Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan killed the Goblin Hero with the Astral Sacred Crest, the Raven Demon, and Ebony, completing half of his cooperative mission. The Goblin Legion commander then arrived with an army and surrounded him, leaving Ye Qiyan ready to use the Book of Illusion and Reality against them.

• The Goblin Hero killed a knight who charged after seeing his father's head used to produce a human voice, then attacked Ye Qiyan with fist projections.
• Ye Qiyan advanced unharmed behind the Astral Sacred Crest's autonomous defense while the other knights fled.
• Ye Qiyan had the Raven Demon pin the Goblin Hero, then used Ebony to shoot and kill it as the floating cannons drove back the Goblins.
• Qin Qiang watched Ye Qiyan defeat the Goblin Hero and considered approaching him to make a better impression.
• The Goblin Legion commander arrived with well-equipped warriors, surrounded Ye Qiyan, and shouted that he would die for killing the Hero.
• Ye Qiyan took out the Book of Illusion and Reality and asked the commander to guess what would happen if the Goblins went mad.

Ye Qiyan used Ascension to upgrade Ebony to level 8, then his train and its weapons helped wipe out the Goblins in the fortress. He recovered a Goblin Royal Proof pointing to a level 12 platform, and Qin Qiang approached him asking to become friends.

• Ye Qiyan used Ascension to drain the Goblins’ mental energy, then shot and killed the Goblin Legion Commander with Ebony.
• Ebony advanced from level 6 to level 8 and gained the ability to fire Black-and-White Explosive Armor-Piercing Rounds and plunder resources from defeated targets.
• Ye Qiyan summoned his train, which attacked the fortress with its weapons while thousands of Beedrill hunted the remaining Goblins.
• Ye Qiyan recycled two Goblin corpses and obtained a Goblin Royal Proof that could send the train to the Goblin Empire, a level 12 platform.
• Qin Qiang approached Ye Qiyan with a sack and asked to add him as a friend.

Ye Qiyan accepted Qin Qiang’s resources and friend request, then upgraded the snakeskin bag and put it to work gathering supplies. Princess Winnie arrived at the cleared city and began considering whether she could control the powerful adventurer.

• Qin Qiang gave Ye Qiyan a compressed snakeskin bag and twenty Train Coins in exchange for a friend request, and asked him to help his guild settle in Solo City within the month.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to consider the guild’s move, took the bag, and watched Qin Qiang leave to gather resources.
• Ye Qiyan upgraded the bag into an Advanced Storage Snakeskin Bag with a capacity of three thousand kilograms, then gave it to the Raven Demon to collect supplies.
• Ye Qiyan sent the Raven Demon back to camp to retrieve WALL-E and told it to stop eating.
• Princess Winnie arrived with her army, saw the headless Goblins, and wondered whether she could control Ye Qiyan.

Princess Winnie tried to brainwash Ye Qiyan, but the attempt failed and the Raven Demon left her in a vegetative state. After the fortress fell silent, WALL-E returned with a level 7 Treasure Chest, which Ye Qiyan prepared to raise to level 8 with Ascension.

• Princess Winnie approached Ye Qiyan and tried to brainwash him, but his Spirit nullified the effect and the Raven Demon incapacitated her.
• Ye Qiyan returned to his train as soldiers surrounded him, while the Raven Demon stayed outside to keep the train clean.
• Ye Qiyan identified two Goblin weapons and listed them on the Black Market without using Ascension on them.
• The Raven Demon returned at night after killing the fortress's remaining enemies, and Ye Qiyan found WALL-E damaged but carrying a Treasure Chest.
• Ye Qiyan repaired WALL-E and used Ascension on the level 7 Treasure Chest to try to make it level 8.

Ye Qiyan opened a Level 8 Treasure Chest and received Moon Concealment, an Annihilation Drone blueprint, a Wisdom Cube, and a Mechanical Structure Enhancement Core. After replenishing his stamina and spirit by killing Goblins, he performed an ultimate Ascension on Moon Concealment and ended the station ready to upgrade his train.

• Ye Qiyan opened the Treasure Chest and obtained four rewards, including the Famous Blade · Moon Concealment.
• Ye Qiyan tested Moon Concealment, then crafted an Annihilation Drone and considered using the Enhancement Core on WALL-E.
• Ye Qiyan had the Raven Demon capture Goblins and killed them with Ebony to recover stamina and spirit.
• After the Leave Station Privilege activated, Ye Qiyan departed and used his remaining stamina and spirit to Ascend Moon Concealment.
• Moon Concealment became Famous Blade · Cool Sky Moon Concealment, and Ye Qiyan noticed it was nurturing a soul before deciding he had enough Train Coins to upgrade the train tomorrow.

Ye Qiyan used a Mechanical Structure Enhancement Core to turn WALL-E into a Mechanical Lifeform, giving it unlimited energy and making it unobservable to anyone but him while treasure hunting. With his stamina and spirit restored and 137 Train Coins on hand, he prepared to upgrade his train from level 6 to level 7.

• Ye Qiyan woke to Solar Flare Wind and learned that the 50°C heat was making station visits dangerous for other train conductors.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Mechanical Structure Enhancement Core into a Limit · Mechanical Life Core.
• Ye Qiyan used the core on WALL-E, transforming it into a Mechanical Lifeform with unlimited energy and enhanced treasure-hunting abilities.
• Ye Qiyan realized that WALL-E could now search stations without being observed by anyone but him and would return safely with treasure.
• Ye Qiyan counted his 137 Train Coins and prepared to upgrade his train from level 6 to level 7.

Ye Qiyan ascended his train to level 7 and bought all four upgrade options, leaving him with only seven Train Coins. As he prepared to rest before the next station, Zhuxing Tu sent him coordinates for a platform with a Demon Card.

• Ye Qiyan used the Ice Vein Pearl to endure the heat and ascended the train to level 7, raising its speed to 140 kilometers per hour.
• Ye Qiyan reviewed the upgrade options and spent Train Coins on the High-Energy Electric Furnace, Storage Matrix, Self-Purification module, and Train Space Expansion.
• Ye Qiyan considered using Self-Purification with the Book of the Unreal and the Real to reduce other Train Conductors' Spirit twice in succession.
• Ye Qiyan decided to postpone ascending the furnace and Annihilation Drone blueprint until after the next station, then planned to rest.
• Zhuxing Tu messaged Ye Qiyan that he had coordinates for a platform with a Demon Card.

Ye Qiyan accepted Zhuxing Tu’s coordinates for a Demon Card and redirected the train to the level 7 Ancient Battlefield Ruins. After trading with Zhao Lin and choosing to stop at the ruins’ center, he arrived at a platform marked dangerous.

• Zhuxing Tu told Ye Qiyan that the Demon Card she had promised was lost and sent him coordinates to find another one, which he accepted.
• Ye Qiyan used the Blade That Tears the Battlefield to set Ancient Battlefield Ruins as his next stop and planned to rely on WALL-E to search for the card.
• Zhao Lin offered Ye Qiyan several barrels of alcohol, and he bought a barrel of aged dark beer for two Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan chose the center of the Ancient Battlefield Ruins when the Fork in Destiny offered the center or the edge.
• Ye Qiyan arrived at the sixteenth stop, where the system classified the Ancient Battlefield Ruins as dangerous.

Ye Qiyan followed a broken dagger’s trail through the scorching wasteland to a deep pit, where Pride revealed a mass of rotting corpses and an armored figure. He prepared the Pure Purification Stone and sent the Raven Demon down first, leaving the danger below unexplored.

• Ye Qiyan used the Ice Vein Pearl and Astral Sacred Crest to protect himself from the fierce heat outside the train.
• He joined a broken blade to Zhuxing Tu’s dagger, revealing a trail of lights that matched a marked point on the train’s map.
• Ye Qiyan followed the trail with the Raven Demon and Road Hog until he reached a mist-shrouded deep pit.
• He used Pride’s God's-eye view to see rotting corpses below and an armored humanoid seated among them.
• Ye Qiyan took out the Pure Purification Stone, put Road Hog away, and sent the Raven Demon into the pit.

Ye Qiyan met an armored man in the pit who claimed to be a Train Conductor from twenty-seven years ago. The man introduced himself as Altos, a prisoner with a level 27 train, leaving Ye Qiyan unsure how much to trust him.

• The armored figure stopped the rotting corpses from attacking the Raven Demon and tried to communicate with it.
• Ye Qiyan entered the pit and heard the armored man speak, confirming that he was human.
• The man explained that he had arrived in the world twenty-seven years earlier and described how Train Conductors were eliminated over time.
• Ye Qiyan questioned the man's identity and used Bewitchment, briefly making him doubt whether he was human.
• The man said his name was Altos, called himself a prisoner trapped there, and revealed that his train was level 27.

Ye Qiyan found Altos, a former Train Conductor trapped in the station world, and learned that Altos wanted help buying a locomotive so he could escape. Altos turned the request into a binding quest-trade, promising Ye Qiyan a valuable item stored in the City of a Thousand Stars.

• Ye Qiyan questioned Altos in the pit and learned that he had lost his train and been trapped for twelve years.
• Altos reacted violently to the short knife, but Ye Qiyan used the Pure Purification Stone to subdue him and learned he had become one of the Lichfolk.
• Altos explained that he wanted Ye Qiyan to buy him a locomotive with 150 Train Coins so he could return to the Wasteland, rather than board Ye Qiyan's train.
• Ye Qiyan refused to help without a convincing reason or greater reward, pointing out that he could keep the coins and leave Altos behind.
• Altos promised an item worth more than 150 Train Coins and explained that the Train System made his quest a binding trade, payable when they reached the City of a Thousand Stars.

Ye Qiyan agreed to give Altos a train engine after learning how the Train System treated former conductors, but secured it with a lock to ensure Altos would deliver the promised items. Altos regained his Train Conductor status and was set to meet Ye Qiyan at the City of a Thousand Stars.

• Altos explained that the Train System protected Train Conductors but imposed absolute restrictions on former conductors and treated platform natives as expendable.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to buy Altos an engine in exchange for information about the Ancient Battlefield Ruins, and Altos warned him about a sinister black forest to the southeast.
• Ye Qiyan bought a Basic Train Engine with an added lock and summoned it into the pit for Altos.
• Altos entered the engine and bound it after Ye Qiyan removed its seal, but found he could not fully control the train system.
• Ye Qiyan told Altos the lock would be lifted when he delivered the promised items at the City of a Thousand Stars, then sent him a friend request and arranged to meet there.

Ye Qiyan recycled the corpses and mist at the station, then upgraded his Ice Vein Pearl to withstand the extreme heat. He reached the Black Forest and found that it resembled the White Forest, while his Demon Cards began to react strangely.

• Altos left the station with a small load of corpses, and Ye Qiyan recycled the remaining dead, collecting Rotten Flesh and Rotting Souls.
• Ye Qiyan used the Processing Table to collect the pit’s cooling mist and obtained a Purpleheart Mist Orb.
• With the temperature reaching 56°C, Ye Qiyan spent forty spirit to upgrade his Ice Vein Pearl into a Level 5 Ice Vein Heart Pearl.
• Ye Qiyan rode Road Hog southeast toward WALL-E and reached the Black Forest, whose trees reminded him of the White Forest.
• The Demon Raven shrieked and charged into the forest as Ye Qiyan felt the other Demon Cards trembling with apparent anger.

Ye Qiyan entered the Altar Platform and claimed the Demon Card Red Tears, whose power explained why his other demons feared it. After waiting for the Anchor to recover, he spotted WALL-E back on the train and returned to ask what treasure it had found.

• Ye Qiyan followed the Raven Demon's trail through the black forest to a lake and used the Anchor to cross the Altar Platform's Light Screen.
• Ye Qiyan climbed the platform and claimed the Red Tears Demon Card, awakening the hooded female demon and learning her abilities.
• Ye Qiyan sensed that the Raven Demon and his other demons feared Red Tears, then recalled both demons and stored Red Tears in his Armed Space.
• Ye Qiyan waited for Voyage to recover and saw WALL-E wandering inside the train on the illusory Watcher's feed.
• Ye Qiyan used the Anchor to return to the locomotive and asked WALL-E whether it had found treasure.

Ye Qiyan found a sword embedded in a boulder in the black forest and learned that only someone who understood the true meaning of war could draw it. Red Tears pulled it free, transforming it into a level 13 Tear-Engraved Sword as red rain swept across the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.

• WALL-E led Ye Qiyan into the black forest, where they found a red sword embedded in a boulder beside a black skeleton.
• Red Tears and the Raven Demon destroyed the skeleton, and Ye Qiyan’s appraisal identified the sword as the level 12 Tear of War, which could only be drawn by someone who understood war.
• Ye Qiyan tried to draw the sword, but its mental influence made him relive a battlefield and lowered his mental stat; he used the Purpleheart Mist Orb to end the effect.
• Ye Qiyan realized Red Tears understood war and had her grasp the hilt; she easily drew the sword, causing the boulder to crumble.
• The sword became the level 13 Tear-Engraved Sword, and its red radiance brought torrential rain across the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.

Ye Qiyan secured the Tear-Carving Sword and Red Tears Demon, then prepared his train for worsening heat as the station’s weather escalated into a Firestorm. He learned Zhao Lin had barely survived her stop and invited her to travel with him to the City of a Thousand Stars, while she revealed her next stop was the Good Luck Platform.

• Ye Qiyan gave the Tear-Carving Sword to the Red Tears Demon, awakening her true form and changing her Card Sequence.
• Ye Qiyan returned to his train and used the Ice Vein Pearl to protect its carriages from the Solar Flare Wind.
• The weather changed from Solar Flare Wind to Firestorm, and a fire tornado tore through the nearby forest.
• Ye Qiyan messaged Zhao Lin and learned she had escaped a volcanic stop after sacrificing her train carriages as bait.
• Ye Qiyan invited Zhao Lin to join him on the route toward the City of a Thousand Stars, and she told him her next stop was the Good Luck Platform.

After the Sixteenth Station, Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland amid Fire Tornadoes and prepared to travel to the City of a Thousand Stars with Zhao Lin. Zhuxing Tu observed his recent gains and became interested in a lucky girl, while Zhao Lin asked Ye Qiyan to reserve materials for upgrading her train.

• Zhao Lin considered Ye Qiyan’s suggestion to head to the City of a Thousand Stars and agreed to give him her decision the next morning.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland, saw Fire Tornadoes crossing it, and stationed the Raven Demon, the Red Tears Demon, and WALL-E around his train for protection.
• Ye Qiyan checked why his Black Market weapons had not sold and learned that buyers could use brain-damaged indigenous slaves to avoid the Deceptive Play Sword’s negative effect.
• Zhuxing Tu wondered how Ye Qiyan had obtained a Demon Card and noted his Pride and level 12 sword, then became excited about someone blessed with luck.
• Zhao Lin told Ye Qiyan she would go to the City of a Thousand Stars and asked whether he could reserve special materials for upgrading her train to level 5.

Ye Qiyan acquired and Ascended a Dark Netherfruit seed, then upgraded the train’s electric furnace into a device capable of supplying power across space. He began Ascending an Annihilation Drone blueprint.

• Zhao Lin asked Ye Qiyan to save her a Calculation Unit for 45 Train Coins, and he agreed.
• WALL-E found a Dark Netherfruit Tree Seed among the forest trash, and Ye Qiyan bought scorched black soil to plant it.
• Ye Qiyan Ascended the seed into a Cursed Dark Netherfruit Tree, which produced three poisonous fruits that he stored.
• Ye Qiyan Ascended the High-Energy Electric Furnace into a Void Electric Furnace that could remotely power units across space.
• Ye Qiyan took out the Annihilation Drone blueprint and began to Ascend it.

Ye Qiyan returned to the City of a Thousand Stars, met Zhao Lin, and learned that Train Conductors had been disappearing there. He planned to visit the Train Exchange before seeking Altos in the Lower City.

• Ye Qiyan crafted Annihilation Chain-Exploders and discovered that his mental energy could control up to 150 of them at once.
• At noon, Ye Qiyan used an invitation and three Train Coins to travel to the City of a Thousand Stars.
• Ye Qiyan chose the main gate, stored his train with the Storage Matrix, and left the Capsule Tunnel without appearing in its arrival records.
• Ye Qiyan met Zhao Lin at the currency exchange, exchanged three thousand Thousand Stars Coins, and set off with her for the Train Exchange.
• The driver warned Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin that a curfew had been imposed and Train Conductors had been disappearing.

At the City of a Thousand Stars Train Exchange, Ye Qiyan encountered Zhuxing Tu, who had come to give Zhao Lin a dark gold card. Zhao Lin took it, and Zhuxing Tu called the exchange fair before leaving, while Zhao Lin was left confused about what had happened.

• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin visited the Train Exchange, where Ye Qiyan confirmed his Solo City Judgment Court medal still worked and Zhao Lin browsed for carriages.
• Zhuxing Tu recognized Ye Qiyan through his Death Omen card’s aura and told him fate had revealed a demon inside him.
• Zhuxing Tu asked to meet Zhao Lin, and Ye Qiyan suspected she had come because of Zhao Lin’s talent.
• Zhuxing Tu offered Zhao Lin a dark gold card depicting a hooded woman with scales, and Zhao Lin felt compelled to take it.
• A deafening sound rang out that only Zhao Lin seemed to hear, and Zhuxing Tu thanked Ye Qiyan for the treat, calling the exchange fair before leaving.