Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan subdued Zhong Mojing and left the battle to his arriving forces, while the Vampires’ defeat forced Ba'al to lift the world’s departure lockdown and flee. The chapter ended with Huang Kaiji learning that Demon Mecha-Dragon Man had intervened and realizing he owed him a major favor.

• Ye Qiyan used Supremacy to make Zhong Mojing call him master, branded him, and ordered him to report important events in Abucado.
• Lancelot, nineteen Endless Mechs, Villain, and Abyss arrived, and Ye Qiyan rested while they took over the battle.
• Li Xiaosheng tried to reach the Vampire Duke’s corpse, then attempted to ambush Zhao Lin before Lancelot blasted him away.
• Lancelot recognized the broken necklace Zhao Lin wore and completed one instance of protection before resuming the fight.
• Ba'al received Zhong Mojing’s message that they had lost, lifted the departure lockdown, and fled as Huang Kaiji learned of Demon Mecha-Dragon Man’s intervention.

After recovering from his battle on Haiyuan Island, Ye Qiyan accepted Alice's friend request and departed for the Wasteland, ready to choose his next stop. The Fork in Destiny offered him a Level 8 quest platform and a Level 9 mystery platform.

• Zhuxing Tu sensed that the Golden Age had changed and suspected Ye Qiyan had altered its course.
• Monrojina read news about Ye Qiyan killing a Vampire Duke and admired his growing power.
• Ye Qiyan recovered his Stamina after a week of rest as Haiyuan Island's account of the vampire attack made the City of Eternal Night hostile toward it.
• Alice ran after Ye Qiyan and sent him a friend request, which he accepted.
• Ye Qiyan left Haiyuan Island by train and returned to the Wasteland.
• The Fork in Destiny offered Ye Qiyan Joemike Forest, a Level 8 Quest Platform, and Human, a Level 9 Mystery Platform.

Ye Qiyan arrived at the level 9 Human platform, where he found a seemingly ordinary village and met its wary residents. Suspecting that the village concealed a mystery, he sent the Demon Raven to find the dead.

• Ye Qiyan chose the level 9 Mystery Platform and arrived at the stop called Human, where he had to complete an objective to depart.
• Ye Qiyan surveyed the eerie station and surrounding village, then sent WALL-E to search the platform.
• Eve locked onto Warren and several villagers approaching the station, but Ye Qiyan released the locks and introduced himself as a traveler.
• Warren identified himself as the chief of Renlang Village and led Ye Qiyan to the village inn, where Xi Xiangzhi offered him a room.
• Ye Qiyan summoned the Demon Raven and ordered it to search Renlang Village for the dead.

Ye Qiyan discovered that Renlang Village reset after its inhabitants died, while a parchment recorded rules that changed between resets. After thirty-seven experiments, he found a surviving human and uncovered new rules before the platform reset once more.

• After the village chief was killed, the villagers voted out Jia Aisi, who turned into a werewolf, but the village’s killings continued over the next two days.
• When the survivors tried to cage Ye Qiyan, he used Bewitchment and shot the Guard, farmer, Blacksmith, and Judge, discovering that three of them were werewolves.
• The Demon Raven returned, the corpses vanished, and the village reset, bringing Ye Qiyan back to his first encounter with Warren.
• Ye Qiyan found a parchment describing the village’s reset and used repeated experiments to test the villagers, while the scroll’s original rules stayed unchanged.
• On the thirty-seventh experiment, Ye Qiyan found a last survivor who was human and saw the parchment’s rules change to say that the reset did not include time.
• The platform reset again, and Ye Qiyan told Warren he wanted to rest in this Human for a few days.

Ye Qiyan discovered that the Village’s repeating Werewolf game had labeled him as the Werewolf and selected the innkeeper to kill him. Though the game’s rules and cognitive influence could not change his true identity, the innkeeper’s attacks escalated, leaving Ye Qiyan facing a Mystery Platform where fighting might not be enough.

• Ye Qiyan questioned Xi Xiangzhi about the outside world and the Village’s Mass Grave, and she struggled to explain who was buried there.
• Ye Qiyan realized the Village’s events were a resetting game and that his new Werewolf status meant he was tonight’s target.
• The Parchment named the innkeeper as the human chosen to kill Ye Qiyan, while his reflection appeared to transform into a Werewolf.
• Ye Qiyan used Witness Truth and Falsehood to see his true human appearance, and Lisette’s attacks on the innkeeper proved ineffective.
• The innkeeper entered with a knife and attacked Ye Qiyan, but Astral Sacred Crest protected him and Cool Sky Moonshadow met her blows.
• Ye Qiyan concluded that the encounter was taking place on a Mystery Platform, not in a Hunt or mission, and doubted that fighting alone could resolve it.

Ye Qiyan killed Xi Xiangzhi by using the Raven Demon's power to make her mortal, then tested whether the Train could leave the Village. He discovered that the dark tunnel returned him to the starting point and that the Parchment altered its rules in response to him, so he decided to stay and face whatever the next night brought.

• Ye Qiyan used Rebellion × Death Omen and the Raven Demon's power to make Xi Xiangzhi vulnerable, then killed her with a counterattack.
• The Parchment identified Xi Xiangzhi as a human killed by the Werewolf and warned Ye Qiyan to obey the rules.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Train instead of the inn and left an Anchor Point before driving into the dark tunnel.
• After two and a half minutes, the Train emerged back at the Village, while Ye Qiyan had perceived hours passing in the tunnel.
• The Parchment changed the rules to allow the Werewolf to leave after killing all humans, then declared that the Werewolf would surely die.
• Ye Qiyan dismissed the Parchment's threat, had Eve burn it, and said he would stay at the inn until the next night.

Ye Qiyan remained in the village after the other villagers were erased, until the entity controlling Jia Aisi revealed itself and trapped him by swallowing his train in the tunnel. With his systems cut off, Ye Qiyan forced the entity to explain the platform’s secret and demanded to know how to reach and kill it.

• Ye Qiyan defeated the Judge, and the villagers forgot the Judge had existed.
• With only Jia Aisi left in the village, Ye Qiyan questioned him until Jia Aisi realized he could not remember who he had been running errands for.
• The entity behind Human possessed Jia Aisi, revealed that Ye Qiyan could no longer leave because his train had disappeared, and sent the dead villagers crawling toward him.
• The tunnel swallowed Ye Qiyan’s train, cutting off the Module, system permissions, and Illusory Watcher’s feed.
• Ye Qiyan pretended to panic, coaxed the entity into revealing it was the legacy of the Supreme of Time watching from the tunnel, then confronted it and demanded to know how to retrieve his train and kill it.

Ye Qiyan restored time in the tunnel, killed the one-eyed creature controlling Renlang Village, and claimed a Rule Echo left by the God of Time. He followed WALL-E deeper into the tunnel and found a level 9 treasure chest beside a Werewolf skull.

• Jia Aisi revealed how to clear the stop and enter the tunnel before Ye Qiyan ended the village game and returned to the Train.
• Ye Qiyan ordered Lisette to restore the tunnel’s normal flow of time, then had Eve cut the one-eyed creature to pieces.
• Eve retrieved a Rule Echo that could create a Dynamic Carriage Skin based on Renlang Village’s rules.
• Ye Qiyan waited for WALL-E, found it in the tunnel, and followed it toward the place it had been searching.
• Ye Qiyan and WALL-E reached the tunnel’s center, where Ye Qiyan spotted a level 9 treasure chest beside a Werewolf skull.

Ye Qiyan learned that the villagers were former Train Conductors trapped in the God of Time’s endless game, and Jia Aisi gave him a lighter before disappearing. Ye Qiyan burned the village and left the thirty-seventh stop, but his Spirit status changed to Shadow of the End, while Red Tears noticed the Oil Lamp flicker.

• Jia Aisi told Ye Qiyan that he and the villagers had been Train Conductors trapped in the game, and Ye Qiyan revealed that the God of Time was dead.
• Jia Aisi gave Ye Qiyan a lighter called the Relic of the Liberated before he and the other villagers disappeared.
• Ye Qiyan set the village ablaze and used Hunt Ring to destroy it before departing on the Train.
• Ye Qiyan noticed that his Spirit status had changed to Shadow of the End, and Red Tears saw the Oil Lamp flicker.

Ye Qiyan used Ascension on a Level 9 Treasure Chest and obtained several useful rewards, especially Illusory Armor, which he planned to improve before giving it to WALL-E. Meanwhile, Russell studied wanted posters of the Imperial Sequence Organization and mistakenly concluded that Bro was Altos using Zhuxing Tu’s identity.

• After returning to the Wasteland, Ye Qiyan used Ascension on a Level 9 Treasure Chest, turning it into a Lucky Level 9 Treasure Chest at the cost of 450 stamina and spirit.
• Ye Qiyan opened the chest and received 18 Train Coins, the Booster Derailment module, the Heart Slash module card, and Level 9 Illusory Armor.
• Ye Qiyan recognized that Illusory Armor could nullify incidental attacks while its wearer was unobserved, and decided to give it to WALL-E after first improving it with Ascension.
• At RUN Company headquarters, Russell examined wanted posters featuring members of the Imperial Sequence Organization and wondered why Zhuxing Tu appeared as a woman.
• Russell convinced himself that Bro was actually Altos and had used Zhuxing Tu’s identity for a secret purpose.

During a gale, Ye Qiyan ascended the Heart Slash Module into Selfless State and transformed a level-9 armor into the Evil Image Ring Defender. He equipped WALL-E with the new armor, granting it the Demon concept.

• Ye Qiyan read the Public Chatroom and learned that gales were affecting Train Conductors and cities everywhere.
• Ye Qiyan ascended Heart Slash into Selfless State, then tested its swordsmanship boost with Cool Sky Moonshadow.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the level-9 Defensive type Armor into the Evil Image Ring Defender, gaining new defensive effects and the ability to grant a Mechanical Lifeform the Demon concept.
• Ye Qiyan equipped the Evil Image Ring Defender on WALL-E, whose core gained a faint black Inverted Cross and whose Demon concept made it the second Mechanical Life to possess one after Hunt.

Ye Qiyan learned that the City of Eternal Night was sending sealed packages to Solo City through the RUN Company and offered the information to Zhao Xi. Zhao Xi paid for the news and considered whether to return to Solo City, while Ye Qiyan sent her a promised plush toy.

• Ye Qiyan received a message from Russell, who reported that the City of Eternal Night had the RUN Company deliver sealed packages to Solo City.
• Russell asked whether Ye Qiyan was Altos, the Imperial Sequence Organization's Demon Mecha-Dragon Man, and Ye Qiyan left the question without concern.
• Ye Qiyan told Zhao Xi about the shipments and offered her the information, and she sent him a hundred Train Coins to make it a trade.
• After hearing the details, Zhao Xi wondered whether she should return to Solo City, where the Judgment Court had nearly fallen apart.
• Ye Qiyan sent Zhao Xi a Long-Eared Moon Rabbit plush toy, and she thanked him.

After choosing the Level 9 quest platform Nephthys's Court, Ye Qiyan searched the desert for its objective and found Nephthys's remains and a cursed, inactive Spirit Jade. A sandstorm cleared, and he approached a frightened merchant caravan to ask for directions to the nearest city.

• Ye Qiyan chose Nephthys's Court over Corpse Tornado and arrived in a desert engulfed by a sandstorm.
• Ye Qiyan sent WALL-E into the storm to test its phantom image, then used his Wealth Shield to search around the train.
• Ye Qiyan had the Beedrill swarm dig beneath the sand, uncovering the Remains of Nephthys, while Lisette found Nephthys's inactive Spirit Jade.
• Ye Qiyan suspected the quest was to restore the Spirit Jade's power and bring Nephthys back to life.
• After the sandstorm passed, Ye Qiyan rode the Road Hog with Lisette toward a caravan and asked its wary leader for directions to the nearest city.

Ye Qiyan and Lisette joined a caravan after killing the Sand Bandits who attacked it, then traveled with the group toward the nearest city. At the campfire that night, Ye Qiyan asked the caravan leader whether he knew Nephthys.

• The caravan leader eyed Ye Qiyan and Lisette suspiciously, but Sand Bandits caught up with the caravan before he could question them further.
• Ye Qiyan ordered the Sand Bandits killed, and Lisette used the Temporal Arsenal to kill their leader while Ye Qiyan's Flying Arrows slaughtered the rest.
• The caravan leader offered Ye Qiyan a map and asked him to travel with the caravan, and Ye Qiyan agreed to learn about the world and reach the nearest city.
• At night, Ye Qiyan brought Eve, the Azure Roar Thunder Eagle, and the Demon Raven out near the camp, then used the Storm Eye Stone to shelter the caravan from the wind.
• Ye Qiyan studied the Sand Table and realized its point of light had disappeared because Nephthys's remains were inside the Train, then asked the caravan leader if he knew Nephthys.

Ye Qiyan learned that the desert city of Udialles worshipped a Heavenly God who had defeated the guardian deity Nephthys, and that its temple held a stolen saber. After reaching the city, he infiltrated the temple as a phantom thief and discovered where the trophy was hidden.

• The caravan leader told Ye Qiyan that the desert had once been called Nephthys's Court, but the Heavenly God had defeated its guardian deity and forbidden people from saying Nephthys's name.
• Ye Qiyan learned that the temple in their destination city held a gemstone-inlaid saber taken from the guardian deity, and suspected it might help restore Lingyu.
• Ye Qiyan and the caravan reached Udialles, where beastfolk were common and a golden dog-headed statue stood at the city's center.
• After declining a banquet hosted by merchant association president Aishala, Ye Qiyan disguised himself as a phantom thief and entered the temple at night.
• Ye Qiyan questioned and knocked out six praying followers before learning that the saber was in a hidden compartment behind the tallest statue in the temple.

Ye Qiyan stole Nephthys's Reverse Feather from the temple, escaped Matem's pursuit, and returned to the chamber of commerce. When Aishala questioned whether he was an outsider, he used Bewitchment to pose as an ancient magician and asked her about Nephthys.

• Ye Qiyan found Nephthys's red-and-gold feather hidden behind the dog-headed statue, awakening Matem and drawing a sandstorm and the god's furious pursuit.
• Ye Qiyan escaped through Voyage and returned to the chamber of commerce, where Eve told him Aishala had visited.
• Ye Qiyan identified the feather as Nephthys's Reverse Feather, a powerful healing item, but it did not restore the spirit jade's power.
• Aishala came to Ye Qiyan's room and confronted him about his interest in Nephthys and whether he was an outsider.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to convince Aishala that he was an ancient magician, then asked what she knew about Nephthys.

Ye Qiyan and Lisette learned that Aishara’s followers planned to overthrow Matem and restore Nephthys’s Court, and they joined the caravan heading for Matem Holy City. As the rebels approached the city, Ye Qiyan sensed the feather and Spirit Jade resonating, while Matem revealed that he was human and awaited other Train Conductors.

• Aishara asked Ye Qiyan to avenge Nephthys and defeat Matem, whom she accused of betraying and killing the goddess.
• After Aishara dealt with a boy who overheard their conversation, Ye Qiyan and Lisette wondered whether Matem was an outsider or a Train Conductor.
• Aishara made Ye Qiyan an honored retainer, secured registered identities for him and Lisette, and introduced them to Nephthys’s followers and their preparations for rebellion.
• The rebels planned to gather at Matem Holy City during the Matem God Festival nine days later, and Aishara’s caravan set out with mercenaries and guards.
• As the caravan crossed the stormy desert, Matem’s creatures attacked travelers, and Ye Qiyan noticed Nephthys’s feather and the Spirit Jade resonating near the city.
• Atop Matem’s giant statue, Matem removed his dog head to reveal a human face and said that other Train Conductors had finally arrived.

Ye Qiyan confronted Matem, the Train Conductor posing as Matem Holy City's heavenly god, while the rebels' uprising collapsed under Matem's control. As Matem unleashed his power and spoke of becoming a true God, Ye Qiyan began to fight back with his cards and declared that he would transcend everything.

• Aishala led fewer than three thousand rebels into Matem Holy City, where the believers were praying before the giant statue.
• At the temple, a priest invited Ye Qiyan to meet Matem, while more than half the rebels—including Aishala—were forced to turn on their comrades.
• Ye Qiyan met Matem atop the statue and refused to surrender [Nephthys's Reverse Feather], then summoned his Demon Cards to battle Matem's avatars and forces.
• Matem called upon yellow sand, desert beasts, and bandits, and explained that a true God resided in the Wasteland and could be attained through transcendence.
• Ye Qiyan used [Rebellion × Bewitchment] to make Matem reveal this answer, then answered Matem's assault with Red Tears and the Tear-Carving Sword, declaring that he would transcend everything.

Ye Qiyan fought Matem as the Dog-Headed Deity transformed his world into a carriage and prepared to sail through the Wasteland. As Matem claimed victory, Ye Qiyan revealed Hunt’s Transcendence Mode and challenged him to a final fight.

• Ye Qiyan’s Tear-Carving Sword destroyed Matem’s Anger Clone, and Matem recognized the weapon as a threat.
• Ye Qiyan crushed the Demon King’s Crown, and Red Tears struck Matem, cracking his scepter.
• Matem donned the dog’s head, became a Wasteland True God, and transformed his followers and clones into stronger dog-headed forms.
• Matem declared his world would become his carriage and set his locomotive sailing through the Wasteland.
• Ye Qiyan activated Hunt’s Transcendence Mode, while Matem realized that Ye Qiyan’s power could surpass his own.
• Ye Qiyan used Rebellion and Bewitchment to taunt Matem and asked whether he would die.

Ye Qiyan defeated Matem’s attempt to reclaim Nephthys’s power and began turning the battle against him. As Matem’s doppelgangers fell, the Azure Roar Thunder Eagle remained locked in an undecided fight with the Sorrow Doppelganger.

• Matem’s fear of death awakened when Ye Qiyan’s Demon Raven bewitched him, causing Nephthys’s flames to leave his chest and reunite with the Reverse Feather and Spirit Jade.
• Hunt destroyed Nephthys’s apparent rebirth, and Ye Qiyan received the quest reward and the Train Coin for completing the transaction.
• Matem attacked Ye Qiyan with a sandstorm, but Hunt’s ring absorbed it and struck Matem, leaving wounds his powers could not heal.
• Ye Qiyan replenished his stamina and mental energy by shooting Kobolds, then deduced that Matem had nine doppelgangers remaining.
• Ye Qiyan ordered his forces to kill Matem’s doppelgangers, and they destroyed several as the battle turned in his favor.
• The Azure Roar Thunder Eagle continued fighting Matem’s Sorrow Doppelganger without a clear victor, while Ye Qiyan sent it no help.