Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan collected his Judgment Court stipend and arranged for Qin Qiang's guild to relocate to Solo City. With his Train Coins replenished, he planned to buy materials to build the GT-EX robot.

• Ye Qiyan collected ten Train Coins, Level 6 standard equipment, and two single-use judgment modules from the Judgment Court.
• Ye Qiyan noticed the dark intermediate layer between Solo City's levels had vanished, but decided not to tell Zhao Xi about it.
• Ye Qiyan traded a Guild Invitation Card to Qin Qiang for seventy Train Coins, allowing Qin Qiang's guild, Five Hundred, to begin relocating from the City of Eternal Night to Solo City.
• Ye Qiyan counted his earnings and decided to buy materials for the GT-EX robot before upgrading his train.

Monrojina obtained a Ritual Card and learned that Solo City's mayor had agreed to help the City of Eternal Night curse Zhao Xi. After investigating Zhao Xi with her new card, Monrojina saw Ye Qiyan beside her and received a message summoning her to a group activity about the coming curse.

• Ye Qiyan paid a hundred Train Coins for Advanced Electronic Components and planned to manufacture GT-EX after returning to his train.
• Zhao Lin repaid Ye Qiyan with eight Train Coins and invited him to collect a salary from the Judgment Court, but he told her not to visit Solo City the next day.
• Monrojina returned to Solo City with a new Ritual Card, bringing her collection to eight, and considered how to repay Ye Qiyan's cause and effect.
• Annie delivered a document revealing that Solo City's mayor and Supervisory Court planned to have Camelin Galo curse Zhao Xi when the City of Eternal Night attacked.
• Monrojina used the Past of Man card to view Zhao Xi's past and saw Ye Qiyan beside her, then received Zhuxing Tu's invitation to a group activity about curses.
• Zhuxing Tu's stored bad luck continued growing, and a crack appeared in its transparent bottle.

Simak conspired with Camelin Galo to curse Zhao Xi while Solo City fell under martial law. Ye Qiyan received a warning about the plot and offered the information to Zhao Xi, who declined to see it and left the decision to the City Lord.

• Simak persuaded Camelin Galo to curse Zhao Xi by claiming she had helped the Imperial Sequence Organization and might have lifted Galo’s curse.
• The Prosecutors sealed Solo City under martial law, closing shops, barring residents from the streets, and shutting the city gates.
• Ye Qiyan saw messages from Zhuxing Tu and learned from Monrojina that Simak and the City Lord planned to target Zhao Xi during the coming war.
• Monrojina sent Ye Qiyan coordinates for the Central Building on Solo City’s second level in case he encountered danger.
• Ye Qiyan warned Zhao Xi that his friend had information about the Supervisory Court and the mayor, but Zhao Xi declined to see it and said the City Lord would judge for themself.

Ye Qiyan fought his way toward Solo City's Central Elevator after the City of Eternal Night invaded, using Raven and Red Tears to slaughter the monsters and protect the people who followed him. He confronted Vampire Earl Barlow and used the Book of the Unreal and the Real to draw him into a repeating story.

• The City of Eternal Night's army poured into Solo City, overwhelming the Inspectors and civilians as Ye Qiyan headed for the Central Elevator.
• Ye Qiyan summoned Raven and Red Tears, whose powers cleared a path through the monsters and inhuman Train Conductors.
• Vampire Duke Barlow learned of Ye Qiyan's advance and led elite Vampire nobles and monsters to stop him from reaching the upper levels.
• Ye Qiyan faced Vampire Earl Barlow, silenced him with Bewitchment, and opened the Book of the Unreal and the Real to trap him in a story that repeated forty-seven times.

Ye Qiyan banished Vampire Earl Barlow into a cannibalism story, then killed him after the ordeal broke his mind. After reaching the Second Floor, Ye Qiyan fought through its monsters and headed toward Monrojina’s fortified building, hoping she could help him reach the fourth floor.

• Ye Qiyan used the Book of the Unreal and the Real to send Barlow into a story, while Red Tears and the Raven Demon cleared the way to the Central Elevator.
• When the story ended, Barlow returned traumatized after being eaten forty-seven times, and Ye Qiyan judged him guilty and shot him dead.
• The elevator stopped at the Second Floor because its rails had been destroyed, so Ye Qiyan stepped out and fought through the monsters there with Red Tears and Raven.
• Monrojina messaged Ye Qiyan and offered him refuge in her heavily protected building.
• Ye Qiyan headed toward Monrojina’s building to see whether she knew a way to reach the fourth floor.

Ye Qiyan reached Monrojina’s building and chose to continue upward despite her warnings. She used her Ritual Card to teleport him toward the third level, as one of the chains of karma between them lit up.

• A Vampire Earl learned that Barlow had been killed by a Third-Rank Adjudicator and rushed to stop Ye Qiyan from advancing.
• Ye Qiyan drove Road Hog through the monsters blocking his path while Red Tears fought the Vampire Earl outside the building.
• Monrojina welcomed Ye Qiyan and offered him a safe place to stay, but he chose to go higher to fulfill a promise.
• Red Tears beheaded the Vampire Earl, and Monrojina agreed to help Ye Qiyan reach the third level despite warning him about Zhuxing Tu.
• Monrojina gave Ye Qiyan a mental energy recovery potion and activated her teleportation Ritual Card.

Ye Qiyan encountered Zhuxing Tu while traveling toward the Central Elevator and agreed to take her there in exchange for support. Zhuxing Tu revealed that the routes to the fourth level were sealed except for an elevator reserved for the Judgment Court, and wondered about Ye Qiyan’s future.

• Ye Qiyan surveyed the third level, saw Train Conductors fighting the City of Eternal Night, and spotted a young man riding a white dragon that resembled Lin You’s avatar.
• Ye Qiyan found Zhuxing Tu surrounded by vampires and used the Pure Purification Stone to turn them to ash.
• Zhuxing Tu asked Ye Qiyan to take her to the Central Elevator, offering a secret in exchange, but Ye Qiyan also demanded coordinates for a Demon Card.
• Zhuxing Tu explained that the routes to the fourth level were sealed except for one elevator and pointed out Ye Qiyan’s connection to the Chief Grand Inquisitor.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to take Zhuxing Tu in exchange for support, and she wondered what his future would become.

Ye Qiyan reached the Fourth Floor by disguising himself as a Judgment Enforcer and driving through the battle around the Central Elevator. He found Zhao Xi under attack by the Solo City Supervisory Court’s Ultimate War Weapon, and she sent him a message to act now as the Hunt Mecha-Dragon appeared.

• Zhuxing Tu teased Ye Qiyan about the Fate Card but did not help him enter the Central Elevator.
• Ye Qiyan used Simulated Outfit to disguise himself as a Judgment Court member, then rode the Road Hog through the battlefield and into the elevator.
• As the elevator rose, Zhuxing Tu said she had come to invite the holder of the Curse Card Sequence to join her organization, though she admitted she did not know why she had come.
• Ye Qiyan and Zhuxing Tu arrived on the Fourth Floor, where Zhao Xi faced a Level 12 Ultimate War Weapon and a force of Vampires and Inspectors.
• Zhao Xi demanded that Simak reveal the City Lord’s location, then sent Ye Qiyan the message “Now.”
• The Hunt Mecha-Dragon appeared as the battle continued.

Ye Qiyan activated Hunt Mecha-Dragon’s Transcendence Mode, using the Hunt Ultimate Warhead to destroy the bottom level of the Endless Tower. As the War Machine broke free of its operators, Zhao Xi sent her own Hunt Mecha-Dragon to intercept it.

• Ye Qiyan used Big Spending Discount to draw source energy from the space and supplied the remaining twenty-two Train Coins to activate Transcendence Mode.
• Hunt Mecha-Dragon grew larger, revealed a cockpit, and Ye Qiyan climbed inside to command it.
• The War Machine’s control permissions failed, and its faceplate shattered as its intelligent system awakened.
• Ye Qiyan fired the Hunt Ultimate Warhead, making the bottom level of the Endless Tower vanish in a single second.
• Ye Qiyan told the short Chief Grand Inquisitor the strike was done and received recovery potions.
• Zhao Xi sent her Hunt Mecha-Dragon to collide with the rampaging War Machine and entered Transcendence Mode.

Zhao Xi transformed after pouring thousands of Train Coins into herself, killed Simak, and faced the remaining Inspectors as they threatened to self-destruct. Meanwhile, Ye Qiyan watched her battle and learned that Zhuxing Tu had been cursed after meeting a Curse Card Sequence holder; Zhao Xi then invoked the Transcendence Warhead.

• Simak urged the City of Eternal Night experts to surround Zhao Xi, while his War Machine fought her Hunt Mecha-Dragon.
• Zhao Xi used thousands of Train Coins to transform, then appeared before Simak and killed him.
• Ye Qiyan spotted a weirdo curse Zhuxing Tu with a Card Sequence, and Zhuxing Tu asked him to contact Monrojina for help.
• Zhuxing Tu explained that the weirdo had demanded the Seal and that she had told him Monrojina was part of their organization.
• The surviving Inspectors vowed to self-destruct after Simak's death, and Zhao Xi summoned the Transcendence Warhead.

Zhao Xi defeated the City of Eternal Night’s forces and confronted Solo City’s mayor, Solomon Grace, who revealed that the cities had arranged to sacrifice Train Conductors to weaken the Train System. Grace said the plan was meant to let the gods send them home, leaving Zhao Xi shaken and Ye Qiyan wondering whether other settlements had the same purpose.

• Zhao Xi survived the War Machine’s attack, destroyed the City of Eternal Night’s forces, and found the damaged machine still intact with everyone inside dead.
• Solomon Grace repaired the War Machine and told Zhao Xi she had made a deal with the City Lord of the City of Eternal Night to wear down both cities’ Train Conductors.
• Grace showed images of Train Conductors fighting across Solo City’s first three levels and admitted that the cities were using them to reduce their numbers.
• Zhao Xi recalled how Grace had persuaded her to stay in Solo City and establish the Judgment Court, and she questioned why the mayor had betrayed the conductors.
• Grace said the original twelve cities were built to help the gods weaken the Train System so they could return to their real homes, and she asked Ye Qiyan and Zhuxing Tu whether they wanted to go home.
• Ye Qiyan considered whether the City of a Thousand Stars and Smiley’s Forward Station had been created for the same purpose.

Grace revealed that she had joined a group seeking to return to their old worlds and tried to recruit Zhao Xi, then attacked when Zhao Xi refused. Zhao Xi transformed and invoked Judgment Resolution as Grace collapsed the fourth level into the third, leaving the fighters below facing the falling level.

• Grace told Ye Qiyan and Zhao Xi about Zhou Shangqing’s failed journey across the Wasteland and said the gods had shown her daughter in her old world.
• Grace offered Zhao Xi a place in her group in exchange for relinquishing her Train Conductor status when needed, but Zhao Xi refused with lightning.
• Grace agreed to Galo’s demands for a Curse Card, the Seal thief’s whereabouts, and the Seal’s key, while Galo cursed Zhao Xi with Bad Luck and Life Devourer.
• Zhao Xi drank a crimson potion, transformed again, and began Judgment Resolution against Grace.
• Grace collapsed the ground beneath them, sending the fourth level crashing into the third as Lin You and Monrojina watched the rift widen.

As the Fourth Floor collapsed and Grace unleashed Demon Gods from beneath the city, Ye Qiyan and the others helped defend Solo City while Zhao Xi fought Grace. Zhuxing Tu sensed that fate was drawing them toward the Interlayer, and Ye Qiyan’s Demon Card confirmed that the gray world existed beneath them.

• Ye Qiyan landed the Hunt Mecha-Dragon as the ground shook and octopus tentacles erupted from magic circles beneath the city.
• Grace taunted Zhao Xi and summoned more tentacles, increasing the strain on the Train Conductors holding back the falling Fourth Floor.
• Ye Qiyan pulled rubble from Zhuxing Tu’s wound, and she warned him to dodge just before a tentacle burst from the ground.
• Lin You arrived on his white dragon and summoned five dragons with his Dragon Cards, drawing the tentacles away and easing pressure on Solo City.
• Zhuxing Tu asked Ye Qiyan to take her toward a place near the Second Floor, and Ye Qiyan suspected she meant the Interlayer.
• Ye Qiyan used Demon Card: Pride to look beneath the ground and briefly saw the gray Interlayer again.

Ye Qiyan and the others fought the monsters sealed inside the city as Monrojina and Lin You arrived to reinforce the Imperial Sequence Organization. Zhuxing Tu offered Ye Qiyan the coordinates of another Demon Card in exchange for a Level 13 burst and a Level 12 item, and he accepted.

• Zhuxing Tu said the demon gods had sealed the city and declared that the Imperial Sequence Organization would not fall.
• Monrojina arrived on her train, helped fight the monsters, and repaired Zhuxing Tu's bottle with Repair Tape.
• Ye Qiyan considered using the Level 9 Repair Tape and helping deal with the Gray-White Interlayer, the source of the monsters.
• Zhuxing Tu offered Ye Qiyan coordinates to another Demon Card in exchange for the Hunt Mecha-Dragon and the Tear-Carving Sword.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to Zhuxing Tu's trade.

Ye Qiyan and Zhuxing Tu entered the hidden gray world between levels, where Ye discovered and destroyed the black stone tablet sustaining the monsters’ resurrection. As the creatures merged into a gigantic monster and the Hunt Mecha-Dragon prepared to fight it, Grace focused on Zhao Xi and suggested her temporary power was fading.

• Ye Qiyan used Witness Truth and Falsehood to locate the hidden gray world, and Zhuxing Tu opened a doorway into it.
• Camelin Galo attacked Zhuxing Tu with curses, but she fought back and distracted him while Ye entered the world.
• Ye Qiyan found that the gray world bred juvenile octopus monsters and identified a raised mound of creatures concealing its core.
• Ye activated Big Spending Discount and Transcendence Mode, then fired a Transcendence Warhead that shattered the black stone tablet and ended the monsters’ uninterrupted resurrection.
• The gray world shook as the monsters abandoned the third level, merged into one gigantic creature, and faced the Hunt Mecha-Dragon.
• On the third level, Grace watched Zhao Xi slow down and asked whether the end of her temporary power had arrived.

Ye Qiyan and Red Tears used the Tear-Carving Sword to destroy the fused monster in Solo City, then left for the third floor as Zhao Xi’s battle with Grace approached its end.

• Zhuxing Tu told Ye Qiyan that the collapsing area would soon give way and opened a doorway for their escape.
• Ye Qiyan had Red Tears manifest the Ancient Battlefield with the Tear-Carving Sword, restoring his Spirit with Mental Recovery Potions.
• Ye Qiyan and Red Tears swung the sword together, cutting the fused monster into pieces with a dimensional slash.
• The Demon Raven retrieved an eyeball-shaped item from the monster and brought back the remaining black stone tablet fragments.
• Ye Qiyan passed through Zhuxing Tu’s doorway and rode the Hunt Mecha-Dragon toward the third floor.
• Grace cornered the exhausted Zhao Xi on the third floor and told her that she had lost.

Zhao Xi defeated Grace but collapsed from her injuries, and Ye Qiyan rescued her before leaving Solo City. Back on his train, he counted his gains and discovered the black stele fragments could be used to make potions that increased maximum spirit.

• Grace broadcast a false accusation that Zhao Xi had betrayed Solo City, then tried to kill her, but Zhao Xi secretly regained her golden power and pierced Grace's heart with a spear.
• Grace trapped herself in dark ice with her final attack, while the exhausted Zhao Xi fell and was rescued by Ye Qiyan and the Demon Raven.
• Ye Qiyan took Zhao Xi to the deserted Guild base, where Monrojina greeted the waking Chief Inquisitor and invited her to talk.
• Ye Qiyan left Solo City and received coordinates and a warning from Zhuxing Tu that collectors of Demon Cards might be targeted for sacrifice to a god.
• Ye Qiyan tallied his Train Coins and equipment, then identified the Demon Gods Seed Stele fragments as materials for making potions that increased maximum spirit.

Ye Qiyan examined the rewards from the battle and permanently Ascended two Modules, strengthening Gunfire Judgment in the process. He then contacted Monrojina to ask her to brew potions from the Demon Gods Seed fragments, while she saw a chance to repay another karmic debt.

• Ye Qiyan identified an eyeball as the Divine Pillar Demon Eye, which could summon a Demon Gods Embryo by sacrificing living beings, and wondered about its connection to the Dream Eater and infinity.
• Ye Qiyan decided to Ascend his single-use You Are Guilty! and Judgment Modules, spending thirty Spirit on each to make them permanent Train Conductor Modules.
• Ye Qiyan's permanent Judgment fused with Gunfire Judgment, greatly increasing the shot's power according to a target's sins.
• Ye Qiyan noticed Lin You's friend request and contacted Monrojina, who was with the silent Zhao Xi in Solo City.
• Monrojina saw that Cause and Effect Recompense could repay another karmic shackle, and Ye Qiyan asked her to brew potions from the Demon Gods Seed fragments.

Ye Qiyan gave Monrojina three rare fragments to make one mental-power potion and equipment from the rest, while a meeting of Homecomers revealed their plans for Solo City and their desire to return home. The next morning, he discovered Zhao Lin had entered Solo City and received a message from Zhao Xi asking whether she should leave.

• Monrojina told Ye Qiyan that a mental-power potion made from the fragments would grant about 20 points, but only the first bottle would work, and offered to make equipment from the other two fragments.
• Ye Qiyan traded Monrojina all three fragments and went to sleep, forgetting that Zhao Lin planned to visit Solo City.
• Lu Jiayun and five other Homecomers discussed the failed operation in Solo City, Grace sealing herself, and the threat posed by Zhao Xi and the Imperial Sequence Organization.
• Lu Jiayun wondered whether the Homecomers could ever return home, then resolved to keep pursuing that goal.
• Ye Qiyan found Zhao Lin's messages saying she had entered Solo City, received pay and a single-use Module from Zhao Xi, and learned that the Judgment Court had been shut down.
• Ye Qiyan read Zhao Xi's message asking whether she should leave Solo City.

Ye Qiyan used the costly GT-EX Mental Model Blueprint to craft a robot, then used his Big Spending Discount talent to pour the Wasteland’s resources into it and surpass the Blueprint’s limits. The new Mechanical Construct emerged as a unique Supreme creation, named Supreme · Perfected World.

• Ye Qiyan began crafting the GT-EX Mental Model with the expensive materials he had gathered.
• The Blueprint revealed that completing the robot’s body and self-awareness required a second stage costing Train Coins and mental energy.
• Ye Qiyan used Activate Module and Big Spending Discount to fill the prototype with the Wasteland’s resources.
• The Train System declared that the construct had exceeded the Blueprint’s limits and become a unique Mechanical Construct designated Supreme.
• Ye Qiyan named its exclusive suffix Perfected World, and the humanoid construct emerged from its cocoon.