Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan reached Lin You in his collapsing Sea of Consciousness and urged him to fight for his daughter and dragons, lending him the Dragon Card [Wealth]. Lin You used its power to withstand Helen’s ultimate spell, and when the light faded he stood bloodied with his Dragon Spear through Helen, demanding that she return his daughter.

• Ye Qiyan returned from killing the Anti-Magic Stone False God and entered Lin You’s Sea of Consciousness as Helen’s spell closed in.
• Lin You accepted his apparent defeat and questioned whether he was wrong to oppose Helen’s plans for his daughter and dragons.
• Ye Qiyan used [Redemption] to restore Lin You’s resolve, then offered to lend him the Dragon Card [Wealth].
• Lin You chose dragons over wealth, summoned [Wealth], and combined its power with his thirteen Dragon Cards to form the Dragon Spear of Love.
• Lin You and Helen’s ultimate spells clashed, and Lin You emerged bloodied with his spear piercing Helen, demanding that she return his daughter.

Lin You defeated Helen, but Jiekehei appeared with Lin Xiaoxiao as a hostage and revealed his plan to claim the vacant Dark Grand Duke’s throne. Zhuxing Tu arrived and warned that the Dark Monarch was not dead and Jiekehei had been deceived.

• Lin You defeated Helen and demanded that she return his daughter, but Helen refused to hand over Lin Xiaoxiao.
• Jiekehei appeared with Lin Xiaoxiao bound in dark magic and threatened to kill her if Lin You approached.
• Jiekehei revealed that he had betrayed Helen, handed the other academy heads to the City of a Thousand Stars, and planned to kill everyone in Arcane Academy City to obtain World Fuels and ascend the Dark Grand Duke’s Throne.
• Zhuxing Tu appeared and used Fate Reversal to declare that the Dark Monarch was still alive and Jiekehei had been played.

Lin You and the dragons failed to rescue Lin Xiaoxiao before Jiekehei took her to a hidden space to use her and the World Fuel for his plan. Ye Qiyan appeared inside that space, killed the assassin, and took the fuel.

• Lin You caught nothing when Jiekehei reappeared without Lin Xiaoxiao, and Jiekehei declared that he would seize the Dark Grand Duke's position.
• Helen warned Lin You that Jiekehei meant to use Lin Xiaoxiao as flint to ignite the 333 units of World Fuel, while White Dragon stopped Lin You from charging after him.
• White Dragon united the dragons' roars to strike Jiekehei's real body through his doppelganger, badly injuring him inside the hidden space.
• The Assassin from the City of a Thousand Stars brought Jiekehei a Safety Box containing 333 units of World Fuel, but Ye Qiyan appeared and stabbed the assassin.
• Ye Qiyan took the World Fuel and introduced himself to Jiekehei, saying he had been waiting for him to bring it out.

Ye Qiyan infiltrated Jiekehei’s hidden space, took Lin Xiaoxiao, and collapsed the realm while leaving Jiekehei trapped in spatial chaos. He returned Lin Xiaoxiao to Lin You as Dark Creatures began pouring out of the Darkness Pit beneath Arcane Academy City.

• Ye Qiyan used the Disordered Dagger and his mastery of space to enter Jiekehei’s hidden realm, where Lin Xiaoxiao was held unconscious.
• Ye Qiyan sent Lin Xiaoxiao into Matrix Space, ruining Jiekehei’s plan to claim 333 units of World Fuel and ascend the king’s throne.
• Ye Qiyan dismissed Jiekehei’s warning that the city would fall to the Dark Creatures, then used Dimensional Strangulation to collapse the realm.
• Ye Qiyan escaped through Voyage and unleashed Imaginary Number Space into the collapsing realm, leaving Jiekehei swallowed by spatial turbulence.
• Dark Creatures surged from the Darkness Pit beneath Arcane Academy City, devouring everything in their path.
• Ye Qiyan appeared at Lanmen Academy and returned the unconscious Lin Xiaoxiao to Lin You.

After Ye Qiyan rescued Lin Xiaoxiao, Lin You thanked him and gave him a way to summon the Dragon King of True Love. With Arcane Academy City facing an imminent invasion, Helen revealed the fake Demon Card’s origin and asked Ye Qiyan whether the Memory Object could return someone to their old world; his answer left her crying and laughing.

• Ye Qiyan returned Lin Xiaoxiao to Lin You, who embraced his daughter and thanked Ye Qiyan with the Dragon’s Call scale.
• Helen warned that Dark Creatures would reach Arcane Academy City soon and blamed Lu Jiayun of the City of a Thousand Stars for the crisis.
• Ye Qiyan questioned Helen about the fake Demon Card, and she said the City of a Thousand Stars’ Think Tank had created it to lure him to the city.
• Helen asked whether the Memory Object could send someone back to their old world, and Ye Qiyan showed her the stone.
• After seeing the Memory Object, Helen wept and laughed as she reflected on the failure of what she and her companions had done.

Helen told Ye Qiyan how Lu Jiayun founded the Homecomers, manipulated Zhou Shangqing, and ultimately drove the group to collapse, while questioning whether their plan to return to the past could work. Before their time ran out, she explained that her final spell used the Train System’s level-fourteen appraisal authority and said Zhuxing Tu had also raised the system’s level cap.

• Helen said she had long known whether the Memory Object could take them back and agreed to tell Ye Qiyan about Lu Jiayun in exchange for seeing it.
• Helen recounted how Lu Jiayun founded the Homecomers, gathered followers with his promise of returning home, and built the City of a Thousand Stars.
• Helen explained that Lu Jiayun falsely befriended Zhou Shangqing and used mind-affecting items to make him reveal his talent and attempt to cross the Wasteland.
• Helen said Zhou Shangqing failed, the Homecomers fell apart, and she herself created World Fuel during an adventure in a burning world.
• Helen questioned whether reversing the trains could truly lead to humanity’s original world, while Ye Qiyan concluded that Lu Jiayun was a madman.
• Helen revealed that her last spell used the Train System’s level-fourteen appraisal authority and told Ye Qiyan that Zhuxing Tu had once raised the system’s level cap too.

As dark lifeforms emerged from the pit beneath Arcane Academy City, Helen freed herself and prepared to defend the city while evacuating its residents. Lin You departed with the dragons after helping hold back the monsters, while Ye Qiyan stayed behind to search for the fake Demon Card.

• Helen gave Ye Qiyan the World Fuel production blueprint and warned that dark lifeforms were climbing out of the pit.
• Black tentacles attacked Arcane Academy City, and its barriers, magic circuits, and weapons began resisting them.
• Lin You freed Helen, who ordered Train Conductors to evacuate willing residents and chose to remain with her city.
• Lin You told Ye Qiyan he was leaving, and Ye Qiyan stayed to find the Assassin carrying the fake Demon Card.
• Lin You flew away with his daughter and a hundred thousand dragons, then unleashed a dragon-breath attack on the dark pit.

After Lin You fell into a deep sleep, the Dark Creatures overwhelmed the five outer academies while the barriers kept Lanmen Academy’s strongest fighters from returning. Stasia arrived at Kelaidewen Academy, met Zhao Lin, and discovered that Monrojina was preparing a strange, seemingly maddening King's Authority Pathway ritual.

• Lin You used the last of his strength to help Ye Qiyan and the others escape, while Helen stopped supplying magic power to the teleportation array.
• Dark Creatures attacked the five outer academies as their depleted defenders faced them without reinforcements or communications.
• Stasia returned to Kelaidewen Academy after defeating the Magic Mirror God and learned from Ye Qiyan about the city’s crisis.
• Stasia found Zhao Lin and the Mechanical Legion, then noticed a strange Causality Ritual at Carlot Academy.
• Stasia told Zhao Lin that Monrojina was there and planned to perform a King's Authority Pathway ritual that seemed like madness.

Ye Qiyan weighed the City of a Thousand Stars’ likely trap and heard Dream Eater’s proposal for a mission to kill the Dark Grand Duke’s Remains, which he declined to take on alone. As the Dark Creatures began invading Lanmen Academy, Helen promised the Magic Mages she would lead the city to survive.

• Ye Qiyan told Zhao Lin to avoid Monrojina and focus on evading the Dark Creatures and shutting down the Barriers.
• Ye Qiyan reasoned that the City of a Thousand Stars’ Assassins would use the invasion to lure him with the Demon Card of Falsehood, and he resolved to claim it.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the scorched center of Lanmen Academy, where Yulia relayed Dream Eater’s account of the Dark Grand Duke and his proposed mission for the Train Conductors.
• Ye Qiyan refused to undertake the mission as a personal Trial and said the Train System could issue it normally.
• A dark tentacle entered Lanmen Academy after Lin You’s extra ten minutes ran out, and Helen ordered the Magic Mages to hold on for two Wasteland Days while she tried to free the city from the Dark Pit.

Mar and the City of a Thousand Stars think tank plotted to use false demons and blessings against Ye Qiyan, unaware that Zhuxing Tu had manipulated their analysis. As Dark Creatures invaded Arcane Academy City, Ye Qiyan's domain became a refuge, though he noticed more creatures converging on him.

• Mar learned that the think tank's plan to draw city rulers into the City of a Thousand Stars had failed and reviewed its analysis of Ye Qiyan.
• The think tank recommended that the Blessers Squad grant Ye Qiyan basic Demon King's Authority to weaken his influence over Evil, and Mar learned the squad was waiting in Arcane Academy City.
• Zhuxing Tu revealed that she had manipulated the think tank's fate-based system, then found a barrier around a Card Sequence guarded by a black-armored swordsman and identified the sequence as a Curse Card.
• Dark Creatures overran Lanmen Academy, spreading corruption that could only be countered with Transcendence-Rank purification magic.
• Ye Qiyan's Hyperspace and Wandering Hell created a pure land where his evil weakened the Dark Creatures, and he asked Eve why more of them were heading toward him.

Ye Qiyan discovered that the dark creatures were being directed toward him and learned from Void Realm that the Dark Grand Duke was drawing near. Void Realm warned that the Grand Duke would target Ye Qiyan once fully awakened, while Ye Qiyan chose to face the danger and find out whether he could win.

• Eve found that dark creatures were abandoning their battles and converging on Ye Qiyan, but he stayed because [Anchor] remained unaffected.
• Ye Qiyan questioned Void Realm about the Dark Grand Duke, and Void Realm confirmed that the creatures were likely the Grand Duke's handiwork.
• Void Realm told Ye Qiyan that he could wield the authority Void Realm had accumulated through the [False Authority] without opening the Space Door.
• Void Realm explained that Ye Qiyan's evil and aura were attracting the not-yet-awakened Dark Grand Duke, who was undying darkness and would target him once fully awake.
• Ye Qiyan thanked Void Realm for the warning and continued onward without showing fear.

As darkness overwhelmed Arcane Academy City, Helen paid Ye Qiyan to raise a moon of light that turned the engulfing darkness into Eternal Night. The city remained under threat, and Ye Qiyan prepared to support the remaining academy magic node as the City of a Thousand Stars' Assassins gathered outside Wandering Hell.

• Dark Creatures and the City of a Thousand Stars’ Transcendent Assassins overwhelmed Arcane Academy City while Helen exhausted herself casting Forbidden Spells.
• Ye Qiyan used the Calamity Card: Eternal Night Moon Silence to raise a silver-white moon that gave the city light.
• Helen paid Ye Qiyan 100,000 Train Coins and promised another 100,000 if the city survived.
• Miatila transferred the payment to Ye Qiyan, who contacted Stasia and Zhao Lin about the last unresolved magic node.
• The Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake filmed expressionless Assassins gathering outside Wandering Hell as Ye Qiyan awaited their attack.

Assassins from the City of a Thousand Stars entered Wandering Hell to target Ye Qiyan, but he had tracked them all along and confronted the minds controlling them. After the intruders revealed themselves and attacked, Ye Qiyan’s allies fought back, and Xiao Ya killed the woman by creating a Hollow in her heart.

• The Assassins entered Wandering Hell and advanced toward the Pure White Train, believing they had gone unnoticed.
• Red Tears revealed that the Assassins had been discovered, and Ye Qiyan confronted the minds hiding inside their bodies.
• Two controllers emerged, introduced themselves as enemies, and were struck by the Ancient Relic Staff’s beam.
• Cool Moon fought the woman while Villain battered the man, whose rapid resurrection began to slow.
• Ye Qiyan sent Xiao Ya to assist Cool Moon, and Xiao Ya killed the woman with a Hollow in her heart.

Ye Qiyan defeated the assassins by using Xiao Ya’s Hollow ability to erase their hearts and the souls bound to them. He then resisted an attempt by demons in the Sea of Anti-Reality to force him into becoming their Demon King, and Miatila transformed the world into a Platform World as Ye Qiyan prepared to face the plotters.

• Ye Qiyan explained that Xiao Ya’s Hollow could erase the heart and soul at the center of the assassins’ memory flesh, then had Xiao Ya kill the man after it had killed the woman.
• Cool Moon and Eve finished off the remaining assassins while the nanite swarm collected their weapons.
• Ye Qiyan heard demons in the Sea of Anti-Reality trying to corrupt him into becoming their Demon King, and he shattered the crown of Corruption.
• Ye Qiyan summoned his demons and used Miatila and the Transcendent Order Anchor to activate top-level Platform World permissions.
• Miatila restored the world’s systems, announced its conversion into the Level 12 Transcendent Order Mission Hunting Platform, and issued Ye Qiyan the exclusive mission King's Authority · I Alone.

Ye Qiyan confronted the City of a Thousand Stars’ attempt to force him onto the King’s Authority Pathway and transformed the plot into his own route as the Supreme Overlord. While allies arrived to defend Arcane Academy City, Monrojina discovered a way to use the darkness and proposed that she and Ye Qiyan devour it together.

• The Focus Guild restored its livestream, and Afuxiao led five Abucado trains into the darkness to help defend Arcane Academy City.
• Fang Cheng, Aien, Don Quixote, and over a hundred Heavenly Realm trains arrived to evacuate people before the City of a Thousand Stars could block departures.
• Ye Qiyan entered the Sea of Anti-Reality with his demons and confronted the choir and fake demon that the City of a Thousand Stars had used to force his King's Authority Pathway open.
• Ye Qiyan killed the blessing-givers, rejected the King of Corruption, and activated the Supreme Overlord's Ring and King's Authority Pathway under a corrected name.
• Monrojina, reduced to a Spirit stat of 1 and driven into extreme madness, found the ritual's power and called for Ye Qiyan to join her in devouring the darkness.

Ye Qiyan rejected the corrupted King's Authority and forged a Pathway by choosing to crush darkness. As the awakened Dark Grand Duke, Shishi, approached the High Tower to face him, Ye Qiyan opened a portal and summoned his companions back to the battle.

• Ye Qiyan judged that the suffering of the seven hundred and seventy-seven sacrificed worlds could not prove his worth and formed a new Pathway to crush darkness.
• The Dark Grand Duke awakened in the Darkness Abyss, learned Ye Qiyan's name, and decided to make him his new target.
• Zhuxing Tu confronted the Dark Grand Duke and declared her faith that Ye Qiyan would win before vanishing in starlight.
• The Dark Grand Duke emerged from the abyss and advanced toward Ye Qiyan as the Darkness Abyss swallowed Arcane Academy City and trapped the train.
• Afuxiao let the Dark Grand Duke pass, recognizing him as a guest invited to the High Tower.
• The Dark Grand Duke introduced himself to Ye Qiyan as Shishi, and Ye Qiyan opened a Spatial Portal at the Seventh Anchor Point, bringing his companions back to his side.

Ye Qiyan faced the Dark Grand Duke Shishi atop the High Tower, seeking a battle powerful enough to prove he had surpassed his past self. Shishi sacrificed the thirty years he had left to gain strength for one day, then launched his attack as a countdown began.

• Ye Qiyan activated his support abilities and raised his Spirit and Stamina to six times their original limits while his companions fought the darkness around the High Tower.
• Shishi climbed the tower, and Ye Qiyan's allies battled the Dark Grand Duke's servants across the ruined city.
• Shishi recognized Ye Qiyan's desire to test himself against a foe comparable to the Colorless Will he had once defeated.
• Shishi admitted he wanted Ye Qiyan's soul, body, and name so he could regain power and challenge Sun and Moon again.
• Shishi stabbed himself and traded the thirty years he had left for a single day of power, then vanished and struck at Ye Qiyan with his sword.

Ye Qiyan and the Dark Grand Duke fought without restraint atop the High Tower, each burning through their limits for a decisive battle. Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to make the Grand Duke answer whether he would die, then summoned figures from his dreams as Mo Shi opened the Gate of the Realm of Death to observe.

• Ye Qiyan matched the Dark Grand Duke’s crushing sword strikes by combining Finality, Light and Shadow Sword Fusion, and his abilities to cycle stamina and mental energy.
• Ye Qiyan refused to retreat despite knowing Anchor could carry his companions to safety, and the Dark Grand Duke devoured his own future to increase his power.
• The Dark Grand Duke manifested the Ring of Evil, Ring of Calamity, and Blasphemy Ring as Ye Qiyan raised his own power and asked whether the Grand Duke would die on that Wasteland Day.
• Ye Qiyan invoked Bewitchment and the Raven Demon to deny the Dark Grand Duke’s answer, then used his Blasphemy Cards to summon dream figures including Lane, Teng Ge, and Alfred.
• Mo Shi sensed Ye Qiyan’s actions, opened the Gate of the Realm of Death atop the High Tower, and prepared to see what had happened.

Ye Qiyan fought the Dark Grand Duke while Dreamweaving summoned his dead enemies, who gave him their power. As Ye Qiyan invoked the Judgment Enforcer Blasphemy Card, its judgment of death became locked in a struggle with the Dark Grand Duke’s darkness.

• Ye Qiyan’s Dreamweaving manifested Lane, Agula Tenge, Alfred, Nami Enli, the last Researcher of GT World, and Messiah as dream phantoms.
• Messiah gave Ye Qiyan its power, and Agula Tenge, Alfred, and Nami Enli followed by lending him their strength despite having died by his hand.
• Ye Qiyan amplified the dream powers as he battled the Dark Grand Duke, who praised his greed and resolve to keep growing stronger.
• The Dark Grand Duke stopped Lisette’s accelerated shot, and Ye Qiyan activated the Judgment Enforcer Blasphemy Card against him.
• Ye Qiyan sentenced the Dark Grand Duke to death, but the judgment met the Grand Duke’s endless sins in an evenly matched struggle.

Ye Qiyan and the Dark Grand Duke continued their brutal battle, each pushing their powers to the limit as the High Tower neared destruction. While Mo Shi watched from inside the Space Door and Zhuxing Tu forged a Fate-Reversal Ring, the fight escalated into a decisive clash with twenty-three hours still remaining.

• Mo Shi appeared inside the Space Door, warned Void Realm not to disturb Ye Qiyan, and watched as other powerful beings observed the battle.
• Ye Qiyan and the Dark Grand Duke exchanged thousands of attacks in a distorted instant, and the Dark Grand Duke praised Ye Qiyan as the Golden Race's Glory Laurel Wreath.
• Ye Qiyan crushed Lane and absorbed him for power, then merged three manifested Ancient Battlefield figures into Carved Tears and received a miracle from Mingming.
• The Dark Grand Duke absorbed darkness from the deep pit and declared that Ye Qiyan's fight was a Trial before the two unleashed a sword strike that shattered the High Tower.
• Zhuxing Tu hammered a Fate-Reversal Ring Embryo as its inverted-cross mark solidified, while he resolved to keep others from interfering with Ye Qiyan.