Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan explored the former Heavenly Realm’s underwater headquarters and uncovered a recording suggesting that Lu Jiayun betrayed the Heavenly Realm to the False Gods. He recognized the wounded leader in the recording as Smiley and considered staying longer to learn more about Fang Cheng’s plan.

• Fang Cheng told Ye Qiyan that he suspected Lu Jiayun, the City Lord of the City of a Thousand Stars, had destroyed the Heavenly Realm, and Ye Qiyan suspected Fang Cheng planned to draw the culprits out by rebuilding it.
• Ye Qiyan ended his conversation with Fang Cheng and explored the rusted platform beneath the sea with his companions.
• The Nanite Swarm found the broken long-handled beheading blade of the Heavenly Realm’s leader, which contained a final recording.
• In the recording, the wounded leader said Lu Jiayun had made a deal with the False Gods and that the people of the City of a Thousand Stars had been deceived.
• Ye Qiyan recognized the leader’s voice and appearance as Smiley, and concluded that Lu Jiayun had handed him over to the False Gods.

Ye Qiyan learned that Smiley had been the former leader of the Heavenly Realm Organization and asked Zhuxing Tu how the organization had fallen. Zhuxing Tu revealed Lu Jiayun’s betrayal and hinted that humanity’s Primordial World might still be reachable, before dismissing the Reverse Button as a foolish way to return to the beginning.

• Ye Qiyan recognized Smiley as the former leader of the Heavenly Realm Organization and wondered how Lu Jiayun had destroyed it.
• Monrojina told Ye Qiyan that Zhuxing Tu might know the truth, while Zhuxing Tu’s teasing provoked Monrojina to threaten her.
• Zhuxing Tu told Ye Qiyan that Lu Jiayun had blocked the Heavenly Realm’s control over its world, recalled nearly all its members, and let False Gods into it under the Alliance’s name.
• Zhuxing Tu explained that the Heavenly Realm had exposed Lu Jiayun’s plan to sacrifice the lives of the Twelve Primordial Cities for a chance at memory, causing the Homecomers to split apart.
• Ye Qiyan said his home was on the train, and Zhuxing Tu claimed humanity’s Primordial World might still be found before calling the Reverse Button a stupid way to return to the beginning.

Ye Qiyan used Imaginary Number Navigation to leave the Deep Sea and discovered a mysterious barrier in Imaginary Number Space. He arrived at the Heavenly Realm’s new headquarters, where a Guide’s unusual talent was overwhelmed by what she saw, and Fang Cheng’s guards were warned off.

• Ye Qiyan ordered the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake to navigate to Fang Cheng’s permanent coordinates and sensed a Card Sequence-like barrier in Imaginary Number Space.
• Before leaving Imaginary Number Space, Ye Qiyan set an Anchor Point inside the barrier, but found that the barrier and any altar were gone when he checked the mark.
• Ye Qiyan arrived at the new Heavenly Realm platform and decided to explore Imaginary Number Space at every stop.
• The Guide saw the entities accompanying Ye Qiyan, her eyes began bleeding, and she screamed.
• Eve and the Skull-Piercing Spikes targeted the guards, but the Guide stopped them from attacking Ye Qiyan.
• Fang Cheng greeted Ye Qiyan as his Dragon Knight friend.

Ye Qiyan reunited with Don Quixote, who had built a settlement for rescued residents and still hoped to become a true knight. Don Quixote embraced his own path rather than the ending in the book about him, and the group headed off to find a tavern.

• Ye Qiyan greeted Don Quixote and warned a frightened Guide not to investigate things she should not.
• Don Quixote showed Ye Qiyan the new City, built to house ordinary people rescued from dangerous Platform Worlds.
• Don Quixote asked whether saving tens of thousands of people made him a true knight, and Ye Qiyan affirmed that it did.
• Don Quixote explained that he had read the book about himself but would never give up being a knight as its character had.
• Don Quixote invited Ye Qiyan for rum, but Sancho reminded him that a tavern had blacklisted him after he got drunk and lifted its bar counter.

Lu Jiayun sent forces toward Nation on the Ship while plotting to return to his Primordial World, and Batos secretly sought Monrojina’s help to protect his daughter. Monrojina warned Ye Qiyan that Heavenly Realm Headquarters could soon be attacked, leaving him bracing for another crisis.

• Lu Jiayun ordered Batos to activate a fallback mechanism at Heavenly Realm using hired fighters, then admitted to Void that he only needed a ticket home and threatened Grace.
• Void explained that Lu Jiayun could return by guiding Train Conductors toward the Wasteland’s starting point, then decided to become a Train Conductor named Xu Kong.
• Lu Jiayun sent tens of thousands of Train Conductors and supernatural units from the City of a Thousand Stars toward Nation on the Ship, starting a war between Cities.
• Batos told Monrojina he would keep revealing Lu Jiayun’s plans if she kept his daughter safe, and Monrojina agreed that their karma was settled.
• Monrojina warned Ye Qiyan that Heavenly Realm Headquarters could explode at any moment, and Ye Qiyan reflected that his choice to save Fang Cheng had led to its rebuilding.

Ye Qiyan went shopping with Lisette and Eve before representatives of the Heavenly Realm and Abucado invited him to meet their leaders and join their organizations. As he asked Shen Qianyu how Abucado strengthened Talents, she revealed that its leader owned a Level 13 Item.

• Ye Qiyan used his abilities to win expensive plush toys from a Claw Machine, then left the shop with Lisette, Eve, and WALL-E after they bought supplies for the Train.
• Aien invited Ye Qiyan to Heavenly Realm Headquarters, accompanied by Russell, whose presence stirred an unexplained ache in him.
• Ye Qiyan recognized Russell from the public Trial Platform, though he denied that they had met.
• Coilera and Shen Qianyu arrived and urged Ye Qiyan to join Abucado, arguing that it suited a Talent user better than the Heavenly Realm.
• Ye Qiyan asked how Abucado strengthened Talents, and Shen Qianyu said its leader possessed a Level 13 Item.

Ye Qiyan refused Shen Qianyu’s offer to join Abucado, then the mall’s lights went out and the world transformed into the Negative-Life Platform World · Weird Realm. With the System’s services gone and ordinary people vanished, Ye Qiyan set out with Eve, Lisette, and Shen Qianyu, preparing to use the Pure Purification Stone.

• Shen Qianyu described how Abucado’s Leader could strengthen talents and invited Ye Qiyan to join, but he refused.
• The mall plunged into strange darkness, and Lisette detected anomalous life-forms as the System announced the world’s transformation and ordered Train Conductors to protect ordinary humans.
• Ye Qiyan sent WALL-E away, and Shen Qianyu realized that everyone else in the mall had disappeared and communications were blocked.
• Ye Qiyan suspected Batos or Fang Cheng had taken control of the world, then followed a direction chosen by tossing a Train Coin.
• Mingming placed the Pure Purification Stone in Ye Qiyan’s hand, and he tossed it into the air to illuminate the darkness.

Ye Qiyan and Shen Qianyu investigated a mall overrun by eerie creatures and discovered that its transformation had displaced the ordinary people into another Hyperspace. Ye Qiyan destroyed the mall and led Shen Qianyu onward, while she resolved more strongly to recruit him into Abucado without realizing who he really was.

• Ye Qiyan used the Pure Purification Stone to expose and burn eerie creatures, while Shen Qianyu explained that Abucado had previously defeated the God of the Eerie and cleared its realm.
• Ye Qiyan and Shen Qianyu advanced through the empty mall, and Ye Qiyan inferred that the missing people had been switched into another Hyperspace during the darkness.
• When the mall attacked them with spinal tendrils, Ye Qiyan used Moonshadow and Dimensional Strangulation to break through its ceiling and destroy it.
• Ye Qiyan formed a stairway out of mechanical gears and told Shen Qianyu to follow him, prompting her to fly after him.
• Shen Qianyu grew more determined to recruit Ye Qiyan into Abucado, unaware that he was also the demon Altos and the genius she hoped would oppose him.

Ye Qiyan led Lisette, Eve, and Shen Qianyu toward the center of the eerie-transformed Heavenly Realm Headquarters, destroying a domain on the way. At the World Core, Batos confronted the God of the Eerie, who threatened his daughter.

• Shen Qianyu analyzed the area and warned Ye Qiyan that the buildings had become domains ruled by powerful eerie entities.
• Ye Qiyan headed for the central headquarters, and Shen Qianyu followed to help him analyze the platform.
• Ye Qiyan used Ebony and White Night to strike an eerie-transformed building's destruction nodes and eradicate its domain.
• At the World Core, Batos faced the God of the Eerie among the corpses of the City of a Thousand Stars' Executives.
• The God of the Eerie revealed Batos's daughter trapped in its chest and threatened to use her to force him to surrender his body.

Batos surrendered his body to the God of the Eerie to save Avina, while Grace escaped Lu Jiayun and freed the trains and permissions in the Nation on the Ship. Lu Jiayun ordered the remaining residents captured, and Ye Qiyan approached the eerified Heavenly Realm Headquarters.

• The God of the Eerie used Batos’s daughter Avina to force him into a bargain, and Batos gave up his body after securing her safety and passage to Solo City.
• Lu Jiayun felt Batos’s death during his battle with Grace, allowing her to escape with her train and release the city’s train permissions.
• After Grace fled, Lu Jiayun ordered the remaining residents killed, but Mar persuaded him to capture them instead.
• Mar secretly resolved to seek help from Solo City and the Judgment Court to stop Lu Jiayun.
• Ye Qiyan reached the outskirts of the eerified Heavenly Realm Headquarters after destroying thirteen cities with the [City Destroyer] module.

Ye Qiyan found the hyperspace node by the Heavenly Realm Headquarters and discovered that its Train Conductors were protecting humanity in other battlefields. As he launched an assault on the city, Shen Qianyu fully opened her unusual eyes, recognized the figure of Altos in Ye Qiyan, and was shot by him before he offered to make her his undercover agent.

• Shen Qianyu tried to recruit Ye Qiyan into Abucado, while he insisted he was an ordinary person and cut through an eerie creature made of human remains.
• Ye Qiyan used Dimensional Strangulation to find a hyperspace node and saw Don Quixote, Aien, Russell, Coilera, and other Train Conductors defending humans in separate battlefields.
• Ye Qiyan realized that King of Chalk · Fang Cheng was missing and was likely at the wooden Heavenly Realm Headquarters.
• Ye Qiyan deployed the Arsenal Hangar and launched mechs and Calamity Cards against the eerie city.
• Shen Qianyu opened her eyes fully and recognized Altos among the powers surrounding Ye Qiyan.
• Ye Qiyan shot Shen Qianyu with Ebony, revealed that the Ring of Evil had also stopped hiding, and used Pale Redemption as he offered to make her his undercover agent.

Ye Qiyan revived Shen Qianyu after defeating her and bound her to serve as a spy, forcing her to accept that he was also Altos. As they approached the center of the Heavenly Realm's Headquarters, Shen Qianyu offered to use her analytical Talent to help deal with the transformed villas ahead.

• Ye Qiyan killed Shen Qianyu, then revived her through the Demon Card [Redemption] and made her his spy under threat of death.
• Shen Qianyu realized Ye Qiyan and Altos were the same person and inferred that Ye Qiyan had killed Altos before Altos entered the Wasteland.
• Ye Qiyan added Shen Qianyu as a friend under the name [Abu No. 2], and she followed him toward the center of the Heavenly Realm's Headquarters.
• Ye Qiyan continued advancing his Mechanical Legion through the ruined headquarters, but paused before more than three hundred transformed villas containing powerful eerie beings.
• Shen Qianyu revealed her Talent, [Conclusion], and offered to help Ye Qiyan analyze the villas.

Shen Qianyu led Ye Qiyan and the others through the transformed Heavenly Realm Headquarters using her enhanced Talent, but the God of the Eerie trapped them in a deadly game called Cross the Road. As Strangling Machines closed in, Ye Qiyan activated his machinery-controlling Ring.

• Shen Qianyu used her enhanced [Conclusion] Talent to identify ways through the eerie incidents and again invited Ye Qiyan to join Abucado.
• Shen Qianyu stepped onto the street near the wooden building, lost part of her leg, and was pulled forward before Lisette knocked her back with a controlled Eerie.
• The God of the Eerie announced the Cross the Road game and revealed that it knew Ye Qiyan had a Blasphemy Card.
• Ye Qiyan saw the Strangling Machines surrounding the group, while Shen Qianyu recovered and warned him about the danger.
• Using Demon Card · Bewitchment, Ye Qiyan got the God of the Eerie to reveal its God Number, its resurrection by Batos, and that it had connected low-level worlds to this place.
• As the machines advanced and the God began its countdown, Ye Qiyan activated Transcendence Command, whose passive ability controlled machinery.

Ye Qiyan and his companions faced the God of the Eerie as it filled its Divine Kingdom with Eerified Death Aspects. Ye Qiyan used the Demon Raven and Purity to prepare a direct counterattack, leaving Shen Qianyu unconscious.

• Ye Qiyan destroyed the eerie machines, but the God of the Eerie restored its creatures and buildings and created Eerified copies of him and Shen Qianyu.
• Lisette’s Heartburning Frenzied Love erupted at the sight of her master’s apparent Death Aspects, but Ye Qiyan calmed her with a single word.
• Shen Qianyu realized Ye Qiyan was also Altos, the Overlord of Demons who had slain a True God.
• Ye Qiyan identified malice as the force behind the Death Aspects, and the Demon Raven froze them in place.
• Ye Qiyan used his Demon Cards and Ascension, while the Flower Fairy delivered Purity to him after Shen Qianyu was knocked unconscious.

Ye Qiyan’s allies fought off the God of the Eerie’s endless forces while he transformed the Pure Purification Stone into the Blessing Radiant Seal. With its power awakened, Ye Qiyan declared that the counterattack was beginning.

• The God of the Eerie summoned Apostles and rampaging eerie creatures, while Ye Qiyan’s allies fought to protect him.
• The Thunderhawk of Azure Resonance, Frostsky White Bear, Mecha Girl, knight-captain machines, Augustine, Villain, and Martial Dread held back the enemy tide.
• The God of the Eerie grew alarmed by Ye Qiyan’s hidden domain and the Raven watching its concealed position, then created stronger enemies that could revive.
• Ye Qiyan spent stamina and spirit to transform the Pure Purification Stone into the Blessing Radiant Seal, granting its allies effective attacks against eerie and evil beings and protecting his mind and carriages.
• Ye Qiyan raised the transformed stone as its light spread through the eerie world and announced that it was time to counterattack.

Ye Qiyan used the ascended Pure Purification Stone and his demons to expose the God of the Eerie’s hiding place and corner it. The God of the Eerie tried to use an unconscious girl as a hostage, but Ye Qiyan questioned Lisette about whether he seemed like a good person.

• The Pure Purification Stone purified the battlefield, destroying the Eerie Creatures and forcing the God of the Eerie to react in fear.
• The Demon Raven identified the God of the Eerie’s hidden location, and Ye Qiyan used Dimensional Strangulation to collapse its concealed space into the Heavenly Realm Headquarters.
• The God of the Eerie recognized Ye Qiyan as Altos, but Ye Qiyan and his demons overwhelmed it with the Pure Purification Stone’s power.
• Ye Qiyan asked the God of the Eerie about a Blasphemy Card it had encountered, and it named the card Hunter King.
• The God of the Eerie seized an unconscious girl and threatened to kill her, prompting Ye Qiyan to ask Lisette whether he looked like a good person; she called him the worst.

Ye Qiyan used the Pure Purification Stone and Blasphemy Card to kill the God of the Eerie, even as it held Batos's daughter hostage. The God Core Coordinator recorded the kill, severed the Eerie God Sequence, and offered Ye Qiyan two rewards to select.

• Ye Qiyan loaded a golden bullet with pure light and activated the Blasphemy Card's Judgment Enforcer against the God of the Eerie.
• Miatila pronounced the God of the Eerie guilty and declared its divinity sealed, its True Name negated, and its resurrection and memory copying denied.
• Shen Qianyu awoke as Ye Qiyan fired at the God of the Eerie, which had been using Batos's daughter as a shield.
• Batos regained control of his body when the God of the Eerie tried to flee, and the bullet pierced his skull and burned the eerie spirit to ashes.
• The system confirmed Ye Qiyan's twenty-second godslaying and announced that no new False Gods would arise from eerie beings.
• The God Core Coordinator offered Ye Qiyan two rewards to choose for the divinity.

Ye Qiyan chose rewards after defeating the God of the Eerie alone and upgraded his Blasphemer of the Gods title to deal 1000% damage against divinity. He suspected Fang Cheng was still inside the undamaged Heavenly Realm Headquarters and spoke with Shen Qianyu, who was stunned by how much he had achieved in just over a year.

• Ye Qiyan learned the God of the Eerie had been a failed Rank A experiment with multiple divine-memory backups, then selected its God Core and an item as rewards.
• Miatila announced Ye Qiyan had earned the achievement So-called gods are nothing special and upgraded Blasphemer of the Gods to its maximum damage multiplier of 1000% against divinity.
• Ye Qiyan noticed the wooden palace at the Heavenly Realm Headquarters had escaped the battle undamaged and suspected Fang Cheng was inside.
• Shen Qianyu approached Ye Qiyan with her leg restored and asked whether he was truly a Train Conductor from their generation.
• Ye Qiyan pointed out that he had spent only one year and four months in the Wasteland, leaving Shen Qianyu to call him a monster before he insisted he was human.

Ye Qiyan persuaded the dying Batos to become a mole in exchange for saving his daughter, then entered the Heavenly Realm headquarters with Eve to confront Fang Cheng. Inside, a scarred man on the rafters watched them and praised Ye Qiyan’s strength.

• Batos begged Ye Qiyan to save his unconscious daughter, and Ye Qiyan offered him a chance to live if he reported on Lu Jiayun.
• Batos accepted the deal, boarded his train with his daughter, and promised to share information about Lu Jiayun and the City of a Thousand Stars.
• Ye Qiyan and Eve reached the Heavenly Realm headquarters and entered after Shen Qianyu was shut outside by the closing doors.
• They found Fang Cheng sitting motionless on a throne made from melted weapons, while a scarred man on the rafters drank and remarked on Ye Qiyan’s ability to defeat a Rank A monster.

Ye Qiyan confronted Yu Jiuquan, a fellow Blasphemy Card holder who claimed he had no desire to fight and was searching Fang Cheng’s memories. Yu Jiuquan revealed that his friend, the twelfth original Train Conductor, had died at Heavenly Realm Headquarters after being betrayed, and that the friend had founded Heavenly Realm.

• Lisette and Eve moved to protect Ye Qiyan, but Eve found she could not lock onto Yu Jiuquan with her halo.
• Yu Jiuquan identified himself as the holder of Blasphemy Card IX, Hunter King, and explained that each card’s fourth ability differed by wielder.
• Yu Jiuquan told Ye Qiyan that Fang Cheng was alive and that they were fighting inside Fang Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness while he searched through his memories.
• Ye Qiyan and Yu Jiuquan shared drinks and discussed Yu Jiuquan’s search for a truth in Fang Cheng’s past.
• Yu Jiuquan said only eleven of the original Train Conductors remained, because his friend had been betrayed and killed at Heavenly Realm Headquarters.