Chapter Summaries

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 explained that Mu Daxian had rushed ahead and that his death was likely weakening the Grinning Angels trapped in his paintings.
• Lin Yi spotted an Hourglass-bearing Grinning Angel, but Lao Mo rejected it because its lamp fuel had run dry.
• Lin Yi saw Grinning Angels reaching out from the paintings, and Lao Mo hurried onward, blaming the failing cages on Mu Daxian's declining strength.
• Near the exit, Lao Mo found a lantern-bearing Grinning Angel held inside a painting by a deceased Art Student and reached to release it.
• The Art Student activated a prison Overwriting around Lin Yi and Lao Mo, but Lao Mo tore through it and drained 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.

• Lao Mo petrified the Grinning Angel, extracted the Dorm Supervisor from its shell, and removed the translucent identity card from his wrist.
• Lao Mo told Lin Yi the Dorm Supervisor could not be saved, drained his remaining supernatural power, and explained that the Art Student had also already been dead.
• Lao Mo gave Lin Yi the identity of Dorm Supervisor-33-X0221119003 and instructed him to retrace his steps to the elevator shaft by the Lookout using the Kerosene Lamp.
• Lao Mo crossed the invisible medium at the Clock Tower’s passage, and Lin Yi followed him through the wind and seawater spray.
• Lin Yi recognized that the clock face’s reversed time reading was normal, then looked up and saw a Giant Ancient Bell hanging beneath the tower’s 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 saw Lao Mo being eroded by the storm and stayed back after a stray gust cut his skin.
• Lin Yi activated Domain Insight, but Amon’s intricate Clock Tower design overwhelmed his perception.
• Lin Yi recalled Tian Bufan’s advice about scouting vision in Warcraft and mapped the floor by moving through it.
• Lin Yi saw the storm’s contamination enter his body, where it separated into supernatural power that he absorbed and expelled.
• Lin Yi scanned symbols on a Clock Tower wall and heard brief, ancient voices in the storm.

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 recognized the gaunt figure’s hammering as connected to the Night Watchman Iron Laws and suspected the figure had helped build the Black Moon Outpost.
• Lin Yi connected his memories, the Art Building, and Tian Bufan’s promised explanation to a possible plan designed by him or by “us,” and wondered whether the seven-day experience had a special five-plus-two structure.
• Lin Yi calmed himself by focusing on the gaunt figure’s rhythmic hammering and adjusted to the whispers while keeping Domain Insight within three meters.
• Lin Yi extended his senses through the Clock Tower wall and saw viscous black liquid clinging to its exterior as invisible waves broke it into dust.
• The black liquid gathered toward Lin Yi and damaged his Perception, so he withdrew his sensory range inside the wall while his Supernatural Power began repairing him.

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 sensed the black substance outside the Clock Tower reacting greedily to his Perception Ability before the Night Watchman’s oppressive presence addressed him and allowed him to try climbing upstairs.
• Lin Yi recovered from the Night Watchman’s pressure and approached the staircase, identifying its invisible wind as a likely test.
• Lin Yi tried dodging the first visible edge of the wind but was struck by the larger wave behind it and slammed into the wall.
• Lin Yi returned to the first step and endured another wave head-on, relying on his supernatural power to repair his badly damaged body.
• A second wave ravaged Lin Yi faster than he could recover, so he realized the staircase test must have an answer and began perceiving his damaged body.

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 concentrated the golden aura in his bones and heart, gradually making his body resilient enough to withstand the waves of air.
• Lin Yi checked his watch, realized it was already 1:42, and hurried up the stairs despite the waves tearing apart his flesh.
• Lin Yi reached the final stair and passed through a strange layer into the Clock Tower’s distorted top floor.
• Lin Yi spotted the Night Watchman beside the quantum bell and saw his immense phantom strike it, unleashing a powerful wave of air.
• Lin Yi followed the wave into the darkness and glimpsed a gigantic, serpentine creature that appeared larger than the world containing 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 wondered whether the shadowy entity was an Angel and whether the Night Watchmen guarded different realms with supernatural artifacts.
• The Night Watchman said Lin Yi had made it up and compelled him to approach, explaining that he had wanted to see whether Lin Yi was qualified.
• As the Night Watchman guided Lin Yi across the shifting top floor, Lin Yi observed its unstable space, gravity, and time, with the Night Watchman and Quantum Giant Bell remaining constant.
• Lin Yi reached Lao Mo, whose body was riddled with holes as he handled the transformed Hourglass, now resembling the Old Kerosene Lamp.
• Lin Yi noticed a floating fragment that appeared to contain an independent layer and recognized Mu Daxian inside it.

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.

• Lin Yi saw Mu Daxian mangled in the mirror world while Lao Mo tried to pull him out, then reached the Night Watchman and regained control of his body.
• The Night Watchman said Lin Yi had kept his word and belonged to a second person with the dreambuilding trait, then rang the Quantum Giant Bell, whose waves further eroded Lao Mo.
• The Night Watchman said someone had arranged for Lin Yi to help him and promised him a final payment in exchange for finding an item in the Art Building.
• The Night Watchman explained that Lin Yi could use dreams and hallucinations to discover hidden information, but warned that Lord Amon's design made dream exploration perilous.
• Lin Yi recognized the Night Watchman's admonition from his earlier hallucinations, and the Night Watchman 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.

• The Night Watchman explained that Dreamweaving People’s lost souls possessed people as Grinning Angels, and described Mu Daxian’s past as a Dorm Supervisor and vessel.
• The Night Watchman asked Lin Yi to weave a dream and offered to reveal the Black Moon Outpost’s true appearance, but Lin Yi refused and checked that it was 2:14.
• The Night Watchman noticed Lin Yi’s Quartz Watch, realized something from it, and said Lin Yi had to help him search for an item for one hour.
• The Night Watchman identified Sanctuary as a bell that stabilized the Outpost’s layer, and named the other creations Mingzhao and Time Zero.
• The Night Watchman gave Lin Yi the dream identity Repeater and asked him to trust him absolutely; Lin Yi agreed and sat beneath Sanctuary.
• The Night Watchman struck Sanctuary with supernatural power, and the resulting blast hit Lin Yi with crushing force.

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 noticed that the patterns on his watch matched the markings on the Clock Tower’s enormous clock face before the airwaves pulled his consciousness into a distorted dimension.
• The Night Watchman guided Lin Yi to leave the Clock Tower in dreambuilding and search the Art Building, while Lin Yi realized that constructing a world like Minecraft might help him return safely to his body.
• Lin Yi explored the dreambuilding space and decided to use the Sanctuary’s airwaves to search the Art Building, planning to return when three o’clock came.
• Lin Yi saw dense black gelatinous creatures on the Clock Tower’s outer walls, and the Night Watchman identified them as a nest-type Night-Walking Species with powerful contamination abilities.
• The Night Watchman warned Lin Yi not to let his will leave the Art Building, since the Sanctuary’s protection weakened with distance and he could be drawn toward an Angel.

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.

• The Night Watchman explained that he was searching the Art Building for a unique object that the Angel was also seeking, and warned Lin Yi that the Angel tempted people with the knowledge they craved.
• The Night Watchman revealed that Amon and the First Apostles had created him and other Night Watchmen to guard Black Moon Outpost and contain the gray fog.
• The Night Watchman invited Lin Yi to become a Night Watchman, but Lin Yi refused, and the Night Watchman judged Mu Daxian unqualified for the sacred icon.
• The Night Watchman noticed Lin Yi trying to search the Art Building cautiously and decided to force him to experience the building through a bell wave.
• The Night Watchman struck the Quantum Giant Bell and ordered Lin Yi to let the wave carry his perception throughout the Art Building.
• The wave swept through Lin Yi’s consciousness and broke it into countless 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.

• Sanctuary’s wind carried Lin Yi’s consciousness through the Art Building, where he saw Art Students struggling against Night-Walking Species and understood that the wind was weakening the Gray Fog’s torrential rain.
• Lin Yi saw Living Towards Death untouched by the invaders, then encountered Little Girl in the Gallery, where Night Watchman pulled him away before she could trap him.
• Lin Yi’s vision entered a cozy bedroom, but Night Watchman again warned him and dragged him away before he reached a picture frame on the desk.
• Lin Yi perceived a deep, fog-filled well where black liquid climbed the walls and an unseen presence seemed to summon him, then his vision shifted away.
• Lin Yi spotted Mao Feiyang among Art Students on an endless stairway, realized Mao Feiyang had heard him, and hurried to think of crucial information to pass along.

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 called out to Mao Feiyang, who murmured that everything was proceeding according to plan before Lin Yi lost contact with him.
• Lin Yi discovered the Stargazing Platform and nearly sank into the call of The Starry Night before the Night Watchman dragged his consciousness away.
• The Night Watchman explained that Lin Yi’s perception had distorted his sense of time and revealed that the pressure wave had damaged his body as it regenerated.
• The Night Watchman asked Lin Yi to recall anything especially unusual, hoping it would lead to a particular item.
• Lin Yi mentioned a moss-covered deep well, then remembered a pink-and-blue bedroom with a large white bear plushie.
• The Night Watchman asked whether a painting hung on the bedroom 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.

• Lin Yi agreed to keep Dreambuilding so he could locate the bedroom, and he told the Night Watchman he had seen a Little Girl carrying a music box.
• The Night Watchman revealed that the bedroom was a prison and suggested that the Little Girl herself had been its prisoner.
• Lin Yi told the Night Watchman that the Little Girl had sung him a nursery rhyme, and the Night Watchman reacted with alarm and urged him to keep searching.
• As Lin Yi entered another wave, the Night Watchman explained that an Apostle’s remains were buried in a well and identified the Little Girl as the First Apostle, the Law-Crafting Master.
• The Little Girl’s presence halted time, reached Lin Yi through the Black Nursery Rhyme, and opened a path toward a rusty door that he understood led to her bedroom.
• Time resumed after what seemed to be a single second, leaving Lin Yi disoriented.

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.

• The Night Watchman told Lin Yi that the Law-Crafting Master had explored the Root, killed the companions watching over her, and been imprisoned by the other Apostles.
• Lin Yi speculated that the Law-Crafting Master's aura might be causing Dreammakers to lose their Time Anchors, and the Night Watchman fell silent at the possibility that the Dreamweaving Master was responsible.
• The Night Watchman explained that the First Apostles had used Spatial Exile to move the Black Moon Outpost and its layer away from the real world to contain the Root.
• Lin Yi suddenly arrived in a candlelit corridor before a rusted iron door, and the Night Watchman warned him not to open it without first testing whether his consciousness could enter.
• The Night Watchman suggested Lin Yi follow his instincts, and Lin Yi approached the door, where the familiar surroundings made him think his family might be behind it.
• Lin Yi began to feel confused and could no longer remember where his family was or what family meant.

Lin Yi entered the Law-Crafting Master's bedroom with the Night Watchman's guidance and searched for the item they needed amid the room's dangerous supernatural objects. The chapter left them facing a picture frame that had turned away since Lin Yi's previous visit, suggesting something in the bedroom had changed.

• Lin Yi entered the bedroom through the rusty iron door after the Little Girl's song and a cold hand guided his palm to it.
• The Night Watchman suppressed the giant bear's attack with golden surges of air and confirmed that Lin Yi had found the right room.
• Lin Yi searched the bedroom while the Night Watchman warned him about its dangerous objects and explained that the painting behind the curtains was the Law-Crafting Master's prison.
• Lin Yi spotted Amon's Music Box and then noticed the picture frame on the desk was turned away, unlike during his previous visit.

Lin Yi and the Night Watchman discovered that the Law-Crafting Master's Call had drawn Lin Yi to the picture frame, whose cartoon world led them to the hidden Quartermaster. The Night Watchman revealed that the Quartermaster was equipment made for the Supreme Judgment system and told Lin Yi he could use it when the time was right.

• The Night Watchman told Lin Yi that the Law-Crafting Master's will might have reached him through the Art Building and that her Call could be seeking someone to free her from temporal exile.
• Lin Yi showed the Night Watchman the picture frame, and its cartoon forest unleashed fear and tore the bedroom apart as the two were pulled into its layered world.
• Lin Yi recalled the route through the cartoon landscape and reached a passage containing grotesque sculptures, where he found the Night Watchman's will before a gigantic humanoid statue.
• The Night Watchman identified the statue as the Quartermaster, a supernatural creation made for the Supreme Judgment system, and said one crucial part could strengthen him against Gray Fog Invasions and Angels.
• The Night Watchman told Lin Yi that he could also use the Quartermaster when the time was right.

Lin Yi returned from the layers while the Night Watchman remained behind to retrieve the Quartermaster, and he found Lao Mo being annihilated as he tried to rescue Mu Daxian. Lao Mo handed Lin Yi the lit Old Kerosene Lamp and warned him how to reach the Campus, leaving Lin Yi desperate to save him.

• The Night Watchman explained that Lin Yi’s golden aura was exceptionally pure and suggested that the Quartermaster might be equipment intended for the Apostles.
• The Night Watchman told Lin Yi to return to the Clock Tower, but Lin Yi discovered he was stuck in the layers until he traced a path back through the Sanctuary’s shock waves.
• The Night Watchman instructed Lin Yi to keep the Sanctuary’s waves going with his golden aura or a single strike of the bell, and Lin Yi’s consciousness returned to his body.
• Lin Yi saw that Lao Mo had lost more than half his body while trying to pull Mu Daxian out of the mirror world.
• Lao Mo tossed Lin Yi the lit Old Kerosene Lamp, told him to get off the elevator at the Library and refuse the Library Administrator’s invitation, then said his death could not be prevented.

Lao Mo warned Lin Yi to preserve his heart and continued sacrificing himself to pull Mu Daxian from the mirror world. When the Sanctuary’s waves weakened, Lin Yi tried to sustain them, reached the bell, and found it draining his golden aura at a potentially fatal rate.

• Lao Mo told Lin Yi to put his heart in the backpack after his death and insisted he would not be completely annihilated.
• Lin Yi realized Lao Mo was sending parts of himself into the mirror world to rescue Mu Daxian, who began to re-form as he escaped.
• As the Sanctuary’s waves faded, Lin Yi decided to follow the Night Watchman’s instructions and replenish the bell with his golden aura.
• Lin Yi forced his way through the Sanctuary’s barrier, endured its attack, and reached the bell after recognizing its intricate structure and runes.
• Lin Yi touched the Sanctuary, which began drawing his golden aura so quickly that he feared it would kill him.

Lin Yi resisted the Sanctuary’s pull, reclaimed control from the instincts within him, and struck the Quantum Giant Bell, making it ring. The bell revealed the black tide and the colossal Angel looking toward him.

• The Sanctuary stripped Lin Yi’s flesh and absorbed his Golden Aura, but he awakened a savage instinct that helped him break free.
• Lin Yi pushed away from the Sanctuary as scarlet and deep-blue auras replaced the Golden Aura, while Lao Mo watched in disbelief.
• A figure appeared within Lin Yi’s aura, and he punched the Sanctuary, making the Quantum Giant Bell ring.
• The bell’s force stopped the Sanctuary from drawing on Lin Yi, but his instincts pressed his hand against it again and exposed a vision beyond its surface.
• Lin Yi saw an immense black tide filled with Night-Walking Species and realized the Angel was looking at him.