Arc 28Chapters 697–722
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Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang encountered the Library Librarian in the Elevator and realized that time had nearly stopped while it stood open. After reaching the Dormitory Building, they planned how Lin Yi could return to his Original Body, but Lin Yi suggested staying inside Mao Feiyang to visit the Dorm Supervisor’s Office first.
Lin Yi entered Tian Bufan’s dream and saw repeated visions of their deaths, leading him to suspect they had failed through countless time loops. Kuai Hongji took him through a hidden layer to the Dorm Supervisor’s Office, where Lin Yi learned the pathway could also rescue lost souls trapped in the campus’s abandoned layers.
Lin Yi and his companions reached the Dorm Supervisor’s Office, where Lin Yi’s Will Body triggered a dangerous disturbance before Mao Feiyang pulled him back. Lin Yi read the rules’ appendix despite a warning, and the others began eyeing it as six o’clock approached.
At 6:00, Kuai Hongji, Mao Feiyang, and the surviving girl left the Dorm Supervisor’s Office after four boys became Impersonator Sculptures and shattered. In the Wooded Belt, Wei Shan revived, rescued Lin Yi, and carried him away; by 6:12, the girl was still following Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang.
Lin Yi and his companions discussed the layers encroaching on the Campus before Tian Bufan arrived and led them into the Wooded Belt to reach Wei Shan. As they approached Wei Shan, Tian Bufan explained how he and Wei Shan had fought creatures from the tilted Art Building Layer, leaving the group to face the dangers still gathering along the boundaries between layers.
Lin Yi reunited with Wei Shan and discovered that his restored body was changing as Wei Shan used the Butcher’s spine to recover. Lin Yi saw a phantom crown and heard voices from the past discussing the oak tree growing within him, leaving the cause of his transformation unresolved.
Lin Yi witnessed memories beneath the World Tree, learning how the First Apostles prepared for a looming destiny and built their civilization. As the vision ended, the Butcher offered to grant Lin Yi his trait so he could spread its pathway through the streams of time.
Lin Yi inherited a strange power tied to Butcher and realized that the World Tree and Norse mythology might have originated from his own past. As he pieced together his connection to the First Apostles, Kuai Hongji and Tian Bufan left him with a new question about which figures from that era he truly remembered.
Lin Yi and his companions used a shortcut to reach the Cafeteria, where they revealed the Convenience Store Owner’s identity and Lin Yi examined the Cafeteria’s layered structure. They discovered the Convenience Store Owner was absent, and Kuai Hongji revealed he had negotiated with him the previous day, surprising Lin Yi.
Lin Yi and the others learned how the Convenience Store Owner, Lao Mo, and the Campus Security Guards were connected to the Mourners. They decided to modify Lao Mo’s carapace with materials from the Burial Body, then headed toward the Cafeteria to find the Convenience Store Owner’s contingency.
Tian Bufan’s group concealed their auras as they headed through the Cafeteria toward the Convenience Store to find the owner’s will. Mao Feiyang casually tore out the Green Apron Chef’s heart and ate its tomato, while Lin Yi realized the Cafeteria’s opening hours marked when it was safe from sinking into the layers.
Lin Yi’s group entered the Convenience Store, where Lin Yi tried to take control of its permissions and summoned the Convenience Store Owner. As the owner confronted them, Kuai Hongji stepped forward to handle the encounter.
Kuai Hongji questioned the Convenience Store Owner about the Principal while Lin Yi and the others investigated the Burial Body. Mao Feiyang began to confront it to obtain something, but the Burial Body attacked him first.
Mao Feiyang used the World Tree's Tender Branch to strip the Burial Body from the Cafeteria's layers, erase its name, and destroy it. He then isolated the High-Rank Alien Angel's connection and preserved a sculpted carapace in a cocoon, leaving its remaining parts to develop further before it was given to Lao Mo.
Lin Yi and his companions prepared a contingency to summon Lao Mo's Will Body if the High-Rank Alien Angel attacked, then returned to the Teaching Building to seek the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles. Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji privately worried about their dwindling time and concluded this was their attempt with the highest chance of success, while Lin Yi's check-in with Head Teacher 040 was interrupted by a confrontation with Hell Rose.
Lin Yi warned Hell Rose’s members not to leave safe Campus areas or approach Mao Feiyang, but Girl Number Three and Girl Number Two went to observe him anyway. Girl Number Three became trapped in an apparent illusion, where Mao Feiyang killed a Grinning Angel, and Girl Number Two finally woke her back in reality.
Mao Feiyang secretly showed off after defeating a Grinning Angel, while Lin Yi warned Head Teacher 040 that the Gray Fog Invasion’s true contest had only begun and urged her to stay inside the Teaching Building. Lin Yi then reunited with Wei Shan and Mao Feiyang, and the three entered the Stairwell, where Night-Walking Species lurked in the shadows.
Lin Yi studied the Teaching Building’s layered structure and discovered how its stairwells, basements, and connected buildings worked. He used a layer lens to brighten the Stairwell and gradually kill the night-walking species, while Wei Shan and Mao Feiyang realized he had missed their hint to search for the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles.
Lin Yi, Wei Shan, and Mao Feiyang spotted the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles looming above the Teaching Building, and Wei Shan instinctively charged at it across the layers. His leap failed and he crashed back onto the eighth floor, while the resulting disturbance drew the attention of the Authorities' team, whose mission was still underway.
Wei Shan possessed Lin Yi to break through the Layers and attack the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles, unleashing Divine Slaughter in the Abyss. After destroying the creature, Lin Yi fell back into the Teaching Building and hung suspended before hitting the ground.
Lin Yi rescued the Authorities team from the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles’ contamination and learned that Tian Bufan and Wei Shan had helped force the Principal’s return by striking through the Butcher’s spinal bone. Wei Shan then revealed that the Mist-Speaker and Demon Puppet Master had stolen The Stars’ Origin and betrayed The First.
Lin Yi and the others discussed the Campus’s unresolved mysteries, learning that the Forest of Bones had been built from stolen fragments of the Hall of Heroes. With their remaining work centered on the Gymnasium and the Principal’s return, they headed back to their classrooms before meeting there that afternoon.
Zhao Lingxiao absorbed Lin Yi’s aura and ash contamination, nearing the threshold that would turn her into a phantom. Lin Yi reunited with Wei Liang and Li Huiyuan in class and learned that Li Huiyuan had lost her memory again after the Gymnasium events.
Lin Yi questioned Li Huiyuan about her strange Dream and realized she might have reached the Gray Fog Sea through a connection tied to his Broken Sculptures. He also learned Boss had not returned to the Gymnasium, leaving him to investigate there that afternoon.
Lin Yi noticed a mysterious crack on Li Huiyuan’s back during a vision filled with Broken Sculptures, which urged him to stay alive. Suspecting the crack was connected to the Burial Body and wondering whether Li Huiyuan was Difa, he followed her to the Cafeteria to investigate.