Chapter Summaries

After waking from the Dream Eaters’ sweet dreams, Ye Qiyan learned how Zhao Lin’s bad luck helped her escape and wondered whether encountering the jellyfish had used up her misfortune. The chapter ended with him offering to get Zhao Lin into another city instead of paying eight Train Coins for a temporary entry card.

• Ye Qiyan exchanged messages with Zhao Lin, who said she had escaped a dream of her old home after remembering that her next stop was Lucky Station and doubting good luck could last forever.
• Zhao Lin shared that her maximum sanity had fallen by 20 points, while Ye Qiyan checked the quiet Public Chatroom and wondered whether Shangguan Yingxue was awake.
• Shangguan Yingxue told Ye Qiyan that she had woken up after a sweet dream and lost 15 points of maximum sanity.
• Zhao Lin asked whether encountering the Dream Eaters had used up her bad luck before her scheduled stop at Misfortune Station.
• After Zhao Lin said she was considering an eight-coin temporary city entry card, Ye Qiyan told her to give him the money because he had another way to get her into a city.

Ye Qiyan brought Zhao Lin into Solo City as Monrojina began her attack and the Inverted City descended, then moved Zhao Lin to safety among the elves. The chapter ended with Solo City's grand adjudicator, Zhao Xi, confronting Monrojina in the sky.

• Ye Qiyan met Zhao Lin at the city entrance, took her Invitation Card, and demanded another five Train Coins from her.
• A dark-blue train appeared above Solo City, and Monrojina began the ritual that brought the Inverted City down as inspectors surrounded her.
• Chess-piece soldiers descended from the Inverted City and fought the inspectors while Ye Qiyan led Zhao Lin to the elven ruins.
• Annie gave Ye Qiyan a note from Gina, and he used the station platform to move Zhao Lin's train to safety.
• Zhao Xi fought off the summoned soldiers and confronted Monrojina, who taunted her for serving the Slothful.

Ye Qiyan used the Hunt Mecha-Dragon to divert falling debris, drawing Zhao Xi’s attention to his station. Zhao Xi broke into the station and confronted Zhao Lin, demanding to know where Ye Qiyan was and where he got the mechanical dragon.

• Ye Qiyan watched Monrojina and Zhao Xi’s battle until lightning destroyed Monrojina’s inverted city, sending debris toward Zhao Lin’s platform.
• Ye Qiyan summoned the Hunt Mecha-Dragon, which caught a falling fragment and threw it into an unoccupied area.
• Zhao Xi abandoned her pursuit of Monrojina and searched for the mechanical dragon, frightening the city’s residents and finding Annie.
• Zhao Xi opened the hidden station and inspected Ye Qiyan’s train and Security Sentry before calling for the train’s operator.
• Zhao Xi broke into Zhao Lin’s train, scattered her barricade, and forced her to surrender her rifle.
• Zhao Xi asked Zhao Lin where Ye Qiyan was and where he had obtained the mechanical dragon.

Ye Qiyan met Zhao Xi, Solo City's chief judge, who questioned him about his Hunt Mecha-Dragon and learned how he had found its Blueprint. After inspecting his dragon, Zhao Xi invited him to join the Solo City Judgment Court, leaving Ye Qiyan with a friend request and faction invitation to consider.

• Zhao Xi interrogated Zhao Lin until Ye Qiyan intervened and denied knowing about a dragon.
• Zhao Xi recognized Ye Qiyan's Ebony and used her own Hunt Mecha-Dragon to question him about the Blueprint.
• Ye Qiyan said he found the Blueprint in a treasure chest at a platform and explained that the thief had hidden it at Screaming Manor.
• Zhao Xi gave Ye Qiyan twenty Train Coins to activate his dragon, then inspected it and asked his name.
• Zhao Xi invited Ye Qiyan to join the Solo City Judgment Court and sent him a friend request and faction invitation.

Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin joined the Solo City Judgment Court after Zhao Xi explained her interest in the Hunt Mecha-Dragon and gave them identity medals. Zhao Xi then ignored a report that the Imperial Sequence Organization had attacked the Order Court, while Ye Qiyan suspected the attack was part of a plan to free something sealed beneath Solo City.

• Zhao Xi offered Ye Qiyan membership in the Judgment Court in exchange for a favor someday, explaining that she wanted the Hunt Mecha-Dragon and would not interfere with him.
• Ye Qiyan joined the Judgment Court, and Zhao Lin followed after he told her the choice was hers.
• Zhao Xi gave Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin different Judgment Court medals that granted them access to city districts and identified their ranks.
• A caller reported that War, Astrology, and Divine Dragon had attacked the Order Court and were approaching the Altar, but Zhao Xi refused to return and destroyed her phone.
• Ye Qiyan recalled Monrojina's warning that the Imperial Sequence Organization was trying to free something sealed beneath Solo City, and Zhao Xi advised him to contact her with questions about the Hunt Mecha-Dragon.

Monrojina returned to Ye Qiyan gravely wounded after stealing a sealed box from Solo City, but Ye Qiyan used Shaya’s healing lollipop to save her. Recovered, Monrojina asked Zhao Lin to give her and Ye Qiyan time alone to talk.

• Zhao Xi departed, leaving Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin on the platform.
• A damaged train crashed through the gridlike space, and Ye Qiyan found Monrojina badly wounded inside.
• Monrojina gave Ye Qiyan the sealed box she had stolen and explained that a Curse Card had caused her wound.
• Ye Qiyan healed Monrojina with Shaya’s lollipop, and she thanked him and promised to repay him.
• Monrojina changed clothes, met Zhao Lin, and asked her to give Ye Qiyan and her time to talk.

Ye Qiyan accepted Monrojina’s new Demon Card and the sealed box after saving her, while she reflected on her growing debt to him. At the Order Court, Zhuxing Tu located and seized the Order Card · Peace, freeing the city’s suppressed hearts as the attackers’ plan advanced.

• Monrojina gave Ye Qiyan the Demon Card · Pride and the Sealing Box, and they promised he would tell her what was inside if he opened it.
• Monrojina repaired her train and watched Ye Qiyan speak with Zhao Lin, while a Ritual Card revealed that her debt to him remained unresolved.
• Zhuxing Tu told Fan Huo she had failed to identify the owner of the newest Blasphemy Card but had discovered something interesting.
• Zhuxing Tu located the Order Card · Peace underground, and Fan Huo and the Yellow-Haired Youth bombarded the site to expose its Altar.
• Zhuxing Tu broke the Altar’s barrier and took the Order Card · Peace, declaring that the city’s suppressed hearts could move forward again.

Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin browsed the Solo City Train Exchange, where Ye Qiyan used his adjudicator’s medal to access special carriage listings and bought a Virtual Sandbox Carriage and a livestock carriage. As they were leaving, they saw a former Train Conductor demand to reclaim the locomotive he had sold, but an exchange employee refused.

• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin explored the Train Exchange and found that scanning Ye Qiyan’s adjudicator’s medal unlocked listings for special carriages.
• Zhao Lin borrowed Ye Qiyan’s medal to browse the special listings, but Ye Qiyan told her it could not help her obtain flame stones from the trading hall.
• Ye Qiyan bought a Virtual Sandbox Carriage for ten Train Coins and a livestock carriage for five more.
• As Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin prepared to leave, an unkempt man demanded that the exchange return the locomotive he had sold for ten Train Coins.
• The exchange employee refused, saying the man had willingly sold his locomotive and could not buy it back without a hundred Train Coins.

As the Order Card’s disappearance ended Peace’s influence, disgruntled former Train Conductors rioted in Solo City, and Ye Qiyan killed attackers who tried to rob him. Back at the Small Station, Monrojina confirmed that Zhuxing Tu had taken the card and was being pursued by the short Chief Grand Inquisitor.

• Former Train Conductors gathered outside the Trading Hall, and a rioter attacked a staff member while demanding his locomotive.
• A Molotov cocktail sparked a riot in the Train Exchange, where the crowd overwhelmed Security Guards and looted the shops.
• When rioters tried to rob Ye Qiyan, he shot them and had the Demon Raven collect their Train Coins; Zhao Lin watched in shock.
• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin returned to the ruined Village, where blue-skinned elves were packing to leave and Monrojina’s train was being repaired.
• Monrojina told Ye Qiyan that Zhuxing Tu had obtained the Order Card and was being pursued by the short Chief Grand Inquisitor, who had previously been lured away from Monrojina.

Ye Qiyan spoke with Monrojina about Zhuxing Tu’s pursuit of Card Sequences before Monrojina left Solo City with the elves. As Ye Qiyan prepared to leave as well, a violent tremor struck, interrupting his plans.

• Monrojina told Ye Qiyan that Zhuxing Tu cared only about collecting Card Sequences and recruiting potential collectors into the Imperial Sequence Organization.
• Monrojina gave Ye Qiyan a Giant Eagle Egg, then departed on her train with more than a hundred blue elves to help them complete a Ritual.
• Monrojina messaged Ye Qiyan, offering to help if he encountered mystical problems he could not handle.
• Ye Qiyan decided to stay in Solo City longer, planned to Ascend two carriages, and considered spending his remaining Soluo Coins on supplies.
• Zhao Lin came out of her soundproof carriage and fled when Ye Qiyan suggested she sell it to repay him.
• The ground shook violently just as Ye Qiyan wondered whether Zhao Lin’s bad luck was not so serious after all.

Ye Qiyan used Zhao Xi’s payment to fire the Hunt Mecha-Dragon’s Transcendence warhead at the Order Card sequence master attacking Solo City. The blast tore a hole through the man’s chest, and Zhao Xi warned him that she could strike again.

• Zhao Xi fought a golden, six-armed man whose battle was tearing apart Solo City, while Ye Qiyan headed toward the station to escape the destruction.
• Zhuxing Tu warned Ye Qiyan that the attacker was an old Train Conductor who had collected the complete Order Card set and urged him to leave Solo City.
• Zhao Xi sent Ye Qiyan 150 Train Coins and asked him to activate Transcendence and attack the man in the sky.
• Ye Qiyan spent 80 Train Coins to transform the Hunt Mecha-Dragon and launch its Hunt Ultimate Warhead at the attacker.
• Zhao Xi restrained the man long enough for the warhead to hit, leaving a spiraling breach through his chest, and threatened to attack again.

After helping Zhao Xi defeat a powerful enemy in Solo City, Ye Qiyan escaped by train and recovered from the strain of using his warhead. The next day, he reviewed his rewards and ascended the breeding car, leaving it with a new form.

• Zhao Xi thanked Ye Qiyan for saving her, and he joked that his help had cost extra.
• Zhao Xi sent Ye Qiyan a Level 6 Mental Power Recovery Potion, and he kept it for its potential value before falling asleep.
• Ye Qiyan woke near noon, told WALL-E to place the Giant Eagle egg in the breeding car, and counted his Train Coins and other gains from Solo City.
• Ye Qiyan used his mental power to ascend the breeding car into a Fully automated · High-efficiency · Accelerated-maturation breeding car.

Ye Qiyan upgraded his livestock carriage and merged the virtual sandbox into his Constant-Temperature Carriage as an advance-reconnaissance module. He chose the Forward Station trading platform and arrived early, where Smiley froze upon recognizing him.

• Ye Qiyan crafted a livestock carriage that automatically cared for animals and incubated the Giant Eagle egg.
• He ascended the Virtual Sandbox Carriage into a reconnaissance module and synchronized it with the Constant-Temperature Carriage, doubling its interior space.
• Ye Qiyan collected Train Coins from Zhao Lin, received Floating Armor from Zhuxing Tu, and obtained mental energy potions from Zhao Xi.
• When the Fork in Destiny offered Forward Station or a goblin battle platform, Ye Qiyan chose Forward Station because of his agreement with Smiley.
• Ye Qiyan arrived at Forward Station ahead of the other Train Conductors, and Smiley froze when he recognized him.

Ye Qiyan revealed his level 10 Hunt Mecha-Dragon and offered Smiley a chance to escape the curse by leaving the Forward Station with the Blasphemy Card’s Anchor-Banishment ability. Smiley prepared the platform’s most precious item for Ye Qiyan, who entered the Trading Hall to retrieve it.

• Smiley told Ye Qiyan that their agreement was hopeless because the curse had made him unable to die and Ye Qiyan could not obtain a powerful enough item.
• Ye Qiyan summoned his level 10 Hunt Mecha-Dragon, and Smiley realized its rank could break the curse affecting him.
• Ye Qiyan asked whether banishing Smiley into the Wasteland would free him from the platform’s curse, and Smiley insisted that escape was impossible.
• Ye Qiyan gave Smiley a Whiteforest Fruit and said Smiley could choose to try escaping or be freed by the Mecha-Dragon, then asked to see the platform’s most precious item.
• Smiley replaced the Trading Hall’s items despite the curse worsening his condition, and directed Ye Qiyan to find the item at the hall’s rear.

Ye Qiyan found a fragment of the Blasphemy Card at the Forward Station and bought it, discovering that it could sever Smiley from the god’s curse. He used the card’s Banishment ability to free Smiley, then prepared to leave as black liquid flooded the station.

• Ye Qiyan identified the display case item as a Blasphemy Card fragment and learned it could help break Smiley’s curse.
• Ye Qiyan spent 60 Train Coins to buy the fragment, and the case shattered while the Floating Armor blocked its shards.
• Smiley, weeping and trapped by the curse, begged Ye Qiyan to save him or kill him.
• Ye Qiyan used the Blasphemy Card’s Anchor and Banishment abilities to cut Smiley off from the curse and send him away from the prison.
• Smiley thanked Ye Qiyan and wished him victory before vanishing, while Ye Qiyan mounted the Hunt Mecha-Dragon to leave the station.

Ye Qiyan escaped the Transit Station by drilling through a black-water giant, causing the Train System to erase the station and award him the title One Who Angers the Gods. He then ascended his Floating Armor into an Astral Sacred Crest, bound it to himself, and went to sleep exhausted.

• Ye Qiyan used the Imminent Demise Drill and an Acceleration Bullet to bore through the black-water giant and leave the Transit Station.
• The Train System announced that the Transit Station had been erased and granted five Train Coins to conductors in the merged zone, including Ye Qiyan.
• Ye Qiyan earned the title One Who Angers the Gods for destroying a Public Trading Platform and kept fifty-four Train Coins after his expenses and compensation.
• Ye Qiyan set a new anchor point, then used Ascension on the Floating Armor, which became an Astral Sacred Crest and reduced his stamina from 114 to 4.
• Ye Qiyan bound the Astral Sacred Crest, gaining twenty maximum stamina and spirit, then went to sleep.

Zhuxing Tu sensed another Blasphemy Card fragment and decided to find Demon Card coordinates for Ye Qiyan, while Smiley escaped into the Endless Wilderness. The next morning, Ye Qiyan ascended the newly hatched Giant Eagle and transformed Illusory Obsession into the ungraded Book of the Unreal and the Real.

• Zhuxing Tu detected a new Blasphemy Card fragment, dismissed the possibility that Ye Qiyan had found it, and resolved to give him Demon Card coordinates to make up for her broken promise.
• Smiley awoke in the Endless Wilderness after Ye Qiyan banished him from the Forward Station, killed nearby Steel-Fanged Wolves, and set out on his own.
• Ye Qiyan discovered that the tiny chick was a juvenile Secret Art Giant Eagle and ascended it into a Secret Art Imperial Blood Giant Eagle.
• Ye Qiyan inspected his new Astral Sacred Crest and considered ascending one of his level-seven items, choosing Illusory Obsession.
• Ye Qiyan's Ascension ignored Illusory Obsession's resistance and transformed it into the ungraded Book of the Unreal and the Real, draining his spirit from 150 to 50.

Ye Qiyan used Ascension to transform the Book of the Unreal and the Real and his grenade launcher, then chose the Smáfa Fortress Recovery Battle Camp as his fifteenth station. He arrived alongside another train at the level seven cooperative station.

• Ye Qiyan discovered that Ascension had strengthened the Book of the Unreal and the Real and made it eligible for his armament space.
• Ye Qiyan transformed the Frost Enchanting · Six-Barrel Rotary Grenade Launcher into the Six-Wheel Ice Vein Beam Cannon, which used electricity to recharge.
• Ye Qiyan made and ascended a Generator, then equipped the Security Sentry with the beam cannon.
• Ye Qiyan chose the Smáfa Fortress Recovery Battle Camp over the Hanging City, hoping to learn more about other high-level Train Conductors.
• Ye Qiyan's train arrived at the Smáfa Fortress Recovery Battle Camp at the same time as another train.

Ye Qiyan and Qin Qiang accepted Princess Winnie’s request to reclaim Smafa Fortress, where a Goblin Legion Commander and a Goblin Hero blocked the advance. Ye Qiyan revealed that the danger warning mattered differently to him and introduced himself as a Judgment Enforcer of the Solo City Judgment Court.

• Ye Qiyan sent WALL-E out to search for treasure while he inspected the neighboring train and its occupant with Pride’s ability.
• Ye Qiyan and Qin Qiang met on the platform and followed a knight to Princess Winnie’s tent.
• Princess Winnie asked them to defeat the Goblin Legion Commander and Goblin Hero at Smafa Fortress, offering forty Train Coins; Ye Qiyan recognized that her encouragement affected people’s minds.
• Ye Qiyan accepted the coins and requested a troop escort, then left the tent with Qin Qiang following him.
• Qin Qiang said his train was level 7 and urged them to coordinate against the dangerous Goblins; Ye Qiyan introduced himself by showing his Judgment Court medal.

Ye Qiyan entered the fallen fortress of Kasmafa and learned that the Goblin Hero had smashed through its walls. Qin Qiang proposed abandoning the mission to loot the city, while Ye Qiyan chose to confront the Goblins and reached a battlefield where the Hero was slaughtering the defenders.

• Ye Qiyan saw the giant fist mark in Kasmafa’s wall and learned that the Goblin Hero had made it.
• Qin Qiang privately urged Ye Qiyan to abandon the mission, loot the fortress, and let the defenders die; Ye Qiyan refused and demanded two-thirds of the resources Qin Qiang collected.
• Qin Qiang agreed to the terms but asked to take Princess Winnie as his slave, revealing his contempt for the station world’s people.
• Qin Qiang began stealing valuables, weapons, and food from the fortress inhabitants while Ye Qiyan and the knights continued onward.
• Ye Qiyan’s group reached a battlefield where the Goblin Hero was slaughtering armored knights, and Qin Qiang realized the fortress had already fallen.