Arc 27Chapters 672–696

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Ch. 672Lin Yi's origin?

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 heard a recording in his own voice describing the Navigator’s drift from the Red Star and a possible search for a habitable world, then glimpsed Wei Liang and the First Apostles around an operating table.
  • Lin Yi heard Holy Sun tell Wei Liang and the Little Girl that he would use Deceiving Heaven, sacrifice himself, and merge his Origin into an experiment to hide from the Root and the Angel.
  • Tian Bufan revealed Black Moon Outpost and brought Lin Yi back to the Principal’s Office, where Lin Yi’s Notebook re-formed thinner than before.
  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang that the Principal remained trapped in the Gray Fog Sea, though the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles they had encountered had been the Principal returned through time.
  • Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi and his companions had previously become lost trying to penetrate time, and that their seven-day limit came from their ability to endure time’s contamination.

Ch. 673"Principal's Rules"

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.

  • Mao Feiyang put away the Notebook, and Tian Bufan explained how it passed between the Principal and Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life as part of their overt mission.
  • Tian Bufan revealed that the Root’s ashes would burn the world and the Time Dimension, and that their real mission was to free Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life, Difa, and the First Apostles before tearing away the damaged pages of time.
  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that their group had been born from the Holy Sun’s death, and warned that they might disappear or be forgotten once the timeline was overwritten.
  • Mao Feiyang stored the Star-Dream Crystal in a World Tree-like mark on his wrist so he could give it to Kuai Kuai later, then prepared to leave the Principal’s Office.
  • Mao Feiyang found a hidden drawer containing the Principal’s Rules and a note saying its reader could inherit the Principal’s identity; Lin Yi wondered whether he would become Principal in another timeline.
  • Tian Bufan insisted that the Principal would return from the Gray Fog Sea, and Lin Yi chose not to consider inheriting the position.

Ch. 674The small card in the perforated section of the "Dormitory Building Rules"

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.

  • Tian Bufan entered Dormitory Room 1414 while Kuai Hongji stayed outside to begin the dorm supervisor pathway.
  • Kuai Hongji paced the corridor as impersonators and night-walking species gathered, and their attempts to approach him burst into flames.
  • At 22:00, an impersonator dorm supervisor tried to lure Kuai Hongji away, but he seized it, burned off its arm, and ordered it to keep the creatures away from Room 1414.
  • Kuai Hongji tore off the perforated section of the rules, read the card’s directions, and followed the corridor to the Dorm Supervisor’s Office.
  • Kuai Hongji found an empty nail where the Dorm Supervisor’s Office Rules had hung, then heated the door handle until someone behind the door cried out and its obstruction vanished.
  • Kuai Hongji opened the office door.

Ch. 675"Dorm Supervisor's Office Rules" "Dorm Supervisor 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 entered the office and demanded the Dorm Supervisor Rules and the number of entries in their appendix.
  • When the bully attacked him, Kuai Hongji caught his fist, threw him down, and burned him to ashes, leaving a chain behind.
  • Kuai Hongji found the Dorm Supervisor's Office Rules and the Dorm Supervisor Rules on the sofa and read their instructions for surviving in the office and becoming the Dorm Supervisor.
  • Kuai Hongji checked the clock, which read 22:17, and ordered the burned-handed man to pick up the rules sign and hang it back up.

Ch. 676The [Appendix] to the "Dorm Supervisor Rules"

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 took the Dorm Supervisor ID Badge, wrapped the Order Chains around his waist, and proved he could withstand the Kerosene Lamp’s radiance when the Grinning Angel burst into flames and retreated.
  • Kuai Hongji read the Dorm Supervisor Rules appendix, then left the office carrying the lamp as the others remained behind in the fading light.
  • Kuai Hongji returned to the corridor and inspected dorm rooms while the Fog thickened and the corridor twisted until he walked on its ceiling.
  • At 23:03, Kuai Hongji entered Room 1423 after the lamp brightened and found its window open, three students pretending to sleep, and a massive black mass clinging overhead.
  • Kuai Hongji watched the black mass crawl toward the window and brushed the Old Kerosene Lamp’s shade as it tried to escape.

Ch. 677Dorm Supervisor Kuai Hongji

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 burned away the filthy creatures and Angel Sculpture with the Old Kerosene Lamp, then looked through the window at the inverted Art Building and met Night Watchman-03’s gaze.
  • Night Watchman-03 recognized a thin figure’s outline over Kuai Hongji and excitedly declared that the great ones had returned.
  • Kuai Hongji shut the window, ignored his hostile reflection in the mirror, and inspected every dormitory room on his floor before entering Dormitory Room 1414 at midnight.
  • Kuai Hongji watched Tian Bufan expel the fleshy eyeballs caused by contamination, then pierced them with a clothes pole and sealed their mist inside the damaged Vessel.
  • Kuai Hongji poured the Vessel’s contents into the Old Kerosene Lamp and forged the clothes pole into a Spiked Club covered in mystical runes.

Ch. 678I Won't Say It Three Times

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 spoke with Tian Bufan, who confirmed they had found the Principal's Office, then set out with the Old Kerosene Lamp.
  • Kuai Hongji rode the elevator to the 39th floor, where Dorm Supervisor-39-X0230109023 boarded with three Experience Students and asked where he was going.
  • The elevator stopped at Teaching Building-C-1F, where four Grinning Angels approached through the flickering lights; the Female Dorm Supervisor stepped in front of Kuai Hongji to protect him.
  • Kuai Hongji told the Female Dorm Supervisor to close her eyes, then used gray-black fog to turn the Grinning Angels into crumbling sculptures.
  • Kuai Hongji collected the Angels' Feather Pupils and used their remains to recharge both his own Old Kerosene Lamp and the Female Dorm Supervisor's lamp.
  • The Female Dorm Supervisor opened her eyes, discovered the Angels were gone and her lamp had brightened, and questioned Kuai Hongji, who told her to shut up.

Ch. 679Bai Fangshuo's Student ID

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 left the three lost Experience Students and the Female Dorm Supervisor in the elevator, then entered the Art Building's Watchtower by a hidden route.
  • Kuai Hongji claimed to be a Dragon-rank investigator and collected Bai Fangshuo's Student ID from Teacher Bai in the Art Office.
  • Kuai Hongji advised the art teachers to protect themselves rather than make pointless sacrifices, and said that his side would handle threats beyond their capabilities.
  • The art teachers discussed Kuai Hongji's warning and worried that the Authorities' operation might fail again.
  • Kuai Hongji crossed the Stone Bridge until the High-Rank Alien Angel attacked and dragged the bridge into The Starry Night.
  • Kuai Hongji set down the Old Kerosene Lamp and began arranging Carved Marks of mysterious Star Charts to confront the High-Rank Alien Angel directly.

Ch. 680I've Been Preparing for a Long Time

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.

  • The High-Rank Alien Angel captured Kuai Hongji and began draining his power, but Kuai Hongji’s Feather Pupils and Lightning-Inducing Matrix called down Mingzhao and drove it back into the Layers.
  • Kuai Hongji emerged beside the Stone Bridge with the Old Kerosene Lamp and entered the Art Building, where he examined the World Tree Artwork and headed for the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor.
  • Kuai Hongji inscribed Mystical Runes in the corridor, calming the Obsession Sculptures and telling them a great battle was coming.
  • Kuai Hongji entered the Gallery and told a shadowy figure that the Principal would return, so the figure would not need to take his place.
  • The figure said he had prepared for a long time and still wanted to face the Principal’s authority, even if it reduced him to ashes; Kuai Hongji respected his choice and left him to prepare.
  • A Little Girl holding a music box watched Kuai Hongji and the figure from the Gallery’s shadows.

Ch. 681The Corpse-Bone Collective

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 descended through the Stairwell into the Deep Well and spoke with the Butcher, who asked whether the time was nearly ripe for their plans.
  • Kuai Hongji requested a section of the Butcher’s spinal bone, and the Butcher cursed him, threw him out, and struck him with the bone as he left.
  • Kuai Hongji carried the spinal bone through the Covered Corridor and entered the hall before the Stargazing Platform, interrupting the standoff between the Veteran Art Students and Fanatical Leaders.
  • A Fanatics Leader accused Kuai Hongji of destroying their campus matrix, and Kuai Hongji said their beliefs began from a mistaken premise.
  • Kuai Hongji identified the Fanatics as the Corpse-Bone Collective, traced their path to the Grand Duke, and revealed that their base was in the Layer Rift beneath the Art Building.

Ch. 682The eerie mural

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 exposed the Fanatics’ leaders’ mistaken beliefs, killed one who pursued him, and left the others debating whether he was the Night Watchman or Supreme Judgment.
  • Kuai Hongji reached the Iron Gate, reflected on its creations and their future, then opened it and passed through alone.
  • Kuai Hongji climbed A Thread of Sky, touching its carved patterns and murmuring about the paths that led there.
  • Kuai Hongji arrived at the Stargazing Platform and approached a mural depicting a face partly covered by a hand.
  • Kuai Hongji waited as dark gray mist seeped into the mural, which writhed and opened numerous fleshy eyes before hiding them when he turned around.

Ch. 683Forge

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.

  • Kuai Hongji used the weakening Armillary Sphere to conceal the star-track coordinates while the High-Rank Alien Angel attacked him through the Starry Night layer and the Stargazing Platform mural.
  • Lin Yi’s will-form appeared at Star Track-4-0-1-6, and Mao Feiyang’s body was regenerated inside the Armillary Sphere.
  • Kuai Hongji summoned the Divine Artisan and forged a hammer from blackish-gray fog, igniting runes he had planted on the High-Rank Alien Angel and burning its tendrils and layers.
  • At 2:42 on May 12, Year X023, Mao Feiyang emerged with Lin Yi returned to his body, and Kuai Hongji ordered him to grab the Chains and follow.
  • Kuai Hongji led Mao Feiyang toward the circular stone wall’s shadow as the High-Rank Alien Angel attacked Sanctuary, and Night Watchman-02 challenged the invading demons and monsters.

Ch. 684Mao Feiyang? Bai Fangshuo

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.

  • Night Watchman-02 struck Sanctuary to drive the High-Rank Alien Angel away, then told Mu Daxian that Mao Feiyang’s potential exceeded his understanding of the Pathways.
  • Kuai Hongji emerged from the Light Mist injured, gave Mao Feiyang Bai Fangshuo’s Student ID, and led him back through the passage.
  • Kuai Hongji questioned the timing of their plan, and Tian Bufan explained that their limited resources and compressed time left no capacity to destroy the High-Rank Alien Angel.
  • Tian Bufan identified Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life as the sixth member of their plan and described Wei Liang’s limited skill as likely capable of flipping the table.
  • Tian Bufan explained that Van Gogh had borne a seal, used the characteristic of Exile, and later imprinted the seal on the Stargazing Platform’s wall to create The Starry Night.

Ch. 685He really was a sneaky bastard

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.

  • Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi had also taken part in the nineteenth-century events and then left to take control of Lin Yi’s body.
  • Mao Feiyang returned the Star-Dream Crystal to Kuai Hongji, and Kuai Hongji led him and Lin Yi toward the Art Building’s Stargazing Platform area.
  • The Fanatics hailed Kuai Hongji as their Exalted One, and he used the Star-Dream Crystal to brand their souls with mystical runes and direct them to spread his teachings.
  • After Kuai Hongji left the hall, Veteran Art Students decided not to interfere with the transformed Fanatics.
  • Kuai Hongji told Lin Yi that he had laid a matrix on the Fanatics, planning to use their scattered network in the coming battle and potentially lure out the Grand Duke.

Ch. 686It had seeped in after all

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.

  • Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang led Lin Yi to the Gallery and found Angel Contamination lingering at its entrance.
  • Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang explained that the Angel's power could be spreading across dimensions and urged Lin Yi to focus on their objective rather than bear the world's fate alone.
  • Mao Feiyang led the group through the Gallery's shifting Layers, where their movement made time behave erratically.
  • Mao Feiyang fell into the void, severing his connection to Lin Yi as Lin Yi found that time had stopped.
  • Lin Yi saw countless images of the Art Building approach through the darkness and witnessed a storm engulf it as the Quantum Giant Bell rang and Night Watchman-02 roared at a beast to leave the world.

Ch. 687Dislocated spacetime

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 witnessed rapid visions of the Art Building and Campus being destroyed, Boss appearing as the Supreme, and Wei Sang, Kuai Hongji, Mao Feiyang, Tian Bufan, and himself dying.
  • A distorted, Faceless figure resembling Lin Yi emerged from a spacetime vortex and warned him that sacrifice was necessary, that he had already met someone, and that he should run when he arrived.
  • Lin Yi recognized an ancient admonition as the ballad Maozi had chanted and understood its lines about shattered cosmic pieces and the Mourners returning from the Endless Deep Sea.
  • Lin Yi returned to the Cemetery, where Mao Feiyang and Kuai Hongji confirmed that only about a minute had passed during his visions.
  • Lin Yi told Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang that he had seen them die, and Mao Feiyang urged him to remember that their actions could still change the future.

Ch. 688Amon's contingency?

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.

  • Lin Yi recalled a Faceless version of himself warning that sacrifice was necessary, that they had already met her, and that they should trust Boss and run.
  • Kuai Hongji and Lin Yi reasoned that the warnings pointed toward a dangerous future encounter in the depths of Time Exile, but that reaching the Law-Crafting Master was still necessary.
  • Kuai Hongji suspected Amon had left an arrangement in the cemetery, then recognized the approaching Fog-Shrouded Light Chasers as part of a two-way seal.
  • Kuai Hongji explained that the seal kept entities deeper in the layer from escaping as well as preventing outsiders from approaching.
  • Mao Feiyang led Kuai Hongji to the gravestone marked “PUDDING,” and Kuai Hongji connected it to Amon’s first impression of Difa.

Ch. 689Collecting the Layer

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.

  • Kuai Hongji activated the Cemetery’s Matrix, causing its gravestones and hidden patterns to respond as the Fog-Shrouded Light Chasers were annihilated.
  • Kuai Hongji repaired Old Cowboy’s broken leg and erased him, completing the music-box melody and setting off the Cemetery’s collapse.
  • Kuai Hongji explained that the Layer was Amon’s final defense mechanism, then fled with Mao Feiyang as the Cemetery and surrounding seaweed were consumed.
  • Kuai Hongji corrected the exit and urged Mao Feiyang through while he stayed behind to contract and collect the Layer.
  • Mao Feiyang and Lin Yi passed through the exit and encountered a white Giant Bear attacking Lin Yi.
  • Mao Feiyang caught the Giant Bear’s paws, and its form faded as the pair reached solid ground.

Ch. 690The Music Box Soul, the Anchor Point of Time Exile

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.

  • Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang discussed how time passed differently between Layers and identified the Stuffed Bear as the source of the earlier attack.
  • Kuai Hongji explained that the Picture Frame contained a shallow portion of the Layer and merged the Music Box Soul into Amon's Music Box.
  • The bedroom distorted under a Grating Effect as Kuai Hongji asked Lin Yi to sense Difa's location and Mao Feiyang to wind the music box.
  • Kuai Hongji found the Vast Starry Sky Painting behind the curtain and concluded that the Stuffed Bear and the painting had been deliberately moved or suppressed.
  • Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang suspected Angel or Supreme Heaven was manipulating events, while Lin Yi raised the possibility that Angel and the Law-Crafting Master had fused.

Ch. 691The Land of Time Exile

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.

  • Kuai Hongji explained that Amon's Music Box could locate things across layers and dimensions, then began using it to search for Difa in Time Exile.
  • Lin Yi realized that calls he had heard from the depths of the Great Sea might have been traps and recalled that he had never answered them.
  • The music box shattered the bedroom into expanding layers, and Kuai Hongji warned Lin Yi that he had entered a materialized time cage in a higher dimension.
  • Kuai Hongji told Lin Yi to close his eyes and sense Difa through their connection, explaining that finding her would give her a bond that could let her escape.
  • Lin Yi heard a distant call and followed it through the time cage without responding, but doubted it belonged to the Law-Crafting Master.
  • Lin Yi decided to continue toward the call, believing he had to reach the Law-Crafting Master's place of exile, then look and flee quickly.

Ch. 692Difa? Angel!!

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 caught a negative showing him and the Law-Crafting Master together, recognized that the figure ahead was wrong, and saw it reveal itself as a mass of eyes.
  • The Angel pursued Lin Yi through the cage of materialized time, and its light and frameworks eroded his mind as it tried to keep him from escaping.
  • The Angel showed Lin Yi memories filled with its eyes, and he deduced that it was using his memories to anchor itself to the past and overwrite events.
  • Lin Yi suspected Wei Liang had secretly resisted the Angel's timeline interference, but he could not escape the cage himself.
  • Amon's Music Box began playing, and the little girl in Gothic dark Lolita clothes appeared, using black liquid to disrupt the Angel and taking Lin Yi's hand.

Ch. 693The Law-Crafting Master's Chant! (Free to Read Today!)

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 saw visions of the Little Girl and the First Apostles through their years together, then heard the Little Girl explain that she had waited for him through countless years.
  • Lin Yi reunited with the Little Girl and learned that the Shadow of the Great Serpent had followed him into the time-manifestation cage.
  • The Little Girl explained that a traitor had weakened the time-exile seal and that Angel's power had become entangled with her, while her true self had already left.
  • Angel attacked the reunion and tried to bind Lin Yi and the Little Girl within the time-manifestation cage.
  • The Little Girl chanted as the Law-Crafting Master, froze the cage, and suppressed Angel's power until the dimension collapsed around them.
  • The Little Girl and Lin Yi escaped the cage, and she clarified that the Angel they had faced was only a portion of his original body.

Ch. 694The Quartermaster bore the Angel's contamination?!

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.

  • Difa explained that her original body might have returned to the real world without its memories, then vanished after saying goodbye to Lin Yi.
  • Lin Yi told Kuai Hongji what happened in the Time Exile Land, and Kuai Hongji suggested that Lin Yi had needed to meet Difa’s lingering will.
  • Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang left the Bedroom and traveled back through the layers to the Gallery, with Lin Yi following inside Mao Feiyang’s body.
  • Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang sensed that the layer’s underlying logic had subtly changed and that the Angel’s power had swept through it unnoticed.
  • Kuai Hongji and Lin Yi deduced that the Angel’s power had contaminated the Quartermaster, linking that contamination to the Great Sea’s call and Lin Yi’s visions of the chained creature in the Ship’s Hold.

Ch. 695Another Look at the World Tree (Make the most of the last 14 hours of free access, dear~)

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.

  • Lin Yi realized Angel’s calls had been attempts to locate him and learned that its aura had contaminated Night Watchman-02 through Quartermaster.
  • Kuai Hongji explained that Quartermaster could help Night Watchman-02 withstand Angel’s attacks, and the group disguised their identities to avoid being detected.
  • After reaching the lobby, Lin Yi saw the supernatural connections linking the Art Students and asked to inspect the World Tree Artwork.
  • Lin Yi recognized the World Tree’s base and recalled a possible operating table where he had lain with Liangzi and the First Apostles.
  • Lin Yi and Kuai Hongji found Boss frozen at the edge of the World Tree’s domain and wondered whether she was Difa reborn.
  • Kuai Hongji suggested testing the theory by touching Boss, but Lin Yi decided they should leave rather than risk exposing themselves.

Ch. 696Library 39F

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.

  • Kuai Hongji led Mao Feiyang across the Stone Bridge with the Old Kerosene Lamp, avoiding the High-Rank Alien Angel and reaching the Elevator Shaft safely.
  • Mao Feiyang proposed visiting the Library’s Clock Tower, but Kuai Hongji and Lin Yi told him to stick to their plan.
  • The elevator jolted and sped along an unexpected route before stopping at Library-39F.
  • Lin Yi heard the Broken Sculpture’s Call and suspected that sculptures made from his Notebook writings had traveled through time to the Library.
  • Kuai Hongji warned that something was coming as the elevator doors remained open, and the three prepared to avoid attracting the Angel’s attention.
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