Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan used a fiftyfold critical hit to destroy the God of Decay’s consciousness, then collapsed from exhaustion after receiving credit for the kill. While his companions guarded him as he slept, Monrojina delivered recovery potions and Russell survived, drawing her attention to RUN Company.

• Ye Qiyan fired Ebony’s fiftyfold critical hit and pierced the God of Decay’s consciousness, killing it.
• The system credited Ye Qiyan with 55% contribution and Monrojina with 45%, enhanced their Blasphemer of the Gods title, and issued Ye Qiyan a reward.
• With only one stamina point remaining, Ye Qiyan told his companions to take him onto the train and keep everyone out, then fell asleep.
• Monrojina watched Ye Qiyan’s companions carry him aboard, left two recovery potions with Eve, and asked her to tell Ye Qiyan to check his mail when he woke.
• Russell survived the removal of the god’s consciousness, and Monrojina decided to plant a mole to investigate who had been approaching novice Train Conductors.

Lane interrupted Monrojina as she prepared to leave with Russell, but withdrew after she blocked him from approaching Ye Qiyan’s train. Monrojina used Endless Cause and Effect to demand repayment from Camelin Galo, while Ye Qiyan woke after three days of sleep and received a Decay Core from the system.

• Lane emerged from a patch of space, refused to kill the badly wounded Camelin Galo, and tried to check on Ye Qiyan.
• Monrojina attacked Lane with Reverse-Spin Swords and ordered him to leave, so Lane lowered his gun and departed.
• Monrojina used Endless Cause and Effect on Camelin Galo, forcing him to face a costly repayment for the debt he owed her.
• Ye Qiyan woke after three days on the Luxury Dream Bed, reassured the gathered companions, and checked his still-incomplete stamina recovery.
• Ye Qiyan claimed a Decay Core from his system mailbox, a mechanical enhancement item that could reset a creation’s abilities around decay.

Ye Qiyan used Ascension to unlock the Decay Core’s hidden potential and transform a damaged mech into a powerful Decay Mech. After a final, costly Ascension, he gained a white mech permanently bound to him, though its intelligence could become beastlike.

• Ye Qiyan Ascended the Decay Core and learned that its special change would let it reshape a machine without changing its form.
• Lisette showed Ye Qiyan the damaged KLS Fighter Jet Mech, and she gave him two Level 7 recovery Potions to store in Eve’s treatment compartment.
• Ye Qiyan Ascended the KLS Fighter Jet Mech to Level 6, then installed the Decay Core, turning it into a Level 8 Decay Mech.
• Ye Qiyan performed a final Ascension on the Decay Mech, spending Spirit and Stamina as it transformed into a white mech permanently bound to him.
• Ye Qiyan appraised the new mech and learned that it had powerful weapons, a self-destructive Rampage mode, and the potential for beastlike intelligence.

Ye Qiyan named and stored his newly charged mechanical soldier Villain, then encountered Russell, who was grieving RUN Company’s dead boss and planned to return to the company. After encouraging Russell to take charge, Ye Qiyan departed Solo City to pursue the hidden Calamity Card.

• Ye Qiyan named the mechanical soldier Villain, charged it, and stored it in his Armed Space.
• Russell approached Ye Qiyan, revealed that RUN Company’s boss had died, and explained that a masked woman had rescued him and urged him to return to the company.
• Ye Qiyan recognized the masked woman as Monrojina and assured Russell that her advice was trustworthy.
• Russell invited Ye Qiyan to return with him, but Ye Qiyan declined and urged Russell to protect RUN Company and investigate the boss’s killer.
• After Russell left for the Third Floor, Ye Qiyan boarded his train and departed Solo City to seek the Calamity Card.

Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland and learned from Zhao Lin about the battle in the Sky Garden and the return of her Bad Luck. He bought a scope from her, used Ascension to improve it, and mounted it on Eve's musket.

• Monrojina saw Ye Qiyan's train leave without him asking more questions and decided to handle other matters while waiting for his equipment and the Fengyue Flower.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland and read Zhao Lin's messages and photos showing Angels, gods, and other beings fighting in the Sky Garden, including Shaya and Zhuxing Tu.
• Zhao Lin told Ye Qiyan that she had been invited to the Sky Garden by Shangguan Yingxue and that Zhao An's Guild had become a subordinate faction with access to resources.
• Zhao Lin showed Ye Qiyan the message that her Bad Luck yearned to return, and he told her to choose based on what she wanted.
• Ye Qiyan bought Zhao Lin's Level 5 Universal Scope for twenty Train Coins, used Ascension to turn it into a Level 6 Most Universal Scope, and mounted it on Eve's musket.

After learning about the Sky Garden from Zhao Lin, Ye Qiyan used his Anchor to reach the Machine God Nether Abyss, a Level 12 station filled with gigantic mechanical monsters. He photographed the creatures from behind the Card Sequence barrier, then returned to the Intelligent Machine Crisis card once his Voyage was ready.

• Ye Qiyan learned from Zhao Lin that Shaya, Zhuxing Tu, and an Imperial Sequence Organization member had fought in the Sky Garden, where a god fell and the heavenly pillar was damaged.
• Ye Qiyan stored his train in the Wasteland, set an Anchor beneath his feet, and voyaged to another world.
• Ye Qiyan arrived at the Machine God Nether Abyss and saw enormous mechanical creatures staring and attacking through the Card Sequence barrier.
• Ye Qiyan used Ascension on a camera, provoking the creatures to bombard the barrier, then took photographs of the mechanical monsters.
• After the Anchor's Voyage cooldown ended, Ye Qiyan reached for the Intelligent Machine Crisis card and said he would return.

Ye Qiyan escaped the Level 12 Machine God Nether Abyss after unleashing a calamity that made its mechanical giants attack one another, then returned to the Wasteland and received a record-breaking reward. In Sky Garden, Zhuxing Tu told Shaya that new cards and returning Forerunners were signs that events were accelerating for unknown reasons.

• Ye Qiyan used the Calamity Card’s Machine Intelligence Rebellion ability before Anchor whisked him away, leaving the mechanical giants to destroy one another in the abyss.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland, where Eve fired on approaching skeletal monsters as he boarded his train.
• The system warned Ye Qiyan that he had exceeded the Wasteland Rest Module’s time limit and announced that he had broken the escape record for a Level 12 Despair Platform.
• Ye Qiyan received a one-use Nano Swarm Modification Device Blueprint and stored the Calamity Card in his Void Card Storage.
• Zhuxing Tu returned to the temporary Church in Sky Garden and told Shaya that another Blasphemy Card had appeared, Card Sequence holders were becoming more common, and Forerunners were returning to the Wasteland.

Ye Qiyan chose Eris's Star Core Arena, a dangerous high-level trial platform, and prepared to explore its desert. A Guide arrived to announce that his first competitive trial would begin in six hours against a matched opponent.

• Ye Qiyan saw that fewer than three thousand of the original ten thousand Train Conductors remained and chose the trial platform over an escape platform.
• Ye Qiyan's train arrived at Eris's Star Core Arena, where the departure objective and coordinates were still unknown.
• Ye Qiyan sent WALL-E into the desert with a Justice Mark and a Mother-and-Child Lamp Sticker to signal when it found treasure.
• A petite Guide knocked on Ye Qiyan's train door and told him that his first competitive trial would begin in six hours against a suitable opponent.

Ye Qiyan learned that he had to win twelve consecutive trials in the Star Core Level Arena and traveled by train to the first trial site. The arena opened at the appointed time, where he was matched against Natu Lu, a sharkman from the Abyssal Sea Realm.

• The guide explained the arena rules, gave Ye Qiyan a map, and ordered him to reach the first trial within six hours.
• Ye Qiyan noticed that he could not contact Train Conductors, then steered his train across the desert toward the trial coordinates.
• Ye Qiyan arrived on time and waited in the empty desert until the ground opened into a packed arena.
• The guide announced that the trial would end when one fighter died and that each side could deploy one member using melee weapons.
• Ye Qiyan saw his opponent, Natu Lu, a towering sharkman with three victories, and entered his name in the Trial Grounds.

Ye Qiyan entered an arena trial and defeated the three-win sharkman Ba Tulu with Red Tears in a single sword strike. The guide gave him coordinates for the next day's trial, and Ye Qiyan suspected the arena was imitating the Wasteland.

• The guide explained that each arena bout allowed one contestant and required melee weapons, while Ba Tulu questioned being matched against a newcomer.
• Ye Qiyan summoned Red Tears, whose rain strengthened Ba Tulu but unsettled the guide.
• Red Tears dodged Ba Tulu's meteor hammer and killed him with one sword strike, giving Ye Qiyan his first victory.
• The guide said the next trial would begin tomorrow, gave Ye Qiyan its coordinates, and designated the arena as his rest area.
• After the rain stopped and Red Tears returned to his side, Ye Qiyan noted that the trial's timing matched the Wasteland's station arrival time and wondered if the arena was imitating it.

Ye Qiyan broke the Seal on the black box and discovered Zhou Shangqing’s Talent Cube, which contained the Talent Surpass the Stars. After the trial, Shaya tried to contact Ye Qiyan about tickets to other platforms but learned they were in spaces with different rates of time flow.

• After the Arena trial ended, Ye Qiyan gathered his allies and used the Talisman That Breaks All Methods to undo the Sealing Box’s Seal.
• A smaller Safety Box emerged, and Ye Qiyan opened it to find a Talent Cube containing Zhou Shangqing’s Surpass the Stars Talent, with ten uses remaining.
• Ye Qiyan decided to use the Fate Card · Unequal Heavenly Gift to trade for the Talent once only one use remained, then went fishing while he recovered his Spirit.
• In the Sky Garden, Shaya finished praying and considered giving Ye Qiyan two tickets to Star Core and Moon Heart platforms.
• When Shaya tried to message Ye Qiyan, the Train System warned her that they were in spaces with different time-flow rates and asked her to enable Time-Flow Synchronization Permission.

Ye Qiyan advanced his winning streak to seven before being matched against Dilu, a powerful Apostle of the God of Kindling. When the rules prohibited sword-type weapons, Ye Qiyan sent Gluttony to fight, and Dilu panicked at the sight of the headless Goblin God's Apostle as the match began.

• Ye Qiyan sent Villain to defeat a Fire Lizardman and began a streak that reached seven consecutive wins over the following days.
• The Guide explained that contestants who stayed beyond twelve wins could only face others who continued their streaks, and warned Ye Qiyan that Dilu was powerful.
• Ye Qiyan learned that Dilu was an Apostle of the God of Kindling with fifteen wins, while Dilu planned to kill him and sacrifice him to his god.
• When the match rules banned swords, Ye Qiyan called Gluttony and had it transform into the headless Goblin God's Apostle.
• Dilu recognized Gluttony's overwhelming aura, protested that the match was unfair, and then the bell started the contest.

Ye Qiyan defeated Dilu in the arena, extending his winning streak to eight, and learned that his Guide needed help reclaiming her soul from Lady Underworld King Eris. She offered him half of a Level 12 Divine Mechanism Gear and 500 Train Coins in exchange for pursuing thirty-six consecutive wins, and Ye Qiyan agreed to help within ten years.

• Dilu attacked the headless Goblin Apostle, but it killed him with two warhammer blows while Ye Qiyan's Gluttony Slime and Demon Raven fed on the remains.
• Ye Qiyan's eighth consecutive arena victory was announced, and Dilu's male Guide left dejectedly.
• Ye Qiyan's female Guide revealed that Guides could reclaim their souls only by guiding a competitor to thirty-six consecutive victories from Star Core to Corona Level.
• The Guide offered Ye Qiyan half of a Level 12 Divine Mechanism Gear, which Lisette identified as an item capable of transcendentally upgrading a high-level mechanical construct.
• Ye Qiyan negotiated for additional payment, accepted the gear and 500 Train Coins, and promised to help the Guide reclaim her soul within ten years.

Ye Qiyan pushed his train through Ascension until it reached Level 10, then returned to his eighth consecutive victory arena. The upgrade unlocked a special option shop, and Ye Qiyan prepared to inspect its offerings after paying a heavy toll in Stamina and mental energy.

• Ye Qiyan used Pride to conceal the arena, then activated Ascension and drove his train forward at full speed.
• Ye Qiyan and his train broke out of the station into the Wasteland, where his machines and demons fought off the monsters surrounding them.
• After the Ascension finished, Ye Qiyan chose to return to his eighth consecutive victory arena rather than enter the Netherworld Flower Sea.
• Ye Qiyan reassured Shaya that he was fine and retrieved Pride when he returned to the arena.
• The system raised Ye Qiyan's train to Level 10 and unlocked a special option shop because he had purchased every upgrade option before reaching that level.

Ye Qiyan discovered a special upgrade shop offering four powerful options, including an exclusive enhancement for his Blasphemy Card, Anchor. He learned the shop appeared every ten Train Conductor levels and had thirty days of Wasteland time to decide, but his 835 Train Coins were far short of the 1,887 needed to buy everything.

• Ye Qiyan opened the special shop and found coordinates leading to a hidden Devil Card Sequence, a firearms enhancement module called Sky-Seizing Wings, and a weapon called Celestial Domain Reverie for humanoid Mechanical Lifeforms.
• Ye Qiyan found the fourth option, New Anchor, which increased Anchor's Drop Anchor points from three to five and removed its daily use limit.
• The system explained that the shop opened every ten Train Conductor levels, tailored its options to his recent experiences, and included an exclusive enhancement for each Blasphemy Card holder.
• The system told Ye Qiyan that the options remained available for thirty days of Wasteland time and that he could pay 100 Train Coins to extend the shop by ten days.
• Ye Qiyan calculated that buying all four options would cost 1,887 Train Coins, while he had only 835, and began considering which one to purchase first.

Ye Qiyan spent Train Coins on Sky-Seizing Wings and a weapon for Lisette, whose transformation revealed a mysterious device that the appraisal system could not identify. With his funds nearly depleted and more purchases still needed, he considered selling weapons salvaged from his Arena battles.

• Ye Qiyan decided that improving his regular combat strength mattered more than buying Demon Card coordinates or upgrading his Blasphemy Card, and purchased Sky-Seizing Wings and [Mechanism: Celestial Domain Reverie].
• Sky-Seizing Wings granted Ye Qiyan the additional Modules Gun Fu and Firearms Mastery, advancing his mastery of firearms.
• Lisette equipped [Mechanism: Celestial Domain Reverie], which manifested as two spikes named Sonata and Resonance.
• Lisette used Resonance to create the Pavilion of Time and Sequence, but Ye Qiyan's appraisal system could not identify it.
• Ye Qiyan counted his remaining Train Coins and considered selling weapons taken from defeated Arena opponents to afford his next purchases.

On day nine, Ye Qiyan reached an oasis where monsters attacked his train before the trial began, but Eve killed them. The Guide then started the trial and matched Ye Qiyan against Bolanu, an arrogant Apostle of the God of Lava with eleven consecutive wins, as Ye Qiyan stepped out to face him.

• Ye Qiyan arrived at the oasis and waited aboard his train for the Guide while its monster inhabitants eyed him greedily.
• Several invisible Lizardmen tried to enter the train, but Eve detected and shot one, then killed the attackers who kept approaching.
• Ye Qiyan used the train's mechanical arms to collect the monsters' corpses as livestock feed.
• The Guide arrived at one in the afternoon and summoned an arena, where a screen displayed Ye Qiyan's record of eight consecutive wins.
• Bolanu, an eleven-win Stonefolk Apostle of the God of Lava, entered the arena and demanded that Ye Qiyan leave his train and kneel.
• Ye Qiyan stepped out of the train, smiling as he faced Bolanu.

Ye Qiyan faced Bolanu under rules that forced both competitors to enter the Arena, but he summoned Red Tears and used the Book of the Unreal and the Real to overcome the Apostle. After Bolanu revealed that his god dwelled in the void outside the world and could not establish a God's World, Ye Qiyan killed him and advanced his winning streak to nine.

• The match rules required Ye Qiyan and Bolanu to enter the Arena in person, and Ye Qiyan asked what would happen if he disobeyed them.
• Bolanu covered the Arena with gravity and hurled enormous rocks at Ye Qiyan, who summoned Red Tears to split one with the Tear-Carving Sword.
• Ye Qiyan opened the Book of the Unreal and the Real, manifesting the Ancient Battlefield and driving the watching creatures into madness.
• Ye Qiyan bewitched Bolanu into revealing that his god was in the void outside the world and could not yet establish a God's World.
• Ye Qiyan's sword strike froze Bolanu with fear and caused explosive light to pour from cracks in his body, killing him.
• The Demon Raven swallowed a piece of Bolanu, and the Arena screen recorded Ye Qiyan's ninth consecutive victory.

Ye Qiyan learned that the Arena’s rules had targeted him because of his Card Sequence, then prepared his companions for the next trials. He Ascended the growing Giant Eagle, transforming it into an Azure Roar Thunder Eagle with newly awakened secret arts.

• The system intervened after Ye Qiyan’s ninth consecutive trial victory, waiving restrictions for the next three trials and stopping further rule interference.
• Ye Qiyan asked the Guide about Eris, learning that she was not a god, disliked gods, and trapped Arena entrants unless they won all twelve trials or had a train.
• Ye Qiyan replenished his strength, looted the defeated monsters’ equipment, and replaced fifteen of Eve’s thirty-six slots with weapons before Ascending the stronger items.
• That night, Ye Qiyan Ascended the Giant Eagle, awakening its lightning bloodline and turning it into an Azure Roar Thunder Eagle with Great Falling Thunder and Azure Roar Sword.

Ye Qiyan welcomed WALL-E back from its treasure hunt and discovered that it had found Netherwhisper, a mysterious Underworld flower that could enhance supernatural items. He realized he had the Nether Soil and flowers needed to plant it, leaving the Planting Carriage poised for an unusual transformation.

• Ye Qiyan tested the Giant Eagle’s new Azure Roar Sword, then had it fetch the bear cub and performed Ascension on it, turning it into a juvenile Frostsky White Bear.
• Ye Qiyan collected an Intermediate Lava Stone from the Processing Table and sent Lisette to store it on the train.
• Ye Qiyan saw WALL-E’s signal and used the Judgment Enforcer’s Arrest ability to bring the robot back from the platform.
• WALL-E gave Ye Qiyan the treasure it had found, a flower called Netherwhisper that could enhance supernatural items when planted beside them.
• Ye Qiyan recognized that he had Nether Soil and Nether Spirit Flowers, and realized Netherwhisper could be planted in the Planting Carriage.