Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan synchronized the Lightless Platinum Forest’s time with the Wasteland and transformed the Moon Prayer ring into Time Moon before giving it to Lisette. After checking on the sale of his spoils, he fell asleep while deep blue energy drifted from him and Mingming floated near his face.

• Ye Qiyan learned that defeating the final hunt had restored the Elf concept to the Lightless Platinum Forest, then synchronized its time with the Wasteland to hinder the Goblin God.
• Ye Qiyan tested the Moon Prayer ring, ascended it into Time Moon, and discovered that it enhanced time-related abilities while equipped.
• Ye Qiyan gave Time Moon to Lisette, whose hidden Temporal Arsenal and Heavenly Domain Fantasy stirred as she accepted the gift.
• Ye Qiyan contacted the Black Market about selling his spoils, declared that he would keep winning, and went to sleep.
• Lisette brought Ye Qiyan lunch, tucked him in, and sat beside his bed while deep blue energy drifted from him and Mingming floated nearby.

After waking from a two-day sleep, Ye Qiyan discovered that his spirit had risen to 400 and agreed to deliver Goblin-marked items to a buyer in the Nation on the Ship for 3,500 Train Coins. He began researching the city and learned that its guild competition would pit Zhao An against Daxim, a demon.

• Ye Qiyan woke after two days and found that his spirit had increased from 340 to 400, bringing him closer to another ascension.
• Ye Qiyan contacted Ailei and learned that a buyer would pay 3,500 Train Coins if he delivered his Goblin-marked items to the Nation on the Ship within ten days.
• Ye Qiyan accepted the trade and asked Ailei to obtain an invitation from the buyer.
• Ye Qiyan searched public chat for information about the Nation on the Ship and saw that Zhao An and Daxim would compete for guild president.
• Ye Qiyan noted that Daxim was described as a demon, a kind of monster he had rarely encountered.

Ye Qiyan chose the Nation on the Ship as his next stop, where he planned to relax and possibly watch a Guild competition and Alice’s concert. Before departing, he used [Ascension] on a dead seed in the Nether Moon Garden, then arrived at the Nation on the Ship’s vast starship port.

• Ye Qiyan decided to visit the Nation on the Ship after learning that Alice would hold a concert there and Stasia would also be visiting.
• Ye Qiyan gave a speck of [Ascension] to the dead seed, and Mingming absorbed some of its power to strengthen herself and other plants in the garden.
• Miss Ailei sent Ye Qiyan a reusable Ship Ticket for the Nation on the Ship.
• Ye Qiyan selected the Nation on the Ship as his forty-seventh stop and chose Alphafate First Port of Entry as his arrival platform.
• Ye Qiyan’s train passed through a distorted void and approached several enormous super starships in the dark cosmos.

Ye Qiyan arrived at the Nation on the Ship with Eve, Lisette, WALL-E, and Hunt, exchanged currency, and accepted a complimentary guide named Popei. As they left the port to begin his ten-day visit, a protest crowd interrupted his plans to find a hotel.

• Ye Qiyan entered the Nation on the Ship aboard the Train and decided to explore with Eve, Lisette, WALL-E, and Hunt.
• Ye Qiyan and the Mecha Girls changed their appearances before leaving the Train, while Eve and Lisette briefly glared at each other over their accessories.
• Ye Qiyan declined the Capsule Tunnel, exchanged currency for Starship Coins, and accepted Guide Popei's services, which were included with his ticket.
• Popei led Ye Qiyan out of the port, where he spotted a One-Style Divination Shop advertisement among the city's displays.
• Ye Qiyan headed to look for a hotel but was stopped by protesters demanding better rights for natives, more Trains, and the chance to become Train Conductors.

Ye Qiyan arrived in the Nation on the Ship, where protests against Train Conductors disrupted his visit and revealed the protesters’ jealous resentment. Meanwhile, the City Lord appeared on the Alphat bridge after killing its captain, and the deputy captain asked for his instructions.

• Guide Bopei explained that the Nation on the Ship held elections among its four starships and that the City Lord had long been absent from administration.
• Ye Qiyan noticed protesters at the Train Conductor hotel, accepted Bopei’s guide tablet, and saw that Zhang Cha and the other protesters had the status “Jealous resentment.”
• Ye Qiyan left the hotel with Lisette, Eve, and WALL-E and searched for the Kung Fu Panda Hot Pot Restaurant.
• On the Alphat bridge, the City Lord sat in the captain’s seat beside the murdered former captain, and the deputy captain nervously asked him for instructions.

Joel discovered that Lu Jiayun had interfered in the Nation on the Ship and executed the first officer who had become his mole, then ordered preparations for a larger Guild tournament. Meanwhile, Monrojina told Shaya that her enemy would return within ten days, before a black-haired woman arrived at the divination shop with a prediction of fun to come.

• Joel reviewed the fleet logs, accused the first officer of betraying him, and shot him dead.
• Joel replaced the ship operators and decided not to confront Lu Jiayun yet, while ordering Aleph to make the Guild tournament bigger.
• Popei told Joel that someone was stirring up hostility between ordinary humans and Train Conductors, and Joel chose to wait for the culprit to reveal themselves.
• Popei identified Ye Qiyan as the likely Train Conductor who defeated the Goblin Seventh Expeditionary Army, but said she could not inspect his information.
• Monrojina told Shaya that her enemy was still in a Platform World and would return to the Nation on the Ship within ten days.
• A black-haired woman entered Monrojina's shop and predicted that something fun would soon happen in the City without any danger.

Shaya questioned Zhuxing Tu about her visit, while Monrojina secretly investigated a Demon Card and the people arriving in the City. Ye Qiyan, Lisette, and Eve spent three days competing in rented Mecha before Ye Qiyan set out with WALL-E to find limited-edition dolls.

• Shaya asked Zhuxing Tu why she had come, and Monrojina said Zhuxing Tu was recovering from injuries and that the Card Sequence had nothing to do with Shaya's Angel.
• Zhuxing Tu hinted at a Demon Card, but Monrojina sealed her mouth and warned her not to reveal anything about it.
• Monrojina used a Ritual Card to glimpse the Chief Grand Inquisitor and a blond man from the Ancient Council, then decided to wait until after the Guild tournament to obtain the card she wanted.
• Ye Qiyan, Lisette, and Eve rented Mecha and battled in the asteroid belt, while Eve tried to defeat Lisette after losing to her in the Training Shooting Range.
• After winning seven matches, Ye Qiyan returned to the Hangar with WALL-E and searched for a nearby shop selling limited-edition dolls.

Ye Qiyan encountered Zhao Xi in the doll shop while trying to find an expensive doll, but their conversation was interrupted when an explosion tore open the Mecha game base and began pulling people and debris toward the breach. He headed out to investigate and heard Lisette report that a group of humans had blown themselves up to open the hole.

• Ye Qiyan entered the doll shop with WALL-E and headed to its costly creations in section C.
• Ye Qiyan recognized Zhao Xi reaching for a knight doll, and they discussed their dolls, money, and her lost memories.
• Ye Qiyan placed an evil dragon doll on WALL-E, then Zhao Xi asked about his mechanical Maid.
• An explosion shook the shop and began disrupting gravity, so Ye Qiyan sent WALL-E into Armed Space and went outside with Zhao Xi.
• Ye Qiyan saw debris and people being pulled toward a hole in the Mecha game base, while Lisette reported that humans had blown themselves up to open it.

After a suicide bombing tore open the Game Base, Zhao Xi sealed the breach and rescued survivors while Ye Qiyan learned how the attack had been carried out. Eve then attacked a boastful stranger who fled through a spatial doorway, and Ye Qiyan shot down his shield as he tried to retrieve it.

• Zhao Xi sealed the Game Base's breach with a ball of light, revealed her identity as Solo City's Chief Grand Inquisitor, and flew off to rescue people.
• Ye Qiyan summoned Lisette and Eve from the asteroid belt, and Lisette explained that more than a dozen humans had detonated themselves near the Hangar.
• Eve detected a blond man watching from a nearby building and attacked him after he insulted Ye Qiyan.
• Eve overwhelmed the man, who retreated through a spatial doorway without fighting back.
• Ye Qiyan shot down the man's golden shield as he tried to summon it, and the Nanite Swarm retrieved it for him.

Ye Qiyan handed the Nation on the Ship’s guards a lead after Eve defeated an attacker, then watched the Alphat return to uneasy calm as protests continued. With the Guild Competition and concert approaching, he arranged an early Black Market trade and suspected the recent explosion was only the beginning of a coming storm.

• Ye Qiyan stored the tough but mediocre Glimmering Light Battle Shield, then directed Aleph and the First Guard Unit toward the explosion’s suspected culprit.
• The Alphat imposed martial law, arrested protest organizers backed by a mysterious tycoon, and later lifted the restrictions, but protests and clashes continued.
• Announcements about the Guild Competition, Magic Girl Stasia, Superstar Songstress · Alice, and Zhao Xi pushed the explosion from public attention while Ye Qiyan traveled around the starships.
• At the Sacred Water Hot Spring, Ye Qiyan agreed to conduct his Black Market trade a day early before attending the competition and concert.
• Ye Qiyan reflected on the explosion and concluded that the recent calm was the center of a storm that could soon throw everything into disarray.

Ye Qiyan infiltrated the First Guard Unit office to meet Aleph and learned more about the Ancient Council before revealing himself as Altos. Aleph agreed to begin their trade immediately, frightened by the intelligence identifying Ye Qiyan as a powerful figure.

• Ye Qiyan entered Aleph's office unseen and read reports identifying the Resource Baron and the Ancient Council.
• Aleph dismissed his secretary, mourned his dead son, and drank while waiting for the Train Conductor who had avenged him against Goblins.
• Ye Qiyan spoke from the chair, startling Aleph, who recognized him as Altos from the intelligence report.
• Ye Qiyan told Aleph he would trade the Goblin Seventh Expeditionary Army's spoils for 3,500 Train Coins and said they should begin at once.

Ye Qiyan traded goods with Aleph, who realized he was the legendary Imperial Sequence Demon Altos, and announced that Altos would attend the Guild Competition as a special guest. As news spread and drew Train Conductors to the Nation on the Ship, Ye Qiyan studied his growing Pride card and received messages from acquaintances.

• Aleph panicked after recognizing Ye Qiyan as Altos and gave him 3,500 Train Coins in exchange for the stored weapons and items.
• Ye Qiyan said he would attend the Guild Competition, and Aleph ordered his staff to announce Altos as a special guest and contact the City Lord.
• News of Altos's appearance spread across the Nation on the Ship, prompting admirers and people with ulterior motives to change their plans and head there.
• Ye Qiyan studied the increasingly powerful Pride card beside the Artificial River and read messages from friends, including Zhuxing Tu, who said she was only there to recover from her injuries.

Ye Qiyan met Zhao Xi, who bought the two dolls she had wanted and discussed the threat posed by Resource Baron. Zhao Xi promised to handle the Ancient Council and protect Ye Qiyan if he encountered The End again, then left after inviting him to a meal.

• Zhuxing Tu warned Ye Qiyan that Resource Baron was a powerful, vindictive figure who had once lost his God Core and recently appeared in footage of Ye Qiyan's fight.
• Ye Qiyan exchanged messages with Monrojina and other contacts while waiting for a visitor.
• Zhao Xi arrived at the Viewing Platform and bought the Knight and Evil Dragon dolls from Ye Qiyan for forty Train Coins.
• Zhao Xi reassured Ye Qiyan that Solo City's Judgment Officers would prevent trouble and said she would handle the Ancient Council.
• Zhao Xi promised to treat Ye Qiyan to a meal and to provide a Transcender Core if he faced The End again, then hurried away.
• Lisette joked that Zhao Xi had raised a flag, and Ye Qiyan asked whether she had learned to make Plasma Cola.

Zhao An planned to join Abucado, pushing his talent so hard that his mental power fell to 5 and he went mad. As the Future Guild members arrived for the Guild Competition, Ye Qiyan decided to attend their internal selection as a special guest.

• Zhao An revealed that he had overused his talent to ripen a high-level seed for Abucado’s recruitment test, and he urged Shangguan Yingxue to join him.
• Shangguan Yingxue refused, recognizing that Zhao An had gone mad and deciding she would not become a pawn in a powerful faction.
• Shangguan Yingxue met Mo Shi, who arrived to compete, while other Future Guild members, including Master Don Quixote and Sancho, disembarked at the Nation on the Ship.
• Ye Qiyan noticed the Future Guild’s arrival through the nanite swarm and learned that an internal selection would take place before the competition.
• Ye Qiyan decided to attend the selection as a special guest and wondered whether his meeting with Zhao An would frighten him.

The Future Guild faced mockery and hostility from veteran competitors at Pearl Light Arena, until Ye Qiyan appeared and silenced them. Mo Shi and the others moved toward Ye Qiyan as he turned his attention to Don Quixote, Anjie, and the Demon Person.

• The Future Guild arrived at Pearl Light Arena and was mocked by veterans, who dismissed the newcomers and ridiculed Zhao An and the guild’s appearance.
• A stone man ordered Mo Shi away from the Soaring Guild’s rest area and attacked her, but Anjie’s Calamity-Avoiding Behemoth stopped his fist.
• The stone man’s jealousy and hatred spread through nearby guild members, driving them to prepare to attack the Future Guild.
• Ye Qiyan appeared, and his presence extinguished the crowd’s hostility and replaced it with fear.
• Mo Shi walked toward Ye Qiyan while he ignored her greeting and looked at Don Quixote, Anjie, and the Demon Person.

Ye Qiyan revealed his familiarity with Don Quixote, Anjie, and Mo Shi, then killed the stone man who had caused trouble in the Arena. He stood beside Don Quixote and challenged the gathered Train Conductors to avenge the dead stone man.

• Ye Qiyan recognized Don Quixote and Anjie, while Daxim trembled under his gaze and could no longer sense his Demon Card.
• Zhao An recognized Ye Qiyan as the person he had met in Red Maple Valley, lost more of his sanity, and collapsed; Shangguan Yingxue realized Mo Shi had called Ye Qiyan by name.
• Mo Shi greeted Ye Qiyan, who used Red Tears to appear before the Train Conductors and shot the stone man with Ebony.
• Ye Qiyan asked whether anyone else wanted to cause trouble, and Don Quixote joined him and offered his friendship.
• Ye Qiyan thanked Don Quixote, smiled at Sancho, and asked the crowd if anyone wanted to avenge the stone man.

Ye Qiyan discussed Mo Shi’s fear of death and whether she should use her system wish to gain Stamina, telling her that the stat would not determine whether she could die. When Shaya appeared in the city pursuing another Card Sequence owner, Ye Qiyan suspected trouble was gathering but decided to stay and watch what happened.

• Ye Qiyan returned to Mo Shi and showed her the Demon Card: Pride while she admired his Card Sequence.
• Mo Shi showed Ye Qiyan her system panel and asked whether she should use her wish to gain a Stamina stat so she could feel like a real human and Train Conductor.
• Ye Qiyan told Mo Shi she was already humanlike and that lacking Stamina did not mean she could not die; Mo Shi admitted she was afraid but accepted his advice.
• Shaya appeared beneath the simulated sky, chasing a figure as a brilliant winged Angel Nun, and Ye Qiyan recognized her as another person gathering in the city.
• Ye Qiyan considered leaving because so many notable people had arrived, but decided to stay, buy special cups, and watch the unfolding events.

Shaya killed one of the people who had sealed her and agreed to attend the Guild Competition after learning Ye Qiyan would be there. As Monrojina pressured Joel over Miatila’s key, the Nation on the Ship’s fleet fractured and Alphat came under attack.

• Shaya hunted down and killed a woman who had helped seal her, then agreed to attend the Guild Competition when Joel told her Ye Qiyan would be there.
• Monrojina told Joel that Miatila’s key was hidden in a Capsule Tunnel and warned that searching for it could expose the Nation on the Ship’s claims of freedom.
• Joel insisted that Miatila belonged to him and that he would find the key, interrupting the formation of a chain tied to Monrojina’s ritual card.
• Ye Qiyan received Shaya’s message while watching a Demon Person in the Pearl Light Arena.
• The Alphat broadcast announced that three ships had rebelled, Alphat was under attack, and the Capsule Tunnels had been damaged.

Ye Qiyan recognized a beating heart in the virtual sky as the source of the suicide bombings and the time stagnation spreading through the Nation on the Ship. Joel's forces struggled to control the crisis while the Heart of God of Time left most people motionless, and Ye Qiyan’s interface warned him that God-Sucking Insects were coveting human minds.

• Ye Qiyan noticed that system communications and trading had been blocked, then saw suicide bombers erupt across the Alphat as an enormous heart beat above the City.
• The Nation on the Ship’s other three starships attacked the Alphat’s weak points, while mutinies and sabotage broke out aboard all three ships.
• Joel learned that the Louxi’s guns had been seized, suicide bombers were attacking the Heka’s control room, and Abucado members were fighting aboard the Shande.
• Joel sent thousands of mechanical sentries from his space research institute to the other starships and revealed that the Nation on the Ship was his train, pulled along tracks by a locomotive.
• Joel discovered that the Heart of God of Time had stopped his subordinates, though his own mental quality let him resist its effect.
• Ye Qiyan’s Personal Interface showed that mental time stop was ineffective on him and warned that God-Sucking Insects were coveting human minds.

Ye Qiyan remained unaffected by the God of Time’s heart stopping time and sent Don Quixote to attack the giant carrying it. He then rode toward the giant himself, ordering Eve to kill the God-Sucking Insects while wondering whether the Resource Baron or someone from Abucado was behind the crisis.

• Don Quixote asked whether destroying the heart would restore Sancho, and Ye Qiyan confirmed it would.
• Don Quixote charged out of the Pearl Light Arena on his Gradually Strengthening Old Nag to fight the giant carrying the heart.
• Mo Shi described Don Quixote’s power as a Talent and asked Ye Qiyan whether he wanted to save the people frozen in time; Ye Qiyan said he did not know.
• Ye Qiyan decided he wanted to take the Resource Baron’s shield and learned from the system that God-Sucking Insects could help produce Blank Divine Cores for creating False Gods.
• Ye Qiyan rode Road Hog toward the high-rise giant and ordered Eve to kill the God-Sucking Insects as they launched suicidal attacks against him.