Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan learned that the People of Night were preparing to assassinate the King of Chalk, while their Great Elder secretly sent Charlie and three other young Assassins into a deadly trap to provoke Ye Qiyan into joining their cause. Ye Qiyan saw through the scheme and joked with Eve that acting like a good person had come back to cost him.

• Charlie told Ye Qiyan that the People of Night could operate freely under the freezing rain and hoped to defeat the King of Chalk.
• Ye Qiyan asked about the People of Night's appearance, and Charlie explained that their scars marked them as Assassin candidates.
• Charlie revealed that the Well of Night could create new People of Night from the remains of the dead.
• Charlie left with three young Assassins to escort civilians to the Eastern Forest, unaware the Great Elder had sent them to die to stir Ye Qiyan's anger.
• Ye Qiyan recognized the plot and asked Eve whether he had played an overly convincing, easily manipulated good person.

Ye Qiyan turned Hamdouk into a corpse demon and used Eve to attack the People of Night elders who had plotted against him. After Eve killed the elders and assassins, Ye Qiyan confronted the grand elder, who realized he had known about the plan from the start.

• Ye Qiyan activated Redemption’s post-death effect, turning Hamdouk into a crazed corpse demon in the elders’ courtyard.
• The corpse demon attacked the People of Night elders as Ye Qiyan and Eve approached the sealed Senate.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment on an elder outside the Senate, and Eve sliced the man in two.
• Eve entered the Senate and killed eleven elders and thirteen assassins while leaving the grand elder alive.
• The grand elder asked when Ye Qiyan had discovered the plan, and Ye Qiyan replied that he had known from the beginning.

Ye Qiyan questioned and killed the grand elder of the People of Night, then discovered a Well of Night that created humans bound to the King of Night. Miatila corrected the system’s appraisal of them as a distinct human variant, and Ye Qiyan set out to investigate the well.

• Ye Qiyan used [Bewitchment] to make the grand elder explain that the world beyond the land had become scorched and that the King of Chalk’s City of Eternity had been built over the People of Night’s ruins, with their king’s remains as its furnace core.
• The grand elder said the King of Night had been a Train Conductor and claimed the People of Night were humans born from the Well of Night.
• Ye Qiyan asked whether the People of Night were truly human, then killed the grand elder with Moonshadow when he tried to force an alliance.
• The Demon Raven led Ye Qiyan to a hidden cave, where he found a Well of Night among piles of corpses.
• The system identified the well as a divine item used to create Curse-Ritual Humans and Miatila explained that it could register and analyze this human variant.

Ye Qiyan learned that Eternal Binding could not be undone, then had Eve and Raven destroy the Well of Night so its remains could be recycled. Elsewhere, a Knight led a Train-mounted force against the People of Night, and Charlie stayed behind to face them while Anli fled with the survivors.

• Ye Qiyan confirmed that Eternal Binding persisted even after its holder died, but that destroying a bound entity would let its remains be recycled.
• Ye Qiyan ordered Eve to cut apart the Well of Night and Raven to collect its pieces for the Processing Table.
• Ye Qiyan returned to Matrix Space, where Lisette welcomed him home.
• A Knight ordered his forces to attack roughly three hundred People of Night, and his Train advanced on caterpillar treads as the People of Night scouts approached.
• Dubi warned Charlie and the others of the attack, and the Knights killed many of them with a rain of arrows.
• Charlie sent Anli to lead the survivors away, then put on his Skull Mask and faced the Knights alone.

Anli reached the elders’ courtyard and found the elders dead, while Ye Qiyan stood beside Eve and his demons. The King of Chalk’s knights arrived aboard a counterfeit train, and their commander recognized Ye Qiyan as the Train Conductor the Holy City had awaited.

• Anli escaped the knights by taking a hidden tunnel up the mountain to seek Ye Qiyan.
• Anli found the elders’ corpses in the courtyard and Eve aimed a weapon at her.
• Ye Qiyan appeared with Red Tears and the Demon Raven, then told Anli the knights had killed the elders before he could arrive.
• The knights surrounded the courtyard and entered through the wall aboard a counterfeit train.
• The black-haired knight recognized Ye Qiyan as the Train Conductor expected by the Holy City, and Ye Qiyan questioned him about his counterfeit train.

Ye Qiyan learned that Charlie was alive, then collected the materials recycled from the Well of Night and burned the settlement. He departed aboard his real train for the City of Eternity, leaving Hua Su behind.

• Hua Su recognized Ye Qiyan as a Train Conductor and ordered the surviving Curse-Ritual Humans released.
• Ye Qiyan told Anli that Charlie was alive and pointed her toward where she might find him.
• Hua Su introduced himself as commander of the Third Knight Order and invited Ye Qiyan to travel to the City of Eternity.
• Ye Qiyan collected nine Level 8 Night-Curse Stones from the recycled Well of Night and learned about crafting with divine materials.
• Ye Qiyan ordered the cave and elders' council building burned, then boarded his train and left for the City of Eternity without Hua Su.

King of Chalk Fang Cheng, weakened by a curse, learned that the newly arrived Train Conductor Ye Qiyan was approaching and faced the God of Incantation Rites, who aimed to possess him and destroy the world. Meanwhile, the People of Night prepared to attack the City of Eternity, and Ye Qiyan finally reached the city after Eve killed a group of hostile Assassins.

• Fang Cheng asked whether Hua Su had found the person, and his officer reported that the man was Ye Qiyan, the first Train Conductor to reach the world in a thousand years.
• The God of Incantation Rites taunted Fang Cheng, revealed its plan to possess his body after his death, and insisted Ye Qiyan could not help him; Fang Cheng said it could not win.
• After the People of Night fled from a destroyed settlement, their elders took it as a sign that Chalk City planned their extermination and began raising stronger fighters for an assault on the City of Eternity.
• Special People of Night known as God's Favored emerged, wielded magic that darkened the sky, and worshipped the God of Sacrificial Rites.
• Ye Qiyan gathered resources and soil for his island platform, and Eve killed Assassins who showed hostility toward them.
• Two days later, Ye Qiyan stood on a hillside and saw the City of Eternity, remarking that he had taken the wrong route at the start.

Ye Qiyan arrived at the City of Eternity, where the administrator and knights begged him to help their king. As Ye Qiyan rode the tower’s elevator upward, WALL-E revealed that its treasure was on the Second Floor, while the king awaited him at the top.

• Ye Qiyan learned from WALL-E that the City of Eternity’s most precious treasure was in the tower and set off for the city.
• The administrator recognized Ye Qiyan, opened the gates, and watched him leap onto the city wall on Road Hog.
• Hua Su welcomed Ye Qiyan, and the administrator and knights begged him to help their king.
• Ye Qiyan entered the city and sensed that its residents’ devotion to the King of Chalk was sincere.
• The elevator reached the Second Floor, where WALL-E located its treasure, as Ye Qiyan continued toward the king on the Third Floor.

Ye Qiyan met Fang Cheng in the Chalk Hall and learned that a God of Curse Rites was threatening the City of Eternity. Ye Qiyan used his Demon Cards to overpower the God and learned that the King of Night’s corpse was another God.

• Ye Qiyan left an Anchor Point and Nanite Beedrill on the Second Floor before entering the Chalk Hall.
• Fang Cheng told Ye Qiyan that he had come to the world a thousand years earlier, when it was level 11, and summoned him for help against a God.
• The God of Curse Rites ambushed Ye Qiyan, revealed that it had cursed the world to bar other Train Conductors, and demanded his submission.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment and Rebellion to force the God of Sacrificial Rites to answer his questions.
• The God of Sacrificial Rites revealed that the King of Night’s corpse was a C-Rank God and a subordinate of Lord Curse Ritual.

Ye Qiyan used the Judgment Enforcer to arrest the fleeing God of Curse Rites and confronted it with his Demons. With the God trapped and its curses countered, he ordered the Demons to attack.

• The God of Curse Rites threatened Ye Qiyan before vanishing, but Ye Qiyan revealed that he had marked it with the Judgment Enforcer’s Justice Mark.
• Ye Qiyan used Arrest to drag the God of Curse Rites through a dark-gold doorway and into the tower, while Fang Cheng watched and entrusted the fight to him.
• The God recognized Ye Qiyan’s Blasphemy Card and the Demons surrounding him, then tried to flee after realizing he was Altos.
• Ye Qiyan used Verdict to prohibit the God from escaping, dispersing, or resurrecting.
• Ye Qiyan ordered his Demons to attack the B-rank God, whose curses were ineffective against them and Ye Qiyan’s Curse Counter.

Ye Qiyan killed the God of Curse Rites, raising his Godslaying Count to 12, while Fang Cheng began to recover briefly after the curse’s death. Fang Cheng gave Ye Qiyan 2,513 Train Coins, leaving Ye Qiyan closer to his goal of upgrading his Train.

• The God of Curse Rites tried to curse Ye Qiyan, but the Curse Demon Eye reflected the curse and inflicted its pain on the God.
• Ye Qiyan used his cards and the Astral Sacred Crest to force the God of Curse Rites to admit it would die, and Red Tears struck it down.
• Miatila confirmed the God’s death, raised Ye Qiyan’s Blasphemer of the Gods multiplier to 650%, and offered him a choice of God Core conversion; Ye Qiyan chose Core.
• Fang Cheng explained that the curse’s death would also lead to his own death, despite his body briefly recovering.
• Fang Cheng gave Ye Qiyan 2,513 Train Coins as thanks, and Ye Qiyan welcomed the generous payment.

Ye Qiyan told Fang Cheng that the Heavenly Realm Organization had been wiped out, driving Fang Cheng to beg for a chance to live and avenge his friends. Ye Qiyan restored Fang Cheng’s body in exchange for Train Coins, Items, and a debt of gratitude, then headed for the tower’s Second Floor, where a Calamity Card Sequence barrier guarded an object he wanted.

• Fang Cheng refused Ye Qiyan’s offer to help him live until he learned that the Heavenly Realm Organization had been destroyed.
• Fang Cheng mourned his friends, then begged Ye Qiyan to save him so he could seek revenge and agreed to repay him with Train Coins, Items, and his life debt.
• Ye Qiyan used [Demon Card · Redemption] to restore Fang Cheng’s body, while warning him that the curse remained.
• Fang Cheng accepted Ye Qiyan’s friend request and explained that an unclaimed object on the tower’s Second Floor was sealed behind a [Calamity] Card Sequence barrier.
• Ye Qiyan continued toward the Second Floor, while Fang Cheng resolved to find the key and learn who had destroyed the Heavenly Realm Organization.

Ye Qiyan entered the Second Floor’s sealed Altar and obtained [Calamity Card: Eternal Night, Moonlit Silence], completing his third Calamity Card and forming a Calamity Ring. The Dream Eater revealed that the card might strengthen Moonshadow and help its Artifact Spirit appear.

• Ye Qiyan reassured the Administrator that Fang Cheng was fine, then headed for the Second Floor with Lisette and Red Tears.
• Ye Qiyan used the Anchor’s Voyage ability to pass through the barrier and climb to the Altar’s summit.
• Ye Qiyan claimed [Calamity Card: Eternal Night, Moonlit Silence], which plunged the world into a gentle Eternal Night.
• The Dream Eater indicated that the new card could strengthen Moonshadow and help its Artifact Spirit appear.
• Ye Qiyan placed the third card alongside [Calamity Card: Intelligent Machine Crisis] and [Calamity Card: New Green World], forming a Calamity Ring.

Ye Qiyan killed Curse Aspect after learning how Fang Cheng had been trapped, further weakening Curse Ritual's God Sequence. Curse Ritual demanded an investigation into the deaths of Incantation Rites and Curse Aspect, but its First Apostle said their world had fallen to Level 9 and could not be easily reached.

• Lisette offered Ye Qiyan the corpse of Curse Aspect, whose former identity as a Train Conductor and Apostle was revealed.
• Fang Cheng explained that a curse from Curse Ritual had trapped him after he destroyed Incantation Rites, and asked Ye Qiyan to share any information about the Heavenly Realm Organization.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to keep an eye out, then ordered Red Tears to kill Curse Aspect.
• Ye Qiyan gained a God Core and Godslaying rewards, while Curse Ritual's sequence was demoted from A-45 to A-48.
• Ye Qiyan, Red Tears, and Lisette prepared to leave the station and celebrate with hot pot.
• Curse Ritual raged over the loss of two sequence members, and its First Apostle explained that their Level 9 world was difficult to reach.

Ye Qiyan prepared to leave the City of Eternity after Fang Cheng departed with his people, and he accepted Fang Cheng’s oath of vengeance. As Ye Qiyan’s train left without stopping for Charlie, Charlie became the new Platform Lord and resolved to lead the People of Night toward a different future.

• Ye Qiyan counted his Train Coins after recycling the remaining Wells of Night and prepared to depart the City of Eternity.
• Fang Cheng transformed the city into a gigantic train and left for the Wasteland, sending Ye Qiyan his Eternal Oath.
• Ye Qiyan received Fang Cheng’s oath, wished him success, and decided it was time to leave as well.
• Charlie ran after Ye Qiyan’s departing train, thanked him for saving his life, and watched it leave without stopping.
• The system declared Charlie eligible to become the Platform Lord as the world was downgraded to level 8, and Charlie accepted the quest The New Long Night.
• Charlie understood that Ye Qiyan’s actions had protected newborns and vowed to teach the People of Night the value of life and lead them to become true humans.

Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland after conquering the Eternal Night Continent and received two divine mechanical cores. After testing one core in the Construction Sphere, he watched Villain train and decided it might be time to give it a new Divine Core Shield.

• Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland, welcomed the familiar cold, and asked Lisette to prepare burgers and fries.
• Ye Qiyan retrieved the Incantation Rites Core and Curse Aspect Core from his mailbox and learned that God Sequences strengthened False Gods through added divine concepts and categories.
• Ye Qiyan tossed the C-Rank Curse Aspect Core into the Construction Sphere to test whether a divine core could be used for construction, then carried blueprints and the B-Rank core to the training grounds.
• Ye Qiyan watched Villain use its shields and combat skill against Lancelot, but Lancelot defeated it with a wind blade.
• Ye Qiyan considered giving Villain a brand-new Divine Core Shield.

Ye Qiyan gave Villain the Incantation Rites God Core Shield, while Fang Cheng arrived in the City of a Thousand Stars and sought the truth about the destruction of the Heavenly Realm Organization. Nan Wenqi warned him that Lu Jiayun and others had erased the organization, and Fang Cheng began considering whether Ye Qiyan could help him take revenge.

• Ye Qiyan fused the B-Rank Incantation Rites Core into Villain, creating a shield that cursed attackers and increased Villain’s capabilities.
• Villain tested its new shield against Lancelot but still lost after giving him considerable trouble.
• Fang Cheng arrived in the City of a Thousand Stars and announced in the Public Chatroom that he planned to rebuild the Heavenly Realm Organization.
• Nan Wenqi warned Fang Cheng not to investigate the organization’s destruction and identified Lu Jiayun as one of those responsible.
• Fang Cheng wondered whether Ye Qiyan could help him seek revenge, then asked Nan Wenqi about Altos, who was a powerful member of the Terrorist Organization.

Ye Qiyan ascended a flight backpack into Knight Gear for his named Knight Mechs and transformed a weapon Blueprint into a Level 9 Flameburn Gun. He finished by learning that the Platform World that produced Flame Stones had been destroyed and that their concept of uselessness had been reassigned.

• Fang Cheng spoke with Nan Wenqi, decided he only needed to remember Ye Qiyan as the person he owed, and vowed that the Heavenly Realm would avenge itself as its organization was rebuilt.
• Ye Qiyan ascended a Flight Backpack Blueprint into a Support Jetpack, then ascended a crafted jetpack into Flight Knight Gear suited to Augustine, Lancelot, and Bedivere.
• Ye Qiyan made 52 Support Jetpacks for his Endless Mechs and gave Knight Gear to Augustine and the other named Mechs.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Decision Blueprint into a single-use Level 9 Flameburn Gun Blueprint and bought ten Flame Stones from Ailei.
• As Ye Qiyan crafted the Flameburn Gun, the system told him that someone had destroyed the Platform World that produced Flame Stones and reassigned the concept of their uselessness.

Ye Qiyan erased the Demon soul inside the Flameburn Gun and ascended it into Blazing Flame MAX!, a spear suited to Augustine. Augustine equipped it and activated its powerful Blazing Flame Mode.

• Ye Qiyan assessed his Contract Beasts after Raven Demon won the training fight, noting Giant Eagle's progress and Nephthys's rapidly rising potential.
• Ye Qiyan used [Demon Card · Supremacy] to make the newborn Demon soul inside the Flameburn Gun destroy itself, removing the weapon's negative effect.
• Ye Qiyan spent 300 stamina and 200 mental energy to ascend the Flameburn Gun into Blazing Flame MAX!, a Mode Armament that doubled a Mech's physical attributes in Blazing Flame Mode.
• Augustine caught the spear, activated Blazing Flame Mode, and vowed to clear every obstacle for Ye Qiyan.

Ye Qiyan watched the ice storm kill Train Conductors and saw that Forgotten and his allies were offering free shelter on the Sky Garden, though others distrusted them. Zhuxing Tu then told him that Abyss had been driven from its realm by [Water Ice] and the False Gods, leaving most of its authority behind, and Ye Qiyan laughed at Abyss's downfall.

• Ye Qiyan watched the death toll in E-3 Block rise as Train Conductors discussed seeking shelter from the ice rain.
• Forgotten invited Train Conductors to a free shelter on the Sky Garden, but chatroom users questioned his motives.
• Ye Qiyan recognized Forgotten, Don Quixote, Anjie, and Chloe and wondered why they were helping strangers.
• Zhuxing Tu told Ye Qiyan that [Water Ice] and the False Gods had used a deal with Abyss to invade its realm and seize most of its authority.
• Ye Qiyan laughed as he imagined Abyss fleeing its home and losing power.