Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan reached the altar, forced its demon guardian to kneel, and watched Red Tears kill him even after he submitted. The Demon Card Mutation introduced herself and asked Ye Qiyan for freedom, but he used Rebellion and Bewitchment to expose that she was the altar itself: the level-13 Distortion Demon Altar.

• Ye Qiyan climbed the altar stairs with Red Tears, who cut down the Oddity Species blocking their way.
• The demon man seized Ding Xiuqi and threatened to kill him, but Ye Qiyan summoned seven Demon Card Sequences and commanded the demon man to kneel.
• The demon man released Ding Xiuqi and submitted to Ye Qiyan, but Red Tears decapitated him as Ye Qiyan continued toward the altar.
• Mutation told Ye Qiyan that she had been trapped on the altar and had fashioned the demon man from the flesh and blood of 10,072 living beings to help her escape.
• Ye Qiyan used Rebellion and Bewitchment to force Mutation to reveal her true form as the Distortion Demon Altar.

Ye Qiyan resisted Mutation’s attempt to transform him and used Rebellion’s Supremacy to shatter its power. With Red Tears ready to strike, he rejected Mutation’s offer to submit and declared that he wanted a different version of it for himself.

• Mutation sealed Ye Qiyan inside warped space and demanded that he accept its evolution.
• Ye Qiyan mocked Mutation’s appearance and sent Red Tears to test her strength against its Ring of Evil.
• Ye Qiyan summoned Rebellion and used Supremacy’s Shatter ability to break Mutation’s conceptual attacks.
• Ye Qiyan used Rebellion’s power to let Red Tears cross Mutation’s altered space and draw her sword as the Ancient Battlefield appeared.
• Mutation offered to submit, but Ye Qiyan told it he wanted not its current self but the version he liked, while the other demons gathered around him.

Ye Qiyan and Red Tears destroyed Mutation’s Ring of Evil with the Tear-Carving Sword, breaking Mutation’s Demon Card but leaving it barely alive long enough to speak. After Mutation’s final warning, its Card Sequence broke, and Ye Qiyan prepared to infuse the two blank fragments with Spirit.

• Mutation flooded its space with Hole-Eater Insects, but Ye Qiyan used his Spirit to grant Truth to the Tear-Carving Sword’s power, turning the insects against Mutation.
• Mutation launched its conceptual power at Ye Qiyan, but the Tear-Carving Sword severed the attack and destroyed Mutation’s Ring of Evil and the mutated Altar Platform.
• Ye Qiyan’s sword strike purified the surrounding area and reduced every Oddity Species within a hundred-mile radius to nothingness.
• Mutation survived the attack as a cracked Demon Card, admitted defeat, and asked Ye Qiyan whether he hated inhuman beings.
• Ye Qiyan told Mutation he hated those who angered him, and Mutation warned him not to let demons become the Evil of the End before its Card Sequence broke.
• Ye Qiyan picked up the two blank Demon Card fragments and prepared to infuse them with Spirit.

Ye Qiyan created the eighth Demon Card, Redemption, and learned its healing and corruption effects. After discovering that seventeen days had passed outside while only minutes passed in the sealed space, he prepared to test the card on Ding Xiuqi.

• Ye Qiyan merged azure light into the split blank card, creating Demon Card · Redemption and learning that it could heal consenting living beings or turn healed targets into Demons when attacked.
• Ye Qiyan examined Redemption and considered using it to heal mechanical lifeforms such as Lisette and WALL-E.
• Lisette, Eve, and the others arrived and told Ye Qiyan that seventeen days had passed while they waited outside the Abyss.
• Ye Qiyan realized the Seal Mutation had greatly altered the flow of time, added Redemption to his ring, and decided to leave the space.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to make the unconscious Ding Xiuqi voice his desire to live, then invoked Redemption to heal him.

Ye Qiyan left Neck Star after completing its hidden mission and destroying the source of the Oddity Species. Back aboard the train, he received his rewards and inspected a new Mechanism core that could alter a lifeform’s abilities and Source Logic.

• Ding Xiuqi and Shushu woke after Ye Qiyan rescued them, and they realized they owed him a great favor.
• Ye Qiyan and his companions returned to the train, then he chose to leave Neck Star.
• The train announced that Ye Qiyan had killed 2,097,331 Oddity Species and completed the hidden mission with the highest rating.
• Ye Qiyan learned that Lisette and the dragon had hunted Oddity Species while he was separated from them.
• Ye Qiyan collected a Level 12 Mechanism core from his mail and saw that it could enhance any lifeform, though it was best suited to Lisette or Hunt Mecha-Dragon.

Ye Qiyan gave the God of Mechanisms core to Hunt after Lisette declined it, and Hunt gained a set of gears and the ability to shrink. Hunt’s new form let it leave the Armed Space and join Ye Qiyan aboard the train.

• Ye Qiyan offered the core to Lisette, but she wanted to wait for an enhancement tied to his Ascension, so he chose Hunt instead.
• Hunt accepted and consumed the core, gaining a gear set that improved its abilities across several modes and reduced the cost of firing Transcendence Warheads.
• Hunt revealed a white gear that let it shrink, though its small form could only use Normal Mode and Guard Mode.
• Ye Qiyan realized Hunt had wanted to stay close to him rather than remain in the Armed Space, and he apologized for keeping it there.
• Ye Qiyan reassured Hunt that he could obtain better equipment later, then took the little dragon into the train.

The supreme gods discussed the new Train Conductors and plotted to kill Ye Qiyan when he entered a level 11 Platform World. After returning from a Platform World, Ye Qiyan learned that high-level Train Conductors could use vouchers to interfere with the unprotected newcomers, and he asked Zhuxing Tu what was behind their sudden arrival.

• The supreme gods learned that a new Blasphemy Card holder owned the Demon Card and agreed to wait until Ye Qiyan entered a level 11 Platform World before trying to kill him.
• Ye Qiyan reviewed the time correction and wondered whether the new Train Conductors had entered the Newbie Ten Stations.
• Zhuxing Tu announced that newcomers had reached the Second Station and shared vouchers that let holders create deadly Trial Grounds for them.
• Members of Imperial Sequence discussed whether to use the vouchers, while Shaya declined and Lin You and Lane asked for one.
• Zhuxing Tu privately told Ye Qiyan she had waited for him to leave his Platform World, and he asked her what was really happening with the newcomers.

After learning that a True God had arranged for a million Wasteland residents to become rookie Train Conductors, Ye Qiyan bought and ascended an Experience Voucher into a team trial voucher. He decided to enter a Newbie Platform and invited Zhao Lin to join him.

• Zhuxing Tu told Ye Qiyan that an Ancient True God had made a deal with the Train System to send a million humanoid beings from the Wasteland into rookie Train Conductor trials.
• Ye Qiyan bought an Experience Voucher from Zhuxing Tu for one hundred Train Coins and ascended it, turning it into a Newbie Trial Platform Team Trial Voucher.
• The ascended voucher let Ye Qiyan choose trial rules, accommodate up to five newbies, and bring one high-level Train Conductor into the platform.
• Zhuxing Tu listed Lane, Lin You, Stasia, Monrojina, A Chuan, and herself as people planning to attend a Newbie Platform.
• Ye Qiyan decided to use the voucher and messaged Zhao Lin, who immediately agreed to go.

Ye Qiyan used Ascension on a level-eight Treasure Chest and obtained a Silver Emblem Beast Tamer Mark, which could enhance a contract beast and combine it with a vehicle. He decided to use it on Frostsky White Bear and bind the bear to his Road Hog.

• Zhao Lin told Ye Qiyan she could redistribute her good and bad luck slightly after her maximum Spirit reached 130, and they discussed joining a trial.
• Ye Qiyan had WALL-E bring him his unused level-eight Treasure Chest and used Ascension on it, creating an Ultimate Level 8 Lucky Treasure Chest.
• Ye Qiyan opened the chest and obtained a level-nine Silver Emblem Beast Tamer Mark, recommended for Frostsky White Bear.
• Ye Qiyan learned that the mark could combine a beast with a vehicle, but chose not to use it on his Train because its grade would decrease.
• Ye Qiyan decided to use the mark on Frostsky White Bear and bind the bear to his outdated Road Hog.

Ye Qiyan discovered that Nephthys had hatched as a tiny fire elemental, then used the Silver Emblem Beast Tamer Mark to merge the Frostsky White Bear with Road Hog and enhance them. The white bear emerged as a mature Frostsky White Bear with newly unlocked frost abilities and the power to wear its combat armor or merge with Road Hog.

• Ye Qiyan noticed Nephthys as a spark on the Giant Eagle and learned that the newborn fire elemental wanted to bind itself to him.
• Ye Qiyan set Nephthys aside and called over the Frostsky White Bear, which wanted to grow strong enough to keep up with his other beasts.
• Ye Qiyan used the Silver Emblem Beast Tamer Mark to bind the white bear to Road Hog, transforming the vehicle with frost powers.
• Ye Qiyan enhanced the merged pair, awakening the white bear's mature-stage bloodline and abilities, including Frost Breath and Frostsky Domain.

Ye Qiyan used Ascension to strengthen his companions and Eve’s equipment, then spent his Train Coins to raise the train to level 15. The chapter ended just as the train upgrade began, with its new options still unknown.

• Ye Qiyan used Mingming to stop Bear Cub and Giant Eagle from fighting in the Nether Moon Garden, then let them settle their rivalry in the Hangar, where Giant Eagle beat the white bear nine times.
• Ye Qiyan ascended Nephthys, which gained no visible abilities but became an eternal lamp that warmed its surroundings.
• Ye Qiyan ascended Eve’s equipment, turning her level 9 hand cannon into a chargeable cannon and one level 8 item into a level 9 satellite weapon.
• Ye Qiyan noted that Zhao Lin had not contacted him yet and prepared to upgrade the train with his 1,372 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan touched the train platform and used Ascension to advance the train to level 15.

Ye Qiyan upgraded his train to level fifteen and bought all four upgrade options. He found the Platform Downgrade module offered a way to retreat into lower-level worlds, but he had no intention of stopping, and he considered the Alliance Member’s Blessing useful for protecting his allies.

• Ye Qiyan completed his train’s ascension to level fifteen, raising its speed to 300 km/h and reducing his stamina and spirit.
• The system revealed four standard upgrade options, and Ye Qiyan bought them all for 111 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan examined the Platform Downgrade module, which let Train Conductors enter level six or seven Platform Worlds with infinite stopping time, and decided he would not use it to quit advancing.
• Ye Qiyan read that A Letter from the Frost Orc led to a level six treasure chest and considered selling it to Zhao Lin.
• Ye Qiyan found the Alliance Member’s Blessing useful because it monitored an ally’s vital status and could shield them in a crisis; he thought of Zhao Xi and Don Quixote.

Ye Qiyan learned that Lane had been gravely wounded after losing games to the Newbie Train Conductor Mo Shi, then invited Zhao Lin to join him as a Trialer. Their voucher activated a Fork in Destiny, offering two platforms as their trial grounds and Ye Qiyan’s forty-first stop.

• Ye Qiyan checked the iron box and confirmed that Zhao Xi and Don Quixote were still alive, then displayed Don Quixote’s shield beside Alfred’s Thorn Dream.
• Ye Qiyan ascended his Super High School Level Driving Skills Module card, producing a card with an extra “Super.”
• Mo Shi defeated Lane in three Russian Roulette games on the Newbie Platform, leaving Lane gravely wounded and costing him three Game Cards.
• Ye Qiyan read the Imperial Sequence chat and learned from Zhuxing Tu that Lane had likely died once, used a resurrection item, and remained unconscious.
• Ye Qiyan accepted Zhao Lin’s invitation to leave immediately, and their Team Trial Voucher offered them the Desolate Red Shrimp Fishing Ground or the Dilapidated White Cat Café.

Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin completed a level 3 station’s mission and prepared the Dilapidated White Cat Café as a trial venue. Ye Qiyan combined it with three Hunting Station worlds and set the trial to admit five newcomers.

• Ye Qiyan arrived at the Dilapidated White Cat Café as the trial initiator and sent WALL-E to search the area.
• Zhao Lin showed Ye Qiyan her new Mage abilities, and he offered her two level 9 items; she wanted to buy the secret art scroll but needed to save more money.
• Zhao Lin used an item to locate the station’s special feature, and her Calamity Moon Beast captured the cat employee’s Earthbound Spirit, completing the station mission.
• Ye Qiyan and Lisette and Eve quickly cleaned and transformed the Café while he prepared the trial venue using his trial scroll.
• Zhao Lin showed Ye Qiyan her three Game Cards, including Horse Racing, and he warned her not to reveal her Card Sequence details so casually.
• Ye Qiyan connected three level 3 Hunting Station worlds to the Café, had Eve eliminate their monsters, and set the newcomer limit to five.

Fengfeng, a former Platform Lord who had lost her past and started over as a human Train Conductor, entered a dangerous level 3 trial platform. There she met Ye Qiyan’s unusual group of newcomers, including Mo Shi, whose unsettling presence hinted at a deeper danger.

• Fengfeng recalled her origins as a wisp of Wasteland wind and how the Train System had given her a second chance after she failed.
• Fengfeng entered a platform identified as the Ruler’s Game Arena, where the system warned her of extreme danger and told her not to resist.
• Ye Qiyan spotted Fengfeng among five newcomers on his surveillance screens and decided to begin the trial despite their unusual nature.
• The five newcomers entered a luxurious hall as Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin activated the Rock-Paper-Scissors Game Card.
• Fengfeng introduced herself to the smiling black-haired girl, who called herself Mo Shi, said she was from sector A-0, and wished to live until the very last moment.

Zhao Lin and Ye Qiyan launched the first trial, a rock-paper-scissors game with hidden betting rules that encouraged alliances and psychological warfare. Mo Shi chose the one-eyed pirate as her opponent and won the first round, leaving him down 20 chips.

• Zhao Lin began the trial and explained that players could exchange Train Coins and valuable items for chips.
• Fengfeng and the other newcomers exchanged their resources for extra chips, while Mo Shi watched the surveillance camera.
• Zhao Lin revealed the hidden rules, including mandatory outside bets, one-time raises, and the option to nullify a round by paying five chips.
• Mo Shi skipped discussion time, selected the one-eyed pirate, and announced that she would play scissors.
• The one-eyed pirate wagered 20 chips on paper, and Mo Shi won with scissors, raising her total to 40 chips.

Fengfeng proposed an alliance to eliminate the one-eyed pirate, but Mo Shi refused and wagered all forty of her chips on him. The alliance fell apart as the others chased a larger share of the potential winnings, while Zhao Lin and Ye Qiyan watched and wondered what Mo Shi intended.

• The Spirit Youth challenged the one-eyed pirate to another round of Rock-Paper-Scissors while Fengfeng explained the trio’s plan to target the pirate.
• Fengfeng invited Mo Shi to join the alliance, but Mo Shi refused because she wanted to win on her own.
• After the pirate beat the Spirit Youth, Mo Shi bet all forty of her chips on the pirate, disrupting the alliance’s plan.
• The wandering swordsman bet ten chips on the Spirit Youth, and Fengfeng and the swordsman’s alliance broke apart as they competed for a larger share of Mo Shi’s wager.
• Zhao Lin questioned the players’ choices, and Ye Qiyan suggested the pirate might not think as she would before remarking that Mo Shi looked familiar.

Mo Shi’s wager strategy won her the first trial, and Ye Qiyan learned that she was connected to Death, the Overlord of the Dead Realm. After Zhao Lin began the second trial, Mo Shi revealed a Russian Roulette Game Card and greeted Ye Qiyan as an old acquaintance, claiming she was now a separate self who fought on humanity’s side.

• One-Eyed Pirate accepted the result of his game against Spirit Youth, shifting the outside contestants’ chip totals and leaving Spirit Youth without further losses.
• Mo Shi reached 88 chips by the end of the first trial, while Spirit Youth lost all his chips and was locked away; Zhao Lin later revealed that the apparent death penalty was only a recording.
• Ye Qiyan started the second trial, where contestants faced their fears in the Flower Heart Lock Theater, and Mo Shi immediately broke free of its effects.
• Mo Shi showed the surveillance camera a Russian Roulette Game Card that had belonged to Lane, prompting Ye Qiyan to ask Zhao Lin about her luck and then approach the Theater.
• Mo Shi recognized Ye Qiyan, and he questioned her identity after Red Tears threatened her; her answer was obscured, but Ye Qiyan understood that she was Death.
• Mo Shi insisted that she was now a new self named Mo Shi, separate from Death, and said she intended to live until the very end.

Ye Qiyan had Zhao Lin play Mo Shi’s Russian Roulette game, and Zhao Lin won when the final shot failed to fire. Mo Shi used the loss to cast off her Death nature and become a human Train Conductor, then vowed to catch up to Ye Qiyan as the trial resumed.

• Mo Shi revealed a restrained Game Card and challenged Ye Qiyan to a game, but he chose Zhao Lin to play instead.
• Mo Shi and Zhao Lin entered the Russian Roulette game, where Zhao Lin pulled the trigger five times and survived the final chamber.
• Mo Shi realized her power had contaminated the Game Card, accepted her loss with delight, and crushed the black crystal inside her chest to become human.
• The Game Card stopped trying to escape when it resonated with Zhao Lin’s other cards, and Mo Shi gave it to her.
• Mo Shi promised to defeat Ye Qiyan and take him to the Dead Realm, while Ye Qiyan told her she could not catch up to him.
• As Fengfeng and the others began to wake, Mo Shi said the trial would continue and insisted she would not lose.

Mo Shi, Fengfeng, and the One-Eyed Pirate completed the final trial, while Ye Qiyan followed WALL-E to the edge of the Platform World and encountered a vision of the End. He passed the Dream Eater’s trial, gained a new title, and increased his Spirit limit.

• Fengfeng and the One-Eyed Pirate woke from the Flower Heart Lock’s dreams, but the masked Swordsman stayed behind with the family he had wished to see again.
• Mo Shi won the Horse Racing trial by using his abilities to speed up his chosen horse, while Fengfeng finished second and the One-Eyed Pirate lost.
• Ye Qiyan sent Zhao Lin to withdraw the Game Cards’ abilities, then followed WALL-E to investigate a treasure it could not bring back.
• At the edge of the Platform World, Ye Qiyan saw the destructive turbulence beyond it and reflected on the End and the possibility of rebirth.
• Ye Qiyan realized the juvenile Dream Eater had put him into a dream, passed its trial, received the title The End? Rebirth?, and raised his Spirit limit from 300 to 340.