Chapter Summaries

As Colorless’s will empowered the Divine Eye Beasts and brought True God Apostles into the battle, Ye Qiyan’s forces faced overwhelming pressure. His [Dreamweaver] brought 777 deceased members of the Golden Race into the fight, and Colorless, delighted by the unprecedented power, vowed to fight Ye Qiyan with all his strength and make him his only Apostle.

• Colorless’s will transformed the Divine Eye Beasts into stronger [Faded Beasts] and began bringing his True God Apostles into the world, pressing Ye Qiyan’s legions hard.
• Golden Race reinforcements joined Villain and Lancelot, thanking Ye Qiyan for granting them a final chance to fight as they charged alongside the Endless Legion.
• A Golden Race youth joined Augustine against a Faded Apostle, while other Golden Race warriors aided the Azure Roar Thunder Eagle, Eve, Hunt, Decision, and Ye Qiyan’s other [Traces].
• A total of 777 deceased Golden Race members appeared beside Ye Qiyan’s [Traces], sending him their gratitude for the beautiful dream.
• Colorless recognized Ye Qiyan’s power, declared that he would fight with all his strength, and vowed to make Ye Qiyan his only Apostle.

Ye Qiyan fought Colorless Will with the power of the Dream Scar, strengthening his Mechanical Lifeforms and unleashing Moonshadow’s full-moon sword strike. Their powers clashed in a stalemate as people across the Wasteland watched the battle reflected on the moon and hoped Ye Qiyan would win.

• Ye Qiyan met Colorless Will’s attack with the Astral Sacred Crest and countered with an armor-piercing round.
• The Dream Scar amplified Ye Qiyan’s abilities and temporarily gave his Mechanical Lifeforms and Demons the [Supreme] prefix, while the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake led the train into battle.
• Ye Qiyan switched to Moonshadow and used the Dream Scar to create a full-moon sword strike that clashed evenly with Colorless Will’s Fading Power.
• Train Conductors across the Wasteland saw the two fighters reflected on the moon, and several recognized Ye Qiyan and Moonshadow.
• People across the Wasteland watched the fight on City screens as Shen Yuan wanted to go help Ye Qiyan, but Mo Shi told her to watch.

Yulia awakened beside the Coffin and presented Ye Qiyan with the Golden Race’s final Laurel Wreath, helping him push Colorless Will back. Ye Qiyan still fell short of defeating the True God, so he formed a new ring from three Card Sequences, and Colorless sensed an immense, endless path within it.

• Aloflis reunited with Yulia, who apologized for leaving her alone and thanked Ye Qiyan for fighting Colorless.
• Yulia granted Ye Qiyan the Last Glory Laurel Wreath, permanently increasing his Stamina and Mental limits and giving him rights to the Golden Race’s possessions.
• Ye Qiyan’s attacks wounded Colorless Will and drove it into the dust, but Colorless drew on more power and struck back with a color-erasing gaze.
• Ye Qiyan used the Tear-Carving Sword to behead Colorless Will, but Colorless’s will survived and its body rose again.
• Ye Qiyan realized three Card Sequences could form a Blasphemy Ring and brought Anchor, Judgment Enforcer, and Dreamweaver together to create it.
• Colorless Will sensed a vast, endless path emanating from the dark gold ring behind Ye Qiyan.

Ye Qiyan awakened the Blasphemy Ring as a unique road shaped by his own desire and conviction, then fought Colorless as their forces battled across the moon. As Gray Fog arrived in the Eternal Moon, an unseen voice promised to help humanity if it faced another attempt at extinction.

• Ye Qiyan realized the Blasphemy Ring established an endless road he had already chosen to walk, and he felt capable of crushing a C-Rank God.
• Colorless declared that Ye Qiyan would be theirs and attacked him with color-devouring power, but Ye Qiyan answered with the Tear-Carving Sword and the power of the Formless Hero.
• Ye Qiyan's legion and the Golden Race fought the colorless Apostles, while Yulia summoned thirteen Golden Guard Mechs and Aloflis joined the battle.
• Lady Eris, Fang Cheng, Don Quixote, and the Abucado members watched the moon's battle through a live broadcast and wished Ye Qiyan victory.
• Gray Fog met an unseen voice on the Eternal Moon, which refused to help Gray Fog but promised to defend humanity if Gray Fog tried to end it.

Ye Qiyan used Ebony’s Black Sun and a judgment that sealed Colorless Will’s recovery, leaving his borrowed body close to destruction. As the Golden Race’s dream ended, its people gave Ye Qiyan their final farewells and urged him to claim victory.

• Colorless Will fought on despite his failing body, while Ye Qiyan struck him with Ebony’s Black Sun and sealed his ability to recover.
• Ye Qiyan healed himself as Colorless Will acknowledged the dream world was nearing its end and challenged him to finish the fight.
• The Golden Race accepted the end of their dream, and its members made their final farewells before fading away.
• Dreamweaver’s Elegy consumed the last trace of the dream and joined Rebellion’s aria, turning the world’s ending into a final attack against Colorless Will.
• The last Glory Laurel Wreath told Ye Qiyan that humanity would keep moving forward and urged him not to look back.
• Ye Qiyan opened his eyes as the dream ended and the world returned to its original appearance.

Ye Qiyan used the Authorities of Cruelty and Glory to face the Colorless Will in their final battle. After their powers clashed, Ye Qiyan emerged as the victor, while the Colorless Will began to disappear.

• The Colorless Will gathered the dissolved Apostles’ power and challenged Ye Qiyan to a final strike using Authority.
• Ye Qiyan summoned Asmodeus’s and Glory King (Hod)’s Rings of Sovereignty and put them on.
• Mingming blessed Ye Qiyan, restoring his ability to move despite the strain of wielding both Authorities.
• Ye Qiyan’s golden sword shattered the Colorless Authority’s Fading, and he told the Colorless Will that the Golden Race had never hated it.
• The Colorless Will punched at Ye Qiyan as Ye Qiyan brought down his sword, and their clash engulfed the world in light.
• Ye Qiyan stood victorious as the Colorless Will faded away and congratulated him.

After defeating Colorless's will, Ye Qiyan questioned it about the ancient war and the races caught up in it. Colorless vanished after promising they would meet again, leaving Ye Qiyan with a reward and unanswered questions about the Wasteland.

• Ye Qiyan rested beside Colorless's fading will and learned that he had passed Colorless's Trial, earning three questions and a reward.
• Colorless told Ye Qiyan that the battlefield's war predated the war that destroyed the Golden Race, and Ye Qiyan resolved to seek answers in the Wasteland.
• Colorless explained that the Apex Beings had brought The End upon the Golden Race because its influence narrowed the possibilities for other races, while the Silver and Bronze Races were descended from the Golden Race.
• Colorless revealed that the Hero Race consisted of natural-born Apex Beings who protected life, and that the First Seat, an Apex of the Golden Race, had chosen defeat.
• Ye Qiyan saved his final question for their next meeting, and Colorless gave him a reward before vanishing with a promise that they would meet again.

After defeating Colorless and restoring color to the world, Ye Qiyan celebrated with his companions and took a photograph of them all. He then used [Demon Card · Redemption] to let Yulia escape the End and live in the Despair World.

• Ye Qiyan checked his exhausted condition as Lisette and his other companions gathered around him after the battle.
• Ye Qiyan declared victory, and the Mechanical Legion celebrated while Red Tears sheltered him from the rain.
• Ye Qiyan gathered his companions for a photograph commemorating their victory.
• Ye Qiyan found Yulia beside the Coffin and asked whether she wanted to live.
• Yulia accepted [Demon Card · Redemption] and escaped the End into the Despair World.

Ye Qiyan revived Yulia and invited her to become a Newbie Train Conductor as the Golden Race’s world crumbled around them. After he returned to the Wasteland, Colorless rejected Gray Fog’s proposal to attack humanity and the Train System.

• As the world turned to embers, Ye Qiyan used the Wasteland system to send Yulia a Newbie Train Conductor invitation.
• Yulia gave Ye Qiyan a blueprint for the Glory Imperial Guard · Holy War Mech, and he boarded his train and departed for the Wasteland.
• The system declared that Ye Qiyan had cleared the fifty-second station and renamed the world World of Farewell · Day of the Golden Departure.
• Yulia accepted the invitation and persuaded Aloflis to leave with her aboard a level 1 train.
• In the Wasteland’s Colorless Domain, Colorless refused Gray Fog’s invitation to attack humanity and the Train System, saying he would side with humanity because he liked Ye Qiyan.

Ye Qiyan woke after five days unconscious and learned the Wasteland had remained unusually quiet. He received his rewards from the Colorless Trial, including a powerful Colorless Bottle, and considered how he would use the laurel wreath.

• Ye Qiyan woke beside Lisette, Eve, and Red Tears after five days and five nights of sleep, and Lisette told him the Wasteland had stayed quiet while he was unconscious.
• Ye Qiyan checked his status and heard Miatila settle his previous stop, awarding him Train Coins, the Glory Laurel Wreath, the Hero title, and a Beacon of Memory.
• Ye Qiyan inspected the Colorless Bottle, learned it could trigger a controlled End over a limited area, and had WALL-E store it with his other End Items.
• Ye Qiyan reflected on his weakness and resolved to grow strong enough to defeat Colorless's true body and surpass the Golden Race.
• Ye Qiyan examined the Glory Laurel Wreath and wondered whether the Mythical Gemstone could turn it into a Dynamic Carriage Skin.

After recovering from his five-day unconsciousness, Ye Qiyan stored the Glory Laurel Wreath and realized only two materials remained for the Mythical Gemstone. He caught up on the messages sent after his battle with Colorless became known across the Wasteland, then learned that Zhuxing Tu had spotted Colorless’s will during the fight.

• Ye Qiyan added the Glory Laurel Wreath to his stored Mythical Gemstone materials and noted that only two items remained.
• Ye Qiyan discovered a flood of messages and mentions sent while he was unconscious, after Train Conductors recognized him in the moon’s broadcast of his battle with Colorless.
• Ye Qiyan replied to Coilera and several friends, including Aien, Ding Xiuqi, Shaya, Zhao Xi, and Zhao Lin.
• Ye Qiyan posted a Revived at Full Health sticker in the Imperial Sequence Organization’s Public Chatroom, where members discussed his fame, bounty, and battle.
• Monrojina explained that Zhuxing Tu had spotted Colorless’s will while trying to peer into Ye Qiyan’s world, and Ye Qiyan considered catching Zhuxing Tu for money.

After recovering from his exhaustion, Ye Qiyan upgraded the Golden Race Mech Blueprint into a Superheavy · Martial Dread Guard blueprint, then decided its costly materials could wait while he ascended the Train. The Train reached Level 22, leaving Ye Qiyan with fewer resources but a faster, enhanced locomotive.

• Ye Qiyan found that Lisette and the repair teams had restored and strengthened Augustine, the Villain, and the other Mechs using the Golden Race gifts.
• Ye Qiyan spent a week recovering and preparing replacement equipment, then reached 500 Stamina and 600 mental energy.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Glory Imperial Guard blueprint into a Superheavy blueprint, named it Martial Dread Guard, and saw that it required a costly list of materials.
• Ailei quoted Ye Qiyan 7,912 Train Coins for the materials, so he chose to upgrade the Train instead.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Train to Level 22, spending 200 Stamina and mental energy while the monsters that attacked became fuel for the Drill.

Ye Qiyan upgraded the train, improved a curio for the Nanite Swarm, and used the new materials to manufacture Martial Dread. The colossal guard awakened, greeted Ye Qiyan as Overlord, and challenged the mechs gathered around him.

• Ye Qiyan bought all three level 22 upgrade options, including a virtual avatar compendium, a Bronze Race curio, and Ultra Blacklight Alloy.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Miniature Vision Body into a Miniature Walker and equipped it on the Nanite Swarm, giving them a daily Marching Warp ability.
• Ye Qiyan bought the remaining materials and began manufacturing the Superheavy Martial Dread Guard in the Arsenal Hangar.
• The Processing Table formed Martial Dread, an eighty-meter mech who compressed herself to thirty-five meters and knelt before Ye Qiyan.
• Martial Dread greeted Ye Qiyan as Overlord and offered to scrap the surrounding mechs, provoking them.

Ye Qiyan’s new guard, Martial Dread, challenged Augustine and was defeated, then lost to Eve and Hunt as well. After three straight defeats, Martial Dread fell silent.

• Martial Dread declared its loyalty to Ye Qiyan and insisted that every Mech but itself was trash, prompting Augustine to request a fight.
• Ye Qiyan started the battle in the Training Ground, where Augustine used Blazing Flame Mode and his armored Doppelganger to pierce Martial Dread’s core.
• Martial Dread protested its first loss, and Ye Qiyan arranged Eve as its next opponent.
• Eve defeated Martial Dread in one minute using Transcendence Star mode and the Eternal Cutter.
• Hunt defeated Martial Dread in normal mode by tearing apart its armor with melee attacks, leaving it silent after three straight defeats.

Martial Dread challenged Lisette and lost in ten seconds, then Ye Qiyan encouraged it to keep growing stronger. After two more days in the Wasteland, Ye Qiyan chose a Level 10 Hunting Station as his next destination and arrived at Day of Escape.

• Martial Dread requested another opponent, and Lisette stepped forward to fight it.
• Lisette used her time-accelerating abilities to defeat Martial Dread in ten seconds, making it lose its fourth consecutive match.
• Ye Qiyan comforted Martial Dread and told it that his Mechs would grow stronger and one day stand alongside one another.
• After staying in the Wasteland for two more days, Ye Qiyan chose Day of Escape from three station options.
• Ye Qiyan's train arrived at the Level 10 Hunting Station, Day of Escape.

Ye Qiyan searched a Level 10 Platform World for the target marked on his Sand Table, then found an old beggar who could perceive his Nanite Swarm. The beggar’s status identified him as a Train Conductor with the titles Person Who Wants to Be Forgotten and Escapist, and Ye Qiyan confronted him.

• Ye Qiyan left WALL-E at the station and paid the administrator in gold to keep his train undisturbed.
• Ye Qiyan bought clothes with Lisette, then noticed that the target’s dot had vanished from the Sand Table.
• Ye Qiyan sent his Nanite Swarm to search the city but found no sign of the target.
• A golden Nanite Beedrill spotted bakery workers beating an old beggar, who had noticed the Beedrill in turn.
• Ye Qiyan drove off the workers with cursed coins and used the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake to reveal the beggar’s status.
• Ye Qiyan asked the beggar why he had made himself so wretched despite being a Train Conductor.

Ye Qiyan questioned a mysterious old beggar surnamed Zhou, who seemed to have summoned the Train Conductors to the city but could not remember his past or powers. Ye Qiyan left him alive for now and headed with Lisette to confront the city-state’s ruler.

• Ye Qiyan forced the old beggar to hand over 107 Train Coins and tried to learn about his titles, but an unknown power resisted Bewitchment until he used Rebellion.
• The old beggar said he was a sinner who might have escaped, could only recall the surname Zhou, and did not know whether he had summoned the Train Conductors.
• The old beggar explained that he wanted a new ruler because the current lord collected money instead of distributing free food, though he believed himself powerless.
• Ye Qiyan considered using the Obelisk of the Rememberer to restore the old beggar’s memory, but decided to wait and left him in the alley.
• Lisette asked whether they should kill the old beggar, and Ye Qiyan said they should first discover what benefits they could get from him before considering it.

Old beggar Zhou’s recurring nightmare revealed that he had summoned Train Conductors for decades to defeat exploitative rulers, and that Ye Qiyan’s train was the last one he could call. After the city lord attacked Ye Qiyan’s train and turned the city’s buildings into weapons, Ye Qiyan fought back and prepared to use the Obelisk of the Rememberer to uncover Zhou’s past.

• Zhou woke from a nightmare about people urging him to summon help, then remembered that he had spent all his Train Coins calling Train Conductors to defeat exploitative rulers.
• Ye Qiyan met Zhou again while Martial Dread and the Mechanical Legion fought the city lord’s steam-powered buildings and clock tower.
• Ye Qiyan explained that the city lord had tried to seize his train while it was unattended, prompting Eve and the rest of the force to retaliate.
• Martial Dread regained confidence after blasting apart the clock tower’s fist, while Ye Qiyan’s other forces fought across the city.
• Ye Qiyan questioned Zhou about whether defeating the city lord would clear the stop, then brought out the Obelisk of the Rememberer to make Zhou recall his past.

Ye Qiyan forced the old beggar’s memories back with the obelisk and fought him with Lisette, discovering that the man was Zhou Shangqing, the legendary Train Conductor with the [Surpass the Stars] Talent. Zhou Shangqing survived his supposed death, but the chapter ended with him collapsing after Ye Qiyan compelled him to reveal his name.

• Ye Qiyan used the obelisk to break open the old beggar’s sealed memories, provoking him to attack and try to destroy it.
• The old beggar moved too quickly for Lisette’s attacks, but Lisette accelerated time as he surpassed the stars’ speed.
• Ye Qiyan activated the Talent Cube’s [Surpass the Stars] power and used [Rebellion] to force the old beggar to answer, “Tell me your name.”
• The old beggar’s accelerated world shattered, and he collapsed as Ye Qiyan identified him as Zhou Shangqing.
• Zhou Shangqing admitted he was the legendary Train Conductor everyone believed had died after his Train shattered.

Ye Qiyan restored Zhou Shangqing’s memories and used a Talent Cube to view them, uncovering how Zhou had invented World Fuel to discourage people from expecting him to cross the Wasteland. The memory revealed that others eventually found the fuel by burning worlds, and Zhou’s journey had become entangled with a terrible plan.

• Zhou Shangqing remembered his past and begged Ye Qiyan to leave him alone, while Ye asked why he had returned despite being presumed dead.
• Ye Qiyan used the Memory Talent Cube to construct a space showing Zhou Shangqing’s memories.
• The memory showed Zhou trembling aboard his train as he received messages asking about his Wasteland journey and World Fuel.
• Zhou admitted he had invented World Fuel because he believed crossing the Wasteland was impossible and wanted people to stop supporting him.
• Zhou’s memory showed others using System Authority to raise his train to level 50 and later announcing that World Fuel could be made by burning an entire world.