Arc 27Chapters 672–696
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Lin Yi heard recordings revealing his connection to the Navigator, the Red Star, and an ancient plan to deceive the Root, then returned from the Gray Fog Sea with Tian Bufan. Tian Bufan explained that their attempts to penetrate time had failed before and that time’s contamination constrained their operation.
Lin Yi learned that his group’s true mission was to free allies and tear away the parts of the Time Dimension burned by the Root, even if time itself was damaged. In the Principal’s Office, Mao Feiyang found the Principal’s Rules and a message for a successor, but Lin Yi hoped the Principal would return so he would not have to inherit the role.
Kuai Hongji waited outside Dormitory Room 1414 until 22:00, then used the card hidden in the Dormitory Building Rules to find the Dorm Supervisor’s Office. After forcing the office door open, he discovered that someone inside had removed its rules.
Kuai Hongji entered the Dorm Supervisor's Office, killed the bully who claimed to be the Dorm Supervisor Rules, and found the office rules and the Dorm Supervisor Rules. After learning how to claim the Dorm Supervisor identity, he ordered the burned-handed man to hang the rules sign back up.
Kuai Hongji became Dorm Supervisor-14-X0230506094, survived the Kerosene Lamp’s test, and began patrolling the fourteenth floor under the appendix rules. At 23:03, the lamp brightened near Room 1423, where he found an open window and a huge mass of black, sticky matter trying to escape.
Kuai Hongji survived the night-walking species’ assault, exchanged a glance with Night Watchman-03, and then used Tian Bufan’s contamination to forge a Spiked Club. He left the chapter armed and ready to go to the Art Building.
Kuai Hongji left the dormitory and rode the elevator toward the Principal's Office, where he encountered a fellow Dorm Supervisor and four Grinning Angels. He destroyed the Angels and recharged her Old Kerosene Lamp, leaving her astonished by his abilities.
Kuai Hongji retrieved Bai Fangshuo's Student ID from the Art Office and warned the art teachers to preserve their strength if an overwhelming invasion came. As he crossed the Stone Bridge, the High-Rank Alien Angel trapped the bridge in The Starry Night and forced him to reveal his true power.
Kuai Hongji escaped the High-Rank Alien Angel by using four Feather Pupils to trigger Mingzhao, then entered the Art Building to prepare for the coming battle. In the Gallery, he learned that a shadowy figure had long prepared to take the Principal’s place and agreed to let him face the Principal’s authority, while a Little Girl watched from the shadows.
Kuai Hongji visited the Butcher in the Deep Well and obtained a piece of his spinal bone, then reached the Stargazing Platform and confronted the Fanatics about their origins. He revealed that they were the Corpse-Bone Collective, whose base lay in the Layer Rift beneath the Art Building, leaving the Veteran Art Students and Fanatics stunned.
Kuai Hongji passed through the Iron Gate and climbed A Thread of Sky to the Stargazing Platform, where he confronted a strange mural. The mural eventually revealed countless fleshy eyes, which hid again when he turned to look.
Kuai Hongji concealed Lin Yi’s returning star-track coordinates while fighting the High-Rank Alien Angel, then revealed his Divine Artisan power and burned the creature with runes he had secretly inscribed. After Lin Yi returned through Mao Feiyang, Kuai Hongji rushed Mao away as the Alien Angel’s main body attacked Black Moon Outpost.
Night Watchman-02 repelled the High-Rank Alien Angel and discussed Mao Feiyang’s extraordinary standing while Mu Daxian recovered. Mao Feiyang received Bai Fangshuo’s identity, and after reuniting with Kuai Hongji and Tian Bufan, Lin Yi learned why their plan divided scarce resources among six groups and heard how Van Gogh created The Starry Night.
Kuai Hongji used the Star-Dream Crystal to turn the Fanatics’ worship toward himself while secretly laying a matrix across their group. He left with Mao Feiyang, intending to use the Fanatics as a force against their enemies and possibly draw out the Grand Duke.
Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang entered the Gallery to reach the Law-Crafting Master, but Angel Contamination had begun seeping into the Art Building and the passage through the Layers broke apart. Separated in frozen darkness, Lin Yi witnessed a vision of the Art Building under an immense storm as the Quantum Giant Bell and Night Watchman-02 sounded against an Angel.
Lin Yi experienced visions of the Campus's destruction, his friends' deaths, and Boss in a terrifying supreme state, then heard a mysterious version of himself warn him to remember and run. He returned to the Cemetery after only a minute had passed and told Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang what he had seen, while Mao Feiyang reminded him that they were trying to change the future.
Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang interpreted warnings from a Faceless version of Lin Yi and concluded they needed to reach the Law-Crafting Master while staying alert for danger. At the cemetery, Kuai Hongji recognized Amon’s two-way seal and Mao Feiyang led them to the gravestone marked “PUDDING,” where Kuai Hongji hinted at its connection to Difa.
Kuai Hongji activated the Cemetery’s Matrix and completed Amon’s music-box melody, triggering the collapse of the Layer. Mao Feiyang escaped with Lin Yi, while Kuai Hongji stayed behind to collect the Layer; at the exit, a white Giant Bear attacked Lin Yi, and Mao Feiyang caught its paws.
Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang reunited in Little Girl's bedroom and restored Amon's Music Box using its Music Box Soul. Kuai Hongji discovered signs that someone had tampered with the Vast Starry Sky Painting, leaving the group wary of hidden plans as they prepared to locate Difa.
Kuai Hongji used Amon's Music Box to send Lin Yi into the higher-dimensional cage of Time Exile so he could locate the Law-Crafting Master, Difa. Lin Yi followed a mysterious call without answering it, but grew uncertain whether it came from her as he pressed on.
Lin Yi encountered a false image of the Law-Crafting Master and realized the Angel had infiltrated his memories to overwrite the past. As the Angel trapped him in the materialized cage of time, the little girl in Gothic Lolita clothes arrived and interfered with its attack.
Lin Yi reunited with the Little Girl, whose memories revealed their shared past and long separation, and the Shadow of the Great Serpent joined them. When Angel tried to keep them trapped, the Little Girl used her Law-Crafting Master powers to suppress him and escape, though she noted that this was only a fragment of Angel.
Lin Yi and Kuai Hongji returned from the Bedroom after Difa’s will departed, and they realized the Angel’s power had secretly passed through the layers. They concluded that it had reached and contaminated the Quartermaster, explaining the calls from the Great Sea and Lin Yi’s visions of the rotting Ship’s Hold.
Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang investigated the World Tree Artwork while avoiding Angel’s attention, and Lin Yi recovered fragments of memories tied to the Art Building and the Black Moon Outpost. They discovered Boss frozen within the World Tree’s domain, prompting Lin Yi to suspect she might be Difa reborn, and they prepared to leave without testing the theory.
After escaping the Art Building, Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang rode an elevator toward the Dormitory Building, but it stopped at Library-39F. There, Lin Yi recognized the Broken Sculpture’s Call as the doors stayed open for an unseen arrival.