Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi's group escaped the Impersonators by using a tomato to clear the elevator entrance, then reached the first floor. A team led by Su Yao mistook them for Realm of God elites and decided to follow them, prompting Lin Yi to warn his companions that they were being watched again.

• Tian Bufan explained that Impersonators had taken over unoccupied dormitories and suspected the Dorm Supervisor's kerosene lamp had turned the Night-Walking Species into moss.
• Tian Bufan lured the Impersonators away from the elevator with a crushed tomato, allowing Kuai Hongji and the Experience Students to board safely.
• Lin Yi observed the five Experience Students during the elevator ride, and the groups reached the first floor together.
• After Lin Yi's group left, Su Yao identified Lin Yi as a Dreamweaving Person, and her captain suspected the group belonged to the Realm of God.
• The captain ordered the Experience Students to follow Lin Yi's group without being noticed, while Lin Yi warned his companions that someone was watching them.

Lin Yi and his companions headed to the Cafeteria, where Tian Bufan explained why Lin Yi had not been told about the plan involving Maozi and warned him to keep a clear objective when penetrating the dream boundary. The group reached the Cafeteria area, where Lin Yi sensed the smell of rain-soaked mud and blood.

• Lin Yi told the group what Su Yao and the others had said about them, and Kuai Hongji explained that he had called out to draw the others into distracting impersonators.
• Tian Bufan explained that he had withheld the plan involving Night Watchman-02 to avoid a time-loop paradox and warned Lin Yi not to reveal conflicting intentions while penetrating the dream boundary.
• Tian Bufan said Kuai Hongji would take the Dorm Supervisor pathway to the Art Building that night and warned that something had happened to their floor's Dorm Supervisor.
• Tian Bufan explained that the Security Guard had cleared away traces of the night-walking species, and Lin Yi wondered how strong he had become.
• The group entered the Cafeteria area shortly after seven, and Lin Yi sensed an odor of rain-soaked mud and blood.

Lin Yi and his companions found the Cafeteria grounds scarred by a deadly battle, then discussed how Star Script related to cosmic laws and the supreme Supernatural Creations. They reached the Cafeteria entrance still uncertain about Lao Mo and the damage elsewhere on Campus.

• Lin Yi used Domain Insight to see chef sculptures, blood, and discarded knives scattered along the road to the Cafeteria, while Wei Shan and Tian Bufan warned him about the losses and the other damaged areas.
• Su Yao sensed intense death and resentment in the Cafeteria area, so her captain linked the five-person team with iron chains and assigned them roles as they followed Lin Yi's group.
• Lin Yi told Tian Bufan that he might have learned Admonition in his dream, and Tian Bufan identified the writing as Star Script, a record of the universe's laws.
• Tian Bufan explained that everyone already knew Star Script beneath a cognition lock and that the Divine Artisan had inscribed it into the three supreme Supernatural Creations, including Sanctuary.
• Lin Yi and his companions collected the Cafeteria Rules and approached the Student Passage, where Lin Yi mourned Lao Mo's absence.

Lin Yi entered the Student Passage, endured a vision of the Library, and found Lao Mo restored but apparently without his memories. In the Student Dining Hall, Lin Yi ate tomato and egg noodles and purified the supernatural contamination inside them, but Green Apron Chefs suddenly appeared beside him, Wei Shan, and Kuai Hongji.

• Lin Yi saw a vision of the Library upon entering the Student Passage, then escaped it by using his watch as an anchor.
• Lin Yi found Lao Mo standing stiffly at the passage exit, and Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji said he might have been revived without his memories.
• Lao Mo's lips moved after the group entered the Cafeteria, and he faintly called Lin Yi a “Repeater kid.”
• Lin Yi ordered tomato and egg noodles from a Green Apron Chef, while Tian Bufan chose plain porridge and other companions also ordered noodles.
• Lin Yi ate the noodles and purified their supernatural contamination before realizing the Burial Body's Root Tendrils could carry its will into him.
• Green Apron Chefs silently appeared beside Lin Yi, Wei Shan, and Kuai Hongji as they ate.

Lin Yi’s group triggered an explosion at Meal Window No. 10 to escape the Green Apron Chefs, then discussed what it revealed about the Cafeteria’s collapse and the Convenience Store Owner’s possible motives. Afterward, Su Yao’s group suspected Lin Yi’s companions were Athlete Students, while Lao Mo appeared in the Student Passage and fixed his gaze on Su Yao.

• Kuai Hongji secretly inscribed mystical runes on bowls while Wei Shan and Lin Yi helped distract the Green Apron Chefs, then led the group toward the exit.
• The Green Apron Chefs’ tracking mechanism caused the bowls to shatter, activating the runes and blowing up Meal Window No. 10 as Lin Yi’s group escaped.
• Outside the Student Dining Hall, Kuai Hongji explained that his runes had absorbed and accelerated the contamination, while Tian Bufan deduced that the Cafeteria was close to collapse.
• Tian Bufan suggested the Convenience Store Owner might benefit from Lao Mo’s condition, and warned Lin Yi not to let speculation alter his cognition or influence others.
• Su Yao’s group discussed whether Lin Yi’s companions were Athlete Students rather than people from the Realm of God, then entered the Student Passage.
• Lao Mo appeared at the far end of the Student Passage, looked toward Su Yao, and said, “Ash... es...”

Lin Yi heard the Broken Sculptures’ song while in his normal state, then discovered that the Cafeteria’s walls contained flesh from the Burial Body. After sensing an invisible boundary around the Teaching Building, he crossed it with Tian Bufan and began revealing the death-filled Layer within.

• Lin Yi heard the Broken Sculptures singing in his normal state, and Tian Bufan explained that his expanding Perception let him receive more information as he adapted.
• Lin Yi entered a detached Perception state and saw Burial Body flesh embedded in the Student Passage walls, leading him to suspect it parasitized the Cafeteria and sustained the Green Apron Chefs.
• Lin Yi and Tian Bufan left the Cafeteria after finding no Tomato Sauce on their uniforms, and Lin Yi noticed that the Trash Can was missing.
• Lin Yi sensed Ashes on the Chef Sculptures and suggested asking Lin Shiling about them as the group approached the Teaching Building boundary.
• Lin Yi detected an invisible gate around the Teaching Building area, crossed it with Tian Bufan, and opened his Visual Domain to inspect the death-filled Layer.

Lin Yi discovered a hidden layer beneath the Campus’s Surface Layer, filled with the remains of dead sculptures, and learned that Architecture might have an occult purpose. When he returned to Teaching Building B, he sensed something was wrong and found a foul stench inside Group B Class 2; his perception revealed a scene that made his heart sink.

• Lin Yi saw countless incomplete Corpse Sculptures in a hidden layer of the Wooded Belt and found a broken red Streetlamp Pole before returning to the normal Campus Layer.
• Tian Bufan explained that the sculptures might have sunk into a deeper layer and told Lin Yi to leave them alone, then headed toward Teaching Building A with Kuai Hongji.
• Lin Yi spotted a dead Head Teacher sculpture entangled in Root Tendrils and worried that something had happened to Head Teacher 040.
• Lin Yi used Domain Insight to see gray fog and drifting ashes above the teaching building’s fourth floor, then entered Group B Class 2 with Wei Liang.
• Lin Yi smelled decay in the classroom and sent his perception inside, where he saw something that made his heart sink.

Lin Yi found Head Teacher 040 unconscious and gravely contaminated in the Teachers' Office, then used his Perception to repair most of her injuries. Head Teacher 040 woke and questioned his abilities as he continued treating her and began absorbing her contamination.

• Lin Yi noticed Head Teacher 040 was missing from the classroom and found no answer when he knocked on her office door.
• Lin Yi used his Perception to unlock the office, then discovered Head Teacher 040 unconscious and badly wounded in the small room.
• Lin Yi compared her condition with the physical data he had recorded earlier and restored her body to about eighty percent.
• Head Teacher 040 woke, mistook Lin Yi for an enemy, and relaxed after he explained that he was treating her.
• Lin Yi continued repairing Head Teacher 040 and told her that absorbing contamination might be an authority of the Ashes Apostles.

Lin Yi treated Head Teacher 040 and learned that an unidentified tentacled creature had attacked the campus during the Gray Fog Invasion, prompting him to suspect it was connected to the Burial Body. He revealed what he had discovered in the Cafeteria, leaving Head Teacher 040 stunned by how much he had explored.

• Lin Yi removed the last trace of contamination from Head Teacher 040, who then described the massive Gray Fog Invasion and the tentacled creature that had attacked the Teaching Building.
• Head Teacher 040 explained that the Forest of the Dead's Steles and other entities threatened students outside classrooms, while Lin Yi questioned her about the creature's tentacles and whether the Convenience Store Owner had appeared.
• Lin Yi and Head Teacher 040 discussed the Principal's mysterious origins and her theory that S City University anchored his identity while also containing him.
• Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 that the Convenience Store housed most of the Burial Body, whose root tendrils spread through the Cafeteria and Student Passage and appeared in Meal Window No. 10.
• Lin Yi said the tentacles resembled the Burial Body's root tendrils, and Head Teacher 040 asked whether he had personally uncovered all the secrets he described.

Lin Yi used a Child Book to leap his will into the Art Building and contact an Art Student who was recording messages. The student sensed Lin Yi and demanded proof that he was human, leaving their exchange unresolved as an Art Teacher called for him.

• Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 that the Convenience Store Owner might know about the Cafeteria’s abnormalities but said he still believed the owner supported humanity.
• Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 that Jin Jiuyao, Chen Bing, and Chen Xue had been killed by the Forest of the Dead’s Steles, while he had saved Lu Zhao and sent him to the Gymnasium.
• Lin Yi and Head Teacher 040 went to Group B Class 2, where she marked the three students’ names with an X and the surviving Experience Students signed in.
• Lin Yi scanned the Bookshelf Area and found a Child Book carrying a message about heavy casualties at the Art Building.
• Lin Yi traced the book’s connection to the Art Building and reached an Art Student who was writing messages, but the student demanded proof that Lin Yi was not a lost soul.
• Lin Yi identified himself as an Experience Student and said Mu Daxian had gone to the Clock Tower to find the Night Watchman, while the Art Teacher called Li Zidan.

Lin Yi took control of Li Zidan’s body to question the Art Teacher about the Art Building’s attack and its casualties. He learned that the Night Watchman had destroyed the invading tentacles and the Art Students had eliminated the Grinning Angels, then shared what he knew about the Campus before withdrawing.

• Lin Yi learned from Li Zidan that Mu Daxian had not returned from the Clock Tower, then offered Campus news in exchange for information about the Art Building.
• When Li Zidan began fading away without answering, Lin Yi forced his way into Li Zidan’s body and took control of him in the Library.
• Lin Yi convinced the wary Art Teacher of his identity by recounting his visit to the Art Building and the Grinning Angels he had lured away.
• The Art Teacher told Lin Yi that Grinning Angels and deadly tentacles had entered the Art Building, but the Night Watchman shattered the tentacles and the Art Students wiped out the Angels; no areas had been overrun.
• Lin Yi confirmed that Bai Fangshuo was well and told the Art Teacher that the Campus had also suffered attacks and casualties, then began withdrawing from Li Zidan’s body.

Lin Yi learned that the Art Building and Campus had endured a devastating night attack, then discovered that the ruined writing in his Memo Pad seemed to form Admonition when he flipped the pages quickly. He was left wondering how his notes had changed into those strange words.

• Lin Yi left Li Zidan's body, and Li Zidan told the Art Teacher that Lin Yi had possessed him before and absorbed supernatural power from the lamp.
• The Art Teacher took the Art Students back to the Art Building, while broken Angel and Demon Sculptures appeared among the columns and murmured about the Black Moon and the Mourners.
• Lin Yi pictured the Angel and High-Rank Alien Angel attacking the Art Building and Campus, and Night Watchman-02 using the Quantum Giant Bell, Sanctuary, to destroy the invaders inside the Art Building.
• Lin Yi gave Wei Liang a comic called Bestie Showdown! The Ultimate Challenge! and noticed that Li Huiyuan and the other students had not returned to class.
• Lin Yi opened his water-damaged Memo Pad and saw that rapidly flipping its pages made the smeared writing resemble mystical runes and Admonition.
• Wei Liang interrupted Lin Yi as he murmured the strange words, and Lin Yi was left wondering how his notes had turned into Admonition.

Lin Yi discovered that the Broken Sculpture could overwrite his perception without breaking through his resistance, then learned that Li Huiyuan had been injured the previous night. After revealing his power to the Athlete Students, he heard that Boss had brought Li Huiyuan to the School Doctor’s Office and that the circumstances of her injury remained unclear.

• Lin Yi realized the Broken Sculpture had made him believe he raised his head when he had not, and tested whether casual writing in his Memo Pad would become Mystical Runes.
• Xu Shunkang returned with the Athlete Students, but Li Huiyuan was absent, prompting Lin Yi to ask what had happened to her.
• Head Teacher 040 told Xu Shunkang that Lin Yi worked for the Authorities, and Lin Yi demonstrated his golden-flamed eyes to prove his strength.
• Xu Shunkang explained that Li Huiyuan had suffered injuries the previous night and that Boss had taken her to the School Doctor’s Office.
• Xu Shunkang said Boss had left the Gymnasium to reinforce the Art Building and found Li Huiyuan injured when he returned, but he did not know how she had been hurt.

Lin Yi learned about the Gymnasium attack and Li Huiyuan’s condition, then answered Tian Bufan’s call through the Dream Boundary. Tian Bufan summoned him to the Forest of Bones, where he asked Lin Yi to make Puppets from the strange growths around them.

• Xu Shunkang told Lin Yi that Li Huiyuan was unconscious after being injured and that Green Apron Chefs had attacked the Gymnasium, killing Zhi as he protected the juniors.
• Lin Yi shared what he knew about the Cafeteria, including the Burial Body, after Head Teacher 040 said Xu Shunkang could be told.
• Lin Yi heard Tian Bufan calling him and penetrated the Dream Boundary, leaping into Tian Bufan’s body near the Barren Land.
• Tian Bufan explained that their shared contamination let them connect through the Dream Boundary and said Lin Yi would need to support the others from the Campus that night.
• Tian Bufan asked Lin Yi to make Puppets, and Lin Yi sensed the skull-covered trees and strange organic growths of the Forest of Bones.

Lin Yi helped Tian Bufan gather materials and build two sacrificial Puppets in the Forest of Bones, then learned that Tian Bufan planned to take him to meet an old acquaintance. As Lin Yi projected his will into a Puppet with Tian Bufan, he learned that a dangerous crisis awaited them that night and that their chances of success were slim.

• Tian Bufan took Lin Yi into the Forest of Bones to gather materials for two Puppets, and Kuai Hongji arrived with Tomatoes and supernatural substance.
• Lin Yi took control of Tian Bufan's body and discovered that Tian Bufan's physical abilities matched his own.
• Lin Yi built two faceless Puppets, and Tian Bufan told him to project his will into one alongside him.
• Tian Bufan warned Lin Yi that their mission that night would involve a deadly crisis, battles on the Layer level, and many possible deaths.
• Lin Yi and Tian Bufan projected their wills into a Puppet, and Lin Yi asked whether their old acquaintance came from his lost memories.

Lin Yi followed Tian Bufan through the Dense Forest to negotiate with the Great Serpent, which destroyed their Puppet and sent Lin Yi back to the classroom with delayed soul-rending pain. After Lin Yi returned to Tian Bufan, he learned the creature was the Great Serpent and that the pair planned to keep sending Puppets to it until it would talk.

• Tian Bufan piloted a Puppet through an eerie forest devoid of Night-Walking Species and Impersonator Sculptures, where Lin Yi spotted a discarded Black Outpost-095 streetlamp.
• Tian Bufan called out to negotiate with an approaching creature, but the wind it generated destroyed the Puppet and hurled Lin Yi's consciousness back into his classroom.
• Lin Yi suffered severe delayed pain in his soul, then waited for Tian Bufan to call him again and used a newly perceived coordinate to return to Tian Bufan's body.
• Tian Bufan revealed that the creature was the Great Serpent and explained that time was distorted in the layers; he intended to let it kill several Puppets before negotiating with it.
• Tian Bufan sent Lin Yi into Puppet No. 2, which the Great Serpent destroyed, but Lin Yi used his adaptation trait to return to Tian Bufan instead of being thrown back to the classroom.
• Tian Bufan said they would make more Puppets near the Layer Rift and head back to the Great Serpent, while hinting that the Ouroboros Ring would equip itself when needed.

Tian Bufan, Lin Yi, and Kuai Hongji traveled through the Forest of Bones toward the Layer Rift, where they planned to manufacture puppets and spend their lives to contact the Great Serpent. The chapter ended with Tian Bufan insisting that the Great Serpent was an old friend who could still be negotiated with, despite its deadly temper.

• Tian Bufan led Lin Yi and Kuai Hongji into the Forest of Bones, where they encountered injured Fanatics who attacked them for food.
• Kuai Hongji killed the Fanatics and found an ashes crystal containing traces of the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles' aura, along with evidence of a possible summoning ritual.
• Tian Bufan explained that the Forest of Bones contained abundant supernatural substance but was too dangerous for others to harvest.
• Lin Yi began subconsciously adapting to the Layer Rift's distortions, and Tian Bufan warned that further assimilation could turn him into part of the Rift.
• Tian Bufan explained that they would make puppets near the Layer Rift and sacrifice their lives to communicate with the Great Serpent.
• Lin Yi questioned whether the Great Serpent was truly Tian Bufan's old friend, and Tian Bufan said its tantrum left them a chance to negotiate.

Tian Bufan and Lin Yi repeatedly sent Puppets into the Great Serpent’s realm to force a negotiation, and the Serpent revealed that it knew about the Principal’s journey to the Wasteland and their plan. The chapter ended with the Great Serpent dismissing their chances of success while Tian Bufan insisted this attempt was their closest yet.

• Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji gathered materials and Supernatural Substance so Lin Yi could build Puppets for their journey into the Great Serpent’s realm.
• The Great Serpent destroyed several Puppets, and Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi’s Original Body could remain on Campus while his will helped elsewhere.
• Tian Bufan called the Great Serpent “Zero,” which answered, “One,” and demanded that he bring his Original Body; Lin Yi connected the exchange to the Broken Sculptures’ song.
• Tian Bufan sent another Puppet and insisted that the Great Serpent either meet him or keep destroying it until it was ready to negotiate.
• The Great Serpent appeared as a distant outline and asked for Tian Bufan’s terms, but Tian Bufan first brought up the Principal’s journey to the Wasteland and the effort to save the Serpent.
• The Great Serpent said the Principal had gone for his own secret and claimed the plan would fail again, while Tian Bufan maintained they had never been closer to success.

Tian Bufan negotiated with Great Serpent to help intercept the Angel in exchange for saving “her,” while Zero joined Tian Bufan’s shadow. As Lin Yi returned to his body, Tian Bufan revealed that Great Serpent was created by the First Apostles through a time paradox and that they had failed countless times before; Lin Yi then sensed Great Serpent’s shadow following him through the layers.

• Tian Bufan persuaded Great Serpent to help draw the Angel away at a critical moment, promising that they would save “her” this time.
• Great Serpent accepted, warned that summoning it would also bring the Angel, and said its power could take effect only once; Zero then emerged from the abyss and vanished into Tian Bufan’s shadow.
• Back at the Forest of Bones, Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji dismantled Puppet No. 5, and Lin Yi asked why Great Serpent knew their names and history.
• Tian Bufan explained that Great Serpent was created by the First Apostles using a time paradox, and that within its time, they had already failed countless times.
• As Lin Yi’s consciousness traveled back toward his body, he sensed Great Serpent’s shadow surrounding him and resisted the urge to perceive it.

After returning from the Layer Rift, Lin Yi headed to the Cafeteria with Wei Liang and Wei Shan while noticing that the Night-Walking Species had vanished and the Corpse-Burial Root Tendrils had spread. At the Student Passage, Lao Mo called Lin Yi a “Repeater kid.”

• Lin Yi woke at 11:43 and left the classroom with Wei Liang to get lunch, while Wei Liang secretly watched his shadow.
• Wei Shan joined them, explaining that Young Master Tian had told him to stay beside Lin Yi on Campus.
• Zhao Lingxiao followed Lin Yi by absorbing his scent and giving off a feverish air.
• Lin Yi noticed the Night-Walking Species had disappeared and found more Corpse-Burial Root Tendrils spreading through the Student Passage.
• Lin Yi discussed gathering tomatoes with Wei Shan, then saw Lao Mo at the passage exit and heard him call, “Repeater kid.”