Chapter Summaries

Su Ye gained the Spirit Eye talent and used it to pass the first stage of the Wind God trial. After obtaining a Windwhisper Stele Forest Rubbing, he was transported away as the next trial began.

• Su Ye acquired Spirit Eye, which let him see through illusions and reveal targets' attributes and weak points.
• Su Ye stored the Road Segment Tier-Crossing Pass and decided to save the Wind God Trial Scroll for a trial suited to his current tier.
• Su Ye entered the Wind God trial and arrived in the Windwhisper Stele Forest, where he had to activate five steles by matching wind frequencies.
• Su Ye used Spirit Eye to ignore the Wind Shadows' interference and activate the first four steles, then matched three changing frequencies on the final stele.
• Su Ye passed the first trial, received the Windwhisper Stele Forest Rubbing, and was enveloped by a pillar of spatial light.

Su Ye cleared all five wind nests on Wind Nest Cliff, defeated their masters, and obtained the Crown of Wind. He began the third trial by stepping onto the central platform to endure the Heart of Wind's storm for five minutes.

• Su Ye fought his way up Wind Nest Cliff and killed the first nest master, an Azure-Steel Wind Eagle, then cleared its nest.
• Su Ye destroyed the second nest with Thunder Prison Cage and defeated the third nest's Gale Demon Puppet with spear attacks and a mental strike.
• Su Ye killed the fourth nest's Bone Dragon and claimed its feather.
• Su Ye defeated the Storm Lord in the fifth nest, bringing the five feathers together to form the Crown of Wind.
• Su Ye entered the Heart of Wind trial and stepped onto the central platform as the first round of the storm began.

Su Ye passed the Heart of Wind trial and entered the final trial, where he faced a Wind God's Shadow that copied his abilities and multiplied whenever it was killed. As the copies overwhelmed the arena, Su Ye struggled to find a way to stop them.

• Su Ye endured the Heart of Wind's hurricane, wind blades, and illusions until he passed the third trial and obtained the Heart of Wind.
• Su Ye entered the arena for the final trial and learned that the Wind God's Shadow would copy his skills and split into two copies when killed.
• Su Ye defeated the first Wind God's Shadow, but it split into two, and those copies multiplied whenever he killed them.
• Su Ye fought increasing numbers of copies as their lightning and mental attacks drained his stamina and filled the arena.
• Su Ye searched for a weakness but found none, while the number of Wind God's Shadows exceeded two hundred.

Su Ye passed the Wind God Trial and received the Wind God's Wings, which gave the Gale Ranger true flight. After testing the vehicle's aerial maneuverability, he used it to ram and kill a pursuing tier-three giant eagle.

• Su Ye survived the ultimate trial, learned that killing Wind God's Shadows had improved his reward, and received the Wind God's Wings.
• Su Ye installed the Wind God's Wings on the Gale Ranger, giving it translucent wind-element wings and the ability to fly.
• Su Ye ordered A Da to test the Gale Ranger's flight, and they discovered that higher altitudes greatly increased fuel consumption.
• Su Ye had A Da test the vehicle's aerial maneuverability and saw it handle sharp turns and abrupt stops with ease.
• Fifteen detected a pursuing tier-three giant eagle, and Su Ye ordered A Da to charge it at full speed.
• A Da dodged most of the eagle's Wind Blades, and the Gale Ranger killed it with its Ramming Horn.

Huo Ling proved her worth by crafting five Tier Four potions, and Su Ye welcomed her into the group. After half a month of travel and training, the pursuit event ended, and Su Ye began preparing the Expedition Alliance to clear its monthly instance.

• Huo Ling presented Su Ye with five Tier Four potions, and he praised her work and assigned her potion blueprints and access to materials through Xing Meng and Qingya.
• Su Ye ordered A Da to stop at night for a welcome party, where Huo Ling helped prepare food and became familiar with Xing Meng, Qingya, and the others.
• For half a month, the Gale Ranger traveled onward, crushing monsters and gathering resources as Su Ye and the others followed their routines.
• A region-wide announcement declared the He Chases, You Run monthly event over, and players in C13 Zone celebrated surviving it and thanked the Expedition Alliance for its mercenary help.
• Su Ye decided to clear the alliance's monthly Ten-Thousand-Player Instance and messaged Mo Yu to gather alliance members at the Alliance Base in four hours.

Su Ye led the Expedition Alliance through the Abyssal Insect Valley instance, using the Gale Ranger to destroy the swarms and kill the Tier Four Abyssal Insect Matriarch. After the alliance received an Alliance War Banner, Su Ye bound it to the Expedition Alliance and named it Expedition.

• Su Ye brought ten thousand alliance members into Abyssal Insect Valley, where Mo Yu organized their formation against the Abyss Blade Bugs.
• A Da flew the Gale Ranger above the canyon while Fifteen used the Starlight Weave Module and the Army-Breaker Cannon to wipe out thousands of insects.
• The alliance advanced through the canyon and reached the brood nest, where Su Ye ordered Fifteen to fire on the Tier Four Abyssal Insect Matriarch.
• The Army-Breaker Cannon killed the matriarch, clearing the instance and earning the alliance an Alliance War Banner.
• Su Ye bound the banner to the Expedition Alliance, named it Expedition, and inspected its effects.

Su Ye examined the Alliance War Banner’s powerful death-triggered damage boost, then returned to his base and prepared for the new Monthly Event. When “Midnight Run” began, he found his Vehicle’s modules protected him from the polar night and tasked Huo Ling with developing a way to let weapons and Vehicles harm Spirit Body monsters.

• Su Ye considered how the Alliance War Banner’s Undying Will effect could multiply his damage, but decided to save it for a future challenge.
• Su Ye returned to the Alliance base, told Mo Yu and Whirlwind to distribute the loot and strengthen the members, then drove onto the highway.
• The system launched the thirty-day “Midnight Run” event, bringing polar darkness, falling temperatures, aggressive Shadow Spirit Bodies, and a rule that summoned a Shadow Executioner if a Vehicle stopped for over thirty minutes.
• Su Ye confirmed that the Gale Ranger’s temperature control, radar, and weather forecast remained functional, while worrying that other players lacked ways to fight Spirit Body monsters.
• Huo Ling offered to develop a potion that granted weapons and Vehicles Spirit-Breaking status, and Su Ye gave her three days and permission to obtain ingredients from Xing Meng.

Su Ye fought off a Tier Four Shadow Executioner with mental attacks and lightning, earning an Aurora Shard during the Midnight Run event. He checked on the Alliance Base and received a private message from Mo Yu.

• Su Ye ordered Ember Iron to research weapons effective against spirit monsters and told Xing Meng to keep the Gale Ranger ready for the Shadow Executioner.
• A Shadow Executioner appeared beside the Gale Ranger, and Su Ye identified its physical immunity and weaknesses to mental attacks and lightning.
• The Shadow Executioner attacked the vehicle, but Su Ye stunned it with Barrier-Piercing Thrust and destroyed it with lightning.
• Su Ye collected an Aurora Shard and considered how many shards he might earn during the event.
• Su Ye checked the Alliance Base and saw that Mo Yu and Whirlwind had tested whether Shadow Executioners could enter; players inside reported the base remained safe.
• Su Ye received a private message from Mo Yu.

Su Ye received Mo Yu’s findings on the event mechanics and ordered the Alliance management team to devise a large-scale Aurora Shard harvesting plan. After discovering that Polar Night temperatures were falling rapidly, he reviewed their proposal for farming Shadow Executioners outside the Alliance Base.

• Mo Yu reported the event rules, including guaranteed Aurora Shard drops from Shadow Executioners and party spawns determined by the highest-tier player.
• Su Ye asked Mo Yu to coordinate with Whirlwind, Ling Yue, and the management team to plan large-scale shard harvesting.
• Su Ye activated the Dark Hunter module and ordered Fifteen to use the parked Gale Ranger to kill any monsters that spawned overnight and collect their drops.
• Su Ye woke to find the outside temperature had fallen to -3°C, and Fifteen warned that Polar Night temperatures were continuing to drop.
• Mo Yu sent Su Ye a plan to rotate Alliance members through twenty parking spaces outside the base, kill the spawned Executioners, pool the shards, and reward participants with Alliance Contribution Points.

Su Ye approved the Expedition Alliance’s plan to farm Aurora Shards safely and continued traveling while his vehicle collected shards overnight. Huo Ling developed Spirit-Breaking Potions, and Su Ye gave the tier two and tier three formulas to the Alliance while keeping her focused on tier four production.

• Su Ye approved Mo Yu’s monster-farming plan and ordered the Alliance to test ten monster-luring points without risking injuries or deaths.
• Fifteen reported that the vehicle had defeated Shadow Executioners and Shadow Wraiths overnight, earning twenty-three Aurora Shards.
• Su Ye continued traveling as A Da drove the Gale Ranger, while he trained and let Fifteen and Xing Meng handle monsters along the road.
• Huo Ling presented Su Ye with tier two, tier three, and tier four Spirit-Breaking Potions and their formulas.
• Su Ye took the tier two and tier three formulas for the Expedition Alliance and instructed Huo Ling to focus on producing tier four potions.

Su Ye entered the Road Instance "Last Bus" after learning that Mo Yu’s Alliance was stockpiling Aurora Shards and preparing to expand its escort and trading operations. The instance made Su Ye the driver of the Route Seven Last Bus and gave him nine operating rules, leaving him to begin a dangerous overnight route.

• Su Ye told Mo Yu to mass-produce spirit-targeting potions, and Mo Yu reported that the Alliance had collected 733,147 Aurora Shards in three days.
• Mo Yu estimated the Alliance could gather at least ten million Aurora Shards by the event’s end through nighttime farming, paid escort work, and a final buying campaign.
• Fifteen alerted Su Ye to a bank of Gray Fog, and Su Ye sent drones to investigate before ordering A Da to drive into it.
• The system identified the fog as the Road Instance "Last Bus," assigned Su Ye as the Route Seven Last Bus driver, and transported the Gale Ranger to an old bus depot.
• A Da handed Su Ye a sheet listing nine rules for operating the Last Bus, including its departure time, passenger and ticket requirements, and deadline to reach the final stop.

Su Ye drove the Gale Ranger through a rule-bound Instance, where he rejected an infectious patient and relied on the Tree of Life to purify the resulting poisonous mist. At the Abandoned School stop, four students revealed they had eaten their teacher and transformed into monsters aboard the vehicle.

• Su Ye took the driver's seat and drove the Gale Ranger out of the Parking Lot at 23:00.
• Su Ye checked three patients' medical records at the Old Hospital stop and refused to let the patient with a highly infectious disease board.
• A Da killed the rejected patient, and the Tree of Life purified the Disease Source mist before it could harm the passengers.
• Su Ye drove on and stopped at the Abandoned School, where four students boarded with a Monthly Pass.
• Su Ye asked where the students' teacher was, and the featureless female student said they had eaten their teacher before all four students mutated and attacked.

Su Ye drove the bus through several stops, testing the rules and having A Da kill passengers to collect tickets. At Industrial District Station, the Ticket Inspector checked every passenger, including Su Ye, and left after finding that everyone had a ticket.

• A Da killed four students who approached the bus, and Su Ye drove away after the stop.
• Su Ye ran over a roadside figure despite there being no bus stop sign, then had A Da kill the two patient passengers to obtain tickets.
• At Old Town, A Da killed four elderly passengers, and Su Ye distributed tickets to Xing Meng and the others.
• A drunk boarded at Commercial Street Station without a ticket and tried to attack Su Ye, but A Da killed him and kicked him off the bus.
• At Industrial District Station, the Ticket Inspector boarded and checked Su Ye, A Da, Xing Meng, Ember Iron, Qingya, and Huo Ling; everyone showed a ticket, so it left.

Su Ye drove the Gale Ranger to the terminal station, where the passengers were required to rate the ride. When the child and clown transformed into tier four monsters, Su Ye killed them, but a tier five Terminal Stationmaster appeared and confronted him.

• Su Ye drove past the clown's attempted magic trick and used the vehicle's weapons to kill the creature walking on the roof.
• Su Ye reached the terminal station with the child and clown still aboard, and the system demanded passenger ratings within ten minutes.
• Su Ye recognized the child and clown's threat and ordered A Da to attack them before they could give negative reviews.
• The child and clown transformed into tier four monsters, but Su Ye trapped them with Thunder Prison Cage while A Da beheaded them.
• A tier five Terminal Stationmaster emerged from the station hall and appeared before the Gale Ranger.

Su Ye killed the tier five Stationmaster and discovered Rule Ten, which required an approval rating of exactly 50% to leave the Last Bus instance. After looting the Stationmaster’s safe, Su Ye and his companions balanced their reviews and successfully completed the instance.

• Su Ye equipped the Bladeless Set, fought the Stationmaster, and killed him with Extreme Thunder Skybreak.
• Su Ye sent Xing Meng’s drone into the Stationmaster’s office, where it found Rule Ten and a key to the Stationmaster’s safe.
• Su Ye opened the safe and obtained two million Survival Coins, a Tier Five Shadow Crystal Core, and a Terminal Station Pass.
• Su Ye directed his companions to submit three negative and two positive reviews, then submitted a positive review himself.
• The review tally reached three positive and three negative reviews, giving Su Ye an approval rating of 50% and allowing him to leave the Last Bus instance.

Su Ye found and disposed of two cursed items left behind in the vehicle, earning a Title Advancement Stone from the Lost Property Box. After leaving the instance, he used the stone to advance King's Coronation into the unique title Beneath the Divine Throne.

• Fifteen detected abnormal energy in the vehicle, and Su Ye found cursed candy and a playing card left behind by the child and clown.
• Su Ye used Spirit Eye to learn that the candy would reduce his mental attribute and the card would cause the clown to revive and hunt him.
• Xing Meng's drones found a Lost Property Box, and Su Ye dropped both cursed items inside.
• The box consumed the items and spat out a Title Advancement Stone, which Su Ye took with him as he left the instance and returned to the Survival Road.
• Su Ye used the stone on King's Coronation and received the unique title Beneath the Divine Throne.

Su Ye examined his newly upgraded Beneath the Divine Throne title, then waited as the Midnight Run event ended and the Event Shop opened. Mo Yu reported the Expedition Alliance’s huge haul, and Su Ye went to the base to collect it while leaving Survival Coins for Alliance expenses.

• Su Ye reviewed the upgraded title’s stronger aura, inspection protection, and King’s Judgment, then resumed training Wave Stacking.
• The Midnight Run event ended, and players praised the Expedition Alliance’s mercenary service and Spirit-Breaking supplies.
• Su Ye opened the Event Shop and found that he had only a little over five hundred Aurora Shards.
• Mo Yu told Su Ye that the Alliance had gathered over eighteen million Aurora Shards and earned 7.3 billion Survival Coins in profit.
• Su Ye traveled to the Alliance base, collected the shards and Survival Coins, and kept 2.3 billion Survival Coins for Alliance operating funds.

Su Ye spent his Aurora Shards on Secret Crystals, an Eternal Night Walker module, and Vehicle Weapon Upgrade Cards, then installed the module on the Gale Ranger. He admired its powerful nighttime abilities and prepared to upgrade the vehicle’s weapons.

• Su Ye left the Alliance Base after discussing the Expedition Alliance’s future with Mo Yu and checked his balance of more than nine billion Survival Coins.
• Su Ye bought ten Random Secret Crystals, the Eternal Night Walker module, five Vehicle Weapon Upgrade Cards, and Tier Four Material Packs with his Aurora Shards.
• Su Ye installed the Eternal Night Walker module on the Gale Ranger and learned it granted powerful camouflage, movement, and attack effects at night.
• Su Ye left the Training Room with five Vehicle Weapon Upgrade Cards to begin upgrading the Gale Ranger’s weapons.

Su Ye upgraded all five of the Gale Ranger’s vehicle weapons, turning them into powerful advanced weapons. After using Random Secret Crystals and completing a seven-crystal set, he awakened a mark and gained access to the Azure Dragon Secret Realm.

• Su Ye upgraded the Army-Breaker Cannon into an Annihilation Cannon with spatial tremors and an armor-piercing Overload Barrage.
• Su Ye transformed the Roof-Mounted Ballista into a homing Phantom Soul-Chasing Crossbow and the Light Machine-Gun Turret into a Storm Autocannon.
• Su Ye upgraded the Shatterblade into energy-draining Starfall Chain Blades and the Caltrops Dispenser into a Magnetic Storm Mine Deployment Array.
• Su Ye inspected the Gale Ranger’s upgraded arsenal, then returned to the Training Room and used ten Random Secret Crystals.
• Su Ye’s crystals completed the set of seven Secret Crystals, fused into an azure mark, and unlocked access to the Azure Dragon Secret Realm.

After learning that collecting the Secret Crystals had opened the Tier Three Azure Dragon Secret Realm, Su Ye decided to enter and began preparing for its dangers. He arranged equipment, potions, scouting drones, and funds for the Tree of Life, then entered the Cultivation Room with Qingya to inspect it.

• Su Ye learned that the Azure Dragon Secret Realm was a dangerous special realm that matched his tier and barred vehicles, and he decided to enter after making preparations.
• Ember Iron told Su Ye that four Tier Four equipment sets were ready, while Huo Ling offered to pack thirteen kinds of Tier Three and Tier Four potions.
• Su Ye agreed to give Qingya 6.5 billion Survival Coins to mature the Tree of Life in exchange for well-aged Fruits of Life.
• Su Ye ordered Xing Meng and Fifteen to defend the Gale Ranger and had Xing Meng prepare heavy-duty reconnaissance drones for him.
• Su Ye stopped A Da from killing himself before the expedition and sent everyone to prepare for their tasks.
• Su Ye followed Qingya into the Cultivation Room and saw its rare treasures and the still-growing Tree of Life.