Arc 15Chapters 357–385
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Lin Yi and Lao Mo crossed the storm-lashed Stone Bridge toward the Art Building while Lao Mo explained the history of its carvings and the danger posed by Black Moon Outpost. They entered the Covered Corridor with Grinning Angels and Night-Walking Species close behind, and Lin Yi sensed an unknown presence watching them.
Lin Yi and Lao Mo reached the Art Building lobby, where Lao Mo revealed that an Art Student had overwritten its appearance to hide a deadly trap. As Lin Yi began seeing through the illusion, blood mist and the true lobby emerged, while a mysterious voice calling his name raised new questions about his identity and altered memories.
Lin Yi followed Lao Mo through the Art Building’s damaged hall, learning that the Art Students were sacrificing their bodies to hold back the gray fog and could become Obsession Sculptures. As they continued toward the Clock Tower to find Mu Daxian, Lao Mo explained how the sculptures guarded the hall and could fight Grinning Angels.
Lin Yi and Lao Mo crossed the Art Building lobby, where the Art Students and Obsession Sculptures attacked the pursuing Night-Walking Species and Grinning Angels. They headed toward the Gallery, then entered gray fog that threatened to turn Lao Mo and prevented them from replenishing supernatural power.
Lao Mo and Lin Yi fought their way through the fog-filled Covered Corridor, where Lao Mo used his domain to drain Hound-Shaped Night-Walking Species and Grinning Angels. They continued toward the Gallery with the angels’ wings transformed into Big Eyeballs, while the Night-Walking Species left behind merged into a powerful new creature.
Lin Yi and Lao Mo reached the Gallery as Amon’s Music Box began playing, then pushed through its eerie halls toward the guidance Big Golden Retriever had left. A faceless Little Girl’s music and nursery rhyme stopped Lin Yi’s heart, but he recognized the Iron Chains behind her as a visual hallucination and forced his heart to beat again.
Lin Yi and Lao Mo escaped the Gallery through a storm-filled passage while a colossal tsunami of Night-Walking Species loomed beyond the Art Building. Lao Mo revealed that the tsunami was an Angel as he perceived it, and the pair headed for the Clock Tower to confront Mu Daxian.
Lin Yi wolfed down food and supernatural power after Lao Mo drained him to force his recovery, revealing a strange ability to filter and absorb energy. As they continued through the Covered Corridor, Lao Mo explained that Amon’s Music Box was created by the Apostle known as the Designer, who had designed most of the Black Moon Outpost.
Lin Yi learned that Amon designed Black Moon Outpost and created the music box that became a Forbidden Artifact, while Lao Mo warned him about the Little Girl he had seen. At the Night Watchman’s iron door, Lin Yi experienced a vision of someone forging the inscribed plate, and Lao Mo opened the door.
Lin Yi and Lao Mo entered the Clock Tower’s downward stair passage and used the left-hand stairs to leap between Layers, emerging on steps that climbed upward. As they approached the Fog Zone, Lao Mo warned Lin Yi not to be distracted by the Grinning Angels while the Night Watchman resisted the Angel’s descent.
Lin Yi and Lao Mo climbed the Clock Tower's Stairwell searching for a lantern-bearing Grinning Angel, while Mu Daxian's painted prisons began to fail. Near the exit, Lao Mo tried to free a lantern-bearing Angel from an Art Student's painting, triggering the Art Student's deadly prison Overwriting, which Lao Mo broke by draining the Art Student to powder.
Lao Mo freed the Dorm Supervisor from the Grinning Angel and took his identity card, then led Lin Yi to the Clock Tower’s face. As Lin Yi entered the storm-lashed tower, he discovered a giant ancient bell hanging beneath its spire.
Lin Yi used Domain Insight to map part of the Clock Tower and discovered that his body filtered supernatural contamination from the storm, absorbing some of its power. He began perceiving the ancient symbols on the wall and heard fragments of mysterious voices.
Lin Yi suspected that his experiences at S City University had been designed in advance by himself or a group that included him, and he uncovered a new danger outside the Clock Tower. After a strange figure’s hammering steadied him, he sensed the viscous black substance clinging to the tower, but it attacked his Perception and forced him to retreat.
Lin Yi encountered the Night Watchman’s challenge on the Clock Tower’s spiral staircase, where invisible waves of force battered and nearly destroyed him. As his body regenerated, he realized the assault was a test with an answer and began examining how his damaged body worked.
Lin Yi endured the Clock Tower’s waves of air, strengthening his bones and body as he climbed toward the top. He reached the quantum bell and saw the Night Watchman strike it, sending a wave into the darkness that revealed a colossal, nightmarish creature outside the Clock Tower.
Lin Yi reached the Clock Tower’s top floor and saw the Night Watchman fighting a shadowy, snake-like entity with the Quantum Giant Bell. The Night Watchman took control of Lin Yi’s body to guide him through the warped space, where Lin Yi found Lao Mo and spotted Mu Daxian inside a floating fragment.
Lin Yi reached the Night Watchman, who revealed that Lin Yi had the dreambuilding trait and had been expected to come as part of an agreement. The Night Watchman sent him to find an item in the Art Building, warning him about the dangers of dream exploration, and explained that lost Dreamweaving Persons could return as Grinning Angels.
The Night Watchman explained how Dreamweaving People became Grinning Angels and tried to persuade Lin Yi to explore the Black Moon Outpost’s hidden truth. After Lin Yi resisted, the Night Watchman noticed his Quartz Watch and recruited him to search for a supernatural item, beginning the process beneath Sanctuary.
Lin Yi endured the Sanctuary’s airwaves and used dreambuilding to send his consciousness from the Clock Tower toward the Art Building. The Night Watchman warned him about the contaminated creatures outside and the dangers of wandering beyond the Sanctuary’s protection.
Lin Yi learned that the Night Watchman had been created by Amon and the First Apostles to guard Black Moon Outpost, and that an unknown object in the Art Building might help stop the Angel. The Night Watchman forced Lin Yi to map the building with his perception by striking the Quantum Giant Bell, and the resulting wave shattered Lin Yi’s consciousness into fragments.
As Sanctuary’s blasts of air swept Lin Yi’s consciousness across the Art Building, he witnessed its students fighting and dying amid the Gray Fog and Night-Walking Species. His vision carried him through several dangerous places before he spotted Mao Feiyang on a stairway and realized he might be able to send him a message.
Lin Yi explored the Art Building through his consciousness and discovered the Stargazing Platform, where The Starry Night nearly trapped him. After the Night Watchman pulled him back, Lin Yi identified several unusual places, including a little girl’s bedroom, and the Night Watchman asked whether it had a painting on the wall.
Lin Yi recognized the Little Girl from his vision, and the Night Watchman revealed she was the First Apostle known as the Law-Crafting Master, imprisoned in the bedroom. The Little Girl reached Lin Yi through the Sanctuary’s waves and guided him toward her bedroom before time resumed.
The Night Watchman explained how the Law-Crafting Master was imprisoned in Time Exile and how the Black Moon Outpost had been exiled to a deeper spatial layer to contain the Root. Lin Yi reached a mysterious iron door that seemed to lead to the bedroom, then began to lose his memories of what family meant.