Chapter Summaries

Xu Ye traveled with Ye Meng’s group toward Ghost City after recovering from the previous night’s battle, while Shenchuan Xue arrived at the service area and examined the corpses left behind. The group continued toward a fuel stop as Shenchuan Xue savored the fear in the dead men’s blood.

• Xu Ye completed a round of the Blasphemer’s Diagram and spoke with Ye Weiyang, who stole Ye Shan’s grilled fish to give him.
• Zhang Yiyong asked Xu Ye for half the fish, but Xu Ye ate it and frightened him into silence.
• Ye Meng explained that the group was following the Giant Wolves’ tracks to Ghost City and needed fuel from its gas station.
• Shenchuan Xue arrived at the service area, inspected Shenchuan Qian and Jiang Qiang’s corpses, and tasted the blood on Jiang Qiang’s body.

Xu Ye reunited with Meng Chengfei at the inn in Praying Water Town and learned that Crimson had been forced to disband after a devastating attack. As the group settled in, Ye Weiyang encountered a headless waiter but kept quiet about what she had seen.

• Xu Ye and the convoy reached Praying Water Town, where Ye Meng warned them about its uncanny dangers and led a group away to scout for supplies and wolves.
• Xu Ye recognized Qin Yanhua and Meng Chengfei at the inn, then privately caught up with his captain and explained his recent troubles and plans to break through.
• Meng Chengfei told Xu Ye that Crimson had been forced to disband after Senior Tyrant and many powerful supporters died in attacks on Crimson and Sky City.
• Ye Shan recognized Qin Yanhua as a famous actress and excitedly talked about her, while Ye Weiyang followed the actress upstairs.
• A headless waiter’s head fell off in the stairwell and he calmly put it back on; Ye Weiyang returned downstairs and said nothing about what she had seen.

Xu Ye learned that Crimson had disbanded and the Wasteland’s factions were dividing over whether to coexist with Forbidden Zones, flee, or use outside powers to remake the world. When dangerous fog fell over Praying Water Town, Xu Ye went outside with Meng Chengfei while Ye Meng’s group sought shelter near the Factory and discovered the freshly stripped bones of a Giant Wolf.

• Meng Chengfei explained the growing factions and said he had come to Praying Water Town to investigate Li Kang and check on Xu Ye.
• When fog covered the town, the Apartment’s waiter warned everyone not to go outside, and the owner refused to send anyone to rescue those still out there.
• Xu Ye simulated going outside, heard warnings about a hospital and the Factory, then chose to accompany Meng Chengfei and gave Ye Weiyang a protective Seal Talisman.
• Ye Meng led three Ye Family men toward the Factory, but sudden fog and fierce wind forced them to seek shelter there.
• Ye Meng and Ye Zhong found the Giant Wolf’s warm bones outside the Factory, stripped clean of flesh, and Ye Meng glimpsed something inside that terrified him.

Xu Ye and Meng Chengfei explored Praying Water Town’s abandoned hospital, where resentful spirits and signs of the Eternal Church’s plans surrounded them. As they pushed toward the fourth floor, Alice screamed ahead in the darkness.

• Ye Meng and Ye Zhong saw the horror-film crew decapitated inside a factory and froze at its entrance with their companions.
• Meng Chengfei and Xu Ye crossed the foggy town, where Xu Ye cut down a grotesque headless creature that Meng Chengfei burned with a Taboo Object.
• Meng Chengfei identified the abandoned hospital as the source of the resentful spirits and souls circling overhead.
• Xu Ye removed a sturdy consultation-room door that was beginning to become a Taboo Object, with Meng Chengfei helping him.
• On the fourth floor, Meng Chengfei and Xu Ye crossed a corridor coated in years of dried blood while pale arms attacked them from the ceiling.
• Alice screamed after Xu Ye sent her ahead to scout the hospital.

Ye Weiyang and the others encountered blood corpses at the apartment and fled after Zhang Yiyong screamed. Meanwhile, Xu Ye and Meng Chengfei found Li Kang dead in an altar room and discovered pages from the Eternal Holy Book.

• Ye Weiyang recognized a red thread around the waiter's neck and urged her group to leave the apartment.
• The apartment guests dropped their heads, then became blood-spurting corpses after Zhang Yiyong screamed.
• Qin Yanhua and Ye Weiyang's group ran for the door, while Zhang Yiyong shoved Wu Lan toward the blood corpses to save himself.
• Xu Ye and Meng Chengfei found Li Kang dead at the center of an altar in the sinister hospital.
• Xu Ye and Meng Chengfei examined the experiment drafts and identified several sheets as part of the Eternal Holy Book.

Xu Ye and Alice discovered that an ancient ritual was meant to bring the Lord of Darkfall to Earth, while Bandit Lord warned that the incomplete ritual would cause disaster. Li Kang then revealed he had survived and killed Meng Chengfei’s duplicate, while the group escaping the apartment building faced a new threat in the fog.

• Alice deciphered the yellow papers and explained that Dark Goblins and Three-Eyed Giants had tried to summon the Lord of Darkfall’s Projection to Planet Earth in the Third Era.
• Xu Ye and Alice recognized Earth as the ritual’s final destination, and Bandit Lord warned that the incomplete formation would bring disaster.
• Li Kang suddenly attacked Meng Chengfei with a spear made from his blood, but Meng Chengfei revealed he was a weak duplicate before both he and Li Kang crumbled away.
• Ye Weiyang led the survivors out of the apartment building, and the building’s owner shut the blood corpses inside.
• Qin Yanhua pointed out that faces made of human skin were drifting through the fog as the survivors prepared to wait for it to clear.

Xu Ye rescued Ye Meng and his companions from the fog around the factory, then escorted them back to the apartment building and urged them to leave Praying Waters Town. He stayed behind to investigate the danger, while a red motorcycle raced into town as the convoy departed.

• Ye Meng and his companions encountered the remains of a Giant Wolf and reunited with Xu Ye outside the factory.
• Xu Ye saw the twisted bodies inside the factory, and Alice suggested the abnormalities were reawakening because of Li Kang's ritual.
• Xu Ye led Ye Meng's group back to the apartment building, where they found the survivors safe and learned that Xiao Yu's Aberration had likely killed the monsters outside.
• Xu Ye told Ye Meng and the others to leave town, but he stayed behind while Ye Weiyang departed with the convoy.
• As the convoy drove away from Praying Waters Town, Qin Yanhua saw a red motorcycle speed past and enter the town.

Xu Ye confronted Shenchuan Xue in the Apartment, where he exploited its blood-corpse anomalies to fight her and drain one corpse’s energy. Shenchuan Xue escaped after being wounded, then bombed the Apartment as Xu Ye shielded himself with blood corpses.

• Xu Ye entered the Apartment and recognized that its blood-based food and reanimated occupants were anomalies governed by rules.
• Shenchuan Xue arrived, identified herself as a Shenchuan Family heir, and gave Xu Ye the choice of dying or joining her family.
• Xu Ye pointed out the waiter's broken neck, triggering the blood corpses, while Shenchuan Xue knelt to avoid provoking them.
• Xu Ye attacked Shenchuan Xue and used his tentacles and the Bandit Lord to drain the waiter, causing the other blood corpses to leave him alone.
• Shenchuan Xue fled the Apartment after its owner wounded her, then threw a bomb through a window.
• Xu Ye grabbed four blood corpses as shields before the bomb exploded.

The Shenchuan Family’s attack devastated Ye Meng’s convoy, and he sacrificed himself to give Ye Weiyang and Ye Shan a chance to survive. Meanwhile, Xu Ye escaped Shenchuan Xue’s explosion but was pursued by Shenchuan Qian, using a Mirror Spirit to get away and flee into an alley.

• Ye Meng returned two gold coins to Wu Lan and Zhang Yiyong, while Qin Yanhua chose to travel to the Large Camp and the groups parted ways.
• Ye Meng spotted the Shenchuan Family’s convoy and ordered the Ye Family to surrender, but the family’s young commander ordered the Wastelanders killed.
• Shenchuan Family drones shot down members of Ye Meng’s group, and Ye Meng drove a truck into the enemy convoy to protect Ye Weiyang and Ye Shan.
• Xu Ye escaped the explosion by using Blood Corpses as cover, then fled from Shenchuan Xue and argued with the Bandit Lord.
• Shenchuan Qian ambushed Xu Ye, but he summoned a Mirror Spirit to restrain her briefly and escaped into an alley.

Xu Ye fled Shenchuan Xue to Green Mountain Cliff, where he began climbing to test his limits and escape her. Shenchuan Xue waited below, confident he would fall.

• Xu Ye evaded Shenchuan Xue while the Bandit Lord explained that Alice was nearing a metamorphosis.
• Xu Ye drained the Mirror Spirit until it crumbled to powder, confirming he could kill supernatural horrors.
• Shenchuan Xue tracked Xu Ye and found his taunt on the ground, then pursued him with renewed killing intent.
• Shenchuan Xue’s strength was suppressed to Sequence 8 as Xu Ye reached Green Mountain Cliff.
• Xu Ye began climbing the cliff despite Shenchuan Xue’s warning that a fall would kill him.

Ye Weiyang awakened the powerful 9-006 [Fireseed] after the Shenchuan Family attacked her family, while Xu Ye continued climbing the Cliff and narrowly evaded Shenchuan Xue’s gunshot. The chapter left an old man entering the flames to claim Ye Weiyang for the Sanctuary and Xu Ye taunting Shenchuan Xue from above.

• The Shenchuan Family’s young man killed Ye Shan and shot Ye Weiyang after their family was wiped out.
• Ye Weiyang awakened 9-006 [Fireseed], unleashing a vast sea of flames that consumed the attackers.
• An old man found Ye Weiyang and decided to rescue her and recruit her as his disciple for the Sanctuary.
• Xu Ye climbed the Cliff past two hundred meters, reading the messages left by Awakened who had given up or died.
• Shenchuan Xue climbed after Xu Ye and shot at his thigh, but he dodged the bullet.
• Xu Ye gave Shenchuan Xue a thumbs-down and told her she was not good enough.

Xu Ye fought Shenchuan Xue while climbing a sheer cliff, then risked a fall to knock her off and reached the summit. His breakthrough granted him Sequence Talent 8-666 [Shadow Play].

• Shenchuan Xue attacked Xu Ye with [Heartless Thread], but he used the cliff and his tentacles to evade her and climb higher.
• Shenchuan Xue revealed [Tongue Spikes], wounded Xu Ye, and kept attacking as they climbed into thicker mist.
• When Xu Ye appeared to fall, he used the drop to slash Shenchuan Xue, knocking her off the cliff before catching himself with his tentacles.
• Xu Ye continued climbing, felt his body and soul undergo a rebirth, and leaped onto the summit.
• Xu Ye received the Sequence Talent 8-666 [Shadow Play].

After advancing to Sequence 8, Xu Ye tested his new abilities and learned that his Shadow Play talent could control the skins of enemies he killed. As he prepared to leave the Cliff, it awakened as a Three-Eyed Giant, whose gaze killed him.

• Xu Ye discovered that his strength and mental focus had improved, allowing him to control four tentacles independently, and examined his new Shadow Play talent.
• Xu Ye reflected on his victory over Shenchuan Xue and resolved to be cautious against stronger Awakened before planning to return to Praying Water Town.
• The Cliff shook, its summit split open, and Xu Ye recognized the enormous scarlet eye as belonging to a Three-Eyed Giant.
• The giant's gaze overwhelmed Xu Ye, and his soul shattered as he realized it was the unknown factor behind Heart Simulation's prediction of his death.

Yang Chang learned that his master Tyrant had been dead for centuries before the power sustaining his consciousness failed, then destroyed the security system at the directors’ chamber to warn the Twin Star Corporation’s leaders. Xu Ye awoke alive again with Alice and Bandit Lord, recognized his surroundings, and began to understand why he had returned.

• Professor Yu told Yang Chang that Tyrant’s body had been dead for two or three hundred years and that a sustaining power had kept his consciousness alive.
• Yang Chang visited the directors’ chamber, learned the other directors were unavailable, and destroyed its weapons, mirrors, and robot with his spear.
• Yang Chang returned to the elevator, worried about Crimson and Xu Ye while accepting that he would have to handle matters without his master.
• Xu Ye awoke in a familiar place with his strength and possessions intact, and discovered that Alice and Bandit Lord had survived as well.
• Xu Ye recognized where he was and began to understand why he had come back to life.

Xu Ye returned to Doctor Chen’s abandoned laboratory and discovered a recording explaining how he had arrived in this world and why he had come back from the dead. Doctor Chen left many questions unanswered, warning Xu Ye not to die recklessly and telling him that he must uncover his own mission.

• Xu Ye revisited the laboratory where he had first awakened and remembered Doctor Chen predicting that everyone but him would die before the people there shot themselves.
• Alice suggested Xu Ye test whether he could resurrect again, but Xu Ye refused because he did not know the cost or whether it would work.
• Xu Ye reflected on the Three-Eyed Giant, the Eternal Church’s plans in Night Spirit City, and his decision to avoid Praying Water Town until he became much stronger.
• An old projector switched on by itself, and Xu Ye raised his Big Black Umbrella as Doctor Chen’s message appeared on the wall.
• Doctor Chen explained that he had decoded a message from Earth, arranged for the two Xu Yes to merge, and learned that the Xu Ye from Earth had become dominant.
• Doctor Chen said Xu Ye’s unusual heart had not been his work, described deities as likely sequence 1 beings whose projections required costly rituals, and warned Xu Ye that more knowledge could bring danger.

Xu Ye recovered from Doctor Chen’s dangerous information and pieced together clues about the Lord of Darkfall’s planned descent, his own transmigration, and the pollution incident tied to his body. After waiting until the third morning, he returned to Night Spirit City and reunited with Li Yunyao and Meng Chengfei.

• The Bandit Lord warned Xu Ye that Doctor Chen’s information had nearly overwhelmed his mind and might have been delivered through a dangerous Sequence Talent.
• Xu Ye organized what he knew about the Lord of Darkfall’s descent, the Blasphemer’s Diagram, his transmigration, and the fire that had polluted his body.
• The Bandit Lord said Xu Ye had another Future Simulation use and could open two vortices at Sequence 8, while he and Alice argued with Xu Ye about Alice’s growing size and ambitions.
• Xu Ye waited until the morning of the third day, circled back to Night Spirit City, and noticed the crowds seeking treatment at the Sixth Mental Hospital.
• Xu Ye hugged Li Yunyao at the Dawn Blade Ninth Squad’s office, and Meng Chengfei walked in and teased them before Xu Ye greeted his captain.

Xu Ye visited Meng Chengfei and learned that the Three-Eyed Giant was an Ancient Organism with a dangerous grudge, then heard from Bandit Lord that Three-Eyed Giants were the evolved form of Dark Goblins. He headed to Night Spirit City's underground Black Market to sell his loot and buy food for his newly advanced body.

• Xu Ye met Meng Chengfei, who warned him to keep his Sequence Talent secret and explained that Ancient Organisms such as Three-Eyed Giants possessed Sequence Talents.
• Xu Ye told Meng Chengfei about the Three-Eyed Giant at Praying Water Town, and Meng Chengfei said he would report it and warned that it took revenge on those who woke it.
• Meng Chengfei explained that Xu Ye's post-advancement weakness came from hunger and directed him to the underground Black Market on Lin Hua Street.
• Bandit Lord told Xu Ye that Three-Eyed Giants were the ascended form of Dark Goblins, whose racial Sequence Talents could transform them into giants.
• Xu Ye withdrew ten thousand Federation Currency and entered the underground Black Market through a hidden supermarket.

Xu Ye encountered Aldrich, a Silver Noble, in Sky City’s underground Black Market and learned Aldrich suspected he had been contaminated. Aldrich revealed that his contamination caused uncontrollable sexual urges, even toward Xu Ye.

• Xu Ye witnessed a shopkeeper force a young man to swallow a porcelain shard as punishment for breaking a vase in the Black Market.
• Aldrich introduced himself to Xu Ye as a Silver Noble and guided him through the market to his shop.
• Xu Ye questioned why cancer medicine was so expensive, and Aldrich explained that wealthy people made up most of the remaining market for it.
• Aldrich privately told Xu Ye that he suspected contamination because he had developed uncontrollable urges triggered by people, animals, and even geometric shapes.
• Aldrich admitted that he experienced those urges while looking at Xu Ye, prompting Xu Ye to want to leave.

Xu Ye investigated Duke Aldrich’s strange contamination, which made the people who slept with him become obsessed and sexually frenzied. The chapter ended with one victim’s abdomen bursting open and a monster emerging, prompting Xu Ye to congratulate Aldrich on becoming a father.

• Aldrich described how his bed partners went mad with desire after sleeping with him, and Xu Ye suspected contamination connected to a pollution source.
• Aldrich explained that he could not bring himself to kill the people involved, so Xu Ye asked to examine one of them.
• When Xiao Liu opened a cage, the young man lunged at Aldrich, and Xu Ye noticed his abdomen was swollen.
• Xu Ye knocked the young man down and restrained him, but the man’s abdomen ruptured and a monster emerged.
• Xu Ye called the creature Aldrich’s son, leaving the duke stunned.

Xu Ye killed a fox-and-octopus Aberrant that had emerged from Aldrich’s pollution, then traced the outbreak to a jade ring on Aldrich’s thumb. Breaking the ring released a soul-type Aberrant impersonating King Zhou of Shang, which Xu Ye destroyed, though Aldrich was left upset that the women he thought had desired him had only been part of an illusion.

• Xu Ye protected Aldrich from the fox-headed Aberrant, cut through its tentacles, and killed it after it re-formed around Aldrich.
• The Bandit Lord identified Aldrich’s jade ring as the source of the pollution, and Aldrich let Xu Ye remove it.
• Xu Ye shattered the ring, releasing a black figure that claimed to be King Zhou of Shang.
• Xu Ye identified the figure as a soul-type Aberrant and destroyed it, while Alice absorbed its fragments.
• Xu Ye told Aldrich that the Aberrant had caused the pollution and his recent behavior, but Aldrich lamented that he had not actually charmed the women.