Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi's convoy continued toward Three Gorges, where a drone announced that Three Gorges Fortress could shelter over a hundred thousand people. Lin Yi and Liu Chuan decided to investigate the fortress, while Liu Chuan considered using Lin Yi's Promotion Potion on Qian Wenjun or others to help Lin Yi advance to Sequence Seven.

• Liu Chuan led the convoy out of the city and toward Three Gorges, stopping at a service area to rest and refuel.
• Lin Yi asked Liu Chuan about Aberrations near Three Gorges, and Liu Chuan warned that large ones might be nearby.
• A drone announced that Three Gorges Fortress welcomed convoys and had enough food and water for over a hundred thousand people.
• Lin Yi and Liu Chuan agreed to investigate the fortress, while Wang Meng acknowledged that some survivors might choose to stay there.
• Liu Chuan suggested that if Lin Yi could not advance another way, they could give Qian Wenjun or someone else the Promotion Potion and have Lin Yi kill them.

Lin Yi and the convoy reached Three Gorges Fortress, where its guards demanded all their supplies. When the guards blocked them from leaving, Lin Yi broke the vest-wearing man's wrist, and an armed group from the fortress arrived to confront them.

• The convoy traveled safely to Three Gorges Fortress and found the dam frozen over.
• A man in a vest demanded that newcomers surrender their supplies, and a couple handed theirs over to gain entry.
• Lin Yi told those who wanted to leave to prepare to move, but the guards blocked the convoy and aimed guns at them.
• The vest-wearing man tried to grab Lin Yi, who snapped his wrist as Wang Meng and Shen Chuchu prepared to fight.
• The vest-wearing man begged Lin Yi for mercy, then an armed convoy arrived and an overweight man ordered the guards to lower their guns.

Yan Jianjun welcomed the Survival Rules Convoy into the Three Gorges Fortress after punishing a gatekeeper who tried to seize their supplies. He showed them the fortress’s extensive facilities and formidable Transcendent forces, then asked them to stay, leaving Liu Chuan to consider the request.

• Yan Jianjun identified himself as the head of the Three Gorges Fortress and ordered the gatekeeper punished for demanding the convoy’s supplies.
• Yan Jianjun invited Liu Chuan and the others inside, and they entered the fortress through a passage beneath the Three Gorges Dam.
• Yan Jianjun showed the convoy the parking garage and described the fortress’s five levels, capacity, power supply, food research, and stored provisions.
• Yan Jianjun revealed that the fortress had a Sequence Seven [Instructor], seven Sequence Eight Transcendents, and 121 Sequence Nine Transcendents.
• Yan Jianjun asked the Survival Rules Convoy to settle in the fortress, but Liu Chuan said he would not order its members to stay.

Lin Yi weighed the comfort of the Three Gorges Fortress against the danger of gathering so many people in one place and decided to leave for the North the next morning. While many in Qian Wenjun’s convoy chose to stay, Lin Yi’s group rested in the fortress’s Sequence Transcendent quarters for the night.

• Lin Yi doubted the fortress could remain safe from the many unknown Aberrations and knew he would not risk his life to protect its residents.
• Many travelers, including Little Zhou, asked Yan Jianjun to let them stay, while Zhang Wei, Li Kun, and Qian Wenjun chose to remain with Lin Yi’s group.
• Yan Jianjun offered Liu Chuan’s group a night to rest before deciding, and Liu Chuan accepted.
• Lin Yi and his companions settled into comfortable rooms on the fourth level, reserved for Sequence Transcendents.
• Lin Yi resolved to leave the fortress in the morning and continue north, even if the others decided to stay.

Liu Man explained the Survival Rules Convoy’s strength and Lin Yi’s ability to transform into an Aberrant Man-Dragon to Yan Jianjun and Yue Xi. Yue Xi warned that a level four aberration would attack Three Gorges Fortress the next day, leaving Yan Jianjun to find a way to ensure Lin Yi helped them survive.

• Yan Jianjun returned to his room, where Yue Xi and Liu Man told him that the Survival Rules Convoy had arrived but might not stay.
• Liu Man described the convoy’s surviving members, identifying Lin Yi as a Sequence Eight [Fallen Death Row Inmate] who could become an Aberrant Man-Dragon.
• Liu Man revealed that Lin Yi had devoured an Aberration Symbiote to absorb the Man-Dragon, alarming Yan Jianjun because the aberration grew stronger each time it was killed.
• Yue Xi used her anomalous object to predict that a level four aberration hiding in the snow would attack the fortress the next day.
• Yue Xi told Yan Jianjun to bring everyone inside and make sure Lin Yi fought alongside them, since otherwise they would all die.

Lin Yi and Liu Chuan learned that a level-four Aberration threatened Three Gorges Fortress, then discovered that Liu Man had arrived ahead of them and become a [Healer] Sequence Transcendent. Liu Man said she could eventually resurrect the dead, and Lin Yi suspected that a mysterious woman with [Ascension] had awakened her.

• Liu Chuan confronted Yan Jianjun after learning that a level-four Aberration was hiding near Three Gorges Fortress and could evade detection.
• Liu Chuan and Yan Jianjun told Lin Yi about the Aberration, and Lin Yi questioned how the fortress had discovered it.
• Liu Man arrived and told Lin Yi and Liu Chuan that someone had saved her, Ji, and Xiaoxiao, and that Shen Qingqing could also be saved.
• Lin Yi and Liu Chuan doubted Liu Man's claims, so she revealed that she was a [Healer] Sequence Transcendent who could resurrect the dead upon reaching Sequence Two.
• Lin Yi concluded that Liu Man had likely been awakened by the mysterious woman with the [Ascension] Sequence.

Lin Yi refused to risk his life fighting the level four aberration threatening Three Gorges Fortress, despite Liu Man and Yan Jianjun urging him to save everyone. He prepared to leave with his companions, while some chose to stay behind.

• Liu Man told Lin Yi that a level four aberration would attack the Fortress the next morning and urged him to transform into the Aberrant Man-Dragon to protect everyone.
• Liu Chuan rebuked Liu Man for gambling with Lin Yi’s life and explained that Lin Yi’s transformations and deaths were consuming his remaining chances.
• Lin Yi rejected Yan Jianjun’s appeal to become a hero and said he would leave Three Gorges Fortress rather than risk his life.
• Liu Chuan woke Wang Meng and Shen Chuchu while Lin Yi explained the danger to Zhang Wei and Li Kun; Wang Meng left with Lin Yi, but Shen Chuchu, Zhang Wei, and Li Kun chose to stay.
• Lin Yi took Aru with him, and Liu Chuan gave Wang Gui a Sequence Awakening Potion before the group departed.

A Level Four Aberration and a swarm of Little Snowmen trapped Lin Yi, Liu Chuan, and the others inside Three Gorges Fortress. Gao Yue Xi revealed that she was a triple-Sequence Transcendent and offered Lin Yi Anomalous Objects in exchange for his help fighting the Aberrations.

• Liu Chuan sensed at least a thousand Aberrations surrounding Three Gorges Fortress, forcing the group to abandon their attempt to leave.
• Lin Yi saw Little Snowmen closing in on the fortress gate and encountered Gao Yue Xi, who had also been unable to escape.
• Lin Yi deduced that Gao Yue Xi had used Yan Jianjun to seek a chance to leave, and she revealed that she held three Sequences.
• Lin Yi introduced Gao Yue Xi as the Motorcycle Woman who had saved Liu Man, while Qian Wenjun showed interest in her Anomalous Objects.
• Gao Yue Xi asked Lin Yi to work with her against the Aberrations and offered to trade him Anomalous Objects, while Liu Chuan warned that fighting would cost Lin Yi five uses of 'Fallen'.

Lin Yi refused Gao Yue Xi’s offer to join the Convoy and prepared to escape Three Gorges Fortress before the Level Four Aberration attacked at dawn. The group boarded Liu Chuan’s Anomalous Object Bus, and Lin Yi readied himself to carry it through the Little Snowmen as the fortress door opened.

• Lin Yi learned Gao Yue Xi had divined that the Level Four Aberration would attack Three Gorges Fortress early the next morning, though she did not know what it was.
• Lin Yi told Liu Chuan and Wang Meng to pack into one vehicle and leave before dawn, then refused Gao Yue Xi’s plea to join the Convoy because he considered her too dangerous.
• Liu Chuan transformed a miniature Bus into an Anomalous Object vehicle that ran on water, and the group loaded their supplies aboard.
• Liu Chuan asked Qian Wenjun to drive while he handled sensing, and Lin Yi climbed onto the Bus’s roof to prepare to carry it outside as the Aberrant Man-Dragon.
• Lin Yi warned Yan Jianjun through a camera not to obstruct their escape, and the heavy stone door began to lower as the Little Snowmen turned toward the opening.
• Lin Yi sat on the Bus roof and began using Fallen as black smoke spread from his body.

Lin Yi transformed into the Aberrant Man-Dragon and dragged the vehicle through the Little Snowmen army to escape the Three Gorges Fortress. After fleeing over the hills with a Snow Jellyfish in pursuit, the group reached a quieter mountain road, where Lin Yi asked Liu Chuan to check for other aberrations.

• Lin Yi transformed into the Aberrant Man-Dragon and pulled the vehicle through the open fortress gate toward the Little Snowmen army.
• The Little Snowmen swarmed Lin Yi and battered the vehicle as he fought them off and crossed the ice.
• Liu Chuan warned Lin Yi to avoid the Level Four Aberration snake's territory, so Lin Yi veered over a nearby hill.
• Lin Yi fled with the Snow Jellyfish following overhead as the snowfall intensified and an illusion began to form.
• The Snow Jellyfish turned back after the group crossed a third hill, and Lin Yi stopped on a quieter mountain road and asked Liu Chuan to check for nearby aberrations.

After escaping the area around the Three Gorges Fortress, Lin Yi and the Convoy set off toward Shaanxi Province. Lin Yi suspected Gao Yue Xi had a hidden plan and revealed that she possessed three sequence pathways, including one that might let her avoid their side effects.

• Liu Chuan confirmed the Convoy had escaped the nearby aberrations, and Lin Yi recovered from his Fallen state after eating Little Snowmen.
• Lin Yi and Liu Chuan speculated that Gao Yue Xi had a way to escape the level four aberration, while the group mourned Chuchu, Wang Gui, and the others left behind.
• Liu Chuan ordered Qian Wenjun to drive, and the Convoy resumed its journey toward Shaanxi Province.
• Lin Yi said Gao Yue Xi had likely been pretending she wanted to leave alone and suspected Yan Jianjun's Sequence Seven was watching her.
• Lin Yi revealed that Gao Yue Xi had three sequence pathways, including one that could counter sequence side effects, and Liu Chuan identified it as possibly the [Trickster] pathway.

Gao Yue Xi used the Bagua Disk to escape to Farstar Fortress with Shen Chuchu, Liu Man, and the other women, while a Level Four Snowshadow Flower emerged behind them. As Farstar Fortress fought the Aberration, its leaders argued over who had caused the disaster and past conflicts within their faction.

• Gao Yue Xi brought Shen Chuchu, Liu Man, and ten other women to Farstar Fortress through a magic circle, using up her shattered Bagua Disk.
• Gao Yue Xi told the women to wear face coverings and said they would leave the fortress that night, while reassuring Shen Chuchu that her backup plan at Three Gorges Fortress had targeted the Level Four Aberration.
• A Snowshadow Flower burst from the rubbish heaps and froze the surrounding dump, prompting Gao Yue Xi and the women to hurry away.
• Three Sequence Seven experts from Farstar Fortress arrived to hold back the Snowshadow Flower, which threatened the fortress once it fully bloomed.
• Farstar Fortress's leaders argued over the Aberration's appearance, and a young man accused them of causing Old Qian's death and driving Minister Cao away before refusing to send his Sequence Seven fighters.

The Bus emerged from the blizzard into the hazardous Wasteland, where Lin Yi's group learned they needed Purifying Masks to travel safely. Aru crafted masks from ghost shadow hide, and Lin Yi asked Liu Chuan to seek news about Chang'an City and his aunt before they decided whether to go there.

• The Bus entered the Wasteland, and the group shut its windows to escape the burning air; Liu Chuan explained the environmental dangers and the need for Purifying Masks.
• Aru offered to craft masks and used the ghost shadow hide from the Queen Convoy to make a stack of Purifying Masks.
• Lin Yi confirmed the masks could protect them from airborne hazards, while Liu Chuan sensed an Aberration pursuing the Bus.
• Lin Yi asked Liu Chuan to check with the Void Hall about Chang'an City and his aunt, and said they would avoid the city if it had been overrun.

Lin Yi and Wang Meng got off the anomalous Bus to confront a pursuing Aberration, while Qian Wenjun and Little Zhou seized the chance to flee and revealed they had secretly advanced to Sequence Eight. Lin Yi and Wang Meng caught the group after the Bus ran out of fuel, and Lin Yi began attacking them.

• Lin Yi and Wang Meng left the Bus to fight the three-headed Aberration, and Qian Wenjun's group drove away with Aru bound and gagged.
• Qian Wenjun revealed that he and Little Zhou had secretly become Sequence Eight [Shacklers] after obtaining Promotion Potions from Yang Wanying's group.
• The pursuing Aberration kept after the Bus as it ran out of fuel, so Qian Wenjun and Little Zhou stopped to fight while the others searched for a way to refill it with water.
• Lin Yi and Wang Meng appeared on the Bus roof, and Lin Yi struck Wang with his baseball bat, caving in part of his skull.
• A hook-nosed man begged Lin Yi for mercy, but Lin Yi approached the group, intending to kill them and advance his [Criminal] Sequence by killing a [Blade-for-Hire].

Lin Yi killed Qian Wenjun and advanced to Sequence Seven of the [Criminal] pathway, gaining [Blood Prison]. After Lin Yi and Wang Meng returned to the Bus, Liu Chuan warned them that a cult in Shaanxi Province was targeting people on the [Watcher] pathway.

• Qian Wenjun killed Little Zhou and tried to blame him while pleading with Lin Yi and Wang Meng for mercy.
• Lin Yi killed Qian Wenjun, fulfilling the requirement to advance, and reached Sequence Seven as a [Blood Prison Madman].
• Lin Yi gained the [Blood Prison] ability, lost the side effects of [Fallen], and increased its uses from ten to twenty.
• Lin Yi and Wang Meng boarded the Bus, where Liu Chuan had regained consciousness and freed Aru.
• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi that the White Lotus Divine Church in Shaanxi Province was seeking people on the [Watcher] pathway, especially those with higher Sequence ranks.

Lin Yi learned about the White Lotus Fortress’s threat, Chang’an’s Ghost Emperor, and Gao Yue Xi’s bounty before sharing a last hot pot meal with his companions. As a hostile convoy surrounded their bus, Lin Yi prepared to confront its swaggering leader with a sniper rifle.

• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi that the White Lotus Fortress had five Sequence Seven members who had captured Watchers, while a level five Ghost Emperor and its army occupied Chang’an.
• Liu Chuan revealed that Gao Yue Xi had arrived with twelve women, including Liu Man and Shen Chuchu, and brought the level four aberration Snowshadow Flower, which had badly injured three Farstar Fortress Sequence Seven members.
• Liu Chuan explained that the Farstar Fortress had offered three high-ranked Anomalous Objects and fifty portions of materials for Gao Yue Xi’s head, with smaller bounties on the other women, but Lin Yi decided not to pursue them.
• Lin Yi, Liu Chuan, Wang Meng, and Aru prepared a hot pot meal on the bus, and Lin Yi retrieved used Purifying Masks to trade for supplies.
• A convoy surrounded the anomalous Bus, and after its leader challenged them, Lin Yi grabbed Aru’s sniper rifle and aimed it out the window.

Liu Chuan and Lin Yi followed the Northwest Wolf Convoy toward Farstar Fortress, hoping to learn about the region and replenish supplies. Captain Wu Yuan treated the newcomers cautiously and warned his companion not to report them to White Lotus Fortress, while Liu Chuan explained the power of advancing to Sequence Six.

• Wu Yuan stopped his convoy when Lin Yi aimed a sniper rifle at him, then invited Liu Chuan's group to travel with them toward Farstar Fortress.
• After the Northwest Wolf Convoy left, Liu Chuan chose to follow it so they could reach Farstar Fortress and learn from local people.
• Wu Yuan saw the Bus join his convoy and told his driver to approach its occupants carefully because they seemed dangerous.
• The driver suggested informing White Lotus Fortress if someone in the Bus followed the [Watcher] Sequence, but Wu Yuan threatened her against it.
• Lin Yi asked Wang Meng whether he wanted a vial of Promotion Potion, and Liu Chuan explained that Sequence Six marked a transformation beyond humanity and greatly increased a person's abilities.

The Northwest Wolf Convoy’s members smelled Lin Yi’s hot pot and demanded that he share his food. Lin Yi challenged their claims and asked to speak to their captain, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• The Northwest Wolf Convoy stopped for the night, and Lin Yi noticed that its members were marked with dark brown patches and appeared malnourished.
• Liu Chuan cooked instant noodles with the group’s leftover hot pot broth, and the aroma drew hungry convoy members toward the Bus.
• Wu Yuan tried to disperse the crowd but warned them not to provoke Lin Yi’s group; the members instead demanded that the newcomers share their supplies.
• Lin Yi stepped off the Bus with a bowl of noodles, and an old woman insisted that he hand over his seasoning and supplies.
• Lin Yi mocked the convoy’s sharing demands and asked for its captain to come speak to him.

Lin Yi refused the Northwest Wolf Convoy’s demand to share his hot pot supplies and warned Wu Yuan to keep his people in line. After Wu Yuan forced the crowd to disperse, Liu Chuan identified him as a member of the [Guardian] Sequence.

• Wu Yuan defended equal sharing of supplies, but Lin Yi mocked the idea and refused to give the convoy his hot pot ingredients.
• Auntie Zhang and other convoy members demanded an apology and the hot pot supplies, so Lin Yi charged at them with his High-Voltage Baseball Bat.
• Wu Yuan stepped in front of Auntie Zhang and blocked Lin Yi’s attack with his hardened body.
• Lin Yi spared the convoy at Wu Yuan’s request but warned him to control his people, then returned to the Bus.
• Wu Yuan rebuked Auntie Zhang and ordered the convoy members to disperse, while Auntie Zhang glared at the Bus and went to boil water.
• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi that Wu Yuan belonged to the [Guardian] Sequence and compared the convoy’s sharing rules to those of Wang Meng’s former captain.

Wu Yuan’s convoy met Gao Yue Xi’s group for an ice trade, while Lin Yi suspected they planned to rob the convoy. Before a possible confrontation, Wang Meng advanced to Sequence Seven [Glorious Behemoth], and Aru considered forging an anomalous object from pooled materials.

• Wu Yuan’s companion warned him that his convoy members might resent him for offending a higher-sequence transcendent on their behalf.
• Wu Yuan’s convoy drove to a deserted town to trade its ice shipment with a group led by Gao Yue Xi.
• Lin Yi recognized Gao Yue Xi and suspected her group had replaced the original buyers to ambush Wu Yuan’s convoy.
• Lin Yi gave Wang Meng a Promotion Potion, and Wang Meng advanced from Sequence Eight to Sequence Seven [Glorious Behemoth].
• Lin Yi worried Gao Yue Xi might have a top-hundred anomalous object, so Liu Chuan asked Aru whether they could pool materials to forge a high-ranking anomalous object.