Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• The Library Librarian appeared at the Elevator, watched Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang, and left them with a cryptic warning about time and the Black Moon.
• Lin Yi and Kuai Hongji realized that several minutes had passed for them while only seconds elapsed outside the open Elevator.
• Kuai Hongji explained that the Library Librarian was a dead being sustained by Mystical Runes and might have been a former Night Watchman-01.
• Lin Yi asked Kuai Hongji about Over-Quantity Time-String Fluctuation and Specific Transcendence Fragments, but Kuai Hongji referred him to Wei Liang.
• The Elevator reached the Dormitory Building’s 14th floor, and Kuai Hongji proposed that Lin Yi enter Tian Bufan’s body to return to his Original Body.
• Lin Yi suggested remaining inside Mao Feiyang instead, prompting Kuai Hongji to guess that he wanted to visit the Dorm Supervisor’s Office.

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.

• Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang returned to Dormitory Room 1414, where Lin Yi’s will body was drawn into Tian Bufan’s body.
• Lin Yi saw Tian Bufan’s memories and countless images of Tian Bufan, Wei Shan, Mao Feiyang, and Boss dying before he was expelled from the dream.
• Lin Yi suspected their repeated deaths had occurred in overwritten time loops and asked Kuai Hongji whether they had died before; Kuai Hongji denied it.
• Kuai Hongji led Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang through a spatial layer corner and explained that unauthorized travelers in the darkness could be attacked by night-walking species.
• Lin Yi discovered that the Dorm Supervisor’s Office was surrounded by an abandoned layer filled with strange entities, and Kuai Hongji explained that its lamp could help lost souls return to reality through the Dorm Supervisor Pathway.

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.

• Kuai Hongji explained that the Campus came before its rules and described how its founders had built it with help from the Principal and Wei Liang.
• Kuai Hongji opened the Dorm Supervisor’s Office and set down the Old Kerosene Lamp, the rules, and his credentials while the people inside watched.
• Lin Yi left Mao Feiyang’s body, and his Will Body’s presence stirred the surrounding darkness until Mao Feiyang forced him back inside.
• Lin Yi used Mao Feiyang’s body to read the Dorm Supervisor Rules’ appendix, despite the girl’s warning that he needed Dorm Supervisor status.
• The group watched the inaccurate grandfather clock as six o’clock drew near, and the girl loosened her grip on her backpack while Mao Feiyang kept an eye on her.

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.

• Four boys read the Appendix Section of the Dorm Supervisor Rules, became Impersonator Sculptures, and eventually shattered, while the girl waited out the time on the sofa.
• At 6:00, Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang left the Dorm Supervisor’s Office, and the girl followed them.
• In the Wooded Belt, a voice from Lao Lin roused the badly injured Wei Shan, who pulled spikes from his body and healed in sunlight.
• Wei Shan used a Red-Gold Spiral to destroy the sculptified aberrant creatures, then found Lin Yi beneath a banyan tree.
• Wei Shan restored Lin Yi’s missing left arm with the stick-like object, carried him toward the shallower Wooded Belt, and left to find clothes.
• At 6:12, the girl continued following Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang after they exited the Dormitory Building.

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.

• A girl tried to follow Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang, but they dismissed her and walked away without giving her their real names.
• Lin Yi sensed the Campus’s boundaries and layers more clearly, and Kuai Hongji explained that their actions had accelerated the layers’ encroachment, though the world faced destruction unless they drove out the Root.
• Tian Bufan caught up with Lin Yi, Kuai Hongji, and Mao Feiyang and urgently led them into the Wooded Belt to save Wei Shan.
• The group sensed Wei Shan was alive, and Tian Bufan noticed that his condition seemed far better than expected.
• Tian Bufan explained that the High-Rank Alien Angel’s rampage had tilted the Art Building Layer, sending contaminated rain and bizarre creatures toward the Campus, and that he and Wei Shan had blocked the invasion point.
• Tian Bufan described the creatures gathering along layer boundaries, including Grinning Angel-level beings, Mourners’ dead bodies, and higher-rank Night-Walking Species.