Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaosheng realized that the powerful Vampire marquis facing Alfred was Ye Qiyan, a fellow Train Conductor whose rapid growth filled him with jealousy. As Alfred prepared to stop Ye Qiyan from invoking the Demon King’s crown, Ye Qiyan shattered it and joined with Red Tears to unleash the Tear-Carving Sword.

• Li Xiaosheng found Ye Qiyan’s name at the bottom of his friends list and recognized him as the Train Conductor who had entered the Wasteland in the same batch.
• Alfred praised Ye Qiyan’s allies and warned that Ye Qiyan had faced his challenges too early, while Red Tears and Ye Qiyan prepared to continue fighting.
• Alfred transformed and advanced toward Ye Qiyan, but Lisette blocked him with Flying Arrows and Skull-Piercing Spikes.
• Alfred evaded Lisette’s attacks and lunged at her, but the Tear-Carving Sword’s power brought Ye Qiyan into the fight beside her.
• Ye Qiyan shattered the Demon King’s crown, linked with Red Tears through Rebellion, and drew the Tear-Carving Sword as the Valstrax Drive roared.

Ye Qiyan weakened Alfred by poisoning the Blood God's heart, then used the Judgment Enforcer to condemn and kill the Vampire Prince. Alfred left Ye Qiyan his sword, Thorn Dream, as a final gift.

• Ye Qiyan used the Transcender module and his other abilities to fight Alfred on equal terms while conserving his strength for a decisive strike.
• Alfred restored his mental energy with a heart, but the Blood God's heart turned black and caused his own heart to spasm.
• Ye Qiyan exploited Alfred's distraction to wound him with the Tear-Carving Sword and prevent his healing.
• Ye Qiyan used the Judgment Enforcer to judge Alfred guilty and kill him with Gunfire Judgment.
• Before turning to ash, Alfred gave Ye Qiyan his sword, Thorn Dream, and wished him success as a Train Conductor.

After killing Alfred, Ye Qiyan had Lin You destroy the Blood God’s heart and learned that the battle in Solo City was still underway. As the night returned, Ye Qiyan exposed and stopped a Vampire assassin: Li Xiaosheng.

• Ye Qiyan reflected on how narrowly he had defeated Alfred, recovered with a Whiteforest Fruit, and identified the remaining heart as belonging to the Blood God.
• Lin You arrived in a dragon egg doppelganger and volunteered to destroy the heart, then told Ye Qiyan that the battle in Solo City was continuing and the Blood God had been wounded.
• Lin You detonated his doppelganger, shattered the heart’s divine protection, and destroyed it with a pale Dragon, bringing the kill progress to 52%.
• Ye Qiyan realized the Black Nether Fruit’s effect had reached the Blood God’s main body and decided to leave the remaining fighting to Stasia, Senior A Chuan, and the others.
• A Vampire sprang from the shadows to stab Ye Qiyan, but the Astral Sacred Crest blocked the attack, and Ye Qiyan greeted the attacker as Li Xiaosheng.

Ye Qiyan stopped Li Xiaosheng’s attempted ambush, captured him with the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake, and killed him after hearing his jealous complaints about their talents. With Li Xiaosheng gone, Ye Qiyan handed the remaining work to the others and went to rest.

• Ye Qiyan blocked Li Xiaosheng’s sneak attack with the Astral Sacred Crest and stopped Lisette and Red Tears from pursuing him.
• The Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake dragged Li Xiaosheng out of the shadows, then trapped him and destroyed most of his body.
• Ye Qiyan revived the snake and heard Li Xiaosheng blame his Resource Radar talent and demand to know why Ye Qiyan had become so strong.
• Ye Qiyan reflected that everyone in the Wasteland could be the protagonist of their own story, then shot Li Xiaosheng and watched him turn to ash.
• Ye Qiyan said he was exhausted and left the rest to the others so he could rest.

Zhao Xi and Shaya’s forces fought the Vampires invading Solo City while the Blood God discovered that his second heart had been destroyed. Kastanien activated a card that suspended Card Sequence abilities across the city, but Shaya still prepared to fight him.

• Zhao Xi battled the Blood God as Shaya and the archangels pursued Kastanien, while the other Imperial Sequence members fought the Vampire forces.
• The Blood God realized his second heart had been destroyed and that Zhao Xi had severely damaged his first heart, shifting the battle’s balance against him.
• Kastanien, badly wounded and unable to defeat Shaya, tried to persuade her to join the City of Eternal Night, but she refused and continued the pursuit.
• Kastanien activated No. 109 · Card Sequence Restrictor, suspending Card Sequence abilities across Solo City and increasing damage to Card Sequence holders by 200%.
• Shaya’s Angel Card and Gauntlets lost their powers, but she declared that she would keep beating Kastanien to death.

With the Card Sequences restricted, Lin You unleashed his Dragons while Fan Huo deployed his Train and legion to fight the Vampires. Zhuxing Tu warned that the war would continue and the Blood God still had a hidden third heart, as WALL-E discovered a massive beating heart deep beneath the Blood God's Court.

• Lin You lost access to his Dragon wives when the limiter restricted Card Sequences, then summoned his armored Dragon Knight form and a colossal Dragon.
• Lin You called forth more Dragons and told Fan Huo to leave his battlefield to him.
• Fan Huo transformed the command post into his Train and deployed his legion, coordinating troops through signalers as communications failed.
• Zhuxing Tu told Monrojina that fate did not determine their choices and warned that the Blood God’s third heart remained hidden.
• WALL-E cautiously approached a massive beating heart beside a Cerberus beneath the Blood God's Court.

WALL-E sneaked away to find a gift for Ye Qiyan and wandered into the Blood God's underground platform, where a chained Cerberus guarded a mysterious heart. Ye Qiyan rescued WALL-E after using Mingming's Miracle to restore his Stamina, then confronted the heart and its guardian.

• During Ye Qiyan's battle with Alfred, WALL-E slipped away to search for useful treasure, and the final clash carried it to the Blood God's platform.
• WALL-E found a heart and approached it, but the Cerberus guarding it woke and attacked with Hell Fire.
• After returning to the Train, Ye Qiyan used the Judgment Enforcer's Justice Mark to locate WALL-E and entered the Blood God's Court with Lisette and the others.
• Ye Qiyan blasted through the platform and descended underground, but his Stamina was nearly gone; Mingming's Miracle restored it enough for him to use Arrest and pull WALL-E to safety.
• Ye Qiyan ordered his legions downward, where Hunt blocked the Hell Flame and Demon Card · Supremacy turned the Crimson Demons against the evil spirits.
• At a depth of 7,777 meters, Ye Qiyan saw the heart and the chained Cerberus and wondered if it was the Third Heart.

Ye Qiyan and his allies destroyed the Blood God's third heart, raising the kill progress to 77%. In Solo City, the wounded Vampire God struggled against Zhao Xi and rejected a mysterious High God’s offer to save him, as the voice warned that the wind would arrive when he died.

• Ye Qiyan led his allies to defeat Cerberus, then ordered them to attack the Blood God's Heart.
• The heart’s protective formation shattered under their combined attacks, and they pulverized the heart, raising kill progress to 77%.
• The Vampire God realized his third heart had been destroyed and that Zhao Xi could now kill him.
• A mysterious voice urged the Vampire God to submit and join its High God Sequence, but he refused.
• Zhao Xi pressed her attack as her power of Judgment spread across the battlefield, while the voice warned that the wind would arrive when the Vampire God died.

Zhao Xi nearly defeated the Blood God, but an unknown High God intervened and triggered a world-sealing trial of the wind across Solo City. As the High God empowered the Vampires and the gale threatened the city, Zhuxing Tu and Shaya turned the tide in their respective battles.

• Zhao Xi drove the Blood God to the brink of defeat, but a strange voice triggered conflicting protocols and locked humanity's progress at 50%.
• The unknown High God announced the Trial of "Wind," sealed the world, and empowered the Blood God and the Vampire monsters.
• Zhuxing Tu used the Blasphemy Card named Astrology practitioner to summon a starry sky and confront the High God watching Solo City.
• Shaya overloaded Kastanien's Card Sequence Restrictor and killed him with a punch empowered by Atheism.

As the Wasteland’s Wind Element unleashed a storm that threatened to destroy Solo City, Shaya challenged the true god while Zhao Xi fought the empowered Blood God. In the Void, Zhuxing Tu confronted a high god’s consciousness, and Ye Qiyan watched the trial’s progress fall back to fifty percent.

• The Wind Element arrived above Solo City and summoned a massive whirlwind that swallowed the city and pressed down on everyone.
• Shaya crossed the storm, struck the Wind Element, and declared that she intended to challenge the Wasteland’s true gods.
• With Shaya occupying the Wind Element, Zhao Xi entered Transcendence Mode and prepared to deliver her Final Judgment against the Blood God.
• In the Void, Zhuxing Tu taunted the hidden high god, who insisted that Solo City’s defenders could not stop the end.
• In the City of Eternal Night, Ye Qiyan noticed the trial’s progress had dropped from nearly one hundred percent to fifty and wondered whom he could ask about it.

Ye Qiyan used a permission to contact Zhao Lin and learned that the humans were losing ground in Solo City, while his own stamina remained depleted. As the battle neared its climax, Shaya continued fighting [Wind], and Zhao Xi considered calling Ye Qiyan for help.

• Ye Qiyan synchronized the time flows of his world and Solo City, then contacted Zhao Lin through the system.
• Zhao Lin told Ye Qiyan about the battles across the floors and worried that the humans might lose, but Ye Qiyan reassured her after hearing her luck was unusually good.
• Ye Qiyan ended the conversation and, despite having 155 stamina, felt exhausted from the false recovery caused by Mingming's miracle.
• Shaya repeatedly destroyed [Wind] as it reformed, and she rejected the idea of turning the world into a doomsday to stop The End.
• As the war approached its final climax, Zhao Xi opened her friends list and considered calling her ally Ye Qiyan.

Zhao Xi and the defenders of Solo City struggled to stop the End as Monrojina concluded that the wind could only be killed by severing its connection to the Wasteland. When an unknown force disrupted fate, Ye Qiyan accepted Zhao Xi’s request and prepared to enter Solo City.

• Zhao Xi warned Ye Qiyan that the End was coming to Solo City and asked for his help, but he did not respond.
• Monrojina explained to Zhuxing Tu that the End’s [Wind] could only truly die if it were isolated from the Wasteland, though she lacked time to create the necessary Ritual.
• Train Conductors on both sides fought to survive and resist the End, while Monrojina completed her preparations to evacuate most of Solo City’s Top-Level Train Conductors.
• An item humming near Zhao Xi caused fate to vanish, letting Zhuxing Tu see the unknown; the Blood God fled as it realized what was happening.
• After waking in the City of Eternal Night, Ye Qiyan learned he had slept for a day and a night, then ordered Lisette to gather the Beedrill and set off for Solo City.
• Ye Qiyan accepted Zhao Xi’s request through the [Ally Emblem].

Ye Qiyan arrived in Solo City through Zhao Xi’s Ally Emblem and joined the fight against [Wind] as the Hunt Ring formed. As Solo City reached its End, he confronted [Wind] and compelled it to answer whether it could die.

• Zhao Xi’s Ally Emblem summoned Ye Qiyan to Solo City, where he arrived aboard a white train under the identity Altos.
• Zhao Xi asked Ye Qiyan to use the Hunt Ring against The End, and he merged the two Hunt Dragons’ rings to complete it.
• [Wind] broke free of Shaya’s control and brought forward Solo City’s End, triggering the Hunt Ring’s effect to hunt The End.
• Ye Qiyan took up the Hunt Ring’s challenge, activated his Transcender powers, and faced [Wind].
• Ye Qiyan used Rebellion × Bewitchment to make [Wind] answer his question: “Can you die?”

Ye Qiyan used the Hunt Ring to destroy the Wind of the End, turning the war in Solo City’s favor as Zhao Xi fought the Blood God. Just as she was about to kill him, Ye Qiyan banished him with the Blasphemy Card, completing his mission.

• Ye Qiyan trapped [Wind] in the Hunt Ring, severed its connection to the Wasteland, and destroyed it.
• Zhao Xi broke free of her final shackle, transformed into Grand Judgment, and led the fight against the Blood God.
• Ye Qiyan returned to his train and sent Gluttony and Demon Raven out to help while Lisette photographed the battle.
• Zhao Xi battered the Blood God until he offered to submit and threatened to detonate his God Core.
• Ye Qiyan used the Blasphemy Card to banish the Blood God as Zhao Xi prepared to strike, completing the Terminator of the Blood God mission.

After the wind of The End was destroyed, [Death] made a trade with the Gray Fog and became a Train Conductor named Mo Shi, set to enter the Wasteland in ten days. A new batch of Train Conductors, including Fengfeng and Smiley, was also summoned, though no one knew of the deployment yet.

• [Death] negotiated with the Gray Fog for access to the Train System and received a Train Conductor ID, with entry into the Wasteland scheduled in ten days.
• [Death] named itself Mo Shi and looked forward to meeting Ye Qiyan again.
• Fengfeng learned that the wind of the Wasteland had died and that she would have to start over as a Train Conductor in sector A-1.
• A train crashed down before Smiley, and its system identified him as human and assigned him to the new batch.
• The Train System prepared a new batch of one million Train Conductors, including special beings, to enter the Wasteland in ten days.

After the Blood God’s defeat, Zhao Xi and Shaya thanked Ye Qiyan and promised to protect the area while he rested. Zhuxing Tu then revealed that a million new Train Conductors, including beings unlike any seen before, would arrive in ten Wasteland days, and she shared the warning with the Imperial Sequence.

• With the Blood God gone, the remaining City of Eternal Night Train Conductors surrendered, and Zhao Xi prepared to punish them for the invasion.
• Zhao Xi thanked Ye Qiyan, while Shaya gave him Healing Lollipops and offered her help; the two women exchanged cold looks but left without fighting.
• Zhuxing Tu approached Ye Qiyan and told him Fate had revealed that a million new Train Conductors, some possibly nonhuman, would arrive in ten Wasteland days.
• Ye Qiyan told Zhuxing Tu to share the warning with everyone, then went into his Train to rest.
• Zhuxing Tu posted the warning in the Imperial Sequence Organization Chatroom, where it reached Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin.

After waking from two days of rest, Ye Qiyan checked the rewards he had earned for defeating the Vampire God and completing [Wind]'s trial. He received Permanent Blood, [Core · Blood], and an incomplete blueprint for a powerful machine tied to a lost world.

• Two Vampire Train Conductors fled into a building where Judgment Enforcers refused to follow, then found Eve's Train on the rooftop and were blasted to ash by her laser cannon.
• Ye Qiyan woke after sleeping for two days and two nights, refreshed himself, and emerged to see Solo City being rebuilt.
• Ye Qiyan collected Permanent Blood and [Core · Blood] as rewards for completing the non-Vampire faction mission and helping kill the Vampire God.
• Ye Qiyan opened the Hunt Ring's gift and received the incomplete GT-The End Design Blueprint, which included coordinates to the level-twelve Platform World: Clockwork Kingdom.

Ye Qiyan received the rewards from the Trial of the Wind, including the life-costing End’s Horn and a powerful Blood core for mechanical life-forms. After considering which machine should receive the core, he decided to enhance Eve.

• Ye Qiyan examined the Hunt Ring and wondered whether Ascension could overcome its lack of power.
• Ye Qiyan received the End’s Horn, which could summon the End’s wind at the cost of his life, and asked Lisette to display it beside his oil lamp.
• Ye Qiyan placed Alfred’s Thorn Dream in a display case as a memento of the Vampire Prince he had killed.
• Ye Qiyan received Blood of Permanence, which would increase his maximum stamina by 100 points and improve his self-healing, but the system would not explain its additional ability.
• Ye Qiyan reviewed the Blood core’s effects and recommendations, then decided to save it for Eve rather than give it to Lisette or Hunt.

During a gathering of Imperial Sequence members in a rebuilt Solo City, Ye Qiyan learned that the city’s time had flowed much more slowly than the Wasteland’s. On the balcony, Wu Yuanshan spoke to him about the previous Demon Card holder, a demon who had ruled a Platform World.

• Ye Qiyan learned that nearly ten days had passed in the Wasteland during the three-day war, as Solo City’s time slowed to almost one-fifth its speed.
• Zhuxing Tu hosted a gathering at the reconstructed King's Box, where Ye Qiyan drank with Imperial Sequence members and saw Zhao Lin, A Chuan, Stasia, and others.
• Monrojina joined the gathering after handling a matter involving Camelin Galo, whom she had recruited to protect ordinary people on the First Floor.
• Ye Qiyan accepted Wu Yuanshan’s friend request, and she explained that her Dog ability let her smell that he was a Demon Card holder without the usual scent of evil.
• Wu Yuanshan told Ye Qiyan that the previous Demon Card holder had been a demon who ruled a Platform World and learned about the Wasteland after killing Train Conductors who entered it.

Ye Qiyan left Solo City after the gathering and returned to the Wasteland, while the Judgment Court and the City of a Thousand Stars made plans in the aftermath of the battle. He began Ascending the Blood of Permanence aboard his Train.

• Wu Yuanshan left the gathering, and Ye Qiyan said goodbye to Shaya and the others before returning to his Train.
• Ye Qiyan departed Solo City as other Trains returned to the Wasteland, while Zhao Xi raised Imperial Sequence’s bounties and prepared to fight the City of Eternal Night.
• Lu Jiayun discussed Kastanien’s defeat and Ye Qiyan’s power with the other council members, then decided to contact Abucado’s leader about a deal.
• Back in the Wasteland, Ye Qiyan collected the Blood of Permanence and used Ascension on it.
• The Blood of Permanence increased Ye Qiyan’s stamina recovery speed by 100%.