Chapter Summaries

Xu Ye and Alice rescued Lü Xiao Dao from a painful mental episode and learned that his visions of a Great Fiend attack were memories of the Midnight Church’s destruction twenty years earlier, not predictions of the future. Lü Xiao Dao returned home to his sister, unaware that his strange lack of a second personality also made him resemble Xu Ye.

• Xu Ye returned to Alice and learned that he needed to choose a deity to blaspheme against before advancing to Sequence 7.
• Alice sensed Lü Xiao Dao’s distress through his Dark Night Servant mark and pulled him into an illusory space, where she calmed his suffering.
• Lü Xiao Dao described his recurring visions of a Great Fiend attacking a city, and the Bandit Lord noted that Lü Xiao Dao had no second personality.
• Xu Ye recognized the Midnight Church in Lü Xiao Dao’s account and concluded that the visions were someone else’s memories of the church’s destruction twenty years earlier.
• Alice told Lü Xiao Dao to call upon her if his suffering returned, then sent him back to the bathroom.
• Lü Xiao Dao greeted Lu Xiaoyu and Zhong Little Hua, who teased him after misunderstanding why he had spent so long in the bathroom.

Xu Ye sensed the Lord of Darkfall moving toward his heart, while the Spirit Mirror Knight tracked him to Room 2001. The Knight found Xu Ye gone and left to pursue him, as Zhong Little Hua rushed to warn him.

• Xu Ye decided to give Dark Night Servant marks to Li Wan, Lu Xiaoyu, and Zhong Little Hua, and planned to seek information at the Wild Awakened Club.
• Chen Yu met a frail old man searching for his son and brought him home, where Zhong Little Hua recognized him as the Spirit Mirror Knight.
• Zhong Little Hua realized the Knight had likely followed Xu Ye’s scent and hurried toward the tenth floor to warn him.
• The Spirit Mirror Knight transformed, located Xu Ye in Room 2001, and stabbed the empty blanket before stepping back through a mirror to pursue him.

Xu Ye fled the Spirit Mirror Knight and used an Awakening Charm to return to the First Dreamscape Layer. He planned to seek a way to advance to Sequence 7 before returning, while the knight waited for him to reappear.

• The Spirit Mirror Knight attacked Xu Ye and killed nearby homeless witnesses, so Xu Ye tried to lure the knight away from other people.
• Xu Ye threw Alice at the Spirit Mirror Knight, and her distraction let Xu Ye break through an invisible wall and escape.
• Zhong Little Hua and Lu Xiaoyu watched from a nearby building as Lu Xiaoyu’s use of [Luck] exhausted her and Zhong Little Hua shared the backlash.
• Xu Ye raced away with the Spirit Mirror Knight pursuing him, then shattered an Awakening Charm to return to the First Dreamscape Layer.
• Xu Ye planned to visit the District 7 cemetery and desecrate the Illusion Overlord’s remains to advance to Sequence 7, while the Spirit Mirror Knight stayed behind and waited.

Xu Ye rescued Shenchuan Sato in the first dreamscape layer and persuaded him to search for the Illusion Overlord’s Incomplete Corpse together. Their plans drew the attention of Xia Yuze and Shenchuan Lan, who both recognized that someone had altered Sato’s fate.

• Xu Ye entered Shenchuan Sato’s home, used Delusion to pose as a Fallen Knight, and gained the Sequence 8-051 Spirit Mirror talent when Sato believed him.
• Xu Ye warned Sato that Shenchuan Lan had arranged the assassination, and Sato agreed to find the Illusion Overlord’s Incomplete Corpse with him.
• Xu Ye showed Sato Alice as his second head, convincing him to recruit Xia Yuze, a Sequence 7 Awakened from the Doctor Society, for the cemetery expedition.
• Xia Yuze realized that someone had interfered with Shenchuan Sato’s fate after returning to the first dreamscape layer.
• Shenchuan Lan learned that Sato was alive and resolved to discover who had rescued him.

Xu Ye joined Shenchuan Sato and a group of powerful figures preparing to enter the Illusion Overlord’s tomb, while his heart’s simulation warned of severe interference and a future disaster in Night Spirit City. In the second dreamscape layer, the President and the morgue’s awakened corpses learned that the Illusion Overlord was still alive, but their Goddess of Gloom had forbidden them to get involved.

• Xu Ye read a heavily corrupted heart simulation that warned of danger in the tomb and said Night Spirit City would explode six months later.
• Shenchuan Sato’s Crystal Ball shattered, and he told Xu Ye that he had explored the tomb before but could not remember entering its second passage.
• Xia Yuze arrived, followed by Shenchuan Lan and Shenchuan Jiaying, prompting Xu Ye to seek Jiaying’s protection until he learned the Fallen Knights had once killed Jiaying’s disciple.
• Shenchuan Lan led the group toward the tomb and wondered whether the strange-smelling Xia Yuze was the person who had ruined his plan.
• At Holy Cross Hospital, more than a hundred corpses sat up in the underground morgue as the President reported that the Illusion Overlord was still alive and that the Goddess of Gloom had forbidden them to intervene.

Xu Ye and the Shenchuan group crossed a heavily distorted cemetery where the Awakened were prone to mutation, then encountered a mysterious girl holding a torch near the White Church. The girl answered Xu Ye’s obscene gesture, suggesting she was a real person rather than an apparition created by the forbidden zone.

• Xu Ye prepared the Big Black Umbrella and Human Skin as the group entered the blood-red Gobi, where Shenchuan Lan measured Heavenly Dao distortion at fifty percent.
• Shenchuan Jiaying burned two members who mutated, while Xia Yuze used his calming ability to help Shenchuan Sato resist his second personality.
• Xu Ye slapped Shenchuan Lan back to his senses, then briefly comforted Xia Yuze when his second personality overwhelmed him.
• Near the White Church, the group saw a girl with a torch behind a yellow screen, and Shenchuan Jiaying warned them not to respond to her.
• Xu Ye gave the girl the middle finger, and she returned the gesture, leading him to suspect she was a real person.

The party reached the White Church after Xia Yuze destroyed a deity-born illusion with his mechanical weapons. Inside, Xu Ye alone saw the Goddess of Gloom’s portrait appear and realized the beautiful figure was male.

• Shenchuan Jiaying realized the party had been trapped in an illusion that kept the church out of reach.
• Xia Yuze revealed his biomechanical cannons and blasted apart the illusion.
• The party reached the White Church, where Shenchuan Jiaying recognized the names of divine seats beneath twenty-seven blank portraits.
• The Bandit Lord explained that the frames represented sequence 1 deities and vacant divine seats.
• Xu Ye saw the Goddess of Gloom’s portrait appear in the central frame, while the others did not notice it.
• Xu Ye spotted the portrait’s Adam’s apple and realized the Goddess of Gloom was male.

Xu Ye discovered that the Illusion Overlord had left behind the message that gods could not kill themselves, then triggered the deity’s lingering aura in the church. As the aura trapped and petrified everyone, Xu Ye absorbed the black snake Little Greenhide had left him, interrupting the Azure Sky Dragon’s promise of a treasure.

• Alice rejected the Goddess of Gloom’s image and speculated that she might be a demigod who had challenged his divine seat.
• The Goddess of Gloom’s portrait silently revealed that it knew Xu Ye came from Planet Earth, and Xu Ye found three warnings beneath the frame.
• The Shenchuan family and Xia Yuze removed deity portraits while Mr. Spirit Mirror greedily took down frames, and Xu Ye found the Illusion Overlord’s message that gods could not kill themselves.
• The Illusion Overlord’s lingering aura warped time and space, immobilized the group with colorful snakes, and forced everyone to kneel.
• Xu Ye knelt to avoid being tamed, then absorbed Little Greenhide’s black snake as a transparent python coiled around him; the Azure Sky Dragon recognized the Lord’s aura.

Xu Ye entered an illusion inside his body and encountered Athos, the ancient king of the Green-Skinned Dwarves, whose energy form had been corrupted by an Aberrant aura. After Athos explained the trial and his abilities, the snake-covered Aberrant demanded to be released, and Xu Ye prepared to fight.

• Xu Ye found himself in a distorted inner world and met Athos, who explained that Xu Ye had taken the wrong path.
• Xu Ye recognized Athos as the vanished king of the Tua Kingdom and considered how corruption might have changed him.
• Athos claimed that snake monsters had corrupted him and told Xu Ye to defeat him to reach the treasure.
• Athos described his limited Sequence 8 strength and the effects of [True and False] and [59 Seconds].
• Snakes overtook Athos's energy body, and the Aberrant demanded to be let out as Xu Ye gripped the Big Black Umbrella.

Xu Ye defeated the Snake Monster in the dreamscape, but the Bandit Lord questioned whether hidden forces had arranged his path and wondered if the Illusion Overlord had truly died. As Xu Ye realized he had not advanced to Sequence 7, the Overlord’s aura invaded his body.

• Xu Ye fought the Snake Monster using stealth, tentacles, firearms, and the Black Blade, while its [59 Seconds] ability and [Falsehood] made it difficult to wound.
• Xu Ye used Wang Han as a decoy, and Zhang Qing ambushed the Snake Monster long enough for Xu Ye to shove a grenade into its mouth and destroy its head with the Black Blade.
• The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that the convenient events leading to his blasphemy mission might have been arranged by someone and questioned whether the Illusion Overlord had truly died.
• Xu Ye realized he had not entered Sequence 7 when the Illusion Overlord’s aura burrowed into his arm and raced toward his brain.

Xu Ye completed his blasphemy and advanced to sequence 7, gaining new abilities while a remnant of the Illusion Overlord's aura branded his body in an awkward place. As the first dreamscape collapsed, he prepared to return to the second layer and face the Spirit Mirror Knight.

• The Illusion Overlord's black-snake aura tried to enter Xu Ye's mind, but Alice struck it away, and the Bandit Lord's energy blocked it from reaching his heart.
• Xu Ye drove the weakened aura toward his colon, where it clung to his rectal wall; the Bandit Lord said it had left a brand, while he and Alice laughed at Xu Ye.
• A law washed through Xu Ye, completing his blasphemy and advancing him to sequence 7, where he gained [Block-Building Game] and stronger versions of [Mayfly] and [Shadow Play].
• Xu Ye learned that his Black Blade had become a Grade D Taboo Object, with improved defense, attack reflection, and the ability to store blood to reduce his weakness after using the heart vortex.
• The first dreamscape began shattering as the Awakening Charm expired, and Xu Ye prepared to return to the second dreamscape layer to confront the Spirit Mirror Knight.

Shenchuan Lan and Shenchuan Jiaying planned to use the Holy Grail and Councilman Luo to help the Shenchuan Family seize Night Spirit City from Sky City. Meanwhile, Xu Ye fought the Spirit Mirror Knight, escaped a deadly strike by switching places with Shangguan Tian’s Human Skin, and left as Shen Xinghai’s Heart of the Order Keeper arrived.

• Shenchuan Lan and Shenchuan Jiaying returned from the dreamscape with the Mother Goddess’s picture frame and planned to help Councilman Luo unify the Land of Exiles and attack Sky City for Night Spirit City.
• Xiahou Ze stored the Mechanical Emperor’s picture frame and wondered why his lord’s presence had vanished six months earlier.
• Xu Ye fought the Spirit Mirror Knight outside the District 9 garbage dump, using his strange detached limbs and water-fire tentacles against the knight’s overwhelming strength and regeneration.
• The Polluted Realm’s negative effects drove the Spirit Mirror Knight berserk, and his lance shattered Xu Ye’s heart and lower body.
• Xu Ye survived by swapping places with Shangguan Tian’s Human Skin, then put on the Red Veil and slipped away while the Spirit Mirror Knight malfunctioned.
• Shen Xinghai led the Heart of the Order Keeper to the scene as the Spirit Mirror Knight tried and failed to escape through a mirror.

The Heart of the Order Keeper fought and captured the Spirit Mirror Knight while Xu Ye watched from hiding. Far away, a frail boy emerged from a hibernation pod and revealed that he had confirmed the boy from the fire six years earlier possessed something his lord wanted.

• Mo Feng led her squad in a golden-bullet assault on the Spirit Mirror Knight, and Shen Xinghai joined the fight despite her rebuke.
• Mo Feng attacked the wounded knight with curved blades, while Shen Xinghai's flames destroyed an insect double and helped cripple the real knight.
• Shen Xinghai sealed the Spirit Mirror Knight inside a Bloodthirst Barrier, then succumbed to the Mirror of Defilement's idiocy effect as his team carried him away.
• Xu Ye recovered his eye and ear and slipped away after the battle ended.
• A frail boy emerged from a hibernation pod in an underground chamber and said the boy from the fire six years earlier had something his lord wanted.

Chu You'an uncovered a warning in a Second Era tomb that humanity’s growing knowledge would bring doomsday, while Xu Ye returned home after killing the Spirit Mirror Knight and learned that a greater catastrophe might await in the deepest Dreamscape. His quiet evening with Chen Yu and the children ended when Ivy was found tangled with another woman in the hallway.

• Chu You'an studied a Second Era Bronze Coffin and found depictions of a square Earth and a warning that humanity’s expanding knowledge brought it closer to doomsday.
• Xu Ye restored his eyes and ears after killing the Spirit Mirror Knight, while the Bandit Lord warned that the fourth Dreamscape layer would bring an unavoidable catastrophe.
• Xu Ye returned to the Apartment and joined Chen Yu, Lu Xiaoyu, Zhong Little Hua, and Lü Xiao Dao for fish soup.
• Lu Xiaoyu told Xu Ye that the Federation Bureau of Investigation planned to regulate clubs and require daily activity plans.
• Xu Ye and the others rushed into the hallway after hearing Ivy cry out and found her tangled with another woman.

Xu Ye learned that An Ning had fallen into hardship and agreed to examine her, but she refused treatment and pursued a wealthy future instead. After An Ning revealed she was pregnant with Kang Ao’s child, she went to meet his friends, who told her she had AIDS and threatened her pregnancy.

• An Ning collapsed from low blood sugar and met Xu Ye, while Ivy asked him to examine her because she had abdominal pain.
• Ivy told Xu Ye that An Ning had changed after falling in with bad friends and was selling her body to afford luxury goods, and Xu Ye agreed to help.
• The next evening, Xu Ye followed An Ning after she refused to see a doctor and learned she had undergone extensive plastic surgery and was pregnant with Kang Ao’s child.
• An Ning explained that she wanted wealth and influence, planned to enter high society, and hoped to hire Xu Ye as her private doctor.
• An Ning arrived at a karaoke room, where Kang Ao’s friends welcomed her and then claimed she had AIDS and could not keep the baby.

Xu Ye watched Kang Ao and his wealthy friends brutalize An Ning and perform a sacrificial ritual to the Child of Calamity, sensing a powerful presence behind their actions. Meanwhile, Councilman Airo learned that a political scheme using information gathered by Shenchuan Sato had begun and warned that gods and religion threatened the nation.

• Xu Ye secretly followed An Ning to a private room, where Kang Ao pressured her to abort her pregnancy and spread disease to join his group.
• Kang Ao kicked An Ning and revealed four abused women bound behind a curtain before smashing An Ning's head against a table.
• Kang Ao and his friends circled the bloodied An Ning and recited a prayer to the Child of Calamity as pestilential green vapor and skulls filled the room.
• Councilman Airo received word from Guan Ze that Shenchuan Lan's plan against political opponents had begun, using information collected by Shenchuan Sato.
• Councilman Airo told Guan Ze that gods should remain in myths rather than control the nation.

Xu Ye interrupted a ritual that used An Ning and a fetus to summon the Child of Calamity, then subdued the green skull and captured it. He woke Kang Ao and began questioning him, though the boy briefly claimed to be the Child of Calamity.

• Kang Ao and the teenagers performed a ritual that drew diseases from An Ning and caused her to miscarry a fetus.
• Xu Ye put on the Red Veil, entered the room, and broke the ritual by singing badly enough to stop the chanting.
• Xu Ye used Soul-Seizing to knock the teenagers unconscious, then chased the fleeing green skull and weakened it with a Purification eyeball and a flaming tentacle.
• Xu Ye placed the skull in Alice's pink makeup case, returned to the room, and treated An Ning and the other girls.
• Xu Ye woke Kang Ao and prompted him, but slapped him twice after he claimed to be the Child of Calamity until he gave his name.

Xu Ye uncovered Kang Ao’s role in a cult that planned to summon the Child of Calamity and learned that Kang Ao’s influential father had covered up the Seventh Psychiatric Hospital. After comforting An Ning, Xu Ye discovered she had jumped from the building, leaving him shaken by the limits of his ability to predict people’s choices.

• Xu Ye used [Soul-Seizing] to make Kang Ao reveal his father was Councilor Wells and that he and his friends had spread disease while preparing a ritual to summon the Child of Calamity.
• Kang Ao admitted that his group had imprisoned girls at the Seventh Psychiatric Hospital and that his father ordered the hospital burned after it attracted attention.
• Xu Ye realized Shenchuan Lan had likely maneuvered him into discovering the crimes to implicate him and target the young men’s powerful families, so he chose not to attack them or call the police.
• Xu Ye eased An Ning’s painful memories and advised her to avoid the people who had abused her, while she told him about her brother on the Front Lines and tried to comfort him.
• After An Ning joked with Xu Ye, he simulated her future and felt reassured when he saw her going to find her brother on the Front Lines.
• Xu Ye heard that someone had jumped, found An Ning’s room empty, and sat alone, lamenting that even the Bandit Lord could not predict the choices of human hearts.

After An Ning’s funeral, Xu Ye learned that the Reincarnation Cult worshipped the Death God, while the Heart of the Order Keeper’s investigation uncovered signs of a dangerous entity. The chapter ended with Xu Ye receiving news about Li Wan, the Little Greenhide, and a deal being arranged.

• Shen Xinghai let Kang Ao and his companions leave after the injured girls denied being forced, while Arthur sensed that a ritual had attracted an entity resembling the Child of Calamity.
• Ivy buried An Ning’s ashes at Lost Cemetery, and Xu Ye noticed that the headstones there bore the Wangchun Building emblem.
• Zhou Nian told Xu Ye that her father had encountered the Reincarnation Cult, which worshipped the Death God, on the East Roman Sea.
• Ivy asked how she could earn money to repay An Ning’s debt, then revealed that her father had bought a bank after she accidentally broke its vase.
• Xu Ye received a message from Li Wan saying she was returning to the First Dreamscape Layer and that the Heart of the Order Keeper had reached terms for a deal involving the Little Greenhide.

Xu Ye uncovered a chilling clue that humanity had once voted unanimously for collective suicide, deepening the mystery of the lost century. He also gained ten Explosive Flame Talismans by invoking the Illusion Overlord and prepared to explore the Seventh Psychiatric Hospital.

• Alice struck the green skull with a slipper, releasing a memory of Shenchuan Sato planting a black notebook in an attic years earlier.
• Alice struck the skull again, and its spiritual qi revealed a headline stating that all ten billion people of the Great Xia Federation had voted for an “all humanity self-destruction act” in year 010 of the Human New Era.
• Xu Ye, Alice, and Bandit Lord concluded that the skull's memory was a genuine clue to the missing period of human history, which Xu Ye suspected might connect to his transmigration.
• Xu Ye spent the following days preparing to explore the Seventh Psychiatric Hospital.
• Xu Ye invoked the Illusion Overlord while stimulating its energy and produced ten single-use Explosive Flame Talismans.
• Xu Ye checked that fewer than thirty hours remained on the Golden Key's timer and decided it was time to enter the psychiatric hospital.