Arc 16Chapters 376–400
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Xu Ye found Zhou Nian’s parents, Du Meifang and Zhou Fanghua, hiding in a monastery in Uman City, where they told him of the Illusion Overlord’s prophecy that the New World gate would open onto hell and bring invaders from parallel worlds. As a child cried in the monastery’s rear courtyard, Xu Ye began to suspect that dangerous sequence talents might have caused the Illusion Overlord’s madness.
Xu Ye learned that Zhou Fanghua and Du Meifang were sheltering orphaned children and told them about the Death God’s return ritual. He persuaded the couple to join his operation and follow Alice, while the other members of their cult remained undecided.
Xu Ye and his allies planned to capture Yun Changeng and disrupt the Reincarnation Cult’s ritual, learning that a Shadow Spider parasite was hiding inside him. After agreeing on their operation, they formed a group called Aurora, which would worship no deities and bow to no fate.
Xu Ye and his allies lured Yun Changeng into revealing the Shadow Spider’s secrets and drove him toward the Monastery. The hunt began as Qin Feng confirmed that Yun Changeng had followed their plan.
Xu Ye lured Yun Changeng to the Monastery and used a level 3 Aberrant Human Skin to distort the Heavenly Dao, creating a restricted zone that blocked teleportation. Yun Changeng arrived at the altar and recognized the Child of Calamity, Will, in the Black Coffin.
Xu Ye and his allies separated Sophia from Yun Changeng and pressed the wounded Sequence 6 into a fight. Yun Changeng trapped Xu Ye in his turn-based Office ability, but Alice appeared and claimed a turn of her own.
Xu Ye and his companions used the extra turns granted by their independent life-forms to attack Yun Changeng, whose Sequence Talent trapped them in a battle. The Lord of Darkfall’s Profanity triggered Yun Changeng’s aberration, collapsing the constructed space and leaving him struggling to restrain the transformation outside the Monastery.
Xu Ye fought Yun Changeng as the Sequence 6 aberration overwhelmed the Monastery, then used contaminated egg fried rice to push him into becoming an Aberrant under Xu Ye’s control. After the battle, Xu Ye learned that he had an opportunity to reach Sequence 6 and that the Heavenly Dao offered him three paths, talents, and choices.
Xu Ye weighed three possible rituals for advancing to Sequence 6, each offering a different path and talent, but his choice was interrupted when his body began transforming after he captured a Sequence 6 Aberrant. He endured being torn apart and reassembled into countless pieces, then regained awareness in a small chunk of flesh as the Bandit Lord wondered whether this was the advanced form of [Block-Building Game].
Xu Ye tested the new abilities he gained after surviving a near-death transformation, while Qin Feng confronted Sophia at sea. Xu Ye learned the exchange and Death Marriage Ritual would take place at the Monte Building the following night, giving him a chance to rescue Qin Yanhua and escape Uman City.
Xu Ye infiltrated the Monte Hotel to investigate the Reincarnation Cult's Death Marriage Ritual, using human skins and the Red Veil to evade its defenses. He reached one of the ritual rooms by hiding pieces of his flesh in sacrificial offerings, but Bandit Lord began acting strangely nearby.
Xu Ye disguised himself as Doug with the Illusion Overlord’s power and was drawn into a surreal realm, where he met the Death God, Tana. Tana explained that his reincarnation was going wrong and asked Xu Ye to kill him before new power awakened and destroyed his identity.
Xu Ye learned that corrupted Sequence Talents could warp even gods, then fought the Death God Tana after agreeing to kill his newborn self so he could reincarnate and cleanse the corruption. The battle ended with Xu Ye revealing that his real body had never entered the White Bone Church and striking Tana from a distance.
Xu Ye defeated the Death God Tana by trapping and devouring him with a net of tentacles, but Tana survived as a weakened white bone skeleton. Tana offered Xu Ye a gift, and Xu Ye asked to choose a piece of his skull.
Tana gave Xu Ye the Soul-Summoning Bell and explained what he knew about the Gods' Pact before leaving to reincarnate. Back in the Monte Building, Xu Ye was caught up in a Death Marriage ritual as Ivy prepared the team to move.
During the Death Marriage Ritual, Xu Ye danced with Qin Yanhua until the Dreamscape plunged the Monte Building into darkness, letting him strike the Reincarnation Bishop and escape with her. Elsewhere, Shenchuan Shengshui revealed his power and threatened Shenchuan Xiu before sensing a strange presence near the building.
Ron discovered that a Blasphemer using dreamscape power had stolen Qin Yanhua, the Death God Proxy, and found an Aurora-marked card in the empty coffin. Xu Ye carried Ivy away, while Shenchuan Xiu failed to stop him and Mr. Sky Burial arrived with news that the Mother Goddess had given the family a new assignment as her influence on reality deepened.
He Li and Chen Dukang discussed the spreading Zerg threat and the Mother Nest’s projection while preparing to leave the Land of Exiles. Aboard a boat, Xu Ye’s companions made plans to part ways, leaving him with Lilith’s recording and a promise to meet again.
Guan Ze discovered that mutated spiders had escaped from an apartment and reported that the Mother Nest’s projection had entered the Great Fiend Restricted Zone. Meanwhile, Xu Ye learned that Li Yunyao’s mind was being drained by a Holy Grail Shard, and she suddenly began resisting it.
Xu Ye entered the Holy Grail fragment to help Li Yunyao and met Chen Tiantian across a barrier between worlds. He taught her how to grow stronger against the Bright Emperor before the fragment collapsed, leaving Chen Tiantian resolved to bring light back to her village and meet Xu Ye again.
Xu Ye discovered that Li Yunyao had become a powerful spirit body after escaping the Holy Grail fragment’s trial, and Zhong Little Hua revealed that she was the reincarnation of Silver Fox, Mu Bingfei. As the Dreamscape neared collapse, Xu Ye’s Golden Key grew scorching hot.
The Golden Key vanished, shattering the Dreamscape and restoring ordinary people who had died of natural causes while leaving deaths caused by Awakened, Uncanny, or Aberrants unchanged. The Gods’ plans were thrown into disarray, and Doctor Chen prepared to expose the truth as a new era began.
Xu Ye was ambushed by Shenchuan Jiaying while retrieving the Holy Grail Shard, but Li Yunyao’s spirit, Alice, and Shenchuan Shengshui helped him turn the fight around. Jiaying and Shengshui escaped, and Xu Ye vowed to rescue Shengshui from the Shenchuan Family.
Xu Ye read Shenchuan Shengshui’s warning about the Mother Nest’s impending attack and used the Illusion Overlord’s ability to bring Lu Xiaoyu back from the Mushroom Society. After Lü Xiao Dao reunited with his sister, the King of the Underworld revealed that the president of the Thunder Sound Society was nearby.
Xu Ye learned from the King of the Underworld that Lü Xiao Dao was Liu Tianlei’s doppelganger, created as part of a ritual, and heard how Liu’s past led to his downfall. As the New Year began and news spread that the Awakened and Aberrants would be revealed, Chen Tiantian watched her village prepare offerings for the Bright Emperor and vowed to lead everyone out.