Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan learned from Batos that Lu Jiayun was planning to kill Mo Wen and had enlisted the Insect Race and False Gods to help. Ye Qiyan passed the intelligence to Lu Cangxiao and told Batos to keep spying, promising that he would eventually kill Lu Jiayun himself.

• Ye Qiyan woke to find Eve watching over him and learned that Lisette’s music had put everyone to sleep while Eve protected the train.
• Batos messaged Ye Qiyan that Lu Jiayun was preparing to seize power, then explained that Lu Jiayun planned to kill Mo Wen during her trip to Order Heaven in about one Wasteland Month.
• Batos revealed that Lu Jiayun had contacted the Insect Race and the False Gods for assistance.
• Ye Qiyan sent Lu Jiayun’s plans to Lu Cangxiao, who replied that he already knew part of the intelligence and traded Ye Qiyan 1,000 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan told Batos to keep gathering information and promised that he would kill Lu Jiayun himself.

Ye Qiyan guided the displaced Mobius Guild toward RUN Company before ascending his train to level 36. The upgrade offered four expensive options, including an Imaginary Number World Directional Lighthouse, leaving him to choose among them.

• Ye Qiyan told Ding Xiuqi to move the Mobius Guild to RUN Company instead of the City of a Thousand Stars, and said he would handle arrangements with Monrojina.
• Ye Qiyan checked his 4,156 Train Coins and prepared to ascend the train with Lisette, Eve, and WALL-E nearby.
• Ye Qiyan activated the train's acceleration abilities and completed the upgrade, raising it to level 36 and increasing its base speed to 720 km/h.
• The system presented four upgrade options, each costing about 1,039 Train Coins, including an Imaginary Number World Directional Lighthouse priced at 1,044.

Ye Qiyan spent nearly all his Train Coins on four options, then discovered how two of them could strengthen his powers and guide his travels. Miatila explained that he already had authority to establish territory in Imaginary Number Space, where its inhabitants awaited his promised conquest.

• Ye Qiyan swiped his black card to pay for four options, leaving himself with almost no Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan examined a train module that let the train use the abilities of gigantic mechanical structures at half output.
• Ye Qiyan used Happy Shell Powder Bubbles to strengthen Utopia, which could now trap targets in false happiness and turn it into pain.
• Ye Qiyan read coordinates for an unranked, apparently safe Ancient Relic Star-Knot Platform World and acquired an Imaginary Number World Directional Lighthouse.
• Ye Qiyan asked Miatila about establishing territory in Imaginary Number Space, and she explained that he alone held authority over it in the wasteland observed by the Train System.

Ye Qiyan chose the Super-Ancient Extinction Origin Point as the starting point for his seventy-fourth stop and found his train stranded on the seabed among enormous abandoned machines. With the Main System unreachable and no danger or missions apparent, he set out to explore and hunt for treasure with WALL-E.

• Ye Qiyan entered the Ancient Relic Star-Knot Platform and chose the Super-Ancient Extinction Origin Point despite doubting the system's no-danger assessment.
• Ye Qiyan's train plunged underwater, where the pressure cracked its Wealth Shield, so he used the Red-and-White Cloud Pattern Barrier to protect the carriages.
• Ye Qiyan surveyed the seabed with the Demon Card: Pride and Calamity Card: Eternal Night Moon Silence, spotting huge machines that seemed to have fled something.
• Ye Qiyan found he could not contact the Main System and decided to explore the stop and treasure hunt with WALL-E.
• Ye Qiyan summoned the Dream Eater to create a track through the seabed and set off with WALL-E.

Ye Qiyan explored the silent deep-sea world and discovered a colossal, nearly destroyed mechanical sword that had once served to seal something. After taking control of it, he entered through its doorway, where the sword drained the seawater and welcomed him.

• Ye Qiyan sent the Extreme Desire Nanite Swarm to explore the seabed, where it found no life and only fragile mechanical constructs.
• Augustine and the Nanite Swarm explored upward and spotted light, showing that the world was not entirely ocean.
• Ye Qiyan accelerated the Transcendent Order Anchor and, three days later, found a salvageable Super-Ancient Mechanical Relic Sword rated Level 14 but 99.99% damaged.
• Ye Qiyan used Control Machinery on the sword, worsening its damage, then learned that it was more like a spaceship and gained control of it.
• Ye Qiyan opened an entrance and guided the train inside; the sword sealed the gate, drained the seawater, and greeted the outsider.

Ye Qiyan learned that the super-ancient Original Civilization had tried and failed to seal the Void, then discovered that its own shared decision-making system had caused it to collapse into violence. The Star Sword revealed that the civilization’s extinction began when its people first turned on one another.

• Ye Qiyan used Demon Cards to repair the Star Sword’s speech and learned it was a remnant of the Original Civilization, created to seal the Void.
• Ye Qiyan asked about the Golden Race, but the Star Sword found no record of it and explained that the Original Civilization had tried to harness the newly born Void to survive.
• The Star Sword said the Void broke through the civilization’s defenses and that the Star Sword ultimately failed to seal it.
• Ye Qiyan asked why a civilization capable of resisting the Void had gone extinct, and the Star Sword described its universal system of shared memories and collective voting.
• The Star Sword explained that accumulated anger and dissatisfaction led the Original Civilization to isolate itself, after which malice arose and the first killing began its irreversible extinction.

Ye Qiyan learned how the original civilization had surrendered to extinction and rescued the Star Sword’s damaged agent before storing the broken machine. He then entered Imaginary Number Space, forced the train to dock, and unleashed the Hunt Mecha-Dragon to begin a conquest.

• The Star Sword’s intelligence told Ye Qiyan that the original civilization’s independent agent had tried to capture Void, failed, and disappeared.
• Ye Qiyan transferred the Star Sword’s intelligence into an Intelligent Nurturing Lamp and stored the broken Star Sword away.
• Ye Qiyan saw the scar left by the Star Sword’s failed attack on Void and then learned that Augustine and the others had reached the surface.
• Ye Qiyan had Little Snake activate Imaginary Number Navigation and used the route-stabilizing device to dock the train in Imaginary Number Space for seven hours.
• Ye Qiyan played the Imaginary Number Frenzy card, summoned the Hunt Mecha-Dragon, and ordered it to kill the emerging imaginary number lifeforms.

Ye Qiyan carved out a territory in Imaginary Number Space and established the Starting Point Stele, claiming the Imaginary Number Sea as a future domain to conquer. His actions triggered a quest and achievement, while the sea’s creatures continued to resist him.

• Ye Qiyan used the Imaginary Number Tides to suppress the enormous creatures charging toward him and expanded his territory to twenty million square meters.
• Ye Qiyan fused the damaged Star Sword with metal, Imaginary-Number Turbulence, and World Fuel, then carved the words “Starting Point” into it.
• Ye Qiyan joined the Eternal Night Moon Silence and Soul-Scorching Blazing Sun calamity cards, creating the sun and moon over his territory and declaring his intent to conquer the Imaginary Number Sea.
• Hunt and Ye Qiyan’s other companions slaughtered imaginary number creatures as the currents drove the survivors away, and Ye Qiyan received the Great Conqueror of the Imaginary Number Sea quest and Imaginary Number Brand achievement.
• Ye Qiyan returned the Star Sword’s intelligence to the renamed Imaginary Number · Starting Point Stele, which permanently suppressed enemies’ mental strength and stamina within his territory.

Monrojina discovered that Ye Qiyan had become the master of a territory in Imaginary Number Space and explained how her Capsule Tunnel backdoors used it. She shared access and her information network with him, turning one of the twelve Blood-Gold Chains dark gold, while hinting that she planned to repay their karmic debt further.

• Monrojina removed the karma from the elderly RUN Company planner and restored her youthful appearance, then sent her back to work.
• Monrojina sensed a fluctuation in Imaginary Number Space and suspected Ye Qiyan had become its master.
• Monrojina asked Ye Qiyan if he was in Imaginary Number Space, and he confirmed it while asking whether the Capsule Tunnels had a problem.
• Monrojina explained that her Capsule Tunnel backdoors used Imaginary Number Space to access trains and gather information, then offered Ye Qiyan permissions and her information network.
• Ye Qiyan accepted Monrojina's offer, and one Blood-Gold Chain around their Cause and Effect Recompense turned dark gold.

Ye Qiyan used the Imaginary Number Frenzy Calamity Card and an Imaginary Number Gear to Ascend the Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake, transforming it into an Imaginary Sea Construct. After the successful transformation, he prepared to return to his voyage and continue exploring the Ancient Relic Star-Knot Platform.

• Ye Qiyan used his new access to review Train Conductors’ entry and exit records, then decided to help Little Snake grow stronger.
• He bestowed Extreme Desire on Little Snake and began its Ascension using the Imaginary Number Frenzy Calamity Card and an Imaginary Number Gear.
• Little Snake vanished during the Ascension, then appeared as a vast snake within the Imaginary Number Sea before returning to Ye Qiyan’s palm.
• The Ascension succeeded, changing Fang · Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake into Imaginary Sea Construct · Imaginary Number Mechanism Snake and granting it new powers as Ye Qiyan’s attendant.
• Ye Qiyan spent about 3,300 Spirit on the Ascension and concluded Little Snake was an ideal match for the Imaginary Number Tide.
• After roughly seven hours in Imaginary Number Space, Ye Qiyan set out to find Augustine and the others and continue clearing the Ancient Relic Star-Knot Platform.

Ye Qiyan and the Transcendent Order Anchor traveled through the sea toward the Tombstone of the Super-Ancient Civilization after completing the Super-Ancient Extinction Origin Point. WALL-E led them to a cluster of buildings in the sky that contained countless tombs.

• Ye Qiyan returned from imaginary number space and learned from Augustine that the nanite swarm had found no microorganisms in the surrounding seawater.
• Ye Qiyan chose to pursue the Tombstone of the Super-Ancient Civilization, and WALL-E pointed the train in the right direction.
• Ye Qiyan discovered that the world's sun and moon were artificial projections and that outside the world lay only silence and darkness.
• The Transcendent Order Anchor traveled across the sea for nearly a month before WALL-E spotted land.
• Ye Qiyan followed Eve's directions and saw a cluster of skyborne buildings filled with tombs.

Ye Qiyan found the Original Civilization’s tombstone and learned that its people had chosen Extinction, leaving their names preserved by the Wisdom Core. After WALL-E uncovered a red lacquered box beneath the monument, a powerful mechanical being appeared and accused Ye Qiyan of breaking his word.

• Ye Qiyan explored the empty, spotless complex and opened a life support device, finding it empty despite its appraisal showing a stored life-form.
• Ye Qiyan concluded that the civilization had undergone Extinction rather than The End, and explained the difference between the two.
• Ye Qiyan reached the Original Civilization Tombstone, which recorded the names of all 27.5 billion people and had been made by the Wisdom Core.
• WALL-E found a small red lacquered box beneath the tombstone, and Ye Qiyan picked it up.
• The sky split open, a mechanical being accused humans of breaking their word, and the station’s danger level changed to Danger.
• Ye Qiyan used Demon Card · Bewitchment and Demon Card · Rebellion, then asked the mechanical being who it was.

Ye Qiyan confronted Thousand-Path Turing in the tomb chamber and used the black gravestone as leverage to question him about the City of a Thousand Stars. Thousand-Path Turing agreed to answer up to five questions, then revealed how he knew Ye Qiyan and ended by calling him a Demon who toyed with people’s hearts and a Mecha Girl fanatic.

• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment and Rebellion to make Thousand-Path Turing reveal that he came from the City of a Thousand Stars.
• Ye Qiyan threatened the black gravestone, and Thousand-Path Turing agreed to answer his questions rather than fight in the chamber.
• Thousand-Path Turing cleaned the icy trail left by Ye Qiyan’s motorcycle, then accepted a can of Ice Beer and complained about its brand.
• Thousand-Path Turing said he had belonged to the City of a Thousand Stars’ former Think Tank and had learned about Ye Qiyan from Executive Mar.
• Thousand-Path Turing explained that his analysis had labeled Ye Qiyan a racist and human Hero, but he now called him a Demon who toyed with people’s hearts and a Mecha Girl fanatic.

Ye Qiyan questioned Thousand-Path Turing about the ancient civilization’s extinction and learned that the Void spared Turing to watch its people struggle. Turing then admitted he did not know what power defeated the Golden Race’s Seven Virtues, as he had been captured and lost for ages before Mo Wen found him.

• Ye Qiyan asked why the Void had spared Thousand-Path Turing, and Turing revealed that the Void had taken his civilization’s resources out of curiosity about whether its people would survive.
• Thousand-Path Turing mourned that his creators had chosen extinction, and Ye Qiyan explained that they had grown tired of sharing their memories, emotions, and secrets.
• Ye Qiyan told Thousand-Path Turing that stubbornness was the ancient race’s deepest original sin, and Turing broke down as he accepted the explanation.
• Ye Qiyan asked what power had negated the Golden Race’s Seven Virtues, but Thousand-Path Turing said he did not know because the Golden Race had captured and dissected him before he was left unconscious for ages.
• Thousand-Path Turing said Mo Wen had eventually found him and helped him become a Human Train Conductor.

Ye Qiyan questioned Thousand-Path Turing about Shaya’s sealing and Mo Wen, while the two discussed Mo Wen’s nature and the tombs Turing protected. A woman claiming to be Mo Wen’s loyal hound attacked Turing, and Ye Qiyan pulled her through a doorway just as she began to self-destruct.

• Ye Qiyan learned that Thousand-Path Turing had designed the plan that sealed Shaya, but said he would leave revenge to her.
• Thousand-Path Turing explained that Shaya had attacked the twelve human cities to seize a Blasphemy Card fragment and described Mo Wen as lazy, promise-bound, and deeply protective of Train Conductors from his own batch and block.
• A purple-haired woman appeared through a space array and attacked Thousand-Path Turing, forcing him to take the blows to protect the tombs.
• The woman accused Thousand-Path Turing of betraying Mo Wen and attacked the tombs again before Ye Qiyan caught her with a Dark-Gold Chain and dragged her through a doorway.
• The woman identified herself as Mo Wen’s loyal hound, cursed Ye Qiyan and Thousand-Path Turing, and began to self-destruct with Announce a Death as the Raven Demon warned that she would die.

Ye Qiyan stopped a woman from self-destructing, then used his Blasphemy Cards to heal Thousand-Path Turing and bind him to a blessing. Thousand-Path Turing answered Ye Qiyan’s questions about Mo Wen and revealed that the Wasteland’s first Blasphemy Card belonged to a person whose name he could not remember.

• Ye Qiyan sentenced the woman to true death and banished her with his Blasphemy Cards before she could self-destruct.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment and Redemption to heal Thousand-Path Turing, leaving him marked by a powerful blessing.
• Thousand-Path Turing told Ye Qiyan that Mo Wen was a powerful Word Spirit Art user who enslaved and brainwashed humans.
• Ye Qiyan asked who else had a Blasphemy Card, and Thousand-Path Turing named the original cardholder, whose card was called [Blasphemy Card Person].
• Thousand-Path Turing said the original cardholder’s Talent was being ordinary, but he could not recall the person’s name.

A Chuan was drawn to Enlightenment Star, an unfinished artificial world built by the First-Generation Human Train Conductor to recreate the Primordial World for Tong Ya. The conductor erased A Chuan’s memories and sent him away, but A Chuan later woke aboard his train with a coordinate to a Level 12 Resource Station Platform World.

• A Chuan appeared in an unfamiliar city, found that the Train System was unusable, and discovered that a mysterious power transferred nearly all his strength elsewhere.
• A Chuan summoned his Ghost Spirits and flew into the Starry Expanse, where he learned that the planet below was an artificial world assembled from fragments of other planets.
• A man in a Spacesuit blocked A Chuan’s attacks and sent him away, making him forget the encounter until the planet was complete.
• The man revealed himself as the First-Generation Human Train Conductor and lamented that Tong Ya remained trapped in a crystal coffin, while his Blasphemy Card, [Ordinary One], could only make others forget.
• A Chuan woke aboard his train, checked the system log, and found a coordinate for a Level 12 Resource Station Platform World.

Ye Qiyan negotiated with Thousand-Path Turing over the authority to make him Platform Lord of the world he had been protecting. Thousand-Path Turing offered all his Train Coins and a favor, leaving the trade ready to be accepted.

• Ye Qiyan questioned Thousand-Path Turing about his plans after the Train System had been expelled from the world.
• Ye Qiyan offered to sell Thousand-Path Turing the status of Platform Lord in exchange for Train Coins.
• Thousand-Path Turing restored the Train System's connection to the world, and Miatila formed a trade card for Ye Qiyan.
• Thousand-Path Turing brought out his train, Thousand-Path Flow, and retrieved his Train Coins from a safe.
• Thousand-Path Turing set the price at 32,742 Train Coins and added one favor to the trade.

Ye Qiyan made Thousand-Path Turing the Platform Lord, collected his payment, and left with the mysterious Lacquer Box. Back aboard his train, he opened the box and found a card that could power a devastating attack on [The End], ending with a message urging its user to keep moving forward.

• Ye Qiyan accepted 32,000 Train Coins and a favor from Thousand-Path Turing in exchange for granting him Platform Lord permission.
• Thousand-Path Turing sealed his world, adjusted its entry permissions, and watched it begin advancing toward Level 12.
• Thousand-Path Turing explained that Mo Wen had asked him to hide the Lacquer Box and predicted that Ye Qiyan’s factions would eventually clash with the City of a Thousand Stars.
• Ye Qiyan returned from his seventy-fourth stop through a severe storm and ordered Lisette to open the Lacquer Box with the [Talisman That Breaks All Methods].
• Lisette cracked the box, revealing a level-zero consumable card called [Human · Primordial World · Wailing Remnant], which could empower a single attack against [The End].

Ye Qiyan learned that Humanity's Primordial World had been ended, then ascended its Wailing Remnant into the Echoing Wail and questioned the system about the world's fate. The system confirmed that humanity came from one world, land, and time, but left the full truth for Ye Qiyan to discover.

• Ye Qiyan examined the Wailing Remnant card and concluded that Humanity's Primordial World had been ended, then planned to use its information against Lu Jiayun and the Homecomers in a future war.
• Miatila saved the card's message, allowing Ye Qiyan to use Ascension on the level 0 item.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Wailing Remnant into the Echoing Wail, which gained an ability to condense an item of [The End] when used to defeat [The End].
• Ye Qiyan questioned the system, which said the world had not been completely ended but refused to explain further because he lacked permission.
• Ye Qiyan considered whether Zhuxing Tu had returned to the Primordial World and asked whether humanity's arrivals came from the same world.
• The system confirmed that humanity came from the same world, land, and time, and that [Humanity] had a [Perfect] form identical to the [Golden Race], then told Ye Qiyan to keep exploring.