Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan followed WALL-E beneath the magma to an altar holding an incomplete Calamity Card and used a speck of deep-blue energy to remake it. The new Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun was born, shining as a scorching sun above the Gatam Empire.

• Ye Qiyan cooled the magma with Freezing Point Authority and followed WALL-E into a vast underground space.
• WALL-E guided Ye Qiyan to a radiant altar, where he discovered a Card Sequence and entered its Barrier.
• Ye Qiyan found the Card Sequence incomplete and realized it might take three months, or three Wasteland Days, to fully manifest.
• Ye Qiyan touched the altar and infused the incomplete Card Sequence with deep-blue energy, shattering and remaking it.
• The Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun was born, and a blazing sun appeared above the Gatam Empire.

Ye Qiyan acquired the Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun Calamity Card and used its soul-burning sunlight as his belief grew stronger. After the Gatam Empire ascended to Level 12, he opened a spatial rift to bring in his Mechs and prepare to end his stay in the world.

• Ye Qiyan obtained the Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun Calamity Card, whose second ability burned souls through belief.
• Ye Qiyan's belief ignited beneath the sun, causing his Spirit to rise from 1800 to 2700 as people across the Gatam Empire felt their souls burn.
• Miatila informed Ye Qiyan that the Gatam Empire had become a Level 12 Platform World, and Ye Qiyan decided to bring everyone back and end the mission.
• Gatam I suffered under the blazing sun because his soul pool and newly gained divinity were vulnerable to its soul flame.
• Ye Qiyan opened the Seventh Anchor Point, and his Super-Order Anchor appeared in the sky with Mechs aboard.
• Ye Qiyan ordered the Mechs to leave none who resisted alive.

Ye Qiyan and his companions defeated Gatam I, then spent a month destroying the Gatam Empire’s high-end military forces to fulfill his bargain. With the mission complete, Ye Qiyan prepared to leave the Platform World and resume searching for the Finality Core’s world.

• Gatam I ordered the capital’s forces to attack Ye Qiyan, but Ye Qiyan’s companions overwhelmed the Mecha army under the Sun’s light.
• Augustine and Lancelot defeated Gatam I, and the soul-searing blazing Sun burned his fleeing soul to ashes.
• After Gatam I died, Ye Qiyan hunted down the Gatam Empire’s Heroes, high-level Mecha pilots, and remaining armed forces while destroying armories.
• Augustine destroyed the pilot of the last level 9 Mecha, and Ye Qiyan confirmed that his seven-month bargain was fulfilled.
• Ye Qiyan prepared to depart on the Train and finish searching for the Finality Core’s world.

Ye Qiyan prepared to leave the Gatam Empire, secured the GT Series manufacturing knowledge and sold much of his collected machinery. Back in the Wasteland, he used the [GT-Seeker] to create a coordinate item that would let him enter the Mechanism World as a Descender and search for the GT-Finality Core.

• Ye Qiyan discussed the expected Level 12 reward with Miatila and reviewed his plans for the collected mechas, materials, and blueprints.
• Lisette shared her knowledge of the GT-1 through GT-61 manufacturing blueprints with Ye Qiyan through the [Memory Offering] module, and he stored the knowledge with the Mechanical Heart.
• After selling unwanted items, Ye Qiyan's Train Coins reached 47314, and Miatila assured him she had prepared for their next train upgrade.
• Ye Qiyan departed the Gatam Empire and returned to the Wasteland, where he received the quest reward [Soul's Reminiscence].
• Ye Qiyan used the [GT-Seeker] and [Big Spending Discount] to locate the GT-Finality Core and construct a coordinate item for entering the Mechanism World as a Descender for 48 hours.

Ye Qiyan raised his train to Level 33 and received two upgrade options, one of which could extend his Fork in Destiny module. He uncovered the second option, Great Burial of Separation Fire, and was left facing its price and unknown effects.

• Ye Qiyan considered using a beacon or Anchor Point to return to Mechanism World after visiting it as a Descender.
• Ye Qiyan began the train’s ascension, hoping to raise it two levels, and Miatila helped power the process.
• Ye Qiyan’s train reached Level 33, with its base speed increased to 660 kilometers per hour.
• Miatila revealed the first upgrade option, The Junction Named 12, a special extension for Ye Qiyan’s Fork in Destiny module costing 27,314 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan turned over the second upgrade option, Great Burial of Separation Fire, priced at 20,001 Train Coins.

Ye Qiyan spent his remaining Train Coins to obtain Miatila’s custom extension, which could lead him to Level 12 worlds, and an enhancement item for Nephthys. He resolved to pursue the dangerous worlds and planned to alter the enhancement so Nephthys would not have to die to benefit from it.

• Ye Qiyan realized the Main System wanted the bloodstained Train Coin because it valued the bonds formed in Platform Worlds, then spent all his Train Coins on the two options.
• Ye Qiyan read that Miatila’s extension gave Fork in Destiny a small chance to send him to a Level 12 world, where anything was possible, and decided he would go.
• Ye Qiyan wondered whether Zhao Lin was still alive and noted that she still owed him a dose of good luck.
• Ye Qiyan examined Great Burial of Separation Fire, an enhancement that required Nephthys to die and resurrect, and decided he would change it.
• Ye Qiyan extracted the Level 11 item and summoned its translucent coffin, intending to shatter it and make it undergo ultimate ascension.

Ye Qiyan prepared the Fire-Vow of Nirvana Rebirth to transform Nephthys, then began enhancing it with Separation Fire while using Ascension and Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun. The flames engulfed Nephthys and the ring as its transformation began.

• Ye Qiyan created the Fire-Vow of Nirvana Rebirth, an enhancement item that could grant a fire-type life-form a Law of Life of Separation Fire and an exclusive Alternate Form Module.
• Nephthys wanted to become stronger and accepted Ye Qiyan's promise to use the ring on it once his spirit and stamina recovered.
• The next day, Ye Qiyan gathered his companions on the train's roof and placed Nephthys inside the ring beneath Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun.
• Ye Qiyan ignited the law of Separation Fire, and Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun merged with the real sun as Nephthys transformed into a great bird of evil fire.
• The ring began merging with Nephthys, Ye Qiyan's spirit flames danced in unison with it, and his Ascension talent activated.

Ye Qiyan completed Nephthys's Ascension by fusing it with the Li Fire Herul enhancement and the Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun Calamity Card. Nephthys emerged as the Extreme Evil · Li Fire Blazing Spirit and returned to Ye Qiyan's hand in dumpling form.

• Ye Qiyan used the Li Fire Herul enhancement as Nephthys began its Ascension, sustaining the process with his belief and spirit.
• Nephthys's Ascension continued for a day as the Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun Calamity Card resonated with it and a blazing sun scorched the wasteland.
• Nephthys broke out of its eggshell as a great scarlet bird of flame, then swooped down and returned to its small dumpling form.
• The System Light Screen recorded Nephthys's new name, title, abilities, and eternal bond with Ye Qiyan.
• Ye Qiyan smiled at Nephthys and called it a dummy, and Nephthys chirped back.

After Nephthys ascended, Ye Qiyan tested its strength against White Bear, Augustine, and Giant Eagle, confirming its place in the second tier. He then descended alone into the Level 12 Mechanism Kingdom, choosing the path toward the marked location of the Core of Finality.

• Nephthys fought White Bear and held its own, though White Bear could not fully defeat it.
• Augustine defeated Nephthys with a Flame Spear after it failed to overcome his [Abyss] defenses.
• Giant Eagle beat Nephthys in a sparring match, but Nephthys scorched it with Soul Burning in their final clash.
• Ye Qiyan restored the Training Ground, praised Nephthys and Giant Eagle, and prepared to descend into the Mechanism World.
• Ye Qiyan selected the first descent point, Crimson Glow in Dark Restraints, to follow the coordinates marked by the Seeker.

Ye Qiyan explored the God of Mechanisms' enormous mechanical body and discovered a damaged door sealed by the remains of the Machine Realm's Grand Knight Commander. A battered figure inside noticed him and asked whether he belonged to the gold, silver, or hero race.

• Ye Qiyan entered the God of Mechanisms' body and used mechanical bugs to learn its layout and inspect its systems.
• Ye Qiyan mapped the false god's arm, learned that its machinery relied on energy and divinity to repair itself, and continued searching for its core.
• Ye Qiyan reached the energy center in the chest and found a damaged, opened Artificial Door sealed by the remains of Messiah, Grand Knight Commander of the Machine Realm.
• A battered figure inside the door noticed Ye Qiyan and asked which race he belonged to.

Ye Qiyan spoke with Messiah, a shattered Machine Realm Knight and Transcender sealed inside a counterfeit door, and learned that it had fought alongside the Golden Race before the war of extermination. Messiah could not say what became of the Machine Realm, but its hatred of the Golden Race's defeat emerged as Ye Qiyan questioned it.

• Ye Qiyan recognized that Messiah was a Machine Realm Knight from the former era and identified Void as the likely creator of the counterfeit door sealing it.
• Messiah said it was one of the Machine Realm's Two Grand Knight Commanders, allied with the Golden Race, and that Void captured it after it lost to the Gray Fog.
• Messiah explained that the war of extermination brought about the end of countless civilizations and races alongside Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
• Ye Qiyan dismantled the machines around Messiah when they began to awaken, and Messiah sensed the Golden Race's Laurel Wreath Permission on his ring.
• Messiah admitted that it hated the Golden Race's defeat and insisted that the Golden Race should not have failed.

Ye Qiyan confronted the Machine Realm Grand Knight Commander, learning that its original self had died long ago and its surviving consciousness intended to take over his body. He used his Authority to seize the core powering Messiah, leaving the fate of the newly freed being unresolved.

• The Machine Realm Grand Knight Commander raged over the Golden Race’s defeat, and Ye Qiyan explained that the Golden Race had vanished long ago.
• The Commander revealed that it had died soon after being imprisoned and that a simulated intelligence, awakened by Ye Qiyan’s Golden Race aura, now spoke to him.
• Under Ye Qiyan’s questioning, the Commander admitted that it wanted to take over Ye Qiyan’s body and use his Authority to pursue revenge.
• Ye Qiyan activated the Overlord’s Ring and used Mechanical Control to reach through the door despite its attempt to pull him inside.
• Ye Qiyan snapped Messiah’s chains and forcibly pulled the burning core from its body, declaring that Messiah belonged to him.

Ye Qiyan took Messiah’s damaged core and learned it could lead him to the dark red core powering the God of Mechanisms’ mecha. As the mecha’s owner was expected to return, Ye Qiyan unleashed a machine rebellion and forced a path deeper into its body.

• Ye Qiyan pulled out Messiah’s core and learned it was Messiah’s true body, an exclusive core that could eventually be restored to Level 14.
• Messiah told Ye Qiyan that the God of Mechanisms’ true body was elsewhere and that its mecha ran on a dark red core; Ye Qiyan accepted Messiah’s directions despite not trusting it.
• Messiah recognized Ye Qiyan as the Glory Laurel Wreath of the Golden Race and explained that the highest level of permission revealed his identity.
• Ye Qiyan used [Intelligent Machine Crisis] to awaken the symbiotic machines and incite them to rebel and attack one another.
• As the mecha’s owner seemed close to returning, Ye Qiyan controlled the machinery blocking his way and cleared a passage deeper inside.

Stavichia delayed the God of Mechanisms’ return to his Divine Kingdom, while Zhuxing Tu identified Arcane Academy City as the site of her next Event. Inside the God of Mechanisms’ body, Ye Qiyan found the sealed GT-Finality Core.

• Stavichia told the God of Mechanisms that a new Subspace False God was building a teleportation route and made him wait three hours.
• The God of Mechanisms resented Stavichia and vowed to destroy the Void God Court once he became a True God.
• Zhuxing Tu listened to events across the Wasteland, noticed Lu Jiayun’s search for something hidden from Fate, and chose Arcane Academy City for her next Event.
• Ye Qiyan expanded the space inside the God of Mechanisms’ body and discovered the sealed GT-Finality Core.

Ye Qiyan freed the Finality Core and discovered it contained an unsealed instance of The End, while Messiah reacted with shock to his Infinite and Anchor cards. A hidden letter revealed the core’s origins and the GT world’s defeat, leaving Ye Qiyan with the Director’s plea that The End was not frightening.

• Ye Qiyan freed the Finality Core, which flew to him, and Messiah explained that it was an incomplete creation missing something that did not exist.
• Ye Qiyan brought out Infinite and Anchor, startling Messiah, whose core began to smoke when it scanned the Blasphemy Card.
• Ye Qiyan found a crack in the Finality Core, and Miatila revealed a letter hidden inside it.
• The Director’s letter recounted how the GT world fought Evil Heart, how Joel repeatedly tried to help, and how the Director abandoned the Hunt Ring project to create the ultimately failed Blueprint and Finality Core.
• The Director’s final letter urged whoever found the core not to give up, declaring that The End was not frightening at all.

Ye Qiyan answered Messiah’s questions about the Golden Race, and Messiah understood why its perfection had led to defeat. Messiah died after asking what Ye Qiyan would do if humanity became like the Golden Race, leaving Ye Qiyan with new authority, a Mech Knight module, and coordinates to two worlds.

• Ye Qiyan and Messiah discussed GT Civilization’s choice to face The End rather than flee, and Messiah revealed that its remaining power was failing.
• Messiah asked why the Golden Race had lost despite its perfection and kindness, and Ye Qiyan explained that others’ emulation of the Golden Race had made it a visible destination and caused its defeat.
• Messiah asked what Ye Qiyan would do if humanity became like the Golden Race, and Ye Qiyan said he would keep growing stronger and was confident he would win a future war.
• Messiah’s Machine Realm Knight body shattered, and its data granted Ye Qiyan half of its supreme command authority, a crafting blueprint, a Mech Knight module, and coordinates for two worlds.

Ye Qiyan discovered that the coordinates for Machine God Nether Abyss and Despair World might belong to a divided Machine Realm, then killed the Subspace False God God Number-A-66-Hyperspace. He subdued the God of Mechanisms and demanded to know where it had put its divinity.

• Ye Qiyan examined the intermeshing coordinates for Machine God Nether Abyss and Despair World and speculated that both worlds had once been parts of the Machine Realm.
• A purple-red doorway opened, and Ye Qiyan attacked the False God controlling it with Dimensional Strangulation and his authority over Space.
• Ye Qiyan killed God Number-A-66-Hyperspace, raising his Godslaying Count to 55+1EX and stripping the God Sequence Path of its Subspace Authority.
• The God of Mechanisms escaped the spatial turbulence and attacked Ye Qiyan after he took the GT Finality Core.
• Ye Qiyan used the Overlord's Ring to immobilize the God of Mechanisms and ordered it to explain where its divinity had gone.

Ye Qiyan learned that the Void God Court was arming a growing population of gods with nearly two thousand Numbered Weapons, then forced the God of Mechanisms to become his informant. Back aboard the Pure White Train, he began restoring Messiah’s core in the Dream Scar.

• The God of Mechanisms revealed that the God of Forging had created 1889 Numbered Weapons after receiving technology from Lord [Void], and that the gods’ numbers were growing.
• Ye Qiyan defeated the God of Mechanisms, spared it for now, and ordered it to report on the Void God Court and match its world’s time flow to the Wasteland.
• Ye Qiyan left the world using Voyage, while the God of Mechanisms resolved to obey because it feared death.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Pure White Train and placed Messiah’s core in the Dream Scar to restore it with [Big Spending Discount].

Ye Qiyan deconstructed the GT-Finality Core and discovered that it contained a fragment of Miracle, which could grant one Great Miracle through a person’s Talent. He renamed the core GT-Miracle Core and was left deciding whether Hunt or Eve should receive its one-time Ascension.

• Ye Qiyan used the GT-Finality Core to uncover the hidden energy inside it, while his Blueprint remained one Ascension short of becoming truly Supreme.
• Ye Qiyan deconstructed the core and found that it contained excess Finality energy alongside a deeper power that he could not deconstruct.
• Ye Qiyan and Mingming recognized the hidden power as Miracle, and Ye Qiyan renamed the core GT-Miracle Core.
• Mingming explained that the Miracle fragment could grant one Great Miracle by resonating with a recipient’s Talent, without consuming the core.
• Ye Qiyan realized the Great Miracle could be used to Ascend either Hunt or Eve, but he had not decided which companion to choose.

Ye Qiyan gave the miracle fragment to Mingming, then began Eve’s ascension, choosing to follow his wishes rather than force a Supreme prefix. Eve reaffirmed that she would always depend on him, and the ascension left her smiling without a core as Ye Qiyan held their interwoven azure and deep blue core; dark gold light gathered around them.

• Eve and Hunt greeted Ye Qiyan on the train roof, where he told them it was Eve’s turn to ascend.
• Ye Qiyan gave the miracle fragment to Mingming, and his spirit and stamina rose from 1800 to 1900 as he felt his doubts fade.
• During the ascension, Ye Qiyan walked through memories of Eve’s past and carried her Security Sentry form through the chains holding her back.
• Eve said she depended on Ye Qiyan because he had never abandoned her, and her parts assembled into her rabbit-eared mecha form around a beating azure core.
• Ye Qiyan returned from the ascension holding a core woven from azure and deep blue light while Eve smiled without one.
• Dark gold points of light converged around Ye Qiyan as the Big Spending Discount activated.