Chapter Summaries

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 used the Restricted Zone's illusions to unsettle Yun Changeng and Sophia while Lillian, Lilith, and Qin Feng drew Sophia through a gate and sealed her away.
• Yun Changeng used his classroom ability to stop Lillian, but Xu Ye wounded him and Zhou Fanghua and his wife put him to sleep long enough for Lillian to strike.
• Yun Changeng diverted Lillian's Trident with spider silk, then activated Sequence 6-029 [Office], restoring his injuries and trapping Xu Ye in a verbal, turn-based game.
• Xu Ye attacked with the Black Blade, and the office's blackboard recorded that Yun Changeng dodged using short-range teleportation but suffered a cut to his right arm.
• Before Yun Changeng could take his turn, Alice emerged from Xu Ye and announced that it was her turn to attack.

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.

• Alice used Shadow Sneaking to strike Yun Changeng in the groin, leaving him badly wounded and in agony.
• Bandit Lord controlled Xu Ye’s tentacles to hit Yun Changeng’s vulnerable spot, causing him another painful injury.
• Xu Ye realized the Lord of Darkfall inside him could also take a turn, and its Profanity drove Yun Changeng’s unstable emotions toward aberration.
• Yun Changeng’s Sequence Talent space collapsed, returning him and Xu Ye to the front of the Monastery.
• Lillian sensed the danger as fleshy growths emerged from Yun Changeng’s head, while he fought to restrain his aberration.

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.

• Yun Changeng attacked Xu Ye, knocked Lillian aside, and broke through Zhou Fanghua and Du Meifang’s dreamscape with a burst of distorted Heavenly Dao power.
• Alice held Yun Changeng’s jaws open while Xu Ye fed him frozen egg fried rice made from the Aberrant Human Skin and retreated to the Monastery entrance.
• Yun Changeng’s aberration intensified, and Xu Ye discovered he could suppress him and erase his second personality, bringing the battle to an end.
• Xu Ye asked Zhou Fanghua and Du Meifang to explore Yun Changeng’s remaining consciousness and told Lillian to notify Qin Feng that it was safe to return.
• Xu Ye discovered an opportunity to reach Sequence 6 and told the Bandit Lord that the Heavenly Dao had offered him three paths, three sequence talents, and three 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 explained three Sequence 6 rituals: abandon the Blasphemer Sequence to pursue godhood, defend the Land of Exiles and gain [Eye of Emotions], or attack the Mother Nest and gain [Eye of Replication].
• Alice and the Bandit Lord weighed the risks, and Xu Ye decided not to abandon the Blasphemer Sequence unless he had no other choice.
• Xu Ye suspected the Fourth Dreamscape and the Holy Grail mission would involve the Mother Nest, then collapsed as his body began changing.
• The Bandit Lord was expelled from Xu Ye's chest as crimson tentacles held together the dissolving pieces of Xu Ye's body.
• Xu Ye experienced his flesh, memories, mind, and soul being cut apart, but a surge of warm energy restored his awareness.
• Xu Ye hopped toward Alice as a small chunk of flesh, and the Bandit Lord suggested that the transformation was an advanced form of Sequence 7 [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 discovered his body could split into conscious pieces and reassemble, and he tested his branched, energy-draining tentacles and expanded Shadow Play puppets.
• Qin Feng used his Sequence Talent to control Sophia’s discarded shell and fought her to a standoff aboard a boat.
• Sophia learned Yun Changeng had undergone aberration, then she and Qin Feng received a message that prompted Qin Feng to leave.
• Xu Ye told Zhou Fanghua that the hostage exchange and Death Marriage Ritual would occur at the Monte Building the next night, and that he had found information about Qin Yanhua’s Wedding Corpse.
• Xu Ye planned to take Qin Yanhua during the ritual and flee Uman City for the Land of Exiles.

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 and Ivy confirmed the hotel detected Awakened and learned that the Death Marriage Ritual would take place in one hundred rooms at 6:06 p.m.
• Xu Ye sent a human skin into the hotel on a guest, then used his ability to enter the building and question an attendant about the Reincarnation Cult's art and burial customs.
• Ivy warned Xu Ye that a Taboo Object blocked spirit forms in room 3011 and that the Reincarnation archbishop was likely guarding the ritual.
• Xu Ye used the Red Veil to reach the kitchen, divided his body into pieces, and hid them inside the pig and sheep heads prepared as offerings.
• The cult's followers carried the offerings into the ritual rooms, where Xu Ye's flesh reassembled into a human form while Bandit Lord began writhing in a nearby room.

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 debated whether to impersonate the corpse prepared for Qin Yanhua’s Death Marriage Ritual, then used the Illusion Overlord’s Eyeball to become Doug and gained the corpse’s sequence talent.
• After Xu Ye entered the coffin, a powerful force pulled him into a desert realm beneath a red moon, where he found and entered the White Bone Church.
• Xu Ye met the Death God, who described his many reincarnations and explained that Blasphemers were a succession of people created to balance the deities’ power.
• Tana revealed that he was currently a Sequence 7 Dark Skeleton Mage and feared that awakening new power would make him die and cease to be himself.
• Tana said he had summoned Xu Ye so the Blasphemer could kill him before that transformation occurred.

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.

• Tana told Xu Ye that corrupted Sequence Talents affected deities and that he wanted Xu Ye to kill his newborn self so he could reincarnate and cleanse them.
• Tana transformed into a reborn, frenzied version of himself and attacked Xu Ye with his scythe.
• Xu Ye realized Tana could steal energy through their clashes and used flaming tentacles to keep him at a distance.
• Xu Ye revealed he had attached Yun Changeng Aberrant to Tana during their first clash, but Tana survived by creating a body from bones in the church.
• Tana poisoned Xu Ye and cut his throat, but Xu Ye appeared outside the church and pierced Tana's skull with the Black Blade from afar.

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.

• The Death God destroyed several of Xu Ye's human-skin decoys, but Xu Ye used Yun Changeng's classroom rules and his Aberrants to counterattack.
• Xu Ye trapped the Death God in a tentacle net, devoured his body, and had Yun Changeng crush his head.
• The Death God emerged from the White Bone Church as a weakened white bone skeleton and explained that his power of death had regained dominance.
• Tana thanked Xu Ye for helping him and offered him a gift in return.
• Xu Ye asked Tana if he could choose a piece of his skull, and Tana refused in disbelief.

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.

• Tana gave Xu Ye the Class C Soul-Summoning Bell, warning that it could summon nearby departed souls but might shatter an unsteady user's body.
• Tana explained that the Gods' Pact was a set of rules made by the Gods to block part of the Heavenly Dao, then left to reincarnate.
• Xu Ye returned to the mourning hall and shared his encounter with the Bandit Lord and Alice while questioning the corruption of the true gods.
• The Reincarnation Bishop and Ron brought Qin Yanhua to the coffin and began the Death Marriage ritual, but Qin Yanhua chose Ron over the Bishop as her preferred partner.
• Qin Yanhua dripped blood onto Xu Ye, and the Death God's presence made him spring from the coffin as Ivy warned the team to stay alert and prepare to move in three minutes.

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.

• Xu Ye performed the Dance of Life with Qin Yanhua, and the ritual awakened her catlike Sequence Talent.
• The Reincarnation Bishop revered the Death God's aura as he watched Xu Ye and Qin Yanhua dance.
• Shenchuan Xiu attacked Shenchuan Shengshui, who revealed he was the Harvest Mother Goddess Proxy and warned that the clan would punish Xiu.
• Shenchuan Shengshui sensed a strange fluctuation from the Monte Building and said Xu Ye had promised to save him.
• Kus cut the power as the Dreamscape's darkness spread through the building, and Xu Ye punched the Reincarnation Bishop and escaped through a window with Qin Yanhua.

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.

• Ron woke from a dreamscape, found the Reincarnation Bishop injured and the coffin empty, and concluded that a Blasphemer had stolen Qin Yanhua by impersonating Doug.
• Ron found a Four of Clubs card marked Aurora and decided not to pursue the thief, suspecting the Illusion Overlord had arranged the theft.
• Shenchuan Xiu mistook Xu Ye for Doug and tried to bind him with spatial power, but Xu Ye broke free and struck him as he fled with Ivy.
• Alice stepped on Shenchuan Xiu, and Xu Ye recognized him before fleeing after the Bandit Lord warned that a powerful Sequence 6 was approaching.
• Shenchuan Xiu asked Mr. Sky Burial to kill Xu Ye, but Mr. Sky Burial misunderstood and removed Shenchuan Xiu's injured parts instead.
• Mr. Sky Burial refused to pursue Xu Ye and told Shenchuan Xiu that the Mother Goddess had given the family a new assignment as her influence over reality grew.

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.

• He Li killed a giant maggot, and Chen Dukang explained that the Mother Nest’s projection was affecting the bugs near the Great Fiend Restricted Zone.
• Chen Dukang told He Li that the Illusion Overlord was watching Xu Ye’s choices and asked her to bring Xu Ye to an uncanny place where he might reveal a secret.
• Xu Ye watched Kus, Alice, Qin Feng, and Qin Yanhua bicker aboard the boat before he handed them daggers to stop their argument.
• Lilith gave Xu Ye a recording of her singing to help his friend, and she and Lillian decided to explore the area using Taboo Objects from Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng planned to lead his men into the deep sea, Qin Yanhua chose to return with Ivy to the Land of Exiles and then Sky City, and Zhou Fanghua and his wife stayed to care for homeless children.

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.

• Guan Ze investigated a blood-soaked apartment, found empty cocoons and escaped mutated spiders, and reported the incident to the Heart of the Order Keeper.
• Guan Ze told Mr. Airo that the Mother Nest’s projection had descended into the Great Fiend Restricted Zone.
• Mr. Airo revealed to Mo Suo that he intended to use an insect plague to incite fear and push the Land of Exiles toward war with Sky City.
• Xu Ye returned to Wangchun Building, gave Zhong Little Hua exercise books, and shared the Mermaid’s song with Xia Yuze.
• Xia Yuze told Xu Ye that a Holy Grail Shard was draining Li Yunyao’s energy and could leave her in a state of dementia.
• Li Yunyao erupted with spiritual qi and began fighting the Holy Grail Shard, alarming Xia Yuze.

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.

• Li Yunyao tried to force the Holy Grail fragment out of her body, and the Bandit Lord told Xu Ye to enter the fragment and suppress its power with Soul-Seizing.
• Xu Ye entered a desert within the fragment and met Chen Tiantian across a barrier separating their worlds.
• Chen Tiantian told Xu Ye about her isolated village, the Bright Emperor, and the villagers' forced mining of ore that Xu Ye identified as a Psionic Mine.
• Xu Ye urged Chen Tiantian to use her sensitivity to the ore and the Blasphemer's Diagram to reach Sequence 9, and he promised to help her.
• The fragment's energy overwhelmed Xu Ye's suppression, and he returned to reality as Chen Tiantian resolved to defeat the Bright Emperor and meet him 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.

• Xia Yuze and the Bandit Lord explained that Li Yunyao’s soul had left her body and that the Dreamscape and Holy Grail Space would soon collapse.
• Xu Ye used a mirror to reveal Li Yunyao’s spirit body, which followed him and had already reached Sequence 7.
• Alice exposed Zhong Little Hua’s unusually powerful soul, and Zhong Little Hua confessed that she remembered a previous life as Mu Bingfei, the Sequence 6 Silver Fox.
• Zhong Little Hua said she remembered being set up and killed but could not recall the details, and Xu Ye accepted her explanation.
• Xu Ye took out the Golden Key when it became scorching hot, realizing that the Dreamscape was about to end.

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.

• Alice tugged the Hair Aberrant’s hair toward the Golden Key, and the key dissolved as Xu Ye checked that Li Yunyao was unharmed.
• The Dreamscape shattered, and the Bandit Lord explained that people killed by ordinary causes returned to life while those killed by supernatural beings did not.
• An Ning came back to life, thanked Xu Ye, and kissed him while Ivy watched; other people who had died from age or illness also revived.
• Mr. Airo, Guan Ze, and Mo Suo realized the Holy Grail’s protection had ended, but Mr. Airo ordered the war and Mother Nest’s Descent to continue.
• Auntie awoke in the morgue and worried that the failed plan might prevent the passage to the New World from opening.
• Doctor Chen concluded that Li Yunyao had rejected the Illusion Overlord’s path and decided to reveal the world’s secrets through his Doppelganger.

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.

• Li Yunyao’s body died as she abandoned it to become a spirit, and the Holy Grail Shard emerged from her corpse.
• Xu Ye realized Shenchuan Shengshui was warning him of an ambush, but Shenchuan Jiaying trapped him and Alice in a two-dimensional domain.
• Shenchuan Jiaying discovered Xu Ye’s disguise and was wounded by Li Yunyao’s spirit before Alice and Xu Ye launched a counterattack.
• Xu Ye and his allies forced Shenchuan Jiaying to retreat, while Shenchuan Shengshui took Xu Ye’s slash to help him escape.
• Xu Ye read Shenchuan Shengshui’s note and promised to rescue him 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 read that Councilor Airo had allied with the Mother Nest and planned to attack the Land of Exiles, while the Harvest Mother Goddess had found a passage to the New World.
• Xu Ye used the Illusion Overlord’s ability to make it true that Lu Xiaoyu was in his room, and she appeared there, weak and confused.
• Lü Xiao Dao arrived seeking help to rescue Lu Xiaoyu, then spotted her and fled before she chased him down the corridor.
• The King of the Underworld appeared in Xu Ye’s room and said the president of the Thunder Sound Society was there.

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.

• The King of the Underworld confirmed that Lü Xiao Dao was Liu Tianlei and recounted how Liu’s lover’s death and public condemnation drove him mad after a battle against the Great Fiends.
• Xu Ye guessed that Lü Xiao Dao’s life with Lu Xiaoyu was part of Liu Tianlei’s Sequence 4 advancement ritual, and the King of the Underworld said Liu was atoning and might still be influenced by the Child of Calamity.
• Xu Ye told the King of the Underworld about the events involving Mr. Airo, and she said she would prepare for the possibility of another war before leaving.
• Xu Ye celebrated the New Year at home as fireworks burst beneath the Red Moon, while he reflected that the Awakened and Aberrants would soon become public knowledge.
• Chen Tiantian watched the villagers of Chen Family Village make offerings to the Bright Emperor, remembered her photographic-memory Sequence Talent, and vowed to avenge her younger brother and lead everyone out.