youyou.
• Lin Yi asked Ji Qingcang why people in the convoy were dying, and Ji Qingcang suspected the deaths were connected to the day's trades.
• Lin Yi crawled toward the Shen Sisters as the Man-Dragon's aura erupted inside the Protective Shield.
• Sun Kunlun and A-Feng saw the Man-Dragon climbing the building and realized Liu City was no longer safe.

Liu Chuan and Wang Meng fought Sun Kunlun’s group while the Aberrant Man-Dragon attacked Zhou Na on the rooftop. Zhou Na threatened that killing her would doom most of the Kunlun Convoy, and Liu Chuan recognized her as a dual-Sequence awakener with a trading-related Sequence.

• Liu Chuan ordered Wang Meng to kill Sun Kunlun and A-Feng, then help the Shen Sisters, and Wang Meng smashed through their Protective Shield and killed them.
• Liu Chuan told Wang Meng to carry him toward the building after sensing that something serious had happened there.
• The Aberrant Man-Dragon appeared behind Zhou Na as she battled Shen Qingqing and Shen Chuchu, and Shen Chuchu spoke to it.
• The Aberrant Man-Dragon coiled around Zhou Na and tore into her, leaving her bloodied and desperate.
• Zhou Na warned that her death would kill at least eighty percent of the Kunlun Convoy, and Liu Chuan identified her as a dual-Sequence awakener with a trading-related Sequence.

Liu Chuan and Lin Yi chose to kill Zhou Na despite her offer to join them, because her control over marked people threatened the convoy. After Lin Yi finally defeated her, he gained the Duel King's Bandages, a powerful Anomalous Object that could improve his strength and combat skills.

• Zhou Na admitted she was a Dual-Sequence Awakener and offered to make sacrifices for Liu Chuan if he let her live.
• Liu Chuan ordered the Aberrant Man-Dragon to kill Zhou Na, explaining that the convoy could not risk letting her control its people.
• Lin Yi fought Zhou Na for half an hour and killed her, causing the marked people in the area to die as well.
• After leaving his Fallen Act state, Lin Yi coughed up the Duel King's Bandages and learned their properties.
• Liu Chuan and the others gathered around to inspect the bandages, but Lin Yi said he had found them first and intended to keep them.

After the Kunlun Convoy’s attack killed most of the survivors, Lin Yi and Liu Chuan prepared to distribute the seized supplies and continue toward Ba-Shu. Liu Chuan secretly used the Passive Gourd to spy on the convoy, then entered the Void Hall and found several convoy leaders angrily arguing.

• Liu Chuan reassured the survivors that a Sequence Transcendent from the Kunlun Convoy had caused the deaths, while Wang Meng and the Shen Sisters went to rest.
• Lin Yi learned Zhang Long had died after trading with the Kunlun Convoy, then sent Zhang Wei and the other Crippled Dragon lackeys to gather supplies for fair distribution.
• Jiang Ya asked Lin Yi for more food, and the two shared an intimate encounter that Liu Chuan witnessed through the Passive Gourd.
• Lin Yi warned Liu Chuan that frequent use of the Passive Gourd was making his hair grow quickly, but Liu Chuan continued spying on the sleeping survivors.
• Liu Chuan planned to distribute supplies and take the convoy through Ba-Shu after avoiding the sandstorm, then entered the Void Hall and saw five or six convoy leaders furiously cursing.

After the convoy divided the supplies taken from the Kunlun Convoy, Lin Yi and the others continued north through worsening heat. At a rest stop, Ji Qingcang noticed the sun seemed to be moving, and Liu Chuan sensed something alarming nearby.

• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi and the others that surviving convoy leaders had asked about their route, and Lin Yi argued they were more likely trying to avoid the convoy than ambush it.
• Liu Chuan organized a fair auction of Anomalous Object materials; Lin Yi outbid Shen Qingqing for the Unicorn horn with a bag of rice and then withdrew from later bids.
• The convoy divided water, food, clothing, and other supplies among its 280 survivors, while Lin Yi collected extra gear and gasoline.
• The convoy drove through a sandstorm and then continued north into extreme heat, where Liu Chuan warned that water might not meet everyone's needs.
• At a service area, Ji Qingcang said the sun seemed to be moving; Liu Chuan revealed they had encountered no Aberrations and abruptly reacted to something in the distance.

Lin Yi and Liu Chuan’s convoy fled a Tier Five Pasture Herder by driving through a city full of fast Zombies, then found themselves pursued by a massive horde led by a Tier Three Zombie King. After more than two and a half hours, they still had not escaped Hunan Province, and the yellow sand surrounding them suggested something was wrong.

• Lin Yi spotted a huge Aberration dragging a chained fireball, and Liu Chuan identified it as a Tier Five Pasture Herder and ordered the convoy to flee.
• Wang Gui drove the convoy at full speed while Lin Yi led them off the highway and onto a city road to avoid the Pasture Herder’s path.
• The convoy plowed through fast Tier One Zombies in the city, and several vehicles were blocked or forced off course by the attackers.
• Lin Yi led the convoy out of the city, but Liu Chuan warned that the Zombies were pursuing them in a huge horde.
• Liu Chuan identified a roaring Tier Three Zombie King among the pursuers and urged everyone to keep going toward Ba-Shu.
• After two and a half hours of flight, Lin Yi and Liu Chuan realized they were still surrounded by yellow sand and had not reached Ba-Shu.

As the convoy crossed an altered, scorching Hunan Province, its tires failed and Lin Yi and the others had to fight the pursuing zombie tide. A mysterious cry sent the zombies fleeing, but an enormous creature then burst from the sand and lunged after them.

• Liu Chuan learned from Liu Nian that the merging phantom worlds had changed Blue Star’s terrain, making Hunan Province far larger and rendering maps useless.
• Lin Yi stopped when the convoy’s tires began to melt, and Liu Chuan ordered everyone to pull over after vehicles suffered blowouts.
• Lin Yi and the convoy fought the hundreds of thousands of zombies, while Liu Chuan sensed other aberrations and Shen Qingqing was knocked from a vehicle and buried under zombies.
• A strange, whale-like cry made the zombie tide flee, and an enormous decaying creature burst from the sand to devour the fleeing horde.

A zombie horde and the level-five Aberration Decayed Sand Whale devastated the Survival Rules Convoy, leaving only seven survivors and many dead. Lin Yi and the others continued toward the settlement in the North, while a mysterious woman arrived at the wreckage and found the dying Liu Man.

• The Decayed Sand Whale devoured most of the zombies, but the convoy was destroyed and Shen Qingqing, Ji Qingcang, and Ji Xiaoxiao died.
• Jiang Ya succumbed to her wounds after asking Lin Yi to see the North for her, and Lin Yi promised to fulfill her wish.
• Zhang Wei and Li Kun mourned Wang Xiaolong, while Lin Yi urged them and Liu Chuan to keep going for those who had died.
• The seven survivors salvaged two cars, gathered supplies, and set off toward the settlement in the North.
• A woman with azure eyes arrived at the abandoned vehicles and found Liu Man lying beside Ji Qingcang and Ji Xiaoxiao's bodies.

The Survival Rules Convoy reached a town while searching for vehicles and encountered survivors from the Spark Convoy, whose captain and Sequence Transcendents had died. Liu Chuan agreed to take the survivors along and explained the Survival Rules Convoy’s rules, while Lin Yi, Shen Chuchu, and Wang Meng searched for vehicles.

• The Survival Rules Convoy stopped at a town to search for vehicles and supplies while Liu Chuan confirmed there were no Aberrations nearby.
• Lin Yi learned from Qian Wenjun that eighty-seven Spark Convoy survivors were hiding in town after their captain and several Sequence Transcendents died.
• Liu Chuan welcomed Qian Wenjun and the Spark Convoy survivors into the Survival Rules Convoy and told them to prepare to leave after an hour.
• Qian Wenjun’s group discussed whether they could trust the Survival Rules Convoy, then drove toward the town entrance to join it.
• Liu Chuan explained the convoy’s three rules: self-reliance, personal value for Sequence Transcendents, and fair cooperation for Sequence Transcendents.

Lin Yi and the Survival Rules Convoy crossed from the scorching region into frozen Qing City and prepared to travel through the ice. While resting, Lin Yi met Yang Wanying, who offered an anomalous Faucet in exchange for instant noodles.

• Lin Yi, Shen Chuchu, and Wang Meng chose vehicles and returned as Qian Wenjun's group joined the Survival Rules Convoy.
• Liu Chuan led the convoy through the night without encountering dangerous Aberrations, and they reached the frozen landscape of Qing City at dawn.
• Liu Chuan ordered everyone to fit snow chains and warm clothing, then arranged a rest until noon.
• Lin Yi refused a woman's request for instant noodles, and Yang Wanying approached him to offer a metal Faucet that produced water wherever it was attached.
• Yang Wanying offered to trade the Faucet for ten, eight, or even five packs of instant noodles, surprising Lin Yi with her low bargaining demand.

Lin Yi traded five packs of instant noodles to Yang Wanying for the All-Purpose Faucet, an anomalous object that produced endless water. As the convoy prepared to enter Qing City, Lin Yi noticed Qian Wenjun privately giving a woman compressed biscuits and suspected he had hidden supplies or an anomalous object.

• Lin Yi exchanged five packs of instant noodles for Yang Wanying's All-Purpose Faucet and discovered its properties.
• Liu Chuan examined the faucet and praised Lin Yi's bargain, while Shen Chuchu and Wang Meng regretted not finding anomalous objects of their own.
• Yang Wanying's group cooked the noodles with water and shared the broth with the other women as the convoy prepared to enter Qing City.
• Qian Wenjun told his group to eat and rest before they searched for supplies in Qing City.
• Lin Yi saw a woman leave Qian Wenjun's vehicle with compressed biscuits and wondered whether Qian Wenjun had a hidden stockpile or an anomalous object.

The convoy entered snowbound Qing City and stopped at a village to search for supplies before a pursuing Aberration caught up. Lin Yi, Wang Meng, and Shen Chuchu entered together, and the Tier One Aberration Little Snowman began pursuing them as Liu Chuan warned the group.

• Liu Chuan led the convoy into Qing City, where heavy snow and icy roads forced them to drive slowly.
• Liu Chuan stopped the convoy outside a village and gave everyone one hour to search for supplies before an Aberration following them arrived.
• Lin Yi asked Wang Meng and Shen Chuchu to stay together, and Wang Meng revealed that he had advanced to Sequence Eight [Titan].
• Shen Chuchu spotted a snowman inside a room, so Lin Yi led the group around the house and into the village from another side.
• The Little Snowman sprang from the room with an icy dagger and pursued the group, and Liu Chuan warned everyone through his megaphone.