Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan uncovered how the God of Sun Wings had seized the legacy of an earlier civilization and exploited its people, then continued toward the False God instead of joining the Resistance Army. On the fifth day, he confronted Sun Wings with an army of 1.65 million surrounding him and unleashed Eternal Night.

• Ye Qiyan learned that the God of Sun Wings made young people believe they would become evil spirits after twenty-five and used their faith, labor, and deaths to sustain its rule.
• Ye Qiyan discovered from taboo books that Sun Wings had posed as an adviser to the former king and taken over the Predecessor Civilization's machines and structures.
• Ye Qiyan rejected the Resistance Army's request to overthrow Sun Wings, had Eve kill an Apostle, opened a granary, and continued toward the red dot while killing Apostles at other structures.
• Ye Qiyan reached the approaching Sun Wings on the fifth day and faced the False God amid 1.65 million troops, with Eve and her weapon slots prepared for battle.
• Sun Wings failed to recognize Ye Qiyan and threatened him, so Ye Qiyan invoked the Calamity Card Eternal Night, Moonlit Silence, bringing the world's first moon into the sky.

Ye Qiyan overwhelmed the God of Sun Wings in its Divine Kingdom, then pursued its true self through disordered space and killed it with Ebony. The hunt ended successfully, bringing his godslaying count to 54+1EX.

• Ye Qiyan battled the God of Sun Wings with Moonshadow while his companions and knights defeated its million believers and apostles.
• The God of Sun Wings recognized Ye Qiyan as the Calamity Lord and decided to flee by transferring its consciousness to its forged sun.
• Ye Qiyan used the Tenth Anchor Point to disrupt the God of Sun Wings' escape and followed it into disordered space.
• Ye Qiyan fired Ebony's Glory Bullet at the forged sun and killed the God of Sun Wings.
• The system confirmed the God of Sun Wings' death and declared Ye Qiyan's hunt successful.

Ye Qiyan defeated the God of Sun Wings and discovered it was an experimental creation from the ae world, then left Nephthys to absorb the energy stored in its ninety-nine megastructures. After selling the god’s empty body for thirteen thousand train coins, he prepared to end the war on the Desert Battlefield.

• Ye Qiyan examined the damaged artificial sun and identified its core as the Winged One Editing Diffuser, an ae-world experiment designed to imitate and defeat the Wasteland Sun.
• Ye Qiyan stabilized the space and restored the damaged energy conduits, then left Nephthys to absorb the imitation sun’s power through ninety-nine megastructures.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Desert Battlefield and found the God of Sun Wings’ body still intact, though its divinity and will were gone.
• Ye Qiyan sold the body to Ailei’s Black Market for thirteen thousand train coins.
• Ye Qiyan drew Rebellion and moved to bring the war and its million believers to an end.

Smiley confronted Vainsol in the Plague Land over his betrayal and the deaths of their companions, while Yu Jiuquan arrived to join the fight. On the Wings of the Sun, WALL-E returned with news of a Great Altar hidden behind a transparent Light Screen, and Ye Qiyan prepared to travel there.

• Smiley entered Vainsol’s Plague Land and demanded to know why Vainsol had betrayed him and their companions.
• Vainsol blamed Smiley for his downfall, and Smiley attacked him while declaring he would not forgive his actions.
• Vainsol blocked Smiley with a plague barrier, but Yu Jiuquan arrived after tracking Vainsol’s curse and joined the confrontation.
• After more than a month of searching the Wings of the Sun, Ye Qiyan welcomed WALL-E back from his expedition.
• WALL-E told Ye Qiyan he had found a Great Altar behind a transparent Light Screen, and Ye Qiyan activated Imaginary Number Navigation to reach it.

Ye Qiyan entered a town whose residents remained content under the False God's old order, then followed WALL-E to a sealed altar inside a vast mechanical structure. He claimed his seventh Calamity Card, [Calamity Card · Utopia], whose powers turned happiness into a dangerous falsehood.

• Ye Qiyan emerged from Imaginary Number Space and spared the townspeople because they had not provoked him.
• Ye Qiyan followed WALL-E into the enormous mechanical construct and reached a transparent barrier surrounding a spiral altar.
• Ye Qiyan used the Anchor to voyage inside the barrier and climbed the altar's 333 steps.
• Ye Qiyan touched [Calamity Card · Utopia] and learned it could trap people in a false dreamlike Utopia or turn their happiness into a hundredfold pain.

Ye Qiyan learned how Calamity Cards and other Card Sequences were born, then reclaimed his allies and left Uto City. Back in the Wasteland, he found the Teru Teru Bozu in a sorry state and wondered what had happened while he was away.

• Miatila explained that Utopia was a Calamity Card born from Ye Qiyan’s memories and beliefs about Heinz and Uto City, and described how newly born Card Sequences found their masters.
• Ye Qiyan asked Miatila about Card Sequence evaluation symbols, but she could not see them, while the Main System displayed an insufficient-permissions warning.
• Ye Qiyan shattered the Altar’s Barrier, took the treasure, and left with WALL-E as he called the Nanite Swarms and Nephthys back to the Hive.
• Ye Qiyan pressed the Departure Button and returned the Train to the Wasteland, leaving a godless Uto City to return to human rule.
• Ye Qiyan noticed the sickly, soaked Teru Teru Bozu and wondered what had happened in the Wasteland during his absence.

Ye Qiyan learned that Zhuxing Tu had provoked Vainsol into unleashing a plague across the Wasteland, and chose to stay out of her plans. Zhuxing Tu used her Sovereignty rings to reach the Plague Land with Wu Yuanshan and Shaya, ready to confront Vainsol.

• Ye Qiyan noticed the Wasteland’s storm and foul plague, suspected Vainsol was responsible, and contacted Zhuxing Tu.
• Zhuxing Tu confirmed that Ye Qiyan’s suspicion was correct, and he ended the call rather than interfere in her conflict.
• Zhuxing Tu used the Astrology Platform to trace the Plague Land and declared that Ailei’s fate had finally been reversed.
• Zhuxing Tu opened the way with the Rings of Sovereignty and arrived at the Plague Land with Wu Yuanshan and Shaya.

Zhuxing Tu, Shaya, and Wu Yuanshan fought Vainsol in the Wasteland while Ye Qiyan watched the battle and assessed what he needed to improve. He advanced his train to level 31 and considered how to obtain another Ring of Sovereignty before level 35.

• Zhuxing Tu confronted Vainsol and declared that he would lose everything within the Wasteland Day, while Vainsol insisted he could still overcome fate on his home ground.
• Shaya and Wu Yuanshan joined Zhuxing Tu in battling Vainsol, with Yu Jiuquan watching from a distance and Smiley too weakened to fight.
• After three Wasteland Days, Ye Qiyan watched the ongoing battle through Shaya's livestream and realized he needed more trump cards, combat options, and experience.
• Ye Qiyan advanced his train to level 31, spending Spirit and Stamina as its parts upgraded.
• Ye Qiyan learned that level 35 would let him make a limited-use Ring of Sovereignty permanent and considered forging a new one himself.

Ye Qiyan bought three gun-related upgrades and a twig made from the Tree of Life’s origin essence, which triggered the Path of Extraordinary King's Authority. The System revealed that he could craft the absolute King's Authorities Supreme, Demon, and Calamity without passing a proof, or combine all three into one.

• Ye Qiyan reviewed four upgrade options priced to consume all 13,346 of his Train Coins, despite protesting to the System.
• Ye Qiyan bought the Space-Warping Super Bullet Blueprint and considered using Ascension on it and pairing it with Lisette’s White Night handgun.
• Ye Qiyan bought the Lost Magazine armament and considered using it to reproduce powerful enhanced ammunition.
• Ye Qiyan bought the Gunblade Dance enhancement module and tested its stacking defense reduction effect.
• Ye Qiyan bought the twig, a physical manifestation of the Tree of Life’s origin essence, and triggered the Path of Extraordinary King's Authority.
• The System identified Supreme, Demon, and Calamity as Ye Qiyan’s absolute King's Authorities and said he could craft them individually or combine them.

Ye Qiyan asked Monrojina to explain the difference between basic and extraordinary king’s authority, and she described the king’s authority pathway as a self-imposed trial of proof. He learned that authority required both a personal proof and a suitable object, while Monrojina hinted that her own path remained uncertain.

• Ye Qiyan asked Miatila about basic and extraordinary king’s authority, but she could not find an answer in the Main System’s database.
• Ye Qiyan asked Monrojina, who explained how Train Conductors qualified for king’s authority and said basic authority was a power they already possessed, while extraordinary authority required strengthening it.
• Monrojina explained that a king’s proof was a trial set by the claimant for themselves, and Ye Qiyan realized Heinz’s actions had served his chosen proof against War.
• Ye Qiyan asked about Monrojina’s own pathway, and she hinted that repaying her karmic debt might give her a chance to pursue it.
• Monrojina reminded Ye Qiyan that forging an object of king’s authority required collecting valuable materials, then privately wondered whether she could succeed after nine failed attempts.

Ye Qiyan rejected the idea of settling for an ordinary Ring of Sovereignty and began pursuing his own path to King's Authority. He ascended his bullet blueprint using the Void Realm's power, gave White Night to Lisette, and upgraded Lost Magazine.

• Ye Qiyan decided he would seek King's Authority and forge a powerful path of his own rather than settle for an ordinary ring.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Curved-Space Super Bullet Blueprint into the Void Realm Bullet Blueprint and extracted power from the imprisoned Void Realm to make bullets.
• Ye Qiyan test-fired a True Void Realm Bullet, which created and collapsed a miniature Void Realm that injured nearby monsters.
• Ye Qiyan gave White Night to Lisette and suggested she use it with new bullet blueprints, making her delighted.
• Ye Qiyan ascended Armament · Lost Magazine, which gained the ability to reproduce a fired bullet by consuming Spirit.

Zhuxing Tu and her allies defeated Vainsol after days of suppressing the Plague Land, but Vainsol turned his death into a powerful curse against her. Zhuxing Tu survived by reversing its effects, then collapsed after reaching a Platform World containing a Dark Gold Fragment.

• Zhuxing Tu kept Vainsol and the Plague Land suppressed until Vainsol admitted she had reversed the fate she designed for him.
• Vainsol confessed he had killed the girl who tried to claim the Curse King's Authority, then drove his staff into his heart and cursed Zhuxing Tu as he died.
• Vainsol turned his Plague Land, powers, and possessions into his final curse, and the plague-tainted rain stopped.
• Zhuxing Tu told Shaya and Wu Yuanshan she was fine, thanked them, and took the Destiny Star River back to her Wasteland Road.
• On her train, Zhuxing Tu used a prepared countermeasure to reverse the curse, but her body disintegrated and recovered until she collapsed in blood.
• Zhuxing Tu's train entered a Platform World where she saw a Dark Gold Fragment, and Ye Qiyan wondered whether she had acted only to obtain Card Sequences.

Ye Qiyan chose the level 11 multiplayer competitive Platform World, Final Showdown of the Great Tunguska Chaos, where Wisher Alaya explained that he had been summoned to protect her. After learning that every previous Wisher had died and that the contest would end after seven days, Ye Qiyan decided to try to keep her alive.

• Ye Qiyan selected the Final Showdown of the Great Tunguska Chaos over a level 10 Hunting Station and a level 11 Slaughter Platform.
• Ye Qiyan entered the forest with Eve and sent WALL-E into the Sea of Anti-Reality before meeting Alaya, the Wisher who had summoned him.
• Alaya explained that Ye Qiyan had to protect her through the competition to receive its prize, though she did not know what the prize was.
• Alaya said that seven Train Conductors were competing, the contest would reach its final stage after seven days, seven hours, and seven minutes, and no Wisher had ever survived.
• Ye Qiyan introduced himself to Alaya as a Hero and said he would try to keep her alive beyond the seventh day.

Ye Qiyan received the contest rules, which offered Train Coins for killing another Conductor’s burden and erased the memories of anyone expelled. After defending Alaya from attackers, he learned that earlier participants had already been in the world for months and had likely contacted one another.

• Ye Qiyan read Instructor’s rules and objected to the memory erasure, then burned the letter with flames from the Driver's Righteous Sword.
• Ye Qiyan drove through the forest with Alaya and Lisette while Alaya doubted she could survive the contest.
• A hidden archer attacked Alaya, but the Astral Sacred Crest blocked the first arrow and Ye Qiyan’s companions counterattacked.
• Ye Qiyan dragged a concealed assassin out of Hyperspace, and Lisette pierced the assassin’s skull; before vanishing, the living puppet invited Altos to meet beneath the largest banyan tree between the fourth and fifth zones.
• Ye Qiyan told Alaya he could protect her and asked what else she knew, and Alaya said the first participant had been in the sixth zone for three months and earlier arrivals had likely spoken with one another.

Stape watched the competition begin and recognized Altos, while Ye Qiyan brought Alaya to her settlement before confronting Stape at the border of Zones Four and Five. Stape proposed that Ye Qiyan work with him.

• Stape noticed that Altos had entered the competition and decided the rules would still let him obtain the competitors’ memories after the Seventh Day.
• Ye Qiyan took Alaya to her home in the Zone Five settlement and removed nearby surveillance devices with the Nanite Swarm and Giant Eagle.
• Late on the first day, Ye Qiyan drove his train toward Stape beneath the largest banyan tree at the border between Zones Four and Five.
• Stape blocked the Imminent Demise Drill with a shield bearer formed from liquid, and Ye Qiyan identified him as Stape, titled Humanoid Preference Master.
• Stape praised Ye Qiyan’s Demon Card: Pride and asked him to work together.

Ye Qiyan fought Stape, a Top-Level Train Conductor, before the two agreed to a temporary truce and discussed cooperating against the Platform Lord. Ye Qiyan revealed that the world’s rules could use Eternal Binding to tamper with Train Conductors’ memories when their burdens died.

• Ye Qiyan refused Stape’s offer to cooperate, and the two began fighting as Stape’s crew and Ye Qiyan’s Mechs clashed.
• Stape turned himself and his crew into flesh-like giants, while Gluttony devoured the flesh slurry and Ye Qiyan searched for Stape’s hidden location.
• Ye Qiyan found Stape with Dimensional Strangulation, and Stape surrendered before either man had used his full strength.
• Stape proposed cooperating against the Platform Lord, and Ye Qiyan agreed to hear his plan while keeping his forces on guard.
• Ye Qiyan explained that the Platform Lord could use Eternal Binding to interfere with Train Conductors’ memories when their burdens died.

Ye Qiyan agreed to cooperate with Stape to eliminate the other burdens before facing the Platform Lord, while Alaya remained protected in the Zone Five settlement. In Qishu Sea, Zhuxing Tu saw Zhao Lin fish up a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card and, after asking Ye Qiyan whether she could pursue a second card, received his encouragement.

• Ye Qiyan and Stape agreed to work together against the other five burdens, then deal with the Platform Lord when it appeared.
• Alaya stayed in the Zone Five settlement, where powerful allies defended her from waves of assassins.
• Zhuxing Tu recovered from transferring a curse and went to inspect a fragment she believed might be a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card.
• Zhuxing Tu encountered Zhao Lin, who accidentally fished up a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card, but Zhuxing Tu told her to keep collecting fragments.
• Zhuxing Tu questioned whether she could pursue a second card, and Ye Qiyan replied that anything was possible in the Wasteland.

Ye Qiyan refused Zhuxing Tu’s offer of a Blasphemy Card Fragment and continued attacking the other Train Conductors. Zhuxing Tu returned to the starry sky as the Witch, while Zhao Lin discovered that her luck had run out.

• Ye Qiyan told Zhuxing Tu he would not take a Fragment of the Blasphemy Card from her, though he considered keeping her Fourteenth Fate Card for himself.
• Zhuxing Tu activated the Ring of Sovereignty, changed her title to Starfall's Trickster, and set off for the starry sky.
• Zhuxing Tu invited Zhao Lin to join the next Imperial Sequence event, then sped away and sent Zhao Lin and her train flying into the lake.
• Zhao Lin found a Nail of Misfortune and realized her good luck had run out after she obtained the Fragment of the Blasphemy Card.
• Ye Qiyan attacked the other Train Conductors, and a woman who recognized him as Altos filled her area with candy and sent a cotton candy giant to strike his train.

Ye Qiyan tested his strength against a dessert-wielding Train Conductor, whose promise to protect a little girl kept her fighting despite her reluctance. After his forces broke through her dessert defenses, she conceded, leaving their confrontation unresolved beyond the battle.

• Martial Dread broke through the Marshmallow Giant's attacks, then Ye Qiyan used the Transcendence Command to give it a temporary Supreme prefix and supergravity powers.
• The woman asked to surrender and explained that she had promised to protect the little girl, while Ye Qiyan said he had not come to kill anyone.
• Ye Qiyan ordered Augustine, Lancelot, and the Endless Knight Order to attack the woman's train as candy giants and chocolate-armored dessert creatures rose to defend it.
• Martial Dread and the others shattered the dessert defenses and reached the woman's train, whereupon she conceded before Martial Dread could strike it.

Ye Qiyan defeated the woman’s defenses and used the Talisman That Breaks All Methods to remove the restraint affecting the Train Conductors’ memories, confirming that Eternal Binding could not stop him. The Platform Lord realized someone had disrupted his scheme, brought his plan forward, and prepared to target Altos.

• Ye Qiyan exposed the woman’s fake cookie child and fought her Dessert Workshop Domain with Augustine and his other powers.
• Ye Qiyan appeared behind the woman, took her child, and tested the Talisman That Breaks All Methods on her heart and brain before returning her alive.
• Ye Qiyan revealed that he had used the encounter to test whether the talisman could remove the unknown restraint affecting Train Conductors’ memories through Eternal Binding.
• The Platform Lord in Tunguska Middle Ages realized someone had removed his restraint and suspected Altos.
• The Platform Lord accepted the dancing girl’s suggestion to target Altos, brought the plan forward, and fed his own memories into a golden slot machine.