Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan bonded the Dream Eater to Moonshadow, strengthening the blade and accelerating the birth of its weapon spirit. Following WALL-E into the Inverted Space, he found an ancient Guardian Mech and discovered a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card among its ashes.

• The Dream Eater asked Ye Qiyan for a vessel, and he let it bond with Moonshadow.
• Moonshadow reached level 10, gained dream-related abilities, and became connected to Ye Qiyan’s soul.
• Ye Qiyan followed WALL-E into the Inverted Space beneath the shattered Platform World and explored an abandoned laboratory.
• A decayed Guardian Mech rose to defend its race, but Ye Qiyan used Mechanism Command to tell it the race had won.
• The Guardian Mech said its duty was complete and crumbled to ash, leaving behind a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card marked 1/3.

Ye Qiyan accepted the hidden achievement “Dragging the Gods into the Dust” after claiming a fragment that carried the final plea of an extinct civilization. When he returned from the collapsing laboratory, Mo Shi was waiting with Red Tears, Eve, and Lisette, saying she had come to add him as a friend.

• Ye Qiyan took the fragment from the ashes and heard the extinct race’s final message asking him not to trust the gods.
• The Train unlocked the hidden achievement “Dragging the Gods into the Dust,” and Ye Qiyan accepted it despite being unable to view its requirements until Train Level 50.
• Ye Qiyan stored the fragment and thanked WALL-E for finding it, promising to give the robot an extra Plasma drumstick.
• The laboratory burned away and its inverted world collapsed as Ye Qiyan returned to the place where he had jumped from.
• Ye Qiyan found Mo Shi surrounded by Red Tears, Eve, and Lisette, who had their weapons ready.
• Mo Shi explained that she wanted to add Ye Qiyan as a friend, and he questioned why she had come looking for him after winning the trial game.

Ye Qiyan thanked Zhao Lin for her win and encouraged her to search for Treasure Chests, while WALL-E led Fengfeng to the Café grounds. The chapter ended with Fengfeng recognizing Ye Qiyan after encountering the dangerous beings there.

• Ye Qiyan explained that Zhao Lin had won Russian Roulette before firing all six shots and warned her that the card had belonged to Lane.
• Zhao Lin left with the Calamity Moon Beast to search for Treasure Chests and found one beneath a manhole cover.
• Fengfeng worried about her losses and weak train, then formed Small Wind Elements to gather soil for her carriage.
• WALL-E approached Fengfeng and guided her toward the Café grounds with an Empty Box.
• Fengfeng entered the grounds, saw Raven, the Mechanical Girl, and other powerful beings, then heard Ye Qiyan call out to her.

Fengfeng told Ye Qiyan that nearly half of the latest million Newbie Train Conductors had died within three stops, and suspected they were being pushed to grow through overwhelming pressure. She chose to keep pursuing strength rather than return to Libra immediately, then fell asleep in the café before Ye Qiyan sent her back as the platform trial ended.

• Fengfeng told Ye Qiyan about the newcomers’ cross-block team trials and the unusually powerful Train Conductors she had encountered.
• Fengfeng reported that 470,000 newcomers had died in their first three stops and guessed that only ten percent would survive the pressure.
• Fengfeng said she wanted to raise her Train Level and find the Wind of Transcendence so she could protect more people.
• Ye Qiyan suspected that the mysterious masked helper and the old man with a dragon-like train might be Smiley and Don Quixote, but decided not to seek them out.
• Fengfeng fell asleep at the café, and Zhao Lin returned with three Treasure Chests after Mo Shi found another one.
• At midnight, Ye Qiyan had Lisette wake Fengfeng and told her it was time to leave.

Ye Qiyan left the Newbie Platform with Zhao Lin, earned a perfect-trial reward, and sold her the level 9 Forbidden Art Secret Scroll. He raised his train to level 16, then discovered the upgrade options had been priced to consume nearly all his Train Coins.

• After the trains left the platform, Ye Qiyan received 500 Train Coins for completing a perfect trial.
• Zhao Lin used her newly earned Train Coins to buy Ye Qiyan’s level 9 Forbidden Art Secret Scroll, and he advised her to save for the level 10 upgrade shop.
• Ye Qiyan displayed his Trial Voucher as a memento, left the station, and began ascending his train.
• Ye Qiyan’s train reached level 16, though he worried it would need more speed to support future Ascensions.
• The Train System offered four upgrade options costing exactly 2,500 Train Coins, leaving Ye Qiyan with 21.

Ye Qiyan examined the latest upgrade options and bought several utility items, including a Heart Core for the Abyssal Mech, Imaginary Number Navigation for the train, and a voidification part for the Arsenal Hangar. He ended the chapter with only 21 Train Coins left, while considering how the new items could help him.

• Ye Qiyan appraised five Level 9 Material Resonance Molds and realized they might help him craft the Nano Swarm Modification Device.
• Ye Qiyan bought the Abyss Species Core, which could grant the Abyssal Mech a [Heart], despite its warning and uncertain potential.
• Ye Qiyan considered using the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake as a navigator for the train's new Imaginary Number Navigation module.
• Ye Qiyan decided the Carriage Voidification Modification Part would let him deploy the Arsenal Hangar within 340 meters.
• Ye Qiyan spent 2,500 Train Coins on the options and lamented that he had only 21 coins remaining.

Ye Qiyan created a level 10 Nano Future Hive and upgraded the carriage’s voidification part before giving the Abyssal Mech an Abyss Species core. The core awakened as the Abyss Species’ first Heart, and a warning revealed that the Abyss had noticed Ye Qiyan.

• Ye Qiyan used four Material Resonance Molds to upgrade the materials needed for the Nano Swarm Modification Device.
• Ye Qiyan crafted the device with the Beedrill mother, transforming it into a level 10 Nano Future Hive bound to him.
• Ye Qiyan installed the Carriage Voidification Modification Part and used Ascension to give it an Advanced prefix.
• Ye Qiyan used Ascension on the Abyss Species core and fed it to the Abyssal Mech, which knelt before him after gaining its first Heart.
• A warning appeared declaring that the Abyss did not permit the Heart’s creation and that it had noticed Ye Qiyan.

Ye Qiyan named the Abyssal Mech Augustine and assigned him to train Villain and the Endless Squad. He chose the mysterious Land of Strange Laws as his forty-second stop and stepped into a station where a girl mistook him for a train conductor.

• The Abyssal Mech explained that Abyss Species were beings transformed by a godlike entity, then asked Ye Qiyan for a name.
• Ye Qiyan named the Mech Augustine, who pledged loyalty to him and retained an imprint of his past.
• Augustine fought Villain and the Endless Squad in the Shooting Range, then became their instructor.
• Ye Qiyan chose Land of Strange Laws over Eidion Great Labyrinth as his forty-second stop.
• The Train arrived at a High-Level Platform with an unknown danger level, no marked dangerous entities, and no objective-based departure option.
• Ye Qiyan sent WALL-E out to explore, then stepped onto the station platform, where a girl warned him to return to his post as a train conductor.

Ye Qiyan met Chloe, a Church of Discipline employee, in a world where ordinary trains and magical creatures coexisted. He used Bewitchment to win her trust and convinced her that he was a noble fleeing an arranged marriage, leaving Chloe believing his story.

• Chloe warned Ye Qiyan that the Church of Discipline might arrest him, and he used Bewitchment to make her trust him.
• Chloe introduced herself and agreed to help Ye Qiyan find somewhere to stay after finishing her work.
• Ye Qiyan and Lisette observed that people in the city were accompanied by collared magical creatures and discussed how to begin exploring the world.
• After Chloe finished her work, Ye Qiyan introduced himself and let her assume he was a wealthy Train Conductor.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to confirm Chloe's guess that he was a noble fleeing an arranged marriage, and she believed him.

Ye Qiyan learned more about Former Days City and its Performers from Chloe, then confronted the watcher who had followed him since his arrival. The watcher recognized him as a Train Conductor from the Wasteland, and Ye Qiyan determined she was not human.

• Chloe told Ye Qiyan about the Land of Strange Laws, its history of wars against Dragon Beast Performers, and how humans came to control and serve Performers.
• Chloe removed Dark Lane's collar and explained that the White Stone Knight was her companion, while she mistook Lisette for an unusual Artificial Performer.
• Eve spotted a watcher tracking Ye Qiyan, and he let the person follow him while suspecting they knew about the Wasteland and Train Conductors.
• After sharing a meal with Chloe, Ye Qiyan entered a library and confronted the watcher in a deserted section.
• Eve pinned the watcher with the Eternal Cutter, and the woman addressed Ye Qiyan as a Train Conductor; he recognized the collar-like mark on her neck and said she was not human.

Ye Qiyan questioned the Performer woman about why she had brought him to the world and learned that the summoning had failed for the other four Train Conductors. After the System warned him that the platform’s danger assessment remained unknown, he offered the woman a deal to help the Performers in exchange for wealth.

• Ye Qiyan challenged the woman’s claims and accused her of having once been an Artificial Automaton controlled by humans.
• Under Bewitchment’s influence, the woman revealed that five Train Conductors had been summoned, but the other four vanished after their trains crossed over.
• The woman said the summoning had taken place five days earlier, and Ye Qiyan realized it was probably unrelated to his arrival through [Fork in Destiny].
• The System identified the world as a possibly multi-prefix Platform World and warned Ye Qiyan to stay safe without changing its unknown danger assessment.
• Ye Qiyan released the woman and offered to help the Performers fight humans in exchange for Train Coins.

Ye Qiyan healed a Black Tide Performer who had attacked him, then had Eve follow her to learn the Black Tide’s plans. After the Performer relayed her message, Ye Qiyan’s power reopened her wound and inflicted terrible pain, while he and Lisette remained at the library.

• The Performer accused Ye Qiyan of greed, and Eve nearly killed her before Ye Qiyan healed her with the Redemption card.
• The Performer told Ye Qiyan that the Black Tide planned to attack Former Days City and demanded that he open its gates for them.
• Ye Qiyan sent Eve to follow the Performer and report back after she passed on the message.
• The Performer contacted the Black Tide and revealed her plan to betray humanity and enslave humans once the Black Tide conquered the world.
• After Eve witnessed the message being relayed, Ye Qiyan’s power reopened the Performer’s wound and left her writhing in pain.
• Ye Qiyan praised the Redemption card’s usefulness, and Lisette told him he was the wickedest.

Ye Qiyan met Joachim’s puppet, accepted a deposit of Train Coins for opening Former Days City’s gates to the Black Tide, and reconsidered whether he would honor their deal. The System then revealed that the world was a Level 9 Abyssal Trial with Ye Qiyan as its sole Trial-taker.

• Chloe showed Ye Qiyan a newspaper report about the humanoid Performer’s death and hurried off to work.
• Joachim’s puppet met Ye Qiyan in a time-frozen restaurant and asked him to open Former Days City’s gates when the Black Tide arrived.
• Joachim’s puppet gave Ye Qiyan a deposit of 200 Train Coins and promised another 300 after the deed was done.
• Ye Qiyan admitted he wanted the remaining coins but had no intention of betraying humanity by opening the gates.
• The System completed Ye Qiyan’s mental resistance check, reloaded, and identified the world as the Level 9 Abyssal Ascension Trial Grounds, with Ye Qiyan as the sole Trial-taker.

As the Black Tide’s Performer army advanced on Former Days City, Ye Qiyan refused to flee and rode toward the battlefield to hasten the [Abyss]’s Trial. The enemy gathered Plague Rat and Kamaitachi as allies meant to serve as part of a Trial exclusively for Ye Qiyan.

• Chloe warned Ye Qiyan that the Black Tide had reached the province and asked him to flee before the trains were sealed.
• Chloe explained that she and other Church of Discipline ability users would defend Rock Bastion, and Ye Qiyan refused to leave her behind.
• Chloe gave Ye Qiyan an envelope for her sister in the Imperial Capital, but he returned it and told her to deliver it herself.
• Ye Qiyan stored his train, mounted his motorcycle with Lisette, and rode out of Former Days City toward the battlefield.
• A Dragon Beast questioned Joachim about Ye Qiyan as Plague Rat and Kamaitachi arrived as allies for a Trial meant exclusively for him.

Kamaitachi and Plague Rat were ordered by a terrifying power to eliminate the human Train Conductor Altos, while Plague Rat secretly planned to use Kamaitachi as bait. As the black tide spread through Xi Prefecture, Ye Qiyan reached Lacadice Fortress and faced a battlefield dominated by a giant Dragon Beast.

• Kamaitachi and Plague Rat nearly fought until ripples from the black liquid forced them to kneel and accept orders to capture Altos.
• Plague Rat recalled that a Supreme had identified Altos as a Profaner who had slain gods and warned that a being in the Wasteland wanted him dead.
• The black liquid bestowed power on Kamaitachi and Plague Rat, and they agreed to cooperate while Plague Rat privately intended to use Kamaitachi as bait.
• Joachim offered the gods his plan as the black tide began eroding the land in Xi Prefecture.
• Ye Qiyan drove Road Hog, combined with White Bear, to Lacadice Fortress and saw a giant Dragon Beast fighting a human Elemental Resonator.

Ye Qiyan sent Hunt and the Gluttony Legion to fight the Black Tide in the city, where Hunt defeated the level 9 Dragon Beast Aponobek and Gluttony began devouring it. The stunned Human Commander realized that Ye Qiyan had summoned the strange forces.

• Ye Qiyan summoned Hunt in its true form, startling the Resonator and the Dragon Beast as the Human Commander prepared to sacrifice his life.
• Hunt struck Aponobek, then blocked its beam attack in Guard Mode while Ye Qiyan identified it as a level 9 Dragon Beast.
• Ye Qiyan released Gluttony and ordered its legion to attack the Black Tide Performers and feed on Aponobek.
• Hunt battered Aponobek with missiles, taunted it, and let it gather power for an attack before biting it in half and shielding the city from its Magic Array.
• Gluttony enveloped the dying Aponobek and began devouring it, while Ye Qiyan saw its transformation completeness reach 98%.
• The Human Commander noticed Ye Qiyan and realized that he had summoned Hunt and the other creatures.

Ye Qiyan hunted the Dragon Beasts of Xi Prefecture with Gluttony, but at the sixth fortress he found a plague-ravaged ruin and ordered Eve to destroy it. The Plague Rat God's Surveillance Apostle then revealed its plan to spread plague and kill Ye Qiyan.

• Ye Qiyan refused a reward from the general and asked for the locations of the remaining Dragon Beasts, which he planned to feed to Gluttony.
• The general reported Ye Qiyan's arrival to the Land of Strange Laws' higher-ups, while Ye Qiyan obtained the fortress coordinates and set out in the Road Hog.
• Over seven days, Ye Qiyan and Gluttony hunted Dragon Beasts at successive fortresses, using Gluttony's transformation into Aponobek to deceive one before surrounding and eating the others.
• At the sixth fortress, Ye Qiyan found ruined streets filled with corpses and plague victims, and ordered Eve to destroy the site.
• The Plague Rat God's Surveillance Apostle survived by vanishing before Eve's attack and planned to use plague to kill Ye Qiyan after his Demon Mecha-Dragon Man Altos exhausted his Blasphemy Card.
• The Plague Rat God's Surveillance Apostle dropped dark green liquid into a river to spread the plague.

Ye Qiyan reached Aimosden Fortress and sent Gluttony’s forces to rescue the survivors and hunt for the Dragon Beast. As the infected commander lay dying after being abandoned by the noble young lady, Ye Qiyan appeared and asked if he wanted to live.

• Ye Qiyan continued toward the final coordinates, hoping people at Aimosden Fortress were still alive.
• The fortress commander defended hundreds of civilians while infected, but the noble young lady demanded he evacuate her alone.
• Ye Qiyan arrived with Lisette and Eve, then ordered Gluttony to purge the monsters and asked the survivors where the Dragon Beast had gone.
• The commander collapsed after the fortress barrier broke, and the noble young lady isolated him while civilians watched in fear.
• A voice made the commander question whether his sacrifice had been worth it, and Ye Qiyan appeared to ask whether he wanted to live.

Ye Qiyan revived a general, learned that the Dragon Beast had fled toward the Kamaitachi, and decided to pursue the monsters he suspected were gods from another world. In the Wasteland, Zhuxing Tu discovered Abyss’s plan to corrupt Ye Qiyan and sent him a warning.

• Ye Qiyan revived the general, who killed the plague-ravaged noble young lady and told him about the Dragon Beast, the Black Tide, and the Kamaitachi spreading across Xi Prefecture.
• Ye Qiyan obtained a detailed map and set out toward the Kamaitachi, suspecting Abyss had brought powerful beings, possibly gods, into the world to kill him.
• Zhuxing Tu heard Fate’s whispers and learned that Abyss planned to corrupt Ye Qiyan’s consciousness and make him part of her collection.
• Zhuxing Tu used her Astrology practitioner and Fate Cards to send a meteor to Ye Qiyan with a warning not to let his spirit fall below 50.

Ye Qiyan learned from Zhuxing Tu that Abyss was preparing a Trial and warned him to keep his spirit above fifty or flee, but he chose to keep fighting. At Blackstone Fortress, he used Anchor to banish the God of the Kamaitachi.

• Zhuxing Tu explained that Abyss targeted people for Trials and warned Ye Qiyan that his spirit needed to stay above fifty.
• Ye Qiyan thanked Zhuxing Tu and promised to help her in the next event, while she selected City of Miranda as its location.
• Two days later, Ye Qiyan watched Black Tide and kamaitachi attack Blackstone Fortress and spotted the God of the Kamaitachi among them.
• The God of the Kamaitachi recognized Ye Qiyan as a human who had killed other gods and sent his Apostles to attack him.
• Ye Qiyan activated Anchor and declared Banishment, sending the terrified God of the Kamaitachi into the sky and making him vanish.