Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan’s grayish-white canopy sealed off Dongbo City’s center and disrupted the Bird of Paradise Guild’s communications. Eve defeated five Guild members, leaving Ye Qiyan, Aien, Coilera, and two others inside as the canopy’s strange time flow remained unexplained.

• Aien announced that the city center should be evacuated before nightfall, using a gas pipeline explosion as his excuse.
• Feng Qianye and the other Guild leaders criticized the evacuation, then lost contact with their equipment and participants when a grayish-white canopy covered the city center.
• Ye Qiyan learned that the canopy had isolated the center and caused its time to flow seven times faster than the outside world.
• Eve defeated five Bird of Paradise Guild members, who vanished before they could die, while Ye Qiyan tracked them through the Nanite Swarm.
• Ye Qiyan praised Eve and told her they would deal with the four remaining participants in time.

A mysterious force corrupted the surviving Train Conductors into monsters by granting their wishes, while Ye Qiyan remained unaffected. Eve fought the monsters, but they multiplied from their fragments, forcing her to unleash her full capabilities.

• The Bird of Paradise Guild’s Train Conductor hid from Altos and wished for the power to defeat him after a voice urged him to step outside.
• The man’s mind reached zero, and he fell from the window, transformed into a monster; the five Train Conductors Eve had killed also returned as monsters.
• Ye Qiyan saw that the status [Wish?] could not affect him, then sent Eve to fight the newly formed monsters.
• Eve destroyed the monsters with her weapons, but their fragments kept producing more of them.
• Eve put on the ring Ye Qiyan had given her, activated [Star Shatter], and prepared to fight with her full capabilities.

Ye Qiyan discovered that the sky curtain was endlessly rebuilding the monsters and used Hunt to absorb its power, then attacked the curtain despite the Wish War’s rules. After the machine promised a special reward for completing the war, he agreed to fight normally and called for the final three opponents to appear together.

• Ye Qiyan saw fine threads from the sky curtain rebuilding monsters after Eve killed them, so he deployed his mechs and had Hunt absorb the curtain’s power.
• Ye Qiyan opened a message from the DF Wish-Granting Machine and learned the Wish War’s rules and that defeating the Formless Hero Fusion would raise the wish’s upper limit.
• Ye Qiyan ignored the warning against damaging the venue and fired a Transcendence Warhead through the sky curtain, revealing Sky City and the three guild leaders beyond it.
• After the Wish-Granting Machine promised an additional special reward, Ye Qiyan stopped attacking the curtain and challenged the final three opponents to come out together.
• Aien and Coilera watched from hiding, and Coilera privately praised Senior Altos.

Coilera, Abucado’s Red Severance, challenged Altos after idolizing him since he saved Solo City, while Aien, Abucado’s Hero, joined the battle. Ye Qiyan sent Hunt and Eve to fight them and prepared to face the pair himself.

• Coilera recalled how Altos had saved her from the Wind of the End in Solo City and how she came to admire and imitate him.
• Coilera accepted Abucado’s mercenary assignment to challenge Altos, hoping to make her idol notice her by defeating one of his Mechanical Lifeforms.
• Coilera introduced herself to Altos as Abucado’s Red Severance, and Aien introduced himself as Abucado’s Hero.
• Ye Qiyan ordered Hunt and Eve to fight Coilera and Aien, and both machines activated Transcendence Mode.
• Coilera chose to fight Eve, while Aien charged at Hunt with his Hero’s Sword and declared he would defeat Altos.

Aien and Coilera were overwhelmed by Hunt and Eve despite their determination and combat preparations. As both neared defeat, Hiroshi appeared behind them, intending to kill them and offer their heads to Altos.

• Aien fought Hunt, but the Level 13 Mecha-Dragon’s cloud tornado crushed him and left him badly wounded.
• Aien rose with his sword, remembered his village and childhood friend, and declared he had one last strike left.
• Coilera tried to wear Eve down with carefully planned assassin tactics, but Eve’s speed and arsenal overwhelmed her.
• Eve’s gravity cannon smashed Coilera into a building, leaving her bleeding as she prepared to use a secret move.
• Hiroshi appeared behind the wounded Aien and Coilera and threatened to kill them for Altos.

Fujita Hiroshi betrayed Aien and Coilera to curry favor with Ye Qiyan, but Ye Qiyan killed him instead. Ye Qiyan then chose to cultivate Aien and Coilera, using the Demon Card Redemption as he prepared to save them at a price.

• Fujita Hiroshi ambushed Aien and Coilera, gravely wounding Aien and burying Coilera beneath rubble.
• Fujita Hiroshi revealed himself to Ye Qiyan and begged to become his vassal.
• Ye Qiyan rejected Fujita Hiroshi and killed him with a gear greatsword and a gunshot.
• Ye Qiyan decided to cultivate Aien and Coilera and obtained the temporary title Demon Overlord.
• Ye Qiyan revealed the Demon Card Redemption, whose power promised salvation in exchange for a price.

Ye Qiyan saved Aien and Coilera from their fatal wounds, then exposed the Wish-Granting Machine’s plan to turn the defeated into Formless Heroes. He cut through the Sky Curtain and sent Red Tears to find the hidden machine while insisting the war should continue.

• Aien and Coilera chose to live, and Ye Qiyan used [Demon Card · Redemption] to heal them and mark them.
• Aien thanked Ye Qiyan and sent him a friend request, while Coilera offered to watch Abucado and report its moves.
• The Sky Curtain tried to claim Aien and Coilera as nourishment for the wish, revealing that defeated contestants would become Formless Heroes.
• Ye Qiyan deduced that the Wish-Granting Machine had been gathering power through years of battle and death, then cut the Sky Curtain to protect Aien and Coilera.
• WALL-E returned, and Ye Qiyan ordered Red Tears to find the hidden machine and bring it back as he used [Rebellion × Bewitchment] and claimed the war should continue.

The DF Wish-Granting Machine watched Ye Qiyan and believed its lies about being trapped, while Red Tears and WALL-E found its hidden interlayer. After they struck it, the Sky Curtain shattered, leaving the Machine to demand how Ye Qiyan had found it.

• The DF Wish-Granting Machine reflected on its mission to revive Formless Hero and planned to make Ye Qiyan part of the monster.
• Red Tears and WALL-E entered the Machine’s hidden interlayer, and Red Tears slashed at the silvery-white ball of light.
• Ye Qiyan kept Formless Hero’s multiplying copies suppressed for three days while waiting for Red Tears and WALL-E to find the Machine.
• A piercing boom shattered the Sky Curtain over Dongbo City, and the DF Wish-Granting Machine cried out in fear and anger.
• Lisette covered Ye Qiyan’s ears, and Ye Qiyan answered the Machine’s question with, “Take a guess?”

The Wish-Granting Machine sacrificed its nameless consciousness and Dongbo City's people to create a Formless Hero, but Ye Qiyan recognized that the creature was only a dead shell. He called on Red Tears to draw her sword as the Formless Hero reacted to a phantom from the Ancient Battlefield.

• Red Tears cut through the interlayer and exposed the Wish-Granting Machine, which shaped its nameless consciousness into material for the Formless Hero and cursed Ye Qiyan.
• Ye Qiyan used the Curse Demon Eye to counter the consciousness's curse, while Red Tears returned and took his hand.
• The Wish-Granting Machine sent black threads through Dongbo City, absorbing people's existence and draining Feng Qianye's companions.
• Feng Qianye could not remember how to use his former power, while Ye Qiyan realized the Formless Hero was a failed creation and had died long ago.
• Ye Qiyan summoned phantom images of the Ancient Battlefield, prompting the Formless Hero to break free of the machine's control and shed tears.
• Ye Qiyan told Red Tears to draw her sword as rain fell and light and shadow merged into the blade.

Ye Qiyan defeated the Formless Hero and destroyed the DF Wish-Granting Machine’s revival project, then read its final log and collected the war’s rewards. The machine’s hidden fragment revealed the Silver Race’s last message, leaving Ye Qiyan with a piece of the Blasphemy Card and a warning not to become a god.

• Ye Qiyan struck down the Formless Hero, which thanked the Train Conductor before vanishing as the DF Wish-Granting Machine absorbed energy from Dongbo City and the Nation of Spirit Prayer.
• Ye Qiyan ordered Eve to bring WALL-E back and opened the machine’s final log, which recorded the failed attempt to revive the Formless Hero and identified Ye Qiyan as the winner of the final Wish War.
• The final log revealed that the machine’s creator had used an object from the Silver Race’s treasury as an infinite energy source for the revival project, and that Ye Qiyan had destroyed it.
• Ye Qiyan received a Money Bag containing 1,000 Train Coins and a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card.
• The fragment’s message revealed that the Silver Race had hidden it inside the Wish-Granting Machine and urged its future owner to keep going and not become a god.

Ye Qiyan completed the Wish Platform’s quest and found a way for Shirley to escape her fate as prey. After the city’s survivors began to recover, he offered Shirley the chance to become a Train Conductor and pursue her wish of becoming a Hero.

• Ye Qiyan discovered a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card inside the Wish-Granting Machine and put it away.
• Feng Qianye carried his two sleeping friends away from the ruined Sky City, determined to advance through the Wasteland in hopes of reviving them.
• Aien entered the grieving city to help its people, while Coilera obtained an [Altos] autograph and left on her train.
• Ye Qiyan realized Shirley would remain in danger if she stayed behind, and he asked whether she wanted to become a Hero.
• Shirley declared that she wanted to become a Hero as strong as Ye Qiyan, and he used his Newcomer Invitation permission to give her a chance.
• A battered locomotive appeared, and the system announced that Ye Qiyan had completed the quest White Snow's Wish.

After completing the Nation of Spirit Prayer, Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland with new rewards and a strange level 0 weapon. Zhuxing Tu told him she had increased the drop rates of certain high-level Upgrade Items by using a Law card to inflict backlash on Mr. Order.

• Ye Qiyan gave Shirley a train and sent her into the Wasteland, then departed the forty-fourth station with his subordinates and his rewards.
• Ye Qiyan learned that Eve’s gear sword had become a level 0 item with the potential to grow through future station experiences.
• Ye Qiyan reviewed his gains and noted that Snow Heart Echo could enhance a weapon, possibly his Skyhawk pistol.
• Zhuxing Tu messaged Ye Qiyan and said she had curtailed one of Mr. Order’s privileges, raising Treasure Chest drop rates for level 17 and 18 special Upgrade Items.
• Zhuxing Tu revealed that she had used her fate to make the Order Card [Law] inflict a small backlash on Mr. Order.

After winning the Wish War, Ye Qiyan received his Black Market rewards and learned that Ailei had chosen him as a variable to change the fate of that world. He obtained a GT-42 engineering mech blueprint and began ascending his equipment, leaving the Snowvoice Heart Echo ready to fuse with a weapon.

• Ye Qiyan finished speaking with Zhuxing Tu, who thanked him for helping distribute upgrade materials through Wasteland Treasure Chests.
• Ailei raised Ye Qiyan’s Black Market membership to level 5, waived his transaction fees, and sent his agreed rewards.
• Ye Qiyan asked Ailei why she had wanted him to win the Wish War, and she said she had hoped a variable might change the world’s fate.
• Ye Qiyan collected the GT-42 Light Engineering Mech Manufacturing Blueprint and wondered why a city-restoration machine seemed suited to him.
• Ye Qiyan ascended Snow Heart Echo into Snowvoice Heart Echo, which could fuse with a weapon and give it the Heart’s Echo suffix.

Ye Qiyan fused Snowvoice Heart Echo with Skyhawk Piercer to create the level 9 handgun White Night's Echo, then performed Ascension and raised his train to level 18. The system revealed his unique upgrade option, Mechanism Core Coordinator, priced at 2,100 Train Coins.

• Ye Qiyan fused Snowvoice Heart Echo and Skyhawk Piercer, creating a powerful handgun with mystical bullets and the ability to expose enemies' mental weak points.
• Ye Qiyan named the new handgun White Night's Echo and stored it with Ebony in his Armed Space.
• Ye Qiyan ascended a GT Series Blueprint and a Money Bag, then assigned the Blueprint to Lisette and the bag to the Raven Demon.
• Ye Qiyan spent 1,000 Train Coins to perform Ascension, raising his train to level 18 and increasing its speed to 360 km/h.
• The system offered Ye Qiyan the unique level 18 upgrade option Mechanism Core Coordinator for 2,100 Train Coins.

Ye Qiyan sold two lifespan toads to afford the God Core Coordinator, an item that could enhance his machines, grant him a slain god’s authority, and prevent further False Gods of recorded types from being born. In a Goblin Kingdom Platform World, a new Goblin God failed to receive the authority to ascend, leaving the race without another False God.

• Ye Qiyan sold two Soft Jade · Lifespan Toads through the Black Market for 1,060 Train Coins and purchased the God Core Coordinator.
• Ye Qiyan learned that the Coordinator could help his machines transform, grant him a False God’s authority, and block new gods of recorded types from appearing.
• Ye Qiyan inspected the Coordinator’s nine recorded God Core marks and concluded that preventing new gods was its central purpose.
• In the Goblin Kingdom, Goblins gathered to welcome a new Goblin God, but the Mysterious Being creating it noticed that the Goblin God Sequence had vanished and departed.
• The would-be Goblin God waited in vain for divine authority, and the Goblin race was left unable to produce another False God.

Ye Qiyan checked the Public Chatroom and learned that Zhao An’s Future Guild had won a new-guild competition and recruited several powerful members. After turning down Shangguan Yingxue’s invitation to join, he received a message asking him to make a deal with the guild.

• Ye Qiyan let his train travel through the wasteland for a few days while his companions rested and trained.
• Ye Qiyan opened the Public Chatroom and saw that 9005 people remained in his block and that the Future Guild had won its competition.
• Ye Qiyan found the guild’s senior members, including Zhao An, Shangguan Yingxue, Mo Shi, and Anjie.
• Ye Qiyan read Shangguan Yingxue’s seven-day-old invitation, declined to join the Future Guild, and received her request to make a deal.

Shangguan Yingxue hired Ye Qiyan to clear the monsters from Red Maple Valley, a level 6 Platform World, for 260 Train Coins. Ye Qiyan entered the platform and launched an attack on the gathering Red Maple Tree Spirits, leaving the battle underway.

• Shangguan Yingxue explained that her Guild needed to secure a level 6 Platform World and offered Ye Qiyan 260 Train Coins to handle the monsters alone.
• Ye Qiyan accepted the deal and used the coordinates Shangguan Yingxue sent to enter Red Maple Valley.
• Ye Qiyan selected the platform before the Red Maple Tree Demon King as his forty-fifth stop and arrived in the maple-covered world.
• A Red Maple Tree Spirit attacked the Train, but the Wealth Shield blocked its blows while WALL-E headed out to fight.
• Ye Qiyan opened the Arsenal Hangar and ordered the Mechs to leave none of the gathering monsters alive.

Ye Qiyan’s forces cleared the Level 6 Red Maple Valley in under twenty minutes, and he sold the treasure chest they found for Train Coins. When Shangguan Yingxue and Zhao An arrived, Zhao An planned to burn the valley rather than pay Ye Qiyan, so Ye sent White Bear to stop them and collect the money.

• Augustine, Giant Eagle, and White Bear defeated the Tree Demons while Ye Qiyan’s group rested and roasted meat in Red Maple Valley.
• WALL-E brought Ye Qiyan a Level 6 Treasure Chest, which Ye exchanged through the Black Market for 82 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan watched Shangguan Yingxue and Zhao An arrive at the valley and learned that Zhao An had brought 260 Train Coins to hire him.
• Zhao An decided to set the mountain ablaze to avoid paying Ye Qiyan, while Shangguan Yingxue objected.
• Ye Qiyan ordered White Bear to stop Zhao An and Shangguan Yingxue, telling it to beat them if they resisted but not kill them.

Zhao An tried to claim Red Maple Valley by throwing a flame into it, but White Bear overwhelmed him and Shangguan Yingxue. Ye Qiyan kept them alive and offered Zhao An the valley for 260 Train Coins, with treatment for his injuries as an extra incentive.

• Zhao An launched a flame into Red Maple Valley, hoping to burn away its tree demons and secure the valley as a base.
• White Bear charged out of the valley, broke through Zhao An’s vines, and knocked him down with a restrained slap.
• White Bear shook Zhao An in a panic until Ye Qiyan’s Nanite Beedrill stung it and made it stop.
• White Bear damaged Shangguan Yingxue’s train while trying to keep her from escaping, and she used a level 5 healing potion to revive Zhao An.
• Ye Qiyan contacted Zhao An by walkie-talkie and offered to sell him Red Maple Valley for 260 Train Coins, with one free treatment for his injuries.

Ye Qiyan healed Zhao An with [Redemption] but refused to let him enter Red Maple Valley, expecting him to repay the debt through service rather than gratitude alone. He appeared at the valley entrance and Zhao An recognized him as the senior from Ten Warehouse Rice City, without realizing they came from the same sector.

• Ye Qiyan used [Redemption] to heal Zhao An, who offered thanks and 260 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan refused Zhao An’s request to enter Red Maple Valley and told him to leave the money.
• Zhao An asked Ye Qiyan to support him against Daxim and the forces backing him in the Future Guild.
• Ye Qiyan decided Zhao An could be useful for passing along information, then appeared above the valley entrance using [Sky-Seizing Wings].
• Zhao An recognized Ye Qiyan as the senior from Ten Warehouse Rice City but did not realize they were from the same sector.