Recaps

Ye Qiyan tried to draw the King's Selection Holy Sword, May, and discovered it required a red dragon and human bloodline. He overpowered the sword’s protective mechanism and began drawing it, while Gluttony attacked the candidates who tried to stop him.

• Ye Qiyan and his companions reached the Sword in the Stone as rumors about him and Lisette spread through the marketplace.
• Mebis offered to help Ye Qiyan draw the sword if he failed, but he took hold of it himself.
• Ye Qiyan learned that May required a gene-harmonized red dragon and human bloodline, then used Pride's domain to suppress the sword’s protective mechanism and lift it from the stone.
• The knights and King's Selection candidates recognized Ye Qiyan and attacked, while Eve and Lisette took aim at the knights.
• Ye Qiyan released Gluttony, which devoured the attacking candidates while moving ordinary people to safety.
• Mebis watched Gluttony protect the ordinary people and regarded Ye Qiyan’s companions as kind heroes.

Ye Qiyan drew and shattered the King Selection Sword, then used the Hakoma Kingdom’s King's Seal and his Sovereign Ring to enter the High Tower. He invited Mebis to a freer world and arrived at the dying Bronze Race · Eighth Research Institute.

• Ye Qiyan used Lisette and Eve’s weapons to sever the ley-line connection and draw the King Selection Sword, shocking the King Selection Candidates and Merlin.
• Ye Qiyan erased the sword’s influence over his mind and shattered it with Dimensional Strangulation.
• Ye Qiyan gave the King Selection Summons Scroll to the Eldest Princess and took the Hakoma Kingdom’s King's Seal to open the High Tower.
• Ye Qiyan invited Mebis to a freer world, while Lisette and Eve stayed behind to guard Gluttony’s feeding.
• Ye Qiyan put on the Sovereign Ring, entered the High Tower, and arrived at Bronze Race · Eighth Research Institute, a world nearing its end.

Ye Qiyan explored the endless frozen world and uncovered a Bronze Race escape pod hidden beneath its aurora. He seized control of its Guardian mech, Echo Mech 555, and learned that it had remained here long after dying to protect its people.

• Ye Qiyan crossed the unchanging ice field and realized the world’s slow time flow and restrained destruction might be keeping him trapped.
• He used the Platform World authority, causing an aurora to appear and revealing that the world’s time flow was beginning to recover.
• A voice identified itself as the remaining thought-form of the Bronze Race Gene Research Institute’s master and demanded Ye Qiyan’s blood to determine his race.
• Ye Qiyan used the Transcendence Command to break open the sky and take control of the hidden Guardian mech.
• Ye Qiyan learned that Echo Mech 555 had carried the Bronze Race’s escape-pod world to a Level 10 Platform World and remained behind, obeying its final command to stay alive.

Ye Qiyan subdued the failing Bronze Race mech and received the highest permission to access the Eighth Research Institute as the world neared its end. The Guardian revealed how the Bronze Race had fallen and explained that its creations had helped set the three great races on the path to destruction.

• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment and Ever-Burning Belief to release the mech from its lingering belief, then learned that its former leader, Nafroluo, was dead.
• The mech identified itself as the Eighth Research Institute's Guardian Series Number One and granted Ye Qiyan access to the institute, while a countdown showed the world had less than a day remaining.
• Ye Qiyan asked who had destroyed the Bronze Race, and the Guardian said thirteen Transcenders had attacked and nine had been killed in return.
• The Guardian said the Golden Race had been brought down through [Void] and [Gray Fog] negating [Courage] and [Glory], while one unnamed Transcender had ended the Silver Race.
• The Guardian explained that the Bronze Race's mechanical lifeforms, genetic engineering, and armaments had shaped other races' creations, and took pride in the legacy that had also become the fuse leading to the races' ends.

Ye Qiyan learned how the Bronze Race fought to preserve its legacy and questioned the Echo of Belief about the world it concealed. After receiving coordinates to a distant location, he departed aboard his Train with Red Tears and began Imaginary Number Navigation.

• The Echo of Belief explained that Nafroluo, the Bronze Race's Glory King, had ordered the race's research and knowledge scattered throughout the Wasteland.
• Ye Qiyan asked whether the Echo wanted to live, and it said it was tired and only wanted to answer his questions.
• The Echo explained that Nightmare Half-Bloods concealed its world from False Gods and that Red Dragon-human genes came from research combining Beast of Evolution genes with those of intelligent races.
• The Echo gave Ye Qiyan coordinates to a distant location, explaining that it could reform there but he could not teleport with it.
• Ye Qiyan summoned the Train from the Matrix, boarded with Red Tears, and activated Imaginary Number Navigation using the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake.

Ye Qiyan encountered an Imaginary Number Albatross guarding an unfinished Card Sequence, then followed the Echo of Belief to a mechanical graveyard and uncovered a damaged Level 12 Super Safety Box. The Echo Mech’s eternal binding transferred to Ye Qiyan, who was prompted to establish his own binding.

• Ye Qiyan spotted an Imaginary Number Albatross attacking him near the unfinished Card Sequence, survived its spatial assault, and placed a Justice Mark on it.
• Ye Qiyan left Imaginary Number Space and arrived with the Echo of Belief at a mechanical graveyard filled with Guardian Mech remains.
• The Echo of Belief explained that it had killed the other Guardian Series Mechs and used their parts to survive.
• Ye Qiyan sent the Raven Demon to clear the ice, revealing a brass Super Safety Box bound to the Echo Mech.
• The Safety Box’s binding transferred to Ye Qiyan, and he learned that the Bronze Race had made it as a replica of a Golden Race graduate’s project.

Ye Qiyan discovered a Bronze Race potion that could awaken talents, learned it had been created through a one-of-a-kind Golden Race Miracle, and realized it might be possible to ascend. He also found a gun that could reverse the potion’s racial transformation, leaving him with a potential way to use it on his companions.

• Ye Qiyan opened the damaged Safety Box and learned from the Echo of Belief that Bronze Race copies lacked a talent bestowed on the original Golden Race creation.
• Ye Qiyan found a Bronze Race Perfect Gene-Mixing Potion that could change someone’s race and offered a 5.55% chance of awakening a talent.
• The Echo of Belief explained that a Golden Race Hero had given Nafroluo a Miracle, which a Gene Researcher stole and used to make the talent-awakening potion.
• Ye Qiyan considered ascending the potion and decided he could give it to a companion, though it would change their race.
• Ye Qiyan found a Gene Regret Gun that could restore a Race Traitor to their original race if they wished to return.

Ye Qiyan examined the Bronze Race’s relics and obtained a broken Level 13 bell, giving him enough high-level materials to craft a Dynamic Carriage Skin. He questioned the Bronze Echo about the bell’s connection to the end, but its knowledge had been erased.

• Ye Qiyan learned that the Bronze Race had created an item capable of restoring someone’s original race, then examined a magic-and-machinery Guardian blueprint with no level.
• Miatila said it lacked permission to determine levels, and Ye Qiyan wondered whether the Train System assigned them.
• Ye Qiyan extracted the broken Level 13 Zero-State Bell and realized his five gathered items included one Level 12, three Level 13, and one Level 14 item.
• Ye Qiyan restrained his excitement about finally having enough materials to make a Dynamic Carriage Skin and asked the Bronze Echo why bells rang whenever the end appeared.
• The Bronze Echo’s response broke up as it said the information had been erased.

Ye Qiyan learned the Golden Race had left behind Yulia and watched the Bronze Race Guardian’s dying echo finally find peace. After collecting the Mech fragments and upgrading the Raven Demon’s Snake-Skin Bag, he prepared to leave the freezing world.

• Ye Qiyan found a Golden Spirit, and the Echo of Belief explained it was the only trace of the Golden Race preserved by the Gene Research Institute.
• Ye Qiyan told the Echo that Yulia had survived; recognizing her as the last Governor’s daughter, it felt relief before fading.
• Ye Qiyan asked whether the Wasteland had an end, and the Guardian of the Bronze Race answered that it was endless before warning him not to repeat the three races’ mistakes.
• Ye Qiyan recorded the Guardian’s final words on a Broken Copper Gear and placed it on the Train’s Record Wall beside relics from the other races.
• The Raven Demon, the Demon Raven, and the Nanite Swarm gathered over six thousand kilograms of Guardian Metal, while Ye Qiyan upgraded the Snake-Skin Bag into Death Omen Bird’s Snake-Skin Bag.
• Ye Qiyan told his companions to board the Train and leave the freezing world.

Ye Qiyan returned from the Gene Research Institute, defeated the King Selection Candidates, and let Mebis choose whether to join him in the Wasteland. After WALL-E returned with the location of a treasure, Ye Qiyan began crafting an exclusive Dynamic Carriage Skin from five rare materials.

• Ye Qiyan returned to the Nether Abyss and used Gluttony to defeat the King Selection Candidates, while the Pure Purification Stone burned the Nightmare Half-Blood Merlins to ash.
• Ye Qiyan told Mebis to make her own choice about joining him in the Wasteland, and she studied the Light Screen before deciding.
• Ye Qiyan left the Royal Capital by Train and summoned WALL-E, who returned after more than twenty days of searching with coordinates for a treasure.
• Ye Qiyan followed WALL-E's coordinates toward the treasure and prepared to craft the Dynamic Carriage Skin during the journey.
• Ye Qiyan placed five rare materials on the Processing Table and began crafting the exclusive Dynamic Carriage Skin with the Infinite Dynamic Paintbrush.

Ye Qiyan completed his exclusive Dynamic Carriage Skin after forty-three days, choosing Miatila to become its soul despite the risks. The new train skin was born with the True Name Transcendence Blasphemy Demon Machinery Moonshadow Calamity Miatila Train and the public name Evil Machinery of the Transcendent Order.

• While Ye Qiyan worked on the Mythical Gemstone, Red Tears offered to become the soul of his Dynamic Carriage Skin, but he told her to wait.
• The Main System announced that Miatila had completed her transformation and asked Ye Qiyan to choose the carriage skin's soul; Miatila asked him to choose her.
• Ye Qiyan used the final drop of his blood to complete the carriage skin, shattering the Infinite Dynamic Paintbrush in the process.
• The Main System confirmed Miatila as the carriage skin's soul and prompted Ye Qiyan to name it.
• Ye Qiyan gave the skin its long True Name and named it Evil Machinery of the Transcendent Order for public use.

After forty-three days of work, Ye Qiyan completed the Dynamic Carriage Skin and reunited with his companions, who welcomed Miatila aboard. He inspected the transformed train and discovered its powerful new abilities, including the potential to become a True God of Space.

• Ye Qiyan finished creating the Dynamic Carriage Skin and collapsed on the train floor, where his companions gathered around him.
• Ye Qiyan recognized Miatila, who had taken on Red Tears's appearance, and his companions embraced him after their long separation.
• Lisette used Skull-Piercing Spikes to pull the companions away from Ye Qiyan, and he introduced Miatila to everyone aboard the train.
• Ye Qiyan left the train to inspect its new appearance, which incorporated Miatila and elements from his companions and past adventures.
• Ye Qiyan touched the train and learned that its Dynamic Carriage Skin granted it the abilities Ninth Anchor Point, Hyperspace Realm Descent, Last Glory Laurel Wreath, and Pure White Evil.

Ye Qiyan completed the Dynamic Carriage Skin, gained visual appraisal and Miatila’s companionship, then collapsed into sleep with his exhausted crew. Elsewhere, the [Space False God] lost access to its spatial authority and Divine Kingdom, while the fallen Fate False God urged Altos to conserve its remaining power until Ye Qiyan arrived.

• Ye Qiyan claimed the Visual Appraisal Permission and confirmed that he could appraise targets by sight, though Miatila warned that contact appraisal remained more reliable.
• Miatila appeared as a small chibi figure, spoke directly with Ye Qiyan, and promised to appear whenever he called.
• After more than forty days of exertion, Ye Qiyan and his companions rested aboard the train while Miatila’s song and the Dream Eaters carried them into sleep.
• In the Level 7 Puzzle Platform World, Xu Kong sensed that something new had been born and wondered whether humans were responsible.
• The [Space False God] discovered that it could no longer access its spatial authority, Divine Kingdom, or the door to [Void Realm].
• The fallen Fate False God told Altos to conserve its authority and wait for Ye Qiyan to arrive.

Ye Qiyan woke after seventeen days of recovery, then searched the seabed with WALL-E for the world’s treasure. WALL-E found a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card, the tenth fragment Ye Qiyan had obtained and the beginning of his fourth Blasphemy.

• Lisette told Ye Qiyan he had slept for seventeen days, and he checked his stamina and mental energy after waking.
• Ye Qiyan watched a recording of Giant Eagle drawing against the Raven Twin Evils, then checked on his companions.
• Ye Qiyan took WALL-E to search for the treasure beneath the sea while Hunt and Eve guarded them.
• WALL-E located a fragment hidden inside a frozen coral reef, and Hunt cleared away the coral so WALL-E could retrieve it.
• Miatila identified the object as a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card, and the Blasphemy Ring appeared behind Ye Qiyan and resonated with it.

Ye Qiyan left the Sixtieth Station after finding another Fragment of the Blasphemy Card, while Zhuxing Tu sensed that he had obtained it and became excited. Back in the Wasteland, Ye Qiyan checked the cost of materials for demon-transformed mechs and received a message from Zhao Lin.

• Ye Qiyan thanked WALL-E for finding the fragment, recalled his Nanite Swarm with his Seventh Anchor Point, and departed the Platform World with his companions.
• The newly crowned queen of the Hakoma Kingdom watched Ye Qiyan's train leave and became the station's Platform Lord.
• At the One-Style Magic Tool Shop, Zhuxing Tu sensed that Ye Qiyan had obtained a Blasphemy Card fragment and told Zhao Lin she wanted to see him.
• Zhao Lin messaged Ye Qiyan to warn him that Zhuxing Tu had suddenly mentioned him and ask whether something bad might be happening.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland, found that he could not afford even the cheapest Magic Power Source for a demon-transformed mech, and received Zhao Lin's message.

Ye Qiyan learned how Zhao Lin survived deadly misfortune in Arcane Academy City and won more Game Cards, then invited her to trade at the Black Market Trade Star. Lisette brought him the hatched Level 11 Imaginary Number System Special Treasure Chest.

• Ye Qiyan read Zhao Lin's message and learned that the Refusal of Death necklace he had traded her saved her life during chaos in Arcane Academy City.
• Zhao Lin told Ye Qiyan that she had won a Game Card battle against another owner, bringing her total to seven cards, and had defeated a C-Rank False God with a powerful Magic Scroll.
• Ye Qiyan proposed trading with Zhao Lin during her next stretch of good luck, and she agreed to meet him at the Black Market Trade Star the day after tomorrow.
• Ye Qiyan added Zhao Lin to the boarding invitation and learned that Zhuxing Tu had also invited her to an auction.
• Lisette brought Ye Qiyan the treasure chest, which had hatched into a Level 11 Imaginary Number System Special Treasure Chest containing an Imaginary Number System entity.

Ye Qiyan opened a level 11 Imaginary Number Treasure Chest and upgraded its module reward before equipping both rewards on the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake. After organizing his valuables, he mourned his shattered Infinite Dynamic Paintbrush, but Lisette revealed a new repair module and began restoring it.

• Ye Qiyan opened the Treasure Chest and obtained an Imaginary Number Route Stabilizing Device and an Imaginary Number Killing Intent Module Card.
• Ye Qiyan used Ascension to turn the card into a Top-Tier Enhancement Module Card, Imaginary Number Hidden Kill.
• Ye Qiyan gave both rewards to the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake, which absorbed them and changed in appearance.
• Ye Qiyan stored valuable items in the Safety Box nested inside his Storage Unit.
• Ye Qiyan examined the shattered Infinite Dynamic Paintbrush, and Lisette revealed an Item Repair module and began restoring it.

Ye Qiyan stopped Lisette from damaging herself to repair the Dynamic Brush and reassured her that she could take her time. He collected his quest rewards and fused Golden Spirit with the Astral Sacred Crest, then prepared to see what Trade Star had to offer.

• Ye Qiyan stopped Lisette from using her maximum Stamina to accelerate the Dynamic Brush's repair and told her to restore it slowly without hurting herself.
• Lisette's Liberation count increased to five, with Obsessive Devotion as her newly liberated emotion.
• Miatila reported that Ye Qiyan had completed the Hakoma Kingdom's hidden quest and received 1,333 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan fused Golden Spirit with the Astral Sacred Crest, upgrading it and increasing his maximum Stamina by 30 points.
• Ye Qiyan discovered that creating the Dynamic Carriage Skin had also raised his maximum Stamina by 100 points, bringing his Stamina to 980, and looked forward to the next stop at Trade Star.

Ye Qiyan brought his train to the Black Market’s Trade Star, choosing the Junior Member Platform. As the train arrived, its extravagant dynamic carriage skin stunned the platform’s visitors.

• Ye Qiyan and his companions prepared to enter a station while the train crossed a scorching Wasteland, and Ye Qiyan chose Trade Star as their destination.
• Ye Qiyan selected the Junior Member Platform, thinking Zhao Lin would soon arrive there.
• At District 9, Resource Baron Alomqi and Mr. Order encountered Christine, who teased Alomqi about his past and discussed buying equipment for Heaven.
• Ye Qiyan’s train emerged onto the platform, and its elaborate carriage skin shattered Alomqi’s appraisal monocle and astonished Christine.

Ye Qiyan arrived at Trade Star and discovered that it lacked Monrojina’s Capsule Tunnels, while he and Miss Ailei discussed the delayed Black Market auction. He waited for Zhao Lin and wondered whether the tunnels’ hidden back door had been discovered.

• Ye Qiyan arrived at Trade Star with WALL-E, Lisette, and Miatila, and used Witness Truth and Falsehood to spot Resource Baron, Mr. Order, and Christine nearby.
• Ye Qiyan left without speaking to them, while Resource Baron and Mr. Order wondered why he seemed familiar and Christine invited them to eat.
• Ye Qiyan read Zhao Lin’s message that he was waiting in Zone Four because Trade Star had no Capsule Tunnels.
• Ye Qiyan asked Miss Ailei about the auction and learned it had been postponed until the next day because of a small mishap.

Ye Qiyan reunited with Zhao Lin on the Trade Star, repaired her life-saving necklace in exchange for one use of her luck, and gave her the Fortune-Reversing Stone. They learned that the Trade Star’s central city was the City of Reciprocators and that the planet was a special world within the Wasteland, poised above it during the annual auction.

• Zhao Lin showed Ye Qiyan her new magical eye, earned after killing an apostle of the Gene God at a level 8 Hunting Station.
• Ye Qiyan took 700 Train Coins from Zhao Lin and used Demon Card: Pride to restore her broken necklace as a pseudo Refusal of Death.
• Ye Qiyan gave Zhao Lin a Fortune-Reversing Stone and said he would use her luck after the auction, while acknowledging that they were friends.
• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin went to a hot spring inn and learned they were in the Trade Star’s central city, the City of Reciprocators.
• The inn owner explained that the Trade Star was a special world within the Wasteland and hovered above it during the annual Wasteland Auction.

Ye Qiyan considered the risks surrounding the Black Market auction after Zhuxing Tu told him Wu Xiaomei’s thirteenth Zodiac Card would be for sale. The chapter left him suspecting that Lu Jiayun might disrupt the crowded auction as tensions between the Homecomers and other cities grew.

• The Black Market auction drew Train Conductors seeking items unavailable through the Trading Platform, despite the City of a Thousand Stars refusing to recognize the market.
• Zhuxing Tu barged into Ye Qiyan’s private hot spring and told him that Wu Xiaomei’s thirteenth Zodiac Card was up for auction.
• Zhao Lin spoke with Wu Yuanshan about collecting Zodiac Cards and her own progress with Game Cards.
• Zhuxing Tu was tossed over the bamboo wall into Wu Yuanshan and Zhao Lin’s hot spring by Ye Qiyan’s Nanite Swarm.
• Ye Qiyan recalled Batos’s reports about Lu Jiayun’s anger and the cities’ growing opposition to the City of a Thousand Stars, and worried that the auction might become a target.

Ye Qiyan learned from Zhuxing Tu that Ailei was the daughter of a dead Platform Lord and the anchor sustaining the Black Market. Zhuxing Tu asked him to choose between saving the Black Market at the cost of Ailei’s freedom or letting the planet fall into the Wasteland, and he rejected the premise that only those two choices existed.

• Ye Qiyan explored the Trade Star at night and encountered Zhuxing Tu, who showed him its landmarks and explained the Black Market’s role.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment and Rebellion on Zhuxing Tu, but she resisted their effects and asked him for a favor.
• Zhuxing Tu revealed that Ailei had inherited her dead mother’s Platform Lord permissions and anchored the Black Market.
• Zhuxing Tu said a plague threatened to make the planet fall into the Wasteland and asked Ye Qiyan to choose between the Black Market and Ailei’s freedom.
• Ye Qiyan dismissed the dilemma, saying he would not sacrifice the Black Market and that the Wasteland might offer a way for Ailei to have both freedom and her role.

A plague spread across Trade Star as Ailei tried to protect the auction while hiding her illness and investigating emergency alerts. The crisis erupted during Ye Qiyan’s meeting with Ailei, who collapsed as monsters attacked the planet, leaving Ye to rely on Zhao Lin’s Good Luck.

• On Trade Star, money-marked monsters infected factory employees and vowed to spread the trading plague to every world.
• Ailei discovered countless SSS emergency alerts, dispatched Black Market teams to investigate, and severed her connection to Trade Star with a sealing potion so she could keep working.
• At a barbecue restaurant, Christine, Resource Baron, and Mr. Order discussed Lu Jiayun’s ambitions and the danger facing Trade Star.
• At the Hot Spring Inn, Ailei met Ye Qiyan, Zhuxing Tu, Wu Yuanshan, and Zhao Lin, assuring them the auction would proceed despite a delay.
• A Sun-Chasing Airship crashed from the orbital ring as a warning announced endless monster attacks; Ailei collapsed, and Ye asked Zhao Lin to use her Good Luck.

As Trade Star was besieged by monsters and Ailei’s life faded, Wu Yuanshan prepared to defend the Black Market while Ye Qiyan chose to stay and fight. The chapter ended with Ye Qiyan summoning Hunt Mecha-Dragon beneath an Eternal Night sky lit by the moon.

• Wu Yuanshan discovered that Ailei was the planet’s will and that her soul was draining away beyond repair as monsters attacked Trade Star and its planetary ring.
• Many Train Conductors fled through the Station while others broadcast the crisis, bringing more people’s attention to the Black Market.
• Wu Yuanshan summoned the Zodiac creatures and invoked the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches formations, declaring her intent to trade in Card Sequences.
• Ye Qiyan realized Zhuxing Tu had foreseen the attack, then asked Zhao Lin whether she would stay or escape; Zhao Lin chose to remain and gave him a blessing of good luck.
• Ye Qiyan left the Hot Spring Inn with Hunt and summoned Hunt Mecha-Dragon and the Calamity Card Eternal Night, Moonlit Silence as he prepared to fight.